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OverviewHECTOR is the next-generation of formal technology—a block-level consistency checker built to deliver high-performance checks between independently developed models and exhaustive verification of successive design refinements all without testbenches, assertions, or coverage.
HECTORHECTOR is designed to help find bugs and reduce RTL bring-up time, verify algorithmic consistency through design changes without running simulation, and increase functional signoff certainty by verifying transaction equivalence between high-level models and RTL implementations. Its patented compilers improve capacity by generating word-level RTL and Formal C/SystemC models. The powerful formal algorithms it provides find proofs in minutes or hours, not days, and its unique multiple leaf-level solvers solve complex logic. HECTOR uses hierarchical equivalence, automatic design partitioning, efficient and patented memory models, and multi-processor support to rapidly converge on proofs. HECTOR also supports multiple languages: Verilog, VHDL, SV, C, C++, and SystemC.*
Figure 1. HECTOR Overview
HECTOR is well suited to algorithm-intensive blocks including video processing, wireless media, cameras, encryption/decryption logic, transformations, GPUs, and floating point. HECTOR can be targeted at data-path dominated designs, and arithmetic blocks including floating point and, uniquely, bit-serial division. HECTOR is also unique in the formal space in that it can do consistency checks on complete blocks including control logic.
*Not all SystemC constructs are supported. Contact your applications engineer for language support options.
Figure 2. HECTOR Flow Diagram
HECTOR DebugWhen a bug is found and HECTOR provides a counter-example to help resolve the issue, two debug flows are supported. A raw counter-example can be dumped directly as VCD, or the design can be compiled and simulated with VCS®, and dumped to VPD or FSDB. Full DVE interactive capabilities can be used to debug the RTL, and multiple designs can be debugged side-by-side. HECTOR also provides a debugger (HDB) similar to GDB for C/C++ code. HDB can be used to debug counter-examples in C/C++ code. HDB can be used with graphical frontends like DDD. HDB internally operates on HECTOR's formal model. HDB provides more aggressive bounds violation checking, warns about accesses to non-initialized variables, and provides code annotation.
Figure 3. HECTOR RTL counter-example debug in DVE
Figure 4. HECTOR C++ counter-example debug in HDB
HECTOR Formal Block-Level Consistency CheckerHECTOR has been shown effective for commercial designs. HECTOR provides block-level consistency checks with no testbenches, assertions, or coverage required. HECTOR is used to speed design bring-up, verify design changes, and validate that implementations are equivalent to algorithmic specifications to aid in achieving tapeout criteria. HECTOR has been proven to be effective on arithmetic blocks including floating point, and used on video, audio, datapath, encryption, decryption, wireless, camera, GPU, and other designs. Please contact your account team to get more information.


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"I learned in my childhood in Africa that a child may be born in poverty but poverty is never born in a child. The worst aspects of poverty are not the deplorable outward conditions, but rather the erosion and eventual destruction of hope and therefore dreams."
Too Small To Ignore
Dr. Wess Stafford
Now that is an intense statement. One that requires reflection; allowing ourselves to read and re-read each word carefully, grasping at understanding.
Have you grasped it?
Even with my draw to aid children in poverty, I still struggle with getting it. I mean really getting it.
The Lord has taken me on many a great adventure. He has been my tour guide, my leader, even my travel buddy! And anyone who has traveled knows how important the buddy system is. 🙂
He gives me these glimpses into poverty, into what a majority of the world is faced with, and I dive into them with all my emotion, mind and heart. I studiously grapple with realities that are too surreal for me to comprehend.
I have seen immense lack of materials and absence of love, but I know I cannot rely on just experiences to fuel my passion. Especially when my desire is to do all things unto the Lord, and that can't be put on hold when I'm just not feeling it.
But all is not lost. I simply read. That's right … I am constantly reading. That person who is reading four books at one time … that's me. I always have two books in my purse and even two journals. So, most times when I am in line or waiting somewhere I am either writing or reading.
I have come to see that my passion for social justice and my desire for reading are more intermingled than I realized. Reading helps me remember. It takes the disconnect I sometimes feel and lessens the gap.
For example, I read this from Too Small To Ignore (which was one of the four I was reading),
"Some people think the earth can't keep up with the food needs of its population. That is not true. In fact, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) declared at a World Food Summit in Rome that the planet could produce enough food for every one of us to have a daily diet of 2,720 calories."
"The likelihood of a little Haitian child making it to his or her fifth birthday is so small that many parents do not even entrust their child with a name until then. They refer to the toddler as ti chape, 'my little escapee.' In other words, this little one has dodged death up to now, but who knows if he will actually survive? So why bother giving him a real name? We can always do that later, if needed."
Hard to read? Yes! Does it help restore me to godly perspective? Yes.
Because, to be honest, today I have quite a few projects I am juggling at work, then I have to go grocery shopping (milk, bread and something with chocolate), I'd like to go on a run, then it is off to Bible study, then laundry … and all through this my passion is attempting to dodge the humdrum of everyday life so I can keep perspective. Although, many times, my fervent enthusiasm takes a back seat and the gap gets a little wider.
God knows me, I mean He truly knows me and He knows how to encourage me and it usually comes in the form of something I read. He lessens the gap. He gives me the proper lens to look through.
How does He encourage you? When all you wish you could do is fly over to the country where your sponsored child lives and give him or her a hug, how do you keep the passion?
Maybe it's reading for you, too. Maybe it's reading their letters. Or even writing. Perhaps today you can write him or her a letter.

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so for about 4 days i have been takin funnegreek 3 times a day 3pills.....and pumping 15min after every feeding and somtimes once in between feedings...only once did i get 1oz during a pump ususally 1/2oz or less....and my daughter eighther drops off the breast and falls asleep and will still be hungry and can eat about 2oz or a bit more every feeding....or she fusses so much that i am assuming she is mad that it is empty or cant get enough....one lactation consultant i talked with said that she may be to weak to get all my milk...she is almost 7wks and is 6lbs 11oz as of today....
she was 4lbs 12.5oz at birth...and lost weight so we are at the point of supplementing w/formula wish makes her spit up more and we hate it.....so could that be what is happening she is to weak?
i dont know what to do?
all i know is i am so frustrated and want her off formula for sure.
this is the most recent routine we are trying to help build my supply!
i also read somewhere that emergency c-section moms have more
problems with milk supply than others is this true do you think?
this is what happened to me so that is why i am wondering.....
and when do i know if i should get a prescription for something
to increase my supply?


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ok fields should not start anymore, it should be stat, chandler, melo, shumpert, and walker
Fields is just terrible. Ray Felton and the uptempo system we ran last season made him look good and heavily inflated his stats. There are maybe 5-6 teams out there where he could actually crack the rotation for 8-10 mpg. On those other teams he would be a DNP guy every night, let alone start at the SG spot!
ok fields should not start anymore, it should be stat, chandler, melo, shumpert, and walker
I'll start with positives since they are few.
-Toney Douglas had his first solid game were he actually looked to penetrate and drive to the hoop. Douglas is struggling because he looks to shoot instead of drive but he has speed and he hasn't been using it. Douglas can onlybe effective if he drives to the hoop. He CANNOT be a SG, he has to play like a PG.
-Jared Jeffries was very good. He played great help defense and rebounded well. I can't stand Jeffries and thinks he plays way too much but Amare has been terrible this year and Jeffries is playing better defense and Jeffries doesn't kill opportunities by bricking a million shots, he just doesn't shoot.
-Chandler has shown that he can stop the top center in the NBA, Dwight Howard. Dwight had only 8 points. The blame goes to the perimeter defenders, mainly guys like FIelds and Walker who got torched by JJ Redick and no one helping out to cover Ryan Anderson. Knicks are the worst team defending penetration to the hoop. They collapse their defense and leave players outside wide open, this is obvious and the Magic took advantage of our inconsistent defense.
