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Teemo Build Guide by Kniggebogge
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Hey there, this is my first guide ... so, plz be kind.
First of all, I'll just show u my itmes and abilityorder. For other things like Masteries and Runes, just look other AP guides up.
I think, if u like my build order, I will add some other Chapters to this guide ... then, I'll maybe speak about everything else =)...
As I saied Runes are very simple!
Just look an standard AP Champ guide and take the same runes.
How to play this little one
There is not much to say about the playing ... I play this little dude very aggressiv.
As long, as ur opponent cant creep, u will beat him.
U have range, the 0815 toplaner is melee -so, just huff him all the time.
With ur E, u will make a lot of dmg ... and ur Q is nice too!!

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Coronation Street's bride-to-be Becky Granger spends her wedding night in tears when her second attempt for the perfect wedding to Steve MacDonald doesn't go to plan.
The barmaid, played by Katherine Kelly, gets arrested for drug dealing and is thrown in a police cell after being framed by corrupt police officer and her former acquaintance DC Hooch.
Becky and Steve's big day starts out well and this time she manages to get through the ceremony without passing out drunk - like her last attempt.
But the celebrations turn sour during the reception bash at the Rovers Return when police raid the place for drugs.
And to Becky's surprise they find some after Hooch blackmails her old friend Slug to plant them in her possession.
DC Hooch (Dominic Carter) blames Becky for ruining his career after she reported him to authorities for making sexual proposals to her.
During the arrest he tells her: "This is payback time you s**t. You and your big mouth have been a blot on my career all my working life.
"Today's a big day for both of us but only I'm celebrating. You're going down this time and I'll make sure they throw away the key."
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MBT-70 Πειραματικές
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The MBT-70 (German: KPz 70) was a 1960s German-U.S. joint project to develop a new main battle tank, which was to be equipped with a number of advanced features. It utilized a newly developed hydropneumatic "kneeling" suspension and housed the entire crew in the large turret. The MBT-70 was armed with a 152mm XM150 gun/launcher, which could use conventional ammunition and the Shillelagh missile for long range combat.
By 1969 the project was well over budget and Germany withdrew from the effort, developing a new main battle tank on their own instead (the Leopard 2). In the US the development continued for a short time, until in 1971 when Congress cancelled the program. The MBT-70 is the failed predecessor of the Leopard 2 and the M1 Abrams, the current main battle tanks of both countries.
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Rogue(8)By: Katy Evans
I shudder as I beg him to please touch my nipples.
"You're drunk," he whispers as he looks down at me in only my underwear, his eyes wild with heat as my nipples almost poke into the air.
"Only tipsy," I whisper, almost a moan. "Please don't stop, I ache all over."
With a notable clamp to his jaw, he reaches up and I feel his gloved hand sifting through my hair—then he looks at me, his eyes flashing as he seems to actually remember he's wearing gloves.
He peels them off, one by one. "Are you certain?" he says.
A frisson runs through me when I see his hands. Strong, big, tanned. Oh god. Suddenly I feel those hands on my waist and he lifts me up to set me down on the marble slab, easing his body between my legs. "You certain?" he insists.
He looks intently at me as he begins tweaking my nipples, and I can almost see the rigidness of his self-control there, that if I say no, he will stop, but I nod, then he groans and pinches my nipples in the most delicious way as he bends over, fitting his lips to mine, hard this time. Superhard. His tongue plunging, twisting, hard and hungry around mine, bolts of pleasure shooting from my nipples to my toes, my mouth to my sex. The marble slab beneath me, the room, the hotel, everything falls away until it's only hot, powerful, wet lips moving mine. Tasting me. Hands fondling my breasts, running down my sides. My thoughts spin, his kiss and touch rousing my passion like nothing ever has. My hands smooth up his damp chest and when I touch the metal of a piercing on his left nipple, I almost die.
"Oh god," I gasp, the intensity overwhelming as my bum aches from the cold of the marble. "Take me to bed."
He carries me to the room, throwing me to the bed like he means business. He flexes his hands at his sides as he jerks off his jeans and pulls out a condom packet. Oh god. His hands are huge, and tanned, with long fingers. A scar in his palm. I really want them on me. In me. He pulls down my panties, unhooks my bra.
"My name is Melanie," I breathe, edging back on the bed as he strips me.
Naked. He's moving with a predatory grace that sends my heart crashing into my rib cage and a flood of need between my legs. He whispers, "My name is Greyson, Melanie." He puts my hand on his and starts kissing me as we work a condom on him, and I can feel his heartbeat throbbing under my hand.
I love the way he keeps kissing me, our hands touching his hardness, huge, thick, pulsing, as we get the condom on him, a pool of need gathering between my thighs.
He slips a finger into my pussy and watches my eyes roll back. "I fucking want in you," he murmurs, kissing my throat. He turns his head to muffle my gasp and takes my mouth. "I'm going to give you the fucking of your life, princess." His wet tongue slowly drags along the shell of my ear. "I'll suck on you until my jaw hurts." His low voice drives me so crazy I can feel pebbles rise up on my nape as he cups the back of my head and starts kissing me again. "Make you come as hard as you can come."
He makes me so wet, my body starts bucking as he keeps sucking my breasts, making me pant.
I slide my arm up the coiled muscles of his chest. I rear upward and move my head to the source of his breath and whimper in the only way I know how to make him think about kissing me. He does. He gyrates his hips and presses against my hip bone as though he needs the contact, and makes a soft growling noise as he slips his hand between my legs.
I want him so much, I hurt.
I spread my legs wider apart and moan as he takes me. I squirm as my body begins tightening.
"I'm going to come," I moan softly. "I'm sorry . . . I can't . . . you feel too . . . good . . . I can't . . ."
"Come," he rasps, "it's all right, we'll do it again in a bit . . . come . . ."
Pure red-hot ecstasy radiates through my body, my knees falling open, my emotions whirling and skidding, my body clenching and clasping and unclasping his, his thrusts shooting currents through me until I do what his sinful body is making me do, and I come like a rocket.
