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This chapter describes the features and hardware components of an Exalogic machine. It also includes usage information related to the Exalogic machine.
This chapter contains these topics:
Oracle Exalogic is an integrated hardware and software system designed to provide a complete platform for a wide range of application types and widely varied workloads. Exalogic is intended for large-scale, performance-sensitive, mission-critical application deployments. It combines Oracle Fusion Middleware software and industry-standard Sun hardware to enable a high degree of isolation between concurrently deployed applications, which have varied security, reliability, and performance requirements. Exalogic enables customers to develop a single environment that can support end-to-end consolidation of their entire applications portfolio.
Exalogic is designed to fully leverage an internal InfiniBand fabric that connects all of the processing, storage, memory and external network interfaces within an Exalogic machine to form a single, large computing device. Each Exalogic machine is connected to the customer's data center networks via 10 GbE (traffic) and GbE (management) interfaces.
Customers can integrate Exalogic machines with an Exadata machine or additional Exalogic machines by u sing the available InfiniBand expansion ports and optional data center switches. The InfiniBand technology used by Exalogic offers significantly high bandwidth, low latency, hardware-level reliability, and security. If you are using applications that follow Oracle's best practices for highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems, you do not need to make any application architecture or design changes to benefit from Exalogic. You can connect many Exalogic machines or a combination of Exalogic machines and Oracle Exadata Database Machines to develop a single, large-scale environment.
The following hardware configurations of Exalogic are available:
Exalogic machine full rack
Exalogic machine half rack
Exalogic machine quarter rack
Exalogic machine eighth rack
In addition to purchasing one or more Exalogic racks, you can purchase an appropriate number of licenses for a software pack that contains new features in Oracle WebLogic Server depending on the number of compute nodes to be used. This software pack includes a number of Exalogic-specific enhancements and features. The additional software licenses are a prerequisite for using the software pack.Software licenses are optional. You only need to purchase licenses for those CPUs on which the licensed software will be used.
Exalogic includes the following features:
Complete, pre-assembled, and certified system for maximum performance
Best platform for end-to-end consolidation of large-scale application deployments
Ready to deploy
Linearly scalable
Enterprise-level software and hardware support
Exalogic machines consist of compute nodes, a storage appliance as well as required InfiniBand and Ethernet networking components. The number of these components in each machine varies based on the hardware configuration.
The hardware components listed in this chapter are for Exalogic machines shipped from the factory.Table 1-1 Hardware Components of Exalogic
Component | Full Rack | Half Rack | Quarter Rack | Eighth Rack |
Sun Rack II 1242 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Compute nodes:
30 |
16 |
8 |
4 |
Storage Appliance:
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switches (NM2-GW) |
4 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 (NM2-36P) |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Cisco Ethernet management switch
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Redundant power distribution units (for the available PDU options, see PDUs in Exalogic) |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
You can connect up to eight Exalogic machines, or a combination of Exalogic and Exadata on the same InfiniBand fabric, without the need for any external switches.
If more than eight racks of Exalogic or Exadata are required to be connected on the same InfiniBand fabric, Oracle offers a choice of several high-capacity datacenter switches, which allow the creation of Exalogic clouds consisting of hundreds of racks and tens of thousands of processors.Each Exalogic rack contains two redundant PDUs that are available in both high and low voltage options. The available PDU options can be found in the data sheets available at the following location:
When you upgrade from an Exalogic eighth-, quarter-, or half-rack to a full rack, if the original rack was ordered with 15 kVA PDU, you must upgrade to a 24 kVA PDU.The Exalogic machine is accompanied by a spares kit containing additional parts and accessories (cables, for example) that Oracle Services personnel will use to replace non-working and broken parts quickly. When Oracle Services personnel visit your site for repairing and replacing hardware, you should make the spares kit available to them. Note that any parts used by Oracle Service personnel from the spares kit will be replenished by Oracle.
