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Interesting ideas, is this a final release yet?
I have just finished writing my own memory-fix which I started a month ago at another civ4 forum. It appears to solve a lot of CTD/swapping/slowness issues.
Interesting ideas, is this a final release yet?
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Great work! Have you posted this in the files forum too btw?
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Not yet posted.
Well, according to effects this can be claimed as final, but there will be more releases during this week. Later today I will turn it into loader, so that 1.8Mb python24.dll won't be necessary.
Also there are some ideas how to decrease it even more.
looking forward to your 'update', will definetly give this a shot. thx!
I have an even simpler fix! Exit the game and start it up again
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edit2: hm, they fixed it. Markos, add the damn santa hat to already!
Last edited by Kuciwalker; December 7, 2005 at 22:58.
I read your other thread (fanatics). You mention a memory leak thread of some sort.
My basic question is this:
what does your program/patch exactly solve (in very simple terms)?
Does your program simple reduce the amount of data coming from each plot? Or does it reduce the memory required to display each plot? or does your program somehow stop the "memory leak"?
Will your patch be helpful to those of us who don't have CTD and other problems, but do experience a HUGE slow loading time/operation time when playing on larger maps?
I say this because I have a map that I am trying to work from that is ~8000 tiles big. It takes around 2 min just to load on my computer. I fear this slowness may force me to reduce the map size to create the scenario I wish to create---which would suck.
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lol I love it. Fans fixing incomplete games.
Better than not having the ability to fix it.Originally posted by StarLightDeath
lol I love it. Fans fixing incomplete games.
Trolling is bad, BTW.
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The primary goal was to reduce memory usage. You may read first 2 pages at shown thread - there I explained basics when someone else asked.
Also it helped some people with CTDs - the thing I didn't expect from this patch It appears that CTDs were caused by memory overuse.
My aim with this patch was to make my savegame playable with my 512Mb configuration, and I've put it down from ~650Mb to ~480Mb. It still swaps a little, but generally works nicely.
All in all, yes - you should give it a try. This patch is driven towards reducing memory usage. Civ4 allocates identical items many times (e.g. many water squares), and I fight memory usage from this point.
Please keep in mind that, since this patch replaces game system files, you will not be able to play normal multiplayer games if you install that.
I definitely hope, though, that the next offcial patch has a performance increase such as this.
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As far as I can tell, this "fix" consists of pretty much turning off all the eye candy. Gimme a break, it would be unacceptable if this was coming from Firaxis.Originally posted by StarLightDeath
lol I love it. Fans fixing incomplete games.
1) python24.dll isn't game core DLL, and it's the only DLL coming with the game which is affected.
2) In my next release python24.dll won't be affected.
3) People tried to update binkw32.dll and mss32.dll (movie and sound subsystems) - I didn't hear anyone of them couldn't play multiplayer.
I am sorry, but you are wrong on this. You may leave your settings intact (highest or whatever), and it still will improve memory usage and speed it up if memory usage was critical for you before my fix. This fix DOES NOT eliminate any detail level. You may compare screenshots with and without patch if you want a proof
I think, though, that changing the Python DLL would still lead to MP incompatibility. If it's not so, though, then great.
Did you make the video memory unmanaged?
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Nice work, this does make huge games playable on my computer. Before even after my many troubles in configuration huge games were very slow to respond, but now it's pretty darn good (still some long pauses between turns, but that's alright).
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I'm noticing a huge difference already.
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please post again when your newest version (that doesn't alter a game dll) is out!
-Zen Blade
This sounds great. I am definitely going to try it as larger maps are unplayable for me, even with 1GB RAM.
If only I had the skills to create something this useful.
2nd that one!Originally posted by Zen
please post again when your newest version (that doesn't alter a game dll) is out!
-Zen Blade
Wow! I installed your patch/fix and it has made an enormous impact on gameplay. Fast movement in scrolling and by units, information popups occur instantly now, etc. Thanks very much for your hard work on this.
I have a Dell 3000, pentium 4 3Ghz, 1 gig memory, nvidia geforce fx5500. Before your patch the game was achingly slow. Not it screams along.
Oh, by the way, I did have to set the insane mode to 0 due to the black screen after an alt-tab.
Not exactly... It's unmanaged for D3D, but it's managed by my DLL instead.
