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Cuban Via Miami Feast: Mashed Plantains with Oh, Baby! Garlic-Tomato Shrimp on Top, Grilled Flank Steak with Lime and Onions, Quick Rice with Black Beans
Recipe courtesy of Rachael Ray
- 30 Minute Meals
Tidbit: This dinner is also delicious made with seasoned grilled thin cut chicken breast, seasoned in the same manner as steak.
Gossip: Gloria Estefan's favorite album of hers is one she shares with many great guest artists. It's called "Unwrapped" and you might want to play it for mood music with this supper, as she did inspire its creation. It'll taste even better!
- 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided, plus a little to drizzle
- 2 medium yellow skinned onions, 1 finely chopped, divided, 1 thinly sliced
- 3 cups chicken stock, divided
- 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons ground cumin, divided
- 3 tablespoons fresh thyme, 5 or 6 sprigs, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups white rice
- 1 (14-ounce) can black beans
- 2 pounds flank steak
- 2 tablespoons grill seasoning blend ( recommended: Montreal Steak Seasoning by McCormick)
- 1 lime
- 3 green plantains (they like green bananas and are available in produce department)
- Waxed paper
- 1 small green bell pepper, seeded and finely chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, cracked away from skin and finely chopped
- 1 pound small shrimp, peeled, deveined and coarsely chopped
- Salt and pepper
- 1 lemon
- 1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley leaves
- Hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco)
Heat a medium pot over medium heat. Add 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, 1 turn of the pan, and half of the finely chopped onion. Saute 3 minutes, then season with 2 teaspoons cumin, eyeball the measurement in the palm of your hand, and the thyme leaves. Pour in 2 1/2 cups of chicken stock and raise heat to bring to a boil. Add rice and lower heat to simmer when boil resumes. Cover pot tightly. After 12 minutes, stir in black beans and replace cover. Cook another 6 to 7 minutes. Turn off rice and beans, season with salt and stir to combine then let stand until ready to serve. While rice cooks, make plantains with shrimp and the meat.
Preheat a grill pan over high heat. The meat can also be prepared in a hot, large cast iron or nonstick skillet if you do not have a grill pan.
Place flank steak in a shallow dish and drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil to coat – about 2 tablespoons. Mix grill seasoning with 1 tablespoon cumin, eyeball the measurement in your palm. Add the zest of 1 lime to the grill seasoning and cumin. Rub the mixture over the steak evenly. Wash up and cut lime into wedges and reserve. Place the steak on hot grill or in hot pan and cook 4 to 5 minutes, turn and cook 3 minutes longer. Remove from heat and let juices redistribute 5 minutes.
Slit the skins of the plantains from end to end to vent them for microwave cooking. Wrap them each in wax paper, twisting up paper at ends. Microwave the plantains 4 to 5 minutes together or 90 seconds each individually on high.
While plantains and steak cook, place a medium nonstick skillet on the heat over a high flame. Add 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil and the sliced onions. Sear the onions up and heat through, but leave a bite to them. Place on a platter and cover with foil to reserve heat. Return pan to stove and reduce heat to between medium high and medium. Add 2 tablespoons extra, 2 turns of the pan, and the remaining finely chopped onion, the bell pepper, garlic and shrimp. Season with salt and pepper and add the zest of 1 lemon. Cook until shrimp are firm and peppers begin to soften, 4 minutes or so. Add the juice of 1/2 lemon, the tomato sauce and parsley. Turn off heat.
Peel and mash the steaming hot plantains with remaining 1/2 cup chicken stock and a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil. Season the plantains with salt and pile on platter or dinner plates then top with garlicky shrimp and tomatoes. Very thinly slice the cooked steak on an angle, working against the grain. Squeeze lime juice over the meat and arrange over the cooked sliced onions on serving platter. Fluff up rice and black beans a bit, transfer them to a bowl and pass at table.
Recipe courtesy of Rachael Ray


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Union College assistant professor of wellness, Jennifer Hatfield, Ph.D., was recently named Health Educator-College/University Teacher of the Year for going above and beyond her regular classroom duties.
The award, presented by the Kentucky Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, is given to a current professor and association member who teaches health classes in a university or college setting. According to Hatfield, the nominations are submitted secretly, and then, once nominated, the professor is given an application to complete. This application is forwarded to a selection committee that chooses the winner.
Hatfield was recognized not only for her passion for teaching, but also for demonstrating an extraordinary level of dedication beyond the classroom. As supporting evidence, KAHPERD cited an email from a Union College student, who credits Hatfield with helping save the life of a family member.
"A few semesters ago, I took a First Aid/CPR class with Dr. Hatfield," the email read. This student appreciated Hatfield's enthusiasm in teaching the course but never expected that the information learned there would ever be put to use. "But in December, while home on Christmas break, my grandpa decided to have multiple aneurisms and a stroke. If it wasn't for Dr. Hatfield (going beyond) what was required for us to know, my grandfather would not be here with us today."
Hatfield said that her passion to teach others about health and wellness is what drives her in the classroom, and she is truly grateful and honored to be recognized.
"I am very passionate about educating others about their health and the health of others," Hatfield said. "Life is all about choices, and I hope to influence and educate others to make the best decisions possible. We only live once in life. Why not be healthy and have fun at the same time?"
Hatfield was presented with the award at the annual KAHPERD conference, which was held in Louisville, Ky., from Nov. 11-13.
Union College is a private liberal arts college related to The United Methodist Church and located in Barbourville, Ky.
Union College professor wins state Teacher of the Year Award
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It's illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ people, as a growing body of legal victories is making clear.
Laws and policies exist at multiple levels to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.
In many lawsuits and other disputes, Lambda Legal has successfully argued that discrimination is a violation of LGBTQ students' and allies' civil rights.


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UNH Summer Research Grants, of $3,250 (taxable) each, are available for full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty. They may be used to support new or continuing research in the applicant's discipline during the summer. Recipients are to present a report of the results of their research at a seminar during the academic year. Also, recipients will be expected to devote full time to the projects during the summer, except for a reasonable vacation period. These grants are to be used in lieu of summer teaching. They may not be used to support research leading to a doctoral dissertation.
A limited amount of Research Funding is available for individual awards to full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty, not to exceed $2,000 each. The awards may be used to:
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If you store your VMware bits on external SAN or NAS-based disk storage systems, this post is for you. The subject of the post, VM Volumes, is a potential storage management game changer!
Fellow blogger Stephen Foskett mentioned VM Volumes in his [Introducing VMware vSphere Storage Features] presentation at IBM Edge 2012 conference. His session on VMware's storage features included VMware APIs for Array Integration (VAAI), VMware Array Storage Awareness (VASA), vCenter plug-ins, and a new concept he called "vVol", now more formally known as VM Volumes. This post provides a follow-up to this, describing the VM Volumes concepts, architecture, and value proposition.
"VM Volumes" is a future architecture that VMware is developing in collaboration with IBM and other major storage system vendors. So far, very little information about VM Volumes has been released. At VMworld 2012 Barcelona, VMware highlights VM Volumes for the first time and IBM demonstrates VM Volumes with the IBM XIV Storage System (more about this demo below). VM Volumes is worth your attention -- when it becomes generally available, everyone using storage arrays will have to reconsider their storage management practices in a VMware environment -- no exaggeration!
But enough drama. What is this all about?
(Note: for the sake of clarity, this post refers to block storage only. However, the VM Volumes feature applies to NAS systems as well. Special thanks to Yossi Siles and the XIV development team for their help on this post!)
The VM Volumes concept is simple: VM disks are mapped directly to special volumes on a storage array system, as opposed to storing VMDK files on a vSphere datastore.
The following images illustrate the differences between the two storage management paradigms.
You may still be asking yourself: bottom line, how will I benefit from VM Volumes?Well, take a VM snapshot for example. With VM Volumes, vSphere can simply offload the operation by invoking a hardware snapshot of the hardware volume. This has significant implications:
- VM-Granularity: Only the right VMs are copied (with datastores, backing up or cloning individual-VM portions of hardware snapshot of a datastore would require more complex configuration, tools and work)
- Hardware Offload: No ESXi server resources are consumed
- XIV advantage: With XIV, snapshots consume no space upfront and are completed instantly.
