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29 gal bio cube, all water parameters appear to be fine. 2 months old and water,rocks and sand from a 1 month old established tank.. 5 gal water changes every two weeks. All corals doing well but have lost all fish. The expensive one went first, (blue spotted jaw fish) Found him at the surface behind a cord to the power head but he went back down and it was several days before he died. Cardinals quit eating but I could not see any problems on the their bodies. Clown fish got a fuzzy type of growth on their skin. Treated with Maracyn plus two days ago. Today all dead or close to it. I have one little blue guy left, sorry can't remember his name (the doctor fish) and he had been pecking on the clown fish. I added a UV light today and hope that helps down the road but a diagnosis is difficult. Not sure what to do now. Is it possible to have an O2 problem? Local fish stores are close to worthless. I really feel bad and wouldn't have thought one could be come attached to fish. Any help would be appreciated. Bruce
I do agree that a series of water changes is never a bad idea. I would also consider running a new batch of activated carbon for 48 hours to remove the medication. Then a series of water changes to see if the fish show improvement.
If you can post some pictures you can probably get much better guidance. We have a couple people on this forum with background in diagnosis and treatment of marine fish. I am sure a more specific solution can be recommended.
Thanks for the advice, whatever the problem is/was it did a number on my fish. I don't see any adverse effects on any of the shrimp or other cleaners. Coral is all doing well but I don't really want to add any other fish until I know the problem is gone. I understand that if the tank is fishless for a few weeks parasites and or bacterias will die off without any hosts. How accurate is that statement? I will get a pic up soon, the tank is actually beautiful, just fishless other than the little blue guy. He must be immune...... or the carrier. Bruce
Depending on the parasite, they can live without a host for much longer than a few weeks. Cryptocaryon (ich) will often present itself for up to 90 days after an infection. Amyloodinium is known to be even more stubborn.
I doubt you had either of these parasites based on your description, unless you were looking at multiple issues at the same time. I would probably wait 4 to 6 weeks before adding a fish, and use this time to do multiple partial water changes.
80% of all problems can be dealt with by water changes. id do a 50% water change soon, then do weekly water changes and you should be fine. hope this helps
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I have the opportunity to travel to South Africa with a friend and I am OUT OF THIS WORLD excited!! The tickets are bought and we're figuring out our itinerary now.. My girlfriend who's going with me and I have been friends since college (30 years ago!)..
We fly into Johannesburg and the next morning fly to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. We're staying at a game reserve where we'll do a Safari on Elephant back and have a lion experience in the afternoon. Then the next day we go to Victoria Falls - one of the 7 wonders of the world!
Then we leave for Cape Town where we'll have a walking tour and a culinary class.... do a great white shark cage dive... see pinguins.. Then drive up the Coast that's bordered by the Indian Ocean where we stay in a B&B where this will be the view
While there we'll have the opportunity to Zipline, Abseiling (which I think is like rappeling), Sea kayak and Bungee jump from the worlds 2nd highest commercially run Bungee jumping thingeedo. The unfortunate thing is that ALL of those things have a weight limit.. yep.. the dreaded weight limit. To meet the requirement I have to lose 60lbs.
We're going in exactly six month or 171 days or six months. So I'd have to lose 10lbs a month which seems realistic.. am I crazy? Lord I would be so much more comfortable on the plane ride (15 hours).. as well as not have any limitations other than my own fear (HA).. So, I'm going to take it one month, one week, one day at a time... and I'm going to get off my butt! I'm actually thinking about going to a Biggest Loser Resort for a week to kick off my journey. Regardless, I'm going on the trip.. I can go as I am now.. or I can go 60lbs lighter. Tho choice - or the series of hourly, weekly, monthly choices - are mine.
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WOW - this sounds like the trip of a lifetime!! And now you are all set to go!! Congratulations!!
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WOW!!! Go kick some butt!!!
Great white sharks? Holy mmaaaamoly.
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When you are in Cape Town, be sure to take the cable car to the top of Table Mountain. It's an amazing view of the city and the ocean! Keep on keeping on! It's going to be soooooo worth the work you're doing now for the trip of a lifetime! South Africa is BEAUTIFUL!
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That is so so awesome about the trip! I think I would be scared to death to do a great white shark cage though--I don't think I'd do it (one of my irrational fears-death by shark).
I hate the dreaded weight limit thing too (that's why I've never gone scuba diving, though I would like to). I'm wishing you success in getting there. Ziplining is where you're hooked to a harness which is on a cable, at the top of a place--say, a cliff overlooking a bay--and then wheeeeee! you get to the bottom very quickly on the zip line. It's zippy, get it?
