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5 Easy Summer Potluck-Pleasers!
Summer (and potluck season) has finally begun! Thankfully, we're outdoors more and partaking in a surge of social gatherings. Love this potluck-style of eating because it's fun to get together with family and friends over shared food and laughter. However, many of our clients find potluck meal decision stressful. Just to clarify, potlucks are a gathering where everyone brings a dish/meal and it comes together to create a smorgasbord of options instead of the host carrying the cooking responsibility.
Today's blog is dedicated to inspiring easy summer potluck-pleasers. I will break down how to select the appropriate potluck dish and 5 easy summer potluck-pleasers! These dishes are ideal for sharing, make-ahead assembly and sure to impress the taste buds.
This post was sponsored by the Egg Farmers of Ontario; as always, all opinions are genuine.
How to Choose a Potluck Item?
Select what you LOVE!
First, bring to the party something that you are a big fan of. This makes it more likely that others will also be impressed and enjoy your dish. Consider ease of eating while socializing and be conscientious of ways you may need to modify your meal to make individual servings or hand-held items.
Consider Balanced Eating
A host might prompt guests to sign up for different types of foods – appetizers, veggies, fruit platter, meat/protein, mains, etc. This ensures variety in foods and balanced eating. To learn about how to balance a meal, click here to see Canada's New Food Guide: A Dietitian's Perspective.
Consider Ease of Preparation
Be realistic with how much time you want to spend cooking or preparing your potluck item. Planning ahead is the key to success! This means that you know what dish you want to make, you have all necessary groceries, your recipe is on hand, and you've put aside an adequate chunk of time to prepare your dish. If you want to learn more about how to expertly meal prep, click here. If you're more interested in meal planning, click here.
5 Favourite Summer Potluck-Pleasers!
1. Greek Lentil Salad
Who doesn't adore Greek flavours? The salty feta cheese and briny olives and the freshness of tomatoes and cucumber. Yum! This Easiest Greek Lentil Salad recipe is a potluck go-to. It uses lentils, which are little edible pulses or seeds. Lentils are packed with heart-healthy nutrition along with 9 grams of fibre and 8 grams of protein per half-cup.
The lentils in this crowd-pleaser recipe are also gluten free and vegetarian for guests needing appropriate alternatives. Additionally, this "healthy" option intrigues many who haven't tried lentils yet.
Did you know? Lentils are gluten free, vegetarian, and packed with 9 grams of fibre and 8 grams of protein per half-cup. Consider incorporating lentils into your next potluck dish!
This recipe is the perfect make-ahead option. If you want to prepare it the day before, the Greek flavours marinate and intensify when left overnight. There's also speedy preparation because we use canned lentils, which are cooked and ready to use. Simply rinse and drain them to remove excess sodium. Next, cut your veggies and add an extremely simple two-ingredient dressing (see recipe).
2. Deviled Eggs
Deviled eggs are a true crowd-pleaser. It's also a recipe that my grandma would make for family summer parties. And boy were they a hit! They have an indulgent taste with a creamy, flavourful zest but also pack impressive nutrition. In fact, one egg has 6 grams of protein and half this protein is found in the yolk. Making deviled eggs reminds us to not skip the yolk, where we receive most of the nutrition such as choline for brain health and lutein for heart health. Click here to read why you don't want to skip the yolk when eating eggs.
DYK: One egg has 6 grams of protein and half this protein is found in the yolk.
Hard-cooking eggs is an ideal make-ahead option. It takes only about 10-minutes and the eggs last in the fridge for 7 days. Many meal-prep advocates love having a batch of hard-cooked eggs in the fridge ready to add to meals, snacks or salads.
Click here for my Hard-Cooked Eggs to Perfection recipe.
When you are ready to prepare your deviled eggs, you simply scoop egg yolks out into a bowl and add fillings to suit your flavour profile. The traditional deviled egg has mayonnaise, vinegar and Dijon mustard with sprinkled paprika on top. You can put the filling in a plastic bag and when you arrive at the potluck you can cut off the corner to pipe the filling back into the halved egg whites.
Dietitian Tip: Try to experiment with new flavour combinations to wow your potluck guests. You can make Avocado Deviled Eggs, Sriracha Flavoured Eggs or a Lemon Chive Flavoured Eggs. Eggs are super versatile and you can't beat the freshness of eggs that go from farm to grocery store in 4 to 7 days.
3. Smoked Salmon Cucumber Bites
This simple smoked salmon appetizer is a delicious potluck recipe to boost your guests' nutrition with omega-3 fats. These are the heart-healthy fatty acids found in fatty fish like trout, mackerel, and sardines. Salmon contains anti-inflammatory omega-3 fats that are beneficial for heart health, eye health, and brain functioning. I love this appetizer because the assembly is speedy and the final product is nothing but impressive.
Smoked Salmon Cucumber Bites requires minimal prep. They are also super-fast to assemble. In fact, you can bring ingredients to your potluck and assemble there.
To make these, clean cucumbers and cut into ½" thick coins. Top each with about half a tablespoon of chive-flavoured smooth or whipped cottage cheese for a low calorie and high protein alternative. Place a small piece of smoked salmon on top of each cucumber coin. Finally, garnish with fresh dill or chives along with squeeze of lemon. Easy peasy lemon squeezy, right?
4. Strawberry & Swiss Salad (with Balsamic Glaze and Fresh Herbs)
Having a big bowl of fresh salad greens is exactly what many desire on a hot summer's day. Using tips from How to Build Satisfying Summer Salads, we've put together a simple Strawberry Swiss Salad recipe for potluck inspiration. To make salads interesting, be sure to add something sweet, something savoury and a pop of flavour with a touch of zesty citrus or fresh herbs.
Salad greens can be purchased pre-washed and pre-cut. Try including two different varieties for added texture and flavour. Be sure to assemble your salad at the potluck so that it does not go mushy. For this recipe, I recommend pre-cutting strawberries, cubing Swiss cheese and putting the vinaigrette in a mason jar to drizzle when ready to serve. You can also leave dressing on the side for guests to add themselves.
5. Peanut Satay
When planning potluck meals, think of ease of eating while socializing. Therefore, hand-held skewers are an ideal, fun and a trendy food option that many guests will love. One of my favourites is a Chicken Peanut Satay. A satay is an Indonesian dish using seasoned, skewered, and grilled meat with a dipping sauce.
If making satays for the potluck, you will need to marinate chicken for a couple of hours or overnight. A simple marinade may include soya sauce, oil, brown sugar, fresh ginger and fresh garlic. A peanut dipping sauce can also be made in advance (here's a recipe). You will then want to soak wooden skewers for at least 30 minutes before threading the meat on them. You can then BBQ these at the potluck or in advance. These are tasty served either hot or cold! Garnish with green onions, cilantro and/or crushed peanuts.
Looking for more ideas for a Healthy Backyard BBQ? Click here.
Bottom Line:
We hope you enjoy your summer potluck season! Relish this time outdoors with friends and family over a shared meal. Additionally, be sure to minimize the stress of potluck meal decision by opting for meals that you love, considering the nutritional value and prioritizing ease of preparation. Happy potlucking!
Now it's your turn! Are you a potluck fan? What are your go-to meals to bring? How do you ease the stress of deciding what to bring? Any words of encouragement for fellow potluckers?
P.S., In case you missed it! Here's Andrea on CHCH Morning Live talking all about Healthy Summer Potlucks! I also stopped by CTV Kitchener to share potluck tips for the News at Noon.


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4:21 cads: hey, would a multilanguage VM running java do tailcall optimization?
4:30 cgrand: cads: http://
4:35 cads: cgrand I could smooch you but I won't
4:36 this is great!
8:04 hsuh: hi... whats the current recipe for installing slime+swank? svn versions aren't working for me... anyone?
8:07 jdz: hsuh: you need swank-clojure
8:07 hsuh: from the git i think
8:07 hsuh: yes, all that
8:08 so what i currently get is: the REPL starts and is functional, but i get some errors (java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: lazy-seq in this context (core.clj:70), java.lang.Exception: No such var: swank.swank/ignore-protocol-version (NO_SOURCE_FILE:3), java.lang.Exception: No such var: swank.swank/start-server (NO_SOURCE_FILE:5)) and slime keeps polling or something
8:21 hm... here we are.. replacing lazy-seq (not found) with seq makes things work.. anyone knows if that was removed from clojure or i need to require a library before calling it ?