Here's the first takeaway: With VM Volumes, advanced storage services (which cost a lot when you buy a storage array), will become available at an individual VM level. In a cloud world, this means that applications can be provisioned easily with advanced storage services, such as snapshots and mirroring.Now, let's take a closer look at another relevant scenario where VM Volumes will make a lot of difference - provisioning an application with special mirroring requirements:
- VM Volumes case: The application is ordered via the private cloud portal. The requestor checks a box requesting an asynchronous mirror. He changes the default RPO for his needs. When the request is submitted, the process wraps up automatically: Volumes are created on one of the storage arrays, configured with a mirror and RPO exactly as specified. A few minutes later, the requestor receives an automatic mail pointing to the application virtual machine.
- Datastores case #1: As may be expected, a datastore that is mirrored with the special RPO does not exist. As a result, the automated workflow sets a pending status on the request, creates an urgent ticket to a VMware administrator and aborts. When the VMware admin handles that ticket, she re-assigns the ticket to the storage administrator, asking for a new volume which is mirrored with the special RPO, and mapped to the right ESXi cluster. The next day, the volume is created; the ticket is re-assigned to the storage admin, with the new LUN being pointed to. The VMware administrator follows and creates the datastore on top of it. Since the automated workflow was aborted, the admin re-assigns the ticket to the cloud administrator, who sometime later completes the application provisioning manually.
- Datastores case #2: Luckily for the requestor, a datastore that is mirrored with the special RPO does exist. However, that particular datastore is consuming space from a high performance XIV Gen3 system with SSD caching, while the application does not require that level of performance, so the workflow requires a storage administrator approval. The approval is given to save time, but the storage administrator opens a ticket for himself to create a new volume on another array, as well as a follow-up ticket for the VMware admin to create a new datastore using the new volume and migrate the application to the other datastore. In this case, provisioning was relatively rapid, but required manual follow up, involving the two administrators.
Here's the second takeaway: With VM Volumes, management is simplified, and end-to-end automation is much more applicable. The reason is that there are no datastores. Datastores physically group VMs that may otherwise be totally unrelated, and require close coordination between storage and VMware administrators.
Now, the above mainly focuses on the VMware or cloud administrator perspective. How does VM Volumes impact storage management?
VM's are the new hosts: Today, storage administrators have visibility of physical hosts in their management environment. In a non-virtualized environment, this visibility is very helpful. The storage administrator knows exactly which applications in a data center are storage-provisioned or affected by storage management operations because the applications are running on well-known hosts. However, in virtualized environments the association of an application to a physical host is temporary. To keep at least the same level of visibility as in physical environments, VMs should become part of the storage management environment, like hosts. Hosts are still interesting, for example to manage physical storage mapping, but without VM visibility, storage administrators will know less about their operation than they are used to, or need to. VM Volumes enables such visibility, because volumes are provided to individual VMs. The XIV VM Volumes demonstration at VMworld Barcelona, although experimental, shows a view of VM volumes, in XIV's management GUI.
Here's a screenshot:
That's not all!
Storage Profiles and Storage Containers: A Storage Profile is a vSphere specification of a set of storage services. A storage profile can include properties like thin or thick provisioning, mirroring definition, snapshot policy, minimum IOPS, etc.
- Storage administrators define a portfolio of supported storage services, maintained as a set of storage profiles, and published (via VASA integration) to vSphere.
- VMware or cloud administrators define the required storage profiles for specific applications
VMware and storage administrators need to coordinate the typical storage requirements and the automatically-available storage services. When a request to provision an application is made, the associated storage profiles are matched against the published set of available storage profiles. The matching published profiles will be used to create volumes, which will be bound to the application VMs. All that will happen automatically.
Note that when a VM is created today, a datastore must be specified. With VM Volumes, a new management entity called Storage Container (also known as Capacity Pool) replaces the use of datastore as a management object. Each Storage Container exposes a subset of the available storage profiles, as appropriate. The storage container also has a capacity quota.Here are some more takeaways:
- New way to interface vSphere and storage management: Storage administrators structure and publish storage services to vSphere via storage profiles and storage containers.
- Automated provisioning, out of the box: The provisioning process automatically matches application-required storage profiles against storage profiles available from the specified storage containers. There is no need to build custom scripts and custom processes to automate storage provisioning to applications
- The XIV advantage:
- XIV services are very simple to define and publish. The typical number of available storage profiles would be low. It would also be easy to define application storage profiles.
- XIV provides consistent high performance, up to very high capacity utilization levels, without any maintenance. As a result, automated provisioning (which inherently implies less human attention) will not create an elevated risk of reduced performance.
Note: A storage vendor VASA provider is required to support VM Volumes, storage profiles, storage containers and automated provisioning. The IBM Storage VASA provider runs as a standalone service that needs to be deployed on a server.
- XIV services are very simple to define and publish. The typical number of available storage profiles would be low. It would also be easy to define application storage profiles.
To summarize the VM Volumes value proposition:
- Streamline cloud operation by providing storage services at VM and application level, enabling end-to-end provisioning automation, and unifying VMware and storage administration around volumes and VMs.
- Increase storage array ROI, improve vSphere scalability and response time, and reduce cloud provisioning lag, by offloading VM-level provisioning, failover, backup, storage migration, storage space recycling, monitoring, and more, to the storage array, using advanced storage operations such as mirroring and snapshots.
- Simplify the adoption of VM Volumes using XIV, with smaller and simpler sets of storage profiles. Apply XIV's supreme fast cloning to individual VMs, and keep automation risks at bay with XIV's consistent high performance.
For additional information about VM Volumes, check out [VMware Storage APIs for VM and Application Granular Data Management] blog post by Duncan Epping, a Principal Architect in the Technical Marketing group at VMware!
Until you can get your hands on a VM Volumes-capable environment, the VMware and IBM developer groups will be collaborating and working hard to realize this game-changing feature. The above information is definitely expected to trigger your questions or comments, and our development teams are eager to learn from them and respond. Enter your comments below, and I will try to answer them, and help shape the next post on this subject. There's much more to be told.
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text: Volleyball Looking To Even Up MIAC Mark At St. Ben'sWith three straight four match sweeps at tournaments, the Hamline volleyball team has shown it can win in bunches and on weekends. Now they look to add singles and weeknights to their winning routine. The Pipers take a 12-1 overall mark (0-1 in the MIAC) to St. Joseph Wednesday night for a midweek MIAC matchup with St. Benedict (11-3, 1-0). You can follow the action via video or a a live stats feed. To watch the video, click here. To follow the live stats feed, click here. Hamline has already won three more matches than they did in all of 2011. But if the Pipers' dream of making the MIAC playoffs this year is to become a reality, they will need to repeat their weekend successes. The Pipers enter the match ranked second in the league in Kill Percentage (.213) and third in Digs (18.31 per set). Their opponent was picked to be second in the coaches' pre-season poll. CSB has won five straight matches, a streak that started with a 3-2 win over Augsburg last Wednesday. The Pipers continue the role of road warriors this Saturday, September 22 when they visit St. Olaf. That match is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.


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I'm getting a new reg for my tank cause mine craped out and the shop will charge me 20 to install so I was wondering if I could install it myself and save money what tools would I need if any
Tank reg installation
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Posted 14 March 2013 - 05:41 AM
You might need a strap wrench to get the existing reg off, but once you get it off, all you need to do is use BLUE locktite to secure and help seal the new reg.
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Posted 14 March 2013 - 09:12 AM
Ok well the old reg is off and I have locktite so how tight dose the reg need to be
Posted 14 March 2013 - 10:12 AM
As snug as you can get it by hand.
Ok well the old reg is off and I have locktite so how tight dose the reg need to be
Posted 14 March 2013 - 11:21 AM
Get two people, one hold the bottle, the other hold the reg, and twist like shit. You don't want the reg twisting off when you remove the tank from an ASA.
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Crohns sufferer, who started supplementing with this aside from other sources of resistent starch. My disease seems to have become a thing of the past
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Tomobako is a Japanese box (usually made of kiri or paulownia) that is specially made for storing chawan or other teawares. Here's an example:
Robert Yellin explains, in the e-yakimono.net article The Box - Don't Throw It Away, why the tomobako is so important - and what happens when you carelessly let a mother cat have her litter in one
If you're interested in learning how to tie the ribbon on a tomobako, there's a pretty good video on YouTube:
桐箱 Kiri box
Or if you prefer text and photos or diagrams, try these:
If you ever need to add a ribbon from scratch (e.g. the old one is missing or too tattered to use), the following link tells you how. The instructions also include an explanation of how to tie off the ends so that they don't ravel:
Wabi Arts, the company who provided the last set of instructions, actually sells both boxes and ribbons... worth knowing about if you ever need either!


