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In the semiconductor world, integration is omnipresent, driven by Moore's Law. Integration reduces power and cost while increasing performance. The latest realization of this trend is the System-on-a-Chip (SoC) approach pervasive among PCs, tablets, and smartphones. And the latest SoC is Haswell.
Haswell is the first new family of SoCs from Intel to target the 22nm FinFET process, which uses a non-planar transistor that wraps around the gate on three sides. While Ivy Bridge was the first family of 22nm products, it was not fully optimized for the 22nm process. The CPU was a shrink of the 32nm Sandy Bridge rather than a new design.
The Haswell family encompasses a new CPU core, a new GPU, and numerous system-level changes. More importantly, it marks the beginning of Intel's more unified approach to SoCs. The Haswell family is really a set of building blocks that architects will assemble for specific markets. The Haswell CPU core is a step forward in performance (as is to be expected from Intel) but more importantly, it is a huge step down in power. This SoC should be viable for high-end tablets. Variants of Haswell are aimed as low as 10W, and future improvements may reduce this further. Intel's 22nm FinFET node is necessary to achieve this wider range, but it's not sufficient. Haswell's architecture fully exploits the benefits of the new process technology in a way that Ivy Bridge never did. It ultimately yields higher performance and lower power, which will translate into PCs and tablets that run faster with a longer battery life.
At the instruction set level, the Haswell core supports four extensions that profoundly transform the x86 ISA. AVX2 widens integer SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data, a form of vectors) to 256-bit vectors, and that adds a gather instruction for irregular memory access. The fused multiply-add (FMA) instructions improve performance for floating point (FP) workloads. For cryptography, networking, and certain search operations, there are new bit manipulation instructions. Lastly, Haswell is the first widely available product with transaction memory through the TSX extension. TSX is an incredibly powerful model for multi-threaded programming that improves performance and efficiency of software by better utilizing the underlying multicore hardware. Microarchitecturally, the Haswell core achieves even higher performance than Sandy Bridge. The improvements are mainly in the out-of-order execution—especially the memory hierarchy. It all strengthens Haswell's case to be the basis of Intel's upcoming generation of products in everything from tablets to servers.
Haswell instruction set and front-end
Haswell introduces four families of new instructions. The first is AVX2, which is a 256-bit extension of existing integer SIMD. It's essentially the counterpart of the floating-point AVX instructions. AVX2 also adds vector permutes and shifts, then gathers, instructions for loading data from non-contiguous addresses. Gather is crucial for compilers to take advantage of wider SIMD instructions (e.g., AVX2 can have 32 byte long elements).
On the floating point side, Intel's new Fused Multiply Add (FMA) extension includes both 256-bit and 128-bit instructions. Compared to the conventional separate multiply and add instructions in SSE, FMA doubles the theoretical throughput. In addition, the fused instructions eliminate the intermediate rounding stage which can improve accuracy for some approximation algorithms.
The third extension is smaller and more focused on integer bit manipulation (known as BMI) for use in cryptography and packet handling. As an aside, Haswell adds a big-endian move instruction (MOVBE) that can convert to and from traditional x86 little-endian format (big-endian data stores the most significant byte first, while little endian stores the least significant byte first). This was originally introduced in Atom, and it was added to ensure full compatibility and improve performance for embedded applications.
The most significant ISA extension is TSX, which has been extensively discussed in a previous article on Haswell's transactional memory. In short, TSX separates performance from correctness for multi-threaded programs. Programmers can write simple code that is easier to debug, while the hardware extracts concurrency and performance.
Coarse-grained locking (e.g., locking an entire data structure) is easy to develop, especially when starting with single threaded code. However, fine-grained locking (e.g., locking a portion of the data structure such as a single node in a B-tree) is almost always higher performance. Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) uses hint prefixes to transparently provide the performance and throughput of fine-grained locking, even when programmers use coarse-grained locks.
Restricted Transactional Memory (RTM) is a new programming model that exposes explicit transactions through new instructions. These transactions can span complex data structures and be composed easily. However, it does require linking new libraries using RTM and possibly rewriting software to get the full benefits.
The new instruction set extensions are clearly the biggest change in Haswell's front-end. At a high level, instruction fetch and decode microarchitecture is largely similar to Sandy Bridge, but there are numerous subtle enhancements to note.
The branch prediction for Haswell has improved, although Intel was unwilling to share the specific details. The instruction cache is still 8-way associative, 32KB, and dynamically shared by the two threads. Likewise, the instruction TLBs are the same capacity. The major changes are enhancing instruction cache misses and prefetching to make better use of the existing resources. Instruction fetching from the instruction cache continues to be 16B per cycle, but with more outstanding L1 misses and more timely prefetching.
The decoding for Haswell is largely identical to Sandy Bridge. There are four legacy decoders that take in x86 instructions and emit simpler uops. The first is a complex one that can emit 1-4 fused uops and three simple decoders that can emit one fused uop each. Like Sandy Bridge, there is compare+jump fusion and stack pointer elimination. The Haswell uop cache is also identical, with 32 sets of eight cache lines. Each cache line holds up to six uops.
The Haswell uop queue was redesigned to improve single threaded performance. Sandy Bridge had two 28 entry uop queues, one for each thread. However, in Ivy Bridge the uop queues were combined into a single 56 entry structure. The chief advantage is that when a single thread is executing on Ivy Bridge or Haswell, the entire 56 entry uop buffer is available for loop caching and queuing.

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Early 1900's Orient Bicycle Company Ring
size 10, sterling silver, saddle style
Advertising spoon for Orient Bicycle Company, stem says "Lead the Leaders", has a bike sprocket/gearset with a bike chain wrapped around. Displays a sword and a bike. (early 1900s)
Early 1900's Orient Bicycle Company Ring
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Use this elegant patterned brass wire to make a gorgeous cuff bracelet in a snap or cut pieces from it for a variety of designs. Co-fire with bronze clay. Can be soldered using low temperature silver solder to incorporate with other brass stampings, settings, sheet metals and other materials. View our videos below on tips for low temperature soldering, creating earrings and working with Gilders Paste.
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Brass can be colored using oxidizing agents, heat, colored pencils, paints, inks, resins, Gilders Paste and other products. Before applying any of these surface treatments, be sure the metal is clean.
The process of manufacturing this brass material leaves oils and residue that should be cleaned off. A good cleaning solution can be made from dish soap, ammonia and water.
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ROAD TRIP! No need to dread a family vacation with guidance from new book
To most, the words ``family road trip'' mean an endless car ride, museum after museum, and the dreaded words, ``Are we there yet?''
Joe Cali of Southborough has given traveling families the solution to their road trip woes with his new book ``The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Family Road Trip.''
``I trust that this book can help change the way you and your family think about vacations. And in doing so, it will change your life,'' Cali writes.
His approach? Teach good family vacation planning skills.
``Most travel books don't explain how to plan one (a road trip),'' he said.
The book is based on Cali's four ``vacation pillars'': planning ahead, involving the whole family, discovering something new, and expecting the unexpected. The guide includes the family's own ``Top 10 Road Trip Itineraries'' and tips that families can use to make their drive a good one.
Even the book was a family project.
Cali, his wife, Wendy, 16-year-old daughter Christie and 14-year-old son Josh wrote short essays describing their family adventures.
Cali plans to donate every cent of the proceeds to the places that have helped his family create their vacation memories. Those includes the National Park Foundation, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Farm Aid and Habitat for Humanity.
The idea for the book came from conversations with family and friends.
Cali started to create sample itineraries for people who became interested in fun, family road trips. The demand became so great that he made time to write a book, although not always during normal waking hours.
