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Bursting at the seams all the way through foodie heaven in Melbourne West
When visiting Melbourne, I believe many travellers stick with the tried and true locations like St Kilda, Toorak, South Yarra, Carlton and the CBD, diving into iconic destinations like the MCG, Southbank, Docklands and Lygon St to name a few. Not this time around for me! On this adventure I decided to step outside the box and see if the word I had heard about Melbourne's West was on the money.
First on the agenda was to sort some accommodation, so while I was stepping out of the box with my location I elected to do the same with where I'd rest my head. My destination and base was Williamstown, an enjoyable 60 minute ferry ride from the Southbank precinct down the Yarra and across Port Phillip Bay.
I must be honest and say I have never been big on the old B&B. I guess I just thought I would be governed by the home owners and maybe it would be a little awkward with the other house guests. Not that I am backward in coming forward, I was probably worried that I might invade their space more than the other way around. Anyway, I was biting the bullet and after seeing the reviews of The Captains Retreat, the choice was made for me, and I was actually keen as mustard to check it out. It also had an intriguing past having once housed a Nunnery and also a brothel, now that's ironic!
I was greeted by the owner Melissa who's charm more than matched that of the exterior itself and made me feel at home from the get go. I managed to get a look at a few of the rooms and they were all varied in style and size, but all very cosy and all with queen beds and ensuites.
It just so happened that I scored the best on ground and was shown to The Captains Spa Suite which was enchanting to say the least. Old style furnishings with its own loungeroom and fireplace and a super-sized bathroom to boot. Yes, this was definitely the right choice.
After settling in and giving myself a little spruce up I decided to go for a little pre-dinner wander and check out some of the heritage buildings that are very prominent in this historic seaport. I love that they have preserved and maintained the history here; you really get a sense of what it was actually like in days gone by.
Amongst these beauties I just happened to come across a little watering hole that was calling my name. The Steam Packet Hotel was built back in 1863 and was a favourite to many of the local seamen. It's a cosy tavern that has kept a lot of its charm. The clientele has changed a little though and is now popular for its upscale pub grub and local craft beers. A good venue for lunch or dinner or in my case a pre-dinner beverage.
Excited by my dinner choice I downed my bevy and took the short walk back along the foreshore to a venue that probably has the best location in Williamstown. As the lights of Melbourne city came aglow across the bay I was hoping the food would be as pleasing as the view. Pier farm has just reopened with new owners and I was warmly greeted by Roberto Scheriani.
As it was a little chilly for the outside deck I was happy to take a lovely corner table that looked across the non-complicated but chic restaurant floor and still see the lights in the yonder. To me there is nothing more disappointing when an establishment has a brilliant location and relies on it to prop up misgivings in other areas. Well that is certainly not the case at Pier Farm.
Every part of my experience was absolutely top shelf. Friendly and attentive service, a superb selection of wines and the food itself was just divine. Oysters served simply and not over complicated, letting the freshness and nature itself do its work. This was followed by, without a word of a lie, the best seafood pasta I have ever eaten in my life to this day.
Once again unpretentious, fresh as fresh can be and the perfect mix of the oceans delicious offerings gently massaged into house made al dente pasta by head chef David Maclean.
I can only imagine how enjoyable a lazy Sunday arvo on the deck would be like, quaffing a few oysters and sipping on some bubbles while watching the maritime movements.
Back to my home away from home to a wonderful slumber and up early for another big day in Melbourne's West.
I knew today was a bit of a foodie exploration so I took advantage of the terrific bike and walking track that goes right around the foreshore from beyond Williamstown itself around to Altona. It's all about deposits and withdrawals my friends! Plenty of locals and visitors out burning a few calories while enjoying the outlook.
Now that I had appeased my conscious and the guilt factor in knowing I will partake today. I made my way back to The Captains Retreat for a breakfast fit for a King. Fresh fruits, homemade muesli, and a fully cooked offerings as well, served in open dining area that backed out to a lovely deck and it was actually enjoyable having a chat to fellow boarders as they consumed some sustenance for a day of business meetings or exploring like myself.
