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It may sound weird to share food with your dogs, but the ingredients are inexpensive, healthy, and just plain delicious… This is true budget food!
I start by steaming the sweet potato and squash. Once tender, I add the kale and steam for another minute then remove the pot from the heat. The mixture of veg can be left as is or can be pureed. I puree as my dogs are small and senior.
Cook the quinoa as instructed on the package, usually in a 1:2 ratio of grain to water in a covered pot on low heat for 30 minutes.
Dried legumes are usually cheaper than their canned alternatives and contain less sodium. To cook the beans or lentils, use a 1:2 ratio of dry legumes to water. Bring to a bowl then cover the pot and let simmer on low for 45 minutes or until soft. Note: It is important that legumes are well cooked for the dogs.
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Why You Won't Find Round Biscuits in My Kitchen
Haven't you heard that it's hip to be square?
Once upon a time I worked at a company that sold thousands of beautiful hand-carved biscuit cutters. The cutter was made of light wood, pleasingly round but not bulbous (a shape I admire!), and front and center on my "What I'm Coveting Now" Pinterest board I created. (This was a while ago, okay?)
I never did spring for one—and I'm glad I didn't. Because the best biscuits—and by "best," I mean the tallest and the flakiest—are square biscuits. In both BA's Best Buttermilk Biscuits and our latest Sour Cream and Onion Biscuits, the biscuits are cut into rectangles (all squares are also rectangles, so don't @ me) with a bench scraper or chef knife. That's right: You don't need a biscuit cutter to shape them.
But a cutter isn't only unnecessary—I'd also argue that it's detrimental to the architecture of your biscuit. First and foremost, using a biscuit cutter smooshes the biscuit down. You've just worked so hard to fold, pat, and fold your dough to [build those beautiful layers](https://www.bonappetit.com/story/best-biscuit-tips). Unless your cutter is razor-sharp (and frankly, that sounds dangerous), the all-around downward pressure is going to squash the dough, meaning that the biscuits won't rise to their full potential in the oven.
Second, a biscuit cutter creates scraps that have to be rerolled. As you rework the dough, you'll continue to develop gluten, yielding a second round of cut-outs that are tougher and shorter than the first. You know how the initial pancake is always the worst? It's the same with the final biscuit. By cutting the slab of dough into rectangles, you eliminate all scraps. It's efficient.
And lastly, I'd argue that the square biscuit makes for a neater, more contained sandwich. If you think about the best sandwich bread—I'm envisioning a pullman loaf, brioche, Japanese milk bread—it typically has at least a few straight sides, which are box in the roly-poly inners. If you try to put a fried egg or a slice of tomato or some curvy slivers of avocado on a round biscuit, those fillers are going to poke past the biscuit's circumference.
But even if you're not making a sandwich, a 3-inch square biscuit has more surface area than a 3-inch round biscuit, which means you can slather on more butter, jam, or sour cream. It's simple math.
Don't get me wrong: I'll still gladly accept that artisan biscuit cutter. But I'll use it for decoration and stick with my bench scraper for cutting biscuits.
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Dramatic Elgar and rare Chadwick from BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Andrew Constantine on Orchid Classics
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Elgar Falstaff, Chadwick Tam O'Shanter; BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Timothy West, Samuel West, Andrew Constantine; Orchid Classics
Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 20 December 2019 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½)
A dramatic version of Elgar's symphonic study alongside music by his New England contemporary
Do we actually need another recording of Sir Edward Elgar's symphonic study, Falstaff? Well, considering how the work seems to be still somewhat under appreciated when compared to the composer's other symphonic works, then perhaps we do, particularly one as vivid as this one. But there is twist.
Conductor Andrew Constantine and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales have recorded Elgar's Falstaff for Orchid Classics, but it is on the discs twice. The second time as Elgar imagined it, as a purely orchestral work, the first time as a more dramatic entity with Elgar's music interleaved with scenes from Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2 performed by Timothy West and Samuel West. The companion work is a piece by Elgar's American contemporary George Whitfield Chadwick, Tam O'Shanter.
British conductor Andrew Constantine was a name new to me. He won the first Donatella Flick Conducting Competition and studied at the Leningrad State Conservatory. Since 2004 he has been based in the USA and is currently music director of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Reading Symphony Orchestra.
Judging by this vividly detailed account of Elgar's 1913 work Constantine has a great love of the piece and understanding of Elgar's late style, and the BBC NOW responds brilliantly to him. The performance moves between the grandiloquence of Prince Hal's theme to the pawky humour, but still a gentleman, of Falstaff. And vividness of the orchestral detail very much reminds one of Richard Strauss' tone poems, and of course Elgar's music was much admired on the continent by admirers of Strauss', and the two are somewhat akin.
Elgar based his work on a finely crafted reading of excerpts from Shakespeare's play, and in one sense it is redundant to add the play itself, after all Elgar's music describes vividly the action of the play, but the work's relative lack of popularity as compared to Elgar's other works, would seem to imply that audiences have a difficulty getting to grips with it. So here we have the various episodes of Falstaff and Prince Hal, right through to Hal (as King Henry V) denying Falstaff, beautifully performed by father and son team, Timothy and Samuel West.
But placing music and spoken word together can be a risky business, with word often predominating and it says much for the brilliance and vividness of the playing here, that the two coalesce beautifully, complementing each other. The musical sections are long-breathed, including one 13 minute run and there are just four spoken interludes. Perhaps it is not the way I would listen to Falstaff every time, but it works well and brings the music into a different focus. And, as a bonus, you have the complete musical performance without spoken interludes on a second disc.
The companion piece on the disc is Tam O'Shanter by the American composer George Whitefield Chadwick. Chadwick was an almost exact contemporary of Elgar's, but though the two did meet once they never seem to have had anything like a positive relationship. Chadwick studied in New England and with Carl Reinecke in Leipzig, and then with Joseph Rheinberger in Munich. Returning to the USA, he became dean of the New England Conservatory. Though Chadwick has a reputation as a teacher, his substantial body of music is relatively unexplored.
Tam O'Shanter was written in 1915 and is very much in the European tone-poem mould, full of highly descriptive passages inspired by Burns. The music of Brahms and particularly Dvorak does not seem too far away, though influence of Richard Strauss seems less present here. Constantine and the orchestra make a great case for the piece, giving it a vividly vigorous performance which brings out all of Chadwick's lively descriptive detail. Certainly it deserves wider currency and makes you wonder about other works.
The Chadwick is preceded by a reading of the composer's introductory note to the work, in which the dramatic structure of the piece is explained lucidly by the American violinist Erik Chapman and the Scot, Billy Wiz.
The performances and the pairing on this disc make you interested in more. Having heard Constantine conduct Falstaff with BBC NOW, I would be keen to hear them in other Elgar symphonic works. Constantine and BBC NOW have already combined Elgar's Enigma Variations with Chadwick's Symphonic Sketches on an earlier Orchid Classics disc, so perhaps we can hope for more.
Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - Falstaff, Symphonic Study in C minor (with spoken dialogue)
George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 -1931) - Tam O'Shanter (with spoken introduction)
Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - Falstaff, Symphonic Study in C minor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Constantine (conductor)
Timothy West (Falstaff)
Samuel West (Prince Hal)
Erik Chapman, Billy Wiz (Chadwick spoken introduction)
Recorded Hoddinott Hall, Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 17-19 September 2018, Henry Wood Hall, London, 8 February 2018, Wathen Hall, St Paul Boys' School, Hammersmith, 17 December 2018
ORCHID CLASSICS ORC 100103 2CDs [71.14, 35.28]
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Boneshrieker savants in Path to Madness on Elite with the same character as above. Perfection of Body at level 3 fails to save on a 1 fortitude roll. Similar to before, I'm going to assume the savants' Sound Burst in a level 8 quest don't have 40+ save DC.
Perfection of Soul's missing save bonus and broken "no automatic failure on a 1" feature has already been documented so I'm not going to bother checking that one.
And I can confirm that Perfection of Soul (The Reflex one) is also bugged still.
So update 15 is going live on Monday and there has still been no revision of this by the devs? I didn't expect much really, I thought these abilities would be another thing that takes months to get fixed... but when it is stated in the release notes that they are fixed and they actually aren't (I checked again 5 minutes ago to make sure), I have to wonder who compiles these notes and where Turbines testing is.
I should also add, as J1NG said, the +6 bonus to reflex is missing as well. Complete waste of destiny points at the moment.
As of Update 15 currently on the live servers, fortitude, reflex, and will saving rolls all fail on 1s despite having the corresponding "Perfection of X" ability at rank 3. Like before, I tested in low level content so beating the offending spells' save DCs with a 1 shouldn't be an issue. Perfection of Soul is still missing the reflex save bonus while the other two appear fine in this regard.
In short, nothing changed despite what the U15 release notes say.
Is this working properly yet or is it still broke?
Patch 15.1 says it was fixed, but have yet to see any player confirmation either way.
As far as I can remember (mid TR atm so can't check right now), it is mostly fixed. The only still bugged part is Perfection of Soul still not giving +6 reflex, but at least it stops you failing on a 1.


