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Kicking someone out of the band
My drummer for the black metal band got a girlfriend and asked her everytime whether it was ok if he came to rehearsals (he's a 33 yr old man btw and his gf is 19). He began skipping out, and he was not very good on top of that, everytime we wanted to suggest something he'd become defensive and become dramatic. We also were willing to pay for him to go to school and get lessons to help him get better (which he said he would do anyway) and he kept making excuses like "I dont have money" I replied 'We will pay for it', then he said "Oh I dont have time", I said ' it's only about an hr for 1 day out of the week, no time really lost there', then he said " but i need to work as much as possible", then I said ' your job is part time and prob the most flexible job in the world for going to school ad tandom'.
but despite all of the back and fourth , he never went to school, in fact his drumming became worse, because he allowed himself to be controlled by someone else's decisions but his own.
so, we went to his place and told him it wasn't working out ( in a calm and actually... nice manner) and even offered to help him move gear, but despite all he was very angry and emotional and took his stuff and never talked to us again... until today.
I messaged him on FB and wanted to see how he was doing.
his reply: "honestly don't email me anymore, I don't want to be friends"
I was crushed, he was my best friend and I have never kicked anyone out of a band before; I still feel horrible even though technically, I didn't do anything wrong... but why do I feel so terrible...
really depressed right now.
If you have a story please post it I would like to know how you would handle it, or how you did handle kicking someone out of a band;
Also any story where you were kicked out of the band, and how you handled it.
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The fact that he's a grown 33 year old man dating a 19 year old is already messed up enough, but that she's the one controlling him? That's just flat out odd to me. I feel for ya man, but if you really think you did nothing wrong(and by what you described you weren't) perhaps you could send him one final email fully explaining what you just explained to us and why you had to let him go. He's probably taking it very personally when in fact the decision wasn't personal at all.
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and yeah that's a really good idea maybe I will email him, but I don't want it to become worse... well, lol guess it can't get any worse than this, might as well
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I agree with Onemic. Also it sounds like your friend still has a little growing up to do. It's really not that big of a deal. I say that because of this...just because you can't play in a band together doesn't mean you can't still can't be friends.
This has happend to me on a few occasions. We let a guy go out of our band who happend to be a good friend to everybody in the group. He obviousely wasn't happy about it but he still come's around and we are all still very good friends. The line has to be drawn where it's one thing to be in a band together but another to still be friends as well.
I really hope you guys can get this resolved.
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I'd say if you still want to be friends, and he was your best friend before...ignore his request not to contact him and keep up your end of the friendship. If he needs to blow up at you, let him. Once he gets it out of his system and you are still there being a friend, it should blow over eventually.
You have to kind of...be a parent sort of...let him be immature, don't get upset, just be understanding, and he should come around after a while.
Just be honest and say that the drumming thing is separate from the friend thing, and the drumming thing wasn't working out for the others, but he is just what you need/want as a friend. His drumming is not a measure of the friendship you guys have. Let him know how much you value him as a friend. Elaborate, it's what he needs to hear.
Put your feelings aside and help him deal with his.
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Based on how you have described it, this is a textbook case on how to properly handle this kind of situation. You took an interest in the drummer as a person and as a musician and offered to help him improve. Hell, I've never even heard of that sort of thing happening! He was too lazy, distracted and immature to improve himself and your offer probably intimidated him.
People who are mature and secure take ownership of what happens to them and they don't blame others for stuff like this. This drummer sounds like he himself was a lot closer to 19 in age, instead of 33. You deserve to have friends who are on your level of maturity. Like Maya Angelou said, when people reveal themselves to you, believe them.
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Sever, he's being a child and it's all of his own doing. You can't make him be friends, so I really wouldn't bother with it any further. It's a shame that it ended badly, but it is what it is. I'll diverge from my old mate Larry a little here and state that the role of "parenting" is not your responsibilty. He's a big boy and if he can't cope with this then he has little scope to cope with anything through the rest of his life. Take on the role of "parent" and he'll suck the life blood outta you.....sure and simple.
Maybe I'm too much of a hardarse, but I have little time for attention seekers and ingrates.
Friendship is a two way street, he's disinterested, so there's little you can do. Move on and be happy. :-)
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Well done, Sever. You did all the right things, way over and above the call of duty.
Your friend needs to understand that his behaviour was causing problems for everyone in the band, not just you. If you're in a band with committed players and you're not as committed there are only two ethical options - get committed or make way for someone who is.
There is also an unethical option - clinging on to the spot and stringing everyone along without worrying about how you inconvenience them. That's the path your friend took because at the moment his brains seem to have shifted from his big head to his little one.
Once this relationship blows over and his young chickadee finds herself a hot young bloke then he'll probably regain use of his brain cells and may well be open to being friends again. Whether you are or not after his bad behaviour is another matter ...
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Manatee Island Library offers Craft for Tweens (ages 8-12)
Date: February 20, 2013Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
5701 Marina Drive
Holmes Beach, FL
The Manatee County Public Library System's bimonthly craft program for young people, ages 8-12, (the "Mana-Tween Craft Program") continues in February at all six library locations.
February's project:"Make a Caterpillar Book." Each library branch will provide all of the materials and instructions necessary for those in attendance to create their own wallet. Because of the limited seating available for these craft programs, advance registration is required to attend. Parents/guardians should register their children by calling the desired library at the number indicated below.
Wednesday, February 6 • 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. Central Library (748-5555 x6312)
Wednesday, February 20 • 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Island Branch (778-6341)
Thursday, February 21 • 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Braden River Branch (727-6079)
Wednesday, February 27 • 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. Palmetto Branch (722-3333)
Wednesday, February 27 • 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Rocky Bluff Branch (723-4821)
Thursday, February 28 • 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. South Manatee Branch (755-3892)
The Central Library is located at 1301 Barcarrota Blvd. W., Bradenton.
The Island Branch is located at 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach.
The Braden River Branch is located at 4915 53rd Ave. East, Bradenton.
The Palmetto Branch is located at 923 6th Street W., Palmetto
The Rocky Bluff Branch is located at 6750 US Hwy 301 N., Ellenton
The South Manatee Branch is located at 6081 26th Street W., Bradenton
For general information about the Manatee County Public Library System, visit us on the web at www.mymanatee.org/library.

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A Gathering: Store to host Toledo qualifier for card game's Pro TourWritten by Jeff McGinnis | | firstname.lastname@example.com
It was the first real trading card game, a concept which married the joy of seeking out rare and valuable cards with the joy of competing, all merged under a fantasy theme. The end result was called Magic: The Gathering and it became a worldwide phenomenon. Even now, over 20 years after its introduction, Magic commands millions of players and a Pro Tour that holds events worldwide.
