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New Developer Mailing List for Optimizing KDE
This past week a new mailing list was created called kde-optimize (archive). The list is for developers who are willing to actively work on optimizing KDE or KDE applications, those who have profiled KDE or those who have the knowledge to help others optimize KDE. Two initial documents have already been created as part of this list. The first one is to teach users how they can improve the performance of their system. The second one is to give developers a starting point when looking to optimize applications.
A better name for that would be kde-performance
optimize is not a good name.
By Someone at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: A better name for that would be kde-performance
It's for developers actively optimizing KDE, not for users discussing performance.
By dc at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
and the freebsd equivalent
check that sysctl hw.ata.ata_dma = 1
By Mark at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
great :)
At least now they are thinking about the optimization subject.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
You can say what you want, but KDE developers have been optimizing KDE - all the time! - since the days KDE 2.0 betas.
Every release of KDE has gotten faster.
The traitor so to speak is the toolchain. This is the compiler and linker on GNU/BSD systems, gcc and ld, which were designed to work well for C. And they do very. C++ as used by KDE project, has long been kind of a step-child. Somebody remember how people even forked the GNU gcc, to egcs, which in the end became gcc 2.95, because C++ development just didn't make significant advances?
The current gcc 3.2.x only now achieve a stable C++ binary interface (something C had for more than 10 years), called ABI btw, and begin do a half-decent optimization for C++ code only now. So gcc, probably is on the way.
What still sucks badly, is the linker and C++. You see, with all the inheritance stuff, C++ is doing a lot of replacement of pointers to member functions. These are the so called relocations. For every method your base class has, you need every derived classes objects to take special care, reserve memory and all, wether it uses that method or not.
These relocations, being the exception with C, have been implemented in a way that must be slow. And doing many of them, application startup gets very slow. So if you look at the page for optimization hints, the best hints are the "don't start" kind...
I personally am very Ok with these slow times, because I don't terminate KDE very often and not their programs. Then, Konqueror is e.g. very fast. See the Safari adoption success of their engine.
So what we really someday want, is a toolset that handles code in a way optimized for how C++ does things. We want to locate the points, where user experience could be snappier. And of course, have more threading. One thing BeOS did right, was having a thread per window, per menu, per UI element. Probably KDE 4.0 material....
Yours, Kay
By Debian User at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
> want to locate the points, where user experience could be snappier.
If you have too many threads, you have a lot of context switches, which takes time and makes cpu cache less efficient. Mplayer for example does not use threading in order to optimize performance. See http://mplayer.lgb.hu/index-en.html.
So only use threads / create new processes where it is necessary.
Threads are useful to keep the user interface responsive while there is some background activity (eg. loading/saving a file, playing a sound,...), but don't put every little thing in it's own thread just because threading is cool.
Threading is not our great saviour. We don't need more threading, we need threading in the right places.
By Stefan Heimers at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
The overhead of context switches in Linux is approaching 0 quickly, although of course, it will not reach it. I have to admit, I wouldn't know about FreeBSD e.g., but a Linux 2.6 will be more than good enough at it I guess.
And as to MPlayer example. What if you have 2 CPUs ? How are you going to take advantage of faster encoding, decoding, if you don't use threads?
Deviding work into independant tasks that are then merged, is the key of optimization for multiple CPUs.
But that's KDE offtopic, not? This will happen in some library anyway.
But just like kicker is not part of kdesktop, you want to have ways to make everything work all the time. The bad is probably the synchronisation and locking nightmare you can get into.
I personally want to be able to use a programs menu, no matter if it's doing a long taking repaint, (auto)saving, doing some calculations, whatever. The menu should have a defined state, be accessible by me as a user and allow me to do all useful things.
But lets see, I have strong enough faith in those that did KDE 3.1, that they will know better than me anyway.
Yours, Kay
By Debian User at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
You didn't read the mplayer text, did you?
- MPlayer don't need two cpus, it works just fine with one.
For KDE it makes sense to have multiple threads, so you will take advantage of having two cpus. As I previously stated, threads are good in some circumstances, but should not be used in excess.
Context switching is a non-issue on very fast computers, but not everybody can afford one of these. My server still runs at 33MHz (i486), my fastest computer is an iBook at 300MHz, and I don't intend buying one of those energy wasting 2GHz Intel or AMD microwave ovens anytime soon;-) .
BTW, KDE 3.x is great fun in an Xvnc on the poor old 486 ;-) It is slow, but not as slow as you might think. If you are patient, you could even do some meaningful work with it.
By Stefan Heimers at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
I really didn't read it. But I know it well. mplayer runs my home cinema on a Celeron 500 that "normally" can't do the trick. I don't think a Dual system would improve it.
But my example was about encoding. You can never be fast enough with that, can you? And KDE can be faster (more responsive) on SMP systems, if the "active" application is run on several CPUs simultaneously. Esp. if you assume that this system has CPU loads of CPU number * 100%.
But maybe somebody needs to prove that, I am not all so certain, it's really like this for the load situation.
Context switches introduce latencies. With bad threading support of older Linux, those hurt so badly, that Java gets unusable under Linux. Not that this is a particular loss by itself, but it's the technicque, threads, that is limited.
Performance is a non-issue on fast computers, right. So don't optimize?? Luckily, most people care about efficient use of their computer, not their time. So KDE will get optimized to run 5% faster in some nobody really cares situations, day by day :-)
As for VNC: I did it via 14k upstream DSL. You need to low-color everything, avoid repaints with animations, etc... and you often won't notice it.
Yours, Kay
By Debian User at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
This is a great example that putting the guilty on just one side is easy, but not true sometimes.
I've heard that gcc3 would fix the linker problem, then it was going to be 3.1, now not even 3.2 satisfacts kde programmers :(
Anyway, I'm not saying that kde isn't getting better since 2.0, but 2.0 was SO SLOW that this isn't enought. They just should organize optimization in programs. You see, most programmers don't even know how to optimize well a program, that's why I think KDE wasn't taking much care about it, and now they are starting.
Yes, kde is faster now, but if it was good no one would complain about speed. Just compare gnome and kde.
Anyway, I'm not saying kde tem is bad or something like that, just they tought features should come first, then speed. Some users thing they could wait more 6 months for a new release in exange of more speed ;)
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
i think you got a few things right in your posting, and a few things not-so-right =)
the truth is that the gcc toolchain does have problems, and this is known by everyone including those on the gcc devel team. this doesn't help matters, and it's frustrating to know that good speed improvements could be had if a tool you depend on was better (or even half-way decent).
on the other hand, there is a lot of room for optimization in KDE. such things are getting more attention now probably because there are so many features in. a rule in programming is to get it right first, then optimize it second. now that the base libraries in KDE are featureful and quite stable the business of optimizing them can and has begun.
that said, when you say "compare gnome and kde", what exactly are you comparing? start up times or run time tasks? the truly meaningful comparison is when it comes to run time tasks (displaying web pages, editting large text files, listing directories, filtering email, searching in files, changing fonts in a document, etc.), since not only are those things fully in the hands of the programmers working on the apps but they are what you spend 99% of the time on your computer doing. keep track of how much time you spend starting apps versus using them.
so i'm very happy to see all sorts of run-time optimizations going into KDE since those have the most impact on my experience as a user.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
And I agree with you :)
About gnome/kde, I was comparing startup times and resources usage.
And there is one thing that few people say that I think is a important factor in kde speed, maybe the biggest one: QT.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
And there is one thing that few people say that I think is a important factor in kde speed, maybe the biggest one: Qt
But I don't think Qt itself is slow at all... just check out things like Opera..
By m@n at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
See also Qt/Windows. I have a P4 1.6GHz system with Gentoo Linux and gcc 3.2, and a P2 400MHz with Windows XP and MSVC++ 6. I can compile my Qt application on the Windows box in half the time it takes to compile it on Linux. My program also starts faster on Windows.
I don't think Qt is slow. I place blame on the underlying system (g++/ld.so).
By Justin at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Well don't worry ... by the time gcc gets to version 4.0 it will beat or equal MScompilers ...
Oh wait ... by then it will be 2030 and everything C++ will be obsolete
By C++ Lover ... at Mon, 2003/01/13 - 6:00am
The real culprit is C++ switch to ObjectiveC
Want a language that is a fast as C, cleaner and *more* object oriented that C++, *simple*, simple, simple sytax allows you to "drop to C"easy as pie and is th basis of MacOS/X ... NeXT with the smallest number of engineers of any company (fewer than Be) produced a break through GUI for machines that ran at 16mhz - using ObjectiveC
The only reason Apple uses C++ is because their gcc allows mixing of obj and c++ together in one project and because there are crap loads of C++ libraries out there. But there are craploads of Java (and python!) libraries out there too ... and gcc can compile that too ...
