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At each New Moon, we come to a threshold where we are reminded of starting fresh, beginning anew, and setting off in a new direction. We are also faced with the knowledge that with all beginnings come endings. We experience this as part of our lives living within the constructs of limited time and space. How we acknowledge endings and beginnings, is part of our life process and journey. "Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning." ― Elana K. Arnold, Burning
New Moon on Wednesday, May 28 at 11:40 A.M. PDT/2:40 P.M. EDT. The New Moon in Gemini begins a new lunar cycle, as the Taurus lunar cycle comes to an end. With the Gemini New Moon, emphasis is on improving our communication skills, learning to listen better, and being more discerning. The New Moon in Gemini at 7/21 degrees forms a nice trine with Mars at 9/30 Libra ushering in some news, information, or intuitive awareness to enhance the start of this lunar month. This New Moon affects the mutable signs of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, and everyone who has planets, the Sun, or the Moon between 2-12 degrees (5 degrees on either side of an aspect) of any of the mutable signs.
Mutable signs are those energies that prepare us for change. People strongly influenced by mutable signs are growing or excel in being flexible, adaptable, and communicative. Gemini, being both mutable and an air sign, trigger our need for change, stimulation, and intellectual exchange. Wherever Gemini is in our chart/life, we may have an overwhelming need to learn, take in new ideas, or somehow immerse ourselves deep into new ideas, plans, and deeper forms of communication. Gemini energy revs up our awareness, making us overly sensitive to sounds, noises, and whatever is spoken or transmitted to us on some level. We crave understanding at this time, and are more receptive to hearing the songs of the Universe, the Divine Voice within and around us.
Virgo, reflects mutable earth energy, energy that stimulates us to put ideas into some type of concrete form. Notice where Virgo is in your chart/life, and see if this may be an area where you might be needing to bring something into shape, form, or some type of full physical expression. Virgo energy is expressed by honing one's art, and putting the finishing touches on a project with grace and full attention. Whereas Gemini energy may never be able to get to the point or bring anything to a conclusion (for new ideas are always interfering with the ability to create wholeness), Virgo's mutable pragmatism feeds the need and desire to reach the conclusion, and see one's art framed, exhibited, and enjoyed. Whether or not you are an artist, notice the place in your life where you enjoy conclusions and displaying the finished product.
Sagittarius, a mutable fire energy, expresses its energy through philosophical and spiritual ideals, acted upon through adventure, travels, and exploring through hands on experience or debate. Taking ideas to their logical conclusion, and back again, Sagittarius mutability is expressed through stimulating conversation and the desire to bring about change in very proactive ways. Notice what area of your chart/life is in the realm of Sagittarius, and notice how this energy affects that area of your life. What kinds of communication is stimulating you to debate, discussion, or action? How are you able to reconcile the past, present, and future now through insightful, intellectual conversation?
Pisces, a Mutable water sign, is concerned with sensing and being receptive to all levels of communication going on around them. For Pisces, the desire is to adapt to whatever situation is at hand, and to be sympathetic and compassionate, is the strongest expression of this energy. Whatever advice, suggestions, or observations made by a Pisces attuned to your needs, is usually accurate and sound. In this area of your life, notice where you are sensitive to the needs of others, and when you are given support from Pisces, be aware that they are so attuned to you, that they will hold the connection, being concerned and mulling over the obstacles and direction you are taking.
If you are a Pisces, learn to let go of what others ask of you; if you are supported by a Pisces, let them know when you have made your changes or are out of danger. While Pisces intuition is strong, their intellectual capacity is great, and they will continue working to help you even when you no longer require it. For Pisces, this stressful and anxiety-producing. Wherever this energy informs you, learn to release yourself from whatever is holding you. This New Moon in Gemini may be a time when we are testing our abilities to set boundaries, learn to protect ourselves, and find a way to channel our psychic energy in more healthy ways.
One of the main points about the New Moon in Gemini is the need to discern what is really necessary from the host of ideas, thoughts, opportunities, projects, relationships, or directions we may be able to see or may be drawn toward. Discernment is a large part of understanding how we communicate. If we only talk about ideas, but never listen, we fail to find what we need to understand. If we only try to form others in our own image around our own ideas, we are failing to honor and acknowledge the rights and uniqueness of those in your life. While Gemini time may make us feel that our minds are on overload, it is not necessarily the time to talk non-stop, letting every idea try to escape the confines of our minds. We may do better to allow ourselves to spend more time in stillness, less time trying to act on every idea. We may learn more if we stop trying to figure out why something happens, and spend more time simply being more present with what we are doing right where we are. When we are able to put our full attention on what we are doing right now, we tend to plant deeper seeds of meaning, memory, and purpose.
While the Sun continues its journey through Gemini, we tend to be drawn into areas that stimulate our need to learn, activate our desire to connect with others, and awaken our curiosity. We find we have more ideas and desires than we have time to act on them. Again, discernment is important when we are in such an intellectually active time. People around you may promise more than they can deliver simply because of this period of active stimulation. The growing edge for using this energy is determining what needs to be done, and what may just be a good idea that's time has not yet come.
One way to handle this energy, is to use this time to write down ideas. Put your ideas and desires in some kind of form so that you can capture the ideas now for pondering and working on later. This is often a time when we can do some good planning, designing, brainstorming, but not necessarily the best time to jump into a project with the hopes of getting it done right away. The energy is too jumpy, and there is too much going on. Slow down and notice how your time is being allocated, and instead of adding more to your plate, consider cutting back a bit, so that something more beautiful, more meaningful will have room to grow in your life. When we fill up every second of the day and night with plans, activities, obligations, and commitments, we leave no time or space in our lives for anything new to grow.
Take some advice from the ancient sacred Wisdom literature of Ecclesiastes 3:1:
To Everything There is a Season
1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
With the Sun, the Moon, and Mercury all in Gemini, we are being called upon to reign in our energy, and to bring diversity to wholeness. The unhealed Gemini energy is scattered, unreliable, and scattered all over the place. Healing and coming into wholeness allows us to walk on the path of harmony, constantly reflecting between what pulls us in one direction, and then the other. Making the choices to keep in balance, require that we let go of some options and focus more intently on others. The disquiet this will cause those of us who have fewer planets in Gemini, is not a signal to act on every idea or jump into yet another action plan for the future. For everyone, it can be a time of discernment, observation, reflection, and practices that ground our energy.
For the first part of this week, Mercury is transiting the last few degrees of its orbit through Gemini. This may be a time when we receive the news we have been waiting for, and it may also be the time when we put to rest some of the ideas that have been taking up space in our psyches, distracting us from details that need attending to.
On May 29, Mercury enters Cancer, where it will stay until June 17. Mercury in Cancer focuses more on the quality of our communication, and allows us a period of time to experience greater peace of mind. We focus now on whatever we need to make us feel more at home, more secure, and more creative. We connect to those around us now, and seek to enjoy and communicate with those who bring us the most personal pleasure and fulfillment. Our home and all that defines that concept, is now crucial to us. We communicate on a deeper, more intimate level, and seek to find stronger connections and deeper meaning in our own lives, families, friendships, and personal happiness and purpose.
Venus has been in Aries since May 2, and will also change signs this week, moving into Taurus on May 28. In Aries for a few more days, any strong desires, unexpressed feelings, or thoughts that have been in any way repressed, are likely to be expressed with some intensity as Venus finishes this transit through Aries. Acting on impulses and desires, putting oneself on the line, and letting your feelings be known, are all ways that Venus in Aries seeks to connect. Whether or not this is your usual manner, in whatever area Venus has been transiting in your chart/life, you might notice the urge to express yourself as if it were "now or never". Reign in any impulses that may not be ready for full expression. The lesson of Venus in Aries is to learn to temper thoughts, feelings, desires with some discretion and reflection. Everything you think does not need to be expressed.