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Issue 07 Editorial
Welcome to Field Exchange 7. A strong theme running throughout this edition is community participation in emergency surveillance, programme planning and response. We also have an article from CONCERN describing its intervention in Kosovo, the author justifies the relative low interest given to this crisis by organisations and journals dedicated to nutrition issues. This article also highlights the responde of neighbouring communities to the fleeing refugees.
We have an article about the role of community resource people from the Beja tribe in the Red Sea State in northern Sudan in providing famine early warning information. These information providers constitute an invaluable resource for their isolated and marginalised communities and provide an information outreach which would be hard to replicate through other means at such low cost.
Another article details the success of a community managed emergency feeding programme in pest and flood-stricken central Tanzania. Limited food aid resources determined the need to target a maximum of 60% of households in the two regions. Targeting was successfully managed by the community who elected a village relief committee which developed village specific selection criteria. The system was found to be transparent, accountable and fair.
Community efforts were also mobilised in response to the appalling Bangladeshi floods last year. An article by the IFRC delegate for Bangladesh documents how much of the distributed food came from local benefactors while community knowledge of local seed varieties was pivotal in the post-flood rehabilitation phase.
This edition of field exchange carries a summary of the ALNAP study on beneficiary participation in emergency programmes in southern Sudan last year. The importance of community participation in programme planning and implementation is highlighted through a number of case-studies.
A visit by the ENN co-ordinator to southern Sudan in May lead to a further field level article 'Food Preparation an obstacle to education'. This article suggests that the amount of time spent in emergency situations manually pounding cereals and grinding grain consumes much time spent by women and girls on food preparation. The population in question traditionally ate sorghum the provision of unmilled grain as part of the general ration has opportunity cost in terms of time spent in its preparation. As a result, girls who traditionally carry out this type of activity, had less time to attend school.
We also have a couple of pieces (including an agency profile) about the role of Tanzanian church based agencies in emergency response. Such agencies, especially where they have a long history working with the community, often fulfil an important role during emergencies but their work is rarely fully acknowledged while they receive little technical support from international humanitarian agencies.
Finally, we would be very pleased to receive contributions from any of you working in the Kosovo crisis for publication in the next Field Exchange. By all accounts there were many unusual aspects of the emergency and response which we are sure our readers would like to hear about.
Please drop us a line if you think you may have something for us.
Editors,
Fiona O'Reilly
Jeremy Shoham
FEX: Food Preparation an Obstacle to Education
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Dear Readers Two topical themes emerge in this edition of Field Exchange. The first is food security interventions which do not involve free hand-outs of food aid; the second...
Dear Readers, This edition of Field Exchange focuses on micronutrients. Andre Briend from ISERM gives us an overview of some of the key emergency related micronutrient...
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FEX: Partnership and Disaster Response (and Post Script)
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AMD poursuit le développement de sa gamme de processeurs Geode à basse consommation. Après les modèles GX et NX (voir édition du 25 mai 2004), le fondeur de Sunnyvale vient d'annoncer le modèle LX 800@0.9W. Avec une horloge cadencée à 500 MHz, ce processeur dispose d'un contrôleur mémoire DDR 400 MHz et d'une fréquence de bus PCI de 66 MHz pour une consommation électrique annoncé comme inférieure à 1 watt mais, dans les faits, à 2,4 watts en termes de dissipation thermique maximale (lorsque le composant est soumis à une importante charge de travail). Le constructeur indique une dissipation de 1,6 watt à 500 MHz.
Le LX 800 (désigné ainsi car AMD met sur le même plan les performances de sa puce et celles des processeurs VIA à 800 MHz), se destine aux terminaux mobiles (PDA, baladeurs numériques, ordinateurs mobiles, etc.) et aux appareils embarqués (décodeurs numériques, écrans plats LCD haute définition, etc.). Sa faible consommation lui permet de fonctionner sans ventilateur ni radiateur. Autant d'économisé en consommation électrique et en silence.
Outre sa faible consommation, le principal avantage du LX 800 est sa compatibilité avec Windows XP et, bien sûr, Windows XP Embedded. Il supporte l'USB 2.0 et dispose également en standard d'un module de chiffrement et d'un moteur graphique 2D. Un module optionnel de traitement 3D peut être ajouté. Le CS5536, le chipset chargé de ces tâches, peut être intégré à la puce.
Il ne serait donc pas étonnant de retrouver le LX800 dans des ordinateurs de bureau ou mobiles, notamment des Tablet PC. C'est d'ailleurs un Geode GX qui équipe les PIC, les ordinateurs minimalistes qu'AMD commercialise en Inde notamment (voir édition du 29 octobre 2004). Gravé en 130 nanomètres, le LX 800 vient concurrencer les processeurs VIA. Mais aussi Intel, qui travaille à une nouvelle ligne de processeurs pour le marché de l'embarqué, ainsi que Texas Instruments et ARM qui fournissent aux constructeurs des solutions de ce type depuis plusieurs années.
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Q: How to create 'Drawn' style line around items in menu I'm working on a menu for wordpress, and i'm trying to get a
"drawn"like border arround the different menu items.
As for now i have one background with a 'drawn' circle. (let's call it bg.png).
I can get the circle around a menu item and place it right. But ofcourse some
of my menu item words are longer than the others.
This is how i use the active part of the menu right now:
url('img/bg.png');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position-y: 10;

This shows the circle when hovering the menu items, but on some words its too
big or too small. This is something like the png i'm using: http://instantsplash.com/a/images/hand-drawn/circles/04.png
thanks in advance!

