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The Far Eastern Curlew Satellite Tracking Project
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About the Project
The Far Eastern Curlew Satellite Project was initiated after discussions held at the 8th Conference of the Japan-Australia Migratory Bird Protection Agreement held in Queensland, Australia, in 1995.
The Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) is a migratory shorebird which generally inhabits sea and lake shore mud flats, deltas and similar areas, where it forages for crabs and other crustaceans, clam worms and other annelids, molluscs, insects and whatever else it can dig out of the mud with its long, downward-turned bill. Its migration route ranges from its wintering grounds in Australia to its breeding grounds in northern China, Korea and Russia.
Far Eastern Curlew numbers are currently in decline. Consequently, Japan, Russia, China and Australia are conducting a joint survey to determine the migration route and resting sites for this species. The purpose of the survey is to gather basic data to open the way for the establishment of a structure of international cooperative protection for the curlew and its wetland habitat.
The project is funded by the Governments of Australia and Japan and the Japanese telecommunications company NTT is providing additional support for the project. This work is being undertaken by the Wild Bird Society of Japan and the Queensland Wader Study Group with support from the Queensland Department of Environment.
Northward Migration News (Shorebirds)
The researchers report that the two Eastern Curlew who have reached China have remained in the same general areas over the past week. The most northerly bird is on the Zhuang He Coast, 100 km NE of Dalian in Liaoning Province (22 April to 29 April).
The second bird remains in the Qingdao area of Shandong Province (21 April to 28 April). It is difficult to know if it is feeding in Jiazhou Bay or Laoshan Bay.
It is expected that these birds will soon continue on migration to the breeding areas.
For further information, including a map of the route and a description in Japanese, see the Far Eastern Curlew Satellite Tracking Project Web site at "http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-n/migrant/english/index.html".
Read the next instalment in the continuing saga, the update of 12 June 1997.


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Truthfully, any kind of fruit soaked in alcohol will be a party pleaser ... It's a no brainer. I had to use the left over grapes from these and the Amaretto just smelled so good when I uncorked it.
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SHEBOYGAN, WI (WSAU) - About 40 Sheboygan workers will lose their jobs when Coca-Cola shuts down its Sheboygan production plant.
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development announced the closing Wednesday. Production will stop by the end of March.
Coca-Cola Refreshments USA Inc. is eliminating managers, drivers, and merchandisers. The company is offering employees a severance package.
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CASTINE, Maine – Maine Maritime Academy is proud to announce this year's Wall of Honor inductees, Henry A. Scheel and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) scholars, and Excellence in Teaching awardee will be honored at this year's Celebration of Achievement event Thursday, November 8th.
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CASTINE, Maine - Maine Maritime Academy mourns the recent passing of Marguerite Veronica (Romero) Rodgers, wife of past MMA Superintendant, Rear Admiral Ted Rogers. "It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Margeurite Rodgers," said President Bill Brennan. "She was a great inspiration to those who knew her. The thoughts and prayers of the entire MMA community, past and present, are with RADM Rodgers and family in this time of loss."
CASTINE, Maine — The Maine Maritime Academy Board of Trustees will hold a regular quarterly meeting on Friday, November 9, 2012, at 8:30 a.m., in the Holmes Alumni Heritage Room, located on the lower level of the Harold Alfond Student Center on the college campus in Castine, Maine.
CASTINE, Maine - Maine Maritime Academy, Maine's coastal college, will host an open house for prospective students and their parents on Saturday, October 13, 2012. Registration will take place in the Harold Alfond Student Center from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. A continental breakfast and lunch are free to all participants.
CASTINE, Maine - Maine Maritime Academy will conduct day sails for the Castine community on Tuesday, Oct. 9 and Tuesday, Oct. 16th, 4-6:00 p.m.
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1130 - 2000 Registration & Information, Alfond Student Center Lobby
1600 - 1730 MMA Alumni Assoc. Annual Meeting, 1954 Lecture Hall
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2000 - 2200 Student Services presents "Ant" – comedian, Delano Auditorium
CASTINE, Maine - Severe winds last night took out power in many areas. Power has been restored to campus. The Campus Operating Code is GREEN. Maine Maritime Academy is operating on a normal schedule today. Commuters should allow extra time for travel as water has pooled in many areas of the road and debris has been blown across the road. BE SAFE!
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CASTINE, Maine - Maine Maritime Academy and Mariner Athletics are proud to announce the selection of Steve Tardif (Class of 2000) and women's basketball teammates Alyssa Burns (Class of 2007), Michelle "Shelley" Gott (Class of 2007), and Julia Knights (Class of 2007) for 2012 induction into the William J. Mottola Mariner Athletics Hall of Fame.
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CASTINE, Maine - Maine's official state vessel, the schooner Bowdoin, will be participating in numerous events throughout the fall to support local and regional communities. Owned by Maine Maritime Academy and homeported in Castine, Maine, the Bowdoin's mission is to provide sail training for students and the public, as well as to support recruiting and community relations.
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It's been rumored for over three months, but it looks like the University of Tulsa's move to the league formerly known as the Big East is close to becoming a reality.
According to reports from ESPN the Golden Hurricane's departure from Conference USA is "imminent." Big East presidents are expect to vote on bringing Tulsa into the league next week.
The University of Tulsa won't comment on a change in conference affiliation until after an invitation is offered to them. The Golden Hurricane would join the league on July 1, 2014 and start playing in the new league in the 2014 season.
