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The Maple Forum: Clamfight Update on I vs. the Glacier Progress
When it's finally released — and it will be, mark my words — Clamfight's I vs. the Glacier will hit you so hard your pants are going to shit themselves. You're not even going to shit your pants. They're going to do it for you. That's how heavy Clamfight are. One of my favorite reasons that Philadelphia is my favorite city, the two-guitar foursome checked in with an update on the progress for the completion of the album's artwork. Though by the time it's out, we'll all no doubt long since have felt like we did indeed fight a glacier, rest assured this one's going to be worth the wait.
Here's the latest from frontdrummer Andy Martin and the cover art:
So it occurred to me that a little heads up to the general, riff-loving populace might be in order when at a show a few weeks back a buddy of mine said, "So when's Chinese Democracy II coming out?" A little harsh, but more than a little warranted.
The former Clamfight 3 — now called I Versus the Glacier — is done. Way done in fact. It's mixed and mastered and nearly ready for your greedy mitts. Currently we're waiting on a final panel of art from the massively talented Josh Wright and then it's on to JJ to decide when this puppy comes out.
What's been behind the delay you ask? Life, really. We're four guys with pretty demanding professional lives and are just as passionate at keeping roofs over our loved ones' heads as we are rocking your tits off. Hell, one of us is launching a private audiology practice and I'm pecking this thing out while just minutes from hopping a plane to Iceland to spend my summer digging.
We're busy guys but whenever JJ says I Versus the Glacier is coming out, we'll be shelving as much of the work stuff as possible and looking to play this thing live for as many of you as we can possibly reach, while still holding onto those aforementioned roofs. Personally I can't wait.
Once we have an actual release date to announce we'll have an official track premiere, although a handful of you may have gotten your hands on that track from one of our recent shows. We're proud of the finished product and honored to be working with JJ and The Maple Forum, and we can't wait to get it out there to the loyal community. You'll be hearing from us soon…
There you have it. In the meantime, if you haven't gotten yours yet, there are a meager 60 copies of HeavyPink 7″ left, and they're available through the Maple Forum BigCartel store. Thanks as always for your support of The Obelisk and its low-key, limited-type label arm.
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Hard Rock gives glimpse at upcoming Daytona hotel
Hard Rock gives glimpse at upcoming Daytona hotel
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —
Hard Rock hotel is preparing to rock Daytona Beach.
"This is going to really help revive the beachside," Workforce Development President Rick Fraser said.
A crowd of city leaders gathered at the Hilton Hotel to see a preview of what's planned not far down Atlantic Avenue.
Developers are working on a plan to put up a Hard Rock Hotel and Cafe on a 10-acre oceanfront lot south of Speedway Boulevard.
"I think it's just the beginning of a new development," Fraser said.
A rendering of the high-rise hotel was shown at Wednesday's meeting.
Groundbreaking is expected to begin early next year, and the entire complex should be ready by January 2016.


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Lightning causes fire, water outages in SunapeeBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
May 23. 2014 2:50PM
SUNAPEE – A powerful lightning strike hit something near North Road Thursday afternoon, causing a devastating fire that left a family homeless and leaving dozens of residents without water.
The strike caused heavy damage in a small area of town, said Fire Chief Daniel Ruggles.
"I have never seen a lightning strike do so much damage," Ruggles said.
"They felt it in Town Hall. My deputy chief, who lives near North Road, had three pictures shake off of his wall. People didn't know what was going on," he said.
It happened at about 12 p.m. Thursday. The National Weather Service confirmed that a few scattered but powerful storms moved through the Lake Sunapee area around mid-day.
A lightning strike hit somewhere near 107 North Road, starting a fire in the shed of an approximately 800-square-foot mobile home at the address, he said.
"Lots of people reported hearing a big boom," Ruggles said.
Town firefighters and fire crews from Newbury, Newport, and New London arrived at the scene and found the fire spreading from the shed to the home, a distance of about 10 feet, he said.
The homeowner, who Ruggles did not identify, reported the fire.
"He said all the lights in the house lit up, and he looked over and saw his shed on fire," Ruggles said.
The homeowner, who lived in the mobile home with his wife and two sons, left the home with his family as he was told by the fire department dispatcher, he said.
Firefighters tried to save the home. "It was a very small home, and we were able to save many of their effects, which probably have smoke damage," he said. "But we couldn't save the home, it's a total loss."
The family is being aided by the Red Cross, the chief said.
The lightning strike also knocked out a water main that provided water to 30-40 residents on or near North Road. Those residents were still without power Friday afternoon, Ruggles said.


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The Northport City Council will consider the following items during its meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at Northport City Hall.
The Northport City Council will consider the following items during its meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at Northport City Hall:
Second reading of an amendment to Ordinance 1779 regarding Article VI, Section 603.03 (E), multiple unit development.
Resolution approving the annual report of the identity theft prevention plan.
Resolution authorizing city administrator to enter into an agreement with Walker & Associates.
Resolution appointing a police chief.
Purchase order requisition to repair control panel at intake structure (insurance claim), Black Electrical, $70,000.
Purchase order requisition to buy a heat pump unit from Gregg Service Co., $5,250.
Travel/training, one employee, managing inventories and cycle counts June 10 in Birmingham, $249.
Travel/training, one employee, certified municipal revenue officer training, Tuscaloosa, $225.
Purchase order requisition for 10 2-inch octave meters, Empire Pipe, $12,000.
Travel/training, one employee, supervisory fundamentals, $300.
Purchase order requisition, Winston Trailers, $10,086.
Purchase order requisition, rotary mower, Hall Manufacturing, $8,575.
Purchase order requisition, Army Corps of Engineers, $44,000.
Purchase order requisition, Southland International, $150,000.


