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I don't know whether or not I'll be able to explain "the thing" to you, though I believe that I understand it perfectly after spending some time with Kinski. It is not so much any specific thing he said, any one word he uttered; it is the accumulation of many words, images, metaphors, examples that he used, but also gestures, facial expressions, tone, the settings in which we talked and, above all, the moods he can generate when all those arc combined. During one of our conversations, I tried to pin Klaus Kinski down for a name, and he reminded me of the fairy tales in which people die when they find out a forbidden name.
KINSKI: "There can be no word to express this thing, this secret. Because this secret, which is not actually a secret, it is very simple, but it includes, includes, endless, endless, almost everything, you know. The thinking about it and being conscious of all this means at the same moment changing everything, like in nature, changing and changing and changing, endless, always, never-ending movement, you see…"
Kinski speaks elliptically. He calls it "telegraph style." Sometimes his meaning is clear only by inference. But in talking with him, I soon understood how skillful he is, by instinct, at leading one to leap from an image to an idea. I realize now that Kinski could have talked to me in this seemingly inexact manner about the quantum theory and I would have learned a great deal of physics. In fact, in a way, that is exactly what he talked to me about: the emission and absorption of energy in nature. This was my first important lesson about what it is the actor does. In trying to convey its essence to me, Kinski sometimes also called it "the force," or the power, or nakedness, or receptivity, or "the incarnation of all that is alive." Sometimes he used the phrase "participation in the universe." Indeed, Kinski admits that certain of the states he sometimes enters resemble meditation and embody some of the tenets of yoga.
"But, I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive…"
I'd become accustomed to his yelling. Tricks of the print medium cannot – capital letters cannot – convey the intensity of Kinski's voice when it rises, as it often does. And in the several long telephone conversations we'd had before I went to see him in Northern California, I'd been frightened by it.
"Why should I do any interviews? It is all shit. Why me? Because I am what they call an actor? It is me or someone else, a murderer or a conductor, or anybody, anybody, anything, that can be consumed. They consume everything – art, executions, hamburgers, Jesus Christ. It is all supermarket talk. It is consumer SHIT to fill up their pages."
You can witness Klaus Kinski having a mood Swing within a minute, within a sentence, as his mind conveys him from an infuriating image to a soothing one to a humorous one. If you watch his face while he speaks, you will see it become a mask of ire, his glance menacing as he spits out words of contempt and outrage. Then, suddenly, there'll be a smile so gentle that something will constrict in your chest. It is impossible not to respond. He's so close to the surface, I had thought during one of our first long telephone conversation. But after I'd spent some time with him, I sometimes felt there was no surface at all. I think of him now as exposed consciousness, as fragile as a human organ taken from the protective case of the body. I think that's why, between films, he lives alone, in a cabin in the middle of his 40 acres of forest in Northern California.
"Freedom! Freedom! That's what every shitty ruler promises you before he takes over!"
He won't drive a car other people have driven. He won't read a copy of a book anyone else has read and that, in fact, one of the reasons he hates old houses and hotel rooms is that he can sense the lingering presence of their former occupants.
"Fun? There is no fun."
Eating a chili dog: "These beans are disgusting, they are hard. Look at this sign, HOMEMADE. What does this mean, 'home'? Does it mean that the beans are even more disgusting than others? I don't understand their signs. I don't WANT to understand their signs. This HOMEMADE, it's supposed to tell you these disgusting beans are good. These fucking signs! Signs everywhere that lie."
Kinski often goes for weeks without speaking to another human being. He reads no newspaper. He watches no television. "I climbed up to the roof and smashed down the antenna." He keeps few possessions. When he has finished reading a book, he uses it to start a fire in the hearth that is his sole source of heat. He cuts his own hair. He grows his own vegetables so that he will not have to drive into town. The animals in the forest do not threaten him as do people and their societies, nor do the storms, the wind, the trees. In the cabin, surrounded by vegetation through which there is no path save that made by the passage of his own body, and in his forest, he is safe. Except from "the thing."
"I am like a wild animal who is behind bars. I need air! I need space!"
Kinski was about five years old when he first felt this thing. He says he can recall looking at a dog or a tree or a whore on the streets of Berlin and hurling his own consciousness into the creatures or even the inanimate objects, not pretending to be but becoming the dog or the tree or the whore. "Incarnating" is what he came to call it later, not playing a role. Being, not acting. He detests the word entertainer. He also hates the word actor and mocks the European critics who have called him the greatest actor of the 20th Century. Not surprisingly, he loathes all critics and refers to them as "the masturbators."
"Directors in general understand shit."
On Herzog: "He is a less big asshole than the others."
On doing another take: "ASSHOLES! Do you ask a car crash for another take? Do you ask a volcano for another take? Do you ask the storm for another take?"
On method acting: "Completely worthless shit."
"I am like a wild animal born in captivity, in a zoo. But where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent."
On films: "I make movies for money, exclusively for money. So I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."
"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."
On awards: "(rejecting them) if they're not changeable into cash money. It is the Nobel Prize I want, It's worth $400,000."
On the girl behind the McDonald's counter who says "next": "I will NEVER be next!"
On traffic signs: "There is a sign that says, RIGHT LANE MUST EXIT. Right lane MUST exit! MUST! And I say to myself, MUST? Fuck YOU!"
Of course, I had no control over these conversations, which Kinski conducted entirely according to his fancy. He followed none of he rules of the interview situation – not one, not even the most basic. "I don't want to talk too much about myself." He refused to sit in a quiet room with a tape recorder; all of our conversations took place in cars, at the beach, in noisy restaurants. But, to be precise, he didn't refuse anything: I never had a chance to ask him. He would simply announce our schedule for the day. And I soon realized that it was almost always hopeless to ask him any direct questions; if he didn't interrupt them, he argued with their wording or with their relevance, or would simply digress to another topic.
"You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, not only to keep it but to make it sensitive, as sensitive as possible. Since I was born I have been like this, till today. Nothing changed. Even more, even worse. Once, about 25 years ago, I was in an apartment or somebody gave me a room to live in, I don't know what, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down, so I took a tool and banged and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie. I didn't laugh then. And then I left, of course, the apartment, because they didn't let me live there anymore. When I come back here from the airport… most of the time, when I travel, I leave my car at the airport, even some weeks it costs me some hundreds of dollars; I don't care. But once, I took a taxi. I hate those, what do you call them, limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries. I hate those. OK, I took a taxi, and now this guy had a radio on. First of all, he had this thing EE-AAAH-UGGHH-ACHHHHHHGGG – these machines, how can somebody all day long hear this? He must be already deaf. I don't know what. And then I say — Do you need this? I say — this machine? And he looked at me, like maybe I am crazy or whatever. I say, I just come from Tokyo, Hong Kong, long flight, I am exhausted. I said, look, just half an hour. Do I have to listen to that crap? Can you turn the radio off?. And he was even willing. He turned around, and he said — but it's the news. I say, I don't need this. I say, I don't want to, I have never listened to it, never in my life,OK? I am almost on the border. I need to stop. I have to get out of your car. And he switched it off, but saying, as though really surprised and almost sorry for me. How can you know what's going on?' There, you see: THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I DON'T WANT TO KNOW!"
"No, no. I never said money is freedom! I said money buys freedom. BUYS! What does that mean, money is freedom? This is ridiculous: money is freedom. It means nothing. What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said. You are trying to make me sound like an American average citizen."
His arguments in response to my questions were often semantic. Kinski hates words; he resents having to use them to express himself, he finds them untrustworthy, confining, reductive.
"Experiencing the ocean is an experience of liberty. When you talk about the ocean, is it liberty? Even looking at the ocean is not liberty. It is like a wounded bird looking at the sky and saying, 'Why are my wings broken?' Or even worse: putting a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky. But, of course, it's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts. But words – words are not enough! It is true what Rimbaud said once; It's absolutely true; I proved lt. He said, 'If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, the elements, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.'"
Afterward, I tried to write what he had told me when he'd started explaining this thing to me. He had given me examples, images that he thought I would grasp. The "thing" was comparable, by analogy, to the power of kung fu, he had told me. He had mentioned Bruce Lee, for example, and how it is possible to observe that the concentration, the energy that the kung-fu artist taps into begins long before the point of impact and continues afterward. He talked with me also about how this thing that enables you to create is the thing that makes you suffer, suffer so much that you hate your fate, which has driven you to it, because it is not a choice. You start doing it and then you cannot stop, and the more you do it, the more it makes you suffer. And you cannot get rid of it once you have felt lt. You cannot kill it, no matter how much you hate it for making you suffer. You try to kill it, but it is like the snake with 100 heads; there is always another head. "But you need a framework," I said.
"You need a framework? What is this, a framework? You don't need a framework. They told you you need this. You don't need this. You need a painting, not a frame. You are going too slow. Just go."
"It should not be necessary to explain things, I don't know… maybe it comes from this fucking occupation that they call art. I don't know what the meaning of that is. And they call me 'actor' and I know this is shit, OK, because it just means that some idiot, absolutely imbecilic, cretin, illiterate director can say what he wants to me, can even harm me. So I say to him — FUCK OFF! Or I go home or whatever. And then they say 'He is mad, he just happens to be an artist.' These people who do not see the terrible things and therefore do not see the beautiful things, either. But I cannot dump, dump this thing. They think you can dump all this and be an actor. Then they say 'Good job.' Do you say 'Good job' to an earthquake?"
"I don't know. Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it. Do you know what I mean? You cannot even say, I cannot even tell myself, why did I do it? I shouldn't have done it. It's ridiculous. It wasn't a choice? It wasn't my choice."
For the first time in his presence, I felt afraid. Not of him but of the furor of that younger self he was reincarnating in the small, cramped space where we sat, yet another cage to be filled with that power and rage that I finally understood to be his furor at his own fate. And I saw that same vein stand out on his forehead that I had seen on Aguirre's, and the same intensity in the set of his jaw: It was not the rage of helplessness, it was the rage of defiance.
"So it means, the only thing I can say is — OK, shit! Just like saying — Shit! to yourself. You say SHIT ten times when you hurt yourself. You say SHIT. Nobody is there. You just say SHIT. So I could tell myself — Oh, shit, why, WHY, why did all that happen to me? Why was I not a bird on the ocean? You know? Instead of this, you know? This I could say, but just to myself. SHIT! It doesn't even make sense after a while when you say SHIT from morning to evening, but there was a time when I could not stop. It was like a tic. I said SHIT all the time. SHIT!"
Kinski opened his eyes, which had been clamped shut, and then looked away at the ocean. In the car, the silence seemed new. Well, it wasn't a silence. There was still the wind, the sound of a sea gull's wings flapping. It only seemed like a new silence to me, because I had watched a man say "Fuck you" to his own pain. Kinski stared steadfastly at the ocean.
"Yes, love is the salvation. I didn't choose to be alone. But I cannot explain this. I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years. There is no time sense because of things that are going on in you. I don't know, there is no explanation of this. But every time, even with someone I…. But whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women, they were not sharing my solitude. I wanted to stay with somebody, but I couldn't, it wasn't possible, because of this thing moving in myself. I had to learn this. I didn't want to be alone, but I had to learn that the dimensions of my feelings are too violent. I had to learn this. It is what I was just telling you before. Why? Why am I like this? It is the same as — why wasn't I born a fisherman? This is not a choice. There is not a why. Look at this bird there. Why does he fly to the left? Why?"
We watched as the gull flew out of our sight, toward the mountains. A few hundred feet away, on the road leading to the beach, a truck pulled up and some men got out, carrying pneumatic drills and jackhammers. They set to work, and it was the sounds of the drills and the hammers that now reached the car.
"Look at them! They are not happy if they don't hammer. They hammer, they hammer; it is unbearable. That is why you have to go away. It is not a solution, but you have to go away, to protect your feeling of life, where people won't shock you and hurt you. They hammer everywhere! Everywhere they can possibly hammer! They hammer in your brain! Hell, these idiots, they come with their hammer, where people are sitting, to hammer, to hammer, to hammer! LET'S GO!"


