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Old age is a bummer, let me tell you. The body is incapable of doing things it once could. Even simple things, like open jars. Everything is closed so tightly now that it is impossible to get inside to use the contents. The "old scientist" isn't much help either because he's even older. Since I just love the "toys" this is what I bought him for his birthday last year. Lids Off, the practical solution to the problem. No excuse now. Well yes, it is a bit like using a canon against an ant. But it works like a dream, when we use it once a month or so. No laughing! You'll be old one day too!


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If you aspire to make great pizza at home, then this class is for you. However your personal pizza tastes run, we'll start with the basics: first the dough, made from scratch, for the essential base. Then we'll craft a delicious sauce and discuss fun ingredients, including fresh produce and delicious cheese. Finally, we'll cover the baking methods so that every time you open your oven door you'll pull out a perfect pizza that's tastier than takeout.
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Great cooking isn't about recipes—it's about techniques. In our classes you'll work together with other students in a fun, hands-on environment led by our professional chef instructors.
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Tried this simple brinjal stir fry from Cooking with Pedatha
found here
Linking this post to show me your cook book hosted by Divya of Dilse
Ajwain paratha joins the event cooking with seeds Ajwain hosted by Seasoned and Dressed event started by Priya of Easy and Tasty Recipes.
Thanks a ton Pallavi for this book,this book was on my wish list since a long time...:-)
Thats all friends ,see you all soon,haapy week ahead
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Simple platter of Vankaya Vepudu with Ajwain Paratha
Posted by Priyanka Srivastava at Thursday, December 16, 2010
Labels: ajwain paratha, fried brinjal, INDIAN BREAD, indian cuisine, moms recipe, pan fried indian flatbread, uttar pradesh cuisine, uttar pradesh recipe, vankaya vepudu
11 comments:
- sangeeta said...
No recipe of the brinjal roast ...
That cook book is on my wish list too , though i don't buy many.
- December 16, 2010 at 1:33 AM
- Spoonfuls of love, added to every recipe !!! said...
Gr8 dish ... Thanks for sending it to my entry ... I havn't recd your mail ... could you plz send it again ...
- December 16, 2010 at 2:36 AM
- Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal said...
wow, lovely dear :)
- December 16, 2010 at 3:13 AM
- Priya said...
Wat a beautiful dishes, truly inviting..
- December 16, 2010 at 4:16 AM
- Cham said...
That is great book to own, nice dishes :)
- December 16, 2010 at 9:16 AM
- R said...
ditto, i had also made ajwain paratha some time back, yet to post it though... the combo looks delicious!
- December 16, 2010 at 9:52 AM
- sanjeeta kk said...
Looks delicious and healthy.
Lite Bite
- December 16, 2010 at 8:30 PM
- Swathi said...
Ajawan paratha looks delicious.
- December 17, 2010 at 1:05 AM
- Purnima@a creative project said...
I will check out this book on this India trip!!The parathas look yummy!!
- December 17, 2010 at 3:18 PM
- Spoonfuls of love, added to every recipe !!! said...
Looks very appealing ... thanks for sending to my event
- December 18, 2010 at 2:07 AM
- kothiyavunu.com said...
Wonderful delicious paratha..looks so welcoming
- December 18, 2010 at 2:55 AM
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The Audio Control LC6i was absolutely the missing link for my audio issues in My 2014 Fusion. I replaced my paper factory speakers with Polk Audio 6-1/2" components in the front doors and Pioneer 3-way 6-3/4 in the rear doors. I then added Pioneer 3-way 6x9s in the rear deck location. I power it all with a 4-channel Pioneer for the door speakers and a Pioneer 2-channel for the deck-mounts. I also added a Bazooka powered 10" in the trunk for extra bass. The LC6i made installation and integration a breeze, reducing the task of balancing and overload avoidance a matter of minutes instead of trial and error over the course of days. The system sounds awesome and I haven't lost any of my SYNC functions or controls. I am very pleased.
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Youth Camp: Animation Nation (Ages 12-14)
Open Signal: Portland Community Media Center
Monday, June 25, 2018 at 9:00 AM - Friday, June 29, 2018 at 3:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Dates: June 25, June 26, June 27, June 28, June 29
Calling all artists! If you've ever wanted to make your own cartoons, this is the camp for you: bring your drawings and objects to life and discover new animation techniques like stop-motion, claymation, cut-out and more.
Camp Dates:
For Campers Ages 12-14: June 25, 26, 27, 28 & 29
For Campers Ages 8-11: July 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13
Note: Early drop-off and late pick-up is available at an additional cost.
Certification for students ages 8-11 yrs: This workshop will certify you to borrow Open Signal's iPad Filmmaking Kits—each of which includes an iPad that comes equipped with lenses, a light, microphones and a tripod, as well as filmmaking and animation apps. It also lets you submit videos to our channels!
Certification for students ages 12 yrs and up: This workshop will certify you to borrow our MacBook Pro laptops, each of which comes with Dragonframe, Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Creative Cloud. You will also be able to submit videos to our channels and check out our iPad Filmmaking kits—which come equipped with lenses, tripod, lights and mics—as well as our stop-motion animation kits, which include a DSLR camera, laptop and lights.
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For general information or directions to our space, please contact our front desk at (503) 288-1515 or info [at] opensignalpdx.org.
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Open Signal is located off the #6 or #4 bus line. If you are driving to Open Signal, we have a parking lot located on NE Graham. Our main entrance is located on NE Graham off of NE MLK.
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We work hard to keep our space accessible, inclusive and collaborative. We have a no-tolerance policy for discrimination, harassment and violence. Weapons and illegal drugs are not allowed whatsoever at Open Signal.
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Scholarships are available to students who demonstrate financial need. If you'd like to apply, please complete the Bob Hedlund Memorial Scholarship Application form and submit along with documentation of financial need. Scholarships are reviewed on the 15th of every month and scholarships will be awarded on the 20th of every month. Applicants can apply for one scholarship slot per term, with a maximum of 3 scholarships per calendar year.
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Open Signal workshops grant certification on the equipment and software taught in the course unless otherwise noted.
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Camp cancellations must be submitted in writing (mail, email or fax). Cancellations will be processed as follows:
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Clinton, Nebraska to Valentine, Nebraska
100-Mile Horseback Ride in One Day
By Steve Moreland, written October 10, 1998
The year is 1998, modern times, almost the Millennium, and smack in the middle of the Space Age. There is absolutely no reason to ride horseback for 100 miles in one day, except possibly in the name of "recreation." I am a life-long cattle rancher, proud to be a cowboy, and try to uphold as much old-time cowboy tradition as possible. Having read a lot of cattle country history, one thing that has always intrigued me was long-distance horse rides. The purpose of these rides usually had to do with an emergency of some kind, travelers just wanting to go from one place to another, or occasionally a promoted race with a big paycheck to the winner. The Pony Express was designed to deliver mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California by galloping riders changing horses every ten or fifteen miles, and going for seventy five to a hundred miles before relaying the mail to another pony express rider. There are modern-day competitive endurance rides of twenty-five, fifty, and one hundred miles in duration, with one rider on one horse.
As cattle ranchers, my wife and I and our kids and crew use horses extensively in the line of duty, and we cover quite a few miles in such fashion. Recently I acquired four young full-brother geldings from Montana. They are out of a Quarter Horse mare, and are sired by a Tennessee Walking Horse stallion that three years in a row won a 100 mile in one day endurance ride near Mount Rainier, in the state of Washington. This once again sparked my interest, and an idea began to take shape. Why not someday try to ride a hundred miles, but just trade horses every twenty miles so no one horse would get terribly tired. I voiced my plan to my wife, Carol, and she not only thought it worthy of doing, but declared that if I was going, she was coming along, too. This sounded good to me, as the old saying "misery loves company" does seem to apply. With my 47th birthday looming on the horizon, I figured the sooner the better. September this year was terribly hot, and we were still trying to finish putting up hay. We figured a full moon would be nice to light our ride if the day got late. Checking the calendar, October 5th, 1998 would be a full moon. Old West Days in Valentine, Nebraska (an event of cowboy poetry and music) was scheduled for the week-end before. We would just try for Friday, October 2nd, and plan to take in those festivities when we arrived.
Carol's mother, Jean McGaughey, who lived in Gordon, volunteered to drive our pickup and horse trailer to keep us supplied with fresh horses. My dad, Bob Moreland, said he would help, and he also loaned us two horses, his full-brother 13 and 14-year-old registered Arabian riding and driving team. We gladly accepted both offers, and couldn't have made everything work without their assistance.
Carol and I spent Thursday night in Gordon at the home of her folks, Royal and Jean McGaughey. Four of our horses spent the night in a corral at their farm just east of town. Our alarm was set for 4:00 a.m., and we were soon thereafter eating a good breakfast of oatmeal in Jean's kitchen. Poking my head outside, the day didn't look extremely delightful, as the temperature was hovering around 35 degrees and drizzling rain was coming down. Our wearing apparel of the day needed to be topped off with shotgun chaps, lace-up rubber overshoes, and ¾ length yellow slickers. We drove to the farm, caught up four shivering and not necessarily cooperative horses, loaded all four of them on a 16' bumper hitch stock trailer, and headed out.
