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Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:18 PM
MoonRiver (27,904 posts)
Reader's Digest: 11 Reasons that Eating Vegan Isn't Crazy
Please ignore if you are offended by veganism, but this is very interesting.
18 replies, 2329 views
18 replies | Author | Time | Post |
Reader's Digest: 11 Reasons that Eating Vegan Isn't Crazy (Original post) |
MoonRiver | Jan 2013 | OP |
Comrade Grumpy | Jan 2013 | #1 | |
MoonRiver | Jan 2013 | #2 | |
Comrade Grumpy | Jan 2013 | #6 | |
JanMichael | Jan 2013 | #3 | |
Kalidurga | Jan 2013 | #4 | |
MoonRiver | Jan 2013 | #5 | |
Kalidurga | Jan 2013 | #8 | |
MoonRiver | Jan 2013 | #12 | |
Kalidurga | Jan 2013 | #13 | |
marions ghost | Jan 2013 | #7 | |
Kalidurga | Jan 2013 | #9 | |
MoonRiver | Jan 2013 | #10 | |
Earth_First | Jan 2013 | #11 | |
MoonRiver | Jan 2013 | #14 | |
RebelOne | Jan 2013 | #16 | |
MoonRiver | Jan 2013 | #17 | |
RebelOne | Jan 2013 | #15 | |
Honeycombe8 | Jan 2013 | #18 |
Response to MoonRiver (Original post)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:21 PM
Comrade Grumpy (13,184 posts)
1. Who is offended by veganism? People can choose to eat what they want.
On the other hand, holier than thou vegans can be pretty damned offensive.
Response to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:24 PM
MoonRiver (27,904 posts)
2. I'm just passing on information, not preaching.
But maybe you don't know the difference.
Response to MoonRiver (Reply #2)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:34 PM
Comrade Grumpy (13,184 posts)
6. I wasn't accusing you of anything, merely making an observation.
But maybe you don't know the difference.
Response to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:24 PM
JanMichael (22,514 posts)
3. holier than thou ANYTHING can be offensive
I can't stand those types. That said, we are vegetarians... and wouldn't be if food production in the US weren't so damned cruel I really, seriously miss fried chicken...but, I just can't---
Response to JanMichael (Reply #3)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:28 PM
Kalidurga (14,177 posts)
4. Boca and Morning Star make some kick ass mock chicken products.
I am so grateful for that. I was having some serious chicken cravings and now I don't have to I can get Chik'n nuggets or Chik'n patties anytime that craving hits.
Response to Kalidurga (Reply #4)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:32 PM
MoonRiver (27,904 posts)
5. They're really good!
Since I also watch carbs, I like the original Boca burgers. I think they have 1 or 2 carbs per patty. Not quite as good as meat, but darn close.
Response to MoonRiver (Reply #5)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:43 PM
Kalidurga (14,177 posts)
8. Nope they aren't quite the same.
But, they have helped me not have cravings. Having been a meat eater for many decades it's really hard to give up that meat feel. Those products are great for that. And after you put on all the fixings it's really hard to tell sometimes. I am not carb watching myself yet. I may or may not ever get there. Right now my goal is to gradually go completely vegan, my first priority. I went vegetarian just a little over a year ago. I am sticking to it because I feel so much better now. But, oddly enough feeling better accelerated when I gave up eggs and cheese. I still get trace amounts of both in dressings and stuff, but that final thing to give up is kind of hard. Oh and hot cocoa, but once my canister is gone, I am making homemade vegan hot cocoa.
So, that's the really hard part for me is making nearly everything from scratch so I know what is in what I am eating. I also am a bit worried about going back to school in the fall because I am not sure what my options are going to be. I don't think I want to go back to eating cheese or having a lot of dairy in my diet like I did for the first 10 mos. I guess those are issues I will be talking about on the Vegetarian board that I am recently became a member of. |
Response to Kalidurga (Reply #8)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 08:01 PM
MoonRiver (27,904 posts)
12. Kalidurga, I am actually repulsed by the idea of eating meat now, but I am almost 2 decades out.
It does get easier!
Response to MoonRiver (Reply #12)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 08:07 PM
Kalidurga (14,177 posts)
13. I am getting there.
But, I would be lying if I said the cravings are completely gone. I am just glad other foods have the feel. I think that is what I really crave, the texture more than the taste. Because honestly most vegan/vegetarian food tastes much better than meat.
Response to MoonRiver (Original post)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:40 PM
marions ghost (19,841 posts)
7. only one problem
I am more or less vegetarian, tho not vegan.
The problem with either diet is that people tend to use a lot of soy, which I don't support. Tofu or tempeh are OK in small amounts, as is soy sauce, but I would avoid soy oil, soy fiber and unfermented soy beans. Read up on the reasons and decide yourself. Asians eat it fermented primarily. There is a downside to excess soy. |
Response to marions ghost (Reply #7)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:45 PM
Kalidurga (14,177 posts)
9. I don't use a lot of soy.
But, I do eat a lot of black beans. Pinto beans are also good. I tend to eat a lot of peanut butter and nuts as well. There are a lot of non soy protein sources. I do love my soy burgers though, not giving them up any time soon.
Response to marions ghost (Reply #7)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:59 PM
MoonRiver (27,904 posts)
10. There are some wheat fake meat alternatives out there. I think one is Quorum (sp?).
I'm retired so it is quite easy now to make healthy meals in a leisurely manner. Depending on where one works or studies, cafeterias are becoming increasingly sensitive to vegetarians, not necessarily vegans though.
Response to MoonRiver (Original post)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 08:01 PM
Earth_First (14,910 posts)
11. "Offended by veganism..."
Oh FFS!
Response to MoonRiver (Original post)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 08:43 PM
MoonRiver (27,904 posts)
14. Hey, vegetarians, I know you will love this picture of a little lamb
rescued and living in complete security at Farm Sanctuary. She even has her own pink jammies for cold nights
[link:| |
Response to MoonRiver (Reply #14)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 08:56 PM
RebelOne (30,947 posts)
16. Are you trying to be funny? Yes, I am happy the little lamb
was rescued from becoming lamb chops.
Response to RebelOne (Reply #16)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 09:02 PM
MoonRiver (27,904 posts)
17. Why do you think I was trying to be funny?
Seriously don't understand. I was just sharing a darling picture.
Response to MoonRiver (Original post)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 08:51 PM
RebelOne (30,947 posts)
15. I am a vegetarian but could never become a vegan.
I love my dairy products, such as cheese, milk, eggs and ice cream. At least, the animals do not have to be killed for dairy foods.
Response to MoonRiver (Original post)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 09:34 PM
Honeycombe8 (19,075 posts)
18. I'm trying to slowly work to vegetarianism (not veganism)...but I have my doubts
I'll make it. I'm hooked on poultry. But I'm trying.
