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I am a distinguished scientist and the managing director of XCG (part of Microsoft Research). My technical work is done in collaboration with members of the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group in XCG. Prior to joining Microsoft Research in Jan 1996, I worked at HP Labs, Palo Alto from 1992-1995. I received my Ph.D. from Stanford University and my B.Tech. from IIT, Kharagpur.
Research Interests
- Self-Tuning Technology for Database Systems
- Multi-Tenant Database Systems
- Enterprise Data Analytics
- Text Analytics, Structured Data and Search
Projects I worked on
I started the AutoAdmin project in 1996 soon after joining MSR. The goal of this project is to make databases self-tuning and self-administering by exploiting knowledge of the workload. Vivek Narasayya was my primary collaborator in early years and subsequently we were joined by other colleagues in this effort. Our primary focus was in automated physical database design as well as automated statistics management in relational systems. The Index Tuning Wizard in Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 are based on the technology that we developed as part of this project and represented the first workload-driven commercial physical design tools on relational systems to recommend indexes and indexes + materialized views respectively. The scope of the automated physical design technology has since been expanded and made available in the Database Tuning Advisor feature of the SQL Server 2005 and subsequent releases. The AutoAdmin project page has a detailed description of the project and the publications. Recently, I have gotten interested in the related problem of resource management for Multi-Tenant database systems.
I initiated the Data Cleaning project in 2000 with the goal of developing tools and server infrastructure to support data preparation, an essential step before effective data analysis. Venkatesh Ganti was our leading reseracher in this project in the early years. Our work led to fuzzy matching and fuzzy de-duplication transforms in the SQL Server 2005 product (and subsequent releases) in the SQL Server Integration Services component. In recent years, we have incorporated our Data Cleaning technology in Bing.
Text documents as well as structured relational data are sources of our information. Understanding the synergy between these two sources of information has been a longstanding interest of mine. I started looking at this problem in mid-nineties(SIGMOD 1995) when we studied the problem of "join" between Relational tables and Text repositories. Later, we investigated the problem of keyword search over structured databases (IEEE ICDE 2002) and the problem of auto-ranking of answers in database queries (CIDR 2003, VLDB 2004, CIDR 2005). More recently, we have been looking at the problem of entity search (WWW 2008). Ideas from this project have been incorporated in Bing.
Last but not the least, I am interested in the problem of supporting business intelligence and decision support queries more effectively on data platforms. In the past, I have worked on optimization of complex SQL queries, e.g., optimization of queries with group-by (VLDB 2004), user-defined predicates (VLDB 2006), exploiting factorization for index unions/intersection plans (SIGMOD 2003), and data mining predicates (IEEE ICDE 2002). One of the directions I have pursued is that of revisiting the fundamental assumptions in query optimization (SIGMOD 2005, SIGMOD 2009). Currently, I am exploring techniques and tools for "Big Data" enterprise analytic platforms.
- 2012 ICDE Influential paper Award
- 2011 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
- 2008 VLDB Best Paper Award (with Nico Bruno)
- 2007 VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award (with Vivek Narasayya)
- 2005 ACM Fellow
- 2004 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award
- 2000 IEEE ICDE Best Paper Award (with Vivek Narasayya)
Selected Professional Activities
- 2010 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC): Program Co-Chair
- 2006 ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD): Program Chair
- 1999 ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD): Program Co-Chair
- 2011 IEEE Data Engineering Conference: Industrial Track Co-Chair
- 2003 ACM SIGMOD Conference: Industrial Track Chair
- 2001 ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Industrial Track Co-Chair
- 1999 ACM SIGMOD Conference: Industrial Track Co-Chair
- 1998 IEEE Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE):Industrial Track Chair
- 2002 IEEE Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE): Chair, OLAP and Data Warehousing Track
- 2008 VLDB 10-year award committee, Chair
- 2002 VLDB 10-year award committee, Member
- ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS): Associate Editor, 2001-2007
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE): Associate Editor, 2001-2005
- IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin : Associate Editor, 1998-1999
Invited Talks, Tutorials, and Surveys
- Experiences with Problem #9: Invited Talk, SIGMOD 2011, Athens.
- A Programming Framework for Data Cleaning, Distinguished Lecture, University of British Columbia, 2009.
- An Overview of Business Intelligence Technology, CACM 2011. (with Umeshwar Dayal, Vivek Narasayya)
- Self-Tuning Database Systems: A Decade of Progress. VLDB 2007. (with Vivek Narasayya)
- Foundations of automated database tuning, Tutorial presented at ACM SIGMOD 2005, VLDB 2006. (with Gerhard Weikum)
- Self-Managing Technology in Database Management Systems, Tutorial presented at VLDB 2004. (with Benoît Dageville, Guy M. Lohman)
- Databases and IR: Perspectives of a SQL Guy, NSF Information and Data Management PI Workshop, Seattle, 2003, pdf version of slides
- An Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP technology. Sigmod Record, March 1997 Tutorials Presented at 1996 VLDB, 1997 SIGMOD, 1998 EDBT and 1998 IEEE ICDE Conferences pdf version (with Umeshwar Dayal).
- An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems. Proceedings of 1998 ACM PODS. Invited Tutorial at ACM PODS Conference, 1998, pdf version of paper , pdf version of slides
Technology Transfer (in collaboration with project members)
SQL Server Index Tuning Wizard and Database Tuning Advisor (AutoAdmin project)
Fuzzy Lookup and Fuzzy Grouping Transforms in SQL Server Integration Services (Data Cleaning project)
Query Services and Catalog Data Quality for Bing Shopping (Data Cleaning and Entity Search projects)
Selected Publications
For a complete list of my publications, please look up DBLP
- Interval-based pruning for top-k processing over compressed lists. IEEE ICDE 2011. (with Kaushik Chakrabarti, Venky Ganti)
- Query optimizers: time to rethink the contract? SIGMOD Conference, 2009.
