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for the smart mouths FMA and XOR really make huge diff if used properly and your cache is sane and remember that AVX can process 4 double(very rare is most workloads) or 8 floats(very common). in my case i modified my old SSE idct[Mx'M] code to use avx and FMA and loop it to run 1 million times and is around 35/45% faster in the same bulldozer cpu, so bd have a lot of juice to extract yet.
bd problem is most software outhere is poorly threaded and/or with crappy cache management and/or barely uses SIMD at all(this applies to SB too though)
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Without SB 2700K this comparison just doesn't make sense, because IB 3770K is its direct competitor in terms of price and CPU features (HT & frequency).
I'm excited to see how the Piledriver and Trinity CPUs work out against this!
Thanks for the article!
I found some of the article a bit unclear though. Some feedback on how it could have been clearer:
- I think there was an excessive number of CPUs being compared. Given that this site is not focused on over clocking, those variants should have been dropped. The excess number made some of the coloured graphs very difficult to read.
- As noted by others, it would have been good to have a 2700k as it is a more direct generation comparison
- I don't think the 3960X was not useful to have in the benchmarks with it's extra cores as it just confused the sandy bridge vs Ivy bridge results
- I would have liked a table of supported/unsupported CPU/chipset features under Linux to make support status clearer
AMD bulldozer is an excellent processor for heavy duty task and was designed for that, the problem is 95% of the apps outthere are barely threaded and almost none of that 95% uses SIMD let alone proper cache usage and in the other 5% most apps use Intel C/C++ compiler witch (intentionally) select the most fucked up trashy unoptimized compile route possible on AMD processors. So AMD is in a pretty bad position here since AMD processor need a lot more horse power to reach a comparative level of performance in the apps it can shine <----(don't ask me links use google you will be impressed of how nasty is the performance hit when using intel compiler showing and AMD cpu and when you hack it to mask you AMD cpu as an intel CPU)
the way i see it BD is a future proof design and i infere AMD is looking to get ride of many slow/legacy crap from the x86 world from their cpu's but since most apps still heavily the 486 parts of the CPU and not the latest much more optimized route due the reasons previously mentioned they need to mantain acceptable levels of performance for both worlds hoping that this trend will change and apps will adapt to use these new much more efficients techs in the mainstream market.
so yes today SB/IB will be faster than BD/PD in most workloads but is not cuz a crappy design but more the reasons i stated, but if you take the time to code some optimized example in SB and BD you will see another picture entirely.
in the case of games you are 150% wrong if you even believe mainstream games are state of art code uber optimized to exploit the latest drop of performance of your PC (CPU/GPU), at the contrary is probably the most hackish crappy code you will see in your life, let alone proper scalability or threading/etc.


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Plan, direct, or coordinate the storage or distribution operations within an organization or the activities of organizations that are engaged in storing or distributing materials or products.
Sample of reported job titles: Cold Storage Supervisor, Customer Service Manager, Distribution Center Manager, Distribution Manager, Distribution Operation Manager, Load Out Supervisor, Shipping Manager, Shipping Supervisor, Stores Supervisor, Warehouse Manager
Tasks | Tools & Technology | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings
- Prepare and manage departmental budgets.
- Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
- Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel.
- Plan, develop, or implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
- Prepare or direct preparation of correspondence, reports, and operations, maintenance, and safety manuals.
- Issue shipping instructions and provide routing information to ensure that delivery times and locations are coordinated.
- Confer with department heads to coordinate warehouse activities, such as production, sales, records control, or purchasing.
- Review invoices, work orders, consumption reports, or demand forecasts to estimate peak delivery periods and to issue work assignments.
- Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, or equipment and order testing, maintenance, repairs, or replacements.
- Schedule or monitor air or surface pickup, delivery, or distribution of products or materials.
Tools & Technology
Tools used in this occupation:
|Bar code reader equipment — Barcode scanners
|Mobile phones — Cell phones
|Notebook computers — Laptop computers
|Radio frequency data communication equipment — Radio frequency handheld terminals; Radio frequency truck-mounted terminals
|Radio frequency identification devices — Radio frequency identification RFID devices
Technology used in this occupation:
|Analytical or scientific software — Integrated Decision Support Netwise Enterprise; Integrated Decision Support Netwise Frontline; QUALCOMM QTRACS; QUALCOMM ViaWeb
|Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
|Inventory management software — Aljex Inventory; International Business Systems software; MRA Technologies MRATrack Warehouse Management System; Sentai Pinpoint
|Label making software — ABOL Manifest Systems
|Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software — Catalyst International CatalystConnect; IBM i2 Transportation Manager; Integrated Decision Support Corporation Netwise Supply Chain; TECSYS EliteSeries
|Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
|Transportation — Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
|Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
|Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
|Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
|English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
|Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
|Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
|Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
|Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
|Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
|Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
|Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
|Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
|Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
|Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
|Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
|Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
|Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
|Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
|Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
|Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
|Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
|Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
|Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
|Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
|Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Work Activities
|Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
|Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
|Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
|Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
|Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
|Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
|Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
|Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
|Monitoring and Controlling Resources — Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
|Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
Work Context
|Telephone — 96% responded "Every day."
