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Stefania Nicolae is a sophomore at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi and is in her second year of playing tennis. She had an outstanding freshman year with a 13-3 mark, including going 2-0 at No. 2, 1-2 at No. 3, 7-1 at No. 4 and 3-0 at No. 5 singles. Nicolae finished Southland play with a 9-2 record and won four-straight matches in both singles and doubles to end the year. She had a season-high eight-match winning streak after a season-opening loss while playing No. 48-ranked Rice. Nicolae finished 8-3 in doubles matches, with most action coming alongside Mia Matuszak as the team completed a 7-2 record together.
Read what Nicolae had to say to GoIslanders.com
Q: What was it like growing up in Romania?
A: It's a very different area, we don't have the same things, like the common things in America and I grew up with family and friends in a small town. It's more familiar because you're surrounded with people that you know. Everyone knows everyone in a small town.
Q: Did you always have it planned to play tennis in the U.S.?
A: No, my mom was the one that pushed me and said it would be the best choice. Since I was16 she encouraged me to practice and to be able to play at a good school.
Q: What made you interested in tennis?
A: My mom she had friends that were playing tennis and she had the idea to channel my energy to tennis and she took me to tennis and I loved it.
Q: What made you choose Texas A&M - Corpus Christi?
A: It was a last minute offer and I saw Jason Holland and he sent me a email about the results and everything. He said it was next to a beach and I don't want to be in cold weather plus I like that its sunny here.
Q: Who is your doubles partner?
A: I'm starting to play with Marina Cicak, but we haven't played yet. My most recent partner is Mia Matuszak.
Q: What's the most important thing you need to learn about your partner, before the match?
A: You need to trust each other and know she has my back at all times.
Q: Who would you say has the craziest personality on the team?
A: Our coach, Megan Harless.
Q: What do u like to do at the beach?
A: The beaches here aren't like the ones back home. You can't just go anywhere and tan. The people here are like animals and drive all over the beach. If I find a good spot I like to tan.
Q: Are there any big food changes here compared to Romania?
A: Yes, my mom cooked for me everyday and I don't know how to cook all that stuff, so I try to cook as much as I can. Here there are a lot of varieties in fast food.
Q: What would you like to pursue in Business Management?
A: I would like to be a manager and start a kindergarten and it become a family business.
Q: Last week the team played Rice, how was that?
A: It was difficult but I think we learned our lesson and I think we have a lot of time to improve and that we learn something from each match.
Q: What is your favorite type of music?
A: I don't really have a favorite type. I like normal songs like rock songs or relaxing music but not club music.
Q: Do have any pre-game superstitions?
A: I like my rackets to be the same color as my clothes or if I have a shirt and decide to wear a jacket it has to be the same color. I have to be matching.
Q: Other than tennis what other hobbies do you have?
A: I like volleyball, reading, and movies.
Q: What's your favorite movie?
A: Walk To Remember, Titanic and The Da Vinci Code.
Q: What is something most people don't know about you?
A: I'm a big movie person. I review and rate movies.
Q: D you have any pets at home?
A: No, I'm not an animal fan.
Q: What role do you play on the team?
A: All the girls on my team know that when they have questions about other teams scores that they can come to me and I know every score.


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Tree falls on Henderson Hall
Damage is storm related
January 30, 2013
WILLIAMSTOWN – A large tree at the Henderson Hall mansion south of Williamstown was toppled by a storm that passed through the area Wednesday morning....
Gas for those chain saws is going up to $3.65 today. Are we tired of it yet?
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I never understood why they installed this new black fence right up beside the white fence that was already there...at least get something that matches? I think the man upstairs spoke today that he doesn't like it either. This is par for the course for that place I guess: old log buildings with modern steel roofing, etc.
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I saw in a recent article where Dave McKain is wanting to turn this home into something like Williamsburg. He needs to get some honest and professional opinions about the condition of the house and property before realizing that dream. I stopped by this summer when it was supposed to be open and it was closed. The yard was a mess with weeds growing every where and the house looked dingy. I miss the days when Mr. Ralson was there to over-see his homestead. Back then it looked original to the period.
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Looks as if that tree has been ready to go for quite awhile from interior rot. Guess reverse gravity gave up today.
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2011 (SENIOR): Appeared in 13 games and made seven starts … went 5-4 with a 7.31 ERA … struck out 20 batters in 32 innings of work … got the win over Oregon State (2/26) with five solid innings … allowed one earned run over 6 2/3 frames in a win over Iowa (3/14) … struck out the side in his lone inning against UT Brownsville (3/22) … posted 1 2/3 shutout innings against Houston Baptist (3/29) … threw six strong frames at UHV (4/7), allowing three runs and punching out eight.
2010 (REDSHIRT): Missed the 2010 season after suffering a season-ending injury, and was redshirted.
2009 (JUNIOR): Toed the rubber in 17 games with nine starts … posted a 3-7 record in 46 2/3 innings with a 7.14 ERA … tied for team lead with three wins … finished with a 2-3 record in Southland Conference action in 23 innings … held opposing hitters to a .259 average which was tops on the team in Southland Conference games … permitted just three home runs on the season … earned first victory as an Islander versus Texas Tech (3/17), tossing two innings of 3-hit, 1-run relief in a 7-5 Islanders win … followed Texas Tech outing with his second win by tossing six shutout innings against McNeese State (3/21) at Chapman Field … earned third win as a junior over Stephen F. Austin (4/9) as he matched his career high with four strikeouts in five innings … also had four Ks against Alabama (3/5) early in the season.
Wharton Junior College: Started two seasons for Bob Nottebart at Wharton Junior College … led the team in strikeouts, innings pitched and games started as a sophomore … posted a 3-2 record with a 2.11 ERA.
High School: Played for coach Stacy Schiener at Caney Creek High School in Conroe … posted a 7-3 record as a senior with a 2.73 ERA … named first-team all-district as a pitcher in 2004, 2005 and 2006 … also lettered in football, where he was twice named first-team all-district at quarterback, while also running track and playing basketball.
Personal: Brett Carnline was born Feb. 19, 1988, in Houston … son of Ricky and Diane Carnline … has an older brother, Daniel … majoring in history.


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An exhibit featuring 40 framed original posters from World War I goes on display Sunday, July 5, at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
The Winds and Words of War: Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library Collection features posters by artists such as Charles Dana Gibson and Norman Rockwell. The posters spurred donations, boosted volunteerism and recruitment, and helped build support for the war effort.
World War I posters have long been recognized for their visual power. A pointing Uncle Sam sporting a top hat and demanding "I Want You" remains one of the most recognizable images in American culture.
The exhibit seeks to provide a window into an era and the beginnings of American support for the war known variously as the "Great War," "the war to end all wars," and "the war to make the world safe for democracy." The text that accompanies the posters in the exhibit conveys the sense of urgency as well as the mass marketing effect of advertising a war for the first time in modern history.
The Winds and Words of War, which premiered at the San Antonio Public Library, is made possible by the Stumberg Foundation, The Tobin Endowment, the City of San Antonio Veteran's Affairs Commission, the San Antonio Public Library Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The exhibit will remain on display through Sunday, August 30. Admission is free.
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About five years ago, it was clear to me that personal computers would disappear... in our pockets. Along many other analysts, I could see computers getting smaller and smaller, and mobile phones getting busier and busier. Eventually, my dream-prediction said, it wouldn't quite be "one computer on every desk" but a much more exciting "one computer in every pocket, and one monitor/keyboard paid on every desk".