On Jan. 18, local store CheckMate Games will host Northwest Ohio's first-ever qualifier for the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour, with an event at American Legion Post 468 at 5580 Centennial Road, Sylvania. Sign-in starts at 8:30 a.m. and play begins at 10 a.m. The tournament is open to all for a $25 fee.
"There's about 60 of the Pro Tour qualifiers being held across the country, and more across the world," said Ken Solo, owner of CheckMate Games. "The Pro Tour is a worldwide event. Obviously the bulk of the concentration is in North America, but there's players in Europe and Asia and all over the world."
CheckMate, a relatively new arrival on the Toledo gaming scene, caught the eye of Magic's publisher and governing body with its weekly "Friday Night Magic" events devoted to the game and the high turnout they generated, Solo said.
"We were invited by Wizards of the Coast, the publishers of Magic: The Gathering, I think just because we had great growth in attracting new players to the game. We just posted a message to our Magic players earlier this week that over the course of 2013, we had 414 unique individual players come and play Magic with us."
The winner of the Toledo event will earn a spot at the "Journey into Nyx" tournament being held this May in Atlanta, as well as airfare. There are no small stakes involved for the eventual victor — in addition to the prestige of being considered one of the best players in the world, the winner of the "Nyx" tournament will earn a share of a $250,000 prize pool.
Since this is the first time a Magic event of this magnitude has been held locally, Solo said he's unsure of just how many players to expect. He's planning on about 200, maybe 250. The actual number could far exceed that.
"No one's done one of these in this area before," Solo noted. "The best comparison we could come up with was an event in Columbus about a year ago, and they had about 250 people."
Hosting an event like this is just the latest step in the rapid rise of CheckMate on the local gaming scene. Since opening in 2011 — on a Friday the 13th, no less — the store located on West Central Avenue has become a hub for local devotees of a wide variety of games.
Solo opened the business in an effort to fill the gap left by the 2009 closure of Mind Games — a mainstay of the Toledo players' community which had built a loyal following over a quarter of a century.
"It seemed like it would be good for somebody to continue on. If I can follow in his footsteps for another 25 years, I will be satisfied with what we're doing," he said.
Solo — who traces his own gaming roots back to playing with those plastic army men in his backyard as a kid, and making up rules for how they would engage with each other — noted how it's been critical to the success of CheckMate to encourage and nurture a community of gamers throughout the area. CheckMate holds events and gameplay sessions virtually every day in its storefront.
"We're trying to not only have a place where you can find all of these games that you're not finding at the big box stores, but we're trying to create a community as well," Solo said. "Because most of the games that we play, that we sell and that people will play, are multiplayer games, they're not Solitaire. You can't take them home and plug them into the television and entertain yourself all afternoon. So you need other players.
"So if we create that little community space where other players can find each other, find other people who are interested in the same types of things that you are, and then it all rolls from there."
And for the player who rises above the rest and wins the Magic qualifier, it will keep right on rolling down to Atlanta — and if they're lucky, and skilled, maybe far beyond that.
"This is their opportunity to go pro, if that is their dream. There's also a good purse up at the pro circuits," Solo noted.
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Floyd County native Janet Stumbo fell to incumbent Will T. Scott in her bid to reclaim her former 7th District seat on the state Supreme Court.
As of Press time, with 18 of 22 counties counted, Stumbo was trailing Scott 46 percent to 53 percent of the vote. The 7th Supreme Court District consists of 22 counties in Eastern Kentucky.
Stumbo previously lost her seat to Scott in a hotly contested 2004 election.
This year's election was no different in outcome, but was significantly less competitive. Scott chastised Stumbo for an alleged history of liberal activism from the bench and also for continuing to use her maiden name for what he termed "misrepresenting her identity."
Stumbo is the wife of Prestonsburg attorney, Ned Pillersdorf.
A statement was released on Scott's campaign website, stating Stumbo's use of her maiden name confused some voters, who believed she is closely related either to House Speaker Greg Stumbo or former gubernatorial candidate Dr. Grady Stumbo.
"Just recently, Stewart Media Group, again advised our campaign that 'Janet Stumbo using her maiden name, Stumbo, on the ballot instead of her married name, Pillersdorf, gives her an artificial advantage that benefits her by approximately 4.9 percent of the vote,'" the campaign's statement says. "This is due to noticeable numbers of voters who (mistakenly) believe that Janet is Grady Stumbo's wife or Greg Stumbo's sister. This mistaken advantage can be significant since 158,000 voters voted in this race in 2004."
Stumbo claimed that she had retained her maiden name after marrying Pillersdorf and has used it exclusively throughout 27 years of marriage and in each of her five judicial races.
Stumbo was the first woman to be elected to the Court of Appeals in 1989. She served there for four years before becoming the first woman to be elected to the Kentucky Supreme Court, where she served 11 years before being narrowly unseated by Scott in 2004.
In 2006, Scott replaced Justice Martin E. Johnstone as Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Scott served as Deputy Chief Justice until 2010. Scott was a candidate for U.S. Representative from Kentucky's 7th congressional district in 1988 and 1990.
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The only other state office facing Floyd County voters — only those in three precincts, at that — was the 97th District state House of Representatives race.
In that race, incumbent Democratic Rep. Hubert Collins cruised to victory over his Republican challenger, Bobby McCool, by a 3-to-2 margin, 8,305 to 5,763.
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Rox: Lamar snub gives Grammys bad rapWritten by Martini Rox | | firstname.lastname@example.com
The Grammys aired Jan. 26, but the ceremony has left a lasting impression, particularly on the hip-hop community. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis swept the rap categories, beating out hip-hop audience favorite Kendrick Lamar.
There is no question that Lamar was deserving of the Best Rap Album, among other Grammys, and even Macklemore sent him a humble text stating, "You got robbed." I do not expect to be liked or popular for what I say; The Academy could care less about what the streets say.
The Academy nominates and votes on the winners and are subsequently the reason you hear them thanked profusely. The Academy is made up of singers, songwriters, producers and other music industry elite. The possibility of them listening to your favorite street rapper's album is slim because they are not familar with music from the streets.
What I do fault the Grammys for is not paying enough attention to lesser known standouts, as they do in other categories. Every year there are new artists or talent winning in other genres we learn about on Grammy night. Why can't this happen in rap categories and why does the winner have to be a commercial and crossover success? They obviously do not listen to hip-hop as a whole, which should be required when judging an entire category of artists. It would be easy to suggest that they add a hip-hop category but the Academy went through a major overhaul in 2012. The changes consisted of generalizing many of the Grammy categories, cutting the total from 109 to 78.
