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- NAME: Agnieszka Radwanska
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- BIRTH DATE: March 06, 1989 (Age: 25)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Krakow, Poland
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World-ranked tennis pro Agnieszka Radwanska became the first Polish player in history to receive a WTA tour singles title—at the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Sweden.
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Agnieszka Radwanska was born on March 6, 1989 in Krakow, Poland. In 2006, she won the junior French Open title, and went on to compete at Wimbledon the same year, losing in the fourth round to Belgian player Kim Clijsters. In 2007, Radwanska became the first Polish player in history to receive a WTA tour singles title, winning at the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Sweden. By 2012,
Radwanska had become a 10-time WTA singles titleist. She also made it to the 2012 Wimbledon finals, but was beaten in three sets by American tennis star Serena Williams.
Early Life
Born on March 6, 1989 in Krakow, Poland, Agnieszka Radwanska began playing tennis at the age of 4. With Pete Sampras and Martina Hingis as her noted inspirations, she became a professional tennis player in her early teens. She first turned heads in 2005, with an impressive performance in the Wimbledon junior singles. Radwanska won the title, defeating opponent Tamira Paszek, and went on to win the junior French Open title the following year.
Tennis Career
In 2006, Radwanska competed again at Wimbledon, but lost in the fourth round to Belgian player Kim Clijsters. The following year, she defeated Martina Hingis in a three-set third-round match at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open, but lost in the fourth round to Tathiana Garbin. Also in 2007, Radwanska became the first Polish player in history to win a WTA tour singles title—an accolade that she won at the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Sweden. After competing at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Radwanska won two more WTA singles title at the Pattaya Women's Open in Thailand and the Istanbul Cup—both in 2008. By 2012, she had become a 10-time WTA singles titleist.
After some tough losses in 2010, Radwanska made it to the fourth round of the 2011 French Open, but lost to longtime competitor Maria Sharapova. She earned her first victory since 2008 at the 2011 Mercury Insurance Open, defeating rival Vera Zvonareva in straight sets. At the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open, Radwanska finally beat Maria Sharapova in the championship match. In 2012, she took the world No. 3 ranking from Czech rival Petra Kvitova.
Radwanska made it to the 2012 Wimbledon finals, but was beaten in three sets by American tennis star Serena Williams—Williams's fifth Wimbledon singles title.
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The Chemistry Industry Association of Canada is the voice of Canada's chemistry industry. We represent the interests of Canada's leading chemistry companies – from petrochemical, inorganic and specialty chemical producers, to bio-based manufacturers and chemistry-related technology and R&D companies.
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Canada's chemistry industry welcomes trade agreement with South Korea
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The Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC) congratulates the federal government on its announcement today of securing a free trade agreement with South Korea. As a $49-billion sector that relies heavily on exports, Canada's chemistry industry supports any efforts to eliminate global import tariffs on chemicals.
Right now, Canada faces an incredible opportunity to grow and diversify its economy.
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Conyers, Crime Stoppers offer increased reward in armed robbery case
The City of Conyers and Crime Stoppers are now offering up to a $7,000 reward for any information that leads to the indictment of the armed robbery suspects who targeted Omnicare on Jan. 20, 2014.
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Forum on human trafficking planned for Lithonia
The event is scheduled for 9 a.m. on March 15 at the Lou Walker Senior Center on Panola Road in Lithonia.
Entrepreneurial Women's Conference set for Saturday
The event is being hosted by the DeKalb Rockdale Employers Committee, Entrepreneurs Notebook and the Greater Lithonia Chamber of Commerce.
"Battlefield 4 With Mickey D's" by Temme Barkin-Leeds is part of the exhibition at Callanwolde.
Former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland will be the special guest at the opening night reception for the exhibition "Interference: Reactions to Shooter Video Games" on March 14 at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.
Doreen Carter qualifies to run for Secretary of State
Today, March 7, marked the fifth and final day of qualifying for the May 20 federal, state and local elections.
Korea Children's Choir Dazzles
The FEBC Korea Children's Choir mesmerized the audience at a free concert on March 6 at the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center in Decatur.
Principal arrested in GBI child sex sting
An elementary school principal is among 14 people the Georgia Bureau of Investigations arrested in a sting operation targeting suspected child predators.
State Rep. Dee Dawkins Haigler of Lithonia and Rep. Tyrone Brooks of Atlanta co-sponsored House Bill 97 to raise Georgia's minimum wage from $5.15 to a yet-to-be-determined higher rate.
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U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson addresses the crowd on Feb. 22 in Lithonia as he launches his re-election bid for a fifth term of office in the 4th Congressional District.
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Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson announced he'll seek a fifth term, according to a press release issued by his office.
Cops: Suspect charged after opening fire on group, injuring two outside club
Two people were shot when a man opened fire on a group of people in the parking lot of a club in DeKalb County late Sunday night.
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Chief Municipal Judge Melvin Johnson has been terminated by the city of Lithonia after learning he was not certified to preside over the city's cases.
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U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson is kicking off his re-election bid on Feb. 22 with the grand opening of his campaign headquarters in Lithonia.
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From the office of Congressman Hank Johnson : On Saturday, Feb. 22 at 11 a.m., Congressman Hank Johnson is holding the grand opening of his re-election campaign office in Lithonia.
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A traffic stop on Interstate 20 resulted in a McDuffie County deputy prohibiting a $135,000 street value of marijuana from hitting the streets.
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DeKalb Sheriff Stepping Down for U.S. Congressional Bid
DeKalb County Sheriff Thomas Brown, who announced last fall that he is planning a congressional run, will step down from his post early next month.
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"Once I have made my way to the powder room, I disrobe and climb the golden stairs to my diamond-encrusted tub, where a warm bath of only the finest Mahoney Vineyards Pinot Noir awaits me. Water? Oh ... no no no. I don't even drink the stuff much less subject my flawless porcelain skin to its vulgarity and commonness."
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Latino parents are invited to be part of an ongoing support group at the Bayview Library, which will address important topics like parents' rights, bullying, truancy, parent leadership in schools, understanding SFUSD, and more. Children are welcome. Snacks provided.
