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San Antonio vs Charlotte Recap - Spurs Win 104-100
San Antonio got 32 points from Patrick Mills en route to a 104-100 victory over Charlotte on Saturday at Time Warner Cable Arena.
The Spurs won the battle on the scoreboard, but not at the payout window as they failed to cover the 5.5-point spread. OVER bettors were rewarded when the final score pointed to an OVER play.
San Antonio got 16 points from Tim Duncan and another 15 points from Nando De Colo. Tony Parker contributed 5 assists, while Tim Duncan cleaned the glass with 13 rebounds.
Charlotte got 26 points from Al Jefferson in a losing cause and another 23 points from Gerald Henderson. Kemba Walker contributed 8 assists for the Bobcats, while Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had 12 rebounds.
The Spurs hit the break trailing 42-41 before taking care of business in the second half.
Charlotte won the battle of the boards, outrebounding their counterparts 47-43.
San Antonio heads into a battle against the Pistons. Charlotte, meanwhile, will have their next action against Dallas.

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Word: apathy.
After that said, it will be a wonder if any of the original Deus Ex developers will be involved in the creation of this new title. As far as I know DX project leader Warren Spector, lead designer Harvey Smith and writer Sheldon Pacotti all have left (Ionstorm/)Eidos as well most others who were involved in the project.
Eidos holds the licenses for both Deus Ex and Thief. They also like to use old licenses a lot like those thousand hitman and tomb raider games they have been pushing out one after another. The last time we saw something remotely Deus Ex stylish was Snowblind which was originally supposed to be some kind of spin off but later got renamed. It was also done by a different studio and was a pure action game in 1st person.
Anyway there's always the blind chance of luck of snowflake dropping in hell that the new developers are going to create just an amazing new title in the franchise they never had part in creating it.
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LOOK AT THE GRAPHIC INSTEAD. It's Holy Week and therefore Open Season on Christians in the mass media. (Is it ever Open Season on muslims during Ramadan?) We've had a provocative cover story about the "Death of Christian America" in Newsweek, followed by a hasty clarification from that article's anxious author. HotAir's Allahpundit chose Good Friday itself for a link to this jackassery, which reinforces his customary snarky atheism. And we've already noted at this site the embarrassing bankruptcy of the Episcopal/Anglican Church that underscores the media's delighted focus on this bizarre phenomenon.
Ordinarily, we at InstaPunk address such phenomena in a scattershot, ad-hoc, and frequently satirical fashion, in response to current events rather than specific dates, but today is Good Friday, and I've decided to respond more seriously than usual. (Feel free to run away...) Fortunately, there is one recent event that provides a basis for focused discussion. It was a debate about atheism between Christopher Hitchens and Dr. William Lane Craig, described in this article as "an 'evidentialist' in that he argues for the existence of God based on evidence not presupposition." I'll give you three excerpts from the account of the debate and then address some of the arguments on both sides. Sound fair? Excerpt One:
The debate began with Dr. Craig's opening arguments. He made a challenge to leave our bias at the door. Impossible, I know, but he claimed that the debate would be fought on philosophical arguments. He would rule out bad arguments, offer the historicity and logic of his good arguments, then challenge Hitchens to make a positive argument for his own atheism. This demonstrates Craig's adherence to formal debate tactics. He doesn't take his positions based on emotion or preference, he uses argument and reason and follows the evidence.
Dr. Craig's evidence is presented in 5 different lines of argument:
1. The Cosmological Argument; Whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a cause. God is the best explanation for that cause.
2. The Teleological Argument; The fine-tuning of the universe is so improbable that law or chance aren't adequate explanations. God is the best explanation.
3. The Moral Argument; If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist. Rape isn't just culturally unacceptable, it's actually wrong.
4. The Resurrection of Jesus; The vast majority of historians generally agree that the tomb was empty. Separately, the vast majority of historians generally agree that Jesus appeared to people post-mortem. The hypothesis "God raised Jesus from the dead" is the best explanation of these facts.
5. The Immediate Experience of God; Belief that God exists may be rationally accepted as a basic belief not grounded in argument.
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Hitch doesn't claim knowledge that there is no God. He claims ignorance, though he avoids calling himself an agnostic. Because he doesn't know and Dr. Craig claims to know that God exists, the disadvantage goes to the one who says, "I know." He says that given the stakes are so extra-ordinary (ie judgment, Heaven and hell, dying for one's faith, killing in the name of God) the evidence provided by Dr. Craig wasn't extra-ordinary enough to prove a God exists.
The most common argument made by Hitchens was that the world contained so much cruelty and brutality for most living creatures across most of existence that a good God didn't seem likely, and that if He did exist that He had a lot of bloodshed to answer for. He gave examples of the pre-Christ and even pre-Jewish people who died without ever knowing the one true God. That their lives were lost in ignorance and that only recently does God come on the scene to save some. Hitch returned to this line of reasoning so many times that I'd say it was his core reason for disbelieving God.
Hitch went back to how our belief that God should personally be so concerned with us that we should have the benefit of being born post-Christ to enjoy salvation was a form of solipsism. "It's all about us." he said, "Everything else was wasted, but at least we're here."
Throughout the rest of the debate, be it the rebuttal, the conclusion, the question/answer, Hitchens returns to this classic problem of suffering, and mocks believers for finding selfish meaning in the midst of evil; "You're a worm but take heart, it's all made for you."
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[I]n my opinion., though Dr. Craig won the argument (he was the only one who even presented a formal argument), Hitchens won the debate. It's not the argument of the debaters, it's the condition of the audience that wins the day. While few of Dr. Craig's arguments are dispersed through culture, even religious culture, I've been raised on most of Hitchens' arguments. Dr. Craig's arguments are true and well-reasoned by difficult to comprehend on a first hearing. Hitchens' arguments are what we'll find spoken against God on prime time television, at the water-cooler, I've even heard some of them on Animal Planet. Culture generally makes Hitchens' argument by default. And it's easier to claim the skeptic's nothing than affirm the something of God…even when I think the most robust argument is self evident to all of us…we're here.