Tulsa would join six other current Conference USA schools in the move. East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, SMU, Central Florida and Tulane are leaving C-USA for the old Big East next year. Navy is also scheduled to join in 2015 in football-only.
Tulsa would bring the league to 12-teams, which is need for a championship football game.
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As the Northwestern journalism student, professor and graduate follow the path of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) east to New York, south to New Orleans and west to San Francisco they will be posting their observations and interviews daily. Read more >>
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Small river towns of Keokuk, IA, and Cape Girardeau, MO, showcase Twain's writings and letters
On the drive to Keokuk, Iowa, where a young Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) worked as a printer in the mid-1850s, we stop in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for lunch. We have Twain as an appetizer. A building … Read more
Money, Mississippi: A beginning place for the civil rights revolution
We have stopped at what remains of Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market, Money, Mississippi, site of an incident that led to a brutal murder that helped kick-start the civil rights revolution. On August 14, 1955, Emmett … Read more
Ernest Withers: Civil rights photographer and FBI informant?
I remember Ernest Withers of Memphis as a distinguished civil rights photographer, whose message to journalism students at Emory and Northwestern Universities, when I invited him to speak, was more spiritual than shutter-speed, f-stop practical. Shortly … Read more
David Beckley transforms Rust College and its student body
In traveling the country, I'm often impressed by those who do not travel—people who stay put and devote their lives to transforming institutions. During my visit to Holly Springs, Mississippi, I visit David Beckley, in his … Read more
Cooking a Five-Star Twain Dream Meal at an 1831 Mansion
We spend another day driving south, today through three Mississippi river towns famous in part for their connection to the life of Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) as a steamboat pilot—what he called "the only unfettered and … Read more
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My colleagues tell me: "Play more. Turn out"
In the St Lawrence String Quartet we sit in such a way that the f-holes of my viola face away from the audience, and sometimes its voice can be lost. So my colleagues tell me: 'Play more. Turn out'. For many quartet violists, this comment is so painfully predictable in coaching, rehearsals and post-concert receptions, that it's something of a weary cliché or a running joke. But that's because it works.
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2006 Suzuki Grand Vitara
This 2006 review is representative of model years 2006 to 2013.
By Dan Jedlicka of MSN Autos
Bottom Line:
Considerably improved Grand Vitara worth a good look.
A growing number of people are associating Suzuki with its cars and sport-utility vehicles and not just considering it mainly a motorcycle producer.
However, although Suzuki still isn't a major player in the mainstream vehicle market, its extensively redesigned Grand Vitara should help give it more presence in the vehicle field.
A new Grand Vitara clearly has been needed. The old model had impressive off-road abilities, as I found while driving it off-road and in a shallow river in a Missouri nature park. But it was better off-road than on-road because it had a weak engine, cramped interior and noisy ride.
Suzuki was in the right place at the right time to make money from enthusiasm for SUVs, but it had the wrong product. Most SUV buyers were looking for comfortable on-road models.
It didn't help that the old Grand Vitara was truck-like, with body-on-frame construction when other automakers were profiting with car-based SUVs designed to be used like cars on roads.
The 2006 Grand Vitara has new light, yet rigid, unibody construction enhanced with a built-in ladder frame that provides the refined road manners of a car-based unibody SUV with the off-road strength of a body-on-frame design.
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The new Grand Vitara comes with rear-wheel drive and single- or 4-mode all-wheel-drive systems. One has a locking differential and low-range gearing for tough off-road use.
The wheelbase of the new Grand Vitara has grown 6.3 inches to 103.9 inches. It's 11.5 inches longer at 176 inches and 1.2 inches wider at 71.3 inches. However, it's still easy to park and garage.
The ride from the 4-wheel-independent suspension is firm but compliant, although it occasionally got choppy on some freeway surfaces. The power rack-and-pinion steering allows easy directional changes, and handling is good partly because the Grand Vitara sits fairly low at 66.7 inches. The sporty BMW X3 compact SUV is about the same height, at 66 inches.
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Fuel economy is OK for a compact V6 SUV, at an estimated 18-19 mpg in the city and 23-24 on the highway.
The engine works with either a 5-speed manual gearbox that's a bit notchy when rushed or a responsive 5-speed automatic transmission. I was most impressed with the top-line $24,699 Grand Vitara Luxury model with the automatic and 4-wheel drive.
List prices for the Grand Vitara start at $18,999 with rear-wheel-drive and the manual transmission, and all versions have color-keyed bumpers, outside door handles and mirrors for a smoother appearance and to avoid that "entry level" look.
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Safety features include standard front-seat side airbags and head-protecting side-curtain airbags, besides daytime running lights. There's also a standard anti-skid/traction control system.
Available are leather upholstery, heated front seats, sunroof and 6-disc in-dash CD changer with seven speakers.
The brake pedal is soft, but its linear action allows smooth stops. Every version of the Grand Vitara has an anti-lock brake system with electronic brake-force distribution for surer panic stops.
There's comfortable space for four tall adults, or for five in a pinch. Visibility is pretty good, helped by large outside mirrors, although headrests partly block vision.
Gauges can be read at a glance, and audio and climate controls are large. Front console cupholders are conveniently located, but inside door handles should be at least twice as large.
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The Grand Vitara could use more power for certain driving conditions, but it's worth a good look because it has a roomy interior, pleasant road manners and lots of comfort, convenience and safety features.