Where to begin.
How about the fact that as I previously said, we are horrible at guarding hte perimeter. This shows me that as a team trying to be better on defense, we try so hard to guard the paint that we collapse the paint all game and leave shooters open from the outside.
We continue to make bad switches. How many times is a guard covering a big man down low after a switch? How many times is Amare covering a PG on the perimeter? This destroys us and teams always take advantage of it and the fact that it happens every game and the team doesn;t stop doing it tells me the defense has barely improved. Without Tyson we are worse than last year on defense.
Landry Fields is terrible. I can't stand watching him anymore. I honestly believe that anyone else on this team would make a bigger impact than Fields. WHenever he gets the pass he does three things...he either passes the ball back quickly, he dribbles for a few seconds then passes to someone behind him, or he does a pump fake and passes it right away....none of these moves results in helping the offense. He is stagnant and continues to look lost and can't pass or dribble for his life. Fields is not a starter on any team in the NBA. His stock plummeted and continues to plummet.
Amare has his head in the clouds. I don't know if it was the trade talks with him going to NO for CHris Paul or what but Amare is lost. He is not even close to all star material and has hurt us more than anyone else except Fields. We desperately need a PG because Amare can't create his own shot, he is a dud on offense. He stands on the outside of the paint when he should be down low. He doesn't attack the basket for offensive rebounds like he did against the Pistons which made him very effective. He continues to balhandle and turn the ball over. He makes stupid plays on defense and continues to get into early foul trouble. All of these results in him scoring six points from the gam before this one and ten points in this game.
I would not mind trading Amare right now. He doesn't fit in this offense anymore. Melo is better on both ends of the floor, he is our franchise player, not Amare. Sorry Amare, you started it in NY but you can't finish it.
Mike D has to go. We are 6-7 when we should not be. The team is sturggling offensively when he is known as an offensive "genius" please get this clown out of NY. ANybody can coach this team and have them play better on both ends of the floor.
We refuse to do fundamentals such as get rebounds and play basic defense. We don't attack the rim and draw fouls consistently. We don't use our players strengths, we are lost. Please someone get fired.
"The Knicks are back" - Amare
I'm not sure many people on here truly know the game of basketball and how players roles work. Fields is an off the ball player, same for Tyson Chandler and STAT. What happens when you have off the ball players constantly running around the perimeter getting the ball away from the basket? They have to make plays which they are not fully comfortable in doing. It simply is not part of their game.
This team is so deeply flawed right now it's not even funny. Even if Baron returns and plays well that's not going to matter for **** unless the players take it upon themselves to run plays and work for each other. Currently its a free for all **** slinging fest and we'd be lucky to beat any competent TEAM in the first round.
He was made into a SG by 'antoni.
and that should do it.
Refer to the sig.
I missed the last 6 minutes of the game, and by the score, i guess i missed very little. WTF it was tied when i left... closing out games is not our specialty
**** this ****.
I'd prefer to watch a documentary on weaving than watch the Knicks fail.
Disinterested bunch of losers.
And **** you and your big talk, Amar'e. Useless ****. Another night of a poor PF killing us. What a ****ing surprise. You are a fake.
About the only thing good that happened this game was the for the first time ever, an all-star big man came into MSG and didn't have a career night.
That was about the only thing good that happened.
Dude Ryan Anderson ain't a big man. Well, he kind of is, but he doesn't really play like one
POWER FORWARDS of other teams.
He's the man of "swag", he "saved us" and rode into NYC on a white horse (with red stripes of course, to mirror the fashion statement he will be making at all the cat walks and runway events he'll attend this year).
I'm left thinking Amare is simply a **** basketball player...yes, he may still be an all-star level player, due to his otherworldly, NBA-defining levels of potential offensive talent.
But, the utter clueless he displays on *both* sides of the ball, combined with a level of defensive awareness and skill that legitimately resembles either,
a) mentally handicapped, Junior Varsity high-school, who deals with a menstrual cycle.
b) a man of such unparalleled delusion, narcissism, and laziness, that Jerome Jordan just put a hit out on him because he wants his title back.
hey hey cant have him too aggressive and getting banged up by other players, yall dont want them brusises showing up in his metrosexual cover shoots for assorted fashion and make up magazines eh?
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good play for 3 quarters, and then what... SVG switches to zone, and D'icktoni has no answer. Orlando starts shooting 3's off the pick... no answer. Knicks perimeter defense was missing. 4th quarter Knicks lose all sight of passing and ball movement and settle for missed shots while Orlando hits everything. sux.
Girafferies had fleeting moments today, but that's all he's worth, a fleeting moment. he does not deserve 25 minutes, while Balkmania gets another DNP, along with Jerry Jordan. no wonder he played in another country his rookie year, Antoni has no clue, and will never have one until a big guy is hurt, and he needs to use him.
Toney D actually using his speed to get to the hoop, THAT'S what we need to see. however, his D leaves something to be desired, esp perimeter D.
Tyson Chandler played Superman very well today, and Harrellson and Jeffries helped, that was a bright spot.
Bud Harrellson has a good shot, would like to see him bang down low more often, but he IS bringing it, and I believe he'll get better.
out there in the Fields, someone lost their confidence along with their laundry, and he looks helpless and hopeless. yet he'll still get 30+ minutes because of his intangibles. I have hope for LF...
except for a couple key hoops when SHAT came back into game, he still looks lost. I don't get it. the man needs a PG, but then again who doesn't?
without a true PG, this is what you're gonna get... winning and losing by the three, combined with a clueless coach whose gameplan doesn't change per the conditions, the Knicks will continue to lose games in the 4th quarter, if not earlier. or they'll win if shots are dropping. that's no way to play the game of professional basketball.
I blame the coach when there is no reaction to in-game changes, but I can't blame the players when there's no one running the show. you can't ask Melo to be point forward, he just needs to shoot and be in the flow. he's hurting, but he has heart, I'd like to see him pass more and get the entire team into the flow, especially when he's double-teamed.
all in all, a good 3 quarters and a total 4Q letdown. fire pringles.
