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M.-S. Chen, K.G. Shin, "Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Routing in Hypercube Multicomputers," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 1406-1416, December, 1990.
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A connected hypercube with faulty links and/or nodes is called an injured hypercube. A distributed adaptive fault-tolerant routing scheme is proposed for an injured hypercube in which each node is required to know only the condition of its own links. Despite its simplicity, this scheme is shown to be capable of routing messages successfully in an injured n-dimensional hypercube as long as the number of faulty components is less than n. Moreover, it is proved that this scheme routes messages via shortest paths with a rather high probability, and the expected length of a resulting path is very close so that of a shortest path. Since the assumption that the number of faulty components is less than n in an n-dimensional hypercube might limit the usefulness of the above scheme, a routing scheme based on depth-first search which works in the presence of an arbitrary number of faulty components is introduced. Due to the insufficient information on faulty components, however, the paths chosen by this scheme may not always be the shortest. To guarantee all messages to be routed via shortest paths, the authors propose to equip every node with more information than that on its own links. The effects of this additional information on routing efficiency are analyzed, and the additional information to be kept at each node for the shortest path routing is determined. Several examples and remarks are given to illustrate the results.
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In Part 7, I introduce the basics of building a WCF PeerChannel application. Using a simple console application, the following steps are shown:
While basic, it demonstrates the core steps used in PeerChannel applications. It also sets the stage for a more detailed look at the Buzzword Bingo application shown in Part 6.
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In Part 6 of the Peer to Peer Series, I set the stage for learning how to use WCF's PeerChannel. After a simple overview of PeerChannel, I show a sample application that uses PeerChannel to play buzzword bingo. The focus of this installment is to give an understanding of some of the key considerations one must think about dealing with the message broadcasts that comprise a PeerChannel application.
The next few installments will focus extensively on building peer applications using PeerChannel.
Other documentation for PNRP:
For those of you that want the Code Camp presentation, you can get it here. The code can be downloaded here.
In Part 5 of the Peer to Peer Series, I show a sample application that uses PNRP to connect a client application to a server application using WCF and PNRP Peer Host Names. The details of the actual WCF Service implementation. Instead, I will focus on those areas of leveraging PNRP to establish connections via WCF.
The video will show a sample application that is comprised of a client and a server application. You could use a more "peer-to-peer" duplex-style of communication, but the client-server arrangement makes the two key parts of establishing a WCF connection easier to explain.
When hosting a WCF service, the key code from the IntelServiceHost.cs file is shown below:
this.PeerRegistration.Start(peerClassifier, port);
Uri tcpUri = new Uri(string.Format("net.tcp://{0}:{1}/IntelService", this.PeerRegistration.PeerUri, port));
_serviceHost = new ServiceHost(service, tcpUri);
NetTcpBinding tcpBinding = new NetTcpBinding(SecurityMode.None);
_serviceHost.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(IIntelService), tcpBinding, "");
The PeerRegistration property exposes a wrapper class around the PNRP API. The Start method registers the application with a given peer classifier and port as an unsecure peer name in the Global PNRP Cloud. The PeerUri property passes back the peerhostname. That uri is used to setup a new Uri, along with the port, that is then used to configure the ServiceHost using a NetTcpBinding. Some of this could have been configured in the application's config file, but I put it all here so you can see how the different parts relate.
The client side of the equation is even easier (found in the IntelClient.cs file):
PeerNameResult peerRecord = PeerResolution.ResolveHostName(hostPeerName);
System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding netBinding = new NetTcpBinding(SecurityMode.None);
EndpointAddress endpointAddress = new EndpointAddress(string.Format("net.tcp://{0}:{1}/IntelService", peerRecord.Uri, peerRecord.Port));
IntelServiceProxy = new IntelProxy(netBinding, endpointAddress);
The PeerResolution class is another wrapper around the PNRP API, this time providing resolving a given unsecure peer name in the Global PNRP cloud. It returns an object containing the remote peer's peerhostname and port. The rest of the code is just setting up the client side of the WCF connection.
Download the Demo Code
Building on the examples for the first four installments, I whipped up a little WPF app that uses PNRP. You can create registrations and look them up. It is a good example of using the various features of PNRP to form the foundation of a P2P application. I banged this app out pretty quickly so no snarking on things that may be incorrect, designed poorly, whatever.
Download PeerToPeer Code Here
In Part 4 of the Peer to Peer Series, I modify the Resolve program to find Peer Names using the asynchronous methods. Below is a very simple example of using the ResolveAsync method:
PeerNameResolver resolver = new PeerNameResolver();
resolver.ResolveCompleted += new EventHandler<ResolveCompletedEventArgs>(resolver_ResolveCompleted);
resolver.ResolveAsync(new PeerName(classifier, PeerNameType.Secured), Guid.NewGuid());
catch (PeerToPeerException ex)
// There are other standard exceptions you can also catch - see docs
Console.WriteLine("PeerToPeer Excpetion: {0)", ex.Message);
static void resolver_ResolveCompleted(object sender, ResolveCompletedEventArgs e)
if (!e.Cancelled && e.Error == null && e.PeerNameRecordCollection != null)
records = e.PeerNameRecordCollection;
There is also a ResolveProgress event you can also wire up. As the name implies, it will fire periodically to indicate the progress being made in resolving the Peer Name. It was not overly useful when resolving a Peer Name that had a small number of results, but your mileage may vary.