I think this is an excellent preface to thoughtful discussion. It illustrates the disconnect between the theological position and the secular position. The theologians want to talk about existence itself and its meaning or lack of it, and the secularists want to contrast the primitive mind which "invented" God with the rational mind that has come to perceive a vast gulf between mythology and hard science, and between naive faith and brutal facts.The theologians are asking, "How could we be here at all if there weren't some supreme power behind the universe beyond our ability to fully comprehend?," while the secularists are declaring, "If there is a God, he has a hell of a lot to answer for: Nature is vicious, men are vicious, all so-called scriptures are ignorant "Just So" stories, and at least the "Just So" stories of science are backed by objective observation, measurements not conceived of in Biblical times, hard data, and a far less anthropomorphic perspective. If there is a God, he can't be anything like your conception of him."
If I've stated the terms of disagreement fairly, everyone should be nodding their heads about now. I'm going to take an additional step toward fairness here. You'll note I used the term 'secularist' rather than 'atheist' in my initial description of the conflict. That's because I believe most self-professed atheists are not really taking a cosmological position but a cultural position. They're not presuming they know where the universe came from but rather asserting that all organized religions date from a time when we knew less about everything, particularly matters scientific, and are therefore evidently uninformed. They believe that all important matters -- social, moral, and political -- should be decided rationally and scientifically rather than in terms of what ignoramuses past projected onto a dimly understood and largely unexplored world. To me, the term that best describes this position is "secularist," not "atheist" or even "agnostic." The existence or nonexistence of some supreme power, however defined, is simply irrelevant to the decisions we make in our lives. Is that fair? I believe so.
Now then. I still propose to take the position that the secularists are demonstrably wrong and that the evidence favors the Christian perspective more than it does the secular perspective. Some of my arguments are old, and some are, well, new. But how can I dare to make such an argument in the first place? Because when it's impossible to find some external point of comparison to use as a control (i.e., some other example of intelligent life that grappled with matters of divinity and meaning), we are compelled to look inward and learn from the recurring or exceptional patterns of our own experience at every level of scale. All our evidence about existence and its meaning or lack of it comes from the sum total of human knowledge and experience to date. If we can't find external points of comparison, we must resort to internal points of comparison, of which, it turns out, there are virtually infinite examples. If these consistently resonate with one another, we can begin to extrapolate some universality, even about dimensions of existence beyond or below ourselves we know little about.
For example, let's consider one of the prime axioms of science. If there is a large measurable effect, there must be a powerful cause. A dropped brick falls to the earth. The moon orbits the earth without wandering away. Related effects across a range of scales. There must be a cause. The more universal and consistent the effect, the more powerful the cause. Gravity. One of the four known forces of the universe that explain its operation. At one extreme lies black holes, where gravity is so powerful it sucks in everything that comes within its remotest influence. At the other extreme lies what? A sparrow, a butterfly, a mosquito, a gnat that falls to earth when it dies. No one has ever seen gravity itself, only its effects. The secularists have exactly the same problem with Jesus Christ.
It is true that no one can prove Jesus Christ ever existed, let alone prove that he was a superposition of human and divine identities who died for all of us and rose again from the dead, offering eternal life after death and eternal redemption from something called sin. But the effects of this invisible cause, whatever it was, are far too huge to ignore. Indeed, the effects are so stupendously enormous across all scales of human experience that it is laughable to credit objections based on sharpshooting the verifiable historicity or lack of it of the Bible. Note, expressly, that I am not postulating the accuracy of the four gospels when I use the word laughable in the context of Biblical criticism. What I'm saying is that secularists are faced with an incredibly intimidating Christian mystery of their own -- if Christ didn't exist and wasn't who he said he was, how do you explain what happened afterwards?
And let's not make any mistake about what happened afterwards. The cultural changes wrought by Christianity on our earth are the single biggest ongoing act of creation that we know of since the origin of life and the still theoretical Big Bang. This invisible cause, whatever it consisted of, redefined human consciousness to such a degree that it led to everything we now take for granted about ourselves -- our sense of ourselves as individuals, the proliferation of competing interpretations of the originating events in the form of hundreds of variant denominations of "the faith" that continue blooming to this day, the egoistic impulse toward liberty across lines of class and in defiance of authoritarian aristocratic governments, and the curiosity that spawned modern science in the first place, including cosmology, medicine, chemistry, biology, zoology, anthropology, evolution, psychology, and even economics. Without that invisible, unverifiable cause, all but a few of Christianity's fiercest critics wouldn't exist at all.
The messiah who wasn't somehow also fathered atheism, marxism, existentialism, absurdism, and the Matrix. Not to put too fine a point on it, the Hitchens who mocks Christianity wouldn't even exist without it. The mind that he applies to the argument, the self who experiences such a volatile antipathy to what he perceives as the tyranny of misbegotten myth, would be empty, undifferentiated, and mute. Indeed, his is the greater solipsism by far than any he imputes to Christians. For he, like most secularists, imagines that somehow he could still be who he is in all his rancorous ridicule, without the 2,000 year intellectual, artistic, philosophical, and political tradition that produced him, which is overwhelmingly Christian.
Which is to say that he wishes to bask and preen in the effects of the Christian tradition even as he presumes to subtract from that tradition the cause his scientific allegiance demands must exist.
Christopher Hitchens is himself a kind of proof of the Christ.
Is there a muslim Hitchens? No. If there were, he'd have been dead long before this. We'd never have have been allowed to hear of him of him, let alone listen to him. Which is a point of contact with the real miracle of Christianity that distinguishes it from all other major religions. And a point of contact with the fallacy of secularist objections to Christianity that demonstrates just how shallow those objections are.
First things first. There's a notion abroad these days that Islam is some kind of serious rival to Christianity as a religion in terms of its scope and power. It isn't. They are not rivals but opposites. Only the enemies of Christianity commit the fraud of comparing them as if they were somehow equivalent.
If we're keeping track of some hierarchy of scripture and its relation to what we think we know now about human nature and morality, here's the ranking in terms of Most Advanced (1) to Most Barbaric (3):
1) New Testament
2) Old Testament
3) Koran
Let's compare 2) and 3) to begin. The Hitchens (and Allahpundits) of this world love to deride the most arbitarily judgmental sections of the Old Testament. In its pages, they claim to see a God who is vengeful, violent, and even psychotic. What they never see is that the OT is also a record of the people who worshipped that God. That as the Israelites became more civilized, Yahweh (wonder of wonders) also became more forgiving (suggesting that God changes his aspect to man as man becomes more able to interact intelligently). That Psalms is more wise than Leviticus. That Isaiah is more individuated and interesting than Amos. That Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are more wise than Hemingway. That what we're seeing in the Old Testament is the transition from early proto-consciousness to modern consciousness. The god of three-year-olds is likely to be less nuanced than the god of twelve-year-olds. The Old Testament does establish itself reliably as part of a continuum to the New Testament. The variable is not God, but men. The Bible is the story of the raising of men from childhood to adulthood.