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Halloween is a celebration and a public showing of spirits and is at this time seldom if ever mentioned as something wherein Jesus name is used. This makes it a celebration of other spirits and not in the Spirit of God. The First Amendment specifically states that in no way can the Congress tell the people to celebrate Halloween. Yet the Public schools are putting tremendous pressure on their students by bringing the concept of multiple spirits usage and spirits removal into the Schoolroom. In the Case of one Elementary School, the kindergärtners do not go to school for the day if they are not in the Halloween parade. This is an abuse of the First Amendment rights. Government should never Decide Religion or Culture Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Every Public School is regulated by the Federal Government's decisions. The Federal Government is therefore un-intentionly Putting pressure on the Children to celebrate Halloween in an Anti-Christian like culture whenever Anything that suggests witchcraft or usage of multiple spirits is used.
Deuteronomy 18:14, Zechariah 10:2, Exodus 20:1-7, Deuteronomy 6:5, 11:1, 19:9, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27, Matthew 22:40, 2 Corinthians 6:14-18, Colossians 3:17
Col 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
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The Fuzzlers Secret Missions Tour:Dec 27th: Athens, GA - Little Kings Dec 28th: Secret Missions Dec 29th: Birmingham, AL - The Forge (Trevor D's BDAY) Dec 30th: Secret Missions Dec 31st: Little Rock, AR - The Main Squeeze Jan 1st: Secret Missions Jan 2nd: Fort Worth, TX - 1919 Hemphill Jan 3rd: Austin, TX - Asstray Jan 4th: Houston, TX - SUPERHAPPYFUNLAND Jan 5th: Secret Missions Jan 6th: Tallahassee, FL - Shark Tank If anyone can help us out with shows during any of our Secret missions…. That'd be glorious. Anywhere between any of the listed dates.Come hang out!
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Florida Slimetrail Tour was a BLAST!Big thanks to: Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes, Killmama, Shantytown Pub, Ashley Street Station,Giggle Giver, Austin's Coffee & Film, The Shark Tank, and Troma for hangin' out with us at FLORIDA SUPERCON.We'll be back!
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Hey all: Fuzz-E Here….. The Elderfuzz asked me to write a recap of the tour so that none of us forget what happened.Here goes somethin.Dec. 27th (Athens GA) - The other Fuzzlers and I met up just before the show and decided to get some drinks and then of course…. some pizza.Our Oogle friend DJ showed up and surprised us, so that was pretty interesting.Drank one too many and the show ended up being kind of hazy.We played sloppy, but it was a blast anyway.Dreadlocked Battle Women beating on hungry monsters, and scalping god's brother…. These things happened. The show was intense, and everybody went CRAZY.We were gifted an orange balloon, and it hovered for the next few days before deflating.The show was total chaos.I rapped on the top of the Flicker Piano.
Dec. 28th (Chattanooga TN) - Woke up with all my clothes on, and paint still on my face. Realized my backpack was missing, freaked out and then found out where it was.
After retrieving my B-pack, I loaded my things into the van, Said goodbye to my BattleCats and hit the road.
Middle seat life. That's what it's all about.Moving along the highway, I watched as the flora changed ever so slightly, and the day turned to night.The neon Chattanooga Choo Choo sign screamed at us as we pulled into the city.After grabbing some beers at Ziggy's liquor store, we pulled up to Anarchtica house, and checked things out.A dank basement with graffiti on the walls and a sheet of foamcore over the door would be our venue of the night.After a few games of Super Smash Brothers, the bands began playing.We hung out, danced, and then set up… played and had a blast.It rained the entire night, but that was no problem. People showed up and all was well.
Our friend Scott gave us a room to stay in and a warning about the house.It went something like this: "Yeah. You guys can stay. It's no problem, but…….. .. There's a dog….. and it WILL bite you… So make sure you pop your head out of the door before exiting in the morning."Needless to say… I walked out of the door in the morning, and got charged by a hellbeast.We all survived though…. . Dec. 29th (Birmingham AL) - After surviving our encounter with the Hellbeast of Chattanooga we hit the road towards Birmingham.Upon arrival we met up with our friend Trevor at Waffle House.From Waffle House we ventured to Love Lady Thrift Store.If you have the chance to go someday… I'd say do it.The place is a converted circuit city, and they have everything cheap.After Lady Love we watched some band practices, and then hit up the Spring St Firehouse.This venue is great. It's an old converted firehouse with a wonky old piano, and hilarious posters all over the place.Randomly throughout the day I had been hiding Mustard Packets in peoples pockets. Eventually everybody got me back, and the game of Mustard Pocket was born.The show was wild. We left a room completely silent after we played. That was a first for us. Hopefully not a last.Bham was rad. Dec. 30th (Memphis TN) - As we pulled into Memphis, it looked as if we were driving through some sort of post apocalyptic warzone.Things were looking rough.We saw a wacky guy dancing along a crosswalk and jabbering on.Then out of nowhere we were in a swanky neighborhood…. and before we could take that in, we were at the hi-tone.After a long skate session in the parking lot, we ran into Willy.Willy became a goof friend right off the bat.A 50+ year Memphis homeless man with lots and lots of hilarious stories.As we were talking to willy, the wacky dancing guy showed up.He went by the name Dancing Jimmy, and he had moves to die for.He danced and danced and danced until the cops came.Dancing is not a crime!!!So………. The show here really isn't worth writing about.We got free pizza and beer, but the crowd wasn't feelin us.They all stayed seated, and didn't participate in any Fuzzling.A pregnant lady got mad at us as well.Too bad. :)We slept in the van in a Walmart Parking lot.Dec. 31st (Houston TX) - I slept a lot on this ride. Not much to say about the drive itself…….. Well… There were firework stands open EVERYWHERE.Sadly we didn't purchase any. Maybe next time.
