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PALO ALTO, Calif. and PETAH TIKVAH, Israel, May 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- CTERA Networks (www.ctera.com) today announced that its CTERA Cloud Storage Services Platform is compatible with EMC's® ViPR™ software-defined storage platform, which CTERA will showcase next week at EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas. The integrated solution enables enterprises and service providers to deploy enterprise cloud storage services based on EMC ViPR as the software-defined storage (SDS) orchestration and control layer. This combined solution is future-proof by design and features support for leading enterprise and commodity-based NAS, block storage and next-generation object storage software.
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With a uniquely comprehensive cloud storage platform-centric approach, the CTERA Cloud Storage Services Platform transforms IT organizations worldwide into service providers by turning cost-effective storage infrastructure into a scalable, secure and simple-to-deploy suite of data services – including remote office / branch office (ROBO) file storage, endpoint backup, server backup and self-branded portal for service providers – all from a unified platform with single pane-of-glass management.
The integration of CTERA's platform further extends the value of CTERA's existing integration with EMC Atmos® technology, which is deployed in production with numerous CTERA customers, providing object continuity for existing customers. With the integrated CTERA and ViPR solution, enterprises and service providers can:
"The use of CTERA's cloud storage platform with ViPR software-defined storage creates an extensible environment that transforms both enterprise and commodity storage into meaningful cloud storage services for today's cloud-enabled business," said Liran Eshel, CEO of CTERA. "It's among the most comprehensive and flexible systems for enabling enterprise cloud storage services."
"Software-defined storage and cloud storage services are at the nexus of two of the highest growth areas in enterprise IT today" said Arthur Min, Vice President of Strategy and Operations, Advanced Software Division, EMC. "We are pleased that CTERA has joined our ISV Partner Program and completed the VIPR compatibility testing. CTERA's cloud services platform further extends the support of new next generation cloud storage use-cases with ViPR for today's enterprises and service providers."
CTERA will be exhibiting at EMC World next week and demoing its Cloud Storage Services Platform for EMC ViPR – May 5-8 at The Venetian, Las Vegas, Booth #923.
Additionally, CTERA's senior vice president of marketing, Jeff Denworth, will be the featured presenter at a joint EMC-CTERA Webinar on May 27, entitled "Next-Generation Cloud File Services: Transforming Object Storage into Enterprise Data Services" – click here to register.
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Kristiansand, the capital of the Norway's south, has approximately 77,000 inhabitants. The town celebrated its 350-year jubilee in 1991. Founded in the 17th century by King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway, the old part of the town brims with character. Its streets are strictly at right angles, called kvadraturen in Norwegian.
Take a guided walk through Posebyen,the oldest part of the city, which remained intact after a huge fire devastated much of Kristiansand in 1892. This quarter consists mainly of modest, white-painted, wooden houses built for the working class. These lovingly kept houses are very popular and in use today for residences, small businesses and shops.
Continue to Møvik to visit the Kristiansand Cannon Museum at the Vara Battery. Following the German invasion of Norway in the spring of 1940, construction of a large number of artillery installations began along the coast, including the Vara Battery. A similar installation was constructed in Denmark's Jutland and together they were meant to guard the Skagerak Ocean between the two countries and the shipping lane to Kattegat and the Baltic.
After World War II and into the 1950s, the fort played a significant role in Norwegian coastal defense. The battery is now operated as a military history museum and houses the only completely intact 38-cm gun remaining in the world. The Kruppcannon, one of the largest ever built, weighs 337 tons and boasts a range of 35 miles. The tour also includes a visit to the bunkers beneath the cannon with interesting exhibits.
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After the success of the first ever Oakley launch pool during Wakestock 2005, the engineers hit the drawing board to reconfigure the pool. In hopes of making the pool more user friendly for both wakeboard and wakeskate.
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Money managers under the microscope
Mutual funds gaining ground on hedge funds?
Hedge funds have gained a increasing share of the investment pie in recent years but the trend could could be reversing, judging by separate comments made by UBS and Deutsche Bank on Tuesday.
Timothy Bell, global head of hedge funds advisory at UBS Wealth Management, said hedge fund assets could fall further to $1.2 trillion this quarter from $1.4 trillion at the end of 2008 and $1.93 trillion at their peak in mid-2008.
At the same time, Deutsche Bank's DWS unit said it saw inflows into its Asian mutual funds in the first six weeks of 2009.
Staying positive
There seems to be an endless wave of bad news hitting the hedge fund industry at the moment — gates and suspensions, record poor performance, the Bernard Madoff scandal and so forth – but there are still one or two reasons to be positive.
According to a survey of institutional investors by alternative assets data group Preqin, conducted in January (and therefore after the alleged Madoff fraud came to light), only 8 percent said they were no longer confident about hedge funds and would reduce investments.
Great expectations
It was the outcome most commentators were expecting.
Even Roger Lawson of the UK Shareholders' Association, which represented 150,000 small investors, admitted it was "not totally unexpected".
But the defeat for hedge funds RAB Capital and SRM Global and other former shareholders claiming damages for the loss of their holdings in Northern Rock when it was nationalised last year is nevertheless a hard blow to bear.
Hope springs eternal – time to plant a hedge?
By Alexander Smith
If redemptions are getting the better of you and you thought your industry was about to disappear, you may be amazed to hear there are still those wanting to start their own hedge funds.
An email from Financial Technologies Forum LLC brings news of a new course in New York next month giving you everything you need to get going.
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Schroders today reported exceptional losses of 167 million pounds — this was largely due to 147 million of writedowns on its own investments in hedge funds, private equity, fixed income and seed capital.
Analysts at UBS noted that these four areas had total investments of 585 million pounds at September 30, meaning the group had taken a 25 percent writedown.
Light at the end of the tunnel?
There's no shortage of bad news in the financial world at the moment.
But one top hedge fund manager believes that equities could soon be heading for a very sharp rally.
Cazenove's Neil Pegrum — whose fund made 9.4 percent last year while markets were plummeting — believes UK equities could soon be enjoying a "March 2003″ rally.
Hedgies leave fancy duds at home as credit crisis crimps styleBy Svea Herbst
Ladies and Gentlemen: you may leave your ball gowns and tuxedos at home tonight.
That's the message the badly battered hedge fund industry is sending its managers, lawyers and accountants who are planning to attend Hedge Funds Care, one of the industry's most successful charity events in New York on Wednesday evening.
In the wake of the industry's 19 percent loss last year, organizers scrapped the annual black-tie dinner in favor of a cocktail party, Kathryn Conroy, the charity's executive director said.
Going global
Global macro and managed futures (CTAs) are still where it's at, it seems, when it comes to funds of hedge funds.
Nigel Davies' poll of portfolio managers shows these are the two strategies they are expecting above average returns from in the first half of 2009.
Hedge fund returns have bounced back in January after their bleak 2008.
Data from Hedge Fund Research shows they returned 0.39 percent in January, having lost 18.73 percent in 2008, although they gained 0.21 percent in December.
The start of a revival in hedge fund returns? Well, maybe, and maybe not.
One explanation is that returns are just bouncing back after losses were exacerbated by redemptions late last year.