I must say that not eating pork, beef, and other non-poultry, non-fish meats, has kept me pretty healthy (along with walking several times a week, and other things I TRY to do). I don't have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, pre-diabetes, etc. I DO have a Vitamin D deficiency, so I take supplements. Hopefully, that has been resolved. Interesting article, but I don't think I could give up cheese and dairy. Cut back, yes. |


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U.S. tax policy and the overseas activities of U.S. multinational corporations: a quantitative assessment
We present 1984 data on U.S. multinationals, their foreign operations, and repatriations received from their controlled foreign corporations (CFCs), and explore the ramifications of the 1986 Tax Reform Act's lowering of the corporate tax rate from 46 to 34 percent. We identify and quantify the effects on investment and financial decisions of U.S. multinationals that are attributed to the foreign tax credit and deferral. We find that the lowering of the rate has a large impact on excess credit positions, present evidence indicating that the composition of foreign source income has an important effect on such positions, find that the violation of capital export neutrality is likely to be widespread, and explore the impact of repealing deferral. The data relating to financial decisions shows mixed support for current theories.
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Constraint satisfaction
In artificial intelligence and operations research, constraint satisfaction is the process of finding a solution to a set of constraints that impose conditions that the variables must satisfy. A solution is therefore a set of values for the variables that satisfies all constraints—that is, a point in the feasible region.
The techniques used in constraint satisfaction depend on the kind of constraints being considered. Often used are constraints on a finite domain, to the point that constraint satisfaction problems are typically identified with problems based on constraints on a finite domain. Such problems are usually solved via search, in particular a form of backtracking or local search. Constraint propagation are other methods used on such problems; most of them are incomplete in general, that is, they may solve the problem or prove it unsatisfiable, but not always. Constraint propagation methods are also used in conjunction with search to make a given problem simpler to solve. Other considered kinds of constraints are on real or rational numbers; solving problems on these constraints is done via variable elimination or the simplex algorithm.
Constraint satisfaction originated in the field of artificial intelligence in the 1970s (see for example (Laurière 1978)). During the 1980s and 1990s, embedding of constraints into a programming language were developed. Languages often used for constraint programming are Prolog and C++.
Constraint satisfaction problem[edit]
As originally defined in artificial intelligence, constraints enumerate the possible values a set of variables may take. Informally, a finite domain is a finite set of arbitrary elements. A constraint satisfaction problem on such domain contains a set of variables whose values can only be taken from the domain, and a set of constraints, each constraint specifying the allowed values for a group of variables. A solution to this problem is an evaluation of the variables that satisfies all constraints. In other words, a solution is a way for assigning a value to each variable in such a way that all constraints are satisfied by these values.
In some circumstances, there may exist additional requirements: one may be interested not only in the solution (and in the fastest or most computationally efficient way to reach it) but in how it was reached; e.g. one may want the "simplest" solution ("simplest" in a logical, non computational sense that has to be precisely defined). This is often the case in logic games such as Sudoku.
In practice, constraints are often expressed in compact form, rather than enumerating all the values of the variables that would satisfy the constraint. One of the most used constraints is the (obvious) one establishing that the values of the affected variables must be all different.
Problems that can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems are the eight queens puzzle, the Sudoku solving problem and many other logic puzzles, the Boolean satisfiability problem, scheduling problems, bounded-error estimation problems and various problems on graphs such as the graph coloring problem.
While usually not included in the above definition of a constraint satisfaction problem, arithmetic equations and inequalities bound the values of the variables they contain and can therefore be considered a form of constraints. Their domain is the set of numbers (either integer, rational, or real), which is infinite: therefore, the relations of these constraints may be infinite as well; for example, has an infinite number of pairs of satisfying values. Arithmetic equations and inequalities are often not considered within the definition of a "constraint satisfaction problem", which is limited to finite domains. They are however used often in constraint programming.
It can be shown that the arithmetic inequalities or equations present in some types of finite logic puzzles such as Futoshiki or Kakuro (also known as Cross Sums) can be dealt with as non-arithmetic constraints (see Pattern-Based Constraint Satisfaction and Logic Puzzles[1]).
Constraint satisfaction problems on finite domains are typically solved using a form of search. The most used techniques are variants of backtracking, constraint propagation, and local search. These techniques are used on problems with nonlinear constraints.
Variable elimination and the simplex algorithm are used for solving linear and polynomial equations and inequalities, and problems containing variables with infinite domain. These are typically solved as optimization problems in which the optimized function is the number of violated constraints.
Solving a constraint satisfaction problem on a finite domain is an NP complete problem with respect to the domain size. Research has shown a number of tractable subcases, some limiting the allowed constraint relations, some requiring the scopes of constraints to form a tree, possibly in a reformulated version of the problem. Research has also established relationship of the constraint satisfaction problem with problems in other areas such as finite model theory.
Constraint programming[edit]
Constraint programming is the use of constraints as a programming language to encode and solve problems. This is often done by embedding constraints into a programming language, which is called the host language. Constraint programming originated from a formalization of equalities of terms in Prolog II, leading to a general framework for embedding constraints into a logic programming language. The most common host languages are Prolog, C++, and Java, but other languages have been used as well.
Constraint logic programming[edit]
A constraint logic program is a logic program that contains constraints in the bodies of clauses. As an example, the clause A(X):-X>0,B(X)
is a clause containing the constraint X>0
in the body. Constraints can also be present in the goal. The constraints in the goal and in the clauses used to prove the goal are accumulated into a set called constraint store. This set contains the constraints the interpreter has assumed satisfiable in order to proceed in the evaluation. As a result, if this set is detected unsatisfiable, the interpreter backtracks. Equations of terms, as used in logic programming, are considered a particular form of constraints which can be simplified using unification. As a result, the constraint store can be considered an extension of the concept of substitution that is used in regular logic programming. The most common kinds of constraints used in constraint logic programming are constraints over integers/rational/real numbers and constraints over finite domains.
Concurrent constraint logic programming languages have also been developed. They significantly differ from non-concurrent constraint logic programming in that they are aimed at programming concurrent processes that may not terminate. Constraint handling rules can be seen as a form of concurrent constraint logic programming, but are also sometimes used within a non-concurrent constraint logic programming language. They allow for rewriting constraints or to infer new ones based on the truth of conditions.
Constraint satisfaction toolkits[edit]
Constraint satisfaction toolkits are software libraries for imperative programming languages that are used to encode and solve a constraint satisfaction problem.
- Cassowary constraint solver, an open source project for constraint satisfaction (accessible from C, Java, Python and other languages).
- Comet, a commercial programming language and toolkit
- Gecode, an open source portable toolkit written in C++ developed as a production-quality and highly efficient implementation of a complete theoretical background.
- JaCoP, an open source Java constraint solver.
- OptaPlanner, another open source Java constraint solver.
- Koalog, a commercial Java-based constraint solver.
- logilab-constraint, an open source constraint solver written in pure Python with constraint propagation algorithms.
- Minion, an open-source constraint solver written in C++, with a small language for the purpose of specifying models/problems.
- ZDC, an open source program developed in the Computer-Aided Constraint Satisfaction Project for modelling and solving constraint satisfaction problems.
