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Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock is known for her roles in such films as Speed, While You Were Sleeping, The Proposal and The Blind Side.
Actor Nicolas Cage, star of such films as Moonstruck and The Rock, is known for his intense on- and off-screen personality, as well as his passion for method acting.
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Courteney Cox is an actress best known for her role on the hit TV series Friends and Cougar Town.
David Cross is a comedian and actor who has appeared on TV's Mr. Show, The Ben Stiller Show and Arrested Development.
Actor Russell Crowe won an Oscar for his performance in the 2000 blockbuster Gladiator and a nomination for his 2001 role in A Beautiful Mind.
Matt Dillon is an American actor known for his tough guy roles, particularly the adaptations of S.E. Hinton's books including Rumble Fish and The Outsiders.
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British-born Christopher Eccleston is best known as the ninth actor to play the lead role in the popular U.K. science-fiction television program Doctor Who.
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Chris Farley was an American comedian and actor known for his roles on Saturday Night Live and in films like Tommy Boy and Beverly Hills Ninja.
Bobby Flay's frequent appearances and shows on the Food Network have made him one of America's best-known chefs.
Actress Calista Flockhart played the title role on the popular television show Ally McBeal.
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Melissa Gilbert came to fame playing Laura Ingalls on the NBC period drama series Little House on the Prairie (1974-82).
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Brash sports-talk personality Jim Rome has entertained fans and clashed with interview subjects while rising to fame as a radio and television host.
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Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei has starred in a number of successful films, including My Cousin Vinny, In the Bedroom and The Wrestler.
Dutch soccer striker Marco van Basten won three European Player of the Year honors before his career was cut short by a serious ankle injury.
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Andrea Yates was a mother of five from Houston, Texas, who drowned her children.
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Boulder Seminar Series with International Homeopaths
Each of the seminars listed below comes on high-quality DVDs and each is available for rental separately: $125.00 for 6 weeks.
Anne Schadde – Germany
The Sensations in Plants
Anne Schadde, HP, a world-renowned European homeopath utilizes video cases and follow-ups to demonstrate the Sankaran Vital Sensation Method in the treatment of challenging cases. Materia medica is facilitated with colorful power point presentations.
To rent this complete seminar on 5 High-Quality DVDs click here.
Alastair Gray – Australia
Case Conference
Do you have a case you are struggling with? Be inspired watching Alastair as he works with your difficult cases. Draw from his experience and unique approach to case analysis. Benefit from Alastair's 18 years of practicing homeopathy and his years of training homeopaths around the globe.
Demystifying Homeopathic Prescribing
Alastair Gray runs a flourishing practice in Sydney Australia and teaches throughout the world. He gives a "behind the scenes look" at seemingly effortless prescribing. Using video cases he presents a variety of analytical models for solving cases that utilize a number of smaller remedies.
Sleuthing for Clues: Following the Leads & Finding Reliable Evidence
Alastair Gray, an experienced practicing Australian homeopath and world lecturer, provides hands-on experience for effective case taking and case analysis.
To rent one or all three complete seminars, click here.
Kim Elia – USA
The Acid Remedies
Kim Elia, an inspiring homeopath, explores the mental, emotional and physical characteristics of the acid remedies. Cases, materia medica, as well as complementary and similar remedies are presented in this stimulating seminar.
To rent this complete seminar on 5 High-Quality DVDs click here.
Mahesh Gandhi, MD – India
Stress, Anxiety and Panic Disorders
Mahesh Gandhi, MD, an experienced homeopathic psychiatrist of the Sankaran School, shares his vast expertise, using homeopathy to treat mental/emotional complaints such as depression, anxiety disorders, addiction, epilepsy and schizophrenia through video and follow-up cases.
Available for rental: $125.00 for 6 weeks
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Anne Schadde and Juergen Weiland -
Childhood and Homeopathy, Healthy Mental and Physical Development
Straight from their successful European lecture circuit, Anne Schadde and Juergen Weiland present a seminar on homeopathic treatment for the development of healthy children: body, mind and soul. Through video cases drawn from their rich experience they present a vivid and illuminating seminar blending homeopathy, Anthroposophy and child psychology. Rajan Sankaran's Vital Sensation Method is applied in the treatment of challenging cases.
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That's what Geezer Butler's saying, anyhow!
Black Sabbath will reportedly tour North America this summer, according to an interview with bassist Geezer Butler. Metal Insider reports that while being interviewed by Eddie Trunk atNAMM, Butler said, "We start at the end of April in New Zealand, then we go to Australia, then Japan. June, we'll be promoting the album, then July and August [is] U.S.A. Then October is South America and Europe in November and December." Butler also said that he expects touring drummer Tommy Clufetos behind the kit when Sabbath hit the road. Rage Against The Machine's Brad Wilk drums on the upcoming Sabbath album 13. However, Butler also said that "I think Brad's got commitments with Rage Against The Machine," which has sparked rumors of Rage being active again in 2013.


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FOXBOROUGH -- This is the 17th Patriots' mailbag of the season here on Boston.com, and as we come down the home stretch, it's time to ratchet things up.
But before we do, a special thanks to Patrick Flynn, who sometimes submits questions from his hometown of Hadley, Mass. Patrick suggested we open each mailbag with a few quick words, previewing what is to come, and perhaps offering some power rankings from around the NFL.
This week, we offer three Patriots thoughts to ponder:
1) After playing much of Sunday's game with one tight end after Benjamin Watson was injured in the first half (he didn't return), the Patriots might have to bring in another player at the position. The likely candidate would be free agent Jed Weaver, who was with the Patriots in training camp and hasn't hooked on with a team this year. With Daniel Graham fighting through some shoulder pain, and Watson not being able to finish the game Sunday, the team is potentially thin at tight end. Weaver would be a logical choice to fill in. His agent, Drew Rosenhaus, declined comment when reached Tuesday morning.
2) Free-agent linebacker Mike Maslowski, who visited with the Patriots last week, was brought in with an eye toward next year. Maslowski was scheduled to work out in Green Bay on Tuesday.
3) When the Patriots were looking for a head coach after the 1999 season, one of the possibilities was a tandem of Dom Capers as head coach and Tom Donahoe as general manager. Six years later, Capers is on the verge of losing his job in Houston and Donahoe could have a similar fate in Buffalo, where he serves as president.
The mailbag was overflowing this week. The crowd noise issue at Gillette Stadium generated passionate response. As usual, there were many injury inquiries, as well as some fans peeking to the playoffs.
Thanks to those who wrote in, and we'll look forward to doing it again next week. Here we go ...
Like many people expressed here, I was very disappointed with the crowd noise in the Jets game. I felt like spectators were observing a funeral there. This is really not fair for the Patriots, who have been world champions for 3 out of 4 years. New England fans know how to root for Red Sox though they never won until last year. Patriots never get respect in Boston area as much as Red Sox not even on a game day.
Gajanan Bhat, Marlborough
A: The crowd noise remains a hot topic, with double-digit emails to this mailbag. Some think it's the team's job to give the fans something to cheer about. Others say the fans should step up regardless and support the team. Some say the "real fans" have been priced out. Others pin it on the club seat patrons, who sit in the prime areas of the stadium. Some have fingered ownership for creating fear among ticket holders that they might lose their tickets if they get too rowdy. Pick a theory and hang on for the ride, because there are plenty more emails to digest on the topic.
With all this talk about crowd noise in the past week, I haven't heard anything about the cost of going to a game. Could it be that charging the highest ticket prices in the league draws a more corporate crowd and leaves more passionate and knowledgeable fans out in the cold (or in the warmth of their own living rooms)?
Josh Houghton, Watertown
A: That is certainly one theory that has been mentioned. The Patriots' response would probably be that they charge high ticket prices, but that's because they didn't have personal seat licenses -- when fans pay an up-front fee for the right to buy their seat.
