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Whole Foods Changes Biotech Labeling Debate
The dynamics in the biotech food-labeling debate shifted last week when Whole Foods announced all of the products in its U.S. and Canadian stores would have to be labeled if they contain ingredients from crops with genetically modified traits, or as everyone likes to label them "GMOs."
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Who in the world cares what they do or do not put on their labels? If that is their marketing ploy, more power to'em. We are going to plant BT corn this spring. Hope they recognize that 50% of the food produced in Africa is consumed by insects. Just seems more appealing to me to have corn flakes for breakfast rather than larvae. If people would get off their duff and grow their own, labeling would not be an issue.
Posted by Bonnie Dukowitz at 11:57AM CDT 03/11/13
What courage! We love whole foods
Posted by Unknown at 9:42PM CDT 03/11/13
I think Chris might have just coined a new label for the "red states",,,, the "cracker barrel states"????
Posted by Jay Mcginnis at 5:35AM CDT 03/12/13
It is a free country. Whole Foods can do as they please. I just wonder if they purchase meat and cracker ingredient products from a few of my aqaintances' who are certified organic and have crop sprayers in their shed. Just some food for thought.
Posted by Bonnie Dukowitz at 7:33AM CDT 03/12/13
Here's the completely missed point behind this. It's the CONSUMERS who changed 'Whole Foods' mind on the issue. At the moment I have ceased buying whole product lines over the unwillingness to be trans parent for those crazy folks who pay the taxes that subsidies come from, then pony up THEIR monies for the goods-and why is that? Big Companies spent $45M to end the Prop 37 Initiative...but it didn't end. We're Americans, we expect to have honest choices, especially about what we spend our money on. Congress, whether we like it or not, it seems, will spend whatever of our money they want to on subsidies for Industrial Farming. (Look what happened with Stamp Farms LLC, in spite of that) However, these Food Companies not only label the presence of GMO's on their packaging in over 61 other countries, but re-formulate contents as the resident laws demand. Whole Foods simply discovered sales of labeled non-GMO Foods went up 15+%. The Consumers are voting with their money-and remember it IS their money. If you keep wanting a piece of it, you might give it more than an out of hand dismissal. As far as practices go, I would voice with Bonnie a need for standardization just as sure for Organic as Industrial-hey, fair is fair.
Posted by Ric Ohge at 10:46AM CDT 03/12/13
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You use the legacy driver for nvidia 5 series and say it is slow? Man, the correct one is 290.10 stable or 295.09 beta currently.
I'd like some help in understanding the state of Nvidia drivers and OpenGL performance.
I built a multi-seat computer based on two 8400GS PCI-E cards shortly after Ubuntu 8.04 was released. It worked very well for many years. Occasionally, in a normal single seat config, I'd try out a new distro. It always seemd 3D/OpenGL took a dive.
Ubuntu 8.04 (NVIDIA GLX Module 169.12)
glxgears 4240fps
glxgears maximized 430fps
Ubuntu 11.04 (NVIDIA GLX Module 173.14.30)
glxgears 1120fps
glxgears maximized 145fps
Is this easily explainable?
Are new drivers optimized for new cards at the cost of poor performance for old cards?
What additional information should I give?
Magic xorg.conf tweaks for the newer driver?
Thanks for any help,
You use the legacy driver for nvidia 5 series and say it is slow? Man, the correct one is 290.10 stable or 295.09 beta currently.
I had Ubuntu 11.04's stock Nvidia driver chosen by jockey-gtk. Yes, this could be a problem -- chosing the wrong driver I guess.
I will attempt to install a newer driver from the Ubuntu repositories and also try from nvidia.com. I'll report back. Thanks!
In case of ubuntu you should only use ppa, do NOT run the nvidia installer on it. There is a driver switching support implemented which is usally killed if you do that. It is more or less save on pure debian to use it - just when you do huge dist-upgrades which will give you a newer xserver/mesa it would be best to uninstall a manually installed nvidia driver before, if you see xserver-xorg-core or mesa you should maybe uninstall as well because the backup files will be older when you remove the nv drivers. It is nothing that could not be fixed by a few apt-get install --reinstall lines as long as the positions of the files did not change if you would like to switch back to oss drivers.
Hum, 270.41.06 (from Ubuntu repo) was very close in behavior to 173.14.30. Jockey was willing to install either one, btw, I didn't pay close enough attention.
~1120 fps (normal size window)
~142 fps (full screen)
Then I installed 290.10 from x-swat ppa...
~1110 fps (normal size window)
~142 fps (full screen)
So... 3 driver combinations repeatably gives me about the same performance. That performance is about 1/4 the old Ubuntu 8.04 + old nvidia 169.12. This supports my "golden age" comment.
Ideas? The only thing I can think of is start with a clean 8.04 and tweak things until I get the golden performance.
In the old xorg.conf (on 8.04 "golden) I have this xorg.conf/Device options:
I also have a "-rt" Linux kernel on the old system -- realtime. I've wondered if this somehow helps or tricks things.Code:Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Maybe it is related to compiz that "speed" drop. You mainly need the new driver for vdpau - i see no purpose to use that card for gaming anyway. glxgears does not really matter anyway. xbmc & co has to work.