The one thing that is also a "brute force" implementation in the demo code is how I pass a Guid.NewGuid() into the ResolveAsync method. The Guid is being used as the UserState parameter in the method, and can actually be any Object. In a real implementation where you may have multiple ResovleAsync requests in-flight at any one time, you would want to implement a tracking system using this UserState parameter so you could match up the corresponding ResolveCompleted event with the correct initiating request. The ResolveCompleteEventArgs parameter contains the UserState used to initiate the request, so the matching is pretty straightforward. I did not go the extra mile and implement that since the demo only fired a single ResolveAsync request. You cannot pass in a null UserState object, so I went with a simple Guid for no particularly good reason.
In Part 3 of the Peer to Peer Series, I add another Command Prompt application to the demo solution and use the PNRP API to resolve a Peer Name using C#. As with registering a Peer Name, resolving Peer Names is straightforward:
PeerNameResolver resolver = new PeerNameResolver();try{ records = resolver.Resolve(new PeerName(classifier, PeerNameType.Unsecured)); if (records.Count > 0) { foreach (var record in records) { Console.WriteLine("***Peer: {0},record.PeerName.ToString()); Console.Writeline("***Host Name: {0}, record.PeerName.PeerHostName); Console.Writeline("***Comment: {0}", record.Comment); foreach (var endpoint in record.EndPointCollection) Console.WriteLine("\tEndpoint: {0}, Port: {1}", endpoint.Address.ToString(), endpoint.Port); Console.WriteLine(); } }}catch (PeerToPeerException ex){ //Other standard execptions can also be caught Console.WriteLine("PeerToPeer Excpetion: {0)", ex.Message);}
try{ records = resolver.Resolve(new PeerName(classifier, PeerNameType.Unsecured)); if (records.Count > 0) { foreach (var record in records) { Console.WriteLine("***Peer: {0},record.PeerName.ToString()); Console.Writeline("***Host Name: {0}, record.PeerName.PeerHostName); Console.Writeline("***Comment: {0}", record.Comment); foreach (var endpoint in record.EndPointCollection) Console.WriteLine("\tEndpoint: {0}, Port: {1}", endpoint.Address.ToString(), endpoint.Port); Console.WriteLine(); } }}catch (PeerToPeerException ex){ //Other standard execptions can also be caught Console.WriteLine("PeerToPeer Excpetion: {0)", ex.Message);}
One of the interesting things about resolving a Peer Name is that the resulting PeerNameRecords include the endpoint information for each of the Peer Names found. This means you can establish direct connections with those peers if necessary. I will show how to do just that in an upcoming screencast. Of course, that assumes we don't have any firewalls or other types of security blockades preventing direct communication.
The example in this installment is done synchronously. In the next screencast, I will show you how you can do the same operation asynchronously. This is useful because the Resolve method can take quite a while to return so your program's execution is blocked while waiting for the method to complete. This is especially bad in the case of GUI applications since the app will become non-responsive while waiting for Resolve to finish.
In Part Two of the Peer to Peer Screencast series by SlickThought Productions, we look at using C# and the PNRP API to register a peer name. This example uses a simple Command Prompt application to register the Peer Name, but the same techniques can be used to register a Peer Name from a WinForm or WPF application. It could even be used inside a Windows Service which opens up some interesting scenarios as well.
Using the API is very simple. Here is the main code section from the demo:
PeerName peerName = new PeerName(classifier, PeerNameType.Secured);
using (PeerNameRegistration registration = new PeerNameRegistration(peerName, 8080))
// Do stuff
catch (PeerToPeerException ex)
// There are other possible statndard exceptions to catch
// See documentation on for details
Pretty straightforward. One of the interesting things you can do with a Peer Name is add a Comment and Data to the registration. Doing so is straightforward:
registration.Comment = "My Comment";UnicodeEncoding encoder = new UnicodeEncoding();byte[] data = encoder.GetBytes("Some Data");registration.Data = data;
In the snippet above, I am adding a simple string to the Comment property. For the Data property, I am converting a simple string to an array of bytes and passing that to the property. In the case of the Data property, you can pass in any byte array you want, so instead of a string I could have passed in an image, a data blob, whatever. In the case of the Comment property, you are limited to 39 Unicode characters, and the Data property is limited to 4,096 bytes.
The important thing to remember when working with PNRP and registering a Peer Name is that the process that called the Start method must remain open. As soon as that process shuts down, the Peer Name registration is lost.
