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Di Fara: Rant and Response
FOR The LOVE of Pizza "It's a Religious Experience" !!!
Great article on Mr. Dominic DeMarco and Di Fara Pizza on NyFoodee
A restaurant and Wine Professional for more than 25 years.
Chef/ Wine Director and managing partner of Bar Cichetti. I created America's First Ever Bacaro (Venetian Wine Bar) in BAR CICHETTI ...
Author "La Tavola"
FOR The LOVE of Pizza "It's a Religious Experience" !!!
Great article on Mr. Dominic DeMarco and Di Fara Pizza on NyFoodee
I'm usually a purest in just about anything I'm passionately interested in, and I'm interested in Po Boys and just Love em. To me the purest one are without a doubt the best, especially the Peacemaker, aka Oyster Loaf (Fried Oyster Po Boy), or half Shrimp 1/2 Fried Oyster, Yummm!!!! However in the case of alternate Po Boys (New Ones), not of the norm, I'm all for, just as long as the Classics never disappear. And as far as Classics are concerned, I'm sure that if one of these new ones (so-called alternative "Not Pure") is really tasty and becomes hugely popular, overtime the might become Classics themselves. Let's not forget people, that food is never ending and changing over time. Different cusines that is. What is not a classic today, can very well over time (10,20, 30, 40 years), can become one.
As for the name of this great sandwich of the great city of New Orleans, the Po Boy or Poor Boy, they are interchangeable and both acceptable, though for many years the name Po Boy has been more popular than Poor Boy, as it is now in this day and age. Let us not forget that the original name was Poor Boy and its still just as strong and valid today, it's just that most choose the word Po Boy and many (Tourists) don't even know that it that it is also a "Poor Boy."
I'm a New Yorker who Loves New Orleans, the people, the Music, the architecture, the Food, the City, and "Yes" the Poor Boys.
Daniel, NY NY
Deep-Dish is "NOT PIZZA" so Please don't call it that. It's a abomination of typical American Style Crap and Slop. It should be called "Chicago Deep Dish" Never Pizza, it is not Pizza. Real Pizza is made all over Italy, in New York, New Jersey, and New Haven. Try it!
5 of New York's TOP BURGERS
1) Shake Shack gets my vote for New Yorks "BEST BURGER" It is the
Quintessential American Burger, not too Fancy, no unnecessary elements,5
cooked on a Flat-Top Grill the way any Great Burger should be, just about
the right size5-6 oz., Excellent Quality Meat, and Cook properly to Tasty
Perfection! PS...the Price is right!! Not $26 or even $15 or $16! Yumm,
the BEST!!!
2) LUGER BURGER...... Excelleent Burger in a Great local. one of the
Best-Price-Per Value, which you have to factor in to any Great Burgers
rating, "$26 is just WRONG (Black Label Burger at Minetta) any Burger
that cost more than $ Luger Burger is a steal at just $9.95, get some of
the Tasty Luger Bacon to go with it, and maybe some Creamed Spinach
and your set. Luger Burger at Lunch is one of NY's Best kept food
secrets. Try it some time!
3) Bills Bar and Burger. Plain and simple, Great Burger at a dam good
price with just the right ambiance for a Burger and Beer. Talkin about
the Original in the Meatpacking Dist. here. Haven't been to the new one
in Rockefeller Center.
4) "Minetta Burger" not the "Black Lable Burger which is OVERPRICED
and does not taste anywhere near as Good as The Minetta Burger
which at $16 is just right. It is a Tasty Prime Burger served with a big
mound of Fries that all of "Keith McNally's" Bistros are Famous for,
they're the best in Town. And the ambiance at Minetta Tavern is
awesome. It just can't be beat. So if you go to Minetta Tavern for a
Burger, get the Best and Tatstiest one they make, make sure you
order the "Minetta Burger" it greattttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5) BISTRO BURGER at the Corner Bistro. This Burger probably won't
make it into a lot of people Top 10 anymore, but before Burgers were
a huge Fad and Cool, before there were Blogs and 100,0000s of
people rating Burgers, The "Bistro Burger" at the "Corner Bistro" in
New Yorks Greenwich Village Was New Yorks "Top Burger" for some
30 Years! Yes! Year after Year, decade after decade the Burgers at
the Corner Bistro was rated the BEST by the only peopel who really
rated or reviewed Burgers for a long time; New York Magazine, the
NY Times, Cue Magazine, The NY Post, Village Voice, and the
Daily News. Yes, i have been disappointed by the Burger a few times
in the past few years, not always the best, but often times it is
Pretty Dam Good and for the fact that its only $6.50 for a Cheeseburger
and you can get a $3 beer too but, combined with the feel of one of
New yorks last remaining Old-School Bars and for its Nostalgic,
historical value, and 30 Year Reign as NY's Top Burger, you just gotta
include the Corner Bistro amongst your BestBburger Joints in NYC.
.. Daniel Bellino Zwicke ....
Faicco's is "Awsome" !!! My neighborhood Pork Store for the past 15 Years. Faicco's just can't be beat!!!! Everything you ever want in a Great pork Store; Perfectly made Fresh Italian Sweet & Hot Sausages, Sopressetta, Prosciutto di Parma, Tasty Sandwiches, pasta, Olive Oil, Mozz, Parmigiano, Excellent service and it's Super Clean.. Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!
Once again you've "Missed" the Best when you do a Best of piece. Best Croissants in New York are at the "Hungarian Cafe" Amsterdam and 113th Street acroos from the Cathedral of St John the Devine!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you want the Best Affogato from a "Real" Italian Caffe, forget those above and run over to "Caffe Dante" on McDougal Street in Greenwich Village. Dante has been making Affogato for "Years" (60) not months like those mentioned in the article..
Daniel in Greenwich Village
The "McRib" is the BOMB !!!!!
Hit it 3 times so far. Only have had the Pork Souvlaki cause it's "so Good" don't want to try anything else yet ! They cook the meet over "Natural Charcoal" Awsome ! I got a "Crush" on the "Pretty Girl" on the truck,
she's Gorgeous.
NyFoodee "LINK" >>> http://nyfoodeedotcom.blogspot.com/
What's the Worst Burger you ever had in New York. I don't know if it's the Worst, but the BURGER I had at Balthazar the other day was "HORRIBLE," It BLOWS. What a Big disappointment. Met a friend over there the other day for a Burger and a Beer. Was looking forward to a good Burger, but No! The thing was horrible. A ripoff of $18, and a Big-Time Disappointment.
I've gotta say. I've eaten at Balthazar many times over the years and have always loved it. Always had a good time and enjoyed my meal. They do great, solid Bistro Food, but maybe they should stick to French Bistro Food. Their Burger is "AWFUL" Or better yet, improve the Burger. I'm sure they can do it. Keith McNally is a genius. Well a restaurant genius anyway. Get better meat, season and cook the burger better, do something, cause the Burger being served now at Baltahzar Sucks! Literally!!!
I don't know if it's the worst Burger I ever had in New York, but it's pretty dam near to it, and it was a major disappointment.
What's your worst burger experience?
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Day one niggas man ya'll stuck with me dawg
Lyric Meaning
Noah "40" Shebib, Niko, Oliver, OB and Ryan (From the SFTB video) are common names in his songs, and he regards them as his closest friends because of the fact that they've been there since before the money and the fame.
Every nigga who knew him from day one is always gonna be his dawg cause they stuck with him on the roller coaster. He's also that type of person, a real nigga who never forgets his brothers. Only severe betrayal without apology/remorse (everyone makes mistakes) might make Drizzy drop your company.
Also, Drake could be referring to how the rap game has been "stuck" with him from day 1, either because he is the best.
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Lake Superior Winter Photography Workshop
In February, Lake Superior starts to freeze. Thick sheets of pack ice get pushed up onto the shore making a maze of blue ice to walk through. This ice also makes an interesting subject to photograph — the deep blue of the ice contrasts with the splash of color during the sunrise and sunset, which occurs out over the lake each day. Combine the unique shore ice with all-day-long, golden-hour light, sea fog and open water, and you have the conditions for award winning photography. Join me on Lake Superior for one of my Winter Photography Workshops and capture stunning images of the big lake in a season when most people stay away.