Venus enters Taurus on May 28 and transits that sign until June 23. Venus in Taurus is in no mood to wait or to talk about love and beauty. It must express love in actions and concrete behavior. Beauty is a necessity of life, as is the sound, solid commitment and full, physical expression of love for Taurus puts love into action. Our desires for commitment and security take the front seat now, and we are willing, in whatever area of our life we find aspected now, to be that place where we desire and actively work to bring those needs and desires into harmony with how we live, relate, and work. The unhealed aspect of Taurus, stubbornness, possessiveness, and jealousy, are the negative expressions of Venus in Taurus, so reign in the tendencies in yourself, and be on guard for this tendency in others. Possession and love are not the same thing.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, May 27-28 of this week, Venus sextile Mercury finds us caught up in the language of charm and seduction. This is a time when we may make overtures of love, speak oaths of love at the altar, swear our allegiance, or make vows of fidelity and love. On May 30-31, Venus forms a semi-square to Chiron, the Wounded Healer. Chiron in the depths of Pisces, may feel a deep-seated sense of insecurity or something may be said or felt that triggers a sore spot that needs healing. Notice any inner sense of insecurity, pain, hurt, or some other negative suppressed feeling that might be calling for healing. If you can connect to what it was from the past (experiences, memories) or some dread or fear of the future (anxiety), you are capable of naming the hurt and finding ways to heal and repair your perspective.
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Sunday. On Sunday, we begin the day with the Moon in Aries, and then it shifts into Taurus in the afternoon (5:28 P.M. EDT/2:28 P.M. PDT). We may feel more grounded and relaxed as the Moon in Taurus seeks some emotional rest and centeredness. Perhaps a relaxing hike or picnic, a gathering to listen or play music, all revolving out of our emotional need for finding pleasure to help balance us out.
Early in the morning the Sun in Gemini was semi-square Jupiter in Cancer. This may have caused some rising waters or perhaps brought up some deep emotional trauma to the surface of consciousness (dreams, inner movement) during the night. Sometimes this aspect brings up the insecurities that fuel our unconscious drives. We may try to reason our way out of inner conflicts or resolve things 'once and for all' simply as a means of meeting the Gemini Sun's urge to act. This is not necessarily desirable, or even useful. Recognize that moods are stimulated, and energy is tense. Use the influence of the Moon in Taurus later in the day to settle your feelings, channel your energy, and find practical ways to calm your emotions (exercise, meditation, creativity, gardening, music, dancing).
On Monday and Tuesday, the Moon remains in Taurus, and you may find this a good time to settle into a nice routine of enjoying the basic pleasures of life as experienced through the ordinary. Spend more time being present with simple tasks, basic pleasures, and greater freedom of thought and need. On Wednesday the Moon moves into Gemini early on, and then the New Moon peaks at 11:40 A.M. (PDT)/ 2:40 P.M (EDT). The Mercury-Venus sextile in the morning, makes the first stress aspect leading up to the New Moon.
New moons are times of new beginnings, of starting over or anew, and of setting new intentions and assessing one's direction. Shortly after the peak of the New Moon, the Moon squares Neptune (illusions, dreams, consciousness) then trines Mars in the late afternoon/early evening. What may seem like a bad sign or disturbing emotional situation, may turn into an action that was not only necessary but also perfectly timed for eliminating unnecessary baggage, behavior, relationships, or thought processes. Later in the early evening, the Sun in Gemini squares Neptune in Pisces, again sending us into the watery realms of the consciousness including the subconscious. We are awakening to ideas, memories, fears and visions of what we most fear and our ability to deal with our fears, or not.
At this point, this is a mental game, but it can cause us undue levels of stress if we fail to see how these feelings are simply making their way into our awareness so we know what we are dealing with and how we might cope with things in a healthier manner. What works best during times like these, is to channel our energy into concrete, pragmatic activities. Where we may just have opened a can of worms in our minds, we have opened a channel to allow our ideas to flow into creativity. Without worrying about the artistic quality of your actions, use your energy to paint, draw, mold, shape, bake, design, plot out, or imagine. Use concrete ways of expressing positive expressions of what you are grateful for, or what you count as a blessing in your life. Whatever you do with the energy of the square, that aspect that urges movement or action, is up to you. Avoid, however, wasting it in undue mind games, rationalizations, worry, or feeling sorry for yourself. Squares call us to act according to our highest good. Avoid doing anything during this time that demands perfection, precision, or pin point accuracy, for there seems to be an element of haziness, deception, or delusion, and some actions can cause more harm than good.
The New Moon in Gemini forms a tight square to Neptune in watery Pisces. While we may feel deeply compassionate and understanding under this aspect (carried over from the Full Moon), we need to exercise caution. Be aware that letting ourselves be carried away with compassion and sensitivity requires that we still take care of the details of living. We are no doubt living with a very active imagination, full of fantasies as well as highly attuned perceptions. A thought alone, does not cause an action. There is more to cause-effect than the idea. Use your mind, imagination, senses, and sensitivity to awaken you to potential. Be prepared for the unexpected, and for reality not going according to plan.
On Thursday, May 29, Mercury enters Cancer in the night/early morning. The influence of the New Moon in Gemini is making its first aspects, and semi-square Venus before squaring Chiron. Again, issues related to healing, relationships, our sense of what love is and isn't, are awakening us both consciously and unconsciously. Semi-squares indicates challenges, obstacles, and blocks, and are helpful to us when we notice them and take heed. We look for signs, but often don't want to accept the signs we get, especially if we perceive those signs as not such good news.
Does a sign, opportunity, or relationship meet our desires and expectations—what we think life should be for us? Does a sign, opportunity, or relationship serve our highest good, or even any basic need, or would we be better off if something did not happen that we so desire? Allowing our connection and faith in a Source beyond our own limited knowledge, understanding, or power, to be the guiding force in our lives, means surrendering our need to have absolute certainty or knowledge about anything, anyone, or any situation.
Gemini energy is about exploring the vast swaths of ideas, thought, intellect, and possibilities— that is its gift. The challenge of the Gemini lunar cycle is to corral some of those thoughts and using the energy and gifts of all the muted signs, channel thought into solid action or loosen the grip on thoughts that are not meant to be more than a passing idea.
On Saturday, March 31, the Sun in Gemini trines Mars in Libra. The Sun now lends it powerful energy to Mars—sending deep waves of energy into those areas that Mars has been so systematically and slowly defining within the transit of Libra. This is definitely a time to act as whatever you act on at this point is sure to have been tested and found ready to go. Decisions, actions, and activities undertaken under this influence are to be greeted favorably, and will mark a strong turning point in the area of your life where Mars has been making its way over and over for much of the last year. The challenge, in some cases, has been met. The groundwork has been laid, and the time has now come for moving ahead.
This is actually a time when we swim free of the wake of any major upsets we've experienced lately. With so much activity in the first decan of Gemini, this Jupiter-ruled area of our life/chart, we need to be aware that this area of the transits of the Sun, Mercury, and the Moon are in the territory of the famous star cluster-the Hyades. The Hyades, part of the constellation of Taurus, include: the Hyades, the Pleiades, Alderbaran, Perseus. This particular area of the constellation has a fearsome reputation in mythology. Ruled by Jupiter, it heightens the idealism, fanaticism, and activism of those with militant religious and spiritual missions. That, of course is the negative use of this type of energy. The same energy can also be used to promote higher ideals and the individual brilliance, intellect, and power of those with a message.
It is also a time when some in power will use their position and their words to push their ideas into public view. Exercise caution with those whose words are sweeter than honey, but contain the bitterness of poison. Use your own power wisely. If you find yourself taken in by someones' wit and charm, you may be caught up in the spell of a 1 Decan warrior—out to save the damsels in distress, and to shine like his shining armor to catch your attention. This is all metaphoric, so don't scour the streets looking for men in suits of armor. Instead, notice how this energy plays out in both extremes—the negative militant using violence as it weapon and anger as its shield or the schmalzy salesperson who wants to hand your keys to your new shiny chariot. Also note your own tendencies and feelings associated to the 1st decan of Gemini in your life/chart. This is your point of vulnerability—to both act and respond.
Saturn remains in Cancer, stirring up the inner needs we have for security, a sense of home, and feeding our need to nourish and protect those we love. Pluto, the Great Transformer, in its long journey through Capricorn, continues its longterm job of digging deep into our lives to help us transform and renew. And Uranus in Aries, is fed by the winds of Gemini, to stir the flames, ignite the fires, and set off energy in areas that are ready to explode. The inflluence of Uranus can be one influence that is crucial to our understanding of what we need to do and how we need to do it. In one hand we have the choice that is life-giving and affirming, in the other, we hold the opposite. With our thoughts, words, and deeds, we need to make the choices that are compassionate, loving and kind. To do otherwise sends our energy in all the wrong places, and does no one any good.
Perhaps because Gemini rules my 8th house predominantly, the idea that endings and beginnings are fated experiences that call us each to search life for answers to , I am touched by Pema Chandra's thoughts:
"Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know."
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Let yourself be okay with all the unanswered questions that seem to rise up from within now, and seem to be reflected in what we see happening around us. Search for the Truth that grounds you solidly in your best qualities, expresses your highest ideals, and allows you to do and be the most compassionate, creative, and loving person you can be.


