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Rosenbaum Contemporary will premier exclusively the latest work of European artist Andres Ginestet the evening of March 4, 2010. This latest work is an ambitious body of work of figural studies. Working in the most technologically advanced areas of high–resolution imaging, Ginestet has been able to transcend the flat surface of photography with his composite photo images, referred to by the artist as "Sculptural Photography." The romantic and lyrical images resonate with the warmth and movement of the human form. A montage of shifting poses, using highly controlled exposures, creates a unique, seemingly three-dimensional sense of form. Adding to this soft intimacy is the background patina of stucco walls and garden settings with mysterious doors and courtyards that beckon the viewer inward. Subtle phantasms of facial sculpture (carved by the artist) emerge through shifting light from the aging stucco walls that speak of another time and place. These are contemplative pieces that encourage and welcome the viewer to immerse themselves in voluptuous imagery and to revel in its richness.
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Full speed ahead for EPA's spending spree
With the weather finally turning a little more seasonal, spring cleaning seems to be on the minds of more than just homeowners. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is on a roll to clean up a number of different areas, and that clean up comes with a large ticket price.
While the EPA proposed 2015 budget is sitting at $7.890 billion, the 2014 final number is setting up to be about $309.9 million above that.
The latest money is being sent to clean up U.S. ports. EPA is awarding $4.2 million in grant funding for clean diesel projects at six U.S. ports, along with hosting the "Advancing Sustainable Ports" summit to mark the kickoff of a new EPA initiative to recognize ports that take action to improve environmental performance.
"Ports are the main gateway for U.S. trade and are critical to our country's economic growth, yet the communities surrounding ports face serious environmental challenges," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.
Most of the country's busiest ports are located in or near large metropolitan areas and, as a result, people in nearby communities can be exposed to high levels of pollution, according to EPA, making them a key target for improvement.
The grants awarded will help the six ports improve air quality and reduce carbon emissions, by providing $4.2 million in Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grants to retrofit, replace, or repower diesel engines resulting in immediate emissions reductions in harmful pollution. The grant recipients are the Port of Seattle, the Port of Hueneme, the Port of Tacoma, the Maryland Port Administration, the Virginia Port Authority, and the Port of Los Angeles.
The Port of Hueneme will receive a $500,000 grant to help with the second phase of its shore-side power project, allowing for more vessels to simultaneously connect to the power system.
Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA), who has worked to help the port find funding for its power system, said she was pleased to hear about the grant.
"Not only will it help improve air quality, but it will allow the port to better compete for business in the international market," she said.
A vessel plugged into the new $13.6 million system for the first time Friday. It was built to comply with a new California Air Resources Board rule requiring ports to have land-based power available to reduce pollution coming from docked container and cruise ships.
While these port improvements may be getting the green thumb from environmental enthusiasts, the dollar sign attached to the EPA has others questioning their spending choices and there appears to be no break in site.
McCarthy defended the 2015 proposed budget, based on merits of an organization that has become highly controversial.
"This budget is key to a new era of partnerships for the U.S. environmental protection enterprise, where EPA will work hand in hand—with our sister federal agencies, states, tribes, localities, agricultural and manufacturing sectors, small businesses, industry, and other stakeholders—to improve the health of families and protect the environment, one community at a time, all across the country," said McCarthy. "Our request focuses our resources on the things that really matter to the people of this country. We will seek to make a visible difference—whether it is protecting our precious waters and leaving our children a legacy so they can safely drink water from their small community water systems and fish and swim in their local rivers; reducing air pollution along roadways and neighborhoods; or cleaning up communities to maximize environmental and economic benefits." Fiscal Year 2015 appears to be heading down another spendy path for EPA's 64 staff members.
"The FY 2015 budget request includes resources to expand existing efforts to make a difference in people's everyday lives and make a visible difference in their communities. $7.5 Million and the 64 staff in FY 2015 will work to make that difference, including building on current work by providing green infrastructure technical assistance for up to 100 communities to help them employ cost-effective and sustainable approaches to water management. Research will help with the development and application of new and enhanced technologies for large-scale green infrastructure. Additionally, the agency will focus efforts to enhance our work in environmental justice communities," EPA writes.
Climate change and air quality concerns will get $1.03 billion of the budget, a $41 million increase compared to FY 2014. Climate change gets $199.5 million of that. The request provides an additional $10 million and 24 staff.
"Addressing the threat from a changing climate is one of the greatest challenges of this and future generations. The request for climate change and air quality is $1.03 billion—over $41 million more than fiscal year 2014. And it designates $199.5 million specifically for climate change work," Mc- Carthy testified before the Senate Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations at a hearing to discuss EPA's proposed budget.
EPA plans to spend $8 million and put 10 staff members on advancing clean water in 2015, a topic that is nothing short of controversial with the recent proposed changes to the Clean Water Act.
"The (EPA's) recent attempts to increase its scope and authority have threatened the livelihoods of many Americans, particularly farmers and ranchers. Uncertainty abounds because of EPA's attempt to over-regulate everything from farm dust to ponds; implement back door cap-and-trade; and stomp out coal-generated power. Despite bipartisan concerns in Congress and from job creators, the agency continues to stretch its powers by proposing onerous, impractical and out-of-touch rules and regulations," Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) said. — Traci Eatherton, WLJ Editor


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Hurricane Sandy caused $100 million in damages to New Jersey Transit trains and equipment, but some legislators are asking whether the train cars were properly protected before the storm.