Two giant grinning faces greet you as you pull up to the Super Happy Fun Land Warehouse. When you enter…… Your mind……….. is blown.Enormous Cabbage patch kid statues, Raggedy Ann's and murals of every kind are EVERYWHERE. The place felt like if my mind materialized in a warehouse.It's beautiful. Brian and Olivia treated us like royalty.We were giving all the Cheese, black eyed peas, cornbread, crackers and alcohol we could've wished for.Before the show we chowed down and watched a bunch of funny videos on the GIANT PROJECTOR SCREEN.C-fuzz hopped into the Flakeys Pizza truck and made some pies for everybody.We then had our minds blown by Solar Temple and The Annoysters.We counted down to New Years with a million bottles of Champagne.Met a wonderful Battlecat, and skated a bit.Super Happy Fun Land is one of my favorite places ever.I'm running into writers block right now, so I'll finish the rest of the dates in a PT 2.


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Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced advancements for its enterprise virtualization platform with the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1. The 3.1 release brings Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization forward with compelling new features to enhance its scalability, user administration and management interface, networking, storage and virtual desktop functionality. With this release, Red Hat also brings further flexibility for the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and the full Red Hat portfolio, including its Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the only mission-critical end-to-end, open source virtualization infrastructure designed for enterprise users that is available today. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 release, which debuted in Jan. 2012, marked a significant industry milestone, offering features, performance, scalability and cost advantages to enterprises. Today, with the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor holds 19 of the 27 published SPECvirt_sc2010 (www.spec.org) performance benchmarks, including the best 2-socket and 4-socket scores and the only published 8-socket scores. At 50 to 70 percent lower cost compared to alternative solutions, it can also offer organizations significant economic advantages.
Key 3.1 Feature Additions
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 incorporates several new key features. For its main platform, 3.1 enables increased scalability of guest virtual machines, now providing support for up to 160 logical CPUs and up to 2 terabytes of memory, per virtual machine, and updates its KVM hypervisor to support the latest industry-standard x86 processors. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization shares the same base KVM hypervisor technology as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and maintains common ABI compatibility, enabling optimized flexibility for combining the two platforms from a single vendor.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 also includes an updated user interface, improved cross-platform web administration portal, updated reporting dashboard, new networking capabilities and enhanced disk storage. The incorporation of a technology preview of storage live migration adds the flexibility to migrate virtual machine disk files between storage domains without having to power down the virtual machine. The power user portal has been enhanced with resource quota functionality to enable self-service for test/development and other private cloud use cases. The release also features new advancements for the platform's VDI capabilities, including a new virtual desktop autostart policy, improved WAN optimizations and an improved virtual desktop client.
With 3.1, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also expands its localization enablement with support for English, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, enabling the platform to be used even more widely around the globe.
Red Hat Storage Integration
A key addition to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 is integration with Red Hat Storage, Red Hat's scale-out, open source storage software solution for the management of data, including file and object, structured and unstructured. Based on the GlusterFS technology Red Hat received from its Oct. 2011 acquisition of Gluster, Inc., Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 became available worldwide in June 2012, providing enterprise customers with open, unified scale-out storage software.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 provided the ability to access virtual images/storage over iSCSI, Fibre-Channel NFS or on local storage. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1, the platform's versatility is now broadened, enabling it to access the secure, shared storage pool managed by Red Hat Storage. In addition to providing the essential building blocks for open hybrid clouds, this integration also offers enterprises reduced operational costs, expanded portability, choice of infrastructure, flexibility, scalability, availability and the power of community-driven innovation with the contributions of the open source oVirt and Gluster projects. The combination of these platforms is the first step toward Red Hat's vision of an integrated and converged Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization node that serves both compute and storage resources.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 is globally available to subscribing Red Hat customers today. A fully supported, 60-day trial of the release is also available at www.redhat.com/promo/rhev3.
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Paul Cormier, president, Product and Technologies at Red Hat
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a key platform in the Red Hat portfolio that enables enterprises to leverage the power of the open source development model to drive innovation for virtualization. The 3.1 release is an important milestone for the product as it delivers key features and integrations that our customers are looking for. The integration of the product with Red Hat Storage, for example, brings virtual storage capabilities to enterprises that are not currently available in traditional virtualization solutions."
Robert Hurst, Caché Systems manager, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
"As early adopters of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we enjoyed our collaboration that included learning, adoption, migration and implementing a growing new set of Linux applications. And with KVM virtualization radically altering that landscape, it has become necessary for not only a reliable management tool, but also one that can work with our existing datacenter assets and supporting infrastructure. Our Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 pilot met that need with remarkably thin integration and allows us to expand provisioning and management of hosts beyond our systems engineering team."
Satinder Sethi, vice president, Data Center Solutions, Cisco
"Red Hat continues to innovate in the open source community, and with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1, customers are offered important advances in open virtualization technology that will allow them to further drive operational efficiency and reduce costs to operate their datacenters. Together, Cisco and partners like Red Hat offer flexible and scalable capabilities for diverse datacenter workloads and their business needs."