We are getting there, and yet again GNU/Linux is missing that train.
I don't mean to be negative. However, the current situation of GNU/Linux on mobile devices is depressing to put it lightly. And--to make things worse--it's heading in the wrong direction, with more fragmentation coming up and more millions being poured on developing several types of wheels: one with an anti-puncture mechanism, one that works in the rain, one that doesn't suffer of wear and tear, etc.
GNU/Linux is not famous for its ability to settle on one standard. The extremely damaging KDE vs. GNOME saga is a prime example many, many millions lines of of code and copious amounts of talent being wasted because of the two communities' inability to meet in the middle ground. Of course its not that simple in case of KDE and Gnome; however, integration and unification could have been about 10 times better, and it could have started many years earlier. Instead, now we have two control panels, two network connection applets, two hardware detection systems... you get the picture).
Right now, in January 2008, we are at the tipping point. They are already powerful enough to be used for general tasks like browsing, email, word processing, spreadsheets etc.; the cost of RAM is dropping every month, with gigantic memory cards making their ways into everybody's keyring; I am waiting for the moment when most mobile phones have a video-out connection so that they can be plugged into monitors and televisions.
The revolution is around the corner, and Linux has already managed to become fragmented.
The discredited myth of the "Internet tablet"
Normally, there are three classes of "small devices" at the moment:
- Small laptops
- Internet tablets
- Mobile phones
I am firmly convinced that the last two are just an imaginary classification, being forced down our throats for technological and strategical reasons; the same reasons which will only hold the waters for so long.
Nokia sells its fantastic N800 and N810; and yet, they managed to convince people that it's OK for them to sell them without a GSM/GPRS card, because "it's not a phone". Please. The truth is, if the N800 had a GSM/GPRS card in it, I wouldn't need to carry my phone; I wouldn't need two (Nokia) devices which have such similar functions, it's just embarrassing. Apple reaches a similar level of embarrassment in that they sell the iPhone and the iPod touch--a friend who owns both admitted that he very often picks up the iPod touch to make a call, and wishes he could.
These companies have their reasons to cripple their products: financial reasons (I wouldn't have bought a Nokia phone, would I? Andrew wouldn't own both an iPod Touch and an iPhone, would he?), cost reasons (GSM/GPRS circuits cost money, and need government approvals), contract reasons (if the N800 had GSM/GPRS, which operator would try to catch it?), and so on. However, as time passes, consumers eventually win.
So, to me there are just "mobile devices". Some of them are crippled; some others aren't. The N800 is a fantastic mobile phone with the "mobile" word clumsily crossed out, just like the iPot Touch is.
The current choices
When a new market explodes, the ideal situation for a company is to offer one fantastic killer product for that market, and build on top of it. Microsoft released the right operating system at the right time (MS DOS, anybody remembers?) and sold several important killer applications on top of it. If they had spent their time developing several operating systems, they would have had far fewer resources to develop software; development for those platform would have also been much more difficult. On the other hand, look at the KDE Vs. GNOME disaster, with the programs built on top of or around them: OpenOffice (which barely integrates with GNOME or KDE), Abiword/Gnumeric (which should be used a lot more than it actually is), KOffice (which again replicates the efforts of OpenOffice and the duo Abiword/Gnumeric), and so on.
Now, let's have a sad look at the mobile phone market (also called "cell phone market" for our friends in the United States). Take a deep breath.
OpenMoko. I actually like OpenMoko very much. Regardless of all of the nice "we are all friends" press releases, I felt their pain when Google annunced Android. Not many people know that it's mainly sponsored by First International Computer, Inc., the company that makes the Neo1973 and "have sales of around a million phones a year in China, and are in some places a mobile phone operator".
Maemo. It's GTK-based, and it's being used every day by a number of proud N800 and N810 owners (amongst which there's yours truly). Mainly sponsored by Nokia, it's probably the first mass-produced GNU/Linux device ever sold. It has come a long way since its first release. However, Apple's revolutionary interface makes Maemo and the N8X0 look "old". It doesn't really deal with the "phone" side of things, I suspect because Nokia is obstinate in keeping the separation happening. However, you can enhance Maemo with GPE Phone Edition, a set of libraries used to create phone-like applications.
QTopia. It's somehow similar to Maemo and OpenMoko, but I dare to say more "focussed"--it seems to have achieved more in its lifetime, probably thanks to the support of the smart managers at TrollTech. For those who don't know, QT is the widget library KDE is based on. Things in the GNU/Linux mobile world are interesting right now, because Nokia has very recently bought TrollTech, declaring that they are mainly interested in QTopia. Yes, Nokia here is the same "Nokia" which sells the N8X0, based on Maemo (that is, GTK, GNOME... you get the messy picture).
Android. Ah, I left it last, I couldn't resist. It's based on Java (!); Google has 100 people full time working on the project (!!); to avoid any type of compatibility and licensing issues with Sun (who still owns Java), they decided to develop their own Java Virtual Machine, I guess before knowing that Sun would release Java under the GPL (!!!). I am running out of editorially allowed exclamation marks here. If you see the video in the link above, you will have the feeling that Google will basically wipe the floor with anything else on the market--and that includes any Windows or Apple based platform. I am serious. I guess that's what you get when you employ 100 top, motivated, well paid developer to create something that will change the world. (BTW, Android is a company Google acquired in 2005, so Google didn't develop Android "from scratch"...).
The fragmentation
I am mainly annoyed at Google for not considering joining in great force the OpenMoko or the Maemo project. Starting from scratch (well, "sort of") has probably delayed the platform, and made quite a few projects... well, at least "nervous" about the events. Also, why didn't Google use the GPE Phone Edition stack for example?
My other question is about GNU/Linux programs. I know that "Doom" will be able to run in an Android phone. However... what about openoffice? Since Android applications are actually .apk files, will we get OpenOffice.apk? (Or, more realistically really, Abiword.apk or Gnumeric.apk?). Are there any plans to avoid yet more fragmentation in this regards? (One Apiword for the Nokia XXY, one for the LG YYZ, and so on).
I am just amazed, because wherever I turn at the moment, in the GNU/Linux land, I see fragmentation--and no concerted effort to stop it from getting worse (or, even better, unify the current fractures).
More than anything, I feel sorry for the vast amount of GPL code which will eventually die--I am a developer myself, and know how much that can hurt.
Is GNU/Linux, the platform, going to be able to compete with its much more compact competitors?
Life is Diversity
I can't imagine free(/open) software without diversity. Some of them are software success and other are not. They grow with the need of market, or die with lack of it.
It is slow(/maybe), but it runs in constant rhythm.
Gnome_VS_KDE's are separated in many streams of development, and I can't imagine one project that will unite them under one barrier.
In the end I just want to say, that is natural as Evolution is.
The strongest, most fitted applications will survive while weak and bugged ones will be extincted without unnatural protection of monopole and power.
help! Apple's coming!!
I guess the discussion about fragmentation in the GNU/Linux world of mobile phones is about the same as in the PC world. On one hand fragmentation weakens each single project, on the other hand it spurs competition, diversity and allows for different technological approaches. As the mobile market will grow (and I completely agree with you that our PCs will soon disappear in our pockets) more contributors and more money will be put into GNU/Linux development for mobile platforms. We just have to hope that until those initiatives have caught up and become usable on the consumer market, it's not too late.
