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Goff could make return tonight vs. UNCW
HUNTINGTON - Robert Goff doesn't remember his frightful head-to-head collision Nov. 20 with Marshall teammate Yous Mbao, and that's probably a good thing.
"From what they tell me, it sounded like a football helmet collision," Goff said Friday before the Thundering Herd's practice. "I don't remember what happened. When I came to, I thought it was worse than it was."
As it was, he and Mbao were taken out of Cam Henderson Center on flat boards to a local hospital. Goff was the fortunate one, as he was released after an overnight stay. The 7-foot-2 Mbao was kept four days, and his return to basketball is nowhere on the horizon.
But that's not the important thing.
"I'm definitely praying for big Yous every day," said Goff, not so small at 6-9, 240 pounds. "I talk to him as often as I can. That's the biggest thing I'm worried about, big Yous."
Goff missed the Herd's wins over Nevada and Morehead State, but he will try to return for tonight's contest against North Carolina-Wilmington. Tipoff is at 7 p.m. at the Henderson Center.
Goff has cleared most of his post-concussion testing, coach Tom Herrion said, and his practice workload was increased Friday afternoon. If he then passes all tests, he will return.
The Herd could use Goff tonight, even for a few minutes. The Seahawks have some size on their roster, including two 7-footers, but the Herd must cope with 6-8 Keith Rendleman and 6-9 Cedrick Williams more than anybody.
Rendleman, one of the few seniors on a young UNCW team, scored 15 points in the Herd's 69-64 win last year in Wilmington. Williams, then a freshman, pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds as the Seahawks kept that category nearly even. The tandem helped ignite a rally from a 16-point deficit.
That duo has the Seahawks' record even at 3-3 after wins over Wofford (49-37) and Hampton (61-60). Those aren't exactly eye-popping, but the Seahawks needed that after lopsided losses to Richmond (101-58), Ohio (85-47) and Purdue (66-40).
Rendleman is averaging almost a double-double, 16.3 points and 9.7 rebounds, while Williams averages 6.7 points and 8.0 boards.
"They're such an inside-oriented team," Herrion said. "They want to get those two guys, especially Rendleman, touches in the post. They can be deliberate at times and very patient in terms of making sure that happens. Sometimes they labor to score."
Goff wants to make that labor even tougher for the Seahawks, but he is confident in his fellow "bigs" if he can't go. Nigel Spikes has 20 points and 23 rebounds in the last two games, and JP Kambola has a basket, three rebounds and two blocks in 13 minutes in that span. Kambola had played just 19 career minutes prior to the Goff/Mbao injury.
"I'm proud of my guys. They went in there and they fought every night," Goff said. "Scoop [Spikes] gave us valuable minutes every night, and he came through for the bigs. And JP, he stepped in when he was called. It's not often you get that with a sophomore who hasn't played very much, so that's good for him."
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April 10—Houston Independent School District's school board will discuss this week in a closed session to determine if the district remains with Aramark as its foodservice provider, reports the Houston Chronicle.
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(NEW YORK) – Commuters from New York City's northern suburbs faced travel delays on Monday morning, the day after a seven-car train derailment that killed four people and injured 11 critically.
A portion of a Metro-North Railroad line between the Bronx and part of Westchester County could be closed for a week or more after the accident on Sunday, in which a Manhattan-bound commuter train ran off the tracks while rounding a sharp curve in the Bronx.
Service was suspended on the railroad's Hudson line, which serves 26,000 commuters on an average weekday, between the village of Tarrytown and Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, according to the state's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the parent company of Metro-North.
The MTA was providing bus service as an alternative, and urged Westchester County residents to use its Harlem line.
A team from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) arrived in New York City on Sunday and said its investigation would look at track conditions and the train's mechanical equipment. The board will also explore any link between Sunday's accident and a freight train derailment in the same vicinity in July.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said it is unclear how long it will take the NTSB to review the "black box" data recorder, recovered from the train.
"They haven't given us a timeframe," Cuomo told NBC's "Today" on Monday. In the meantime, New York officials hope to get rail service on the commuter line back up by week's end, he added.
"We want to get service restored," he said.
As for the root cause of the derailment, officials "haven't gotten anything specific from the NTSB," but it could have been a track problem, an equipment malfunction or operator error, Cuomo said.
Although the tracks at the site included a "tricky turn," Cuomo said: "It's not about the turn. I think it's going to turn out to be about the speed more than anything and the operator's operation of the train at that time."
The crash happened about 100 yards (meters) north of Metro North's Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx, in a wooded area where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet. One car was lying toppled near the water.
Monday morning commuters said they had come up with workarounds to avoid the closed line.
Lisa Schulman, a trade show producer who lives in Dobbs Ferry, had turned to bus service.
"I took the bus to the train, and I'll be dependent on the bus and the cabs," said Schulman, who had been on a Metro-North train that derailed earlier in the year.
"It was very scary, we were fortunate it didn't turn over," Schulman said. "We were on it for a couple of hours, so this is very scary."
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Recently I had a bit of an epiphany. All the holiday celebrations were over and the house was clean and quiet. All the sudden I found myself watching the TV with a new pair of eyes. All of the New Year's
fitness miracles
were now being sold to whoever would be willing to buy them.
I began thinking about a book I'd read many years ago about body building and how most of the sport (in the authors opinion) was mental and not psychical. There was a phrase that I still remember he kept saying over & over… "a dream without a plan is just a wish".
Basically said, the author was trying to emphasize the importance of
Goal Setting
. Goal Setting involves establishing specific, measurable and time targeted objectives… the more detailed they are, the more liable you are to be successful!
You see, resolutions are our best intentions, but how often do we follow through with those intentions without specific, measurable goals and the time lines in which we want to achieve those goals?
I bring this up because if fitness is truly your GOAL and truly what you want for a lifetime, then go about turning your resolutions in to your goals and bring them to fruition.
It's not easy having goals staring you in the face every single day. In fact my goals make me VERY uncomfortable; they remind me of my past and the determination and sacrifice I'll need to put forth to get back to that physical condition. They remind me of the level of detail they required, and the fact that I really could use some improvement on my level of detail. Either way, the job must get done, not only for me but for the two ladies (Erika & Piper) that I intend to share my life with.
So, here it is in a nutshell:
goals make things happen
. They help you remember why you started this process in the first place. Several months in to the year they will remind you of where you started on day 1 and how far you've come day by 182, and eventually by day 365. They will show you where you were unreasonable, and they show you that you can do more when you put your mind to it.
No matter how successful you are, or what you win, or whether you become a Champion… whatever drove you to be successful continues to drive you long after you've done what you thought was all you really wanted to do.
