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The JRX225 is a portable, dual fifteen-inch, two-way speaker system designed specifically for applications in live music performance and music playback. It features JBL low frequency drivers with a 2.... Click To Read More About This Product
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Optimizing RDoc
When it comes to documentation, there's always room for improvement. I've been contributing to docrails for quite a while now. However, one issue that has always annoyed me is how slow RDoc is.
In particular, generating RDoc output for ActiveRecord is painfully slow. It takes 34.2 seconds on my machine. Using JRuby helps a little, seeing that it can do JIT and all, but not much: it still takes 29 seconds (including JVM startup time). I had hoped for a bigger performance improvement.
So a few days ago I started optimizing RDoc. And not without result. Here are the results of generating RDoc for the Ruby 1.8 standard library with RDoc running in MRI 1.8:
Before optimizing: 1624.8 seconds (27 minutes). I had to close all applications because RDoc ate almost 1.5 GB of memory.
After optimizing: 531.2 seconds (8 minutes and 51 seconds). RDoc now uses only about half the memory it used to need.
Performance improvement: 206%!
The results for generating RDoc for ActiveRecord are:
Before optimizing (MRI 1.8): 34.2 seconds
After optimizing (MRI 1.8): 29.9 seconds
Performance improvement: 14%
Before optimizing (MRI 1.9): 16.8 seconds
After optimizing (MRI 1.9): 13.2 seconds
Performance improvement: 27%
Before optimizing (JRuby): 29.0 seconds
After optimizing (JRuby): 24.5 seconds
Performance improvement: 18%
So what did I do? Read on!
Multi-threaded parsing
My laptop has a dual core CPU. It's kind of a waste to see RDoc utilizing only a single core. RDoc can be parallelized by running 2 rdoc processes at the same time. But I'm never generating 2 different sets of RDoc documentation at the same time, so running 2 rdoc processes in parallel won't do me any good. So I had to search for ways to parallelize a single rdoc process.
It turns out that RDoc's code parsing phase is pretty easy to parallelize. It just creates a new parser object for every input file, and parses files sequentially. So I modified RDoc to create multiple worker threads during the parsing phase. The main thread will offer a list of filenames, and the worker threads will each consume filenames and parse the corresponding file as fast as they can.
What I did not try to do however, is making the parser itself multi-threaded. That's just asking for problems. Those of you who are interested in multi-threaded programming, but aren't experienced with it, should keep this in mind: try to keep your threading code as simple as possible, and make sure that your threads share as little data as possible. In my case, the only things that the threads share are the filename queue and the result aggregation array.
MRI 1.8 implements userspace threads, so having multiple threads doesn't increase CPU core utilization. MRI 1.9 uses kernel threads, but it has a global interpreter lock, so it can't utilize multiple CPU cores either. Luckily, JRuby doesn't have a global interpreter lock. The parsing phase is now about 35% faster, when run on JRuby on my dual core machine.
This patch has been submitted upstream: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22555&group_id=627&atid=2474
Cache template pages
For larger projects, the slowest phase of RDoc is probably the HTML generation phase. The latest version of RDoc uses ERB templates for HTML output. RDoc generates an HTML file for every class, every module and every source file. However after some profiling with ruby-prof, I found out that RDoc recompiles the ERB template for every output file, which is slow.
I modified RDoc so that it caches compiled ERB templates. This made it about 19% faster.
This patch has been submitted upstream: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22556&group_id=627&atid=2474
Reduce the number of relative URL generations
For every output file, RDoc generates a list of URLs to this output file, relative to the output filenames of all classes, files and methods. This is done by calling the function
index_to_links, which runs in O(n) time. For every output file, index_to_links is called 3 times, each time with the full list of classes, files and methods. Suppose there are K output files, L classes, N files and M methods. Then this will result in K * (L+N+M) operations, which is quadratic! Ouch!
The RDoc authors already tried to optimize this by only calling index_to_links when the current output filename's directory is different from the last one. For example, if the last output file was classes/active_support/cache/memcache_store.html and the current output file is classes/active_support/cache/memory_store.html, then index_to_links doesn't need to be called again, and its last result can be reused. The problem is that the output filename list isn't sorted, and so a directory change is detected much more often that it needs to be.
I optimized this by sorting the list. This resulted in an 8% performance improvement.
This patch has been submitted upstream: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22565&group_id=627&atid=2474
Reduce garbage and redundant operations in index_to_links
But the story doesn't end there. index_to_links accepts two arguments: a filename and an array. index_to_links sorts its input array every time it is called. Remember that I said that index_to_links is O(n)? It's not: it's actually O(n log(n)) because of the sorting.
The arrays that are passed to index_to_links remains the same every time. So it's very inefficient to keep sorting them over and over. I optimized this by:
- sorting the arrays only once.
- passing the sorted arrays to index_to_links.
- modifying index_to_links to not perform any sorting.
- modifying index_to_links to use in-place array manipulation methods as much as possible, to avoid generating unnecessary garbage objects.
The result is a 14% overall performance improvement.
This patch has been submitted upstream: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22557&group_id=627&atid=2474
Failed: parser output caching
Seeing that the parser isn't very fast, I thought about caching its output. So I modified RDoc in the following manner:
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Marshal.dumps the parser output to a cache file.
