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The post I have read are all informative or entertaining, glad we have them.
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Pippa Middleton and Britney Spears come from very different backgrounds. But when it comes to their choice for weight loss, they both rely on high protein low carb diets. And for Pippa, who has become famed for her athletic prowess, protein power is the key to energy as well, reported E News on August 5.
"To maintain energy I try to eat more protein, particularly fish or chicken," said Pippa. "A lot of people swear by carb-loading in the run-up to an event but it doesn't really work for me, so I just up my protein intake."
Pippa successfully participated in the Bosphorus Cross Continental Swimming Race in Istanbul. She supplemented her protein with brown rice for carbohydrates.
When she decides to lose weight, as she did before her sister Kate Middleton's royal wedding, Pippa uses the Dukan diet. It is a high protein low carb diet that her mother also utilized.
Why are high protein low carb diets so effective for weight loss? A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that dieters on a low carb diet burned 300 calories more than those on a low-fat diet.
One benefactor of the benefits of low carb diets is Britney Spears. She successfully slimmed down recently, reported ABC News on August 7.
Following Kim Kardashian's lead in showing off her weight loss by using social media, Britney posted a photo of herself. "Amazing amazing shoot with @jefflipsky today! Been working hard this summer!" she wrote.
Britney's trainer, Tony Martinez, shared his diet and fitness tips and inside information about Britney in an exclusive interview. "Smart nutrition is half the battle," emphasizes Tony.
And rather than offer advise such as zero-carbs or drastic detox diets, Tony takes the opposite approach. "Moderation and balance are major factors in weight loss," says Tony. "Everybody's body type is different."
However, he does believe in protein power and a low-carb diet, emphasizing that by adding more lean protein and changing your food plan from one full of "bad carbs" (like French fries) to low carb (think chicken breasts), you can achieve your own weight loss goals.
In addition, says Tony, "a lot of people eat out - but that doesn't mean that your diet has to be derailed. Seek healthy choices wherever you are."
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Tulsa growth
On land shaped by wind and water, early settlers came in slow waves to the rolling blackjack and prairie hills that would someday become the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Bottomlands held the lure of easy water, drawing early Caddoan tribes, then the Osage, then the Cherokees. By the late 1700s, Frenchmen were exploring the rivers, giving them names such as Arkansas and Verdigris. By the early 1800s, the Creeks, removed by force to Indian Territory, were torching their council fires on a high bank by the Arkansas River near what would someday be known as Tulsa's Council Oak Tree. Early settlers also were drawn by nearby forts and trading posts, then a post office and a depot ‹ after the railroad came through in 1882, booming the town up to 800 folk. In 1898, Tulsa incorporated. In 1907, Indian Territory became the State of Oklahoma. Growth exploded in the early 1900s with the discovery of oil near Tulsa, continuing strongly during the early decades of this century when Tulsa proclaimed itself to be the oil capital of the world.
Today, Tulsa has about 375,000 citizens, covers about 200 square miles, and is governed by a new mayor-council city government. Its diversified economic base includes oil, aerospace, technical, scientific and communications industries.
Natural setting
Tulsa is located in the middle of "tornado alley," where colliding weather systems make the city vulnerable to violent thunderstorms, particularly in the spring and fall. Normal annual rainfall is about 37 inches, but storms have produced as much as 15 inches of rainfall in a few hours, with little or no warning. Thunderstorms occur principally in the spring and secondarily in the fall; but violent storms know no season and can occur any time of the year.
Its riverfront site also makes Tulsa floodprone; an estimated 10-15 percent of the community is in floodplains. Most of that area is subject to flash floods that strike in minutes during a storm.
A major ridgeline bisects the city, northwest to southeast, so stormwater from a network of smaller basins ultimately drains either to the Arkansas River or the Verdigris River east of Tulsa.
Flooding history
Tulsa's early flood problems generally occurred along the Arkansas River. Disastrous floods occurred in 1908 and again in 1923, when the city's water plant was flooded. (Subsequently, the water plant was moved to higher ground.) Other Arkansas River floods occurred in mid-century years, including the 1940s and 1950s. During World War II, the Corps built Arkansas River levees along portions of Tulsa; in 1964 the Arkansas flood threat was further reduced by an upstream Arkansas River dam, Keystone.
As Tulsa grew, development fanned out across lowlands along the city's network of tributary streams to the Arkansas and Verdigris systems. These smaller, flashy streams became the focus of flooding that generally revisited Tulsa, during the 1960s and 1970s, every two to four years. Several thousand buildings had been built on floodprone lands. Despite piecemeal pipes and paving, damage tolls rose with each flood. The community had few if any regulations over floodplain use, and funds were scarce for structural works.
Notable recent floods occurred in 1970, 1974, 1976, 1984, and 1986. The most damage in those years occurred along Mingo Creek, which drains 61 square miles in east Tulsa. Mingo drains about one-third of the city but has accounted for about two-thirds of the city's flood damages in modern times.
Program development
Tulsa's progress in solving its flood problems has come in a series of actions, largely in response to specific floods. After the 1970 Mother's Day flood left $1 million in damages, Tulsa entered the new National Flood Insurance Program and began, slowly, regulating its floodplains.
After the 1974 June 8 flood caused $18 million in damages, Tulsa began a community debate ‹ which was destined to take many years ‹ on the best approaches to flood control.
After the 1976 Memorial Day flood caused $34 million in damages and killed three, Tulsa developed comprehensive drainage regulations and began developing master drainage plans for major creeks. Consensus formed to include channels, stormwater detention, and regulations in the program. The city forged a partnership with the Corps of Engineers, to develop a program for Mingo Creek. A fledgling alert system was developed.
After the 1984 Memorial Day flood killed 14 and left $180 million in damages, Tulsa was shocked into really coming to terms with its flooding problems. A national study showed that Tulsa led the nation in numbers of federally declared flood disasters, with nine flood disasters in 15 years. Leaders recognized that they must install a comprehensive, stable flood-management program with political and fiscal continuity.
