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Take back what I said yesterday, perhaps the Tour isn't all over bar the champagne drinking on the final stage. Today seemed prove that the Sky team of 2013 aren't the race crushing robo-team of 2012.
It is probably Garmin-Sharp carrying out their preannounced plan to cause chaos that is at least partly to blame. On the attack from the gun with David Millar and Jack Bauer riding a two-up time trial into the first climb, and featuring in every move including the winning one. They broke the race apart.
This left Chris Froome in the front group with most of the Movistar team for company, but a distinct lack of black and blue jerseys to help him. This happened with about 140 km and four cols left to race.
Richie Porte tried valiantly to get back on but Movistar kept the pace high on the Col de Peyresourde to make sure that he didn't and he eventually sat up. Movistar had the advantage in numbers but didn't seem to know what to do with them. Admittedly the stage with its 30km down-hill run to the finish was never going to be a one where a decisive gap could be forged, but I thought they could have done more than a couple of attacks from Niaro Quintana. Perhaps Valverde couldn't attack. Froome covered all the attacks fairly easily and at one point decided to half-wheel Quintana just to make the point.
Round about the point where Movistar, or to be more precise Quintana gave up trying to drop Froome an Irish Brummie, Dan Martin, set off up the road, with about 4km left to the top of La Hourquette d'Anzican. Jacob Fuglsang(Astana) joined him. Working well together the pair quickly established a reasonable though never completely decisive lead. At about 5km to go the impetus went out of the chase and it became obvious that the stage would be won my one of them. Dan Martin, who is probably the better sprinter out of the two, judged it perfectly leading into the bend at 250m to go and taking it out from there.
What did I learn from today's stage?
- Garmin will mix it up and try things to win stages. This could cause problems for the teams whose focus is the GC.
- I don't think that Valverde has quite got what it takes to unseat Froome.
- Like wise Contador.
- Although the could both have just been keeping their powder dry.
- Nairo Quintana might have, but is going to have to get a lot smarter.
- Chris Froome might have to win this tour on his own.
- Oh and some Scottish bloke who looks a bit like David Millar won Wimbledon


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Weekly Recap Nov. 8 - 13
Here are some photos I took:
Man this week fucking sucks. Donald Trump is a misogynistic, racist, xenophobic, bigoted piece of shit and now he's the president elect.
There's been lots of good writing about how bad this is - this article really resonated with me:
If you want to help out, this google doc has a list of groups that you can donate to/volunteer for:
Aside from the mess that is the election, it's been a pretty slow week for everything else. No shit I guess, this is pretty massive trauma for most people.

