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- With the Black Pearl Ex Stamp pad and a star stamp, stamp a pattern on the sides and edges of the front and back of the paper bag.
- The front and the back of this bag are in different colors, but the stamping is the same. Cut a piece of the bright orange and pink papers a little smaller than the bag size. Stamp with Two Tone Gold Violet in a pattern of your choice along the edges. Let the stamp ink dry and glue one of the papers on each side of the bag.
- With the large zigzag scissors, cut the bright green and turquoise papers smaller than the previous papers. Stamp all over in a swirl pattern with the Two Tone Gold Violet. Let the stamp ink dry and glue onto bag. We matched the pink and green together and the orange and turquoise together.
- Cut a small square out of the colored vellum paper and place a single stamp image in the middle. Let dry and glue that to the center of the layers of paper on the bag.
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Oh I figured out that the piece of the holder can be inserted in the hole in Drossel's leg so I can make a shot withosu holder being visible ^_^
Can't get enough of her robot adorableness
Can't get enough of her robot adorableness
Really nice posing and photowork. Maybe set the flower at more of an angle would increase the dynamics of the picture, but everything else is really cool.
What is that behind her? a plate?
What is that behind her? a plate?
Did you build that yourself? It's remarkable [:
I want another season. Maybe one that takes off after the end of the first season and has Drossel and Gedachtnis being held in human captivity while a human (attempts) to interrogate the two through a one way mirror.
I thought this was a painting! Very nice.
Still envious, still loving the metal hips.
She looks really Aperture-ish
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what is she out of? what show?
The Japanese Disney show called Fireball Charming.
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I did this one for somebody who is collecting different artists take on Disney characters (Hi Tina!).
There are a lot of beautiful Disney girls and Ariel is right up there, tail and all. Gray copics with some white painted highlights on cream colored paper. This one was big ...like 12x18 inches, sheesh.
There are a lot of beautiful Disney girls and Ariel is right up there, tail and all. Gray copics with some white painted highlights on cream colored paper. This one was big ...like 12x18 inches, sheesh.
mo sexy
Love it!!! Would you mind if I colored it?
Hey, do you mind if I try colouring this?
omg love her face...looks so much prettier!!
You made Ariel hot .. im in love
Little Mermaid!!?? Are you serious? You drew her like a super hero!!
the collector is getting different comic artists to do their versions of classic Disney girls...so if she looks like a superhero, well I draw superheroes
Really pretty!
She is so beautiful really amazing job
thanks for sharing
thanks for sharing
i love how you put musles on her cuz if you swim to get around you should have a ton of musles, but the the tail is a little flimzy and small
Awesome! It's very comic book-esque.
Perfectly lovely. A vision of Ariel decidedly more mature! Great scale work on her tail. I like her toned tummy, the curve of her rib cage, and the graceful lines of her upraised arm. In short: I really like!!!
OMG...what a hot Ariel!*____* Beautiful!
I like how you coloured her tail!
I like how you coloured her tail!
not so li'l
this mermaid dont seem so little if u know what i mean but i gotta admit the effects of the water nad the curve designs are good
Hi Mike! Thanks again for the commission. It's perfect!! I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to stop by your table again but I'm sure I'll see you at another con next year! Thanks again!
simply outstanding
Lovely Michael. Ariel has always been my favorite.
Wow this is beautiful!! I got pointed over to this piece as I'm looking for an Ariel tattoo, and I'm glad I looked!
Beautiful work.
She is hotter than hell, but the work on the tail is amazing.
Fantastic work! Really nice work on the scales.
Dude that is freaking awesome!!! I dig the scaling effect! Your a Jedi with those markers! Have you thought about a color version of this one. It would make a cool print!
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Favorite fireams cleaner/lubricant?
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> Favorite fireams cleaner/lubricant?
December 5, 2004, 12:55 PM
What's everyone's choice(s) for gun oil and lubricant? An all-in-one like Break-Free or FP-10, or separate oils and solvents/cleaners?
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December 5, 2004, 01:16 PM
I use Hoppe's #9 for cleaning and FP-10 for lubrication for most of my guns. Some exceptions, like Lubriplate for the Garand, but those two are the ones I use most of the time.
Zeke Menuar
December 5, 2004, 01:50 PM
December 5, 2004, 04:11 PM
This week when I did my weekly inspection of CCW I used Zippo lighter fluid and Mobel ATF.
Last week I used G96 , it was in the truck tool box. I need some more.
Week before I used Break-Free. So I have my druthers , but use what handy from my "druthers list".
Week before , RIG 44 and RIG #2 , I was somewhere and I used thiers.
I do NOT compromise on using RIG or RIG +P , I'm adament about using my RIG. I use it no matter what else is used.
Rust Inhibiting Grease.
December 5, 2004, 04:49 PM
For an all-in-one I prefer FP-10. Good stuff.
I just started experimenting with Simple Green for a cleaner and using the FP-10 for a lube. Works pretty slick so far.
December 5, 2004, 05:00 PM
If I had to pick just one it would be Breakfree CLP. Fortunately, I don't have to pick just one. I use Hoppe's Number 9 for general cleaning and Shooter's Choice for copper fouling, but Hoppe's newest generation of cleaner's might replace these two. My one nickel plated firearm gets cleaned only with Breakfree CLP. For lubrication it is Breakfree CLP and white lithium grease on items that call for grease like the locking lugs on an M1 Garand bolt.
P5 Guy
December 5, 2004, 05:27 PM
Sweet's 7.62, 3 in 1 oil, EP2 grease, Kroil. That's all I have on my cleaning bench.
December 5, 2004, 06:06 PM
My cleaners are task specific:
Rifle barrel: 50-50 mix of Kroil and Shooter's Choice (rember to shake the SC before mixing and the mix before using).
Pistol: MPro7 bought by the gallon, applied with a spray bottle and toothbrush in an old tupperware pan.
Carbon fouling: Hopee's 9
General hose out: Non chlorinated brake cleaner ($3 from the auto parts store). Keep away from paint and ABS, but fine for polymer.
Lots of bargain brand paper towels.
Lube also task specific:
Slide rails and other high-velocity, high impact parts, like 1911 slide rails, and M1A bolt and op-rod: red marine drive lube. Bolt and locking lugs on bolt guns get this too. AKA: Slide Glide
Other parts and 22LR auto movers get Militec oil.
Peter M. Eick
December 5, 2004, 06:12 PM
General pistol cleaning Mpro7.
General rifle cleaning Butch's bore shine.
General purpose lube Mobil 1 15w50.
General corrosion protection, CorrosionX.
General grease, Mobil 1, synthetic grease (sometimes thinned with Mobil1).
By the way, I do not work for ExxonMobil, and yes it does bother me to buy the competitor's products....
December 5, 2004, 06:25 PM
FP-10 for everything I can use it on. If it won't get the bore clean then I'll use Hoppes or Sweet's.
December 5, 2004, 06:33 PM
Black Snowman
December 6, 2004, 02:19 AM
I clean with #9 and lube with FP10.
December 6, 2004, 06:55 AM
I use specific cleaners for specific applications.
Butch's Bore Shine for general bore cleaning duties.