8:25 Chouser: hsuh: yeah, lazy-seq has been gone awhile.
8:25 cemerick: it sounds like you have an old version of clojure. lazy-seq is definitely in clojure, since before v1.0 was marked.
8:26 Chouser: oh
8:26 cemerick: wha? :-/
8:26 Chouser: uh
8:26 sorry. I blame monday.
8:26 cemerick is, of course, correct.
8:26 cemerick: whew, I thought I was going bananas!
8:26 Chouser: you were probably thinking of lazy-cons
8:27 Chouser: cemerick: yes, of course. Thanks for making my mistake sound reasonable. :-)
8:27 cemerick: Chouser: heh. How goes the new gig, anyways? I hope all's well in general.
8:27 Chouser: yep, thinks are well, can't complain, etc. :-)
8:28 checked in some clojure code last week, so we'll see how that goes.
8:29 cemerick: is clojure still in skunk-works mode there?
8:30 Chouser: a little higher profile than that, but only in "prototype" code for now -- slated to be replaced by something that performs better later. ...again, we'll see. :-)
8:32 cemerick: Good luck. We actually just made some huge strides in performance. We now have a use-case for pmap, which *really* helps -- our older data structures weren't parallelizable, but starting early last week, we switched to a new set of impls that are...and wow, the difference is fun :-)
8:37 Chouser: ah, great.
8:38 did you see Rich's comment about pmap and chunked seqs?
8:39 cemerick: uh, no. My list inbox is oh-so-neglected.
8:39 Chouser: nah, it was a passing irc comment.
8:39 cemerick: ah. log link?
8:40 Chouser: http://
8:41 cemerick: oh, so chunking (not that I'm clear about what chunks are at all, of course) makes seqs almost naturally parallelizable, in that the work partitioning is almost done for you....?
8:42 Chousuke: hmm
8:42 cemerick: Our two usages of pmap happen to be in cases where we always have to invoke a particular fn over a dataset with a couple of different parameters, making for an obviously-parallelizable process.
8:43 Chouser: not quite. more like the overhead of doing 'next' (calling down the stack, allocating a new seq, etc.) is enough that in a lot of cases pmap doesn't make sense right now.
8:43 cemerick: Oh, I see. Reaching for the stars, I am :-)
8:44 Chouser: but with a chunked seq (such as a seq over a vector, for example) that overhead is required much less often, so pmap may make sense of less heavy funcs.
8:44 :-)
8:45 hsuh: cemerick: i just compiled from svn...
8:45 cemerick: I was thinking of how seq producer might know how to partition a dataset better than its consumer, so the chunks could be sized appropriately for pmap-ing.
8:45 Chouser: seq producers do the chunking, yes.
8:45 cemerick: hsuh: hrm. I don't work off of trunk, but I'd be very surprised if rich pulled something like lazy-seq...
8:46 hsuh: maybe i need to require something (lazy) ?
8:46 Chouser: hsuh: can you check at a repl if you've got lazy-cons?
8:46 hsuh: ser=> lazy-seq -> java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: lazy-seq in this context (NO_SOURCE_
8:46 Chouser: if you do, something's definitely amiss.
8:46 cemerick: hsuh: no, it's in the std lib, as it were. I'd grab the latest release jar, start with that to get a baseline, and then move on to build from sources if you're so inclined.
8:46 hsuh: user=> lazy-cons java.lang.Exception: Can't take value of a macro: #'clojure.core/lazy-cons (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)
8:46 cemerick: yeah, that's very old
8:46 hsuh: cemerick: k thanks
8:47 i've done something wrong :)
8:47 cemerick: hsuh: what svn URL are you using?
8:47 Chousuke: hsuh: did you get it from sourceforge? :P
8:47 cemerick: man, it's a groupthink in here :-)
8:47 hsuh: hmm err :)
8:47 yes...
8:47 Chousuke: heh
8:47 hsuh: ops
8:47 cemerick: hsuh: http://
8:47 Chousuke: clojure is on google code nowadays
8:48 hsuh: and i thought i was on the edge
8:48 hehe
8:48 cemerick: wow, I didn't think the SF svn was still up and running. Seems like it should be switched off.
8:48 hsuh: i'll ping jochu to update github page for swank-clojure
8:48 because github feels updated... so i blindly followed it..
8:49 well, thanks a lot
8:50 cemerick: hsuh: hth :-)
10:58 hrm, I'm getting odd pauses at the end of compilation cycles -- I suspect dangling agent threads. Anyone hit this before?
11:02 ah, removing the pmap calls I just added makes the compilation process finish immediately as before....
11:25 hiredman: http://
11:27 Chouser: cemerick: didn't see your posts, sorry. If you use futures or agents (which pmap does), you'll have to shut down the agent pools to exit cleanly.
11:27 drewr: ..and even then maybe not :-)
11:28 cemerick: Chouser: I'm about to post to the group with a patch. To be clear though, none of the pmap calls were *invoked* -- but their usage in the code probably caused the loading of c.l.Agent, which sets the threadpools off on their way.
11:28 Chouser: well, I've been doing a lot of that, and haven't had issues. I saw there was a thread, but didn't read into it deeply enough to spot the difference.
11:28 hm.
11:29 cemerick: Chouser: the patch I'm proposing adds an Agent.shutdown() call to finally blocks in the entry points of clojure.main and clojure.lang.Compile. Does that seem reasonable?
11:29 Chouser: I don't think your diagnosis is correct.
11:30 clj -e "(fn [] (agent nil))" ;exits promptly
11:30 clj -e "(agent nil)" ; exits promptly
11:30 clj -e "(send-off (agent nil) identity)" ; hangs
11:30 cemerick: ah, that code *is* run, so yes, the agents are being used. My bad.
11:31 Chouser: cemerick: and so you know, agent shutdown calls and/or System/exit calls have been added and removed from the various entry points a few times. People always complain either way.
11:31 cemerick: (creating a default EMPTY value)
11:31 hrm.
11:32 Chouser: the problem the other direction being if you have an agent or something that shuts down the pool when it's the last one out, and your main program just falls off the end, an automatic pool shutdown would break things.
11:32 cemerick: well then, certainly no one could complain about a shudown call in clojure.lang.Compile, which would fix my immediate problem.
11:32 Chouser: hm.
11:35 cemerick: In general, it doesn't seem like everyone should keep tripping over this problem in different directions. It's a frustratingly difficult thing to debug if you're not attuned to it already. :-[
11:39 Chouser: in my experience, for any particular app it's pretty hard to know when all other threads are done and it's safe to exit.
11:39 drewr: cemerick++ It's extremely difficult to debug. I think I have mine figured out and then I see different behavior.
11:39 Chouser: it's hard for me to imagine how it could be solved automatically.
11:39 rhickey: hmm... #clojure on the plane - awesome
11:41 Chouser: rhickey: nice.
11:41 heading to CA?
11:41 drewr: Chouser: Yep, I finally had to remove agent activity from my script. Couldn't determine even for my own program what the right behavior was.
11:41 replaca: rhickey: cool. best wishes for the script bowl tomorrow!
11:41 rhickey: yup
11:41 cemerick: Chouser: why not declare that agents are shutdown when the main thread exits, period, and if you don't want that to happen, join as necessary?
11:41 rhickey: replaca: thanks!
11:41 cemerick: rhickey: Indeed, good luck :-)
11:41 rhickey: the 4 minute limit is quite short
11:41 cemerick: I just don't see why everyone that works with agents should have to trip over this particular issue.
11:41 replaca: rhickey: do you want me to make a hand-out/poster for you for the clojure meetup, or do you want to just let that be?
11:41 cemerick: or actually, not even agents, just a simple pmap usage ropes you into the same area...
11:42 (as in my case)
11:42 rhickey: replaca: I don't know that I could hand them out, but you could
11:43 replaca: rhickey: I won't be there - I guess I could come and see if there are some public places to post
11:43 rhickey: replaca: ah, right
11:43 replaca: I think they'll only check at the entrance to the sessions, so that would probably work
11:43 rhickey: I imagine those who would come are on the ggroup or here
11:44 replaca: rhickey: I'll do that.
11:44 rhickey: Yeah, I think you're right + anyone you sufficiently inspire
11:44 The twittersphere has had a bit of buzz about Stuart's book!