Thanks for good words. Much appreciated
If size of python24.dll is the issue, you may download zlib1.dll instead (it does exactly same thing - loads my DLL).
I thought a little, and came to idea that creating aside loader.exe isn't good. Just because civilization4.exe will restart worse, some people won't be able to fix shortcuts, and I will have to fix .savegame filetype, so that double-clicked savegame loads patched.
Please, can anyone test it with multiplayer?
thx! kust downloaded.
How to set memory use for a computer with Radeon 9000 (64MB), and 1GB or RAM.
I think that AGP thing is set to 128 in BIOS.
Nice work.
Your fix actually made it possible to load the game on both my systems for the first time with 1.09. Up to this point I'd reverted to 1.00 because it just wouldn't load. Needless to say, it's much appreciated.
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Works great. Much snapier and better memory usage, no longer grinds when quitting/alt-tabbing out.
The leader portraits go flatcolor sometimes tho... there might be a setting to fix that... it didn't really bother me because I recognize them by the music.
edit: I'll also note I was playing multiplayer with v1.00, so this patch is indeed "very compatible" as advertised.
Last edited by Blake; December 8, 2005 at 05:39.
I'd suggest to try some minimum first:
vid_mem_usage = 32, insane_mode = 1
If there are problems with the above settings, try this instead:
vid_mem_usage = 32, insane_mode = 0
Blake (and all othrers experiencing leaders flat-coloring)
Try reducing 'vid_mem_usage' by 10 or 20. If that is still a problem, try 'insane_mode=0', but check performance changes, especialy after setting 'insane_mode=0' with 512Mb system.
Also note that 'insane_mode=1' is good until you alt-tab frequently. If you alt-tab frequently (especially in full-screen mode), you should use 'insane_mode=0' or switch to windowed mode.
Yes, it seems snappier overall...excellent! Although, I also had the problem with leaderheads displaying as a gray box. This was with vid_mem_usage set to 64, insane_mode=0, high quality settings on a 128MB GF6600GT.
I also had an odd artifacting problem: When I move the map, the base of some towns had a weird shimmering effect. I tried to get a screenshot of it, but it didn't work very well...I highlighted the areas that were doing it on this shot:
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I had shimmering too, but I thought it's general z-buffer artifact, I will investigate...
Well, summing up - so far gray leader-box appears to be the only problem with some systems, and globe view speed didn't improve as was expected.
Interesting...Originally posted by Harkonnen604
I'd suggest to try some minimum first:
vid_mem_usage = 32, insane_mode = 1
If there are problems with the above settings, try this instead:
vid_mem_usage = 32, insane_mode = 0
I tried 80 and 160! and none of them gave any problems.
Exempt standard alt-tab problems for insane mod only.
Although I did only tested just my vicotry standard map games.
I don't play larger maps much due to tedious mircomanagement.


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Akbar M, Calderon F, Wen Z, Kim HY. Docosahexaenoic acid: a positive modulator of Akt signaling in neuronal survival. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Aug 2;102(31):10858-63. PubMed Abstract
Because Akt phosphorylation of "BAD" inhibits caspase activation, the new findings provide additional insight into one likely mechanism underlying our findings that DHA effectively increases phosphoBAD and reduces postsynaptic caspase activation and neurodegenerative changes at postsynaptic sites in aging Tg2576 on a DHA-depleting, high safflower oil diet (Calon et al., 2004). At first sight, the author's observations that DHA influences Akt activity without altering PI3-K's p85α subunit might seem to contradict the report from our group, which also found that Tg2576 transgene positive animals on an omega-3 depleted diet had reduced levels of p85α message and protein, both partially restored or prevented by adding back DHA to the diet. There are several likely explanations for the apparent differences in the two studies.
1. The effects we saw in aged Tg2576 were clearly dependent on both transgene and diet interactions, while Akbar and Kim's study showed that lack of impact on PI3 kinase in vitro in N2A cells was due to acute effects. Akbar and Kim's in vivo studies (depletion during embryogenesis) showed vulnerability of hippocampal neurons to apoptosis without measuring PI3 kinase activity in that paradigm. In general, in our study, transgene-negative mice were much less affected by a DHA-depleting diet during aging than were APPsw transgenics, and, in fact, p85α PI3-K was unchanged by DHA in transgene negative mice ( 7.44 +/- 0.906 without DHA vs. 7.988 +/- 0.649 with DHA, p = 0.638). The new PNAS manuscript by Akbar would suggest that DHA depletion is not directly involved in the PI3-K defect in transgene-positive mice. It, however, does not eliminate the possibility that DHA depletion is indirectly involved (e.g., via an Aβ or transgene interaction).
