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I bought one from Sprat & I've seen a couple sold here on Gunco recently. Also common on Gunbroker. WIDE range on prices. I need to learn more on operating my little mill before I tackle this one! By then I hope to have a DSA receiver to try & copy. I have three FAL kits, but no receiver stubs. So. I don't know what I'll do about a feed ramp? I've never seen a stub offered for sale. I don't even know what they look like. Maybe I can make one after getting a DSA receiver in my hands?
Good going Sprat! Let us know whay you learn about proper heat treating, as I may also have a treating oven by the time I try this project. I want to do some knife making & need an oven for that anyways.


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Writing a put represents a short put option, which is a slightly bullish or neutral position. This strategy entails writing (selling) the put option with an obligation to buy a fixed number or amount of the underlying asset from the holder at a fixed price on or before a specific period of time. The trader or investor who executes this strategy is called the writer. The risk inherent of naked put writing can be extremely high and always carries margin requirements.
The reward in this strategy is limited to the option premium received for selling the put option. The risk is unlimited. Writing puts is used if you are bullish on the underlying asset, and is used basically to collect the premium when a trader or investor feels strongly that the put option contract will expire worthless, or will be worth less than the premium received.
Selling put options can be an alternative to buying shares. For example rather than buy 1000 BHP at the current share price $30.00, you can sell at-the-money puts expiring in a month and receive $1.50 ($1500). This means your break even price on the shares is $28.50. You have basically sold insurance so if the share increases you get to keep the $1500 and sell another put option. If the share decreases you have bought the share at $28.50 instead of $30.00 anyway. There are many more variables to take into account regarding this strategy which will be discussed later in the course under income strategy. Please contact me in the meantime if you wish to discuss trading this strategy.
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#1 Sun 15 Jul 07 3:49pm
Pizza Calzone
After combining all sorts of recipes and ideas I came up with a really good filled pizza: The Pizza Calzone.
Here is the recipe enough for three (quite large) pizza's.
The dough:
450 grams of plain white flour
113g semolina di grano duro
11g sea salt
8 grams dried yeast (or 14 grams fresh yeast)
340 ml (warm water)
Mix the flour, semolina and salt. Than mix in the dried yeast (if you use fresh yeast, then dissolve the fresh yeast first into the water). Add the water, stir and knead at least 10 minutes until you have an elastic, smooth and no-sticking dough.
Let it rise for about an hour (covered in a bowl or something).
In the meantime make the sauce (or make the sauce first and than make the pizzadough)
The filling:
Some olive oil
3 slices of bacon
1 onion, finely chopped
1 carrot, finely chopped
1 stalk celery, chopped
1 clove garlic, chopped
250 grams (lean) minced beef
A small tin tomato paste (about 80 grams)\
Some mixed dried herbs
450 ml beef stock
Salt and pepper
A handful big green olives, in rings
Some good melting cheese, grated
2 balls mozzarella, sliced
Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
In a saucepan, heat the oil; add bacon. Cook until crisp. Add onion, carrot, celery and garlic. Cook, stirring, until it is softer.
Add minced beef and cook, stirring until brown. Drain off fatt if you like.
Stir in tomato paste, mixed dried herbs and stock. Cover and simmer 30 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Leave to cool a little.
After cooling down a bit, add the olives and stir.
Roll the pizza dough into 3 circles.
Spoon some sauce on top of each pizza circle and make layers of salami, melting cheese, mozzarella, parmesan cheese and sauce.
Fold the pizzadough (the one end to the other; like the shape of a half a circlel).
Sprinkle some leftover grated cheese (not too much) on top and bake the calzonepizza's about 15-20 minutes in a preheated oven of 240 degree Celsius until the crust is crisp and golden.
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That sounds good. What kind of melting cheese did you use?
#3 Sun 15 Jul 07 6:59pm
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Just a young cheese... in any case not a cheese with a strong taste/ flavour, that is what the parmesan cheese (about a handful freshly grated) is for.
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Maybe a double cream gouda? Just ran across that here and am loving it.
#5 Mon 16 Jul 07 9:31am
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Yes, that is it... make sure it is a young cheese from Gouda. I had forgotten that here where I live (the Netherlands) these sort of cheeses are very common, but in other parts of the world are hard to find except Gouda cheese.
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The studio is recently renovated, retaining the original stone doorways and window frames. The living/sleeping area features a comfortable double sofa bed. The kitchen is modern and fully equipped, featuring a coffee maker. The bathroom has a bidet and rainforest shower.
Located in the centre of Porto, all of the city's highlights are close at hand. The Crystal Palace, Clerigos Tower and Bolhão Market are all located within 10 minutes' walk. There are plenty of opportunities to eat, drink and shop within 5 minutes' walk.
The Sao Bento Metro Station, which has a direct line to Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport, is a 10-minute walk from the apartment.
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Miguel was an extremely helpful host, he gave a lot of hints, where to go and where to stay. His spacious appartment is decorated with good sense of taste. It is well situated to reach many placs of interest just walking. It is part of a historic building.
Beautifully situated and well appointed apartment with a very friendly host Miguel,who is happy to tell his guests all the best places to visit.We had a fine visit and a memorable experience.Recommended.
The host is very helpful and friendly, the flat is stylish, you can use a nice garden. A realy good choise for 2 people.
It was a great pleasure to stay there! The studio is tastefully furnished and well equiped, very clean and located close to the centre of Porto (the most important places are in walking distance of just a few minutes ). And the garden is so beautiful. Miguel and his family are very lovely people and absolutely attentive to their guests. I really enjoyed my time there. Thanks for everything!
Thank you for a lovely stay very tastefully decorated and spacious apartment with state-of-the-art coffee maker Local wines provided at low cost the apartment is easy walking distance main sites. We really enjoyed sitting out in the beautiful garden. Miguel gave us excellent information on where to eat. The wifi didn't quite work, but hey this life isn't perfect highly recommended
We spent a wonderful Weekend in Porto
The Apartment is close to the historical Centre but also very calm.
Miguel and his Family gave us a very warm welcome.
We felt very comfotable
It is a beautiful tastefully furnished apartment, we are very welcomed by Miguel in the pretty garden.
Minus is the bed that should be a regular bed and not a sofa.
Het is een prachtig smaakvol ingericht appartement, we zijn zeer gastvrij ontvangen door Miguel in de mooie tuin.
Minpuntje is het bed dat zou een gewoon bed moeten zijn en niet een bedbank.
Wonderful house and wonderful host. Strongly recommended location, indications and talk detalles.Un Miguel and all ten!
Maravillosa casa y maravilloso anfitrión. Totalmente recomendable la ubicación, las indicaciones y charla de Miguel y todos los detalles.Un diez!
The experience in this beautiful private apartment is one hundred percent recommended. Both for its location, such as benefits and amabilísimos hosts. Very good suggestions to eat at different restaurants in the city and for tourist visits. Definitely we repeat the experience.
La experiencia en este precioso y céntrico apartamento es cien por cien recomendable. Tanto por su ubicación, como por las prestaciones y los amabilísimos anfitriones. Muy buenas sugerencias para comer en diferentes restaurantes de la ciudad y para realizar las visitas turísticas. Sin duda repetiremos la experiencia.
We just spent four days in Porto lovely and the quality of accommodation is for many. The well-equipped studio is perfectly located near the historic heart of the city. But its quality is to be run by Miguel and Marta lovely couple, very erudite and multilingual. Follow the food and wine advice of Miguel and discover the city as if a friend accompanying you. Again thank you to their family home.
Nous venons de passer 4 jours à Porto très agréables et la qualité de l'hébergement y est pour beaucoup. Le studio très bien équipé est parfaitement situé à proximité du coeur historique de la ville. Mais sa première qualité est d'être tenu par Miguel et Marta couple adorable, très érudits et multilingues. Suivez les conseils gastronomiques et oenologiques de Miguel et découvrez la ville comme si un ami vous accompagnait . Encore merci pour leur accueil familial.
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2016 Chevy Colorado Z71 Crew Cab. Passenger seat fit perfectly. Driver seat bottom was incorrect cut. Although it fit somewhat, it was a factory error. The cover was replaced. Both fit nice and tight. Although it does take some time, be careful with the pull ties that go underneath the seats to make sure you get a snug even fit. The rear seat covers went on easier, but the rear headrest covers did not fit. In the process of getting those replaced. Check covers for correct parts and fit.