no no yall got it wrong dont give Magic credit, what worked for us today was Renaissance Man in foul trouble, first three quarters were very promising for us then he comes back for the 4th, another "L" in the column
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Home List of Titles Ellipticals with kinematically distinct cores: WFPC2 imaging of globular clusters
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/43954
- Title
- Ellipticals with kinematically distinct cores: WFPC2 imaging of globular clusters
- Author(s)
- Forbes, Duncan A.; Franx, Marijn; Illingworth, Garth D.; Carollo, C. Marcella
- Abstract
- New globular clusters may form in the merger of two galaxies. Perhaps the best examples of merger remnants are the set of ellipticals with kinematically distinct cores. Here we present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) imaging of 14 kinematically distinct core ellipticals to examine their globular cluster systems. In particular, we probe the galaxy central regions, for which we might expect to see the strongest signatures of some formation and destruction processes. These data increase substantially the number of extragalactic globular cluster systems studied to date. We have developed a method for galaxy subtraction and selection of globular clusters which results in about 200 globulars per galaxy to a limiting magnitude of V similar to 25. Simulations of artificial globulars are described also. We find that the globular cluster luminosity, and color, vary only weakly, if at all, with galactocentric distance. The mean colors of globular clusters are constant with globular cluster magnitude. Several clear trends are also present. First, globular cluster colors are bluer (more metal poor by similar to 0.5 dex) than the underlying galaxy starlight at any given galactocentric distance. Second, we find a good correlation over roughly 10 magnitudes between the mean globular cluster metallicity and parent galaxy luminosity of the form Z proportional to L(0.4). This relationship includes dwarf ellipticals, spiral galaxy bulges, and giant ellipticals. Third, we find that globular cluster surface density distribution can be described by a core model, for which the core radius correlates with galaxy luminosity. Last, for the sample as a whole, the globular cluster systems are closely aligned with the galaxy major axis and are slightly rounder than the galaxy itself, although their are some notable exceptions. Our results favor scenarios in which ellipticals form from massive, gas rich progenitors at early epochs. Detailed simulations of the formation of globular cluster systems would be valuable to draw firmer conclusions.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 467, no. 1 (Aug 1996), pp. 126-144
- Publication year
- 1996
- Keyword(s)
- cD; Dynamics; Elliptical galaxies; Galaxy mergers; GCs; Globular clusters; HST; Hubble Space Telescope; Interstellar matter; Kinematics; Lenticular galaxies; Local group; Nuclei; Origin; Photometry; Planetary camera; Space telescope observations; Star clusters; Systems; Virgo Cluster; WFPC2; Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1996 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
- Peer reviewed


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On a recent trip to Iqaluit (Nunavut), I basically used my Android based #Xoom tablet and a Logitech BlueTooth keyboard for 4 days straight. Only time I broke out the MacBook Pro was for a mindmapping session with a client, and that was because I hadn't tested the excellent MindJet app with a VGA projector yet, so I didn't want to take a risk. Used Docs2Go for word processing and spreadsheets, native email/Skype clients, MindJet (for brainstorming), camera/video capture apps, MoboPlayer (for movies, since the TV available didn't have connection), and many of the Adobe apps for design, creative and annotation.
Sitting down with my MBP, Ubuntu and Windows laptops now at home, I realize that I haven't used them in nearly two months. LOT of security updates to keep me busy today.
I've heard of people trying to "live on a tablet" for a few days as a test of their technical mojo and to explore the current state of mobile software, but it seems that I've been doing this without even trying. Very impressive. I wonder where we'll be this time next year?


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Help Conquer Famine and Drought In East Africa With 3 Clicks
In midst of extreme instability, lack of governance, and increasingly limited precious resources, East African Somalia has found itself in the heart of a severe food crisis that has left 29,000 children under the age of five dead and 3.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Furthermore, an estimated 12.4 million people are in need of humanitarian relief throughout the Horn of Africa due to extreme drought. This is not


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Transformations to open locally
PARKERSBURG – A business specializing in medical weight loss and skin treatments is looking to locate to the Parkersburg area in the next few months.
The West Virginia Health Care Authority recently announced issuing a Certificate of Need to Transformations Inc. of Charleston for the development of a new facility in Parkersburg for the provision of physician supervised weight loss, medical skin care procedures and retail skin care and make-up products.
According to the West Virginia Health Care Authority, the capital expenditure associated with this proposal is $25,000.
Joshua Galbraith, owner and CEO of Transformations Inc., said they were excited to get the approval and will begin the process of looking for a site in the local area where they can set up their business. They could not move forward on that until they got the approval from the Authority.
"We are hoping to be open by this fall," Galbraith said. "In a couple of weeks we are expecting to be looking at options in the Parkersburg area."
Transformations staffs medical doctors to work with people on weight loss as well as a number of skin treatments.
"The people who come to see us are always meeting with a medical doctor," Galbraith said.
Their approach to weight loss includes appetite regulation through appetite suppressant drug therapy while also helping people make changes to their lifestyle, such as exercise, to facilitate long-term healthy results.
Galbraith said they have a 97 percent success rate in weight loss at their other facilities in the state.
Their doctors have designed a number of dynamic and affordable skin care treatments and regimens. They offer such products as ZO Medical, Obagi, Vivite, Botox, Dysport, Juvederm, Restylane, Radiesse , Perlane, Prevelle and others. They also offer Fraxel Laser Treatments.
Many medical insurances do not cover services they offer, but Galbraith said some are pushing for some weight loss procedures to be covered by insurance so in time, things could change.
Consultations on weight loss are done at no charge.
"We want to encourage people to come in to get weighed and so on without worrying they are going to be charged a fee every time they come in," Galbraith said.
The only time a fee is charged is when they purchase medications or have some specific procedure done.
In skin care procedures, a fee is charged for visits, but those are usually deducted from the costs of products purchased for the procedure.
Galbraith said they try to make the costs as reasonable as possible.
Transformations Inc. already has facilities in Charleston, Huntington and Beckley.
They are hoping to have a Parkersburg location secured in about a month and then work another month to prepare the site. Their medical staff is already in place as doctors from their other facilities will operate the Parkersburg office. Galbraith said there should be three positions in the office.
Like their other locations, Galbraith believes they could set up in a medical office plaza or a strip mall setting.
"We want to be settled in by the new year which is usually a big time for us," he said. "March is traditionally our busiest month."


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Language needs a maid. It keeps accruing new words and phrases compulsively while never taking the time to throw out the old stuff, like a frenzied, desperate hoarder who is doomed to be crushed one day by his own toppling stacks of ancient dictionaries and Cosmo magazines. Even the adages, originally designed to help clean up the mess of language by acting as shorthand for universal truths about putting eggs in baskets and stitches in time, have sat neglected for so long that they're now far more confusing than helpful. And while I'm sure each of those proverbs has a fascinating and storied history, it's time for us to harden our hearts, huck all that shit into a dumpster, and move on.
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"Jesus, how long exactly have you been holding on to this?"
If only there was someone willing to stand up and do the job of cleaning house, a hero to face that tangled nest of words and separate the garbage from the reusables. If only there was someone who already owned a sultry maid's outfit because he bought it for a Halloween party last year but chickened out at the last minute and went as a skeleton, again.
Alright, I'll do it.
What follows are four archaic proverbs that are so old and tired that they need to be cut from our vernacular immediately, and in their place I've provided modern versions that I think you'll agree are infinitely more relatable and, at times, downright sexy. Let's agree to do this again every 50 years or so. If I'm dead by then, I'll leave my maid's uniform in a cave somewhere, like Batman.
4 Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
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Given how weirdly dependent this axiom is on an expertise in horse bartering, it's odd that it has stuck around as long as it has. It both presupposes that people are doling out horses as gifts frequently enough that we'd all feel comfortable using that as our context for understanding some bigger truism, and also that we would instinctively know to look for the strengths and weaknesses of a horse by prying open its mouth. Do horses have some sort of natural on-board diagnostics system in their throats? That seems like something Westerns would have covered more often if it were true.
The sentiment, of course, is that you should never be ungrateful for something that's free. It's just a shame that the one example had to be a massive animal that shits where it pleases and can kick a hole through you when it gets nervous.
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Great, thank you. I'm sure it will go well in my studio apartment.
In fact, if anyone threatened to give me a horse as a present, I would look for any excuse I could think of not to accept it. And if I knew that I could use some tell in the horse's mouth as an out, that's the very first thing I would do. So really the saying has only taught me a trick to avoid owning a horse, which I don't think was the original intention. That's why, in its place, I submit the much more accessible:
No One Deserves Birthday Cake
While most of us have never tried to force apart the jaws of a horse, everyone has certainly spent a day celebrating their continuing existence by forcing restaurant waitstaff to begrudgingly sing "Happy Birthday" over a free dessert. Birthdays are the epitome of self-entitlement, celebrating a moment in your life that you had absolutely no control over and from which you are already the primary beneficiary. Still, we make special allowances for people on their birthdays, showering them with gifts and parties and Facebook messages, and at the heart of the ritual is always cake.
