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Ground Hog Day has come and gone and I still don't know if I will be singing in the rain shortly or hibernating for another 6 weeks!! As I am writing this, I see plenty of sunshine, but as I glance down I still see lots of snow!! Can't those ground hogs get it right? Whatever the next six weeks hold, this is Canada, and we will survive another winter, but I am really looking forward to spring!
During the month of January, the MWHA continued its work. The Airport Committee met with our new Councillor, Stephen Holyday. We very much appreciated the opportunity to meet with him and to provide a context for the airport issues of concern to our residents. We also briefly touched on other issues, such as the 240 Markland Drive proposed condo development. We will meet again with Councillor Holyday at a later date to expand further on the current issues that impact our community.
Several Board members also met with the Toronto Hydro project team which is responsible for the on-going work to update the entire electrical system in Markland Wood. This team will also be attending a full Board meeting of the MWHA in March. There will be a community meeting later in the spring before work starts again on the next two phases. We will certainly keep you informed.
Our membership drive is over . For some of you who may not have had an opportunity to submit your membership dues, you have received a notice on this month's issue of the Marklander. We would greatly appreciate it if you could make arrangements to drop off $20 along with your notice. Cheques should be made payable to MWHA. You may also pay any time using PayPal. If you would like someone to pick up your payment, please do not hesitate to call me.
The MWHA and the Markland Wood Golf Club have come together to offer a special breakfast at the club on a specific Sunday of each month. This will begin in March. All Markland residents are invited to attend. It will be an opportunity to converse with one or more of our Directors and give all residents the opportunity to enjoy a lovely Sunday breakfast at the club. Look for more details in the March Marklander.
Each spring, the cover of the Marklander is drawn by one of our young residents. The cover is selected through a contest we run every year. Once again, we are asking all children 10 years of age and under to submit a drawing that will be used as a front cover for this year's March issue, celebrating Spring. Please read further in this issue for more details.
Let's hope we will be singing in the rain very soon!
Until then, Happy Valentine's Day and enjoy your loved ones on Family Day!
Stay warm!
Georgina Balascas, President
Markland Wood Homeowners Association


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PARIS — French anti-terrorism investigators were searching Sunday for a man who stabbed a soldier in the throat in the commercial district of La Defense outside Paris.
The 23-year-old soldier, Cedric Cordier, was in uniform patrolling the busy underground corridors where shops and crowded public transport lines converge beneath the famous Arch of La Defense.
Saturday's stabbing came days after a British soldier was hacked to death on a London street in broad daylight in a suspected terrorist attack that has raised fears of potential copycat strikes. However, there was no immediate confirmation of any link between the two attacks.
Cordier remained hospitalized Sunday but officials said his throat wound wasn't life-threatening.
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The Economics of American Higher Education.
The book begins with a preview chapter written by the editors. In addition to outlining the remainder of the book, the editors give a brief and accurate summary of the difficulties facing higher education. The remainder of the book is divided into four sections: "The Missions of Higher Education," "Higher Education as Personal Investment and Advancement," "Higher Education and Regional Growth," and "Higher Education as Social Investment for Equity."
The first section, "The Missions of American Higher Education," contains two papers. The first, by James C. Hearn, addresses what he claims is an emerging paradox in American higher education. This paradox is between popular perception and organizational reality: the public continues to believe that teaching is the cornerstone of American higher education while in reality teaching is being degraded by an increasing emphasis on research. Hearn's article is scholarship at its finest and is enough to make the book worth owning. This reviewer can think of no better place to start a serious self examination in academe of what constitutes an appropriate balance between teaching and research. The second paper in this section is by G. Edward Schuh and Vernon W. Ruttan. This paper traces the history and evolution of the research and service missions of American institutions of higher learning. As an interesting point of departure, the authors characterize the research and service missions of institutions of higher learning as parts of the human capital production process. The other highlight of the paper is the convincing rationale they offer for the need for social science research. In short, the authors argue that the demand for social science research is derived primarily from a demand for institutional change and improvements in institutional performance.
The second section, "Higher Education as Personal Investment and Advancement," begins with a paper by William E. Becker. This paper gives a thorough and refreshingly candid overview of the methodological issues facing anyone who wishes to estimate the value of college degree. The paper also addresses the well-known (and now largely discredited) thesis of Richard Freeman's The Overeducated American as well as the human capital building and screening functions of post secondary education. The second paper in this section is by Kevin M. Murphy and Finis Welch. This paper is a traditional wage study of college graduates that documents how the returns to higher education have changed between 1963 and 1986. The primary finding is that the returns to higher education fell through the seventies then rebounded strongly through the eighties. The authors speculate that although demographics may have been a contributing factor, there is little doubt that the demand for college educated workers also rose dramatically through the eighties. The third paper in this section is by Mark C. Berger. Rather than look at the returns to higher education in the aggregate, this paper examines the private returns to specific majors. Drawing on several data sources, the author estimates the impact on relative earnings of choosing majors in business, liberal arts, engineering, and science while controlling for the problem of self-selection bias. From the analysis a very interesting result emerges: students that choose the category with the highest starting pay (engineering) suffer the slowest earnings growth, yet liberal arts graduates, which have the lowest starting pay among the categories examined, have the highest earnings growth. The last paper in this section is by Elchanan Cohn and Terry G. Geske. Unlike the preceding two papers, in this paper the authors examine the private nonmonetary returns to getting a college education. The authors review the literature to make a rather convincing case that nonmonetary returns are significant and should not be overlooked by public policymakers.