Too early to continue my foodie forensics of the region I decided that more exercise would only benefit me in today's undertakings so I planned a little SUP experience – that is, stand up paddleboarding. Sunseekers operate out of Altona beach and can help you out with SUP hire and lessons are if you are really keen. Or get on board for a 90-minute sunrise tour during summer. I was more than happy just to enjoy a paddle around on my own. Relaxing and getting a little workout at the same time.
Invigorated, washed and dried I popped into a local café that offered an extensive menu that began at breaky and continued until it was end of the day drinks. Vince and Me has a few different areas to enjoy depending on the weather. A lovely little alfresco spot for those summer delights, a light and bright upstairs level if you looking for protection from the elements. On this day both were getting a workout. The food looked delicious as you can see by the photo, but not being a coffee drinker, I can only vouch that the hot chocolate was delectable.
The afternoon had me making my way to what may be described as the melting pot of Melbourne's West.
Sunshine is known for its mix of nations with people of Vietnamese, Chinese, Afghan, Maltese, Greek and African heritage calling it home.
This has only been a bonus for those looking for an eclectic mix of foods from these many backgrounds and I thought the best way to tackle this was to just have a small graze and get a taste of Sunshine. A quick summation from me, but you could come here for a month and still be trying something new!
I figured a touch of Yum Cha would be a good start as I could contain myself with a couple of small offerings, well at least try! Gold Leaf is apparently an institution in Sunshine and I could see mid-morning on a Tuesday it was certainly popular, with plenty of punters digging in heartily.
I settled in with some Chinese tea and a serving of Prawn Har Gow.
From my first bite I knew I was going to struggle holding back on the intake – they were so delectable. By the time I had inhaled them I somehow had two more dishes on my table. Well I didn't come here for the decor, which was a little garish. When the food is as tasty as this was, well who cares what it looks like. I will return!
Next stop was one of the many Vietnamese options.
Pho Hien Saigon sits in Hampshire Rd and the beef pho is not only the best in the west but would take on any comers from the whole of Melbourne! It's this simple, flavoursome, fresh cheap eats served quick and easy!
I rolled myself to my final foodie feast which was out of the main drag in Glengala Rd Sunshine West. Sunshine Social is something out of the box. Setting up camp in an old service station site you will enjoy the best local produce cooked over smoking hot charcoal. It's a BBQ with a creative spin and even though I was busting at the seams, I managed to devour a super tasty pork and coleslaw roll with vigour. On that note it was time to lie down and let the food coma subside.
Really, I had only scrapped the surface of what Melbourne's West had on offer and will return for part two soon.
Visit www.melbourneswest.com.au for more info.
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Anyone here proficient in LSTMS as they are implemented on Tensorflow or Pytorch?
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Neil Slater
@enumaris: There are definitely a few on the site (not me, yet - I've booked a course for RNNs, so maybe in a few weeks . . . .) You won't find many experts logged in to chat at any time on Data Science currently, the site doesn't have the critical mass for it. So if you are looking for help you may have to go to the trouble of creating a question.
Someone here, even if they don't know about LSTMs in depth,
be able to discuss how to put together a question about them
I see, I didn't really want to make a question because 1) I have multiple questions and they are mostly kind of boring technical questions about the implementation of LSTMs in Tensorflow and Pytorch and 2) I'm not sure how to best formulate the questions
Actually my question would apply to any RNN in these frameworks as they are implemented I think, as long as the frameworks implement the different RNNs in a consistent fashion.
Neil Slater
OK, so throwing out a single question with lots of separate technical details probably won't go down well. If they can be split up and separate, that sort of thing is an OK questiom in my book: e.g. How to implement backpropagation through time in PyTorch? . . . With at least a start at your code, showing where you get stuck because the concept or how to use the library is not clear . . .
. . . but I would agree that "How to . . ." questions are a lot of work. If you are not sure and a bit vague about how things work, best to keep it short. But then the question may get down-voted for not having enough detail to isolate what the real issue it
Where are you starting from? have you looked at the TF and PyTorch examples from their library github pages?
A quick google finds things like this:
. . . but not sure if that helps.