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Maddie is reading up a storm and Grayson is basking in the glory of it all. She loves to read......he LOVES to be read to. Sounds peaceful and really sweet, huh? Well it's not. DON'T LET THESE PICTURES FOOL YOU!!!! Seconds later they were screaming at each other.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
First Grade Reader ALERT
Maddie is reading up a storm and Grayson is basking in the glory of it all. She loves to read......he LOVES to be read to. Sounds peaceful and really sweet, huh? Well it's not. DON'T LET THESE PICTURES FOOL YOU!!!! Seconds later they were screaming at each other.
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Mommy's Helpers
A few weekends ago Maddie and I baked up a storm......the kitchen was quite messy. Of course she didn't stick around for the clean up :) Gray saw how much fun we were having and insisted on wearing an apron too. No joke. He wore it ALL day.
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The ONLY Time Snot is Cute
.......is when it's on your baby boy. Poor little man has a bad cold. I told him to go and get some Kleenex and this is what he brought me. (YES....the whole roll).
He started pre-school last week and of course, three days later he already caught something. Other than that he is loving school. Best part is we found a brand new place right across the street from Maddie's school. Perfect hours and so close to home. He is LOVING it.
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Monday, November 10, 2008
Lots of Posts....Scroll 'er down.....
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Getting so big...
Ahhhh......came across this picture of Grayson.....taken almost 9 months ago. It's amazing how big he has gotten. He is talking up a storm and LOVES reading books on mommy and daddy's lap. His favorite book is the Foot Book, by Dr. Suess. It's about the only book he will sit through. Most of the time he jumps off our lap within minutes to grap another book. By the end of the night ALL, and I mean ALL, the books from his room are in the living room. The last few nights when I tuck him into bed he's been saying, Book....mommy......book." So I place one of his books in the crib with him. See......already prepping for college....... our children are smart little creatures. Tonight Maddie had HW and I told her she could take the night off because she doesn't have school tomorrow. She insisted on finishing it tonight!!
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Blonde Ambition? I think NOT.
I know for a fact that later in Madison's life I can and WILL use these pictures against her. Especially the underwear one. How priceless!!! No really.....it is. Imagine the terms and conditions I can work out with her after threatening the exposure of this picture. It's one of many tactics and strategies I have been working on since the day of her birth. Call me a mean mommy (she does often). I like thinking about it as being pro-active.
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Guess who learned to color..????
Ooooohhhhhh???? So that's what happens when you turn your head for a second on a naked baby with a pen???? Got it. Note to self: Get off the computer and pay attention to your kids :)
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Monday, November 3, 2008
It was a dark and spooky night...........
No....not really. Actually the weather was quite lovely.....perfect really. THANK YOU JESUS. There is nothing worse than trick or treating in the rain and putting on a happy face like you are having the best time in the world. Don't get me wrong....I thoroughly enjoy myself.....but the weather must be up to my standards. And thankfully it was so everyone had a wonderful time. Grayson, as shown in the picture, has a death grip on his candy pale. Once he discovered, after house #4 or so, that candy went into this orange pale called a pumpkin he was totally into this "strutten around in a silly costume" thing.
Maddie on the other hand was just "SUPER" excited to hang out with one of her best buds Luci. And her daddy was SUPER excited too to hang out with Luci's dad and drink beer without me complaining. His look to me says "Hey if he gets to do it (drink beer)so can I right honey?"
It was definitly a successful Halloween. The candy drawer has been restored to Madison's standards and I look forward to finding candy wrappers on my husband's side of the bed real soon.
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Stop along the way on Highway 1 for seals and otters, bluffs and beaches, and one-of-a-kind roadside shops and restaurants.
Photo creditPhoto: Nelson Minar/Wikimedia Commons
Photo creditPhoto: Fietsbel/Wikimedia Commons
From Bodega Bay to Gualala In Bodega Bay, although taffy houses and a winetasting spot dot the roadside, this town remains at heart a working port. Battered fishing boats bob beside salty-dog restaurants. Spud Point Crab Company serves chunky clam chowder rich with garlic and cream, as well as sweet Dungeness crab in tangy sandwiches or simply cracked. A tip for gourmands: Local crab season opens in mid-November. 1910 Westshore Rd., (707) 875-9472, spudpointcrab.com.
Tides Wharf Restaurant, which enjoyed a cameo in The Birds, showcases photographs of actress Tippi Hedren under assault by murderous flocks. 835 Coast Highway 1, (707) 875-3652, innatthetides.com. At Bodega Head, a nearby promontory and great whale-watching spot, their feathered relatives wheel and cry. But the birds are only bit players in this show—the coast itself is the star.
The road north from the harbor curls alongside Sonoma Coast State Beach, a 17-mile expanse that is not one beach but a string of them, only some visible from Highway 1. Several can be reached by the Kortum Trail, which cuts over the bluffs to craggy outcrops and hidden coves. Goat Rock Beach, near Jenner, where the Russian River ends its journey to the sea, offers a wide swath of sand sweet for strolling.
Winter skies here are dramatic, if often rainy, just as they were in the early 1800s when Russian traders founded Fort Ross. A stockade, chapel, and barracks today grace a state park with ample exhibits on the lives of the early settlers.
Up the highway, a 93-foot-tall column made of concrete, lead, and mosaic was erected in 1969 by sculptor Beniamino Bufano announces Timber Cove Inn, a stone-and-redwood lodge. Rooms, most with ocean views, fireplaces, and spa tubs, promise comfort and seclusion, while paths along the bluffs are ideal for sunset rambles. (707) 847-3231, timbercoveinn.com.
In the hour-plus it takes to reach the county's north shore, the main draw is the splendid isolation. At pine-shrouded Salt Point State Park, visitors are free to hunt wild mushrooms in the rainy season. At Sea Ranch, a strand of carefully spaced shingled homes interrupted by lanes leads to rocky overlooks and five public beaches. Just north, Gualala Point affords a view of the town of Gualala. For many travelers, hitting the Sonoma County line is a cue to put the ocean on their right and head back south. For others, Mendocino County promises more world-class views and great towns. —Josh Sens
Jenner, Calif.: Weekend at the sea Perched on the Sonoma coast where the Russian River empties into the Pacific, Jenner offers a ringside seat for a wildlife extravaganza starring river otters, harbor seals, great blue herons, and ospreys. You can contemplate the watery vistas while paddling in a kayak, standing on beaches and bluffs, or dining in a restaurant. It's quite a show. Area code is 707.
Gaze at the Russian River at Cafe Aquatica, a cozy coffeehouse that dishes up freshly baked apple scones and focaccia, as well as creamy chowder crowded with clams and organic veggies. Jazz on Sundays on the deck. 10439 Hwy. 1, 865-2251, cafeaquatica.com.
Inside the old Jenner Boathouse, the Sonoma Coast State Park Visitors Center includes an education center and a bookshop, with puzzles, trail maps, and exhibits for kids on river ecology. 10439 Coast Hwy., Jenner, 865-9757.
Take a guided kayak outing with WaterTreks EcoTours and learn about the flora, fauna, and American Indian history of mid-river Penny Island. 865-2249, watertreks.com.
Fly kites over craggy sea stacks or watch a colony of harbor seals at easily accessible Goat Rock Beach, one in a 17-mile strip of beaches and bluffs comprising Sonoma Coast State Park. Linked bluff trails go on for miles. parks.ca.gov.
Local crab and citrus salad, Sonoma lamb sirloin bordelaise, and wild mushroom soup are just a few of the offerings you may find at Alexander's inside Timber Cove Inn. Dine on the outdoor patio or indoors, where the river rock hearth and floor-to-ceiling windows face the untamed ocean. 21780 Hwy. 1, 847-3231, timbercoveinn.com.
Just north of the village proper on a ridge with dynamic views, you can sample complex, estate-grown pinot noirs, zesty chardonnays, and the lush pinotage at Fort Ross Vineyard Tasting Room. 15725 Meyers Grade Rd., 847-3460, fortrossvineyard.com.
Indulge in a sunset feast at the intimate River's End Restaurant, overlooking the river's mouth and endless beaches. Pair a Russian River gewürztraminer with Tomales Bay oysters and wasabi tobiko (flying fish roe), followed by Petaluma duck fixed three ways. 11048 Hwy. 1, 865-2484 ext. 111, ilovesunsets.com. —Deborah Franklin
From Gualala To Fort Bragg Brilliant sunsets, weathered barns, hillside pastures, lively arts, and redwood-fringed ocean views: This 60-mile stretch of rural Highway 1 tracing the jigsaw curves of California's coastal bluffs stirs reflection and romance. Area code is 707.
At the Gualala Arts Center, a popular venue, you can pick up a list of its gallery exhibits, live music shows, and theater performances by artists from Mendocino's creative coast and beyond. 46501 Gualala Rd., 884-1138, gualalaarts.org. The Shoreline Highway's curves are best savored with frequent infusions of good coffee. Fill up your travel mug at Trinks Cafe and grab a spicy pork-shoulder sandwich with house-pickled carrots for the road. 39140 S. Hwy. 1, 884-1713, trinkscafe.com. Thirty minutes up the coast, the 145 steps at the 1908 Point Arena Lighthouse provide a workout as stimulating as the views. In winter and late spring, watch for spouting gray whales on their regular commutes. 882-2809, pointarenalighthouse.com.
Farther on, wind and churning waves relentlessly nibble at the shoreline cliffs and towering sandstone sea stacks at Greenwood State Beach in Elk. Don't miss the park's visitor center with its dizzying mural of the rickety 19th-century trestle that once carried railcars transporting redwood timber to tall ships. Perched on coastal bluffs, the well-preserved clapboard village of Mendocino deserves extended exploration. Even if you're short on time, be sure to pause at the wild and lovely Mendocino Headlands State Park to marvel at the roiling surf powering through rock tunnels and spray-spewing blowholes.
Dreamy coastal stretches finally give way to the outskirts of Fort Bragg. At the 47-acre Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, heathers, heritage roses, and perennials start putting on a show in May and last into early fall. 18220 Hwy. 1, 964-4352, gardenbythesea.org.
Buy a snack pack of smoked cheddar and some German sausage for the return drive at Roundman's Smokehouse in Fort Bragg. Or, for a savory souvenir, take home a party-size fillet of alder- and apple-smoked salmon or smoked albacore. 412 N. Main St., 964-5954. —Deborah Franklin
Fort Bragg, Calif.: Best Beach Town The Fort Bragg Mill closed in 2002, and since then the town has been busy reinventing itself, starting with the lumber mill's former company store. Trimmed in redwood, the century-old building now bustles with local businesses, from the At One Yoga studio to the Fort Bragg Cyclery. Wheel a lightweight hybrid out the door to pedal to Pudding Creek Trestle—a spindly span on the original log-hauling road, now a paved path to MacKerricher State Park that passes cliffs and sandy stretches.
For contrasting oceanscapes, visit Glass Beach, where waves have worn glass and porcelain fragments from a former dump into a field of glittering, smooth pebbles. Or wander footpaths at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, where heritage roses scent the air and the teal Pacific seems almost tropical.
Back in town, the Bookstore & Vinyl Cafe has new young owners who have expanded the 30-year-old institution, adding an upstairs record shop and listening room. 353 N. Franklin St., 964-6559. At the Lost Coast Culture Machine, gallery cofounder Anne Beck recruits from the region's rising creative contingent, exhibiting paintings plus video and sculptural installations by artists throughout the summer months. 190 E. Elm St., 961-1600. Short-lived trend or full-scale turnaround? Discuss it over beer and a New Yorker, a pleasantly salty, thin-crust pepperoni pie at Piaci Pub & Pizzeria, a wellspring of barstool banter within view of the old mill. 120 W. Redwood Ave., 961-1133, piacipizza.com. —Erin Klenow
Eureka: Redwoods, Wildlife, and Victorians The past is always present in this vibrant Northern California seaport, famed for teeming fisheries and towering redwood forests. Hundreds of ornate Victorians hark back to the lumber trade that boomed in the 1850s. Today, Eureka draws travelers with a mix of dining, shopping, and outdoor diversions. Area code is 707.
A self-guided walking tour of the historic Old Town district brings you face-to-face with dozens of grand Victorian and Queen Anne buildings—such as the Eagle House—many of them open to visitors. The renowned, castle-like Carson Mansion is closed to the public, but well worth ogling from the outside. eurekaheritage.org.
Spy on egrets, cormorants, and harbor seals as you bike or stroll on the Hikshari' Trail, a 1.5-mile paved path through the Elk River Wildlife Sanctuary. The Redwood Region Audubon Society offers guided bird walks. redwoods.info.
Fill up like a lumberjack at the Samoa Cookhouse, the last logging camp–style dining hall in the West. Think pancakes, roast pork, and other hearty fare served in all-you-can-eat portions on long tables covered in red-checked cloths. The Cookhouse and Logging Relics area displays artifacts that helped account for the healthy appetites of bygone days. 908 Vance Ave., 442-1659, samoacookhouse.net.
Shaded by an ancient redwood grove, the Sequoia Park Zoo—the oldest zoo in California—is home to white-handed gibbons, alpacas, peccaries, and more. The newest residents will be salmon, otters, and bald eagles in an exhibit opening by the end of summer. 3414 W St., 441-4263, sequoiaparkzoo.net.
At once old-fashioned and new-fangled, Living the Dream Ice Cream scoops a rainbow of flavors, including maple bacon and chocolate lavender. 1 F St., 407-3508, ltdicecream.com.
Slurp fresh oysters and sample local wines and beers at the Humboldt Bay Tourism Center, a traveler's resource that doubles as a raw bar and tasting room. 205 G St., 672-3850, humboldtbaytourismcenter.com.
The eclectic assortment of antiquarian books, maps, photos, and ephemera at Eureka Books thrills spontaneous browsers and serious collectors alike. 426 Second St., 444-9593, eurekabooksellers.com. —Josh Sens
Discover more road trips across the West.
This article was first published in June 2014. Some facts may have aged gracelessly. Please call ahead to verify information.