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WISE COUNTY, Va. - If you think the synthetic drug problem is getting better, think again. Just last week, a multi-jurisdictional raid on businesses and individuals confiscated hundreds of pounds of synthetic marijuana in Wise County.
An almost two-year investigation led to the raid, but now authorities are now dealing with how to prosecute those involved.
Wise County Sheriff's investigator Russell Cyphers sits and looks at pictures of just some of synthetic drugs confiscated during a raid last Friday, mostly synthetic marijuana. "When you're talking almost 100 to 200 pounds of product and you're selling it in gram increments, that's a lot of product," Cyphers said. Looking at a picture of all the of cash also taken during the raid, that's also a lot of profit.
It's a relatively new issue for the county. "The problem we have a lot of times is we're dealing with a new product that's been introduced to our communities, and the legislation sometimes doesn't match up when trying to combat the problem," He says.
It's an issue Tennessee dealt with during its January legislative session, tweaking a law already on the books to help with prosecution. "The Commonwealth Attorney's office are fantastic to work with, but they deal with a lot of issues legislatively. They have to figure out how to prosecute these cases. It's a battle at times," Cyphers said.
The manufacturers of the product are well aware of each state's laws and try to stay one step ahead. "Sometimes the chemical makeup of these drugs changes. The manufacturers will change it just enough to get ahead of the legislation and cause us issues," the investigator says.
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A state appellate court recently rejected the appeal of a man found to be a sexually violent predator and sentenced indefinitely to a state mental facility.
A Solano County Superior Court jury found Byron McCloud to be a sexually violent predator following a trial in 2011, and he was later committed to the Department of Mental Health for an indeterminate period.
The trial was related to a string of offenses that McCloud was
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The first five offenses occurred in 1979, for which McCloud was convicted of and sent to prison. He was paroled in 1991, but seven months later, McCloud broke into the Vallejo home of a 69-year-old woman and sexually assaulted her.
In 2009, the Solano County District Attorney filed a petition to commit McCloud as a sexually violent predator (SVP). The jury concluded that he was and McCloud's appeal followed, according to the court documents.
In a recent published opinion, the California State Court of Appeal, First Appellate District rejected McCloud's claim that the jury's determination that he was a SVP was not supported by the evidence. The court also rejected his claim that a provision of the Sexually Violent Predator Act constitutionally violated his due process rights.
However, an issue McCloud raised related to the trial court's ability to dismiss a petition for release if determined to be frivolous, was ordered back to Solano County Superior Court for further proceedings. He remains in the custody of the Department of Mental Health.
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text: Man, I'm so glad Ben's contract wasn't extended. I'd be whining all over about his decline and about the impossibility to win the ship with him. He simply hasn't been his old self for 2-3 seasons and will never be again. But geez, that old Ben was a helluva playa!


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If we were in charge of Apple's marketing, we'd get back to what really appeals to people: apples. Maybe some catchy slogans like "The finest Apples in the orchard!" or "Make a delicious Apple crisp!" would do the trick. We'll be waiting by our phone, Apple.
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Since I can't afford a real flare gun and even the copies are more than I'd be comfortable paying, I'm going to have a crack at building my own from scratch.
Does anyone have any drawings, good photos, or measurements of the Webley & Scott Mk1 No1 flare gun?
Please post them here or e-mail them to me.
If I'm successful (the only thing holding me back is the information), then I'll put it all together on a web page so other Fettischists can build their own ESB blastech too.
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It's been a rough year for ethanol, the alternative fuel that was once touted as having great promise in soothing America's demand for foreign oil.
But like many other "green" fuels that have been touted, ethanol has had trouble with sustainability. Indeed, it has had trouble with market liftoff.
If the federal government did not mandate that retail gasoline sold at the pumps contain ethanol, one wonders how much ethanol would be produced in the United States.
What is known is that many attempts to expand production of ethanol are failing. Earlier this year, Range Fuels sold for $5.1 million a plant that federal and Georgia taxpayers had pumped $70 million into. The plan, unveiled in 2007, was to [auth] turn some of Georgia's wood into ethanol.
Range went bankrupt in 2011. About $64 million of federal funds went up in smoke, so to speak.
More recently, in late October, BP Oil pulled the plug on a $300 million ethanol plant in Florida. The plant — announced in 2008 — was to produce 36 million gallons of ethanol per year, according to the News Service of Florida. The research part of the plant will remain open but that is small comfort to a Florida county that has 9.2 percent unemployment and was hoping for 200 jobs to run the plant and grow the crops.
Ethanol will still be used in gasoline, of course. The mandated use has been a huge subsidy for farmers, who like how the increased demand for corn drives up prices. But not everyone is happy about the effect that has on food and feed prices.
In 2008, during several commodity bubbles, prices for corn and oil soared at the same time. It soon became expensive for consumers from Mexico to Kansas to Canada to buy food. The U.S. policy of plowing many of our food-farming acres into fuel-farming acres causes higher prices for a variety of food, from corn to meat.
In 2011, according to the Renewable Fuels Association, the U.S. set a record in production for ethanol, with an estimated 13.9 billion gallons of ethanol made by 209 ethanol biorefineries located in 29 states. As in 2008, higher costs have again arrived for corn-related products.
Yet even with the federal requirement to mix ethanol into gasoline, it has become clear that the U.S. market itself doesn't think too highly of ethanol and sees better, easier opportunities in fuels such as natural gas.
It should be noted that even with huge federal subsidies, many "green" energy companies have failed even to stay open. So it's time for federal policymakers, including President Barack Obama, to get the message: Stop the subsidies to green energy. Let the market work things out.
At the very least, cutting back on ethanol subsidies may lead to cheaper food for consumers, in the United States and worldwide.
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WSU Law Grads Employed at High Rate
The Wayne State University Law School is pleased to report that 96.5% of the class of 2006 had found employment nine months after graduation. This figure represents the students who sought employment and succeeded in finding a job. The Law School awarded the Juris Doctor degree to 226 students in 2006.
The majority of the 2006 graduates (74.7%) were working in private practice within nine months of receiving their diploma. Another 16.5% of the graduates were employed in business or non-profit organizations, while 7.2% had jobs as government employees or judicial clerks. An additional 1.5% were working in academia.
The average reported staring salary for the 2006 graduates was $63,955.
In a positive sign for the state economy, 94.2% of the graduates found jobs in Michigan. Other graduates are working in New York, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, New Mexico, California, and the states surrounding Michigan.
The employment data were formulated by the National Association for Law Placement, a Washington, D.C. non-profit group.


text: 'Play it safe' just encourages skaters to stay in their comfort zone. A whole lot of skaters have fallen over the years while learning a new jump (though of course plenty fall on jumps they already know as well). Think of all the skaters who have attempted to introduce the quad to their program and failed - remember Buttle who fell all the time on his fully rotated quad to get points? He got very good at that, so good that it looked like the fall was choreographed. Remember Mike Weiss, who was trying to land the quad lutz forever and never did? Then there were other skaters who lost all their choreography trying to incorporate the quad, like Takeshi. Men generally need a quad as well as 3A to compete for the podium. And they need the levels and PCS marks as well. There are more falls under CoP than there used to be because programs are now more demanding. Falling is actually the norm - clean skates the exception.


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the act of befriending guys in a social envrionment in order to get access to their girl friends. Normally if one were to approach the girl directly, the guys will prevent one from making any progress with that girl cockblocking, therefore dude chasing involves becoming friends with the guys in order to win their trust. It is a technique often used in a pick up artists circles.
Ryan was getting cockblocked by the Cindy's guy friends at Club Factory. Ben dude chased her guy friends, got their numbers, and ultimately Cindy's phone number as well. Ryan went home crying, but was happy when he got to play Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for xbox at home.
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text: This is starting to become a joke around here. I know you can't do anything really but is much of this as unenjoyable as it is to me. Click on forums and 80% of the topics are Rants .Can't we open up a couple more forum areas about Giants Football. There is just getting to be too much trashing anything and everything . Lets do optimistic about the giants . then a section for people hating everything the giants are doing. Try something Please .


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Clydesdale horses coming to the Lehigh Valley
The Clydesdales are coming!
