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Unheeded in the spread of his name, quaking
Through the knit brow cuddling the sombre eye
Twice buckled into the couch of his yearning
The mouldy cast of unsculptured hands, moulting
In the surging sweaty cries' unexpected sigh
Sooner lost than won with unrenewed longing
Every day, every night in chastened haste, calling
That one face, one hand trembling on bosomy thigh
Through all the twigs of his knotty brooding
Mighty log in the dismembered chips, raking
In uneasy orgasms of a protracted lie
The woman clasped in the memory revolting
Fleshy hair to press, hovering nostrils, drinking
In the incensing vapours, and that face a wry
Screaming in the rubbing spasm, a bloody cursing
All, all and more, and the biting shame, clawing
Now at the name, silently growing, that shy
Child of old hopefully shared and lingered moaning
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A system for synchronizing the operation of a plurality of redundant processors forming groups thereof in which a frame of operation is defined as a time period during which a selected number of processing events occurs. For each processor, the performance of a first one of such events specifies the start of a frame and the performance of the last one of such events specifies the end of a frame. When the final event is performed by the last-to-perform of the processors of a group, the operations of all the processors of the group are then synchronized to start the next frame of operation at substantially the same time. The processors have execution rates which lie within the specified range thereof, the processors must perform their final events within a specified time period, and the processors of a group are arranged so as to start a frame of operation within another specified time period.
1. A system for synchronizing the operation of a plurality of redundant processors forming a group thereof wherein a frame of operation is defined for each processor as a time period during which a selected number of specified processing events occurs;
each processor of said group includes
means for performing a final one of said specified processing events for identifying the end of a current frame of operation;
means responsive to the performing of the final one of said specified processing events by the last-to-perform of said processors for synchronizing the operations of said processors so that all of said processors can subsequently start their next frame of operation at substantially the same time; and
each said processor further includes
means responsive to said synchronizing means for performing a first one of said specified processing events to identify the start of the next frame of operation.
2. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein the performance of the final processing event defining the end of a frame of operation for each of the processors of said group is arranged to occur within a first specified time period, any processor not performing its final processing event within said first time period being identifiable as a faulty processor.
3. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein each of the processors of a group has an execution rate which is within a selected execution rate range.
4. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein all of the processors of the group thereof are arranged to perform the first event defining the start of a frame of operation for said processors within a second specified time period.
5. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein a frame of operation for each processor of a group is defined as a time period during which the same number of specified processing events occur.
6. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said specified events are generated by hardware activities of said processors.
7. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said specific events are generated by software activities of said processors.
8. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein all of said processors of a group thereof perform substantially the same general functions within a frame of operation.
9. A method for synchronizing the operation of a plurality of redundant processors forming a group thereof wherein a frame of operation is defined for each processor as a time period during which a selected number of specified processing events occurs, said method comprising the steps of
having each processor perform a final one of a plurality of specified processing events for identifying the end of a current frame of operation for each processor;
having each processor perform an initial one of a plurality of specified processing events to identify the start of a next frame of operation for each processor.
10. A method in accordance with claim 9 wherein the performing of the final processing event defining the end of the current frame of operation of each of the processors of said group occurs within a first specified time period for non-faulty processors.
11. A method in accordance with claim 9 wherein the performing of the initial processing event defining the start of the next frame of operation for each of the processors of said group occurs within a second specified time period for non-faulty processors.
12. A method in accordance with claim 9 wherein the processing events performed by all of the processors of said group have substantially the same general functions within a frame of operation.
This invention relates generally to fault-tolerant processing systems and, more particularly, to techniques for synchronizing the operation of such systems using a plurality of redundant parallel processors to provide greater efficiency, such techniques being devised so as not to unduly constrain the operating characteristics of the redundant processing sites thereof.
In many systems which process information, particularly systems used for making critical decisions in real time, it is necessary that such systems have a high degree of reliability such that the allowable probability of a failure thereof per unit time is extremely low. Such systems, as may be used in highly critical applications, such as in aircraft, space vehicles, medical applications and the like, demand a substantially high level of processing performance. Such a performance includes not only the provisions of a high data throughput and large memory capability but also the ability to satisfy whatever unique requirements are imposed by the real time operational environment. Thus, the processing architecture must be designed to be capable of adapting itself to various requirements of the task being performed in real time.
Conventional redundant processing systems which can normally be used for many applications often do not have a sufficient degree of reliability to be safely used in highly critical applications, and it is desirable to provide more effective approaches to the problem of fault tolerance, particularly where more than one fault may have to be tolerated, e.g., in systems in which a single fault which arises cannot be corrected before another fault arises.
Further, such system should be designed to handle failures which may arise because of unpredictably arbitrary behavior on the part of one or more failed components. Such failures are often referred to as Byzantine faults, or as giving rise to "malicious" errors.
One such system which has been proposed is disclosed in our co-pending U.S. patent application, Ser. No. 07/187,474 filed on Apr. 28, 1988 concurrently with this application now U.S. Pat. No. 4,907,232 issued 3/6/90 and entitled "Fault/Tolerant Parallel Processing System", such patent being incorporated herein by reference.
One of the requirements for such systems is that redundant processing sites must be synchronized to within a known time skew in order to guarantee the most efficient operation thereof, particularly in the face of faulty behavior, as well as to allow the detection of a faulty, or an excessively slow, processing element in the system. In most such systems, constraints are imposed upon the processing elements by the needs for such synchronization and it is desirable that the synchronization mechanism used be effectively transparent to the applications program being implemented by the system and that the synchronization be suitable for use in a distributed system having multiple redundant processing sites.
One technique that can be used for such systems is often referred to as a "tight" synchronization process, e.g. processes using hardware synchronization mechanisms which constrain the operations of the redundant processing sites by requiring that such sites be deterministically related to the passage of time as measured by a hardware clock.
