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Ultimate guide to Chinese dumplings
Rice is nice, noodles are great, but if an online poll were to solicit votes for China's most rational national food, dumplings would come out way ahead.
Dumplings great and small enjoy unique names, traditions and areas where they're scarfed by the bucket-load.
Here's a thoughtfully chosen buffet of the most iconic dumplings China has to offer.
Shui jiao (水饺)
Shui jiao, or boiled dumpling, is a staple food, especially in northern China.
During Lunar New Year, families in the north turn into super-efficient dumpling production lines -- grandma rolls out the dumpling skin, mom mixes minced pork and vegetables for the filling, and the rest of the family pinching dumplings into crescent-like shapes.
Zealous cooks will hide a lucky coin inside a dumpling for a fortunate eater to find.
Laobian Jiaozi Guan in Shenyang has specialized in making shui jiao for more than 150 years. Fish shui jiao is the regional specialty.
Laobian Jiaozi Gun, 208 Zhong Jie Lu, across from Rose Hotel, Shenyang; +86 24 2486 5369; open daily, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
More on CNNGo: Around the world in 30 dumplings
Tang tuan or yuan xiao (汤团或元宵)
Tang tuans are round, gooey soup dumplings made by enclosing a sweet or savory filling in a glutinous rice flour ball.
Popular fillings include sesame paste, powdered peanuts and sugar for sweet tang tuan, or pork with green onion for the savory kind.
Tang tuans are eaten during the Lantern Festival, the last day of Lunar New Year celebrations. Their shape emphasizes a unified family.
The tang tuan shops in the Qibao Old Town boil some of the most traditional round dumplings.
Old Street Tang Tuan shops, 14 and 26 Qi Bao Lao Jie Nan Da Jie ; +86 21 6459 2917; open daily 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m.
More on CNNGo: 6 Shanghai dishes, 6 delicious ways to be lucky
Xiaolongbao (小笼包)
Cubes of meat aspic (gelatinized broth) and pork filling are carefully hand-pleated into thin Xiaolongbao wrappers and steamed.
Within that dumpling skin is a bomb of rich soup and a filling of tender pork, or pork with hairy crab meat and roe.
The fame of xiaolongbao is such that you can find the name slapped onto dubious menus throughout China.
Even in the city of its origin (xiaolongbao were invented in Nanxiang, a suburb of Shanghai), there are many takes.
Spend the day eating the various incarnations and find out your favorite or hit these xiaolongbao eateries that serve the best of those soupy pockets in Shanghai.
More on CNNGo: Day trip to Nanxiang: Birthplace of Shanghai's most iconic dumplings
Zheng jiao (蒸饺)
Zheng jiaos are usually filled with a combination of minced meat and vegetables, and steamed to doneness in a bamboo round to retain the fresh flavors of the ingredients.
There are many variations -- har gow is one that's gained its own celebrity.
Zheng Jiao is often more delicate than their boiled and pan-fried counterparts.
Another well-known variety comes from Shaxian in Fujian Province. They are filled with pork or beef and hand-pleated to look like little mice.
Find these specialty zhen jiao at Shaxian Xiao Chi, one of the biggest restaurant chains in China. They are everywhere, just look around the corner.
More on CNNGo: 35 Shanghai street foods we can't resist
Hun tun (馄饨)
Hun tun, aka wonton, can be served dozens of different ways.
There are two classic types: carefully folded large wonton filled with bokchoy or wild watercress and minced pork, and "xiao wonton," tiny dumplings floating in a fresh cilantro and sesame oil broth.
The Cantonese rendition features plump segments of shrimp in the filling and a side of egg noodles in the soup.
Sichuan cuisine offers chao shou -- poached wontons drizzled in toasty chili oil, pepper corns, and green onion. The best is at Chen Ma Po Sichuan Restaurant in Chengdu.
Chen Ma Po Sichuan Restaurant, Room 10-12, 10 Qinghua Lu, Chengdu; +86 028 87317216; 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; www.chenmapo.com
More on CNNGo: 10 of China's spiciest dishes
Har gow (虾饺)
Translucent har gow filled with chubby shrimp are the darlings of the dim sum cart.
For many, this pretty pink crescent is the gateway to a lifelong obsession with Chinese dumplings.
A top-notch har gow wrapping should be just thick enough to wedge between chopsticks without breakage -- never chewy or too sticky.
Dab them in red vinegar to bring out the flavors.
The best shrimp dumplings are in Guangdong Province, where they were first invented, or Hong Kong, where sub-par har gow aren't tolerated. Luk Yu Teahouse in Central serves the best.
Luk Yu Teahouse, G/F-3/F, 24 Stanley St.; open daily, 7 am-10 pm; +852 2523 5464; dim sum is available until 4 p.m.
More on CNNGo: The best Hong Kong dim sum
Sheng jian (生煎)
The image of sheng jian is often associated with the cook at a breakfast stall taking a heavy wooden lid off of a giant black pan.
Inside, there are rows and rows of sesame and green onion studded dumplings, their bottoms searing to crispness.
Sheng jian is a Shanghainese breakfast dumpling that is fried to crustiness on the bottom, steamed to perfection on top, and eaten with vinegar.
Once you bite into the soft, mantou-like skin, there's a meatball of seasoned pork and a flood of broth.
Xiao Yang Sheng Jian is one of the most popular in Shanghai.
Xiao Yang Sheng Jian, 2/F, 269 Wujiang Lu, near Taixing Lu; +86 21 61361391; open daily 7 a.m.-9 p.m.
More on CNNGo: 31 dishes: A guide to China's regional specialties
Guo tie (锅贴)
Potstickers, or guo tie, are the crusty, thicker-skinned cousins of the shui jiao.
These ingot-shaped dumplings are pan-fried for a crispy bottom and steamed to doneness on top. Each one is a two-fold texture experience.
They are usually made with a pork-based filling with bokchoy, leeks or cabbage.
Overseas Dragon is a chained restaurant specialized in potstickers. The guo ties at Shanghainese restaurant Xiao Nan Guo are juicy and are an ideal comfort food.
Overseas Dragon (Huaihai Dong Lu chain), 70 Huaihai Dong Lu, near Yunnan Nan Lu, Shanghai; open daily 6:30 a.m.-11 p.m.
Xiao Nan Guo, 4/F, 9 Donghu Lu, near Huaihai Zhong Lu, Shanghai; +86 400 820 9777; open daily 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
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Momo (馍馍)
Topping off the list of Tibetan comfort foods, momo are larger, hearty dumplings that exist somewhere between a jiao zi and a samosa.
The combinations of filling are many and always spiced. Potato and minced vegetables, and ground chicken, yak, and beef flavored with ginger, coriander and garlic are popular variations.
Momo can be round or crescent-shaped. Usually they are steamed or fried, and served with a fiery homemade chili sauce (sepen) and a bowl of soothing broth.
The real deal can be found at the Snow Deity Palace Tibetan Restaurant in Lhasa.
Snow Deity Palace Tibetan Restaurant, 4 Zanyiyuan Road, west of the Potala Palace Plaza, Lhasa; +86 891 633 7323; Monday-Saturday, 6 a.m.-11 p.m.
More on CNNGo: Momo madness: Your all-purpose guide to the versatile Himalayan dumpling
Shao mai (烧卖)
Originating from Inner Mongolia, these are money bag-shaped dumplings which gush steam from the fillings exposed on top.
In the southern Yangtze River region, the hefty shao mai are made with glutinous rice, pork, mushrooms.
There is also a smaller but visually stunning version called fei cui shao mai. Its wrappers resemble pieces of jade and are clear on top and deep green in color on the bottom.
Our favorite shao mai come from Duyichu Shaomai in Beijing, a specialty restaurant patronized by the Emperor Qianlong himself in the 1750s.
These dumplings have frilly, paper-thin flour wrappers enclosing a range of fillings that vary with the seasons.
Duyichu Shaomai, 38 Qianmen Da Jie, Beijing; +86 10 6702 1555, +86 10 6702 1671; open daily 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
More on CNNGo: Beyond the duck: 20 best Beijing restaurants
Manti (新疆薄皮包子)
Manti is the most underappreciated dumpling on this list, but the Xinjiang-style mutton dumplings are absolutely delectable and deserving of much more attention.