Or this:
Or for PyTorch:
I've followed several tutorials
and looked at the documentation in both
Neil Slater
So now you're looking to branch out and do your own thing, and it turns out the tutorials didn't really explain everything :-)
I think I would be able to build a RNN or LSTM using these frameworks, but some of the details of their implementation confuses me
My questions mostly revolve around the fact that RNNs and LSTMs as implemented in these frameworks take in data in batches, and I don't see a clear way that the internal state or cell memory (as for LSTMs) can propagate from the end of one batch to the beginning of the next batch, assuming I'm breaking down a very long sequence into batches.
Or maybe the internal state simply does not propagate and the frameworks are relying on the fact that your sequence length is long enough to compensate for the dis-continuity between batches.
but it's hard for me to figure out how to formulate this question well lol
Neil Slater
I don't think the batches do cross-link like that. Each batch is a separate sequence
Yeah, it appears to me that that is the case
Neil Slater
So the RNN never learns
. There's a cutoff, a standard or maximum sequence length
Right, that appears to be the case
but in that case, if you are using a RNN to write a novel, for example, it could never do it
since if it introduced a character in one batch, it would have forgotten about that character in the next batch
Neil Slater
The sequences in batches can
I think. But still I'd need to do the course, so I better shut up in case I advise you something that is horribly wrong :-/
If you have seen the output of character-based RNNs e.g.
- it's pretty clear that RNNs are a long way away from writing a novel.
Yeah...but I mean, one of the fundamental reason of using RNNs over other networks that I've been told is "they can take sequences of arbitrary length"
if you have to break up a long sequence into sequences of exactly 100 units each...what's the advantage of using a RNN over say a 1xN convolution...
Neil Slater
Well, you don't have to have fixed lengths. You would not for machine translation for example.
I guess at test time it matters...
Neil Slater
I suspect a lot of the character language models do use exact sequence lengths to train, because they can be put into raw tensors
Neil Slater
whilst ragged data cannot, so it would slow things down
but it should still be possible in principle to use ragged data to train
PyTorch will probably be better at handling that than TensorFlow
I suppose it wouldn't be a huge deal if the state also can't go past the barrier that truncated back prop sets up...
what do you mean by ragged data?
Neil Slater
Array of arrays where the inner array can be different lengths
I see
Neil Slater
cannot be expressed as a tensor
I don't think Pytorch Tensors can be like that either tho?
Oh yeah, that's another issue I have with how to implement RNN's
how can I use ragged data lol
Neil Slater
I think TensorFlow has some horrible loop-until operation construct in order to do this.
at the end of that tutorial it asks you to augment the word-level LSTM with a character-level LSTM that gives the character embeddings $c_w$ as the last output of the c-LSTM
Neil Slater
OK, so from your link "Pytorch's LSTM expects all of its inputs to be 3D tensors." - I didn't know that
If you have a sentence like "that dog over there ate my ball"
the word level inputs is fine
Neil Slater
. . . so probably the advantage for PyTorch is in not needing TensorFlow's looping operation construct
it's a length 7 vector
but the character level inputs is like...[[4-dim],[3-dim],[4-dim],[5-dim],[3-dim],[2-dim],[4-dim]]
corresponding to the length of the words
and I can't turn that into a tensor
I had it as a list of tensors, but then I need to write some for-loop in the definition of the LSTM class so that the char-level LSTM can step N-times for every 1-time the word-level LSTM makes a step
Neil Slater
I guess pad, and use whatever loop/stop condition is appropriate. IMO, this isn't a limitation of LSTMs, it's a limitation of the libraries.
I would have expected Pytorch to be better at this since it's specifically written to be dynamic
Neil Slater
They do this for a good reason though - to get vectorisation on a GPU . . .
I thought the whole point of being dynamic was to be able to create different sized graphs on the fly...
seems like a highly non-trivial exercise to implement that character-level augmentation
mostly due to difficulties in implementation, and not theoretical difficulties with how the LSTM should be set up
I mean conceptually, I have a very clear idea of how that LSTM should look like
Neil Slater
But you probably don't want to be changing shape of the graph in-between words . . . there's "on the fly" and there's interrupting the GPU
I see...
