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Bandai Namco's distinguished Japanese RPG series, the Tales of franchise, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2015. To commemorate the occasion, the company will release its fifteenth entry, Tales of Zestiria, for the PlayStation 3. Before the celebration begins; however, there is one more story for players to be told. Marking only the third direct sequel in the franchise's long history, Tales of Xillia 2 takes place one year after the events of Tales of Xillia – that released last year in North America – and takes players on a fantastical adventure with new main characters, and plenty of familiar faces.
The new main characters of Tales of Xillia 2 are Ludger Kresnik – whose family line has a curious ability to travel to alternative dimensions – and Elle Mel Marta – a young girl who is under orders by her father to find the supernatural Land of Canaan. Upon meeting Elle Mel Marta, Ludger suddenly finds himself embroiled in an epic adventure as he uncovers the powers of his lineage and is tasked with preventing the world's end.
Tales of Xillia 2 features many of the same concepts from its predecessor, yet Bandai Namco have introduced new features that give Xillia 2 an identity to standout on its own. One of the big new features is the option of choice. Players can now select Ludger's response during important dialogue exchanges. The choice made by the player will influence the relationship other characters have Ludger and give you access to certain cutscenes and endings. This new feature has great potential and is hopefully incorporated and expanded upon for future entries of the series.
Aside from the main narrative, players have the option of selecting secondary missions dedicated to individual characters. These are known as Character Episodes. This new feature is quite compelling as these chapters provide more details on the characters in which they focus on – giving a greater understanding of the characters and overall story. While these Character Episodes are optional and don't have any direct effect on the main game, it is best not to skip over them. Those that choose to engage and participate in these side-quests will be rewarded with exclusive content.
Those familiar with recent Japanese RPGs, or Fire Emblem: Awakening for Nintendo 3DS, will embrace Xillia 2's affection system. Players will focus on Ludger's relationship with members of his party. Much like Fire Emblem: Awakening, linking a pair together and making accurate choices will bring the characters closer together. The closer the characters become, the more rewards you earn – be it items or Artes.
The battle system of Tales of games is often one of, if not, the games' strongest attribute. Tales of Xillia 2 uses a battle system similar to its precursor, but with enhancements that make it a more action-battle system with a greater sense of flow and speed. In previous Tales of games, party members would normally have an aptitude for a specific weapon type, but Ludger is not one of them. Ludger has the ability to weapon swap and switch between Dual Sword, Hammer, or Dual Guns. If you so choose to, it is possible to swap between all three weapons on the fly during combat and chain together some fairly impressive move combinations against enemies once you expose their weakness.
Ludger also has a special ability known as Chromatus, in which he transports himself and his enemies into an alternate dimension to do battle. While in this zone, players are given free rein to special moves and are also invulnerable. There is a time limit in place, so you must act quickly and inflict as much damage as possible before returning to normal.
Though it is technically possible to simply button-mash through some battles, a veteran Tales of player knows there is a tactical underlining that one must gain a firm grip of in order to be successful. Tales of Xillia 2 is no different. Despite Ludger's impressive move-set and range of attacks, the player must still approach battles with caution and thought. By exploiting the weaknesses of enemies, you can maximize the damage multiplier and diminish the odds of the enemy escaping from the combo. This approach can be applied in standard and boss battles.
One minor annoyance stemming from the battle system is the inability to switch out party members in real-time. This option was previously available in Xillia but has been removed in the sequel.
Despite the gameplay upgrades, Tales of Xillia 2's world is largely the same as it was in Xillia. You will explore and revisit many of the same areas. Nevertheless, there are new dungeons and areas to explore. Those invested in the story and curious to learn about what is happening with the original cast and the world will be able to overlook the recycled content and enjoy the tale being told.
If you adored Tales of Xillia, then you will find plenty to enjoy and love from Tales of Xillia 2. The amount of reused content from the first game is a bit disappointing, but Tales of Xillia 2 offers an ample amount of enhancements mixed with new ideas and areas to explore. Those looking for a new JRPG to play on PS3 should definitely buy Tales of Xillia 2.
- Improved Battle System
- Strong Cast of Characters
- Engaging Storyline
- Reused Content from Tales of Xillia
Overall: 4 out of 5
Editor's Note: An advance copy of Tales of Xillia 2 was provided for review purposes.


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Virtue and Moir are hometown favourites (Mar 4 video)
CTV London: As the World Figure Skating Championships arrive, family and friends will be cheering the local champions. Brent Lale explains.
2:01 video from CTV London -- including a sentence or two from Moir, with Virtue at his side.
The family members seen and heard making comments are not identified, but I'm pretty sure that they are (not in order):
- Virtue's father
- Moir's father
- Moir's mother (unless I have her confused with Aunt Carol?)
- Moir's brother, I think? (if not, the guy still must be related to Scott; the resemblance is very strong)
I am in the U.S. and was able to view the video.
ETA: CTV tried to reach V/M choreographer Jennifer Swan via Twitter, but she does not appear in this story.


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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Louis, Kevin
"A native New Orleanian, I started playing trumpet in the fourth grade, when I was eight. Then I got into jazz right before my sophomore year in high school. Before that I was never really into jazz. When I was little my father used to take me to jazz festivals and I hated to go. In my high school there was a student band called the "Junior Pinstripe Brass Band" who played in the streets and the clubs. When their second trumpet player quit, the band leader/first trumpet player asked me to join my freshman year, but my mother wouldn't let me because she said "you're just thirteen and that is too young to play in clubs." She really threw a fit. But after a year of begging she let me join. That was the summer right before my sophomore year."
Louis is a graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) ('95). He has earned a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance at Oberlin Conservatory of Music ('99). Kevin has also received a Masters of Arts from the Aaron Copland's School of Music at Queens College in New York ('01). He has studied under the following jazz musicians: Clyde Kerr, Jr., Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Kenneth Davis, Donald Walden, Bobby Ferrazza, Stacy Cole, Wendell Logan, Gregory Bandy, Neal Creque, Sir Roland Hanna and Michael Phillip Mossman. He also studied with the following classical instructors: Ronald Benko, Byron Pearson, William Lucas, and Charles Couch.
He has shared the stage with Dave Bartholomew, Bobby Watson, Victor Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Kermit Ruffins, Roland Guerin, Victor Atkins, Carmen Lundy, Curtis Lundy, Nicholas Payton, Gary Bartz, Henry Butler, Jesse Davis, Will Calhoun, Mos Def, Peter Martin, Fred Sanders, Shelly Caroll, Donald Edwards and many more. Kevin has performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Chicago's Ravinia Festival, the Ford Montreaux Detroit Jazz Festival, the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival, the Umbria and Pescara Jazz Festivals in Italy, and the Istanbul Jazz Festival in Turkey. He attended the Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Colony at Jazz Aspen Snowmass. He has appeared on BET's Jazz Discovery, and Jazz ED. TV.
Kevin Louis was selected as a Fall 2001 Jazz Ambassador. He's also a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He toured Africa late Summer and early Fall 2001.
Mahogany Brass Band: Mahogany Brass Band (1997);Oberlin Conservatory Jazz Ensemble (1998); Carmen Lundy: This Is Carmen Lundy (2001); Dr. John: Creole Moon (2001); Mockingbird Foundation: Sharin in the Groove: Celebrating the Music of Phish (2001); Loved Ones (2004)
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Portland State University has established the Chemical Hygiene & Laboratory Safety Committee to ensure that the use of chemicals will not adversely affect the health, safety, and well-being of students, staff, visitors, neighbors and the environment.
The Chemical Hygiene & Laboratory Safety Committee reviews the technical, environmental, and safety aspects of all research proposals involving the use of hazardous chemicals in order to support safe laboratory environments at Portland State.
The Committee, along with the office of Environmental Health & Safety, provides expert advise on issues related to the implementation of the Chemical Hygiene Plan, and other agency rules and guidelines, with the goal of having a chemical and environmental safety program that encourages best laboratory practices and satisfies federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
More information can be found at the Office of Environmental Health & Safety.
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Fans and Twitter followers of R&B sensation, Usher, are anxiously awaiting the reveal of the "second round of cities" to be included on his 2014 World Tour. Billboard broke the news on Tuesday Aug 26 that Usher is indeed gearing up for not just the release of his highly anticipated album, but also for his "UR The Experience Tour' coming this year.
The big Twitter reveal began on Aug 24 with this tweet from Usher:
#TEAMUSHER!! Starting tomorrow RETWEET TO UNLOCK exclusive info. about my upcoming #URXTOUR...
As promised, the very next day Usher and his team tweeted that if fans wanted to know what cities were to be included on his tour they had "retweet" the post. Once it reached 1000 retweets then and only then would he reveal the first round of cities on the URXTOUR. Fans and twitter followers graciously obliged in the request and 1000 retweets later, nine cities were revealed on tour.
Included on the first round list are, Seattle, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago and Dallas. Also, New Orleans, Orlando, Atlantic City and New York. As Usher's most recent tweet explains;
#TEAMUSHER RETWEET TO UNLOCK #URXTOUR cities!! At 1,000 RT's I'll drop the 2nd round on the map...
The retweets were a little over 650 and will more than likely reach the desired 1000 within hours.
Also released as promotion use for the upcoming tour was a 30 second promo which shows Usher training hard by running, jumping rope, push ups and some old fashioned old school Usher dance moves. On Sunday, Aug 23, viewers of the MTV VMAs were given a chance to witness some of those incredible dance moves as Usher performed live, alongside rapper Nicki Minaj, one of his latest single off of the upcoming album, "She Came to Give it to You." And give it to us is exactly what he did.
In addition to the tour being titled "The UR Experience," Billboard reports that the title of his upcoming eighth studio album is also rumored to be titled "UR."
Until a city near you is revealed for the tour, enjoy the promo and the encore airings of the MTV VMAs of his performance.