- Extending autocompletion to tolerate errors. SIGMOD Conference, 2009. (with Raghav Kaushik)
- Exploiting web search engines to search structured databases. WWW 2009 (with Sanjay Agrawal, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Venkatesh Ganti, Arnd Christian König, Dong Xin)
- Exploiting web search to generate synonyms for entities. WWW 2009. (with Venkatesh Ganti, Dong Xin)
- Transformation-based Framework for Record Matching: IEEE ICDE 2008. (with Arvind Arasu, Raghav Kaushik)
- Constrained physical design tuning: VLDB 2008 (with Nico Bruno)
- Fine Grained Authorization Through Predicated Grants. IEEE ICDE 2007 (with Tanmoy Dutta, S. Sudarshan)
- An Online Approach to Physical Design Tuning: IEEE ICDE 2007. (with Nico Bruno)
- Leveraging aggregate constraints for deduplication. SIGMOD 2007 (with Venky Ganti, Raghav Kaushik, Anish Das Sarma)
- A Primitive Operator for Similarity Joins in Data Cleaning. IEEE ICDE 2006 (with Venky Ganti, Raghav Kaushik)
- Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach, ACM SIGMOD 2005. (with Brian Babcock)
- When Can We Trust Progress Estimators for SQL Queries? ACM SIGMOD 2005. (with Raghav Kaushik, Ravishankar Ramamurthy)
- Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation. ACM SIGMOD 2004. (with Gautam Das and Utkarsh Srivastava)
- Estimating Progress of Long Running SQL Queries. ACM SIGMOD 2004. (with Vivek Narasayya, Ravishankar Ramamurthy)
- Robust and efficient fuzzy match for online data cleaning, ACM SIGMOD 2003 (with Kris Ganjam, Venkatesh Ganti, Rajeev Motwani).
- DBXplorer: A System For Keyword-Based Search Over Relational Databases. IEEE ICDE 2002. (with Sanjay Agrawal and Gautam Das).
- Efficient Evaluation of Queries with Mining Predicates. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2002. (with Vivek Narasayya and Sunita Sarawagi).
- STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD 2001. (with Nicolas Bruno and Luis Gravano).
- Integrating Data Mining with SQL Databases: OLE DB for Data Mining, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Data Engineering, 2001 (with Amir Netz, Surajit Chaudhuri, Usama M. Fayyad, Jeff Bernhardt)
- Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning, RISC-style Database System. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB00)(with Gerhard Weikum).
- Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB00)(with Sanjay Agrawal and Vivek Narasayya).
- Towards Estimation Error Guarantees for Distinct Values. 19th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symp. on Principles of Database Systems, Dallas, USA. 2000(with Moses Charikar., Rajeev Motwani, and Vivek Narasayya).
- Automating Statistics Management for Query Optimizers. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Data Engineering, San Diego, USA 2000 (with Vivek Narasayya).
- Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries. Proceedings of 25th VLDB Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland , UK. 1999 (with Luis Gravano)
- Self-Tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data, Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD, Philadelphia, 1999 (with Ashraf Aboulnaga)
- On Random Sampling over Joins, ACM SIGMOD 1999 (with Rajeev Motwani and Vivek Narasayya)
- Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough? Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD, Seattle, 1998 (with Vivek Narasayya and Rajeev Motwani)
- AutoAdmin "What-If" Index Analysis Utility. Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD, Seattle, 1998 (with Vivek Narasayya).
- An Efficient Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB97), Athens, Greece, 1997, pp. 146-155, 1997 (with Vivek Narasayya).
- Data Mining and Database Systems: Where is the Intersection?. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, March 1998
Selected Publications (Pre-MSR)
- Optimizing Queries with User-Defined Predicates, VLDB Conference 1996 (with Kyuseok Shim)
- Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques SIGMOD Conference 1995: 410-422 (with Umeshwar Dayal and Tak W. Yan)
- Optimizing Queries with Materialized Views ICDE 1995: 190-200 (with Ravi Krishnamurthy, Spyros Potamianos, Kyuseok Shim)
- Including Group-By in Query Optimization VLDB 1994: 354-366 (with Kyuseok Shim)
- Optimization of Real Conjunctive Queries PODS 1993: 59-70 (with Moshe Y. Vardi)


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NEW CUMBERLAND - Coming into Friday's matchup with Oak Glen at the Bears' Den, Indian Creek coach Andrew Connor knew his team's biggest challenge was dealing with the big, physical front of the Golden Bears.
After a one-sided 41-9 victory, the Redskins showed the valley they were up to that challenge.
''Credit goes to our offensive line and defensive line because I thought that was where the challenge of the game was, and I thought they responded well to that challenge,'' Connor said. ''Last week we came off a gut-check win. This week we maybe we answered some critics that thought we couldn't play as well as we could.
''I thought we played well.''
Leading 7-3 after one quarter, the Redskins proceeded to run off 34 straight points, including a three-touchdown second quarter.
''I feel we came out flat and they blew us off the ball,'' Oak Glen coach Ian Whittington said. ''I think we also got outcoached.''
After Logan Woods scored from 4 yards out for the Redskins and Josh Weltner blasted a 43-yard field goal for the Golden Bears, the Redskins began their onslaught.
They went up 14-3 with 9:05 left in the second quarter when Alex Young rolled right, avoided pressure and hit Frankie Kamarec for a 14-yard score. Young also punched through the extra point on an 11-play, 72-yard drive that was helped by flags against Oak Glen for pass interference horse collar.
Later in the quarter Indian Creek went on a four-play, 41-yard drive after making Oak Glen punt from its own 6. Woods scored his second touchdown, this one from 5 yards out with 2:04 left in the half, and Young knocked home another point after. On the score the ball popped loose to Justin Stivason of the Golden Bears who appeared to be destined for a 100-yard touchdown return, but the whistle blew and it was ruled Woods crossed the plane of the end zone.
''There were a few plays, if they would have went our way, that would have changed the first half, but I can't dwell on that,'' Whittington said. ''We had to go with the hand we were dealt.''
Creek got one more before the half with the help of some defensive magic. Tyler Lathem picked off Oak Glen quarterback Bub Haddox's pass at the Redskins 45 and returned it to the 9. A 5-yard penalty against the Bears pushed the ball to the 4-yard line and three plays later Blake Roar scored from the 7 for a 28-3 halftime lead.
''I think the basic thing it comes down to is you have to play physical and play fast, and we were able to do both,'' Connor said of his team's defensive play.
Woods scored for a third time on his team's first possession of the second half, this time from 15 yards and the Redskins led 35-3.
From there it was cruise control for Indian Creek as Connor was able to go deep into his bench for playing time.