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Roasted Pork Loin with Pineapple Glaze
- Brine:
- 1/2 cup kosher salt
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 2 cups warm water
- 6 cups cold water
- 1 (3 1/2-pound) center-cut boneless pork loin
- Herb Rub:
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme leaves
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup dried prunes, halved
- 1 pound pearl onions, peeled
- 1/3 cup dry white wine
- 1 cup pineapple juice
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the brine: Combine the salt, brown sugar, peppercorns, coriander seeds, and 2 cups warm water in a large bowl. Stir until the salt dissolves. Add 6 cups cold water. Add the pork, cover, and refrigerate overnight (the pork should be submerged in the liquid).
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
For the herb rub: Mix the garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary in a small bowl. Remove the pork from the brine and pat it dry (discard the brine). Spread the herb mixture over the pork loin, making sure you coat all sides of the loin.
For the pork: Heat the olive oil in a medium, heavy saute pan over high heat. Add the pork and sear until browned, 4 minutes. Carefully turn the pork over and sear until browned, another 4 minutes. Meanwhile, add the prunes and pearl onions to a 10 by 7 by 2-inch glass baking dish, creating a bed for the loin. Transfer the seared pork loin to the baking dish (making sure the loin fits in the baking dish, leaving a 1-inch border on every side).
Add the wine to the same saute pan used to sear the pork and cook, scraping the bottom of the pan to remove the browned bits, until almost evaporated, about1 minute. Stir in the pineapple juice and remove from the heat. Season with salt and pepper. Pour the mixture over the pork. Season the prunes and onions with salt and pepper.
Place the pork in the oven and roast until a thermometer inserted into the center registers 160 degrees F, about 1 hour, basting with the pan juices every 20 minutes. Transfer the pork to a cutting board, tent with foil, and let it stand for 10 minutes. Slice the pork into 1/4 to 1/2-inch thick slices and arrange on a platter. Top the pork slices with the pearl onions, prunes, and sauce.
Cook's Note: In place of a 3 1/2-pound pork loin, you can use 2 (1 1/4-pound) pork tenderloins. The total cooking time will be about 1 hour.
Recipe courtesy of Marcela Valladolid
Pairs Well With
Rich, buttery white wine
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January 29, 2013. That was the last time R&B star Alicia Keys posted a photo to the Instagram social network before this week. She broke her streak on March 24th when she a posted pic of herself poolside in a bathing suit and heels. Her husband Swizz Beatz posted his approval on his own page stating, "She's back on Instagram for real!"
Of course this was missed in all of the talk of the couple being on vacation with Swizz' ex-wife Mashonda, but we see where Swizz' attention was the whole time. In fact, he followed up Alicia's post with one of his own for #WCW with Alicia in the same outfit, but this time in a provocative squat poolside. "She's going to kill me for posting this he wrote," clearly sorry but not sorry.
Check out Alicia's return to Instagram plus a few more goodies in this week's "Hump Day" round-up.
Ray J Slammed For Giving Fan A Taste Of Her Own Medicine [PHOTO]
Chris Bosh Celebrates 30th Birthday With "Cirque Du Noir" Party [PHOTOS]
Nicki Minaj Is So Fresh, So Clean In Shower Selfies [PHOTOS]
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Abstract Stream fusion is a powerful technique for automatically transforming high-level sequence-processing functions into efficient implementations. It has been used to great effect in Haskell libraries for manipulating byte arrays, Unicode text, and unboxed vectors. However, some operations, like vector append, still do not perform well within the standard stream fusion framework. Others, like SIMD computation using the SSE and AVX instructions available on modern x86 chips, do not seem to fit in the framework at all.
In this paper we introduce generalized stream fusion, which solves these issues. The key insight is to bundle together multiple stream representations, each tuned for a particular class of stream consumer. We also describe a stream representation suited for efficient computation with SSE instructions. Our ideas are implemented in modified versions of the GHC compiler and vector library. Benchmarks show that high-level Haskell code written using our compiler and libraries can produce code that is competitive with hand-tuned assembly.
Abstract Flattening nested parallelism is a vectorising code transform that converts irregular nested parallelism into flat data parallelism. Although the result has good asymptotic performance, flattening thoroughly restructures the code. Many intermediate data structures and traversals are introduced, which may or may not be eliminated by subsequent optimisation. We present a novel program analysis to identify parts of the program where flattening would only introduce overhead, without appropriate gain. We present empirical evidence that avoiding vectorisation in these cases leads to more efficient programs than if we had applied vectorisation and then relied on array fusion to eliminate intermediates from the resulting code
Abstract We present a refined approach to parallel array fusion that uses indexed types to specify the internal representation of each array. Our approach aids the client programmer in reasoning about the performance of their program in terms of the source code. It also makes the intermediate code easier to transform at compile-time, resulting in faster compilation and more reliable runtimes. We demonstrate how our new approach improves both the clarity and performance of several end-user written programs, including a fluid flow solver and an interpolator for volumetric data.
Abstract Existing approaches to higher-order vectorisation, also known as flattening nested data parallelism, do not preserve the asymptotic work complexity of the source program. Straightforward examples, such as sparse matrix-vector multiplication, can suffer a severe blow-up in both time and space, which limits the practicality of this method. We discuss why this problem arises, identify the mis-handling of index space transforms as the root cause, and present a solution using a refined representation of nested arrays. We have implemented this solution in Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) and present benchmarks showing that realistic programs, which used to suffer the blow-up, now have the correct asymptotic work complexity. In some cases, the asymptotic complexity of the vectorised program is even better than the original.
Existing approaches to higher-order vectorisation, also known as flattening nested data parallelism, do not preserve the asymptotic complexity of the source program. Straightforward examples, such as sparse matrix-vector multiplication, can suffer a severe (sometimes even exponential) blow-up in both time and space, which limits the practicality of this method. We discuss why this problem arises, identify the mis-handling of index space transforms as the root cause, and present a solution using a refined representation of nested arrays. We have implemented this solution in Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) and present benchmarks showing that realistic programs, which used to suffer the exponential blow-up, now have the correct asymptotic complexity. In some cases, the complexity of the vectorised program is even better than the original.
Stencil convolution is a fundamental building block of many scientific and image processing algorithms. We present a declarative approach to writing such convolutions in Haskell that is both efficient at runtime and implicitly parallel. To achieve this we extend our prior work on the Repa array library with two new features: partitioned and cursored arrays. Combined with careful management of the interaction between GHC and its back-end code generator LLVM, we achieve performance comparable to the standard OpenCV library.
We present a novel approach to regular, multi-dimensional arrays in Haskell. The main highlights of our approach are that it (1) is purely functional, (2) supports reuse through shape polymorphism, (3) avoids unnecessary intermediate structures rather than relying on subsequent loop fusion, and (4) supports transparent parallelisation. We show how to embed two forms of shape polymorphism into Haskell's type system using type classes and type families. In particular, we discuss the generalisation of regular array transformations to arrays of higher rank, and introduce a type-safe specification of array slices. We discuss the runtime performance of our approach for three standard array algorithms. We achieve absolute performance comparable to handwritten C code. At the same time, our implementation scales well up to 8 processor cores.
If you want to program a parallel computer, a purely functional language like Haskell is a promising starting point. Since the language is pure, it is by-default safe for parallel evaluation, whereas imperative languages are by-default unsafe. But that doesn't make it easy! Indeed it has proved quite difficult to get robust, scalable performance increases through parallel functional programming, especially as the number of processors increases.
A particularly promising and well-studied approach to employing large numbers of processors is data parallelism. Blelloch's pioneering work on NESL showed that it was possible to combine a rather flexible programming model (nested data parallelism) with a fast, scalable execution model (flat data parallelism). In this paper we describe Data Parallel Haskell, which embodies nested data parallelism in a modern, general-purpose language, implemented in a state-of-the-art compiler, GHC.We focus particularly on the vectorisation transformation, which transforms nested to flat data parallelism.
Vectorisation for functional programs, also called the flattening transformation, relies on drastically reordering computations and restructuring the representation of data types. As a result, it only applies to the purely functional core of a fully-fledged functional language, such as Haskell or ML. A concrete implementation needs to apply vectorisation selectively and integrate vectorised with unvectorised code. This is challenging, as vectorisation alters the data representation, which must be suitably converted between vectorised and unvectorised code. In this paper, we present an approach to partial vectorisation that selectively vectorises sub-expressions and data types, and also, enables linking vectorised with unvectorised modules.
We describe the design and current status of our effort to implement the programming model of nested data parallelism into the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. We extended the programming model and its implementation, both of which were first popularised by the NESL language, in terms of expressiveness as well as efficiency of its implementation. Our current aim is to provide a convenient programming environment for SMP parallelism, and especially multicore architectures. Preliminary benchmarks show that we are, at least for some programs, able to achieve good absolute performance and excellent speedups.