Macklemore and Lewis' album "The Heist" was one of my favorites in 2012, and it remains one of my favorite independent albums reviewed to date. It is unfair to blame them as they had a great album with meaningful messages, great subject matter and socially conscious content. This is exactly what hip-hop is about.
However, many in the rap community question whether Macklemore should be considered hip-hop. My answer is absolutely! He is, after all, rapping with a DJ/producer over musical instruments and beats.
I will be the first to admit that besides the single "Thrift Shop," "The Heist" was not blasting in inner city neighborhoods across Toledo, but that does not dismiss them as contenders for Grammy rap categories. There are hip-hop purists who would disagree, but I'd like to remind them of the difference between hip-hop and its commercially successful cousin rap. In 1989, another Grammy winning duo by the name of DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince received backlash due to their commercial success. Twenty-five years later, respect is paid to these hip-hop pioneers and all is forgiven. Will Macklemore receive the same respect in 25 years?
Is all the fuss because Macklemore and Lewis are white? It couldn't be that; the majority accept Eminem as a winner every time. Could it be their lack of street credibility? Maybe. You have to give credit where it's due — Macklemore was an independent artist who had three commercially successful singles and went platinum. He managed to raise social consciousness with "Same Love" in support of Referendum 74 for gay marriage in his home state of Washington. "Can't Hold Us" was everywhere including Microsoft commercials and "Thrift Shop" gave the OK to not having a lot of money to spend on clothing.
I don't think it's a problem with the group per se, but with the significance of that Grammy moment where its true meaning has escaped the race of the people who helped make it great. I know African-Americans are making quality music, but it is hard for the masses to hear over the ignorance to which they are subjected.
This year's rap Grammy sweep came as a surprise to Macklemore just as much as it did to the hip-hop community. I will never discredit Macklemore and Lewis' win, as they relentlessly worked an independent 2012 release until it produced their desired results.
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Sunday, July 8, "The World's Most Beautiful Marathon!" starts at 7 a.m. so don't miss the national anthem at 6:45 a.m. The Mad Marathon is on the countdown with 750 runners from 46 states and 9 countries registered and headed to The Valley.
One reason people come back to The Valley is the hospitality so please join the Marathon volunteers in welcoming these fine runners.
Last year's women's winner, Sarah London of Montpelier, says, "This marathon is a beautiful, and challenging way to enjoy Vermont at its best. I was very impressed with the number of fans and volunteers along the course. Few marathons can compete with the views or with my favorite part of this course – soaking in the MadRiver at the end!"
Returning this year, Newton Baker will run his 60th Vermont Marathon here on July 8: "I want to run more Vermont Marathons than anyone else ever can, for something to do. I'm running another marathon in Vermont the day before, making the Mad Marathon my 60th Vermont marathon! I also use marathons to train for 24-hour runs.
While challenging, start to finish, the extraordinarily beautiful Vermont scenery, right down to the last three miles and that breathtaking plunge down to the covered bridge and on to the end, is great! There was excellent runner support and fun post-race festivities!" said Baker.
He may not be the fastest person on the course, but determination counts for a lot. All are welcome to experience the excitement of an official marathon and watch the many types of runners it draws.
While some roads will be closed on Sunday, July 8, once runners safely pass, roads are then open to local residents on an as-needed basis. That means people will be able to get to their house or through a road as the crowd thins.
Since the Mad Marathon starts at 7 a.m. on Sunday and runners are typically through the first half of the course by 10 a.m., residents may not experience any road closures – consider sleeping late or mowing the lawn before turning out to spectate!
Dori Ingalls, race director, thanks MadRiverValley residents and visitors in advance for their understanding during the race hours. To facilitate a safe race for runners, riders and drivers, there will be a series of road closures:
MAD MARATHON ROAD CLOSURES (except for local residents)
For Sunday, July 8, 2012
7 - 7:30 am : Main Street – between Mad River Green South entrance and Slow Road, detour through Bisbee's parking lot
7:10 - 7:30 am: Main Street – between Slow Road and Bridge Street
7:10 am - 1:40 pm Bridge Street – between Main Street and Joslin Hill Road
7:15 am - 1:30 pm Joslin Hill Road
7:25 - 9:45 am North Road to Carpenter's farm
7:35 - 9:45 am Meadow Road
7:45 - 10:15 am East Road – out and back section
7:50 - 10:30 am Common Road
8:05 am - 1:30 pm East Warren Road: Common Road to Joslin Hill Road
8:15 am - 1 pm East Warren Road: Common Road to Roxbury Mountain Road
8:10 am - 2:25 pm Main Street - between Mad River Green south entrance and Slow Road (detour through Mad River Green south entrance – Bisbee carpark to Slow Road).
8:25 - 11:15 am Roxbury Mountain Road to Senor Road
8:30 - 11:30 am Senor Road to Fuller Hill Road
8:35 am - 11:45 am Fuller Hill Road to Plunkton Road
8:40 am - noon Plunkton Road to Brook Road
8:45 am - 12:30 pm East Warren Road/Roxbury Mountain Road and Brook Road/Plunkton Road
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They said he had to many bullets. I wonder if they are checking the gang bangers uzi`s as well?
They said he had to many bullets. I wonder if they are checking the gang bangers uzi`s as well?
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so If I read it correctly he broke the new law an was arrested for breaking the law . OK he broke the law stupid thing to do . (EVEN IF THE LAW IS UNJUST AN LIKLEY UNCONSTITUTIONAL _
they then confiscated his other weapons also was there a trial or any thing ? If you violate one weapon law in NY they can take all your guns before you even go to court ????????????????????????
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In many cases, time is of the essence for law enforcement agencies. Thanks to the ever-growing popularity of Facebook, the world of fighting crime has gotten a lot easier.
Both the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and Hillsville Police Department now have their own Facebook pages, and both have used them to get time-sensitive material to the public instantaneously. In particular, the Hillsville Police Department has found the social media website to be quite an efficient crime-fighting partner since launching its Facebook page on Jan. 24 of this year.
Hillsville Police Chief Greg Bolen quickly found out the power of Facebook as one of the department's first posts was a wanted photo of Raymond Allen Rosier, who was wanted on malicious wounding charges stemming from a stabbing in the parking lot of Three Cheers on Jan. 31.
Before Rosier's Feb. 10 arrest in Wythe County, the Hillsville Police Department received numerous tips about Rosier's whereabouts due to the department's Facebook post, which was shared by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and many other agencies and citizens.
