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|Turkey Wild Rice Casserole
My long-time go-to wild rice casserole, perfect with after-Thanksgiving leftover turkey.
So let's talk turkey.
We perch in separate broods, the crowd which loves Thanksgiving dinner and the gang which holds out for Thanksgiving leftovers.
Last year, I might have been the happiest person not cooking a turkey. That's because I stuffed myself at dinner and then came home with the carcass of a fifteen-pound bird that the next day yielded ten cups of stock and nearly as much meat.
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Time-to-table: 90 minutes
Serves 8
- 3 cups water
- 1 teaspoon table salt
- 1 cup wild rice (either natural or cultivated, see about wild rice), rinsed
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 large onion, diced (about 1-1/2 cups)
- 4 ribs celery, diced (about 2 cups)
- 1 large carrot, grated (about 1 cup)
- 2 cups turkey stock or 15 ounces canned chicken broth
- 2 cups half & half (see Later Notes) whisked until smooth with 1/4 cup flour
- 2 tablespoons dry sherry
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 3 cups cooked turkey (about 3/4 pound), diced
- 1/3 cup toasted almonds (how to toast nuts)
Bring water to boil in a saucepan. Stir in salt and rice, simmer for 30 - 45 minutes until the rice is tender but still chewy.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, melt the butter and sauté the onion, celery and carrots until soft. Add the stock and bring to a boil, then slowly stir in the cream/flour mixture. Add the sherry, salt and pepper. Add the turkey and let simmer slowly while the rice finishes.
Gently stir rice into the turkey mixture. Transfer to two-quart greased casserole dish. (See ALANNA's TIPS.) Top with almonds and bake for 35 – 40 minutes at 375F.
Serve with cranberry sauce on the side.
LATER NOTES This recipe goes way-way back, I have made it many times. But when I made it in 2010, the mixture seemed right with just one cup of half & half (mixed with 1/4 cup flour) and baked up perfectly. So you might start with just a cup of liquid, then decide whether the second cup is needed. It never hurts to save a few calories, too. :-)
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If the crèche at the Abbey of Regina Laudis strikes you as a little out place, there's a good reason. The austere Yankee barn that houses it is a world away from its previous home. Handcrafted by artisans in Naples, the intricate nativity scene was presented as a coronation gift to Victor Amadeus II, king of Sardina, in 1720. It remained among Italian nobility until it was purchased by Loretta Hines Howard, an artist and collector, in 1949. She immediately donated it to what was then a fledgling Benedictine Abbey in, fittingly, Bethlehem, Connecticut (although the nuns insist the name is a coincidence).
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Trish Sinclair has checked in with a third lap report on the men's World Cup race in Houffalize. It is still Filip Meirhaeghe, Christophe Dupouey and Miguel Martinez at the front, with Meirhaeghe looking the strongest. Bas Van Doren is chasing on his own at 34 seconds, with a group of 4 11 seconds further behind - Tom Larsen, Thomas Frischknecht, Jose Hermida and Lado Fumic.
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A really profound day.
May 5th in Holland. Every year, dozens of cities throughout the country honour the freedom that became official on May 5, 1945 as Allied forces liberated the country.
In particular, Canadian soldiers played the primary role in the months and days leading up to the liberation (although Britain, the US, and a number of other countries' soldiers also sacrificed immensely). Also honoured on this day are veterans and peacekeepers from all wars since WWI - some are seen below.
It's just unreal how the Dutch pass this gratitude on to the next generations - kids are taught early on in school just what happened, and to this day Dutch families tend to the gravesites of soldiers who died here. I doubt there are any countries that do a better job of expressing gratitude and educating their kids about what happened in those dark years.
I saw it firsthand in the town of Wageningen, about an hour's drive from Amsterdam, where a parade lasting over two hours took place and where the Hotel de Wereld sits. It was here that the terms of surrender were negotiated and signed on May 6th 1945 between the Germans and Canadian General Charles Foulkes.
General Foulkes and the official surrender, May 6 1945
My parents were aged 11 and 8 at the time that the war ended. They had endured the bombardment of Rotterdam and a life under years of war that I couldn't imagine. They still don't talk about it much, but I often remember this very fact when I feel like complaining about something. I have heard some of what they had to endure, from my grandfather being taken away for 3 years to eating tulip bulbs, and it's an instant reality check.
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To see these 80- and 90-year-olds still marching and hearing the roar of the the crowd as they passed by, I felt fiercely patriotic about the Canadian involvement and deeply humbled, almost embarrassed at the same time. After all, I had nothing to do with the heroism of those years and I feel a lot like an undeserving beneficiary of the goodwill that the Dutch still show towards Canadians today.