Many of the agency's cars had been stored in rail yards that ended up flooded after Sandy. The yards were in the Meadowlands, and in Hoboken.
State Assemblyman John Wisniewski, chairman of New Jersey Transit's transportation committee, said, "Those trains should not have been left in such a vulnerable location," according to Bloomberg.
Meanwhile, NorthJersey.com reported that at a symposium in March, NJ Transit executive David Gillespie said he told New Jersey climate-change consultants to skip any analysis of its potential effects on train cars and engines because any impact would be unlikely.
Transit executive director James Weinstein said the agency's choices for train storage before Sandy were limited. He said the yards were the best options he had based on the information available at the time.
According to Transportation Nation, Weinstein said that NJ Transit stored equipment in Pennsylvania during 2011's Hurricane Irene, and the equipment became stuck because of inland flooding and falling trees.
Weinstein said that Hurricane Sandy caused about $400 million in total damage to New Jersey Transit, and the system would need another $800 million to reinforce it against future storms, according to The New York Times.
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Lee County 2nd-grade teacher accused of molesting students
A Lee County second-grade teacher has been accused of sexual contact with two of his students.
David McNabb, 52, 11982 Glen Avenue, Fort Myers, was arrested Wednesday and charged with one count of capital sexual battery and two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation.
McNabb works at Tropic Isles Elementary School in North Fort Myers. He's been an employee of the Lee County School District since 2002.
On Thursday, a district official hand-delivered a suspension notice to McNabb in the Lee County Jail, where he is being held without bond. The teacher will not be allowed on any school property until an investigation is concluded, said district spokesman Joe Donzelli.
The district is working with the Lee County Sheriff's Office, the lead investigative agency, and will reach out to parents if asked to do so, Donzelli added. He urged anyone with similar allegations to contact the Sheriff's Office.
"If there is anybody who has additional information concerning this individual or similar allegations about this individual, we need them to come forward," he said.
Lee County students are currently out of school for summer vacation.
According to a Sheriff's Office report, two girls under the age of 12 told investigators that between January and the end of the school year, McNabb inappropriately touched them several times. The two girls said McNabb rubbed his hands across their clothed bodies when they approached him about school assignments, according to the report.
Both students also gave detailed instances in which McNabb approached from behind, placed his hands inside their pants and fondled them, the report stated.
Lee County detectives began investigating July 14, after the two girls told their parents about the alleged incidents. Both students later participated in a forensic interview at the Children's Advocacy Center.
Donzelli said second-grade students spend most of the school day with one teacher, as opposed to rotating among several classes.
The delivery of the suspension notice was an unusual touch, Donzelli said, but one that falls in line with district procedure. Most teachers under criminal investigation are sent a notice by certified mail, upon which they sign and return it to the district.
The suspension is with pay, another procedure of the district. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, McNabb may face termination, Donzelli said.
"Bottom line is, he is not going back to a classroom anytime soon," Donzelli said. "Termination by the Lee County School District is the last thing this guy is going to be worried about."
The severe nature of the case was one reason to deliver the notice, Donzelli said. The district also didn't feel its procedures should change due to summer vacation, he added.
Capital sexual battery carries a maximum sentence of death. Each lewd and lascivious molestation charge carries a life felony.
McNabb's district personnel file reflected a teacher who received high marks on performance reviews, often exceeded expectations and holding students' attention effectively. McNabb is certified to teach speakers of other languages, and made $38,738 a year at the beginning of the 2008-09 school year.
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PUDUKOTTAI: The Collector, S.J. Chiru, underlined the importance of taking steps for creating awareness of voluntary blood donation in society in general and the younger generation in particular.
Speaking at the National Voluntary Blood Donation Day - 2006 celebrations at H.H. The Rajah's College auditorium here on Friday, Mr. Chiru said there has been a marked improvement in the volume of blood collected through voluntary blood donors in the district.
A total of 619 units of blood were collected in the year 2000 by the GH blood bank - 246 units through voluntary donation and 373 units through the relatives.
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Apart from using the blood for treating the patients at Government Headquarters Hospital, excess blood is supplied to the medical college hospitals at Thanjavur and Madurai. The Joint Director of Medical and Rural Health Services (in-charge), R. Padmini, the Blood Bank Medical Officer, Government Hospital, G. Edwin, the secretary of the Indian Red Cross Society, J. Raja Mohamed, and the president of Voluntary Blood Donors' Association, Palaniappan, spoke.
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New York, September 7 - Madison Square Garden Network (MSG), Fox Sports Net New England (FSNNE) and HDNet have announced six air dates for DiBella Entertainments latest installments of Broadway Boxing Presented by Turning Stone Resort & Casino both of which were taped at the Hammerstein Ballroom at Manhattan Center on August 25th..
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From afar, poor old Europe looks in a dire state. Catching up with post election Washingtonians a couple of weeks ago, most of my interlocutors came up with the full list of Continental woes: economic stagnation, recession and record unemployment in Eurozone countries (Chancellor Merkel's austerity has clearly failed); riots and strikes in Europe (the end of the peace project?); Britain on the way to leaving the Union (a clear sign of disintegration); an inward-looking Europe (but oh well, Europe's lack of ambitions to contribute to a stable world order are old hat).