After the 1984 flood, the city acquired and cleared about 500 of the most severely damaged houses and mobile homes --- before they were rebuilt --- using combinations of local and federal funds, including flood insurance checks.
In 1986, Tulsa realized the limits of existing Arkansas River flood control levees and dams, when heavy rains forced the Corps of Engineers to release 300,000 cubic feet per second from the upstream Keystone Dam. The high water caused about $3 million in damage at Tulsa, compared to $67 million in the region. This flood focused attention on the need for improved regional planning and coordination. As a result of this flood, Tulsa acquired a swampy pocket of flooded homes along the Arkansas River west bank.
Management program
Today, Tulsa's floodplain and stormwater management program includes:
This report focuses on Tulsa's floodplain clearance activities --- one aspect of the city's comprehensive flood-hazard mitigation program --- with emphasis on the 1984 post-flood acquisition.
This report is based on the remarkable work of many people. The list includes Tulsa citizens; many courageous political and civil-servant leaders; a diligent local news media; generous national experts; and our partners in the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This summary acknowledges their contributions, with gratitude.


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Junior left-handed pitcher Wes Whisler (Noblesville, IN/Noblesville HS) was named the Pacific-10 Conference Pitcher of the Week, Comissioner Tom Hansen announced today.
Whisler threw a complete game shutout on Sunday as UCLA defeated Washington State, 14-0. He held the Cougars to only seven hits, none for extra-bases, over nine innings. He struck out three batters and walked only one. Whisler faced the minimum over the final four innings in his second win on the year. It marked the fifth complete game of his career and the second of 2004 for Whisler.
As UCLA went 3-1 on the week, Whisler was also stellar at the plate, hitting .500 over the Bruins' four games. He drove in a team-high seven runs over the week and hit his fifth home run of the season on Saturday.
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About re-index and re-import speed expectations
By marcos on Sep 16, 2008
Here are some very light internals that can be made freely shareable to make up some reasonable expectations regarding the re-import and re-index speed comparisons between the different existing DS versions (DS5.x, DS6.x) and the forthcoming DS future. For those wanting to know more, feel free to contact your Sun Support Representative, as there is no room for any additional comment on this topic in a public blog like this one.
DS5.x Re-index model (db2index)
- 1 single thread that does it all:
for 1 to M (indexes to re-index)
vlv (if requested)
parentid (if requested)
ancestorid (if requested)
=> because of the above, re-index perfs are often below those of a re-import when number of indexes to re-index is bigger than 2 or 3 attributes.
DS5.x Import Model (ldif2db)
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Read and parse LDIF
pwd policy
- 1 thread FOREMAN that does( among other things)
- 1 thread per index (N indexes => N threads)
In general, FOREMAN is the bottleneck, but sometimes PRODUCER is as well (for example, on flat trees, where foreman can run faster as ancestorid and parentid indexes are easier to compute). Another example where FOREMAN may not be the bottleneck is when there is a relevant presence of huge indexes (long values in substring and presence and equality), depending on LDIF and configuration.
DS6.x Re-index model (db2index)
The design is still the same as in DS5. This said, the performances of db_get alone and str2entry have been impacted with the additions of new features/fixes which allow to speed up searches and provide better password policy capabilities.
As a consequence, DS6.x re-index is in general slightly slower than DS5.x re-index. A bug exists in DS6.3 to address this concern: 6640806. While the bug can't be fixed in DS6.3, it will be fixed in a post-DS6.x forthcoming release using completely different code.
DS6.x Import Model (ldif2db)
Same model as for DS5.x, the good news is that DS6.x re-import is in general as fast as DS5.x for the same platform and LDIF input. A DS6.x re-import will only be slower than DS5.x re-import in the cases where the FOREMAN thread or the indexes are not the bottleneck, which is really the exception.
Because of all of the above, it is in general a good idea in DS6.x to re-import instead of re-index, specially if the number of indexes to be re-indexed is consequent.
DS future
The following comments are about a post-DS6 forthcoming release, not ready yet for external use:
Re-index will be changed to benefit from the same source code than re-import, which means parallel threads doing the re-index. This should give back impressive perfs for re-index.
Additionally, there will be N PRODUCER threads instead of 1, and that will speed up the imports in many cases.


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Rabbits can suffer from heat stroke or dehydration if not cared for properly during the summer heat. Environment temperatures between 45 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit are optimum for a rabbit. Though rabbits can tolerate heat above 75 degrees for brief periods, it is best to keep your rabbit at temperatures below 75 degrees.
There are several procedures you could follow to ensure that your rabbit does not overheat. You could keep your bunny in an air conditioned room if he is an indoor bunny. If you do not have air conditioning, you could place a fan in the room. Make sure the fan or air conditioner does not blow directly at your bunny. It could cause upper respiratory problems.
If your bunny is an outdoor rabbit, provide plenty of shady areas where he can stay out of the sun. You could also drape a tarp over the top of his enclosure leaving the sides open so any breeze can flow through.
Always supply plenty of fresh cool water. You could also place ice cubes in with the water. A flat piece of marble or ceramic tile can give your furry friend a cool place to rest. You could place this in his hutch or his favorite sleeping spot out of the sun.
Another trick is freeze water in small water bottles and place them in the hutch. Make sure you remove the outer paper. As the water thaws, it creates moisture on the outside of the bottle that your bunny may love to lick, or he may lay against the bottle to cool down. Misting the ears is another way to cool a bunny.
Fresh water and plenty of fresh vegetables will keep your rabbit hydrated. If you notice that your bunny does not seem to be drinking, you could help by using a syringe and manually administer water. Dehydration can be fatal in a very short period of time.
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Jennifer Braman, Art Department Chair
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Professional Website: www.jenniebraman.com
Jennie Braman is an artist and teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently teaches studio art and art history at Berkeley City College, and has taught at other schools including John F. Kennedy University and Williams College. Her current drawings investigate the nature of representation and the creative language of the body. She received her MFA degree from John F. Kennedy University, and her BA in Art History with a concentration in Women's Studies from Williams College. She also earned a certificate in Dream Studies from John F. Kennedy and has lectured on the creative process, and the relationship between art and dreams.