11:46 Chouser: cemerick: I guess that may be reasonable. For the cases where my code is carefully collecting the threads before agent-shutdown, it would be no harder to do that work and then rely on automatic agent-shutdown. *shrug*
11:46 triddell: rhickey: I'm sure you have other things on your mind but I wondered if Issue #100 on the tracker had any plans to get attention. It's a bug that basically stops compiled classes from working on IBM JVMs.
11:47 djpowell: Is there any way to dispatch on array types in multi-methods - or to use hierarchies to derive from array types
11:47 cemerick: Chouser: yeah, I'm not at all clear on what the solution is, but I can't imagine how frustrating it would be as a complete noob to hit this issue. That's why I'm agitating :-)
11:47 rhickey: triddell: I'd welcome a patch
11:48 cemerick: do you have a proposal?
11:48 * rhickey flew in late
11:49 triddell: rhickey: A patch was attached to the post that describes the original issue (it wasn't my post/patch so I didn't attach it to the issue)
11:49 clojurebot: rhickey is a T-1000 sent from the future
11:49 cemerick: rhickey: well, an immediate fix to keep compilation runs from hanging for 60s (add Agent.shutdown() in the finally block of main). I don't think anyone could complain about that.
11:49 triddell: rhickey: http://
11:50 rhickey: the patch works for me but I didn't know if it might have any other ramifications
11:50 cemerick: rhickey: On the solution in general, I'm generally aiming for something that will result in sane behaviour for noobs, and something that experienced users can easily work with (my current idea being, shutdown on exit from clojure.main in every case, and if you're clever enough to know that that's not what you want, make your main thread join until you're ready to be done).
11:51 Chouser says that's gone back and forth a couple of times, but the current state of play doesn't seem reasonable for the common case, or for new users.
11:51 (i.e. difficult-to-explain "hanging")
11:52 rhickey: triddell: someone with a CA needs to attach it to the issue
11:53 djpowell: Is there any way of writing an array class literal? Something like Ljava.lang.Object;?
11:54 rhickey: cemerick: I think there needs to be a recipe for both scenarios, by join you mean what?
11:55 djpowell: you need the class object or just a type hint?
11:56 djpowell: well, I wanted to do multi-method dispatch, with 'class' as my dispatch function, and have it handle array types
11:56 or - alternatively, to use derive to handle array types the same as lists - with a seq wrapper or something
11:57 cemerick: rhickey: sorry, that was a poor term choice. I just mean that if you want to delay your program's exit until your agents are done doing their thing, you should be responsible for holding the main thread until you're ready to exit. Lots of ways to do that.
11:57 triddell: rhickey: ok, I'll send a CA off and ping you about the issue after you've received it
11:58 cemerick: djpowell: we're just using (defmethod foo (class (make-array Character/TYPE 0)), etc
11:59 rhickey: ,(Class/forName "[Ljava.lang.Object;")
11:59 clojurebot: [Ljava.lang.Object;
12:00 djpowell: ah - I had some strange idea that the dispatch values had to be literals for some reason
12:01 rhickey: cemerick: we need to automate that, lest we make a change and the other side complains again, round and orund
12:01 djpowell: that will work ok - or I could just change the dispatch function
12:01 replaca: rhickey: on second thought, I may not sell the meetup too hard - we've already got about 35 people signed up and the space will be crammed with 50. Feel free to mention it in your talk or to interested folks and just give them my email/number for info.
12:01 rhickey: djpowell: dispatch value do not need to be literals
12:01 replaca: fair enough - I'm looking forward to it
12:02 replaca: rhickey: us too!
12:02 djpowell: rhickey: yeah cool. although on the subject of arrays, I did have some trouble type hinting that something was a char-array
12:02 cemerick: rhickey: I can see people wanting to do it in a lot of different ways. I hesitate to think I'd have enough perspective to propose a general-enough solution.
12:03 rhickey: A sneaky option would be to trim back the keepalive of the threads in Agent's Executors' threadpools. It's 60s now, and could be a lot lower.
12:05 rhickey: hit 2000 members on group today!
12:08 cemerick: really? It says 1983 right now...
12:08 rhickey: cemerick: I don't know how often they update that, the admin screens say 2000
12:08 cemerick: ah
12:09 rhickey: cemerick: what about letting people set *auto-shutdown-agents*, default true? puts it in their hands without establishing a policy
12:12 stuhood: rhickey: would it be possible to model them like threads, where each agent could be a 'daemon'?
12:12 cemerick: rhickey: yeah, that's fine by me. :-) I think c.l.Compile should just have it hardcoded, though -- there's no user code in involved in that path that could customize the behaviour, anyway.
12:20 rhickey: biab
12:30 replaca: dysinger: are you in the channel?
12:35 dysinger: yes
12:38 replaca: dysinger: are you coming to SF for the clojure meetup? I saw you said something like that on Twitter.
12:38 dysinger: If so, I want to make sure you're on the rsvp list
12:38 dysinger: y
12:38 I wasn't able to get logged in and rsvp yet
12:39 yes thank you - put myself and phil hagelberg on there
12:39 Tim Dysinger
12:39 replaca: dysinger: Don't worry, consider it done. I already had Phil on my list.
12:40 Anyone else coming can just ping me here or email me and I'll put you on the list
12:40 dysinger: thanks replaca
12:43 replaca: dysinger: np
12:46 Roux: anyone here got the 'programming clojure' book?
12:46 dnolen_: yes
12:47 triddell: triddell: yes
12:47 Roux: does it do a good job of explaining functional programming to people not familiar with that paradigm?
12:47 triddell: Roux: oops, yes
12:47 danlarkin_: replaca: wish I was on the west coast :) consider me there in spirit!
12:47 Roux: triddell: does it do a good job of explaining functional programming to people not familiar with that paradigm?
12:48 triddell: Roux: I think it does a very good job... I was new to it before clojure and it was the book I used to "get" it
12:48 Roux: great
12:48 :)
12:49 but with only 200 pages i would think it only has time to explain clojure library itself and no time to help ppl grok functional programming
12:50 triddell: in fact, I'm writing a review on Amazon right now and I'd encourage other readers to do the same and help to promote the book
12:51 replaca: danlarkin_: we all wish you were here too. I envision a future where we'll be able to have our own national events like the Ruby guys do.
12:52 Roux: replaca: you a python or a ruby guy?
12:53 replaca: Roux: both, to a certain extent
12:53 Roux: which softens your heart most of all
12:54 ?
12:54 triddell: well, it's two hundred pages of functional programming! because clojure is a Lisp it can cover what would take another language 200 pages in chapter or two... the rest is practical examples and api specifics (the majority of which highlight its functional nature)
12:54 dnolen_: Roux: also compared to Python and Ruby, Clojure is fairly miniscule. Daunting at first but then you realize how small Clojure actually is.
12:54 triddell: Roux: arg, well, it's two hundred pages of functional programming! because clojure is a Lisp it can cover what would take another language 200 pages in chapter or two... the rest is practical examples and api specifics (the majority of which highlight its functional nature
12:54 Roux: triddell: yeah bro! i bought the scala book, and it's about 700 pages!!!
12:55 replaca: Roux: well, Clojure's my favorite right now cause I feel like I can really rock'n'roll in it
12:55 dnolen_: compared to Scala, Clojure is nanoscopic.
12:55 Roux: Scala strikes me as very complex
12:55 scarily so
12:55 but quite clever and nifty too :)
12:56 replaca: Roux: python and ruby are a little different, but overall I prefer Ruby. I end up using python more because at work we're based on the CLR and IronPython gives me a nice interface to that
12:56 triddell: Roux: bought that too, was interested and then found clojure, never read the Scala book after it arrived
12:56 replaca: Roux: I've just begun learning scala
12:57 I'm interested in some of the more advanced communication stuff that's being implemented in scala (esp. by the twitter folks) and would like to bring some of that tech into the Clojure fold
12:57 since I'm mostly a distributed systems guy
12:58 Roux: cool
12:58 there is alot to like in scala
12:58 esp. if you come from a c++/java background
12:59 replaca: Roux: yeah, I'm not of the "one language to rule them all" school. Clojure feels best to me, but I don't want to be chauvinistic about it.
12:59 Roux: scala feels quite rubyish too
12:59 i mean you iterate through a list like this in scala: myList.foreach(x => println(x))
13:00 dnolen_: scala doesn't work via messaging tho, so that seems like an odd comparison.
