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Flour Bluff tied for second place in District 31-4A
CORPUS CHRISTI - Flour Bluff uses a two-quarterback system, but Nico Gomez isn't known as the thrower in that duo.
However, when the Hornets needed a clutch completion, they turned to Gomez, and he delivered, with a little help from his receiver.
Gomez completed a gutsy pass over the middle on a crucial fourth down late in the game that helped Flour Bluff salt away a 42-21 win over Alice on Friday at Flour Bluff's Hornets Stadium.
The game was much closer than that 21-point margin, as the Hornets (5-3 overall, 2-1 District 31-4A) scored 15 points in the game's final 2 minutes, 20 seconds.
The key play came with Flour Bluff clinging to a 27-21 lead with 3:07 remaining. Facing a 4th-and-4 at Alice's 36, the Hornets opted to go for it.
"We felt like wanted to go for the win right there," Flour Bluff coach Darrell Andrus said. "We were on the 36, so I don't think it was as risky as it might have looked, because if we punted and the ball went into the end zone, Alice would have had it on the 20 anyway."
Going for it might not have been that risky, but having Gomez, who had just one completion all game, throw the ball was certainly unexpected.
"I had no nerves (going to the line of scrimmage)," Gomez said. "It's just part of being quarterback, you have to make plays."
Gomez took a short drop and found Chris McCormick on a short slant route over the middle. Gomez may have led McCormick a tad too far, but the speedy receiver reached out with his left hand and made a one-handed snare to pick up the first down.
"That was a real good catch," Gomez said. "That was probably the best catch I've seen."
It was certainly the biggest of the game.
Two plays later, the Hornets' Trevor Brumley punched into the end zone to put Flour Bluff up 35-21.
Less than a minute later, Marcus Williams recovered an Alice fumble in the end zone to provide the final score.
Alice (4-4, 1-2) was shut out in the second half after rolling over Flour Bluff in the first half with a quick passing game. Coyotes quarterback A.J. Benavides completed 12 of 16 passes for 118 yards in the first half, but was limited to just six completions in the second half with four of those coming on the final possession of the game.
"We started bringing pressure from a different area in the second half," Andrus said. "I think the defense got into the game in the second half, too. They were kind of flat in the first half. We just played playoff football - both teams did."
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ideas and suggestions needed
i want to raise money for a charity that helps horses and i was wondering if anyone knows any good ideas for me to do to get sponsership or a good horse charity that needs donations
I think its a great idea.
yeah, let us know how it turns out! :D
What about Horse Rescue as a charity? Let us know how you go!
thanks everyone keep the suggestions on what i can do to raise the money coming
showpony@heart: do they have a website because i will have a look etc and find the address to send the money to
OK I've been through this a couple of times with 4-H and FFA projects. First What is the charity or event? After this is decided then pick up every tack or farm cataloge you can lay your hands on. Write to all these supplyers explaining what you are doing. Ask them for a donation to an auction you are putting on to suport said event. Heres the catch line. Make sure you ask them to send free catalogs so everyone who participates will have access to the advertiseing of their wonderfull great products. I would set the auction up at least a month in advance of when I started mialing out leters to supplyers to give them time to ship the goodies to you. Good luck. Also if you can have hotdog roast or BBQ at the same time and advertise it as free but donations for your cause would be welcome you will get a god response. Good luck.
Yeah the website is:
www.horserescue.com.au/ This is an Aussie Charity...
but here is another similar Charity's website:
And a summary from google: "A Kentucky based organization focusing on the rescue and adoption of mistreated or neglected horses."
anyone know any good english ones? as that would be easier to send the money i raise to. anyone got any other ideas on what i can do?
you could do a lope for hope. You get a bunch of fellow riders and get them to raise money for their ride, we do it around where I live. They earned alot of money. People come from all over as well. You could even see if a trail riding facility will let you do your ride at there place.
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1997 Ford Contour Question: start problem
hi! i have ford contour 1997 sprt package with V6 engine. i just bought it from auction and it doesn't start. they said it starts... when i turn the key on, the engine doesn't crank or make noise like "click". nothing at all... what might be it from? please help! - Uzburgut
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It could be a bad battery, bad starter or a seized up motor? - candaautomotive
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Hang on -- you likely have a PATS system issue. That is the anti-theft key that is required to start the car. Without a properly programmed key, you cannot start this car. I find if you buy a car from the auction, and it is of unknown origin, you may not have working keys. They may turn the key cylinder, but not communicate with the PATS module transceiver. Does that red light above the radio area blink with the key on? - DaveJHM
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STARKVILLE, Miss. – Senior Alex Elwell of Norrix High School in Kalamazoo, Mich., juniors Jenna Davis of South Granville High School in Creedmore, N.C., Bella Picard of Blackstone Valley RVT High School in Upton, Mass., sophomore Selina Ta'amilo of Vista Murrieta High School in Murrieta, Calif. and freshmen Andrea Kindrick of Russellville High School in Russellville, Ark., have all been named as the High School Players of the Week for their respective regions by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association for games played through May 5, 2012.
In the North Region, Elwell hit .636 for the week with 13 RBI and 8 runs scored. The senior slugger was also stellar on the mound, as she pitched a combined 10 innings in two games, allowing just five hits and no earned runs. Her efforts helped the Knights capture the Cardinal Classic. On the mound Elwell owns a 10-3 record and a .673 batting average so far this season. The Knights improved to 15-3 and a #5 ranking in Michigan.
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Rounding out this week's awards from the South Central Region, Kindrick went 3-0 in the circle including pitching 2 complete game shutouts against Van Buren and Mt. St. Mary Academy. The freshman struck out 15 against Van Buren and 16 against Mt. St. Mary, and finished the week striking out 37 of the 79 batters she faced. So far this season Kindrick owns a .72 ERA and has fanned 238 batters in 156 innings pitched. The wins helped the Cyclones improve to 23-6 and a #1 ranking in the state of Arkansas.