The Koran contains no such story of growth, It is all variations on Leviticus. Full of laws not to be broken, ever, and hatreds galore. To read the Koran against the Old Testament is to uncover a vicious imitative hoax against the original it's copied from. The Old Testament is about maturation. The Koran is about control. The histories of the peoples who followed these scriptures are the evidence. The Jews were both victimized and enlightened by the effects of the follow-on to their scripture called the New Testament. Their resistance to its status as divine revelation cost them blame and persecution, but they absorbed every lesson it offered about individual mentality. They flourished in every new discipline made possible by Christianity's devotion to the spark of divinity in aspiring minds. Both testaments are needed to explain the contributions of Einstein, Schopenhauer, Mahler, and Freud. They loved God but abjured hope. That's their curse. Despite their obsession with the artistic imagery of Christianity, they could never bring themselves to believe or wholly embrace it. Having precipitated the greatest leap forward in human consciousness ever, they insisted on remaining obstinately outside its implications, which almost cost them their existence.
But they knew those implications nevertheless. (Today's Jews are Christians minus the belief in Christ as Son of God.) The New Testament is the single greatest work of scripture in the history of life on earth. Why? Because it is endlessly productive and provocative at every scale. It is too internally contradictory to be read successfully as didactic. And while it speaks directly to matters of right and wrong and other spiritual matters, its centerpiece is not a list of rules but the most creatively open-ended symbol ever promulgated in religious terms.
The cross is the "X" that marks the spot of human existence in so many ways that it can never run out of ways to be ingeniously reinterpreted, almost always in ways that are positive for the human spirit. (That's the reason for the unending establishment of new Christian denominations, some of which are despised orphans but all of which are part of the endless flowering of the story.) The story that goes with that cross is also endlessly creative and consistent with both human and divine stories before and after its putative place in time. The story is local, universal, philosophical, psychological, mythological, historical, human, archetypal, personal, passionate, abstract, symbolical, dramatic, sensual, ambiguous, allegorical, literal, literary, architectural, and, in its impossible aggregate of all these, clearly transcendent. The men who existed before this time were not so much damned as insufficiently developed to be conscious of an afterlife, Socrates and a few others excluded.
One simple story that knits together every conceivable story ever told about the human condition. Unfolding in a (relatively) few pages of an archaic document in an obsolete language. The word "metaphor" is to the gospels what the word "big" is to the cosmological definition of infinity.
I've never heard any secularist (or atheist) who can explain away this mountain of mystery. Our own times have produced masses of conspiracy theories, hoaxes, compelling fictions. The desire to believe on behalf of a greater meaning can perpetuate compelling fictions, or else we wouldn't have had fifty-plus years of Kennedy assassination literature, but truth tends to weigh in at the end like a ten ton weight. Oswald owned the rifle that killed Kennedy. The shot that killed Kennedy was fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Oswald was there at the time. He killed a police officer while he was running away from the scene of the crime. Only 40-some years into this mesmerizing mysteryon, we can already foresee eventually accepting that Oswald was a lone, meaningless assassin. If you reject any of these conclusions, ask what you are willing to pay for your beliefs. Are you willing to die, 100 years after the fact, because you personally knew the identity of the people who killed a nonfictional character named John F. Kennedy? You might feel emotionally and intellectually that you possess the truth, but are you so sure that you would die a horrible death for your belief? Torn apart by lions in the coliseum?
Really? But people were stupid back then, right? They were willing to be tortured horribly to death on account of someone who never existed, just because he said stuff that couldn't possibly help them live easier lives in the current political regime. Until their beliefs forced an authoritarian empire to agree. Fine. Now explain to me the process by which the United States and Europe suddenly agree to accept Scientology as a state religion. Are you you starting to grasp the dimensions of the mystery?
A final comparison on this Good Friday. Christianity has produced so many variations of its original story that there are those who have amputated themselves from their sources. As I've written previously here, I believe most of the fundamentalist and evangelical "Born Again" sects of Christianity have done exactly this. Their desire to read the Bible "literally" is a flat denial of where the Bible came from and the languages in which it was originally written. This denial has deservedly earned them scorn from rationalists and, yes, secularists. But here's what's decidedly odd. When the Hitchens of the world attack Christianity, do they attack the much greater and older population of Christians who see the Bible as an infinitely layered metaphor subject to many nuances of meaning, or do they snipe at the easy targets of those who claim their American 'revised standard version' is word for word true?
The answer is, of course, the latter. The secularists just love to beat up on the people who see the Bible as a strict roadmap to heaven. But I would argue that this is just one more instance of the dictum that you target the enemy who most resembles you (e.g., Nazi totalitarians in Germany hated Boshevik totalitarians in Russia). That is, the fundamentalists have made themselves targets because they are most like the secularists. They are mirrors of each other, narrow, preemptive, and intolerant.
Fundamentalists exist in an absurd bubble of false history. They reject the fact that the Bible they take so literally was constructed by a Roman Catholic Church they dismiss as heretical. They behave as if their Christianity were a spontaneous act of divination, achieved directly through a book whose origins their fragile theology would require them to disdain. Secularists also exist in an absurd bubble of false history. They reject the fact that the science they take so dogmatically was inspired by devout Christians (like Isaac Newton) they now dismiss as superstitious fools. They behave as if their (claimed) pristine objectivity were a self-generated manifestation of wisdom, achieved in spite of the book that gave rise to their own reactionary disciplines and derivative personal identities.
The ony inequity here is that the fundamentalists are scorned and transparent while the secularists are admired and ambiguous. Both are small subsets of the historical populations created by the Christian enlightenment. They're both sideshows. Educated Christians aren't much impressed by the quest to find Noah's Ark on some mountain that can be called be Ararat. Nor are they impressed by scientists who claim they fully understand the evolution of humankind when they can't begin to explain the origins of life.
It was the great physicist George Richard Feynman who said, "If I can't create it, I can't claim to understand it." (I used to call him George when we hung out together at NASCAR races. He never corrected me. My bad.)
