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Include language in the re-authorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would identify qualified school-based speech-language pathologists as professional reading resources in the schools.
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have the specialized knowledge and experience needed to identify communication problems and to provide the help that children need to build critical language and literacy skills. SLPs are often the first professionals to identify the root cause of reading and writing problems through the child's difficulty with language.
With their help, children can build the skills they need to succeed in school and in life.
Key elements of a speech-language pathologist's academic training relating to early language and literacy development include skills to:
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are essential to the team responsible for helping students learn to read and write. There are many ways that SLPs can help all children learn to read and write 6, including:
Literacy problems in the United States have reached the point of being considered a major public health problem, with serious health and educational consequences.
1 Lyons. RG. "Measuring Success: using Assessments and Accountability to Raise Student Achievement"; State before the Subcommittee on Education Reform, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives; March 8, 2001.
2 Catts, HW, Fey, MD, Zhang, X & Tomblin, JB. "Language basis of reading disabilities: Evidence from a longitudinal investigation"; Scientific Studies of Reading; 1999; 3:331-361.
3 National Center for Education Statistics (1998)
4 Lyons. RG. "Measuring Success: using Assessments and Accountability to Raise Student Achievement"; State before the Subcommittee on Education Reform, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives; March 8, 2001.
5 Fletcher, JM, Lyon, RG. "What's Gone Wrong in America's Classrooms", Evers, WM; Hoover Institution Press; (1998).
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Companies are finding it tougher to lure top candidates, so many are turning to RPOs — on a global basis.
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LIC- New Jeevan Anand T-815
Features of plan New Jeevan Anand plan is the combination of whole life policy and endowment insurance policy the plan provides the per-decided S.A. and bonus at the end of the stipulated PPT, but the risk cover on the life continues till death. This policy is suitable for the people of all ages and social groups. The policyholder will be benefited by giving protection to their families from a financial setback that may occur owing to their demise The amount assured if not paid by reason of his death earlier will be payable at the end of the endowment term where it can be invested in an annuity provision for the rest of the policyholder's of this plan is moderate premiums, high liquidity, saving oriented. Premiums are usually payable for the selected term of years or until death if it occurs during the term period. Accident benefit is available during engaged in hazardous occupations attracting occupational extra. Plan parameters Age at entry: Min.18 yrs Max. 50 yrs. PPT maturity age: Max. 75 yrs Sum assured: Min. 1,00,000 Max. No. Limit S.A. in multiples: 5000 Term: Min.15 yrs Max. 35 yrs Mode of payment: YLY/HLY/QLY/SSS/MLY Accident benefit: Incl. in. T.P. Policy loan: yes Housing loan: yes Assignment: yes Revival: yes Surrender of policy: yes Term rider: N.A. CIR: yes.
Lic Jeevan Saral T-165
Jeevan Saral Life Insurance Policy by LIC (Table No. 165) Feature of plan: This plan contains good feature of the conventional plans and the flexibility of unit linked plans. It provides higher cover, smooth return, liquidity and considerable flexibility. In this plan one has to choose the premium he wants to pay whereas in normal plans one chooses the S.A. under this plan death cover will be same irrespective of age at entry and term. The sum payable at maturity however differs for different entry age and terms. This plan is very appropriate for employees seeking life cover through salary savings schemes. Surrender value: the policy can be surrender after it has been in force for at least 3 full years. The surrender value will be the greater then guaranteed surrender value or special surrender value as given below: Guaranteed surrender value (GSV): the GSV will be equal to the 30% of the total amount of premium paid excluding the premium for the first year and all the extra premiums and premium for accident / term riders. Maturity sum assured (MSA): has to be calculated on the basic premium only, before mode rebate & death accident benefit. Death benefit S.A. will be 250 times the monthly basic premium. To arrive at DAB we have to calculate death benefit S.A. E.G. if yearly premium is Rs.6000 The death benefit S.A. = 6000/12 x 250 = 1,25,000 for this DAB will be Re.1per thousand which come out to be Rs.125 Plan parameters Age at entry: Min.12 yrs (completed) Max. 60 yrs (NBD) Maturity age: Min.70 yrs Term: Min.10 yrs Max. 35 yrs Min. premium Age 12 to 49:Rs.250 P.M Age 15 to 60: Rs.400 P.M Max. Premium: No. Limits Premium in Multiples: Rs.50 P.M. Mode of payment: YLY/ HLY/ OLY/ SSS Accident benefit: Re. 1extra per (Max. 50 Lac inclusive all plan).
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- Benefits:
- Annual Income Benefit equal to 10% of the Basic Sum Assured, which shall be payable from the policy anniversary coinciding with or following the date of death of Life Assured, till the policy anniversary prior to the date of maturity.
- Assured Absolute Amount equal to 110% of Basic Sum Assured, which shall be payable on due date of maturity; and
LIC's Jeevan Lakshya is a participating non-linked plan which offers a combination of protection and savings. This plan provides for Annual Income benefit that may help to fulfill the needs of the family, primarily for the benefit of children, in case of unfortunate death of Policyholder any time before maturity and a lump sum amount at the time of maturity irrespective of survival of the Policyholder. This plan also takes care of liquidity needs through its loan facility.
Death Benefit:
On death of the Life Assured before the stipulated Date of Maturity provided the policy is in full force by paying upto-date premiums, Death Benefit, defined as sum of "Sum Assured on Death", vested Simple Reversionary Bonuses and Final Additional Bonus, if any, shall be payable.
Where "Sum Assured on Death" is defined as the sum of:
The vested Simple Reversionary Bonuses and Final Additional Bonus, if any, included in the Death Benefit, shall be payable on due date of maturity.
The Death Benefit defined above shall not be less than 105% of all the premiums paid as on date of death.
Premiums referred above exclude tax, extra premium and rider premium(s), if any.
Maturity Benefit:
"Sum Assured on Maturity" equal to Basic Sum Assured, along with vested Simple Reversionary bonuses and Final Additional bonus, if any, shall be payable in lump sum on survival to the end of the policy term provided all due premiums have been paid.
Participation in Profits:
The policy shall participate in profits of the Corporation and shall be entitled to receive Simple Reversionary Bonuses declared as per the experience of the Corporation, provided the policy is in full force.
In case of death under a policy which is in full force, the policy shall continue to participate in profits upto the date of maturity and the entire vested Simple Reversionary Bonuses and Final Additional Bonus, if any, shall be payable on due date of maturity. Hence, the Simple Reversionary Bonus and Final Additional Bonus, if any, shall be payable under the policy on due date of maturity irrespective of survival of the Life Assured.
In case the premiums are not duly paid (except in case of death of the Life Assured under inforce policy), the policy shall cease to participate in future profits irrespective of whether or not the policy has acquired paid up value. However, the policy shall be considered as inforce on death during the grace period.
Final Additional Bonus shall not be payable under reduced paid-up policies.
For more details on the above Riders, refer to the Rider brochure or contact LIC's nearest Branch Office
- Policy Term : 13 to 25 years
- Premium Paying Term : (Policy Term – 3) years
- Minimum Age at entry : 18 years (last birthday)
- Maximum Age at entry : 50 years (nearest birthday)
- Maximum Maturity Age : 65 years (nearest birthday
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Well, my dad's CA-19-9 cancer marker keeps going up. It was 172, then 211, then 294, then 337, now 614. He had an embolization done in March with no chemo due to an unusual anatomy and too dangerous. Does this usually mean it is growing in the liver or spread elsewhere? Also my dad's newest symptom is very dry mouth. Has anyone ever experienced that with cc? Thank you.
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Well, the day we got his blood taken, he was feeling very out of it and and actually considered going to the emergency room with me. But as we spent more time together, he said he started to feel better and in fact he grocery shopped and we ate lunch together. So I knew it was a good idea to have his blood taken on a day when he felt awful, but since then he has been feeling pretty good. So I am just confused as to why the ammonia may go up and down like it does. I called his oncologist today but he didn't return my call. It's been a challenge making sure these doc's get the blood work results and review them but I am all over them. I guess we will know more on Weds. Just FYI, his bilirubin was 1.7 last week, no exorbitantly high, but over the limit. But his CA 19-9 was 294, ammonia 180, and the AST and ALT were 367 and 228, so all very high. It's just weird that one week prior his AST and ALT were 20 and 16. Still trying to understand it all. Thank you, Marion for your feedback. Roe
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Topic: Question on AST/ALT and ammonia levels (2 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hi All - My Dad was diagnosed with CC on 12/15/09. He had an embolization done on 3/1/10, they were not able to administer chemo during the embo due to apparently his rare anatomy. On 3/10/10 his AST, ALT, CA19-9 and Ammonia levels were normal. Then last week we had his blood tested again and all 4 were off the charts, including his bilirubin levels. We will be having an MRI this Weds to see how well the embo did in terms of shrinking the tumor, etc., but I am curious what you all think this means that these levels are back up. I want to arm ourselves with some knowledge before the appointment, obviously I don't think this is good. Generally my dad is feeling fairly well, living independently, eating, and not constipated, but the blood work to me indicates a bad turn. Any thoughts? Thank you. Rosanne
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Topic: Dad with cholangiocarcinoma (4 replies, posted in Introductions!)
Hi, I just found this website and it looks like a Godsend for support and information. My dad was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma in Dec. 2009 with metastases to the liver. It was considered resectable technically, but due to his prior health conditions, they felt he would not handle the huge liver surgery. So we opted for chemo-embolization. After 2 failed attempts due to heart arrythmia's during the procedure, a third attempt was made. Apparently he has a very unusual anatomy and they could not safely administer the chemo to the tumor, but only cut off the blood supply with a gel foam, done at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, so thus only embolization was done, no chemo.
My question to all of you is what does this mean prognosis-wise. The doctors at JHH are being very quiet about his prognosis and kind of want to see his MRI in a week or two to see if the tumor has shrunk. However, his oncologist in town here yesterday told us quiet shockingly that he could have months or maybe only weeks left to live. My Dad is living on his own, not feeling well, losing weight, but he is eating, walking around his apartment, and living independently so far, with lots and lots of visits and phone calls from his 4 daugthers. We just don't understand what we have to expect with his apparent upcoming major decline. I need to know what is going to happen. I can handle it. If any of you can help me, I would greatly appreciate your input. Thank you and God Bless All of you!


