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NAMTA's purpose is to maintain Montessori traditions, and at the same time, to be on the cutting edge of innovative education. Accordingly, we provide the medium for study, interpretation, and improvement of Montessori education.
Montessori Development Partnerships (MDP) and The Hershey Foundation (HF) partnered to establish the Hershey Montessori Training Institute under the auspices of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI). This program offers a master's degree in elementary Montessori education which includes new and innovative course material focused upon preparation for adolescent work. The AMI Elementary course offers a comprehensive and integrated picture of the Montessori continuum of education, from birth through to adulthood. Visit Hershey Montessori Training Institute.
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ON DEANE: Senior captain ... nicknamed "Terminator" for his great desire to play and demeanor on defense... has good skills and composure... is non-stop, relentless, all over the field, will take face-offs more than he took last year... is a long-stick defensive midfielder that will guard the top middie out there from the opposing team ... has a desire to be great and to help his team ... ground ball machine ... has developed into a super, super leader ... according to Cannella, "is a great kid to have in your program, somebody that when you put him out there you have total confidence that he is going to be ready to play."
AS A JUNIOR IN 2005: Saw action in all 16 games as a long stick defensive midfielder who takes face-offs also... second on the team in groundballs with 54, also had five assists... had career-high nine groundballs at Hopkins (5/21) in NCAA Quarterfinal, also won 9-of-17 face-offs in playoff game...tallied an assist for the third straight game, picked up a team-best six groundballs, and went 3-of-7 from the "X" in the First Round victory over Syracuse (5/15)... set up two fast break goals, assisting on both of them, while scooping up five groundballs at Rutgers (5/7)... recorded his second career assist and picked up two groundballs in the win over Syracuse (4/30)... tabbed ECAC Defensive Player of the Week after his outstanding performace in the "X" against Georgetown... won 9-21 face-offs, including 5-8 in the final period, and picked up five groundballs in the victory against Georgetown (4/23)... scooped up five groundballs and won 4-5 face-offs in the win against St. John's (4/9)... won a career-high 11-17 face-offs and picked up five groundballs vs. Penn State (4/2)... picked up four groundballs at Loyola (3/26)... went 6-12 from the face-off "X" and picked up four groundballs vs. Yale (3/12)... tallied first career assist at Hofstra (2/26) and had two groundballs.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2004: Appeared 11 times for the Minutemen, mainly as a face-off backup... scooped nine groundballs during the season... scooped up a groundball vs. Syracuse (5/1)... won only face-off from the "X" and snagged a groundball in a win over Manhattan (4/9)... picked up a groundball vs. Sacred Heart (3/23).. grabbed a career-high six groundballs against Albany (3/16).
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2003: Appeared in 11 games, as a reserve face-off man... went 9-of-20 on the faceoff "X" and scooped up nine groundballs.
BEFORE UMASS: Played for four years under Chad Wabrek at Suffield Academy in Suffield, Conn... led team to 2002 New England Division II Secondary School championship... named team captain during his senior year... participated in the East-West All-Star Lacrosse game, and was named an All-American in 2002... also earned defensive player of the year in Western New England twice and was selected as All-Western New England Division II three times... selected as team MVP twice and All-League twice... also played on the football team for four years and basketball team for three years.
PERSONAL: Jake Jeffrey Deane... son of Jeffrey and Laura Deane... born May 18, 1983... majoring in hospitality and hotel management.
Career Statistics Year GP/GS G A Pts. F-O Pct GB Pen 2003 11/0 0 0 0 9-20 .450 9 1/0:30 2004 11/0 0 0 0 2-3 .667 9 1/1:00 2005 16/0 0 5 5 49-100 .490 54 2/1:30 2006 18/0 7 2 9 233-379 .615 143 2/1:30 Totals 56/0 7 7 14 293-502 .584 215 6/4:00
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It's going to take some great accomplishments inside the ring for lightweight Sharif Bogere to be known for more than his unbelievable ring walk.
The native of Uganda, who now lives in Las Vegas, is carried to the ring in a cage while wearing a lion skin and lion head. It is something that has to be seen to be believed.
Bogere is 23-0 with 15 knockouts and has finished four of his last five fights in three rounds or less. But even as he prepares to challenge Richard Abril for the vacant WBA lightweight title on Saturday in the main event of a Showtime-televised card at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, it's his ring garb and entrance that gather the most attention.
In an interview with Showtime, Bogere said that the lion head and skin he wears came from a lion that was killed in Africa after it had mauled several people.
In 2008, my manager saw my fighting skill. 'Oh, you fight like a lion! If you get a lion, I think the people of the world would love it.' The ring walk is tremendous. People go crazy.
Bogere said he was looking to do something memorable that would excite the fans. He said he used the wild ring entrances of the late Hector Camacho and Prince Naseem Hamed as inspiration.
His walk is up there with any in boxing history. And Bogere, 24, said it has worked for him.
This lion is part of me. I go into the ring and take care of business. When I come out, I'm victorious.
He faces a tough challenge from Abril, a slick Cuban who is a good boxer and is currently about a 9-5 favorite.
Abril, who lost a hotly disputed decision to Brandon Rios last year, said at Thursday's news conference he isn't intimidated by Bogere.
"He's a lion, but I'm a tiger, and the real king of the jungle is the tiger," Abril said.
That will be proven in the ring on Saturday at the Hard Rock. There is no doubt, though, that Abril can't touch Bogere when it comes to a flashy entrance.
Speaking of flashy, the uber-talented Gary Russell Jr., the Yahoo! Sports Prospect of the Year in 2012, will open the show against Vyacheslav Gusev.
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We have been paying attention to the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network rollout and while we have known they were ahead of competitors, it now looks like they will be finishing the rollout ahead of schedule. In fact, it looks like they will be completing the rollout about six-months ahead of schedule. The details are coming by way of Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo who recently told Fierce Wireless that the LTE rollout will be completed by mid-2013.
As of right now, Verizon has LTE available for about 250 million people, or roughly 80 percent of the US population. The year end goal would be to have coverage for at least 260 million. And as a comparison, AT&T currently has plans to have LTE available for 150 million people by the end of the year and for 250 million people by the end of 2013. AT&T isn't expected to finish the rollout until the end of 2014.
Otherwise, moving away from LTE and into the family share plans that Verizon Wireless introduced a short while back. Fran Shammo noted that Verizon now has about 13 percent of the customer base on these new plans and that the shift towards these plans is moving faster than they expected.
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Baltimore has been invaded by germ zapping robots. Humans need not fear. They are here to help us, not harm us.
The invader, Xenex robot, uses pulsed xenon ultraviolet (UV-C) light that is 25,000 times more powerful than sunlight to destroy harmful bacteria, viruses, fungi, and even bacterial spores. The system is effective against even the most dangerous pathogens, including Clostridium difficile (C. diff), norovirus, influenza, and staph bacteria, including Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better known as MRSA.
The robot can disinfect a room in minutes and is easily portable, allowing it to be used in virtually any location within the hospital. MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center is the first hospital in the Baltimore region to use the Xenex room disinfection system. When used at other healthcare facilities in the U.S., it has been credited for helping decrease their MRSA and C.diff infection rates by more than 50 percent, according to studies.