They are straightforward, deeply satisfying and always have that essential taste of home.
The best manti come from some road-side shack in Xinjiang but we have never tasted bad mantis from any Uyghur establishment.
Check out Tiyuguan Lu in downtown Urumqi for a variety of Muslim restaurants and roadside eateries.
Originally published July 2012, updated May 25, 2013.
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When Kosovo seceded from Serbia earlier this year, Russia opposed UN recognition of an independent Kosovar state on the grounds that it violated the sovereignty and wishes of Moscow's ally, Serbia. Moscow also warned the move opened the door for Georgia's separatist provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which rely heavily on Russia, to seek independence. Now, just weeks after NATO leaders irked Russia by signaling a willingness to expand ties with Georgia and Ukraine (AP), Moscow seems to have made its response. Much to the consternation of Georgian authorities, the Kremlin announced it might increase trade relations (WSJ) with the breakaway Abkhazis and Ossetians.
It remains unclear what will come of Moscow's overtures. The Kremlin says it wants to avoid conflict with Georgia, which has characterized Russia's intentions as "creeping annexation." Russia's parliament stands ready for more debate on how Russia should characterize South Ossetia and Abkhazia, though the Russian news agency RIA Novosti says the Russian parliament is unlikely to recognize the territories. Regardless, a top Council of Europe official has criticized Russia for entertaining the debate in the first place, adding that Russian bilateral relations with South Ossetia and Abkhazia threaten to undermine stability in the region. The potential for broader tensions was underscored following an incident in which an unmanned Georgian reconnaissance plane was shot down over Abkhazia. Georgia blames the incident on Russia (RFE/RL), though Moscow denies involvement.
The dispute spells concern for the South Caucasus, a region plagued by unresolved secessionist battles and messy politics. South Ossetia, for instance, is culturally conjoined with the North Ossetia region, across the border in geographic Russia. The region has its own language, Ossetian, though since the breakup of the Soviet Union the Georgian government has pressed for Georgian to be used and taught nationwide. Abkhazia, where most people speak Abkhaz but Russian is an official language, has its own linguistic tension. North Ossetia borders two other Russian provinces, Ingushetia and Chechnya, each of which also has its own language and has experienced violent secessionist efforts in the recent past. In nearby Azerbaijan, the province of Nagorno-Karabakh—conquered militarily by ethnic Armenians—continues to press for independence. A map published in the Economist shows the region's complex and volatile geography. Outside of the Caucasus, but still in the former Soviet sphere, a similar dynamic is at play in Trans-Dniester, a Slav-dominated region of Moldova.
Trans-Dniester and Nagorno-Karabakh are hardly household names, even among foreign policy wonks. But tensions in the region are attracting attention, as they spotlight broader challenges facing Russia as it seeks to create a cohesive foreign policy toward its post-Soviet brethren. Liz Fuller, a Caucasus expert with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, notes that the issue carries political ramifications domestically in Georgia, where President Mikheil Saakashvili won reelection last year "by the skin of his teeth." Fuller says Russia is floating a new proposal for solving frozen conflicts in its strategic sphere by suggesting joint state entities rather than applying words like "autonomous" to South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In a region frayed with border disputes, experts say, any decision that verges on setting a firm precedent will be closely watched and potentially inflammatory.

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Yesterday, the Woz event at NCSU happened. I finally got to meet Woz!!! He was really cool, and for someone who started the whole personal computer revolution, he was surprisingly keen on interacting with people, and also on the difficulties that most normal people have using their computers, too.
His speech was really good. I'll just leave it at that.
Later, at the party after his speech, he gave out to each person two two-dollar bills ripped from this tablet of two-dollar bills he had with him. The two two-dollar bills that everyone got were still stuck together along a perforated line. I had no idea how the hell he managed to get a hold of that stuff, but apparently it was real. He told some interesting stories about things he did with those bills, like folding two to look like one and then paying with it. And the trouble he got into as a result (like being interrogated by casino owners). Woz, while being a technical genius, is also a great storyteller.
I even got to show him one of the programs I'm writing. I figured that if the computer science department can show off their stuff, why the hell can't I show off mine? For the last several weeks I've been working on this piece of software that makes it easier for NCSU students to look over the course options for registering for courses. I already had the downloading and searching options written (in keeping with my "design the UI before you ever write the code" philosophy, I had done a lot of sketches of the UI beforehand). But the code for the UI hadn't yet been written. So on friday after I say "f*ck this, I'm never going to get this crap done with WxWindows" and fell back to gtk/glade. I spent from 6PM friday until 11AM saturday writing the UI and attaching it to the search code, with absolutely no sleep and way too much caffeine in my system. Sometimes I thought I should just give up and go to sleep. But I kept at it.
Anyhow, fast forward to 9PM at the after-speech party, I finally show my program to Woz just as he's about to leave. I had tested it a few times at the party, and it worked perfectly. I finally bring Woz (and the 6-8 other onlookers who followed him) to see my app in action. And it doesn't work! I was horrified. Here's the guy who invented the freaking personal computer, I show him my program, and the damn thing doesn't work! He was like "I know the feeling" and all cool about it, so I didn't feel that bad. But at the last minute, after twiddling with the search parameters, something kicked in and the window came up! Success. He thought the program was cool and shook my hand. That made my weekend. Incidentally, someone had told me that there was already a program called x-tracs that sort of did the same thing (which made me feel sheepish), but mine looked more refined (which made me feel less sheepish).
At 10PM saturday night, I finally get home, after not sleeping for around 32 hours.


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Gold, Gold Miners Catch a Bid Monday Amid Cyprus Reaction
Cyprus: What's bad for European bank stocks is good for the price of gold.
At least on Monday. The metal's spot price touched a one-month high this morning and is currently ahead by 1.1%, to $1,609.50 an ounce, as the tiny island south of Turkey struggles with an contentious plan to fund a bailout in part with seized bank deposits.
At last check, the Cypriots have delayed a debate on the bank-deposit levy until Tuesday, meaning the country will likely extend a bank holiday in hopes of heading off a run on its financial institutions.
"The news of the morning is Cyprus, and the safe-haven status is being renewed in gold," Dave Meger, director of metals trading with Vision Financial Markets, tells Dow Jones Newswires' Matt Day. Gold's gain is even bigger in euro terms, as the common currency slumps.
Read my colleague Randall Forsyth pointing out the origins of another period of market turmoil, the Asian financial crisis. The run on the Thai baht seemed less than systemic in its import at the time.
SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) is rising by 1.1%, as is iShares Gold Trust (IAU). The closed-end Sprott Physical Gold Trust (PHYS) is jumping 1.4% and Central Fund of Canada (CEF) is up by 1.2%.
Gold-mining stocks are also performing well. Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX) is ahead by 1.2% and Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is rising 1.4%.


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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:41 PM GMT on February 13, 2009
The lowest temperature ever recorded in the state of Maine, a -50°F reading taken on January 16, has been confirmed as real, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Weather Service this week. The new record occurred at 7:15 a.m. Jan. 16 at a remote river gauge in Big Black River (see USGS image at right), about four miles from the Canadian border. It ties the record set in 1933 for New England's lowest temperature, set at Bloomfield, Vermont. The old Maine record was -48°F, set in 1925 at Van Buren. All-time state records are difficult to break. The last time a state record low was set occurred January 5, 1999, when Congerville, Illinois recorded -36°F. Only one state record high temperature has been set in the past the decade--the 120°F temperature measured in Usta, South Dakota on July 15, 2006.
All-time record lows are inconsistent with global warming, right?
An impressive cold wave hit the northern and eastern portions of the U.S. January 11-18, with 17 states reporting record daily lows. In addition to the coldest temperature ever measured in Maine, one station, Waterloo, Iowa, tied its 1962 record for all-time coldest temperature, when the mercury hit -34°F on January 16. If global warming is occurring, we should not expect to see very many all-time city or state records being set. The nation's January-December average temperature has increased at a rate of 0.12°F per decade since 1895, and at a faster rate of 0.41°F per decade during the last 50 years. This 2°F rise in temperature has undoubtedly allowed more high temperature than low temperature records to be broken. However, this is a low enough amount of warming that there should still be a few cold temperature records being set, since the weather is so highly variable.