The Budweiser Clydesdales will be in our area for a week starting next Tues., Sept. 10.
They'll be stabled at the Bethlehem Municipal Ice Rink at 345 Illick's Mill Rd., which will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On Thurs., Sept. 12, there will be a parade of the Clydesdales throughout the Christmas City as the horses will make retail deliveries from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m.
The procession will begin in the area of the Steel Ice Center on East First Street in south Bethlehem.
It will continue on Polk Street, East 3rd Street, Adams Street, West 4th Street, South New Street over the Fahy Bridge, around City Hall, north on North New Street, West Broad Street, and south on Main Street.
Stops will be made on the way at various retail establishments. The procession route is subject to change.
The procession will end at the Wooden Match at the corner of Main and West Lehigh streets.
The stables will then be open to the public from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. Thursday.
The rest of the Clydesdales' schedule:
Fri., Sept. 13 - Retail delivery in Easton, from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Sat., Sept. 14 – Appearance at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center at 1151 Mosser Rd,. in Upper Macungie Township for a Wheels of Hope benefit from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Contact Allentown Beverage for details.
Sunday, September 15 – Home delivery for winner of the Horseshoe drawing. Stables open to the public from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Drawing and winner home delivery will be announced September 7.
Monday, September 16 – Retail delivery in Allentown, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Contact Allentown Beverage for details.
Tuesday, September 17 – Gildan AAA Championship Game at Coca-Cola Park. Tailgate party starts at 5 p.m. The AAA Championship game starts at 6:30 p.m.
The first two Clydesdales were originally given as a gift from August A. Busch, Jr. and Adolphus Busch to their father in celebration of the repeal of Prohibition in 1933.
According to the Budweiser website, this imposing breed was first developed for farm work in the region of Clydesdale, Scotland. They are most easily recognized for their substantial feather — the long hairs of the lower leg that cover the hooves.
Despite a dressy appearance, they are capable of pulling a one-ton load at 5 mph.
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text: Rally for a Better Commonwealth draws activists from around the state A crowd of a few hundred people converged on Copley Square to 'Rally for a Better Commonwealth' on Saturday, May 14. The rally, which took place at the close of the MTA Annual Meeting of Delegates, attracted educators, workers, union and community leaders and supporters from across the state who gathered at Copley Square to call for a renewed investment in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That reinvestment, MTA President Paul Toner and others told the crowd, needs to include more revenues to protect services that are vital to the long-term health of children, seniors, our communities and our economy. "Here's how bad it has gotten," Toner said. "Today, the richest 1 percent of Americans receive a quarter of all income and have 40 percent of all the wealth. In fact, they have as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent of Americans combined. This is a bigger concentration of wealth at the top than in any other modern industrialized country. It is also the biggest gap the U.S. has seen since 1929. You don't need to be a history major to know what happened in 1929! "And the situation is getting worse. As you know, Wall Street and the bankers caused our recent economic crisis. They were bailed out by us, the taxpayers. Instead of being humble and contrite about all the damage they have done, they are brashly showering bonuses on themselves like there is no tomorrow. "The picture looks bleak, but we do have some powerful tools on our side. We have the facts. We have fairness. We have justice. And we have people – 107,000 in the MTA alone, and millions of working men and women in our state and country who make up the bottom 90 percent." Toner encouraged rally participants to start educating people about An Act to Invest in Our Communities – a bill to increase the income tax and also increase the personal exemption to reduce the impact on low- and moderate-income families. The legislation would also increase the state taxes on capital gains and dividends – the lion's share of which are paid by those who are wealthy enough to pay a bit more to support the common good and play their part in creating a better Commonwealth, he added. [Listen to audio clip of MTA Chorus singing "We Shall Not Be Moved," followed a portion of Toner's remarks.] Greater Boston Labor Council President Rich Rogers offered his prescription for "a better Commonwealth, which included protecting collective bargaining rights for public sector workers and restoring them for private sector workers, fighting for universal health care, and designing a more equitable tax system. "We don't have a spending problem, but a revenue problem," he added. "Corporations and the rich in this nation and our Commonwealth need to start paying their share." MTA Education Support Professional of the Year Jean Fay demanded that working people by heard. [Listen to Fay's remarks.] "I'm from Amherst, where only the 'h' is silent, and believe me, I've got something to say," said Fay. "I am a kindergarten paraprofessional working in a Massachusetts public school. After 13 years of dedicated service, I still make less than $17,000 a year. And yet, there are some people who say I am the problem, that we are the problem. "To the health care CEO getting a million dollar severance check, to the corporations paying zero taxes, to the bank getting bailed out with taxpayers' dollars -- I am not the problem. We are not the problem," said Fay, earning cheers from the crowd. "It is important to remember that all our voices are important and need to be heard. Never forget that the vote of someone who earns less than $20,000 a year is just as meaningful and just as powerful as the vote of a CEO who makes millions," she added. Joe LeBlanc, president of the Massachusetts Community College Council, called for a reinvestment in the state's public higher education institutions. The repeated cuts to public higher ed, LeBlanc said, "undermine our present and future economic growth and cut at our heart and soul." Massachusetts Jobs with Justice Organizing Director Jennifer Doe called on the crowd to take action and help spread the word about the need for increased revenues. The rally was co-sponsored by the Boston Teachers Union, Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts, Greater Boston Labor Council, Jobs with Justice and the MTA. More Audio Clips: http://audioboo.fm/massteacher More Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtacommunications Subscribe to MTA News Headlines by Email


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#1 Wed 28 Feb 07 3:12pm
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Delicious home made fruit ice-cream
Dear all!
During the last summer I find out how to prepare home made fruit ice-cream just by an accident. Becouse the ice-cream is so so good I would like to share the recipe with all of you.
- frozen blueberries and/or strawberries (about 1/2 l)
- one banana
- sour yogurt (no suger)
- soya cream
- milk (fat or skim)
- brown sugger
* an a (strong) blender in which frozen fruit could be blend !!
Put into blender still frozen blueberries and strawberries. I suggest you to cut frozen strawberries to a small peaces (to the size of blueberries) so that you can't break the blender. Then blend the frozen fruits to the highest power for aprox. 40 sekundes. Then put into the mixed fruits one banana which you cut into small peaces. Bland again. Don't worry if all the fruits mixed into so called clump. After you bland the fruits you add slowely yogurt, some soya cream and milk (you have to bland all the time if you have the blender in which you can put ingreadients, otherwise add each ingredient by itself and bland). But be careful not to put so much of all this, us the ice-cream still have to stay thick. At the end add the brown suger (not white) as it will produce special flavour. If you are diabetic you can have ice-cream without sugger as the banana already produce sweet taste. Individual can add the sugger according to his/her choice. I recommend to add sugger slowely and taste if after you bland ice-cream one more time.
So made ice cream must be served immediately.
Bon apetit!!
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#2 Wed 28 Feb 07 5:27pm
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Re: Delicious home made fruit ice-cream
Hi Petra,
you should never post your e-mail address in a public forum! (Lots of spam out there these days).
I make sorbet with frozen fruit that I just blend with powdered sugar and liceur (if desired). Works nicely. Thanks for sharing this recipe with us, too.
#3 Wed 28 Feb 07 5:40pm
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Re: Delicious home made fruit ice-cream
I just get frozen fruit and puree it, nothing added at all. I made a beautiful strawberry sorbet for Valentines day and it tasted delicious.
#4 Wed 28 Feb 07 10:47pm
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Re: Delicious home made fruit ice-cream
Awesome when you use sweet fruit! Strawberries sound awesome! Also good with just yoghurt (about half fruit, half yoghurt)...
(I usually used mixed berries and the redcurrants tend to be rather sourish... - that's why sugar is a nice addition... )
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Re: Delicious home made fruit ice-cream
i was very lucky a few years ago and stumbled across an old crushed ice electric icecream maker secondhand.. This way i can make two or three different types of icecream at once without having to wait for a gel insert to freeze . i just need an extra bag of ice and some salt and i am off to the races...
My particular favourite is fresh raspberry off the bush at the side of my house and strawberry when they are in season.