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98. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST AND ST. THOMAS THE MARTYR ON STAMFORD BRIDGE 99. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. GILES, STAMFORD 100. THE HOSPITAL OF ALL SAINTS, STAMFORD Footnotes
This hospital was certainly in existence from 1323 until the eve of the Reformation, (fn. 1) but its founder and its purpose are alike unknown.
This hospital, which was built outside Stamford, was intended for lepers. It was undergoing repair in 1304 (fn. 2) and 1319, (fn. 3) and again in 1332 (fn. 4) indulgences were granted for the purpose of increasing the alms of the faithful.
The hospital of All Saints was founded by William Brown, merchant of the staple of Calais, for the support of two chaplains, and for the distribution of alms to twelve poor persons, who should pray for the soul of the founder. (fn. 5) The endowment consisted of the manors of Swafield and North Witham, and these now belong to the hospital, which is still in existence. (fn. 6) This was in 1485; and in 1534 the terms of the foundation were still observed, and the sum of £18 4s. was still distributed to the poor of the hospital. (fn. 7)
There is a seal of the hospital (fn. 8) of the fifteenth century, in shape a pointed oval, and representing the Trinity seated in a canopied niche with tabernacle work at the sides. In addition to the figure of our Lord on the cross, held between the knees of the Almighty, the Father is represented holding a cloth in his hands containing three heads, busts, or figures, emblematic of the three persons of the Trinity. In the base, under a round-headed arch, with masonry at the sides, there is a half-length figure of an ecclesiastic in prayer. In the base is a shield of arms, ermine two bars within a bordure ermine (?)
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According to the suit filed by Gazette lawyer Sean McGinley and the firm DiTrapano, Barrett and DiPiero, there is no exception "expressly provided for" the records in the state Freedom of Information Act. McGinley argues that the records should be released because of a "heightened public interest because they concern a state agency's investigation of its own employees for complaints of alleged misconduct while in a position of authority.
"Society's interest in disclosure of the public records requested outweighs the government's interest in keeping the records confidential," according to the suit.
McGinley also argues that the State Police are required to turn over the records because "there is no governmental interest in nondisclosure for the purpose of dealing with the detection of and investigation of a crime."
The State Police provided a copy of their seven-page annual statistical report concerning the professional standards section's activities, which was also initially requested.
According to the six-page public report produced by the professional standards section in 2009, 13 troopers were dismissed that year based on sustained allegations, up from 3 the previous year. An additional 19 resigned prior to discipline. There were a total of 112 incidents where action was taken in 2009, according to the report.
The number of total complaints for the department has gone down, from 257 in 2007 to 165 in 2009. Of the 226 allegations contained in those complaints, about 50 percent were sustained and 24 percent were not sustained. Only 6 percent were exonerated.
After the initial Freedom of Information Act request was mailed May 25, the Gazette tried several times to get the information before filing the lawsuit on Wednesday.
Joe Delong, deputy secretary with the state Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, again denied the request in August.
"The state police have reviewed further information and determined that they will not be able to break the information down any further," DeLong wrote in an e-mailed response. "As I stated in the e-mail below there are several factors that must be taken into account when determining what information is in the public interest and what is protected personnel file information."
On Sept. 24, the Gazette requested the quarterly, yearly, bi-annual reports produced by the internal review board. Hoyer again denied the request in a letter dated Oct. 4. "You may institute proceedings for injunctive or declaratory relief in the circuit court in the county where the public record is kept," Hoyer wrote.
In the last five months the FBI has started at least two investigations into possible civil rights violations by on-duty troopers.
The Charleston Gazette reported in July that the FBI is investigating allegations by Travis W. Barker that he was chained to the floor of the Princeton detachment and beaten by Trooper C.N. Workman in July 2008.
On Oct. 13, Joe Ciccarelli, FBI supervisory senior resident agent in Charleston, confirmed that former troopers A.H. Young and K.E. Young are being investigated for allegations stemming from their arrest of Brian Joseph Wilson, 32, of Charleston on July 28.
The Youngs, who are brothers, arrested Wilson and charged him with operating a meth lab, possession of pseudoephedrine in an altered state, conspiracy and assault on a police officer.
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Sunday's Grade 2, $150,000 San Vicente is not worth any points in the new Road to the Kentucky Derby scoring system, but the seven-furlong test at Santa Anita figures to yield contenders for major Derby preps down the road. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is responsible for half of the six-horse field -- Grade 3-placed Shakin It Up and hotshot maiden winners Belvin and War Academy.
South African champion Soft Falling Rain extended his unbeaten sequence to six in Thursday's Group 3, $250,000 U.A.E. Two Thousand Guineas at Meydan, while leading Godolphin hope Fortify could do no better than sixth.
The first pool of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager took place last weekend and the lowest individual-priced horse, Verrazano (11-1), was bet primarily on confidence given that the lightly-raced colt has yet to try two turns or face stakes rivals. The next three in the betting -- Flashback (12-1), Violence (13-1) and Itsmyluckyday (13-1) -- are graded stakes winners.
Four of the nine entrants in Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate Fields have been nominated to the Triple Crown series, and thus are hoping to add the 10 points the race provides to the winner toward their Kentucky Derby account under the new eligibility system of the Run for the Roses. The 1 1/8-mile race also features a rematch between the top-two finishers from the January 12 California Derby.
The 2013 version of Churchill Downs' Kentucky Derby Future Wager ("KDFW") is off to a rousing start after its opening pool generated near-record betting, concluded with the expected emergence of the popular "All Others" (#24) betting interest as its heavy favorite and featured a wild scramble among seven horses that determined the identity of the individual Thoroughbred that is, for now, a very narrow "people's choice" to win the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum Brands (Grade I) on
Trainer Tom Proctor confirmed Saturday from his wintertime base of operations in Southern California that he plans on shipping Midnight Ballet to New Orleans to contest the Grade 3 Rachel Alexandra on February 23 as part of the Louisiana Derby Preview Day, and also that newly unretired Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens would be coming to Fair Grounds for the mount on the filly.