2. The restoration of p85α levels in transgene-positive animals on DHA-depleting safflower oil diet by DHA was partial and less than 50 percent despite full restoration of DHA, suggesting that factors other than DHA (e.g., oxidative damage) were involved in the APPsw transgene X safflower oil diet effects. There is a clear defect of the PI3 kinase pathway in Alzheimer disease (Jolles et al., 1992; Bothmer et al., 1994a, 1994b; Zubenko et al., 1999; Zhao et al., 2004; Calon et al 2004) that is likely significant for pathogenesis, so a PI3-K defect in the APPsw transgene X diet phenotype remains AD-relevant whether or not it is directly dependent on DHA levels.
3. While in the Akbar and Kim paradigm DHA-depletion per se does not regulate levels of either PI3-K p85α or Akt protein, it should be pointed out that in the context of caspase-activating stimuli, signaling molecules are differentially altered depending on the paradigm. For example, in an in vitro study, PI3-K p85α protein was selectively lost with UV-induced caspase activation, but not with etoposide or Fas ligation. In contrast, Akt-1 protein was lost with all three caspase-activating stimuli, along with RasGAP, Raf-1, and Cbl, while 21 other signal-related proteins were unaffected (Widmann et al., 1998). Thus, both papers together would suggest that transgene-dependent p85α loss with a DHA-depleting diet and recovery with DHA may be pathology-dependent and indirect.
While the report from Akbar and Kim makes it unlikely that DHA directly regulates PI3-K itself, it provides convincing data to show an impact on PI3-K>Akt survival signal transduction at the level of Akt translocation without enhancing PI3-K activity (measured by IGF responsiveness in N2A cells). Beneficial as this is likely to be, one should not forget that DHA has other important activities. For example, Bazan's group has in vitro data to show that enzymatic DHA metabolites like "neuroprotectin D1" can reduce proapoptotic proteins like BAD and Bcl-x, and increase protective antiapoptotic proteins (Mukherjee et al., 2004). Consistent with this additional mechanism, we have recently reported that DHA reduced both BAD and caspase activation in aging Tg2576 (Calon et al., 2005). Finally, DHA also appears to modulate the amyloid accumulation in aging Tg2576 (Lim et al., 2005), and although the mechanism is not entirely clear, we have been able to repeat the observation of amyloid reduction in aged animals with late-life DHA treatment (Lim et al., unpublished). It is important to keep in mind that DHA repletion is both very cheap and very safe. Thus, while it is unlikely that there will be only one important mechanism for DHA's relevance to AD in particular, the results from this new study from Akbar and Kim, showing a mechanism promoting survival signaling, makes DHA very likely relevant to multiple neurodegenerative diseases. References:Bothmer J, Markerink M, Jolles J (1994a) Evidence for a selective decrease in type 1 phosphatidylinositol kinase activity in brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Dementia 5:6-11. Abstract
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Familial forms of Alzheimer´s and frontotemporal dementia, characterized by abnormal tau phosphorylation, are linked to mutations in the presenilin genes. In addition, loss of presenilins in the mouse brain causes abnormal tau phosphorylation and neurodegeneration (Saura et al., 2004). In neurons, PS1 facilitates PI3K/Akt signaling and phosphorylation of GSK3β (Pigino et al., 2003), a kinase that phosphorylates tau protein. Using presenilin-null fibroblasts, Kang et al. also nicely demonstrate that total loss of presenilin function compromises GSK3β phosphorylation, which results in increased tau phosphorylation. Although it has not been fully demonstrated, it is tempting to speculate that disturbed Akt and ERK signaling caused by presenilin dysfunction may contribute to tau phosphorylation in such neurodegenerative diseases and mouse models. References:Pigino G, Morfini G, Pelsman A, Mattson MP, Brady ST, Busciglio J. (2003) Alzheimer's presenilin 1 mutations impair kinesin-based axonal transport. J Neurosci. 23(11): 4499-508. Abstract Saura CA, Choi SY, Beglopoulos V, Malkani S, Zhang D, Shankaranarayana Rao BS, Chattarji S, Kelleher RJ 3rd, Kandel ER, Duff K, Kirkwood A, Shen J. (2004). Loss of presenilin function causes impairments of memory and synaptic plasticity followed by age-dependent neurodegeneration. Neuron. 42(1): 23-36. Abstract View all comments by Carlos A. Saura
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03/15/2013 We can wave palms of peace and praise because we have hope that the worst things are never the last things. As Jesus made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the day we celebrate as Palm Sunday, he knew that the week ahead would be physically, emotionally and spiritually demanding. Amid the peace and praise of those waiving their palms, the religious leaders were watching from afar, in conflict with Jesus over all he was doing.