Sweet's for used guns that are copper fouled beyond belief.
JB Bore Cleaner for removing the carbon ring that often builds up just forward of the chamber. Also, helps smooth out rough barrels a bit.
Butch's Gun Oil for lubing the bore. There are plenty of other oils that work fine for this purpose, but I won't put anything with Teflon/PTFE into the bore of one of my guns.
Break-Free CLP for moving parts and moisture protection.
Gun Scrubber, contact cleaner, or brake cleaner for general degreasing and flushing gunk out of those hard to reach areas.
Pro-Shot Pro-Gold grease for bolt locking lugs, choke tube threads, etc.
December 6, 2004, 07:46 PM
All the way! It works like a charm and the smell isnt as bad as most "bore cleaners", as far as oil, Ive also been using Hoppes and it works well.
December 9, 2004, 03:52 PM
Clean: WD-40 (followed by drying with compressed air) Kroil soak then JB Bore Cleaner. Lube: Marvel Mystery Oil and generic STP (50/50). Lasts and lasts and doesn't dry out in the safe.
December 9, 2004, 06:22 PM
Militec-1. A synthetic oil designed for firearms that lubricates and preserves. I didn't want to change, or even try the stuff being of old school cleaning. But ordered a "FREE" sample and haven't turned back since. All my hunting friends now use it, and family members.
Follow the instructions on the website, or with the brochure included with the free sample. First application is time consuming in my opinion, but the minimum cleaning up afterwards makes up for it.
I use this on my Auto-5 12ga. magnum for goose and duck hunting on Lake Erie, and for deer hunting in S.E. Ohio. Freezing rain, rain, sleet, snow, mud, dirt, etc...... This stuff works. Have just started using it on all my other firearms.
It's free.......... the sample they send that is.
December 9, 2004, 10:41 PM
I use the Break-Free CLP, * Note- recently I was using it to clean and the can lost pressure-I checked w/ the company and gave them the UPC code- Not only did they replace the Break-Free CLP but they also sent me a Bottle of "COLLECTOR" to try out, Its for long term storage "VAULT QUEENS", The company has EXCELLENT customer service/ And thats what makes me LOYAL. I also use the MILITECH-1, between both products they seem to really help w/ cleaning and lubing :),And will soon find out how well the Collector product works, going to try it on my 1st 22 -35yr+ ole rifle my Grandfather bought me when I was just a wee lad. KINDA DATING MYSELF THERE............ :eek: , And also a bit of elbow grease.
Desert Dog
December 10, 2004, 01:05 AM
Ed's Red
Hoppes #9
Marvel Mystery Oil
Tetra Gun grease
Birchwood Casey Sheath
December 10, 2004, 10:06 AM
Eds Red for soaking and Big Jobs--it's cheap
Mpro7 (aka hoppes elite) for pistols and AR--use the spray bottle
FP-10 for lube on everything
December 10, 2004, 04:04 PM
Hoppe's #9 for general cleaning. Homemade foulout for electrolysis copper removal from bore. CLP for lubrication. For really dirty bores I use Remington bore cleaner. I use Hoppe's gun oil for polishing and light lubrication. I also use brake parts cleaner in a spray can to remove excess gunk. I buy it by the case!
You can find many inexpensive homemade firearms cleaners and lubricants, including plans for the homemade electrolysis copper remover on Fr. Frog's web site http://home.sprynet.com/~frfrog2/homemade.htm .
January 8, 2005, 05:01 PM
I use Ed's Red for General cleaning and short term (<30 days) storage
Break Free CLP for lubrication & rust preventative
Shooters Choice Copper solvent (Ed's Red won't work on copper, Ed himself said that in his original formula)
R.I.G. for long term storage
Very happy with my choice, especially Ed's Red cuz I do alot of shooting, both handgun and Mil. Surp. rifles
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I use a combination of products. I like Hoppes #9 for tough cleaning, and Eezox and Breakfree CLP for general cleaning and lubrication. For rust prevention, I like Blue Wonder Armadillo. I use the Militec grease on slide rails/friction points, but not because I think it's the best product. It's just handy, and in a convenient small container. I am not that impressed with Militec oil, but if it works for other people, that's good. I think plain-ol' Hoppes oil does a better lubricating job.
I recently ordered some CorrosionX to give it a shot, and got some samples of SLIP2000 to try out. I haven't tried either to know whether I like them or not.
January 12, 2005, 02:16 PM
Been using Hoppe's products since I was <14. Although I have tried a bit of the Break-Free stuff lately, and Tetra Gun Grease.
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January 13, 2005, 01:02 AM
I cleaned a old Colt 1911 with regular Ivory dishwashing soap and hot water about 2 wks ago. I used Castrol Syntec 0w-30 (this is the one with the green color from -Germany).
About 700 rds fired so far. I pulled the top off to have a looksee, put it back on lube is still there, no rust, no corrosion. Gonna run it some more as is. Just wiping off the external with it too.
I have yet to add lube mind you, and the firing residue just wipes off...
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Most of these companies, the article notes, badly misread the future landscape of the industry and grossly overspent when buying newspapers and expanding their empires over the past decade. With shrinking print readership, soaring printing costs, print advertising dollars drying up month by month, and with online ads not coming close to filling the breach, companies have resorted to mass layoffs (like McClatchy's recently-announced plan to shed 10 percent of its employees) or radical changes to the make-up of their newspapers (like Tribune's recent initiative to devote equal space to news stories and advertisements). But it hasn't been enough.
Perhaps most alarming in all this is that MediaNews is one of the companies seemingly in deep trouble. MediaNews, which bought the Pioneer Press in 2006, has a long track record of gutting once-proud newspapers and turning them into sad shells of their former selves. Staunchly anti-union, with clunky newspaper websites seemingly designed to minimize competition for the print product, and pursuing a business model based on underpaying under-supported and inexperienced reporters to the point of burnout before replacing them with a fresher crop, MediaNews, if anyone, has an eagle eye on the bottom line.
MediaNews CEO and visionary-in-chief Dean Singleton played down his company's woes when speaking to Bloomberg last week. He noted that it is saving cash by sharing editorial content with other publications, cutting pages, and lowering the weight of its newsprint. ``We plan ahead,'' Singleton said. ``We've been doing that for 25 years. That's not going to change just because we're going through an economic downturn.''
But as the article points out, the company since 2006 has had its credit rating slashed four levels by S&P to B-, or six levels above default. And on June 30, if MediaNews has the debt-to-cash flow ratio of 6.53 times it reported on Dec. 31, 2007, it would be in violation of its loans.
Translation: all those cost-saving measures don't do much good when there just isn't enough money coming in.
A call to Singleton's office wasn't immediately returned.
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Here are the notes for the project presentations (in the order the talks were presented):
May 9, 2011
April 29, 2011
Average scores on homeworks 4 and 5 were 45.4 and 54.7 respectively.
April 26, 2011
Project presentation schedule
Below is the schedule for the project presentations. You should target a presentation for about 30 minutes, with 5-10 minutes for questions. The first 5-10 minutes should clearly introduce the context of the topic, and even though the time is short to present a lot of technical details, you should strive to teach the audience some technical aspect, eg. the proof of some key lemma that may be at the heart of the proof method. Please email me your slides and lecture notes after your presentation, and I will post them here.