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My impressions of Vanguard
Ok after getting double XP this whole weekend I think I am well informed to comment on the game thus far.
First thing that I noticed was the horrible physics. The whole game felt slow and awkward. The movements were very robotic. A buddy and me who played Guild Wars hated the fact that you could not jump. Well with how bad it looked when jumping in Vanguard, we decided that not jumping would be prefered.
The second thing I noticed was the very poor optimization of the game. Coming from UT2 engine it should run better but it doesn't. All I can say is don't go near any city or yetis. For some reason yetis lagged my puter big time.
The thing was the horrible questing. I don't think they could make the quests any more vague or meaningless than they did in Vanguard. There was no rhym or reason to the quests. Now this is a minor thing to me but it does leave you feeling like you don't care about the chains or the information in the at the least it leaves you a bit confused.
All in all if they changed the physics of the game and optimized the graphics this would be a great game. It still would not be on the same caliber as WoW but it would pull me away from WoW. Instead it is a game I am having fun with but I don't feel satisfied with. I'll play it for this month and see if it still holds any play value after that. Until then my lvl 14 Pally named Palatard Hearthbuble will be trodging through Tanvu awkwardly NOT jumping.
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
Alright, I let most of that go because everyone has a right to their opinion, even though I disagree with yours and think that Vanguard's a great game. But this right here:
Didn't you say before that you were running a 6800U for graphics?
I'm also wondering how someone could let something so little as the way a character jumps ruin their impression of a game? How much time do you spend jumping on Vanguard? It's not a game of hopskotch; it's an MMO. The only time I ever jump is when I'm on a horse and there's a rock or two in the way.
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
BTW I really hate the argument "it's your old computer n00b". That doesn't play with me. Don't pass off poor graphical performance onto me to justify why the game runs so bad. Yes it is much better than BETA but it still needs work. It has only been out one month and that is no where near enough time to fix the problems it had at the end of BETA. Sorry, I've been playing games too long and building computers to long to buy your line of reasoning here.
My point is the physics of this game are horrible compared to a game like WoW. In WoW the movemnt feel is free and not sluggish. Vanguard is like you are running through water all the time. The movement is herky-jerky at best. It is the worst part of this game. I used the jumping as an example. When you jump it feels unatural and that is how all the movements feel.
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
My comment about your graphics hardware was in regards to the possibility that you were saying the game looked bad.
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
I really do like the game. It is my tye of MMO. I also think the game looks great even on my computer. I think the physics of the game are the biggest hinderance to it being fantastic IMO.
Now I like WoW's style of graphic. They went for style over realizm. At the same time I like Vanguard's realistic look. I do like the feel of being in a semi-real forest. Although the cities to suck. There just isn't much to them. This is just a matter of taste in the look of the game. If you like a cartoony style then you will like the look of WoW. If you like a more realistic style then you will like Vanguard. BUT if you like a more free flowing game then WoW blows Vanguard out of the water. It is a more exciting game. I like them both but WoW is just a better over all game, dispite not having that realistic look to the graphics.
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
I do happen to agree with you about the physics. They could certainly be better.
But.. I don't know. Maybe it's the fact that it's the first MMO I've played for a significant amount of time, or maybe it's something else. But I like the game an awful lot. It's pretty deep.. the crafting, the diplomacy, etc... the world is just so big, and I've already been on several cool quests. Did you ever get to the one w/ the shipwreck on the beach in Lomshir? It had wrecked, and the entire crew were a bunch of walking zombies. There was a ghost of the captain up top who gave you a mission to go inside the ship and below-ground to rid it of a demon infestation that had taken over. You had to travel underground and close all these huge portals that they kept popping out of.
Absolutely awesome.
I've also been in some neat underground cave quests, and the grouping aspect seems to work really well. Some of the most fun I've had on the game was in intense battles with 2 or 3 others by my side.
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
I've done some extensive testing with Vanguard. It seems the engine doesn't like bloom and HDR enabled together, although it lets you do it when most games don't. Bloom gives it an extra glare effect off concrete surfaces and around light sources, but for the most part there's no visual quality increase and it makes ~10fps difference. In populated areas with lots of NPCs, it's made up to a 15fps difference by turning bloom off.
With a single 8800GTX, SLI disabled, v-sync enabled (capped at 60), all in-game settings maxed:
For the most part it stays pinned at my refresh rate. This part was a little more demanding, graphically.
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
I don't even see how this is even up for discussion Xionn. Vanguard does not run good. It runs like crap. Its definitely not optimized and needs to be fixed. Sure you can post up your 60fps areas just as i can, but you can also post where you get 2-3 fps to make your shots a little more truthful.
Either way, The game is fun though. :D
BTW, Udawg is now a converted democrat. Just thought everyone would like to know :D
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
Defeating bloom and using HDR instead helped smooth my game out a lot. I tried that because I remembered the 8800 is a HDR beast and from other games not wanting to combine bloom and HDR well.
Also they have definitely improved the loading. You still have times when the systems stops to load large chunks and that has been greatly reduced. Using the /flush command occasionally is a good idea to clear caches. I can run 1680x with 16xAF and all detail sliders pegged right without issue. Cities with many players in close proximity can slow you down and I improved that as noted in the opening. The game does need work.
If you hate the game now try it again in 6 months or so. They are making progress.
I am still waiting for a good Sci-fi MMO myself. If I had total control over AO I could turn that into an acceptable game, and the engine is far too old for my tastes.