I gasp from the force of my orgasm, twisting and arching beneath him. He pushes in as deep as he can go, and I shudder uncontrollably and whimper in gratitude every time he's seated fully inside me, making me feel . . . the opposite of lonely. The opposite of sad or empty. And when my climax subsides and he's still there—every thick, hot, hard inch of him snugly in my grip—my eyes flutter open, and I see him looking at me, with that look, wild, hungry, almost proprietary, but also strangely reverent and gentle as he starts to move in me again with expert precision, our eyes clinging, the way he fucks me gently now making little stars dance across my vision as another delicious climax builds and builds.


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A few months more and it will be 3 years that I am out of Israel. I left Tel Aviv November 19, and as a boarded the plane bound for France that day, I swore that I will be back.
Three years (almost) and it still remains a dream. But if I have to, I can wait three years more.
I've plenty of time still to gather the necessary resources (read: 100% money).
It's a good thing I don't need a visa anymore to visit the White City. Hopefully, a round trip ticket will land on my lap, as well as a few thousand dollars – and I will hop on a plane to Israel in a heartbeat.
Here are the top five places in israel that I will visit again – If given the opportunity:
1. Yafo
Specifically, I need to visit Shuk HaPishpeshim, walk the length of Yerushalayim and Yefet, check out Jaffa Beach, and stay at the Clock Tower square. I don't think a week then passed by that I didn't get to see these places in Yafo.
2. Carmel
While there is a vegetable store and chicken and lamp shop in Yerushalayim, I spent my Friday mornings going to this market just to get everything I need. I would love to visit the Makulit, a friendly Israeli vendor who sells vegetables endemic to the Philippines and Southeast Asia such as kangkong and gabi.
3. Takana Merkazit
This is the Old Central Bus Station and mall that caters to Pinoys. I remember everyone at work going to Takana during Thursday evenings to have their dollars changed to shekels, buy phone cards, and check out cell phones and other gadgets.
4. Tel Aviv Beach
When I was new in the city, the only place that was easy for me to go; since it's nearest the apartment is the beach. One of the best in the world, my revisit will certainly not be complete If I don't get to walk along the beach of Tel Aviv again.
5. Bnei Dan
Quiet, romantic, home of Hayarkon Park, Ph Embassy – It will certainly be a dream-come-true not only if I am able to to travel to the White City Israel again, but also if I get to walk this street again.
The list is actually endless. Either I will edit this post to add more or simply write another article. But definitely, I will also be able to write a post about my revisit to Israel.


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|There's always a compromise. Vintage lenses give you what you need at a fraction of the cost vs modern lenses, but image quality may be soft. If you really want super sharp and super contrast, those lenses come with a hefty price tag. You choose.
Hello all! I write this article as an FAQ for potential buyers -- this is especially for those who are buying vintage lenses for the first time.
One of the most common concerns I encounter is that people expect vintage lenses to perform like an expensive Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8, which they are NOT.
The reason that vintage lenses are STILL popular today is mainly because of the price point. Most of them come with acceptable image quality with a few compromises, usually for artistic effect. For just a small cost, they can give you exactly what you need without the distractions of electronic chips... wide angle, telephoto, prime, zoom, mirror reflex, you name it.
Using manual lenses is not the end of the world. It is not a handicap, but rather a factor that adds excitement to photography as hobby, art or profession.
Realistic Expectations For
Buying Legacy Lenses
My point in writing this article is just to share with you the common characteristics of vintage lenses, just to set your expectation before you buy:
1) Definition of 'Vintage Lens'.
When people say 'vintage lens', most of the time they are referring to pre-autofocus lenses dating from early 1980s and backwards. Many people prefer these lenses because they are made of metal and glass, which will last forever.
Manual lenses don't have electronic chips inside. You might drop these lenses by accident, but they may not have any effect since they're well built. Unlike some plastic lenses with electronic chips, when you drop them, some chips/motors inside might break -- rendering the lens useless.
Manual lenses don't have electronic chips inside. You might drop these lenses by accident, but they may not have any effect since they're well built. Unlike some plastic lenses with electronic chips, when you drop them, some chips/motors inside might break -- rendering the lens useless.
2) Manual Exposure Mode.
With manual lenses, you're limited to using only the Manual Exposure Mode in your camera. You can always rely on the 'Sunny 16 Rule'. This means that to get the proper exposure, you will have to calculate in your head the Shutter Speed, Aperture and ISO. With digital, it's easy to learn manual because you can see results in a snap. It only takes a week of practice with manual, then you suddenly just tweak the settings on instinct, as if you're in Auto Mode.
|Shot with a Nikkor 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5.
3) OEM vs Third Party Lenses.
OEM refers to Nikkors, Canons, Pentax, Minoltas and other lenses made by the camera manufacturers themselves. Then there are the third party lens makers like Samyang, Tokina, Tamron and Sigma who are still alive and well today. In the old days, third party lens makers proliferated the market. Many of these names were big, but nowadays obscure: Soligor, Vivitar, Sun Optic, Osawa (related to Mamiya), Tefnon (Kobori), Komura, etc.
4) Image quality.
4a) OEM vs Third Party Lenses. OEM lenses are generally (but not always) understood to be sharper and better in image quality versus third party makers. To be fair to the third party lenses, many of them can compete with OEM lenses but you only spend a fraction of the cost. But again, when you buy third party lenses, one must be reminded that they are not Nikkors.
4b) Lens Coating. Technology for lens coating was not very advanced until the 1980s. Some of them were single coated, others even uncoated... versus today's multicoated lenses. Lens coating is what gives images sharpness, contrast, how well it handles flare. Vintage lenses are known to be soft, or 'portrait soft' as I call it. But many photographers are still attracted to these because of the unique characteristic that these lenses imbue on the images.
|Vivitar 28-210mm f/3.5-5.6 (Cosina). No edit.
See how this lens handles highlights and flare?
|Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 (1967). No edit.