Fewer arbs to iron out the bumps
The decline in the hedge fund industry is starting to impact some markets in which these free-wheeling vehicles once played, as Jane Baird's article "CDS price quirks abound as arbitrage withers" demonstates.
She points out that the $45 trillion credit derivatives market is now full of pricing quirks because many hedge funds, once big arbitrageurs in the sector, no longer play here.


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Syrian regime warplanes have dropped cluster bombs in sorties against rebels in the northwestern town of Maaret al-Numan, killing at least 49 people, including 23 children, the Free Syrian fighters told AFP Friday.
The Free Syrian fighters showed an AFP correspondent debris from one such cluster bomb and dozens of other bomblets that failed to explode on impact.
On Sunday, Human Rights Watch accused the Syrian air force of using Russian cluster bombs against the Free Syrian fighters and in populated areas across the strife-torn country.
In response to HRW's report, the regime army denied using cluster munitions and said it did not possess the weapon in its arsenal.
"The Syrian army does not possess this kind of bomb," the army insisted Monday. "Such reports are baseless and are part of the media war against the regime and its leader, who works with all his effort to protect the Syrian people from terrorists."
For his part and to defend the Syrian regime as usual, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov [Unlink] denounced the report and stressed that Syria does not possess such weapons.
Meanwhile, Turkey's army fired on Syria Friday after two shells launched from Syria landed in Turkish territory, Turkish state broadcaster TRT reported, adding no victims or damages have been reported.
Moreover, in an unexpected invitation, the Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, urged Friday all sides of the Syrian conflict to cease fire during the Muslim feast of "Eid al Adha" that begins Oct. 26.
In related news, a Lebanese security official said that at least 17 Lebanese were reportedly killed Friday in an ambush by the Syrian army in the Lebanese-Syrian border. He added that the Lebanese were killed when Syrian soldiers attacked their bus which was heading from Lebanon's al-Kaa to Al-Jousseh in Syria.
Earlier, Lebanese government made two official complaints against Syria over territorial violations, while the Assad regime accuses Lebanon of allowing arms and fighters to enter into Syria illegally.
The Free Syrian Army was lucky to prove that the Syrian regime is using cluster bombs against them. However, unfortunately these bombs will not urge the international community to make a serious move. Moreover, the international community will not even issue a resolution condemning Assad.
Allow me to describe Lavrov as the advocate for the Syrian regime. For sure that even if he sees the dead bodies and victims of these bombs, he will still defend the Syrian regime, saying that the bombs are not from Syria and it is impossible for the regime to use such weapons!
In another topic, it seems to us that Turkey has subsided in its enthusiasm to eliminate the Assad regime. For this, Turkey started to make diplomatic calls for a truce. We should not be surprised in the coming days if Turkey invites the Syrian regime and the opposition for discussions in Ankara. Furthermore, Turkey might also expel the Syrian opposition from its territory. Of course, in this case Assad will stop supporting the Turkish opposition, which significantly increased its attacks on the Turkish army.
After the failure of Assad to export the crisis of his country to Turkey, certainly he will succeed to transfer it to Lebanon, where Hezbollah [Unlink] has a large and strong presence. Virtually, the Lebanese government is weak and still considers itself part of the Syrian regime. For this, what happened today on the Syrian-Lebanese border was a strong message from the Syrian regime to the international community that the violence in Syria will spread in the entire region.
I expect that even if the violence spreads in Lebanon, there will be no international interference as long as the border with Israel is safe. The international community, including the United States, will act only to protect Israel; otherwise it's not of their interest if everybody else in the region goes to hell!
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Q (10/00, p.139) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...His band was as close as you'd get to a jazz dream team, and when they're good...they smoke, giving their errant master just enough space to really shine..."
Down Beat (12/00, p.94) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "...This concert finds the classic quartet playing at the breaking point of hard-bop. Everyone's on fire..."
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John Coltrane Quartet: John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones.
Archie Shepp Quartet: Archie Shepp, Bobby Hutcherson, Barre Philips, Joe Chambers.
Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.
Recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island on July 2, 1965. Includes liner notes by Nat Hentoff.
The original Impulse! LP A NEW THING AT NEWPORT did not include Shepp's "Gingerbread, Gingerbread Boy"--the full version (10:15) is included here.
Producer: Bob Thiele.
Reissue producer: Bryan Koniarz.
Recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island on July 2, 1965. Includes liner notes by Nat Hentoff.
Digitally remastered by Kevin Reeves (Universal Mastering Studios-East).
Personnel: John Coltrane (soprano & tenor saxophones); Father Norman O'Connor (spoken vocals); McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison (bass); Elvin Jones (drums).
Personnel: Archie Shepp (spoken vocals, tenor saxophone); Billy Taylor (spoken vocals); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Barre Phillips (bass); Joe Chambers (drums).
Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison (bass instrument); Elvin Jones (drum).
In 1965, a breakthrough year for John Coltrane, the great saxophonist began a fervent period of exploration--acting not only as a lightning rod for the emerging free jazz movement, but becoming something of a free jazz patron. Much as he championed the music of Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy, Coltrane now used his enormous popularity to midwife the work of firebrands such as Albert Ayler and young horn players featured on ASCENSION.
Few players benefitted from Coltrane's patronage as much as Florida native Archie Shepp. Coming of age in Philadelphia, Shepp was a veteran of numerous blues and R&B bands when he first came to prominence with Cecil Taylor. Coltrane got him his first contract with Impulse!, leading to Shepp's debut as a leader, FOUR FOR TRANE. A NEW THING AT NEWPORT documents the original Coltrane Quartet, a few months before its dissolution, and a fine edition of the Shepp Quartet.
Coltrane's set straddles stylistic periods, and the aesthetic tension is plain to hear. When Coltrane solos on the elliptical theme to "One Down One Up" and the lyrical incantations of "My Favorite Things," the band takes on a fierce, freewheeling demeanor. The saxophonist stretches his melodic lines to the breaking point, reaching out for the intuitive brand of freedom his younger acolytes were then pursuing. But when Tyner solos, you can hear Garrison and Jones coalesce into the kind of rhythmic juggernaut that initially established the quartet's reputation.
As for Shepp's set, despite the loose ensemble trappings, the saxophonist comes across as a provocative composer with a dark romantic conception--equal parts free jazz, blues and modern theater (check out his recitation on "Skag," the brooding lyricism of "Le Matin Des Noire," the contrasting delicacy and bite of "Call Me By My Rightful"). As the jagged stops and starts of his opener "Rufus" demonstrate, his amorphous melodic conception is firmly rooted in the blues, and his subtle manipulations of embouchure, inflection and pitch paved the for David Murray (and inevitably drew comparisons to Ben Webster).
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State Rep. Daniel Winslow (R-Norfolk) is expected to announce Tuesday on whether he will be the running for the United States Senate, according to a report in the Sun Chronicle.
Winslow told the Associated Press that he has been urged by supporters to run for the seat previous held by John Kerry.
When former United States Senator Scott Brown announced last week that he wasn't running for office, that left the Republican field wide-open for the April 30 primary and the June 30 general election.
''I will reflect this weekend about my own family's needs and whether there is room in the national Republican Party for a member who is both fiscally prudent and socially tolerant,'' said Winslow in the Associated Press story Friday.