SoE are increasing the Station pass price to 29.95 soon and I may take a break from pay to play MMOs myself. Honestly, "Oblivion" and the "Baldur's Gate" series feel more like RPGs than any MMORPG I have ever played. If anyone ever makes a pay to play MMO where Rogues advance and play somewhat like "Thief: The Dark Project" I'll probably be back. For now I am tired of kill, kill, kill.
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
yeah i agree the game doesnt run very well but im happy with it on my system. in battles my fps is fine. usually about 25-40. only in cities does it get a little annoying, but my system is hardly considered mid-range now. but i have so much fun grouping with people and demolishing stuff. i love this game. the performance will gradually get better over time as more patches are released
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
Yeah... cities are where it hits my system hard... which sucks because I find myself crafting quite a bit now... but anyway... a lot of MMOs have trouble in cities.
Re: My impressions of Vanguard
Yes, the graphic engine is not ready yet. Tyger and I both said at the end of the BETA that there was no way this is near ready to be released with the performance problems it has. This does not mean it can't be made better, only that it is not finished. If this was a first person shooter, NO ONE would play it even on high end machines because of the performance problems.
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Throwing candies on the ground does nothing immediately. However, in the computer section (I'm not there yet, I just did a search through all the .js files. This is in
It appears there is a point where you have the option of picking up all the candies you throw on the floor. I don't know why you would want to do this (a way to store candies for later?), but it is apparently an option.
Per this interview, throwing the candies on the ground does nothing.


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Modern zooms like my 1985 35mm-135mm f/4.5-4.5 AIS Zoom Nikkor are essentially as sharp as a prime and also allow macro focusing at the 135mm setting. This saves you the drudgery of carrying a bag of lenses.
The down side is the relatively dimmer viewfinder image and the fact that the front ring rotates as you focus. The rotating of a polarizerif you use onemeans that you must focus before fine-tuning the index of the polarizer.
Its a good idea to buy a step-up ring and take filters for the larger size and the larger size lens cap. Otherwise, should you use a lens-protecting UV and add any other filter, the front-most filter ring will vignette the corners at the wide-angle setting.
By stepping up my lens from 62mm to 72mm, using 72mm filters and lens cap, its impossible for stacked filters to vignette the corners.
A zoom like this should let you do just about anything and you only have to carry one lens. This is the very reason that zoom lenses became so popular with travelers. Once the major makers figured out how to make them as sharp as fixed focal length lenses, there was no reason not to use them.


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A human resource (HR) officer helps an organization develop, improve, and implement policies related to employees. They make sure that each employee is properly trained for his or her work and posseses the skills needed for the job. Some areas that the HR officer oversees include conditions of employment, diversity, accessibility, negotiations with external agencies, pay, and recruitment. HR officers must have an excellent understanding of their company to find the right candidates for job openings. HR officers typically work in an office setting during regular business hours, although some overtime may be required.Read More...
Candidates for an HR position must have business and management skills, excellent organization, knowledge of computers and computerized payroll programs, and a record of human resources work. They must also be able to explain to employees the rules and regulations of the company, as well as possess excellent negotiation and communication skills. Being fluent in another language can also be helpful for HR officers in companies with multilingual clients or employees. Most companies look for HR officers who possesses training from CPID (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development).
Professional skills reported by Human Resources Officers are few in number. Most notably, facility with Recruiting and Benefits & Compensation are correlated to pay that is significantly above average, leading to increases of 28 percent and 6 percent, respectively. Most people familiar with Benefits & Compensation also know Recruiting.
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Appropriate. Yesterday Mets utility player Jordany Valdespin took a Justin Verlander 94-mph fastball directly to the dick, and if that weren't bad enough, turns out Valdepsin wasn't wearing a cup at the time, making him something akin to the village idiot on the Mets team. Today the New York Post skewered Valdespin and his unfortunate/unprotected nutshot with a simple, hilarious, and altogether perfect headline. Numbnuts! If there were an MLB award for stupid, Jordany Valdespin would be your MVP. [Big League Stew] The post New York Post has the final say on Jordany Valdespin's now infamous cupless nutshot appeared first on Last Angry Fan.
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Controller 2Illustration 78: "Unbreakable" Liferay architectectureLiferay Clustering
Once you have Liferay installed in more than one node on your application server, there are several optimizations that need to be made. At a minimum, Liferay should be configured in the following way for a clustered environment:
All nodes should be pointing to the same Liferay database
Jackrabbit, the JSR-170 content repository, should be:
On a shared file system available to all the nodes (not really recommended, though), or
In a database that is shared by all the nodes
Similarly, Lucene, the full text search indexer, should be:
On a shared file system available to all the nodes (not really recommended, though), or
In a database that is shared by all the nodes, or
On separate file systems for all of the nodes, or
Disabled, and a separate pluggable enterprise search server configured.
If you have not configured your application server to use farms for deployment, the hot deploy folder should be a separate folder for all the nodes, and plugins will have to be deployed to all of the nodes individually. This can be done via a script.
Many of these configuration changes can be made by adding or modifying properties in your portal-ext.properties file. Remember that this file overrides the defaults that are in the portal.properties file. The original version of this file can be found in the Liferay source code or can be extracted from the portal-impl.jar file in your Liferay installation. It is a best practice to copy the relevant section that you want to modify from portal.properties into your portal-ext.properties file, and then modify the values there.
All Nodes Should Be Pointing to the Same Liferay Database
This is pretty self-explanatory. Each node should be configured with a data source that points to one Liferay database (or a database cluster) that all of the nodes will share. This ensures that all of the nodes operate from the same basic data set. This means, of course, that Liferay cannot (and should not) use the embedded HSQL database that is shipped with the bundles. It is also best if the database server is a separate physical box from the server which is running Liferay.