- It consults the cache file whenever possible, instead of parsing the input file.
This made the parsing phase about 20% slower on a cold run, but 75% faster on a warm run.
Unfortunately, this approach totally fails on large projects. When run on the Ruby 1.8 standard library, it results in cache files that are 6 MB or larger. Loading such a file is much slower than parsing the original source file, and uses more memory too. My laptop crashed during this experiment because Ruby used 2 GB of memory. So I abandoned this effort.
Final words
Take the performance improvement numbers that I've given with a grain of salt. These numbers were taken by running RDoc on its own sources, under MRI 1.8. The performance gain really depends on the input. You've already seen the difference in performance improvement between running RDoc on the Ruby 1.8 standard library, and running it on ActiveRecord.


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Bodegas Muriel Reserva 2005
Tempranillo from Rioja, Spain
Winemaker's Notes
The Bodegas Muriel Reserva is a clear, ruby red color, with good intensity, boasts a perfect blend between intense fruit aromas, like strawberries and blueberries, and vanilla, balsamic scents and spices, due to fine oak maturation. The palate is round, velvety and mouthfilling, with a very long, satisfying finish.
Ideal all type of grilled and roasted meats. It also matches well with strong fish and all kind of cured cheeses. Or, with tasty with chocolate desserts and puddings.
Critical Acclaim
The Wine Advocate - "The 2005 Muriel Reserva was aged in French and American oak for 24 months followed by 2 years of bottle aging prior to release. Medium ruby red in color, it displays a similar but more complex bouquet than the Crianza. Nicely developed traditional Rioja aromas are followed by a medium-bodied, smooth-textured, dense wine with plenty of savory fruit, a firm underpinning, and plenty of length. It is likely to evolve for several years and is a good candidate to see its 20th birthday."
Bodegas Muriel Winery
Bodegas Muriel was founded in 1982, when Julian Murua revived his father's (Jose Murua) winery, which dates back to 1926 in the heart of the Rioja Alavesa (one of the three sub-regions that make up Spain's Rioja appellation). The cellars are in the quaint, historic village of Elciego, which is renowned for being surrounded by some of the best "terrior" in Rioja.
The name "Muriel" comes from the combination of the family name (Murua) and the name of the town itself (Elciego). Today, Julian and his son Javier run the winery with the mission to meld the long-held winemaking traditions of the region with new technologies and techniques in order to make wines that express the "best qualities" of the grapes coming from these fertile Riojan vineyards. View all Bodegas Muriel Wines
About Rioja(ree-OH-hah) Spain makes some of the best Tempranillo-based wines in the world. Once the only DOCa (recently joined by Priorat in 2001), Rioja is divided into 3 sub-regions: Rioja Baja, Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa. There are 4 red varieties and 3 white varieties allowed in the Rioja DOC. Tempranillo definitely takes center stage, followed by Garnacha (Grenache), which is sometimes added for body, then Graciano and Mazuelo (Carignan). The region also makes roses. For whites, the main grape is Viura (or Macebo), producing fresh, early-drinking wines. Malvasia, the grape that was once the most planted white, is found less often.
Notable FactsThe Rioja wine trade is somewhat confusing. Grapes are typically brought to a merchant's bodega from one of the 20,000+ growers in the region, or via a cooperative. The wine is then bottled and labelled by that bodega. Rioja's Consejo Regulador keeps track of all vineyards and bodegas to make sure they are following the DOCa regulations. Put in place to ensure quality, the system also controls prices.
As with the rest of Spain, the wine label may state Crianza, Reserva or Gran Reserva, depending on barrel & bottle maturation. Crianzas are usually found within two years of the vintage and offer fresh, ripe wines. Reserva and Gran Reserva will be found a few years after the vintage, as the bodega will be aging the wines in barrel and bottle before release. Both typically show more secondary characteristics of spice and oak ageing.
About Spain
The most popular red varieties of Spain include Tempranillo and Garnacha (Grenache). Whites don't garner quite as much recognition, but there are some regional varieties not to be missed, like Albarino and Verdejo. The popular red regions of Spain include Rioja, known for its outstanding wines of the Tempranillo grape; Ribera del Duero, producing high quality reds from Tempranillo and Garnacha; Galacia, with the sub-region of Rias Baixas, home to the deliciously crisp and floral Albarino grape; and Priorat, a region increasing in popularity with its high-quality cult reds. Other regions of note are Rueda, growing the Verdejo grape, La Mancha, a wide desert region, covered in the most planted white variety in the world, Airen, and Jumilla, making wines based on Monastrell (Mourvedre).
Spain's wine laws are based on the Denominacion de Origen (DO) classification system, devised in the 1930's. A four tiered system, the most basic level is Vina de Mesa (table wine) followed by Vino de la Tierra (country wine), DO and at the top DOC. Currently, only Rioja and Priorat have DOC status, while over 65 DO's scatter the country.
Most DO regions are classified and regulated by how long they age the wines. On a red wine label, one may find the terms Crianza, Reserva or Gran Reserva, denoting the wine's barrel and bottle time. Crianza is usually two years between barrel and bottle (the time in each depends on the DO and/or the winemaker), Reserva up to 4 years and Gran Reserva 5 – 6 years. Classifications of each region and wine are controlled by the region's Consejo Regulador.