In response to Richard Seymour: When I go to games I'm as loud as I can be. But I find that Pats tickets are so rare. When I can find tickets, they are too expensive. I go to 3-4 games a year and the only game I went to was the Falcons, IN Atlanta. The truth is that the true fans can't afford going to the games. Tickets prices are among the highest in football, and impossible to get.
Seth Beecher, Unionville, Conn.
A: Checking the Patriots' Web site, it looks like prices for tickets are $125, $89, $75 and $59, depending on location. For a comparison, I checked the Cowboys' Web site and their tickets range from $93, $80, $73, $62, $49 and $48. So the difference between the cheapest tickets is $11.
The Krafts are just as much to blame for the low crowd noise at Gillette. The key noise areas on both sides of the field are club seats. The club members are often in the club and are not the rabid season ticket holders. They are there to enjoy the club. When you pay so much per ticket, you want to spend some time in the club. My club seats have lawyers, surgeons, accountants and others who frankly enjoy the club and feel that they have to get their money's worth. This is the key. You can't tell club seat members to not leave their seats 5 -10 minutes before the half because reality is that if you don't leave for the [inside] club early, you won't get a seat. It's too full with absolutely no seating for its members.
G. Peter Libby, Attleboro
A: I was unaware that this might be a reason for club-seat holders to leave their seats early. Thanks for sharing the information.
An open letter to the Patriots about stadium noise. To Richard Seymour: Dear Richard, I heard you were concerned about the lack of fan noise at Gillette Stadium. I thought I might be able to help you figure out the problem. As a 12-year season ticket holder, I was cheering the team in training camp -- didn't you hear me? I guess not, since you weren't there. I was cheering players such as Tedy Bruschi, who was trying to make a comeback from a debilitating stroke and Rosie Colvin, who suffered a devastating hip injury. You know, players who understand the meaning of team. Of course, you couldn't hear my crowd noise since you were at home demanding more money, despite your contractual obligations to the team. If you want to hear my crowd noise, show up in training camp and play every down. Just what have you done that warrants fan noise? Here is a suggestion -- try talking to your owner, who threatens revocation of season tickets if you make too much noise or get too excited when the team plays well. Take notice, the crowd always finds a way to cheer Willie McGinest, Troy Brown, Mike Vrabel or Adam Vinateri. To Vince Wilfork: You play football in New England, not south Florida. Have you ever sat in Gillette for four hours in the cold; it's not that fun. What makes it worse is watching mediocre teams blow by you with their running attack. Remember Keith Traylor and Ted Washington, they were here to stop the run, now that's your job. If you want me to take off my gloves and cheer, do something extraordinary. Having a defense that ranks at the bottom of the league isn't much to cheer about. To Bob & Jonathan Kraft: As owners, you have created a stadium that is lifeless and dull, so change the policies and the fans might find a way to create more noise for the team. Unlike Richard, Vince, or Tom I have lived through many bad seasons. So maybe it's the players who are spoiled. How often does Richard Seymour acknowledge the fans for their support; we can only provide so much support to a team that provides a lackluster effort. I don't see the fans dropping passes, overthrowing wide-open receivers, or getting torched in the secondary. Improve your game and the noise will follow.
Bill Simon, Brighton
A: The crowd noise issue has generated responses from across the spectrum, and this is the harshest response toward the players and ownership. With all due respect, the Patriots have won three of the last four Super Bowls. The fans have been given a great ride, unmatched by any team in the NFL's salary cap era. This seems too harsh, over the top.
Do you think that Pats fans are complacent or do you think that this team doesn't inspire them? Do you think that perhaps the fans are worried about losing their season tickets if they get too rowdy and vocal? Is winning a third consecutive Super Bowl a realistic hope after what we have seen so far?
Peter H. Thompson, Tampa, Fla.
A: My feeling is that the fans' expectations are as high as they've ever been, and to this point, there has been little to be inspired about during home games. That said, I think the crowd can certainly make more noise than it has. It was mentioned last week that simply winning the AFC East division used to be met with great cheer, but now it's all about Super Bowls. It shows how high the bar has been raised. I can't speak for fans, but a few e-mailers mentioned they were concerned about losing their tickets by getting too rowdy and vocal. As for if a third consecutive Super Bowl is realistic, the Patriots will be underdogs should they advance to the divisional playoffs, but I wouldn't be surprised if they upset the Colts, or another better seed. This team thrives in big games.
The Patriots players can complain all they want about lack noise from the fans at The Razor. But Bob Kraft got what he wanted, a family friendly stadium and now he has to live with the consequences. I'd much rather sit on my hands than have to deal with consequences and take a chance on losing my season's tickets.
Name Withheld for Fear of Reprisal, NH
A: While I hear what you're saying, I'd be curious to know if there was a fan who truly lost their tickets for genuinely cheering for the team. This seems a bit extreme.
I've been a season ticket holder for more than 10 years, and sit in the end zone of Gillette Stadium. The past few years, my buddies and I have gotten more and more complaints from people behind us to sit down when we are on defense. We try to get the whole end zone to stand up on third down and go crazy. In the old stadium, people would stand the whole time when we were on defense and scream their heads off. Now, if the end zone is not going to cheer, then the rest of the stadium will never be making a sound. My question is, don't you think if people do not want to cheer or take a more active part in the game, then they should just stay home and watch it on TV? It's a lot more comfortable to be home near the fridge and bathroom, and I bet some of the 60,000 people on the waiting list would love to go nuts at a Patriots game. Hopefully there is a marked improvement against Tampa Bay.
Frank Judge, Haverhill
A: My feeling is that it's not my place to tell people what they should, or shouldn't do. I think, based on the comments of the last week-plus, Gillette Stadium will be rocking on Saturday and in the playoffs. I believe the fans will answer the call in a big way.
The reason Gillette Stadium is as quiet as a morgue is obvious: The die-hard fans got priced out of the stadium. In their place are corporations and others who see season tickets as a status symbol. They are not fans, they are wealthy bandwagoners. Kraft stating that the "fans" may be getting spoiled is insulting. Go to any neighborhood bar on Sunday and you will see the blue-collar foundation that built this team. Others have transformed their basements or living rooms into media meccas where they can put on their jerseys and scream their lungs out every Sunday. It is an embarrassment that this region has a 3-time Super Bowl champion, and our stadium is filled with spectators who are more concerned with beating the traffic on Route 1 than the Patriots beating their opponent. Until the team figures out a way to get the fans back into Gillette, the stadium will never be a true representation of how New England feels about their three-time Super Bowl Champions. Thank you Richard Seymour for having the guts to tell it like it is. Please tell Richard the fans are behind him.
Dan, Boston
A: No doubt, the cost to attend games is high. I'm of the belief this is less of a Patriots problem and more of an across-the-board professional sports problem. The average fan, per se, is being priced out in many locales.
Two questions: Why the sudden amazement as of late about the lack of boisterous 12th man fans screaming demonically during defensive stands on homestands? It should be expected. All season long we've watched the defense perform wretchedly and it's going to take more than one or two games to get excited for them again. The Pats' own defense has taken the fans out of the game and it's up to them to bring them back in. Secondly, why don't we just sign Mike Cloud to a long-term contract? He always produces.
Mark Gehrung, West End, NC
A: Is it the team's job to fire up the fans? Or is it the fans' job to fire up the players? Seems like it should be a mix of both and maybe both sides need to meet in the middle.


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Create custom templates
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Creating a template
The following is how to create new custom templates based on existing templates in Xen Cloud Platform.
1. Get the template UUID that we want to use as our base. As usual just copy and paste the line in yellow into a root terminal on your XCP host.
xe template-list | grep -B1 name-label | awk -F: '{print $2}'
The output should look like this..
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (32-bit)
Windows Server 2003 (64-bit)
Scroll through the list and find the template you want to clone then copy and past it's UUID number ie. 688c625b-93b8-8e66-62e5-4542eca1e597. Choose a new name for your custom template and enter the following line with the UUID of the template you want to clone and the name you want it to have.
xe vm-clone uuid=<UUID> new-name-label="<NAME>" xe template-param-set uuid=<UUID> other-config:install-methods=http,ftp,nfs other-config:default_template=true
Now you should have a new template of your own that you can customize. More after the jump.
