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Decade of decay
No transportation reform will create more wrecked roads
July 14, 2013
The absence of transportation reform has left a gaping hole — and in this case, literally. "Roads and bridges are falling apart," said state Rep. Garth Everett, R-Munc....
Now here are a few facts this article didn't cover, the cost to us:
Gas prices will increase about 28.5 cents a gallon.
License fees from $29.50 for four years to $50.50 for six years.
Vehicle registration fees would go up from $36 per year to $104 for two years.
The bill would also slap a $100 surcharge on each moving violation.
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I would like to see an accounting of all gas and diesel taxes plus vehicle registration costs that have been collected and where that money goes.
I just did some quick math and figured my small contracting business consisting of 2 diesel pickups and 3 trailers altogether pays well over $2200 a year in taxes and registration fees. This money is suppose to go for road repair.
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Here are a few more facts we already spend more per mile of roadway and bridges than 39 other states. We spend nearly $9 billion per year, over $70000 per mile. It is not a matter of more money it is a matter of prioritizing and efficiency of spending. Promoting a $2.5 billion transportation funding package,on top of the nearly $9 billion already being spent raises a question worth asking, why does Pennsylvania need all that new cash for roads and bridges? "There's just not money to do anything significant is the message here," Murawski said. What's really significant is the fact that like the US Congress, we have way too many big government vultures in both parties. The money is already there.
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You spend about $2200.00 per year. But, how much is eaten by "paper work" and "wages" before supplies are bought to fix and repair?
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To Premier:
You spend about $2200.00 per year. But, how much is eaten by "paper work" and "wages" before supplies are bought to fix and repair?
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Eliminate "prevailing wage" laws so non-union wages can be paid for construction and repairs rather than PennDOT's inflated wage rates that start over $25 per hour for a general laborer (unskilled).
Secondly, I would examing the lifespan of Pennsylvania roads & bridges versus those of other states to see if PennDOT's engineering is delivering bridge & road designs that last or are inferior to states with similar climates.
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Zippie, I don't get your question. Paperwork and wages are not figured separately from any spending bill.
The state takes in roughly 5.8 billion a year from gas tax and vehicle registration cost and that does not include the federal tax the Feds collect for the interstate system.
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AGREED, rick!!
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Come on Rick, Pa road conditions have been some of the worst in the nation long before the gas industry. This state has among the highest gas tax and once this legislation passes it will have the highest gas taxes in the nation. We need to start seeing a return our investment. I understand your frustration with the gas industry, but throwing blame for every situation does not help your cause.
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Of the money collected for road repair, etc., how much is used to actually by materials vs. labor costs?
Say a bridge will cost $2 million. Of that, how much is labor?
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A portion of the ACT 13 Impact Fee was suppose to go to Highway Bridge Improvement and Construction and maintenance and repair of roads.
I'm curious why none of that money is being used for the purpose it was intended for.
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Its the Gas Industry!
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Zippie, I still don't get what your trying to say. If a bridge cost 2 million it cost 2 million, no one is going to build it for free. You have to fund the entire thing or it doesn't get done.
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Yes Act 13 monies should be used for this. Instead, it became a bucket of money that the sharks were circling around and using if for less important items.
Premier, concerning the cost of a bridge, it depends upon how much over design the engineers put into it. Since an engineering firm has to stamp the drawings, they many times build in "worst case" and over design them which drives up costs. If some of these bridges have lasted 50+ years, then they ought to be able to go back with something comparable. Or for some of the smaller ones that cross narrow stream, there should be some "off the shelf" standard designs that don't require all the engineering stamped drawings. For the bigger, more complex ones, they can go through more detailed geotechnical borings and then make stamped engineering designs for them.
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Rick, I use to respect ur opinions. I disagreed, but respected them BC u seemed informed and genuinely concerned. Not any more. Ur just another leach. U hate the gas companies but u want to bleed them dry.
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I would rather drive across an over designed bridge than on that just meet engineering standards. Everything that I build in the construction field is over built and believe me people don't mind spending the money for piece of mind.
BTW this was about finding revenue to repair our highway, I would like to see an accounting of all the money that is SUPPOSE to go strictly for this upkeep. There was never a shortage before and highway spending since like "95" is up over 150%.
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I have a question for all that are anti gas industry. If all of you have been negatively effected by the industry in some way, and there seems to be so many that seem to be, if you have all your facts that you claim to have of wrong doing, then why not a class action law suit against the industry? I'm not try to be smug. But what I am saying is everything you are doing now as far as voicing your hate for the industry and throwing out facts concerning regulation abuses, is not affecting the industry in any way. Why not take them to court? It seems this industry is negatively effecting so many people's lives yet no one is doing much of anything except talking. I'm just wondering what you are trying to accomplish.
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I guess my point is, your fight should be with government, not the industry. If in fact these companies are side stepping regulations that are in place then it's the government agencies responsible for overseeing the industry and allowing it to continue, that shares just as much blame. A lot of anti gas industry folks are in fact big government liberals, and this is the very same bloated government that is turning their backs to your demands for change.
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"then why not a class action law suit against the industry?"
Now that is funny. Could you imagine suing the gas industry? Good luck on that one.
Sorry to disappoint you thepaycheck, but ACT 13 is and always has been a joke. 1 million bucks for the airport, come on. Our politicians are so clueless.
Remember folks, I am not NIMBY anymore.
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Rick that was kinda my point, you're going to get nowhere going after the gas industry so placing your hate and discontent towards them is useless. Your energy should be placed upon government by organizing and letting your leaders know that their job is in jeopardy if changes aren't made. I will be the first to support that effort but I'm not going to sit back and constantly complain and moan about the industry when I know it's useless and I know the focus should be on the regulators.
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Try this ... replace my idea with the transportation one.
The Red Cross takes in millions in fund raising and donations. Not anywhere near that amount goes into helping those in need. The "Big Wigs" skim their cut off the top. Operating expenses eats another big chunk. What's left goes to help those in need.
So what I was getting at is that after the government gets their cut, what's left for the roads and bridges?
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So if I go to the grocery store and buy a .99 can of string beans I should only pay .19 because that's all they are worth if I were to go to the farm and pick them? The laborers who picked them, the truck driver who delivered them, the people who processed them, the ware house people who stored them, the store who sold them and the clerk who stocked them should get nothing?
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Why don't we have more to fix the roads and bridges? Where did all that money go?
OK. I make $345 a week working. I figure that I have this to live on ... but wait. The gov gets their part, the health people theirs, the school kids too. after all is said and done, I end up with abou $225 to purchace what a need and use to live on.
So it shows that PennDOT may take in millions but not all that is there to fix what needs fixing.
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It was 1988, and the local trade group for residential contractors broached the idea of honoring those new-homebuilders who excelled at championing the industry.
Before long, the Charleston Home Builders Association's Sales & Marketing Council had birthed a program, the yearly Prism Awards.
The trophies would recognize top-notch efforts "in the field of sales, marketing and promotion of new homes," according to the association.