|Face-to-Face Discussions — 83% responded "Every day."
|Electronic Mail — 92% responded "Every day."
|Contact With Others — 71% responded "Constant contact with others."
|Work With Work Group or Team — 58% responded "Extremely important."
|Time Pressure — 46% responded "Every day."
|Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 38% responded "Extremely important."
|Freedom to Make Decisions — 38% responded "A lot of freedom."
|Duration of Typical Work Week — 54% responded "40 hours."
|Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 46% responded "High responsibility."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
|Related Experience
|A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
|Job Zone Examples
|Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include accountants, sales managers, database administrators, teachers, chemists, art directors, and cost estimators.
|SVP Range
|(7.0 to < 8.0)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|Bachelor's degree
|High school diploma or equivalent
|Some college, no degree
Interest code: EC
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|Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
Work Styles
|Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
|Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
|Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
|Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
|Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
|Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
|Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
|Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
|Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
|Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
Work Values
|Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
|Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
|Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Related Occupations
|Purchasing Managers
|Transportation Managers
|Logistics Managers Bright Outlook Green
|Supply Chain Managers
|Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
|Logistics Analysts
|First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
|First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand
|First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wages data collected from Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers.
Employment data collected from Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers.
Industry data collected from Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers.
|Median wages (2014)
|$41.06 hourly, $85,400 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2012)
|105,000 employees
|Projected growth (2012-2022)
|Slower than average (3% to 7%)
|Projected job openings (2012-2022)
|State trends
|Top industries (2012)
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Are Traffic Spikes Worth Chasing?
Yesterday, I pulled up the site statistics for my main site and noticed that they were through the roof.
It was as if someone had just flipped a switch and ratcheted up my site's traffic by about 4x. That traffic spike stayed with me through the entire night and through most of the day Monday.
Strangely though, it didn't seem to be coming from anywhere. There was no referring site, no search engine query that I was scoring well on and no obvious cause for it. Even after a fairly lengthy investigation, I had no clue where the traffic was coming from.
It was so strange, that I even considered the possibility it could be a stat reporting error or a problem with my site. Neither checked out though as my content delivery network was reporting more traffic than usual and a live look at the traffic showed an organic patten for each visit/pageview.
To make matters more confusing, as soon as it began, it ended. About 5PM local time it was if the spigot was turned off and traffic immediately fell to normal levels.
What happened? I have no idea. But the incident got me thinking about traffic spikes to my site and the impact they've had.
This wasn't the first or the largest traffic spike I've had, even over the past month. But over the years I've been running my site, I've noticed something, that while I'm always happy people are taking an interest in my work, with most spikes, there is little, if any, long-term effect.
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DURHAM — The Coe-Brown girls indoor track team placed second Sunday with strong performances from Elisabeth Danis, Jelasa Nelson, Katie Scannell and Alley Savioli who each won individual events. Danis won the 3000 in 10 minutes, 42.4 seconds, Nelson won the 55 dash in 7.5 seconds, Scannell won the 1,500 in 5:21.9 and Savioli won the shot put at 37 feet, 8.5 inches.
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Aga Khan Music Initiative
With the release of volume 10, the ten-part series created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution are now available (as of 30 May 2013). For more information, visit the Smithsonian Folkways site. Music of Central Asia is a co-production of the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. For more information about the latest releases, please see the press release (11th May 2012).
To view video ethnographies or order the CD/DVD collections, please visit the Smithsonian Folkways website.
The aim of the series, released worldwide by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is to present leading exponents of Central Asia's rich and diverse musical heritage to listeners outside the region. As a new generation of talented performers reinterprets this heritage - much of it ruptured or lost during the Soviet era - older traditions are reanimated and transformed. Music of Central Asia documents the work of musicians who represent both a mastery of their own tradition and a contemporary spirit of innovation expressed through new approaches to performance style, repertory, and technique. Each release includes a DVD with a documentary film on the featured performers as well as a map, musical instrument glossary, and short introduction to Music of Central Asia and the Aga Khan Music Initiative. These intimate, often poignant, musical portraits bring to life a group of remarkable artists whose creative achievements proclaim Central Asia's prominence on any musical map of the world. The Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia was created in 2000 by His Highness the Aga Khan to contribute to the preservation, documentation, and further development of Central Asia's musical heritage. The Music Initiative pursues its long-term goals both within its region of activity and worldwide. In Central Asia these goals include revitalizing important musical repertories by helping tradition-bearers pass on their knowledge and craft; building sustainable cultural institutions that can eventually be maintained by local organizations and communities; and supporting artists who are developing new approaches to the performance of Central Asian music.
