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The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals, and Policy Makers is a well-crafted book.
As the population ages and the health care system focuses on cost-containment, family caregivers have become the frontline providers of most long-term and chronic care. Patient care at home falls mainly on untrained and unprepared family members, who struggle to adjust to the new roles, responsibilities, and expenses. Because the culture of family caregivers—their values, priorities, and relationships to the patient—often differs markedly from that of professionals, the result can be conflict and misunderstanding.
In The Cultures of Caregiving, Carol Levine and Thomas Murray bring together accomplished physicians, nurses, social workers, and policy experts to examine the differences and conflicts (and sometimes common ground) between family caregivers and health care professionals—and to suggest ways to improve the situation. Topics addressed include family caregivers and the health care system; cultural diversity and family caregiving; the changing relationship between nurses, home care aides, and families; long-term health care policy; images of family caregivers in film; and the ethical dimensions of professional and family responsibilities. The Cultures of Caregiving provides needed answers in the contemporary crisis of family caregiving for a readership of professionals and students in medical ethics, health policy, and such fields as primary care, geriatrics, oncology, nursing, and social work.
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West Ilsley
West Ilsley is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.
Location and amenities[edit]
It is situated in the West Berkshire district north of the town of Newbury on the Berkshire Downs. There is also an East Ilsley approximately a mile southeast of the village.
West Ilsley has a public house, The Harrow, and a well supported cricket club The West Ilsley Cricket Club. The Ridgeway passes within a mile of the village.
From 18 February 2013, West Ilsley is served by Newbury and District bus services 6 and 6A from Newbury.[1]
The etymology of the word Ilsley is that it is derived from Hilde-Laege which means "Place of conflict", and either West or East Ilsley may be the site of the Battle of Ashdown, Alfred the Great's victory against the Danes. The original Morland Brewery was first set up in West Ilsley in 1711.
Notable residents[edit]
- Marco Antonio de Dominis for a time lived in West Ilsley.
- Edmund Kerchever Chambers, Medieval and Renaissance scholar
- Horse Trainer Mick Channon (the ex Southampton footballer), who moved into the village after buying the stables of the former Queen's trainer, Dick Hern.
See also[edit]
- ^ http://www.newburyanddistrict.co.uk/pdf/jan13/connect-service-6-and-6A-%28effective-from-18-Feb-2013%29.pdf
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|Wikimedia Commons has media related to West Ilsley.
Coordinates: 51°32′24″N 1°19′08″W / 51.540°N 1.319°W
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The 21st Annual National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Food Drive will be held this Saturday.
Post offices in Anita, Brockway, Brookville, Falls Creek, Hamilton, Punxsutawney and Summerville are participating.
Residents can leave a bag filled with donated food ŌĆö such as peanut butter, canned soups, meats and fish, canned juices, fruits, veggies and boxed goods ŌĆö at their mailboxes for pickup.
The Annual Sidewalk Commentary Contest was held Wednesday for some of the students at the IUP-Punxsy Campus.
Students were asked to do a drawing using sidewalk chalk, and the drawing had to relate to an issue that was important to them.
Social topics such as politics, diversity, human rights and health had to be expressed through the drawing.
Winning first place was (from left) DeAndre Lawson, Jordan Williams and Phill Euston.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö The Punxsutawney Borough Police Department reported that Steven D. Miller, 18, of Punxsutawney, was charged with forgery (24 counts), identity theft (24 counts), theft by unlawful taking (25 counts),
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Tom Curry (left), Ginger Momyer (center) and Kathy Bish paused during rehearsal for "Laughing All the Way," an evening of entertainment being presented this month by the Jefferson County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees (PASR) and the Jefferson County Area Agency on Aging.
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Bob Pascuzzo, board member, asked how much fund balance the district will need to finish the 2012-13 school year.
Susan H. Robertson, district business manager, said as of right now, she has projected $500,000 but believes it will be closer to $300,000 by the end of the school year.
Read the full story in Wednesday's print edition of The Spirit.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö Last Friday, the students at Parkview Elementary School were given a special treat, when Dr. Robert Altmeyer, who the students already knew as ŌĆ£Dr. Bob,ŌĆØ and his two helpers ŌĆö his son Aaron and Therman the dog ŌĆö delivered a presentation to them on taking care of their pets.
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BROOKVILLE ŌĆö Tonya S. Geist has announced that the Jefferson County Prothonotary & Clerk of Courts Office will be hosting a special passport event this Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon at the Jefferson County Courthouse, 200 Main St., Brookville.
ŌĆ£The fair is to provide passport information to the citizens and to accept passport applications for persons who may not be accommodated during regular business hours,ŌĆØ Geist said.
U.S. citizens must present a valid passport book when entering or re-entering the United States by air.
The Punxsutawney Garden Club beautification committee continues to plan for the new planting season.
Pictured in front of the bandstand at Barclay Square in Punxsutawney ŌĆö one of nine projects that the club takes care of throughout town ŌĆö are (from left): Dotty Jekielek, hayrack chair; Pat Prushnok, trestle flower bed chair; Jonna Irvin, bandstand chair; Dr. Gloria Kerr, Fairman and library beds chair; and Debby Elder, urns and barrels chair.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö There is good news in downtown Punxsutawney: The Punxsutawney Area Community Center (PACC) continues to grow under the current board of directors after it came perilously close to closing its doors circa August 2009.
"There's been quite a change at PACC regarding our facilities under the current board of directors," said Rob McCoy, PACC director.
McCoy said he's been helping out at the center off and on since 1998.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö The co-coordinator for the basketball league at Harmon Field put in a request to the Punxsy Borough Council Public Safety Committee for new basketball hoops and poles to help grow the program further.
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The Weather Company and Basho
December 2, 2013
A few weeks ago, at AWS re:Invent 2013, The Weather Company announced their new IT platform, which focuses on next generation forecasting using big data. To build this platform, they required an architecture that was both flexible and reliable, and selected Riak to achieve that. Riak underpins the new IT platform and is used to store a variety of data from satellites, radars, forecast models, users, and weather stations worldwide.