Clinton is a little wide spot in the road eight miles west of Gordon. The morning was dark as the ace of spades when we arrived, so we unloaded two horses under the town's only street light. My first mount of the day was Red Fred, a stocking-legged sorrel with a blaze face and a spot on his belly. He is ten years old and half Paint, ¼ Morgan, 1/8th Arabian, and 1/8th Heinz 57. That should be a good combination for endurance, but his reputation is to be a little goofy with maybe some buck early, but he fades pretty fast when it comes to a long ride. I led him around in a couple circles, and eased on, trying not to rustle the slicker any more than necessary. He behaved, which made me thankful. Carol's first horse of the day was the older of the two grey Arabians, and he also acted like a gentleman. We waved to Jean, and took off into the darkness at 6:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, riding in the rain and headed east. Our route was to ride in the road ditch alongside Highway 20 for the next hundred miles—Valentine or Bust! . At least there wouldn't be any gates to open. There is a sign on the south side of the highway that declares "Valentine 100 miles." I now regret that we didn't stop there long enough to take a photograph with a flashbulb.
We groped our way along in the darkness, trying to avoid steel posts and other obstacles. After a mile or two, a faint glimmer of daylight was starting to appear. The cloud cover, intermittent rain and drizzle, east wind, and temperatures in the lower 40 degree range remained the weather pattern throughout the day. Our chaps, overshoes, and slickers were necessary all the way to Valentine. It did have a cooling effect on the horses, and tended to keep Carol and me from getting sleepy. We traveled at either a fast trot or lope all the way, only walking our horses about the last quarter of a mile before switching to the next one.
We went through Gordon at 7:00 a.m. and jogged on east. Our horses were kind of losing steam. These were the two we worried the most about for distance, so only planned on going eighteen miles with them. Jean was driving our 1997 turquoise F350 Ford crew-cab pickup and pulled a 16' white-colored Titan bumper hitch trailer, and was parked waiting for us at the Antelope Pride 4-H Club picnic table ten miles east of Gordon. We arrived at 8:30, and it was nearly 9:00 before we left, after unloading our fresh horses, switching saddles, putting the tired horses on the trailer, and drinking a little hot chocolate.
For the second stage of the trip, Carol was riding Dad's other grey Arabian, and I was using Zippy, a big four-year-old bay gelding of Quarter Horse-Tennessee Walking Horse lineage. It was fun being on fresh horses again. We moved right out, and went into a pasture on the south side of the highway where traveling was pretty good for the next three miles. We loped right along. Coming back onto the roadway, the going was difficult. New pavement last summer and soft shoulders made the footing poor for our horses. Also, we tried to avoid riding on newly planted grass. A long-time friend, John Burton, knew what our plans were. He came along, and seemed to be in a friendly visiting mood. We finally had to casually mention that Valentine was still many miles ahead, so we needed to keep our horses on the move. We didn't make very good time for a few miles, but eventually got back to solider wider ditches and could hustle again. A few miles west of Merriman, a pickup stopped out in front of us and waited until we arrived. Dale Lewis, from the Bennett County Booster newspaper in Martin, South Dakota was there with camera in hand. Also with him were Jack Audiss and my dad, Bob Moreland. They said their "howdies," and we kept on chuggin'. By this time, our used-to-be fresh horses had lost some of their luster. I mentioned to Dale that I felt like I was driving with the emergency brake engaged.
We trotted on into Merriman at 11:10 a.m., having made the last twenty miles in two hours and ten minutes. Dad had six fresh horses on a 24' gooseneck trailer waiting for us, so we unloaded them, unsaddled our tired horses, and saddled two fresh horses. Then we loaded the four "tired" horses on Dad's outfit for him to take back home, and put the other four "new" horses on Jean's trailer for her to take along. Rich Cobb, Mike Witt, and Tubb Fish were there to assist us and wish us well, which made the switching easier. Carol and I each took a few swigs of water and about a third of a roast beef sandwich each, climbed aboard our new steeds and kept on riding east, leaving at 11:30. This time Carol was riding her roan nine-year-old "favorite" cow-horse, Nipper. I chose Rock, a palomino five-year-old full brother to the last horse I rode. This was to be our longest stretch, as we planned to ride twenty-four miles on to Cody.
As we rode by the cedar trees on the south side of the highway near the Eli turn-off, I mentioned to my bride that I might slip into those trees to go to the bathroom. We had a lot of miles to cover, and she gruffly reminded me, "Well, you just went out west of Merriman." I had to smilingly admit that was only about eighteen miles ago, so surely I could make it another fourteen horseback miles until we got to Cody. I did, too. As we rode up the hill east of the Eli turn-off, ol' Nipper shied going around a culvert. My bride seemed disgusted at her horse, so I casually mentioned that it might be a long trip if she was going to be grouchy. I gave her a salted nut roll candy bar out of my slicker pocket, and she was sweet and cheerful the rest of the trip. We rode into Cody at 2:30, having made the last 24 miles in exactly three hours.
With 62 miles now behind us, some of our get-up had got up and gone. Jean parked at the Cody Oil-Double D Café, so we went in for a few minutes. I headed for the door with the dog that said "Pointers," while Carol sought out the doggie door that proclaimed "Setters." A big bottle of Mountain Dew with lots of caffeine seemed to be in order for me, and Carol indulged in something similar. A lot of people were in town, as there was a football game on with Cody playing the visiting team of Hyannis. (They pretty badly stomped the Cody boys. Our son Will plays on the Cody team, and he did make about three noteworthy tackles.) We visited with some folks as we swapped horses once again, and we resumed our journey at 3:00 p.m., taking a minute to poke our heads in at Lancaster Livestock to report that we had made it this far.
Carol rode Brownie, a 14-year-old grade Quarter Horse gelding, and I was riding my son's favorite, a six-year-old registered Quarter Horse he calls Spud. The going was smooth, and these horses moved right out. Spud has a real long ground-covering trot, and Brownie had to lope quite a bit to keep up, but we made the sixteen miles to Kilgore in an hour and twenty minutes. Jean was parked there, and my mom and dad drove up on their way to Valentine for the cowboy poetry doings, so we visited and stretched for almost twenty minutes. Mom had along her famous chocolate chip cookies, which tasted mighty good then, too. We rode these horses another four miles to the German Settlement road and changed horses for the last time. This time Carol saddled a black three-year-old named Tucker, and I put my gear on a tall Paint seven-year-old that I call Tomahawk. We left this stop at 5:30.
Darkness was fast approaching, and Tomahawk was wanting to cover miles fast, so we did. Tucker and Carol kept right up. We went through Crookston at 6:10 p.m. Our three kids, Will, Tiffany, and Brock came along about then, driven by my sister Sybil in her Ford Explorer. They stopped near where Jean was parked with the pickup and trailer. It was all but dark by this time, with eleven miles yet to go. I had an idea—let's go another mile and say we'd ridden 90 miles in one day, load the horses, and still get to Valentine in time for that evening's poetry and music performance. Carol vetoed the suggestion, so on we rode. Jean, Sybil, and the kids drove on to Valentine, and they and my folks took in the Friday evening program.
It was kind of hazardous riding down in the road ditch in the pitch dark, because every time a car came along, the headlights would blind us and the horses. The moon would have been pretty illuminating except the cloud cover was too thick. We didn't have a flashlight. The old railroad bed, abandoned by trains and now devoid of tracks, looked inviting at this point. A lady was walking her dog near her ranch, so we asked if she thought we could travel there alright. She thought we could and said there was only one fence across it that she knew about. There were others also, and we found the first one as our horses were trotting along in the dark side by side at a pretty good clip. Fortunately neither horse got hurt. I dismounted and got the wires away from the horses' feet, and we proceeded with considerably more caution. The "candlestick weeds" tended to look a lot like fence posts in the dark. Other obstacles were the wooden bridges. Our horses didn't like the first one at all, but became fairly proficient before the last of the five or six were negotiated. I was riding my tallest horse of the day, and my poor old joints were getting kind of stiff. Each time I got off to negotiate another fence wire, climbing back on became more of a problem. I could generally hit the stirrup with my foot on the first try, but it was definitely mind over matter to get the rest of the way on. The thought of just camping right there even entered our minds. We kept riding along, and it seemed like the lights of Valentine kept getting farther away! Finally we arrived in town at 8:15 Mountain Daylight Time, but by then we had crossed into another time zone. It was 9:15 Central Daylight Time, which Valentine is on. Soon the lights of the Raine Motel were looking mighty inviting. For the past fourteen hours and fifteen minutes we had ridden in the rain, and it was going to feel pretty darn good to sleep in the Raine all night.
The pickup, horse trailer, and four horses were sitting in the motel parking lot. We unsaddled the two we were riding, and tried to load all six on the 6' x 16' trailer. Five fit well, so I hauled them down to the Valentine Livestock Auction, where we had made arrangements to leave them. Carol waited with the remaining horse, and I came back for it after I had gotten the others settled. She paid for the motel room, and hit the bath tub while I took care of the final horse. I really can't remember when I've ever felt quite as tired and stiff as I did that night. Neither of us were at all saddle sore, but just kind of "rode hard, hung up wet," and tired to the bone.
We are glad we did the ride and can say we've "been there and done that," when it comes to having ridden horseback one hundred miles in one day. Maybe just not again anytime real soon.
We appreciate all the work that the Old West Days committee does each year to make this event truly great, and we dedicate our ride efforts to the pioneer spirit of keeping the Old West alive and well.
Steve and Carol Moreland