Apple is on the verge of establishing a monopoly on mobile computing for the masses with the iPhone as they did with the iPod for mp3-players, similar to what Microsoft Windows/Office is on the desktop today. The iPhone is really a very capable device under massive development and 3rd-party apps are under way. (and it includes basically an iPod, so I don't see why your friend is still carrying an iPod touch with him, too.) But the iPhone runs a proprietary Mac OS X and is a piece in the DRM-crippled iTunes Music/Movie Store and iPod/Apple TV ecosystem (now people can buy/rent DRMed media from Apple directly from their TV, their iPhone/iPod touch and their iTunes-running PC - everything interoperable with each other, but closed for non-Apple devices).
But what is more, the iPhone represents a new generation of computers which the consumer rather rents than buys (like DRM-encrypted media, too): you need to have a running contract with one of the few cellular network operators which Apple allows to sell and operate their ipHones with (there's only one per country, in the U.S. it's AT&T). If you don't have a contract with such a monopoly-provider, you can't use your iPhone (you can try to hack it, but this is cumbersome and time-consuming). Finally, Apple chose to sell a software upgrade for the iPod touch for 20$ (consisting of Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather Applications) rather than offering a free update with those apps that were available for the iPhone already some time before. Without doubt, this strategy of selling software updates and additional functionality will continue with iPhone an other locked-down devices.
Considering this, I really do hope that some folks get busy developing open and free (as in freedom) GNU/Linux-based alternatives. And they need to be powerful, user-friendly and have a sexy user interface. Google with its massive power seems quite promising, but I don't get why their Android platform is based on Java?! The Android FAQ states that all apps need to be written in Java. Does that include that Doom demo in the video?? It doesn't seem to me that Java uses those computing resources in mobile devices very efficiently...
Freedom Will Prevail
Guess I couldn't disagree with you much more than I do.
It is libraries that matter in the free software world, not applications. Because source code is freely available, applications always follow the libraries onto popular platforms.
For example, Maemo was a "new" platform, different from the desktop Gnome system. Yet, literally hundreds of free software applications migrated quickly to Maemo because it supported GTK+ and Python / PyGame libraries out of the box. Maemo uses different binaries than (for example) Ubuntu on x86, but the source code is mostly the same.
You will see abiword.deb for Ubuntu, a different abiword.deb for Maemo, an abiword.apk for Android, etc. So what? You install applications on free software platforms from the repository - they're custom-built for your platform, and install with the click of a mouse, so they always give a great user experience and work great!
Proprietary platforms like iPhone are problematic because they are
- not
free, but free platforms thrive in spite of - or, I suspect, because of - their diversity. This diversity enables them to better target evolutionary niches missed by the "mainstream" proprietary products. And the freely available source code for free applications mean they'll be there for you, same great software, regardless of the platform you choose.
Yes, I love freedom. It's the future. Well, it's my future, regardless of whether the masses choose it or not. :-)


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In the last two decades, recombinant protein yields from mammalian cells in batch and extended-batch bioprocesses have increased dramatically. In general, this has been a result of the utilization of cell lines with high specific productivities, the formulation of media to allow the suspension cultivation of cells to high densities, a better understanding of bioprocess conditions, and the enhancement of cell viability in these high-density suspension cultures. This article discusses the contributions of these factors to yield improvement. It also describes a theoretical model to show how volumetric productivities may increase in the future. The major consequence of higher volumetric productivities is expected to be the decline in the time or volume of production runs. This outcome is expected to lead to a substantial improvement in the efficiency of protein manufacturing.
Although the abundance of candidate therapeutic proteins is good news for the biopharmaceutical industry and for public health, this success has brought its own set of problems. Undoubtedly, a major one is the so-called "capacity crunch," the expected limitation in the number of manufacturing facilities to produce the quantities of MAbs and other recombinant proteins necessary to meet the market demand in the coming years. One obvious solution is building additional manufacturing plants, but this path is both costly and slow. Alternatively, manufacturers may seek novel solutions to the most widely used type of manufacturing process—the production of recombinant proteins from suspension-adapted cell lines cultivated in large stainless-steel stirred-tank bioreactors. One avenue is developing disposable cultivation systems for part or all of the manufacturing process. Another is refining methods and technologies to allow protein production from cultivated mammalian cells to be more efficient by increasing the volumetric yields from these processes. Although this has always been one of the major driving forces for the manufacturers of biopharmaceuticals, there is now a heightened urgency for more rapid progress on yield improvement, given the sheer number of recombinant proteins in clinical trials.
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As discussed earlier, volumetric yields from recombinant mammalian cell lines have increased dramatically over the span of 20 years since the approval of tPA.2 In 1986, the industry standard for production from stable CHO-derived cell lines was a specific productivity of 10 pg protein/cell/day with volumetric yields of 50 mg/liter for batch processes that lasted up to seven days.2 By 2004, the highest reported specific and volumetric productivities were 90 pg/cell/day and 5 g/L, respectively, for an extended-batch culture lasting up to three weeks. How have these increases been achieved? Unfortunately, the answer remains obscure because manufacturers are reluctant to reveal their insights into the generation and cultivation of recombinant cell lines. Nevertheless, it is clear that four main factors have contributed to the overall improvement in protein yields: (i) the generation of recombinant cell lines with high specific productivities, (ii) the formulation of media to support high-density cell cultivation, (iii) the understanding of bioprocess conditions for cell cultivation, and (iv) the sustained viability of cell lines in high-density batch and extended-batch cultures. We will summarize how each of these factors has supported the increase in volumetric recombinant protein productivity observed in recent years. It is likely that manufacturers have taken different routes to establish production principles resulting in multigram per-liter-yields.


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When i'm playing movies I seem to get buffering issues, i.e. sound and picture freezes, jerks, then come sback a couple of seconds later.
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Heidi Morgan of Palmyra has recently been offered an internship in the School Operations Office with the American Dance Festival (ADF) located in Durham, N.C., for the summer of 2013. ADF is a nonprofit arts organization with the mission of encouraging and supporting the creation and presentation of new modern dance work through many operations.
As an intern, Morgan's main duties will be to maintain a schedule of use for 32 dance studios and many buses. Other duties are upkeep of studios and other venues and assisting with many other ADF events.
She will also be taking dance classes during her eight weeks at ADF and is invited to see a large number of performances by various companies and artists.
Morgan is a double major in Nonprofit Administration and Dance at Lindenwood University,
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Therapy resistance decoded
03.12.2012 - French researchers have identified how the body's immune systems triggers therapy resistance to the cancer drugs gemcitabine and 5-fluorouracil.
The researchers, headed by François Ghiringhelli from INSERM in Dijon, found that in mice, the drugs activate a protein complex, termed Nlrp3 inflammasome, in myeloid derived suppressor cells. This activation leads to the release of the immune cell interleukin (IL)-1 beta, which then skews T immune cells to produce protumorigenic IL-17 and results in enhanced growth of tumours in mice (Nature Medicine, doi: 10.1038/nm.2999).
The chemotherapeutics were more efficacious at inhibiting tumour growth in mice lacking Nlrp3 or IL-17, or treated with an IL-1 receptor antagonist. The findings suggest that targeting the inflammasome pathway in conjunction with chemotherapy may improve its tumour killing efficacy by preventing the induction of protumorigenic immune responses.