To be clear I've been removing compiz before testing.
I decided, I needed better benchmarks -- so I ran Phoronix Test Suite's Lightsmark.
Ubuntu 8.04 (NVIDIA 169.12) Score: 32
Ubuntu 11.04 (NVIDIA 173.14.30) Score: 26
BzFlag (opengl game) runs 150fps and 80fps respectively.
Wondering if there are any xorg.conf options in the Device section that I should try....


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The Plumas County Board of Supervisors voiced concerns at a meeting Tuesday, May 4, about the Plumas National Forest's plans to raise camping and boating fees in the Feather River Canyon, Bucks Lake and Antelope Lake areas.
Acting Assistant Resource Officer Lisa Sedlacek, from the Mt. Hough Ranger District, presented the changes to the board and tried to address the supervisors' concerns.
She explained many camping fees would rise from $20 to $23; lakefront sites would go from $23 to $25; and a $7 boat launch fee would be added at Antelope Lake, where no fee existed previously.
Sedlacek told the board the boating fee would be charged from the beginning of April to the end of September and the Forest would offer a $35 season pass.
Her background materials indicated the Sandy Point boat launch fee at Bucks Lake would rise from $5 to $7. (See sidebar for the new prices at affected campsites and boat launches.)
Sedlacek said the concessionaire who ran these areas for the last several years "decided not to continue," which forced the Forest to put out new bids before selecting Royal Elk Park Management.
Quincy Supervisor Lori Simpson asked when the fees last went up at the sites in question.
The resource officer told her she'd been working on the Lassen National Forest until very recently so she wasn't sure, but added that fees usually couldn't go up more often than every three years.
The supervisor followed up by wondering why the Antelope boat ramp suddenly needed a fee.
Sedlacek replied the concessionaire needed to maintain the site and had to be able to make a profit.
The Forest Service representative indicated the fees would cover "utilities, propane cost, vault and septic pumping, garbage collection, the transient occupancy tax, any kind of liability insurance.
"We require they do water testing and the county's fees associated with that.
"Also we like to have good reliable communications so within the campgrounds the campground hosts have Internet service and some kind of telephone service."
She said the Forest was also working to repair a cable that was "ripped in half due to the plowing of snow on the boat ramp."
"There are also a couple patches of pavement that are deteriorating out there."
Sedlacek said the Forest Service also "installed a information board and fee tube up there."
Simpson asked, "When the federal government decides to raise fees like that is there a public input period?"
The resource officer told her there wasn't one when a concessionaire was involved because "it's a business opportunity and it's usually through an operating plan and it's approved by the forest supervisor."
The supervisor asked representatives from Royal Elk where their corporate office was located.
They told her it was in Hollister in San Benito County but clarified there was a local office in Twain.
At that point, Portola Supervisor Terry Swofford said, "This really concerns me because most of this county is owned by the federal government."
"So, with the lack of timber industry that we've lost here, we have to depend on tourism and stuff."
He said when the Forest Service raised fees, "You're driving more of the only industry we have left away and that really concerns me."
Swofford also told Royal Elk he wasn't blaming them for the fee increases.
Indian Valley Supervisor Robert Meacher provided some background information from his point of view.
"The board needs to know that we have a new concessionaire because of an unresolved issue between the previous concessionaire and our assessor's possessory use tax that overlaid these concessions where they'd never been before."
Meacher said the concessionaire lost interest when this dispute arose.
In a short phone interview, Meacher clarified that he wasn't blaming the assessor's office for this incident. He said the Board of Supervisors ordered the county to start collecting the possessory use tax.
"All we were doing was what every other county has been doing forever."
The possessory use tax became an issue in Plumas County in 2008, when it held up the county's negotiations on the most recent High Sierra Music Festival contract.
At that time the county had begun to receive pressure from the state to enforce that tax.
At the board meeting, Meacher said he understood the concessionaires needed to increase fees to make a profit at this point.
What he didn't understand about the Sandy Point situation was, "If we've been collecting $5 all these years, where has the money gone when all of the sudden we need repairs?
"I understand the need for repairs, but that's why we collect a fee, and if the fee was not high enough perhaps they need to be reviewed with the concessionaires annually so that we don't end up like we are at Antelope Lake of putting in a $7 fee where there was no fee since the dam was built in the '60s."
Meacher was also incredulous about whether the concessionaire would "be able to police the new fee."
"I think what's going to happen is we're going to spend more trying to institute this fee and enforce this fee than we will generate in revenue from collecting the fee."
The supervisor said he feared the sheriff's boat patrol would spend all its time enforcing the new rules.
Meacher was concerned because the area seemed to go through concessionaires fairly often and it would be tough, before turning to the Royal Elk representatives and saying, "I wish you well."
Sedlacek said there were improvements being made at Antelope Lake with old toilets being replaced by new ones that are supposed to smell less.
She also said the forest was trying to get funding from the California Department of Boating and Waterways.