February 12-14, 2016 – Open for registration.
February 19 to 21, 2016 – Opens if the first session fills.
Cost – $349. Non-refundable deposit of $100 is due at signup. The remainder is due the first week of January.
This event is in cooperation with and under a Special Use Permit from U.S. Forest Service, Gunflint Ranger District.
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Friday: From 1pm until dinner time, you can join an optional field excursion to Saturday's sunrise location and several other shoreline locations. The optional excursion gives you a chance to get away from your workaday life and helps shift you into creative thinking, and it also helps you scout out the sunrise location. I'll have exercises to try.
The winter photography workshop starts at 6pm on Friday for introductions and a classroom presentation. During the presentation, you'll learn how to keep your camera working in the winter during what could be extreme winter conditions. We'll also cover manual camera settings to use during winter and composition techniques that you can use to create dramatic winter Lake Superior landscapes. Before we adjourn for the night, you'll receive a challenge as an assignment. You'll try to photograph the challenge.
Saturday: The day starts early with a morning session on the Lake Superior shoreline photographing the sunrise (7:15am). Then we will break for breakfast which is available in the lobby or on your own. We'll assemble after breakfast and then head back out into the field for a full-day adventure. Pack your lunch, because we'll eat in the field. Depending on the weather, we may hike deep into a canyon of a North Shore river to photograph frozen waterfalls, or we may visit multiple locations warming up in the cars before we venture out. After sunset (5:15pm), we'll return to the hotel for a quick discussion before dinner. You'll have the evening free to sort and process images from the day and select five images plus your assignment to share.
Sunday: We assemble before sunrise in the lobby to head out for a sunrise photography session. A late breakfast will be available at the lodge or on your own. After breakfast we'll have a slide show sharing the images that you made during the weekend. The workshop ends between noon and 1pm.
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February 12 to 14, 2016, February 19 to 24, 2016
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This workshop is for all levels of photographers and works best for photographers using digital cameras
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Quality small group and one-on-one instruction. Conference room for classroom time. Free continental breakfast. Fun!
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Transportation to Grand Marais and photography locations. Car pooling is highly recommended. Lodging. Meals except for breakfast which is provided by the lodge.
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Aspen Lodge in Grand Marais, MN is the lodging partner for this workshop. It is on the east side of Grand Marais across the street from a popular restaurant, My Sister's Place. Aspen Lodge offers views of Artist's Point, the East Bay and the Coast Guard Station. It has a giant whirlpool spa, a sauna and a pool. It's within walking distance of downtown. Ask for discounts if available. The conference room and lobby is on the second floor. When making your reservation, ask for a "Bryan Hansel Photography" room. Call 800-247-6020 to make your room reservations.
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Grand Marais, Minnesota is 110 miles north of Duluth, Minnesota on Highway 61. Duluth boasts a small international airport. It's 260 miles north of Minneapolis, Minnesota, which has an international airport that also acts as a regional hub. Grand Marais is 128 kilometers south of Thunder Bay, Ontario on Highway 61. Thunderbay has a small airport. Car rentals are available at the airports.
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Method and apparatus for service level agreement formation and management is described. More particularly, a service level agreement (SLA) manager is described. This SLA manager comprises an admission controller, a specification module and a performance measurement module. Such SLA manager is interposed between one or more client computer systems and a service provider computer system.
1. A system comprising:
a client computer system;
a service provider computer system configured to present to the client computer system a list of service implementations offered, wherein the client computer system is configured to select at least one of the service implementations offered and provide usage information for each selected service implementation; and
a service level agreement manager tangibly embodied in a computing device in communication with the client computer system and the service implementation and configured to receive the usage information for the selected service implementation from the client computer system, the service level agreement manager comprising:
an admission controller configured to control admission of the client computer system to the service implementation using a service level agreement;
a performance measurement module in communication with the admission controller and configured to measure performance of the service implementation; and
a specification module in communication with the admission controller and with the performance measurement module, wherein said specification module is configured to determine whether a basis for forming the service level agreement exists based on the usage information received from the client computer system and the measured performance of the selected service implementation.
2. The system of
3. The system of
4. The apparatus of
5. A method for service level formation, comprising:
providing a client computer system;
presenting to the client computer system a list of service implementations offered by a service provider;
selecting at least one of the service implementations;
providing a service level agreement manager, the service level agreement manager having an admission controller, a specification module and a performance measurement module;
establishing communication between the client computer system and the service level agreement manager;
invoking the specification module of the service level agreement manager;
obtaining performance information from the performance measurement module;
obtaining usage information from the client computer system; and
comparing the obtained performance information for the selected service implementation and the usage information received from the client computer system to determine if there exists a basis for forming a service level agreement.
6. The method of
forming the service level agreement; and
providing the admission controller with specification information from the service level agreement formed.
7. The method of
8. An apparatus comprising:
a service provider computer system configured to present to a client computer system a list of service implementations offered;
a service level agreement manager tangibly embodied in one or more computing devices and configured to receive usage information from the client computing system for a selected service implementation based on the list of service implementations, wherein the service level agreement manager includes:
an admission controller configured to control admission of the client computer system to the service implementation using a service level agreement;
a performance measurement module in communication with the admission controller and configured to measure performance of the service implementation; and
a specification module in communication with the admission controller and with the performance measurement module, wherein said specification module is configured to determine whether a basis for forming the service level agreement exists based on the usage information received from the client computer system and the measured performance of the selected service implementation.
9. The apparatus of
10. The apparatus of
11. The apparatus of
The present invention generally relates to information technology, and more particularly relates to managing one or more services for forming and complying with service level agreements.
Recent technological advances combined with market forces have resulted in the creation of new services composed of other services. The term "composite service" is used to describe these new services. Composite service providers pull together a plurality of component services to provide a composite service. Composite services conventionally span several participant organizations. Terms such as "virtual enterprise" and "virtual organization" are conventionally used to describe this type of collection of organizations. A participant organization may provide component services to one or more virtual enterprises. Each component service provider implements a service by executing a process. Implementation of a composite service requires execution of a process that spans multiple organizations. The execution of such multi-organizational processes conventionally involves interaction among participant organizations' computer systems.
By way of example and not limitation, today there are virtual enterprises reselling web search services. Such virtual enterprises receive a query from a user. This query is then used to query selected web search services offered by component service providers of which this virtual enterprise is a client.
Referring to the block diagram of
Continuing the above-mentioned example, suppose a user of composite service provider 10 a places a query for a World Wide Web search. This query invokes client process 13 m causing a request to be sent to service implementations 19 j and 19 k for searching the World Wide Web using respective search engines associated with these services. Results from such searches may then be provided from service implementations 19 j and 19 k to client process 13 m. Hence, in this example, a user executes separate searches on separate search engines of separate service providers from a single query on another separate service provider. In other words, a composite service provider executes a business process which in turn causes component service providers to execute respective business processes.
Accordingly, it should be understood that a component service provider may have several services to offer its clients. Thus, component service providers may have a platform of services available to subscribers or clients. Such services may be invoked through various invocation infrastructures such as Common Object Request Broker Architecture ("CORBA"), Java Remote Method Invocation ("Java RMI"), Hypertext Transport Protocol ("HTTP"), among others. Moreover, this invocation may be manual; for example, a phone call from a composite service provider representative to a component service provider representative.
In the telecommunications field, Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) resell local telephone service of Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs). Thus, a CLEC may offer services of several ILECs of which it is a client and vise versa. In a CLEC business model, there is interaction between ILEC and CLEC business processes. By way of example and not limitation, a CLEC customer service representative may interact with provisioning ILEC processes to place an order, inquire about an order, or to cancel an order.
Accordingly, with respect to the above-mentioned Internet example and telecommunications example, in order to offer their selection of services, a composite service provider relies on services of its component service providers. Therefore, it is incumbent upon composite service providers as clients of component service providers to enter into agreements to guarantee that service needs are met. Examples of such guaranteed service needs may include maximum response time and minimum throughput. These agreements are referred to hereinafter as Service Level Agreements (SLAs). SLAs also assist component service providers in managing their resources to meet their client's needs. Without such SLAs, a component service provider may be overwhelmed by requests from one client organization, which can affect service level to other clients.