Apr 27: (3-4:20pm)
- Carol Wang: Low-degree tesing
- Terry Zhou: Satisfiability threshold of random -SAT
Apr 29: (3-4:20pm)
- Yuan Zhou: Extractors and pseudorandom generators
- John Wright:
Note that at 4.30pm, Scott Aaronson will deliver the 2011 Buhl lecture on "Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable" at the Mellon Institute auditorium. I encourage the class to attend this lecture after the project presentations.
May 2: (3-5pm)
- Srivatsan Narayanan: Cryptography in
- Richard Peng: Expanders/extractors from algebraic list-decodable codes
- Ankit Sharma: Complexity of Boolean formula minimization.
Lecture 28: Resolution width lower bound; Course summary
After a recap of the resolution proof system, and the "short proofs are narrow" theorem statement, we stated the lower bound of on the width of resolution refutations of unsatisfiable -expanding CNFs. We proved that if a CNF with clauses and variables minimially implies a clause with literals, then . We then uses this prove that some clauses in the resolution refutation of an -expanding unsatisfiable CNF must have a clause such that the minimal sub-formula of that implies has between and clauses. This clause must have at least literals, giving the desired width lower bound. Finally, we proved the short proofs are narrow claim (here is a -CNF) for tree-like resolution refutations.
To wrap-up the course, we summarized the topics covered during the semester, loosely organized into the following categories. (Here is the summary of all the course lectures.)
- Identifying computational themes and organizing them by complexity classes
- Basic complexity classes and their complete problems (Formula-Value for P, SAT for NP, TQBF for PSPACE, ST-CONN for NL, QSAT for , Permanent for #P, etc.)
- Associated non-uniform models: circuits, formulae, branching programs.
- Computational notions of proofs (PCPs, interactive proofs) and randomness (pseudorandomness)
- Hierarchy of difficulty of problems, based on conjectured inclusions of complexity classes (SAT harder than Graph Isomorphism, Min-Formula harder than Sat, Permanent harder than Min-Formula, SAT not much harder than Unique-SAT, etc.)
- Various inclusions .
- Outside above chain: ; and ; without proof ,
- (Surprising?) equalities: NL=coNL; IP=PSPACE; AM[k]=AM; (without proof): SL=L.
- Non-uniform vs uniform classes, and collapse results
- implies .
- implies .
- implies .
- implies .
- Hierarchy theorems: , .
- Time-space trade-offs: .
- .
- Non-uniform lower bounds:
- Parity not in (proofs based on polynomial method and Hastad switching lemma)
- Branching program and formula lower bounds (Neciporuk and Krapchenko)
- Resolution lower bounds in proof complexity
- Randomized complexity classes BPP and BPL
- Nisan's pseudorandom generator for BPL (and connection to randomness extractors)
- Hardness vs Randomness: Nisan-Wigderson generator for BPP
- Converting worst-case hardness to average-case hardness: connection to coding theory
- Hardness amplification: Yao's XOR lemma, and proof via hardcore sets.
- Connections to approximation
- A polylog query PCP using polynomial based codes
- A constant query PCP with exponential sized proofs based on linearity testing
- Robust PCPs of proximity and composing them
- Connections to coding theory and property testing
We covered a variety of topics in a fair bit of depth; however, the richness of the field is such that there are many important topics which we did not get a chance to touch upon during the course. A partial list includes:
- Quantum complexity theory
- Communication complexity (and its applications to circuit complexity and streaming and data structure lower bounds)
- Average-case complexity (DistNP and DistNP-completeness, etc.)
- Cryptography: one-way functions, cryptographic PRGs, zero knowledge proofs, etc.
- List decoding and its complexity-theoretic applications
- Arithmetic circuits and algebraic complexity theory
- Parameterized complexity theory
- Descriptive complexity
April 20, 2011
Lecture 27: Expanders; proof complexity
We gave the proof of the following theorem concerning random walks in expanders, which is very useful for randomness-efficient error-reduction of one-sided error randomized algorithms: If is an -algebraic expander (which means the spectral gap of is ), and has size , then the probability that all vertices of a -step random walk that starts at a random vertex of fall inside is at most . Our presentation followed the one in these notes.
Readings: Prompted by a question, we talked briefly (and without any proofs) about Chernoff bounds for expanders. Here are two references for a proof: Gilman's original paper, and a recent paper on constructive proofs of Chernoff bounds (Section 3.4 deals with expander random walks).
Since we did not cover any explicit construction of expanders, I also promised to give pointers to (short) notes for both the algebraic and combinatorial approaches. So, here is a proof for the spectral gap of the Margulis expander construction on that we mentioned in class, and here is a description of the zig-zag product and its analysis.
We then gave an introduction to the subject of proof complexity, which is related to the NP vs. coNP question in a similar way to how circuit complexity is related to the P vs. NP question. We talked about sound and complete proof systems, and defined the resolution proof system for refuting unsatisfiable formulae. We proved the soundness and completeness properties of the resolution proof system. For an unsatisfiable CNF formula , we defined the quantities , , and for the length/size of the shortest resolution refutation, length of the shortest tree-like resolution refutation, and the smallest width of a resolution refutation of respectively, where width of a proof is defined as the maximum number of literals in any clause appearing the proof. We made some comments on small width proofs and automizability.
We then stated the Short proofs are Narrow theorem, which upper bounds the width as a function of proof size for -CNF formulae as follows:
- .
- .
We deferred the proof of the above theorem, and talked about the notion of -expansion for bipartite graphs, and for CNF formulae (based on their clause-variable incidence graph). We stated that random -CNF formulae with clauses, for large enough compared to , are unsatisfiable with high probability, and are also -expanding w.h.p.
We then stated the width lower bound theorem (which we will prove next lecture): If is an unsatisfiable CNF formula that is -expanding, then . Note that this implies that random CNF formulae need a width of for refutation, and by the "short proofs are narrow" theorem, do not have length refutations for some . We concluded with the following exercise: A minimally unsatisfiable CNF formula must always have more clauses than variables. (Hint: Matching).
There was a question on whether there were separations known between general and tree-like resolution. I answered yes, but did not give a reference. Here is a paper that gives a near-optimal exponential separation.
Readings: Chapter 15 of Arora-Barak has a brief discussion of proof complexity. Our presentation of the width lower bound will follow these notes of Trevisan.
April 19, 2011
Lecture 26: Expanders
We defined a combinatorial notion of expanders, and saw several simple examples and why they weren't good expanders in the sense we were interested in. We then gave two well-known examples of expanders, without proofs of their claimed expansion properties. We then turned to spectral properties of the adjacency matrix and Laplacian of a graph. We then defined the spectral gap of a graph, and proved that good spectral gap implies that a random walk mixes fast. We used the spectral gap as a criterion to define algebraic expanders, and proved that algebraic expansion implied combinatorial expansion. We also stated the converse (the "harder" direction of Cheeger's inqeuality) without proof. We stated the theorem detailing the use of random walks on expanders to perform error-reduction in a randomness-efficient way, which we referred to in the low-degree polynomial based PCP construction; we will prove this theorem next lecture.