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BiologyBeing a cold-blooded reptile, much of the Barrington land iguana's day is spent regulating its body temperature. For many hours this iguana will bask in the sun and then in the midday heat it will retreat to the shade of cactus, rocks or trees (2) (6). At dusk, the iguana crawls into an underground burrow in order to conserve heat during the cooler nights (2) (6). While young land iguanas feed primarily on insects and other arthropods, this reptile becomes more herbivorous with age, with adult land iguanas eating mainly Opuntia cacti (5). They eat both the fruit and the spiny pads of the cacti, often without removing the spines, although they can sometimes be seen scraping the spines off with their claws (4). The succulent cacti provide the iguana with much needed moisture during the dry months in its arid habitat (6). Adult iguanas supplement this plant diet with some insects, centipedes and carrion (4). Adult males are territorial and will earn and defend a territory, measuring up to 20 metres across, through direct combat (2). Facing another male, the iguana will arch its back and swell its body in an attempt to look larger, and then aggressively butt heads, sometimes drawing blood (2). During the mating season, successful males may mate with up to seven females, each female laying her eggs within the territory of the male (2). Females dig burrows in the soil, into which they lay a clutch of around 2 to 25 eggs (6). Three to four months later, the eggs hatch and the young take up to a week to dig themselves out of the nest (2) (6). Due to predation by hawks, owls, snakes and herons, less than 10 percent of hatchlings survive (2), but should they survive, land iguanas can live for more than 50 years (6). A remarkable relationship exists between the Barrington land iguana and the birds of Santa Fe Island; whilst standing high on all four legs, ground finches and mockingbirds move over, around, and under the iguana, plucking ticks and mites from its scaly skin (2) (4).


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Trinidad Roti with Curried Goat Stew Filling and Fried Plantains
- 6 tablespoons Trinidad curry powder
- 1 tablespoons minced garlic plus 2 teaspoons
- 1/4 Scotch bonnet pepper, seeded and minced
- 3 to 4 tablespoons minced shallots
- 3 to 4 tablespoons minced green onions
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 3 to 4 pounds goat stew meat, cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes (lamb may be substituted)
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 cups peeled, seeded, and chopped tomatoes
- 2 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 quart plus 3 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- Steamed rice, for serving
- Roti Bread, recipe follows
- Fried Plantains, recipe follows
- Roti Bread:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon milk or water
- 1/2 cup olive oil or ghee
- Fried Plantains:
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- 4 green plantains
- Salt
In a large, nonreactive bowl, combine the curry powder, garlic, Scotch bonnet pepper, shallots, green onions, and vinegar. Add the goat meat and toss to coat each piece with the seasoning. Cover and refrigerate to marinate for 8 to 12 hours.
Heat the butter and oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the goat stew meat in batches, and cook until well-browned, about 5 to 8 minutes per batch. Remove each batch of browned goat meat and set aside until it has all been browned. Return all of the meat to the pan and add the tomatoes, salt, and pepper. Add 1 quart of water, or enough to cover the meat, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer, cover, and cook until tender, about 2 hours, skimming the grease off the top of the stew occasionally.
Combine the remaining 3 tablespoons of water and the cornstarch in a small bowl, whisking until smooth. Whisk the slurry into the stew and bring to a boil. Allow stew to gently boil for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened. Remove from the heat.
To serve, place steamed rice on 1 piece of Roti Bread. Spoon the goat stew over the rice and fold the ends of the roti over to enclose the stew. Serve immediately with Fried Plantains.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt, mixing well. Add the milk or water and stir until combined. Knead dough for 1 to 2 minutes. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Place dough on a lightly floured surface and divide into 8 equal portions. One at a time, roll each portion out as thinly as possible, into an 8-inch circle. Using a pastry brush, brush off any excess flour from the dough.
Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil or ghee in a large nonstick skillet or griddle over medium-low heat. Place the dough round in the skillet and cook until golden, about 1 1/2 minutes per side. Wipe skillet clean and repeat with remaining dough and oil. Cover the roti bread and keep warm until ready to serve the filling.
Yield: 8 flatbreads
Pour the oil into a heavy pan to a depth of 1-inch and preheat to 325 degrees F.
Peel the plantains. Thinly slice the plantains, lengthwise. Fry the plantains in batches until golden brown, about 3 to 4 minutes, turning occasionally. Remove from the oil and drain on paper towels. Season with salt and serve immediately.
Yield: 4 servings
Recipe courtesy of Emeril Lagasse, 2005


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d'Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy c. 1650-1705
(Born Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville) French novelist, memoirist, and fairy tale writer
Madame d'Aulnoy became known as "Clio, the Muse of History" for her travel writings, and the "Queen of the Fairies" (Reine de fées) for her fairy tales (contes de fées). Though she married a baron, she was generally called Comtesse d'Aulnoy, a name that conjured up images of romantic intrigue, even titillating scandal, and exoticism for the reading public. Her novels, memoirs, and fairy tales were tremendously popular not only in her native France but also in Italy and England, and were republished for decades after her death. D'Aulnoy was also one of the leaders of the women's salons of Paris, where the cultural and social elite met to discuss literature and ideas. Her reputation as the author of serious literature suffered under the derision of some Enlightenment philosophes, but modern scholars have accorded d'Aulnoy new respect as an original, influential writer of unusual humor and self-awareness.
Biographical Information
The known facts comprising d'Aulnoy's biography are scant. She was born in 1650 or 1651 in Barneville-la-Bertrand, in Normandy. In her mid-teens she gave up the name of Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville upon her marriage to the baron d'Aulnoy, thirty years her senior. The marriage was apparently not a loving one: Madame d'Aulnoy was considered a flirt and was an admitted adulteress who eventually separated from her husband after she unsuccessfully attempted to accuse him of treason. By some accounts, the baron d'Aulnoy was an abusive husband, and he cut d'Aulnoy from his will shortly before he died. Unsubstantiated, but widely recounted, additions to her biography suggest that she may have traveled to England as a spy and that she bore from one to three illegitimate children. Whether in spite of or because of her notoriety, d'Aulnoy was a popular, well-connected figure in the literary culture of Paris. She was among the women whose salons attracted the major writers and thinkers of the era, and her own writings were widely read both in France and abroad. She did not begin publishing until she was nearly forty years old, releasing her first work, the novel Histoire d'Hypolite, Comte de Duglas (Hypolitus Earl of Douglas,) in 1690. The novel was an immediate success, and several other successful works followed swiftly after it. The two-volume Mémoires de la cour d'Espagne (1690; Memoirs of the Court of Spain) and the three-volume Relation du voyage d'Espagne (1691; Travels into Spain) suggest that at some point d'Aulnoy traveled to Spain, but this trip has been a point of some contention. Raymond Foulché-Delbosc, one of d'Aulnoy's chief twentieth-century biographers, maintained that d'Aulnoy never traveled there and used textual sources for the entirety of the two works. Others, however, have maintained d'Aulnoy likely visited Spain some time between 1679 and 1681, ten years before writing the memoirs. In either case, the Spanish travel narratives were popular in France as well as England and Italy, where she was eventually made a member of the Academy of Ricovrati of Padua. Her next two works are among the most unusual, and least read, in her corpus: the paraphrases of Psalms in Sentiments d'une âme pénitente (1691; Impressions of a Penitent Soul), wherein she admits an extramarital affair, and Le Retour d'une âme à Dieu (1692; A Soul's Return to God). She then returned to Spanish themes with her 1692 novel Histoire de Jean de Bourbon, Prince de Carency (The Prince of Carency) and the Nouvelles Espagnolles (1692; Spanish Novellas). Later works take place in England, although the only suggestion that d'Aulnoy ever went to England is the unproven rumor that she was a spy. The Mémoires de la Cour d'Angleterre (1695; Memoirs of the Court of England), despite the "memoirs" of the title, was most likely written entirely from other sources. Le Comte de Warwick (1703; The Count of Warwick), d'Aulnoy's last novel, was also set in England. In 1697 d'Aulnoy began publishing in the genre for which she is still best known. The four-volume Les Contes de fées (1697-98; Tales of the Fairies) placed d'Aulnoy at the forefront of a literary trend that peaked between 1690 and 1710. Fairy tales aimed at adults enjoyed a brief span of popularity among the French literate public, and d'Aulnoy published more in this genre than any other author during that period. The success of the Tales of the Fairies led to the publication of another four-volume collection in 1698, Contes nouveaux ou les fees àla mode (New Tales, or Fairies in Fashion). D'Aulnoy died in January 1705.