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Medium bodied red with aromas of strawberrry and cherry. In the mouth it is somehat subdued with similar flavors as well as sweet tobacco and spice. Nice finish. Has good acidity so will pair well with a variety of foods. A solid bargain as well.
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H.R.6879 - A bill to amend and extend the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970.93rd Congress (1973-1974)
|Rep. Stephens, Robert G., Jr. [D-GA-10] (Introduced 04/12/1973)
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Introduced in House (04/12/1973)
Imposes a ceiling on all prices at levels no higher than those prevailing on March l6, l973; and provides for the President, within 60 days after enactment, to roll back prices to levels lower than those prevailing on March l6, l973.
Imposes a ceiling on interest rates at levels no higher than those prevailing on March l6, l973, on (a) mortgage loans for single or multifamily dwellings, (b) installment or noninstallment consumer credit loans, (c) loans for farm production or capital improvement loans, (d) loans to small business concerns and (e) personal loans.
Provides for the President to roll back interest rates to levels lower than those prevailing on March l6, l973.
Authorizes the President to issue orders and regulations to establish a mandatory program to stabilize prices, wages, salaries, interest rates and corporate dividends in the face of a growing inflation rate based on the Consumer Price Index.
Directs the President to stabilize rents at levels prevailing on January l0, l973, and allows him to roll back rents to levels lower than those prevailing on that date.
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe regulations governing the amount of margin that must be required or maintained on any commodity futures contracts.
Establishes in the legislative branch the Office of Consumer Counselor, headed by the Consumer Counselor, appointed for a one year term by the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals.
Provides that the Consumer Counselor shall have authority to investigate fully, on complaint from a consumer, all official actions of any board or similar entity charged with controlling prices.
Grants to the Comptroller General the authority to review all reports concerning prices, profits, wages, salaries, or interest rates submitted by any person to any officer, department, agency, board, commission, or similar department, agency, board, commission, or similar entity established pursuant to authority granted the President.
Declares that no public carrier or other public utility shall increase charges unless it first gives 30 days notice to the President or a designated agency, and consents to that agency's intervention before the authority having jurisdiction to consider the increase.
Requires the President to transmit to Congress reports describing any action taken by him and giving his assessment of the program's status.
Authorizes the allocation of petroleum products in order to meet the essential needs of the Nation and to prevent anticompetitive effects resulting from shortages of these products.
Extends the Economic Stablization Act until l974.
Directs the General Accounting Office to study and to report to the Congress on the relationship between consumer food prices in the United States and commodity exchanges.
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, upon request by representatives of a substantial segment of any industry, to appoint a technical advisory committee to evaluate technical matters, licensing procedures, worldwide availability, and actual use of domestic production facilities and technology.
Establishes quotas on the export of lumber and logs.


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I have the following in a .htaccess file in a directory, let's say it's in "/home/foo/public_html/pictures". It works, the pictures are changed to show the "noaccess.gif" file.
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When I move the code to the top level .htaccess file (which we'll say is in "/home/foo/public_html/". The code DOES prevent the images from showing up from anywhere on the site, but wont display noaccess.gif.
Odd. Ideas?
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Very strange! Your rewrite directives look correct, although there are a few extra characters that aren't needed (e.g ".*$" - cleaned up below). Do you have the Options directive in your top-level .htaccess? Are there any rewrite rules in the top-level .htaccess that are not present in the subdirectory version? These other rewrite rules, if they precede the ones you are having trouble with, might be interfering with your intended results.
Since I don't see anything wrong with what you posted, I'll try to make this post worthwhile by pointing out a few more lines you might want to add. These additions will allow your site to be properly displayed by various search engines that offer cached versions of your pages and/or language translation service. They cache the html page, but they don't cache the images. So, unless you let the user access the images with a modified referer, your images will show as broken image links in the cached page.
The additions will allow Google, AltaVista, Gigablast, and Comet Systems translators and caches to display your images.
Options +FollowSymlinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?some.site.org [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://216\.239\.(3[2-9]¦[4-5][0-9]¦6[0-3])\..*(www\.)?some.site.org [NC]
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RewriteRule \.(gif¦jpg)$ [some.site.org...] [R,L]
If you still can't get it to work after adding the Options directive, feel free to stickymail me your entire top-level .htaccess file - I'd be happy to take a look.
Note: You may or may not want the "-Indexes" option. The one that might matter here is the "+FollowSymlinks" option.
[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 5:34 am (utc) on Sep. 13, 2002]
[edit reason] URLs "revised" [/edit]
Tried copying your code and ended up with the same results. Prevents the image, but not my custom .gif.
As far as the file, it just has:
AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName AllowLocalAccess
AuthType Basic
order deny,allow
deny from (IP HERE)
About half a dozen deny's and then that code. I tried stripping the entire .htaccess file and it didn't make a difference.
I spent a little time looking for something that might make a difference in my http.conf, but so far nothing conclusive.


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Obstructions due to chronically congested nasal passages or enlarged tonsils may affect the growth of the face. "Long face syndrome" is a term describing the longer, narrow face of children who suffer from uncontrolled allergies or, an obstruction of the upper airway which creates an inability to breathe through the nose, reports an article in the July/August 2004 issue of General Dentistry, the Academy of General Dentistry's (AGD) clinical, peer-reviewed journal.