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Lamar County travels to Atlanta to take on Lovett in the quarterfinal round of the GHSA Class AA state playoffs this week. The Trojans are 11-0-1 and the Lions, Region 6-AA champions, are 8-4.
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Friday at 7:30 at Kilpatrick Memorial Stadium, Conley-Oakley Field
The Trojan defense will need to show up big Friday night at Lovett after getting gashed in the first half of their second round matchup with Benedictine. (Photo: Walter Geiger)
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With the movie "Draft Day" being released this weekend and the NFL draft coming up, here is a list of five actors who played college football.
With "Draft Day" opening this weekend, and the NFL draft right around the corner, we thought we would look at five actors that played college football. They wanted to be superstars in the NFL, but had to settle for being famous actors instead. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson "The Rock" played defensive tackle for the Miami University Hurricane's national championship team in 1991. Unfortunately, an injury sidelined his hopes of playing in the NFL. Johnson tried his luck in the CFL after graduation, but he was cut soon afterwards. After football, Johnson turned to pro wrestling, which lead him in to a career in acting. He did play a pro football player in "The Game Plan." "The Rock" earns more money anyways as an actor. He was named Forbes magazine's highest-grossing star, thanks to the $1.3 billion his films have earned at the box office in 2013. John Wayne Before John Wayne was a movie legend, he was just Marion Morrison, a strong USC offensive tackle. The rumor was that Wayne broke his collarbone while body surfing at Newport Beach before his junior year and had his football scholarship taken away. Wayne quit college and went to work for a film studio and the rest is history. As if being the manliest man in movie history was not enough, knowing he was a USC football player just adds to the legend. Burt Reynolds If you watch college football, you will probably noticed that Burt Reynolds always seems to be on the sidelines at Florida State University football games. He is a huge Seminole fan because he played fullback for FSU from 1954-1957. Reynolds career stats are not very impressive. He had 19 carries for 146 yards and two touchdowns, six pass catches for 76 yards and a handful of kick and punt returns. He suffered a few major injuries that hampered his career. He was inducted into the Florida State Hall of Fame in 1977. Reynolds did get a chance to show off some of his football skills in the movie "The Longest Yard" where he played a quarterback. Ed O'Neill Remember Al Bundy always bragging about his high school football glory days? Well O'Neill actually played past high school and almost in the NFL. He played football for Ohio University for a couple years before transferring to his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, and Youngstown State. He was a defensive lineman for the Penguins in 1967 and 1968. O'Neill was signed by the Pittsburg Steelers in 1969. He was cut before the season started. He was able to use his knowledge about football when he was a head coach of little league football team in "Little Giants." James Caan James Caan has played some pretty tough guys in a lot of movies. Well it turns out, he is a pretty tough guy in real life as well because he played football for Michigan State. One of Caan's most famous roles is the part of terminally ill NFL player Brian Piccolo in the classic TV movie "Brian's Song." He is also the head coach of a college team in "The Program." Now we know where Caan get's his game face for his serious acting roles. Honorable mentions: Joel McHale – Washington University Dean Cain – Princeton University Ronald Reagan – Eureka College Brian Dennehy – Columbia University Matthew Fox – Columbia University Carl Weathers – San Diego State University Josh Duhamel – Minot State University%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D161335%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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Last week I posted on Twitter that leaving chicken stock (recipe below) out on the stovetop all week was fine and I got all kinds of mystified tweets about how could this possibly be safe.
It is, and it's a great way to have stock on hand all week for a quick sauce, a poaching liquid, an instant soup, add it to a stir-fry and thicken with cornstarch. You don't need to go through all the straining and storing and labeling of stock and cleaning a big heavy stock pot. I do like to strain it out of one pot into another to get the bones out of it, but even that's not strictly necessary to have easy chicken stock available most days of the week. [Update 8/24/2011: I should have clarified, provided that you boil it for at least several minutes, but, according to an article in today's NYTimes by food science authority, even this is unwise. While simmering the stock will take care of bacteria, it does not kill spores, and it does not destabilize all toxins. So prudence suggests that if you leave the stock on the stove top to cool overnight, bring the stock to a simmer the next day, strain and cool it then. (I'd like also to note, that the idea for Harold's article came from me—and I'm glad for Harold's reporting, as ever.)]
I'll address the bacteria issues then describe how I personally make small batches of stock all year long using the leftover carcass from a roasted chicken dinner, which I do about once a week. (You should too, Russ Parsons!)
People are unnecessarily afraid of bacteria. Once your stock is cooked, it's safe to eat. If there was bad bacteria in it, you'd have killed it. Let it cool uncovered (the faster the better; don't fear bacteria but don't give them the upper hand). Leave the pot out on the stove top (covered or uncovered once it's cooled, doesn't really matter). Bring it up to a simmer for 10 minutes or so the next day and any bacteria that landed there and began to mulitply (and they multiply with astonishing speed at 90 to 110 degrees F.) will be dispatched well before the stock hits a simmer. [Again, as the article mentioned above notes, and as a commenter below notes, this leaves the possibility for heat stable toxins to develop.]