A: I had a similar problem on a previous work.
You have to decide whether you want a big image that can be too large on certain items or a small that can sometimes overlap your item if the text is larger.
The other solution is to use the background-size property in css and stretch your image to the size of your container. But this solution can lead to ratio or image quality problem.

A: One of the option could be if you can use javascript/jQuery to measure the size of the hovered element than you can adjust the size 'drawn' circle image.
$('li.menu-items').hover(function(){
   $(this).addClass('hovered').css('background-size', $(this).width());
},function(){
   $(this).removeClass('hovered');
})


If you or someone you love got a late start learning to play an instrument, take hope from virtuosa Michelle Kim.
Kim, who will make her first appearance in Oregon when she closes out High Desert Chamber Music's 2018-19 season, was 11 when she began playing violin. That's a relatively old age for a beginning violinist who would go on to play professionally in the New York Philharmonic, where she has served as assistant concertmaster since 2001.
And if that instrument of choice was never really a choice to begin with, well, Kim's been there and done that, too.
The family would convene every Sunday.
Her aunt on her mother's side suggested Kim go to America to study, and that soon became the plan.
She did as her father told her, and then some. After she and her aunt moved to Southern California's San Fernando Valley, they took in a performance by young violinists Robert Chen, who is now Chicago Symphony's concertmaster, and Sheryl Staples, now a colleague of Kim as New York Philharmonic's principal associate concertmaster.
At that time, the two were part of famed violin instructor Robert Lipsett's studio class of just four students. When Kim heard them perform, "My mouth dropped to the floor. I'm going, 'What is that? It can't be violin. I don't sound like that at all," Kim said.
She describes Lipsett as "one of the greatest violin teachers on Earth." But at the time, Lipsett was just starting out as a teacher.
A hard worker even at 11, "I was incredibly motivated by my teacher, my classmates and the studio," she said.
Kim is nothing if not honest. After the initial excitement of her professional career began to fade, she said, her relationship to the violin went in cycles.
Now, Kim said, she can't live without the violin.
That realization and acceptance occurred only in the last few years, said Kim, who's the mother of two teens. Yes, they play music: Her son, the trumpet, her daughter, the flute and violin.
However, their mother did not foist music on them. That apple fell far from the family tree.
A day prior to her performance at the Tower, Kim will lead a master class for violinists from 5 to 7 p.m. March 29 at Bend Church. The class is free and open for the public to observe.
Several years ago, Kim launched the Doublestop Foundation, which puts stringed instruments in the hands of financially strapped young musicians.
That's a struggle she faced during her own youth.
"I wasn't able to get any kind of instrument because I was too young and just starting the violin," she said. Lipsett's studio was able to acquire instruments via a sponsorship program that paired Kim with a beautiful violin by 19th-century French luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.
"I was very lucky," she said. However, to participate in that program, students had to receive recommendations. That wasn't a problem for Kim, but she's never forgotten friends who wanted an instrument to play but didn't have anyone in their corner to recommend them.
Further, the cut-off for the program was age 25.
Therefore, Doublestop Foundation's program is open to anyone in financial need who would like to audition.
"If they're talented, let them come," Kim said.
The organization also gives young professionals a little longer to become established in their careers, with a cut-off age of 30.


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Japan is now offering subsidies worth ₹1,618 crore to companies moving out of China to India and Bangladesh: Report
Navdeep Yadav
Sep 4, 2020, 17:31 IST
This program is a part of the Japanese government expansion program aimed at diversifying the country's supply chains, according to a Nikkei Asian Review report.
In its first round of subsidies in July, the government of Japan granted more than 10 billion yen to 30 companies for relocating their manufacturing to Southeast Asia.
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The Japanese government will now offer subsidies worth ₹1,618 crore to eligible Japanese manufacturers if they shift their production units out of China to India or Bangladesh, according to a Nikkei Asian Review report.
The supply chain of Japanese companies heavily rely on China, and by making this move, Japan is aiming to ensure a steady flow of raw material and products as medical supplies and electrical components in an emergency like coronavirus.
This program is a part of the Japanese government expansion program aimed at diversifying the country's supply chains. In the supplementary budget for fiscal 2020, the Japanese government earmarked 23.5 billion yen (₹1,615 crore) for companies that will move their production to Southeast Asian countries.
According to reports, when the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry opened up the second round of applications it said the programme is for the " projects that contribute to the resilience of the Japan-ASEAN supply chain" and are eyeing relocations to countries such as India and Bangladesh.
The manufacturers can use the subsidies for feasibility studies and conducting pilot programs. The report said the total amount granted is expected to run into the tens of millions of dollars, said Nikkei.
In its first round of subsidies in July, the government of Japan granted more than 10 billion yen to 30 companies for relocating their manufacturing to Southeast Asia. For example, Hoya, a Japanese med-tech company, is moving its production to Vietnam and Laos. According to Nikkei, another 57 are receiving support for shifting their production facilities.
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We got called as the Sister Training Leaders today. We are training two sisters, Sister Hale and Sister Faulconer. That's right, we are in charge of . . . ourselves. The other American sisters are going home or are in other branches. And no sisters are coming next week either, so who knows when we will have a real job!
I am learning a lot! I achieved the goal for my first ten days –memorizing Joseph Smith's account of the first vision, the missionary purpose (to invite others to come unto Christ, etc.) and a baptismal invitation, as well as 75-ish sentences and lots of vocabulary. Memorizing in Portuguese is much harder than in English! I learn the words' meanings first, but I don't know the grammar so I have to memorize each word separately. For our next four weeks we're supposed to memorize 20 scriptures, 2500 words, 500 phrases, and our entire grammar book. My instructor said the CTM wants 90 words/day and 18 memorized phrases. Very little of the day is open for learning this stuff. We have some grammar lessons but mostly I`ll be learning this in the halls, at meals, in the 30-45 minutes of language study, the hour we have for getting ready for bed, and any time I get if something finishes early. It's very intense!
I was feeling a bit overwhelmed about this two days ago and so then of course I also started to feel bad about all my other failings, why don't I receive/understand more specific revelation from God, I could've been better pre-CTM, blah blah blah. I decided to pray about it right then while I was getting ready for bed in the bathroom. Just as I was finishing my prayer, someone`s speaker (I think – I haven't heard music there before) got louder . . . it was the chorus for "I Can Go the Distance" from Hercules. It was the Vocal Point cover I've loved ever since it posted on YouTube.
The chorus says "I am on my way; I can go the distance . . . this is where I'm meant to be!" It's all [about] how your goals are within reach, and it was the tender mercy I needed right then. The great thing about tender mercies is how small they are. I didn't desperately need help — I wasn't very upset and would've gotten over it soon. But often God just sends us little reminders that he loves us. And sometimes it seems like he [doesn't], and I can't explain that. I guess that's life on earth.
Anyway, our schedules are a little stressful but it's a good way to see the gift of tongues in action. My Portuguese is terrible but for 12 days of Portuguese experience it's pretty terrific! On my 9th day of learning Portuguese I was talking to some Brazilian sisters in the gym about weather, post-mission plans, and pluses and minuses of the Brazilian, Canadian, and American government health care — I know, I´m crazy, but it came up in the conversation and one of the sisters was super knowledgeable about it. You really do learn so much when you can talk to native speakers! I also taught four lessons over today and yesterday on the beginning of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the atonement and God's plan for us — sans notes!
Anyway, that's the novel for this week. Ciao ciao!
and don't be too hard on yourself.
Wow! That is a lot of memorization. Go go Hannah!