Although this Nikkor prime is already 50 years old,
its primitive single coating does a good job.
|Nikkor 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5 (1988). No edit.
This newer Nikkor lens handles highlights very well.
But you can still see some flares, which adds a nice touch.
4c) Primes vs Zooms. Prime lenses were preferred in the old days because they were sharper and better in image quality compared to zoom lenses. With today's technology, zoom lenses are just as good as prime lenses nowadays. I've read many reviews praising the Nikkor 18-55mm kit lens to be sharper than the professional Nikkor lenses (they say).
4d) Softness in Zoom Lenses. A common characteristic of vintage zoom lenses is softness and/or loss of contrast when at their widest aperture, or softness at the longest end of the zoom (eg. 200mm, 300mm). Some lenses may have one or both of these characteristics. Users typically move the aperture one stop down, or do not fully zoom in at the longest focal length (eg. for a 70-210mm zoom, they zoom until 180mm) to get sharp and contrasty image.
|Tokina RMC 70-210mm f/3.5 at 210mm f/3.5 (No Edit) -- This lens is sharp at 210mm,
but where there's plenty of light, it tends to have a 'portrait soft glow'.
4e) Color Shift. Legacy lenses usually have neutral, cool (bluish) or warm (amber) color shift. Cool color shift is pretty common in my vintage lenses, even the Nikkors. Those made in the 1980s or later look more neutral. The bluish shift was probably to counteract reddishness in film. Color shift is easily corrected with Custom White Balance.
|We live just around the corner! There is a slight bluish shift on my Tokina RMC 70-210mm f/3.5, which gives the image a vintage atmosphere.
4f) Vibration Reduction, Image Stabilization, Optical Stabilization. In the absence of vibration reduction in old lenses, have you ever wondered how photographers managed? There's the use of tripod/monopod and other creative ways to stabilize their images.
Vibration is most pronounced in telephoto lenses especially from 200mm or longer. In bright sunny days, you can afford faster shutter speed such as 1/125" or higher. I always set my shutter speed to 1/60" whether indoor/outdoor or wide/telephoto lens and have always got crisp results.
Vibration is most pronounced in telephoto lenses especially from 200mm or longer. In bright sunny days, you can afford faster shutter speed such as 1/125" or higher. I always set my shutter speed to 1/60" whether indoor/outdoor or wide/telephoto lens and have always got crisp results.
5) Fungus, Dirt, Haze, and Condition of Lens.
Vintage lenses usually sell at a low price point, while rare ones or those in mint condition fetch a higher price tag.
Some people would prefer to buy lenses in dirty condition and clean it themselves. These lenses come with fungus, haze, dirt, scratches, damage and other things to look out for. What's important is that image quality is not compromised.
You might also want to factor in the cost of cleaning -- for vintage lenses, they would normally charge around P800 to P1,800 for cleaning. If you are daring enough for a DIY cleaning project (it's easy!), you only need a few tools that can be easily found in the hardware.
To check if the glass inside the lens has fungus or haze, use a flashlight (or the built-in flashlight on your mobile phone) and point it inside the lens. You can see if there are tiny webs on the glass, which is likely fungus. Sometimes these issues are not disclosed, or they would be advertised as merely a speck of dust.
|Super Komura 90-250mm, before cleaning. They told me it was just a speck of dust... they sold me on this.
|After DIY cleaning.
Next, mount the lens to your camera, stop it down to f/22 or the narrowest aperture. Then shoot into a bright light source such as a fluorescent lamp or the sky. The image on your LCD will show if there are tiny specs of dust, or if issues like scratches and cracks will show on the images (loss of contrast, glow, etc).
|Tamron 400mm. No edit. You can see that dust has entered
while I changed the lens in the middle of heavy traffic.
Then, try normal exposure and shoot at a scene with bright light. You will find out whether the lens can handle flare very well. If not, you will see that highlights tend to glow.
|Vivitar 28-210mm with badly scratched front element. Bought it for experimentation.
I hope that this short article helps you to make realistic expectations and decide whether or not the lens you're going to buy is the right one for you.
Don't let your impulses overcome you, only to end up in disillusionment or returning the item. It is your responsibility to do research when purchasing any item. This will save time and effort for both the seller and the buyer.
The lesson with vintage lenses is that they are like people who need nurture and understanding. If you know their strengths and limitations, then you can always find a way to work with them.
The lesson with vintage lenses is that they are like people who need nurture and understanding. If you know their strengths and limitations, then you can always find a way to work with them.
If you have more concerns about buying vintage lenses, please post a comment below so we can address it promptly. Thanks for dropping by!


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I've posted a design proposal for PP-734 to add support in PBS to release limited number of resources when a job is suspended.
Please have a look at the design proposal and provide your feedback.
@arungrover, here are my comments:1. It seems the phrase "In most cases suspended job holds on to the memory it would have consumed and just releases ncpus ..." contradicts the statement in the sentence before it "... releases all the consumable resources requested by the job when it is suspended". 2. Are dynamic consumable resources affected too?3. Are there restrictions on what resource operations (e.g. setting, unsetting, altering) could be done while a job that is using the resource gets suspended?4. Please add a definition of terms. You mentioned at some point that suspension could be by qsig (-s suspend?) or preemption. And are all preemption methods (checkpointing, suspension, or requeueing) affected?5. Would it make sense to be able to specify also what resources can't be released after job is suspended?