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BBQ Recipes We Love
If you follow a whole foods gluten free diet like me you know it can be hard to get all the nutrients you need, especially at a gluten-free BBQ. Although these may not be some of the traditional BBQ favorites, these are some of my light, fresh, and fast recipes from my summer grill to yours. Try them out and let me know what you think in the comment thread!
Homemade Gluten-Free Italian Marinade for Chicken:
-1 1/2 cups oil of your choosing
-1/4 cup red wine vinegar (check the label to ensure the vinegar is not malted & is wheat free)
-1 Tbsp. Italian Seasonings by American Spice
-1 Tbsp. fresh squeezed lemon juice
-1 tsp. gluten free garlic powder
-1/4 tsp. fresh ground peppercorns
-Hot pepper flakes to taste (exclude if you do not like the extra heat)
Process all of the above ingredients in a food processor or blender. Place your chicken breasts in a clean baking dish. Pour the marinade over the chicken and allow them to marinate for at least 20 minutes before grilling. Once the chicken is cooked assemble your gluten free sandwich with Udi's Gluten Free Whole Grain Hamburger Buns for a heart-healthy meal.
Summer Sausages, Gluten Free!
-1 package Applegate's Organic Spinach & Feta Sausages
-1 small onion
-1 red bell pepper
-1 green bell pepper
-1 package Udi's Gluten Free Foods classic hot-dog buns
Grill and brown sausages to your liking and the juices run clear. Chop all of your veggies into half-moon slivers. Place the sausage into our new Udi's hot-dog buns and top with the chopped veggies. These sausages are packed full of flavor and don't require any additional marinades, but if you have a preferred marinade feel free to add that too!
I don't know about you, but I cannot go to a summer BBQ and not have my dessert too. Something that most people do not realize is that most homemade peanut butter cookies are actually gluten free! My dad gave me his recipe, but this recipe from Shauna Ahern, better known as "Gluten Free Girl" is almost exactly the same and it makes 10-12 cookies, perfect for your smaller, more intimate grill sessions! You can find her recipe here at GlutenFreeGirl.com
Leave a comment and share your favorite backyard-BBQ recipe!
We hope you have a beUDIful summer & enjoy the new buns,
66 responses to "BBQ Recipes We Love"
i would really like to see a berry pie and dinner rolls. I have not seen any but will use them at the holidays. This will be my first holidays Gulton Free thank-you Lisa
I have been so anxiously awaiting your new hotdog & hamburger buns. It is so frustrating to know they exist, but we can't get them online or in our grocery store because they are "temporarily out of stock". PLEASE step up production — there are desperate people waiting (not so patiently) for them!!! Thanks….
I have been trying to get the Reasors Stores in Broken Arrow, and Tulsa, OK to start carrying your Hamb. & Hot Dog Buns. Maybe they will start carring them ome of these days.
Sandwiches never tasted so good. I love the bread. Looking forward to eating the buns. Having trouble printing off the $1.00 coupon. Thanks for making your bread enjoyable.
I cannot find hot dog and hamburgs rolls in our area.
We live in Kensington, Ct 06037.Where is the closest location to find these proiducts?
i know on all your websites and emails i get from you it says to make friends with the managers at your stores to get products. I am a fairly new celiac person and still struggle with this every day and every time i go to kroger/scotts close to me and ask for something i get no where and they won't help me to get products. i was hoping to get the hambuger/hot dog buns this summer but no luck anywhere and i live in indiana is there anywhere close to fort wayne to get there, i live south of there. i can get the bread even though no my favorite i miss it being soft i can get it close to me. thanks for your help.

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1. Course description.
The "Data Analysis in Python" course will introduce you to all most essential and practical applications of Python programming language for data manipulation, management, analysis and basic visualisations. The course will provide you with practical skills in general Python programming language a number of Python's libraries designed for scientific computing and data analysis e.g. NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, IPython, SciPy etc. During the course you will learn to:
Use Python's Anaconda distribution and its integrated development environment Spyder with Jupyter Notebooks to manage, develop and share a Python analytics project,
Understand and differentiate between a variety of data structures within the core Python language as well as a highly-efficient and optimised data structures from NumPy and pandas libraries,
Perform basic mathematical and more advanced control flow operations,
Import and export data from/to various data file formats e.g. Excel spreadsheets, CSV, tab-delimited, text files, and also SQL databases,
Prepare, transform and manage datasets and their variables, add/delete rows, create samples and subsets, identify specific cases based on conditional search, sort cases, add/edit value and variable labels, deal with missing data, standardise, normalise and reshape data, merge datasets and use joins,
Carry out an extensive Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): inspect the structure of datasets and their variables, calculate cross-tabulations and descriptive statistics to summarise the data e.g. pivot tables, summary tables and data aggregations,
Introduction to EDA plotting and graphical visualisations: histograms, density plots, scatterplots, box plots, bar plots, line graphs etc.,
Perform simple hypothesis testing and inference statistics: tests of differences and correlations. Run tests for normality assumptions, t-tests, analyses of variance (ANOVA), correlations and simple regressions.
Carry out simple data modelling tasks using multiple linear regressions.
2. Programme.
The course will run for three days (Wednesday to Friday) between 9:30am and ~5:00pm and will consist of alternating lecture-style presentations and practical tutorials. The example datasets used during tutorial sessions will come from social sciences, psychology and business fields, however the contents may vary depending on specific interests of participants (based on the Participant's Skills Inventory). There will be two 15-minute coffee/tea breaks and one 1-hour lunch break on each day of the course.
3. What is included?
Apart from the contents of the course, Mind Project will provide the participants with the following:
- a digital (USB memory stick) Course Manual including all presentation slides, Python course codes and a list of reference books and online resources,
- additional home exercises and all data sets available to download,
- Wi-Fi access,
- Central London location – a 1-min walk from the Barbican station, 5 minutes away from Farringdon and St. Paul's stations, 15 minutes from the Liverpool Street Station,
- networking opportunity,
- Mind Project course attendance certificate.
4. Further instructions.
In order to benefit from the contents of the course it is recommended that attendees have the most recent version of Anaconda distribution of Python (by Continuum Analytics) installed on their laptops (any operating system). As Anaconda's Python is a free and fully-supported distribution you can download it directly from https://www.continuum.io/downloads. Please contact us should you have any questions or issues with the installation process.
No prior knowledge of Python and its libraries is required from participants enrolling on this course, however a keen interest in data analysis is assumed.
Attendees are encouraged to complete the online Participant's Skills Inventory to allow Mind Project and our course tutors to customise the contents of the course depending on the level of participants' knowledge and their areas of interest. The data obtained through the Participant's Skills Inventory will be held fully-confidential and will only be used to provide a quality data analysis training.
- The deadline for registrations on this training course is Monday, 19th of March 2018 at 16:00 London (UK) time. However, Mind Project reserves the right to end the registration process earlier if all places are booked before the deadline.
Please contact us should you have any questions about this course. You may also want to visit the Training Courses – Frequently Asked Questions website, which gives further practical details about Mind Project training courses. Please contact us for other payment options e.g. if a Purchase Order is required. Please read Training & Events Terms & Conditions before your purchase.
For further details and to book you place through our website please visit the course page at: https://www.mindproject.io/product/data-analysis-in-python-london-march-2018/.