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The Jazz.com Blog
July 29, 2008 · 1 comment
Response to "Is Bird Dead?"
Paris-based Thierry Quénum, a regular contributor to jazz.com, offers his comments below on the recent blog articles on "Is Bird Dead?" (You can find them here and here.) Quénum has been writing for the leading European jazz journals for two decades, and is a jury member for the Django D'Or (France) and the European Jazz Prize (Austria). Be on the lookout for his forthcoming interviews in jazz.com with Jean-Luc Ponty and Martial Solal. T.G.
The Open Door Quartet, artwork by Michael Symonds
(1) Bird was a searching musician, like Trane. They both tried to find their own way by getting away from influences, after having absorbed them and challenged them. How many searching musicians do we really have today? I don't blame current day musicians: once someone's been looking for the Northwest Passage, and has eventually discovered it, what is there left to do for others as far as that type of deep searching is concerned?
For example, Bird was interested in the music of Stravinsky, Varese and other composers of his day. How many of his followers (from Phil Woods to Jessie Davis) have shown a deep interest in contemporary classical composers? How many Trane followers have explored Indian modal scales, to the extent he did? So, it's a full time job to follow these geniuses without sounding like just one more follower. No wonder lots of young musicians prefer a more obvious, fashionable and easy way.
(2) Some early Bird (or Trane) followers have made the steps of the original geniuses hard to follow. Look at the way Bird's legacy has been reduced to a few bop licks, taught in jazz schools and played in jam sessions (whereas Bird was also a deeply rooted and highly inventive blues player, which is largely ignored or minimized). On the other and, how many musicians or jazz educators have really been interested in the way Lennie Tristano, for example, analyzed and taught Bird's art of improvising to his students ? Or in the way Eric Dolphy, then Anthony Braxton, then Steve Coleman actualized his phrasing up to now (even if one may not like their music)?
Besides, look at the way Trane's revolutionary "Giant Steps" has been emptied of its initial power. Nowadays it can become anything from a vain exercise in virtuosity to a nice little ballad on an intricate chord pattern. Remember that Coltrane went elsewhere after he recorded it, and never played it again (on record, anyway, as far as I know) after he'd constructed this landmark that showed how much hardbop could be a dead end.
(3) Let's face it : Bird or Trane (somewhat like some 17th or 18th century European philosophers / scientists who mastered all of the knowledge available in their time in the Christian world) lived in a period when they could synthesize all that had been done before in jazz music, then go forward and open new doors. Today, young musicians are flooded with such a huge amount of superficial information (that they get according to fashions and fads more than through the needs of their own search) that it's almost impossible for them to go deep. And even if they tried, wouldn't they be confronted with one of the problems of modern humans: their jaws have slowly become so narrow for lack of chewing on consistent food, that they wouldn't be able to eat mammoth meat. That's why dentists often have to extract what are usually called our "wisdom teeth" while we are still teenagers . . . because jaws are not large enough to house them. Nothing to blame modern man for: that's the "easy way" of technological evolution. In the same way, you can't both have the peaceful scholarly educated music-makers of today and the junkie ever-searching geniuses trained the hard way of yesterday. But don't be surprised if you see younger players munching on cheeseburgers in a downtown diner instead of chasin' mammoths or giant primitive birds out in the wilderness.
(4) Sound (good or bad) is something that you get used to. If you're not familiar with old scratchy-sounding Django Reinhardt LPs, because the radio stations don't play them or because the technology to clean the original sound and reissue them has not been developed yet, guess what? There's a good chance you won't like them when you do hear them, at least not at first. You and I (as youngsters) had ears that could go beyond the defects of these great recordings, or maybe we appreciated them because we didn't know the sound could have been better. But if I can agree with you that modern day listeners can prefer modern sounds, I think that a musician who gets stopped by that sound problem is not a real musician.
A classical piano player who cannot appreciate the touch of Rudolf Serkin, Samson François or Clara Haskil on a vintage mono recording still needs a couple of years of tuition, from my point of view. And if young wannabee jazz players prefer a well-recorded solo by so-and-so to a stunning Bird chorus on an old LP, I pity them. When we stand in front of the Egyptian pyramids or any Greek temple, do we say: "Too bad they didn't have concrete back then!" or "Gosh, how could these guys build such wonders without the technology that we have now?" You cannot learn from geniuses if you cannot admire them first, and to do so you have to be humble enough to go beyond the shallow viewpoint of the time period where you were born and raised, however technologically evolved this time period may seem to be.
This blog article was posted by Thierry Quénum.
Bob Fanelli
// Aug 04, 2008 at 09:35 PM
Thanks for keeping the past in context with the beginnings of the future. Bird/Trane Lives!