The third section of the book, "Higher Education and Regional Growth," contains four papers. The first paper is by Tim R. Smith and Mark Drabenstott. The authors review the literature which attempts to uncover links between higher education and state and regional growth. The authors conclude that: 1) business location decisions appear to be influenced by the presence of institutions of higher learning, and 2) an examination of the history of the land-grant system clearly reveals that institutions of higher learning contribute to regional economic growth. The second paper is by Larry L. Leslie and Sheila A. Slaughter. In this paper the authors review the results of over seventy studies that examine the economic impact of institutions of higher learning on local communities and regions. Their most important finding is that the effect an institution has on the local economy depends critically on the type of institution and the nature of the local economy. They also argue that since studies focus on what is observable and measurable, they tend to understate the full long-term impact of symbiotic relationships between institutions and local businesses. The third paper is by Rebecca Dorsett Goodman and William C. Weiler. This paper attempts to measure the state-wide economic impact of federal grants for the University of Minnesota. Using a two-region input-output model the authors find that state-wide employment rises by 250% of the direct employment of research personnel. The last paper in this section is by Roger L. Geiger. This paper examines the trend toward promoting formal linkages between private industry and university research. In addition to chronicling the history and outlining some of the benefits of this phenomenon, the author points out some of the potentially damaging aspects of an entrepreneurial university.
The last section of the book, "Higher Education as Social Investment for Equity," contains only one paper by Melissa S. Anderson and James C. Hearn. In this paper the authors look at how three types of benefits resulting from attending college (educational, occupational, and enhanced income) relate to the socioeconomic factors of status, gender, and race. They find that students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have the most to gain from higher education, but that it is these very same students that are the least well served by higher education. Interestingly, higher education seems to have more of a positive impact on the women and minorities than lower class white males.
This book has much to recommend it. The papers are well-written and well-researched. The bibliographies are very rich. Any economist with an interest in the economics of higher education should make this book a part of his or her collection.
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I PLAYED FOOTBALL from the time I was 6 in Norwalk, Conn., where I grew up. I was an aggressive kid, always running around. My pops was a former Marine, so I had a real disciplined childhood. My mom didn't like that my dad put me in football, because my older brother got hurt playing Pop Warner, which is where my connection to Penn State started. A coach of mine went to Penn State, and he'd bring me back jerseys and stuff. I came to like the Nittany Lions, and I went to their camps from eighth grade through my junior year of high school. Once they showed interest in me, I committed [in May 2009 during his junior year]. My parents and I sat in Joe Paterno's office and
Penn State was a big part of my life. It's something I can't erase and something I wouldn't erase. When the Jerry Sandusky investigation began, a lot of people who didn't care about us suddenly had really strong opinions. It was a nightmare, especially when Joe got fired. I think all of us kind of felt like pawns. It was something I didn't sign up for. Things started to turn the corner a bit when Coach [Bill] O'Brien was hired, and then we got hit with the sanctions.
I just thought transferring to USC was a better move for me academically, socially and athletically. It was a fresh start, and you typically don't get fresh starts too often in life. I'm sure a lot of my teammates understood, but I think some of them were uneasy about it. I hope they realize now I was just doing what was best for me. It wasn't an easy decision, like, Hey! I'm going to USC! I sat for a whole week thinking about it.
The visit to USC, seeing how the team treated one another, that was a big part of it. Matt [Barkley], T.J. [McDonald], Marqise [Lee], all those guys and a bunch more welcomed me and showed that, "Hey, we're pretty cool too here on the West Coast." I'd say moving to LA was like an eight on the culture shock scale. I'm used to a New York setting, where buildings are on top of buildings. Everything is so spread out here. Everything is so much slower. I'm used to the upbeat, fast living. [Snaps fingers.] I think people here are more chill and relaxed than they are back East. And a little nicer too. Not that much nicer, but a little nicer.
I got off Twitter. A lot of my followers were the Penn State fan base, so I wasn't going to keep it just to be hated on every day. That was tough. But I'm really happy for Penn State, where the team is now. I watch my former teammates as much as I can. It felt surreal at first, but now it's just, like, I'm a
I think the Sandusky sentence will bring closure to this chapter, but you've still got the victims, you've still got Penn State as a university. You've still got a lot to work through.
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In one embodiment of the present invention, a computing system includes a plurality of systems coupled in a distributed infrastructure, and a resource allocator to allocate activities of an application to at least two of the systems. The distributed infrastructure may be a tightly coupled infrastructure and may include a virtualized application environment that emulates a runtime environment of the application, in such an embodiment.
1. A computing system comprising:
a plurality of systems coupled in a distributed infrastructure;
a resource allocator to allocate activities of an application to at least two of the plurality of systems, wherein the resource allocator includes:
a tracker to track availability of resources of the plurality of systems, to detect inclusion or exclusion of a system with regard to the plurality of systems, and to replicate and provide state information to each of a plurality of threads of the application in synchronicity and to synchronize the state information between the plurality of threads, via a transaction management model;
a scheduler to assign work tasks or subsets to the plurality of systems; and
a plurality of subsets of the resource allocator, each residing on a resource of one of the systems to conduct assigned work for the system on which it resides, wherein each of the plurality of systems includes a single one of the subsets configured to be shared by multiple resource allocators; and
a virtualized application environment to emulate a runtime environment for the application, and to provide support of the application by the distributed infrastructure to enable the application to be executed in the plurality of systems without modification, wherein the application is written for a single system, the virtualized application environment including a plurality of resource emulators each to appear to the application as an operating system service to make a resource of the systems available to the application.
2. The computing system of
3. The computing system of
4. The computing system of
5. The computing system of
6. The computing system of
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allocating portions of an application program, based on a degree of operational dependence between the portions, to a plurality of computers in a distributed environment including a virtualized application environment to emulate a runtime environment for the application program and provide support of the application program by the distributed environment to enable the application program to be executed on the plurality of computers;
executing the portions on the plurality of computers, wherein the application program is written for a single processor and is to be executed on the plurality of computers without modification;
tracking progress of the portions via state information synchronized and maintained by a resource tracker via a transaction management model;
updating a checkpoint corresponding to at least one of the portions on a resource different than a first resource of one of the plurality of computers on which the portion is execution; and
allocating one of the portions to a different computer in the distributed environment if the checkpoint indicates no progress since a previous checkpoint.
