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Keep time in the kitchen as you use spatulas and mixing bowls to cook up a symphony of tasty treats in the form of Sorcerer's Hat cake pops. They're music to your taste buds!
You'll need:
- 1 box cake mix (bake as directed on box for 13 x 9 cake)
- 1 can (16 oz) of ready made frosting
- Wax paper
- Baking sheets
- White candy coating
- Blue candy coating
- Chocolate covered mints (such as Junior Mints)
- Yellow jumbo star sprinkles
- Yellow candies (such as Starburst)
- No. 807 Decorating tip
- No. 12 Decorating tip
- Toothpicks
- Small paintbrush
- Paper lollipop sticks
- Styrofoam block
Note: One cake makes about 48 cake pops. If you don't need that many, cut the cake in quarters and freeze any cake sections for another day. You'll need at least one ounce of candy coating for each cake pop you plan on dipping and more for any extra decorating.Instructions:
1. After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into a large bowl.
2. With a large spoon, mix cake thoroughly with about 3/4 of the can of frosting. You won't need the rest.
3. Roll mixture into quarter size cake balls and place on a baking sheet covered with wax paper.
4. Once you have rolled the cake balls, you can then re-shape them into cones. Get the shape started by hand molding and then lay the cone shape on the wax paper and roll back and forth gently to help smooth out the shape. You can also rub the bottom side on the wax paper gently to help flatten the bottom.
5. Place the cone-shaped cake balls in the freezer for about 15 minutes to firm up. You can transfer them to the refrigerator to keep chilled and avoid freezing.
6. While the cake is chilling, you can make moons for the hat. Work with one Starburst candy at a time. Place it in the microwave for just a few seconds to make it more pliable. Then using a small glass or rolling pin, roll the candy flat. To make the moon you can use two small circular edges to cut the shapes. Decorating tips are the perfect size.
7. Cut out circles with the smaller end of a No. 807 decorating tip, then use the small end of a No. 12 decorating tip to remove another circular shape from inside the larger circle to create moons. Repeat with more yellow candies as needed.
8. Melt white candy coating in a heat-proof plastic bowl so that the coating is at four inches deep for easier dipping. Melt in the microwave in 30 second intervals on low, stirring in between. Repeat until melted and smooth. Add blue candy color and stir until completely combined and you achieve the desired shade of blue.
9. Remove a couple of cake balls at a time from the refrigerator to work with.
10. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted coating and insert into the bottom of the cone shape. Dip the cake pop into the coating and remove in one motion without stirring. Make sure the entire cone-shaped cake ball is covered. Using a deep bowl is helpful here. If your coating is too thick, you can add a few drops of vegetable oil or shortening to help thin it and make it easier to work with.
11. Remove and allow any excess coating to fall off the pop and back into the bowl.
12. Attach a Junior Mint to each side of the hat for Mickey's ears.
13. Then, while coating is still wet, attach two star sprinkles and one moon. Place in a styrofoam block to dry. You can also attach the stars and moon after the coating sets by using a toothpick to dot a small amount of coating to use as glue.
14. You can wrap your Sorcerer's Hat cake pops in treat bags tied with a ribbon and/or store them on the counter or in an airtight container.
Tip: You can use dark blue candy coating instead of tinting your own.
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The actual event was a political fundraiser for state Sen. Joe Kyrillos, a Republican who wants to replace Democrat Bob Menendez in the U.S. Senate, but the reason for all the security, traffic and reporters outside a private home
Romney, the likely Republican nominee for this year's presidential race, arrived about an hour after the scheduled start of the $5,000-a-plate campaign event at the house of attorney Edward Deutsch.
The Somerset County sheriff's department, with its canine unit, a few cars and officers from the Bernardsville police department and Secret Service had already secured the entrance to the home on Dryden Road prior to 3:30 p.m., when the event was scheduled to begin.
Some of those arriving had their cars parked further down Dryden Road while other attendees, including N.J. Sen. Thomas Kean Jr. (R-District 21), were ushered into the driveway of the Deutsch home.
At about 4:30 p.m., a small motorcade, with a state police car in the front and another following behind, pulled up to the front of the gated home, and Romney quickly entered the residence.
Romney left the area at 5:10 p.m., waving on his way out at a group of children from a local family who had showed up to greet him and show support.
"We heard that he was here and thought it would be really fun," said Kelly McDonald, who said she lives around the corner, and brought her four children, Angus, Finn, Maggie and Jack for a hope of a glimpse of Romney.
She said that the family had met Romney in New Hampshire the weekend before the primary there. The children held support signs for Romney as they stood by the side of the Dryden Road.
Deutsch, a managing partner of the law firm of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, said in an interview on Tuesday.
Deutsch said he was expecting about 50 to 100 guests to attend Wednesday's event, to include hors d'oeuvres.
Deutsch said Romney is a good friend of Kyrillos, whom he said had handled the former Massachusetts governor's campaign in New Jersey.
Romney, front-runner candidate for the Republican party's nominee for U.S. president, apparently is returning the favor by giving a boost to Kyrillos, a state senator from Monmouth County who wants to unseat Menendez, the Democrat now representing New Jersey.
Deutsch said he expected "some very high-profile people" and also those who are very interested in the outcome of the election in New Jersey, and who would "like an opportunity to meet [Romney], who we hope is the next president of the United States."
However, N.J. Gov. Chris Christie was not at the event, although he previously had endorsed both Kyrillos and Romney, Republican State Committee spokesman Douglass Mayer said on Thursday.
Deutsch had said he believes Romney has a very strong base of support locally, and all over the country. "I think we have a country in crisis," he said.
Deutsch said he was expecting attendees from throughout Central New Jersey, as well as Bergen County and Kyrillos' home base of Monmouth County. Deutsch's primary law office is in Morristown.
A few New York plates were among those cars pulling up on Wednesday. State Gov. Chris Christie, who lives up the road in Mendham Township, was not visible among the arriving guests.
Deutsch said he believed those who attended would enjoy meeting Romney.
On Monday, Bernardsville's police chief, Business was as usual in downtown Bernardsville before and after the event.
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Women's Golf Prepares for The Le Triomphe Collegiate Invitational
FORT MYERS, Fla. - The FGCU women's golf team will prepare for its second tournament of the 2013 spring season with a trip to Broussard, La. to participate in the 2013 Le Triomphe Collegiate Invitational at Le Triomphe Golf & Country Club, Feb. 18-19.
"We are coming off a solid finish at Miami and are very excited about this event," said head coach Sarah Trew. "We now have the first tournament under our belt and feel a little more relaxed and in our normal groove. I think this course should set up well for us to be successful."
The Eagles are coming off a 10th place finish at the Hurricane Invitational which saw redshirt freshman Kristin Swindell (Bradenton, Fla.) lead the Eagles with a tie for 29th place overall with a total score of 231 (18-over par).