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Llanberis Mountain Film Festival
The Llanberis Mountain Film Festival is on it's way. LLAMFF 2006 promises a wild and wonderful progr
The Llanberis Mountain Film Festival is on it's way. LLAMFF 2006 promises a wild and wonderful programme of films, talks, poetry, photography and art, with contributors from Wales and beyond, capturing the spirit of adventure and celebrating mountain art, sport and culture worldwide. Getting a festival ticket will allow you unlimited access to a large and diverse range of events; screenings of short listed entries to the inaugural LLAMFF film competition including a number of premiere screenings, talks by local and national climbing celebrities and other adventurers, a selection of award-winning films from the Kendal Mountain Film Festival and much, much more. Llanberis is located in the heart of the Snowdon massif in beautiful North Wales and will be held on March 3rd-5th. More importantly, a mountain biking film has been entered in the competition, 'Dirtkings in Paradise'
For more information, see the links below…
http://www.llamff.co.uk – Llanberis Mountain Film Festival
http://www.dirtkings.co.uk – click on DVD link to see a flyer
Dominated by the grandeur of the Snowdon massif, Llanberis is flanked by two lakes, Llyn Padarn and Llyn Peris, and is one of the most popular mountain tourist centres in the Snowdonia National Park.


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This article will hopefully portray to you the different ways of leading and having influence within your organisation, and why it is such a crucial aspect of effective business.
A leader can be defined as someone who commands a group or an organisation, or put more simply, a leader is someone who has followers. The role of the leader is a crucial component in a business, and is one which must be filled and then utilised to its maximum potential. However, there can be no leadership without influence because people lead others through influencing the way they work. Many may picture leaders as loud, strong and even bullish figures, but the act of conducting people falls into the job of management, whereas the job of leaders leans more towards guiding the individual and providing them with suggestions.
There are lots of important things a leader should take into account if they want to become the best at what they do, and I will talk about a few quickly now.
Firstly, it is vital that both you and the people you are leading have a clear vision of what you are trying to achieve. The group should have a goal and there should be targets set out along the way to help them achieve it.
Secondly, you have to do everything you can to get the maximum out of employees and make them feel comfortable contributing. Forbes defines leadership as "a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal." The more you can hone each individual's strengths, the quicker you are going to get results, and the better they will be.
Finally, it will help you to no end if you succeed in recognizing and possibly rewarding each and every member of your group. Not only does this make workers feel appreciated and happy, leading to a higher standard of work, but if employees see peers being rewarded then this is something desirable to them and will motivate them to work harder. This process will mean a constant raising of the bar in the workplace.
If you have deduced from reading this article that leadership could be an area in which your business could improve, then here are several places you can look to either learn more about the topic, or even to start your search for someone who can help you on your way to stronger leadership:
- Kendra Cherry writes about the psychological side of improving your leadership skills on about.com.
- Shelly Holmes writes on makeadentleadership.com about how, as a leader, you can influence the workplace environment.
- Train in a Day can provide your organisation with efficient and effective short training course which will focus on and improve certain aspects of your organisations leadership scheme.
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What is it with these young couples?
This is not the first time it happened, and apparently it won't be the last.
A video clip showing a furious young lady beating up a man, who is kneeling down to seek her forgiveness, has gone viral on social media.
The footage, said to have been taken near the intersection of Fa Yuen Street and Bute Street in Mong Kok around 3 a.m. Tuesday, drew more than a million hits within eight hours after it was uploaded onto a Facebook account, Apple Daily reported on Thursday.
The two appear to be in their 20s and are obviously in a relationship.
In the seven-minute footage, the young woman repeatedly slaps her boyfriend and kicks him in the head and neck. She tells him to jump from a tall building or eat shxx.
But her non-stop beating and verbal humiliation fail to discourage the young man, who refuses to go away. He continues to beg her not to leave him.
As to be expected, netizens had a field day making fun of the couple.
Some said the guy deserved what he got for being a wimp, while others threw scorn at the girl, saying such an attitude is the reason why many Hong Kong women are unable to find a lasting relationship.
Others made fun of the scene by editing the video and splicing it with cartoon and martial arts movie clips.
Barrister Albert Luk said police have the right to look into the incident as beating someone for whatever reason is unlawful.
He said the young woman could be charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm if the man was badly injured.
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How to read & write LLVM bitcode
I've read multiple posts on social media now complaining about how scary LLVM is to get to grips with. It doesn't help that the repository is ginormous, there are frequently hundreds of commits a day, the mailing list is nearly impossible to keep track of, and the resulting executables are topping 40Mb now…
Those tidbits aside - LLVM is super easy to work with once you get to grips with the beast that it is. To help aid people in using LLVM, I thought I'd put together the most trivial no-op example you can do with LLVM - parsing one of LLVM's intermediate representation files (known as bitcode, file extension .bc) and then writing it back out.
Firstly, lets go through some high level LLVM terms:
- LLVM's main abstraction for user code is the Module. It's a class that contains all the functions, global variables, and instructions for the code you or other users write.
- Bitcode files are effectively a serialization of an LLVM Module such that it can be reconstructed in a different program later.
- LLVM uses MemoryBuffer objects to handle data that comes from files, stdin, or arrays.
For my example, we'll use the LLVM C API - a more stable abstraction ontop of LLVM's core C++ headers. The C API is really useful if you've got code that you want to work with multiple versions of LLVM, it's significantly more stable than the LLVM C++ headers. (An aside, I use LLVM extensively for my job and nearly every week some LLVM C++ header change will break our code. I've never had the C API break my code.)
First off, I'm going to assume you've pulled LLVM, built and installed it. Some simple steps to do this:
git clone https://git.llvm.org/git/llvm.git <llvm dir> cd <llvm dir> mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install .. cmake --build . --target install
After doing the above, you'll have an LLVM install in
So for our little executable I've used CMake. CMake is by far the easiest way to integrate with LLVM as it is the build system LLVM also uses.
project(llvm_bc_parsing_example) cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.4.3) # option to allow a user to specify where an LLVM install is on the system set(LLVM_INSTALL_DIR "" CACHE STRING "An LLVM install directory.") if("${LLVM_INSTALL_DIR}" STREQUAL "") message(FATAL_ERROR "LLVM_INSTALL_DIR not set! Set it to the location of an LLVM install.") endif() # fixup paths to only use the Linux convention string(REPLACE "\\" "/" LLVM_INSTALL_DIR ${LLVM_INSTALL_DIR}) # tell CMake where LLVM's module is list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${LLVM_INSTALL_DIR}/lib/cmake/llvm) # include LLVM include(LLVMConfig) add_executable(llvm_bc_parsing_example main.c) target_include_directories(llvm_bc_parsing_example PUBLIC ${LLVM_INCLUDE_DIRS}) target_link_libraries(llvm_bc_parsing_example PUBLIC LLVMBitReader LLVMBitWriter)
So now we've got our CMake setup, and we can use our existing LLVM install, we can now get working on our actual C code!
So to use the LLVM C API there is one header you basically always need:
#include <llvm-c/Core.h>
And two extra headers we need for our executable are the bitcode reader and writer:
#include <llvm-c/BitReader.h> #include <llvm-c/BitWriter.h>
Now we create our main function. I'm assuming here that we always take exactly 2 command line arguments, the first being the input file, the second being the output file. LLVM has a system whereby if a file named '-' is provided, that means read from stdin or write to stdout, so I decided to support that too:
if (3 != argc) { fprintf(stderr, "Invalid command line!\n"); return 1; } const char *const inputFilename = argv[1]; const char *const outputFilename = argv[2];
So first we parse the input file. We'll create an LLVM memory buffer object from either stdin, or a filename:
LLVMMemoryBufferRef memoryBuffer; // check if we are to read our input file from stdin if (('-' == inputFilename[0]) && ('\0' == inputFilename[1])) { char *message; if (0 != LLVMCreateMemoryBufferWithSTDIN(&memoryBuffer, &message)) { fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", message); free(message); return 1; } } else { char *message; if (0 != LLVMCreateMemoryBufferWithContentsOfFile( inputFilename, &memoryBuffer, &message)) { fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", message); free(message); return 1; } }
So after this code, memoryBuffer will be usable to read our bitcode file into an LLVM module. So lets create the module!
// now create our module using the memory buffer LLVMModuleRef module; if (0 != LLVMParseBitcode2(memoryBuffer, &module)) { fprintf(stderr, "Invalid bitcode detected!\n"); LLVMDisposeMemoryBuffer(memoryBuffer); return 1; } // done with the memory buffer now, so dispose of it LLVMDisposeMemoryBuffer(memoryBuffer);
Once we've got our module, we no longer need the memory buffer, so we can free up the memory straight away. And that's it! We've managed to take an LLVM bitcode file, deserialize it into an LLVM module, which we could (I'm not going to in this blog post at least!) fiddle with. So lets assume you've done all you wanted with the LLVM module, and want to write the sucker back out to a bitcode file again.
The approach is orthogonal to the reading approach, we look for the special filename '-' and handle accordingly:
// check if we are to write our output file to stdout if (('-' == outputFilename[0]) && ('\0' == outputFilename[1])) { if (0 != LLVMWriteBitcodeToFD(module, STDOUT_FILENO, 0, 0)) { fprintf(stderr, "Failed to write bitcode to stdout!\n"); LLVMDisposeModule(module); return 1; } } else { if (0 != LLVMWriteBitcodeToFile(module, outputFilename)) { fprintf(stderr, "Failed to write bitcode to file!\n"); LLVMDisposeModule(module); return 1; } }
Lastly, we should be good citizens and clean up our garbage, so also delete the module to:
And that's it! You are now able to parse and then write an LLVM bitcode file. I've put the full example up here on GitHub - https://github.com/sheredom/llvm_bc_parsing_example.
Maybe I'll do a follow-up post at some point taking you through the basics of how to do things to an LLVM module, but for now, adieu!