Gerry Hackett, vice president, Server Platform Engineering, Dell
"We're pleased to continue evolving our relationship with Red Hat around virtualization and cloud computing. For those customers interested in open source, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a natural fit for Dell systems and enables us to provide compelling performance, scalability, flexibility and cost benefits to our joint customers. This goes a step further with the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 today."
Doug Fischer, vice president and general manager of Systems Software, Intel
"Intel's long-time commitment to open, standards-based solutions has consistently delivered top-notch performance and scalability in virtualized environments, with optimization for RAS capabilities and Intel® Virtualization Technology. Organizations can look to the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers for benchmark performance to support their demanding mission-critical applications."
Maria Olson, Head of Global Alliances, NetApp
"Red Hat and NetApp have collaborated for over a decade to bring greater performance, scalability and business agility to our joint customers. As a recognized leader in storage for virtual environments, NetApp is committed to working with industry leaders such as Red Hat to enable our customers to choose the best solutions for their environments. The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 and NetApp® Data ONTAP®, the world's #1 storage operating system, delivers compelling benefits to organizations seeking open virtualization solutions."
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The month of March can't be allowed to escape without some celebration of that spring night, 35 years ago, when 1,543 students at the University of Georgia ran naked across the Sanford Stadium bridge.
It was a streaking record that still stands, and may never be matched — not in a world littered with cell phone cameras and Internet connections.
Mass nudity is a strange topic for political discussion, you say. But think about it. A generation ago, more so than today, UGA was home of the gentleman's "C" and a training ground for the children of Georgia's ruling elite.
The naked students of 1974 — as well as several thousand more who lined the streets to urge them on — are now well into their 50s. Their bodies may be sagging, their hair may be gray or missing, but some of them are now in command of large slices of your world.
More than three decades later, the act of throwing caution and clothes to the wind remains a sensitive topic. In a phone conversation, one


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The Bills took a 3-0 lead early in the first quarter with a Dan Carpenter Field Goal. On Baltimore's ensuing drive Aaron Williams picked off Joe Flacco, giving the Bills the ball back at Baltimore's 25. Unfortunately, the Bills weren't able to do much, as Carpenter had to settle for another 27 yard field goal.
The Ravens took the lead early in the second quarter thanks to a 10 yard touchdown pass to Marlon Brown Via Joe Flacco. Buffalo and Baltimore then swap punts, and with 8:45 left in the first half, EJ Manuel fires a strike to Robert Woods for a 42 yard touchdown. This would be the first of two unanswered scores by the Bills, as on their very next possession, Fred Jackson finds a hole for a 16 yard touchdown run, making the score 20-7 heading into the 2nd half.
Buffalo receives to the start the third quarter but can't get much going, but neither can the Ravens. It takes six drives combined before Baltimore scores thanks to a Torrey Smith touchdown catch, making the score 20-14. After a Shawn Powell Punt, Joe Flacco tries to find Marlon Brown, but the Bills intercept the Ravens Quarterback again for their 4th interception of the game. Buffalo makes good use of the turnover, but thanks to a successful challenge flag thrown by John Harbaugh, Robert Woods touchdown catch is overturned, and the Bills yet again have to settle for a field goal, making the score 23-14 in Buffalo's favor heading to the 4th quarter.
In the final frame, Buffalo sustains a very long drive, over six minutes, heading into Baltimore territory. Manuel tries to hookup with Woods again deep in the Ravens' Red Zone, but they can't connect - EJ throws his second interception of the game, this one by Corey Graham. The Bills' D hangs tough, despite giving up a 74 yard reception by Torrey Smith - The Ravens can't get six, as Justin Tucker connects for a 35 yard Field Goal. Buffalo then goes three and out, and the Ravens respond with another Field goal, making it a 23-20 ballgame. Fast Forwarding to the two minute warning - Ravens drive their way all the way up to midfield, but Kiko Alonso comes up big with his second interception of the game, sealing it for the Bills by the final score of 23 to 20.
The Bills and Ravens are now both 2-2. Buffalo won't have Much rest as they travel to Cleveland to take on the Browns Thursday night.
Scoring summary:
First Quarter
6:15 - Dan Carpenter 27-yard FG
Drive: 11 Plays, 64 yds, 4:43
3:07 - Dan Carpenter 27-yard FG
Drive: 5 plays, 16 yds, 2:26
Second Quarter
14:00 - Marlon Brown 10-yard TD reception from Joe Flacco
Drive: 3 plays, 27 yds, 0:54
8:45 - Robert Woods 42-yard TD reception from EJ Manuel
Drive: 5 plays, 70 yds, 1:54
6:57 - Fred Jackson 16-yard TD run
Drive: 4 plays, 28 yds, 1:13
Third Quarter
7:22 - Torrey Smith 26-yard TD reception from Joe Flacco
Drive: 4 plays, 80 yds, 1:31
1:59 - Dan Carpenter 22-yard FG
Drive: 9 plays, 48 yds, 2:57
Fourth Quarter
7:12 - Justin Tucker 35-yard FG
15 plays, 74 yds, 1:21
4:08 - Justin Tucker 24-yard FG
Drive, 5 plays, 50 yds, 1:39


text: What will Michigan do in the race for president? The last time the state went for a republican nominee for president was George H. W. Bush in 1988. The latest polls showed President Obama leading Mitt Romney. The polls are open until 8 p.m. tonight. Some local officials are predicting a fair voter turnout, but maybe a little less than four years ago. Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope said based on absentee voting numbers that he expects a turnout of 55 to 60 percent.