No doubt, these were "visionary" awards. Yet no one could foresee what would happen the very next year. Hurricane Hugo struck the South Carolina coast in fall 1989, battering a huge number of homes across greater Charleston and leaving thousands of people at least temporarily homeless.
While taking a beating at first, the housing industry would rally to frame thousands of new residences, many in place of storm-damaged ones.
Moving forward, metro Charleston's residential workforce continued to show resiliency.
The housing industry would struggle in the aftermath of the Charleston Naval Base and Shipyard closings in the mid-1990s, the 9-11 terrorist attacks 12 years ago and the housing market plunge beginning in 2007-08. Yet every time, the business would bounce back.
Throughout, the Prism Awards annually praised home builders for their marketing skills while branching out "to encompass the growing market segments of the housing industry, including green building, remodeling, development and the associate member sector," the association says.
The Prism Awards' 25th year will be noted, but there's no special celebration to mark the anniversary, says Phillip Ford, executive vice president. The program's formula – to reward close to 40 builders, agents, companies and suppliers with plaques, handshakes and hearty applause – works well, he says.
"It's been great," he says. This year's Nov. 8 show at the American Theater on King Street filled its 166 seats.
"We tweak it a little bit. The last change was adding customer service" as an awards category, Ford says. Past awards ceremonies headlined speakers and guests and included special presentations. "It depends on the year," he says.
The Prism Awards' popularity tends to mirror the ups and downs of the local home-building business. Smaller crowds took part in shows during the housing crisis, while totals picked up the past couple of years.
At the same time, a record 400 guests attended the awards presentation the year before the market dropped. During those days, the Prism Awards took place at Trident Technical College's main campus events' facility.
"We decided a few years ago to put it in downtown Charleston," Ford says. American Theater, he says, stands as "a great facility, a great location." Being downtown, "People like to go out after."
Association members have held "internal discussions" about finding a new location, Ford says, noting that the only drawback with the current locale would be its limited capacity. "It's hard to leave that location. The history is there; the décor is cool," he says.
"We want to keep it somewhere vibrant," he says, noting any move likely would be elsewhere downtown.
"It's a fun event, all about having a good time," Ford says.
The Prism Awards showcase companies and professionals in the homebuilding industry for such expertise as best TV commercial, website design, newspaper ad, magazine ad, brochure, direct mail and advertising campaign; best model home and retail showroom; best pool-outdoor space projects; best remodeling projects in price categories from $150,000 to more than $500,000; and best single family homes in categories from $150,000 to $5 million.
Another honor, the Million Dollar Circle, recognizes the top 34 real estate agents by sales.
For 2013, Lennar and Phillip W. Smith General Contractor Inc. tied for the lead in general categories with four awards apiece; and Carolina One New Homes (in two cases with Mungo Homes) placed first in the Million Dollar Circle with seven agents.
Overall winners consisted of Priester's Custom Contracting LLC and Saltwater Homes for Excellence in Customer Service, Lori Brant of Carolina One New Homes as 2013 Salesperson of the Year, Jason Byham with Lennar as Sales Manager of the Year, Jennifer Pencarinha of Ryland Homes as Marketing Manager of the Year and Kaz Ansari of J. Meyer Homes/Carolina Elite Real Estate as Mr. Congeniality.
Reach Jim Parker at 937-5542 or email@example.com.
•Best Brochure for a Community: FrontDoor Communities — Tributary Brochure
•Best Use of Technology, Builder Website Design: Hunter Quinn Homes, LLC — www.hunterquinnhomes.com
•Best Use of Technology, Community Website Design: FrontDoor Communities — www.TributarySC.com
•Best Use of Technology, Social Media: Pulte Homes
•Best Overall Use of Technology: Lennar — myLennar iPad App
•Best Direct Mail Piece: David Weekley Homes — Carolina Park Direct Mail Program
•Best Newspaper Ad: Lennar — Everything's Included
•Best Magazine Ad: David Weekley Homes — Discover the Benefits of a New Home
•Best Radio Commercial: Lennar — Chocolate Tour
•Best TV Commercial: Mungo Homes — Mungo Homes, America's Best Builder
•Best Advertising Campaign: Del Webb — Del Webb - Explore Del Webb
•Best Sales & Information Center: Pulte Homes — The Home Gallery at Scotts Creek
•Best Model Home: Pulte Homes — The Avalon Model at Scotts Creek
•Best Retail Showroom-Builder: Ryland Homes — Ryland Homes MyStyle Design Center
•Best Retail Showroom-Associate:Carolina Lanterns and Lighting — Lighting Lab
•Remodeling Project, $150,000 and Under: Priester's Custom Contracting LLC — The Beldner Remodel
•Remodeling Project, $150,000 to $300,000: Southeastern Custom Homes — 7028 Schooner Street
•Remodeling Project, $300,000 to $500,000: Phillip W. Smith General Contractor Inc. — Anderson Residence
•Remodeling Project, $500,000 and Over: Canton Construction Company Inc. — 323 Palm Warbler Renovation
•Best Product Pool/Outdoor Living Spaces: Aqua Blue Pools — Sullivan's Island Residence
•Best New Community, New Leaf Builders — Fox Hollow "A Low Impact Development and Certified Wildlife Habitat"
•Best Product Single Family Homes, $150,000 to $200,000: Brock Built Homes — The Palmetto
•Best Product Single Family Homes, $200,000 to $300,000: Lennar — The Daniel
•Best Product Single Family Homes, $300,000 to $400,000: Saltwater Homes — Taylor Residence
•Best Product Single Family Homes, $400,000 to $500,000: Saltwater Homes — Rhodes Residence
•Best Product Single Family Homes, $500,000 to $700,000: Priester's Custom Contracting LLC — The Payne Residence
•Best Product Single Family Homes, $700,000 to $1,000,000: Crosby Creations Drafting & Design Svcs LLC — Pye Residence
•Best Product Single Family Homes, $700,000 to $1,000,000: JacksonBuilt Custom Homes — Smythe Street
•Best Product Single Family Homes, $1,000,000 to $1,500,000: Structures Building Company — Turner Residence
•Best Product Single Family Homes, $1,500,000 to $2,000,000: Phillip W. Smith General Contractor Inc. — Allston-Swinnerton Residence
•Best Product Single Family Homes, $3,000,000 to $4,000,000: Phillip W. Smith General Contractor Inc. — Smith Residence
•Best Product Single Family Homes: $4,000,000 to $5,000,000: Phillip W. Smith General Contractor,Inc. — White Residence
•Priester's Custom Contracting LLC
•Saltwater Homes
•Lennar, Christy Borriello
•David Weekley Homes, Demetrial Coleman
•Dan Ryan Builders, Linda Morse
•Lennar, Randy Floyd
•Lennar, Suzanne Ledford
•AgentOwned Realty, Lane Baker
•Centex Homes, Claire Finley
•J. Meyer Homes/Carolina Elite Real Estate, Kaz Ansari
•David Weekley Homes, Kelly Gillette
•Centex Homes, Sandy Hall
•David Weekley Homes, Lori Schultz
•Dan Ryan Builders, Jenny Sain
•Pulte Homes, Darrell Connelly
•Lennar, Laura Curley
•Lennar, Pamela Woods
•Pulte Homes, Marta Perez
•Lennar, Walker Gregory
•Centex Homes, Allison Conn
•Carolina One New Homes, Chris Eller
•Carolina One New Homes, Jason Ray
•Del Webb, Britt Freeman
•Pulte Homes, Gini Rice
•Centex Homes, Gina Garrard
•Centex Homes, Paul Coloneri
•Mungo Homes/Carolina One New Homes, Lori Brant
•Carolina One New Homes, Shane Ford
•Pulte Homes, Guy Ackerman
•Carolina One New Homes, Julia Cunningham
•Del Webb, Yvette Grist
•Carolina One New Homes, Richard Harris
•Centex Homes, Carroll Loewer
•Pulte Homes, Dana Thompson
•David Weekley Homes, Charlene Johnson
•Mungo Homes/Carolina One New Homes, Neil Shepard
•2013 Salesperson of the Year: Lori Brant — Carolina One New Homes
•2013 Sales Manager of the Year: Jason Byham — Lennar
•2013 Marketing Manager of the Year: Jennifer Pencarinha — Ryland Homes
•2013 Mr. Congeniality: Kaz Ansari — J. Meyer Homes/ Carolina Elite Real Estate
Warren Peper of The Post and Courier was a guest speaker at one of the Prism Awards banquets (Provided).×
Dozens of awards are handed out each year (Provided).×
The Charleston Home Builders Association has sponsored the awards for the past 25 years (Provided).×
The Prism Awards honor visionary efforts in marketing, sales and promotions among home builders, agents and suppliers (Provided).×

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I have created a new youtube channel – and have uploaded some videos there already! Bookmark & Subscribe here:
More stuff is coming over the next weeks & months :-)
I have created a new youtube channel – and have uploaded some videos there already! Bookmark & Subscribe here:
More stuff is coming over the next weeks & months :-)
Here's an updated presentation I first delivered at Hotsos Symposium 2015.
