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Previously, we've debated movies, actors and directors. And informally, we've debated everything under the sun. Since there are so many topics to debate, why not make it a weekly (where applicable) thing? So welcome to (Late Night) Off Topic Friday.
Today's topic: Saturday Night Live casts.
My assessment: the best SNL cast was the early- to mid-1990's cast that included Farley, Sandler, Spade, Schneider and others. Sure, Farley is gone and the rest have had movie careers that seem more influenced by the dollar ("Grown Ups", really?), but that SNL run of '91-'95 was the tits.
Possible opposition (list is not meant to be exhaustive): original cast (Chase, Akroyd, Belushi, Curtin); late '90s-early '00s (Ferrell, Fey, Hammond, Fallon, Morgan); current (Hader, Samberg, Sudekis, Wiig).

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"Welcome to All Nations Church.
We aim to proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord of all nations, seeking to show what that means in our life together and in our service to others. Come join us — we'd love to have you for a Sunday or for a season of life."
— Pastor Dave Vroege
- Kids Clubs, Friday nights, in the church building, 6:30 - 8:00 pm. Contact the church office for dates.
- Women's Group ("Coffeebreak"), every Thursday, in the church building, 9:30 am
- Sunday School for both children and adults, after morning worship every week
- Our Youth Group meets about every other week, usually on Tuesday evenings. Our leaders are Paul V and Kewoba, feel free to ask them for more information.


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The "Terrible Towels" battle the "Cheese Heads". Sounds like the title for a bad B movie. But even though I don't really care for either team, In fact I dislike them both, the NFL fan in me can't help but appreciate two of the most storied franchises in NFL history meeting in the Super Bowl. The team that had the Lombardi Trophy named after their former coach will be going up against the team that's won more of those trophies than anyone else. Plus, there's the added bonus that in the year Brett Favre finally decided to call it quits, the Packers are back in the SB proving they made the right choice by letting him go and that the football gods really do have a sense of humor.
Against Peyton Manning and the Colts, a team Rex Ryan's Jets had never beaten while Manning played, it was personal. Against Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and the hated Patriots, a team that had crushed them 45-3 on Dec 6th, it was personal. But against the Steelers it wasn't. They were playing in the AFC championship game so how much motivation did the Jets really need? Apparently, a lot.
The Jets came out flatter then Keira Knightley's chest and the Steelers jumped out to a 24-0 lead. What was even more amazing was how the Steelers did it. Against the NFL's 3rd ranked rush defense, the Steelers gained 135 yards on the ground in the first half, with 95 of those yards coming from Rashard Mendenhall. Meanwhile, the Jets 4th ranked rushing attack could only manage 1 yard in return, making even a Jimmy Raye offense look like the second coming of the greatest show on turf.
Luckily for the Jets, in the second half the Steelers went into what can only be described as a prevent offense as they desperately tried to milk the clock. After cutting the lead to 24-10, and with only 1 quarter to play, the Jets drove 80 yards to the Steelers 1 yard line, where OC Brian Shcottenheimer called a series of plays that will have Jets fans wondering "what if" all off-season long. On 2nd and 3rd down, after a run heavy drive, Shcottenheimer called back-to-back pass plays to the front of the endzone. One fell incomplete and the second pass would have been intercepted if the defender had a hand in the middle of his chest. Then on 4th down he brought everyone in and had LT, not the stronger Shonn Greene, run right up the middle into a brick wall. When asked about the play calling in that situation, Rex Ryan said, "We were trying to score." Funny, Big Ben said something similar when he was asked about locking the girl in the bathroom.
Packers 21, Bears 14
The Packers let Brett Favre go even though he still had a couple good years left because they felt they had their QB of the future with Aaron Rodgers. The Bears traded 2 first round picks, 2 other picks, and a player for Jay Cutler with the belief he could be their QB of the future. Before this season, neither one of them had ever won a playoff game. Now Rodgers is off to the Super Bowl and Cutler is left with people not only questioning his big game ability, but also questioning his heart.
Early in the 3rd quarter Cutler left the game with a knee injury but was also seen riding a stationary bike and could walk to the locker room without cruches. "There is no medicine for a guy with no guts and heart," tweeted Buccaneers LB Derrick Brooks. "If I'm on the Chicago team Jay Cutler has to wait 'til me and the team shower [and] get dressed and leave before he comes in the locker room," tweeted Darnell Dockett. "Cutler...wat a sissy!" tweeted Seahawks DE Raheem Brock. My own thought is that this Twitter thing sure seems like it's here to stay.
But his teammates were quick to come to his defense. "They should turn that [insert swear word of choice here] twitter off," said center Olin Kreutz. LB Brian Urlacher said, "Just jealous guys sitting at home watching on TV." Who Urlacher will now be joining.
Not that Cutler was having a good game. His 31.8 QB rating was the fifth worst rating by a QB with at least 14 pass attempts in a playoff game over the last five years. "Kinda wish they would have had Jay in there the whole time the way things were going," said Packers LB Clay Matthews. Which is probably why he was pulled and the injury was just an excuse. Now the Packers are back in the SB and the Bears are left wondering if they're able to find the receipt, could they at least return Cutler for some store credit.


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One of the athletic feats for which Youngblood is best known, is that of playing the entire 1979 playoffs, including Super Bowl XIV, with a fractured left fibula.[23] He also played in the 1980 Pro Bowl with the injured leg, a week after the Super Bowl.[24] In the playoffs, Youngblood sacked Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach near the sideline in the waning moments of the divisional playoff game versus the Cowboys.[25] Playing with the fractured leg was noted by Sports Illustrated in their Top 10 list of athletes playing in pain.[26] For that and other achievements Jack was dubbed the John Wayne of football by Jim Hanifan and echoed by Hall of Fame coach John Madden.[27] The NFL Network series NFL Top 10 selected Youngblood's performance in the 1979 playoffs as top on its list of the Gutsiest Performances″ of all-time.[28]
For the 1979 season Youngblood had a career-high 18 sacks[29] and was a consensus First-team All-pro for the fifth time. He was voted to his seventh consecutive Pro Bowl. In 1980 he was Second-team All-pro and First-team All-NFC while leading the Rams with 11½ sacks. In 1981 Jack led the Rams with 12½ sacks and was the Rams outstanding defensive lineman. In the off-season, prior to the 1981 season, Jack had emergency surgery to remove a hot-dog sized blood clot from under his left arm. It was a result of repeated trauma to a nerve in his arm that blocked the flow of blood.[30] Despite the broken leg and numerous other injuries, Youngblood played in 201 consecutive games, a Rams team record; and only missed 1 game in his 14-year NFL career. He played in seven straight Pro Bowls, 5 NFC Championships, and one Super Bowl. He was also the Rams defensive captain from 1977 through 1984 and was voted the Dan Reeves award 3 times, which is awarded to the team's MVP. He had 151½ career sacks and led the Rams in sacks nine times despite playing first in assistant Coach Ray Malavasi's stop-the-run-first defensive scheme and then in his final two seasons in Defensive Coordinator Fritz Shurmur's 3-4 two-gap scheme[31] which limited some pass rush opportunities to make sure the opponent's running game was handled.


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I didn't see the last game against NY but it seems like a lot of NY fans were raving about Dalembert--guess he played well.
Since Dalembert is not happy here in Sacramento and Anthony Randolph wants out in NY. What about AR and Curry for Dalembert? I know AR has not proven anything in the NBA--heck, he might even have low IQ--but if there's no chance we'd resign Dalembert, why not take a risk on a prospect (is he still considered one?)? As for Curry, he can be a warning to DMC--stay away from the cheeseburgers.


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AVON — Those interested in learning more about the job of a police officer can get an insider's look through the Citizen's Police Academy.
Conducted by the Avon Police Department, it's tentatively scheduled for 10 consecutive Wednesdays, starting 6 p.m. April 24 at the Avon Police and Town Court Building. Residents may apply online at AvonGov.org or in person at the Avon Police Department, 6550 E. U.S. 36. The deadline to apply is April 10.
Bill Weems, Avon's assistant police chief, says they got the idea for the citizen's police academy through another law enforcement department. This is the fourth year they've run it.
"We want to expose the citizenry to what we do, how we do it, and why we do certain things when we're on the streets and conducting investigations," Weems said. "We expose them to all those things so they get a better understanding of how we do our job."