Major Works
D'Aulnoy's works can be easily classified into three main genres—novels, memoirs, and fairy tales—but the classifications obscure the close relationship among these types. The novels contain fairy tales set within the larger stories and the fairy tales appear in novelistic framing narratives. The memoirs bear a closer resemblance to the pseudo-autobiographical epistolary novels of the eighteenth century than factual travel narratives, while the novels take some of the appeal from the obsession with the foreign that made travel narratives popular. Of d'Aulnoy's three novels, two are set in England—The Earl of Douglas and The Count of Warwick—and the third, The Prince of Carency, travels from Spain to Morocco. In terms of plot, they are effectively romances, following the story of an unfortunate heroine beset by multiple obstacles to fulfilling her desire for the hero. Both heroes and heroines are possessed by strong, but generally chaste, passions that conflict with social codes—incest taboos, class status, religious differences—that would keep them apart. Though her characters are not strongly psychological, they are uniquely complex and include strong heroines willing to go against prevailing mores for the sake of love and honor. Not often studied by modern readers, d'Aulnoy's memoirs were a central part of her reputation among her contemporaries. It was for her memoirs that the Academy of Ricovrati gave her the title of "Clio, the Muse of History." For d'Aulnoy and her era, however, "history" meant something different from what later readers, even in the later eighteenth century, would come to expect. D'Aulnoy's memoirs were valued not for their factual accuracy but for their exoticism and their ability to bring a foreign location to life. Using a variety of literary devices, including the fictional letter, d'Aulnoy gave psychological depth to such "characters" as the Duke of Buckingham and Marie-Louise of Orleans, the wife of Charles II of Spain. D'Aulnoy authored twenty-five fairy tales, but she established herself as one of the most important writers in this genre not merely by the quantity but by the wit and complexity of her tales. Many of the tales are marked by a self-reflexive quality more sophisticated than in fairy tales written for children. The tales, usually based on well-known legends, often appear to step back and comment on the genre, particularly its treatment of gender and authority. D'Aulnoy's humor, however, is more fanciful than subversive. Many of her tales depict anthropomorphized animals and plants, even a talking cabbage. The language of the tales is often playful as well, with clever names that characterize her heroes and villains, strong use of rhythm and repetition, and neologisms that express the animal-like qualities of the characters.
Critical Reception
D'Aulnoy was immensely popular in her day, both personally and professionally. She was widely read, and her salon was among the best attended in Paris. However, as D. J. Adams has observed, later in the eighteenth century, although her works continued to sell successfully, the literary elite of France disdained her work and the fairy tale genre in particular. The rationality and neo-classicism of the Enlightenment did not appreciate the magical fantasy of d'Aulnoy's novels and tales, and her memoirs were acknowledged to be "false"; the censure of Voltaire ensured the decline of her reputation. It was a decline from which she was slow to recover: even as fairy tales became more interesting to later readers, d'Aulnoy was not included among the important figures in the development of the genre. For many years, literary history favored male rather than female fairy tale writers, particularly Charles Perrault. As later critics have observed, Perrault's fairy tales are more straightforward than d'Aulnoy's, lacking her irony and—significantly—lacking the self-reflexive, sometimes subversive qualities that distinguish her writings in this genre. D'Aulnoy's fairy tales have also suffered from being misclassified as children's literature, a marginalized genre generally beneath the notice of serious scholars. Only since the latter half of the twentieth century have scholars begun to recognize d'Aulnoy's historical position as the leading author of the sophisticated, adult French fairy tale. What has most interested modern critics is d'Aulnoy's approach to gender issues. Patricia Hannon, Anne Duggan, and Holly Tucker are among the leading scholars who have worked to bring renewed attention and respect to d'Aulnoy's fairy tales, finding in them women who are carving out a niche where they can have power and express themselves fully. As Duggan has suggested, that textual space is not unlike the literary salons that women, including d'Aulnoy, were creating in French society. D'Aulnoy's novels and memoirs have not received the same attention as her fairy tales, particularly as the memoirs, like the fairy tales, were long misunderstood. In a series of essays on d'Aulnoy's popular reception, Melvin D. Palmer has asserted that too much emphasis on the factual accuracy of the memoirs and travel narratives has been an obstacle to assessing the importance of those works. Palmer, for instance, has argued that the popularity of d'Aulnoy's travel works in England suggest their influence on the development of epistolary and pseudo-autobiographical novels in English. Shirley Jones Day, in a study of early women's fiction, has also contended that d'Aulnoy's innovations in her novels call for greater attention to the influence she may have had in shaping women's writing, both formally and thematically. Palmer, Adams, Day, and other modern critics have been consistent in claiming that a reevaluation of d'Aulnoy's place in the literary canon is long overdue.
Principal Works
Histoire d'Hypolite, Comte de Duglas [Hypolitus Earl of Douglas] (novel) 1690
Mémoires de la cour d'Espagne 2 vols. [Memoirs of the Court of Spain] (memoirs) 1690
Relation du voyage d'Espagne 3 vols. [Travels into Spain] (memoirs and letters) 1691
Sentiments d'une âme pénitente [Impressions of a Penitent Soul] (prose) 1691
Histoire de Jean de Bourbon, Prince de Carency [The Prince of Carency] (novel) 1692
Nouvelles Espagnolles [Spanish Novellas] (novellas) 1692
Le Retour d'une âme à Dieu [A Soul's Return to...
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Renée Riese Hubert (essay date fall 1963)
SOURCE: Hubert, Renée Riese. "Poetic Humor in Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales." L'Esprit Createur 3, no. 3 (fall 1963): 123-29.
[In the following essay, Hubert discusses d'Aulnoy's use of humor in her fairy tales, including humor directed toward the genre itself.]
Perrault, the famous author of Ma Mère l'Oye, so skillfully imitated the apparent simplicity of folklore that the underlying sophistication of his tales can easily be overlooked. Perrault's aristocratic contemporaries, Mme d'Aulnoy, Mme Murat, Mlle de La Force do not even require the services of an imaginary homespun narrator. They show fondness for detailed descriptions and contempt for straight...
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Melvin D. Palmer (essay date summer 1975)
SOURCE: Palmer, Melvin D. "Madame d'Aulnoy in England." Comparative Literature XXVII, no. 3 (summer 1975): 237-53.
[In this essay, Palmer details the reception of d'Aulnoy's writings in England, focusing on her travel narratives and memoirs.]
In the fourteen years from 1690 to 1703, Marie-Cathérine Jumelle de Barneville, Mme d'Aulnoy, wrote ten works that were translated into English by 1721 and came to occupy an important place in the history of French-English prose fiction in the formative years that saw the rise of the modern novel.1 These include three pseudo-autobiographical accounts of travel translated as The Lady's Travels into Spain,...
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Jane Tucker Mitchell (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: Mitchell, Jane Tucker. "Style and Humor." In A Thematic Analysis of Mme. d'Aulnoy's Contes de fées, pp. 110-23. University, Miss.: Romance Monographs, 1978.
[In the essay below, Mitchell outlines the major characteristics of d'Aulnoy's style in her fairy tales, including the personification of animals and other aspects of the natural world, wordplay, and the use of rhythmic repetition.]
The themes of love and metamorphosis, coupled with an insight into the manners of seventeenth-century France as revealed in Mme. d'Aulnoy's Contes des fées, are enhanced by her imaginative style, her unusual vocabulary and her natural flow of language. Edmond Pilon,...
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Michèle L. Farrell (essay date fall 1989)
SOURCE: Farrell, Michèle L. "Celebration and Repression of Feminine Desire in Mme d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tale: La Chatte blanche." L'Esprit Createur XXIX, no. 3 (fall 1989): 52-64.
[In this essay, Farrell questions the power of d'Aulnoy's tales to subvert gender stereotypes.]
Mme d'Aulnoy's Contes des Fées (1698) can be read as a register of aristocratic feminine desire inscribed against a sober charting of privileged woman's place in the social order at the end of the 17th Century.1 Her "wish-fulfilling narratives" afford an intimate glimpse of woman imaging herself in the veiled security of the marvelous and suggest discrete early answers...
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D. J. Adams (essay date autumn 1994)
SOURCE: Adams, D. J. "The 'Contes de Fées' of Madame d'Aulnoy: Reputation and Re-evaluation." Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 76, no. 3 (autumn 1994): 5-22.
[In the following essay, Adams gives an overview of socio-cultural themes in d'Aulnoy's fairy tales in order to demonstrate that modern critics have wrongly classified them as merely children's literature.]