Pre-cabling for Exalogic X4-2 and X5-2 Machines
The eighth-, quarter-, and half-rack X4-2 and X5-2 machines are pre-cabled with a complete set (equivalent in number to a full rack) of InfiniBand (92), Ethernet (42), and power cables. All the cables are connected to the appropriate switches and routed to the correct rack-unit location. The unconnected ends of the cables are tied off to lacer bars. At a later time, if the machine is upgraded to a larger rack, the filler panels and lacer bars are removed, the X4-2 and X5-2 servers are installed with rack rails and cable-management arms, and the cables (power, InfiniBand, and Ethernet) are connected to the newly installed compute nodes.
This section contains the following topics:
Do not alter the rack layout. Do not use the free space in the rack for anything other than a rack upgrade kit.Figure 1-1 shows the layout of an Exalogic machine full rack (front view and rear view).
Figure 1-1 Exalogic Machine Full Rack Layout
Figure 1-2 shows the layout of an Exalogic machine half rack (front view and rear view).
Do not alter the rack layout. Do not use the free space in the rack for anything other than a rack upgrade kit.Figure 1-2 Exalogic Machine Half Rack Layout
Figure 1-3 shows the layout of an Exalogic machine quarter rack (front view and rear view).
Do not alter the rack layout. Do not use the free space in the rack for anything other than a rack upgrade kit.Figure 1-3 Exalogic Machine Quarter Rack Layout
Figure 1-4 shows the layout of an Exalogic machine eighth rack (front view and rear view).
Do not alter the rack layout. Do not use the free space in the rack for anything other than a rack upgrade kit.Figure 1-4 Exalogic Machine Eighth Rack Layout
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Compute nodes and controllers in the storage device are powered on by either pressing the power button on the front of the machine, or by logging in to the ILOM interface and applying power to the system.
Compute nodes and controllers can also be powered off by using operating system commands.
For example, you can use the following command on the Oracle Linux operating system:
shutdown -h -y now
On the Oracle Solaris operating system, you can use the following command:
shutdown -i 5 now
You can use this command after logging in to the compute nodes.The network switches do not have power switches. They power off when power is removed, by way of the PDU or at the breaker in the data center.
The power on sequence is as follows:
Rack, including switches.
Ensure that the switches have had power applied for a few minutes to complete power-on configuration before starting the storage controllers and compute nodes.
Storage server heads attached to the chassis of the storage device.
Wait for a few minutes for the storage appliance to boot and start NFS services and daemons.
Compute nodes.
After power is applied, the LEDs on all compute nodes and storage server heads will start blinking after a few minutes. From the rear of the rack, you can see the green LEDs on the PSUs turn on instantly after power is applied. In addition, from the rear of the rack, you can see the display on the PDUs that lights up once power is available.If there is an emergency, then power to the Exalogic machine should be halted immediately. The following emergencies may require powering off the Exalogic machine:
Natural disasters such as earthquake, flood, hurricane, tornado or cyclone.
Abnormal noise, smell or smoke coming from the machine.
Threat to human safety.
To perform an emergency power-off procedure for the Exalogic machine, turn off power at the circuit breaker or pull the emergency power-off switch in the computer room. After the emergency, contact Oracle Support Services to restore power to the machine.
Emergency power-off (EPO) switches are required when computer equipment contains batteries capable of supplying more than 750 volt-amperes for more than five minutes. Systems that have these batteries include internal EPO hardware for connection to a site EPO switch or relay. Use of the EPO switch will remove power from the Exalogic machine.
The following cautions and warnings apply to Exalogic machines:
Do not touch the parts of this product that use high-voltage power. Touching them might result in serious injury.
Do not power off Exalogic machines unless there is an emergency. In that case, follow the Emergency Power-off Procedure.
Keep the front and rear cabinet doors closed. Failure to do so might cause system failure or result in damage to hardware components.
Keep the top, front, and back of the cabinets clear to allow proper airflow and prevent overheating of components.
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At the celebrations of The Sage Gateshead's fifth birthday in December general director Anthony Sargent announced a series of new initiatives and partnerships for the immediate future.