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With 11/1/2004 nightly build installed, my firefox got a very big space
under status bar.
Anyway, my firefox was very ill since I did an auto update and extension
auto update probably after 0.10.
Now, no response for any click.
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
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This Creature Deck has the usual good quality and best workmanship. If you're looking for a stable deck that can stand up to some serious punishment, look no further.
Creature Skateboards caters more to the old school skateboard crowd, with their focus lying on pool and vert skating. A lot of monsters, skulls and over the top creations take the scene with each and every collection. Their decks are also perfect for slightly larger and taller skaters who need a little bit more support under their feet.


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The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States dropped 12 cents in the past three weeks to its lowest point in nearly a year, driven by the latest round of falling oil prices, according to the Lundberg survey released on Sunday.
Prices fell to an average of $3.26 per gallon for regular grade gasoline, according to the survey conducted on Oct. 10. Prices have fallen for the past 16 weeks, survey publisher Trilby Lundberg said.
Read MoreUtilities tell solar users: Pay your fair share!
The price of a gallon is nearly 13 cents below what it was a year ago and is at its lowest point since Nov. 22, she added. The price peaked on May 2 and is down 46.5 cents since then.


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For professional photography websites to last long and maintain its traffic without maintenance is impossible. It is like driving your car without checking for the wheels, suspensions and everything for years and still hoping for it to just be ok for maybe the next couple of years or decades.
Maintenance is a chore. No matter how people put it, how nicely sites tell you that maintenance can be easy and fun, that is just sugar-coating the fact. Maintaining sites are never an easy chose, especially with the loop holes here and there and no defined laws or regulations in the internet.
But, maintenance is a must. Like it or not, you have to do it. So without pouring honey, we will be discussing the kind of maintenance you should do and things to watch when doing them.
Backup, backup, backup
Nothing is more important than backing up your sites, files and everything, unless you are about to scrap everything from scratch. Photographers that do not wish to lose their professional photography websites will do this frequently even when not doing maintenance for the sake of safety. There are plugins and manual methods to do this, which you can explore outside wordpress.
Maintenance page
When you are updating your plugins, page, or adding more stuffs into your site, do make sure to provide a static maintenance page for your visitors. There are multiple plugins available to do this, or you can do it manually.
If you don't do this, your visitor will crash when loading your page or seeing "things"; not ghosts, but stuffs like half updated content, glitches and all those negative experience with your site.
Easy stuffs to maintain
Getting into all the technical terms will drive you nuts; there are databases, trashcan for the trashcans you have, records you never saved among many others. But there are some that you can still help to do yourself without having to learn much.
Comments moderation
Admit it, there are some of us who were too late in moderating comments that result in spamming. Spamming hurts our sites because Google sees it as something unhealthy for the internet. It drops your ranking on the search engine.
There are several ways to handle this:
- Delete all. There are plugins available that serve this purpose. Deleting all comments will sort of refresh all the comment sections on your post.
- Disable comment. You will never receive feedback and spamming on your posts, which can be useful or degenerative to you, so think about it.
After the cleanup, it is time to prevent more dust from piling up; you will need a filter. WordPress plugins have some popular ones that serve this purpose well and it will save you the hassle from spam comments.
If you have run your site for a long time, you will know that your photos need moderating. Professional photography websites will not have too many photos of the past piling up in their portfolio. Generation changes as trend, style and people change. Especially if you are actively posting articles and photos, you will want to cut your server some slack.


text: so, i left my 12" Rev A PB plugged in all of last night. i used it a little this morning (to read the news) then put it to sleep and walked about 1/2 mile to work. i get to work open my PB and i get an od error message that said my battery was running on reserve power and i must plug in imidiatly. even though right there in my menu bar my battery said "99%" isnt there some way i can reset my battery? use it until it actually is empty and that re-sets it? im not sure, but just wondering what i should do.


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Over 600 attend MBA 50th anniversary celebration
The Raymond A. Mason School of Business recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Master of Business Administration program with a grand two-day event that was the largest in the school's history. Held June 2-3, more than 600 people returned to the campus to honor the Mason School's half-century of educational excellence, world-class faculty, and extraordinary alumni achievements. The historic celebration featured educational presentations and panel discussions, alumni receptions, dinner in the Sunken Garden, live music, and more.


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This experiment has been completed. No more data will be collected.
The experiment originally ran through December 2010. Discussion of the results . The experiment is being maintained here for the purposes of demonstration. You may still run through it if you wish.
You may also read a report of the results.
This study has been approved by the Harvard University Institutional Review Board. For questions about your rights or research-reated injury that is not being handled by the researchers, contact Jane Calhounat 617-495-5459.


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We already know that the creators of BBC's "Sherlock," Steven Moffatt and Mark Gatiss, have already mapped out the next two seasons of the cult hit detective series.
It's also known that getting them made is mostly about figuring out a matter of scheduling more than anything, with stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman frequently busy while Moffatt and Gatiss also have other TV commitments.
Freeman himself recently did promo rounds for FX's "Fargo" in the UK where he was asked by The Guardian as to when the fourth season will begin filming?
"I don't know. Really. I wish I did. I thought the plan was to do it in the autumn but apparently that's fallen away. We're all busy. But I'm ready. I'm there. It depends if you want to make time for it. I hope we do. I love it."
Later, speaking to Cultbox, Freeman indicated that while they may not have the time to produce a three telemovie season this year, there is another option being considered – though even that will be a time challenge:
"Mark Gatiss may beat me up, but there is an idea for this one-off special that's such a good idea, and as I was listening to it, I thought, 'We've just got to do this." And I don't know when we are going to be able to do it, unfortunately. It's a fantastic, really mouth-watering idea. But I really don't know when we are going to get to do it."


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Is it time for Nancy Grace's exit on Dancing with the stars? After her disastrous jive last night, judge Len Goodman seemed to think so. "For me, you've had kind of a Cinderella story here," he told Ms. Grace. "But it's midnight and it's time to go home."
Grace's scores for her jive (20 point) and earlier tango (24) earned her a lowly 44 out of 60: by far the lowest score of the evening, and a full 16 points behind leader J.R. Martinez and his partner, Karina Smirnoff, who earned a perfect 60 out of 60 on the night.
Grace's on-screen persona wouldn't seem to be doing her any favors, either: her treatment of partner Tristan McManus in last night's rehearsal footage was so volatile that host Tom Bergeron quipped "[Mr. McManus] doesn't have a full-time job, but he should get hazard pay."
Are you actually acting tired?" Grace snapped at McManus. "You don't have twins that get up at 5, and you don't have a full-time job and I do!"
"I'm tired of you," MacManus retorted.
"Well I'm tired of you too, so there!" she shouted back.
Still, like Chaz Bono did before her, Grace is apparently skating by on viewer votes alone. It's possible that she is dipping into the votership of some of the eliminated contestants like Bono and Carson Kressley. More likely, though, her higher votes over better contestants, like David Arquette, who was eliminated last week, has to do with the fact that she has more day-to-day visibility than almost any other contestant on Dancing With the Stars.
Grace's eponymous current affairs TV program airs every weekday on HLN, and her regular ratings are among the network's highest (In the wake of the verdict in the Casey Anthony murder trial in July, Grace's show pulled in 2.9 million viewers – her best showing ever). So, she has a daily platform to campaign for DWTS votes, and she's been doing it (Grace's partner McManus and eliminated contestant Carson Kressley have both been guests on "Nancy Grace"). Since she has continual opportunities to remind her viewers to vote for her, they are more likely to do so.
Mr. Arquette, by contrast, isn't appearing on TV regularly in any capacity other than on "Dancing with the Stars," so his campaigning opportunities were relatively few.
How far Grace's viewership can take her in the competition remains to be seen. After Monday's low scores, her fans will have to really rally to keep her in it.