13:00 Roux: it's a pity they didn't credit ruby as an influence on the wikipedia page, cos as a rubyist myself i see alot of ruby in scala and i dont think it's a coincidence
13:01 triddell: Roux: the other day I wrote a simple Rest/Json service for use on Google App Engine in under a hundred lines using Clojure... it was the most fun I'd had programming in quite a while... I'm not a language snob either but fun is fun!
13:01 Roux: yeah i cant wait to get my head around a lisp, the most i've done so far is just muck around with e-lisp a teeny tiny bit and it was alot of fun thinking and programming recursively
13:03 dnolen_: well it seems to me that Ruby -> Clojure is natural, since Ruby was Matz's attempt to merge his two favorite languages, Lisp Smalltalk with the UNIX shell convenience of perl.
13:04 Roux: yeah that also probably explains the similarity of ruby to scala too, in so far as ruby is an amalgum of the oop/functional paradigmns in a similar way that scala purports to be (though it's true that scala values immutability higher than ruby)
13:06 dnolen_: well there's definitely a connection Gilad Bracha (of StrongTalk fame, and developer of NewSpeak) said he's had many conversations with Odersky about Scala.
13:08 Roux: odersky probably just doesn't give ruby as an influence so he doesn't scare off the python dudes, who love to spit on the ground of anything connected to ruby
13:11 hiredman: clojurebot: have you heard the word about scala?
13:11 clojurebot: "you can usually accomplish a lot by laboriously enumerating type arguments everywhere." -- seen in #scala
13:11 Roux: clojurebot: have you heard the word about ruby?
13:11 clojurebot: Excuse me?
13:12 Roux: :D
13:13 Chousuke: clojurebot: ruby is <reply>Chunky bacon!
13:13 clojurebot: Roger.
13:14 Roux: nice one :)
13:15 Chousuke: I hope someone will trigger clojurebot's random auto reply with "ruby" and be thoroughly confused as a result
13:16 hiredman: clojurebot: outback steak house?
13:16 clojurebot: I don't understand.
13:16 hiredman: bah
13:16 clojurebot: steak?
13:16 clojurebot: I want to go to there
13:16 Roux: hehe although i dont know a single rubyist who hasn't read _why's guide ;)
13:25 triddell: finished writing your review yet?
13:25 im curious to see it
13:53 cemerick: replaca: coming in late, but I've begun to ponder what a couchdb clone would look like implemented with clojure. That'd be a big (but interesting) task.
13:55 danlarkin_: cemerick: beware NIHS
13:56 hiredman: a clojureql type deal for couchdb might be nice
13:56 cemerick: danlarkin_: oh, I quiver in terror in the face of NIHS :-)
13:56 ataggart: ~google NIHS
13:56 cemerick: couch-in-clojure is fancy more than anything else
13:56 clojurebot: First, out of 166000 results is:
13:57 cemerick: Our Pacific friends will be happy to know the terror they instill in clojure programmers. :-)
13:57 hiredman: :P
13:57 hmmm
13:57 ataggart: lol
13:59 dysinger: cemerick - why re-write couchdb in clojure ?
13:59 it's awesome as is
14:00 cemerick: dysinger: I have no good reason right now, which (among other reasons) is why I'm not.
14:00 dysinger: I think it would be more interesting to write a couchdb view server for clojure
14:00 so you can write your map/reduce in clojure :)
14:00 cemerick: dysinger: that's something we'll probably be tackling in the next month or two, unless someone else gets there first :-)
14:00 stuartsierra: I already do that with Hadoop.
14:00 dysinger: yucky
14:01 cemerick: we couldn't handle the admin complexity of hadoop, unfortunately.
14:01 dysinger: we are looking at that too - thanks for your example code.
14:01 stuartsierra: welcome
14:01 dysinger: I just don't like how rube goldberg hadoop is at the moment.
14:02 I am leaning towards straight clojure and amqp
14:02 stuartsierra: It's not so bad once you get into it - most of the complexity is for edge-case optimizations.
14:02 dysinger: probably
14:02 hiredman: :|
14:03 dysinger: other thing I want to look at is terracotta and clojure for map/reduce in native lang.
14:03 replaca: cemerick: well, even if we don't need to recreate the wheel, it is interesting to think about how you'd tackle a problem like couchdb in Clojure and whether a Clojure implementation would be a good thing
14:03 dysinger: using agents ore something
14:03 stuartsierra: Does terracotta provide data locality?
14:03 dysinger: no
14:03 all our data is on s3 anyway
14:03 so import to hdfs or disk - doesn't seem to make much diff
14:04 stuartsierra: Most of Hadoop's performance comes from data locality.
14:04 dysinger: y
14:04 true
14:04 in order to keep hadoop happy hadoop must also be your storage engine
14:05 tis the nature of the map/reduce paper....
14:05 stuartsierra: Well, not necessarily. You do have to copy things in and out of HDFS, but you don't have to store it there permanently. I store everything on S3.
14:05 dysinger: er "as in the paper"
14:05 replaca: more generally, it *seems* right that a good set of clojure primitives would allow clojure to enter the problem space currently dominated by erlang in a nicer package
14:05 dysinger: doesn't swap in and out of s3 take a long time with large data sets ?
14:05 that's been my experience
14:06 stuartsierra: Not really, b/c you can parallelize the copy.
14:06 dysinger: across the nodes
14:06 hiredman: replaca: the main problem is all the cool message buses use erlang
14:06 replaca: hiredman: and maybe we need a cooler message bus of our own :-)
14:06 dysinger: still yeah - copying 4TB to each node is going to take a long time.
14:07 hiredman: replaca: maybe just use terracotta?
14:07 stuartsierra: Well, yes. I get around 1GB/min from S3 on an 18-node cluster.
14:07 dysinger: teracotta would be much more fun if it was dynamic language - capable
14:07 replaca: hiredman: could be. I don't understand terracotta well enough to know if it's the answer
14:08 dysinger: you have to AOT compile, instrument things and then describe each generated closure class in their XML files
14:08 and last I checked it required a hack to clojure
14:08 hiredman: dysinger: oh, I did not realize
14:08 dysinger: but still it seems to work
14:09 hiredman: the repl works
14:09 I am not sure how that would work if "dynamic" stuff doesn't
14:09 dysinger: paul stadig did these tests http://
14:09 hiredman: yeah
14:09 I've seen them
14:09 dysinger: that's all I've been playing with.
14:09 would be cool to have it working
14:10 that would eliminate the need for hadoop and rabbitmq for me.
14:10 In theory
14:10 and move the problem into straight clojure code
14:10 clojurebot: "There is no problem in computer programming which cannot be solved by an added level of indirection." -- Dr Maurice Wilkes
14:10 dysinger: heh
14:10 hiredman: ~botsnack
14:10 clojurebot: thanks; that was delicious. (nom nom nom)
14:12 cemerick: dysinger: what would you use for primary storage, though?
14:13 hiredman: openmq is java
14:14 cemerick: openmq is jms, jms is painful :-(
14:15 dysinger: we use s3 and xfer to local disk
14:15 cemerick: maybe rhickey's forthcoming queue abstraction will help there
14:15 hiredman: cemerick: :|
14:15 dysinger: nothing beats erlang for messaging
14:16 I don't have any stats but if I had money to bet - I'd bet rabbitmq could take a better beating than any jms server
14:16 hiredman: dysinger: but having everything on the jvm would be nice
14:16 dysinger: I used to think that but it's not such a comfortable thing for me anymore.
14:16 anyway - it's not a requirement for me anyomer.
14:16 anymore
14:17 Our plan is to use rabbitmq & json to make the messaging language neutral
14:18 hiredman: http://
14:18 dysinger: we are connecting to rabbitmq with ruby, python, java and soon erlang
14:20 and if we can tie in the messaging primitives in clojure to it -> that would be nice.
14:20 (the currently being thought about but not yet existing primitives)
14:20 hiredman: I just going to say...
14:23 dysinger: hey technomancy - ready for some SF meetup ?
14:25 danlarkin_: cemerick & tashafa: my response on twitter didn't come off as light hearted as it did in my head before I typed it :)
14:25 cemerick: danlarkin_: heh, you worry too much :-)
14:25 technomancy: dysinger: woo!
