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August 13, 2006
Breakfast at home (Zucchini Fritters)
Much as I adore going out for breakfast, I usually make some sort of effort at a breakfast at home at least once on the weekend. It often starts with a smoothie, just to fortify us with enough strength to beat eggs for a frittata or slice peppers for a breakfast quesadilla.
We are both savory-breakfast junkies, so it is no wonder that most of of our breakfasts at home are at least somewhat eggy. Today's breakfast was a sort of happy accident - I had picked up a zucchini to make my Zucchini Fritters "sometime soon" and by chance had some leftover Dijon-Dill sauce in the fridge. The urge to make some sort of Benedict-like breakfast was overpowering. I was quite helpless against it! I modified the fritter recipe to use spices that would go more harmoniously with the dill and mustard sauce, using a mixture of thyme, oregano, white pepper and a pinch of cayenne. I heated the leftover sauce (an emulsion of mayonnaise, sour cream and dijon) with a little pinch of cornstarch, to keep it from separating, and treated it like a faux-hollandaise.
I do confess that I wimped out on the eggs - they were simply steamed in little baskets, as opposed to being properly poached, but some mornings there are just only so many things you can keep in the air at once. A perfectly poached egg would of course be the preferable option, but I was willing to sacrifice that for convenience, today. Next time...
The fritters are a big favourite of mine, and something that I am prodded to make whenever the zucchini are heaped high in the produce stores. They are delicate - downright fragile before cooking - but not difficult to make, and they make a wonderful side-dish at any meal (or snack, I confess, with a little hot pepper sauce, or not, as you see fit. You can vary the seasoning to make them spicy, mild or assume compatible characteristics with any cuisine you choose.
They certainly don't need an egg or fancy sauce to show their little golden faces at the table. I do have a compulsion that must soon be addressed: I want to make these fritters meat-ball sized, and serve them with spaghetti and a light, fresh tomato sauce for a light veggie-based dinner. I'm convinced it would be a winner.
8 comments:
- kickpleat said...
those look incredible....and i'm not even a fan of zucchini. i think i'll try this out to get a little zucs into this house!
- 13 August 2006 at 13:00
- Kate said...
I think your idea sounds great. You may even fool someone!!
I like my breakfasts too. It's a comforting thing to have something hearty in the morning.
- 14 August 2006 at 04:07
- Dawna said...
Thanks, Kickpleat! I hope you do get to try these - they're not particularly "zucchini-y" in the way that some dishes are, but they're wonderfully vegetal - especially if you use thinly sliced green onion for the onion component.
Thanks, Kate - I've been thinking about this for a while, but now I need to get off my backside and actually do it! Fortunately, zucchini season is here, and there will be plenty of "reminders" stacked up in the shops.
- 14 August 2006 at 07:52
- Sara said...
all your ideas for these fritters sound wonderful. especially the spaghetti.
- 14 August 2006 at 09:21
- foodiechickie said...
I love Zuchini fritters! My mom made them while growing up! Some people add Feta in theres which is tasty as well.
- 14 August 2006 at 10:11
- Lera said...
dawna,these are gorgeous!I mean droolworthy....by the way, am I invited over..;)
- 14 August 2006 at 20:14
- Dawna said...
Sara - I hadn't even gotten to the curried version yet!
Foodichickie - thanks for the suggestion. I think feta would be a wonderful addition - it would be a bit like the feta and grilled zucchini salad.
Lera - you are absolutely invited over! It's a long way to come for breakfast, but food is one of the best reasons for travel, I think!
- 15 August 2006 at 13:43
- Melissa CookingDiva said...
They look delicious! Thanks for sharing ;D
- 9 September 2006 at 07:02


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This Northeast Minced Chicken Salad recipe is another recipe that I wanted to showcase from the Simple Thai Food cookbook by Leela at She Simmers. As I mentioned, I reached out to them and I will be republishing 3 recipes from the cookbook, with permission. The last recipe of Miang Kham is such a hit on Rasa Malaysia as well as my social media channels, so I have no doubt that this Thai Minced Chicken Salad from the northeast region of Thailand will win you over.
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Like the guy said: maybe for the Packers, but for the Giants, its just another game on the schedule.
Your pass rush is scary. I hope we can keep you guys away from Rodgers. I predict we lose in a 31-21 type game. You guys are coming off a bye and your offense is good enough to put up alot of points especially against our defense.
Pass rush isn't nearly as scary as it used to be. Tuck and Osi regressed big time, though maybe against that O-line they can do something.
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite team in the NFL.
Well this is the kind of game where our guys will be out for blood. They always rise up against the big teams.
It's kinda funny, our fans are saying we will lose badly, while you are saying the Pack will lose.
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Can anyone tell me where I might find some Midnites. Thank you
Can anyone tell me where I might find some Midnites. Thank you
is on this site. If you search for "MIDNITE" you'll find some entries.
One of them is York Bees http://www.yorkbee.com/prod01.htm
Also, try searching Yahao or any other engine for "package bees" and "midnite"
Thank you very much for your information. I've tried all of the sources which you listed, but no one seems to have any or carry them any more. Thanks
I was in search of midnites also. York no longer carries them. I have used search engines and followed up on all listed suppliers on this site. I'm really curious as to why no one seems to raise them anymore.
When I first took over my father-in-laws hives he had midnites. They were very gentle and made plenty of honey. Unfortunately those hives perished in the winter of 2000.
I tried carniolans and starlines. The carniolans were very gentle. The starlines (the hive I had) were down right nasty.
There may be someone in California who has some. That's too far for me to have them shipped. Let me know if you find any east of the Mississippi. If I find any I will post it.
Both Starlines and Midnites are hybrids. Not hybrids of two different breeds but hybrids of two different strains of the same breed. This means the second generation often does turn mean, but the first one is very gentle and productive.
You might be just as happy with some nice Caucasians.
It shouldn't be to far to ship queens from California to East Coast locations. I work for the Airlines in addition to being a beekeeper. We receive queens from the Post Office all the time and within hours they can move from one coast to the other.
I know that they are hybrids but I just had the urge to try them. I have Caucasians and like them but I was going to try raising some queens this year and wanted to experiment with the Midnites. I've tried all places suggested but just canÂt find any.
If your intention is just to buy queens every year and run nice quiet hives, midnites are nice.
If your intention is to raise queens, I don't recommend getting a hybrid like midnites or starlines or buckfasts because the next generation is usually not nearly as good in all respects including gentleness.
If you get a couple of strains of caucasions from different sources and use one for drones and one for queen cells you will get calmer, nicer, more productive bees than starting with a hybrid.
Michael or anyone, If I planning to split two or three large colonies in the fall or spring and I want to raise queens for these new splits . I have buckfast bees now what queen would be to best to use. I will have all Buckfast colonies in May. So I should look into getting a queen that isn,t a Hybrid when I go to make my splits. Or even buy a package of bees with a queen and use this colony to make queens for the new splits? Darrell
There are many good breeds of bees out there. It depends on what you want to breed for and what you like, but the regular straight breeds that are usually rasied are Italians, Carnolians, Caucasians and (recently) Russians and Harbo's. I have only raised the Buckfasts, Starlines, Italaians, Russians and Harbos, but I've seen the Caucasians and the midnites (hybrid Caucasians). I liked them all really except the second generation of the Buckfasts and Starlines.
Personally I'm going to raise survivor feral bees. The ones I'm getting right now are Italian looking, but I hope to catch some of the local ones that are black and raise those. You can set swarm traps and maybe you'll catch some survivor bees.
I personally think (and I'm not that experienced with breeding bees, but have raised horses and chickens and pheasants etc.) that you want some outbreeding within the same breed to not get too inbred. So for example if I were to raise Italians, I'd get some queens from different breeders and use one line for drones and one for queen cells.
Those with more hands on experience in this matter can correct me if this is not the way things work with bee breeding, but that is my understanding of bees and genetics in general.
Hi Darrell,
Asked about Midnites on some bee lists will see what comes up and let you know.
For midnites try thes other two:
Hybri-Bees 517-467-6501
Just got through checking, Hybri-Bees is no longer in business and B & B said they havn't had Midnites for 10-15 years and had no idea who might have some.
Since they are all basically Dadant bees I would think you could contact Dadant and Sons and find out who they authorize as dealers/breeders in Midnite bees. At least the Starlines and Midnites used to be their lines of bees.
Dadant carries Italians and the person I talked to said they thought that's all they handed and knew nothing about Midnites.
Call York again and ask them what did they do with all of their midnight stock. You do not go from filling thousands of orders to nothing. They have to have some stock somewhere. Now thousands may seem like a lot but considering they produce over 30,000 queens a year it is not.
I did call York back and the lady said "no, we don't have any to sell". I asked if they purchased the Midnites or had their own. All she would say is that they are trying to find a beekeeper. I asked if they would sell a nuc or a hive, that I would really love to get some Midnites. She said no I'm sorry.
It is my understanding that yorks master breeder of the midnight breed. Died about a year or to ago. As they are just a hybrid, developed by dr cale a long time ago. My parner worked under him at the bee lab in baton rough la. I would giving all the trouble thatwe have today for get about some of the old genetics as they have been so deluted that they cant deal with the mite ar this terra resistante foulbrood.
While they show that they are out of Midnite queens at this time. You may want to keep this site in mind. http://www.draperbee.com/index.htm