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Go-To Cake/
"*&%$! I forgot that I said I'd bring dessert!"
Seven-year-old Loretta has taken it upon herself to be the Bad Word Police. She thinks "crap" is a bad word, so I guess it could be worse. My friend Emily says she swears more when she's excited. She's excited about her new role at work (which happens to be a church) and finds herself swearing about it all the time. Hilarious. I guess that's true with me, too--the Bad Word Police can issue tickets when excitement or frustration ensues. Abby,who's here every Monday night for our big family dinner, says she can't get a word in edgewise around here. Even the most inconsquencial subjects are blown up into an excitable mess. Loretta, of course, lives for this. Many citations to issue.
%&*#$! If I've forgotten to pay the water bill and come home to a sputtering faucet, that's one thing. (I did that last summer and actually went around to the neighbors asking if they were having problems with their water. My neighbor Lori said, "Have you paid your bill?" Mortification.)
But if I've forgotten about bringing dessert, that's an easy fix. Molly Wizenberg saves the day again. Easy, quick, chocolately depths. Add a little bit of lightly sweetned whipped cream or some strawberries. Or some reduced balsamic syrup and a sprinkiling of flaked salt. Or just plain. The expletives will diminish. Actually, scratch that. They will just be uttered in a more contented way.


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Current & completed projects, tips & tricks, and useful tools from visually impaired crocheters.
Math + Crochet = Awesomeness
Posted by Kimberly and Abby _ on Saturday, February 05, 2011 Categories: Articles
I'm not a fan of math, but it is inherent in any crochet project. The Lion Brand Notebook blog had a post recently about some amazing crocheted and knitted afghans that teach various math concepts on the Woolly Thoughts website. I spent a couple hours browsing through all the amazing afghans. I'm going to make a crocheted version of Double Vision, which reminds me of a colorful multiplication table, sometime in the future.
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In the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the story's hero, Ferris, said something important:
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
It seems that there are lots of people who listened. There are certainly lots of people who are finding modern life moving a bit too fast, and who are determined to stop and look around.
- There's Escape the City, especially now that they are running the Escape School, which offers "The career, life and startup education you never got at school". Its motto is: "Life is too short to do work that doesn't matter to you."
- There's also Tribewanted, which sells itself on escapism, on inviting people to share. It sounds like a cross between group therapy and a holiday. Staying with them is about thinking about, designing, and then creating the life you want. Their current offer is an Escape to Umbria, where you are invited to "Join serial escapee, Ben Keene, and others for 3 days of dreaming & planning at Tribewanted Monestevole". It's worth reading what previous attendees have said about their time there, such as:
- "Over a few days we went on a journey towards making our escape plans. I ended up drawing mine out as a picture – it's cryptic enough to have on the inside door of my locker at work and I check in with it every few days. I've already met up with some of my fellow escapees following the trip. We plan to support each other as we put our plans into action and help ourselves maintain some of the focus we found in Umbria."
- There's also Alptitu.de the escape week in Chamonix from the people behind the Happy Start-Up camps.
Are these really just holidays, dressed up to appeal to the middle classes? Are these people just looking for new jobs? Perhaps, but there's something in the choice of language, something similar in what they say, and what seems to be resonating with people. We think:
- it's the language of escape
- of wanting something more
- of asking "is this really it?"
- of looking for something with meaning, purpose
We think:
- this reflects our belief that now that we have enough, we want something more meaningful. We call is "experientialism".
- Purpose will become a word to watch in the 2010s.
- People will treat their lives as they once treated the interiors of their homes. Life-style designers, of all stripes—therapists, retreat hosts, career creators—will be the 2010s and 2020s equivalent to the interior designers of the past.


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Friday, June 21, 2013
By Anil Jangid
Drive home Volkswagen Polo or Vento at 0 percent Interest!
Volkswagen India, 100 per cent subsidiary of Germany based Volkswagen Group, has announced a latest and impressive offer for its popular car models- Volkswagen Polo hatchback and Vento sedan. In order to boost the sales figures during the monsoon season, the company is offering the Polo and Vento at 0 per cent interest. This impressive offer is available on all variants of Polo's and Vento's petrol and diesel models.
In the month of May this year, Volkswagen India has done very well. For previous month company reported a growth of 8.16 percent at the sales of 5300 units as compared to 4900 units same month of year 2012. This year January to May, the company has sold 26,600 units of cars as compared to 31,100 units sold in the first five months of last year. Meanwhile for first 4 months the company reported decline in sales.
Volkswagen Polo is being offered with both petrol and diesel models. Including recently launched GT TSI model, its petrol model offers four variants. Meanwhile, the diesel trim of the premium hatch offers three variants. On the other hand, petrol model of the Vento sedan is available in four variants including automatic transmission system version. Its diesel model is available in three variants from features. After the launch of monsoon season offer, the company is ready to dive into the compact SUV segment with launch of Cross Polo SUV.
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Virginia Congressional Representative Morgan Griffith (R-Ninth District) has joined a group urging President Obama to promote medical marijuana research.
A bipartisan group of congressional representatives and senators sent a letter to President Obama Friday urging him to facilitate medical research on marijuana.
U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Ninth District) was one of the group, saying marijuana's medicinal benefits need more attention and study.