It's about lots of concurrent PX direct path insert ant CTAS statements that, when clashing with another bug/problem, caused various gc buffer busy waits and enq: TX – allocate ITL entry contention. This got amplified thanks to running this concurrent workload on 4 RAC nodes:
When reviewing these slides, I see there's quite a lot that needs to be said in addition to what's on slides, so this might just mean a (Powerpoint) hacking session some day!
Here's my latest OOW presentation – SQL Monitoring in Oracle Database 12c:
You can download all my scripts from http://blog.tanelpoder.com/files/
Here are the slides of my yesterday's OakTableWorld presentation. They also include a few hints about what our hot new venture Gluent is doing (although bigger annoucements come later this year).
Also, if you are at Oracle OpenWorld right now, my other presentation about SQL Monitoring in 12c is tomorrow at 3pm in Moscone South 103. See you there!
Oracle OpenWorld is just around the corner – I will have one presentation at OOW this year and another at the independent OTW event:
Connecting Oracle with Hadoop
Real-Time SQL Monitoring in Oracle Database 12c
I plan to hang out at the OTW venue on Monday and Tuesday, so see you there!
It took a while (1.5 years since my last class – I've been busy!), but I am ready with my Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting training (version 2.5) that has plenty of updates, including some more modern DB kernel tracing & ASH stuff and of course Oracle 12c topics!
The online training will take place on 16-20 November & 14-18 December 2015 (Part 1 and Part 2).
The latest TOC is below:
Seminar registration details:
A notable improvement of AOT v2.5: now attendees will get downloadable video recordings after the sessions for personal use! So, no crappy streaming with 14-day expiry date, you can download the video MP4 files straight to your computer or tablet and keep for your use forever!
I won't be doing any other classes this year, but there will be some more (pleasant) surprises coming next year ;-)
See you soon!
In the previous article I explained that the main requirement for high-speed in-memory data scanning is column-oriented storage format for in-memory data. SIMD instruction processing is just icing on the cake. Let's dig deeper. This is a long post, you've been warned.
I will cover full test results in the next article in this series. First, let's look into the test setup, environment and what tools I used for peeking inside CPU hardware.
I was running the tests on a relatively old machine with 2 CPU sockets, with 6-core CPUs in each socket (2s12c24t):
$ egrep "MHz|^model name" /proc/cpuinfo | sort | uniq -c 24 cpu MHz : 2926.171 24 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz
The CPUs support SSE4.2 SIMD extensions (but not the newer AVX stuff):
$ grep ^flags /proc/cpuinfo | egrep "avx|sse|popcnt" | sed 's/ /\n/g' | egrep "avx|sse|popcnt" | sort | uniq popcnt sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Even though the /proc/cpuinfo above shows the CPU clock frequency as 2.93GHz, these CPUs have Intel Turboboost feature that allows some cores run at up to 3.33GHz frequency when not all cores are fully busy and the CPUs aren't too hot.
Indeed, the turbostat command below shows that the CPU core executing my Oracle process was running at 3.19GHz frequency:
# turbostat -p sleep 1
pk cor CPU %c0 GHz TSC SMI %c1 %c3 %c6 CTMP %pc3 %pc6
6.43 3.02 2.93 0 93.57 0.00 0.00 59 0.00 0.00
0 0 0 4.49 3.19 2.93 0 95.51 0.00 0.00 46 0.00 0.00
0 1 1 10.05 3.19 2.93 0 89.95 0.00 0.00 50
0 2 2 2.48 3.19 2.93 0 97.52 0.00 0.00 45
0 8 3 2.05 3.19 2.93 0 97.95 0.00 0.00 44
0 9 4 0.50 3.20 2.93 0 99.50 0.00 0.00 50
0 10 5 100.00 3.19 2.93 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 59
1 0 6 6.25 2.23 2.93 0 93.75 0.00 0.00 44 0.00 0.00
1 1 7 3.93 2.04 2.93 0 96.07 0.00 0.00 43
1 2 8 0.82 2.15 2.93 0 99.18 0.00 0.00 44
1 8 9 0.41 2.48 2.93 0 99.59 0.00 0.00 41
1 9 10 0.99 2.35 2.93 0 99.01 0.00 0.00 43
1 10 11 0.76 2.36 2.93 0 99.24 0.00 0.00 44
I will come back to this CPU frequency turbo-boosting later when explaining some performance metrics.
I ran the experiments in Oct/Nov 2014, so used a relatively early Oracle 220.127.116.11.1 version with a bundle patch (19189240) for in-memory stuff.
The test was deliberately very simple as I was researching raw in-memory scanning and filtering speed and was not looking into join/aggregation performance. I was running the query below with different hints and parameters to change access path options:
SELECT COUNT(cust_valid) FROM customers_nopart c WHERE cust_id > 0
Gluent – where I'm a cofounder & CEO – is hiring awesome developers and (big data) infrastructure specialists in US and UK!
We are still in stealth mode, so won't be detailing publicly what exactly we are doing ;-)
However, it is evident that the modern data platforms (for example Hadoop) with their scalability, affordability-at-scale and freedom to use many different processing engines on open data formats are turning enterprise IT upside down.