Are you familiar with the Pytorch backend in C by any chance?
I have a totally unrelated question that I posted to the pytorch forum but didn't get an answer for
Neil Slater
Not at all. I've yet to write anything of my own in PyTorch. I've looked briefly at some simple examples. On my bucket list for next year . . .
I see
<--- well that's the question anyways
I guess it would be good to know if there's danger in using their CrossEntropyLoss class for problems with a large (>100) number of classes.
With regards to the "interrupting the GPU" comment, I feel like me writing a for-loop to deal with the ragged data at the character level is doing exactly that isn't it...interrupting the GPU by forcing it to explicitly loop over sequences of varying lengths?
Neil Slater
Reading PyTorch code, I interpret
as being a target value to ignore, so can have ignored ground truth data, for instance if you had a class hierarchy and didn't care about mis-classifications in sub-parts of the hierarchy unrelated to the ground truth. So you might set your ground truth to
[1, 0, 1, 0, 0, -100, -100, -100]
if first values were class 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 2a, 2b, 2c, and your target class is 1b
. . . although with my level of knowledge of Torch, I could just be making that all up . . .
Actually scratch that, I think it is similar concept, but my example is wrong
Yeah, my knowledge of torch is not strong enough to really know...
Neil Slater
Regard GPU, I think there are ways to write the LSTM processing so that it ignores or doesn't process beyond a certain point
allowing you to use tensors to represent the data for speed up, at the expense of some ugly and not very intuitive code
well at this point, the only data I am trying to process is already truncated to be uniform in length, I did that during data pre-processing so that I could use a convnet on it.
I guess the ragged data won't matter for me too much until I move on to different projects
would be nice to be able to know how to do that though
I don't think I follow your statements about the ignore_index issue
Neil Slater
This is TensorFlow loop construct I was referring:
Ignore me on
. I was just guessing
I feel like Tensorflow is a bit...frankenstein ish lol
Neil Slater
Yes. I think of it more like building a ship in a bottle . . . you write code that defines some maths that executes some other code later
Got to go
They have a tf.contrib with like experimental code, and then they move the well tested versions over to to tf.nn while keeping a version in tf.contrib...so any one function could have like 3 different versions that all do something perhaps very slightly differently...
Alrighty, nice talking with you :)
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Weather Hill Homes Ltd. to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., lot in Parkside Village, $154,500.
Ja-Zan LLC to Linsie and Kimberly Adderley, unit in Turtle Creek condominiums, $86,000.
Mary A. Garska to Jason M. and Susan L. Reed, 430 Willwood Drive, Fairgrove subdivision, Earlysville, $207,500.
Earl E. and Constan Bryant to Kevin W. and Valerie Quick, 217 Main Street, Scottsville, $142,000.
John H. Birdsall III to Virginia Outdoors Foundation, 126 acres, gift.
Hunter E. Craig Co. to Genesis Management Corp., .7167 acres at 1781 Stoney Creek Drive and 42 Mill Creek Drive, Mill Creek, $105,000.
Haley Chisholm & Morris Inc. to Frederick K. and Anita S. Alouf, lot in Indian Springs subdivision, $305,000.
Scot P. and H. Brigitte Bryant to Scott C. and Beth Anne Solak, 451 Pleasant Place, Pleasant Ridge Forest, $399,000.
Raymond Keller and Ann E. Suther to Toad Hollow Farm LLC, 36.78 acres at 4333 Cannon Brook Way, gift.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to William E. and Margaret H. Schrader, 5569 Stonegate Lane, Stonegate at Western Ridge, Crozet, $347,587.
Robert W. McCulloch to Amy B. and David W. Shifflett Jr., 3323 Worth Crossing, Forest Lakes townhouses, $153,950.
Village Square LLC to Efren C. Alonso, 972 Towne Lane, Village Square, $139,200.
Margaret and H. Clark Bates III to Geraldine C. Sanders, 2902 Idlewood Drive, Woodbrook, $227,205.