Readings: These notes from Spring 2009, or Sections 21.1 and 21.2 of Arora-Barak. If you are interested in learning more about expanders, you can also take a look at notes from this recent course at Stanford.
Lecture 25: Exponential-sized PCPs
We continued our discussion of PCPs, focusing on the construction of a PCP with query complexity but which uses polynomially many random bits to index into an exponential-sized PCPs.
The PCP will be for the NP-hard problem of determining if quadratic equations over , for have a common satisfying assignment.
The PCP proof will expect the Hadamard code of such a satisfying assignment (which includes the dot product for every ) and also its quadratic function code (which includes the value for every matrix ).
The verifier can pick a random linear combination of the 's and check that it equals 0 with the help of just two queries into the Hadamard and QF encodings. As with the PCP of last time, the challenge is to ensure that the proof is indeed close to Hadamard and QF encodings of some . In this case, this ends up being technically easier (though still very interesting and influential).
We stated the linearity test to check proximity to the Hadamard code, and proved its soundness properties via Fourier analysis. A similar test can check that the QF code is close to a linear function of bits, that encodes some matrix with the inner product for every , Finally, we saw a consistency check that ensures that the . We saw the self-correction method (which is just the local decoding of Hadamard codes which we saw earlier) to make all these checks in a robust way when we only know that the tables are close to legal Hadamard codewords.
Putting everything together, we concluded that .
Readings: The above PCP is described in Section 11.5 of Arora-Barak, with the analysis of the linearity test appearing in Section 22.5.
Given our two PCP constructions, one (which we called the outer PCP) with log randomness and polylog query complexity, and another (which we called the inner PCP) with constant query complexity but polynomial amount of randomness, we talked (at a high level) about the method of proof composition, aimed at combining the best features of both these constructions. The idea is an intuitive one — we run the outer PCP, but instead of reading the polylog bits needed to verify the predicate, the verifier recursively expects a PCP proof that the predicate is satisfied, in the inner PCP format. It then calls the inner PCP to make this check. The big trouble with this, of course, is that the inner PCPs also need to ensure that the various predicates they are called upon are satisfied by a single global proof at the outer level. The semantics of the inner PCP, however, only talks about checking that a single predicate in isolation is satisfied.
Indeed, in the original proof of the PCP theorem, getting the details (or even the definition!) of the proof composition right was non-trivial. (In fact, for me personally, this was the "hardest" part of the proof to swallow, since one can take technically difficult statements like the soundness of the low-degree test as an interesting Math theorem and understand everything around it, but this is not quite possible with composition since it is integral to the whole structure of the proof.) Fortnunately, a very clean way to do proof composition was discovered around 2005. The key to this is to work with two variants of PCPs, which we briefly discussed in lecture along with ideas of how they compose seamlessly and syntactically:
- Robust PCPs — eg. for the outer PCP, not only are half the checks violated by any proof, but say half of them are violated by a good margin, in the sense that say fraction of the polylog bits read in the proof need to be changed to cause the concerned check to accept.
- PCPs of proximity (PCPP), aka Assignment Testers — here the PCP verifier checks the claim that the input formula is satisfied by a particular assignment (to which it has oracle access). The verifier must only read a small number of bits of , and an auxiliary proof of proximity, and reject strings that are far from every satisfying assignment to with good probability.
April 17, 2011
Lecture 24: Poly-log query PCPs
We discussed a PCP construction for the gap PCSP problem discussed in the previous lecture. Recall that a solution to a PCSP instance was a polynomial of total degree in variables, and its value was the fraction of constraints satisfied by (where each constraint stipulated that the values of at a tuple of points in satisfied some predicate).
The idea in the PCP is to expect the polynomial as the proof. We would then pick a random constraint of the PCSP instance, and check that it is satisfied by the values takes at the points specified by the constraint. The large gap in the value of the optimum between the satisfiable and unsatisfiable cases would hopefully imply the soundness of the PCP.
One could expect that the proof consist of all the coefficients of . This has the advantage that we know the prover is by fiat giving us a low-degree polynomial. However, the trouble is that evaluating at any point then requires reading all the coefficients, so this is bad in terms of query complexity. So instead we will expect that be given as the table of its values, i.e., a function , as the proof. Now querying the value of at any point is trivial.
The challenge now is to ensure that indeed represents the values of a low-degree polynomial. For this purpose, we discussed the low-degree test: pick two random points and check that the restriction of on the line is a univariate polynomial of degree in . This test makes queries and uses ranom bits. We stated, without proof, the low-degree testing theorem that if is -far from every degree polynomial, then this test rejects with probability .
We first saw an attempted construction with the choice . Naively repeating the low-degree test times would boost the rejection probability of -far tables to . However, this requires random bits which is about . However, one can do randomness-efficient error reduction (something we will see how to do using expanders after the PCP segment), and accomplish the same thing with randomness.
After ensuring (with high confidence) that is -close to some (uniquely specified) low-degree polynomial , one can check a constraint on the values of at some tuple as follows: shoot an independent random line through each , and if the restriction of on each line is a univariate degree polynomial, then we trust the values as the values of at these points. We proved that this works, namely if differs from at any of these points, then at least one of the line checks fails with probability . However, we noticed the problem that this uses too much randomness: random bits.
To circumvent this problem, we introduced the idea of parallelization, where we fit a random degree curve through the points and check that restricted to is a degree $dw$ univariate polynomial. If not, we reject; if so, we trust the values of at as being correct. We proved that if differs from at any of the points , then the curve check fails with probability . (In particular, there is no need to union bound over the points, and we can work with .)
With this, we completed the proof that , modulo the analysis of the low-degree test (which we skipped, but shall see a glimpse of in one of the final project presentations). We ended the lecture with a very brief glimpse into another PCP construction using exponential sized proofs, to be discussed in detail in the next lecture.
April 7, 2011
Problem set 5
The fifth (and final) problem set is now posted. Since I was a day late in getting it out, the due date will be Thursday, April 21 (5pm).
April 6, 2011
Lecture 23: PCPs
We stated the celebrated PCP theorem: There are absolute constants and a system for encoding proofs of satisfiability of 3SAT formulae in which -variable formulae have proofs of size , and a probabilistic verifier for checking proofs in this format, such that
- The verifier tosses random coins based on which it decides locations where to "spot-check" the proof;
- (completeness) if is satisfiable, then there is a proof which the verifier accepts with probability 1; and
- (soundness) if is unsatisfiable, then for every proof, the verifier accepts with probability at most 1/2.
We mentioned that strong forms of the PCP theorem known today allow us to take , and (for the latter, the soundness error needs to be bounded away from , say ; in fact one can take if the queries can be adaptive, or if we relax the completeness requirement and allow proofs to be rejected with a small (say ) probability even when is satisfiable).
We stated that another equivalent form of the PCP theorem is in terms of the existence of a polynomial-time gap producing reduction from 3SAT to NAE-M3SAT (Monotone-not-all-equal-3sat), which maps unsatisfiable 3SAT formular into NAE-M3SAT formulae which are at most -satisfiable for some constant . We sketched the proof of the equivalence of these two forms.