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Displaying artwork for the public can summon up a rush of emotions. For student Megan Simms, 18, seeing her artwork in a gallery will be something she'll treasure as she pursues her dreams of being an artist.
"It's always going to be special," she said.
Megan's first art exhibition was not only an exciting opportunity for a budding artist, but a great way to see what other area high school students were producing. "It was really cool to see the artwork and different styles by high school students like me, and how different they were from my own," Megan said. "It's exciting to see where different high school teens are getting their inspiration from."
The art exhibition titled "Artist Statement" featured artwork from K-12 students in Oregon schools, displayed Dec. 1-4 at the gallery space of Portland's Pioneer Place. Megan, a senior at St. Mary's Academy in Portland, submitted a two-tone self-portrait for the show.
"I was really excited to get to show my artwork. Being accepted into a gallery, I was excited and proud of myself. It makes me a lot more confident in my artistic endeavors."
She's eager to continue those endeavors. Megan has submitted a portfolio to the local Portland Metro Scholastic Art Awards as well as pieces for an upcoming exhibit of George Fox University's High School Art Northwest juried art exhibit.
Megan, who lives in Washougal, wants to pursue an art degree in college. She's eager to learn more about different art media and exploring what art can do.
"I don't have a specific muse. I prefer drawing things that have meaning," Megan said. "Things that have significance, not just to me but have meaning to people nationally and in the world."
— Ashley Swanson
Late Vancouver resident's wit, wisdom shared in son's book
Sometimes it takes a lifetime to write a book. At least for Mario Rabinowitz it did. But it was mother Rachel's lifetime, not his own.
Rabinowitz, who lived in Vancouver from 1943 to 1960, has compiled a book from his mother's collection of writings. The book, "Rachel, The Little Lady that Could: Her Life, Wisdom, Wit, Poetry, and Singular Insights," was written "to fulfill her ambition to share her wit, wisdom, insights, and poetry to possibly help the perplexed gain an increased understanding of the meaning of life," Rabinowitz said.
Rachel Rabinowitz, a native Ukrainian, lived on E Street in Vancouver for more than 40 years until her death in 1986. The book chronicles her reflections and includes remembrances of Vancouver and Clark College.
She attended the college, and tutored professors and students there in Spanish and Russian. She was a longtime friend of Spanish professor Ralph Hanna, for whom Hanna Hall at Clark College is named.
Rabinowitz, 75, of Emerald Hills, Calif., once delivered The Columbian as a paperboy and while attending Fort Vancouver High School, worked as a student sports reporter for the newspaper. In 1950, he won the Vancouver Soap Box Derby and represented Vancouver at the national championship in Akron, Ohio.
The book includes chapters by two longtime Vancouver residents, Lauretta Herman and Dr. Bev Questad.
The e-book is available for $3.99 at http://www.amazon.com and http://www.barnesandnoble.com.
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Thursday's Eurofile: Armstrong says he needs to train; More MSR rosters
By Andrew Hood
VeloNews European correspondent
This report filed March 17, 2005
Lance Armstrong received yet another award this week after receiving the Grand Prix de l'Academie des Sports in Paris on Tuesday, where he told reporters he's behind in his preparation for the Tour de France.
Armstrong at Tuesday's awards ceremony
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Armstrong said wintry weather at the recent Paris-Nice wasn't the ideal setting for his return to Europe. Cold weather and a fever prompted the Texan to not start the fourth stage.
"Maybe I shouldn't have started Paris-Nice. It was a hard race, very fast, intense and with bad weather," he said. "I must admit I'm a little bit behind, more than I normally would be."
Armstrong insisted he'll be racing this summer's Tour, but wouldn't elaborate on where he expects to finish.
"I am going to try it. Only an injury or illness would stop me," he said. "I don't know if I'll win, but I will be at the start line."
The weather-shortened stages and his decision to leave the race undercut what was expected to be a solid week of training. Armstrong has since been training in Girona, Spain, as the European weather has returned to spring-like conditions.
"The body quickly wore down and got worse. Then I got sick. Next thing you know I go home," Armstrong said. "When you consider race conditions, the thing you can't emulate in training is the speed. When you shorten the stages by two-thirds the speed goes up and the time goes down. I was not ready for that."
The six-time Tour champion said he was touched by the prestigious award given to the year's top sporting achievement.
"I have to say it is an honor to be here. I don't normally get too choked up about things like this, but this is special," Armstrong was quoted on his webpage. "Winning six Tours is something beyond my comprehension."
Armstrong joins other sporting greats such Formula One champion Michael Schumacher and Brazilian national team hero Ronaldo, who previously won the award given to the male or female athlete with the best individual achievement over the previous year.
LA defends Olympic comments
Lance Armstrong defended himself after he spoke glowingly about Paris last week in an interview with a French newspaper at the expense of New York City to win the bid for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
Armstrong was roasted in the New York tabloid press over off-hand comments to the French media during last week's Paris-Nice that he preferred Paris over New York in the Olympics bid, comments he said were taken out of context.
"It's the first time I've ever been called un-American. So, I tried to resolve it. I spoke to the city (New York), to the (New York 2012) organizing committee," Armstrong said. "I sent messages to the mayor. It was amazing how a one-minute interview became worldwide news. Some of the tabloid papers, they let it rip. They took the gloves off. But c'est la vie, as they say."
Armstrong reaffirmed his support for the New York bid, but also expressed dismay at the ensuing uproar over his comments.
"As an American my heart has to be with New York City, and I have to support the bid for New York City," he said. "But you also have to be fair and say Paris has a good bid. Are they deserving cities for the Olympic Games? Absolutely. They're great cities, legendary cities, historical cities. Perhaps I wasn't strong enough when I said my vote was for New York City. Since it wasn't strong enough they said, He's a traitor. He's a weasel.'"