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Sing Up announces National Male Singing Leaders Conference
4 January 2010
Sing Up, the orgisation that promotes singing in schools, has announced the National Male Singing Leaders Conference, an event it hopes will shape the development of male singing leaders nationwide. The free two-day event will feature presentations, workshops and performances, and is open to male teachers who lead or would like to lead boys' or mixed singing groups; female teachers who lead boys' singing groups will also find the conference relevant. The keynote speech will be given by David Lawrence, Associate Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Choir Leader for the City of Birmingham Young Voices, and there will be workshops and performances by singer and composer Cleveland Watkiss. Sessions will include: developing your own vocal confidence; male leadership and the changing voice with Professor Martin Ashley; ways of supporting and developing male singing leaders regionally and nationally; and using singing across the curriculum with primary-aged children. The event will take place at Truro Methodist Church and Library, Cornwall on Tuesday 23 February 2010 1.30pm-6.30 pm and Wednesday 24 February 9.30am-4pm. To find out more or to book your place email email@example.com or telephone Lindsay Bell (Sing Up Administrator) 0191 443 4695.
MusicLeader West Midlands invites choir leaders to 'Inspire Your Choir'
4 January 2010
'Inspire Your Choir' is MusicLeader's new six-session course for choral directors led by choral clinician and musicologist Liz Garnett. It is designed for people who already have experience leading choirs or singing groups and who wish to develop and deepen their skills. The sessions will include both repertoire taught by ear and notated music, and there will be opportunities to work with repertoire used by participants in their own groups. The course comprises six half-day sessions and requires a full attendance commitment. Sessions, which will take place at the University of Birmingham, are as follows:
- Tuesday 2 February 2010: Developing the Ensemble
- Tuesday 9 February 2010: Rethinking Choral Musicianship
- Tuesday 16 February 2010: Perform with Panache
- Tuesday 23 February 2010: Understanding the Conductor-Choir Bond
- Tuesday 2 March 2010: Aural Skills for Choral Groups
- Tuesday 9 March 2010: Gesture and Voice
There are 25 first-come-first-served places available priced at £60 for MusicLeader members and £120 for non-members (membership is free, join on the MusicLeader website). Call 0121 236 7978 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Music Manifesto champion honoured in New Year awards
31 December 2009
Marc Jaffrey, former champion of the Music Manifesto, has been awarded an OBE for services to music education in the Queen's New Year Honours list. Gres Pritchard, a peripatetic music teacher on Ynys Mon (Anglesey), North Wales, and John Skinner, director of music at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, Lewisham, south east London, both receive MBEs. The highest musical honour this year is a knighthood for pharmacologist, baritone and Bach-lover Dr Ralph Kohn, whose Kohn Foundation endows several prizes for young scientists and musicians; Sir Ralph's charitable interests also include financing John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantatas project. CBEs go to mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly; pianist Peter Donohoe; conductor James Loughran; and Graham Sheffield, artistic director of London's Barbican Centre and chairman of the Royal Philharmonic Society. Kenneth Montgomery, principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra, receives an OBE, as do Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi of the rock group Status Quo, film-music composer Rachel Portman and National Youth Music Theatre founder Jeremy James Taylor. MBEs go to Judith Catterick, director of music at St Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, for services to music in her local community; harpist Jennifer Doolan, a senior tutor with the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor of the Ynys Owen Male Voice Choir in Aberfan, South Wales; Terence 'Jet' Harris, former bass player with Cliff Richard's group The Shadows; former LSO Principal Trumpet Maurice Murphy; and Ewan Easton, Principal Tuba of the Halle Orchestra, for voluntary work at Thorn Cross Young Offenders Institute including the Halle4brass project.