14:26 cemerick: tashafa: hey, another Bostonite :-)
14:26 (not that I'm in Boston, but it's close, anyway)
14:40 dysinger: technomancy took a bunch of twiddling but I got emacs 23 working with mac environment.plist
14:40 now am happy eshell user
14:41 technomancy: ugh; I'm sorry you had to do that
14:41 dysinger: It's fine
14:41 we should add it to the starter kit
14:41 technomancy: manually editing plist XML files is not a task fit for a human
14:41 Chousuke: there's the plist editor :p
14:42 dysinger: I have a rake task to push to the plist file
14:42 technomancy: yeah, if you can automate it, I'm sure it would save poor future users a lot of pain.
14:42 dysinger: anytime my env vars change
14:42 I have never even used the environment.plist file before -> and I have been OS X since 2002
14:42 technomancy: would prefer a standalone solution, but that's definitely better than the current situation.
14:43 dysinger: I always just used ~/.profile
14:43 but emacs carbon ignores that
14:43 retarded
14:43 !
14:44 technomancy: dysinger: it's because it's launched from the finder/dock
14:44 dysinger: y
14:44 technomancy: I submitted a bug report about that a few years ago
14:44 not exactly holding my breath
14:44 dysinger: eshell should just read .profile like other terminal apps.
14:44 triddell: Roux: my review is up on Amazon... it's mostly a "feel good" piece than a technical review though
14:44 dysinger: s/read/source
14:45 technomancy: it should be easier to source .profile than it is now (as a workaround for the broken OS X behaviour), but the correct behaviour is to inherit
14:46 ataggart: ah nice! the meetup is 2 blocks from my office
14:47 dysinger: I just eneded up including osx-plist.el and adding a (if.... (eq system-type 'darwin)
14:47 block
14:47 it works
14:48 technomancy: dysinger: great; would love a patch
15:25 cemerick: hrm, what's the incantation to get a type hint to emit properly from a macro? I've tried `(.foo #^Bar someBar), `(.foo #^{:type Bar} someBar) so far...
15:26 Chouser: try `(.foo ~(with-meta `someBar {:type Bar}) ...)
15:26 hiredman: interesting
15:26 cemerick: Actually, #^Bar works according to (meta (second (macroexpand ...))), but I still get reflection warnings.
15:27 I meant :tag above, sorry
15:27 rhickey: #^Bar should be fine unless Bar is a variable or something
15:27 Chouser: right, me too. :-)
15:28 rhickey: does a non-macro version of the #^ work?
15:31 cemerick: rhickey: I was actually just trying to type-hint defmacro so as to limit the noise when printing reflection warnings :-)
15:32 rhickey: ?
15:32 cemerick: sorry, defmethod
15:33 Roux: rhickey: you look a bit like wittgenstein
15:34 rhickey: cemerick: ah
15:37 presuming multifn is a symbol is likely but not required...
15:38 leon: Hello
15:38 rhickey: you'll need to add metadata to the form, as Chouser showed, since you are unquoting it, but given it could be an arbitrary expression yielding a
15:39 MultiFn, you might want to wrap it in a call to identiy and add metadata to that call
15:39 identity
15:39 leon: I have a short question: is there a 'length' function in clojure for lists or any seqs? I cannot find any in the api/wiki
15:39 Chouser_: leon: count
15:39 leon: thanks Chouser
15:39 rhickey: Chouser - fastest gun in the west
15:39 ataggart: ,(count [1 2 3 4])
15:39 clojurebot: 4
15:40 leon: could go into the lisp/clojure differences :-)
15:40 hiredman: ,(counted? [1 2 3 4])
15:40 clojurebot: true
15:40 ataggart: ,(doc counted?)
15:40 clojurebot: "([coll]); Returns true if coll implements count in constant time"
15:40 ataggart: nice
15:40 Chouser: it helps when I have #clojure up in mutliple windows on the same desktop. :-P
15:40 cemerick: rhickey: why the call to identity?
15:41 Chouser: aslo wehn I quit caring abuot my tpying
15:45 rhickey: leon: what's the length of a hash table in CL?
15:46 leon: no idea
15:46 rhickey: CL/CL differences
15:47 hash tables don't have length in CL, they have... counts
15:48 only count works across collection types IMO
15:49 cemerick: I guess I'm afraid that somehow the expr used for multifn won't support metadata, just paranoia, but defmethod doesn't dictate it be a symbol - maybe it should
15:52 Chouser: I had hoped I wouldn't have to think about races in Clojure. But you throw enough agents, blocking sockets, and atoms in there and *poof* complexity.
15:52 Roux: rhickey: http://
15:53 rhickey: Chouser: is it inherent in blocking sockets, or is there something missing?
15:54 Chouser: did you look at the executors framework?
15:54 Chouser: If I had a coherent suggestion, I would have described it by now.
15:55 agents are my executor framework api. :-)
15:55 danlarkin_: oh wow! He does really look like wittgenstein
15:55 Chouser: I think the kinds of complexity I'm seeing can be had as soon as you mix agents and atoms.
15:56 or I guess agents examining/responding to any external state
15:56 Roux: danlarkin_: hehehe :D
15:56 triddell: triddell: I hope Rich brought his tweed jacket for JavaOne ;-)
15:56 rhickey: Chouser: yeah, but maybe they aren't a good fit, or need to expose some more of the support, e.g. interruption
15:57 Roux: danlarkin_: quite similar features but he lacks the 1000-yard stare of our friend ludwig: http://
15:59 Chouser: Roux: also Rich isn't quite as grainy
15:59 Roux: ;)
16:02 clojure is in good hands: Described by Bertrand Russell as "the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating", Wittgenstein is considered by many to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.
16:04 stuhood: rhickey,Chouser: at the risk of trying to solve a problem that isn't fully defined, perhaps agents should be able to be shutdown individually? such that they will finish any (sends) in the queue, but throw Rejected for new (sends)
16:05 Chouser: stuhood: I very nearly said something like that earlier today. I was thinking more that once all agents were in the finished state, the pools could shut down automatically.
16:05 but I don't know what "all agents" means
16:09 stuhood: yea... it seems like agents really just need to be a thread+queue abstraction: so each agent could be marked as a daemon or not, so that shutting down the pool would wait for all non-daemon agents
16:12 hiredman: (actor)
16:14 stuhood: they execute Actions, so why not? =P
16:15 Chouser: I think rhickey nailed (as I'm suprised) ... replacing several of my agents with single-thread exectors may remove a lot of my complexity.
16:15 hiredman: java.util.concurrent is pretty great
16:18 I feel sort of cheated never having been introduced to it before
16:29 cemerick: aaah, :tag's value needs to be a symbol, not a class! :-(
16:29 Chouser: wow
16:30 sorry, I didn't even consider that.
16:30 cemerick: yup, I'm that slow :-/
16:30 that should really be changed to be more accepting, no?
16:35 ah, no, nevermind, that's just the way it has to be.
16:47 Chouser: gah. why does every different lib have to have it's own callback class (or two or three)
16:47 technomancy: what's up with libraries always requiring the JAVA_HOME env variable to be set?
16:49 Chouser: oh, because they each have different signatures. :-P
16:49 technomancy: anyone want to recommend an alternative to mvnrepository.com that isn't down most of the time?
16:57 cemerick: ugh, beating gensyms into getting type-hinted isn't proving much easier than the last challenge
17:05 ah, blast from the past from cgrand saves the day :-) http://
17:05 speak of the devil :-)
19:45 gcv: when it comes to handling file paths, is there an idiomatic Clojure alternative to using java.io.File? I just typed (.. (java.io.File. "/my/path/here") getParentFile getParentFile) in a source file and it looks verbose.
19:46 technomancy: gcv: c.c.java-utils/file works for me
19:46 though... only a few chars less verbose
19:46 you could do (file "/my/path/here/" ".." "..")
19:49 gcv: technomancy: thanks, that's pretty good. although it doesn't quite return the same thing: #<File /my> for my original example, and #<File /my/path/here/../..> using the file function.
19:49 dysinger: clojure never promised magic/non-verbose java interop :P
19:49 it's still java
19:50 technomancy: gcv: yeah, that's lousy. it'd be cool if "file" would automatically get the canonical version instead of just allowing crazy crap like that
19:51 dysinger: http://
19:51 gcv: yeah, I was just wondering why file doesn't call that before returning
19:52 hiredman: well, it ain't a final class...
19:53 dysinger: (str .getCanonicalPath (file "/my/path/here/" ".." ".."))
19:53 hiredman: uh
19:53 no?
19:54 gcv: hiredman: getCanonicalPath already returns a string, I don't think you need the str call.