Hey Arun,Here are my comments:1) In your intro paragraph you say that jobs usually hold onto their memory. I don't think this is the use case this feature is targeting. In a normal unix system, a job's memory will be swapped out when needed. The use case that is being targeted here is when there is no swap space. A job's memory has nowhere to go, so it remains in use.2) I think res_released_on_susp needs to be a server attribute. When multisched goes in, there would be N res_released_on_susp attributes and that would cause issues.3) Change the 4th to the last bullet of interface one to say, "If unset..." and then change 3rd to the last bullet to say the attribute is unset by default.4) The last bullet if interface 2 is internal. I wouldn't say it in an external design. Since you did mention it, I'd rather see the server handle setting the attribute when a job is suspended by either preemption or qsig. If the scheduler sets it via preemption and the server sets it via qsig, there could be inconsistencies.5) Interface 3: I think the resource type is resource_list, not resource.6) For interface 3 you should probably define consumable. I think it means a resource with the n or q flag.7) Interface 4 and 5 are debug messages. I wouldn't call make them public stable.8) How does this feature interact with the admin suspend feature? It probably doesn't. The reason for an admin-suspended job is to mark the node in maintenance. It doesn't really matter about what resources are really released on the server side.9) How does this feature interact with limits? What happens if I have a limit on memory and only release ncpus. Will I still hit the memory limit when a job is preempted? I suspect so.
Those are my comments. I hope they help.Bhroam
@vccardenas Thanks for reviewing the document. I've made some changes to document based on the comments I've got.
I've reworded it
I guess dynamic consumable resources aren't something that one can make available on server/queue/node objects. In that sense even if these resources are added to res_release_on_susp list it wouldn't make any difference because nothing will get released. This is probably applicable even today (without this change).
Well the resource can really be altered if there is a job busy on it. It is the same way as it works today.
The change is only about when a job is suspended. Suspension can only happen via a qsig command or using preemption.
I don't know what benefit we will get out of making two lists. And, then there will be cases where some resources don't exist in either of the lists then what do we do.I thought about creating only a list of resources that would sustain on job when it is suspended, but I decided against it while writing this design proposal because in that case admins will have to mention all the consumable resources that they don't want to release. Some sites have hundreds of custom resource and changing the field for every new resource you add wasn't very user friendly in my opinion.
@bhroam Thanks for reviewing the document.I've made the suggested changes.
I've reworded it.
I've changed it to be part of server attributes now.
Well consumable resource is clearly defined in our guides. I didn't want to mention about what would make a resource a consumable resource. I hope it is okay.
Interface 5 is deleted as resources_released is now set by server. I made interface 4 as experimental.
You are right, it shouldn't matter because it isn't checking who is suspending the job. every suspend will have the same behavior.
In one of the points in interface 2 I mention that it will also release resources on server/queue objects. In that case the resources that are not released would still affect the limit checking.
@arungrover Neat feature. I have a few comments: I believe that it is possible for "res_released_on_susp" to change even while a job is suspended. And that's probably why you have "resources_released", so PBS can know what to give back to the job when the job is ready to be resumed. It think it will help to clarify interface 2, sub-bullet 4 by adding the bold text: "This job attribute is populated at the time of job suspension only if "res_released_on_susp" server attribute..." Otherwise it seems like this job attribute can appear and disappear as res_released_on_susp changes even while a job is suspended. And that would be weird (and wrong).
Are interface #2 and #3 really for "Public" consumption? I know everyone will be able to see them, but do we want them to rely on them? If not, Private may be a better option.
Interface #4 please give the log event level (e.g. PBSEVENT_DEBUG2) so folks can know what to include in their server log_events setting in order to see the log message.
@lisa-altair Thanks for your review comments. I've made suggested changes to the document.
I think interface 3 can be marked as private since that is mostly getting consumed internally while releasing resources but interface 2 is probably for public consumption. Since res_released_on_susp could change at any time "resources_released" is on the only readable format using which users can identify that upon suspension what resources are released on each of the nodes.I've marked interface 3 as private for now.
Thanks for making the changes. Looks good to me.
It originally seemed to me when configuring preemption it would be easier to list out what to retain (e.g. "mem") vs listing out everything that should be released. It seems more intuitive for backward compatibility as well, if nothing is specified to retain then everything is released, just like today.
On the other hand, given that SIGSTOP only really causes ncpus to be "released" by the kernel, I've been told many customers just expect that to be PBS's behavior (plus nppus) as well, so I guess making that the default behavior and allowing an admin to specify anything else they'd like to release would be OK.
Thanks @smgoosen for reviewing the document!
My opinion was that there won't be a lot many things that we would want to release and I wanted to limit admins to go through the pain of modifying the list of resources to retain on the job every time a new consumable custom resource is created.Reading your comment, I'm guessing you are probably ok with the "res_released_on_susp" approach as specified in the document, right?
@arungrover, in interface 2 "resources_released" you mention that "This attribute is set by server whenever it preempts a job using suspension." So what happens for a "qsig -s suspend" - does this job atttribute not show up?
@vccardenas even with "qsig -s suspend" command "resources_released" attribute will be formulated. If it is confusing then I can reword the line.
@arungrover, yes that would clarify things.
@vccardenas I've modified the document based on your comments. Please have a look.@lisa-altair Thanks for your sign-off! The document has undergone a slight change (interface 2, last bullet). If possible, please have a look again.
@arungrover, it still looks good to me.
@arungrover, thanks for the clarification. The design looks good to me.
You are correct, I am ok with the "res_released_on_susp" approach as specified in the document
One additional thought is that rather than relying on "unset" there should be a key word that means "everything" and that we should ship with that as the default so that out of the box customers unambiguously get the same behavior as they have previously.
That's an interesting thought. I imagine it will be a little problematic to have an attribute which is supposed to store names of resources would then also be used to store a keyword.If we go that route, then we will also have to make sure that no resource with name "everything" (or whatever keyword we decide on) should be allowed, what would be the behavior if "res_released_on_susp" is unset or cleared.
Using other attributes as examples, if unset they default to the "default", which would be "everything", that is, it acts as if the keyword were still there.
@smgoosen it sounds like you are suggesting to have PBS SET res_released_on_susp to "everything" when someone unsets it (qmgr -c "unset server res_released_on_susp") or when the admin doesn't set it. That seems weird to me, and it doesn't match the behavior of other server attributes when they are not set. For example, by setting res_released_on_susp to "everything" it will cause res_released_on_susp to appear in the output of qmgr -c "p s".