With only one day of betting remaining in the first of a trio of Kentucky Derby Future Wager ("KDFW") pools in 2013, fans continued to heavily favor "All Others" (#24) over a foursome of Derby hopefuls trained by Todd Pletcher as total wagering in the three-day pool pushed past the $300,000 mark.
Later on Saturday, in another points race for the Kentucky Oaks, Rutherford Group et al's Redressthebalance came with a powerful rally to capture the $53,550 California Oaks at Golden Gate Fields. With jockey Christian Santiago Reyes in the irons, the Doug O'Neill pupil earned her first win stateside when completing 1 1/16 miles on the synthetic Tapeta in 1:45 2/5.
Millennium Farms and Little Brother Farm's homebred Sister Ginger turned back the game effort of Rose to Gold for a 2 3/4-length victory in Saturday's $75,000 Martha Washington at Oaklawn Park. The Steve Asmussen trainee was seeking her first win since breaking her maiden by 5 1/2 lengths last October at Remington Park, and finished this one mile contest over the fast dirt in 1:39 2/5.
Liberty Girl was one of the most impressive winners from Oaklawn Park's January 11 opening day, when she drew off to take a first-level allowance by 4 1/4 lengths in her three-year-old debut. On Saturday, the A. P. Warrior filly takes another step forward as one of nine fillies entered in the $75,000 Martha Washington.
Godolphin's Lovely Pass became the first classic winner sired by Raven's Pass when grinding out a half-length success in Thursday's $250,000 U.A.E. One Thousand Guineas at Meydan. The Mahmood al Zarooni pupil topped a Godolphin trifecta, rounded out by Shuruq and Music Chart.
A pair of well-regarded maiden winners, Flashback and Revolutionary, passed their first stakes test last weekend in dramatically different styles, with Flashback leading all the way in the Robert B. Lewis and Revolutionary rallying from last to take the Withers, and while neither performance proved a whole lot in terms of the Kentucky Derby, it's still early in the process and both colts have a lot going for them.
Though not graded and only worth $50,000, Saturday's California Oaks at Golden Gate Fields will award the winner of the 1 1/16-mile contest with 10 points toward the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks starting gate.
Eleven sophomore fillies have thrown their hats in the ring, led by the Lloyd Mason trainee Lucky Moment (Marino Marini). The dark bay lass is currently riding a three-race win streak and has already beaten others in this field.
Champion Shanghai Bobby (#17) and rising star Violence (#21) are expected to vie for the role of individual favorite, but Churchill Downs Racetrack oddsmaker Mike Battaglia believes the "All Others" (#24) betting interest will be a strong fans' choice in the first of three pools of the 2013 Kentucky Derby Future Wager ("KDFW"), which opens a three-day run on Friday, Feb. 8.
Princess of Sylmar, a stablemate of Grade 3 Withers winner Revolutionary, had a much easier time than her fellow Todd Pletcher trainee Saturday as she rolled by seven lengths in Aqueduct's Busher, her fourth straight win, all around two turns.
According to assistant trainer Michael McCarthy, next up for the Majestic Warrior filly will be Aqueduct's Grade 2, $250,000 Gazelle on April 6.
Trainer Todd Pletcher's Revolutionary ran himself into Kentucky Derby consideration on Saturday while taking his stakes bow in the Grade 3 Withers in his fifth career start, and emerged from that score at Aqueduct in good order.
Revolutionary, whose late charge carried him past Escapefromreality after an eventful trip in the 1 1/16-mile contest, will depart for Pletcher's Florida base at Palm Meadows Training Center on Tuesday to prepare for any one of a number of final preps for the May 4 Kentucky Derby.
While anyone was free to speculate on Flashback's next race, Bob Baffert was tight-lipped on the issue Sunday morning, saying for the record only that the impressive 6 1/4-length winner of Saturday's Grade 2 Robert B. Lewis Stakes came out of the race in good shape and that he had "no game plan" at the moment.
"I didn't even sleep on it," Baffert said on a summer-like Super Bowl morning. "I worry about Game On Dude."
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The State Records Committee meets at least quarterly to approve the retentions and dispositions of record series generated by state and local government entities. They also serve as an appeals board when access to records has been denied by the originating agency. Their decisions and orders are available online. Appeal hearings are generally scheduled for the second Thursday of the month.
For information regarding upcoming appeals or to file an appeal with the Committee, write to:
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All of the Committee's work is in accordance with Utah Code Annotated 63G-2-101 et seq. They also follow administrative rules regarding State Records Committee procedures. Record retention schedules under review are available for public comment from the Utah State Archives.
Local governments may have their own ordinances which provide for and/or limit use of the State Records Committee for appeal hearings.
The State Records Committee is currently composed of the following individuals:
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Doug Misner | State History |
Lex Hemphill | Media |
Patricia Smith-Mansfield | Governor's Designee |
David Fleming | Private Records Manager |
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Paul H. Tonks, Assistant Attorney General, serves as counsel to the Committee. Susan Mumford of the Utah State Archives serves as Executive Secretary. Lex Hemphill is the Chair.


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Puck Pies Archives: April 19th, 2010 - Introducing Puck Pies!
Dani, Steven, and I were discussing how much all three of us absolutely love to cook the other day after I posted some food porn up on twitter - some chicken livers sauteed in butter with a brandy and maple syrup reduction, in case you're wondering. Apparently cooking and hockey go hand in hand - the catharsis of whipping up and beating the hell out of some bread dough is kind of like watching Evander Kane lay out Matt Cooke like a nice loaf of Challah bread in the making. This blog's kind of our random NHL fun-spot anyway. We all need a break from The Hockey Bay Blog/Benched Whale, Silver Seven Sens, and Thrashing the Blues sometimes, and this blog's about as random as you can get.
I figure, well heck, a lot of us are at home watching the playoffs, regardless of if our team's in it or not. Some of us might have Stanley Cup Finals parties floating around in our heads. I'm debating on having one in my tiny apartment or not, but if I do, I'll probably do all the food myself. If I can cater an engagement party for 40 people, I can entertain 15 friends and a cat.