Jackrabbit Sharing
Liferay uses Jackrabbit—which is a project from Apache—as its JSR-170 compliant document repository. By default, Jackrabbit is configured to store the documents on the local file system upon which Liferay is installed, in the $HOME/liferay/jackrabbit folder. Inside this folder is Jackrabbit's configuration file, called repository.xml.
To simply move the default repository location to a shared folder, you do not need to edit Jackrabbit's configuration file. Instead, find the section in portal.properties labeled JCR and copy/paste that section into your portal-ext.properties file. One of the properties, by default, is the following:
Change this property to point to a shared folder that all of the nodes can see. A new Jackrabbit configuration file will be generated in that location.
Note that because of file locking issues, this is not the best way to share Jackrabbit resources. If you have two people logged in at the same time uploading content, you could encounter data corruption using this method, and because of this, we do not recommend it for a production system. Instead, to enable better data protection, you should redirect Jackrabbit into your database of choice. You can use the Liferay database or another database for this purpose. This will require editing Jackrabbit's configuration file.
The default Jackrabbit configuration file has sections commented out for moving the Jackrabbit configuration into the database. This has been done to make it as easy as possible to enable this configuration. To move the Jackrabbit configuration into the database, simply comment out the sections relating to the file system and comment in the sections relating to the database. These by default are configured for a MySQL database. If you are using another database, you will likely need to modify the configuration, as there are changes to the configuration file that are necessary for specific databases. For example, the default configuration uses Jackrabbit's DbFileSystem class to mimic a file system in the database. While this works well in MySQL, it does not work for all databases. For example, if you are using an Oracle database, you will need to modify this to use OracleFileSystem. Please see the Jackrabbit documentation at http://jackrabbit.apache.org for further information.
You will also likely need to modify the JDBC database URLs so that they point your database. Don't forget to create the database first, and grant the user ID you are specifying in the configuration file access to create, modify, and drop tables.
Once you have configured Jackrabbit to store its repository in a database, the next time you bring up Liferay, the necessary database tables will be created automatically. Jackrabbit, however, does not create indexes on these tables, and so over time this can be a performance penalty. To fix this, you will need to manually go into your database and index the primary key columns for all of the Jackrabbit tables.
All of your Liferay nodes should be configured to use the same Jackrabbit repository in the database. Once that is working, you can create a Jackrabbit cluster (please see the section below).
Search Configuration
You can configure search in one of two ways: use pluggable enterprise search (recommended for a cluster configuration) or configure Lucene in such a way that either the index is stored on each node's file system or is shared in a database.
Pluggable Enterprise Search
As an alternative to using Lucene, Liferay 5.1 now supports pluggable search engines. The first implementation of this uses the open source search engine Solr, but in the future there will be many such plugins for your search engine of choice. This allows you to use a completely separate product from Liferay which can be installed on any application server in your environment. Your search engine then operates completely independently of your Liferay Portal nodes in a clustered environment, acting as a search service for all of the nodes simultaneously.
What this does is solve the problem below with sharing Lucene indexes. You can now share one search index among all of the nodes of your cluster without having to worry about putting it in a database (if you wish, you can still do this if you configure Solr or another search engine that way) or maintaining separate search indexes on all of your nodes. Each Liferay node will send requests to the search engine to update the search index when needed, and these updates are then queued and handled automatically by the search engine.
Since at the time of this writing there is only one implementation of the pluggable enterprise search, we will cover how to implement this using Solr.
Since Solr is a standalone search engine, you will need to download it and install it first according to the instructions on the Solr web site (http://lucene.apache.org/solr). Once you have Solr up and running, integrating it with Liferay is easy, but it will require a restart of your application server.
The first thing you will need to define is the location of your search index. Assuming you are running a Linux server and you have mounted a file system for the index at /solr, create an environment variable that points to this folder. This environment variable needs to be called $SOLR_HOME. So for our example, we would define:
This environment variable can be defined anywhere you need: in your operating system's start up sequence, in the environment for the user who is logged in, or in the start up script for your application server. If you are going to use Tomcat to host Solr, you would modify catalina.sh or catalina.bat and add the environment variable there.
Once you have created the environment variable, you then can use it in your application server's start up configuration as a parameter to your JVM. This is configured differently per application server, but again, if you are using Tomcat, you would edit catalina.sh or catalina.bat and append the following to the $JAVA_OPTS variable:
This takes care of telling Solr where to store its search index.
Next, you have a choice. If you have installed Solr on the same system upon which Liferay is running, you can simply go to a Plugin Installer portlet and install the solr-web plugin. Of course, if you are doing this for a clustered environment, it is likely that you are not running Liferay and your search engine on the same box, so you will have to make a change to a configuration file in the plugin before you install it. In this case, go to the Liferay web site (http://www.liferay.com) and download the plugin manually.
Open or extract the plugin. Inside the plugin, you will find a file called solr-spring.xml in the WEB-INF/classes/META-INF folder. Open this file in a text editor and you will see that there are two entries which define where the Solr server can be found by Liferay:
<bean id="indexSearcher" class="com.liferay.portal.search.solr.SolrIndexSearcherImpl">
<property name="serverURL" value="http://localhost:8080/solr/select" />
<bean id="indexWriter" class="com.liferay.portal.search.solr.SolrIndexWriterImpl">
<property name="serverURL" value="http://localhost:8080/solr/update" />
Modify these values so that they point to the server upon which you are running Solr. Then save the file and put it back into the plugin archive in the same place it was before.
Next, extract the file schema.xml from the plugin. It should be in the docroot/WEB-INF/conf folder. Copy this file to $SOLR_HOME/conf (you may have to create the conf directory). Now go ahead and start the application server upon which you are going to install Solr. This can be the same server Liferay is running on or a completely different box (a separate box for your search server will give you better performance). Install the Solr .war file to this application server.