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9. The method of
10. The method of
11. The method of
12. An article comprising a machine-readable medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:
allocate portions of an application program, based on a degree of operational dependence between the portions, to a plurality of computers in a distributed environment including a virtualized application environment to emulate a runtime environment for the application program and provide support of the application program by the distributed environment to enable the application program to be executed on the plurality of computers;
executing the portions on the plurality of computers, wherein the application program is written for a single processor and is to be executed on the plurality of computers without modification:
track progress of the portions on the plurality of computers via state information synchronized and maintained by a resource tracker via a transaction management model;
recover one of the portions from one of the computers if the computer is removed from the distributed environment; and
allocate the recovered portion to a different computer in the distributed environment.
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The present invention relates to allocating computing resources and more particularly to allocating such resources in a distributed environment.
Enterprises are increasingly reliant on the availability of their information systems. Concurrently, they face decreasing budgets for implementing these information systems. A challenge exists in achieving high availability solutions using commoditized, low-cost equipment, without requiring application modifications or re-writes. Achieving this goal requires an ability to adapt existing applications, whether custom developed or commercially available, to a distributed environment, such as a grid or cluster environment, without modification.
Enterprises typically have two choices with regard to implementing applications on a distributed environment. First, the enterprise may achieve scalability and availability through specialized computational platforms (e.g., high capacity and/or high availability systems). High availability systems are very expensive, and high capacity systems are expensive, represent single sources of failure, and are designed with capacity limits that can only be surpassed by substitution with a different design.
Second, an enterprise may perform custom application development for its distributed infrastructure. If an application has not been specifically written to run on a distributed infrastructure, then the application must be run on a single computer, which inherently suffers from poor scalability and availability. Very few commercial applications are written to run on a distributed infrastructure; those few that are so written are provided in discrete functionality subsets that must be run on single computers, for which the same scalability/availability issues apply.
Thus for an enterprise having a distributed environment, if the enterprise desires an application to be operated across a set of computers (e.g., servers) in the environment, it must rewrite the application for such operation. Alternately, an application may be executed on a single server which is not accessible to the other computers in the environment.
A need thus exists to permit applications written for a single platform to be run without modification in a distributed environment, thus achieving scalability and high availability.
Referring to
Also shown in
Coupled to each of applications 120 and 125 is a virtualized application environment 130 and 135, respectively. In various embodiments, virtualized application environments 130 and 135 may provide emulation of a runtime environment for which the application that it is supporting was written. For example, the runtime environment may be an operating system or a managed runtime environment (MRTE). In certain embodiments, one of the virtualized application environments may support multiple applications, but an application may run on a single virtualized application environment. Thus, applications 120 and 125 may be supported by the distributed environment 100 without modification. In other words, virtualized application environments 130 and 135 may be used to permit applications written for a single computer to be executed by a plurality of computers of a distributed environment infrastructure without modification.
In one embodiment, distributed environment infrastructure 100 may be a comprehensive middleware layer running on computers 110 which supports virtualized application environments 130 and 135 and resource allocators 140 and 145 (which will be discussed further below). In various embodiments, distributed environment infrastructure 100 may support a virtual machine (VM) environment and may map capacity requirements (e.g., computational load, storage access, and the like) of virtual machines and supported applications to available resources managed by the infrastructure environment.
Resource allocators 140 and 145 may be coupled between virtualized application environments 130 and 135 (respectively) and each of computers 110. These resource allocators may be used to map the virtual environment to computers 110 via services of distributed environment infrastructure 100. In one embodiment, resource allocators 140 and 145 may be utilities that map virtualized application environment activities to activities on computers 110 through distributed environment infrastructure 100.
Referring now to
Also shown in the embodiment of
In one embodiment, scheduler 143 may be a subset of resource allocator 140 and may be used to assign work tasks or subsets to computers 110. Finally, as shown in
Referring now to
Next, the capacity requirements of the application may be mapped to available resources of the virtual environment (block 320). For example an application program having multiple threads may be segmented into different work subsets that may be mapped to available resources of the virtual environment. Then the virtual environment may be mapped to computing platforms available in the distributed environment (block 330).
For example, an enterprise having a number of servers coupled in a distributed environment (e.g., a tightly coupled environment) may desire to execute a COTS application written for a single computer on multiple computers in the environment. In such manner, higher availability and scalability may be realized. In accordance with the above method, an application written for a single computer may be executed by a plurality of computers available in the distributed environment without any modifications to the application.
Referring now to
Next the thread may be allocated to a resource of the virtual environment (block 420). Different computers in the virtual environment may have one or more such resources associated therewith, for example, processing resources, storage resources, and other such resources. In one embodiment, a scheduler may be used to assign work subsets to different resources of the virtual environment.
The thread may then be executed on the resource as a work subset (block 430). In one embodiment, a subset of a resource allocator (e.g., a footprint) may reside on the resource to execute the work subset assigned to that resource.
While the work subset is being performed, progress of the work subset may be tracked (block 440). For example, in one embodiment, a resource tracker may track availability of the computing resources of the virtual environment. The resource tracker may also track the progress of the work subject by, for example, state information.
Next, it may be determined whether progress has occurred since the last checkpoint (decision block 450). If it is determined that no progress has occurred, it may be determined whether the resource remains available (decision block 480). If it is determined that the resource is available, the thread may be restarted from the last checkpoint (block 490) and control may return to block 440.
Alternately, if it is determined at decision block 480 that the resource is no longer available, the thread may be allocated to a different resource (block 495), and control may pass to block 430 for execution of the thread.
If at decision block 450 it is determined that progress has occurred since the last checkpoint, the progress of the work subset may continue to be tracked (block 460). In one embodiment, such tracking may include updating a checkpoint of the thread. In certain embodiments, the checkpointing process may be done on a resource other than the resource performing a given thread. In this manner, in case the resource fails or is no longer available to perform the thread, the checkpointing process may provide an indication that the thread should be provided to a different resource for execution.