SLAs pertain to services at an application level, as distinguished from end-to-end quality of service (QoS). QoS conventionally pertains to quality parameters of a system infrastructure, or more particularly network performance. A taxonomy of QoS may be found in "Taxonomy of QoS Specifications," by Bikash Sabata, et al., Proceedings of WORDS '97, February 1997.
Quality objects, which are described in more detail in "Specifying and Measuring Quality of Service in Distributed Object Systems," by Joseph P. Loyall, et al., Proceedings of ISORC '98, April 1998, facilitate specification monitoring of QoS contracts between clients and service providers. However, this specification monitoring is directed at service implementation details and not invoked functionality. Moreover, in QoS contracts, a client is required to specify resource requirements. However, a client may have limited knowledge of resource usage of an invoked service.
A QoS web server is described in "Supporting Quality of Service in HTTP Servers," Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on, Principles of Distributed Computing, June 1998. This QoS web server allows allocation of server resources to specific web page requests. System capacity is represented by an estimate of bytes per second served by the server. Thus, issues of guarantees to clients are not addressed.
A product called "SilkMeter" from Segue Software, Inc. of Lexington, Mass., is a software system for supporting usage control in CORBA environments. SilkMeter supposedly controls object usage and access based upon customer-defined usage policies, and provides metering capabilities allowing software owners to monitor usage activity and to bill users accordingly. However, SilkMeter does not support implementation of SLAs.
Hewlett-Packard Company of Palo Alto, Calif., has announced a web QoS strategy. In this announced strategy, website operators may create classes of users with priorities assigned to each class, and more particularly operators may create service classes and allocate capacity to each of them. However, this strategy falls short of providing mechanisms that allow organizations to enter into SLAs. For example, in this strategy, if two organizations are at the same priority level, then it is possible that requests from only one of them will be serviced.
Accordingly, it would be desirable to provide specification and fulfillment thereof for SLAs between organizations. Advantageously, it would be desirable for such SLA specification and fulfillment to be applicable to a variety of services and implementations and to facilitate deployment over existing distributed system infrastructures.
An aspect of the present invention is a service level agreement manager. Such a service level agreement manager is disposed between one or more client process run on one or more computer systems and a service implementation run on one or more other computer systems. Moreover, a client process may be a service implementation. Such a service level agreement manager comprises an admission controller, a performance measurement module and a specification module.
Another aspect of the present invention is a method for service level formation. More specifically, a specification module of a service level agreement manager is invoked. Performance information is obtained from a performance measurement module. A client provides anticipated usage information for a target service. The performance information and usage information is compared to determine if a basis for forming a service level agreement exists.
Another aspect of the present invention is a method for managing system performance. More specifically, a service level agreement manager determines whether a client's request is within the scope of a service level agreement. For example, it may be determined whether a request is within the scope of a service level agreement in effect between a requesting client and a service provider of a service implementation for which this client's request is targeted. If the request is within the scope of the service level agreement, the service level agreement is provided to a performance measurement module and to a service organization's service implementation. Results are then obtained from this service implementation in response to this request. Performance parameters associated with sending a request from and receiving a response to a service level agreement manager may be measured. These performance parameters may then be check against performance parameters agreed to in the service level agreement.
Advantageously, a service level agreement manager in accordance with the present invention may be independent of service implementation with respect to compatibility issues. Such a service level agreement manager need not directly monitor or measure resource usage of a service provider, rather it can measure response performance therefrom. Moreover, any of several well-known optimization technique can be used within such a service level agreement manager. Furthermore, such a service level agreement manager may be used with any of a variety of invocation infrastructures.
These and other features, advantages, objects and embodiments of the present invention will become more apparent from reading the following Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiments or by practicing the present invention.
The features of the present invention, as well as objects and advantages, will best be understood from reading the appended claims, detailed description and accompanying drawings where:
In the drawings, same reference numbers refer to like components throughout the several figures.
In the following detailed description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part of this detailed description, and in which, shown by way of illustrative example, specific embodiments are described. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those of skill in the art to practice the present invention. However, it is to be understood that other embodiments of the present invention not described herein in detail may be utilized. Therefore, the following detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense.
Referring to
SLA manager 110 may be put into or is in communication with a service provider 120. A service provider 120 provides service implementation 119. Service provider 120 is a component service provider, as described elsewhere herein, and may comprise one or more computer systems for running service implementation 119.
Accordingly, it should be appreciated that SLA manager may contemporaneously manage more than one client 100.
SLA manager 110 provides a front-end for service implementation 119. SLA manager 110 comprises admission controller 113, performance measurement module 111, and specification module 112.
Referring to
Referring to
With continuing reference to
At 301, a client 100 a is put in communication with SLA manager 110. This communication may be off-line or on-line. By off-line, it is meant a representative of a client is in contact with a representative of a SLA manager, for example by calling a toll free number to place an order. By on-line, it is meant that a client has contacted a SLA manager using an invocation infrastructure, for example by accessing a web page for this SLA manager and inputting requested information.
At 303 SLA specification module 112 is invoked. At 305, SLA specification module 112 accesses performance information from performance measurement module 111. At 304, a service provider 120 presents a list of offered services or functions to a client 100 a, and client 100 a specifies its usage parameters for each offered service it selects. Examples of usage parameters include but are not limited to total number of concurrent users, selected services or functions, among others. For services selected, a client may specify peak invocation rate and average invocation rate. By invocation rate, it is meant the number of invocations of a service per unit of time.
At 306, performance information obtained at 305 is compared with service(s) selected and associate usage information obtained at 304 to determine if a basis for a SLA exists. In this context, a basis for such a SLA is availability of resources to satisfy a specified request.
If at 306 a basis for a SLA agreement exists, at 307 client 100 a and one or more service providers 120 may enter into a SLA agreement. SLA specification information associated with a resulting SLA agreement is provided to admission controller 113 at 308.
If at 306 there is no basis for agreement, then a reply is sent to client 100 a that client provided usage parameters for identified selected services are in excess of service provider's capacity.
With continuing reference to
At 402, admission controller 113 determines if a request from client 100 a, for example, is received. If a request is received, then using an existing SLA associated with this received request, admission controller 113 determines whether to accept or reject such request at 403. Admission controller 113 may be configured to maximize a customizable benefit function to one or more service providers 120. By way of example and not limitation, this may entail allocation of resources to clients in accordance with SLAs between clients and service providers. Accordingly, this decision by admission controller 113 may include factors such as impact on SLAs with other clients, potential benefits of servicing a request, potential penalty in rejecting a request, among others.
In an embodiment, a measurement and learning based implementation is used. SLA manager 110 makes an initial estimate of system capacity by measuring system performance under a simulated load. Thereafter, SLA manager 110, through use of performance measurement module 111, continues to measure actual performance of one or more service implementations to refine this initial estimate of the fraction of capacity used by each function. Examples of performance measurements that may be used include requests served per unit of time, bytes served per unit of time, and response time.
By way of example and not limitation, suppose response time is used as a performance indicator. Each function in the interface of a service implementation is associated with a range of time. This range of time denotes minimum and maximum response time for this function. An initial estimate of system capacity may be generated by determining a maximum number of concurrent instances of fi that can be executed within an acceptable response time. These measurements may further be used to determine the fraction of total capacity consumed by each invocation of fi.
Accordingly, SLA manager 110 has opportunity to learn access patterns of its clients, so an estimate, improved over that simulated by SLA manager 110, of their usage variations may be expressed. SLA manager 110 can learn performance of one or more service implementations under different combinations of functions invoked by clients. This information may be used in combination with well-known optimization techniques to improve service. Some optimization techniques that may be used are found in "Reinforcement Learning for Call Admission Control and Routing in Integrated Service Networks," by Peter Marbach et al., in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 10, the MIT Press, 1998.