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In my group we often install ldap on new servers. We have two different configurations currently. A mirrored configuration and just a regular standalone configuration.
The installation process gets repetitive and is difficult for some team members to perform due to their lack of experience performing the install. Essentially it's a waste of time.
Do you have any suggestions on how to automate the process?
My current idea is to provide a zipped up directory with all the source packages necessary to install. It will also include an 'installation' script that will unzip and compile all source packages and proceed to install them and configure anything related to ldap and even prepopulate openldap with some base data.
What do you think?


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Describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the conclusion of certain missions (official staff visits, in most cases to member countries). Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually annual) consultations under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, in the context of a request to use IMF resources (borrow from the IMF), as part of discussions of staff monitored programs, and as part of other staff reviews of economic developments.
Japan - 2010 Article IV Consultation Concluding Statement of the IMF MissionMay 19, 2010
Japan's economy is gaining strength, but vulnerability to sovereign risk is rising. Decisive policy action and strong external demand are driving the recovery, but large fiscal deficits have pushed public debt to unprecedented levels. With global scrutiny of public finances increasing, the need for early and credible fiscal consolidation has become critical. Fiscal adjustment should start in FY2011 beginning with a modest increase in the consumption tax. Such efforts would be helped by policies to spur growth and combat deflation. This statement summarizes our preliminary findings, which will be more fully discussed in the forthcoming Article IV IMF staff report.
I. Outlook and Risks
1. The outlook has improved, but the pace of recovery will likely moderate. Based on the IMF's April World Economic Outlook projections, we expect GDP to grow by around 2.0 percent in both 2010 and 2011.1 Private consumption will likely pick up as robust exports, particularly from Asia, lift business investment. However, the current pace of recovery is likely to moderate in the second half of the year as stimulus measures expire and export growth levels off. Inflation is projected to turn positive in late 2011, as the output gap narrows.
2. There is considerable uncertainty around our forecast. Current volatility in global financial and exchange markets could dampen external demand, as sovereign risk pressures force governments around the world to scale back their spending. Similarly, lower growth in China would slow imports from the region and Japan. Domestic risks to growth stem primarily from a worsening of deflation, which could dampen investment and consumption. On the upside, more robust growth in the U.S. and Asia could further boost exports.
3. Recent events in Europe have increased the chances of a tail risk event. A loss of market confidence in sovereign debt could lead to a sharp rise in risk premia worldwide and push up long-term interest rates in Japan. Under such a scenario, growth would slow sharply in Japan, prolonging deflation and aggravating the fiscal problem.


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Peg Nopoulos, professor of psychiatry and faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, has research expertise in structural brain imaging using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). She is one of the few scientists at The University of Iowa doing this work in a childhood population.
Nopoulos and the graduate students in her lab study developmental disorders in children born prematurely and those who are born with clefts of the lip and/or palate. "The learning environment at Iowa has been unparalleled in its opportunity for cutting edge research technologies, but more importantly for the culture of collaboration – working together in teams to tackle problems," Nopoulos said.
Training others has been a major component of Nopoulos' career. From 2001 to 2005, she developed and directed the Iowa Medical Student Research Program. She currently is the director of the Iowa Doris Duke Clinical Fellowship Program, a program for medical students doing clinical research.