"Some of the ideas that may be approved if they are funded will be to resurface the lot up there, the parking lot; there's going to be a nice new boat dock, potential shade verandas for the picnic sites, and then an accessible trail that leads to the picnic areas."
She also said Royal Elk wanted to survey the public on what kinds of equipment, such as canoes and paddle boats, they would like to be able to rent.
Responding to the law enforcement concerns she said, "We're not really relying on the sheriff to enforce boat passes; we'rerelying on Royal Elk Park Management to do that work."
Meacher mentioned that another difficult sell for fishing in the area was the fact that a lawsuit was stopping Fish and Game from stocking the lake.
Quincy Supervisor Lori Simpson commented, "I hope the Forest Service knows we want to keep camping still affordable."
Swofford said he talked to fishermen from Reno, Nev., who told him "they're not coming back here. If they have to pay seven bucks to launch their boat they're going somewhere else. So that's where my point comes from. We're losing tourists, people we depend on."
Sedlacek told them, "We'll work hard out there to provide a quality recreation experience for them so we won't lose those folks."


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Review: Mujjo capacitive touchscreen gloves for iPhone and iPad
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- February 2007: The third national solar energy conference was held in February in the city of Guichon, Paysandú. Sponsored by the Uruguayan Center of Appropriate Technologies (CEUTA), delegates attended from all departments in the country. Also attending were representatives of the National Bureau for the Environment (DINAMA), U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the municipal government of Paysandú. Solar cookers were on display in Plaza Williman, where they could be seen by the general public. The city of Guichon was the site of a workshop on construction and use of solar cookers in 2004. Out of that gathering has grown the national solar conferences. The fourth national conference will be held early in 2008. Contact: Juan José Oña
- August 2006: Juan José Oña reports that Uruguay observed its Solar Week with the Second National Conference on Solar Energy in Montevideo in March. The Uruguayan Center of Appropriate Technologies (CEUTA) formed a network of solar promoters at last year's conference and has held workshops nationwide during the past year. These actions have invigorated the solar cooking movement in Uruguay, which was reflected in this year's conference. The events featured solar cookers, water heaters, and solar food dryers designed and built by inventors from across the country. People who had attended earlier workshops were invited to a special workshop to deepen their skills. The workshop featured solar cooking promoters Pedro Serrano of Chile and Alfredo Estevez of Argentina. Brazil also sent representatives to the conference, where promoters shared their experiences with solar technology and training, and discussed future plans. The conference also included a panel discussion on solar energy and public policy. An exhibition in the city center exposed thousands of people to many homemade, low-cost solar devices, and media coverage of the conference was good. The conference was sponsored by CEUTA and a host of governmental and non-governmental agencies. Contact: Juan José Oña
- July 2005: The Centro Uruguayo de Tecnologias Apropriadas took part in organizing Uruguay's first "National Solar Energy Encounter" in March. The event followed a series of workshops that taught people to build their own solar equipment, including solar ovens, solar water heaters and solar food dryers. Solar activists from many parts of the country gathered in Montevideo to share ideas and plan future activities. The gathering gained wide exposure in the news media. Contact: Juan José Oña
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Accidentally, �Deja Variations� followed �The Art of Acting� at the dress rehearsal Tuesday night for �Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.� They were the funniest of about 30 playlets to run within a 60-minute time frame. The odd Neo-Futurist production with its even more bizarre title counts on random selection, so two connected scenes seemed a gift.
Directed by Ginny Davis, every performance of �Too Much Light� promises to be a bit different. That�s part of an elaborate premise devised by Chicagoan Greg Allen, who conceived and directed the first production of the Neo-Futurists on Dec. 2, 1988. It�s Chicago�s longest-running show. In 2004, another Neo-Futurist troupe made landfall in New York City. So this edgy, new-wave theater has made its way to Durango, too.
Allen�s concept has a statement of purpose and rules for performers � and audience � a bit like the 1909 Futurist Manifesto that inspired Allen.
Brevity, compression, speed, chance and change underscore the tone and tempo of every performance. Everything is scripted with a little wiggle room for limited improvisation and topical references.
�Still,� Davis said before the rehearsal, �this is the hardest piece I�ve ever worked on. The contractual obligations are very strict. It�s a different format than any of us are used to. The actors and the audience have a lot of input.�
Audience members choose the order of performance and may choose to sit on stage. A clothesline holding large sheets of paper with numbers spans the stage. As each vignette is performed, a cast member removes the number and a shout out determines the next.
It seems arbitrary, but that�s the point � random selection. Occasionally, audience members are asked to help, for example, holding a blanket or sitting on a chair and ringing a bell to stop the action of a story.
At dress rehearsal, FLC student Taylor Neve agreed to the latter. The scene played like a child�s game with the actors collapsing every time Neve rang the bell.
The real miracle is the cast. Kenneth Breece, Brianna DeVore, Elizabeth Dunn, Julie Faulkner, K.J. Kahoke, Tiffany Silva, Jordan Trujillo and Carl D. Smith spontaneously respond to the random scene sequence. At the rehearsal, there were no stumbles or hesitation. Performance ready.