Here's an interesting post I read the other day (someone on my twitter timeline tweeted it), the guy makes some good points: http://www.dumblittleman.com/2013/0
Keep coming around here for support, Annie. We're all on your side! and I'm sure you'll get all sorts of advice/tips ranging from the good, the bad & the ugly. The point is, though...we can all relate. I know I sure can.
I'm wishing you luck, yes. Mostly, though, I'm cheering you on as you make your choices every day. First the dream, then the reality. You Can Do It! I believe in you, Annie, whether you lose 6 pounds or 60.
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Annie you can do this! A trip to France (which ended up being cancelled - not by me) was the catalyst that got me and kept me on a healthy path. Just keep picturing yourself participating in all of these activities at a healthier weight with a HUGE smile on your face. You are a beautiful intelligent woman and you know what you need to do. We are all here for you cheering you on.
.S. I want to come with you and do everything except the shark dive. I would for sure crap my pants and have a heart attack.
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Good luck with your new goal!
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That sounds like such a fabulous trip and a wonderful incentive!
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You can do it! Or like PONYFARMER said get as much as you can off and then you will be happy no matter what. I finally got my head straight after my second child with a similar goal although not nearly as exotic. I'm 7 weeks out from a trip and I'm shooting for 2 lbs a week. I know that's probably not going to happen but if I keep my calorie differential in check I'll know I did my best. I'm only 9 days in but I feel like I use to when I was avidly exercising, logging and so forth here on Spark. I'm really thinking this time it's going to stick, as I've tried several times and never stuck with it.
Oh my, I'm sorry I've rambled. Point is - set a goal and do everything you can. Then you will be ok with whatever progress you have made. Don't get on that plane and think "what if I had....."
Let's do this!!
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I think you can do it! No matter, you can at least get off as muchf as possible and you will feel great. I think the BL resort is an excellent idea and if I could afford it, I would go.
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and do not look back. I know that
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How awesome is that! I have a number of friends in SA in different areas. Remember to take a digital camera and extra chips.
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I will make this quick. We started with Ferbers method (I read the entire book) about 2.5 weeks ago. My daughter will be 1 tomorrow. Anyways, she had some serior sleep associations (nursing, rocking to sleep). Three nights in, she started sleeping 8, then 9 then 10 hours straight. Amazing, right? Now she is waking every 2-3 hours again. I have charted her sleep and have really stuck my the book. We are doing her CIO with checks (now at 15and 20) and some are really fast like < 2 min, and some take like 20 min. Is it normal for them to regress at this point. She is starting to walk which makes me think it might be a milestone thing. She takes two 1-1.5 hour naps a day and gets about 10-10.5 at night.Thanks for the advice!!!!
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Can you post a few days logs? What time are the nightwakings?
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Sure, last night for example: asleep at 8:34, up at 12:00. Asleep at 12:05, up at 3:24. Asleep at 4:12, up for the day at 6:45. I wake her at 6:45 because this is the time we need to get up every day. Now today, her first nap will be at 9:45 until about 11 and then 3-4 pm for the second nap.