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Slytherin is supposed to be ambitious and cunning, Gryffindor is brave and loyal, and Hufflepuff is supposed to be hard-workers. Basically. I'm actually having a lot of fun reading them up on a HP wiki.
But the actual questions you get in PMD can influence your result :( So if there are loads of set questions and you only get, say, 10 of them, it could just so happen that the answers for those 10 you give are Hufflepuff answers, when with another set of questions you could've picked more Gryffindor :/ Just anything but Hufflepuff I'll be satisfied in.
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Hopefully it won't be those stupid quizzes where you can tell what question is for which. Like "Somebody is in pain and was hit by a dangerous spell, what do you do?
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Nightmare Comes True For Parents
EDMOND - For a brief moment, the laughter and happy remembrances of a shining young life ended too soon gave way to painful reality.
Don Norton's voice cracked and he choked into tears as he recalled two Edmond police officers knocking on his door late Friday.
His daughter, Nancy Ann Norton, 21, had not made it home from visiting a friend. And he and his wife, Melinda Norton, feared their worst nightmare - every parent's worst nightmare - was about to be realized.
Still, despite Nancy's empty bed, they held out a slight hope even as they endured an eternity between opening the door and hearing the officers' trembling voices.
"At that point, you don't know what, you're hoping your dog got out and got run over, you know," Don Norton recalled this week on the night before his daughter's funeral.
But when Sgt. Sherry Russi and officer Chris Budde asked to come inside, the Nortons knew, by the looks on their faces, that the news was bad.
"Those officers, they've got the toughest job going," Don Norton said as he sat in his kitchen, grabbing a quick bite to eat, as a crowd of friends and family members reminisced in the living room.
"She (Russi) was so sweet ... it was the hardest thing she'd ever done.
"They came inside and she took a deep breath and said, 'Mr. Norton, do you have a daughter, Nancy Ann Norton? ' Right there, you know the rest of it, but she has to say the rest of it. 'I'm sorry, Mr. Norton, your daughter was in a bad accident and she didn't make it. ' " "What are you telling me? " he recalled gasping as he lightly wrapped his hands around Russi's shoulders. "What are you telling me? " Melinda Norton stretched her left arm around her husband and clenched his left shoulder as he briefly lost his composure.
Nancy also left behind a brother, Jay Norton, a student at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
The tragedy happened at 11:42 p.m. Friday when Nancy's station wagon was broadsided on Sooner Road at Covell Road by a car that ran a stop sign. Based on skid marks, police estimated the other car's speed at 60 mph at the time of impact.
Investigators said she appeared to die instantly as her vehicle was sliced nearly in half and pinned between the other car and a utility pole. By the time police arrived, the other driver had fled.
After a 36-hour search, a 22-year-old Edmond man who witnesses told police had just left a bar before the crash turned himself in at the Edmond police station. Paul Ryan Tharp, 22, was booked into county jail after being treated for facial injuries at Edmond Regional Medical Center.
Tharp was arrested on complaints of leaving the scene of a fatality accident, driving under suspension and driving without insurance. Police also are investigating the case as a possible negligent homicide and probing the possibility of alcohol being a contributing factor, investigating officer John Zeigler said Tuesday.
While saying the law should take its course, the Nortons voiced no anger toward the driver who killed their daughter.
"With Nancy, she was always happy, always made everybody feel good," her mother said. "She was the little counselor if anybody had a problem. And we really feel like the Lord used this man as an instrument to take her home. " As a result of the crash, the parents said they hope to spread awareness about the dangers of drinking and driving.
Although Tharp was not under the influence when he came to the police station, Melinda Norton said police told them witnesses reported seeing him falling over a table and chairs before he left a bar before the crash.
Don Norton said the owners and employees of establishments that sell alcohol should be liable when a drunken person becomes a potential killer.
"It gets kind of touchy because the person becomes violent in that state," he said. "But at some point, before that person gets behind that loaded gun, police ought to be called. " But rather than lash out at the circumstances, the Nortons concentrated on celebrating Nancy's life in the wake of her passing.
The 1990 Edmond Memorial High School graduate was born and lived her entire life in Edmond, and had raised two Arabian horses, Abby and Sparky, since the fourth grade. She had worked at Childtime Child Care, 1201 W 15, for three years and was a leader of the youth group at First Presbyterian Church in Edmond.
Her mother recalled her as a free spirit and caring individual who reached out to people, be they the children at the day-care center, the students at church, or the homeless street people she encountered in Dallas.
Nancy had traveled to Dallas for three consecutive summers to feed the homeless in a project called "Stewpot. " She also had gone with the church to Mexico twice to assist those plagued by poverty.
"The other kids that went (to Dallas) would go one summer and come home and it was like, they had done it ... (But Nancy kept going back because) she saw a real need," Melinda Norton said.
Shelby Finney, who graduated a year after Nancy, remembered the impact Nancy had on people's lives by telling a story about her experience with one homeless man in Dallas.
After meeting Nancy one summer, the man remembered her smiling face and willingness to talk with him when she returned the next year. He showed his appreciation by giving Nancy a ring or necklace, one of the last things he owned, Finney said.
Likewise, one of Nancy's last possessions, a videotape made at Six Flags over Texas last week, has become a priceless treasure for her family.
The tape, which shows a dancing Nancy grooving with co-workers to the beat of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll," was a final gift to her parents - and a lasting memory for her family and friends.
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FORT COLLINS – Timing recently took down the first startup to inhabit the Fort Collins Technology Incubator.
Privacy Networks in February quietly shut its office at 200 W. Mountain Ave., in what is now called the Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative incubator. The startup was on its way to record sales in the second half of last year and was seeking a second round of financing when the economy came crashing down.
Privacy Networks was founded in 2002 by technology veteran and serial entrepreneur Todd Massey. The company's first product was an e-mail security and spam-filtering program. Soon, it expanded to include e-mail management such as archiving and indexing. By most accounts, the company was running full-speed ahead.
Privacy Networks was the first tenant in the technology incubator, moving in during the summer of 2004. The next year, the company landed a $2.4 million round of financing from Boulder-based Aweida Venture Partners, headed by StorageTek Inc. founder Jesse Aweida. Since then, the company made strides, landing clients such as 3t Systems and CH2M Hill and receiving industry accolades.
But when the world financial markets hit a wall last fall, so did Privacy Networks.
"The economy drove it all,´ said former Privacy Networks CEO Steve Berens.
Privacy Neworks actually saw a record third quarter in 2008 and was anticipating an even better fourth quarter. Berens estimated the fourth quarter would have seen sales compared to the third quarter.
Market freezes deal pipeline
"When the market crashed, everything basically froze," he said of pending sales and negotiations. The pending sales pipeline – companies looking to upgrade, migrate or implement e-mail security and archiving – moved out about a year.
"We had a lot of deals in the pipeline," Massey said, many of which were in the area of compliance. The problem became that everyone became worried about spending.