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Investment in Niagara Falls' Robert Moses Parkway South will result in $50 million in private hotel investment
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced today that the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council will focus on tourism in its next major project, the reconstruction and reconfiguration of a one-mile stretch of the Robert Moses Parkway, south of Niagara Falls.
For many years, the expressway has been seen as an obstacle between city neighborhoods and the waterfront. This project will fully restore visual and physical access to the various natural and cultural features along the Niagara River and the Niagara Gorge.
"The Robert Moses Parkway is an outdated impediment to the growth of the City of Niagara Falls, as well as tourism opportunities in the city's urban core," Cuomo said. "I am pleased that New York state, through the Buffalo Billion initiative, is continuing to invest state resources to leverage tens of millions of dollars in private investment to boost the economy and create jobs. This public infrastructure investment will help the city's tourism business by routing traffic through the city instead of bypassing it."
The state of New York, through the Buffalo Billion initiative, will invest $10 million to remove the limited-access expressway that currently exists and replace it with an at-grade parkway that will reunite downtown Niagara Falls with its most valuable and famous asset, the falls, along with one of the state's and nation's most visited parks, a destination second only to New York City in attracting Empire State tourists.
Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy said, "Today we are seeing yet another investment of Gov. Cuomo's Buffalo Billion and a further demonstration of the state's commitment to revitalize the economy of Western New York. This investment will focus specifically on Buffalo's tourism assets, and transforming a part of the city to better attract visitors and drive local development and job growth. Today's announcement exemplifies the state-local coordination that has become a hallmark of this administration: the Regional Economic Development Councils bringing together community leaders to guide the state's investment where it can best serve the people of Buffalo and grow the economy of Western New York."
The public infrastructure investment is also serving as a magnet for private investment, as four hotel developers have already lined up, pledging nearly $50 million in private investment as a result of this project, which will restore the connection between downtown and its "Wonder of the World."
"The Western New York Regional Economic Development Council's work on the Buffalo Billion initiative resulted in an in-depth analysis of the levers that will drive the region's growth, and tourism is one of the focuses that will provide long-term stability," said Howard Zemsky, managing partner at Larkin Development Group and WNYREDC co-chair. "The removal and replacement of this stretch of the Robert Moses Parkway will reconnect downtown Niagara Falls to the upper Niagara River, opening up access to the river's edge and making it more valuable for development. This plan will revitalize the city, and is a nod to Olmsted's original vision for the Niagara Falls."
"Through our research with the Buffalo Billion initiative, we know that, when the tourism sector grows, jobs follows," said Satish K. Tripathi, president of the University at Buffalo and WNYREDC co-chair. "We believe this growth will be facilitated by opening visual and physical access between the upper Niagara River and downtown Niagara Falls. And as a result of this critically important project, the tourist experience in Niagara Falls will be marked enhanced, and will lead to further private investment along the parkway."
The WNYREDC identified tourism as one of its target growth areas because of the high potential for job creation and economic growth. Global tourism is a fast growing industry (GDP growth of 5 percent) and a significant job creator with as many as 15 jobs created per $1 million spent by travelers.
The tourism industry in Buffalo/Niagara employs more than 50,000 people and has more than a $2.2 billion annual economic impact. Two segments of the tourism industry have great promise for Western New York, the cultural heritage segment and the outdoor adventure, the latter being the focus of today's announcement.
Through the investment connecting the city to the water, enhancing the park and enhancing the park programming, it is expected tourists will extend stays and increase spending, while private hospitality investment should create thousands of jobs.
"The tourism industry offers our city the greatest potential for development, but the Robert Moses Parkway has long been a barrier to that growth," said City of Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster. "Thanks to Gov. Cuomo and the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council's investment through the Buffalo Billion to remove a section of the Robert Moses Parkway, a large part of downtown Niagara Falls will be reconnected to (its) waterfront. The impact this will have on tourism in our city's central business district, as well as outdoor recreation, cannot be understated. In fact, private sector investment has already begun in the adjoining tourism district in anticipation of this project moving forward."
Niagara Falls is already a world-class destination with huge growth potential. The falls attracts more visitors annually than most national parks. In fact, it attracts nearly twice as many visitors as the Grand Canyon (8 million vs. 4.4M). Despite that, only 21 percent of visitors stay overnight. Visitors to Niagara Falls, N.Y., spend less than visitors to the Canadian side ($159 per day vs. $225 per day). The goal of this project is to stem that tide and create a more development-friendly environment.
"With the help of the governor and the Buffalo Billion plan, travelers will soon be able to drive along a scenic river route as they approach the gem that is Niagara Falls," said John Percy, president and CEO of the Niagara Tourism & Convention Corp. "We are pleased not only for the tourism industry, but for our guests, who will benefit from an open gateway to Niagara Falls State Park."
The project will restore Frederick Law Olmsted's original vision of a two-lane "Riverway" from the upper Niagara to the terminus of Old Falls Street. The elevated embankments will be removed and the grade-separated interchange at John B. Daly Boulevard will be replaced with a modern roundabout to create a more fitting gateway experience into Niagara Falls State Park and downtown Niagara Falls.
This $10 million state commitment is in addition to the previously awarded $5 million from NYS Multi-Modal Access Program, Executive Allocation.
This type of public/private partnership is what the Buffalo Billion initiative is designed to foster.
•Duffy and Zemsky also unveiled a new "New York Open For Business" campaign to highlight the development opportunities that lie in Buffalo/Niagara.
Such notable Buffalonians, community leaders and Buffalo stake-holders as Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, Emmy Award-winning actress Christine Baranski, Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame QB Jim Kelly, Zemsky, business leader Sundra Ryce and even the Geico Gecko have lined up to push the value of investing in Buffalo.
Empire State Development is New York's chief economic development agency and administrator of the statewide business resource portal New York First (www.NYfirst.NY.gov). The mission of Empire State Development is to promote business investment and growth that leads to job creation and prosperous communities across New York state. ESD also oversees the marketing of "I Love NY," the state's iconic tourism brand.
For more information on Empire State Development, visit www.esd.ny.gov.


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Are other fish like my plecostomus as hardy over the winter as my koi?
Chris – Cedar Rapids, IA
With all of our talk about koi and goldfish in our pond blogs you may feel that your fish are not being properly represented. That being said, we will speak less in generalities today and focus on some other, more specific, types of fish that need a little more wintertime TLC.
It has been mentioned in past blogs that your koi and goldfish fare surprisingly well over the winter. With a little help from wheat-germ based fish food like Pond Logic® Spring and Fall and an Aeration System or De-Icer, your fish will have a successful and trouble free winter rest and be ready for action come springtime. Common goldfish like Sarassa and Shubunkins are types of winter hardy fish that can be left outside with your koi.
Other types of fish like Plecostomus, Oranda, Telescope Goldfish and Black Moors do not fare as well and will most likely benefit from being over-wintered indoors. Refer to our past Blog on how to bring your water garden inside for the winter, and for pointers on indoor ponding and relocating your pond hardware.
Depending on the layout of your pond and the average winter temperatures where you live, you may have to bring all of your fish in, or you may be spared from having to relocate them at all. Your pond should ideally be around 24" deep to protect your fish from exposure to the elements outside of their pond environment in cases of both extreme heat and cold. If you experience extremely cold winters in your area there is still a chance of the pond freezing through or the remaining water being too cold. Always keep a Pond Themometer on hand and keep track of water temperatures when deciding to switch fish foods or to verify if it is time to bring your fish indoors. If you live in a warmer climate you may never experience ice on your pond or even frost and therefore have no need to worry about your fish becoming potential ice cubes.
Pond Talk: Do you keep fish in your pond that need special attention during the winter months?
Filed under: Aeration - WG, Deicer, Fish Diseases, Fish Population, Koi & Goldfish, Water Gardens & Features, Water Quality Issues, WG-Winterizing | Tagged: black moors, hardy fish, oranda, plecostomus, sarassa, shubunkin |