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He was raised on the Pace family homestead in Castle Valley, Utah. After completing high school at the Wasatch Academy in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, Bill enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on Nov. 12, 1942. He graduated from New Mexico Military Institute in Ros-well, N.M., on June 1, 1943. He flew cargo planes in the South Pacific during WWII.
Bill married Doris McEatron Oct. 7, 1944. They hitchhiked to Las Vegas to get married. After the war they lived in Bakersfield, Calif. In the late 1940s they moved back to the Pace ranch in Castle Valley. In 1952, the family moved to Moab and Bill went to work for Burt Vivian, drilling holes for uranium. In 1966, Bill went to work for Texasgulf Sulphur in the maintenance department. He retired after almost 20 years of service.
Bill was a Mason, a Past Master and a 50-year member of La Sal Lodge #30. He had a long association with the Arches Shrine Club and was a member of the Scottish Rite. He was a charter member and past Exalted Ruler of BPOE #2021. He was also a charter member of the Moab Golf and Country Club.
Bill and Doris enjoyed traveling and spending time with their family. They also enjoyed many summers in Montana. His hobbies included woodworking, golf and ATV riding.
Bill is survived by his daughters, Sandra (KC) Crymble of Montana, Linda (Fred) Powell of Moab and Susie (Tom) Hermansen of Wyoming; grandchildren, Lisa (Dan) Brennan, Jeff (Kelly) Crymble, Chris (Jenn) Powell, Jennie Powell, Chelsea (Geddy) Northrup, Crystal Hermansen, and Kelly Hermansen; great-grandchildren, Derek, Kelsey, Hugh, Elizabeth, Michael, Alex and Conner; nieces, Ireta (Charlie) Cockerell of New Mexico, Judy (Bobby) Amos of Arizona, Sally (Larry) Bullard of Grand Junction; and nephew, Dave (Brenda) McKinnon of California. He is also survived by cousins, Lorraine Halvorsen of Arizona and Ned Brown of Kansas.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Doris, brothers, David and Buck Buchanan, and sisters, Zella Ray and Lola Hardy.
A Masonic service will be held on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 1 p.m. Cremation has taken place. His ashes will be placed in the family cemetery in Castle Valley. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Spanish Valley Mortuary. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of your choice.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.SpanishValleyMortuary.com.


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Big Ten "Other" Postseason Recap: Minnesota Pushes for a Trip to NYCPosted by Brendan Brody on March 25th, 2014
The Big Ten has three teams still playing in the Sweet Sixteen, and after Penn State's loss to Siena on Monday night, it now has one team still alive to win one of the other three postseason tournaments. Here's a brief rundown on what's been going on with Illinois, Minnesota, and Penn State as they finished out their seasons in the NIT and the CBI over the course of the last week.
Illinois: The Illini got a raw deal in the fact that they had to play both of their NIT games on the road despite being a #2 seed. They started things out last week with an ugly win at Boston University, getting down 30-13 early but managing to go on a 53-32 run over the last 24 minutes to finish off a four-point win. Illinois shot 8-of-17 from three and were +12 on the boards in the victory. This did not carry over to Illinois' second contest on Sunday against Clemson. In a defensive struggle, the Illini were outrebounded by seven and shot only 14 percent from behind the arc (3-of-21). Clemson is a strong defensive team, but this game summed up the Illinois season. They struggled to make any shots, didn't have a good option on the low block, and despite forcing 15 turnovers, couldn't close things out in the end in losing by one point, 50-49.


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Will ACTA Ever Be A Real Treaty?
from the might-be-tough dept
With an apparent stalemate between the US administration and legislators about ratification procedures and the European Union out after the Parliament voted against the agreement, it looks as if there is still an uphill battle to get to reach that number.As we've discussed, Australia's Parliament has already recommended rejecting ACTA, and it appears that ratification has stalled out there as well. Ermert suggests that really the only way that ACTA might reach the necessary levels of ratification will be if other countries follow Japan's method of approval -- by which they effectively sneak it through.
Besides the EU and Japan, seven governments have signed ACTA (Australia, Canada, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and the United States). Switzerland has not signed nor ratified.
"Not much is happening on the Canadian front," wrote Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa and long-time ACTA observer. "Canada signed ACTA, but has not ratified. Ratification would likely require some legislative amendments," Geist said, and until those changes are introduced the country would not be positioned to ratify. There may be, according to Geist, linkage between ACTA and CETA (the Canada-EU Trade Agreement) under negotiation.
Britton Broun, media advisor of the Economic Group in the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment of New Zealand, responded to Intellectual Property Watch by saying: "While New Zealand has signed ACTA, the government has not yet taken a decision on its ratification."
Along those lines, her report confirms what we'd heard about how the ruling party in Japan effectively got ratification without actually bothering to allow the opposition to take part:
But on 31 August, a committee of the House of Representatives, and on 6 September, the full House of Representatives pushed ACTA through, each time counting only the votes of the ruling party.While ACTA hasn't received that much attention in Japan, allowing the government to get away with such shenanigans, it seems likely that any attempt to do something similar elsewhere would be met with more widespread resistance. In other words, it seems unlikely that enough countries will actually get around to ratifying ACTA -- though we should never underestimate the tricks that lobbyists and diplomats will pull to try to shove this ugly pig over the finish line.
"To ratify an international treaty without the attendance of all opposition parties means a collapse of democracy in Japan," warned Suzawa.