I can't help but get the munchies when watching hockey. So, why not share the munchie love? Some of these recipes can do with a shortcut or two (frozen fries instead of fresh homemade, etc), but they're just as good homemade as they are all Sandra Lee'd.
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I don't know how much longer the Habs'll be in the playoffs, but sitting here watching them right now gave me the weirdest craving for poutine. The amalgamation of french fries, gravy, and cheese curds is just a plate full of heart attack waiting to happen. Which is why it's one of the greatest things ever. This isn't the foie gras poutine that Anthony Bourdain had when he went to Le Pied Cochon in Montreal, but it works. I kinda whipped it up myself out of boredom one day - like I said, you can shortcut it, but it's easy to make from scratch.
For the fries, which is probably the most difficult part because getting them crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside is a bear:
The recipe has been mooched from Cooks Illustrated which, in fact, has a lot of illustrations, and if you're a newbie cook or someone who wants to learn new techniques I highly reccommend it.
2 1/2 pounds russet potatoes (about 4 large)
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3 quarts peanut oil
Kosher salt
Scrub potatoes, then square off the sides and cut the potatoes into 1/4-inch by 1/4-inch fries.
Rinse cut potatoes in a large bowl under cold running water until water runs clear. Cover with ice water and refrigerate for 30 minutes or up to 12 hours.
Pour off water, spread potatoes onto kitchen towels, and thoroughly dry. Transfer potatoes to large bowl and toss with cornstarch until evenly coated. Transfer potatoes to wire rack set in rimmed baking sheet and let rest until a fine white coating forms, about 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a large, heavy-bottomed Dutch oven fitted with a clip-on candy thermometer, heat oil to 325°F.
Add half of potatoes, a handful at a time, to hot oil. Increase heat to high. (This step is easy to forget, but very important!) Fry, stirring with mesh spider or large-hole slotted spoon, until potatoes start to turn from white to blond, 4 to 5 minutes. (Oil temperature will drop about 75°F during this frying. It stabilizes right around 250°F. If it drops lower than this, double-check and make sure you remembered to turn the heat on high after adding the fries.)
Transfer fries to thick paper bag or paper towels to absorb any excess grease. Return oil to 325°F and repeat with remaining potatoes.
Increase heat under Dutch oven to high, and heat oil to 375°F. Add half of fries, and handful at a time, and fry until golden brown and puffed, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to thick paper bag or paper towels. Lightly season with salt while fries are still hot. (I like using a paper bag for this step because you can simply toss the fries in the bag, add salt, and shake to absorb the grease and evenly season the fries all at once.) Return oil to 375°F and repeat with remaining fries. Serve immediately.
(Remember, you can half this or quarter this as needed - please, do NOT eat 16 servings or something insane like that).
For the gravy (and yes, you can buy a jar of it, but ewwwwww, really?):
Melt 1 cube of bullion of your choice in hot water per instructions of the box (use whatever kind you want. I prefer beef because the flavor's stronger, but it's a matter of personal preference). Brown about two tablespoons of flour in a skillet for a minute or two, stirring so it doesn't burn. Add some melted butter (or just melt the butter in the pan) - about a tablespoon or so, but adjust as you go - to make a paste. Add the broth, taste, and add whatever seasonings you feel that it needs. It probably won't need salt, but some pepper's always helpful.
I could be a smartass and tell you how to make homemade cheese curds here, but I don't want to be too pretentious.
Cheese curds are a bear to find sometimes. Trader Joe's has them, but they're the yellow curds. If that's fine for you, by all means, go for it. Honestly, I've found that strong cheese chopped up works just as well as long as the fries and gravy are hot enough to melt cheese. Layer gravy over fries, put cheese on top, and ta da. You can add whatever you like - chives, sour cream, and some bacon are always good, but go gonzo. I have seen some weird and scary stuff slathered on top of poutine.
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use GTop ( ); my $gtop = GTop->new; my $proc = $gtop->proc_mem($$); print "size before: ", $gtop->proc_mem($$)->size( ), " B\n"; { my $x = 'a' x 10**7; print "size inside: ", $gtop->proc_mem($$)->size( ), " B\n"; } print "size after: ", $gtop->proc_mem($$)->size( ), " B\n";
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This script starts by printing the size of the memory it occupied when it was first loaded. The opening curly brace starts a new block, in which a lexical variable $x is populated with a string 10,000,000 bytes in length. The script then prints the new size of the process and exits from the block. Finally, the script again prints the size of the process.
Since the variable $x is lexical, it is destroyed at the end of the block, before the final print statement, thus releasing all the memory that it was occupying. But from the output we can clearly see that a huge chunk of memory wasn't released to the OS—the process's memory usage didn't change. Perl reuses this released memory internally. For example, let's modify the script as shown in Example 14-2.
use GTop ( ); my $gtop = GTop->new; my $proc = $gtop->proc_mem($$); print "size before : ", $gtop->proc_mem($$)->size( ), " B\n"; { my $x = 'a' x 10**7; print "size inside : ", $gtop->proc_mem($$)->size( ), " B\n"; } print "size after : ", $gtop->proc_mem($$)->size( ), " B\n"; { my $x = 'a' x 10; print "size inside2: ", $gtop->proc_mem($$)->size( ), " B\n"; } print "size after2: ", $gtop->proc_mem($$)->size( ), " B\n";
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As you can see, the memory usage of this script was no more than that of the previous one.
So we have just learned that Perl programs don't return memory to the OS until they quit. If variables go out of scope, the memory they occupied is reused by Perl for newly created or growing variables.
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One of the things that I liked about both 3rd and 4th edition is that PCs could make their own magic items. Even in 2e, there was the enchant magic item spell. While I didn't like the specific implementations of those rules, I was at least happy that my wizard could create his own signature staff or other items.
In Next, they seem to be taking a "mother may I" approach to magic items, where the only way players can get them is if the DM decides to hand them out. That approach may be fine for some groups, but I would like to see item creation rules for PCs, even if they are optional rules. After all, if other people in the world know how to make magic items, why shouldn't the PCs ever be able to do it?