Now, unless you are 100 years old or the survivor of some debilitating disease, you don't deserve birthday cake. You have never deserved birthday cake. It is something society has collectively decided to offer you as a generous gift to make you feel special. Yet everyone feels entitled to it. We will complain that we don't like butter cream frosting or that the inside is dry because we've forgotten that none of this is merited.
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Oh, shut up.
No one should ever complain about anything between bites of birthday cake, even if they are eating it in the middle of a house fire. Those are rules we should all live by. That same sentiment extends to every scenario in which you get more than you deserve. Take every gift and be grateful, even if that gift ends up being a whole horse, which it won't, ever.
3 A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
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This idiom is an embarrassment. It's the equivalent of finding 20 shoe boxes full of expired coupons to Kenny Rogers Roasters in the congested house of language. Its origins are so obscure and archaic now, it's shocking that a saying like this could survive for centuries. Born from the art of medieval falconry, hunters deduced that having one hunting falcon trained and on your hand was a better option than two wild ones that haven't been caught yet. This logic is hard to argue with, primarily because no one knows the first thing about throwing birds at other birds anymore. There's another version from Ecclesiastes IX in the Bible that says, "A living dog is better than a dead lion," which is equally obscure if not just a little more hardcore. Both sayings are meant to assure people that it's always better to take a certainty over the remote possibility of something greater, but there are much easier ways to do that now than relying on a knowledge of exotic pet ownership. That's why I propose we start using this adage instead:
Karate Kid 3 on Netflix Streaming Is Worth the Whole Franchise on Redbox
Part III is hands down the worst movie of all the Karate Kids, and arguably the worst movie of 1989. It's almost as if Parts I and II are allergic to the third movie because it actually makes them worse just by proximity.
"Your movie is sucking and I can't save it!"
But given the choice between knowing for sure that The Karate Kid, Part III is on streaming and available to watch immediately or walking to 7-Eleven in the hopes that the Redbox has any other movie in the franchise, we will always take Door Number 1. As disparate as the films may be, it's simply not worth the risk of getting there, not seeing it, renting the 2010 remake by mistake, and wandering home with the wrong movie and a stomachache after tricking yourself into buying gas station nachos. It's just not worth it. Everyone knows that, so let's give up on the weird falconry past times of our ancestors and focus on hobbies that actually matter. Specifically, watching Daniel Larusso win on a technicality.


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In the first part of this series, I discussed the technologies underlying an application that could resist the impact of a 767. I called this system Corporate Operating System, or COS. The need for such systems has forced the emergence of many new layers in application development, above and beyond the traditional n-tier structure. We have the Java Virtual Machine layer as a substrata, followed by a Service Container layer, in parallel with a basic set of ensemble provisioning services, such as those provided by Rio. Above that you now have a couple of application layers.
For some applications you may need to write specialized services. For this, you have access to all of the code of COS (described in detail in part one), and soon (hopefully) you'll also have access to the source code for Rio, as well as Jini.
You could simply extend COS'
AbstractCosJSB (a super-class of Rio's own Service Beans) and fill in the blanks, or for a more complex JSB that interacts with COS'
serviceFlags, extend
AbstractServiceFlagJSB. This extends
AbstractCosJSB and like it, provides a method:
public abstract boolean performServiceOperation(CosEntryInterface entry,
Transaction trans,
String serviceparam)
throws CriticalObjectStoreException, CosApplicationException;
This is the central method that executes a "worker" method on the target object. It takes two interesting parameters: the target entry object, and a string parameter that is used to select the method on the target to execute. The service parameter is often used to morph the behavior of this method, with each value relating to a different interface method on the primitive target entry.
The values of the service parameter are usually hard-coded into the definition of this method on the implementing service bean. They are also specified in an XML configuration file in the central COS system, and are distributed along with the
ServiceConfiguration object. The parity of these two sources can be verified in the
doServiceConfiguration method of the interface.
Each service extending this class follows the "Service Flag Pattern." This pattern connects the service to a named
JavaSpace, where it listens for
ServiceFlag with a property set to the name of that service bean implementation.
ServiceFlag objects are messages describing the location of a target
Entry in the space and a simple instruction as to what it is to do with that
Services have access to the full range of features of a Rio JSB, and as such can be good citizens of a J2EE or CORBA environment, or a JSP Web application.
For many applications, the default services provided by COS -- JDBC archiving (Karen), HTTPPosting (Roger), garbage collection (Otto), distribution (Max), scheduling (Robin), emailing (Pat the Postman), and a growing list of others -- will work for you out of the box, so you can simply use a default ensemble configuration.
Figure 1 shows the COS admin tool having loaded the
dawgTaskTracker.xml file that specifies the Ensemble application. This file is a copy of the default COS ensemble file, the only difference being the line
<CosApplication name="dawgTaskTracker" apptype="Dawg">.
A COS client application is simply an application that connects to a named COS ensemble. The client application may simply extend
AbstractClientApp and call on its inherited
connect() method to perform the actual connection. For security reasons, the COS admin tool is to be used to deploy, start, and stop applications. Your client application will simply connect to the named application if it is running.
Once connected to the COS, your application provides a handy
CosConnectable object with
delete, and other methods you can use to manage shared information.
Our sample application is an example of what we call a distributed, ad hoc workgroup ("Dawg") application, called TaskTracker. (Great name, huh?)
TaskTracker works as follows: Users log in and report a task or tasks. They allocate the tasks to their buddies. The task itself is represented by an instance of a
TaskTrackerEntry that is passed between the COS'
JavaSpace and your GUI client app.
Let's take a quick look at the actual
public class TaskTrackerEntry extends CosEntry implements Archivable
CosEntry is a simple extension to the JavaSpace's
Entry class, which serves as a COS-specific marker.
CosEntries add an application context and a
creationEnsembleName, as well as creation and modification dates. This associates the
CosEntry with an ensemble. When
cos.create(entry) is called, the entry's
setCreationEnsembleName() is called. Like JavaSpace entries, all
CosEntries must have null constructors and public properties.
In addition to a null constructor, our
TaskTrackerEntry provides a more useful constructor for a client application to use when actually creating a new
public TaskTrackerEntry (String projectname,
String name,
Integer priority,
String category,
String blurb,
String message,
String user)
The basic principles of the TaskTracker are as follows:
TaskTrackerEntry to represent it.
This inverts the traditional ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) or MS ProjectPlan-style project management system in that, although you do specify tasks in a similar way and can easily add sophisticated task dependencies and so forth, only the description of the tasks is done from the top down, and then only at first. The Dawg model encourages a bottom-up approach to task and resource allocation. It permits people to broadcast and refine what they want and to volunteer for duty.
Now, you could build such a system on top of any peer-to-peer system, and I'm sure, now that the idea is out there, someone will build a really great one. The main point of this example is to show you how simple it can be to build an app takes advantage of the inherent 911-proof nature of the COS system.