To be fair, Washington's analysts were still in a kind of fighting mode, having just been through a long and polarizing election battle. Even with Obama's second go being settled there is still the fiscal cliff looming and the immobile political institutions. The whole transatlantic exchange felt a bit like a collective lay-down on the therapist's coach to work through the traumas of the past year — and those still to come. The only comfort comes from our familiarity with each other's sorrows, but these days we struggle to be able to reassure each other that things will be okay.
Clearly, the future still does not look rosy for the Eurozone. But three years into the euro crisis, Angela Merkel, whose global recognition has skyrocketed in the course of the crisis, remains in surprisingly good shape. As many times as worries that the euro rescue will ultimately fail might have kept her up at night over this past year — she doesn't look it. And for good reason: At home, an impressive 70 percent of Germans believe in her ability to sort out the crisis, many of them not traditional CDU voters. Needless to say, Germans are in a good mood overall: Crisis, what crisis? It is empowering to know that your country actually has the clout to influence decisions in Brussels. By the end of 2013, Angela Merkel can also look back at a year in which she managed to tame the critics within her own coalition. At EU level, however, her ability to frame the euro rescue has been challenged: by a Socialist French president who made it into power on a "there is an alternative Europe" platform, by Italy having reentered the arena now that those unfortunate Berlusconi years are over, by an inevitable new role for the European Central Bank, and, not least, by the growing pressure created by facts on the ground in Eurozone countries hit hard. But again, doesn't everybody agree that there will be no solution without Berlin, and doesn't that give the German capital the key to many of the decisions that need to be taken?
Domestically, in 2013, parameters will change. Angela Merkel will have to build the "new" Eurozone, contours of which have emerged over the last months, while battling to win the Bundestag at home. Imagine Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in a full swing campaign for the White House while simultaneously having to work on a big constitutional re-balancing of powers within the US federal system — which is precisely what Angela Merkel needs to do now. The Eurozone can only be rescued by a major step of further Europeanization, which will mean that Germany, Spain, France, Finland and all its other members will have to swallow another round of trims to their nations' sovereignty. The Eurozone is not only a fragile entity at the moment, its governance structures are a moving target. How can Angela Merkel possibly explain this to her voters, and win the 2013 federal elections on the vague promise of a bright future for the Eurozone?
Well, given her current approval rates she might still do well, provided that Germans continue not to be affected by the crisis before autumn, when voters head to the ballot box. And much will depend on what the opposition has to offer. So far, there has not been much bite to the Social Democratic and Green opposition parties. Only the Left Party has undamentally challenged the government's euro policies.
But the other opposition parties are getting into election gear: Both the Social Democrats and Greens have nominated their candidates who will challenge the chancellor, and their campaigns are being defined at the moment. What they are likely to confront Merkel with is her mantra of "TINA," which the chancellor has repeated on many occasions over this past year. Indeed, there is no alternative to fixing the dysfunctional currency Union if we are to rescue the euro. But of course there are a lot of different ways how to do it.
Both Social Democrats and Greens, while committed to keeping the euro alive, are likely to play the social Europe card. While this is a natural topic for the SPD, the Greens, too, have started to push social policy as one of the main pillars of their 2013 campaign. Chancellor Merkel herself set the pace by announcing earlier this year that she will make Europe part of her 2013 campaign. Many politicians, including in her own party, perhaps secretly wish to avoid this sensitive issue on Germany's marketplaces next year. It is unlikely though that this will work: The euro question is out there, and Germans want to have a say on the future direction of the currency Union and Germany's role in Europe.
2013 will be the first real election on European Union matters in Germany, and by the fall of next year, Europeans traveling to Washington with the election results will have a much clearer idea of what is feasible on the euro front. Whether this is good news or not remains to be seen, but one should not underestimate the strength of the foundation that the European idea is built on in Germany. Following the 2013 elections there will be a different European Union, but the end of the Union is not a realistic prospect.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Trainer Bob Baffert was pleased with Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner American Pharoah's workout on Tuesday as he prepares for the Belmont Stakes and his attempt to become horse racing's first Triple Crown winner since 1978.
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ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) Hard Not to Like moved into contention around the far turn and dug in for a neck victory in the 0,000 Gamely Stakes Monday at Santa Anita.
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North and South Korea have agreed to reopen a jointly operated industrial park that was closed in April, Seoul said on Wednesday.
The five-point deal followed a day of talks in Kaesong, North Korea, the location of the industrial park.
"The agreement was signed by Kim Ki Woong, Seoul's chief delegate and his North Korean counterpart, Park Chol Su", South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted an official from the Unification Ministry in Seoul as saying.
No further details of the deal were given, Yonhap reported.
Operations were halted at the Kaesong complex when first Pyongyang and then Seoul pulled their workers and managers out of factories there as tensions rose between the two countries.
Each side blamed the other for the suspension of operations.
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All virtual machines that you create in Azure can automatically communicate using a private network channel with other virtual machines in the same cloud service or virtual network. All other inbound communication, such as traffic initiated from Internet hosts or virtual machines in other cloud services or virtual networks, requires an endpoint.