This morning at the funeral home we had a briefing to cover the route we would take to the church and then to the cemetery. It was given by a police chief of one of several towns we were driving through. There were a few officers from each town and also a county sheriff and state highway patrol officer and the PGR.
At the end of the brief the chief looked at us and told everyone that he just wanted to give us a special thanks because it was a PGR e-mail that first informed him of the Major's passing and gave him the heads up.. Not a phone call, a coworker, or the evening news. I'm guessing that he is subscribed to the Ohio mission links thread and got it from there, since there wouldn't be an OH statewide sent until it was confirmed. The watch list thread link gets posted in the Ohio forum (and sent to subscribers) as soon as possible by me or one other member after the Watch List thread is posted.
This is one example of the chain of communications that you all either help to start or maintain. Although the mods didn't personally notify the police chief, they started the chain by posting the Watch List thread. An Ohio member posted the link in the Ohio thread and the police chief received his e-mail. All before it was reported on the local news.
Part of the fundamental strength of the PGR is communications and teamwork. We know what we do is important and helps to support the mission at the local level. We just usually don't get feedback to know just how we helped. This time we did.
Thank you for everything you do and well done to all.
.and especially today for what you are doing for my family.
I am writing this letter to you and all the members of the Patriot Guard Riders that showed up and supported my father SFC (retired) Raymond Scott. My Mother, sister and I want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything that you all had done by coming out to Ware funeral Home. We all appreciate it very much by showing your support and escorting Dad to Londonderry Cemetery. Even though it was cold and had snow on ground you all showed support by having the colors posted and by riding the bikes as escorts as cold as it was. If you could pass the word on to the following PGR if you know them. Since they came from all over in OH and in KY. The family really did appreciate all your support even though none of you knew my father SFC (retired) Raymond Scott and came out to show your respect on December 29th.
I know it has been a few weeks since our paths crossed for the first time but I still am so appreciative of all 'you' and the Patriot Guard Riders did and were able to do for the Pyeatt Family. At what is I'm sure the most difficult time in their lives, it seemed that everyone was able and willing to contribute time and effort for a fallen solider.
Thank you for all that was done before, during and after!


With the free submit, Yahoo allows you to submit your home page, or an RSS feed. Do we need to submit both?
The format for the site submission has changed in the free Yahoo web submissions http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request . At first it allowed you to submit your site to it using the free submission form. This was normally the home page, and you would hope that their spider would crawl the rest of your website from there. Some webmasters have found this inadequate and have submitted other pages that Yahoo failed to notice otherwise.
More recently Yahoo allowed you to put in a text document with a list of URL's to simplify the submission process.
A few weeks ago I noticed that Yahoo also allows RSS feeds of your website, Atom feeds, or a text listing of urls in this submission form. What does this mean? What will Yahoo do with the links in the RSS feed?
The text list of URL's was obviously an effort to simplify the process for Yahoo to find all the pages in a website, as their documentation describes. But the RSS? Will they just add this to their database of RSS feeds for RSS searches, or will they follow the links with their spider to evaluate all the pages listed?
I have been working with Google Sitemaps since they came out. (Google uses their XML-formatted Google Sitemaps to help discover all the pages in a website, as well as to evaluate what pages have changed recently.) I am wondering if this is Yahoo's response to the Google Site Maps. Does anyone know?
If I was them, then I would use RSS feeds to evaluate changes in the website. This has more information than the list of URL's, since it also has descriptions and date changed. They have all the right information. If this is the case, it would be advisable for webmasters to have a RSS feed for their whole site to submit. That way Yahoo could just check the feed and know what pages to re-crawl, or what pages have been added.
It could be just as possible that this is just a field for us to submit RSS feeds, in addition to the other pages in your website. If this is the case, then we may need to submit both the feed and the home page of the website.
For myself, unless I find out differently, I am going to submit both. I intend on having a Google Sitemap and a RSS feed on all my future websites. I think it is safest to help out the search engines in any way possible. If they want information on what files have changed, I want to be proactive in giving it to them.
In addition, for those who have the coding experties, it is advisable to automate pinging Yahoo when your RSS feed changes. This is a standard blogging technique.
Robert Fuess is a veteran website designer who specializes in making dynamic search engine optimized websites.


There was a bit of a lull in elite events between the London Classic and Tata Steel, but the holiday season was replete with traditional festivals. Jon Ludvig Hammer, perhaps best known for his association with Magnus Carlsen, won his second straight tournament by taking the Rilton Cup in Sweden. Perhaps more quietly, Polish grandmaster Radoslav Wojtaszek, who previously worked as Anand's second, won two tournaments in a row, in Zurich and Basel. The first of the Swiss Swiss system events went for only seven rounds, as it was sandwiched between Christmas and New Year's. Wojtaszek's tally in Zurich of 6/7 was a half-point clear of his rivals. The two victories will send Wojt's rating into the middle 2700s. The decisive game came in the finale, as Wojtaszek outplayed young Russian grandmaster Ivan Popov. Let's see how he did it.