That statement alone elucidates the difference between a real scientist and the kind of poseur we see in Richard Dawkins.
But in the interim, we'll have to put up with pretentious secularists jeering at contradictions in the Bible as if plot holes are all that's necessary to make up for the glaring hole where an explanation of the existence of the universe should be.
Today, though, I'm going to commit the irrational act of imagining the meaning of crucifixion and resurrection. As if I were a Christian. As stupid an exercise as that might be.
So I'll do the unthinkable. I'll visualize Christ on the cross, dying for me. And for you, too. With this in mind.
FAIR WARNING: This fairness thing is a bitch. Okay. I have to warn you that this post contains some deliberate holes, which are, in fact, traps set for the unwary. If you come charging in through those holes, you WILL be ambushed. Sorry. I know it's not Christian, but Scots have never been more than half-Christian. And I'm still more than a double-bogey away from Scottish par on that. So. You Know. Be advised.
UPDATE. Thanks, Fred. For some technical reason I can't fathom, I can't even respond to a comment on my own post at this particular moment. But I'm humbled by what you said. Convey my best to your brother the priest.
UPDATE. Beckoning Chasm likes Palestrina. So do we.
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COLUMBUS, OHIO (WTVN) - Gov. John Kasich is stressing the need to cut Ohioans' taxes while maintaining that money does not buy happiness.
The first-term Republican made the comments Thursday in wide-ranging remarks at the Ohio Newspaper Association's convention in Columbus.
Kasich, who is up for re-election in November, said that reducing taxes was not just "some campaign deal."
"Tax cuts produce jobs. Do you understand that?," Kasich said.
He said any tax cuts had to be a balance of achieving economic growth and ensuring the state has what it needs to function.
"50 percent of the jobs created in America were in Texas. What's their income tax? Don't have one. Florida. What's their income tax, either the state or local communities? Guess what, they don't have one. Are they growing? Yes they're growing," said Kasich.
The Governor emphasized that he didn't see anything wrong with accumulating wealth, but he said he firmly opposes materialism.
He also talked about his education plan and feeling that schools need to be more flexible for students. He wants to see more focus on schools teaching students about occupations so they understand not just what they're learning, but why they're learning it.
"If he wants to go or she wants to go work at an auto body shop to learn math kind of backwards, you know what I mean by that? 'I don't like math but I'm at the auto body shop and all of the sudden I understand the purpose of math.' We're not going to lose them," he said.
Kasich says the results he's seeing so far from the Third Grade Reading Guarantee seem to be overall pretty positive. He dismissed the notion that it's a way to target the performance of teachers.
"I mean if you're absolutely not imparting education that's a problem. But look, the fact that all of your kids aren't reading, you might have a lot of poor kids that never got read to. We're not out here to put a thumb on you. We just want to get it fixed," he said.
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Description: This is simple prototype board for development of USB application with PIC18F4550 microcontroller. The power of the 18F4550 is that it has USB hardware built into it so that you can program different USB stacks directly onto the IC. Microchip provides these free USB solutions for their microcontrollers which are openly available. The USB HID Class firmware can help you to build a mouse or other Human Interface Devices for Windows, USB CDC Communication class device, USB Mass Storage firmware (add your own USB disk drives to your computer), USB-to-RS232 driver. The prototyping space allows you to easily add on sensors, relays and other peripheral devices to interface to USB. The board can take power from USB or from an external supply with small jumper selection.
Dimensions: 100x80 mm (3,9x3,15")
When I entering bootloader mode I can see "Microchip Custom USB Device" in device manager but bootloader application like AN1310 or HID bootloader can't see my pic18f4550 (no com port for it). What is wrong? Michael.
i purchased a pic18 development board.Which Ccompiler should be used for it?Do i need to install the USB bootloader?If yes then which? I am new to this,can anyone guide please
Thank you in advance
Get the free MPLAB X IDE, with the XC8 compiler from Microchip (free versions). You will need the PICKIT3 also (~$40), but the setup is nice and very easy to use. I'm not sure about the USB bootloader, I haven't used that on this device.
I just purchased the development board and don't know how to get started. Here's what I've done so far: 1. Switch the PWR jumper pins to USB 2. Connect a USB cable to the board and PC ( I see a blinking LED) 3. Download the C source of the USB bootloader (AN1310) 4. Run the Bootloader.
Problems I'm facing: 1. With the board connected, AN1310 shows that it cannot connect to COM1. I don't know how to go about changing the port. 2. I don't know how exactly to flash a program onto the board. 3. How do I go about programming? I want the development board to function as a Mass Storage Device
Any help is greatly appreciated
I went ahead and purchased a pickit2
I recommend to upload the Pinguino bootloader. Look in google for pinguino proyect. It is an Arduino enviroment for these kind of pics. You can program the PIC via USB and use the same languague Arduino has.
Will I need to order a programmer aswell to program this? Or can it be programmed by usb by default?
Can I order this board without the PIC? I want to use a different MCU and I don't need this 4550
Unfortunately, we can't do custom orders, so you can only this board as-is with the MCU included. However, we do have another 40pin PIC development board that comes without a MCU included, found here.
Looking at both the usbdrv.c and the boot.c files, it looks like its based from the Microchip's Bootloader App Note AN1310 (please see http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1824&appnote=en546974) for High-Speed Bootloader for PIC16 and PIC18 Devices.
For the Host PC app, here is the URL http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/AppNotes/Serial%20Bootloader%20AN1310%20v1.03.exe
I hope this helps
Is there a tutorial for the USB Bootloader? I looked through the C source linked above, but no documentation is provided.
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Has on board power supply (5V). Reset button provided. I changed to PIC 18F45K50. Changed crystal to 16Mhz. I am going to replace the socket with a ZIF and use it as a programmer. I see this board is no longer available from Sparkfun. If Sparkfun is considering a new board it should have a switchable 3.3V or 5V power supply and a socket for the crystal.