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Eight years on from the very first tweet being sent by Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey, Twitter is marking theoccasion with a brand new tool letting you discover what your first tweet was.
From those humble beginnings in 2006, the micro-blogging site now seen more than 500 million tweets sent every day and more than 240 million people use the service at least once each month.
The company recently floated on the New York Stock Exchange, with the company currently valued at over $27 billion.
To celebrate its eight birthday, Twitter has launched a new service which will allow you to find out what the first thing you ever tweeted was.
"Using this tool, you can look back to find your very first Tweet — or for that matter, anyone else's. Just type in the @username, be it yours or that of your best pal, favourite comedian, footballer or TV idol. It's easy to get searching," Twitter said today.
Best first tweets
While finding out your own first tweet is interesting, it is even more interesting to look at the first tweets of some of the more famous users of Twitter.
David Cameron's First Tweet
For example, UK prime minister David Cameron began life on Twiitter in October 2012, promising not to tweet too much:
And the prime minister has kept that promise with a meagre 780 tweets in the 18 months since.
Barack Obama's First Tweet
His counterpart on the other side of the Atlantic Barack Obama was on Twitter five years earlier however, using his first tweet in to highlight the war in Iraq:
John Cleese's First Tweet
The Monty Python star used his first tweet to reassure fans he wasn't dead:
Jack Dorsey's First Tweet
Possibly the most famous first tweet ever - and in fact the first first tweet - Twitter co-founder Dorsey used the social media platform to tell people exactly what he was doing:
Katy Perry's First Tweet
Katy Perry has the most Twitter followers of anyone on the service (51.6 million if you are wondering) and her first tweet was sent in 2009:
Twitter's First Tweet
And so what of the first tweet from the @Twitter account? Sadly, not very illuminating:


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Counseling services are available for every student in the school. These services include assistance with educational planning; interpretation of test scores; occupational information; career information; study helps; help with home, school and/or social concerns; or any question the student may feel they would like to discuss with the counselor.
Students wishing to visit a counselor should contact the secretary in the Guidance Office to arrange for an appointment. Check in between class or before classes begin or when there is an emergency.
Report cards are issued two (2) times a semester. Each marking period is approximately 9 weeks long. Report card dates will be distributed at the beginning of the school year district-wide.
Student progress reports may be sent any time between marking periods to parents of students who need some type of special attention. These reports do not necessarily mean that a student is failing, but a deficiency is noted which needs correction.
A student being issued an incomplete grade has ten school days to resolve the grade with the issuing teacher. Students with an "I" on their report cards cannot be considered for the honor roll or extra-curricular eligibility.
Students will be allowed to make up assignments missed because of legal or acceptable absence from school. It must be understood that completing missed assignments does not provide the same educational experience as being present and participating in the classroom activity. The responsibility for making arrangements to makeup work ties with the student. Students who are absent because of suspensions will be allowed to make up work missed.
The Honor Roll system is as follows:
Every student is required to take part in physical education classes. You are responsible for having complete gym attire on days that are scheduled for Physical Education class.
Students who fail to arrive on time for the bus or who are unprepared for class must report to the designated teacher to complete a written assignment.
All basic texts are loaned to students for their use during the school year. Books are to be kept clean and handled carefully. Please be sure your name and grade are written in the book in case they are misplaced. Students who lose or damage a book while it is checked out to them will be expected to pay for it. Textbooks are to be covered at all times.
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16982 / 44558 Adverts
Cottage Detached, single storey, separate entrance, in a private property
from £58/Night (rates)
from 2 to 7 people 4 adults, 3 children
2 bedrooms
2 roomsLiveable floor area : 700 Sq.ft.
Ground surface : 2,150 Sq.ft.
2 bedrooms
2 roomsLiveable floor area : 700 Sq.ft.
Ground surface : 2,150 Sq.ft.
ParkingDirect access to the beach
Benefits : Direct access to the beach
- View : Panoramic, not overlooked, sea/ocean, country side, pedestrianized street, fantastic sunset
- Children welcome
- Setting : Natural, Waterfront
- Rocky beach at 330'
- Festival, Horse riding, Culture, Fishing
- Exposure : South-west
Touristic region : discover Mediterranean Sea, Pollino National Park
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Villino GlicineAdvert 10316Maratea - Province of Potenza - Italy
Advert details 10316
Assets House
Parking : Parking uncovered
Benefits : Direct access to the beach
Interior Cottage with View: panoramic, not overlooked, sea/ocean, ...
Receive up to : from 2 to 7 person(s) (4 adults, 3 children)
Liveable floor area : 700 Sq.ft.
Interior layout : 2 Room(s), 2 bedroom(s), 1 shower room, 1 WC, kitchenette, laundry room, patio
Sleeps - bed(s) : 1 double bed(s), 3 single bed(s), 1 bunk beds, 1 possible extra bed(s)
Guest facilities : Wardrobe, hair dryer, fly screens, mobile cool air fan, electric heating
Appliances : Crockery/cuttlery, kitchen utensils, cafetiere, gas cooker, oven, refridgerator, freezer, washing machine, iron, ironing board
Exterior Holiday lettings in Setting: natural, waterfront
Ground surface : 2,150 Sq.ft.
Outside accommodation : Terrace 323 Sq.ft., covered terrace 172 Sq.ft., pergola 172 Sq.ft.
Outside setting : Enclosed grounds 0.37 acre, garden 2,150 Sq.ft., landscaped garden > 0.25 acre, olive grove 0.75 acre
Outside amenities : BBQ, garden table(s), 6 garden seat(s), arbour, 2 sun recliner(s), outside shower facilities
Rates Calendar Availability Holiday lettings in Maratea
Seasons & Availability Cottage in Maratea
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Season Night Weekend week 2 weeks Month
Low season£89* - £445* Sat - -
Mid season£107* - £668* Sat - -
High season£142* - £854* Sat - -
Festive specials£142* - £801* - -
Promotional period£62* - £401* Sat - -
ServiceFrequencyIncluded / SuppliedSupplementRates
Sheets1 X / per week
Cleaning on departure£45
For your guidance
Information :
Children welcome
Pets accepted under certain conditions (ask the owner)
Present on site : pets, farm animals, wild animals
Non smoking rental
Mobile telephone network coverage
Personal transport advisable
Water : hot/cold
Local voltage supply : 220-240V / 50Hz
Electricity supply : mains
Booking conditions
Reservation :
Payment made upon reservation : 50% of rental sum
Payment balance : 3 weeks before the stay
Deposit required : £178*
rentals :
Service charges included
Day tax included
Cleaning charge levy on departure : £45*
Anticipated supplement for : animals, supplementary bed(s)
Accepted methods of payment :
International Money Order
Bank transfer (wire)
Leisure, Surroundings, Location House 10316
Leisure Maratea - Province of Potenza
Specific activities on site or less than 5 km/ 3 miles :
HORSE RIDING Province of Potenza
FISHING Basilicata
FESTIVAL Maratea
CULTURE Basilicata
Leisure activities less than 20 km / 12 miles : Bathing, pedalo, snorkelling, scuba diving, surfing, sailing, canoeing, canyoning, rafting, tennis, coastal/forest paths, hiking, climbing, rock climbing, kite flying, parascending, hang-gliding, paragliding, Microlights, boat trips, horse trecking, fishing, angling, spear fishing, pétanque pitch
Supervised : Sailing school, dive school, tennis school, riding school
Attractions and relaxation : Bar/pub, discotheque, restaurant, cinema, open air summer cinema, park and garden, leisure park, sea world, nature reserve, exhibition centre, art gallery, historical site, summer theatre, festivals, antiques & bric-a-brac, local craftshop, cellar and wine tasting, natural spring baths, health farm, beauticians
SurroundingsSeaside - Province of Potenza
Locality :
Sea/ocean at <165'
Shingle beach at 990'
Rocky beach at 330'
Creek at 330'
Public tennis court at 3mi.
Watersports centre at 3mi.
River rapids at 12.5mi.
Cliff at 330'
River at 9mi.
Lake at 12.5mi.
Forest at 12.5mi.
Mountain range at 0.62mi.
Marina at 3mi.
Slipway at 3mi.
Via ferrata-alpinism at 3mi.
Amenities :
Village centre at 0.3mi.
Town centre at 6mi.
Bus stop / bus station at 0.3mi.
Car rental at 3mi.
Boat rental at 3mi.
Scuba diving material hire at 3mi.
Breadshop at 3mi.
Local shops at 3mi.
Supermarket at 3mi.
High class retailers at 6mi.
Hairdressing salon at 3mi.
Internet cafe at 6mi.
Post office at 3mi.
Bank at 3mi.
Chemist at 6mi.
Doctor at 4.5mi.
Hospital at 4.5mi.
Dispensing clinic at 4.5mi.
Location AccessHouse Maratea
Via Cersuta 8
85046 MarateaBasilicata
GPS coordinates of accommodation
Latitude 40°0'46"N
Longitude 15°40'42"E
Access routes Holiday lettings 10316
at 25mi. / 1h
Motorway (junction) Lagonegro- Maratea
Maratea, Province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
at 3mi. / 10min.
Train station Maratea
Maratea, Province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
Towns close by
Maratea (7,5mi.)
Naples (130mi.)
Rotonda (37,3mi.)
Close to Capo Palinuro, Fiume Bussento, Valle Soprana, Stazione Policastro Bussentino, Scoglio Scialandro, Monte Raparo, Monte del Papa, Monte Cervati, Isola Sant'Ianni, Torrente Frida, Fosso il Torbido, Torrente Brizzi, Fiume Sciaura, Torrente Nocito, Fiume Maglia, Monte Alpi, Fiume Fiuzzi, Porto degli Infreschi, Serra Dolcedorme, Valle Sciarapatamo, Fiume Lao
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In my last post, I established that grades are subjectively, if not arbitrarily, assigned. This inevitably draws the 'pure learner' argument.
Cynthia writes: "Why don't you try being a pure learner, whose objective is knowledge, not grades??"
This is another way of asking, what does it matter if grades are subjective? Why do grades even matter in the grand scheme of things? By itself, arbitrary grading is inconsequential, but combined with admissions, scholarship granting and hiring practices, arbitrary grading promotes bias, prejudice, macroeconomic ineptitude and a culture of ignorance.
1. Admissions criteria
Admissions to college, grad school and other post secondary institutions are based primarily on grades. If you don't believe me, try applying to MIT for a Ph. D. in Computer Science with a C average and see how far you get. Leadership skills and volunteer work won't mean dick.
2. Scholarships
Ever wonder how that ditz got a full scholarship and you're working two jobs to keep your student loans under control? Scholarships are mostly distributed primarily on the basis of marks.
3. Hiring practices
When you've got 20 years experience or a Ph. D., your transcript might not matter to employers, but for your first job out of college, plenty of them will have a look. It may not be the only criteria, but it counts. More importantly, plenty of jobs require a minimum education level, which you won't have if you're arbitrarily flunked out be teachers who don't like you or don't know how to evaluate you.
To summarize, unless you are so wealthy that you can bribe your way into the school you want, don't care about scholarships, and don't need a job after, you have to worry about marks!
Therefore, the 'pure learner' argument is bullshit.