Rum may be one of the most under appreciated spirits, something which is most likely to end up in a cocktail rather than sipped on its own. It isn't as revered as Whiskey or as popular as Vodka. You'll usually find plenty of Tequila bars but few Rum bars. In the Boston area, RumBa, located in the Intercontinental Boston, is one of the few local spots that truly showcases the diversity of Rum. At Thirst Boston, I attended two Rum seminars, both which gave me additional reasons to embrace the category of Rum.
One of the seminars was the History of Carribean Rums, which was described as: "Join us for a history of the sugar spirit through the lens of the world's oldest rum distillery, Mount Gay. We'll spend the afternoon immersed in a categorical overview of r(h)um while enjoying a tasting of Mount Gay rums. Education for your palate and mind, this session will end with an interactive Q&A." I've tasted and enjoyed some of the Mount Gay Rums before so was interested in checking out more of their products.
The presenter was Duane Sylvestre, a former bartender and self-proclaimed "Thirsty Revivalist," who now is part of a team of spirit educators. He is originally from the island of Trinidad and is a passionate rum advocate, providing us information and history on rum and leading us through a tasting of four Mount Gay rums.
Duane began with a bit of history, noting that one of the important ancestors of rum was Arrack, produced on the island of Java, and which may be the first distilled spirit from sugarcane. There was also discussion on the importance and dark history of rum and the slave trade, a topic I have addressed before in prior posts. As we know, rum was huge in New England in the early 1800s, though it wasn't officially defined until the late 1800s. It is thought that the original Old Fashioned cocktail might have been made with rum.
However, the molasses for that New England rum came from the Caribbean where black slaves toiled on sugar plantations. And profits from New England rum distilleries went to finance more ships to travel to Africa to obtain additional slaves. A vicious and exploitative triangle of trade.
Once the U.S. started favoring whiskey and began ramping up whiskey production over rum, the Caribbean began producing their own large amounts of rum. There are two main types of rum, industrial (made from molasses, which comes in different quality grades) and agricultural (Rhum Agricole, made from sugarcane juice). As Duane said, "sugar is amazing." Rum is a loosely regulated category, which can be produced all around the world, and the primary regulations are governed by individual countries and distilleries.
There are considered to be three main rum styles: French, British and Spanish. Please note though that these are rough categories with exceptions that may not fit into these categories. If you go to a liquor shop though, you won't likely see the rum selections divided into these three different types. If anything, you'll have to ask one of the stores employees for assistance in differentiating the various ru bottles on their shelves.
Duane stated that Bacardi is the world's largest producer of rum, even larger than a company in the Philippines which also produces a huge amount of rum. This is different from what I was told in the other rum seminar, that presenter claiming the Philippines company was the largest producer. Whoever is the largest, it is fascinating to learn that Philippines produces so much rum. I don't think I've ever had any of their rum, but I'm keeping an eye out for it.
Mount Gay Rum, located on the island of Barbados, is the oldest, continuously operated rum distillery, with written evidence, concerning a deeded still, extending back to February 20, 1703, making it over 300 years old. However, even before that time, they were said to be engaged in distilling since the early 1600s. Around 1747, John Sober inherited what was then known as the Mount Gilboa Distillery. He hired Sir John Gay Alleyne to manage the distillery, which turned out to be an excellent choice. Gay improved the production process, introduced new strains of sugar cane, and improved crop yield. In addition, as Gay was antislavery, he found that he derived better rum if he paid his workers. Upon his death, Sober decided to honor all of Gay's great work by renaming the distillery after him, thus launching Mount Gay Rum.
Allen Smith is the Master Blender at Mount Gay, and has worked at the company for more than twenty years. He did leave for a short time to work at Coca Cola but returned to Mount Gay once he learned he would be unable to change the recipe for Coca Cola. Allen rarely tastes when blending rum, relying primarily on his olfactory prowess. As with a number of other spirits and wine, blending is an important art, one far too often under-appreciated.
We began our tasting component with the Mount Gay Silver (about $20). "Silver" simply refers to the fact that it has "no color," not that it isn't aged. In fact, it can aged, often up to a year, and then it is filtered to remove the color. I found the Silver to be sweet, with tropical fruit, grassy notes and a hint of mint. It is versatile, able to be used in almost any type of rum cocktail.
The Mount Gay Eclipse (about $20) is essentially the same rum as the Silver except it isn't filtered. Filtering tends to soften the alcohol as well. The Eclipse seemed more aggressive, with notes of honey, vanilla and maple, with some mild spices notes. Duane recommended that this rum would be a good match for a Rum & Tonic.
The Mount Gay Black Barrel (about $30) is an impressive rum, which is distilled in both a column and pot still. It is aged in ex-whiskey casks and later finished in deep, charred ex-bourbon casks. The "black barrel" refers to the black char in these barrels which enhances purification, allows a deeper access into the wood, and provides more spice notes. It is supposed to be the only rum that is finished in charred, ex-bourbon barrels. Some of the rum used in the final blend may have been aged for up to seven years.
The Black Barrel has a dark, amber color, like a fine whiskey, and if you tasted it blind, it would remind you far more of a rye whiskey than a rum. On the taste, there is a deep spice taste, caramel notes and a mild hint of vanilla. Layers of complexity, a lengthy finish (which has a touch of cinnamon), and a smooth, compelling taste. I could easily savor this rum on its own, though it would also do well in a craft cocktail. Duane recommended using this rum in Tiki cocktails.
The final rum was the compelling Mount Gay XO-Extra Old (about $40). Though there is the implication that the XO is older than other rums, it does not entail any specific time period. It is simply older than the other rums in the portfolio. In general, this XO contains rums that are from 8-15 years old. The XO also has the highest residual sugar of the line, about 5 grams, which still would be considered Extra Brut if it were a Champagne, and this considered very dry.
The XO is complex and intriguing, a rum to slowly sip and savor. It is silky smooth with delicious flavors of ripe pear, vanilla, toast, and subtle baking spices. It is an elegant spirit with a lengthy finish which will be sure to satisfy and tantalize. You won't be able to take just one sip as your palate will crave more. And as Duane said, one of the best parts of rum is that is it relatively inexpensive. At $40, this is an excellent value for such a complex and high quality spirit. This is a rum you should drink on its own and which you probably don't want to use in a cocktail. Highly recommended!
For food pairings for the XO, Duane recommended some desserts, from Banana Foster to Bread Pudding, Cinnamon Scones to Creme Brûlée. In addition, he noted that his favorite nightcap is the Mount Gay XO and Cashews!
What are your thoughts on Mount Gay rums?