Endpoints can be used for different purposes. The default use and configuration of endpoints on a virtual machine that you create with the Azure Management Portal are for the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and remote Windows PowerShell session traffic. These endpoints allow you to remotely administer the virtual machine over the Internet.
Another use of endpoints is the configuration of the Azure Load Balancer to distribute a specific type of traffic between multiple virtual machines or services. For example, you can spread the load of web request traffic across multiple web servers or web roles.
Each endpoint defined for a virtual machine is assigned a public and private port, either TCP or UDP. Internet hosts send their incoming traffic to the public IP address of the cloud service and a public port. Virtual machines and services within the cloud service listen on their private IP address and private port. The Azure Load Balancer maps the public IP address and port number of incoming traffic to the private IP address and port number of the virtual machine and vice versa for the response traffic from the virtual machine.
When you configure load balancing of traffic among multiple virtual machines or services, Azure provides random distribution of the incoming traffic.
For a cloud service that contains instances of web roles or worker roles, you can define a public endpoint in the service definition. For a cloud service that contains virtual machines, you can add an endpoint to a virtual machine when you create it or you can add the endpoint later.
The following figure shows a load-balanced endpoint for encrypted web traffic that is shared among three virtual machines for the public and private TCP port of 443. These three virtual machines are in a load-balanced set.
When Internet clients send web page requests to the public IP address of the cloud service and TCP port 443, the Azure Load Balancer performs a random balancing of those requests between the three virtual machines in the load-balanced set.
For the steps to create a load-balanced set, see Configure a load-balanced set.
Azure also supports internal load balancing of traffic between virtual machines within a cloud service, between virtual machines in cloud services that are themselves contained within a virtual network, and between on-premises computers and virtual machines in a cross-premises virtual network. For more information, see Internal load balancing.
The initial set of endpoints for a virtual machine depends on how you create it.
When you create the virtual machine with a Windows PowerShell cmdlet, no endpoints are created by default. You must add endpoints after the virtual machine has been created. For more information, see Add-AzureEndpoint.
You can create a virtual machine with the Azure Management Portal using the following methods:
From Gallery The From Gallery method allows you to configure endpoints when you create the virtual machine and specify the name of an existing cloud service. For instructions, see Create a Virtual Machine Running Windows Server or Create a Virtual Machine Running Linux.
Quick Create With the Quick Create method, Azure creates a new cloud service for the virtual machine and you must configure endpoints after Azure creates the virtual machine.
The Azure Load Balancer works at Layer 4, the Transport layer of the OSI model. This means that it operates on individual streams of TCP or UDP traffic, as defined by their source and destination IP addresses and port numbers. Load balancing at Layer 4 ensures that all of the packets for a given TCP connection or UDP message exchange are routed to the same destination.
The Azure load balancer distributes load among a set of available servers (virtual machines) by computing a hash function on the traffic received on a given input endpoint. The Azure Load Balancer uses the following fields from an incoming packet to compute a hash value:
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The Azure Load Balancer then uses this hash value to map the traffic to an available server. All the packets from the same TCP connection or UDP message exchange are mapped to the same server in the load-balanced set. When the client closes and re-opens the connection or starts a new session from the same source IP address, the source port typically changes. This creates a new and different hash value and a new mapping of the traffic to an available server.
The result is a random distribution of traffic across the members of the load-balanced set. Based on this random distribution, it is possible for different connections to get mapped to the same server.
For additional information, see Microsoft Azure Load Balancing Services in the Azure blog.
The Azure Load Balancer supports the configuration of the TCP idle timeout, a value in minutes after which the Azure Load Balancer abandons the mapping for an open, but inactive TCP connection. The default value of the TCP idle timeout is 4 minutes. You can now set this between 4 and 30 minutes on a load-balanced set with the Set-AzureLoadBalancedEndpoint Windows PowerShell cmdlet. For more information, see New: Configurable Idle Timeout for Azure Load Balancer in the Azure blog.
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UK Trade & Investment has teamed up with the Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit (JSU) to launch the European Legal Information Service, which offers support to new and established exporters looking to trade with other European countries.
It builds on the success of Tees Valley JSU's current service and has been expanded to help small and medium-sized enterprises across the North-East, not just in the Tees Valley.
UK Trade & Investment International Trade Director David Coppock said: "The EU remains an important market for North-East firms and we aim to ensure new and existing exporters have all the knowledge and support they need to succeed.
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Focusing on trade in the EU, the service will guide exporters through the vast amounts of legislation that could affect their international trade activities and provide them with plain English explanations.
European Legal Officer at Tees Valley JSU Martin Boyle explained: "Companies sometimes feel overwhelmed by the legislation they face ( they hear a rumour about a new EU directive that could affect them or a customer mentions a bit of EU red tape they've never heard of. There are rules covering packaging, labelling requirements, marking of components, consumer and product safety, selling on the internet, hazardous substances, electromagnetic compatibility, biofuel quotas, copyright levies, rights in databases ( the list seems endless.
"It's frustrating to see how nervousness about these 'red tape' issues can hold some firms back from doing good business with European partners ( because it doesn't have to be a barrier to success and we're here to help."