Such clock determinism constraint does not permit a wide degree of acceptable behavior on the part of the processing sites. For example, if each site has error-correcting memory and it is designed to synchronize the processing site channels by using a hardware determined clock, each channel must wait for the worst case error-correcting time period on each memory access because a given channel does not know when another channel might encounter a memory error and have to correct it. If each channel does not wait for such worst case time period then the error-correcting process, which could lengthen the number of clock cycles taken by one processor to execute a memory access, for example, would cause the processors to lose synchronization. Further, such a clock deterministic approach excludes the possibility of using relatively diverse hardware and software designs as a technique for tolerating common mode faults.
Another approach is found in software-based synchronization techniques rather than in the use of a hardware determined clock. Such software based synchronization techniques tend to constrain applications programmers by forcing applications code segments to fit within an arbitrarily imposed time frame which must in turn be sized in order to accommodate the worst case execution time of all of the processing tasks being executed in the frame. The need for software overhead, coupled with the fact that frame synchronous systems tend to utilize an excessive proportion of processor capability in executing synchronization and scheduling activities as opposed to processing activities, makes such software/frame-synchronous systems relatively inefficient and difficult to program. It is desirable to develop a synchronization system which does not depend on a hardware clock deterministic approach or on a software-based synchronization technique as in presently used systems.
In accordance with the invention a fault-tolerant, parallel redundant processing system utilizes a synchronization concept which can be referred to as "functional synchronization". In functional synchronization, the fundamental synchronous time unit is identified as a frame of operation. While different implementations thereof may differ on how a frame of operation is particularly defined in any specific system, a frame of operation of a processor in a redundant processor system can be generally defined as a time period during which a specified number of events occurs. In a frame, an event is defined to be any countable and unambiguously definable activity of processors which make up a redundant processing group. While the number of events per frame is usually constant from frame to frame, in some systems such number of events need not be a constant from frame to frame. Events may be generated either by hardware activity, such as by the expiration of a count-down timer, or software activities, such as by the use of an operating system call. Other examples of events which can be used to define a frame of operation include the completion of a given number of processor clock cycles, the occurrence of an operating system call, the completion of a given number of iterations of an algorithm, the reading of a message, or the sending of a message.
In such a functional synchronization technique, processors which are members of a redundant group thereof may execute synchronous frames without executing the same sets of actions within those frames. When group members in some sense execute the same actions within a frame, such operation is normally referred to as providing "functional congruence". Functional congruence does not necessarily mean that all redundant sites perform the same actions but only that, at some level of abstraction, they may be regarded as generally performing the same function. For example, redundant members of a group each might perform a numeric approximation process but yet each might use a different specific arithmetic method for doing so. In such case each processor does not perform exactly the same set of steps or actions but, assuming that the end results desired for such process are logically equivalent, they each can be said to perform the same general function
When all members of a redundant group of processors perform the same functions in the same frame such operation can be referred to as providing "framewise functional congruence". Using the functional synchronization techniques of the invention, synchronous operation of redundant parallel processing sites can be arranged to be effectively transparent to an application programmer and to be suitable for use in a distributed processing system at high efficiency.
In accordance with the invention, when a processor of a group of redundant processors has generated the number of events specified for a frame of operation, the generation of the last to occur event defines the end of the frame and in effect triggers the execution by the processor of a synchronous act. New frames can subsequently begin for all of the processors of the group after the synchronizing act of the last processor of the group has been triggered (showing that such last processor has completed its frame) so long as the triggering of such last generated synchronizing act is executed within a specified time period.
For such operation, the processors used must be selected so that their speeds of operation, i.e., their execution rates, are within a selected range of execution rates. Further, as mentioned above, each processor must execute its last event to identify the end of its current frame and thereby trigger this synchronizing act within a suitably defined and specified time period. Any processor not performing its last event within such specified time period is then identifiable as a faulty processor. Once the synchronizing acts of all the non-faulty processors have been triggered, the processors can be appropriately synchronized and the next frames of all non-faulty processorts are then ready to begin at the occurrence of the first event thereof.
The invention can be described in more detail with the help of the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 illustrates the concept of frames useful in explaining the operation of the invention;
FIG. 2 illustrates in more detail exemplary operations which can be used to define the concept of frames as used in the invention;
FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of an exemplary system in which the synchronizing technique of the invention can be used; and
FIG. 4 shows in more detail a block diagram of a portion of the system depicted in FIG. 3.
In the functional synchronization technique of the invention, events are equated to the occurrence of unambiguously defined actions performed by processors which are members of a processing group, e.g., a group of redundant parallel processors, during the course of their normal executions of processing tasks. Examples of such events are the sending of an outgoing message, the reading of an incoming message, the processing of a rescheduling operation, or the performance of an arithmetic processing operation. A frame is defined by the occurrence of a specified number of these events.
FIG. 1 shows a simple example of the above, where specifically the use of the reading of an incoming message, e.g. as from an input read buffer of a processor, is that which defines an event, with one event constituting each frame in the example shown. As mentioned above in functional synchronization the number of events per frame need not be constant and can be a function of the length of the current frame or any other selected operation parameter. In systems which include a plurality of redundant parallel processing groups, the frames of the processors of different groups need have no temporal relationship to each other and frames can be defined quite independently of each other in different groups. Thus, they may overlap, be of different lengths and periodicities and, in general, exhibit a relatively high degree of disparity from group to group.
When the requisite number of events has occurred for each processor of a redundant processing group, the occurrence of the last event defines the end of its current frame and signifies that the processor is ready to be synchronized with other non-faulty processors of the group so as to begin its next new frame. The occurrence of the last event triggers a synchronizing act, the purpose of which is to reduce the operating time skew which exists between group members to a smaller value than that existing before the synchronizing act. In one example of such a synchronizing act, the non-faulty processors of the group can be arranged to perform interactive consistency exchanges on each other's internal processor clock values so that each processor can take the mid-value thereof, for example, as its new clock value for beginning the next frame of operation for each processor. Another example of a synchronizing act of all non-faulty processors of a group is to arrange for all members of a processing group to await the arrival of the edge of an extrinsic fault tolerant clock before beginning their next frames of operation. In this way, the processors are effectively synchronized so as to begin their next frames within a relatively small time skew of each other at the occurrence of the first event thereof.