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Journal of a Paladin
Episode XII: Education
By Matthew R. Fleming
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Entry #13 The Twentysecond of November in the Year Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-seven
The first few weeks at the Winguard Royal Academy were significant in the fact that, for the longest time, Jordanello and I sat by ourselves for lunch in the dining area of the school. That changed when some of our classmates decided to join us for a change. Im not sure why, either a table was missing that day or perhaps there was trouble within their former circle of friends. Whatever the reason, we both felt much less lonely from then on, considering both at the academy and in general.
Our guest list included the Velleous girl, Emzie, who was the sister of Dewium, the fellow Jordan and I met at the Black Stop during the summer. Another member of our circle of friends was Kagome Sonidav, who made quick friends with Emzie as they found themselves in many of the same classes. Finally, we were joined by our old friend Sir Cary, who worked for the academy as a guard. He was lucky enough to be on break at the same time we all were allowed to eat.
Half of the lunch area was inside a regal dining hall with many classy decorations; lots of candles. The other half was outside on a stone tiled patio, partially covered by a wooden awning. The five of us enjoyed eating under the awning on sunny or lightly rainy days. I would usually have something meaty and/or cheesy, that being my flavor of choice. Jordanello was fond of pastas if I remember correctly; I recall that Id often partake of the same thing he did, simply because it looked tasty, and it usually was. Kago (as we called her by her short name) had a similar appetite to my own; much cheese and great portion, though she never really bulked up at all because of it. Sir Cary was known for his ingenious mixing of available spices and sauces, often forming a unique dressing of his very own. The recipe stays with him. Finally, Emzie never did anything interesting with her diet, though she wasnt into large, meaty portions, probably because of her affinity towards animals. Interestingly enough, she wouldnt mind if a fly had landed on her food once, and neither did Sir Cary, though Cary didnt mind if the fly was still on said entrée.
Time went on and we all settled into our schedules as Cary settled into piles of snow when standing guard outside in the winter. Jordan, Kago, and myself would often find each other at the Black Stop (since we told Kagome about it) and we would have dinner together. It was there that Jordanello and I got around to asking the lady about her whereabouts in the city.
Well, she started, its complicated. I move a lot.
So where are you staying right now? asked Jordan.
she stalled.
It was then that we could tell that her home life was a touchy subject for her. Lucky for her, Erin ONelly, eldest daughter of Seamus and Maggie ONelly, was our tavern maid that evening, and she had arrived with our orders.
Ah, Erin, I exclaimed, right on time with our meals! Give our compliments to your mother for her fine cooking, wont you?
Aye, replied Erin in her saintly emerald accent, shed be delighted to hear it, Im certain. Ill be back if youd be needin anything else later.
Thank you, very much, mlady, I said as she moved on to the next table.
You like her, said Jordan, surely in jest.
I do have a thing for redheads
I thought to myself aloud, but I assure you, Im just being polite.
The way you talk sometimes, said Kago, it sounds like you like every girl!
Yeah, man, confirmed Jordan, you really do talk strange.
Im afraid that I sincerely dont follow your meaning, I couldnt have been clearer.
whatever, said Jordan, terminating the subject.
The conversation suffered a short pause while we started at our meals and then Kago announced abruptly, Im going to be getting a dorm at the Academy soon.
Both Jordan and I were somewhat upset for a moment. We were going to be back to just the two of us during our downtime, seeing her and Emzie and Cary at the Academy only, lest we ride there on horseback at the end of the academic day. However, we realized that her decision must have been due to something she wished not to reveal about her private life, so we did not protest her decision.
Fancy that, I said, Well, youll be able to socialize with more people that way. Youll certainly be given a roommate, look how that worked out with Jordanello and me.
she said with a frown, but I wanna hang out with you guys, youre my best friends!
Hey, said Jordan, well come visit often. And well always hang out at school anyways.
And Carys always on campus, I reminded her, Hes a night watchman.
True, she conceded, I guess youre right.
But wait, thought Jordan, damn, I just thought of something. They dont let guys into the girls dorm.
Aww, and they dont let the girls out after sunset! worried Kago.
Well, well just have to try to sneak in or sneak you out, thought Jordan.