The only issue in leaving stock out all week is flavor. During the winter, our kitchen is cool. In the summer when it's hot, I can't leave the stock out because bacteria makes it sour. They don't make it harmful. I would not leave it out for a week cold and eat it without reheating it. The following are recipe and pix of how I make small batches of chicken stock all year long. It take minutes of actual labor, not hours. Having Made And Consumed the The World's Most Difficult Chicken Recipehere's what you do:
Easy Chicken Stock
- Chicken bones and scraps from the devoured chicken
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 or 2 carrots chopped (I peel them for photos!)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, cracked
- optional: tablespoon tomato paste, garlic, thyme
- Combine all ingredients in a 2 quart pot cover with water, and cook over low heat (no bubbles, 180 degrees F/82 degrees C is ideal) for 4 to 6 hours or bring to a simmer and put it in a low oven (below 200 degrees F/93 degrees C) for 4 to 6 hours (I sometimes just leave it in overnight).
- If you want to strain it, strain it. If you want to skim the fat off the top, fine. If you don't, don't.
- Bring to a simmer before using; if not using the next day bring it to a simmer, allow it to cool and refrigerate it.
The following are pix from start to finished stock:
UPDATE 4/8/11: After an email exchange with a commenter, a large-animal veterinarian who wishes to remain anonymous, I'm adding information on bacteria for those who want it. I stand by all of the above, and I left Monday's chicken stock on the stove to cool overnight and didn't get around to finishing it till 4 the next day. I honestly think it's highly unlikely that it's unsafe, so unlikely that I won't hesitate to feed my kids chicken soup tonight, but it is possible that bacteria could be introduced to such a stock, two of which could potentially grow and create enough heat-stable toxin to make you ill. When I emailed the vet that it was more dangerous to drive a car than leave a stock pot out at room temperature (which it is), she advised me to wear a seat belt. Which I do. Also I refrigerated my stock when it was done in a quart deli container. While I don't think anyone is going to stir their stock with a toothbrush or pick their nose over it, then leave the stock out for several days, it would indeed be irresponsible of me not to convey as much info as possible about this issue for people who have concerns. Staphylococcus aureos is a common bacterium found on skin and in noses, where it is harmless, but it can, in the wet warm protein conditions of stock, generate a heat-stable toxin that could make you very, very uncomfortable. And there is a type of E. coli, unrelated to the nasty 0157:H7, that can generate a toxin that can give you diarrhea, which is no fun, especially if you are dining at Paul Bocuse (which happened to me this winter, almost certainly froom food poisoning). And if you want to get really paranoid about things keep the handy chart at the bottom of this link taped to your refrigerator. If you liked this post on chicken stock, check out these other links:
- The New York Times shares a recipe for Pressure Cooked Chicken Stock
- Here is a Matzo Ball Soup recipe from the Smitten Kitchen
- Here's the 2-quart All-Clad sauce pan I use here.
- Examines starting temperatures, stock clarity, protein density and more in this kitchen science article by CIA Chef Tucker Bunch.
- Here's more info on the All-Strain cloths and Dalton-Ruhlman cooking tools.
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Movie review: 'Rushlights' is a con job on every level
"Rushlights" is a ludicrously florid indie noir about a guy, a girl and an inheritance con that rarely plays like anything more than an extended re-enactment one might find on a basic cable true-crime show.
Starting with a flirtatious exchange between handsome schemer Billy (Josh Henderson) and Sarah (Haley Webb), a waitress with a drug problem, director/co-writer Antoni Stutz sends the pair to a tiny Texas town where Sarah fools a lawyer (Aidan Quinn) into believing she's the heir to a recently killed local businessman's gothic estate.
Trouble follows, in the form of a suspicious sheriff (Beau Bridges), some naughty family secrets and a vengeful, sadistic dealer (Crispian Belfrage), but also in the form of terrible presentational acting, choppy editing, overcooked lighting schemes, jacked-up sound effects and a near-pathological reliance on brassy, loud music cues signaling danger. (They even pop up during tension-free conversations, like a soundtrack with a flatulence problem.)
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If ever a movie signaled that the Quentin Tarantino copycat age of empty-headed wink-wink genre rehashing is still with us, "Rushlights" is that movie.
MPAA rating: R for violence, language, sexuality and drug use.
Running time: 1 hour, 36 minutes.
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After 15 years of being one of the most popular media players across the world, Winamp, is going to be shut down on December 20, 2013. AOL has announced that it is shutting down Winamp.com and its associated web services and that the media player will also no longer be available for download.
"Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release. Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years," said the note on the Winamp.com website.
The service was started in 1997 by two college students Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev and found popularity as MP3 file sharing gathered speed in the early 2000s. Winamp's parent company, Nullsoft, was acquired by AOL back in 1999.
On Windows, Winamp had become the go-to music player for an entire generation of music listeners. Recently, the company also released a Mac and Android versions of the app. The player supports all popular file formats including Ogg Vorbis. It also supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC format files. It was also among the first players to offer streaming music through support for SHOUTCast, Nullsoft's cross-platform software to stream media. One of the highlights of the player was the capability to skin its user interface and add plug-ins to extend its functionality.
While all of this is the thing of the past, you still have about less than a month to head onto Winamp's website download the media player to live on within your systems. Don't forget to pick up some funky looking skins for old times' sake!
You can download it by visiting Winamp.com.
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The topic of this article is of a real-life subject that has been mentioned "in-universe" in a canon source. The Harry Potter Wiki is written from the perspective that all information presented in canon is true (e.g., Hogwarts really exists), and, as such, details contained in this article may differ from real world facts.
- "Hermione jumped and returned at once to her star-chart; Harry looked down at his own and noticed that he had mis-labelled Venus as Mars. He bent to correct it."
- —Harry Potter while taking his Astronomy O.W.L.[src]
Venus is a planet in the Solar System. It is discussed in Astronomy classes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and possibly in Divination classes as well.[1] It was part of the O.W.L. practical examination for Astronomy in the 1995–1996 school year.[2]
Behind the scenes
- In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, it is stated that the Astronomy O.W.L. began at 11 o'clock at night, and Harry observed Venus. In the real world, Venus can only be observed shortly before sunrise, or shortly after sunset[3], but it can never be seen at midnight.
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 14 (The Unforgivable Curses)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 31 (O.W.L.s)
- ↑ wikipedia: Venus
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Last night I headed out to dinner with my fellow gluten free gal Victoria. We headed to Honu Kitchen & Cocktails located in Huntington. I had been meaning to try Honu for a while because Victoria had told me that she can tolerate some of the menu items there.
Honu Kitchen & Cocktails has great atmosphere. We were seated right away (which is always a plus) and I immediately started looking over the menu. They have a great menu in general and my eye went to the small plates and on a stick section of the menu. Originally I was going to get the Thai Chicken which Victoria said was similar to a chicken satay which is delicious! While browsing the menu, our waiter came over to tell us the specials (none of which were gluten free – which is OK) and we ordered our drinks. We decided on the Acai Margarita which they had promoted on Facebook. It is Cabo Blanco Tequila, Triple Sec, Acai Juice and fresh lime. It was delicious! It had a little bit of bite to it from the acai juice but it was still sweet (which is what I like in my cocktails).
I was sure I was going to get the Thai Chicken but then Victoria told me that their calamari was dusted in cornmeal! I was sold! I love calamari and since becoming gluten free, I have been unable to have it because it is always crusted in flour. Victoria went for the Chipotle Chicken salad – one of their seasonal salads which also sounded delicious and it was an entree size so it is perfect for dinner.
Our meals came and they were very good. They calamari is served with a spicy aioli which was perfect for the cornmeal crusted dish. It wasn't super spicy but it definitely had a little kick to it which was great. I had a bit of the chipotle chicken salad which was also very good. Big pieces of chicken, not too heavily dressed and the vegetables were very crisp.
Overall Honu Kitchen & Cocktails was great and I will definitely be back again!
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A Better World for All : Progress Toward the International Development Goals
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Progress towards the international development goals
Poverty in all its forms is the greatest challenge to the international community. Of special concern are the 1.2 billion people living on less than $1 a day and the additional 1,6 billion living on less than $2 a day.
Setting goals to reduce poverty is an essential part of the way forward. Building on the global United Nations conferences and summits of the 1990s, the development goals described in this report are broad goals for the entire world. They address some of the many dimensions of poverty and its effects on people's lives. In accepting these goals, the international community makes a commitment to the world's poorest and most vulnerable—and to itself.
The goals are set in precise terms—measured in numbers to ensure accountability. The openness and transparency of such numbers can help us chart a course to achieve the goals and track progress. But people are not numbers—happiness is not a statistic. These goals are worthwhile because they will improve the quality of human life. The world will be better, and safer, for its 6 billion people and for the projected 7 billion people in 2015.
Goals cannot be imposed—they must be embraced. Each country must identify its own particular goals, its own path to development, and make its own commitment through dialogue with its citizens. In this, the support of the international community is vital. And the high-income countries, because of their greater resources, have much to contribute.