We had a very brief discussion of the historic context of the two different proofs (see here for a detailed history, nicely illustrated with pictures of the researchers involved) — the original algebraic one, and the recent proof via gap amplification. We then embarked on the first step of our goal, namely a gap producing reduction from SAT to an algebraic problem called polynomial constraint satisfaction problem (PCSP).
The advantage of this step is that it is "just" an old-school NP-hardness reduction, and it produces a huge gap (much better than what we want in the PCP theorem). The negative is that the soundness (or gap) guarantee only holds against solutions which are promised to be low-degree polynomials, something which we can't assume or take for granted in our final PCP. Nevertheless, it is a great first step, which highlights the origin of the gap in a modular way.
We then defined the PCSP problem, where is the size parameter, and are functions of (here was the field sizel; was the number of variables of the polynomial and its total degree; and was the arity of the constraints).
The rest of the lecture was devoted to presenting and analyzing a gap-producing reduction from NAE-M3SAT to PCSP, that mapped instances with variables to instances of PCSP. The reduction mapped satisfiable instances of NAE-M3SAT to satisfiable instances of PCSP, and unsatisfiable instances of NAE-M3SAT to PCSP instances which are at most -satisfisfiable.
Readings: Our presentation via PCSP follows the outline in these lecture notes from a summer school on PCPs (from 2000). The gap producing hardness to PCSP is described in Chapter 2; the details in our proof were slightly different using the characterization of multivariate polynomials vanishing on a subcube .


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arch/tile: remove dead code from intvec_32.S
This "bpt_code" instruction was killed off in our development line a while
ago (the actual definition of bpt_code that is used is in kernel/traps.c)
but I didn't push it for 2.6.36 because it seemed harmless and I didn't
want to try to push more than absolutely necessary.
However, we recently fixed a bug in our gcc that had been causing
"-gdwarf2" not to be passed to the assembler, and passing this flag causes
an erroneous assembler failure in the presence of code in a data section,
sometimes. While we'd like to track down the bug in the assembler,
we'd also like to make sure 2.6.36 builds with the current toolchain,
so I'm removing this dead code as well.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <email@example.com>
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About a year ago I put together a post called Thoughts On Product Management, containing some random musings about my role at the time. The big reason I put together this post was because so few people had any idea what this job involved or why it is important.
Now that I've got "Solution Architect" on my business card again, I thought it would be worth putting together a sequel post. However the role of "architect" suffers from an entirely different problem to product management, which is that so many people interpret the role in so many different ways. Partly this is because there are so many different types of architects, such as enterprise architects, application/solution architects and infrastructure architects. But even within just one of these job titles, I've see a huge variation in different people's interpretation on the skills, tasks and responsibilities involved.
I'm not going to pretend to be able to answer the question of what a solution architect should do any better than anyone else can. But I did want to share some of my own experiences on what seems to work well - much of it learned from working with other architects on past projects, and hopefully still relevant and effective for my current team. I'd also like to hear your thoughts, whether you are a solution architect or someone who works with one, about where you think the most important responsibilities lie.
When I look at the work of a solution architect, I think it's interesting to separate the "what" from the "how". The "what" side, while definitely not simple, is probably the less contentious. Figuring out how to meet current and future business and non-functional requirements, making sense of new approaches and trends such as SOA, ESB, Web 2.0, federation, etc, and determining where and when to apply patterns are the bread-and-butter of an architect's job. But what does that really mean on a day to day basis? That's where the "how" comes in, and I'm sure that like me you've seen a huge variety of approaches. The stereotypical extremes are the "ivory tower architect", who has a three-ring binder full of Zachman matrixes and UML diagrams but is completely disconnected from reality, and the "developer in denial", who is really just a developer who wants a more fancy job title.
I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear my view that a real architect needs to lie somewhere in the middle. Certainly architecture is a distinct discipline from development. While moving from development to architecture is a common career path, just because you are a good developer does not mean that you are necessarily destined to become a good architect. And the reverse is also true - most architects (myself included) are not able to keep up with the coding skills of the developers on their teams, especially once they stop full-time development. That said, I personally do not see how someone can be an effective solution architect without some kind of development background and a thorough understanding of the application's ever-evolving code base.
So without further ado, here are some of my current thoughts on what being a solution architect (specifically one in an agile team) is all about.
Minimise the amount of code the developers need to write
Developers are paid to write code, and they are generally excellent at it. However once a developer is assigned a swag of requirements or stories they need to get down to work on those specific requirements, and it's not easy for them to keep up with what everyone else is doing in any level of detail. This can include discovering synergies between different requirements or opportunities for macro-level code reuse and refactoring. A big part of the architect's job is to pick up on these opportunities as they arise and ensure that developers aren't reinventing the wheel in their own worlds. Ideally this should result in patterns, components and frameworks that allow the developers to get their requirements done with less code, by concentrating on those parts that are unique.
Ensure an approach works before you ask the team to follow it
While it's nice to be able to replicate approaches that have proven successful in the past, new technologies and unique projects mean that it's often necessary to break new ground. Dealing with these challenges is a part of the job for everybody in the project team, not just the architect. However when there is a work coming up which will require the attention of multiple developers at the same time, those developers will be a lot more productive if they are given some initial guidance on how to approach the problem. Some architects like to communicate to developers with documentation, which can be fine when the approach is well understood. But when the solution has never been tried before, I believe it's critical for the architect (possibly with help from others) to do enough prototyping to ensure the solution is sound before it's handed over to the dev team for the real work to begin.
Make sure the requirements, and the technical implications are understood before it becomes a distraction
Business priorities and requirements are always in flux. The great thing about agile projects is that this fact is embraced rather than feared. Good developers and testers are able to cope with change well through high test coverage and continuous refactoring - but at the same time it's important that developers don't get too distracted while there is still considerable churn in requirements. Understanding how new requirements get injected into the project is largely the domain of product and program managers, but the architect has an important role to play too. In many situations I've found that the business stakeholders will modify, reprioritise or cut requirements based on advice on the technical implications. This process can take some time, and I believe it's important to shield the development team from most of these discussions so they can concentrate on implementing and testing the requirements that are better understood.
Put together just enough design docs and diagrams, just in time
I've seen a huge spectrum of opinions on how much, and what kind of documentation architects should produce. In my experience, face-to-face discussions over a whiteboard or computer terminal are normally a far better communications tool than any kind of documentation - however this does not mean that documentation has no value. In particular when there is a need to persist ideas or solutions for the team or external stakeholders, documentation is unavoidable. My strategy is to write documents only if I can identify the exact individuals who need it, and to hold off on writing the documents to the last responsible moment (to avoid rework when everything changes). In practice I tend to produce small design documents (typically about 5 pages long) throughout the project that each drill down on one specific topic. This may include a few block or UML diagrams, but I don't like to use any standard templates as each topic will require a different level of detail and will need to be explained differently.
Do enough development work to stay relevant
Whenever someone assigns me a requirement or a bug I often joke that if they want it done anytime soon they really should assign it to somebody else. There is quite a bit of truth to this - on any given day I'm randomised enough to make it difficult to make a lot of progress on development tasks. Still I believe it's very important to have these tasks on my plate (especially when I get the fun ones!). The main reason is that it forces me to stay familiar with the code base and the day-to-day issues facing the team (like how long it can take to check in!).