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Posts Tagged 'Bonnie Dumanis'
"DeMaio spokesman Dave McCullough said in an email that the campaign was glad Dumanis found Bosnich's 'politically-motivated smears are without merit.' He did not comment on her decision not to prosecute the burglary."
Citizens need closure on the recent allegations against Carl DeMaio. Last week, Todd Bosnich accused the former San Diego City Council Member and U.S. House candidate of sexual harassment. If true, DeMaio has no business holding public office.
The timing of this claim is suspect. The accuser's decision to lodge the complaint in the media, rather than through law enforcement, suggests that he is more interested in influencing an election result rather than seeking justice. DeMaio categorically denies the accusations.
Bonnie Dumanis ran unopposed in her last run for District Attorney; this year she faces opponents Bob Brewer and Terri Wyatt. I am unhappy with Dumanis, but not ready to endorse an opponent. First my airing of grievances against Dumanis.
- Prior to running for mayor, Dumanis had the opportunity to make her voice heard on Proposition D, the half-cent sales tax increase; she demurred. Carl DeMaio's strong support stood in stark contrast and was a key element in my support for his mayoral bid.
Duo to Collaborate on Education Reform, School Safety, and After-School Programs
Standing side by side with District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, San Diego Mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio unveiled his "Clean and Safe School" Initiative — which dedicates more resources to school safety and after-school programs. As Mayor, DeMaio pledges to take an active role in education reform and forge partnerships with school boards, principals, teachers and parents to improve student achievement at every school.
DeMaio and Dumanis pledged to work together to implement key elements of the plan — which includes a Clean and Safe Schools Task Force and the creation of an City Education Foundation to fund after-school programs.
The race to become mayor of the City of San Diego has narrowed down to two finalists. In this policy brief the National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR) analyzed newly released electoral data from the San Diego County Registrar of Voters' office using GIS software.
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Politics & Media Mashup
I worked on a campaign with local pollster John Nienstedt a couple years ago and after he explained in a group email – a few days before the election – that we were going to win someone sent a reply all message that said: "The Oracle has spoken."
I thought of that Friday at a luncheon as I listened to Nienstedt break down Tuesday's election.
We texted the San Diego mayoral candidates and asked them, "What movie and song best describes your campaign?"
Here are their replies:
That's easy. Movie: The Empire Strikes Back. Song: "Stranglehold" by Ted Nugent. In case you haven't noticed, we're a laser focused take-no-prisoners team of crusaders armed with a Roadmap that returns Republican control to San Diego.
We see Purple at Team Fletcher, so we end every day by huddling up and watching Barney's Great Adventure. Everyone is welcome! We start every morning with "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette. It reminds our former partners we're doing just fine, and that pumps us up.
Politics & Media Mashup
I wrote a post six months ago comparing the Klout scores of San Diego mayoral candidates, council members and a few others who know their way around Facebook and Twitter. It generated a little buzz.
Tony Krvaric, Todd Gloria and others compared their scores on Twitter. Former U-T San Diego columnist Tom Blair mentioned the post in one of his columns and it was the subject of a short 10News story.
Klout is not without problems, so I took a little ribbing.
The San Diego Association of REALTORS® (SDAR), San Diego County Taxpayers Association and The Lincoln Club of San Diego County hosted today's debate at the Town and Country Resort and Conference Center.
SDAR wants to thank all of the candidates for a spirited debate, the 500 or so people who filled the ballroom and those of you who watched and tweeted from home and work.
10News will broadcast the debate Saturday at 7PM. So tune in, and don't forget to vote Tuesday!
What follows is a mashup of news coverage, tweets, photos, which will be updated.
Politics & Media Mashup
We're 10 days out from Election Day and here is what we know about the San Diego mayoral race:
- Carl DeMaio is in.
- The second spot looks like it's going to go down to the wire. Bob Filner is carrying a slight edge over Nathan Fletcher.
- Trailing behind is Bonnie Dumanis, but she's not going down without a fight.
Two separate sources I trust told me this week some of the latest polling numbers show DeMaio in the high 20s/low 30s; Filner in the low 20s and Fletcher in the high teens.
The San Diego Association of REALTORS® (SDAR), one of my clients, is hosting the last major mayoral debate.
- When: Wednesday, May 30
- Time: Registration & VIP Reception at 11AM; Lunch at 11:45AM; Debate at 12:15PM
- Location: Town & County Conference Center in Mission Valley.
- Debate is in the Golden Pacific Ballroom. VIP Reception is for media, candidates and guests and is in Royal Palm Salon 5.
This should be an exceptional debate since it's so close to Election Day, June 5.
Politics & Media Mashup
Good videos are an effective way to communicate a message, especially since many of us are attached to iPhones and iPads.
I believe political videos will eventually replace mail pieces and most news releases. Won't that be nice! That's a post for another day.
Today I decided to mashup the best and worst campaign videos from San Diego mayoral candidates Bonnie Dumanis, Carl DeMaio and Nathan Fletcher. I didn't include Bob Filner, who also is running for mayor, because he hasn't produced any videos. How apropo.
Smart governing decisions saving taxpayer dollars and collaborative initiatives took top honors, while cavalier attitudes and lost opportunities were called out and shamed at the San Diego County Taxpayers Association (SDCTA)'s 17th annual Goldens Awards Dinner, held at the Town and Country Resort & Convention Center in Mission Valley.
Remote controls were nowhere in sight as the evening's theme "Taxpayer TV: We Can't Make This $#!% Up!" entertained the appreciative audience who shared the details of the exclusive video parodies highlighting the program via social media. As in past programs, elected officials, members of the news media and other public figures willingly humiliated themselves in a good-natured send-up of the year in government news and achievements in San Diego.
We texted the following image to each of the San Diego mayoral candidates and asked them, "What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see this photo?"
Here are their replies:
I'm so fortunate…Papa Doug has no idea I'm gay.
I used to read that rag but I've switched to Voice of San Diego.
There's no port there either!!
I'm giving the paper an exclusive on my move to the middle. Read all about it on June 6th.
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Bonnie Dumanis brought her A-game to the San Diego Mayor's Race this week.
The District Attorney and mayoral candidate smacked Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, who is campaigning hard to be San Diego's next mayor, for what she called his "About Face on a Woman's Right to Choose" in a post on Rostra:
Until now, Nathan Fletcher has received a failing grade from Planned Parenthood which gave him a "zero" rating based directly on his voting record. In a seismic shift, Fletcher has apparently had yet another 'change of heart' and conveniently claims to be pro-choice. Fletcher's new position on these issues has now changed Planned Parenthood's rating of him from 0 percent to 100 percent.
Politics & Media Mashup: A look at this week's local political coverage
They say a good writer knows when to get out of the way of a good story. So rather then comment on this entertaining Investigative Newsource story — Bob Filner Misses the Boat on the Port — I will just encourage you to read it, and then watch Filner's attempt at damage control:
Now read this response from Investigative Newsource. And just in case you still think Bob was just having a bad day, here is what he says in today's U-T San Diego about his phantom pension plan:
To Nathan: I'm still in the lead. #iwillbreakyou
To voters: I'm independent. Really! #pickme
To his campaign manager: !! Who the hell wrote these talking points? #epic #fail
To reporters: I've been in office since Nathan and Carl were in diapers. #punks
Politics & Media Mashup: A look at this week's local political coverage
San Diego's broken school system has been a campaign issue in the mayor's race since Day 1, but the feedback I've seen lately from voters suggests some people are hardly impressed with what they're hearing.
Two letter writers, including a teacher, rip the candidates in today's U-T San Diego. Earlier in the week, the paper led with a letter that said:
I'm told by someone close to the Fletcher campaign that his campaign will be up on broadcast TV tomorrow. Given that it is still a month before absentee voting begins, and he does not have Steve Francis funding, this begs a question: Why start burning money this early? Don't you risk running out weeks before the election?
The answer is yes, if it were a standard media buy (which costs roughly a quarter million dollars). But that's not the strategy.
Little doubt that education is one of today's hottest political topics.
Candidates for mayor of America's Finest City even managed to weave the buzz-worthy issue into their platforms.
Tomorrow, a forum promises to delve head-first into the matter and answer the one question which seems to come up time and again:
What's the mayor got to do with education?
For more details, be sure to check out the news release below.
Mayoral Forum on Education Will Explore Role of Mayor in San Diego's Public Schools
Melissa Wagoner
mwagoner, at sandiego.edu
(619) 260-4659
Politics & Media Mashup leads off with a look at some of the more interesting stories of the week and wraps up with links to some of the best stories about politics and media at the local, state and national levels.
This blog post on San Diego Rostra about a new San Diego Mayor 2012 poll garnered a lot of interest this week. The U-T's Tom Blair picked it up and so did the Nathan Fletcher campaign.
The poll shows Bob Filner and Carl DeMaio in a virtual tie for the lead in the race to become San Diego's next mayor followed by Nathan Fletcher, who linked to the note in Blair's column on his Facebook page:
BREAKING: Poll shows DeMaio and Filner in a virtual tie with Fletcher in third
San Diego Rostra has obtained new poll results that place Bob Filner and Carl DeMaio in a virtual tie for the lead in the race to become San Diego's next mayor followed by Nathan Fletcher.
"With an aggressive, well-funded campaign Filner is poised to advance in the San Diego Mayoral Race," a two-page Feb. 29 memo highlighting the poll results says.
Filner's campaign, which commissioned the poll from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, is anything but aggressive and well-funded. He recently admitted he needs more money.
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Politics & Media Mashup is on break for a few weeks so we can bring you exclusive Q & As with San Diego Mayoral candidates Bonnie Dumanis, Carl DeMaio and Nathan Fletcher.
We kicked off the series two weeks ago with Fletcher and followed up last week with DeMaio. We determined the order based on when the responses to our questions were received — first in, first up. Despite repeated attempts, no one from Bob Filner's campaign would answer our questions, even though a staffer there said, "We read Rostra all the time."
Courtesy of the San Diego Reader…
"Mayoral candidate and district attorney Bonnie Dumanis, who yesterday (March 14) released a plan to improve City operations, seems to have plagiarized much of it from the County's General Management System Manual, says Erik Bruvold, president of National University System Institute for Policy Research."