Less than a month later, the Hillsville Police Department was able to solve a gas drive-off from Race-In in Hillsville after video stills of the suspect was posted on the HPD Facebook page asking for help identifying the suspect. The post was viewed over 21,000 times, Bolen said, resulting in six anonymous phone tips and two more Facebook tips within a 24-hour period. While the owner of Race-In declined to prosecute the suspect, the man was apprehended within a short period of time and made to pay full restitution to the business.
"The great thing about Facebook is that is 21,000 extra bodies helping out doing work that I don't have to pay overtime for essentially," Bolen said. "It is a testament to the citizens that want to help solve these crimes. Right now it is becoming a great tool in our crime prevention arsenal."
The Carroll County Sheriff's Office launched its Facebook page on Aug. 21, 2012. Sheriff J.B. Gardner said his department uses the page when it needs to get things out fast such as Amber Alerts and BOLOs (police term for "be on the lookout for" individuals or vehicles).
"It is a great way to get stuff out really fast. That is what is good about it. You can put it up so fast and so many people can see it," Gardner said. "Young people will look at Facebook before they will do anything. That is just a part of life now, but to get information out, you have to have one. That is how people communicate now."
At the start of the year, the Carroll County Sheriff's Office worked in conjunction with HPD on a possible kidnapping after a note was found in the Quality Inn Hotel in Hillsville claiming to be from a missing female juvenile. Although the note was later found to be a hoax, it sparked an international investigation as authorities were looking into a man from Canada as a possible suspect.
"We got a lot of information back on Facebook really fast from that," Gardner said. "That was a good way of doing that because it spread really fast."
Among other new technological advances in law enforcement, Gardner said his department is taking advantage of a microscope that allows users to take digital photographs to document fingerprints at a moment' s notice.
"The technology of it is absolutely amazing," Gardner said. "You plug the microscope into the USB port and you can take it anywhere. You can document fingerprints to where you couldn't before. DNA has also been exceptional for us, the ability to match things with different people."
Bolen equated posting a wanted photo on Facebook to posting a wanted photo all throughout the region. For instance, when Rosier's picture was posted on HPD's Facebook page, agencies from Galax, Carroll County, Wythe County, Grayson County and other areas also picked up the photo and shared it on their respective pages.
"We posted it on our site and it just kind of snowballed from there. That pretty much limits a person's ability to roam freely and it just broadens our scope," Bolen said. "Facebook extends to cell phones now, so everybody has Facebook right at their fingertips at any time. So if we have a wanted poster and they see a suspect in the grocery store, they can scroll through and see if it matches up. We may get a tip off that and it puts us one step closer to catching somebody."
Since launching its Facebook page, the Hillsville Police Department has used it for a multitude of reasons. From updating the public on water lines breaking to road conditions, and advising motorists of accidents, HPD has used Facebook to inform the public quickly on a variety of topics.
"It was one of my goals coming in to office. It is a dynamic site and we try to update it daily with new information," Bolen said. "I think Facebook makes the long arm of the law even longer. In the short time we have had it up, we have had tremendous success with it. We want to use the page to not only help solve crimes, but to deter crimes. I hope as people see the success we are having it serves as a deterrent and makes people think, 'I don't want my picture all over Facebook for everybody to see.'"


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No, I hadn't concidered that, it might be the way to go as it doesn't need to be as stiff as the original as it will be supported by the trigger housing. I was thinking about taking two pieces of angle iron and welding a spacer in the middle to get the gap for the mag release. Its going to get welded to the front of the 1-3/4"x1" square trigger housing so it doesn't need the raised edges on the original to retain the stock.
I was thinking about the remington setup more for the suomi set up where the trigger has to be set back from the hammer. As you noted the hammer might need a little more mass as the 1100ect firing pins are lighter than a ar15 pin. Although the firing pin head is smaller on the remingtons and they seem just fine with the side to side play. It still looks like it would be a good choice though.
Chief, now you got me thinking. The 742,7400,7600 hammers are shaped a little different and look like they have more mass in them for the harder rifle primers.
Somebody out there who isn't using the original trigger pack (and maybe other unused small parts) for this project want to donate one for a dummy Suomi project?
I thought I'd repost the pics of the barrel bushing I'm using since they were lost with the upgrade. I made the barrel bushing long enough that it will go back to the step up in the bolt. This will be similar to the way a suomi receiver is and will limit where an empty case can jam in the action. When I get around to making a semi suomi I'll make a barrel like this one and cut the barrel jacket lugs into it. I plan on attaching the ejector to the bottem left side of the mag well opening in the barrel bushining. Other than that I made a barrel extension and threaded the barrel for 5/8"-18tpi. I have the magwell opening almost done and will get a pic of it up when I finish it.
anybody have some left over suomi parts they would 'part' with at a cheep price? I'm not asking for a barrel, specifically interested in the trigger group, going to disable it for a dummy gun so rough or missing the internals is probably okay too....anybody?
I'm going to be using my trigger group for a striker fired suomi build. Sorry I can't help.
Anybody else want to part with some small parts? Trigger pack?
could sombody please post what size tube for the reciver was used on the SGN9. I did not get that issue and do not know what tubing to order. thanks


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We were attending opening night 2002 looking forward to another great season; little did we know what was in store for us that night. The Wolves were hosting an Adopt – A – Dog night. We had recently lost our previous dog, Ginger, and she was a very special dog.
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I have heard great things from Erica on Confessions of a Homeschoolers about the Hot Dots. I think my kids would find this just as useful and enjoyable!
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pleasantly surprised!
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I just received the hot dots pen and a couple sets of hot dots cards and I was skeptical if the pen would actually work but it does!! I tested it out on multiple cards and it responded to the answer choices as it should have. I am super excited for my first grade ESOL students to use it! I want to get the learning to problem solve cards for math because it actually works on solving math word problems and not just facts. I think this is a great tool for students who do not have someone to correct them while PRACTICING (not during learning time). One issue I have is that the pen does not do anything when I push the music note button. Can anyone help?
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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The pen does not work at all. It always says the answer is wrong. I have bought three different ones, so don't just think it is your pen-it is ALL the pens. AND the Educational Insights won't acknowledge that it doesn't work and give your money back. DON'T buy it!
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After many weeks of testing, Google finally updated the homepage and search results pages. The changes aren't so radical, but they're still significant: there's a black navigation bar, two updated buttons for "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky", while the corporate links are moved to the bottom of the page.