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DRAFTED: LAK: 1997-3 overall
2010-11: Picked up a pair of assists on Oct.22 ... scored his first goal of the season and added an assist on Oct.28 ... returned from a three game suspension on Nov.24 in NJ ... played in his 900th career game on Nov.26 ... scored the game winner and added a pair of assists on Dec.16 ... had his fifth multi-point game with a pair of assists on Jan.11 ... scored the game winner in the shootout on Jan.15 ... had a pair of assists on Jan.17 ... scored a goal and an assist on Jan.21 ... had a pair of assists on Jan.26 ... earned his 600th career point on Feb.7 ... had a goal and an assist in back-to-back games Feb.9 and Feb.11 ... had four points (1+3) in the first period on Feb.14 tying Al MacInnis (March 28, 1991) for the franchise record ... back-to-back multi-point games on Mar.4 & 6 ... netted his 16th goal (game tying) on Mar.21 ... scored his 17th goal on Apr.32009-10: Earned 35 points (11 G, 24 A) to go along with 53 penalty minutes in 56 games as a Flame … played in his 800th career game Oct. 1 vs. VAN … earned his 300th career NHL assist Dec. 28 @ EDM … played season high 23:32 and tallied 2 points (1 G, 1 A) Nov. 28 @ CBJ … traded to the NYR on Feb. 1 … RANGERS: Notched overtime goal, his 250th career NHL goal, and added an assist Feb. 12 @ PIT … tallied 2 power play points (1 G, 1 A), his first points as a Ranger, in his home debut on Feb. 4 vs. WAS
2008-09: Recorded a goal and am assist in his Coyotes debut on Oct.11 CBJ 1 @ PHX 3 ... recorded a goal and an assist on Nov.8 FLA 1 @ PHX 4 ... scored two goals and added an assist on Nov.9 SJ 2 @ PHX 4 ... returned from the IR and scored two goals on Dec. 10 PHX 5 @ DAL 3 ... notched his 6th career hat trick on Feb.21 PHX 6 @ LA 3 ... traded to the Flames on Mar.4 ... scored two goals, including the game-winner, in his Flames debut on Mar.5 CGY 5 @ PHI 1 ... added his 3rd goal as a Flame on Mar.10 CGY 2 @ NJ 3 ... had his second two goal game since joining the Flames, and scored the winning goal in the shootout on Mar.12 CGY 6 @ DET 5 (SO) ... recorded a five point night (3+2) on Mar.14 CGY 6 @ TOR 8 ... named as the NHL's Second Star of the Week (6+2=8) Mar.9-15 .... had the most productive start for a Flame registering 8 goals and 2 assists for 10 points in 6 games ... had his first multi-assist game with a pair on Mar.20 STL 3 @ CGY 2
2007-08: Appeared in all 82 games for Florida, recording 34-37-71 and 67 PIM … Led the Panthers in goals (34), assists (37), and points (71) … Ranked 3rd in the NHL in power play goals (18) and shots (341) … Was the team's leading scorer for the fifth straight season … Served as Florida's team captain for fourth consecutive season … Became the franchise's all-time leader in goals (188), assists (231), points (419) and consecutive games played (376) … Recorded 16 multi-point games … Notched three GWGs in a four-game span from Mar. 16 – Mar. 22 … Played in his 700th career NHL game vs. NYR, Mar. 14 … Collected two assists on Mar. 8 vs. ATL to become Florida's all-time leader in assists … Scored his 30th goal of the season, a GWG in overtime on Feb. 23 at PHI … Had a six-game point streak (5-4-9) from Feb. 1 – Feb. 9 … Collected a goal and an assist, the 200th goal and 400th point of his Panthers career, at TOR, Feb. 5 … Registered a seven-game point streak (4-4-8) from Dec. 15 – Dec. 27… Compiled a five-game point streak (5-5-10) from Oct. 27 – Nov. 3 … Scored two goals to become Florida's all-time points (355) and goals (158) leader on Oct. 24 vs. PHI
2006-07: Completed his ninth NHL season, sixth with Florida and served as team captain for the third consecutive year … Recorded 39-52-91 and 78 PIM … Was one of six Panthers to play in all 82 games … Led the team in GWG (8), and posted career-highs to lead the team in goals (39), assists (52) and points (91) … Was one of only three NHL players to record three hat-tricks during the season … Scored a career-high six points (2-4-6) including the GWG and had a career-best rating of plus-6 vs. NYI, Mar. 17 … Netted a goal for the fourth consecutive game vs. TB, Mar. 3 … Recorded his third hat trick of the season at WSH, Feb. 27 … Scored a goal and an assist (the 200th of his career) vs. BOS, Feb. 24 … Extended scoring streak to seven games with a goal and an assist vs. CAR, Jan. 16 … Posted three goals, including the GWG, for his third career hat trick and second of the season vs. PIT, Jan. 10 … Posted his second career hat-trick, including the GWG, vs. MTL, Nov. 16 … Scored the GWG to break the Panthers record for most GWG in a Panther career (P. Bure - 23) vs. PHI, Oct. 20 … Recorded four points (2-2-4) vs. CAR, Oct. 11 … Scored a goal and an assist Oct. 6 vs. BOS to surpass 300 career points in his career
2005-06: Completed his eighth NHL season, fifth with Florida, serving as the team captain for the second consecutive year ... Led the team and posted career highs in goals scored (38), assists (51), points (89), PPG (14) and GWG (9) ... Led the NHL with four OT goals, and was third in the NHL with nine GWG ... His 89 points ranked as the third-best single season point total in Panthers history, becoming only the fourth Cats player (Pavel Bure, Ray Whitney and Scott Mellanby) in history to record at least 30 goals in a season … His four OT goals tied an NHL record for overtime goals in a season since the five-minute overtime period was adopted ... Tied a career high with three assists vs. ATL, Feb. 3 … Recorded his first career hat trick vs. PIT, Nov. 25 … Skated in his 500th NHL game Nov. 19 vs. NYI … One of just three Panthers (Bouwmeester, Gelinas) to play in all 82 games
2004-05: Appeared in 14 contests with HIFK-Helsinki (Finland), recording 9-8-17 with 10 PIM ... Skated in eight games with Kloten (Swiss), collecting 6-1-7 with 14 PIM ... Appeared in 23 games with Sodertalje (Sweden), and posted 13-9-22 with 52 PIM
2003-04: Completed his seventh NHL season, fourth with Florida, posting 26 goals, a career high 32 assists and 58 points with 81 PIM in 82 games ... Served as the team captain - his first NHL captaincy ... Led all Finnish-born NHL players in scoring ... Led club in goals (26), assists (32), points (58), PPG (8), SHG (2) and GWG (8) ... Ranked 2nd among all NHL forwards in TOI/game (22:34) ... One of two Panthers (Lyle Odelein) to appear in all 82 games ... Had four two-goal games (Nov. 26 vs. NYR , Jan. 17 vs. TB, Feb. 4 at PHX and Mar. 11 at MTL) ... Finished the season on a four-game point streak (3-5-8), tying his season-long (3-2-5 from Nov. 21-26) ...Tied his career high with three assists vs. CAR, Apr. 4 ... Recorded his 200th career NHL point with an assist vs. BUF, March 20 ... Scored the GWG in overtime vs. NYR, Mar. 13, making it back-to-back games with the OT GWG ... Scored two goals, including the GWG in OT at MTL, Mar. 11 … Posted his 100th career NHL assist at WSH, Feb. 21… Played in his 300th game as a Panther on Feb. 20 at PIT ... Skated in his 400th career NHL game Oct. 18 at NYI
2002-03: Completed his sixth NHL season, third with Florida, posting 36-29-65 with 79 PIM in 81 games ... Set career highs in PPG (13), SHG (3) and shots (240) ... Led Florida in goals, points, PPG, SHG, GWG and shots ... His 36 goals tied for 12th in the NHL ... Registered a career-high nine-game point streak (7-8-15) from Feb. 6- Feb. 24 and a career-high five-game assist streak (6a) from Feb. 14- Feb. 22 ... Tied career-high four-game goal streak (5) from Feb. 6-Feb. 14 ... Tied career high with four points (2-2-4) vs. TB, Feb. 8 ... Scored a goal and added three assists for the Eastern Conference in 2003 NHL All-Star Game in South Florida, Feb. 2 ... Tallied two SHG in a game, tying Florida franchise record vs. ATL, Nov. 19 ... Recorded career-high four points (2-2-4) including the GTG and his first GWG as a Panther at ATL, Oct. 12