The way to fix slowness of C++ is to eliminate it almost everywhere. KDE developers are enormously productive (thanks to Qt) but for a look at what 4-6 coders part time can accomplish with ObjectiveC take a look at GNUStep. After 4 years the GNUStep libraries are nearly complete and the GUI is now starting. Soon therel be standard widgets galore and a portable GUI/development framework. At that point it will take only 6-12 GNUStep coders to reproduce a KDE quality of environment - and it will only take about 6 months ... With Mac coders using gcc and GNUStep in droves it will soon have a core development group closer to the size of KDE .
Then it will rule ... because people - it is FAST. GNUStep coded apps truly are useable on a pentium 100.
Objc Willrule
ps: Insert cool "Switch" advert here to convince C++ coderz of their folly ...
pps: because C++ sux and everyone knows it!
By ObjectiveC Willrule at Mon, 2003/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: The real culprit is C++ switch to ObjectiveC
Oh god, Mac people are so creepy. First, Objective C is slower than C++. It's compilers aren't as good, and it's more dynamic nature incurs more runtime overhead. Second, those who deride C++ do so because they don't understand it. Sure it has its share of faults, but so does every language, and C++ has far fewer faults than many other languages. Overall, C++ is an extremely lightweight, fast, and most importantly, *expressive* language. It blends performance and clean design more than most other contemporary languages. In doing so, it makes certain compromises and incurs a good deal of complexity. But hey, English is an order of magnitude more complex than even C++ and people speak that passably!
PS> I've been using C++ as my primary language for more than six years. It wasn't until I had been using the language for a couple of years that I learned its full power. Nobody claims C++ is easy. Still, I get irritated at all those people who've used C++ for six months and start spouting ("C++ sux, rulez!"). Now, if you're an experienced C++ coder, and still think it sucks, well, that's a defensible difference in opinion. Otherwise, you're just spouting.
PPS> Language wars are stupid. In reality, each language has its strengths and weaknesses. Everyone should know and use at least several. I happen to like C++ best, believe it is a good language, and believe that a statement like "C++ sux" is just plain stupid, but I don't claim it is the be all end-all of languages.
By Rayiner Hashem at Tue, 2003/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: The real culprit is C++ switch to ObjectiveC
Claiming that Objective C is slower than C++, or that you'd simply have to be ignorant to C++ to "deride" it, is making two incredibly general (and very likely not to be true) statements (I think you should probably insert the word "usually"). I've personally professionaly programmed in C++ for over seven years, and I have to say quite frankly that I have a 'lot' of grievances with it. It isn't that C++ is difficult to learn, or really even conceptually difficult to deal with--- it's actually very simple compared to many other languages (conceptually). It's that for the deficiency of concepts it really can express, the syntax is just terrible. Yes, it's powerful, yes, there is a large existing source base to be used, but it's, honestly, pretty damn ugly.
Stating that C++ has far fewer faults than 'many' other programming languages may be a true statement, but Objective C is not one of those languages (And probably no other modernly used language save perl and VB). Objective C is a true extension of C, and it isn't inherantly any more 'dynamic' than C++. In C++ you can create non-virtual objects, which technically are no different than sets of methods taking structures as parameters. If an object can't be extended, can't act polymorphically, there really isn't much of a reason for it to be an object to begin with. Objective C can use a majority of the C compiler optimizations, so, I'm really not quite certain how the compiler performance between Objective C, C, and C++ could be much different (This is bordering on the argument people used against using C++ instead of C; the differences really are insignificant).
You're right about one thing, language "wars" are stupid. Honestly comparing two programming languages, however, is not. C++ definitely doesn't suck, but Objective C is a very viable alternative.
By Jason Thomas at Thu, 2005/02/24 - 6:00am
Re: The real culprit is C++ switch to ObjectiveC
A prof of mine at Stanford, some time ago, said:
This was a time before the opensource / GNU movement. When you pick a
long ago there was a language war:
[from lang elegance, & pure-OO, Obj-C is the winner.]
Hey C++ was designed w/ certain constraints: (a) it had to be a superset,
Every lang has +s and -s. C++ is faster [machine wise]. Obj-C might
The reason Obj-C is viable now is that GNU-c can do C/Obj-C/C++.
By tom popovich at Fri, 2003/05/09 - 5:00am
Re: great :)
gcc3 fixed gcc's part of it - not enough, but the binaries code it wrote was prelinkable
so the remaining piece is the 'prelink' tool itself, so that these prelinkable binaries can become prelinked binaries. It is approaching a useable stage now... if you want to download a snapshot, be my guest. I'm working with it some. It's not 100% stable, but I haven't nuked myself too bad yet.
linking is *every bit* as bad of an issue as kde developers make it sound like. fully 50% of the cpu time during a kde login (on my system, probably closer to 30% on yours - I have some local work not yet committed in fontconfig that really helps speed that up, raising the percentages for everything else) is spent, in the linker, before reaching main().
We could have frozen feature work while we waited for the improved toolchain to be ready, but then we'd still have kde2.0 now instead of 3.1, and the prelinker wouldn't be any closer to ready.
By Kevin Puetz at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
The linker problem is utterly irrelevant
The linker problem is utterly irrelevant
It takes my laptop 1 second to execute kedit --help. It takes 7 seconds to load kedit and put the window up.
The linking stage is the same, and linking clearly takes at most 1/7th (~14%) of the time required to start kedit. Therefore 6/7ths (~86%) of the time is spent doing something else.
Would any KDE developers explain where this idea that the linking time dominates KDE start up time when my experiments clearly demonstrate that this is not the case on my system.
A bit of profiling suggests that it spends nearly 50% of the startup time doing malloc(!)
By cbcbcb at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: The linker problem is utterly irrelevant
the linking stage is not the same, ld.so is a lazy linker resolving symbols only as they are needed. So you need to resolve more symbols when you start the whole app.
if you're seeing that much malloc though... are you kdelibs built with --enable-fast-malloc=full?
By Kevin Puetz at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: The linker problem is utterly irrelevant
Instead of "time kedit --help", try "time LD_BIND_NOW=1 kedit --help".
On my machine "kedit --help" takes 0.551s without LD_BIND_NOW, and 0.946s with it, almost double.
Running kedit so that it pops up onto the screen without LD_BIND_NOW takes 1.757s, and with it 2.041s. Those numbers are both higher than the true values though, because I wait for kedit to pop up on the screen and hit alt-f4 as fast as I can.
So it looks to me like almost half the startup time is taken up by the linker.
By AC at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: The linker problem is utterly irrelevant
well i'm currently playing around with a glibc.2.3-based prelinked gentoo system. i can tell you prelink makes a _huge_ difference.
By tschortsch at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: The linker problem is utterly irrelevant
> It takes my laptop 1 second to execute kedit --help. It takes 7 seconds to load kedit and put the window up.
Have you heard about linking is actually done? Not *all* symbols are resolved at once.
By m@n at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Actually, threading on Linux is extremely cheap. At this point, encouraging more extensive threading would probably improve performance more than hurt it.
By Rayiner Hashem at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Threading can never improve performance on a uni-processor system (at least 95% of all systems running kde). Multi-threading programs use the processor cache less efficent.
Threads often make programs more complicated, and so bugs are harder to find.
By itsch at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Only in the land of the theoretical. In the real world where we live, threading can yield enourmous improvements just by the sheer fact that it can make some problems easier to solve with our intellectual-resource-constrained noggins.
By Another Anon-person at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Try a preemptable Kernel (2.4.20+patch, e.g. -ck or 2.5.xx) without "heavy threading" and be surprised. Next step would be the glibc-2.3.1 with the new NGPT.
By Dieter Nützel at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Threading almost always improves user percieved performance. There are two options for good user performance: do events and I/O async, or break them out into threads. Most developers are too lazy to do the former (because it's freaking HARD!) so unless they use threads, they end up doing massive computations and I/O while screwing user speed. See most Linux software for blatent examples (and compare them to a well threaded base of software like BeOS's). Besides, with HyperThreading and cheap SMP becoming more prevalent, who cares about a (very minor, with today's or even yesterday's systems) in the uniprocessor case.
By Rayiner Hashem at Tue, 2003/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
You're right that threading is not necessarily CPU-time efficient, but it is user-time efficient.
I really hate each time I do a slow operation and that the whole application freeze instead of just the part who is doing the work.
An example with Mozilla: tabs opening, lets suppose I open a new tab on a busy website, the tab "freeze" which is ok but the whole browser freeze too, I can't instantly go back to an active tab..
I hope that Konqueror with tabs won't have these kind of issue.
BeOS was really good for this, it felt smooth: no blocking, a window could freeze because it was doing something complicated, but you could instantly swith to another window without any slowdown felt both in Windows or X-Windows (KDE or Gnome).
By renox at Mon, 2003/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
In X-Windows windows don't freeze, event if application hangs, you can switch to another window or even resize the window. If you feel slowdowns when switching apps it means there isn't enough RAM on your computer.
By Tot at Tue, 2003/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
> If you feel slowdowns when switching apps it means there isn't
Or your apps use too much RAM... :)
For example, should a web browser really use 60MB of RAM? That is an awful lot. What does Konqueror do with it all?