''It feels good because we were able to get some of our young kids in during the third and fourth quarters,'' he said. ''Anytime you can get kids with a lot of experience during the season it benefits you down the road.''
Both teams found the end zone one more time with Tran Huynh scoring form a yard out for Indian Creek and Cody Tropeck busting an 86-yard scoring run for Oak Glen to make the final 41-9.
The Redskins rushing attack grinded out 256 yards on 49 carries. Woods led the way with 13 carries for 94 yards and three scores. Huyhn added 11 for 65 and a touchdown.
''Basically just lined up and told our kids if you want to be a good football team, even if the other team puts nine or 10 guys in the box, you have to be able to run the football,'' Connor said. ''I thought our kids responded well to it.''
The usually potent Oak Glen run game was held to 102 yards on 36 plays. Tropeck had three carries for 82 yards and a score in the fourth quarter to bolster those numbers. The Golden Bears had minus-16 yards on the ground in the first half.
''We lost on the offensive line,'' Whittington said. ''We were blown off the ball. We won on the offensive line in our last game, and they beat us off the ball in this game.''

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|HHS boys' basketball opens season with three wins
|Written by April Peregoy
If the first week is a good indicator of how the rest of the season will go, the Holyoke Dragons boys' basketball team could be in for a winning season.
It was certainly a hectic opening week, with Holyoke playing three games in five days. The Dragons, however, overcame the drain to beat Wray, 28-14, on Tuesday, Dec. 2; Brush, 44-42, on Thursday, Dec. 4; and Idalia, 54-43, on Saturday, Dec. 6.
"It was a good week for us," said coach John Baumgartner. "The boys battled it out, and showed improvement with each game."
He added the team did especially well on defense, and though offensively the players had a rough time in the first game, they improved each time they played.
Holyoke 28, Wray 14
"Well, it was a typical first game," Baumgartner said about the team's first match-up against Wray on Tuesday night.
Though both teams played great defense that night, according to Baumgartner, they both also struggled at making their shots. In fact, the final score of 28-14 looked more like a first-quarter-ending score.
However, as Baumgartner put it, the Dragons "will take the win."
"It wasn't bad for a first game," he said. "The kids put in a good effort and played hard. They handled the ball well and had some good rebounds. Obviously we have some things to work on, but overall I was pleased."
Things got off to a slow start in the first half, with the score at halftime only 13-8. Holyoke stepped up their shooting game a bit in the second, however, while Wray continued to struggle.
Dragon defense refused to let Wray get in an easy shot, which resulted in Wray making only two field goals and a free throw in the entire second half.
Austin Tharp had a good first half, earning all of Holyoke's six points in the first quarter and then making another three-pointer in the second. He and Ryan Baumgartner both led in points with nine each.
Both players also contributed the most steals, with Tharp nabbing three and Baumgartner four. As point guard, Baumgartner contributed five assists as well.
Meanwhile, Michal Brown helped out defensively, rebounding seven balls. Kyle Carper and Evan Swanson brought down four each.
Holyoke 28, Wray 14
Tharp 2 1 2-3 3 9
Baumgartner 4 0 1-1 2 9
Carper 0 0 1-2 2 1
Wailes 3 0 0-0 0 6
Brown 0 0 0-0 2 0
DeBoer 0 0 0-0 0 0
Swanson 0 1 0-0 1 3
Scoring By Quarters
Holyoke 6 7 9 6 -28
Wray 2 6 5 1 --14
Holyoke 44, Brush 42
On Thursday, the Dragons found themselves on the road again, this time to meet up with Brush. Holyoke was prepared for a tough fight, and the opponent didn't disappoint.
"Brush is a good team," said Baumgartner, "and we knew they had scored 73 points in the game they played the night before."
From the start it was a close match. Despite Evan Swanson putting up the first three of the night right off the whistle, Brush ended the first quarter one point ahead.
Gaining momentum in the second, the Dragons bounced back to score a total 19 points before the half. Carper and Tharp were the dynamic duo of the period, adding eight and seven points respectively.
Ahead by six going into the second half, the Dragons maintained their lead the rest of the game, despite Brush's valiant effort to take it back.
In the fourth, the Brush team began to gain on Holyoke, thanks mostly to Kolby Wahlert who put up two three-point field goals. Luckily, Tharp was on fire from the line, swishing five out of six free throw attempts. He and Carper made the final two baskets of the night to give Holyoke the win by two points.
According to Baumgartner, Holyoke's offense was "picking it up and hustling," against Brush, but it was the team's defense that won the game.
"Brush's guards shot well," he said, "but we were able to shut them down." He especially credited Brown and Carper for their defensive skills.
Tharp dominated in points, contributing 23 total while Carper added 14.
Rebounding stats showed the whole team being aggressive, with five players, Carper, Tharp, Baumgartner, Brown and Swanson, bringing down several balls each.
Holyoke 44, Brush 42
Tharp 4 2 9-13 1 23
Baumgartner 0 0 0-1 1 0
Carper 7 0 0-0 4 14
Wailes 0 0 0-0 2 0
Brown 1 0 2-2 2 4
DeBoer 0 0 0-0 0 0
Swanson 0 1 0-0 0 3
Scoring By Quarters
Holyoke 7 19 9 9 -44
Brush 8 12 10 12 --42
Holyoke 54, Idalia 43
The home court advantage was finally Holyoke's when the players hosted Idalia on Saturday.
Both teams got off to an exciting start, with the first four baskets coming from behind the arc. On the Holyoke side, Tharp chipped in two of the threes made in the first quarter and Swanson added one. The period ended with the Dragons up by one.
HHS put some distance on the scoreboard between them and Idalia in the second quarter, thanks largely to Tharp who put up 10 of Holyoke's 16 points, including two three-pointers. HHS led by seven at the half.
Returning from halftime break, the Dragons continued to extend their lead, adding 15 points to the scoreboard while holding Idalia to 11, and maintaining it through until the end, beating Idalia by 11.
"We keep on improving," said Baumgartner about the win. "This game was good because we saw production from everybody. They're getting the job done."
He gave credit to the Idalia athletes, saying they will be a strong 1A team. "They were missing their strongest player on Saturday too," he added.
Receiving good comments from the coach was Evan Swanson, who had his best game so far with 11 points, nine of which came from behind the arc.
Colby Wailes was also praised for his contributions to the Idalia game, both offensively and defensively.