The actors appear as themselves, sans makeup and wearing what they wore to the theater. �We are who we are,� says the manifesto. �My name is my name and my age is my age.�
Some bits feel like lectures, some are soliloquies, a few are conversations, many incorporate dance and several involve the entire ensemble. The shortest scene is simply a spotlight � no actor, no prop.
No matter how hard the Neo-Futurists proclaim this as new, an evening of short sketches reminds one of another form: vaudeville. Granted, that turn-of-the century form consisted of songs, comic sketches and dance. It all had an order, and cue cards announced each piece. That�s not unlike calling out the scene number from the Neo-Futurist menu � printed and in your hands, by the way. Layer on top the Realist tradition in theater, begun by Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov and dominating the 20th century stage, then a final frosting where neo-futurism attempts to make illusion and the fourth wall disappear entirely.
Several contemporary themes run through the work � relationships, youthful insecurities, identity politics, war and violence. At FLC, there is a sense of youth and ownership on the material.
The title was randomly chosen by founder Allen. Apparently, he heard an autistic child repeat the words as he smashed light bulbs. The website says its very oddity appealed to Allen, so he named the play �Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.�
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Very cool. I'm not working on any projects that would benefit from this directly, but I can see using this to help when I want to report bugs regarding performance regressions in mesa (or other projects).
Wow, this is amazing work. I wasn't paying much attention to PTS thinking big deal, so it is cool, but is it really important? But now, HELL YEAH!
Just the other day I was remembering something I read and thinking, while Windows and Mac has proper regression tests, who does proper regression tests in Linux? Well, step up to the plate PTS, at least for performance regressions. Yaaay!! PTS FTW.
Very cool. I'm not working on any projects that would benefit from this directly, but I can see using this to help when I want to report bugs regarding performance regressions in mesa (or other projects).
What are you talking about? Afaik slower mode - ordered is used science 2.6.31. In 2.6.32 they're replacing some I/O related parts and maybe that's why there's such slowdown. Just wait for stable release. You've got to be kidding if you consider Ext3 is faster - afaik in some previous benchmarks Ext3 was using writeback mode (with possibility of occasional file corruption) while Ext4 was using ordered mode (really_slow_PostgreSQL, but I wonder if this is a meaningful test).
XFS rocks!
Could you expand on your "proper regression tests" for Win and Mac?
Bisection is extremely powerful, but unfortunately, most people don't really know or understand it.
Now of course to blow you mind, IMHO, *any* unexpected change (beneficial or detremintal) are regressions. If you get an extra 20% in performance when you weren't expecting it, there is either something bad happening elsewhere - or - you hit some good Juju accidently, and you should really understand why and get some more.
Can't speak for OS X, but Windows' idea of a regression test is RTM.
mtippet: they have a few halls of machines running unit tests every (week|day|?). i guess you could call that regression testing.
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yeah but only if you're not running anything exotic underneath (e.g. encrypted home with LUKS, ...)
that leads with 100% certainty to system corruption / no return -> new installation
and I can't afford to install my system from scratch only because of an occasional hardlock (fglrx ) and the filesystem which means that it has to zero all files or much files out because of security concerns
I just saw that catalyst 9.10 will get out during the next few hours (if it hasn't already): my box always hardlocks if I do the following
or su)Code:sudo su (
thenorCode:time sync && reboot
if I forgot to enter a command before wanting to reboot I e.g. would enterCode:time sync && shutdown,Code:df -h... (just before it switches to terminal)Code:genlop -t
for omitting having to rebooting into my system again and it hardlocks
-> no magic sysrq key, etc. ...
this didn't happen with nvidia's or the opensource radeon driver (afaik) so I don't know why fglrx is insisting on complete "silence" while shutting down
hope you understand what I mean
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nice ! so in the future the kernel devs can set up some test boxen to continuously check kernels for regressions and subsequently bisecting it automagically
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Awesome feature! Congratulations, Michael!
Okay. I thought you meant something public that end-developers could use. Regression farms, yeah, most good companies will have that, independent of OS.
With continuous integration or at least the ability to simulate it after the fact, this appears as though it is a good unclean regression mechanism. Have you experience in it?on the topic; please read this and the three weblinks as well:


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Raw peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe
Prep Time
10 min -
Total Time
10 min -
Shelf Life
5 days in fridge -
7 servings -
14 small cookies
- 1 cup almonds
- 1 cup dates
- 1/3 cup tahini
- 2 1/2 tablespoons cacao nibs
- 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
Recipe Directions
- 1. Place almonds in food processor. Process almost into a fine meal. You are almost making "flour" out of almonds! Except don't go quite that far - leave a few tiny almond chunks.
- 2. Add dates to the food processor mixture - process again until well-combined.
- 3. Add tahini and salt to the the food processor mixture - pulse briefly until the tahini is well-distributed.
- 4. Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Add the cacao nibs and stir with a spoon to distribute.
- 5. Using your hands, form batter into 14 small cookie shapes (or, alternatively, form into balls).
- 6. Your cookies are ready immediately! (Store leftovers in the fridge.)