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Multiple studies have shown that sugar, not fat, is the culprit when it comes to battling the bulge. But how do you get the sugar out of your diet completely? Jorge provides a solution in "The 100: Count ONLY Sugar Calories and Lose Up to 18 Lbs. in 2 Weeks" (click for more information).
In it, he explains why only foods containing sugar need to be counted when it comes to losing weight. You'll learn about "freebie" foods on his low carb diet, get recipes and get a game plan for continuing to shed pounds until you've gotten to goal. He also explains how to maintain your slim-down success for life.
The recipes make use of coconut flour to keep the sugar count out of the formula. Over 40? Jorge also has a new book out: "Happy Hormones, Slim Belly: Over 40? Lose 7 lbs. the First Week, and Then 2 lbs. Weekly Guaranteed." It also features "freebies" to help you stay full while shedding pounds.
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Crispy Fried Tomatoes
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- 2 eggs
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- coconut oil (We used Viva Labs #1 Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil - click for details)
- salt and pepper, to taste
Directions: Heat coconut oil in a skillet over medium heat. Slice the tomatoes (thickness is up to you). In a small bowl, beat the eggs. Dip the tomato slices in the egg mixture, then coat with coconut flour. Fry the tomatoes in coconut oil until they are golden brown. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
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So I have a 70 page pdf document that I'm trying to condense to a small booklet.
I tried creating a formula to manually to perform it but it got ugly fast.
Once I print the booklet I should be able to cut the sheets in half and set the bottom half behind the top and staple it for a simple book.
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I need an urgent help to fix some data conversion issue in SQL server 2008. I got some requirement change on storing the data. Without much care I converted existing varbinary data to varchar in SQL server 2008 using "CONVERT(NVARCHAR(max), @bytearraydata, 1)".
The same conversion in C# is done using Encoding.Default.GetString and Encoding.Default.GetBytes api's. Encoding.Default.GetBytes(string) gets back the bytearray as it was earlier. But when I try to get back the byte array of string which I converted using "CONVERT() method" of SQL server 2008 gives me a wrong result.
My work is to fetch byte array stored as string (in db) and convert it to byte array and finally render the content as PDF. Data going through encoding mechanism (while saving and while fetching) works fine for me. But when I try to fetch the data which was converted using CONVERT of sql is failing to generate PDF. Its very urgent, as we have to push production release in a near time. Please help me. Thanks in advance.
Byte array column has been changed to string.
Existing data conversion done using below sql script
Convert(NVARCHAR(MAX), @bytearraydata, 1)
In application level byte array conversion is done using below code Encoding.Default.GetString(bytearraydata)
Is Encoding and CONVERT are not compatible?