Statement on Teaching
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In past Examiner articles, I have written about Arkansas journalists and their biased slant concerning gun rights issues. Recent columns (here and here) written by prominent Arkansas correspondent Steve Barnes are a glaring example of that ingrained one-sided attitude of the state's media against self-defense rights.
In the first three paragraphs of one of those commentaries, Mr. Barnes demonized the NRA (calls them a cult), de-legitimized assault rifles, called for gun control at gun shows and showed his desire for the federal government to be involved in private sales of firearms. He even took a swing at the revered Charlton Heston's quote about "cold dead hands", calling it a "syndrome". All of these attacks on legitimate gun owners in Arkansas were made without any opposing viewpoint being put forth, while attempting to disguise the discussion as between men who represent all gun owners in the state.
In his articles, Mr. Barnes attempts to cloak his antagonism toward self-defense rights by quoting one-sided perspectives from both a 'lunch club' he belongs to and an email from a friend. The friend said:
"It is not about the guns you own — I will fight for that as long as they are not assault rifles — it is about the guns the crazies don't own yet. I am all for giving everybody a deer rifle or a scattergun on demand. But who can make a rational argument against a background check on handguns at all points of sale, including gun shows and the Walmart parking lot, and banning sales of guns that have no legitimate sporting purpose?"
Mr. Barnes's editorial, picked up by papers in cities such as Fort Smith, Mountain Home, Jonesboro and Pine Bluff, reflects the relentless drumbeat for gun control by the major media outlets in Arkansas. The Pine Bluff newspaper's headline even boomed, "The gun debate goes on". Steve Barnes's article, however, was hardly a debate, since a debate usually has two sides giving their positions.
The quoted email goes on to say:
"When the worm eventually turns, and it will; when the pendulum swings it always goes far to the other way and legitimate hunters lose because of the gun nuts. What they will lose is something I believe is truly in our genetic makeup: the right to shoot at passing ducks, a deer slipping by or pulling up on a covey of quail."
The anti-gun quotes continued:
"Hell, the people who are arming up out of fear ought to embrace the concept of choking off guns on demand to the drug dealers and the thugs."
Obviously, these quotes are examples of elitism on a grand scale. Steve Barnes is quoting a friend to illustrate that if a citizen owns anything other than a shotgun or a deer rifle, then they are one of the 'crazies' (I assume they feel the same way about owning handguns). Clearly, standing up for Second Amendment rights will also get you tagged as a gun nut in the 'lunch club', and by supporting the ownership of firearms, the people (in the lunch club's eyes) promotes arming drug dealers and thugs.
The makeup of Steve Barnes's lunch club is evident. In the first article, he described his friends as a stockbroker, insurance salesman and middle manager of a federal agency (hardly people who would have to worry about an arrest in Arkansas, if they were pulled over while carrying a handgun in the glove compartment). Obviously, their ultimate reasoning for gun control is maintaining their privilege to hunt, and anybody else's Second Amendment rights can burn. In neither of Mr. Barnes's articles were there any mention of a person's right to self defense or the 'pesky' Second Amendment. Also missing from the "debate" was the fact that thousands of deer hunters and shooters in Arkansas do use assault rifles for 'sporting purposes' (as I do), although no law or Constitutional decree requires these firearms be a 'sporting' firearm.
Mr. Barnes, if you want gun control in Arkansas, please stand up and demand it. Masquerading a 'good ole boy' gun control discussion as legitimate gun owning citizens debating Second Amendment issues is deceptive and immoral.
But of course, Steve Barnes, you do belong to that anti-gun "cult" known as the Arkansas media.
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SEATTLE - It's a question I've gotten the most this season, ever since the first kickoff of the first game two months ago.
It's not "How's Keith Price doing?" Not "What's made the Huskies' defense better?"
It's been, by a landslide: "Who IS that guy on the sideline jumping up and down and waving that towel - ALL THE TIME?"
He's assistant strength coach Keith "Thump" Belton, the relentlessly positive dynamo beneath a constantly twirling white towel.
Before kickoffs. Before third-down plays for the Huskies' defense. Up by three at home late last week against Oregon State. Down by 35 late the week before at Arizona. During practices. During meetings. Heck, during team meals.
Doesn't matter. Belton is the same way. All energy. All positivity. Yes, all the time.
Five-hour Energy's got nothing on "Thump."
"Hustle off the field! Hustle off the field!" Belton bellowed to Kasen Williams on Tuesday, 10 minutes after the morning's practice had ended.
UW's leading receiver was walking along the edge of the sideline after he had done extra receiver drills with most of his teammates already gone to the locker room.
"He's a great man. A GREAT man. He is our hype man," linebacker and co-captain John Timu said.
"He's our passion guy."
This "passion guy" is a former Syracuse captain and NFL fullback who estimates most of his childhood friends from Charlotte, N.C., are now in prison.
He got his "Thump" nickname as a baby. It became the perfect one for a fullback -- and for the Huskies' motivator in games, in practices, and in something far more important.
"I'm just passionate about the game. And most of all, I want to see these kids be successful," he said with a tone of - what else? - passion inside the Dempsey Indoor practice facility. "I love to see kids push through adversity, because these are men at the end of the day and they aren't going to play football all their lives. They are going to be fathers.
"I am a father, first and foremost. I've got a 5-year-old and a 1-year-old. There's a lot of adversity that goes into that - and in being married at the same time."
And you thought he was just a sideline rabble rouser featured on the video board at CenturyLink Field during home games.
"I'd like to think this game correlates so much into life," he said. "If you can push through the hard times, then in the easy times it's a breeze.
"So that's where the passion comes from. I want to see these guys be successful. Not only as football players, but I want to see them grow up and be great dads and mentors and people in society."
Now that's more useful fortitude than the average assistant college strength coach provides, eh?
The short, easy story on how this 31-year-old assistant to an assistant became the most noticeable and perhaps most invaluable Huskies game-day staffer not wearing a headset: He played at Syracuse with UW defensive assistant Donte Williams.