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We would like to thank all our amazing artists for dedicating their time and talents to add their touch of creativity and abundant soul within our city walls. Our community witnessed the transformation of our public spaces by these artists, shaping lines and layering colors to manifest the masterpieces that were once only visible to these creators. Each day saw progression in the narratives told to us by their hands, and each day we were able to find a piece of ourselves within these murals. All who were actively or accidentally looking for it, whether it is through social interaction, or through the visceral nature of art, found some form of connection adorning every inch and corner of downtown San Jose. These gifts of color, imagination, and poetry are here to uplift and remind us that we may be bounded by our human limitations, but it does not mean our minds should adhere to those same restrictions.
We would like to thank our team and the many volunteers for making this inaugural year a success. Because of your love and passion for arts and culture we were able to make this event happen. Through the photos, videos, events, and the shuttling of artists, supplies, and food around our city, your dedication shined brightly during those times we needed you most. We would not have a POW! WOW! San Jose without your self-sacrifice and enthusiasm carrying us through each day.
We would like to thank all our sponsors and supporters for helping to make this week-long festival a reality for our city! Because of your time, energy, and donations we were able to supply our artists and team with the necessary tools to manifest these beautiful murals in and around our downtown into reality. From the scissor lifts, paints, coffee, food, printers, shops, and endless encouragement that found us with each and every individual, our efforts stood on the foundation you helped us build.
Lastly, we want to say thank you to our city, to the many communities sprinkled around the world that have supported this event, this movement since it was announced. Because each and every one of you decided to be involved with in this festival with your social media capital and physical presence at our events, this celebration is also yours to behold and take pride in. We did not organize this festival for our own mere enjoyment. This was for all of us to take part in and claim for ourselves.
Expect many new projects and events leading up to our second year. But until then, revisit these walls and share their beauty with your world. Full images of the completed murals will be on the website soon (www.powwowsanjose.com) Remember to follow us on Instagram (@powwowsanjose) and tag us in any of your shots! We would love to see them!
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Firstly, I'm absolutely stoked and somewhat honoured that something I do resonates enough with you to find yourself here, so thank you. My name is Dane Tucker and I'm a photographer based in Sydney, Australia.
I do this because I freakin' love it.
Disclaimer - I tend swear a lot when I'm excited. If I start dropping F-bombs and muttering to myself while we are off shooting, it's a good sign.
I consider myself first and foremost a documentarian and observer and I think the best images inevitably derive from the moments in between moments (a fleeting glance, a subtle interaction) and best tell the real story of a day, a person, a relationship.
Mostly I want to tell the true story of your day as it played out and as it will exist in your head for years to come - the emotion, the silliness, the seriousness, and everything in between. I like to combine this with a few relaxed, naturally posed portraits (as well as a few creative ones) to tell the narrative not of just a wedding day, but of you and your relationship to each other as well.


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52 degrees Partly Cloudy Wind S6mph
On a calm lake, a loon sits on its eggs. Ever watchful for any sign of danger. But for now everything seems to be ok.
If danger approached, the loon would probably leave the nest and start calling.
Loons have four basic calls that they use to communicate.
I usually refer to them as two "good calls" and two "bad calls".
The two "good calls" are the wail and the hoot. The "bad calls" are the tremolo and the yodel. Why do I call them good calls and bad calls? The wail and the hoot are calls that loons use to communicate with each other when everything is ok. However, the tremolo and the yodel are alarm calls and are used when the loons is concerned or upset.
The wail is one of the calls that many of us have heard echoing across the lake at twilight. That haunting call that echoes from one end of the lake to the other. And then is answered by a loon across the lake.
It is the loon's way of saying to another loon, "Hi. I am here. Where are you?"
The hoot is a call that most people never hear. It is a quiet call that loons use to communicate to their chicks or to each other when they are close together.
The tremolo is sometimes called the crazy laughing call. It is an alarm call. It means the loon does not like something that is going on. Something has happened to upset it. There is danger in the area. The loon is saying I am not happy with what is going on right now. When one loon makes the tremolo call, another loon will many times answer from some other part of the lake. And if they are mates, the mate will usually swim towards the other loon immediately. Especially if they have eggs or chicks. The tremolo call is made by both males and females.
It is also sometimes made while the loon is flying and in that case it does not necessarily an alarm call. Some researchers feel that a loon uses that call while flying to see if another loon answers from the lake below. And if the loon is searching for territory, it knows that there is a loon on that lake and it is taken.
The yodel is the most extreme of the alarm calls and is made only by the male loon. It says to everyone around, "This is MY territory. Stay away. Do come near. I will fight you to defend my territory." It is used by the male under the great stress.
It is sometimes accompanied by splashing and the loon half flying and half walking on the water toward whatever has upset it. Or it may trigger a behavior called the "penguin dance" or "water walking" where the loons paddles its feet quickly and rises up out of the water. Almost standing straight up and down with its beak pressed against its breast. When it does this, it looks a lot like a penguin, hence the name "penguin dance".
People have seen this dance if they have gotten too close to a nest or loon chicks and have thought, "How cool is that! The loon came right up to us and showed off for me." No, the loon wasn't showing off for you or wanting you to feel good. It was saying, "You are really scaring me. You are way too close to my nest or my chicks. I want to show you how big and tough I am and I want you to get out of here right now!" It is usually accompanied by a lot of splashing and excited diving.
If you back away, they will quickly settle down and relax. If it is in response to another loon, it may very well be the prelude to a fight.
So now that you know how to speak "loon", each of the calls will have much more meaning for you when you hear them. Without even seeing the loon, you have a very good idea of what is happening by simply hearing the call. I have to admit I enjoyed all of the calls more before I knew what they actually meant! Especially the tremolo and the yodel. Now even though I still enjoy the calls, when they make one of the alarm calls I realize that the loon is upset about something and will look to see if I can see what is upsetting them.
But by simply knowing what these four calls are and what the loon is saying when it uses them, you will have a whole new understanding of what is going on.
I have mentioned before that some of you have thought that the loon was calling when you saw its beak open while it was on the nest. This is not the case and the open beak is simply an "air conditioning" system for the loon to cool down. Most of the time loons are very silent when the are on the nest or even close to the nest.
Even when an eagle flies over - a sure thing to upset a loon - it will usually leave the nest and only call when it comes up some distance from the nest.
So now at the office water cooler this morning, you can speak "loon" with your friends! (And lose all your other friends!!! lol)
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Hi Everyone!
I'd love to share this cute
giraffe image from Scrappers Delights with you.
I colored this little cutie with Copic Markers and added some Spica shimmer here and there.
I added a little giraffe button that is sooooo cute with some blue twine.
The blue tag, corner pieces, and circle, are all dies from My Favorite Things. The sweet sentiment is also from Scrappers Delights.
I hope you'll visit the links for some fun shopping.
Until next time, take care, Becky


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Marijuana may help binge-drinking brain - News - The Independent Collegian - University of Toledo student newspaper
A study was done to find out how much worse it is to smoke marijuana while binge drinking than to just binge drink alone. The government constantly funds such studies in a desperate attempt to prove that there is SOMETHING dangerous about marijuana. But, guess what! Surprise! Marijuana shields the brains of binge drinkers from the damage that alcohol causes. This is why I assert that marijuana should be made available on college campuses at any event where alcohol is served. Let's move people away from the deadly scourge of booze and toward the healing bliss of cannabis! The Independent Collegian
Marijuana may help binge-drinking brain By Kevin Moore Binge drinkers who also smoke marijuana may suffer less brain damage than drinkers who do not smoke marijuana, according to a recent study done by researchers at the University of California, San Diego and published by Neurotoxicology and Teratology magazine.The study, which was performed and published in late July, analyzed brain scans of 16 to 19-year-old males and females to compare the amount of white brain matter damage. White brain matter contains nerve fibers and is one of the two components of the central nervous system, according to the National Institutes of Health's Web site.The study compared the damage to white brain matter between those who regularly engage in binge drinking and marijuana usage to those who solely participated in binge drinking and those who did neither. For the purpose of this study, binge drinking was defined as having five drinks during one sitting for males and four drinks during one sitting for females.The results of the study showed those who only participated in binge drinking had damage in all eight sections of the brain, while those who used marijuana regularly only showed damage in three out of the eight sections. "Clearly, the marijuana group did better," said Director of Communication for the Marijuana Policy Project Bruce Mirken. "The marijuana plant is a heavy carrier of cannabinoids, of which there is much evidence to suggest that they can serve as a neural protector.
via Marijuana may help binge-drinking brain - News - The Independent Collegian - University of Toledo student newspaper.