It is essential for all the partners in this development effort to pursue faster, sustainable growth strategies that favour the poor. To spend efficiently—avoiding waste and ensuring that the mechanisms for accountability are always in place. To spend effectively—on activities aimed at human, social and economic development, not on excessive military capacity or on environmentally disastrous projects. And to spend wisely—not committing public resources to activities that can be best undertaken by the private sector.
What are the obstacles? Weak governance. Bad policies. Human rights abuses. Conflicts, natural disasters and other external shocks. The spread of HIV/AIDS. The failure to address inequities in income, education and access to health care, and the inequalities between men and women.
But there is more. Limits on developing countries' access to global markets, the burden of debt, the decline in development aid and, sometimes, inconsistencies in donor policies also hinder faster progress.
What will it take to overcome these obstacles? True partnership—and a continuing commitment to eliminate poverty in its many dimensions. Our institutions are actively using these development goals as a common framework to guide our policies and programmes and to assess our effectiveness. We cannot afford to lose the fight against poverty. And we must be unshakeable in our unified desire to win that fight—for everyone.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) provides for a range of information and interactive education possibilities.
FINA Doping Control Rules are compiled in accordance with the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code.
The 2015 World Anti-Doping Code [1] works in conjunction with 5 International Standards including:
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Full Movie The First Time HDFull Movie The First Time Streaming In HD with duration 95 Min and released on 2012-10-19 with MPAA rating is 72.
Original Title : The First Time
Movie title in your country : The First Time
Year of movie : 2012
Genres of movie : Comedy, Drama, Romance,
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Release date of movie : 2012-10-19
Companies of movie : Destination Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films,
Countries of movie : United States of America,
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Switzerland has consistently resisted some of the more blatantly progressive-populist-socialist impulses that have gripped many of their continental neighbors — joining the 28-members of the European Union and their unified currency system springs immediately to mind — and the Swiss once again just declined the growing trend to implement their own top-down minimum wage in a national referendum over the weekend.
Swiss voters resoundingly rejected on Sunday a proposed minimum wage that would have been the world's highest, a move widely seen as reflecting an aversion to state intervention in the liberal economic policies that are the bedrock of Switzerland's prosperity.
Trade unions had sought a minimum hourly wage of 22 Swiss francs, or $24.65, in what they said was an effort to ensure fair salaries for workers in the lowest-paid sectors, such as retailing and personal services. Switzerland has no national minimum wage.
The proposed rate — considerably higher than elsewhere in Europe and more than double the $10.10 President Obama has sought in the United States — found little support in a national referendum, with 76.3 percent opposed, according to initial results released by the government. …
"Switzerland, especially in popular votes, has never had a tradition of approving state intervention in the labor markets," said Daniel Kubler, a professor of political science at the University of Zurich. "A majority of Swiss has always thought, and still seems to think, that liberal economic principles are the basis of their model of success."
A lot of Switzerland's industries already have individualized collective bargaining agreements with their respective workers, but Swiss Big Labor has been trying to argue that in a handful of job areas, wages haven't kept up with high cost-of-living increases. Meanwhile, businesses have countered that the country's relative labor freedom helps to maintain its economic dynamism, and that a national minimum wage would lead to job losses, especially among unskilled workers, while eroding competitiveness. Most Swiss voters evidently agreed, and clearly, Switzerland is doing something right compared to its neighbors:
The Swiss cabinet, known as the Federal Council, and both houses of Parliament urged voters to reject the measure, saying it didn't take into account regional and sector differences that might merit different pay. They also said the minimum wage would make it more difficult for low- and unskilled job seekers to find work.
Business lobby Swissmem said state control of pay would be a "flawed experiment" with the potential to undermine collective wage agreements in place in most industry sectors. Opponents also said Switzerland's employment system, which relies heavily on apprentice programs, would be undermined by the minimum wage. The youth unemployment rate in Switzerland is 3%, compared with 23.7% in the surrounding euro zone.


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Apple Computer's CEO Steve Jobs clearly dropped a bombshell when he told software developers at Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) that the Macintosh computer platform was going to switch from PowerPC to Intel x86 processors. He added, of course, that there would be time to adapt and manage the change, because Macs with Intel processors would be phased in over a two-year period.
Mac old-timers will recall that Apple accomplished a similar major processor transition in 1994. Back then, the switch was from Motorola's 68K processors to Motorola/IBM's PowerPC. For software developers, the transition's difficulty depended upon whether their programs used high-level code exclusively, or accessed lower-level system services. In the latter case, it required that developers make fundamental changes in how they wrote their code; some of these changes I helped document in the book The Power Macintosh Programmer's Guide (Hayden, 1994). As a consequence, Apple has ample prior experience to guide its migration to the x86 processor.
Pundits and others have already debated the wisdom and reasons for making the processor switch. The decision has been made; it's not worth repeating those arguments here. Seasoned Mac programmers are determining how painful and how expensive the transition is going to be. In this article, I examine the migration plan, and describe pitfalls you should be aware of.