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Im sorry, its not that I want to look cool and act like im not a newb (im not really) I just wanted the custom phrase under my name. the reason I was goofy was because I seriously doubted anyone would read them and sometimes you just need to be GOOFY or you'll just go insane. so I guess I deserved the post reduction.
What's done is done. As for NOT acting like a "newb", well, you failed pretty miserably. I can't name too many established veterans who would stoop this low. :rolleyes:
Why is everyone so crazy about custom titles? Make a cool signature... more noticeable anyways. Or MAKE them notice you, with constructive posts, etc...
And... if you're going to spam... spam in a busy forum. This place seems to get about 1 post every 2 days, so what you were doing was pretty noticeable. ;) Not that I'm encouraging you! :p
The reason I didn't spam on a busy forum, is the fact of flaming, I hate flaming.
and as to stoop so low, I dont see what I did as horrible. I dont care what my post count is, I just felt like having the custom Title, I didn't spam by insulting someones work, policy, or opinion....I just posted...well...stupid **** that I didn't think anyone would read, its like Big Brother...when you dont know anyone is watching then you tend to do something that you dont want seen...like when I sing in my car( we wnt go into that) much like those posts basically I dont have time to post all the time because of my busy schedule at work and school, I thought I'd up the count a little here,
but anyway I said I was sorry ( dont apologies work anymore?) and if sorry isn't good enough then I just wont write here anymore, best way to avoid conflict is to walk away right?
Make some mature posts in other forums and don't spam - people won't hate you.
Yes. Spam is bad bad bad.
What is this place, anyway? I got here by randomly selecting something on that forum jump list. I'm confused.
Hey Gabez. :rolleyes:
Man, I wish I had more to post in the JK forums. Um, I like TIE Fighter.
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November 28, 2005
Chair Memo 05-5
TO: EECS Cabinet, Senior Staff, Academic Computing Group
RE: EECS Technical Memorandum Series
FROM: Jitendra Malik, Chair, EECS and Edward A. Lee, Chair, EE, Associate Chair, EECS
This memo establishes the EECS technical memorandum series. It defines department policy with regard to the memos and establishes the requirement that Ph.D. theses and masters reports be published as EECS technical memos.
The dissolution of ERL and its reorganization into ERSO, the ERL technical memorandum series is no longer supported. The CS memo series paved the way for a more modern infrastructure, but is need of updating, and is no longer being supported. In view of this, the EECS department is taking responsibility for administering a technical memorandum series.
There are a number of reasons to have a memo series, including:
• Precise dating of ideas, research results, and intellectual property. A carefully administered memo series functions as a publication medium available to the EECS community that is subject to neither publication delays nor the possibility of rejection by the peer review process. As a consequence, an EECS technical memo provides a precisely dated archive. Such an archive can be useful in the event of disputes about originality and/or precedence of results.
• Archive. The memo series provides a permanent archive that is not subject to peer review. Thus, it is useful for results that are controversial, too small to publish in mainstream venues, too long and involved for the limited size of journal and conference papers, or otherwise difficult to publish.
• Permanence. The EECS Department is committed to ensuring (to the extent this is possible) that an EECS memo remains always available and that the URL provided for the memo remains valid as long as Internet technology continues to support such URLs. In addition, it is committed to adopting permanent locator technologies such as DOI (http://www.doi.org/) as such technologies become mature and generally accepted. As such, an EECS memo serves the archival function of archival journals. It can be used, for example, to archive conference papers that are recorded only informally or in impermanent ways by the conference organizers.
• Supplemental publication. An EECS memo can supplement a "normal" publication, providing a place to record, in a citable and available manner, details that do not fit in the normal publication, such as long proofs, software documentation, code listings, or elaborated examples.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed says he will retire at the end of his third term.
Reed said Tuesday that he simply felt it was time to leave office. A cancer survivor, Reed said he is healthy and plans to continue volunteering and participating in government issues after his term is over in January 2013.
The Republican has helped guide the state's elections over the past decade, including the shift for vote-by-mail and the contested 2004 governor's race. He says there is still work to be done and expects that voters will one day cast their ballots online.
Democratic state Sen. Jim Kastama has indicated that he will run to replace Reed while Republican Thurston County Auditor Kim Wyman has also shown interest.


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Javier Mascherano has called on his Liverpool teammates to draw strength from last season's triumphs over Manchester United as the Reds look to turn their season around on Sunday.
The midfielder believes a win against Manchester United would be a huge confidence boost for the team as they try to get their Premier League campaign back on track.
"We have lost four games in a row and we have got to keep going and working really hard," Mascherano said.
"Now, United is massive for us. But we have done it before and we have to keep believing in ourselves.
"We have got to try to remember what we have done in the past. We know that people will be looking at us, asking questions and the supporters are very disappointed. We know, though, that everyone will be behind us.
"It is difficult because Liverpool is not a side that loses lots of games in a season but already we have lost six. It is very hard to take but we cannot keep thinking about it. We have just got to make sure we win against United to bring back confidence."
The Argentina skipper is hoping Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres are back in the ranks for the clash against Manchester United.
"It will be great for us if we can give everyone a win. We have won a lot of games with Steven and Fernando but in this situation we want to have them with us. They are so important, our key players.
"All the time we are trying to give our best. Sometimes we can do it, other times this season that has not been the case. But now we have got to show character and personality, as well as making sure we improve our work rate."
The midfielder refuses to believe that a defeat against Alex Ferguson's men would end Liverpool's title hopes this season, but he insists a victory would provide a timely confidence boost.
He said: "This result won't decide the season but for us, in terms of boosting our confidence, it is a massive game. If we can win, Monday will be totally different. I believe we can win.
"If we start to win again - and win lots of games - anything is possible. We cannot drop more points. We have got to start on Sunday and not stop."
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Clinical Depression
Week of: May 8, 2006
- Recent studies indicate that depression is more likely in baby-boomers than younger adults. Why do you believe that might be so?
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Developing Nyabihu town, promoting crop production, giving value to agriculture and its products through adapting modern methods of farming are some of urgent and pressing issues that need attention in Nyabihu district; officials said
Part of the issues that needs more attention is making new technical center (Agakiriro) being built in the district. The new technical center is set to provide employment opportunities to the youth and teach about technical and vocational skills.
Angela Mukaminani the vice mayor for finance and economic development of Nyabihu District referring to the projects Nyabihu intends to realize in the year 2014.
In improving Mukamira town which will be Nyabihu district's main town; different roads are yet to be built; plots of land to be built in are being put in order and residents of Nyabihu town are being encouraged to renovate their houses to meet the expectations of the town.
Among other projects, in this year 2014 Mukamira Dairy that was built will start operating. The Mukamira Diary will increase the value as well as protect the diary products in the district.
The district also plans to invest in roads to enable transportation of crop production from sectors to the different markets. This will move along encouraging farmers to adopt new methods of farming like use of terraces and fertilizers to increase crop production.


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Could you please help me in this problem?
I have 3 independent variables, $(T,H,t)$, as inputs and one output $P$ ( I have all data for these inputs and the output, done experimentally measured every hour during one year).
I want to find a formula of this form: $$P = f ( T , H , t )$$ where $t$ is the time in hours and it is always in the $x$-axis (index), $T$ is temperature, $H$ is humidity, and $P$ is power.
I have all the data, and when I draw them in the same graph during one year, meaning that $P$, $T$, and $H$ vs. hours. I found that the behavior of $P$ is oscillating, making a sinusoidal shape over the entire, year as you can see from the following ($P$ and time only):
So, if I make a zoom view to this figure, for example from the $2000$th hour of the year to the $3000$th hour, it is clear that it almost has the same shape but it is oscillating.
So, it keeps oscillating and increasing up to the peak point and then it starts decreasing till the end of the year.
But this is only for only one independent variable which is time in hours.
Now, how if we include the effect of temperature and humidity and draw these vectors along with the power vs. time, to see how power is changing with respect to $T$, $H$, and $t$ rather than $t$ only:
So, how can I predict the structure of the formula that relates $P$ with $T$, $H$, and $t$?
Is there any approach that you advise me to follow?
Sorry for this long question and any help from you is highly appreciated. I read many papers but I could not know how to solve the problem.