Participants get to shoot weapons and drive a police car. Detectives take them through actual crimes that have been solved and prosecuted. They can even be Tasered if they want.
"We let them shoot the Taser," Weems said. "In the last class, we had all but one volunteer to take a shot from the Taser."
The academy, which is free, also teaches the public how to be better witnesses.
"If something happens they know exactly what we're looking for and how we're going to do certain parts of our job," Weems said. "Then those people go out and tell their friends what they experienced. It's really multiplied our perception among the public of the job we do."
Indeed, since the academy started Avon police have had a few participants return to volunteer in their office and serve as community service officers. They help with things like lockouts, Vehicle Identification Number checks, and minor crashes.


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Post by sock king kasamatsu on Apr 10, 2011 21:05:46 GMT -5
Name: Moose
Age: 17
Gender: Male
District/Area: Wanderer
Codeword: odair
It's really bad, I know. DX He was made for the D9 plottage, so he's rushed some. D: I be willing to fix any of it if need be. After nearly a century, he's finally done. :D -dances-
Age: 17
Gender: Male
District/Area: Wanderer
No, that's not what I really look like. I'm actually a moose. You know, the big deer-relatives that have massive antlers? Yeah, that's me. But for now I guess I'm just forced to tell you about this human body I'm trapped in.
First of all, my hair is short and an earthy-coppery tone. I don't let it grow out too long simply because it gets very annoying, so I keep it trimmed so it won't ever get into my dark green-ish eyes. Around the pupil, though, there's streaks and specks of bright grassy-green, kinda making it look like when you look up at the forest canopy and the sunlight is coming through, making each leaf a different shade of green. And from what I've seen of my reflection, my eyes kind of look a little too close together. But I guess that's good, in a way, if it distracts people from my large nose. Not that it's very wide, but it sticks out further than normal. And my mouth is smaller than average, but that's okay. It doesn't keep me from eating grass whenever I feel like it, so I don't mind it. My face itself is narrow, but all moose's faces are narrow. It's normal. I'm also missing a few teeth on both my upper and bottom jaw, and the color of the ones that're left is variant shades of yellow. Moose don't brush their teeth, just so you know.
And just like a moose, I'm not skinny. I've got a fairly good deal of muscle from running all around the forest, chasing after other animals that try stealing my grass, and pushing down dead trees. Or trying to, at least. I don't have any flab (or so I think) from all the exercise and I'm pretty thick-skinned, so though getting cut does hurt, it heals quickly and mostly tends to scar. I don't know why, but I scar easily, which explains all the varying white lines on the majority of my body (my fur usually covers them up, so they're hidden). But that's okay! Scars are a sign of a true moose's power, and I am a very powerful moose, so the more scars, the better. And I have a black marking/tattoo of a wide necklace with little tiny dagger-ish looking things all sticking down. It hurts my eyes to look that far down at the dagger thingies for so long, so I don't do that often enough to know what they look like. I don't remember when the marking got on my skin, but it looks fearsome for a moose like me.
That's me! That's me right there! I'm so pretty.
First of all, I don't really cope well with being told what to do. I am my own person and you are not me, so therefore you are not allowed to tell me to do things. Not unless I really like you, then I'll do some things for you, but other than that, no. Just no. I don't really like anyone. And if you do try to boss me around, I won't hesitate to attack you by any means necessary. You should beware of even the weakest moose, seeing as they can skewer you with the spikes on their antlers, and a moose as big and powerful as myself should be very much feared. I can pummel you into the dirt, stomp on you and crush you with my weight, and them stab you with my antlers. When I get at you for bossing me around, I am unrelenting! I hate being told what to do, so don't even try it!
Friends? What friends? I don't have any friends. But who needs them? Moose don't. All they ever do is get in the way and steal my berries and such, so I don't particularly like them unless they do something for me, but like that ever happens. Other people tend to avoid me, for some reason... I don't know why. Sure, other moose live in herds and always have company, but I am a loner and don't need anyone else to help me survive. I am a smart moose and can fend for myself, so I don't need help. Ever. This goes along with the lines of don't boss me around or face the consequences!
I don't need family, either. They left me! I don't even know why! I was just being myself the whole time, but apparently that didn't suit them right, so they just dumped me off. I hate them! Why would they do that to their own son?! I loved them... I really did. Who doesn't love their parents? But they repay my love for them with abandoning me, and I forever hate them. I hate all parents! They all may have nice appearances, but underneath all that crap front is a demented mind that plots the demise of their own offspring. I seriously don't know how any sort of lineage can carry on if all the parents ever do is plot to destroy their kids. Sheesh. If I ever have one of my own -- which I highly doubt will happen -- well, I don't know. I hate parents, so I'd probably just hate myself, or something. I guess I'll just have to wait and see, though it shouldn't take long. All strong and brave moose like me always find beautiful cows following after us.
I don't like civilization, so that's why I stick to the forest the majority of my time. People just aren't my kind of mammals, so I tend to avoid them a lot. They never did anything good for me, so why should I do anything good for them? The same goes for any of my friends, if I ever make any: if you don't do me a favor, don't expect one from me unless I feel like giving you one, but then you have to give me a favor back or I'll get onto you about it. And if you yell at me for nagging you, well, I've already gone over this, so no need to repeat myself.
For the first ten years of my life, things were actually normal, from what I can recall. My parents were nice folks and we all often hunted together, skinned the animals and cooked them as a family. I loved them and they loved me, and we all got along great. But when I was about six or so, my parents began getting into major fights, causing my dad to become angry all the time and beat both me and my mother. At first, you know, it was usually just a hit or two every other day, but as time progressed, it quickly evolved into I'm-going-to-beat-you-to-a-pulp kind of beating. He started coming home later and later at night, reeking of alcohol and usually vomiting towards morning, then getting right to yelling at my mother and I as soon as we were up and claiming that we "were as loud as a herd of moose running through the house and murdering each other." Of course we weren't, though. We were very quiet, especially because we were usually trying to hide from the guy. Mother tried to get him to quit drinking, but that really didn't go over well for her.
So one day when my mother tried to get my father to stop drinking again, he started going after her like she was some rotten scoundrel wolf that just needed to be taken care of. He had a big ass pipe, too, and was pummeling her relentlessly. I had been hiding behind the door while this was occurring, but when it looked as though my mother was about to pass out, I jumped from my hiding spot and tried to take on the big drunk guy, but I was only about ten years old, so how the hell was I supposed to expect to beat him? As I tried to attack him, he merely grabbed my head with his hand and shoved me back. I stumbled, and before I could even react, he swung the pipe at me, hitting me in the head like when you hit a ball with a bat. Needless to say, I was out like a candle in a storm.
When I woke up, things seemed awfully different. I was no longer human! Instead, I was a mighty moose with enormous, fine antlers that could kill you with a single great swipe. But another thing: the house was eerily quiet. Despite the pain in my head and the fact that the walls were tumbling around in a circle, I couldn't find anyone in the house. Well, wasn't that just dandy?
I waited around until I could see clearly and my head stopped hurting, then I headed over to a friend's house. I stayed with them for a few weeks, but they just didn't accept me for who I really was. "A moose?!" they said. "You aren't a moose! You're a human boy! Stop thinking this nonsense. I know your parents died, but that's no reason for you to act this way." But they're wrong. I'm me, and I'm not going to change for anyone. So, needless to say, I left them. They weren't really my friends anyway if they didn't believe me when I told the truth. I can live without them. And from that day on, I've lived outside the district fence where no one looks down on me for who I really am. No one makes fun of any moose that're out here in the wild, where we really belong, anyway. I love the woods and I don't plan on ever leaving it.
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Website raises legal questions about homeowners and tenants hosting travelers
Posted Apr 1, 2014 4:00 AM CDT
By Kevin Davis
When one of his roommates moved out of the three-bedroom, $2,900-a-month Brooklyn apartment they shared, Chris Dannen needed to do something quick to make up for the lost rent.
So he began offering short-term rentals to travelers through the popular website Airbnb. The bookings and cash started coming fast. When his other roommate left a few months later, Dannen rented a second room through Airbnb. Business got so good that he bought hotel-quality sheets for his guests.