This kick-off screencast introduces you to the foundation of Peer-to-Peer applications, PNRP. Peer Name Resolution Protocol is the the underlying mechanism used by applications to discover peers on a network. This can either be a local subnet or the Internet at large. One of the great things about PRNP is that is even works across NAT devices.
In this screencast, I introduce you some fundamental PNRP concepts and show how you can use the command line to test out the basics. This screencast is not intended to be a deep dive technical exploration. Rather, it lays a sufficient foundation for you to understand what is going on in future screencasts and lets you get started building P2P applications as soon as possible.
If you are interested in more technical information on PRNP, check out the following links:
You can watch the first installment of the P2P series using the links below:
With some recent announcements from a big Internet company whose name cannot be mentioned, I went off on my own expedition into the dark corners of the .NET and Windows platform to see what cool technology treasures may be lurking there. If you are like me, you may have heard something about P2P technologies being delivered for Windows. And if you were like me, you didn't really pay much attention to it at the time since only file sharing, music stealing people cared about peer to peer technologies.
Well, let me tell you, my friend, that was a very wrong assumption! There is a ton of amazing P2P technologies in Windows and .NET, and they make the creation of amazing new applications possible. Ever had an idea where your app would need to dynamically find another computer and communicate with it but both computers might be around the world, not registered with DNS, and hiding behind a NAT device? PNRP in Windows makes that easy! Every thought of having a global hashtable to store all kinds of data that could be retrieved by your app's users – DRT to the rescue!
What are PNRP and DRT you ask? That, dear reader, will be what I will cover in a series of blog posts and screencasts in the coming weeks to show you how to leverage and exploit this cool technology. Want to get a head start? Check out the P2P team's blog and the Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Reference page.
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However, earlier this week, the headline in the newsletter of the Downtown Clearwater Neighborhood Association proclaimed "Aquarium's current downtown numbers found to be accurate but misleading."
That was referring to a temporary CMA attraction housed in Harborview. Association president Jack Mortimer said residents could not believe the reported 300,000 people visited Harborview in 2012 because few nearby businesses have benefited.
So volunteers counted attendees on a couple of days last month. On Presidents Day they tallied 1,375 Harborview guests, only four of whom ventured further into downtown Clearwater. "To be blunt, the Aquarium, the City, and downtown groups have been celebrating 300,000 visitors while downtown merchants struggle to survive" the newsletter article says.
Reached by telephone Friday, Mortimer said CMA needs to improve its current contribution to the downtown economy before expecting public support for a future downtown facility. He added a dialogue has started between downtown residents and one of CMA's executives.
Downtown Development Board president David Albritton agreed "[CMA] does bring the people down, but what we haven't figured out is how to get them once they go through the Harborview, to continue on down the street."
Albritton said his group is also looking for new ways to steer tourists to other downtown business. That said, Albritton predicted his board will support the new aquarium.
The critical newsletter article also starts with this "Disclaimer: We are not anti-Aquarium or anti-Winter. Not even a bit!"
CMA makes its formal presentation to the Clearwater City Council next week, including its request for a public referendum this November. The new downtown facility would house Winter, the dolphin featured in a motion picture, and other rescued animals unfit for re-release into the wild.
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Members of the Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale stopped by Orchard Elementary School on Tuesday.
While there, they previewed a mini concert of their upcoming show.
The musicians use musical stories and instruments to teach students about various countries, and cultures.
They have made their way into 10 other schools in Stillwater, and Carbon counties.
Executive Director, Candy Holzer said the performance is a family-friendly concert.
"They will experience just getting to sit in the Alberta Theater, which a lot of children may not have that opportunity, coming into the theater, and listening to the entire symphony presenting a concert just for children," said Holzer.
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By a 6-3 vote the Supreme Court permitted the practice of beginning the legislative session with a prayer given by the publicly funded chaplain.
The use of prayer is embedded in the nation's history and tradition. That the practice of the Nebraska legislature is consistent with the framers' intent is proven by their use of chaplains. Additionally, the Supreme Court and Congress have traditionally begun their sessions with prayers. Individual states do not have to abide by more stringent First Amendment limits than the federal government. The "Establishment Clause does not always bar a state from regulating conduct simply because it harmonizes with religious concerns." Because of the principles upon which the nation has developed, religion has become part of the fabric of society. The offering of the prayer is a "tolerable acknowledgment of beliefs widely held among the people of this country." The public payment of the chaplain is historically allowable because it was done by the Continental Congress years earlier. The pervasiveness of involving prayer with governmental activity without adverse effect has shown that there is no real threat from continuing the practice.
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Hastings - It was senior night for the Hastings College women's basketball team and they went out on top and did it in style. Hastings had an answer for anything Dakota Wesleyan threw at them enroute to a 99-86 victory Saturday at Lynn Farrell Arena.