By cbcbcb at Tue, 2003/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Nothing 'cause it's mostly shared:
nuetzel 13680 2.4 2.5 109268 26688 ? S 02:29 0:09 kdeinit: konqueror --silent
/home/nuetzel> pmap 13680
46312000 (152 KB) r--p (08:07 1731481) /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/verdanai.ttf
=> 9,3 MB (own) + 73,8 (shared)
So what is your problem?
By Dieter Nützel at Thu, 2003/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Thanks for the hint about the pmap tool.
> So what is your problem?
Firstly, I don't run KDE on my laptop (it's too slow), I run konqueror under Windowmaker, so (most of) the 'shared' memory isn't really shared. You still have to account for the shared memory - it isn't free.
Secondly, I have a 30MB private anonymous mapping in the current konqueror process which has been running for some time. My experience is that konqueror gradually uses more and more memory but I haven't been able to reproduce it under test conditions (although general web browsing always triggers it). Eventually the Konqueror process grows big enough that it hits swap and everything grinds to a halt and I have to restart it.
A newly started konqueror doesn't have this huge mapping. I guess this is a bug in Konqueror/KDE's memory management somewhere.
By cbcbcb at Thu, 2003/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Yes we just found and fixed some cycling reference counting problems in the Javascript support, which led to memory leaks.
By David Faure at Thu, 2003/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Are the fixes on the 3.1 branch currently, or just on the head?
Should KDE just move to using libgc and become fully garbage collected? This should reduce the number of memory leaks
By cbcbcb at Thu, 2003/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: great :)
Just backported to 3.1 branch.
Fully garbage collected? Surely not. It's the garbage-collection nature of Javascript which introduces those leaks (when you end up with a cyclic reference chain, nothing gets deleted anymore). This is definitely NOT a solution for the rest of KDE. Plain simple "delete foobar" is much easier to do and debug than garbage-collection with refcounts and possibly cyclic ref chains.
By David Faure at Thu, 2003/01/16 - 6:00am
garbage collection
I'm talking about real garbage collection, not reference counting! libgc implements a generational mark and sweep collector, so it works properly when you've got cycles. Refcounts also have horrible performance implications.
Anyway, looking at the kdecore/malloc stuff it looks pretty trivial to add new memory allocation strategies so you might get a patch when I get round to it.
By cbcbcb at Thu, 2003/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: garbage collection
Ah yes. The reason I'm talking about refcounting for kjs, is because it has a DOM-like API, so it needs both refcounting _and_ garbage collection with mark & sweep. The dependencies with the DOM nodes (which are refcounted) is what makes the problem a bit difficult.
About a generic malloc implementation that can garbage collect: hmm - how will it know the dependencies between the objects, i.e. which one should mark which other one?
By David Faure at Thu, 2003/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: garbage collection
I'm not sure why you need refcounting and mark & sweep - surely if you have the correct set of roots then the mark & sweep strategy will do everything? (I've not looked at the kjs code so I could be missing something)
The homepage for the libgc collector is at http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ Most distributions should have a libgc package.
Essentially, it's a conservative collector, so if a malloc-ed region contains a value which appears to be a pointer (ie it has a value within the bounds of the heap and there is an object on the heap at that location) then it is treated as a reference. The roots of the collection are contained in the static data area and the stack.
By cbcbcb at Fri, 2003/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: garbage collection
We need refcounting because as I said the KJS objects (the only ones which are garbage collected) have dependencies on the DOM objects (which are not), and vice-versa.
Anyway I'm not very expert on fully mark&sweep solutions (this one was implemented by Harri and the refcounting was added by Peter) - I can describe what kjs does and why, but not whether something else could have worked.
Hmm, the idea of a collector trying to guess pointers from raw memory sounds like a good opportunity for strange behaviours to me :) Ok, it must be quite rare that binary data (pixmaps, strings, etc.) contains the same 4-byte sequence that those matching precise locations where data was allocated, but when this happens, strange things will happen. You see, the main reason we can't easily switch to a GC, is that in C++, destructors can have code. And they often do. We rely on object A doing this and that when being destroyed. If it's not destroyed anymore, then stuff will break. Moving stuff from the destructor to a "destroy()" method changes nothing to this - if it's not called, bugs will happen. Therefore a GC wouldn't help. Fixing the code does :)
By David Faure at Fri, 2003/01/17 - 6:00am
I may be wrong, but doesn't Perl use reference counters? Perl seems pretty darn fast to me, too. If Perl can do it quickly, who can't a JavaScript implementation do it quickly as well?
By Jonathan Miller at Mon, 2003/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: great :)
In short: Which KDE/Konqueror version?
Would you "all" be so kind to send full system specs and software versions if you have some trouble?
By Dieter Nützel at Thu, 2003/01/16 - 6:00am
kde-optimize -- give me a break
KDE is written in C++. While this is not necessarily a problem, it can be when Visual Basic reject programmers (which the KDE project is overrun with) do not know enough to avoid important pitfalls that plague C++ software projects; KDE suffers badly from stupid use of autoincrementing operators and iteration with C++ objects and masses of unnecessary allocations and deallocations of memory -- two of the most comon problems in C++ software.
Perhaps the most cretinous of all problems is blaming the extremely slow startup times of KDE apps on GCC. The GNOME 1.x releases were hardly svelt (2.x fixes many of these issues), but GNOME is a fashion cat-walk superwaif when compared to KDE's 500lb fat-momma cheese-burger scoffing trailer trash.
One need only look at the fuss over ugly KDE hacks (such as prelinking) used to bandage up the design and coding flaws in the decrepit KDE architecture to see the truth.
By GNOME user at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: kde-optimize -- give me a break
Word for word the same on wrong facts based flame as last week. You were corrected, you didn't learn. Go away!
By Anonymous at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: kde-optimize -- give me a break
Not only that, but he spelled svelte wrong both times! :-)
By Andrew at Mon, 2003/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: kde-optimize -- give me a break
Yeah! And C64 Basic loads really fast on an 1MHz machine. It's written in assembly. Let's use that!!
By ac at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: kde-optimize -- give me a break
LOL!! Very funny.
By CPH at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: kde-optimize -- give me a break
It's good to see all the lamers still living in 1990 come out of the woodwork. KDE runs fine on my Athlon XP 2200+. Gnome does too. I know GNOME 3.0 and KDE 4.0 may not run as well, but that's fine... i'll upgrade. KDE 3.0 and GNOME 2.0 don't run with any acceptable speed on my pII 233 router box (which was once my main system).. but KDE 1.0 and GNOME 1.0-1.2 did (and GNOME 1.4 without the hog that is Slow^H^H^H^HNautilus)
By yep at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am


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DAY 2: Thessaloniki
After your delicious breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel for your Thessaloniki tour, and today you can get acquainted with the city of Cassander, brother-in-law of Alexander the Great, which was built in 315 B.C. and named after his wife, the sister of Alexander; Thessaloniki. Drive around the center of Thessaloniki to see some of the most famous monuments of the city, like the White Tower, the Arch of Galerius, the area of the Acropolis with the Byzantine Walls and others. You will visit the Archaeological Museum, to see the treasures from the excavations in Northern Greece, and one of the majestic early Christian churches of Thessaloniki, the Basilica of St Demetrius (5th c. A.C.). The afternoon is free and you can explore more of the ancient or classical sites of the city.
DAY 3: Thessaloniki – Veria & Vergina
Today you leave Thessaloniki to drive to Pella, the birthplace of Alexander the Great and second capital of the ancient Macedonian kingdom, where you can admire in the Museum and at the excavation site, the fantastic Hellenistic mosaic floors made from natural pebbles. From Pella you continue to Lefkadia, where you will get a first taste of the impressive Macedonian tombs and then you continue on to Vergina (ancient Aiges), the first capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia. Here you see the tombs of Vergina and the breathtaking collection of golden artifacts, which were found inside these two unplundered tombs of Philip of Macedon and the Young Prince. Return back to Thessaloniki for overnight.
DAY 4: Thessaloniki – Dion & Litochoro
This morning drive south to the area of Olympus, the legendary mountain of the Twelve Gods of the ancient Greeks. On the northern foothills of Olympus, you find the sacred city of the ancient Macedonians, Dion, where they worshipped Olympian Zeus and the other gods. The impressive ruins include the Theater, the public Baths, the Villa of Dionysus, a number of Sanctuaries, like these of Demeterand Isis; as well as two early Christian Basilicas and much more. Findings from these places are on display in the interesting small Museum of Dion. After the visit, drive to Litochoro a little town in the shadow of Olympus and get a taste of this beautiful mountain village. Return back to Thessaloniki for overnight.
DAY 5: Kastoria
Today continue your journey to the land of Alexander the Great with a drive through the country-side of Western Macedonia. You will be amazed with the natural beauty of the places you'll visit, the picturesque towns, the high mountains and of course, the numerous monuments you'll find around you, most of which date back to the Byzantine era. Drive first to the popular town of Kozani, which flourished during the Ottoman period and visit the newly excavated site of Aiani, one of the principal cities of ancient Macedonia. Then follow the new Egnatia Highway and arrive at Kastoria, one of the most attractive towns in Greece, located on a small peninsula surrounded by a lake.