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Lies, damn lies, and statistics
I'm a fan of InsideHPC; I read it every day. I like John's commentary; he does a great job of rounding up various newsworthy HPC-related articles. But that doesn't always mean that I agree with every posted item. Case in point: I saw this article the other day, purportedly a primer on InfiniBand (referring to this HPCprojects article). I actually know a bit about IB; I used to work in the IB group at Cisco. Indeed, I've written a lot of OpenFabrics verbs-based code for MPI implementations.
There's good information in that article, but also some fantastically unfounded and misleading marketing quotes:
- "With large data transfers, Ethernet consumes as much as 50 per cent of the CPU cycles; the average for InfiniBand is a loss of less than 10 to 20 per cent." He's referring to software TCP overhead, not Ethernet overhead. There's an enormous difference — there's plenty of Ethernet-based technologies that are in the 10-20% overhead range.
- "There are also power savings to be had, and this is critical when HPC facilities are confronting major issues with power supplies, cooling and costs. The same study indicates that InfiniBand cuts power costs considerably to finish the same number of Fluent jobs compared to Gigabit Ethernet; as cluster size increases, more power can be saved." Wow. Other than generating warm fuzzies for customers ("My network products are green!"), what exactly does that paragraph mean? And how exactly was it quantified?
- …I'll stop with just those 2. 🙂
These quotes are classic marketing spin to make IB products look the better than the competition.
More specifically, it's easy to take pot shots at the competition and say why your product is the best. But this ignores that all networks are highly engineered solutions that have both benefits and tradeoffs. Sure, IB is great at some things. It's also terrible at other things. The same can be said about Ethernet. And any other kind of network.
What customers should really do is to look at their target applications on these different kind of networks and analyze the networking engineering tradeoffs in that context. For example: does your application really need ~2us latency? Sure, ~2us latency is cool — but do you need it? Can you afford it? Would you lay off someone to pay for it? I've personally seen lots of applications that received no benefit when running on a faster/better network. On the other hand, I've personally seen lots of applications that received enormous benefits when running on an ulta low-latency network. All I'm saying is: "My network is better than yours" is a moot argument if your applications don't care.
For example: if you have highly coordinated parallel HPC applications, then you might need the ~2us latency that Myrinet (which is Ethernet, BTW), IB and others can deliver. If your application is not so sensitive, then perhaps Open-MX's ~10us latency on commodity 1Gb Ethernet is good enough. If your application continually sends a LOT of data around, perhaps you need the DDR 16Gb/s or QDR 20somethingGb/s bandwdith (but be sure to look at the congestion behavior of the network you plan to use!). If you don't need the bandwidth, then perhaps that "free" network is all you need — and you can use more of your spend on RAM, or better processors, or more disk, or some other server-side improvement. Or perhaps the "simpler" administration of a unified network gives you "enough" bandwidth for your applications, but you save cost by not having to re-train all your networking admins. Shrug. It's up to your local requirements. Look at them all and figure out what's best for you.
To be clear: yes, the network is important (heck, I work for Cisco — we love networking!). But let's not forget that it's not all about the network. There are many other things that you need to look at in the context of your application that are just as important — if not more so — than the network. Some examples include: RAM, disk, IO, processor, cache size, and bus speed.
Avoid the marketing spin; make your purchasing analysis in the context of your local requirements to decide what is best for you, your IT environment, and your applications.
(/me steps off the soap box)
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Jeff, you have become a marketing guy yourself :-) and doing good work on the marketing side if I may say. I actually knows how IB, Ethernet, Myrinot works as well ... :-). I agree that you need to test your application to know what you need. Thats valid to CPU, memory, storage and networking. Networking in many cases can influence the application performance, and if you can run 100 jobs per day, or 500 jobs per day, you can finish your design much faster, and hence reduce your expenses throughout the product design (HW, power, cooling etc.). This is not that complicated to understand. Even my grandmother can understand it - so you can talk to her :-)Anyway, as long as you use a standard solution, and it works for you with good overall efficiency, continue and use it.
You could tell this guy that Mellanox now does RDMA-over-Ethernet and gets almost the same latency/bandwidth/overhead than IB, even if it's still Ethernet (the slight difference seems to be mostly in the MTU and switches).MX-over-Ethernet has been doing the same for 4 years now (and even better since it's not encapsulating IB in Ethernet frames like RDMAoE does).


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Last week, my coworker and her son asked me if I had any ideas about how to display handkerchiefs. My coworker's mother recently passed away and now they have a small collection of her hankies that they'd like to display in a sweet and sentimental way. At the time, I didn't have a lot of ideas but I've rounded some up and think I'll share them all with you too!
I'll start with some of the more traditional ideas I found.
SweetPaul magazine had this tablerunner tutorial that can be made with glue if you're not a handy with a needle and thread.
For another table runner tutorial, check out Country Living's DIY It for Less tutorial.
If you are handy with a sewing machine, these handkerchief curtains at Jolly Goode Gal are beautiful! You should totally check out the link too because her house is gorgeous!
For a little bit simpler version of the handkerchief curtains, Martha Stewart has a tutorial for a valance. She uses tailored men's handkerchiefs so it might be a little bit more math and creativity to make a balance out of women's handkerchiefs that are different sizes, but I bet the final product would look even better!
Skip to My Lou has a tutorial for a hanky sachet which would be a really nice gift and might be more the style of my coworker and her son.
I think my favorite thing I found was from a photo at 100LayerCake. I'm guessing these hankies were given out as favors or used to direct people to their seat at the reception, but I love how they look all collected. This also wouldn't require any altering of the hankies so you'd still have to them to use and enjoy if you had a brilliant new idea for displaying them in the future.
This wallhanging from a home tour at The R House would be a really easy way to collage the hankies and make an easy to move around display.
I absolutely love these handkerchief walls! They're both beautiful and have such a different aesthetic. You could really take this project a bunch of different directions depending on your hankie collection.
If you want an unframed look, you could use your handkerchiefs in place of the fabric scraps and do this DIY from 2Modern's blog. Plus, the tutorial uses shoeboxes which is an awesome opportunity to upcycle.
These handkerchief hanging vases at Once Wed are so beautiful and delicate. I suspect they'd look just as beautiful as year-round decor as they do at a wedding!
So that's my roundup (so far). I started out looking for ideas for friends and now I have about 100 DIY ideas of my own! Better get started on my hanky collection!


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While Mitt Romney may well wish he had expressed himself more "elegantly" at the swanky Boca Raton fundraiser where he denounced half the voting population as shiftless, government-entitled moochers, he isn't backing away from those secretly recorded remarks — although what he said was entirely inaccurate.
Watching him on video, the Republican nominee sounds not only vulgar and arrogant, but profoundly ignorant about the nation he hopes to govern. "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," said the Republican nominee, who proceeded to describe them.
"All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government ... Those people," he went on, "believe that they are victims ... believe the government has a responsibility to care for them ... believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it."
Let's stop right there: Whatever percentage of Americans plan to vote for the president, there is no plausible evidence that they all think of themselves as entitled to government benefits. Nor is there any evidence that all of Obama's supporters are in fact "dependent on government." And there is plenty of evidence that Romney supporters — Obama supporters and like many Americans who will not vote at all — receive Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment benefits, housing vouchers, veterans benefits and other forms of federal assistance.
The Republican-leaning moochers, as defined by Romney, can easily be found in the red states, which contribute far less in federal taxes than they receive in per capita benefits.
Across much of the old Confederacy, white voters in lower income brackets will faithfully vote for Romney despite his sneers at them. Across the red states, generally from Mississippi, Arkansas and South Carolina, to Kentucky, West Virginia, Missouri, Oklahoma, the Dakotas and Alaska, there is a clear pattern.
More money flows in from Washington via government spending than goes out to Washington via federal taxes, which belies the incessant whining of their "conservative" elected officials. The difference is made up in revenues from the blue states — New York, New Jersey, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Minnesota, among others — that receive less than they pay in.
A substantial number of the people who are too poor to pay income taxes, thanks to tax reforms supported by Ronald Reagan, are among the Southern whites inclined to vote for Romney. In 2008, according to the New York Times, 25 percent of voters earning under $15,000 per year and 37 percent of those earning between $15,000 and $30,000 per year voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.
An even more substantial number are older Americans who rely on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Four years ago, voters over 65 years old supported McCain over Obama by a margin of eight points, and the most recent New York Times survey shows the same group backing Romney this year by a margin of 15 points.
Summing up his erroneous assessments, Romney said, "my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." Perhaps that cold remark falls within the category of opinion rather than fact. But does Romney truly believe that a lifelong worker, an impoverished veteran, a struggling student, an elderly widow or any of the millions of Americans in similar straits don't merit the concern of the President of the United States?
That ugly sentiment, an insult to every citizen of this country, would be hard to express more "elegantly" without the use of a four-letter word.


