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Increasing the mimimum memory used per query
SQL Server's sp_configure settings contains a setting named 'min memory per query (KB)'. This setting allows you to set the default minimum amount of RAM that's allocated for each query — but should be used with care. Like many SQL Server settings, the default setting is best for most situations. However, if you have RAM to burn, BOL offers that increasing this setting could have a positive impact on small queries:
"Increasing the value of min memory per query may improve performance for some small to medium-sized queries, but doing so could lead to increased competition for memory resources."
Updates to the 'min memory per query (KB)' setting can be done like this:
--first, turn on advanced options SP_CONFIGURE 'show advanced options', 1 GO RECONFIGURE GO --then, set new value - default value is 1024KB, this increases it to 2MB SP_CONFIGURE 'min memory per query (KB)',2048 GO RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE GO --now, display new value SP_CONFIGURE 'min memory per query (KB)' GO RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE GO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

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I counted the number of players who had their shirts off following American Samoa's first-ever World Cup soccer win the other day, a singular victory reported on in The New York Times, and there were six. All happy fellows in good shape. Nothing to offend as far as I could tell, though if partial disrobing becomes the norm one shudders to think what will happen should it extend to boccie, bowling, shuffleboard, and bridge.
All by way of saying that I found the shirt-waving glee that followed East Hampton's first-ever county championship in boys soccer not in the least offensive either.
Nor did the school's athletic director, Joe Vas, who, having coached state-champion teams in boys and girls soccer in his career, is well acquainted with the rules. Nor did the team's head coach, Rich King, or his assistant, Don McGovern. All were outraged — and justly so — when Bonac's star center midfielder was red-carded, and thus banned from playing in the Long Island championship game — a game the Bonackers could well have been expected to win were Mario Olaya in the lineup.
That's why it was a bit galling to learn not long afterward that Jericho, which had defeated East Hampton 2-1, went on to win the Class A state title as well.
There was no objection to Olaya's initial yellow-carding for having delayed the restart of the county championship game after shirtlessly celebrating what proved to be the winning goal that he scored with 34 seconds left on the clock.
But there was to his postgame red-carding, which followed upon the team's brief celebration with its fans at the far end of the field, nowhere near Sayville's bench.
East Hampton's athletic director has said the excessive-celebration rule, whose purview is confined to the time in which a game is contested, was in this case "misapplied." And he has asked the state's soccer rules committee to confirm this contention.
To have merited a red card after the game, Olaya, he maintains, would have had to have been found guilty of unsportsmanlike conduct of some kind. Yet that clearly was not the case, he and King have said. Olaya was not taunting Sayville's players, nor was he rubbing their noses in it, nor was he showboating. He had merely, along with his teammates, rushed over to share the historic moment — for just a few moments — with their schoolmates, their parents, their teachers, and other well-wishers.
While time cannot be rolled back, a clarification of the rules, Vas and King say, should prevent such an injustice from ever occurring again in Suffolk.


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Y-bearing units (ball bearing units)
Conventional SKF ball bearing units are referred to as Y-bearing units. These units consist of:
Y-bearing units can accommodate moderate initial misalignment, but normally do not permit axial displacement.
They are ready-to-mount, ready-to-use units and available as:
The range
Y-bearing units are available as standard in following designs and variants:
Other units can be composed by ordering the parts separately.
- Y-bearing plummer block units (fig. 3)
Y-bearing flanged units (fig. 4)
- with cast iron housings – table 6, table 7 and table 8
- with composite housings – table 9 and table 10
- with pressed steel housings (housings to be ordered separately from the bearings) – table 11 and table 12
- with housings made of composite for SKF Food Line – table 13, table 14 and table 15
- with cast stainless steel housings – table 16 and table 17
- Y-bearing take-up units (fig. 5, fig. 6)
Other units can be composed by ordering the parts separately.
Because of their versatility and cost effectiveness, Y-bearing units are typically found in the following applications:
- agricultural machinery
- construction equipment
- conveyor systems
- textile machines and fans
- machines for food and beverage processing and packaging
If Y-bearing units are to be used in an application where health, safety, or the environment is at risk, the SKF application engineering service has to be contacted during the design phase.
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Salmon may soon spawn in the San Joaquin River below Friant Dam, probably for the first time since the river's flow was diverted to farms in the 1950s.
Salmon may soon spawn in the San Joaquin River below Friant Dam, probably for the first time since the river's flow was diverted to farms in the 1950s.
Most San Joaquin salmon swim upstream past Stockton no farther than the Merced River, above which the San Joaquin dries up. Last week, however, biologists trapped adult salmon near the Merced and trucked them to a stretch of river closer to the dam, near Fresno.
The goal: To see if they'll reproduce that far upstream.
The experiment does not mean officials have met their goal of successfully reintroducing self-sustaining salmon populations, which is the focus of an $892 million river restoration plan that emerged after 18 years of litigation.
Just a few dozen fish are involved this time. And they are fall-run salmon - not the threatened spring-run fish that must eventually be established.
Nevertheless, one environmentalist was awestruck by the sight of large salmon in a river that hasn't seen any for decades, except in the wettest of years.
"These were living, jumping, thriving big fish," said Monty Schmitt, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, whose 1988 lawsuit ultimately led to the river restoration plan.
Schmitt watched last week as biologists carefully dropped the wriggling Chinook into the river.
"I've got to tell you it has been amazing to see. It actually caught me off guard how powerful it was," Schmitt said. "I highly doubt there has been another time since 1950 there have been this many fish (in the San Joaquin), and the potential for them to spawn is better than just good."
Salmon were spotted upstream of the Merced during the floods of 1997, said Elif Fehm-Sullivan, a fisheries biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Then, just last year, five fish somehow passed over a barrier intended to keep them out of the low-flow portion of the San Joaquin. Two of them made it all the way to the base of Friant Dam, Fehm-Sullivan said.
Still, she said, this is probably the first time salmon will have had a chance to spawn in that area since the Friant water diversions started.
Whatever happens, officials hope to gain more information about whether conditions below the dam are suitable for fish. Acoustic tags were placed on the salmon to allow scientists to track their progress, said Margaret Gidding, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's San Joaquin River restoration program.
"This will answer a whole lot of questions," Gidding said.
Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/breitlerblog.