Help with questions, problems and code reviews at any time
I've left this one for last, but I think it's the most important part of my job (and definitely most time consuming!). On any given day most of the developers in my team will come up with unexpected issues and questions. In most cases they can be resolved with a quick chat or whiteboard session, and in almost all cases everybody involved contributes great ideas that help shape the solution. Since these kinds of issues are by definition unpredictable, helping people out with these can be quite a distraction. However if somebody isn't available then small issues can become major roadblocks very quickly. In addition, participating in these discussions helps me keep my finger on the pulse of what issues the team is facing, and can sometimes uncover a need for the overall architecture to be revised to minimise future issues.
So consider this one more opinion to add to an ever-growing collection of thoughts on this topic. As always, I'm always very interested in hearing yours as well.
Pretty good question. You can ask ten people and you will get ten answers, ten different answers. Tom
Software architecture has become one of the hottest topic in last year or so. I also moved into software
Excellent post. I'm in the same role on my current project and I can relate to all of this stuff!
I think the part about still writing some code is really important. I've been on projects where things in the code base weren't designed the way they should be and then it slowed the whole project down. So if I'm responsible for the architecture side of things, it my job to be involved enough to make sure that that doesn't happen.
A more basic question, how many architects do you know that get in there and cement bricks together when building a house. If you are still in the code, sorry, but I suggest you are a Developer rather than an architect. Architects take in the environment and align the requirements to that environment, looking after the people, the processes and the technology.
They need an understanding of the SDLC and the concepts but code - no way.
My two bits, happy to be hammered. I have just finished as Solution Architect on a large gateway project and if I had got involved in the code, I would have had 4 vendors on my tail. However, whenever there was an issue, I could usually identify the area and the vendor to resolve it.
relate it to buildings. EA design the town and the infrastructure. Solution Architects design the house plans and the tests for functionality, vendors and developers build to those plans and verify the functionality.
All fits neatly. Doesn't mean that the SA doesn't come and check how the project is hanging together.


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Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid used to be the man with a plan. That was his reputation from the day he interviewed with Jeff Lurie and Joe Banner about the Eagles' vacant head coaching position in 1999. Reid was a relative unknown at the time because he was just a quarterbacks coach in Green Bay. However, Lurie and Banner noted how impressive he was during the interview process because of how organized he was. He had an extremely detailed plan for how to build a successful football team, all neatly organized in a thick binder. When Reid was hired, he set forth his plan by carefully assembling an excellent coaching staff. He brought in the revered Jim Johnson to run the defense as well as other notable assistants such as Steve Spagnuolo, Leslie Frazier, Ron Rivera, Pat Shurmur and Brad Childress…all of whom went on to become a head coach (or currently are). The next part of Reid's plan was to bring in some established veterans, particularly on offense, to help get the ba...
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Do You Trust Restaurant Review Sites Like Yelp?
Food 2012/12/10 13:37:13
According to Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods and former chef, restaurant review sites like Yelp, Zagat, and Chow are for morons. In a recent podcast he slammed Yelp saying it "essentially gives a tremendous forum for a bunch of uninformed morons to take down restaurants."
Time.com writer Josh Ozersky agrees to an extent. He wrote, "Defenders of Yelp and other crowdsourced review sites, such as Zagat, Chow and others, say that the range of reviewers — some morons, some not — at least gives a broad spectrum of opinion, which is more than you can say for a traditional restaurant critic. But in my experience, Zimmern is right: the reviews are, at best, wildly uneven. "
Ozersky does not advocate abandoning these sites altogether. Instead he suggests giving more weight to reviews that describe "believable descriptions of service lapses," as well as specific descriptions of dishes, especially when they mention temperature and texture.
What about you SodaHeads? Do you trust restaurant review sites like Yelp?
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Lakota Deviant 2012/12/10 19:07:44 (edited)Yes+3But to an extent. Calling the general public morons is a bit harsh. I'm sure he thinks he knows what I'll like rather than hundreds of people... Yeah some people leave terrible reviews but it really gives u an idea what to expect and when multiple people say a dish is good, what to get. Sometimes hype gets the best of people and I'll feel underwhelmed by the actual restaurant compared to the reviews but using my own judgement and looking at multiple reviews it really is a great service. I found a lot of great places to eat I never would have found otherwise.
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- Pronatalist Pronatalist 2013/04/30 22:19:56NoAre the reviewers even customers, or people paid by the restaurant?
Who can afford to eat out? Where are the jobs? We are still in The Great Obama Depression!
- phineasjalyper 2013/01/16 23:19:23
- Gryffindor53 2012/12/12 15:29:19NoNo. How often to do people feel the need to talk about good service in comparison to how often they feel the need to tell stories about bad service?
- V~POTL~PWCM~JLA 2012/12/12 05:05:23NoI have noticed derogatory reviews about restaurants that I know are good, and good reviews of restaurants that I know are bad.
At least one of the major review sites got caught offering to "do something" about bad reviews if a restaurant paid for an upgraded presence on the site.
Two of my favorite TV shows are "Kitchen Nightmares" and "Restaurant Impossible". The premise of both shows is that failing restaurants can be saved with a combination of cosmetic repairs and help from a star chef. Most of these places are failing because the food is dreadful. If you watch closely, many of these restaurants have "Zagat Rated" stickers on their front windows. I doubt those stickers are there because Zagat rated them poorly. And yet they are failing because everyone in the local area knows the food is awful.
- Woof 2012/12/12 02:17:40NoI wouldn't say I trust or don't trust these sites. I have found good and not so good on yelp but it has been helpful. It told me of one in Seattle Wa. It's my favorite place to go when I want a place to talk with both good food & service. It's interior is great for chatting because its not so loud that you can't hear or so loud you must shout! Other places have been decent though not fabulous.
- TimothyBrianFoley 2012/12/11 22:48:25
- ll 2012/12/11 22:45:40Yesyeah i do..
- bootlegga 2012/12/11 22:44:26
- Skar 2012/12/11 22:38:44
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- '90skid 2012/12/11 20:04:06YesFor the most part, yes. For example, if I see all five star reviews for a restaurant, and then one person gives them one star, I know that the person is either trying to stop people from going there by writing a nasty review, or there may be a slight chance that they had a bad experience.
But, if I see all negative reviews, and then a postive review pops up, I know to stay away.
Remember the saying, "Everyone's a critic."
- Onew Sangtae 2012/12/11 19:07:42 (edited)No+2People can be... too finicky. I understand concerns about service, etc. but I usually don't agree with people when they say the food is terrible. In fact, there is a breakfast place in town where locals and my friends from out of town/state LOVE and never complain. Then, some random city folk on that website go and say it tastes bland or whatnot. "Not enough flavor". It baffles me. Use the provided seasoning if you really need flavor overkill. I take review places with a grain of salt. They CAN be useful, but it really depends.
