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I started the C25K at the end of September 2012. I did it for about 6 weeks (repeating week 4 for 3 weeks) when I wound up with a stress fracture to my ankle. I didn't run again until right after the new year. My problem is that I can't get past 1 mile at a time. I typically run a mile, then walk a bit and run short intervals until I run a total of 2.25 miles out of a 3.2 mile trail I take each day. And the mile interval isn't getting any easier. Is it a mental block? Should I go back to a certain week in C25K and go by it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am frustrated.
It's not clear if you ever finished C25K, but I presume not since the final day is supposed to be 30 minutes of continuous running, if I remember correctly. Presumably you did successfully recover from the stress fracture. I would suggest one of two things, maybe both. First, slow down. Go easier on your first mile and you may find you can run continuously for the rest of the run. And/Or, go back to maybe week 4 of C25K and finish the program, keeping in mind my first piece of advice.
Week 4 was a huge mental block for me. Week five was my breakthrough week, because I realized that I could do it:) I don't know how often you're running the course you referred to, but make sure you're giving yourself enough heal-time. For beginners like us, patience is the key. You should rest no less than 48 hours between runs. I personally have been running every 3-4 days and I feel stronger each time. If you try too much, too quickly, then you're going to be disappointed. Eventually, you'll be able to run daily:) Good luck!
I'm happy to report I ran 1.15 miles last night before I had to stop. AND I ran a total of 2.52 miles of the 3.2 route I take. Lenzlaw, you are correct in that I did not finish C25K the first time. I started back after 10 weeks off with the stress fracture and slowly worked my way back. I did slow down a bit last night. I do think I've had a mental block about the 1 mile intersection, so I just need to keep working on that mental block. Thanks for the advice!
I think slowing down alittle would help.
My suggestion would be if you cannot talk you are running to fast.
you should be able to talk in short sentences.
then you should be able to increase your mileage by about 10% a week.
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I've been running since 1987. I'm in my 50's now, and was in great running condition until the year I hit 50. Lots of bad stuff happened to me physically that year, but long story short is I've had to work my way back into pain-free, injury-free running. I am now a convert of the Jeff Galloway run/walk method. I change up how the distance on how much of each I do, but I never run longer than 1.25 miles before walking a short distance. Even if I feel great, I still do the walking. I have worked my way up to 8 mile runs this way. My time still works out the be somewhere in the 10-10.5 minute mile range. I run 5 days a week and always feel great now. Took a change of mindset to adapt, but now that I have, I am a happy, sound runner.
First of all, congrats on getting past the mile mark. I think mentality is probably the biggest problem at this point. I live at the top of a pretty steep uphill so I always have to finish my run with it. Most of the time I let my mind make the decision to walk part of it. I tell myself just to get to a certain point and then walk for a bit, then finish. When I get to that point I usually walk, regardless of whether I need to. It's a mind game for me and really screws up my average pace of the rest of the run. It kind of sounds like you have the same obstacle at the mile marker of your run. I would try to vary your route a bit so that mile marker is not so glaringly obvious. Just go out and run a different way and when you get home if you don't have a gps watch or phone that tracks for distance, just look it up on google maps. But overall you are doing the right thing, just slowly increase the distance. Next week try for 1.25 miles. The week after try for 1.5. Pretty soon you will be able to knock off bigger chunks. But like others have said, take it slow so you don't injure yourself again. Don't get frustrated and try to do it all at once. Good luck and enjoy the run, don't pay so much attention to the mileage, just enjoy being outside and exercising!
It was so mental (still is) for me. Every.single.time I go out to run I have to push myself past that first mile. It is the mile where my body is yelling at me to just stop already! But once I push past and hit the 1.5 to 2 mile mark I get into the groove. For the longest time I was convinced I absolutely couldn't run more than 2 miles but I signed up for a half marathon anyhow. Something about having that date on the calendar made me push past and I realized I could run further, I just needed to get past that hump at the beginning! My first half was this past December and even though I was one of the slowest runners out there I finished it. You can do this! Just a little at a time. One foot in front of the other. When I start to get that "must stop" feeling I pick a landmark (tree,mailbox, whatever) and go to it, then I pick another and another. Good luck!
I don't see where you mentioned the reason why you have to stop.
It is because you are out of breath? If so, then as others have said, slow your pace. At this point it isn't a race and you aren't on a time limit, you just want to hit the distances. Once you hit the 3 mile mark comfortably you can worry about increasing your pace/
Is it because your legs hurt or tire? If so then listen to your body. It can take months for your bones/tendons/muscles to adapt to the pounding that jogging and running puts on the body. Slow down, take more time to rest between run days, and don't worry - it will come. And if you haven't done so already, go to a running store and get fit for shoes. The right shoes with the right weight and the right support will make a world of difference in how long your legs and joints can carry you.
It is really a mental block? If so then the way I break through them is to make myself run through just one more song (or just to that next landmark). If find that if I can push myself to a tangible place rather than another whole mile, breaking it into smaller chunks makes it more manageable and i really discover my body can do it if my mind will just let it.