In less than a year, Dannen says, he earned nearly $20,000 renting to Airbnb guests from around the world at an average of $65 a night. Then one day there was a knock on his door. A man handed him a restraining order from his landlord, demanding that Dannen stop renting out rooms. The package included a printout of Dannen's Airbnb profile, along with customer reviews.
Dannen, a senior editor at FastCompany Digital in New York, wound up being evicted 10 days later. He grudgingly accepted that under the terms of his lease, his landlord had the right to evict him for not following the rules by seeking permission each time he got new "roommates."
But beyond the terms of the lease, Dannen and tens of thousands of others who are renting rooms through Airbnb and other websites operate in a murky area of the law that's receiving greater scrutiny and creating controversy. At issue is whether those who rent rooms should be subject to the same kinds of regulations and taxes as hotels and bed-and-breakfasts.
Airbnb is a San Francisco-based company that matches travelers seeking affordable accommodations with people who have rooms for rent. The company, launched in 2008, claims to reach more than 34,000 cities in 192 countries.
While Airbnb is careful to inform its users that they're responsible for complying with local laws, as well as checking their leases and conferring with condo and co-op boards, that hasn't prevented a host of conflicts.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman served Airbnb with a subpoena last October in an effort to investigate whether Airbnb hosts were avoiding occupancy taxes by operating illegal hotels. The subpoena asked for the tax information and addresses of those who rented out their apartments in New York City, which amounts to about 15,000 people.
Airbnb sought to quash the subpoena, calling the request "unreasonably broad" and a "government-sponsored fishing expedition." The subpoena also prompted the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Democracy & Technology to support Airbnb with an amicus brief, taking the view that "legal processes targeting online intermediaries as a means to get to information about their users en masse raises pronounced privacy concerns."
Airbnb did not respond to requests for comment, including a series of written questions provided by the ABA Journal.
What's happened in New York is being closely watched by those who support the concept of a sharing economy, a system in which people offer housing, goods and services on a small scale at reasonable prices that compete with the commercial market.
Among them is attorney Janelle Orsi, director of the Oakland, Calif.-based Sustainable Economies Law Center and author of Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy.
Orsi says the problem is that lawmakers did not foresee the complications that arise in a shared economy model, nor did they anticipate the kinds of collaborative relationships being formed with companies like Airbnb. She believes that people should have the chance to earn money from sharing goods and services—even their homes.
But these kinds of transactions often clash with local laws designed to prevent people from turning homes into places of business. "I think what we're seeing is a reaction that the sharing economy doesn't fit the traditional legal frameworks," Orsi says. "Some of the reaction, like New York wanting to ban Airbnb activities, are too extreme."
There are ways to make it work, Orsi says. She suggests that cities consider allowing residents to have paid guests for a limited number of days per year and collect an occupancy tax. But she also believes homeowners and renters have a right to share through "accessory use," a zoning term that refers to the ways people customarily and incidentally make use of their homes.
In the case of Antoinette Wonsey in Chicago, police believed she was using her home for more than just incidental use based on the number of people seen coming and going from the residence. "There's good money in it," says Wonsey, who rents out three bedrooms, which include bunk beds.
Police were tipped off because they saw many of Wonsey's guests wandering in the South Side neighborhood where she lives, an area that doesn't get many outside visitors. Officers cited her for operating a hotel without a business license.
After getting her citation, Wonsey said a lawyer from Airbnb called and they talked, but there wasn't much he could do from San Francisco. "I don't know what they could have done. You have to go by the laws of the land where you are," she says.
David Staudacher, information coordinator for Chicago's Office of Consumer Protection and Business Affairs, says the city has received complaints about Airbnb and has issued tickets to people renting the spaces without a business license. He did not provide the exact number, however.
Staudacher says a license is required for short-term vacation rentals, and the residence must contain six or fewer rooms for rent. The license costs $250 for two years, and the city's 4.5 percent tax applies.
In addition, renters are required to obtain fire, hazard, liability and general commercial liability insurance, as well as maintain current guest registration records.
Changing the laws to make room for a sharing economy may make the most sense. "These are early signs that we have a lot of work to do," Orsi says. "All cities will have to look at their own policies about short-term rentals. How much is too much? How much do they charge in taxes? Do they want to regulate safety? I think every city is going to need to do that on its own."
Orsi points to San Francisco, where city officials seem to have an open mind in working with Airbnb. In fact, Board of Supervisors president David Chiu has reached out to Airbnb to help resolve some of the issues. As a result, Airbnb has said it's willing to help collect occupancy taxes in San Francisco, as well as in New York City.
Amy Chan, a legislative aide to Chiu, says there are many competing interests, and they have had meetings with residents, property owners, officials from Airbnb, and representatives of the hotel and tourism industries. "We're trying to create legislation to allow for some flexibility and thinking about how to improve enforcement and come to a solution that is fair," she says.
Chan says the city doesn't need to go so far as to ban short-term rentals. "Short of saying we're going to shut down the activity, we're asking whether there can be parameters that will allow it to exist," she says.
For Dannen in New York, those parameters don't matter at the moment. After moving from his three-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, Dannen decided to end his short-term rental business with Airbnb.
"I have a studio and live in Brooklyn Heights. It's not as popular as the other location," he says. Renting "doesn't fit my lifestyle anymore. I like this apartment and don't want to get kicked out."
This article originally appeared in the April 2014 issue of the ABA Journal with this headline: "Guest Wrong: Website raises legal questions about homeowners and tenants hosting travelers."
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Iam looking for a good home for my min pin, he is full of energy and gets along well with children and other pets. He is a little shy but once he opens up he will light up your world! He already had his first set of shots and dewormed. He comes with a bed, blanket, 3 toys, 2 feeding dishes, a collar, harness, 2 leashes, shampoo(dry&wet), the remaining of his food, and stain remover! I am moving at the end of the month and cant take him so in need of a good home!
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IOEBA registered Older Boston Bulldog puppy
IOEBA registered Olde Boston bulldogge male. White with 1 brindle ear. Family raised, very friendly, vet checked, dewormed, utd on shots.
540-455-4951. Call or text. 5 puppies to choose from.
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IOEBA registered Olde Boston Bulldog puppy
IOEBA registered brindle olde Boston bulldogge. Family raised, very friendly, vet checked, dewormed, utd shots.
Olde Boston bulldogge. IOEBA registered. Family raised , very friendly, vet checked, dewormed, utd shots.
German Rottweiler AKC. 7 weeks old male
1 male 7 weeks old first set of shots tails docked do claws removed
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Adorable AKC Sheltie Male Puppy & 7 weeks old
Tri-Color Male will be available to go to his forever home on 8/24/14. He will be placed with his first shots, one-year health guarantee, and with a limited AKC registration. He has been family raised and both parents on site. He has a full collar and his markings are symmetrical - he will is beautiful! Visit us at heartlandshelties.com
Cute Little Chihuahua puppy
Precious little 11 week old Chihuahua puppies. Puppies are very sweet and do well with other pets. They have first immunizations. 1 short haired white male still available. Puppies should be 5-8 lbs. full grown. Parents pictured in last two pictures. Looking for loving responsible homes for our babies. Please call 703 577-9469 or 540 937-2821 for more information.
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Gorgeous Pomeranian Puppy
Beautiful 10 week old Pomeranian puppies. Very sweet and social with beautiful full rich red coats. Purebred but no papers one female still available. They have had first immunizations. Mom and dad pictured in last photo. Pups should mature at 6-9 lbs. looking for loving responsible homes for our babies. If interested call 703 577-9469 or 540 937-2821. more details.
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English Bulldog puppy
I am a new breeder and just had my first litter.I had 10 English Bulldog puppies. I have 1 adorable female left. She was born 6/1/14 and ready to be placed in new homes. She has already been vet checked, dewormed and has received 1st and 2nd shots. Both parents AKC registered. You can also see more pictures at www.bucknerbullies.com. You can contact me back text or call me at 540-661-9024.
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Australian Shepherds ~ Minis & Toys ~ Culpeper, VA
We have several litters of high quality Toy and small Mini Australian Shepherds avaliable. Some are ready now. All coat colors and many blue eyes. Please see our website for all the puppy pictures, descriptions, and prices.
Thanks, Alice 540 937 4887
and contact us to schedule a visit.