"Narrow nostrils, shadows beneath the eyes and constantly open lips may also be associated with blockage of the upper airway or allergies," explains Jane A. Soxman, DDS, lead author of the report.
If the child is unable to breathe through the nose, mouthbreathing results, which may affect overall health since important nasal functions are bypassed. As air passes through the nose, it is warmed, humidified and cleansed of foreign particles, pollen and bacteria. "In addition, dry air carries less oxygen than moist air to the lungs, causing these children to fatigue more rapidly," explains Dr. Soxman.
The child's bite may change too. Unbalanced muscle forces compress the upper jaw and the tongue may protrude through the front teeth, forcing them outward. If the constriction of the upper jaw repositions the molars, a dentist may recommend expansion of the upper jaw with an appliance, which also often improves breathing.
In some children, a severe upper airway blockage can cause breathing to stop during sleep or sleep apnea. According to Dr. Soxman, these children may not grow normally because of the energy they expend trying to breathe during the night. Also, these children may be hyperactive and experience poor concentration, headaches, nightmares and bedwetting. Use the BEARS acronym to determine if sleep apnea is a possibility:
* Bedtime problems, such as snoring, sleep apnea or nightmares
* Excessive daytime sleepiness
* Awakenings at night
* Regularity and duration of sleep
* Snoring
Parents may use an audio or video to tape documentation of the child's sleep disturbances. A physician may recommend removal of the adenoids if sleep apnea is due to obstruction of the upper airway.
If allergies are the source of the problem, the causes need to be determined and removed. Dr. Soxman encourages parents to minimize dust. "Use a damp cloth to dust, remove carpet, stuffed animals, down pillows and down comforters. Buy hypoallergenic pillows and cover mattresses and pillows with dust mite barrier covers." The child's doctor may recommend drugs or allergy shots to reduce allergic responses.
"Knowing what a nose knows may help to improve the quality of life," says Dr. Soxman.
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Lely invests in Europe's most sustainable company premises
Maassluis, 16 April, 2012 – On April 27, 2012, the Lely Group, an international producer of ground-breaking innovations for the agricultural business, will start building their new company premises for innovation and implementation in the Maassluis-based Dijkpolder. Building new premises is a strict necessity for Lely because of soaring market demands, causing an increase in human capital of 35% in 2011 alone. In addition, Lely is intent on developing and manufacturing its products within a sustainable environment. Building its new international head-office, Lely sets out for certifying the most sustainable industrial premises in Europe.
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I'm writing this blog to list the new BCS features and enhancements in SharePoint 2013. SharePoint 2013 is released with great features for developers and IT Admins in terms of ease of use connecting to external sources and the ability to develop self-contained SharePoint applications that connect to external sources. In this article i will describe the new features and enhancements when building solutions on top of SharePoint 2013.
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We saw trees, trees and yet more trees, lakes and stunning sunset, and misty morning on the lakes. Eventually as we crossed over from Ontario to Manitoba we hit the Prairies of Canada!
At least we decided to break up the journey, those travelling straight through to Vancouver had a 72 hour train journey and were going slightly mad even when we hopped off! Still we are now halfway across Canada and as we head West the journey will be no more than 8 hours!!
Winnipeg is cool and not as much of a concrete jungle, more like a zoo!! Only joking! However we had wished to go up to Churchill, way up in the North to see the Polar Bears, but it is such a trek we decided against it - to my joy however Winnipeg has it's very own Polar Bears on Broadway!!! An Art Exhibition of about 100 life size concrete bears painted in various disguises....photo's to follow! (not all of them though!).
We've been down to the Forks in Winnipeg, which is an old Native meeting place, which is pretty cool, and has an amazing focal point for astronomy - too tricky to explain here, will show you the pics later.
We are off to Saskatoon this afternoon. Train leaves at 4:30pm and arrives in Saskatoon 01:30am (ahhh! luckily motel already booked so might get some sleep after all!). We have been told that Saskatoon is quite like Eastleigh (Chav's galore or the Canadian Homie version of! They have Burberry here too, but not as much. More bling and hip hop!... So worth a look on that basis alone!!!)


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Foursquare switched over the OpenStreetMap last year (we discussed it on a podcast). Now comes word of a rollout of tools for Foursquare users to correct location information in OSM:
Now, Foursquare users will see an "edit map" link when editing places on Foursquare.com, which leads directly to OpenStreetMap's web editor at the right location, where they can join OSM and make updates. Today, it's rolling out to Foursquare Superusers in the UK, Australia, Germany, and Brazil. We'll be expanding in the future to other places where location data can be improved.
I read that as only on the site, not in the app.
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In other Foursquare news, there seems to be more selling of location data.
As part of its efforts to generate new sources of revenue, Foursquare is working with ad-tech company Turn to allow advertisers to use its treasure-trove of location data to retarget Foursquare users on other websites, according to executives familiar with the situation.
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hey how did you get a pic of road construction here?
This is a discussion on Getting nowhere- fast within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Do you ever feel - there are some jobs that will just never get finished???...