Other constraint programming languages[edit]
Constraint toolkits are a way for embedding constraints into an imperative programming language. However, they are only used as external libraries for encoding and solving problems. An approach in which constraints are integrated into an imperative programming language is taken in the Kaleidoscope programming language.
Constraints have also been embedded into functional programming languages.
See also[edit]
- Constraint satisfaction problem
- Constraint (mathematics)
- Candidate solution
- Boolean satisfiability problem
- Decision theory
- Satisfiability modulo theories
- Knowledge-based configuration
- ^ (English) Berthier, Denis (20 November 2012). "Pattern-Based Constraint Satisfaction and Logic Puzzles". Lulu Publishers, ISBN 978-1-291-20339-4. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- Apt, Krzysztof (2003). Principles of constraint programming. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82583-0.
- Dechter, Rina (2003). Constraint processing. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-890-7.
- Dincbas, M.; Simonis, H.; Van Hentenryck, P. (1990). "Solving Large Combinatorial Problems in Logic Programming". Journal of logic programming. 8 (1–2): 75–93. doi:10.1016/0743-1066(90)90052-7.
- Freuder, Eugene; Alan Mackworth, eds. (1994). Constraint-based reasoning. MIT Press.
- Frühwirth, Thom; Slim Abdennadher (2003). Essentials of constraint programming. Springer. ISBN 3-540-67623-6.
- Guesguen, Hans; Hertzberg Joachim (1992). A Perspective of Constraint Based Reasoning. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-55510-0.
- Jaffar, Joxan; Michael J. Maher (1994). "Constraint logic programming: a survey". Journal of logic programming. 19/20: 503–581. doi:10.1016/0743-1066(94)90033-7.
- Laurière, Jean-Louis (1978). "A Language and a Program for Stating and Solving Combinatorial Problems". Artificial Intelligence. 10 (1): 29–127. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(78)90029-2.
- Lecoutre, Christophe (2009). Constraint Networks: Techniques and Algorithms. ISTE/Wiley. ISBN 978-1-84821-106-3.
- Marriott, Kim; Peter J. Stuckey (1998). Programming with constraints: An introduction. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-13341-5.
- Rossi, Francesca; Peter van Beek; Toby Walsh, eds. (2006). Handbook of Constraint Programming,. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-444-52726-4.
- Tsang, Edward (1993). Foundations of Constraint Satisfaction. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-701610-4.
- Van Hentenryck, Pascal (1989). Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-08181-4.
- Rashidi, Hassan.; Tsang, Edward. (2012). "Novel constraints satisfaction models for optimization problems in container terminals". Journal of Applied Mathematical Modelling. 37 (6): 3601–3634. doi:10.1016/j.apm.2012.07.042.
External links[edit]
- Constraint Satisfaction Lecture by Dr Madhu Sharma (3:47)
- Introduction of Constraint Satisfaction Problems by Edward Tsang (7:34)
- Constraint Satisfaction Problems by Wheeler Ruml (9:18)
- Lecture on Constraint Satisfaction Problems by Indian Institute of Technology Madras (51:59)
- Lecture on CSPs (1:16:39)
- Lecture on Constraint Satisfaction Problems by Berkeley AI (1:17:38)
- Graduate Course in AI 5: Constraint Satisfaction by Prof Mausam (1:34:29)


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2014 may see shift in mortgages, Fannie
During his year as National Association of Realtors president, Villa Park broker Gary Thomas became a regular on Capitol Hill, defending mortgage interest tax breaks for homeowners and continued government backing of home loans.
He received VIP seating for President Barack Obama's second inauguration and met with congressional and federal finance leaders. During his term, the housing market recovered, and the size of his trade group rebounded to more than a million members.
During an interview with the Register, however, Thomas said many of the key issues he fought for – government mortgage backing for agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and continuation of the mortgage interest deduction – remain unresolved.
Q: Has there been any decision on what to do with the mortgage interest deduction?
A: No. We're still waiting to see what (Congress is) going to propose on tax reform and what they're going to propose as far as mortgage interest deduction – whether it would be a deduction, or not having second-home deductions, what have you. That's still all up in the air, so we're still waiting to see what comes of that.
The reform (of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) has not been done yet. We made all our proposals. Fortunately, the new director for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Congressman (Mel) Watt is very in tune with what we believe, so we think all that bodes well.
Q: What form do you think those reforms will take?
A: I think all they're going to do is reformat it. It's going to be very similar to the way they're doing things now. However, it won't be privatized. It'll be a government-back scenario where there is no profit incentive for the private sector.
The other thing that really needs to be tackled, and will over time, is the liquidity of credit because we've got to make sure that the credit is available at reasonable costs at all times. That's something we've been working on.
Part of the problem is (the FHFA) hiked up the (loan) fees so high, and part of Dodd-Frank has really tightened the credit box so tight that a lot of good buyers can't qualify. They've overcorrected that way. The pendulum swung too much to the conservative side on lending to the point where lenders are afraid to make loans.
Q: Under NAR's original contract with Move Inc., the Realtor.com home-listing website they operate for you couldn't promote homes other than those listed by NAR members. Has that changed, and if so, why?
A: The biggest accomplishment was to remove most of the limitations on Realtor.com. This was done to allow them more freedom to compete against the other companies in this space.
We allowed them to (post) rentals that are not necessarily through a Realtor, new homes that aren't through a Realtor, things of that nature.
The limitation that they still have on there – and they agreed to that – is to not have for-sale-by-owners.
Q: The housing market came roaring back during your term as NAR president. Did that surprise you?
A: It wasn't a huge surprise, but the momentum that it picked up in the early part of the year was amazing.
Q: Will we see continued double-digit price appreciation?
A: That I wouldn't expect this year. I think it would slow down to a 5 or 6 percent increase just because of the tighter credit and having to adjust to the new credit standards that came about through the Dodd-Frank legislation.
Q: What do you see as the outlook for 2014?
A: I think it's excellent. I think finally we're going to get some stability in the credit market and possibly some movement on government-sponsored enterprise reforms. I think we can finally find some stability in the credit end of it so that lenders know exactly what they're dealing with and we can move forward.
One thing is the household formations haven't slowed down. We're stuck in sales that are the equivalent to what they would have been in the 2000s, and yet the population is so much larger now that really, we should be selling a lot more than we are. It is slow in those terms. That's why there's so much pent-up demand.
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USP Creative
Why we were asked to work with USP Creative
USP Creative based in Liverpool is a leading creative communications consultancy. Jan knew that people were just not in flow – she knew this instinctively but didn't understand the process for measuring how much they were out of flow, what impact it was having on sales and productivity and how to get them back into flow.
They had some significant clients on their books and were busy in comparison to other agencies at the time yet they knew they could do much more and that their people could have more fun!
What we did
We ran our 2 hour 'Taster Session'
During this session, the whole team received their personal Talent Dynamics Profile Reports and began to understand the best way to create value within their team and how to leverage that value with each other. The team started to have some real 'aha' moments about why certain relationships in the team were inhibiting performance.