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- 5 pounds ground beef
- 4 medium onions, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 bottle (12 ounces) chili sauce
- 1 envelope brown gravy mix
- 1 envelope onion soup mix
- 1 teaspoon salt
- In a Dutch oven, cook the beef, onions and garlic over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Cook for 10 minutes or until heated through. Cool.
- Place about 2-3/4 cups each in four freezer containers. May be frozen for up to 3 months. Yield: 4 portions (11-1/2 cups).
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Study found health, quality of life improved when care was coordinated across the board
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 29, 2010 (HealthDay News) — A treatment team headed by an experienced nurse improved the health of patients suffering from multiple chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes and depression.
A study appearing in the Dec. 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reports improvements in the four areas of blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol control and depression in middle-aged patients offered this treatment strategy.
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 16, 2010) — A new focus on the immune system's ability to both unleash and restrain its attack on disease has led Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists to identify cells in mice that prevent the immune system from attacking the animals' own cells, protecting them from autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and lupus.
Read the full article at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100915140126.htm
Understanding Autoimmune Diseases
When an intruder invades your body – like a cold virus or bacteria on a thorn that pricks your skin – your immune system protects you. It tries to identify, kill, and eliminate the invaders that might hurt you. But sometimes problems with your immune system cause it to mistake your body's own healthy cells as invaders and then repeatedly attack them. This is called an autoimmune disease. (Autoimmune means immunity against the self.)
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I hope you find this information helpful.
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i was just reading another post about a store bought quilt and i am totally confused. do many quilters actually purchase a quilt from a regular store? that just really amazes me. just curious if it is common.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
i was just reading another post about a store bought quilt and i am totally confused. do many quilters actually purchase a quilt from a regular store? that just really amazes me. just curious if it is common.
I wouldn't!!!!
I purchased a King size wedding ring that years looks hand quilted for $19.00 years ago before I started quilting I still use it but it is getting pretty worn
I purchased a beautiful quilt from Bed Bath & Beyond a couple yrs. ago. It was perfect for the bed I needed it on & I could not make one with ribbon embroidery & queen size for what I paid. I do machine quilting, but not queen size.
I would if it is something that I would use outside or in the motor home with all my children. I do have several on the road quilts but they get a tremendous amount of wear and tear if used in the motor home, on the beach etc. Eventually I would like to have some more motor home outdoor quilts but in the mean time we use the few we have plus the store bought ones. Also I would feel sad if one of our home quilts would get lost when camping.
we use this one for on the beach and camping.
I have one on my bed right now. I no longer worry about my kids ruining it. It washes up beautifully and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I am making a new one for my bed but might keep this one also :)
My DM bought me one and 6 months later it was full of holes where the seams came apart. There was barely any seam allowance so it was falling apart.
all our bedding comes from the store.
a king size quilt costs thousands between materials and time - far too much to use for sleeping and washing every 3-4 days.
if my customers want to sleep and wash them all the time thats their business - once its out of my hands i don't care what happens to them - they can give it to the dogs for all i care.
I purchased a sample quilt from a quilt shop with dinosaurs for my 8 yr old. It was so perfect, affordable, and DONE. Bought a scrappy from a guild sale for my older boy. Other than that I wouldn't buy anything that was supposed to look like a patchwork quilt. Just me...
There really are no rules with quilting and quilts.
I paid big money a few years ago for a hand worked quilt made in Tibet. I love it. It's a rusty/red color with some kind of thick threading used to embroider it and mirrors all over it. To me, it is functional art. I use it for several months of the year - when kids aren't around - then switch to other quilts. That lets me change the look of the room with very little work.
My DH is worried that the quilt will be ruined by using it. I tell him that my enjoyment of it is ruined by not using it!