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Fly fishing's off season doesn't represent the end of anything as much as it does a shift; instead of talking on the river, your little group of fly fishermen hold those same conversations on the phone.
And as the winter slowly closes out, those phone calls turn to spring.
Naturally, there's an unspoken etiquette when discussing the upcoming fly fishing season – especially when that season involves a record 170% of normal snowpack and a forecast for a cooler-than-normal spring.
First, you don't come right out and admit the obvious: You're screwed.
That's considered poor form.
Instead, you're encouraged to speculate wildly about best-case scenarios, often couching your speculation in experience: "The snowpack was higher in ought-whatever" we'll say, "but we were still fishing by the Fourth of July."
Of course, the snowpack wasn't higher in ought-whatever, and plenty of years the river was still unhappily elevated by the Fourth of July.
But you don't say that out loud. That way lies insanity.
Instead, you dance around the subject, but slowly — because you're not blind to reality — the evidence builds.
Record snowpack. Cold spring (the temperature is 15 degrees lower than "normal" for this time of year).
High water.
Lots and lots of split shot.
Thus concludes the discovery portion of the phone call (over the past two days, I went through this with both Wayne Eng and Steven Bertrand).
Then we move into the Adaptation phase.
Wayne, ever the optimist, suggested we'd just have to look for the right spots on the river, which will become difficult to fish just as soon as water starts spilling over the Box Canyon dam at Lake Siskiyou.
Bertrand – who is not so optimistic – suggested trips to reservoirs and tailwaters, which set off a whole new round of speculation about what happens to the Lower McCloud and McCloud Reservoir once that 170% snowpack hits Mud Creek.
Even with the Optimist setting turned up to 11, we quickly started running out of fishable water.
I even essayed a classic backcountry gambit, where I suggested I'd be able to fish a couple of my alpine streams as early as late May or June, which is total bullshit.
Bertrand noted that we normally fish those places by May or June, and this year wasn't normal, which forced me to fall back on my "I'll snowshoe or ski in" fantasy.
That works if you ignore the fact that you'd ski many, many miles one way, only find a creek over its banks.
In other words, it works not at all.
We did isolate on small creek that might be fishable before the others, and because you don't want to find other people there, you speak its name sparingly on the phone (apparently out of fear the NSA is populated with fly fishermen).
The Lower Sac? The Rogue? There will be fly fishing, though it'll likely involve some travel or AA sized split shot or sheer luck.
And naturally, you'll occasionally encounter a spoiler; while I was writing this, Dave Roberts called to reveal he'd spent yesterday in a snowstorm on the Henry's Fork, catching trout during a heavy BWO hatch.
You simultaneously curse him for the taunt, but quietly thank him for restoring some hope.
Now if only you could afford the gas.
See you working the phone bank, Tom Chandler


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What ports does Exchange MAPI/CDO use to connect to the Client Access Server from the Mailbox Server. I have a piece of software installed on a Mailbox server that uses Exchange MAPI (RDO to be specific, which uses Exchange MAPI). The problem is I'm running into MAPI_E_NETWORK_ERROR problems so I was wondering if there might be firewall issues i.e. the Client Access Server (CAS) cannot be accessed properly from the Mailbox server by MAPI. what ports do I need to check in the firewall configuration? This is on Exchange 2010
MAPI actually uses RPC which uses a dynamically assigned port number. Here's a blog posting that will help you make that port number static:
Check whether your Client Access servers are requiring encryption (use Get-RPCClientAccess to see). I've encountered problems with third party apps that don't support RPC encryption when the CAS are enforcing it.