Do you ever feel - there are some jobs that will just never get finished???
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hey how did you get a pic of road construction here?
the pot hole doesn't look large enough to be detroit.
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Could be Memphis TN. Road construction projects here take years where the same project in Alabama would have taken a year or less.
Example: The Alabama Dept. Of Transportation took one year to change the route of a state road, build a complete interchange between that road and I-10 and extend said road 5 miles.
So far, the Tenn. Dept. Of Transportation has taken almost 2 years just to widen a road here in Shebly County and replace an old bridge. The projected complete time is still 3 years away!
And as for building completely new roads, the I-385 bypass around Memphis is only 1/2 done and has been under construction for many years. It isn't scheduled to be completed until 2012!
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Typical road construction...paid for with gov't $...the only thing missing were the 23 supervisors for this project...
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Say what you will with michigan construction and roads, but you must admit they are fast. The problem is that they seem to do just about every road, every single year and they all end up with potholes every single year.
Since it looks like it could be London, I'm guessing the supervisors stepped out for tea 10 hrs ago.
"[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.
They are left in full possession of them."
Zacharia Johnson (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,25 June 1778)"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." ~Alexander Hamilton
Knowing that Chris resides in Pennsylvania, and knowing how construction goes in the Commonwealth, my guess is that no matter what city it may look like......... It's Pennsylvania!
EOD - Initial success or total failure
Haha - could be Rick - in principle .... ya know two seasons - Winter and construction !
I think tho it has to be a pic in UK - driving on left and double yellow lines etc. Nifty bit of anim' tho.
Chris - P95
NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
http://www.rkba-2a.com/ - a portal for 2A links, articles and some videos.
Hey, where's the 5 guys leaning on their shovels watching the guy in the hole?
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ~ Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
I understand your heavy transportation construction woes, but as a member of that profession, I offer another view. Winter and Construction seasons, annual potholes filling and 3R projects, and endless completion dates spell one thing... JOB SECURITY!
Here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the PennDOT is backed into a corner, facing limited budgets. For instance, the company I work for has multiple bridge rehab projects for PennDOT. Our bridge guys will submit cost proposals only to be told to cut corners to get costs down. Let's just say the highest politicians are robbing from the poor and expecting more from it. And I haven't even touched base on PA's "New Business/Company" friendliness.
But to jest, there are plenty of good PennDOT jokes... What is yellow and sleeps six? A PennDOT truck. The other one I like is about leaning on the shovels. There is a story that PennDOT gave road crew members shirts with upside down pockets to make it even easier to lean on their shovels... just slip the end of the handle into the pocket and lean. The truth behind this myth is that PennDOT contracts with a blind-handicap work placement agency that makes the yellow-green construction shirts. Shirts with the upside down pockets were released accidentally. It's still good for a chuckle though.
Chris, I still think you should rally the masses in P'ville to press for timing and phase improvements to the SR 56/96 intersection. Heck, the municipality could hire me to do the work! On second though, I have enough work as it is.
Samuel - AFAIK we face plenty of disruption along 56 anyways very soon! School area, Fishertown - etc.
What really puzzles me and - I forgot to ask you - was all the ''concrete patching'' along 99 last year and year before. I kept asking myself two questions....
How the %$#@ much is this costing ......... and why patch this bit and not that? I have yet to find out but am more than curious ..... perhaps next time we touch base you can tell me.
The same deal is I believe soon to start from 56/99 region right thru to the Sprule exit!
Chris - P95
NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
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Amazon Guayusa
The Ritual of Tea, Changing the World
Runa got its start when American students Tyler Gage and Dan MacCombie teamed up with communities of indigenous Ecuadorian farmers to bring guayusa into other cultures and to provide the Kichwa people a sustainable, environmentally responsible way to market their culture's unique tea blends. In this way, Runa shares indigenous traditions on an international scale, and in turn fosters environmental conservation in the Amazon and positive social change for its people. You get delicious, organic, Fair Trade tea; they get economic and social progress infused with cultural tradition.
All varieties produce amber colored, smooth and silky tea. Mix and match from among Traditional Guayusa, Peppermint Guayusa, Ginger Citrus Guayusa, and Guayusa Spice. Balanced energy and rainforest preservation – does your current tea provide that? Read More Read Less
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Trailing Guns N' Roses 1988 mega hit, "Welcome to the Jungle," Runa would like to extend the same warm salutation from the Ecuadorian Amazon and introduce you to a product that will surely bring you to your knees.
For thousands of years communities throughout the Amazon have cultivated the guayusa leaf for a natural, delicious source of energy and nutrition. Treasured for its unique balance of caffeine, antioxidants, vitamins and amino acids guayusa continues to be the center of morning rituals throughout the Amazon. Runa is excited to share this ancient tradition with the Daily Grommet and welcome you to explore the stories, insights, and flavors of our organization and our products.
Axl Rose wasn't available for comment today, but we know he wishes he could be with us to properly introduce you to the taste of the jungle.
Why are the boxes of tea bags more expensive at Daily Grommet than
through the Runa online store?
There was actually a technical error in the posting - The prices on here weren't reflective of the ongoing holiday sale Runa has. Grommet is fixing that as we speak.
Thanks for alerting us to it!