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Beans in the teens." Soybean futures aren't quite there yet — January was trading at $12.45 as this is being written — but the highest prices in decades could help soybeans recover nearly 10 percent of their acreage and perhaps push back above 70 million acres in 2008.
Soybeans took it on the chin last spring when corn prices fueled by rising ethanol demand drew more than 8 million acres from soybeans to corn, reducing the 2007 crop to 64 million acres and production to 2.6 billion bushels (from 74.6 million acres and 3.2 billion bushels in 2006).
Initially, farmers and marketing analysts were skittish about how long the run-up in corn futures might last. Growers had heard the siren's call of ethanol and higher corn prices in the past only to see their hopes dashed when oil prices plummeted.
This time may be different, says Michael Whitehead, vice president with Rabobank International's Food and Agribusiness Research Team.
"While grain prices in the United States retreated marginally after reaching high, and in some cases, record levels, it would seem that the U.S. grains and oilseeds sector has entered a period of fundamental change," he said.
"The market has now accepted that the demand for grains as a feedstock for biofuels will be maintained in the long term, despite some concerns over the levels of demand for ethanol in the United States." (That prediction may have been bolstered when President Bush signed a new energy bill just before Christmas mandating 36 billion gallons of biofuel production by 2022.)
The dramatic shift in U.S. corn acres — from 78.3 million in 2006 to 2007's 92.8 million — has been reflected, to some extent, in other countries with global corn plantings rising by 7 percent in the 2007-08 crop year. But adverse weather conditions in areas of China have resulted in production shortfalls.
USDA says the increase in planted area and rise in corn production — to 769.3 million metric tons or 28.3 billion bushels worldwide — could have an impact on the outlook for grains in 2008, causing some weakening of corn prices and a resurgence in interest in soybeans short-term.
"After a strong performance in the 2007-08 calendar year, corn acreage in the United States is likely to dip slightly, as some growers take advantage of higher soybean prices, and respond cautiously to a re-adjustment of the ethanol market structure," said Whitehead, a speaker at Rabobank's 2008 Ag Outlook Seminar.
"However, as the ethanol market in the United States becomes more efficient, and as U.S. government support for biofuels solidifies, a return to corn acreage and good prices seem likely."
Export demand is also on the rise for corn. U.S. corn exports in 2007-08 are expected to rise about 5 percent to 60 million metric tons or 2.2 billion bushels, driven by strong demand in the face of weaker global wheat crops and a reduced Chinese corn crop (due to hot conditions in the northeast portion of the country).
"The potential for stronger increases has been dissipated by strong competition from South American exporters," said Whitehead. "Looking forward, corn exports will be largely influenced by the demand from China. This level will be determined by the size of the Chinese crop and domestic regulatory changes on Chinese corn usage."
Production in Brazil and Argentina appears also to be flattening because of dry conditions in their primary growing regions. Argentina's production is forecast to remain around 47 million metric tons while Brazil's farmers could again produce roughly 60 million metric tons.
The result has been Chicago soybean futures to dream of with both the nearby and new crop futures approaching $12.50 per bushel as the new year began. (Concerns about the dry weather in Argentina and poor snow cover in the wheat areas of the United States sent nearby soybean futures up 33 cents a bushel on the first trading day.)
"Not only has soybean production been decreasing in the United States," said Whitehead, "but ending stocks and stocks-to-use ratios are also forecast to fall. Ending stocks for the 2006-07 calendar year are estimated around 575 million bushels and the 2007-08 stocks are forecast to be half this amount due to high demand for soybeans."
The stocks-to-use ratio thus is forecast to decline from about 18 percent in 2006-07 to 7.5 percent in 2007-08.
Higher soybean prices and the rising cost of nitrogen fertilizer are expected to bring some acres back to soybeans in 2008, according to Whitehead. (Nitrogen prices are roughly double what they were at this point in 2007.)
"However, many farmers will continue planting corn-on-corn, as the yield loss is minimal. Regaining 5 million soybean acres or more for the 2008-09 calendar year may be necessary to prevent excessive speculation in the soft commodities market and resultant price fluctuations."
On the other hand, the United States will continue to face strong export competition from Argentina and Brazil because of economic factors in those countries. In Argentina, for example, the country's energy crisis has led to a reduction in soybean crush and port activity, leaving more supplies in storage.
China will also play a dominant role in the price forecasts for soybeans, according to Rabobank's economists. China remains the world's largest importer of soybeans, accounting for slightly less than half of global imports.
"As a result of reduced domestic production in 2007-08, imports are forecast to climb to about 34 million tons or 1.25 billion bushels, up almost 20 percent from last year," says Whitehead. "Chinese demand has also been boosted by the government's moves to expand cattle, pork and poultry herds."
With soybean prices likely to remain high due to the lower ending stocks, the 2008-09 calendar year is likely to see U.S. soybean acreage recover nearly 10 percent, according to Whitehead. "That would mean the acreage possibly pushing back above 70 million bushels and recovering most of the acreage planted to corn in 2007."


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The land below Mt. Sugarloaf was the home of a number of area farmers who took their grain to the S&G Mill just below the outcropping. The mill's distinctive cupola is clearly visible to the left of this picture. The land around the mountain had been owned by the Jewett family for generations. They operated a ferry connecting South Deerfield with Sunderland, Massachusetts, a crucial east-west crossing of the Connecticut River spanned today by a bridge. These settlements by descendents of Europeans sat atop fields and home sites of earlier generations of settlers. As early as 11,000 years before the present, palaeo-Indians had settled here on the dunes left by the sudden disappearance of Lake Hitchcock. The traces of their occupation were unknown until the 1970s and unexcavated until the 1990s.
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Q: What's the difference between the Windows Authentication Mode and the Mixed Mode of security authentication?
A: The Windows Authentication Mode of security authentication allows a user to connect to SQL Server with a Windows user account. In this authentication mode, SQL Server receives the user's login name and password and validates them with the Windows OS's logon name and password. After the user's login credentials are validated, SQL Server grants the user access. Windows Authentication uses the Kerberos security protocol and supports many standard group polices related to login name and password. This makes Windows Authentication Mode the most secure method to connect to SQL Server.
Mixed Mode is used when a user can connect to the SQL Server machine via Windows Authentication Mode or SQL Server Authentication. When you run a legacy application or use a non-trusted connection, SQL Server Authentication is automatically used instead of Windows Authentication. SQL Server receives the user's login name and password and validates them with the previously created login name and password stored in SQL Server. After the user's credentials are validated, SQL Server grants the user access. Mixed Mode authentication is convenient for multi-platform systems that contain non-trusted connections and legacy applications.
When you install SQL Server, Windows Authentication Mode is the default; SQL Server Authentication is disabled. For information about enabling SQL Server Authentication, see the Microsoft article "How to: Change Server Authentication Mode" (msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188670.aspx).
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The master database contains all the system-level information (e.g., login accounts, server-wide database configurations, information about system and user databases, file groups), plus initialization information required to start SQL Server. A full backup must be performed regularly. Even a small change to this sensitive data can cause SQL Server to behave in an unexpected manner. Therefore, the master database has many modification restrictions (e.g., changing owner, modifying file groups, dropping databases, making a database read only). In SQL Server 2005 all the system objects have been moved to the new resource database.
The resource database contains all the system objects in SQL Server, such as user and system tables, views, triggers and functions, stored procedures, and constraints. In SQL Server all system objects logically belong to the system schema of each database and can be accessed with sys.objects, even though the system objects physically reside in the resource database. The resource database contains only system data; it doesn't contain any user data. It isn't possible to take a SQL Server backup of the resource database; instead, use a manual file system backup process. The resource database location depends on the location of the master database. If you move the master database, you must also move the resource database. If you move the resource database without moving the master database, SQL Server 2005 won't start. The resource database is read-only, and you can't see it in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). This database facilitates SQL Server quick version upgrades and easy service pack rollbacks.
The model database is a template for all new databases that you'll create. So any changes to this database will show up in subsequently created databases. Back up this database regularly.
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1. Re: Intel® Desktop Utilities - What Next?bobnI Apr 27, 2012 7:41 PM (in response to spearson)1 of 1 people found this helpful
I would like to see an ability to easily turn on/off the background monitering feature. So if you needed to run another monitering program for overclocking there would not be a conflict for resources. Just finished useing cpu-z and hwmoniter with prime 95 and it would be great to have desktop utilities replace those monitering programs. Core temps , system voltages, multiplier, base clock speed, core speed all in real time with min max and a recording feature to a .txt file. I would much rather have an Intel utilities program than third party. Now that Intel is offering extreme series motherboards and overclocking features a full featured monitering program would fit right into Intels push into that market. I never liked the IDU color speedometer style , a tree like structure similar to hwmoniter is easy to read. GUI looks good but can be a pain if taken to extreme, rather see features , ease of use as opposed to trying to make it look like a frame from a game. Wish I knew desktop utilities better but it conflicted with other monitering programs and I uninstalled it after it displayed scary overtemp false warnings. Thanks for the chance for input .
2. Re: Intel® Desktop Utilities - What Next?JFFulcrum Apr 28, 2012 9:52 AM (in response to spearson)
I`m very disappointing about this tool. No individual CPU cores temperature monitoring, no instant logging, no direct fan control, anemic system information module - and it is still a 32-bit app in half-64bit world. For monitoring will be better include special version of HWMonitor PRO in box, belive me, this will be cheaper that spending programmers full-time work hours for near useless thing - send them to drivers teams, there are clearly visible lack of resources. Or, if Intel still need own branded tool to keep up with the Joneses AMD - make it right, with overclocking, in-OS bios updating, GPU management, clock-domains monitoring with full history and all the stuff people expect from MB vendor, especially buying the premium product, like me (DX79SI).
3. Re: Intel® Desktop Utilities - What Next?Flying_Kiwi Apr 29, 2012 9:58 PM (in response to spearson)
Hello Scott and thanks for the opportunity to contribute! I've used successive versions of Intel Desktop Utilities with my DG45ID and Core 2 Duo 3.16 GHz E8500 CPU since day one and generally I've been happy with the added functionality it provides. The features I use are the ability to monitor voltages, fan speeds and generally whats going on in the system including which BIOS adjustable motherboard options are enabled such as onboard LAN and Audio etc. It was IDU that recently led me to the decision to replace my PSU with a more powerful one because the 3.3 volt rail was becoming too unstable (using the penultimate BIOS version 0131 - I'd tried 0135 but ditched that because of IDU warnings about low voltages on this rail). The thing is that NOW my 3.3 volt rail is stable (always 3.4 ~ 3.3 volts rather than 3.298 ~ 3.16), I've been able to upgrade to BIOS version 0135 without ANY of the (what I incorrectly assumed were false) warnings about low voltages and (more importantly) none of the locking into high speed fan mode that I was getting with all CPU power saving related options enabled. In short, I should have trusted IDU more because my PSU WAS responsible for the problems I was having with my PC (even including problems with poor Digital TV reception - the new 650 Watt PSU has cleared this all up totally). So IDU and the 0135 BIOS versions were actually doing their jobs properly and it was my lack of faith in your software holding things back!
One change I would like to see going forward, is to amalgamate IDU fully with Intel Rapid Storage Technology software ie the one app tells you about ALL functionality with the same GUI throughout (which displays correctly at all compatible OS settings). My suggestion is to talk to the people behind Intels latest GUI design for the graphics drivers as that GUI is SWEET with its transparent 'hardware picture background' and brilliant visual effects. I do like the old fashioned speedo style gauges though because they make it easy to seperate out which gauge is showing what clearly and how much it's varying by - maybe a more modern style of the same principal is possible?
Without IDU I would have had NO idea there was anything wrong with my PSU as the only other monitoring option for my board (HW Monitoring screen in the BIOS setup) isn't functional within Windows when Media Centre is loaded (when I was getting the voltage drops under load). It makes me wonder if problems I was sometimes getting with my old (long gone other brand Pentium Pro) motherboard weren't PSU related as well. Unfortunately that company provided no such monitoring tools so it's essential that this functionality remains for Intel Branded boards.
4. Re: Intel® Desktop Utilities - What Next?rsnelson May 1, 2012 7:24 AM (in response to spearson)
I would like to see Intel invest in a new and modern software developement environment that would allow for new features. I do not like to rely on third party programs for specific hardware information. Seems like in the past (several years ago), that support for the new relased products from a third party tool took some time and then not all the information I needed was availble in the third party tool.
You could probably drop some of the information that is reported as this can be found in other standard tools (like msinfo32). You probably don't need hard drive smart information as this information also in the Intel SSD toolbox.
Hardware monitoring (fan speeds, temps, voltage) is a must.
I would like to be able to see BIOS settings and would like to even change these settings if possible (other competitors have this ability). I would especially like to be able to change the fan settings while running Windows.
5. Re: Intel® Desktop Utilities - What Next?vbaderks May 3, 2012 2:38 PM (in response to spearson)
Hi Scott,
I like the style of the current Intel Desktop Utilities: clean and to the point.
One of my main reasons to buy an Intel motherboard was the assumption that Intel provides up to date add-on-software. There are many vendors but maintaining quality releases of BIOS\drivers\manuals\tools seems often difficult in the world were technology is already outdated when you buy it.
I think that duplicating info that Windows itself already provides is pointless but there are many unique things (such as the realtime monitoring of voltage and temperature) that IDU currently offers.
If the IDU moves into directions of the GUI of the Intel Extreme Tuning Util. I would see that a postive thing. Quality is however my primary focus, I rather have a good tool than a tool that looks great but introduces systems issues.