Overnight in Kastoria.
DAY 6: Kastoria
You spend the morning exploring the town of Kastoria, its Byzantine Museum and numerous Churches. You will also visit the lovely Monastery of Mavriotissa located next to the Lake of Kastoria. In the afternoon, you will travel to the area of the Prespes Lakes, near the borders between Greece, Albania and Bulgaria. This is a must see area of unbelievable natural beauty and serenity. You will have dinner and overnight in this breathtaking area. Return back to Kastoria for overnight.
DAY 7: Thessaloniki
Today you will enjoy a tranquil boat-trip in one of the Prespes Lake and watch the pelicans, cormorants and other birds that live near it. Also see the Christian Paintings and deserted Chapels near the lake. You then depart for Thessaloniki, passing through the towns of Florina and Edessa, both known for their traditional architecture, natural charm and fertile environment. In Edessa you visit the famous Waterfalls and then return to Thessaloniki for overnight.
DAY 8: Thessaloniki - Philippi
Today you explore Eastern Macedonia and especially, the ancient cities of Amphipolis and Philippi, both of them associated with the royal dynasty of Philip II and his son Alexander the Great. Follow Via Egnatia, the Roman highway and arrive at Amphipolis, where you visit the lovely small Museum, the Lion of Amphipolis and the excavations. Continue to Philippi, the city that was named after Philip of Macedonia. See the Forum, the Christian Basilicas, the Theater and the Acropolis; before you head back to Thessaloniki for overnight.
DAY 9: Thessaloniki - Chalkidiki
This morning you drive to a well-known region of ancient Macedonia, the region of Chalkidiki, a peninsula of a very distinctive shape, which is famous nowadays as a resort area. In the center of Chalkidiki you find the remains of Olynthos, a city destroyed by Philip, with some of the best-preserved Hellenistic houses in the world. Also, you can visit the area of ancient Stageira, the birthplace of the philosopher Aristotle, who was the tutor of Alexander the Great for three years. Return to Thessaloniki for overnight.
DAY 10: Thessaloniki – Departure Flight
Toady you bid farewell to the homeland of Alexander the Great and fly back home, full of wonderful memories from an elucidating journey. Goodbye and Antío and see you soon :)
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• Assistance at Athens airport upon arrival by an OUTstanding Travel representative
• Private transfer from Thessaloniki Airport to Thessaloniki (Day 1)
• Private Day tour (Gay friendly) of Thessaloniki Town with guide and car/driver (Day 2)
• Private Day tour (Gay friendly) to Veria & Vergina with guide and car/driver (Day 3)
• Private Day tour (Gay friendly) to Dion & Litochoro with guide and car/driver (Day 4)
• Private 3 Day tour (Gay friendly) to Kastoria and surroundings with guide and car/driver (Day 5-7)
• Private Day tour (Gay friendly) to Prespes Lake and Edessa Watterfalls with guide and car/driver (Day 7)
• Private Day tour (Gay friendly) to Philippi with guide and car/driver (Day 8)
• Private Day tour (Gay friendly) to Chalkidiki with guide and car/driver (Day 9)
• Private transfer from the Hotel in Thessaloniki to Thessaloniki Airport (Day 10)
• Entrance fees to the following sites: Thessaloniki Museum, Veria, Dion, Byzantine Museum Kastoria, Philippi all sites on the joined group tours.
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Ross Marquand has talked himself into a frenzy.
The Los Angeles actor's spot-on impersonation of Kevin Spacey's conniving politician Frank Underwood has turned "House of Thrones," a mashup video spoof of "House of Cards" and "Game of Thrones" on Quiznos ToastyTV, into a viral sensation with nearly 1.2 million views and counting.
In the video, Frank smooth-talks his way through Westeros, dispatching rivals to the Iron Throne—from Jon Snow to Daenerys Targaryen and the current King Joffrey.
"Why have one little ol' presidency when you can have seven entire kingdoms?" says Marquand, as Frank, in the video's introduction.
It's an impeccable impersonation of Spacey's impeccable portrayal, one that had Marquand answering calls, responding to emails and taking meetings a good part of Monday.
"This day just blew up out of nowhere," he told me on the phone Monday evening. "Kevin Spacey actually saw the spot and he tweeted about it. It's crazy, yeah. So I've been in phone calls and people have been wanting to meet. It's just like, 'Aghhh!'"
The Colorado native isn't complaining; he's just a little surprised. He got involved when friends of his, Oren Kaplan and Devon Kelly, approached him about doing the video. He'd worked with them before and they were well aware that he could impersonate Spacey and many other actors. When they gave him the script he thought it was a fun idea, so he canceled his weekend plans to prepare. Doing Frank was not exactly the same as doing Spacey.
"It's Spacey, but it's a distinct style of Spacey, obviously with a Southern, South Carolina accent. I literally sat down, watched 'House of Cards' Season 2 in almost an entire evening," he said, and then started practicing in front of a mirror. "I'm not too ashamed to admit [it]."
Marquand, who played Paul Newman in a "Mad Men" episode last season, also stars in the Rainn Wilson-produced comedy "The Impression Guys," in which he and costar Jim Meskimen play heightened versions of themselves—two actors who don't want to be known only for their impersonations. The half-hour show can be seen on Wilson's Soul Pancake YouTube channel.
He also has a couple of films in the can, including a psychological thriller called "Camera Trap" and "Sam & Amira," a comedy with Martin Starr and Paul Wesley from "The Vampire Diaries."
In the impersonation area, he's shot another spoof, this one mashing up HBO's "True Detective" with those AT&T; "It's Not Complicated" commercials starring Beck Bennett. He'll channel Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey's out-there detective, as he talks to a group of kids about existentialism and other advanced topics.
The actor has been doing impressions since high school, he said, but for many years never considered the gift something to be done beyond except as a party gag. He left Colorado for Hollywood after college about 8 1/2 years ago and for the first five years he worked as an actor in various dramatic roles. Then his agents saw a video he created in which he did impersonations and asked him to make another video with more of his celebrity impressions. He came up with one titled "Impress-A-Vention," in which he plays himself coming home to an apartment full of angry actors—including Al Pacino, James Gandolfini, Harrison Ford and others—who want him to stop impersonating them.
That video still gets views and has helped Marquand get seen as a comedic actor as well.
"It's funny how I was hiding my impressions for so long because I thought it was going to pigeonhole me," he said. "And it wasn't really until I started doing them that people started offering me roles for other things that were not impression based at all. So it's cool."
Spacey himself has taken notice, tweeting Monday, "We weren't sure what should happen in #HouseOfCards Season 3 but I think I've figured it out," and linking to the "House of Thrones" video on kevinspacey.com.
Marquand, who has been a fan of Spacey's since high school, couldn't be happier. They haven't talked, but he knows what he'd say if he ever meets Spacey.
"I would just tell him that he really is the No. 1 reason why I decided to pursue acting professionally," he said. "I remember reading an article ... about his struggles growing up and how he just said, 'The hell with it. I'm gonna really give this all I've got and just go for it.' ... It was a really inspiring."
Before channeling Frank Underwood in Westeros, Ross Marquand already was "a huge fan of both shows." Here are four questions I asked him about the real "House of Cards" and "Game of Thrones."
What "Game of Thrones" character has the best chance of power in "House of Cards?"
Oh, wow, that's a really good question. I've gotta say, just because it's all about duplicity, I'm gonna go with Littlefinger. I mean Littlefinger just plays that the politics of that world so well. I think he'd be the one to survive.
What House of Cards character would do well in Westeros?
Hmmm. Well Frank would. [Laughs.] I actually think Doug Stamper would do really well. He's smart and he's obviously got the physical chops to fight if he needs to. He's just kind of no-nonsense and I think he would do well there, yeah.
Who is a slimier henchman—Lord Varys or Doug Stamper?
Lord Varys, of course. There's a degree of humanity in Doug Stamper. But Varys, he's such a slimeball.
What would you rather have, a seat in the Oval Office or a claim to the Iron Throne?
Oh, a seat in the Oval Office for sure, because even if you make it to the Iron Throne, there are going to be people trying to kill you all the time. At least in the Oval Office you've got a buffer, a security detail watching you at all times. It's a little bit better.
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In this action game, you must help Wolverine defeat legions of Magneto's robots in intense combat as he searches for a way to free Genosha from Magneto's evil grip.
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MRD Escape is a challenging, arcade-style game that follows Wolverine as he tries to escape the MRD prison. Use stealth and problem solving skills to finish the missions. Avoid cameras, laser wires, collect access passes, take out guards while not tripping the main alarm.
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Hidden glueball dark matter
Here we investigate the possibility that the dark matter candidate is from a pure non-abelian gauge theory of the hidden sector, motivated in large part by its elegance and simplicity. The dark matter is the lightest bound state made of the confined gauge fields, the hidden glueball. We point out this simple setup is capable of providing rich and novel phenomena in the dark sector, especially in the parameter space of large N. They include self-interacting and warm dark matter scenarios, Bose-Einstein condensation leading to massive dark stars possibly millions of times heavier than our sun giving rise to gravitational lensing effects, and indirect detections through higher dimensional operators as well as interesting collider signatures.