You can now hot deploy the solr-web plugin to all of your nodes. See the next section for instructions on hot deploying to a cluster.
Once the plugin is hot deployed, your Liferay search is automatically upgraded to use Solr. It is likely, however, that initial searches will come up with nothing: this is because you will need to reindex everything using Solr.
Go to the Admin Portlet. Click the Server tab and then click the Execute button next to Reindex all search indexes. It may take a while, but Liferay will begin sending indexing requests to Solr for execution. When the process is complete, Solr will have a complete search index of your site, and will be running independently of all of your Liferay nodes.
Installing the plugin to your nodes has the effect of overriding any calls to Lucene for searching. All of Liferay's search boxes will now use Solr as the search index. This is ideal for a clustered environment, as it allows all of your nodes to share one search server and one search index, and this search server operates independently of all of your nodes.
Lucene Configuration
Lucene, the search indexer which Liferay uses, can be in a shared configuration for a clustered environment, or an index can be created on each node of the cluster. If you wish to have a shared index, you will need to either share the index on the file system or in the database.
The Lucene configuration can be changed by modifying values in your portal-ext.properties file. Open your portal.properties file and search for the text Lucene. Copy that section and then paste it into your portal-ext.properties file.
If you wish to store the Lucene search index on a file system that is shared by all of the Liferay nodes, you can modify the location of the search index by changing the lucene.dir property. By default, this property points to the /liferay/lucene folder inside the home folder of the user that is running Liferay:
Change this to the folder of your choice. To make the change take effect, you will need to restart Liferay. You can point all of the nodes to this folder, and they will use the same index.
Like Jackrabbit, however, this is not the best way to share the search index, as it could result in file corruption if different nodes try reindexing at the same time. We do not recommend this for a production system. A better way is to share the index is via a database, where the database can enforce data integrity on the index. This is very easy to do; it is a simple change to your portal-ext.properties file.
There is a single property called lucene.store.type. By default this is set to go to the file system. You can change this so that the index is stored in the database by making it the following:
The next time Liferay is started, new tables will be created in the Liferay database, and the index will be stored there. If all the Liferay nodes point to the same database tables, they will be able to share the index.
Alternatively, you leave the configuration alone, and each node will then have its own index. This ensures that there are no collisions when multiple nodes update the index, because they all will have separate indexes.
Hot Deploy
Plugins which are hot deployed will need to be deployed separately to all of the Liferay nodes. Each node should, therefore, have its own hot deploy folder. This folder needs to be writable by the user under which Liferay is running, because plugins are moved from this folder to a temporary folder when they are deployed. This is to prevent the system from entering an endless loop, because the presence of a plugin in the folder is what triggers the hot deploy process.
When you want to deploy a plugin, copy that plugin to the hot deploy folders of all of the Liferay nodes. Depending on the number of nodes, it may be best to create a script to do this. Once the plugin has been deployed to all of the nodes, you can then make use of it (by adding the portlet to a page or choosing the theme as the look and feel for a page or page hierarchy).
Some containers contain a facility which allows the end user to deploy an application to one node, after which it will get copied to all of the other nodes. If you have configured your application server to support this, you won't need to hot deploy a plugin to all of the nodes—your application server will handle it transparently. Make sure, however, that you use Liferay's hot deploy mechanism to deploy plugins, as in many cases Liferay slightly modifies plugin .war files when hot deploying them.
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Integrity is adherence to high ethical and professional standards. People with integrity act with fairness and strength. People with integrity are honest with themselves and with others, acknowledging their own weaknesses and mistakes. Integrity means honoring commitments and standing up for what you believe is right. When one acts with integrity, trust and self-esteem flourish.
Loyalty develops when personal values and organizational values coincide. When you believe in the values of the workplace, you have a positive feeling about your work. You become committed to daily workplace activities and long-term workplace goals.
Pride is not smugness or superiority; it is a sense of doing your best. It means correcting wrongs, solving problems, finding better ways, and not accepting mediocrity. At First Interstate, we want you to be proud of yourself and proud of us as an organization.
Good physical and mental health cannot be separated from one's sense of well-being, enthusiasm, and productivity. The healthy employee balances work, emotional and spiritual needs, and family obligations. A sense of humor helps by extending your life and relieving everyday tensions.
Successful people enjoy and look forward to their work. Although some days will be better than others, we trust that every employee faces tasks with energy and enthusiasm. You can find great satisfaction in contributing to society through your work.
If you wish to grow—personally and professionally—we will help. Rewards will be available to you in your work if you read, study, observe, plan, and practice.