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03/13/2013 Whether Christian or not, we've all been taught the Golden Rule: "Do to others as you would have them do to you." Jesus said it in a positive restatement of something in the Jewish oral tradition. It sounds simple, but as we all know, living it out is very difficult. Not to mention that within the Golden Rule is the focus on "you." No matter how many lessons you learn from doing to others, they're still your lessons, and it all still depends on your human capacity to love. And unfortunately, too often, that capacity is more like a dinner plate than a deep well, far too shallow when compared with the task at hand of living a different, loving kind of life.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hahn" <hahn at physics.mcmaster.ca> To: <beowulf at beowulf.org> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Application Deployment > > require training, expertise, etc. Sure, for Linux, the actual software is > > free, but that's a small fraction of the $100K/yr you're paying to folks to > > use the software. > > very interesting. one structural disadvantage that the windows ecosystem > does labor under is that it must stick to the OS-really-installed-on-desktop > model. that is, msft is not quite ready to go to a ephemeral-client model, > where desktops just PXE-boot and mount everything of consequence across > the net. (not just thin-client, where clients are all hard-installed, but > use only a thin app like a browser for whatever the user needs.) I'm not sure, but MS is certainly heading towards the ephemeral client (with local cacheing) model, since it enables such things as revenue based on a per use of a component basis. Say you're a small software developer and you've developed a really nifty piechart algorithm for Excel. MS wants to give you a way that you could generate revenue from each use of this component, and that sort of implies that the component is fetched from some repository on the fly. Same for "notepad" or you name it. I think they're desperately trying to get away from the "transfer of tangible property" for software, because sooner or later, shrink wrap licenses are going to get hammered in court (if it looks, walks, and talks like a sale, then it IS a sale, and you should be able to resell, etc., freely). On the other hand, if each and every time you use the component (be it "MS Word", that clever Excel chart, etc.) you are separately engaging in a revenue transaction, then you don't get into those sticky areas. > > with lan-ipmi and pxe, it's almost reasonable to claim that support > doesn't scale with increasing nodes. there are still costs that scale > with number of users, number of apps. hardware maintenance always > scales with number of moving parts, but for ephemeral clients, it's > far easier to have spares. the infrastructure to support 1K clients > all booting monday morning would be nontrivial, but very tractable. > > no doubt the lack of nazi DRM (uncontrolled and dangerous network!) > is why the msft community hasn't taken this approach. Precisely so... MS, and the legions of developers who develop for the Windows environment, generally want some mechanism to be paid for their work. Per use revenue is a nice way of getting around the "bootleg copy" problem. Who cares if you copy it, if every time it runs, you have to hit a license server and pay your little micropayment. In fact, bootlegs are great... they cost the originator of the software nothing. It's the whole compatibility, configuration managment thing that is a big problem (all those components have to be compatible with all the other components, etc.). MS, for all of their faults, doesn't have stupid people working for it. If they could find a better way to "sell" software (or, more properly, the added value provided by the software/content/what-have-you) that doesn't rely on copyright (which everyone admits is poorly suited to such things), they'd love it.
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This is Giving Tuesday, when nonprofits of every stripe hope to attract some of the billions of dollars to be spent during the Hanukkah and Christmas season.
Many of those dollars will go to religious groups. Now, new research is expanding the meaning of "religious giving." It counts motivation for giving, and measures not only gifts to houses of worship but also donations to faith-connected nonprofits that are doing secular service such as fighting poverty or offering job training for the disabled.