``Sometimes at 4 o'clock on a Saturday morning,'' he said.
Cali's childhood, unlike his children's, did not revolve around travel. But when his father gave 9-year-old Joe a book depicting places all over the world, young Cali was awestruck.
``It seemed kind of like this really distant dream. It was so hard for me to imagine going anywhere,'' he recalled.
Now, traveling is Cali's life.
The Cali family has traveled to 46 states and 20 foreign countries, and plans to see more.
The walls of the Cali home are decorated with family photographs and collages depicting their journeys. The family has collected magnets from almost every place they have visited, proudly displayed in a frame on the kitchen wall.
Cali is the executive vice president for direct marketing and finance at Grand Circle Travel. He sends out the company's catalogs and takes a trip once a year to make sure Grand Circle Travel cruises, safaris or vacations are perfect for their 200,000 customers.
``I can't believe I actually make a living doing this,'' he said.
Before his travel days, Cali worked at New England Business Service in Groton for 12 years.
He then turned his attention toward his real passion: seeing the world.
Cali's favorite road trip took his family 22 days to complete.
That vacation - which the Calis call The Great America West National Park Road Trip - included visits to Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Canyon and the Four Corners, to name a few.
Cali's work has taken him all over the world including the Galapagos Islands and Egypt, another one of his favorites.
The family's next adventure, slated for next summer, will follow the trail of Lewis and Clark, taking a little over two weeks to drive from Minnesota to Oregon.
His advice to first-time road trippers?
``Start small, do something about two hours away. Ask your kids what they want to do and work in something along the way. Bring plenty of entertainment. But my number one advice is: Just do it!''
"The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Family Road Trip'' by Joe Cali, ($18.95) published by Author House, is available at online booksellers and local bookstores or by special order.


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We are proud to announce 1 runner up and the 2 winners of our 3rd Annual Shavous Contest. We received 17 recipes (some with accompanying photos, some without), some recipes were mediocre, most were very g0od; they ranged from easy to intricate. We finally selected this three:
1st Runner Up
Grilled Mozzarella and Tomato Sandwich
- 8 slices country style bread, cut 1/4″ thick each
- 1/2 lb whole milk mozzarella cheese, cut into 12 slices
- Sea Salt to taste
- 16 sun dried tomatoes
- 16 large fresh basil leaves
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- On each of 4 bread slices, place 3 slices of mozzarella. Season with salt, top with 4 sun-dried tomatoes, 4 basil leaves, cover with another slice of bread.
- Heat 2 large nonstick pans over moderately high heat. When hot, add 1 tablespoon of butter to each pan and swirl to melt the butter and coat the pan. Put 2 sandwiches in each pan and place a heavy skillet on top of each as a weight. If the to is not heavy enough you can weigh down with canned goods or anything that will add weight. cook for 2 to 3 minutes until the bottoms are well browned and remove.
- Add another 1/2 teaspoon butter to each pan, put sandwiches back on with the browned side up. Weigh them down again and cook until the second side is well browned (2 to 3 minutes).
- Cut sandwiches diagonally and serve while hot.
Contributed by Leah Rubenfeld
(2) 1st Prize Winners
This year Brent Delman from The Cheese Guy.com gave us 2 baskets, a good thing, because we would had a tough time choosing the final winner.
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup espresso or strong coffee
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 Tbsp. rum (preferably dark)
- 8 oz. Mascarpone
- 16 ladyfingers
- Cocoa powder, for dusting (I used Dutch process cocoa powder, because it's not as bitter as regular cocoa powder)
- Combine 3 egg yolks, 1 Tbsp. espresso, sugar and rum in large mixing bowl. Beat 2-3 minutes, until pale. Add Mascarpone and beat 3-5 minutes until smooth.
- In another bowl, combine 3 egg whites and a pinch of sugar. Beat until stiff peaks form. Gently fold into Mascarpone mixture.
- Spread half of the mixture on the bottom of your serving dish.
- Dip one side of each ladyfinger into remaining espresso and layer on top of the first layer of mascarpone mix.
- Spread the remaining mascarpone mixture on top, and sprinkle with cocoa.
- Refrigerate at least 3 hours before serving.
Contributed by Nossi Fogel,
from his website: http://thekoshergastronome.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/moms-tiramisu/
on the site you can also see step by step photos.
Chocolate Drizzled Cheesecake IceCream Pie
- 1 package chocolate Tea Biscuits
- 6 Tbs. sugar
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 8 oz. 5% Soft White Cheese
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 tsp. corn starch (dissolved in 1/4 cup hot water)
- 1 10 oz whip
- 1 bar Dairy Chocolate
- Blend Tea Biscuits with sugar and butter. Press into a 9″ round pan.
- Beat the whip. Combine all other ingredients, besides for the chocolate, and fold into whip. Pour into pie crust.
- Melt the chocolate bar and drizzle on top of filling and use a fork to marbleize.
- Freeze for at least 2 hrs and garnish with chocolate curls.
Congratulations to the 2 winners and the runner up!!!
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Wednesday he is trying to speak with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about how the federal Justice Department will respond to Colorado's legalizing of marijuana.
Hickenlooper said he hopes to set up a phone call with Holder as early as Thursday to hear the federal government's position. He said he doubted the Justice Department would respond passively to the passage of Amendment 64, which legalizes limited possession and commercial sales of marijuana.
"My sense is that it is unlikely the federal government is going to allow states one by one to unilaterally decriminalize marijuana," the governor said, adding, though, "You can't argue with the will of the voters."
Hickenlooper said understanding the federal response will be vital as state lawmakers and officials look at how to move forward with new regulations for marijuana stores. Those regulations need to be in place by January 2014, meaning lawmakers will have only one legislative session — which starts in about two months — to work them out.
"If the attorney general of the United States is willing to allow that to happen, and I would certainly point out the reasons why that makes sense, certainly then we have a longer discussion," Hickenlooper said. "Then we get back to looking at what are the details, how would we tax this, how would we create a regulatory environment that was robust and really held people accountable?"
Colorado voters on Tuesday approved Amendment 64 with nearly 55 percent support, joining Washington as the first states in the nation to legalize marijuana use and retail sales. In what had been projected to be a close race, the measure ultimately received more votes than President Barack Obama.
Hickenlooper's statements came as proponents and opponents of the measure held dueling news conferences to address the fall-out from Tuesday's historic vote. The measure's supporters heralded their victory as the first step in a nationwide push to end marijuana prohibition.
"Things are moving," Mason Tvert, one of the campaign's chief proponents, said. "They're moving quickly. We think the writing is on the wall."
Meanwhile, opponents of marijuana said Colorado voters will come to regret the consequences of passing the amendment. They predicted marijuana legalization would increase pot use, especially among young people, and lead to higher rates of drugged driving and substance abuse.
"This is contrary to the interest of public health," said Bob DuPont, founding director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Amendment 64 allows people 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of marijuana and grow six plants in their homes. It also would allow marijuana to be sold at specially regulated stores, which local governments could ban from their communities.
The law will not take effect until Hickenlooper signs off on the vote, a process that could take a month or more. Until then, it remains illegal to possess any amount of marijuana in Colorado absent medical-marijuana approval. Recreational marijuana stores would not start popping up until 2014, after regulations for them are crafted.
The federal government may go to court to block the new law from being implemented, but officials have not yet said precisely how they would respond.
"The Department of Justice's enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged," local U.S. attorney's office spokesman Jeff Dorschner wrote in a statement. "In enacting the Controlled Substances Act, Congress determined that marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance. We are reviewing the ballot initiative and have no additional comment at this time."