Let's start this year by forgetting to make resolutions and instead go about setting some real goals for 2014… then we can pick up here in April to compare notes!
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'Bach Marathon' set for Saturday
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The Albany Consort is scheduled to perform 1-6 p.m. Saturday at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1715 Grant Road, Los Altos.
The concert, "A Bach Marathon," will feature 14 Bach concertos for violins, violas, cellos, basses, flutes and four harpsichords.
The 16-piece band originated in London in 1974 and is now based in Sunnyvale.
Saturday's event will also feature food, beverages, raffle tickets and prizes.
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Flowered peep-toes. Velvet spat boots. Cuffed booties. Behold, shoes I imagine Suri Cruise would wear unabashedly and with abandon. Shoes that walk the line – as the best grown-up versions do – of function and pure delight.
Here, Jessica Haley of Joyfolie (the woman behind the shoes) fills me in on everything and anything about these adorable little pieces.
Your shoes are downright adorable. What would you say sets them apart from the pack?
I'd dub our shoes unapologetically feminine, thoughtfully detailed, and meticulously packaged. Each pair comes in a drawer box with a styled image of the shoes inside and a matching hair clip, too. When I began the company, I didn't aspire to grow so quickly or even grow at all, in the beginning. I was just delighted that customers loved my shoes enough to keep buying them. Often, as a thank you, I made clips out of the scraps from the handmade shoes. As we grew into a manufactured line, I wanted to continue that same expression of gratitude, which is why we continue to offer a clip with every pair of shoes.
So, how did it all start?
I used to describe Joyfolie as my "hobby run amok," which is to say, when it first began, I had no intentions of starting a company. I handmade a pair of booties for my daughter when she was an infant and on a whim, put a pair for sale on Etsy. In a short period of time, I had celebrity purchases, press in some great national magazines, and an overwhelming amount of wholesale orders. I handmade literally thousands of booties to fund our own growth, first making them myself, then hiring a team to hand-make them in the United States, and eventually transitioned into full-scale manufacturing to accommodate the volume we needed.
I'd take it then that your shoes are no longer handmade?
Oh, lands, no! I do not miss those days! I love to create, but I am more of a big-picture thinker. Back in those day, I would sew until 2 or 3 in the morning every night because my children were small at the time and that's when I could work most efficiently. I would get bored making the same shoes over and over. Back then, counting the rubber of the soles and layers in the lining, a pair of handmade shoes (like this one) had 17 layers of fabric to make them stiff!!
Just throwing it out there – as a little girl I would have fallen head over heels for these. Is there a particular little girl you design for?
I design with every little girl in mind! Whether it's sparkly pink loafers or silver sandals or brown studded boots, it's my hope that we have enough variety for every little girl's preference and that Joyfolie shoes make her feel happy and special.
Where do you picture her going in these?
Traveling to meet a queen, trekking up a mountain, sipping tea with The Three Bears – that's where my daughter tells me she wears hers!
And, next steps. What's up for Joyfolie in the future?
Joyfolie is growing so fast… every new season I am both amazed and humbled by how much we are growing. As we grow, that enables us to expand into new product lines. We have some women's boots coming out this fall that I am particularly proud of!
Our Joyfolie Girls' Clothing & Accessories Boutique opened Tuesday, May 28, at 11AM ET.
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The California Hot Rod Reunion 20th Anniversary - Nostalgia On NitroWritten by on February 3, 2012
Nostalgia drag racing is bigger than it's ever been, and nowhere is this more prevalent than at the California Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California. What started as a small gathering to reunite hot rodders and racers eager to reminisce about the good ol' days has, twenty years on, turned into one of the largest gatherings of vintage front-engine dragsters, racers, hot rodders, and fans; a literal mecca for nostalgia drag racing fans.
Vintage floppers, altereds, diggers, and rails, blown and injected, were packed throughout the grounds, filling the air with open-headered cackle and Nitro. Some have been resurrected, saved from decades-long rafter slumber, while others have been built from scratch with just memory and photographs to go from.
But of course, those drag cars don't push themselves from the pits through the staging lanes to the starting line. Nope, they got trucks for that. And just like they did in the '50s and '60s, today's nostalgia drag cars are supported by equally nostalgic trucks of the era, done up in full race car guise complete with the car's name, crew members, and sponsors emblazoned upon them. Part utilitarian, part street rod, many of the trucks look like they were culled from show car status to support vehicle by way of a few graphics and a push bar installed. They serve a purpose and complete the nostalgic vibe carried over from the car and driver. Standing in the staging lanes at dusk, watching a crew attend to a 392 Hemi-powered front engine dragster while a '63 Chevy pickup waits patiently behind, ready to inch the car up to the starting line; it's like 1965 all over again. That is, had I been around back then. And that's what the CHRR is all about. Old guys get together to reminisce about the good old days, while the young guys gather to experience the closest thing to actually being there. It's like one massive show and tell, but ours has smoke, fire, and Nitro!
Check out www.famosoraceway.com or www.museum.nhra.com for information on next year's event. See ya there! CCT
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Speaking of push trucks, there were plenty to be found waiting in the wings next to their respective pit areas.This Stepside Cheyenne was the push vehicle for the Beebe & Mulligan Top Fuel Dragster that won the NHRA Winternationals in 1969, currently owned by Dave and Charlie West of Paso Robles, California.Yeakel Plymouth Center was a MOPAR dealer back in the '60s who's General Manager, Lou Baney, sponsored a number of great drag cars, including the Baney, Rossi, & Goebel AA/Fuel Dragster. Makes sense then that the team's push truck is a Dodge done up in period guise.The Frantic Four A/Fuel Dragster of Weekly, Rivero, Fox, & Holding set the top speed of the meet at the 1964 US Nationals in Indianapolis with a speed of 202.24 mph. Today, the team takes it a bit slower, touring the country with the replicate of their original car participating in exhibition runs and cackle fests.The car show continues throughout the pits and vendor area, where we spotted Rob Baradat's kustom '40 Chevy.
The Cacklefest takes place Saturday night and is by far one of the highlights of the weekend for spectators as nearly seventy fire-breathing front-engine dragsters line up on the racetrack, producing an awe-inspiring array of sight and sound.
For those fans of the '67-72 Chevys, Mooneyes' ramp truck is still in use today, hauling their Dragmaster chassis'd dragster to events just like it did back in the day.Of course there were trucks for sale, like this '47 Dodge for $9,500 or '53 International for $12k. Both would make neat push trucks.Of course there were trucks for sale, like this '47 Dodge for $9,500 or '53 International for $12k. Both would make neat push trucks.Like giant Hot Wheels toys, both Tom McEwen and Don Prudhomme's Plymouth car haulers have been restored, along with their respective era floppers. Very cool!