Worldwide, the Music Initiative strives to increase knowledge about Central Asia's music and culture, particularly among students, and to nurture collaborations among musicians from different parts of Central Eurasia and beyond. Find out more on the Aga Khan Music Initiative.
Central Asian Music An Overview
Central Asia is commonly understood to encompass the territory of six nations: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (see map). Yet patterns of settlement and cultural links that predate the establishment of current political boundaries argue for a broader definition of the region. For example, the Uyghurs, a Muslim, Turkic-speaking people whose traditional territory is in western China, have old cultural affinities with other Central Asian groups. The Turkmen, who comprise the titular ethnic group of Turkmenistan, are strongly represented in the Iranian region of Khorasan that flanks Turkmenistan to the southwest. Shia Isma'ili Muslims in mountainous Badakhshan, the eastern region of Tajikistan, share cultural and religious traditions with Isma'ilis living in the nearby Northern Territories of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and western China, as well as in Khorasan and other parts of Iran.
Beyond Central Asia itself, diaspora communities created by recent emigration have spread cultural influences from the region far beyond its geographical borders. Some of Afghanistan's finest musicians were among the hundreds of thousands of Afghans who fled to Pakistan and later emigrated to the West following the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979 and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s. Outstanding musicians were also among the tens of thousands of Central Asian ("Bukharan") Jews who left Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to resettle in New York City and Tel Aviv when the USSR opened its borders to Jewish emigration in the mid-1970s. Central Asian Jews long lived as a Persian-speaking minority population among their Muslim neighbors. Indeed, an overwhelming majority of Central Asia's Persian-speaking and Turkic-speaking population identifies itself with Islam, as an active religious practice, a cultural legacy, a worldview that informs everyday social life, or all of these. Excluded from this group are Russian-speaking Slavs and other non-Muslim immigrants who began to populate Central Asia after the tsarist conquests in the latter half of the 19th century and during the Soviet era accounted for half or more of the population of the region's major cities.
Central Asia's history has been shaped by its strategic position at the intersection of two great axes of civilization. One axis points southwest, toward the sophisticated urban culture of Iran. The other axis points northeast, to what has been called Turan-the nomadic world of the Inner Asian steppe, where pastoralists belonging to myriad Turkic and Mongolian clans created a succession of powerful steppe empires. Iran vs. Turan, sedentary vs. nomadic, urbanite vs. steppe-dweller-in broad strokes, these contrasting pairs represent the distinctions of worldview and way of life that echo strongly in Central Asia's musical traditions despite centuries and millennia of intermingling among its diverse social groups.
In nomadic cultures, the consummate entertainer is the bard, and music is characterized by a strong narrative dimension. Epic tales as long as thirty times the length of Homer's Iliad, and instrumental pieces whose wordless melodies and rhythms relate beloved stories through a kind of musical onomatopoeia all reflect a nomadic sensibility. Traditional nomadic spirituality ascribes spiritual power to a range of natural phenomena and living creatures, and nomadic music and sound-making often serve as a means of representing and accessing the power of spirits.
The music of sedentary-dwellers, by contrast, reflects the deep impact of Islam as a spiritual and cultural force. The central artifact of musical performance is the elaboration and embellishment of words and texts by a beautiful voice. Singers are typically accompanied by small ensembles of mixed instruments that almost always include percussion. The beauty of the voice may also be represented symbolically by a solo instrument such as a plucked lute, violin, or flute, which reproduces the filigree embellishments and ornamentation characteristic of a great singer.
In the years following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union tried to bring about fundamental transformations in the organization, transmission, and expression of indigenous culture among the inhabitants of its vast empire. Since the beginning of the post-Soviet period, musicians throughout Central Asia have sought to recover and reanimate older musical traditions in response to growing interest in their cultural heritage, among both local inhabitants and outsiders. These traditions are firmly rooted in local musical practices, but none of them is "pure." Central Asia's long history of contact and exchange with other cultures continues to evolve in our own time. And as the musicians whose performances come alive on Music of Central Asia leave their own creative imprint on the region's musical legacy, there can be no doubt that authentic traditional music remains forever contemporary.