The robot is used in conjunction with the standard cleaning. To disinfect a room after standard cleaning procedures are complete, hospital team members wheel the Xenex robot into the room, position it, begin the automated sequence, and then leave the room. A sign is placed outside the room warning people not to enter while the robot is in operation, and a motion sensor on the robot automatically shuts off the machine if anyone should enter, or if motion is detected. Each treatment takes about 5 minutes. The process is then repeated on the other side of the bed and in the bathroom, for a total of 15 minutes to thoroughly clean each room. By using UV light, the Xenex robots are able to reach every surface in the room and do not leave a chemical residue.


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ZF-12496: Zend_Validate_Identical don't launches if form element value is empty
Assume we have two form fields: password and password_repeat. Both of it is not required. The last one has attached Zend_Validate_Identical validator (token parameter points to password form field). In case when values (password:'12345',password_repeat:'1') passed - anything works great. But if to pass (password:'12345',password_repeat:'') form has success validation. It looks like since password_repeat form element has no any data submitted no any validation launches at all. I am not sure if it is exactly Zend_Validation_Identical class bug against Zend_Form::isValid mechanism. Anyway, '' is not identical to '12345', thus form shouldn't be validated successfully.
If the field is not required, and no value is provided, validators are not checked. As such, you need to either (a) mark it as required, or (b) create a custom validator that checks if the "password" field is non-empty and only then runs the Identical validator.
Yes, thank you. There are also another ways to solve the trouble.
I guess this is a question of logic not a bug exactly. In described case non-required form field with no value provided needed validator to be launched though.


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My skin felt like it was on fire. More fur grew in. It covered my entire body. My nose changed into an Umbreon's nose. My head started to change shape as well. It felt like my bones were melting. They started to reshape. After the fur grew in, I started to shrink. My eyes grew larger and my head finished reshaping. The rings disappeared from my wrists. They started to reappear on the sides of my arms and legs. My hands started to reform into paws.
My arms shortened and started to take the shape of fore legs. My actual legs also shortened and become hind legs. I looked in the mirror and saw that my irises started to dominate my eye. My pupils become slightly larger. I stopped shrinking and the pain started to fade. I was now an Umbreon. I still had my human mind, but I was already starting to get Pokémon instincts.
I looked at the others and they looked just like their Pokémon too. Espeon was slightly shorter than me. She looked to be about 3 feet tall. A weird jewel had appeared in the center of her forehead. Growlithe had orange fur with black stripes. He had a really fluffy tail. He looked shorter than Espeon. I looked at Mightyena. He looked really vicious. His fur was black on his back, his tail, and his paws. It was gray everywhere else. He was about the same height that I was.
I suddenly felt someone grab my ears and my neck. "FUCK!" I yelled. It hurt so much. I heard the others yell in pain as yell. We were taken to a different area than the cell block. They put us in cages. Mightyena and Growlithe were thrown in one. Espeon and I were thrown into the other. I looked at the others again. "So what do we do now?" I asked.
"Nothing," Mightyena said. "They completed the serum. We are in cages. And most importantly nobody will be able to understand us. We are fucked."
"Shut up!" Growlithe yelled.
"We're gonna get out of here," Espeon said. "We are full-fledged Pokémon. We have the same powers as Pokémon. We can fight them and escape. After we escape, we head to the place mentioned on the note."
"Alright," I said. "Growlithe try using ember or flamethrower or something like that. Burn through the bars to the cages."
"Alright," he said. He tried a couple of times. About 30 times I think. He sighed. "One more time. If it doesn't work, I'm giving up." He tried again. A small amount of fire shot out of his mouth. It melted the bars enough for them to get out of the cage. He smiled. He got out and melted the bars to my cage. Espeon went out first. I followed her. Mightyena came out of his cage with a sigh.
We went straight for the door. I stood up on my hind legs and I grabbed the handle with my mouth. I pulled it and opened the door. "Running time?" Growlithe asked.
"Running time I replied. We dashed out the door and turned right. I was trying to off of my memory of the way outside. We only got about five feet before we ran into a guard. I focused my energy and tried to remember an attack that Umbreon could use. The only one I could think of was Faint Attack. I tried to use the attack and I was successful. I hit him and knocked him over. We trampled him.
We made it to the cell block and turned left. I tried the door, but it was locked. "Go back and get that guard's keys," I told Mightyena. He growled and went back I saw him grab the keys. A security guard came out of the door right next to him. He saw Mightyena and grabbed his police baton. He tried to hit Mightyena with it, but he dodged and kicked him in the shin. He ran back to us and tossed me the keys. I caught them in my mouth and attempted to put them in the lock. I kept missing.
"Let me do it," Espeon said. I dropped the keys and she picked them up with her psychic powers. She put them in the lock and unlocked the door.
"Show off," Mightyena said. Espeon smiled. I pushed the door open and an alarm went off. We ran as fast as we possibly could to get to the fence. Mightyena pulled ahead of the rest of us. Growlithe shot and ember at the fence it melted just enough for us to crawl through.
"Growlithe you first!" I said. He made it through the fence without having to crawl too much. Mightyena followed after him. I turned around to see at least ten guards running towards us. They had guns out. The one in front fired and missed my ear by inches. I looked to were the bullet landed, to see that it wasn't a bullet. It was a dart. Probably full of tranquilizer.
I got ready to fight the guards. Espeon crawled under the fence. They started to shoot more tranquilizer darts. Most of them kept their distance. On security guard ran up to me. Before he could grab me, I used Headbutt on him. I hit him right in the stomach. He doubled over in pain. I crawled under the fence. We started to run again. I could see some tranquilizer darts landing in front of us. We were actually somehow able to get away from them.
We just kept running and running and running. We ran as far as we possibly could. We finally collapsed at the bottom of a hill. Growlithe kept going up. He made it to the top of the hill. "Guys!" he called. "I think I found something!" We lugged ourselves up the hill. I made it up first. I looked straight ahead and I saw a city. It wasn't too far away.
"The note said something about finding a city," Espeon panted. "I think it was something like Amber City." It was actually getting late. We decided to sleep there for the night. Mightyena walked off to one side of the hill. He fell over and went to sleep. Growlithe made a small hole in the hill to sleep in. I was tired, but I didn't feel like sleeping. I tried to remember everything I could about Umbreon. All I could remember was that they were nocturnal. I just decided to lie down. Espeon came over and lay down next to me.
"Sup?" I asked.
"Nothing," she yawned. "Just gonna sleep."
"How do you think people will react if they see us?"
"They'd probably freak out. Pokémon are not supposed to exist." I sighed. I noticed that as I relaxed, that my rings started to fade away.
"Let's just see if anything happens. I would suggest that we stay hidden though." She nodded. She closed her eyes and went to sleep. I decided to do the same. Right before I fully fell asleep, I felt Espeon put her head under my chin. I smiled and fell asleep.
Pokemon tf serum part 3 by wiiking9Watch
©2011-2016 wiiking9
I don't like this transformation scene as much as the first one. I kinda half assed the chapter. There will be swearing in the story. I was tired when i wrote this part.