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I've been thinking about something that was said to me recently… "PhDs aren't worth it."
It would be easy to dismiss such a claim, bearing in mind the claimant was only 21 years old and hasn't actually done a PhD, but at the same time, to pretend that any PhD student spends their whole four-plus years brimming with assurance would be a lie.
I would say I was one of the more confident people I knew of the dozen or so doing a similar thing, but that's not just senility talking. Some people brim with confidence when they shouldn't because their minds are incapable of grasping the enormity of their circumstances, but I'll give myself slightly more credit than that for two reasons.
- For one, I love writing. It's my "thing", as it were, and has been for many years. In fact, now I've finished the PhD I've taken up writing full time (for a year or so), but this love isn't shared by all. Sometimes fellow students would say things to me like "I hate writing", and my response would be one of blunt astonishment. Well why are you doing a PhD then? You're basically writing a book!
- Secondly, I'm very interested in the subject area. I wrote about the architecture of large, modern central public libraries in the UK, which is a topic that fascinates on a number of levels: architectural (obviously), library science (obviously), but also engineering, psychology, sociology, philosophy (there is a Ph in PhD, after all), history, politics… etc. etc.
Having made it through and out the other side, I have some suggestions for anyone wondering whether to take a PhD, little questions you must ask yourself whether you can achieve. Bear in mind that I did a qualitative PhD, meaning the data came from discussions and conversations, rather than from numbers and statics, so the following is relevant to PhDs more commonly found in humanities and social sciences.
- A PhD is fundamentally three things.
- There's the academic study, the reading and writing. You'll have to do a lot of this.
- There's the research, which tends to involve a plan to get data, legwork, resistance to failure, modification of the plan, and then more legwork. It also – crucially – involved analysing the data. Analysis is a big one. Assume it will take months and hurt a lot.
- Then there's the construction of the thesis. This isn't just writing and it isn't just analysis. It's working out exactly what to write, planning how long it will take you, hitting writing targets for month after month, and then editing, editing, editing. Then printing. Then viva preparation. Then corrections. Then resubmission. Then, and only then, graduation.
Sounds pretty tiring, huh? Here are some pointers.
- A good relationship with your supervisor is essential. My supervisor was absolutely brilliant. She understood the subject, she really engaged with what I'd been doing every month, she read stuff promptly and gave detailed feedback. We got on, so the whole things clicked along from start to end.
- Discover something specific to write about. It doesn't have to be there at first. It doesn't even have to be there halfway through. It might not (probably won't) arrive until you've got the data and are halfway through analysing it. I didn't write about libraries, I wrote about young people's (1) experiences (2) of the architecture (3) of large (4), modern (5), central public libraries (6) in the UK (7). That's pretty specific, but it took the data to tell me what I really had.
- Plan the writing. Even though I like writing I needed a detailed plan of all the sections and their word counts, complete with progress bars (see below).
- This was used in the final year, when I had to actually turn everything into a thesis. I already had a load of writing, but 80,000 is heck of a lot, so I had about 50,000 to go. I knew editing would take a long time (seriously – the version I handed in was draft #7. It took me six months just to edit and another month to proofread). Working backwards from when I wanted to finish meant to knew I had eight months to write those 50,000. That's where the following table came in:
- This does several jobs. "Date" shows the current day. Every day I had to be writing. "Word target" shows the amount of writing I'd need to have by that point in order to hit 80,000 by my self-imposed deadline. "Word count" shows what I've actually got. This comes from the first table. "Daily total" shows how much I've written on any given day. Negative figures are when I've cut stuff out. "Difference" shows me how ahead or behind target I am. When I'm ahead the cell goes green. If I'm behind it's red. "10 day avg" is how much I've averaged over the previous ten days. The idea is to sustain high output. Again, the cell goes green if the average is higher than what I need to finish on time. "Needed to finish" shows how many words I'd have to write each day in order to finish on time. Believe it or not, this is a lifesaver. If you stop when it begins to hurt, you probably won't be writing enough.
- Finally, we have a graph generated from the above table. I like visual things, and this graph shows me two important bits of information. I did my "writing up" from Jan to Sept 2015, shown here.
- The blue line is what I needed to hit to reach 80,000 words at my self-imposed deadline (remember: finished is better than perfect). There's a kink in it because on the 17th June I had my last internal review and decided to reward myself with a longer deadline. Setting impossible targets is fine if in missing them you still end up better off than you would otherwise have been.
- The other one is not a line, it's a scar, a wound on my soul, a slow, agonising ascent in which days of sustained effort could be wiped out in an instant by realising that something I'd written two years earlier was no longer usable and would have to be cut. As you can see though, sometimes, bits got pasted back in again too.