The 16-team field includes Chicago State, Centenary College, Central Arkansas, Houston Baptist, Lamar, McNeese State, McLennan CC, USC Upstate, Shorter, Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston State, South Alabama, Texas Pan American, Toledo and Xavier.
The Le Triomphe Collegiate Invitational will be played on the Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed course. Layout for the course is a 6,226-yards, par-72 configuration. The tournament consists of 36 holes of continuous play on Monday and 18 holes on Tuesday in a staggered shotgun format.
The Green and Blue will sport the five-person lineup of redshirt juniors Briana Carlson (Inverness, Fla./Citrus HS), sophomores Georgia Price (Winchester, England/Fort Myers HS) and Chelsea Guoynes (Traverse City, Mich./Traverse City Central HS) and freshmen Rebecca Van Etten (Trinity, Fla./JW Mitchell HS) and Sara Detlefsen (Eagan, Minn./Minnesota Virtual Academy HS).
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Final word: As good of a guard prospect as there has been in years. DeCastro is quick off the line of scrimmage, which helps him get under defensive linemen. He knows how to properly use his hands to keep defenders away. Instinctive against the pass rush. Plays with a nasty disposition.
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I make a living too and I was able to take out the hour, and I still do make the time every so often to try out new languages. It's really a small time investment for something that could potentially pay off in a big way (increased productivity and happiness in the workplace).
You can make Ruby look a lot like PHP actually, well except for the dollar-signed variables everywhere:Quote:
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See? Curly braces and semicolons. If fluff syntax is all you're missing then that's pretty easy to throw in.Code:
before_save { |p|
p.expires_at = Time.now + 30.days;
Let me just put it this way... The Amazon.com guys love Ruby on Rails from what I hear. I have developed a few apps in it and I'm all new to it but I happen to really enjoy working with it.
For hosting I'm with hostingrails.com and I like working with those guys plus the hosting plans are pretty good for getting you started.
What it really comes down to is two things.
1) What does your client need (do they have an already existing app or on a MS hosting...?), and
2) What fits your coding style and are you looking for something a bit more streamlined
Answer those two questions and you're pretty good to go. But to gain a better perspective of the benefits of RoR you will not find it from a getting started tutorial because those don't even BEGIN to scratch the surface. Without a doubt go buy the Agile Web Development on Rails book. Once you get half way through the book you'll say to yourself "Why the HECK did I ever play with any other language?" especially when you get to the ActiveRecord part.
For me, I'm a very busy guy, I typically work about 60-100 hours a week and the thing I need is something that will help me streamline my process, give me a lot of flexibility, and is fun to code in. That's my reason for looking into Rails. Plus a lot of companies and Java developers are jumping ship to go to Rails.
Is it hyped up? Yes and I think it should be. It's new, it's fun, it's refreshing, so why not. Does it solve everyone's problems? No, but neither does ASP.NET, however MS would like to think it does. Last time I saw a video of a MS conference one of the head guys was chanting like a lunatic, it was great fun watching him look like a sweaty ape chanting God knows what.
Here's the other thing, everytime I go to a book store and visit the computer section some one is always looking for Ruby on Rails books, plus it was on Amazon's top ten best sellers for 2006. There's a lot of hype but there's also a lot of corporate movement. It just comes down to what type of shop you are and what type of developer you are. No one solution is the perfect solution, it just might be the best one for you.
- Tony
Every benchmark I've seen shows Perl/Python kicking the crap out of Ruby (PHP is a bit closer), take for example:Quote:
Yes, Ruby is slow, but not slower than PHP/Perl
Do you have any evidence for your claim?
Since most people in this thread seem far more concerned about Rails the framework, than Ruby the language, I'll add this. The modern web application spends FAR more time waiting on a database, a webservice call, or data from the client, than it EVER spends processing. There are of course exceptions to this, but in general the "speed" of a web application language itself is of very little concern for most applications.
My gut reaction is RoR (and using an MVC approach) represents an inherently cleaner, more abstracted style of development that more experienced developers and programmers often favor over .NET. Using reusable "forms" (in the. NET sense) does offer some rapid development (as do drag and drop controls) but this type of environment and method, IMO, encourages a more "inline" style of coding that does not seem to require the same level of attention to structure and planning common to an RoR app.
An analogy:
When you want to expedite some DIY bookshelf project you might use glue instead of screws (with pre-drilled holes for future disassembly - which would involve more planning and tools but have other benefits). Glue might be more than adequate now, but may not offer the flexibility and modularity afforded by using screws.
At the end of the day, I feel strongly that the underlying code generated by most of the MS tools (have you seen how much like old Flash XAML code looks?) is bloated - can you hand code something sparkly and compliant with their new IDE's? Yes - but that stops the second you start doing anything substantive. The new Hotmail Live is an example of a new .NET app - it uses frames and renders HTML worse than any browser I have ever seen - eww would be an understatement.
Ruby isn't really that much slower than Perl. If a language is too slow for you then that isn't about 5x, but about 100x:
Code your algorithm in C, the other 95% (or more) in Ruby.
If you're doing algorithmic work then you should know that the algorithm is more important than the language you're using. A Ruby program using a good algorithm easily beats a crappy C algorithm.
C'mon...on most algorithms its at least 5x faster!Quote:
Ruby isn't really that much slower than Perl.
Ruby and Perl are the same sort of language, the only reason why Perl is faster is because Perl has a better "interpreter".Quote:
Code your algorithm in C, the other 95% (or more) in Ruby.
Sure,but so what? If I write the algorithm say in Ruby or write the same algorithm in Java...the difference in speed could be about 20x. Which could mean the difference between waiting 5 minutes for a result to waiting 100 minutes (or more modestly say 30-50 minutes).Quote:
A Ruby program using a good algorithm easily beats a crappy C algorithm.
The benchmarks aren't "contrived", they are rather decent. Did you find a particular problem with them?Quote:
Contrived benchmarks are just that, contrived benchmarks. Is Ruby too slow? Not for me
Really? Then why do people bother with using things op-code caching etc? Also, how far do you take this line, at some point speed will be an issue.Quote:
but in general the "speed" of a web application language itself is of very little concern for most applications.
Anyhow, Ruby is slow...its runtime system needs to be fixed its that simple.
Hmmm... Where to start?
Well, I just picked up the aforementioned book and have some experience coding pretty much everything discussed thus far... The short story IMHO is this:
If you've been developing for a while in .NET, JAVA or OOP~anything or even straight spagetti code and you haven't given Rails a good look, you probably should.
I'm suprised to hear the excuses from people about not taking it for a spin. We all work for a living (I think) and yes it takes time to set up the development environment however... If you haven't given it an honest look then your opinion means less than nothing. At least if you learn about it, at the end of the day if you still have a problem with it, you'll know why you don't like it.