The statistics support this position. The Waterloo, Iowa mark was only the second time this decade that an all-time record cold temperature has been set at a major U.S. city. The cities I consider are the 303 cities author Chris Burt tracks in his excellent Extreme Weather book. The cites chosen were selected based primarily on their length of weather records (all the records go back to at least 1948, with most going back to the 1800s), and include all the largest cities in the U.S. The only other all-time coldest temperature record set at these cities this decade was the -44°F recorded in Grand Forks, North Dakota on 1/30/2004. By contrast, 49 all-time high temperature marks have been set this decade (Figure 1).
Perhaps a better judge of the impact of global warming on extreme temperatures, though, is to look at record warmest and coldest months. Month-long records are more reflective of the climate than an extreme event lasting just a few days. No all-time coldest month records were at any U.S. cities during January 2009, and it was not even close. Despite the cold blast of Jan. 11-18, the month of January finished out above average in temperature for the lower 48 states. So far this decade, no U.S. major city has set an all-time coldest month record. The last time a coldest month record was set occurred in January, 1994 when Caribou Maine and Bayfield, Wisconsin recorded their coldest month. By contrast, there have been 61 all-time warmest month records set in those same 303 cities between 2000 and 2008 (Figure 1). The summer of 2007 alone saw 42 all-time high (or warmest month ever) records. Just one record was set in the summer of 2008.
Figure 1. Minimum and maximum temperatures records for the U.S. for 303 major stations. The image has been updated through January 2009 to include the one record low set that month. The original version of this image was for 2007, and I modified it to update it for four changes made in the 2008 data. The numbers for the decade of the 2000s are correct, but there are four (out of 606) records that need to be subtracted off some of the earlier decades. Note the the 1930s were the most extreme decade for total number of records set, but the 1920s were the least extreme. U.S. weather has a high degree of variability from decade to decade. Image credit: Chris Burt, Extreme Weather.
Are the pattern of U.S. temperature records due to the Urban Heat Island effect?
There have been 110 all-time high temperature or all-time warmest month records set at the 303 major U.S. cities this decade, and only two such low temperature records set. Is this disparity due to global warming, or the Urban Heat Island effect? The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect occurs when development of former natural areas into pavement and buildings allows more heat to be trapped in cities, particularly at night. During the day, the UHI effect often leads to a slight cooling, since it can increase the amount of turbulence, allowing cooler air to get mixed down to the surface. For example, Moreno-Garcia (1994) found that Barcelona, Spain was 0.2°C cooler for daily maxima and 2.9°C warmer for minima than a nearby rural station.
However, temperature records are typically taken in parks and airports removed from the main heat-trapping areas of cities, and are not as strongly affected as one might expect. There are several reasons for this. One is that when tall buildings are present, they tend to block the view to the sky, meaning that not as much heat can escape upwards. In addition, the presence of moist vegetation keeps the atmosphere moister in park-like areas (which include the grassy fields near airports where temperature measurements are taken). This extra moisture helps cool the atmosphere on a local scale of tens of meters, due to latent heat effects (the energy required to convert liquid water to water vapor). Peterson (2003) found that "Contrary to generally accepted wisdom, no statistically significant impact of urbanization could be found in annual temperatures." The study used satellite-based night-light detection to identify urban areas. Recent research by Spronken-Smith and Oke (1998) concluded that there was a marked park cool island effect within the Urban Heat Island. They found that parks in typical cities in the U.S. have temperatures 1 - 2°C cooler than the surrounding city--and sometimes more than 5°C cooler. While the Urban Heat Island effect probably has contributed to some of the reduction in record low temperatures in the U.S. in the past decade, research by Parker (2004, 2006) and Peterson (2003) theorizes that Urban Heat Island effect is a factor ten or more less important than rising temperatures due to global warming.
Is the Urban Heat Island effect partially responsible for global warming?
Global warming is affecting the entire Earth, including rural areas far from cities, and the 70% of the world covered by ocean. Thus, the Urban Heat Island effect--if not corrected for--can cause only a small impact on the global temperature figures. Since the Urban Heat Island is corrected for, the impact on the observed global warming signal should be negligible. For instance, NASA uses satellite-derived night light observations to classify stations as rural and urban and corrects the urban stations so that they match the trends from the rural stations before gridding the data. Other techniques (such as correcting for population growth) have also been used. Despite these corrections, and the fact that the Urban Heat Island effect impacts only a relatively small portion of the globe, global warming skeptics have persistently used the Urban Heat Island effect to attack the validity of global warming. There are no published peer-reviewed scientific studies that support these attacks.
Parker, D.E., 2004, "Large-Scale Warming is not Urban", Nature 432, 290, doi:10.1038/432290a, 2004.
Parker, D.E., 2006, "A Demonstration that Large-Scale Warming is not Urban", J. Climate 19, pp2882-2986, 2006.
Peterson, T.C., "Assessment of urban versus rural in situ surface temperatures in the contiguous United States: No difference found", Journal of Climate, 16, 2941-2959, 2003.
Spronken-Smith, R. A., and T. R. Oke, 1998: "The thermal regime of urban parks in two cities with different summer climates. Int. J. Remote Sens., 19, 20852104.
The surface temperature record and the urban heat island, realclimate.org post, 2004.
My next post will be sometime Tue-Thu.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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I dint say she looked like any of the pics. I just said we should have a contest to determine which pic we thought was most like Stephanie. We could be dead wrong. Only Stephanie, posting her real picture is going to really let us know for sure.
I think we should also make up a bio for her:
Raised by wolves or a victim of white slavers?
Champion semi-pro lawn mower racer or White Tights Assassin?
Member of the Church of All Worlds? Deacon? Co-Founder?
Single, Divorced or living in a polyamorous relationship with seven dwarves outside El Segundo
Father was: Raoul Julia or Raoul Castro?
Mother was: a nun? an alien? Pat Benetar? Curtis LeMay's love child?
Favorite Music Group: HogScraper? Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band? Mull Historical Society?
Related to: Ben Rogers Lee? George Rogers Clark? Jamie Lee Curtis?
I think we should spend the winter deciding these issues.


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So, this post is about what COM gets right, and therefore what we need to copy from it :)
I do believe that we need to copy some things from it. COM on Windows has been a great success in terms of code sharing. When the Jabber team wanted Windows clients, Peter Millard wrote JabberCOM. There were no arguments over what language to use, what dependencies it could have, or how to expose the API - it was written in Delphi (a dialect of object pascal) exposed via COM and that's how it was used. End of story. Contrast this to the stupid and childish arguments that happen in the community over trivial matters of code style and utility libraries, and you see why while the rule of a dictator may be hated and unjust, it is at least somewhat orderly.
The current scenario on Linux where libraries are written in C then bound into other languages has a few advantages, but also a few major disadvantages.
The biggest advantage is that you do tend to end up with a reasonably sane, well integrated API that follows the idioms of the platform you're using. For instance, pygtk does not require you to make calls like CreateObject("{3a36cb61-e38a-43b3-aa0d-407e7cfb2168") in order to construct a window, you can just do "import pygtk" like every other native Python library. This can be done regardless of the design of the underlying API.
It does however have many disadvantages (obviously, or I wouldn't be saying we need something better). For starters, wrapping is an manhour intensive process. The bindings have to be created, then maintained. It has to be done over and over again for each language. Worse, this software doesn't actually do anything, it is "metasoftware", that simply helps us write other software better. The more time we spend writing this metasoftware, the less time we have for software that solves end user problems.
Perhaps one of the biggest disadvantages is that while theoretically you can bind from any platform into any other, in practice all the experience and tools is in going from C to somewhere else. It's common to find bindings for a library written in C to Python, but rare (in fact I've never heard of one) going from Python into C. They are both theoretically possible, it's just that one is unexplored territory so the conventional wisdom is that if you want to share code, it must be written in C.