It may then be determined whether the work subset has been completed (decision block 465). If the work subset has been completed, results may be provided to the virtual environment (block 470). In such manner, results from a given thread may be combined with results of other threads, and processing of the application may be continued as desired.
Alternately, if at decision block 465 it is determined that the work subset has yet to be completed, control may return to block 440 for further tracking of the progress of the work subset. While the flow diagram of
In one example embodiment, an application desired to be executed on multiple computers in a tightly coupled distributed infrastructure may be an accounting application, such as a complicated spreadsheet. An example task to be performed by the application may be to update accounting tables for a number of clients. In such an embodiment, the application may be segmented such that a single processing thread is assigned to each client (e.g., client x, y and z). In such manner, the thread corresponding to each client may be sent to a different computer for processing. Then, the resulting updated tables may be provided back to the application for further desired processing.
In certain embodiments, state information relating to each thread of a multiple-threaded application may be segmented and provided to one of the computers along with the thread for processing. Such state information may include, in certain embodiments, an identification of the thread, memory locations, progress information, and the like. Alternately, in other embodiments such state information may be replicated and kept with each thread. Periodically, relevant state information must be synchronized between the various threads. In one embodiment, resource allocator 140 may be used to synchronize and track state information. Also, during operation, results of execution of code portions from different computers may be synchronized at predetermined time intervals. In one embodiment, resource allocator 140 or 145 may determine appropriate synchronization methods and intervals.
In one embodiment, a distributed environment may include middleware to separate tasks for execution by different computers. In one embodiment, a tightly coupled distributed network may be implemented using a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), or another open distributed object computing infrastructure. In such embodiments, the middleware may act as a broker to track the segmentation and execution of an application among multiple computers.
In other embodiments, a loosely coupled distributed environment may be provided, for example, an environment implementing .NET architecture.
In various embodiments, middleware may perform an analysis of an application to determine a desired manner for segmenting the application among a plurality of computers. For example, in one embodiment a determination of localities of references in code may be performed to determine how frequently particular code portions refer to each other. In such manner, code portions that are dependent upon each other may be provided to the same computer for execution. In other embodiments, code portions that have dependencies on other code portions may be provided to the same computer for successive execution. Of course, in other embodiments, different manners of allocating code to different resources may be effected.
Embodiments may be implemented in a computer program that may be stored on a storage medium having instructions to program a distributed environment to perform the embodiments. The storage medium may include, but is not limited to, any type of disk including floppy disks, optical disks, compact disk read-only memories (CD-ROMs), compact disk rewritables (CD-RWs), and magneto-optical disks, semiconductor devices such as read-only memories (ROMs), random access memories (RAMs) such as dynamic and static RAMs, erasable programmable read-only memories (EPROMs), electrically erasable programmable read-only memories (EEPROMs), flash memories, magnetic or optical cards, or any type of media suitable for storing electronic instructions. Other embodiments may be implemented as software modules executed by a programmable control device.
Thus, embodiments of the present invention may provide an emulation environment that supports an application, by mapping its activities to a set of resources, rather than a single resource. In such manner, a very high availability solution may be provided at an extremely low cost. Further, this near infinitely scalable solution may be incremented with low cost, incremental capacity (e.g., modular servers) that may be added and/or removed from the environment without interrupting service.
In certain embodiments, additional processing capacity may be added to the distributed environment, for example, using additional blade servers having one or more processors, such as the XEON� or ITANTIUM� processors, available from Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif. In such manner, total cost of ownership (TCO) may be improved by accommodating additional instructions consumed by the levels of software between application and computers in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. Also, in certain embodiments, the objects residing on the computers providing actual capacity resources may be designed to take advantage of specific platform features.
Thus in certain embodiments, an emulated computational environment (e.g., operating system, managed run-time environment, or virtual machine) may be provided for a distributed infrastructure. Further, in certain embodiments, existing, commercially available tightly-coupled infrastructure products may serve as the infrastructure environment, thus reducing TCO for an enterprise.
While the present invention has been described with respect to a limited number of embodiments, those skilled in the art will appreciate numerous modifications and variations therefrom. It is intended that the appended claims cover all such modifications and variations as fall within the true spirit and scope of this present invention.
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I've had the two little cacti in tiny clay pots for several years. They grew slowly and steadily, but now I see browning at the bottom.
Time to repot, right?
I have regular potting soil, Miracle Gro cactus soil, perlite and chicken grit (found some!).
I know I'm supposed to sift the bark out of the soil mixes, but then, what proportions of stuff?
Also, I have an Easter cactus whose leaves are just getting green again, after bleaching out last year in the summer sun. It only had a couple of blooms this Easter. Might be outgrowing it's pot?
Can I use the same soil mix for it that I use for the little cacti?
Thanks for your continued help!
I think if they had been grown a little more lushly in the past the corking wouldn't have occurred so quickly, but they look healthy and, IINM, could use a repot into more porous soil. A lot of Mammillarias do naturally cork, as well. Top dressing is of course optional, but it gives me something else to geek out about.
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I was going to do that as well. but levelign the sand and what not seemed like a real pain. Im going to build a deck over it now.
If you haven't done it already, it is the great way to lay pavers. Add some sand or paver base to low spots created by the cracks in the concrete. They don't sink when sitting on concrete.
I did this to a 12 x 12 patio that wasn't cracked, just to raise the grade near the house. It beat the heck out of tearing out the concrete and messing with lots and lots of paver base.
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April Fausnaught used to say that her third child just couldn't wait to be with his older brother — he was born only 11 months after him. It seems to be an accurate assessment: the two boys in the middle of Fausnaught's family have done everything together over the years.
Now, thanks to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' policy change regarding the minimum age young men can serve as missionaries, Brady Fausnaught is again following closely in his older brother Kirby Fausnaught's footsteps. Kirby entered the Missionary Training Center on Jan. 2, and Brady will go in March 27.