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When I first looked at it, I didn't like it much but then again, that was because I didn't do any reading up on it. I just kinda kicked the tires
Top 3 reasons why I like it now that I know a thing or two:
1) Object Oriented (MVC) development with best practices (pretty much) built into the framework. It's so intuitive that you have to do extra work to veer off course. As I mentioned, I'm just getting started with it. My experience has always been with technologies that require a lot more boiler plate code. Even the Ruby boiler plate code I've played with so far is concise and easy to understand/modify.
2) Built in Test Based Development. I've used some Unit Testing with a complicated recursive algorythm written in PHP as well as some minor .NET apps and it seems to me that it was well worth the effort. The only hastle was setting up the testing environment. With RoR, it's all stubbed out when you build the app. Writing the tests so far has been simple and at the moment I've been running them in a terminal window. You can just run the tests and get your response or you can trace the stack and weed through the results to find the problem it one exists.
3) DRY development. Vinnie already mentioned this; It's a Don't Repeat Yourself method of developing your application which makes developing, enhancing and maintaining a whole lot easier. It's a good habit to get into anyway.
* I suppose a 4th reason is if you want to test out an idea, you can make use of automated scripting and temporary scafolds to knock together a prototype application very quickly. The amount of time depends on the complexity of your idea however, it takes less than a minute to stub out any application and the rest is up to you to build the database and decide what it's going to do. If your idea is going to work, you keep the foundation, pull down the scafolds and build the app.
IMO (again) If you're really new to programming, RoR probably isn't going to be enlightening to you. You should get some experience in what I like to call the "physics of coding"; For each action (block of code) there is a reaction. Get your hands dirty with Javascript, PHP or ASP. You'll get the immediate action == response thing going and it'll be easier to grasp OOP and frameworks later.
I'm not sure at this point if RoR will live up to the hype it seems to have gathered but I am looking at new projects I have lined up wondering if they will be good RoR candidates.
Some people have more important things to do than spend days trying out new frameworks. Giving Ruby/Rails a spin for a few hours tells you next to nothing about its strengths/weaknesses. My attitude towards things like Ruby/Rails (like many people) is "wait and see what happens with it in 1-2 years".Quote:
I'm suprised to hear the excuses from people about not taking it for a spin.
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If you have time to post on forums throughout the day... You don't have better things to do than learn a new technology
Actually that's my point. It doesn't take days. It literally takes a couple of hours to get an idea of what's going on. Ok, you'll probably have to read a little as well but how did you get this far in the first place.
Yes if you're a drag-n-drop newbie who's never looked in an editor window it's not a simple process but the people posting contempt for taking it for a spin seem to have a good grasp of complex development. It surprises me.
My main point is that before posting an opinion, you should have some knowledge on the subject.
Getting an "idea of what's going on" isn't helpful. I have an "idea of what's going on" with Ruby/Rails what I want to know its strengths/weaknesses and weather it will be a good fit for the sort of work that I do. There is no way I can determine this within a few hours, therefore someone has to first convince me that Rails/Ruby's strengths/weaknesses are a good match for what I'm working on, until then I won't use it (and likewise for most programmers...).Quote:
It literally takes a couple of hours to get an idea of what's going on.
Oh yeah? Whats the point of this comment? Are you suggesting I lack knowledge of some topic that makes me exempt from posting about Ruby/Rails? In fact, I haven't said much about Ruby or Rails (except Ruby is slow, which isn't too hard to show) itself. I'm merely interested in the "benefits of ruby", which haven't in any real sense been clarified (Most of the comments are value theoretic, facts/arguments are more interesting) Feel free to make more substantial contributions to this cause than "take it for a spin".Quote:
My main point is that before posting an opinion, you should have some knowledge on the subject.
Ruby is more expressive than PHP, Perl and Java. Here are two simple and important things that Ruby has: clean OO & blocks. Some people say that Java has clean OO but I disagree. Java doesn't have blocks/lambda's/closures either. Perl has blocks/lambda's/closures but not clean OO. PHP has neither. PHP, Perl (5) and Java don't support continuations. Ruby does.
Last I checked opcode caching only applied to languages that generated op-codes to work with. Secondly opcodes don't change the speed of the language, only cut down on compile time per request. If speed were such an incredible issue we wouldn't be using scripting languages at all, hence why I state that it's rarely much of an issue.Quote:
Really? Then why do people bother with using things op-code caching etc?
Ruby is slower than other languages, absolutely, never claimed otherwise. But I wouldn't say that the runtime system is broken, or in need of fixing, it's in need of optimization. Ruby was not designed as a web scripting language unlike PHP, and in fact Rails makes up a small portion of the overall use of Ruby. Of course it has some performance and deployment issues in a Web based environment, it wasn't until a couple of years ago that it was even being heavily used in that capacity.Quote:
Also, how far do you take this line, at some point speed will be an issue.
Anyhow, Ruby is slow...its runtime system needs to be fixed its that simple.
When I use ruby to parse that random CSV file, or do some LDAP lookups, or whatever I used it for today, I didn't care that it was some multiple of X times slower than perl, or php, or C#. What I did care about is that I wrote a script I needed, to accomplish a task in minutes. In this scenario speed of the language wasn't a concern. Is it too slow for you? I don't know, go find out.
And it's runtime system (interpreter) is being actively worked on, there are at least 3 major rewrites of it going on right now, I suggest you look at YARV, Rubinius, or JRuby if you're so inclined.
In order for this to be at all meaningful you'd first have to define "more expressive" in a matter that is objective. I think its completely silly to suggest that because language X has more features than language Y its "more expressive" and this is all you seem to suggest. You seem to merely have a bias towards quasi-functional languages and find them "more expressive" (this bias isn't unique to this thread). I have no trouble translating what I do in a functional language like ml or ocaml to a OO language like java, they are merely different ways to do the same thing. I prefer to use functional languages in some contexts and OO in others, but this has nothing to do with one being "more expressive" than the other.Quote:
Ruby is more expressive than PHP, Perl and Java.
Again, its great that Ruby works for you. But to toss out issues of speed as not important, is to ignore a major problem with Ruby. Also, I'm completely aware that people are working to fix matters, but there is currently nothing that is stable and fast. I don't like to waste my time waiting for a script to parse large text files, run an algorithm etc, many people feel the same way. My only point about speed in my previous posts where: Ruby is too slow for what I do. I never said its too slow for you, or the guy down the street.Quote:
I didn't care that it was some multiple of X times slower than perl, or php, or C#.
This is fun and all but maybe we should get back to the question that started this thread.
Are you still waiting matsuko?
I guess for me it comes down to a very organized way in which to approach your projects. There is a specific approach each and every time to how your site is organized. The entire directory structure is generated automatically through the "rails" command and boiler plate code is placed in auto-generated files. You can load up a (blank) page within a few seconds or maybe a minute or two of issuing the command.