Redfields Development Corp. to R. D. Wade Builders Inc., three lots in Redfields, $190,500.
Glenmore Associates Ltd. to R. D. Wade Builders Inc., lot in Glenmore, $170,000.
Forest Lakes Associates to R. D. Wade Builders Inc., lot at Springridge, Forest Lakes, $85,000.
Crescent Development Group LLC to R. D. Wade Builder Inc., lot at Still Meadow, $85,000.
Hugh C. and Mary D. Lanahan to Brandy E. Abbott, 5.020 acres near Boyds, $80,000.
Florence N. Greville to Deborah Ann Baker, 509 Pebble Hill Court, Redfields, $185,000.
Barry and Amy M. Webb to Glenn A. and Julie Wait, 2933 Magnolia Bend, Forest Lakes South, $284,900.
Gregory B. and Anne D. Taylor, Trustees, to Richard M. and Tessa G. Ader, 3250 Sandown Park Road, Glenmore, $710,000.
Billey R. and Kathryn H. Butler to Timothy J. and Antonella J. Taylor, 1025 Hayrake Lane, Redfields, $229,900.
William B. and Anne T. Stilley to Jason W. and Sharon B. Shifflett, 2682 Powell Creek Drive, $239,000.
James B. and Gloria M. Quarles to James A. Schmidt and Audrey C. Louison, 189.77 acres on State Route 671, 5710 Wesley Chapel Road, $1,200,000.
Glenmore Associates Ltd. to James C. and Gina H. Mallon, lot in Glenmore, $180,000.
William and Helen E. Luhrs to Susan J. and Tony D. Thomas, 4955 Appleberry Lane, Schuyler, gift.
Robert F. and Susan D. Roberts to Janet L. St. Pierre, 1319 Pin Oak Court, Oak Forest Circle, $187,500.
R. D. Wade Builder Inc. to Harrison F. and Norma A. Bartle, 3323 Turnberry Circle, Springridge at Forest Lakes, $194,950.
Mark W. and Alice M. Sandridge to Jagdev and Sunita Singh, 2503 Commonwealth Drive, Berkeley, $161,000.
Forest Lakes Associates to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., lot in Willow Bend, Forest Lakes, $91,363.
Virginia S. Bowman to Lynn A. Wagner, Trustee, 6128 Alberta Drive, Crozet, $138,000.
R. D. Wade Builder Inc. to R. Stuart and Alayna C. Hornsby, 1869 River Inn Lane, Still Meadow, $419,515.
Anne Y. Sartori to Richard C. and Margaret K. Zakin, 430 Rosemont Drive, Rosemont, $285,000.
R. D. Wade Builder Inc. to Theresa A. Anderson, 3321 Turnberry Circle, Springridge at Forest Lakes, $195,000.
Felix Ludwig Carrera to Robert B. Fudge, 1.325 acres in Batesville, $220,000.
JaZan LLC to Diane L. Wolfrey, unit in Turtle Creek condominiums, $87,500.
Barry Meade Homes LLC to Christopher M. and Denise L. Mislow, 1911 River Inn Lane, Still Meadow, $395,100.
Timothy C. and Terry B. Tigner to Andrew J. and Darien G. Hall, 2710 Brookmere Road, Woodbrook, $229,900.
Amy B. Hereford to Anne Y. Sartori, 4308 Millington Road, $230,000.
Jon C. and Barbara P. Emanuelson to Douglas A. and Tina M. Perkins, 2192 Lonicera Way, North Pines, $264,000.
Lynda D. Mills to Linda D. Arden, 1602 Garden Court, Gardencourt townhouses, $153,000.
Happy Valley LLC to Heather Field LLC, lot in Walnut Hills, $126,000.
James J. Hearns to Janet S. Hearns, 0.47 acres at 1145 Hacktown Road, Keswick, gift.
Tony D. and Susan J. Thomas to Christina M. Stelling, 1.37 acres at 8090 Porters Road, Esmont, $67,000.
Redfields Development Corp. to Craig Enterprises Inc., three lots in Redfields, $190,500.