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How to Route External Audio Effects in Ableton Live
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A couple weeks back we explored the basics of audio effects on our blog in an effort to help our readers who are just getting into the world of music production. Audio effects can add depth and dimension to your sounds and they are really one of the essential building blocks of electronic music. This week we will explore some options for expanding your sonic palette with external hardware effects routed through the aux send and return channels in Ableton Live. Most music production software such as Logic, Reason and Ableton Live come with built-in audio effects which can sound fantastic. But a problem you may run into is that tracks coming out of these programs can end up sounding very similar. This is advice that Moby offered in a recent interview that we did with him:
Today it's all software based so it's much more accessible. But the danger is that it all sort of sounds the same.. It's very easy to stay purely in the digital realm because it does everything. – Moby
Using Hardware Effects for a Unique Sound
One of the easiest ways to incorporate an outside element into your Ableton Live workflow is to route sounds out of Ableton and into a hardware effects processor, then back into Ableton Live. If you happened to catch DJ Kiva's APC40 dub performance in May, he used this technique extensively to create his dubbed out sound. In the video above you'll find Kiva using a Korg Kaoss pad that has been routed out of Ableton and back in again to create effects that you can't find inside the program alone. After seeing this video I asked Kiva to go over the basics of how to set this up. It wound up being easier than I thought it would be and it's brought a lot of new ideas to my workflow.
Routing External Hardware Effects into Ableton Live
Below is DJ Kiva's setup for routing external effects into ableton Live. I've replaced his Kaoss pad with a Roland SP-404 sampler, which offers audio-through and effects processing on that audio. You may find that hardware gear that you own such as Korg Electribes, Monotrons, synthesizers or drum machines can process audio. Guitar or bass pedals can also create unique sounds that can help create your sonic identity.
Make Sure You Have Two Sets of Outputs from your Audio Interface
You can use any sort of effects processor for the following setup as long as you have an audio interface that can handle the inputs and outputs. To make this work you'll need an audio interface with at least two outputs and one input. They can be mono (and your effects will also be mono) but optimally you'll want two stereo outs and at least one stereo input. One output is your master sound output and the second output will be routed to the effects device. The input will be used for the effected signal. In the following example I'm using a Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 (channels 3 and 4 for input and output) that is connected to the Sp-404's ins and outs. The master output is set to 1/2 volume.
1. Go to your preferences and go to the audio tab. make sure you have your interface selected as the input & output device..
2. Under input & output tabs, activate the additional ins & outs you will use.
3. Open Ableton's i/o tab by the master track.
4. Select the "Return A" track.
5. Under the "Audio To" tab, select "Ext out" and then output pair 3/4.
6. create a new audio track in session view and set i/o to Ext. 3/4 and monitor mode to IN.
7. Connect a set of cables output 3/4 on your interface to the inputs on your effects device. In this case we have connected to the inputs on our SP-404.
8. Connect a set of cables from outputs of your effects device to inputs 3/4 on your audio interface.
9. Enable your effects processor..
10. Now back in your Ableton session view you'll find Send levels for channels A and B above the volume faders on each track. Try playing a loop of some kind on audio track 1 and turn up the Send A knob to route effects to your hardware processor..
11. Make sure that the level on your audio track ("Aux Signal" in the examples) is turned up when you hit send A knob on any music channel, it will now send signal to your device and come back into the session. You can now easily record the incoming signal and have it on a separate track in your session.
12. One thing to note about this setup: there can often be a small delay when routing these sorts of effects. When I asked Kiva about this he mentioned that this can sometimes add to the character of a reverb or delay. If you want to fix this timing offset you can adjust the start point of the sample in Ableton.
(Originally published on Dubspot.com)
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Hi, I'm trying to get this to work with a guitar distortion pedal instead of something like an SP-404. But my question is: are there any advantages/disadvantages to doing this method as opposed to the "External Audio Effect" effect in Ableton? Thanks.


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The chain is now looking to cash in on the rising popularity of high-end bottled waters. Its stores have begun stocking brands like FIJI water and San Pellegrino. "High-end water has a lot of potential," he added.High-end water? Consumerism gone amok. In a country where a gallon of water costs one-fifth of one penny in the most expensive municipalities (the figure is from NYC), I see a liter of Fiji water retailing for $1.79. That comes to $6.78 a gallon. Paying to fill up my tank, I overhear people celebrating the drop in gas prices to under $2 a gallon. The same publication shows that bottled water sales in the US will exceed $9 billion this year.
Yes, I realize there are convenience and health factors, as well as image concerns. But in a country that imports more oil then any other on the globe, does it not strike you as inane that people will pay over three times as much for water that they have in utter abundance as they will for ever-essential gasoline? That they're so price-sensitive to black gold that they'll drive across state lines to save a couple nickels per tank?


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We've recently added new Healing Hands scrubs to our store! Known for its soft, cotton fabric, their products will feel almost as though you're wearing your pajamas to work. They're durable too so you can count on your purchase lasting a long time. Healing Hands is constantly creating fashionable styles and has made a big splash in the junior, missy and plus-size markets. They've introduced some exciting prints, perfect for the end of summer. Check out a few of their new scrubs:
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Imagine trying to tee up a golf ball, hit it down the fairway, and then find it to hit it again — all in the dark of night. I think you would agree this is nearly impossible. Well, what if you had a little help in the form of a glowball? You know, a tiny version of the technology used in those bracelets and necklaces kids wear at night at all the theme parks across the country. Sound a little more feasible? Believe me when I tell you it works.
I played golf in the dark for the first time in my life the other night. This post-sunset, nine-hole tourney was a blast. Hitting a glow-in-the-dark golf ball blindly down the fairway in the direction of a dimly lit glow stick was exhilarating and just a little bit nerve-racking too. But as soon as we completed our round, I was already looking forward to the next time I got the chance to tee it up again in the late night hours.
It's amazing how a simple little product like a glow stick can open up a whole new world of opportunity for people. Someone had the vision to take two totally different technologies and blend them into a product that expands business opportunities for golf courses across the country. It's this innovation on the product development front that I find so interesting. And when it comes to innovation in product development, electrical manufacturers are as worthy as any.
The electrical manufacturing community continually churns out new products with the goal of helping you do your job faster and more reliably, all the while allowing your customers to save on equipment costs, improve system efficiency, and reduce energy usage. In fact, I receive an average of more than 25 product press releases every week of the year. The most difficult part is finding a simple way to share all of these new and interesting products with you, while at the same time telling you where you can go to get more information on each of them. That's where the EC&M Manufacturer & Supplier Directory comes into play.
Throughout the year, we take great pride in sharing as many new products with you as possible via the Product of the Month and regular product pages in the magazine, our Web site Product of the Week, and the Product of the Year competition. But we realize that's not enough. You also want a comprehensive directory of reputable manufacturers and suppliers who can supply you with products to satisfy your customers and grow your business.
This year's printed directory fulfills this need by listing contact information for more than 1,100 electrical manufacturers and suppliers. If you have access to a computer, you can also use our online version of the guide, which is accessible via the Buyers' Guide tab along the top of the EC&M home page. The online version is identical to the printed guide, but also offers links to all of the manufacturer's Web sites.
So the next time you need that special dimmer, power monitor, or instrument transformer, rather than take a shot in the dark and guess which companies might make this product, grab your trusty copy of the EC&M Manufacturer and Supplier Directory. You can look at it as your glowball to anything and everything in the electrical industry.


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GE's Topaz now integrates access and video
Topaz from GE leverages a browser-style interface with full color maps and interactive icons to provide integrated access control with video surveillance, alarm monitoring and photo ID badging for systems up to 128 readers.
The software system is packaged in two and four door starter and expansion kits to accommodate field applications.
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Obama: Russia miscalculated in Ukraine
BRUSSELS (AP) — President Barack Obama says Russia's leadership miscalculated if it thought the world wouldn't care about its actions in Ukraine. He says Russia was mistaken if it thought it could drive a wedge between the U.S. and the European Union.
Obama is speaking at a news conference with EU leaders in Brussels. He says the U.S. and Europe stand united on the issue.
Obama says Russia stood alone at the United Nations and in other global venues in defending its actions in Ukraine. He says if Russia continues with aggression in Ukraine, Russia's isolation will deepen. He's promising increased sanctions and growing consequences.
Obama says coordination between the U.S. and Europe on economic sanctions against Russia has been excellent.
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DUBLIN, Calif. — Zany experiments testing scientific theories in real world settings have earned the TV show "MythBusters" a devoted following, but a stunt gone wrong met with an unhappy audience when an errant cannonball went shooting through a California family's bedroom.
Wednesday morning, sheriff's deputies were still trying to measure how the cannonball traveled from a bomb range in the rolling hills flanking a suburban neighborhood and rocketed through the front door of a home, through its master bedroom, and landed in a neighbor's parked minivan.
Producers for the Discovery Channel show fired the cannonball for an episode Tuesday as they attempted to test whether other types of projectiles shot from a cannon would pick up the same speed and have the same impact as the steel ball.
Instead of hitting a string of water-filled garbage cans, the cannonball passed over the barrels, went straight through a protective cinderblock wall and skipped off the hill behind it, said Alameda County Sheriff's Department spokesman J.D. Nelson.
"It missed the target and took kind of an oddball bounce," Nelson said. "It was almost like skipping a rock on a lake. Instead of burying it into the hill it just went skyward."
No one was injured and the home's residents didn't even wake up until the broken drywall settled on top of them, he said.
Nelson, the department's liaison to the show, said producers have used the cannon that they built at the county's bomb range behind the Santa Rita Jail more than 50 times without incident.
Once it was launched, the cannonball traveled about 700 feet, bounced in front of the Dublin home, then tore through the front door and exited through a wall on the back of the house.
The projectile then bounced at least once more and crossed the road before smashing the window and dashboard of the minivan, where it came to rest.
Jasbir Gill, who owns the minivan, said he and his children had just gotten home.
"It's scary," Gill told the Contra Costa Times (http://bit.ly/umCZnD). "I was in the van five minutes before this happened."
"Mythbusters," which is produced for Discovery Channel by Beyond Productions, issued a statement through publicist Katherine Nelson Wednesday saying all proper safety protocol had been observed.
"Beyond Productions is currently assessing the situation and working with those whose property was affected," she said.
The show, according to its website, mixes "scientific method with gleeful curiosity and plain old-fashioned ingenuity to create (its) own signature style of explosive experimentation."
President Barack Obama announced he would appear on an upcoming segment during a White House science fair in October.