Three requirements are imposed upon a group of redundant processors when utilizing functional synchronization as generally described above. First, the members of the processing group must exhibit a differential execution rate, or differential speed of operation, which can be both upper-bounded and lower-bounded, that is, each of the processors has an execution rate or operating speed which is within a selected range of exection rates Secondly, the length of time between triggering of the synchronizing acts by the execution of the final event of a frame of all of the processors of a group must also be both upper and lower bounded, that is, the processors of a processing group must each trigger a synchronizing act within a specified time period. Thus, for example, a processor cannot continue processing forever and must perform the final event of its frame and trigger its synchronizing act before the upper-bound of such specified time period. Such conditions imply then that it is possible to both upper and lower bound the time differential within which different members of a processing group arrive at the triggering of their synchronizing acts. Such bounded time differential, or "time skew" can be defined, for convenience, as the quantity σ. Any processing member of a redundant processing group that does not arrive at its synchronizing act within the time period or time skew σ is then identified as faulty by definition. Finally, it is assumed that the processors of a redundant group operate in a network context in which copies of a message which emanate from the network are delivered to and received by each of the processors of the group within another bounded time skew, i.e. within a specified time period which, for convenience, can be denoted as the quantity δ.
FIG. 2 illustrates and helps to explain further the above concepts. Thus, for three processing members of a processing group, identified as members 0, 1 and 2, the time skew σ is defined to show the maximum time differential within which different processors can arrive at the triggering of a synchronizing act, e.g., in the particular example shown, the last event for each processor is the "sending" of a message, e.g., the broadcasting by a processor of a message to other processors of the group as well as to itself, and is, in effect, the last event used to define the end of each processor's frame of operation.
The execution of such last event by the last-to-execute of the processors of the group then triggers a synchronizing act which is then used to synchronize the operations of all of the non-faulty processors of the group before they begin the next frame of operation. As mentioned above, during the wait time before the next frame the processors can exchange clock information and synchronize the operations of their own clocks to an appropriately calculated close value, e.g., the mid-value, or averaged value, of all of the processor clocks. Other techniques may also be devised within the skill of the art to synchronize the processor operations before beginning the next frame in each case. The receiving by the processors of copies of a message from the network is indicated as being delivered and so received within the bounded time skew δ as shown and is, in the example shown, the first event of each processor's next frame of operation. If the time skew σ exceeds δ prior to the triggering of a synchronizing act, then the synchronizing of the processors, while awaiting reception of a copy of a message for the start of the next frame, synchronizes members of the redundant processing group to receive such message within the time skew δ.
As shown in particular in FIG. 2, a current frame for each member processor of a group thereof is defined by the occurrence of four events as, for example, the receiving of an incoming message (Event 0), the performance of two specified computation functions (Events 1 and 2), and the sending or broadcasting of an outgoing message (Event 3). Thus, a current frame for member 0 is defined as the time period from its receiving Event 0 and its sending Event 3, as shown. The next frame cannot begin for any of the group members until each non-faulty group member has completed its current frame.
Completion of a current frame for each processor member is defined by the execution of the last event defining the frame (in this case the sending operation or Event 3) which event triggers the operation of a synchronizing act for the current frame. When Event 3 occurs for the final executing processor of the group (i.e., member 2 in the particular example shown in FIG. 2) such member triggers its synchronizing act and all of the processor members can then be appropriately synchronized to be ready to begin their next frames within the time skew δ, e.g.. at the occurrence of the next message receiving event, which event starts each processor's next frame, as shown. Each processor must complete its current frame by executing its final Event 3 within the time skew σ, If a processor does not do so it is identifiable as a faulty processor.
Under functional synchronization, a certain degree of non-determinism and heterogeneity is permitted among members of a processing group but the maximum difference between the execution rates of the fastest and the slowest members of a processing group must be known. Generally the inter-synchronization interval is not known or is not constant. Accordingly, specification of the time skew σ is done with reference to, and knowledge of, the specific software which is being utilized as well as the specific hardware with which such software is used.
The length of time between the occurrence of the last events of a frame for all of the processors of a group must be upper-bounded, as mentioned above, so that a processor of a group cannot continue to process forever without triggering its synchronizing act, as mentioned above. If it is assumed that each member of a processing group is executing a functional congruent process which can be partitioned into segments, the partitioning may be either manual (i.e. where the programmer uses a "perform synchronizing act" primitive) or automatic, (where the compilier or operating system inserts synchronizing acts upon message transmissions, upon reading of input buffers, etc.).
In accordance with the invention, functional synchronization techniques can be implemented in a manner such that the skew δ between members of a redundant processing group is reduced by arranging for such members to interact via an interconnecting network element for providing a non-deterministic synchronization operation. A system of such a nature is depicted in our above referenced co-pending patent application which shows an example of a plurality of fault containment regions each region of which has associated with it a network element, the networks for the different regions being interconnected so as to provide for interactions among them. A redundant processing group can comprise one or more processors, each processor being a part of a different fault containment region. Thus, a triplex redundant processing group comprises three processors each being a part of a different fault containment region.
The use of non-deterministic synchronization in the context of such a network system removes the necessity of using clock deterministic processing elements by avoiding the need for a deterministic relationship between the passage of time with respect to one or more of the processing elements and the passage of time with respect to an interconnection network elements which are associated with them.
Thus, if, in a particular example of a synchronizing operation, it is assumed that a synchronizing act causes each member of a redundant processing group to transmit a "sync-start" signal into the non-deterministic network system, the members of such processing group do not proceed to the end of the synchronizing act until they receive a "sync-end" signal from the network. The use of such a non-deterministic network system guarantees (a) that the arrival of sync-start signals to the network may occur synchronously with respect to the network itself and (b) that all non-faulty processors will receive a sync-end signal within a time skew bounded by δ (often where δ is much less than σ).
The arrival of sync-start signals to the network in a asynchronous manner with respect to the network itself means that there is no phase relationship between the network and the redundant processing groups. The network can be operating on one clock basis and the redundant processors of the group can be operating on another clock basis with no prior relationship required between the two clock bases.