Fix the XCP expired license issue
If you're running virtually any version of Xen Cloud Platform you may have run into this error message.
Your license has expired. Please contact your support representative.
It's not really possible to have an expired license on Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) since it's FREE. It's just a regressive bug that has been very stubborn. However, until they fix it for real in XCP 1.5 you'll need follow the steps below.
Open a root terminal on the XCP host and copy and paste the commands below.
service xapi stop;sleep 5
NEXTMONTH=`date --date="next Month" '+%Y%m%d'`
sed -i "s/\(expiry.\{3\}\)[0-9]\{8\}/\1$NEXTMONTH/g" /var/xapi/state.db
service xapi start
echo done
The last line is only to get all the important lines to run automatically. If you don't hit enter it doesn't hurt anything. You could also copy and paste these lines into a script and have it run as a cronjob. Because XCP doesn't like you bumping it's "evaluation license" out more than 30 days you might want to run the cronjob once a week to make sure your license doesn't lapse while you're waiting for the cronjob to run
Getting Started with Xen
I'm using a Xen Virtual Server to provide my Linux students with their own machines with admin rights. This has prompted interest in Xen from a lot of people just starting out in Virtualization. Following is a quick explaination of Xen and how to get a Virtual Machine up and running as fast as possible.
Xen is a hypervisor meaning that it runs above the hardware but below any OS. Traditionally when you "virtualized" an OS you'd have a computer that you logged into which you installed virtualization software on such as VMWare workstation or VirtualBox. With this software you'd start the Virtual Machine from it's GUI and install the Guest OS via CDROM. In this case you have a Host Machine (the real physical machine) and a Guest Machine (the virtualized OS). With a hypervisor ALL operating systems are virtualized. This might seem a bit strange or impossible but is very powerful and extremely effecient. The side effect is that Xen can be very complex to set up. Let me explain the Xen boot process.
Xen Boot Process
- Machine runs code in Master Boot Record
- Bootloader loads the OS kernel
- Xen lodges itself in memory and loads the rest of the kernel in a Virtual Machine
- The user logs into the first Virtual Machine and starts, stops and restarts the other Virtual Machines from there
The name for the first Virtual Machine is Dom0 - it's the privileged Domain so it has direct access to the physical hardware. All subsequent Virtual Machines that are started are called DomU - unprivileged Domains. To manage a Xen Virtual Server you log into the Privileged Domain (Dom0) and use various commands to administer the Unprivileged Domains (DomUs).
Two modes of Virtualization
Virtualizers work in one of two modes - paravirtualization or hardware (full) virtualization. The difference being that a paravirtualized DomU OS knows it's being virtualized and has extensions to allow and assist in this. Paravirtualized Operating Systems are very fast and effecient. However there are times when you won't be virtualizing an OS that has these extensions such as Windows. In this case you need to use a CPU that has hardware vitualization support and run Xen in HVM (Hardware Virtualization Mode).
- Runs on a lot of hardware - x86, x86-64, Itanium and PowerPC 970 with or without hardware Virtualization support
- DomUs can be Linux, NetBSD and Solaris
- Very fast
Full Virtualization:
- Requires Intel or AMD cpus with Virtualization Support built in
- DomUs can be most any unmodified OS including Windows
- Not so fast
To get around the speed issues with Full Virtualization there are paravirtualized drivers that have been written for many Operating Systems including Windows for disk access and network cards. This allows Full Virtualization to reach the speeds of paravirtualization in these two areas without requiring further modification to the Operating System. The Linux KVM Hypervisor runsin Full Virtualization mode all the time and thus needs paravirtualized drivers.
Install git on XCP host
To develop the Xenapi Admin Tools for the Xenapi Admin Project I install git on the XCP host so I can write tools and keep the github project up to date as well. Following is how to get git working on XCP 1.6. To develop tools I just mount my XCP hosts / partitoin on my development machine via sshfs so I can edit tools remotely. When I'm satisfied with the tools I commit them using git commit -a followed by git push to send the changes to the xenapi-admin-tools github repository.
Add the EPEL repo, install git then disable the repo
We add the EPEL repo (which is necessary), install git and then disable the repo immediately to keep other system specific packages from updating.
rpm -ivh http://mirror.itc.virginia.edu/fedora-epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm yum install git sed -i 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
Configuring git
To use git to clone our Xenapi Admin Tools repository you'll need to set a few configuration items. Change "Your User Name" to your actual username you want to authenticate with. Change "Your Email Address" to your own email address.
git config --global user.name "Your User Name"
git config --global user.email "Your Email Address" git config --global credential.helper cache git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout 3600'
Clone the xenapi-admin-tools github and add it to your PATH (OPTIONAL)
Cloning the github repo is pretty easy. Below we clone the Xenapi Admin Projects tools repo which will create a /root/xenapi-admin-tools directory. The tools are in xenapi-admin-tools/releases/<version number> but to use them we'll need to add that directory to our system $PATH variable.
cd /root git clone https://github.com/Xenapi-Admin-Project/xenapi-admin-tools.git echo 'PATH="$PATH:/root/xenapi-admin-tools/releases/4.1"' >> ~/.bashrc
Install XCP/Xenserver from a USB thumbdrive
If you're using Windows you need to download Unetbootin. Most Linux distributions include it in their repositories so you can install it using the standard Linux package managers (yum, apt-get, zypper,synaptic etc.). You will also need to download the Xen Cloud Platform installation CD or the Xenserver 6.2 installation CD and save it somewhere.
Setting up the USB thumb drive
The USB thumbdrive has to have a partition on it and it has to be formatted FAT32. Unetbootin will let you use other Thumbdrives but they just won't work and they won't really tell you why. Just make it FAT32 and you shouldn't have any problems.
- Make yourself root using su or sudo.
- fdisk <device>
- Create a new partition and change the partition type to vfat
- Save the partition
- Format it using mkfs -t vfat <device>
Installing XCP on the thumbdrive
- Mount the partition with the mount command or just remove the thumb drive and reinsert it (usually works)
- Start unetbootin
- Select Diskimage and then your XCP 1.6 ISO image that you downloaded
- Select USB Drive under Type
- Select your thumb drive device
- Press OK
Fixing the thumbdrive so it will boot properly
The isolinux is used to boot ISO9660 disks like cdroms. We need to change the config so it uses syslinux which is used to boot hard disks.
cd into your mounted thumbdrive and copy/paste the following commands
mv boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg boot/isolinux/syslinux.cfg mv boot/isolinux boot/syslinux mv syslinux.cfg syslinux.cfg.bak
You're done. Insert the thumbdrive into your future XCP host and reboot. You may need to go into the BIOS to change the boot order so it will boot from a USB device.
- Although I mentioned you can do this from Windows I won't be providing any support for it because I don't use Windows
- The thumbdrive needs to be formatted as FAT32 only
- Unetbootin has a tendency to just add files to the thumbdrive so make sure you format the thumbdrive between uses
- Not renaming the syslinux/isolinux files will get you an Unfound kernel error on boot
A common error is getting the dreaded mboot.c32: not a COM32R image message. This seems to be because on some versions of the XCP install media the mboot.c32 file is not quite right. The last time I had to fix this I created a Xenserver 6.2 USB thumbdrive (which worked) and copied the /boot/syslinux/mboot.c32 file from there into my XCP 1.1 USB thumbdrive (which got the error listed above). Copy the good mboot.c32 file to the USB thumbdrive's /boot/syslinux folder. This solved the problem for me and so far I've only had it with XCP 1.1.
Install xe on CentOS6
Sometimes you want to control your XCP/Xenserver pool from another host. In my case it's my firewall/iSCSI SAN box which is CentOS 6.5 X86_64. I could just remote execute xe using SSH but this doesn't allow me to set $XE_EXTRA_ARGS. Setting $XE_EXTRA_ARGS allows me to run xe commands remotely without having to specify the server, username, password or port number every time I run xe.
export XE_EXTRA_ARGS="server=${POOL},port=${PORT},username=${USER},password=${PASSWORD}"
A better choice is to install xe on the CentOS 6.5 host.