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RE: st: RE: Constrained Lowess
"Nick Cox" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
RE: st: RE: Constrained Lowess
Fri, 2 May 2008 18:26:49 +0100
Good. Your variable isn't binary, but a proportion, and you are treating
age as numerical, so your problem is fit for -lowess- after all. (I
prefer restricted cubic splines, but a transformation is probably useful
there too.)
Sergiy Radyakin
Hello Nick,
I am sorry for being inprecise. Indeed, I smooth the rates (of e.g.
unemployment) by groups defined by age (which is truncated to
integers, and thus I concider it categorical).
So I start with a table like the following:
Age Unemployment rate
10 0.01
11 0.02
99 0.01
Here unemployment rate is naturally between 0 and 1. It is the average
of the 0/1-responses within the group, defined by age.
If I just run lowess, it produces the picture similar to the one here:
sysuse auto
generate z=1/headroom^16
lowess z mpg
Note that the tails go below zero, and this is what I am trying to
Your advice of logit transformation before/after smoothing worked.
On 5/2/08, Nick Cox <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Quite how to get useful results from smoothing a binary response is
> clear to me.
> If the data were proportions on (0,1) or even [0,1] I would suggest
> some kind of transformation approach. -lowess, logit- is presumably
> intended to help.
> Otherwise consider something like an angular or folded root
> transformation, applying -lowess- and then transforming back.
> But for binary data any transformation just maps two distinct values
> two other distinct values and so cannot help, so far as I can see.
> In the case of unemployment data, presumably you are dealing with
> individuals? If they are aggregate data for lots of individuals I
> collapse by age to get proportion of unemployed, and then smooth if
> necessary. It sounds as if you want something quite different,
> Also, as you regard -age- as categorical I probably don't understand
> what you are trying to do.
Sergiy Radyakin
> I am plotting a smoothed graph (-lowess-) of a binary variable (e.g.
> unemployed) by categorical (e.g. age). However the smoothed values are
> not necessarily in the [0;1] range, where unemployment must be by
> definition. I can save the smoothed values into a new variable with
> the option -generate(newvar)- and then truncate the negatives and
> values larger than one, but I believe smoothing must look differently
> if I could tell -lowess- to look for such a constrained value in the
> first place. As it follows from the description of -lowess- it doesn't
> have such a feature. Is there any user-written command or simple
> algorithm for this purpose?
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I don't know what the discoloration is, but it looks to me as if it's merely an oil sheen.
Did you clean off its new-gun factory coatings, as you were supposed to? Maybe shooting it got the factory's oil or grease warm enough to make it show.
Using a gun gets it dirty, and makes wear markings on it.
Some people prefer that, because it makes the gun look as if it's been used.
Find something else to worry about.


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the name of ones member when it is of a large proportion. Often the propiortor of the extremely large penis is called shane.
Hey did you see that shane dude with his wanger out at the party last night.
Yer, he's got a schlongting!
Yer, he's got a schlongting!
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I decided to sweep my bottom board this afternoon. The hanger I was using was a little too bent to go all the way back, but I got in about 8-9 inches. The end result is pictured below. My question for you more experienced beeks is: does this look like fairly normal winter attrition?
There's still an active buzz coming from inside the hive. I've given the hive a good whiff from both in front of the entrance, and the top. There is no smell of rotting, and the dead bees look quite dry. While clearing them away from the hive entrance (with my boot) I crushed some, and they obviously had a decent amount of fecal material in them (yellow/tan stains on the snow).


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A moment in witch one corrects another, in a more intellectual way. Weather it be in grammar, saying, quotes, or an everyday situation.
"Hey dat sweater to tight on you." To witch one would correct in a manner such as, "Sir/madam, that sweater is a bit snug, wouldn't you say so yourself?" That would be a real Mitch moment. Or when someone reads this and finds a flaw although the meaning is perfectly clear (Mitch moment).
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Original post made by P John Anderson, Old Mountain View, on Jun 13, 2007
Come and hear Anonia Juhasz talk about her book, now out in paperback: "The Bush Agenda: invading the world one economy at a time". Among other things, you will learn that the Iraq "oil law" is less about revenue sharing than about giving away Iraq's oil to the oil companies. You knew that it was a war for oil but knowing how it's done let's you read the news with much more insight!


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big ben for rivers I'd rank ben higher

C Benson for MJD....really

I did it out of the kindness of my heart. Blondie had bye problems. Can you imagine if she had to start Sanchez?

Yes, I think I improved my team but so did Amanda. Plus she got a great defense.

ben has a bone broken in his hand
i think it was a bad trade for u pappy - especially considering the rest of bensons schedule.
[/quote] nah it bull****[/quote]

I agree Byron. I think I made a good move there. Ben is my backup. I have Stafford at home in the dome the next two weeks. By then, and broken hand bones will be healed.

But essentially the trade was MJD for Benson. And I think thats a good trade for me. Plus Amanda got a QB for her bye week when she would have had to settle with Sanchez. (who Matt drafted for her..HAHAHAHA!!)

Its a win/win.

both of your QBs have broken hands - great job
MJD faces Houston and Atlanta (two top 5 rush defenses). That Atlanta game is also first week of playoffs IN atlanta.
Benson may play Pitt and Balt and hous - but hous would of been your bye week and then u would of had Benson vs the Rams and Cardinals for playoffs.
NOW you gave up Rivers, who is ALWAYS a second half of season player and you have two QBs with broken bones in their hands
oh yea and you gave up a pretty legit DE.
I love it
You got names, I dont think you helped yourself win in the playoffs
I'm trying to get to the playoffs first off.

Secondly, Atlanta's defense sucks. Yes, I gave up Rivers but he wasn't going to play for me anymore. Ben is a good backup if I need him. And I am riding the GB defense for the rest of the year. Cold weather coming.
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they do suck... vs the pass
no weater in a dome in atlanta
i talked **** to other trades to u about but i mserious - u didn't get better here.
Rivers will end up out playing Stafford and Ben from here on out