Cary would probably let you through, I reluctantly suggested, though he would be risking his job to do so.
I still have a week, she said, so lets just try to make the best of the time we have left.
A very positive idea, I raised my pint for a toast. We all clinked glasses and tried to enjoy our meal without thinking about the proximal future.
Time went on and so did our adventures in education. Like with training, there are parts Id like to forget, but there are some memorable moments as well. For example:
Professor Flekag eventually supplied us with alchemy equipment sometime that year. My lab partner was Emzie. Jordan was paired with Kago. Our objective was to make a potion that could temporarily cause a lizard to transform into a bird. Now, so there wouldnt be any problems, the professor made sure that each solution contained a compound called Wizards Bane that, when mixed with an antidote, would completely nullify the magical effect. The professor always had some antidote handy and the first instruction in any scenario was, POUR ONE OUNCE OF WIZARDS BANE INTO FLASK!!!! Please.
The problem with any class is that theres always at least one trouble maker. So after Prof. Flekag checked each flask for the proper amount of WB, one joker decided to pour it out afterward. I dont know why. I didnt raise him. Either way, one thing lead to another and before you knew it, we had lost one idiot. Fortunately, we gained a new class mascot, York the Griffon. No amount of antidote would change him back either. He was quite a loyal and friendly bird, though. Good fellow. Professor Flekag even stated, after a few minutes or so of panic, Yknow, hes probably better off that way.
Another experience I remember was Marksmanship Class. Sir Friel often set up clockwork target practice sessions using stuffed mannequins set up on mechanical tracks to allow movement. After we had learned the basics of every weapon he instructed us with, he allowed us to choose any of those weapons to use in these sessions. I would switch from crossbow to pistol to musket at a whim. Out of all of my classmates (and there were many for that class as the musketeer was recently designated as the standard infantry unit in the Winguard military), the only person I really knew well was Kagome. Oddly enough, she was the only female to sign up for marksmanship. Her weapon was the longbow. The length of the bow, at 55 almost seemed to dwarf her as she held it, the top stopped high over her head. And the 3 arrows almost came up to her chest. As awkward as she looked wielding it, she continued to use it, and use it well she did. She was the most talented marksman out of all of us, and it bears repeating that there were MANY of us in that class. The only weapon she used unless otherwise instructed to, was that longbow. She hated gunpowder weapons because they were loud and heavy. She didnt like the crossbow because she thought that was cheating. However, she did have fun with the sling
not that she was any good with it; the shot always flung behind her.
What I remember most about that particular experience, though, was not how funny she looked knocking back another arrow before she fired, or how amazingly accurate she was when the arrow hit her mark. No, what caught my attention most, was the way she looked right after she fired, her eyes fixated with intensity on her target, her hair gently pulled forward from the motion of the drawstring springing back to place, how she balanced slightly on one foot as she followed through, and the light glow she had to her from the sun rising behind her from my vantage point. It was moments like those that made me question if I was in the right mind trying to pursue the affections of Princess Kay, or even if Id ever see her again. If not, right here was this beautiful girl, talented and funny, and I was obviously attracted to her. It was during one of those many splendid moments that I knew what I wanted to do for Winguards annual celebration of love, Affection Eve.


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Catching up to Bode, Chapter 2: 'I'm not a guy who looks back.'
By JIM LITKE, AP Sports Columnist
SESTRIERE, Italy (AP) -- The sticker on the side of the RV read "Go Fast Sports."
"I'm eating," Bode Miller said after opening the door. He was holding up a sandwich. "Gimme five minutes."
An hour earlier, Miller had skidded off the course in the slalom, the last of his five events, completing an 0-for-the-Olympics. And then he kept on skiing, ducking reporters again.
I had tracked him down after a mile-long trek in ankle-deep snow, and good as his word, Miller came out soon and was his rambling, revealing, remarkably stubborn self in a half-hour interview. A few highlights:
-- "People said, 'Why can't you stay in for the two weeks, three weeks? You've got the rest of your life to experience the games the way everybody else does.' But I like the whole package. I always have."