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics
- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Walter Burke Inst. for Theoretical Physics
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- Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; HET; Higgs; dark matter; boson; non-abelian; gauge; baryons; QCD
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House of Broel hosts Audubon Charter's Movie Magic Soiree fundraiser Saturday
Dress to impress on the red carpet Saturday night at the House of Broel for the Audubon Charter School fundraiser, where you can enjoy specialty food, drinks, auctions and the chance to meet Saints cornerback Keenan Lewis.
For details, please refer to the following announcement from Audubon Charter School:
2014 Soirée: "Movie Magic…The Golden Age of the Silver Screen''
Audubon's 2014 Soirée is set for Saturday, March 22 at 7 p.m.at the House of Broel at 2220 St. Charles Avenue.
In addition to award-winning cuisine, liberal libations, dancing, spirited live and silent auctions, and music by the John Rodli Quartet, the soiree will feature special guest Keenan Lewis of the New Orleans Saints. Additionally, there will be an online auction that will run from Monday, March 17 to Tuesday, March 25.
Where is the only place outside of Hollywood where Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Poitier, Marlon Brando, Queen Elizabeth and Superman might be in the room at the same time? Hollywood South of course, at the Audubon Charter School Soirée!
It's an awesome time, but more importantly, it is a party with a purpose. The soiree serves as a critical fundraiser to help Audubon close a $105,700 gap. That is the difference in the amount of money it takes to operate Audubon and the funding the school receives. That money pays for additional teachers, teacher assistants and increased security.
It is also an opportunity to meet other parents, bond with the staff and pick up unique paintings and photography by emerging local artists (including Audubon students), jewelry, wine, classes, gift certificates and other items for a worthy cause. Auction items include a signed custom Keenan Lewis jersey; footballs autographed by Jimmy Graham, Rickey Jackson, Keenan Lewis, and other New Orleans Saints; a two-night stay in a private cottage with pool near the beach in Bay St. Louis; a private wine tasting for 12; a private dinner prepared and served in your home by a former White House chef; French classes; and a framed, signed and numbered print by artist James Michalopoulos.
Dinner and libations will be provided by Bhimel Catering; Cynthia Fournet; Tom King; La Boulangerie; Charles Mendy; Oceana Grill; The Lake House; Specialty Italian Bistro; Starbucks; and Zea.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana is the Soirée "Oscar" sponsor, and our "Best Dressed" sponsors are Bryan's United Air Conditioning, Empire Janitorial Sales and Services, Materials Management Group, and Sun Electric and Instrumentation. "Red Carpet" sponsors are Bryncon-Grillot Construction, LaPorte Sehrt Romig Hand, Safeguard, Silva, Gurtner & Abney, and The O'Connor Insurance Group, LLC. "Hollywood" sponsors are APC Construction and James F. Williams Agency Allstate, and our "Stars" sponsors are Leah and Byron Badger, Jenny and John Creevy, Stephanie and Frank Douglass, Julie and Leron Finger, Andrea Shaw, Andrea and Ren Wilkes, and Elizabeth and Carlos Zervigon.
Sponsorships, ranging from the $200 Star level to the $2,500 for Oscars, are still available, and patrons will be recognized for their contributions. Individual tickets also are on sale for $40 in advance, $50 at the door. For more information, please contact Sophia Griffies, Development Specialist, at 504-324.7100 or email@example.com.
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Editor's note: This week Monterey Herald reporters look back on some of the most memorable and important stories they covered in 2017.
Marina >> Having been at both the dedication ceremony and the grand opening of the Major General William H. Gourley VA-DOD Outpatient Clinic, 10 months and one retirement apart, I remember former Rep. Sam Farr looking lighter, more vibrant and relaxed than I had ever seen him before. He had a full beard and had the air of "frankly my dear, I don't give a darn" that went along with it.
It could have been the result of exiting a life of public service on his own terms that gave him a sense of satisfaction, coupled with the feeling that comes with seeing a major project through to the end.
One of the biggest and most visible projects to come out of Marina via the Fort Ord Reuse Plan is the Major General William H. Gourley VA-DOD Outpatient Clinic.
The gleaming, three-story, 150,000-square-foot clinic first broke ground in November 2013 and was hailed as California's first integrated Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense joint health care clinic.
Decades in the making, this undertaking would be a crown jewel for the area, having many local, state, federal and military leaders working to get it built.
But the road to fruition on the over $100 million project at 201 Ninth St. in Marina was not an easy one. Getting the VA and DOD to work together was a major hurdle. But once Farr started the collaboration between the two agencies and secured the federal funding for the project, it started to take lumbering strides forward.
Farr would work to change rules and laws to move the project forward, including authoring the legislation that was signed into law by then-President Barack Obama to name the health center after Maj. Gen. Gourley.
Gourley was also instrumental in the clinic's development. His interest in designating a section of Fort Ord as a joint clinic for veterans and active duty service members, as well as their families, began when the base closed in 1994.
Having spent part of his military career on the Monterey Peninsula, Gourley returned to Monterey after retiring in 1989 and soon became an active participant in overseeing the restructuring of Fort Ord to civilian use.
He chaired the Monterey Regional Health Development Group and convinced the VA to open a satellite clinic on Fort Ord, which was a precursor to what stands now in Marina: the Gourley VA-DOD Outpatient Clinic.
The modern medical facility had been scheduled to open in 2016 but because of building delays, a dedication ceremony was held instead in October 2016 to honor both Farr and Gourley for their efforts.
Farr had announced in November 2015 that he would not seek re-election and Gourley died in 2008.
About 400 people attended the ceremony, including Gourley's family, who were on hand for the unveiling of the building's nameplate that adorns the building now.
During the dedication ceremony, many acknowledged Farr's leadership and determination as being the catalyst for the clinic's existence.
The clinic's opening would be delayed again in the spring of 2017, this time due to furniture and equipment installation, as well as additional technical and staff training.
But on Aug. 3 the new clinic had its grand opening and started seeing patients about a week and a half later.
For those the clinic serves, it will take some time to get used to the new model of care the facility provides. The previously smaller clinic afforded an atmosphere where veterans felt they could socialize while getting their health care, something the much larger clinic does not foster, they say.
James Herrera can be reached at 831-726-4344.


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The Polo Lounge
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The Polo Lounge has been the favorite breakfast spot and watering hole for generations of stars and Hollywood deal-makers. Lunch and dinner are served with piano accompaniment alternating with light jazz on the patio during the long summer nights. Jazz music is also featured during Sunday Brunch. In the evening guests can come to relax and enjoy one of our many specialty cocktails or one of our old favorites.
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2005 was a momentous year for YouTube:
youtube.comdomain name was created on February 14th.
On April 23rd, the first video was uploaded to the site where it remains to this day. It's called Me at the Zoo and is 19secs long. 27.8m views and counting! :)
In September, a Nike ad featuring Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho went viral and was the first video to reach 1m views.
On November 7th, YouTube announced it had received $3.5m in funding from a venture capital firm.
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Ningbo to Hangzhou at 300kph
We arrived on Thursday in Hangzhou after getting the new high speed train from Ningbo. You can pickup the service from Ningbo East Railway Station, which is near to the Ocean World and a little north of Wanda Plaza. All trains appear to go out of this station at the moment, whilst they build the new central station which is due to open in 2015.
Be warned though, Ningbo East is difficult to work around without a grasp in Hanzi (characters). As a tip, book online if you have a Chinese credit card, as the day we travelled turned out to be one of the hottest of the year at almost 40 degrees in the direct sunlight. Otherwise if you are looking to turn up and buy at the station, choose a queue in the middle of the ticket hall, as these allow all ticket types to be purchased.
After about a 40 minute queue, we were relieved to be able to get on our way, the temperature was just unbearable. But the ride itself was great, in just a little over 1 hour we were pulling up at Hangzhou East Station. The train cruised at 300kph most of the way and was incredibly smooth, a testament to modern Chinese engineering.
We chose to stay at the 4 Eyes Hostel south of West Lake and opposite Hangzhou Zoo. Twin private ensuite's are cheap at just 60RMB per night per person, and that includes a breakfast to our surprise! The accommodation is great value for money, but if you are the type of person who doesn't like rooms that have windows that don't lock properly, electrical wires that stick out of walls untaped and dusty floors then this isn't for you! The location isn't that great if you are a city lover, but if you want to stay in the middle of the rolling hills near West Lake then this is for you. Food wise, there isn't much around except a Chinese Restaurant down near the main road which is really good and has English on the menu. The hostel itself has a Chinese style BBQ which isn't our cup of tea, so have avoided so far. A bus costs just 2RMB into town and taxi's between 11-15RMB.