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Hadoop is primarily a distributed file system (DFS) where you can store terabytes/petabytes of data on low end commodity computers. This is similar to how companies like Yahoo and Google store their page feeds. Hive, HBase is used for query processing. Spring Batch is used to tie in all these. This article talks about some of these.
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MiFID II - Key proposals and impacts
The European Commission (EC) yesterday published its proposals to amend the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), referred to as MiFID II, along with its proposed revisions to the Market Abuse Directive (MAD), referred to as MAD II.
The proposals introduce a range of measures which seek to address issues raised by the financial crisis, such as improving investor protection, as well as the commitments made by the G20 to improve the transparency and regulation of more opaque markets, such as derivatives.
The full impact of the changes will not be clear until the legislation is passed, by which time some controversial points could be omitted, and there is sight of the Level 2 and Level 3 proposals for both MiFID and MAD. However, firms should start to assess the potential market and business specific impacts of the proposals, for instance the ban of monetary inducements for portfolio managers and independent advisers, the redefinition of the advisory services, the new trading venues and the rules affecting some OTC trading, the enlarged scope of activities now covered in MiFID or the additional transparency requirements, and use these to inform their business plans.
As the near final drafts of the MiFID II and MAD II proposals were widely circulated before their official release, the content is largely as expected. However, it is essential that the industry does not lose sight of the far-reaching nature of the changes to Retail Banking, Private Banking and the Fund Industry, for all investment firms and market structures. The proposals include a Regulation and Directive for each of MiFID II and MAD II. This represents a major change in the level of direct European regulation. The potential advantage is greater harmonisation of rules, however this is also likely to lead to less flexibility in regulatory approach adopted in Luxembourg.
This briefing note sets out the key changes in the proposals and looks at the challenges now facing firms.
|Key areas of impact in the MiFID II proposals include:
|• The scope of MiFID will be extended to more firms, such as certain commodity firms, data providers and third country firms.
• Additional instruments will be brought into the scope of MiFID, such as structured deposits/products and emissions allowances.
|Electronic trading
|• Derivatives, which are sufficiently liquid and eligible for clearing, will need to be traded on eligible platforms.
• New category of trading venue, called Organised Trading Facilities (OTFs), will be introduced.
• Requirements will be imposed on operators of OTFs and the operation of OTFs will be introduced as a separate permission.
|Transparency and transaction reporting
|• Transparency requirements will be extended to additional instruments, such as bonds and derivatives.
• Trade reports will need to be published through Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) firms, which will also be subject to authorisation and certain organisational requirements.
• Transaction reports will need to capture additional information.
|Third country firms
|• An equivalence decision will need to be made by the EC in respect of third countries before firms from these jurisdictions can request to provide services.
• As a minimum, third country firms seeking to access the retail market will be required to establish branches.
|Investor protection
|• Receipt of monetary inducements by certain firms, such as portfolio managers and firms giving independent investment advice, will be banned.
• Advice must meet certain criteria in order to be classified as 'independent' and additional information will need to be provided to clients.
• Definition of non-complex instruments will be updated to remove 'structured UCITS', which will prevent these funds from being sold on a non-advised basis.
|Product intervention
|• National regulators will have powers to permanently ban products, in coordination with ESMA, and ESMA will also be able to temporarily ban products.
• Position limits for products, such as commodity derivatives, will be introduced. This will include powers for regulators to require existing positions to be reduced.
Further details of the key changes can be found in section 1 below.
1. Key changes
The majority of key changes proposed were initially set out in the consultation paper issued in December 2010. The key changes proposed today include:
The proposals expand the scope of MiFID, both in terms of the types of firms and instruments (e.g. structured deposits and emissions allowances) captured.
This will also introduce authorisation and registration regimes for additional firms, such as data reporting providers and third country firms. Current exemptions will be narrowed to bring more commodities firms into the scope of MiFID. This will result in increased regulatory scrutiny and more extensive compliance obligations for firms which are not currently captured by MiFID.
Electronic trading
The proposals introduce specific requirements in respect of electronic trading, including the trading of certain derivative types on eligible platforms in order to fulfil the G20 commitment. However, the derivative types to which this will apply will be defined by ESMA.
Other changes include the introduction of OTFs as a third category of trading venue. The MiFID provisions already extended requirements to regulated markets and Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs). However, the addition of OTFs will bring into scope additional trading venues which have been established since MiFID was originally implemented. OTFs have been defined very broadly to ensure that they capture future technological developments. Firms operating OTFs will require a separate permission, and they will be restricted from executing trades against their proprietary book to ensure that operators of trading venues remain unconflicted. Mo re firms which execute client orders against their proprietary books may need to be classified as systematic internalisers, however this is subject to further clarification.
The proposals also include specific systems and control requirements for firms which undertake algorithmic trading and firms which provide clients with direct electronic access to trading venues for execution purposes. The proposals seek to ensure that systems are suitably resilient and include appropriate risk controls, such as preventing systems from sending erroneous instructions and the ability to slow down the flow of orders, in order to improve the stability of financial markets.
The proposals also include a provision for a market making obligation for algorithmic trading strategies. The impact of this is likely to be particularly significant given the broad definition being applied to algorithmic trading. Although this provision could be omitted from the final legislation, it represents a signal of intent from the EC.
Electronic trading infrastructure will be a key area of focus for implementation work and, due to the associated IT spends, is likely to result in significant investment by firms to ensure their trading infrastructure is compliant.