Thoughtful blog post ! I Appreciate the specifics , Does someone know where my company could access a fillable IRS 3520-A form to edit ?
clearly the people there were idiots if they thought they could hold full on Pokémon in there with that much protection, I mean look at how easy it was for them to get out XD
Where's part 5?
well, it's nice so far, a little short seeming but nice


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March 2012 was a month that not many Colts fans will forget. It was during this fateful off season that Indianapolis decided to release a number of their beloved veterans to pave way for a new beginning for the franchise. Among these fan favorites was TE Dallas Clark. The Colts announced Monday that they will allow former TE Dallas Clark to retire in Indianapolis.
Clark was a first-round pick in the 2003 NFL Draft. In his nine seasons In Indianapolis, Clark quickly made a name for himself. By 2006 he became a world champion when the Colts beat the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI. In 2009, the veteran tight end played the best season of his career putting up 1,106 yards on 100 receptions and 10 touchdowns.
After his release from the Colts, Clark played a season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2012 and the Baltimore Ravens in 2013. Although he is ending his career after being released by the Colts, he will be retiring wearing the horseshoe.
Allowing former Colts to retire in Indianapolis seems to be a trend after the abrupt release of so many fan favorites. In 2013, former Center Jeff Saturday signed a one-day contract with the Colts so he could retire where his career had begun so many years ago.
Indianapolis will certainly welcome Dallas Clark back with open arms. Clark played a major role in the franchise's success and their Super Bowl victory in February 2007. He will forever be recognized a Colt by his fans and now he will be able to retire as one.
More to come following the Colts' press conference on Wednesday.


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|Camp named one of the nation's top entrepreneurship professors
S. Michael Camp, academic director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, was recently named one of the nation's top entrepreneurship professors by FORTUNE Small Business magazine. In addition to the individual recognition, Camp and the Center for Entrepreneurship in conjunction with the College of Engineering will launch a new interdisciplinary program with a $600,000 multi-year grant awarded to The Ohio State University by the National Science Foundation.
FORTUNE Small Business magazine recognized Camp and 17 other professors as the nation's best through a survey of colleagues, students and entrepreneurs in its first compilation of America's Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs.
"In the relatively short time that Michael has led the Center for Entrepreneurship, he has fostered and nurtured the entrepreneurial spirit of many students not only in Fisher College but throughout Ohio State," said Stephen L. Mangum, acting dean of Fisher College. "This recent recognition is a remarkable honor and is reflective of Michael's passion for preparing innovative start up companies to succeed."
The magazine commended Camp's efforts that led to the creation of the Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Academy, an interdisciplinary program that teaches graduate students to assess the commercial potential of new technologies.
Camp is also part of a new Ohio State program to provide entrepreneurship skills to undergraduate computer science students through the National Science Foundation grant. NEWPATH is a collaboration among faculty from the Computer Science and Engineering department, the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and Fisher. The Center for Entrepreneurship and the Center for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (CETI) within the College of Engineering will contribute to the program, as well as TechColumbus, a community partner.
Select incoming computer science students enrolled in the new program will complete the college's entrepreneurship minor and participate in internships with high-tech start up information technology companies connected with TechColumbus and the Center for Entrepreneurship.
"With this new program we hope to set a precedent for how other colleges around campus can leverage the entrepreneurship program for innovative instructional opportunities," Camp, a co-principal investigator of the NEWPATH program, said.
The NEWPATH program will also feature an intense six-month immersion, immediately prior to graduation, in which students will form small entrepreneurial teams to create a model start up. Select students will be recruited directly into the program, which is slated to begin fall quarter 2008. Students will major in an existing degree program: Computer Science and Engineering, Computer and Information Science or Electrical and Computer Engineering.


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On Tuesday, pro-gun blogger Mike Vanderboegh posted a letter he sent to Lt. Paul Vance, the Connecticut state police officer who told a resident he was "the master" in a phone conversation that sparked outrage across the country.
"You know, you got well and truly ambushed the other day by 'Guerrilla Girl Ashley' who allowed you to do a job on yourself and your department that would be hard for a wizened old one-eyed Viet Cong fighter to top," he said in a lengthy email.
"Calling Ashley 'un-American,' now that was predictable, but going all Darth-Vader-to-Obi-Wan-Kenobi on her, ranting repeatedly 'I am the master,' well, that was just too precious. It was a great gift for which we thank you, so self-revealing is it. In Ira Veritas indeed," he added.
As we reported last Thursday, Vance is heard telling Ashley she "sounded" anti-American and anti-law.
"Ma'am, it sounds like you're anti-American, it sounds like you're anti-law. I can't answer your question," he said about five minutes into the conversation.
But he went further, after Ashley reminded him that he is, in fact, a servant of the people whose taxes pay his salary.
"You're the servant, we're the master," she said.
"I'm the master, ma'am. I'm the master," he said in response.
He also asked Vance a question he explored in a speech he gave at the Alamo: "Do the people serve the government, or does the government serve the people as the Founders intended, and made plain in the text of the Constitution?"
In the call, Vance is also heard telling Ashley he doesn't "want to talk about the Constitution" at all.
Vanderboegh said the Constitutionality of the new gun control law "has every bearing" on the issue.
"Indeed, the only way you have gotten away with such a statement so far is that you are talking about firearms confiscation (and not, say, racial profiling) and that the Connecticut media is ignoring the 85% of Connecticut firearm owners (who are telling you to stick it where the sun don't shine) with all the willful blindness of Walter Duranty in the Stalinist Soviet Union," he added.
But Vanderboegh said what struck him "most forcefully" was Vance's claim that he would bear no personal responsibility for any "bloody raids" that might ensue as a result of the gun control law.
"You really believe that with Connecticut citizens targeted for deadly raids that, you, the public face of such tyranny, would bear no responsibility or culpability for those deaths," he said before asking if Josef Goebbels deserved a pass simply because he didn't personally deploy the Zyklon B in the Nazi gas chambers.
"So, if the law is going to be enforced NOW, or at least in the next weeks or months, and the U.S. Supreme Court won't get the case for at least another year and a half, what are you going to do when you discover that the law you've been killing people under is null and void? Oh, that's right, you don't do that sort of thing yourself, you're just paid to excuse it and explain it away, like Herr Goebbels," he added.
While some have suggested that SWAT-style raids might be used to confiscate guns deemed "assault weapons" by the new law, the state has not decided on a final course of action -- at least for now.
A gun rights group said Monday the state should either take action and enforce the law or repeal it.
In a press release, Connecticut Carry said the state "does not have the stomach to enforce the edicts and laws with which they threaten gun owners."
"From Governor Malloy, to Undersecretary Lawlor to DESPP, Commissioner Schriro, and Lieutenant Cooke of the firearms unit, and including Lt. Paul Vance, the state needs to s**t, or get off the pot. The fact is, the state does not have the balls to enforce these laws. The laws would not survive the public outcry and resistance that would occur," said Connecticut Carry Director Ed Peruta.
As many as 350,000 state residents are in violation of the law, experts say, and over 100,000 could face felony charges.