Capacity of a service provider is denoted by a number of tokens. Each client organization is assigned tokens to cover its SLA manager interaction with an associated service provider. This assignment is managed within SLA manager 110, so it is transparent to clients 100. A product called "Measureware" from Hewlett-Packard Company of Palo Alto, Calif., for resource usage monitoring or a product called "VAM Capacity Planner" from Zitel Corporation of Freemont, Calif., for capacity planning, may be used to obtain an estimate for tokens needed for a request. Moreover, these software tools may be used to aid in determining causes of violation of SLAs. However, use of either or both of these software tools is optional.
At 403, admission controller 113 accepts or rejects an incoming request Ri. So when a request of type Ri from client 110 a is provided to an SLA manager 110, admission controller 113 checks if there is a sufficient number of available tokens in client 100 a's account. If a sufficient number of available tokens exists in client 100 a's account, request Ri is accepted and the number of tokens needed for Ri is deducted from client 100 a's account. When request Ri is completed, this number of tokens deducted is credited back to client 100 a's account. However, if a sufficient number of available tokens does not exist in client 100 a's account at the time request Ri is received, then this request is denied, and this denial is provided to client 100 a at 404.
If request Ri is accepted at 403, then this request is provided to performance measurement module 111 at 405. Performance measurement module 111 provides request Ri to service implementation 119. At 406, request Ri is invoked for service implementation 119. At 407, in response to this request, results are obtained from this service implementation selected and provided to performance measurement module 111. Performance measurement module 111 records performance measurements associated with execution of this request at 408. Optionally, at 408, performance measurement module 111 may further check performance measurements against SLA specification requirements. At 409, results obtained in response to request Ri are provided from SLA manager 110 to a client, such as client 100 a, originating this request.
Although the present invention has been particularly shown and described with respect to certain embodiments thereof, including without limitation a best mode if any, it should be readily apparent to those of skill in the art that various structural, logical, electrical, and other changes in form and detail may be made to these embodiments without departing from the scope of the present invention as set forth in the appended claims. Accordingly, the present invention is defined only by the appended claims that follow this detailed description.
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February 1992
February 2, 1992 – Jimmy Isenberg, RN, BSN was honored by Lake Cumberland Home Health Agency for his dedicated service to the agency.
February 2, 1992 – Jack London joined the staff at South Central Bank as vice-president with primary responsibilities in agriculture lending.
February 2, 1992 – An open house was held at the Barren County Family YMCA.
February 3, 1992 – The following students of Barren County High School have been selected for the 1992 Governor's Scholar program. They are Karen Allen, Nellie Walton, Traci Thornton, Jason Zimmerman, Elizabeth Turner, Danya McMurtrey, and Jay Turner.
February 5, 1992 – Barren County educator Bud Tarry officially announced his candidacy for State Representative for the 23rd district in the May Democratic Primary.
February 7, 1992 – Wilma Rogers has announced after 36 years she will stop taking new patients at her personal care home for the aged. She will close down the facility and retire due to her family's wishes.
February 9, 1992 – Melanie Watson was named Young Careerist of the Glasgow BPW and will compete in the regional meeting in March.
February 9, 1992 – The Silver Foxes including Dick Ropp, Addis Britt, Fred Smith, and Vincent Harlow made a journey to the hog farm of Eugene and Barbara Wheat.
February 9, 1992 – Barren County FHA Chapter observe a special week. Officers are Juli Stewart, Christy Carver, Donna Spillman, Nancy Jo Cornwell, Tonya London, Donna Cannon, Marta Bull, Lori Beth London, Kelly Smith, Donna Key, Julie Bragg, Jaime Hood, Pennie Warren, Charity Gosser, and Valarie Belcher.
February 12, 1992 – Groundbreaking was held for the new Glasgow Middle School on Tuesday, February 11.
February 13, 1992 – Mike Swift, director of the Barren-Metcalfe Ambulance Service gives thumbs up to the new TDD machine that will aid emergency personnel in communication with hearing impaired individuals.
February 13, 1992 – Michelle Johnson was presented the Young Careerist Award from the Kay Bledsoe BPW Club.
February 16, 1992 – T. J. Samson Community Hospital announces the opening of its new cardiac wing February 24th. It will feature cardiac catheterization and cardiac rehabilitation.
February 18, 1992 – Valentines Kings and Queens crowned at area nursing facilities. Nell Browning and Murl Patterson were crowned at Barren County Health Care Center while Susie Bridges and L.N. Willis were crowned at Glenview Health Care Facility.
February 19, 1992 – Barren County FFA club observes National FFA Week. Officers include Brent Smith, Brad Spear, Derek Depp, Anthony Frazier, Chad Groce, and Mary Coleman.
February 19, 1992 – Architects release sketches of the South Central Kentucky Cultural Center to the building committee.
February 23, 1992 – Glasgow's Ponderosa Restaurant announces they will be building an 80 seat four-season sun room. They announced awards also Michelle Tylicki, studentemployee of the year and Kenneth Dillard, employee of the year.
February 25, 1992 – Glasgow City Council approves an ordinance providing funds to repair the stadium seats at Gorin Park's Richardson Field.
February 25, 1992 – Marcia Eisenstein, 8 year old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Warren Eisenstein, will be performing a solo violin concert Sunday, March 1st at the First United Methodist Church.
February 26, 1992 – The Liberty District Women's Missionary Convention honored Lucille Wood, retired educator that taught in schools in Metcalfe County, Barren County, Arkansas, and the Glasgow School system.
February 27, 1992 – Ideal Hardware announces that they will officially open its Rental Department on March 2. Equipment for rent will range from a light bulb changer to a ditch witch.


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The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS): A Brief OverviewDallas Burtraw and Raymond Kopp
Senior Fellow Dallas Burtraw will testify before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality on Thursday, March 29, 2007.
Senior Fellow Ray Kopp participated in a roundtable discussion at the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources on March 26, 2007.Video forthcoming on the Senate Committee website.
Cap and Trade - A Quick TutorialEU ETS is an emissions allowance cap-and-trade system. All such systems establish a cap on annual emissions (or if banking is allowed, on the annual allocation of emission allowances), identify those entities whose emissions will be regulated, and set a few rules. In most contexts, one allowance is required for each ton of emission. Allowances are usually freely transferable, although in some programs constraints on trading have been imposed. Allowances can be initially distributed in the market through free allocation based on some metric or another, or sold through an auction. A key question is whether allowances that are not used in the year they are issued can be banked for use in a subsequent year.
EU ETS Structure
EU ETS Market Performance
Lessons Learned
There are three features of a cap-and-trade system that are important when evaluating its policy effectiveness.
The performance of the market hinges on accurate monitoring, reporting and enforcement. At the outset of the ETS in Phase 1, many nations lacked reliable data reporting systems, which contributed to the extraordinary price volatility.
The ability of government to distribute the economic burden a cap-and-trade system will impose on the economy is greatest during the allowance allocation stage.
Allowances are assets that can have significant value. Allowances that have fixed lives, like Phase 1 of the EU ETS, must have asset values that go to zero at their terminal points. This raises difficult issues of asset management for those required to hold allowances.
Investments in technology needed to radically lower GHG emissions are likely confined to the energy sector, where they tend to be large and very long lived. In that case, allowance prices are intended to incentivize these investments and must have as little non-market uncertainty as possible. At the current time in the European Union, there is considerable uncertainty concerning the level of emissions reductions required post 2012.


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CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports the details of Tesla's sales referral program. Current automobile owners will get $1,000 to be applied to new car, service center visit or accessories.
Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan reacts to today's Fed comments and provides insight on the U.S. economy.
Keith Bliss, Cutton and Company, tracks today's market action and Fed meeting into the close.
The White House says President Obama would sign into law a short-term extension of the highway bill if Congress sends him one, and Patriots owner Robert Kraft spoke at a news conference on Tom Brady, reports CNBC's Sue Herera.
Rick Rieder, BlackRock, thinks the odds are 60/40 the Fed moves in September; and Adam Parker, Morgan Stanley, discusses whether investors are ready.
Discussing Twitter's user growth troubles, and what to expect from Facebook's earnings, with Kevin Landis, Firsthand Capital Management.
Standard & Poor's is putting Brazil on negative credit watch. CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera has 3 charts that show signs of trouble in Brazil.