After the session, everyone had an enhanced understanding of their own Profile and when and how they could be in flow, as well as the role of others in the team and each of their flow patterns.
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6 months since the Taster Session:
Everyone's roles and accountabilities have been re-analysed and people have been put into roles designed specifically to increase levels of trust and flow. New roles were created to improve this process using the profiles.
Communication is much improved and trust in each other has increased greatly. Jan has seen a direct correlation between how individuals in the team feel when they are more in flow and the positive impact on sales.
There is an overall feeling of optimism in the office. People are now really enjoying their work. The environment has greatly improved and the team is far more relaxed and happy.
This has all resulted in greater productivity and workflow. Jobs progress to invoice stage much faster and more effectively than before thereby increasing cashflow and profit.
Talent Dynamics is just brilliant! We made a great investment in running a 2-hour Taster Session for the team. It's been the most rewarding profile tool we have ever used and it makes the most sense. We will continue to reap the benefits of the session for a long time to come…
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Lot 346: 3 Southwest Native American Papago Pima Baskets
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Description: UNITED STATES, 20TH CENTURY A collection of three Southwestern Native American Papago-Pima baskets. The lot includes a low bowl with repeating arrow pattern, a small round basket with triangular two color mountain form, and an oval basket with repeated mountain forms in a dark colored reed.
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Provenance: This basket group comes from a good collection of Native American baskets from a Cape Cod, Massachusetts estate.
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Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR::CNAME - Resource Record Handler
DO NOT use Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR::CNAME DO NOT require Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR::CNAME Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR::CNAME is autoloaded by class Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR and its methods are instantiated in a 'special' manner. use Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR; ($get,$put,$parse) = new Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR; ($newoff,$name,$type,$class,$ttl,$rdlength, $cname) = $get->CNAME(\$buffer,$offset); Note: the $get->CNAME method is normally called via: @stuff = $get->next(\$buffer,$offset); ($newoff,@dnptrs)=$put->CNAME(\$buffer,$offset,\@dnptrs, $name,$type,$class,$ttl,$cname); $NAME,$TYPE,$CLASS,$TTL,$rdlength,$CNAME) = $parse->XYZ($name,$type,$class,$ttl,$rdlength, $cname);
Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR:CNAME appends an CNAME resource record to a DNS packet under construction, recovers an CNAME resource record from a packet being decoded, and converts the numeric/binary portions of the resource record to human readable form.
Description from RFC1035.txt 3.2.1. Format All RRs have the same top level format shown below: 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ | NAME | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ | TYPE | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ | CLASS | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ | TTL | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ | RDLENGTH | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--| | RDATA | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ NAME an owner name, i.e., the name of the node to which this resource record pertains. TYPE two octets containing one of the RR TYPE codes. CLASS two octets containing one of the RR CLASS codes. TTL a 32 bit signed integer that specifies the time interval that the resource record may be cached before the source of the information should again be consulted. Zero values are interpreted to mean that the RR can only be used for the transaction in progress, and should not be cached. For example, SOA records are always distributed with a zero TTL to prohibit caching. Zero values can also be used for extremely volatile data. RDLENGTH an unsigned 16 bit integer that specifies the length in octets of the RDATA field. RDATA a variable length string of octets that describes the resource. The format of this information varies according to the TYPE and CLASS of the resource record. 3.3.1. CNAME RDATA format +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ / CNAME / / / +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ where: CNAME A <domain-name> which specifies the canonical or primary name for the owner. The owner name is an alias.
CNAME RRs cause no additional section processing, but name servers may choose to restart the query at the canonical name in certain cases. See the description of name server logic in [RFC-1034] for details.
Get the contents of the resource record. USE: @stuff = $get->next(\$buffer,$offset); where: @stuff = ( $newoff $name,$type,$class,$ttl,$rdlength, $cname );
All except the last item, $cname, is provided by the class loader, Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR. The code in this method knows how to retrieve $cname.
input: pointer to buffer, offset into buffer returns: offset to next resource, @common RR elements, CNAME Domain Name
Append an CNAME record to $buffer.
where @common = ( $name,$type,$class,$ttl);
The method will insert the $rdlength and $cname, then pass through the updated pointer to the array of compressed names
The class loader, Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR, inserts the @common elements and returns updated @dnptrs. This module knows how to insert its RDATA and calculate the $rdlength.
input: pointer to buffer, offset (normally end of buffer), pointer to compressed name array, @common RR elements, CNAME Domain Name output: offset to next RR, new compressed name pointer array, or empty list () on error.
Converts binary/numeric field data into human readable form. The common RR elements are supplied by the class loader, Net::DNS::ToolKit::RR. For CNAME RR's, this returns the $cname terminated with '.'
input: CNAME Domain Name returns: CNAME Domain Name.
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Hallonbergen station was opened on 31 August 1975.
Hallonbergen, located in Sundbyberg (Sweden's smallest municipality in area, and its second-densest, after Stockholm), is a fairly typical 1970s area of dense housing, shops and services.
(19 January 2002)
This night view shows the front of the building at Hallonbergens centrum that
includes the shopping center and the tunnelbana station (entrance at the lower
(19 January 2002)
Inside the paid area, this mezzanine leads to both platforms (the photo is a bit
dark, but you can see the two signs indicating the two platforms).
One platform, used for northbound trains, contains platform face 2 only (there
is no platform face 1). The other contains platform faces 3 and 4. Platform
4 is used for southbound service trains coming from Kista and continuing to
Näckrosen. Platform 3 is usually used for movements into and out of Rissne
depot, which is accessible from here. Before 1985, trains on both lines (to Akalla
and Hjulsta) ran via Solna centrum and Hallonbergen; trains to Hjulsta ran from
platform 3, running next to and practically through Rissne depot before reaching
Rinkeby, and trains to Akalla ran from platform 2.
(19 January 2002)
This photo, which is also a tad dark, shows the current southbound platform
(platforms 3 and 4) with a train to Kungsträdgården arriving on platform 4. This
view illustrates the construction of the ceiling, with lighting and other equipment
built into metal boxes suspended from the true rock ceiling.
(19 January 2002)
The southbound platform at Hallonbergen. Platform 4, the southbound service
platform, is on the left, and platform 3, mostly used for stock moves to and from
the depot, is on the right.
(19 January 2002)
Another view of the southbound platform, with a southbound train in service
departing, and a train running light entering the station to proceed into the
depot (behind us in this view).
(19 January 2002)
The empty train entering Hallonbergen on its way to Rissne depot.
(19 January 2002)
The same empty train, stopped at Hallonbergen waiting for a signal to clear.
(19 January 2002)
Another view of the empty train.
(19 January 2002)
More artwork, this time in a space between the platforms. The platform on the other side is
platform 2 (for northbound trains, to Akalla).
(19 January 2002)
Pepto-Bismol, anyone?... This color is used for most of the fixtures in the station. Here we
see an elevator (from platforms 3 and 4) and the gate at the end of the platform that prevents
unauthorized access to the tracks.
(19 January 2002)
Platform 2, the northbound platform, looking timetable south.