The Rawtarian's Thoughts
By The RawtarianYou'll note that there are no actual "peanuts" in these raw peanut butter cookies. This is because you should not be eating truly raw peanuts. Thus, we're using the tahini for a peanutty-flavor and the tiny chunks of almonds resemble the tiny chunks of peanut butter in chunky peanut butter!
The tahini (aka sesame seed butter) is the critical ingredient that holds this recipe together, thanks to its oily goodness :) (You can use runny cashew butter or almond butter instead of the tahini, but it won't quite taste as peanutty.)
I had a difficult time deciding whether to call for 1/3 or 1/2 cup tahini in this recipe. So I'd say it's somewhere between the two! If your cookies aren't holding together very well, add a little more tahini, one small spoonful at a time.
Also, a little warning about cacao nibs. So, you love chocolate, right? So you think you should add more cacao nibs than called for, right? Mmmmno wrong. You see, I love chocolate as much as the next crazy sweet-toothed raw vegan, but, you see, cacao nibs are not sweet. So if you add more than called for, you're turning a good cookie into a bitter cookie, mmkay? You have been warned, my pretties.
If you don't hava cacao nibs, you can use raisins instead for a peanut butter *raisin* cookie. Not quite as good as chocolate, but it works in a pinch!
Nutrition Facts
- This recipe is very low in Carbohydrates, and Sodium.
- This recipe is a good source of Protein, and Riboflavin.
- This recipe is a noteworthy source of Dietary Fiber, Calcium, and Iron.
Amounts per 55 g (2 oz) suggested serving
Name | Amount | % Daily |
Calories | 256 | 10 % |
Protein | 7 g | 13 % |
Fat | 17 g | 21 % |
Carbohydrates | 24 g | 7 % |
Dietary Fiber | 6 g | 18 % |
Calcium | 109 mg | 11 % |
Iron | 1.2 mg | 10 % |
Sodium | 51 mg | 2 % |
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I topped with banana and coconut shreds/cinnamon/chia seeds just because but mmmmm! so simple and delish thank you lovely.
Hmm, no peanuts, no chocolate chips. But looks delicious none the less.
I used what I had on hand and did cashews for almonds and mulberries for dates. I love them!! I also added a splash of maple syrup. I am crazy about this recipe!!! The mulberries gave it a savory, rich flavor and the maple syrup made it sweet enough to be a breakfast cookie!!!!
Also, I dehydrated my cookies...very yummy!
I love this app! I can't wait to try out more recipes!
OMG, these cookies are dangerously delicious. I used an ice cream scoop to for the cookies cause I'm not to good at forming .
Can you substitute dates for honey and if so what would the ratio be?
Iris's Review
Raw peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe
These are delicious! I love your website!
Just made these cookies. Must say very delicious. Love them. They are better then store bought cookies.
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Raw peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe
Do not make these unless you have really good self control!! They are AMAZING and I will definitely be making these again.
Soooo moorish! The perfect amount of sweetness & crunch. I made a batch last night; ate 4 immediately & am onto them again for breakfast. YUM!! They're super good chased by a glass of cold coconut water.
Can't wait to try this! Quick question: when do you add the sea salt? Or is I just to put on top of the cookie? Thanks!
Dear Laura,
Congratulations for your great web site. I love all your recipes! mostly the sweet ones ;-)...I have a doubt, why is eating raw peanuts bad? can you please tell me?.
By the way your videos are very instructive and very fun to watch too, you have a great attitude!
Can I use a blender instead of a food processor?
I have made these little gems three times in the last week for my family and friends...they are very tasty and popular!
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Raw peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe
These were the first of your recipes that I tried.
I'd give it a 4.5/5 but I had to choose a 4 or 5.
They were very nice but we all preferred the
cinnamon cookies more. (We swapped the raisins for
dates like in this recipe.)
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Linkage and Retention: A Randomized Trial to Optimize HIV/TB Care in South Africa (Sizanani)
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The purpose of this study is to test the effects of a health system navigator intervention on rates of linkage to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) care among newly diagnosed HIV-infected outpatients in Durban, South Africa. Subjects will be approached in the outpatient department and enrolled prior to an HIV test. Subjects will then be randomized to the navigator arm or the standard of care arm. Subjects in the navigator arm will receive scheduled phone and short message service (SMS) contacts throughout the follow-up period to help guide them through the HIV and TB care pathways. The navigator will provide personalized support to help subjects overcome barriers they may face along the way.
Condition | Intervention |
Behavioral: Health System Navigator |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Subject) Primary Purpose: Health Services Research |
Official Title: | Linkage and Retention: A Randomized Trial to Optimize HIV/TB Care in South Africa |
- Linkage and Retention in Care: ART-eligible Patients [ Time Frame: 9 Months after Enrollment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]For ART-eligible HIV-infected patients, 3 months on ART as documented by ART initiation date in the electronic medical record.
- Linkage and Retention in Care: TB Patients [ Time Frame: 9 Months after Enrollment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]For patients co-infected with TB, 6 months of TB treatment as documented by a written discharge of treatment outcome from a TB clinic.