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NEW ORLEANS, LA (NBC33) — WARNING: The video attached to this story could be considered disturbing to some viewers. — Surveillance video captured the image of two puppies that were tossed from the third floor balcony of a New Orleans hotel. The woman accused of killing the animals was arrested on felony cruelty charges.
The New Orleans Police Department reports that the incident occurred on Saturday, April 6 at the Crystal Inn on Tulane Ave. A guest staying at the hotel found the two puppies on the ground. They were suffering from severe injuries.
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And no, Gentoo does NOT allow even having multiple GL implementations simultaneously, because the very infrastructure of Mesa/libGL on Linux does not allow this, hence this entire proposal. Your client application has no way to select a GL implementation at runtime, and the Gentoo (and most every other Linux distro) facilities for swapping GL implementations do so by ripping out the current libGL and replacing it. It does not allow two apps running at the same time using two different libGLs, which is impossible aside from using separate chroot's or LD_PRELOAD tricks (and even then, only when using separate X instances and so on, because X itself can only have a single libGL loaded).
Good answer. The big question that I have is, is this necessary? Are there two OSS GL implementations? If there isn't, then are we not just catering to something that Nvidia desires to facilitate their blobs installation? Does this benefit FOSS GL implementations in any manner, such as being able to run Mesa 8.0 and 9.0 implementations simultaneously, or nouveau and radeon simultaneously, XGL and EGL apps simultaneously?
To restate, is this an improvement to Linux, an improvement to Nvidia blob-using-customers, or both?
Didn't know that using an api with hardware is so limited on linux!
We really need some progress on how drivers can expose api's(including abi's), how libraries are handled.
And about the file system conflicts. That's why you don't put all the bin of all the user programs in one folder and all the libs of all the user programs in one folder and so on...
You give each program it's own folder with subdirectories.
One distribution has done this and seems to have found things can work very well:
If this also helps NVIDIA to ship a blob that integrates better with the rest of the system, then how is this not a good thing? If anything, this would allow vendors to create hardware-specific, high-performance, open-source GL implementations for their hardware that bypasses Mesa in favor of performance and functionality, and distribute it without having to worry about interfering with system GL libraries. They could expose a GL 4.2 profile without having to first update all of Mesa to be compliant, then implement their driver within the Mesa/Gallium framework. Remember that Mesa is just another OpenGL vendor.
There is a need to deal with general Linux API ABI's in general. The old system can't do this good enough.Linux OpenGL ABI
Linux (the kernel) has and had stable ABI's and API's for about 20 years - yes as long as its exists.
Internal structures are neither API's nor ABI's.


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Rochester dispatch center supervisor Cole out
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
ROCHESTER — Jason Cole, who has been the supervisor of Rochester's dispatch center, no longer works for the city.
On Tuesday, Allen said the dispatch center is now understaffed by three dispatchers after Cole's employment ended. He said the staffing shortage is leading to more funds being dedicated to overtime hours for dispatch center staff.


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Chipotle Butternut Squash
Every time that I opened my fridge over the last few day I was greeted by the lonely face of a half a butternut squash that just seemed to cry; Why won't you finish me? Eventually I had had enough and it was time to do something about it! Luckily that night I was having a Texmex themed meal that needed a side dish and I knew just how I could work the butternut squash in. I was thinking that the sweet butternut squash would go well tossed with some spicy and smoky chipotles in adobo sauce. I had also recently been remembering a dish where cubed potatoes are fried along with onions until the potatoes are crispy and the onions are caramelized and I figured that that would also work well for this dish. I kept the recipe pretty simple, though I did add some cumin for flavour and some tomato sauce to help balance out the chipotles. The chipotle butternut squash was definitely a success and the combination of sweet and spicy with the hints of smoke was wonderful. The butternut squash certainly did not get all crispy like the potatoes in the other dish but I particularly liked how some of the sides of the butternut squash started to caramelize. I will definitely be making this again!
Note: This recipe would also work well with sweet potatoes.
Chipotle Butternut Squash(makes 4 servings)
Printable Recipe
1 tablespoon oil
1 small onion (sliced)
1 clove garlic (chopped)
1/2 teaspoon cumin (toasted and ground)
1 chipotle in adobo (chopped)
2 teaspoons adobo sauce
2 tablespoons sauce/ketchup
4 cups butternut squash (peeled, seeded and cut into bite sized pieces.)
1. Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat.