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[quote user="Redeyejedi"][quote user="Raptor22"][quote user="Redeyejedi"][quote user="nycsportzfan"]I knew Jason pIerre paul's arm length combined with his athletic ability was gonna be a huge weapon for who ever drafted him! Dudes a beast and its not often i see guys who don't have a TON of expierence and think there gonna be good rather quickly in the NFL but JPP was one guy i did! Becasue of how quickly he produced from his what 1yr of high school ball to 1yr of Community college to one yr of Bigtime college ball? He didn't need any time to pick it up at those levels and i figured then that he was just one of those rare breeds of player that just has a calling card to play football and picks it up quickly and he has! most were downright fearful of picking him in RD 1 as they thought he had BUST written all over him but because of how quickly he seemed to pick things up at his prior levels he grew on me and became a guy i wanted and thought would produce quickly! Great pick!
[/quote]U have to remember JPP struggled for the first 10 games last year.He graded out last year as one of the worst pass rushers in the NFL.He got way more snaps then he was supposed to because of Kiwis injury.This allowed him to work out the kinks and by week 11 he started to figure it out.Kiwis injury I believe pushed his development a year up. That being said the growthnow to Year 2 has been staggering. To go from where he was at South Florida to the player that was on the field last night is insane[/quote]
Want something really scary/awesome to think about? Try this:
What if JPP is actually following something like a normal rookie learning curve? Moderate contributions year 1, steps forward year 2... and then a leap up in year 3 (and he'll actually have a full off/pre-season following a full year). And, he should be about done maturing... I think he's added about 15lbs since the start of last year, and I don't see any lack of speed.
Just think what it could mean if the past two games are just a stepping stone to something greater (and more importantly, what it could mean playing across from a healthy Tuck, with a healthy secondary behind him)...
[/quote]Yeah that was the point of my post.Im saying he had his learning curve push forward by Kiwanukas injury. He wouldnt of played as many snaps last year had Kiwanuka not been injured.Hence he is a year ahead of schedule in his development. The best thing that happened to the Giants was letting him get on the field as much as he did because he learned the speed of the game. This year he came in and took off because he got to play so much last year because Kiwi was gone[/quote] I here ya but the point is he contributed and played well as a rookie Certainly enough that we could all see this coming clear as day I didn't know the ones who said he was raw and gonna take awhile meant it was gonna be a whole 6games or so of his first Regular season lol To me when someone is supposedly so raw and what not coming outta college it means its gonna take em a yr or 2 before there playing fantastic football I think its safe to say that if u thought it was gonna take awhile for JPP to be a beast u were simply wrong No big deal though as in your case your right alot more then wrong on draft stuff
I do like bringing up our hits and misses as kinda a in good fun competitve thing between Giants mb draft nuts lol As much time as we put in on this stuff U gotta enjoy being right seeing how its so easy to be wrong lol


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Falling for the Lure of Lake Travis
Lake Travis & Co. • Jonestown, TX
Escape Kit
- A Two- ($468), Three- ($602), or Four-Night ($738) Stay for Up to Six Guests in a Three-Bedroom Condo
- Access to the Beach Club
- Wine Tasting for Two at Flat Creek Estate
The Destination
Texas Hill Country stretches from Austin, past northern San Antonio, and all the way to the border with Mexico. The hilly, scrubby terrain looks every bit like the Cowboy country of classic Texas—and then there's Lake Travis. A Hill Country gem just 30 miles from the capital city, the spot has become a playground for thrill-seekers in search of water sports, championship-level golf, and canopy zipline tours. From the pink boulders of Granite Mountain in the distance to the fertile vineyards of the nearby Texas Hill Country Wine Trail, this destination is a veritable kaleidoscope for the senses.
The Digs
You're just steps from the water in the lakeside property at the Hollows on the Northshore, courtesy of Lake Travis & Co. Located on the north side of Lake Travis, the furnished condos have serious on-site amenities: boat slips, pools, and access to a nearby boat ramp. The interiors? Fully equipped kitchens hold court with washers and dryers, TVs, gas grills—and views of Lake Travis, naturally.
"The rocky banks, steep cliffs, and clear water make Lake Travis one of the best lakes in Texas for scuba diving. Devil's Cove is a popular location to anchor boats and spend the day relaxing, swimming, and socializing."-- Texas Monthly
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Spacious Apartment for 7 People - DESIDERIO (201)
Size50 m²
Floor No.
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
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Accommodation summary
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Kitchen with lounge seating is the quintessential modernity. Create a minimalist kitchen area
Graphite dark furniture and a comprehensive Appliances (Refrigerator, dishwasher, hob, microwave with grill function and an electric kettle). Equipment complements tableware for 4 people. Salon is a place of relaxation and rest after a day-long sightseeing. Cream walls, gold stucco and crystal chandelier improve mood, a leather sofa and TV complement the comfort of your holiday.
In such an elegant and ultra-modern style furnished is also a bathroom: dominated by blacks and graphite.
Connected with kitchen. Equipped with comfortable pullout sofa bed, TV with satellite channels, dining table.
The extraordinary power of the original room colors walls: gold and intense violet is extravagance in the full-time. Room refers to the neobarokowego pomp and grandeur in arranging space, and the characteristic curvature and a line of furniture highlight this palatial style. Room Furnishings consists of double bed palaces, spacious wardrobe with mirror, stylish chairs, tables with marble tops and neo-Baroque fantasy dressing. Wholeness complemented by a rich crystal chandelier.
Quiet room in the second part of the apartment. Warm wood tones contrasts beautifully with creamy color of the walls and the burgundy and gold curtains. The dominant point of the room is palatial 2-person bed (can be converted into twin beds), one extra bed is possible, in addition emphasizes the nature of the neo-Baroque interior drawers with mirror and drawers.
House rulesOur standard check in and check out times are as follows:
• Check in: from 14:00
• Check out: till 12:00
• Earlier check in or late check out is possible depending on availability and need to be agreed before arrival.
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Reviews of this property
I was absolutely satisfied in the apartment Desiderio. The room was nicely decorated and close to the centrum. It was clean and everything was super clean. I would only complain about the one probably it took a long time until we reach the house by the apartment was found had since the address was not entirely correct. Otherwise, a super holiday in a beautiful city. Always gladly again :)
Ich war absolut zufrieden in dem Apartment Desiderio. Das zimmer war schön eingerichtet und nah am centrum. Es war sauber und alles super gepflegt. Ich würde vllt nur bemängeln das es lange gedauert hat bis wir das haus indem die Ferienwohnung war gefunden hatten da die Adresse nicht ganz korrekt war. Sonst ein super urlaub in einer wunderschönen Stadt. Immer wieder gerne :)
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in der Nähe der Kernstadt. Notruf bei HIMDU erforderlich; Danke für Vermittlung - großartige Hilfe -.
Einzug ohne Vermieter. Wohnung war wohl kurzfristig geräumt worden; Geschirr noch in der Spülmaschine. Bettlaken unvollständig; Bettbezug und Badetücher sollten während des Aufenthalten gewechselt werden - blieb aus -.Hauseinrichtung alt und renovierungsbedürftig - Betten nicht fest aufgerichtet ; quietschten - . Fernseher ohne ausreichende Deutschsender. Haustür dreifach zu sichern. Gut erreichbare aber teure - 24 Std. bewachte - Parkmöglichkeiten in unmittelbarer Nähe. Wohnung muß aufgebessert werden, entsprach nicht unseren Ansprüchen; für Gebotenes war die Wohnung zu teuer. Preisvorstellung 35,00 € / Nacht
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It was great! Beautifull location and very friendly driver. Would definitely recommend
The apartment was clean and everything was working well, is really nice and it's just few meters from the main square so it was very easy to get everywhere. We enjoyed the stay. Thanks for all, totally recommend it!. Great host, quick responses during booking etc, made arrangements for key, air port transfer and check out
good, clean apartment, everything was working. very well located, only a couple of minutes' walk from the market square. only two points: the apartment did not correspond to the announcement (the pictures shown in the announcement refer to another apartment) and the second night there was a party going on in a neighbouring flat, people were really extremely loud until 3 am, shouting like crazy
Great apartment with an unbeatable view of the main square and despite activity outside quiet and relaxed inside.
One negative booked apartment transfer did not show up at the airport, but a taxi for about the same price sorted that and in future would use the integrated train link much cheaper, quicker and more convenient to get to the office to pick up the keys.
The description of this apartment did not match at all to reality.