Clearly this attitude is not productive. C is not an especially efficient language to work in. Higher level languages can be used to get things done a lot quicker, and while Python (and maybe in the future mono) is taking off for applications the same is not true of software components.
So what do we need in order to share software components between "platforms" (which for want of a better word is the term I'll use to mean C vs C++ vs .NET vs Python and their associated standard libraries)?
The basic requirement is a shared object model. An object model tends to consist of a) a set of agreements on how things should be done and b) some sort of "magic", by which I mean opaque implementation details. COM for instance is roughly equal parts agreements and magic - COM components must use the COM reference counting model, must implement IUnknown and so on, however they don't necessarily have to rely on the CoCreateInstance() activation registry magic. While IDL is a formalized agreement, the code that turns that agreement into code you can invoke from your chosen platform is magic.
The magic to agreements ratio of object models varies wildly. The C++ object model for instance is almost entirely based on agreements, for instance between compiler vendors on the ABI to use, and as embodied in the C++ language specification. The lack of any ABI agreements on Windows was one of the driving forces behind the uptake of COM. From the users perspective a lot of this takes place automatically, but they could if they wished format the ABI themselves (to construct vtables on the fly for instance) - it's just that nobody does it, because it's so complex.
In contrast, the Python object model is almost entirely magic. There is only one canonical implementation of the Python object model, the one produced by the Python project. Alternative implementations such as found in Psyco tend to be a little buggy. The advantage of a magic based object model is that you're not tied down by standards, and you are therefore much freer to extend or improve it. Magic is also a lot easier to work with, you can rely on quirks of the magic to get things done.
In order to share objects between platforms a common ground is needed, in other words you need a shared object model. In the case of COM, this model is very simple, it can hardly even be called an object model at all. CORBA is rather more advanced but rather more complex.
Of course COM does not just provide an object model. It also provides network transparency and thread safety to its components. I'd argue that these things are actually entirely separate issues that should not be glued onto a shared object framework simply because it's sort of possible, though there may well be a separate, clearly defined way to get these features in the context of the framework. The overheads and complications that seep into COM because of the location transparency generally aren't worth it, IMHO.
We don't have very many possibilities here, unfortunately. There are at least three different shared object models that we could use in the free software community (and that have a slight chance of being accepted). Next time I'll go over what they are, and which I personally would choose.
Perhaps in future once autopackage is up and running, I might try my hand at hacking one of them up. We'll see how it goes.


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A rooster from the beach is high on my must-do list for sure. Hopefully, it happens soon as I can't even look at one without dreaming of the day...
Good luck with the trip Loco, let me know if I can send you a demo Atlantis 1111 to bring down with you, if I have one available when you are headed south I'll gladly ship it out.
Thanks for the tip Jay, I have to check out Nick's book and pick his brain about it this weekend at the Marlboro show.
I was planning this same trip last year, but had to abort at the last minute. Everyone told me to leave the 8 at home and bring the 9 & 11 combo for panga fishing.
After much consultation with my beach guide, I was going to bring two-handers of 12' & 14' or 15' for fishing the beach. I was advised that a cast of fifty-yards would give me a much better chance of scoring a rooster from the beach. RB Meiser and his band of merry fly anglers have been using the two-handers for the beach roosters for some time now, so he would be a good resource for you.
Another might be Gary Graham who runs a shore guiding business on the East Cape I believe. I have heard that he has also been messing around with the two-handers down there.
If you had to add one rod to the arsenal for fishing the beach down there, I would urge you to consider a stout two-hander of 12-14' in length. Seeing that you are in Oregon, it shouldn't be too difficult to get your hands on some sticks to evaluate.
Nick Curcione also has a book out called, " Baja on the Fly."
|But you're comparing a bare-bones Baja trip to a fully outfitted lodge experience in the Bahamas. One can do the Bahamas and other Caribbean areas on a slim budget by going to an area that has good wading flats and staying in small motels. Many of us don't choose to go that way because we'll catch far more fish for the time we're there if we hire a guide and have access to a boat so we can fish several flats. Of course, one can do Baja the same way. In fact, considering the price of some of Cabo's hotels, it must be pretty easy to spend far more on a Baja trip. I do bonefishing from a lodge at least twice a year and spend another week fishing for permit from a lodge, and I'm only a retired schoolteacher. One doesn't have to be super rich, or even rich, one simply has to set some priorities. It sounds silly, but it's amazing how much more money we have for travel since my wife and I gave up smoking back in 1992. A lot of the people I meet at lodges are anything but rich, but they find a way to enjoy a trip or two a year by monitoring their other expenses ruthlessly.
I think we know the same steelhead junkies....,
Baja can be done fairly cheaply, if you watch how you spend your money and go with another angler, who will split the cost of the occasonal panga with you. A couple books, Baja on the Fly, Angling Baja:One Mans' journey through the surf can help get you started. A trip to the travel section at a decent bookstore or library can get you some "baja travel guides", they are pretty reliable. I have had a great time, everytime I have gone to Baja.., even with good planning the "catching" can be variable. But, that's why they call it fishing. Best part about it, is that your boss won't be able to run you down on your cell phone....,
I wound up purchasing 2 blanks for 10 weights, and *hope* to purchase a completed 11 weight from a board member sometime soon...
The real issue now is March / April seems to be a less than ideal time to hit Baja. A Bahamas alternative will cost several thousand dollars more :eyecrazy: :eyecrazy: and we don't have that kind of money. As I read more and more about the costs of bonefishing trips I have to wonder -- are all fly anglers super rich like the stereotype says? I only seem to meet the steelhead bums with ratty old pickups and patched waders..
The rods you take will depend on the type of fish you are chasing, which has alot to do with the time of the year you are in the baja. Friends and I have fished the Baja quite a bit, over the years. LaPaz/Loretto/Rancho Leanardo on the Sea of Cortez side and Cabo up through Todo Santos on the Pacific side. Sounds like you already have the 9 wt rigged up, that is a good all around general rod, especially if you are shore casting for smaller rooster fish. Most guys seem to bring 2 or 3 rods. An 11 wt is good addition to your 9, as 15 # dorado, and 8# tunas can bust a 9 wit. I have not had much luck with the bill fish, but roosterfish, dorado, tuna can be had from pangas within site of shore. I have seen 2 wahoos caught on flyrods, both guys were stretching out their lines behind the boat, while returning to port. The 13 wt landed about a 40#er. If I was taking only 2 rods the 9 and 11 would get my nod (I would try the 2 hander 11 wt from Juro). Intermediate and sinking shooting heads lines would be my choices. Dorado can be had on the surface at times, but even then a popper on an intermediate line works fine. Good Luck. DK
8 weight is fine for most beach situations. Cabo is rough, but the further north you go, starting as little as 15 miles on the sea of cortez, the easier things are. On the pacific side, it's always a crap shoot. 9 is good for the beach and a good light rod for inshore. 10 would be better as first choice in the boat for everything but the brutes, 40+ pound dorado, yellowfin, you get idea.
If you were going to build one rod I would definitely recommend a 10 wt. based on what you said you were going after. If sails and tuna are on the agenda, I would bump that up to an 11, and the 11 would still let you fully enjoy the smaller game.
If you want a good deal on a redington 10 wt, DFR instead of building give me a shout. Remember, redington is lifetime warranty for the rod, not the owner. Call first to make sure things haven't changed and they are still supporting the DFR since Sage Purchased them
I used a 10 wt most of the time (Dorado, roosterfish) but I also used an 8 occasionally when I was there a few years ago. I sometimes used a boat (panga) so I had better access. I agree that the Atlantis would be a good choice if fishing from shore (I expect mine to arrive in a few days!).
Since you are talking fishing from the beach in the carribe, I'd have to refer you to the recent adventures of Dennis Worley, pro-staffer at Kaufmann's Streamborn in Bellevue WA (east of Seattle). He recently took the Atlantis 1111 (CND's new 11ft 11/12wt two-handed surf flyrod) for a field test at Christmas Island, fishing the shoreline for trevally and other species.