19:54 hiredman: and str is not comp, and you cannot compose method calls
19:54 dysinger: trie
19:54 true
19:54 true
19:54 also
19:54 I was just goofing around
19:54 hiredman: I know
19:55 dysinger: I am rusty - it's been a week since clojure coding :P
19:55 need back on horse
19:55 (.getCanonicalPath (file "/my/path/here/" ".." ".."))
19:55 hiredman: dysinger: I saw some video where some guy from australia was presenting about openmq and he said in his testing it beat activemq
19:55 dysinger: cool
19:55 hiredman: of course this was just some random video on the internet
19:56 dysinger: activemq isn't hard to beat - I think it uses derby by default for presistent message queueu
19:56 queue
19:56 hiredman: huh
19:56 well that makes sense
19:56 dysinger: java db
19:56 but you can configure it faster
19:56 hiredman: for some reason I was thinking activemq was erlang
19:56 dysinger: no that's rabbitmq
20:01 achin: I'm trying to port someone's pre-1.0 Clojure code to 1.0. I'm having trouble figuring out why you would test for something being an instance of clojure.lang.LazyCons. Would I want to change this to test for LazySeq? just use seq?
20:03 Chouser: I've never felt the need to test for LazyCons
20:03 what do that do with it if it's a LazyCons?
20:03 what if it's not?
20:03 achin: I'm trying to figure that out. I don't know enough about the library I'm porting.
20:04 hiredman: Chouser: if you want, for example, lazy code to be forced on a sandboxed thread
20:04 achin: This is clj-html. It's the bit of code that dispatches bits the DSL to expand it.
20:04 hiredman: achin: (instance? clojure.lang.LazySeq s) or something like that
20:05 achin: erm, I think clj-html has been updated
20:05 just pull from github
20:05 achin: hiredman: that was my guess, but I don't know enough about Clojure to know if LazySeq is a drop-in replacement for LazyCons.
20:05 hiredman: I *just* pulled.
20:05 hiredman: h,,,
20:06 hmm
20:06 achin: hiredman: It's still using lazy-cons.
20:06 hiredman: And stuff like rrest that's gone now.
20:06 hiredman: http://
20:06 Chouser: rrest --> nnext
20:06 achin: chouser: right.
20:06 hiredman: I pulled from git://github.com/mmcgrana/clj-html.git
20:06 hiredman: weird
20:07 achin: Last updated 19 Jan.
20:07 hiredman: oh
20:07 heh
20:07 I fixed it locally
20:07 achin: Heh.
20:07 hiredman: no wonder it works for me(TM(TM)
20:08 achin: Would you mind sharing? I'm just getting into Clojure and I was using this as an exercise to get oriented.
20:08 hiredman: http://
20:09 wow
20:09 achin: Thanks.
20:09 hiredman: this was just sort of a quick fix, so some of it is not the best
20:10 achin: It's not like mine's going to be any prettier.
20:18 Hrm. If I write, (.toUpperCase "text"), everything's okay. If I wrap it in a macro, I get an unrecognized form exception. http://
20:22 Heh. That never even worked to begin with.
23:31 Chouser: Using the Executors API helped, I think, to solve the complexity I had, making it easier to see the (different) complexity I need. :-/
23:39 rhickey: heh
23:46 Chouser: If I need to serialize small pieces of work from n different threads, is there a performance consequence for using a single-threaded executor vs. an atom vs. a plain lock?
23:47 I suppose I should read that concurrency book I've seen waved around...
23:48 well, that's not a problem for tonight.
23:49 rhickey: hope you have a great day tomorrow. Knock 'em dead, and all that. :-)
23:49 rhickey: thanks!
23:49 * rhickey crashes
23:57 twopoint718: I'm curious about the role of the "this" in the arguments to "impl-foo" toward the bottom of defn impl-foo [this]
23:57 (str (class this)))
23:57 (defn impl-bar [this]
23:57 Sorry about that, this was the page I meant to reference: http://
23:58 In particular, it looks like these clojure-generated methods are getting the class as their first argument. Is that correct?


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- Blue Bat and Demon Dog
- Prisoner to counter the above.
I'm giving up PvP for serious. I'll go back to only play for shards. Devs won't fix, Immunity taslimans are a joke. Kudos to you guys who enjoy it.
- Blue Bat and Demon Dog
- Prisoner to counter the above.
I'm giving up PvP for serious. I'll go back to only play for shards. Devs won't fix, Immunity taslimans are a joke. Kudos to you guys who enjoy it.
"When I'm walking a dark road
I am a man who walks alone"
Account: Frost-6115. Feel free to check me. Actually trooper list is full, sorry
No love for artillery dog?
I used to play all my troopers every day
All grind and no respite makes me sad
One day, I may return
Well, the field is indeed very narrow, yet we have to divide in offense or defense:
My descoverys:
offense (varies depending on what characters you have, yet due to very few characters being very strong/useful, it's still limited):
Eddies vary
Corrupt General
AOF (warrior for first round kill)
Golden Sun (gunner or assassin)
Troll (assassin for effect steal or warrior for offense/defense mix)
Corrupt rescuers (met all 3 online - gunner, mage, assassin - each has it's benefits)
Allied Bomber Boy (sentinel, gunner)
Soulless Demon (sentinel)
defense (mostly used in defense teams)
Mummy Eddie (i think 90% of the defense teams use him)
Grim Reaper Eddie (he seems second to the mummy)
Sentinel Soulless demon
Allied general pretty heavy tank
Troll (warrior)
Magus Golden Son (in pve, his heal on hit was pretty low nerfed, on ai it triggers good
Pyro Soldier (mostly sentinel or warrior)
Blue or Green Bat.
Desert marauder (his perfect hit passive is crucial in defense)
Gunner corrupt rescuer or pharaoh water ghost.
These are the most common used characters.
You notice, that most 1*-3* toons are very rarely used (i never saw any of the possessed rockets or mines, for example)
So out of the many characters, only a few characters come in handy:
They either have: high lifepoints (mostly alle good sentinels), high damage, either aoe or single attack (as mostly a combination of attack and life is needed, some high dmg characters are not used due to low damage) or you go with useful passives (yet, when you face a prisoner, he's your first target.
In most cases i mix the talismans, so 1 toon goes low-life & full damage, and the rest go high life and low damage. The match may take longer, but my invisibility talismans on 3 of 4 have won me a goog amount of matches.
Especially if you have a reviver stacked with heath in you team, you ca afford to have 1 high damage player, that get's killed every round.
i had nearly all characters (all devices combined, some sacrificed), only missing:
2019 Eddie, Lucifer, Mercenary Guy Farks Eddie Dark Mystic Ed Fallen Icarus Eddie, Lone Star Eddie Dark Lillith, Magma Beast Ed - the awakenable Wicker toons
main: satani-7954 - Bounty Hunter Ed
second: satani11ce-5461 - Scream for Me Ed
mobile: satani666-5224 -Moonchild Max awakened


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MADISON, Wis. (WMTV)--- A free public art project in the Madison area is ending September 12.
"Bucky on Parade" began May 7. It features 85 creatively designed life-sized Bucky Badger statues positioned throughout Madison and Dane County
Kate Dale and Rob Gard from the Madison Area Sports Commission and the Greater Madison Convention and Visitor's Bureau talked about the "Bucky on Parade" Finale Party.
The finale party The finale party is September 29 at the Kohl Center. It will feature the Spirit Squad, UW Marching Band, MadHatters, and Bucky Badger. People will also have the chance to own one of 30 statues in an auction. Event proceeds benefit Garding Against Cancer, the Madison Area Sports Commission, and other local charities.


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You don't have to be a street racer or an avid car enthusiast to customise your car. You can be an ordinary person who simply wants to have a car reflect your personal taste. So you can customise your car if you want to.
There are many subtle ways that you can customise your car.
- If you love a particular design, pattern, sports club, favourite saying or you have a particular interest you can express it on your car. It's best not to go overboard, like adding decals over the whole car. A simple design that is delicately placed on a subtle position will look creative and personalised.
- Changing the mag wheels on your car from the standard set it came with to something different that you like will make a big difference on the car. There is such a large selection of options when it comes to mag wheels you can truly select a set that you love and that will complement your car best.
- If you don't really want to change something on the exterior of your car, you can make changes on the inside. You can add a leather-like steering wheel cover or you can re-upholster the seats to suit your taste.