2. Add the onion and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
3. Add the garlic and cumin and saute until fragrant, about a minute.
4. Add the chipotle, adobo sauce, tomato sauce and butternut squash, toss everything to coat, cover and cook until tender, about 10-15 minutes, stirring things up every few minutes.
Similar Recipes:
Thai Style Coconut Butternut Squash
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Contributing to QCAD
QCAD is free open source software. This means that everyone can get involved and contribute to make this project even better.
The source code of QCAD is hosted on github at: https://github.com/qcad/qcad/
This includes documentation sources, translation sources, icons, etc.
One of the most comfortable ways to contribute is to create a pull request through github.
Software Development
Every user of QCAD has the freedom to download the QCAD source code and modify or extend it. Such modifications are then usually contributed back to become a part of QCAD or an optional add-on for QCAD.
Add-ons are often developed by QCAD users to solve a particular problem at hand. A user might for example want to create an add-on to QCAD to draw some type of complex line pattern between two points. There's a good chance that there are other users our there, who could benefit from the same add-on, so the user decides to share this add-on under an open source license. Another user might start using that add-on, modify and improve it and share it back. Now the first user also benefits from the update made by the second user. This is the spirit of open source software development.
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The core of QCAD is developed in C++. To extend QCAD using C++, a plugin interface is available which can for example be used to provide access to external C / C++ libraries, to register new script classes and functions, etc. A C++ plugin should be developed if your add-on depends on an existing external C or C++ library or if performance is crucial.
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If you would like to try out the latest and greatest new features and help with testing and feedback, please check out the current development version. You will need a compiler to compile the QCAD source code. Detailed compilation instructions are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. Other systems such as Solaris, FreeBSD, etc. are likely to work as well but are not officially supported at this point.
Documentation and Translation
Each QCAD script add-on is bundled in a separate directory with its documentation in the 'doc' subdirectory (e.g. 'scripts/Draw/Line/Line2P/doc'). Documentation can be added as HTML snippets named after the tool and language the documentation is in (e.g. 'Line2P_desc_en.html' for a description of the tool in English and 'Line2P_proc_de.html' for the procedure to use the tool in English).
These HTML snippets can be compiled into the complete user reference manual which is available on our web site at http://www.qcad.org/doc/qcad/latest/reference/en/.
The user manual is most complete in English, German and Japanese but other translations can be added as well.
User Interface Translation
The user interface of QCAD can be translated using the Qt internationalization tool chain (lupdate, linguist and lrelease). Script add-ons are bundled with their translations in their local subdirectory 'ts'.
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13 December 2011
The Fountain in Sittingbourne has received a whole new look to reflect its railway past following a £60,000 refurbishment by Shepherd Neame.The Victorian pub's makeover highlights its prominent position next to the town's railway station.
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Two hospices have been bowled over by a Shepherd Neame pub which helped raise more than £38,000 for them with its annual Pedal4Charity event.Cycling, quizzing and dancing are just three of the events which saw The Cricketersin Horsell, Surrey, top last year's tally by an impressive £5,000 for the Woking and Sam Beare Hospices.
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Comedian, Adrian Edmondsen visited the Faversham Brewery recently to film for his latest series, Ade in Britain. Shown around by Senior Brewer, Stewart Tricker, Ade visited the barley fields, a hop garden and helped mash in a brew Spitfire before heading to the sample room!
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On Friday I was at the Festival of British Beer and Cheese at the Brewers Hall in the City of London.
The event had been organised by the Beer Academy and was a wonderful opportunity to experience beers old and new and to try to match them to suitable cheeses.
24 November 2011
On Tuesday I and a number of brewing colleagues from around the country met up with farmers, hop growers, maltsters and members of the NFU as well as members of parliament at the launch of the Grain to Glass report.
This is a joint industry initiative to raise awareness of the importance of the brewing industry to the rural economy and to call for government support going forwards.
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Welcome to the British Society for Cell Biology website
The BSCB was founded 1965 in order to promote the advancement of research in all branches of cell biology and to encourage the interchange of information. The Society organises two annual conferences and supports a limited number of other meetings across the UK relevant to cell biology. It helps promote the career development of young cell biologists and provides both travel funds for young researchers and summer research bursaries to undergraduates to work in BSCB member's labs. The Society awards the Hooke Medal each year to a UK-based cell biologist who has made outstanding contributions to their field. The BSCB runs annual competitions for cell biology imagery and science writing and also provides a range of highly popular informational resources for school pupils that are used across the globe. The BSCB plays an increasing role in raising awareness of science policy and funding issues in the UK.