"Golly," Belton said when asked about his road to UW. "I always say God uses people, obviously. I went to school at Syracuse with Donte Williams. But I'd like to think it's deeper than that, too.
"I really think it's divine."
In 2010 Belton accepted a position within the department of athletic performance at Baylor. He worked there with soccer, men's tennis and football.
Williams introduced Belton to Huskies strength coach Ivan Lewis last December 26, when Washington's and Baylor's staffs had dinner together at Ruth Chris steakhouse in San Antonio three days before the teams played in the Alamo Bowl.
"We probably had a 3-minute conversation," Belton said.
Then on game night inside the Alamodome, Belton looked like a human pogo stick. He was waving a towel about the size of Texas to fire up his before kickoffs and big plays.
He and his Dawgs couldn't help but notice Belton from the opposite sideline that night. Baylor kicked off 11 times in the game. There were so many big plays it's a wonder "Thump" didn't collapse during a zany, 67-56 win for his Bears.
I told him I'm always pretty much high energy on the field, and that I want to see the guys succeed. That was my commitment to him. And I'm going to keep that commitment.
"It's crazy. We kept looking over to the Baylor sideline and saying, `Who IS that guy?'" Timu said. "He was everywhere, jumping up and down and waving that big towel."
Lewis remembered Belton all the way into May. That's when he hosted Belton for interviews at UW.
Belton had never been to Seattle before meeting with Lewis and the strength staff, plus with Sarkisian.
"I told him I wasn't going to trick him, and that I was going to be myself," Belton said when asked what he told Sark. "I told him I'm always pretty much high energy on the field, and that I want to see the guys succeed. That was my commitment to him. And I'm going to keep that commitment."
Sarkisian loved what he heard. That and a beautifully sunny Seattle day in May told Belton to become the Huskies' last hire following the offseason's staff overhaul.
Everyone focused on the arrival in January of new coordinators Justin Wilcox from Tennessee and Eric Kiesau from California - plus the coup of getting defensive-line coach and renowned recruiter Tosh Lupoi from Cal, UW's opponent Friday night in Berkeley.
No one noticed Belton coming in.
They can't help but notice him now.
"I'm just passionate about them being successful, honestly," he said of the players. "Everybody wants to win; I want to win. But I just want to see these guys count on one another. And if they've got to get their energy and enthusiasm from me, so be it. Whatever it takes.
"And it's just who I am. So it's never work to me."
As you may be able to glean, Belton even walks passionately.
"It's what keeps me alive. My passion for this game, my passion for people keeps me going," he said. "This is my life."
But not his entire life. Turns out, he apparently doesn't wave a towel at home to get his wife Shantre and their two kids going each morning.
"Outside of football it's totally different. I'm introverted," he said. "Shantre thinks it's crazy, because she knows at home that's not who I am. She knows at home I am quiet. I like to keep to myself a lot.
"But here," he said, looking around the practice field, "it's just that `Thump' comes alive."
Belton's 5 year-old is a son named Peyton - because his wife "loves" Peyton Manning. Their daughter Aubrey just turned 1.
When I asked him about her, "Thump" just about melted into the Dempsey Indoor turf.
"Oh, man, she's a princess. She's a princess. Oh, my gosh!" he gushed. "No boyfriends for her until she's 40."
He's already giving little Aubrey something he lacked growing up: direction.
"I can't say exactly where I was headed, but I will tell you this: Everyone that I grew up with is probably in prison," he said.
He attended West Charlotte High School, "which is notorious," Belton said. It's enrollment is about 2,000, with 99 percent of its students minorities. The recent federal reporting data for the school shows 70 percent of students were on a free lunch program.
West Charlotte recently received national recognition for academic achievement and turning around the school's rough environment. Belton likened West Charlotte in the late 1990s to the place depicted in Lean on Me, the 1989 biographical film about principal Joe Clark reforming an ultra-rough, inner-city high school in New Jersey.
I can't say exactly where I was headed, but I will tell you this: Everyone that I grew up with is probably in prison.
"You know that movie about Eastside High - `Take the chains off the door! Take the chains off!' It was almost like that," Belton said. "But it's a great school with a great tradition, in one of the rougher parts of Charlotte. You learn so many values going to a school like that. Instincts. You don't learn a lot out of a book but you learn a lot about life, which is important. Life skills."
"Thump" already knew how to play football. He was the Class 4A Southwestern Conference player of the year as a senior after rushing for 1,327 yards and 18 touchdowns.
He committed initially to Syracuse, then signed with Baylor after one recruiting visit to Waco, Texas.
"Honestly, I didn't even know where Baylor was," Belton said.
He was there for two days. He couldn't get through the NCAA's clearinghouse for grades and admission test scores.
He left Baylor and landed at Northeast Mississippi Junior College in Booneville.
"That was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life," he says now. "I learned that you can't B.S. your way through life. Going to West Charlotte and being raised the way I was raised, you could kind of shuck and jive to get through.
"But reality hit that at some point I had to grow up and be a man, own up to my mistakes. I was able to B.S. my way through high school, but I wasn't able to get cleared by the NCAA. So in junior college I had to buckle down and realize what's really important."
Northeast Mississippi was a necessary means to a Belton's end. And that end could arrive soon enough.
"Check this out," he said, "I went to the AD and said, `What's the fastest way to get out of here?' Because I had to go. There was like one WalMart and some fried-chicken place - and that was it."
Belton missed his first football season at Northeast Mississippi because of a knee injury that could have U-turned his life. It could have sent him out of school, out of football, back toward the dead ends around Charlotte and maybe even prison.
But he turned the injury into a blessing. He used the extra time while not playing to gain determination. He bulled through the school's academic load like it was linebacker standing in the center-guard gap.
Northeast Mississippi's athletic director explained to him a student needed to pass 65 credit hours to get an associate's degree from the two-year school. Belton asked the AD for the maximum number of hours he could take per term. He was told 22.
"It's a done deal," he told the AD.
Belton completed three straight semesters of 22 credits each.
No more shuck. No more jive.