The description says 4 bedrooms, big living room and also 2 balconies.
There was only 3 bedrooms and 1 balconies.
There was also only one tabel and six chairs in the kitchen. And I have asked Martin especially if there was space and Equipment for 12 people in the kitchen..
The coffe maker did not work okey. One toilet leaked quite a lot.
It would have been good if someone from Wimdu had met us at the apartment and shown us the apartment. Instead we had to get key from office and then make a mumbers of call to fix all trouble.
Thank you very much for your patience.
The attic was fantastic and in a very good situation, very near the center, and it is lovely.
Localitation is perfect, in the downtown and near train and bus station. Spacious flat with a nice view. Needs more kitchenware, there isnt a toaster or microwawe. Is a 3th floor without lift. The street in summer is noisy and if u sleep with the windows open is sometimes molest. The bath needs a bath screen
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Prineville marijuana clinic operator arrested
Denies charges; police chief denies political timing
PRINEVILLE, Ore. - A Prineville man who operates a medical marijuana clinic in downtown Prineville has been arrested on charges he sold marijuana to a minor – something he denies, claiming the charges are aimed at hurting his reputation and that of his "clinic/club."
Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team agents arrested Ryan Daniel Cole, 35, of Prineville around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday in front of the Crook County Compassion Clinic/Club – called the 5C – at 421 N. Main Street.
Cole was lodged in the Prineville jail on charges of delivery of a controlled substance "for consideration" (sale) and delivery to a minor, as well as recklessly endangering another person, said Police Chief Eric Bush.
"The arrest was made after a lengthy investigation of illegal drug activity by Cole," Bush said in a news release Thursday, noting that Cole initially was held on $15,000 bail but was released due to overcrowding at the jail.
Back in September, Cole, co-owner of 5C with Robert Mills, told the Central Oregonian newspaper they only served patients with a medical marijuana card and were following all laws pertaining to the drug.
While the downtown site was new, the men said they have been in business in Prineville for two years.
"We just want to provide the safe access without stirring up a whole lot of trouble," he told the paper, adding that their doors were open to law enforcement, who already had visited several times.
Cole contacted NewsChannel 21 shortly after his arrest Tuesday and said he did not believe it was coincidental that his arrest came on Election Day, just hours before the ballots were counted on Measure 80, the proposed marijuana legalization that, as it turns out, was rejected by voters.
"Why wait until 10 minutes before closing time and arrest me in front of the clinic?" Cole said.
"Not one of the charges are true," he said in an e-mail, "and I'm willing to call them out and say show the proof, because there isn't any."
"I have never been convicted of any drug-related crimes and have not had anything more than traffic crimes in 15 years," Cole said. "I'm a family man and do not profit from anyone's pain. Because they can't catch me breaking the law, this is their desperate attempt to destroy my name in Prineville."
Cole claimed the officers involved in the arrest "were laughing at me, acting as if this was to embarrass me in my community. They made smug comments, like these charges are over four years old and they decided tonight was the night to charge me."
Bush told NewsChannel 21 Thursday that the timing regarding the election was coincidental.
"We arrest people for selling drugs to kids 365 days a year," he said. "One had nothing to do with the other."
The police chief declined to give more details, as the investigation continues, but said "delivery for consideration" meant the minor provided "something of value" for the marijuana, not necessarily money.
Bush also said the arrest "doesn't have anything to do with the clinic."
"He's not made any complaints to us about the arrest," the police chief said, adding that Cole "has the right to make all the statements he's entitled to."
Cole said Tuesday the clinic-club has "700 members that are gearing up to picket the courthouse police station."
On Thursday he said he's learned – though he's not an organizer – that a large protest rally is being planned for Saturday afternoon in the park near the Prineville police station, focusing not just on his arrest but a former Crook County Jail inmate's $5 million lawsuit, claiming police brutality, and others with similar allegations.
Interestingly, Cole told the Prineville newspaper earlier this fall that he did not support the marijuana legalization measure -- or making the drug available to minors.
"I think that marijuana should be used medicinally, and only medicinally, and not be in children's hands," he said.


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Last week the information on the State 4-H Centennial Kickoff Bash was announced in the 4-H news for being February 21 at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington. This week, I would like to announce the Washington County 4-H Centennial event will take place on Saturday, March 21 at the River of Life Church in Springfield. The theme for the day will be "Come Home to Celebrate 100 years of 4-H at the County Fair." The celebration will run from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. and will feature both outdoor and indoor events similar to those you would find at county fairs.
If cattle seem to be scratching excessively against trees, posts, and feeders, to the point of rubbing off large patches of hair or creating raw sores, lice may be the reason. The species of biting and sucking lice that infest cattle are most numerous and active during the winter and can spread easily through the herd as cattle bunch in response to cold temperatures. Confirm that lice are the reason for the scratching by examining some animals in the herd. Part the animal's hair in spots where lice are likely to occur and look for lice eggs (nits) attached to hairs.&
The 2008 Farm Bill reauthorized the Milk Income Loss Contact Program (MILC). USDA issues MILC payments on an operation-by-operation basis. Beginning with Fiscal Year 2009 marketings, which started Oct. 1, 2008, the Farm Bill made changes to the provisions for payment eligibility to add an adjusted gross income (AGI) limit. If the individual or entity has annual non-farm AGI for the relevant base period greater than $500,000, the individual or entity is not eligible for MILC benefits.
Jeffery S. Hall, FSA State Executive Director, reminded farmers that enrollment for the 2009 Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment (DCP) Program for farms with base acres began on Dec. 22 both online and at local FSA Service Centers. Sign-up will continue until June 1, 2009. The June 1 deadline is mandatory for all participants. USDA will not accept any late-filed applications.
Kentucky 4-H has impacted the lives of thousands of youths since its inception. As it reaches its 100th anniversary, current and former 4-H'ers will be celebrating the organization's past, relishing in its present and anxiously anticipating its future. You can help 4-H celebrate this milestone by showing your support for the organization throughout 2009.
Forage producers around the world have struggled over the last year with high fertilizer prices. I've had many tell me, "I can't afford to fertilize my hay or pastures this year. I'll go broke." While there is some truth to this statement, in the long term, you will definitely "go broke" if your forage crops don't have the necessary nutrients for sustained growth. I don't claim to be a soil science expert, but I would like to provide some basic principles on how to manage the nutrient inputs and outputs on your farm.
The 2009 KCA Convention will be held Jan. 8-10, 2009 in Lexington. The program, "Working Together. Growing Together," will provide KCA members the opportunity to learn and meet other producers from across the state.
"The Convention allows all producers to visit the trade show with over 70 booths, get the latest Economic Outlook, and mingle with other producers, all in one place," said Don Pemberton, KCA Convention Chairman.
The prices of fertilizer inputs have increased at an astounding rate the last two years. With the decrease in commodity prices, fertilizer inputs cost may now be the dominate factor in determining a profit. Efficient and wise use of fertilizers and the nutrients in the soil become important in determining the crop grown as well as its profit.
Below are listed points one should consider to make the fertilizer purchased and the nutrients in the soil profitable for you.
Two new Internet-based systems are enabling the Kentucky Department of Agriculture to carry out its pesticide regulation and environmental enforcement duties more efficiently, improving customer service and staff productivity.
Corn is not the only way to make ethanol. Scientists can also make the alternative fuel from the fiber of straw, wood and even corn cobs, scientists told state lawmakers, through a process called cellulosic—or fiber cell wall—technology.
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Thermal Shrinkage of the Shoulder Capsule
Your shoulder joint is like a ball in a small, shallow saucer. The ball, or head, of the arm bone (humerus) rests in the shoulder socket (glenoid). The capsule is a sheet of tough fibers. It stabilizes the shoulder joint by enclosing the head of the humerus and the glenoid. Subluxation or dislocation of the shoulder joint (movement of the humerus too far out of the glenoid) can stretch or tear your capsule. This can lead to too much movement in the shoulder joint, known as shoulder instability. Symptoms such as aching, catching, or a feeling of the joint "slipping" can result. A treatment called thermal shrinkage can help tighten the capsule and stabilize the joint.
Thermal Shrinkage Therapy
Heating parts of the capsule causes them to shrink. This tightens the capsule and allows it to better stabilize the joint. Thermal shrinkage is done during an arthroscopic procedure. A long, thin lighted tube called an arthroscope is used to see and operate inside the shoulder.