2001-02: Registered 9-20-29 with 98 PIM in 80 games with Florida ... Set new career highs in assists (20) and points (29) and tied career high in PPG (3) ... Scored points in five straight games (2-5-7), Apr. 3 - Apr. 10 ... Played his 300th career NHL game Mar. 17 at OTT
2000-01: Recorded 6-10-16 with career high 106 PIM in 78 games with Florida ... Finished among the team leaders in PIM (3rd , 106), shots (T-5th , 121) and hits (8th , 98) ... Played in 200th career NHL game Jan. 20 at PHI ... Scored his first and second goals as a Panther at NJ, Oct. 30 ... Notched first point as a Panther (assist) Oct. 20 at COL
1999-00: Played all 82 games for the Islanders, collecting 11-10-21 ... Led Islanders in SHG (2) ... Finished 7th on the team in goals, 5th in PIM (80) and T-2nd in GWG (3) ... Finished 3rd in team faceoff wins (379) ... Scored on his first career penalty shot against Dominik Hasek vs. BUF, March 4 ... Posted four-game goal streak (4-2-6) Feb. 28-March 5 ... Played in his 100th NHL game at OTT, Dec. 11 ... Acquired by the Islanders with Josh Green, Mathieu Biron and the Kings' 1999 first round pick (Taylor Pyatt) in exchange for Zigmund Palffy, Bryan Smolinski and Marcel Cousineau on June 20, 1999
1998-99: Named NHL Rookie of the Month for November, posting eight points (4-4-8) in 11 games … Notched a career-high three assists at NSH, Apr.12 ... Recorded first NHL point Nov. 5 with an assist vs. STL ... Scored first NHL goal and recorded first multi-point game (1-1-2) Nov. 10 at CGY... Started the season in Springfield (AHL) and was named the AHL Player of the Week ending Oct. 25 after recording six points in two games
1997-98: Made his NHL debut at PIT, Oct. 1 … Assigned to HIFK in the Finnish Elite League Nov. 6 for the remainder of the season
2010: Tied for second on the Finish team in goals (3) and points (4) at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and captured a bronze medal 2008: Recorded 1-4-5 in eight games and won a bronze medal with Finland at the IIHF World Championships 2004: Skated in seven contests with Team Finland in the IIHF World Championships, registering 1-4-5 … Tied for most assists (4) and points (5) for Finland and posted a PPG ... Helped Finland reach the finals in the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, posting 2-1-3 in six games 2003: Posted 1-2-3 in seven games for host Finland at the 2003 World Championships 2002: Collected 2-1-3 and was +4 in four games with Finland at 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City... Recorded 1-1-2 in nine games with Finland at the 2002 World Championships in Sweden 2000: Posted 1-3-4 with six PIM in nine games for bronze medal-winning Finland at 2000 World Championships in St. Petersburg, Russia 1998: Played in 1998 World Junior Championships in Helsinki, Finland and tied for tournament scoring title (Jeff Farkas - U.S.) collecting 4-6-10 in seven games for gold medal-winning Finland 1997: Represented Finland in the 1997 World Championships, tying for second on the team in scoring with 4-2-6 in eight games…Played for gold medal-winning Finland at the 1997 World Junior Championships, tied as the top scorer (4-6-10 in seven games) and was named the First-Team All-Star Center 1996: Played for Finland in the 1996 World Championships, scoring five goals


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Determine if the sequence is increasing, decreasing, or neither.
an = 2n
As n gets larger the terms get larger, so this sequence is increasing.
As n gets larger the terms get smaller, so this sequence is decreasing.
an = (-1)n n2
The terms of this sequence bounce back and forth between positive and negative, so this sequence is neither increasing nor decreasing.
an = -n2
This sequence is decreasing, since it consists of negative numbers that are getting further and further from zero.
Since the fraction is surrounded by absolute value signs, the factor (-1)n has no effect on the term. We can rewrite the term
Since 2n grows more quickly than n, the terms are positive and approach zero. This is a decreasing sequence.
Determine if the sequence is (a) bounded above, (b) bounded below, and (c) bounded or unbounded.
Since , each term an is between 4 and 5.
a) Yes, this sequence is bounded above.
b) Yes, this sequence is bounded below.
c) This sequence is bounded.
an = 4 – n
Each term is 4 minus a natural number, so all the terms are smaller than 3. The value of 4 – n can get as negative as we like.
b) No, this sequence is not bounded below.
c) This sequence is unbounded because it has no lower bound.
an = (-1)n
Each term of this sequence is between -1 and 1.
an = n3
a) No, this sequence is not bounded above. The value of n3 can get as large as we like.
b) Since all terms are positive, this sequence is bounded below by 0.
c) This sequence is unbounded because it has no upper bound.
an = (-1)n2n
The terms of this sequence alternate between positive and negative, getting farther from 0 with no bounds anywhere in sight.
a) No, this sequence is not bounded above.
c) This sequence is unbounded. It has no upper or lower bound.
Determine if the statement is true or false. Explain your reasoning.
If a sequence has 5 ≤ an ≤ 6 for all n, then the sequence must converge.
False. As an example, all terms of the sequence
fall between 5 and 6. However, this sequence is indecisive so it doesn't converge.
The sequence 1,1,1,1,... is both convergent and bounded.
True. This sequence converges to 1 and is bounded both above and below by 1. If you don't like the upper and lower bounds being the same, we can also say it's bounded below by 0.9 and above by 1.1 or something like that.
If a sequence diverges, the sequence is unbounded.
False. To say a sequence diverges means it doesn't converge. The sequence
diverges because it's indecisive. However, this sequence is bounded (below by 5, above by 6).
If a sequence is unbounded, that sequence diverges.
True. If a sequence is unbounded, the terms are going off to ∞ and/or -∞. Since the terms aren't approaching anything finite, the sequence must diverge.
If a sequence converges, there is some value K such that K ≤ an for all n.
True. This statement is saying "if a sequence converges, it has a lower bound." This is true, because a convergent sequence must have both upper and lower bounds.
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Camelot Theatre Company will hold auditions for singers and dancers in "Evita" on Saturday, July 13.
The musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice follows Argentine political leader Eva Perón's rise to power in the 1940s with her husband, President Juan Perón.
"Evita" begins rehearsals Aug. 31, previews Oct. 16-17 and runs through Nov. 17.
Auditions will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in the theater, 101 Talent Ave., Talent. Prospective cast members may call 541-535-5250 to schedule an appointment and to pick up audition materials. They should bring a current picture and a resume.
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The old saying I remember hearing when I was a kid was, "Ya win, Ya lose some, some are rained out." Add snowed out to the ditty this April - mid April at that.
The weather is starting to play havoc with the spring sports schedules.
Softball got a game in on Monday, but baseball and golf had more games and matches canceled on Tuesday. Neither of those sports has played this year.
If the worst of this storm strikes, the Saints could be snowed out for days.