He commented that for this type of fishing, the rod is "the stuff".
I agree, I've been enjoying field testing prototypes in striper country over the past year. As each revision approached the envisioned ideal, the fish have been willing participants. I feel with complete sincerity that our production model, being built as we speak, has completely arrived.
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For beach situations down there I would look seriously at Juro's Atlantic double handers.
I tried fishing from the beach in Cabo San Lucas and its very tough - mega dumper surf:eyecrazy: It get's a lot better around on the Sea of Cortez side I'm told.
That said, I reckon the powerful double hander would have brought the Pez Gallo into range even in the Cabo SL maelstrom
Depends on where you'll be fishing. 8/9 would be a lot of fun with Sierra Macherel if they are in shore range but something with a bit more backbone would be helpful on windy days.
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What is a good range of rod weights to take to Baja?
I've got salt #8 and #9 rods already. I'm willing to build 1 more, possibly 2.
I expect mostly beach fishing and some modest inshore. No bluewater. No sailfish. Tuna maybe, if they are readily available.
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St. Charles North senior Kaylee Raucci aspires to study kinesiology at Wisconsin-Whitewater beginning next school year.
She is not out to diagnose her recurring shin splints. The field simply fascinates her.
In the past few weeks, Raucci has compiled her own research on the ins and outs of human movement. It's a simple lesson, and one she hopes will boost her to a medal in the triple jump at this weekend's 3A state meet in Charleston:
Removing yourself from many events to save yourself for one recharges the battery.
"Now the shins feel good," Raucci said. "They don't hurt. So it definitely helped getting that state qualifying for this one."
In no particular order, Raucci also competed in the long jump, 300-meter hurdles, 100 and 200 during her North career, as well as running as part of the 4x100 and 4x200 relays.
Her versatility added up to competitive invitational meet scores for the North Stars, which was by design.
Once the postseason approached, however, the strategy shifted to sending Raucci downstate for the second successive spring in the best shape possible.
"We were wanting her prepared and totally focused on the triple jump," North Stars coach John Osmanski said. "Going into sectionals, we knew that was her best shot and we wanted her 100 percent focused on it, and it worked."
Raucci finished second at last week's West Aurora Sectional, clearing 35 feet, 9.75 inches – nearly four inches better than the state qualifying standard.
While North Stars freshman Hannah Schilb edged her mentor for the sectional title with a jump of 36-0.75, both athletes talk openly about a friendly rivalry.
So what if Raucci took up track as a seventh grader at Haines Middle School and Schilb is new to triple jumping this season? They're on the same team and constantly talking technique.
"She's a great supporter and she made it with me, and so we're going to go down to state together," Schilb said. "It's going to be a lot of fun, I think. It'll be a good experience for me to experience it with her."
Raucci registered a state preliminary jump of 35-0.25 as a junior. The 12th and final athlete to advance to the Saturday finals cleared 36-10.
Rested and conditioned from a recent slate of low-impact workouts – including elliptical training and biking – Raucci is eager to make a healthy move up the standings.
Considering the absence of shin pain, which had been nagging her since the end of indoor season, she likes her chances.
Wisconsin-Whitewater coach Mike Johnson has targeted Raucci as a decathlete next season, bringing a return to busier days for the NCAA Division III Warhawks.
"We'll see how that goes," Raucci said. "He said if I'm pretty strong in one thing and not so strong in one that it will compensate for it, so that will be pretty good."
For now, though, she only has tunnel vision for the triple jump pit.
"I actually have a goal in mind. I've been there before, I know," Raucci said. "So it's like I'll just see what I can do now. Hopefully it'll be better than [last season]."
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BATAVIA Skylar Schoen, pole vault Amy Gladis, pole vault 4x800-meter relayGENEVA Kathryn Adelman, 800 McKenzie Altmayer, 1,600 Jenna Ginsberg, pole vaultST. CHARLES EAST Lauren Towne, 200 Torree Scull, 800 Corrin Adams, 800 Jordan Shead, 400 Britney Williams, 400 Maddie Westerhoff, 1,600 Gabrielle Pearce, pole vault Allison Chmelik, triple jump Amanda Passaglia, shot put 4x100 4x200 4x400 4x800ST. CHARLES NORTH Ashley England, 3,200 Hannah Schilb, triple jump Kaylee Raucci, triple jump 4x800ROSARY 4x800CLASS 2AKANELAND Victoria Clinton, 1,600 Brianna Bower, 3,200 Lauren Zick, long jump Christina Delach, pole vault Ashley Castellanos, triple jump 4x800 4x800BURLINGTON CENTRAL Kayla Wolf, 800 Jasmine Castillo, 300 hurdles Katie Trupp, pole vault, high jump Natalie Overstreet, pole vault 4x800AURORA CENTRAL CATHOLIC Lisa Rodriguez, 100, 200 Karina Liz, 400, 800 Jenna Koerner, 1,600 4x400 4X800ST. FRANCIS Megan McShea, 3,200 Amanda Nunley, 100 hurdlesCLASS 1A
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If you know me, you probably know I once wrote a web browser using the gtkhtml widget for rendering pages, called Encompass. Well, after many years of not touching that code at all, I've decided it's time to bring it back from the dead. Web security has been an ever-growing issue over the past few years, and browsers haven't really done anything to improve it. Rather, they seem to only rapidly add very resource heavey features, and only deal with minor security flaws in their own code. Nor have any really sought to make drastic leaps in usability. Most all the UI differences across browsers is all for the sake of being different from the others. Why is it so hard to find a secure and usable browser, that integrates into the system?
Well, that's exactly what the new Encompass will do. Sadly, the gtkhtml engines have fallen drastically behind, and aren't up to the task of dealing with the modern era web. So I will unfortunately be required to use the webkit engine, as I am not interested in building a new rendering engine right now. Hopefully I will be able to build the browser how I want to, without having to make many changes to webkit itself; though I suspect some will be required. And hopefully it won't take too long to get a working version, as I am rewriting in Vala, to speed things up and simplify the code.


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Bowen, who served as president of Princeton from 1972 to 1988 and is now president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will discuss the book he co-wrote by the same title published this year by Princeton University Press.
In "Reclaiming the Game," Bowen and Sarah Levin analyze the backgrounds, academic qualifications and college outcomes of athletes and their classmates at 33 academically selective colleges and universities that do not offer athletic scholarships. They argue that the divide between academics and athletics on elite college campuses has widened considerably over the last 40 years, and call for a realignment of college sports with core educational values.
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general advice on firebellied newts
My birthday is in a few months and since I saw a firebellied newt in my local pet store I have not thought about much else. I would be starting from scratch and was looking to see if anyone has kept them before and can advise on anything from tank size, feeding, and general ease of keeping. Thanks :)My therapist says I need a bigger tank . . . . .
I've kept them, though I was just a tadpole at the time, it's been a while.
20 gal is minimum tank size, if hopefully you will get a few, 3-4 minimum for their social well being. They're mostly aquatic but also need land to bask on. The bigger the tank the less likelihood of toxins building up. I've recently learned that a "Breeder" tank is more footprint with less height, perfect for these guys. Not sure if they make a 20 gal breeder, but if so that would be your best minimum size IMO!
You can slope gravel from the aquatic area to make a dry area. Use gravel large enough that they don't swallow it when feeding. I would decorate the land area with bark pieces, smooth rocks and maybe some moss (I got mine locally and put a little yogurt on it to get it to take off on a rock)
You can also, or in addition, do a floating island of bark or some other creating in the water for the dry area.
Live plants are always best, if you have enough lighting. Fake plants are better than none, but newts have really thin, sensitive skin so silk plants are best if you must go with fake.
A moss ball, semi-aquatic plants and a few floating plants would be cool.
Make sure your filter doesn't have too strong a current, maybe air powered or internal powered would be good and keep it (or the output) in the corner or in one section so there are some calm areas too.
Temps in the 68-70 are best, they can get diseases at higher temps. Depending on your climate, you may want to consider where your tank will be so they don't get too hot or cold.