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It was a moment that could have played out so much differently.
Edson Buddle stood at the penalty spot deep in a penalty-kick shootout. Perched on the goal line was Real Salt Lake's Nick Rimando, and if Buddle could just get the ball past both, the Galaxy would be one stop away from an MLS championship.
Buddle fired. Rimando dived. The penalty was turned away.
Robbie Russell converted the ensuing spot kick and Real Salt Lake had their championship at the Galaxy's expense.
"I just don't want to be remembered for a thing like that,' Buddle said. "It's definitely motivation and preparation for the season."
Buddle has done well so far to erase the memory. The Galaxy forward leads the league with five goals, accounting for each of the club's goals this season. He's also already matched his total scoring output from last season, which was marred by hip and toe injuries.
The Galaxy, in turn, are 3-0-0 and playing arguably the best soccer in the league thus far.
"It left a bitter taste in my mouth," Buddle said of last year's shortcomings. "I wouldn't want to leave the fans thinking that that was going to hurt me or slow me down by any means. I wanted to come out on top of that scenario and show that I still want to win."
On Saturday, Buddle will have further opportunity to prove his worth while hoping for a bit of payback as Real Salt Lake visits the Galaxy. It's not the same as Nov. 22, 2009, but it will be a game the Galaxy want to win nonetheless.
"Losing in the final, you want to play that team again. It's going to be physical and you want to win. I'm sure they're up to the task," Buddle said. "They got what they wanted and we just want to show that we are the better team."
The goals have seemingly come rather effortlessly. He scored on two early headers, against New England and Chivas USA, respectively. Against the Galaxy's in-stadium rivals, Buddle put away a goal after he and Landon Donovan broke into the penalty area late in the match.
Buddle banged in a pair against Houston, each an impressive strike – he scored on a tight angle against Pat Onstad, then hammered a side volley into the back of the net to finish off Houston.
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy, right?
"It's not easy at all. It's never easy," Buddle said. "The opposition always makes it tough to get free, and it's physical. Especially the last game. We're just happy we're coming away with results right now."