(19 January 2002)
Another view of art placed between the platforms, this time seen from platform 2.
(19 January 2002)
The locked gate and emergency exit at the end of platform 2.
(19 January 2002)
A long view of platform 2 from its south end.
(19 January 2002)
Behind the gate at the south end of platform 2, some rather striking graffiti.
(19 January 2002)
This artwork on the wall of platform 2 shows a Wells Fargo wagon, which I
thought was an amusing thing to find in Sweden.
(19 January 2002)
This photo shows something called a "kopplingskiosk," literally a "coupling kiosk,"
on the southbound platform at Hallonbergen. These kiosks are located usually at
terminal stations on the tunnelbana, and are used by staff performing coupling and
uncoupling of cars on service trains. They generally contain tools used for
coupling, but the kiosk at Hjulsta has been outfitted with a coffee pot, cookies, and
other coffee-break stuff by the driver who usually performs the afternoon and
evening coupling duties on Tub3.
(19 January 2002)
On the southbound platform, a hopscotch field etched into the tile.
(19 January 2002)
This photo too is a bit dark, but I included it because it shows the signal regulating
northbound moves from track 3 (e.g., into the depot from Hallonbergen). This
signal is typical of many of the signals used in the tunnelbana, especially on
Tub2 and Tub3. (Many of the signals on Tub1 were replaced with a more
"railroad-like" type with a backplate when the signalling system on Tub1 was
replaced, 1997-1999.)
(19 January 2002)
This shot shows a north-south indicator on the southbound platform, giving an idea
of how much the line deviates from a true north-south axis at this station.
(19 January 2002)
A southbound train arriving at Hallonbergen.


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from ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
Director: Emanuella Amichai Poem: Jan Wagner The result of the Film-Workshop held during the 5th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. Three pairs of artists comprising Israeli filmmakers Emanuella Amichai, Avi Dabach and Joshua Simon and German poets Daniel Falb, Monika Rinck and Jan Wagner were working together to produce scripts and create poetry films in six days.
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(WSCR) – Andrew Luck didn't win the Heisman Trophy this year as the nation's best college football player, that honor went to Auburn's Cam Newton. But Luck was going to be the likely top pick in the NFL Draft.
That was until Luck decided to stay in college to get his degree instead of immediately cashing in on the riches of the NFL.
Luck announced his decision Thursday, more than a week before the deadline for underclassmen to declare for the NFL draft. Luck, who sat out his first year as a redshirt, has two years of eligibility remaining but is on track to graduate next spring.
"I am committed to earning my degree in architectural design from Stanford University and am on track to accomplish this at the completion of the spring quarter of 2012," Luck said in a statement issued through the school. Stanford said Luck was not available for further comment.
Luck's decision to stay at Stanford comes as coach Jim Harbaugh is being wooed by NFL teams for a possible job. Harbaugh met Wednesday with officials with the San Francisco 49ers and was set to meet with Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross on Thursday in the Bay Area, two people with knowledge of the situation said. Both spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the meeting was to remain confidential.
New Denver Broncos chief football executive John Elway has said he hopes to interview Harbaugh for their job.
It's unclear whether Luck's decision to stay in school will impact Harbaugh's decision whether to leave for an NFL job this year. If Harbaugh does leave Stanford, the opportunity to coach Luck next season will likely make Stanford a plum assignment.
Luck was the runner-up this season to Auburn's Cam Newton for the Heisman Trophy and will now be one of the favorites for next year's award.
Luck was widely considered the top draft prospect after two spectacular years at Stanford. His decision will be a blow to the Carolina Panthers, who have the No. 1 pick in April's draft and are looking for a quarterback.
Luck capped this season by completing 18 of 23 passes for 287 yards and four touchdowns in the fifth-ranked Cardinal's 40-12 victory over No. 12 Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl on Monday night.
That helped Stanford (12-1) extend its school record for wins in a season and has the Cardinal poised to finish in the top five of the AP poll for the first time since the unbeaten 1940 team finished No. 2.
Luck, the son of former NFL quarterback Oliver Luck, is a major reason why Stanford has gone from a one-win team in 2006 before Harbaugh arrived to one of the top teams in the country. He has led Stanford to a 20-5 record in his 25 career starts, only missing last season's Sun Bowl loss to Oklahoma with a broken right index finger.
Luck has completed 64.4 percent of his passes for 5,913 yards, 45 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in his career. He has also rushed for 807 yards and five scores. That athleticism, along with his strong, accurate arm and on-field poise, has had NFL scouts salivating at his potential as a pro.
Harbaugh, a former star quarterback at Michigan and in the NFL, has called Luck the greatest player he has ever been around.
Luck set school records for TD passes (32), completion percentage (70.7 percent) and passing efficiency (170.2) this season. He is already being mentioned alongside John Elway, Jim Plunkett, John Brodie and Frankie Albert as one of Stanford's great quarterbacks.
AP Sports Writers Janie McCauley and Steven Wine contributed to this report.
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January 22, 2013
FONA International, creator and manufacturer of complete flavor solutions, has appointed Luke Slawek to the role of President. As President, Slawek will continue to lead FONA's international expansion strategy, as well as oversee the organization's efforts to develop new technologies and solutions that provide direct benefits to customers and drive FONA's growth rate.
"It is an honor and a privilege to work with my son each day," said Chairman and CEO Joseph Slawek. "I am truly grateful to have this opportunity and to have watched Luke grow in the business over the past 17 years. It is a proud moment for our family and one of great promise for the future of FONA, our customers, and our community."
Luke Slawek has previously held the role of COO and VP of Business Units and Innovation where he led FONA's efforts in flavor creation, food and beverage applications, marketing, new technologies, sensory, analytical, manufacturing, inventory control, facility maintenance, and planning.
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I do believe that is all they were doing.... I mean really, WHO would ever capture two hummingbirds mating :~)
Oh, the mistake here.... My flash did not fire.... but, I thought the silhouettes were kinda cool!
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John Smith (Deleted) gave props (26 Mar 2010):
That`s neat,...
Betty Maxey gave props (26 Mar 2010):
I love the silhouett Maurie... really neat mistake! Nice entry!
JOE FAILK gave props (26 Mar 2010):
This is unique and fantasic! I would publish it!
timothy wombold gave props (26 Mar 2010):
great silhouett shot
John Linton gave props (27 Mar 2010):
No mistake about it...great entry.
Donald Garrett gave props (27 Mar 2010):
VERY cool!
Martin E. Morris (Deleted) gave props (27 Mar 2010):
Super entry to the theme.Lovely shot!!!
Anuma Bhattarai said (27 Mar 2010):
Beautiful shot !
Sonia Adam Murray gave props (27 Mar 2010):
Simply wonderful, Bravo!
Regenia Brabham (Deleted) gave props (27 Mar 2010):
A very cool mistake Maurie! Great timing! LOL!
Susan Littlefield gave props (27 Mar 2010):
ROFLOL......TOOOOOOO funny! (and my answer would be YOU!!) ☺
Hector Ortiz gave props (27 Mar 2010):
yes, indeed.