Kirby turned 19 on Sept. 26, 2012, and he received his mission call Aug. 31 — he'll be serving in the Russia St. Petersburg Mission. Immediately afterward, he went back for a third semester at BYU-Idaho.
Brady turned 18 just days after Kirby received his call, on Sept. 4. Then, a month afterward, LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson made his news-making announcement in general conference: "I am pleased to announce that effective immediately all worthy and able young men who have graduated from high school or its equivalent ... will have the option of being recommended for missionary service beginning at the age of 18, instead of age 19."
Kirby text-messaged his younger brother as soon as he heard the news; Brady didn't hear it right away because he was providing service at a local church where the family lives in Weaver, Ala. But the text from Kirby followed on the heels of a text from Brady's bishop, Sid Kooyman. Brady was in the bishop's office "about an hour" after the announcement, he said. Within the week, his papers were on their way to Salt Lake City.
A month later, the Fausnaught family gathered to open a second mission call. This letter called Brady to the Adriatic North Mission, which covers the countries Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As with many prospective Mormon missionaries, friends and family tried to guess where the two brothers would go. Kirby said he expected to serve in South America, but Bishop Kooyman actually guessed he would go to Russia.
No one guessed correctly where Brady would go; even after reading his call, he still didn't know exactly where he was going to spend two years of his life. "At first I looked at it and I had no idea where it was. I was kinda like, 'Yay?' I Googled real fast. I looked at pictures and said, 'Wow, this place looks awesome.' I got excited really quickly about it."
The two brothers say that Brady always was trying to "keep up with" Kirby. In a testimony meeting in the Anniston Alabama Ward right after Kirby received his mission call, Kirby bore his testimony, and Brady followed. As Kirby related, Brady said, "I've been trying to keep up with Kirby all my life, so when he learned to tie his shoes, I learned the same day." Brady remembered saying, "(Kirby's) leaving, but there's no way I can catch up this time."
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FICTION: A civilian in prewar Europe is swept into a life of intrigue during the Spanish Civil War.
"Midnight in Europe," by Alan Furst
It is December 1937, and things are looking grim for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Air power has been deployed against unarmed civilians in Guernica; the Vatican has recognized Franco's regime; Messerschmitts supplied by Hitler are divebombing Republican troops with fierce regularity. The Republican Armed Forces are desperately short of munitions, particularly anti-aircraft guns. Britain and France won't sell them armaments — they led a 27-nation embargo on selling weapons to Spain, and the United States unofficially followed suit. Italy is already under fascist control and so allied with Franco. The Soviets are the Republicans' only hope, but Stalin, their most significant ally, is no longer willing to deplete his own stockpile by selling them arms. He knows he is going to need them.
Cristián Ferrar, a senior partner for the law firm Coudert Frères, works in New York and Paris and lives a comfortable life far from the carnage in his native Spain. In the firm he is known as a resourceful problem solver, an international negotiator not unfamiliar with the sketchier side of the law, anti-fascist in his sympathies but on the sidelines of the current conflict. He is, in short, an ideal, if reluctant, recruit to replace an intelligence officer murdered in an attempt to get weapons to the increasingly desperate Republican forces.
The basic plot of "Midnight in Europe" will sound familiar to Alan Furst fans (and indeed fans of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, and countless others): A civilian in prewar Europe is swept into ever-widening circles of intrigue in countries populated by "officials, with authority from some bureau no one ever heard of, whose sole purpose on earth was to demand to see one's papers, which would lack a validating stamp that no one ever heard of."
Ferrar and his partner Max de Lyon are aided — and thwarted — by the usual suspects: shadowy underworld figures of indeterminate nationality, patriots, arms traders, bankers, Communists, Socialists, democrats, even an enigmatic Marquesa. Here's the scene in a Parisian nightclub in 1938: "slumming nouveaux riches, swindlers, spies, prostitutes of the higher order." Ferrar imagines himself in "a kind of undersea world. Beneath a placid sea, exotic creatures mated and fed on each other and, as you sank deeper, the world turned darker and the creatures turned strange indeed."
As always, Furst is a master of atmosphere, re-creating those prewar days so vividly we can almost imagine that we, like the characters, operate in the dark at midnight, unaware of what happens next, unaware that the new day will bring the surrender of the Republican forces and the horrors of a world plunged into war. "Midnight in Europe" is not as suspenseful as Furst's best novels — "The World at Night," "Dark Voyage" and "Spies of the Balkans," in my opinion — but it is nevertheless a satisfying read, a thoughtful thriller that re-creates the murkiness, suspicion and terrors of this historic midnight.
Patricia Hagen teaches English at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth.


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nat4b(4)June 7, 2011
I have several peonies and all are no ID. I'm trying to find them names.
This one started approx. 6/04, several days after the one which was earlier than others. Mid-blooming maybe?
It's about 33 inches tall, stems are dark when buds appear, and it has no fragrance, or very little in comparison with my early most fragrant peony.
Another distinctive feature is that some flowers are double and some are kinda single. The flowers don't last long, two days and they are done (could be full sun location), but it did it in cooler weather too.
Here are five pictures:
Buds and darker stems
Buds later
First or second day of fully opened
Yesterday in 94 degrees heat
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* Note format compatibility with Tomboy
* Online note synchronization with Rainy, Snowy or Tomboy Online
* SD Card importation
* Home screen shortcuts
* Send and receive text or note-files from any app
* Open source!
What's New
Google Keep - notes and lists
Capture what's on your mind
• Add notes, lists and photos to Google Keep. Pressed for time? Record a voice memo and Keep will transcribe it so you can find it later.
Share ideas with friends and family
• Easily plan that surprise party by sharing your Keep notes with others and collaborating on them in real time.
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• Color and add labels to code notes to quickly organize and get on with your life. If you need to find something you saved, a simple search will turn it up.