This shift has already been going on for years in large internet & e-commerce companies and small startups, but now the shockwave is arriving to all traditional enterprises too. And every single one of them must accept it, in order to stay afloat and win in the new world.
Do you want to be part of the new world?
RAM is the new disk, at least in the In-Memory computing world.
No, I am not talking about Flash here, but Random Access Memory – RAM as in SDRAM. I'm by far not the first one to say it. Jim Gray wrote this in 2006: "Tape is dead, disk is tape, flash is disk, RAM locality is king" (presentation)
Also, I'm not going to talk about how RAM is faster than disk (everybody knows that), but in fact how RAM is the slow component of an in-memory processing engine.
I will use Oracle's In-Memory column store and the hardware performance counters in modern CPUs for drilling down into the low-level hardware performance metrics about CPU efficiency and memory access.
But let's first get started by looking a few years into past into the old-school disk IO and index based SQL performance bottlenecks :)
Here's the video of E4 keynote we delivered together with Kerry Osborne a few weeks ago.
It explains what we see is coming, at a high level, from long time Oracle database professionals' viewpoint and using database terminology (as the E4 audience is all Oracle users like us).
However, this change is not really about Oracle database world, it's about a much wider shift in enterprise computing: modern Hadoop data lakes and clouds are here to stay. They are already taking over many workloads traditionally executed on in-house RDBMS systems on SAN storage arrays – especially all kinds of reporting and analytics. Oracle is just one of the many vendors affected by all this and they've also jumped onto the Hadoop bandwagon.
However, it would be naive to to think that Hadoop would somehow replace all your transactional or ERP systems or existing application code with thousands of complex SQL reports. Many of the traditional systems aren't going away any time soon.
But the hybrid world is coming. It's been a very good idea for Oracle DBAs to additionally learn Linux over the last 5-10 years, now is pretty much the right time to start learning Hadoop too. More about this in a future article ;-)
Check out the keynote video here:
Enjoy :-)
Update 1: There's a recently published good WSJ article which pretty much echoes how we see things happening in the hybrid world.
Update 2: On a more technical note, here's an article about a Barclays use case in Cloudera blog that illustrates what I meant by pushing your complex (and custom) logic down into Hadoop stack with Spark as opposed to using some separate application server system that pulls in datasets for further processing via SQL.


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TRUCKEE, Calif. — The High Fives Non-Profit Foundation would like to thank the 116 golfers who participated in the 2nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament presented by SpineNevada at the Golf Club at Gray's Crossing, as well as the tremendous support from sponsors.Great weather and a beautiful course at the Golf Club at Gray's Crossing set the stage. Northwestern Mutual's sponsorship of the Break the Glass Contest was a spectacle captured on GoPro HD Hero 2 cameras. The field of competitors then enjoyed a round filled with laughs and long drives in the scramble format play. Also, on hole #12, BigTruck Headwear set up shop with the first ever drive-in, drive out on site custom hat stitching booth. The event concluded with the awards ceremony, beats from DJ One Truest, a catered dinner from Full Belly Deli, and spirits from DBI/Miller/Coors and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co."To once again host the Annual High Fives Charity Golf Tournament marked an excellent kick-off to the 2012 season at the Golf Club at Gray's Crossing. The creative and entertaining contests allowed for great times to be had by all. Thanks to the efforts of the High Fives Foundation, the event was bigger and better and we look forward to seeing everyone join us next year for the 3rd Annual Charity Golf Tournament!" said Travis Alley, Golf Club at Gray's Crossing Club Pro.Overall tournament winners were: First place, Team Roll, score, 54 (-18); second place, Tahoe Mountain Club, score, 55 (-17); third place, Team Silva, score, 59 (-13).Contest winners were Long Drive Men andamp; Women's, Wes Hollabaugh and Shannon Carey; Closest to the Pin Men andamp; Women's, Andre Gust (0.8") and Mary Roll (18 ft.); Longest Drive (with a baseball bat) Men andamp; Women's, Tyler Mearce and Shannon Carey; and Break the Glass, Ian Winters.For information visit www.golfintahoe.com and www.highfivesfoundation.org.
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Discover how to make fondant animals for cakes and treats sure to put a smile on any guest's face. You'll learn to make five basic shapes to start building cute and fun fondant animal cake toppers. Sharon's class is a great place to begin your foray into fondant modeling or elevate your existing cake-topper construction skills. In just minutes you'll create lovely ladybugs and beautiful bees before moving onto delightful ducks and proportional penguins. Sharon's no-nonsense approach will equip you with time-saving tips and gravity-defying construction techniques as you mold movement into your fondant creatures. Your fondant pig comes alive playing in a puddle, and a cute cow kicks up the celebration with a floating fondant-covered balloon. Sharon completes the class with a step-by-step guide for making her signature lovebirds with detailed beaks, bellies and wings.
Meet your instructor, Sharon Wee, and learn to form balls, ovals, eggs, teardrops and sausages, the foundations for all of your fondant animals
Make an adorable ladybug, bee, duck and penguin with Sharon increasing the level of difficulty just a bit with each animal.
Turn your newly formed talents toward making a bunny holding a carrot or a bear perched on its back and holding a flower as you continue on your fondant animal journey.
Expand your menagerie and add movement to your animals as you learn to create a delightful pig playing in a mud puddle.
Learn how to defy gravity as you create a cow holding a floating ballon using all of the skills and techniques you've learned so far.
Sharon shares her exclusive design for her charming lovebirds. Learn how to carve polystyrene foam into the 3-D shape you want based off of a two-dimensional drawing.
Sharon demonstrates how to attach your lovebirds to the cake, cover them with fondant and add wings, bellies, beaks and other finishing details.
"Although I've done some figurines before taking this class, I still picked up some helpful tips. I think this is an especially great class if you have never done any type of figurines before. It's pretty straight forward and simple to follow.
Thank you for taking the time to teach your craft!"
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A full ounce of cum excerting from the penis, the act of. It must land in a females ass or a male ass for it to be considered "shplabing" or to be "shplabe".
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Top photo, Das Tautalatasi (21) and the De La Salle High football team celebrated its 21st straight North Coast Section title after beating James Logan 52-7 in the Division I championship Dec. 1 at Dublin High. Quarterback Chris Williams threw four touchdown passes in the pouring rain. Two of them were to senior Andrew Buckley, who caught six passes for 131 yards and also had one of defense's four interceptions on the night. The Spartans' season continues with the Northern California regional Open Division game Dec. 8 against Folsom (14-0) at Sacramento State. Game time is 7:30 p.m. A win would put the Spartans (13-0) back in the Open Division state bowl game for the fourth straight year. Bottom photo, Clayton Valley Charter's Curtis Grant (3) and Jesse Medrano (42) celebrate a touchdown against Rancho Cotate-Rohnert Park in the Eagles' North Coast Section Division II championship victory Nov. 30 at Diablo Valley College. Clayton Valley took advantage of five Rancho Cotate turnovers to win the first section title in school history 35-7. And the party isn't over yet. Clayton Valley was selected to compete in the new Northern California regional Division II title game against Oakdale. A win in that contest would put the Eagles in a state bowl game.