An exemplary system, as discussed in the above referenced co-pending application, is depicted herein FIGS. 3 and 4 wherein FIG. 3 shows an overall system which includes a plurality of redundant processing groups comprising one or more processors each of which is part of a different fault containment region. Each fault containment region is associated with a network element, the network elements being in turn interconnected. FIG. 4 shows a block diagram of an exemplary network element. The operation of such a system is discussed in the above co-pending U.S. patent application.
Thus, the four fault containment regions 10 contain processing sites 11 and a network element 12. Triplex redundant processing groups T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 and a simplex processing site S1 are shown and, in the case of the triplex groups, each processor member 11 thereof is contained in a different fault containment region 10. The above synchronizing operation is applicable to each of the above redundant processing groups, e.g. groups T1, T2, T3, T4, or T5, and the functionally synchronous operation of the invention can be applied independently within each group, i.e., the frames, the numbers and types of events, and the synchronizing acts can be defined differently from group to group. While, in a synchronizing operation for a particular group of processors, synchronizing messages are interchanged among processors of that particular processing group via network elements 12, such synchronizing messages can also be transmitted to other processing groups if some form of interaction is required between or among different processing groups.
In such a system, the synchronizing operations required following the triggering thereof at the end of the current frames of the processors of a group can be performed under control of the control processor of the network elements associated with the processors of a group using the techniques discussed above, the specific implementation thereof in the context of the system of FIGS. 3 and 4 being well within the skill of the art.
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Bhaumik, SK and Divakar, C and Ushadevi, S and Singh, AK (1999) Synthesis and sintering of Sic under high pressure and high13; temperature. Journal of Materials Research, 14 (3). pp. 906-911.Full text available as:
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Starting from elemental powders, simultaneous synthesis and compaction of S i c were conducted at 3 GPa pressure and temperatures in the range 2100-2900 K. The sintered13; compacts were characterized by x-ray diffraction, microhardness measurements, and microscopic studies. The efficiency of formation of S i c was dependent on the particle size of the silicon powder, crystallinity of the reactant carbon, molar ratio of silicon and carbon, and synthesis temperature and time. Carbon in excess of the stoichiometric amount was required to obtain compacts free from residual silicon. The S i c samples, with a Si : C molar ratio 1 : 1.05, prepared at 2100 K for 300 s had a density and hardness of 3.21 g/cm' (98.8% of theoretical density) and 22 GPa, respectively. The crystal structure of the S i c depended on the synthesis temperature. Pure p - S i c in the temperature range 2100-2500 K, and a mixture of a - and p - S i c above 2500 K were obtained. The amp;Sic was highly crystalline and nearly defect-free.
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She is impressive. I loved this comment:
"The way the younger generation views life and the way they work is very different than when I was in their age group. We have to recruit new employees all the time."
I can imagine that. I've been shocked at the quality of lots of young restaurant workers. I remember two of us trying to explain to our waitress that she had given us far too much change. It involved only simple math, of the addition and subtraction sort. We spent some time and she obviously didn't understand. We gave up and just left her a tip big enough to cover our usual tip plus the amount she had undercharged us. That way she wouldn't have to take a loss.
But far more troubling was a teenager cooking burgers at a fast food restaurant. He had in front of him a stack of cheese slices to put on the burgers. I was stunned to see him lick his finger to wet it so that he could more easily detach each cheese slice from the stack, in the manner that some people used to turn the pages of a book. I didn't want to consume even a little bit of this guy's saliva. I never went back there again.
I'm very glad that I don't own a business that requires me to hire a bunch of young people.
On a much more pleasant note, that Denny's owner is very attractive. I'm pretty sure that's what nearly all guys are thinking, but few would volunteer it.
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Welcome Yissy! We are looking forward to hearing more about your life with horses.
Well, a busy day today. Since I'm not sleeping much anyways, I got up and worked on school work for a couple of hours, then went out to feed the horses. I ended up checking and tightening all the fences, and then harvesting the remainder of my carrots and tomatoes. Next, I went town for a haircut, groceries and a new pair of slacks (dress pants) for school. I guess I should add here that stress is not good for you and is the reason I have been losing weight ( hence the need for new pants). Once I got home, I put away the groceries, cleaned the fridge, made lunch for my son and I, then headed out for a ride.
I rode in the western saddle because I tried out some new spurs. I've been killing my thighs trying to get Koolio to move off my leg and my instructor suggested a mild spur might help. Well, wow! What a huge difference! He was awesome and I was able to use my seat much more to cue him since I didn't have to be continually kicking him to say "move off my leg you big lout!". He picked up the correct canter lead every time and side passed beautifully down he fence line at both a walk and a trot.
After riding Koolio, I took old man Sam out through the neighbours field for a ride. I wish I had my camera as the field stretches up on a big hill where you can see the whole countryside in fall yellows anf goods and then the skyscrapers of the city downtown on the horizon. We also found a path into a small secluded field surrounded by trees dressed inntheir fall colours. It was a lovely ride, and gave me some much needed relaxation.
Once I got home, I brought all 4 horse in for a thorough grooming, grain and worming before afternoon feed. Now everyone is relaxed, munching, wormed and happy.
It feels good to have a productive day and a healthy dose of much needed magic horse breath. Hopefully it will be enough to help me get through the week at school.


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A controversy over funding for the Rescue Squad may be close to being resolved. The Carter County Commission received the welcome news during its monthly meeting on Monday.
The news on the Rescue Squad funding was just one of several bits of good news the Commission heard Monday. The other good news the commission heard included an agreement by the Watauga River Regional Water Authority to provide $230,000 for repaving on Siam Road, which was damaged when water lines were laid along the road. The Commission was also informed there will be no increase in the cost of medical insurance for county employees for 2013.
In an indication that a majority of the commissioners are satisfied with the leadership of the body, the commissioners elected Tom "Yogi" Bowers to another term as chairman and Lawrence Hodge as vice chairman. Both men were unopposed, but members did nominate fellow commissioners Joel Street, Jo Ann Blankenship and County Mayor Leon Humphrey for chairman. Each of the three declined the nomination, opening the way for Bowers to run unopposed. He did receive one "no" vote from Commissioner Scott Sams. The commission also appointed Scott Bowers to the post of county historian.