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On Tuesday, it was reported that St. Louis Cardinals' first round pick Marco Gonzales signed his professional contract. Gonzales is a left-handed pitcher out of Gonzaga University. This has not been confirmed by the St. Louis Cardinals yet. Jim Callis of Baseball America tweeted out that Gonzales signed for 1.85 million dollars. The recommended slot value for Gonzales' spot at pick 19 was 2.056 million. The Cardinals saved roughly 200,000 with the Gonzales signing. This savings is a little more than I thought they would be able to save. I figured Gonzales would go for slot to maybe a little under. The savings will be huge. So what can the Cardinals do with the Gonzales savings? They should be able to save more money with later round picks. The Cardinals took four college seniors in the first 10 rounds: Mason Katz of LSU, Jimmy Reed of Maryland, Andrew Pierce of Southern Mississippi, and Nick Petree of Missouri State. If we combine those savings, the Cards should be able to get 2nd round pick Oscar Mercado and a couple of other higher upside picks. Oscar Mercado is going to take more than the recommended slot value to sign. A couple of months ago, Mercado was a projected mid-first round pick. I think it will take first round money to sign him and the Cards should have it. There are a couple of later round guys the Cardinals are hoping to sign. They have already signed 7th rounder Chris Rivera out of a California high school. Rivera's bonus has not been announced yet but I would imagine it is over the 170,300 recommended bonus. Malik Collymore, the 10th rounder, is a Mizzou commit and should require over slot money to sign. Here is the updated 10-round slot amounts with confirmed signs. Rd.NamePosSchoolSignedSlotDifference 1Marco GonzalesLHPGonzaga1,850,0002,055,800+ 205,800 1sRob KaminskyLHPSt. Joseph Regional HS (NJ)1,785,300 2Oscar MercadoSSVivian Gaither HS (FL)971,400 3Mike MayersRHPOle Miss557,900 4Mason Katz2BLSU405,100 5Ian McKinneyLHPWilliam R. Boone HS (FL)303,300 6Jimmy ReedLHPMaryland227,100 7Chris RiveraSSEl Dorado HS (CA)170,300 8Andrew PierceRHPSouthern Miss153,300 9Nick PetreeRHPMissouri State143,100 10Malik CollymooreSSPort Credit SS (Canada)135,300 Related articles St. Louis Cardinals select Marco Gonzales in the First Round of the MLB Draft St. Louis Cardinals select Rob Kaminsky with the 28th pick in the First Round St. Louis Cardinals select Shortstop Oscar Mercado in the Second Round
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Doss School students recently won numerous awards and medals in the University Interscholastic League (UIL) Class 1A scholastics competition.
The event marked the first time that Doss School has participated in the UIL program and 100 percent of the eligible Doss students (17 youths) competed in at least one category of the contest, according to Terri Criswell, CPS, who serves as the administrative assistant for the Doss Common Consolidated School District (DCCSD.)
Doss students could be spotted among the several hundred students from six Class 1A schools at the meets in which they participated because they sported new electric green t-shirts that read: "There's Good, There's Better, and then There's Doss School, established 1884."
Traveling to Mason on Dec. 5 for the middle school level of competition was Clay Ellebracht, who won sixth place in seventh grade Listening Skills. He also competed in Dictionary Skills and Number Sense.
Also competing from Doss that day were Michael Cooper, who entered the eighth grade Calculator Applications, Dictionary Skills and Number Sense, and Stephanie Cooper, who competed in seventh grade Dictionary Skills.
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I mentioned earlier that IO scheduler CFQ coming by default in RedHat / CentOS 5.x may be not so good for MySQL. And yesterday one customer reported that just changing cfq to noop solved their InnoDB IO problems. I ran tpcc scripts against XtraDB on our Dell PowerEdge R900 server (16 cores, 8 disks in RAID10, controller Perc/6i with BBU) to compare cfq, deadline, noop and anticipatory (last one just to get number, I did not expect a lot from anticipatory).
Here is result (in transactions per minute, more is better):
Here is graph of disk writes (column bo in vmstat) during benchmark
As you see noop / deadline can utilize disks much better.
For reference I used tpcc scripts from https://launchpad.net/perconatools, generated 100W (about 9.5GB of data on disk), and used next XtraDB params:
#mysqld options in alphabetical order
innodb_flush_method = O_DIRECT
CentOS 5.2 is using Kernel 2.6.18, right?
The CFQ-Scheduler was rewritten after 2.6.18 so it would be nice to see the performance changes after 2.6.18, let's try 2.6.27 or 2.6.28
I suspect results would be different (maybe still in favour of noop, but probably not that much) without a BBU unit (and therefore without O_DIRECT), or with controler configured for write-through, or with a cheaper controler, and perhaps with a more write costly RAID discipline (ie. RAID 5). A setup with storage accessible through multiple LUNs and/or multiple controlers may also be a good use case for cfq. On the other hand, results may be even more favouring noop if you used SSD drives. I mean, chances are that those results are somehow hardware dependants (though I think the one you used for this test has the merit to be a quite typical setup).
How much RAM do you have on this PERC6 (I think Dell as options for 256 MB and 512 MB, at least)?
By the way, did someone already benchmarked how the quantity of RAM in the controler do impact some I/O bound loads with MySQL
This is interesting stuff. Can anybody speculate on the variables at work here? Would I expect to get similar results on RAID vs single drives vs SAN vs NFS, etc?
Is it reasonable to generalize a benchmark like this and say:
Looks like noop is the best scheduler for an INNODB server?
Or is this a case of run it yourself and test because your mileage may vary?
Yes, it is 2.6.18 kernel. As soon as RedHat comes with 2.6.27 kernel I will test it
Of course if change controller, remove BBU, set write-trough you may have different result. But I took configuration most optimal for MySQL and one we recommend to customers.