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Tragic. Just shows that you can take all the precautions in the world and, in this case, we cant even point the finger at the usual subjects and yet we can still just go out on our bikes and not come home.
Poor fella.
A coroner's inquest has recorded a verdict of accidental death in the case of a cyclist who was killed after he was thrown from his bike after a rock on the country lane on which he was riding.
Scott Crawford, aged 50 and from East Kilbride, Scotland, died from internal injuries sustained to his lung, liver and spleen having also sustained a fractured skull and ribs during the incident that took place on Dawes Lane, Sarratt, Hertfordshire on Friday 3 August this year, reports the Watford Observer.
The 50-year-old, who worked in Rickmansworth, stayed in nearby Little Chalfont during week and would return home to his family at weekends. On the day he died, however, he had decided not to go back to Scotland that weekend so he could stay close to London, where the OIympics were taking place at the time.
At this week's inquest in Hatfield, forensic collision investigator John Spears said: "The bike was in very good condition and Mr Crawford was wearing a helmet.
"The bike had struck an item at speed, causing the tyre to be crushed and two punctures. This caused rapid deflation and the rider to be thrown off.
"The road was very small and windy, and overhanging foliage caused a lot of darkness and there were large pieces of flint and rock on the road surface."
PC Robert Hauxwell of Hertfordshire Constabulary's serious collision unit told the inquest: "No one saw Mr Crawford come off his bike. He was found by a man who lives near the lane, who saw a red flashing bicycle light and then realised there was a man lying on his back.
"Another neighbour said the water board had been working nearby the night before. The workmen had gone but there were stones all over the walkway.
"The people I spoke to all felt the stones were a factor and they felt guilty for not moving them away. They were most likely from a contractor's lorry."
Recording the verdict of accidental death, coroner Edward Thomas said: "Some lorries have to use these narrow roads and their tyres rub up against the bank leaving debris behind.
"He hit his head very hard and died almost instantaneously. He was very well respected at work, was very happy and had lovely kids. It's awful and very, very sad."
A statement from Mr Crawford's family read: "All Scott's family and friends have been left devastated by his untimely death. He was a beloved son to Andrina and Ronnie.
"He will also be missed by his sister, Valerie, and was a loving uncle to Cara and Cai."
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.
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"Another neighbour said the water board had been working nearby the night before. The workmen had gone but there were stones all over the walkway.
"The people I spoke to all felt the stones were a factor and they felt guilty for not moving them away. They were most likely from a contractor's lorry."
If there was a roads equivalent of the rail/air/marine accident investigation boards 1) they would be incredibly busy 2) their thoroughness would have examined the completeness of the work that had been done on the road in the area, and the size of stones and cause for their presence on the road.
There seems to be an implied link to the stones falling from contractors vehicles or dislodged from the banking by same, and in law the contractor carries a liability for this - this is why most well run building sites have a wheel wash facility and a sweeper truck patrolling the road outside, as they stand to get a heavy fine, even if no one skids or comes off because of the material on the road - Read on for the HA 1980 and RTA 1988 for the relevant clauses. It may be appropriate for Scott's family to consider this especially if it makes the contractors who leave debris on the road more acutely aware of their responsibilities in cleaning up.
British Gas tightened up significantly on their contractors after a car driver died crashing into an unsigned and unprotected pile of material left on main road in Ayrshire, and a stack of charges ensued, not helped by the fact that a local MP had narrowly missed crashing into the same pile minutes earlier. A bit of cleaning up here, or signs to warn of debris might have saved a life.
The Law
Farmers and vehicle operators who deposit mud on the road are potentially liable for a range of offences.
Criminal law
A range of powers is available to the police and highways department, primarily under the Highways Act 1980, the Road Traffic Act 1988.
Highways Act 1980 Section 137 "If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence".
Highways Act 1980 Section 148 "If without lawful authority or excuse a person deposits anything whatsoever on a highway to the interruption of any user of the highway he is guilty of an offence".
Keep dirty operations off the public road, but also be aware of the potential for a debris trail extending beyond your site
Keep a record of decisions on whether or not to deploy signs and / or to clean the road.
What the contractor must do
Do everything possible to prevent mud/debris being deposited on the road. This includes cleaning mud from vehicles, as far as practicable, before they are taken onto the road. The fact that cleaning mud off trucks and attachments is commercially inconvenient may not be a defence in law.
Slippery road sign - Only use signs that are authorised. The recommended sign shows the 'Slippery Road' triangle with 'Mud on Road' sub plate. If appropriate, the 'Men at Work' sign should be used. Signs for works on the road are set out in TSRGD Chapter 8
Make sure signs are positioned to give maximum visibility and warning to other road users.
Clean the road as necessary during the working day and always at the end of the working day.
Where a contractor is used, ensure that prior agreement is reached on who is responsible for mud on road issues (signage, cleaning etc) and ensure that adequate public liability insurance is in place.
Highways Act 1980 Section 161 "If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, deposits anything whatsoever on a highway in consequence of which a user of the highway is injured or endangered, that person is guilty of an offence".
Civil action
Civil action can occur where the presence of mud results in personal injury, damage to property, loss or inconvenience. The presence of mud can constitute a public nuisance and loss or injury can result in a claim for negligence.
Health and safety (Section 3 offences)
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, employers have a duty to look after the health and safety, not only of themselves, their family and employees, but of anyone who may be affected by their working operations. Employees also have responsibilities to themselves and others.
Recovery of clean up costs by highways authority
The Council as highway authority, has a duty to assert and protect the rights of road users. Section 149 of the Highways Act 1980 gives the highways authority the power to clean the road and recover its expenses from the person causing the obstruction.
So next time you see mud or rocks on the road move them yourself if you can do it safely, or get the council, or contractor to clean them up. Too right folk felt embarrassed that they had not acted to clear up the debris, some of them might have even been liable to a fine, or greater penalty.
All good points AV - I had a bad smash on my motorbike due to some diesel spilled on the road by contractors doing some patching work. Needless to say, they denied all knowledge and my insurance paid for the repairs to my bike. Luckily I wasn't badly hurt and escaped with just a bruised knee. I learned a lesson then and if See debris in the roadway, I'll try and get it off if I can.
This is such a sad situation. Having come off my bike on two occasions (both relatively minor falls), I know what it feels like to hit the deck. It is a scary situation. These days, I wear a helmet even if I am just traveling a small distance. I am not saying a helmet will save your life in every tumble, but it at least gives you a fighting chance if you do hit your head on the road or gutter. My heart goes out to the rider's family in this very sad situation.
Don't know what happened here, but I've seen cyclists rush down twisty, country lane descents (as this lane seems to be) and let the thrill of it overtake them.
Crashing at speed hurts, particularly if you're only wearing lycra. A helmet will NOT save you from injury. Injuries to your limbs and torso can easily be life-changing, even fatal. Even fairly minor bone breakages can ache for the rest of your life.
On descents, get your braking done in plenty of time before a corner, enter it slowly and leave plenty of margin of error so that you don't get caught by surprise mid-corner (mud, gravel, rocks, parked cars, tractors, animals, oncoming cars in middle of the road, etc) when you no longer have the ability to change your speed much. You can always add back speed on corner exit.
Easy into the corners: you'll be nearly as quick, maybe as quick or even quicker, as those who charge into corners and then can't power out of them cause they had to brake mid-corner and their line is all wrong!
You won't get a prize for being a few seconds faster down a country lane hill. You could however get a trip in an ambulance, and a broken hip that'll bother you forever more, or worse.
Do you _have_ to make this sort of comment? Really? Every time some poor chap dies, even when the story clearly says that death was due to non-head injuries: "[...]died from internal injuries sustained to his lung, liver and spleen[...]" someone has to start lecturing about helmets.
If there's a moral in this it's the one that AV Lowe extracted above: do your bit to remove road debris to help us all. I'm going to try and learn from that and be more pro-active in future.
Its a bit ambiguous Ush; "He hit his head very hard and died almost instantaneously." further down the article. Anyway, I agree about the helmet "I-told-you-so'ers". Articles need to be read and absorbed not skimmed over then daft comments made. The one below it is a bit patronising and somewhat condescending too.
My thoughts are with the family. They now have some closure. Terrible tragedy.
The problem is though gents, that the state of the roads around the Chilterns has been at best diabolical and at their very worst lethal for anything on two wheels....I should know, I live around here!
I have been campaigning for years for better road surfaces and try to reach out to all road users and pedestrians to report all road defects in the hope that a fraction of them will be repaired by the local Highways Authorities.
Recently I have had some success in encouraging Buckinghamshire County Council to at least recognise and consider the need to revise their categorisation of road defects, to take in to account the increased risk that two wheeled (especially cyclists) road users face in their jurisdiction.
OK, this hasn't covered all the areas around here....the roads have taken nearly 30yrs to get to the state they are in now and will not all be repaired for at least the next 30yrs or so.
As one of the above replies suggested that speeding down country lanes can increase the risks of an accident is true but unfortunately around here using any of the country lanes increases the risks of accidents because the roads are in such a poor state of repair! http://www.buckinghamshireexaminer.co.uk/south-bucks-news/local-buckingh...
So very, very sad. That's what life can dish out to you and it is just too horrible to even try to put into words. You do everything right, in all the best ways you can and you take all the precautions possible, but for everyone who ever rides a bike, there is always an unseen element of chance that can shatter a life. Sometimes, you're just lucky and walk away. Sometimes, sadly, you're not, through absolutely no fault of your own.
It's so desperately sad for Scott's family, workmates, colleagues and friends and reminds us, starkly, that none of us are invincible. My heart goes out to everyone who is directly involved with this truly awful incident. So very, very sad.