Congressman Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch are in the Democratic field.
Before being elected state representative, Winslow was the chief legal counsel for former Massachusetts Governor Milt Romney. He is also a former presiding judge at Wrentham District Court and was involved in Norfolk government for 15 years, including being town moderator.


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BARRY supporters of a cancer charity were treated like royalty when they met with its patron at Buckingham Palace to celebrate its 70th birthday.
Volunteers from the Barry Friends of Tenovus group met with HRH The Princess Royal and Tenovus patron, and fellow patron and Gavin & Stacey star Rob Brydon at a royal reception, last month.
Princess Anne greeted guests in the Picture Gallery and Mary Thomas, a member of the Barry Friends of Tenovus group and an active fundraiser and volunteer for over 46 years, presented the princess with a posy.
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TV MONTH: Breaking Bad (2008 - present)
by Justin Langdon
Jesse: "A guy who actually wants to be in prison?"
Walter: "There's more than one type of prison."
The word "existentialism" seems to strike a perfect balance between nebulous and highbrow, facilitating a wide usage with sparse understanding. It is a term that's used about as consistently as, say, "irony" is, with a meaning that seems to morph to fit its surrounding context. So it's perhaps no surprise that, sometime in the middle of the second season of Breaking Bad, I caught myself excitedly saying aloud to a room of no one, "Walter White is an existentialist!" I, too, am guilty. But before you judge, allow me to elaborate.
Existentialism is better understood as a cultural movement than as a definitive school of thought, which perhaps lends reason to its modern day ambiguity. Nietzsche's notorious exclamation "God is dead" and his focus on the vacuum that ensues is an important precursor to the movement. Absent a God, humanity is without an external creator of meaning and arbiter of values. Couple this with the inherent inability of science to make headway in the world of "oughts" and suddenly there may be no objective basis to morality. This is a scary place to be. It's too easy to slip into a passive, nihilistic disposition where there is no meaningful reason to act one way over another, and where "good and evil" are simply words detached of any transcendental importance. Nietzsche had his way of responding to existence in an indifferent universe, and the Existentialists, namely Sartre, had theirs.
Rather than succumbing to despair, existentialism confronts the meaninglessness pervading the human condition by prescribing action. In a crude way, it is philosophical self-help for those who find the state of our existence to be fundamentally unsettling. Because humans are purportedly without any preordained essence, we must define ourselves through the choices we make. To exist is thus to be free, and to be free is to navigate your own vessel down a river rife with forks. Meaning may not objectively exist to the existentialist, but it is there for each individual to create on her own terms.
Walter: "Look we all in this room, we love each other, we want what's best for each other and I know that I am very thankful for that. What I want… what I want, what I need… is a choice."
Skyler: "What does that mean?"
Walter: "…sometimes I feel like I never actually make any of my own choices. I mean… my entire life it just seems I never had a real say about any of it. This last one, cancer, all I have left is how I choose to approach this."
Breaking Bad begins with a Walter White who fits easily into the spineless nice-guy archetype. He's a good father, a mild mannered husband, and vastly over-qualified to be teaching high school chemistry. It even seems that his willingness to fit the mold that external circumstances have carved out for him has prevented him from reaching his potential. His passivity has trapped him somewhere near the top of Maslow's hierarchy, but falling just short of reaching self-actualization. Early Walter White is an everyman, representing the vast majority of individuals in a post-industrial society who hover around the peak of the normal distribution curve of our capabilities, but are either too timid or too willing to exercise self-deception to do anything about it.
The story wastes no time getting to where it wants to be; in the pilot episode, Walter learns he has terminal cancer. Death loses its innocuous status as an uncomfortable thought pushed to the margins of the mind. It's there in the forefront now, leaving Walter no choice but to acknowledge his finitude. It's a narrative that's hackneyed by now—a weak man experiences impending death, is reawakened, and comes to live on his own terms—but what keeps Breaking Bad so fresh and enjoyable is the authentic existence into which Walter White enters.
Jesse: "It's weird is all, okay? It doesn't compute. Listen, if you've gone crazy or something…I mean, if you've…if you've gone crazy or depressed, I'm just saying…that's something I need to know about. Okay? I mean, that affects me."
[long pause]
Walter: "I am awake."
In existentialism, the concept of authenticity is the standard by which we evaluate our lives. It is a normative way of being, a value assumed as foundational within a world devoid of any preexisting values. To live authentically, in an existential sense, is to live in a manner that is one's own and to which one commits oneself. This all sounds vague—and philosophers do like to be vague—but the idea here is that you should not imitate how a _____ person lives, the blank being any identifying social role. You should not try to live as a "writer" lives. You should not try to live as a "professor" lives. Or as a "sports enthusiast" lives. No: to live authentically is to make decisions because you want to own them, and these decisions reveal the values that only you can establish.
So, yes, Walter does adopt a new outlook on life once he fully comes to accept he's a perishable good. But the true beauty behind Breaking Bad is how euphoric it is to watch a character come to own his own existence. We get to see a man who realizes that to live is indeed to be free—that we are irrevocably faced with choices of what life we want to lead every single day, and it is up to us as individuals to make these choices. This freedom is scary, and we find routine ways of evading it—ways of tricking ourselves into feeling trapped and even like victims of our own lives. Walter shows just how illusory such limitations are by refusing to act as a slave to the social expectations placed upon him. His bravery extends well beyond the occasional tough guy act: it is existential bravery. And I think perhaps this is why we return to watch his transformation time and time again. Because one can't help but feel a little awe, seeing someone achieve this rare state of being.
Existentialism places the burden of becoming what you want squarely on your own shoulders. The responsibility cannot be shed; it is a condition intrinsic to the nature of our existence. Walter took it upon himself to become who he wanted. Actions that began as thinly-veiled altruistic gestures for his family eventually revealed themselves for the self-interested beasts they truly were. The intrigue with which he holds Hank's gun and the interest he shows for the meth money both preceded any knowledge of cancer.
Walt knew all along that he wanted to be "the man doing the knocking," and it's terrific fun to watch him get there.
Justin Langdon is a twenty-something living in New York City who knows exactly what he is doing with his life. He once took a class on existentialism and it scarred him permanently. He tumbls here.
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Why did I do this again? Oh yeah, setting goals; getting faster; yada yada yada. I forgot the bit about having to get up at WTF o'clock, in order to drive to Bendigo by OMG o'clock, to carpool to Melbourne for the start at 8 o'clock.
Matters were complicated slightly by Bendigo running out of diesel on Friday just as I needed to fill the tank. None to be had anywhere. %$#@! I had enough to get home, 50km away, and that was it. Thankfully, I have an amazing friend (you know who you are! ) who loaned me her petrol Mazda for the weekend. Power.Arm.Steering. And manual gearbox, which I haven't had to operate too often since I got Vincent. But a fun little car to drive, and we were best friends by the time I got home.
So anyway. Williamstown. Our current little heatwave called a truce this morning, and it was a very fresh 15 degrees in Melbourne. Minus windchill of about the same, with a strong onshore breeze.
The course was two loops up and down the foreshore, starting in the middle of a figure of eight. Each of the turnaround points (four in total) put you straight into the guts of a strong cold headwind. The western end had you right next to the water, which was doing its best to get airbourne and drench runners as we trudged into the headwind. Evil.