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News from WWF Global:
Posted on 22 August 2013
"There's been numerous accidents of marine mammals, i
ncluding grey whales, caught in fishing nets and later reported deseased. Observers, based in the area of the lighthouse on the shore of Piltun gulf, have already registered cases where grey whales with calves came dangerously close to the nets," writes WWF in an open letter.
Experts on the Okhotsk-korean population of grey whales agree that trap nets in those areas constitute a serious threat to grey whales, so it is necessary to remove them as soon as possible, as well as to ban fishing in the feeding areas of the whales.
"Because of ever growing activities on the shelf of Russian seas, there are also more and more threats tobiological resources and rare species", says Konstantin Zgurovsky, head of Marine program of WWF Russia. "To preserve them and to ensure their safety, a management system of Russian seas needs to be implemented as soon as possible. When this system is established, these issues by the shores of Sakhalin would be avoided.
Aleksey Knizhnikov, head of WWF Russia's program on environmental policy of the oil and gas sector, underlines, that threats to grey whales come not only from the fishing industry, but also from the increasing oil and gas extraction projects, as well as more frequent shipping in Sakhaling waters.
"For example the operator of project Sakhalin-1 (with participation of Exxon and Rosneft), plans to build a modern wharf in the Piltun gulf, which will bring even more risks to grey whales. WWF and other NGOs appeal to the project operator to give up those plans and to use an alternative way for delivering cargo, as it was done in previous stages of the Sakhalin-1 project" – say Knizhnikov.
In their appeal to Kirillov, ecologists ask him to take urgent action to cancel the decision about setting of trap nets in certain locations of the Okhotsk sea to prevent damage to the population of important rare species.


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
2 new Zensho
I got a description and measurements on 2 of my new Zensho knives
This Zensho line is made by Mr. Kunio Isikawa from Sanjo, Niigata.
He working alone in his small workshop and makes all by hand.
As he went older he limited only his production to Nakiri and Santoku (home knives). Thats why we choose him for these knives.
When we visited Sanjo we have seen how much work he puts in his knives and how he makes all work only by him self.
We ordered his knives already when we was in Japan but because Isikawa san was ill and went to a hospital, we only got them this month.
We are very lucky to cary some of his knives in our store !!
Here is our knives in work:
Both knives are made extra wide :)
Santoku 180mm
Steel: Blue 2 Stainless Cladding
Handle: Ho wood D shape
Nakiri 180mm
Steel: Blue 2 clad with Stainless steel
Handle: Ho wood D shape
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January 10, 2018
If there is one constant in the financial world it is change. As monies change hands and markets change directions, it's important to plan and be prepared for all the twists and turns inherent in investment. The stock market has been on an upswing for the past nine years, but will this continue? And what will happen to those whose money is invested in the market if it doesn't?
"People have been lulled into complacency thinking the market will continue the way it has been without planning for the downturn," says Craig Kirsner, principal of Stuart Estate Planning, a Coconut Creek, FL-based full service financial planning firm. "Historically, there's been a recession every five to seven years. While it's great that that hasn't happened yet in this last cycle, the key word here is yet. Eventually, there must be a downturn and so it's crucial to plan for it before it happens."
One way in which retirees and would-be-retirees can plan is to get an accurate assessment of how much risk they are currently taking with their money and if any of that risk can be ameliorated. What is the best way to assess risk? Kirsner notes that it isn't enough to rely on someone else's meanings of terms like "conservative" or "risky" because they can mean different things to different people. "Stockbrokers live in the world of risk so what may be 'conservative' to them isn't what's conservative to someone who isn't in that world," he adds. In place of imprecise language, Kirsner advocates for getting down to concrete numbers and assessing risk tolerance and actual risk on a quantifiable scale.
When quantifying and comparing one's risk tolerance to the level of risk at which their money is currently residing, investors may—and often do—find that they're taking greater chances with their money than they thought. Whether one desires to invest in the shallow or the deep end of the proverbial pool, understanding where one is standing financially can help avoid ending up in an empty pool. "Knowing is more than half the battle," says Kirsner. "In the event a retiree does find that he or she is taking greater risk than they are comfortable with, it's advisable to move some assets to more sheltered positions." But the time to do that, he adds, is before any major shift in the market and before the risk becomes liability.
Thinking of some of the ways to avoid loss and protect one's hard-earned assets, working with a certified fiduciary can be a large step in the right direction. Fiduciaries are required by law to act in the best interest of their clients, which is an important safeguard for consumers. As well, understanding cost-benefit analysis, even on a simple level, can help investors gain a clearer picture of their financial standing. Kirsner notes, for example, that based on real market gains, an individual would have to gain back 42% to break even from a 30% loss in their holdings and a whopping 100% to break even from a 50% loss in assets. "The greater the percentage of loss, the more exaggerated or significant the percentage gain one would have to have just to get back to where they began," he cautions. As such, it is helpful to see the potential loss in terms of what it would take to recover and to take that into consideration when building a portfolio.
The first step to making the right moves is a thorough portfolio risk analysis to help provide a firmer understanding of where one's assets currently sit and the risk to which they are actually exposed. "My main concern for people is that they often have way more risk than they want or need," says Kirsner. "Hope is not a retirement plan and hoping that things will continue as they are defies historical trends. Preparation is absolutely essential."
There's no form of investment that doesn't put money in jeopardy, but understanding one's levels of tolerance, moving one's money to more sheltered positions, understanding cost-benefit, and ensuring that one's financial advisors are fiduciaries bound to act in one's best interest are all moves toward lowering risk and protecting one's capital. While no one can predict when and a market shift will occur, it's certain that one will and when it comes to a lifetime of earnings, it is always better to be safe than sorry.
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For the Fall we'll have to put together an urban bike shootout, as manufacturers announce products like the Masi Speciale SoulVille! – all the specs aside, I've just been staring at those fenders. What more will we find at Interbike? I'm thinking a lot.
Note the Bianchi Milano influences, a bike that was ahead of its time, by about 7 years.


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March 28, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) named Evan Tindell the Singles Player of the Week while Mark Egan and Jonathan Farm were selected the Doubles Team of the Week.
Ranked No. 10 in the Northeast, Tindell defeated regionally-ranked No. 3 Will Boe-Wiegaard of Bates College, 6-3, 6-2 in the No. 1 singles position last Wednesday. The victory led the No. 6 Engineers (5-1) to a 5-2 win over the No. 4 Bobcats. Egan and Farm collaborated for an 8-4 win in the No. 3 doubles position, marking Tech's only doubles win against Bates.