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When a person, male or female, passes gas in a tanning bed and must either a) open the door to relieve the smell or b) stay inside the bed to prevent spotting. Similar to dutch oven.
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Acclaimed Public Radio International program This American Life has retracted an entire episode about working conditions inside Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer that builds much of Apple's most popular hardware, after learning that a major contributing source "partially fabricated" information about his visit to the factories.
In the episode, PRI aired a monologue from Mike Daisey, a self-proclaimed performer whose one-man show, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, detailed alarming labor practices which he claimed to witness during his time visiting Foxconn. Among the many facts Daisey fabricated, according to PRI, were the number of Foxconn factories he visited, the number of workers he spoke with, as well as a meeting with a number of workers who claimed to have been poisoned by chemicals used in iPhone assembly lines.
A stage performer credited by The Wall Street Journal's theater critic as "awesomely gifted," Daisey is best known his performances of over 15 monologues, which have received largely favorable reviews from major outlets like The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Washington Post. Daisey describes his work as a combination of "autobiography, gonzo journalism, and unscripted performance."
"Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast," the show's host, Ira Glass, wrote in a blog post on Friday. "That doesn't excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this was our mistake."
The retraction came even as consumers lined up Friday to buy Apple's latest iPad amid protests over its treatment of workers — protests, ironically, that were inspired by Daisey's original one-man show. After listening to PRI's This American Life segment featuring Daisey, Mark Shields filed the original petition to boycott Apple stores using Change.org, a web site which aids in organizing collective community action.
"Ultimately, the core issues here are unchanged: factory workers are suffering to produce our Apple products," Shields told Wired in a statement. "I sincerely hope this announcement doesn't detract from the real story here, which is that Apple needs to protect its workers and start thinking ethically."
Despite an ample outpouring of support, the protests did little to dampen first-day sales. Pre-orders on the iPad were sold out before the day of its release, and customers continued to line up outside of Apple's retail stores days before release.
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All the above mentioned.
Good crop, lots of bees in the box at harvest & 2 weeks later some yards lost 80% & a yard up the road a few miles no problems.
All the above mentioned.
Good crop, lots of bees in the box at harvest & 2 weeks later some yards lost 80% & a yard up the road a few miles no problems.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Bees all gone with some leaving a small patch of brood.
still a mystery as to why some abscond like that. makes sense that they would have the trait to vacate a hive, for example, if the food became contaminated or something.
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journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Mostly they were nearly zero bees left in the hive.
Bee samples that were sent in were from 2 or 3 hives that had a very few young bees dead on the bottom boards.
That sounds familiar,
curious to know your mite and nosema levels
Soupcan, how was your late summer fall. How was the pollen & nector flow?
NUTRA-BEE feed supplements
I thinks I sense a theme . . .
good thread mark, thanks for starting it.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Im not seeing anything this year. I have not seen a single Deformed wing Virus bee all year. My nosema levels are also well under control, so my testing suggests anyway,...
I attribute my hives health to the Apivar treatment I used in the spring, did not need to treat in the fall also!
But what I was getting at in my previous post was,
small cluster,
no bees,
dry year in most area of North America,
poor foraging
inadequate mite control claimed by many southern producers
levels of nosema
it seems last time there was a break out of CCD symtoms , most if not all of these symtoms were present
Great honey crop, huge clusters, record heat & drought, great foraging, & mite load all over the board for numbers from hive to hive & yard to yard!
Problem is that one yard you loose 65 to 75% now & 4 to 5 miles up the road every one is fine & no loss.
As far as fall flows they were great, all kinds of pollen & nectar.
Some hives were so heavy they had very little room for medicated syrup.
Record amounts of spray plane activity this summer here in row crop country. I was told when asking as to were all the planes have come from & was told the fly boys from the south have come up due to all the work here in the midwest.
We may know more this week.
The key word we are looking at this point is " fungicide "
same thing here. good crop, big hives, only a few blanks into mid sept then i would find them getting smaller and smaller and more and more hives gone, had 220 going into summer now have maybe 100 ok ones nothing big anymore. best hives are about the size of a bowling ball when clustered tight. and thats in a double. should be 2 basket balls in a double. moved them in earlier than normal and watched the dead bees pile up on the ground all around the hives. young looking bees crawling around dying not going home. i think its chemicals. systemics to be specific. dave hackenberg describes the same thing in a article i read. i treated for mites 3 times with 2 different products. from august to oct. its more than mites. they are being slowly poisoned. they say corn farmers are using the stuff like crazy now. and it stays in the ground. i think it has to be a major contributor. in 2006 when people started having the big losses we didnt see anything like that. we had mite troubles but no big die offs. now this year once the bees started going down no one could save them. not even you and your pollen sub keith!!! had to say it you brag the stuff up way to much on here. so i think now the chems are used wide spread by way more farmers and its taking its effects on the bees now.