Hershel has been collecting, studying, and researching minerals since the young age of seven. As a child, he would go hiking and exploring with his dad, frequenting old mines, historical sites, and museums. This interest further developed in his teenage years, when he founded Minerals.net.
Hershel originally started Minerals.net as a way to organize his collection in a database. His idea was to expand the concept by providing detailed information on the minerals in his collection. At a certain point, he realized how much useful information had been invested in his new catalog, and decided to place it online. Minerals.net was officially launched in 1997. With the Internet still in its infancy, and few websites devoted to this hobby, Hershel's new website was an instant hit, well-beyond his expectations. He kept on adding content and expanding the website, growing it to encompass several thousand pages of original content.
Hershel's career in web design began in 1996, with Minerals.net being his first website. He is currently president of Radial Web, a professional web design and development corporation in operation since 2002. His unique skill set is a dual expertise in graphic design and programming. Hershel has developed close to 300 professional websites in his professional career, and continues to provide his large customer base with ongoing support and maintenance.
Mineral collecting is a strong passion of Hershel, and he maintains a collection of several thousand fine mineral specimens. His collection places special emphasis on rare and classical minerals from obscure regions of New York, especially the Hudson Highlands and Ramapo Mountains. He also has an extensive representation of the Northern New Jersey traprock minerals of New Street, Prospect Park, and the surrounding region.
Aside of his primary regional focus, Hershel's collection also contains a large suite of worldwide minerals. His collection is increasingly focused on display showpieces and unique reference specimens. He can be sometimes be seen selling at some of the local shows in the New York/New Jersey area. Although not a dealer, Hershel often has interesting items for sale that are extras in his collection.
Minerals.net has afforded Hershel the opportunity to conduct extensive studies and research on minerals and gemstones. Hershel has written many articles on this subject, and has published in the Mineralogical Record. He has also put together several short video clips on minerals.
Hershel is an avid hiker and explorer. He has recently completed every marked trail in Harriman/Bear Mountain State Parks, and has hiked along many of the trail networks in other park systems in New York and New Jersey, including the Shawangunks, Catskills, Taconics, Kittatinies, and Wyanokies. He maintains an active hiking blog at www.harrimanhiker.com where he posts updates on his recent hiking activity. Nature photography is another hobby of Hershel, and many of his photos can be seen on his hiking blog. He is also a founding member of CommSAR, a community search and rescue organization, and has been instrumental in many search recoveries.
Hershel graduated in 2003 with honors from Ramapo College of New Jersey, with a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems. He resides in Rockland County, New York, with his wife and 4 children.


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Air Apparent: New Oxygen Systems for the ISS
By Tariq Malik
The rack containing NASA's Oxygen Generation System build for the International Space Station arrives at Kennedy Space Center where it will be installed in a cargo module for launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery. (Image credit: NASA/KSC.)
Astronautsaboard the International Space Station (ISS) will be breathing easy after thenext shuttle visit to the orbital research platform.
That flight,NASA's STS-121mission currently slated to launch in May, will deliver the U.S.-builtOxygen Generation System (OGS) to the station in the second of two ISS oxygen upgradesthis year.
"The basictechnologies are the same as the Elektron," said Bob Bagdigian, NASA's projectmanager for regenerative environmental control and life support systems, in aninterview.
Built byRussian engineers, the Elektrondevice aboard the space station uses electrolysis to separate water intohydrogen, which is dumped overboard, and oxygen. The 1,500-pound (680-kilogram)OGS rack works in much the same way, and will be able to provide 12 pounds of breathableoxygen daily under normal operations, NASA officials said.
The currentISS crew, Expedition12 commander Bill McArthur and flight engineer Valery Tokarev, have alsoinstalled an oxygen conservation system inside the station's U.S.-built Questairlock to be used before spacewalks during joint operations with a visitingshuttle, they added.
NASA'soxygen factory
Onceinstalled and operational - a process that could take months - the OGS isexpected to increase the space station's crew capacity up to its maximumsix-person total, NASA officials said.
The largestISS crews to date have been three-astronaut expeditions, though extended delaysin station-bound shuttle flights since the 2003 Columbia accident have limited severalmissions to two astronauts each.
Bagdigian saidthe OGS was originally slated to fly aboard the station's Node 3, a hub for thebay window-like cupolaand now grounded habitationmodule, but was later reworked to function inside the U.S.-built Destinylaboratory.
The shiftwill require some adjustments to Destiny - largely to vent waste hydrogen andprovide power for the OGS - but will allow engineers a chance to shake down theoxygen system sooner and assist efforts to increase ISS crews sizes, NASAofficials said.
"We knowthat oxygen generating systems in general have a lot of problems over the yearsduring start-up," said William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator forspace operation, in a press conference last week. "We think we'll have someproblems with our oxygen generator system. We want to fly it early so we canwork those out."
TheElektron device, for example, caused recurringheadaches for flight controllers and ISS astronauts over severalexpeditions when it brokedown repeatedly after in-space repairs. The unit was brought back online,ultimately in back-up mode, once spare parts were lofted to the ISS.
NASAofficials said the OGS is one of two major parts of a comprehensive lifesupport system for the ISS. A water reclamation system, which is slated to recyclewastewater and human urine, is also under development at Marshall Space FlightCenter (MSFC) where the OGS was designed and tested.
HelloROOBA
While theOGS is waiting to launch toward the ISS from NASA's Kennedy Space Center inFlorida, the oxygen-conserving ROOBA system is waiting in orbit for nextshuttle's arrival.
The ROOBA, orRecharge Oxygen Orifice Bypass Assembly, sounds more complicated than itactually is, its builders said.
"It's verysimple," explained Dan Leonard, ROOBA's primary designer for Boeing in Houston,Texas. "It's basically a hose."
The 25-foot(7.6-meter) ROOBA uses two hoses to link the space station's Quest airlock -home base for most ISS spacewalks in U.S.spacesuits - with a shuttle to draw oxygen directly from the orbiter'stanks. The measure not only conserves some ISS oxygen supplies, it also easesstrain on airlock equipment that would otherwise have to replaced during thelimited number of flights before NASA retires its shuttle fleet in 2010,Leonard added.
ROOBA willbe used by astronauts to prepare themselves for spacewalks before they exit theISS.
"Before you go outside into a spacewalk, you've got tobreathe oxygen for a few hours to purge the nitrogen out of your blood becauseyour spacesuit's at a very low pressure," said mission specialist PiersSellers, one of two STS-121 spacewalkers, in a NASA interview. "If you didn'tdo that, you would get the bends very quickly. So it's important that youmanage to get enough oxygen to purge the nitrogen out of your blood. Youbreathe it through a mask."
ROOBAarrived at the ISS aboard an unmanned Russian-built cargo ship after years ofdevelopment work on the ground, though the real test will come during theSTS-121 flight's three planned extravehicular activities, NASA officials said.
"It'salways nice to get a part on orbit," Leonard said, adding that his team willkeep a close watch on ROOBA during the upcoming spacewalks.
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Tariq Malik
Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of Space.com and joined the team in 2001, first as an intern and staff writer, and later as an editor. He covers human spaceflight, exploration and space science, as well as skywatching and entertainment. He became Space.com's Managing Editor in 2009 and Editor-in-Chief in 2019. Before joining Space.com, Tariq was a staff reporter for The Los Angeles Times covering education and city beats in La Habra, Fullerton and Huntington Beach. In October 2022, Tariq received the Harry Kolcum Award (opens in new tab) for excellence in space reporting from the National Space Club Florida Committee. He is also an Eagle Scout (yes, he has the Space Exploration merit badge) and went to Space Camp four times as a kid and a fifth time as an adult. He has journalism degrees from the University of Southern California and New York University. You can find Tariq at Space.com and as the co-host to the This Week In Space podcast (opens in new tab) with space historian Rod Pyle on the TWiT network (opens in new tab). To see his latest project, you can follow Tariq on Twitter @tariqjmalik (opens in new tab).
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Civitas Learning Community Brings Students and Educators Better Data
Higher education is often seen as a time to explore new subjects and interests. But often students still feel that they could benefit from more information when making decisions about their programs of study. In response to this issue, former Kaplan executive Charles Thornburgh founded Civitas Learning Community, a digital education platform that uses predictive analysis to empower students, educators, and advisors to make more informed academic decisions. Schools already have lots of data they've collected about students' demographics, behavior, and academic performance. But until recently, that information rarely left the institutions' administrative offices. Civitas makes use of the data that schools already have by normalizing and analyzing it to identify trends. Then, Civitas uses this information to give students and educators live recommendations about classes, teaching methods, and degree paths over a customizable platform using a system of predictive analysis similar to the way Netflix recommends movies.
The potential benefits of such a platform are numerous. Using predictive analytics, Civitas hopes to shed insight on which resources work best for which students, what types of teaching methods and tools lead to engagement and completion, and what kinds of instructional innovations are helping students' learning processes. The company believes that the technology will even be able to identify which students are at risk of dropping out and alert educators about which courses and degree paths are contributing most to the attrition rate. Students can consult the Civitas Learning platform to get live recommendations on decisions such as which class section they should sign up for, which courses they could benefit most from, or even which degrees they should consider pursuing.
In order to produce the most accurate predictions, Civitas will be collecting enormous amounts of data from a diverse variety of educational institutions and will be partnering with everything from four-year private schools to community colleges and proprietary schools. Civitas' partner institutions will have the ability to create a custom interface and apps for their students, faculty, and administrators to use. The platform launched earlier this week with more than a dozen participating schools and a database that included over eight million school records, making it already the largest multi-institutional database platform of its kind.
Civitas could become a valuable tool for the progress of education technology. In recent years, we've seen the number of new teaching tools and innovations in education skyrocket, but we can't hope to use these innovations to their full potential unless we can accurately measure their impact on learning. Perhaps technologies like the Civitas Learning Community can provide a solution to this. By using our data in more meaningful ways and identifying which technologies work best, we can continue to improve higher education.