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By Alan Baldwin
LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus team won the race to be first to show off their 2013 Formula One car on Monday with a challenger that put performance over beauty and turned up its nose at cosmetic surgery.
In one of the few rule changes for the year ahead, teams are now allowed to use 'modesty panels' to streamline the ugly 'broken noses' that caused gasps of dismay when first sighted last season.
The fairings, fitted over existing structures, do not affect the car's aerodynamics and teams are not obliged to use them.
The black, red and gold Lotus E21 decided to remain defiantly immodest, retaining the distinctive step of its race-winning predecessor from 2012, although the team did not rule out a future makeover.
"We have not done it yet because the cosmetic panel would weigh a few grammes and with a Formula One car, putting a few grammes on that you don't need to is really anathema to us," explained technical director James Allison.
"However, if we find a cosmetic panel that looks nice but, much more importantly and crucially, develops us a bit of downforce than we'll pop it on as quick as you like," he grinned.
Allison said that while the car looked similar to last year's, as ever in F1 the devil was in the detail "and the detail of this car adds up to a significant amount of performance.
"There's some neat new ideas in there and a lot of pushing of the same sort of concepts as we've been working on for a few years."
The presentation was broadcast live from inside the Enstone factory, after high winds forced a retreat from a marquee outside, on YouTube and Sky television with Raikkonen and French team mate Romain Grosjean pulling away the cover to reveal the Renault-powered car they hope will take the team to at least third place overall.
On the side below the cockpit was written the line #ImSexyandIKnowit.
Lotus finished in fourth place last season, with Finland's 2007 world champion Raikkonen winning the floodlit Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and ending up third overall in his comeback season after two years out.
That win was the team's first since double world champion Fernando Alonso won in Japan in 2008 under their former guise of Renault.
"Our expectation is to do hopefully better than we did last year, which is quite a lot" said team chairman Gerard Lopez.
Team principal Eric Boullier agreed: "Third place is at least an achievement that we would like to have...we expect to build on the momentum from 2012."
With the rules stable, teams are likely to be closer than ever in performance but Boullier said his drivers would be more eager than ever to succeed.
"We will fight with everything we can to be in the top three," he said.
Grosjean had a torrid time in his first full season, earning a one-race ban after a collision that put title contender Alonso out of the Belgian Grand Prix with the Spaniard lucky to escape serious injury.
"We keep faith in him, we believe he has the potential to deliver," said Boullier. "He can qualify well, he can race well...we want to deliver this year a top three position so we need both drivers and obviously Romain to bring as often as possible some big points."
McLaren will be next out, with a launch at their Woking factory on Thursday, followed by Force India and Ferrari on Friday and Swiss-based Sauber on Saturday. Red Bull, with triple champion Sebastian Vettel, unveil their new car in Milton Keynes on Sunday.
The first test of the year starts at the Jerez circuit in southern Spain on Feb 5, the day after Mercedes and 2008 champion Lewis Hamilton take the wraps off their car. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Pritha Sarkar)


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MTS to ProRes Mac, how to convert MTS to ProRes on Mac?
Many people have camcorders and shot many funny videos, and these videos in .mts file extension. At this time, they want to edit these files with FCP on Mac. But sometimes, MTS is not well compitable with the software. We need to convert MTS to ProRes on Mac. PreRes is a standard-definition and high-definition lossy video compression format developed by Apple Inc.
So ProRes is strongly recommended for users to convert MTS to FCP on Mac. With MTS to ProRes Converter Mac, you can convert MTS to ProRes 422, convert MTS to PreRes 4444 and so on by keeping video quality. What's more, if you need, you can convert MTS to many video formats like MP4, MKV, FLV, AVI, WMV, MPG, VOB and so on which enables users can enjoy the videos on some portable devices like iPod, iPad, iPhone, New iPad, etc.
Mac MTS to ProRes Converter not only can convert MTS to ProRes for FCP on Mac, but also enables users to edit the MTS files before conversion. With powerful editing functions, you can trim videos, merge videos, crop videos, add watermark which you want. When conversion finished, you will find that Mac MTS to ProRes Converter is the best choice.
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text: Maya Rudolph is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, and in a series of promo clips she's shot with Andy Samberg, she dons sunglasses, jokes about having writer's block and talks about a character called The Sandich Lady. But there's no mention of Whitney Houston — whom Rudolph often impersonated on the show. Will she avoid the recently deceased singer out of respect? Or do an homage? And where is Donatella Versace? Get out!


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The author never refers to the saints as actual saints. Instead of St. Maximus the Confessor, it is just Maximus the Confessor.
She discounts modern psychology as well as any medication to treat mental defects or disabilities.
Has anyone else read this book or had any experience reading anything by this author. The font is astoundingly large with double spacing. The book is 250 pages but could have easily been 1/3 the size with normal font and spacing.
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Sep 26, 2011
Wellesley, Mass. – Freshman Michelle Dutt (Gurnee, Ill.) of the MIT women's tennis team has been selected New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Women's Tennis Singles Player of the Week for her play in a pair of matches last week.
Against No. 5 Tufts, she bounced back from a first set loss to her opponent at No. 2 singles to take a 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, victory. She then moved up to the No. 1 singles position against NEWMAC foe Mount Holyoke and did not miss a beat, taking a 7-5, 6-3, win that helped the Engineers remain undefeated in conference play. So far on the young season she has a 4-0 singles record and is 3-1 in doubles play.


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Kate Middleton: Savvy Shopper
Kate Middleton goes shopping with a friend on Kings Road on Wednesday (April 20) in London, England.
The 29-year-old royal bride-to-be reportedly visited the grave of Princess Diana ahead of her wedding next week, according to the Daily Mirror. "It was very important for William to take Kate to visit his mum just before their wedding day," a source said.
"We wouldn't comment on a speculative story about what would be an entirely private matter," a spokesman for the couple said, who could not confirm the visit.
FYI: Kate picked up two Calvin Klein Underwear bras at Peter Jones in Sloane Square.