Always within reach
• Keep works on your phone, tablet, computer and Android wearables. Everything you add syncs across all of your devices so your thoughts are always with you.
The right note at the right time
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Available everywhere
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Notes - MemoCool
MemoCool is a simple and practical application which you can use to make rapid notes and personalise them by adding colours and entertaining magnet-like icons. MemoCool emulates the typical "Post-it" stuck with magnets on the fridge in your house, but now has the advantage that you can take it with you in your pocket. You can create, edit, archive or delete notes any number of times without limit.
You also have at your disposal a widget which allows you to have your notes visible on your home screen allowing you to never forget your tasks.
✪✪✪✪✪ (NOTES IN HOMESCREEN) Or how to use the widget ✪✪✪✪✪
1. Open MemoCool and create a note.
2. Exit MemoCool.
3. Go to the Widget section of your device (you can find it in Widget Tab from your apps list or doing a long press from your homescreen).
4. Drag and drop the MemoCool widget to your homescreen.
5. Select the note you want to display using the top arrows from the note.
6. You can place as many notes as you want by repeating step 4.
7. If everything was fine, rate us with 5 stars ;)
MemoCool features:
-Create and edit notes easily and simply
-Create reminders with calendar and notification
-Organise notes to ensure the most important notes are always visible
-The most visually realistic and entertaining style in the Play Store
-18 colours to choose from to personalise your notes
-24 magnets to choose from to add a personal touch to every note
-Realistic sounds for every action
-Share your own note designs on Whatsapp, Line, email, etc
-The most entertaining notes widget you can find on your mobile
-Recycle-enabled trash bin so that you can never lose your notes; but also allowing you to keep your fridge door clutter free ;)
Don't forget to give MemoCool positive reviews which allows us to create more functions in the near future (synchronisation, task list, reminders, security lists, etc); as well as new magnets and improvements!
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* options to export/import notaes
* option to set reminder on any event
* and much more coming soon...
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• Stay organized
Organize your notes into notebooks to keep track of all your thoughts and ideas.
• Password protection
Keep your notes private by setting up a password. You can choose to use a text password or a PIN code, depending on your level of security.
• Clean user interface
A beautiful design that is optimized for phones, tablets and smartwatches helps you stay focused on your notes.
• Always up-to-date
Enable Dropbox synchronization and your notes will always be within reach on all your Android devices and online at http://www.notesforweb.com.
Notes is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Russian. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or feedback. If you like Notes, please rate it.
QuickNote Notepad Notes
Now it supports widgets! (To use widget properly, the app will need to be install on the phone instead of sd-card)
- 3 types of note taking: text, checklist or drawing
- Text sharing
- Image sharing and exporting
- Reminder
- Backup data
- Widgets
- Support Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets
Some notes:
- Please press "menu" to see if there are extra options
- Press and hold the item to delete individual item
- Export image will be saved in "quicknote" folder on storage
- To restore backups to new device, you will need to copy backup files from folder "/quicknote" in your internal storage to new phone's internal storage "/quicknote" folder.
Quick notes
When you write notes, memos, e-mail, information, shopping lists, to-do list, it can give you a quick and simple notepad editing experience.
You can set reminders for each important note, so that you will not miss important things.
You can place it on the phone's desktop, to record some easy to forget things. And there are two different specifications, each specification of five different colors of sticky notes can be selected.
*** Features ***
- Export as text to SD
- Share notes through facebook, twitter, and more.
- Multiple color desktop plug-in, let your desktop beautiful
- Supports online backup, sync to Google task, having the data safe forever.
- Sticky notes to remind function , so you never miss an important thing
- Create Home Screen shortcuts
- Todo, checklist, shopping list
- Customize font size and background color
- Provides list mode to facilitate your life
- Different notes in different folders to categorize, so your notes clear
- Use color classification notes
- Search for records
- "Quick notes" development based on open source MiCode Community. Adhering to Apache License 2.0 .
Notes - MemoCool Free
MemoCool is a simple and practical application which you can use to make rapid notes and personalise them by adding colours and entertaining magnet-like icons. MemoCool emulates the typical "Post-it" stuck with magnets on the fridge in your house, but now has the advantage that you can take it with you in your pocket. You can create, edit, archive or delete notes any number of times without limit.
You also have at your disposal a widget which allows you to have your notes visible on your home screen allowing you to never forget your tasks.
✪✪✪✪✪ (NOTES IN HOMESCREEN) Or how to use the widget ✪✪✪✪✪
1. Open MemoCool and create a note.
2. Exit MemoCool.
3. Go to the Widget section of your device (you can find it in Widget Tab from your apps list or doing a long press from your homescreen).
4. Drag and drop the MemoCool widget to your homescreen.
5. Select the note you want to display using the top arrows from the note.
6. You can place as many notes as you want by repeating step 4.
7. If everything was fine, rate us with 5 stars ;)
MemoCool features:
-Create and edit notes easily and simply
-Create reminders with calendar and notification
-Organise notes to ensure the most important notes are always visible
-The most visually, realistic and entertaining style in the Play Store
-18 colours to choose from to personalise your notes
-24 magnets to choose from to add a personal touch to every note
-Realistic sounds for every action
-Share your own note designs on Whatsapp, Line, email, etc
-The most entertaining notes widget you can find on your mobile
-Recycle-enabled trash bin so that you can never lose your notes; but also allowing you to keep your fridge door clutter free ;)
-Absolutely free and no restrictions. Paid version without adverts!
Don't forget to give MemoCool positive reviews which allows us to create more functions in the near future (synchronisation, task list, reminders, security lists, etc); as well as new magnets and improvements!
Papyrus - Natural Note Taking
Turn your device into a virtual whiteboard or give presentations in a class, meeting, or conference by wirelessly casting to a TV/projector (e.g. using Miracast, Chromecast). Export notes as PDFs or images, then share them with others or store them in the cloud!