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NHL 12 PS3 League
Posted 25 January 2012 - 11:15 PM
I'm in the process of creating a NHL 12 league for PS3. The exact format is still up in the air but we're thinking 16-20 members with a set season schedule followed by the playoffs. All games will be played online against other users and there will probably be 3-5 games per week. If you're interested in joining, please complete the following:
1. The league will be hosted on tradition sports online (http://forums.tradit...ortsonline.com/). This site is awesome for sports video games and they host many different leagues/dynasties (PS3 and XBOX) for NCAA, Madden, FIFA, NBA2K, MLB the Show, etc.
2. You'll need to register on the site (http://forums.tradit...tart-here.1162/). Say that you're interested in the NHL 12 PS3 league. They take everyone.
3. Post in this thread: http://forums.tradit...s3-league.61374 so that we have an accurate count of how many people there are going to be.
4. More info will be posted over there.
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Is this league some what like GM mode but with all real teams online? Where you can make trades, set your rosters etc? Top teams make playoffs, bottom ones dont? Just would like some more info on the setup. Thanks
I'm not quite sure if we will be doing an actual GM mode yet or not. I think it will just be online games vs other members of the league. We'll keep track of the stats/standings/etc and then conduct a playoff based off of the results. As for rosters, probably just whatever they are after the updates.
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between being in college and work i dont get to play nhl as much as id like to but im sure id fit in like 5 games a week or so :]
Awesome, instructions are in the first post.
A head's up: it's quite a process to join the site and it takes a little while.
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Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948
Tanya Reinhart
InIsrael/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel's new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United States–brokered accords and talks at Camp David, Oslo, and Taba, Reinhart explores the fundamental power imbalances between the negotiating parties and identifies Israel's strategy of creating facts on the ground to define and complicate the terms of any future settlement.
In this indispensable primer, Reinhart's searing insight illuminates the current conflict and suggests a path toward change.
"[an] excellent book" —Yitzhak Laor, Haaretz (Israel) "Reinhart accomplishes the formidable task of adding insight to a subject that is written about endlessly." —The Nation
"Tanya Reinhart's Israel/Palestine is the most devastating critique now available of Israel's policy toward the Palestinian people. Written with urgency and an unflinching clarity, it deserves to be read by every American who, unknowingly perhaps, has been subsidizing Israel's 35-yea-old military occupation. Today Palestinians face either ethnic cleansing or apartheid. Reinhart compellingly shows why and how both must be opposed." —Edward W. Said"Tanya Reinhart's informative and chilling analysis could hardly be more timely. It should be read and considered with care, and taken very seriously." —Noam Chomsky"Tanya Reinhart is an Israeli scholar who is known for her works in linguistics, but also as the author of a biweekly column in the daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot. Her book demonstrates the hoax suffered by the Palestinians, sometimes with the complicity of their own Authority. It also shows that, behind the semantic and cartographic contortions, the main objective of the Israeli governments has been to give up as little as possible and to accept but a truncated Palestinian autonomy. According to her, the solution is simple: 'In order to initiate true negotiations, Israel has to withdraw unilaterally' from the occupied Palestinian territories." —Le Monde
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Vegas tends to do wierd things on Friday night games.
BOL Bruh..!
i like all but not sure for Houston
Memphis win the game not cover point 7 to much at playoff
Houston and boston 96% on public think both team win streak 2 game and will win tonight again because they play at home
I say sorry boston and Houston both lose tonight
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Does anyone else agree that a Hellsing movie would be amazingly awesome?
what like a live action one? it might be cool but i think i'd prefer animated films. still waiting for 5 & 6 to be released stateside. "When the heavens do not bring forth justice, man must bring it upon himself to do so. That is the meaning of Jinchuu." -Enishi Yukishiro.
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SALEM - St. Paul School kindergarten students learned about Inuits living off the land in Alaska by putting their own resourcefulness to work - they gathered plastic jugs their teacher then used to build an igloo.
Not a model of an igloo, but a life-size, big enough to hold a kindergarten class-size igloo that has become part of their classroom.
"They've found all kinds of uses for it," teacher Clara Tolson said.
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Students in Clara Tolson's kindergarten class at St. Paul School in Salem gather around their classroom igloo, constructed out of plastic gallon jugs and half-gallon jugs they gathered for a winter wonderland project. Front from left are Nathan Yakubek, Maggie Hall, Jillian Pieren, Annabella Cusick and Andrew Beck; and back from left Evan VanHorn, Patricia Matias-Mateo and teacher Clara Tolson. (Salem News photo by Mary Ann Greier)
Tolson can stand up inside the igloo constructed out of 557 gallon jugs and a handful of half-gallon jugs. The outside is decorated with fake snow and plastic snowflakes, while the inside features a rug and a stuffed wolf which appears to be howling.
The students had help gathering the plastic jugs, from fellow students and teachers at the school, the weekly bingo at the school and parishioners at St. Paul Church.
The lids to the jugs face the inside of the igloo, providing a colorful backdrop. The jugs came from milk, juice, water, sweet tea and anything else packaged in a plastic jug.
Tolson found a smaller version of the igloo project online, but they gathered way more jugs than they expected. Each day they colored in a goal chart shaped like a gallon jug to show how close they were to their
goal and when it went over, they created another chart shaped like a glass of milk and another shaped like a cookie.
"I was amazed we could get that many that quick," she said, noting they only needed three weeks.
The project started with a winter wonderland theme, with the students learning about the Eskimos, called Inuits, and how snow and ice were the only resources they had for building. Tolson joined the jugs together using a hot glue gun, starting by forming them in a large circle on a piece of cardboard and adding to it day by day until they reached the top and put the final piece in place.
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If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy—the author who made "hackers" a household word—comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels"—nerds and visionaries turned freedom fighters—teamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure our privacy on the Internet. Levy's history of one of the most controversial and important topics of the digital age reads like the best futuristic fiction.
"Gripping and illuminating." —The Wall Street Journal
"A great David-and-Goliath story—humble hackers hoodwink sinister spooks." —Time
Table of Contents
The Loner
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Visual Studio Toolbox: JScript Editor Extensions
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Damian Edwards of the ASP.NET product team joins us this week and shows off the JScript Editor Extensions. These four extensions add support for brace matching, the <para> tag, outlining, and highlighting instances of a word. Damian will demonstrate how these enable you to more quickly and easily write JScript. After the demos, we talk a bit about what it took to write these extensions and then close with a brief chat about what we can expect in Visual Studio vNext.
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Can Microsoft stop calling JavaScript JScript already. People ask me what JScript is when I post about your "JScript Editor Improvements"
They cannot (well, at least not without licensing the trademark "JavaScript" from Oracle); JScript is the name of their implementation of the ECMAScript standard.
Are you sure that the trademark JavaScript belongs to Oracle? How are Mozilla and Google using it then? What is more this is an editor extension. Surely they can create editor extensions for a language which name is a trademark registered by Oracle.