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New Litter of Toy Aussies ~ ready now
Several to choose from and 2 more litters born July/August 2013. all coat and eye colors. we specialize in a 15 pound full grown large toy/small mini ausssie. please call or go to our website for more pix. 540 937 4887 or www.CircleAFarmAussiesandMore.weebly.com thank you, Alice.
9 Week Old Golden Retriever Puppies
Only 2 left out of eight :o)
One male and one female.
Beautiful balls of fur!
Have had 1st 2 sets of shots and been wormed.
Guaranteed to pass vetting or your money back.
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A few weeks ago, when I was gearing up for the Chain Link conference, I really wanted to sport new crochet. I perused the Fall 2011 issue of Interweave Crochet and opted for what looked like the fastest crochet garment in the issue: The Oak Wrap by Doris Chan.
And am I glad I did! I've worn this garment more times than I can say since I made it. Here it is:
and a back view:
This is worked in Berroco Lustra, (Go ahead and click to the color card for a moment. Don't you just want one in every color? Me, too.) Perfect strangers stop me and ask about this garment. At my local LYS, two people grabbed up the magazine so they could make it. Truly, it's a lot of fun to wear -- it gives just the right amount of warmth, and it has a little swerve.
I liked it so much, that I made another:
This is worked in Rowan Summer Tweed, a good weight for the office and warmer days.
And, yes, it is super-fast! I worked the back, ripped it out, reworked it and finished the whole thing in less than a week.
Ripped it back, you ask? Yes, indeed. Which leads me to my main tip for this sweater: mark the first stitch on each row. This stitch lingers close to the chain-4 at the start of the row, and if you don't mark it, it will look a lot like a chain and you will probably forget to count it. Don't believe me? Look at this picture:
See that loop closest to the hook? Looks like a chain, doesn't it? It's not. It's a half-double crochet, and it wants to be counted.
Here's how the stitch looks with a marker in it:
All different, right?
Here's how to mark it:
When you work the first stitch of the row, slide a marker onto the back loop, like this:
Then when you get to the end of the next row, you will totally see it. On the next row, that back loop has become the front loop, which is where you want to work your stitch.
If you do this one simple thing, you won't get to the end of the main section and find yourself 34 stitches short. And you won't have pull out
2,727 stitches, plus 160 chains—for a total of 8,341 loops you made that you
have to unmake.
Just saying.
Oh, and because of the clever design of this sweater, it can be tricky to figure out which end is up. So, I crocheted a little loop and attached it to the back neck edge, like this:
Makes everything easier.
Making mistakes so you don't have to -- just a little service we provide here at Marcy's blog:
Happy crocheting,
p.s. Tune in Monday to the CrochetMe blog to find out Toni and Sarah's "gotta crochet" items from the Fall 2011 issue of Interweave Crochet.
I'm new to crochet me, and this is the first post of yours that I have read. I'm your newest fan - "making mistakes so you don't have to" LOVE IT! And the wonderful little wrap, too! Thanks for sharing! :-)
I agree with Janelmc ~ love that quote! Think I'm gonna have to try this pattern myself. Thanks!
Hehy Marcy
So, I subscribe to Interweave Crochet, I get the regular emails, I follow the blog on my reader--I read it all and this is probably my favorite all-time post!
It was useful, funny, "wink-wink"-y, and warm-hearted.
I love the tip about how to work up the sweater and avoid a classic mistake because half the time when I am digging through posts and internet sites it is for information like this because something has just gone wrong with my project. I also love how you geeked out on the colors and made another one just cause.
Please keep posting like this! it makes reading all the more worthwhile
I think this would also work well in a fancy yarn for a special party occasion :)
Thank you, thank you. I've crocheted part way up and ripped back twice now. This should help me.
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Hello all,new member here just saying hi & looking around a bit.My old cub is going to be very happy about the (helpfull) wrenching advice I look foreward to recieving.
I have broken a few knuckles on the iron laying around the shop & now it's time to bleed on the cub some!
So far plowing & cultivisioning is all we've done but I hope to grade my LONG driveway soon.(If I can find a grader blade set up,belly style)
Does anyone know when the next tractor swap/show is near or in N.C.? Other than the Old Threshers Reunion in Denton.
Any help appreciated.


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Bobby Ryan Injured at Practice
According to MY EYES, Bobby Ryan left practice early, in visible pain, after injuring himself in a drill. He walked to the locker room with his right sock down and thigh pad sticking out. Story developing... UPDATE: Carlyle told reporters that Ryan has a groin strain (via OC Register). No indication of severity or if it will keep him out of practice tomorrow.


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I want to use this article to dispute about whale catch.
English only (for International use).
I agree whale catch because Whales eat a lot of fishes (4 times human) and we'll not be able to have rations from sea. Also, we'll not be able to have rations from land with surplus population.
so does anyone want to share a recipe for whales? do you cook it as you would for say, a blue marlin? how does it taste? come on and share a recipe you guyz
We eat the whales
With Forks we greet tham
If you free Willy let me warn you now,
we're gonna eat him.
OP is worst freaking troll ever.
>>73 poor willy, he'll be free alright in the after life. so does orca.
Sea Shepherd Ship Collision - シーシェパード妨害船が日本調査船に衝突
"Eco-Terrorist" Sea Shepherd and Australian Media
We eat the whales. very good1


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Cotuit Center for the arts houses one of the most beautiful exhibition spaces on Cape Cod. The gallery is comprised of two levels, extending into the theater space on the upper level. The exhibits on display rotate approximately every 4-6 weeks. Most often there are 3 separate shows sharing the gallery space and including 3-dimensional work such as sculpture and pottery. Exhibitions include solo shows, group shows and open-call juried exhibits and feature works by local, regional and international artists. Each year the Center features an exhibit dedicated to members of Cotuit Center for the Arts.
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Gallery Hours:
Monday–Saturday; 10:00am to 4:00pm
Extended weekend hours
Sunday from 10:00am to 4:00pm
from Memorial Day through Columbus Day
Please join us for our "Following Fridays" - On the first Friday after a Gallery Exhibit opening, there will be a brown bag lunch meeting in the Gallery. These meetings will include presentations by the Artist(s) and / or member of the Center's Curatorial Committee.
August-September Exhibits
Water and Light
Photography by William Scully and Alan Trugman
Experimental Patchwork: Modern Quilts
Melissa Averinos and friends
Inspired Lunacy
Fiber artist Elizabeth Gurrier
August 7-September 7
The works featured in the galleries for this exhibit will surprise any visitors who think of photography or quilting in the traditional sense. The photographs of Bill Scully and Alan Trugman explore mysterious nautical themes and the upper galleries feature the fiber artist Elizabeth Gurrier and an exhibit that explores a fresh perspective on a traditional artform: the quilt.
September - October Exhibits
Paintings by Brian Rutenberg
"UNLIMITED" Christiane Corcelle
"Spirits of Land and Sea" Skip Treglia
September 13 - October 18
The Center's production of "33 Variations" is the inspiration for the lower gallery exhibition of paintings by Brian Rutenberg, who is inspired by one of the foremost interpreters of Beethoven's piano music, Glenn Gould. The upper galleries feature prints by Christiane Corcelle, as well as new sculpture by Skip Treglia.
Artist Talk with Brian Rutenberg
September 20 at 4:00pm
Please join us for a discussion with artists Brian Rutenberg, Christaine Corcelle, and Skip Treglia, the artists on display in the gallery September 13-October 18. The artist talk will take place on Saturday, September 20 at 4:00pm, with the gallery opening reception at 5:00pm.
October - November Exhibits
The Enigma of 4am:
Laurie Kaplowitz
Stacy Latt Savage
Katha Seidman
and an Open Juried Exhibition
October 23-November 22
"Inspired by Giacomett's The Palace at 4 a.m. artists Stacy Latt Savage, Katha Seidman, and Laurie Kaplowitz collaborate on this exhibition of their work, including a site specific installation, that evokes their interpretation of 4 a.m. as a creative crucible, a transformative and mysterious time and place."
The three artists serve as jurors for an open juried exhibit in the upstairs galleries with a theme of the same name.
December Exhibits
the Annual Member Faculty Student Show
November 29 - December 24
Each year the Center seeks submissions for the annual Member, Student and Faculty exhibit. One work may be submitted and will featured in this exhibit. There is also an annual members talent show immediately following the opening reception of this annual exhibit which celebrates our patrons and allows us to say "thank you" to our artistic community.