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Our vehicles fascinate and impress people all over the world. We are systematically refining our sales and service activities so that our car and commercial vehicle brands can stay close to our customers in the future.
In the recently opened Mercedes-Benz Store in Osaka, visitors can get to know the brand and its products up close.
"We are supplementing our traditional sales channels with innovative elements. This approach is very popular with new target groups as well as with our existing customers."
If we want to be successful in the future, we have to initiate changes today. In line with this maxim, we have supplemented Mercedes-Benz's worldwide product offensive with the sales and marketing initiative "Mercedes-Benz 2020 — Best Customer Experience." In this way, we are aligning our sales organization even more precisely with the changing requirements of our customers.
Mercedes-Benz addresses its customers in many different ways — ways that are as individual and flexible as the customers' personal preferences.
Mercedes-Benz is relying increasingly on its sales outlets in city centers, where it can come into direct contact with existing and potential customers. The youngest of the approximately 20 city stores were opened in Tokyo in 2011, in Milan in 2012 and in Osaka in 2013. The number of these urban stores around the world is to double to more than 40 by 2020. Temporary sales formats offer further possibilities for getting in touch with our customers. For example, a Mercedes-Benz pavilion in Warsaw attracted more than 20,000 visitors and provided the framework for an additional 80 events. Thousands of fans followed these events on Facebook. For many visitors, it was their very first contact with the brand.
I like it! In direct contact through networks and online.
An integral part of the new sales and marketing initiative is the online vehicle sales process. At the end of 2013, Mercedes-Benz became the first producer of premium automobiles to offer new vehicles on the Internet. Within four weeks, more than 60,000 interested individuals had visited the online platform. The digital sales channel supplements the traditional showrooms, primarily addressing young and online-savvy customer groups. As a result, the Mercedes brand is accessible to customers and interested individuals always and everywhere. By taking advantage of the trend toward networking, we are also increasingly coming into contact with customers inside their vehicles. For example, we offer multimedia systems and apps that provide not only information and entertainment but also control options for automotive, service and diagnostic functions.
The TruckWorks service stations are putting commercial vehicles back on the road quickly all over Germany, thanks to the expertise of Mercedes-Benz.
A strong service partner for commercial vehicles.
We are also focusing on our truck and van customers, offering them a comprehensive network of local services at more than 95 TruckWorks locations in Germany. In this way, we are making sure that servicing times are as short as possible and helping to keep our customers' investment of time and money at a minimum when their vehicles are being maintained or repaired.


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TreeHouse Foods, Inc. Announces Expiration of HSR Waiting Period for the Acquisition of ConAgra's Private Brand Operations; Announces Webcast for Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call
As announced on
Lastly, the Company announced that it will host a live audio webcast of its fourth quarter earnings results conference call on Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. EST. Management will discuss the results for the fourth quarter 2015, the full year and its outlook for 2016. An earnings release will be issued before the market opens on the same date. The Webcast will last approximately one hour and will be accessible by visiting http://www.treehousefoods.com and by clicking on "Investor Relations," "Investor Overview."
In order to listen to the Webcast, users will need to have installed either Real Player or Windows Media Player software, which can be detected and downloaded by visiting the site. A Webcast replay will be available for one year following the event within the "Investor Relations," "Earnings Call Archives" section of the Company's website.
TreeHouse is a manufacturer of packaged foods and beverages with 24 manufacturing facilities across
Additional information, including TreeHouse's most recent statements on Forms 10-Q and 10-K, may be found at TreeHouse's website, http://www.treehousefoods.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements include all statements that do not relate solely to historical or current facts, and can generally be identified by the use of words such as "may," "should," "could," "expects," "seek to," "anticipates," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "intends," "predicts," "projects," "potential" or "continue" or the negative of such terms and other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause TreeHouse or its industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. TreeHouse's Form 10-K for the year ended
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/treehouse-foods-inc-announces-expiration-of-hsr-waiting-period-for-the-acquisition-of-conagras-private-brand-operations-announces-webcast-for-fourth-quarter-earnings-conference-call-300201323.html
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Lawrence County Man Pleads Guilty To Drug Law Violation
PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wampum, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
Jordan Viccari, 24, pleaded guilty to one count before Senior United States District Judge Terrence F. McVerry.
In connection with the guilty plea, the court was advised that from in and around May 2013, and continuing thereafter to in and around October 2013, Viccari conspired with others to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.
Judge McVerry scheduled sentencing for Nov. 21, 2014, at 1:30 p.m. The law provides for a maximum total sentence of not less than 10 years and up to life in prison, a fine of $10,000,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed is based upon the seriousness of the offense and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan B. Ortiz is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.
The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General, Bureau of Narcotics Investigations conducted the investigation that led to the prosecution of Jordan Viccari.


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"Who died, and made you king of anything?"
–Sara Bareilles
Here now, I formally introduce The Undaunted Pen: a commentary, and (hopefully decent) analysis on things related to my writing processes (thoughts, opinions, observations, etc). I'm starving for a different kind of discussion, one with actual discussion taking place, and since I can't seem to find it in class I turn to the internet. You know, being constructive and all that good stuff.
I want to write. You know, with keyboard and computer screen? But over the last couple of years I've built up a lot of angst, anger, and frustration with regards to writing discussions and critique. Honestly, I expected better from my educational system than what I've received, and not just because of the amount of money it takes to keep me here. I expected to learn about writing from my writing classes, to learn about finding my voice, and to build my skills around a style that I would be allowed to call my own.
I believed that what I write, and my interests within writing, don't matter so long as the effort was there. Well, the effort was there, but the interest as far as teachers are concerned, was not.
Not to say that all of my teachers were bad–I've had some very good ones–but the ones running the writing workshop courses have left me routinely with rage.
I want a creative writing teacher (outside of nonfiction) who embraces the world's variety. I want the kind of teacher who looks at my work and says, "I see what you're doing, and here's what we can do to make that happen."
Instead, I'm accustomed to, "I see what you're doing, and here's what you can do to make it better for me."
I expected better. Something that would hold in the face of logic.
I've never seen a class
defeat destroy its purpose, lose completely misplace its cause, and beat that dead mixture with a stick more than creative writing aka "fiction workshop." I understand that at some fundamental level fiction/literature, and fantasy/science fiction/mystery/horror/romance/etc are viewed on separate and unequal platforms that may never, ever intersect–and I was aware of this going into English to begin with–but I never expected the amount of resistance towards any deviation from the norm.
So far the message I've gotten is, "We embrace your creativity, as long as it fits our standards."
Maybe my approach is wrong. Maybe those in a fiction workshop to begin with are writing to the kind of people they expect to still be in a fiction workshop course at the advanced level–people who share their interests alone. They're reaching out to their audience because these kinds of courses provide them a sample, a test run. And that's fine, my problem has never been with my classmates, just the people running the class.
Call it what you like, but I'm searching for another way.