I am using JSEnhancements(http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/0696ad60-1c68-4b2a-9646-4b5f4f8f2e06). It works in both js and css. It doesn't support highlight current word or <para>, but I think it's better.
DiryBoy: I haven't used either so I'm curious if you could give us a few examples of why you think JSEnhancements is better?
JavaScript does not have anything to do with Java, besides a similar name.
Oracle does not have any control over JavaScript.
Moondevil, perhaps not control, but Oracle owns the trademark: JavaScript (tm)
Another thing that would be interesting is "go to definition" for the objects and methods in java script.
I'm not sure if that's even possible to implement, because of how js works. Let's say you have 3 files with methods:
doSomething() { }
doSomething() { }
main.js() {
then you can include in web page either a.js, or b.js. So while editing main.js VS wouldn't know which file to reference
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Taken from the word "faggot."
A female homosexual/lesbian.
A female homosexual/lesbian.
You're a fucking fagette.
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Have you seen the Fagette video? It's great!
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A lesbian or a woman that desplays either a masculine or feminine attidudes, mannerisms, and dress depending on their whim at the moment
At the Lesbian Club, Cheri was such a fagette that she was recieving looks of interest from both the Butch and Femme crowd.
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A "fagette" is a gay man's female friend who, instead of lusting after him as a Fag Hag would, encourages him and is usually just as slutty and wild as he is. a fag hag goes with you to the club and when you want to go home with a hot trick, she says, "how could you just abandon me?" A fagette says,"Work your shit, baby". A fag hag says," do you like my purse? I got it at TJ Max on sale." A fagette says, "It was a gift from the designer." A fag hag says, "Why are you making out with that guy? Why aren't you paying attention to me?" A fagette says, "Baby, hold my purse while I go fuck that security guard."
Jonny brought his "fagette" entourage with him to the bar tonight. He's looking to score.
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Hey, look at that fagette with the baguette!
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Observations on British and American English
by an American linguist in the UK
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
--George Bernard Shaw
BrE = British English
AmE = American English
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
rutabaga update!
Previously, I'd wondered why the most English of English condiments, Branston Pickle, included the American word rutabaga on their ingredients list. I e-mailed Customer Service at Premier Foods with this question, suggesting that they might be trying to hide the fact that Branston Pickle includes swede (or Swedish turnip--BrE for rutabaga). They have responded--yes, indeed that's the reason. Swede is not a popular vegetable. They have, however, pointed out that swedes are also called rutabaga in French, and that might be the more immediate source of the word in the ingredients list, rather than American English.
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- bbrug said...
Love your blog!
Not rutabaga-related, but I don't see an e-mail link: What do you make of the Telegraph article " You talkin' to me?"?
- 14 June, 2006 20:27
- lynneguist said...
Really interesting (and long!) article--according to the site I went to it was posted four days after today. (?) Perhaps it's to appear in the next Sunday magazine.
Too much to reply to here--I'll try to touch on it later in a proper post. I generally thought its points were valid.
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Several viewers contacted News 8 Monday about a fake text message claiming to come from a bank.
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On a late Sunday morning in the middle of April 1861, the Isabel, a paddle steamer owned by Mordecai & Co., left its berth in Charleston Harbor for a brief voyage that heralded America's worst cataclysm. Accustomed to running the lucrative mail route to Havana, the ship had been pressed into service. Its destination was Fort Sumter, then held by a battered garrison of Union soldiers.
After their ceremonial surrender, the Isabel carried Maj. Robert Anderson and his men out to the waiting Federal fleet. The vessel, named perhaps for Moses Cohen Mordecai's wife, Isabel Rebecca Lyons, would later do duty as a blockade runner.
For those watching from Charleston, the moment must have been one of excitement and foreboding. Even if all present understood that the bombardment and surrender of the fort foretold war, few if any likely anticipated the devastating and crippling struggle that was to follow.
One hundred and fifty years after the Isabel's cameo appearance at the start of a great American tragedy, the U.S. will begin a five-year period of commemorating the causes, course and consequences of the Civil War. Charleston, a hub of the slave trade and the Secession movement, and the very site where the conflict began, will take center stage this spring.
Thanks to a grant to the College of Charleston's Jewish Studies Program from the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, the college's new Center for Southern Jewish Culture has organized a range of public events designed to analyze the impact and legacy of the war on Jews and Jewish life in the North and South.
At least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies, while most fought alongside Christian comrades. Many more American Jews were affected on the homefront. Yet even as they stood "shoulder to shoulder" on the front lines and on the home front, Jews encountered unique challenges.
The Jewish Studies Program will host a series of public lectures through April that will re-examine the course and consequences of the war for Jews. Today's talk, by author Eli Evans, is titled "Judah P. Benjamin: Jewish Confederate."
The Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project is a collaboration of the Legacy Heritage Fund and the Association for Jewish Studies. The Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston was picked as one of five national sites for this new grant initiative intended to encourage innovative public programming.
On May 25-26, the Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston and the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina will co-host a public conference on the theme of "Jews, Slavery and the Civil War." There will be sessions on Jewish abolitionists, Jewish life on the home front, anti-Semitism during the war, Jewish soldiering in the armies of the North and South, and the Jewish role during Reconstruction.
Jonathan Sarna of Brandeis University, who soon will publish a new book on President Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews, will deliver the keynote lecture in the historic sanctuary of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim.
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I remembered being suprised that there was a manga version of the nightmare before christmas. It turned out to be very good and the art was the same too. ^__^
I haven't seen that one, but my kids are reading the Kingdom Hearts manga. 92% of the teenage population would be dead if Ambercrombie and Fitch or Hollister said it was uncool to breathe.
Not yet but i vaguely remember one of my fellow miscreants mentioning something about it...The path to conquest leaves nothing else to be desired!!!!
damn! i never knew there was one. i have however read the kingdom hearts manga, as well the kingdom hearst chain of memories and kingdom hearts 2 manga's as well. "I am Darkness, BWA HA HA HA HA!"
i didn't even realize it had one. "When the heavens do not bring forth justice, man must bring it upon himself to do so. That is the meaning of Jinchuu." -Enishi Yukishiro.
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Hollidaysburg hasn't had that many Northwest Regional Class AAA Tournament champions in its wrestling history, but the Golden Tigers could make some history this weekend.
The last Hollidaysburg wrestler to win a title was Brian Shaw, who claimed titles in 2005 and 2006 at 171 pounds. And the Tigers haven't had two of their guys win in the same year since Larry Pleshko and Dan Fetzer won at 126 and 138, respectively, in 1976.
But as I scanned 106 and 285 in making my regional picks, it looks like Damian Huff and Matt Barton have good shots to win if they continue to wrestle as well as they did in the District 6 Tournament. They'll face big challenges even before they get to the finals, but it says here they should win.
Huff, who placed third last year, will get his first stiff test in the semifinals against DuBois freshman Shae Bloom. Huff dropped an overtime tiebreaker decision to Bloom in the dual meet, but it was Huff's first bout down to the weight, and he's had time to get used to 106, so I'm giving the edge to the Tiger.