Tennis today, Baseball Friday, track on Saturday and Monday as well as baseball on that Monday are not likely to happen the way it's looking right now. Tennis next on Monday at St. James - sure if you use the County Snow Plow to clear the courts.
Then golf has their home opener on the 16th. If the snow is gone and if the course is open.
Thinking about this weather, T.S. Eliot's masterpiece poem is aptly called The Wasteland.
It starts, "April is the cruellest month..." That is the case for St. James Area athletes this April.
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Alcoa Earnings Preview: Some Caveats to Consider
Alcoa is set to kick off the earnings festivities later today after the closing bell.
The world's largest aluminum maker has earned the distinction for unofficially marking the beginning of earnings season because it is the first Dow component every quarter to report results.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect Alcoa to report quarterly earnings of six cents a shares on revenue of $5.6 billion. Alcoa has exceeded analysts' profit estimates in the last three quarters and has beaten revenue projections the last six quarters.
Still, there are some caveats to consider when analyzing Alcoa's results. Our colleague Matt Day offers details:
Analysts estimate Alcoa will probably post an $86 million fourth-quarter profit after the close, according to Thomson Reuters. Compared to the modest fourth-quarter loss in 2011, that projection looks good. But some context is helpful.
Alcoa likely earned less than $250 million in 2012, down 60% from 2011 and the lowest total since the financial crisis. During the boom years, it wasn't uncommon for AA to pull that in during a single quarter.
The chief culprit is a persistently low aluminum price that's pressured Alcoa's basic metalmaking unit. Alcoa's cost cuts and closure of high-cost smelters represents progress position the company to benefit later, but "improvements will take time," Barclays notes.
Analysts aren't expecting earthshattering news when Alcoa reports. Aluminum prices rose, but were still too low for a gangbusters quarter. Alcoa's results probably hinged on how well it streamlined its basic metalmaking unit, and the performance of a couple key markets like packaging during a seasonally slow period.
As Alcoa sets the stage for 2013, keep an eye on its detailed breakdown of growth in its markets (beverage cans, auto, construction, aerospace). Investors are also tuned in for updates on AA's big growth story, the mining and smelting partnership with the Saudi Arabian state miners.
Finally, general balance sheet health will be on the docket after Moody's warned it may downgrade Alcoa's debt.
Alcoa shares recently edged up 0.2% to $9.12. The stock is roughly flat over the last 12 months.
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Using Analytics (Dtrace) to Troubleshoot a Performance Problem, Realtime
By Darius Zanganeh-Oracle on Sep 23, 2013
I was recently on a call with one of the largest financial retirement investment firms in the USA. They were using a very small 7320 ZFS Storage appliance (ZFSSA) with 24GB of dram and 18 x 3TB HDDs. This system was nothing in terms of specifications compared to the latest shipping systems, the ZS3-2 and ZS3-4 storage systems with 512GB and 2TB of DRAM respectively. Nevertheless I was more then happy to see what help myself and mostly the ZFSSA Analytics (Dtrace) could offer.
The Problem: Umm, Performance aka Storage IO Latency is less then acceptable...This customer was/is using this very small ZFSSA as an additional Data Guard target from their production Exadata. In this case it was causing issues and pain. Below you can see a small sample screen shot we got from their Enterprise Manager Console.
Discovery: Lets see what is going on right now! Its time to take a little Dtrace tour..
This leads us to our next stop on the dtrace discovery train, ARC accesses (Adaptive Replacement Cache). Here we quickly find that even with our lackluster performance in terms of read latency. We have an amazing read cache hit ratio. Roughly about 60% of our IO is coming from our 24GB of DRAM. On this particular system the DRAM is upgradable to 144GB of DRAM. Do ya think that would make a small dent in those 6033 data misses below?
This nicely leads into the next stop on the dtrace train which is to ask dtrace for all those 6033 data misses how many of them would be eligible to be read from L2ARC (READ SSD Drives in the Hybrid Storage Pool). We quickly noticed that indeed they would have made a huge difference. Sometimes 100% of the misses were eligible. This means that after missing the soon to be upgraded 6x dram based cache the rest of the read IO's of this workload would likely be served from high performance MLC Flash SSD right in the controller itself.
Conclusion: Analytics on the ZFSSA are amazing, The Hybrid Storage Pool of the ZFSSA is amazing, the large DRAM based cache on the ZFSSA is very amazing...At this point I recommend that they take a two phase approach to the workload. First they upgrade the DRAM Cache 6x and add 2 x L2ARC Read SSD drives. After that they could evaluate if they still needed to add more disk or not.
Extra Credit Stop: One last stop I made was to look at their NFS share settings and see if they had compression turned on like I have recommended in a previous post. I noticed that they did not have it enabled and that CPU was very low at less then 10% AVG utilization. I then explained to the customer how they would benefit even now without any upgrades by enabling compression and I asked if I could enable it that second at 12pm in the afternoon during a busy work day. They trusted me and we enabled it on the fly and then for giggles I decided to see if it made a difference on disk IO and sure enough it made an immediate impact and disk IO lowered because now every new write they had was taking less disk space and less IO to move through the subsystem since we compress real-time in memory. Remember that this system was a Data guard target so it was constantly being written too. You can clearly see in the image below how compression lowered the amount of IO on the actual drives. Trying doing that with your average storage array compression.
Special Thanks goes out to my teammates Michael Dautle and Hugh Shannon who helped with this adventure and capturing of the screenshots.


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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - We recently adopted a dog. The shelter had given him the name Noodles and we would like to change it. He was at the shelter for about a month. Can we change his name and if so, how do we do it?
- Noodling a name change
Dear Noodling,
You can most certainly change your new dog's name. Chances are he didn't really learn his new name at the shelter and he probably didn't develop a very positive association with it! A name is just another human word to a dog, however some names are better than others. When we say names like Killer they are often said in a way that infers negative meaning, whereas a name like Champ infers the opposite. Primarily, you want your dog to have a wonderful association with whatever name you choose. Don't use his name if you are angry or frustrated. It will build a negative association and it is much more effective to walk over and get him.
Once you have determined his new name, it's time to build a positive association with it. Get about 10 really good treats, say his name in a happy voice and give him a treat. Repeat until you have used all the treats. Do this exercise 2-3 times per day until he looks at you expectantly when he hears his name. Once he's responding well in your house, start working outside and in other locations. This is called generalization. He needs to respond outside as well as he does in your house.
Saying your dog's name should always be the first step in getting their attention before giving them a cue. If you can't get their attention, you may as well just stop because they aren't hearing you. I like to teach an additional attention sound for times when the name doesn't work. My favorite is "Bop Bop Bop" said in a high-pitched, fast tone. To teach this, do the same exercise you did with the name followed by a treat, just replace the name with Bop Bop Bop. A higher pitched, quick sound tends to break through concentration better than a long, low sound. Once the dog looks up, I can give another cue like "Come," "Leave it," or "Sit."
- Carla Brown, CPDT is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and owner of The Savvy Dog Training and Education Center in Truckee. If you have a pet topic/issue you would like to see covered in the Ask the Trainer column, please email her at email@example.com


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I don't think I have ever had Swedish Meatballs, but I have often pined for them when shopping at IKEA. I don't know what it is about wandering through a maze of Swedish furniture that makes you hungry for just about anything. Traditional Swedish meatballs are served in a cream and beef broth sauce, so I have tried to duplicate a beefy type flavour here. The dish went over pretty well with the kids--meatballs and rice are always a winning combo.