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What Consumers Want From the Mobile Web
As the digerati has dictated since the dawning of the Internet, "Content is king." Some two decades later, this adage still holds true—even in the mobile age. Whether using smartphones or tablets, consumers are mainly seeking information as opposed to apps, according to a recent survey from Netbiscuits. In fact, the resulting People's Web Report indicates that a clear minority of users will download apps when prompted by a site. Many do so only because they believe it's required in order to continue accessing that site. CIOs and their tech departments must keep in mind that the user browsing experience still rules all, and that mobile customers will switch to a competitor's site if the original one is too slow or not consistent with the PC version of the site. Netbiscuits provides adaptive mobile Web experience solutions. More than 5,000 global consumers took part in the research for the report, which also compiled data taken from organizations such as IDC Worldwide, Gartner, Google, Nielsen and Pew Research. For more about the Netbiscuits survey, click here.
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Petr Romanovsky. Foreword to Aron Nimzowitsch's "Chess Blockade". 1925
When time passes, and some chess historian will sum up the rapid progress of the art of chess in the post-War (WWI) period and thoroughly analyze all the forms of modern chess creativity, they'll have to find a special place for Aron Isaevich Nimzowitsch in their analysis. Otherwise, they'll just lack the objectivity to do a full historical review of the exceptionally thriving chess art of the latest decade. All the so-called modern ideas of chess work that both caused hot polemics in chess literature and changed the very outlook of chess tournaments, would suffer from a wrong description if Nimzowitsch's name wasn't mentioned in connection to their origins. Already in 1910-1912, when a brilliant school of German method, spearheaded by S. Tarrasch and A. Rubinstein, seemingly had no competition in the chess world, Nimzowitsch's original talent had suddenly introduced several principles that were so contrary to the traditional understanding of chess positions that the chess world was all ready to classify them as some funny eccentricities that go away with maturity. And they would have done so, if not for Nimzowitsch's great practical successes (which just couldn't be written of as accidental) in several international competitions. After Carlsbad 1911, when Nimzowitsch finished 4th, winning 9 games almost in a row in the process, there was San Sebastian 1912, when only an unfortunate accident made him let Rubinstein overtake him and finish only second. Nimzowitsch's "eccentricities" became noticed, but even after that, they weren't given the great attention they deserved. His return to the Steinitz variant in French Defense (1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5!), counterattack in the Philidor Defense (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6!), peculiar Queen maneuver in the Caro-Kann Defense (1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Bd3 Bxd3 5. Qxd3 Qb6! 6. Ne2 Qa6!) and others were seen just as theoretical novelties, and the chess critics, true to the era, worked on the refutation of those novelties, failing to notice that behind them, there was a new original creative form, a new system, a new approach to struggle, an original construction of the chess blockade. While his opponents fiercely attacked his d4 and e5 pawns in French Defense and destroyed his pawn center by all rules of the positional method, new blockading outposts appeared on their places, which Nimzowitsch's pieces readily invaded. And in the Four Knight Opening, a seemingly bland Bishop exchange on the move 6 (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. Bxc6!) grew into such an original plan of surrounding the Black's castling position based on the White Knights' invasion of f5, that only the blind faith in the conservative methods could make one dismiss Nimzowitsch's fresh creative technique.
Disdain to the pawn center in favour of piece-based center; creating of very deep and original combinational possibilities on a firm positional base; resolute critique (supported by great practical results) of the positions considered sacred for deacdes; the very fact that he alone fought against the traditional forms of creativity; re-evaluation of openings as a precondition to an original evaluation of the middlegame; introduction of a lot of opening novelties that were born by a persistent belief in the future of chess and the chess progress - those were the elements that put Nimzowitsch in a place completely separate of the entire group of the strongest players of the time, and around which the modernists of our time grouped several years later.
As was already stated, Nimzowitsch was completely alone. His chess futurism couldn't find any followers back then, the chess masses didn't appreciate his peculiar chess art, and it would seem that his chess spirit would fade without the much-needed support and sympathy. But this didn't happen. Moreover, something opposite happened. In 1914, Nimzowitsch suddenly devised new, ultra-original opening schemes. Theoretical deepening of his system, hard work on it, persistent desire to make the conservative thinkers finally appreciate his plans finally made him at the All-Russian Tournament in St. Petersburg, in the game against B. Gregori, use the flank development of the Bishops in the opening, which was disdained at the time, move his pawns just one square forward, accumulate the chess energy and potential combinational possibilities. The experient was successful. The powerful spring of chess action that was compressed until the needed time and then suddenly set off, completely annihilated his opponent.
In the game against E. Bogoljubov, whose brilliant career was only starting back then and who later improved many of Nimzowitsch's ideas, Nimzowitsch used the same strategy of accumulating the energy and then unleashing it all at once - in a very inappropriate opening, the French Defense, where fianchettoing the Queen's Bishop can be quite dangerous; still, he again managed to win quickly after a devastating strike. Nimzowitsch played the whole tournament under the sign of his system's triumph, shared 1st place with A. Alekhine and, together with him, played in the St. Peterburg 1914 Grossmeisterturnier with J.R. Capablanca and Em. Lasker, where his methods were put under the ultimate, strongest test. Of 11 games, Nimzowitsch lost 3 - to Capablanca, Tarrasch and Blackburne, but he'd never fell victim to his chess views. Simple light-midness, which was completely contrary to his deep formations, was the reason of his defeats. But his original maneuvers in the Caro-Kann against Lasker, the immediate pawn attack against Alekhine where his d4 Knight totally paralyzed the opponent's position, were finally fully recognized. But his triumph, his masterpiece was the battle against the talented and strong O. Bernstein, where he played one of his defenses - fianchettoed his Bishop in the opening, accumulated the power under the cover of advancing pawn chain, and then attacking e4 square with all his pieces.
Bernstein's brilliant defense allowed him to draw the game. But the seemingly decisive strike that made Bernstein's position almost hopeless was landed when Nimzowitsch sent his central pawns forward to their "deaths", clearing the way for a piece attack.
Nimzowitsch had left the tournament even more sure in his rightness.
The three-year world war stopped chess life dead, and it was calm before the storm for Nimzowitsch's theory.
Ever since 1918, Nimzowitsch's works look more and more prophetic. His thoughts about piece center, pawn attacks, blockade were embraced by a powerful chess movement called ultramodernism. The movement outgrows its herald. Great chess artists throw new chess thoughts into the conservators' mouths, the truths that once seemed incredible and now are very hard to stomach for the advocates of chess stagnation.
The chess art shines with the names of Alekhine, Reti, Bogoljubov... New opening systems are named after their developers: Alekhine's Defense, Reti's Opening etc. Nimzowitsh's absence along these names is completely undeserved (Nimzo-Indian Defence and Nimzowitsch Defense weren't named yet in 1925). It wasn't him who created the revolution of chess position understanding that happens right now. But he undoubtedly was its first herald, the only one who saw the essence of the chess works through the lens of the future revolution, and we can't just hush this up. But is it enough to limit Nimzowitsch's role in the modern chess art with this principiality? Can we say that the modernists have formulated Nimzowitsch's "old eccentricities" much wider and deeper than he could, and that his name is lost in the background of his own ideas' triumph, brought about not by particular people, but by the epoch itself? No, a thousand times no! Nimzowitsch is a perpetual thinker and mover of the chess history. His restless mind will never accept that the ultimate truth was discovered. He believes only in himself and his work. He's an individualist, so he can easily be in opposition to Reti now, as he once was in opposition to the conservative ideas of German school. He can't be a contemporary of his epoch. His goal is to see the future. And if he stays true to himself, his past experience will surely bring about new truths.
Considering the small book Chess Blockade offered to the reader, I can't help but say that the development of a very interesting theme by a very interesting artist deserves to be seen in more detail. The concept of blockade is depicted very clearly by Nimzowitsch. But the process of its achiement and the elements it consists of are given only superficially to the reader. Nimzowitsch's lively and vivid language, resplendent with optimism and youth, and belief in his rightfulness in the past, present and future, makes the book easy to read.
The small amount of examples is elegant and interesting. The author very clearly describes the role of the pawn at the various stages of the game in general and the passed pawn in particular. Some definitions are curious and humourous, which is characteristic for the author. So, for instance, he calls the pawn that has a chance to become passed a "candidate". The evaluation of the strength and role of a particular piece from the point of view of future perspectives - that's the author's interesting method of position evaluation. So, the aspiration for the future did tell upon the Chess Blockade as well. And, in tune with the author's optimism and humour, we can compare him to the "candidate" of his chess structures. The only difference is when a "candidate" becomes an important person, sometimes a Queen, it's satisfied with that state and has no future; while Nimzowitsch, the perpetual thinker and seeker, will never be content with his current achievements. His restless spirit is the eternal candidate of the future revelations of the chess art.