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This afternoon I had a great session of PT. I'm healing a little bit every day and I'm able to actually do the exercises now. It does hurt, but I have come so far in just a month. I was so happy as I drove home that I took the scenic route and snapped some pictures.
The wide open plains:
A windmill:
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A curious group:
Well, hello there, Ms. Cow. (She and I studied each other for a few minutes.)
This fence line stretches for miles:
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Kishka was hogging the water dish:
It's been a stormy week here and a few nights ago I snapped my first picture of a lightning bolt. And not only that, but I snapped three more:
How many pieces of jewelry do you wear most days?
Two: necklace and bracelet
What is your favorite instrumental song?
Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Who has a last name that you like?
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The Lord of the Rings movies.
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UNDP chief calls for broad research, innovative partnerships to achieve health, development goalsJan 31, 2013
Better health is a gateway to development progress,' Helen Clark tells Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts — UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark called Thursday for more broad, innovative research and partnerships to achieve health goals worldwide, noting that health is a key element and indicator in all areas of development.
"Development and health practitioners share the same goals of tackling inequality and improving the well-being of individuals and communities, yet they often lack the common language or approaches to find solutions together. This gap is artificial, to be bridged through dialogue and inter-institutional partnerships," she said in a speech at the Harvard School of Public Health.
"Global financial hardship has elevated the concerns of efficiency and value for money. Without new partnerships and innovative joint initiatives, there is a risk that human development progress will stall."
Research must more systematically take into account a broad range of factors—environment, policy, governance, urbanization, housing, employment, and education—in the study of health and well-being, she said. This "can help motivate action at this level, rather than only focusing at addressing symptoms once diseases occur."
"Innovative intervention studies can provide evidence as to which solutions work, and how to use new technologies to further better health outcomes."
Promising joint initiatives include a pilot project by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), now testing a system through which health care guidance is offered via text messaging to people managing non-communicable diseases in Africa.
They also include the Clinton Foundation's Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which aims to simultaneously save the lives of women and children exposed to indoor air pollution, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change.
'Better health is a gateway to development progress'
UNDP's core mandate of helping countries tackle poverty, promote gender equality, and achieve sustainable human development is highly relevant to lifting health status, she said. "That is because the conditions in which people live and work impact their well-being. Disparities in health outcomes tend to mirror inequalities and inequities in society more broadly."
"The reverse is also true: Advancing better health is a gateway to development progress, lifting economies and societies. In Asia, for example, between 30 and 50 percent of economic growth from 1965-90 has been attributed to improvements in reproductive health and lower infant and child mortality. …Well-nourished, healthy children are better able to learn. Well-nourished, healthy adults will lead more productive lives, and enjoy a better chance of attaining overall well-being."
"Good health is built on broad foundations, and is about rather more than the absence of illness," she said. "The right to health has been enshrined in global and regional human rights treaties, such as the UN Charter, and in many national Constitutions."
UNDP's work to address armed violence and HIV/AIDS, and to help countries recover from devastating crises and conflicts, reflects some of the agency's most obvious contributions in the area of public health, with broad, long-term consequences: New research shows that trauma and deprivation in early life directly impact lifelong predisposition to cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, which can push families into extreme poverty—reversing development gains.
UNDP's extensive work in anti-corruption and democratic governance also bears directly on public health as well: Citizens in some countries report uniquely high levels of corruption in health care provision, while transparent governments are more likely to effectively regulate production and distribution of safe and effective medications.Contact information
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Match report by John Meredith, photography by Ian Lovell
Bedwas entertained Cardiff RFC showing only two changes from the side that drew with Llandovery two weeks earlier-Kristian Gay coming in at tight head prop and Tom Rowlands starting at scrum half. Simon Grainger retained the Captain's armband.
Cardiff were ahead after only four minutes. Good ball from an early line out was spread wide for full back Joe Griffin to cross. The same player added the conversion from a narrow angle.
From the restart Cardiff knocked on, Bedwas retained possession but good defence kept the home side at bay before the home side transgressed and Cardiff cleared to touch. The visitors won the line out but lost possession and Stuart Thomas cleared to touch. Cardiff counter attacked and slick hands put back rower Reuben Tucker in for a try, Griffin again converting. At this stage Cardiff were playing with confidence and fluidity.
Bedwas finally got on the scoreboard courtesy of a long range Powell penalty after Cardiff were adjudged offside on the half way line. This seemed to lift the home side and the home side attacked the visitor's line. Bedwas earnt a scrum deep in the Cardiff half and forced the visitors to concede a penalty for collapsing the scrum. Rather than kick for goal Bedwas opted to reset the scrum and this time destroyed the Cardiff scrum and earnt a penalty try. Powell added the conversion.
Then came a moment of madness. Powell tackled a Cardiff player late, at worst a yellow card offence. However Powell reacted to something said by an opposing player and was shown a straight red card for violent conduct. Will Thomas stroked over the ensuing penalty goal, but missed a second penalty after Bedwas were penalised for side entry at a ruck.
Replacement Ethan Davies notched a penalty for Bedwas shortly before the break to leave the home side 4 points adrift for a second half with only 14 men.
It didn't take long for Bedwas to reduce the arrears as Davies added a further penalty after Cardiff were penalised at a ruck. Both sides looked to add to their scores but defences held strong, Bedwas especially to the fore as the home side dug deep.
Bedwas scrum half Tom Rowlands was tackled unfairly 40 metres out and Ethan Davies stepped to slot the penalty to put ahead for the first time in the game; a lead they were not to relinquish.
After a brief delay due to a lack of playing balls Bedwas were on the back foot as Cardiff earnt a penalty chance but Thomas was off target before Davies slotted a Bedwas penalty from in front of the posts after Cardiff were penalised at a scrum. Cardiff were not going to lie down and attacked in numbers earning a penalty in front of the posts, this time converted by Thomas.
Bedwas were not finished and five minutes from time delivered the knock out punch. Replacement Matthew Pewtner crossed for a good try after Bedwas attacked a Cardiff line out, Davies added the conversion.
Cardiff desperately sought a losing bonus point and earnt a penalty chance but Thomas was wide with his attempt and Bedwas held on for a heroic win.
With neighbours Cross Keys ending the unbeaten run of top of the table Llandovery Bedwas are now top of the Premiership for the first time in their history.
Next Friday (23 November) Bedwas visit Carmarthen Park for a league game against Carmarthen Quins, kick off 7-30pm.


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River Road Bridge #36May 23. 2013 3:03PM
River Road
Pittsburg, NH
Little is known about this bridge and nothing has been recorded in the town records. It has now been bypassed. The bridge is closed to all but pedestrian traffic. Periodically, volunteers have undertaken the cleaning of the bridge and minor repairs.
Year of Construction: - 1858
Original Cost: - Unknown
Seven miles north of Pittsburg Village and one mile east of U.S. Route 3 on the road to Lake Francis State Park. It spans Perry Stream.
Queenpost. The bridge is 50'6" long with a clear span of 41'9". It has an overall width of 16'10" with a roadway width of 13'5", and a maximum vertical clearance of 11'2". The structure is closed to traffic.
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Ryu gets 1st MLB win, Dodgers beat Pirates 6-2
Ryu gets 1st MLB win, Dodgers beat Pirates 6-2
Apr. 08, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hyun-Jin Ryu is going to enjoy pitching for a team with the menacing lineup the Los Angeles Dodgers possess, and the hitters have become equally confident with the rotation that's backing them up.
The South Korean earned his first major league victory, shrugging off a two-run homer in the first inning by Andrew McCutchen and pitching the Dodgers past the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-2 Sunday for a three-game sweep. Adrian Gonzalez drove in four runs with three hits and Justin Sellers homered for Los Angeles.
"Ryu did a good job today," Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp said. "The first inning was rough, but after that he shut them down. I told him that was all they were going to get today from him, and he did what we asked him to do. We scored some runs for him and got him the W. We know what our offense is capable of doing. And if we stay within ourselves, we'll be a very successful team."
Ryu (1-1) allowed two runs and three hits in 6 1-3 innings, striking out six and walking two. The 26-year-old lefty signed a $36 million, six-year contract in December after the Dodgers bid $25.7 million to win exclusive rights to negotiate with him.
"The feeling came to me when we were up 4-2. That's when I actually thought, 'it could be today,' Ryu said through a translator. "It absolutely felt great to get the first win at Dodger Stadium in front of the home crowd, but most importantly it felt good to help my team get the win today."
Jeff Locke (0-1) lost in his season debut, giving up four runs and eight hits over six innings. The 25-year-old left-hander, beginning what he hopes will be his first full season in the majors, is 1-7 with a 6.32 ERA and nine home runs allowed in 11 big league starts over a three-year span.
Locke, Pittsburgh's minor league pitcher of the year last season, was 3-1 with a 2.63 ERA in six starts and one relief outing this spring.
"I feel like I threw the ball really well in the spring, so when you break with this team up here, you've got to feel confident," Locke said. "I felt very confident coming in today, and the results of the game doesn't change the kind of confidence I have in myself."
Kemp, who entered the game in a season-opening 1-for-18 slump, gave the Dodgers a 3-2 lead in the third with a sacrifice fly after Carl Crawford led off with a double and advanced on Nick Punto's sacrifice bunt.
Gonzalez added a run in the fifth with an RBI single. The Dodgers tacked on two more in the seventh against Chris Leroux with Sellers' leadoff homer and Gonzalez's run-scoring single.
"We expect him to do big things for us because he's one of the best first baseman in baseball," Kemp said of Gonzalez, who was acquired in a blockbuster nine-player trade with Boston last Aug. 25. "What you see is what you get, and that's what he's showing right now. He's hitting the ball well and driving in runs. He stays in the middle of the field. And when you hit lefties well, that's what happens."
The lefty-swinging Gonzalez led the majors last season with a .322 average against left-handed pitching.
"Lefties allow me to simplify things," Gonzalez said. "I tend to get greedy against righties, and I try to drive the ball and I end up pulling off it. But with lefties, I usually just try to take what they give me. I'm not trying to drive the ball, just take a single. And if the ball's away then I try to go the other way and not get too quick. There's a perfect swing, and then there's a swing that gets results. Right now, I have a swing that gets results."
Starling Marte opened the game with a single and McCutchen hit a one-out drive about five rows into the left field pavilion for the Pirates' first home run of the season. They had been the only team in the majors without one.
Ryu walked Gaby Sanchez, but third baseman Juan Uribe helped minimize the damage by robbing Michael McKenry of a potential RBI double down the line with a diving stop and getting the forceout at second.
Los Angeles tied it in the bottom half with three straight one-out hits, including a two-run double by Gonzalez.
"We swung the bat well today," Kemp said. "Locke left pitches where we could hit them and we did a great job as a group of getting on base and driving in runs."
Pittsburgh dropped the first two games of the series 3-0 to Zack Greinke and 1-0 to Clayton Kershaw, getting just two hits against each pitcher. The Pirates haven't been shut out in three consecutive games since August 1968.
NOTES: The Pirates' five-game homerless drought equaled the franchise's longest from the start of a season since an 11-game stretch in 1943. They also failed to hit one through their first five games in 1998 and 1967. ... The Pirates have gone 4-19 at Dodger Stadium since they last won a series here in 2006. ... McKenry made his season debut behind the plate with Russell Martin getting a day off. Martin is hitless in his first 14 official at-bats with his new club after sending the previous two seasons with the Yankees.