Install pre-reqs
Install stunnel
yum install stunnel
Install xapi-xe rpm from Xenserver CD
Because the Control Domain in Xenserver is 32 bit the xe command included is also 32 bit. If you have 64 bit CentOS you will need to install 32 bit glibc. The best way is to just let yum worry about it as apposed to using rpm.
If you already have a XenServer CD available you can copy the xapi-xe rpm to your CentOS host directly. If not follow the directions below.
wget http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8159/XenServer-6.2.0-install-cd.iso mkdir xsiso mount -o loop XenServer-6.2.0-install-cd.iso xsio
yum install xsio/packages.main/xapi-xe-0.2-5669.i686.rpm
Control remote poolmaster using xe
Because the poolmaster is remote you'll need to include the server, port, username and password in your commandline.
xe -s <poolmaster> -p 443 -u root -pw <root password> vm-list
You can set these items in the XE_EXTRA_ARGS variable to make using xe easier.
export XE_EXTRA_ARGS="server=${POOL},port=${PORT},username=${USER},password=${PASSWORD}"
xe vm-list
Install Xen 3.4 on CentOS 5 (32 bit) the easy way
1. First we need to add the YUM repository holding the updated Xen. You will need to be logged in as root to carry out these instructions
wget http://www.gitco.de/linux/i386/centos/5/CentOS-GITCO.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-GITCO.repo
2. Uninstall and reinstall the Virtualization group
yum groupremove Virtualization
yum update
yum clean all
yum groupinstall -y Virtualization
Install Xen 3.4 on CentOS5 (64bit) the easy way
1. First we need to download the YUM repository file for the updated Xen. Then uninstall the old Virtualization group and reinstall it. This will upgrade the packages.
wget http://www.gitco.de/linux/x86_64/centos/5/CentOS-GITCO.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/gitco.repo
yum groupremove Virtualization
yum groupinstall -y Virtualization
Yum will probably want to upgrade some other files along with the ones we've chosen.
Warning! If you get an error message from grubby this is bad!
Installing: kernel-xen ####################### [ 9/13]
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
This means that your grub.conf file couldn't be written to for whaterver reason so you won't be able to successfully reboot. If you get this message you need to edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf file and make the kernel lines match the kernel you installed.
Get your installed kernel version:
[ root@vs / ] rpm -q kernel-xen
Now edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf to match this
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/vgsys/lvroot
# initrd /initrd-version.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /xen.gz-3.4.0
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen ro root=/dev/vgsys/lvroot rhgb quiet
module /initrd-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen.img
4. Reboot - no really I mean it.
5. Try it out by using the xm dmesg command
\ \/ /___ _ __ |___ / |___ / / _ \
\ // _ \ '_ \ |_ \ |_ \| | | |
/ \ __/ | | | ___) | ___) | |_| |
/_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)___/
(XEN) Xen version 3.3.0 (
) (gcc version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)) Tue Sep 9 20:18:14 CEST 2008
(XEN) Latest ChangeSet: unavailable
(XEN) Command line:
(XEN) Video information:
(XEN) VGA is text mode 80x25, font 8x16
(XEN) VBE/DDC methods: V2; EDID transfer time: 2 seconds
(XEN) Disc information:
(XEN) Found 1 MBR signatures
(XEN) Found 1 EDD information structures
(XEN) Xen-e820 RAM map:
That's about all. If you have any questions drop a comment here.
Install xen-tools on CentOS 5.x
Download xen-tools, install rpmstrap and install xen-tools. If there's a newever version of xen-tools available substitute that filename
yum install -y rpmstrap
wget http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/xen-tools-3.9.tar.gz
tar -xzvpf xen-tools-3.9.tar.gz
cd xen-tools-3.9/
make install
I've not using xen-tools that much but I wanted to put together a tutorial anyway. Let me know how it goes.
Install Xenapi Admin Tools from github
The Xenapi Admin Tools are starting to become so useful that I don't like having XCP hosts without them. Currently you can go to http://xenapi-admin-project.github.com/xenapi-admin-tools/ and download the archive onto your host, extract it and then copy the tools to your PATH. This however, is a lot of work since they get updated often. In the coming weeks (months?) I'll be finishing the Yum repo for Xenapi Admin Tools so the XCP package manager can keep them up to date. Until I get that accomplished however it may be easier to just install git and clone the github repository. Every time you want to get updates you'd just cd into the xenapi-admin-tools directory and run git pull.
With that in mind we have to add the EPEL repository where git is housed in order to use Yum to install it.
Install the EPEL repo
rpm -ivh http://mirror.itc.virginia.edu/fedora-epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
Install git
yum install git
Disable EPEL repo
The EPEL repository is enabled by default so we didn't have to do anything special to install git. However, you may not want it enabled all the time because packages that EPEL hosts may replace XCP specific packages and mess up your system
sed -i 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
Configuring git
To use git to clone our Xenapi Admin Tools repository you'll need to set a few configuration items.
git config --global user.name "Your User Name"
git config --global user.email "Your Email Address" git config --global credential.helper cache git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout 3600'
Now that git is configured you'll want to clone the repository.
cd /root
git clone https://github.com/Xenapi-Admin-Project/xenapi-admin-tools.git
This will create a xenapi-admin-tools directory in /root. The tools are in xenapi-admin-tools/releases/<version number> so you'll probably want to copy them to somewhere in the system PATH (or make a symbolic link). I personally use a /root/bin directory to hold them.


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Sydney Leroux
- U.S. National Team: U-20 WNT
- Position: Forward
- Date Of Birth: May 7, 1990
- Height: 5-7
- Hometown: Phoenix, Ariz.
- Club: UCLA
One of the most dangerous forwards in the world at the U-20 level, she is the USA's most capped player and highest scorer at this level … Heading into the 2010 U-20 Women's World Cup, she had played in 16 matches for the USA, including 14 internationals, and scored 12 goals … Has scored against Jamaica, T&T, Mexico, Germany, England, New Zealand and Japan in 2010 … She has scored 25 U-20 goals in 32 total international games heading into the WWC … A member of the U.S. team that won the 2010 CONACAF U-20 Women's Championships in Guatemala to earn a berth to the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, she scored the winning goal in the final minutes of the 1-0 victory over Mexico in the champion game … Started all five games in Guatemala and led the USA in scoring with six goals, scoring two each against Jamaica and T&T and two against Mexico, one in group play and one in the final … Also a key member of the U.S. team that won the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Chile … She became the first American since Carin Gabarra in 1991 to win the Golden Ball as the tournament's top player at a FIFA Women's World Cup … She also won the Golden Shoe as the tournament's stop scorer with five goals, including the first one in the 2-1 championship game victory over North Korea … At the age of 14, she was a member of Canada's team that played in the 2004 U-19 FIFA Women's World Cup in Thailand where she was the youngest player in the tournament... Captain of Canada's U-15 team that traveled to Germany in 2005 ... Got her international clearance to play for the USA in 2008 and went on to star at the U-20 Women's World Cup.
Won Provincials three years in a row with the Coquitlam City Wild, where she played from U-14s through U-16s … In 2004, the Wild also won the national championship where she had two four-goals games and more than 11 goals in the four-game tournament ... Youngest player to play for the Vancouver Whitecaps Club in the W-League at the age of 15 ... Won a championship with Team BC at the Canada Games in 2005 where she scored in the final ... Member of three State Cup winning teams in the United States, helping Eastside (Seattle, Wash.) to a title in 2006 before moving to Arizona where she played for Sereno in 2007 and 2008.