Other than that, it was quite pleasant, and I was holding a 5:30-5:40 pace. Not pushing, or doing anything stupid; just trying to hold a light easy aerobic trot. My goal time was (a) to finish; and (b) to get under 60 minutes. The nice-to-have (c) was 55 minutes, but that wasn't going to happen today.
And then on the way home, Mick and Julie started discussing which marathon we're going to run next year. Hahahaha, ROFLMAO! Maybe later. I need to lose 5kg and get a bit quicker before I start thinking about anything longer.


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Don't leave your
fish waste behind
Today, like many recent days, I took my dog for a swim in the lake near Collett Park. He enjoys the swim and the retrieval of a thrown object. I have been excited about this park, as it is walking distance from my home and has been an enjoyable place for my dogs and me. (Yes, I bring a poop bag). I am careful to acknowledge the fishermen who are present and always choose a place away from them.
The fishermen and I seem to be able to co-exist. Today, as I took my dog for a swim, I noticed a very nasty fish carcass; well, my dog noticed it first — rotting fish … yum.
The fish had been filleted, head and spine left to rot on the shore. Of course, my dog thought that was a lovely thing to roll in. I picked its mush remains up and threw it in the garbage. I continued to play with my dog until coming upon another carcass. I thought to myself, how can people be so selfish to have no regard for their fellow citizens?
Maybe these people with total disregard are not my neighbors, but come for the stocked fish. I have no problem with that. I have a problem with them sucking the life out of a newly finished park.
Even if this was a fish only lake, that would not be proper etiquette. There are no fish-cleaning stations, nor should there be. Take it home and clean it there. I believe this lake is for the enjoyment of all. If I choose just to sit on the side of the lake, I should not have to pick up other's waste, whether it be a diaper or fish guts.
This is not a lake out in the wilderness, and if you choose to clean your fish lakeside, have the courtesy to throw it in deep.
— Babette Stoelting
Terre Haute
Will diplomacy
save the day?
Could this administration have found a way out of their latest misstep regarding Syria? With Secretary of State Kerry's jest that military action could be avoided by Syria turning over their chemical weapons a new path was opened.
Like most good political solutions, everyone gets something they want, but nobody gets everything they want. No one would object to the removal of the chemical weapons, except perhaps the Syrian government. That government does avoid outside military intervention, though. The hawks don't get regime change. The doves don't get America embroiled in another Middle Eastern war. The U.N. and the Russians get to look like peacemakers. President Obama gets his foot removed from his mouth gracefully.
Time will tell if this idea will work. It is another lesson for President Obama that what might work in Chicago-style politics doesn't play on the world stage. He has had a number of those but hasn't learned from them yet. The Russians are masters of the art of "realpolitik." It is something the United States has never done well, all too often basing foreign policy on ideology rather than practicality.
— Dwayne Owens
Terre Haute
Edie Gormé's gift
Ronn Mott was the only media person I saw who mentioned the talent and enjoyment Edie Gormé gave to all of us.
She and husband Steve Lawrence were truly great interpreters of music when it was pleasurable. Thanks, Ronn.
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Yet another great Lana Turner film about redemption and really like. The quote at the end of this film blew me away and will stay with me forever.
Yet another great Lana Turner film about redemption and really like. The quote at the end of this film blew me away and will stay with me forever.
This is a great movie.
the color is very sharp for a old movie
When she first hugs Allison her purse is in her right hand. Then when the camera cuts to the closeup it's in her left hand. Oops.
@Muirmaiden i just saw it last week…a good one from another time…
I don't know if Lana Turner ever went to the Camden, Maine location. All of these location shots with Constance appear to be a stand-in – where you see it's her, it was obviously shot in the studio and/or in front of a bluescreen. I think it was edited to make it appear that Turner was there on location.
I will always love this movie.
I always liked this movie. It was made the year I was born. Lana Turner was still HOT!!
its probably because you have not seen RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE
Confused, see the movie. The ending doesn't say much about the plot of the film. It's just a beautiful quote that sums up the theme. This will hopefully motivate you to see a great film and to clean up your mouth in a public forum.
Fuck! Next time, give a spoiler warning or something because now I have watched the ending to one of the film that I really wanna see for a long time. You ruin everything!
Great movie. Soapy but excellent cast and acting.
I remember watching this film for the first time on AMC and finding it fun and engaging in a melodramatic way, and then the end came, and this last poetic quotation blew me away!
I saw this movie as a little boy in the late 50s. I never understood much of the plot then but I loved it anyway, especially the scenes and the music.
A few years ago, when it became available, I was finally able to purchase and own both the movie and the soundtrack.
I never get tired of watching the movie and listening to the soundtrack. It always takes me back in time… to all the beautiful memories.
What a wonderful movie *****
I especially liked Lana Turner's high class acting performance. The end scene is very emotionally potent because it's a scene of redemption, forgiveness and renewal. The trian whistle at the start is what Constance thinks is her daughter leaving town, heart still closed to her mother. The tiny little uplift of Lana Turner's eyes when she embraces Diane Varsi is superb: Constance is remembering to thank God because her daugher's homecoming means that, symbolically, God has forgiven her as well.
God this movie is one of the best. I watched this with my grandma all the time before she passed away.
The last words are poetry. "We finally discovered that season of love. It is only found in someone else heart. Right now someone you know is looking everywhere for it, and its in you." The last scene connects with me, I was 8 when this was filmed and with the beautiful music swelling, two kids riding their bikes, like me, on a beautiful Maine day… Its a moment stopped in time. Sadly most all the principles are dead, we each have our own roads in life, journeys to make. So many memories.
She past away years ago
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES Is there any way I can get your grandma's autograph? How much would it cost?
My grandmother is an extra in this movie. Filmed in Camden , Rockland and Rockport Maine. She's the one holding the baby in the Court Room
The sidelong shot of the hug shows a stand-in for Lana Turner, who was unavailable. Russ Tamblyn mentions this in the DVD.
if they include everything in the book it would still be acceptable by todays standards. the most controversy in the 1957 film was the rape of selena and her abortion. the movie cleaned up the more salient parts of the book.
In Grace Metaliouses book Norman's mom used to give him frequent enemas. I wonder if they made a remake of this like they do with everything. If so they would have to xxx rate it.
i luv this film it is a favorite of mine
beautiful film!


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The Pardoner's Diary
Sep 23rd, 2009 by pardoner
I am known as The Pardoner. Selling promises of salvation and preaching is my occupation. I could care less if people take heed to what I say or not, it's all about money to me. I would rather take the last penny from a widow and her starving family than give up my money. My theme is "Radix malorum est Cupiditas" which means greed is the root of all evil, and it remains the same. I live up to my theme very well.
Many Pilgrims and I are in horse and bugie and on our way to Canterbury Cathedral. We are visiting the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. Our host has decided that each of us is to tell a story to help pass time. After the doctor's sad tale everyone is down and depressed. So the host has the bright idea to nominate me to tell a merrier tale. As always I resfuse until I've had enough to eat and drink. My fellow travelers prefer to hear a moral story. After a few drinks and getting tipsy I reveal the truth of who I really amand I am ready to begin my tale. I also plan to sell my fake relics to the rest of the pilgrims.