Amendment 64 proponent Brian Vicente said he hopes there will not be a crackdown.
"We are cautiously optimistic the federal government will respect the will of Colorado voters," Vicente said.
But Hickenlooper isn't so sure.
"Some people think there's going to be big shops, and there's going to be large (growers)," Hickenlooper said. "It's hard for me to imagine that happening and having big pot shops if the federal government still views it as illegal."
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Keyboard Lesson Goldmine Series Book/2-CD Pack. Piano Instruction. Instruction, Rock Instruction. Softcover with CD. 208 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.122262).
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Earlier last month, in a book review at Britain's Current Intelligence titled The myth of "nonviolent Buddhism" — demolished once again, Vladimir Tikhonov wrote that according to Mahayana Buddhism, when it comes to killing . . .
. . . it is the intention and not the act in itself that is focused upon. . . . As some of the most influential MahÄyÄna sÅ«tras . . . suggest, "killing" is simply a meaningless misconception from an "enlightened" viewpoint (since neither the killer nor the killed have any independent existence) and may be undertaken if intended to prevent a worse misfortune, and done with the best objectives in mind.
That's some world-class rationalization. Furthermore, writes Tikhonov, "the Buddhist emphasis on 'good intention' opened the door for a broad spectrum of violence legitimization, including both war and in criminal justice."
One then feels compelled to ask: If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, is the road to heaven paved with bad intentions? Consider that your koan for the day.
The subject of the review is Buddhist Warfare (Oxford University Press) edited by American academics Michael K. Jerryson and Mark Juergensmeyer. It follows in the tradition of Zen at War, Brian Daizen Victoria's 1998 book that explored how closely much of Zen Buddhism aligned itself with Japanese militarism leading up to World War II. According to Tikhonov, the new collection . . .
. . . persuasively argues that even though in theory Buddhism highlights the inescapably insalubrious [! — RW] karmic consequences of any violence, in practice it functions pretty much like any other religion: From its inception, Buddhism was integrated into a complicated web of power relations; it always attempted to accommodate itself with the pre-existent power hierarchies while preserving a degree of internal autonomy; and it inevitably came to acknowledge, willingly or otherwise, that the powers-that-be use violence to achieve their objectives.
If that's not disillusioning enough for you, try this:
. . . the passive acknowledgement of the inexorableness of state violence further developed into active collaboration with state war-making or internal pacification — as long as state bloodletting was seen as also serving Buddhist religious interests.
At its most extreme . . .
. . . a very similar logic was also applied to the cruelest forms of criminal justice utilized by secular rulers in Mongolian society after the conversion to Gelug-pa Buddhism in late sixteenth century. Executions by spine-breaking and slicing into pieces [as well as torture, were] justified as long as they were conducted by "Dharma-protecting" authorities with the "compassionate" intention of purifying society. Violence ended up being justified as long as it was seen as the best way of realizing rulers' good intentions in what was perceived as an inherently violent world.
"Good intentions" rears its now-ugly head again. Have you figured out the koan yet? Meanwhile, you may be surprised to learn that as Islamists take some of their cues from Muhammed leading followers into battle, the responsibility for Buddhist violence can be laid, in part, at the door of the "the historical Buddha and his disciples, since it was exactly their attitude of tacitly acknowledging state violence and accepting sponsorship from ruling-class personages directly or indirectly implicated in all sorts of violence."
Among the most pernicious effects of "early Buddhism's dichotomous view of society" is that it "gave Buddhists little reason to take risks by actively promoting antiwar views certain to alienate state rulers."
Tikhonov's powerful conclusion resounds. Much as he values Buddhist Warfare, he would still like to see . . .
. . . a broader and stronger contextualization of Buddhist violence as part and parcel of a more general tendency of practically all religions to be violent. Religions are symbolic systems that organize the universe in such a way as to make themselves central and powerful — and closing the distance between "power" and "violence" is only a question of time, however "compassionate" the axiology of a given religion might originally have been.


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Today's News: Our Take - Cult Producers on Show's Confusing Plot: We Have Faith the Audience Will Follow Along
Can a meta show be too meta? The creator of Cult, which features a show within the show, hopes that answer is no.
The new CW series stars Vampire Diaries alum Matt Davis as Jeff, a journalist who is prompted to investigate the rabid fans of a show called Cult when his brother goes missing. Jessica Lucas plays an inquisitive production assistant on the show whom he teams up with during his search. The series leads viewers to sometimes question if they're watching the "inside" show -- which stars Robert Knepper as cult leader Billy Grimm and Alona Tal as the cop searching for him --or the "outside" show which follows Jeff. The executive producer of the inside show, Stephen Rae, is also mysteriously labeled as the executive producer of the outside show that the audience is watching.
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Confused yet?
"We are aware we have a complex multifaceted show going on and are trying to keep it as clear as possible," executive producer Rockne O'Bannon told reporters at the Televisions Critics Association winter TV previews Sunday . "I have a great deal of faith and trust in the audience to hook into what's going on."
A big part of the appeal with having a fictional show that uses social media and the idea of group viewings as a character of its own is that The CW can incorporate "second screen" into its promotion.
"What's interesting to CW marketing is that it isn't just social media being used to promote a show ,but that the show is about social media and that connection," O'Bannon said. "The marketing will be the same within the show as the marketing the appears on the side of buses and such." And executive producer Josh Schwartz, who knows a thing or two about how social media affects a series, added, "[With Twitter] you have such access to the people creating and starring in the shows and you feel like you can control that conversation. When things don't go the way you have tweeted...there's a certain level of animosity that can grow." But enough to kill? "We obviously hope that the show is incredibly effective," O'Bannon said, before Len Goldstein added, "Not that effective."
Cult premieres on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 9/8c on The CW.
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Frankly the main rule to remember when pairing food with wine is that one should drink whichever wine one likes with particular food. Having said that there are some basic guidelines to maximize your enjoyment:
DrinkWine.com lists 5 basic rules:
Match the weight & texture of the food to the weight & texture of the wine
Example: A light-bodied fish like sole works best with a light-bodied white wine like pinot grigio, while a heavier-bodied fish like salmon calls for a richer, fuller-bodied white like chardonnay.
Balance the intensity of flavors in the food and wine
Example: A mildly flavored food like roast turkey pairs well with light-bodied white and red wines like sauvignon blanc and Beaujolais, but in the context of a Thanksgiving dinner featuring stuffing, cranberry sauce, and other strongly flavored side dishes, an intensely flavored white like gewürztraminer or a rich, fruity red like syrah or zinfandel would be preferable.
Balance tastes
The five basic tastes are sweet, sour, salt, bitter and umami (the recently discovered fifth taste found in savory foods like mushrooms, tomatoes, soy sauce, and aged cheeses and meats). Salty and sour tastes in food make wines taste milder (fruitier and less acidic), while sweet and savory (umami) tastes make wines taste stronger (drier and more astringent).
Example: A simple cut of beef tames the tannins and brings out the fruit of a young cabernet sauvignon, but chocolate (which some people enjoy with cabernet) will accentuate its tannins and diminish its fruit. Seasonings, such as salt, lemon, vinegar, and mustard, can be used to achieve balance in food-wine pairings, either to make the wine taste milder (salt, lemon, vinegar) or stronger (sugar or umami ingredients).
Match flavors
Flavors are combinations of tastes and aromas, and there are an infinite number of them. You can fine-tune food and wine pairings by matching flavors in the food and the wine.
Example: Roast duck in a plum sauce is well-served by red wines, like barbera or syrah, with pronounced black plum flavors while grilled steak in a pepper sauce will go beautifully with a peppery zinfandel.