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Washington lawmakers mostly mum on 'isolation room' policy
LONGVIEW, Wash. - Just a few days after a Longview elementary school removed a controversial isolation room, state lawmakers and school district officials met Wednesday but the issue wasn't even discussed.
KATU broke the story more than a week ago after a parent, questioning its use, sent it photographs of the isolation room at Mint Valley Elementary Room that looked like a padded box.
The school used the room for four years as a place for special education children to calm down without harming themselves or others. It was only used with a parent's approval.
After the meeting, held annually to discuss possible future legislation, state Sen. Brian Hatfield, who represents Longview, said he didn't believe state lawmakers have any place intervening in the isolation room policy. He feels the issue should be decided by local school districts.
The state of Oregon has taken a different approach. As of this past summer, Oregon law limits the situations in which isolation rooms can be used and can only be used as a last resort in situations where children are at risk of hurting themselves or others. Washington state provides regulations but does not limit use to that situation.
The Longview School District is investigating complaints from parents, accusing staff of using the rooms to discipline students who were never authorized to go into the room. The district is also discussing for the first time the specific changes it could make as it plans to rebuild another isolation room.
"We're studying experts, specialists who advise on this type of structure," said district spokeswoman Sandy Catt. "Perhaps it might be larger. Have additional observation into it. I just don't know specifically what those plans will look like. It could have a larger viewing portal."
There is no timeline on when that new isolation room will be built. The investigation into Longview schools is ongoing and could last for several weeks.
KATU News contacted half a dozen state lawmakers representing southwest Washington Wednesday, some of whom were at the meeting, but none of them would comment on the issue.


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The Savoy Hotel is not the largest hotel in the city, but it is one of the most luxurious and scores highly where service is concerned.
Although starkly modern from the street, the interior of this Limerick hotels gentler with warm colours and a mixture of styles the tone is set in the entrance, where an elegant brass-railed staircase suggestive of old-fashioned hospitality rises from a mainly crisply contemporary lobby, and friendly staff immediately do everything possible to make guests feel at home.
Mainly aimed at the business guest, spacious warm-toned and very comfortably furnished rooms have broadband (free wi/fi is available throughout the hotel), a spacious work desk and chair, desk level power sockets, voice mail, safe and complimentary newspaper in addition to all the usual in-room facilities.
Other features of the hotel are of equal interest to business and leisure guests, including terraced gardens with views of the city and the River Shannon; Savoy Aqua and Fitness club, with swimming pool, Jacuzzi and spa treatments; and the very pleasant Savoy Bar on the ground floor, which reflects the site's previous life as a cinema.
The Savoy Restaurant is open for all meals and light food is also available throughout the day in the Liszt Lounge.


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> Burns videos to a CD/DVD or copies them to a USB drive
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> Add and manage DivX devices in the new device pane.
> Easily drag and drop files from the video library to a device for transfer with DivX To Go
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* Auto-chapter points: Quickly jump to a scene in a video with the automatically created chapter points.
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California Department of Transportation
Headquarters - Public Affairs Office
Caltrans: Tamie McGowen
(916) 657-5060
CHP: Tom Marshall (916) 657-7202
May 8, 2007
Sacramento – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the California Highway Patrol (CHP) today launched an aggressive statewide effort against litter, which is responsible for several thousand accidents on the roadway each year.
"Litter is a statewide problem, and we are actively working to raise public awareness," said Caltrans Director Will Kempton. "The best anti-litter campaign is to ensure trash never makes it onto our highways in the first place."
"Littering is not only a serious blight on the landscape, but often a traffic safety issue and a threat to public safety," said CHP Commissioner Mike Brown.
Caltrans Director Kempton and CHP Assistant Commissioner Arthur Anderson held a press conference at the Rancho Cordova Transportation Management Center this morning and then picked up trash along Highway 50. All 12 Caltrans district offices also held simultaneous anti-litter press conferences and trash pick-ups. Director Kempton released a new comprehensive interagency Litter Abatement Plan and Assistant Commissioner Anderson discussed statewide enforcement.
Last year, the State of California spent more than $55 million tax dollars to pick up and dispose of trash carelessly tossed or dumped onto California's roadways. Caltrans collected more than 140,000 cubic yards of trash – enough to fill a hole a mile long,
25-feet wide and nearly 30-feet deep.
In response, Caltrans assembled a multi-agency anti-litter task force of several regional and local partners to address California's litter issue. The public is asked to contribute by participating in the Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway Program. Information on the Adopt-A-Highway Program and the Litter Abatement Plan may be found at http://adopt-a-highway.dot.ca.gov or by calling 866-ADOPTAHWY.