Perc6i comes with 256MB RAM.
I would say it is better for InnoDB server to use 'noop' or 'deadline' scheduler. 'Deadline' was even used by default in kernels < 2.6.18, and changing default to cfq in server configuration in not the best idea. For other workloads we have to run another tests.
I have detailed why this happens at http://dammit.lt/2008/02/05/linux-io-schedulers/ – though it all started simply when we compared how I/O behaves on identical machines ( http://dammit.lt/2007/12/13/io-scheduler-deadline-cfq/ )
Did you measure queue depth and request latency by chance ?
In my experience results for schedulers are often rather platform and workload specific. For this hardware and benchmark we have such results. In other conditions I've seen other schedulers being better.
Results are not surprising smart RAID with cache and multiple devices is smart enough by itself to optimize IO, it also has much more info about storage so can do it much more efficiently. It is surprising the gap between deadline and noop is so small.
An interesting note about O_DIRECT though… and so how it can affect results. In this kernel (at least) O_DIRECT serialized writes on inode level which can affect things significantly.
I also did not quite get the point as without BBU and so without O_DIRECT – even if you do not have BBU O_DIRECT is often very helpful allowing to avoid double buffering. It may be slower though in case workload is write bound because IO serialization for O_DIRECT.
IO serialization doesn't happen with XFS
And there's no difference between noop and deadline is simply because deadline is noop with starve protection. If you do not starve too much, there's not much need for deadline.
fair enough, RAID 10 + BBU is probably the most common and natural choice for write stressed servers (ps: I asked about RAM size because I still don't unders
tand why hardware vendors don't load them with lots more RAM (even if this imply a bigger battery, that shouldn't cost much more), a possible answer would be
that performances wouldn't improve much after a certain size is reached).
does this differs from ext3's data=writeback side effects?
my comment about O_DIRECT w/o BBU was based on the (very naive and unverified) believing that Linux I/O schedulers do reorder based on kernel's page cache content (so, it seems I was wrong), and on the fact that software based reordering matters when one don't have hardware to handle it, MySQL using O_DIRECT to move data from sequentially written log files to the more write-costly spreaded/random innodb data file. Whatever, I stand corrected now, thank you
You are also very on point when you bring up latency in the discussion (and also queues size/depths); indeed scheduling is not only about aggregating write requests and bulk performances, but also about arbitrating resources usage among consumers and making decisions about avg vs. worst case latencies vs. throughput, which sometimes does matters.
I suspect a mixed workload (alternated write intensives, reads, and cpu bound moments, not just huge sustained writes) would give controller better chances to reorder properly before cache being filled up. If so, scheduler added complexity may be even more a waste, but in those conditions, user's perceived performances may be more reflected by per-request time to completion (so, latency). I mean workloads including possibles concurrents reads and cpu work, idling moments, etc. as opposed to steady, bulk, write-only workloads (ie. importing dumps), where one may rather account the total, wall clock time needed to write the whole dataset without interruptions. Having a nicely interactive ajax interface stuck because some bulk thing does fill the BBU cache, the I/O queue and the innodb log file in the background may not be the expected behaviour, even if it gives a lower cumulated time to complete (therefore more TPS).
On this matter: thanks to the recent work on cgroups and containers resources control, Linux got a lot of refining in order to expose and enforce I/O priorities and arbitration. I'm not sure whether MySQL do leverage those features though (maybe it would be useful to lower priority for logs->data moves, or to increase priorities when big locks are held, or when deadlocks starts to happen?) neither how well do the different I/O elevators handles those features. And to the best of my knowledge, SQL does lack a way to specify expected QoS per request (I mean, something like TCP/IP TOS field) which would allow exposing this to consumers (although MySQL offers INSERT DELAYED).
Back to the subject, I don't know anything about tpcc (and even less about how it's used here): does this bench really spreads writes to emulate some randomness (wrt block device layout) or is it more of a "plain sequential bulk insert/update on a very few tables" thing?
Seekwatcher (http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/) graphs would be interesting for such benchmarks, if anything to show what patterns you actually do measure (that's to insidiously revive the "Tools" post ;).
Yeah XFS rocks in terms of not serializing O_DIRECT writes and also does not have contention problems on meta data updates
The problem is most people run on EXT3 and it is hard to make them change
Did Linux get per request priorities finally ? I worked with an University some time ago to see how IO priorities can be useful and they were quite helpful allowing to work with large queue sizes without starving log writes etc.