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About the Ed Kearns Scholarship
Dr. Marcus Embry
Ed Kearns served UNC as a faculty member in the Department of English from 1966 to 2000. Though Ed taught many different courses at all levels of the curriculum, he was particularly noted for his contributions to the first-year writing program. He regularly taught freshmen composition courses, and trained many of our current composition instructors. He was also responsible for eradicating that scourge of the UNC graduating senior – the English Essay Examination. After a successful career, Ed retired in 2000 and passed away in 2004.
In his honor, Joonok Huh, Chair of the Department of English from 2000 until 2008, and Evelyn Kearns, Ed's widow, established the Ed Kearns Scholarship, which is administered by Sharron Riesberg, an instructor in English. The $500 scholarship is awarded each spring to the freshman student who produces the best essay in a section of ENG 122 (College Composition). English composition instructors submit their best student essays to the English Scholarship Committee, whose members select the winner. The 2012 winners are Nick Alspaugh with the essay "Personal Event" and Donovan Anderson with "Deluge of Wisdom." Past winners include Eliza Howards (2011), Christa Huffman (2010), and Samantha Smits (2009).


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Jessica Chastain has been working the awards circuit for her role in "Zero Dark Thirty," while another — slightly different — star-vehicle debuts this weekend, "The Last Stand."
The new action movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first leading role since leaving his post as California's Governator (though he had cameos in "The Expendables" and "The Expendables 2"). Arnold plays a small town sheriff forced to defend his town from a drug cartel boss on the run.
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STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford junior wide receiver Ty Montgomery has been added to the 2013 Watch List for the 77th Maxwell Award, in an announcement made by the Maxwell Football Club as well as to the Biletnikoff Watch List by that award's national selection committee.
Montgomery proved to be the difference maker in last Saturday's 31-28 win over 15th-ranked Washington for the fifth-ranked Cardinal. The junior, who was named Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week, amassed 290 all-purpose yards including a school-record 204 kickoff return yards.
Montgomery's evening began with a game-opening 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, the first by a Cardinal player since 2009. Twenty-six of Montgomery's 35 rushing yards came on a first-quarter Stanford drive, giving him 125 all-purpose yards on his first two offensive touches.
The wide receiver added a 39-yard receiving touchdown before halftime and a 68-yard kickoff return in the third quarter.
Through five games Montgomery leads Stanford with 23 receptions for 383 yards (16.7 yards per catch) and five touchdowns. He leads one of the country's most prolific kick return units with 436 yards on 16 attempts, an average of 33.5 yards per return.
The Biletnikoff Award is presented annually to the nation's outstanding college football receiver (the award defines receiver as any player who catches a pass) by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation, Inc.
The Maxwell Award has been presented to the outstanding collegiate football player in America since 1937 and is named in honor of Robert W. "Tiny" Maxwell.
Semifinalists for the Maxwell Award will be announced on October 29th and three finalists for each award will be announced November 25th. The winners of the 2013 Maxwell and Bednarik Awards will be announced as part of the Home Depot College Football Awards Show which will be held on December 12th. The formal presentation of these awards will be made at the Maxwell Football Club Awards Gala hosted by Harrah's Entertainment Atlantic City on March 7, 2014.
The watch list candidates have been chosen by the Maxwell Football Club's Selection Committee and the Maxwell Club reserves the right to make additions and subtractions to these lists as the 2013 season unfolds. All members of the Maxwell Football Club, NCAA Sports Information Directors, Head Coaches and selected national media are eligible to vote for these awards.
The undefeated Cardinal puts its 5-0 record on the line when it travels to Utah for a 3 p.m. (PT) meeting to be televised on Pac-12 Network.
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Essex County College will have no increase in tuition for the fourth consecutive year, following an action at the Board of Trustees meeting June 18. The freeze, based on Interim President Gale E. Gibson's recommendation, holds tuition at the 2010-2011 rate.
"It is with our students' success in mind that I recommended to our Board of Trustees a budget that held the line on tuition for the fourth straight year. The tuition freeze will continue to offer a top-quality education at an extremely affordable price for our students and to the communities we serve," said Dr. Gibson.
In-county tuition, exclusive of fees, is $108.50 per credit hour. The last increase was in 2010-2011. Essex is one of only two of New Jersey's 19 community colleges that has held the line on tuition since 2011.
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Grand Junction VA closes community living center amid flu outbreak
Updated: 12/29/2014 - The Community Living Center at the Grand Junction VA Medical Center is not allowing visitors beginning Sunday after an outbreak of the flu virus.
Updated: 12/29/2014 - The Community Living Center at the Grand Junction VA Medical Center is not allowing visitors beginning Sunday after an outbreak of the flu virus.
Updated: 12/29/2014 - Powderhorn's tubing hill opened just in time for the tail end of winter break.
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Updated: 12/27/2014 - According to Trooper Lewis, around 2:20 Saturday morning, a rollover accident occurred at Broadway and Ridges Boulevard.
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Pryde's Easifeed - Australian Riding Team - an interview with - Sheridyn Ashwood
Photo credit: Downunder Photography/Local Horse Magazine
Nickname/s: Sher, Sherwood
Riding Diciplines: Dressage
Horses Names:
Prestige VDL, Remi Lady Marmalade, Fererro Chocolate Box
Your coach(es):
Bennett Con, Thomas Muhlenbeck
Name the most influential person in your riding career and why:
John Bourke, because of his knowledge and expertise as an old bushie breaker. The skills I've learn't from him has have carried over into everything I do. I have been very lucky to work with such an experienced horseman.
Describe your riding history:
I did not start as a dressage rider, I was however a jumper and eventer. I have a need for speed riding racehorses every morning at the track. It was not until later on that I started to focus souly on dressage.
Special highlight(s) in your riding career:
Many! From young riders scholarships, from winning championships on several different horses at all levels.
What are your ambitions?
Sky's the limit for me. Hopefully London Olympics.
Have you trained or coached any riders who have had success?
Most of my students are out currently winning and they all feed Pryde's Feeds. The feed is just as important as the training.
Special care and management considerations of your horse(s):
Lady Marmalade is super demanding and feels insecure if the slightst variation to her routine is alted. Chocolate Box is always starving hungry and requires hay 24/7 and Prestige is the easiest horse I think we own!
Which Pryde's feeds do you use and why do you like them?
BioMare Cubes & EasiPrep Concentrate - for my young stallion and growing horses. I feed them this product because I got great results with these feeds and it is so simple!!
EasiResponse - my horses look great and go without the 'fizz', and are in excellent condition.
What do you require from you horse feed?
Cool, responsive energy - Lady Marmalade is super sensitive.
High energy - Prestige needs lots of energy
Coat condition - Comes naturally with the feed
No fuss breeding feeds & specific young horse feeds - I know I am doing the best for my youngsters with Pryde's.
How will Pryde's Sponsorship make a difference to you?
Working closer with Pryde's will help me get my horses even better than what they are now. I take pride in how my horses look.


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Oracle SOA Suite 11g HL7 Inbound Example
By Michael.Czapski on Jun 19, 2010
As Sun Microsystems, and SeeBeyond before it, Oracle provides support for integration of systems which use HL7 v2.x messaging. Unlike Sun, and SeeBeyond before it, Oracle treats HL7 messaging as Business to Business exchanges (B2B) and uses the B2B part of the Oracle SOA Suite to accomplish the task [1].
In this article I develop and exercise a simple Oracle SOA Suite 11g B2B infrastructure-based HL7 v2 Receiver project for an ADT A01 message and use Message tracker to view messages, message states and messaging performance.
The original article can be found at http://blogs.czapski.id.au/2010/06/oracle-soa-suite-11g-hl7-inbound-example


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Samsung's Super AMOLED panels are being placed in countless smart phones right now, but a shortage of them is stopping them from being thrown in even more phones, this will soon change.
Samsung Mobile Display factories are planning to bring another production facility online, while competitors in Korea, Taiwan and Singapore are increasing their production on AMOLED facilities also. China in the meantime is working on it's own OLED supply chain too.
2011 is set to become a big year for the AMOLED displays - this is only a good thing for consumers and enthusiasts alike.