"That means over 3.6% of the entire adult population of Connecticut has been transformed into a felon by the new registration law," Ammoland said. "Roughly one in twenty Connecticut homes could have their doors smashed in by heavily armed law enforcement seeking to confiscate firearms."
Vanderboegh said Vance would not be excused if law enforcement authorities decided to use force against gun owners in the state and warned that someone could get killed for kicking in the wrong door.
He concluded with another reference to Goebbels.
"Just remember that Josef Goebbels is looking over your shoulder, grinning from Hell. If you look intently in the mirror, you might just be able to see him, chuckling at your cluelessness," he said.
Video of the conversation between Ashley and Vance can be seen here.
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Aromatherapy Skin Care From Head To Toe
Relax Or Rejuvenate While Showering With Aromatherapy Soap
June 28th, 2016
Aromatherapy Soy Candles Burn Cleaner, Longer
Aromatherapy soap can be very helpful in your shower or bath because it contains therapeutic aromatherapy oils. An additional benefit is that it is gentle on your skin and can actually help reduce the effects of acne. When using aromatherapy soap, it is highly improbable that you will suffer from dry or sensitive skin.
What Can Aromatherapy Soap Be Made Out Of?
A combination of spearmint and rosemary is great whenever you need to be rejuvenated.
A combination of rose geranium and patchoulihas is great for women who want to be sensual.
A combination of patchouli oil and hemp seed oil will help relieve dry skin.
A combination of peppermint oil and aloe vera provides great relief for sunburn and insect bites.
A combination of lemon and poppy seeds will bring with it a calming effect.
Of course, you should purchase an aromatherapy soap that contains only natural ingredients. You can purchase these either online or from a local store that sells homemade products. In fact, most of the aromatherapy soap that is sold online is homemade. While you should be prepared to pay more for this type of soap than you would for a regular bar, the benefits that you will derive are well worth the money spent.
Make Your Own Aromatherapy Soap
If money is still a concern to you, then you might want to consider making your own soap; and this really is not difficult to do. You simply need to remember to only use all natural, high quality ingredients or your soap will crack and break into pieces as you try to wash. The molds and ingredients that you need can be purchased either online or at your local craft store. You will discover that there are also starter kits available. Try an all-inclusive kit and see if you're happy with the results before spending a fortune on individual supplies.
Once you use this soap, you will discover that your ordinary bath will become an extraordinary experience. Not only do these soaps smell good, but they are also able to heal both your body and your mind. Regardless as to whether you are looking for help with you skin conditions, mental state, breathing problems or other such physical ailments, these soaps will be a lot of help to you. After you finally decide which soap works best for you, you will be able to start feeling better physically and mentally.
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Let $X$ denote an entropic algebra (see here), which just means that all the operations of $X$ are homomorphisms $X^n \rightarrow X.$ Abelian groups are the classic example. Then for any operation of $X$, we have that if $X_0,\ldots,X_{n-1}$ are substructures of $X$, then so too is $f(X_0,\ldots,X_{n-1});$ because after all homomorphisms preserve substructures.
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7000 Series Takeover and Failback
By wesolows on Sep 16, 2009
The two fundamental operations most people associate with clusters are takeover (assuming control of resources from a failed peer) and failback (relinquishing control of those resources to that peer after it has resumed operation). It's very important to understand what these operations mean in the context of the Sun Storage 7310 and 7410 NAS appliances. A number of important changes have been made in the recently-released 2009.Q3 software release that affect how these operations work - all of them, we obviously believe, for the better - but the administrative interfaces are unchanged. The product documentation (PDF not yet updated for Q3 as of this writing) has also been greatly enhanced to better describe the clustering model and administrative operations that apply to these products, and I would strongly recommend that you avail yourself of that resource; you'll want to be familiar with it to understand some of the terminology I'll use here. But many of our customers and partners have asked us questions around takeover performance, and in order to address those questions I will need to go into greater detail about the implementation of these operations. So let's take a look under the hood. It's important to understand that nearly everything discussed here is an implementation detail that may change without notice in future software releases, and applies very specifically to the new 2009.Q3 software.
A First-Order Look
Takeover and failback consist of operations performed on each resource eligible for the operation. The selection of eligible resources is described in the product documentation and depends on the resource type and, if applicable, which cluster peer has been assigned ownership of it. For the sake of simplicity, we will define a fairly typical cluster configuration in which there is a single pool consisting of the disks and log devices in 4 J4400 JBODs, a pair of network interfaces by which clients will access that storage via NFS, and a network interface private to each head for administration only. We will refer to the heads as simply A and B. The pool and service interfaces are assigned to head A.
In this configuration, the following resources of interest will exist on both heads:
- Eight resources of the form
In addition, head A will have
ak:/net/nge2 and head B will have
ak:/net/nge3, representing the private administrative network interfaces. There will also be a very large number of other resources representing components with upgradeable firmware, service configuration, users and roles, and other configuration state replicated between heads. Because these resources are replicas and do not normally have any activity associated with them at takeover or failback time, we will not consider them further. The resources of interest must be acted upon in dependency order; for example, we must open the ZFS pool and mount and share all of its shares before we can safely bring any network interfaces up that clients expect to use to access those shares. Otherwise clients could attempt to access the shares before they are available, receiving a response that would result in stale filehandle errors. The above listing of resources reflects the dependency order for import; as you would expect, the opposite order must be observed when exporting.
It is worth noting that most of these resources do not appear in the management UIs. This is deliberate: the
shadow, and
smb resource classes are symbiotes; that is, they always have the same resource identifier and ownership as their respective masters but have distinct locations in the dependency chain and distinct actions required for import or export. This allows us finer-grained dependency control and makes the implementation simpler and more modular by separating subsystems from one another. This becomes very important when discussing takeover and failback performance: the symbiote resources must be exported and/or imported, and these operations take time.
When head A fails (let us assume it has been powered off accidentally by our data center personnel), head B will initiate takeover once it detects that no heartbeats have arrived from head A. This timeout period is currently 500ms, and takeover is initiated as soon as the timeout elapses. At the beginning of takeover, an arbitration process is performed that protects user data in the case in which all cluster I/O has failed but both heads are still functioning. This arbitration process consists of attempting to take the zone lock (defined by SAS-2) on each SAS expander present in the storage fabric. These locks are acquired and dropped in a defined order by any head attempting to enter the OWNER state. The locks are held with a fixed timeout period, so that if the holder of the locks does not continually reacquire them they will eventually be dropped. A thread on the OWNER head does this at an interval significantly less than the timeout period. Therefore, if a head attempting to enter the OWNER state fails to acquire the locks, it will wait until the timeout interval expires and try again. If it again fails, it will reboot, allowing its peer (which must still be functioning) to take control of shared resources. This process prevents both heads from attempting to perform simultaneous write access to shared storage, which would destroy or corrupt data. The timeout interval is set to 5 seconds in current products, meaning that this step can take up to 5 seconds to complete plus the time to contact all expanders (typically around 1-2s even in the largest configurations). Since the zone locks are not held when in the CLUSTERED state, this will normally take less than 2 seconds overall. Only in the cases where arbitration is actually necessary - such as when all three cluster I/O links are disconnected between two functioning heads - or when taking over directly from the STRIPPED state can the additional 5 second penalty apply.