Now about disk IO scheduling and cache. Really it is a bit different though connected. The dirty pages to be flushed are picked by the kernel (background flush or forced by fsync) and when submitted to the kernel together with reads request. If you have a lot of dirty pages there is indeed a better chance to optimize IO.
yes, that's why I got mistaken: by thinking O_DIRECT would prevent to-be-written data to go from userland through kernel page cache before being sent to the controler, writes wouldn't be well scheduled (and believing in consequence that it would be a huge loss on bbu-less systems). So I was triply dumb because the alternative to O_DIRECT is fsync()ing the data file after write, which doesn't leave much room for merging requests either, and because this (O_DIRECT) only apply for data moved from logs to data file (MySQL can probably order this well already), and also because schedulers (at least cfq) are also able to arbitrate which requests (not only "which pages"), even direct ones, can go to some device at any moment (so even then scheduler shouldn't be totaly bypassed if I'm not mistaking again).
And sadly no, theres no per request priorities yet as far as I know (not even per posix thread yet, but just per process, which indeed is way more pratical to use for PostgreSQL than it is for MySQL right now, but that may deserve a small little smallish tiny fork, maybe ;). Same goes for ioprio_set(2).
I used Deadline with MySQL for many years… Recently I wanted to test the CFQ Idle class for an IO-intensive job running everyday and causing a slight lag in replication. The end-result was even worse, causing more lag in MySQL by running the job faster.
With <2.6.24 kernels I even experienced a bug in which both MySQL and the job were running ridiculously slow with barely no IO operations on the RAID.
Might be different for other subsystems, but for be deadline just rocks, even without BBU (6-drive Raid10 though)
benpi: Is this what you're referring to in your first message ? It makes sense to me and this is what I think is happening in this case with CFQ :
(read the last part of the article).
Stumbled on this thread. I'm benchmarking fs/schedulers on a small HW RAID-5 set of 4x400GB SATA. It's a lab-setup used for parallel sequential streams and not DB usage. Raid adapter is PERC6/E, 1MB raid element size, Cached, Adaptive Read-ahead. Kernel 184.108.40.206 (Arch Linux).
Very short recap with some numbers (40 simultaneous seq reads):
XFS+noop: 140MB/s
EXT3+noop: 133MB/s
EXT4+noop: 111MB/s (exploded once with corrupt data when changing scheduler)
EXT2+noop: 97MB/s
XFS+cfq: 30MB/s
Some comments on this setup:
– XFS beats EXT*, with EXT4 performing badly and also being unstable
– cfq vs noop makes a *lot* of difference. In this setup cfq seems close to broken. deadline is similar to noop.
Thank you for sharing results. They are in line with my experience.
With RAID controller, 'cfq' is not suitable to use.
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Four meals under 40 minutes: Panko-crusted cod, more
If you're looking for a healthy menu for your family but don't want to spend all night in the kitchen, try mixing and matching a variety of foods that the entire family will love. Here, Cooking Light contributor Frances Largeman-Roth shows you how to make four meals that take less than 40 minutes to prepare.
- 2 large egg whites, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup panko (Japanese breadcrumbs)
- 4 (6-ounce) cod fillets
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 cup grape tomatoes, quartered
- 1/2 cup vertically sliced Vidalia or other sweet onion
- 2 tablespoons fresh basil leaves
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Baking Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.2. Place egg whites in a shallow dish; place panko in another shallow dish. Dip fish in egg whites; sprinkle fish evenly with ¼ teaspoon salt, and dredge in panko. Heat oil in a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat; swirl to coat. Add fish to pan; cook 3 minutes or until browned and very crispy. Turn fish over; place pan in oven. Bake fish at 450 degrees for 7 minutes or until desired degree of doneness.3. Combine remaining ¼ teaspoon salt, tomatoes, and remaining ingredients in a bowl. Serve with fish.
Serving Directions:
CALORIES 255; FAT 8.5g (sat 0.8g, mono 4.6g, poly 2.4g); PROTEIN 33.7g; CARB 9.2g; FIBER 1.2g; CHOL 73mg; IRON 0.8mg; SODIUM 383mg; CALC 43mg
- 1 pound ground sirloin
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
- 1 tablespoon canola oil, divided
- 1 1/2 cups vertically sliced onion
- 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup unsalted beef stock
- 2 tablespoons thinly sliced green onions (optional)
Baking Directions:
1. Divide beef into four equal portions, shaping each into a ½-inch-thick patty. Sprinkle patties evenly with ¼ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat; swirl to coat. Add patties; cook 3 minutes on each side or until browned; remove from pan.2. Add remaining 1 teaspoon oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add vertically sliced onion; sauté 3 minutes or until lightly browned and tender. Sprinkle onion with flour; cook 30 seconds, stirring constantly. Add stock and remaining salt and pepper; bring to a boil. Return patties to pan; reduce heat to medium, partially cover, and cook 5 minutes or until gravy is slightly thickened. Sprinkle with green onions, if desired.