I am curious if the flavors are adjusted for an American palette or if these are the same as what the Amazon peoples would drink?
@Kate: Indeed they are. In fact, the Ginger Citrus and the Peppermint were specifically formulated to meet and surpass the sumptious flavors that US tea shoppers have come to expect. The Guayusa Spice is a modern adaptation of a traditional Amazonian blend, but both of those flavors are often used in teas you find here. As far as we know, though, we are the first to make that combination.
Goes without saying that Traditional guayusa has a smooth and rich flavor that people have found pleasant, sweet, smooth, and a great contrast to the bitterness of green or black teas.
@Dan MacCombie: Great answer Dan. In the Ecuador office, the staff really loves guayusa with a little freshly squeezed orange juice. @Kate: I would definitely recommend you try this.
Testing Runa and learning the Amazon Guayusa story has been such a pleasure. There is nothing better than nestling up with a cup a tea first thing in the morning to start the day.
An additional benefit that I would like to add is that Guayusa Tea doesn't stain your teeth, because there are no tannins.
Runa's Guayusa Spice is my personal favorite and I recommend getting it in loose tea form. It's is the most economical way to buy tea and it requires less packaging. Just make sure you have a strainer of some kind.
@Julia Kemp - Daily Grommet Discovery Team: Thanks for the shout out Julia. Speaking of oral advantages, some indigenous people have even used the peppermint guayusa blend as mouthwash because of its crisp peppermint taste.
I'm not sure how tea went through the Daily Grommet offices without visiting my mugs! I love the meaning of the name, as well. Can't wait to try it!
@Danielle: Little-known fact: Runa is a common first name in Scandinavian languages, Russian, and Hindi. Take that, Tower of Babel!
i'd like to try a sample myself..
where can i find it.
@Mike: You can order it directly from us! To the right of the video on the feature's main page you will see the ordering options.
I drink organic Yerba Mate every day. I know both Guayusa (Ilex guayusa) and Yerba Mate (Ilex Paraguayensis) are closely related (Ilex). How do they differ as far as caffeine, antioxidant, amino acid and vitamin content, and taste?
I apologize for the double post. I'm not sure how that happened! :)
@CreativeArtandSoul: No worries, Ive been doing that all day!
Guayusa has an average of 90 mg of caffeine per 8 oz cup of tea as opposed to yerba mate which averages 70mg. Interestingly, guayusa also contains other stimulants in the same family as caffeine, known as methylxanthine alkaloids. Theophylline is a clarifying and uplifting compound also found in green tea. Theobromine is the stimulant found in dark chocolate that offers that pleasant whole body feeling many are familiar with. Theobromine is known to offer a settled and bodily energy. Also Guayusa contains 50% more antioxidants than green tea, and is full of polyphenols, flavonoids, and saponins. These compounds in guayusa offer a range of holistic health benefits from calming the nervous system to cardiovascular health.It is also important to note that the lack of tannins leads to a much smoother taste than yerba mate. It does not taste bitter after brewing.
@Anna Premo: Thank you for the info! I'll have to give it a try!
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Ben, Ive been there too.
Ben, Ive been there too.
Ian Steppler >> Canadian Beekeeper's Blog
I did a check using the oven method and a sample of the wood. (weigh sample, bake in the oven for many hours - re-weigh, etc) I found it to be about 14% MC. Seems just about perfect given the information on this thread...
I'll probably begin cranking them out right after Christmas.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Daniel Y.... Don't take this wrong, I am asking a serious question, because I do not know the answer. In order to get an 11 inch board, you would not be getting wood from the outside would you? Would you not have to get into the center of most of the logs to get a 1 X 11. What type boards or whatever do the mills typically cut the best wood into (2 x 10, 2 X 4 ). Enlighten me and I won't have to do the homework. HA!!!
The mill where I get my pine starts getting 1 X 3 on the outside, then as he goes in he gets 1 X 6, then he gets to where he can make 1 X 11. I always thought the absolute center of the log was the least quality.
What?! Quarter sawn has to do with the direction the wood is cut, not the part of the log it comes from. Please Ace.
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Regards, Barry
Here's an explanation of quarter sawing from a wood products industry expert:
If you want more info, there are diagrams (as referenced in the quote) showing various sawing techniques, along with descriptions at the link above.Quartersawing – this method produces high-quality, stable and often aesthetically pleasing lumber (with an attractive grain pattern). The objective is to have the growth rings approximately 45 to 90 degrees to the face of the board. Boards sawn with growth rings within 10% to the perpendicular of the board face are said to be fully quartersawn (Figure 3) or rift-sawn (Figure 4).
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Sorry Radar, late again.
Regards, Barry
Acebird....No sarcasm here... And you and Daniel Y are way out of my league when it comes to milling logs. I don't know the first thing about it. Heck, I don't even know what quarter sawn is. (Bye the way, what is it?)
I know years ago they laid a log on the sled and it went back and forth through a fixed circular blade. Today, all the mills I do business with use a band saw and turn the log after each cut. That gives you narrow boards until you get into the center portion of the log.
I'm out of this one. I have already told you more than I know, and I don't want to display my ignorance any more.
Last edited by Cleo C. Hogan Jr; 12-19-2012 at 07:02 PM. Reason: question answered while i was typing
The are lots of photos and clear descriptions of decisions made in the course of sawing a log at the link above.