-- "People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me."
-- "It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here."
-- "The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three."
Give Miller this much: He's consistent.
A week ago, after spinning off the course in the super-G, he skied a back route through the woods rather than answer questions. On Monday, after finishing sixth in the giant slalom, he ditched his skis at the finish line, dodged a gauntlet of reporters waiting nearby and ran for the exit wearing sneakers and using his ski poles for balance in the slush. After spotting him 100 yards or so, not to mention much lighter footwear, I caught up with him a quarter-mile later.
He was 0-for-4 at that point, and Saturday's last-chance slalom still loomed. But Miller vowed he wouldn't do anything different. And he didn't.
He continued to revel in the nightlife in a hamlet with one real saloon and no more discotheques. And Miller always occupied the front table, making him impossible to miss.
"It's important for me to live my life honestly," he said. Besides, he added, "I was only out one night before a race."
In fact, Miller said he spent Friday night before the slalom watching "Miracle," the movie about a bunch of college kids who came together as the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and beat the Soviet Union's heavily favored "Big Red Machine" en route to a gold medal.
"That's what the Olympics are about ... underdogs, about providing an opportunity for people to do something they didn't know they were capable of," he said.
Miller then talked softly, almost longingly about how U.S. ski teammates Ted Ligety and Julia Mancuso, both just 21 and largely unburdened by expectations, had risen to the occasion at these Olympics and won gold. He was in the same position four years ago in Salt Lake City, when he sneaked in and won two silvers.
To recreate that feeling, Miller said he went as far as purposely slacking off in his training.
"For the last eight to 10 months, I was less prepared than the last Olympics. That left me the opportunity to dig deep, to go down that other route, to make more sacrifices and get back to where I was," he said.
But none of it worked. Miller came here as an overwhelming overdog, the defending overall World Cup championship, the first American to hold that title since 1983. Anybody who saw NBC's promotional campaign ahead of the Winter Olympics must have thought all the other skiers in the world were auditioning for parts as extras in Miller's highlight reel.
"I wanted an Olympic experience like in 'Miracle.' But how was it for the Russians?" Miller said, leaving little doubt which role was thrust on him. "Horrible."
But hardly surprising, I countered, considering the high-paying endorsement deal he took from Nike and a few other sponsors. Miller then countered that he left plenty of money on the table, and accepted only those deals that let him put his message out unfiltered by the media.
I offered him the same. "What would you tell people who are going to look at you in these Olympics and see a failure?"
Miller paused.
"Where the quality of life fits in the priority scale is something everybody has to decide for themselves. Nobody else can tell you what your quality of life is, or should be."
I told him that sounded like an excuse to party.
"If I wasn't prepared at the start of the races, that would be something I would look at. But I guarantee you every athlete who stood up at the top of the hill could say, 'Hey, what about that weightlifting workout you skipped last summer or whatever?"'
Then he brought up teammate Daron Rahlves. Like Miller, he was a favorite to medal -- although in only two events as opposed to Miller's five. And like Miller, he never made it onto the podium.
"Look at what happened to Rahlves. He was holed up in his RV, he's probably the fittest guy out here and he made a point of talking about how important the Olympics were to him," Miller said. "And then look -- a little bad luck and he's got nothing to show for the whole thing.
"Me, it's been an awesome two weeks," Miller said. "I got to party and socialize at an Olympic level."
Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at
He seems to know he f*cked up but that's no excuse. He is a representative for this country and he has now only fueled the will to destroy those "awful Americans." If you ask me this is the first Olympics we haven't dominated and you have to ask whether all these companies makin endorsements and TV appearances and all da other junk that da American media and companies want da athletes to do distracts them and clouds their vision as to what they are really there for: to compete in their event and do da best they can. Bode is an immature loser if he can't give up partyin for two weeks to be ready for his events. He talks of his teammate Daron and his bad luck but with Bode it's bad practice. If Daron went out there and had better luck he would have probably won but Bode set himself to fail because as an athlete you have to have your body in top shape to compete and if you are drunk in da startin gate you know for damn sure you ain't ready. Suit, I give a comendation for your man in Akron because he truly does embody da Olympic spirit. Also if Hines Ward's heart was in Bode he would not only have won his own events but would have been signin up to compete in more and would have been out there cheerin on every teammate he had when he could. It's a shame. Let Bode slip into da pit of unsuccessfulness and anonymity. One last question: Do we know he actually smoked weed? Just wonderin. Peace.
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4 posts tagged with neoliberalism by the man of twists and turns.
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"We were for the Contras in Nicaragua; wary of affirmative action,"
Matt Welch, Reason: The Death of Contrarianism
Klein, then at The American Prospect, a progressive D.C. opinion magazine founded in 1990, wanted Peters, founder (in 1969) of The Washington Monthly, to answer for the way neoliberalism had degenerated into lefty-on-lefty contrarianism. "What has happened, at least to some younger folks like me," Klein said, "is that at times this appears to have become not an honest critique, but a positioning device. The idea that it's not about the quality of the argument, but the display: You show honesty by attacking Democrats, you show independence by attacking liberals. At times I think that has been a damaging impulse on our side."[more inside]
"We perceive the world through metaphors"
Why I Am No Longer A Skeptic
That's right: the nerds won, decades ago, and they're now as thoroughly established as any other part of the establishment. And while nerds a relatively new elite, they're overwhelmingly the same as the old: rich, white, male, and desperate to hang onto what they've got. And I have come to realise that skepticism, in their hands, is just another tool to secure and advance their privileged position, and beat down their inferiors. As a skeptic, I was not shoring up the revolutionary barricades: instead, I was cheering on the Tsar's cavalry.Referenced in The Cult Of Bayes' Theorem [more inside]
How The Left Has Won
Or, why is there still socialism in the United States?
Why, then, would we look for evidence of socialism only where a state seized by radicals of the Left inaugurates a dictatorship of the proletariat? Or, to lower the rhetorical volume and evidentiary stakes, why would we expect to find socialism only where avowed socialists or labor parties contend for state power? We should instead assume that socialism, like capitalism, is a cross-class cultural construction, to which even the bourgeoisie has already made significant contributions – just as the proletariat has long made significant contributions to the cross-class construction we know as capitalism. What follows?
The Origins of Neoliberalism
Philip Pilkington writes for naked capitalism: The Origins of Neoliberalism
Part I: Hayek's Delusion
Hayek's entire ideology and career had begun to come apart in the 1930s. His theories were shown to be inconsistent in the academic journals of the time and the practical implications of those theories had shown themselves to be both discredited and dangerous. A man in such a position only has two choices: he can either completely re-evaluate his ideas which, if they were held with unshakeable conviction and constituted a core component of his emotional make-up, as seems to have been the case with Hayek, would have likely resulted in a mental collapse; or, alternatively, he can engage in a massive repression, shut out reality and construct around himself a fantasy world.[more inside]


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Sunderland v WIGAN: Victor Moses in line to make Latics debut at Stadium of Light
Playing with the big boys: Moses New signing Victor Moses will be in the squad for Wigan's Barclays Premier League trip to Sunderland. The striker completed a move from Crystal Palace on transfer deadline day but Marcelo Moreno, who joined on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk until the end of the season, is still awaiting international clearance and is unlikely to be included. Captain Mario Melchiot has not trained all week because of a neck problem and faces a late fitness test but goalkeeper Chris Kirkland is still recovering from a collarbone injury so Vladimir Stojkovic will continue to deputise. Provisional squad: Stojkovic, Pollitt, Bramble, Amaya, Caldwell, Boyce, Figueroa, Diame, Thomas, Gomez, N'Zogbia, Scharner, McCarthy, Scotland, Rodallega, Sinclair, Moses, Watson. CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THE WEEKEND PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM NEWS
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