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So I hear a crazy rumour that Ben Mulroney may soon run for federal office, and under the Liberals no less! So crazy, this rumour may actually be true. I mean, it's no secret that there are divisions within the Conservative Party, between Harper loyalists and Mulroney loyalists. So getting Ben to run for the Liberals would be like a shot of tequila for the Liberals - the end result is a nice buzz, but the burn goes down hard, but it will signal a bigger burn to the Tories!
I had a vision last night of what we might hear from Ben in the House of Commons in Question Period, if he does run and win, based on his career experiences.
Here's just a good number, but feel free to add your own. Some may seen a bit repetitive or lame, but don't blame me because aren't all E-Talk interviews just regurgitated soft-ball questions? So if people thought this was a silly question...read below for what we may look forward to from a potential party star...
1. Mr. Speaker, Canadians want to know, which Canadian designer is the Prime Minister going to wear down our red carpet, on this year's final session of the House of Common's "Question Period"?
2. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister tell us what his favourite thing is about being Prime Minister?
3. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister tell us what it's like to work in
Canada compared to say, elsewhere?
4. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister tell us how much he loves working in Canada?
5. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister tell us what his favourite Canadian vacation spot is?
6. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to know what Prime Minister Harper did to
prepare for his role as "Sweater-vested friend" in the film, 2008 Federal Election.
7. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister tell us what his favourite hot-spot is in Canada?
8. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister tell us how he finds the Canadian fans - I mean voters - are responding to his latest movie - I mean budget?
9. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister tell us when he will appoint William Shatner to the Senate so I can interview him for a Thursday night Special and host a documentary on his epic struggle from actor, senator and to Governor General hopeful.
10. Mr. Speaker, recently, Canada's favourite celebrity blogger, Perez Hilton, asked Miss California, the lovely Carrie Prejean, if every US state should legalize same sex marriage and why. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to ask the Prime Minister the same question about what he thinks our neighbous in the south should do so I can go back on E-Talk to give my outraged response to his answer!
11. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister tell us what is favourite CBC films are, and how he feels they differ from CTV ones?
12. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister tell us what it's like to be a celebrity, er, I mean politician - a Canadian politician - on the world stage?
13. Mr. Speaker, can the Prime Minister tell us what his plans are for CTV? Canadians need to know if I'll be able to make a triumphant comeback.
14. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to request that Question Period end early today, so I can go get a facial and manicure, and most likely touch up my roots. (ruled out of order)
15. Mr. Speaker, I'd like ask to the Prime Minister, what it was like get up in front of million of fans and viewers - I mean party supporters and voters - and give his acceptance speech for his role as "Minority Prime Minister: Part Two", and if he is planning a another sequel in the same role? Or will he be dropping out of the role because he knows his third time at it would be a bomb with the public?
And surely he'll get his own time on Don Newman's politics....
Don Newman: And tonight, my guest is the newly elected Liberal MP, Ben Mulroney. Welcome B-- *Ben shoves Don out of the camera shot*
Ben: Thanks Don! That's right, I'm Ben Mulroney - and tonight - on Politics, I'll discuss how I went from law student turned celebrity interviewer, who asks celebrities nonsense questions about Canada, to Liberal MP, all the while, keeping my dashing smile and characteristic, Mulroney hair. But first! Let's go to the studio to get an update of today's top stories, and after the break, we'll be back here with me, Ben Mulroney, where I'll conduct an exclusive interview with our very own, Don Newman, asking him the questions about what we all really want to know: the gossip which goes on behind the political scenes here, on The Hills, I mean, the Hill. *smiles*
Needless to say, it seems our party will have a lot to be proud of, and a lot of preparation work ahead of itself if we do get the pleasure of working with Mulroney Jr., and I'm sure PM Harper can't wait for his questions from him either.
Sure I've typecasted the Mulroney Jr., but I've never heard him say anything about politics before so what else do I have to go on? But who knows maybe he'll surprise and be the next Barack Obama!
Or!!! He could even become the next Liberal leader - up against Justin Trudeau in the leadership race, and it could be Trudeau vs. Mulroney on a whole new, exciting level with the youth wing divided over camps!
And I do suppose it's better that he become a Liberal MP than an NDP one..like a son of a former Mulroney cabinet minister, Robert Layton, did.
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|2006-04-25, 18:52
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The Omnipotent One
Join Date: Jan 2004
Care to share how the process went? Like what's your background with her or are you freinds/close friends/acquaintences or what?
I'm sure the guys (i.e. me ) and girls would like to the story, since it can provide some insight or tips for us all
|2006-04-25, 23:48
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|2006-04-26, 03:26
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
If she's anything like the girlfriends' I've had in the past you've got one hell of journey to go, but you sound a lot different to me. I'm rather shallow, I haven't even asked a girl out so I can only imagine how magical it must be when she accepts it. You also seem to like this girl a lot so that's good. Good luck.
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|2006-04-26, 08:32
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♪♫ Maya Iincho ♩♬
Anime fan? My sisters are though. But my youngest sister is in love with Kira Yamato from Gundam Seed though ^_^. Hahaha
ps: On that link for Zero Shinohara, that was quite sick. And also this thread is getting ridiculous.
2nd PS: Chichi, that signature and avatar makes you seem so netural and plain. And the way you type your word choices sorta proves it a little. You remind me of myself ^_^, a bit back in the days.
|2006-04-26, 09:57
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is my nickname
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Canada
Age: 31
|2006-04-26, 12:26
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I'll keep walking.
I actually got that off /b/ in 4chan, and nobody has the actual link I guess. Still, I'd pretty much say it's fake... come on, a 22-year old who microwaves butter for 8 minutes and pours it on someone (no matter where) is just nonexistant to me.
Also, what I find most funny of all is: "I helped her with her english HW and she still got a D". He sounds pretty smart.
But it's still good laughs, right? And the reason I posted is because it has a bit to do with the topic itself =P Im just warning him to make some research if he hasn't watched much hentai lately!
|2006-04-27, 04:08
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Imagination's fool
Damn it!
|2006-04-27, 09:04
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Senior Member
Hm. No posts from Fome for awhile. Now that he's found the girl of his dreams he has no time for us anymore.
Congrats, though! I'm sure she is very happy. You don't seem like the type of guy girls would easily turn down, though. Unlike the strange guys who randomly approach me with horrible pick up lines and then can't take a hint when I try to politely turn them down... Ah, the awkwardness.
Best of luck to you!
|2006-04-27, 09:33
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: 9th Temple
Age: 40
Well, thats nice she said yes Good luck, and never give up on your dreams!
In the other Hand the girl of my dream I asked her out once, she accepted, nice evening, but them she said those famous words I only see you as a friend go figure She is now about to marry someone who just invited her to the Bahamas. Yep, My Histories always end up this good :P
|2006-04-27, 10:16
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Philippines
And I don't bother to try pick up girls...trying too hard makes me look like a fool, and I am already an idiot as it is. Similar to j-men, I stay totally aloof and then savor the moments when guys say to me, 'Ya know, she (so-and-so) has been asking about you'.
|2006-04-27, 22:21
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The Hawqman
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Ottawa Ontario
Age: 28
Holy mutha F! what the ^&%$^$%^$#, that is the sickest, twisted crap I have heard in a while, after just reading on some triple slaying involving a 12 year old girl, and her boyfriend(23), both murdering the girls parents and little brother.
It's even funnier that that post was made by a senior member.
|2006-04-29, 00:00
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: San Francisco
Age: 36
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|2006-04-29, 03:43
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Woah, thanks guys for all your support. I didn't think there would be so many posts.
We were going to join up with some of my friends for bowling (she is on the bowling team! You could never tell from looking at her slender body...) but it was like 4:00 and bowling was at 7:00. So...we hung out at my house. Not much to do. We watched that new Jet Li movie, Fearless. Then we went to Portillos for dinner and bowled with seven other friends. Man I sucked, she mopped the floor with me.
Omg, she told her mom she'd be home at 9:00, and it was like 11:30. Apparently, her mom had been calling her and she didn't pick up for some reason. My parents end up calling me, and my mom starts saying that her mom is pissed. I totally freak out, but maintain my composure. We finish our last game, and everyone goes home. I was stupid...i should have dropped her off last. Then I could have gotten a kiss or hug or something.
So thats what happened. Tomorrow I'm going to rent a tux. She's gonna wear a navy blue dress, so I'm thinking of going with a black jacket and pants, with a black dress shirt underneath, blue vest and bow tie.
|2006-04-29, 14:30
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Northern VA
1: Ensure she's not allergic to wool. A lot of the black tuxes, suits, etc are a wool blend, and I'd hate for her to end up like I did after prom: in the ER due to a severe wool allergy LOL Also you might consider matching your shirt to her dress, for an added splash of color (instead of just the vest). I guess wearing a white shirt is oldfashioned huh? Haven't been to the formal dance thing for a loooooooong time LOL
2: Depending on how formal an event this is (so sue me, I didn't go through ALL the posts lol), you may want to invest in a corsage; they go on the wrist, they're flowers, and it's a nice touch. Depending on how old-fashioned she is, she may think it's goofy or she may think it's incredibly sweet. The men's version is a boutonniere (which just pins to your lapel). Regardless, you may want to get her flowers of some sort anyway. It's corny, but seems to work with a lot of women (dead plants, whoda thunk).
3: For your safety, talk to her parents, make sure cell phones are charged (and answered!!) and clear the curfew time. If there's an after-dance party, guesstimate when it'll be over, clear that, etc, procure tickets if necessary ahead of time.
4: Make sure the car is clean, and whatnot, as her parents may poke their heads out and it makes a good impression, as opposed to you being pimped up and your car looking like a dump lol. Also, you don't want her dress to get dirty or anything.
5: Always be polite to her folks, I hope her dad's not the type to interrogate you but if he is, well, answer honestly, he'll probably know if you're lying to impress him Be a gentleman and they might overlook being 10 minutes late Heck, bring her home a little early and it makes an even better impression.
Uhm, jeez, my oldest would've been starting the dance/dating thing this year, so I THINK I covered everything I'd've gone over w/ her LOL. Be glad your date's dad isn't like my hubby. Who has sworn he will, when our surviving daughter is old enough to date, do the interrogation whilst sharpening a sword.
Also, should they ever invite you over for dinner, find out what her mom's fave flowers are and bring a small pot of them or whatever. Works wonders: even if the father doesn't like you, ofttimes if the mom adores you (and who wouldn't after flowers!!), you're still safe from harm
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Monday, February 18, 2013
As I've worked through the scrapbook, this little piece of redwood has been quite pesky as it wasn't fastened in any way and just kept slipping out whenever I'd open the book. What could it be and what significance did it have? Today I have figured it out!
Grandma wrote this in her scrapbook:
So that's why it says "The Submarines" on the redwood – she got this at the Panama Pacific International Exposition when she was there on October 18, 1914.
As I researched the Submarines Exhibit from the Pan Pacific International, I ran across a description of the Submarines from "The red book of views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition":
The first thing to greet the eye of the visitor to this great spectacle is an allegorical front, with cascades of moving water typifying the restlessness of the ocean. Neptune sits proudly over all, basking in the beams from a near-by lighthouse. At the dock the passenger enters a steel submarine, is taken beneath the waters where he sees a shipwreck, marine animals, and a typical ocean floor. Landing again, he is taken through the labyrinths of Neptune, a succession of wonderful scenes by H. Logan Reid of New York City.
And when I looked at this photo from the San Francisco Museum, it looked very, very familiar to me.
And here's from Grandma's scrapbook!
Now I've figured out what those buildings were – sounds like it was a pretty cool exhibit back in 1914.
From Images of America, San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Dr. William Lipsky:
In some ways ahead of its time, the Submarine Ride was one of the largest attractions on the Zone – and one of the most expensive to build. Fairgoers entered through one of the shark mouths, then wandered through coral caves or voyaged under the waters of the seven seas aboard a facsimile of a U.S. Navy submersible. Among other sites, they visited Neptune's workshop, tropical sponge beds, sunken galleons, blue grottos of Capri, mermaids and mermen, and Davy Jones' locker. But it wasn't all smooth sailing: a violent storm battered the submarine before returning it safely home.
And based on this ticket, I can verify that she was, indeed, there on October 18, 1914.
I wish I knew the story about why the date (12) was crossed out and a new date (18) was written in. But I do know that she was there on the 18th because not only does the redwood and the ticket show that date, but this little memento of her ride on the Hippodrome Carroussel with MG.
The Hippodrome Carroussel was built by Charles I.D. Looff (1852-1918), who was a master carver and builder of hand-carved carousels and amusement rides in America. He built his first carousel at Coney Island in 1876 and during his lifetime manufactured over 50 carousels and built the famous Santa Monica Pier.
And then there was this gift from Al, whomever that might be.
Grandma must have worked on this memory book (or scrapbook, as I've called it) for many years. Because in 1918 she wrote this to her then fiancé, my grandfather, Sigmund Levy.
Oh Grandma, how I wish I'd had the opportunity to talk to you about all of this stuff!
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Wow! What cool finds Debi! The Exposition must have been quite the exciting event to attend in it's day.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think it was, Jana. Especially since my grandmother traveled some distance (Monterey-San Francisco) to get there.Delete
I just wanted to let you know that this post is listed in today's Fab Finds post at http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/follow-fridayfab-finds-for-february-22.html.
Have a great weekend!
Doing the research on the Exposition and exhibit enhanced the significance of a simple wood chip and collection of tickets. That must have been a mind-blowing way to spend the day in 1914, absolutely worth remembering and documenting in her scrapbook.ReplyDeleteReplies
I do enjoy doing a little research about the events she went to and it is fun to think about her being there.Delete
What great mementos to have! I love this post.ReplyDelete