>> i treated for mites 3 times with 2 different products. from august to oct.
thats not easy on the hives either,
so your suggesting i screwed my bees up. i used formic in august and was not to impressed with how the bees reacted to it but they were still big hives a month after i hit them with the formic. i talked to a guy that used apigauard to the label 2 treatments in a 2 weeks and he still followed up with another treatment in oct. and he has the same story as me. bees looked good and then started to shrink way more then usual. ian you dont agree the farm chems could be a huge factor to our problems. do you have millions of acres of corn planted around you. if not maybe thats why your bees look good IAN.
no that was not what I was implying, sorry if it came across that way
I figured when you said a few treatments you were implying formic, formic is hard on bees and queens especially having done consecutive treatments with it
I do agree farm chemicals are being used, but I will not suggest they are the problem until we have actual science suggesting such,
we do have corn planted all around my yards, and yes my yards do look okay to say for now.
We have to be careful when we lay blame towards others who may not be the culprit to lay blame on. If it is actually farm chemicals that are causing all the problems, then I will join the movement against farmers using such but until then we had better start scraping up the proof so that the case can be made.
Im using these chemicals also, as a farmer, and if these LABELED products get pulled off the shelf without just cause, the farmer just joins the list of casualties along side the beekeeper.
My point was not implying your a bad beekeeper, my point was we need to look internally to find the problems also
and again, sorry if you took my comment as such
mark, are your able to elaborate on the 'rumors' that prompted you to start this thread?
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A new investment firm has made its first allocation of funds, injecting $500,000 into Kiwi software developer GeoOP.
The investment gives Cloud Rainmakers - established in December by Leanne Graham, the former country manager for accounting software provider Xero - a 20 per cent stake in the Auckland-based start-up.
Graham, Cloud Rainmakers' sole shareholder, has also become the software firm's chief executive.
Founded in 2009, GeoOP has created an app used by small to medium-sized service businesses that allows mobile workers to electronically carry out tasks such as invoicing, staff scheduling, job dispatch and quotes.
Office administrators use the technology online, while staff in the field can access the same information on smartphones from any location.
The app connects directly into Xero and other providers' accounting software systems.
"GeoOP is one of those rare finds to invest in - it's truly redefining how service-focused businesses operate and is unrivalled anywhere in the world," Graham said.
"Millions of SMEs still rely on pens, paper, spreadsheets and phone calls to run their businesses, despite the growing use of smartphones."
GeoOP said its product was already used in 42 countries and the company, which has seen 475 per cent revenue growth over the past year, would use the fresh capital to grow its team from 11 to 15 staff and establish offices in London and San Francisco.
Nick Bartlett, GeoOP's founder and chief operating officer, said the company was yet to become profitable but, like Xero, growth rather than bottom-line returns was its main focus at the moment. "We're after customers," Bartlett said. "Our model is broadly in line with Xero's in that ultimately our success is determined by our customer growth so we're much more interested in growing that figure than we are in chasing profitability at this point."
He said the company didn't have much competition.
Only a few years ago the kind of technology offered by GeoOP was prohibitively expensive and could only be used by large corporates, Bartlett said. "We saw this amazing opportunity where technology was going to make it possible to deliver an end-to-end job management system to micro and small and medium [businesses] at a fraction of the price it was before, but also at 10 or 20 times the quality."
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PawNation Event Draws Pet Crowd to Park
Apr 16, 2012
The PawNation Pet Rally was a purrrrr-fect success, taking place in New York City's Tompkins Square Park this past Saturday, April 14. Featurinh more than 400 dogs -- and cats, the event was sponsored by AOL and BermanBraun to celebrate the official relaunch of PawNation. The New York Post took notice of the event and PawNation which was recently named the Web's #1 Pet Content site* and the #2 Community Pet site,** also posted a recap.
PawNation columnist and YouTube star Randall, known for his narration of the viral "Honey Badger" video, emceed the Pet Rally and surprised and delighted the crowd all day with his infamous narration skills. Randall led participants in both a pet/owner lookalike contest as well as a pet pageant with competitive rounds testing pets' talent, runway walk, costume and kissability.
When not mingling with Randall or fawning over the puppies at the adoption truck, dog owners and their pets posed for glamour shots in front of a PawNation step and repeat, received paw-dicurs from Salty Dog Groomers and cuddled with Champ, Bayer's adorable puppy mascot. The North Shore Animal Adoption Truck was also on hand and found new homes for six lucky pets. Lunch for pet owners was provided by the Gorilla Cheese Truck and Eddie's Pizza Truck, and treats for pups came from Bocce's Bakery Bike.
Look for the first video of Randall recapping the event on Wednesday on PawNation.com.
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1) use a very small amount elmers WHITE glue to attach the key to the security bolt and let it dry. this is now one piece and cant fall off.
2) lay the gun down (security system facing up) on a microfiber cloth on a slippery surface like a baking sheet.
3) insert the spring and bearing, use the bolt/key to push down the bearing and turn the PISTOL in any direction needed to engage the bolt.
4) once the bolt is engaged you can just pull the key from the bolt and use a toothpick to remove the glue residue.
might work, lemme know....