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Location: Crop Improvement and Genetics ResearchTitle: The spectrum of low molecular weight alpha-amylase/protease inhibitor genes expressed in the US bread wheat Butte 86 Author
|Altenbach, Susan
|Vensel, William
|Dupont, Frances
Submitted to: BMC Research Notes
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/20/2011
Publication Date: 7/20/2011
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/60462
Citation: Altenbach, S.B., Vensel, W.H., Dupont, F.M. 2011. The spectrum of low molecular weight alpha-amylase/protease inhibitor genes expressed in the US bread wheat Butte 86. BMC Research Notes. 4:242. Interpretive Summary: The alpha amylase/protease inhibitors are a group of small proteins accumulated in wheat kernels that protect the grain from insects, mites and other predators. These proteins are present in reasonably large quantities in wheat flour and are a major cause of baker's asthma, an important occupational allergy that affects millers and bakers. In addition, some of these proteins have been implicated in human food allergies. To better understand the role of these proteins in human allergies, the complement of alpha amylase/protease inhibitor genes expressed in the US commercial wheat cultivar Butte 86 was investigated. Eighteen different gene sequences were identified and the relative expression levels of the genes were evaluated. Four of the gene sequences encoded proteins that were substantially different from alpha amylase/protease inhibitors reported previously. Sixteen gene sequences were unequivocally associated with individual proteins present in the flour. Information on the spectrum of alpha amylase/protease inhibitors expressed in a single wheat cultivar is central to understanding the importance of these proteins in both plant defense mechanisms and human allergies.
Technical Abstract: The complement of genes encoding alpha-amylase/protease inhibitors expressed in Triticum aestivum cv. Butte 86 was characterized by transcript and proteomic analysis. Coding sequences for 18 distinct proteins were identified among a collection of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from Butte 86 developing grain. These included two monomeric (WMAI), four dimeric (WDAI), and six tetrameric (WTAI) inhibitors of exogenous alpha-amylases, two inhibitors of endogenous alpha-amylase (WASI), three putative trypsin inhibitors (CMx) and one putative chymotrypsin inhibitor (WCI). Most of the encoded proteins were identical or very similar to proteins in NCBI. Sequences not reported previously included variants of the WTAI inhibitor CM3 and three CMx inhibitors. Based on numbers of ESTs, Butte 86 genes encoding WTAI-CM3-Bu-1, WMAI-Bu-1 and WTAI-CM16-Bu-1 were the most highly expressed in developing grain and were expressed at levels comparable to alpha gliadins. Sixteen coding sequences, including the three CMx sequences, were unequivocally associated with specific protein spots identified by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) in a previous proteomic analysis of total wheat flour from Butte 86. Information on the spectrum of alpha-amylase/protease inhibitors expressed in a single wheat cultivar is central to understanding the importance of these proteins in both plant defense mechanisms and human allergies.


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|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
Player value depends on potential more than present day most before you draft. This is a rundown one player on each team who has great potential relative to where they are likely to be drafted in your league. Some of these guys are roster staples while others may not even warrant drafting but could be very useful in foreseeable circumstances.
Buffalo Bills: E.J. Manuel has looked the part of the starter up until his injury this past weekend. At present, he's a backup or bye-week replacement. He has shown flashes of brilliance in the preseason and even Bills fans can't drink enough to tolerate Kevin Kolb. Manuel will start by midseason, if not when healthy.
Miami Dolphins: Brian Hartline will benefit from Mike Wallace's world class speed. Hartline's stock also gets a slight bump due to Dustin Keller's season ending injury. He's a solid reserve acquirable with one of your last picks.
New England Patriots: Tom Brady has looked sharp as ever with a new group of receivers (and no Gronkowski). This is the first time Brady may be available in the 4th round or later in years. I'd take Brady's high floor over the roller coaster ride that is Cam Newton.
New York Jets: Braylon Edwards is their best red zone target and is worth taking a flyer on late because the Jets will have to throw.
Baltimore Ravens: Joe Flacco should not be your starting quarterback. If you suffer an injury or need a bye week replacement, or your projected starter flames out, Flacco is a better replacement than Rivers, Schaub, Tannehill, and Freeman in my opinion. Flacco did not get paid a boatload of money to hand the ball off all the time.
Cincinnati Bengals: Tyler Eifert is going to be a good weapon for Andy Dalton who should lead an improved Bengals passing attack. Eifert is already a more appealing receiving option than Jermaine Gresham or anyone else in stripes save A.J. Green.
Cleveland Browns: Jordan Cameron is an even better option than Eifert due to lack of competition for reps at TE.
Pittsburgh Steelers: Emmanuel Sanders is a nice reserve receiver with a high floor. No. 88 was nice enough for Pittsburgh to match the Patriots 3rd round RFA offer. There is little competition for targets in the Steel City aside from lead dog Antonio Brown.
Houston Texans: Ben Tate is healthy while Arian Foster has yet to see the practice field. At the very least the Texans will distribute the carries more evenly than in years past. Tate is a must if you own Foster.
Indianapolis Colts: Reggie Wayne might be the first Colt drafted, but relative to players going around him he is rock solid reliable in a high volume pass offense. Give me Wayne over more high-risk wideouts like Hakeem Nicks and James Jones.
Jacksonville Jaguars: Justin Blackmon will start the season under suspension, which will enable you to draft him right before you take a kicker. There aren't any bye weeks early so why not stash the talented Blackmon and see if he has a breakout sophomore campaign.
Tennessee Titans: Kenny Britt is the most talented receiver on the Titans and you should be able to draft him in the 9th round or later.
Denver Broncos: Wes Welker. Demaryius Thomas is just getting better and his targets should not diminish especially if the Broncos regular season running offense represents the preseason version. If his ankle injury is mild as initially reported, taking him after pick 50 is good value and he should be dynamite as usual in PPR leagues.
Kansas City Chiefs: Alex Smith is a reliable backup option or QB committee member now that he is hooked up with Andy Reid's offense and a certain starting gig.
Oakland Raiders: Marcel Reece propelled owners to the playoffs in 2012 after Darren McFadden went down. His value is directly linked to DMC's health. Reece is a good receiver out of the backfield, Oakland is going to have to sling it, and McFadden's value is plummeting past injury risk to undraftable.
San Diego Chargers: Vincent Brown is presently the Chargers No. 1 receiver and that should remain the case even when Michael Floyd returns.
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Unlike the meteoric rise of certain stocks after initial public offerings, one high-tech stock has headed south in a frightening way: Cerion Technologies (CEON) plunged from 18 in late May to 2 3/8 on Oct. 29. Cerion makes thin-film disks for small, high-capacity, high-speed disk drives used in minicomputers, desktop computers, and workstations.