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This is Page 3 of a three page article about the Welsh cheese Y Fenni, called Red Dragon when enclosed in red wax instead of yellow wax. Click on the black links below to visit other pages.
Here are cheese terms used in this article. For more cheese terms, see our Cheese Glossary.
Artisan Cheese: Artisan cheese refers to cheese that is produced in small batches, with particular attention paid to the traditional cheese maker's art. As little mechanization as possible is used in the production of the cheese. Artisan cheeses may be made from any type of milk; flavorings and inclusions (nuts, fruits, herbs, flowers, etc.) may be added. See also farmstead cheese for the difference between artisan cheese and farmstead cheese.
Caerphilly: A mild, light-colored, almost white, crumbly cheese made from cow's milk, and known for its saltiness. The story is that the cheese was developed to provide the coal miners with a convenient way of replenishing the salt lost through hard work over ten hour shifts. Real farmhouse Caerphilly production died out during World War II, as all milk had to go to the Cheddar factories to help the war effort, and the Welsh cheese industry never recovered. Factory Caerphilly is dry and crumbly. Artisan Caerphilly, made today by just two or three producers, is dry in the center and creamy at the edges.
Curds: Cheese is made of curds, which are obtained by curdling (coagulating) milk with rennet (an enzyme) or an acid such as lemon juice or vinegar; then draining off the whey. The milk solids become curds when an acid (vinegar, lemon juice) or enzymes are added.
Farmhouse Cheese or Farmstead Cheese. A cheese that is made on the farm by the farmer, using only the milk from the farmer's own herd or flock, on the farm where the animals are raised.
Rennet: Rennet is a coagulating enzyme that is added to milk as the first step in making cheese. The traditional source of rennet is the abomasum (fourth stomach or rennet stomach) of slaughtered, milk-fed new-born calves or other young ruminants. It is also possible to produce rennet from fungi.
Table Cheese: A cheese that is eaten as a course at the table, or on a platter at a party, as opposed to a cheese used as recipe ingredient for cooking, grating or, e.g. in sandwiches.
Vegetarian Cheese: A cheese that is not made with rennet. Rennet, a dried extract of the rennet membrane of a calf, is used to curdle the milk in the cheese making process. Animal products are not eaten by vegetarians. Vegetarian cheeses like paneer (panir) are curdled with lemon juice, other food acids or vegetable "rennets."
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CANNES, France (AP) — Pop siren Kylie Minogue was in Cannes for a birthday party — not for a person, but a favorite treat.
The Australian singer and sometime actress attended the Cannes Film Festival Wednesday night to give a concert celebrating Magnum ice cream's 25th birthday.
The celebration for the brand included a Minogue concert. She sung hits, including "The Locomotion," after posing for cameras in a rather appropriate shimmering silver sequined cocktail dress — after all, the 25th is the silver anniversary.
Minogue is no stranger to Cannes — two years ago she attended for "Holy Motors," a film in the official selection in which she played a role.
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GI JOE 2 News Flash: The only characters to return in the JON CHU directed sequel will be SNAKE EYES, STORM SHADOW, and DUKE... 5:52 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for iPhone
But for ****'s sake, get rid of Tatum and find someone who is actually a Joe fan to consult on the script.
[G.I.] Joe, to me, is iconic. It is as American as Coke and the Boy Scouts. To have that kind of history in a brand is so rare these days. And that is so powerful. So you cant treat Joe like its just another action movie. You cant treat Joe as just another petty commercial movie. Joe has history. Joe has always been a part of what America is, and now the world. What it means to be a leader and a hero. For me, it is about the fun stuff like Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes, and all the gadgets. All of that stuff. But it has heart. Its heart is what America, and what heroes and leaders around the world, strive to be. I think that is what the brand needs. It needs the respect to be treated in that way.
I loved almost everything about the first movie outside of the underwater battle at the end. That was just overdone and looked silly. However I thought the plot was great, with the entire scheme being a takeover of the US government.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former campaign treasurer for a New York City official who aspired to be the city's first Asian-American mayor was sentenced to 10 months in prison Thursday after telling a judge she never intended to do wrong when she joined a campaign that she thought would "make history."
U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan sentenced Jia "Jenny" Hou, 27, to less than a year in prison, saying he hoped her May conviction for attempted wire fraud, obstructing justice and making false statements would not lead to her deportation. The Queens resident moved to the United States from China when she was 11.
The judge also sentenced her co-defendant — former fundraiser Xing "Oliver" Wu Pan — to four months in prison after the 47-year-old Mendham, N.J., resident was convicted of conspiracy and attempted wire fraud at the same Manhattan trial.
Sullivan said prison sentences were necessary because the crimes were "about undermining the electoral process." He said such activity shakes the public's confidence in elections and "makes people shrug and say the system is corrupt."
Hou and Pan were swept up in an FBI sting investigation that focused on financing within the campaign of City Comptroller John Liu, who was never charged and has vehemently denied he was in on an alleged conspiracy to get around donation limits. Prosecutors had said the pair plotted to circumvent a $4,950 contribution limit by using straw donors, people recruited to funnel other people's money, so they could boost Liu's campaign war chest.
Liu continued his denunciation of the government's tactics Thursday, saying in a statement that for reasons he may never understand, prosecutors "set out to destroy me with what has been described as an extraordinarily intrusive and exhaustive investigation."
"Failing to find that I had done anything wrong, they proceeded to set up a weak man and a wonderful young woman. Jenny Hou does not deserve this ordeal and injustice she has been put through. I am very sad but even more angry at what has occurred. The U.S. Attorney's Office was wrong and should not be proud of its conduct," he said.
Prior to the announcement of her sentence, a tearful Hou defended herself, saying she still maintains her innocence but believes she "should have been far more aware than I was."
"In hindsight, if I did not see the forest for the trees, that is a failing for which I will pay with the rest of my life," Hou said.
She conceded she was too inexperienced when she accepted the job in 2011 at age 24, but was pleased that the job would enable her to visit her ailing grandparents in China.
"I wanted to be part of a campaign that would once again make history," she said. "What I lacked was experience in life, and that lack of life experience meant that I did not have the judgment evidently required to step back and say, 'hey, what is really going on here?'"
Associated Press Writer Jonathan Lemire contributed to this report.


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Hassan: Mass. casino plans must be weighed in NH decisionBy JOHN DiSTASO
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January 19. 2013 11:30PM
CONCORD - Gov. Maggie Hassan says Massachusetts' movement toward licensing three full-fledged casinos and a slot machines-only facility makes it even more vital that New Hampshire lawmakers strongly consider legalizing gambling here.
A report last week by the Center for Public Policy Studies indicated that anticipated revenue from a New Hampshire casino might not be as much as advocates have discussed.
But Hassan, who supports a single "high-end, highly-regulated" casino during her campaign for chief executive, told the New Hampshire Sunday News in an interview the center's report sent an important message.
"What's important about the Center for Public Policy report is that it showed there are a range of revenues that could be collected," she said.
"It depends on the type of facility that we would decide to accept through an open and competitive bidding process.
"But what's very clear from that report is that if we don't have our own high-end, highly regulated casino that can compete with the Massachusetts casinos and draw from that market, we would lose an enormous amount of gambling and rooms and meals tax revenue down to Massachusetts while still having social costs up here that go with gambling.
"So I think the study supports that it would be a very smart and appropriate thing for New Hampshire to do," the governor said.
A bill is being readied by state Sens. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, and Chuck Morse, R-Salem, that would legalize casino gambling in the Granite State.
D'Allesandro said he hopes to bring it to a committee hearing before the end of the month and to the state Senate floor early in February.
He is "optimistic" it will pass the Senate, but believes the House is an uncertainty.
But he said there is no time to waste. "Clearly, there is a real demand in Massachusetts for the licenses," he said.
Eleven firms there put up $400,000 each in nonrefundable application fees for the four sites.
"Those applicants understand it's a good business deal and it would be a good investment for New Hampshire," D'Allesandro said.
"The economic recovery and job creation aspect is constantly in my thought process," D'Allesandro said. "Our unemployment has gone up and we know the economy has remained rather flat.
"The imperative is we have to get going," he said. "Maine has jumped out ahead of us. If we're going to do it, we'll do it right, but we'll do it, hopefully, expeditiously."
D'Allesandro said his bill would allow one licensed facility with up to 5,000 slot machines and a maximum of 150 table games. It also sets up a commission to consider the potential for future additional sites.
Hassan, meanwhile, is preparing her budget for fiscal 2014 and 2015, to be delivered in mid-February.
The only potential revenue from a casino for fiscal 2014 would be from a licensing fee, which D'Allesandro believes could be successfully set as high as $80 million.
But, according to the Concord Monitor, Steve Norton, executive director of the public policy center, told the House Ways and Means Committee last week that expecting even $50 million for a license could be too optimistic now that the Massachusetts application process is under way.
Hassan is prepared to include revenue from a licensing fee in her budget, but not committed to doing that, given the uncertain legislative road ahead.
"Certainly," she told the Sunday News, "if a gambling bill were to pass, licensing revenue would be something that I think we could anticipate."