The testing features are good for more advanced projects but maybe not necessary for beginners. I'm interested in them because I've done a little with other projects and found it invaluable.
The database abstraction shines. It is really quite simple to use/understand and it hold the promise that migrating to more powerful databases will be a painless experience. From experience, I realize that's rarely the case but we'll see.
So far I've been able to generate valid xhtml-strict markup and that's also a pretty nice accomplishment for a very automated framework.
* I'm still not sure if this is the silver bullet for web application development and I'll always work with a variety of programming languages but... I am looking at it a bit differently now whenever I spec out new projects.
I'm sure that there are others following this thread who have a few "Primary" reasons why they would use RoR.
Good luck,
Have you used Ruby to "parse large text files" or "run an algorithm", or are you just relying on the opinions of "many people [who] feel the same way"? As I'm sure the guy working for NOAA processing several gigs worth of satellite data constantly probably disagrees that Ruby can't "parse large text files".Quote:
Also, I'm completely aware that people are working to fix matters, but there is currently nothing that is stable and fast. I don't like to waste my time waiting for a script to parse large text files, run an algorithm etc, many people feel the same way. My only point about speed in my previous posts where: Ruby is too slow for what I do. I never said its too slow for you, or the guy down the street.
I'm done with this discussion, because it's fairly obvious you haven't done much more homework than read a couple of blogs and determine that Rails is too slow, so all of Ruby is useless to you. Fine, I just hope my comments will lead others to doing a bit more research than you have.
The features I mentioned are important. Using blocks you can abstract many things much better. Clean OO helps too. Ruby is powerful because you can mix multiple paradigms. The map() function in Ruby is very powerful because Ruby has OO. OO + map means that map is generic:
You can use this procedure for built-in collections and for your own collections. This example uses closures. You can simulate them:Code:
def times_n(n, collection)
collection.map{|x| x * n}
This is why people write this if they don't have a map:Code:
class TimesN
def initialize(n)
@n = n
def call(x)
return x * @n
def times_n(n, collection)
I think we can agree that closures make a language more expressive. This first program expresses the intent of the programmer more directly.Code:
def times_n(n, collection)
result = collection.class.new
# note that this is much harder in Java, but we have to
# because this should be a generic procedure.
# also note that this procedure is less generic than the previous procedures
# because this one doesn't work for trees, for example.
for x in collection
result << x * n
return result
You *cannot* easily translate Ruby to Java if a program uses continuations. Local changes to the Ruby program that uses continuations require global changes in the same Java program. I agree though that continuations aren't that useful ;-).
Who's using RoR in production?
The reason I ask is that the side discussion regarding the speed of the script although a little off the main topic is interesting and something that I've been looking at since I started compairing ASP.NET(C#) to ASP(VBScript) to PHP.
A side benefit of using RoR is that it keeps a log of activities whenever something happens. A page request, an entry into the database, a refresh, etc... It gets written to a log file and the actual speed with which an event takes is written to the file is recorded. The numbers represented are factual and this removes prejudice, speculation or opinion from the equation.
As I am still "taking it for a spin", I don't have a production application to check out the speed on but maybe Vinnie or someone else can provide us some factual information about what goes on in production. Here's a sample of some test activities to give you an idea of what you might see:
This is just a log entry of automated test of the form that submits simple form information into the database. Not much to see but it does show where the activities are spent; In this case it's all in the mySQL database which on my old XP P4 laptop is a little underpowered.Code:
Rendering within layouts/application
Rendering story/new
Completed in 0.00010 (10000 reqs/sec)
| Rendering: 0.00000 (0%)
| 200 OK [http://test.host/story/new]
The above represents an automated test of displaying a randomly chosen piece of information. Again, this is too simple an application to get an idea of whatgoes on in the real world so I hope someone who has production experience can provide some factual insight about the efficiencies or inneficiencies of a Rails app.Code:
Processing StoryController#index (for 0.0.0.0 at 2007-02-28 23:03:17) [GET]
Session ID:
Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"story"}
[4;35;1mStory Load (0.000000)[0m [0mSELECT * FROM stories ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1[0m
Rendering within layouts/application
Rendering story/index
Completed in 0.00010 (10000 reqs/sec)
| Rendering: 0.00000 (0%)
| 200 OK [http://test.host/story]
The current "winner" is a mongrel (a really cool C/Ruby web server) cluster, behind a load balanced proxy of some sort. While this is well and good, it doesn't scale extremely well. The Ruby interpreter, with the entire Rails stack loaded takes up a good chunk of memory (around or over 20mb if I remember correctly), that's PER instance, a typical mongrel setup is 1 or 2 mongrel instances PER processor, so you can easly have 80-100mb of RAM taken up, for JUST mongrel processes, not even the overhead of the loadbalancer processes to hand them off to mongrel.
Ruby/Rails is a lot closer in deployment currently to .NET/Java than it is to PHP. While Rails apps aren't compiled like .NET/Java, they both require some fairly heavy lifting by some form of application server. Rails problem thus far is that because of the way the Ruby interpreter currently works it's "hard" to have a true application server. But after YARV/Rubinius/JRuby get stable, you'll begin to see some really interesting work being done on the current mess of Rails deployment such as a useful mod_ruby that caches bytecode instead of having to relaunch the interpreter with every request, much like mod_python.
Probably more than you wanted/needed to know to answer your question!
1.) Its great that you are pointing out the obvious. 2.) Nobody said that its the "sole deciding factor" 3.) I was rather explicit that speed is important to me personally because of what I'm doing, I never claimed once that Ruby is too slow for anybody else.Quote:
just that it isn't the sole deciding factor in choice of language,
1. I never said Ruby can't parse large text files, rather its not nearly as efficient as some other languages (e.g., perl). And yes I've experimented with Ruby to this end.Quote:
Have you used Ruby to "parse large text files" or "run an algorithm", or are you just relying on the opinions of "many people [who] feel the same way"? As I'm sure the guy working for NOAA processing several gigs worth of satellite data constantly probably disagrees that Ruby can't "parse large text files".
2. If the guy at NOAA is using ruby to process several gigs worth of data he is an utter idiot...and likes to waste time/money (but its the US gov...so it wouldn't suprise me if they were using their pen/paper).
I have said little about what I've done with Ruby etc, but yeah instead of refuting me claim I'm ignorant about Ruby. My claims about Ruby's speed were: 1.) Its too slow for me, 2.) Its current stable runtime system is slower than other solutions, in some cases dramatically.Quote:
Fine, I just hope my comments will lead others to doing a bit more research than you have.
Yes and cholocate ice cream *is* the best! You claim a fact where there isn't one, and just as you can have a favourite colour you can have a favouriteQuote:
Yes I have a bias to towards (quasi)-functional languages. That's because they *are* very expressive.
programming paradigm.