My Moral Story
Three rioters sit in a tavern to get a drink. They heard a bell to represent a body being carried to a grave. One of the revelers' servants tell the rioters that he was an old comreade of theirs. The servant also tells them that the comrade was slain by Death. The rioters were infuriated and decided to find and kill Death.
The rioters outrage in their drunkenness and decide to find and kill Death for their friend. They decided to work together and slay Death for one another. They did their pledges to live and die, each of them for the other. Not long after the rioters had been traveling, they came upon and old sorrowful man. The rioters asked the man "why are you still here in such great age?"
The man replied and said "I keep my old age still, it shall be God's will to take me away from this earth. Not even Death, my life will take." The rioters insisted that the man tell them where this figure known as Death shall be found. The man pointed in the direction of an oak tree where he last seen Death.
As the rioters rush to the tree, underneath they found not Death but gold and treasure. The rioters were estatic to find the gold with no owner in sight. They remember that if they carry the gold into town in daylight, they will be reported as robbers. They must transport the gold while most are laying their head to rest. In the meantime someone must run into town to fetch bread and wine. The youngest of the three goes to town to get food and drink. As soon as he leaves the other two plot to kill their friend to receive greater wealth. The youngest decides that he wants all the gold for himself. So he goes to the apothecary to buy poison to put in both of his friends's drink. As the youngest returns to the tree with the wine and bread the other two attack and killed him.
The two of them sit and celebrate. They each happen to pick up a poisoned bottle. Within minutes they were lying dead next to the youngest. So after all they completed one of the two goals that they had planned, they surely found Death. Unfortunatly they did not defeat Death. Death had tricked and defeated them easily. So therefore I conclude that all must beware the sin of avarice. It can only bring treachery and death.


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Halloween Safety
Your kids could be coming face to face with a sex offender.
Deputies say sex offenders on probation are not allowed to decorate their homes, give out candy, or even have the front porch light on. But those not on probation, listed as "released" on the FDLE's Sex Offender Database, can decorate and hand out all the candy they want.
Deputies say parents should be extra careful.
"All of the people listed on the website were at one point not listed and not registered. So there are many many more people out there capable of very dark and devious acts," said Alachua County Sheriff's Detective Mike Powers.
Deputies highly encourage you to go with their kids trick or treating.
But before you head out you can log on to the Sex Offender Database through this link: http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/homepage.do
Anne Imanuel, WCJB TV20 News
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Today's weather forecast: Hot Diggity
For our annual Best of LA edition, we wanted to do something completely different in the pages of this year's August issue. So we chose to devote 20 pages—the entire feature well—to a photo portfolio showcasing a wholly unique Los Angeles industry: The Hollywood studio. As editor-in-chief Mary Melton puts it in her editor's letter, studios "are not only our steel mills but our Lands of Oz, emerald cities lorded over by wizards where strange and beautiful visions are realized."
To realize our vision—the Hollywood studio as a dream factory—we tapped renowned photographer Dan Winters to shoot behind the scenes of one of our favorite back lots: Warner Bros. We chose this particular plot of 142 acres in Burbank because it has been the backdrop to some of our favorite films, from Casablanca to The Maltese Falcon to Ocean's Eleven to Inception. Nearly 90 years in, Warner Bros. is still the place the greatest movie directors and producers call home: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Nolan, John Wells and Ben Affleck to name a few. In fact Ben Affleck, who has set up shop on the studio lot with longtime writing and producing buddy Matt Damon, perfectly describes the role of the studio in the 21st century as America's last great industry: "Entertainment is now our country's biggest export. We don't sell much of anything anymore, but (the world) still wants our movies."
Dan Winters' rich and rare images—from the prop house to the soundstages—reveal more than the credits of any film ever could: the magic and mechanics of the Dream Factory.
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Illinois parks are arranged alphabetically.
AZoosment Park at Santa's Village
East Dundee (near Chicago)
The retooled Santa's Village park includes some of the original park's rides, such as Santa's Slide, along with animal exhibits and other attractions. It also offers classic rides, like The Whip and the Midge O Racers, culled from Kiddieland, another Chicago-area park that closed.
Donley's Wild West Town
Union (near O'Hare Airport)
(815) 923-9000
Shows, pony rides, train rides, a museum, and other attractions themed to the Old West.
Melrose Park (near Chicago)
The 80-year-old park closed in 2009.
Santa's Village
East Dundee (near Chicago)
The park closed in 2006, but reopened as AZoosment Park at Santa's Village in 2010 (see above).
Six Flags Great America
Gurnee (near Chicago and Milwaukee)
Affiliated water park: Six Flags Hurricane Harbor
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"From the first time I worked extensively with clay, I felt a connection to it, and a passion for it that has never waned," asserts Michelle Katz, owner of Desert Dragon Pottery. A ceramics artist for more than a quarter century, Katz harnesses her fine arts degree and aesthetic aptitude to teach students of all levels how to exercise their imaginations. Through a roster of classes, pupils explore the shapes of vases and plates, before leaving their finished works for Michelle to fire in her self-made, gas-fired car kiln. When not teaching, Katz often exhibits her work with pottery guild Arizona Clay Association, a collection of regional artists who share with the community their insights, masterpieces, and tips for creating life-like body doubles.
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Inspired by The Amazing Race, CityScape Adventures—held across the United States—entangle race participants in webs of 12 puzzles and challenges in citywide races to the finish line. Participants compete in teams of two, using their wits, teamwork, and underground network of mutant-turtle spies to complete the tasks given at the start of the race. The 12 challenges take the form of puzzles, riddles, and clues that guide treasure hunters to a specific location within the city, where each team must complete a special task using only their cleverness and muscles. Players can also use the Internet, and the winning team is usually the one that best leverages its resources. The first team to successfully complete all tasks and vault over the finish line will receive a prize and assembly line of high-fives.
No one knows where Dr. Vantas lost his way. Once an esteemed doctor at the vanguard of electroshock therapy for the mentally insane, the physician let his psychiatric hospital become a madhouse, prompting rumors of Vantas using inhumane experiments on patients. Those who enter his territory risk falling prey to its deranged denizens and the quack's extremely cold stethoscope. This is the spine-tingling, horror-film narrative that plays out to visitors as they creep through The Asylum, a haunted site modeled after an 1870s-style mental institution and one third of of The Crypt Haunted Attractions' three-piece tribute to fear.
The next stop is the The Crypt, a vault filled with the living dead that beckons intrepid guests to descend into it. Tiptoeing through the chamber's darkened corridors, voyagers must stay poised as they strafe around staggering corpses groaning about their hunger for brains or the lack of legroom in their casket. Anchoring the evening of fright is the Chaos Maze, the new lawless labyrinth that requires cunning, agility, and fearlessness to make it through unscathed.