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How freaking cute is this picture?! It was drizzling on this day and Penelope said she wanted to go outside and do yoga in the rain. Who am I to say no? So for about ten minutes she was doing mountain, warrior and tree poses, outside, in the rain, naked. I am a Certified Yoga… [read more]
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The other week when we went to the beach, we did a little yoga. Miss Penelope and I love to do yoga outside spontaneously. Yoga has so many benefits, but one of the reasons I love sharing it with Penelope is that it is a form of play. And playing with your child is so… [read more]
Penelope the Yoga Teacher
This is one of Penelope's favorite things to do. She likes to play yoga teacher and put her dolls into yoga positions. Oh, she makes her Mama proud. Here she is putting Dolly into Plow Pose or maybe its Toes to Nose. And now she is rolling her over to do Kicky Cobra. So fascinating… [read more]
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From the book, Itsy Bitsy Yoga, by Helen Garabedian, the Top Twelve Reasons Why Babies and Toddlers Need Yoga: 1. To help them sleep better and longer 2. To improve digestion and ease gas pain 3.To turn fussiness into happiness 4. To promote a healthy, physically fit lifestyle 5.To strengthen the parent-child bond 6. To… [read more]
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Oh, God, this picture makes me want my hair back. My pre-pregnancy, pre-post partum falling-out-like-I-was-a-cancer-patient hair. Hair that I had time to blow dry. I want that hair back. Ah, memories. This is a picture of Ava Grace Lake, one of the girls I was a nanny to, when she was about 4 months old.… [read more]
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This is a video of Penelope learning how to take a deep breath and say Om! She JUST figured this out. All it took was one hour of yoga with older toddlers (This week I starting teaching a local preschool, one hour a week) doing it and she figured it out. I am constantly amazed… [read more]
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This is a video of Penelope doing her first yoga pose all by herself! It's called So Big. The way you do it is you sit on the floor with your legs together and feet pointed up towards the ceiling. Make sure both sits bones on are the floor (your sits bones are the bony… [read more]
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Penelope is growing up! We have recently started to only do Tot yoga poses! She no longer wants to be on her back, whether we are doing yoga or a diaper change. A lot of babies naturally do Moon Toe as a part of their body development. If you see them doing this on their… [read more]
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This pose is a great back stretch for our little babies. Its similar to the adult yoga pose Supine Spinal Twist. Supine means to lay on your back, by the way. To do this pose, for baby, tot or mama, lay on your back. Bring your knees together and drop them both to one side.… [read more]
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This is another pose that is great for digestion. If baby is constipated or gassy, this will make them much happier. You are moving their legs clockwise, in the same direction their digestion moves. You start by pressing their thighs into their tummy, like In and Out. Then moves their legs in a circle. As… [read more]
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Industry Superannuation Property Trust has submitted plans for Melbourne's biggest residential development - six skyscrapers between 39 and 63 storeys rising between 142 metres and 222 metres in height.
The project, on The Age's former site in Spencer Street, is opposite another enormous urban renewal precinct, the 2600-apartment Upper West Side complex in Lonsdale Street.
Of the six proposed, the tower on the corner of Spencer and Lonsdale will be the largest.
Existing buildings that cover two-thirds of a city block between Little Lonsdale and Lonsdale streets will be demolished.
The size of the master plans lodged two days before Christmas mean they will need to be signed off by Planning Minister Matthew Guy rather than Melbourne City Council.
The trust's objective was to rejuvenate the ''West End'' by opening up ''six development parcels'' on the 1.7-hectare site, planning documents said.
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The fourth largest fruit crop in the world is the bright yellow banana, but there are many selections, many of which can grow and fruit successfully in our home gardens. Read story.
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Ice Plants
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Asexual Flora
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Anyone Have a Cosleeping Toddler?
Then on she was going to sleep in her own. We went outta town for Christmas came back and she was all messed up again. Well I have been so sick and exhausted I was just going to bed with her in my bed.
Now that Ed got her a full size I'm sleeping in their with her this week then going to try the same thing I did before we left outta town for Christmas. I know it will be hard but I have to do it.
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I wish my dd would sleep with us but she won't go back to sleep no matter what I try when I put her in my bed. But we do have her crib in our room because of a whole different reason. I love it and I think we will co sleep with the new lo and keep the same routine we have going (fingers crossed)
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Yep, we're co-sleeping part time our 18 month old I say part time because sometimes I can convince her that her crib isn't as horrible as she thinks. (She screams and screams if she wakes up while being put in it.) I've tried everything so we got a playpen set up in our room. She sleeps there better then in her crib so... We are getting a toddler bed and giving the crib to the new baby!
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I say evict him before the baby come that way they wont feel like you kicked him out for someone else.
Not to judge but the kids should be sleeping alone in their own beds. I can understanding falling asleep with them but they would have to wake up in their own room.


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First up set a pot of water to boil.
While you're waiting for the water to come to a boil you can start on your dressing. The juice of 1 lemon, Dijon mustard, a pinch of basil leaves, thyme and oregano should be combined in a meauring cup or glass bowl. Once your ingredients are mixed together drizzle about half a tablespoon of olive oil in. You want just enough to round out the flavors.
Once your pot of water has come to a boil go ahead and add your green beans. Let them boil for 3 minutes. After 3 minutes you'll want to stop the cooking process by eating putting them in an ice bath or by draining your green beans and spraying them down with cold water.
Now it's time to assemble your salad. In a salad bowl add some chopped romaine, your grape tomatoes that you've halved, 2 tablespoons of black olives, a can of drained chickpeas and hard boiled eggs that you've quartered. Also, add your drained green beans.
Drizzle your salad dressing and plate up. Once you have your salad on your plates place on top of your salad a half a can of tuna onto each plate. Serve and enjoy.


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De Oppresso Liber
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: Eastern NC
Oddometer: 1,185
'13 Explorer XC
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Do not regret growing older, it's a privilege denied to many.
Joined: Dec 2006
Location: Singapore
Oddometer: 48
I only get to see this every 6,000miles and very reluctant to put back the rockers cover when I am done with the valve clearance adjustment
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Aug 2007
Location: Loveland, OH
Oddometer: 251
Why oh why must you do this to me. The W is one of those bikes that I will own one day. Definitely one of the best lookin gbikes ever produced in my opinion. Something very simple and seductive about them.
Very nice motorcycle!
Joined: Nov 2003
Location: Ohio, USA
Oddometer: 7,887
I liked mine. Kind of miss it, actually.
I still have the seat shown in this picture, and it's for sale.
I found it helped with the forward creep caused by the sloping stock seat.
Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Oddometer: 1,242
Congratulations on your great find. I had a 00 a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I put a National Cycle Plexistar II w/s on it, a Corbin Gunfighter, some new Bridgestone BT45V's and a Ventura luggage system. I made two trips from Kentucky to Daytona on it and it was great.