Serving Directions:
CALORIES 259; FAT 14.9g (sat 4.9g, mono 7.2g, poly 1.4g); PROTEIN 23.8g; CARB 6g; FIBER 1g; CHOL 74mg; IRON 2.8mg; SODIUM 408mg; CALC 28mg
- 4 (6-ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Cooking spray
- 1/4 cup Mexican pork chorizo, casings removed
- 1/4 cup sliced onion
- 2 tablespoons diced carrot
- 1/4 cup diced yellow bell pepper
- 1/4 cup diced red bell pepper
- 2 tablespoons diced green bell pepper
- 1/4 cup unsalted chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
Baking Directions:
1. Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat. Sprinkle chicken with ¼ teaspoon salt and pepper. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add chicken to pan; cook 6 minutes on each side or until done.2. While chicken cooks, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chorizo; cook 1 minute, stirring to crumble. Add remaining ¼ teaspoon salt, onion, and carrot; cook 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add bell peppers; cook 1 minute or until crisp-tender. Add stock; cook 2 minutes or until liquid almost evaporates, scraping pan to loosen browned bits. Spoon chorizo mixture over chicken; top with cilantro.
Serving Directions:
CALORIES 254; FAT 8.2g (sat 2.2g, mono 2.9g, poly 1g); PROTEIN 39.2g; CARB 3.6g; FIBER 1.2g; CHOL 133mg; IRON 0.8mg; SODIUM 586mg; CALC 24mg
- 12 ounces refrigerated fresh pizza dough Cooking spray
- 1 large fennel bulb with stalks
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 cup frozen green peas
- 1 1/2 cups (3-inch) pieces asparagus, cut in half lengthwise
- 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 2/3 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
- 3 1/2 tablespoons 2% reduced-fat milk
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1.5 ounces pecorino Romano cheese, grated (about 1/3 cup) 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
- 1 large garlic clove, minced
Baking Directions:
1. Place a pizza stone or heavy baking sheet in oven. Preheat oven to 500 degrees (keep pizza stone or baking sheet in oven as it preheats).2. Place dough in a microwave-safe bowl coated with cooking spray. Cover and microwave at MEDIUM (50% power) 45 seconds. Let stand 5 minutes.3. Remove stalks from fennel bulb; reserve 1 tablespoon fronds. Cut bulb into thin slices. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add oil to pan; swirl to coat. Rinse peas in cold water to thaw; drain. Add peas, fennel bulb, asparagus, and sliced garlic to pan; sauté 2 minutes.4. Roll dough into a 14-inch circle on a lightly floured surface; pierce entire surface liberally with a fork. Carefully remove pizza stone from oven. Arrange dough on pizza stone. Combine ricotta, milk, pepper, and pecorino Romano cheese; spread evenly over pizza, leaving a ½-inch border. Bake at 500 degrees for 5 minutes. Carefully remove pizza stone from oven. Top pizza with pea mixture. Bake at 500 degrees for 5 minutes or until crust is browned and crisp. Remove from oven; sprinkle evenly with salt. Combine reserved fennel fronds, parsley, rind, and minced garlic; sprinkle over pizza. Cut into 8 wedges.
Serving Directions:
CALORIES 372; FAT 9.9g (sat 3.4g, mono 4.4g, poly 0.9g); PROTEIN 16.6g; CARB 52.8g; FIBER 10.1g; CHOL 17mg; IRON 3.3mg; SODIUM 658mg; CALC 221mg
- 1 small red grapefruit
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 cups torn butter lettuce
- 1 tablespoon crumbled feta cheese
- 1 tablespoon toasted walnuts
Baking Directions:
1. Peel and section 1 small red grapefruit over a bowl; squeeze membranes to extract juice. Set sections aside; reserve 3 tablespoons juice. Discard membranes.2. Combine juice, 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, ½ teaspoon sugar, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon black pepper, stirring with a whisk. Divide 4 cups torn butter lettuce evenly among 4 plates; sprinkle 1 tablespoon crumbled feta cheese and 1 tablespoon toasted walnuts over each salad. Divide grapefruit sections evenly among salads, and drizzle with vinaigrette.