Already caught in the middle of a shoot-out, Hastings found some defense late in the first half with the game tied 36-36. Hastings would hold the Tigers to one shot on three consecutive possessions while turning DWU over once going on a 9-0 run to end the half.
The run was finished off by a flurry of offensive rebounds by the Broncos before Laurel Zwiener would clean up the mess for the 45-36 halftime lead.
The Broncos would expand the lead to 17 points three times in the second half while DWU would only get to within eight one time with 1:43 remaining.
Hastings was led by Cami Bruckman as she finished with a game high 27 points on 8-for-14 shooting while collecting four steals and eight rebounds. Zwiener along with Jamie Van Kirk also eclipsed the 20 point mark on the day
Van Kirk finished with 24 points on 10-for-14 shooting while Zwiener finished with 20 points on 8-for-19 shooting.
The Tigers were led by Katie Johnson as she finished with 26 points on 7-for-8 shooting including 12-for-14 from the charity stripe.
With the win, Hastings improves to 24-3 (15-3) on the season and will be back in action Wednesday Feb. 19 hitting the road to take on Midland with tip-off set for 6:00 p.m. in Fremont, NE.
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A field of 14 three-year-old fillies competed in the 138th edition of the $1,000,000 Kentucky Oaks (G1) before 112,552 fans, the second largest Oaks day attendance in history. The day was marred by a thunderstorm which caused a delay and evacuation of the infield just before the 10th race which pushed back post time for the Oaks by about 35 minutes. Grace Hall was sent off as the 2.80-1 favorite off her win in the Gulfstream Oaks (G2). In to challenge her included 4-1 second choice On Fire Baby, winner of the Honeybee (G3) at Oaklawn, and 9-2 third choice Broadway's Alibi, winner of four straight including the Comely (G3) at Aqueduct.
Broadway's Alibi took the lead at the start with Believe You Can tracking her on the outside. They stayed like this for most of the first mile, then Believe You Can took over the lead with Broadway's Alibi never giving up, while Grace Hall moved up into third. Believe You Can battled with Broadway's Alibi down the stretch to win by 3/4 of a length in 1:49.50. Grace Hall was another 2 1/2 lengths back in third.
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Ballycasey and Ruby Walsh on their way to victory at Thurles
Djakadam and Tarla's tumbles earlier on, may have contributed to the layers offering 9/10 about Ballycasey, but there were plenty willing to go in again and that grey was backed into 4/6.
The very promising youngster never gave his supporters any cause for concern and he eventually eclipsed Milborough to the tune of three lengths.
Mullins remarked: "He's progressing lovely. I'm happy he handled the ground as I thought it might be too soft.
"I don't know if he'll run again between now and Cheltenham. He'll be entered in the Albert Bartlett and the Neptune and he's the type of horse that would prefer better ground."
Ballycasey is 8/1 (from 10/1) for the Albert Bartlett with Stan James. They reportedly laid three decent bets about him on Tuesday and they now claim that he is a big loser in the race for their firm. (TW & EM)
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News: Jay-Z Wants To Win, Win, Win For Hip-Hop, "I See Myself As Part Of The Collective"
Thursday, Jun 7, 2012 4:40PM
Although Jay-Z has ventured outside of hip-hop with ownership in the Brooklyn Nets and launching a slew of successful 40/40 sports club bars, the rap mogul said he feels each accomplishment all relates back to the genre.
In Young Hov's eyes, any success he has should be attributed to hip-hop.
On his 2009 single "On to the Next One," Jigga bragged that he had President Obama "on the text." Still, the man who once battled DMX while standing on top of a pool table is not desensitized. "I'm a fan of the journey as well," he said. This fall, he will officially welcome an NBA franchise to his native Brooklyn as a minority owner of the Nets and curate and headline his first two-day music festival in Philly. Still, Jay doesn't see his wins as just solo victories. Each win he notches adds to hip-hop's growth. It's a "we" thing. "I see myself as part of the collective of hip-hop. I don't see myself as a thing that operates outside of it," he said. "So when I do these sort of things, I'm like, 'Man, we've come a long way.'" (MTV)
Last year, Hov gave his opinion on why peers hate on his accomplishments.
"It may sound arrogant," he says, "but I just think people can't handle when somebody is successful. Something has gotta be wrong: you gotta be down with some higher power. And I guess when someone else is successful, it makes you feel like maybe you're a failure. So it can't be you, it has to be some other force." (Sky)
Back in 2010, rap mogul Rakim said hip-hop artists had to measure themselves to Young Hov's list of achievements.
"I think as far as records, business, if it's clothing, Jay-Z man," Rakim said in an interview about his current favorite rapper. "We gotta start respecting those that's making a large footprint in the game and when you look at what Jay-Z's doing from his records to his business moves to his clothing to bong bong to his bong bong, that's the measuring stick right now for all of the young brothers coming up. Don't do what he's doing, do as he's doing and as you learn what made him successful. Don't follow his footsteps but figure out what made him successful and get that paper y'all." (Blok TV)
Prior to hitting 40, Jay delved into still wanting to have a long-run in hip-hop.