Redfields Development Corp. to Craig Enterprises Inc., three more lots in Redfields, $131,000.
Better Living Inc. to Evermore LC, lot in Stony Point, $10,000.
Stanton P. and Marion Nolan to William R. and Johannah L. Castleman, 105 Ednam Place, Ednam Forest, $745,000.
Susanna C. Brent to Jason H. and Doris B. Nabi, 1578 Birnam Drive, Birnam Woods, $144,000.
Hudson Real Property Holdings LLC to Lee Real Property Holdings LLC, 6.27 acres at 5406 Louisa Road, $595,000.
Big Deal:
James B. and Gloria M. Quarles to James A. Schmidt and Audrey C. Louison, 189.77 acres on State Route 671, 5710 Wesley Chapel Road, $1,200,000.


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More details emerge about Bridgeport salon shooting
BRIDGEPORT -- More details have come out about a shooting that took place Friday evening at Al's Millenium Salon, 417 East Main St., Bridgeport
According to police, the shooting was the result of an attempted robbery at the salon.
Police said two men entered the salon shortly before 7 p.m., one brandishing a gun and ordering customers and employees to give them their money. The man with the gun reportedly pointed it at the head of a customer.
Salon employee Roger Martinez, who has a license to carry a pistol, then pulled out his gun.
Martinez told police that, when he pulled out the pistol, the taller of the two would-be robbers began shooting at him. Martinez fired back, hitting the suspect. The two men then fled the scene.
The injured suspect, Lawrence Moore 21, of Cowles Street in Bridgeport, was eventually found at Bridgeport Hospital, where he was being treated for gunshot wounds.
Two witnesses identified Moore as the suspect who was brandishing the gun and threatening the people at the salon.
As of Saturday afternoon, Moore was listed as in critical but stable condition at Bridgeport Hospital. Upon his release, police expect to charge Moore with conspiracy to commit first degree robbery, criminal attempt at first degree robbery, criminal attempt at first degree assault, criminal possession of a firearm and first degree reckless endangerment.
His bond will be set at $250,000. Police took possession of Martinez's firearm and Moore's clothes. The second suspect hasn't been found yet.


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Scooped: Really Dark Chocolate Sorbet Recipe
When I moved to London about two months ago, I was looking forward to Britain's famous chocolate bars. Here, Cadbury is an institution, a source of national pride surpassed only by the Beatles, the Queen, and the glorious victory in the Falklands War. But I was pretty surprised at how difficult it can be to find good dark chocolate. Brits love their multi-layered peanut-caramel-cookie-nougat-and-air-bubble-filled concoctions, but ask for real dark chocolate, and they start muttering about the fall of the British Empire.
In an attempt to satisfy my craving for intense, bitter dark chocolate, I tried this sorbet recipe, which has been on my ice cream to-do list for quite some time. It's a dairy-free, egg-yolk based dark chocolate sorbet that delivers a clean, powerful chocolate flavor.
Use good chocolate: Ghirardelli is my go-to supermarket chocolate in the States, but I used Green & Black here, which has a much brighter, fruitier flavor. I mixed bars with 70% and 85% cocoa solids, but you can go as dark as you like. Since there's no milk in the recipe, the chocolate's flavor will be wonderfully intense and nuanced, and it's parve, if you're into that kind of thing. The final product will be a wonderful, incredibly creamy frozen dessert that is so rich and smooth, no one will believe it's a sorbet. As you can see in the photo, my roommates (or "flat"mates, rather) didn't have any trouble helping with the taste-test.
A note about water: When I made this recipe, I used London tap water, which has a very metallic, mineraly tang. It gave the final product a slightly metallic flavor. Next time I make this recipe, I'll use bottled water. As a native New Yorker, I was weaned on our Catskill Mountain-sourced Eau de Bloomberg—if you're lucky enough to live in a place with mild, sweet tap water, than by all means use it. If you're not (like me) I'd recommend buying bottled.