"It's a product that they wanted, but it wasn't a 'need-to-have' right now," he said.
Berens saw the same issues. Customers shifted focus to maintenance of current systems while compliance concerns were overshadowed by just staying in business.
"I've talked to our competitors, and everyone's hurting," he said.
What it comes down to, he pointed out, is who has the deeper pockets. Privacy Networks was in the process of seeking a second round of financing last year, but the venture capital market dried up and remains arid. Most funds are funneling money into existing portfolio companies to help them ride out the storm.
According to the MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, venture capitalists invested $3 billion in 549 deals during the first quarter of this year – down 47 percent from the fourth quarter. The quarter marked the least dollars invested since 1997.
The software sector saw the highest amount of investment with $614 million but that's down from more than $1 billion in the fourth quarter and $1.4 billion in the first quarter of 2008.
"We were looking for equity while all of this was going on," Berens said.
Privacy Networks was looking for a B-round of investment to boost sales and markets while competitors were already into their C- and D-rounds.
Technology lives on
In the meantime, Privacy Networks technology lives on. Berens said that the company, technically, still exists. The office was closed and the bills were paid, and all of Privacy Networks customers still have access to the company's technical support staff.
The value, he explained, is not only in the technology but also in its customer base.
"When they shut down, it really didn't affect us,´ said FRII President and CEO Bill Ward. FRII has been offering and selling Privacy Networks' products since 2006 – mostly as a hosted solution – and still does.
"Generally speaking, we're not having to maintain the software," he said. "As long as we don't have a failure in the software itself, we can maintain the hardware."
Berens said there are several discussions ongoing regarding the future of the company's technology. He anticipates that another company or investors will pick it up. Massey spent March and some of April in Silicon Valley meeting with potential buyers.
Ward also anticipates that another company will pick up Privacy Network's intellectual property. He said that he knew the company was having issues raising money but that the closure was a bit of a surprise.
"It was actually very sudden," agreed Mark Forsythe, director of RMII. He also was aware that the company was looking for an additional round of funding for some time.
Forsythe is sad to see the company go, but found a silver lining in the dark cloud of the closure. He pointed out that the company employed very intelligent, talented people that have all moved on to other things already. One, he said, has started a business that might become a member of the incubator.
The closure freed up some office space for Wirsol, a solar integrator just launching into business in the United States.
Massey also saw the potential opportunity in the situation.
"The incubator is going to have failed companies," he said, but added that there will be a dandelion effect, with the seeds of talent spreading. "My hope is that out of Privacy Network's closure, other successful companies will evolve out of its employees."
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Clouds Should Know Me By Now
Buddhist Poet Monks of China
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- Publisher : Wisdom Publications
- Published : 1998
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 214
- Size : 228 x 152mm
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Chinese Buddhism
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Poetry: Buddhist
- Catalogue No : 14839
The voices of 14 eminent Chinese poet monks whose works span 12 centuries (AD 700-1900) are here presented both in the original Chinese and English translation. The collection includes 136 poems and is divided into 6 sections with translators' introductions to each poet and his work.
It includes the works of Chia Tao, Ch`i-Chi, Chih Yuan, Han Shan Te-ching, Shih-shu, and Ching-An.
"So take a walk with these cranky, melancholy, lonely, msichievous poet-ancestors. Their songs are stout as a pilgrim`s stave or a pair of good shoes and were meant to be taken on the great journey."Andrew Schelling.
"These Zen monks, writing between the T`ang Dynasty and the early 20th century, and until now virtually unknown in the West, are among the exemplars of one of the world`s richest and most influential literary traditions. The poems, translated by some of the most knowledgeable and talented scholars anywhere, are luminous and elegant in their simplicity, resonating with the wisdom of sages. This is an indispensible book." Sam Hamill.
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GNARLED PINES, wind-blown clouds, jutting mountain pinnacles, exiled scholars, horses, trailing willows. Moonlight on meandering rivers, fishermen, white cranes and mandarin ducks, the eerie screech of a gibbon, tiny white plum blossoms on twisted branches, a battered wooden boat moored in the distance. For more than a thousand years the poets in this book wandered a landscape that is vast and at the same time intimate, mysterious, and deeply familiar: the same mountain peaks, the same villages, the same river gorges. What makes this landscape feel so much like home? The old poets of China had a way of quickly getting down to elemental things. Using a vocabulary of tangible, ordinary objects, they composed unsentimental poems that seem the precise size of a modest human life-the reflective sadness, the fleeting calm pleasures.
This book is a collection of poetry written by Ch'an Buddhist poet monks, men of enviable literary talent who lived out their years during turbulent times in accord with old Buddha's precepts. Their work spans 1100 years, from the middle T'ang dynasty to the beginning of the twentieth century. One or two have had a taste of renown in the West, on the basis of a couple of poems, but the rest have gone unheralded. Several were established Buddhist teachers of their own day, the influence of their subtle minds reaching deep, but they had little reputation as poets. Recognition of their literary efforts comes late. Only Chia Tao, the earliest of the poets translated here, did not devote his adult life to Buddhist monasticism. He slipped off the monk's "robe of patches" in his early thirties to pursue a life of poetry, which he supported with marginal government employment and years of inadequate pay. One lingers over the detail: at the time of his death, his only worldly possessions were a five-string zither and an ailing donkey. Chia Tao stuck by his decision to make poetry a life is path, but a hint of regret sometimes lifts from his verse.
As Buddhists, these men traveled a great deal. When reading their poems you observe how deliberately they led, as Thoreau would have put it, hyper-ethereal lives-"under the open sky?' It is no accident, then, that a prevalent theme in the poetry is the farewell poem for a comrade, typically situated at daybreak after a night of wine or tea, vivid talk, or silent companionship. These poets spent their days living in and journeying between the numerous Buddhist sites of pre-modern China-village temples, remote points of pilgrimage, monasteries tucked deep within forests, the mountain yogins hut in a secluded mossy gulch. The politics of those eleven centuries were shifty and uncertain as well. Scholars, poets, civil servants, Buddhist abbots, and even monks of no reputation were driven from region to region, into exile through windblown mountain passes, or when the regime shifted, recalled up a thundering river gorge to serve in some official capacity.
Mountains, forests, and rivers make up the well-known landscapes of Chinese painting. In the poetry a clipped, selective vocabulary, surprisingly ambiguous in the Chinese originals, merely suggests "what's out there:' It is up to the reader to fill in the details -tumbling watercourses, looming peaks, twisted mountain strata, lowland pools, deer and wild gibbons, wind-stunted trees. Always alongside the poet, nonhuman creatures move easily in the world of his poem. Deer and wild cranes follow their own tracks, hut their travels seem to meaningfully crisscross the poet's. At times untamed creatures become, with only a touch of irony profound teachers for the wandering-cloud poets. And by an interesting karmic twist, these various citizens of Chinese verse have in recent decades sensitized American readers to distinct features of our own continent: watersheds, seasonal cycles, animal habits, plant successions, and the like.