Tharp again led the team in scoring with 20 and Swanson earned 11. Carper and Tharp also contributed the most rebounds with seven and six respectively.
Unfortunately, point guard Baumgartner suffered a potentially serious wrist injury during the game on Saturday. As he is one of the team's strongest players, losing him would be a huge setback for Holyoke.
Holyoke 54, Idalia 43
Tharp 2 4 4-5 3 20
Baumgartner 3 0 1-4 3 7
Carper 4 0 1-2 1 9
Wailes 2 0 1-3 1 5
Brown 1 0 0-0 2 2
DeBoer 0 0 0-0 0 0
Swanson 0 3 2-2 2 11
King 0 0 0-0 0 0
Reid Baum. 0 0 0-0 0 0
Scoring By Quarters
Holyoke 14 16 15 9 -54
Idalia 13 10 11 9 --43
Upcoming action
Scheduling for the month of December allows the team to take a week-long break before hitting it hard again. The third week of the month will see the Dragons again playing three games in five days; this time hosting Akron on Tuesday, Dec. 16, then traveling to Haxtun Friday, Dec. 19 and then to Ovid to take on 2008 state champions Sedgwick County Saturday, Dec. 20.
Tuesday and Friday's games are slated to start at 4 p.m. Saturday's game will begin at 3 p.m.
"We're really looking forward to that week," said Baumgartner. "Akron's only had one loss so far to Brush, Haxtun is always a fun team to play and Sedgwick County was last year's state champ. It should be an exciting week."


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Using the latest version of ZCB and BES 4.1, we seem to be having something simple as an authentication problem between BES and ZCS.
We have established a Global Administrator account for the BES in Zimbra. It seems to have full admin capabilities on the admin web interface (i.e., logging in with this account we can create other accounts, as well as view other account's email, etc). However, when we use the BES command line tool on the BES server to test the activation of any other user account (other than that of the BES admin account in Zimbra) it fails the test of trying to create the IMAP folder for that user account. It will create the test IMAP folder and delete it for itself just fine, so we know it is resolving the Zimbra mail server and able to access it's own account on it.
Is there something we need to do in the COS (we're using the default) in order for the BES admin account to be able to access the normal user email accounts in Zimbra so it can read the mail sent by RIM and do its process to sync the Blackberry? Or perhaps something we need to implement server-side on the Zimbra server to allow the BES admin account to manipulate other users accounts?
The process should work like this:
1. User goes to authorize Blackberry by configuring email and BES password we set for it.
2. RIM sends email to user account.
3. BES Admin account constantly monitors user's Zimbra email account for the RIM email w/ attachment, finds it, does its routine to start the sync and delete the email.
We're stuck on #3. Like I said, it will access the BES Admin Zimbra account just fine, but cannot manipulate anyone else's email, as it should be able to with the Global Administrator access.
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Design By: Maggie Weldon
Skill Level: Intermediate
Size:41" wide x 63" long
Materials: Worsted Weight Yarn;
28 ounces (1800 yds) Rich Periwinkle (MC), 14 ounces (920 yds) White (CC), 130 yards Aunt Lydia's Fast Five Silver/Silver metallic thread. Yarn Needle.
Crochet Hooks: H and E (for Stars) or size needed to obtain gauge.
Angel Afghan Crochet Pattern
Angels aren't just for Christmas; they bring comfort and serenity all year round. The Angel Afghan Pattern is a gorgeous afghan that has a design and color combination perfect for any occasion. The peaceful angels have a light and airy ambiance that will make you want to wrap up in. A simple change of the main crochet afghan color turns it from a wonderful holiday afghan that also works well with spring decor. Each angel crochet block is made separately, and then stitched together to complete the pretty angel afghan. The angel design includes a halo overhead, bow around the neck and stars around the head. The pretty purple background color gives this afghan a warm feeling, but you can choose any background color that fits your home decor and personal preference.
Angel Afghan Pattern is an original design by Maggie Weldon. The color changes and delicate connective stitches make this pattern an intermediate skill level. Use a worsted weight yarn to obtain the correct gauge for a finished size of about 41 inches wide by 63 inches long. This is comfortable for a lap quilt or chair throw. Adjust the size larger by making additional blocks. You can also make a pillow using one of the angel blocks as the front. The Angel Afghan Pattern is versatile by letting you choose the color combination or change the size. You will have fun completing this crochet afghan, and it will make a nice addition to any room in your home.
Other popular crochet afghan patterns include:
Scrap Afghan and Pillow Crochet Pattern
Giraffe Afghan, Pillow and Toy CrochetPattern
Pansy Afghan and Pillow Set Crochet Pattern
Ladybug Afghan and Pillow Crochet Pattern
Butterfly Afghan and Pillow Crochet Pattern
Festive Hollies Afghan and Pillow Pattern
Heart Afghans Crochet Pattern
Beginning crocheters will enjoy these crochet patterns as well as the most experienced!!
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I've noticed a strange behavior of Zimbra lately: when contacting a server which has graylisting enabled the mails get bounced back instead of retried later!
why the mail isn't kept on the postfix queue until the next retry, instead of bounced back to the sender??Code:
Sep 5 09:50:34 webmail postfix/smtp[5776]: 894D6CAC02E: host mx.destdomain.it[] said: 450 4.2.0 <firstname.lastname@example.com>: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted, see http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/help/destdomain.it.html (in reply to RCPT TO command)
Sep 5 09:50:35 webmail postfix/smtp[5776]: 894D6CAC02E: to=<email@example.com>, relay=my.zimbra.it[]:25, delay=0.7, delays=0/0/0.59/0.11, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host my.zimbra.it[] said: 530 <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Authentication does not match this account (in reply to MAIL FROM command))


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LMC Steel Bed Floor Swap - Raising And Replacing Bed FloorsWritten by on September 27, 2012
So, I've had an idea in my head for quite some time. And up until now I really didn't know if it was possible, or worse yet, if I could pull it off. The idea was to swap or install a steel bed floor where a wood bed once was. The idea came to me because I'm very rough with my things and tend to abuse them more than the average Joe.
When John from Deuces Wild Hotrods & Customs asked me what I was going to do with the bed floor, I pitched him the idea. His face lit up because I think he'd wanted to do the same thing on a pickup. We brainstormed on how to accomplish such a task and came up with a simple answer – LMC Truck.