No, I don't agree and I was already explicit about this. Different paradigms fit different situations, no paradigm is universally "more expressive" than another.Quote:
I think we can agree that closures make a language more expressive.
Your kiddy examples (you do love these sorts of examples) don't show anything interesting. I personally don't feel either paradigm is better for web development, well actually I do prefer OO or procedural languages for web work. Now, if you are writing algorithms on inductively defined structures than a language like ML is awesome.


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Here in Colorado, Scouts are all over the place, which means that Denver-area wrecking yards get a steady stream of worn-out or abandoned examples. So far in this series, we've seen this '70, this '71, this '73, and this '74, and I've skipped over a bunch of totally-stripped Scouts that weren't worth photographing. Today's find has donated a lot of parts to the local Scout ecosystem, but still intact enough to be of interest. Read More >
Category: Down On The Junkyard
Just after I wrote that non-Country Squire Ford LTDs were rare Junkyard Finds (we've had three so far: this '69, this '71, and this '72), I found this majestic yellow four-door hardtop in a San Francisco Bay Area wrecking yard. As an added bonus, it's a Brougham!
In California, Volvo 240s are going to the crusher in huge numbers as the traditional Volvo-buying demographic transitions to the Prius. This has been going on for at least a decade, and every wrecking yard in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas has at least ten 240s in stock these days. Here in Colorado, the pace is slower but I still see a fair number of 240s (and 140s) in Denver-area yards. Today's find is an early example of the breed, very straight and completely rust-free. Despite what fanatical 240 worshipers say, the 240 two-doors just aren't valuable enough to be worth saving once they get a little tired. Read More >
Prices for (non-164) Alfa Romeos have been getting somewhat crazy in recent years, but it's still possible to get a restorable 1970s or 1980s Spider for non-insane bucks. The proof of this is that rougher examples still show up now and then at the self-service wrecking yards I frequent. In this series so far, we've seen this '74, this '78, and now today's '81. Read More >
We don't normally put the words "Camry" and "rare" together in the same sentence, but this series is all about finding rare-but-not-valuable oddities (e.g., one of the very last GM J-body. When it comes to rare Camrys, there's the seldom-seen-in-the-wild Camry All-Trac and the nearly-as-rare Camry Liftback, and I'd found exactly one example of each in wrecking yards prior to today's find. Yes, here's another first-gen Camry liftback, this time dressed in whatever Toyota called this strange metallic purplish-brown hue. Read More >
By the final years of the Malaise Era, Chrysler had their econobox needs covered on the one hand by much-modified rebadged Simcas, and on the other by not-at-all-modified rebadged Mitsubishis. These cars were no worse than their Ford and GM competitors (which isn't saying much), but the inherent cheapness of the 4th-gen Mitsubishi-built Colt meant that most of them weren't worth fixing after about 1992, and these cars are rare indeed nowadays. In this series, we'd seen just one example of this generation of Colt/Mirage/Champ prior to today's find. Read More >
The Storm, a rebadged second-gen Isuzu Impulse sold by GM's short-lived Geo division, was with us for just the 1990 through 1993 model years and didn't leave much of an impression. I see the occasional Storm in wrecking yards these days, but it takes a factory-hot-rod GSi version to get me to reach for my camera. We saw this '90 Storm GSi in a Colorado yard a couple years back, and now I've found another in Northern California. Read More >
Ford's first American-built front-wheel-drive compact car was so much better than the miserable Pinto it replaced that it sold in huge quantities. The first-generation GT wasn't especially quick, but it looked cool (by 1980s standards) and probably swiped a few sales away from the Civic Si and Volkswagen GTI. Nearly all of the pre-Mazda Escort GTs wore out, depreciated to oblivion, and got crushed during the 1990s, but I still see the occasional example in wrecking yards these days. Here's one that I spotted in Northern California in December. Read More >
We've had quite a few Ford LTD Country Squire Junkyard Finds, but just a couple of regular non-wagon LTDs. This '71 LTD Brougham and this '69 LTD were about it prior to today, and both of those cars were four-doors. Today we've got a big green LTD Brougham coupe, which I photographed in the San Francisco Bay Area back in March. Read More >
The Subaru XT is a car you won't see often in most parts of the country, but Denver junkyards have tremendous quantities of old Subarus and so I see them on a regular basis here. So far, this series has had this '85 XT Turbo, this '91 XT, this '91 XT6, and now today's '87 XT. Read More >


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By Robert Simonson
13 Nov 2012
|Photo by Aubrey Reuben
"Without missing a beat," Steve O'Donnell remembered, "Mark said, 'Between bleak and bleakest.'"
The story was one of many examples of the late writer's mordant, yet impish humor that were shared at a Nov. 12 memorial at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Mark O'Donnell died suddenly on Aug. 6, 2012. He was 58.
The speakers — who including members of the Hairspray team, colleagues from O'Donnell's days at Harvard, and artists who worked on his early playwriting efforts produced at Playwrights Horizons — told of a man collectively remembered as a peerless wit, one of the cleverest people they'd ever met; and a man who was, somewhat paradoxically, also one of the nicest and more generous souls imaginable.
Steve O'Donnell, who was Mark's twin, and is a writer himself (he created the top ten list on the David Letterman show) recalled growing up with a brother who was "a zen master with a puppy mind." He would know the names and biographies of every bit Hollywood character actor, and, when still young, began writing his own book series for made-up characters like "Mousey." At the back of each book, he would write, "Have you read these other Mousey books by Mark O'Donnell?"
When Mark O'Donnell grew up and published actual books, at book singings he would scribble quirky private messages in each volume's end pages, like "Don't tell the others, but you're my favorite reader," or "Look for a veiled reference to you on page 8." "He didn't have to do that," said Steve, "but he did." When going through Mark's apartment, Steve found more bizarre comic detritus, like a blank matchbook on which Mark has scrawled "Le Club Stupid."
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Worcester, Mass.- April 11, 2008- Sophomore Nikki Hay (Norwalk, CT) won four events to help spark Springfield's first place finish at a tri-meet hosted by WPI this afternoon at Norcross Track. The Pride finished with 217 points while Coast Guard notched 97 and WPI ended the meet with 54.
Hay started off the meet placing first in both the long (16-10) and the triple jump (35-7) and then capped off her day winning both the 100 meter (12.80) and the 200 meter dashes (26.49).
Senior Jenn McBride (Mechanicville, NY) took home first for the Pride in the 400 (59.98) while freshman Lacey Cartier (York, ME) and Alyssa Bringham (Penacook, NH) tallied wins in the 800 (2:20.54) and the 5000 (18:42.40). Senior Ashley Palmer (Holyoke, MA) and sophomore Catherine Croce (Wallkill, NY) also took the top spots in the 100 (16.18) and the 400 meter hurdles (1:08.50).