Andrea Petersen gave props (27 Mar 2010):
The one hummingbird's attention is focused completely on eating and the other bird didn't get there quite as fast as he wanted to by the way it looks...I love the silhouettes...Great entry!
Winky Vivas (Deleted) gave props (27 Mar 2010):
Great shot and great timing!
Karen Menyhart gave props (27 Mar 2010):
great shot! I don't think you could have done that if you tried! love it
Oregon Curly (Deleted) gave props (27 Mar 2010):
Perfect! Another grand example of luck combining with skill for a beautiful shot.
eithne mythen gave props (28 Mar 2010):
wonderful mistake..
Lynda Jeffers (Deleted) gave props (28 Mar 2010):
Amazing shot!!
Linda Houghton gave props (28 Mar 2010):
Great Entry
Steve Baker gave props (28 Mar 2010):
CAtching two mating is definitely preferable to catching only one.... A perfect shot, Maurie, and the silhouette keeps it from being, well, too descriptive. ;-)
Richard Knight (Deleted) gave props (29 Mar 2010):
Ahem. No comment! LOL
Karen Foto Fiddler (Deleted) gave props (30 Mar 2010):
COOL is not the word! WOW! Brilliant capture! I mean it!
Saklas Zakti gave props (31 Mar 2010):
totally good mistake :P
Andrea Binder gave props (31 Mar 2010):
Great picture!! It is very hard to capture a hummingbird in flight. KUDOS!!
Judy Wanamaker (Deleted) gave props (31 Mar 2010):
Fabulous capture. This looks familiar.
Litz Go gave props (1 Apr 2010):
I always love reading Susan's comment and I'm with her, lol! Whatever you say, Maurie. Great capture and theme entry and caption.
elfriede fulda gave props (1 Apr 2010):
great mistake,,love it
Julie V McKinney gave props (3 Apr 2010):
Haha great timing!!!
Patty Gross (Deleted) gave props (4 Apr 2010):
I guess we'll never know......but the hummingbird on the back doesn't seem at all interested in food, although I do detect a little smile on his beak!! What a fantastic, one in a million shot!!!!
Mary Brown gave props (5 Apr 2010):
Wow, fantastic capture! I wish I could make such mistakes!
Judy Abolafya (Deleted) said (7 Apr 2010):
My 7 year old son just said "hey, is that two hummingbirds playing a video game?"
Leslie Hunziker gave props (9 Apr 2010):
This is awesome Maurie! But, ahhh, I don't think they were fighting.
Kristen Jones said (14 Apr 2010):
i love how the one is just like, 'leave me alone i'm hungry.'.... LOL...
Luke Everett gave props (15 Apr 2010):
LOL!!! A great capture...... I love the silhouette! An excellent "mistake"...
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At Hamleys, we love toys and games so much that sometimes we just want to give them away!
Last Call for Entries: Midnight 30th April
Hamleys have teamed up with Alton Towers Resort to offer a family of 4 the chance to visit the UKs largest theme park. The prize includes one family theme park day ticket to experience incredible thrill rides, lots of adventure and fantastical fun!
Not only that but you and your family will also get to stay overnight at Alton Towers Hotel for a fantastical short break! This really is the most incredible prize for the whole family!
Winner will be chosen at random and contacted directly by Tuesday 2nd May 2017.
PRIZE: 1x Family Theme Park Day Ticket for a family of 4 and 1x Overnight stay at Alton Towers Hotel. Prize valid until 31st May 2018.
Alton Towers is well known for its incredible rides but some are more thrilling than others! These rides are known as Roller________
ENTERTerms & Conditions: Prize covers one nights accommodation for up to 4 guests in a standard room in the Alton Towers Hotel. Prize also includes breakfast and one day theme park entry for up to 4 guests. Entrance to Tree Top Quest, Waterpark, Extraordinary Golf and Spa are not included in the prize. Limited number of competition prize rooms available on any one night and subject to availability. Not valid in conjunction with any other offer. Valid until 31st May 2018, excluding secondary ticketed events (e.g. concerts) and attraction closed dates.
Prize covers one day theme park entry for up to 4 people. Valid until 31st May 2018 excluding secondary ticketed events (e.g. concerts) and attraction closed dates. Please check opening times before your visit at altontowers.com. The Alton Towers Resort reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to refuse entry and to close and/or alter all or any part of the facilities including closure of rides and/or attractions for technical, operational, health and safety or other reasons including overcapacity. Size, height, weight, age restrictions and medical warnings apply to certain rides and attractions. Visitors under 12 years must be accompanied by a person 18 years of age or over at the Alton Towers Resort. Prizes are non-transferable, not for resale and there is no cash alternative.
Win a trip to Forte Village Resort, Sardinia!
Last Call for Entries: Midnight 19th May 2017
Hamleys have teamed up with Forte Village Resort, to offer the ultimate luxury family break. Dont miss the chance to stay at the resort where nature, fine dining, sport and wellness merge to create an unforgettable holiday experience.
Whilst enjoying unrivalled relaxation the children will get access to the unforgettable Barbie Experience & Chelsea Football Academy!
The prize includes a 3 night stay for 2 adults and 2 children on a half board basis.
PRIZE: 3 night stay on half board basis (breakfast and dinner beverages excluded) for 2 adults & 2 children including access to the Barbie Experience & Chelsea Football Academy. Prize valid from 25th March to 30th June 2017 and 2nd September to 9th December 2017.
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You can book your next family break at the flagship Hilton hotel for a luxurious stay in London with great perks including free buffet breakfast for children 18 and under and fun activity packs for the kids*.
Terms & Conditions: Redemption date is subject to availability and blackout dates apply: 25th June 3rd September, 12 15th September, 29th Dec 1st Jan. To qualify for family accommodation, proof of age for children may be required upon check in. Passport, birth certificate or driving licence is an acceptable form of ID. Maximum number of children within pre-determined room types will be two. Interconnecting room offer is subject to availability.
Calling all super heroes! WIN tickets to see The Art of the Brick: DC Super Heroes!
Last Call for Entries: Midnight 9th April
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Now he returns to the UK with his brand new exhibition inspired by the worlds most popular and enduring Super Heroes and Villains. THE ART OF THE BRICK: DC SUPER HEROES includes over 120 large scale exhibits made from over 2 million LEGO bricks, all displayed in a purpose built space on Londons South Bank.
Nathan Sawaya takes inspiration from DC characters including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and Harley Quinn. Through a series of immersive galleries, the exhibition explores the mythology of DC Comic books and themes of transformation and reinvention, strength versus weakness and good versus evil.
Get ready to find your own inner hero!
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How many LEGO bricks have been used to create THE ART OF THE BRICK: DC SUPER HEROES exhibits?
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The month of April 1917 was known as Bloody April by the Royal Flying Corps. The RFC suffered particularly severe losses — about three times as many as the Imperial German Army Air Service during the spring offensive in support of the ground assaults.
This year at the club we decided to get out some of the 1/72nd planes I have been building and have a game using a set of rules I threw together for conventions, a sort of a play test before I run them out to the public in June.