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Under the radar, we're now the hottest team in baseball! 8-2 in our last 10 games. No one is hotter than us except the Pirates (also 8-2), and the Marlins in Reverse (1-9).
Any thoughts? I see a 2007 NL Champions flag waiving high in the Big Phone next year.
On a side note, it turns out the Dodgers do really suck.


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"Images are the best way to learn visual properties," said Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor in Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.
"[They] also include a lot of common sense information about the world. People learn this by themselves and, with NEIL, we hope that computers will do so as well."
Examples of the links that NEIL has made include the facts that cars are found on roads and that ducks can resemble geese.
The program can also make mistakes, say the research team. It may think that the search term "pink" relates to the pop star rather than the colour because an image search would be more likely to return this result.
To prevent errors like this, humans will still need to be part of the program's learning process, according to Abhinav Shrivastava, a PhD student working on the project.
"People don't always know how or what to teach computers," he said. "But humans are good at telling computers when they are wrong."
Another reason for NEIL to run is to create the world's largest visual knowledge database where objects, scenes, actions, attributes and contextual relationships can be labelled and catalogued.
"What we have learned in the last five to 10 years of computer vision research is that the more data you have, the better computer vision becomes," Mr Gupta said.
The program requires a vast amount of computer power to operate and is being run on two clusters of computers that include 200 processing cores.
The team plans to let NEIL run indefinitely.


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Tag Archives: SAP
Who's the Top MDM Vendor – IBM, SAP, Oracle, or Informatica?
The MDM space is filled by a number of well-known players. In addition to Informatica, you'll also find IBM, Oracle, SAP, and a host of other vendors. But who's the leader of this space?
The Information Difference is an analyst firm that specializes in MDM, and this firm has been watching the MDM space for years. Recently, The Information Difference compared 12 different MDM vendors, ranked them using 200 criteria, and published their findings in a report of the MDM landscape for Q2, 2013. The firm compared the vendors' MDM offerings across 6 categories: data governance, business rules, data quality, data storage, data provision, and data movement.
Exploring the Informatica ILM Nearline 6.1A
In today's post, I want to write about the "Informatica ILM Nearline 6.1A″. Although this Nearline concept is not new, it is still not very known and represents the logical evolution of business applications, data warehouses and information lifecycle approaches that have struggled to maintain acceptable performance levels in the face of the increasingly intense "data tsunami" that looms over today's business world. Whereas older archiving solutions based their viability on the declining prices of hardware and storage, ILM Nearline 6.1A embraces the dynamism of a software and services approach to fully leverage the potential of large enterprise data architectures.
Looking back, we can now see that the older data management solutions presented a paradox: in order to mitigate performance issues and meet Service Level Agreements (SLA) with users, they actually prevented or limited ad-hoc access to data. On the basis of system monitoring and usage statistics, this inaccessible data was then declared to be unused, and this was cited as an excuse for locking it away entirely. In effect, users were told: "Since you can't get at it, you can't use it, and therefore we're not going to give it to you"!
ILM Nearline 6.1A, by contrast, allows historical data to be accessed with near-online speeds, empowering business analysts to measure and perfect key business initiatives through analysis of actual historical details. In other words, ILM Nearline 6.1A gives you all the data you want, when and how you want it (without impacting the performance of existing warehouse reporting systems!).
Aside from the obvious economic and environmental benefits of this software-centric approach and the associated best practices, the value of ILM Nearline 6.1A can be assessed in terms of the core proposition cited by Tim O'Reilly when he coined the term "Web 2.0″:
"The value of the software is proportional to the scale and dynamism of the data it helps to manage."
In this regard, ILM Nearline 6.1A provides a number of important advantages over prior methodologies:
Keeps data accessible: ILM Nearline 6.1A enables optimal performance from the online database while keeping all data easily accessible. This massively reduces the work required to identify, access and restore archived data, while minimizing the performance hit involved in doing so in a production environment.
Keeps the online database "lean": Because data archived to the ILM Nearline 6.1A can still be easily accessed by users at near-online speeds, it allows for much more recent data to be moved out of the online system than would be possible with archiving. This results in far better online system performance and greater flexibility to further support user requirements without performance trade-offs. It is also a big win for customers moving their systems to HANA.
Relieves data management stress: Data can be moved to ILM Nearline 6.1A without the substantial ongoing analysis of user access patterns that is usually required by archiving products. The process is typically based on a rule as simple as "move all data older than x months from the ten largest InfoProviders".
Mitigates administrative risk: Unlike archived data, ILM Nearline 6.1A data requires little or no additional ongoing administration, and no additional administrative intervention is required to access it.
Lets analysts be analysts: With ILM Nearline 6.1A, far less time is taken up in gaining access to key data and "cleansing it", so much more time can be spent performing "what if" scenarios before recommending a course of action for the company. This improves not only the productivity but also the quality of work of key business analysts and statistical gurus.
Copes with data structure changes: ILM Nearline 6.1A can easily deal with data model changes, making it possible to query data structured according to an older model alongside current data. With archive data, this would require considerable administrative work.
Leverages existing storage environments: Compared to older archiving products/strategies, the high degree of compression offered by ILM Nearline 6.1A greatly increases the amount of information that can be stored as well as the speed at which it can be accessed.
Keeps data private and secure: ILM Nearline 6.1A has privacy and security features that protect key information from being seen by ad-hoc business analysts (for example: names, social security numbers, credit card information).
In short, ILM Nearline 6.1A offers a significant advantage over other nearline and archiving technologies. When data needs be removed from the online database in order to improve performance, but still needs to be readily accessible by users to conduct long-term analysis, historical reporting, or to rebuild aggregates/KPIs/InfoCubes for period-over-period analysis, ILM Nearline 6.1A is currently the only workable solution available.
In my next post, I'll discuss more specifically how implementing the ILM Nearline 6.1A solution can benefit your business apps, data warehouses and your business processes.
Under the hood: decommissioning an SAP system with Informatica Data Archive for Application Retirement
If you reached this blog, you are already familiar with the reasons why you need to do a house cleaning on your old applications. If not, this subject has been explored in other discussions, like this one from Claudia Chandra.
All the explanations below are based on Informatica Data Archive for application retirement.
Very often, customers are surprised to know that Informatica's solution for application retirement can also decommission SAP system. The market has the feeling that SAP is different, or "another beast". And it really is!
A typical SAP requires software licenses, maintenance contracts, and hardware for the transactional application itself, the corresponding data warehouse and databases, operating systems, server, storage, and any additional software and hardware licenses that you may have on top of the application. Your company may want to retire older versions of the application or consolidate multiple instances in order to save costs. Our engineering group has some very experienced SAP resources, including myself here, with more than 16 years of hands-on work with SAP technology. And we were able to simplify the SAP retirement process in a way that makes the Informatica Data Archive solution decommission SAP as any other type of application.
Next are the steps to decommission an SAP system using Informatica Data Archive.
Let's start with some facts: SAP has some "special" tables which can only be read by the SAP kernel itself. In a typical SAP ECC 6.0, around 9% of these tables fall in these categories, representing around 6,000 tables.
More specifically, these tables are known as "clusters", "pools" and I created a third category with transparent tables which have a binary column, or RAW data type, which only SAP application can unravel.
1) Mining
In this step, we will get all the metadata of the SAP system being retired, including all transparent, cluster and pools tables, all columns with data types. This metadata will be kept with the data in the optimized archive.
2) Extraction from source
Informatica Data Archive 6.1.x is able to connect to all database servers certified by SAP, to retrieve rows from the transparent tables.
On the SAP system, it is required to install an ABAP agent, which has the programs developed by Informatica to read all the rows from the special tables and archive files and to pull all the attachments in its original format. These programs are delivered as an SAP transport, which is imported in the SAP system prior to the beginning of the decommissioning process.
Leveraging the Java connector publicly available through the SAP portal (SAPJCo), Informatica Data Archive connects to an SAP application server on the system being decommissioned and make calls to the programs imported though the transport. The tasks are performed using background threads and the process is monitored from the Informatica Data Archive environment, including all the logging, status and monitoring of the whole retirement process happening in the SAP system.