What happened? Cerion, which posted sales of $512 million last year and earned $106 million, or $2.14 a share, lost its second-largest customer--StorMedia, a maker of 2 1/2-in. and 3 1/2-in. thin-film disks for hard-disk drives. The customer canceled all outstanding orders because of its own problems. StorMedia accounted for about 34% of Cerion's second-quarter sales.
Analyst William Bartels of William Blair, the firm that took Cerion public in May at 13 a share, cut his 1996 earnings estimate from $1.33 a share to $1. But after Cerion reported a third-quarter loss of 7 cents a share, he figures it could earn only 30 cents for all of 1996. He rates the stock a long-term buy, however, saying "it's still a real business with good assets."
Not everybody joined the rush to bail out. Bill Hopke of Trilon Dominion Partners, which has nearly a 5% stake, held on. Why? He thinks Cerion will replace the lost customer. And he suspects other customers, including IBM and a large computer maker in Taiwan, may be tempted to acquire Cerion, mainly because of the drop in the company's market capitalization from $150 million to just $22 million.
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Soulja Boy Says He Wrote Willow Smith's 'Whip My Hair'
Soulja Boy Tell Em is famous for introducing his own dance craze to the main stream, and now the youngster is taking credit for one of the cutest hits of 2010, Willow Smith's 'Whip My Hair.' The 20-year-old took to his Twitter page to reveal that he is the man behind the pint-sized singer's playful hit single.
"Yes it's true I wrote Willow Smith's 'Whip My Hair.' That's why she says 'Hop Up Out The Bed, Turn My Swag On,' he explained, referencing the lyrics to his single 'Turn My Swag On,' which Smith also used in her song. "We get $$$ [in] 2011 no games."
The claim was just one of several rants Soulja Boy sent out to his 2 million and more followers over the weekend. He also proclaimed that despite his "haters," which may or may not have been a response to the dismal album sales of his third album 'The DeAndre Way," he has inked a new multi-million dollar deal, and is looking for new talent. "I'm the coolest CEO you will EVER MEET! Humble, young, all around cool dude to work for! Even though I'm young I got IT. Whatever IT is," he wrote. "Now find me the next female superstar so I can sign her to SODMG!!!!"
Although the story seems feasible in theory, according to Wikipedia, the actual songwriters are Ronald 'Jukebox' Jackson and Janae Rockwell. Regardless of who the writing credits go to, Smith's catchy tune spearheaded what turned out to be a great year for the singer. Aside from signing to Jay-Z's Roc Nation imprint, Smith is set to follow in the footsteps of her father, Will, remaking his 1988 hit 'Parents Just Don't Understand.'
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I'm freshening up my 400SB Chevy with new rings and installing a set of used Vortec heads. Just for insurance, I am going to discard the old oil pump and install a new one. Here's my question...can I install a BB oil pump? If so, do I need a different length intermediate shaft? I like the idea of the big block pump having more gear teeth and producing slightly more oil volume without being much harder to turn than the small block pump....Do you gents agree?
Yeah, I'm a big fan of using the big block pump. It bumps the hot idle and lower RPM oil pressure up which these engines need if they're used hard at low and moderate RPMs or certainly if they are raced where frequent gear changes and high loadings are experienced which is the case on road track and short ovals.
The down side is the big block pump delivers a lot of oil you don't need in the RPM ranges from 3 to 6 thousand so the relief is dumping a lot of unused oil your spending a few horsepower to heat up and dump back in the pan. But I've found this a cost of providing better bearing protection in the lower revs.
Yes you need the shorter intermediate shaft and use a steel rather than plastic coupling.
With the Vortec, GM has had a lot of bottom end warranty issues related to insufficient oiling on hard working engines. I consider the BBC pump and using a 15W40 or 20W-40 oil to be significant insurance against these issues. Especially if you work the engine hard and live in a hot climate.
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Are Steve Carell and Paul Rudd Schmucks?
Paul Rudd and Steve Carell will be united once again in bro-mance in the upcoming "Dinner for Schmucks," due out this July, according to an article in yesterday's New York Times.
The movie, which will be directed by Jay Roach of "Meet the Fockers" and "Austin Powers in Goldmember," is inspired by the 1998 French film "Le Diner de Cons" (essentially, "The Dinner for Assholes"). It follows the unlikely friendship between Rudd, an executive who nearly has it all, and Carell, an eccentric and clumsy IRS employee who creates dead mice dioramas for fun. Rudd plans to bring Carell to his boss's annual "Dinner for Extraordinary People," where the employee who brings the lamest and strangest guest to dinner is rewarded at the office.


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President Obama prepared for a hemispheric summit today by saying that new free trade agreements -- including two in Latin America -- will help U.S. companies sell more goods abroad and create more jobs domestically.
"I want us selling stuff and I want to put more Americans back to work," Obama said after touring the Port of Tampa in Florida.
The president then traveled to Cartagena, Colombia, for this weekend's Summit of the Americas.
Obama is battling an 8%-plus unemployment rate as he faces re-election in less than seven months.
One solution, he said: more trade.
New agreements with Colombia and Panama as well as South Korea will help the U.S. double its exports between the year 2009 -- the start of the Obama administration -- and the end of the year 2014, Obama said.
"We're on track to meet that goal," he said. "Soon there will be new cars on the streets of Seoul that are imported from Detroit and Toledo and Chicago."
He also said: "We want them spending money on American-made goods, that American businesses can put more Americans back to work."
Colombia is the host of the Summit of the Americas, which brings together leaders from North, South and Central America. In promoting his trade agenda, Obama said in particular that "our exports to the Western Hemisphere are up by 46 percent since 2009."
Republican candidate Mitt Romney has said that Obama's tax and regulation policies are making it harder to create jobs.
As for trade, Romney says Obama is not doing enough to crack down on China and other nations that violate global trade rules -- a charge Obama addressed in his Tampa speech.
"We've brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration," the president said. "And we've set up a trade enforcement unit that's designed to investigate any questionable trade practices taking place anywhere in the world."
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The Lawman MKIII is a nice 357. It is a bit heavy but can be used as a carry gun. All it needs is a good IWB holster and good belt.