Had an breakout sophomore season at UCLA in 2009, leading the team in scoring with 23 goals and two assists … Her 23 goals tied the school single-season record previously set by Lauren Cheney in 2007 … Was named an NSCAA Third-Team All-American and Second-team All-Pac-10 selection … Set new UCLA single-season records for both points and goals in NCAA Tournament play, registering 16 points on eight goals during the 2009 NCAA Championships … Tied the school's single-game record for goals, scoring four in a 7-1 victory over Boise State in the NCAA First Round … Also scored twice in a 5-0 win over San Diego State in the second round … Punched in two more in a 3-0 quarterfinal victory against Virginia … Scored a goal in 14 of 24 matches and had seven multiple goal games … As a freshman, she played in 19 matches, making 18 starts and scored five goals with six assists … Was a member of the Pac-10 All-Freshman Team, but missed all five of UCLA's matches during the NCAA Tournament while leading the U.S. to the FIFA U-20 world title ... Scored her first collegiate goal in the team's season opener, tallying the game winner in a 2-1 victory over UC Santa Barbara ... Played two years of high school soccer for Johnston Heights Secondary School in Surrey, British Columbia ... Led the team in scoring as a freshman and sophomore.
Full name is Sydney Rae Leroux … Nickname is Syd … Major is history … Has 11 tattoos … While in Canada, she also won provincials in the 4x100 as a member of the track team ... Has a Chihuahua named Boss who is eight pounds … Mom is Canadian, and she played 3rd base for the Canadian National Softball Team … Father is American who played in the Major Leagues with the Anaheim Angels … Born and raised in Canada until she was 15 and moved to the United States with a goal of earning a college scholarship and playing for the United States Women's National Team … Addicted to shopping, she can shop anywhere, anytime, and enjoys going by herself … Loves music and is a collector of inspirational quotes … Boyfriend Brett Lawrie was drafted first-round draft pick by the Milwaukee Brewers and is currently in the minors in Huntsville, Alabama … When they were 13, they played hard ball against each other and Leroux struck him out.


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Image-Guided Adaptive Conformal Photon Versus Proton Therapy
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The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if, compared with regular x-ray radiation, proton radiation reduces the risk of developing, treatment-related pneumonitis (TRP) or tumor recurrence (the tumor coming back in the irradiated area after treatment) in patients with lung cancer.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Non-Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma |
Radiation: Photon Therapy Radiation: Proton Therapy |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Bayesian Randomized Trial of Image-Guided Adaptive Conformal Photon vs Proton Therapy, With Concurrent Chemotherapy, for Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma: Treatment Related Pneumonitis and Locoregional Recurrence |
- Tumor Recurrence [ Time Frame: 4-8 weeks after completion of chemoradiation, then every 3-4 months for 3 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 250 |
Study Start Date: | June 2009 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | June 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Group 1
Group 1: Photon Therapy - 74 Gy 37 radiation treatments, given 5 days a week for about 7 1/2 weeks. Each daily treatment should take about 20-30 minutes to complete.
Radiation: Photon Therapy
Group 1: 74 Gy 37 radiation treatments, given 5 days a week for about 7 1/2 weeks. Each daily treatment should take about 20-30 minutes to complete.
Experimental: Group 2
Group 2: Proton Therapy - 74 Gy in 2 CGE per fraction given 5 days a week for about 7 1/2 weeks.
Radiation: Proton Therapy
Group 2: 74 Gy in 2 CGE per fraction given 5 days a week for about 7 1/2 weeks. Group 3: 66 Gy with conventional fractionation given 5 days a week for about 6-7 1/2 weeks. Each daily treatment should take about 20-30 minutes to complete. |
Experimental: Group 3
Group 3: Proton treatment at a lower dose level and/or reduced length of radiation - 66 Gy with conventional fractionation given 5 days a week for about 6-7 1/2 weeks.
Radiation: Proton Therapy
Group 2: 74 Gy in 2 CGE per fraction given 5 days a week for about 7 1/2 weeks. Group 3: 66 Gy with conventional fractionation given 5 days a week for about 6-7 1/2 weeks. Each daily treatment should take about 20-30 minutes to complete. |
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 85 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pathologically proven, unresected, locoregionally advanced NSCLC without evidence of hematogenous metastases (stage II-IIIB disease according to the 7th edition of the AJCC Staging Manual) with exception as defined by inclusion #2).
- Patients with solitary brain metastasis without sign of progression in the brain at the time of registration will be eligible for this trial if there is clinical indication for concurrent chemoradiation to the primary disease in the lung.
- Suitability for concurrent chemoradiation therapy per treating radiation oncologists or treating medical oncologist's: A) Karnofsky performance score of >/= 70, or ECOG 0-1 B) Unintentional weight loss </= 10% during the 3 months before study entry.
- Receipt of induction chemotherapy followed by referral for concurrent chemoradiation is allowed for this protocol.
- Measurable disease on chest x-ray, contrast-enhanced CT, or PET scan.
- Locoregional recurrence after surgical resection, if suitable for definitive concurrent chemoradiation is allowed for this protocol.
- Forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1) >/= 1 liters.
- Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) -PET scan within 3 months before registration. The pretreatment (diagnostic) PET/CT should, whenever possible, be performed together with the 4-D CT simulation. PET images acquired either at the time of simulation or acquired separately should be registered with the planning CT to assist in tumor delineation.
- Standard pretreatment evaluations (as decided by treating radiation oncologist, medical oncologist, surgeons or pulmonologist), to include MRI or CT scan of the brain, contrast CT scan of the thorax and upper abdomen, Whole-body PET/CT, pulmonary function tests, lung and cardiac single proton emission computed tomography (SPECT), liver function tests (LFT), blood chemistry, renal function tests, and complete blood count.
- Age >/= 18 years but </= 85 years.
- A signed specific informed consent form before study entry.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Small cell histology.
- Prior thoracic radiotherapy to regions that would result in overlap of radiation therapy fields.
- Pregnancy (female patients of childbearing potential must practice appropriate contraception).
- Enrollment in a clinical trial that specifically excludes IGAPT treatment.
- Body weight exceeds the weight limit of the treatment couch.
- Oxygen dependent due to preexistent lung disease (COPD, emphysema, lung fibrosis).
Contact: Zhongxing Liao, MD | 713-563-2300 |
United States, Massachusetts | |
Massachusetts General Hospital | Recruiting |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114 | |
United States, Texas | |
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center | Recruiting |
Houston, Texas, United States, 77007 | |
Principal Investigator: Zhongxing Liao, MD |
Study Chair: | Zhongxing Liao, MD | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Additional Information:
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00915005 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 2008-0133 |
Study First Received: | June 4, 2009 |
Last Updated: | January 29, 2014 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center:
Locally-advanced non-small-cell lung carcinoma NSCLC Lung Cancer Image-Guided Adaptive Conformal Photon |
Proton Therapy Chemotherapy Treatment Related Pneumonitis |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung Lung Neoplasms Pneumonia Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Carcinoma, Bronchogenic |
Bronchial Neoplasms Respiratory Tract Neoplasms Thoracic Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Lung Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Respiratory Tract Infections |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 09, 2014


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21 June 2002
Computing at speed of light
Toronto, Canada – Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered a way to form tiny perfect crystals that have high optical quality – a finding, they say, that could usher in a new era of ultra-fast computing and communication using photons instead of electrons.
The crystals, called photonic crystals, could greatly improve both speed and bandwidth in communications systems, said professor Geoffrey Ozin of the university's Department of Chemistry.
"All of the promises of what photonic crystals can do, in terms of guiding light and bending light in incredibly small spaces, may be achieved by the assembly of patterns of micrometer-size photonic crystals all in a plane," Ozin said. "The breakthrough possibly represents a step towards the development of miniaturized optical components earmarked for the next generation of all-optical computers and telecommunication systems."
The technique, described in the June issue of Advanced Functional Materials, carves geometrically and spatially well defined microscopic patterns into the surface of a material. The surface relief patterns are then exposed to an alcohol-based solution of synthetic microspheres.