It would also make the design of the job attributes more intricate and confusing. Since we'd either have to special case the code to not print resources_released and resource_released_list if res_released_on_susp is set to "everything". Or if we print them, there would need to be an explanation of why the word "everything" doesn't show up, and instead we'd have duplicate values of existing job attributes (e.g. the value of resources_released would be the same as the value of exec_vnode).
PBS often has a default behavior, without actually setting the attribute. res_released_on_susp should match the existing behavior of other server attributes.


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If you want to eat something spicy, tangy and tasty, then schezwan fried rice is best option. It's a very simple and instant recipe which made with readymade schezwan sauce, leftover rice and mixed vegetables. Even you can use rice noodles also instead of rice. You can serve this recipe with chili paneer, Manchurian or any gravy based Chinese recipe.
Sichuan cuisine is a style of Chinese cuisine originating from Sichuan province in southwestern China. It has bold flavours, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chili peppers, as well as the unique flavor of the Sichuan pepper.
Cooking Time: 10 Minutes
Servings: 2
Category: Main Course
Cuisine: Chinese
2 Cups Boiled Rice
1/4 Cup Spring Onion, Chopped
1 Small Capsicum, finely chopped
1/4 Cup Beans and Carrots, finely chopped
1 Tsp. Ginger-Garlic paste
4 Tbsps. Schezwan Sauce
1 Tsp. Soya Sauce
1 Tbsp. Vinegar
Salt to Taste
1 Tbsp. Oil
Heat the oil in non-stick pan. Add ginger garlic paste and sauté for few seconds on medium flame.
Add chopped white and green part of spring onion.
Add capsicum, carrots and beans and sauté on a high flame for 10 minutes or till to tender.
Add soya sauce and schezwan sauce and mix well. Keep stirring.
Add vinegar, rice and salt and mix well.
Cook the rice on medium flame for next five minutes and stir continuously to incorporate all the flavors together.
Serve warm fried rice with chili sauce.
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22 December 1995 Drama 104 mins
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Lennon confirms Faye interest
Neil Lennon has confirmed his interest in Abdoulaye Faye, but doubts whether he will be joining Celtic.
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Neil Lennon has confirmed his interest in Stoke's Abdoulaye Faye, but doubts whether he will be joining Celtic.
The Bhoys boss is keen to bolster his defensive options with Thomas Rogne, Daniel Majstorovic and Glen Loovens all on the sidelines.
Stoke's Senegal international is on Celtic's radar and Lennon says he is a player the club would like to bring to Parkhead.
However, Lennon is questioning whether Faye is in Glasgow to finalise a move so does not expect him to sign.
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"I don't think he is in Glasgow," Lennon said on Faye.
"He is a name that we have been linked with along with a lot of other names.
"He is one that does interest us but I have nothing to say on it.
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The other issue I've had with it is that it is not in my nature to just jot things down. I like full sentences and a story and there is no time for that every day. That turns a journal into a task and I don't really need any more of those.
When I started this blog almost eight years ago, it was my de facto gardening journal. I figured if I was going to keep track of this stuff I might as well share it. Well that changed, and thankfully so as it is painful to look back at those first posts.
|I picked up this pretty set of simple journals (affiliate link*) for my first crack at keeping a written garden journal.
But two things happened recently that have made me change my mind about keeping a garden journal for the first time.
The first was seeing the journals of my friend Linda, who blogs at Each Little World. They are works of art and she is on volume 21. What a treasure trove of information they must contain.
The other revelation I had was in reading my vacation book: Cuttings: A Year in the Garden with Christopher Lloyd (that's an affiliate link*). Prepare yourself because you're going to be hearing a lot about this book as it has been as informative for me as any gardening book I've read and it has my brain full of ideas. At some point while reading this book and subsequently looking at photos from last year's garden, I realized that the main fault with my garden is not design related, but maintenance related. I'm lazy or perpetually late on cutting back, staking, deadheading, moving and dividing plants and I really believe that if I up my maintenance game, the garden will be far better for it.
But the problem with these kinds of tasks is that I figure out too late when to cut things back by half (or I forget all together). If I knew how long it takes the nepeta on the path to grow back again after cutting back I could better time when it should be cut back in the first place (my recollection is two to three weeks, but that's all it is). And if I knew that in a week's time I'd be busy deadheading flowers or that I should have staked dahlias a week before I did, I could plan for these activities instead of not scheduling enough time to do them.
And then you factor in the crazy weather we've had this year. Two weeks ago it was 65 degrees. A photo that popped up on Facebook from four years ago reminded me of the more than foot of snow we had on February 27, 2013. Certainly there was not an aconite popping up in the garden at that time that year. Phenology fascinates me and as the climate changes it becomes more important and far more worthwhile to know the conditions during which a garden task is performed than the date it was performed on. And unless you have an exceptional memory, I don't know how you'd figure these things out for your own garden other than with the aid of journals.
Of course such information is of more use when there are several years to compare, so the real usefulness of a garden journal probably won't come until a few years down the road. But if I don't start now, I'll never get there.
The challenge for me will be keeping it simple and therefore manageable. I'll aim for note style, not prose, and hope to include weather observations, garden observations, notes about what I did in in the garden and notes about what I should have done differently. I didn't buy a specific journal for gardening because I doubt one would offer what I really need. I just bought a cheap but pretty (pretty always helps) journal that I can leave laying around and quickly grab. I consider it a bit of an experiment, but it's well past time that I start doing this.
Do you keep a garden journal?
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When will 100Mb broadband reach you?
SINCE it first appeared at the end of 2010, 100Mb has become a much more widely available broadband speed.
Some providers are now offering upgrades to 200Mb and even 300Mb broadband, and connections of up to 1Gb are available in some areas.
In fact, 100Mb has become so much more common that, having been referred to unofficially as "ultrafast" for some years, Ofcom effectively demoted it to "superfast" at the end of 2015, declaring 300Mb to be the new threshold to aim for.
So who's offering 100Mb and how much does it cost? And what about those faster services - and are any of them worthwhile?