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Salvatore Leone
Salvatore Leone is a recurring character in the 3D Universe who appears as a main character in Grand Theft Auto III (set in 2001), a supporting character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (set in 1992) and a main character in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (set in 1998). He is the Don of the Leone Family, father of Joey Leone and husband of Maria Latore. He is voiced by Frank Vincent in each appearance.[3]
Character history
Life until 1992
Salvatore Leone was born in Palermo, Sicily and also had a brother[1], as well as a cousin to whom he was close.[2] He later immigrated to the United States and settled in a mansion in Saint Mark's, Liberty City. He also had a wife and son, Joey, although it is unknown when he met his wife or when they had their son. It is presumed, however, that she died prior to 1992 as Salvatore is seen flirting with his future wife, Maria Latore. In the mid 1980s he took control of the Leone Family after a power struggle[1]. During this time he and his uncle began to distrust each other, possibly due to him becoming Don.
Life in 1992
In 1992 he meets Johnny Sindacco, of the Sindacco Family, and agrees to give him $5 million to invest in Caligula's Palace, a casino and hotel in Las Venturas, and takes a one-third ownership alongside the Forelli Family. He is at first reluctant to give Johnny the money, because a Sindacco previously killed a cousin of his. During the negotiations, Salvatore gains control of the books and also successfully suggests Ken Rosenberg as being the man to run the business, knowing that as a recovering drug addict he will be easy to manipulate. He later flies to Las Venturas to run the business, telling Rosenberg that he wanted his money back quickly, making it clear that he was in charge. While in Las Venturas, he meets and befriends Carl Johnson, who had worked for his son in a car theft ring in Liberty City at some point between 1987 and 1992. After being vouched for by Rosenberg, Carl is employed to kill four Forelli gangsters flying into the city to kill Salvatore. Salvatore, satisfied with his abilities, hires Carl to perform a hit at Marco's Bistro in Liberty City. During this time, however, Carl is planning to perform a heist at the casino and helps Rosenberg, Kent Paul and Maccer escape. Carl later performs the heist with the San Fierro based Triads, who run a rival casino, resulting in a furious Salvatore phoning him and threatening to kill him and his family.
During his time in Las Venturas, he also starts a relationship with one of the casino's waitresses, Maria Latore. They first meet when she delivers a sandwich to him in his office, and she sasses him even though he owns the casino. However, she quickly warms up to him, and they had their first date a few days later - throwing large knives at Maccer in the same office. They seem mutually attracted to each other, and Salvatore impresses her by smoothly hitting a bull's-eye with his back completely turned (Maccer is unharmed).
Life between 1992 and 1998
Salvatore Leone, at some point after 1992 and presumably shortly after the heist, returns to Liberty City with his girlfriend Maria. The two later get married and she moves in to his mansion. The relationship, however, quickly deteriorates and she moves out. Salvatore's role at Caligula's Palace and the result of his investment remain unknown, as Salvatore never discusses the issue. During this time he also gets to know Toni Cipriani, who performs a hit on a rival made man before going into hiding for four years, and Vincenzo Cilli, who rises up through the gang to take Cipriani's place. He also meets union boss Jane Hopper, who agrees to give Salvatore and his men access to the harbor while the workers strike, and also Miguel of the Colombian Cartel who begins supplying drugs to the Leone Family. The Leone Family also lose control of parts of the Red Light District, forcing Luigi Goterelli to lose his club to the Sindacco Family.
Life in 1998
In late 1998 Salvatore welcomes Toni Cipriani back to Liberty City and into the gang after four years of hiding. He assigns him to Vincenzo Cilli, who had claimed Toni's place in the gang. The two immediately dislike each other but continue to work together under Salvatore's orders, eventually splitting after Vincenzo attempted to set him up. Toni later kills Vincenzo, seemingly with Salvatore's approval. Salvatore later begins to work with Joseph Daniel O'Toole, the manager of Paulie's Revue Bar and a Sindacco Family member, gaining valuable information on the gangs plans, although he is almost arrested by the police at the club. He later has Toni meet union boss Jane Hopper, encouraging her and her associates to give them access to the harbor, allowing Toni to meet Miguel to purchase drugs, although the deal is ambushed by the police.
Due to his and Toni's work against the Sindacco Family, including preventing a Leone controlled casino from being destroyed and then destroying the Dolls House casino, he is kidnapped by Sindacco Family mobsters. Salvatore is rescued by Toni. This earns Salvatore's respect, telling Toni to call him Sal rather than Mr. Leone. Toni, on instructions from Salvatore, later discovers the Sicilian Mafia's plans to take control of the city and unwittingly assists in the murder of O'Toole by Mickey Hamfists, as Salvatore could not trust someone who had betrayed his own Don.
The Leone Family, having gained more control of the Red Light District when Salvatore personally led an attack to kill the Sindacco mobsters in the neighbourhood, are later attacked by the Diablos but with help from Toni maintain control of the neighbourhood and Hepburn Heights. Toni, however, concedes that they will lose control of Hepburn Heights, which subsequently happens. The Diablos, working with the Sicilian Mafia, are joined by the Triads in attacking Leone interests, as the Triads destroy a Leone controlled warehouse in Callahan Point. Salvatore, realising that Mayor Roger C. Hole wants to blame him for all the crime in the city, flees his mansion and evades the police, living on Staunton Island, despite threatening Toni with a gun for allegedly insulting Salvatore. Salvatore, angry at the Mayor's actions, has Toni kill the Mayor on his morning run in Belleville Park and steals his phone, learning that the Forelli Family had controlled the Mayor. After this, helping him escape arrest twice and rescuing him after being kidnapped, Salvatore makes Toni a made man, which also results in Toni's mother calling off a hit she placed on her son.
Shortly afterwards, Salvatore sends Toni to work for Donald Love, who Salvatore's wants to become Mayor in order to gain more control in the political world of the city. Toni attempts to help, Donald Love's campaign, including an attempt to rig the election, although their attempts fail and Miles O'Donovan is elected after Love's connections to Toni and Salvatore are discovered by the press. Salvatore continues to deploy, especially after Love becomes bankrupt, and rescues him from a Sindacco hit on a Forelli mobster in Fort Staunton. The Forelli and Sindacco families later attempt to reconcile but their meeting is disrupted by Toni on Salvatore's orders, quickly followed by killing a wiseguy about to expose the Sicilian Mafia to Franco Forelli, the Don of the Forelli Family.
Toni also begins to work for Leon McAffrey, a corrupt police officer, on Salvatore's orders and helps weaken the Sindaccos and Forellis hold on the island, including the Uptown Yardies gaining and maintaining control of Newport. During this time Salvatore is arrested and moved to the police station in Shoreside Vale but continues meeting Toni, disguised as Salvatore's lawyer Lionel, and has him use the Southside Hoods to remove the Forelli's from Wichita Gardens. Paulie Sindacco, the Don of the Sindacco Family, is also killed by Toni on orders from Salvatore, and the Yakuza, an emerging threat on Staunton Island, have their tank stolen by Toni. Toni begins working for Toshiko Kasen, seemingly without Salvatore's knowledge, and helps weaken the Yakuza, and again with Donald Love, destroying the Fort Staunton neighbourhood and weakening the Forelli Family. Salvatore is later taken for trial, is protected by Toni on the way, and is later freed by the court.
Salvatore returns to his mansion and decides to take out Massimo Torini, the right-hand man of the gangs leader Uncle Leone. Salvatore and Toni successfully manage to kill Torini and rescue the Mayor who had been kidnapped, reminding the Mayor that he now worked for the Leone Family. Salvatore, having successfully defeated the Forelli and Sindacco Families and the Sicilian Mafia, discusses the position of the mafia in the city, realising that they had thrown control of the city away to a number of new gangs. Salvatore and Toni, however, celebrate their success at Momma's Restaurante and meet Salvatore's uncle, who tells Salvatore that "Every dog has his day", a comment ignored by Salvatore.
Life between 1998 and 2001
Between 1998, when he was in court before being freed, and 2001 he had been tried on four separate occasions, winning each of the cases. He was later put on trial again in April 2001, being accused of tax evasion with $450,000 in undeclared income, although he wins the case after lawyer Maurice Goldberg successfully convinces the court that Salvatore is dyslexic and struggled with taxes. He was, however, found guilty of illegally important food stuffs from Sicily without a license, and was fined, as well as having to pay the owed taxes.[1] The Liberty Tree, in July 2001, published articles on Joey Leone, Toni Cipriani and Luigi Goterelli, publicly suggesting their links to the criminal underworld. The Leone Family also gain full control of the Red Light District and re-open Sex Club Seven, although the gang do lose their interests on Staunton Island and in Shoreside Vale, as well as Hepburn Heights to the Diablos. During this time Maria also moves back in to Salatore's mansion.
Final year
The Leone Family, by October 2001, were struggling to maintain their control of Portland due to increased pressure from the Triads, Diablos and primarily the Colombian Cartel, who established a secret drug manufacturing plant on a freighter in Portland Harbor. Despite the problems, Salvatore continues to run the gang from his mansion and is introduced to Claude, a convict who escaped in a police convoy ambushed by the Cartel. Claude attracts the interest of Salvatore's wife Maria who he escorts to an illegal club before returning her to Salvatore's mansion. Salvatore, happy with his work, has him follow and kill Curly Bob, a bartender at Sex Club Seven, after Claude discovered that he had been selling secrets to the Cartel in return for the drug SPANK.
Salvatore later has Claude and 8-Ball, who Claude had escaped the convoy with, destroy the freighter used by the Cartel to manufacture SPANK, which had seemingly gained Claude the respect of Salvatore. Maria, however, had told Salvatore that she had become involved with Claude.[4] Maria's story, a lie, later led Salvatore to meet and agree to a truce with the Cartel, and to kill Claude with a booby trapped car. Maria discovers the plot and informs Claude, with the pair fleeing to Staunton Island with Yakuza co-leader Asuka Kasen, an old friend of Maria's. Asuka, looking for Claude to prove his loyalty to her, has him return to Portland and kill Salvatore after leaving Sex Club Seven.
Salvatore Leone was a very ruthless mob boss and was quick to anger. He had little tolerance for competition and often used hired goons to damage rival gangs. His relationship with his son Joey was not great since he cared more about cars and his auto shop than his father's legacy. He instead favoured Toni Cipriani, a high ranking member of his gang and trusted him more than his son. One of Salvatore's most prominent traits was his extreme paranoia, which was most likely caused by the betrayal of Carl Johnson, a formerly trusted associate. His paranoia was so great that he even pointed a gun at Toni, his most loyal friend.
- Salvatore Leone appears on posters for the film Badfellas in GTA III. This is a reference to the film Goodfellas, in which Frank Vincent appeared. The posters can be found at Sex Club Seven in the Red Light District of Portland, Liberty City.
- Salvatore's character model in GTA III is based on Don Corleone from The Godfather, albeit more foul mouthed.
- Salvatore means savior in Italian.
- Salvatore being sued for tax evasion is probably a reference to Al Capone.
- Salvatore Leone is credited first in both Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, despite not being the protagonist in either of the games.
- Internal files on Salvatore are named "Frankie" instead, most likely named after the voice actor.
- Salvatore Leone is extremely paranoid, even admitting so to Toni Cipriani during the mission Driving Mr. Leone.[5][6]
- Salvatore's relationship with Maria Latore is volatile, with the two frequently arguing, yet they stay together due to money, with Maria enjoying the luxury of purchasing items with his money. She attempts to start relationships with both Toni Cipriani and Claude, despite a lack of interest from both of them, resulting in Salvatore becoming more paranoid.
Mission appearances
- Salvatore's Called A Meeting
- Chaperone (Boss)
- Cutting the Grass (Boss)
- Bomb Da Base Act I (Boss)
- Last Requests (Boss, Betrayal)
- Sayonara Salvatore (Killed)
- GTA San Andreas
- The Introduction
- Freefall (Boss)
- Saint Mark's Bistro (Boss)
- Breaking the Bank at Caligula's (Voice)
- GTA Liberty City Stories
- Introduction
- Don in 60 Seconds
- The Offer (Boss)
- Ho Selecta! (Boss)
- Frighteners (Boss)
- Rollercoaster Ride (Boss)
- Contra-Banned (Boss)
- Salvatore's Salvation
- The Guns of Leone
- Sindacco Sabotage (Boss)
- The Trouble With Triads (Boss)
- Driving Mr. Leone (Boss)
- A Walk in the Park (Boss/Voice)
- Making Toni (Boss)
- Caught in the Act (Boss)
- Search and Rescue (Boss)
- Taking the Peace (Boss/Voice)
- Shoot the Messenger (Boss/Voice)
- Rough Justice (Boss)
- Dead Reckoning (Boss/Voice)
- Shogun Showdown (Boss/Voice)
- The Shoreside Redemption (Boss)
- The Sicilian Gambit (Boss)
Murders committed
- Mickey (has Johnny Sindacco kill him to make room for a new manager in Caligula's Palace)
- Four Forelli hitmen (has Carl "CJ" Johnson intercept and kill 4 hitmen on their way to kill Salvatore)
- Marco Forelli (the deleted name of one of Forelli Family killed when Salvatore sent Carl Johnson to kill them in Liberty City)
- Joseph Daniel O'Toole (has Mickey Hamfists execute him because he was untrustworthy for betraying his own Don)
- Mayor Roger C. Hole (has Toni Cipriani kill the mayor for trying to blame all of the constant and current crimes happening in the city on him)
- Paulie Sindacco (has Toni kill him for his possible involvement in his arrest)
- Massimo Torini (has Toni kill him to prevent the Sicilian Mafia invasion, and for trying to have them killed)
- Curly Bob (has Claude kill him for selling Leone Family secrets to the Colombian Cartel in return for SPANK)
Salvatore Leone in 1992.
Salvatore Leone in 1998.
Early model of Salvatore Leone from a Liberty Tree article, GTA III.
Salvatore and Maria at Caligula's Palace, Las Venturas, GTA San Andreas.
Salvatore Leone's son, Joey.
Salvatore Leone's elderly uncle.
Salvatore Leone whilst kidnapped by the Sindacco Family (Salvatore's Salvation mission).
Salvatore Leone's home.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Salvatore Leone: "Just a Business Man". Julius Cohen and Liberty Tree.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Salvatore Leone: "The Sindaccos and the Leones? That's impossible. That's been impossible since your associates whacked my cousin." (from The Introduction DVD)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Frank Vincent Internet Movie Database entry. Internet Movie Database.
- ↑ Maria Latore: "Listen Salvatore, thinks that we're going behind his back. So he was offering you to the Cartel, in order to make a deal. I couldn't let him do that, I mean the worst thing is... it's my fault. I told him we were an item, don't ask me why I don't know. Look you're a marked man on Mafia turf and I've got to get out of here to. I've seen too much killing. Too much blood. This is a friend of mine ok, she's an old friend... it's Asuka, she's someone we can trust." (from the Last Requests mission)
- ↑ Salvatore Leone: "Don't play dumb with me, kid. I was playing dumb when your mother was still turning tricks."
Toni Cipriani: "What's your problem?"
Salvatore Leone: "I know what you've been saying about me. You think I'm an idiot? Huh? Is that what you think?" (from the Driving Mr. Leone mission)
- ↑ Salvatore Leone: "I'm getting paranoid Toni. Really fucking paranoid. Just because I think everyone hates me doesn't mean that they don't, know what I mean? Someone is out to get me. It's that fucking mayor! He's gonna blame me for all the shit that's been going down in the neighbourhood. All of it. Not just the shit I did but all of it." (from the Driving Mr. Leone mission)