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Happy b-day to your son. Now that he is 2 I am sure that mom bought him a BB gun, right?
Today is Guy Eastmans birthday! It is also my now 2 year old sons birthday... Maybe I'm a little too obsessed with Eastmans!
Happy b-day to your son. Now that he is 2 I am sure that mom bought him a BB gun, right?
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Lol nope! He has a nerf gun and shoots the animals on tv with it.. Lol is prefer to keep my tv in good shape. I did get him a bow and a 3D target! Haha one of those bows that shoots the little sticky arrow things. That way he can still shoot the animals on the hunting shows we watch
Happy birthday to your son. I suppose you'll have to sign up for some hostage negotiation classes now that he's two!
Happy birthday to Guy too. Do those guys read any of these forums?
Thanks!! Lol and I'm sure I will!!
I think they do.. Every once in awhile. I remember on one of our topics Guy chimed in and I think Mike has before too.
Tell my future bowhunting buddy Happy Birthday! Make sure he gets plenty of cake & ice cream!
Tell the little man happy birthday! They sure are fun at that age, and are like miniature tornado's everywhere they go! Happy birthday to Mr. Guy Eastman. Great magazine, tv show, and wonderful forum.
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Video: RAW VIDEO: Palestinians Want Obama to End 'Passivity' on Peace
Video: US President Departs for Middle East Visit
Michele Chabin, Special for USA TODAY
JERUSALEM - President Obama arrived here Wednesday on a high-profile trip to Israel, his first as president, to assure the Jewish state of U.S. commitment to stopping a nuclear Iran and boost the prospect of peace talks with Palestinians demanding their own state.
Prime Minister Netanyahu set up a major welcome for Obama, who will visit Israeli military defensive installations, speak to Israeli students and meet Palestinian leaders in the disputed West Bank territory.
"It's in our fundamental security interest to stand with Israel," Obama said, shortly after emerging from Air Force One around noon local time at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport. Netanyahu welcomed Obama to Israel and thanked him for defending "our unbreakable alliance."
But Israelis, both Jews and Arabs, are skeptical that President Obama's visit will lead to anything substantive on the peace front.
"The only thing I expect from this visit is huge traffic jams," said a 60-year-old Jerusalemite on Wednesday, who was watching an early-morning talk show on TV in the small store where he sells lottery tickets, ahead of Obama's arrival.
"When someone comes to Israel to work seriously, he does so quietly, not with a lot of noise," said Natan, who said he could not share his last name because he has worked in Israeli security. For Natan, "peace means that my grandchildren won't have to serve in the army. But that's just a dream," he said.
Preparing for a crush of breakfast customers at the bagel café where he works, Nabulsi Alaa, 26, an Arab resident of East Jerusalem, expressed the hope that the Amrican president's visit will make it possible for Arabs in Israel to visit family and friends in the West Bank, and for Arabs in the West Bank to visit Israel. "I'm somewhat optimistic," Alaa said.
The White House said it does not expect significant agreements to come out of the trip, in which Obama will also visit Jordan. Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Edward Djerejian says the trip is a chance to improve U.S. relations with Israelis and Palestinians and clarify where the United States stands on the tumultuous events of the Middle East.
Obama last visited the region in 2009, traveling to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. He visited the Jewish state in 2008 as a presidential candidate.
"I'm a believer in the importance of the personal relationship and dialogue between leaders," said Djerejian, ambassador under President Clinton. "It's important they establish a working relationship ... that can be translated into possible action."
Since Obama last visited, the region has become more dangerous. A rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad rages in Syria. Iran is refusing to end its nuclear program despite U.N. sanctions. Islamist governments have gained power in Egypt and Tunisia, and Muslim militias backed by al-Qaeda are on the rise in North Africa and the Persian Gulf states.
Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have stalled. Israel says the Palestinian Authority refuses to negotiate over the portions of the West Bank that should go to a Palestinian state and those that should be part of Israel. Palestinians argue that Israel will not compromise to their satisfaction, so why negotiate?
Silvan Shalom, a Cabinet minister in Netanyahu's Likud Party, said a provisional agreement is possible. "Our goal is to reach an agreement (even) if it is in stages," he said.
Dan Schueftan, the director of the National Security Center at the University of Haifa, and a visiting professor at Georgetown University, predicted the Obama visit will accomplish almost nothing for Israeli-Palestinian relations.
"You can't be pessimistic enough. The gaps between the mainstream Israeli and Palestinian positions are too large. You can't have a peace deal without including Gaza," which is ruled by Hamas, whose goal is to destroy Israel. "But you can't reach a settlement with the [Palestinian President] Abbas that doesn't include Gaza. And Israel can't include Gaza."
Second, the Palestinians won't abandon the "right of return," but "if you bring to Israel every Palestinian whose grandparents left in 1948. No Israeli government could survive if it agreed to this."
Still, Schueftan believes Obama's visit could strengthen U.S-Israel ties.
"The basic relations between Israel and the U.S. are very, very solid. I think Obama realizes that he went about things in the wrong way in his first term in office and is adopting a different approach that has much more potential to succeed.
"Now, he is emphasizing the positive and is willing to listen to the Israelis. And the recent Israeli election produced a much more centrist reality. We have a much better starting point."
However, Obama arrives at a time when a recent media poll in Israel found just 10% of Israelis view him favorably - in light of his public bouts with Netanyahu, who asked Obama to set a "red line" on when military forces must be used against Iran.
"Obama is retreating from the Middle East, indifferent to the collapse of Egypt, uninterested in the return of al-Qaeda to Iraq, and he appears to have no blueprint for Iran other than more concessions," says Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute. "So why's he going?"


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The electrochemical cell shown in this model can be regarded as a unit cell of a larger wire-mesh electrode that is common in many industrial processes. One of the most important aspects in the design of electrochemical cells is the current density distributions in the electrolyte and electrodes. Non-uniform current density distributions can be detrimental for the operation of electrochemical processes. In many cases, the parts of an electrode that are subjected to a high current density can degrade at a faster rate. Knowledge of the current density distribution is necessary to optimize the utilization of the electrocatalysts that are typically comprised of expensive noble metals. Non-uniform deposition and consumption, unnecessarily high overvoltages, energy losses and possible unwanted side-reactions represent effects that should be minimized. This example simulates the primary, secondary, and tertiary current density distributions of an arbitrary electrochemical cell with wire electrodes. The current density distributions are investigated in succession so as to also demonstrate good working practices by gradually introducing complexity when modeling electrochemical cells.