Serving Directions:
CALORIES 145; FAT 12.5g (sat 2.4g); SODIUM 156mg


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©1957 Agatha Christie Limited; (P)1994 Original Sound Recording owned by EMI Records Ltd trading as Music for Pleasure. This edition published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London, UK 1999
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Excellent storyline with lots of twists and turns.
I would never have guessed who the murderer was but it was an intriguing audio book.
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It's not one of the best Agatha Christie but still a very enjoyable listen plenty of murders and twists and romance.
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NASHVILLE Patty Loveless, Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss & Union Station and Norman Blake will be the permanent nucleus of the Down From the Mountain Tour set to start in late January.
Other acts slotted for specific dates along the way include the Fairfield Four, the Cox Family and the Peasall Sisters. The final schedule for the nationwide tour, which will likely last for about a month, is expected within a week or so.
Inspired by and featuring many of the musicians on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, the tour takes its name from the D.A. Pennebaker/Chris Hegedus documentary on the making of the soundtrack. A second album involving members of the "O Brother" musical cast, released in June, is also tagged Down From the Mountain.
Immortal Management of Santa Monica, California, is organizing the tour. Hal Paris, spokesman for Immortal, said that the troupe will play venues of 2,000 to 5,000 seats. Ticket prices have yet to be set.
Instead of providing their own backup bands, the tour's headliners will use a common band made up primarily of players from the Nashville Bluegrass Band and Krauss' Union Station ensemble.
The Cox Family's patriarch, Willard Cox, was severely injured in a traffic accident after the soundtrack was recorded and has been unable to tour since. Still confined to a wheelchair, Cox was able to make an appearance when the album cast played Carnegie Hall in June. Paris said Cox's condition when the tour gets under way will determine the act's degree of participation.
Paris confirmed that his company is also working on launching a series of all-day events for the summer that will feature, in addition to "O Brother" soundtrack performers, other well-known bluegrass and acoustic musicians. "We're not eliminating the 'O Brother' cast [from consideration]," Paris explained, "but we'd like to expand it much more."


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Eggs Benedict Recipe
- 8 fresh asparagus spears, trimmed and halved
- 4 eggs
- 3-1/2 teaspoons butter
- 1-1/2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 ounces smoked Gouda cheese, shredded
- 2 English muffins, split and toasted
- 4 slices tomato
- 4 slices Canadian bacon
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1
Place asparagus in a steamer basket; place in a large saucepan over 1 in. of water. Bring to a boil; cover and steam for 8-10 minutes or until crisp-tender.
- 2
In a large skillet, bring 2-3 in. of water to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer gently. Break cold eggs, one at a time, into a custard cup. Holding the cup close to the surface of the water, slip eggs into simmering water. Cook, uncovered, for 3-5 minutes or until whites are completely set and yolks begin to thicken.
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Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, melt butter. Stir in flour until smooth; gradually add milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from the heat; stir in cheese until melted.
- 4
With a slotted spoon, lift poached eggs out of water. On each muffin half, place a slice of tomato, a slice of Canadian bacon, a poached egg and four pieces of asparagus. Top each with about 3 tablespoons cheese sauce. Sprinkle with pepper. Serve immediately. Serves 4.
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A busy week for the Thunder. Two of the four games are against the Timberwolves. There's also a pivotal home game with Phoenix. →Tonight: at Minnesota. The Timberwolves have been playing better in recent weeks. Led by Kevin Love, who averages a double-double, Minnesota compiled a four-game winning streak before the All-Star break. →Tuesday: Phoenix. The Suns figure to be a factor in the playoff chase after not trading Amare Stoudemire. Oklahoma City can clinch the three-game season series, having already won the only meeting in Phoenix. →Wednesday: at San Antonio. It's the Spurs first home game after their traditional eight-game rodeo road trip. Strangely enough, the road team has won both times. OKC won in San Antonio on Nov. 14. The Spurs won in overtime in the Ford Center a month ago. →Friday: Minnesota. The Timberwolves have improved but they've been awful on the road (4-24). The Thunder needs to take care of business and post a win but Minnesota has won road games at Dallas and Utah.