LMC has several different steel beds that replace the factory '73-87 Chevy bed floors and practically slip right into place. For my application I used part number 38-9566-T for a shortbed truck. When I say it almost slipped into the factory bed, I wasn't kidding. The LMC floor is so close, all I did was trim it in a few spots to make it fit.
The only issue I ran into was the wheel well openings were off on one side by 6-8 inches, but my wide 285/35/R18 Nitto tires fit with no problems. Since I was also planning to raise the bed floor to clear my C-notch, the wheel well opening was not an issue. Note, if you don't plan on raising the bed floor, everything should still fit. Since this truck is being built for autocross, adding weight is probably not the best idea, but we are adding the weight in the back where we need it. Besides, I want to use the truck for just that – a "truck."
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A few more measurements and I was ready to cut the new floor. We made room for wheel movement and for larger tires.I don't remember the exact measurement, but the bed was raised 6-7 inches to clear the C-notch. Notice the permanent marker line above the bed floor. John marked the inside of the bed evenly so that he could visualize the bed floor fitment.John then cut some angle iron and drilled a few holes in it so that he could plug weld it to the bed.
With the help of the shop locals, we lifted the LMC floor onto the stock bedsides. The angle iron helped support the floor while we checked to see if everything lined up.The bed floor was a little too wide, so I took 1⁄8 inch off each side of the LMC floor and tried again. It fit perfect after removing the edge of the LMC floor.We used large C-clamps to hold the LMC floor to the bedsides. This way we could test fit it on the frame.It's starting to look like a bed again. We checked the floor to make sure it was square in the bedsides.We checked to see if the bed was square and it was perfect. Next we checked to see if the bed was level in all corners. Then the rear bedrail was sanded down using sandpaper and a wire wheel on a 5-inch grinder. I then welded 1-inch stringers to the LMC floor and the stock bed. I made sure to wait a few minutes in between welds.The corner is tricky if you get too impatient. Make sure when you weld anything with thin sheetmetal that you wait in between the welds. If you look at this weld, I started at the bottom with a tack and then tacked the top. I then moved, welded for an inch, and moved on to the other side, so that the metal had time to cool. If you don't wait, the metal can warp and move the bed so the tailgate does not line up.
The top of the bedside should have a support from one side to the other. Once the metal cooled I moved to another area that needed welding. Notice the gap was not ideal, but if you point the torch toward the bedside and not the bed floor the welds will be less likely to burn a hole in the new floor.I will have to grind this down. Remember to remove all the old paint before you start welding or your welds might look like this one. Notice the volcano effect of the left side of the weld; this happens when the old paint tries to make its way out of the weld.A large straight edge was used to help square the bed to the cab. RJ Plent and I moved the bed back and forth until it looked good. Then we stood back and visually inspected the bed.I used 1/4 plate to make the upper mounts for the LMC floor; 1/2 nuts were welded on the plate so the bed bolts could be dropped in from the top.Since I raised the bed floor I needed to extend the mounts that hold the bed on the frame. We used a thick piece of rectangular tubing on four corners of the bed.
Notice the gap right above the tailgate, you can either fill it in with sheetmetal or leave it alone. My vote was to leave it alone for now since the tailgate covers it up.The new LMC bed was slightly off from the stock wheelbase. My stock Fleetside fenders fit over the fender wells (before I modified the floor), but were offset from the wheelwell. The fender can either be modified or sheetmetal added to the LMC bed floor. This also depends if you are raising your bed or not.Since I raised the bed floor and modified the new LMC bed to make room for larger wheels and tires, my stock fenders will not fit. The good news is the bed is in and it's starting to look like a bed again.The bed floor was not the only thing I ordered from LMC. When I purchased the truck it had one of those huge 4x4 towing-style bumpers on it. A new LMC rear bumper was in order to make the truck's rear look cleaner. I may modify the hinges and flip the bumper to tuck it closer to the bed.


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What you see is where you're at Part 3 'CRUSADE' Exhibition Poster
Poster to accompany the third part of What you see is where you're at, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Poster artwork is Gilbert and George's CRUSADE.
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Ports are a design pattern
Ports are a design pattern (see my book Real-Time Design Patterns for a more detailed description of the pattern). All design patterns are an attempt to optimize some set of qualities of a system at expense of other aspects. All patterns have both pros (benefits) and cons (costs), just like any other design optimization decision. In the case of ports, they allow the connection points of elements to be identified and characterized, independent of the types of things connecting to them. That means that the class types at either end of the ports need not be known to the port – the only requirement is that the interface (or one of its subtypes) must be supported. Ports therefore support an interface-oriented design strategy pretty well. In fact, their best use arises when the behavior being invoked via a port is actually met by an internal part of a composite class; ports enforce information hiding by not allowing the client of the service to know who delivers the service or how it is done. This greatly improves maintainability of the system since internal changes to a composite element only require changes to the client when the interface changes, not when the implementation strategy changes.
As with all design patterns, there are costs to using ports. The first, and less serious, is that they clutter the diagram by adding more visual elements to the model. In addition, they add a small amount of overhead that is not always easy to optimize away. Thirdly, although multiplicity of ports is provided for by the UML specification, tools generally don't support a multicast to send the same message to all elements connected over a (multi)port and so designers have to fill in means to do that when necessary. Lastly, ports can only be connected via links, not associations. That means that in order to show connected collaborations, only instances of the containing class can be shown on the diagram. Many developers find this limiting.
Technically speaking, a port is a feature of its containing class. Ports can pass both asynchronous (e.g. asynchronous events) and synchronous messages (e.g. function calls). Ports are "typed" by the interfaces they support. An interface is a collection of message specifications. Each port has two sets of interfaces supported, each of which can contain zero or more interfaces. The first are known as "provided" interfaces. These are services provided by the containing element or parts within that element. The second are called "required" interfaces. These refer to sets of services that must be provided by elements (outside the current one) that connect to this port. Ports that can be connected (what is provided by one is required by the other and vice versa) are said to be port conjugate pairs.
Ports may either terminate on the element that actually provides the behavior (in which case, they are called "behavioral ports") or they may delegate to other ports on internal parts of a composite element (in which case, they are "delegation" or "relay" ports).