Before the Procedure: Follow your surgeon's instructions on how to prepare for the procedure. You may need to stop eating and drinking after midnight before the procedure. When you arrive at the hospital or surgery center, you will change into a hospital gown. You will be given medication to relax you. You may be partially awake or completely asleep during the procedure.
During the Procedure: Small incisions are made around your shoulder joint. The arthroscope and surgical instruments are placed through these incisions. Magnified images of your shoulder joint appear on a monitor. To perform thermal shrinkage, the surgeon inserts a thermal probe into the joint. This probe heats specific parts of the capsule. The heat causes changes in the tissues, making them shrink. This tightens the capsule, so it can better hold the joint in place.
After the Procedure: Your shoulder may be put in a sling or immobilizer.You will go home the day of the procedure or stay
1night(s). You will be given a rehabilitation program of exercises and physical therapy to strengthen your shoulder. This program may continue for 3–6months.
Risks and Complications of Thermal Shrinkage Include:
Nerve damage
Restretching of the capsule
Failure to tighten the capsule enough
Limitation to your range of motion
Breakdown of shoulder joint cartilage, which can lead to arthritis (chondrolysis)
Call Your Doctor If You Have:
Increasing pain or swelling
Decreasing sensitivity or movement in your shoulder
Fever of
100.4° F( 38°C) or higher, or as directed by your healthcare provider


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Kate Middleton Wedding Dress — How Amazing Is Her Royal Wedding Look!
Kate debuts her gorgeous lace gown by Sarah Burton — and she looks amazing!
Kate Middleton's Royal Wedding gown has finally been revealed and she looks gorgeous! The blushing bride proved she truly is the new People's Princess as she arrived at Westminster Abbey April 29 in a stunning Sarah Burton dress for the Royal Wedding!
In a gorgeous gown with lace overlay on the bodice and long sleeves, Kate's dress was appropriate without being too over the top, with the 10 foot fishtail train following behind her. We're so happy the bride opted for a modern gown that still managed to adhere to tradition. She completed the look with a veil trimmed in lace. While we were thrilled with her dress, what did you think of her gown?
Get More Royal Wedding News:
- Replicas Of Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress, Staring At $698 Already In The Works!
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The Marion Public Library is a city school district library under direction of a seven member Board of Trustees. Each member is appointed for a seven year term by the Marion City Board of Education; members may be reappointed. One term expires each year. The Board of Trustees is the policy-making body of the Library.
Board meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month in the Library's Boardroom. Meetings are open to the public.
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good and cheap service. Got MOT done for £27.5. I gave 4 star as I had to wait 2 and half hours.
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Did my MOT for a great price, including car pick-up and drop-off. Brilliant service! Will definitely use again.
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Highly recommend the lads over at Toms Motors!
Great service! Would definitely use again
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The construction crews were busy during the past off-season as the Mariners moved portions of the outfield wall at Safeco Field for the 2013 season. By moving the walls in, the hitters should benefit. This is the first time the field dimensions have changed since the ballpark opened in 1999.
After several months of deliberation and analysis, input from former players as well as from current and past front office personnel and coaches, the decision was made to make the adjustments last fall.
Executive Vice President and General Manager Jack Zduriencik said, "Our goal is to create an environment that is fair for both hitters and pitchers. Considering the current field dimensions as well as the climate in and around Safeco Field, we feel this has been accomplished with the new layout."
From the left field corner to a point about midway between the bullpens, the wall was moved in four feet. The biggest change is from the left field power alley area to straightaway center, where the wall is as much as 17 feet closer to home plate. From straightaway center to right center, the wall was moved in four feet.
Another noticeable change is in the left field corner. The hand-operated scoreboard is longer be in play, and is relocated to the facing of Edgar's Home Run Porch, a new space for fans to gather and watch the game. The outfield wall is now eight-feet high from foul pole to foul pole.
Based on the analysis, it is expected that the number of total home runs hit at Safeco Field will rank in the middle of the pack of the 30 MLB teams in 2013, compared to ranking 27th over the past three seasons.


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What you'll rarely hear about is the good the elite wealthy often manifest. Probably the finest example of this is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, funded by the Microsoft gazillionaire and his wife
Another wonderful example of a legacy bequeathed to American society is that of J.P. Getty, one of the world's first billionaires who, like Bill Gates, was the richest man in the world during his time. Getty, an unpleasant but highly successful businessman, was a passionate collector of antiquities and art. It became the center of his interest. His view towards his hobby is summarized by his quote, "The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."
Getty enjoyed the beauty of art and wanted others to share his passion. His personal collection formed the basis of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. His estate left $661 million to the Getty Trust in 1976 and that money has been wisely invested, used to buy numerous additional pieces of art and to create places for its presentation
The Getty Museum currently is housed in two branches both in Los Angeles' Westside, one in Malibu and the other in Brentwood. The first constructed was the Getty Villa in Malibu. Its architecture was inspired by a rural Italian villa which was destroyed by an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius before the birth of Christ. The Getty Villa is situated just above the Pacific Ocean and is an elegant building on magnificent grounds, with Romanesque gardens. J.P. Getty was actively involved in the planning and construction of the Villa but did not live to enjoy its completion. The Villa features the main antiquities portion of Getty's collection including Greek, Roman and Etruscan relics.
The gem of Getty's legacy is the Getty Center, opened in 1997 and situated in the Santa Monica Mountains in West Los Angeles, a truly magnificent structure in a most memorable setting. The property has beautiful gardens and grounds and wonderful architecture, the product of Richard Meier's imagination. With views of all of West L.A., UCLA campus, Century City and the Pacific Ocean, it's hard to imagine a grander property or locale for an art museum.The center is built of travertine marble (over a million square feet of it) which brilliantly captures the Southern California sunlight
Admission to both properties is free. You need to pay for parking at both facilities and the Getty Villa requires a reservation for parking. You'll want to spend at least a full half day at each of these locations. You could cram visiting both into one long day but I think you'd be "museumed out" and miss a lot. Better to split the visits onto separate days so that you can enjoy the fine buildings, beautiful landscaping and wonderful collections..
So this is part of the legacy of the One Percent. I wonder in fifty years what the legacy of the Occupy Wall Street crowd will be?
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This spring a couple of my colonies showed signs of dysentery with some spotting on the top bars and the outside of the hive. I was curious if nosema was to blame, so I got hold of a microscope to look for nosema spores in the feces. It was fun using the microscope, but not fun finding what looked like the nosema spores depicted in the book "Honey Bees Pests and Predators, and Diseases." My suspicions were confirmed.
Being able to definitively diagnose my problem was satisfying, and I would like to use the microscope for determining tracheal mite infestations, or any possible bacterial infections (ie. foulbrood, american or european). Does anyone have an idea where I might find a guide that outlined the dissection of honey bees for tracheal mites inspections? Or maybe, a book or guide that had good photos depicting detailed microscopic photos of bee diseases.
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A promising New Zealand-born rugby league player was one of three people killed in a car crash in Western Australia on Friday.
Diego Codyre, 23, was driving a Ford which was overtaking a truck when it collided with a minibus on the Great Eastern Highway between Kalgoorlie and Perth, the Daily Telegraph reported.
His passenger Luke Adams, 20, was killed, as was the driver of the minivan, Aidan Ashcroft, 38. Another 10 people were injured in the crash, the newspaper reported.
Codyre, originally from New Zealand, played as second-rower for the Canberra Raiders in the 2008 and 2009 Toyota Cup.


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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 154, October 30, 1998
CUG Origin Workshop
[ Thanks to ARSC Director of User Services Barbara Horner-Miller and ARSC System Storage Specialist Gene McGill for sharing their CUG reports with us. Below are excerpts. Many of the papers will appear later on the CUG web site: http://www.cug.org/ .]
From Barbara Horner-Miller's Report
The workshop went from Sunday, October 11, 8:00am until Tuesday, October 13, 12:00pm as a single track. It covered the full spectrum of Origin issues and included 3 tutorials. There were 157 attendees from 51 sites but no breakdown on how many of the sites actually run Origins versus those who were there to hear the issues. One bit of "cray" history that I found interesting is covered by the following table. The table demonstrates that while clock speeds are decreasing, the number of operations required to cover an operation is getting higher.