Google says that this is just a small step from a redesign that will affect many other services. "The new Google experience that we've begun working toward is founded on three key design principles: focus, elasticity and effortlessness. (...) With the design changes in the coming weeks and months, we're bringing forward the stuff that matters to you and getting all the other clutter out of your way. Even simple changes, like using bolder colors for actionable buttons or hiding navigation buttons until they're actually needed, can help you better focus on only what you need at the moment."
The new navigation bar seems to draw unnecessary attention and some find it distracting, so it's not clear how it helps you "better focus on only what you need at the moment". Google's black bar is used in Google+, so it's likely that it will include other social features in the future.
Google also says that new design is flexible so that it can be used in the desktop interface, the smartphone interface, the tablet interface and even the interface for smart TVs. "The new design will soon allow you to seamlessly transition from one device to another and have a consistent visual experience." At the moment, I'm seeing a new mobile interface that doesn't have too much in common with the desktop interface:
While the interface continues to be simple and utilitarian, Google wants to use HTML5, WebGL and other new technologies to make Google's apps more powerful and better looking. "Our design philosophy is to combine power with simplicity. We want to keep our look simple and clean, but behind the seemingly simple design, use new technologies like HTML5, WebGL and the latest, fastest browsers to make sure you have all the power of the web behind you," explains Google.
Google promises to improve the user interface in Gmail in the coming months, but I think that many other apps will be redesigned and the main goal is to integrate with Google+. If you want a preview of Google's new interfaces, take a look at the Google+ project. Here's, for example, the new Google Maps design:
It's interesting to see that Google Maps added the label-less blue button from Google+, but Google Search still uses the regular button.
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Pure Evil Is Going To Rock Llanview.Friday, December 30 2011
The town's power grid affects everyone's electricity, Madame Delphina gives John a warning, and when the lights go out in Llanview things will never be the same...
As the lights flicker throughout Llanview…
At the mansion, Blair shows Todd the painting Tomas painted of her that Tea sent over. She throws it. Why would Tea think she'd ever want anything that Tomas touched? Blair whines about being gullible with men. Todd reminds her of the strong woman she used to be. 'She' wasn't a victim. Blair trashes the painting and asks Todd to spend New Year's with her. Downstairs, James shows Starr the "Jailbait" video. It went viral. Starr admits she allowed Rick to release the video in exchange for him dropping the lawsuit. How can Starr work with Rick after he blackmailed his brother? Starr defends Rick. James warns her not to trust him. Though they had plans, Starr wants to stay behind with Hope, who was afraid when the lights flickered. James thinks she's using Hope to get out of their date. Starr doesn't use her daughter and sends James away. He returns soon after and apologizes. James doesn't want to be the guy who holds her back. If Rick can get her to the V.I.P. section then he's all for it. They kiss. Later, Todd joins Blair on the patio, dressed in a tux. She lights a candle, writes 'Trusting the wrong man' on a piece of paper then burns it - like it never happened. Todd writes, 'Killing Victor, framing Tomas' then burns it. He feels better and leans in for a New Year's kiss… Blair kisses him back.
Roxy barges into the Buchanan Mansion and faces Gigi. She doesn't believe it's her and starts pulling at her ears, looking for scars. Rex confirms the DNA proved she's Gigi. When Gigi mourns for "Fraternity Row," Roxy realizes it's really her. She hugs Gigi and drags her away to get ready for the wedding. Bo arrives. Gigi hugs him on the way out. Bo helps Rex get ready. Matthew won't be at the wedding. He has some things to work out.
John takes a call from Natalie at the station and accepts her invitation to be her date at Rex's wedding. After he hangs up, Madame Delphina appears and warns that pure evil is going to rock Llanview to its core. She felt its presence when the lights flickered. John chalks it up to a brownout and mocks her. "You will be in the eye of the storm," she insists then gets another message. "Be prepared for the worst."
At Llanfair, Viki and Clint prepare for the wedding. Clint talks about having the heart of a manic. Viki thinks it only proves a heart is a muscle. It's the goodness in Clint that gives him his 'heart'. Nora arrives. Matthew's out of town with David and Dorian. When Roxy and Gigi appear, Nora says, "You look beautiful for a dead woman." Later, John and Rex arrive. Delphina appears, as the officiate, and tells John she hopes the wedding is over before all hell breaks loose. John joins Natalie, and Rex stands with Shane, as Gigi appears in her wedding dress. The wedding begins, as Delphina talks about all Rex and Gigi have overcome. Rex and Gigi exchange personal vows and reflect on their past. In tears, Rex vows to treasure their family forever. Gigi shares his tears and thanks Rex for bringing her back to life, literally. She'll always love him and their family. They light the unity candle then Delphina asks if anyone has any reason to object. Roxy insists she skip that part, due to what happened at the last wedding. Rex and Gigi are pronounced husband and wife. The lights flicker again… Later, as everyone in Llanview counts down the New Year, the power goes out. John takes a call and leaves for the station. Alone, Natalie sees someone in the dark and screams.
Delphina joins Rex, Gigi and Shane at the Buchanan Mansion. Rex wonders how he was getting the messages from Gigi when she was in a coma. Delphina warns them not to mess things up - the universe wanted them together. Delphina leaves and wonders if John's ready for what's to come. She did what she could and hopes everyone gets out alive. Back inside, Rex and Gigi dance by candlelight.
At the loft, Bo wants to toast to having their family back. Nora refuses the champagne. She's not feeling good and goes to bed. Later, Nora wakes up, finds Bo gone and screams when she sees someone standing in the shadows.
At the station, John explains to Bo that there was a breakout at Statesville. "Who's on the list?" Bo asks.
Back at the mansion, Starr answers the door and says, "It's you."
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Our national parks and wilderness areas offer stunning mountain vistas and scenery full of unique landscapes and geologic features. The enjoyment and appreciation of these are linked to one's ability to see clearly through the atmosphere. Unfortunately, air pollution affects our ability to see clearly. Small particles suspended in the atmosphere, mostly as a result of human-caused air pollution, often create haze -- a grey or white veil over the scene that scrubs it of its colors, forms, and textures and the lessens the visitor's experience of seeing "forever".
The National Park Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first began long-term visibility monitoring at selected national parks in 1979. In 1985, a national visibility monitoring program was established called Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments, or IMPROVE. IMPROVE is a cooperative effort led by a Steering Committee of representatives from the EPA, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and several interstate air quality management organizations.
The goals of the IMPROVE program are to
- measure current visibility and aerosol conditions in mandatory Class I areas
- identify chemical species and emission sources responsible for existing human-caused visibility impairment
- document long-term visibility trends
- and with the enactment of the regional haze regulations, to provide visibility monitoring representative of all visibility-protected Class I areas.