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Measuring Disk I/O—Oracle's ORION Tool
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To increase your ability to model the physical aspects of an Oracle database it is advantageous for the designer to test a disk configuration before they actually install an Oracle database on top of it. For this reason I suggest you take a look at Oracle's ORION tool to help benchmark your storage architecture. The proper benchmarking can be the difference between the same hardware having poor or excellent performance. Through the use of Oracle's ORION workload tool Database Architects can effectively develop a workload that can mimic and stress a storage array in the same manner as the planned application with an Oracle backend database. Because the ORION tool does not require a running Oracle database, multiple configurations can be tested such that an optimal storage configuration can be obtained while providing for reliability, stability, and scalability.
Take a look at this introductory article Measuring Disk I/O - Oracle's ORION Tool
Measuring Disk I/O - A Vendor View
How do you know if the disks you will be using from ANY particular vendor can muster up the IOPS and MBPS required to satisfy your current or future workloads?
In the article, Measuring Disk I/O, we took a quick look at the amount of IOPS and MBPS, or workload, that our Oracle database is generating. These numbers are very important when we start to look at our system for available throughput, especially out to the disk subsystem. Why are these numbers important? As a very simple example, and no real meaning, suppose you, after running the scripts from that article, find out that your database is requesting, and getting, 100,000 IOPS. Well, if your disk subsystem has 1,000 disks and if every disk is participating in satisfying 100,000 IOPS, you could sort of say that each disk is performing about 100 IOPS. You then have to ask yourself the following questions:
Is this good on a per disk basis?
Do I have room to grow if my throughput were to double or triple?
How much breathing room do I really have?
So let's take a quick dive into these from a truly vendor perspective in the article : Measuring Disk I/O - A Vendor View
Measuring Disk I/O
Do you know how your disk subsystem actually is performing?
I have just posted an article on www.thecheapdba.com that will take a look at extracting some I/O statistics so that you can monitor and determine just how well your disks are doing within Oracle.
How can I separate Oracle I/O to maximize performance?
Should I separate data files from index files?
Should I separate redo logs"
These question(s), AND many more, seem to flood our minds as database administrators. They are easy to answer with generalities but in practice can be very difficult to come to a conclusion on unless we take a look at how our disk subsystem is actually performing.
Take a look at this article for some guidance : Measuring Disk I/O
Cheep-man's archive log mover for Oracle
Now, before I get too many comments on why this won't work, let me just say that this really is a cheap-man's archive log mover. AND it does assume that you know your archive log process very well and the number of logs defined within your database. Setting the KEEPLOGS parameter inside this script is VERY CRITICAL. Setting this variable to a number higher than the number of redo logs in your database ensures it will never move a log file that is still being written to. This script will move archive logs from one directory to another. It does this based on reverse order of archive log creation and then, depending on how many logs to keep, will skip the first number of logs defined by KEEPLOGS and then move the rest.
@ECHO OFF TITLE move_archive_lgos.bat REM move_archive_lgos.bat REM ===================== REM This script will move archive logs from one directory to another. REM It does this based on reverse order of archive log creation and REM then, depending on how many logs to keep, will skip the first REM number of logs defined by KEEPLOGS and then move the rest. REM REM It is advisable to set KEEPLOGS greater than the number of logs REM defined and alowing for time for them to write out to disk. REM DATE /T TIME /T SET VERSION_STRING=1.0 SET FROMDIR=\Server_ASHARE_CArchive SET TODIR=\Server_BSHARE_BACKUPArchive SET KEEPLOGS=6 SET KEEPDAYS=0 SET c=1 DIR %FROMDIR% /O-D /B > begdir.lst FOR /F %%I IN (begdir.lst) DO call :MOVELOGFILE %%I DIR %FROMDIR% /O-D /B > enddir.lst goto :EOF goto :EOF :MOVELOGFILE IF %c% GTR %KEEPLOGS% ( ECHO %FROMDIR%%1 COPY %FROMDIR%%1 %TODIR%%1 IF EXIST %TODIR%%1 ( ERASE %FROMDIR%%1 ) ) SET /a c=%c%+1 goto :EOF
Oracle - looking at snapshot ranges
A lot of the AWR reports ask for, before spitting out their report, the number of days back you would like to go before entering your beginning and ending snapshot IDs. When they report on all the snapshot IDs they have left out, I think, one very important piece of information that just might cloud our judgment when selecting the proper snapshot range. This would be whether, during the snapshot period, there has been a bounce of the database–reseting the statistics to zero.
This script I have here is very similar to the ones in the AWR reports ($ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/awr*) but also shows when the database has been bounced during a snapshot. We can do this by the following SQL which joins the DBA_HIST_DATABASE_INSTANCE and DBA_HIST_SNAPSHOT views—showing historical information on the snapshots in the Workload Repository. We obviously need to join these tables on the dbid, instance_number, and, the important part, startup_time. We also make sure that we only bring back snapshots that are newer than the number of days back specified by the user by comparing the time of the actual snapshot (end_interval_time). Please note that this script will output a status of '**db restart**' for those times that the database was down and unavailable. This is very important as it shows us those times that Oracle was not collecting statistics (the database was down) and more importantly the statistic counters were zeroed. We can report on a bounce condition if the startup_time and begin_interval_time are the same.
prompt prompt prompt Enter the number of days to look for snapshot IDs prompt ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ select dhdi.instance_name, dhdi.db_name, dhs.snap_id, to_char(dhs.begin_interval_time,'MM/DD/YYYY:HH24:MI') begin_snap_time, to_char(dhs.end_interval_time,'MM/DD/YYYY:HH24:MI') end_snap_time, decode(dhs.startup_time,dhs.begin_interval_time,'**db restart**',null) db_bounce from dba_hist_snapshot dhs, dba_hist_database_instance dhdi where dhdi.dbid = dhs.dbid and dhdi.instance_number = dhs.instance_number and dhdi.startup_time = dhs.startup_time and dhs.end_interval_time >= to_date(sysdate - &&num_days_back) order by db_name, instance_name, snap_id;
Install Oracle11g on Linux CentOS-5
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BUT this post, I am sure you will like. It is an installation guide for Oracle 11g on Linux CentOS-5.
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Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA): What you need to know
Number one, with a bullet.
IDC has just released its annual vendor share report for embedded databases, and Oracle has taken the top spot.
The numbers are compelling: Oracle's share is 23.2%. A cluster of five other vendors have between 9% and 14% each. The rest is spread broadly, with each vendor commanding 2% or less. Oracle's share grew 23.3%, compared to growth of just under 12% for the sector as a whole.