Palmer leaped to a first place finish in the high jump (4-11.75) while junior Kelsey Bishop (Warwick, RI) was the winner in the hammer throw (153-11). Freshman Katie Bolton (Epping, NH) also finished first in the javelin (111-5).
For the Engineers, senior Amanda Tichy (Norwich, CT) and sophomore Liz Schreiber (Ashfield, MA) each broke a school record while Krista Baker (Medway, MA) won the discus with a toss of 115-1.
Tichy placed first in the pole vault breaking the previous school mark of 9-0.25 which was held by Amanda Ruksznis while Schriber finished third overall with a time of 1:10.91 in the 400 meter hurdles. The previous standard of 1:11.1 was set by Alison Houck in 2003.
Junior Charlotte Delorey (Kalamazoo, MI) paced Coast Guard winning the 3000 meter steeplechase with a time of 12:55.99. Senior Victoria Stevens (Lake Wallenpaupack, PA) placed first in the shot put (34-10.25) while JoEllen Arons took the top spot in the 1500 meter run (4:53.90).
In relay action for Springfield, Hay, McBride, junior Katie Parente (Torrington, CT) and sophomore Nicole Reynolds (Riverside, RI) took home the top spot in the 4x100 (51.02) while McBride, Reynolds, senior Kristyn Meade (Raynham, MA) and Cartier placed first in the 4x400 team


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L to R R to L Alpha
Climb up to the first bolt and then head left to the second bolt, crux. Climb straight up to the third bolt and then trad to the anchor. You can see the three bolts from the ground. Thin face climbing, not as good as gunboat and not as well traveled. Second pitch is about 5.6 to the tree ledge. [First two bolts are from a line that continues left to a cam flake then up to a one bolt anchor.]
30 ft left of Gunboat, just left of Silent Treatment and just left of a large pine tree which is at the base of the cliff.
P1, 3 bolts and lots of small cams. Bolted anchor at 100'. P2 trad to rap tree, soon to be bolted anchor.


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Sourdough Stuffing with Caramelized Onion, Shallot and Roasted Garlic
What on earth is a mother of seven doing posting about cooking for two? I started out this two-fer crusade simply wanting to come up with alternatives to the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. This turned out even more delicious than I had imagined.
Hands-On Time: 20 minutes
Ready In: 45 minutes
Yield: 2 servings
1 1/2 cups sourdough bread cubes
1 small onion, thinly sliced
2 cloves roasted garlic*
1 small shallot, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup chicken stock
1/4 tsp ground sage
1/4 tsp dry thyme
- Toast bread cubes in a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat until lightly brown and dry, about 5 minutes.
- Caramelize onion and shallot with a small amount of olive oil in a small pan over medium heat. This takes about 10 minutes.
- Push the garlic from the peels and mash well. Add to the onions and shallot.
- Toss onions, shallot and garlic with bread cubes and moisten with stock.
- Put into a small baking dish and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees F.
*Ingredient Tips
Roast garlic for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F.


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North Andover — Ursula E. (Niemszyk) Cebula, 87, a 50-year resident of North Andover, died Sunday, March 17, 2013 in Newburyport. She was born in Dortmund, Germany on May 22, 1925, daughter to the late Franz N. and Emma (Lukow) Niemszyk.
Raised and educated in Dortmund, she was a graduate of the local high school and studied and trained to be a draftsman in Germany before the war. She was employed by Raytheon as a draftsman for 25 years before her retirement. Ursula was very well traveled, visiting Europe, Africa, the Middle East and returning to Germany several times with her husband, James.
Ursula is survived by her daughters, Ramona Preston and her husband, David; Ronnie McKay and her husband, Scott; and Robin Monaco and her husband, Joel; grandchildren, Ryan Lally, Tara Lally, Brittany Monaco, Tiffany Allen and James Clark Jr.; great-granddaughter Eva Tasker; and niece, Cristal Bendigs. She was predeceased by her husband, James Harvey, in 1962, and her second husband, James Cebula, in 2000.
ARRANGEMENTS: Family and friends may call Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Twomey LeBlanc & Conte Funeral Home, 193 High St., Newburyport. Her funeral service will be held on Thursday at 10 a.m. in the Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Lawrence.
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This question is of vital importance = it is vitally important.
This work is of dubious quality = The quality of this work is dubious.
'For' does not mean 'because' here.
This car is too expensive for me. (I cannot afford it)
This car is too expensive for me to run. (I cannot afford to run it).
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Course DescriptionsThe adult-friendly environment includes hybrid courses with classes held on alternate weekends (Friday evening and Saturday morning) at the Bryan College Chattanooga campus and required Internet activities between class meetings.
Required Courses (All Courses 3 Credits; 36-Hour Program)
|Language Study Methods and Materials
|Foundations of Biblical Interpretation
|Cultural Contexts of the OT and NT
|Christian Theology I
|Worldview and Apologetics I
|History of Christianity
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|Church Leadership
|Vocation of Ministry
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Course DescriptionsCSM 511 Language Study Methods & Materials
This course is designed to 1) introduce the student to the most recent computer tools available for Bible study and interpretation together with the best internet resources for Bible study, and 2) introduce the student to how major schools of interpretation use Bible study methods to arrive at their particular interpretations of the Bible.
CSM 513 Foundations of Biblical Interpretation
This course will focus on foundational principles of biblical research and interpretation, covering various hermeneutical approaches and Bible study methods. Special attention is given to the importance of interpreting the Scriptures through the lenses of context, grammar, semantics, genre, canon, and theology.
CSM 517 Cultural Contexts of the OT and NT
This course will survey the cultural contexts of the Bible by focusing on the geographical, historical, social, political, religious, philosophical, linguistic, and literary backgrounds of the biblical books and authors. These contexts include the ancient Near East (Old Testament) and Second Temple Judaism and Greco-Roman culture (New Testament).
CSM 519 Christian Theology I
This course is intended to be a study of the science of God and His relations to the universe. Includes the major doctrines that have constituted the history of Christian thought, specifically: prolegomena, revelation and authority of the Bible, God, the Trinity, the person and work of the Father, creation, anthropology and sin.
CSM 520 Christian Theology II
This course is intended to be a study of the science of God concerning Christian thought on: the person and work of Christ, salvation, Christian life, Biblical Covenants, the church, and prophecy.
CSM 522, 533 Worldview and Apologetics I & II
This two-semester course is an in-depth study of the claims and dissonances of major worldviews, with an emphasis on the Christian theistic worldview. The students will learn a systematic, logical way to define and defend the Christian belief system. To this end, attention will be paid to various apologetic methods as tools for understanding and defending a Christian worldview. Contemporary social and cultural issues will be examined so that students will be better equipped to communicate the Gospel and minister in a pluralistic world. The course also involves thinking through a Christian value system and some ethical implications of the Christian worldview. It includes in-depth reading and writing from significant texts, journals, and popular literature in worldview and apologetic studies. The course will consist of two independent semesters, each addressing different issues in philosophy, theology, culture, and apologetics.