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PS --- Pick your son Rand as your VP. Do it soon. People want continuity when they sign on to a vision. They have their antenna up for what they perceive as cynical choices for geographic electoral advantage. You are 76, they want to know that they will still be free if you cannot continue. So pick Rand. It's bold and it will work. (He's going to be President someday anyway, might as well get him started now.)
Thoughts? Rand Paul for VP, yes or no? Any other good picks for a Ron Paul 2012 ticket?
Wes Messamore,
Editor in Chief, THL
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Best Trimmer for Persian Cat Hair
It's not always easy to find the ideal cat clippers for long-haired cats like Persians. Persian cat hair is long and fine, making it prone to mats and damage, but choosing the right trimmer will help you keep that beautiful coat under control.
About Persian Cat Hair
Individuals who own a Persian cat can understand that their cat's hair accounts for nearly half the experience of owning a Persian. The Persian breed features a thick, long-haired coat that is absolutely stunning when groomed. Unfortunately, when it is not groomed, this glorious coat can become a horrendously matted mess. Consistent grooming is necessary in order to prevent hair situations from becoming truly out of hand.
Individuals who own a Persian cat for the purpose of showing the animal will want to consider the idea of home-grooming very carefully. Even the best trimmer for Persian cat hair will yield unsightly results when a pet owner doesn't quite know the ins and outs of long-haired cat trimming. Although it is an expensive option, if you are showing your animal in the show circuit, you will probably want to leave the grooming to the professionals. Persian breed standards are very particular when it comes to the Persian's coat. In many cases, you may want to skip the trimming altogether when it comes to maintaining a show-standard appearance.
The Best Trimmer for Persian Cat Hair
Factors you want to consider when purchasing a cat hair trimmer include the speed of the unit's motor and the type of blades you'll need for the length to which you want to trim your cat's fur. The best trimmer has a sturdy build that will stand up to wear and tear. Cats also tend to prefer clipper units that run as quietly as possible. Many cats are highly sensitive to the sound of a trimmer, and some cats will become completely livid at the loud hum and strong vibration of a grooming instrument.
The Oster A5 remains at the top of the list when it comes to well reviewed cat hair trimmers. In fact, Oster is one of the most reliable brands for pet hair trimmers. The A5 is amongst the quieter models, and it uses a number 10 blade that trims the hair quite short and cuts through matted fur with relative ease. You can choose between a single speed model and a two speed model. However, this choice is no small one because the dual speed Oster is a much better pick for severely sound sensitive animals. The high speed is considerably louder than the low speed, which is why the two speed model may be far more useful. When trimming around your cat's face and ears, it is always recommended that you use a low speed to help the cat remain calmer.
Grooming With Ease
Depending on the character of your cat, no grooming procedure may be easy. However, when it comes to preparing for a trim, there are a few things you can do to make the process less of a hassle. First of all, matted hair will be a real issue. Although the Oster clipper is renowned for its trimming abilities, matted and tangled hair may still present a problem when you attempt to create an even trim. So, it is important to brush thoroughly through your Persian's coat before using the trimmer because otherwise you'll wind up with a very rough cut.
Once the hair has been trimmed, it's time for a bath. Contrary to some opinions, it is not harmful to bathe your Persian cat. In fact, many Persian owners and breeders do so frequently to reduce potential allergens and to prevent matting. A clean, brushed coat is easiest to trim. Don't spend countless hours attempting to hack your way through a messy and matted Persian coat. Bath your cat with a good conditioning shampoo and follow up with another solid brushing job once your cat is dry. Give you cat a thorough brushing every few days and this will make your Persian's next trim far easier.
Decide for Yourself Which Trimmer Is Best
While there are many cat hair trimmers on the market that are excellent quality, not all will work well on long, thick Persian fur. It is a good idea to check reviews of different trimmers and ask other Persian cat owners in your area for their opinions before investing big bucks in a new trimmer.


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Earlier this week in an scheduled press event Huawei announced in China its latest gadgets, including the latest in the Honor series, the Honor 6X, which is a mid-range smartphone powered by Android mobile operating system that costs nothing more, nothing less than £120.
Honor 6X (model number BLN-AL10) feature a 2.5D curved glass 5.5-inch Full HD display, it comes packing Huawei's own Kirin 655 octa-core processor built on the 16nm technology process, it has a dual camera on the back (12 + 20 mega pixels camera sensors) 8MP selfie snapper at the front, comes with a 3,340 mAh battery (non-removable) integrated in its unibody metal design and runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Emotion UI v4.1 on top of it.
In addition, the Honor 6X has a fingerprint sensor at the back, Mali-T830 MP3 graphics module, it is compatible with 3G/4G networks (hybrid SIM slot) and it is available (for now) in China in 3 GB RAM + 32 GB ROM or in 4 GB RAM + 64 GB ROM (internal memory) variants.
Huawei is selling this phone in Rose Gold, Dark Grey and Silver as of now through pre-orders, with shipping starting October 25.


text: Hey, would anyone happen to know some of AFA's policy on grading figures? I emailed them awhile ago and read their policies and it says that items will only be graded if the figure is completely factory sealed....but if you look at this auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/1985-TRANSFORME...oryZ4696QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem one of the sides on Shrapnel's box is clearly open and yet it got graded, the instruction packet could be missing if no one bothered to check. Has anyone actually sent in items and got rejected? Any info would be great, thanks.


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Ken Doherty was jumping for joy after he qualified for this year's Dafabet World Championship on Tuesday night.
Former Crucible champion Doherty made his experience count to defeat Thailand's Dechawat Poomjaeng 10-5 in final qualifying.
This main event starts on Saturday.
"I'm over the moon, that [win] means the world to me," reflected Doherty.
"It means so much to qualify for the Crucible, everyone wants to play and I'm no different.
"I knew it was going to be a tough match, but I played really well."


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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Three Fifties again for TW I in KL Division One
Craig Williams (83*), Chris Williams (75) and David Smith (66*) helped to hoist the flagship XI to a declaration at The Nevill, against Tenterden Town CC, on 299 for 5 wkts (52 overs), leading to a bat-first victory despite weather interference. The feat was previosuly performed in this Division on 6 May 2013 against St.Lawrence CC, and in the Premier Division on 14 May 2011 to secure a bat-second record KL chase off the Lordswood CC bowling, also at The County Ground.
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|Madison Shelter
|Rice Creek Shelter
To get to White Springs I had to hike across Osceola National Forest and this was the very first time I could complain about bad blazing. Osceola had suffered from a big forest fire some years ago and on top of that they had just recently had some prescribed burns (seems to be the topic of my FT hike....). Therefore most of the blazes had gone and not been replaced yet. On top of all that half of the forest was badly flooded and so I ended up wading in knee-deep water scratching off soot from the trees to see whether there were traces of orange paint underneath. I have to brag a bit here and tell you that I never got lost once - it took me a while and some searching, but I did not get lost like the other two hikers I met in the forest.
|This is how you get your feet wet
In White Springs I went to the Ranger Station to get some information on the upcoming section and had a hilarious encounter. Some other tourist was there complaining about the bad conditions in Osceola National Forest. I told him that I had been hiking through that and thought I had not been that bad. "Oh no!", he said. "If I had hiked through that I would have gotten my shoes wet!"


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|Chris Thilk
Come December, studios are going incredibly broad. There are franchises to market here, people, and the ramp-ups have already begun for some of 2011's biggest tentpoles. There's already a trailer and multiple posters for "Green Lantern," a poster and teaser trailer for "Thor" just debuted, photos have been released for the fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" entry and so on. More immediately, studios are jumping on their newfound discovery that people will go see movies in December so they're continuing to promote "The Dilemma," "Green Hornet" and other mass-appeal films opening early next year.
And then there's always the Super Bowl, the holy grail of mass advertising, that's coming up in early February. While no studio has announced its Super Bowl ad plans yet, it would be safe to say there will be more than a few movie commercials within the game's broadcast.
But because we're in December, we're in the thick of movie awards season, meaning advertising is being targeted to the very narrow audience of industry voters. That means we're awash in discussion of whose performance is worthy of a nomination for various honors as well as ads from studios touting the talent they think deserves some recognition. And all that is in addition to the campaigns for limited-release movies that are still to come out this year. "Rabbit Hole," "True Grit," "Somewhere" and others are sneaking in before the end of the year in just a handful of theaters with marketing campaigns that coincide with the publicity that hopes to result in one or more awards nominations.
It's tempting to say the awards race is simply Hollywood marketing reverberating more loudly in the echo chamber than usual and that it's all about insiders trying to reach and influence other insiders, something that is going to barely affect the general movie-going public. But that couldn't be further from the truth.
The "For Your Consideration" campaigns are bigger and more extensive than the marketing for the release of the film itself, meaning more money is being spent trying to garner a nomination than in trying to get people to see the movie in the first place. If that money had been spent on 1) distribution plans that would have released the film to more markets/theaters; and 2) a marketing campaign to support the movie so that more people would be able to see it in theaters instead of adding it to their Netflix queue, where it will languish as "Chipmunks: The Squeakuel" is rented for the fifth time.
That's not to say that everyone everywhere is going to be interested in the latest filmed character study by Mike Leigh, the great looking "Another Year," but the potential audience for it surely has to be bigger than whatever the distribution plan likely is. (Of course it is, and don't call me Shirley. RIP Leslie Neilsen.) Yet -- here's that dichotomy again -- we're about to see studios shell out somewhere in the neighborhood of $3 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot in the hopes of reaching as many people as possible during the last bastion of live TV viewing.
In both these cases there are other uses for the indulgent amount of money that's being spent. Certainly a ton of social-media activity that has as its goal to spur and sustain conversations could be generated with a $3 million budget -- activity that would likely be able to achieve the same reach over time as a Super Bowl spot. (I know because I've seen this happen on brands my agency works with.)
There are so many movies that come out that are positioned as awards contenders even though vast swaths of the audience have, at best, never seen them and, at worst, never heard of them because their marketing and distribution was so limited. On the flip side, if a movie's budget can afford a Super Bowl spot, it's likely there will be such massive media saturation around its release that audience reach is not even remotely a concern.
(I completely understand that the bigger the movie, the bigger the marketing spend, as more dollars are seen as insuring the movie doesn't fail at the box office. But considering the other factors at play, some of which I've laid out here, there has to be a better way to spend a buck.)
Take the money that's spent on either the mass-reaching Super Bowl or the extreme-insider-reaching "For Your Consideration" ads and using it to finance broader theatrical distribution and marketing for those smaller movies, bringing them to more people and increasing their chances at box-office success.
Moving some of those dollars from either the incredibly narrow or the incredibly broad would allow more films to flourish by fulfilling their destiny in the same way as Charlie Brown's much-maligned tree: By finding someone who loves them.
Chris Thilk writes and publishes MovieMarketingMadness.com and is a supervisor at PR and marketing agency Voce Communications.