Counterpoint flavors
Sometimes, the best choice is to counterpoint flavors rather than matching them.
Example: Pairing a spicy dish like Jamaican Jerk Chicken with a high-alcohol red wine may seem logical, but, in fact, the heat in the dish will ignite the alcohol in the wine to produce an unpleasantly hot, harsh impression. A better choice is a low-alcohol, fruity wine like riesling or gewürztraminer, which will both frame and tame the spicy flavors of the dish.
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Polystichum nanum Christ
First published in Bull. Acad. Int. Géogr. Bot., sér. 3, 16: 238 (1906)
This name is a synonym of Polystichum lanceolatum
POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. [Cited as Polystichum lanceolatum.]
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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Alex Puccio
The first time Alex Puccio tried to join her climbing team, she didn't get far. Alex, now 17, from McKinney, Texas, had just started climbing at the Exposure gym.
The first time Alex Puccio tried to join her climbing team, she didn't get far. Alex, now 17, from McKinney, Texas, had just started climbing at the Exposure gym.
"My sister was four years younger, but she was better." The coach came and asked her, 'Do you want to be on my team?' She said, I don't know.' I said, Are you kidding? I want to be on the team!
As she remembers it, the coach, Kyle Clinkscales, said, I don't know if I want you to be.' I was a little older, about 13, and he didn't know if he could mold me, and he thought I was too big a flirt.
Puccio set out to prove her mettle, training hard and climbing with the team members. The coach paid attention: He sat me down and told me, You'd have to be very disciplined about it, and not goof off, and be serious,' and I agreed. Dedication now defines her.
Last summer Alex, a passionate boulderer (she also does roped climbs), at 16 won among women at the Teva Mountain Games, in Vail, Colorado. In spring, at an adult National Championship, in Boulder, this then unknown climber made the finals in ninth place. Then she won.
I don't think anyone expected that of me, except the people I knew, because they knew how hard I trained, four days a week. Two days my coach trained me and two days I trained myself, all weekend, because I wanted to win.
She and her friends on Team Texas earned number one among teams at the Junior Nationals for three years running.
Alex climbs outdoors as much as possible, and her ticks include eight V8s, a V8/9, and five V9s: Dragonfly Low, Frogger, Beer Can Traverse, Dope Fiend Low and A Date With Beth (sit start), all at Hueco Tanks.
Next year, she hopes to attend the University of Colorado, in Boulder, studying for a business degree.
I want to start climbing outside a lot more and achieve harder climbs. To me what's fun is always sending a little harder.


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Decorative arts are often designed with a few secrets and surprises—hidden drawers, colorful interiors and ornate decorations in unexpected places. As displayed in a gallery, it's not always possible to show everything. Today and tomorrow on Unframed, for your eyes only, two of our curators have unlocked, turned over, and opened up four works of art to reveal to you the wonders that are normally hidden from view. First up, Elizabeth Williams gives a look at two objects on view in our European galleries.
This miniature portrait gold box of Napoleon Bonaparte I is a stunning combination of an exquisitely rendered portrait by French painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey and a tour de force of goldsmithing by the Swiss firm Moulinié, Bautte et Moynier, which was based in Geneva. A pupil of Jacques-Louis David, Isabey became one of the best-known French portraitists with a long list of commissions from the successive rulers of France, including Marie Antoinette and the Napoleonic court. Here Isabey has depicted Napoleon as an official icon, shown in the coronation regalia he wore when he crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I. Surrounded with a border of alternating stars and bees, a symbol of Napoleon's reign, the emperor wears a gold diadem, and the five-armed cross of the Order of the Legion of Honor lays against the ermine of his coronation robes. The blue pendant with an "N" that Napoleon wears is replicated with the golden "N" set on a ground of deep blue enamel on the underside of the box which is encircled by intricately wrought radiating trophées d'armes (depictions of the enemy's arms taken by the victor), composed of three different tones of gold: white, yellow and rose.
But why spend time and effort to so elaborately decorate the bottom of the box?
This gold box was fashioned for the functional purpose of holding snuff, or powdered tobacco. Initially overshadowed by the practice of smoking tobacco during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the taking of snuff developed into an elaborate social custom during the eighteenth century. By taking snuff from a gold box, wealthy aristocrats could show their taste, status, and wealth in a single gesture. All sides of these magnificent status symbols would be on view as the owner displayed the treasure just taken from his pocket and opened the lid to take a pinch of snuff. In addition to serving a functional and social purpose, gold boxes were also considered a sort of fashion accessory, and were often selected to complement the owner's couture, or to mirror the attributes of the season.
Made from rare and exotic materials such as ivory and ebony, this cabinet, with its many drawers and compartments, was made to house valuable personal possessions. Such luxurious cabinets were prominently displayed to show the taste, knowledge, and wealth of their owners. Whereas a number of the drawers can easily be spotted by their keyholes, this cabinet possesses many hidden drawers and compartments that only those familiar with its design could find.
Although normally under lock and key, we have temporarily opened some of the secret spaces for you to see. The cabinet's center panel opens to reveal four small drawers.
This cabinet's distinctly architectural form, with its overhanging cornice, medallions, and portal flanked with Ionic columns, is characteristic of classical Renaissance architecture. Depicting themes of ancient Rome, the intricate decoration of the ivory panels is achieved by the sgraffito technique, in which incised lines are filled with black pigment. The vertical members between the drawers may seem to be merely part of the cabinet's architectural structure. However, they too open to reveal a slender hiding place for the most important of documents.
Elizabeth Williams, the Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator of Decorative Arts


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Located at 940 8th Avenue (between 56th and 55th Street) in the Columbus Circle area of Manhattan, Ladino is set to become a new jewel on the crown of New York City's superb kosher restaurants.
Ladino opened its doors last week on Thursday, this past Tuesday evening I decided to try it out. As I walked in, I was immediately struck by its beautifully themed décor, that blended the modern with a traditional but upscale Mexican ambiance.
The very talented Alex Morales (a fellow Uruguayan), was finishing his reproductions of two Diego Rivera murals:
The unfinished Flower Vendor is on the left and El Vendedor de Alcatraces (Calla Lilies) is on the right. The décor was completed with antiqued, floral, copper ceiling tiles.
There is a nice modern themed bar at the back but, because Ladino opened ready for Pessach, it only offered wine (mevushal) selections, no beer, no liquor.
I came in as soon as they opened for dinner at 5:00pm, so as to make sure there would be few people to get in the way of my taking photos of the place, by the time I left at around 7:30pm it was starting to fill up.
Under the direction of Alexandre Petard (who was the extraordinary opening chef at the late, lamented, La Carne Grill) – who has a noteworthy record of having worked at some of New York's most celebrated restaurants, such as Jean Georges, Lespinasse and Les Halles – Ladino offers a nice selection of Tapas (hot and cold), appetizers and main courses.
I started the evening with Guacamole and Yuka chips…
It was the best guacamole I've had in quite a while, very flavorful without extra spices that could detract from the delicate taste. I went on to try samplings of the Ceviche de Atun (Tuna), Ceviche de Salmon, and Ceviche de Red Snapper. None of them showed any fishiness in either flavor or odor, I liked all three. Obviously they were very fresh!
I washed it all down with a Binyamina Chardonnay 2011. It was a medium bodied, fresh, fruity, aromatic wine with notes of pear, melon and citrus peel. Light gold with a slight greenish tint in color, though not my favorite choice (perhaps because of its youth) it actually matched the ceviches quite well.
I segued with Pincho Moreno, a set of chicken and beef skewers hot Tapas dish. It normally comes with a house mayonnaise (made to perfection by the French chef!), but I requested a bit of guacamole as well.