"I hear it all the time -- 'Yo, he should let the young guys, the new generation of guys come in,'" Jay explained in an interview. "But you don't become the front-runner in music because someone lets you. You have to claim your shoes...If you grow up listening to hip-hop, you love hip-hop and that's the end of it. But if you're a 30 year-old rapper still trying to make music like you're 15, then you're making it narrow. At my age, I can't relate to a 15 year-old. I deal with mature and relevant topics for my age group -- it has to all be based on true emotions. The more diversity and the more mature we make hip-hop, the bigger the net you cast." (Reuters)
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FOXBOROUGH (AP) - Diego Fagundez headed home a cross from Fernando Cardenas in the fourth and final minute of stoppage time and the New England Revolution pulled into a 2-2 tie with the Seattle Sounders on Saturday.
The 17-year old Fagundez's first goal of the season extended an unbeaten streak to four matches (2-0-2) for New England (5-7-4).
Eddie Johnson headed home a pair of goals within a 13-minute span during the first half for Seattle (7-5-5), which had extended its winless streak to eight matches (0-4-4).
Johnson headed home a cross out of the left side from Mauro Rosales in the 23rd minute to tie the match at 1-1 and followed that by scoring his seventh goal of the season in the 36th minute, finishing off a cross from Marc Burch.
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In an appearance on the March 27 Fox & Friends, BMI's Dan Gainor discussed White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's brief, lucrative tenure on the board of Freddie Mac.
New reporting by the Chicago Tribune has updated the story BMI chronicled during the Obama transition of how Emanuel made more than $300,000 advising the Government Sponsored Enterprise at the very time it was engaged in unethical and illegal behavior. The mainstream print and broadcast media have mostly ignored Emanuel's Freddie Mac history, as well has Barney Frank's Fannie Mae connections because "very obviously they have an agenda," Gainor said.
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8 8 01. The Calculus Affair (The Adventures of Tinti... - Herge
Despite a slow start, and a focus on the more annoying than not Professor Calculus, 'The Calculus Affair' warms into probably the most intelligent, action-packed and thrilling of the Tintin episodes, a significant step up from the last entrance, 'The Black Island'.
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Though chronologically out of line with the comics, the first Tintin episode on film is funny, mysterious, solidly scripted for a Tintin episode, and always engaging, setting the benchmark for a wonderful series.
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Containing mystery, humour, adventure, and above all heart, 'Tintin in Tibet' is the most emotionally resolute of all the Tintin adventures, and with no clear-cut villains to be subdued, it instead focuses on the human spirit, the bonds of friendship and the strengths of persistence and compassion. This is a heartfelt return to form for the series after a few average episodes.
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Its bold and unusual science fiction elements will not please everyone, but 'Flight 714' is a stylish and action packed Tintin instalment, actually along the lines of the James Bond series. There is humour, excitement, and even emotion to be found, and its involving characters and exciting finale place it among the best of the episodes.
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Suspenseful, unpredictable, and sitting at a comfortable and compelling length, 'Cigars of the Pharaoh' is exactly what can be expected from a Tintin episode, even hinting at elements of the supernatural.
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Enjoyed better when not taken seriously, 'Tintin and the Picaros' is a joyous romp, being the funniest and one of the most overall entertaining of the Tintin instalments. Surprisingly, it even manages to hint at political commentary and social injustice from the mid-20th Century.
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Being Part one of a two-part episode, 'Unicorn' feels incomplete, but it benefits from darker material than its predecessor, and the mystery is involving enough to make Part 2 ('Red Racckham's Treasure') seem all the more appealing.
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Lidia Bastianich stopped by Good Day Wednesday to cook from her new cookbook, "Lidia's Favorite Recipes: 100 Foolproof Italian dishes from basic sauces to irresistible entrees."
Bastianich will sign copies of her new book at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 102 Park Ave, Willow Grove, PA 19090.
Below is the recipe she prepared on Good Day.
LIDIA'S Penne with Sausage, Onions, and Fennel
Serves 6
Salt for the pasta water
1 pound LIDIA'S penne
1 pound sweet Italian sausage (without fennel seeds)
1 large fennel bulb, (about 1 pound)
1/3 cup olive oil
2 medium onions, cut into half- moon slices (about 2 cups)
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon hot red pepper flakes
½ cup tomato paste
1/3 cup fennel fronds
1 cup freshly grated pecorino (or Grana Padano or Parmigiano- Reggiano) cheese
Heat a large pot of salted water to boiling for the pasta. Drop the penne into the boiling water, then
bring back to a boil and cook until the penne are not quite al dente. Drain, reserving 3 cups of the pastawater. While the pasta is cooking, remove the sausage from its casing and break the meat up a bit with your fingers. Trim the fennel bulb, removing any tough outer parts, reserving the fronds. Slice the bulb in half lengthwise, remove core then slice each half in ¼- inch- thick lengthwise slices.