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World-Class Basho Engineering Support and Riak Enterprise Now Available Online
March 3, 2014
Earlier this year, we expanded our product portfolio to better meet the needs of our diverse and growing community. Not only did we add support-only options for open source Riak and Riak CS, but we also expanded our commercial licensing options and added various levels of pre-packaged Professional Services. These product options ensure customers of all sizes and at all stages are successful with Riak and Riak CS, even if they're not quite ready for the benefits of Enterprise.
In addition to offering these new product options, we have also added credit card acceptance to Basho.com. Users that already know what they need can visit payments.basho.com, select the option that is right for them, and get started right away. As always, we recommend starting with at least five nodes. However, the Payments Page will accept purchases ranging from three to 19 nodes. Users will be able to purchase Riak Starter, Riak Basic, Riak Enterprise, Riak Enterprise Plus, and the Professional Services options (excluding Daily Rate and Test Drive).
For a full list of product options and what they include, visit our Product Page for Riak and Professional Services. To purchase now, visit our Pricing Page. For Riak CS products and services, please contact us to get started.
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January 15, 2014
Yesterday, we announced our newly expanded product portfolio. We have added many new offerings for both Riak and Riak CS to better meet the needs of our growing user base. You can check out prices and what's been added here.
To complement this announcement, we wanted to provide a few more details around what each product tier provides.
For both Riak and Riak CS, we now offer Starter, Basic, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus packages. All of these options offer the built-in benefits of Riak and Riak CS, which include a masterless system with automatic replication, a straightforward key/value data model, HTTP API and Protocol Buffers, Client Security (both Authorization and Authentication), Riak Control (a visual GUI to monitor your cluster), Riak Search (now with integrated SOLR), Secondary Indexes, MapReduce, Basho Hadoop Connector, and Riak Data Types (distributed counters, sets, and maps). For more information about many of these features, check out our Intro to Riak webinar.
All four tiers also offer Basho Engineering Support – offering access to our Client Services Engineers for assistance. For Riak Starter, this support is available 8am – 8pm Eastern. For Basic, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus, it is available 24x7x365.
Technical Account Management Checkpoints are available quarterly for Starter and weekly for the other tiers. These checkpoints are meant to evaluate your cluster architecture and provide assistance where necessary.
All tiers offer Online Ticket Tracking for issues and Enterprise and Enterprise Plus also offer Emergency Patches. SLAs are available for urgent tickets with a 12-hour guarantee for Starter, a 1-hour guarantee for Basic, and a 30-minute guarantee for Enterprise and Enterprise Plus (with Special Event SLAs available in real-time for Enterprise and Enterprise Plus).
Both Riak Starter and Riak Basic have an Apache 2 license for the open source product and Enterprise and Enterprise Plus have a Commercial license for more flexible permitted usage.
Finally, as with Riak Enterprise and Riak CS Enterprise in the past, both Enterprise and Enterprise Plus include Multi-Datacenter Replication (which also enables cluster-to-cluster replication for secondary workloads), Reduced Replicas at Secondary Sites for more efficient storage, and SNMP and JMX Support. Enterprise Plus adds a Basho Baseline and Annual Health Check, which provides added Basho assurance and ensures long-term platform stability and performance.
Discounts are available based on the number of nodes in production or based on usage (for Riak CS). Perpetual Licensing is available upon negotiation. For more information on these options, contact us.
In addition to the four product tiers, we also added a range of Professional Services pricing options that include on-site trainings (for groups of all sizes) and Riak/Riak CS Test Drive. With Test Drive, the Professional Services team will help with initial backend design and assist new users in pre-production phases with on-site and continuous support.
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Since she disappeared June 28, friends and family have described 34-year-old Paige Birgfeld as a busy entrepreneur and dedicated mother of three.
But investigators in Colorado are now also describing Birgfeld as the owner of an unlicensed escort service who used the pseudonym "Carrie" and kept a list of escort clients.
"It is looking like she's the owner of Models Incorporated," Heather Gierhart, a spokeswoman for the Mesa County Sheriff's Office, told ABC News. "It's looking more like she was running it and had her own clients."
Police are probing Birgfeld's client list and say that a number of her former customers could be considered possible suspects in what they're now calling a likely case of foul play.
Until Saturday, authorities in Colorado were treating Birgfeld as a missing person, even suggesting that the woman may have staged her own disappearance.
But new information about her escort agency, combined with a lack of any evidence indicating she voluntarily went missing, altered the investigative track over the weekend.
"We so far haven't found a single piece of evidence that indicated she left on her own free will," Gierhart said. "She hasn't surfaced anywhere or used money or cell phone or anything like that."
Confirmation by investigators that Birgfeld oversaw an escort agency, which is not registered with the Colorado Secretary of State's office, has stunned family and friends.
"We didn't know any of this," Suzanne Birgfeld, Paige's mother, told the Rocky Mountain News Sunday, saying that the family has added the name "Carrie" to some of the missing person fliers.
Frank Birgfeld, Paige's father, told the Grand Junction Sentinel that he was taken aback when an investigator told him his daughter worked in the adult entertainment business.
"Based on the way this thing is unwinding, this isn't the sort of thing she would want me to know," Frank Birgfeld said. "I haven't heard of anything illegal. I'm getting the feeling she knew where the line was."
Suzanne Birgfeld said she did not know where the name "Carrie" may have come from, but she added that the information about her daughter's double life may actually benefit the search for their daughter.