The first full day in Hangzhou we visited West Lake – Hangzhou's most famous landmark. It was great, except for the amount of walking required to navigate it's banks. They say on the internet you can do it in 4 – 6 hours. I don't think you should pay attention to these rumours, as if you come in the summer when the heat and humidity is like we are experiencing (hell on earth in other words) and you are stopping to take photos, it will take 2 full days to do it all comfortably. Hire a public bicycle instead if you want to see it all in a couple of hours. Make sure you hire a public bicycle though, avoid getting one from your hotel, as you could end up paying more than 3x the deposit and 5x the hourly rate (4 Eyes Hostel scam example). It turns out probably 10x cheaper to just take multiple taxi's around the lake instead. Pedal or petrol power.. your choice!
Today we visited the Tea Museum, which isn't really a museum and is mostly empty of attractions and visitors. It's free to visit and offers some nice views of the Mountains and Tea fields but not a lot else. We then went into town for lunch. I recommend sometimes eating in the food halls of shopping centres and department stores. The food is cheap and there is a wide array of cuisine to choose from. Plus an extra bonus is you don't need to know any Chinese to order, as the plate are in front of you, mostly read to go, or are represented in plastic versions so simply point and say 'Zhe ge'. We rounded the day off with a visit to the Souvenir Street. What a treat this was, probably will be the highlight of Hangzhou. Located at the south end of Yan'an Road, is a long road full of tourist stores and eateries. Best touristy area I've ever visited and then if you finish there and walk towards the Drum Tower, there is another long road all full of street food stalls where the food ranges from Deep Fried Crab Sticks to Deep Fried Tarantula's (and some less greasy eats in between).
So far Hangzhou has been a great place to visit, especially coming from Ningbo where tourism really doesn't exist. A lot of people speak English as well, so a westerner will find it a very easy city to navigate. My advice would be stay somewhere close to the city centre, as then you have the city and West Lake close by as you will want to visit both during your visit. We'll write a more detailed guide to the attractions around Hangzhou later, but with being out from morning til late evening, time is a scarce thing when it comes to blogging. I wonder whether all these other alleged travel bloggers actually travel much at all, as our time is taken up with doing stuff. After a full day of walking and visiting attractions I barely have enough energy to shower at the end of it all.


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Everyone has his or her holiday traditions and, from here, Thanksgiving would not be the same without "The National Dog Show Presented By Purina." It airs Thursday at noon on NBC, right after the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
John O'Hurley returns to host the 14th annual Best in Show-case, with David Frei offering analysis, and Olympians Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir as reporters. Seven new American Kennel Club breeds will be introduced on the show this year — the Bergamasco, Spanish Water Dog, Miniature American Shepherd, Lagotto Romagnolo, Berger Picard, Cirneco dell'Etna, and Boerboel.
Here are descriptions for each new breed, from a National Dog Show media release:
Bergamasco - Sheepdog whose most unique characteristic is its coat, which contains "dog hair," "goat hair" and "wool" combining to form felt-like mats. The mats grow over the course of the dog's life, reaching the ground at approximately 6 years of age.
Spanish Water Dog - A rustic, multi-purpose breed, it was developed in Spain many centuries ago for a variety of purposes including herding, hunting, water work and companionship.
Miniature American Shepherd - Small herding dog developed in the U.S. It is a highly versatile, energetic dog with superior intelligence and a willingness to please.
Lagotto Romagnolo - An ancient breed of retrieving water dogs from Italy. It is excellent at for searching for truffles, a job it performs with passion and efficiency. Powerfully built, it has a dense, curly coat of woolly texture.
Berger Picard - A medium-sized, active and athletic herding dog, it is bred to be a working companion. It has a shaggy, wiry topcoat with a short, dense undercoat.
Cirneco dell'Etna - Present in Sicily for over 2,500 years, it shares a common origin with the Pharaoh Hound. As a hunter of small mammals and fowl, it is a hardy, compact dog that was successful in hunting under adverse conditions.
Boerboel - A large dog that is strong, confident and muscular with a distinctive, blocky head. It is the most agile of the mastiff-type breeds. It serves as a capable working dog as well as a loyal companion.
The Bergamasco -- shown above in an AKC photo -- looks like one of those lovable "mop" dogs, kind of like the Puli or the Komondor. (The photo at the top is from the 2008 show, not of a new breed; that's adorable Noodles the Basset Hound, when he won the Hound Group.)
Will you be tuning in to welcome the new dogs, or cheer on some old favorites?
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The holidaze has come and gone. 2011 has come and gone. Phew. That went fast. I have been on vacation - staycation - since December 17. You'd think I could have taken the time to put together a decent blog post on one of those vacation days, but it's been one of those seasons. People have been dropping like flies all around me. Seems like everyone has that winter cold that grabs you by the throat. There was shopping and crafting to be done, and cooking and cleaning and laundry to be caught up with. The days have flown by quickly (they do that this time of year!), even though we've skipped most holiday events, except those involving family. The family gatherings have been multiple, subdued, and, actually, really lovely. Thank goodness for family.
It's my sister who's been through the wringer over the holidaze. During the week before Christmas, she participated in a one-day nurses union strike (and SO MANY days of negotiations leading up to the strike), her husband was hospitalized with appendicitis, her father-in-law died on Christmas Eve, and now her husband's back in the hospital. And that's the abbreviated version. At least all her kids were home for the winter break. And they are grown up enough to take care of themselves and keep a festive attitude going, even when shadows have invaded from all directions.
I have spent most of this break counting my blessings. Whether or not 2012 got off to a good start, things are looking up. I'm fortunate to be busy, learning how to say no, and also learning when to say yes. I love it that life is never boring, even as it's throwing you curve balls. And as for keeping up with things, well things are sometimes prettier when they're a little blurry.
So that's my "new" approach. It's recycled, but that's good. I'm not making any big resolutions. I just want to live as much in the present as possible and enjoy life.
Happy New Year to you and yours.


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Family Emergency and Bereavement Airfares – Where To Find Them
Family medical emergency and bereavement fares have become harder to find in the past year as some airlines have eliminated them altogether.
The excuse is that competition among airlines has brought prices down to the point that they just can't afford to reduce them any further – yeah right! We all know that last minute tickets with a flexible return date can often reach the $1,000 range.
Thankfully three of the major US airlines still make it a point to assist folks during family medical emergencies – Northwest Airlines (800-225-2525), United Airlines (800-241-6522) and American Airlines (800-433-7300) all offer bereavement and family medical emergency fares. Here are the steps you will need to take in order to obtain a bereavement or family medical emergency ticket:
1) You'll need to phone the airline's reservation department – information is nonexistent online for these types of tickets. They don't even admit that they have such fares on their websites! Tell the agent you need an emergency ticket and what the circumstances are.
2) You must be an immediate family member of the ill or deceased person. Although (depending on the agent) airlines have been known to stretch the rules a bit if you have a compelling circumstance.
3) You'll need the following information in front of you so the reservation agent can verify the circumstances of your request:
Your relative's full name
Name and phone number of the hospital or medical facility
Name and phone number of the attending physician
Name and phone number of the funeral home
With luck the transaction can be taken care of in the course of one phone call, so be prepared with your desired dates and time of travel before placing the phone call. If the agent you get at first doesn't seem able or willing to deal with your request, hang up and dial in again – or ask to speak with a supervisor.
Finally, you may want to check on Kayak.com or other search engine to see what a standard ticket would cost before making your phone call. You may find that there is a less expensive option available online with a low cost carrier. Also do a search on Hotwire and Priceline where last minute airfares are often substantially reduced. Here's hoping you won't need an emergency ticket, but it's good to know which airlines are ready to assist you if you do.
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The same evening as the IFB Conference there were a couple of events organized by various brands and companies. While I would have loved to hop from one place to another, A) I was too tired after the full day of conference, B) the rain wasn't helping the cause much either. Hence, I decided to accompany Cheryl who was kind enough to refer me to Emma from Copious in the first place. It was a fun evening of chit-chatting with 10 bloggers whom I was meeting for the first time. elk Studios were generous enough to let us use their space and even took some fun shots of us.
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City Council has unanimously approved the $10.7 million sale of the old police headquarters on 4th Avenue.
The building and adjacent parking lot are being purchased by Duchuk Holdings, which intends to turn the property into a modern office with more exterior windows.
Council greenlit the project during their first full-agenda meeting since the Oct. 26 election.
Despite the unanimous approval, councillors voiced concerns over the sales process and the lack of conditions attached to the purchase.
"The last thing I would want to see is another dead building front on a main street downtown," said Ward 1 Councillor Darren Hill, citing worries another parkade could be put in at the property.
Though there are no contractual requirements ensuring Duchuk Holdings converts the property into an office, there are tax incentives. A five-year tax abatement from the city will be activated once the space opens, administration said.
Councillors were also assured communications with the buyers all pointed to an eagerness to start the transition to an office building.
More details on unsuccessful offers were also revealed during Monday afternoon's meeting.
Administration said there were six previous offers for 130 and 140 4th Avenue. Two of the offers fell through due to the buyer dropping out, while four more deals were terminated due to breaches of contract.