Separate the slivers of fennel if they are attached at the bottom; cut the long slivers in half so you have about 3 cups of 2- inch- long matchsticks of fennel. Heat the olive oil in a skillet set over medium- high heat. Add the sausage meat, and cook, stirring and breaking it up more with a wooden spoon, until it sizzles and begins to brown, about 1½ minutes. Push the sausage to the sides of the pan, and drop the onion slices into the clear part of the pan; sauté, stirring, until they sizzle and wilt, another 2 minutes or so, then stir them in with the meat. Clear a new space, and drop in the fennel; let it heat up and wilt for 1 minute or more, then stir to combine.
Sprinkle on ¼ teaspoon salt; drop the hot red pepper flakes into a cleared hot spot, and toast the flakes for ½ a minute, then stir to combine. Clear a good sized hot spot in the center of the pan, plop in the tomato paste, and cook, stirring it in the spot, for a good minute of more, until it is sizzling and caramelizing. Then stir it in with everything else.
Ladle the reserved pasta water into the skillet, stir well, and bring the liquid to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, and let cook until the flavors have developed, the sauce is thickened but not too thick, and the fennel is soft but not mushy, 6 minutes or more. (Add more water if the sauce reduces too rapidly.) Season to taste.
Drop the cooked penne into the simmering sauce. Toss everything together, then sprinkle over it the chopped fennel fronds, and continue to cook until the ziti are perfectly al dente and cooked with the sauce.
Remove the skillet from the heat, sprinkle the grated cheese over the penne, and toss it in. Serve the hot pasta right from the skillet into warm pasta bowls.


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Oct. 18, 2007
After three weeks of fall practice, the UT Arlington baseball team will take to the field for the Blue-Gray World Series beginning Thursday.
The split-squad World Series will be at Clay Gould Ballpark with Games 1 and 2 on Thursday and Friday and a game each day next week beginning on Monday.
"It will be good for our guys to end our fall workouts with a chance to play for the World Series title," said seventh-year head coach Jeff Curtis. "We have a lot of newcomers that can step in and play. This will be a great opportunity for these guys to show that they deserve to be in the lineup everyday."
The Mavericks welcome 21 newcomers to their 35-man roster.
All-Southland Conference outfielder Danny Slinkman (Arlington, Texas) returns after batting .333 and sharing the team lead in RBIs with 28. He led the team in slugging percentage with a .486 percentage while earning honorable mention all-SLC honors his junior season.
Junior pitchers Nathan Long and Brandon Endsley return to provide the Mavericks with quality pitching. Long made 10 starts in 2007 and finished second on the squad in innings pitched (77.0) and strike outs (48) while compiling a 2-8 record with a 5.14 ERA.
Endsley was arguably the top reliever on the squad with a 3-2 record. He shared team-high honors with 17 appearances, pitching 27.2 innings and compiling a 7.48 ERA.
The Mavs will open the 2008 season on Feb. 23 when they host Arkansas-Little Rock at Clay Gould Ballpark at 3 p.m.
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The Allentown Rotary Club will hold its weekly meeting today at the Ecumenical Soup Kitchen in St. James AME Zion Church at 4th and Locust streets.
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Politics of the Ancient Maya:
The Maya civilization flourished in the rainy forests of southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, reaching their apex around 700-900 A.D. before falling into a swift and somewhat mysterious decline. The Maya were expert astronomers and traders: they were also literate with a complicated language and their own books. Like other civilizations, the Maya had rulers and a ruling class, and their political structure was complex. Their kings were powerful and claimed to be descended from the Gods and the planets.
The Maya City-states:
The Maya civilization was large, powerful and culturally complex: it is often compared to the Incas of Peru and the Aztecs of Central Mexico. Unlike these other empires, however, the Maya never unified. Instead of a mighty empire ruled from one city by one set of rulers, the May instead had a series of city-states which only ruled the surrounding area, or some nearby vassal states if they were powerful enough. Tikal, one of the most powerful Maya city-states, never ruled much farther than its immediate borders, although it did have vassal cities such as Dos Pilas and Copán. Each of these city-states had its own ruler.
Development of Maya Politics and Kingship:
The Maya culture began around 1800 B.C. in the lowlands of the Yucatan and southern Mexico. For centuries, their culture slowly advanced, but as of yet they had no concept of kings or royal families. It wasn't until the middle to late preclassic periods (300 B.C. or so) that evidence of kings began to appear at certain Maya sites. The founding King of Tikal's first royal dynasty, Yax Ehb' Xook, lived sometime in the Preclassic period. By 300 A.D., kings were common and the Maya began building stelae to honor them: large, stylized stone statues which describe the King, or "Ahau," and his accomplishments.