Authorities are also inching closer to ruling out the involvement of Robert Dixon, one of Birgfeld's two ex-husbands and the father of her three children, whom she recently wrote about in an online forum for consultants who sell Pampered Chef products.
"I'm thinking this is a bit close for my comfort," Birgfeld wrote in June of Dixon's possible move to Durango, Colo., less than a four-hour drive from Grand Junction.
"He could theoretically hang up the phone and be waiting at my house before the kids and I return from errands," Birgfeld posted on ChefSuccess.com, using the name Paige Dixon.
But Dixon has cooperated fully throughout the investigation, and it appears more and more likely that he had nothing to do with her disappearance.
"It looks like he was out of state at the time," Gierhart said. "At this point we're not comfortable ruling anyone out, but we're definitely comfortable saying he's moving down on the list of people we're interested in."
Howard Beigler, Birgfeld's first husband, is in the same position, Gierhart said, despite postings by Birgfeld on the same online forum that suggested the two had rekindled their relationship.


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A new method is proposed for the factor analysis of dichotomous variables. Similar to the method of Christoffersson this uses information from the first and second order proportions to fit a multiple factor model. Through a transformation into a new set of sample characteristics, the estimation is considerably simplified. A generalized least-squares estimator is proposed, which asymptotically is as efficient as the corresponding estimator of Christoffersson, but which demands less computing time.
This research was supported by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation under project "Structural Equation Models in the Social Sciences", project director Karl G. Jöreskog.
- Gruvaeus, G. T., Jöreskog, K. G. (1970) A computer program for minimizing a function of several variables. Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N. J.
- Muthen, B. & Dahlqvist, B.FADIC. Factor analysis of dichotomous variables. A Fortran IV computer program in preparation, 1978.
- Bock, R. D., Lieberman, M. (1970) Fitting a response model forn dichotomously scored items. Psychometrika 35: pp. 179-197
- Christoffersson, A. (1975) Factor analysis of dichotomized variables. Psychometrika 40: pp. 5-32
- Cramér, H. (1946) Mathematical methods of statistics. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J.
- Fletcher, R., Powell, M. J. D. (1963) A rapidly convergent descent method for minimization. The Computer Journal 6: pp. 163-168
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- Kirk, D. B. (1973) On the numerical approximation of the bivariate normal (tetrachoric) correlation coefficient. Psychometrika 38: pp. 259-268
- Lord, F., Novick, H. (1968) Statistical theories of mental test scores. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Mass.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An effort to cancel a strip-club performance by the woman known as " Octomom" has been denied by a Florida judge.
Circuit Judge Timothy McCarthy has ruled against holding an emergency hearing requested by T's Lounge in West Palm Beach, saying the situation does not "constitute a legal emergency."
T's Lounge was trying to thwart Nadya Suleman's scheduled appearance Friday at a competing club. She had signed a contract to dance topless at T's this week but later backed out in favor of The Playhouse Gentleman's Club in Hollywood.
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Luke Bryan Surprises 4-Year-Old Fan With Asperger's Syndrome [Watch]
Kind-hearted Luke Bryan took some time to really light up the life of one very special young fan in New York.
Kind-hearted Luke Bryan took some time to really light up the life of one very special young fan in New York.
Rumors have been swirling this week that Carrie Underwood is in talks to headline the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show, and all we can say is, it's about time.
Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts may be a country superstar, but when it comes to his daughters, he's just like any other doting dad. And as of late, ol' dad has become a little concerned that his girls are growing up too fast ...
Luke Bryan's 'Roller Coaster' video is truly a fun ride.
Country fans' devotion to having a good time will never be in question, especially following the Luke Bryan concert at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh on Saturday (June 21). Fans filled the stadium lot early for a true parking lot party, with several leaving in handcuffs by nightfall and hundreds more having the time of their lives.
Luke Bryan is taking a break from his day job to become a professional baseball player -- at least for a few hours. While in St. Louis, Mo., for his That's My Kind of Night Tour, the 'Play It Again' superstar tried his hand at some batting practice with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Day One of the 2014 CMA Fest at Nashville's LP Field kicked off swimmingly on Thursday (June 5).
A skit involving Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line and CMT Awards host Kristin Bell may have been the funniest of the night. The three singers spoofed the Solange Knowles, Jay Z elevator fight, with FGL's Brian Kelley playing the roll of the former Destiny's Child singer.
Luke Bryan fell off the stage during his show in Charlotte, N.C. last night (May 29). The 'Play It Again' singer was quick to point out that the state seems to bring him bad luck -- it's his second fall in barely three months! This time he needed stiches.
There's no stopping the hip-shaking, country crooning, lovable country star known as Luke Bryan. He's the first artist in the Billboard Country Airplay Chart's 24-year history to lock in the top two spots.
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ShipStation, the leading web-based e-commerce shipping solution, announces its participation in events and booth exhibits during the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition (IRCE) 2014, being held June 10–12 in Chicago, IL.
ShipStation will offer visitors to its booth (#1816) a sneak peak at some new features. The company will have representatives from Sales/Account Management, Support, Business Development, and Marketing at the booth ready to go through demos of new features and the existing platform, and meet with existing and potential customers and partners. In addition, ShipStation will be taking part in the following events:
ShipStation's Vice President of Marketing, Robert Gilbreath, says, "We are thrilled to participate in our industry's largest conference, and are excited to showcase some new features. The ShipStation conference team is looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones."