- Maybe you want to modify the engine and add more horsepower, you can do so. Keep in mind the type of car you have when you consider modifying your engine. You don't want to add too much power if the car cannot handle it. Plus if you are just driving on city roads, a lot of power won't really make much of a difference.
- Brake pads. You can add different coloured brake pads on your car. You get red or blue colour brake pads that look great through the mag wheel. It is especially cool when it is a red brake pad that matches your red car.
- Clutch kit. You could add a modified clutch kit to your car to enhance its performance. Make sure it is an original brand clutch kit that is compatible with your car.
These subtle changes to your car are a great way to customise it in a way that is unique to you and represents your personality. Before you make any decision, always do your due diligence because you don't want to regret the modification at a later stage. Your car should be better when you're done.


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When it comes to older pieces of wooden furniture, sometimes an aged look is ideal. To create a slightly shabby chic look that will give your furniture a worn appearance in a fresh new way, try finishing it with a crackle glaze. A crackle look is easy to achieve and can combine a variety of base colors to fit the mood and look of your decor. Simply sand down the wooden piece and then follow the directions on the crackle glaze bottle. Some crackle glazes take longer to dry, while others set up quickly. Use the one that will best suit your timeframe and be sure to complete the project in a well-ventilated area.
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The beauty of wooden furniture is that it can be painted with detailed accents to really create a stunning look. Paint the piece a solid color first, and then accent it with a delicate or bold design. A vine of ivy across the back of an old rocking chair or a checker board pattern on a wooden coffee table are both excellent ways to jazz up your pieces without a lot of expense. For detailed work, sketch out your design lightly before you start painting. You can also use stencils or stamps if you feel less confident in your freehand painting ability. Be sure to apply a clear coat of paint after you have finished, so that the design is sure to stay for years to come.
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Original author: Amagaeru Midori
Original Synopsis:
Volume 1: A horror online game that one should never ever participate in…
One day, a mysterious parcel arrived.
Inside, there was a new type of game model I have never seen before.
That was the start of my horror.
A demonic game that is linked online.
……With that, game activated.
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Adapted to a manga - "Online: The Comic"
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22-year-old Yashiro Mai was an average office worker until the day a video game console
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Just ask Henry Marsh, a British neurosurgeon who travels to Eastern Europe on a regular basis, and just gravitates naturally towards potential brain surgery the way Batman gravitates towards criminals. One day, he found himself in a familiar, brain surgeony situation -- a woman with a tumor that would kill her if not removed -- only sans the equipment, since at the time, the Ukraine wasn't too hot on state-of-the-art medical gear, and were going through more of a state-of-the-tool-shed phase.
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All persons who derive professional benefit from attending a CMS conference (1) must hold current membership in CMS and (2) are required to register. This includes anyone whose name appears in the program: all accompanists, composers, panelists, and presenters. Likewise, any presenter who connects to the conference as by electronic means (e.g., Skype) must hold current membership and register for the event. Co-authors of research papers must register for, and attend, the conference for their name to be listed in the program.
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Ms. McCord is President and CEO of EQ, The Equity Quotient, a national training and organizational development firm dedicated to supporting nonprofits interested in becoming more just and equitable community partners, with equity, diversity, and inclusion as outcomes of their work. EQ's expertise and its curriculum provide Dismantling Racism training for the field of arts and culture, grounded in an analysis of the history, policies, and practices of the field.
Keryl McCord is a veteran arts manager and administrator with thirty-five years of experience in many facets of the arts. Her background includes managing director of two equity theater companies: Oakland Ensemble Theater Company, a five-hundred seat theater in downtown Oakland, CA, and Crossroads Theater Company, New Brunswick, NJ, the only black run member theater of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) at the time. Crossroads Theater Company was the first such company to receive the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater and also received 4 Tony nominations for It Ain't Nothing But the Blues, transferring to Broadway from Crossroads in 1999.
Ms. McCord led the League of Chicago Theaters/ League of Chicago Theaters Foundation, leaving Chicago to take a post at the National Endowment for the Arts as Assistant Director of Theater Programs, and then Director of Theater Programs in 1991.
She served on the executive committee of the National Black Theater Summit on Golden Pond in 1998, convened by the late Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, August Wilson. She was a founding board member, and Senior Vice President of the African Grove Institute for the Arts (AGIA), Newark, NJ, of which Mr. Wilson served as chairman. She remained with AGIA until Mr. Wilson's passing, when she then went on to serve as Director of Institutional Development for New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
In December 2016, after more than seven years as Managing Director, she retired from Alternate ROOTS to launch EQ. ROOTS is a 40-year-old nationally recognized, regionally focused network and service organization for activist artists in the South. Ms. McCord was responsible for overall day-to-day management, including fundraising and development, shepherding the organization through a period of unprecedented growth, raising more than $5 million dollars during her tenure.
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NAIROBI • Kenya caused a stir on Tuesday when the head of its Olympics committee said the team might withdraw from the Rio Games because of Zika, but officials later said it was too soon to decide on the impact of the virus.
The mosquito-borne virus, which is widespread in Brazil and has been linked to birth defects, has prompted concern among athletes and sports officials around the world as they prepare for the Aug 5-21 Games in Rio de Janeiro.
There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika, so combating the outbreak is focused on eradicating mosquito populations and preventing mosquito bites.
National Olympic Committee of Kenya (Nock) head Kipchoge Keino said the country would not "risk taking Kenyans there if this Zika virus reaches epidemic levels", and that he was seeking reassurances from organisers. But Nock played down the comments, saying the East African country was monitoring the potential health threats and receiving regular updates.
"It is too early to make a determination on the status of the virus during the Games time which is six months away," said Stephen Soi, Nock's chief of mission for Rio .
Nock said Keino "may have been quoted out of context".
It is too early to make a determination on the status of the virus during the Games time which is six months away.
STEPHEN SOI , National Olympic Committee of Kenya's chief of mission for Rio 2016, on the severity of the Zika virus.
Kenyan Sports Minister Hassan Wario said the country had not decided whether to take part after meeting health officials, according to the Daily Nation newspaper.
Kenyan athletes include some of the best middle and long-distance runners, who would likely be among the star performers in Rio. The East African nation topped the medals table at last year's athletics World Championships.
The Rio 2016 organising committee's press office declined to comment on the concerns in Kenya, but said it stood by previous comments. The committee does not believe the potential situation will be sufficiently problematic for athletes to want to avoid competition.


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From Love: The Saga, to Queen: The Saga, Mihi Matshingana now presents the third part of her Saga Series, "Mine: The Saga". Loosely translated, the name "Mihi" means "That which belongs to me" in Latin. Mine.
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Last year we met the talented Karun Soni an artist from London who specialises in oil paintings. His paintings are inspired by an mixture of different experiences particluary the transition from India to the UK and even events further back such as the British Raj. We were lucky enough to sit down and discuss his paintings […]Read more
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More than 1600 academic staff from more than 140 UK higher education providers have now been trained as external examiners as part of the Degree Standards project.
29 UK institutions have adopted the Professional Development Course (PDC) to train their own staff to become external examiners. So far, 1612 members of academic staff have taken part in the training, and 37 developers have successfully completed the Develop the Developer programme enabling them to facilitate training for others at their home institution on an ongoing basis.
Strengthening the external examiners system is a key element in ensuring the reasonable comparability of academic standards and protecting the value of degrees over time. The project is creating a network of trained staff, who have a shared understanding of assessment standards both generically and in academic subjects.
Dr Geoff Stoakes, Advance HE Special Advisor (Degree Standards)
The Degree Standards project is led by Advance HE and managed by the Office for Students on behalf of England and the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland and Wales. The project explores sector-owned processes across the three nations and is focused on professional development for external examiners. Over five years the project aims to:
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Democrat's apparent win in GOP stronghold holds lessons for California
Democrat Conor Lamb, who shocked the nation with an apparent win in a strongly pro-Trump Pennsylvania congressional district, is anything but the "San Francisco liberal" that Republicans love to scorn.
And that's one reason why his surprise victory could be bad news for the true progressive Democrats looking to flip GOP seats in California.
Lamb was leading Republican Rick Saccone by a few hundred votes Wednesday with 100 percent of precincts reporting and all the absentee ballots counted from Tuesday's election. He vowed during the campaign not to support House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, said he was personally opposed to abortion and declined to say much about the environment in a district that's in the heart of steel, coal and natural gas country.