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The Cd is loaded with dozens of specific, practical strategies for leaders, beased on scientific findings and Julie Ann's wealth of corporate experience.
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Organic food is a scam. An overpriced lie. A label that symbolizes nothing more than false and/or empty promises. At least according to some crazy reports probably funded by conventional, processed food companies. So no wonder people are confused. They must be. That's the only reason why, in a 2013, post-Food, Inc. world, a new Harris Poll could have found that 59 percent of 2,276 adults surveyed believe the "organic label is just a business strategy." They think food companies slap it on products as a gimmick to charge them more.
And men were more skeptical than women, with 63 percent of 'em agreeing with the above vs. 54 percent of women. All in all, the poll showed only 3 out of 10 people are willing to pay more for "green" products. What a shame they don't understand that means they'll end up having to pay more in the long run!
Whether it comes to how the food we're eating is affecting the world we live in -- which, by the way, seems to concern people, as the poll also found 38 percent of people are worried about the state of the environment -- or affecting our overall health and well-being, there's a STRONG case for avoiding the toxins in conventional foods by purchasing organics.
To be fair, I can understand why people are confused, because the word "organic" has become outrageously over- and misused. There are companies that "greenwash," or deceptively promote their product as purer than it really is. But for the most part, any legit product sold in a grocery store must follow certain USDA guidelines for labeling. Meaning the food must be 100 percent certified organic to claim their product is organic. You can also tell the difference between BS claims and the real deal by looking for the USDA organic seal on the packaging.
The fact of the matter is that legit, certified organic food IS different from conventional food. It cannot be certified unless it passes muster. And if you're concerned in the least that your food be devoid of certain pollutants, processed chemical garbage, pesticides, etc., because you understand that those ingredients could negatively affect your health, then it pays to buy organic. And there are ways to save, like only buying the dirty dozen's organic counterparts or clipping coupons.
In the end, this is just one, not even all that huge poll, so it's hard to say if it really reflects how we all feel about organics as a country. The good news is that its popularity has grown and continues to, so there must be plenty of people like me who believe it's in our best interest to read, understand, and buy our food based on certain labels instead of assuming they're a marketing scheme.
How do you feel about organic labeling?
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SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE control code
The SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE control code requests how the networking stack should handle certain behaviors for which the default way of handling the behavior may differ across Windows versions.
To perform this operation, call the WSAIoctl or WSPIoctl function with the following parameters.
int WSAIoctl( (socket) s, // descriptor identifying a socket SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE, // dwIoControlCode (LPVOID) lpvInBuffer, // pointer to WSA_COMPATIBILITY_MODE struct (DWORD) cbInBuffer, // length of input buffer NULL, // output buffer 0, // size of output buffer (LPDWORD) lpcbBytesReturned, // number of bytes returned (LPWSAOVERLAPPED) lpOverlapped, // OVERLAPPED structure (LPWSAOVERLAPPED_COMPLETION_ROUTINE) lpCompletionRoutine, // completion routine );
int WSPIoctl( (socket) s, // descriptor identifying a socket SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE, // dwIoControlCode (LPVOID) lpvInBuffer, // pointer to WSA_COMPATIBILITY_MODE struct (DWORD) cbInBuffer, // length of input buffer NULL, // output buffer 0, // size of output buffer (LPDWORD) lpcbBytesReturned, // number of bytes returned (LPWSAOVERLAPPED) lpOverlapped, // OVERLAPPED structure (LPWSAOVERLAPPED_COMPLETION_ROUTINE) lpCompletionRoutine, // completion routine (LPWSATHREADID) lpThreadId, // a WSATHREADID structure (LPINT) lpErrno // a pointer to the error code. );
- s
A descriptor identifying a socket.
- dwIoControlCode
The control code for the operation. Use SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE for this operation.
- lpvInBuffer
A pointer to the input buffer. This parameter should point to a WSA_COMPATIBILITY_MODE structure.
- cbInBuffer
The size, in bytes, of the input buffer. This parameter should equal to or greater than the size of the WSA_COMPATIBILITY_MODE structure pointed to by the lpvInBuffer parameter.
- lpvOutBuffer
A pointer to the output buffer. This parameter is unused for this operation.
- cbOutBuffer
The size, in bytes, of the output buffer. This parameter must be set to zero.
- lpcbBytesReturned
A pointer to a variable that receives the size, in bytes, of the data stored in the output buffer. This returned parameter points to a DWORD value of zero for this operation, since there is no output.
- lpvOverlapped
A pointer to a WSAOVERLAPPED structure.
If socket s was created without the overlapped attribute, the lpOverlapped parameter is ignored.
If s was opened with the overlapped attribute and the lpOverlapped parameter is not NULL, the operation is performed as an overlapped (asynchronous) operation. In this case, lpOverlapped parameter must point to a valid WSAOVERLAPPED structure.
For overlapped operations, the WSAIoctl or WSPIoctl function returns immediately, and the appropriate completion method is signaled when the operation has been completed. Otherwise, the function does not return until the operation has been completed or an error occurs.
- lpCompletionRoutine
A pointer to the completion routine called when the operation has been completed (ignored for non-overlapped sockets).
- lpThreadId
A pointer to a WSATHREADID structure to be used by the provider in a subsequent call to WPUQueueApc. The provider should store the referenced WSATHREADID structure (not the pointer to same) until after the WPUQueueApc function returns.Note This parameter applies only to the WSPIoctl function.
- lpErrno
A pointer to the error code.Note This parameter applies only to the WSPIoctl function.
Return value
If the operation completes successfully, the WSAIoctl or WSPIoctl function returns zero.
If the operation fails or is pending, the WSAIoctl or WSPIoctl function returns SOCKET_ERROR. To get extended error information, call WSAGetLastError.
|Error code
An overlapped operation was successfully initiated and completion will be indicated at a later time.
An overlapped operation was canceled due to the closure of the socket or the execution of the SIO_FLUSH IOCTL command.
The lpOverlapped or lpCompletionRoutine parameter is not totally contained in a valid part of the user address space.
The function is invoked when a callback is in progress.
A blocking operation was interrupted.
The dwIoControlCode parameter is not a valid command, or a specified input parameter is not acceptable, or the command is not applicable to the type of socket specified. This error is returned if the cbInBuffer parameter is less than the sizeof the WSA_COMPATIBILITY_MODE structure.
The network subsystem has failed.
The socket option is not supported on the specified protocol.
The socket s is not connected.
The descriptor s is not a socket.
The specified IOCTL command is not supported. This error is returned if the SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE IOCTL is not supported by the transport provider. This error is also returned when an attempt to use the SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE IOCTL is made on a datagram socket.
the SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE IOCTL requests how the networking stack should handle certain behaviors for which the default way of handling the behavior may differ across Windows versions. The input argument structure for SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE is specified in the WSA_COMPATIBILITY_MODE structure defined in the Mswsockdef.h header file. A pointer to the WSA_COMPATIBILITY_MODE structure is passed in the cbInBuffer parameter. This structure is defined as follows:
// Need to #include <mswsock.h> /* Argument structure for SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE */ typedef struct _WSA_COMPATIBILITY_MODE { WSA_COMPATIBILITY_BEHAVIOR_ID BehaviorId; ULONG TargetOsVersion; } WSA_COMPATIBILITY_MODE, *PWSA_COMPATIBILITY_MODE;
The value specified in the BehaviorId member indicates the behavior requested. The value specified in the TargetOsVersion member indicates the Windows version that is being requested for the behavior.
The BehaviorId member can be one of the values from the WSA_COMPATIBILITY_BEHAVIOR_ID enumeration type defined in the Mswsockdef.h header file. The possible values for the BehaviorId member are as follows
This is equivalent to requesting all of the possible compatible behaviors defined for WSA_COMPATIBILITY_BEHAVIOR_ID.
When the TargetOsVersion member is set to a value for Windows Vista or later, reductions to the TCP receive buffer size on this socket using the SO_RCVBUF socket option are allowed even after a TCP connection has been establishment.
When the TargetOsVersion member is set to a value earlier than Windows Vista, reductions to the TCP receive buffer size on this socket using the SO_RCVBUF socket option are not allowed after connection establishment.
When the TargetOsVersion member is set to a value for Windows Vista or later, receive window auto-tuning is enabled and the TCP window scale factor is reduced to 2 from the default value of 8.
When the TargetOsVersion is set to a value earlier than Windows Vista, receive window auto-tuning is disabled. The TCP window scaling option is also disabled and the maximum true receive window size is limited to 65,535 bytes. The TCP window scaling option can't be negotiated on the connection even if the SO_RCVBUF socket option was called on this socket specifying a value greater than 65,535 bytes before the connection was established.
The TargetOsVersion member can be one of the NTDDI version constants defined in the Sdkddkver.h header file. Some of the possible values for the TargetOsVersion member are as follows:
The target behavior is the default for Windows Vista.
The target behavior is the default for Windows Server 2003.
The target behavior is the default for Windows XP.
The target behavior is the default for Windows 2000.
The primary impact of the TargetOsVersion member is whether this member is set to a value equal or greater than NTDDI_LONGHORN.
TCP performance depends not only on the transfer rate itself, but rather on the product of the transfer rate and the round-trip delay time. This bandwidth-delay product measures the amount of data that would "fill the pipe". This bandwidth-delay product is the buffer space required at sender and receiver to obtain maximum throughput on the TCP connection over the path. This buffer space represents the amount of unacknowledged data that TCP must handle in order to keep the pipeline full. TCP performance problems arise when the bandwidth-delay product is large. A network path operating under these conditions is often called a "long, fat pipe". Examples include high-capacity packet satellite links, high-speed wireless links, and terrestrial fiber-optical links over long distances.