- Linkage and Retention in Care: ART-eligible HIV/TB Co-infected Patients [ Time Frame: 9 Months after Enrollment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]For HIV and TB co-infected patients who are ART-eligible, completion of either the ART or TB treatment outcome will be considered successful completion of the Primary Outcome Measure.
Estimated Enrollment: | 1674 |
Study Start Date: | August 2010 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | January 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | April 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
No Intervention: Standard of Care | |
Experimental: Assigned a Health System Navigator |
Behavioral: Health System Navigator
Subjects will be enrolled prior to an HIV test. Following TB screening, HIV infected subjects will meet with the health systems navigator who will administer a brief strengths-based interview. During this interview the participant and navigator will identify barriers to HIV and/or TB care and the resources and strengths that will be most helpful in overcoming these barriers. The health system navigator will stay in contact with participants for the next 4 months using phone calls and SMS on a standardized schedule. During the phone contacts the health system navigator will assess where the participant is on the care pathway. If the participant has not completed a step in his/her HIV or TB care, the health system navigator will help the participant draw on strengths identified in the initial interview and overcome any obstacles hindering him/her from accessing care.
Detailed Description:
This project is a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to improve linkage to HIV and TB care for South Africans undergoing HIV testing. Subjects undergoing HIV testing will be enrolled at three sites in the greater Durban area. These sites comprise two hospital-affiliated outpatient departments and primary health clinics served by a mobile health van. Routine TB screening, regardless of signs or symptoms, will be offered to all HIV-infected participants. HIV-infected participants will be randomized to determine whether they will be assigned to a health system navigator or will receive the current standard of care in Durban. Block randomization will be stratified by site and gender, with blocks of varying length.
The health system navigator will help patients identify barriers to entering care and devise solutions, optimize use of available resources, and serve as a trusted social supporter who is knowledgeable about the health care system but remains outside of it. The health system navigator will help subjects engage the HIV and TB care system through face-to-face contact, telephone conversations, and short messaging service SMS text reminders which are free for patients to receive. These phone contacts and SMS will follow a standardized protocol. We will evaluate the efficacy of the intervention, as measured by increased rates of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and, for those with TB co-infection, TB treatment completion. We will also evaluate the cost and cost-effectiveness of this intervention.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- English or Zulu speaking
- Presenting for outpatient care
- Voluntarily undergoing an HIV test
- Able to give informed consent
- Report no prior HIV test
- Willing to share HIV and TB test results with research staff
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant
- Lying in a stretcher
- Not oriented to person, place and time
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01188941
South Africa | |
Mariannridge Clinic | |
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | |
McCord Hospital | |
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 4001 | |
St. Mary's Hospital | |
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 3605 | |
Tshelimnyama Clinic | |
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
Principal Investigator: | Ingrid V Bassett, MD, MPH | Massachusetts General Hospital |
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Ingrid V. Bassett, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01188941 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 2006-P-001379/26, R01MH090326 |
Study First Received: | August 13, 2010 |
Last Updated: | March 20, 2013 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board South Africa: Human Research Ethics Committee |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 05, 2015


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Damn! I can't wait to see all of the performance improvement for this one....
But I wonder how bad the regressions, if any, are....
Great work guys!
Phoronix: AMD's A-Sync DMA Code Makes For Fast Performance
After the benchmarks of the Radeon Gallium3D sub-allocator that in some tests yields more than a 25% performance boost, initial testing was done of the new AMD a-sync DMA engine support for the open-source Radeon driver...
Damn! I can't wait to see all of the performance improvement for this one....
But I wonder how bad the regressions, if any, are....
Great work guys!
That's great. If driver will be tweaked next 5 years it will maybe become usable.
Yay! The blitter is back!Additional to that it is quite a bit more efficient than the shader engine when you just want to copy some data from A to B, or just clear a specific region of memory (memcpy/memset).
So yeah, Unigine went from 2.7 to 23fps, which is a huge improvement. I started the gaming-free test suite earlier on a 3.7 kernel, and I should have the drm-next results after work. (I believe that includes nexuiz, urban terror, smoking guns, warsow, padman, and maybe a few others).
I'm not sure how much of this improvement is due solely to the Async DMA engine, and how much is other improvements between 3.7 and drm-next (I noticed a few other things in the changelog that might help). The kernel is the ONLY thing that has changed between runs, and honestly I don't care so much about the source of the improvement as that it's there at all. It would be possible to build the kernel from git using only this patch series as the difference, but for now I'm using the Ubuntu daily drm-next build from 12/11/2012
Well, I read in this article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...reaction&num=1
A now we return to 23 fps...a report by a user saying that his Unigine Heaven FPS frame-rate on R600g dropped from about 25 FPS to just 3 FPS following the "fix abysmal performance" patch.
It's been years we wait the open source driver to compete with the proprietary one.
Maybe it is an unending wait.
I hope they will at least code all the missing Opengl functions.
Maybe the open source driver is catching up with the proprietary driver.
I would like to see a open source vs proprietary driver benchmark.
This patch:
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WOW! I am testing it!
Ungine - 27
And OilRush I can play on ultra quality with hight texture 32-55 FPS!