"Most people cite their religious commitments, but most also cite the belief that they should give to benefit others. Many people hold both these impulses at the same time," said Shawn Landres, a co-author of the research report, "Connected to Give: Faith Communities."
My first career: print journalism. Current status of that field: on life support.
My second career: pastoring neighborhood churches. Current status of that field: on life support.
My third career: writing and publishing books. Current status of that field: on life support.
My fourth career: implementing client-server data management systems. Current status of that field: on life support.
Do you see a trend here? I did. So now I try to stay nimble and to keep moving. My publishing business is entirely electronic. I have cycled through three websites and three subscription systems in 10 months. I do more of my church consulting online.
"Gray" Thursday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday — and Giving Tuesday? For the second year in a row, nonprofits, businesses, and individuals are coming together to create a national day of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
Why a national day of giving? Last year, New York's 92nd Street Y, with the support of the United Nations Foundation, catalyzed the idea of adding a national day of giving to kick off the holiday giving season. The goal was to drive donations of time, money, or services to charities with the same enthusiasm that shoppers have on the shopping days surrounding Thanksgiving.
On the first day of Advent, I began to fast for immigration reform.
I'm not a recent immigrant or a political activist. But I'm a mother, a teacher, and a Christian living in Asheville, N.C., a community affected by our broken immigration system. And I was raised in a faith that tells me that this country should not have an invisible class of people or a justice system that tears apart families. That's not justice to me.
So Dec. 1-3, I joined the National Days to Act, Fast, and Pray in solidarity with those who have been fasting for three weeks in a tent on the National Mall. Their goal is to urge the House GOP, specifically U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), to call for a vote on immigration reform.
Time became suspended for my family and me when Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines nearly a month ago.
Days blurred into one another as my mom attempted to contact her family in Leyte, one of the Philippine islands directly hit by Haiyan. With her mother, siblings and family members still living in the Philippines, my mom feared the worst as she helplessly watched news reports of the typhoon's devastation and destruction.
Together, as a family, we waited in agony for answers. Would my grandma and relatives survive? If so, when and how would they contact us without power or phone lines? Would this storm wipe out every connection we have to my mother's homeland?
Two weeks after Haiyan upended our lives, grief gave way to joy as we received word of my family's safety. My nanay (grandma) and several of my titas (aunts) and titos (uncles) lost their homes, but they managed to survive one of the most powerful storms recorded in modern history.
As you can imagine, there was much to be grateful for when I gathered with my family for Thanksgiving. At our table, we gave thanks to God for this miracle, knowing all too well that many Filipino families were not as fortunate or still waiting for news about their loved ones. We also remembered those who helped us during this time of uncertainty, especially the Sojourners community.
There's an unhealthy expectation within many faith communities that we're always supposed to be joyful, as if being anything other than a smiling, peaceful, and jolly spiritual cheerleader is detrimental to Christianity.
"Being a good witness" is often the Christian way of saying, "act the part." But while contentment and happiness is a spiritual virtue, it should never come at the expense of honesty, transparency, and truthfulness. We shouldn't pretend to be happy and use the facade of joy as an evangelism tool.
God desires reconciliation and renewal, and this often means confronting broken relationships and dealing with sin within our lives. Asking for forgiveness, admitting addiction, confronting abuse, seeking justice, requesting help, and serving others often makes you the opposite of happy — and that's OK.
On Sunday, with lots of turkey, stuffing and pie still in the fridge, I joined the #Fast4families movement, abstaining from food and drink for a day in order to pray for immigration reform. At first, I hesitated because it wasn't necessarily my ideal time for fasting — besides being Thanksgiving weekend, I was about to enter the last two weeks of my academic semester, the most mentally demanding and sleep-depriving time of my year.
Quickly, however, I realized that all the worries I had going into the fast came from my white, privileged, experience of the world. Because of my privilege, I could believe in the illusion that immigration reform does not affect me.
The more I thought about this, the more I concluded that my reasons for not fasting were pointing to the ugliness of my own privilege and participation in racism, for if we do not actively challenge racism, we affirm it. This is what Jesus was getting at in Matthew 12:30, when he said, "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." Jesus does not call us to merely advocate, but asks us invest our whole lives.
My hesitancy to fast was also a reflection of Western spirituality, which privileges the mind over the body and knowledge over action. Before I knew about the fast, my inclination was to spend my day's energy on academic work, ignoring the body I live in, as well as those bodies that suffer far more than I ever would under an oppressive immigration system.