Holloway Travel Outfitters, an independent family-owned business, has been easing the travels of world-wanderers with high-end luggage, travel apparel, and accessories since 1978. A petite Rick Steves Civita travel bag ($17.95) discretely holds passports, and a Travelon carry-safe anti-theft backpack ($59.95) protects effects from would-be pilferers with a heavy-duty metal wire strap that thwarts cut-and-run attempts and a leash that locks the bag to secure chairs or tables. Country skippers entrust garments to the clutches of an Eagle Creek Crossroads Duffel ($148.50), featuring rolling wheels to keep shoulders free for impromptu airport piggyback races. During business trips, a Samsonite classic toploader briefcase ($59.95), forged from durable ballistic nylon, keeps businesspersons ready for business, smartly stashing important documents, laptops, and emergency stashes of silly string for enlivening flagging meetings.
Tony Pearson and TJ de Angelis don't lean on their college educations to train athletes. Instead, they draw on years of competitive athletic experience ranging from Division I football at Oklahoma State University to Division II baseball at New Mexico Highlands University. When they offer advice on dealing with a sports-related injury or disability, they know it from firsthand experience. Together, the two trainers help young athletes and their families find a balance by creating a training platform that addresses every aspect of the athlete, including the part of them that wants to fit into their high school-prom tux again.
Omnibalance's trainers mostly work to design functional exercise programs to improve exercisers' mental and physical strength. By creating regimens that improve endurance and physical capabilities, the team of trainers can prepare their students for specific sports or provide all-around athletic training for young athletes or anyone seeking to gain a greater degree of wellness.
Heidi Lamar didn't know much about spas when she first purchased Spa Lamar. As she explained to reporters from Skin Inc., "not coming from a spa background, there were things I didn't know I couldn't do." Unhindered by industry conventions or previously fixed ideas, Heidi set about filling her 14,000-square-foot spa with innovative amenities—from a luxurious waterfall-fed pool to an onsite yoga and dance studio. She also cultivates locals instead of the typical resort crowd, banishing cacti from the decor in favor of a Caribbean-style ambiance that, as she told the Arizona Republic, caters to those who already live in Arizona and want to get away to a tropical island. Today, her media-lauded spa is the largest privately owned spa in Scottsdale and is frequented by locals, including members of the Phoenix Suns Dancers.
Before treatments that include massages, acupuncture, mani-pedis, and facials, guests garbed in fluffy complimentary robes duck into the steam room. They sample wholesome lunches and fruit plates from the tropical tea bar and relax in the sauna while waiting for a haircut or warm algae wrap. Sunbathers float around the pool on loungers, whereas others simmer in a bubbling whirlpool. Unlike many traditional spas, Spa Lamar is completely coed, making it an ideal place for couples that are on a first date or permanently trapped together inside a horse costume with a broken zipper.


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My name is Chrissy Beckles and I am fighting so these dogs do not have to. And I mean that literally not figuratively. I am a champion Amateur Boxer who fights to make a difference for these pups. I first visited Puerto Rico with my Husband, who is a Stuntman and was filming on the island over eight years ago. We love dogs and were horrified at what we encountered. It is hard to visit a beach without seeing its residents; usually very cute pups who sometimes chew rocks because they are so hungry. It broke our hearts. We are Brits who now live and work in New York. I researched the 'net and found a couple of rescue groups working in PR and began volunteering and donating to them. We adopted our second 'fur child' from a horrific situation in the Arecibo shelter in 2008.
I have been rescuing full time in Puerto Rico since 2009 and launched The Sato Project in November 2011.


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The underwhelming, would-be political satire "Knife Fight" plays more like a failed network TV pilot than the savvy feature it clearly set out to be. Think: Aaron Sorkin-lite, uh, really, really lite.
Rob Lowe, in an odd flip on the upright Republican senator he played on "Brothers & Sisters," stars as Paul Turner, a thriving campaign advisor and "fixer" stuck on constant spin cycle. That is, when he's not making faux-serious speeches, often directed to his newbie assistant (Jamie Chung), justifying the dubious ethics of his — now their — work.


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By ANDY GOODELL
The Oskaloosa Herald
This is where one can find the branches of their family tree.
Don DeBoef, of the Keo-Mah Genealogical Society, helps operate the Keo-Mah Genealogical Library, 209 A Ave. E. This library can help people discover many things about the past, including who their ancestors who lived in the area were and what their role in local history may have been.
Those delving into the past at the Keo-Mah Genealogical Library aren't all starting from the same place on their journey into history, noted DeBoef.
"It ranges from people starting out looking for information to those that have already found a bunch of items and want to find out more about their ancestors," explained DeBoef.
People's motivations for searching out their family histories are varied, as well. DeBoef said sometimes people are simply interested in learning about the history of their family.
Birth, death and marriage records are the typical stepping stones on one's journey into family history. Newspapers can also play a role in tracing family history, as well as church records. DeBoef noted that during the Civil War, some newspapers where not available and added that the state of Iowa didn't start requiring written records until around 1880.
Cemetery records can also vital when searching out one's family history.
The Keo-Mah Genealogical Library has a whole multitude of records for visitors to peruse. These include newspapers on microfilm, newspaper clippings and bound volume newspapers. This information can often compliment information one might find on the Internet, noted DeBoef.
The Keo-Mah Genealogical Society is a non-profit organization. Their library at 209 A Ave. E. is open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Mohonk Mountain House has a spectacular forest and lakeside setting, with 1200 acres, and 85 miles of hiking trails in surrounding forest and mountains. Location is 90 miles north of NYC near New Paltz, New York, on the Shawangunk Ridge in the Hudson Valley.
What's Special about Mohonk Mountain House?
Mohonk Mountain House is a survivor from an era of upscale mountain lodges, dates from 1869, and is still run by the founding family. A 265-room "Victorian castle" sits imposingly on low cliffs by a lake, and is a National Historic Landmark. The gardens are a point of pride, and guests love the forest trails nearby.
Mohonk Mountain House suits those who want to get outdoors. Complimentary activities include daily guided hikes, tennis, fishing, boating, swimming in Lake Mohonk, croquet, fitness classes, and Kids' Club with lots of outdoor fun (summer and some weekends throughout the year). Pay extra, and you can also do horseback riding, carriage rides, golf, spa.
The resort is open year-round: in winter, guests can try x-country skiing on 35 miles of trails, snowshoeing, supervised snow-tubing, and ice-skating including skating parties in the Victoria Pavilion.
Mohonk Mountain House also has theme programs, such as Haunted Haunts and Happenings at Halloween, and special weekends during December for the Holiday Season.
The Kids Club is offered seasonally, and has several age groups; a teen program runs in summer, too.*
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- Price includes two or three meals daily, plus Afternoon Tea and Cookies (a Mohonk tradition.)
- An extra service fee may be charged.
- Watch for specials where kids pay half-price, or may even be free.
- Expect an old-fashioned style and ambiance.
- No tv's or radios in rooms; tv lounge and internet available.*
- Casual attire is ok for some meals, at other times, not.
- check the Mohonk Mountain House site for info, history, theme programs, promotions, etc.
- Family Travel Forum has details about kids' programs, comments about rooms, and useful tidbits-- such as, "Men over the age of 12 are required to wear jackets at dinner. "
- check TripAdvisor for recent visitor comments.
- Check prices at Kayak.com
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Over the Rainbow was deleted from the film The Wizard of Oz three times because 'it sounded too sophisticated'. It slowed down the picture, the doubters argued, and in any case, if a girl in a Kansas farmyard suddenly broke into a song, it would not be so philosophical. After each deletion, producer Arthur Freed argued it back into the film.