While the mayonnaise was my favorite, the guacamole provided an interesting taste variation to the very tender, very juicy, very flavorful poultry and beef skewers. Beautiful to the eye, as you can see above.
My favorite of the evening, since I am a carnivore to the core, was the Steak a la Cazuela…
Nicely presented in a cast iron pan seating on a trivet, the steak pieces were surrounded and topped with mixed peppers, onion, mushrooms and guacamole. The aroma was captivating, the juiciness and flavor conjured up the tastiest steaks I've tasted in my youth in Uruguay. With the vegetables having absorbed some of the meat juices, the totality of this dish worked like a carefully orchestrated symphony under the baton of one of the world's great conductors. I washed down these two meat dishes with a glass of red wine consisting of a blend of merlot, cabernet sauvignon and petite syrah. I did not get the name nor the vintage but it was very fruity in its aroma, with strong citrus notes, not so perfectly balanced tannins (again, a young wine), with hints of purple plum and a mild tobacco with a long finish. Interestingly, it paired superbly well with the steak.
I crowned the evening with a very nice, parve, mango ice cream (complements of Chef Alexandre… It pays to be among the first customers at a new restaurant!). It was hard to believe it contained no milk, but the ability to substitute is part and parcel of a real French chef's magic.
A perfect place to go out to during chol hamo'ed. As for me, I expect to return after Pessach to see what the regular menu, with far fewer limitations, will be like.
Chag kasher vesame'ach!


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So youre configuring a new PowerHA 6.1 cluster and you decide to check if the clinfoES subsystem is running. You run the following command:
# lssrc -a | grep cluster
clstrmgrES cluster 2883628 active
Hmmm, clinfoES is not listed. To ensure that is clinfoES is shown in lssrc output, in both inactive and active states, run the following command on all nodes in the cluster:
# chssys -s clinfoES d
And now clinfoES is shown:
#lssrc -a | grep cluster
clstrmgrES cluster 2883628 active
clinfoES cluster inoperative
There was also a time when you had to do the same for clstrmgrES, however this subsystem is now always active (very rarely/never inactive) on a HA node e.g.
# chssys -s clstrmgrES -d
The chssys command can make changes to a subsystems definition on AIX:
The d flag to the chssys command specifies that an inactive subsystem is displayed in lssrc output.
I found a very old reference to something similar in this old HACMP/ES Redbook, but only the clinfoES recommendation still applies:
For a better understanding and to avoid problem determination, it is recommended to make all relevant HACMP subsystems visible with the lssrc command, independent of whether they are active or not.
# chssys -s clinfoES -d # modify subsystem definition
# chssys -s cllockdES -d
# chssys -s clsmuxpdES -d
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Delete Key Awards – Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guides – Backscratching in Our Time – Gusher Awards for Achievement in Hyperbole in Book Reviewing – Classic Picture Books Every Child Should Read – Books I Didn't Finish – Book Awards Reality Checks – Jan the Hungarian Predicts
1. Delete Key Awards for the year's worst writing in books. One-Minute Book Reviews gives these prizes annually on March 15 to authors who aren't using their delete keys enough.
oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/category/delete-key-awards/. The blog for Powell's books calls these awards "arguably the second-best online literary award after the TOB's Rooster [co-sponsored by Powell's]." www.powells.com/blog/?author=20.
2. Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guides. These guides encourage you to consider both the strengths and weakness of books (not just the strengths, as publishers' guides do). They also have elements you won't find in publishers' guides – for example, they often quote from negative reviews.
3. Backscratching in Our Time. Inspired by "Logrolling in Our Time" in the old Spy magazine, this category calls attention to authors who have praised each others' books, often in blurbs. oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/category/backscratching-in-our-time/.
4. Gusher Awards for Achievement in Hyperbole in Book Reviewing. These awards recognize over-the-top praise in book reviews. They appear on Fridays unless no review was too out-of-control to qualify that week. oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/category/gusher-awards/.
5. Classic Picture Books Every Child Should Read. Reviews of books for children and adults appear every Saturday and sometimes include an installment in the "Classic Picture Books Every Child Should Read" series. oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/classic-picture-books-every-child-should-read-jeff-brown-and-tomi-ungerers-flat-stanley/
6. Books I Didn't Finish. Book critics typically tell you why they liked or disliked book, not why they decided to not to review certain books all. This series tells you why one critic gave up on some books. books.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/category/books-i-didnt-finish/.
7. Book Awards Reality Checks. This series considers whether books that have won major awards, such as a Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award, deserved their honors. oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/man-asian-literary-prize-reality-check-%E2%80%93-jiang-rong%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98wolf-totem%E2%80%99/
8. Jan the Hungarian Predicts One-Minute Book Reviews predicts the winners of major book awards in the newest series on the site, added in June 2008.
One-Minute Book Reviews was the sixth-ranked book review site in the world on the Google Directory of "Top Arts and Literature" blogs as of May 30, 2008:
www.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Reviews_and_Criticism/. It has ranked among the Top 10 since the fall of 2007.
If you like any of these aspects of the site, I'd be so grateful if you'd link to them or post them on sites such as Digg. I use a free WordPress template that doesn't allow me to show widgets for Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon and similar sites, and I've compiled the list partly for that reason. A thousand thanks to all the visitors who have put One-Minute Book Reviews on those sites regardless.
Janice Harayda is a novelist and award-winning journalist who has been the book columnist for Glamour, the book editor of the Plain Dealer, and vice-president for awards of the National Book Critics Circle www.bookcritics.org. Jan was named one of "25 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2008″by the site Virtual Woman's Day virtualwomansday.blogspot.com/2008/01/women-bloggers-to-watch-in-2008.html.
One-Minute Book Reviews does not accept books, catalogs, advance reading copies, print or electronic press releases or other promotional materials from editors, publishers, agents, or authors whose books may be reviewed on this site.
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Bradford Betas hosting first trivia night
Bradford Beta Sigma Phi is hosting its first Trivia Night on Saturday, March 9, at Shallowbrook Farm east of Bradford.
Registration will begin at 6:30 p.m.,
The contest will start promptly at 7 p.m.
Funds raised will be used for various community projects.
Entry fee is $10 per person. Teams can consist of 6-to-8 people.
Mulligans will be sold for $2 apiece which will allow the holding team one "free answer" redemption.
Teams will also be given the opportunity to purchase a "double down" feature which gives the holding team a chance to double their points for one round.
Participants can bring their own snacks. A cash bar and popcorn will be available on site.
Teams are encouraged to "theme" their tables and a special prize will be given to the first place themed table.
Prizes will also be given for first and last place in the trivia category. A raffle will also be held.
For more information, or to register, contact Robyn Gentle at (309) 525-2973 or by e-mail at email@example.com.


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The prestigious Foreign Service Journal has featured my World Adventurers for Kids Books 1-3 collection this year in its annual "In Their Own Write" compilation of books published by Foreign Service-affiliated authors. The Foreign Service Journal wrote of Kilimanjaro (page 42):
This compilation of three children's books (Alexander the Salamander, Ellie the Elephant and Zoe the Zebra) is designed to teach children valuable lessons while providing entertaining stories and beautiful illustrations of global landmarks and wild environments.
Young children will enjoy the stories of an adventuring salamander with his rainforest friends, a courageous elephant attempting to achieve his goal of playing polo, and a group of defensive pals from the African bush set against a bullying pack of hyenas. The stories are supplemented by wonderfully illustrated vistas and humorously drawn animals with large eyes. The book is in large print, which makes it easy to read for both young kids and adults of all ages.