At re:Invent, the Vice President of Enterprise Data at the Weather Company, Sathish Gaddipati, spoke about The Weather Company's overall IT transformation in a talk titled, "How the Weather Company Monetizes Weather, the Original Big Data Problem." If you missed Sathish's session at re:Invent, the entire talk is now available on the AWS Youtube Channel and can be watched below.
This talk provides more details on The Weather Company's architecture, technology choices, performance results, and business benefits realized from this IT transformation. It also discusses how the application of these technologies can help keep people safe and help businesses plan and become more profitable, thanks to the latest intersection of consumer behavior and weather forecasting and reporting.
For additional details on why The Weather Company selected Riak over Cassandra, MongoDB, and Hadoop, check out Doug Henschen's InformationWeek article "Big Data Reshapes Weather Channel Predictions."
The Weather Company VP of Data Enterprise Presenting at AWS re:Invent
November 7, 2013
AWS re:Invent 2013 is the second annual Amazon Web Services' global customer and partner conference. It is the largest gathering of developers and technical leaders from the AWS community and provides four days of sessions, training bootcamps, hands-on labs, and a Hackathon.
Sathish Gaddipati, The Weather Company VP of Data Enterprise, will be presenting at re:Invent on Thursday, November 14th at 5:30pm. His talk, "How The Weather Company Monetizes Weather, the Original Big Data Challenge," will look at the transformation of the most widely distributed cable TV network in the United States (building on one of the world's most visited digital properties) to create a world class Big Data platform. As part of this transformation, The Weather Company has selected Basho's Riak to underpin their new IT platform. Gaddipati will also discuss the architecture, technology choices (including how and why they selected Riak), performance results, and business benefits realized as part of their use of AWS services to host an exciting set of weather.com solutions and generate new revenue streams.
Basho is also a gold sponsor of re:Invent and will have a booth set up to answer any questions about Riak or Riak CS. Be sure and stop by to chat and grab some great Basho swag.
Basho Events in November
November 6, 2013
RICON West may be over, but we still have a few major conferences and events to wrap up before the year is up. Here are some of the highlights of where we'll be in November.
OpenStack Summit: The OpenStack Summit will bring together key technical minds to discuss the future of cloud computing. This Summit will feature case studies, workshops, and technical sessions for both cloud operators and developers. Basho engineer, Eric Redmond, will be on-site to answer any questions about Riak CS and OpenStack. The OpenStack Summit will take place in Hong Kong from November 5-8th.
Build a Cloud Days: Build a Cloud Days helps attendees deploy a cloud computing environment using CloudStack and other cloud infrastructure tools. Basho consulting engineer, John Burwell, will present on private cloud design principles and best practices. It will take place on November 8th in Washington DC.
QCon: Basho is a proud sponsor of QCon San Francisco, which will take place November 11-13th. Basho technical evangelist, Tom Santero, will discuss the benefits and challenges of working on distributed teams in his talk, "Making Virtual and Remote Teams Shine." Basho will also have a booth set up to answer any questions about Riak or Riak CS.
AWS re:Invent: Basho is a gold sponsor of AWS re:Invent, the largest gathering of developers and technical leaders from the AWS community. Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company, will be speaking about how The Weather Company uses Riak in his session, "How the Weather Company Monetizes Weather, the Original Big Data Challenge." Basho will also be available at the booth to discuss Riak or Riak CS. AWS re:Invent will take place in Las Vegas from November 12-15th.
For a full list of where we'll be for the rest of the year, check out the Events Page.
Riak on AWS – Technical Guidance
June 27, 2013
Today, we are excited to share a recent whitepaper released by the Amazon team entitled, "NoSQL Database in the Cloud: Riak on AWS." This paper provides technical guidance on running Riak on the Amazon platform, including an overview of:
- Basic Installation
- Riak Architecture and Scale
- Operational Considerations (including sizing and configuration)
- AWS specific security configuration
- A discussion of Replication (as enabled by Riak Enterprise)
Given the number of Riak users (both open source and enterprise) who leverage public cloud environments, either as a part of their infrastructure or as the foundation of it, Basho will continue to invest in partnerships that provide deployment choice and deployment ease. Whether it's for a hybrid cloud model – used to address burst capacity, tenancy/data locality, and proof of concept needs – or for an investment solely in public cloud, Riak will provide the operational simplicity and scalability required for your critical data.
For more information about deploying Riak on AWS, check out our posts about the Riak AMI and our other deployment options, including automated scripts and manual installation. You can also find more information about what to consider when installing Riak on AWS in our documentation.
Basho's Partnerships Page
June 5, 2013
To help make Riak even more accessible, we have partnered with a number of different hosting providers, consulting services, system integrators, and OEMs to help you better use Riak. You can check out all of our partners at the Partnerships Page, which highlights how we are collaborating. Below is a look at some of our wonderful partners.
For those of you in need of a hosting provider for Riak, Basho is partnered with a number of great companies to help get you deployed quickly. Partners include: Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Joyent, SoftLayer (which was recently acquired by IBM and also offers hosting for Riak Enterprise), and Engine Yard – which is offering 500 free hours when you sign up.
For your infrastructure needs, Basho partners with Citrix and Redapt.
Some companies that are using Riak and Riak CS to power applications or other product offerings include Datapipe and Yahoo! Japan subsidiary, IDC Frontier. ePlus and Trifork act as resellers of Riak to help expand our global reach.
Finally, Gazzang helps to ensure that your Riak environment is secure and meets all regulations related to sensitive information.
Visit our Partnerships Page to learn more about how we partner with these companies. If you're interested in partnering, please let us know!
Riak 1.3.1 Now Available on AWS Marketplace
May 6, 2013
The free Riak AMI available on the AWS Marketplace has been updated to the latest version, Riak 1.3.1.
In Riak 1.3, we introduced:
- Active Anti-Entropy
- Updates to Riak Control
- Expanded IPv6 support
- Improved MapReduce
- Simplified Log Management
Riak 1.3.1 includes all these features with some additional changes enumerated in the release notes.
For those of you currently using Riak on AWS, or interested in testing Riak on AWS, the AMI makes installation and configuration much easier. We see open source and Riak Enterprise users leverage AWS both as their primary infrastructure and to support hybrid implementations.