I am glad to see this for a bunch of reasons. As Vice President of Embedded Technology at Oracle, I take a personal interest, of course. Oracle Berkeley DB, which Oracle acquired with Sleepycat in 2006, is aimed squarely at the embedded space. I have long maintained that embedded opportunities represent a significant source of new revenue and growth. Computers have escaped the data center, and special-purpose systems are getting deployed in living rooms, in the walls of buildings and in shirt pockets. There is an enormous amount of data travelling over networks and touching these systems.
The key to our success in the embedded space has been to assemble a family of products that address a wide range of requirements. A manufacturer building mobile telephone handsets needs to store crucial information reliably. So does a vendor building an optical network switch, and an ISV developing high-performance equity trading systems for financial markets. The three have very different requirements, though, and it's unrealistic to expect any single product to satisfy all of them.
All of our database products -- Oracle Database, Oracle TimesTen, Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle Lite -- can be embedded in partner systems and deployed invisibly to end users. All contributed to our number one ranking by IDC.
It's not just the technology that has made us successful, though. The people who choose and deploy embedded databases are software developers. In the enterprise, we generally talk to DBAs and CIOs, but in the embedded world, we talk to architects and CTOs. Those conversations are different, and we have had to develop new expertise and new strategies as we have pursued embedded customers. Over the past several years, we've concentrated on building the technical, support and sales expertise necessary to win embedded business in countries around the globe. IDC's vendor share numbers suggest that we're doing okay.
Congratulations to Oracle's Embedded Global business team, and to the product development and support groups for all four products! This is a tremendous accomplishment.


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Fake Bank Scamming Victims Out of Hundreds
(NEWSER) – A new scam is bilking people looking to rebuild their credit rating out of hundreds of dollars by offering semi-secured credit cards then pocketing their deposits, TheStreet reports. The Treasury has sent a letterto US bank executives and federal and state regulators warning them of the scam, run by an outfit named Freedom Gold Club, which claims to be associated with a bank called Freedom 1st National Bank—which doesn't exist—and also sometimes Credit One Bank, N.A., which does exist but isn't actually involved.
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Monday photos: Moustakas, Hosmer homer
The Rangers edged K.C., 12-11 in the spring's second exhibition contest on Monday. Prospects Mike Moustakas and Eric Hosmer both homered for the Royals. Moustakas hit a 3-run shot to straight away center in the seventh. He high-fived Hosmer, who scored on the home run. Hosmer led off the ninth with a tape-measure blast to right. Let's take a look:


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|Venango Community Church marks 125th with faith, fellowship
Singing loudly 'How Great Thou Art' at the Venango Community Church 125th anniversary celebration included, behind the pulpit, Jim Mort, former pastor in Venango and behind him are Barbara and Paul Entz, missionaries from Omaha. Second row, Elaine Wischmeier (hidden), Richard Wischmeier, former pastor in Venango, and Tim and Joy Butler, missionaries from Denver. Back row, Chris Costrini, Jon Hansen of Chadron, Deb Hansen, Carole Wechsler of Oregon.


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Mark Shekhman, MD, FRSC is Board-certified & Fellowship-trained in Orthopedic Surgery. He specializes in hip & knee joint replacement surgery and will discuss the causes and treatment options of arthritis.
Staying active is key to staying healthy, but how do we do that when we suffer from hip and knee pain?
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The Cyclones needed to get off to a strong start in the fifth set, which they did forcing UNI into its first timeout at 3-1 in favor of ISU. The Panthers were able to stick around in the set keeping it within one, until Iowa State broke out a 4-0 run to get ahead 9-4 and bring home the victory.
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Kristen Hahn. This is a tough call between Hahn and Ciara Capezio, but the tip of the cap goes to the senior libero. Hahn posted one of the best performances of her career only an hour from her home town, of Cedar Rapids. She recorded 34 digs, the second-highest total of her career, nine assists and a service ace. Part of the reason Iowa State dominated the first set was that Hahn dug 10 of UNI's 40 attempts, 25 percent of the output.
When setter Jenelle Hudson got involved on defense, which she did with a career-high 18 digs, Hahn stepped up with her nine assists. Her emotional leadership, but composure when the Cyclones needed it helped get Iowa State home.
Capezio had the best match of her young career, posting a match-best 22 kills. She hit over .400 in the first three sets of the match, and stepped up in the fifth set with three kills.
Victoria Hurtt finished with 17 kills, including four in the fifth-set. Later on in the match, the All-American from Kansas City became the go-to choice for the Cyclone attack.
Cyclone Nation, who was your player of the match? Tweet the player along with the hashtag #CyclONEmatchball to @CycloneVB and we'll announce the fan's pick later before tomorrow's match.
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*For the fifth time under head coach Christy Johnson-Lynch, the Cyclones have begun the season 4-0. The last time ISU went 4-0 to start the season was 2011 when the Cyclones won their first nine of the season.
*Kristen Hahn recorded 34 digs, only one off tying her career high. She has now had 30+ digs in seven career matches.
*Hahn passed Kaylee Manns (2006-09) for fifth on Iowa State's all-time career digs list. She now has 1,409 digs in her career.
*Ciara Capezio had a career-high 22 kills.
*Mackenzie Bigbee posted 12 kills. She has been in double figures all four matches this season. She has not had 20 career matches with double-figure kill totals.
*Jenelle Hudson recorded a career-high with 18 digs.
*Victoria Hurtt had 17 kills, her 29th career match in double-digits.
*Caitlin Nolan had 10 digs, her second-straight match in double-figures.
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AMES, Iowa- The Iowa State tennis team (8-4, 0-0 Big 12) earned 7-0 sweeps of Bradley (1-6, 0-0 Missouri Valley Conference) and South Dakota (2-3, 0-0 Summit League) on Friday, making the Cyclones 5-0 at home.
The team started off on a high note, taking down Bradley 7-0.
Junior Meghan Cassens and Sophomore Ana Gasparovic breezed past Ashley Thai and Carly Miles, 8-3. Junior Caroline Andersen and her partner senior Emma Waites defeated Ariel Dechter and Elizabeth Pryztawski at the No. 2 spot, 8-6, to claim the doubles point.
In her spring singles debut, freshman Talisa Merchiers earned a quick win at the No. 5 spot over Cassia Wojtalik, 6-0, 6-0. Moving up one from her usual slot, Cassens defeated Ariel Dechter at the No. 2 spot, 6-0, 6-3. At No. 3 singles, Ana Gasparovic fought a hard comeback in the second set, defeating Ashley Thai, 6-2, 7-6.
"I think the girls started feeling a little bit more comfortable in different spots," head coach Armando Espinosa said.