I recently joined the forum due to its overwhelmingly valuable source of information and clearly passionate group of Port lovers - this is definitely a forum I want to be engaged with! Upon then taking advice of JDAW1, we agreed that I start this thread of posts - which I hope everyone will find equally valuable.
By way of introduction, I'm the director of Wine Auctioneer (www.wineauctioneer.com) and we feature a good number of Ports in our bimonthly, online auctions. I believe our auction site could be potentially useful for ThePortForum members for both your buying and selling of fine, rare and unusual Ports.
Rather than spamming the main Selling Port thread with a barrage of new threads for each potentially-interesting Port we feature, I'll contain such posts in here. I further promise to inform only, no hard selling! Comments and questions welcome also. And in case anybody wants to get in touch with me directly, I can be contacted at stuart@wineauctioneer.com.
Our September auction is now live and open to receive bidding until Monday 24th.
I recall reading on another thread (Valuation??? By Golfbumm4life) about Niepoort's Garrafeira 1931 Port. Well, we have one in our auction, see it here - https://www.wineauctioneer.com/lot/3427 ... feira-port.
Additionally, we have another 5 Lots of Niepoort's Garrafeira 1952 Port. https://www.wineauctioneer.com/auction- ... ction_form.
Stuart - if nothing else, I can gaze longingly at the photos you post and admire pictures of wines I am unlikely to ever own. I love pictures of port bottles, I accept my wife's assertion that I may not be wholly normal in this respect, but please do keep posting them.
..if nothing else, I can gaze longingly at the photos you post and admire pictures of wines I am unlikely to ever own.
This bottle features the label for the London wine merchants Hedges & Butler Ltd.
Everyone loves a good mystery, right? How about this mystery bottle then???
The only identifying mark is what remains of the number 10 to the right of the cap-seal, in worn orange-red wax - assumption is a 1910 Vintage Port.
In the absence of jdaw's new book, can anybody identify further???
Absolutely we like bottles like this, especially with decent fill levels, cork not damaged or raised, and a good colour to the wine.
Can we get a couple of higher resolution images to look at more closely (perhaps by PM, or links by PM, as appropriate)?
Looks more like OB than 10 to me.
I took a good look at the photo. I think the photo is upside down and what we can see is the O and part of the R from the word PORT. I'd have to check my records, but I have a few bottles that were sealed with PORT across the cork, mostly port from pre-WW2.
There are a couple of high-resolution photos on this Lot page on our website: https://www.wineauctioneer.com/lot/3381 ... ntage-port - Free to look and no obligation to register or bid.
I think the photo is upside down and what we can see is the O and part of the R from the word PORT.
Yes, also possible! Having a close look in person, there doesn't appear to be horizontal arm-stubs coming off the vertical (I) for the remnants of an R - yet this could well be due to damage. However, there isn't enough space to the left of what would be the letter O, for the letter P; and the centering would be WAY off - also feasibly possible if wax being stamped by hand. But if it is a 10, then centering would be spot on.
I have an unpublished edition of Julian's book and the only confirmed 1910 VP is Offley Boa Vista. Gonzalez Byass are thought to have produced, but not released VP from that vintage but those would be as rare as rocking horse poop.
I think the chances of this being a 1910 VP are extremely unlikely but not impossible. If it is, it is possibly one of the rarest 100 yr+ bottles I have ever seen.
One thing that I'd note from the pictures is that the cork is very short. That normally means that what is in the bottle was not intended to be aged further, it was bottled to be drunk. It is much more likely that this is a barrel-aged port bottled around 100 years ago with the work PORT branded on the now degraded cork.
I'm not convinced that bottle is port.
The neck profiling is atypical of bottles hailing from either the UK or Portugal - there's a slightly eastern european hint to the styling, but beyond that, I can't find a match..
I can see the horizontal arm-stub clearly in lower-resolution photos such as the ones in this thread in your original post. For some reason the horizontal is more difficult to see in the higher-resolution photos.
I disagree that '10' would be properly centered. '1910' would not be quite as off-center almost as 'PORT' would be, but it would still very much be off-center on the cork.
But since I can clearly see a horizontal line coming off of the vertical, PORT seems more likely than 1910 to me.
Bear in mind that this is a wax embossing rather than a cork branding, so the distortions seen on brands will not occur here.
We can clearly see the character 0 or O and also the kerning between that and its neighbouring character. If it were the word PORT, either way round, the adjacent letters would be well off the side of the bottle. Not only that, but the full word P O R T would be wider than the cork itself. Whilst the word PORT is sometimes stamped into the wax on the top of old bottles, it is invariably in a much smaller font. No-one in their right mind would get an embossing stamp made that was that big.
Similarly 1910 would also fall off the bottle.
If it's a date, it will be a two digit one, so 10 - but there are not many precedents for doing this. Much more likely is that it's the initials of either the wine or the bottler.
If it is port then that would fit, but we still have the problem with the shape of the bottle glass. I wonder if our Scandinavian friends can input on this, as the shape bears no resemblance to anything I've seen used in either UK or Portuguese bottlings..
The wax capsule might well have been 20-30% wider than the top of the cork so the word PORT would easily fit on the top of a capsule.