Ozin said the microspheres exclusively enter the surface relief patterns and self-assemble into perfectly arranged microstructures called photonic crystals. The crystals have the property of being able to act as tiny optical components for managing photons in circuits of light similar to how semiconductor transistors control electrons in circuits of electricity.
Ozin, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Materials Chemistry, said he believes the findings represent a step towards significantly reducing the size of optical components, devices, and circuits.
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Highlights of a GAO Forum:
Engaging and Retaining Older Workers
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In the future, older Americans are expected to be a larger share of the U.S. population, live longer, and spend more years in retirement than previous generations, and by 2025 labor force growth is expected to be less than a fifth of what it is today. Without major increases in productivity or immigration, low labor force growth will ultimately lead to slower economic and federal revenue growth. This in turn will accentuate the overall pressure on the federal budget, which will face increased claims for Medicare and Social Security benefits while relatively fewer workers pay into the benefits systems. Moreover, the possible loss of many experienced workers as the baby boomers retire could lead to further adverse effects. If older Americans were to remain in the labor force longer, it could ease some of the pressures on Social Security, supplement individual retirement incomes, and help finance health care. However, researchers have suggested that barriers may impede some older workers who want or need to work. GAO convened this forum to address the issues surrounding engaging and retaining older workers. Participants included experts representing employers, business and union groups, advocates, researchers, actuaries, and federal agencies. These highlights do not necessarily represent the views of any one participant or the organizations that these participants represent, including GAO.
Forum participants discussed obstacles, best practices, and lessons learned from programs to help those older workers who can to work longer and better prepare for retirement. Participants also considered strategies for encouraging organizations to implement practices that will result in more opportunities for older workers. Key Obstacles: Some employers' perceptions about the cost of hiring and retaining older workers are a key obstacle in older workers' continued employment; total compensation and training costs were seen as primary concerns. Workplace age discrimination, the mismatch of workers' skills and availability of jobs because of changes in the economy, as well as the need to keep skills up to date, are all challenges facing older workers. There is a more limited pool of interested workers because of financial incentives to retire as soon as possible, workers' desire to retire or change careers, and some jobs' requirements that make continued work unappealing or unfeasible because of health issues. Legal and regulatory requirements hinder hiring and retaining older workers. Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Participants shared examples of best practices and lessons learned, such as (1) use nontraditional recruiting techniques such as partnerships to help identify and recruit older workers; (2) employ flexible work situations and adapt job designs to meet the preferences and physical constraints of older workers; (3) offer the right mix of benefits and incentives to attract older workers such as tuition assistance, time off for elder care, and employee discounts; (4) treat all employees in a fair and consistent manner and employ a consistent performance management system to prevent age discrimination complaints; and (5) provide employees with financial literacy skills to ensure they have a realistic plan to provide for retirement security. Strategies: (1) Conduct a national campaign to help change the national mindset about work at older ages. (2) Hold a national discussion about what "old" is to help change the culture of retirement. (3) Strengthen financial literacy education to help workers prepare to retire. (4) Create a clearinghouse of best recruiting, hiring, and retention practice for older workers. (5) Make the federal government a model employer for the nation in how it recruits and retains older workers. (6) Create a key federal role in partnerships to implement these strategies. (7) Consider specific legislation or regulations to increase flexibility for employers and employees to create new employment models.
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Palm GPS Navigator Car Kit finds its way to CTIA 2007
Palm announces several new accessories for the Treo 680 and the Treo 750, including the Palm GPS Navigator Car Kit, at CTIA 2007.
New Treos these are not, but Palm did have some news to share at CTIA 2007. Today, the company introduced a number of hands-free car solutions, including the Palm GPS Navigator Car Kit for the Treo 750 and the Treo 680, as well as some new cases (umm, yay?).
The Palm GPS Navigator Kit is specifically made for the new, slimmer Treos (other Treo owners can get the same solution from the Palm GPS Navigator Smartphone Edition) and features a cradle with an integrated GPS receiver and a speakerphone--just snap your Treo 680 or Treo 750 into place, and you can get turn-by-turn voice-guided directions and chat on the phone, while keeping your hands on the wheel. The kit also comes with a 1GB memory card preloaded with TomTom Navigator software and maps of the North America. The Palm GPS Navigator Car Kit will be available starting in April for $299.
Other accessories announced today include the Take&Talk DSP Cradle + CarTalk Hands-free Car Kit for $259, the Comfort Plus DSP Hands-free Car Kit for $199, and the Vaja Classic Pouch for the Treo 680 and Treo 750 ($65). For a full roundup of these accessories, check out Palm's Web site.


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The Cedaredge 4 doubles team of Katie O'Hern and Seirra McHugh qualified for state competition after placing second at the 4A Region 8 tournament on May 3-4. They are the first players from Cedaredge to qualify since 2004, according to head coach Don McFadden.
"Coach Mick" said at last week's practice that he was preparing them by "doing what we always do," and that's sticking to the basics: ground strokes, volleys and serves.
O'Hern and McHugh initially placed third at regionals, then challenged Delta's Rachel Tallent and Emily Kuta to a playback, after they placed second. The two teams had met earlier in the season, with O'Hern and McHugh losing in a double tie-breaker.
They were seeded fourth going into regionals, and Delta was seeded third. "We knew we were going to do well," said O'Hern. "I think we were both a little worried. We knew that we could beat them, because we got so close last time." A day earlier they struggled with their game, but on finals day, they played two great matches, including their win over Montrose to place third. They were at their best and rested going into the playback. Both teams were well-matched in the first set, and in the second set, Cedaredge took a 4-1 advantage. Delta tied it at 4-4, "So that was kind of a scary moment," recalled McHugh.
O'Hern dropped to her knees and cried after the winning point. 'It was probably the best moment ever, because I look over and she looks like she's Tebow-ing, and she's crying," said McHugh.
Their teammates celebrated by showering them with water
O'Hern and McHugh, both sophomores, joined the team their freshman year. Prior to that, "My parents played, but I never even picked up a tennis racket," said McHugh.
Neither had O'Hern, who joined "Just to see if I like it."
Their freshman year, O'Hern played at 4D and McHugh was an alternate. They teamed up at the start of this season.
"From the beginning of the year, that was our goal, to make it to state," said McHugh.
The two are also long-time friends. "Sierra and I have been friends since we were little, real little," said McHugh. "So it's pretty awesome that we both get to go."
O'Hern and McHugh didn't know what to expect at state, but McFadden, who just finished his 34th year of coaching, said that they can expect "to see lots of really good tennis." The two were eliminated in the first round after losing to Rebeka Cowley and Ashley Wright of Longmont, 6-4, 6-1, but they weren't expecting wins. Many of the players who qualify for state dedicate their lives to the sport and come from towns where tennis is a year-round game.
"They were down 0-5 in the second set, and came back," said McFadden. "They are good kids. They did me proud."
The two hope to move up the doubles ladder next year, and plan to stick with it at least through their senior year.
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A chance to earn three wins on a neutral court as well as improve the chemistry of the team are the two most important things Ole Miss is hoping to gain by playing in the Governor's Cup in Cancun, Mexico. The Rebels (7-2 overall) won their first game in the tournament Saturday at home over East Tennessee State while the remainder of the tournament will be held in gyms in Mexico. (December 22, 2010, Page 6)


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Recognized as a Center of Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery
Published: June 4, 2007
Updated: June 30, 2010
Bariatric surgery is an excellent tool to help you limit the amount of food you eat and to facilitate weight reduction.
After bariatric surgery, you will need to significantly adapt your diet and lifestyle to achieve maximum success. You will be losing weight rapidly and proper nutrition is essential to maintain lean body mass, hydration, and skin elasticity, as well as to minimize hair loss.
The post-bariatric surgery meal plan requires a significant change in meal planning for most people. We recommend that you begin adapting your current meal plan now to prepare for this change.
The primary nutrition goals after surgery are as follows:
Most weight loss surgery patients will be discharged from the hospital on a liquid-only meal plan for two to three weeks. After three weeks the diet is usually advanced to soft foods for the next six to eight weeks with a gradual transition to regular consistency foods over the next six to nine months.