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Caciotta di Capra con PepeA goat in sheep's clothing. This caciotta, or "little cheese," hails from the land of sheep's milk Pecorino but has a flavor all its own—preserved lemons, brown butter, and the spice of whole black peppercorns. Read More
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Mini Spring Rolls with Chicken Floss
One of the Chinese New Year goodies I love to eat is mini spring rolls filled with bits of pork, chicken, or shrimp floss. They are the crispiest munchies for the festivities and my nieces love making them as they always have so much fun assembling, rolling, frying, and then eating the mini spring rolls. I am happy that my contributor Siew Loon volunteered to share her recipe. The best time to make them is now so they remain crunchy for the New Year. Enjoy!
It is 2 weeks before the we usher in the year of the Dragon. I have been busy with spring cleaning and also listing out the goodies which I would like to bake. As usual the demand for Pineapple Tarts, Butter Cookies, Peanut Cookies and Mini Spring Rolls top the list. Mini Spring Rolls have always been a very popular savoury snack as it is light and crispy.
I have always liked the mini spring rolls with chicken or pork floss filling as it is tasty and easy to do. Of course you can wrap it with any filling of your choice like Dried Prawn Cili (Sambal Heh Bee) or ground peanuts if you like it to be a sweet snack. This is an easy to do snack and eat it fresh. Do not keep too long as it will lose its crispiness.
More Lunar New Year Goodies:
|Pineapple Tarts
|Peanut Cookies
|Cornflake Cookies
|Kuih Bahulu
|Kuih Bangkit
|Pineapple Rolls (Nastar)
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i think know there was chicken "floss"- i only knew about its pork counterpart! thanks!
What is chicken floss? Do you have recipe for that and also Sambal?
Ohhhh….. Love love these!!!
Oh my favorite although we use dried prawns for fillings usually!
back home we used the shrimp chili floss….Mmmm
Thanks for this timely recipe which Will be my top 3 list to make next 2 days!
A great idea! i love their size.
These are so delicate and pretty, and I'm certain I wouldn't be able to stop popping them into my mouth. What a fun activity to do with your nieces. I'm sure they will remember that time with you for a long time to come.
I will have to make it this. Bought it last year while we were there…. miss it.
Prefer the one with prawn floss but it's harder to get ; pork floss or chicken is more abundant
they look perfect for parties! what a great and delicious idea
What is pork floss?
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Tried making a few times but after it turn soggy (not crispy) esp. in the centre. Y ah? I did ensure it's properly cool b4 putting in the container. Immediately after frying, it's crispy, but later it's turns not crispy esp. the centre. Can anyone guide me what went wrong. Pls.
I normally make vegetable spring rolls, I've never had chicken floss so I'll have to try that.
I couldn't find frozen aping roll wraps. Would dry ones work as well?
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for those who want to know what "floss" is:
FoodRousong, also called meat wool, meat floss, pork floss, flossy pork, pork sung, or yuk sung, is a dried meat product with a light and fluffy texture similar to coarse cotton, originating from Fujian, China. It also spread to Taiwan.
Can I use the airfryer instead of frying with oil? Thanks :)


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sorry i got confused with all the mesa radeons 2D 3D stuff
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sorry i got confused with all the mesa radeons 2D 3D stuff
my mistake
sorry again
I've just seen that Google released a plugin for some browsers to be able to render 3d. It requires opengl 2.0, maybe it's time to ask them to contribute with manpower to the development of free drivers.
I understood they were pushing hard amd and nvidia for open drivers, now that they want the web to take advantage of opengl, pushing open source drivers could be a good way to promote their plugins, by offering a more out of the box experience ?
This is great, though it's still programming for a single chipset. What is needed is a standardized unified driver system for graphics cards like what exists for USB devices now, and like other standards such as firewire. Graphics card makers need to form and support open graphics driver standards so that driver development isn't wasted by only being compatible with specific card chipsets. If you combined the devs in the various driver projects under a single umbrella, Linux graphics would be in a much better state today.
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That's one of the goals of Gallium3D. If it works as hoped, it reduces the amount of device-specific acceleration code significantly and puts it all in one place.
The current Gallium3D implementation assumes the existence of DRI2, which in turn requires video memory management in the kernel. Once that is stable and merged into the upstream kernel tree you should see greater progress with and usage of Gallium3D by both the 3D and X drivers.
There's a reasonable chance that most cards will be able to use a "generic" X driver which uses KMS for modesetting and Gallium3D for 2D and video acceleration.
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Plug-n-play, like UVC/firewire/etc, is what I'm hopin' for. Greatly simplifies life for everyone. ^^
A developer can correct me if I was misleading or imprecise.