Installation instructions for the AMI are available on in our docs.
Top Five Questions About Riak
April 17, 2013
This post looks at five commonly asked questions about Riak. For more questions and answers, check out our Riak FAQ.
What hardware should I use with Riak?
Riak is designed to be run on commodity hardware and is run in production on a variety of different server types on both private and public infrastructure. However, there are several key considerations when choosing the right infrastructure for your Riak deployment.
RAM is one of the most important factors – RAM availability directly affects what Riak backend you should use (see question below), and is also required for complex MapReduce queries. In terms of disk space, Riak automatically replicates data according to a configurable n_val. A bucket-level property that defaults to 3, n_val determines how many copies of each object will be stored, and provides the inherent redundancy underlying Riak's fault-tolerance and high availability. Your hardware choice should take into consideration how many objects you plan to store and the replication factor, however, Riak is designed for horizontal scale and lets you easily add capacity by joining additional nodes to your cluster. Additional factors that might affect choice of hardware include IO capacity, especially for heavy write loads, and intra-cluster bandwidth. For additional factors in capacity planning, check out our documentation on cluster capacity planning.
Riak is explicitly supported on several cloud infrastructure providers. Basho provides free Riak AMIs for use on AWS. We recommend using large, extra large, and cluster compute instance types on Amazon EC2 for optimal performance. Learn more in our documentation on performance tuning for AWS. Engine Yard provides hosted Riak solutions, and we also offer virtual machine images for the Microsoft VM Depot.
What backend is best for my application?
Riak offers several different storage backends to support use cases with different operational profiles. Bitcask and LevelDB are the most commonly used backends.
Bitcask was developed in-house at Basho to offer extremely fast read/write performance and high throughput. Bitcask is the default storage engine for Riak and ships with it. Bitcask uses an in-memory hash-table of all keys you write to Riak, which points directly to the on-disk location of the value. The direct lookup from memory means Bitcask never uses more than one disk seek to read data. Writes are also very fast with Bitcask's write-once, append-only design. Bitcask also offers benefits like easier backups and fast crash recovery. The inherent limitation is that your system must have enough memory to contain your entire keyspace, with room for a few other operational components. However, unless you have an extremely large number of keys, Bitcask fits many datasets. Visit our documentation for more details on Bitcask, and use the Bitcask Capacity Calculator to assist you with sizing your cluster.
LevelDB is an open-source, on-disk key-value store from Google. Basho maintains a version of LevelDB tuned specifically for Riak. LevelDB doesn't have Bitcask's memory constraints around keyspace size, and thus is ideal for deployments with a very large number of keys. In addition to this advantage, LevelDB uses Google Snappy data compression, which provides particular efficiency for text data like raw text, Base64, JSON, HTML, etc. To use LevelDB with Riak, you must the change the storage backend variable in the app.config file. You can find more details on LevelDB here.
Riak also offers a Memory storage backend that does not persist data and is used simply for testing or small amounts of transient state. You can also run multiple backends within a single Riak instance, which is useful if you want to use different backends for different Riak buckets or use a different storage configuration for some buckets. For in-depth information on Riak's storage backends, see our documentation on choosing a backend.
How do I model data using Riak's key/value design?
Riak uses a key/value design to store data. Key/value pairs comprise objects, which are stored in buckets. Buckets are flat namespaces with some configurable properties, such as the replication factor. One frequent question we get is how to build applications using the key/value scheme. The unique needs of your application should be taken into account when structuring it, but here are some common approaches to typical use cases. Note that Riak is content-agnostic, so values can be any content type.
|Data Type
|User/Session ID
|Session Data
|Title, Integer
|Document, Image, Post, Video, Text, JSON/HTML, etc.
|Campaign ID
|Ad Content
|Log File
|Date, Date/Time
|Sensor Updates
|User Data
|Login, Email, UUID
|User Attributes
For more comprehensive information on building applications with Riak's key/value design, view the use cases section of our documentation.
What other options, besides strict key/value access, are there for querying Riak?
Most operations done with Riak will be reading and writing key/value pairs to Riak. However, Riak exposes several other features for searching and accessing data: MapReduce, full-text search, and secondary indexing.
MapReduce provides non-primary key based querying that divides work across the Riak distributed database. It is useful for tasks such as filtering by tags, counting words, extracting links, analyzing log files, and aggregation tasks. Riak provides both Javascript and Erlang MapReduce support. Jobs written in Erlang are generally more performant. You can find more details about Riak MapReduce here.
Riak also provides Riak Search, a full-text search engine that indexes documents on write and provides an easy, robust query language and SOLR-like API. Riak Search is ideal for indexing content like posts, user bios, articles, and other documents, as well as indexing JSON data. For more information, see the documentation on Riak Search.
Secondary indexing allows you to tag objects in Riak with one or more queryable values. These "tags" can then be queried by exact or range value for integers and strings. Secondary indexing is great for simple tagging and searching Riak objects for additional attributes. Check out more details here.
How does Riak differ from other databases?
We often get asked how Riak is different from other databases and other technologies. While an in-depth analysis is outside the scope of this post, the below should point you in the right direction.
Riak is often used by applications and companies with a primary background in relational databases, such as MySQL. Most people who move from a relational database to Riak cite a few reasons. For one, Riak's masterless, fault-tolerant, read/write available design make it a better fit for data that must be highly available and resilient to failure scenarios. Second, Riak's operational profile and use of consistent hashing means data is automatically redistributed as you add machines, avoiding hot spots in the database and manual resharding efforts. Riak is also chosen over relational databases for the multi-datacenter capabilities provided in Riak Enterprise. A more detailed look at the difference between Riak and traditional databases and how to make the switch can be found in this whitepaper, From Relational to Riak.
A more detailed look at the technical differences between Riak and other NoSQL databases can be found in the comparisons section of our documentation, which covers databases such as MongoDB, Couchbase, Neo4j, Cassandra, and others.
Ready to get started? You can download Riak here. For more in-depth information about Riak, we also offer Riak Workshops in New York and San Francisco. Learn more here.