Further opposition came from the publisher, who objected to the 'difficult-to-sing' octave leap in the melody on the word 'some-where,' and also to the simple middle. But Freed and Arlen persisted and the song remained, ironically to later receive the Academy Award as the best film song of the year. In 2000, Over the Rainbow was recognized as the Number One Song of the 20th century.
The song came to Harold out of the blue while he and his wife Anya were driving along Sunset Boulevard. He jotted the melody down in the car. But lyricist Yip Harburg did not react to it with joy, feeling that the song was too grand. Harold played it for Ira Gershwin to get a second opinion. Gershwin liked it. Harburg, in response to Gershwin's approval, composed its lyrics.
The middle (bridge) is far from simple. It took courage to construct the two sets of toggling notes. Also the diminished chord underlying 'away across the chimney tops' is a masterful touch of unexpected drama.
Judy Garland said: "The song has become a part of my life. It is symbolic of everybody's dream and that's why people get tears in their eyes when they hear it. I have sung it dozens of times and it's still the song that is closest to my heart."
This year is the centenary of Harold Arlen. He was born 15 Feb 1905 in Buffalo, New York. He died on 23 April 1986 aged 81.
Over The Rainbow was a departure from the bluesy style of most of his big hits like Stormy Weather, The Man That Got Away and Come Rain or Come Shine. Its theme is as old as time: no matter how much you search for the crock of gold, the grass is often greener in your own backyard.
Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow why then, oh why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?


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THE MAN RODE UP to the entrance of the dark building under a deeply shadowed archway and pulled on the reins. His horse complained in a husky rumble, shaking its head with a jangle of the bridle, before the man dismounted and tossed the lead around a post. The beast immediately ducked its head, bristly muzzle rooting into the snow for morsels of grass or hay. The man puffed a cloud of breath, gathered his cloak around him, keeping it close under his chin, and stared down one side of the empty street and then up the other. A gray mist obscured the lane and muffled any street sounds down the curve of the road. He was pleased to see there were no prying eyes either from a lone passerby or from the tightly shuttered windows above him.
He turned at last to the door, hesitated, and then, without knocking, opened it and ducked under the low lintel.
The place smelled unwholesome, of strange odors of unknown substances. He wanted to cover his mouth but felt it might appear as a sign of weakness. Instead, he threw back his cloak over one shoulder, displaying the finery of his cotehardie and bejeweled necklace.
He saw no one yet, though the glow of a fire flitted over the wall through an archway. Moving carefully through the dimly lit parlor, he made his way around shadowy chairs and tables with strange beakers and jars sitting on their surfaces. He passed under the archway and finally reached the hearth. Moving to stand before it, he tucked down the kid leather gloves between the joints of his fingers as casually as he could. It served to calm him, calm the ravaging thoughts galloping through his mind.
He was momentarily startled when he noticed the other man waiting for him off in the shadows outside the fire's glow. Perhaps he had been standing there all along, watching him enter, studying him. He had not liked the pale man the moment he had met him weeks ago, but there was little he could do about it now. His sources had told him that the man could do the job and he hadn't time to search anymore.
The pale man in the shadows hadn't moved. One side of his face was barely lit by the flickering light, while the other side fell to blackness. His inky hair flowed over the black gown hanging from his shoulders. The gown's smooth lines and fur trim seemed to be more shadow than cloth.
It annoyed the visiting man to be so startled. He didn't like to be taken unaware. "I am here," he snapped in French.
The pale man's lip curled in a shadow of a smirk before he bowed and still said nothing. His white hands were crossed one over the other and the first man couldn't help but think of a corpse, wrapped in a shroud, hands carefully crossed over the breast.
He glowered and turned to the flames, watching them lick over the wood. He wondered if the pale man knew that he would soon become a loose end, and loose ends needed to be discarded. Preferably in the Thames, where they couldn't be found again.
He opened and closed his fist, kid leather squeaking over his fingers. This was an ill-conceived meeting. He should never have agreed to it. "I don't care how you do it," he continued. "Just get it done."
"What you ask," the pale man said suddenly. His voice had a hint of amusement to it. As if he were laughing at the other. "It will not be easy."
"I'm not paying for easy." He glared at him squarely. "If you couldn't do it, you should have said so in your letters. I've gone to great expense to bring you here. You came highly recommended."
"I am aware of that, my lord. Never fear. It shall be as you wish."
"It had better be. Can you … can you find your way…"
"I spent many years in London as a lad, my lord. I know my way around quite well."
"I see. Good."
"As soon as possible. There is no time to waste."
A sound in the next room drew his attention away from the pale man. He looked to his left, where the door was ajar. In the dim light, he could just make out a figure, seated. The person was squirming. He could not tell if it was a man or a woman before the figure gave another muffled whimper, as if its mouth were covered by a gag. He narrowed his eyes, peering. Was the figure
to the chair?
He turned away. Not his business.
He reached into his scrip and pulled out the money pouch. After walking to the rectangular table sitting in the center of the room, he dropped the considerable pouch there. The coins clinked together and the leather pouch pooled.
"Don't contact me again," he said. He did not look about the room, did not look back at the pale man or the struggling person through the doorway. He merely adjusted his cloak and strode out the door into the mist.
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Game Time Review: Reebok 20K Stick
By Tyler Roy, Pure Hockey Customer Service
With 2012 wrapped up for stick releases, I was thinking it's probably high time that I talk about what should be on your "must-have" list. How does the Reebok 20k stack up? Is it a must-have or just another good stick? Let's take a look!
There's a new blade system here called the "accuBlade," which is made to reduce blade deflection and give you better accuracy for getting shots ON net and not NEAR it! Reebok's new and exclusive stick blade is made to get stiffer from the heel to the toe. Interesting. Also, this blade is also Reebok's lightest to date and they moved the balance point up a few centimeters, creating a much more balanced stick. Personally, I love a stiff blade at the toe as I'm more prone to shoot from that area anyway. I did get a chip on the toe in the first few weeks of using it but nothing has happened since, so it appears to be run-of-the-mill wear and tear that you see with all sticks. Bottom-line: this blade out performs any other Reebok blade and it has some real life and good snap.
The good thing about the Reebok 20k hockey stick is that it's a true one piece stick, defined by Reebok as "pure fiber technology." In English, this means the same fibers that are in the top of the stick run all the way to the toe of the blade. Being a true one-piece also removes all the overlapping materials and glues that often times create an unbalanced stick. Reebok also used a new weaving system in the shaft where the fibers on the backhand are angled on a 45 degree and 90 on the forehand. This is designed to create tension when the stick flexes during a shot. That, plus the lowest kickpoint in hockey, equals a slingshot effect when shooting. This stick shoots all types of shots very well, the low kick really snaps the pucks off quick and fast. I find it easy to snap off a quick shot right under the bar and have the ability to fire off a hard slapper too.
My favorite innovation might have to be the new grip Reebok has used on the 20k. The new "duel grip" features a smooth matte grip on the bottom half of the shaft for hand movement and a sticky grip on the top half to lock your hand in when your ready to shoot. Quite interesting feel and still hasn't worn out after a month or two of use.