Last edited by nanonyme; 05-08-2009 at 05:01 AM.
Yeah, there isn't really such a thing as a "generic" graphics card or GPU (ie one with a standard programming model or register set shared across multiple vendors), and it seems unlikely there will ever be one.
The programming model for each GPU is constantly evolving, primarily to support new programming standards, both for graphics and for compute. The drivers have to keep changing at the same pace, in order to provide a standard API to other parts of the graphics stack.
Even individual CPUs, bus architectures, and so on need specific drivers. Even the "generic driver" interfaces that exist (intel-hda, ac97, usb) all end up having tons of per-device tweaks and fixes. Generic is pretty pointless. It's done in the industry as is mostly to save time on engineering, not for consumer or FLOSS friendliness.


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Chicken and Cashew Curry
For my next experiment with garam masala I wanted to try a more complex dish and I was thinking about a curry. I wanted a curry with a fairly simple flavour profile so as to not loose the garam masala in the mix. I went through my bookmarks and came across this recipe for chicken and cashew curry by Sunita of Sunita's World.... I also liked this recipe as it called for some saffron as I had picked some up but I had yet to use it. This curry called for ground cashews but my poor mini chop food processor is on its last legs and is not capable of grinding nuts. Luckily I had some cashew butter and used that along with some whole cashews instead. This recipe was interesting in that it uses no oil. Instead everything is simmered together which makes it super simple to make. It turned out pretty good. The garam masala added a nice aroma and spiciness and the chili flakes added some heat. I liked the creaminess that the cashew butter and yogurt added. So far I have been enjoying the garam masala.
1 pound chicken (cut into bite sized pieces)
1 teaspoon red chili pepper flakes
4 cloves garlic (chopped)
1 tablespoon garam masala
1 tablespoon cumin (toasted and ground)
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1 pinch saffron
1 tablespoon cashew butter
1 handful cashews
2 cups water
2 bay leaves
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1 handful cilantro (chopped)
1. Mix everything except the cilantro in a pan.
2. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer until the chicken is cooked, about 10-15 minutes.
4. Remove from heat and mix in the cilantro.
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Toomas Hinnosaar
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Authority Bias with
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People in positions with formal authority are often expected to make better decisions and fewer mistakes, and therefore their opinions and contributions are given higher weight. This can be an equilibrium effect: people may be selected to the positions with formal authority because of their knowledge or skills. But respect for authority could also be a behavioral bias. These two explanations have very different implications. Our goal is to measure the authority bias, which we define as the difference between perceived and true quality of contributions by people with formal authority. Identifying the authority bias is complicated by the fact that almost always the observable outcomes include both explanations. We propose a method of identifying the authority bias that allows us to separate it from the equilibrium effect. We estimate the authority bias using a novel dataset from Wikipedia. In Wikipedia, editors in high-rank positions are treated differently, and there is high regional variation. Our preliminary estimation results indicate that the authority bias does not exist in Western Europe, but is large in Eastern Europe. The authority bias more than doubles the time needed for the mistakes made by high-rank editors in Eastern Europe to be corrected.
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Calendar Mechanisms
I study a repeated mechanism design problem where a revenue-maximizing monopolist sells a fixed number of service slots to randomly arriving buyers with private values and increasing exit rates. In addition to characterizing the fully optimal mechanism, I study the optimal mechanisms in two restricted classes. First, the pure calendar mechanism, where the seller allocates future service dates instead of general promises. The unique optimal pure calendar mechanism is characterized in terms of the opportunity costs of allocating additional service slots. Second, I analyze the waiting list mechanism, where promises of delayed service can depend on future arrivals, but the seller cannot discriminate among buyers who are offered the same position in the waiting list. Both the waiting list and the fully optimal mechanism are implemented by non-standard auctions with a scoring rule where the distance between buyers' bids affects the allocation. A novel property of these auctions is that for buyers it is better to win by a close margin and it is worse to lose by a close margin. Finally, I model partial commitment power as a penalty that the seller has to pay when forfeiting a promise. All the results are given for general partial commitment and therefore include full commitment and no commitment as special cases.
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Dan Garrett
We consider optimal pricing policies for airlines when passengers are uncertain at the time of ticketing of their eventual willingness to pay for air travel. Auctions at the time of departure efficiently allocate space and a profit maximizing airline can capitalize on these gains by overbooking flights and repurchasing excess tickets from those passengers whose realized value is low. Nevertheless profit maximization entails distortions away from the efficient allocation. Under standard regularity conditions we show that the optimal mechanism can be implemented by a modified double auction. In order to encourage early booking, passengers who purchase late are disadvantaged. In order to capture the information rents of passengers with high expected values, ticket repurchases at the time of departure are at a subsidized price, sometimes leading to unused capacity.