The controversy over funding for the Rescue Squad began in May, during the time when the County Commission's Budget Committee was hearing requests for funding outside agencies that were not a part of the county government.
The Budget Committee had made cuts to the Rescue Squad in past years, but during talks last May it was decided to fund a new request from 911 for an additional $97,000 by taking the money away from the next year's funding of the Rescue Squad. That reduced the squad's funding from the county to $104,000 this year.
The county's funding is used to support the Rescue Squad's rescue mission, including finding lost hikers and hunters, recovering drowning victims, and also such services provided to the county government as transporting Carter County Jail prisoners to the emergency room and standing by for Sheriff Department operations including illegal methamphetamine laboratory cleanups, and hazardous material responses. In the past, the squad did not charge for these services because they had been funded with the annual donation.
With the reduction in funding, Rescue Squad Director Terry Arnold said it would impact the high standards of the rescue teams, especially in training and equipment. There had been talk of the squad giving up its rescue mission and concentrating on its profitable emergency medical service operation.
Chairman Bowers told commissioners he and Carter County attorney Keith Bowers Jr. held a discussion with Rescue Squad attorney Richard Norris over the funding controversy. As a result, Arnold wrote a letter to the commissioners on Monday in which he said the squad "has been taking a view toward reducing the long-term costs incurred by the county" by making the Rescue Squad more self sufficient while maintaining the squad's high standards.
Arnold said in order to become more self sufficient it would need to be able to show its creditors and vendors that it will be in existence for longer than a year. To accomplish that, the squad is requesting a 5-year exclusive franchise with the county.
Another step in becoming more self sufficient would be for the squad to charge those people it rescued. Traditionally, the squad has not charged for rescue services because of the funding it had received from the county.
The change would also mean the squad would bill the prisoners of the Carter County Jail who receive ambulance service. It will also explore the possibility of billing individuals and property owners for the squad's hazardous material operations.
After a lengthy discussion, the commissioners also approved a settlement with the Watauga water authority to pave a portion of Siam Road. The authority had agreed to fund the resurfacing after it received the proceeds from a bond issue. After negotiating with Carter County Highway Superintendent Jack Perkins, the water authority had agreed to pay $230,000 to fund the paving this fall of 3 miles of Siam Road from Siam Baptist Church to U.S. Highway 19E and also to repave Webb Hollow Road, where a water storage tank was built.
Some commissioners were not satisfied with the agreement. Ernest "Gebe" Ritchie said other county roads had also been damaged in Blue Springs and other areas. The motion to accept the settlement was amended to include a stipulation that the acceptance of the three miles on Siam did not relieve the water authority from making repairs on other roads that were damaged during the laying of its water lines.
The commissioners also reluctantly agreed to a 5-year contract with the state to house state prisoners. The state will pay $37 per day per state prisoner. Representative Kent Williams attended the meeting and said an effort has been made to increase the funding level this past session and another attempt will be made during the next session to increase it by $10 to $12 more.
Commissioner Ken Arney said prior to casting his vote: "I hate to be blackmailed and strong armed into a 5-year contract, but I vote aye."
The biggest concern in going without a contract is that if any state prisoner suffered a catastrophic illness or injury in the jail, the county would be liable for all medical bills. Under the contract, the county is responsible for the first $1,000 of a medical bill and the state pays all costs over that amount.


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The Department of Defense announced today that Sgt. Henry Ybarra III, 32, of Austin, Texas, died on Sept. 11 in Balad, Iraq. Ybarra was changing the tire on a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck when the tire exploded. Ybarra died of his injuries.
Ybarra was assigned to D Troop, 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry, Illesheim, Germany.


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This was a segregated theater. A photo circa 1940 can be seen below. The Gem Theater was still operating in 1950.
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Characteristics of physicians receiving large payments from pharmaceutical companies and the accuracy of their disclosures in publications: an observational study
1 Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Mail Code BICC, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
2 Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR, USA
3 Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
4 Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
BMC Medical Ethics 2012, 13:24 doi:10.1186/1472-6939-13-24Published: 26 September 2012
Financial relationships between physicians and industry are extensive and public reporting of industry payments to physicians is now occurring. Our objectives were to describe physician recipients of large total payments from these seven companies, and to examine discrepancies between these payments and conflict of interest (COI) disclosures in authors' concurrent publications.
The investigative journalism organization, ProPublica, compiled the Dollars for Docs database of payments to individuals from publically available data from seven US pharmaceutical companies during the period 2009 to 2010. We examined the cohort of 373 physicians in this database who each received USD $100,000 or more in the reporting period 2009 to 2010.
These physicians received a total of $52,600,624 during this period (mean payment per physician $141,020). The predominant specialties were internal medicine and psychiatry. 147 of these physicians authored a total of 134 publications in the first quarter of 2011 and 77% (103) of these publications provided a COI disclosure. 69% of the 103 publications did not contain disclosures of the payment listed in the Dollars for Docs database.
With increased public reporting of industry payments to physicians, it is apparent that large sums are being paid for services such as consulting and peer education. In over two-thirds of publications where COI disclosures were provided, the disclosures by physician authors did not include industry payments that were documented in the Dollars for Docs database.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – University of New Hampshire women's outdoor track and field senior Erica Jesseman (Scarborough, Maine) was named America East Track Performer of the Week, while on the men's side, graduate student Paul DeTurk (Durham, NH) picked up America East Field Performer of the Week accolades, announced by the conference Tuesday afternoon.
Jesseman finished second in the 5,000 meters at the Sam Howell Memorial Invitational at Princeton over the weekend, setting a new school record in the event with a time of 16:51.24. The senior's time is the best in the event for an America East runner this season.
DeTurk, the defending America East champion in the hammer throw, placed fourth out of 27 competitors in the event at the Sam Howell Invitational with a toss of 59.93 meters. The mark by the graduate student is the best in America East play so far this outdoor season.
Jesseman, DeTurk and the rest of the UNH track & field team return to action on Saturday, April 9 when both sides play host to Holy Cross, Maine and Northeastern in a quad-meet at the Reggie F. Atkins Track & Field Facility.