This is a discussion on Colt Lawman MK-3 for Concealed Carry within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; I have a friend who just "inherited" a Colt Lawman MK-3 .357 (4-in barrel) and plans to carry it until she can purchase a smaller ...
I have a friend who just "inherited" a Colt Lawman MK-3 .357 (4-in barrel) and plans to carry it until she can purchase a smaller CCW. (Likely a smaller .38 or .357)
Does anyone have any comments on this gun? (Other than it is a bit large for CCW.)
The Lawman MKIII is a nice 357. It is a bit heavy but can be used as a carry gun. All it needs is a good IWB holster and good belt.
Have Fun and Shoot Straight !!
Two guns said it. The only other reasonable possibilities are to adapt a Smith & Wesson L-Frame IWB holster to it and I don't know how many IWB L-Frame holsters are sold or else wear it in a shoulder holster beneath a concealing garment. She can get by with it this time of year but next summer might be a bit toasty.
If she tries to purse-carry it then she'll risk loss through purse snatching. She'll also have drooping shoulders from carrying the weighty purse. She'd also have quite a weapon if she just chose to hit her assailant with her purse loaded down with a Colt Lawman.
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I have the Colt Trooper MK III which is very similar. It is very accurate. I bought a shoulder holster for it but I only use it on the range. I have a smaller handgun for CCW...
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Purse carry, there are some creative purse designs that put the gun in the side of the purse, in it's own little pocket.
I'm in favor of gun control -- I think every citizen should have control of a gun.
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Thanks for the comments! I'll pass them along!
I'm not sure how attached she is to the gun,but she can either sale or trade that gun for a more concealable revolver or Semi Auto carry gun,I don't really like the idea of off body carry,if somebody grabbed her purse,they would then have her gun
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I generally discourage off-body carry although the wife sometimes does it. The gun was her father's and she won't part with it. As I said in my original post, she will eventually purchase a smaller CCW but with money being tight, it might be a little while.
I will try and see what I can do to help her this weekend. I am not familiar with this gun. I suspect the weight and the cylinder width might be the biggest challenges.


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haha yea that would be bad.
This question goes to other plugin and theme authors and envato.
Other authors: Are you guys hosting auto updates to your plugins and theme on your website? because I am doing this way and it crash my server because of crazy number of update checks that comes in.
Envato: do you have a solution where we can use envato to host updated files and new version checks and allow customers to download the new version via envato zip file hosted location?
Thanks a bunch!
syamil, my friend this plugin lot of the times dont sent out password for new registrations. And it overrides custom fields on registration field that would allow me to add password field for users to set their own password.
Now here is my question, why does Envato need 30% of support revenue. I want to suggest that they drop this down to at least 20% and giving authors 80% who are the ones that is actually doing the work.
And if we are using our own support platform we dont need anything from envato so why would I pay envato 30% for doing nothing for the support. If you are going to answer 30% of the questions then its fair.. I think its unfair for them to charge 30% for us giving support to buyers.
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80% + 30% referral rate = 110% = not gunna happen
referral rate is a separate part from item sales. Honestly how often do you even get referral income?
Hello Envato and other authors!
I want to suggest an increase to authors commission from 70 -> 80% as max point. I dont think its a bad suggestion given that we the authors are the primary fuel that drives envato market place. And for the hard work we put in with developing items and providing support for items.
Perhaps span out more for the higher commission levels such as $250k volume for 80% commission.
What do other authors think about this?
Another nice addition could be: when buyers post comments, allow them to select type of t comment. Such as customization, bug report, plugin issues etc.
This will be a great addition. As a author of one of the high demand plugins on codecanyon I come across lot of these issues with support. And support is a key part is the success of my plugins.
I would also like to suggest that when the 6 months support for buyer has ran out a clear way of indicating this on item comments so Authors can see whether the buyer is within the 6 months support period or not.
I would also like to see that other buyer be able to reply to item comments or use @ sign to address others which actually works.
But at the same time if you are going to offer paid support them those buyer will think they should get higher priority over others and that is difficult when you are trying to answer all the comments in the queue first come first serve.
Anyways I am excited to see what the final results of this process would be.
Yea we had that happen too. We had a user request pre-purchase help, post-purchase help and we even created for him a specific example of his plugin usage, and it worked perfectly, but he gave us a 1-star because HE DIDN'T KNOW how to use the plugin.
Sad that this happens, and when he asked for refund and i asked Envato to refund it and remove his 1-star, they did nothing and we had no response from either Envato about the issue, or the user who now has a perfectly good working plugin, but still won't answer messages, forum emails, or comment board.
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Politico's Ben Smith & Jonathan Martin argue that the importance of the tea party "movement" has been exaggerated by the news media. Their lede reminds me of something I've been meaning to address:
2009 was the year when many journalists concluded they were slow to recognize the anti-government, anti-Obama rage that gave birth to the tea party movement.
2010 is the year when news organizations have decided to prove they get it.
And get it. And get it some more.
It seems like reporters have been saying forever that the media had previously failed to pay sufficient attention to the tea partiers (or, more broadly, voter anger at government/Obama/Washington) -- but that they get it now.
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, for example, says (or writes) this every few weeks.
Kurtz, March 22, 2010: "[T]here was no lack of journalistic shortcomings. When anger erupted at those town hall meetings last summer, much of the media wrote them off as a spectacle. Reporters were slow to recognize the growing public anger at Obamacare and what "tea party" enthusiasts viewed as out-of-control federal spending.
Kurtz, March 15, 2010: "The media initially ignored or downplayed the tea party protests, and now have had to acknowledge that it's a legitimate, if unfocused, force."
Kurtz, January 25, 2010: [M]uch as journalists were slow to recognize the significance of the 'tea party' movement last summer, most didn't treat this [Massachusetts Senate] race as a serious contest until the final 10 days."
Et cetera.
The received wisdom that the media didn't pay enough attention to angry conservatives in 2009 is presumably a key factor in the increased coverage they've been given recently.
But is it true that the media dropped the ball last year?
The credibility of that notion actually takes a hit due to how long it has been around. See, way back in April of 2009, Kurtz was already asserting that the media wasn't paying enough attention to the tea party protests. Here's Kurtz on April 12, 2009:
CNN and MSNBC may have dropped the ball by all but ignoring the protests.
But the protests Kurtz was referring to hadn't even happened yet -- he was talking about the tax day protests organized by Fox News that were still three days away at the time. Just how much media attention should have been devoted to protests that had not yet occurred?