Within our
TaskTrackerEntry we define a bunch of statuses:
/** the task has not yet been assigned to anyone. **/
public static final int STATUS_OPEN = 0;
/** the task has been assigned to someone. use {@link #getCurrentOwner}
* to see who it has been assigned to. **/
public static final int STATUS_ASSIGNED = 1;
/** a person has accepted the task. **/
public static final int STATUS_ACCEPTED = 2;
/** a person thinks they have fixed their task. **/
public static final int STATUS_COMPLETED = 3;
/** a tester has tested the fixed task and the test passed. **/
public static final int STATUS_TESTED = 4;
/** the task is done with. **/
public static final int STATUS_DONE = 5;
The rest of the Entry is taken up with properties such as
public String mProjectName;
public Integer mTaskNumber;
public Long mReplaces;
public Vector mDependencies;
public Vector mSeeAlso;
public String mName;
public Integer mPriority;
public Integer mUrgency;
public String mCategory;
public String mSubCategory;
public Integer mStatus;
public String mCurrentOwner;
public String mManager;
public Vector mPastOwners;
public String mBlurb;
public String mTestDescription;
public Vector mMessages;
public Date mFinalised;
public Date mEtc;
For completeness, the entry includes any associated getters and setters, and a few utility methods such as:
public void done() {
// the task has been COMPLETED and TESTED
mStatus = new Integer(STATUS_DONE);
mFinalised = new Date();
public void accepted(Date etc) {
mStatus = new Integer(STATUS_ACCEPTED);
mEtc = etc;
public void assignToOwner(String owner) {
if (owner == null) {
if (mCurrentOwner.equals(owner)) {
if (mCurrentOwner != null) {
if (mPastOwners == null) {
mPastOwners = new Vector();
mCurrentOwner = owner;
if (mCurrentOwner.equals(EMPTY_STRING)) {
mStatus = new Integer(STATUS_OPEN);
In order to satisfy the requirements of the Archivable interface we must fill in the following methods:
public boolean archive(SpaceConnectable spconn, Connection jdbcconn)
throws CriticalObjectStoreException;
public boolean extract(SpaceConnectable spconn, Connection jdbcconn)
throws CriticalObjectStoreException;
Karen, the COS implementation of the Archivist service, has two service modes,
archive and
extract. When
archive is called, the service is archiving the entry to a JDBC database at
jdbcconn. Your entry should provide the specific detail needed to perform this archiving.
extract is called when Karen is extracting the entry from a JDBC database and inserting it as a fully formed entry into the JavaSpace. In the case of the TaskTracker, for now we will just return
true from these methods until we are ready to fill them in.
Quite a bit of the universal information in our TaskTracker is contained in a lot of small lists, so we will use a
ListEntry to help us out a bit.
public class ListEntry extends CosEntry implements Archivable
Each list entry has two public properties:
/** the name of this list */
public String mListname;
/** the list. **/
public Vector mList;
As vectors get larger, they get harder to serialize and transport. With large lists, the cost of the RMI transactions makes them impractical. In this case, one can use more comprehensive techniques to message between the client, the COS, and any underlying database that stores the data. Messages in the form of SQL statements can be passed instead of the objects themselves.
The list includes an
equals method to compare two lists, and methods to add items, remove items, and so forth. The
ListEntry is, in reality, a named shared vector and is ideal for small lists.
From this basic
ListEntry we make a
UserListEntry for short lists of the user's buddies, tasks they are working on, and tasks they've reported.
The client consists of a main application
ClientApp that extends COS'
AbstractClientApp and a bunch of Swing GUI JFrames for login, task lists, task editing, and so forth. Our client is 99% user interface.
The main
ClientApp uses property change events to notify the various JFrames of changes, and registers a
CosEventListener from the COS for changes to the global shared list of projects, the users's buddies, tasks, and so forth.
As an example, it is useful to work through what happens when a new task is created in the GUI. Every frame, when created, is passed the
ClientApp, providing a local
ApplicationContext. The New Task button's action listener creates a new
TaskTrackerEntry locally and passes it to
newTask adds a
TaskTrackerEntry to the COS.
This involves the following train of logic:
In order to simplify our code we have written a small private utility method called
addItemToGlobalList. Happily, this method provides an excellent example of the patterns used for writing COS code.
Example 1. addItemToGlobalList
* addItemToGlobalList first checks to see if the named list exists.
* if it does exist then we check to see if the String item is contained
* by the list.
* if it doesn't exist we build a list of that name, and add the item to it,
* then cos.create it.
* @param item the String we are seeking to add to the list.
* @param listname the name of the list
* @param tran the transaction covering this operation.
* @return true if all went okay, false if not.
* you should abort the transaction if the result of this operation is false.
private boolean addItemToGlobalList(String item,String listname, Transaction tran) {
ListEntry template = new ListEntry();
template.mListname = listname;
ListEntry known;
try {
known = (ListEntry)mCosConnector.retrieve(template,tran);
} catch (GeneralCosException e) {
Messenger.logErr("GeneralCosException: Can't retrieve the list \""+listname+"\".
return false;
if (known == null) {
// so create a default list and pop it into the cos.
known = (ListEntry)template.clone();
try {
SpaceID kcid = mCosConnector.create(known,tran,getApplicationName());
Messenger.debug("created a list of projects with only
one project, \""+item+"\".");
} catch (GeneralCosException e) {
Messenger.logErr("GeneralCosException: Can't create a default list of known
projects. "+e.getMessage());
return false;
Vector p = known.getList();
if (p == null) {
Messenger.logErr("Strange behaviour: The List exists
but is empty. It should always have 1 item in it at least.");
} else {
if (!(p.contains(item))) {
} catch (GeneralCosException e) {
Messenger.logErr("GeneralCosException: Can't update the
list of known categories. "+e.getMessage());
return false;
return true;
The pattern is as simple as the general pattern for any Jini application; specify your template and perform an associative match to get the group of things you wish to examine in more detail.
By wrapping eveything in a transaction, if any part of the process fails, the whole thing fails.
By either registering your
ClientApp as a
CosEventListener, or by taking advantage of Rio's
Watchable interface, you can react to changes in watched data within the system. So, for example, when you add a category to the global list of categories, every client connected to the COS gets the updated category list via a remote event. These remote events cause changes to the client's local cache of categories, thus triggering a
PropertyChangeEvent that is heard by the local GUI elements.
Similarly, when you assign a task to one of your buddies, her task list will be updated by your client. That change will be transmitted to her client if she is connected to the COS. As these are RMI remote events, they cannot be relied upon to always succeed and are not used for mission-critical events; however, the damage done to a GUI by missing the occasional update here and there is not going to cause anyone to lose sleep. The client will get another event shortly, or will repoll the COS if it hasn't heard anything in a while. Either way, the changes get through eventually.
Ensemble systems are built upon the notion that all of their component parts will probably fail unexpectedly; this includes events. Your application is more than the sum of its parts, however; what is unreliable at the component level is seamless and reliable at the application level. When people criticize RMI events for their unreliability, they are making a classic "level error."
Jini-based ensemble applications are only really secure and simple on your local network right now, but Rio's JSP interface and Lincoln Tunnel, as well as Crudlet-style XML interfaces to COS, allow thin clients, Web pages, Flash movies, and so forth to connect to a COS system as if it were any other web service.
As Jini's Davis project (login required) matures, permitting secure, authenticated, ad-hoc, distributed networks, the patterns developed within the LAN become scalable to the global network.
You can download the TaskTracker Javadocs and a regular developer build of the TaskTracker from www.davesag.org. The build includes full time-stamped source code, from which the above examples are taken, as well as JavaDocs and an Ant build script. You will not be able to build it without COS, however, as it relies on several COS-specific APIs.
The COS Javadocs are online at cosproject.sourceforge.net. The COS source code is being prepared for release soon. Current plans are to separate out the API code from the implemetation code, much in the manner of Jini, before the source is released.
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Brent Curtis / Staff Photo Police are investigating a reported home invasion in this neighborhood of Pittsford, which occurred on Wednesday at around 1 p.m.
PITTSFORD Vermont State Police are investigating a reported home invasion that involved an assault on a 15-year-old girl on Freeman Hill Drive.
Troopers, the county sheriff and paramedics were called to the short dirt road off Route 7 at 1:08 p.m. Wednesday after the girl, who police declined to identify, reported that she had been assaulted by an unknown man who entered her home, according to state police Detective Sgt. Albert Abdelnour.
The girl suffered minor injuries during the incident and was taken by ambulance to Rutland Regional Medical Center where she was treated and released.