A month ago I found one too. It was about 3 miles from my house it's entire life. It's an 01 that had 1,675 miles on it. One month later is has 5,700 and I am heading from Ky to Pomona, California a week from today.
They are great bikes that are much higher quality than other UJM's even other Kawasaki's. The took kits are beautiful along with many other fit and finishe related things.
Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Oddometer: 1,242
One more pic:
Bring us some fresh wine!
Joined: Mar 2006
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Oddometer: 2,662
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Aug 2007
Location: Loveland, OH
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Bring us some fresh wine!
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Mounting the Five Stars Luggage Rack
So I was looking for a luggage rack for the W650 and in doing some research, it seems there's not much out there, which is no big surprise as this bike was not exactly a top seller.
The two principal options that I found are the Five Stars rack carried by TwistedThrottle (about $220) and the Ventura system which is primarily intended to mount their line of soft luggage.
The Five Stars rack has an optional hardware kit that fits Givi Monokey cases, one of which I just so happen to have as a top case on my Tiger. I had the Ventura rack and luggage on my ex-Scrambler and it was nice stuff but I prefer lockable waterproof hard bags so I decided to go for the Five Stars.
Strangely enough TwistedThrottle had a rack in stock so I got it a day or two after I ordered it. It seems to be well-made. I got the pre-assembly done, i.e. installing the Givi hardware kit to the rack. The instructions are in German only but it's easy enough to figure out. There are two pins that get installed toward the front of the rack and the wedge-shaped lock thing that gets installed toward the rear (the side with the notch in it faces the front of the bike). They also supply a few rubber bumpers to fill the leftover holes in the rack as well as two plastic end caps that get tapped into the ends of the rack tubes.
Installation to the bike was pretty easy. You have to remove the red side reflectors if you have them installed - they are allen on the outside and there is a 14mm nut on the back side - you can just barely get a wrench in there between the fender.
The front of the rack mounts on the studs for the rear shocks. Undo the 17mm nuts, put the rack on (I had to "stretch" it a bit to get it over the second stud), then put the nuts back on. The second fixing point uses the hardware supplied in the Five Stars kit, a bolt, nut and washer. The bolt and washer go on the outside, the 13mm locknut goes on the backside and then snug it up. That's pretty much all there is to it. The rack looks nice on there and the bike doesn't look as horrible as I thought it would with a top case on it.
The only thing I don't like about the Five Stars rack is it kinda blocks the neat little grab handles but you can work around it.
Here's the rack installed:
Here's a close-up of the mounting:
Here's a crappy iPhone pic of the bike with rack & top case mounted. It may not look great but man it sure makes the bike a lot more practical and useful:
The Jerk screwed with this post 10-15-2011 at 03:20 PM
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Location: Lillington, NC
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OK, first of all, thats not MY style of bike. BUT, that is a very beautiful bike. I cant believe that you found a 10 year old bike in that good of condition. Even with the luggage on the back, it still looks good. Congrats on the rare find! I didnt even know what a W650 was until this thread. I had heard them mentioned here and there but never knew what style of bike it was. Sitting beside that Bonneville, it looks like a nicer clone!
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Joined: Jun 2007
Location: USA, CT, Norwich
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Nice clean Dub.
I put on the low-bar from Z-power this summer and I like it better. I do get a bit more vibration through the bars now though, so I am gonna add some bar-end weights to see if that helps.
The Yahoo groups, which I find to be kind of difficult to search, do have a lot of useful info. There are 2 groups, the W650Riders and W650Registry. The registry seems to be more useful for me as they are focused on maintenance/modification questions.
With the low bars:
2000 Kawasaki W650
2006 Harley 883R
2001 Ducati M750 (sold)
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Location: Swellvue, WA
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Location: Brooklyn, NY
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How to Remove the Carburetors
So the other day I pulled out the carbs to drill out the caps over the pilot screws. I also wanted to take off the float bowls and have a look inside just to check for general cleanliness, clogged jets, etc.
I purchased the official Kawasaki service manual from RepairManual.com. This manual is great, it's very well-written and guided me through the job. They had it in stock and I got it in the mail a few days later. Well worth the $55 it will cost you. I only wish that it was 3-hole-punched and in a binder like the Triumph manual so it would lay flat but I guess a hacksaw and a 3-hole-punch can fix that pretty quick.
I hope these steps will help folks who might need to do this in the future.
1) First step is to remove the seat. Put your key in the lock, turn it and remove the seat upward and to the rear. Set it aside where you won't step on it or spill stuff on it. You will then be faced with this view:
2) Next thing is to remove both side covers. The mounting is slightly different for each one. On the left side there is a phillips screw at the bottom of the side cover and a locating pin that passes through a grommet at the rear of the side cover:
On the right side cover, there are two phillips screws, one at the bottom and one at the rear.
Finally there are 2 phillips screws at the top, to the rear of the fuel tank.
Pull the sidecovers off carefully and set them aside.
3) Next it's time to remove the fuel tank. First prepare a place to set it, preferably on a towel or something so you won't scratch the paint on the bottom. Get out your 10mm socket and remove the two bolts at the rear of the tank.
Now go to the left side of the tank and pull the two hoses off the petcock. The smaller hose is the vacuum hose - this bike has a vacuum activated petcock. Make sure the petcock is set to "ON" or "RES" before disconnecting any hoses. If it's set to "PRI" you will get doused with gasoline when you pull off the fuel hose.
The fuel hose has a small metal clamp around it, Kawasaki was kind enough to design these clamps so you can undo them with your fingers - no pliers required. Just squeeze the tabs together and move it down the hose past the tap. Thanks Kawi!