Papyrus is vector based - keeping your notes beautiful at any zoom level and on any device. You can erase entire letters and words quickly with the stroke eraser tool, or just parts of words with the true eraser tool. The selection tool allows you to change the color and thickness of your handwriting and even resize a drawing whenever you want without any loss in quality.
Papyrus takes special advantage of active pens on capable devices to provide natural, pressure sensitive handwriting. Just write with the pen and erase with your finger!
Papyrus is designed to be both powerful and simple to use, allowing you to take notes quickly and efficiently.
Help us translate Papyrus at http://translate.papyrusapp.com
• Featured App in Google Play
• Category Honorable Mention for Productivity in the Samsung Galaxy Note S Pen App Challenge (http://goo.gl/Ji9dCS)
• Popular Choice Award in the Dual Screen App Challenge (http://goo.gl/J7uT0B)
Key Features
• Take notes naturally with a pen and erase with your finger on active pen enabled devices (e.g. Galaxy Note devices with S Pen)
• Take notes with your finger or passive stylus on non-active pen devices (e.g. Nexus 7)
• Vector graphics engine
• Multiple paper types (e.g. blank, ruled, graph) and sizes (e.g. infinite, letter, A4)
• Undo/redo, select, move, and resize
• Change the color and weight of selected items
• Cut, copy, and paste items between notes
• Two finger scroll and pinch-to-zoom
• Two finger double tap to quickly jump to a specific zoom level
• Organize notes within notebooks (long press, drag and drop)
• Sort notes and notebooks
• Import, crop, and resize images
• Export notes to PDF, PNG, or JPEG for printing, archiving, or sharing
• Share notes with friends and colleagues via email, Evernote, etc.
• Samsung Multi-Window support
• Shortcuts to create a new note or open a notebook
• Present notes on a secondary display (Android 4.2+)
Premium Features¹
• PDF Import - Easily write, draw, and markup on PDFs with all the powerful features available with a standard note. Also includes highlighter tool!
• Tool Pack - Adds a highlighter tool, a "true" eraser tool (erase parts of strokes), shape tools, and a text tool
• Cloud Services - Backup/restore and export notes as PDFs to cloud storage providers Dropbox and Box
Google Play for Education customers can install both this app and the Papyrus EDU License 2014-2015 app to unlock all premium features for the current academic year. See http://goo.gl/aZZWFt
Information about active pen devices: http://goo.gl/6BRJy
Explanation of required permissions: http://goo.gl/q5f8Y
If you encounter any bugs, please email us at email@example.com with a description of the bug!
We would love to hear any feedback or feature requests you have at http://feedback.papyrusapp.com.
Website: http://papyrusapp.com
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Facebook: http://facebook.com/SteadfastInnovation
Google+: http://google.com/+PapyrusApp
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¹These features are available via in-app purchasing. Your support keeps us innovating!
Colored Notes - notebook
Synchronization and editing notes on http://cnotes.org/
* Features *
• Draw directly on your display
• Create a to-do list (Shopping List)
• Ample room for text editing
• 16 themes
• Each note its color
• Type notes - list or tile
• Sorting notes by color
• Adding photos to a note
• Selecting photos from the gallery or a picture in real time
Note taking made easy!
Notepad+ is the universal app for taking notes, drawing, handwriting and sketching right on the screen of your device. Handwrite or type notes, draw with colors, write memos, sketch ideas or schemes, keep a travel journal or make a shopping list - it's the pen & paper right on your device, available at hand exactly when you need it. Notepad+ is the most capable and intuitive note-taking app ever.
• Handwrite or type when making notes
• Choose pens or highlighters for writing, drawing, and sketching
• Select various colors for them, define the line thickness
• Type notes in with the text tool (fonts and colors available)
• Zoom in, examine and/or paint smaller details. Scroll the area that is zoomed in on, use two fingers to navigate
• Create and store as many notebooks/drawing books as you need in your notepad
• Add multiple notepad pages and navigate through them easily
• Choose from a variety of paper templates
• Create new and keep multiple notes organized in notebooks on your device
• Sort your notes by name or date
• Share your best notes and notebooks: email, print, save to Gallery or open in other apps
• Protect your notes with a passcode: set passcode to any of your notebooks
• Enjoy full note-taking functionality on your tablet or phone
Notepad+ is going to be your perfect assistant wherever you are!
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Choose any color you want to write notes, also you do have a chance to share notes with friends or relatives.
If you like to leave a lot of articles and do not know where is the one you want? Your new notebook will find it easily
Notepad is fine for students in writing crib sheets.
- Search notes, drawings
- Automatically save notes
- Save images into SD in notepad folder
- Painting the choice of color and brush size
- The intensity of the brush saturation and color transparency
- Undo in painting
- Edit the name of the picture, or note
- Eraser is used to remove areas of color from the active layer or selection of this layer, leaving behind transparency.
- Supports plotting boards for sketching, like a graffiti in touch with choice of color, thickness, intensity
- The "Add Bookmark" will help you to put Desktop shortcut of your note or drawing as a reminder.
- Share notes Icq, Gmail, Bluetooth, Skype, Facebook, Vkontakte, Flickr, Twitter
- Drawing, Color picker
- Photo notes drawing
- Photo Editor
- Photoshop
- Photo notes text
- Voice note
- Reminders
- Shopping list
- Gallery notes
- Background color
- Backup/import/export to SD card
Automatic backup schedule daily / weekly /
- Video Notes
- Password Protection
Are you a creative person? You need to not only record your ideas but also do sketches as a picture, then this new notepad is for you!
With this feature, you can quickly and easily create notes as sketches, drawings, or make a note in the form of handwriting.
Bright palette and vibrant colors will help you to express all your feelings in the time of the drawing.
An excellent option for the manuscript is a device Samsung Galaxy Note with its pen, you can create a masterpiece.
Fast, easy, beautiful and accessible at any time. This is what you need
FiiNote, note everything(New!)
It is designed for both Phone and Tablet.
Feature list:
1, Unique hybrid model for combined handwriting and keyboard.