Many details of the incident including the homes street number werent released Wednesday evening by police, who were still investigating the scene and trying to locate the intruder, Abdelnour said.
The detective said the intruder apparently entered the house, located close to three other homes, through an unlocked door. How the intruder encountered the girl and whether his intent was to burglarize the home or to assault its occupants is unclear and Abdelnour said he couldnt discuss those aspects of the case.
He said the girl didnt recognize the intruder but said police didnt know if the man entered the home at random.
Its under investigation whether this is random or targeted, he said.
None of the other neighbors in the area reported any disturbances or missing items, Abdelnour said.
The intruder was gone when police arrived at Freeman Hill Drive and an exhaustive search of the nearby roads and Route 7 by officers and a canine from the Rutland Regional Sheriffs Department failed to locate the man.
Its unknown if the man drove from the home or fled on foot.
Residents in that area should remain vigilant, Abdelnour said.
The suspect was described as a white male in his 20s to early 30s. Police say he stands between 5 feet, 6 inches to 5 feet, 9 inches tall with a thin build, brown hair that hung down over his ears but not to his neck, brown eyes, thin lips, a bump on the bridge of his nose and short stubby facial hair. He was wearing a white tank top, black shorts worn low that hung below his knees, black tube socks pulled up to his knees and white latex gloves. The victim also described a black spiraling tattoo on his shoulder.
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Most of the year, folks eye them from a distance with a healthy mix of awe and fear. However, from April 1 through June 30, hunters have an opportunity to legally harvest an alligator in Live Oak County.
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Page 70 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife "Outdoor Annual" states the alligator hunting regulations. Highlights of these rules include:
• One alligator per hunter, per license year.
• May only be harvested from private property, regardless of harvest method.
• End of bait line may be in public water (other than WMA or State Park), but hunter and harvesting device must be on private land.
• Hunting from a boat in public water is prohibited.
• Snagging is prohibited.
• Legal hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
• Bait line may not be left out beyond legal hunting hours.
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• Must be tagged with a Wildlife Resource Document immediately upon harvest.
• Alligator Hide Tag Reports must be submitted to TPWD within 72 hours of harvest, along with $21 as a check or money order, to receive required CITES tag.
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• Hunting license and hunter education requirements apply.
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October 25, 2012 —
UPPER DELAWARE REGION — A low fog settles over the Delaware River as dusk begins its descent on October 15. Humans clad in waders and sporting headlamps arrange equipment along the shoreline as others board a boat. A long heavy net stretches between them. As the light fades, the seining begins, with representatives of several agencies working to determine the current health of American shad populations in the non-tidal Delaware River.
Seining [pronounced: say-ning] is the act of capturing fish using a weighted net that hangs vertically in the water. The National Park Service (NPS) has been performing the sampling this fall in conjunction with Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PAFBC) and Delaware Water Gap resource management professionals.
According to NPS biologist Jamie Myers, the goal is to develop protocols for monitoring young-of-the-year (YOY) American shad to ensure that populations are maintained or increased. Shad play a major role in the Delaware River ecosystem by providing an important food source for invertebrates, fishes, mergansers, bald eagles and osprey. They are also an important game fish and contribute significantly to cultural and recreational values.
A coast-wide assessment of American shad completed by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) reported that the Delaware River populations had declined substantially since the early 1990s. It identified monitoring of YOY American shad production as a critical data need. The project will provide data about the distribution and relative annual abundance of YOY shad in the non-tidal nursery waters of the Delaware River and is a necessary first step to assessing their sustainability.
Results will be shared with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and natural resource management agencies of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, which manage the shad population cooperatively through the Delaware River Basin Fish and Wildlife Cooperative (the Co-op).
The Co-op recently submitted a Draft American Shad Sustainability Plan to the ASMFC. According to the plan, if Delaware River YOY populations fall below a specified benchmark level, harvest may be further restricted or prohibited and other protective management options explored.
During the regional study, five sites were sampled in August, September and October, including Trenton and Phillipsburg in New Jersey and the Delaware Water Gap, Milford and Lackawaxen in Pennsylvania. Monthly totals for August were 10,973; for September were 11,177 and for October were 2,777 resulting in a total of 24,933 American shad YOY.
Unusually cold temperatures during the second weekend in October resulted in migration to warmer waters, with only 51 shad sampled at Milford Beach on October 12, down from 5,800 when the same site was sampled in August. Three nights later, only six shad were retrieved at the seining site near the Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen, PA.
So far, the counts look promising. "The low numbers aren't indicative of a drop in the population, but rather what we would expect to see with the change in weather and water temperatures," explains Myers. "After the high numbers we had in August and September, the population index was shaping up to be the third best overall index for non-tidal sampling done from 1981 to present, and the September 2012 index was the second best September ever. With the addition of our October hauls and the drop-off that we saw due to colder water temperatures, it dropped the 2012 index to being ninth-highest overall (from 1981 to present)."
For more information contact Myers at firstname.lastname@example.com [1] or 570/729-7842.
About American shad:
American shad are an anadromous species indigenous to the Delaware River and the entire Atlantic Coast. Each spring, adults return to their natal waters to spawn. YOY shad remain in the river through summer and migrate downstream and out of the river in the fall. In the Delaware River, spawning occurs throughout the upper 318 km of non-tidal waters, which extend from Trenton, NJ to Hancock, NY. Three national parks encompass 77% of these waters. Maintaining viable populations is essential to the ecosystems of the Lower Delaware National Wild and Scenic River (LODE), Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area (DEWA) and Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreation River (UPDE). In the 1890s, the Delaware River had the largest shad harvest of any river along the Atlantic Coast. Factors responsible for the current decline are unknown, but could include riverine habitat change, increased predation and excessive fishing-related mortality on adults. A monitoring program will also help to determine if shad populations are affected by reservoir releases.


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A 51-day standoff at a Branch Davidian compound in Texas came to a fiery conclusion 20 years ago Friday.
Nearly 80 people died, including the cult's leader David Koresh.
One of his former wives lives in Hawaii and left the sect just a year before the disaster.
Dana Kiyabu said she's grateful for the simple things in life, like hot, running water and the Koolau Mountains that backdrop her Windward Oahu neighborhood.
"I do go hiking, I find god through nature now," Kiyabu said. "But I don't go to church. I don't do organized religion anymore. Church hurts. It still does. It's been 20 years, but church hurts."
And so does each anniversary.
"Brings back a lot of memories. A lot of sad memories," said Kiyabu.
But the fiery memories of 20 years ago aren't all sad.
Kiyabu said, "It's given me more compassion and a little bit more perspective, because I'm just happy to be here now."
Kiyabu was one of dozens of Hawaii residents to join Koresh's group after hearing him preach at a Kaimuki church in 1986, eventually marrying him and having two sons together.
She left the compound in 1992 and returned home with her two children.
"After a year of knowing that I really didn't believe the way the group did, I finally admitted that I didn't want to anymore," said Kiyabu. "I knew that if we stayed, that we would die. I don't know how, but I knew that."
Still, she says she has no regrets in following Koresh.
Kiyabu said, "Had I not gone and been a Branch Davidian, I wouldn't have my children. Without my children, I don't know who I would be."
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Åre in Jämtland
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Åre is actually three distinct resorts in the Swedish mountains; Åre Village, Åre Björnen and Duved/Tegefjäll. Åre Village played host to the Alpine Skiing World Championships in 2007, so its hard-core skiing credentials are second to none. And if you're the 'ski hard, party hard' type then the nightlife here will blow your thermal socks off. As will the close-to-the-slope accommodation, designers shop, cool café ad choice of eateries.