The Cyclones again claimed the doubles point over South Dakota, earning all three wins with new pairs.
With freshman Samantha Budai out of the day's second match, Cassens and Gasparovic moved up to the No. 1 spot, defeating Rymma Maslova and Yuliya Sidenko, 8-1. Pronina teamed up with Waites at the No. 3 spot to take down Michelle Elkin and Nina Barudzik, 8-2. At the No. 2 spot, Andersen paired up with Green for an 8-3 win over Milica Pavlovic and Yamini Reddy.
"We had lots of energy in doubles," Espinosa said. "I think that coming out and winning the doubles point gives you a little bit more edge. South Dakota made us play, they did a great job. They certainly made us play more than we expected."
In singles action, Pronina made quick work of Maslova at the No. 1 slot, taking the win 6-0, 6-0. Cassens downed Pavlovic at No. 2 singles, 6-2, 6-2. Gasparovic defeated Dragana Brankovic at the No. 3 spot, 6-2, 6-1, securing the Cyclones' second win of the day.
Merchiers and Waites both played in forced third-set tiebreakers. Merchiers defeated Reddy, 4-6, 6-2, 1-0(4). Waites defeated Sidenko, 6-3, 3-6, 1-0(8).
Iowa State defeated South Dakota 7-0.
The Cyclones return to defend their status at home March 7. The team will take on the Drake Bulldogs at Ames Racquet and Fitness Center beginning at 5 p.m.
ISU 7, Bradley 0
Order of Finish: 2, 3, 1
No. 1: Pronina/Budai (ISU) def. Henke/Rodefeld (BRAD) 8-5
No. 2: Cassens/Gasparovic (ISU) def. Thai/Miles (BRAD) 8-3
No. 3: Andersen/Waites (ISU) def. Dechter/Przystawski (BRAD) 8-6
Order of Finish: 5, 4, 1
No. 1: Ksenia Pronina (ISU) def. Adele Henke (BRAD) 6-0, 6-3
No. 2: Meghan Cassens (ISU) def. Ariel Dechter (BRAD), 6-0, 6-3
No. 3: Ana Gasparovic (ISU) def. Ashley Thai (BRAD) 6-2, 7-6
No. 4: Emma Waites (ISU) def. Sarah Rodefeld (BRAD) 6-2, 6-0
No. 5: Talisa Merchiers (ISU) def. Cassia Wojtalik (BRAD) 6-0, 6-0
No. 6: Lydia Green (ISU) def. Carly Miles (BRAD), 6-4, 6-1
Iowa State 7, South Dakota 0
Doubles Results
Order of Finish: 3, 1, 2
No. 1: Gasparovic/Cassens (ISU) def. Maslova/Sidenko (SD), 8-1
No. 2: Andersen/Green (ISU) def. Reddy/Pavlovic (SD), 8-3
No. 3: Pronina/Waites (ISU) def. Elkin/Barudzik (SD), 8-2
Singles Results:
Order of Finish: 1, 2, 3, 5, 4, 6
No. 1: Ksenia Pronina (ISU) def. Rymma Maslova (SD), 6-0, 6-0
No. 2: Meghan Cassens (ISU) Milica Pavlovic (SD), 6-2, 6-2
No. 3: Ana Gasparovic (ISU) Dragana Brankovic (SD), 6-2, 6-1
No. 4: Emma Waites (ISU) Yuliya Sidenko (SD), 6-3, 3-6, 1-0(8)
No. 5: Talisa Merchiers (ISU) Yamini Reddy (SD), 4-6, 6-2, 1-0(4)
No. 6: Lydia Green (ISU) Michelle Elkin (SD), 6-4, 6-0


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Forced Ranking - A Good Thing for Business?
A look at the pros and cons of this controversial way of managing performance. Also, learn what types of organizations for which forced ranking is best -- and worst.
Today's business environment and the shortcomings of existing processes are prompting companies to rethink performance management. Now more than ever, it is critical to identify the top performers and distinguish them from the underperformers. Hence, many are revisiting an old tool: forced ranking.
Forced-ranking systems, established years ago at companies such as GE, are increasingly being reassessed. In a nutshell, these systems typically either align people in preset "buckets" (such as the top 20 percent, the middle 70 percent, and the low-performing 10 percent -- the system used at GE) or rank them by performance from best to worst.
Below, we'll address how organizations currently use forced rankings, consider how such rankings complement existing ways to manage performance, and identify which organizations, functions, and cultures find them most appropriate.
How effective is performance management?
One could argue that some form of performance appraisal has been in existence since the time of the Roman Empire. But it wasn't until after World War II that formal approaches began to appear. Finally, in the 1980s, performance appraisal became performance management, and the process started to become more than just a once-a-year event and began to involve feedback, goal-setting, and self-reviews.
But does performance management work? Numerous industry surveys suggest that indeed it does not. In a recent Andersen survey, less than 5 percent of managers and employees alike were very satisfied with the process in place at their companies. Here are some reasons for the dissatisfaction:
Managers have no training.
Managers want to be liked.
Setting goals is tough and imprecise.
There are few consequences for notconducting performance reviews.
Ratings are not consistent among raters.
Leaders don't set the example.
The Andersen survey also found that approximately half of HR professionals, 48 percent, said their systems were set up more than four years ago (with 40 percent dating back more than six years). This seems to suggest that these systems have not kept up with changes in the workplace.
Are we measuring the right things?
It has become obvious that performance appraisals are generally perceived as ineffective. For many organizations, forced ranking has put "teeth" back into the process. Forced ranking can be subdivided into two practices -- Forced Distribution and Peer Ranking.
Forced Distribution aligns employees in accordance with pre-assigned performance-distribution percentages (e.g., exceeds expectations, meets expectations, does not meet expectations). It is a person-to-standard comparison.
Peer Ranking, on the other hand, ranks employee performance from best to worst. This is a person-to-person comparison (e.g., Amy is 1, Bill is 2, Sherry is 46, etc.).
Whether you are a friend or foe of forced ranking, this approach does not take away the responsibility of having a well-thought-out performance-management process. Since it is an overlay to the existing structure, ensure that the current process is effective by addressing these key points:
Are we measuring the right things?
Does the process produce consistent (repeatable) results between raters?
Does the process differentiate between high and low performers?
Do we identify clear consequences (positive or negative) for low or high performers?
The pros and cons
Proponents and advocates of forced ranking have strong opinions in favor of and against its use. Advocates of forced ranking state that the approach:
Creates and sustains a high-performance culture. Involuntary turnover is managed by eliminating weak performers and retaining strong performers.