After acquiring the zone locks, the surviving head will evaluate each resource in the resource map in dependency order. If the resource is not already imported, its class's import function will be invoked. Since head B does not own any of the singleton resources listed above, none of them nor any of their symbiotes will be imported. We will therefore invoke the diskset class's import function for each of the disksets, then the zfs class's import function for pool-0, then the nas class's import function for pool-0, then the net class's import function for nge0, and so on until we have attempted to import all of these resources. Note that if a failure occurs we will simply mark the resource faulted and proceed: our peer is down so we must make a best effort. When head A resumes functioning, it will rejoin the cluster, meaning that the current list and state of all resources will be transferred from head B over the intracluster I/O subsystem. Head A will not, however, take control of any of the singleton resources or their symbiotes; it will import only its own private resource ak:/net/nge2 as it transitions into the STRIPPED state following rejoin. This behaviour prevents ping-ponging and allows the administrator to verify that the restored head has had any hardware issues addressed before returning it to service.
Now that head A has rejoined, a failback can be initiated from head B. During failback, head B will walk the list of resources in reverse dependency order, invoking the resource's class's export function for each resource that is not owned by head B. If any of these functions fails, head B will generate an alert and reboot itself. This is done to ensure that the cluster is in a consistent, well-defined state: it would not be safe for head A to import a resource that is still under the control of head B, nor would it be possible for head A to enter a defined cluster state without importing all of the resources assigned to it. Likewise, if head B attempted to re-import the resource that could not be exported, that operation or some other re-import required by it could (and likely would) fail as well, making matters worse. Therefore B's reboot will trigger a takeover by A and consistency is maintained. Assuming a successful export, head B will now perform an intracluster RPC to head A instructing it to begin importing its resources. In response, head A will walk the list of resources in dependency order, invoking each resource's class's import function for each resource assigned to it (but not any assigned to head B). If any of these functions fails, head A will generate an alert and reboot itself, again triggering takeover from head B and maintaining consistency.
A Closer Look
Since failure detection and zone lock acquisition together take at most a few seconds, it is clear that we will need to understand the performance characteristics of each import and export function in order to understand overall takeover and failback performance. What exactly does each of them do?
A diskset is exactly what its name implies: a collection of disks managed together. A few simple rules govern disksets: disks in a diskset are always part of the same storage pool, or no storage pool; disks in a diskset are always located in the same physical enclosure such as a J4400; and disks in a diskset are always imported or exported together. The mapping of disksets onto the slots or bays in a storage enclosure is defined by metadata delivered as part of the appliance software and may vary by product or enclosure type. Administrators do not manage disksets directly; they are handled automatically by the software when storage pools are created and destroyed.
In the abstract, disksets would be merely an engineering convenience, containers used to track the allocation of disks. Unfortunately, the need to support ATA disks necessitates a far more complex implementation. Because the ATA protocol does not support communication between multiple initiators and a single target, the SAS standard defines the notion of an affiliation, a mapping between a single initiator and an ATA target. Only the initiator that owns the affiliation can communicate with the target; any attempt by another initiator to do so will fail. Ownership of the affiliation is tracked by the SAS expander in which the STP bridge port associated with the ATA target is located, and an affiliation is claimed automatically the first time an initiator performs an I/O operation on a given target. Note that I/O operations in this context are not limited to those that affect the media: it is not possible to obtain even basic information about the device without claiming the affiliation. The process of obtaining that information and using it to create a device node used by ZFS and other software to interface with the disk is known as enumeration, a process that is normally performed by default by Solaris and other operating systems on every disk visible to the system's HBAs. However, as we can see, attaching two initiators to the same expander and performing automatic enumeration will result in chaos if there are ATA disks behind that expander: each system will claim some subset of the affiliations during enumeration but hang for an extended time attempting to enumerate those disks whose affiliations were claimed by its peer. The net result would be extremely long boot times and some random subset of disks visible to each system. Clearly this is untenable.
Disksets are a solution to this problem. By disabling automatic enumeration of ATA disks, we can control when the enumeration process is performed, limiting it to circumstances in which it is known to be safe: storage configuration and those times when we know our peer is not attempting to access the disks; e.g., during takeover and failback. Therefore the diskset import function must, for each disk, cause the operating system to enumerate that disk via each possible path. The export routine, likewise, must cause the operating system to "forget about" the disk and relinquish its affiliations for each initiator.
In previous software releases, diskset import time usually dominated the takeover and failback processes. While the 12 disks in each diskset were enumerated in parallel, fundamental problems in the kernel and an inability to process disks from multiple disksets in parallel limited the parallelism that could be exploited. Each diskset typically took 15 to 30 seconds to import, and, worse, could take much longer in certain error paths, especially if, during takeover, the expander had not yet torn down the defunct initiator's affiliations. The current software release improves the situation considerably: all disksets can be imported in a single invocation of the diskset import function (known as "vector import"), and up to 96 disks can be enumerated in parallel, up from 12. In addition, improvements in error handling and timeouts have greatly reduced the worst-case import time when disk or affiliation errors occur. Overall, configurations such as our example above will typically see reductions in diskset import time on the order of 4-6x, with an accompanying large decrease in variance. That is, we might reasonably expect all 8 disksets in our example configuration to be imported in 30s. Because most of the overall benefits come from increased parallelism, smaller configurations will see somewhat smaller improvements. Diskset export is not, and has never been, a significant contributor to failback times; undoing the enumeration process is typically measured in milliseconds for each disk. This means that the relationship between takeover and failback times depends mainly on which contributing factors dominate each activity; i.e., the configuration and uses of the system.
Importing a ZFS pool resource simply means opening the pool, reading the labels from each disk, and creating the attachment points for any zvols (used to provide block storage) contained in the pool. Reading of labels takes constant time as it is performed in parallel, but the second portion of this activity requires walking all datasets in the pool, which is done sequentially. The time taken here is therefore proportional to the sum of the number of projects, filesystem shares, and LU shares the pool contains. It is, however, usually much less than the mounting and sharing activities, which we will investigate next.
The NAS symbiote of the ZFS pool is responsible for mounting and sharing all of the ZFS datasets, including zvols used as backing stores for block devices. This activity therefore takes time proportional to the number of shared filesystems (NFS, CIFS, FTP, HTTP, SFTP, FTPS) and block devices (iSCSI). Tests have shown that NFS shares contribute between 5ms and 15ms each to this process but, because the meaning of "sharing" depends on the protocol, it is difficult to provide an overall estimate of the constants associated with this activity. Likewise, export requires unsharing and then unmounting the filesystems and LUs, which is also linear and requires variable time that is protocol-dependent. Tests have shown that each NFS share contributes a similar time increment to the export process as it does to the import process.
The net class's resources represent the state of a network interface, which will already have been plumbed and configured on both heads. When this resource is imported, the subsystem informs the kernel that the addresses on the interface should be brought up. This activity is performed sequentially for each address and the time taken is therefore linear in the number of addresses configured for the interface. However, the time taken for each is miniscule and it is unusual to assign more than a few addresses to an interface. The entire operation normally completes in a second or two. Exporting is directly analogous and takes a comparable length of time.