Reacting to the Fed, Peter Costa, Empire Executions, says he is concerned about slow wage growth. Kate Warne, Edward Jones, and CNBC's Rick Santelli, weigh in.
The Federal Reserve updated its statement saying there are "solid" job gains, and only "some" improvement in jobs needed for the rate hike. Insight, with CNBC's Steve Liesman.
Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of both Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners, discusses his company's stock price, and which economic conditions benefit profits.
Facebook is expected to report earnings. What to watch for, with Kim Caughey Forrest, Fort Pitt Capital Group, and Jason Helfstein, Oppenheimer & Co.
How to play a rising rate environment, with Brian Sullivan; Larry McDonald, Societe Generale; and Boris Schlossberg, BK Asset Management.
Discussing the timing of the Fed rate hike, with Diane Swonk, Mesirow Financial chief economist & senior managing director, and Michelle Meyer, Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports oil prices settled higher after a bullish inventory report.
A New York man is in custody for allegedly attempting to support a terrorist organization, and Garth Brooks topped Forbes' list of the world's highest paid country acts, reports CNBC's Sue Herera.
CNBC's Bob Pisani and Art Cashin, of UBS, discuss the weekly oil inventory's impact on the market and look ahead to the Fed's meeting.
Discussing his bullish year-end call on the S&P 500 of 2,225, with Julian Emanuel, UBS U.S. Equity & Derivatives Strategy.
Bill Gross, Janus Capital, discusses his play on the collapse in China's stock market.
Bill Gross, Janus Capital, explains why he views all global financial markets as a "shell game now."
Insight to labor market conditions, and the Fed's path for rates, with Anika Khan, Wells Fargo director & senior economist. Khan's firm still has a base case of a September hike
Discussing the Fed's view of the economy, and the odds of a September rate hike, with Bob Doll, Nuveen Asset Management, and CNBC's Steve Liesman.
CNBC's Rick Santelli checks on the reaction in the dollar index after the FOMC decision rates will remain unchanged.
Discussing important market plays with George Young, Villere Balanced Fund, portfolio manager.
CNBC's Bob Pisani shares his view of the Federal Reserve's decision to leave rates unchanged.
David Kelly, JPMorgan Funds chief global strategist, thinks the Fed will move on rates in September.
Joe Quinlan, U.S. Trust Chief markte strategist, and Steve Auth, Federated Investors, weigh in their thoughts ahead of the Fed.
CNBC's Steve Liesman reports the statement by the Federal Reserve after the 2-day meeting finished.
CNBC's Eric Chemi analyzes Janet Yellen dialogue from March 2014- June 2015 and points out the growth words that she most frequently uses.
CNBC's Diana Olick reports on pending home sales.
The German foreign minister alerts on a possible terror warning in Turkey; two people are killed in a two story building collapse in India; and more than 450 migrants arrive in Sicily, reports CNBC's Sue Herera.
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Ok so the reason I went to the sunkey pro was so that I would be able to turn off the chip with the external switch. I really want to tryout this chip but without an external switch It looks like a sunkey lite with an nero update option
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In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.
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Utah forecast: Another wet day for Wasatch Front
Another day, another round of thunderstorms and rain for northern Utah. But we're thirsty anyway, so bring on the rain, right?
Apologies to country songstress Jo Dee Messina, but her hit ballad "Bring on the Rain" seems perfect for Friday's forecast for the Wasatch Front, and echoes Thursday's weather patterns as well: high temperatures in the upper-50s to low-60s under mostly cloudy skies with morning showers and afternoon thunderstorms on stage.
The midweek rainfall brought some impressive measurements, according to the National Weather Service. The 36-hour totals, as of midnight Wednesday, indicated 1.31 inches fell in Draper, 0.8 inches in Clinton, about 0.6 inches in Ogden, Layton and Centerville, more than half an inch in Lehi and Pleasant Grove, and just less than half an inch in Salt Lake City and South Jordan.
In the mountains, the precipitation resulted in heavy snowfall in places, with Snowbird Ski Resort reporting 10 inches of the white stuff overnight.
However, skies were clearing in southern Utah ahead of Friday's forecast for highs in the low-80s and a 10-20 mph breeze to keep things pleasant.
The Utah Division of Air Quality gave "green," or healthy grades statewide.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website had most allergen levels at "low," with the exceptions being a "very high" pollen count for oak and "high" for sycamore.
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Spotify: The Best Music Service in the World
Posted on 14 July 2011
Do yourself a favor and look into Spotify now. The Europeans have been holding out on us for quite some time and I am THRILLED that this service just broke the surface in the United States. For $10 you can: have access to 15 million+ music compilations/tracks/songs, share music for free, sync the program up with your iPhone or Android, create playlists, and more. Listening and searching through music has not been this fun since the Napster days. We strongly urge you to take five minutes of your time and browse this service or watch the video below. This is the best music service we have ever seen. We hope you agree and continue to spread the good news!!!
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Fabric London and the Essence of Dubstep
Posted on 05 August 2010
A trip to London would not be complete without a stop at Fabric, the world-renown superclub that not only hosts top electronic acts week after week, but has also spawned over fifty FabricLive compilation mixes. Fabric was certainly preceded by its reputation, but nothing could have prepared me for the actual experience. The line outside the club was unlike any I'd seen, but it wasn't until I walked into Room One – the largest of Fabric's three – that I realized the sheer mass of the dubstep scene in London.
I chose Friday, July 16th (and subsequently planned my entire trip to London around this date) for the line-up, which included the Dub Police (Caspa, Breakage, The Others, Emalkay, et al) along with Egyptrixx, Mumdance and over a dozen other artists. Upon my entrance the crowd went crazy for Caspa's remix of "I Remember" by Deadmau5, and later Emalkay dropped pieces of his hit song, "When I Look At You", throughout his set, building the anticipation.
Fabric is so large that it wasn't until I had been there for over an hour that I finally came across the other two rooms. Room Two was so full that the party practically spilled out into the corridor. A sea of bodies, taking up every square inch of space and perched on platforms on both sides, danced furiously to the drum and bass breakbeats issuing from the speakers.
I came up for air and found myself in Fabric's third room, where Egyptrixx was spinning a (comparatively) low-key set. Small but dynamic with a multi-level design, Room 3 felt like an oasis from the madness, accented with blue lights and fog.
While I am no stranger to dubstep parties in New York, (thanks in large part to our friends at Trouble & Bass), the London scene is a completely different animal. Sure, there were some familiar elements – the music, of course, and the sweaty bodies dancing in a manner that only dubstep can instigate – but Fabric managed to capture dubstep in a way that went beyond the music, an "essence" if you will, that has to do with the surroundings, the people, and the overall vibe.
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Shrimp, Lobster, Shark, Craw Fish, and the Bloody Beetroots
Posted on 17 September 2009
In case you missed it, the masked Italian duo, The Bloody Beetroots recently unleashed their first LP, Romborama, a 20-track melting pot of arduous beats and synth. Artists featured on the LP include The Cool Kids, Steve Aoki, Lisa Kekaula (of the BellRays), Cécile and others. So, what does shrimp, lobster, shark and craw fish have to do with the Beetroots? It is simply a line from their track "Awesome" – which can single-handedly describe the album.
Hard Fest describes them as the love child of the Misfits and Daft Punk, but the Bloody Beetroots are nothing short of "bloody" fantastic. Perhaps its the Venom masks and their subtle play with the Comedy of Art of Venice, but there is a mad brilliance underneath the noise and mask that conjures a contemporary orchestration of music - dramatic with so many layers of sounds, the album could be the work of a musical ensemble. Artfully influenced by opera and infused with electronic media, their collaboration with the featured artists takes this vacillating album (in a good eclectic way) and makes it a titillating experience.
Check out the "Awesome" track below and click through for the video to another recommended track from the album, "Butter."
Click here for photos from our last encounter with the Bloody Beetroots at Webster Hall by Oliver Correa.
Bloody Beetroots featuring The Cool Kids – "Awesome"
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Steve Aoki is in the House with….Zuper Blahq?