We played 5 games in four hours (with two coffee and one lunch brake in between) we tuned up the game mechanics a little as we played, the game was on a six by five table with four players and was normally over in 15 minutes although one did last less than three minutes. The game basically has a card activation deck for initiative with three coloured cards each (hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs) and three jokers which allowed someone to step out of initiative, 3 lengths of movement, stall, average and top speed, and five maneuver turns, sharp, drift, half, full and a
Immelmann loop. Interrupt fire was permitted at close range if someone flew past in their turn, and A D10 damage chart, with another D6 dice roll for engine and rigging.
We had a good day out, the Germans however had the worse of it and this April ended up very bloody for them! I was happy how the rules played, the key to convention rules is simplicity and speed so you can churn players through the game. A big thanks to Ryan, Boyd, Ian and Greg for helping me fine tune the game mechanics and to Greg for the pics!
Monday, April 16, 2012
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By R.E. Blake Evans
One of the hottest controversies in demographics is roaring over Census 2000, which shows gargantuan increases in the number of same-sex households. However, the Census Bureau now admits that a large part of the increase is the result of alterations the Bureau made to same-sex couple data in 1990.
Gregory Spencer, chief of the population projection branch at the Bureau, says that during the 1990 census officials routinely changed the reported sex of those counted "to preserve the married couple status. If they said they were 'married' to someone of the same sex, even if they were just living together, we simply changed the partner's sex and just made them a married [heterosexual] couple."
As of July, only 50 percent of the states have reported 2000 data, but many say they are finding dramatic increases in the number of same-sex families. Of course, the comparisons to a decade ago simply are not valid.
Demographers are livid. "We were lied to," says Wolf Johnson, an independent research analyst on population and advertising in Atlanta. "Not only on how many true family households were out there, but what kind of people and buyers were living in those households. It's wrong data."
The 2000 Census, for the first time, did allow households to register as single, married, or co-habitating non-relatives (roommates). Gay and lesbian households could claim an unmarried partner.
Apparently, builders are noticing the population shift, too, although they're not necessarily being up front about it. One Alexandria, Va.based builder, who asked not to be identified as someone who sells to the same-sex community, admits he sold out an infill project his company built in Washington, where 60 percent of the buyers were female couples. He did not market specifically to same-sex couples, but ads in Washington's gay newspaper ran for six months.
Bureau Blunders
Percentage increase in households reporting same-sex partners from 1990 to 2000 in selected states:
Delaware: 781%
Alabama: 658%
Colorado: 385%
Illinois: 268%
New York: 238%
Source: U.S. Census 2000
Bogus numbers: Though hard numbers are not available (and those above are now known to be inflated), demographers and psychologists estimate the gay population at 9 percent to 12 percent of the total U.S. population.


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This book analyzes the history of the interpretation of the book of Job by medieval Jewish exegetes. The scholarship on medieval Jewish thought has focused largely on the systematic philosophical aspects of this literature. The author, however, is concerned with exegesis qua exegesis. He offers a close examination of commentaries on Job written by six major thinkers: Saadiah Gaon (882-942, Egypt and Babylon), Moses Maimonides (1138-1204, Spain and Egypt), Samuel ibn Tibbon (1160-1230, Provence), Zerahiah Hen (13th Century, Barcelona and Rome), Levi Gersonides (1288-1344, Provence), and Simeon ... More
Keywords: interpretation, Jewish exegetes, exegesis, Saadiah Gaon, Moses Maimonides, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Zerahiah Hen, Levi Gersonides, Simeon ben Zeham Duran
Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195171532 |
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AnatomyThe central duct of the cochlea in the inner ear, containing the sensory cells and separated from the scala tympani and scala vestibuli by membranes.
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Like the entire spoga+gafa itself, the novelties exhibition 'Product Innovations' offers a huge variety of new products across all of the exhibition areas. The latest product developments of the exhibiting companies are showcased along the entire boulevard in various scenarios. You should not miss out the opportunity to gain a compact overview and pick up ideas for your own line-up.
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The Forum Gartencafé of the spoga+gafa as the central meeting point on the Boulevard of Ideas presents culinary delights, things worth reading and listening to as well as a nice cup of coffee. In a large variety of lectures Spoga Gafa offers an overview on the latest trends in the European garden sector and an insight into the e-commerce. Furthermore you could attend the well known Taspo Talks where experts of the garden sector discuss about the future of the green industry.
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After successfully completing his apprenticeship in the restaurant Gut Lärchenhof in Pulheim, near Cologne, Tobias Becker went to Trier to study food technology. After this instructive time, he was attracted there to the two-star restaurant Becker's in order to perfection his culinary skills. The opening of a restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa and joint responsibility for the concept of this restaurant followed. Later he did additional training as a service specialist at La Société in Cologne.
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Release Date: 1985 | Tracklist
Album Rating: 5.0check this shit out! oh yeah I wrote this in like 20 minutes. If there's a grammar error, point it out and I'll go fix it.
Props for reviewing this, band is really good.
Digging: Oh No - Ultimate Breaks & Beats
Album Rating: 3.5Need to recheck this Jap classic asap.
Digging: Aeternam - Ruins of Empires
Album Rating: 5.0dude it's amazing. it may or may not take some time to grow on you, but it's totally worth the listen. btw it's on youtube.
Album Rating: 3.5Yeah I had some tracks on cassette back in the 80's, but to be honest I don't remember much...Kinda heavy/speed metal stuff right?
Album Rating: 5.0listen to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyVLCeNk29g
Album Rating: 3.5Yeah track rocks indeed. Akira Takasaki is an awesome guitar player. Have a pos btw.
Album Rating: 5.0thanks man. If you like this album I think you should tread into their other stuff.
Album Rating: 3.5Yeah one of these days I'll dig their discography. Most famous Japanese metal act back in the days.
Album Rating: 5.0yeah, back in the day. too bad they never caught on in the states or europe.
Album Rating: 3.5Great job for reviewing this. Like Hell is a great song, so I may check out the rest of this album.
Album Rating: 5.0oh you must
I remember listening to Soldier of Fortune and Lightning Strikes by these guys a while ago and I think I might have listened to this one too but I don't remember much about it. Need to recheck it. Good review btw.
I've been wanting to check this one out for a while :D Will do!
Oh, by the way, I've been listening to a lot of X Japan recently, how do these guys compare?
Album Rating: 5.0tbh I'm not too-too familiar with X - Japan, but I know both bands got their connections with each other.
X Japan are a lot more progressive than these guys from what I've heard.
Album Rating: 5.0the best comparison I can make is that Loudness is either a Judas Priest or Iron Maiden equivalent for Japan.
Sounds about right. Listening to Crazy Nights now. Rocks hard m/
Sweet, JP and IM are some of my favourite bands. Can't wait to get a chance to hear this m/
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The Labour Party is split on the issue, with the party's leader, Ed Miliband, supporting AV while more than 100 MPs, including several members of the Shadow Cabinet, oppose change. Party stalwarts, including the former deputy prime minister, Lord Prescott, and the ex-foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, have been at the forefront of the No to AV campaign. It is understood that Lord Reid, who was a home secretary under Tony Blair, will be among those sharing a platform with Mr Cameron this week.