Transparency and transaction reporting
The transparency and transaction reporting requirements are contained in the Regulation, which should increase the consistency with which they are implemented.
The proposals extend transparency requirements to additional asset classes that are not currently in scope, such as bonds, structured finance products, derivatives and emissions allowances. They also extend requirements to different trading venues, such as OTFs. However, their application will be calibrated to each type of asset class and type of trading undertaken.
The proposals include additional requirements in respect of transaction reporting, including the extension of reporting requirements to instruments admitted to trading on OTFs. The type of information required in transaction reports will also be amended to include additional information, such as the identification of individuals (or computer algorithms where relevant) responsible for the investment decision.
Third country firms
The proposals, which are contained in both the Directive and the Regulation, introduce a harmonised approach across Europe to the treatment of third country firms. Third countries will need to be deemed as being equivalent by the EC before access to firms from the third country is provided. ESMA will maintain a central list of the relevant countries.
Third country firms will have to establish branches in order to provide services to retail clients, however they may continue to provide services to eligible counterparties provided they are supervised in their own countries and are registered with ESMA. However, it is not clear how this regime will apply to clients categorised as 'professionals' and whether firms supervised outside the EU would also be subject to checks by regulators local to the markets they are seeking to operate in. Existing third country firms will have four years to comply with new requirements set out in the Regulation from its 'entry into force' date.
Currently, the regime applied to third country firms is at the discretion of national regulators, which means that the impact on firms will vary by country depending on the current arrangements implemented. The impact on third country firms, including those providing services to retail clients and eligible counterparties, will depend on further requirements drafted by ESMA.
Investor protection
In order to enhance investor protection, the proposals restrict the receipt of monetary inducements, for both portfolio managers and providers of independent advice. The proposals also state that when providing investment advice, clients should be informed of whether the advice is independent and whether the firm will provide an ongoing assessment of the suitability of products provided. Firms will need to specify how the advice given meets the personal characteristics of the client. Firms will also be required to provide additional information, including pre and post trade information, to clients regarding advice, inducements and complex instruments.
The conduct of business proposals also set out additional best execution requirements (e.g. firms will be required to disclose their top five execution venues for each class of financial instrument, at least on an annual basis). The proposals also include amendments to client asset requirements in order to increase the level of protection afforded to retail clients.
Product intervention
The proposals set out powers for national regulators, in coordination with ESMA, to ban products permanently, while giving ESMA the ability to also ban products temporarily. These proposals seek to enhance investor protection and to also improve market stability. However, further amendments to the new product approval process, such as stress testing new products, which were originally included in the consultation paper, could still be introduced as part of implementation measures.
The product intervention proposals also include the introduction of position limits in respect of commodity derivatives and emissions allowances (including spot contracts and derivatives). This will require trading venues to impose limits and to inform the national regulators of them. National regulators and ESMA will have powers to force positions to be reduced and have the ability to impose limits in exceptional circumstances (e.g. to ensure market stability). Restricting regulators' ability to impose limits in this way should minimise the risk of firms routinely being required to comply with several different limits in similar instruments.
The key areas of difference from the consultation paper include the addition of non-discriminatory access to clearing houses, which has the objective of increasing competition for clearing. There are also proposals to provide central counterparties and trading venues with access to licences for trading and clearing index based products, which would impact current practices relating to major equity indices.
2. Key challenges for firms
Cost of implementation
The EC's own cost estimates set the one-off compliance costs between €512 and €732 million and ongoing costs between €312 and €586 million. Although the costs are anticipated by the EC to be less than for the original implementation of MiFID, in practice these could be far more for some firms, particularly where significant IT changes are required.
Firms should ensure that they have full sight of linkages between legislation (both pan-European and global) to ensure the full impact of regulatory reforms on different business areas is assessed and potential leverage opportunities are identified in order to minimise the cumulative cost of implementation.
Further changes to proposals
The release of the proposals clarifies some of the changes which MiFID II will bring. However, the full extent of changes required as a result of the revisions to MiFID will not be clear until there is sight of the Level 2 and Level 3 proposals. The proposals themselves are also likely to change, with some controversial points omitted, as the final text is negotiated between the EC, Council and Parliament.
This presents an opportunity for firms to present key interest points for their businesses to regulators and law makers. For example, firms that have extensive OTC derivative trading operations will potentially face very significant changes to their business models and should understand and discuss potential issues.
Changing objectives of MiFID
The inclusion of emissions allowances within the scope of MiFID can be viewed as a desire to improve market stability in an area where there is currently little or no financial services regulation. However, a key issue identified in relation to the spot emissions allowances market is fraud. After the initial consultation, there were concerns raised by industry that the objectives of MiFID were no longer clear and that the legislation was increasingly being used to tackle issues which do not fit neatly into other pieces of legislation. The inclusion of emissions allowances appears to support these concerns and also represents a significant div ergence from the treatment of spot trading in relation to other asset classes, such as commodities and FX.
3. Linkages to MAD II
The MAD II proposals are more consistent with the MiFID II proposals than was the case in the original consultation. This includes the following areas:
- The scope of both MAD II and MIFID II has been updated to include instruments traded on MTFs and OTFs, as well as the trading of emissions allowances.
- There is specific reference to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in both proposals. MiFID II seeks to introduce a new category of SME markets to make funding easier to obtain for these firms, while the MAD proposals include exemptions for SMEs not to maintain insider lists in certain circumstances. These both complement pan-European initiatives to the support the SME sector.
- Both the MiFID II and MAD II proposals include minimum sanctions to be applied across different jurisdictions.