Posted on 05 September 2009
Dim Mak recently released "I'm In The House", a new video from Steve Aoki featuring Zuper Blahq (yes, we know, who???). The house behind MSTRKRFT, the Bloody Beetroots, Dim Mak seems to have acquired a new member to the family. The video and single with Zuper Blahq is Steve Aoki's first foray into production.
Under the guise of a mask, the mysterious Zuper Blahq fits the lyrical profile of someone very familiar. We have it on good authority that Zuper Blahq is comprised of Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am and the Peas' DJ/Producer Poet Name Life. Will began exploring electronic music on his 2007 solo album, Songs About Girls; given the electro stylings of BEP's latest album, The E.N.D., Will and Poet's Zuper Blahq doesn't come as a huge surprise.
Click through to watch the video for "I'm In The House". For those in town this Labor Day weekend, Steve will take the stage tonight (Saturday) on Randall's Island at the Electric Zoo Festival. Also, check out photos from our last encounter with Steve at Webster Hall by Oliver Correa and Kenroy George.
Click here for pictures of Steve and others from the first day of the Electric Zoo Festival.
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Death of Auto-Tune: A Call to the End of the Robotic Voice
Posted on 08 June 2009
Over the weekend, Jay-Z made headlines with the release of his single D.O.A – Death of Auto-Tune
Auto-Tune, the audio processor used to correct pitch in vocals and instruments, is typically used to disguise precisely tuned recordings. As of recent, rappers have come to embrace this sound in attempts to sing by changing the levels of their voice to a point where they sound robotic. From Kid Rock's Only God Knows Why to Kanye West's album 808s and Heartbreak, the processor has come to a wide acceptance among artists who utilize the tool as an annoyance more so than a contribution to their creativity. Surprisingly, Jay-Z's upcoming album, the Blueprint III – slated for release on September 11th, is produced by Kanye West, who also had a hand in D.O.A's production along with producer No I.D. Its questionable that the rapper who created an entire album with Auto-Tune also produces the track that knocks on industry's door to stop. With Jay-Z's access to a wide audience, D.O.A has spread across the web within a couple of days like fire, but he isn't the only artist making some noise about rappers utilizing the Auto-Tune. KRS-ONE and Buckshot are also highlighting the Auto-Tune trend on their upcoming album Survival Skills with their lead single Robot (produced by Havoc of Mobb Deep). The album is set to release on August 25th.
Perhaps Auto-Tune may return to its days of subtlety in the studio for singers. Kanye West and T-Pain may be two of the few rappers who can utilize the processor's ability to skew pitches and make it sound good, but with Kanye producing D.O.A, one has to question if he plans on walking away from using the tool in the future. More important than the timing of Death of Auto-Tune is Jay-Z's ability to call attention to the matter by creating some anticipation and buzz for the Blueprint III, all while making a statement to the industry.
D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune) – Jay Z
Robot – KRS-ONE and Buckshot


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Archive for April 9th, 2012
Ask The Conservatives…
Ask the Conservatives Why So Many Americans Are Living in Poverty and Hardship
There are two reasons why this is happening. There are two reasons, for example, why Atlas Van Lines can't find anyone to drive its trucks in Louisville, and why Dallas can only afford to give job training to 43 out of the 23,500 people who have lost their jobs in the last 10 weeks.
The first reason is that conservatives are assholes and they refuse to do anything to help anyone if it costs any taxpayers any money.
The second reason is that conservatives bankrupted this country by slashing taxes on rich people, committing us to over a decade of war in Asia, enacting massive (and poorly designed) new federal programs and entitlements, and failing to regulate Wall Street.
And, no, increasing education spending, creating a drug benefit under Medicare, and liberating Iraq from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein didn't cost the taxpayers any money because conservatives borrowed every dime they spent to do those things. And then they told us that we had to make the middle class foot the bill for it and the poor to take the brunt of the cost of balancing the budget hole they created.
But, you know, there's a third reason why, for example, "[f]ederal money for the primary training program for dislocated workers is 18 percent lower in today's dollars than it was in 2006, even though there are six million more people looking for work now." That's because conservatives are doing anything they can to prevent President Obama from improving the economy, and that includes refusing to help people find work.
If you want to know why 16-year-old Aubrey Sandifer has to walk 20 minutes in the rain to school, ask conservatives. If you want to know why "Esmeralda Murillo, a 21-year-old mother of two, lost her welfare check, landed in a shelter and then returned to a boyfriend whose violent temper had driven her away," ask conservatives. Ask the conservatives on the Supreme Court about this:
With an anticipated bank account of more than $200 million, officials at American Crossroads said they would probably begin their campaign [against the president] this month. But they said they would focus the bulk of the first phase from May through July, which they believe is a critical period for making an impression on voters, before summer vacations and the party conventions take place.
Steven J. Law, the group's leader, said the ads would address the challenge of unseating a president who polls show is viewed favorably even though many people disapprove of his handling of the economy. Basically, Mr. Law said, "how to dislodge voters from him."
Set aside the war or women, or gays, or blacks, or Latinos, the middle class. Just focus on the most basic stuff. All across this country people are suffering for the simple reason that conservatives already have too much power.
The idea that they might gain more power should be a complete non-starter for everyone but the most selfish people in the highest tax brackets.
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Change We Can Accept?: Round Two
President Obama Sends A Shot Across The Bow Of Etch-A-Sketch Romney's Campaign
While Mitt "Etch-a-Sketch" Romney continues to struggle to defeat Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum in the GOP Presidential primaries, President Obama has spent the last couple of weeks making clear that Romney will face a far tougher opponent in the general election if he becomes the GOP nominee. This effort by the Obama campaign has involved reminding voters of the success that the Obama Administration has achieved, aggressively attacking the dangerous conservative economic vision for our country, and challenging GOP attacks on him.
First, at the end of March, President Obama gave a stirring speech listing some of the substantial progressive victories that we have achieved over the past three years. This speech helps remind progressives and other voters that while the past three years have certainly held their fair share of disappointments and setbacks, we have also seen major progress on numerous issues. As President Obama said:
And here's what I want to report — that in three years, because of what so many of you did in 2008, we've begun to see what change looks like. (Applause.) We've begun to see what change looks like.
Change is the first bill I signed into law — a law that says women deserve an equal day's pay for an equal day's work, because I want our daughters treated just like our sons. (Applause.)
Change is the decision we made to rescue an auto industry that was on the verge of collapse, even when some said let Detroit go bankrupt. One million jobs were at stake, so we weren't going to let that happen. And today, GM is back on top as the world's number one automaker, reported the highest profits in 100 years — (applause) — 200,000 new jobs over the last two and a half years. The American auto industry is back and it's making cars that are more fuel-efficient. So that's helping the environment, even as we're putting people to work. (Applause.)
Change is the decision we made to stop waiting for Congress to do something about our oil addiction. That's why we finally raised our fuel-efficiency standards. By the middle of the next decade, we will be driving American-made cars that get almost 55 miles to a gallon — (applause) — saves the typical family more than $8,000 at the pump. That's what change is.
Change is the fight we won to stop handing $60 billion in taxpayer giveaways to the banks who were processing student loans. We decided let's give those student loans directly to students — (applause) — which meant we could make college more affordable to young people who need it. That's what change is. That happened because of you.
And, yes, change is the health care reform that we passed after over a century of trying. (Applause.) Reform that will finally ensure that in the United States of America, no one will go broke just because they get sick. Already — already 2.5 million young people now have health insurance who didn't have it before because this law lets them stay on their parent's plan. (Applause.) Already millions of seniors are paying less for their prescription drugs because of this law. Already, Americans can't be denied or dropped by their insurance company when they need care the most. Already, they're getting preventive care that they didn't have before. That's happening right now. (Applause.)
Change is the fact that for the first time in history, you don't have to hide who you love in order to serve the country you love, because we ended "don't ask, don't tell." (Applause.)
Change is the fact that for the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. (Applause.) We refocused our efforts on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. And thanks to the brave men and women in uniform, al Qaeda is weaker than it has ever been. Osama bin Laden is no more. (Applause.) We've begun to transition in Afghanistan to put them in the lead, and start bringing our troops home from Afghanistan. That's what change is. (Applause.)