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Texas Rangers' Josh Hamilton is congratulated at the dugout after scoring against the San Diego Padres during the sixth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in San Diego.
SAN DIEGO — Once Yu Darvish settled down after the second inning, the San Diego Padres didn't have a chance.
Darvish held San Diego to five hits over eight innings and got his first major-league hit to help the Texas Rangers beat the Padres 4-2 on Wednesday for their sixth straight win.
Darvish (9-4), who struck out eight and walked three, leads all big-league rookies with nine victories.
"He just couldn't find his rhythm to get the ball where he wanted to," manager Ron Washington said of Darvish, who allowed a two-run single to Padres starter Anthony Bass in the second inning. "After the second inning, when they scored those runs, he finally did it. Once he found it, he was on from there on."
Yorvit Torrealba drew a bases-loaded walk with two outs in the sixth to bring in Josh Hamilton with the go-ahead run. The Rangers swept the three-game series and improved to 12-3 in interleague play, the best in the majors this year.
"I asked the interpreter to tell the pitching coach, Mike Maddux, and Wash, I think it was somewhere around maybe after the third inning, I know my pitch count is up a little bit, but please don't base me getting taken out just on pitch count," Darvish said through an interpreter. "I can throw into the seventh, eighth still, it's no problem."
Washington had reliever Mike Adams warming up in the eighth in case, but Darvish finished the inning. Joe Nathan pitched the ninth for his 15th save in 16 chances.
Darvish allowed multiple baserunners in the first two innings. He walked consecutive batters with one out in the first before getting Chase Headley to line out to second baseman Ian Kinsler, who doubled Cameron Maybin off second to end the inning.
After Alexi Amarista's double down the left-field line was interfered with by a fan, putting runners on second and third with two outs in the second, Bass singled inside first base to give the Padres a 2-0 lead.


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The HTC One S went on sale in some regions of the world earlier this month, and the custom ROM development scene for the device is still in its infancy. While there are quite a few custom ROMs out there, they are all based on the stock firmware the device ships with. However, I am sure most of the One S owners would be interested in knowing when a stock ICS ROM or CM9 will be available for the handset.
Thankfully, one developer – xkonni – has started working on bringing CM9 to the One S. Keeping in mind that HTC still has not released the kernel sources for the One S, the developer has managed to do a pretty good job of getting some basic hardware features to work. Heck! Getting Ice Cream Sandwich to boot on the One S without proper kernel sources is a feat in itself!
As stated, the ROM is still in a very early development with most of the important features like the radio, camera and the 'phone' capabilities of the One S not working under stock ICS. Hopefully, once HTC releases the kernel sources of the One S, the AOSP development scene of the phone should pick up some much needed pace.
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The suffering continues for shareholders in solid-state driver maker OCZ Technology.
OCZ shares took a pounding earlier in the week after the company warned that results for its fiscal second quarter ended August 31 will be "materially lower" than it had previously expected. The company also said the reduced guidance reflects "the impact of customer incentive programs which were discovered subsequent to the preliminary announcement during the normal close process, and which the company will be reporting as a material weakness" in its 10-Q for the filing. OCZ also said it expects to report "negative gross margins and a significant net loss" for the quarter.
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Benedict A. DePrater, 86, of 214 Taft Rd., St. Marys, died at his home on Thursday, June 21, 2012, surrounded by his family.
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Check out photos of Mischa at the Harper's Bazaar London Fashion Week A/W 2013 Closing Party. This has got to be one of my favourite looks from Mischa! A++
Candids from outside the event have also been added.
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Fiat 500T Sport revealed in a new commercial? [video]
Would slot below the Abarth 500
Fiat has released a new commercial that apparently teases the 2013 500T Sport.
The car is only on screen for a couple of seconds, starting at the 0:49 mark, but it appears to have an Abarth body kit, unique alloy wheels and standard Fiat badging. Despite this, there's always the possibility that it's just an Abarth 500.
Regardless, documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) suggest the model will be offered in the United States for the 2013 model year. It is expected to have a turbocharged 1.4-liter engine that produces approximately 130 hp (97 kW / 132 PS) which is 30 hp (22 kW / 30 PS) less than the Abarth 500.
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SNELLVILLE - Behind Brandon Jacobs' 213 rushing yards and two touchdowns, Parkview clinched a berth in the Region 8-AAAAA playoffs Friday night by defeating Shiloh 35-0 at Shiloh Community Stadium.Parkview (6-3, 5-2) will finish its regular season by hosting rival Brookwood Friday night in the hopes of gaining a first-round home playoff game. Shiloh entered Friday's game a clear underdog, but its offense was undermanned with injuries to quarterback Mark Wright and running Sam Muse. Wright suffered a broken hand last week against South Gwinnett, forcing the Generals to start sophomore Derrick Butts at quarterback. The speedy Butts, however, threw three interceptions, including two deep in Parkview territory. "It was our best defensive game of the year," said Parkview head coach Cecil Flowe. "We played four quarters of good, hard football. We played the kind of game we needed to play to be in the playoffs." Parkview had little trouble moving the ball against the Generals, including the game's opening possession. Shiloh started strong, dropping Parkview's Jared Polak for an 11-yard loss on a screen pass on the Panthers' first play. But two plays later, on third-and-17, running back TaRon Squires ran 48 yards down the left sideline for the game's first score. Butts threw his first interception on the Generals' first possession, with Allan Johnson making the pick at the Parkview 25 and returning it to the Panthers' 49. Parkview drove to Shiloh's 13, but Shiloh's defense stiffened, forcing a 33-yard field goal attempt by Adam Gustafson that was blocked by Shiloh's Jaron Acklin. The Generals only got one first down before punting it away, and Parkview's Jacobs took over from there. From the Parkview 30, Jacobs ran the ball six straight times, scoring on a 18-yard scamper to put Parkview up 14-0. On its next drive, Shiloh (4-6, 2-6) threatened to cut the lead in half when Butts ran 17 yards to the Parkview 30. But Johnson picked off Butts for the second time near the goal line, and Parkview drove 90 yards on nine straight running plays to go up 21-0 on a quarterback draw by Clayton Wilkin. Shiloh had drives of 15 and 11 plays to open the second half, but neither drive ended with points. Parkview iced the game, and its region playoff spot, by stopping Shiloh on a fourth-and-2 at the Parkview 22 on Shiloh's first possession of the second half. Parkview needed only six plays to go 78 yards, with Jacobs scoring on a 1-yard run to make the score 28-0. After driving to the Parkview 17 early in the fourth quarter, Butts threw his third interception. The Panthers used a 29-yard run by Jacobs to move the ball inside the Shiloh 10 before back-up quarterback Kalik Barnes scored the game's final TD on a 6-yard run. In addition to Jacobs' 213 rushing yards, Squires had 103 yards on six carries. Eugene Glenn led Shiloh's rushers with 65 yards on 18 carries and also caught three passes for 52 yards. Butts finished with 8 of 19 for 90 yards.