Delegate and behavioral ports form the core value of the usage paradigm of ports because they strongly enforce implementation hiding. If a service implementation is completely refactored inside a composite element, the client can remain unchanged. Sure information hiding is crucial for the development of large-scale reusable software elements and for product line engineering.
Are Ports for Systems Engineering or Software Development?
Modeling is used in both systems engineering and software development, but how about ports? The output of systems engineering is ultimately specification, not implementation. Within system modeling, done either with UML or SysML, ports are useful in two different cases. First, the Harmony Process (see my book Real-Time Agility for more information) contains a requirements capture practice known as "System Functional Analysis". In this practice, use cases are modeled as blocks (classes) and given state-based behavior that represents the externally visible aspects of the requirements relevant to that use case. These blocks are then linked to actors (also blocks) that represent external elements that interact with the system and this collaboration is then executed. I've used this in many systems projects, from automotive to spacecraft development, and it's always been helpful in finding missing, incorrect, incomplete, and conflicting requirements. These blocks are typically connected with ports. Although system functional analysis is inherently a requirements definition activity, constructing an executable model of the use case is made easier through the use of ports.
Another kind of specification output from systems engineering is the system architecture. The key here is to identify and characterize the subsystems to which we will allocate functionality. These subsystems are typically multi-disciplinary; that is, the implementation will be some combination of engineering disciplines such as pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical, electronic, and software. Subsystems are most commonly modeled as blocks in SysML (classes in UML) that connect to other subsystems through ports characterized with well-specified interfaces. Ports provide a powerful means to model the connectivity of the subsystems at a "logical interface" definition level without having to specify even the implementation discipline, let alone the specific technology.
Having said all that, ports are still used even more in software. The Port Pattern is very common, especially in large-scale software units, called composite classes. These classes realize their behavior primarily through the orchestration of their internal parts. These parts are themselves typed by classes and may also be composites. This whole-part taxonomy provides a simple means of organizing the most complex software architectures and ports provide message delegation and information hiding throughout the software architecture.
Ports with links or associations between classes?
Of course, ports aren't the only way to connect model elements. Normal associations between classes specify links that exist at run-time. Associations are most commonly implemented as pointers or references and are both lightweight and easy to manage. Non-unary multiplicity can be managed with arrays of pointers or references or more elaborate containers such as those provided by the C++ STL. Although they are lightweight, associations also have a cost; the navigable end must know the type (class) of the element on the other end of the association. This ties the relationship to one between specific types and their subtypes. This is more confining than using ports because ports only require interface compliance not type dependency.
Although ports can be used to connect to part object within a composite from outside that composite, ports provide a cleaner way to do so than with associations. Generally, I recommend that when traversing a link to an internal part object, ports be used if the overhead is acceptable. A common use of ports in this way is to send messages across thread boundaries.
The primary means for thread management in the UML is via active classes. An active class owns its own thread and event queue and its parts typically run inside of that thread. Active classes are typically composites as well and their internal parts perform the semantic functionality of the thread (the active object normally does the thread management and event distribution). Thus, to send an event to an object inside another thread, it is common to connect that object with its client via ports on the boundary of the active class.
Normal or Flow?
Normal ports in UML or SysML support fundamentally discrete communication. This communication can be synchronous (function calls) or asynchronous (asynchronous events) but the message is fundamentally discrete in nature. So, how do you model a continuous flow?
With SysML, a new kind of port was introduced – flow ports. These ports are used in systems engineering as a means to model continuous flows, such as the (continuous) pressure on a brake pedal, the voltage level on a wire, or the energy in a battery. Flow ports are bound to attributes of a block and when linked, the change of an attribute in one block flows along the link to update the value of an attribute bound to the flow port at the other end of the link.
Since UML defines four different kinds of event (asynchronous, synchronous, time, and change), these value changes can induce an event on the receivers state machine via a change event. Flow ports thus provide a simple means for data distribution in systems. Used in this way, you can even think of flow ports are providing a rudimentary publish-subscribe pattern since when the server object's data changes it automatically propagates to the receiver.
Port Recommendations
Ports are a very useful design pattern for requirements analysis, architecture definition, and data propagation. They do have some overhead that may not always be optimized away but they support an interface-based development strategy and as well as simple data distribution. I personally recommend ports be used primarily between architectural or large-scale elements such as subsystems, software components, structured classes, and task threads. However, once you're inside a composite, associations are recommended for inter-class communications.


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Ferrymans Tavern, in Cape Town, was the first establishment to open in the V & A Waterfront in 1989. It is a traditional, old fashioned pub with a generous wooden bar counter, brick paved floors, Oregon pine beams and a huge fire place, which during the winter is the perfect place to enjoy a one of the local beers or a great glass of wine. The wonderful homely atmosphere is further enhanced by the old photos, prints and drinking memorabilia that scatters the walls.
With a wide range of local and international beers, as well as Ferrymans Ale, which is made exclusively for the Tavern, it is a great watering hole for locals and foreigners alike. There is a great pub menu for the downstairs Tavern with favourites like fish and chips, chicken pie and curry and rice, and daily specials that feature traditional South African fare and seafood. In the Upstairs restaurants patrons can feast on the weekday buffet for lunch, as well as an a la carte menu with wine pairing for both lunch and dinner.
There is an outside beer garden for those wonderful hot sunny Cape Town days where patrons can sit back and take in the fabulous views while sipping on an ice cold beer. With play area for the kids Ferrymans Tavern is an ideal place for the whole family.


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I copied the idea from a shopper at my vendor table at the local farmer's market. It look's great with jeans.
Components:Turquoise nuggets, resin, glass & wood beads and brass chain.
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PS I keep looking at this and you have some great elements here but I keep getting distracted by the orange donut. The rest of the piece is kind of funky and tribal and fun but the donut says 1960′s to me. Just my opinion, but what do I know? Btw, you have a really cool design flair.
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I am often asked... "When can I use FlashCopy Manager with my EMC disk array?" (substitute "EMC" with your favorite vendor)
With FlashCopy Manager for Windows, you can leverage hardware snapshots for any disk array that has a VSS Hardware Provider. This is because Windows has a built-in architecture (referred to as "VSS") that enables pluggable snapshot support. We wrote a developerWorks article that explains how this works and how it integrates with TSM a few years ago. (Note: This article refers to "TSM for Copy Services" instead of "FlashCopy Manager" because it was written before the product name was changed.)