Depending on your medical history and surgical procedure, it will be recommended that you take a multivitamin with iron, calcium, and -- with some procedures -- vitamin B12, additional iron, and/or vitamins A, D, E, and K.
Included here are suggestions for making this a safe and uncomplicated transition.
Starting on the day you go home from the hospital, you should drink two ounces, (60 ml), or 1/4 cup of a high-protein liquid nutrition supplement every hour, on the hour, while you are awake. This must be a nutritionally complete liquid that would pass through a standard strainer.
In addition to the nutritionally complete liquid, you should strive to consume two ounces of non-carbonated, non-caffeinated, low- or no-calorie liquid every 15 minutes after the hour for a total of eight fluid ounces each hour.
Your first priority is to drink enough fluid to prevent dehydration; protein is a secondary priority. You should drink a total of six to eight cups of fluid each day to avoid getting dehydrated.
It is not uncommon to feel a sensation of fullness from liquids after surgery. This sensation may limit your ability or desire to take the goal volumes in the first several days after surgery. As you progress from surgery you should find it easier to meet the daily goals.
For best tolerance, do not use straws, take small sips, and start with room temperature liquids.
The liquid-only diet is prescribed for three weeks. Please do not start solid foods until your three week follow up visit with your surgeon and dietitian.
8:00 a.m. -- 2 oz. Boost High Protein
8:15 a.m. -- 2 oz. water
8:30 a.m. -- 2 oz. broth
8:45 a.m. -- 2 oz. diluted juice
Choose a high protein liquid nutrition supplement with no more than 15-20 grams of sugar and at least 13 grams of protein in an eight ounce serving.
Protein is essential to aid in healing and maintaining muscle mass after weight loss surgery. It may also help avoid (but not necessarily prevent) hair loss associated with rapid weight loss. Try to consume at least 40-60 grams of protein per day.
High-protein liquids:
Low-calorie liquids:
Three weeks after surgery you will follow up with your surgeon in clinic and have a diet advancement class with the program dietitian. In this class you will learn how to successfully incorporate soft solid foods back into your meal plan.
Please do not start solid foods until after your three week clinic visit!
Soft foods will be added gradually to your meal plan over the next six to eight weeks. While on the soft diet you must continue to focus on high protein foods and avoid foods that are high in fat, sugar, or fiber.
You may still need to get some of your protein from supplements until you are able to eat enough solid food to meet your nutritional needs (see the list of protein supplements above).
Consuming adequate protein in your diet will help you maintain muscle mass and heal as you lose weight. Because you will not be able to eat a large volume of food at one time you should plan to eat a small meal four to six times each day.
At meal times it is important to focus on high protein foods, making sure you eat them first. You will be instructed to add only one new food at a time to establish tolerance to foods slowly. If you do not tolerate a food well, the problem may be with the food itself, how it was prepared, or the way it was consumed.
Learn to recognize when you are full. Indications of fullness may be a pressure, tightness, or heaviness in the center of your abdomen just below the breast bone. Feelings of nausea, regurgitation, or heartburn are indications that too much has been eaten or the meal was eaten to rapidly.
Nausea, abdominal pain, or discomfort is most often the result of eating inappropriately and rarely a complication of surgery. Common eating-related causes of discomfort are: eating too fast, not chewing food well, eating too much food at once, eating solid foods too soon after surgery, or drinking liquids either with meals or right after meals.
Following are lists of foods allowed and those to be avoided while on the soft diet. The foods on the avoid list are there because most patients do not tolerate them for the first two to three months after surgery. Some patients do tolerate these foods, but it is best to start with the foods on the recommended list.
Once you have learned how to eat with your new gastric anatomy and have healed from surgery, you can start to add other foods one at a time over the next few months. If you follow these suggestions, your transition to solid foods and weight loss will be a success.
High-protein foods:
Other foods:
Soft foods to avoid:
Crunchy fibrous foods:
Tough or rubbery foods:
High-fat foods:
It is now 10-12 weeks post surgery and you are ready to progress from soft solids to regular consistency foods. Eventually, you will probably be able to eat most of what you were eating before surgery, only in much smaller amounts.
Overall you should be making healthy food choices including lean meat or vegetable protein, low-fat dairy, incorporating fruit and vegetables as you are able, and avoiding empty calorie or "junk" foods as they are typically high in fat and sugar.
Long term, patients must choose foods with good nutritional value. Each meal should have at least three ounces of protein. Learn to read food labels and limit fat and sugar intake, choose low-fat (five grams or less per serving), low-sugar (five grams or less per serving), and lean protein foods.
The volume you can tolerate will always be limited so choose foods wisely to avoid filling up on foods with little nutritional value.


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Packaging Distributors, Inc: Compact checkweigher
The patent-pending "Lifting Weigh Platform" allows product to be weighed without having to weigh the entire conveyor protecting the load cells from possible damage. Metering device weigh platform and reject mechanism are all contained in one compact footprint. Options include SCADA interface to bar-code readers and printers open-flap detection and code-date verification.


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The Morgan Library & Museum's collection of Italian old master drawings is one of the most significant in this country and functions as a cornerstone of the institution's holdings in graphic art. The nucleus of the Morgan's Italian drawings—presently numbering at nearly three thousand sheets including sketchbook and album pages—originated in Pierpont Morgan's 1909 purchase of fifteen hundred drawings from the Fairfax Murray collection, which contained exceptional examples of sixteenth- and eighteenth-century Italian draftsmanship. Since then the Morgan has acquired, through both purchases and gifts, remarkable Italian drawings and continues to grow. The Morgan houses drawings by Italy's most prominent Renaissance artists. Florence—arguably the center of draftsmanship in Renaissance Italy—yielded a plethora of master draftsmen, such as Sandro Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, and Fra Bartolommeo, whose works reveal the central role of drawing in the artistic process. This practice is brought to a remarkable level of perfection in drawings by the canonical triumvirate of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. The succeeding generation of artists, such as Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo Pontormo, and Luca Signorelli, as well as major north Italian masters of the Renaissance, such as Correggio, Parmigianino, and Andrea Mantegna, are also well-represented in the collection. From artists who worked for papal Rome during the seventeenth century, the Morgan owns significant works by Annibale Carracci, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and Pietro da Cortona. The breadth of the Morgan's collection of Italian Baroque drawings is due in large part to the incorporation during the second half of the twentieth century of the Janos Scholz collection, which introduced a large number of accomplished drawings by artists working in various artistic centers, such as Bologna, Naples, Genoa, and Milan. Venetian drawings are a particularly rich component of the Morgan's Italian drawings collection. In addition to drawings by Renaissance masters such as Vittore Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese, the Morgan's holdings comprise the best collection of Venetian eighteenth-century drawings in the United States. Sheets with elegant views of Venice by Canaletto and Giambattista Tiepolo's exquisite decorative designs are numerous and of the highest quality.
Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–1594)Two Studies of Samson Slaying the Philistines Black chalk, heightened with wetted white chalk, on blue paper (faded)17 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches (443 x 285 mm)Thaw CollectionThe present sheet is among the more than thirty studies Tintoretto and his workshop produced after a wax or clay replica of Michelangelos 1528 sculptural model for Samson Slaying the Philistines. The spiraling and radically foreshortened figure of Samson wielding the jawbone of an ass atop one of his victims must have held a particular fascination for the artist, who rose to the challenge of producing a two-dimensional image of the sculpture with admirable skill.


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Miriam speaking at TEDx DePaul University in April 2012. Her talk was called "Transforming Empathy."
Miriam Zoila Pérez is a North Carolina native whose upbringing in a Cuban immigrant household was pretty far from Southern, although she does enjoy BBQ and the occasional Carolina basketball game. She graduated from Swarthmore College with High Honors and a BA in Anthropology in 2006 and has lived in various East Coast cities ever since. She is a writer, and activist focused on race, health and gender and the Communications Director at Forward Together.