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Special/Emergency Faculty Senate Meeting
Tuesday, December 7, 1999,
4:00 p.m. Willamette Room
1.0 Call to Order
2.0 Call of the Roll:
Several substitutions were: Sue Hill was present for Linda Stonecipher; Eric Cooley was present for Chehallis Strapp; I was voting on behalf of Irja Galvan and myself. The following members were absent: Leo Rasca-Hidalgo, Meredith Brodsky, Brian Caster, Ming-Chi Own, Audrey Clarke, Michael Cihak, Wangeshi Gatimu, Tina Fuchs, Stephanie Tunison, Darryl Thomas, Laura Riolli-Saltzman, Martin Rodriguez-Perez, Jim Chadney, Obie Garza, Provost Minahan, and President Youngblood.
3.0 Joel introduced the topic of the special meeting: consideration of the draft of the "Resolution of the Faculty Senate of Western Oregon University" regarding the current PEBB situation. Carol Harding distributed this draft. Marion Schrock then discussed the history and current situation. Key points: - Current PEBB benefits are good through 2000 - After this point, PEBB maintains that it will withdraw non-HMO plans and opt-out cash back. Perceived problems with this proposal include insurance cover during sabbaticals (HMO plans cover 90 days only) and the loss of opt-out cash, which comprise, in many faculty lives, appreciated and/or substantial salary. - OUS must make its intentions to withdraw from PEBB by 1/1/00; OSU and U of O Faculty Senates have put forth resolutions to do so (Joel has distributed these via email previously). - A statement to withdraw could result in a few potential scenarios: (a) PEBB may withdraw its plans and willingly create a faculty- specific program; (b) PEBB may not agree and OUS may seek new coverage. PEBB decisions/contracts will be made at the end of March, 2000. - It is unclear how the Governor/Chancellor's Office will respond to this problem given other PEBB issues in the state; concerns about "political vengeance" given higher education budgets have been raised. However, Marion reported that the Governor's office listened carefully to the OUS issues during a recent presentation, a potential good sign. - The previously presented notion (1997 data) that faculty are a "healthy" group of individuals who cost less to maintain (in terms of insurance, that is) was not born out in the 1999 data. Reasons for this, such as aging faculty and stress, were discussed. - Given this discussion, we read the resolution draft. It was suggested and approved that one item be changed (the statement "Faculty ...represent a relatively low-cost pool..." was changed to "Faculty... historically represent..." - We approved the resolution. Joel will send the resolution to OUS and the Governor.
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A documentary about the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack in New York City. It begins with an interview with an options trader at the American Stock Exchange describing his experience at the location close to the site during the attack. The film goes on with footage shot at the New York City site ten days after the tragedy occurred. It continues with interviews with people from Vermont (director Walter Ungerer was living in Vermont at the time) expressing their views about the reason for the attack. Vermonters represented the vast majority of the nation in that they only knew what had happened from the media news reports.
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The editing was a little weird, but the content was fantastic, very informative with great historical references from very interesting people. Relevant from beginning to end.
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The movie brought up fair criticisms about the marriage between big government and big business lead by big military. Moreover, cause & effect is an important aspect to study when it comes to foreign politics. I even like the idea of us getting back to a small-business-driven economy. Unfortunately and, as usual, this little film sank to being one-sided, leftist political propaganda. From the outset, the makers of this movie give America-haters a pass, probably because they seem to hate all that is America themselves. I get it. With self-effacing arrogance, the featured players in this documentary blame only America & Israel, their peoples and their policies, citing myopic examples (mostly the last century), for all world's the woes, injustice and anger. NOT ONE criticism for the Palestinian middle-east. The so-called "black" woman with all the education plants her roots in racism, not surprisingly, and finds new life in her ignorant theories against the imperialistic "white" Europeans wanting oil in order to wage war and shoot guns. She should sue whomever she paid for those degrees.
OK, I can accept some of that so far, like the westward expansion through native American culture. That was bad. I wouldn't mind it if they all were equal-opportunity blamers, complainers and pacifists, pointing the fingers at all the bad actors. But they don't. Instead, terror gets off Scot free, as if they have been awarded a social grant of understanding. It's disgusting and insulting to intelligence. They seem to all suffer from a form of 'Terrorist Stockholm Syndrome'. It's self-loathing, really. It's either far from genuine or the madness they call-out themselves.
Until one of these pieces of dogmatic documentary takes a balanced approach to (also) holding all evil behavior accountable -especially the barbaric, middle-eastern, Islamists fundamentalists, it will never hold a Starbuck's cup of integrity or whole truth. It will remain as unrealistic, idealistic garbage. Perhaps Vermont can lead the way by replacing oil with tree sap. Now that the movie is over ten years old and Obama is doing worse in what they criticized Bush of -and much more, I'd like to know if their pablum has changed, or if they still feed on the whole, organic milk of hypocrisy. Watch 'All This Madness' only if you wish to study the mental disorder found in classic, anti-establishment leftism.
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Hiking in the woods is one of the best ways to relieve you of stress and anxiety. In addition to that you would also get a good workout which would keep you healthy and fit. Now while going hiking in the woods the last thing you would want is to find yourself in the middle of nowhere. This is why having a GPS device wouldn't be such a bad idea.