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Roger Turpening has made a career of searching for hidden things of great value, many of them deep underground and traded on commodities exchanges. Now he is applying his seismic imaging skills in pursuit of another kind of oil, one that grows in trees.
If you've ever been transported by a breath of L'Air du Temps or Chanel °5, then you know something of the sandalwood tree. The oil found in its heartwood forms a base note in some of the world's great perfumes, and, at about a thousand dollars a pound, it's one reason why they are so dear.
It takes 12 to 15 years or longer to grow a sandalwood tree that contains an appreciable amount of oil, which is concentrated in the wood in the center of its trunk and in its roots.
To view a tree's interior during this growing period, foresters sometimes remove a tiny core of wood, which takes 15 minutes, and send it to the company's lab, which takes a week. Unfortunately, the hole they make forms a portal through which insects and disease can enter. Moreover, since the heartwood is at times not located precisely along the axis of the tree, the forester can miss the valuable wood. Because of these difficulties, very few trees are sampled.
To collect the oil, loggers first yank the tree out of the dirt, roots and all. Sometimes they find oil. Sometimes they don't, and all they are left with for years of effort nurturing a potentially precious tree is a few bundles of incense sticks—and a profound regret at not waiting another year or two.
This is where Turpening, a geophysicist at Michigan Technological University, comes in. Using seismic technology like that he developed to find the structures that harbor oil thousands of feet beneath the surface of the Earth, he has crafted a tree imaging system that can detect the oily heartwood a few inches inside a tree.
The system sends sound waves through the trunk that respond to the heartwood. Computer programs then generate multicolored digital printouts showing cross-sections of the tree; heartwood appears as a deep red disc in the center. Wood without oil, the sapwood, shows up as green or yellow.
The system could result in huge savings to sandalwood growers. It also has potential in the more mundane but potentially lucrative lumber industry. "We've been asked to think about its use on saw logs just before they go up to the saw," says Turpening. If it could detect knots or other flaws, the cuts could be adjusted to maximize the value of the log. "And if veneer has any knots at all, they can ruin a sheet," he says. "If you knew there was a problem with a log, you might not even buy it."
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Until a month ago, their system had one minor drawback: it took 16 minutes to generate an image. That wouldn't be excessive for someone deciding whether or not to harvest a $3,000 sandalwood tree. But in a sawmill, 16 minutes is eternal.
Fortunately, Neil Hutzler, former associate dean of engineering, had asked Turpening to present his research before a group of undergraduates in the Research Scholars Program. The College of Engineering sponsors the program, which links faculty with students interested in research.
Without great expectations, Turpening talked to the group and mentioned the time problem. This caught the attention of a first-year chemical engineering student lounging in the back of the room, Mackenzie Roeser, of Huntley, Ill., and his friend, Scott VanderLugt, of Kalamazoo, a computer science major.
"Roger did his presentation, and we thought it was cool," said Roeser. When they heard how long it was taking to generate the images, they thought they might have a solution.
"They took off with it," said research scientist Carol Asiala, a member of Turpening's team. "They took our code, written in MatLab, rewrote it in Java, changing a critical subroutine along the way. Then they came back to us with it, and it was great."
"Their contribution is just astounding," says Turpening. "What used to take 16 minutes now takes 11 seconds." At the end of the day, Roeser and VanderLugt had slashed the time it took to generate an image by over 98 percent.
Both students are in the University's Honors Institute, and Roeser is in the Research Scholars program. They receive credit toward their honors contract through their work, but mainly, they say, they work with Turpening "because it's fun."
Now the group aims to refine their technology to make it easier to use and to provide higher resolution images of the oily heartwood that could be used in stripping away the sapwood.
Their work was made possible in part by a Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative grant.
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The Lipscomb Bisons, who were picked to finish last in the conference preseason poll, have clinched a berth in the 2007 Atlantic Sun Championship presented by Progress Energy.
The Bisons 10-2 win over Jacksonville Thursday night, coupled with losses on Thursday and Friday by ETSU, sealed the berth, the first for the Bisons since joining the conference.
"We worked hard all season, and it all came together." says Coach Jeff Forehand. "This is huge for our program. We now need to focus on winning the next two games and pick up a few more spots."
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The 32-year-old ex-con gave new meaning to the term Lady Marmalade on Thursday -- by showing up to a NYC event in a lovely shade of Donatella orange. The girl needs to learn how to blend. Trust.
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Technology today enables organisations to do things they couldn't possibly imagine even five years ago. However, delivering better business outcomes and customer satisfaction on the back of technology advances will only take place when businesses are vigilant about maintaining IT service levels.
Take energy companies, for example. Some utilities offer customers incentives to pay their bills online, by responding to an email alert and initiating an automatic payment for the amount outstanding.
But what if the IT department is not able to consistently (and quickly) present the appropriate data to the online customer? Sure, there are huge cost savings in electronic bill payments, but, equally, delays and mix-ups will significantly erode customer goodwill.
Online airline ticket bookings have introduced huge efficiencies to both travellers and airline companies. But what if some small part of the transaction fails? Customer delays are disastrous for both parties
Technology integral to success
Technology is no longer divorced from business processes, but has become an integral success factor.
Not only that, customer touch-points – the moments of truth that determine whether an experience is good or bad – are now more often dependent on corporate technology. And that's why companies are increasingly investing in service management to establish a clear connection between business goals and technology processes.
Aligning IT with company objectives enables managers and IT staff to understand the business impact of any infrastructure or application failure. Ultimately, business success is about managing IT so it delivers precisely what the customer needs, at the right performance and service level, and at the right price.
In the past 10 years, there has been a push in IT to adopt business-driven best practices such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), a comprehensive documentation of best practices for IT service management.
The benefits of ITIL can be significant, but adopting ITIL is not a quick fix, nor will it turn a poor IT infrastructure into a great one overnight. It's also important to note ITIL is a framework, not a methodology. Companies should use ITIL documents as a guide when building their own IT operations framework.
Technology service management has traditionally focused internally on uptime, outages and network performance. Nowadays, clever companies start with the customer, determine their needs first, then define how they can best meet those needs. And that means working with managers to identify those critical points where business and technology processes touch.
It is important for these two groups to find a common language. IT needs to communicate in business terms. Conversely, business managers also need to understand when their business is at risk so they can take preventative measures. They should work with IT to set thresholds that say: "When we are performing at this level, we are not performing well."
Technology is no good unless you have the right processes and people in place. To do this properly, organisations must decide on their alignment and service management strategy, and then find the right tools to manage them.