Not surprisingly three of the six translators of the present collection have made their homes in the Pacific Northwest, where the natural world-dark clutching forests, shy owls, concealing mists, abrupt icy pinnacles lit by a fugitive ray of sun-so resembles the setting of a Chinese poem. Across the centuries you can hear Chia Tao asking, "Where is the master? Gathering herbs, off on the mountain, hidden by clouds?'
Beyond a presentation of poems about the natural world, this collection offers possible examples of what in Chinese has been called "rock-and-bark poetry?' In 1703 one of the poets translated here assumed this term for a nom de plume, and craftily hid his identity behind it. It is uncertain how widely the phrase circulated, but shih-shu, were colloquially written, mildly irreverent poems, not simply skeptical of city-folk hustle or merely celebratory of reclusive hours spent in savage wilderness settings. Rather than being brushed on silk or paper, shili-shu were written on scraps of bamboo, scratched into bark, on rocks, or pecked into cliff faces. The notorious practitioner of this genre, and maybe the originator of shih-shu, is the poet Han-shari (possibly seventh century), who is known to American readers as Cold Mountain. Translations by R.H. Blyth, Gary Snyder, Red Pine, and Burton Watson have made Han-shan well known in recent decades.
According to Lu-ch'iu Yin, a minor T'ang government official and Buddhist enthusiast, Han-shan's gatha, or Buddhist verse, were left littered about the forbidding cliff from which he took his name. The Han-shan promontory lies along the T'ien-t'ai range in Chekiang. a strikingly wild country in southern China. Contemporary photographs show cornfields beneath the rock wall, but in Han-shan's day it was heavily forested land, and local woodcutters or monks occasionally saw the poet disappear into a cave, which in some unsettling accounts would close up behind him.
Unable to coax Han-shan into establishing closer ties to the world of civilized people (Han-shan just giggled, threw things, and ran into the woods) the well-intended Lu-ch'iu Yin sent a troop of men into the mountains to collect what of the scattered poems they could find-about three hundred in total. The legend of ragged Han-shan and his equally eccentric comrade Shih-te became a reference for countless later poets, who saw in their cryptic behavior-as much as in their poetry-a deep Buddhist realization. In the 1990s, California poet Lew Welch, much taken with Chinese scholar poems and the habits of Ch'an hermits, is said to have left the sole copy of one of his poems tacked to a barroom wall in Sausalito.
The karma runs deep. In the late 1980s a group of American poets gathered one spring at Green Gulch Farm's Zen Center, twenty minutes north of Sausalito, to talk about poetry and Buddhist meditation. It marked the first time such an event had been convened east of the Bering Strait. Open to the public, the gathering hosted the usual cast of characters: blue-jeans bodhisattvas, long-haired yogins, quick-witted yoginis, nautch girls, coyote men, patch-robe monastics, and unemployed scholars. The gathering caught the echo of earlier events, "Ch'an guests and poetry masters," that by the eighth century had become regular practice in China.
That 'weekend, in a pond in back of the drafty Green Gulch zendo, a frog sangha held its own convocation-like the gibbons and wild cranes of Chinese verse? Many good remarks were made during the conferences, but one in particular has stuck with rue. The poet-priest Norman Fischer, in a very unsensational fashion, said, "Meditation is when you sit down and do nothing. Poetry is when you sit down and do something? 'With these sage words, he neatly wiped out centuries of debate-in India, China, and Japan- over whether poetry is a legitimate pursuit for the earnest Buddhist in search of realization.
Yes, meditation and poetry, It is hard to imagine with what sobriety the early Buddhists in India enjoined monks and nuns against literary pursuits. It is equally striking that as late as 817 c.e. the renowned Po Chu-i could write:
Since earnestly studying the Buddhist doctrine of emptiness,
I've learned to still all the common states of mind.
Only the devil of poetry I have yet to conquer- let me come on a bit of scenery and I start my idle droning.
(translation by Burton Watson)
Without doubt, these two distinctly human undertakings, making songs and watching the mind, go inestimably far back into prehistory. Would our contemporary North American consumer culture offer a bemused smile to the notion of a conflict between them? Aspirants watch out! Remember Chia Tao's zither and old sick donkey! There seems so little time these days, and hopelessly little reward, for practicing either. Yet a not-so-secret, and surprisingly durable, counterculture keeps the two alive, evidently unable to do without either. Often the two get pursued hand in hand, or, as Norman Fischer noted, in nearly the same posture. Luckily as North Americans, we don't have to cut back too much growth in order to keep the hall of practice clear. Behind us stand heartening documents from Asia, compiled over the course of several thousand years, to show what others have done.
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Penguins Lose To Lightning 4-3 In OTThe Tampa Bay Lightning are one win away from a return trip to the Stanley Cup Finals.
"Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels & Brett Keisel Grab Primanti Bros. Before Game 5It's a big night in Pittsburgh, and a couple of Penguins fans grabbed a bite before the big game against the Tamp Bay Lightning.
Pens' Fleury To Start Game 5After being out for a few weeks, Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury will return to the net Sunday night for Game 5.
Murray Or Fleury? Penguins Weighing Options In GoalPittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan has been stressing for weeks his team has multiple goaltenders capable of taking the franchise to the Stanley Cup.
Pens Furious 3rd Period Comeback Attempt Falls Short, Lose Game 4 To Lightning 4-3Ryan Callahan provided an early spark, Andrei Vasilevskiy made two big saves in the closing minutes to avoid a total third-period collapse and the Tampa Bay Lightning held on for a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday night in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Showtime's 'All Access: Quest For The Stanley Cup' Debuts TonightA new show will give fans an inside look at the Pittsburgh Penguins as they continue their quest for the Stanley Cup.
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Video: Pistol Annies perform on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"
Pistol Annies, the country music trio comprised of Tishomingo resident Miranda Lambert and singer-songwriter pals Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe, performed "I Feel a Sin Comin' On" Monday night on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
The song is off the trio's sophomore album, "Annie Up," which came out last week. (If you have trouble finding the performance on the full episode video, remember the musical guest is the last segment on the show.)
Lambert also sat down on Leno's couch and chatted with the host about her recent Academy of Country Music Awards victories, her starstruck reaction to partying with Reba McEntire, Faith Hill and Shania Twain, her first concert – Garth Brooks at Texas Stadium "when he fly and like lit the stage on fire" – and of course, the tabloid rumors about her and her superstar husband Blake Shelton.
As previously reported, the Annies will perform the television debut of "Unhappily Married," another song off "Annie Up," tonight on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson." Ferguson's show airs at 11:35 p.m. weekdays on the CBS Television Network, according to a news release.
In addition, Pistol Annies will play June 13 at First Council Casino in Newkirk and June 14 at Lucky Star Casino in Concho. For tickets and information, go to www.ticketstorm.com.