This resource class, new in the 2009.Q3 software, manages shadow migration destinations associated with the pool. Because we cannot necessarily mount the shadow migration sources until the network interfaces are imported, this symbiote of the pool resource is imported after all net resources. It is responsible for activating each shadow mount, which will cause the source filesystems to be mounted. This occurs sequentially, and is therefore linear in the number of shadow sources. Of course, shadow sources that are local will take very little time to mount while NFS client mounts can take a significant amount of time. Exporting is the complement, and is normally very fast in all cases.
Each net resource has an smb symbiote, responsible for notifying the CIFS subsystem that an additional network interface should be used to provide service to CIFS clients. This operation is effectively irrelevant as it usually takes less than a second.
Putting It Together
As we've seen, there are many moving pieces involved in takeover and failback. Each resource class has its own set of operations for import and export; some take effectively constant time while others depend on the number of shares and projects or the number of disks. Even where a clear dependency in a particular variable can be characterised, the actual time taken to perform each individual suboperation may not be known or even constant; for example, sharing a filesystem can take a different amount of time depending on the protocol used and even the parameters associated with that particular share. For all these reasons, I strongly encourage anyone who is especially sensitive to takeover or failback time to perform some tests based on their own real-world configurations. This will become even more important as overall performance improves: for example, the recent improvements to diskset import time make the number and type of shares much more relevant to total takeover time. Many configurations may achieve 4x or better overall takeover time improvement as a result of that work, but a configuration with, for example, 3000 shares on a pool consisting of a single diskset, may see little or no change. As with any benchmarking activity, there is no substitute for testing your own configuration, but I hope the above description of the process and rough guidelines will be helpful in establishing expectations going into that testing process so that anomalous behaviour can be identified and tracked down.
In a future post I'll talk about a few of the remaining opportunities for improvement. Until then, ALL HAIL CLUSTRON!
Monday Nov 10, 2008
Low-Availability Clusters
By wesolows on Nov 10, 2008
All clustering software comes with a devastating intrinsic drawback: its own existence.
As anyone who has worked in the industry can tell you, the only bug-free software is the software that isn't written. So when we talk about using two servers - or appliances - to provide higher availability through redundancy, one ought to be immediately suspicious. Managing multiple system images and coordinating their actions is a notoriously difficult problem. And when the state shared between them consists of the business-critical data you're using the appliances to store, you ought to be downright skeptical. After all, while simple logic dictates that two systems ought to offer better availability than one, there's the small matter of the software required to take that from a simplistic statement of the obvious to a working implementation fulfilling at least some of that promise. It's not just software in the usual sense, either; hardware - like me - is also in play, and most modern hardware contains software of its own, usually called firmware. Firmware is really just software for which the system designer has no source code, no observability tools, and no hope. Generally speaking, more software - wherever it runs - means more bugs, more time and energy devoted to management, and more opportunity for operator error; all of these factors act to reduce availability, eating away at the gains offered by the second head. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. Liars make CLUSTRON angry.
The typical clustered unified storage server consists of a pair of underpowered servers, each populated with some HBAs, some NICs, a small, expensive DRAM buffer with a giant battery, and an Infiniband (IB) HCA. Oh, and some software. Lots of software, as it turns out, because the way these implementations provide synchronous write semantics to clients is by mirroring the contents of their battery-backed DRAM buffers to one another in real time across those IB links. When a server fails, its partner has access both to the disk storage (usually via FC) and the in-flight transactions stored in its own copy of NVRAM, so it can pick up where its dead partner left off. The onus is often on the administrator, however, to keep configuration state in sync; while it changes infrequently, it usually needs to be identical in order for clients to observe correct behaviour when one of the two servers has failed. And all this comes at a hefty price in cost - NVRAM and IB HCAs take up precious I/O slots (reducing total capacity and performance) and are not particularly cheap. But there is also a complexity cost: a quick glance at the Solaris IB stack turns up about 65,000 lines of source code, and of course that doesn't include an NVRAM driver or the code needed to coordinate mirroring NVRAM over IB. None of the software in such an implementation is reused elsewhere in the storage stack, so it has to be developed and tested independently, and the IB HCA is likely to contain a fat chunk of that nasty undebuggable firmware of which you'd like to as little as possible in your core systems. Worst of all, because that interconnect link is in the data path and doubles as the cluster "heartbeat" channel, under extreme load it may be possible to lose heartbeats and incorrectly conclude that your partner is dead. That can lead to a takeover at the worst possible time: under extreme load (most general-purpose clustering software suffers from this deficiency as well). Overall, it's almost as if the engineers who designed these systems kept adding complexity, cost, and opportunity for error until they finally ran out of ideas.
The Fishworks approach to clustering is somewhat different. At the bottom of the stack lies the most important difference: me, your CLUSTRON overlord. Instead of IB in the data path, I offer three redundant inter-head communication links for use only by management software. We'll come back to this in a bit. The data that would otherwise be written to NVRAM and mirrored over IB is instead written once to each intent log device as if it were an ordinary storage device. These devices combine flash for persistence with supercapacitor-backed DRAM for performance. Since they live next to the disks in your JBODs, they can - just like NVRAM contents - be accessed by an appliance when it takes over for a failed partner. But this entire path is much simpler; notice that we are reusing the basic I/O path that is already used - and tested - for writing to ordinary disks. And since there's nothing to mirror, we don't need any software on the appliances to drive IB devices or coordinate NVRAM mirroring. Each appliance simply writes its intent log records to the device(s) associated with a given storage pool and replays them when later taking control of that pool, either on boot or during a cluster takeover or failback activity.
But what is my role in this? I provide basic connectivity for two purposes:
- Configuration sync - if you make a change to a service property (say, you add a DNS server) on one appliance, this change is transparently propagated to its partner. If that partner is down, it will pick up the change when it next boots and rejoins the cluster.
- Heartbeats - this is how a clustered Fishworks appliance decides to take control of cluster resources. No heartbeats? It must be dead. It wouldn't become a soulless machine to mourn its passing so I'd better just poke the userland management software to initiate a takeover.
On the face of it, that seems unremarkable. One could presumably multiplex these functions onto a traditional IB-based implementation. But recall that a key goal in any clustering implementation must be reducing the complexity of the software and thereby limiting the number of bugs that can affect core functionality. I designed myself to do exactly that. Instead of a complex, featureful, high-performance I/O path, I provide some seriously old-school technology, namely 2 plain old serial links - the kind to which you might once have attached a modem to dial into the WOPR. My third link offers somewhat better performance but again uses only existing software drivers; it is an Intel gigabit Ethernet device. All three links provide redundant heartbeat paths (at all times) and all three can be used to carry management traffic, though management traffic is preferentially routed over the fastest available link to provide a better interactive management experience.
The advantages of this design are several:
- Serial devices typically take interrupts at high priority. By noting the receipt of heartbeat messages in high-level interrupt context, I can ensure that I remain aware of my partner's health no matter how much load my appliance is under.
- Likewise, I can employ a high-level cyclic on the transmit side to ensure that outgoing heartbeat messages keep flowing to my partner no matter how heavily loaded my appliance.