Once he's past Bloom, Huff will likely face General McLane's once-beaten Joe Wheeling in the finals. Wheeling was stopped in last year's consolation semis in overtime by Bald Eagle Area's Travis Giedroc, whom Huff beat in OT to reach the state tournament.
Barton's first test will come in his first bout as he'll likely face McDowell's Scot Augustine, who beat the Golden Tiger, 1-0, in the consolation finals last season. If Barton wrestles like he did against Bellefonte's Garrett Poorman in the district finals, I think'll find a way to avenge last year's loss.
Barton then would probably get Central Tech's Andrew Welton, the returning 220-pound runner-up, in the semifinals. A win there probably sets him up for a rematch with Poorman. I'm not counting out Altoona's Austin Rosenberry in Poorman's bracket. Rosenberry took Barton to the tiebreaker in the semifinals last week before falling.
It will be a tough road for Barton, but I think he can do it.
I also think Altoona's T.J. Brandt can repeat as a regional champion. The best shot at stopping Brandt's search and destroy mission through the postseason appears to be McDowell's Shawn Spearman, who has seven losses, but a few of those were injury defaults during a tournament. Brandt's injured ankle didn't seem to affect him as he won his fourth district title, so I'm picking him again.
His practice partner, D.J. Hollingshead, should reach the 132-pound finals, but there he'll likely find Clearfield's Christian Stone, who beat him, 6-2, in the consolation semifinals of the rugged 120-pound class last year. Hollingshead is capable of winning, but I'm giving the edge to the more experienced Stone.
Three others area wrestlers - Altoona's Markief Knode (160) and Mante Barnes (195) and Philipsburg-Osceola's Nick Gray (220) - have outside shots at making the finals, but, they have better shots at making Hershey in the consolations.
The team race will be fierce, with General McLane, McDowell, DuBois and Mifflin County battling it out, but McLane will likely pull out a team title.
Should be an interesting regional, and the Altoona Fieldhouse should be filled after a lackluster district tournament. By the way, thanks from press row to the Altoona School District for the wireless internet, which will be in use for the third week in a row.
I'll be in Johnstown for the Southwest Regional, but I'll be following the results at the Fieldhouse. Here's the rest of my picks:
106 POUNDS: Finalists: Damian Huff, Hollidaysburg vs. Joe Wheeling, General McLane. Champion: Huff. Comment: Bellefonte's Leathers, BEA's Bainey and Williamsport's Cooley could stop Wheeling on his march.
113 POUNDS: Finalists: Jake Gromacki, Cathedral Prep vs. Hayden Hidlay, Mifflin County. Champion: Hidlay. Comment: I lost count of how many people told me during districts I totally screwed up in not picking Hidlay to win. Better late than never right?
120 POUNDS: Finalists: Joel Bowers, Punxsutawney vs. Trevor Corl, Bellefonte. Champion: Bowers. Comment: Mifflin County's Underhill could pull off upset of Bowers in quarterfinals.
126 POUNDS: Finalists: D.J. Fehlman, Warren vs. Kaleb Young, Punxsutawney. Champion: Fehlman. Comment: Tough first-round matchup between Young and Central Mountain's Hanley.
132 POUNDS: Finalists: D.J. Hollingshead, Altoona vs. Christian Stone, Clearfield. Champion: Stone. Comment: If this is right, McDowell's Gibson is going to hate Altoona wrestlers.
138 POUNDS: Finalists: T.J. Brandt, Altoona vs. Shawn Spearman, McDowell. Champion: Brandt. Comment: Look out for the City League's Disilvio on Spearman's side. He was a regional runner-up last year.
145 POUNDS: Finalists: Cody Nolan, McDowell vs. Nolan Barger, Clearfield. Champion: Barger. Comment: McDowell's Nolan will face key battle in semis against Mifflin County's Wilson.
152 POUNDS: Finalists: Mike Sutton, General McLane vs. Dan Krysiak, Cathedral Prep. Champion: Sutton. Comment: I was tempted to pick Central Mountain's Reese to make it out of Krysiak's side.
160 POUNDS: Finalists: Ehrin Lee, Titusville vs. Tyree Spearman, McDowell. Champion: Spearman. Comment: Lee beat Central Mountain's Caprio earlier in the season. They'll meet in quarters.
170 POUNDS: Finalists: Nick Shawley, Bellefonte vs. Tom Sleigh, DuBois. Champion: Shawley. Comment: Sleigh has two first-round matchup with Central Mountain's Stacey. P-O's Prentice could get winner.
182 POUNDS: Finalists: Jake Taylor, Bald Eagle Area vs. Blaze Buckwalter, Central Mountain. Champion: Taylor. Comment: Buckwalter beat District 10 champ Laird this season.
195 POUNDS: Finalists: Landon Hanna, DuBois vs. Aaron Varner, Bald Eagle Area. Champion: Hanna. Comment: Hanna beat Bellefonte's Shawley in last year's 195-pound finals.
220 POUNDS: Finalists: Nathan Sharkey, Bald Eagle Area vs. Cameron Porter, Central Mountain. Champion: Sharkey. Comment: P-O's Gray and Porter could wrestle in semifinals.
285 POUNDS: Finalists: Garrett Poorman, Bellefonte vs. Matt Barton, Hollidaysburg. Champion: Barton. Comment: Wonder what Barton's celebration will be like if he wins this week. Look out Mike Moore.
TEAM CHAMPION: General McLane. Comment: Team title looks like it's up for grabs between McLane, McDowell, DuBois and Mifflin County. Giving the edge to McLane.
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Monday, Ohioans should find out whether Medicaid - the state-federal health-care program - will expand as part of Obamacare. That's the day Gov. John Kasich plans to propose the next two-year state budget.
Although, under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government would cover costs of extending the reach of Medicaid for the first few years, Kasich is expected to decide whether Ohio will opt out when the budget is unveiled next week.
The federal subsidy would drop to 95 percent in 2017 and eventually fall to 90 percent a few years later. Easing the eligibility limit could add more than 500,000 clients to Medicaid - at a cost of about $550 million a year to Ohio.
If that doesn't sound like much compared to a $55 billion biennial budget, remember that's roughly the amount of state support local communities lost during the current budget.
Proponents argue adding more low-income residents to Medicaid would save at least that much money for Ohioans who pay taxes and health insurance premiums. That's because fewer people would seek care at emergency rooms. Also, health care for inmates would be covered.
Critics know projected savings aren't always realized - while new and expanded public programs tend to go on costing money (or adding to the national debt) on a continual basis.
This is why Kasich, who has a substantial business background, has to put that knowledge and experience to work sorting out the likely economic impact of expanding Medicaid in Ohio.
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Fehr said the first offer would hit 50-50 in three years (players received 57 percent of revenues in the recently expired CBA), the second would reach 50-50 by the fifth year and the third would hit 50-50 immediately, but only if owners honor all current contracts at 100 percent.
both sides have been guilty of masking offers to look better than it actually is for the other side.
It's just too bad that revenue growth will take a step back because of the lockout.. The longer it goes on, the less revenue growth we'll see in upcoming years.
that's the sad and ironic part about the lockout. the league and players are fighting for less money each day this lockout drags on for
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The Summerville girls basketball team fell to an explosive team Thursday during the Bojangles Carolina Invitational.