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I need help I bought my Playstation vita from the local game shop and it does not has the data connect and the downloadable PSV game and the vender told me that it was not mention on the any of the bundles they have in the store. And they suggest me that I should call the Sony if need those to get them separately . so I did called the Sony customer care and he said that it maybe included and it may not. So any here know that Does all PS Vita First Edition Bundle has data connect and the downloadable PSV game. I would be really appreciating if anyone here can suggest me anything on this .


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1) Comments are under code and should be the opposite (in config.php mainly)
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Note none of them are critical at all, but should be fixed or the same problems are going to be populated to 3rd part themes. Also, if there is any template or information in Docs, it should be fixed too.
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Surgeon General's Critique of Drug Policy Deserved Better Antidrug Efforts Have Shown Little Success at Home and Have Strained Relations Abroad
Pat M. Holt. Pat M. Holt is a former chief of of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee., The Christian Science Monitor
WHEN Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders suggested that the United States ought to have a national discussion about legalizing drugs, she reaped a heavy storm of criticism, even by the standards of the lightning she normally attracts. It was also undeserved.
When a policy is not working, common sense suggests that it should be reconsidered. Clearly the nation's drug policy is not working. This is evident to everybody except those committed to the status quo with an almost religious faith. Drug use is essentially unchanged. The illegal drug trade flourishes and brings violence with it. A public clamor went up to withdraw troops from Somalia when 18 Americans were killed. That is about the number killed every two weeks in the nation's capital. Most of the victims are young black men and most of the murders are related to drugs.
The common suggestion for dealing with this scandal is more police on the streets and longer prison sentences. It has recently turned out that the police in Washington are themselves dealing drugs, and the prisons are so overcrowded that inmates convicted some time ago have to be released to make room for those convicted more recently. Build more prisons, it is said. That would be a good idea; but not many people, especially the more vociferous hard-liners, have thought through the budgetary implications. It is expensive to build prisons and even more expensive to staff and operate them.
The US drug policy has international repercussions. It has strained our relations with many countries in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. A drug lord in Colombia had the effrontery to offer to pay off that country's national debt in return for immunity. The US has spent a great deal of political capital, as well as hard cash, in pressing drug-producing countries to control the supply. In return, the leaders of those countries, notably Colombia and Mexico, have chided the US for not controlling the demand. This kind of argument leads to a dead end.
Current policy is also leading to a dead end in the US. Therefore, let us consider the problem anew.
Any drug policy needs two elements: It must deal with the effects of drugs on the people who use them, and it must deal with the larger social effects of the drug trade.
Drugs are bad. They impair mental and/or physical functions. And they are addictive. The current policy stresses education and counseling against use and treatment for addiction. Thus we try to reduce the demand, as we have been importuned by our friends abroad. But the effort is inadequate. Especially as it concerns treatment of addicts, it is underfunded and understaffed. …