After serving as an FSO in South Korea, Paraguay and Zambia, M.G. Edwards left the Foreign Service in 2011 to write fantasy, thriller, travel and children's books full time. He currently lives in Bangkok with his wife, Jing, and their elementary-aged son, Alex.
Thank you, Foreign Service Journal, for including World Adventurers for Kids Books 1-3 on your 2013 list. I am grateful that my book joined other superb works written by Foreign Service colleagues and alumni. I encourage readers to browse the books featured in "In Their Own Write" and to peruse the pages of the Journal to learn more about the Foreign Service.
World Adventurers for Kids Books 1-3 is available to purchase as an e-book or in print from these booksellers:
E-book Version
World Adventurers for Kids Books 1-3 is now available to purchase as an e-book for only $2.99 (or equivalent in other currencies) from these booksellers:
Amazon Canada for Kindle ($3.05)
Amazon Germany for Kindle (€2,68)
Amazon France for Kindle (€2,68)
Amazon India for Kindle (R177.00)
Amazon Italy for Kindle (€2,68)
Amazon Spain for Kindle (€2,68)
Amazon Brazil for Kindle (R$6,67)
Amazon Japan for Kindle (¥296)
Barnes & Noble for Nook ($2.99)
Barnes & Noble UK for Nook (£1,91)
Diesel eBook Store for multiple e-readers ($2.99)
Kobo Books for Kobo Reader ($2.99) (available in Australia and other countries)
Sony ReaderStore for Sony e-reader ($2.99)
Smashwords for multiple e-readers ($2.99)
Print Version
World Adventurers for Kids Books 1-3 is now available in print for $8.02 (or equivalent in other currencies) from these booksellers:
Visit my website for a complete list of booksellers.
About the World Adventurers for Kids Series
The collection includes the first three picture books in the World Adventurers for Kids Series: Alexander the Salamander, Ellie the Elephant, and Zoe the Zebra. The book is available both in print and e-book formats from many booksellers.
Alexander the Salamander discusses the importance of listening to authority figures. A young salamander named Alexander joins his friends Airey the Butterfly and Terry the Tarantula for an unforgettable adventure in the Amazon River Basin.
Ellie the Elephant encourages children to follow their dreams. A young elephant named Ellie living in Thailand dreams of joining the elephant polo team and playing in the Elephant Cup polo tournament, but her parents want her to work in the rice fields. Will she realize her dream of playing elephant polo?
Zoe the Zebra teaches children about bullying. A young zebra named Zoe who lives in the African bush joins forces with her friends Emma the Impala, Barry the Baboon, and other animals to protect their friend Wally the Warthog from a pack of bullying hyenas. Can they help him and stop the bullying?
About the Foreign Service Journal
The Foreign Service Journal covers foreign affairs from an insider's perspective, providing thoughtful articles on international issues, the practice of diplomacy and the U.S. Foreign Service. The Journal is published monthly (July/August issues combined) by the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA). The November issue features its annual "In Their Own Write" compilation with new books by Foreign Service-affiliated authors. The list spans almost every conceivable literary genre: from history and foreign policy to memoirs and biographies, and from novels and short stories to mysteries and how-to books.
About the American Foreign Service Association
Established in 1924, AFSA is the professional association of the United States Foreign Service. With close to 16,000 dues-paying members, AFSA represents over 28,000 active and retired Foreign Service employees of the Department of State, Agency for International Development (AID), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Foreign Commercial Service (FCS), and International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB).
Click here to read about my memoir Kilimanjaro featured in the November 2012 edition of the Foreign Service Journal.
Click here to read about my book Real Dreams: Thirty Years of Short Stories featured in the November 2012 edition of the Foreign Service Journal.
M.G. Edwards is a writer of books and stories in the mystery, thriller and science fiction-fantasy genres. He also writes travel adventures. He is author of Kilimanjaro: One Man's Quest to Go Over the Hill, a non-fiction account of his attempt to summit Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, and a short story collection called Real Dreams: Thirty Years of Short Stories. He also wrote and illustrated Alexander the Salamander, Ellie the Elephant, and Zoe the Zebra, three books in the World Adventurers for Kids Series. His books are available in e-book and print from Amazon.com and other booksellers. Edwards graduated from the University of Washington with a master's degree in China Studies and a Master of Business Administration. He lives in Bangkok, Thailand with his wife Jing and son Alex.
For more books or stories by M.G. Edwards, visit his web site at www.mgedwards.com or his blog, World Adventurers. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com, on Facebook, on Google+, or @m_g_edwards on Twitter.
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A previously undocumented flaw in the latest version of Adobe Systems' ubiquitous Reader application is being exploited in online hacks that allow attackers to surreptitiously install malware on end-user computers, a security firm said.
The attacks, according to researchers from security firm FireEye, work against Reader 11.0.1 and earlier versions and are actively being exploited in the wild. If true, the attacks are notable because they pierce security defenses Adobe engineers designed to make malware attacks harder to carry out. Adobe officials said they're investigating the report.
"Upon successful exploitation, it will drop two DLLs," FireEye researchers Yichong Lin, Thoufique Haq, and James Bennett wrote of the online attacks they witnessed. "The first DLL shows a fake error message and opens a decoy PDF document, which is usually common in targeted attacks. The second DLL in turn drops the callback component, which talks to a remote domain." DLL is the researchers' shorthand for a file that works with the Microsoft Windows dynamic link library.
Update: Researchers with antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab have confirmed the exploit can successfully escape the Adobe sandbox, making it the first known in-the-wild attack to do so, Threatpost reporter Michael Mimoso reported. He cited a Kaspersky researcher reporting he observed an attack working against Reader 11.0.1 running on a 64-bit version of Windows 7.
So far, there have been no documented in-the-wild exploits that have successfully bypassed the Reader sandbox. The protection is designed to minimize the damage of attacks that exploit buffer overflows and other types of software bugs by isolating Web content from sensitive parts of the underlying operating system. As a result, the application will typically crash when flaws are exploited, but attackers remain unable to remotely execute malicious code on vulnerable computers.
In November, hackers claimed to possess an exploit that also pierced the security mechanism. At the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit last week, Adobe officials said their researchers conducted a three-month investigation but never received confirmation that the attack existed.
FireEye's post was the latest to remind Reader users "not open any unknown PDF files." This advice is well-intended but largely ineffective, since many booby-trapped documents are contained in e-mails from people the victim knows or are hosted on websites the victim regularly visits. Better recommendations are to avoid PDF files whenever possible or to use an alternative PDF reader such as the Foxit Reader until Adobe has had time to diagnose the bugs and if necessary close the security hole.
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Today in the News: Judge says dads don't have legal right to be at their child's birth
News to know
In a groundbreaking case, a New Jersey judge ruled today that fathers don't have a legal right to be in the delivery room at the birth of their child. The ruling stemmed from a case in which a couple broke up, and the mom-to-be didn't want the dad in the delivery room. He sued, and the case wound up before Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed. The judge wrote in his ruling, "Any interest a father has before the child's birth is subordinate to the mother's interests. Even when there is no doubt that a father has shown deep and proper concern, and interest in the growth and development of the fetus, the mother is the one who must carry it to term."
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"This is an individual who showed no regard for the human beings he plowed through. We can't let one individual ruin this great event." - Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, talking today about the South by Southwest festival, which will go on as planned despite the crash that killed two people and injured 23. Rashad Charjuan Owens, 21, has been charged in the incident, in which he ran his car into people while fleeing from police, officials said.