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I have the highest respect for Dr. Williams and feel so lucky to have found her. Dr. Williams is knowledgable and up to date not only in Psychiatry but in fields of medicine that have psychiatric consequences. She ran hormone tests and allergy panels that no other doctor had thought to investigate. She is an excellent diagnostician. Thanks to her I am feeling better than I have in years. Highly recommended.
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Set in Germany in 1936, North Face tells of two young, apolitical mountain climbers (Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas) who're induced to tackle the nigh-impossible north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps because Hitler wants a German up there. North Face takes a while to get stirring — there's too much inert talk on the ground in a five-star Swiss hotel looking up at the mountain. But you don't have to be a Nazi to be totally mesmerized by the intense drama on the Eiger: the nimble ascent, the calamities that befall our noble climbers, and the pitiable disasters.
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I'm in for blocks for Krystyna. I 'll get mailed this coming week.
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I'm in for blocks for Krystyna. I 'll get mailed this coming week.
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If you are making a block, try to use some blue for unity.
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Good morning ladies. I just UpLoaded pictures from my cell phone onto my computer and that was a mistake, let me tell you!!!! I only have 300 pictures on my cell phone camera roll, but 2,525 pictures were uploaded and half the pics i didnt recognize the people in them. but i thought that i would share for Krystyna a few pictures of Long Beach and some of the effects of the hurricane!!! Update on K before i post them, she is still with her sister and my dear future father in law has been going from her sisters house to Long Beach to work everyday. Blaze and I were out this morning looking for gas, and saw a few FEMA trucks heading into the Long Beach area. We are still at my parents house, but went back to the house yesterday to get a few things for us and for Krystyna. She offically has all of her sewing machines with her at her sisters house and is feeling better about that!!!! and it will be a long time before things go back to normal. It will be months before our city would be able to go back to a little bit of normalcy, and there is still water in the crawl space under the house. They are going around and inspecting houses to and rating them green, yellow and red. OBVIOUSLY red is the worst and those in red will be helped first, but everyone in Long Beach will be getting help from FEMA. Just dont know when that will come and how long it will take. One of the pictures has red arrows and those arrows are pointing to the water level. I'm 5 foot even and the water level came up to the top of my shoulders. so it was between 4 and 5 feet high in the back yard. I dont know how high it got at the peak of the flooding inside the house I know it was around 3 to 4 feet, but i went to bed soon after the water started coming in and was around 2 feet in the home.
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I can make a block for K but were you thinking about quilt's' - plural. If so I can make more blocks. I wouldn't be able to make a complete quilt but could do a lap quilt top and contribute some $ to help with batting and backing if someone would be willing to sandwich/quilt/bind it.Would love to help.
So if we all put some blue into the friendship quilt then it will coordinate with everything????? I am going to do my block today and probably mail it off today. I am on a fixed income but I will see if I can spare something to help. I know that money speaks volumes in an emergency.
Dreaming of New England while being stuck in So. Calif.(the asphalt jungle of the world.) But hey the Happiest Place on Earth is here.
Yes, we are making a quilt for Krystyna and also collecting quilts for her community. If you do a lap top quilt, I will get it quilted. I made a beautiful quilt from Boom 6, but I can part with it. I just looked thru UFO tops and found a few I can also give. I do not like to quilt and am spoiled by sending out for pro longarm work. But I can do this and some motivation goes a long way. Please put your name on anything you contribute! TY Dotty
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You know, even a handmade potholder would add joy to a homeowner who lost everything!!
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Dotty I am working on blocks for know, and I mailed her some$, but let me see what I can do about making aleast one lap quilt.
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Having faced the aftermath of a major storm, I know what a hurricane is capable of. Being totally disorientated while struggling down your own street is a very scarey feeling. Rita hit hard in Lake Charles. At first you will experience shock and that feeling of being totally overwhelmed. You WILL suffer at least one major meltdown -- don't deny any feelings of loss, grief, anger. Get it out. Then look around at those you love, thank God for them, and then try to pull out a sense of humor. Hard to believe, but things will get better. FEMA and the Natl Guard and the Red Cross will soon be visible. Watching our Govt in action will definitely bring a smile to your face -- lots of fun to watch (for example, how many FEMA workers does it take to spray paint a yellow spot on a tree?) There is definitely an element in our society that knows how to play the system and will "take" whatever whenever and as much as they can. I can tell your horror stories of gifts given in good faith that were sneered at as "not good enough". But on the flip side, you will receive aid from some of the most unexpected sources -- and you will develop bonds with your friends and neighbors as y'all work thru this. And no matter how bad is seems, it could be worse -- we were without power for almost 21 days, the temp outside was 112 degrees, the mosquitos were big enough to butcher and were starving, and there were 10-day-old dead fish all over my yard that attracted my dogs like magnets. The water mocossins were swimming around by the front doorjam which was an almost good thing since so were the looters. They evened each other out. But in a few months when you can look back at all this, you will be surprised at how things do get put back together. Just tell yourself, "This is all a test..." Remember, what doesn't kill you can only make you stronger. And I'm willing to bet that when all is said and done, your priorities have shifted somewhat. You're not alone, and therein lies the power and path to recovery.