4. Expected implementation
The implementation timeline is still not clear. The proposals published today will pass to the European Parliament and to the Council for negotiation and adoption.
The requirements are not likely to apply until 2 years after they have been adopted and published in the Official Journal. However, there will be some exceptions to this. For example, there are a number of provisions in the Regulation which will apply immediately after publication. There are also provisions where ESMA's technical advice is only required by 2016.
Furthermore, the Directive will need to be transposed in the national laws of the Member States, which can be a lengthy process.
Given the timeframes set out it does not seem likely that the G20 deadline for the trading of standardised derivatives on electronic platforms by the end of 2012 will be met.
Please contact your usual Regulatory or MiFID contact at Deloitte for more information.
We would welcome the opportunity to meet and advise you on the likely impacts on your business.


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St. Louis brought out the lumber against Milwaukee Wednesday afternoon and avoided a series sweep at Busch Stadium with a 9-3 victory. The Cardinals raked a pair of home runs and six doubles against the tired and injured Brewer staff. Allen Craig went 4 for 5 with a long ball and Matt Adams cracked a three run shot of starter and loser Matt Garza. Garza gave up five runs in three plus innings before leaving the game early with a right thumb contusion. Rule 5 draft pick Wei-Chung Wang came on and was roughed up for six hits and four runs in three innings. Backup catcher Martin Maldanado even pitched a scoreless 8th for the Brewers. Milwaukee's offense got after Shelby Miller early with Carlos Gomez hitting a solo home run and Mark Reynolds hit a two run blast that gave the Brewers a 3-2 lead but it was all downhill from there. Still, Milwaukee took the series and capped the best opening month in franchise history with a 20-8 record, five and a half games in front of the Cardinals. Next stop on the road trip is Cincinnati where they open a four game series at the Great American Ballpark Thursday night. Marco Estrada will face Homer Bailey. Pre-game coverage begins at 5:35 PM on WTAQ.
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Ochoa, the morning line favorite at 8-5, won teh 53rd annual All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack Monday. It is the world's richest quarter horse race with a $2.4 Million dollar purse, $1.2 Million for the winner. Ochoa is trained by Sleepy Gilbreath, who has won two runnings of the Labor Day classic. Ochoa was ridden by jockey Roy Baldillez, who filled in for injured Jacky Martin. Martin was paralyzed ealier this week after a fall in a race at the track. Martin is recovering at University Medical Center in El Paso.
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What metaphors for sex are used in your country?
In his talk, sexuality educator Al Vernacchio laments the flawed metaphor that many Americans use to talk about sex: baseball. Instead of this regulated and competitive framework, he suggest that we think about sex like pizza -- a communicative and collaborative experience.
The baseball metaphor is indeed very common in the US. So I wondered, what metaphors for sex are commonly used in other countries or in other languages? Are there Americans, too, who grew up with a different metaphor? And what else besides pizza would be a helpful new one?
Share some funny or interesting euphemisms for sex from your own culture!
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Jul 15 2013: I have been critical of this talk in the main thread but I forgot to mention something very related. Pizza is already a sexual euphemism for vagina in Serbia and with small alterations for an attractive female. Fish is another that's used in the same context, but I can't think of any metaphors for the actual act of sex.
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By Gary Hoff, University of Illinois
Last year, many farmers purchased some type of crop insurance for their 2012 crops. The total premiums for these policies in Illinois alone were more than $770 million. It is projected that the total claims will exceed twice the amount of the premiums.
If those farmers do not defer their crop insurance proceeds until 2013, they will have an additional $1.5 billion of taxable income this year.
In the past, it was not difficult to decide to defer reporting the crop insurance income until the next year. However, with today's tax climate, one has to wonder if it will save tax or increase the tax bill by deferring.
Marginal income tax rates are in a state of flux. Will they remain the same or will they increase, at least for higher income taxpayers? The 33% rate will increase to 36% and the 35% rate will increase to 39.6%
The new Medicare tax increase will begin in 2013. The new tax is based on the lesser of net unearned income or modified adjusted gross income in excess of $250,000 for joint return filers and $200,000 for single filers. The tax will be 3.8% on net unearned income including interest, dividends, annuities, rents and royalties (crop share), passive trades or businesses, and gains fromother than business property. The tax is .9% on earned income.
If the "Bush tax cuts" are allowed to expire, the IRC §179 expensing deduction will go from $139,000 in 2012 to $25,000 in 2013. There will no longer be any 100% or 50%bonus depreciation. And, unless an AMT patch is made, millions more taxpayers will be subject to the alternative minimum tax this year.
If you want to defer 2012 crop insurance proceeds until 2013, you must follow certain rules:
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CHICAGO FerroAtlántica Group SA has stopped all silicon production at its facilities in South Africa for April and May, according to a company release.
The move comes after the Madrid-based silicon producer in December announced plans to close two of three furnaces at its Polokwane plant in northeastern South Africa and another at its Rand Carbide facility in response to market conditions and a challenging energy supply situation in the country (amm.com, Dec. 13).....
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Napoleon goes into exile, "I Love Lucy" debuts, vice-presidential candidates debate for the first time, Wayne Gretzky sets the NHL's points record, and the nation meets "Balloon Boy" and his family, all on this day.
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte begins his exile on Saint Helena in the south Atlantic Ocean more than 11,000 miles off the west coast of Africa. He would spend the rest of his life in exile before dying in 1821.