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A Little Bitty Party
I've been absent and can't quite explain why that happened. We had excessive heat along with smoke from fires in every direction. I think my brain melts in hot weather but I was willing to tolerate it without (too much) complaint as I bargained with the heavens that I would be quiet about the heat if the weather cooled for my company.
I had lots of it. My son and his significant other spent 10 days here and my cousin and her grown children arrived just in time to spend three days celebrating our birthdays. This is the time of year so many I know are celebrating birthdays. There were three of us in my family here and one good friend in just over a week. More of my blogging friends have them in early September as well.
Why the party? My cousin who is many years younger had her heart stop a while back. It took three tries to get it going again and then a pacemaker. It's happening more and more to younger people. She decided life was now and no more waiting. It's been 15 years since we've been in the same space. This was also my 70th birthday two days before her birthday and she was named after me.
Birthdays are no longer a given. I was informed last December that I am facing a major health challenge that can only be managed, not treated. so all my ducks needed to be lined up as I go about the business of continuing to live a full and happy life. Family and friends are a big part of that so the party seemed to take on a life of its own. It was a zoo here! My sewing friends were invited to visit the zoo and were made honorary members for their efforts.
It was so much fun to see how everyone pitched in to make it work effortlessly. These last months have been very full and I have many partially written posts waiting to be finished. Now that fall has finally winked at us, I may have a bit more time. Of course the rain has still failed to materialize and we desperately need it.
I think birthdays should be celebrated more than any holiday we have. I've always been grateful for the opportunity to grow older. Not everyone has that pleasure. My birthdays have usually been very quiet and sedate. This one, shared by my cousin, son's partner and myself made it raucous and loud. A real party! I wanted no gifts as I'm in the giving away stage but some things were still gifted and deserved special mention.
My son and his partner did many chores for me as well as putting new struts on the tailgate of my suburban. That door is quite heavy when it comes down on you. He also built shelves in the storage shed for better organization and put up more motion sensors for my safety. There is more to this but that's another post.
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My daughter and I went to see Christopher Robin at the movies several weeks ago and I mentioned after this wonderful and sweet story that I didn't remember ever reading the Pooh stories. She said she had so I must have bought her a copy at some time. I am now having the childhood I missed the first time. I read myself a bedtime story each night. They are so lovely and I hope to catch up on more I missed.
Jennie at A Teacher's Reflection's entices me with her collection of children's books. I feel quite young visiting her blog.
Do you celebrate your birthdays quietly or with a big slash?
From my heart to yours,
Marlene Herself


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I'm a mom of twins, a boy and a girl. A friend of mine just had twins herself and I decided it might be fun to find a way to use the same fabric line to make a boy and a girl version quilt. I got the idea for this quilt from a pillow I made for Moda Bake Shop last year. You can see it here, it would be fun to make one to match the quilt using your scraps.
Stop by my blog and say hi!! Or visit my shop fourteen may for more sewing patterns!
1 Layer Cake: (you can use 1 layer cake for both quilts) I used Tweet Tweet by Keiki
1 yard white fabric per quilt for the center
1 yard fabric per quilt for backing
1/2 yard fabric per quilt for binding
Heat N Bond Lite
Buttons, colored thread to embellish applique
Smiley Monster Font (can be downloaded free)
Sew one of the 3 block strips to the 29 1/2″ side of the white fabric. Repeat by sewing the other 3 block strip to the other side.
Sew the 4 block strips to the other 2 sides of the white block. Press. Trim off excess if necessary.
Quilt as desired. I quilted mine with a walking foot in straight lines approximately 2″ apart.
Using a word processing program and the font Smiley Monster, print your name approx 4″ tall. You may need to make it slightly smaller if you are printing a large name.
Trace the letters backwards onto the slick side of a piece of Heat n Bond Lite. Cut out roughly and iron onto wrong side of fabric. Cut out. You can see photos of my applique method here.
Apply to lower right hand corner of the quilted top approx. 2″ from the bottom border.
Two or three personalized baby quilts from one layer cake.


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Open thread on today's Supreme Court decisions
Pat Cunningham
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down rulings this morning on one or more of the most closely-watched matters still pending in this session — gay marriage, affirmative action or voters rights.
Unfortunately, I'm going to be out of the loop all day and therefore unable to offer any slants on court doings until tomorrow.
But Applesauce readers are welcome to register their opinions in the comment thread on this post.
Comments from newcomers and those that include more than one link will have to wait for my approval before they're published. That, too, might have to wait ...


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Recombinant Human MRPL44 cell lysate
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|MRPL44-001HCL Optional Service: Optional requirements on this protein
|Product Overview :
|Human MRPL44 derived in Human Cells. The whole cell lysate is provided in 1X Sample Buffer.Browse all transfected cell lysate positive controls
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|Human cells
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|Transfected cells were cultured for 48hrs before collection. The cells were lysed in modified RIPA buffer with cocktail of protease inhibitors. Cell debris was removed by centrifugation and then centrifuged to clarify the lysate. The cell lysate was boiled for 5 minutes in 1 x SDS sample buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 6.8, 12.5% glycerol, 1% sodium dodecylsulfate, 0.01% bromophenol blue) containing 5% b-mercaptoethanol, and lyophilized.
|Lysis buffer :
|Modified RIPA Lysis Buffer: 50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 1mM EDTA, 1% Triton X-100, 0.1% SDS, 1% Sodium deoxycholate, 1mM PMSF
|Quality control Testing :
|12.5% SDS-PAGE Stained with Coomassie Blue
|Recommended Usage :
|1. Centrifuge the tube for a few seconds and ensure the pellet at the bottom of the tube.2. Re-dissolve the pellet using 200μL pure water and boiled for 2-5 min.3. Store it at -80°C. Recommend to aliquot the cell lysate into smaller quantities for optimal storage. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles.Notes:The lysate is ready to load on SDS-PAGE for Western blot application. If dissociating conditions are required, add reducing agent prior to heating.
|Stability :
|Samples are stable for up to twelve months from date of receipt at -80°C
|Storage Buffer :
|50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 1mM EDTA, 1% Triton X-100, 0.1% SDS, 1% Sodium deoxycholate, 1mM PMSF
|Storage Instruction :
|Lysate samples are stable for 12 months from date of receipt when stored at -80°C. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles. Prior to SDS-PAGE fractionation, boil the lysate for 5 minutes.
|Gene Name :
|MRPL44 mitochondrial ribosomal protein L44 [ Homo sapiens ]
|Official Symbol :
|Synonyms :
|L44MT; COXPD16; MRP-L44; 39S ribosomal protein L44, mitochondrial
|Gene ID :
|mRNA Refseq :
|Protein Refseq :
|UniProt ID :
|Chromosome Location :
|Function :
|poly(A) RNA binding; ribonuclease III activity
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|Recombinant Human MRPL44 Protein, His (Fc)-Avi-tagged
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Attorneys apply to fill interim vacancy in 14th Judicial Circuit
Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas L. Kilbride announced Thursday the names of 10 attorneys who have applied to fill a judicial vacancy in the 14th Judicial Circuit.
The circuit covers Henry, Rock Island, Mercer and Whiteside counties.
Applying for the vacancy were David W. Andich of Rock Island; Associate Judge Raymond J. Conklin of Moline; Marita M. Griffith of Moline; Norma Kauzlarich of Taylor Ridge; Christine A. Keys of Bettendorf, Iowa; Michael J. Kraycinovich, currently in the Army stationed in Alabama; Kathleen E. Mesich of Coal Valley; Benjamin J. Samuelson of Moline; Katherine Varlas Teel of Rock Island; and Linnea E. Thompson of Moline.