Penny Auctions
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I study penny auctions, a novel auction format where every bid increases the price by a small amount but placing a bid is costly. Outcomes of real-life penny auctions are surprising. Even when selling cash, the seller can get revenue that is much higher or lower than its nominal value, and losers in an auction sometimes pay much more than the winner. In this article, I characterize all symmetric Markov-perfect equilibria of penny auctions and study penny auctions' properties. I conclude that the high variance of outcomes is a natural property of the penny auction format.
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When I landed in Rangoon for the first time in April 2012 to photograph Burma's historic parliamentary by-elections, I sped from the airport to my hotel in a rickety but relatively late-model taxi. A spirit of optimism informed my daily interactions. Jovial taxi drivers boasting Aung San Suu Kyi stickers and buttons, reveled in relating the failings of their government and their support for the National League for Democracy — just as any taxi driver might talk about politics in Dublin, London or New Orleans. The people on the street were free to speak. And as a foreign journalist, my cameras were out and working — not hiding — from the streets to the presidential palace. The Burma I encountered seemed vastly different from the relentlessly authoritarian state I'd heard so much about: here, I felt, was a country in vital transition.
But beyond my naïve first impressions formed in the optimism and bustle of Rangoon, Burma remains a nation fractured along ethnic and religious lines. Approximately two-thirds of its population live in impoverished rural areas. In the town of Sittwe, in the state of Arakan (also known as Rakhine) in the west, I witnessed the ethnic divide between Rohingya Muslims and Arakanese Buddhists. A series of clashes had forced the Rohingya minority into makeshift camps on the outskirts of Sittwe. A small steel fence with rusty barbed wire and young paramilitary guards formed a government-sanctioned line of control, with Muslims on one side and Buddhists on the other.
My English-speaking Rohingya guide, eager to expose the plight of his people, told me (half-jokingly) that the situation resembled the fraught and perilous era in Western Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Naypyidaw, Burma's new administrative capital 240 miles north of Rangoon, boasted wide, sweeping boulevards replete with opulent fountains, but largely devoid of humanity aside from the occasional street sweeper. I had arrived there, along with TIME's East Asia correspondent and China Bureau Chief Hannah Beech, to photograph Burma's president, Thein Sein. He was a polite and measured man, offering lengthy answers to Beech's questions in an hour-long interview. For my part, I was sweaty and shaky after anticipating this moment all day. I grabbed the president's hand and pleaded for ten minutes of his time. He not only obliged, but seemed genuinely happy to pose — despite the ceaseless efforts of his minders, who repeatedly attempted to end the portrait shoot.
Afterward, as we drove down the boulevards on our journey back to Rangoon, we passed hotels and a shopping mall, islands of modernity like nothing one will find in provincial Burma. Thousands of decorative lights lined the roads, and I pondered the enormous expense of power invested in this political façade, especially in light of the power outages that continually bedevil Burma's population.
Ten hours from Rangoon, on a road that turned to dirt then meandered through hills long ago deforested, I arrived at the president's childhood village, Kyonku. Semi-official-looking men wielding handguns and radios had stopped us just short of Kyonku, insisting we go no further, but a "no" can almost always be transformed into a "yes" in Asia — after some light negotiation — and having displayed our official government letter of transit, we were allowed to pass. In the village, as the sun dropped over rice paddies and thatched roofs, clearly drunk men smoked strong local cigarettes over a game of snooker and families gathered in doorways of dilapidated timber homes. This might have been any other village in Burma — but for the remarkable fact that this one was where a boy from a poor farming family joined the military, climbed the ranks and eventually ascended to the presidency. There were, it seems, nascent elements of democracy within the former dictatorship.
On my last day of photographing in Burma, during a Buddhist full moon festival, I wandered through a slum in the north of Rangoon. People gathered in the street around stalls offering free food from local businesses. Girls in brightly colored dresses mingled at doorways. In front of one stall, an overweight man sat on a plastic stool, microphone in hand, his t-shirt creeping above his bulging belly. In time with an American rap music track, he chanted, urging passersby to receive his offering of free food. People sat around small plastic tables eating food with their fingers. In Burmese he insisted I join them, but through my translator, I reluctantly declined. As I strolled down the street toward the river, he yelled into his microphone, in English: "We are poor. But we are happy!"
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