- Serial communication is dead-simple, time-tested, and battle-proven. Fewer than 3400 lines of code are required to provide all my serial functionality, including controlling my LEDs. That's around 5% of what we might expect an IB-based solution to require. And while the Ethernet driver is considerably larger, it once again does double-duty: it's the same driver used with the NICs that attach your appliance to the data centre networks.
As you can see, the Fishworks team kept hammering away at a few key design objectives throughout; perhaps the most important of these was a desire to minimise the amount and complexity of new software to be written. This is not to say there is not complexity in the clustering subsystem; there certainly is, and I'll discuss some of those areas in a later edict. But the foundation of the clustering design is as simple as it can be. Clustering is not right for every application or every shop: even with these design principles firmly in place, clusters are much more complex to manage and monitor than standalone appliances, entail significantly higher hardware costs (though as always in the Fishworks universe, there is no added software licensing fee), and however little code may be specific to clustering it certainly is not zero. That means there will be failures that occur in clusters which would not have occurred in a standalone configuration - in other words, that clustering can always reduce availability as well as enhance it. The Fishworks clustering design makes a commendable effort to make this unhappy outcome less likely than in traditional shared-storage clusters. In my next edict I'll discuss the exact circumstances in which I can help provide greater availability than a standalone appliance, and some of the cases not yet covered that the engineers are looking to include.
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I am, as is undoubtedly known, a great admirer of both Anselme Selosse and his wines. Much has been written about Selosse, and there is little left to contribute to either side of the debate—I'm sure that many of you have read Eric Asimov's most recent piece on Selosse in the NY Times, and that some of you have also read Tom Stevenson's review of Jacques Selosse in issue 21 of The World of Fine Wine (not available online).
Unfortunately, it's not terribly easy for the average consumer to form their own opinion, as the wines are scarce, jealously guarded and costly. While Selosse has recently been reintroduced into the American market after a long hiatus, the wines are severely allocated and distributed only to restaurants, making them even more expensive and less accessible. Here in France, they are a little easier to obtain, if you know where to look. Admittedly, they are still not cheap, and whether or not they are worth the money is entirely up to you.
I am one of those consumers who will buy V.O. as often as I can, who will bend over backwards to procure Contraste, and who is delighted to pay the money for Substance or vintage champagne if I have sufficient cash in my pocket when it is offered to me. I like drinking Selosse's wines. The only cuvée that I am slightly ambivalent about is the Initiale, which is, of course, the easiest one to find, as it represents over two-thirds of his production. Of the comments against Selosse's wines—that they're too oaky, over-oxidized, overly aldehydic—I find that these apply more often to the Initiale than to the other wines. I also find a significant variation in this wine, with some bottles feeling oaky and oxidative, and others feeling terrifically energetic and lively. (It's not as bad as, say, Marc Angeli's La Lune, but it's enough that I've found each experience with this wine to be different.)
The most recent bottle I drank was excellent, here at a restaurant in Epernay. It was disgorged on 26 October 2007, meaning that it's likely a blend of 2003, 2002 and 2001, as Selosse ages this wine for three years on its lees. While the oak was apparent on the nose, it was accompanied by a deeply vinous intensity, and the two were integrated together in a seamless and sophisticated manner, without the oak feeling at all intrusive. It's this vinosity that is the key to Selosse's style, as the depth and concentration are the result of careful and deliberate work in the vines, which allows Selosse to do what he does in the cellar. (Compare this, for example, to Selosse's neighbor De Sousa, who for me acquires richness more from winemaking than from winegrowing.) This wasn't a terribly complex wine, but it was certainly expressive, carrying Anselme Selosse's distinctive signature, and for me, that is perhaps the most important element. In a region where wines are often too neutral, those that stand up and declare their originality are all the more valuable.
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Wine of the Week: Jacques Selosse Initiale Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru
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- allie said...
I adore grower champagnes and Anselme Selosse's champagnes. But it's so tough getting my hands on Jacques Selosse Substance here in Singapore.
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Im 54 next wk, my dx(s) were 1yr ago. Long term intermittent drinker/drug use in past (non iv). Abstinence periods totaling 10 yrs total over the past 30 years. Longest stint 6yrs totally clean, ended in 2000. Last normal and documented liver panel was 2002. Fast forward, and now BLEAK outlook per Hep Specialist/Transplant. Weight is good, very minor swelling and flank tenderness in liver area. Plus the following, I welcome your thoughts.
No meld score "too low" to have one, AST 100, ALT 133, GGT 73, Platelets 225, Neutrophils 39, Lymphs 50, UIBC 65, Iron Saturation 82, Serum Ferritin 709. All other values are in normal range. Minor Ascites, benign lesions shown on ultras and 2 dif MRI. Due for CT, Endo, and Colonoscopy in 90 days (May 2012). Initially Fam Phy referred to local GI (who doesn't treat HEP C), GI referred to Hep Specialist/Transplant Surgeon to assess treatment of HepC. HepSpec will not treat until abstinent from alky 6 months, Im 35 days clean. Specialist insist I will need transplant & I have Cirrhosis. Insist that I get out of trying to figure things out or question dx. Need to get to AA for documented clean record which would be required to being considered for hepc treatment for future trans.
Fatigue primary consistent symptom which maybe related to depression or the fact I'm not working for the first time in 30 years (due to change in careers). I am religious about keeping low sodium diet and made adjustment and doing well. Only med is BP med ATENOL new prescribed and changed from Lisinopril that had been doing the job just fine. 600 of Milk Thistle he says is ok to drink.
Thoughts, Suggestions? I would have no hope if I didn't read your stories on these forums, he is NOT giving me any promise other than managing symptoms which will quickly be showing up. No way out of this other than i get the transplant "per him".
With no job I also have no medical insurance although recently I found the new health care reform act of 2010 will provide an option to purchase reasonably priced insurance ($300 mo) through Govt plan. If I take a new job that offers insurance then I wont be eligible for this insurance that at least on the surface seems as good or better than any smaller group plan, and guarantees coverage regardless of pre existing cond. Here is the link in the event you want to research for yourself. It has been suggested with my diagnosis that i apply for disability, don't see where that would help IF i could get approved. Right now I feel I can work fine, of course I say spending alot of my days in the bed.
Sorry for the novel, as usual no sleep tonight. Plenty of sleep though the day, days and night are reversed of late. Life all the others on the site I'm sure just wishing I would wake up from this new entertainment in my life.
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To clarify my madness rant, doc says I will need a transplant in 2 years or less time.
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Second note..then IM DONE, dont type and think your brain works well at 5:45 with no sleep. Relating to Milk Thistle, "he said it is ok to TAKE, not DRINK, lol.
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This link is for KY, but at the bottom you can access your state info and the particulars. Thanks again, God bless you all.
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Been suggested I attempt to get disability. The insurance plan requires you not have had insurance for 6 months and you have a preexisting condition whereby you were turned down by another company. Promise this is my last bit of dialogue taking up space on this site. Sorry for the funny typos, I really can spell and put sentences together although there is no evidence of it in my blogs.