The TCP header uses a 16-bit data field (the Window field in the TCP packet header) to report the receive window size to the sender. Therefore, the largest window that can be used is 65,535 bytes. To circumvent this limitation a TCP extension option, TCP Window Scale, was added for high-performance TCP to allow windows larger than 65,535 bytes. The TCP Window Scale option (WSopt) is defined in RFC 1323 available at the IETF website. The WSopt extension expands the definition of the TCP window to 32 bits using a one-byte logarithmic scale factor to extend the 16-bit Window field in the TCP header. The WSopt extension defines an implicit scale factor (2 to some power), which is used to multiply the window size value found in a TCP header to obtain the true window size. So a window scale factor of 8 would result in a true window size equal to the value in the Window field in the TCP header multiplied by 2^8 or 256. So if the Window field in the TCP header was set to the maximum value of 65,535 bytes and the WSopt scale factor was negotiated to a value of 8, the true window size would be 16,776,960 bytes.
The true receive window size and therefore the scale factor is determined by the maximum receive buffer space. This maximum buffer space is the amount of data that a TCP receiver allows a TCP sender to send before having to wait for an acknowledgement. After the connection is established, the receive window size is advertised in each TCP segment (the Window field in the TCP header). Advertising the maximum amount of data that the sender can send is a receiver-side flow control mechanism that prevents the sender from sending data that the receiver cannot store. A sending host can only send the maximum amount of data advertised by the receiver before waiting for an acknowledgment and a receive window size update.
On Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, the maximum receive buffer space which represents the receive window size for the TCP/IP stack has a default value based on the link speed of the sending interface. The actual value automatically adjusts to even increments of the maximum segment size (MSS) negotiated during TCP connection establishment. So for a 10 Mbit/sec link, the default receive window size would normally be set to 16K bytes, while on a 100 MBit/sec link the default receive window size would be set to 65,535 bytes.
On Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, the true maximum receive window size for the TCP/IP stack can be manually configured using the following registry values on a specific interface or for the entire system:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current Control Set\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\TCPWindowSize
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current Control Set\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interface\TCPWindowSize
The registry value for TCPWindowSize can be set to a maximum of 65,535 bytes when not using the WSopt extension or a maximum of 1,073,741,823 bytes when the WSopt extension is used (a maximum scale factor of 4 is supported). Without window scaling, an application can only achieve a throughput of approximately 5 megabits per second (Mbps) on a path with a 100 millisecond round-trip time (RTT), regardless of the path bandwidth. This throughput can be scaled to over a gigabit per second (Gbps) with window scaling, which allows TCP to negotiate the scaling factor for the window size during connection establishment.
On Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, the WSopt extension can be enabled by setting the following registry value.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current Control Set\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Tcp1323OptsThe Tcp1323Opts registry value is a DWORD encoded such that when bit 0 is set, TCP WSopt extension is enabled. When bit 1 is set, the TCP Timestamp option (TSopt) defined in RFC 1323 is enabled. So a value of either 1 or 3 will enable the WSopt extension.
On Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, the default is that the TCPWindowSize and the Tcp1323Opts registry values are not created. So the default is that the WSopt extension is disabled and the TCP receive window size is set by the system to maximum value of up to 65,535 bytes based on the link speed. When window scaling is enabled on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP by setting the Tcp1323Opts registry value, window scaling on a TCP connection is still only used when both the sender and receiver include a TCP window scale option in the synchronize (SYN) segment sent to each other to negotiate a window scale factor. When window scaling is used on a connection, the Window field in the TCP header is set to 65,535 bytes and the window scale factor is used to adjust the true receive window size upward by the window scale factor negotiated when the connection is established.
An application can specify the TCP receive window size for a connection by using the SO_RCVBUF socket option. The TCP receive window size for a socket can be increased at any time using SO_RCVBUF, but it can only be decreased prior to establishing a connection. In order to use window scaling, an application must specify a window size larger than 65,535 bytes when using the SO_RCVBUF socket option before the connection is established.
The ideal value for the TCP receive window size is often difficult to determine. In order to fill the capacity of the network between the sender and receiver, the receive window size should be set to the bandwidth-delay product for the connection, which is the bandwidth multiplied by the round-trip time. Even if an application can correctly determine the bandwidth-delay product, it is still not known how quickly the receiving application will retrieve data from the incoming data buffer (the application retrieve rate). Despite the support for TCP window scaling, the maximum receive window size in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP can still limit throughput because it is a fixed maximum size for all TCP connections (unless specified per application using SO_RCVBUF), which can enhance throughput for some connections and decrease throughput for others. Additionally, the fixed maximum receive window size for a TCP connection does not vary with changing network conditions.
To solve the problem of correctly determining the value of the maximum receive window size for a TCP connection based on the current conditions of the network, the TCP/IP stack in Windows Vista supports a receive window auto-tuning feature. When this feature is enabled, receive window auto-tuning continually determines the optimal true receive window size by measuring the bandwidth-delay product and the application retrieve rate, and adjusts the true maximum receive window size based on changing network conditions. Receive window auto-tuning enables the TCP WSopt extension by default, allowing up to 16,776,960 bytes for the true window size. As the data flows over the connection, the TCP/IP stack monitors the connection, measures the current bandwidth-delay product for the connection and the application receive rate, and adjusts the actual receive window size to optimize throughput. The TCP/IP stack changes the value of the Window field in the TCP header based on network conditions, since the WSopt scale factor is fixed when the connection is first established.
The TCP/IP stack in Windows Vista no longer uses the TCPWindowSize registry values. With better throughput between TCP peers, the utilization of network bandwidth increases during data transfer. If all the applications are optimized to receive TCP data, then the overall utilization of the network can increase substantially, making the use of Quality of Service (QoS) more important on networks that are operating at or near capacity.
The default behavior on Windows Vista for receive buffering when SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE is not specified using WsaBehaviorReceiveBuffering is that no receive window size reductions using SO_RCVBUF socket option are allowed after a connection is established.
The default behavior on Windows Vista for auto-tuning when SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE is not specified using WsaBehaviorAutoTuning is that the stack will do receive window auto-tuning using a window scale factor of 8. Note that if an application sets a valid receive window size with the SO_RCVBUF socket option, the stack will use the size specified and window receive auto-tuning will disabled. Windows autotuning may also be disabled completely using the following command, netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled, in which case specifying WsaBehaviorAutoTuning will have no affect. Window receive autotuning can also be disabled based on group policy set on Windows Server 2008.
The WsaBehaviorAutoTuning option is needed on Windows Vista for some Internet gateway devices and firewalls that do not correctly support data flows for TCP connections that use the WSopt extension and a windows scale factor. On Windows Vista, a receiver by default negotiates a window scale factor of 8 for a maximum true window size of 16,776,960 bytes. When data begins to flow on a fast link, Windows initially starts with a 64 Kilobyte true window size by setting the Window field of the TCP header to 256 and setting the window scale factor to 8 in the TCP options (256*2^8=64KB). Some Internet gateway devices and firewalls ignore the window scale factor and only look at the advertised Window field in the TCP header specified as 256, and drop incoming packets for the connection that contain more than 256 bytes of TCP data. To support TCP receive window scaling, a gateway device or firewall must monitor the TCP handshake and track the negotiated window scale factor as part of the TCP connection data. Also some applications and TCP stack implementations on other platforms ignore the TCP WSopt extension and the window scaling factor. So the remote host sending the data may send data at the rate advertised in the Window field of the TCP header (256 bytes). This can result in data being received very slowly by the receiver.
Setting the BehaviorId member to WsaBehaviorAutoTuning and the TargetOsVersion to Windows Vista reduces the window scale factor to 2, so the Window field in the TCP header is initially set to 16,384 bytes and the window scale factor is set to 2 for an initial true window receive size of 64K bytes. The window auto-tuning feature can then increase the true window receive size up to 262,140 bytes by setting the Window field in the TCP header to 65,535 bytes. An application should set the SIO_SET_COMPATIBILITY_MODE IOCTL as soon as a socket is created, since this option doesn't make sense or apply after a SYN is sent. Setting this option has the same impact as the following command: netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=highlyrestricted
Note that the Mswsockdef.h header file is automatically included in Mswsock.h or Netiodef.h, and should not be used directly.
Minimum supported client
Windows Vista [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server
Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps only]
See also


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In his letter to the priests of the Archdiocese of New York on the founding of the new Pro-Life Commission, Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan said,
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I know several of the members and I am confident that the Commission will do good work for Archdiocese of New York and the greater Church.
Archbishop Dolan's Letter: Pro-Life Commission Letter Archdiocese of New York.pdf
The Members of the Pro-Life Commission: Pro Life Commission Members, Archdiocese of New York.pdf