An $11-million offer that fell through was made public earlier this year, while another for $14.7 million was unsuccessful last year.
When the old police headquarters was first put on the market in early 2015, the property was valued at $15 million.
Mayor Charlie Clark told 650 CKOM on Friday the $10.7 million offered by Duchuk Holdings would do.
"We're seeing a softening of the market," he said. "It's time to make the sale and move on for the city."


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Conway and county road crews prepared Wednesday for freezing rain, sleet and snow expected to hit the area overnight.
"We could get a lot, or we could get nothing," county Road Administrator Glen Willhite said.
The city's road crew was on standby Wednesday afternoon and had stockpiles of sand ready to spread over hilly areas and major intersections that iced during the night, said Jack Bell, the city chief of staff. In the county, road department crews prepared to clear downed trees from roadways.
Light snow, sleet and freezing rain fell on Conway on Wednesday afternoon, but roads remained clear, Willhite said.
"Everything that is falling is melting right now," Willhite said.
Only two local churches — Greenbrier First United Methodist Church and Greenbrier Church of the Nazarene — had canceled services by 3:20 p.m. Wednesday.
Faulkner County schools remained open, but officials said they are watching the weather.
"We'll be monitoring it throughout the night," said Carroll Bishop, assistant superintendent at Conway Public Schools.
Bishop and others plan to drive county roads to see conditions before making the call for closing school.
The National Weather Service in Little Rock issued a winter weather advisory for freezing rain until 3 p.m. Wednesday. Another advisory is in effect from midnight until 4 p.m. Thursday.
Minor icing on bridges and overpasses were expected Wednesday, followed by freezing rain and sleet.
"Roads may become hazardous," according to the advisory.
Central Arkansas could see some power outages, but northwest Arkansas was expected to see the worst of the winter weather, according to the weather service. While Faulkner County is expected to see a little snow, forecasters expected up to 3 inches of snow in northwest Arkansas.
Central Arkansas may have a "few hundredths of an inch" of ice, according to the advisory.
On Wednesday afternoon, the state highway department reported several roads were covered with snow, slush or ice patches in west and northwest Arkansas. Snow on roads was reported in the Fayetteville area, Ozark and near Mena.
Willhite said roads in Faulkner County are warm and nothing was sticking to them Wednesday afternoon.
By Thursday, high winds of up to 25 miles per hour in northwest Arkansas could down power lines or cause other problems, especially after a build up of ice and snow, meteorologist Sean Clarke said Wednesday morning. The entire state is expected to be windy Thursday, he said.
Precipitation is expected to end by early evening Thursday.
(Staff writer Scarlet Sims can be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 505-1246. To comment on this and other stories in the Log Cabin, log on to www.thecabin.net. Send us your news at www.thecabin.net/submit)


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James Marsden: Band of Outsiders' New Face!
James Marsden models a cotton jersey tank and linen burlap shorts from Band of Outsiders at The Gaylord Apartments in Koreatown, Los Angeles on Thursday (December 16).
Designer Scott Sternberg chose the 37-year-old actor as the new face for Band of Outsiders and Kirsten Dunst for Boy for Band of Outsiders.
Last summer, Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield modeled for Band of Outsiders.
20+ pictures inside of James Marsden modeling the latest from Band of Outsiders…


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City Lights Shooting
Photographing around town after dark
"Street Walking" at night is lots of fun with a digital camera. Photography after dark while on vacation, in the city, at your favorite theme park or by the coast can yield fantastic results. Let the movement and the color be your subject. Look for the brilliant neon, flashing and moving signs or swiftly moving traffic. Techniques are simple… let's learn to do it! Most beginning photographers worry about shooting at nigh... it's just like daytime except dimmer!
Low light photography requires one of two techniques… hand-held photo or tripod shooting. For hand held pictures choose a high ISO film setting (ISO 1600 or 3200 on your digital camera) and use your lens at the brightest lens opening (2.8, 4.0 or 5.6). With a compact camera zoom to the widest position where the lens is the brightest, turn off the flash and shoot! For better color, more creativity and all around better photos tripod shooting is best. Use 100 or 200 ISO setting sturdy tripod and remote release. You may find your camera making exposure from 1 second to 30 seconds on the average scene. Choose aperture priority with F-stop 8 to have the majority of the scene in focus and shoot! The longer shutter sped will creatively blur moving items and equalize the "twinkling" lights.
Check the light for color and effect. Daylight, tungsten or fluorescent lights will affect the color of your end result. Your camera is most likely set to AUTO white balance. "White" light bulbs with film come out orange, to correct for this choose the "tungsten" white balance to make white lights white. Play with Tungsten , Fluorescent and Sunlight white balance settings as well as Auto to achieve the color you desire.
To make your photos more "exciting" choose to add a star filter. A Hoya Star-6 filter, Promaster Cross-Screen or Lee Multi-Star add the "extra spark" to your City Lights photos by turning every pin-point of light into a star!
Photographing at night is a great adventure. On most of our photo outings we'll do a night shoot or go out after dark… just for the fun of it. Try these tips next time you have a chance and don't forget to send me a copy…. Sharing photos is the most fun of all!
Here's a check list to make it simpler!
1- Use a tripod and remote release. Our exposures will be 1 to 60 seconds! Make sure the tripod is level and steady
2- Matrix light meter
3- Program exposure mode for beginners or Aperture priority if you're comfortable! Remember, F8 and be there!
4- ISO 200 film or setting on digital cameras
5- Turn OFF the flash, use the ambient light only
6- Turn OFF Stabilizer or shake reduction
7- Test Auto and Tungsten white balance on digital cameras… see what looks best!
8- Fill the frame with your subject. Avoid lots of "dark areas" with no lights in the picture
9- Take the picture and enjoy!
**Get some practice during one of our night photography excursions! Join us for our City Lights Bus Tour in downtown Los Angeles on August 15, or for our Star Trails photo shoot with Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains on August 2-4.


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Just listed, Pine Tree Modern Waterfront Masterpiece
The Jills are pleased to present 6385 Pinetree Drive Circle, Experience the grandeur and elegance of this truly romantic Mediterranean estate, exclusively located on prestigious Pine Tree Drive. This one of a kind estate is located on a rare 1.1 acre lot with 175 feet of waterfrontage overlooking scenic Indian Creek. As you enter the residence and wind through the circular driveway you will notice the ivy covering this stunning estate. It is remodeled, expanded, and technologically updated to perfection and has a complete guest house for company or an in law suite. There are no fixes bridges and large dockage for those looking to moor a boat, and in addition to a guest house, it has two guest apartments. Outdoor amenities include a 22,000 gallon pool and spa, outdoor kitchen, a koi pond, pool cabana and sculptured gardens.
6385 Pinetree Drive Circle boasts nine bedrooms, eleven baths, and two half baths, offering room for a large family or many guests. Interiors are modern with Mediterranean touches and each finish and detail are of the highest available quality. Interior amenities include a total chef ready kitchen, wine cellar, library, safe room, gym, wet bar and formal dining room. This estate is set amidst some of the most incredible real estate in Miami, and on a rare oversized lot, with luxury finishes, and listed at $25 million.
Pinetree Drive real estate is typified by estates on large lots in a wide array of styles. Our listing is in the classic Mediterranean style, prevalent in the 1930's, while other homes are single story in a ranch style more typical of 1950's construction. Increasingly, we are witnessing the rise of the modern home in Pinetree Drive, as developers are capitalizing on the lack of luxury inventory in this highly desirable area. Currently, there are 15 Pinetree Drive homes for sale at an average list price of $5,014,200. If you are interested in our featured property, selling your Pinetree Drive home, or buying a home in the Pinetree Drive neighborhood, Contact The Jills today!


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The US healthcare system is not easy to navigate. Until recently, residents and citizens were not required to get health insurance, leaving many in debt. Although this has changed with the reform, many things are still unclear. On the upside, the quality of medical services in the USA is fantastic.
In January 2014, having health insurance has become mandatory in the United States, with the goal of ensuring that all people in the country get access to proper healthcare. Whether you are covered by an international insurance policy or sign up with a provider in the USA is up to you. You can even fall back on Medicare or Medicaid if you are eligible to receive social security benefits. If you choose a US health insurance and are in need of medical attention, make sure that you pick a doctor or a hospital in your provider's network. After all, not every medical service or facility is covered by your provider and you might end up with a hefty bill by the end of your treatment.


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District 2 represents UMWA members in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, with local unions in New York, Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia. One of our most diverse Districts, its membership includes thousands of correctional officers, county workers and manufacturing workers as well as miners.
District 2 members' pensions and health care are on the line with the recent bankruptcies. Click here to find out how you can join with your District 2 brothers and sisters to pressure the government to Keep the Promise to UMWA retirees.