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Tom Philpott | April 01, 2010 / MILITARY.com
New Agent Orange Rule to Allow Retro Claims by 86,000
About 86,000 Vietnam War veterans, their surviving spouses or estates will be eligible for retroactive disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs -- an average of 11.4 years for veterans and 9.6 years for survivors -- under a draft VA rule to expand by three the number of diseases presumed caused by herbicide exposure in the war.
The 86,000 are beneficiaries who can reopen previously denied claims for these conditions: ischemic heart disease, Parkinson's disease and chronic B-cell blood cancers including hairy cell leukemia. But another 29,000 claims are expected to be approved this year for Vietnam veterans suffering from these diseases but applying for benefits for the first time.
The projected cost of this dramatic expansion of claims linked to Agent Orange and other defoliants deployed four decades ago is $13.6 billion this fiscal year and $42.2 billion over 10 years. VA plans to hire 1772 new claims processors, starting this October, to be able to handle these claims "without significantly degrading the processing of the non-presumptive workload."
In the proposed rule published March 25 in the Federal Register, VA officials explained that Secretary Eric Shinseki has cut the usual 60-day public comment period by half "to promote rapid action" on these claims.
When a final rule is published, soon after April 26, VA claim offices across the country can begin making payments. Veterans with these diseases will need to show they set foot in Vietnam during the war. Those who served aboard ship just off the coast remain ineligible.
read more at MILITARY.com
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Agent Orange Retro Claims Allowed
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- AnonymousApril 4, 2010 at 10:11 AM
VA C&P STATES SMOKING WAS CAUSE OF IHD, HENCE FORTH AGENT ORANGE NOT CAUSE OF IHD, THAT MUST EQUAL DENIAL, SOME FAT GUY WAS UP NEXT FOR EXAM=DENIAL, MAYBE IF I WAS ABOARD A SHIP VA WOULD GRANT PRESUMPTION, SINCE BOOTS ON THE GROUND RULE IS OVERLOOKED. RVN-69-70 I CORP. 3RD M.A.F 3RD CAG CAP 3-5-5ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2010 at 8:48 AM
DUDE, WHO DID YOU TALK TO, EVEN THE NEW HEALTH CARE ISSUES, PREVENT PREXISTING CONDITIONS CLAUSES. YOU, COULD HAVE BEEN PERMINENT LATRINE ORDERLY, AND GOT YOUR LUNGS SCREWED UP FROM BURNING OUT THE CRAPPER, WOULD THAT BE PREXISTING FOR LUNG DAMAGE---KEEP FILING APPEALS, TILL THERE AIN'T ENOUGH PAPER LEFT, AND GET AN ATTORNEY. GO MAN, GO, DON'T LET THEM _HIT YOU AROUND. SEMPER FIReplyDelete
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WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients and LIMKON
A strategic partnership on the growth market of Turkey
Istanbul (Turkey)/Zug, Switzerland/Adana (Turkey), September 5, 2013. WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients Turkey, a subsidiary of WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients (WILD), and LIMKON will now be working in close conjunction on the Turkish and international market. Their joint goal is to continue to develop business in this growth region by providing an attractive portfolio of beverages which feature a high juice content.
Turkey grows fruit crops of international significance, and the country is also an interesting sales market for beverages. To make optimal use of both of these potential areas, WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients, one of the world's largest suppliers of natural ingredients for the food market, and LIMKON, a leading manufacturer of fruit and vegetable concentrates and purees in Turkey, have formally entered a partnership agreement.
A strategically advantageous position
WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients has been on site in Turkey since 2004. Currently some 20 employees in Istanbul work for WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients' beverage laboratory and in sales. With their expertise, they quickly helped establish WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients as a competent supplier on the Turkish market. Founded in 2007, LIMKON operates its production facility in the heart of Adana's fruit-growing region. The fruit-processing company is not only located in outstanding proximity to raw materials, it also works with state-of-the-art technologies and has the highest quality standards. Furthermore, its site in southeastern Turkey is very logistically appealing due to its access to the Mediterranean via the ports in Mersin and Iskenderun.
LIMKON belongs to the Ankara-based Turkish conglomerate LIMAK. LIMAK Holding is one of the top-tier holding groups of Turkey, active in construction, energy, transport, infrastructure, cement, tourism, fruit juice concentrate.
A single source for everything
In the past several years, LIMKON has ranked among the companies that obtain their compounds and flavors from WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients. Now the two companies have officially formed a partnership. The goal is to leverage the expertise of both businesses and offer the Turkish beverage industry a unique portfolio: combining WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients' flavors and compounds with LIMKON's concentrates and purees will be especially attractive to manufacturers of beverages with a high juice content, but they will also appeal to other customers in the food industry. The collaboration offers the two companies the opportunity to give full service to the manufacturers in the promising Turkish market with a gradually growing beverage consumption every year.
Furthermore, with the partnership with WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients LIMKON aims to increase its production capacity, which leads LIMAK to invest more in the juice business now based on the joint synergy with the ingredients producer. WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients in turn benefits by obtaining a site for its own production.
Beginning production in the late fall
With the agreement signed, WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients intends to build a new production facility for compounds by the beginning of the harvest season in late fall in Adana. The beverage ingredients will be processed there and sent to customers. WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients and LIMKON are convinced that their joint approach to the market will continue to enhance their strategic position in Turkey as well as create new target groups.
About WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients
WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, and is one of the world's leading suppliers of natural ingredients to the food and beverage industry. In addition to its main management office in Zug, subsidiaries with major production sites are located in Heidelberg-Eppelheim, Germany (WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients) and Erlanger, Kentucky, USA (WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients). Thirteen further production sites are situated in Europe, USA, Canada, China, Japan, India and Dubai.
The WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients product portfolio includes full flavor and ingredient solutions, known as flavor systems, fruit juice concentrates and blends as well as other food and beverage ingredients: natural flavors and extracts, mint oils and flavors, colors from natural sources, sweetening systems, seasonings and specialty ingredients such as taste modifiers. Fermentation technologies complete the portfolio. WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients provides the global beverage and dairy market as well as the baked-goods, confectionery and ice cream industry with its products. In the USA and Canada, WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients is a supplier for the cereals, snacks, and processed food markets as well. For more information about WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients, please visit: www.wildflavors.com.
About LIMKON Food
LIMKON is one of Turkey's leading suppliers of fruit juices, fruit-juice concentrates and purees as well as vegetable products. Being a subsidiary company and the only food group of LIMAK HOLDING with its headquarters in Ankara, the company was founded in 2007. The production facility in Adana is equipped with state-of-the-art technology. The ISO 9001:2008/ISO 22000:2005/ International Food Standard (IFS) Version 05 and BRC (Global Standard for Food Safety) Issue 06 and Kosher certified company is also a member of Sure-Global-Fair (SGF) and is 3rd party audited and approved since 2008 when its first production at its facility started. LIMKON has reached to a success where now it exports its products to 30 different countries in the world and has become a significant supplier to brand names in the domestic and international market.
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This may surprise some readers, since I am normally very "hawkish", but I believe that today's ECB interest rate increase is a mistake. The reason for that is that while inflationary policies are bad, so are deflationary ones. And this is clearly a deflationary move.
Even before this interest rate increase, money supply growth has become virtually flat and in fact slightly negative., with annualized M1 growth being -0.8% during the latest 6 month period. This interest rate increase will likely push it further into negative territory.
Not surprisingly given this fact, the euro has increased in value this year by as much as 8% against the U.S. dollar. While this in part reflects general U.S. dollar weakness caused by QE2, it also reflects the current deflationary euro area conditions, as the euro has appreciated against almost all currencies (with one exception being the Swedish krona, as the Riksbank is also pursuing deflationary policies).
Yet even as the euro exchange rate is soaring, bond yields are also rising especially in troubled countries, also suggesting deflationary monetary conditions.
It is true that prices of many commodities have risen, even in terms of euros. Yet that reflect foreign (manily Fed) monetary policy and negative supply shocks like the war in Libya.
The increasingly deflationary monetary policy is one partial explanation for why Portugal was forced to seek an EU rescue package similar to the ones that Greece and Ireland have gotten.
The ECB has in the past pursued far too inflationary policies. It now risks erring in the opposite direction.
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We went to Ajisen Ramen on a Saturday with Jodi, Jessica and Alex. We never went to that place and were excited to try it as we love ramen and there are so many places in NYC where to eat this delicious noodle dish.
The logo is funny and cartoony and, contrary to most of the ramen places we have been to, there is no sitting at the counter, watching the cook do its magic. I discovered, while writing this post, that Ajisen ramen is a chain, created in Japan.
The waiter gave us the menu and I was pleased to see photos as I always find that, if well taken, they can speak better than words. Although words are still necessary to describe each dish and, believe it or not, there was none! I tried to get some answers from the waiter but he was unable to explain what the dishes had.
So, Jodi and Jessica went for the corn ramen
Both dishes were similar: it was based on a broth made with pork that has a milky color. I thought in fact that it was because of a small amount of curry paste and possibly coconut milk...Both ramen had some slices of pork that were pretty descent, some green onions, cabbage and carrots. The corn ramen had...corn!
I finished my ramen that was good. Not to the level of the ones I tried before, but good. The advantage of this one is that it was not crowded at all, probably because of the location. I think they should either describe their dishes or have their staff have a better knowledge of the dishes, because, sometimes, if people like a restaurant, they like to come back to try other dishes they saw on the menu!
Enjoy (I did)!
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Answers citing Luke 14
- Where do we go after we die?
- After death, what will happen to the sinner?
- Why did Jesus say he wouldn't drink wine again until the kingdom when he ate and drank other things? (Mark 14:25)
- Does the Bible talk about collective salvation?
- What is the meaning of "the first shall be last and last shall be first"?
- What does the Bible say about environmentalism and climate change?
- What are the requirements to be baptized?


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When the weather is gloomy, I always find cooking to be a perfect way to spend an afternoon or evening. It's cozy, the house is warm and fragrant from the stove simmering away, and you can always open a bottle of your favorite wine to sip while you cook! And, when it's all done, you have a wonderful meal to enjoy together. It almost makes me thankful for the clouds!
One of my favorite classic Italian dishes to cook at home is Arancini, Italian-style saffron rice balls. With Earth Day this week, I was reminded of how important it is to reduce our waste in every capacity, and food is no exception! This is a perfect dish to prepare using leftover risotto from the previous days dinner. Never throw away ingredients that you can reinvent in a new, delicious dish!
You can choose to customize your Arancini based on your taste, or what you have on-hand, but the general way to make them uses risotto, mozzarella, egg, and bread crumbs. You'll mix the pre-made risotto, eggs, and bread crumbs together and form them into balls before adding your mozzarella into the center of each, rolling in additional bread crumbs and frying lightly in hot oil. At Bocca di Bacco we serve these delicious risotto balls with a delicious red sauce, which I highly recommend--and of course, every Italian dish is better paired with a glass of wine!
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Jane's husband is out for a run, like every morning, and he has a sharp pain in his chest. He dies of a heart attack on the spot. Jane is devastated. He was so young, how could this happen?
Her best friend Betty tries to console her, she says that god works in mysterious ways. Jane feels better.
Mysterious ways
What Betty was saying is that there was a reason for her husband's precocious death, we just cannot understand what it could be. God is up there, he planned everything, and killing off Jane's husband was part of the plan.
How is that comforting? God has a plan, and that plan might include the death of someone close to you. Each of your love ones is just a time bomb in god's plan.
Isn't it more comforting to accept that bad things just happen, that there is no fatality? That Jane's husband could have been saved?
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$15 Million Wrongful Termination Suit v. California State Bar/
The $15 million wrongful termination lawsuit (Oehler v. The State Bar of California et al., case number BC610699, in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles) that hit the State Bar of California echoes allegations made by the bar's former executive director pointing towards rampant ethical violations. Plaintiff Sonja Oehler's LinkedIn profile lists her previous title as the bar's former administrative specialist. Rather than being let go from her position for a lack of ability or dedication to the job or a necessary reduction in staff, Oehler alleges that she was fired from her job because she knew too much about rampant ethical violations: deceit, deception, incompetence and falsification of issues on the part of the bar.
Details of Alleged Ethical Violations Specifically Mentioned in the Wrongful Termination Lawsuit Include:
A director required to attend a three hour hearing in San Francisco demanded that the bar cover the costs for a four day stay at San Francisco's Palace Hotel. The bar agreed to pay.
A board member's reimbursement claim for close to $30,000 denied by Oehler was later paid out of state bar funds.
Terminations because individuals were supposed "friends" of the prior leader of the bar (i.e. former executive director Joseph Dunn who sued the bar in 2014).
Former executive director, Joseph Dunn, alleged in his 2014 lawsuit that there was a massive cover-up of unethical practices on the part of the bar and that he was fired for exposing the problem. He also alleged that Jayne Kim, the bar's chief trial counsel, purposefully purged the public backlog in order to inflate her own productivity. Additionally, Kim allegedly failed in her duty to prosecute unlicensed lawyers who preyed on immigrants; even after legislation was passed prohibiting the practice. In December, the bar said that a judge has agreed to appoint an arbitrator to come to a resolution in the Dunn suit.
Kim is also named in Oehler's suit (as a defendant). In Oehler's suit allegations indicate that Kim allowed the backlog of discipline cases to pile up until they were out of control and then moving 181 of the cases into a "deferred" state allowing the backlog to be reported without them. Once reported, the "deferred" case statuses were moved back to active. Oehler described the action as a "scam."
Allegations make in the suit also claim that Kim dismissed ethics complaints made against herself when they should have been sent to an outsider that could address them impartially. It is also alleged that the bar failed completely to open hundreds of complaints regarding unauthorized practice of law resulting in fraud against Mexican nationals seeking U.S. citizenship.
Oehler alleged the acting executive director, Robert Hawley, retaliated against lawyers who attempted to provide wrongfully terminated employees with assistance.
Oehler's suit seeks $10 million in financial losses due to her wrongful firing and an additional $5 million due to the intentional infliction of emotional distress. Oehler claims fraud, misrepresentation by the state bar (and other listed defendants), and deceit. As per these allegations, Oehler's suit seeks punitive damages (not to exceed 10x damages due from wrongful termination and emotional distress).
Legal representation for the bar states that the bar denies the allegations made by Oehler. They believe that the lawsuit holds no legal merit. They plan to address the allegations in the "appropriate forum."
If you have questions regarding wrongful termination or how to file a wrongful termination lawsuit, please get in touch with the experienced southern California employment law attorneys at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik.