Light up a Riak Cluster with AWS, A Few Notes…
This is a cross post from compositecode.com written by Adron Hall, one of the Basho Technical Evangelists. In it he walks through one of the methods of setting up and configuring a cluster on AWS. Other options are enumerated in a post entitled Riak on AWS – Deployment Options
March 14, 2013
I wanted to write up an intro to getting Riak installed on AWS, even though the steps are absurdly simple and already available on the Basho Docs site, there are a few extra notes that can be very helpful for a few specific points during the process.
Start off by logging into AWS. At this point you can take two different paths that are almost identical. You can follow the path of using the pre-built AWS Marketplace image of Riak, or just start form scratch. The difference is a total of about 2 steps: installing & setting some security port connections. I'm going to step through without using the prebuilt image in these instructions.
Security Group
First thing you'll need to get a security group with the correct permissions setup. For that, you'll need to make a security group.
NOTE: No, I didn't mean to misspell Riak, but it's in there now. 😉
Before adding the ports, go to the security group details tab and copy the security group id. I've pointed it out in the image above.
Now add the following three and assign the security group to the ports; 4369, 8099 & 6000-7999. For the source set it to the security group id. Once you get all three added the list should look like this (below). For each rule click the Add Rule button and remember to click the Apply Rule Changes. I often forget this because the screen on some of the machines I use only shows to the bottom of the Add Rule button, so you'll have to scroll down to find the Apply Rule Changes button.
Now add the standard port 22 for SSH. Next get the final two of 8087 and 8098 setup and we're ready for moving on to creating the virtual machines.
Server Virtual Machines
For creating virtual machines I just clicked on Launch Instance and used the classic wizard. From there you get a selection of items. I've used the AWS image to do this, but would actually suggest using a CentOS image of your choice or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Another great option is to use the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Really though, use whatever Linux version or distro you like, there are 1-2 step instructions for installing Riak on almost every distro out there.
Next just launch a single instance. We'll be able to launch duplicates of these further along in the process. I've selected a "Micro" here but I'm not intending to do anything with a remotely heavy load right now. At some point, I'll upgrade this cluster to larger instances when I start putting it under a real load. I'll have another blog entry to describe exactly how I do this too.
Continue again until you can select the security group that we created above.
Now keep hitting that continue button, until you get to launch, and launch this thing. Once the instance is launched launch your preferred SSH connection tooling. The easiest way I've found for getting the most current private IP to connect to with the appropriate command is to right click on the instance in the AWS Console and click on Connect. There you'll find the command to connect via SSH.
Paste that in and hit enter in your SSH App, you'll see something akin to this.
$ cd Codez/working-content/
$ ssh -i riaktionz.pem email@example.com
The authenticity of host 'ec2-54-245-201-97.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com (220.127.116.11)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 31:18:ac:1a:ac:fc:6e:6d:55:e8:8a:83:9a:8f:c7:5f.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'ec2-54-245-201-97.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com,220.127.116.11' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Please login as the user "ubuntu" rather than the user "root".
Enter yes to continue connecting. For some instance types, like Ubuntu you'll have to do some teaks to log into as "ubuntu" vs. "root" and the same goes for the AWS image or others. I'll leave that to you, dear reader to get connected via ole' SSH.
One of the other things, that you may have to do some tweaking about and googling, is figuring out the firewall setups on the various virtual machine images. For the RHEL you'll want to turn off the firewall or open up the specific connection ports and such. Since the AWS firewall does this, it isn't particularly important for the OS to continue running its firewall service. In this case, I've turned off the OS firewall and just rely on the AWS firewall. To turn off the RHEL firewall, execute the following commands.
$ service iptables save
$ service iptables stop
$ chkconfig iptables off
Now is a perfect time to start those other instances. Navigate into the AWS Console again and right click on the virtual machine instance you've created. On that menu select Launch More Like This.
Go through and check the configuration on each of these, make sure the firewall is turned off, etc. Then move on to the next step and install Riak and cluster them. So it's time to get to the distributed, massively complex, extensive list of steps to install & cluster Riak. Ok, so that's sarcasm. 😉
Step 1: Install Riak
Install Riak on each of the instances.
package=basho-release-6-1.noarch.rpm &&
wget http://yum.basho.com/gpg/$package -O /tmp/$package &&
sudo rpm -ivh /tmp/$package
sudo yum install riak
NOTE: For other installation methods, such as directly downloading the RPM or other Linux OSes, check out the http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/tutorials/installation/Installing-on-RHEL-and-CentOS/.
Step 2: Setup the Cluster
On the first instance, get the IP. You won't need to do anything to this instance, just keep the IP handy. Then move on to the second instance and run the cluster command.
sudo riak-admin cluster join riak@
Do this on each of the instances you've added, using that first node. When you've added them all, on that last instance (or really any of them) then run the plan. This will get you a display plan of what will take place when the cluster is committed.
sudo riak-admin cluster plan
If that looks all cool. Commit the plan.
sudo riak-admin cluster commit
Get a check of the cluster.
sudo riak-admin member_status
That's it; all done. You now have a Riak Cluster. For more operations to try out on your cluster, check out this list of basic API Operations.
Building Riak Clusters with AWS CloudFormation
January 15, 2013
Today we're introducing an easier way to build Riak clusters on AWS using CloudFormation.
The project, cloudformation-riak, comes with three CloudFormation templates. These templates range from building a simple Riak cluster to building a VPC-based stack that includes: a front-end load balancer; a cluster of application servers with a Riak powered demo application; a backend load balancer; and a riak-cluster.
Head over to the cloudformation-riak repo to get started. We also put together a screencast (below) that shows things in action.
Riak AMI Now Available on Amazon Marketplace
Running Riak on AWS just got easier. Announcing Riak AMI, a ready-built virtual machine and configuration of Riak for Amazon EC2.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – December 14, 2012 – A number of our community members and customers already use Riak on AWS, and with the Riak AMI getting up and running should be much easier. The Riak AMI helps support a growing number of hybrid implementations where businesses use both private infrastructure and public cloud services. This hybrid model can be leveraged to address burst capacity issues, tenancy/locality concerns, and simple proof-of-concept deployments, in addition to a myriad of other business challenges.