At the other end of the scale is Åre Björnen ('Björnen' – bear) a perfect resort for parents with young children. The slopes are gentle and the activities for kids are many, including their own ski school and après ski in the village square, 'Barnets hus' a fun-packed activity centre for the young ones, a fun park and last, but not least 'Björnlandet' (Bearland). There is also a supermarket, many restaurants and family amenities and great accommodation.
Duved/Tegefjäll is known for its 'big country' skiing, particularly the rocky ravines and forests of Mount Mullfjället and its amazing scenery. Not as big or bustling as Åre Village, Duved/Tegefjäll is really for families with older children who love skiing. Accommodation is excellent and all close to the slopes. You can choose from hotels, guesthouses and cozy cabins. In the village there are plenty of good quality restaurants, cafés and amenities.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
#56 The Freezer
47 comments:
- Beauty Bitch said...
Yes, my Korean mum does this too. Only this is, we never seem to eat any of the frozen stuff. It just lies in the deep freeze for years to come. Run out of freezer space? Not a problem. She buys another one.
We had an extra freezer in stalled in the garage for the overflow of items from the normal freezer. One hot summer's day, the freezer became unplugged and everything inside defrosted. All the anonymous seafood, meat, rice and Korean food all defrosted. I can still remember the nightmare of the smell when we opened the freezer 3 months later to discover the putrid rank mess inside. I swear a new species was in the early stages of evolution amidst the primoridal stew.
- October 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM
- Dory said...
My Popo, (Grandma's) refrigerator looks like a lab freezer. Luckily things tend to defrost fairly delicious and relatively unscary. I have not yet mastered the food freeze yet. Probably better that I don't. lol
- October 12, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- Annie said...
My personal favorite was pulling out the ice tray from our old fridge and finding it full of yellowish, minced substance. When I asked what it was, it turned out to be pre-minced garlic frozen ahead of time. See, my mom had bought garlic by the bushel and didn't want it to "go bad", so she pre-minced it and cubed it in the freezer so she could use individual bits without having to hack at a log of frozen garlic later with an ice pick. Ingenious, yes...strange...most definitely. The ice tray in question was no longer used because it produced garlic-y ice for our glasses of water afterward...so we had to buy a new ice tray (much to my KM's chagrin) and label the old one "GARLIC".
- October 12, 2009 at 10:58 PM
- Janet said...
that is hilarious. but you know that semi freezer called "dim chae" where they store kim chee and vegetables for months because magically, it keeps produce fresh for an extraordinary period of time.
- October 12, 2009 at 11:18 PM
- Julia said...
This is just about the funniest and most loving blog I have ever read...
I am wheezing from laughing so hard - I have seen that stank eye in action so many times... I got it once myself at my husband's dry cleaners when I sassed him in front of them! Whoops!
Keep it up - this is such a jewel of a blog!
- October 13, 2009 at 12:15 AM
- dreams2ashes said...
ugh! I hate when bread and rice go into the freezer... mom claims that it is 'still good' ahaha
i still have chu-chu-ppahs in the freezer. they're about the same age as me...
- October 13, 2009 at 1:58 AM
My MIL whom we visit once every 1-2 years gives us the same rice cake/coffee beans/whatever in the freezer every time we visit. I am not kidding. I'm afraid to bring her stuff (food items) because I know I'll be eating it the next time I visit.
- October 13, 2009 at 8:37 PM
- Kat said...
My KM actually had a separate freezer that was larger than our washer and dryer put together. She'd painstakingly peel and grind/blend an entire years supply of garlic, freeze them, cut them into cubes and then freeze those. I remember thawing out ziplock bags of frozen yuk gae jang and spaghetti sauce when I was hungry.
- October 13, 2009 at 9:05 PM
recently, a tree fell on my parent's house and the back half was deemed unlivable by the county. my mom was two refrigerators. aside from insurance issues, construction issues, living arrangement issues...one of the first things she fretted over was the frozen food. she brought it back to an extended stay hotel's freezer to re-freeze.
- October 14, 2009 at 3:33 AM
- BRB, Korea! said...
My Korean Host Mom (KHM?) took all the food I had brought from America and immediately put it in the freezer. Now all my chocolate tastes faintly of garlic. Chocolate doesn't even need to be frozen...
- October 14, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Omg, this is my mom. When I was growing up, we had a kitchen refrigerator as well as a "kimchee" fridge in the garage along with a deep freezer. Not to mention the deep freezer in the basement laundry room.
On year, we had a massive power outage that lasted for several days. Mom was so excited that she could get some claim money for the food that was in a semi-frozen state for almost a week. After collecting her check , I asked her when we should start cleaning out the spoiled food...
*stank eye
P.S. I think that money went to another shopping binge at Costco that went straight into the freezers.
P.P.S. Butter that has been thawed will never taste like anything other than freezer burn and garlic to me...
- October 15, 2009 at 4:11 AM
your mom has tupperware to put things in it? how fancy is she?
my km doesn't have tupperware. why waste money on that, when you get a perfectly good container any time you got grocery shopping? a perfectly good glas container when you buy jam, perfect for keeping banchan, or a superb plastic container when you ice cream. perfect for kimchi...
tupperware... what a waste of money...
- October 15, 2009 at 8:44 AM
- mina said...
you hit the nail on the head yet again. my mom has two refrigerators and though they may not be full, their freezer compartments are ALWAYS bursting at the seams. i have to admit that when she microwaves frozen rice in the ziploc bag she froze it in, it steams itself and tastes like she just made it. but i don't know how safe it is to microwave the bag. and obviously it is cleaned, refilled, and refrozen to double the danger. :D
- October 15, 2009 at 2:21 PM
OMG, the bread in the freezer kills me every time, but my KM is totally obsessed with freezing things, god bless her.
- October 15, 2009 at 4:09 PM
i throw stuff away once it starts to look unrecognizable...my mom doesn't seem to notice...
- October 16, 2009 at 4:22 AM
- seitzk said...
YES! This is something my mom does all the time. You can't open the freezer without something falling out of it, in fact. We got another refrigerator, I'm convinced not to store more fresh foods, but for the second freezer it offered.
- October 16, 2009 at 8:31 PM
- Luuworld said...
haha. last month my mother found a piece of meat in the freezer. it had been there for a long time.
"why didn't you throw it away?" i asked.
"Why?! "i had to taste it first. it may still have tasted nice"", she replied in a "you're such an idiot"-tone of voice.
the meat was from 1994.
- October 18, 2009 at 3:49 PM
The last bit about vegetarians is all true!!! I had to endure months of my KM heckling and saying it was against nature and frowned upon by the rest of the family. I kept it up for two years until I visited my grandmother (my KM's KM!!) in Korea who somehow stuffed meat in my mouth without my knowing 0.0 I dare you to try finding a vegetarian with a Korean mother! It's hard!!
- October 18, 2009 at 9:56 PM
- tae said...
my KM freezes everything as well as having a tupperware addiction. Even though my freezer was always packed, at least it looked really neat but the contents of all those containers were always a mystery to me not because I long ago gave up opening them but because she also has a vacuum sealing addiction. I can only describe whats inside those containers as various colors in the vacuum tight sealed packages.
- October 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM
- Grace said...
But I'm freezing my bread as we speak... uh oh...
- October 21, 2009 at 1:25 AM
- maverickandlove said...
dude: true life. most moms have more than one freezer too! one in the garage and the main one in the kitchen. i love your blog!!! how have you been by the way, busy with school?
- October 21, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- kev said...
funny, but lets respect our mothers lol and dont forget to eat everything your mom puts in the freezer including bear paws haha
- October 22, 2009 at 2:04 AM
- Esther said...
Yes, my korean mom does this too. It doesn't help that my korean mom owns a grocery store and so has an army of freezers.