- Yield:1.5 quarts
- Active time: 45 minutes
- Total time:4-8 hours
- Rated:
- 6 egg yolks
- 12 oz dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa solids), finely chopped
- 3 cups (24 oz) bottled water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon instant coffee
Combine 3 tablespoons of water and 3/4 cup of sugar over medium heat until light golden caramel color is achieved. Reduce heat to low and add remaining water (sugar will sputter) and instant coffee.
Whisk egg yolks with remaining 1/4 cup sugar until pale yellow. Whisking constantly, add one ladle of hot sugar mixture to eggs in slow steady stream. Whisking constantly, slowly pour egg mixture into pot with hot sugar mixture. Heat over low heat whisking constantly until thick enough to coat back of spoon. Pour through sieve into heatproof bowl with chopped chocolate. Mix with rubber spatula until fully incorporated.
Cool mixture in refrigerator at least 4 hours. Spin ice cream in ice cream machine according to manufacturer's instructions.
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The Mission of the Villa Rica Public Library Teen Advisory Board (TAB) is to encourage students from 7th grade thru 12th grade to become life-long library users through the promotion of reading, volunteerism, and participation in the library, and to assist the library both in developing and implementing programs which serve local teens. Villa Rica Public Library recognizes its duty in promoting citizenship and literacy and believes that creating a teen-friendly environment is essential in sustaining a healthy, thriving community. To uphold this responsibility, the Teen Advisory Board aims to give the library a new perspective on youth and youth a new perspective on libraries.


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BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts State Police are launching a crackdown on distracted driving, particularly texting while driving.
Troopers in marked and unmarked vehicles will show zero tolerance for offenders during the stepped up enforcement effort that is scheduled run through June 28.
Lt. Stephen Walsh, operational officer of the initiative, says the goal is to educate the public and save lives. He says most drivers won't comply with the law unless they face real penalties.
In Massachusetts, composing, sending or reading an electronic message while driving is subject to a $100 fine for the first offense. Subsequent violations could result in $500 fines.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in 2012, more than 3,300 people were killed and 421,000 were injured in crashes involving distracted drivers.
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These days, you're lucky if some games from certain big publishers get a year or two of post-launch online support before they're unceremoniously dropped. And then there's Diablo II. Blizzard issued a new version 1.14 patch for the nearly 16-year-old game Thursday, five years after the game was last officially updated (not to mention, four years since the game's sequel launched with its own attendant post-release problems and patches)
The new Diablo II patch doesn't add any new gameplay features, balance tweaks, or anything like that. Instead, Blizzard has added compatibility with modern operating systems like Windows 10 and OS X. But Blizzard says it's working on improvements to the game's "cheat-detection and hack-prevention capabilities" and hints at more improvements to come.
"There is still a large Diablo II community around the world, and we thank you for continuing to play and slay with us," Blizzard writes. "This journey starts by making Diablo II run on modern platforms, but it does not end there. See you in Sanctuary, adventurers."
Today's patch comes a few months after a Blizzard job posting seeking a "senior software engineer, classic games" to work on continued maintenance for Diablo II, Warcraft III, and Starcraft. That posting said the job would involve "creat[ing] conditions for experiences that look as good as they play" and "own[ing] implementation and curation of features new and old," so we can probably expect more significant updates to all of these Blizzard classics going forward.
That's an impressive amount of dedication for a company that has plenty of new games to worry about supporting. We can only hope Blizzard games like Hearthstone and Overwatch will still get such dedicated support (and have such dedicated communities) in the year 2032.


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Angra Dos Reis, 75 mi/120 km west of Rio de Janeiro and the largest town on the Costa Verde, is a popular jumping-off point for trips to nearby islands, such as the wonderful Ilha Grande, a nature preserve with great beaches, and for yachting and spear fishing. You can reach Vila de Abrao, Ilha Grande's largest village, via a 90-minute boat trip. The Praia Lopes Mendes in the eastern part of the island is among the most beautiful bays in Brazil and is great for swimming and surfing.
While you're waiting for your boat, visit the Nossa Senhora do Carmo church and convent from 1593 and the former Sao Bernardino de Sena convent, which was built in 1653 on the San Antonio hill. From there you can enjoy a sweeping view.
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