British novelist and essayist Francis Spufford's spirited defense of the Christian religion is in some ways like eavesdropping on a missionary conversation with the pagans of antiquity.
Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense — is the latest attempt at an ancient literary form, the Christian apology, and it makes its appearance in the United States more than a year after it was published in England.
Spufford's defense of Christianity is aimed primarily at what he calls "godless Europeans," the post-Enlightenment elites who tend to regard religion with bemusement as a silly fairy tale, if not with open hostility as a dangerous superstition.
How do you get kids to read one of the world's oldest books? Ask Sally Lloyd-Jones, whose The Jesus Storybook Bible recently passed the critical mark of one million copies sold.
The British ex-pat and now proud New Yorker has never married or had children of her own, yet aims to retell the Bible to something that comes alive for young people.
One of her editors told her once that there are two types of children's books authors: the ones who are around children, and the ones who are children inside.
"It kind of freed me, because I think I know I'm that second one," she said. "And I can still write from that place, because my childhood is so vivid."
The Christian cross has become little more than a piece of jewelry worn around the necks of celebrities, said Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
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Posted in Family on July 25th, 2012 by GAD – 5 CommentsMy mother, Joyce A. Grier, recently died. As her son, I was honored to give the eulogy. I had so many requests for copies of what I wrote, that I decided to share it with the world. This eulogy was delivered by me at a small Catholic church in New Hampshire on Tuesday, July 24th, 2012.
As anyone who knows me will attest, I am not a people person, which is the polar opposite of my mother who was the most gregarious person I've ever met. I do love an audience though, so please indulge me a bit while I tell you of my mother from my point of view. My view may not be the same as anyone else's, but I promise that it is an honest view from where I stand. In many ways, my mother helped define me as a person. I don't think she set out to mold me in any way. I think she was simply who she was, and it was up to me to see the example. What follows, is nothing more than a small list of those examples.
My mother was a positive person. Now, there's a joke in there about how my mother was always positive that she was right, but I figured that it wasn't appropriate for a eulogy.
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I keep seeing 1/2 cups of oats references for breakfast...Is brown rice, barlet oats, quinoa, wheat berriesor or anything like interchangable???help!
of course. calm down. you can have whatever carb source you like. just make sure it's not processed all to hell. i personally like grits (hominy cereal). i eat me a bowl of that with 1tbsp of p.b. in the mornings now.
Yeah, I like a mix of Oat Groats and Barley personally. A lot of guys choose oatmeal because it's easy and everywhere.
IMO..nothing beats the convience of protein, oats, and a blender for my pre-breakfast shake. its also my main source of fiber.
where do you guys go to buy groats... i guess I could check whole market. All I can find is steel cut oats, which I currently use.
^^^Not veggies?
BiggerGeek - I get groats at Winco. I don't know where you are, so I don't know if you have them, but any place you can buy foods in bulk will typically sell both oat and wheat groats.
To prepare: 1cup groats per 3.5cups water: the night before you want to eat them, put both the groats and water in a pot and bring to a boil. Simmer for 15-20mins with the lid on. Turn the stove off, leave the lid on and let the pot sit on the stove until morning. Reheat either on the stove or in the microwave.
you eat as many carbs as i do you won't have room for'em.
i eat steamed brocolli and carrots maybe 5 meals a month no joke. obviously i eat alot of potatos.
i know the origional post said 1/2 cup...i do it bigger...1.5 cups (12g fiber) twice a day. did i mention i love carbs?
ok as long as were talking carbs-im in the process of attaempting to cut. And I do love my carbs . I have a 1/2 cup as breakfast and 1/2 cup post lifting. anyother way or time of the day I can work them in. Im taking about 160g a day...
For cutting, carbs are best left to breakfast, during your workout, post-workout and post-post-workout (i.e. the actual meal you have about 1.5hrs after lifting).
right BG it sounds like I got it right , I onkly eat in the AM and 1/2 hr after lifting. So Im cool. what qtys are you taking in in the AM and post WO???


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Small business, nuthin´. More than half the people hate Obama´s Washington!
Opened my business in 2006.Made money until 2008.Closed my doors in 2010.No, I can´t seem to connect the dots, can some smart liberal help me?