I also think you should consider, if you haven't done it yet already, the korean mom's obsession with doctors and how marrying one makes you above moral reproach.
- October 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM
- Grace said...
This is so true! My mom has two fridges, and both freezers are stocked with things probably from the Bush 41 administration. And she continues to the use the same orange 80s tupperware for kimchee that she has used for the last 25 years. I'm glad you are back, Chiyo! Good luck w/ grad school!
- October 25, 2009 at 12:04 AM
- tangiblewhimsy said...
I stumbled across your blog a few weeks back and read through all of the entries posted so far. I was amazed to find that despite the fact that my mother is the Whitest Woman Alive she is, in fact, a Korean Mom. Right down to saving/stealing plastic and paper bags and other things that I never saw any other mom besides mine do.
And so you know: We had two refrigerators and two full-size, upright freezers when I was growing up. My mother is Italian. She would make breads, loafmeals, soups, sauces, etc. None of which would I see until about a decade down the line.
- October 25, 2009 at 7:48 AM
This post is precisely why every Korean household has ice that smells like funk.
- October 26, 2009 at 11:36 PM
OMG..topic close to my heart. my mom and I got into huge fight last year after i cleaned the freezer. how can i'm not??? feels like we breeding a new species in there. *shudder*
- October 28, 2009 at 12:45 AM
- Poor Mommy said...
Oh sweet Jeebus this is my life! Growing up, my parents had two freezers in the garage, an extra fridge for the kimchi and the one in the house. When my hubs and I moved into a house, my Mom bought us a freezer which I actually do use. I bulk buy meat at Costco and then toss into the freezer to be pulled out for meals. Unlike the stuff that was in my parents' freezer. My Mom just got rid of the two huge ass freezers they had had since the Carter administration and replaced it with a smaller one. God knows why since there is just her!
- October 28, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- Joyful said...
Who doesn't like garlic-flavored ice cubes?! Hahaha. I once bought those mugs that you can freeze and have a cold drink in. Yeah... I used it once and then threw it away because all of my drinks still tasted like garlic.
- November 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- anijnas said...
I'm not even Korean (or Asian in fact... does being southasian count?) and this applies to me! My mom freezes EVERYBLOODYTHINGINTHEWORLD! And keeps nagging my dad to buy her another fridge, we have 3 already. I take the liberty to throw things away at times though.
- November 22, 2009 at 6:06 AM
- Poor Mommy said...
My Korean Mom IS a vegetarian. She has a huge ass freezer. Stocked with vegetarian stuff, kalbi and bacon. You read that right. Kalbi and bacon. Why? So that when my kid, hubs and I visit, she can feed the two males and I can have the scraps. She makes an entire package of bacon (the megapack) for my hubs and thank God the little guy likes it because my hubs was worrying about congestive heart failure from eating 28 pieces of bacon.
- December 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM
My mom does this to everything, including COOKIES. She claims it makes it stay fresh longer, but when she brings it out it's like eating a rock. But of course if I mention that, she gets all huffy and thinks I'm a spoiled brat, mehehe ;P
- December 28, 2009 at 8:04 AM
- Betsy said...
I'm with you. KM has 2 fridges and 1 freezer. I am following in her footsteps with 1 fridge, 1 freezer, and 1 minifridge.Maybe someday I'll grow up and finally upgrade from the mini.
btw, freezing my bread right now and cookies;) (p.s. cookies work well if you freeze them before you bake them. so easy then to take care of your cookie/chocolate craving)
- January 3, 2010 at 11:36 AM
Yes 2 fridges and 3 freezers (one of them being a kimchi freezer; of course there has to be a separate one for that!)
- January 26, 2010 at 12:54 AM
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- March 4, 2010 at 3:09 PM
- Grace said...
I just moved to Columbus, OH for 2.5 months for an internship. When I left home, my mom packed me a gallon-sized ziplock bag full of the teeny tiny mul mandoo, and like 3-weeks worth of wang mandoo rolls. I told her I take over the entire freezer at my sublease.
Last night, my parents came to visit for a day. They just left. I now have frozen rice (in single-serving clumps in mini ziplock bags, frozen marinated bulgogi, frozen fish patties, and 2 plastic containers of soup, a HUGE tupperware of cubed watermelon, and sauces in smaller containers. O.M.G. I need to eat half the fridge before my roommate returns tomorrow!
And, my KM has 2 fridges at home, and 1 fridge off-site, where my parents keep the mini-boxes of frozen fish they buy when the korean grocery stores have big sales and left over pizza for all those times they inevitably order a whole large-pizza more than anyone can eat.
But who am I kidding? I religiously freeze half the loaf of bread when I buy bread, my left over blueberries, and meat...yes, my mom's trained me well.
- May 31, 2010 at 7:42 PM
LOL, my host mom has 2 fridges and once I found a frozen sauce packet from 2001. Yum.
- June 12, 2010 at 1:12 PM
In addition to all the tradition KM stuff my mom freezes, she also freezes the Halloween candy that she gives out. She has been giving out candy from the same sale pack of Reese's PB cups for years. It has an advertisement for a sweepstakes from "Star Wars; Phantom Menace" on it.
- July 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM
- Jullietta said...
I think my mum has the horns from that dear that your bear killed in our freezer.
- July 31, 2010 at 11:58 PM
I married a 30- something Korean lady and we have a five month old baby.
Now she has become her mother.
I'm afraid to open the refrigerator because I don't know what anything is or was.
And, yes, she freezes fresh bread! Why? She didn't do that 6 months ago. She only started after giving birth.
I'm sure she's saving it for our daughter's future.
*sniff... and that's not the end. All of a sudden, we need a kim chi refrigerator? The Korean mother-in-law makes the kim chi. We consume it in a week or less, return the tupperware and pick up our new (old) kim chi supply.
Anyway, I had a care package sent to us in Korea. Among the gems were a few dozen packs of dry dill pickle mix and dried Mexican spices.
When I went to make a kim chi taco, where do you think my McCormick's dried spices were? That's right, the freezer....
- September 2, 2010 at 11:04 AM
I married a 30- something Korean lady and we have a five month old baby.
Now she has become her mother.
I'm afraid to open the refrigerator because I don't know what anything is or was.
And, yes, she freezes fresh bread! Why? She didn't do that 6 months ago. She only started after giving birth.
I'm sure she's saving it for our daughter's future.
*sniff... and that's not the end. All of a sudden, we need a kim chi refrigerator? The Korean mother-in-law makes the kim chi. We consume it in a week or less, return the tupperware and pick up our new (old) kim chi supply.
Anyway, I had a care package sent to us in Korea. Among the gems were a few dozen packs of dry dill pickle mix and dried Mexican spices.
When I went to make a kim chi taco, where do you think my McCormick's dried spices were? That's right, the freezer....
- September 2, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- Neo Choudhury said...
My Bangladeshi mom does this LOL
- September 10, 2010 at 10:34 AM
LOL! This post is spot on. My KM could single-handedly end the North Korean family if only she emptied out the 5 freezers at her house.
- September 10, 2010 at 11:35 PM
- Dori Dori! said...
omg....this is surreal....
ARE ALL KOREAN MOMS EXACTLY SAME ?! my mom does this too, she freezes every fucking thing.
- November 11, 2010 at 5:52 AM
My kiwi mom does this too. But now to make matters worse, I am male and recently switched to entirely Korean cooking. For the first time in my life the freezer is not big enough and I am trying to find the best chest freezer for my needs. Is "Korean Mum" somehow a disease that can infect anyone?
- March 28, 2011 at 2:30 AM
- Karate Los Angeles said...
I think KM's and Midwestern Moms share that trait. Growing up, every grocery went in the "outside" freezer (which was really in the garage.) What I want to know is do they ever clean it out?
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