Not shown in the preceding series of pictures, but continuing, the sawyer rotates the log through 90° once more and takes one more plank off, then rotates the log a final time through 180° and cuts off one last board leaving a boxed heart or cant 6" square (last picture, above right). This heart wood(center) of the tree is low grade material for a variety of reasons. It contains the pith, cracks, and many knots from early in the tree's life. The boxed heart goes for pallet material and other low grade wood needs.
Note that the link I provided is describing hardwood sawing, where as bee boxes may or may not be made from softwood.
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Hey Barry, I'm pedaling as fast as I can!
Our posts have identical timestamps, but yours precedes mine, so I guess you did beat me. But, I had to find a decent link to support my statements.
I sure like animated icons!
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The purpose of quarter sawn lumber is to get the annular rings perpendicular to the face of the board. Now explain to me what happens when you slab a board off from the center of the log. I will do it for you. If you rip this board down the center you will have the best 2 pieces from a quarter sawn log. The annular rings get less perpendicular as you move away form center.
Do you need a diagram?
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
OK, Barry, I see Ace needs more instruction. Or something else perhaps ..... maybe there's an appropriate stick somewhere over by the mill.
I tried, but this is getting tiresome.
It might be time to re-post some of those top 10 famous Ace quotes, like perhaps holding down hives in a hurricane with a bucket of water, or logs from trees of the same species grown close to each other are identical, or ......
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Ian Steppler >> Canadian Beekeeper's Blog
1X can be cut from anywhere in the log...it all depends on what the sawyer wants or need to fill an order. When sawing to grade the sawyer will usually pull off a few 1X4 or 1X6 from the exterior to see what they have to work with before beginning rotation or changing up thickness. But as Cleo points out, you obviously can not yield a 1X10 from those initial skim cuts.
Actually, the wood on the outside of the log is usually of the highest quality from the perspective of defect free, straight grain, least prone to cupping (with the exception of quartersawn). It commonly has a great deal of sapwood in it which can be considered defect for some applications such as color or rot resistance.
Ace is quite right (on this one), when sawing a log "through and through" without rotating, the 2-4 cuts closest to the center yield boards of quartersawn grain.....these logs have not been quartersawn which is a much more involved process that yields all of the lumber with that grain orientation but has a great deal of labor and high wastage.
Radar, the type of sawing you described is sawing to grade. It is most commonly performed on hardwoods (as you noted) and high value logs. It is slow in that the sawyer must constantly make decisions and choices to produce the most high quality(high value) material from any given log. I really doubt any mill filling commercial orders for 1X pine is sawing thier logs to grade. they are sawing through and through or cutting cants and ripping those down and then sorting the material by grade on the tailing end of the mill.
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like children? animals? paintings? Then check out the works of new and upcoming artist Amberlee Rosolowich, who is having her first solo show of her works which combine children and animals in a narrative style that is NOT too cute, too sweet or too cloying, but instead appeals to both young and old who appreciate illustrative paintings and contemporary art.


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For years the MBA has been the high-pressure option for people who literally mean business. But, with the increasing interest in specialist markets, a new breed of MBA and specialist business course have started to make their mark.
In Italy, Milan's Bocconi University School of Management (SDA Bocconi) has launched a master's in fine food and beverage. Alongside its new master's in fashion, experience and design, the year-long course - delivered in English - is aimed at people with two or three years' experience in food and drink. But this is no culinary quick-fix or cooking masterclass, says director Massimiliano Bruni. "We provide rigorous, advanced, managerial training using new theoretical contents and teaching materials specific to the fine food and beverage sectors."
Working in collaboration with ALMA, a centre for Italian cuisine just outside Parma, the course will enable business students to liaise with leading instructors of Italian cuisine, utilise latest teaching and cooking facilities, and make the most of being in the heart of ham and cheese country.
Says Bruni: "The Bocconi fine food and beverage graduate understands what food quality means. I often see people who understand what a good wine, or a good salad is, but have no idea about what makes cash-flow. Then I see people who have a great grasp of cash-flow but no idea about food."
At the Reims Management School, a chair of champagne management has been created to concentrate on all areas of business relating to champagne. "The wine industry has always been different from others," says Stephen Charters, who's heading the chair. "With an MBA I could be involved in selling ball-bearings without knowing anything about them, but to market wine you really need to know something about the product."
Charters has been involved in developing food and drink business courses (including an MBA in wine marketing) in his native Australia and is developing courses to suit executives, business students and industry professionals.
"In the last 10 years, the wine market has become more competitive. The course looks at the specifics of wine management and marketing."
While there are manifold hospitality and management courses in the UK, the idea of a food-focused MBA (such as the Royal Agricultural College's MBA wine management course) or business postgraduate qualification, is still relatively young and regarded by some with suspicion.
But, says Jeanette Purcell, chief executive of the Association of MBAs, they wouldn't be accredited if they weren't fulfilling the MBA "brief". "The MBA is all about general management," says Purcell, "and we do accredit those where we are satisfied that there is good and sufficient coverage, and the specialisms are delivered above and beyond the core modules."