CSM 524 Ecclesiology
An exegetical and theological study, this course will focus upon key passages from the New Testament and trace the development of the church's thinking about itself. Although the course will consider historical questions, it is primarily concerned with the understanding of the church as presented in the New Testament and how this ecclesiology might impact present conceptions of the church, worldviews and apologetics.
CSM 526 History of Christianity
An understanding of the history of Christianity will be developed using parallel themes: major historical events, and history of Christian thought. Students will read about and discuss selected writings from leading Christian thinkers from the second century through the twentieth century. Some of these are St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, John Wesley, John Wesley, Richard Hooker, Henry Ward Beecher, Walter Rauschenbusch, Amy Cartwright, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
CSM 531 Church Leadership
This course is designed to trace the biblical, theological, and historical foundations of church leadership. Particular attention will be given to the various leadership roles within the church and forms of church government throughout biblical and contemporary history. Issues and matters related to the contemporary church will be examined and discussed, with specific focus being given to the role of church leadership related to such issues and matters.
CSM 537 Vocation of Ministry
This course is designed to deal with the issues regarding ministry as vocation from a biblical and practical framework as it relates to their individual ministry callings. Particular attention will be given to ministry as calling, cultivation and creation of culture in ministry, family and ministry, and specific tasks and roles of the individual minister. The student will describe a comprehensive ministry philosophy as part of this course.
CSM 539 Capstone Seminar
This course is designed to 1) allow the student to develop a project touching on an issue of interest to the current Christian community, and 2) bring to bear the skills acquired in the MA/CS program in order to analyze the issue and articulate a Christian approach to that issue.


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A new season for Jacksonville begins this weekend as the Dolphins travel to Lipscomb for the start of Atlantic Sun Confernece play. The three game series begins on Friday at 6:00 pm CST followed by two nine innings games in a double header on
Saturday at 2:00 pm.
Coming off back-to-back one run losses to #17 Indiana and the College of Charleston, Jacksonville is looking to wipe the slate clean and make a run at the 2014 A-Sun Championship. Lipscomb enters this weekend riding an eight game winning streak and leads the A-Sun with a .299 team batting average and 107 walks in 18 games.
Starting things off on the mound Friday night will be LHP Josh Baker (1-0). Baker earned his first collegiate win last Friday going 6.2 innings in a 4-3 win over #17 Indiana. He leads the Dolphins and ranks third in the A-Sun with a 1.31 ERA this season. Lipscomb is countering with Ian Martinez-McGraw, who is 1-1 with a 4.82 ERA this spring. He allowed six runs on six hits in six innings to earn his first win over the year over Oakland last Friday.
On Saturday RHP Alex McRae (1-3) will start for Jacksonville. McRae owns 22 strikeouts in 23 innings pitched this season, posting a 5.09 ERA. RHP Hunter Brothers will make his third start in five apperances for Lipscomb. Brotheres comes in with an 8.36 ERA and a 0-0 record in 14 innings pitched.
RHP Justin Russell (2-1) is set to start the final game for Jacksonville opposite RHP Denton Norman for the Bison. Russell has been a part of two shutouts in four starts this season. He owns a 4.91 ERA in 18.1 innings pitched. Last time out vs #17 Indiana he went 4.1 innings allowing four runs, three earned. Norman is 2-1 with a 2.14 ERA in four starts covering 21.0 innings. He allowed four hits and two runs in six innings of a 7-2 Lipscomb win over Oakland last Sunday.
Sophomore Connor Marabell leads the Dolphins and ranks fifth in the A-Sun with a .373 average. After hitting .667 in the series last week vs #17 Indiana he added a double against Charleston on Tuesday to extend his team best hitting streak to nine straight games. Senior Scott Schaub has been just as impressive at the plate hitting safley in all six games he has started this season. In the last six games Schaub has recorded three multi-RBI games and four multi-hit games. He is batting .500 (10-for-20) this year. Leadoff man Angelo Amendolare is coming off a two-hit game against Charleston on Tuesday. He has reched base safely in each of the last 13 games.
Series History
The Dolphins took one of three vs Lipscomb last season at Sessions Stadium.
Next Up For Jacksonville
The Dolphins are home for a mid-week game vs USF on Tuesday at 6:00 pm and then travel to Bethune-Cookman on Wednesday.


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After pleading guilty last
week in order to escape the death penalty, today Ariel Castro will learn how
much time he'll spend behind bars.
His sentence is expected to
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Overnight, prosecutors released
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The newest developers putting pressure on our present mayor want to build more shops and condos downtown, in our waterfront park. The proposed contemporary commercial buildings will in block river views, disfigure a historic downtown, and take up public open space that is protected, in trust, for Newburyport citizens. It is not a good trade.
Has our city government forgotten that in the 70s, citizen advocates famously "stopped the bulldozers" when developers tried to build a strip mall downtown. By resisting this kind of ugly development Newburyport citizens gained national attention, an attractive historic downtown, and lots of money from the U.S. Treasury.
Presently we hear that NRA property, placed in trust for the betterment of life of Newburyport citizens, may be sold or leased to … a private developer! There is apparently new surge of people who are lead to believe that more buildings will add to the revenue of our city and help our present shopkeepers make more money.
Preliminary calculations reveal that annual tax revenue gained from the two or three new commercial buildings proposed on the waterfront would be minimum at best, unless even more development is allowed. So, what if those two or three proposed buildings are attached together, maybe a fourth added, and then an access road thrown in for the new waterfront mall and hotel? It could happen. In fact, that is the only development scenario possible for adding a greater revenue stream for the city that makes a difference.
The point is if we place more buildings in our central downtown open space we would only loose things more precious in the long run; free-flowing pedestrian and automotive traffic, visual and physical access to the river from the city, and, available waterfront parkland. Citizens like myself are not anti-development, but all that glitters is not gold.
Before the city and the NRA get hyper-focused on yet another attempt at commercial enterprise at the expense of our open space, our historic downtown, and our protected riverside lets think, again. What do we want and where do we want it?