Extraction of table rows in database
Below you can see what all SAP table types are and how our solution deals with it:
|Table type
|Table name in SAP
(Logical name)
|Table name in the database(Physical table)
|How we handle it?
|Cluster tables
|The engine reads all the rows from the logical tables by connecting to the SAP application level and store in the archive store as if the table existed in the database as a physical table.The engine also reads all rows of the physical tables and stores as they are, as a policy insurance only, since the data cannot be read without an SAP system up and running
|Pool tables
|Transparent tables with RAW field
|The engine creates a new table in the archive store and read all rows from the original table, but the RAW field is unraveled.The engine reads all rows of the physical tables and store as they are, as a policy insurance only, since the data cannot be read without an SAP system up and running
The engine also reads all rows of the original table PCL2 or STXL and stores as they are, as a policy insurance only, since the data cannot be read without an SAP system up and running
The Informatica Data Archive will extract the data of all tables, independently of their types.
Table rows in archive files
Another source of table rows is the archived data. SAP has its own archiving framework, which is based on a creation of archiving files, also known as ADK files. These files store table rows in an SAP proprietary compacted form, which can only be read by ABAP code running in a SAP system.
Once created, these files are located in the file system and can be stored in an external storage using an ArchiveLink implementation.
The Informatica Data Archive engine also reads the table rows from all ADK files, independent of their location, as long as the files are accessible by the SAP application being retired. These table rows will be stored in the archive store as well, along with the original table.
Very important: After the SAP system is retired, any implementation or ArchiveLink can be retired as well, along with the storage that was holding the ADK files.
3) Attachments
Business transactions in SAP systems have the ability to have attachments linked to them. The SAP Generic Object Services (GOS) is a way to upload documents, add notes to a transaction, add URLs relevant to the document, all still referencing a business document, like a purchase order or a financial document. Some other SAP applications, like CRM, have its own mechanism of attaching documents, complementing GOS features.
All these methods can store the attachments in the SAP database, or at SAP Knowledge Provider (KPro) or externally in storages, leveraging an ArchiveLink implementation.
Informatica's engine is able to download all the attachment files, notes and URLs as discrete files, independent of where they are stored, keeping the relationship to the original business document. The relationship is stored in a table created by Informatica in the archive store, which contains the key of the business document and the link to the attachments, notes and URLs that were assigned to it in the original SAP system.
All these files are stored in the archive store, along with the structured data – or tables.
4) Load into optimized archive
All data and attachments are then loaded into Informatica's optimized archive,. The archival store will compress the archived data up to 98%
5) Search and data visualization
All structured data are accessible though JDBC/ODBC, as any other relational database. The user has the option to use the search capability that comes with the product, which allows users to run simple queries and view data as business entities.
Another option is to use the integrated reporting, capability within the product, which allows users to create pixel-perfect reports, using drag and drop technology, querying the data using SQL and displaying the data as business entities, which are defined in prebuilt SAP application accelerators. .
Informatica also has a collection of reports for SAP to display data for customers, vendors, general ledger accounts, assets and financial documents.
Some customers prefer to use their own corporate standard 3rd party reporting tool. That is also possible as long as the tool can connect to JDBC/ODBC sources, which is a market standard for connecting to databases.
Hopefully this blog helped you to understand what Informatica Data Archive for Application Retirement does to decommission an SAP system. If you need any further information, please comment below. Thank you.
Keeping Your SAP HANA Costs Under Control
Adopting SAP HANA can offer significant new business value, but it can also be an expensive proposition. If you are contemplating or in the process of moving to HANA, it's worth your time to understand your options for Nearlining your SAP data. The latest version of Informatica ILM Nearline, released in February, has been certified by SAP and can run with SAP BW systems running on HANA or any relational database supported by SAP.
Nearlining your company's production SAP BW before migrating to a HANA-based BW can provide huge saving potentials. Even if your HANA project has already started, Nearlining the production data will help keep the database growth flat. We have customers that have actually been able to shrink InfoProviders by enforcing strict rules on data retention on the data stored in the live database.
Informatica World is around the corner, and I will be there with my peers to demo and talk about the latest version of Informatica ILM Nearline. Click here to learn more about Informatica World 2013 and make sure you sign up for one my Hands On Lab sessions on this topic. See you at the Aria in Las Vegas in June.
Managing Your SAP BW Growth With a Nearline Strategy
SAP's data warehouse solution (SAP BW) provides enterprises the ability to easily build a warehouse over their existing operational systems with pre-defined extraction and reporting objects and methods. Data that is loaded into SAP BW is stored in a layered architecture which encourages reusability of data throughout the system in a standardized way. SAP's implementation also enables easy audits of data delivery mechanisms that are used to produce various reports within the system.
To allow enterprises to achieve this level of standardization and auditability, SAP BW must persistently store large amounts of data within different layers of their architecture. Managing the size of the objects within these layers will become increasingly important as the system grows to insure high levels of performance for end-user queries and data delivery. (more…)
Informatica 9.5 for Big Data Challenge #1: Cloud
Just five years ago, there was a perception held by many in our industry that the world of data for enterprises was simplifying. This was in large part due to the wave of consolidation among application vendors. With SAP and Oracle gobbling up the competition to build massive, monolithic application stacks, the story was that this consolidation would simplify data integration and data management. (more…)
Dynamic Data Masking in a Nutshell
I've been asked numerous times how Dynamic Data Masking works, so here it is – The Dynamic Data Masking process. Believe me it's simple …
The use case –IT personnel, developers, consultants and outsource support teams have access to production business applications (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle) or clones/backups that contains sensitive customer information and credit card information.
We cannot block their access, as they are required to ensure application performance, but we need to secure the data they are accessing.
These are the initial installation steps required:
- Install Informatica Dynamic Data Masking on the database or on a dedicated server as it acts as a proxy.
- Import one of our predefined rule sets that has been prepared for the application/data or create your own custom rules.
- Define the roles/responsibilities that need to be anonymized, using predefined hooks to ActiveDirectory/LDAP and application responsibilities.
Now how does Dynamic Data Masking work?
- User requests are intercepted in real-time by the Dynamic Data Masking server software.
- User roles and responsibilities are evaluated, and if they have been specified by the rules as requiring masking, Dynamic Dasta Masking rewrites them to return masked/scrambled personal information. No application changes, no database changes – completely transparent.
Sounds simple – yes it is.
Other common use cases include protecting development and reporting tool access to production databases, anonymizing datawarehouse reports and design tools, securing production clones and training environments.
See? Simple!
2012 Cloud Integration Predictions – Data, MDM, BI, Platform and IT as a Service
I spent last weekend reading Geoffrey Moore's new book, Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past. Then on Sunday, the New York Times published this article about salesforce.com: A Leader in the Cloud Gains Rivals. Clearly "The Big Switch" is on. With this as a backdrop, the need for a comprehensive cloud data management strategy has surfaced as a top IT imperative heading into the New Year – How and when do you plan to move data to the cloud? How will you prevent SaaS silos? How will you ensure your cloud data is trustworthy, relevant and complete? What is your plan for longer-term cloud governance and control?
These are just a few of the questions you need to think through as you develop your short, medium and long-term cloud strategy. Here are my predictions for what else should be on your 2012 cloud integration radar. (more…)
Does Asia Get IT?
I recently returned from China and Hong Kong after having met with several CIOs, media and analysts, as well as delivering keynotes focused on customer centricity. When I return to the US after traveling, I'm often asked about the state of IT in the geography I was just in. I've been to both China and Hong Kong several times over the past few years, and from my perspective, IT is maturing at a very rapid pace in that region.
During prior trips to Asia, it felt like the old days of data processing. I would speak with senior IT leaders and they were more concerned with the "blocking and tackling" of IT, and not looking at how IT can provide a strategic competitive advantage. Specifically in China, IT leadership was comfortable scaling by applying people to the problem rather than using commercial software. (more…)
Hadoop Extends Data Architectures: Part 3 In Hadoop Series
The list and diversity of NoSQL, "NewSQL", cloud, grid, and other data architecture options seem to grow every year.
The Harry Potter books and movies were a particularly popular inspiration for project names. For example, at LinkedIn, to empower features such as "People You May Know" and "Jobs You May Be Interested In", LinkedIn uses Hadoop together with an Azkaban batch workflow scheduler and Voldemort key-value store. We'll see if the Twilight series has a similar impact on project names.