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We are always particular about small details on our projects - details that can either ruin an otherwise successful design, or can make them sing. One frequent detail that we must resolve is how to stop the wall tile at a bathroom, in this case, so that we have a clean detail without unfinished edges or unsightly grout showing.
We have used bullnose tile, decorative profiled tile, wood trim details, etc., but in this project in Westport, CT we needed a more modern detail to finish the wall tile edge. As shown here, we found a product that provides a nice clean line, flush with the face of the tile and is available in stainless steel, aluminum, solid brass, or white as seen here (they may have other colors as well). This finishing edge trim allowed us to tile right to the edge of this window frame without needing any traditional wood casing - keeping the detailing clean and tight.
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Rob has 35 years of steel experience. Rob started with Carolina Steel Corporation in 1980 as a structural engineer. Taking what he learned from the Carolina Steel training regime, he joined with Richard Flournoy to start Engineered Steel Products in 1989. Rob is primarily responsible for special projects and design/build projects for the company. Rob has been a critical part of Engineered Steel's growth over the past 25 years.


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Twitter is ramping up its artificial intelligence efforts, hunting for experts to fill out a new team called "Cortex."
A couple of recent job postings provide some clues about Twitter's new Cortex group, which could help the company better personalize its service for its 300 million users and keep up with Google and Facebook in the industry's escalating AI race.
Twitter is looking to enlist architecture and systems software engineers that will work on "Deep Learning," a specialized branch of artificial intelligence that's much in vogue among Internet companies these days. The job postings specify that the positions are based in New York, which is where Madbits, an AI startup that Twitter acquired last year, is based.
A goal of Cortex appears to be "automatic content understanding." A job listing explains that Twitter basically building the "backbone" of its learning systems, which are intended to automatically label the flood of disparate content that users publish on its social network.
Here's how Twitter explains in the job listing why it needs artificial intelligence and how it views the new Cotex team:
Twitter is a unique source of real-time information, offering amazing opportunities for automatic content understanding. The format of this content is diverse (tweets, photos, videos, music, hyperlinks, follow graph, ...), the distribution of topics ever-changing (on a weekly, daily, or sometimes hourly basis), and the volume ever-growing; making it very challenging to automatically and continuously expose relevant content. Manually defining features to represent this data is showing its limits.
Our team, Twitter Cortex, is responsible for building the representation layer for all this content. As an architecture engineer at Twitter Cortex, you will help us build, scale and maintain the backbone of our online learning systems, and directly impact the lives of our users and the success of our business.
AI is an increasingly important area of focus at many Internet companies. Google acquired DeepMind in 2014 and has been doing a lot of work with artificial neural networks. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has flagged AI as one of the company's key initiatives.
Twitter may not have the resources of Google or Facebook, but the Cortex group shows Twitter has big plans for AI too. For Twitter, artificial intelligence capabilities could help create powerful new features and products that could revive the service's stalling user growth.
In a report in Wired earlier this month, Twitter engineering director Alex Roetter provided a few details about Cortex.
Twitter's initial AI efforts were aimed at identifying porn and other types of potentially objectionable content on the site, Wired reports. That allowed Twitter to identify and label certain types of content faster and at a lower cost than by employing armies of humans to pore over the content.
Twitter is now creating a broader AI operation that could be used for everything from helping Twitter better match its users with relevant tweets and people to follow. Twitter's Cortex is already focusing on the company's advertising system and will eventually analyze the entire "corpus of tweets," Wired reports.


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Happy Monday all! So this week we went to two stores. I had forgotten to get milk whenever I did my once a month stock up day. Don't you just hate when that happens? Luckily Hubby took the kids and went and got it for me. It was seriously such a great hour, home alone in the house. I blasted my music and got caught up on some cleaning. It was an hour well spent. I also got to pick up a basket of fresh fruits and veggies, from Bountiful Baskets and then went to Winco on Saturday. Below I have a breakdown of the costs. I am loving sharing all my shopping trips with you. It is not only great in keeping me accountable for everything I am spending, but I hope it is helping you all as well. I know once a month shopping can be hard for those with either not enough space to store food, or it may not work with the your pay days, etc. My weekly meals, recipes, shopping lists, and tips are all to help you guys and gals save more this year. I have so enjoyed the emails I have been receiving from so many of you. You guys email me, comment, or send me messages on facebook about how you are changing your lives and saving this year. I am so proud of all of you and know you can do it. Keep up the great work!!
Now onto the shopping loot.....Well I am a tad lame and totally forgot to take pictures of my basket and such Saturday morning. Since I forgot to take a picture, I decided to give you a quick glimpse into my fridge. This is exactly how it looks right now. I have leftovers in tubs, loads of fresh fruits and veggies, and our new found love...soy milk. All of these items will be used in this weeks menu. We will also be heating up leftovers for lunches and using the fruits and veggies for snacks and smoothies. Remember using what you already have on hand will save you time and money at the grocery store.
1 Bountiful Basket Fruit and Veggies - $15
Almond Milk - 3 pk - $7.89
Silk Milk - $6.99
Firm Tofu - $2.29
Granola - $5.85
Whole Wheat Hot Cereal x3 - $5.91
Whole Wheat Bagels - $1.78
Honey - $6.83
Whole Wheat Flour x 2- $7.38
Kool Aide Jammers - $3.50
2 lbs Sweet Peppers - $2.98
Straws - $1.58
Strawberry Yogurt X2 - $3.32
Green onions X2 - $ .32
Mushrooms - $1.68
2 Green Bell Peppers - $ .96
Reddi Whip Cream - $3.48
Plastic Cups - $2.48
Cantaloupe - $1.35
Total Purchases - $81.57
Total This Month: $272.19
I still have a bit of my budget left, which will be used to purchase fresh produce during the month. I will also be using some of that money to pay for Miss Priss's birthday party this month. I have already purchased the cups, straws, and drinks for the party (kool-aide jammers above). I already have plates in my pantry. Now I just need to purchase the pizza and make the cake. Planning ahead has helped me to save money. I will be posting later this month on how to save while planning family functions.
If you are new to meal planning, start HERE.
I have great tips for just starting out with meal planning.
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the shopping list and all the recipes HERE
Have a Fabulous Day Lovelies!