Three types of visibility measurements are undertaken in the IMPROVE network: particle, scene, and optical. The mass and chemical composition of the suspended fine particulate matter (PM-2.5) and the mass of coarse particulate matter (PM-10) is measured by the particle monitor. Every IMPROVE site has such a monitor.
The appearance of a scene viewed through the atmosphere changes under different particle concentrations and lighting conditions. The visual appearance of a scene is qualitatively documented with 35mm color slides, digital images, or video images.
Optical monitoring measures the ability of the atmosphere to scatter and/or absorb light as it passes through it. Optical monitoring instruments used in IMPROVE include transmissometers and nephelometers.
The IMPROVE particle monitor consists of four independent sampling modules. Three modules collect only fine particles (PM2.5), while the fourth collects both fine and coarse particles (PM10). The IMPROVE monitor measures mass, chemical elements, sulfate, nitrate, organics, and elemental carbon. The samplers run for 24 hours every third day collecting the particulate matter on filters. These filters are retrieved once a week and sent to contracted laboratories for physical and chemical analyses. Particle data are available on the IMPROVE and VIEWS (Visibility Information Exchange Web System) web sites.
Scenic conditions are monitored by automatic camera systems that include cameras that take still photographs three times a day, and web cameras that upload new photos to a web site every 15 minutes. Collections of color images taken at many national parks by these camera systems are available on the IMPROVE web site.
Optical measurements (pdf, 338KB) are also made at a handful of parks. These measurements include the attenuation of light over a given distance by transmissometers and light scattering in a sampled volume of air by nephelometers.
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* The VIEWS website is sponsored by the Regional Planning Organizations for the exchange of information relevant to regional haze, and as such, the website includes many different databases on air quality, including IMPROVE data. The website also utilizes many sophisticated data analysis tools.
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- Energy- and cost-efficient Lattice-QCD computations using graphics processing units (2014)
- Quarks and gluons are the building blocks of all hadronic matter, like protons and neutrons. Their interaction is described by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), a theory under test by large scale experiments like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and in the future at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at GSI. However, perturbative methods can only be applied to QCD for high energies. Studies from first principles are possible via a discretization onto an Euclidean space-time grid. This discretization of QCD is called Lattice QCD (LQCD) and is the only ab-initio option outside of the high-energy regime. LQCD is extremely compute and memory intensive. In particular, it is by definition always bandwidth limited. Thus—despite the complexity of LQCD applications—it led to the development of several specialized compute platforms and influenced the development of others. However, in recent years General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) came up as a new means for parallel computing. Contrary to machines traditionally used for LQCD, graphics processing units (GPUs) are a massmarket product. This promises advantages in both the pace at which higher-performing hardware becomes available and its price. CL2QCD is an OpenCL based implementation of LQCD using Wilson fermions that was developed within this thesis. It operates on GPUs by all major vendors as well as on central processing units (CPUs). On the AMD Radeon HD 7970 it provides the fastest double-precision D= kernel for a single GPU, achieving 120GFLOPS. D=—the most compute intensive kernel in LQCD simulations—is commonly used to compare LQCD platforms. This performance is enabled by an in-depth analysis of optimization techniques for bandwidth-limited codes on GPUs. Further, analysis of the communication between GPU and CPU, as well as between multiple GPUs, enables high-performance Krylov space solvers and linear scaling to multiple GPUs within a single system. LQCD calculations require a sampling of the phase space. The hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm performs this. For this task, a single AMD Radeon HD 7970 GPU provides four times the performance of two AMD Opteron 6220 running an optimized reference code. The same advantage is achieved in terms of energy-efficiency. In terms of normalized total cost of acquisition (TCA), GPU-based clusters match conventional large-scale LQCD systems. Contrary to those, however, they can be scaled up from a single node. Examples of large GPU-based systems are LOEWE-CSC and SANAM. On both, CL2QCD has already been used in production for LQCD studies.
- Refactoring the UrQMD model for many-core architectures (2013)
- Ultrarelativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics is a physics model to describe the transport, collision, scattering, and decay of nuclear particles. The UrQMD framework has been in use for nearly 20 years since its first development. In this period computing aspects, the design of code, and the efficiency of computation have been minor points of interest. Nowadays an additional issue arises due to the fact that the run time of the framework does not diminish any more with new hardware generations. The current development in computing hardware is mainly focused on parallelism. Especially in scientific applications a high order of parallelisation can be achieved due to the superposition principle. In this thesis it is shown how modern design criteria and algorithm redesign are applied to physics frameworks. The redesign with a special emphasise on many-core architectures allows for significant improvements of the execution speed. The most time consuming part of UrQMD is a newly introduced relativistic hydrodynamic phase. The algorithm used to simulate the hydrodynamic evolution is the SHASTA. As the sequential form of SHASTA is successfully applied in various simulation frameworks for heavy ion collisions its possible parallelisation is analysed. Two different implementations of SHASTA are presented. The first one is an improved sequential implementation. By applying a more concise design and evading unnecessary memory copies, the execution time could be reduced to the half of the FORTRAN version's execution time. The usage of memory could be reduced by 80% compared to the memory needed in the original version. The second implementation concentrates fully on the usage of many-core architectures and deviates significantly from the classical implementation. Contrary to the sequential implementation, it follows the recalculate instead of memory look-up paradigm. By this means the execution speed could be accelerated up to a factor of 460 on GPUs. Additionally a stability analysis of the UrQMD model is presented. Applying metapro- gramming UrQMD is compiled and executed in a massively parallel setup. The resulting simulation data of all parallel UrQMD instances were hereafter gathered and analysed. Hence UrQMD could be proven of high stability to the uncertainty of experimental data. As a further application of modern programming paradigms a prototypical implementa- tion of the worldline formalism is presented. This formalism allows for a direct calculation of Feynman integrals and constitutes therefore an interesting enhancement for the UrQMD model. Its massively parallel implementation on GPUs is examined.
- On-line reconstruction algorithms for the CBM and ALICE experiments (2013)
- This thesis presents various algorithms which have been developed for on-line event reconstruction in the CBM experiment at GSI, Darmstadt and the ALICE experiment at CERN, Geneve. Despite the fact that the experiments are different — CBM is a fixed target experiment with forward geometry, while ALICE has a typical collider geometry — they share common aspects when reconstruction is concerned. The thesis describes: — general modifications to the Kalman filter method, which allows one to accelerate, to improve, and to simplify existing fit algorithms; — developed algorithms for track fit in CBM and ALICE experiment, including a new method for track extrapolation in non-homogeneous magnetic field. — developed algorithms for primary and secondary vertex fit in the both experiments. In particular, a new method of reconstruction of decayed particles is presented. — developed parallel algorithm for the on-line tracking in the CBM experiment. — developed parallel algorithm for the on-line tracking in High Level Trigger of the ALICE experiment. — the realisation of the track finders on modern hardware, such as SIMD CPU registers and GPU accelerators. All the presented methods have been developed by or with the direct participation of the author.