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CHICAGO, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- An Illinois National Guard soldier said he was "lucky" to find his pit bull, Dexter, alive -- nine days after his apartment was destroyed in a tornado.
Spc. Jacob Montgomery's dog, a 6-month-old puppy, was home alone when the tornado struck Nov. 17 and tore apart the third-floor apartment in Washington, Ill. Montgomery searched the wreckage multiple times but was not able to find Dexter, the Illinois National Guard said in a post on its Facebook page.
The post said Montgomery got a Facebook message from a neighbor Tuesday saying, "I've got your dog right here."
The neighbor said he knew from Facebook posts it was Montgomery's dog. He told Montgomery he found Dexter while looking for a missing cat with the organization, Rescuing Animals in Need of Central Illinois, and used hot dogs to coax it to come out of the rubble.
Randy Wheat, president of the rescue operation, told the Chicago Sun-Times Dexter was emaciated when rescuers found him.
"You could see his ribs," Wheat said. "He had nothing to eat and drink except snow."
"I am lucky," said Montgomery -- a military police officer with the 333rd Military Police Co. of Freeport. "All I had in my apartment is gone, but my dog was all I really had to worry about."


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We are running out of diskspace on our server and it's also slowing down due to the total number of visits on suntriprecords.com, psynews.org, psysurfeur.com, filteria.com, and other non-music related ones.
We have agreed with the datacenter owner to move to a new faster, bigger, server (hey online.net, thanks this time again).
We are now installing everything and moving the data's and when all is ready in a few days, we shall switch from the old to the new server. The only thing you should notice is an improvement in performance. But, hey, that's computers, so there's always a chance of hiccups :)
Ah and, at last, we're working again seriously on the next version of Suntriprecords.com. First there will be a nice design, bugfixes and an improvement on performance. That's for October. Then we'll focus on adding new functionalities. That's for November.
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Is This The BEST Wedding Gift Idea EVER?!
Forget about a set of his-and-hers towels; an American couple have won the internet with the sweet, thoughtful wedding gift they finally got around to opening - NINE YEARS after their big day.
Kathy and Brandon Gunn were given the interesting pressie, which came with a great big notice warning them to "NOT open until first disagreement", by Kathy's great-aunt Alison, and tucked the box into a cupboard until they needed it.
"Now, there had obviously been plenty of disagreements, arguments and slammed doors throughout our nine years," Kathy's Facebook post reads. "There were even a couple of instances where we both considered giving up... but we never opened the box.
"I honestly think that we both avoided turning to the box, because it would have symbolised our failure.
"To us, it would have meant that we didn't have what it takes to make our marriage work - and we're both too stubborn and determined for that.
"So, it forced us to reassess situations. Was it really time to open the box? What is this isn't our worst fight? What if there's a worse one ahead of us and we don't have our box?!"
And so the gift sat, untouched, for close to a decade, until the couple were stumped for what to get their friends for their upcoming nuptials.
"I thought back to our wedding day... and tried to recall the gifts that had meant the most to me," Kathy continued. "The funny thing? The gift that meant the very most was still sitting in a closet... unopened."
So Kathy and Brandon cracked into the box, only to find two, hand-written notes, two wine glasses, some cash and a bath oil set.
Kathy's note instructed her to use her money to buy pizza and to run a bath; Brandon's told him to go buy a bottle of wine and a bunch of flowers.
While the original intention may have been to set the couple up with a relaxing date night, the consequences for the husband and wife were far wider-reaching.
"For nine years (and three moves) that box sat high on a shelf in various closets gathering dust, yet it somehow taught us about tolerance, understanding, compromise and patience.
"Our marriage strengthened as we became best friends, partners and teammates.
"Today... I finally had a realisation. I realised that the tools for creating and maintaining a strong, healthy marriage were never within that box - they were within us."