Correlates with total return to shareholders. Recent research indicates a strong correlation between companies with strong performance-management processes and three- and five-year total shareholder returns. The research, just being published by Andersen, involves over 200 companies across a wide range of industries. It shows that companies that use individual criteria to assess the performance of employees and managers significantly outperform companies that focus primarily on measuring business-unit or overall company performance. Also, the study shows, companies whose managers are highly skilled at communicating business goals and objectives and providing structured feedback also enjoy higher total shareholder returns.
Establishes well-defined consequences. Top-performing employees receive substantially larger rewards (i.e., base pay, bonus, options) than the average performers. Those falling at the lower end of the scale typically receive coaching and are on notice to improve performance.
Makes performance management a corporate priority. With real consequences, performance management takes on renewed meaning.
Lets employees know where they stand. One of the common complaints from employees is about the lack of feedback on their performance. Forced ranking sends a clear message as to how people stand, or fall.
Those who are opposed to forced ranking suggest that the process may:
Be detrimental to morale. We want high-performing workplaces, yet we also want people to enjoy coming to work. Can we have both?
Emphasize individual performance at the expense of team performance. Employees will be less willing to "pitch in" and help others. Completing individual assignments becomes more important.
Promote competition. If employees are ranked, will there be less cooperation?
Invite litigation. An important concern, this will be addressed later in the article.
Determining organization fit
Each organization, through careful analysis, will have to decide if this approach would be beneficial or detrimental for the company. The first two considerations should be:
- What are your performance-management objectives?
- What does your culture value?
What are your performance-management objectives?
The table below, entitled "Is forced ranking right for you?" provides an overview of the process objectives that any performance-management system should address. Through the matrix, we determine whether forced ranking or peer review fully meets, partially meets, or does not meet the stated objectives.
It is interesting to note that the first three objectives -- alignment, objective, repeatable -- do not automatically occur in any system, yet they are key to having an effective process. The remaining objectives -- development, promotions, termination, pay, feedback, and workforce planning -- begin to differentiate a forced-ranking approach from a non-directed (no rating guidelines) approach.
It is possible to meet some of these objectives outside the actual performance-management process. For example, a financial-services firm recently implemented rigorous promotion criteria using a forced-ranking approach. Although there is no formal performance-management process in place, the forced-ranking criteria have become the foundation for officer selection.
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|O = Fully meets objective; X = Partially meets objective;
- = Does not meet objective
What does your culture value?
Not all cultures will support forced rankings. As the table below, entitled "What Does Your Culture Value," illustrates, organizations on the right side of the scale will more easily embrace forced rankings. Alternatively, if your organization is toward the left end, resistance will be greater and it may take several years to implement, or it may simply be inconsistent with your business strategy. The five scales to examine are:
Collectivism/Individualism -- Forced ranking doesn't work well for standing teams, where it is important to support each other. For example, a major European retailer's strategy emphasizes teamwork on the sales floor. This enables the associates to fluidly move to where they are most needed. A forced-ranking system would have a detrimental effect on this goal. Alternatively, project teams, in which groups disband, re-form, and are results-oriented, find that forced ranking works extremely well. Product-design teams and professional service teams follow this model.
Reliability/Flexibility -- If quality is the number one issue, consider driving performance through quality improvements instead of forced ranking. A flexible structure applies to project-driven approaches where it is critical that individuals take the initiative. A global provider of information services gives flexibility to their sales staff to customize offerings and provide high-touch service, making a forced-ranking system a viable option.
Activity/Results -- Results-based organizations create increased accountability and use defined performance measures.
Control/Empowerment -- In a highly scripted, controlled environment, setting minimum criteria for performance may be the best approach. Call centers are a classic example of this -- if you have 100 fully trained call center representatives, setting criteria (versus ranking each representative) may be a wiser approach. Organizations that value empowerment also encourage the flexibility and initiative necessary in a high-performance environment.
Functional/Specialized -- Forced ranking works best for companies with similar positions. It will be more difficult for those with hierarchical, functional structures, a large number of positions and titles, small departments, or a limited number of employees.
The legalese
The media has paid significant attention to the legal ramifications of a forced-ranking system. Individual discrimination, disparate impact, and class-action lawsuits have all been cited. What can you do to mitigate the risks? According to Tom Wilde, an employment attorney at Vedder Price, there is no substitute for preparation.
"Ensure that the process is clearly communicated and that training on setting performance goals, improvement plans, and feedback occurs," says Wilde. He also encourages HR managers to work with their legal counsel to:
Update policies and handbooks
Update job descriptions
Monitor performance evaluations and discipline for consistency
Monitor and assess potential EEO problems
In the beginning
So where do you start?
Take stock of your culture.
Understand and identify decisions to be driven by the performance-management system.
Determine if a forced-ranking overlay can apply to existing performance-management processes, or if redesign is necessary (remember the four key questions).
Drive it through senior leadership.
Implementation doesn't happen overnight, so assume that it is a multi-year process and plan accordingly.
Does it help you make decisions?
Is forced ranking right for every company? Probably not. As we've discussed, much depends on your organization's strategy, structure, and culture. There may be alternatives, or a phased-in approach, that will be more successful.
The core issue is whether these processes provide the ability to make people and workforce decisions -- who to develop, promote, redeploy, or terminate. In the end, these are the outcomes that move a process from administrative to strategic and make a difference to both individual and organizational performance.


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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Police are calling a Lawrenceville man a "one-man chop shop" after they arrested him with stolen auto parts at his home. Aundra Pollard is accused of stealing the auto parts from a neighbor. Police said it was the third similar arrest in two years.
Further investigation by Gwinnett County Police Detectives revealed Pollard sold numerous auto parts on his Facebook page and several cars, motorcycles and parts on an online classified site for car enthusiasts. They are trying to find out how many of those parts and vehicles were stolen.
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"(Detectives) would like to speak to anyone who has purchased any items or vehicles from this suspect to determine whether or not any of those items or vehicles were stolen," said Cpl. Jake Smith.
In the latest incident, Pollard is accused of stealing several auto parts from a neighbor on Cedar Drive in Lawrenceville. Those parts were later found at Pollard's home on Cedar Farms Drive.
Items stolen from the victim were an engine, transmission, hood fenders, light covers, bumper, exhaust down pipe, stereo, air fuel ratio, booster and boost control gauges. "He probably just carried the hood and the fender of this car down to his house," Cpl. Smith said. "And the engine, as large as it is, was actually on a small cart with wheels, and we believe he just pushed it down the street to his house.
Cpl. Smith said Pollard had a similar year and model car to the victims and police believe he was using the parts on his car. The parts fit a car still sitting in Pollard's driveway, a 1990 Nissan 240SX.