- An erasure-resilient and compute-efficient coding scheme for storage applications (2013)
- Driven by rapid technological advancements, the amount of data that is created, captured, communicated, and stored worldwide has grown exponentially over the past decades. Along with this development it has become critical for many disciplines of science and business to being able to gather and analyze large amounts of data. The sheer volume of the data often exceeds the capabilities of classical storage systems, with the result that current large-scale storage systems are highly distributed and are comprised of a high number of individual storage components. As with any other electronic device, the reliability of storage hardware is governed by certain probability distributions, which in turn are influenced by the physical processes utilized to store the information. The traditional way to deal with the inherent unreliability of combined storage systems is to replicate the data several times. Another popular approach to achieve failure tolerance is to calculate the block-wise parity in one or more dimensions. With better understanding of the different failure modes of storage components, it has become evident that sophisticated high-level error detection and correction techniques are indispensable for the ever-growing distributed systems. The utilization of powerful cyclic error-correcting codes, however, comes with a high computational penalty, since the required operations over finite fields do not map very well onto current commodity processors. This thesis introduces a versatile coding scheme with fully adjustable fault-tolerance that is tailored specifically to modern processor architectures. To reduce stress on the memory subsystem the conventional table-based algorithm for multiplication over finite fields has been replaced with a polynomial version. This arithmetically intense algorithm is better suited to the wide SIMD units of the currently available general purpose processors, but also displays significant benefits when used with modern many-core accelerator devices (for instance the popular general purpose graphics processing units). A CPU implementation using SSE and a GPU version using CUDA are presented. The performance of the multiplication depends on the distribution of the polynomial coefficients in the finite field elements. This property has been used to create suitable matrices that generate a linear systematic erasure-correcting code which shows a significantly increased multiplication performance for the relevant matrix elements. Several approaches to obtain the optimized generator matrices are elaborated and their implications are discussed. A Monte-Carlo-based construction method allows it to influence the specific shape of the generator matrices and thus to adapt them to special storage and archiving workloads. Extensive benchmarks on CPU and GPU demonstrate the superior performance and the future application scenarios of this novel erasure-resilient coding scheme.
- On development, feasibility, and limits of highly efficient CPU and GPU programs in several fields (2013)
- With processor clock speeds having stagnated, parallel computing architectures have achieved a breakthrough in recent years. Emerging many-core processors like graphics cards run hundreds of threads in parallel and vector instructions are experiencing a revival. Parallel processors with many independent but simple arithmetical logical units fail executing serial tasks efficiently. However, their sheer parallel processing power makes them predestined for parallel applications while the simple construction of their cores makes them unbeatably power efficient. Unfortunately, old programs cannot profit by simple recompilation. Adaptation often requires rethinking and modifying algorithms to make use of parallel execution. Many applications have some serial subroutines which are very hard to parallelize, hence contemporary compute clusters are often homogeneous, offering fast processors for serial tasks and parallel processors for parallel tasks. In order not to waste the available compute power, highly efficient programs are mandatory. This thesis is about the development of fast algorithms and their implementations on modern CPUs and GPUs, about the maximum achievable efficiency with respect to peak performance and to power consumption respectively, and about feasibility and limits of programs for CPUs, GPUs, and heterogeneous systems. Three totally different applications from distinct fields, which were developed in the extent of this thesis, are presented. The ALICE experiment at the LHC particle collider at CERN studies heavy-ion collisions at high rates of several hundred Hz, while every collision produces thousands of particles, whose trajectories must be reconstructed. For this purpose, ALICE track reconstruction and ALICE track merging have been adapted for GPUs and deployed on 64 GPU-enabled compute-nodes at CERN. After a testing phase, the tracker ran in nonstop operation during 2012 providing full real-time track reconstruction. The tracker employs a multithreaded pipeline as well as asynchronous data transfer to ensure continuous GPU utilization and outperforms the fastest available CPUs by about a factor three. The Linpack benchmark is the standard tool for ranking compute clusters. It solves a dense system of linear equations using primarily matrix multiplication facilitated by a routine called DGEMM. A heterogeneous GPU-enabled version of DGEMM and Linpack has been developed, which can utilize the CAL, CUDA, and OpenCL APIs as backend. Employing this implementation, the LOEWE-CSC cluster ranked place 22 in the November 2010 Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers, and the Sanam cluster achieved the second place in the November 2012 Green500 list of the most power efficient supercomputers. An elaborate lookahead algorithm, a pipeline, and asynchronous data transfer hide the serial CPU-bound tasks of Linpack behind DGEMM execution on the GPU reaching the highest efficiency on GPU-accelerated clusters. Failure erasure codes enable failure tolerant storage of data and real-time failover, ensuring that in case of a hardware defect servers and even complete data centers remain operational. It is an absolute necessity for present-day computer infrastructure. The mathematical theory behind the codes involves matrix-computations in finite fields, which are not natively supported by modern processors and hence computationally very expensive. This thesis presents a novel scheme for fast encoding matrix generation and demonstrates a fast implementation for the encoding itself, which uses exclusively either integer or logical vector instructions. Depending on the scenario, it is always hitting different hard limits of the hardware: either the maximum attainable memory bandwidth, or the peak instruction throughput, or the PCI Express bandwidth limit when GPUs or FPGAs are used. The thesis demonstrates that in most cases with respect to the available peak performance, GPU implementations can be as efficient as their CPU counterparts. With respect to costs or power consumption, they are much more efficient. For this purpose, complex tasks must be split in serial as well as parallel parts and the execution must be pipelined such that the CPU bound tasks are hidden behind GPU execution. Few cases are identified where this is not possible due to PCI Express limitations or not reasonable because practical GPU languages are missing.