All this stuff put together makes a really solid performing stick, much better than the 11k from my perspective. Only chip on the stick is right on the toe, as mentioned, but that's quite minor. The balance on the stick is really good as is the response you get with snap shots and slap shots. Should you get this stick? Well that's for you to choose, but I like it quite a bit. You can buy it right here and try it out for yourself.
You can also see a video here from my co-worker Kyle Stevenson, where he gives his thoughts on it:
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|Factors motivating women's informal micro-entrepreneurship: Experiences from Penang, Malaysia
|Anja K. Franck, (Department of Human and Economic Geography, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
|Anja K. Franck, (2012) "Factors motivating women's informal micro-entrepreneurship: Experiences from Penang, Malaysia", International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 4 Iss: 1, pp.65 - 78
|Entrepreneurialism, Informal economy, Malaysia, Micro businesses, Microeconomics, Women, Women's entrepreneurship
|Article type:
|Research paper
|10.1108/17566261211202981 (Permanent URL)
|Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors which motivate women's informal micro-entrepreneurship in Malaysia.
Design/methodology/approach – The qualitative analysis employed in this paper is based upon empirical findings from field work conducted in the state of Penang on the north-western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. In total, 39 hawkers (petty traders) were interviewed using an interview guide which contained open-ended questions regarding work-life history, labor market choices and conditions of work. The paper presents two selected case stories, as well as the general findings across the whole sample.
Findings – In contrast to the view that women's informal micro-entrepreneurship is motivated only by "involuntary exclusion from the labor market" or "poverty", this paper has found that women's micro-entrepreneurship can be motivated by a wide range of factors including: to earn an income; interest in doing business; increased flexibility and autonomy; possibility to combine with family obligations; and re-negotiating spatial practices. Conclusive with previous studies it also argues that necessity and choice may be "co-present" in the motives to enter into entrepreneurship.
Research limitations/implications – The limited sample of this study has implications for the generalizability of results. Further studies into the women's micro-entrepreneurial activities in Malaysia are therefore encouraged.
Social implications – Women's micro-entrepreneurship is increasingly being promoted as a way to create growth and development (particularly through micro-credit schemes). Increasing knowledge around motivational factors, performance and conditions of work for women informal micro-entrepreneurs is therefore important when trying to establish appropriate policies.
Originality/value – There are very few studies in the Malaysian context which focus upon women's informal micro-entrepreneurship in general and hawking in particular. This study therefore presents new knowledge around women's informal micro-entrepreneurship in Malaysia.
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"While a country receives a good return on investment in education at all levels from nursery school and kindergarten through college, the research reveals that the returns are highest from the early years of schooling when children are first learning to read. . . . The early years set the stage for later learning. Without the ability to read, excellence in high school and beyond is unattainable."
Richard C. Anderson, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Judith A. Scott, and Ian A. G. Wilkinson, Becoming a Nation of Readers: the Report of the Commission on Reading (Champaign-Urbana, IL:Center for the Study of Reading, 1985),1
This country, as a matter of policy, invests between $40,000-$70,000 in a free public education for each child in this country.
The Economics of Reading
We continue to do so because this investment assures our long-term achievement of 3 major social policy goals:
- Individual economic self-sufficiency for our citizens
- The perpetuation of our democratic ideals
- Individual self-realization
These 3 objectives form a self-perpetuating upward spiral that generate the national funding, democratic stability, and individual commitment to provide these benefits to the next generation.
Our first step in this investment has always been to teach children to read, because 85% or more of our curriculum is thereafter delivered by reading. Reading is the most fundamental access skill. It is more basic than any content area like history, social studies, or science. It is even more basic than math. Students with initial aptitude in math will fall behind if they cannot read their math textbooks.
We do fairly well for 62% of our students. They can read within one half year of grade level by the end of third grade, have easy access to the printed page, and move through our school systems smoothly. However, for the 12% of our students who enter fourth grade reading at a low third grade level (third grade first month, for example) and the 25% of our students who enter fourth grade reading on a first and second grade level, our 3 policy goals are seldom fully realized.
We fail this group, shutting them out from our national goals, because a fourth grader reading at a first and second grade level understands less than one-third to one-half of his or her printed curriculum. Without immediate, direct, and effective intervention, this group falls so far behind by the end of third grade that 73% will never catch up. Each year, the differential in learning based on inability to read widens, separating these children from their grade level peers by a still wider margin.
This graph shows only entering third graders. Out of 100 students entering third grade, 14 of them still read at a kindergarten level, 15 at a first-grade level, and 3 of them at a seventh or eighth grade level.
Most policy makers mentally picture 85-90% of our students reading within a few months of grade level. The picture is simply not accurate. Unless your jurisdiction's scores average above the 70th percentile, this range of scores is what you will find when you walk into any third grade. Third graders read on 8 different grade levels. 25% of them are 18 months behind by month 24 of their school career.
In almost every other part of our society where certain actions result in identifiable high-risk long-term consequences, we create accountability systems. Highway safety is an example. So is child abuse, toxic waste disposal, and the practice of medicine and law. Because of the consequences of speed and driving while intoxicated, we as a society designate condition-sensitive standards and create measurement devices that assess behavior by these standards. We then include in that accountability system most of the other elements which appear in the superintendent/school board section. Those elements include changing the driving environment, reallocating resources, and involving the community. These elements are also included in the model legislation.
Part of our current reading problem can be cured simply by creating a K-3 reading skill continuum, setting clear standards of expected student performance along that continuum at the end of kindergarten, first, second and third grade, assessing to determine where each student is, and providing teachers, parents, and the community with that information. Shockingly, it is rare for even elementary teachers to have this information about their students.
When given this information, teachers begin to realign time and materials to reach the standard. Significant gains can be made within the individual classroom, but assuring that at least 90% of third graders read at or above grade level will require far deeper change in parenting practices, in school curriculum, in teacher preparation, and instructional delivery than most legislators or newspaper publishers realize.
But the benefits are worth it. Newspaper publishers lose an average of $38,000 in lifetime advertising revenue for each student in their community who enters the fourth grade reading at a first and second grade level. Law enforcement is beginning to realize that 78% of juvenile crime is committed by high school dropouts. But these dropouts can be predicted with 70% accuracy by third grade, based on reading ability, GPA, IQ, and prior retention. What determines GPA and retention at third grade? Reading ability. The majority of our social problems have a major link to low literacy levels.


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How many disk drives do you need for RAID 10?
What is the minimum number of disk drives you can have in a RAID 10 array? I have read you must have at least four, but our server admin said it is HP's default, and he can do it on just two drives. This is on a Window Server 2003 with a total of four 72 gigabyte (GB) drives in the server and 11 36 GB drives external.
The minimum number of disk drives needed for RAID 10? This depends on the storage array vendor's firmware. RAID 10 configurations can be accomplished by mirroring a stripe set, or striping a mirror set. When you stripe a mirror set (my preferred method due to resiliency), you first create two mirror sets and then create a stripe set from the two mirrors (minimum four drives), when you mirror a stripe set, you first create two stripe sets (usually of at least three drives each) and then mirror them to another stripe set (total of six drives).
I have not personally heard of creating a RAID 10 set from two drives, since two drives are the minimum for a simple mirror.
More on raid 10 minimum drives:
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