"Man, it was awesome! It was AWESOME!" he says now.
Healthy again, he averaged 72.2 yards per game in his second, final year at Northeast Mississippi. Syracuse and Baylor came calling, again. He chose the Orange. After all, he'd grown up on Syracuse Drive in Charlotte.
Belton played the 2001, `02 and '03 seasons at Syracuse. He averaged 5.3 yards per carry and became known as a fearless lead blocker while playing in all 37 games those three years. He was a team captain as a senior and received Syracuse's Ray Martino Award for demonstrating loyalty, enthusiasm and perseverance.
He signed as an undrafted free agent with the Lions in 2004. He was active for three games for Detroit and for Chicago that season. He was on the Bears' practice squad for part of 2005 season then ended that season on the Denver Broncos' practice squad. The Broncos and then the Lions again released Belton in the summer of 2007.
I asked him what he learned in the NFL.
"Accountability," he said. "Accountability. Accountability."
Belton became a coaching intern at Independence High School in Charlotte in the fall of 2007. A year later he took a job as running backs coach at Johnson C. Smith University in his hometown. He moved out of full-time position coaching in 2009 to be an intern at Wake Forest working in its athletic department's life-skills program. He joined Baylor in 2010 and stayed two years.
He doesn't want to move up to the top of the college coaching ranks.
"You know what? I'd like to be a head strength and conditioning coach," he said. "When I can't jump around and scream and wave towels any more, I want to be an AD. How funny is that?
"But that's way down the line, man. I'm 31. And I feel like I'm 21."
He looks it, too. With rounded, rising shoulders and trunk-like legs, he looks like he could clear out the "A" gap for Bishop Sankey Friday at Cal.
In fact, UW's marketing department used Belton as the player model in a full black uniform for its "Blackout of the Century" campaign prior to last month's win over eighth-ranked Stanford.
I asked "Thump" what he's learned as a father. He sounded like all of us who have been a dad for more than a day.
"Patience," he said. "Patience, and accountability, again. And responsibility. Now, I can't run off my emotions. I have to listen now, having an understanding of when to turn that switch off of being a competitor to being a dad.
"I love `em. I love my babies."
There it is again, the passion. It's what fuels him to be relentlessly supportive on the Huskies' sideline no matter the score or situation.
"Oh, yeah, it's big time. We feed off that. Offense. Defense. We all feed off that," Timu says. "To see one of our coaches with the passion he has, it fires us up.
"He's consistent, that's what's so great about him. At LSU, Baton Rouge. Arizona. Win or lose, he's the man that we look to, even when we are down."
Down? Belton doesn't do down.
But doesn't he at least get tired constantly jumping up and down and running along the sidelines waving that towel?
"You know what? I really feel like God put me here to do it. When you are blessed to do something, you don't get tired of doing it," he says. "If I wasn't put here to do this, I'd get tired in the first quarter. I don't get tired. I think His graciousness allows me to do this for a long time.
"It's weird. But that's just honest."
Then he added with a wry smile, "Now when I get home, that's a different story. I'm sore."
Belton puts his contributions to UW football, to bettering the Huskies not only as players but as people, better than I can.
"It's beautiful, man," he says, with a big grin. "It's a beautiful thing."
About Gregg Bell Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director of Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
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Beeston blasted their way to the top of the MHL Premiership with a massive 8-2 victory away at Cannock. In the opening match of the League season Beeston gave league debuts to Craig Boyne, Simon Egerton, Tim Lewis and Joe Sharp and the thoroughness of pre-season preparations saw them fully integrated into the Beeston style of play.
Beeston went into a 5th minute lead when Simon Egerton dispatched the Bees 2nd penalty corner. The lead was increased in the 16th minute with a move started by David Ames and executed by left half, Mark Wadsley, on the far post. Cannock pulled one back in the 25th minute through Nick Bandurak. A brilliant save from Beeston goalkeeper, Ashley Watson in the 28th minute foiled the equaliser. This seemed to rile the Bees and Simon Egerton collected his second following a sensational move which involved Martin Jones running, weaving and twisting his way from the half- way line. Egerton completed his first half hat trick in the 30th minute when Stuart Pilgrim found him with a right wing pass.
Beeston put the result to bed four minutes after half time when Egerton added to his tally, firing in his fourth goal, with a penalty corner flick to make the score 5-1.
Australian, Craig Boyne, now picked up the challenge. His brace of penalty corners in the 58th and 61st minute took the score to 7-1 before Cannock's David Beckett pulled one back for the Staffordshire side, with a 63rd minute penalty corner.
Beeston pushed on, and five minutes from time, Martin Jones finished off a pass from Simon Egerton to give the Bees an amazing 8-2 away victory.
Simon Egerton, who hit 4 goals on his Beeston league debut, commented, "To come to Cannock and win by such a huge margin is a superb start to the new campaign and confirms our intentions for the season. The squad is highly focused and we still have another few gears to go. At times today we were awesome."
Beeston, return to Highfields, where the meet Canterbury, on Sunday 23rd September, 2.00 start. Canterbury also gained 3 points on the opening day with an impressive 4-2 win over Manchester based, Brooklands.
Captain, David Ames, projected forward to Sunday's game. "It was fantastic to see so many Beeston supporters at Cannock for the opener. We are expecting a good crowd for the Canterbury home match. This is a chance to see a great match and a powerful Beeston squad in action."


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Sigurdson, C B; Polymenidou, M; Aguzzi, A (2005). Reconstructing prions: fibril assembly from simple yeast to complex mammals. Neurodegenerative Diseases, 2(1):1-5.
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With the epizootics of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in North American cattle, BSE infections in goats, new forms of human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and the spread of chronic wasting disease in North American deer and elk, one wonders whether we are gaining control over the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Although many basic scientific questions in the prion field remain hotly debated and unresolved [1], including the function of the cellular prion protein (PrP), light has been shed on a diverse array of topics, and discussions at the latest TSE meeting ranged broadly from yeast prion fibril assembly to mammalian prion neurotoxicity to future TSE therapies. Prion diseases are protein misfolding disorders which cause degeneration of the central nervous system (CNS) and ultimately death. The unique and surprising feature is that prion diseases are infectious. Yeast prions are derived from proteins differing from the mammalian PrP but are also infectious, self propagating proteins which typically can convert into an aggregated, amyloidogenic form having high beta sheet content. The simple yeast organism has served as a valuable model for understanding aspects of prion biology, such as prion fibril assembly.