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Langkawi [75],(Jawi:لانكاوي ) officially known as Langkawi, the Jewel of Kedah (Malay: Langkawi Permata Kedah) is an archipelago of 99 islands (an extra 5 temporary islands are revealed at low tide) in the Andaman Sea, some 30 km off the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia. The islands are a part of the state of Kedah, which is adjacent to the Thai border. On July 15, 2008, Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah had consented to the change of name to Langkawi Permata Kedah in conjunction with his Golden Jubilee Celebration. By far the largest of the islands is the eponymous Pulau Langkawi with a population of some 64,792, the only other inhabited island being nearby Pulau Tuba. Langkawi is also an administrative district with the town of Kuah as the capital and largest town. Langkawi is a duty-free island.
Langkawi eventually came under the influence of the Sultanate of Kedah, but Kedah was conquered in 1821 by Siam and Langkawi along with it. The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 transferred power to the British, which held the state until independence, except for a brief period of Thai rule under the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II. Thai influences remain visible in the culture and food of Langkawi.
Langkawi remained a sleepy backwater until 1987, when the island was granted tax-free status with the intention of promoting tourism and improve the lives of the islanders. The following boom was spectacular and now Langkawi figures on most every European travel agency's radar.
This spectacular boom was also due to the fact that Mahsuri's curse was lifted with the birth of her 7th generation descendant.
Sheltered by the mountainous backbone of Peninsular Malaysia, Langkawi escapes the northeastern winter monsoon entirely and enjoys sunny skies in winter when the eastern provinces are flooded. Coupled with natural white sand beaches, lush jungle foliage and craggy mountain peaks - but hampered by inaccessibility - the island was at one time touted as "Malaysia's best-kept secret".
The 10,000 hectares of Langkawi and its 99 islands were declared a Geopark by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 2007.
Get in
By plane
Langkawi International Airport [76] (IATA: LGK | ICAO: WMKL) is located at Padang Matsirat, on the northwestern part of the island. In 2008, it handled 1.2 million passengers [77]. The vast majority of shops and eateries are located BEFORE security and immigration, so don't go airside until your flight is called. There is free airport wifi. There are no airbridges, so in the event of rain, the airline will supply umbrellas for the walk to the plane.
The following airlines offer service to/from Langkawi: AirAsia [78] to Singapore, Penang and KLIA, Malaysia Airlines [79] to KLIA, Firefly [80] to KL's Subang airport and Penang, and SilkAir [81] from Singapore.
Direct flights are available to Langkawi from Penang, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hat Yai, and Phuket.
By boat
Get around
There is effectively no public transport on the island, so your choices are to use taxis or to rent a car [84], motorbike/scooter, or bicycle.
By taxi
A taxi from the Airport to Pantai Cenang costs RM18. You can buy a coupon at the taxi desk in the airport. From the ferry terminal to Pantai Cenang the price is RM24. For those arriving at the Kuah Jetty and going into Kuah Town, the price is RM8. All taxis work to a fixed price system, a fare from one part of the island to another is always the same price. This system results in higher prices, but very few problems since the taxi drivers are paid well enough and do not try and rip off tourists or participate in any of the dodgier shenanigans seen elsewhere in South East Asia. The result is a reliable and trustworthy, but more expensive taxi system.
By car or motorbike/scooter
Renting a car [85] or motorbike/scooter is highly recommended due to lack of public transport. This can be done at the airport, the port complex, or from shops on Pantai Cenang. Refrain yourself from renting from touts, as many are operating illegally without permits and usually without insurance.
Renting an air-conditioned mid-sized sedan costs RM70-RM150 per day (depending on model, condition and length of stay) and a 150 cc motorbike/scooter costs RM40 to RM45 per day. Cheaper but usually very used and older are the semi-automatic 115 cc bikes for RM25 a day. A tired Proton with in Pantai Cenang maybe around RM60-90/day.
Remember to have regularly check on your fuel level, petrol pump stations, (gas stations) are far from one another. However, rental agencies do not care how much fuel is in the tank when the vehicle is returned so do not spend more on fuel than you have to. Fuel only costs about RM 1.90 a litre and you should return the bikes with the same filling level as you picked it up. Some rentals do check the level and mark it when you sign the slip.
At the gas/petrol station for the first time will confuse you. You will need to guess how much fuel you need and pay first. Most saloon cars if empty are RM50 to fill up and motorbikes are aprox RM5. Sometimes you fill up your car/bike and you haven't used what you have paid for not to worry you can claim this back at the counter.
Remember to drive safely and slowly on the island and on the left side of the road. There are tourists, children and animals like chickens, cows and even buffaloes crossing. Take care not to run over the beautiful snakes or monitors. Cattle and snakes like to lie on the road at night; the blacktop radiates heat.
Laws you need to know. 1. Drivers Licence needs to be with at all times. 2. Seatbelts mandatory in all vehicles. Fines given ranging from 50RM plus if not wearing. 3. Helmet mandatory. Fines same as above but more importantly the hospital does not have facilities to treat head injuries you will have to get medivac out to Penang 45min+ and thats if the helicopter is available. 4. International driver's license if from another country.
Road blocks are commonplace in Langkawi; they are mainly interested in locals with no licence/tax disc. Make sure you have the above items an you will have no problems.
By bicycle
You can rent bicycles in many of the hotels. Expect to pay between RM10-30 per day.
Pantai Cenang - The most popular beach in Langkawi, features fine powdery sand and many beachfront restaurants and bars. Located at the south-western tip of the island, 2 km long.
Pantai Tengah - Located just south of and contiguously with Pantai Cenang. 1 km long. Means 'Middle Beach'. Peaceful and tranquil alternative to the hustle and bustle of Pantai Cenang. All inclusive resorts popular with families.
Pantai Kok - Isolated, relatively undisturbed stretch of beach in the western part of Langkawi Island, 12km north of Pantai Cenang. Telaga Harbour as well cable-car ride to the peak of Mat Cincang Mountain and the Telaga Tujuh Waterfalls are located here.
Tanjung Rhu - northernmost tip of the island. Centuries-old limestone caves, mangroves, waterways, limestone crags and sandy beaches make it a nature lover's paradise. This beach is made up of 2 long stretches that include Tanjong Rhu Resort and Four Seasons..
Datai Bay - The most expensive resorts are located here.
Burau Bay - Beach lined with rocky outcrops located at the West Coast of Langkawi. Nearby Burau island is also a roosting place for migratory birds.
Pantai Pasir Hitam - Means 'Black Sand'. The sand is mixed in white and black shades, due to rich tin and iron ore deposits.
Pasir Tengkorak - Very beautiful small beach in the North of the island.
Tours can be arranged via any hotel or a multitude of online agencies. Prices vary, the ones given here are averages.
ATMs and Money Exchange booths are available at the Langkawi Airport, at Langkawi Parade Shopping Complex and next to Underwater World at Pantai Cenang.
Langkawi is a duty-free island, and alcohol is significantly cheaper here than in the rest of Malaysia. Airport prices are higher than buying in the department stores around the island.
Hotel tariffs and retail goods are exempt from government duty. Visitors with more than 48 hr stay in Langkawi are exempt on items like wines and liquor (1 liter), tobacco (200 cigarettes), apparel, cosmetics, souvenirs and gifts, food and food preparations and portable electronic items (one item).
Shop around before buying: the airport is probably the most expensive place to buy anything. Shop in Kuah town for batik, tobacco products and chocolate confectioneries.
Practically all resorts have their own restaurants and most tourists choose to eat in, but there are a few other options as well. Be adventurous and strike out on your own to savour the numerous foods at the stalls and restaurants all over Langkawi. Try one of the many seafood restaurants. Having said that, beware of certain restaurants advertised in the brochures targeting tourists. An example of such restaurant is the 'Coco Beach Restaurant', close to the airport.
If you choose order seafood or fish, take note if the price is by weight or by a set price for the dish. The unwary can be hit with a much larger bill than expected. Also, beware of restaurants telling you that they only have the bigger size lobsters available, as that is what they tell everyone (a common practice at Coco Beach Restaurant and Palm View Restaurant, at Pantai Cenang). When your lobster or crab is served, you will discover that you will definitely be paying for 900g of shell instead of meat! To counter this, order fish, squid and prawns to be safe.
For a taste of simple Malay-style breakfast, just walk up to a small stall opposite the Underwater World in the mornings and feast on the famous freshly-prepared banana leaf-wrapped nasi lemak (steamed rice in coconut milk). The price is most affordable at less than RM 2 for a pack. Go local and enjoy this with a glass of hot teh tarik or really good local coffee. This very unassuming stall is just simple and great (clean too!) The nasi lemak comes with curried beef, squid in chili, friend salted fish or chicken.
Because of Langkawi's tax-free status, alcohol is much cheaper than in the rest of Malaysia. Religious Muslims do not consume alcoholic drinks, and while they do tolerate non Muslims who do, try not to behave in a rowdy imbibed manner near them, their houses, mosques, and please respect local culture and communal sensitivities. For those living on a budget, you can obtain alcohol at cheap prices from the local duty free shops - the larger the outlets, the lower the prices. Expect to pay RM25 for 1L Absolut, RM45 for 1L Kahlua, RM60 for 1L Bailey's, and RM5-12for 330 ml can beer.
Despite low alcohol prices, Langkawi is predominantly popular with couples and families. Single travellers and backpackers may therefore be disappointed with the lack of nightlife. Most bars remain empty, particularly in the low season, and the 1-2 nightclubs may only seem worthwhile in the peak season, and even then only on Friday or Saturday nights. Overall, Langkawi provides a family-friendly alternative to Thai locations such as Phuket and Koh Samui.
If you are looking for budget accommodation, your best bet would be to walk along the beach and adjacent road at Pantai Cenang. Prices there normally range from RM50 to RM125 per room per night, on or next to the beach.
Langkawi does not cater particularly well to single travellers or backpackers; the type of chic backpackers hostels available in Kuala Lumpur and Penang are not to be found here. Dormitory rooms are difficult to find if not absent. Most hotels or motels offering minimum facilities (such as WiFi) will be around 100rm.
Mobile phone coverage is very good in all built up areas of Langkawi. Many affordable pre-paid phone and data plans are available. Recharge cards are readily available except for the very cheap TuneTalk which is harder to find and SIM cards almost non existent. It is best to buy this back in LCCT where no commission is charged on the SIM. Full reception and reasonable data speeds can be achieved on the beach and inside the resorts on Pantai Cenang and Pantai Tengah.
The main post office in located in Kuah Town. Mini post offices can be found in Padang Mat Sirat and in the Padi Complex in Pantai Cenang. Courier service, Poslaju shop can be found at Taman Berlian, Kuah.
Broadband is available and many Internet cafés can be found along Pantai Tengah, Pantai Cenang and Kuah. In addition, many of the upscale hotels and resorts provide free wi-fi. Red Tomato Garden Cafe provides free WiFi.
Stay healthy
Langkawi can have a lot of mosquitoes depending on the time of year and location (ie Mangrove areas), so don't forget to use mosquito repellent.
"Off" spray and various citronella or DEET based products are available in most supermarkets.
Also, average temperatures are hot or hotter; it's the tropics.
Be sure to stay hydrated. You will need to drink about 3 litres a day and don't wait till you are thirsty to drink. Room temprature water preferably.
De-hydration accounts for a large percentage of dodgy tummy holiday illnesses.
If you are worried about catching anything check out The World Health Organisation website. http://www.who.int/countries/mys/en/
Stay safe
Be careful driving around Langkawi at night. Although main roads are well-lit, some of the more minor roads are not very well lit and may pass through Kampungs (traditional Malay villages) or rural areas where the locals seem to take a very casual approach to road safety. Drive slow and watch out for erratically piloted motorbikes, pedestrians and livestock. Inside Kuah Town, watch out for errors in the road arrows - they may lead you into wrong lanes or into barricades. at night, watch out for water buffalo sleeping in the road.
Crime is generally not a problem on Langkawi, especially compared to the larger cities in Malaysia. In theory, you don't even have to lock your car, because it cannot get off the island without customs knowing about it!
Beware of smart wild monkeys. Those at Tengkorak beach attack humans who have food. If attacked, pick up stones (or just pretend to do so) and throw them at the monkeys, this will scare them away. Also, do not carry plastic bags as the monkeys associate these with food.
Jelly fishes are also becoming increasingly prevalent and have caused at least one death - a Swedish tourist in early 2010. Do not swim at night or when you have been drinking.
Please read up on rip tides before you go; learn to recognise and to avoid them.
Langkawi is a Geopark but still needs to improve its environmental friendliness. Don't participate in certain activities such as eagle feeding and monkey feeding as this harms the animals by encouranging them to become reliant on tourists and you may give them the wrong food.
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Jana Kramer Named Ambassador, Mentor for Worldwide Songwriting Competition
Each year, Music City extends a call to amateur hopefuls, conducting a worldwide search for the best original song. This year, actress-turned country singer Jana Kramer plays a big role in the Music City Songwriting Competition.
The singer will act as ambassador for the seventh-annual event, and she'll also give a personal mentoring session to the lucky winner.
The competition is really a win for everybody -- even those who don't nab the grand prize -- because they'll still receive a copy of Kramer's self-titled record. But the top songwriter will really win big, which is all the more incentive for Music City's next shining songwriter.
Not only will the winner receive a mentoring session with the 'Why Ya Wanna' singer, but he or she will also be flown to Nashville for a five night trip, including a TV interview, time with a professional songwriter for a Q&A, the opportunity for a single song publishing deal, have their winning song highlighted on Music City Radio ... oh, and $1,000!
Kramer will be using some of her own songwriting wisdom in the coming months as she works on her upcoming album. More details on the songwriting competition are available here, along with a complete list of prizes.