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I Believe In JesusI went to church as a little girl. So I knew already who Jesus was. I really loved going to church. It wasn't to look cool or to make cool friends. I liked the feeling that I received when I went to church. I stopped going because I just got lazy on Sunday morning. I was the only one who went. I did not know then that my mom also knew of what I discovered. She never showed it, so I never suspected it. Then at the start of my sophmore year, my mom asked me if I would go to a church she used to go to. I was hesitant at first, but said yes eventually. I fell in love with the church and re-discovered in a deep way a true relationship with God. It wasn't for my mom or for anyone else. It was for me. Prayed, read my Bible, and did the best I could in a high school environment to stand up for what I believed in. I have what people call "back sliden", but I'm honestly working my way back. God never stops loving you. He is always there waiting for you. No matter what. He has done so much in my life. I love Him for all that He's done. :)
Eskimobabydoll23 22-25, F 4 Responses 6 May 26, 2007
Jesus Christ is an invented sun god
Just because you dont go to church doesnt mean you slipped from God. I go to church every sunday myself. Im also Roman Catholic.
im am glad that u found god and have him in you life


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June 4, 2011
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - In the winner's bracket game of the Tallahassee Regional, the Alabama baseball team suffered a 9-5 loss to the top seeded and No. 6-ranked Florida State Seminoles on Saturday night from Dick Howser Stadium. The loss drops the Crimson Tide to 34-27 on the season while FSU improves to 44-17 overall.
Alabama returns to regional play on Sunday at 11 a.m. CT against the No. 2 seeded Central Florida Knights, who defeated Bethune-Cookman 16-5 in the Saturday elimination game earlier in the day. Alabama defeated UCF 5-3 in the opening game of the regional on Friday.
"You have to tip our hats to Florida State, I thought they played extremely well tonight," UA head coach Mitch Gaspard said. "I thought our group competed really hard. We had really good energy particularly in the front half of the game and offensively we were really good. I thought we were on the barrel for most of the night against a tremendous left hander in (Sean) Gilmartin."
Alabama roughed up Florida State starter Sean Gilmartin for 12 hits and five earned runs, the most allowed by the First Team All-American this season. Gilmartin (12-1) got the win, throwing 7.0 innings with two walks and six strikeouts. Eight of the nine players in the UA starting lineup had at least one hit as Brock Bennett, Jared Reaves, Josh Rosecrans and Brett Booth has two hits each. Rosecrans was 2-for-4 with two RBI and a walk.
Florida State answered with nine runs on 13 hits as James Ramsey led the way with a 4-for-5 night, including four RBI and a run scored. Devon Travis was 3-for-5 with three runs scored and Rafael Lopez was 2-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored.
Alabama starting pitcher Adam Morgan (5-7) took the loss, throwing 5.2 innings, allowing eight runs on 11 hits with three walks and five strikeouts.
Florida State used three first inning singles to take a 1-0 lead off Morgan. The RBI single came off the bat of Ramsey with one out.
Alabama evened the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the inning when Bennett scored from second on an infield single by Austen Smith. On the play, FSU shortstop Justin Gonzalez collided with third baseman Sherman Johnson allowing Bennett to come around from second. On the next at-bat, the Crimson Tide took a 2-1 lead when Rosecrans doubled to right-center to drive home Smith from first.
In the third, FSU touched up Morgan for three runs on four hits that included three doubles. The first run came across on an infield groundout, and after Ramsey reached on a infield hit, Jayce Boyd and Johnson had back-to-back doubles to drive in two runs to make the score 4-2 in favor of the Seminoles.
The Crimson Tide evened the score at 4-4 with a pair of runs in the third inning. After Bennett doubled and Reaves singled to start the inning, Rosecrans singled off the right field fence to push Bennett across. Booth followed with a sharp single to right field to drive in Reaves from third.
UA regained the lead (5-4) in the fourth inning when Brandt Hendricks scored on a wild pitch by Gilmartin. Hendricks doubled to open the inning and move to third on a sac bunt by Josh Sanders.
"They had a good offensive approach, I thought it was a game where both teams competed really well all night and they were able to have the big inning in the sixth and we had a tough time recovering from that," Gaspard said. "I thought the key was Gilmartin when he started pitching on the inner half of the plate. Our approach was to stay back through the middle the other way and when he changed it up it kind of shut us down for a little."
After the first batter of the sixth inning flied out, Florida State batted around and scored four runs on four hits and three walks to take an 8-5 lead. The inning was also the last for Morgan, who was pulled after allowing a two RBI single to Ramsey, making the score 8-5. Lopez also drove in two runners with a single. Ramsey's RBI double in the eighth inning made the score 9-5 in favor of the Seminoles.
Alabama returns to action in the Tallahassee Regional with a rematch against Central Florida at 11 a.m. CT from Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium. The winner of the game between UCF and Alabama will play Florida State at 5 p.m. CT on Sunday night.
NOTES* With a single in the first inning, Taylor Dugas reached base for the 10th straight game. Dugas has reached bases safely in 55-of-61 games this season. * With one hit on Saturday, Dugas now has 259 hits in his career to tie Emeel Salem for eighth all-time at Alabama. * Jared Reaves singled in his first two at-bats for his team-leading 28th multi-hit game of the season. * Josh Rosecrans doubled and singled in his first two at-bats for his eighth multi-hit game of the season. It was the second time this season he had two or more hits in back-to-back games. * Alabama had the most hits (12) and most earned runs (5) against FSU starting pitcher Sean Gilmartin all season. * Brock Bennett was 2-for-3 in the game to notch his 25th multiple hit game of the season.* Alabama finished the night with 12 hits to notch its 30th game of the season with at least 10 hits. It was the 13th time in the last 18 games that UA reached 10 hits. * In his fourth career NCAA Tournament start, Adam Morgan threw 5.2 innings, allowing eight runs on 11 hits with threw walks and five strikeouts. Morgan is now 1-3 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.