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Dr. Alan Ahearne joined the Cairnes School of Business and Economics in 2005. He is a member of the Commission (Board) of the Central Bank of Ireland. Dr. Ahearne served as Special Advisor to the Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan from March 2009 to March 2011. He is a Non-Resident Fellow at Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank, and is a Research Associate at the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Before joining NUIG, he was Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, where he worked for seven years. He has taught economics at Carnegie Mellon University, University College Dublin, Dublin City University, and the University of Limerick. He began his professional career with Coopers & Lybrand and also worked for Bank of Ireland. Dr. Ahearne received a B.B.S. from the University
of Limerick in 1989, an M.Econ.Sc. from University College Dublin in 1991 and an
M.Sc. (1995) and a Ph.D. (1998), both in economics, from Carnegie Mellon
University. At Carnegie Mellon, he received several awards and honours,
including the William Larimer Mellon Doctoral Fellowship (1993-1996) and the
Excellence in Teaching Award (1997).
Ahearne, A. (2007) European and Asian Perspectives on Global Imbalances (edited by Alan Ahearne). [Details] |
Book Chapters
Ahearne, A. (with Barry Eichengreen) (2007) 'Europen's External Monetary and Financial Relations since the Euro: A Review and a Proposal' In: Fragmented Power: Europe and the Global Economy (edited by André Sapir). [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with Jürgen von Hagen) (2007) 'Euroopean Perspectives on Global Imbalances' In: European and Asian Perspectives on Global Imbalances (edited by A. Ahearne). [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
Ahearne, A. (2008) 'Coming of Age: Report on the Euro Area'. Bruegal Blueprint Series, . [Details] |
Ahearne, A., Andre Sapir, Jean Pisani-Ferry and Nicolas Veron (2008) 'The EU and the Governance of Globalisation'. International Journal of Public Policy, . [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with Juan Delgado & Jakob von Weizsäcker) (2008) 'A Tail of Two Countries'. Bruegal Policy Brief 2008/04, . [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with William Cline, Kyung Tae Lee, Yung Chul Park, Jean Pisani-Ferry and John Williamson (2007) 'Global Imbalances: Time for Action'. Bruegal Policy Brief 2007/02, . [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (2007) 'Global Imbalances: The Risks for the World Economy'. Field Day Review, 3 . [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with Jürgen von Hagan and Birgit Schmitz) (2007) 'Internal and External Current Account Balances in the Euro Area'. . [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with Finn Kydland and Mark Wynne) (2006) 'Ireland's Great Depression'. Economic and Social Review. Release reported by Dow Jones Newswires, 37 (2). [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with Jean Pisani-Ferry) (2006) 'The Euro Only for the Agile'. Bruegal Policy Brief 2006/1, . [Details] |
Ahearne,A. (with Naoki Shinada) (2005) 'Zombies Firms and Economic Stagnation in Japan'. International Economics and Economic Policy, 2 (4):363-381. [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with Juergen von Hagen) (2005) 'Global Current Account Imbalances: How to Manage the Risk for Europe'. Bruegal Policy Brief 2005/2, . [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with William Griever and Frank Warnock) (2004) 'Information Costs and Home Bias: An Analysis of US Holdings of Foreign Equities'. Journal of International Economics, 62 :313-336. [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with John Fernald, Prakash Loungani and John Schindler) (2003) 'China and Emerging Asia: Comrades and Competitors'. Seoul Journal of Economics, :183-213. [Details] |
Ahearne (with John Fernald and Prakash Loungani) (2001) 'Countering contagion: Does China's experience offer a blueprint'. Economic Perspectives, 25 :38-52. [Details] |
Conference Paper
Ahearne,A. (with Robert Martin) (2006) Condoms and House Prices: the Irish Experience. IEA Annual Conference. Conference Paper [Details] |
Other Item
Ahearne, A. (with John Fernald, Prakash Loungani and John Schindler) (2006) Glying Geese or Sitting Ducks: China's Impact on the Trading Fortunes of other Asian Economies. International Finance Discussion Paper. Other Item [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with Steve Kamin,Joseph Gagnon & others) (2005) Preventing Deflation: Lessons from Japan's Experience in the 1990s. International Finance Discussion Papers 729. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Other Item [Details] |
Ahearne, A. (with John Ammer, Brian Doyle, Linda Kole and Robert Martin) (2005) Monetary Policy and House Prices: A Cross-Country Study. International Finance Discussion Papers 841. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Other Item [Details] |
Teaching Interests
Masters in International Finance: International Finance, International Macroeconomics & International Monetary Economics. Executive MBA: Irish Economic Policy. |
Current Postgraduate Students
Xiaolei Tang, Doctorate - Ph.D. (Commerce) - Co-supervisor (1) |


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To take a crap in the tank of someone's toilet and not flush afterwards. When the next person flushes your crap comes rushing into the bowl all broken apart. A lot will clog in the top. This is mean.
It was my last day of work, and a friday to boot...so I left an upper-decker in the men's room.
от Anonymous
10 април 2003
A vengeful act of defacating in the tank of a toilet so as to odorize the bathroom with every flush for weeks until found. This is usually done at parties where you don't like the host/hostess.