- AdriHead 2012/12/11 19:00:42
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- Matt P. 2012/12/11 12:04:52
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- Chris 2012/12/11 06:22:04 (edited)Yes+1Not sure about Yelp specifically, but most businesses have real reviews, you can usually tell if the reviews are fake if there are a lot of extremely negative reviews with very positive reviews... then you might want to take them with a grain of salt. But if most of the reviews are positive then there is no reason to believe they are fake.
But if you have a bad experience by all means let everyone know by positing a review on several review websites.
- Goober Finchley 2012/12/11 04:46:33
- Denzel 2012/12/11 02:18:02
- Torchy 2012/12/11 01:48:23YesWeed out the few obvious too-good and too-bad ones, and you'll find the truth. I'm on Yelp, and I do my very best to make sure people know what they're getting into ahead of time. The truth is that people are more apt to get online to complain as opposed to get online to praise, but I think there are places that simply do not like such sites because there are enough "uninformed morons" who are willing to say their mind. I've found many a good place thanks to Yelp; and I've been advised to go to several horrid places thanks to people like Zimmern. In the end, who does he think he is? He's nothing more than yet another food critic. Informed doesn't mean they share my taste, clearly. Some of the worst places I've ever eaten received 5 stars from critics.
- lovemykiddos 2012/12/11 01:25:55Yesonly in the same way that I trust rottentomatoes as an indicator of how a movie will be. I can't say that I would be swayed for sure based upon these sites, however, if a place got tons of positive feedback it might sway me to try it.
- sglmom 2012/12/11 00:42:15No+2NOT at all .. (period)
and for those 'professional' guides too ..
I've had the experience of going to what was highly rated by several sources (including national and international ones)
and these were some of the WORST meals I've ever paid for ..
(for example .. there's a highly rated Burger restaurant that has fries that have been touted as the best .. and BOTH the Burger and Fries were the WORST I've ever had .. just tossed out the items and went elsewhere to eat .. )
- lmnlme10921 2012/12/11 00:00:07No+1Since I have never used a restaurant review site, I am going off of my experience with movie and book review sites. Review are based off of personal opinion, and someone else's personal preferences will never completely match up with yours. Recently, I became president of my high school book club, and, to keep away from the dreaded public reviews, I found a personal reading blog of someone who reads a great variety on books and lists the pros and cons of each. I started emailing her for recommendations and have since found that it is better to get the verdict from someone with similar tastes to yours than to average the public's rating. To me, a friend would be of much more use when deciding where to eat than a dozen strangers who may or may not like the same food as you.
- scbluesman13 2012/12/10 23:58:20
- thewickedrobot 2012/12/10 20:19:38Yes+1Well, if the general consensus about a place is that it isn't good, I won't go there. It doesn't even have to be a website. Even if a FAMILY member tells me that a restaurant is terrible, I won't go. Especially when I check reviews for places that I love and it is all positive for it, I will still trust the site.
- pepper5419 2012/12/10 20:16:50YesSure unless you hear stories like posting bribes for payola.
- Lakota Deviant 2012/12/10 19:07:44 (edited)Yes+3But to an extent. Calling the general public morons is a bit harsh. I'm sure he thinks he knows what I'll like rather than hundreds of people... Yeah some people leave terrible reviews but it really gives u an idea what to expect and when multiple people say a dish is good, what to get. Sometimes hype gets the best of people and I'll feel underwhelmed by the actual restaurant compared to the reviews but using my own judgement and looking at multiple reviews it really is a great service. I found a lot of great places to eat I never would have found otherwise.
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- Gloria 2012/12/10 16:35:40Yes+1Yes I do trust reviews on Yelp because you learn to read the reviewers better than the review. You can see some people are picky, bitchy, spoiled, not too smart etc. I love to read reviews on restaurants, services, and products. It helps to make better decisions and it's very entertaining.
One thing about restaurant and bar reviews I like is if you had a bad experience you can look over the reviews to see if it was a one time deal or if the business is poorly run.
- Kigan 2012/12/10 16:21:09No+1Here's the thing: People are FAR more likely to give a review after a negative experience than a positive one. So it gets easily unbalanced when people complain because their meal wasn't cooked just right. Never mind eating there 9 other times with fantastic service.
I trust my own experience and that of people I know. These websites...too unreliable.
- s2k 2012/12/10 15:22:11
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- JohnT 2012/12/10 15:16:01NoI could care less what critics say about restaurants, movie reviews or anything else. I think the world is a little tired of talking heads with their so called expertise.
- smitty 2012/12/10 15:07:14
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I need a couple of good finger-food recipes for a party.
I am definitely going to fix a crock pot of meatballs, and I'll probably do a tray with fruit . . . but I'm not sure what else!
Any suggestions?
I need a couple of good finger-food recipes for a party.
I am definitely going to fix a crock pot of meatballs, and I'll probably do a tray with fruit . . . but I'm not sure what else!
Any suggestions?
I love lil smokies wrapped in bacon with brown sugar sprinkled on top. Bake at 425 for 20 mintues.
Stuffed mushrooms
Crab Rangoons
Pickle Tray (sweet and dill pickles - black, green, purple olives- artickoke hearts - pickled veggies - pickled beans)
I don't know how you are with spicy food, but I love homemade bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers. They are so addictive. The Pioneer Woman has them on her website!
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if you have another crock pot, a fav that i make is lil smokies... i usally use about 3 pks of smokies, a whole bottle of bullseye original bbq sauce, a whole jar of grape jelly, about 2 tsp of ketcup, and 1 tsp of mustard.. i know it sounds odd,,, but its really good.. i usally like for the bbq sauce and jelly to heat up first so that the jelly melts then put the rest in and cook for atleast 2 hrs.. you can even cut up smoked sausage and put in but everyone loves it.....
i also do deviled eggs, veggie plate, fruit plate, a pickled plate like dill, sweet, olives, baby corn & stuff like that....
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Go Green (Olive) Deviled Eggs
Amy – amylz
12 eggs (save the carton they came in!)
1 cup green olives with pimentos, finely chopped (eyeball it)
2 tablespoons mayonnaise, use just enough to bind (eyeball it)
3 tablespoons yellow mustard (eyeball it)
2 tablespoons pickle relish (eyeball it)
1/2 small onion, grated
A few dashes hot sauce (add more if you like it spicy!)
1/4 cup (about a palmful) parsley, chopped
1/4 cup (about a palmful) dill, chopped
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Yields: 4-6 servings
Put the eggs in a saucepan and fill it halfway with cold water. Set over high heat. When the water boils, turn off the heat and place a lid over the pot. Let sit 10 minutes. Place the pot of cooked eggs in the sink and run some cold water over the eggs until both the water and the pan feel cool. When the eggs are cool enough to handle, take them out of the water. Roll each egg on a work surface to crack the shell then carefully peel off the eggshells. Place the eggs on a cutting board and cut a quarter off the egg from the fat rounded end to expose the yolk. Next, cut just a sliver off the opposite end, the pointed end so the egg is able to sit upright without rolling over. Once all the eggs have been cut, scoop out their yolks into a medium size mixing bowl. Place the egg white halves back into the egg container for easy transport and filling, making sure the holes are pointing up so that you are able to fill them. Break the egg yolks up a little bit using a fork. Add in the olives, mayo, mustard, relish, grated onion, hot sauce, parsley and dill. Give it a good stir and a dash of salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Make yourself a fancy instant pastry bag by spooning the egg yolk mixture into a plastic re-sealable bag and squishing it all into one of the bottom corners. Snip off a small triangle from the bottom of the bag and squeeze out a bit of yolk mixture into each of the egg whites. Once all eggs are filled, close the carton lid and you're good to go. Recipe from Rachael Ray!