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The remixed and remastered Megadeth albums released in 2004 aren't your typical cash-ins. They're improvements over the originals: group leader Dave Mustaine did the remixing and remastering himself, making especially significant revisions to the earlier albums, and he includes insightful liner notes for each reissue, including track-by-track commentary for the bonus tracks, as well as lyrics and period photos. Along with So Far, So Good…So What! and Rust in Peace, Peace Sells…But Who's Buying? was most due for such a reissue as this. Originally recorded in early 1986 on a modest budget, this landmark album didn't boast pristine production, yet it was rightfully crowned a landmark release and remains one (one of the most influential metal albums of its decade and certainly one of the few truly definitive thrash albums, right up there with Metallica's Master of Puppets and Slayer's Reign in Blood, both of which were also released in 1986). Mustaine's liner notes help shed some light on the wondrous events surrounding this storied album, the band's second and the final one featuring guitarist Chris Poland and drummer Gar Samuelson. The four bonus tracks are alternate mixes by Randy Burns and aren't too remarkably novel in contrast. Peace Sells was so key to the development of metal and so influential to the then burgeoning thrash movement, it's a real godsend to have it remixed and remastered like this. Such treatment makes an already essential album for metal fans all the more essential. Beyond doubt, if you're going to own one and only one Megadeth album, make it this one. And if you've always wondered why Megadeth were so followed, here's a chief reason. The few albums that followed Peace Sells are damn good also, but this is the one that started it all. It's the foundation of the band's legacy and one of the best beginning to end metal albums ever.
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This is the first cd I listened to out of my set of remasters I purchased. This is the cd that put Megadeth on the map so to speak. Dave Mustaine did a fabulous job on this cd. It just sounds incredible! I remember when this cd first came out when I was 16 and in high school. Someone I knew at school lent me his copy and I thought it was an awesome CD.
The three best tracks are "Wake Up Dead, The Conjuring and Peace Sells." However, actually all the tracks are good. There isn't a bad song on this cd. The 4 bonus tracks are interesting to listen to as well.
The cd booklet includes a new commentary by Dave Mustaine about "Peace Sells But Who's Buying/" It also features some cool photographs of the band in 1986.
Long time and new Megadeth fans will be pleased. I'm glad Dave Mustaine is back to playing in top form. I can't wait until the new Megadeth record "The System Has Failed" comes out on Sept. 14, 2004. I'm also looking forward to seeing them live in the upcoming tour.
In 1986, when Peace Sells…But Who's Buying? came out, most of the world was either listening to the new wave techno MTV bands or they were partying with hair-metal bands like Motley Crue and Ratt and Poison and the likes. Underground metal was starting to make some noise and die-hards were spotted at school wearing t-shirts from bands like Slayer and Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth and Metallica and such.
Born of the vengeance of Dave Mustaine and his willingness to to anything necessary to show up his former bandmates in Metallica, Megadeth was born. The fastest, thrashiest, most obnoxious speed metal band that ever lived was what Mustaine was going for. But he wanted to have talent around him, too. Not only was Megadeth thrashing it up, they were techinically good musicians. Chris Poland on guitar and Gar Samuelson on drums round out Dave Mustaine and Dave Ellefson and Megadeth head into their second album.
"Wake Up Dead" a Megadeth staple tune and a certified rocker. The lyrics are a little juvenille now that we can look back, but otherwise a very cool tune. "The Conjuring" musically stunning, lyrically trying to be evil in the Mercyful Fate Satan-is-good kind of sense, except he's asking us to cojure Dave Mustaine instead of Lucifer. Kinda freaky cool. "Peace Sells" one of the greatest metal tunes ever written and of course Megadeth's most recognized tune. The bass line was the music for MTV news forever. Great song! Very anti-establishment! Sit up and notice me! This was Megadeth extreme! "Devils Island" a hard rocking tune based on the classic novel Papillon, showed us Mustaine was literate as well as pissed off. Great. "Good Mourning/Black Friday" another musical stunner with murderous, I-will-cut-you-down lyrics, almost feels like a leftover from Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good! Metal, but kinda regressive. "Bad Omen" starts off like Good Mourning/Black Friday, a little eerie. Truns into a thrash-metal burner. Not really a memorable tune, missing some hooks. "I Ain't Superstitious" probably the most straight-forward rock tune, a cover, of course. "My Last Words" same intro as Good Mourning & Bad Omen? Soundz a little familiar. All out thrash metal.
Overall, Peace Sells… wil always be remembered as one of the pioneering albums of Thrash & Speed Metal. Truly great! A classic. One of the greatest heavy metal albums ever recorded.
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A lot of people give Slayer's Reign in Blood more credibility than it deserves. Of course I'm not forgetting the impact that record had on the metal scene, and it was definitely one of the most influential albums of all time, no doubt, but when compared to this gem, it seems like just a generic thrash record, to me anyway.
I should note that while I love thrash, it doesn't come anywhere close to being my favorite genre. I do enjoy the brutal whiplash of Slayer and Sepultura, as well as the melodic thrash/speed combo of Nevermore, and also the 90's neo-thrash of Pantera and Machine Head – but I don't think any of those bands could top this (except for maybe Nevermore who truly are an amazing band). While those bands were writing songs about Hell and Satan (well, Slayer anyways), Megadeth tackled the more realistic issues of drugs, sex and politics (putting emphasis on that last one). Peace Sells… was their 2nd full-length record (first on Capitol) and the one that propelled Megadeth into metal stardom. It was here that they released one of their biggest hits, "Peace Sells", my favorite Megadeth song by far. Sure, there were great songs like "Hangar 18″ and "Symphony of Destruction" in later years – but none of which had such energy and honesty as this thrasher. Offering such memorable lyrics as "when there's a new way/I'll be the first in line/but it better work this time" this was probably the catchiest offering of the album. Of course, who could forget the other single, "Wake Up Dead" – a song which offered a decadent solo halfway through that lasted about a minute. And of course we have the faster-paced "Devil's Island" and "My Last Words" – two of the best Megadeth songs in my opinion.
In reality, there's not much to complain about here. The remastered version includes the original mixes of all the songs before they were re-recorded for the Capitol version in 1986 – displaying a few differences from those of the final version. This extends the album length, which was a bit short, and also provides a better sound. It isn't worth buying if you have the original, obviously, but it's nice to have. All in all, I think Dave and the guys really had something special with this gem. A metal milestone that raised the bar for quality thrash.
Many music fans consider this to be one of thrash/speed metal's best records. "Peace Sells…But Who's Buying?" is doubtlessly Dave Mustaine's first masterpiece. It is a classic, standard-setting album which is one of the best and most powerful and contagious releases of the 1980's (right up there with Metallica's "Master of Puppets" and Slayer's "Reign In Blood"). The famous album opener, "Wake Up Dead," has a pair of guitar solos, as well as a couple tempo changes, and "The Conjuring" is a catchy song, with fast, propulsive riffs. Next, the title track has more catchy, chugging guitars, several small solos, and an infectious sing-along near the end. "Devil's Island" and "Good Mourning/Black Friday" both have tasty solos (and "Good Mourning" also has a very catchy chorus and almost buzzsaw riffs). From front to back, this C.D. is very memorable and nearly perfect. It's a must own for every thrash and metal collection. The bottom line is, if you like heavy metal, why wouldn't you buy "Peace Sells…But Who's Buying?"? Plus, I strongly recommend getting the remastered version of this C.D. The four remixes at the end aren't anything especially interesting, but, overall, the album's sound quality is MUCH improved.


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