- Commissioning of the ALICE High-Level Trigger (2012)
- A new era in experimental nuclear physics has begun with the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and its dedicated heavy-ion detector system ALICE. Measuring the highest energy density ever produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions, the detector has been designed to study the properties of the created hot and dense medium, assumed to be a Quark-Gluon Plasma. Comprised of 18 high granularity sub-detectors, ALICE delivers data from a few million electronic channels of proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions. The produced data volume can reach up to 26 GByte/s for central Pb–Pb collisions at design luminosity of L = 1027 cm−2 s−1 , challenging not only the data storage, but also the physics analysis. A High-Level Trigger (HLT) has been built and commissioned to reduce that amount of data to a storable value prior to archiving with the means of data filtering and compression without the loss of physics information. Implemented as a large high performance compute cluster, the HLT is able to perform a full reconstruction of all events at the time of data-taking, which allows to trigger, based on the information of a complete event. Rare physics probes, with high transverse momentum, can be identified and selected to enhance the overall physics reach of the experiment. The commissioning of the HLT is at the center of this thesis. Being deeply embedded in the ALICE data path and, therefore, interfacing all other ALICE subsystems, this commissioning imposed not only a major challenge, but also a massive coordination effort, which was completed with the first proton-proton collisions reconstructed by the HLT. Furthermore, this thesis is completed with the study and implementation of on-line high transverse momentum triggers.
- Conceptual design of an ALICE Tier-2 centre integrated into a multi-purpose computing facility (2012)
- This thesis discusses the issues and challenges associated with the design and operation of a data analysis facility for a high-energy physics experiment at a multi-purpose computing centre. At the spotlight is a Tier-2 centre of the distributed computing model of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The design steps, examined in the thesis, include analysis and optimization of the I/O access patterns of the user workload, integration of the storage resources, and development of the techniques for effective system administration and operation of the facility in a shared computing environment. A number of I/O access performance issues on multiple levels of the I/O subsystem, introduced by utilization of hard disks for data storage, have been addressed by the means of exhaustive benchmarking and thorough analysis of the I/O of the user applications in the ALICE software framework. Defining the set of requirements to the storage system, describing the potential performance bottlenecks and single points of failure and examining possible ways to avoid them allows one to develop guidelines for selecting the way how to integrate the storage resources. The solution, how to preserve a specific software stack for the experiment in a shared environment, is presented along with its effects on the user workload performance. The proposal for a flexible model to deploy and operate the ALICE Tier-2 infrastructure and applications in a virtual environment through adoption of the cloud computing technology and the 'Infrastructure as Code' concept completes the thesis. Scientific software applications can be efficiently computed in a virtual environment, and there is an urgent need to adapt the infrastructure for effective usage of cloud resources.


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The covenants are, IMO, really renewals. As cardinal put it, "shallower and deeper water". Others have labored, we have entered into their labors. In th process of the restoration of all things, these are the stages of the revelation and restoration from chaos- the last adversary being death. When death dies, a covenant of life that has been unfolding throughout the ages will be fully delivered.....no longer a promise on any level, for anyone....but rather fulflled in everyone.In Abraham the covenant of a priestly nation began as a seed. First stage patriarchs- Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Fathers. Then through Jacob, the transition to sons, a nation, 12 tribes, sons of the promise. Transition to nation/kingdom - even in shadow form(moon, no inner glory) a lamp(Zechariah) to the nations, the beginning of the blessing in Abraham.Then, through the seed of David, Messiah brings a new birth, not of man or the will of man, but of the blood of Christ, Hebrews and Gentiles, a "new" nation that is grafted into and then swallows up the "root", even as the "root of Jesse" is swallowed up by the Son of David, frirstborn among many brethren, bringing many sons unto glory- our "Joshua", captain of our salvation. The church, the bride, the new lampstand, composed of lampstands, earthen vessels bearing the precious treasure of the divine nature by the indwelling Holy Spirit- written in "words of life" upon tablets of flesh not stone, living epistles, the hearts of human beings reconciled to God and bearing in themselves a preisthood, "the ministry of reconciliation". The newer, younger covenant is made in Christ's blood bearing no relationship to former heritage.
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Was Abraham Jewish?
The land: Spirit, soul and body; and all God's people say, AMEN.
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@ Molly.....love the post. The Navaho people have Hebrew words in their vocabulary. Many of the Native American rituals and customs are plainly mimicked from the OT.
"And I shall make My set-apart Name known in the midst of My people Yisrael, and not let My set-apart Name be profaned any more. And the gentiles shall know that I am YHWH, the Set-apart One in Yisrael.--Eze 39:7It doesn't matter whether we have been circumcised or not. What counts is whether we have been transformed into a new creation.Peace and mercy will come to rest on all those who conform to this principle. They are the Israel of YaHuWaH. --Gal 6: 15,16
...This is the importance in Galatians, of Paul's point that the covenant, previously ratified in Abraham, to his "seed"(Christ), could not be pre-empted or over charged by a later covenant ratified in law(earthly Israel), but was rather the superior enforceable covenant, now carried in the spirit unto "all" who believe, earthly bloodline no longer relevant("there is not here Jew or Greek").


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Well-known children's illustrator and author David McPhail wowed the younger grades at Warren and Waitsfield schools last Friday, October 5, as he spoke about his passion for drawing, simultaneously sketching several of his popular characters on an easel. As each character appeared like magic, the children cheered and applauded spontaneously.
Now a hale soft-spoken man in his early 70s, McPhail figures he has illustrated about 175 books, many of which he also authored. When his grandmother gave him a black crayon when he was 2 years old, he promptly used it to draw on the walls of his house. Rather than taking the crayon away, the wise grandmother cut up paper bags to make many different sizes of paper that he could draw on more appropriately. He published his first book, The Bear's Toothache, while he was still in his 20s, and his most recent book, All the Awake Animals, an alphabet/bedtime book, was just published last week. He says he tried retiring a few years ago but got bored and quickly said yes to the first illustration book project offered to him. He's not done yet!
McPhail's illustrations are detailed and cozy. They are full of endearing, expressive talking animals—bears and pigs are particular favorites, though the most recent one is full of all kinds –26, of course! In the several books read to the Valley children, themes of loss and kindness were evident. In Mole Music and Weezer Changes the World, world peace is achieved through the efforts of one individual—the mole violinist and the dog, "Weezer," when a lightning strike ignites his brain. The importance and joys of reading are also emphasized—as a major theme in Edward and the Pirates and more subtly in The Teddy Bear, where a homeless man digs a newspaper out of a trash can.
McPhail was invited to the area because he was the featured author at last weekend's StoryWalk Conference in Montpelier.
A couple years ago, his book about "Weezer" was displayed page by page on posts along the Mad River Path behind Small Dog. As the Waitsfield school librarians have posted many StoryWalks there over four summers, the two Valley schools were the lucky ones to have a visit. Proceeds of book fairs in both schools and a generous donation by the Joslin Memorial Library made his visit possible.
"It was an inspiring and valuable experience for the kids to connect a face and voice to books that they love," Principal Kaiya Korb said.