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Rams Drop Non-Conference Game at FDU-Florham
FDU - Florham - 4, Farmingdale State - 1
Madison, N.J. – Farmingdale State was defeated by the FDU - Florham Devils, 4-1, in a non-conference women's soccer game in Madison, N.J. this afternoon.
Junior Midfielder Monica Grisales (Brentwood, NY / Brentwood) scored a goal for the Rams 1:06 into the game, giving Farmingdale an early 1-0 lead. FDU forward, Brittany Kanickij (Hamilton, NJ / Steinert) answered five minutes later to tie the game 1-1.
In the second half, Devils sophomore Lora Fink (Hamilton Square, NJ / Pennington) scored the team's next two goals for a 3-1 advantage. Brittany Kanickij (Hamilton, NJ / Steinert) would add the final tally on a penalty kick.
Sophomore goalkeeper Caitlin Howard (Farmingdale, NY / Farmingdale) made six saves in defeat for the Rams.
The team now leaves for Michigan on Thursday, September 11th, where they will be playing two non-conference games. The Rams square off against Calvin College Friday, September 12th at 4:00 pm and face Hope College Saturday, September 13th at noon.


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NWSB insider Clinton Bell is back with a piece about the 5 greatest players with Washington ties that you've never heard of. Sparked by the news of Clint Dempsey signing with the Seattle Sounders, Clinton thought it would be fun to explore some players who had success in their respective sports that aren't really household names. Anchored by Dempsey, and finishing off with Gaylord Perry, have a read and see who you've missed.
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Suburban tract homes be damned, America still has a healthy supply of homes that make you go "hmm," and TopTenRealEstateDeals.com has compiled a list of some real doozies called The Top 10 Weird but Wonderful Homes.
These are homes with stories to tell and questions to answer—there's intrigue and mystery. Two of these homes are built in honor of a loved one. Some of them are open to the public, some are private homes, and most of these in the list are even for sale. Multiple homes on the list are energy efficient and even off the grid. Others are just off the wall, and some of those walls are constructed from some pretty unusual materials. Click on to see ten of the weirdest, most wonderful homes in America.
By Colleen KanePosted 1 Feb 2011