Machine latency CPU OPS need to Name ns Period Cover latency 1)--------- ----- ------ ------------- CDC 7600 275 27 10 CRAY-1 150 12 24 CRAY J90 310 10 62 Origin 2000 300 5 117 CRAY T3E 280 1.7 340 CRAY SV1 300 3.3 360
Origin Optimization and Programming Differences:
- Tools: Miser replaces Atexpert; timex replaces time; perfex replaces hpm.
- Divide by zero generates an interrupt and continues processing rather than aborting.
- Two processors share memory on a node, memory conflicts more common.
- Cache is per processor, therefore the more processors, the more cache.
- Memory is loaded by cache line at 16 words/line.
- Stride 1 yields best results.
- Grouping together data used at the same time helps cache usage.
- Avoid powers of two sized arrays.
- The compiler will pad cache to keep calculations from beginning in the middle of a cache line.
- Prefetch is on with -O3 optimization or by compiler directive.
- Default optimization is -O0, far too slow. Use -O2 or -O3 optimization.
- Subroutine call are almost free.
- User can beat the libraries if usage is sophisticated enough.
- To see what the compiler is doing, use PHASE: flist=on.
- Co-array fortran and SHMEM are available.
- There are no hardware barriers, so "randomly placed" barriers are very expensive.
- Can't mix SHMEM and MPI in the same program; MPI must be used across systems.
- Use SHMEM_GET not _PUT; _GET8 is preferred for performance.
- Loop fusion provides better register/cache reuse; remove temporaries if used.
Daniel Pressel
- Cache and TLB Tuning: Profile. Remove unneeded data motion. Reorder indices & loops. Merge data that is always used together. Split arrays that contain multiple distinct groups. Use transposes where appropriate.
- Remove scratch arrays from COMMON and from SAVE blocks.
- Pipeline Tuning: Profile. Use sparingly. Loop unrolling and reordering.
- Merge loops to give the compiler more to bite on.
- Parallelization: Use loop level parallelization ( C$doacross). Move parallelization to outer loops.
- Miscellaneous Comment: The system runs better if my job sleeps a few minutes every day? Couple of days? (didn't write it down exactly and now can't remember but you get the point)
Origin 200 Status:
- 128 PE Systems: ~100 systems are operational at ~40 sites.
- 256 PE Systems: Operational at SGI.
- 512 PE Systems: Under development as a part of SSI.
From Gene McGill's Report
First, a glossary of some terms used at the conference
- Architect: The marketeers have pirated this noun and turned it into a verb because it is no longer dazzling enough to say someone "designed" a system - now they "architect" it. Or if they are doing it over, they "re-architect" it.
- Partial affinity: As in "some software packages only have a partial affinity for modules." This means they don't work with modules.
- Stabilized: A euphemistic term indicating death of a product. A product is "stabilized" when no new features are added and problems will only be fixed on a limited basis for a limited period of time. In other words, it's dead.
What have the we done to the English language?Conference Overview:
This was a very technical and valuable conference. The attendees were very open, clearly expressing both the good and bad about the Origin2000. There have been some great successes, but many sites, especially the larger ones, are experiencing a bit of pain.A summary of some of the presentations:
Tutorial: Origin2000 Optimization, Charles Grassl, SGI
Grassl gave a good talk on issues to consider, primarily from the perspective of converting traditional Cray vector code to the Origin2000 model. Of course, the NUMA memory model is key and taking good advantage of level 1 and 2 cache leads to better performance. If you have to go to memory, it is best to stay local, but remote memory accesses, while experiencing greater latency, still have bandwidth close to that of local memory. Stride 1 accesses take best advantage of cache, and power of 2 sized arrays are to be avoided. Grassl gave quite a bit of detail, more than my note-taking ability could keep up with. He promised to make the slides available on from the CUG web page with pointers to other sources of optimization information.Welcome, Sally Haerer, CUG President, Gary Jensen, NCSA, and Mick Dungworth, SGI
Haerer gave a brief welcome speech and introduced Jensen.
Jensen welcomed everyone to Denver, pointing out Denver is the home of the Superbowl champion Broncos. Jensen explained the motivation for the Sunday conference was that too many sites can't afford to have people away too long, and it was too difficult getting managements to approve Saturday travel, even though it clearly saves money. Then he introduced Dungworth.
Dungworth gave the 'real' reason for the Sunday conference - the NFL has sunk to such a sorry state that the Broncos can win the Superbowl and most Americans would rather work on Sunday than watch football.Ocean Nest Grid Models and Moderately Parallel Environment, Germana Peggion, University of Southern Mississippi
Peggion spoke of some of the problems of ocean modeling, including dealing with boundary conditions, how to handle changes in grid sizes. She is working on a Gulf of Mexico model and must deal with the boundaries of the Yucatan Straits and the Florida Straits. The GOM model is at 20km resolution, but the coastal areas are modeled at 4km, with some inlets at 1km. The talk was rather mathematically oriented, not spending much time on Origin-specific details.Optimization and Parallelization of a vector code (C90) for Origin2000 Performance: What we accomplished in 7 days, Punyam Satya-narayna, Raytheon Systems Company at ARL DSRC, Aberdeen Maryland, Phil Mucci, Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Ravi Avancha, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Iowa State University, Ames Iowa
Punyan describe how the three of these people worked at their separate labs optimizing code that Avancha had developed. The code originally ran quite well on a T90, achieving a peak of 518 MFLOPS on a single CPU, with vector lengths of 96. In seven days, they improved the code enough to improve its first O2K run from 60 seconds to 26. Most of the optimizations were for single-cpu performance ("parallelization will be the next 7 days"). Pfa was not effective.Loop Level Parallelism Using Moderate Sized Parallel Processor: Performance Issues, Daniel M. Pressel, Computer Scientist, U.S. Army research Laboratory
Pressel discussed various issues including optimization and system throughput management. The optimization issues followed the same themes of previous speakers - better use of cache, reducing TLB hits, merge arrays used as a group, split arrays that contain multiple distinct groups. He also recommended minimizing scratch arrays and process them a row at a time instead of a plane at a time. Scratch arrays should not be in Common Blocks or marked SAVE. Avoid paging like the plague - it drags you and everybody else down. He recommended programming into the program checkpoint restart to save time and space - checkpoint restart on the system is too slow, and saves too much data. [Interesting - ARSC's T3E checkpoint seems to perform quite well.] He pointed out that the Origin system isn't like UNICOS systems that stay up forever and he recommends any long-running job checkpoint once per day.Managing Origin Resources using Job Performance Monitor, Michael Shapiro, NCSA
Shapiro has developed tools to better track resources on a running system. One is an enhanced ps command. Based on this output they have developed better process limit mechanisms and accounting abilities. They are available at ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/outgoing/mshapiro files are psd.tar and ilimit.tar.NCAR Experiences with the Origin2000-128 CPU 250 MHZ, Mary Ann Ciuffini.
Ciuffini gave a very good, very detailed talk mostly about problems they encountered bringing the O2K into production. Her slides are very detailed, and would be better viewed than my summary. See the NCAR SCD web pages - http://www.scd.ucar.edu/hps/PAPERS/NCAR.O2000_981011/ and http://www.scd.ucar.edu/hps/papers.html.Shared Memory Multi-Level Parallelism for CFD, OVERFLOW-MLP: A Case Study, James Taft, Sierra Software, Inc., NASA Ames Research Center
Overflow consumes 25% of the cycles at NASA Ames. It is pure vector code, that can consume a 16 processor C-90 and run over 4.6 GFLOPS doing it. A complete aircraft model may have 30,000,000 points. Taft worked on converting it to run on the Origin using multi-level parallelism, forks and barriers. This turned out to convert to the O2000 very well, running 10 GFLOPS on a 128 node O2K. This is without much single processor optimization - that is expected to give another 2X speedup. It scales linearly up the 128 processors, and beyond that, it could scale super-linear since more processors mean more cache. NASA is about to release the MLPlib to make conversions like this easier.
CLK_TCK, Cycle Time, IRTC... Which Clock?
One of our readers was doing some timings with IRTC and discovered that CLK_TCK was reporting 75,000,000. He was expecting 450,000,000, since the clock speed on the T3E-900 is 450Mhz.