Has it reached you yet?
Virgin Media
Virgin Media's up to 100Mb broadband service is now available to pretty much all of their cable network. That could mean that all there is between us and a 100Mb connection is a quick availability check - which can be done using the box below:
Enter your postcode above to check availability in your area.
There's more about what Virgin offer with each of their deals, including their 100Mb offer, in our full review of Virgin Media broadband.
While later speed boosts and rollouts have seen delivery dates slip, Virgin's efforts to upgrade their network to up to 100Mb was remarkable.
In January 2011, just 350,000 homes could receive 100Mb; by March that year they'd upgraded the equipment available to about a million households - or 7.7% of their potential customer base.
By 2012, 10 million of the roughly 13 million households that had access to Virgin lines could get broadband of up to 100Mb.
Virgin's "free" speed upgrades
Then in January 2012, Virgin announced they would double the speeds of selected broadband packages - and customers who were already receiving 100Mb speeds would be automatically upgraded to 120Mb, at no extra charge.
By spring 2013, more than 3.4 million subscribers had seen their download speeds doubled, and new customers were being automatically upgraded to the faster 120Mb deal, free of charge, as soon as the technology in their area was made capable.
This has become something of a pattern with Virgin, as in February 2014, they launched another speed upgrade - this time increasing their maximum speed to 152Mb, and raising those on the slower packages to up to 50Mb and up to 100Mb.
As the upgrade was rolled out, that meant all but those signed up to Virgin's slowest deal were capable of getting up to 100Mb - and, as Ofcom speed tests show, customers with the 100Mb deal get very close indeed:
|Advertised Speed
|Average over 24 hours
|Average at peak times
(8-10pm weekdays)
|Up to 50Mb
|49.4Mb - 51.6Mb
|44.6Mb - 49.1Mb
|Up to 100Mb
|93.3Mb - 98.2Mb
|81.6Mb - 90.6Mb
|Up to 200Mb
|168.0Mb - 179.9Mb
|148.0Mb - 164.4Mb
SOURCE: Ofcom, March 2016.
Most recently, in October 2015, they announced yet another speed boost - this time taking their maximum speed to 200Mb.
As with previous rollouts, people haven't found their speeds increased overnight: after initially saying they hoped to get everyone eligible for the 200Mb service - reviewed here - upgraded by mid-2016, they're now telling some existing customers they may have to wait until 2017.
At the same time as they announced the upgraded top tier, they offered a free speed boost to those already taking one of the two slower packages, from 50Mb to 70Mb, and from 100Mb to 150Mb.
Just a month after Virgin announced those plans, they released their annual figures, in which they revealed that 43% of their customers were signed up to deals offering speeds faster than 100Mb - up from about a third the year previously.
These are the current prices of Virgin's 100Mb and 200Mb broadband deals, with and without Virgin's mid-range Fun TV package:
However, none of this talk of upgrades is much use to those who aren't in a Virgin Media cable area - unless they think there's a chance they might qualify for connection as part of Project Lightning or can put together a good case for the ISP's Cable My Street team.
For those of us for whom getting Virgin remains highly unlikely, keep reading. BT have been in charge of the lion's share of efforts to make some kind of fibre broadband available almost everywhere in the UK, and therefore tend to offer greater coverage for superfast speeds than Virgin.
BT fibre
A couple of years ago the difference between Virgin Media's top speed and BT's top speed was noticeable but not all that great.
When BT Infinity first launched, back in early 2010, it was offering up to 40Mb.
This is the product we now know as "up to 38Mb" fibre, following the introduction in 2012 of new Committee of Advertising Practice guidelines.
When Infinity launched, Virgin's fastest available connection was 50Mb. By the end of the year, Virgin had announced the launch of their 100Mb service, as described above.
It took BT until April 2012 to make their up to 76Mb fibre available - and with the exception of a brief foray into offering fibre to the home, that's been their top speed ever since.
Admittedly, since 2013 they've been working to make fibre of some sort available to as much of the UK as possible through their involvement with Broadband Delivery UK - and now that more than three quarters of the country is covered, they've started to upgrade their up to 38Mb network to offer up to 52Mb.
For those not sure whether BT fibre of up to either 76Mb or 52Mb is available in their area yet, the postcode checker above should clear things up.
And if it turns out it's available, here are the current prices for BT's up to 76Mb Infinity broadband:
|Contract term
|Upfront cost
|Total monthly
|Up to 76Mb
|18 months
for 18 mths,
then £53.99
Check availability for BT Infinity with the postcode tool above; read our detailed guide to BT Infinity - or have a look into the full range of broadband services BT offer in our broader review, available here.
It's also worth noting that because BT have to allow other providers access to their network, 76Mb broadband is also available through other ISPs including Plusnet, EE, Sky, and Zen.
For more details on the best fibre providers, check out our FAQ here, or compare packages by speed here.
BT's 300Mb on demand - on hold
Back in 2013, BT announced plans to start selling up to 300Mb fibre to the premises broadband on demand.
BT Openreach, which builds and maintains the infrastructure over which the majority of UK broadband services are delivered, upgraded several hundred exchanges and the areas around them, making it possible for the fibre cable to be extended from the green street cabinets all the way into buildings.
Availability then relied on the willingness of individual customers to pay for the final part of installation, from the cabinet to the house.
That made getting fibre to the premises a long, fiddly and really rather expensive job, and because of the cost of installation, it's been aimed primarily at small to medium sized businesses.
BT G.fast - coming soon
While BT's 160Mb and 300Mb services are currently unavailable for residential customers, that doesn't mean we should give up hope of being able to get faster than Infinity 2's up to 76Mb - but it may be a while off yet.
In September 2015, BT started real world trials of their latest big hope, G.fast. Depending how those trials go, it could start rolling out nationwide from the end of 2016, offering connections of up to 500Mb.
But, just as Infinity hasn't reached everyone in the UK yet, BT have already made clear that rolling out G.fast will take some time - CEO Gavin Patterson has suggested it'll be nationwide by 2025.