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Internal Combustion Engines Laboratory
Research in the Internal Combustion Engines Laboratory at Kansas State University has become very active over the last four years. Projects ranging from ammoniacombustion experiments to experiments using alternative fuels in compression ignition engines have been funded by private industry and the federal government. The Laboratory contains a large engine test cell capable of testing medium-duty engines. Representative engines in the lab are a Cummins 4BT3.9 turbocharged engine and a General Motors Quad-4 fuel injected engine. The lab houses a state-of-the-art emissions sampling system, consisting of CO, CO2, NOx, NH3, O2, SO2, and hydrocarbon analyzers.
- Cummins 4BT - Turbo Charged 4 cylinder with Compression
- GM Quad 4 - 4 cylinder (2.3 Liter) with Spark Ignition.
- Ford (1.9 Liter) - 4 cylinder with Spark Ignition.
- John Deere 3152D - 3 cylinder with Compression Ignition.
- Briggs & Stratton - 10 hp with Spark Ignition.
- Sachs-rotery with Spark Ignition.
- CFR - variable compression ratio with Spark Ignition.
- Engine Test Cell - Dialog Dyno & Engine Controller with fuel
flow, air
flow, temperature, torque, and speed data acquisition.
- Exhaust Analyzers - Rosemont/Beckman
- Ed Wagner
- Matt Hammeke
- Clayton Walenta
- Alternative Fuel Injection into Cummins Diesel Engine.
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We're lucky enough to have a fireplace in our home...not that we've ever lit a fire in it or anything. But we do love decorating the mantel! We've got our sights set on the Bright Ikat Urn ($125) at Furbish as our spring pièce de résistance. It's colorful, modern, and definitely doesn't say "drab and dreary." We'll store the top somewhere safe and fill the urn with some cheery flowers for an extra oomph of awesome!
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Willie Daniel Rodgers Jr.
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Died: September 17, 1998 in Houston, TX
High School: John F. Kennedy
College: Kentucky St.
Drafted by the Houston Oilers in the 12th round (290th overall) of the 1972 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 8 (7842nd overall since 1950)
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While she has been around in the industry for some time, it was her film Bridesmaids that really stepped Kristen Wiig up to the status she has now. Typically hearing of her involvement means a comedy, but with her latest film Hateship Loveship she is taking a dramatic turn. Alongside a great cast including Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld, Jenifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte could this be a new direction for her career or should she stick with the comedy?
Hateship Loveship follows a quiet caregiver who starts a new job working for an elderly man and his teenage granddaughter Sabitha. A cruel trick by Sabitha lands her in an awkward one-way relationship with Ken, Sabitha's estranged father but her newfound ambition and desire gives her courage to transform her awkward doom into real contentment. This is one of those movies that has everything it needs for a great movie, but might not resonate with some viewers. Everything about this film screams real life which is why it works so great, but at times it is so close to real life that the pacing slows way down. Kristen Wiig steps out of the world of funny to deliver a great emotional subtle performance unlike anything she has done to date. She was able to step away from the norm and successfully make you believe in who this character is. The rest of the cast do a fine job, but it's the story that has a few issues. Most of the problems with this film are more in pacing and direction that the overall story. As compelling as some of these characters are the film is really slow and takes quite a while to actually get anywhere. There are moments in the story that could have been fleshed out a bit better to help bring the power of the story they were trying to tell forward.
Despite some great performances and a great cast the slow build of the film may lose some viewers, but if you can stick with it the second half picks up a bit allowing these characters to finally move forward. While there are issues here, there is no denying that Wiig is great and seems to have no issues with the drama side of her craft, so let's hope we get more from her in the future.


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Car of the Week - October 20th, 2011
Sports Car Market has chosen Joe Aanenson's 1966 Plymouth Valiant as Chubb Collector Car Insurance Car of the Week.
Joe plans on restoring his 1966 Plymouth Valiant four-door sedan. It sports the nearly indestructible 225-ci slant six, and although he doesn't specify transmission type, it's probably an automatic.
Compact cars from the 1960s have mostly been beaten, neglected, or destroyed, so it's nice to see someone reviving one, especially with its stock components. The job will involve some elbow grease, however, as Joe wants to replace the floor pans, and depending on how much rust he's fixing, that could turn out to be a lot of work. He's also on the lookout for replacement fenders, so if anyone knows where he can inexpensively source a set, he'd appreciate the info.
Second generation Valiants (1963-66) don't have the same market value as their fraternal twin, the Barracuda, but that simply makes them far more approachable to budget-minded car collectors. Recent sales data has shown good to excellent examples selling for between $3k and $6k, but they can go for much less if you're willing to put a lot of your own time and energy.
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The Best of Ottawa delivers the top animated shorts "for grown-ups" every year, celebrating stylistic and technical innovation with gems that inspire, entertain, and provoke. The 2010 line-up includes David O'Reilly's grand-prize winner The External World; the pulsating metamorphic madness of Andreas Hykade's Love & Theft; Dustin Grella's deeply moving and brilliantly executed award-winning film Prayers for Peace; the mesmerizing crowd favorite Sinna Mann (Angry Man) by Anita Killi; the snap-crackling goodness of Masaki Okuda's Kuchao (A Gum Boy); and Joseph Pierce's twisted narrative short, A Family Portrait.
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The Bunless Portobello Burger is a version of a sandwich I made a while ago for my husband. In that version I used grilled chicken instead of ground beef, and I piled on the toppings. We still talk about that sandwich with drool cascading from our mouths. So, in honor of the upcoming 4th of July weekend, I thought I'd beef that sandwich up a little. With beef.