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WIEN2kis used to perform electronic structure calculations of solids using density functional theory (DFT). It is based on the full-potential (linearized) augmented plane-wave ((L)APW) + local orbitals (lo) method, one of the most accurate schemes for band structure calculations. WIEN2k is an all-electron scheme, including relativistic effects, and has many features.
Versions and Availability
▶ Display Softenv Keys for wien2k on all clusters
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▶ Softenv FAQ?
The information here is applicable to LSU HPC and LONI systems.
SoftEnv is a utility that is supposed to help users manage complex user environments with potentially conflicting application versions and libraries.
System Default Path
When a user logs in, the system /etc/profile or /etc/csh.cshrc (depending on login shell, and mirrored from csm:/cfmroot/etc/profile) calls /usr/local/packages/softenv-1.6.2/bin/use.softenv.sh to set up the default path via the SoftEnv database.
SoftEnv looks for a user's ~/.soft file and updates the variables and paths accordingly.
Viewing Available Packages
Using the softenv command, a user may view the list of available packages. Currently, it can not be ensured that the packages shown are actually available or working on the particular machine. Every attempt is made to present an identical environment on all of the LONI clusters, but sometimes this is not the case.
$ softenv These are the macros available: * @default These are the keywords explicitly available: +amber-8 Applications: 'Amber', version: 8 Amber is a +apache-ant-1.6.5 Ant, Java based XML make system version: 1.6. +charm-5.9 Applications: 'Charm++', version: 5.9 Charm++ +default this is the default environment...nukes /etc/ +essl-4.2 Libraries: 'ESSL', version: 4.2 ESSL is a sta +gaussian-03 Applications: 'Gaussian', version: 03 Gaussia ....
Listing of Available Packages
See Packages Available via SoftEnv on LSU HPC and LONI.
For a more accurate, up to date list, use the softenv command.
Currently there are some caveats to using this tool.
- packages might be out of sync between what is listed and what is actually available
- resoft and soft utilities are not; to update the environment for now, log out and login after modifying the ~/.soft file.
softenv is available on all LSU HPC and LONI clusters to all users in both interactive login sessions (i.e., just logging into the machine) and the batch environment created by the PBS job scheduler on Linux clusters and by loadleveler on AIX clusters..
Packages Availability
This information can be viewed using the softenv command:
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Managing Environment with SoftEnv
The file ~/.soft in the user's home directory is where the different packages are managed. Add the +keyword into your .soft file. For instance, ff one wants to add the Amber Molecular Dynamics package into their environment, the end of the .soft file should look like this:
To update the environment after modifying this file, one simply uses the resoft command:
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WIEN2k is normally run via a PBS batch job.
▶ Open Example?
Sample PBS Script
The example assumes a wien2k softenv key has been set using MVAPICH. The following script was provided by one of our users and should be used as a template.
#!/bin/tcsh #PBS -A your_allocation # specify the allocation. Change it to your allocation #PBS -q checkpt # the queue to be used. #PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=4 # Number of nodes and processors, On QB2, use ppn=20 #PBS -l walltime=1:00:00 # requested Wall-clock time. #PBS -o wien2k_output # name of the standard out file to be "g09_output". #PBS -j oe # standard error output merge to the standard output file. #PBS -N wien2k_test # name of the job (that will appear on executing the qstat command). # # cd to the directory with Your input file cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR #start creating .machines #modify the cut command according to the cluster you are running on # the following example is for eric where the compute nodes # have a 7 character hostname such as eric001 cat $PBS_NODEFILE >.machines_current set aa=`wc .machines_current` echo '#' > .machines # example for an MPI parallel lapw0 echo -n 'lapw0:' >> .machines set i=1 while ($i < $aa[1] ) echo -n `cat $PBS_NODEFILE |head -$i | tail -1` ' ' >>.machines @ i ++ end echo `cat $PBS_NODEFILE |head -$i|tail -1` ' ' >>.machines #example for k-point parallel lapw1/2 set i=1 while ($i <= $aa[1] ) echo -n '1:' >>.machines head -$i .machines_current |tail -1 >> .machines @ i ++ end echo 'granularity:1' >>.machines echo 'extrafine:1' >>.machines #define here your WIEN2k command runsp_lapw -p -i 40 -cc 0.0001 -I
The script is submitted using qsub:
$ qsub script_name
▶ QSub FAQ?
Portable Batch System: qsub
All HPC@LSU clusters use the Portable Batch System (PBS) for production processing. Jobs are submitted to PBS using the qsub command. A PBS job file is basically a shell script which also contains directives for PBS.
$ qsub job_script
Where job_script is the name of the file containing the script.
PBS Directives
PBS directives take the form:
#PBS -X value
Where X is one of many single letter options, and value is the desired setting. All PBS directives must appear before any active shell statement.
Example Job Script
#!/bin/bash # # Use "workq" as the job queue, and specify the allocation code. # #PBS -q workq #PBS -A your_allocation_code # # Assuming you want to run 16 processes, and each node supports 4 processes, # you need to ask for a total of 4 nodes. The number of processes per node # will vary from machine to machine, so double-check that your have the right # values before submitting the job. # #PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=4 # # Set the maximum wall-clock time. In this case, 10 minutes. # #PBS -l walltime=00:10:00 # # Specify the name of a file which will receive all standard output, # and merge standard error with standard output. # #PBS -o /scratch/myName/parallel/output #PBS -j oe # # Give the job a name so it can be easily tracked with qstat. # #PBS -N MyParJob # # That is it for PBS instructions. The rest of the file is a shell script. # # PLEASE ADOPT THE EXECUTION SCHEME USED HERE IN YOUR OWN PBS SCRIPTS: # # 1. Copy the necessary files from your home directory to your scratch directory. # 2. Execute in your scratch directory. # 3. Copy any necessary files back to your home directory. # Let's mark the time things get started. date # Set some handy environment variables. export HOME_DIR=/home/$USER/parallel export WORK_DIR=/scratch/myName/parallel # Set a variable that will be used to tell MPI how many processes will be run. # This makes sure MPI gets the same information provided to PBS above. export NPROCS=`wc -l $PBS_NODEFILE |gawk '//{print $1}'` # Copy the files, jump to WORK_DIR, and execute! The program is named "hydro". cp $HOME_DIR/hydro $WORK_DIR cd $WORK_DIR mpirun -machinefile $PBS_NODEFILE -np $NPROCS $WORK_DIR/hydro # Mark the time processing ends. date # And we're out'a here! exit 0
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Homeowners who may never have thought about installing a security system are now getting marketing flyers in their monthly statements and seeing ads on television. The idea of adding a home security system is being increasingly planted into their minds. What does that mean going forward? It may mean…
Madison Parker October 31, 2012
Bundle may be the catchphrase of the decade. What started as combining phone service with an Internet plan has grown considerably during the past few years. Most of us have some kind of bundling package that includes all or at least part of our communication needs.
Now you can add something else to that bundled mix — the home security system. Homeowners who may never have thought about installing a security system are now getting marketing flyers in their monthly statements and seeing ads on television. The idea of adding a home security system is being increasingly planted into their minds.
What does that mean going forward? It may mean the end of traditional home security providers as we know them today. Those companies are going to have to find ways to offer integrated infrastructure if they're going to keep up with the cable and telecom industries.
For a homeowner, adding a security option from the cable or telecommunications provider makes some sense. First, there is that bundling option; you still have to pay a fee but you don't have to think about it. In some cases, it is just added to the same monthly bill and itemized with the other services. Second, customers are working with a company they are already familiar with, and with a company they know services their home market. Thirdly, home security is part of the increasing popularity of home automation.
Consider there are now cable companies offering a home entertainment package that allows your DVR settings to follow you around the house so you can stop the ballgame on a TV in one room and pick it up again in another. So, if the cable company is making it that much easier for you to watch television, why shouldn't it also make it easy for you to set up a little extra protection for your property?
Moving into the home security arena is a strategic maneuver by these companies. Cable and telecom providers are trying to get their infrastructure installed in homes via home security systems. That puts their foot in the door for the home automation services that will exist tomorrow.
A primary selling point for these security packages is the ability to monitor your home from anywhere, on virtually any device. Of course, it makes sense that these companies can offer that feature, given they are providing your wireless and Internet connectivity. Plus, they are already wired into your home via cable. Let's face it, from the consumer point of view, turning to the cable guy for security — and general home automation — makes things a lot easier.
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While cable and telecomm providers are making a lot of noise about their services, we don't know yet what the long-term impact will be for traditional security dealers. Right now, these companies are taking advantage of new technologies and also what is mostly a fragmented home security market.
Nevertheless, the new competition is a wake-up call for the security industry. Homeowners want technologies that simplify their lives, are energy efficient can be monitored anywhere. Home automation is the direction all home-related technologies are headed; security has to be bundled into that concept.
Security companies need to develop home security systems that work in tandem with other functions of the home, like HVAC systems. They also have to provide homeowners the option to monitor (and perhaps control) their homes from multiple devices. ADT has already recognized the need to incorporate new technologies with the introduction of its ADT Pulse wireless system, which provides home security along with home automation capabilities.
It may also mean reaching out to consumers to find out what they want in a home security system and tailoring the industry to operate from a new perspective. Or it could mean reaching out to new market areas. Cable isn't everywhere. Wireless has dead zones. But security systems are needed in all areas.
Most importantly, it is a matter of the security industry keeping its focus on what it does best, while being deft enough to become the provider of choice for new technologies and services sought by customers.
Madison Parker's passion for helping families be more secure in their neighborhoods led to the creation of HomeSecuritySystems.net.
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