Infrastructure Support
Migrating an application to the new hardware platform requires that there be a certain amount of infrastructure in place to support its development and execution. There are several key technical pillars that comprise this infrastructure. There must be:
- A native version of the operating system available to provide the needed system services.
- A mechanism to package an application's code for distribution and execution on disparate processors during the transition period. This scheme must be transparent to less tech-savvy users, or else you frustrate them when the application won't run because it's on the wrong platform.
- Tools that translate the application's source code into the platform's native code.
At the WWDC announcement, Jobs revealed that, since its introduction in 2001, every PowerPC release of Mac OS X has had an x86-based Dopplegngera separate Intel version of the OS was quietly developed and maintained (see the accompanying text box entitled "A Portable Operating System," for how Mac OS X's design allowed this). Mac OS X 10.4, (aka Tiger), which was released this April for the PowerPC Macs, is slated to be the preliminary x86-based OS release. In short, the first infrastructure pillar is therefore already in place and has been tested for years.
The core of the Mac x86 platform's distribution mechanism is the universal binary file for Mac OS X applications. A universal binary carries two versions of the applicationa version implemented as PowerPC machine code, and a version implemented in x86 machine code that is stored in a single, larger executable file. However, the application's GUI elementsTIFF images of buttons or other visual controlscan be shared between the two versions. Sharing these GUI elements, known as "resources," helps keep the universal binary application's size manageable.
The universal binary scheme is an extension of Mac OS X's Mach-O executable files (see http://developer.apple.com/ documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/ MachORuntime/FileStructure/chapter_2.1_section_7.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/ TP40000895-//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001298-154889-CJBCFJGH). Universal binary files consist of a simple archive that contains multiple Mach-O files; see Figure 1. Each Mach-O file contains contiguous bytes of an application's code and data for one processor type. Special file headers enable the platform's runtime to quickly locate the appropriate Mach-O image in the file. Listing One shows how this is done. The "fat" header identifies the file as a universal binary and specifies the number of "fat" architecture structures that follow it. Immediately past the fat header, each fat architecture data structure references the code for a different processor type in the file. These architecture structures supply the runtime with the CPU type, an offset to the start of the embedded Mach-O file within this file, and its size. When a universal binary application is launched, the operating system uses the headers to automatically locate, load, and execute the Mach-O file of the application that matches the Mac's processor type.
Universal binaries thus form the second support pillar, the distribution mechanism. Typical users are unaware of the dual sets of code packaged in the file, and they can copy the application by simply dragging and dropping it. When they launch the application, the Mac OS X runtime performs a sleight-of-hand that loads the appropriate application code from the universal binary file, then executes it. No matter what Mac it's installed on, a universal binary application thus executes at native speeds on either PowerPC- or x86-based systems.
Mac old-timers will recognize the universal binary scheme as an echo of the "fat" binary file format that handled software distribution during the Mac platform's transition to the PowerPC. Fat binaries consisted of two versions of the application68K and PowerPCand the Mac OS determined which version to load and run. The fat binary distribution scheme worked very well, and based on its success, I have high expectations that the universal binary scheme will work, too.
The third pillar, the development tools necessary to generate x86 code for the x86 Mac platform, is represented by Apple's Xcode 2.1 development tool set. Xcode consists of an IDE with GUI-based tools such as a source-code editor and debugger. It uses GCC 4 compilers to generate x86 machine code from C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ source code. Source-level debugging is possible through the use of the standard GDB tool. For x86 development, you'll need to install Xcode 2.1, along with the 10.4 Universal SDK. This SDK contains the APIs and header files that enable you to generate PowerPC code, x86 code, and universal binaries. Generating a universal binary becomes just a matter of selecting both PPC and Intel processors for code generation in Xcode's controls, and building the program. Metrowerks, whose CodeWarrior toolset helped Apple get through the 68K/PowerPC transition, will not be participating in this transition. The company has sold its x86 compiler and linker to a third party, and thus, the CodeWarrior toolset can't generate universal binaries.
For a limited time, Apple offered a Developer Transition Kit that contained the Xcode tools and universal SDK. For actual testing on the target platform, the kit also had a preliminary x86 hardware platform with a 3.6-GHz Pentium 4 processor, running a preview release of Mac OS X 4.1 for Intel.
Code Casualties
Apple has laid a solid foundation for making the migration possible. However, any programmer who's done a code port regards this plan with a healthy skepticism, because the infrastructure is still preliminary in some areas. More important, not all applications will be easy to port, and some applications will be left behind, due to design issues and costs. Let's see if we can't draw up a triage list of which applications are most likely to survive the transition.