- 1 recipe perfect tempeh burger, made with 1/2 cup wheat gluten, shaped into about 24 balls
- 2 tbsp oil
- 4 cups water
- 1/4 cup Bragg's, or light soy sauce
- 2-3 tsp Marmite
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp allspice
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tbsp vegan Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tbsp HP sauce
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 2-4 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 cup plain soy milk
- 3 tbsp flour
1. Fry meatballs in 2 tbsp oil over med-lo heat for 15 mins, turning regularly, until browned all over.
2. While meatballs are frying, make the sauce. Combine water, Bragg's, Marmite, spices, sauce and cornstarch in a large pot and bring to bubbling. Whisk flour into soy milk and add to pot. Whisk until smooth and thick.
3. Add meatballs to sauce and simmer for 20 mins, uncovered. Stir regularly to keep sauce from sticking to pot. Be gentle so the meatballs don't break apart (they are durable, but not invincible).
4. Serve over rice.
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Swedish Meatballs
I don't think I have ever had Swedish Meatballs, but I have often pined for them when shopping at IKEA. I don't know what it is about wandering through a maze of Swedish furniture that makes you hungry for just about anything. Traditional Swedish meatballs are served in a cream and beef broth sauce, so I have tried to duplicate a beefy type flavour here. The dish went over pretty well with the kids--meatballs and rice are always a winning combo.
Posted by Vegan Dad at 8:25 PM
Labels: fake meat, kid-friendly, tempeh
23 comments:
- Jan Scholl said...
It's not just Swedish furniture anymore! Woo Hoo to Danville.
- June 25, 2008 at 10:56 PM
- Veg-a-Nut said...
These look wonderful. In the states we can't get marimite or HP sauce. Can you think of anything that would work as a substitute? I want to make these, but don't want to wait for mail order items. :o)
- June 25, 2008 at 11:46 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
No marmite? No HP? So much for the greatest nation on earth! Heh heh. I think you could use BBQ sauce in place of th HP. The marmite is a bit tougher since it adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the sauce. Maybe some nutritional yeast and some salt. Or a vegan "beef" bullion cube if they sell that sort of thing in your city (they don't here).
- June 25, 2008 at 11:55 PM
- Niki said...
thanks I was going to ask the same question! My husband is converting to veganism and he loves looking at your site and getting all excited.. although Im still learning myself as i just went vegan 3 months ago and my dishes dont turn out quite so beautiful. We have a 1 year old vegan with us and he has been our motivation thank you - you have made the world a better place for fellow vegans by showing us we can make interesting dishes.. Love from Alaska.
- June 26, 2008 at 2:40 AM
- John Plummer said...
Do you have the Publix supermarket chain where you live? They sell both HP Sauce and Marmite. You can also buy them on amazon.com - for real. Given my extreme fondness for these items, as well as for the underlying tempeh burger, I know I will be making this.
- June 26, 2008 at 9:47 AM
- twoveganboys said...
We can get HP sauce in the states. I bought some at the local Central Market (it is like Whole Foods) last month and a Greek store here sells it as well. HP sauce is most excellent. Marmite, I would have to look for becuase I am not to familiar with it. The Swedish Meatballs look great. I will have to give these a try and see if our little guy likes them. Having Arthur and another boy soon, I am all about kid-friendly meals. Have a great weekend Vegan Dad!
- June 26, 2008 at 9:50 AM
- lauren said...
We certainly do have marmite in the states! If the local grocer doesn't have it, Whole Foods should.
- June 26, 2008 at 10:01 AM
- madcapcupcake said...
Another great-looking dish that I must try. Off to Loblaws I go for some Marmite and HP sauce. Publish your recipes already - I can't afford all this inkjet ink.
- June 26, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- Kelly said...
You always have the best recipes! Such great vegan comfort food. I found your tempeh gyro recipe after doing a google search (it always amazes me the breadth of what you've tried) and I can't wait to put them on the menu next week! Good luck with the cookbook!
- June 26, 2008 at 11:01 AM
- Dan said...
Marmite & HP Sauce? I miss living near Jungle Jim's (in the greater Cincinnati area). it was the best grocery store EVER...
- June 26, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- Veg-a-Nut said...
Thanks, Vegan Dad. Alas, no where in San Diego County do they sell vegan beef bouillon. Guess I am going to place a mail order and put these on next weeks menu. I would have to say we are a omnivore nation for sure. OH, well I always have been different!
- June 26, 2008 at 4:04 PM
- Teresa said...
I've never seen HP Sauce around by me (Brooklyn, NY). Does it compare more with A1 Steak Sauce, Worcestershire sauce, or BBQ sauce? I clicked on your HP link, and the bottle looks just like A1's. thanks :)
- June 26, 2008 at 5:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
There was to be a Cost Plus in the San Diego county,and they sell Marmite.
Your county is also blessed with MANY health food stores, so give them a check, as they all carry vegan "beef" bouillon, cubed or paste.
- June 26, 2008 at 6:59 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
HP sauce is made with dates and has a nice kick. I suppose it is very much like A1 in that they are both steak sauces. Is A1 made of dates? Anyone? In any event, I am sure it would work fine in this recipe.
- June 26, 2008 at 9:44 PM
- michael said...
worstechire (sp) has anchovies in it
- June 27, 2008 at 1:02 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Sorry, I forgot to put the link to the vegan version. I have added it now.
- June 27, 2008 at 9:04 AM
- Anonymous said...
for teresa and other NYers: a few weeks ago, i got HP sauce at St. Mark's Market on st. mark's place btw 3rd and 4th aves - maybe out of the way for some, but other places in the city must have it too.
- June 29, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- Angi @ Peakmore Academy said...
I'm sampling one meatball right now. the brown gravy for it rocks, btw, ... i have some vegatarian dry mix on hand already which i'll need to use up but after that, no more. THIS is wonderful. weather plain, in BBQ, ketchup, marinara, white sauce, or brown sauce, these are really good! Can't wait till hubby gets home and it's dinner time!
BTW, i subbed A1 for the HP, and arrow root for the cornstarch.
- July 5, 2008 at 3:46 PM
- Marshmallow Goat said...
marmite... I remember it from Australia. It's not so bad as vegemite (oh, the horror!), but it's kind of creepy, in a subtle but ultimately really creepy manner kind of like John Malkovich vs. Christopher Walken in http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20020929.html, except vegemite is still by far a worse condiment. I don't miss either.
- July 23, 2008 at 11:19 PM
- Laura said...
I made this recipe this weekend and am STILL eating leftovers (quite a lot for 2 people!). I have to just really thank you for this recipe! It was so delicious and reheats beautifully. It was a tad on the sweet side and I think I'll probably only use 1 tbsp of sugar next time, but I was using turbinado so that might make a difference. Thanks for the delicious fake meatballs!
- November 2, 2008 at 9:08 PM
- bellacola said...
I'm really happy to see this because I used to love Ikea's swedish meatballs (although, since you claim to never have had them, I wonder if I should just ditch my recollections of how that particular dish tasted) and even when I was still eating meat, they stopped making them with mashed potatoes, which was my preferred method of consumption. Still, I look forward to trying these. Right after the sausages, then the wingz.....
- July 14, 2009 at 9:24 AM
- Laura Goodridge said...
Hi vegan dad! Is there a sub for wheat gluten, as I'm gluten free? I'm assuming it's pretty important, but figured I'd ask before I give it a try with another ingredient. Thanks!!
- May 30, 2016 at 10:37 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Not that I know of. Maybe someone with more gluten-free knowledge can give some input here.