"Let me tell you what kind of Democrat Conor is," Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said at Lamb's rally Sunday. "He's a God-fearing, union-supporting, gun-owning, job-protecting, pension-defending, Social Security-believing, health care-creating, and sending-drug-dealers-to-jail Democrat!"
Contrast that resume, carefully crafted to appeal to conservative-leaning voters in a district Trump won by 20 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election, with that of Democrat Andy Thorburn, a former teacher and businessman running for the Orange County seat of retiring GOP Rep. Ed Royce.
Thorburn, a first-time candidate, is calling for a statewide ban on fracking, enactment of a "Medicare for All" single-payer health plan, a $15-an-hour minimum wage and tough new gun-control regulations. He has the endorsement of Our Revolution, a progressive group founded by veterans of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, and the California Nurses Association, arguably the state's most liberal labor group.
"Momentum Continues Among Progressives, Activists in Thorburn's Bid for Congress," read a news release sent out this week that announced a new round of endorsements.
Thorburn is far from alone among the many Democrats challenging Republican incumbents this year. Single-payer health care, a much higher minimum wage and pumped-up gun laws are all mainstream proposals for California Democrats and show up on the "issues" list of plenty of those candidates, including the ones running against Orange County Republican incumbents like Mimi Walters and Dana Rohrabacher.
The question, though, is whether those core progressive Democratic stances can hold up in districts that conservative Republicans have held for decades.
While Democrat Hillary Clinton beat Trump in seven of California's 14 Republican-held congressional districts, in only two of them has any Democrat other than Clinton won a majority of the votes in any election, according to a report Tuesday by Darry Sragow and Rob Pyers of the nonpartisan California Target Book, which reports on state election races.
"In places like San Francisco and Berkeley, candidates can run to the far left and win because the voters share their views," said Sragow, the book's publisher. "But in the Central Valley and Orange County, the people who inhabit those districts and cast the votes aren't ideologues. You're going to have to have a more nuanced approach."
While progressives don't disagree that Democratic candidates need to fit their districts, they argue that those districts — and the ideology of their voters — have changed dramatically in California.
The state — and the Democratic Party — has shifted, said Mac Zilber, a consultant for Thorburn and other California candidates.
"You no longer need someone who's a 'Republican lite' to win those (more conservative) seats," he said. "It's not going to be a 'left versus right' axis, but a consistent stand on the bread-and-butter issues that appeal to voters."
Republicans are eager to tag Lamb's apparent victory as a one-off, a perfect storm of a lousy GOP candidate and a young, telegenic Democrat who basically ran as a Republican.
Speaking to reporters at the weekly GOP leadership news conference Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said the Pennsylvania race was a contest between "two conservatives" and that Lamb ran as a "pro-life, pro-gun, anti-Nancy Pelosi conservative."
Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, said on Fox News Tuesday night that if the Democrats had run "a Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton candidate, (the race) wouldn't be close," adding that a Democrat taking the more moderate stances that Lamb did wouldn't win against a more liberal candidate in a party primary.
Democrats agree that the Pennsylvania race was a unique political situation, but suggest that what happened there has little to do with the campaigns in California.
"There isn't a targeted district in California that's nearly that Republican," said Drew Godinich of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "Lamb ran a campaign that matched that district, and I'm going to trust the Democrats who run those campaigns and live there to understand the values of their districts."
Democrats, better than Republicans, understand that the old GOP bastions are very different from how they have traditionally been viewed.
The old Orange County, which was a virtual synonym for "conservative Republicans" doesn't exist any more, but Republicans officeholders "expect they can vote like they did 30 years ago," Godinich said. "That's not going to cut it."
But Democrats, even as they see the state shuffle to the left, still must be wary of moving too far, too fast.
"Both parties are perpetually engaged in a dispute with the far edges of their parties, the progressive left for the Democrats and the conservative right for the Republicans," said Sragow of the California Target Book. "But voters don't walk around with a 'P' or a 'C' on their foreheads."
Most California voters fall somewhere in the political middle, sharing a mix of liberal and conservative views, he said.
There are plenty of Californians who are "unhappy with gun control, but support single-payer, much to the dismay of political analysts," Sragow said. "You can't put them in a progressive or conservative box because most people have a range of views ... but if you want to win elections, you have to appeal to those people."
John Wildermuth is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: email@example.com Twitter: @jfwildermuth


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Cake & Vows needed a logo for their new wedding inspiration website. They were wanting something clean yet playful, and something that played off traditional wedding colors.
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We decided to go with the tried and true blue and pair it with a dark gray. We kept it light and airy (and on-trend) by making vows a watercolor script.
We created a brand board and some logo variations for them.
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Ice Skates Ornament with Real Laces Personalized Christmas Ornament
If you're looking for an ice skate ornament for someone special (or maybe a holiday treat for yourself!), this is the perfect choice. Our ice skates ornament has an authentic look in white and black, complete with real laces. It's just like the real thing–but with a holiday twist! Holly decorates the skates to give it a Christmas feel and add some extra color for a completed look that's as picture-perfect as a beautiful cold day at the rink or on the pond. You can personalize our ice skates ornaments like these for the whole skating team or a special loved one with an appreciation for fine art on ice.


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A. The following documents are required in the application for Certificate of ROC Naturalization Candidacy (Article 10 of the Enforcement Rules of Nationality Act):
(A) A valid Alien Resident Certificate or Alien Permanent Resident Certificate.
(B) An Alien Resident Certificate and a certificate stating the dates of entry into and/or exit from the ROC.
(C) A criminal record issued by the police or equivalent certificates issued by the government of the applicant's country of origin, and a criminal record certificate issued by the ROC police covering the applicant's period of stay in the ROC. (Minors under 14 years old are not required to submit this record.)
(D) Documentation certifying that the applicant possesses sufficient property or professional skills which enable him/her to be self-reliant. (This rule does not apply to unmarried minors applying for naturalization in conjunction with the applicant's naturalization.)
(E) Evidential documents certifying that the applicant meets the Standards for Identification of Basic Language Abilities and Common Sense of National Rights and Duties of Naturalized ROC Citizens. (This rule does not apply to unmarried minors applying for naturalization in conjunction with the applicant's naturalization.)
(F) An unmarried minor is required to submit a letter of consent from his/her legal representative and a certificate describing his/her marital status.
(G) Other identity certificates as needed.
(H) 2 photos (of the specifications for ID card and with the applicant's name written on the back of each photo).
(I) Certificate fee: NT$ 200 (Please use postal money order with the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) as the beneficiary).
B. The procedures to apply for Certificate of ROC Naturalization Candidacy: A foreign national may submit an application form along with the above-mentioned documents to the household registration office of such applicant's domicile for the issuance of the Certificate of ROC Naturalization Candidacy. After checking the criminal record of such applicant, the household registration office shall transfer such record together with the application to the municipal or county (city) government for approval from the MOI.
C. Validity of Certificate of ROC Naturalization Candidacy: The Certificate of ROC Naturalization Candidacy, used for applications to the government of the applicant's native country for loss of nationality, is valid for 2 years. It cannot be used as a certificate proving that the person has been naturalized in the ROC.


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We strive to make each party an event to remember and are able to customize the theme of the clay project to fit with your group's needs. We offer hand building and wheel throwing options for your party's clay project. Please note that the wheel is limited to ages 12 and up. Each party includes an educational component at the beginning of each party that is tailored to the theme.
Participants will create their project and our staff will glaze and fire the piece for you. The glaze we use is a creamy, white gloss. The host will be notified once work is ready for pick-up. Please allow three (3) weeks for drying and firing time.
Each party is three hours long and you are welcome to bring your own food, beverages and party tableware. We are happy to set-up a time to meet with you prior to your event to set-up our space to best suit your event's needs.
To ensure the best experience for your event, please contact us 3 weeks ahead of the party date to schedule.
Party Fees (includes instruction and one finished project). Additional pieces are $5.00 each.
$35 per child
$45 per adult
A $100.00 deposit is required at the time you schedule your party or event of three people or more. There is a $50.00 cancellation fee.
A few things to know:
• Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your party time to fill out the studio's liability form.
• Please wear clothes that can get dirty.
• No jewelry. Long hair must be tied back.
• Long finger nails and acrylic nails are discouraged when creating with clay.
• Wear closed-toed shoes. No sandels.
• Must be 12 years old to use the potter's wheel.