The Maya Kings:
The Maya Kings claimed descent from the Gods and planets, laying claim to a quasi-divine status, somewhere between humans and Gods. As such, they lived between two worlds, and wielding "divine" power was part of their duties. The Kings and royal family had important roles at public ceremonies, such as the ball games. They channeled their connection to the Gods through sacrifices (of their own blood, of captives, etc), dance, spiritual trances and hallucinogenic enemas. Succession was usually patrilineal, but not always. Occasionally, Queens ruled when no suitable male of the royal line was available or of age. All kings had numbers which placed them in order from the founder of the dynasty: unfortunately, this number is not always recorded in the King's glyphs on stonecarvings, resulting on unclear histories of dynastic succession.
Life of a Maya King:
A Maya king was groomed from birth to rule. A prince had to pass through many different initiations and rites. As a young man, he had his first bloodletting at the age of five or six. As a young man, he was expected to fight and lead battles and skirmishes against rival tribes: capturing prisoners, particularly high-ranking ones, was important. When the prince finally became king, the elaborate ceremony included sitting on a jaguar pelt in an elaborate headdress of colorful feathers and seashells, holding a scepter. As king, he was supreme head of the military and was expected to fight and participate in any armed conflicts entered into by his city-state. He also had to participate in many religious rituals, as he was a conduit between humans and the Gods. Kings were allowed to take multiple wives.
Maya Palaces:
Palaces are found at all of the major Maya sites. These buildings were located in the heart of the city, near the pyramids and temples so important to Maya life. In some cases, the palaces were very large, multi-storied structures: this may indicate a complicated bureaucracy was in place to rule the kingdom. The palaces were home to the king and the royal family. Many of the King's tasks and duties were carried out not in the temples but in the palace itself. These events might have included feasts, celebrations, diplomatic occasions and receiving tribute from vassal states.
Classic Era Maya Political Structure:
By the time the Maya reached their Classic Era, they had a well-developed political system. Well-respected archaeologist Joyce Marcus believes that by the Late Classic era, the Maya had a four-tiered political hierarchy. At the top were the King and his administration in major cities like Tikal, Palenque or Calakmul. These kings would be immortalized on stelae, their great deeds recorded forever. Following the main city were a small group of vassal city-states, with lesser nobility or a relative of the Ahau in charge: these rulers did not merit stelae. After that were affiliated villages, large enough to have rudimentary religious buildings and ruled by minor nobility. The fourth tier consisted of hamlets, which were all or mostly residential and devoted to agriculture.
Contact with Other City-States:
Although the Maya were never a unified Empire like the Incas or Aztecs, the city-states nevertheless had much contact. This contact facilitated cultural exchange, making the Maya much more unified culturally than politically. Trade was common: the Maya traded in prestige items like obsidian, gold, feathers and jade. They also traded in food items, particularly in later eras as the major cities grew too large to support their population. Warfare was also common: skirmishes to take slaves and victims for sacrifice were common and all-out wars not unheard of. Tikal was defeated by rival Calakmul in 562, causing a century-long hiatus in its power before it reached its former glory once again. The powerful city of Teotihuacan, just north of present-day Mexico City, wielded great influence on the Maya world and even replaced the ruling family of Tikal in favor of one more friendly to their city.
Politics and the Decline of the Maya:
The Classic Era was the height of the Maya civilization culturally, politically and militarily. Between 700 A.D. and 900 A.D., however, the Maya civilization began a swift and irreversible decline. The reasons why the Maya society fell are still a mystery, but there are many theories. As the Maya civilization grew, warfare between city-states grew as well: entire cities were attacked, defeated and destroyed. The ruling class grew as well, placing a strain on the working classes which may have resulted in civil strife. Food became a problem for some Maya cities as the population grew: when trade could no longer make up the differences, hungry citizens may have revolted or fled. The Maya rulers might have avoided some of these calamites.
McKillop, Heather. The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives. New York: Norton, 2004.


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U.S. home prices are on the rise. In fact, prices rose an average of 10.5% in March compared to a year ago, making it the biggest increase since March of 2006.
Arizona is certainly ahead of the curve, with prices that rose 16.8% in the last year – a consistent increase over 13 straight months. This, of course, factors in the finer golf communities of North Scottsdale including areas like Desert Mountain, Grayhawk and Troon North. The only two states that had bigger increases were California and Nevada at gains of 17.2% and 22.2%, respectively.
The rise in prices is being attributed to an increase of buyers bidding on a limited supply of real estate for sale, as well as steady job creation and very low mortgage rates.
The rising home prices boost Americans' net worth, which encourages them to spend more, in turn driving economic growth. Many potential homebuyers may feel a sense of urgency to buy before prices rise even more. This cyclical pattern makes homeowners more likely to put their houses on the market since they'll expect a good price.
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Nov. 1, 2012 -- Two more drugs made by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) are crawling with various kinds of bacteria, FDA tests reveal.