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Amy – amylz
1 pound uncooked small link breakfast sausage
2 (8-ounce) cans refrigerated crescent rolls
1/2 cup coarse-ground mustard
1/4 cup light mayonnaise
2 tablespoons honey
Cook sausage in a large skillet over medium-high heat 10 minutes or until browned and thoroughly cooked. Drain on paper towels. Divide crescent rolls into individual triangles. Place one cooked sausage link in center of each dough triangle. Roll up, starting at wide end. Arrange on an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake 350° for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Stir together mustard, mayonnaise, and honey. Serve with sausage rolls. Yield: Makes 8 to 10 servings Southern Living, JULY 2003
Sausage Stars
1 Package Original Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Mix
1 lb Jimmy Dean Sausage
1 Bag Mexican 4 Cheeses
1 Package Wonton or Pasta Wrap's
Fry sausage and cook until done. Mix dressing according to package directions. Mix sausage, dressing and cheese together and chill for 30 minutes. Place wonton wrappers in muffin tin. Bake 5-7 minutes until lightly golden. Add a couple tablespoons full of sausage mixture. Bake 5-7 minutes until cheese melts. Makes 2 – dozen Sausage Stars.
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I have an easy tortilla wrap that everyone seems to enjoy. It's 2 8oz blocks of cream cheese, 1 cup of salsa and 2 cups of shredded cheddar. Mix together. Spread on tortillas and roll up. Chill for a frew minutes and then slice into pieces.
I LOVE pickle wraps, but have never tried to make them
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We make these:
Stuffed Quahogs (Chowder Clams)
30 Ritz crackers, crushed
1/3 c. melted butter
3 tbsps. minced onion
2 tbsps. Worcestershire sauce
garlic salt to taste
1 dozen quahogs (we use canned clams--I swear it tastes almost the same and is a lot less work!)
bottled clam juice (optional)
Mix cracker crumbs, butter, onion, Worcestershire sauce, and garlic
salt. Clean quahogs and put them through a meat grinder. Add to
stuffing. Moisten lightly with some liquid from the quahogs or
with clam juice -- but don't have mixture too wet. Fill shells
and top with parsley and paprika. Bake on cookie sheet at 350
degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Serve as appetizer or on side of a
meal based around a hearty soup, stew, or chowder.
We just roll them into balls and bake. They look like little cookies when they're done (I call them clam cookies) and OMG are they good. If you like stuffed clams you'll love this. You can serve them on tooth picks and a wedge of lemon.
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I made these for a Christmas party last year and people raved about them.
Mouth-Watering Stuffed Mushrooms
Michelle (AGMmom) from allrecipes
12 whole fresh mushrooms--I use 2 pkg button mushrooms (8 oz each)
1 T vegetable oil
1 T minced garlic
1 (8-oz) package cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp ground cayenne pepper
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Clean mushrooms with a damp paper towel. Carefully break off stems. Chop stems extremely fine, discarding tough end of stems.
2. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and chopped mushroom stems to the skillet. Fry until any moisture has disappeared, taking care not to burn garlic. Set aside to cool.
3. When garlic and mushroom mixture is no longer hot, stir in cream cheese, Parmesan cheese, black pepper, onion powder and cayenne pepper. Mixture should be very thick. Using a little spoon, fill each mushroom cap with a generous amount of stuffing. Arrange the mushroom caps on prepared cookie sheet.
4. Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the mushrooms are piping hot and liquid starts to form under caps.
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Sausage Balls with Bisquick
* 3 cups of Bisquick
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Mix everything together. If you find them not moist enough add a little water. Form mixture into 1 inch balls. Bake for 15 minutes. Serve warm.
My husband loves sausage balls but wont eat the three dozen within a day or two. These freeze very well and great to make during the week if you have a party for the weekend!
Fried Ravioli
Pour enough olive oil into a large frying pan to reach a depth of 2 inches. Heat the oil over medium heat until a deep-fry thermometer registers 325 degrees F.
While the oil is heating, put the buttermilk and the bread crumbs in separate shallow bowls. Working in batches, dip ravioli in buttermilk to coat completely. Allow the excess buttermilk to drip back into the bowl. Dredge ravioli in the bread crumbs. Place the ravioli on a baking sheet, and continue with the remaining ravioli.
When the oil is hot, fry the ravioli in batches, turning occasionally, until golden brown, about 3 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the fried ravioli to paper towels to drain.
Sprinkle the fried ravioli with Parmesan and serve with a bowl of warmed marinara sauce for dipping.
Fresh Mozzorella, Tomato and Basil
Then all the typical dips come to mind...
Mini Quiches
+ Mix 2T flour, 8 oz. shredded cheese, and 1/2 cup chopped onion into a bowl (coating ingredients in flour helps them to combine in the egg mixture)
+ Beat 4 eggs slightly and add 1 1/2 cups of half and half
+ Add egg mixture to the cheese mixture
+ Sprinkle with salt and pepper
Cut small circles out of refrigerated pie crusts with 2 1/2 inch cookie cutter (or use a 1/2 cup measuring cup)
+ Spray muffin cups with cooking spray
Put one pie crust circle into each mini muffin cup and form shell around muffin cup with fingers
**Add a pinch of additional ingredients if desired (crumbled cooked bacon, broccoli, spinach, etc.)
Pour egg/cheese mixture into muffin cups
***Add a pinch of additional ingredients if desired (crumbled cooked bacon, broccoli, spinach, etc.)
Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 25 minutes (or until toothpick comes out clean)
(makes 24 mini quiches)
You can also make this in a 9 inch pie plate, Can't remember the cooking time though probably 50-60 minutes. I have made this many times for parties.
Pepperoni Roll
Buy a pizza dough either at a pizzeria or my grocery store sells one in the refrigerator case (not the Pillsbury kind)
Roll it out thin
Bush the dough with beaten egg
Put pepperoni over the whole surface, We do it so the pepperoni slightly overlaps, but we have also done it with less depending how spicy you like it. Leave about 1/2 inch from the edges
Then add Mozzarella Cheese (usually a 8 oz bag is enough), but again as much as you like
Then start to roll it, and be sure to tuck the ends in
In between each roll we put a thin layer or Ricotta
Once rolled transfer to a baking sheet sprayed with a little pam
Brush with the rest of egg and cut slits to vent
Bake at 400 till golden 20 minutes or so.
This also makes a great appetizer for partys. It's also great with crumbled Italian sausage in addition to the pepperoni
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Cucumber Sandwiches:
1 pkg. Cream Cheese
1 pkg. Italian Dressing mix
1 Cup Mayo
Sliced Cucumbers
French Bread, sliced
Mix first 3 ingredients and spread on sliced french bread. Place cucumber on top and sprinkle with dill.
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