- May 30, 2016 at 4:38 PM


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SAN JOSE -- Computer networking and communications company Cisco Systems said its third fiscal quarter sales and profit dropped from the same period a year ago but its financial report beat Wall Street's expectations.
The San Jose corporation said it reaped a $2.2 billion profit on sales of $11.5 billion, compared with a profit of $2.5 billion and sales of $12.2 billion in the third quarter last year. That worked out to fully reported earnings of 42 cents a share.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters generally had expected 36 cents a share on sales of $11.35 billion.
"We saw strength across a number of areas of our business," CEO John Chambers said during a conference call with analysts. "I'm proud of what we've done and excited about what's to come."
Before announcing its earnings, Cisco's stock price dropped 5 cents to $22.81. In early after-hours trading, its shares were up nearly 7 percent.
Cisco -- which sells switches, routers, servers, security devices, videoconference gear and other networking and communications equipment to businesses and government agencies -- is Silicon Valley's fifth-biggest corporation in revenue.
But its sales and profit have been slumping. And some investors haven't been happy that Cisco's stock price has remained relatively flat despite the overall market's rise over the past year.
The company faces stiff competition in some markets and its sales have been slowed by the sluggish global economy. It also has been hurt by a drop in product orders, especially from emerging-market countries, including Russia, Brazil, Mexico, India and China, as well as from the U.S. government shutdown. Due to those factors and others, the company recently cut 4,000 workers.
But Chambers hopes to generate more sales by providing consulting services and offering products for the growing array of household, industrial, medical and other gadgets that are being connected to the Internet.
Although many analysts were surprised by the severity of Cisco's recent troubles, they have generally remained upbeat about the technology giant.
Despite what they termed "widespread negative sentiment on the stock in the investment community," International Strategy and Investment Group analysts assured their clients in a note this week that the company "is innovating on the product front" and that "we continue to warm up to the Cisco story."
In a separate report, Brian White of Cantor Fitzgerald warned that he expects Cisco "to continue experiencing weakness in emerging markets," but added that some of the company's newest products should "begin contributing more meaningfully to revenue over the next couple of quarters."
Raymond James analysts also praised Cisco's financial balance and "culture of seizing opportunity in tough markets," among other pluses, and said they expect the company "to return to growth in October or January."
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There are a number of builds out there all with their own twist to the PMS. Nowdays thank to the profile fixes you can have all these zillions of builds installed at the same time on you computer! But what is it with all these builds? Why so many (actually it is not so many)? Here is a short description on the builds that exists. Pls feel free to add to the list if I miss some.
Official Release:
Found here viewforum.php?f=8
This is the actual working version of PMS. It has been tested and is known to work for most stuff.
So you should always go with the official release? As with all software no matter how good you test your code there are things not working there. Things that might have been fixed later on that will end up in a release later on.
SubJunk Build (SB):
Found here viewtopic.php?f=14&t=8883
Since SubJunk is one of developers of the project this is a semi official beta build. The SB contains all those patches and fixes since latest release plus some other new stuff (like new versions of mencoder/ffmpeg etc.) and even some real experimental stuff that are just test balloons. If you are having trouble with some movie not playing the SB is the build that will likely solve it first.
SharkHunter Build (SHB):
Found here viewtopic.php?f=14&t=10854
The SHB aims at ease of installation. Like SB it includes patches since latest release plus it bundles a lot of third-party tools and plugins, among other PMSEncoder (viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6644) and Channels (viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9329#p42583). SHB is a web centric build focusing of finding streams on the web. If you got windows and you just want to watch some web TV start here.
Latest SVN build
Found here viewtopic.php?f=14&t=9798
This is the build for real daredevils. If you can't find your fix anywhere and you're not afraid to get your hands dirty this is the build for you. This is not actually a build but it is YOU who make the build, you fetch the source code and build it yourself. You'll get the really latest code plus you can add your own addons! This is how all other builds got started. If this is the build for you run along to http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/source/checkout
Found here viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9775
This build focuses of getting a better folder layout. The default PMS is a bit rough but this build allows you organize your files in your own way regardless of how the files actually are spread on the disc.
Latest Beta
Found here viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3217
This has not been updated for quite sometime and is probably replaced by the SB.
ExSports Build
Found here http://code.google.com/p/pms-exsport/downloads/list
Like SHB and SB it stays on the track of the latest changes, and then adds it's own stuff. Here you'll also find the twists and tweaks of mencoder/ffmpeg/mplayer that might get your movie to play.
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If you don't get beads at Mardi Gras, see Bill Ouellette.
Lake Wales Mardi Gras 5K. Registration is 5:30 p.m. at Kiwanis Park on Lakeshore Drive. It starts at 6:30 p.m. on Lake Wailes Trail. Entry forms at www.lwmardigras.com or the Lake Wales Medical Center marketing department.
The Krewe of Pegasus Gala Coronation Ball will be at 7 p.m. at Lake Wales Country Club. Tickets are $45, from Betty Purdue at 863-676-5673.
A free street party with live bands will run from 6-11 p.m. at the Beer Garden downtown at Marketplace parking lot.
Starting at 8 a.m., East Stuart Avenue will have kids activities. The Beer Garden will open at noon, with hour-long live performances.
The big event — the parade — begins at 3 p.m. Downtown streets will close at 2 p.m.
Floats will follow last year's route from Central Avenue at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to State Road 17/Scenic Highway, then back and forth on Stuart and Park Avenues to end at Third Street by 5 p.m.
Parking is available all over downtown.
"Everybody gets some beads and every year is more family-friendly," said Ouellette, president of Lake Wales Mardi Gras.
He suspects the 2013 event may draw even more than last year's estimated crowd of 30,000, as long as the weather cooperates.
Saturday's 29th annual Mardi Gras parade will be led by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd — the 2013 grand marshal — who may be riding in one of the Sheriff's Office "toys," Ouellette said, although he doesn't know which one.
The parade is just part of the fun in and around the Marketplace plaza and Market Street in downtown Lake Wales, with music, food, craft vendors and kids' activities, said Katie Kinloch, treasurer of the Mardi Gras Committee.
Plus, the Police Officers Association will have a fundraising carnival today through Sunday at Tillman Avenue and First Street. Proceeds will go to "Shop With A Cop" and other benevolent programs.
Mardi Gras T-shirts will be on sale throughout Mardi Gras, said Lori Cunningham, at Applied Images. Short-sleeved shirts are $15, and long-sleeved shirts are $20. She said $2 from each shirt is donated back to Lake Wales Mardi Gras committee.
Shirts are already available at Al's Place, Arcade Coffee and Sandwich Shop, Beans-N-Brushes, The Gallery and Frame Shop, Lori Draper's Furniture and Applied Images at 1156 N. Scenic Highway and 863-676-9800, she said.
The 2012 festival gave back more than $3,000 to the community through Our Children's Academy, Lake Wales Charter Schools, Webber International University, Lake Wales Family YMCA, Blake Appleton and other local causes.
"When we have a little extra, we try to spread it around," Ouellette said.
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Could you give me a location for the Page Cemetery in Marion County, Ohio
Thank you.
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Carol Jutte
on Mar 25, 2014 10:59 AM
RE: Spring Lawn Cemetery
Thanks, great idea.
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on Mar 06, 2014 10:08 PM
Spring Lawn Cemetery
hi, Searching for phone number Spring Lawn Cemetery. Can you please help me out.
Thank you,
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on Mar 05, 2014 10:34 AM
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Tap Water Challenge & Bottle Walks
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