Towards the end of the seventeenth century, and for much of the eighteenth, the contes de fées enjoyed great success, particularly in France and England. While they were to some extent neglected during the intervening period, they have benefited in recent years from...
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Adrienne E. Zuerner (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Zuerner, Adrienne E. "Reflections on the Monarchy in d'Aulnoy's Belle-Belle ou le chevalier Fortuné." In Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France, edited by Nancy L. Canepa, pp. 194-217. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997.
[In this essay, Zuerner considers d'Aulnoy's depiction of masculinity, focusing on the story of a cross-dressed girl in Belle-Belle ou le chevalier Fortuné.]
One of the principal creators of the literary fairy tale in seventeenth-century France, Mme d'Aulnoy was one of the most read and appreciated writers during her lifetime.1 Author of an impressive corpus of fairy tales,...
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Anne E. Duggan (essay date April 1998)
SOURCE: Duggan, Anne E. "Feminine Genealogy, Matriarchy, and Utopia in the Fairy Tale of Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy." Neophilologus 82, no. 2 (April 1998): 199-208.
[In the essay below, Duggan argues that d'Aulnoy created a fairy-tale version of salon culture in her stories as a means of envisioning a utopian space for aristocratic women.]
The rise of Louis XIV's absolutist regime marks the fall of both the nobility of the sword and the précieuses of the salons. Over the course of the seventeenth century, all hopes of retaining a feudal or feudal-like order were lost; consequently, the nobility lost the legitimate foundation of its political, social and...
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Anne L. Birberick (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Birberick, Anne L. "Fatal Curiosity: d'Aulnoy's 'Le Serpentin vert.'" Papers in French Seventeenth-Century Literature XXVI, no. 51 (1999): 283-88.
[In this essay, Birberick looks at d'Aulnoy's adaptation of the classical story of Psyche and Cupid in the fairy tale "Le serpentin vert."]
The word curiosité calls to mind the idea of an intense, at times uncontrollable passion for knowledge. As the Dictionnaire universel informs us "[le curieux est] celuy qui veut tout savoir & tout apprendre". Yet the desire to know and to learn is not always portrayed in a positive light, for the same dictionary also makes a distinction between...
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Shirley Jones Day (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Day, Shirley Jones. "Tracing Out New Paths: Madame d'Aulnoy." In The Search for Lyonnesse: Women's Fiction in France, 1670-1703, pp. 169-239. Bern, Germany: Peter Lang, 1999.
[In this excerpt, Day studies d'Aulnoy's first novel, Histoire d'Hypolite, Comte du Duglas, in the context of women's fiction after Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette, author of the influential novel La princess de Clèves (1678).]
The case of Mme d'Aulnoy is perhaps the most perplexing of the three women novelists, followers of Mme de Lafayette, who are studied here. Her life, with its supposed scandals, was the object of a serious biographical study published over seventy...
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Anne E. Duggan (essay date 2001)
SOURCE: Duggan, Anne E. "Nature and Culture in the Fairy Tale of Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy." Marvels and Tales 15, no. 2 (2001): 149-67.
[In the following essay, Duggan examines the tales "The Bee and the Orange Tree" and "Gracieuse et Percinet" to consider how d'Aulnoy employs cultural notions about women's nature.]
Fairy tales of late-seventeenth-century France are replete with images of nature. Stories often take place in forests and idyllic gardens serving as the backdrop for the actions of animal-like characters, as well as princes and princesses momentarily metamorphosed into animals. At the same time, these tales put forth ideals of behavior that seem...
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Holly Tucker (essay date 2002)
SOURCE: Tucker, Holly. "Fairies, Midwives, and Birth Spaces in the Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy." In Classical Unities: Place, Time, Action, edited by Erec R. Koch, pp. 89-94. Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002.
[In this essay, Tucker draws a parallel between the depiction of fairies in d'Aulnoy's fairy tales and contemporary beliefs about midwives.]
In oral and literary contes de fées, fairies are no strangers to the drama of birth. Fairies do more than attend the birth scene in these tales, they also orchestrate every stage of reproduction. They predict conception and, if angry, cast spells of infertility. They determine the circumstances and the...
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Further Reading
Seifert, Lewis C. "Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, Comtesse d'Aulnoy." In French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book, edited by Eva Martin Satori, pp. 11-20. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
Gives a brief biography of d'Aulnoy and an overview of her works; lists major publications in French and English.
Carpasso, Ruth Carver. "Madame d'Aulnoy and the Comedy of Transformation." Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 14, no. 27 (1987): 575-88.
Describes fanciful transformations as the center of d'Aulnoy's humor in her fairy tales, focusing...
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Crafted with Kipskin leather shell for superior durability and performance, the Rawlings® 11.5" Pro Preferred® Series Glove offers ideal break-in, catered to your playing preference. The Modified Trap-Eze® web is extremely strong web and provides ball snagging functionality, while 100% wool lining adds comfort. Other features include tanned leather laces and a conventional open back.
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- Modified Trap-Eze® web pattern creates an extremely strong web and providing ball snagging functionality
- Kipskin leather shell has strong pliable fibers with a smooth defect-free surface
- Gel padding on index finger region for added comfort
- USA tanned leather lacing tested at 100 lb tensile strength
- Pittards® sheepskin wool palm lining for ultimate comfort and fit
- Conventional open back
- Rawlings
- Size: 11.5"
- Age: Adult
- Sport: Baseball
- Position(s): Second Base, Shortstop, Third Base, Pitcher
- Web: Modified Trap-Eze® Web
- Series: Pro Preferred
- Model: PROS15MTBR
Country of Origin: PhilippinesWeb ID: 10785835
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Rated 5 out of 5�by 11 reviewers.
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Colleges and community extend warm welcome to students
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Welcome Students table tent at Crossroads Center.
ST. CLOUD, Minn - Students returning to St. Cloud area colleges this month will receive a welcome unprecedented in Central Minnesota history.
The College of St. Benedict, St. Cloud Technical College, St. John's University and St. Cloud State University are saluting students with an array of poster billboards, electronic billboards, banners, window clings, table tents, magazines and postcards.
Leading the community side of the effort are Times Media, the Downtown Council, the St. Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce and Crossroads Center.
The four colleges have partnered on nine poster billboards, including two on U.S. Highway 10, two on Minnesota Highway 23 and two on Minnesota Highway 15. Electronic billboards at Minnesota Highway 23 and 33rd Avenue in west St. Cloud and Lincoln Avenue and Minnesota Highway 23 in east St. Cloud will also beam messages of appreciation to students.
"We do everything we can to welcome our students to our individual campuses, but this broader approach makes our efforts even stronger," said Jody Terhaar, dean of students at the College of Saint Benedict.
"This type of campaign demonstrates to all of our students what a great area Central Minnesota is and how much they are valued by our communities," said Mike Connolly, dean of students at Saint John's University.
The four colleges have an estimated annual economic impact of more than $525 million, according to Loren Boone, St. Cloud State's assistant vice president of marketing and communications.
Area businesses, including those at Crossroads Center, will display window clings. The 120-store shopping center on the St. Cloud-Waite Park border will host display 250 table tents and display a 25-foot by 7-foot vinyl sign near Sears. Table tents will also be on display on the four college campuses. At St. Cloud State the tents will be displayed in Garvey Commons, Atwood Memorial Center and department offices.
The four area colleges have an
estimated annual economic
impact of more than $525 million.
Times Media is doing a feature about college logowear in Style, its home, garden and fashion magazine. Drew Barbes, a senior community development major from Rochester, was one of four St. Cloud State students who participated in a photo shoot for the feature. Barbes modeled Huskies lounge pants and a hooded sweatshirt, loaned for the shoot by the Husky Bookstore.
Times Media, the parent corporation for the St. Cloud Times newspaper is also publishing a stand-alone "welcome students" magazine that will be distributed in residence halls.
GrandStay Residential Suites will display a 19-foot by 4-foot banner at its facility on the north edge of the University-Southside neighborhood.
St. Cloud State will mail postcards to University-Southside neighborhood residents, alerting them to the arrival of students. St. Cloud State's day and evening classes begin Aug. 25, weeks earlier than the traditional Fall Semester start date.
Volunteers will stroll through the University-Southside neighborhood the afternoon of Aug. 22 to greet students and permanent residents. The Neighborhood Welcome will cover as many residences between University Drive and Division Street as possible, according to Mike Gillilan, associate vice president of Student Life and Development.