There could even be variations on those rules. You could have a 3rd/4th editon style item creation where the player pays a certain amount of gold and time, and perhaps experience points, and can reliably make the item. In the case of 3.x, the player saved money by making the item himself, but he had to sacrifice some experience points. In 4e, there was no cost of experience points, but making an item yourself cost the same as buying it from a vendor.
There could also be optional rules that require the PCs to quest for exotic components and perform special rituals that are quests unto themselves, for DMs that want magic items to be more special and difficult to create, and still ultimately under the DM's control.
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The plot of Mandrake 1 revolves around (nb. game related pun of which I am very proud) the creation of the world's first singing mandrake. Click here to see what it sings! [subbed by anon & Liekster].
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Now that we have reached The Ballad Of Ketinetto 6, the series has now surpassed even the previous best ballad ever, but that shouldn't stop you singing a few bars of Foreigner whilst you play [subbed by buji & ryanmalloy].
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Superintendent Dr. Joshua Starr said the school system is aware of the issues and will form a group to tackle the problem.
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Teenagers at one area school cringe and brace themselves when uttering their high school's name.
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Montgomery county Parks and Planning Staff want the board to reject Montgomery County schools Superintendent Joshua Starr's recommendation that Rock Creek Hills Park in Kensington as the site for the new school for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase cluster.
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The evening rush started with a Red Line train dying at South Station around 4:20 p.m., followed by a trolley dying somewhere on the Riverside Line.
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All the doctors in the world upstairs could do nothing to revive the outbound Orange Line train that expired at Tufts Medical Center around 8:20 a.m.
This was after a Green Line trolley expired at Copley and various trains heading to South Station took a break in their morning routine thanks to switch problems.
UPDATE: Another Orange Line train died at Sullivan, or maybe it... Read more
Jason Rowe snapped this photo around 5:20 p.m. at Broadway where, naturally, an inbound Red Line train had to be pulled out of service:
Distinct smell of overheated brakes.
The smell quickly made its way down the tunnel to South Station, David Harris reports:
No communication from MBTA. Loads of people waiting.
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A Red Line train (of course) inbound from Braintree headed for the pearly gates this morning, not long before a Green Line trolley packed it in at Park Street.
Signal problems caused delays on the Lowell lines, mechanical problems bedeviled the Haverhill Line and a shortness of cars means putative riders couldn't even get on a train in West Natick.
UPDATE: A second Red Line... Read more
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Anyone know of a T accessible place to get about 10 watch batteries changed?
Or may he just likes taking a wide stance. Whatever the reason, Amy B. snapped the seat hog's photo on a crowded Green Line train tonight. And to answer your question, she didn't ask him to fold 'em up because she already had a seat.
I do ask people to move if I need to sit myself.
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A group that couldn't get a federal judge to force the MBTA to run ads calling Palestinians "savages" has filed another federal lawsuit trying to get the judge to force the MBTA to run a similar ad.
The American Freedom Defense Initiative filed its second suit in US District Court in Boston yesterday after the T's ad agency agreed to modify its original ad,... Read more
Transit Police report 25 cases since Jan. 1 of electronic devices being stolen from T riders, in particular, Apple devices and on the Red Line.
Although that number is not much higher than the 23 thefts reported in the same period last year, police say "Apple picking" has become a thing - and that of the 25 thefts, 15 have been on the Red... Read more
T workers tell Anthony Tulliani he can't take pictures on the T even though T policy says you can take pictures on the T.
Separately, T workers got a memo this week that they can't sleep on the job.
Around 1 p.m., the MBTA turned on a new electronic signboard at Forest Hills to alert bus riders when their bus is due at the station.
In a statement, T General Manager Beverly Scott says:
I've often said our buses are the work horses of our system, serving more than 375,000 people on a typical weekday. The countdown signs at our busiest bus stops will
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Transit Police report they are looking for this guy who "indecently assaulted two female patrons" on an inbound E train between Longwood and Copley around 6:15 p.m. on Jan. 15.
Tips to 617-222-1050; text anonymous tips to 873873.
By all accounts, the T ran pretty well yesterday. Today? Well, Kyle Geiste explains this photo he took at North Station:
Lechmere-bound platform at North Station. 3-4 trains have passed us. There must be a better way.
It is, naturally, even worse on the Red Line, where trains took a break from expiring yesterday, but picked up where they left off today. As ... Read more
or is the MBTA really getting too lazy with their alerts. Case in point:
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Affected direction: outbound
Last updated: Feb 5 2014 4:06 PM
I presume the cancelled train was the 3:50 to Reading, but it would be nice to be actually informed of that fact.... Read more
Around noontime, Kerry Tubbs photographed the line at the CharlieCard store in Downtown Crossing, where dreams go to die all the people whose CharlieCards expired on Friday have to go to get their remaining value transferred to fresh new cards that don't expire until 2021.
Meanwhile, Red Line riders are queuing up in novel places at South Station this afternoon because the traditional stairway... Read more
Such as the inbound train that left this mortal coil this morning at Wollaston.
Meanwhile, Jose Duca reports his Worcester Line train got into South Station at 8 a.m. He started at Southboro at 5:20 a.m.
When a 24-year-old with a heart condition went into cardiac arrest and collapsed last week, an MBTA worker who knows CPR kept him going until an ambulance could arrive to get him to the hospital.
The T says that Kevin Bossart collapsed, fell down the stairs and struck his head. When station Customer Service Agent Karen Kane, she rushed to get a co-worker, Tomas Gonzalez,... Read more
An inbound train passed to the other side at Broadway; another train developed door issues at Charles/MGH.
Shawn Whitlock reports:
Just took 20 min to go from Broadway T stop to South Station. That's ONE stop. Bravo, MBTA, bravo!
Yes, the darn things expire, as we learned on the fifth anniversary of the Charlie system. But it seems like quite a few people are reporting their CharlieCards have expired over the past couple of days.
Kait reports from the CharlieCard store in Downtown Crossing:
Anyone dealing with their expired CharlieCard now, beware. Many angry people (both customers & employees),
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Transit Police report arresting a man who was flaunting what he had early this morning on a platform at Back Bay station - and then charging him for failing to register as a Level 3 sex offender.