Need some ideas for some other summer worthy food? Check out my recipes page for things like 4th of July Dessert Kabobs, Frozen Yogurt Pops, and Mexican Corn.
Honestly, when I have a burger this way, without the bun, I don't miss the bread. Portobello mushrooms are a wonderful stand-in for bread. They're savory and satisfying and full of umami.
This is a really filling sandwich. Like gut-bustingly filling. So share with a well-deserving friend. Or save some for leftovers. Or eat it all yourself. You're the boss. I won't judge.
I topped mine with mozzarella cheese, bibb lettuce, and tomatoes.
Onions, avocado, bacon, hot sauce….what will you top yours with?
- 2 portobello mushrooms
- ¼ lb ground beef
- 1 T olive oil
- 1 T butter
- 1 T balsamic vinegar
- salt & pepper, to taste
- Remove stems from mushroom.
- With a spoon, scrape the gills from the bottom on the mushroom. This will give your burger and toppings a nice bed to nestle into.
- In a large skillet over medium heat, melt butter and add olive oil.
- Place mushrooms with the underside down into the pan.
- After approximately 5 minutes, flip over, drizzle balsamic vinegar over mushrooms, sprinkle salt and pepper, and cook the tops (an additional 3-5 minutes).
- Remove to plate and prepare burger.
- Shape meat into patty.
- Place onto skillet.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Cook approximately 4-5 minutes and flip.
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A 'whole of system' approach to compare options for CVD interventions in Counties Manukau
Version of Record online: 2 JAN 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00812.x
© 2012 The Authors. ANZJPH © 2012 Public Health Association of Australia
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Volume 36, Issue 3, pages 263–268, June 2012
Additional Information
How to Cite
Kenealy, T., Rees, D., Sheridan, N., Moffitt, A., Tibby, S. and Homer, J. (2012), A 'whole of system' approach to compare options for CVD interventions in Counties Manukau. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 36: 263–268. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00812.x
Publication History
- Issue online: 5 JUN 2012
- Version of Record online: 2 JAN 2012
- Submitted: February 2011 Revision requested: May 2011 Accepted: June 2011
- Abstract
- Article
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- cardiovascular diseases;
- system dynamics;
- population health;
- decision making;
- health care quality access and evaluation
Objective: To assess the usefulness of a national and a local system dynamics model of cardiovascular disease to planning and funding decision makers.
Methods: In an iterative process, an existing national model was populated with local data and presented to stakeholders in Counties Manukau, New Zealand. They explored the model's plausibility, usefulness and implications. Data were collected from 30 people using questionnaires, and from field notes and interviews; both were thematically analysed.
Results: Potential users readily understood the model and actively engaged in discussing it. None disputed the overall model structure, but most wanted extensions to elaborate areas of specific interest to them. Local data made little qualitative difference to data interpretation but were nevertheless considered a necessary step to support confident local decisions.
Conclusion: Some limitations to the model and its use were recognised, but users could allow for these and still derive use from the model to qualitatively compare decision options.
Implications: The system dynamics modelling process is useful in complex systems and is likely to become established as part of the routinely used suite of tools used to support complex decisions in Counties Manukau District Health Board.


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Tips for Running in the Heat
Running is great exercise for improving overall health. It helps by reducing stress and improving cardiovascular function. Running is also great for improving your skin health: regular exercise can help prevent wrinkles by maintaining healthy levels of cortisol (hormone which breaks down collagen), supplying skin with oxygenated blood to give a healthy glow and repair skin damage from the sun and environmental pollutants.


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I have Visual Studio 2008 Team System installed on my work machine. I use it to work for an offisite clients Team Foundation Server 2008.
Yesterday it stopped working. E.G. I couldn't connect to TFS.
On my machine I have updates disabled, I have the firewall disabled and have a proper working connection to my clients server.
The client didn't change anything on its machine.
What are the possible reasons the visual studio couldn't find the TFS server.
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Agent-Based Architecture for Web Deployment of Multi-Agents as Conversational Interfaces.
Date: May 2003
Creator: Pothuru, Ranjit Kumar
Description: Agent-based architecture explains the rationale and basis for developing agents that can interact with users through natural language query/answer patterns developed systematically using AIML (artificial intelligence mark-up language) scripts. This thesis research document also explains the architecture for VISTA (virtual interactive story-telling agents), which is used for interactive querying in educational and recreational purposes. Agents are very effective as conversational interfaces when used along side with graphical user interface (GUI) in applications and Web pages. This architecture platform can support multiple agents with or with out sharing of knowledgebase. They are very useful as chat robots for recreational purposes, customer service and educational purposes. This platform is powered by Java servlet implementation of Program D and contained in Apache Tomcat server. The AIML scripting language defined here in is a generic form of XML language and forms the knowledgebase of the bot. Animation is provided with Microsoft® Agent technology and text-to-speech support engine.
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Agent Extensions for Peer-to-Peer Networks.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Valiveti, Kalyan
Description: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have seen tremendous growth in development and usage in recent times. This attention has brought many developments as well as new challenges to these networks. We will show that agent extensions to P2P networks offer solutions to many problems faced by P2P networks. In this research, an attempt is made to bring together JXTA P2P infrastructure and Jinni, a Prolog based agent engine to form an agent based P2P network. On top of the JXTA, we define simple Java API providing P2P services for agent programming constructs. Jinni is deployed on this JXTA network using an automated code update mechanism. Experiments are conducted on this Jinni/JXTA platform to implement a simple agent communication and data exchange protocol.
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An Analysis of Motivational Cues in Virtual Environments.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Voruganti, Lavanya
Description: Guiding navigation in virtual environments (VEs) is a challenging task. A key issue in the navigation of a virtual environment is to be able to strike a balance between the user's need to explore the environment freely and the designer's need to ensure that the user experiences all the important events in the VE. This thesis reports on a study aimed at comparing the effectiveness of various navigation cues that are used to motivate users towards a specific target location. The results of this study indicate some significant differences in how users responded to the various cues.