First and foremost, any application ported to the x86 Mac platform must be a Mac OS X application. Fortunately, Mac OS X provides a wealth of different APIs for writing and migrating applicationsthere's Carbon, Cocoa, Java, and BSD UNIX. Table 1 provides a brief summary of the APIs that Mac OS X offers.
To start the triage list, it should be obvious that if you're writing a kernel extension, driver, or other low-level system service that requires intimate knowledge of the kernel plumbing or processor architecture, you've got a code rewrite ahead of you, no matter what API you use.
Mac OS 8/9 applications won't survive the transition unless they're ported to the Carbon API. Furthermore, existing Carbon apps that use the PowerPC-based Preferred Executable Format (PEF) will have to be rebuilt with Xcode 2.1 for conversion to the Mach-O executable format. The reason is that Mac OS X uses the dyld runtime, which is the native execution environment for both PowerPC and Intel Mac platforms. The dyld runtime uses the Mach-O format for its executable files, and as we've already learned, universal binaries rely on the Mach-O format to package PowerPC and x86 binary images.
Applications that use common system services should port easily. However, caveats abound. For example, how the two processors store data in memory can cause all sorts of problems even for simple applications.
Architecture's Impact
High-level application frameworks hide the gritty hardware details from developers to improve code portability and stability. When the platform's processor changes, fundamental differences in hardware behavior can ripple up through these frameworks and hurt you. Let's take a look at two of these differences and see how they affect porting a PowerPC application to the x86 platform.
One such problem is known as the "Endian issue" and occurs because of how the PowerPC and Intel processors arrange the byte order of data in memory. The PowerPC processor is Big endian in that it stores a data value's MSB in the lowest byte address, while the Intel is Little endian because it places the value's LSB in the lowest byte address. Normally, the Endian issue doesn't rear its ugly head unless you access multibyte variables through overlapping unions, use a constant as an offset into data structure, or use bitfields larger than a byte. In these situations, the position of bytes within the variable matter. Although the program's code executes flawlessly, the retrieved data is garbled due to where the processor placed the bytes in memory, and spurious results occur. To fix this problem, reference data in structures using field names and not offsets, and be prepared to swap bytes if necessary.
The Endian issue manifests itself another way when an application accesses data piecewise as bytes and then reassembles it into larger data variables or structures. This occurs when an application reads data from a file or through a network. The bad news is that any application that performs disk I/O on binary data (such as 16-bit audio stream), or uses network communications (such as e-mail or web browser), can be plagued by this problem. The good news is that each Mac OS X API provides a slew of methods that can perform the byte swapping for you. Consult the Universal Binary Programming Guidelines (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ universal_binary/universal_binary.pdf) from Apple for details.
Another potential trap manifested by the Endian issue is if your Mac application uses custom resources. Mac OS X understands the structure of its own resources and will automatically perform any byte-swapping if required. However, for a custom resource whose contents are unknown to the OS, you will have to write a byte-swapping routine for it. Those applications that use CodeWarrior's PowerPlant framework require a byte-swapping routine to swap the custom PPob resources that this framework uses. Appendix E in the Universal Binary Programming Guidelines document has some example code that shows how to swap PPob resources, and this code serves as a guideline on how to write other byte-swapping routines.
It's In the Vector
Another major processor architectural issue is for those applications that make heavy use of the PowerPC's AltiVec instructions for scientific computing and video editingsome of the Mac's bread-and-butter applications. (AltiVec is a floating-point and integer SIMD instruction set referred to as "AltiVec" by Motorola, "VMX" by IBM, and "Velocity Engine" by Apple; see http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ ve/.) AltiVec consists of more than 160 special-purpose instructions that operate on vectors held in 32 128-bit data registers. A 128-bit vector may be composed of multiple elements, such as four 32-bit integers, eight 16-bit integers, or four 32-bit floats. The AltiVec instructions can perform a variety of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) arithmetic operations (multiply, multiply-add, and others) on these elements in parallel, yielding high-throughput data processing.
Applications relying on AltiVec instructions must be rewritten to use Intel's SIMD instructions, either its Multimedia extensions (MMX) instructions or its Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) instructions. There are several flavors of SSE instructions (SSE, SSE2, and SSE3) and they work on eight 128-bit data registers.
The ideal solution for this problem is to use Cocoa's Accelerate Framework. It implements vector operations transparent of the underlying hardware. An application that uses the Accelerate Framework can operate without modification on both Mac platforms. This framework provides a ready-made set of optimized algorithms for image processing, along with DSP algorithms for video processing, medical imaging, and other data-manipulation functions.
If you must port your AltiVec code to the x86 SSE instructions, on the plus side, Intel provides a high-level C interface that simplifies the use of these instructions. Another major plus is that you've already "vectorized" your high-level code for use with AltiVec, and these modifications apply to using SSE instructions as well. That is, you should have unrolled code loops and modified the data structures they reference to take advantage of the SIMD instruction's parallel processing capabilities.