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By Robert Wilson Hoge
Our collections continue to be heavily utilized for research and in publications as well as for exhibitions. I have mentioned a number of these instances in my column in the ANS Magazine. At the same time, I am supervising and coordinating projects in several areas. Of primary importance is our collection of United States and Colonial American coinage and paper currency, presently being photographed and imaged on our data base catalog. Thanks to the generosity of Board member Daniel Holmes, our large cent collection is being fully imaged for the first time, and thanks to Kenneth Edlow, images of our Indian Peace Medal collection are being likewise captured for our database.
Working with authors is a pleasantly rewarding part of my responsibilities. Our 17th century Boston mint coins figure prominently in the forthcoming publication The Silver Coins of Massachusetts, by Dr. Christopher Salmon.
Our Indian Peace medals will be featured in a forthcoming book by our editor and adjunct curator Oliver Hoover.
The extensive collection of Early American coins from our cabinet is being presented serially in color plates in The Colonial Newsletter. Jack Howes studied the pieces in our cabinet for his valuable work on the "New England" silver coinage in that publication, too. Sydney Martin studied our "Rosa Americana" issues of William Wood in the ANS collection, and Randy Clark, the Connecticut copper series, for their forthcoming books on these topics.
Another important area in which I have been regularly working is the identification of superfluous die duplicates in the cabinet, pieces that can be deaccessioned and disposed of for the betterment of the collection. Among these issues are some of the famous Gobrecht pattern dollars. I reported last year on our marvelous acquisition of the Dr. Julius Korein collection of 100 pieces, which will enable us to upgrade existing specimens in the cabinet and eventually sell identical die duplicates. The foremost researchers in this field have been consulting with me on this project.
My time has been occupied with a number of exhibits involving specimens from the cabinet, including loan materials and interpretations for the New-York Historical Society, the Museo del Barrio, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, the National Geographic Society and the National Constitution Center, as mentioned by Dr. Stolyarik. I also prepared the numismatic sections for the upcoming exhibition by the National Jewelry Institute, War and Peace: Masterpieces of Patriotic Jewelry and Decorations, scheduled to be presented at the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid and to become the first public exhibit at the Pentagon, in Washington, D.C. (recently postponed). There will be a handsome catalog of this exhibit published in conjunction with its presentation.
The catalog of the exhibit Dutch New York between East and West: the World of Margrieta van Varick, by the Bard Graduate Center and the New-York Historical Society, for which I prepared the numismatic portions, won the First Runner-up prize in the annual Association of Art Museum Curators' (AAMC) Awards for Excellence in the Outstanding Exhibition Catalog category. The Director of the AAMC stated that this publication's standing, within a crowd of blockbuster exhibitions and catalogs presented by much larger institutions (the MOMA's Bauhaus won the best exhibit and catalog awards), was particularly noteworthy.
Several articles dealing with parts of my work will be appearing shortly: 1) an unique silversmith-countermarked early large cent in the ANS cabinet, 2) two sets of counterfeit half dollar coining tools, 3) the works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the American Numismatic Society collection, and 4) the 17th century American silver coins in the collection of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. These will appear in due course in the American Journal of Numismatics. For the International Numismatic Commission's most recent Survey of Numismatic Research, I prepared the North American section--the lengthiest, most extensive such compilation to date for this publication.
I am very pleased to announce the addition of a large number of important new acquisitions to the collection in the American section during the past fiscal year. Only a selection of these can be presented here:
George Washington J. Manly medal, [1790], Baker 61 (silver), very rare, Gift of Roger Siboni
Province of New Jersey, Andrew Bradford [1733]Currency printer's invoice; For payment to John Peter Zenger, et al., for plate engraving work; Gift of David Gladfelter
Dime, 1854, with arrows, Greer 101; Breen 3282, proof; Gift of Dorette Sarachik
Quarter dollar, 1806, Browning 6, Probably the finest specimen, Gift of Barbara Phillips
''Latin America: Guatemala10 pesos pattern, 1894, Steel obverse die for gold coin ANS 2009.54.4, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Dana Linett''
With thanks to all of the following generous donors:
Karen Alster, James H. Blind, Jonah Estess, David D. Gladfelter, Paul Kagin, Sylvia T. Karges, Mr. & Mrs. Dana Linett, Dr. David Menchell, Garfield Miller, Barbara Phillips, Dr. Ira L. Rezak, Dorette Sarachik, John A. Schroeder (Racine Numismatic Society), Roger S. Siboni, Arnold Spaer, William Sudbrink, Anthony Terranova, Dr. Ute Wartenberg Kagan, and "anonymous"


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At least part of the Dolphins' success can be attributed to their assault on Brady. They hit him at every available opportunity. They hit him square in the chest to avoid stupid penalties, but they hit him. I think the final count was 6 knockdowns, but there were various other hits as well.
I think the most telling one was the one on Moss' TD. It was early in the game, and Brady went to the locker room for a few minutes. He was back before the Pats next drive, but the Pats reported him as "questionable to return." Of course, that's nonsense, but he did not look quite himself. In fact, he is not the same QB he was in 2007. Maybe its the leg injury, maybe its more. Who knows?
And CBS was blathering on about his ring finger. He hurt it. It was black and blue. Boo hoo.
But I loved the shot of him holding his hand. Is he giving us the finger?
....or is the whole injury because his wife hit him with a golf club. Oh sorry, wrong sport.


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i'm not slow
i'm not dumb
i'm not broken.
each day i grow
i understand
i pray.
understanding is difficult
hearing is impossible
speaking is invisible.
I learn to speak
I learn to listen
I learn to hear.
no matter how many times
I repeat.
the tears in my eyes
the shake within my body
i cry.
to understand one
you have to know
i'm not slow
i'm not dumb
i'm not broken.
though i'm human


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CAIRO Security forces and armed men clashed with supporters of Egypt's ousted president early Saturday, killing at least 65 people in mayhem that underscored an increasingly heavy hand against protests demanding Mohammed Morsi's return to office.
In chaotic scenes, pools of blood stained the floor and bodies were lined up under sheets in a makeshift hospital near the site of the battles in eastern Cairo. Doctors struggled to cope with the flood of dozens of wounded, many with gunshots to the head or chest.
It was the deadliest single outbreak of violence since the military ousted Morsi on July 3 and one of the deadliest in 2 1/2 years of turmoil in Egypt. It was not immediately clear if the 65 killed were all protesters or if residents who joined the fight against the march were among the dead. The Muslim Brotherhood said that 66 Morsi supporters were killed in the Cairo violence.
Saturday's clashes were sparked when pro-Morsi protesters sought to expand their main Cairo sit-in camp by moving onto a nearby main boulevard, only to be confronted by police and armed civilians – reportedly residents of nearby neighborhoods. Police initially fired tear gas but, in ensuing clashes, the protesters came under gunfire.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that he spoke to Egyptian authorities, saying it is "essential" they respect the right to peaceful protest. He called on all sides to enter a "meaningful political dialogue" to "help their country take a step back from the brink."
But neither side has shown much taste for reconciliation. Islamists staunchly reject the new leadership and insist the only solution to the crisis is to put Morsi back in office. Meanwhile, the interim leadership is pushing ahead with a fast-track transition plan to return to a democratically elected government by early next year.