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Tony, I've found a couple of mathematical formulas that are apparently reasonably good at predicting disease severity, specifically fibrosis level. They use your AST level, platelet level, age, etc. I was already planning to call you later today to say hello-hiyadurin' but will run these numbers first and let you know what they indicate.
Also, this (.....supposedly "needed within 24 months" business) sounds like they think yours is moving pretty fast. Do you know whether or not they've done any test to measure the inflammation - or necroinflammatory level?
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BTW, your platelet level of 225 is perfectly normal, albeit tilted toward the lower range of normal. Normal range is 150 to 400.
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Hep Guy Has Done No Test..
Im gonna be out of pocket today but will catch up with you later in the week. If possible send me that formula and I look forward to seeing what you find. firstname.lastname@example.com
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Hope it is ok if I chime in on this one. First and foremost, no doctor, be he/she hep specialist or just gp......can tell you that you need transplant UNTIL all the pertinent testing has been done so set your mind at ease that until the testing for transplant qualification and your MELD has been done, we shouldn't even be talking "transplant".
Next, once the formula for finding out the MELD (measure for end stage liver disease) has been determined, if your's turns out to be very low which I would guess from what you have said it will be low, then to even think transplant at this stage is not going to help you do much more than "worry". Your platelet count is fantastic as far as I can see.......the normal is 150-450. Mine has been as low as 25 and is now stable at 53. I bruise easily as a result and bleeding is something I do avoid. Needless to say, surgery is out of the question for me until they do platelet transfusion which I have had done 4 times with bad resulting side effects with 3 of those. Not worth it for minor stuff any longer as the "cure is worse than the disease" if you get my drift. It will take MRI/CtScan and possibly liver biopsy PLUS your blood workup to determine just how badly involved or cirrhosed you liver is. I would also hesitate to say your liver is in a decompensated state which is good. Now, I am not a doctor but I am thinking that "pre-existing" condition could not apply here since no "condition has been documented". Mere speculation doesn't count.
As for trying for SS disability, you won't get it just on your doctor's say so alone........there is a process by which you have to go to the doctors of their choice and then, if that/those doctors say you are disabled by such and such a percentage then and only then will you qualify. Sometimes you only qualify for a small percentage of disability and sometimes, depending on the severity of your disease/illness you could qualify for 100% total. You can, of course appeal their decision but I doubt it would do you any good until the degree of your disease has been thoroughly determined to be life threatnening. As for you nights and days being out of sync for sleeping/rest........many things can cause that including depression and the fact that you are worrying about all of this. Of course, cirrhosis of the liver can cause one to lose sleep and get their nights and days mixed up but it is not the only cause. Perhaps your doctor has seen something to indicate to him that you are in need of transplant in 2 years time but that won't mean a thing until it is documented with proper testing. It is but one man's educated opinion right now. So......I would say to stop worrying and find a way to go to a liver specialist who will run the tests to determine where you stand right now and then refer you to a transplant facility at that time if you indeed need a transplant. If insurance and money is a problem, look into clinics set up for those without insurance, in your community. Meantime, don't drink alcohol at all. I do know that they won't even talk to you at Cleveland Clinic about transplant until you have documentation that you have not had alcohol in any form for 6 months or longer. For me, not that alcohol is the sole cause of my liver problem but, I have not had a glass of wine or anything for 9 years. I got along just fine for 8 years before my liver began causing other organs to act up (decompensated liver at that point). Now that I have all of those other problems controled with meds, my liver inflamation is gone and I am back to low MELD and no where near transplant time. My liver was diagnosed 9 years ago as 65% cirrhosed or scarred beyond repair. Find a good diet and stay away from alcohol or even breathing fumes from anything considered bad for you. Don't smoke........easier said than done I know. I smoked for 30 years since a very young age but gag at the thought of cigarettes now 22 years since quiting. Do as much research as you can to keep up on what is happening inside your own body.....When any medicine is prescribed for you by doctor make sure he/she knows about your liver problem. And I have said it so many times.......prayer works wonders. There is a certain feeling of well being and healing with prayer and I don't know what I would do without having God to turn to. Sometimes, HE is the only one who will listen to me but I know HE will always listen and never leave me. This is a wonderful site to come to for support. Many who are going through just what you are going through now. There are no easy answers and here, one size doesn't necessarily fit all........we are all different. But one thing for sure........in this vastly rich and wonderful country we live in, no body should face a life altering/threatening illness without the reaization that they will be treated with the same care as the wealthiest of us. That is the one thing that has to be changed. Remember that when you go to the polls to vote this time. Nothing will ever change until everyone is treated the same, rich and poor alike. I do wish and pray for the best in your case and I will continue to remember you in my prayers. Hugs...CarolLentz
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Carol thanks so much for your input and as with yours I welcome anyone's 2 cents. I have read a number of your post to people which are always upbeat and encouraging, and it sounds with your first hand experience you are of great benefit people via your hands on situations, lol. I have added alot of info on the ramblings of this thread but to address a couple of things you mentioned; The Meld Score, through multiple labs order by my primary guy and gi here locally I had the variables to give me the Meld which is (5), hence no meld score as I understand? In terms of preexisting conditions the inferior insurance plan that I had the last 6 months of last year sent me a certificate stating that I did have a preexisting condition that allowed them to deny all test. I "assume" that PreX was the confirmed Hep C diagnosis that I got from the local GI who then eventually sent me to the Liver Specialist/Transplant guy. Having gone through decades of negative diagnosis experiences with my Mom, who is still kicking at 71 but was told to "get her affairs in order" 4 different times since She was 25 I know the power of prayer, positive thinking and actions, the fact that Drs arent the all knowing (there is only one of those people), and in some cases "Denial" is a good thing. I'm not in denial in terms of not trying to help myself by continuing to drink or keep the salt shaker going in high volumes, but I can't say I have let go of the denial that He is wrong. I also know that things seem to change on a dime and without warning, so I may have a sudden onslaught of negative circumstances any minute. Until and unless that happens I'm going to stay oblivious in terms of not buying into the negatives of what can happen and just try to live my life. At this point I'm just trying to put together a plan to deal with worst case scenarios and continuing to live my life as if decades rather than months as he seems to indicate. At least before I have to yank out the old organ and slide in a new one, lol. MANY questions, few answers but as we both share in belief GOD will show me the way. I didn't necessarily do one of the typical "fox hole" prayers for God to intervene this time as he seemed to do so many times in other life crisis in my family, but I did make the vow that for whatever time I'm blessed I would make a more concerted effort to live life the way I felt HE wanted me to. I know God works through other people and I'm glad although being new that I have found so many that can help me on sites like this one. The job, insurance, all the what if(s) I know will be addressed over time. TIME, funny there is that word again. Thanks so much for you kind and knowledgeable comments, I welcome them anytime. I said a prayer of comfort and healing for you as I write this mail. Talk to you again soon.
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Tony I agree - Carol is a wonderful encourager; that gift of exhortation is worth its weight in gold in these circumstances that we're all dealing with. And I'm with you - neither you nor I have been through anything like what Carol and so many other courageous souls have soldiered through. I have to be 'out of pocket' for about the next 24 hrs, but will write you both again as soon as I can -
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