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Released: 2008, Relapse Records/Border Music Rating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Anders Sandvall Sweden's Disfear is back to follow up MISANTHROPHIC GENERATION with LIVE THE STORM. The living legend Tomas Lindberg is behind the mic and new guitarist Ulf Cederlund from Entombed is added to the lineup. It was a smart move to add another guitarist in the band, especially as skilled a guitarist as Cederlund. The album is dedicated to the late producer and musician Mieszko Talarczyk from the Swedish act Nasum who was tragically killed in the Tsunami of 2006. Disfear is chock-full of aggressive and brutal hardcore topped of with a huge amount of punk and metal influences. This is an amazing album and hearing Lindberg behind the mic again gives me an eargasm. Petterson and Cederlund compete to grind out the meanest and most brutal guitar riffs ever shown to the world and the rhythm section is the heaviest I've heard for a while. 10 tracks are zip by at a high-speed tempo and the album clocks in at only 35 minutes. The material is stunning, which isn't surprising with Lindberg and Cederlund in the same band. It's impossible to pick out favorite tracks when every song is consistently good. This is really an album you can't live without. Listen to LIVE THE STORM is like being run over by a bulldozer and I love it. I can't find anything to complain about when it comes to LIVE THE STORM; it's aggressive, brutal, in-your-face and jammed full of edgy guitar riffs and magical vocals. It's a massive wall of sound that assaults you when you push play and the production is just as amazing as the rest of the stuff. This is a true masterpiece delivered by the grand masters of hardcore/punk/metal in Sweden. I have nothing bad at all to say about the album; instead I only urge you to BUY BUY BUY!
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1. Get it Off
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6L6 Design in EDN Mag
EDN Magazine has an article: "Get More Power with a Boosted Triode" in the April 3, 2003 edition. Here's a link:
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Makes sense to me but screen current ought to go way up.
Tim |
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Hmmm... seems like some of the benefit of ultralinear, with none of the convenience.
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Honestly,I wouldn't dare to try it in real-life use,especially if I had to use some highly-priced 6L6's.
If you really intend to give it a try,use some 5881's ,at least for the beginning. I can recomend you the Russian version of 5881 (namely 6Pi3S-E,the ones without a base collar).These are able to withstand incredible dynamic conditions of use (and abuse),conditions never dreamed about average 6L6.Not even the original (metallic) ones. Regards, |
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> Makes sense to me but screen current ought to go way up.
Right; though I am not sure it goes "way up". In a simple Tetrode, G2 higher than Plate will soar the current. In Pentodes or Beam Power tubes, the G2 current soar does not happen until Plate sinks very low, 50V-100V for typical designs, around the knee of the plate curves. For Sine, and especially speech/music, we usually spend so little time at low plate voltage that G2 survives the peak current and power. But Screen Current is one place you should NOT rely on SPICE models. #1: the SPICE tube models usually do not model ordinary pentode screen current accurately (and say so in the fine print). In almost all normal curcuits, you don't need to know the screen current with any precision. #2: screen current is one of the few "free variables" open to a tube factory. They have to hold several dimensions to high precision. G1 location must be very precise or designers and users will complain. But G2 location is less important, so they allow a little leeway so they don't have to work so hard and charge so much. #3: the "Beam" design with G1 and G2 aligned, made famous by 6L6, is VERY fussy. If they are perfectly aligned, primary G2 current goes to zero over most operating conditions. Including secondary current, the G2 current in a 6L6 is often negative at some operating conditions. (I have seen negative G2 current at 400V plate and G2 and 50mA bias.) But they are never perfectly aligned, and many recent-production tubes are pretty sloppy. If just a few of the G2 wires sit "between" G1 wires, screen current soars. OTOH if G2 is good but they use a soft plate metal, secondary emission soars and the G2 current goes more negative at idle. Also the simulated values exceed the G2 voltage ratings on most 6L6-type bottles. (Yes, you can exceed the book values on the better class of 6L6 and get satisfactory life for guitar and hi-fi duty.) Further: in general, this plan needs a floating power supply for "every" 6L6 (or bank of simple-parallel 6L6). One for a mono SE amp, two for push-pull (which is what the 6L6 specifically was designed for!), four for stereo push-pull. (However you can grow to 2x200W with 16 6L6 in push-pull parallel and still use just four supplies.) And each supply should have semi-decent regulation, since G2 voltage sets bias just as much as G1 voltage. And that supply current may be small, large, or negative, depending on plate conditions and tube replacement. At the present price of a basic 6L6, it is almost as cheap (and a lot better looking) to parallel a second 6L6 than to buy another transformer winding, rect-cap, and load regulation resistor (to absorb any negative current). Also: there is nothing new under the sun. This is an old hack. It makes a little sense if you need to drive a high current low impedance load and don't have transistors. Set the 6L6 Plate at 100V, keep the Screen up around 250V, you can get large current without exceeding the plate dissipation rating. The customary connection was to take output at the Cathode and bypass G2 to Cathode. Since the optimum design for this kind of abuse holds the 6L6 at semi-constant voltage drop, that does about the same thing as their trick of referencing G2 to the Plate. Not quite, but not radically different. |
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A certain "ultrapath" connection comes to mind... |
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Hi Joel.
Lets call names I have no idea what jack told you but... Jack told me that he had "rediscovered" an old W.E. circuit and was calling it "ultrapath" to best describe in his own words what it did when he used it in his designs. I have never heard him once say that he came up with the idea. As a matter of fact I have heard him and others give W.E. engineers a LOT of credit for their work in the past Regards Andrew |
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The U-M Library continues to operate its nascent Orphan Works Project "because we remain as certain as ever that our proposed uses of orphan works are lawful and important to the future of scholarship and the libraries that support it."
That's the position of University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Paul Courant, who also says that, contrary to some erroneous reports, the library is continuing its digitization efforts along with improving the orphan works identification process. as a result of the Authors Guild lawsuit," says Courant.
Courant says that the recent effort the Authors Guild has made to publicize the list of orphan works candidates has had a salutary effect on the project, which has from the beginning sought the aid of authors and publishers, including the guild.
Several rights holders have been discovered via the scrutiny of people who were alerted to the list by the guild's blog and other outreach efforts. This scrutiny also revealed opportunities to improve the library's pilot process to identify rights holders, which Courant says will make that process more robust and accurate.
"We knew that the knowledge base and outreach capacity of authors and publishers would help us better achieve the project goal of identifying copyright holders," he explains. He also says that it's unfortunate that these endeavors came only in the wake of the guild's lawsuit, which he has called "misguided and unnecessary."
"Litigation, especially between organizations that share common ground in service to creative and scholarly work, is surely counterproductive to the goals of all parties," Courant says. Further, he says that the discussions with the guild were under way when the lawsuit was filed.
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