There are many GPS devices available which would be great for hiking but the best and most convenient one would be a GPS watch. The GPS watches from Garmin are quite good and have a ton of features which could help you in improving your fitness as well as keeping you from getting lost. Among the Garmin GPS watches the Forerunner 305 is one of the best ones you could find. The Forerunner 305 keeps track of the routes you take and can be accessed on a computer. This comes in very handy in case you are exploring new areas and you don't remember where it is. With this feature you can keep track of exactly where you are with proper latitude and longitude coordinates. So you are sure to find your way before your wide hiking boots give out.
The Forerunner 305 has pretty impressive GPS receiver which provides you with accurate speed and distance data which will help you improve your fitness levels and keep track of your hike or run with some important statistics. The GPS receiver in this watch is quite sensitive and is capable of tracking you even if you are indoors. It will accurately give you your speed and distance if you are indoors. You can also check the about of calories burnt with the help of a Foot Pod accessory which attaches itself to your wide hiking boots or running shoes. Once you are done with your workout you can log into the Garmin Training software which will give you a lot of detail on how good your workout was and ways you can improve on it.
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In terms of DIY wrapping paper, this year we are all about stamping and printing. Brown kraft paper has stood the test of time and I am seeing a lot of white being used to print on as well.
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This story idea was pitched by someone at the Urology Center. It was an interesting trend story idea. I conducted the interview with the doctor on March 8. We talked about other clinics that have promoted this idea to get clients. The Urology Centers, however, does not promote this as an idea to get patients.
I did not see the blog on March 16 to which you referred.
Media outlets often do stories on the same subject matter. My story wasn't the first and likely won't be the last one on this trend.
Campbell remains on bail pending his sentence hearing now set for March 29.
On another matter, we have requested mugshots on various cases and have been denied. Federal law enforcement agencies also don't usually even tell us which local jail is housing the inmate. Security is sometimes the issue cited for not releasing such information.
Federal law enforcement agencies rarely provide jail mugshots of those they charge.
This is Kent Faulk. I do have the name of a club at that address but until I can confirm it we will not print it. Check back later today. Thanks
The government does seek $21 million. He was charged with getting $2.9 million in bribes.
Thank you makito. I have changed it.
To clarify the post, the employee is a man.
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Thanks for your interest in the story and the concerns for your community. We confirmed the address is in the East Lake Community through a City of Birmingham online map. Also, regarding questions about the change in address on the fire, the original radio dispatch was to a different address. Not until later were we able to clear that up.
Thanks, Kent
Here's a link to the story we had updating the amount of restitution paid in the sewer cases.
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That's a good question. Here is the synopsis of the supreme court criteria we've previously used at The News:
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- Alphanumeric or similar designations are randomly drawn and announced one by one.
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- The game of bingo contemplates a group activity in which multiple players compete against each other to be the first to properly mark a card with the predetermined winning pattern and announce the fact. Source: Alabama Supreme Court
If someone knows some background information about Ms. Leonard and Ms. Honeycutt, could you contact me? Thanks, Kent Faulk
Ptu... could you please contact me at 325-3220. Thank you. Kent
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This is Kent Faulk. A little more information. Police and CAP officers, and several witnesses I talked to who were at the scene, had no information that the driver was on a phone or texting at the time of the accident. She was seen with the phone in her hand after the accident.


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(MSP) Help! Need Cookies Tonight
Okay, I need to buy 5-7 dozen cookies that I can decorate and sort of pretend I made them myself for a Christmas Cookie Exchange TONIGHT.
My plan, is to buy some cookies (sugar, peanut butter, whatever), a couple cans of white frosting, sprinkles, and green and red food coloring to quickly make "homemade" cookies. Unless I can find actual Christmas cookies on the cheap.
I know Lund's has cookies, but they are sort of expensive, and very big. I'm hoping to keep the price down. Anyone have any luck with cookies from Cub, Rainbow, or a SuperValue? Are Kowolski's any cheaper? Any national brands?
Please help!
(And for the record, I will admit to my buying cookies if asked directly, but will not make any comments on the orgin if not asked.)
Sounds like an emergency situation. You could try Best Maid Cookies to see what they have left this afternoon. They do mostly "plain" cookies, like chocolate chip, oatmeal, peanut butter, and sugar cookies - but the last would probably work for decorating.
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Or, an alternate suggestion - If you have an hour or so, and you own a food processor, you could make rum balls from Nilla wafers or Oreo cookies - it's lightening fast to whizz the ingredients together, but it does take time to make each little ball and roll it in sugar. But they're really tasty and you wouldn't have to lie about who made them. :-) Here's a link to a thread on Midnight Rum Balls (from Oreo cookies), just in case:
Good luck!
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Thanks. I may have an hour, depends what time I get out of here at. Both ideas are great, though the rum balls may be made this weekend if not today.
Another thought - rosettes or butter spritz cookies from the Scandia Bake Shop on 34th and 50th (close to the Crosstown Hwy, near the airport). The rosettes are expensive, but wouldn't need decorating - though they're unusual enough that you probably would have to admit you didn't make them. The spritz are $4.50 for a dozen - not cheap, but less expensive than Lund's.
P.S. If you *do* go the rum ball route, check these threads for tips and variations (some are even booze-free).
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I suggest the Midnight Rum Balls, they are excellent! I made these a few days ago and rolled half of them in raw sugar, and half in coconut. Well, they are all gone now! And, tonight I just made the midnight rum balls with peppermint schnapps instead of rum and rolled them in crushed candy canes, they are so cute and so delicious!


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Step 2: Execution
Sew with a large running stitch, you don't want to permanently close the opening, just keep it closed long enough to cause a bit of consternation or confusion in your victim. When you've finished sewing, put the thread back through to the inside of the garment and clip off any excess thread to conceal what you've done as much as possible. Don't tie the thread off when you're done, that just ticks your victim off.
Step 3: A successful pranking
Please note, this shouldn't be done to any delicate or precious garments, or leather. The intent of this prank is to have a little fun, not to permanently damage someone else's possessions.