text: IAB members heed call to action By John Obrecht. Published on March 18, 2013. At last year's Interactive Advertising Bureau Annual Leadership Meeting—held in late February in Miami Beach, Fla., as the political campaign season heated up—IAB President-CEO Randall Rothenberg blasted the organization's members for their lack of involvement in public policy initiatives. "If you want the Internet to be changed, do nothing," he said in his sternest rebuke in what was a decidedly stern state-of-the-industry address overall. "You must be engaged. What you don't know can hurt you and can kill your company." Among the threats Rothenberg enumerated were: Internet piracy, the costly expansion of top-level domain names and the "right to be forgotten" push in Europe that would give consumers the right to remove any information online that they deem too personal. During a break in the action at this year's considerably more upbeat annual meeting, held late last month at the Arizona Biltmore, I asked Rothenberg whether the IAB membership had responded to the clarion call he made last year at the Fontainebleau. "For the most part the members of the IAB have stepped up," he said. "Certainly, at that point I was really referring to their need to be aware of what was going on--in Washington, in Brussels, in state capitols--around Internet regulation. More and more companies are demonstrating active awareness of this, getting involved, creating their own public policy operations, getting involved in lobbying." Rothenberg said that even with this stepped-up advocacy, more needs to be done. "There's still a tendency for a lot of publishers, for example, to think that, 'Oh, this is just a problem for ad networks and exchanges.' But it's not," he said. "It's actually a problem for the publishers themselves because so many of them work with various third parties to optimize their sites and their offerings. So there still needs to be more activism here, more awareness, but it's gotten better since last year." Asked what he sees as the main threats on the legislative front this year, Rothenberg cited what he called "a kind of neo-totalitarian impulse" on the part of European Union commissioners. "They believe in a much, much stronger nanny state and something much less entrepreneurial than the United States," he said. "They want to create very, very rigid regulations that crack down on the kinds of communications that can be delivered. They're proposing things and attempting to implement things that would be very harmful to the basic structure of the open Internet itself. It would have a terrible impact on the ability of smaller sites, long-tail sites, smaller e-tailers to be able to do business." As for the domestic front, Rothenberg said, "There remains kind of a big debate about do-not-track and how that can be implemented in a way that gives users real choice and real control that isn't machine-implemented by default by browser makers and so allows legitimate businesses, legitimate publishers, legitimate retailers access to the audience and the ability to gather anonymous data that will help improve advertising, retailing and marketing." John Obrecht is editor of BtoB and BtoB's Media Business. He can be reached at [email protected] Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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Hi all, Continuing from IronGeek's this thread I would like inform all you guys/gals, Hacking Exposed 5th has been released today. Here's the "Whats new" from the book.
Source : http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072260815.htmlWe continue to update Hacking Exposed because new technologies are being developed continually that introduce new security exposures. In essence, the security world and its associated challenges parallel the rate of technology change. That is, as the complexity of technology increases at an exponential rate, so do the security challenges. This is both good news and bad news depending on what side of the fence you sit on. In addition, new techniques, tools, and attack vectors used to circumvent existing security technologies are being developed at a mind-numbing rate. You could say it is the proverbial cat and mouse game; however, the stakes are very real. In this fifth edition, we have worked tirelessly to update this venerable tome to cover the latest technologies and provide you with the latest techniques.
New Content
Among the new items exposed in the fifth edition:
» Up-to-date techniques and countermeasures for preventing the exploitation of
UNIX systems
» New chapter on Hacking Code covering the ways flaws get introduced into
software and how best to prevent their ubiquitous spread
» New Windows hacks, including RPCSS (Blaster), LSASS (Sasser), and PCT
(Download.ject) buffer overflow exploits
» Updated denial of service chapter with from-the-trenches descriptions of large
scale zombie attacks and practical countermeasures
» Coverage of new web hacking tools and techniques including HTTP response
splitting and automated vulnerability scanners
» Totally revised chapter on Hacking Internet Users covering the newest IE
exploits, online services security, socio-technical attacks like phishing, and the
newest malware techniques including Windows rootkits techniques
» Coverage of new wireless hacks
» New content on remote connectivity including VoIP hacking
» New coverage of web and e-mail client hacking, including the latest
Internet Explorer exploits, phishing, spyware, rootkits, and bots
» New hacks using Google as a reconnaissance tool
» An updated footprinting chapter that deals with all the inevitable changes
in finding information from various Internet databases
» Brand new case studies covering relevant and timely security attacks,
including Google, wireless, and Mac OS X hacks
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Sides To Sound Off on Minnesota Capitol Gun Policy
ST. PAUL (AP) - People with strong views regarding guns are expected in full force at a hearing about Minnesota's longstanding policy permitting firearms in the Capitol.
A task force reviewing Capitol security procedures planned to take public testimony on Tuesday. Gun rights and gun control groups have been encouraging their networks to turn out for the hearing.
Task force administrators say they have heard from a large volume of people looking to weigh in but they planned to limit the total testimony to 30 minutes.
Minnesota allows anyone with a valid handgun permit to have their firearm with them in the Capitol so long as they've previously given notice about a plan to carry. More than 830 people have provided such notice.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — The water availability committee of the governor's drought task force was to hold its first meeting since 2010 on Feb. 6 because of low snowpack and low streamflow forecasts across Washington state.
"The Department of Ecology called it and is the lead. It's basically an informational meeting of all state and federal agencies in the state concerned with water and weather management," said Scott Pattee, water supply specialist of the Washington Snow Survey Office of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Mount Vernon.
Washington's snowpack was 55 percent of normal on Feb. 1, an improvement from 44 percent of normal on Jan. 1, but still not enough to avoid some drought conditions this summer, Pattee said.
It would take 150 percent of normal snow for the next two months to catch up to 80 percent of normal for the season and avoid drought, he said. That's unlikely to happen, he said.
The Oregon snowpack was 38 percent of normal on Feb. 1, Idaho was 71 percent and Northern California was 24 percent, he said.
In Washington, the west side of the state is in the worst shape with the Olympic Mountains at 34 percent of normal. Flower growers near Sequim who depend on the Dungeness River for irrigation may be hurt and fresh water needed to flush oyster and clam beds in Puget Sound may suffer, Pattee said. Forest fire danger could be heightened, he said.
Seattle is 100 percent dependent on surface water for drinking, and other cities, fisheries and power generation all will be areas of concern, he said.
In Eastern Washington, Yakima River reservoirs are in fairly good shape but always of the greatest concern along with uncontrolled rivers to the north like the Wenatchee, Entiat, Methow and Okanogan, he said.
Snowpack for the upper Yakima is 54 percent of normal and the lower Yakima is at 63, he said.
Others: Okanogan, 35; Entiat, 36; Wenatchee, 60; Methow, 50; lower Snake, Clearwater and Blue Mountains, 88.
Snowpack is used for monthly forecasts of upcoming April to September streamflow. So far the Dungeness River is forecast at 56 percent of normal flow and all Olympic Mountain rivers at an average of 50 to 60 percent, Pattee said.
Upper Yakima reservoirs are forecast at 75 percent, the lower Yakima River, from Naches down, is 60 to 70 percent. Ahtanum Creek at Union Gap is 50 percent. The Wenatchee River is 60, Entiat 46 and Methow 42, he said. The south fork of the Walla Walla River is forecast at 91 percent.
These numbers likely will change in March and April and have to be below 75 percent to be considered a drought by Ecology, he said.