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Q: Slow script task when normalizing data for insert into SQL We've got about 50 million JSON-serialized strings that get inserted into SQL in roughly the following procedure:

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*1) Read all entries in a source table that haven't been processed

*2) Deserialize each into a C# object

*3) Validate against SQL the row is unique by device ID and timestamp - discard if not unique (theres about 1 duplicate per 2000 rows). There can be duplicates in the source data or in the production tables and I need to validate against both.

*4) Check if a child object exists and if not, insert and return inserted row ID, otherwise just return the row ID of the child object.

*5) Repeat step 4 for about 10 multi-level nested subclasses, then link in subclass the primary key of the parent class.

*6) Update the original row to set an "Inserted" column to true.

The whole lot is done in a single SSIS Script task and has been working well for a long time.
For step 4 and 5 above, each source row instantiates a new SqlCommand and .ExecuteScalar() to retrieve the inserted row ID for use in subsequent inserts/updates of that object.
Everything works well row by row but we need to re-import all source data into some new databases and the speed is very slow, only a few hundred rows per second. It's obvious the large number of individual reads, inserts and updates are slow, also the overhead of ADO.
I am at a loss how to improve the speed because many functions require blocking to guarantee uniqueness.
If I do an SSIS Data Flow task with fast load, it won't guarantee uniqueness during the transform.
Would it be prudent to split say, 500 source rows at a time into 10 threads after validating uniqueness then run the monolithic insert process?
Are there better conceptual ways to achieve the same result?


The desire for reform is ever strong from all sides of the political spectrum, and invariably it involves people advocating for things they like and demanding others agree with them all in the name of bipartisanship or "working together". In reality most reforms worth that name are rarely uncontroversial and almost never bipartisan.
It is not true that we have lost the spirit of reform over the past decade.
Anyone who argues that politicians cannot enact reform in the current era due to increased partisanship, or the 24 hour news cycle, or social media, or any other malady they believe is holding the nation back, should remember that not long ago we had a government that lacked a majority in both houses and yet introduced a price on carbon.
That was an actual reform of the economy – it set it up for the next century as the world shifts away from fossil fuels use.
So reform can be done, but invariably such changes need to be in place for some time otherwise they are susceptible to removal.
It may seem the Abbott government rescinding the carbon price is a perfect example of how we are now unable to stomach reform, but in reality it was just another case of a conservative party doing its best to turn back the clock.
All those who look with longing to the 1980s and 1990s when they would have you believe a spirit of bipartisan was in full flower should remember that the Liberal party would have abolished the capital gains tax had it won either the 1987 or 1990 elections.
As it was, John Howard kept that desire buried in his heart and in 1999 changed the rules of indexation and introduced a 50% discount on capital gains tax that help set fire to the housing market and made negative gearing so lucrative.
At the 1984 election, Andrew Peacock proposed allowing people to "opt out" of Medicare and argued that "socialised medicine is not the way". In 1987 Howard called Medicare "a complete disaster" and sought to replace it with a policy where people paid the first $250 of any medical and hospital bills in any one year.
Abbott was thus not an indicator that things have changed, rather he was just representing the standard operating procedure of the Liberal party. The shock with Abbott's policy of rescinding the carbon price was not that he was seeking to undo a reform, but that he was rejecting scientific opinion as well.
But then it is easier to take such a retrograde step when your government contains people such as our new deputy prime minster, Michael McCormack, who in his maiden speech in 2010 argued that just because there might be a drought "does not mean we all need to listen to a government grant-seeking academic sprouting doom and gloom about climate changing irreversibly".
The main problem with any reform is that if it is an actual policy which changes the economy or our society – such as the Family Law Act, the Native Title Act, Medicare, maternity leave, or any other number of measures – it will face supreme opposition and often needs a long period in place before opposition dies down.
And even then the opposition will never fully die.
Another problem is those arguing for things they call "reform" generally have a vested interest in such reforms.
The former secretary of the Treasury, Dr Ken Henry, may well have been a very capable public servant who offered great advice during the global financial crisis, but he is now the chair of NAB, so he is not exactly coming from a neutral position when giving a speech that argued for a shared purpose that includes a company tax cut – even if he did advocate for it in his tax review in 2010.
Henry talked of the need for businesses to "accept responsibility for the social and environmental outcomes of our activities", and he boasted of how NAB has "backed the not-for-profit Good Shepherd Microfinance" and that it also has partnered with the CSIRO "to identify some of the ways we, as a nation, can respond to the challenges and opportunities facing us out to 2060".
All good community stuff, but it is also worth noting that one of the ways NAB identified it could respond to challenges was to reduce its staff by 4,000 employees over the next three years while also announcing a $5.3bn profit.
That's all lovely, but currently we have a government that has pursued a policy of attacking people on welfare for no social good, but because it plays well to their conservative base. This week it was revealed that a crackdown on Disability Support Pension "rorters" which has so far subjected 30,056 people to medical assessments, had led to just 135 people having their pensions cancelled – just 0.45%.
How's that for pursuing a higher ambition?
It's hard to argue for a higher ambition when what one party believes is higher, the other thinks is lower.
And do we want more agreement, or do we want just better advocacy for changes the public wishes, or perhaps needs?
Who is to blame for Australia's stalled wages?
Henry argued that "the country needs a 10-year plan built on a unifying proposition".
Really? Fine, get the Liberal party to agree we need a price on carbon and we'll talk. We mostly have a unifying position on how we treat asylum seekers, has that worked well? How about we all be unified on the issue of public health care and education? Does anyone have a picture of what that would look like in any real sense other than vague motherhood statements?
We can argue forever on the need for reform, but it will be achieved as it always is – not through bipartisanship, but by one party advocating for it, generally off the back of grassroots support (especially in the case of social change), and then fighting hard to ensure it remains in place.
What's the Craziest Thing You've Ever Found at a Xerox Machine?