Is 100Mb worth it?
According to Virgin Media, users of 100Mb broadband are able to download:
- A 150MB music album in five seconds
- A 1GB movie in 1.5 minutes
- A 5GB HD movie in 7-8 minutes
It's generally agreed, however, that the biggest benefit of a faster connection is not the seconds it shaves off downloading times but the fact that multiple devices can go online at once, and carry out some heavy bandwidth activities, without struggling.
In other words, it'll stop Dad's HBO drama buffering downstairs because some numpty upstairs is downloading the latest episode of Alan Carr's Chatty Man while Skyping their friends.
Both BT's 76Mb Infinity and Virgin's 100Mb deals are truly unlimited, at least in terms of downloads, with no fair use limits and very little traffic management.
BT made their unlimited deals truly unlimited in early 2013, and more recently removed traffic management on their capped broadband deals; Virgin traffic manage uploads once they reach a certain point, but downloads are completely unrestricted.
According to independent Ofcom speed research published in March 2016, customers actually receive average speeds of:
|Overall average (24 hours)
|Peak (8-10pm weekdays)
|Virgin Media 100Mb
|93.3Mb - 98.2Mb
|81.6Mb - 90.6Mb
|BT 76Mb
|57.4Mb - 61.1Mb
|56.9Mb - 60.5Mb
Virgin Media get closer to the fabled 100Mb thanks in part to the technology they use, but BT's up to 76Mb package still offers a significant boost, and compared with slower broadband deals, there's a little less speed degradation at peak times.
Virgin Media have a habit of offering their broadband with phone for very competitive prices, often making them similar in price to the other providers' slower deals - as can be seen when we compare their 100Mb with phone deal directly with BT's 76Mb with phone deal:
|Contract term
|Upfront cost
|Total monthly
|Up to 200Mb
|12 months
for 12 mths,
then £50
|Up to 76Mb
|18 months
for 18 mths,
then £53.99
However, because every other up to 76Mb fibre provider in the UK is reselling BT's Infinity 2 service, there are cheaper ways to get pretty much the same product.
Awkward question: do people want 100Mb?
In March 2011 respected broadband analysts Point Topic poured some cold water on the UK's fibre development: providers were being slow to roll out services, they said, in part because there was a decided lack of enthusiasm on our part.
"Consumers are hardly breaking the doors down," said Tim Johnson, the company's chief analyst.
Take up has most definitely improved since then.
In the first quarter of 2012, Point Topic reported that 277,700 households had signed up for a superfast broadband package - more than the number of households that had a fibre line the same time the year before.
By February 2015, Ofcom said that almost one in three broadband connections in the UK was to a superfast (at least 30Mb) service - and as we mentioned above, Virgin say that just under half of their customers now take a package offering at least 100Mb.
That's not to say everyone is signing up for the fastest possible deals, or that we perhaps need to: in 2013, the Broadband Stakeholder Group published research suggesting that even the most device-crazed households didn't actually need a connection much faster than 38Mb.
But a lot can change in just a few years.
Ofcom's Connected Nations Report 2015 showed a decided uptick in the amount of data and services people were using when they had a connection faster than up to 38Mb.
Particularly as the Internet of Things becomes a greater reality and our homes become yet more connected, the move towards faster broadband speeds like 76Mb and 100Mb may become more of a necessity.
So can we go faster?
Of course, we mentioned way back at the beginning that 200Mb, 300Mb and even 1Gb services now exist. Availability is seriously restricted by location, and for most of us, there's only really one name in the ring: Virgin Media.
But for people living in out of the way areas not served by Virgin, or in certain towns and cities, there are other options.
We've more on getting ultrafast - where it's possible, and how much it'll cost - in our full guide here.
Already such a huge gap between BT and Virgin - Every other provider runs on BT's already maxed out equipment so they don't mean anything in terms of competition.
The UK's internet services are shocking, two providers... One can offer you a 200mb package, the other touts 72MB but in reality you are probably only going to get 30MB in your area.
In technology heavy homes 30 is just not enough anymore - might be for a single user at one time.
But a house full of smart home devices, tablets and streaming services it's rubbish.
BT need to pull their finger out.


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text: Alright, I really just can't deal with this stock battery anymore. I fight just to make it through with it living through a 8.5 hour day at work of moderate use. I have spent the last few days reading threads on here and I think I only feel more hopeless than I previously did. I was on the verge of the 2600 ebay links people have been posting, and really..for $15 whats to lose..or the $22 for 2 batteries/charger/back..maybe I will jump on it either way. Only problem is I really can't deal with the loss of the case, I have already had this thing drop twice onto concrete from ~5 feet.. I'm always on the move at work and this thing has to be able to take a decent amount of abuse, without a case I don't see it working out too well. I'm assuming the 2150? from verizon has the same problem..no available case, I saw the modified case thread to cut out the back etc. to allow a fit which I am capable of doing, is the 2600 the same size as the 2150? For example- using the case mod on a 2600 as opposed to the 2150? Mostly talking from a price point of view Now, the seidio 1750...this is really the one I was just about to jump on, but at the last second I read a post..well I can't find the link now, but it linked to battery tests showing the 1750 from them was just...horrible. It's unfortunate the seidio one doesn't seem to be legit..was hoping for a nice boost in life without the extra bulk...in turn killing the option for a case..sigh...From other comments I have read it sounds like it's way better to just go with...... The 1500 from bidallies, it seems everyone is very content with this battery, perhaps I will just jump on this one, don't really have any questions about it, was really hoping for more battery life though As far as cases, I am really looking into the rugged case from seidio: Innocase Rugged Holster Combo For use with HTC Droid Incredible Couldn't really find many reviews on it here, if anyone has some basic feedback on it that would be nice, preferably any down falls you may have noticed that may be a deal breaker. I think this is the nicest one I have found that will take some abuse (Do you not get to chose the color of the Innocase II Surface that comes with it? I couldn't find an option to chose? >< ) Any feedback is very much appreciated, I love the phone, my first smart phone, I really just have no more patience for this battery life. I'm assuming I am just pretty much stuck with a 1500 but hoping to read any feedback. Apologize in advance for yet another battery thread.