For more information, read our post here.


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MUMBAI: In a bad day for investors, Indian stocks today plunged to this year's lowest levels, wiping out over Rs 1.1 lakh crore wealth, while gold prices tanked to a seven-month low in a knee-jerk reaction to global sell-off.
Hit by heavy dollar demand, rupee also tanked by 40 paise to end at 54.47, its weakest level in over a month. Dollar demand from banks and importers during the day on the back of higher dollar in the overseas market affected the rupee value.


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Yes, yes. It's definitely Friday.
Anyway, now that I've oriented myself to time, let's talk about place!
We are headed off to Disney's Vero Beach today. We'll be back Monday. A four day break by the sea is a welcome respite from the chaos of the previous days and months.
We'll be leaving after the boy gets home from school. Gives us an easy day to putter around and get ready.
We're getting him prepared for school right now and may slip off for breakfast once he's been delivered.
Then home to pack this and that; stop at Publix to purchase that and this, load the car, fetch the boy... you get the general idea. :D
The weather doesn't seem to promising but that's ok. We're going simply to get away from the daily grind, not for any other real reason.
It's been a long and sad week. One of my residents died (a resident who had been a neighbor of my Da's while they were growing up; a true small world story). I attended the services, mostly as a family friend, not as the Director of the ALF... Very much like my own Mother's services, so it was especially draining.
Had to sit through two days of USELESS training too, this week. I could write pages about how stupid the training was, how horrible the trainers and how annoying the fact that the computers kept going out (so the training never really happened) but I'm sure you get the general idea!
Some days (ok, most days) it's only by coming to this site do I maintain my slim hold on sanity...
So! What's everyone else up to?


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$50 Purchase
Aug 31 2015
City commission clerk Kelly Kresser provided some documents (click on the PDF to view it) indicating how commissioners in 1978 went about expanding commission from five elected members to seven.
The vote went down 4-1 with little discussion documented.
On a related note, many city commissioners have recently said they're in favor of going back down from seven elected officials to five.


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ADA — Big time players have to make big time plays in order for their team to win, especially in conference play. Branden Rushton scored 26 points for Ohio Northern as he led his team to a 96-86 Ohio Athletic Conference win over Heidelberg on Wednesday night.
The Polar Bears (13-9, 9-6 OAC) lost to Heidelberg earlier this season and wanted to redeem themselves this time.
"We wanted to be more complete because we seem to play better that way," ONU coach Kevin Byrne said. "We tried to mix up the defense. The guys did a good job. I felt like we were stronger with the ball in the second half."
The Polar Bears did not get off to the start that they wanted to begin the game. Heidelberg took a 4-2 lead with 18:15 left to play in the half. ONU got its first lead of the game when Rushton drilled a three to give his team a 5-4 lead with 18:01 left.
The Polar Bears continued to extend their lead all the way to 13-8 with 14:51 left to play. Byrne decided to take his starters out to give them some rest.
That is when Heidelberg began their comeback. The Student Princes went on a 10-4 run to take a 19-18 lead with 10:30 left in the first half.
ONU was down 21-19 when Byrne decided to put his starters back in. Rushton drilled the first shot he took when he came back in to tie the game at 21. On ONU's next possession Rushton drilled another three to give his team a 24-21 lead with 8:11 left to play. The Polar Bears eventually extended their lead to as many as 12 points at 36-24 with 4:41 left in the half.
Heidelberg (5-17, 1-14 OAC) was able to narrow the deficit to 43-38 with 43 seconds left. ONU killed the clock on its last possession of the half when Rushton missed a jumper. Dominique Royal grabbed the rebound and also missed but Jared Horstman was able to tip in the miss as time expired to give the Polar Bears a 45-38 lead at halftime.
ONU shot 18-30 from the field while Heidelberg shot 15-29 in the first half.
Byrne got his Polar Bears fired up at halftime because they came out hot in the second half. Rushton came out firing and scored 16 points in the half. Rushton's biggest highlight wasn't even on a play he scored on. After grabbing a rebound, Rushton took the ball and sprinted down the court and lobbed it up to Royal who threw down a dunk and also got fouled on the play. Royal hit the free throw to give the Polar Bears a 54-44 lead with 16:39 left to play.
ONU got up by as many as 18 when Royal put in another easy basket to make the score 89-72.
The Polar Bears never looked back from there for the rest of the game as they held off the Student Princes and got the 10-point victory.
Rushton led the way for ONU with 26 points. Isaiah Roux scored 20 points, Horstman scored 14 and grabbed seven rebounds, Jordan Martin had 13 points and Royal had 10.
"Our bench guys play a lot for us and Jordan (Martin) anchored that crew for us," Byrne said. "Obviously Branden is one of the best scorers in the league, and he'll be one of the best scorers in the history of the school when he's done here. When he gets going he's a handful."
Mount St. Joseph 90, Bluffton 79
BLUFFTON - Thayne Recker had 15 points and eight rebounds for the Beavers. Billy Taflinger had 14 points and seven assists, Austin Rohde had 13 points and Zach Rumbaugh had 12 points also for Bluffton, which fell to 8-13 overall and 4-10 in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference. Mount St. Joseph improved to 12-8 overall and 9-5 in the HCAC.
Women's roundup
ONU 62, Heidelberg 54
TIFFIN - Jordan Kimes had 22 points and 10 rebounds and Cenzie Yoder had 12 points and seven rebounds for Ohio Northern, which improved to 18-4 overall and 11-4 in the OAC. Heidelberg fell to 11-11 overall and 4-11 in the OAC.
Bluffton 68, Mount St. Joseph 60
CINCINNATI - Brooke Ruffer had 24 points and 14 rebounds for the Beavers, who improved to 12-10 overall and 8-7 in the HCAC. Taylor Whitaker had 12 points and Kaitlyn Pennekamp had 10 points and seven rebounds also for Bluffton. Mount St. Joseph fell to 2-13 overall and 2-20 in the HCAC.
UNOH 57, Lourdes 48
SYLVANIA - Lauren Hopfner had 18 points and Sammi Dervisevic had 15 points and seven rebounds for the University of Northwestern Ohio, which improved to 14-13 overall and 11-8 in Wolverine Hoosier Athletic Conference.