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CATEGORIES ReviewsEver since the French crime drama, A Prophet, was unveiled at Cannes last May, where it won the Grand Jury prize, it has received incredible reviews. At the London Film Festival back in October it was awarded the inaugural Best Film award, and the jury president Angelica Huston declared it to be 'a masterpiece, an instant classic and a perfect film.'
High praise indeed, but now see what we thought of it... A Prophet (18)
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup
Director: Jacques Audiard
Film length: 155 minutes
Trailer: Watch it here
What¹s it all about? France¹s Jacques Audiard has been steadily building audiences with films that combine a crime setting with vivid characters and emotional depth. Now the director of Read My Lips and The Beat That My Heart Skipped presents a touching prison drama that evolves into a riveting gangster thriller. When illiterate, vulnerable 19-year-old French Arab Malik (Tahar Rahim) arrives for his first spell in grown-up jail, the dominant Corsican gang make him an offer her can¹t refuse: kill a fellow Arab inmate, who they need eliminating, or be killed. By doing so, Malik earns their protection, and a low-status position in their gang, but over the course of
his sentence his ambitions and abilities evolve.
What¹s good about it? It¹s a gripping story with contemporary resonance, which expertly engages your sympathy for a character that becomes untethered to morality. Audiard is brilliantly served by his leading man: newcomer Tahar Rahim, who since A Prophet¹s Cannes premiere has won Best Actor at the European Film Awards, and been nominated for our own BAFTA Orange Rising Star.
What¹s not so good? Some critics have quibbled over the odd implausibility, while anyone averse to either violence or subtitles should avoid. A running time of two-and-a-half hours might put off a few, but be assured that the minutes fly by.
Verdict: A Prophet was pipped to the Cannes Palme D¹Or by Michael Haneke¹s White Ribbon, instead scooping up the Grand Prix Du Jury (second prize). Most audiences would place the films in a different order. Although it¹s only January, we¹ll be surprised if we see a better movie this year, in any language. And unless this turns out to be a debut fluke, Rahim is set to become the next major French actor: don¹t miss the birth of a star in the making.
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An Age-Old Old Age Debate
An article by Emily Andrews, PhD student, Department of History
With a new cap of £75,000 due to be introduced on the amount that individuals will be expected to pay towards their own social care, Warwick PhD candidate Emily Andrews takes a closer look at the plights of the old, particularly those suffering from dementia. What can history tell us about the long-standing debate over individual and community responsibility when it comes to caring for the aged, and how have people categorised such diseases as Alzheimer's in the past?
As an historian, I have become interested in how dementia was understood, responded to and dealt with before it became a 'national challenge'; before the apocalyptic demography of the ageing society added the weight of a national crisis to the meaning of this long-acknowledged form of mental distress. Jeremy Hunt's announcement is the latest intervention into the long-standing debate over individual and community responsibility for the care of the aged. The old have often been viewed as the ultimate 'deserving poor', worthy beneficiaries of our collective resources. Thus, under the 1834 New Poor Law - which primarily sought to make the recipients of state support as uncomfortable as possible - Guardians of the Poor were encouraged to allow the aged to 'enjoy their indulgences'. Throughout the 19th century, however, some commentators and policy-makers worried that an 'indulgent' attitude towards the old would discourage prudence, and allow families to shirk their financial responsibilities towards their elders. By the 1870s, this more restrictive attitude towards poor relief came to hold sway in central government. A number of measures were introduced to assess the needs of indigent cases, and to squeeze support from reluctant relatives, in an attempt to discourage all but the most deserving of the deserving poor from falling back on the state.
In practice, however, the administration of relief and support at a local level remained varied and inconsistent. Those older people who required not just financial support, but physical care, could be found in publically-funded workhouses and infirmaries, or in charitable homes and almshouses. The majority, we can assume, remained in the community, being supported informally (and thus, undocumented) by family and friends. Those whose behaviour became intolerably disruptive to those around them sometimes ended up in county lunatic asylums. Just over 2,000 people over 65 were admitted to county lunatic asylums in England and Wales between 1853 and 1858. By the turn of the century, almost that many over-65s were being admitted every single year. While this represented only 10 per cent of the total number of admissions, the over 65s were more heavily represented amongst asylum admissions than amongst the general population. Asylum medical officers seemed acutely aware of this fact.
In public, asylum doctors declined responsibility for the care of the 'senile'. In their meetings and official reports, journals and newspapers, they railed against the practice of sending older people to the asylum, accusing families and workhouse officials of trying to offload difficult people and shift the financial burden. This complaint from the 1881 annual report of the Lunacy Commissioners (the central government body which oversaw and inspected the county asylums) is typical:
[T]o most public asylums in the present day, [are sent] aged persons who are not properly lunatics, but suffering only…from the decay of faculties incident to old age… because they become somewhat troublesome and difficult to manage.
Old people were arriving at the asylum in increasing numbers. By making statements which decisively differentiated 'aged persons' from 'lunatics', asylum administrators sought to exclude the 'senile' from their domain of responsibility. These patients were not insane, they argued, but were suffering 'simply from decay of nature', and were thus not suitable for asylum care. Workhouse officials saw the matter rather differently. According to a representative of the (Workhouse) Infirmary Medical Superintendents' Association, senile dements were noisy, restless and wandering. They 'terrified' other inmates, he claimed, with their 'incoherent chattering… screaming and vituperations'. People who behaved in such a way were manifestly insane, he suggested, and thus it was the legal duty of workhouse officials to certify them as lunatics, and send them to the asylum3. In the case of senility, workhouse and asylum doctors used a definition of insanity which accorded to their interests: asylum doctors defined it by its cause, while workhouse doctors defined it by its consequences.
In Victorian Britain, the debate surrounding the provision of care for mentally distressed older people had implications for the way in which that mental distress was medically and legally classified. Senility, I argue in my thesis, was one category through which the burgeoning profession of psychiatry defined itself and the object of its endeavors. Senile dementia was thus a politically charged subject in the 19th century, though not in the same way it is today. Indeed, as historians of Alzheimer's disease have argued, researchers and campaigners in the mid-20th century found it politically expedient to emphasise that dementia is not caused by 'decay of nature', but by diseases for which cures can and should be found. If Jeremy Hunt's statements can be taken as indicative of a trend, then we can expect the 21st- century discourse on dementia to focus again on issues of responsibility and political economy. The meaning of dementia is perhaps no longer at stake; the experience of dementia very much is.
1'Inheritance gap freeze to fund social care gap of £75,000', The Guardian (10 February, 2013)
2Department of Health, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia (26 March, 2012)
3T. Parsons, 'Senile dements in London', British Medical Journal, 2 (1908), pp. 1720-1.
Further reading
Thane, P., Old age in English history : past experiences, present issues (Oxford ; New York, 2000)
Ballenger, J. F., Self, senility, and Alzheimer's disease in modern America : a history (Baltimore, 2006)
Scull, A., The most solitary of afflictions : madness and society in Britain 1700-1900 (New Haven ; London, 1993)
Emily Andrews is a PhD student based at the Centre for the History of Medicine in the Department of History. Her Wellcome-funded project is titled 'Senility before Alzheimer: Old age in British psychiatry, 1830-1910'. On the 23rd February, she is hosting an interdisciplinary conference entitled 'What is Old Age? New Perspectives from the Humanities', funded by the Humanities Research Centre here at Warwick. Further information can be found on the HRC website.
Also on the Knowledge Centre
Related WRAP articles
Badham, S. P. (2011) Age-related changes in associative memory. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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After the raging success of her campaign for YSL's Rouge Volupté lipstick last fall, the French house has pegged Kate Moss to front its new fall fragrance as well, which is rumored to be a rose scent called Parisienne, according to our go-to perfume blog. Speculation as to Moss' new project with the brand arose in March when she was spotted at a Craig McDean photo shoot wearing head-to-toe looks from Stefano Pilati's Fall collection. Outside of her leather bustier and black smoking styling job for the visuals, however, details on the perfume are hard to come by. (All we could get out of our inside sources was that it launches in France this month and will be stateside in October). Stay tuned.


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I challenge you to share TED Conversations!
I challenge you to share TED Conversations with 5 of your friends, co-workers, or relatives this week. Imagine how much more intellectual diversity we can bring to this already diverse community within a matter of days! Let's bring in some new views, questions, and innovative ideas! Spread the word!