You'll need to do a water change weekly of about 1/3 of the water, just like an aquarium only it is a little harder to clean the dry area because of the siphon factor. Smaller tanks, more newts = bigger water change. The aquarium style gravel vacuum will work well, just be more careful to not lose your siphon. (A proper water changer hooked up to the faucet will save you some grief, I didn't know about them/they didn't exist when I kept newts.) Of course use a de-chlorinator as with aquariums.
I think I kept my light on 12 hours, off 12 hours, but it's depending on how much natural light they get. I think they're from China (check the latitude for light requirements?) and sometimes get confused with a Japanese species. I also vaguely recall that the have a mildly toxic emission from their skin, which is fine since we shouldn't be touching them anyway. They're amphibians, so SUPER sensitive to our worldly toxins.
I remember my mom making my wash my hands every time I cleaned their house. Now I would make sure I wash my hands with clear water BEFORE i get near them!
Feeding them can be tricky depending on your particular newts, frozen or live bloodworms are your best bet, also chopped up earthworms, brine shrimp and some commercially available foods are what I remember (grossing my sister out with!)
You can feed them every 2-3 days as I recall. You'll have to get to know your own and monitor their growth and body condition.
If you're maybe overfeeding while you're figuring it out, make sure to clean more to make up for it, as again, they're really sensitive to toxins.
As to the ease of keeping, I would say they're about the same as a freshwater aquarium, not rocket science but if you're not committed to their needs, you'll have a tragedy on your hands soon.
Keeping them involves weekly water changes, feeding every 2-3 days, daily monitoring of temperature, and however much time you want to put in enjoying them.
It will be more work in the beginning of course while you figure out location, temperature, ideal feeding schedule, getting to know them.
They're really cute, enjoy! If you can, buy from a breeder that is somewhat local, they are often imported and many die in transit from the trauma. Not very nice.
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Two pea puffers in another tank!
Hey waterfroggy, thats the most impressive reply ive ever had! really appreciate you taking the time to write that up! I will do more reading, the only problem is i dont know if I would have the room for a 20 gallon, if I were to get a ten gallon would two newts be a possibillity? Thanks again!My therapist says I need a bigger tank . . . . .
I know this threads a few months old but was searching for Firebellies and this thread popped up. Im thinking about adding a dry area to my Riparium and getting a couple, did you ever end up getting them? From what i've been reading 2 in a 10 is doable.
Not yet, still trying to convince the parents that we need a 10g with newts I mean we've 'only' already got a 48g,42g 3foot vivariumMy therapist says I need a bigger tank . . . . .
I have a feeling we will get some of these when my daughter gets a little older. She really loved them at the pet store.


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JT, you have a nice sense of what good articulation is, and I like how you describe a joint's design. Here's your old Downshift review for reference:
I'd love it if Hasbro just knocked out the powerlinx section of the torso and replaced it with a more normal pelvis, then released him under the Classics line. Doesn't seem like it'd be too hard.
While I'm wishing, does anyone think Hasbro would ever consider putting out the Botcon '05 versions of Ironhide and Ratchet (Tow Line repaints) under the Classics line, or would that peeve the folks who get all wet over owning rare exclusives? They look pretty sweet, and they totally have a Classics look to them. I'd buy 'em.


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Description ADULT Has mainly dark brown plumage, with paler margins to feathers on back, and golden-brown feathers on head and neck. Tail is dark-tipped and barred but, in flight and against the sky, it can look uniformly dark. JUVENILE Similar to adult but note striking white patches at base of outer flight feathers; tail is white with a broad, dark tip. SUBADULT Gradually loses white elements of juvenile plumage by successive molts over several years.
Dimensions Length: 30-41" (76-104 cm); Wngspn: 6' 6" (2 m)
Habitat Favors mountains and hilly terrain, typically soaring over hilltops and hunting over bare slopes and open plains; often at lower altitudes in winter. Widespread summer visitor (mainly May-Sep) to northern Canada; winters across much of central North America. Be advised, however, that most sightings will involve rather distant views of soaring individuals or birds patrolling ridges, riding the updrafts.
Range Northwest, California, Plains, Western Canada, New England, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Alaska, Texas, Eastern Canada, Florida, Southwest
Voice Mainly silent.
Discussion A large and majestic raptor. Seen distantly, it could be confused with certain soaring Buteo raptors. However, even in silhouette, a closer view reveals Golden Eagle's proportionately long wings (which narrow towards base) and relatively long tail. An active predator, it catches live prey typically the size of hares and ptarmigan; also feeds on carrion, especially in winter. Sexes are similar but adults, juveniles, and immature subadults are separable with care.


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There aren't many fighters in the UFC that a Kickboxing fan can look at anymore and say, "yeah, that is my guy right there." The same can be said for fans of Japanese MMA or even non-Zuffa MMA and Alistair Overeem embodies all of those things right now. In a way, I look at Alistair Overeem as the last true hero in MMA, something that I know a lot of people might not agree with, but he is. Sure, talk about horse meat, steroids, backne and whatever else all you want, but at the end of the day, Alistair Overeem is a monster -- a talented one at that -- and he could do amazing things in the UFC. If he does is still yet-to-be-seen, but his camera crew is still following him and we're still supporting him.
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Only 480 meters from the beautiful beaches of "La Torre" and not far from the beach of "Sa Marina" there is a beautiful newly built housing structure. In the structure are placed five apartments of different sizes and number of beds to meet the needs of all our guests. The structure is in "Torre di Barì" locality, a fraction of Bari Sardo where , thanks to the size of the beaches and pine trees, you can enjoy the sea in peace and at the same time benefit from the numerous facilities for bathing and tourist services available.
Practical apartment developed on a single layer ground floor, fully furnished and finished with care. The accommodation has two verandas, one of those covered, with table and chairs for external use, and consists of: a living room with kitchen and double sofa bed (most suitable for kids and children), double bedroom (with two single beds which can be pushed together to create a double bed), a large bathroom and double entrance.
Facilities: fully equipped kitchen, crockery, oven, refrigerator with freezer, washing machine, lcd TV with digital decoder, iron, common space for barbecues, two outdoor showers, parking lot.
Barì is the old name for Bari Sardo. This last name was given around 1840, but even now, for the townsfolk and the inhabitants of Ogliastra, it is known as Barì. Inhabited by around 4,000 people, the town borders Tortolì to the north, Ilbono, Loceri and Lanusei to the west, and Cardedu to the south. With an economy still linked to agriculture and sheep-farming, life in Bari, rich in fascinating, old traditions, is still governed by the rhythm of a not-so-distant past.
Its privileged geographic position in the heart of Ogliastra means that whoever plans a holiday there can easily reach all the principal places of interest within the province itself; Bari Sardo is in fact an ideal starting point for a journey of discovery into the beauty of the nature and culture that Ogliastra is rich in. Its enchanting territory is still largely uncontaminated and, with its nature, coloursand scents so typical of the Mediterranean brush, gives the visitor a chance to experience one of the most fascinating corners of Ogliastra.
The coastline which extends for around 10 kilometres is made up of long, welcoming sandy beaches interrupted only by rocks will satisfy the desires of all sea lovers.
The apartment is close to the beach of Torre di Barì, the best-loved and most visited, enjoying the sunshine right up to dusk and inserted into a splendid backdrop. Several kilometres long and 100m wide, it is divided into two parts by the famous Spanish tower which stands on a small granite hill overlooking the sea. The part to the north of the tower is called Mari de is ominis (Sea of Men) and to the south isMari de is femunas(Sea of Women), names that date from the period in which the two beaches where frequented separately by men and women. The beach to the north of the tower stretches to the steppes of the basalt highland plain of Teccu, taking on different names the further north it goes: Mari de is ominis, Il Fico, Bucca e Strumpu. is formed by a beach of a light ochre-coloured sand and is sheltered by a large, cool pine grove. The part to the south of the tower, with beach of fine sand and small grey pebbles, reaches up to a large rock face which separates it from the beach of sa Marina.
HusreglerIn the town of Bari Sardo is made the collection of waste, therefore requires that the client follows the rules and guidelines provided at the entrance to the apartment. It also requires that the apartment is treated with care and that is returned free of garbage, empty the refrigerator and the stove clean. Rent bed linen and towels € 15,00 a person, cot € 30,00.