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Update2: Of course there's no Animal Doctor 10 preview. It's been postponed to next week! Also, can anyone confirm that value sets (Paket) Hell Girl, Vols. 1–9 and Ouran High School Host Club, Vols. 1–8 have been postponed to 22 Feb? (the word from Angelzon; forgot to check in the wild)
Couldn't find a big enuf Kekkaishi 12 cover, so leading with runner-up DO WANT! V.B. Rose 9. (Will replace reference Japanese covers with Elex's once they're available.) «Done as per obvious
Kekkaishi © Tanabe Yellow/Shogakukan [First serialized in Shonen Sunday] · V.B. Rose © Hidaka Banri/Hakusensha [First serialized in Hana to Yume]. Published in Indonesia by Elex Media
It's the end of the VBR world as we know it when Sakura's cat shreds the wedding gown Ageha was supposed to show off at the Bridal Fair. Arisaka scrambles to design a replacement, and to shore up Ageha's spirits, presents her with...
And as the TOKYOPOP V.B. Rose, Vol. 9 preview muses:
Can Ageha control her nerves when faced with Arisaka at his most handsome and princely? :D
For Ageha (and the rest of us) to geek out on:
Your cat's clawing behavior may raise your blood pressure, but it relieves feline stress, sort of like the kitty equivalent to human nail biting. In fact, upset cats often target items that smell like their beloved human (your bed, your favorite chair), not because they're angry or vindictive, but because they love you so much and scent-sharing makes them feel better. [–Animal behavior consultant and award-winning author Amy D. Shojai]
After that feline psychology digression, back to the Most Wanted Manga. (
I would've followed up with the Animal Doctor 10 preview—especially as that tankou has a cat on the cover—but No. Preview!) Edit: See NikBabble™ at the top of the post.
Kekkaishi vol 12 of 35
by Tanabe Yellow
Duel to the death in Kurosusuki!
Yoshimori agrees to be brought to Kokuboro as a hostage to confront Kaguro and avenge Shishio. While imprisoned, he meets "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" Matsudo Heisuke who has also infiltrated the ayakashi stronghold to settle a festering score with a certain "Shiranuma."
Kekkaishi volume 12 compiles chapters 106 through 115:
The Castle,
Byaku and Matsudo,
Hollow Man,
Advance Payment,
Flower Ayakashi,
The Man Who Would Not Die,
Outside the Other World and
Achilles Heel. [*NOT Elex chapter titles].
For Kekkaishi chapters upwards of 115, check out Shonen Star.
New Elex titles
19 Nineteen
by Inoue Yumiko, Han KyungMi
The death of a girl made them suspects. The death of a girl brought them closer. The death of a girl taught them the meaning of life.
The story of three 19-y.o.'s struggling to uncover the truth! So sez Elex, adding that the standalone murder mystery AKA 나의 19세, I'm 19, My 19 Years and 19 Years Old has been made into a movie starring T.O.P and Big Bang's Seung Ri as Seo Jung Hoon and Park Min Seo, wanted for murder along with Cha Eun Young, portrayed by Heo Yi Jae. (Thanks, DramaWiki.) No cover yet; maybe later. «Done, see right.
Elex Media manga and manhwa (2012.02.01)
- [Premiere] 19 Nineteen by Inoue Yumiko, Han KyungMi
- Dodge Fighters (Ganbare! Dodgeball Fighters) vol 10 of 10 by Murakami Toshiya & Saito Muneo [Finale]
- Kekkaishi vol 12 of 35 by Tanabe Yellow
- Piano Hutan (Piano no Mori: The Perfect World of Kai) vol 20 of 21+ by Isshiki Makoto
- V.B. Rose vol 9 of 14 by Hidaka Banri
Ganbare! Dodgeball Fighters
Kekkaishi 「結界師」 by Tanabe Yellow
Winner, 52nd Shogakukan Manga Awards for the Shounen category
Other languages/serializations
Serialized in the Indonesian Shonen Star (ongoing)
English Kekkaishi (VIZ Media: 29 volumes per 2011.12.13 • volume 30 street date: 2012.02.14), French (PIKA Édition: Tome 27 shipped 2011.06 • Tome 28 street date: 2012.02.15), German (Carlsen Comics: Band 18 released 2011.11 • Band 19 street date: 2012.07.03), simplified Chinese (Chuang Yi: 结界师 #35 released 2011.11), traditional Chinese (Rightman Publishing Limited Hong Kong and Tong Li Taiwan), Italian (Planet Manga), Malaysian (PCM Comics), Korean (Bookbox), Spanish (Editorial Ivrea Spain), Vietnamese (Kim Dong)
Sunrise's 52-episode anime adaptation, starring seiyuu Yoshino Hiroyuki (Sumimura Yoshimori) and Saitou Rie (Yukimura Tokine), aired in Japan from October 2006 to February 2008. The anime aired on Animax Asia from 15 February to 27 April 2011.
An official TV animation guide book (released 2006.12 under the Shonen Sunday Comics Special imprint) and two official strategy guides for Wii and Nintendo DS (Wonderlife Special: 2007.06 (Nintendo DS), 2007.11 (Wii))
Piano no Mori: The Perfect World of Kai
Recipient, Grand Prize for Best Manga, 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival
Other languages
Traditional Chinese (Sharp Point Press Taiwan: 琴之森 18 per 2011.06)
Madhouse animated movie adaptation starring Ueto Aya (Ichinose Kai) and Kamiki Ryunosuke (Amamiya Shuuhei) premiered 2007.07.21 in Japan. The film was nominated for the 2008 Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year and in the Theatrical Film category at the 2008 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The anime spans manga volumes 1–6 (until chapter 41).
V.B. Rose 「V・B・ローズ」 by Hidaka Banri
Other languages/serialization
Serialized until chapter 56 in HanaLaLa (discontinued)
English V.B. Rose (TOKYOPOP: 12 volumes per 2011.04), traditional Chinese (Ever Glory Taiwan: V.B.R 絲絨藍玫瑰 14 per 2009.10)
A V.B. Rose drama CD was released in Japan in 2006.12, starring seiyuu Mizuki Nana as Shiroi Ageha, Sakurai Takahiro as Arisaka Yukari, and Suwabe Junichi as Kuromine Mitsuya.
The Hana to Yume Comics Special V.B. Rose Illustration Fan Book streeted in Japan 2009.05
[Release links are hide/unhide. Click for more details.]
[Value sets] Paket Komik *Harga Spesial* (2012.02.01)
- English School Wars, Vols. 1–2 of 2 by Matsumoto Tomo (Eikaiwa School Wars) –Complete– [IDR 16,000/set]
- Golden Days, Vols. 1–8 of 8 by Takao Shigeru –Complete– [IDR 64,000/set]
- Hell Girl, Vols. 1–9 of 9 by Eto Miyuki & Jigoku Shoujo Project (Jigoku Shoujo) –Complete– [IDR 72,000/set] «Postponed to 2012.02.22?
- Kämpfer, Vols. 1–2 (of 7+) by Tatibana Yu, Tsukiji Toshihiko [IDR 16,000/set]
- Legend of Nereid, Vols. 1–10 of 15 by Hwang MiRee [IDR 80,000/set]
- Maria Holic, Vols. 1–3 (of 8+) by Endou Minari [IDR 24,000/set]
- Mixim 11, Vols. 1–2 (of 12) by Anzai Nobuyuki [IDR 16,000/set]
- Ouran High School Host Club, Vols. 1–8 (of 18) by Hatori Bisco (Ouran Koukou Host Club) [IDR 64,000/set] «Postponed to 2012.02.22?
*Volume tallies represent volume totals in country of origin, which may not coincide with Elex Media's latest releases. Elex's most recent volume for Mixim 11: volume 7 (2012.01.25 street date) and Ouran High School Host Club: volume 9 (2011.11.02). Legend of Nereid concluded in February 2011; the volume 11–15 value set streeted last week (1.25).
¹ Sources: Elex STO 30 January - 1 February 2012 (release schedule) and Komikologi and/or Gramedia Shop (synopses and artwork, unless indicated otherwise).
² All manga retail for IDR 16,500 each. Value set SRPs indicated beside their respective entries.
³ Links like this are commercial Amazon search and/or product links (other language versions).
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Democracy prevails as a judge declares Michigan's ban against gay marriages is unconstitutional.
State by state, some governments resist the inevitable reality that all persons are created equally and in a free and open society, and no institutions can deny that. Since governments chose to make "marriage" a legal contract versus making all such relationships "civil partnerships" the term that has religious roots became a public commodity. As such, churches and religious organizations cannot and should not have a corner on the definition and application of the term.
Governments that hold out against equality are a reflection of the citizens living there. Citizens in those states are targets for recrimination. That is, more enlightened people may snub those places short of discriminating openly against them, of course.
Michigan, the northern state that acted like a southern state in the nation's segregated school crisis persists in discriminating against gays who want to marry. Michigan, the state that is host to a city bearing the honor of the largest bankrupt municipality in America persists in a government displaying its backwardness.
"Judge strikes down Michigan's ban on gay marriage
By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, March 21, 5:22 PM
DETROIT — Michigan's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, a federal judge said Friday as he struck down a law that was widely embraced by voters a decade ago — the latest in a recent series of decisions overturning similar laws across the country.
U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman announced his ruling after a rare two-week trial that mostly focused on the impact of same-sex parenting on children.
There was no indication that the judge was suspending his decision. Attorney General Bill Schuette said he was immediately filing a request with a federal appeals court to suspend Friedman's decision and prevent same-sex couples from immediately marrying. The decision was released shortly after 5 p.m., when most county clerk offices in Michigan were closed. Clerks issue marriage licenses.
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia issue licenses for same-sex marriage. Since December, bans on gay marriage have been overturned in Texas, Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia, but appeals have put those cases on hold.


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Quanterus Smith to Miss Remainder of 2012 Season With Torn ACL
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Western Kentucky University senior defensive end Quanterus Smith will miss the remainder of the 2012 football season after suffering a torn left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the fourth quarter on Saturday against Louisiana-Lafayette. Smith will miss WKU's final regular season game against North Texas, and would also miss a bowl game, should WKU be selected.
"Quanterus was having such an incredible season, and my heart goes out to him as he begins the process of recovering from this injury," WKU head coach Willie Taggart said. "It is unfortunate that this would happen to a kid that had worked so hard and was having such a great senior season, but I know that if there is one kid that can get through something like this, Quanterus is definitely that kid. I know that he will bounce back and will continue to be a senior leader for our football team for the remainder of this season."
The Loganville, Ga., native has put together one of the most decorated seasons of any defender in WKU football history, racking up 12.5 sacks and 18.5 tackles for loss in 2012. The 12.5 sacks this season sits just behind the Sun Belt Conference record of 13.0 sacks in a single season, while his 24.0 career sacks are tied for the conference record.
Smith has been named the Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Week twice this season, while also earning honors from the College Football Performance Awards on four different occasions. Following his performance against Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday, Smith moved up to second in the nation in tackles for loss per game (1.85), while maintaining the nation's lead in sacks per game (1.25). Smith also ranks fifth among active players in career sacks, and 11th in career tackles for loss.
Smith will be honored along with 18 other WKU football seniors on Saturday at noon as the Hilltoppers host North Texas at Houchens Industries-L.T. Smith Stadium.
How to Follow the Hilltoppers: For complete information on WKU Hilltopper Football, follow the program via social media @WKUFootball on Twitter and on Facebook at facebook.com/WKUFootball.