The tournament features 48 teams but Summerville faced a familiar foe in the first round as it lost 78-51 to Northwood Academy.
The game started out well enough for the Lady Green Wave, which took a 14-13 lead into the second period. But the Lady Chargers battled to tie the game at 18 and then closed out the period with a 16-2 run for a 34-20 halftime lead.
Summerville cut into the lead a bit, but then fell behind again as the Lady Chargers took a 53-37 advantage into the final period.
Northwood made 16 of 23 free throws in the game and hit seven three-point shots. Summerville was only 5 of 13 at the free-throw line and only managed three 3s.
As usual, Amber Campbell led the Lady Chargers. She scored 16 of her game-high 43 points at the free-throw line. Point guard Katelyn Powell chipped in 15 points for Northwood. She, Jaime Andrews and Caliyah Kappel all had a pair of three-point buckets in the game.
Summerville was led by Kwanza Murray, who scored 23 points with a variety of shots. Zuri Green and Ashley Green both finished with 12 points.
The Lady Green Waves 3s came from Rodnesha Capers, Murray and Ashley Green.
The tournament continued Friday after press time.
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Two men were wounded in downtown Buffalo early Saturday morning, although the wounds do not appear to be life-threatening, police said.
The shooting occurred just before 3 a.m. in the 100 block of Delaware Avenue, after an altercation at the Kings Court involving at least two people, police said.
The argument continued outside the Kings Court and a man pulled a gun from his vehicle and shot the other individual, grazing the victim, police said.
A security guard, attempting to break up the altercation was also grazed by gun fire.
Both were transported to Erie County Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
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Efforts to implement the upcoming prescription drug benefit under Medicare have picked up pace in recent weeks with the publication of new guidance for prescription drug plans on formulary guidance and access restrictions and the publication this week of final guidelines for the model therapeutic classification system. Taken together,
these two announcements establish important standards for the private sector drug plans that will be offering drug coverage to Medicare beneficiaries beginning in January 2006.
It is expected that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be publishing final regulations in late January or early February. This will be followed by accelerated efforts by the CMS and the states to begin identifying and enrolling beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid – the only category of Medicare
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The list, developed by the US Pharmacopoeia (USP), was required under the MMA. The MMA requires all drug plans administering the Medicare drug benefit to offer coverage of at least two medications within each therapeutic class. The MMA required CMS to contract with USP to develop the list of therapeutic classes. While the lest will not be
required, adoption of it is deemed a "safe harbor" and plans using it will be deemed approved.
NAMI remains concerned that the inadequate classification for anti-depressants could lead to Medicare beneficiaries with depression and bipolar disorder from being able to access the full range of treatment options. Specifically, the final USP classification (as did last summer's draft listings) lumps SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), SNRIs (selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) and tricyclics into a single classification. As a result, drug plans would be able to satisfy the USP list – and qualify for the safe harbor – by completely excluding all SSRIs and SNRIs. Likewise, there are remaining concerns that the USP model guidelines do not protect access to the full range of newer medications to treat schizophrenia.
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It's been a somewhat strange four months since I began this blogging lark and foisted myself upon this alternate world. I've enjoyed it mostly, I've made a twat of myself a good few times, and I haven't had a bloody CLUE what I've been doing for roughly 99% of the time. Possibly more.
I thought I would recap over the past couple of months and my blog posts that they brought, and yes, unashamedly be a bit of a blogging ho and pimp my ass out. *pushes up boobs*
I figure most things do a yearly (ahem) round-up, why can't I?
Yeah, it's totally self indulgent. Who cares?
My first post that got any attention was Knocked Up, everything I wrote before that I got a big fat tumbleweed trundle along my screen saver and very drawn out awkward silence. I can only thank Mammasaurus for somehow finding my blog and giving me a little plug that sent my viewing figures into overdrive. Knocked Up is about my life imitating art, if you can call that dodgy Seth Rogan film art. No, didn't think so. Moving on.
Next up is Sick and Sorry, two posts but are essentially one and the same, where I try to explain, not particularly well, my other half's (halves? half's?) illness.
Granny Basher is the result of me, well, erm, granny bashing.
Terrible and Terrible Part ll are two posts where it is suddenly dawning on me that this terrible two's shite isn't going away, and I affectively headbutt my keyboard a lot in desperation / frustration. Bean sits on the cat. It's all terribly dramatic.
The Line is me getting all emo in your faces and questioning how far we let mental health issues and depression go before it starts to really affect our kids.
And What Not To Say, is a well, what not to say, to someone, with da ishoos.
David Dimbleby isn't me going all fangirl on the old codger from Question Time but in fact Bean's birth story.
And finally, at number ten, is Hurt, the fallout of when you're loved ones read your blog and all that entails.
So that's my top ten.
Bloggers, what are yours*?
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Here's another one from Yahoo.com. Do my kids really need all the items listed on the Back to School supply list and do they need to be brand new? We have a school supply drawer at home. At the end of every year, I clean out book bags and dump it all in the drawer. It's about this time of year that I dump the drawer out, organize it, and check off our list any items that we already have. Recycling at its finest. And truthfully, there are some things on those lists that I believe my children just don't need for school. What are some of your ideas for alleviating the cost of back to school?
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I recycle also, Come on how many boxes of crayons do you really need,my child s look like they have NEVER been used. I understand we need to supply some things for school, but not 8 boxes of Kleenex, 1 gallon of hand sanitizer. 4 tubes of Clorox wipes.
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That's right! The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' special exhibition titled "Tiffany: Color and Light" has closed. But, did you know that many of the lamps and other decorative arts pieces are part of the permanent collections of the VMFA. Many of the lamps, and many others not part of the special exhibition, are part of the Sydney and Frances Lewis collections and are on permanent display here at VMFA in Richmond, Virginia. The sculpture garden at VMFA is currently featuring the huge ceramic works of Jun Kaneko, including a 9 1/2 foot tall bright blue face. Were you aware that the VMFA has one of the top 3 collections of Himalayan and Tibetan art? That collection was featured in a blog post here in early Spring. The VMFA collection of Indian art is ranked in the top 5. And, of course, there is the fabulous collection of Faberge. So in addition to first class permanent collections, the museum has scheduled special exhibitions into 2011. Just because Tiffany has closed – that's no reason to scratch the Virginia Museum of FIne Arts off your to-do list; there's plenty more to see and experience.
Proudly connecting both the historic Fan District and Richmond's Museum District, the VMFA has just been newly expanded and renovated. Even the architecture is a sight to see! So, while our Tiffany Glass special has expired, we invite you to book a stay at our Fan District Bed and Breakfast, called by a recent guest "the Tiffany of Inns" on TripAdvisor, enjoy southern hospitality at its finest and indulge in our hearty gourmet breakfasts. As for on-going specials, we do offer a military discount special and a discount for a two-night stay on weekdays in our posh Regency Room with its private en-suite bathroom and whirlpool tub. Start planning now!
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