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Originally published on Tue July 2, 2013 5:08 pm
El Placer is a remote hamlet deep in southern Colombia, on the edge of the Amazon. Founded half a century ago by farmers who found it fertile and bucolic, its name means "The Pleasure."
But for women and girls in El Placer who suffered years of sexual assaults after an illegal armed group stormed in, the name is only associated with unspeakable violence and murder.
Brigitte Carreño, 25, is among the women who suffered. A feared local warlord in El Placer raped her when she was 12, leaving her with searing memories that remain vivid and painful to this day.
The class is gathered around a conference table in the newsroom shared by the Miami Herald and WLRN public radio. On the screen in front of them is a reporter, John O'Connor, connected via Skype. This class often covers how multimedia platforms are taking over newsrooms, so it makes sense that today's speaker is streaming live from the Internet.
Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of stark paradoxes, and that has never been truer than in the past decade: Even as the continent enjoys one of its most dynamic economic booms, it's suffering one of the worst violent crime crises in its history.
Originally published on Mon June 3, 2013 10:27 am
We are standing in front of a huge bank of screens, in the middle of which is a glowing map that changes focus depending on what the dozens of controllers are looking at.
The room looks like something straight out of a NASA shuttle launch. The men and women manning the floor are dressed in identical white jumpsuits. With a flick of a mouse, they scroll through dozens of streaming video images coming into the center.
This is Rio de Janeiro in real time.
Originally published on Mon May 27, 2013 4:57 pm
The phone is ringing off the hook at the crowded waiting room at the Domestic Workers Union in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil.
In the past decade, millions of Brazilians have joined the middle class. Advocates say this isn't just the result of a growing economy or social spending, but also laws like the one just passed that enshrine domestic workers' rights.
Originally published on Wed May 1, 2013 9:34 am
In Rio de Janeiro, tourists are drawn to Copacabana for its wide beach and foliage-covered cliffs. But a month ago, not far from the tourist hub, an American woman and her French male companion were abducted. She was brutally gang-raped; he was beaten.
Perhaps what was most shocking to Brazilians, though, was the age of one of the alleged accomplices: He was barely in his teens.
"Why? That's what you ask yourself," says Sylvia Rumpoldt, who is walking with a friend at dusk by the sea in Rio. "It's horrible. It's criminal energy."
Originally published on Tue April 30, 2013 11:19 am
Soccer isn't just a sport in Brazil, it's a religion, and the main temple is the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro.
The venue is not only the biggest stadium in Brazil but the biggest in South America. Over the weekend, the newly renovated complex reopened to great fanfare, with stirring musical numbers, a light show and dignitaries including Brazil's president.
The headlines in the local media, however, focused not on the fanfare but on the many problems, from flooding in the VIP area to malfunctioning seats and turnstiles. The stadium was also four months late reopening.
Originally published on Mon January 7, 2013 7:56 am
In some ways, Katia Abreu is still an old-fashioned farmer, one who rides her chestnut mare, Billy Jean, to tour her farm in Tocantins state in north-central Brazil.
She glides the horse along a gravel road, which soon turns to dirt, and along fields of sorghum and corn. She has plans for more.
"Soon, we're going to produce fish and lamb," she says. "There will be soybeans and fields of tall grass for cattle. Lots of cattle."


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Chennai: Indian Bank beat Indian Oil 2-0 to qualify for the second round of the second division football I league at Kolhapur on Friday.
Both the goals were scored by M. Ramesh, once in each half. The second goal came in the final minute.
Indian Bank along with Mohammaden Sporting and Mumbai FC will move to the second round.
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Vote rigging, attacks on candidates and clashes between political parties marked polling in Seemandhra region on Wednesday even as voters turned out in large numbers. Turnout, until 5pm, was nearly 74 per cent, and expected to increase as long queues were witnessed at almost all the 40,708 polling booths across the 13 Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra districts.
Apart from Maoist raids in two locations in Visakhapatnam district, Wednesday witnessed street fights between TDP and YSR Congress (YSRC) members. YSRC assembly candidate Bhumana Karunakar Reddy attacked his TDP counterpart, Venkataramana.
YSRC workers also attacked another TDP candidate, Ramsubba Reddy, at Jammamadugu. They also stoned TDP Narasaraopeta Parliament candidate Rayapati Sambashiv Rao, attacked Marduk TDP assembly candidate Putta Sudhakar's car and injured a police sub inspector in Kadapa. BJP Rajampet Parliament candidate Purandeswari staged a dharna at a polling booth in Sadum in Chittoor district.
Analysts and political observers said that the poll battle is between the TDP and the YSRC, and that other players such as the BJP, Congress and the Jai Samaikyandhra Party of former chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy have been marginalised.
"The pulse of the voters is difficult to understand," said former CM Kiran on the polling trend.
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City Dogs is for Sale!
Sit under fluorescent lights behind windows that don't open. Destroy your wrists and hands on years of keyboarding and mousing for the man. Continue the job your oppressive employer wants done regardless of whether it's fun or ethical, much less meaningful. Ask permission for time off–and be denied. Or do something completely different, completely your own, and completely awesome.
City Dogs, an institution in SLC vegan eating, needs a new chief.
Yes, the beloved vegan hot dog street vending cart business is for sale. City Dogs is at an exciting stage of evolution–with at least two distinct avenues/strategies it can pursue–but we are not the people to do either of these. Over the past year we've become very busy with other job opportunities and don't have the time to give our all to City Dogs. It brings us great melancholy to let it go.
Since 2009, City Dogs has operated as a micro-enterprise, rewarding its owners with modest income and a relatively easy, stress-free life. City Dogs is well past the point where it can evolve successfully into a small business, generating a lot more revenue than it does currently, but also requiring more time and attention.
Avenue 1: growth strategy. City Dogs is beloved and recognized. Customers constantly beg for longer hours and more availability. City Dogs can become a vastly more robust profit generator, but it needs to expand–either with longer hours, a second cart, maybe even a fixed location (and keep the cart for weekend festivals, catering, etc.). City Dogs probably becomes an employer of several part-time employees.