The NECC is the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose drugs are the likely source of the ongoing outbreak of fungal meningitis. The FDA previously found fungus growing in unopened vials of the company's methylprednisolone injectable steroid.
Now the FDA has found bacteria in three lots of the NECC's betamethasone, another injectable steroid, and in cardioplegia solution, a drug used to stop the heart during transplant operations. It's not yet clear whether the drugs also carry fungal contamination or other kinds of bacteria.
Tests of each lot of the drugs found a different combination of bacteria:
Two of these bacteria -- Bacillus idriensis and Bacillus circulans -- have been linked to rare cases of human disease. The FDA says that for patients treated with these drugs, "the clinical significance of these results is not known."
All NECC drugs were recalled on Oct. 6. The FDA has not estimated how many patients were treated with the contaminated betamethasone or cardioplegia solution before that date.
So far, the CDC has not received any reports of laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections linked to these NECC products.
As of today, there have been 377 cases of fungal meningitis and nine cases of fungal joint infections in people who received NECC drugs. Twenty-eight of these people have died.
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Soda has been highlighted in the news recently, with last week's New York City ban on soft drinks over 16 ounces.
For those of you who still drink soda, some recent studies may be of interest, even if you don't live in New York. Three studies published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that soda is heavily linked to the nation's obesity epidemic.
The first study in the Journal was the DRINK (Double-Blind Randomized Intervention in Kids), which gave 641 children ages about 5 to 12 and with a healthy body mass index one 8-ounce noncarbonated drink per day, blinded to be sweetened artificially or with sugar. At the end of 18 months, the sugar-free kids gained less body fat, 2.2 pounds less weight, and 0.36 units less BMI than the kids drinking sugared beverages.
In the second study in the Journal, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital gave zero-calorie drinks to 110 obese 15-year-olds, counseled them not to drink sugary beverages and offered other support.
After a year the teens had cut their intake of sugary drinks from almost two a day to zero, and cut their daily calorie intake by over 400 calories. They had gained an average of 3.5 pounds. In comparison, 114 teens who continued to consume sugar-sweetened beverages gained 7.7 pounds on average and 10 times the BMI units.
In the third study, genetics and sugared beverages were studied. Scientists at Harvard School of Public Health looked at 33,097 people from long-term ongoing health studies, such as the Nurses' Health Study, identifying how many sugary drinks they consume and whether they have any of the obesity-linked genes. For those who had one of the 32 obesity-linked genes, the likelihood of becoming obese was twice as large among people who drank one or more sugary drinks per day as among those who had less than one a month.
This suggests sugared beverages trigger obesity in those who are genetically predisposed to obesity.
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text: By Paul SteinhauserCNN Political EditorWhat a difference a month makes.A new CNN/ORC International poll indicates a dramatic turnaround in the battle for control of Congress in next year's midterm elections.Democrats a month ago held a 50%-42% advantage among registered voters in a generic ballot, which asked respondents to choose between a Democrat or Republican in their congressional district without identifying the candidates.That result came after congressional Republicans appeared to overplay their hand in the bitter fight over the federal government shutdown and the debt ceiling.But the Democratic lead has disappeared. A new CNN/ORC poll indicates the GOP now holds a 49%-47% edge. The new survey was conducted last week and released Tuesday.The 10-point swing follows a political uproar over Obamacare, which included the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov and controversy over insurance policy cancellations due primarily to the new health law.The turnaround in the CNN/ORC poll follows similar shifts in recent national surveys from Quinnipiac University and Fox News.At a news conference two weeks ago, President Barack Obama acknowledged that problems plaguing the start up of the new healthcare law could hurt Democrats."There is no doubt that our failure to rollout the ACA smoothly has put a burden on Democrats, whether they are running or not because they stood up and supported this effort through thick and thin," Obama said.The CNN/ORC poll indicates both parties making gains within their base."It looks like the biggest shifts toward the Republicans came among white voters, higher income Americans, and people who live in rural areas, while Democrats have gained strength in the past month among some of their natural constituencies, such as non-white voters and lower income Americans," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "If those patterns persist into 2014, it may indicate that Obamacare is popular among those who it was designed to help the most, but unpopular among the larger group of voters who are personally less concerned about health insurance and health care," Holland said.Republicans currently have a 17-seat advantage in the U.S. House with the Democrats holding a 55-45 majority in the Senate.While the generic ballot question is one of the most commonly used indicators when it comes to the battle for Congress, the poll results are a long way from predicting what will happen next November."There is just under a year to go before any votes are actually cast and the 'generic ballot' question is not necessarily a good predictor of the actual outcome of 435 separate elections," Holland cautions. "A year before the 2010 midterms, for example, the Democrats held a six-point lead on the generic ballot but the GOP wound up regaining control of the House in that election cycle, thanks to an historic 63-seat pickup," he said.The poll was conducted November 18-20 for CNN by ORC International, with 843 adult Americans, including 749 registered voters, questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The-CNN-Wire ™ & © 2013 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.