Officers and District Representatives:
Ed Yankovich – International District 2 Vice President
Jody Dukart – International Auditor/Teller (Canada)
Casey Mullooly – District 2 Representative
Jamie Rudwall – District 2 Representative
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Furthermore PTAs commonly assist their clients to prevent losing mobility by developing health and physical fitness workouts to facilitate more active healthier life styles. Whenever a Physical therapy assistant sees a patient initially, they help the PT study the individual and create a care program encouraging restored functions, the ability to move, preventing disability and reducing suffering. Then, as a team, the PT, Physical therapist assistant, and client all work with each other to make certain the goal of the health plan is attained, measuring the patient's progress, response, and well-being even while making adjustments as needed.


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Secrets of Achieving By Bernard Levine
Your first commitment is to take
responsibility for your life.
You must do what you really like doing
and what you really want to do.
Concentrate all your energy and efforts
in completing one task at a time.
Choose your main priority and plan how
you are going to achieve it.
Pray to God for guidance and direction
always giving Him thanks constantly.
You will be paid in direct proportion
to the amount of love and service you give.
Take action and make things happen now!
Be committed totally 100% to what you
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I came here today to read "Secrets Of Achieving" and was blessed with the "Secrets Of Success" also. Thank you for your inspirational writings and everyday motivation.
Every time I read your writing I have the same feeling - perfection.
Thanks for sharing this hub on the secrets of achieving. It's brief but full and can just be placed beside one's bedroom mirror. A very good reminder indeed on the pre-requisites of achieving. Your other hubs are just as helpful.


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21 september meeting of International Commitee support peoples war in
india launchs a campaign in all universities and in all democratic places in the world !
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5 october 2013
Down to the persecution against Professor GN Saibaba, from New Delhi
We strongly condemns the arbitrary action of the Indian forces of
repression, in another desperate attempt to silence the voices of
dissidence. On Sept. 12, 2013, the house of Professor GN Saibaba, was raided
by 50 agents whit the pretext to search "stolen materials".
In the arbitrary operation, the agents prevented Professor Saibaba and his
family from go out home, receiving visitors, making and receiving phone
calls and contact an attorney. They didn't found any stolen material and
went out from Saibaba's house carrying personal belongings of the family,
including mobile phones, pen-drives and copies of publications of the
Revolutionary Democratic Front of India (RDF), the organization on which Dr.
Saibaba is secretary.
The Indian state with its common practices and increasingly recurrent
persecution, killings, arbitrary arrests and baseless accusations against
the defenders of the people's struggle, try to stop the struggle of a people
who will not surrender in the face of intimidation and harassment.
Because of his choice to work in behalf of people, his effort to denounce
the Operation Green Hunt, his work as an academic professor, his democratic
and committed role on the defense of Indian people in the struggle against
oppression, violence and misery, we pay our solidarity and respect to
Professor GN Saibaba. We also condemn the fascist Indian state for their
crimes against the people and their leaders and declare that the Brazilian
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Climbing Mount Everest? You had better take a bin bag with you!
IF YOU are planning on climbing Mount Everest anytime soon you had better take a bin bag or two with you.
Climbers hoping to scale the world's tallest mountain will have to return with their own rubbish under new rules introduced in a bid to stop the mountain becoming a giant, and very tall, dump.
Any group which fails to descend without eight kilograms of rubbish for each team member will not get their $4,000 (£2,397) deposit back.
Nepal's government will open inspection offices at the mountain's base camp to inspect and weigh each climber's bag after they have returned from Earth's highest peak.
Officials estimate that hundred of tons of rubbish lie on the slopes of the icy mountain, including the frozen corpses of hundreds of climbers who died attempting to reach it's summit.
"More than 4,000 people have climbed Everest, which stands at 8,948 metres above sea level"
More than 4,000 people have climbed Everest, which stands at 8,948 metres above sea level.
Climbing the mountain has become more popular than ever with the Nepalese government dramatically reducing fees and offering discounts to tourist groups.
Next year the climbing fees will be reduced from just over £12,000 to just £6,600.
Last year Nepal generated over £2m in climbing fees alone while making millions more from tourists coming to the country to catch a glimpse of one of Earth's natural wonders.


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Born a Procrastinator
"There is a time to be born and a time to die," so said Solomon in Ecclesiastes. But I was a procrastinator, even before I was born; so in a sense, I defied that edict. This was not good, since … Continue reading
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I am moving to AZ on a whim. Theres a job that I have applied for and been invited to train for after a phone interview. The work itself is not important, but the schedule is: 8 days on, 6 days off.
During my 8 days on, I am gone. Away. Not around at all, not returning home.
And it would seem a shame to pay a full months rent for something I am only gonna use half the month.
Any bright ideas? Total a month I am hoping for less than 300 in the Pho/Mesa area. Would those sober living arrangements ($100 / week) be a somewhat feasible option? Camping in the national forests? What do you got?
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How long is your total training scheme for? If it's going to be 8 days on, 6 days off for 3-4 months, then I think a hotel might actually come in handy. Obviously negotiate around with other ones in the area too.
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Dior had already teased us with this clip of an upcoming short film for its best-selling fragrance Miss Dior. Now, the wait is over — the Anton Corbijn directed film starring Natalie Portman has been unveiled.
In the film, the actress, who recently attended her first-ever couture show just a few days ago in Paris for Christian Dior's Spring 2015 collection, is visibly uneasy about her impending nuptials. A nervous Natalie walks down the aisle with her father before taking off from the picturesque French Riviera venue, throwing off her heels and ripping off her wedding gown in the process. Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart" plays in the background as the runaway bride runs to be picked up by a nearby helicopter.
Corbijn told Vogue U.K., "The story is about escaping, about getting away from all the things that tie you down in life. Natalie Portman was fantastic. She is real, she's genuine. You can see it on the screen, and people relate to it. I think that this 'truth' is more important than beauty. Being a beautiful woman is not enough. She's a real person, a good person, and her personality makes the difference."
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How to cut a pineapple/
This might seem weird, but pineapples make me sad. On the rare occasion that I have a tropical vacation planned, they make me happy. This is very rarely the case, so mostly they make me sad.
The sadness I feel upon seeing a pineapple happens quickly, like a sudden kick to the stomach. I will be strolling through the grocery store...wait, I never stroll through the grocery store. I will be zipping through the grocery store, in hopes that my toddler will not have a tantrum and/or my 4-month-old will not start wailing. I catch sight of the little stack of pineapples sitting next to the row of bananas and my heart sinks a little in my chest. I whisper, "Ohh," as if I was just wistfully reminded of someone who had passed away. Thankfully, I never have much time to dwell, so within minutes my mind is taken over by honey ham lunch meat and hummus.
You see, my brain makes a very strong association between pineapples and vacation. I don't know how it started, but pineapples scream tropical vacation to me. And I sure do love tropical vacations. The thought of lying on a beach with some sort of tropical drink in my hand (with maybe a little slice of pineapple hanging from the rim) makes me grin from ear to ear. And then I realize that I live in Minnesota and it is about to get very very cold. And then I start to cry.
I like to avoid feeling sad and therefore I do not buy a whole lot of pineapples, but I do love the taste of them. Pineapple is actually one of my favorite fruits. And strangely, I find them kind of fun to cut.
To cut a pineapple, first cut off the stem. Cut into the skin/flesh of the pineapple just a bit when doing this.
Throw the stem away and quarter the pineapple.
Remove the core from all four pieces by cutting a triangular-shaped piece off the top of each.
Now you will need to separate the fruit from the bumpy peel. Carefully make a cut along the bottom of each side of the pineapple that extends to the center. Now make one cut straight down, separating the fruit from the end of the pineapple.
The fruit should easily fall away from the peel.
Make two cuts lengthwise down each quarter of pineapple and then make cuts going perpendicular to those cuts, all the way down the length of it.
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Green Treats for St. Patrick's Day
Holidays are a great excuse to have fun with food. What other day can you go crazy with green food dye? From green beer to green mac and cheese, here are eight ideas to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with food.
The always classic shamrock shake is number one on our green treats list. You can even make this tasty mint treat at home. (link)
Speaking of mint, the color obviously lends itself to the holiday. A mint pie is not only refreshing, but is the perfect St. Patrick's Day dessert.
Lucky Charms is known for its leprechaun, pot of gold and sugary marshmallows. It's not the healthiest cereal, but what the heck it's St. Patrick's Day. Try making rice krispie treats, but substitute the Rice Krispies for Lucky Charms. Another use for the cereal, is to sprinkle them on cupcakes. Another fun way to make your cereal more festive is to dye your milk green. Green milk and Cheerios anyone?
Here's a somewhat healthy green-themed recipe—spinach mac and cheese! Puree spinach until it reaches a smooth consistency and add it to your favorite mac and cheese recipe.
You can also cut spinach to look like shamrocks and put them atop a pizza. It turned out really cute when this blogger tried it.
This beverage is for adults only. All you need is a glass of beer and green food coloring!
And don't forget last week I shared how to make these shamrock pretzels. This food craft is very easy and perfect for kids.
Get creative! A little green food dye or green sprinkles can make any dish appropriate for St. Patrick's' Day. If come up with a cool idea feel free to share it in the comments.
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