For additional progressive victories under the Obama Administration, see our list covering 2009 and 2010, or this list of the top 50 things accomplished by President Obama.
Second, President Obama gave a speech last week describing just how regressive the recent budget proposal from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is. Ryan's budget, which Romney has described as "marvelous," would abolish Medicare and replace it with inadequate vouchers, cut 14 to 27 million Americans off of Medicaid, and eviscerate most other government programs, while increasing military spending and giving millionaires an average additional tax cut of $256,000 per year over what the W. Bush Administration already gave away to the rich. The Ryan budget would also increase the deficit, especially given that it relies on $4.6 trillion in tax loophole closures to offset the tax giveaways for the wealthy but does not identify a single loophole that would purportedly be closed.
In a great speech worth reading or watching in its entirety, President Obama took on the Ryan budget head-on, framing the issue as not just one about how to restore fiscal balance, but instead as:
a Trojan Horse. Disguised as deficit reduction plans, it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. It is thinly veiled social Darwinism. It is antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who's willing to work for it; a place where prosperity doesn't trickle down from the top, but grows outward from the heart of the middle class. And by gutting the very things we need to grow an economy that's built to last — education and training, research and development, our infrastructure — it is a prescription for decline.
President Obama then proceeded to outlines the contrast between the two parties on two key issues, health care and taxes, explaining that:
Instead of saving money by shifting costs to seniors, like the congressional Republican plan proposes, our approach would lower the cost of health care throughout the entire system. It goes after excessive subsidies to prescription drug companies. It gets more efficiency out of Medicaid without gutting the program. It asks the very wealthiest seniors to pay a little bit more. It changes the way we pay for health care — not by procedure or the number of days spent in a hospital, but with new incentives for doctors and hospitals to improve their results.
And it slows the growth of Medicare costs by strengthening an independent commission — a commission not made up of bureaucrats from government or insurance companies, but doctors and nurses and medical experts and consumers, who will look at all the evidence and recommend the best way to reduce unnecessary health care spending while protecting access to the care that the seniors need.
We also have a much different approach when it comes to taxes — an approach that says if we're serious about paying down our debt, we can't afford to spend trillions more on tax cuts for folks like me, for wealthy Americans who don't need them and weren't even asking for them, and that the country cannot afford. At a time when the share of national income flowing to the top 1 percent of people in this country has climbed to levels last seen in the 1920s, those same folks are paying taxes at one of the lowest rates in 50 years. As both I and Warren Buffett have pointed out many times now, he's paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. That is not fair. It is not right.
And the choice is really very simple. If you want to keep these tax rates and deductions in place — or give even more tax breaks to the wealthy, as the Republicans in Congress propose — then one of two things happen: Either it means higher deficits, or it means more sacrifice from the middle class. Seniors will have to pay more for Medicare. College students will lose some of their financial aid. Working families who are scraping by will have to do more because the richest Americans are doing less. I repeat what I've said before: That is not class warfare, that is not class envy, that is math.
Finally, the Obama campaign has directly taken on the issue of rising gas prices, which Republicans have baselessly argued President Obama is responsible for. In its latest advertisement (which we have embedded at the end of this post), the Obama campaign has detailed how his Administration has worked to break our addiction to oil while accurately identifying Romney as the "Candidate of Big Oil."
While President Obama has an early lead over Romney of 49-45% overall, and 51-42% in swing states, we cannot become complacent if we want to win. Seven months until election day is an eternity in politics, the media will of course be cheerleading for the GOP and do little to call Romney out when he tries to Etch-a-Sketch his way back to the center, and 8%+ unemployment is not a good starting point for any re-election campaign. So it is critical that we all take the fight to the GOP over the next seven months. It is nice to see that President Obama is already doing so.
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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2010 President Barack Obama opened his talk today at Pensacola Naval Air Station, Fla., praising the military for its role in the oil spill response in the Gulf of Mexico, then launched into a rousing address, promising to be judicious in how he uses military power and to provide the military what it needs to succeed.Video
Obama, visiting Pensacola after assessing progress in the oil response, made an important promise to an assembly of sailors, airmen, soldiers, Marines and Coast Guardsmen.
"I will not hesitate to use force to protect the American people or our vital interests," he said. "But I will also never risk your lives unless it's absolutely necessary. And if it is necessary, we are going to back you up to the hilt with the strategy and the clear mission and the equipment and the support that you need to get the job done right."
That includes ensuring the proper strategy and support for the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama said. He noted that the combat mission in Iraq is on schedule to end this summer, as U.S. forces press forward in Afghanistan.
"We're working to break the momentum of the Taliban insurgency and train Afghan security forces, strengthen the capacity of the Afghan government and protect the Afghan people," he said.
"We will disrupt and dismantle and ultimately defeat al-Qaida and its terrorist affiliates," he continued. "And we will support the aspirations of people around the world as they seek progress and opportunity and prosperity, because that's what we do as Americans."
Obama pledged that the U.S. military will have the training and equipment it needs to succeed in missions it's asked to carry out. "We're going to keep you the best-trained, best-led, best-equipped military that the world has ever known," he said.
That's why the military has halted personnel reductions in the Navy and increased the size of the Marine Corps, and why it continues investing in new capabilities and technologies for the future, he said.
"But the most important thing in our military is our people," the president said, pledging support for wounded warriors, particularly those suffering from post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury, and to keep faith with military families.
"When a loved one goes to war, that family goes to war," Obama said. "That's why we're working to improve family readiness and increase pay and benefits, working to give you more time between deployments, increasing support to help spouses and families deal with the stresses and the separation of war."
The president reiterated First Lady Michelle Obama's challenge to every sector of American society to support military families.
"This can't be the work of government alone," he said. "As Michelle's been saying, 1 percent of Americans may be fighting our wars, but 100 percent of Americans need to be supporting our men and women and their families in uniform. You guys shouldn't be carrying the entire burden."
Obama praised the men and women in uniform who willingly agreed to carry this burden for their country. "Our nation is at war," he said. "And all of you have stepped forward. You volunteered. You took an oath. You stood tall and you said, 'I will serve.'"
The president said he's proud of the resolve, determination and resilience the nation is demonstrating in the face of the Gulf oil spill disaster – qualities he said the military has demonstrated throughout U.S. history.
"That's the same spirit we see in all of you – the men and women in uniform – the spirit we'll need to meet other challenges of our time," he said.
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This past year, the Obama administration has picked several fights with Israel that have helped tilt the diplomatic playing field in the direction of the Palestinians. Yet in return for this help, the Palestinian Authority has repeatedly thumbed its nose at an Obama administration by boycotting peace talks, making an alliance with the Hamas terrorists and then attempting an end run around U.S. diplomacy with a pointless effort to get the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state.
But like a battered spouse, the administration won't admit the truth about its "peace partner." Obama's credulous approach to the PA was on display again earlier this week when administration officials testified before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia to defend the continuing flow of American tax dollars to the Palestinian Authority.
When lawmakers pointed out the new alliance between the PA's ruling Fatah Party and Hamas put the United States in the position of funding a government aligned with terrorism, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jacob Walles replied in a "hear no evil, see no evil" statement that once again demonstrated the administration's unwillingness to face up to the reality of Palestinian politics.
As for the much vaunted PA security forces trained by the United States, the best that Lieutenant General Mike Moeller, the U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, could do was to tell lawmakers PA leader Mahmoud Abbas "retains sole authority" over the security forces. That may be so for the moment, but left unsaid is whether those troops will help keep the peace in the event of a new outbreak of Palestinian violence in the wake of the inevitable failure of the PA's UN initiative.
This is not the first time the United States has attempted to train a Palestinian force only to see it become part of the problem. In 2000, at the start of the second intifada, American generals and State Department officials were shocked when American-trained PA "police" turned their weapons on Israelis and joined the mobs attacking Jewish targets. If, as many expect, the PA resorts to violence to break the stalemate it has created by refusing to negotiate, the expectation that this current generation of Palestinian policeman and security officials will act to halt the bloodshed seems completely unrealistic.