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What's upcoming in the GlassFish Webinar Series
By pieter.humphrey on Jan 09, 2011
2011 is kicking off with the return of the GF Webinar series as you've never seen it before. It's going to be packed with information about Java EE6 and how simplicity, testability and convention-over-configuration is winning the hearts and minds of enterprise Java developers. Don't miss these industry leading speakers and topics reviewing the cutting edge of Java EE6 implementations, tools, and much more. Note: future dates are subject to change.
Register now:
- Jan 20th: GlassFish & Netbeans - Register here. "
- Jan 27th: Building a Web Application with Java EE - Register here. "
See the replay:
- Dec 14th: Java EE 6 with Eclipse and GlassFish -- Replay available here.
Coming soon:
- Feb 15th: Java EE Developer Tools 'shootout' with GlassFish
- What's New in GlassFish 3.1
- Clustering & HA
- Admin Console
- Coherence Web Integration
- Security
- Microkernel Architecture
- GlassFish 3.1 - clustering deep dive
- GlassFish 3.1 - Admin Console & Productivity Features
- GlassFish 3.1 - Coherence Web Integration deep dive
- Special Guest - To be determined
- GlassFish 3.1 - Security deep dive
- GlassFish 3.1 - Microkernel Architecture deep dive
- Upgrading to 3.1 from existing GlassFish installation
- Embedded GlassFish


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Are few and far between. How in God's green earth were FLCL, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop and Blue Gender all playing at the same time on Adult Swim and then after them nothing but shit was one. I mean seriously, has there been more than 5 titles that haven't sucked after that generation?
Spice and Wolf
Eden of the East
Super GALS (Actually VERY well done)
Ghost in the Shell season 1 and 2
What has this world come to?


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Making their first appearances at the NCAA Indoor Championships, the Huskies got veteran-like performances from their men's DMR team and Diamara Planell Cruz in the pole vault, as both finished in the top-10 on the first day of the two day meet. Planell Cruz matched her career-best in the vault to finish ninth, and then the men's relay battled for an eighth-place finish to earn a coveted spot on the podium at the AlbuquerqueConvention Center.
The Huskies were looking to score in the men's DMR for the first time since 2007, when UW finished fifth-place for the third year in a row. However, the Huskies were the 12th and final team to make the field, and were running without Izaic Yorks on the anchor, as Yorks ran in the mile earlier in the day. So sophomore Meron Simon went from the opening leg to the anchor leg, and redshirt freshman Blake Nelson opened up at 1,200-meters.
Nelson, the Mill Creek native, was at the back of the field for the first several laps, and looked as if he was just hanging on, but suddenly with a couple laps to go in his carry, he made a move up to ninth-place, and then kept right on moving towards the hand-off, passing to Quadelle Satterwhite in fourth-place, and Satterwhite quickly passed another runner to get into third.
Satterwhite would split the 400-meter leg in 47.89 seconds and pass to Derrick Daigre with the Huskies in fifth-place. Daigre made a push on his 800-meter leg to get back up to third-place, and handed off again in fourth-place to Simon for the final 1,600-meters. Stanford and Columbia had broken away, but a pack of about eight more teams settled in for the next several laps, with UW in that mix. Simon carried the baton home in eight-place with a split of 4:07.62 and a final time overall of 9:44.75.
It's the best men's DMR finish for the Dawgs since 2007, and will earn the four athletes All-America First Team honors, as well as the valuable team point.
Earlier in the afternoon, Planell Cruz had a great effort in the women's pole vault, but some incredible marks, perhaps thanks in part due to the thinner air at elevation, kept her just one place from the podium in her first NCAA appearance. Planell Cruz cleared the first two bars, 13-1 ½ and 13-5 ¼, each on her first try. She then needed a third-attempt to get over 13-9 ¼, but stayed alive, and then made the next bar, a career-best-equaling 13-11 ¼, on her first try. The Bayamon, Puerto Rico native finally couldn't convert at 14-1 ¼, a bar that seven women were able to make, with Planell Cruz finishing ninth based on the tiebreak procedure for eighth. An NCAA record ended up being set as Kaitlin Petrillose of Texas won at 15-1.
Running in the second of two eight-man heats to open the day's racing, Izaic Yorks was not able to crack the final, as he finished seventh in his heat in a time of 4:13.17. Yorks was near the back of the pack throughout, and when it strung out over the last lap, he had too much ground to make up. But along with his great individual season, Yorks was the critical anchor to the DMR at the MPSF meet when he ran virtually by himself to win the race for the Dawgs, which qualified the team for its chance tonight.
Tomorrow, the Huskies will have one competitor remaining, as sophomore Jax Thoirs makes his NCAA debut at 4:30 p.m. Pacific time in the pole vault.
NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships
Albuquerque, N.M. – Albuquerque Convention Center
March 14, 2014 – Day 1 of 2


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What is being called the largest security breach in the world's history has happened as security researchers claim a Russian crime ring stole confidential Internet information, according to a BBC report on Wednesday. The information which has been stolen includes 1.2 billion usernames and password combinations. Additionally, more than 500 million e-mail addresses have been compromised in the theft.
Alex Holden, the founder and chief information security officer for Hold Security in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has said that the cyber gang injected malicious code to steal databases from more than 420,000 web sites. He said that it is absolutely the largest breach ever encountered. What he found most unsettling, according to Holden, was that he found his own credentials among the compromised data. He also said that his firm has been monitoring the cyber gang for a little more than a half-a-year but they only recently realized how large the gang's operation is.
He admits that it was believed that the Russian gang was just a group of run-of-the-mill spammers at first, but now they know that they got very good at stealing the databases. He regretfully states that the perpetrators are in Russia. Therefore, not much can be done because, as he says, these people are outside the law. His investigators know the names of the individuals in the group and their locations, but he refuses to identify the gang.
The firm asserts that it is trying to contact the victims of this data breach. Most of the web sites, however, remain vulnerable. While not identifying the victims by name, he did say that the breached companies include – but apparently is not limited to – the auto industry, real estate, oil companies, car rental businesses, hotels, consulting firms, the food industry, and computer hardware and software firms. In the massive move by the Russian group, SQL database were targeted, according to Holden.
Others in the field are saying that it is never certain how devastating a data breach is. Some believe it takes months for the effects of a breach to be realized. Therefore, some are saying that it may not end up being the largest breach of all time. Yet others are quick to say that this is, in fact, the biggest one and that we can expect more compromises to come out of this horrific event.
According to USA Today, however, Phil Lieberman, the CEO of Lieberman Software, thinks this is just a political statement which is a warning from the Russians – rather than a significant security threat. He thinks this is all about Russia telling the United States to "watch out!" He also says that the Russian government could have prevented this occurrence – but then asks the logical question: Why should they? After all, the U.S. and Russia are not exactly friends at this time.
Suggested Links
- The top 10 countries that love the USA, top 10 countries that hate the USA
- Nancy Pelosi chases Rep. Tom Marino on House floor at immigration debate (VIDEO)
- Lois Lerner called GOP and conservatives 'a**holes' in newly-released emails
- President Obama named worst president since World War II in Quinnipiac poll
- Obamacare more unpopular than ever: Kaiser poll


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Being a Discovery Ranger will give a boy many chances to do new things. He will learn new skills, like camping, building models, giving first aid, and cooking while learning about God and His Word. Royal Rangers will give him the chance to be rewarded for finishing merits and steps on the Advancement Trail. School Grades: 4th-5th