Oxford Brookes University recently launched the UK's first dedicated centre for the study of food, drink and culture, Oxford Gastronomica. It is working on collaborating with its business school to develop business-focused food courses from September 2009.
It offers a distance-learning MA in food, drink and culture designed for those already working in the food and drinks industry, and students on the existing MBA hotel and tourism management course will be able to capitalise on the centre's alliances with the likes of Raymond Blanc, Michael Caines and Prue Leith - all are on its advisory board.
Elizabeth Cook started the Royal Agricultural College's MBA in wine management in September 2005 after a degree in European studies. Now marketing manager for Wine Australia in London, she believes that the MBA worked well alongside the more practical art of viticulture. "The structure of the course was exactly the same as a traditional MBA. It was our coursework which had to relate to the industry."
The MBA, for Cook, "has changed the way I think and work. I certainly wouldn't be where I am without it."
• The Guardian MBA Fair 2009 from The Careers Group is on Wednesday 21 January at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London. Entry is free. Visit careers.lon.ac.uk/mba/


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Date of Stay: July, 2007
The last mile to the park is narrow and tricky to drive on, but we managed. We stayed in spot 23 and had a nice private spot surrounded by oak trees and even with a view of Carmel Valley. Pool looked cloudy, but it in a beautiful setting. People tent camped in spot next to us because they didn't want to drive to the tent camping area (argh). If you can ever get a hold of the owner or manager, good place to try to get a reservation, but it is about 99% impossible to reach anyone. We have even driven to the park and put a note on the office door asking them to call us so we can make a reservation, but they never call back. They never answer phone messages either. I have given up trying to get a reservation at this place, and have moved on! Too bad because we would definitely go back if they would only respond! We just don't want to drive all the way there, assuming they have a spot, only to be turned away if they're full. It's only about 10 minutes from the beach, but very quiet and isolated in the hills in Carmel Valley.
Date of Stay: July, 2007
Beautiful brand new RV park. Wonderfully thought out RV lot placements, nice grass in between each row. Gorgeous club house and pool. No table or BBQ at sites, so bring your own. Train track right next to park, but it didn't bother us to hear trains occasionally (late at night too). Managers were incredible - friendly, accommodating, eager to make our stay the best it could be. We only live 30 minutes away from this place, but will be coming back for short getaways often!
Date of Stay: June, 2007
Beautiful place! So many hundred-foot pines and other trees, you feel like you're in the middle of the forest. Spots are large, spaced very well, with many areas to congregate with other campers over a campfire, etc. Pool was very clean, small play set for kids, basketball hoop, volleyball net, newly paved pads for RVs in many sites, very friendly and helpful manager (Jason), kitchen/lodge for group parties, laundry room, bathroom/showers all clean. Less than 5 minutes from Calaveras Big Trees, gorgeous river where you can fish or have a picnic, lakes around, town of Arnold about 10 minutes away for groceries, restaurants, etc. Highly recommend this place - it's hot in the summer, but because of all the shade from the trees, you don't even notice.
Date of Stay: March, 2007
Large sites, fantastic playground, jumping pillow was a hit with the kids, banana bikes were getting old, but kids still had fun, pool was pristine clean, store was well stocked and great. KOA employees were wonderful and friendly, and they even let us stay a bit past our checkout time so the kids could swim longer. No cable, but we still got a ton of channels with our own antenna. Several families were camping together and the adults were very loud until about midnight, and that was not pleasant, but they ignored the quiet time rules. We were right next to the playground, so I was concerned the kids would be noisy, but it wasn't the kids - it was their PARENTS who were noisy! Go figure. This is a GREAT place, and we will definitely go back. They're remodeling the main bathroom/shower building, so that will probably be nice once it's done.
Date of Stay: March, 2007
Run down looking, smelled like raw sewage. The "lake" is a tad bigger than an Olympic sized swimming pool, was filthy, and there was a stream next to the lake that had frothy green/blue/yellow stuff floating on it that smelled like they had just dumped black water there (wouldn't surprise me). Their web site makes it look nice, but it is nothing like the web site - believe me!! YUK!!!
Date of Stay: March, 2007
This is walking distance to one of the most beautiful beaches I've ever seen -- about 1/3 mile walk on sand, but level and through dunes with pretty colors of ice plant, etc. The beach was literally miles and miles long, with not a sole on it -- it was unbelievable!! Make sure you don't forget anything because it's too far to walk back and forth to and from your RV! The park was nice, clean, spots were manageable to get in and out of (even with 39 footer), bathrooms were clean, store and rec room were nice, but the ONLY reason I gave it a "5" was the freeway (hwy 101) noise was almost unbearable at night. We were backed up to 101, so the noise was horrible, but would go back and try a spot in the 50 range to see if that makes a difference. We'll give it another go because of the beach, though!
Date of Stay: February, 2007
If the river was not so beautiful, we would probably give it a 1 or 2. The owners were friendly and accommodating, the playground for kids was huge and our boys had fun. The sites were incredibly small, on top of each other, and you had to share a 30 amp with your neighbor. The dump station was near our site, so we heard a lot of extra noise. The redwood trees were beautiful, but there was no place to hike unless you drove a ways, and we didn't tow a car, so we were out of luck. We were only there one night, so it wasn't the worst, but we would probably not go back.


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