But, with FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux and FlashCopy Manager for VMware, you must wait until support is added for your desired disk array. Last year, IBM partnered with Rocket Software to develop a device adapter pack that plugs in to FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux and FlashCopy Manager for VMware to extend support to more storage devices. You install it on top of an existing FlashCopy Manager (version 4.1 or later) installation on the application server being protected by FlashCopy Manager for UNIX (or on the proxy backup server in case of FlashCopy Manager for VMware) and configure it to talk to the storage device. After that, you are able to leverage the power of FlashCopy Manager snapshot protection for the hardware device supported by that device adapter pack!
At the end of last year, Rocket Software released support for EMC Symmetric (VMAX and DMX). They are planning to add more disk arrays in 2014. If you have devices that you want to see added, contact Rocket Software.
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Rebuilding an 8-3/4 - Get Your Rear In GearWritten by on January 13, 2011 Contributors: Randy's Ring and Pinion We Show The Ins And Outs Of Building And Installing An 8 3/4 Centersection
As automotive enthusiasts, we often talk about the different methods of making engine power, as much of our interest lies under the hood of our Mopars. The pros and cons of automatic versus manual transmissions are also a subject of our conversations, as are the various ways to get our cars to run quicker elapsed times, or make more power on the dyno. When it comes to the rear differential in our Mopars, however, most of us are aware that gear ratio selection is an important factor determining how a car will perform, but aside from that we have very little understanding of how the differential actually works.
Since most of our Mopars came with the Chrysler 8 3/4 rear end, we seldom have any major problems with this area of the car. In fact, even a factory 8 3/4 can handle substantial engine power without fatigue, and we've seen high-mileage rear ends handle modified big-blocks without much trouble. So, barring a catastrophic failure of the rear end, we generally just tend to forget about how many parts are in the rear differential and the various ways they can wear out, negatively affecting the performance of our vehicles. Worn ring and pinion gears will whine, and more serious problems will cause vibrations, excess drag, and even rear end lockup.
Swapping the rear end for another used one is an option, and most of us have swapped the centersection of our 8 3/4 to gain more optimal gearing as well. But as even the most recently produced factory 8 3/4 rear ends are 30 or more years old, the centersection you find to install in your car may be just as worn as the one you removed. Thankfully, most 8 3/4 differentials can be rebuilt, and many new parts are available. Since we needed a solid rear for our '71 Road Runner, we contacted Randy's Ring and Pinion to check out our options for the 8 3/4 in our car.
Like most Mopar enthusiasts, we like to perform much of the work on our cars ourselves. One area that we tend to leave to the experts, however, is the rear differential, and specifically the Sure Grip unit and ring and pinion gears of the car. It's not that the differential is beyond our technical expertise so much as this type of work requires specialty tools and must be done correctly so that the rear end has minimal drag and the appropriate amount of gear noise for the application. For these reasons, we decided to let the pros at Randy's Ring and Pinion build our 8 3/4 centersection, and we followed along to show you how it's done the right way.
When choosing a rear differential, the first determination that must be made is the intention of the car. For all-out drag cars with slicks that don't see street duty, a spool (solid) rear axle makes the most sense. The spool is lighter and locks the rear axles together, ensuring both tires spin at equal rpm at all times. At the other end of the spectrum, if you're just replacing the rear in your '74 Dart four-door with a Slant-Six, an inexpensive open style unit will work just fine. For the majority of us, however, a limited-slip type differential is the best choice for our street cars, or even cars that see a blend of street and strip duty. Chrysler called their limited-slip differentials Sure Grip and they were used extensively in muscle cars, trucks, and even station wagons.
There are several versions of the 8 3/4 centersection, and up until the mid-'60s, the differential had a bolt-together pinion yoke, making those undesirable for performance builds. The most common casting numbers for the 8 3/4 centersections end in the numbers 741, 742, and 489, with the 741 case being the least desirable due to its small diameter pinion bearing. Inside the cases, there were two types of Chrysler Sure Grip, commonly called the clutch style and the cone style, used to apply power to both axles during hard acceleration, but let the inside axle slip to maintain control when cornering. Both of these differentials worked well, but the clutch style is considered better of the factory Sure Grips because of its simpler design and its ability to be rebuilt when worn out. And speaking of wearing out, any factory 8 3/4 that has been used extensively, especially in a muscle car, is likely worn out by now. Since the rear in our Road Runner was suffering multiple ailments, including gear whine and chatter during tight turns, we decided to replace it.
Because our Road Runner will see mostly street driving, with some aggressive driving thrown in during weekend trips to the dragstrip, we decided that a Sure Grip unit would be the perfect choice for our B-Body. Additionally, since our A-833 four-speed transmission ends in a one-to-one ratio (no overdrive), we needed a set of gears that would allow highway cruising, counting on the relatively low first gear of the four-speed to get our weighty B-Body out of the hole. Knowing we're planning a future engine change to a larger and more powerful engine than the 383 currently in the car, and having experience driving cars with a multitude of engine and gear combinations, we decided that a 3.55 gear ratio would be about right. This gear ratio is a bit of a compromise on both ends, sacrificing a little bottom end and a little top speed, but is a great all-around gear that will allow us to drive the speed limit on the interstate while keeping our engine at a reasonable rpm.
With our decision made, we called Randy's Ring and Pinion to see what our options were. Building rear differentials for everything from industrial applications to all-out high-horsepower racing vehicles, the team at Randy's has good experience and quickly suggested, although they did have aluminum centersections for the 8 3/4, that we should build a differential using a factory 742 case for our application. Inside, Randy's installed a new Auburn Sure Grip unit, new heavy-duty 3.55 ratio ring and pinion set, and all new bearings and seals. Additionally, we chose to install a billet pinion yoke, taking away the weak link of the somewhat brittle factory yoke.
Once ordered, Randy's Ring and Pinion shipped the completed centersection directly to us, and local shop Inline Performance Specialists was nice enough to let us use one of their lifts to install it. The difference? We'll just say dramatic. The new differential is far quieter than our worn out 3.91 geared 489 case factory rear, and we even took away an annoying vibration that we later found was caused by a worn pinion bearing in the unit we removed. Even better than our newfound smooth and quiet operation, the 3.55 gears allow us to cruise at highway speeds without excessively revving the engine. Not bad for a phone call and a couple of hours on the lift.