2, Text,paint,voice,photo,video...Note everything.
3, Calender,alarm,todo...Getting things done.
4, Infinite canvas, text box, DIY templates, real pen style...Too many incredible functions inside.
5, Organized by books, tags, bookmarks, calendar. Archive and trash box are also supported.
6, Integrate with Recorder, a background recorder using little resource.
7, Compatible with multiple cloud providers, fast incremental backup & restore, unlimited restore points.
8, Less permission is required.
We will support Japanese(Done), Korean(Done), Spanish(Done), German(Done), Russian(Done), French(Done), Italian(Done), Portuguese(Done) before Aug 5!
feature: notepad handwriting handwritten Note taking 手写记事本 便签本 原笔迹
Recommend to work with:Backup your folders, PDF2JPG, File2PDF, FiiBackup, notes 隨手寫
Usage: stay organized remember research GTD diary memo whiteboard schedule agenda draft plan meeting TODO list finance class paper sketch
My Notes - Notepad
Key Features:
- Lock app with password or PIN.
- Save, browse, search and share notes on your smartphone and tablet.
- Organize notes by folders.
- Sort notes by date created, date updated, title and folder.
- Navigate between notes in a horizontal position.
- Sync notes via Google Drive between all Android devices you use.
- Keep your notes safe in the cloud.
- Store and display thousands of notes without any performance penalty.
- Store large notes (unlimited size).
- Change theme color.
Premium Features:
- No ads.
- Auto sync.
Sync details:
Application data is stored in a hidden folder on your Google Drive. This folder is accessible only by "My Notes" app. Although the folder is hidden you can see the amount of space it occupies and delete its contents.
1. Go to Google Drive on the web at "drive.google.com"
2. From the settings menu, select "Manage apps".
3. Find the application called "My Notes".
Please remember to perform synchronization regularly to avoid accidental data loss.
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Groovy Notes - Personal Diary
Groovy Notes leverages the ease of use of a diary/journal by employing the capabilities of your device such as the ability to record voice notes and touch gestures to navigate between views.
It is realistic!
Groovy Notes has a familiar, real world journal like interface. The pages look natural enough to make you want to turn them over. Be it notes, memos, anniversaries, lists, to-dos or even your personal journal - everything can be easily managed with Groovy Notes. All the notes are well organized by categories, tags and date. What's more, the categories can be customized with attractive colors and icons to make them funkier, fun and easier to manage and notice!
Searching has never been so easy!
Searching for that crucial note, in the nick of time, is as easy as tapping a button on Groovy Notes. Use the calendar to find the notes by dates, pick a category, tag or just type in a keyword and search! Even the search results are color coded, based on category.
Because voice has a ring to it!
Don't feel like tapping on your keypad? Just record your thoughts in your own voice (or an entire conversation or meeting). With a single tap you can record your voice memos and convert your regular notes into voice notes. What's more, you can continue taking notes from the same meeting that you are recording! Both functions working simultaneously, now that is an added advantage. Organize the voice notes just as you would other notes with tags, category, date and text but yet feel, or should we say hear the difference.
Never lose your data!
Groovy Notes comes with features to export, backup and restore your notes with Dropbox. You can export your notes as PDF, plain text and MP3, backup your data to your Dropbox account and restore it back in case of a device failure or wipeout.
With regular use of backup your data is always safe and accessible from anywhere!
Enhance your world!
With Groovy Notes maintaining a journal has taken on a new meaning. A diary that is portable (without the additional bulk), intelligent, organized, versatile and talks to you! With a sleek and stylish design Groovy Notes is a fashion statement.
Easy to manage, fun to use and a huge time-saver, Groovy Notes can be your friend.
- Manage your notes by category, date and tags
- Record/Playback voice memos/recordings for your awesome note
- Add and view attachments (Photos and Drawings)
- Customize categories with color and icons and sort them in any order you like
- Change fonts for note to suit your needs
- Powerful search to find notes by category, date, tags or text
- Dedicated calendar view to view notes by date
- Comprehensive sketching/drawing tools, even lets you draw on photos!
- Backup/Restore your data using Dropbox
- Export notes as PDF and Voice Notes as MP3
- Share your awesome note, recordings and attachments by Email, SMS and with other applications
- Import texts/notes from other applications into Groovy Notes
- Password protect the application to keep your data secure
- Switch between View/Edit modes to avoid soft-keyboard from popping up
- Attractive and intuitive diary-like experience, a pleasure to use
- Optimized for tablets. Use both portrait and landscape modes on tablets
So what are you waiting for? Get, set and groove!
Pssst... You also save paper! Go Green! Go Groovy Notes!!
Notes - Note list
With Note list you can quickly write notes, todo items and write down all your ideas and reminders. Use the folder structure to keep all your notes organized. Looking for a simple yet powerful material design notepad app for your Android device, Note list is it.
• Easy to use - Large notepad for writing notes, optimized for phones and tablets
• Organize notes - Store your notes in folders and archive folders.
• Sync notes - Synchronize notes on multiple devices with Google Drive™
• Quick access - Add a shortcut to your home screen to quickly open the notepad editor to create new notes.
• Reminders - Add reminders to notes and check completed notes.
• Backup/Restore - Keep your notes save by using the backup manager or synchronization function.
• Language support for: English, Dutch, German, Spanish.
Pro upgrade features
• Use Note list ads free.
• Note widget.
• Bold, Italic, Underlined, Font color, Highlight color markup options.
• Calendar view.
Thousands of users worldwide are using Note list every day, install and try it out yourself.
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To keep your notes save use the build in backup manager regularly, it's best to copy the backup to your PC from time to time in case your device get's lost or damaged.
Notepad Reminder
Notes Widget functions:
* you can write notes directly from widget - unique on whole market!
* you can set reminder on each note, so you NEVER miss anything important again!
* you can import/export notes (for backup purposes)
* beautiful clean look and great customization options