Police report officers went down to the platform around 12:30 a.m. on a report of "a man exposing himself and committing a lewd act."
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His remarks are short, so I have reproduced them here in full.
Yes, my site was down for a few days in February. I didn't notice it right away, and when someone at work pointed out they couldn't get to onestepback.org I had to wait to fix it until I got home. Even then, I thought it was only down for the day. It wasn't until I reviewed the web stats for February did I realize that it was down for at least three days.
Sorry. It turns out that the copy of apache servicing http requests had crashed and burned. The ssl server was still up so remote access to my mail was OK. I just didn't notice that the http server was down (see, I really was busy). Nevertheless, we now have some monitoring software in place so simple crashes shouldn't cause extended outages any more.
Static verses Dynamic Typing. Checked verses Unchecked Exceptions. The battle rage on (and I've taken part in my share of them). Martin Fowler has some keen insight into the nature of the proponents of each side of the debate. He calls it the difference between a Directing attitude and an Enabling attitude. Directors wish to make the computing environment as safe as possible and willing accept restrictions to achieve that goal. Enablers desire flexibility above (in their view unneeded) safety, and will chaffe unagainst restrictions. Read Martin's writeup, he explains it much better than I do.
I've landed on both sides of the debate in the past. Lately I've found myself on the enabler side of the equation more often than not.
Bruce Eckel has some surprising insight on the use of generics in Java (available in Java 1.5). For those who enjoy the ad-hoc polymorphism available in C++ generics are going to be surprised by Java's version. If Eckel is correct, then generics look like they will be great for making generic containers and little else.
See Bruce's article for details.
Speaking of the Static/Dynamic typing debate, the feedback page for Eckel's Generics article, a commenter is defends the need for interfaces with the following comment:
Bruce responds with a followup article on Latent Typing, but I would like to add my two cents here.
Java interfaces are more about syntax than semantics. They insure that implementing classes have the proper methods defined with the proper number and type of arguments, and that the methods actually do return a value of the appropriate type. But that's it. Interfaces do nothing to support any meaningful semantics about the methods.
If you are interested in language support for semantics, I suggest you take a look at Eiffel. When you define a interface in Eiffel (which Eiffel would call a deferred class), you not only specify the argument list for the method, you also specify the promises to which the method implementor must adhere. This set of promises (the semantics) is called a contract and leads to the concept of Design by Contract.
Even if you never program a line of Eiffel code, understanding Design by Contract is a useful skill for a developer.
And that leads us to our final posting. Artima has published a series of interviews with Bertrand Meyer, the designer of Eiffel and Design by Contract. The interviews are worth reading (here is part 4, you can find links to the other parts from there).
I find that I don't always agree with Meyer, but when I do disagree, I think through my position very carefully.
I've run out of time. Hopefully it won't be so long before I post again.
I've always liked Fowlers "UML Distilled" book because it drilled down to the really important parts of UML without getting caught up in a lot of the superfluous annotations. I definitely fall into the UML-as-sketch category. Now I wonder where UML is going.
I'll give our results here in a minute, but go ahead and pick your top five before reading on.
My personal picks were: Correctness, Maintainability, Understandability, Reusability and Testability.
Once everyone had picked their top five, we got together in groups of four and determine the top three items within our group of four. The top two was easy: Correctness and Maintainability. We had a tie for third place between Understandability and Reusability, and broke the tie in favor of Reusability because we felt that Understandability was intimately tied to Maintainability anyways.
Finally we surveyed the entire group and totalled the votes from each of the subgroups. Heres the results:
We see two strong winners here: Correctness and Maintainability. Every group voted for them. Beyond that, there is no clear winner. One thing I do find interesting is that Testability didn't make the final cut in any of our groups. Even though our team is developing a strong test driven design culture, it hasn't (yet) spread to the rest of the department. It seems we have our work cut out for us.
The scary part is that I have seen some of these in practice.
Then I remembered the C/C++ assert macro. We wrote a a series of small functions that looked something like this:
void TestCanRun () { assert( CanRun( ... ) ); assert( ! CanRun( ... ) ); // and so on ... }
I made a TestAll() function that called all my little test functions and arranged to have TestAll() called as the first thing in main(). If all the assertions worked, the program completed normally. If an assertion failed, the program would abort with an informative error message.
It worked great. I wouldn't leave production code like that, but it was a great way to introduce Test Driven Design to someone who had not seen it before, without getting into all the nitty-gritty details of setting up a full blown test suite.
I guess my motto is that friends shouldn't let friends program without tests.
Here are some quotes from the article
Yep, that's me. I use throws Exception a lot.
Anders goes on to comment that the focus is not generally on handling exceptions, but making your code robust in the presence of thrown exceptions. And that generally means finally blocks. He observers that …
Interesting. I wonder how much duplication occurs in all those finally blocks. That's why I like Ruby's ability to abstract the finally (ensure in Ruby) to one location.
Finally, here's where I got the title for this blog entry.
I"m not guilty of the catch curly curly syndrome, but I'm not surprised that its a common problem. Bruce Eckel says it best when he calls Java's checked exceptions a failed experiment.
Pragmatic Dave is up to Kata number twelve, and I'm still writing about KataTwo. I have a feeling that I'm not going to catch up any time soon.
If you recall from earlier Kata writeups (see KataTwoCps and KataTwoNoTail for details), a continuation is merely the bit of code that needs to be executed after a method returns. We can manually capture continuations as Proc objects and explicitly pass them around.
A simple example is appropriate at this point. In the following factorial function, the result of the fact(n-1) call must be multiplied by n before returning a result. That multiplication is the continuation of the fact(n-1) call.
def fact(n) if n == 0 1 else n * fact(n-1) end end
We can manually capture the continuation in a proc …
proc { |res| n * res }
Once captured, we can pass the continuation code around. In particular, we can pass it to the fact(n-1) call and let it handle its own continuation (where done is the name of the continuation passed into us) …
fact(n-1, proc{|res| done.call(n * res) })
Rewriting our factorial function to handle its own continuation yields code like this …
def fact_cps(n, done) if n == 0 done.call(1) else fact_cps(n-1, proc {|res| done.call(res * n) }) end end
Our "simulated" continuations are just procs (i.e. anonymous functions). They don't really cause the function to return when called, they only calculate the return value. We must still arrange for that return value to be properly returned up the calling chain.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could "grab" the real continuation of the current function. It would act just like our simulated continuations, but when called, it will really cause the function to return immediately.