We only accept small pets.
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We have spent a wonderful week in Simones apartment no. 1 in Torrre di Bari. The flat is very clean and calm, the big terrace offers sun and shadow, the way to the beach is not far. The only thing we missed was a mosquito repellent at the windows.We enjoyed the beautiful beach and the pretty, varied surroundings. Simone is very helpful. He consulted our interests and suggested many activities we could enjoy by bicycle and on walking tours, visiting a festival and so on. In case something was missing or broken in the flat he cared about it. We can fully recommend to make holidays in Torre di Bari and would like to come back again. Hans and Marlies from Germany, June 2016
Simone war ein sehr netter Gastgeber, hat uns viel beraten und uns über den Ort Bari Sardo und Umgebung viel erzählt und beraten.
Er war immer erreichbar wenn man Hilfe brauchte.
Die Unterkunft war sehr sauber und es war sehr ruhig, der Aufenthalt in Bari Sardo ist sehr zu empfehlen.
Vielen Dank Simone für alles, wir würden sehr gerne wiederkommen.
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Unser Aufenthalt in Torre die Bari war sehr positiv. Vor allem der herzliche Empfang sowie die Betreuung durch Simone, unseren Gastgeber, war genau so wie wir uns das gewünscht haben. Was wir im Appartement noch vermissten, wurde sofort am nächsten Tag geliefert. Simone hat gute Tipps für Ausflüge gegeben und war überaus freundlich und herzlich. Wir würden sofort wieder bei ihm wohnen wollen.
Wir haben eine tolle Zeit auf der Insel verbracht und der Aufenthalt in der Ferienwohnung hat uns sehr gut gefallen.
Simone war super nett, also perfekt. Er hat uns sehr viele Tipps gegeben.
Vielen Dank noch einmal.
Wir kommen gerne wieder!
Simone ist super nett und engagiert um Tipps über die Region, lohnenswerte Ziele und Restaurants zu geben. Er nimmt sich Zeit für die Gäste und ist jederzeit ansprechbar.
Simone als Gastgeber ist sehr zu empfehlen, er nimmt sich Zeit um alles erklären und um sehr brauchbare Tipps für den Aufenthalt zu geben.
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This is also part of that project!
This is another quilt project I am currently working on!!!!(more later!)
Your applique' is beautiful...can't wait to see the whole project!
I agree with Sherri...I want to see the whole project! :o)
What a great bit of information. I don't do any REAL applique, but the stuff I have done, I use wonder under and I LOVE it! I'll have to try the freezer paper method though!
I'm just learning more about the freezer paper technique. I'll have to try your way and see how it works for me.
So what happens after you use the glue stick? I missed the part where the paper comes off. When doesn the paper come off? I only do the fusible applique but a looking to learn something new! Thanks for the great info!
Thanks for the little tutorial...I've never tried needle-turn applique successfully, but I'll give it another go soon using your method. :-) Love the things you're working on, Sheri!
What great info.! This is the kind of stuff that us newer quilters love to hear. We love knowing all your sewing secrets!
Thanks for the info., and I can't wait to see what your book has!
Hmmm... I want to see the whole thing! Thanks for the mini tutorials. I want to teach myself the freezer paper and needle turn methods. I'll have to find a pattern to practice with.
Thanks for the great info!! Your applique is stunning!
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Freshly educated, we went to the Islamic Art Museum and saw in detail pieces of art related to the religion, as well as tools and clothing that have a bearing on Islam. There was in addition, an exhibition dedicated to Mecca and the pilgrimages made by Muslims, including journals on personal experiences and pictures to document it. Fascinating, although we think we snuck in unintentionally
Next stop was the planetarium, (we definitely paid for this) where we learnt about space travel both across the world and more specifically, the Malaysians progression over the years. WE finished the day visiting the Hibiscus gardens of Kuala Lumpur, enjoying the tranquil pathways and orchid gardens that seem a million miles away from the busy city, when in fact it is merely a couple of hundred metres from there.
While in KL, we took a day to explore the Sacred Batu Caves, containing temples and walkways steeped in Hindu religion. You are greeted by an enormous gold statue of Lord Murugan, who guards the 272 steps that you ascend to enter the caves. We were somewhat distracted at the top of the cave where the main temple was overrun by families of monkeys. Needless to say the majority of my photos were of these rather than the sights themselves!
Our last day gave us the chance to revisit the Petronas Towers, and this time gain entrance to the walkway that is suspended between Tower 1 and Tower 2, between the 41st & 42nd Floors, where we were able to enjoy fantastic panoramic views of the city. Incidentally the towers are 238 x the height of Drew Pearce, according to the computer on the tour! One other question for those of you who have been there; did you see the point in the 3-D glasses for the video beforehand?!
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Typical structure of a peeling – ballooning mode in the DIII-D tokamak, calculated by the MHD stability code ELITE.
A theoretical model, without any fitting parameters, has been developed which can predict the height and width of the pedestal region in tokamak plasmas. The pedestal is an insulating transport barrier in the outer few percent of the confined plasma which acts much like the wall of a thermos bottle separating the very hot plasma core from the cooler edge plasma and the material surfaces.
The physics of the pedestal region is highly important for two primary reasons: (1) predicted fusion performance scales roughly with the square of the pedestal pressure (or "pedestal height"), and hence a high pedestal is required for copious fusion energy production in ITER or a fusion power plant, and (2) the large free energy in the pedestal region can drive instabilities called Edge Localized Modes (ELMs), which eject bursts of heat and particles onto material surfaces, and can cause significant material erosion in reactor – scale devices.
High fusion performance ("H –mode") in tokamaks is achieved via the spontaneous formation of an insulating transport barrier in the outer few percent of the confined plasma. This insulating layer is relatively thin, and is referred to as the "pedestal" because it provides an abrupt step up in the temperature and density profiles. In addition, the large free energy in the pedestal region can drive instabilities called Edge Localized Modes (ELMs), which eject bursts of heat and particles onto material surfaces. FES-supported research at General Atomics has resulted in a theoretical and computational model, known as the EPED model, based on fundamental physics constraints and without any fitting parameters which can predict the height and width of the pedestal. The instabilities responsible for ELMs are known as peeling- ballooning (PB) modes, as they balloon outward and peel off part of the insulating layer of plasma. The onset of PB modes provides a constraint on the height of the pedestal as a function of its width. An additional smaller–scale instability, the kinetic ballooning mode (KBM), constrains the pressure gradient within the insulating layer by driving heat and particle transport across it. Combining the two constraints yields the EPED model, which predicts both the height and the width of pedestal.
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P.B. Snyder, R.J. Groebner, J.W. Hughes, et al., "A first-principles predictive model of the pedestal height and width: development, testing and ITER optimization with the EPED model," Nucl. Fusion 51 103016 (2011).


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By Lloyd Gray
That passage of charter school legislation in 2013 is the No. 1 priority of legislative leaders in both the Senate and House has been clear for a while.
Now make that crystal clear.
House Speaker Philip Gunn recently removed an anti-charter school member from the Education Committee and replaced her with a charter advocate. A charter school bill lost by one vote in the committee in the 2012 session.
Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, Senate Education Chair Gray Tollison of Oxford and Vice Chair Nancy Collins of Tupelo, will visit the KIPP charter school in Helena, Ark., on Tuesday, accompanied by media. The school has had some impressive successes in a poor community with otherwise struggling public schools and has become the poster child for charter school supporters.
Then later this month, House and Senate education committees will meet jointly for a full day devoted to charter school legislation.
The fervor to get something passed and link Mississippi with the 41 other states allowing charter schools has gotten Gunn, at least, to sounding like a man who is open to compromise. The charter bill bogged down in the House committee this year with opposition from some Republican lawmakers who didn't want charters to disrupt the well-functioning schools in their counties.
In a recent interview with the Daily Journal's Bobby Harrison, Gunn doesn't commit to legislation that would allow charters in only D and F-rated school districts, but he seems open to it. A major sticking point has been whether local school boards in C-rated districts – "successful" under the old parlance – ought to have veto power over charters.