The Illinois Constitution authorizes the Supreme Court to fill Circuit Court vacancies on an interim basis. Kilbride uses an extensive application, evaluation and interview process to make a recommendation to the court for judicial vacancies.
Next will be background checks by law enforcement and with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. Kilbride also will use a poll of all attorneys in the 14th Circuit. The Illinois State Bar Association will conduct the poll, asking attorneys their opinions of the applicants' integrity, temperament, legal ability, management skills and other professional qualifications. Kilbride also will appoint a judicial screening committee made up of representatives from the community, including non-lawyers and members of the legal profession, to evaluate the candidates. The names of the committee members will be announced later.
Written comments about the candidates may be sent to Judge Appointment Comments, 14th Judicial Circuit, Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, 3101 Old Jacksonville Road, Springfield, Ill., 62704. Comments must arrive by Friday, March 1. Comments must include contact information such as name and address, and should be brief, preferably no more than 250 words. Notice of the vacancy and the appointment process was posted Nov. 19, at courthouses in the 14th Circuit.
Applicants must possess are a reputation for integrity and good character; a commitment to equal justice under the law; outstanding legal ability and competence; and the appropriate demeanor, character and personality necessary for the judicial temperament required by a Circuit Court judge.
The person appointed to fill the vacancy will serve until Dec. 1, 2014, when the position will be filled by the 2014 general election.


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Translator's Information
The Release Process
- The Claws Team sets a date for release, at least 2 weeks in advance.
- Week One: Git feature freeze
- No new features are added to Git, the Team try to fix as many outstanding bugs as possible, test new features thoroughly, and improve any translatable strings as is deemed necessary.
- A message announcing the forthcoming release is sent to the translators' mailing list. Translators should respond to this message, confirming whether they will or will not be submitting updates.
- Week Two: Git string freeze
- No new features are added and no translatable strings are changed or added.
- During this second week, translators should update their local Git trees and work on updating their translations. For those translators who are unable to build from Git, up to date POT files are made available for download at http://www.claws-mail.org/i18n/.
- If no strings were changed from the previous release the PO file must not be changed and does not need to be submitted.
- When a translator has updated his/her translations they should be sent to Paul at firstname.lastname@example.com at any time before the week is up. They will then be committed to Git and included in the release.
- Week Three: The release
- The release will be made on Day One of Week Three.
- Week One: Git feature freeze
- Bug-Fix Releases
- The Claws Team occasionally feels the need to make bug-fix releases. These are normally indicated by an increment of the MICRO_VERSION, (e.g. from version 2.7.0 to 2.7.1). The bug-fix releases contain none of the new features that have been added to Git since the last major release, and they also do not contain any new translatable strings that may have been added to Git. Therefore no translation updates are required for these releases and, consequently, the usual process, detailed above, is not initiated.
Information for new translators
Starting fresh
First grab yourself a copy of the Claws Mail sources, preferably from Git, and create a claws-mail.pot file:
- ./autogen.sh
- cd po
- make claws-mail.pot
If you are not able to build from Git, then get a copy of the last released sources from the Claws-Mail releases page, which has the claws-mail.pot file included.
Copy claws-mail.pot to [LANGUAGE ABBREV].po, (replace [LANGUAGE ABBREV] with the correct abbreviation for your language, e.g. 'es' if you are translating into Spanish).
- cp claws-mail.pot es.po
Open your new po file with your favourite text editor, (or you may prefer to use a translation catalog editor, such as POEditor, poedit or Lokalize, for example), and first edit the header section of your file. You will need to replace the text in UPPERCASE with the correct values. The easiest way to work out how to do this is to compare it to another po file that already exists:
|your new po file
# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. # Copyright (C) YEAR The Claws Mail Team # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: firstname.lastname@example.com\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2007-01-30 09:03+0000\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <firstname.lastname@example.com>\n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" "Plural-Forms: nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;\n"
# Spanish translation of Claws Mail. # Copyright © 2000-2014 The Claws Mail team. # This file is distributed under the same license # as the Claws Mail package, see COPYING file. # # Ricardo Mones <firstname.lastname@example.com>, 2000-2014. # msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: Claws Mail 3.9.3\n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: firstname.lastname@example.com\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2013-12-12 21:03+0100\n" "PO-Revision-Date: 2013-12-13 21:27+0100\n" "Last-Translator: Ricardo Mones <firstname.lastname@example.com>\n" "Language-Team: Ricardo Mones <email@example.com>\n" "Language: es\n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;\n"
Consult the gettext manual for the correct Plural-Forms entry for your language.
Be sure the top five lines in your submitted file are exactly like the example. Years and your language name may vary, of course.
Next you will add your translated strings in the msgstr sections. Again, an example from es.po:
#: src/account.c:372 msgid "" "Some composing windows are open.\n" "Please close all the composing windows before editing the accounts." msgstr "" "Hay ventanas de composición abiertas.\n" "Cierre todas las ventanas de composición antes de editar las cuentas."
There are some variations to the format which you should be aware of:
- Default hotkeys are indicated by the '_' character:
#: src/account.c:767 msgid " _Set as default account " msgstr " _Establecer como primaria "
- The presence of dynamically-generated text is indicated by the 'c-format' line. The 'c format', (%s, %d, etc.), in your msgstr must match the one used in the msgid:
#: src/account.c:867 #, c-format msgid "Copy of %s" msgstr "Copia de %s"
- Some strings have informational data for translators included in the msgid part, delimited by the '|' character. Their purpose is to indicate the context of the string and they should not appear in your msgstr:
#: src/prefs_msg_colors.c:228 msgid "Tooltip|Pick color for 2nd level text" msgstr "Elejir el color para el texto de segundo nivel"
- Other strings have the informational data included in the comment header, indicated by 'TRANSLATORS: …':
#. TRANSLATORS: 'color %d' refers to the filtering/processing #. rule name and should not be translated #: src/prefs_msg_colors.c:432 src/prefs_msg_colors.c:464 #, c-format msgid "Set label for 'color %d'" msgstr "Establecer la etiqueta para el «color %d»"
- Some strings contain markup, which should be left in place:
#: src/wizard.c:892 msgid "Your name:" msgstr "Su nombre:"
- Here is an example of Plural-Forms usage:
#: src/inc.c:592 #, c-format msgid "Done (%d message (%s) received)" msgid_plural "Done (%d messages (%s) received)" msgstr[0] "Hecho (%d mensaje (%s) recibido)" msgstr[1] "Hecho (%d mensajes (%s) recibidos)"
Checking your translation for errors (and completeness)
- /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics es.po
Building Claws Mail with your new translation included
For this step you will need to be able to build from Git, so a full set of development tools is required.
Open the file configure.ac in your text editor and locate the line that begins with 'ALL_LINGUAS=', then add your language to the list of languages.
Then run ./autogen.sh [OPTIONS], make, make install as usual.
Updating your translation
When it is time to update your translation, first update your Git working directory. Then do the following:
- cd po
- rm claws-mail.pot
- make claws-mail.pot
Next issue the following command to update your po file:
- /usr/bin/msgmerge --update es.po claws-mail.pot
Then open your file and locate the strings that need updating. These will have an empty msgstr or will be marked 'fuzzy':
#: src/mainwindow.c:838 src/messageview.c:332 #, fuzzy msgid "/_Tools/List _URLs..." msgstr "/_Herramientas/Exportar _HTML..."
#: src/action.c:1184 #, fuzzy, c-format msgid "--- Ended: %s\n" msgstr "--- Ejecutando: %s\n"
Correct the msgstr and, in the first example, remove the line '#, fuzzy', or, in the second example, remove just the 'fuzzy, ' part of the line, leaving the c-format part intact.