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The first chakra is dominant during our very early childhood and its energy is one of agreement and dependence on the beliefs of the tribe or family. The second chakra becomes more active around the age of six or seven with the advent of choice and the development of more personal relationships. Around puberty the third chakra becomes more influential as the ego and personal power begin to develop. Around this age we tend to bind our self-esteem to the boundaries of the physical body. Feelings of inadequacy stemming from being not beautiful, thin, tall, smart, etc., enough often lead to low self-esteem. Since self-respect can only be earned through challenges (such as overcoming personal shortcomings), the way we accept or resist personal shortcomings determine the adult.
For example, if a high school student feels pressure to smoke or dress a certain way and he gives in to this pressure, he is still subscribing to the energy of the first chakra and the rules of his current "tribe". If a young girl allows what some boy says determine her-self esteem, she is now under the influence of the second chakra by allowing someone else control what she does. If the parents have planted the right seeds in the teenager, he may be strong enough to make his decisions based on his own feelings rather than on the fear of being rejected. It is through making poor choices that we learn of consequences and strength to follow through on our own feelings is something third chakra energy tries to develop in the individual.
According to Caroline Myss in Anatomy of the Spirit, there are four stages to gaining self-esteem: revolution, involution, narcissism, and evolution. In order to break away from the group, we must challenge it. Sometimes this manifests in harmless ways such as wild clothes/hair/make-up, sometimes it is a turning away from something very important to the family unit such as refusing to go to church; personal truth is sought out. Involution leads us to question how well the external world serves our needs. We ask questions of ourselves and this can lead to choice and actions that hopefully the seeker has the strength to make. While being stuck in the narcissistic phase leads to stagnation and unpleasant company, it is a necessary step on the way to healthy self-esteem. Getting a new look, one that makes us feel good about ourselves is good practice to developing inner strength. Often this type of change gets strong reactions from those around us and taking this criticism is perfect conditioning for bigger changes such as upgrading a job or a relationship. Ability to move past the ego and narcissism and see ourselves as a small part of the same organism leads finally to evolution.
The third chakra is "located" in the solar plexus and affects the surrounding area: stomach, adrenals, liver, the middle spine, etc. It is associated with the energy levels, the digestive system, and metabolism. Since each emotion affects a particular part of the body (think stress headache or upset stomach), negative emotions stemming from self-esteem issues, oversensitivity to criticism, fear of rejection, and other emotions related to self worth, will over time affect the organs and functions associated with this chakra. Digestive issues and low self-esteem, feelings of being victimized are indicative of a weak third chakra. Boat pose, leg lifts, Sun Salutations, twists, and Pranayama, are some core strengthening Yoga poses and breathing exercises to empower this chakra. Perfectionism, excessive focus on recognition or status indicate an excess of energy in this area. Practice back bends to calm this excess energy.
As production and money and production and more money are increasingly required, down time to rest, enjoy, and check in with ourselves is generally frowned upon. "Who has time to do that?" Increased measurement of self-worth by financial success leads many to chasing the dollar at the expense of actual personal development and time spent with loved ones or with the self. Frantic lifestyles and the stress that comes along with it usually manifest as digestive problems, diminished levels of energy, and disregard for the self. Slow down, set your own pace, breathe; the opportunities are there even if though you think they are not. Put down the "venti-triple-mocha-skinny-frozen-vanilla-macchiato" and go to sleep earlier, drink more water, and eat more apples. Chase inner growth. Honor the self!


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Wednesday Jan 27, 2010
Wednesday Jan 13, 2010
GlassFish ESB v2.2 - Processing Explicit HL7 v2 Accept Acknowledgements
By Michael.Czapski on Jan 13, 2010
This Note walks through development of two BPEL Module-based solutions that cooperate in generating and processing Enhanced Accept Acknowledgements using HL7 v2.3.1 messages. This discussion should apply to any v2.x, greater then v2.2, where the Enhanced Mode acknowledgements were introduced. In addition, the solutions are used to illustrate receiving HL7 BC ACK generation, when receiving an invalid HL7 message.
The blog article and the related material are available at http://blogs.czapski.id.au/2010/01/glassfish-esb-v2-2-processing-explicit-hl7-v2-accept-acknowledgements
Tuesday Jan 05, 2010
GlassFish ESB v2.2 Field Notes - Exercising Load Balanced, Highly Available, Horizontally Scalable HL7 v2 Processing Solutions
By Michael.Czapski on Jan 05, 2010
In this Note a heterogeneous, non-clustered collection of hosts will be used to implement and exercise three load balanced, highly available GlassFish ESB-based solutions. The environment consists of a number of independent "machines", which are not a part of an Operating System Cluster. Each "machine" hosts a GlassFish Application Server. Application Servers are independent of one another and are not clustered. This is to demonstrate that load balanced, highly available, horizontally scalable solutions, based on the GlassFish ESB software alone, can be designed and implemented.
The specific class of solutions to which this discussion applies is the class of solutions which:
1. are exposed as request/reply services
a. HL7 messaging with explicit Application Acknowledgment2. implement business logic as short lived processes
b. Request/Reply Web Services
c. JMS in Request/Reply mode
3. are
a. atomicClasses of solutions with characteristics different from these named above require different approaches to high availability and horizontal scalability, and are not discussed here.
b. are idempotent
c. tolerant of duplicate messages
In this Note only high availability and scalability of receiver solutions is addressed. This aspect is the focus because a failure to process a message by a receiver may result in message loss –generally a bad thing.
Paradoxical as it may sound; senders are special cases of receivers. Just as a receiver is triggered by arrival of a message so too is a sender. Making sure that the sender trigger message does not get lost is much the same as making sure the message a receiver receives does not get lost. This means that the same considerations apply to senders and to receivers.
This note discusses an exercise involving an example load balanced, highly available, horizontally scalable healthcare environment, processing HL7 v2 messages. Discussion includes customization of generic GlassFish ESB v2.2 VMware Virtual Appliances for a specific Load Balancing and High Availability exercise and deploying ready-made GlassFish ESB solutions. The exercise for HL7 BC-based, Web Service-based and JMS-based highly available, load balanced, and horizontally scalable receivers, processing HL7 v2.3.1 messages, will be conducted and discussed.
At the end of the Note we will have three GlassFish ESB VMware Appliances with GlassFish ESB v2.2 Runtime infrastructure, ready to use for further GlassFish ESB Load Balancing and High Availability exercises.
The reader will be convinced, one hopes, that for the applicable class of GlassFish ESB-based solutions, load balancing and dynamic failover without message loss work. For that class of solutions this provides for high availability and horizontal scalability without resorting to Application Server or Operating System clustering.
The article is available at http://blogs.czapski.id.au/2010/01/glassfish-esb-v2-2-field-notes-exercising-load-balanced-highly-available-horizontally-scalable-hl7-v2-processing-solutions
Friday Jul 03, 2009
GlassFish ESB v2.1, MySQL v5.1 - Make HL7 v2.3.1 Delimited Messages from Custom Delimited Records with HL7 Encoder and HL7 BC
By Michael.Czapski on Jul 03, 2009
"Progress" notwithstanding, Healthcare environments still extensively use the HL7 v2.x Delimited messages for conveyance of patient and patient-related information between applications. The GlassFish ESB provides support for HL7 v2.x messaging in the form of the HL7 Encoder, which allows conversion between HL7 v2 Delimited and HL7 v2 XML message formats, and in the form of the HL7 Binding Component, which allow connectivity between the GlassFish ESB-based healthcare solutions and healthcare applications that support HL7 over TCP connectivity.
In this document I will walk through the process of generating HL7 v2.3.1 delimited messages from pipe-delimited records containing patient information, sending and receiving HL7 v2.3.1 delimited messages using the HL7 Binding Component, parsing HL7 v2.3.1 delimited messages and writing HL7 v2 delimited messages to a file. To create and process HL7 messages I show how create a custom ADT A04 XML Schema and a custom "any HL7 v2 message" XML Schema. This gives me an opportunity to use the File Binding Component (File BC), the HL7 BC, the HL7 Encoder, the Custom Encoder and the BPEL Service Engine (BPEL SE). This also gives me an opportunity to demonstrate a HL7 v2.3.1 delimited message sender solution and to demonstrate a HL7 v2.3.1 delimited message receiver solution. At the end of the process we will have a file containing HL7 v2 delimited ADT A04 messages, which we will use in related writeups.The article and referenced materials are available at http://blogs.czapski.id.au/2009/07/glassfish-esb-v2-1-mysql-v5-1-make-hl7-v2-3-1-delimited-messages-from-custom-delimited-records-with-hl7-encoder-and-hl7-bc
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Q&A with Steve Francis of LogicMonitor
VSM: LogicMonitor positions itself as a solution that helps companies extract intelligence from their tech infrastructure. What sorts of operational or business intelligence are LogicMonitor customers extracting from their virtual infrastructures?
SF: In addition to providing in-depth performance monitoring of virtual environments, LogicMonitor gives businesses a flexible platform to collect, graph, and alert on virtually any type of data that might be useful to their company. For example, the VP of client services at a managed service provider used to require a 20-minute meeting every morning with all 28 of his techs to discuss the status of tickets and who's working on what. It took each tech 10 minutes to prepare data for that meeting.
Now he uses LogicMonitor to pull that data from their ticketing system and display the status of all tickets on a dashboard. He now has access to all that operational data on-demand, eliminating the need for a meeting, saving 14 hours of cumulative staff time every day, and providing insight into technical staffing needs.
Another example is a popular Web 2.0 company that uses LogicMonitor to track not only the performance of their infrastructure, but also key metrics such as which features in their web-based application are the most frequently used. This intelligence helps their developers determine where to focus their efforts, and which features may need improving.
VSM: What are the essential things to monitor in a virtual environment?
SF: The essential things to monitor are the resources in contention, which are CPU, memory and disk performance in operations per second. You need to have a top 10 overview of each of those things by virtual machine on a physical server.
VSM: What are the unique challenges of monitoring virtualized environments vs. physical environments?
SF: You can use the exact same monitoring and methodology to monitor the memory on a system once it's been virtualized. The fundamental difference is that you need to monitor the memory usage of the virtualization platform -- such as the ESX host. Following the logic, you need visibility into which virtual machine is using resources on the virtualized platform, which is a completely different kind monitoring. You're not talking about the operating system's memory usage, you're talking about how much memory 20 operating systems are using when they're all running as VMs on the virtual platform. Then it gets even more complicated, because your virtualization platform can trick the operating system as to how much memory it has available through the use of ballooning.
When monitoring the hardware on the physical layer you've got to make sure you'd catch something like a failed fan or power supply, or a bad disk in a RAID controller. If your standard monitoring tool is capable of monitoring your Dell Server hardware, it wants to talk to the Dell Server agent that's installed on the Dell Server hardware via SNMP. But you can't install a Dell Server agent on a Dell Server that's running ESX software because there's nowhere to install it. So you can't talk to the Dell Server agent because you can't run it. You have to talk to the ESX server using a completely different protocol.
You can monitor your operating system and your applications that were running on your operating system using the legacy tools you used before you virtualized, but they may not be able to tell you the root cause of the performance issue since the root cause may be in the virtualization layer or in the storage layer that the virtualization is using. Legacy tools have no visibility into that level of essential virtualization monitoring.