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From smashing down walls, to building a pizza joint to hosting pop-ups all over town (including the forthcoming pop-up Umami), the chefs behind Travail have hardly been taking it easy. This morning they launched their next step in edging toward re-opening Travail in its new location. It's aKickstarter campaign
with some tasty incentives to get their fans in on the Travail-ian action.
In their first hour alone, they raised almost a third of their of their $75,000 goal. Typical, since nothing these guys do is average. The Kickstarter video contains a certain furry element and the incentives include items like the 2014 Travail Sexy Chef calendar (Chef Bob Gerken wasEater Minneapolis' Hottest Chef
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FOLIO: Editorial: Staying Clear with Your Publishing Mission in a Transformative Digital Age
The following post appeared as a guest editorial in the February 2010 issue of FOLIO: magazine.
For all the shiny new toys on display at last month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas—from apps for everything, to TV everywhere, to e-readers that make breakfast—the scene was stolen by the one that wasn't there: Apple's breathlessly anticipated whatchamacallit. By the time you read this, it should have a name, the anticlimax will have passed and we will be on with life, which is a good thing. There is a lot of work to do.
All that speculation was actually never really about the device: It was a symptom of general media upheaval, which has been especially acute in publishing. All the new devices provide hard evidence that was once just a vague possibility and has now become manifest destiny for publishers: the obsolescence of an old model—requiring an elaborately manufactured product to be carried by truckers to newsstands and postal workers to mailboxes—in favor of a more elegant and environmentally-friendlier form of composed communication that is more robust in every way than the one Gutenberg built.
Most Likely To Succeed
We don't know much yet about what digital broadband publications will look like, or even what functions they will serve. The one certainty about early prototypes from Time Inc. and Conde Nast is that they will be quickly dated. Major publishers will very likely be the last to exploit the full potential of broadband multimedia "publications," focused as they must be on their core businesses. Large property holders do not make good revolutionaries.
More likely to succeed as pioneers in this new frontier are future journalism and multimedia stars now in high school or j-school. The next Henry Luce is probably in his bedroom playing World of Warcraft right now.
Second most likely are publishers whose brands are at the brink of extinction already, victims more of recession than systemic change. Nothing focuses the mind quite like the threat of dispossession.
Of these, the titles most likely to succeed at the print-to-digital migration are those with clear editorial missions. In this respect, Gourmet, Vibe and Southern Accents come to mind as last year's most unworthy deaths—and as object lessons for brands on the brink.
All three of these magazines had clear market positioning, loyal readers and remnant, if not robust, ad franchises. Take away the cost of paper, ink and distribution, add the vibrancy of video, audio, information graphics, animation and reader collaboration, and think about the changes that were possible: Southern Accents interiors come to life with virtual tours, Gourmet's recipes are prepared before your eyes, Vibe goes live with the music itself (click to buy), readers enter into a back-and-forth with their ever-more-favorite "magazines" in real time, and advertising in their "pages" is transformed from passive still-life into an engagement with sight, sound and motion. The brand delivers more to readers and to advertisers: What's not to like?
Don't Swap Service for Bells and Whistles
This virtuous cycle only works, however, when the mission for the existing brand does not change, and when multimedia technologies and broadband delivery serve that mission clearly and directly. Before attempting the print-to-digital migration, nothing is more important than understanding precisely what that mission is, at its most basic level, to the publication's most avid customers.
Publications whose mission is less than entirely clear are likely to confuse their readers and themselves as they attempt such a transition. General-interest titles in particular are going to have a tough time pulling it off, and if "cool" or "hip" have any place in the mission, watch out: Nothing says the opposite like geolocational and augmented-reality hijinx undertaken just to be edgy, as we have already seen.
It's a curious irony of this new world that it may just make those publishers lucky enough to have special-interest publications more likely to "stick to their knitting," as one of my favorite bosses used to say. As transformative as publishing technology may become, the new forms of communication it makes possible must still be yoked to the real needs and practical desires of customers. Those who will succeed in deploying that new technology will be those who listen to those needs and desires, not to bells and whistles.
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The group is made of of three successful members. One of them is Nury, who is 35 and single. She has had a business selling milk from her home for the last 11 years. She is seeking the loan in order to buy milk for the preparation of curds and buttermilk.
Dalila, a 43-year-old woman, has had a business selling spices in Tipitapa for 14 years and Marling, a 27-year-old woman, has been running a convenience store in her home for the last two years.
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About ADIMLocated in Central America, ADIM is a small microfinance institution with a strong social focus. In the saturated microfinance market of Nicaragua, ADIM stands out for its emphasis on the holistic development of women as well as its provision of responsible financial services. Founded in 1989 by a small group of Nicaraguan women, this institution has remained true to its initial goal of providing its clients (90% of which are women) with an opportunity for economic growth, in addition to personal and professional empowerment. Supporting an ADIM borrower means contributing not only to the continued offering of the socially conscious services it provides, but also to the sustainable growth of a truly unique microfinance institution.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Homeowners launch war against 3-year old girl over sidewalk chalk
By Evergreen,
Oregon writer
Oh my God! In Oregon we had Multnomah County trying to close down a girl's lemonade aide stand for not having a permit. We have state laws against soda in our classrooms. We have schools banning dodgeball because they feel it hurts kids' self-esteem. Now we have a homeowner association trying to ban a three year old girl from using sidewalk chalk. How can our kids have fun nowadays.
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urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3ef33fbe-ef29-49e8-b7c9-5c988e6ce98d System Networking Brings Speed and Intelligence to the Data Center Fabric - Tags - blue Thoughts and opinions on the growing area of System Networking. Learn how the data center network is enabling the next generation of applications. 2 2016-04-09T03:42:07-04:00 IBM Connections - Blogs urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-fed44fb3-0b3c-4f28-b59e-e1bd407e3f14 OpenFlow Gets Traction at SC11 Vikram Mehta, VP System Networking email@example.com 2700045AWF active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2011-12-19T12:00:00-05:00 2011-12-21T18:46:25-05:00
 OpenFlow Gets Traction at SC11