Avenue 2: freedom strategy. This is the business model that City Dogs regulars are familiar with. For six years, City Dogs has operated during lunch hours downtown and at special events across the Wasatch Front on many but not all weekends. The operating model has been honed over the years to create a small-business income that nevertheless demands a modest workload for the proprietor. Even under this model, City Dogs has been profitable all six years promoted mostly with free social/online marketing, but also several years of advertising in local publications.
- Named one of the nation's top 5 veggie dogs by PETA
- Served at Pride, LiveGreen, and many other local events.
- Nominated for best vegan food cart in the nation by VegNews
- Accepts credit card, PayPal, and cash payments
- Introduced the hugely popular City Dogs original Mad Hatter salad wrap
- Worked with a downtown delivery service.
- Improved social media presence/strategy
Included in the sale:
- The City Dogs cart–meets all Salt Lake City codes for mobile food vending, including 10-gallon water tank, warm-water handwash station, two storage compartments, large grill and space for 6 full steam trays or 12 half-size. New tires, new water pump, and new jack.
- All logos, menus, coupons and other graphics.
- Recipes for the chili, The Best Potato Salad Downtown, and the Mad Hatter tempeh salad wrap.
- Coolers, tables, condiment trays, and all other accessory items
- All online property (Facebook and Twitter account, as well as saltcitydogs.com), trademarks and other intellectual property
- Training, coaching and guidance on mobile food vending business
- Help acquiring all necessary permitsWhat you'll need:
- Any decent vehicle with a trailer hitch (even little cars can pull it)
This is the sale of a so-called "turn-key business." Just step behind the cart and all the decisions, all the plans, all the strategies, and all the routines have already been planned, honed and nearly perfected (it's up to you to make them perfect).
Price: $12,500, or best offer.
Think of it this way: it's the price of a decent car, but how many cars make you money and provide you with meaningful freedom?
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We're getting out of hibernation and getting things ready to go for the cart. There is a big change this year and it is that we will only be doing events this year. After much discussion we have decided to not open weekly at the corner and do as many festivals and catering events we can do!! We know that is not good news for a lot of you and we hope that we'll still see you around downtown at the many things going on this spring/summer. Our first event will be Live Green on Saturday May 3rd from 11-5! It's free to go to and located at the Downtown Library Plaza, hope to see you there!!
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Good News and Bad News
Good news first, we will be serving at Strut Your Mutt! It's Sept. 21st @ Liberty Park, so get registered now for one of my personal favorite events of the year. Walk your dog, or borrow a friends, and help out a great cause! We will also have our full menu for this event.
Bad news is we will be closing for the season this Friday. I have an off-season job opportunity that I was going to start next month, but they want me to start Monday. We will try to get in some more events before it's too cold, but get your fix this week before it's too late!
300 South Construction
Some of you may have noticed all the construction going on the sidewalk along 3rd South between State and 2nd East. They have now fenced off where we set up, but Sergio of Luna De Mar has been kind enough to allow us to park next to him. The construction is suppose to last a month, but who knows if it will be longer or shorter. Until they are finished we will be located on 200 East, just South of Luna De mar. If they are any other changes we will let you know, but until then come see us at our slightly new location!


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COLUMBUS — Tye Smith, the lone State qualifier for the Washington Blue Lion wrestling program, represented extremely well on Thursday in the prelimary rounds of the State Wrestling Individual Tournament. He went 1-1 on the day with an impressive showing in the consolation round with a fall over Jim Brittsan of Buckeye Valley in 1:34 while leading 10-0 at that point early in the match.
That win would set the possibility of an intriguing second round consolation match with a very familiar opponent.
If Russell Miller of Miami Trace lost his quarterfinal 170-pound match to the well-heralded Seth Williams of Tiffin Columbian, the two would meet for a highly-important consolation round match.
The winner would garner automatic State Placement and the loser would be eliminated from the tournament.
Miller lost a 3-2 decision to Williams thereby setting up the fourth time they would see each other this season. Miller won the dual meet match as well as the SCOL and Sectional Finals matches against Smith.
This is a different place and time to meet with much more at stake. A streaking Smith and an upset Miller, who could have legitimately defeated a reigning State runner-up, were to face off.
Two local young men, one State Placement at stake. The Washington hopeful looked strong off the whistle in period one.
The consolation rounds have a shortened first period. It is just one minute in length. Smith countered the offense of Miller on the feet. No wrestler scored in period one.
The second period started with Smith on bottom in the referee's position. He would get to his feet and earn an escape to take his first lead against Miller this season. The one point lead did not last long. Miller prefers to be on the feet and he showed why soon after the escape. The Panther wrestler shot in and finished a move called a "dump."
Grasping Smith's elbow with one hand and pulling downward on it, hard, Smith fell to his back. Instantly, Miller, worked to the head and executed a spiral half-nelson as his Blue Lion counterpart was attempting to come off his back and avoid nearfall points. Miller tightened his hold and Smith bunched up with his shoulders on the mat. The referee called the pin at the 2:04 mark.
Louis Reid was disappointed but not totally surprised by the result.
"If we wrestle anyone else in the bracket I think we win," Reid said. "Tye had a great week of practice. He knew what he needed to do. We lost our focus when things got tough in the second period. We should have bellied out of the take down move. We froze. We made a mistake and we paid for it. At this level, a small mistake can cost you.
"We have battled with Miller before," Reid said. "I felt we were closer to him this year than in the past."
Assistant coach Kyle Fenner was very praiseworthy of Smith's season as a whole.
"We battled with Tye in years past. This year he was always doing the extra things to get better. He did sprints after practice. He got on the other wrestlers to work hard. The maturity he has shown has really progressed. He has had a terrific season. He set goals and worked hard to reach them."
Coach Reid agreed and added a bit more.
"Tye was not satisfied with just being here. He wanted to place. He peaked at the right time."
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Researchers who conducted a study testing a vaginal microbicide with an antiretroviral (ARV) drug called tenofovir found its use before and after sex was significantly more protective against HIV infection than a placebo gel among women at high risk of HIV. Results of the study, known as CAPRISA 004, are to be reported at the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna and published online by the journal Science.