Now go to the right side of the tank and find the two vent hoses that attach to the bottom of the tank and feed down between the carbs and end up down by the swingarm. The book says to remove these from the tank but I found it's easier to just pull them up and out to the side so you can remove the tank with the vent hoses in place. Once you pull the hoses out, you can now pull the tank to the rear to disengage the front mounting lugs, then carefully lift it up and set it aside. Dropping it would be a very expensive mistake.
You are now looking at this:
The next step is to remove the airbox. In order to do that, you have to deal with the electrical panel that lives under the left side cover. So:
4) Disconnect the electrical connections from the battery. To do that, go up to the top and look at the underseat area. The fusebox lives there and is held down by a rubber strap. Pull the fuse box out from the rubber strap and let it hang by the wiring harness over the left side of the frame.
There are two little plastic hinged covers over the battery terminals. Pull them back and undo the battery connections (ground first, then positive).
Now go to the left side and locate the two 10mm bolts that hold the electrical panel in place:
Undo the bolts. You may also wish to loosen some of the flexible metal straps that hold various parts of the wiring harness in place. The idea is to create enough room to get the battery out by swinging the entire electrical panel forward using the harness as a hinge. This is made easier by pulling the + and - battery cables out from the battery box. Once you do that, you can easily swing the whole thing aside and pull the battery out. The airbox is also the battery box so it's gotta come out.
Now disconnect the air injection hard line attached to the airbox from the soft hose that runs to the air injection pump. This junction is located under the frame backbone just above the carbs.
Go up top and remove the two 8mm bolts that mount the airbox. These are located the same area as the top side cover screws.
Now go underneath the carbs and find the crankcase ventilation hose. Disconnect it from the airbox by removing the clamp and pulling off the hose - this clamp can also be undone by finger power.
Now go to the left side of the airbox and find the two phillips screws that secure the two halves of the airbox. One is located just to the left of where the electrical panel mounts, the other is located on the airbox just below where the electrical panel would be. For some reason I forgot to take a picture of these.
Once you undo those two screws, the airbox is almost ready to come out in halves. There are also two drain hoses, one for each half of the airbox. They are hard to reach with the airbox in place but if you undo them as you pull the airbox out they are easy to get to. Again, remove the clamps with finger power and pull the hoses off. The airbox is removed to the rear and to the side. You have to disengage them from the carbs and then pull them out. The top of the airbox may snag the wiring harness as you pull it out. Pull the airbox halves out and then set them aside.
5) Now you are ready to pull out the carbs. For some reason I stopped taking lots of pictures at this point. Here's what you gotta do: First, follow the wiring harness from the throttle position sensor on the right carb up until you find its connector zip-tied to the frame backbone:
You need to pull apart the connector and then cut the big wire tie so you can get the carb end out.
The service manual also talks about disconnecting the plug for the carb heaters but the U.S. model doesn't have those.
Next, loosen the two clamps that secure the carbs to the boots on the cylinder head. Pull the carbs back to disengage them from the boots and then angle them over to the left side to deal with the throttle cables.
There are two cables and a little gold-colored clip that secures the cables to their bracket on the carbs. Unhook the little clip (it stays attached to one of the cables) and then you can slide the throttle cables out of their brackets.
You then need to play around with the throttle lever a bit to find the right place where you can disengage the cables from the throttle. You may need to increase the cable freeplay at the throttle grip (loosen the locknuts and spin the adjuster nuts clockwise) to have enough slack in the cables to disengage them from the carbs.
Once you have those free, the carbs are out, ready for you to do as you wish.
Installation is the reverse of removal.
The Jerk screwed with this post 10-15-2011 at 03:30 PM
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I have heard that some mods need to happen to make it work, something with the rear bracket - but I'm having a hard time picturing what needs to be done.
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Bangarra Dance Theatre's PATYEGARANG Heads to Arts Centre Melbourne, Now thru Sept 6
Now close to selling out at the Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre's new show Patyegarang is on its way to Melbourne for a limited season of ten performances. Patyegarang will be presented at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse from tonight, 28 August to 6 September 2014.
Bangarra's Artistic Director Stephen Page says, "The story of Patyegarang is one of the few positive encounters during Australia's first contact, one that should be celebrated and remembered. It is special to see how audiences are embracing this story, just like we embraced it during our rehearsals. I look forward to sharing this performance with Melbournians - an audience close to Bangarra's heart."
Patyegarang is a gift of Australian history in a remarkable dance experience about first contact, bringing to the stage the story of a young Eora woman who befriended one of the first settlers Lieutenant William Dawes, gifting him her culture and language. While this remarkable cultural exchange took place over 200 years ago it remains a timeless story about human curiosity, respect and learning.
Currently being presented in Sydney, Patyegarang will be performed in Canberra, Perth and Brisbane before arriving in Melbourne.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2014, Bangarra Dance Theatre is Australia's premier national Indigenous performing arts company. Under the brilliant and inspirational artistic direction of Stephen Page, Bangarra has strived to maintain the cultural integrity and spirit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tradition, combining it with contemporary expressions of stories, dance and music. Bangarra creates dynamic, moving theatrical experiences and delivers these experiences to audiences across Australia and around the world.
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How to Rent a Dress, a Video Game, or Other Unexpected Items
From party dresses to the latest tech gadgets, save money by renting instead of buying.
Rent or Buy?
A version of this article originally appeared on Learnvest.com.
Renting a home? That we've heard of. Renting tech accessories? Not as much. We know that the younger generation of Americans would rather rent a home than buy one. But it's becoming clear that the rental industry—which was once reserved for tuxedos, cars, and movies—has become much more, covering everything from cameras to power tools.
This new trend has a ton of benefits—for one, renting an item you'll only use once or twice is much cheaper (and more sustainable) than actually buying it. Not only that, sites like Rentalic.com let you tap into nearby resources like neighbors and community members to borrow items. Saving money and staying local? Now that's a movement we can get behind.