Detectives became suspicious when they found the parts and vehicles for sale on Facebook and www.mautofied.com. "We'd like to talk to the people who purchased them and of course anyone who thinks they might have been stolen from them," Cpl. Smith said.
On the website, Pollard's seller history shows he sold six cars and three motorcycles since January 2011.
If you recognize any of the vehicles or parts in the photo album above, call Gwinnett County Police.
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Railroad shipping: AAR reports carload and intermodal gains for week ending May 29
June 03, 2010
As railroad volumes continue to show steady improvement on an annual basis, the week ending May 29 was no exception with carload and intermodal volumes both showing gains, according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
Weekly carload volumes—at 286,665—were up 21.9 percent year-over-year and down 8.9 percent from 2008. This fell short of the week ending May 22, which hit 288,114 and the week ending May 15, which hit 290,263. The week ending April 24, which hit 294,218 carloads, is the highest weekly carload level since December 2008, according to the AAR.
Carloads in the West were up 11.1 percent year-over-year and down 7.5 percent compared to 2008. And in the East carloads were up 41.1 percent year-over-year and down 10.9 percent compared to 2008.
In October 2009, the AAR began reporting weekly rail traffic with year-over-year comparisons for the previous two years, due to the fact that the economic downturn was in full effect at this time a year ago, and global trade was bottoming and economic activity was below current levels.
Intermodal container and trailer volumes—at 225,111 trailers and containers—were up 35.5 percent year-over-year and 10.3 percent from 2008, representing the highest weekly total for intermodal loadings since November 2008. This outperformed the weeks ending May 22 and May 15, which hit 215,118 and 218,206 containers and trailers, respectively.
Intermodal container volume was up 37.5 percent year-over-year and 19.4 percent compared to 2008. Intermodal trailer volume was up 25.2 percent year-over-year and down 23.3 percent compared to 2008.
As LM has reported, recent railroad volume growth could lead to a bright picture for the remainder of 2010, according to industry analysts.
These analysts have cited increased industrial production growth in the form of manufacturing and new orders indices, as well as gradual consumer spending, among other factors, as drivers for these gains.
On a year-to-date basis, total U.S. carload volumes at 5,923,333 carloads are up 7.2 percent year-over-year and down 13.5 percent compared to 2008. Trailers or containers at 4,333,559 are up 11.5 percent year-over-year and down 7.3 percent compared to 2008.
All of the 19 products tracked by the AAR, with three commodities up over 2008 levels. Grain was up 15.5 percent, and metallic ores and metals & products up 285.9 percent and 126.9 percent, respectively.
Weekly rail volume was estimated at 32.0 billion ton-miles, a 22.6 percent year-over-year gain. And total volume year-to-date at 650.0 billion ton-miles was up 8.2 percent year-over-year.
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- If the disruption is extreme or continuous, the instructor may inform that student that he/she may no longer remain in the course and that the student may appeal this decision to the Council on Admission, Graduation and Academic Standards.
- If a student becomes abusive or threatening in any way, the instructor may also refer the student for further action to the University Judicial Board by contacting the Director of Student Judicial Programs in the Office of the Vice President for Student Services.
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Professor Harold Weber, Interim Chairperson
Office: 103 Morgan Hall
Requirements for the major. The major in English requires 36 hours of EN courses, distributed as follows:
- 6 hours in basic courses: EN 205 and EN 206 or EN 209 or EN 210 (or honors equivalents)
- 3 hours in EN 300 Introduction to English Studies
- 9 hours in 300-level courses, including a minimum of 3 hours in Area 1 (Early Literature to 1700) and 3 hours in Area 2 (Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature)
- 3 hours in a 300- or 400-level theory, writing, or linguistics course
- 6 hours in 400-level courses
- 3 hours in EN 400 Senior Seminar or EN 499 Honors Seminar
- 6 hours in electives, 3 of which may be selected from the 200-level surveys not taken to fulfill requirement 1 above or EN 249 African-American Literature. The remaining 3 elective hours must be taken at the 300 or 400 level.
- 4 semesters or equivalent proficiency in one foreign language is also required.
Requirements for the minor in English. The minor in English requires 21 hours including EN 205 and EN 206 or EN 209 and EN 210 (or honors equivalents). Twelve hours must be in courses numbered above 299, and three of those hours must be in courses numbered above 399. A minimum of 6 hours at the 300 or 400 level must be earned on this campus.
Requirements for the minor in creative writing. The creative writing minor requires 18 hours, including 3 hours of EN 200, 3 hours of EN 301, 3 hours of EN 303, 3-6 hours of EN 308, and 3-6 hours from the following courses: EN 401, EN 403, and EN 410. At least 3 of the 18 hours in the minor must be at the 400 level. EN 308 may be repeated once for credit.
Honors in English. Any student with a superior aptitude for and a special interest in literature may apply for admission to the honors program in English. The program includes special classes for EN 205 (EN 215), EN 206 (EN 216), EN 209 (EN 219), and EN 210 (EN 220), and eligibility for the Senior Honors Seminar in Literature (EN 499). English majors who maintain a grade point average of 3.5 in English and 3.3 overall upon successfully completing the program and the honors seminar will be eligible for graduation with "honors in English." The honors seminar (EN 499) is designed in consultation with interested students, who are encouraged to suggest topics and course materials that best suit their academic interests. Seminars cover a variety of topics and works. The topic of a recent seminar was "The Idea of the West"; it included works by Homer, Virgil, Swift, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Charles Johnson.
Sigma Tau Delta. Sigma Tau Delta, a national English honor society, aims to promote a mastery of written expression, to encourage worthwhile reading, and to foster a spirit of fellowship among its members. Eligible for membership are students who have at least a 3.33 GPA for 12 hours of English and a 3.0 GPA overall and who are English or English/education majors, or English or creative writing minors. The society, along with the department, annually makes an award to the English major with the highest overall GPA.
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1A maximum of 6 hours in any one department may be applied to the humanities, literature, and fine arts (HU, L, FA) and history and social and behavioral sciences (HI, SB) requirements.
2Six hours in courses designated W must be included in the junior or senior year. A minimum of 36 hours in 300- and 400-level courses, including 12 hours in the major and 6 hours in the minor, must be completed on this campus.
3MATH course number is determined by placement. MATH 110 or higher is required.
Graduate programs. The department offers programs leading to the master of arts, master of arts in teaching English as a second language, master of fine arts, and doctor of philosophy degrees, and to a certificate in rhetoric and composition. The general requirements for these degrees are stated in the University of Alabama graduate catalog.
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