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This game reminds us of Paris Hilton. You either love it and can't get enough it, or it's simply the most irritating thing in the world. Whichever camp you're in, you can't ignore its legendary status as one of the most important pop-culture icons of the 80s! You know the rules of this puzzle game, make each side of the cube one colour. Actually doing it is another matter. Use the arrows to swivel the panels, and click and hold mouse to move the cube around. Make each face one colour by rotating the segments using the arrows!
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USA Default is Now Certain
Feb 06, 2010
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When governments go bankrupt it's called "a default." Currency speculators figured out how to accurately predict when a country would default. Two well-known economists - Alan Greenspan and Pablo Guidotti - published the secret formula in a 1999 academic paper. That's why the formula is called the Greenspan-Guidotti rule. The rule states: To avoid a default, countries should maintain hard currency reserves equal to at least 100% of their short-term foreign debt maturities. The world's largest money management firm, PIMCO, explains the rule this way: "The minimum benchmark of reserves equal to at least 100% of short-term external debt is known as the Greenspan-Guidotti rule. Greenspan-Guidotti is perhaps the single concept of reserve adequacy that has the most adherents and empirical support."
The principle behind the rule is simple. If you can't pay off all of your foreign debts in the next 12 months, you're a terrible credit risk. Speculators are going to target your bonds and your currency, making it impossible to refinance your debts. A default is assured.
So how does America rank on the Greenspan-Guidotti scale? It's a guaranteed default. . . .
According to the U.S. Treasury, $2 trillion worth of debt will mature in the next 12 months. So looking only at short-term debt, we know the Treasury will have to finance at least $2 trillion worth of maturing debt in the next 12 months. That might not cause a crisis if we were still funding our national debt internally. But since 1985, we've been a net debtor to the world. Today, foreigners own 44% of all our debts, which means we owe foreign creditors at least $880 billion in the next 12 months - an amount far larger than our reserves.
Keep in mind, this only covers our existing debts. The Office of Management and Budget is predicting a $1.5 trillion budget deficit over the next year. That puts our total funding requirements on the order of $3.5 trillion over the next 12 months.
So... where will the money come from? Total domestic savings in the U.S. are only around $600 billion annually. Even if we all put every penny of our savings into U.S. Treasury debt, we're still going to come up nearly $3 trillion short. That's an annual funding requirement equal to roughly 40% of GDP. Where is the money going to come from? From our foreign creditors? Not according to Greenspan-Guidotti. And not according to the Indian or the Russian central bank, which have stopped buying Treasury bills and begun to buy enormous amounts of gold. The Indians bought 200 metric tonnes this month. Sources in Russia say the central bank there will double its gold reserves.
Dr. Stephen Jones
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Raised beds help to organise a garden and make it more manageable
This time last year I reworked some areas of my garden to reclaim it as somewhere to grow more and play less. I built three raised beds out of 20 cm by 2.5 cm treated timber on top of a section of terrace .
I stacked the timber two courses high on the edge so the finished height was 40cm, screwed them together, lined them with some old compost bags and filled them with a mix of around 60 per cent loam and 40 per cent organic compost. I made up some simple wooden-framed covers, one with chicken wire and the others with a top made of basic twin wall polycarbonate sheet. The latter acted as a cover, a general warmer-upper and a frost protector,…


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Two Western photojournalists, including an Oscar-nominated film director, were killed Wednesday in the besieged city of Misrata while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces. Two others working alongside them were wounded.
British-born Tim Hetherington, 40, co-director of the documentary Restrepo about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed inside the only rebel-held city in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer.
Chris Hondros, 41, a New York-based photographer for Getty Images, was also killed.
The two other photographers - Guy Martin, a Briton affiliated with the Panos photo agency, and Michael Christopher Brown - were treated for shrapnel wounds, doctors said.
The circumstances of the incident were unclear. The statement from Mr. Hetherington's family said he was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade.
The city of 300,000 has come under weeks of relentless shelling. Moammar Gadhafi's forces have intensified their assault on Libya's third-largest city, firing tank shells and rockets into residential areas, according to witnesses and human rights groups. Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed.
Mr. Hetherington was nominated for an Academy Award for Restrepo. His photos appeared in Vanity Fair magazine, where he worked as a contributing photographer. He won the World Press Photo of the Year award for his coverage of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, and last year he released Infidel, a book of photos capturing the lives of the 173rd Airborne Combat Team.
Mr. Hondros had covered conflict zones since the late 1990s - including Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan - and his work has appeared in major magazines and newspapers around the world. His awards include World Press Photo honours and the Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the highest prizes in war photography.
The loss reverberated in many circles. Members of Vancouver's Boca del Lupo theatre company were in shock on Wednesday after learning of Mr. Hetherington's death.
He was one of four war photographers Boca del Lupo worked with to create their multimedia work PHOTOG, written largely using verbatim text from interviews with Mr. Hetherington and three other photojournalists who have worked in conflict zones.
"I'm in shock and somewhat devastated," said Jay Dodge, who wrote and performs the work. "We all are here. A lot of people worked on the project. Even those who didn't meet him were impacted by his words."
Boca del Lupo also worked with Mr. Hetherington on Sleeping Soldiers, a video installation that premiered at the New York Photo Festival in 2009. The powerful installation juxtaposed photographs Mr. Hetherington had taken of sleeping soldiers, with sound and video from the battlefield.
"He was more than just an interview subject for us," Mr. Dodge said. "He was definitely a friend and a colleague."
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On the sustainable program in Solow's model
We show that our general result (Withagen and Asheim [8]) on the converse of Hartwick's rule also applies for the special case of Solow's model with one capital good and one exhaustible resource. Hence, the criticism by Cairns and Yang [1] of our paper is unfounded.
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