CAPRISA 004 involved 889 women from Durban and a nearby rural community in South Africa, where women are at especially high risk of acquiring HIV through sexual intercourse. Women were randomly assigned to one of two study groups tenofovir gel or placebo gel with no active ingredient and instructed to use the study product in a regimen timed before and after sex. At the end of the study, there were 39 percent fewer HIV infections among women who used tenofovir gel before and after sex than among those who used the placebo gel. The study was conducted by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA).
"This study has established proof of concept that a vaginal microbicide containing an ARV can protect women from HIV. This is an incredibly important achievement for which the CAPRISA team is to be congratulated. For all of us in the HIV prevention field, this result has shown that it may be possible to leverage this initial success using a single ARV at the time of sex into more potent approaches that could be 50, 60 or even 70 percent effective for prevention of HIV. The results of this study have reinvigorated the field," commented Sharon Hillier, Ph.D., professor and vice chair for faculty affairs, and director of reproductive infectious disease research in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and principal investigator of the Microbicide Trials Network (MTN).
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LOS ANGELES – Normally, they would have spent Sunday afternoon at Staples Center, watching the team they own play basketball.
But then again, "normal" isn't the right word to describe this situation.
Clippers owner Donald Sterling and Shelly Sterling both sat down for separate televised interviews Sunday, with Shelly Sterling digging in her heels for an eventual legal battle.
Donald Sterling, speaking for the first time since TMZ released audio of him saying racist things, insisted he was baited into making the remarks.
"I'm not a racist," Donald Sterling told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "I made a terrible, terrible mistake. And I'm here with you today to apologize and to ask for forgiveness for all the people that I've hurt."
Donald Sterling said he waited to comment because he was "emotionally distraught."
"The reason it's hard for me, very hard for me, is that I'm wrong. I caused the problem. I don't know how to correct it," he said.
Donald Sterling received a lifetime ban from NBA commissioner Adam Silver after the tape surfaced.
Silver also urged the other owners in the league to force a sale of the team, something that can be accomplished with a three-fourths majority.
Based on public statements, Silver's urging will likely be rewarded with a unanimous vote.
On Sunday, Donald Sterling said he hopes his mistake can be forgiven by the league.
"I'm a good member who made a mistake and I'm apologizing and I'm asking for forgiveness," he said. "Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years? I mean, I love my league, I love my partners. Am I entitled to one mistake? It's a terrible mistake, and I'll never do it again.
"…If the owners feel I have another chance, then they'll give it to me."
It appears he won't be getting another chance from his wife, who told ABC News' Barbara Walters that she has signed divorce papers that she intends to file.
Shelly Sterling also told Walters that she would "absolutely" fight to keep her share of the Clippers.


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BREMERTON - Harrison Medical Center leaders are considering outsourcing the system's Health Information Management Department.
The department, located at Harrison's facility in East Bremerton, employs about 50 people who manage patient records, including paperwork to release records, and translate records and other data into the hospital's electronic-records system. Most are transcriptionists, and others are technicians and coders.
No decision has been made.
"It is not something that has been decided at this time," said Harrison strategist Bob Cross.
The workers are represented by United Food & Commercial Workers Local 21.
Union spokesman Tom Geiger said the hospital recently informed the union that it was considering outsourcing, or having an outside entity take over some or all of the department's functions, with the goal of reducing costs. Geiger anticipates that Harrison leaders will make a decision in a week or two.
"We are just going to have to wait and see what they are going to suggest as far as different options to do that," Geiger said from his Seattle office.
If Harrison decides to outsource, the union could come up with alternatives for Harrison to consider that might make outsourcing less attractive, he said.
"The hope would be that whatever management comes back to us with, that we would be able to then come up with, maybe, alternative suggestions to reduce their traction to doing that contracting out," Geiger said.
Harrison's expenses are rising faster than its income. In the four years ending in 2011, expenses rose 33 percent, but revenues only rose 26 percent, according to Harrison filings with the Internal Revenue Service.
In past years, Harrison has contracted out is laundry services, as well as management of its environmental-service team, according to hospital spokeswoman Jaequie Goodwill.
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Now you can recapture all of that childhood wonder at "The Wizard of Oz Educational Exhibition" at the Miami Children's Museum. Trek through munchkin houses, climb the mountain to the Wicked Witch's castle, and gawk at Judy Garland's actual ruby slippers among other authentic Warner Bros.-licensed flare from the 1939 classic.
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Boston's Shawn Thornton tangles with Montreal's Alex Henry. (AP)
As colleague Kevin Paul Dupont writes in this morning's Bruins notebook: Shawn Thornton isn't known for using his hands to score, because too often they are otherwise occupied rearranging the faces of his opponents.
Thornton proved to be a multitasker Sunday as he both scored the winning goal in Boston's 3-1 triumph over the Canadiens and engaged in some spirited fisticuffs with Montreal's Alex Henry.
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- Kevin Paul Dupont, Boston Globe: Shawn Thornton and Alex Henry throw down gloves for a long battle in the Boston end. The two pugilists trade some bombs, with Thornton getting the better of his opponent late in the match. Henry finally gave out, willingly yielding to linesmen Mark Shewchyk and Dan Schachte.
- Rob Longley, Toronto Sun: So it's not for everybody, but that scrap between Boston's Shawn Thornton and Montreal's Alex Henry, a recent callup from the Hamilton Bulldogs, was a nice tilt on the Super Bowl undercard.
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- Chris Forsberg, Boston.com: Another slow start for Thornton, who spilled to the ice early in a tussle against New Jersey's Bryce Salvador last week, and Henry uses his reach to land some early rights. But the big guy seems to expend too much energy early on and Thornton throws a reverse before unloading with lefts as Henry looks to the refs to intervene.
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To improve semiconductor transistor off current, power and driving control, many technologies are using or developing multi-gate transistors such as the FINFET or TRIGATE transistor. Although most of the materials are the same as that used in planar transistors, due to its relatively new architecture, many new areas with this new structure need to be researched to fully understand its concerned items listed above.
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