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Analysis of Web Services on J2EE Application Servers
Date: May 2004
Creator: Gosu, Adarsh Kumar
Description: The Internet became a standard way of exchanging business data between B2B and B2C applications and with this came the need for providing various services on the web instead of just static text and images. Web services are a new type of services offered via the web that aid in the creation of globally distributed applications. Web services are enhanced e-business applications that are easier to advertise and easier to discover on the Internet because of their flexibility and uniformity. In a real life scenario it is highly difficult to decide which J2EE application server to go for when deploying a enterprise web service. This thesis analyzes the various ways by which web services can be developed & deployed. Underlying protocols and crucial issues like EAI (enterprise application integration), asynchronous messaging, Registry tModel architecture etc have been considered in this research. This paper presents a report by analyzing what various J2EE application servers provide by doing a case study and by developing applications to test functionality.
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Analyzing Microwave Spectra Collected by the Solar Radio Burst Locator
Date: May 2007
Creator: Kincaid, Cheryl-Annette
Description: Modern communication systems rely heavily upon microwave, radio, and other electromagnetic frequency bands as a means of providing wireless communication links. Although convenient, wireless communication is susceptible to electromagnetic interference. Solar activity causes both direct interference through electromagnetic radiation as well as indirect interference caused by charged particles interacting with Earth's magnetic field. The Solar Radio Burst Locator (SRBL) is a United States Air Force radio telescope designed to detect and locate solar microwave bursts as they occur on the Sun. By analyzing these events, the Air Force hopes to gain a better understanding of the root causes of solar interference and improve interference forecasts. This thesis presents methods of searching and analyzing events found in the previously unstudied SRBL data archive. A new web-based application aids in the searching and visualization of the data. Comparative analysis is performed amongst data collected by SRBL and several other instruments. This thesis also analyzes events across the time, intensity, and frequency domains. These analysis methods can be used to aid in the detection and understanding of solar events so as to provide improved forecasts of solar-induced electromagnetic interference.
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An Annotated Bibliography of Mobile Agents in Networks
Date: December 2002
Creator: Sriraman, Sandhya
Description: The purpose of this thesis is to present a comprehensive colligation of applications of mobile agents in networks, and provide a baseline association of these systems. This work has been motivated by the fact that mobile agent systems have been deemed proficuous alternatives in system applications. Several mobile agent systems have been developed to provide scalable and cogent solutions in network-centric applications. This thesis examines some existing mobile agent systems in core networking areas, in particular, those of network and resource management, routing, and the provision of fault tolerance and security. The inherent features of these systems are discussed with respect to their specific functionalities. The applicability and efficacy of mobile agents are further considered in the specific areas mentioned above. Although an initial foray into a collation of this nature, the goal of this annotated bibliography is to provide a generic referential view of mobile agent systems in network applications.
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Arithmetic Computations and Memory Management Using a Binary Tree Encoding af Natural Numbers
Date: December 2011
Creator: Haraburda, David
Description: Two applications of a binary tree data type based on a simple pairing function (a bijection between natural numbers and pairs of natural numbers) are explored. First, the tree is used to encode natural numbers, and algorithms that perform basic arithmetic computations are presented along with formal proofs of their correctness. Second, using this "canonical" representation as a base type, algorithms for encoding and decoding additional isomorphic data types of other mathematical constructs (sets, sequences, etc.) are also developed. An experimental application to a memory management system is constructed and explored using these isomorphic types. A practical analysis of this system's runtime complexity and space savings are provided, along with a proof of concept framework for both applications of the binary tree type, in the Java programming language.
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Automatic Software Test Data Generation
Date: December 2002
Creator: Munugala, Ajay Kumar
Description: In software testing, it is often desirable to find test inputs that exercise specific program features. Finding these inputs manually, is extremely time consuming, especially, when the software being tested is complex. Therefore, there have been numerous attempts automate this process. Random test data generation consists of generating test inputs at random, in the hope that they will exercise the desired software features. Often the desired inputs must satisfy complex constraints, and this makes a random approach seem unlikely to succeed. In contrast, combinatorial optimization techniques, such as those using genetic algorithms, are meant to solve difficult problems involving simultaneous satisfaction of many constraints.
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Benchmark-based Page Replacement (BBPR) Strategy: A New Web Cache Page Replacement Strategy
Date: May 2003
Creator: He, Wei
Description: World Wide Web caching is widely used through today's Internet. When correctly deployed, Web caching systems can lead to significant bandwidth savings, network load reduction, server load balancing, and higher content availability. A document replacement algorithm that can lower retrieval latency and yield high hit ratio is the key to the effectiveness of proxy caches. More than twenty cache algorithms have been employed in academic studies and in corporate communities as well. But there are some drawbacks in the existing replacement algorithms. To overcome these shortcomings, we developed a new page replacement strategy named as Benchmark-Based Page Replacement (BBPR) strategy, in which a HTTP benchmark is used as a tool to evaluate the current network load and the server load. By our simulation model, the BBPR strategy shows better performance than the LRU (Least Recently Used) method, which is the most commonly used algorithm. The tradeoff is a reduced hit ratio. Slow pages benefit from BBPR.
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Bounded Dynamic Source Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Date: August 2003
Creator: George, Glyco
Description: A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of mobile platforms or nodes that come together to form a network capable of communicating with each other, without the help of a central controller. To avail the maximum potential of a MANET, it is of great importance to devise a routing scheme, which will optimize upon the performance of a MANET, given the high rate of random mobility of the nodes. In a MANET individual nodes perform the routing functions like route discovery, route maintenance and delivery of packets from one node to the other. Existing routing protocols flood the network with broadcasts of route discovery messages, while attempting to establish a route. This characteristic is instrumental in deteriorating the performance of a MANET, as resource overhead triggered by broadcasts is directly proportional to the size of the network. Bounded-dynamic source routing (B-DSR), is proposed to curb this multitude of superfluous broadcasts, thus enabling to reserve valuable resources like bandwidth and battery power. B-DSR establishes a bounded region in the network, only within which, transmissions of route discovery messages are processed and validated for establishing a route. All route discovery messages reaching outside of this bounded region are dropped, thus ...
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