#1, if that were true, Obama would have lost the election. Yes, it was a shock to many of us - me included - but reality is that we do not have 50% or more on our side at the moment.
It is and he did.
Why is someone not looking into voter fraud? I have a friend who told me he knows 5 people in his district who voted for Romney and it was one of those districts that reported NO votes for Romney. How can we do something about voter fraud???
What exactly is the hold up on the revolution?
Articles like this written BEFORE the election would have helped.The press sat on their hands. The press let down America. Ommitting the truth is still telling lies.
Rabbit is a well known Troll.Rampant election fraud won the election.


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Warlords out in the UK on PSN tomorrow, next month on XBLA
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Comments about Kids II 1001174 Bright Starts Sensory Plush - Firefly:
I had placed this item on my registry, the picture online depicted the firefly is bright neutral colors. When delivered everything was pink, which didn't really work for my son and I had to return it. It's cute, but the picture online did not match what I received.
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This was the first toy my husband and I baught our daughter before she was born; now a 9 month old. This has been the staple to her toys. My daughter absolutely loves this toy. The moment she hears the rattle or sees it, you can tell she can't wait to paly with it. Her favorite part of the toy are the crackly wings and the small colorful tags. The sound of the crackling will keep your LO entertained. The one we have is the pink firefly with the flower rattle. We've been unable to find an exact duplicate. Hopefully she won't mind the color, design and rattle difference since PinkyFly has had a lot of wear and tear. I whole heartedly recommend this product. It has and will keep growing with my daughter. I'm sure it will for you too.
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We always have this toy with us. My 5 month old daughter has loved this toy since she was about 3 months. We have it on her carrier, and transfer it to her stroller for shopping outings. She loves to look at herself in the mirror. She swats at the rattle part and chews on any part she can. The smile on the face of the dragonfly, just lights her up.I will definitely be getting this for future babies.
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How much is a Tournament of Roses sponsorship worth to a company? Scotts Miracle-Gro is about to
find out.
The lawn-and-garden product-maker in Marysville recently struck a three-year sponsorship with
the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, Calif., as its "Official Rose and Flower Care Partner."
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tournament's New Year's Day parade.
"We look at this as a combination of two really great American brands united in a common effort around growing things and roses," said Tom McLoughlin, vice president of gardens and landscaping for the Scotts Miracle-Gro brand.
Pairing the company with the tournament seems natural — Miracle-Gro fertilizers and other products help roses to grow.
"We feel like it's an absolute perfect fit," said Sally Bixby, this year's tournament president. "We're highlighting floats decorated in flowers and seeds and natural elements, and Scotts products support that."
Scotts also is presenting sponsor of the post parade — the two-day, mile-long lineup of parade floats that some 400,000 people pay to see. This sponsorship gives Scotts an opportunity to reach thousands of consumers in a relevant way, McLoughlin said.
The Scotts float, called "Everyone Grows," features butterfly-topped trees, a greenhouse, topiaries, gardens, wheelbarrows and watering cans — all things associated with the Miracle-Gro brand.
It will be decorated with 7,000 giant oncidium orchids, 3,000 James Storie and Vanda orchids, and nearly 30,000 roses, and will weigh 22 tons when fully dressed (half the weight comes from the flowers).
And it will take two people — one to drive and the other to observe — to steer the float an average 2.5 mph down the 5.5-mile parade route. The observer, the "eyes" of the float, communicates with the driver through an intercom.
Scotts will recycle the float's materials, composting everything from flowers to mulch, and then sell the resulting soil to customers, McLoughlin said.
How much will the float cost to build? Scotts is mum on that, but the Tournament of Roses says float prices start at $250,000. The tournament also charges corporations a $15,000 participation fee.
The float-building process began months ago.
"A group of us went to Pasadena a few months back to meet with a small contingent of approved float builders," McLoughlin said. After presentations, Scotts chose Fiesta Parade Floats to design and build its float.
"We've created the greenhouse machine," said Tim Estes, president of Fiesta Parade Floats, describing the float.
"At the back of the float is a conveyer belt that feeds empty pots into the greenhouse machine," Estes said. "Coming out the front on another conveyor belt are pots with large flowers in them."& amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; lt; /p>
The float is a kind of Rube Goldberg machine, "so there are a lot of spinning wheels and moving parts, and there's the gimmick of creating flowers," Estes said.