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Ring gear bolts are fine thread, and thread locker is used to ensure they stay put. The bolts can be run down with an air tool, then torqued to spec with a torque wrench.Having all the proper tools makes any job easier, especially when it comes to precision pieces like the rear differential.Randy's Ring and Pinion has all the tools to do the job properly, ensuring our new parts weren't damaged during assembly.The 742 and 489 case centersection housings have a larger pinion bearing than the 741 case, making either a good choice for a performance build. We chose a 742 case for our Road Runner. The main difference between the 742 and the 489 case is the pinion bearing size is larger in the 489, and the 489 also uses a crush-sleeve to set preload.With the pinion bearing pressed in place, the pinion gear can be placed in the housing and the seal is installed.Using a little sealer around the outside of the seal will prevent any gear lube from leaking past the seal through imperfections in the case.With the pinion gear installed, the housing can be flipped so the ring gear, Sure Grip unit, and bearings can be put in place. Shims are used for proper side-to-side alignment.With the caps installed and tightened to the proper torque, a dial indicator can be used to check for proper gear backlash. If necessary, shims are utilized to gain the proper backlash, ensuring a quiet gearset.
Again, shims can be used to correct any discrepancies. Proper gear engagement ensures the stress of acceleration is placed on the proper area of the ring gear so the gearset will hold up. After this last step, the centersection is ready to be shipped.With our new differential on the way, we put the Road Runner on the lift to drain the gear lube and remove our old centersection. Fortunately, this is an easy task on the 8 3/4, requiring only that the axles be slid out slightly so that the differential can be removed from the front of the housing.After removing the old centersection, we cleaned off the sealer that had been used in lieu of the proper gasket.The new rear differential from Randy's Ring and Pinion can now be slid into place. It should mate flush to the housing and is held in place by ten studs and nuts that should be tightened in a star pattern.Chrysler driveshafts only had two sizes of universal joints, and in our case our small U-joint driveshaft didn't match up with our large U-joint rear end yoke. Fortunately, our local driveshaft shop stocks a U-joint that incorporates both sizes, so we only had to install this rear U-joint before reinstalling our driveshaft.Despite what some might tell you, the pinion snubber is an integral part of most Mopar rear suspension. We suggest installing an adjustable pinion snubber and setting it about 3/4 to one inch from the floor when the car's weight is on the wheels.Filling the rear end with the proper amount and type of lubricant is essential to gear life. Since our differential also features a Sure Grip, a special additive must be used to prevent chatter when turning the car.With our new centersection in place and secure, we lowered the car but left the wheels off the floor. By running the car in fourth gear for about 20 minutes, then in reverse for several more minutes, the initial gear break-in can be performed without a load on the wheels.Randy's recommends driving 500 miles on new gears before towing or using full-throttle, so that's what we're doing. After the initial break-in, we'll change the fluid and be ready for some aggressive driving and possible swap to a more powerful engine. For now, we're enjoying the quiet ride of the new gears, as well as a reasonable rpm while cruising on the highway or interstate.


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Adventures in Paris
While browsing the New Nonfiction shelves I came across a book by Graham Robb, Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris.
It's the story of a city as told through the lives of some of its inhabitants: famous, infamous, or obscure. I was attracted to that approach. It's done well. Each chapter is its own story.
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It reminded me of another book about Paris that I had enjoyed a few years earlier, The Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne.
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While on the subject I decided to look at a few travel films. A lot of Paris videos have been made and most are so-so. I've found a couple of good ones.
Paris City of Light which looks at the city through the eyes of its artists and poets, and The Beauty of Paris which views the city through its cultural contributions.
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Finally I concluded my research with a visit to the official Paris web page which has great links to everything Parisian.
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April may have been host to Earth Day, but May is a great month to celebrate the environment through arts and culture! The Port of Portland is proud to sponsor this year's edition of Honoring Our Rivers. The anthology of essays, poems, photography and artwork includes submissions from students across the state of Oregon and reflects how they feel connected to local waterways. The publication is an annual project of the Willamette Partnership. You can view the 2014 anthology at local schools and libraries or visit http://bit.ly/1jp9GyI.
A new art installation at Portland International Airport is designed to demonstrate the effects of exposure from the physical environment on natural materials. The temporary installation, created by Seattle artist John Grade, is a piece of a larger sculpture commissioned for the City of Portland through the City's Percent for Art program for a site at the Columbia Wastewater Treatment Plant. The wood sculpture has been fragmented into 15 pieces which will be temporarily sited for up to three years at multiple locations throughout the city and state, including the one at PDX. Gradually, the fragmented clusters will be returned and re-installed at the original site. The sculpture can be viewed on the lower roadway as motorists depart from the PDX terminal.
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Legislative redistricting: Let's get it right
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We encourage residents to attend at least one of a pair of upcoming hearings that will be hosted by the commission: next Monday night, at the county's legislative chambers, and on Oct. 9, at Hempstead Town Hall. This is your chance to have your voice heard about the future of county government for the next 10 years.
That government impacts all of our lives. If you own a home, you pay county property taxes. If you drive, you probably use county roads. If you play golf, you may play at a county park. Because the county offers so many services that impact us from day to day, it's crucial that we help determine who represents us. We should not only vote, but also speak out at these once-a-decade redistricting hearings.
Nancy Rosenthal, president of the Southwest Nassau chapter of the League of Women Voters, made a good point in a recent interview with the Herald. Redistricting isn't just about who represents us now, but about who will be most likely to represent us in the future.
Voters need to do their part by making their voices heard — and so does the Redistricting Commission. It is composed of five Republicans and five Democrats, and there is always the possibility that they won't be able to agree on a new map to be forwarded to the County Legislature.
We encourage commission members on both sides to listen carefully and respect what citizens have to say, and then to work cooperatively to develop a unified plan, one that takes into account the wishes of the electorate. We've seen too much fighting in county government. This is a great chance for an important panel to actually work together for the good of the people. Neither voters nor commission members should let that chance slip by.
While the Legislature has the final say on the new maps, legislators are less likely to create a politically motivated map if the Redistricting Commissions answers its charge of designing a fair redistricting plan. The future of our county government is at stake. Let's get it right.
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