The big negative to porting to SSE is that the rest of your code will need to be heavily revised due to the differences between the AltiVec and SSE instructions. For example, there's no direct correspondence in behavior between the AltiVec and x86 permute instructions. The magnitude of the shift performed by the AltiVec permute operation can be changed at runtime, while the x86 permute requires the magnitude be set at compile time. This makes it difficult for the x86 permute to clean up misaligned data accesses, especially for use with the SSE instructions themselves. In general, AltiVec instructions that execute on the vector complex integer unit (such as the multiply-accumulate operations) have no direct counterparts in the SSE instruction set, and these portions of the vector code will need the most work.
Returning to the triage list, even applications written in Cocoa and Carbon aren't immune to certain processor issues. Applications that do any file or network I/O will have to be examined and modified, due to the Endian issue. Even mundane applications that make use of special data structure will need to be checked carefully. Those applications that make use of AltiVec will have to be completely rewritten, either to the Accelerate Framework or to SSE3 instructions. Whether they survive the transition depends on how much it will cost to correct these issues.
A Real-World Example
How well will this transition go? Some early developer reports pegged the initial porting process at taking anywhere from 15 minutes to 24 hours, depending upon how well Apple's guidelines were followed when the application was written. Those developers whose applications were written in Cocoa usually experienced the least difficulty, which shouldn't come as a surprise because Cocoa was engineered from the ground up as an application framework for NeXTSTEP, which became Mac OS X.
Bare Bones Software's port of BBEdit, its industrial-strength programming editor, offers an interesting glimpse of the process (http://www.barebones.com/products/ bbedit/). Portions of BBEdit were written in C++ and use the Carbon API, while others portions were written in Objective-C and use the Cocoa API. It only took 24 hours to get BBEdit running on the Mac x86 platform. It helped that the files BBEdit works withASCII text files that consist of byte datawere Endian neutral.
However, BBEdit's developers emphasize that although they got the program running quickly, getting every feature to work reliably took another several weeks of work, especially for testing to ensure that the features worked reliably in the new environment. Still, considering that the application was executing on a completely different platform in a short amount of time and without requiring a total code rewrite, this augers well for many Mac OS X applications making the transition. In the end, time and developers will show us how well Apple managed the transition to the Intel x86 processor.
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HOLLISTON - After visiting the Cross Street property Wednesday afternoon, selectmen decided that the old Axton-Cross building should be torn down.
�I think that makes sense for everyone involved. It serves the town better,� said Selectmen Jay Marsden.
The building will likely be leveled�and a large metal fence�put up around the property to keep people out.
The 8.6-acre property used to be owned by Axton-Cross Corporation of Massachusetts, according to the Assessor�s Office. The chemical company filed for bankruptcy in 1991. The property is managed by Robert Wexler from The Tron Group, a Boston-based consulting firm that works with distressed properties.
Fire Chief Michael Cassidy took selectmen on a tour of the lot so they could assess its condition. The building has been vacant since Planet Aid moved out in August.
Insulation was scattered across the building with a strong smell of textiles wafting through the property. Tall weeds were growing out of cracks in the building and small piles of ash were scattered outside, suggesting that people have been lighting fires.
�The building is structurally intact,� said Cassidy during the tour. He and Building Inspector Peter Tartakoff visited the property earlier this year and drew the same conclusion.
The parts of the building made of metal, including two large canopies in the back of the lot, are in good shape. However, the wood portion that was once a storage area for Axton-Cross is falling apart. The roof in that part of the building collapsed in February 2003 and has never been fixed.
Cassidy said the building can be left in its current state depending on what selectmen want to do with it.
The Tron Group was denied a demolition permit for the property last year because the company owed the town more than $600,000 in unpaid real estate taxes and fees. Selectmen also wanted to try and find a new tenant for the building.
After the visit, selectmen decided that saving the building does more harm than good.
�It�s a good piece of property, shame it�s in poor shape,� said Selectman Jay Leary.
When Wexler spoke to selectmen last year, he offered to cover part of the demolition costs. If the town took responsibility for tearing down the building, it would cost more than $1 million. Selectmen Wednesday decided to take Wexler�s offer.
�With neglect, that�s going to become a nightmare,� said Leary.
Selectmen agreed to work with the Conservation Commission and the state Department of Environmental Protection throughout�demolition.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency will also want to determine how much of the property is contaminated. Town Administrator Paul LeBeau said that has never been determined.
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Holliston board: Axton-Cross building should be demolished
HOLLISTON - After visiting the Cross Street property Wednesday afternoon, selectmen decided that the old Axton-Cross building should be torn down.