Seattle, SC11 was the scene for the unveiling of IBM's new Blue Gene/Q supercomputer project to solve the most challenging problems facing engineers and scientists, such as predicting the path of hurricanes, analyzing the ocean floor to discover oil, simulating nuclear weapons performance and decoding gene sequences. SC11 attendees could challenge IBM's Watson supercomputer in a game of Jeopardy and see the most innovative network research projects in "programming the network" using OpenFlow.

OpenFlow allows the implementation of software-defined networking to enable significant innovation in High Performance Computing, which is highly reliant on network infrastructure. At SC11, the SCInet Research Sandbox (SRS) gave researchers access to over 100 Gigabits per second of capacity to demonstrate the promise of OpenFlow on a software-programmable testbed network running on the SCinet infrastructure. The SC11 SRS will feature for the first time a 10 Gigabit Ethernet, multi-vendor OpenFlow network testbed to provide OpenFlow capabilities for wide area networking. I am pleased to report that our OpenFlow-enabled IBM RackSwitch G8264 will play a major role in this landmark demonstration of OpenFlow capabilities.

As part of the SRS, Indiana University (IU) deployed a 100 Gigabit Ethernet network for its high-speed Lustre WAN between the IU data center in Indianapolis and the convention center in Seattle utilizing OpenFlow technology for path selection and OpenFlow-based IBM RackSwitch G8264s. IU's Global Research Network Operations Center at Indiana University has extensive network expertise and is the home of the recently announced Network Development and Deployment Initiative based on OpenFlow. IU deployed two Lustre filesystems at the ends of a 100Gb network connecting Bloomington, Indiana and the SC11 show floor. The IU demo executed real-world scientific applications that will saturate this 100Gb link. At the saturation point, application traffic will be dynamically routed over an alternative network using OpenFlow, to tune traffic based on need, priority and capacity.

The SRS utilized IBM RackSwitch G8264s in multiple other OpenFlow demos including load balancing, dynamic circuits, 802.1ag fault management, and the Steroid OpenFlow Service (SOS) for end-to-end application throughput over long-range networks.

For a complete list of OpenFlow demos in SCInet, visit: SC11/SRS.org

Also at SC11, IBM System Networking showcased our new smarter networking solutions including products our IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8316, a 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) aggregation switch optimized for High Performance Computing and other applications requiring high bandwidth and low latency. The IBM System Storage SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2 fabric backbones are among the industry's newest Fibre Channel switching infrastructure, providing reliable, scalable, high-performance foundations for private cloud storage and highly virtualized environments. The IBM System Storage SAN48B-5 SAN switch is designed to meet the demands of hyper-scale, private cloud storage environments by delivering 16 Gbps Fibre Channel technology and capabilities that support highly virtualized environments.

SC11 was a singular gathering of the High Performance Computing community, and it was a privilege for the IBM System Networking team to have the opportunity to meet with so many innovators in the engineering and science community.

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 IBM's "Blue Pods"

 With standardized components available for virtually every element of IT infrastructure from server to storage and network to rack, it's perhaps no surprise that the standardized data center or "Pod" is becoming increasingly popular. For example, IBM's Portable Modular Data Center is a data center in 20- or 40-foot shipping container that can be located anywhere that power and chilled water can be delivered. Other "Blue Pods" include the Enterprise Modular Data Center, a standardized raised-floor data center that can be built out in modules of 5,000 to 20,000 square feet, and the Modular High-Density Zone, which can convert an existing raised-floor space into an area that can deliver more computing capacity and power density.

 As organizations struggle to handle growth in existing data centers, most organizations need to install and operate high-density computing to keep up with IT demands. However, the majority of today's data centers are not designed to support high-density computing. So, these modular data centers offer a quick-to-deploy high-density solution with exceptional energy efficiency. And these modular approaches are ideal for organizations that want affordable capacity on demand. A Portable Modular Data Center can be designed, built and drop-shipped in as little as a few weeks to any location in the world, and does not require onerous capital outlays.

An IBM Portable Modular Data Center can cost up to 30 percent less to design and build compared to custom raised floor solutions, and can have up to a 50 percent smaller footprint. These Blue Pods are open, using industry-standard 19-inch racks and can house 1,428 blade servers or 1,178 IBM iDataPlex servers per container. This high-density compute power requires equivalent networking capacity. And this is where IBM System Networking is an ideal complement. IBM System Networking RackSwitch products consume power equivalent to standard light bulbs and are designed with server-friendly airflow that matches the hot-aisle/cold-aisle designs of the modular data center. IBM BladeCenter switches consume even less power and are tightly integrated with the BladeCenter architecture. Our VMready switch-resident software provides the networking capability to equip the Pod for the challenges of virtualization.

 As CIOs remake IT infrastructures into more agile and automated environments that can respond to complexity with operational flexibility, Blue Pods support change while helping to mitigate associated risks. They help to address the continuing pressure to do more, faster and better – with less. In many cases, Pods enable organizations to accelerate their preparations for increasing complexity without requiring a significant expansion of existing IT operations. And Pods address the imperative to do more, faster and better—with less. Pods enable the data center to perform as the engine of business growth. And that's what smarter computing is all about.

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Intel® Xeon® Processor 3500 Series Datasheet, Vol. 1
The Intel® Xeon® Processor 3500 Series are intended for Uni-processor (UP) and workstation systems. Several architectural and microarchitectural enhancements have been added to this processor including four processor cores in the processor package and increased shared cache.
The Intel Xeon Processor 3500 Series is the first multi-core processor to implement key new technologies:
• Integrated memory controller
• Point-to-point link interface based on Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)
In this document the Intel Xeon Processor 3500 Series will be referred to as "the processor."
The processor is optimized for performance with the power efficiencies of a low-power microarchitecture.
This document provides DC electrical specifications, differential signaling specifications, pinout and signal definitions, package mechanical specifications and thermal requirements, and additional features pertinent to the implementation and operation of the processor. For information on register descriptions, refer to the Intel® Xeon® Processor 3500 Series Datasheet, Volume 2.
The processor is a multi-core processor built on the 45 nm process technology, that uses up to 130 W thermal design power (TDP). The processor features an Intel QPI point-to-point link capable of up to 6.4 GT/s, 8 MB Level 3 cache, and an integrated memory controller.
The processor supports all the existing Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2), Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSE3) and Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE4). The processor supports several Advanced Technologies: Intel® 64 Technology (Intel® 64), Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology, Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology.
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