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It's that time again when the wearin' of the green tells us that St. Patrick's Day is once again upon us. Celebrate your Irish roots at one of the many Irish restaurants and pubs in Orlando, and raise a glass in honor of Ireland's patron saint. Even if you haven't got a drop of Irish blood, it's still fun to celebrate and have a great time with friends.
Here are some of the top picks for Irish St. Paddy's Day celebrations this year:
Fiddler's Green - Winter Park
Celebrate St. Patrick's from Sat., March 15th thru Mon., March 17 at Fiddler's Green in Winter Park. Entertainment includes Celtic Pulse Irish Dancers, March 15 & 16 (6:00 - 8:00 p.m.), Rosie O'Gradys Highlanders Bagpiper, March 15 & 16 (5:00 - 8:00 p.m.), Rosie O'Gradys Highlanders Band, March 17th (5:00 - 10:00 p.m.), music from "The Fenians" Entertaining Band from South Florida and singer Jane O'Connor along with other surprise guests. It's great Irish fun!
Raglan Road at Downtown Disney
The festivities at Raglan Road Irish Pub & Restaurant and all over Downtown Disney celebrates the Celtic culture with top Irish bands and pro Celtic dancers performing on three stages during the week long festival. Performances start nightly March 7-14 from 5:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.. and daily from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. on March 15-17. So put on your best green duds and head to the stages, both indoors and out, to party like an Irishman.
Pat O'Brien's at Universal City Walk
Join the revelers of St. Patrick's Day with Irish food specials, drink specials and live music from the Groovy7 from 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. on the Patio of Pat O'Brien's at Universal City Walk for $3 Fuzzy Leprechaun drink specials.
The Pub at Pointe Orlando
The Pub at Pointe Orlando will celebrate St. Patrick's day fun on March 17 with drink specials and live entertainment including: Orange County Sheriff's Pipe Band and Def Leprechaun.
The Celt Irish Pub
The Harp and Celt present their annual St. Patrick's Day Party with a traditional Irish breakfast served all day. There will be live music, food, and drinks – and a party atmosphere throughout, especially the Irish Beer Garden outside.
Wall St. Plaza - Downtown Orlando
If it's a party you're looking for, grab a shamrock, dress in green, and come celebrate the best St. Paddy's Day block party in Downtown Orlando. The party starts Saturday, March 15 at 5:00 p.m., Sunday, March 16 at 3:00 p.m., and Monday, March 17 at noon, with live music, Guinness and plenty of green beer. Musical performances include Off Kilter, The Lighter Exchange, OFD Pipe & Drums and More. Join thousands of revelers for a huge block party celebration that's bound to be fun.


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Jake Erickson has played 91 career rounds, third-most in school history.
Sept. 15, 2012
By John Lock
What: Purdue/Midwest Shootout
Where: West Lafayette, Ind.
When: 8:30 a.m. ET shotgun start on Sunday, Sept. 16
Course: Kampen Golf Course at Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex
Course Details: Par 72, 7,465 yards
Participating Team (9): Bradley, Chicago State, Eastern Illinois, Eastern Kentucky, Illinois Wesleyan, Loyola (Ill.), Purdue, Southern Illinois, and Valparaiso
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Southern Illinois men's tennis team travels to the Purdue/Midwest Shootout for a 36-hole tournament on Sunday. Nine teams are set to compete at the Kampen Golf Course.
"We're looking forward to the challenge," head coach Leroy Newton said. "It's a tougher course and a tougher field than our first tournament, so we're looking forward to see how we measure up at a Big Ten school."
Southern will take six golfers to West Lafayette to compete at the par-72, 7,465-yard course. The teams will tee off at 8:30 a.m. ET with a shotgun start. The field includes SIU's first look at conference competition; Bradley is also in the field.
Southern finished fourth in its season-opening tournament, the Wasioto Winds Fall Kick-Off. Jake Erickson and Jeffrey Miller led the salukis and finished 12th overall. Erickson recorded his fifth career round in the 60s, which ties him for fourth-most such rounds in school history. He also played his 91st career round, which ties him with Sam Scheibal (1990-94) for third-most career rounds in school history.
Brandon Cauldwell finished tied for 19th, which was the 10th time in his career he has finished among the top 20. True freshmen Drew Novara and Ryan Haxel competed in their first career tournaments. Joe Goelzhauser also competed for SIU.


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No. 48 UW Downs WSU, 5-2
Washington completes the regular season with a win over its archrival.
No. 48 Washington Hosts Washington State
The Dawgs wrap up conference play by hosting archrival Washington State.
No. 45 Washington Tops Sacramento State, 5-2
The Dawgs improve to 12-9 with a non-conference victory.
No. 45 Washington Hosts Sacramento State
The Dawgs will step away from Pac-12 play for a final non-conference match with Sacramento State.
Dawgs Earn Conference Road Win At Colorado
No. 45 Washington earns a big Pac-12 road win over No. 75 Colorado, 5-2.
High School and Personal: Parents are Caroline Douglas and Philippe Miron ... has one younger brother, Gabriel, and one older sister, Corinne ... competed at Canada's National Training Center from 2009-11 and then moved to the Carleton Tennis Center in 2011-12 ... achieved a career-best ITF junior world ranking of No. 133 in 2010 ... was a finalist at the 2011 All Canadian Junior Championships in both singles and doubles ... at 2010 U18 Canadian Junior Nationals, made singles final and won doubles title ... competed in the singles and doubles draws at the 2010 Australian Open juniors ... won doubles title at the 2009 Yucatan World Cup, a grade 1 tourney ... singles and doubles finalist at the 2009 Condor de Plata Tournament in Bolivia, a grade 2 event ... also won 2009 doubles titles at the Prince Cup in Miami and the Panama Cup.