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SALISBURY | Reba Simmerson Shoaf, 90, of Salisbury, died Tuesday, March 26, 2013.
SALISBURY | Reba Simmerson Shoaf, 90, of Salisbury, died Tuesday, March 26, 2013.
Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Central United Methodist Church, 200 Fourth St., Spencer, by the Rev. Don Mason of Central United Methodist Church and the Rev. Susan Bame of Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Mocksville. Burial will be private.
The family will receive friends after the funeral, and other times the family will be at the home of Lynn Hulin.
She was born March 16, 1923, in Forsyth County to Ann Owens Simmerson and Luther Bryant Simmerson. She was educated in Davidson County Schools and graduated from Rowan Cabarrus Community College with a degree as an LPN. Mrs. Shoaf worked as a seamstress at Belk and retired from the VA Medical Center. She was a caregiver to many, loved gardening and took pride in her yard. She was a member of Central United Methodist Church and the Morning Circle.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Hollis Wade Shoaf on Aug. 16, 1962; two brothers; one sister; and son-in-law S.W. Brown Jr.
Surviving are her children, Rebecca "Becky" Brown of Mocksville, Ann Ludwig and husband J.C. of Salisbury, Nancy Thomas and husband Larry of Sanford and Lynn Hulin and husband Jim of Linwood; grandchildren Susan Hanschu and Renee Sanders (Donnie), all of Mocksville, William Ludwig (Christa) of Rockwell, David Ludwig of Matthews, Jeremy Thomas (Amy) of Sanford, Leah Thomas of Raleigh, Eric Hulin (Mary) of Smithfield and Laura Gorman (Neal) of Lexington; and great-grandchildren Wesley Ludwig, Luke Thomas, Abby Thomas, Ava Hulin, Katie Gorman, Kendall Gorman and Alston Gorman.
The family wishes to express the deepest appreciation to Joyce Swinson at the Hope House Assisted Living for her care of our mother and to Cyndi Frasier who made her last two months special.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Central United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 203, Spencer, NC 28159.
Summersett Funeral Home is serving the Shoaf family.
Online condolences may be made at www.summersettfuneralhome.com.


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Open Offer To Chris Dodd & Cary Sherman: Meet The Internet Online And In The Open
from the no-more-backroom-deals dept
So let's make a clear offer to Chris Dodd, Cary Sherman and the rest of the corporate supporters of SOPA/PIPA:
Is this of interest? Over the past few weeks I've spoken to numerous people representing a variety of different groups, and they've all expressed interest in such a meeting. So how about you? You asked for a meeting. The community is happy to meet. But we want it to be open and transparent. And we want real internet users to be able to take part.
So, let's see if you're serious.