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Thrombogenics' Board Announces Decision To Explore Strategic Options For The Company
Belgium, February 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus on Realizing the Commercial Potential of JETREA ® in the US and Capitalizing on the Company's Proven Product Development CapabilitiesThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR), an integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative ophthalmic medicines for the back of the eye, today announced that the Board has decided to explore strategic options for the Company. This decision is intended to increase the Company's ability to realize the significant commercial potential of JETREA ® in the US, and to fully capitalize on the Company's proven product development capabilities. The Board has retained Morgan Stanley to help with the strategic review process. ThromboGenics successfully developed JETREA ®, the first and only pharmacological treatment indicated for symptomatic vitreomacular adhesion (VMA)/ vitreomacular traction (VMT) in the US and Europe respectively. Symptomatic VMA/VMT is a progressive, sight-threatening condition that may lead to visual distortion, decreased visual acuity and central blindness. JETREA ® offers an earlier and easy to administer treatment option, which avoids patients having to experience deterioration in their disease state to a point where a vitrectomy is the only solution. ThromboGenics' strong clinical, regulatory and market access capabilities have led to the efficient development and approval of its lead drug JETREA ®. This novel drug has received positive health technology assessments leading to full reimbursement and coverage in the US, key markets in Europe and Canada. These assessments have highlighted the patient benefits of JETREA ® including when used to treat patients with symptomatic VMA earlier. This experience will be important as ThromboGenics looks to broaden the retinal indications that JETREA ®could be used for. During 2013, ThromboGenics focused its efforts on the launch of JETREA ®in the US where the company decided to launch the drug on its own. 2013 has been a learning year for ThromboGenics. The high level of awareness of JETREA ® amongst the retina community in the US at the time of launch, has not yet delivered the sales volume that the Company had anticipated. In 2013, close to 7000 patients were treated with JETREA ® in the US. Clinical experience with the product to-date has shown that JETREA ®is effective and safe, and ThromboGenics continues to believe that, despite the commercial challenges it has encountered to-date in the US, JETREA ® will find its place as a new standard of care for the earlier treatment of symptomatic VMA/VMT. Dr Patrik De Haes, CEO of ThromboGenics comments : " The Board has made this decision to explore alternative options for the Company to increase its ability to realize the significant commercial potential of JETREA ® in the US market. We are starting the strategic exercise with an open mind. We will update the market in due course".
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Brabourne Travel Guide: 11 reviews and 10 photos
This is Brabourne, a most beautiful village tucked away in the south east corner of Kent. My main reason for making these small pages is to show what a fantastic old English village pub and restaurant they have, which you will see on my pages. Its only a tiny village and only a speck on the map, but its sure worth the effort to come here. The best time to visit is in the summer months where you can sitt in the village pub gardens looking out to the beauty of the Kent countryside while sipping warm British beer and decent food. So come on v.ters, if your ever in the south east of Kent then hunt down Brabourne and have a great sunday lunch at the 5 Bells%c*
- Pros:OUTSTANDING NATURAL COUNTRYSIDE
- Cons:NO PUBLIC TRANSPORT
- In a nutshell:IF YOU LIKE THE OUTDOORS, IT GETS NO BETTER THAN THIS
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And here is one last photo of this superb pub and restaraunt, i hope by now i have convinced you that this place is well... more travel advice
If you ever visit this beautiful village then this is what you must look for, its the sign of the five bells more travel advice
This photo was taken from the carpark of the five bells pub, and even from here you get a fantastic view of the Kent... more travel advice
Another photo of the five bells pub garden, and an exelent play area for the kids, which is handy for getting them out... more travel advice
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Totally agree, Visited the five bells 2 times in 2006 while on holiday and really enjoyed it with family. Food was good and children really enjoyed playgarden. Will be visiting again in 2007 (28 july-4 august). Great pub. Really looking forware to it.
That pub sounds great! Seems like a good place for a VT meet with good old Cliffie - maybe one day, how about it? ;-)
Brabourne sounds nice, except for lack of accommodations. So what do you do if you get really drunk at the Five Bells?
Sadly you obviously ran out of film at the pub! Thank you for sharing, looks good.
Hey...There is a peaceful shelter when I can get hidden in England. Brabourne can be my address in UK!;)))
Blimey Old Riley Six tips on the same pub! The restaurant will move even further up market as the new owner is a highly renowned chef......
This looks like a lovely little spot, Cliff!! Thanks for the tips because I am always looking for a good Ploughman's Lunch when I visit England!
Sounds like a splendid little off the beaten track spot! Sometimes places that are a little hard to get to (no public transport) are quite delightful.
so many nice places to vist...
Great restaurant tips! Show me the way to the next whisky bar... cheers, Matt :-)
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