Pérez has been working in the reproductive justice movement for over seven years, both online and off, including more than six years working with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. In September 2013 she joined the staff of Forward Together as the Communications Director. Prior to that role, she worked for four years as a consultant for social justice non-profits, focusing on digital communications.
Pérez is the founder of Radical Doula, a blog that covers the intersections of birth activism and social justice from a doula's perspective. You might also know her from her work at Feministing.com, where she was an Editor for four years, during which the site was awarded the Sidney J Hillman Prize for Blog Journalism. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Colorlines, Alternet, The American Prospect, MORE Magazine and RH Reality Check. Pérez's work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Click, Yes Means Yes and Persistence. She was chosen as a 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging LGBT Voice in Non-Fiction. She is the author of the self-published Radical Doula Guide: A Political Primer for Full-Spectrum Pregnancy and Childbirth Support, which has sold over 900 copies.
She is a frequent speaker nationwide and has spoken at over 60 colleges and universities on topics related to reproductive justice and feminism. Pérez is a former member of the Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective Management Circle, and is currently serving as the Board Chair of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.
She has received various awards and recognitions for her work, including a 2009 Young Woman of Achievement Award from the Women's Information Network and a 2010 Barbara Seaman Award for Activism in Women's Health from the National Women's Health Network. She was included in a MORE Magazine feature about new feminists to pay attention to, Curve Magazine named her Best Activist/Newcomer in 2010 and Latina Magazine profiled her as part of their 15th anniversary "Future 15."
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Dickinson said a "use of force" form will be filed once supervisors to the case finish reviewing the incident.
But he doesn't anticipate any repercussions for Dennis or the other officers.
"I can't see where he's violated anything," Dickinson said of Dennis.
"Most of the public hasn't seen the real (surveillance) video," he said. "It's created a real divide in the community because they've only seen the viral video. It doesn't show the whole context. In doing
so, they've given the community a completely false idea of the situation."
Dickinson said the incident has led to a division in one Sequim school (he wouldn't name it for privacy issues) between students, parents and teachers getting into debates over the issue of excessive force. He'll be meeting briefly to discuss it with school superintendent Kelly Shea.
Feedback from community
Since the incident, Dickinson said he's gotten mixed comments from the public.
He said he's gotten some supportive e-mails and calls while most of the negative feedback is coming online.
So far, the Internet video has garnered more than 14,000 views.
Dickinson said the surveillance video shows that Weimer was combative whereas the viral video draws people's assumptions that he was beaten while handcuffed.
"He was actively resisting arrest," Dickinson said.
The community's impression remains a mixed bag on what went down.
Kris Young, 28, feels that there's not enough information from the 30-second video to make a solid judgement. But that doesn't mean that he's not a little concerned about the degree of force Dennis used.
"It's definitely walking that line of excessiveness but I don't like to jump to conclusions," Young said.
He also believes that Sequim's younger population has a bit of an anti-authoritarian streak, as a natural product of police responses to partying in a small town, and that this causes younger people in town to have a bias against authority. "This town's got a lot of people that like to party, so the reaction is to get angry at police."
Retiree John Orr said he's in favor of the police's actions.
"You get a couple of guys scrapping it out in the bar and the cops have to make a call," Orr said.
One online commenter Katelyn Garrett said on YouTube that Weimer "wasn't resisting at all. The cop was pissed and acted like a bully.
The guy was down and the officer was just mad. AND SHAME ON THE OTHER OFFICERS for just letting that assault happen." (Capitals are Garrett's.)
How Dennis handled the situation is one of many ways, Dickinson said, an officer can deal with a situation similarly to the Oasis incident.
"One blog suggested he should be tazed or pepper-sprayed instead, but that's way more painful," he said.
"This was to break his concentration. It's a technique. It just doesn't look pretty when officers have to use force."
Incidentally, Dickinson said a similar situation happened the night before at the Oasis that was handled much easier.
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Hey guys hopefully I can make this clear enough to understand. I have and older house built in the 50's. Just replaced the boiler about 2 years ago and the heat just isn't that great. I have from the boiler at the rear of the house two 2" pipes running to the front of the house. One is the supply and one is the return. There are four tee's in the supply line running to each of the four radiators in the house and four tee's in the return coming from each radiator back to the boiler. Am I right saying that the system is not a loop? Shouldn't the supply run from one radiator to the next and then back to the boiler?
Can I remove all the lines in the basement and start at the boiler with 1" pex and then continue to the first radiator then to the second and so on then back to the boiler?
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CDR Nakamura is a nuclear surface warfare officer who was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Beaumont, Texas. She graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a BS in English in 1997. She holds a MS in Engineering Management from Old Dominion University and a MS in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.
CDR Nakamura's first assignment was as Strike Officer in USS VELLA GULF (CG 72) for BALTOPS and a Mediterranean Sea Deployment in support of Operation Noble Anvil. She completed her tour and reported to Naval Nuclear Power School in October 1999. Following six months of classroom training and six months of nuclear prototype training, she reported to USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) in November 2000. Her tour onboard NIMITZ included completion of Refueling Complex Overhaul (RCOH) and successful completion of two Operational Reactor Safeguards Examinations (ORSE) as the Reactor Electrical then Reactor Controls Division Officer. She also completed her Engineer's Exam during this tour.
CDR Nakamura completed Department Head School and served as Operations Officer in USS COLE (DDG 67) from August 2005 to December 2006. During that time, COLE completed various exercises and certifications and deployed with IWO JIMA Expeditionary Strike Group in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. CDR Nakamura served as Reactor Training Assistant in USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70) from March 2007 until January 2009.
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Hey guys, I can't get Hero Nav out of the mobile mode. Please help.
Hero Nav 1.2.1
Posted 01 November 2013 - 12:33 AM
Hey guys, I can't get Hero Nav out of the mobile mode. Please help.
Hero Nav 1.2.1
Posted 01 November 2013 - 02:13 AM
Hey there @radroz,
I took a look at your site there. The problem is that none of the sections styles are present in your compiled css.
You probably need to flush your caches. Try doing this under "Global Settings > Resets > Flush Caches".
If that doesn't work, try disabling hero nav, refreshing your site, and then re-enabling it and refreshing again.
In trying to reproduce your issue, I was able to get the same result somehow, but the issue is rooted in DMS not loading the styles or caches that won't flush.
Could be a 1.1.1 bug.
Try those things and let me know if that helps!
It was in fact a bug with Hero Nav 1.2.1. I am deploying version 1.2.2 right now as a fix!
Posted 01 November 2013 - 02:40 AM
I was trying those all night. No Flushed the caches a few times. Same problem. No change with 1.2.2
Posted 01 November 2013 - 02:55 AM
Okay, an update. I deactivated all plugins except Hero. Cleared the cache.
Now it shows correctly, but ONLY when logged out. When I'm in the DMS editor, it still shows as a mobile menu.
Posted 01 November 2013 - 03:10 AM
Glad to hear you're at least OK now on the live side. However, this isn't something I have been able to replicate myself.
Draft mode and live mode do use separate sources for styles, but flushing the cache under Resets should definitely clear those out.
When you say mobile menu, is it the same thing you were seeing in 1.2.1? or the styled menu, just stuck in mobile resolution?
Posted 01 November 2013 - 03:11 AM
The singe button with the three horizontal bars. Yes.
Posted 01 November 2013 - 03:45 AM
Sorry to hear you're still having trouble. Seeing as I cannot reproduce this locally, would you be willing to give me a login to your site for me to see this firsthand? If so, simply PM me the login and I will check it as soon as I can.
I must let you know that I am currently incredibly busy at the moment (in the process of moving), so I may not be able to look at it until later tomorrow sometime.
Just curious - do you have WP debug on? Any visible php errors/notices and/or JS errors in the console?
Posted 01 November 2013 - 03:46 AM
Okay, I'll get that to you asap. I'm about to turn in since I can sleep knowing that I'm not going to get an angry phone call in the morning.