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By Michael Burnell: Hearing the name is a statement of the family commitment to the sport. Just the name Tyson Fury is enough to stimulate the salivary glands of trainers, promoters and fans alike with its impressive swagger. Fury would personify the assault of press this fighter has received since he first punched for pay in late 08. But is he anything more than a big heavyweight with a marketable name?
Boxing DNA certainly is infused within him. Tyson is born of generations of fighters dating back to the time of John L. Sullivan, the last bare knuckle champion and as recently as his father, Gypsy John Fury, who tangled with Heavyweight hugger Henry Akinwande.
That bout surely didnt generate as much excitement in the Fury family as much as the one that began at birth for Fury who was born at an emaciated 1 pound and declared close to death several times. Tyson fought hard, endured and now stands at a towering 69 and nearly 270. That in of itself is a success story
Unfortunately, lineage, bloodline , charisma and marketing cant make Fury successful. Only Tyson himself can do that. Will he live up to his name in the ring? Only time will tell
Tyson is likable enough however he has to want it enough for himself to take his time to hone his skills. He had 34 amateur bouts (30-4 26 KOs) and 13 wins (9 by KOs) in as many fights as a professional. In the day of rushing the proverbial lamb to the slaughter, he would, like any other heavyweight, be destroyed by either Klitschko brother if they meet any time in within even the distant future. If managed correctly, Fury will be fed a steady diet of fringe top 30 contenders of increasing talent. For now Del Boy Chisora, Sultan Ibragimov perhaps Big Shannon Briggs would likely derail the TF express but may be intriguing as Fury works his way closer to top 10.
It would be a shame if Fury were to be rushed for the immediate financial best interest of everyone but the one with his hands taped and cast aside like countless others of fighters who litter the Audobaun to the Heavyweight championship. However, If Tyson Fury is able to live up to his name it will be an interesting saga to follow. Time will tell if he truly is a born fighter.
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As those who tuned in for the DaVincci's first Booth feature, Goodbye, already know, the Panhandle State rhymesayer comes with a brand of hip-hop that's gimmick-free, lyrically-driven and one-hundred percent real. In other words, he doesn't have a snowball's chance of being played on the mainstream airwaves. Luckily, he's not doing it for the money or celebrity—for him, it's all about the Respect (along with the female attention). Making its world premiere right here on our front page, this freshly-leaked mixtape cut finds DaVincci teaming up with a four-pack of up-and-comers with similar priorities to blaze a street-ready Caribbean groove by Miami Beat Wave. Echoing the headliner's fidelity to his roots and his (related) disregard for program directors' opinions, veteran rhymesayer Shottie and fellow Magic City reppers Omniscient and Salazar contribute guest bars. AG Lyonz rounds out the lineup, tying the record together with a reggae hook. So, have DaVincci and his homies earned your Respect with this record? Then you won't want to miss the rest of the dope material to be found on his next mixtape, Sneak Peek 2, scheduled for release in "early summer."
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Aug 27, 2010Following a two-album string of letdown records, Cave waters his Bad Seeds and here they are in full bloom. Impressive, back-to-basics and no less zealous than his former work, Cave delivers something uniquely beautiful that only he can deliver in its purest form.
Aside from the power of the music and lyrics, the set draws on Cave's compelling persona: part priest, part sideshow barker--crooning one moment and eviscerating the next. While this has always been the core of his talent, on Abattoir/Lyre it is particularly rich and rewarding.
This is not Cave's best work by any means, but these songs do showcase his impressive range as a lyricist, performer and musician. [#12, p.100]
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RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Shopping is one of the biggest trash generators, at least in my life, and it makes sense on many levels to reduce the amount of packaging you bring home. But until recently I still ended up with bunches of the flimsy (and difficult to reuse) disposable plastic produce bags.
Reusable cloth bags are fine for most groceries, but for your fruits and veggies, you can do better. A few months back my friend Lynn gave me a set of sturdy, washable, nylon net produce bags and I'm hooked on them. They're easy to stash and keep with you, see-through (which makes cashiers happy when they ring up your order), the mesh is fine enough to use for most bulk dry goods (just about everything except flour), and they're machine-washable. They can go from the store right into the fridge veggie bin. Plus, after a recent study detected hormone-disrupting chemicals in all plastics out there, it's good to know my produce isn't absorbing weird chemicals while it's in the bag waiting for me to eat it.
|There are many different brands of reusable mesh produce bags available online, like these from reuseit.com. But making your own is about as simple a sewing project there is, and you can use pretty much any fabric scrap you have lying around your house (and you won't have to pay any shipping!). They may not be mesh, but retired bed linens, thin tea towels, and mismatched cloth napkins all make very serviceable cloth produce bags. If you're the really creative sort, you can even use the instructions that follow to fashion decorative fabrics or T-shirts into colorful reusable gift bags, school-supply carrying cases, travel bags—pretty much anything you need a bag for.
|Step 1: Decide how large you want your bags to be. The standard flimsy plastic produce bags are about 14 inches wide by 19 inches long and are big enough to hold large bunches of leafy greens, long stalks of celery, and leeks. You can make your bags smaller, for fruits and bulk grains, or bigger, for large quantities of whatever you need. Whatever size you choose, you'll need a rectangle of cloth that is twice the finished size plus one inch in each direction for seams. So for a 14-inch-by-19-inch bag, you'll need a 15-inch-by-40-inch rectangle of fabric (two 15-inch-by-20-inch rectangles of fabric scraps would work too, but there will be one additional seam you'll need to sew).