"everytime I flush the toilet my bathroom wreaks, someone must have left an upperdecker, when I said the parties over go home..OH man! they did."
от troy garner
02 септември 2005
An upperdecker is when you poop in the toilet tank of someones bathroom, its the gift that keeps on giving
i was at this party and they tried to kick me out so i gave them an upperdecker
от Nick
16 юни 2006
A toilet prank, whereby someone defecates in the refill tank (water closet), causing each additional flush to deliver brown, poopy water into the bowl.
Jim was being such a jerk at his party, so I went upstairs to his bathroom and dropped an upper decker in his toilet.
от bodythunder
12 ноември 2008
The act of removing the lid off the back part of a toilet and pooping in it. Poop comes in the bowl over time after flushes. Usually done at big parties that have gone wrong.
The host of that party was so horrible that Andre couldn't resist pulling an upper decker before we left.
от Agenda
12 юли 2005
the act of sneaking into a bathroom, quietly lifting the lid off of the toilet tank, taking a deuce in the tank and then replacing the lid. this causes the toilet water in the bowl to be polluted after each flush. this is usually done at a party or too someone that you despise.
heath snuck into the frat house bathroom and left an upper decker in the tank, much to the dismay of the alpha betas.
от kirk
26 май 2005
using the water retaining bowl of the toilet, instead of the toilet itself.
that beyotch pissed me off, so I ate 3 large burritos, took some Ex Lax, went over to her house and left her an upper-decker to deal with.
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It's time for a reality check. Why is a substance that is safer than peanuts (Drug Enforcement Agency Judge Francis Young, Sept. 6, 1988, Docket #86-22) the subject of such unjustified condemnation and punished by mandatory sentences for simple possession that exceed those given to some murderers and rapists?
A quick look through the history of marijuana prohibition will reveal that prejudice, not science, was responsible for outlawing possession of this harmless weed. The word marijuana was introduced by Hearst newspapers to demonize cannabis, a substance that was widely used by millions of Americans before prohibition without harmful side effects.
The birth of "Reefer Madness" was an invention to sell newspapers and to protect corporate interests that were threatened by superior hemp products. Discrimination against Mexican laborers during the depression and black jazz musicians was used to sell the ban. Harry Anslinger, the Head of the newly formed Federal Bureau of Narcotics, was an unrepentant racist who made outlandish statements to persuade Congress to pass the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act of 1937.
Some of Anslinger's statements are too repugnant to print, but here are some samples of his "tamer" remarks:
• There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes and entertainers.
• Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.
• The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
• Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.
• Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
• You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.
I suppose it is somehow reassuring that Congress was just as inept and lazy in 1937 as they are today. When the Marihuana Stamp Act was called for a vote on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, a Representative from New York asked what the Bill was about. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn, replied, "I don't know. It has something to do with a thing called marihuana. I think it's a narcotic of some kind."
A committee member blatantly misrepresented that the American Medical Association endorsed the bill, when, in fact, they strongly opposed it. AMA representative, Dr. William C. Woodward testified, "We cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman, why this bill should have been prepared in secret for two years without any intimation, even, to the profession, that it was being prepared."
Thirty years later, President Richard Nixon placed marijuana on Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act as a way to repress the Anti-War Protestors. Nixon's White House Counsel, John Erlichman revealed the truth in his memoirs, "We understood that drugs (marijuana) were not the health problems we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it." (Lee, Martin A., "Smoke Signals," Scribner, pg.119)
To bolster his flimsy position, Nixon commissioned the Schafer Committee to thoroughly investigate the dangers of marijuana. Unfortunately for him, they came back with a recommendation to decriminalize possession.
Here are the conclusions of the reports:
The Commission feels that the criminalization of possession of marihuana for personal use is socially self-defeating as a means of achieving this objective. We have attempted to balance individual freedom on one hand and the obligation of the state to consider the wider social good on the other.
We believe our recommended scheme will permit society to exercise its control and influence in ways most useful and efficient, meanwhile reserving to the individual American his sense of privacy, his sense of individuality, and, within the context of all interacting and interdependent society, his options to select his own life style, values, goals and opportunities.
Nixon chose to ignore the report and we as a Country have spent billions upon billions of dollars incarcerating people for a law that even its makers know to be unjust.
It only took thirteen years to rollback Alcohol Prohibition.
After fighting a losing battle to eradicate cannabis for 100 years, it has only grown in popularity. Isn't it time to stop the insanity?
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Visit a Neolithic Ritual Centre and Passage Tomb that is 5,000 years old. (353-86) 355-1355; www.newgrangetours.com.
This wine bistro in a Georgian townhouse also serves a small plates menu from the late afternoon to early evening. (353-1) 676-3144; www.peploes.com.
The newest addition to Trinity College is a rotating gallery of science-related exhibitions. Shows have included "Hack The City" which invited gallery-goers to get into a hackers mind-set and consider tweaking Dublin's urban systems. www.sciencegallery.com.
This hefty classic chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin on an ordinary day on June 16, 1904.
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