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Community invited Friday to hear superintendent of schools candidates
Payson Unified School District (PUSD) has five finalists in its search for a replacement for retiring superintendent Casey O'Brien. The five finalists have all held jobs as superintendents. The field includes only one candidate from Arizona, Beaver Creek superintendent Karin Ward, who lives in the Verde Valley. Out-of-state candidates include South Dakota State University adjunct professor Tim Creal; former Pike County superintendent Paul Roads from Indiana, East Washington School Corporation superintendent Cathy Egolf from Indiana and Multnomah Education Service District superintendent Ron Hitchcock from Oregon, who also served on the Mapleton city council.
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at Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site
Knowledgeable interpreters conduct guided tours of the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site. At this time, there is no set schedule for tours; they can begin whenever you arrive during open hours. Each tour takes approximately 45 minutes and includes the first and second floor of Benton's home and the interior of his studio. There are stairs to access the second floor of the house. For those unable to climb stairs, informational booklets with descriptive text and photographs are available.
Group Tours
To schedule a tour, please call 816-931-5722. It is suggested that reservations be made at least two weeks before scheduled tour.
- Tours last approximately 45 minutes to one hour. Staff will lead visitors through the home and studio while discussing the life of Thomas Hart Benton, his art and the elements of his home. More specific tour themes can be arranged.
- Group size is limited to approximately 50 people or less. Most groups will be split into two or three smaller sections to assure everyone will be able to hear and see. If your group is larger than 50, accommodations should be made to bring a number of visitors at different times. For example, a group of 100 can be split into 50 at 10 a.m. and 50 at 11 a.m.
- Please bring an appropriate number of chaperones. It is suggested that there be one chaperone for every 10 students. Chaperones are helpful allies in making sure students respect museum rules and that everyone gets the most out of this educational experience.
The Benton Home is in a residential area and parking is limited to the street side. There is typically plenty of room for buses to park for the duration of the tours.
The first floor of the house, the studio and visitor center are all accessible to people with disabilities. Although the second floor of the home is not accessible, a flipbook with pictures and an audiotape tour of the home provide an alternate experience.
The site has only one restroom. If possible, large groups should try to take care of this need before arriving or allow plenty of time before their scheduled tour time.
Tour Fees:
Fees do not include tax. Qualified tax-exempt organizations MUST provide a copy of a tax exempt certificate at the time of payment.
Adults (18 and older): $5
Youth (Ages 6-17): $3.50
Child (Ages 0-5): Free*
Group Rates:
Adults (18 and older): $4
Youth (Ages 6-17): $3
Child (Ages 0-5): Free*
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Laz is just one of those who have only got to hear Paul on this tour initially from fan bootlegs. From experience, the audio mix is not correct and you have an improper perspective. For example, put a cd in your car or stereo. Listen to it normal, sounds fine. But then turn the volume down so you just barely hear it. Guess what, you hear all kinds of weirds things and the vocals sound way off key. It's your brain trying to process audio information that isn't all there.
As per Laz, we'll, he did not enjoy any of these performaces live so either he heard so many of these fan bootlegs he's drawn incorrect conclusions on the over all performances, or he's just plain doesn't like Paul live.
Man, I've seen the Stones and other groups live and though they put on a good show, musically, they do not compare at all to the quality and musicianship you get at a McCartney concert. Paul McCartney is spot on, in the orginal key and true to the orginal recordings.
So if his opinion is he hates this DVD, and he wants to let everyone know that here, well buddy, this is a Paul McCartney website and message board so be prepared to get flamed. Be prepared to get lots of tomatoes thrown at you. Don't be surprised at remarks tossed in your direction. Don't get angry at name calling. You wanted your 15 minutes of fame and we'll you got it. Now take it like a man.


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Decorations are memories as well
November 24, 2005
Helena Rodriguez: PNT Columnist
This is the time of year when my living room starts to look like the Island of Misfit Toys.
Please don't hate me because I'm organized, but I've already got my Christmas tree up and ready to plug in tonight as the Christmas season officially gets into full swing. However, I've also got some disfigured nutcrackers, reindeer and a Santa in need of serious medical attention.
One of the nutcrackers from my daughter Laura's cherished collection needs new feet. Then there's the Crayola reindeer Laura made in first grade, which needs new eyeballs and, of course, there's the other reindeer made from a spoon and a lollipop that needs surgery.
So we'll go to Wal-Mart this weekend to find new shoes for the nutcracker, a pair of eyeballs to hot glue onto Mr. Crayola Santa and something to put the spoon reindeer back into place.
Decorating for Christmas is always an exciting time at our house. Just ask Laura. ("Ah Mom, why do we have to do this now? Are we going to put up everything tonight?") As we dragged our Christmas decorations out of storage the other night and unpacked our collection of ornaments we've gathered over the years, I thought about how each one holds special memories.
Laura carefully unpacked her huge reindeer ball ornament, which we always put near the top of the tree. This has been one of our favorites since Laura made it in third grade and every year I'm terrified that it's going to break, so we handle it with extra care. This special piece is a huge red glass ball ornament with rubber ears, eyeballs and a plaid bow hot glued to it.
Another of my favorite ornaments is the sequin Santa Claus Laura made for me with her big sister Joann when we lived in Abilene, Texas. Laura doesn't actually have a real sister.
She took part in a Big Brothers/Big Sisters program there.
After we trimmed the tree, Laura unwrapped her nutcracker collection and placed them underneath the tree. Laura has collected nutcrackers since the year I took her to see The Nutcracker in Abilene and I buy her a new nutcracker every year.
When we trim the tree, I also think of the cherished Christmas ornaments Mom still has, a few of which go back to our elementary school days. It's amazing the memories they bring back. What's even more amazing is how some of these handmade school ornaments, sometimes made out of nothing more than paper and glue, can outlast some of the commercial decorations. I guess it has to do with the care you put into preserving these memories.
Besides rediscovering old treasures, I also get excited over the new Christmas decorations we add to our collection each year. I always buy my Christmas decorations during the after-Christmas sales, so when Christmas comes around again, these things are still wrapped in their original packaging and I get excited like a child opening their stocking on Christmas morning, often because I've forgotten what I bought the year before.
As I unwrapped my new treasures the other night, Laura could hear me screaming, "A table cloth! A table cloth! I forgot I bought a Christmas table cloth, and place mats! We have Christmas place mats!"
Then I started getting sentimental as I looked at the disfigured Mr. Crayon and Mr. Nutcracker. Come to think of it, Mr. Crayon needs some fixing up every year, and that reminded me of myself. Every Christmas, I have to do a self-inventory for Santa Claus, trying to figure out in what ways I've been naughty or nice, and like those broken ornaments, there's usually some area of my life that needs constant maintenance, repairs, or, to say the least, an annual checkup.


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Shortage Of Short Greeks Ruining Us
...But we're told not to worry. Now that we don't manufacture as much as we used to, we'll be saved by the growing service industry.
The problem is that the service industry is being taken over by people like the restaurant manager and his corporation. They go to college and study service. Then they install computers programmed for service. And they have meetings and look at service charts and graphs and talk about service.
But what they don't do is provide service. That's because they are not short Greeks.