Step 2: Make a tube for the drawstring. Fold ½ inch of fabric along the long edge of the fabric (in this case, the 40-inch-long side) and pin it in place. Sew the two layers together near the edge of the folded-over fabric. This folded area will serve as the tube for the drawstring. If you'd rather not have a drawstring, it will just be the top of your bag.
As you sew, occasionally reinforce your stitches to strengthen the seam and prevent the fabric from bunching up along the thread. Every inch or so, double back and sew a second stitch on top of a stitch you've already sewn.
Step 3: Sew the bag. Fold your rectangle in half, so that the two 15-inch-long sides are now on top of each other. Keep the folded bit you just sewed on the outside. Sew the two layers together, ½ inch from the edge of the fabric. End your side seam about ¼ inch below the line of stitching you made in Step 2 so you can add the drawstring. For larger bags you'll be using for heavy things like potatoes or apples, you may want to sew over the side and bottom seams a second time to make it extra strong. If you want a bag with no drawstring, sew right through the first hem you made, turn the bag right side out, and you're done!
If you're using scraps, you'll need to sew both sides and the bottom together, also ½ inch from the edge of the fabric.
|Step 4: Thread the drawstring. Cut a length of cord, light rope, or even string—anything that will slide easily through the top, is easy to tie, and will not come apart in the wash—twice as long as the bag is wide, plus a few inches to hold on to. Since our bag is 14 inches wide, we're using a 30-inch piece of nylon chord. Find a small safety pin, pin it to the very end of your drawstring and, using the safety pin as a guide, thread the end of your cord into and through the top tube until it comes out the other end. Remove the pin and tie the two ends of the cord together. Turn the bag right side out, and you are done!
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You can store many items right inside your cloth bags once you get home from the store or market. Delicate veggies like leafy greens will dry out and wilt quickly a mesh bag, so either transfer them to a tighter storage container or wrap the entire thing, bag and all, in a moist tea towel and sprinkle it with water as needed to keep it moist. You can store greens in a solid-fabric bag, though. Rinse out your solid-fabric bag once you get it home, and while it's still damp, put the greens back inside. To prevent wilted produce, sprinkle your bag with water as needed.
If you used a nylon mesh to make your bag, you can even wash your produce right inside the bag. Just dunk the bag up and down in a basin of cool water (with a splash of vinegar or your favorite produce wash added, if you like) until you are satisfied, and then let it drip dry. Or use your bag as a "salad spinner." Step outside (or put your hand into your shower stall), hold the drawstring firmly, and spin the bag rapidly in a circle.
When your reusable bags are empty, rinse them out or machine-wash them, and let them dry on a line, preferably in the sunshine, before stowing them. I'm about as far from a germiphobe as you can get, but dirty bags may make my produce spoil faster (which wastes money) or worse, so I wash my reusable produce bags after every few uses, even if they look clean.
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to various aspects of the problem of survey nonresponse; the potential solutions that have been considered range from better training and deployment of interviewers to more use of incentives, better use of the information collected in the data collection, and increased use of auxiliary information from other sources in survey design and data collection. In addition, considerable effort has gone into developing weighting adjustments and adjustment models to compensate for the effects of nonresponse.
This report also documents the increased use of information collected in the survey process (paradata) in nonresponse adjustment. Some of this work is in early stages, while other work is more advanced. Two relatively new indicators of the nature and extent of nonresponse bias—representativity and balance indicators—may assist in directing focus on the core of the problem in ways that the traditional measures, such as overall nonresponse rates, cannot.
Several approaches to increasing survey response are being taken or have been proposed. Some of these approaches are aimed at increasing general knowledge about the conditions and motivations underlying response and nonresponse; others are focused on identifying techniques that change the interaction of interviewer and respondent or that could motivate respondents; still others employ paradata to identify possible survey design and management techniques that can be used to positively adjust the collection strategy to minimize the level or effects of nonresponse. As part of these efforts, survey researchers are enriching auxiliary information for both the reduction of nonresponse and adjustment for it, exploring matrix sampling ("planned missingness") and other strategies to reduce burden, exploring mixed-mode alternatives for data collection, and deploying responsive or adaptive designs.
The research agenda proposed in this report is needed to develop even better approaches to improve survey response and to improve our ability to use the data for analytical purposes even when response rates cannot be efficiently improved. The agenda should be multifaceted. In these times of increasingly constrained human and financial resources in the social science survey community, this agenda must be mindful of both costs and benefits.
Based on the panel's assessment of the state of knowledge about the problem of nonresponse in social surveys, the report suggests several key research areas in which the statistical community could fruitfully invest resources. Some of the recommended agenda items are designed to further advance our knowledge of the scope and extent of the problem, others to enhance our understanding of the relationship between response rates and bias, and still others to improve our ability to address the problems that come with declining response rates.
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