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Jul 8 2011: Really Austin? I have found most of the conversations on TED to be not very interesting. You see alot of conversations that are loaded questions like this gem, "Why do so many think that population growth is an important issue for the environment? Don't they know the facts of demographics." Now I am not disputing what the guy is saying, but these are not conversations, they are people on soap boxes.
And if its not them than its the dude who asks, "Why is the Koran perfect and you are not?" you know the Iranian government guy I am talking about.
Or its self affirming stuff like, " is sexism and racism dead?" which just allows the writer to shove facts in peoples faces.
Does TED want true conversations are do they want alot of soapboxes, maybe I should pose that question.
This will be the title of the conversation, "Doe TED want real conversations or a big soapbox for people to vomit out their opinions on everyone else? and if you think they do want conversations your wrong and here is why"
....just saying
Jul 11 2011: I am thinking along this line. hypothetically of course, I am an expert in this area, for a long time people in my industry or expertise or science have not found an answer to problem x. Maybe someone who is taught in something entirely different can give a fresh perspective.I may have a biology quandry but maybe the architect out there has an idea derived from his/her expierence...
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The crippling impact of war and conflict, unleashed on a global scale, has come to stay as a permanent feature and self-perpetuating dynamic: and we have failed to learn from history. Urgent and pro-active engagements and interventions nurturing peace and understanding in the public domain are imperative for rediscovering an inclusive society.
For nearly three decades, bloody carnage engulfed Sri Lanka, as a conflict zone. Misunderstood histories and irrational biases and prejudices inflicted untold misery on its society, irrespective of ethnic, linguistic or religious identities. Some twenty five years ago Seneviratne, a committed public intellectual, began undertaking heritage initiatives, with UNESCO support, focused on peace and reconciliation in anticipation of the post-war situation. This talk unfolds his experience working with city and village folk, school children, undergraduates and public – private sector partnerships in heritage initiatives for peace and humanism.
Sudharshan Seneviratne is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and the 2012-2013 Edwin F. Arnold Visiting Professor of South Asian Archaeology at Whitman College.
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The league runs from May through August and there are only three Spirit home games remaining this season.
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By Lindsay Eckert
Tribune lifestyle editor
Kokomo —
When I was in seventh grade the "Real World" was a reality show I was forbidden to watch. The behaviors flaunted were borderline unfit for TV, let alone a 12-year-old's eyes. However, that's what older cousins were for, I suppose, because my remote somehow found its way to MTV a time or two and lessons in how to not live your life ensued. But, today Howard County 7th graders are getting a multifaceted look into life in the "Real World" — and not the kind that encompasses Jell-O wrestling and TV-censored bleeps interrupting 80 percent of a sentence.
Twelve and 13 year olds will be spending the day at Indiana University Kokomo and learning a lesson or two in how to match their characteristics with a career in the "Real World" that is their futures.
The event, hosted by Partners in Education and IUK, is designed to get the wheels of young minds moving towards careers in the world of reality, the kind that's not plaguing our TV screens. The day is all about initiating ideas in teens and helping them hone in on careers that fit their skills, interests and passions. The day highlights the heart of Howard County careers ranging from marketing and law to computer science and journalism in a day-in-the-life format to build a foundation for their futures.
I'm thrilled help illustrate the picture of a workday in my chosen field of journalism.
However, I'm most thrilled the greatest part of "Real World" is students' opportunities to enhance their immediate worlds with information about what their future worlds could include, what they could do and what they could be. We're often reminded our souls aren't defined by what we create at our desks, but I believe if you find a career true to your core you're driven to create in a way that's bigger than yourself; ultimately bettering yourself in the process. As the worst versions of people fill our TV screens, our Twitter and Facebook feeds and,sometimes, even our inboxes we're reminded just how important a day such as "Real World" is to the lives who carry the world's future in their backpacks. Fulfillment breeds pride and pride lends a hand to developing passion. Passion is a powerful weapon against the negativity and cruel behavior, which often stems from half-empty hearts still searching for that passion to fuel fulfillment. People without passion and without pride can slip into the belief of "misery loves company" and further contribute to the hate wagon we too often see as a bulldozing vehicle for bullies at any age.
Although "Real World" is helping kids craft their skills and interests into careers, it's also helping our community craft positive young people into inspiring and fulfilled adults. As important as a career is to their livelihoods; passion in their careers is crucial to making our society one that supports and encourages, not tears down and destructs.
Our future is being built in the halls of middle schools as we speak, the screenwriters who write the worlds we dream to live in are writing school essays. However, it's our job to help inspire all students find a career that makes the world they dream to live in their "Real World."
The value of yourself is just as necessary as the monetary value that pays your rent. The sooner students start learning self worth, the sooner we can eliminate characters without character from our TV screens and remold the world with compassion and kindness. That's the "Real World" our future generations are capable of building. I hope to help build a house today where half-full glasses are served tomorrow.
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I'm participating in a fun challenge….where a group of bloggers all purchased thrift store finds and sent them to each other. We were supposed to think outside the box and create a project and style it in our homes.
My project journey looked a little like this:
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3. Come up with a one-of-a-kind totally over the top idea for the tea towel.
4. Project crash and burn.
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6. Watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Reunion Part 1 to clear my head and search for inspiration.
7. Realize the housewives all have more problems and make-up and sequins than I could ever dream of in my entire life.
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St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School is a coed Episcopal Day School, serving students in grades preschool through 8th grade.
The School is dedicated to nurturing the heart, mind and spirit of each of its students.
We are proud of the academic success of our students, but even more so, of the habits of mind they are learning and demonstrating each day.
Having your children attend St. Matthew's is a family commitment to providing the best possible education.
it involves a desire to put learning first, experience new things and become involved.
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So now Ryan has to find Volchok. He's not too hard to locate, though, because he's making out with that giant-haired girl on the balcony of some office. Ryan's not too happy to see him, and even less pleased when Marissa comes up behind him. He tries to cover for Volchok and make Marissa search elsewhere, but Marissa squeezes past Ryan and finds Volchok with the girl anyway. "Oh, my God," she states. Volchok just looks angry that his nasty make-out session has to end now. He shoves the girl away, and then gets a wicked slap across the face from Marissa. And I mean a HELL of a slap. I'm surprised she didn't take his jawbone off with that. He takes a minute to recover, then asks Marissa what she expected from him, dragging him out and parading him around in front of her rich kid friends. He wasn't about to turn into a "bitch boy" like Ryan. At this, Ryan steps forward, ready for a fight. What is he even doing there still, anyway? This is none of his business. Butt out, Ryan. "You're nothing like [Ryan]," Marissa responds tearfully; "Clearly. I was wrong about you." "Finally, you're learning," Volchok says. And he leaves so Marissa can put her hand to her forehead and assume her grief pose. Ryan puts his arm around her like a bitch boy.
After dinner, Julie and Kirsten put the dishes away. Julie asks Kirsten how she's doing, and Kirsten admits that she drank last week. But she hasn't had a drink since and has been attending AA meeting every day. Julie insists that Kirsten tell Sandy about this, but Kirsten doesn't think she should say that the stress of their marriage is causing her to drink. "That's exactly what you should say," Julie says. Or maybe Kirsten should go to therapy in addition to her AA meetings and find a way to handle her shit without resorting to the drinking that ruined her life and those of the people around her instead of blaming Sandy for her problems. Kirsten says that she doesn't want the threat of her drinking to be the only thing that keeps her marriage together.
People party down at the Bait Shop. Upstairs, Ryan assures Marissa that he told the doorman not to let Volchok in (like Volchok really seemed interested enough in the prom to want to attend its offshoot parties). Marissa goes off to get a drink, and sneaks into a back room with a liquor bottle.
Summer is also in the back room, lying down and trying to recover from her overconsumption. Anna and Seth come to visit her, and Anna pronounces it time to begin Phase Three, in which Seth realizes that the only way he can win Summer back is to tell her the fucking truth already because Phases One and Two failed so horribly. Somehow, I don't think Anna had this planned all along. First of all, I don't think she has the brain capacity to think that far ahead, and second of all, because that plan really sucked, and involved her coming to Newport for no good reason. Anna takes her leave of the ex-couple, saying she'll seem them both in Providence. Oh, good.