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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: One big festivalIn full: An amazing race village, loads going on for everyone. Shame about the delay at the start, it got hotter and hotter!I was really slow as Id done London two weeks ago but the crowd support was outstanding, The baggage collection was really quick to.Date of review: May 10, 2016
In short: AwesomeIn full: Exceptional organisation, something for everyone,my dad came with me, hes 78,and he was an athlete years ago,he commented that he wished there had been events like that years ago, he would have loved it.Plenty of catering and lots of loos this year. Bring in 2016.Date of review: May 12, 2015
In short: Tough and spectacularIn full: SO disapointed no medal, thats all I run for, cannot hang up a t shirt!!! PLEASE can we have one again next year or maybe the choice of medal or t shirt??Date of review: July 1, 2014
In short: spot onIn full: So clearly a race organised by runners,everyone knows what works and thats what happens. The most cheerful and encouraging marshalls i have ever known even for the back runners like me.And the reward of a great medal at the end, all i ever want. See you next year.Date of review: May 8, 2014
In short: York, my fave cityIn full: The race with the best scenery,but, not nearly enough loos, the queues were spectacular. Did anyone measure the course? the switchback at the end was missing and the last K seemed to go very quickly. Otherwise, a great run, I'll be back next year.Date of review: August 5, 2013
In short: A good day outIn full: My first time in this. Very friendly locals, had lots to chat to being on my own. Race undulating rather than hilly, great views of the famous Tyne bridge, afterwards tho, could do with more signs to find the metro, great medal and a t shirt too.Date of review: June 25, 2013
In short: Made for Runners by RunnersIn full: From the number collection onwards it was great, chatty people, somewhere warm to wait, a warm up walk to start and got away on time. Then, a pancake flat course, not too windy!!and so many marshals, half of lincolnshire must have been out along with the locals all with lots of vocal encouragement. Then, a great finish with names called as you went through.Then got my bags from a lovely lady and got out of the carpark without queuing, what more can you want? Would have liked a bit better medal but the t shirt is great, perhaps make a choice between the two instead? I'l be back next year no doubting, Thanks Guys.Date of review: May 2, 2013
In short: Great Run, Terrible finish.In full: So much potential! a novel distance and something a bit different, all totally ruined by an appalling finish, in a muddy field miles from anywhere it seemed. Many thanks to the cheerful gut who, after we had stood freezing for half an hour got us together in the mc donalds over the road and ordered a taxi for 8 to share, a lifesaver!I had so looked foward to the day as a chance or something new and the stadium would have made a great finish, but i for one,will not be back.Date of review: October 29, 2012
In short: Awesome!!!In full: My second run and a pb in the same year as my 50th birthday, a day second to none, but will agree the chaos in horseguards was a bit scary, if its signposted the way to the station,you should be able to get through.Will be back again if get the chance.Date of review: April 23, 2012
In short: well ! its the G N R !!!In full: What a wonderful way to spend a Sunday morning. The folks of the north east sure know how to party!! Will be back again next year.Date of review: September 24, 2011
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I don't think that civilization is at stake with global warming. But I think that the loss of the natural world we care about is at stake."gave people a false sense of security — and it is by no means clear that this is the scariest one. When you buy an airline ticket, you can now check a box that buys you some carbon offsets that makes it seem like your aircraft flight is carbon neutral. That's no more true than it was true that when you bought indulgences from the Catholic Church in the good old days that you really had not sinned. There is no technology right now that truly offsets the carbon emissions in an airplane flight — which after all stays in the atmosphere for millennia.
We will grow into doing a kind of planetary management. I think we'll end up being in the gardening business with this planet."climate, including a box that has a knob for global temperature and a knob for CO2 concentration. If that happened right now, you can imagine people fighting wars over the place to set the knobs, because we have no global government that's able to figure out what the right answer is. And I don't think obviously that scenario is likely to happen. But the fact is human-sized technology is gradually building us the tools to have that level of control over the climate. And not necessarily in 20 years, but in 100 years, I think it's very likely we'll have the power to determine the global climate.


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Tough draws for Japan, Korea in table tennis teams
BEIJING (AP) The top-ranked Chinese men and women were not expected to face stiff competition during the first round of team table tennis at the Beijing Olympics, though other strong squads such as Korea and Japan will have a tougher road.
The draw held Thursday for the first-ever Olympic table tennis team event placed the Chinese men in Group A with Austria, Greece and Australia. The Chinese women are in Group A with Austria, Croatia and the Dominican Republic.
Though China has the world's best players, team manager Huang Biao refused to look past the first round.
"For the Chinese team, the drawing is the beginning, not the result," he said. "The competitors are ones we know well, and they're strong."
Actually, there are only three players on China's opposing teams who crack the world top 20, led by Werner Schlager of Austria at No. 16. It will be difficult for anyone to squeak out a win against China in the team competition, played in a best-of-five format with four singles matches and one doubles match.
The competition is more evenly matched in the women's Group D, where Athens bronze medalist Kim Kyung Ah leads a South Korean squad against world No. 12 Ai Fukuhara and Japan. South Korea and Chinese Taipei face off in the men's Group C, while Hong Kong and Japan will battle for the top spot in Group D.
The table tennis team event replaces the doubles competition. The event begins with a round-robin stage, with group winners advancing to a knockout stage for the gold and silver medal matches. The second-place team in each group and the semifinal losers play for the bronze.
The other men's groups are - Group B: Germany, Singapore, Croatia, Canada; Group C: South Korea, Chinese Taipei, Sweden, Brazil; Group D: Hong Kong China, Japan, Russia, Nigeria.
The other women's group are - Group B: Singapore, Netherlands, United States, Nigeria; Group C: Hong Kong China, Germany, Poland, Romania; Group D: South Korea, Japan, Spain, Australia.


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10K Training Guide - Page 2
Therefore, Runner A can run at a faster pace longer before feeling the same amount of fatigue as Runner B. Running economy is influenced by biomechanics, the proportion of slow-twitch muscle fibers, body weight and the density of mitochondria, microscopic structures responsible for aerobic metabolism.
10K Training
The emphasis of 10K training is on lactate threshold, VO2max and the ability to withstand a fast pace. However, whether you're training for a 10K or ultramarathon, it all starts with mileage. That's because endurance training stimulates many physiological, biochemical and molecular adaptations. All of these adaptations can be thought of as your body's attempt to cope with the demand placed on it by running every day. For example, endurance training stimulates more fuel (glycogen) to be stored in your muscles, increases the use of intramuscular fat at the same speed to spare glycogen, increases the size of the left ventricle of your heart so that it can pump more blood (and oxygen) with each beat, improves your blood vessels' oxygen-carrying capability by increasing the number of red blood cells and hemoglobin, and increases your muscles' capacity to use oxygen.
Lactate Threshold (LT) Runs
You can improve your LT by running at your current LT pace. Increasing your LT pace allows you to run faster before you fatigue, because it allows you to run faster before anaerobic metabolism begins to play a significant role. The benefit to being able to run aerobically at 7:00 pace compared to 7:30 pace is obvious.
With my athletes, I typically use three types of LT workouts:
- Continuous runs (2 to 5 miles) at LT pace;
- Intervals run at LT pace with short rest periods, such as 4 to 6 x 1 mile at LT pace with 1-minute rest; and
- Shorter intervals run at slightly faster than LT pace with very short rest periods, such as 2 sets of 4 x 1000 meters at 5 to 10 seconds per mile faster than LT pace with 45 seconds rest and two minutes rest between sets.
LT pace is about 10 to 15 seconds per mile slower than 5K race pace (or about 10K race pace) for runners slower than about 40 minutes for 10K (about 80- to 85-percent maximum heart rate). For highly trained and elite runners, the pace is about 25 to 30 seconds per mile slower than 5K race pace (or about 15 to 20 seconds per mile slower than 10K race pace, or about 90-percent maximum heart rate). Subjectively, these runs should feel comfortably hard. (Please see "Have a Heart," Training, Issue 53, August 2008 for information on determining your maximum heart rate.)
Long Intervals
Long intervals (3 to 5 minutes) increase the heart's stroke volume and cardiac output, leading to an increase in VO2max. Research has shown that high-intensity training (95- to 100-percent VO2max) is the best way to improve it. Regardless of the length of the intervals you choose, you should run them at the speed at which VO2max occurs (referred to as the "velocity at VO2max," or vVO2max), which is approximately 3000-meter (or 2-mile) race pace for highly trained runners. If you run 3000 meters in longer than about 10 to 11 minutes, however, your vVO2max will be between mile and 3000-meter race pace. If using heart rate as a guide, you should come close to reaching your maximum heart rate by the end of each interval. You can also do hill repeats on a trail in place of intervals on the track to serve as a transition into more formal interval training.
Short Intervals
While long intervals are the most potent for improving VO2max because you repeatedly reach and sustain VO2max during the work periods, short intervals (1 to 2 minutes) run at vVO2max can also improve VO2max, as long as you use short, active recovery periods to keep VO2 elevated throughout the workout. Short intervals run at mile race pace will help you address the anaerobic component of the 10K by increasing the number of enzymes involved in anaerobic metabolism and your ability to buffer the acidosis that results from high-intensity running.


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Paris' coolest new hotel is actually a hostel
My modern-rustic private room has crisp white sheets, an en-suite with one of the best showers I've ever had, and a panoramic view of the city in all its glory.


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Healthier snack options will keep anyone satisfied through a long work day.
Try this low-fat, high-flavor Caesar salad as a side or an entree.
These fat-free sauces will liven up your meals without adding extra fat.
Indulge in a creamy, healthier version of this classic casserole.
Learn some tricks of the trade to make healthful "kitchen sink" cookies.
Hot apple cider with spices and orange can be served straight or spiked.
Aarti's easy tips keep you from piling on the calories at the sandwich bar.
This healthful one-pot dish makes for an easy meal.
Using phyllo dough makes these turnovers low in calories and light as air.
Sweet potatoes are mashed with buttermilk and flavored with orange zest.
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