The House speaker also seems flexible on whether the state Board of Education or a newly created body should be the authorizing agency for charter schools. Charter proponents have argued that the existing state board would be too protective of the status quo.
Gunn, Reeves, Tollison and others are also more vocal these days in attempting to assure skeptics that the charter school bill won't allow public funds to go to religiously based or nonsectarian private schools.
When you get down to it, this is the biggest fear of charter school opponents – that they are somehow a ruse to funnel public money to private schools or to resegregate public schools. In a state where school integration was fiercely resisted, and where private schools sprang up for the sole purpose of maintaining segregation, it's not an irrational concern.
The safeguards in the bill against such uses of public funds for charter schools will be critical. So, too, will protections against fly-by-night operations with no record of success.
Charter schools are hardly uniformly successful. The National Association of Charter School Authorizers last week called on states to crack down on poor-performing charters. Some 900 to 1,300 charter schools across the country are in the bottom 15 percent of their state academic rankings, NACSA reported.
So just because it's a charter school doesn't guarantee it will be a good or even mediocre school. Mississippi's law has to ensure that organizations with poor records or no records don't get a foothold in the state.
Charter schools aren't the be-all and end-all of educational improvement. But if done right, they can be one element that improves opportunities for children trapped in low-performing schools.
If Mississippi's charter school advocates can craft a bill that recognizes the risks as well as the potential rewards of charter schools, and that hears the concerns of people who aren't simply knee-jerk protectors of the status quo, they'll stand a much better chance of achieving their goal.
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It hit about 40 today but it was VERY windy.
Yay! A California "winter" day! Cloudy, windy, (promise of rain and snow at the 3000' level in the mountains), and a brisk 45ºF right now. We are desperate for rain and snow, so I hope it happens. The cool temps are welcomed, too. The dog days of summer aren't that far off and it's a nice break.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
It's supposed to rain today, I was looking forward to opening my blinds and eating breakfast facing the rain, but alas, nothing yet. It's gone from cloudy to sunny and back, and about mid 50s temp. I'd like to see some rain during the daytime, I'm in the mood for it, but I suspect it's going to hold out.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Been raining here for about two hours, JT. The rain should be on its way! Also, I-5 is closed between you and me. Yay! Snow!
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
'round here people think we will be getting Snowppocaoypse on Tuesday/Wednesday. Depending on where you get your weather info from we could be getting as little as 1 inch or as much as 10 inches of snow. Way to nail it down boys!
Looks like we're getting some snow tomorrow...thankfully I'll be at work all day, but just hoping for an easy ride home tomorrow night!
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
We had 69 and sunny yesterday. It's about 48 and grey today. So far.
A warming trend for this weekend (expected to reach 80s), but breezy. Watch out for those open fires, outdoors people!
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
The weather forcasters were saying we'd get between 4-7 inches of snow between last night/this morning, we maybe got 4 (wet and heavy) inches. Right now its about 35 and everything is melting.
Yesterday: 80ºF, clear, sunny.
Today: 50ºF, cloudy, w-i-n-d-y!
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Chevron may seek environmental law exemption
RICHMOND, Calif.—Oil giant Chevron may be seeking California environmental law exemptions for its Richmond refinery rebuilding project.
The San Jose Mercury News is reporting Wednesday that Chevron lobbyists in Sacramento have been quietly trying to craft a deal to give the petroleum company an exemption from rules on environmental studies of major projects.
Chevron has been trying to rebuild and upgrade its Contra Costa County refinery for five years. But environmentalist sued, saying Chevron was concealing plans to process highly polluting heavier grades of crude oil.
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Acute Coronary Syndrome
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a term that describes symptoms related to poor blood flow to the heart muscle that lead to a heart attack. This results in chest pain or angina pectoris. ACS is a very serious, life-threatening condition. If you think you have ACS seek immediate medical treatment.
ACS is caused by a sudden blockage of the coronary arteries. These blood vessels carry blood to the heart muscle. The blood flow to the heart muscle is either greatly reduced or completely blocked. This leads to heart muscle damage or death from a heart attack.
The narrowing most often happens from years of plaque build-up in an artery. This is called
atherosclerosis. Blood clots may often cause of the narrowing arteries.
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Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a term that describes symptoms related to poor blood flow to the heart muscle that lead to a heart attack. This results in chest pain or
pectoris. ACS is a very serious, life-threatening condition. If you think you have ACS seek immediate medical treatment.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. If you suspect ACS, call an ambulance. At the hospital, tests may include the following:
- Electrocardiogram
(ECG or EKG)
- Nuclear heart scan—radioactive tracers outline heart chambers and major blood vessels leading to and from the heart
- Cardiac catheterization
—can determine pressure and blood flow in the heart's chambers, collect blood samples from the heart, and examine the arteries of the heart by x-ray
Blood tests to measure different enzymes that are released when cells in the heart muscle die, including:
- Troponin test
- considered the most accurate test
- can determine if a heart attack has occurred and how much new damage was done to the heart
- CK or CK-MB test—measures creatine kinase (CK) in the blood
- Myoglobin test—checks for the presence of myoglobin in the blood
- Troponin test
Your doctor may need detailed pictures of your heart. These can be made with:
- Coronary angiography
—produces images of blood flow through the heart to will show where there are blockages are
- Echocardiogram
—to create a moving picture of your heart
- Chest x-ray
—images of the inside of the chest to assess heart size and show lung congestion and the presence of pneumonia
- Coronary angiography
- Electrocardiogram
To help reduce your chances of getting ACS, take the same heart-healthy lifestyle steps used to prevent other forms of coronary artery disease such as:
- Eating a well-balanced diet that is low in saturated fats. The diet should also be rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
- Exercising regularly.
If you smoke,
- Manage your diabetes,
blood pressure, and
cholesterol. This can include lifestyle changes and medication.
Risk Factors
Risk factors that increase your chances of developing acute coronary syndrome include:
- A family history of heart disease
- You are a man over 45 years old or a woman over 55 years old
Being overweight or
- Smoking
- High cholesterol
, especially high LDL ("bad") cholesterol, high triglycerides, and low HDL ("good") cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- Diabetes
- Being sedentary
- Having angina, a previous heart attack, or other types of coronary artery disease
ACS is very serious. It requires immediate medical treatment. Contact your doctor if you experience any of these symptoms:
- Angina
- chest pain, pressure, tightness, burning, or other discomfort that may last a few minutes, go away, and then come back
- often occurs after physical exertion, emotional stress, or eating a large meal
- Unstable angina
- often occurs at rest, while sleeping, or with very little exertion
- can last 30 minutes or longer
- Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, shoulders, the back, the neck, jaw, or stomach
- Shortness of breath that accompanies chest pain can occurs before it starts
- Feeling light-headed or dizzy
- Nausea and vomiting
- Sweating
- Angina
If you are having a heart attack, doctors will:
- Work quickly to restore blood flow to the heart
- Closely monitor vital signs to detect and treat complications
To restore blood flow, the main treatments are:
- Aspirin
are given to all patients suspected of having acute coronary syndrome.
Anti-ischemic drugs, such as
are used to help relieve chest pain.
- Beta blockers are given to slow the heart rate so it does not use too much energy.
Thrombolytic drugs are used to dissolve blood clots. When given soon after a heart attack begins, these drugs can limit or prevent permanent damage to the heart. To be most effective, they need to be given within one hour after the start of heart attack symptoms. Some thrombolytic drugs are:
- Streptomycin
Platelet inhibitors keep the blockage from getting worse:
- Eptifibatide
- Tirofiban
- Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonist
- Angioplasty
—a catheter is inserted into a blocked artery. A balloon is inflated and deflated. This will allow blood to flow again. A stent may be placed.
- Coronary artery bypass surgery
—arteries or veins are taken from other areas in your body. They are used to bypass the blocked arteries in your heart.
- Oxygen is given to all patients.
Treating ACS with
and revascularization (restoring blood flow to the heart) may reduce the rate of being hospitalized again. But, the surgery may not reduce the rate of death or heart attack.