It's clear President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have painted themselves into a corner about the PA, but that is no reason for Congress to go along with this mistake. At this week's hearings, House members from both parties assailed the position taken by the administration. Rather than sitting back and waiting for the next disaster to unfold, Congress needs to act to halt the flow of aid to the PA now, before once again American tax dollars are used to fund Palestinian terror.


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For many years I have been arguing that mathematical history cannot be understood without being placed in the proper historical context. Nearly all non-abstract mathematics was created so that people could better deal with changing social and economic conditions. In the 16th century, there was a dramatic expansion in the commercial activity in northern Europe. International commerce was expanding with new goods being developed and many goods being shipped across significant distances.
With money being issued in the form of gold and silver, merchants that needed to travel to buy their goods were at risk for robbery or worse. This led to the development of international banks that could issue a paper draft redeemable in other locations. As business expanded there was a greater need for borrowing, which led to the necessity of computing future value, interest and the introduction of negative numbers. The ruling aristocracy also had a great need to borrow money to fund their military adventures, increasing the size of numbers being used. With more goods traveling on the oceans, accurate navigation when out of sight of land became essential; this required the development of precision instruments and advanced calculations. Once wine was transported in barrels between regions, it was taxed by volume, which required the ability to compute the volume of barrels as well as the amount in barrels that were only partially full.
The development and advancement of these areas of mathematics in the Low Countries in the late 16th century is covered in this book. The historical context is included. Many images of the instruments as well as some of the computations are included. In fact, most of the text covers the contextual history rather than the mathematics. Some of the primary educators of the time and the issues regarding the religious activity of the teachers are also included. These were years of war with religious undertones in Northern Europe, so that was a significant issue.
One question that can be asked in the history of mathematics is, "What came first, the mathematics or the application?" This is not a binary situation, as Meskens clearly demonstrates they are developed in tandem, one driving the other in an interlocking marriage of necessity.
Charles Ashbacher splits his time between consulting with industry in projects involving math and computers, teaching college classes and co-editing The Journal of Recreational Mathematics. In his spare time, he reads about these things and helps his daughter in her lawn care business.
1 Preface
2 Introduction
3 The Family Coignet
4 Peeter Heyns and the Nymphs of the Laurel Tree
5 The Arithmetic Teacher and his School
6 The Antwerp arithmetic books
7 Winegauging
8 Instrumentmakers
9 The Art of Navigation
10 Mapping the World
11 Looking towards the Stars
12 Ballistics and fortifications
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By Terry Kovel, Published November 23 2012
Kovels Antiques: Tobacco jars sought after, but many fakes
Tobacco was labeled as bad for your health. Americans were soon using fewer tobacco products, such as cigarettes, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco and cigars.
In the late Victorian era, use of snuff lost favor, and tobacco was used mainly for pipes. Tobacco is a dried leaf, and it crumbles easily, so it's kept in a container that could used as a humidor.
By the mid-19th century, many pottery jars were being made in Germany in amusing shapes. Few were made in the United States.
Animals, human heads, historic figures and obvious shapes like barrels were popular. By the 1930s, most potteries were making more-formal and less-colorful jars.
Collectors search for ornamental examples, especially those made of majolica or another colorful ceramic or by well-known factories. Tobacco jars range from 6 to 13 inches tall. They sometimes are confused with cookie jars. But a jar-humidor has a section with a hole inside the lid that held a moist sponge. And a tobacco jar lid opens at half the height of the jar. A cookie jar has a lid that opens near the top.
Tobacco jars, especially the full figures of a person or animal, sell for $500 to more than $1,000. Beware. There are many fakes.
Q: We recently bought a French provincial-style sideboard from a friend of ours and would like to learn something about the maker. There is a plastic label inside one of the drawers that reads "Made by John-Widdicomb Co., Designed by Ralph H. Widdicomb, Grand Rapids."
A: There were two furniture companies in Grand Rapids, Mich., with the name Widdicomb. George Widdicomb emigrated from England in 1858 and opened a cabinet shop. His four sons joined the business, which became Widdicomb Furniture Co., in 1873. George's son John left the company in 1893 and established a business making fireplace mantels and woodwork. John's company became John Widdicomb Co. in 1897. John Widdicomb Co. gradually acquired several other furniture companies. In 1970, it bought the name Widdicomb Furniture Co., which had been inactive for several years. John's nephew, Ralph H. Widdicombe (who used the original spelling of the family's last name), was the chief designer for the John Widdicomb Co. until 1951. His French provincial designs were introduced in 1924. L. & J.G. Stickley of Manlius, N.Y., bought the brand name and assets of John Widdicomb Co. in 2002. Stickley now manufactures a line of very expensive John Widdicomb furniture.
Q: My old Wheaties box is intact and has eight sports cards printed on it, including football players Otto Graham and Johnny Lujack and baseball star Stan Musial. Can you tell me when the box was originally sold and what it's worth? And where should I try to sell it?
A: Your old cereal box was on store shelves in 1952. Boxes were sold that year with a total of 60 different trading cards of 30 athletes. The athletes were shown in both portrait and action poses, and the images are in Wheaties colors – blue and white on an orange background. You were smart never to cut the cards. An uncut box is more valuable than the eight cut cards printed on the box. Depending on the identity of the other athletes pictured on your box, the box could sell for more than $100, perhaps a lot more. Your box is a crossover collectible, but it would be worth more to a sports collector than to an advertising or cereal-box collector. You probably would get the best price by selling it at an auction that specializes in sports memorabilia.
Q: We own a 6-foot-tall cigar-store Indian made of either wood or some kind of composite. It weighs nearly 200 pounds. He is slightly stylized, with closed arms and legs. We paid $800 for it at auction about 20 years ago. There are no marks or words on it at all, but we know it was used in window displays at a Joseph Horne department store in Pennsylvania. The chain closed in 1994. What is the figure worth? We would like to sell it.
A: Your unmarked cigar-store figure could be sold at an auction of antique and vintage advertising. We suspect it would sell for roughly what you paid for it because it was probably made for Horne's in the middle of the 1900s and never sat in front of a real cigar store. The most valuable figures date from the late 19th or early 20th century and are realistic, with arms and legs posed away from the body. And many old ones are clearly labeled with the name and even the address of a cigar store.
Q: In 1996 I paid $12 for a 5-inch Donald Duck figural mug at an antiques mall. The mug is in the shape of Donald's head. The base is blue, the same color as the rim around the top of the mug. It's marked with a copyright symbol and the words "Walt Disney Prods., Japan." I'd like to know the mug's age and value.
A: Walt Disney ceramic dishes were made in Japan before and after World War II, but your mug dates from after the war. The mark dates it anywhere from the 1950s to the early 1980s. It would sell today for roughly what you paid for it 16 years ago.
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The 20-year-old forward has been linked with a host of clubs in recent times, with Premier League suitors said to be closely monitoring his progress.
The highly-rated Argentine is, however, to continue his career in Serie A for the foreseeable future.
Sampdoria will be reluctant sellers when a move is pushed through and insist that they have no intention of allowing other prized assets, such as Pedro Obiang and Nenad Kristicic, to follow Icardi through the exits.
Club president Edoardo Garrone told fcinter1908.it: "There is a promise made to Inter and I'm used to keeping my promises.
"Now that the season is over, the deal will be closed. We have agreed a deal without any players in exchange.
"Obiang? He has had a great season, as had Kristicic, and unsellable players don't exist anymore. But Sampdoria don't want to give those two up, at least for another year."
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From Latin interspersus.
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intersperse (third-person singular simple present intersperses, present participle interspersing, simple past and past participle interspersed)
- To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other:
- 1991, Frank Biocca, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, codes, and images, page 76:
- For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life.
- (transitive) To scatter or insert (something) into or among (other things).
- Mother Nature interspersed a few dandelions among the petunias, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.
- 1985, Jane Y. Murdock, Barbara V. Hartmann, Communication and language intervention program (CLIP) for individuals with moderate to severe handicaps, page 46:
- Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure.
- (transitive) To place or insert — to diversify by placing or inserting — other things among (something).
- Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.
- 1991, Frank Biocca, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, codes, and images, page 76:
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to mix two things irregularly
to insert (something) into other things
to diversify by placing or inserting
- intersperse in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- intersperse in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913