Fiesta workers have been emailing photos and videos to Scotts to inform the company about their progress. A few weeks ago, Fiesta workers took the bare, 10-wheeled float frame out for a test drive to make sure it would negotiate the turns in the parade route.
It takes about 9,000 volunteer hours to build each float, said Keri Butler, former Scotts public-relations director, who recently left the company.
The flowers arrive today, and on Thursday, some 60 Scotts workers from the company's Encino and Temecula, Calif., operations are expected to volunteer to work on the float, Butler said.
Throughout the year, Scotts also will sponsor Miracle-Gro gardens in community parks and use its products to refurbish gardens in Pasadena.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pearl Initiative, a leader in the field of good corporate governance in the Arab World, has signed a strategic partnership with the United Nations Global Compact to collaborate on a number of programmes in countries across the Middle East and North Africa.
Alongside 1,000 business and civil society leaders gathered at the UN Global Compact Leaders' Summit chaired by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in New York City, the Pearl Initiative joined together in partnership with the UN Global Compact to champion universally accepted principles for responsible business practices in the MENA region.
The UN Global Compact is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative with 8,000 business participants in 145 countries. The initiative assists businesses in managing increasingly complex risks and opportunities in markets by providing a framework for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible policies and practices.
The signing of today's agreement will enable the Pearl Initiative and the UN Global Compact to implement joint programmes to improve responsible business practices - such as corporate governance, diversity, transparent reporting, anti-corruption, responsible investment, and integrity in the supply chain. These initiatives will help advance business models to protect against unethical practice and improve business standards overall.
The partnership was signed at a high-level symposium in which the Pearl Initiative Founder and Managing Director of the Crescent Group, Badr Jafar, addressed the audience on this landmark development in the process of improving corporate practices in the Middle East: "The vast majority of business decisions and actions involve local challenges and local stakeholders. Therefore, this partnership is not about applying business practices from other parts of the world to companies in the Arab world hoping they still work. Instead, it is about using our knowledge of the region and adopting the UN Global Compact's universal principles to inspire corporate responsibility. Through reinforcing positive regional experiences, we will be able to encourage more companies to embark on a journey with us to raise business standards and fight corruption."
"The Pearl Initiative envisages an environment in which current and future business leaders see corporate accountability and governance as key pillars of business success. Through this collaboration with the UN Global Compact, we can further our ability to have a positive impact on the Arab world's business environment, ultimately fostering competitive economic growth, sustainable social development and job creation," Badr Jafar added.
Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact said: "Together with the Pearl Initiative, we hope to improve corporate accountability and transparency in the MENA region. The Global Compact's principles have spurred thousands of companies around the world to embed sustainability into their organizations, now we turn our attention to the Arab world and the great potential for private sector-led action that benefits business and society."
About the Pearl Initiative
The Pearl Initiative, developed in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships, is an Arabian Gulf-based, private sector-led, not-for-profit organisation set up to foster a corporate culture of transparency, accountability, good governance and best business practices in the Arab world. It is a growing regional network of business leaders committed to driving joint action, exhibiting positive leadership and sharing knowledge and experience. The Pearl Initiative drives tangible initiatives in areas such as anti-corruption, good governance, ethics and integrity, integrated reporting and corporate disclosure across the Arab World.
For more information, please visit www.pearlinitiative.org, follow us on twitter @pearlinitiative or find us on Facebook at The Pearl Initiative.
About The Global Compact
Launched in 2000, the United Nations Global Compact is both a policy platform and a practical framework for companies that are committed to sustainability and responsible business practices. As a multi-stakeholder leadership initiative, it seeks to align business operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to catalyze actions in support of broader UN goals. With 8,000 corporate signatories in 145 countries, it is the world's largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative. www.unglobalcompact.org
About the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit
Chaired by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2013: Architects of a Better World (19-20 September) brings together chief executives with leaders from civil society, Government and the United Nations to unveil a new global architecture for corporate sustainability. As the Millennium Development Goals 2015 deadline approaches, the Summit will set the stage for business to shape and advance the post-2015 development agenda – putting forward an architecture for business to contribute to global priorities, such as climate change, water, food, equality, decent jobs, and education, at unprecedented levels. www.leaderssummit2013.org
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