Here are results from various interface routines on yukon:
If you execute the command "sysconf" you'll see this:
Hardware: [ ... ] Cycle time in nanosecs (LPE 0x060) ... 2.2220 Clock ticks per second (LPE 0x060) ... 75000000 [ ... ]
Inverting the cycle time yields 450Mhz, the expected clock speed of the T3E-900.
The "Clock ticks" value of 75Mhz is the clock module oscillator frequency--prior to its multiplication in hardware by 6.
If you use the POSIX function "pxfsysconf" to determine the clock speed (as shown in newsletter #116), you'll be accessing the "CLK_TCK" global variable.
CLK_TCK gets the value 75,000,000.
At the time we printed issue #116, yukon was a T3E-600, and CLK_TCK returned the anticipated value of 300,000,000.
If you use the "sysconf" function you'll get this:
_SC_CLK_TCK (the number of clock ticks per second) gets 75000000. _SC_CRAY_CPCYCLE (the CPU cycle time in picoseconds) gets 2222.
If you use:
to count the number of clock ticks that occur in a second of wall-clock time, you'll get 75,000,000.
If you use the "target" system call:
target(MC_GET_TARGET, &data)
as shown in a C program given on the man page for "target", you'll find that the field:
gets the value 450,000,000. And that the field
gets the value 2222 (picoseconds) which yields 450Mhz when inverted.
If you're using any of the above commands/functions, be sure that your constants are consistent.
In particular, if you time your program using IRTC, and then convert to seconds by dividing by CLK_TCK (as derived from the POSIX function) you're Okay. If you've hardwired a clock speed of 300,000,000 or 450,000,000 (or 600,000,000, if you're lucky enough) into your code, you better double-check your timings.
The AAAS conference and IARC Inauguration occurred this week at UAF with over 200 attendees primarily from the U.S. and Japan. "Images from the conference"--including one of Guy (fourth image down on the left, second "guy" on the right)--are available at:
PLAPACK Update
[ This came in yesterday... ] > During the last 2 1/2 years the PLAPACK project at UT-Austin has > developed an MPI based Parallel Linear Algebra Package (PLAPACK) > designed to provide a user friendly infrastructure for building > parallel dense linear algebra libraries. > > The BETA release of R1.2 has a number of important additions: > > 1) In addition to the general and positive definite (dense) matrix > solver in R1.1, we now feature a QR decomposition based linear least > squares solver. > > 2) PLAPACK now includes a Fortran interface. > > 3) Although R1.1 was already competitive with other parallel dense > linear algebra packages, performance has noticeably improved: > > Performance in MFLOPS/sec/processor on 16 node T3E-600 (300 Mhz), > streams turned on > > (Cholesky) (LU w/ pivot) (LU w/ pivot) (QR) > double real double real double complex double real > n R1.1 R1.2 R1.1 R1.2 R1.1 R1.2 R1.1 R1.2 > -------+------------+--------------+---------------+-------------- > 2000 90 130 66 79 * 178 * 73 > 5000 195 253 174 212 * 332 * 209 > 7500 245 303 228 268 * 376 * 272 > 10000 280 333 268 307 * 397+ * 312 > 12000 300 346 327 * * * * > > (For the above performance results, complete solves were performed, > including related triangular solves. +The R1.2 performance for LU > double complex attaining 397 MFLOPS/sec/processor was for a problem > size of 9500.) This performance improvement was primarily due to a > reduction in communication overhead and more sophisticated > implementation of the factorization routines. > > PLAPACK has been ported to platforms ranging from parallel > supercomputers like the Cray T3E and IBM SP-2 to Pentium based Beowulf > class systems running Windows NT or Linux. > > For more information on PLAPACK: > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/plapack > > The PLAPACK Users' Guide is available from The MIT Press: > Robert van de Geijn, "Using PLAPACK: Parallel Linear Algebra > Package", > The MIT Press, 1997, http://mitpress.mit.edu/ > > Coming soon: A Matlab and Mathematica interface to PLAPACK. > > Greg Morrow and Robert van de Geijn > for the PLAPACK team
Quick-Tip Q & A
A: {{ Why does Fortran array indexing start at 1 while C starts at 0? }} We got two responses from readers (Thanks!): ##### Because FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation, in the history books) was written by mathematicians and C was written by computer scientists :-). ##### Interesting question. I assumed that Fortran started at 1 because it made more sense in the human-oriented notion of counting and indexing, whereas C's implementors were concerned with efficiency and realized that counting from 0 made more sense from a machine's point of view (for example, it makes the array ~= pointer analogy clearer: x[i] == *(x+i); or most importantly: x[0] = *x). Here's another example where counting from 0 makes sense. Imagine that you want to permute a vector by simply shifting it by an amount "shift". For example, the following example shows a vector with shift = 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 -> 4 5 6 1 2 3 In C, this is pretty clean: for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { x[i] = y[(i + shift) % len]; } In a 1-based indexing dialect of C, it would have to be: for (i = 1; i <= len; i++) { x[i] = y[((i + shift - 1) % len) + 1]; } Note that ZPL represents the next logical step in the evolution, since it allows arrays to have arbitrary lower bounds. :) ##### Editor's comment: I think it is a cultural matter. Some cultures never had a concept of zero. The ancient Mayans of Central America are considered to be the first with a true understanding. They had a highly sophisticated set of numerical notations and understood the concept of the quantity of zero a thousand years before anyone else did. Do remember in Fortran90 you can define arrays as you wish with the array subscript features. I think the most important issue is to be consistent. Now more codes are mixing C and Fortran, which can be confusing. Is the first element number 1? Q: Here's one for the Minnesotans, Norwegians, and other Arctic dwellers out there: You're obsessed to the point of absent-mindedness by the excitement of parallel programming. What's the best way to remember that you've plugged your car in (so you don't drive away, rip the socket out of the wall, and run over your own extension cord)?
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Reality Check: Ad Attacks Kloppenburg's Record
Kloppenburg Is Challenging Incumbent Justice David Prosser
MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Supreme Court race has brought interest groups out against the candidates.
These groups are using old but controversial cases to sling mud.
In this "Reality Check," WISC-TV looked at an ad running against Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg.
An ad being run by the group "Citizens For A Strong America" has a lot to say about Kloppenburg's record, but the group would like to stay in the shadows.
An Internet search shows the group says it is a "diverse coalition of stakeholders" that "promote public policy that reduces tax burdens on families."
An address listed for the group is to a post office box in Beaver Dam. The phone number is for a Middleton number, which has a full mailbox.
As for who runs the group, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign found that the website is registered to a John Connors. His Milwaukee address is in the same building as the tea party organization -- Americans For Prosperity.
"JoAnne Kloppenburg says she has courtroom experience, but Kloppenburg has never been a judge. She's a government lawyer with a record of suing farmers and employers," the narrator in the ad says.
A WISC-TV analysis found that this needs clarification.
It is true that Kloppenburg has never been a judge, but she has been a prosecuting attorney with the attorney general's office since 1989.
As far as her record, Kloppenburg's area of expertise is in environmental law, and who she would sue would be a matter of who has broken state laws related to air or water pollution.
"Kloppenburg is so extreme she even put an 80-year-old farmer in jail for refusing to plant native vegetation on his farm," the ad's narrator says.
A WISC-TV analysis found this to be misleading.
The ad is referring to Jefferson County farmer Wayne Hensler. According to court documents, Hensler's Lake Mills property had been eroding over six years, sending runoff into nearby Rock Lake, breaking state environmental laws.
The Department of Natural Resources, which Kloppenburg represented, gave him a number of years to fix the property, which he refused to do.
He was fined by a judge for ignoring these orders, and the DNR was ordered to do re-seeding to stop the runoff, which Hensler proceeded to plow up.
He was then fined for the cost of the planting and ordered to re-plant the work. Hensler refused to, so a judge sent him to jail for five days.
"Maybe that's why President (Barack) Obama and governors from both political parties would not appoint her to a judgeship," the ad says.
WISC-TV found that is needs clarification.
It is true that Kloppenburg has asked to be appointed to four judgeships, including a recent application to be a federal judge. President Obama nominated former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler for the spot, and previous governors also passed her over for various appeals court positions, but why she wasn't chosen is unclear.
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