And it just isn't true that the media was "slow to recognize" the significance of what was happening last summer -- the August congressional recess, in particular, was dominated by wall-to-wall news coverage of angry conservatives yelling at town hall meetings.
It isn't that the media didn't cover the protests enough. It's that they didn't cover the protests (or the health care debate, or darn near anything else) well enough -- and, in doing so, they made it inevitable that overheated and false rhetoric would come to dominate public discourse.
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> Am 12.10.2010 19:52, schrieb Sebastian Schmitt:
>> Bill Rowe wrote:
>>> In[5]:= Timing[Sum[k, {k, n}]]
>>> Out[5]= {0.393106,500000500000}
>>> In[6]:= Timing[Sum[k, {k, m}] /. m -> n]
>>> Out[6]= {0.08371,500000500000}
>>> Each code snippet does exactly the same thing and produces
>>> exactly the same sum. But as you can see, using For is the
>>> slowest method.
>> Dear Bill!
>> Thank you very much for your detailed answer!
>> Interesting that the last version is so much faster. Is it only due to
>> numeric vs. algebraic?
> the first is adding a lot of numbers, the second is evaluating 1/2
> m(m+1). It's hard to believe, but there was a 9 year old boy named Carl
> Friedrich who made the experience that the second is faster some 200
> years ago -- without access to Mathematica!!!
Attaboy! ;)
I thought Mathematica is smart enough to see that it could also use the
algebraic version even if I supply n in the call to Sum. But it is
probably on purpose this way.


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Pinot gris is wildly popular today, especially when given its Italian name, pinot grigio. At low yields, it can make deep-coloured, full-bodied, gently aromatic wines with lots of extract, but it is much more commonly encountered as a crisp, only vaguely aromatic commercial white. A pink-skinned version of pinot noir, it can create wines that are almost rose in colour. In the vineyard, this vine can easily be taken for pinot noir, and once habitually grew in among the pinot noir of Burgundian vineyards, adding softness and sometimes acidity to its red wines. As pinot beurot, it is still sanctioned as an ingredient in most of Burgundy's red wine appellations. Wines from this grape are generally best drunk young, though some pinot gris may be stashed away for a few years.
Italians today grow far more pinot grigio than pinot bianco, and most have the habit of picking it before it can develop any interesting characteristics. The most concentrated plantings are in the cool north-east, where high yields tend to make rather neutral wines. The top Friuli producers, however, can fashion something special from it.
In Alsace, pinot gris, unlike pinot blanc, is revered as a noble grape and can produce commandingly rich wines. These range from almost bone-dry, through vendange tardive ("late harvest"), to SGN ("selection of noble berries" - ie, noble rot) levels of ripeness. The drier of these wines are some of the finest whites to drink with rich savoury food.
The most pinot gris is grown in Germany, where it was traditionally called rulander if sweet, although it's now more commonly known by its dry name, grauburgunder (it's dry, therefore fashionable). Pinot gris is known as malvoisie in the Loire and Switzerland (where its innate smoky flavours survive). It is grown thoughout central Europe and has shown real form in Oregon. It is very popular with Californian growers, and is rapidly becoming a speciality in New Zealand.
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Riff Pinot Grigio 2007, Italy
£6.48, Asda
Made in the foothills of the Dolomites in northern Italy, this has subtle nectarine and citrus flavours, and is crisp, clean and thirst-slaking. One of the best pinot grigios you'll find at this supermarket level.
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Josmeyer Le Fromenteau Pinot Gris 2006 Alsace, France
£13.99, Waitrose
Just off-dry, this is a scented, opulent pinot gris whose florality, fruit and minerality bear little relation to the cheap pinot grigio you might glug
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Taylor's Refresher is a little pit stop in the Napa Valley renowned for the quality of its fish tacos. You get two small, soft-corn tortillas, in which you'll
find a couple of finger-sized strips of battered fish, fresh salsa and guacamole, finished with a big squeeze of lime. And while it won't ever taste as good as it does if you're basking in the Californian sunshine, it's not difficult to create something similar at home. As a rule, clean, fresh, zippy whites will serve you best with such food, and king of that breed has to be pinot grigio.
Well before flavour, weight is the key to successful food and wine matching. As the food gets heavier, so should the wine. Sweet scallops seared in the pan, with lemon cr eme fraiche, call for a white wine with richness of texture to match. Pinot gris would be well worth a look.
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Pee-no gree/gree jee-oh
Makes crisp, easygoing whites, but has richer, more complex incarnations
Hotspots Friuli, Alsace
Good companions Rarely blended
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Citation: SASSENRATH COLE, G.F., THOMSON, S.J. USE OF THE NEW COTTON PRODUCTION MODEL (CPM) FOR PRODUCTION DECISIONS IN COTTON. INTNL CONFERENCE ON GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION IN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 2001. Interpretive Summary: Site-specific management offers potential savings for farmers. However, sound management practices must be developed for each unique management zone. Many factors contribute to the variability of crop growth and yield including cultivar, field topography, soil nutrient and textural characteristics, and environment. Development of realistic management practices requires attention to each of these factors and their interaction. Crop simulation models can be used to test the potential outcome of management inputs as a function of these various factors. Simulation models offer farmers a tool for development of realistic, sound management practices for the varying conditions observed within production fields. In this study, the recently developed Cotton Production Model (CPM) is introduced and described. The model is then used for developoment of fertilizer rate and timing schemes for two soil types common to the lower Mississippi Delta. The economic impact of the difference in soil response to fertilization is discussed, along with a method for implementation of variable rate management.
Technical Abstract: The promise of precision agriculture is the optimization of input use through sub-field management to accommodate within field spatial variability. Paramount to the realization of these potential benefits is the ability to develop optimal management scenarios that account for the variant edaphic and environmental conditions. The ability to incorporate the particular soil, environmental, and cultivar differences into a management decision support tool requires expertise from a broad spectrum of knowledge. Crop simulation models offer the potential for use in management decision support for crop production. This study describes the current state of crop modeling for cotton, with the introduction of the Cotton Production Model. The background and output of the model are described, and model simulations are presented for fertilizer rate and timing on two soil types of the lower Mississippi alluvial flood plain. Implementation of the model for predicting optimal scenarios for cotton production is discussed.


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