If we had a mechanism to "grab" that current continuation, we could write a method that looked like this …
def call_with_current_continuation current_continuation = #{magic to get the current continuation} yield(current_continuation) end
call_with_current_continuation yields to a block, passing in the continuation for itself. If the block ever calls current_continuation, it will immediately return from call_with_current_continuation.
If we could actually write call_with_current_continuation, then code like this is possible.
call_with_current_continuation { |current_continuation| puts "This will be printed" current_continuation.call # [A] puts "This will never get printed" } # Line [A] returns to HERE
Calling current_continuation will cause the program to go to the continuation immediately. The output will look like this …
This will be printed
and the second puts will never be executed.
Although we don't have any magic code that will return the current continuation of an arbitrary method, Ruby does provide the functionality of call_with_current_continuation in the form of the callcc method. The continuation is passed to a block, and within the block we can do anything we want to with the continuation. Calling it will immediately cause the callcc call that created the continuation to return the value given to the continuation.
Here is a fairly pedestrian use of callcc. This use of callcc is similar to the setjump/longjump functions in the C libarary.
def level3(cont) cont.call("RETURN THIS") end def level2(cont) level3(cont) return "NEVER RETURNED" end def top_level_function callcc { |cc| level2(cc) } end answer = top_level_function puts answer # => "RETURN THIS"
Here we are using continuations to immediately return a value from top_level, even though we are nested 3 levels deep in method calls.
Although callcc can be used to create some really mind-bending control structures, we will stick to using it to return to a point of execution higher up in the call stack in the following examples.
Starting with recursive CPS version (from KataTwoCps), we replace the proc based continuations with the continuations from callcc. There is only minor differences between the proc based and callcc based versions.
# Setup the call with the top level continuations. Notice that we # create two continuations in this function. The outer-most one # (+ret+) is the normal return. The inner continuation (+failed+) # is designed to indicate failure by returning a -1 from the top # level function def chop_with_cc(target, list) callcc { |ret| callcc { |failed| sub_chop_with_cc(target, list, ret, failed) } -1 } end # Recursive helper function with continuations explicitly passed in. def sub_chop_with_cc(target, list, found, not_found) if list.size <= 1 (list[0] == target) ? found.call(0) : not_found.call else mid = list.size/2 if list[mid] > target sub_chop_with_cc( target, list[0...mid], found, not_found) else found.call( mid + callcc { |cc| sub_chop_with_cc( target, list[mid..-1], cc, not_found) } ) end end end class TestChopContinuations < Test::Unit::TestCase alias chop chop_with_cc include ChopTests end
One final twist before we are done. In KataTwoCps we wrote sub_chop_recursive_with_cps in a continuation passing style, but using proc based continuations. What would happed if we passed real callcc based continuations to a function expecting proc based ones?
It turns out that it works perfectly. Here's the test code for it …
def chop_with_cc_and_cps(target, list) callcc { |ret| callcc { |failed| # This function is defined in KataTwoCps sub_chop_recursive_with_cps(target, list, ret, failed) } -1 } end class TestChopContinuations2 < Test::Unit::TestCase alias chop chop_with_cc_and_cps include ChopTests end
Only one more variation to go, and this time it has nothing to do with continuations.
In KataTwoCps we talked about passing continuations into functions. It turns out that continuations were just functions (we used Proc objects) that encapsulated the rest of the calculation to be performed. Using continuations allowed us to turn normal recursive calls into tail recursion.
One of the benefits of tail recursion is that it is easy to turn a tail recursive function into an iterative function. Lets try that transform on our CPS version from KataTwoCps.
Tail recursive calls can be transformed into gotos to the beginning of the function. Any parameters passed to the call are assigned to the existing parameters.
So, the following call …
sub_chop_cps(target, list[0...mid], found, not_found)
would be rewritten as …
target = target list = list[0...mid] found = found not_found = not_found goto BEGINNING_OF_FUNCTION
We can drop the redundant assignments (e.g. target = target). We will also cleverly use an infinite while loop instead of an explicit goto. (Ruby doesn't have raw gotos, but if you are patient, I'll show you how to implement gotos).
Here's our first attempt at tail recursion removal.
def chop_tail_recursive(target, list) sub_chop_tail_recursive(target, list, proc{|x| x}, proc{-1}) end def sub_chop_tail_recursive(target, list, found, not_found) while (true) if list.size <= 1 return (list[0] == target) ? found.call(0) : not_found.call else mid = list.size/2 if list[mid] > target list = list[0...mid] else list = list[mid..-1] found = proc{|x| found.call(x+mid)} # PROBLEM end end end end
Unfortunately, this code fails the unit tests.
At the line marked PROBLEM we create a Proc object that references found. The intent of this line is that sometime in the future this proc will be called and the current value of found will be used. Unfortunately, we immediately clobber the value of found, sabotaging that future call. (The mid value has a similar problem).
To fix this, we need to create a new context where the value represented by found (and mid) is not lost. If we replace the PROBLEM line with the following, our problems are solved.
found = proc {|ret, m| proc{|x| ret.call(x+m)} }.call(found, mid)
Here we create our Proc object referencing ret and m instead of found and mid. Both ret and m are created in the scope of an enclosing block and initialized with the values of found and mid. The key is that ret and m are never reassigned, therefore they never become invalid.
Our second attempt changes the PROBLEM line and works much better. Here is the complete source code.
def chop_tail_recursive(target, list) sub_chop_tail_recursive(target, list, proc{|x| x}, proc{-1}) end def sub_chop_tail_recursive(target, list, found, not_found) while (true) if list.size <= 1 return (list[0] == target) ? found.call(0) : not_found.call else mid = list.size/2 if list[mid] > target list = list[0...mid] else list = list[mid..-1] found = proc {|ret, m| proc{|x| ret.call(x+m)} }.call(found, mid) end end end end class TestChopTailRecursive < Test::Unit::TestCase alias chop chop_tail_recursive include ChopTests end
No problems were encounter other than the already discussed issue regarding the reassignment of found and mid.
Dan Sugalski is also talking about Continuations, CPS, TailRecursion, and more. Dan is writing the byte code engine that will eventually power Perl 6 (and perhaps Ruby and Python as well). Dan's viewpoint is a bit more oriented toward implementation issues surrounding tail recursion and continuations, but make a nice balance to what you read here.
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Ok so now that he's back with the good doctor, what will happen ?
Ok so now that he's back with the good doctor, what will happen ?
poths Void: MarieM carries a rusty old blade in her handbag!
Is "he" Brody and "the good doctor" Nazir? If yes, I think it's obvious Nazir will mind f Brody again to bring him back into the fold. Then when Brody goes back to Washington, DC it will be prolonged to the end of the season which side he's actually on.
If I had to predict how the season will play out, I think Brody will make his allegiance to Carrie clear. Just when all seems well -- maybe they'll even get Nazir -- something big will provide the cliff hanger for the season finale. My money is on the CIA traitor being revealed. That was an idea planted in season one and basically ignored so far in season two. We don't really know who gave the guy the razor blade in the safe house. The assumption is it was Brody, but there's no proof it was. Could have been Saul or another CIA person.
Maybe Nazir's people were watching/listening too?
They seem to know.
I'm so bad at not knowing, I like to know the plot of movies before I watch them. Yes, I'm the person no one wants to share the pre-watching rituals with.
And I WANNA KNOW if Carrie and Brody will end up together!
-- Guess Carrie just answered my previous doubts: how can the show give Brody a second chance after what he did? If he saves the US from an attack. Which, if you ask me, is a bit of a stretch, but maybe they'll pull it nicely.
He told them. In fact, he told them he was having sex with her even when he wasn't. Roya told him to renew the relationship. In the scene with Carrie and Brody in the car in the Congressional parking garage she said, "You told Roya we're seeing each other." He answered, "I told her we're f'ing." When he saw Roya after he spent the night with Carrie in the motel he said something like, "I was f'ing her like you told me to do." Of course Nazir's people know. Don't think they were listening, but who knows. Whoever heard got quite the show. Maybe there will be a sex tape.
They clearly know something is up based on Brody's tantrum with Roya and then he stormed off and disappeared. I'd think if they knew for sure he had a deal with the CIA, they'd just have killed him. More likely they suspect something and now they're going to turn him back.
This week's episode had my head spinning in a good way. I think that Roya and her gang do suspect Brody and
to get him to prove that he is still part of their cause they will probably have him be an integral part of the attack
(remember he had agreed earlier to be a sucide bomber) I believe he is captured now and he will not be chatting or
sleeping with Carrie any time soon. We will just have to wait and see. Such a great program!
Out of respect for people who haven't seen it yet, I will not spoil it. I'll just say I didn't see that twist coming.
I missed something. Why did they decide to start checking out Quinn?
Interesting, Quinn is a CIA asset (assassin). Brody lucked out that Azir was not captured. Only 3 more episodes to go.
Pure speculation but from that crazy preview, I am thinkingSpoiler
CIA wants to take out Carrie too to tie up all the lose ends.
The episode he was introduced in, when Carrie asked why, if he was an analyst who'd worked at Langley for 5 years, she'd never seen or heard of him. They tried to brush if off as her being in Beirut and Iraq, and then obsessed with Brody, but she didn't buy it and asked Virgil to check him out. Later, Saul asked too. I think it was after the hand stabbing thing.
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.
Oh my, I'm so slow, I hadn't thought anything like that.
Is it commonly known that CIA has assasins (and calls them assets)? I don't have much of a passion for the theme, but it's neews to me.
I was so stupid I thought Quinn stabbed Brody when he realized his interrogation wasn't being successful, and so he tried to introduce Carrie as the good cop to see if she could have better luck.
That was a great episode. I guess they were going to kill Brody, then either pin it on the terrorists or out him as a terrorist and claim he got killed when he resisted arrest?
I think I will have a snack and take a nap before I eat and go to sleep.


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The cricket calendar is so jam-packed these days that there is little point talking of a "summer" of cricket as it is pretty much a non-stop year-long spectacle. Much is made of the impact this has on players. I would argue that it is starting to take its toll on the selectors who appear to have parted company with their senses in selecting the squad for first games of the one-day series against Sri Lanka.
As a format one day cricket is already in all sorts of strife, caught in a no man's land between the strategic elegance of Test Cricket and the rock and roll of 20-20.
Its days have been numbered for a long time, and can probably be traced back to the many innings where blokes like Michael Bevan batted like accountants, working out that with ten overs to go at a rate of 3.9 runs per over they could get Australia over the line by taking three dozen singles and a four.
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Mama's Sweet Hot Mustard
about 1 cup
Savory Spice Shop Ingredients
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- 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 Tbsp. regular yellow mustard powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. cornstarch
- 2 x eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
- 2 Tbsp. melted butter
Mix all the dry ingredients in a microwave safe bowl and stir with a whisk. In a separate bowl, combine the beaten egg, milk, and butter. Combine the wet ingredients to the bowl with dry and whisk. Add vinegar. Heat the mixture in the microwave on high for 2 minutes and whisk until smooth. Return to microwave and heat for 2 more minutes, then remove and whisk until smooth. Microwave for one additional minute and whisk smooth. Place the microwavable bowl in a bowl full of ice to cool temperature rapidly. Whisk the mustard every few minutes until cool. Refrigerate for up to 2 weeks.
Serving Suggestions:
Serve with pretzels or crackers.
about 1 cupThanks to:
Penny Halling, Savory Spice Shop customer
This recipe has been tested for accuracy by the Savory Spice Shop Test Kitchen.