Good luck. Keep at it and soon you will begin to impress yourself at just how far and how fast you can go.
Congrats on your persistance. It sounds like you're running by yourself, have you ever tried running with someone else? Sometimes just being with somebody and not engaged solely in your own running things work out better. Check out the running stores, not the sporting good stores but the running specialty stores, they usually have programs led by experienced runners and designed specifically for C25K in very gradual increments. The No Boundaries program offered by Fleet Feet stores is 10 weeks long and goes up 1/4 mile each week. It's designed for runners or run/walkers so it's at your own pace.
congrats on taking the program. it could be mental, especially now after the fracture. i'd give it some more time and keep at it. maybe even just restart the program and see how you do again building up slowly. it takes everybody a different amount of time, so maybe you just need a little longer. don't despair and just keep at it and you'll eventually meet your goal!
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Tired of dorm life, Daniel Harris-Lucas made up his mind: He would spend his senior year off-campus, away from all of the annoying rules and supervision -- not to mention the false fire alarms that would drag him out of bed and down 11 flights of stairs in the middle of the night.
His excitement darkened when he saw some of the options near San Jose State: $1,500-per-month one-bedroom apartments; the basement of a run-down house for $450.
"For the longest time I couldn't find anything that was affordable or decent enough for a college student," said Harris-Lucas, who ended up moving in with his brother.
With notoriously steep Bay Area apartment prices climbing to new heights, college students heading back to school are trying to cope with housing costs that are gobbling up their meager budgets. The dorm waiting list at San Jose State hit a new high this year, fueled by record off-campus rents. Cal State East Bay, UC Berkeley and Santa Clara University are squeezing extra beds into rooms to accommodate an unusually high demand for on-campus housing.
Some public university students and their parents, who spent years saving up for college, are dismayed to discover housing can be just as expensive or more than tuition.
Take UC Berkeley, where tuition and fees are $12,860 a year. On-campus housing is $14,200 for the academic year, more than 50 percent higher than the national average for public universities.
"The fact that housing can cost the same as tuition is definitely a problem," said Rory Runser, a junior chemistry major at UC Berkeley who said he avoided a rent hike by staying in the same place a second year.
Last week outside San Jose State's aging Joe West Hall, Diana Monterola stood under the hot August sun, waiting for her freshman son to return for the rest of his boxes. As families around her pushed carts heaped with bedding, hangers, mini-fridges and lamps, she contemplated the cost of her son's education.
"I always thought it was the tuition, but it's not the tuition," Monterola said. "It's the housing that surprised me -- it's the bulk of the cost of college."
Even when California's public colleges have held the line on tuition, as they have this year, students still aren't catching a break. Room and board are half the cost of an undergraduate education at San Jose State, according to the university. Tuition and fees, by contrast, make up just 30 percent of the total bill.
At many colleges, off-campus living is considered a less expensive alternative to the dorms. But it's not as cheap as it used to be. In Berkeley, the average apartment price has surged 16 percent since 2011, to $2,466, according to data from RealFacts, a Novato consulting group. At $1,932 a month, the average rent in San Jose costs 17 percent more than it did in 2011 and 7 percent more than last year.
Silicon Valley sticker shock appears to have driven more students than usual to San Jose State's residence halls this year, campus administrators say. Dorm living costs $12,400, about $350 less than what the school estimates it costs to live off campus.
San Jose State was able this year to find space for out-of-town freshmen and returning students who submitted their applications on time. But at one point, 800 students were waiting for one of the college's 3,500 dorm beds to open up. Freshmen who live within 30 miles of campus -- roughly the distance between San Jose State and Hayward -- had no guarantee they'd get a spot. Some were forced to live at home or apartment hunt, as were other freshmen who missed the deadline.
Meanwhile, housing applications from transfer students flooded in at twice their normal volume, and more returning students opted to stay on campus once they realized "it will cost an arm and a leg to move across the street," said Bill Nance, SJSU's vice president of student affairs. "The rental rates in San Jose have just really, really jumped in the past year."
In Berkeley, the rates are even higher, according to RealFacts. Craigslist postings advertise an aging, two-bedroom apartment near the Cal campus for nearly $3,000 per month and a 500-square-foot apartment "perfect for 2-4 people" for $2,100.
UC Berkeley senior Alina Zhu uses "air quotes" to describe the $2,400-a-month, "two-bedroom" apartment she shared with three other students her sophomore year. "One of the rooms was barely a single," she said.
This summer, she said, she saw it listed at $2,600.
Like many college students sleeping in loft beds and in living rooms to save money, Joseph Kaimalu Shinshiro is using simple division to make the bottom line work: squeezing five people into a two-bedroom apartment across from San Jose State.
He said he could barely sleep after his freshman orientation this summer, when he learned he had made a mistake in his housing application and would be shut out of the dorms. He thought he'd have to commute from his family's home in Redwood City, a trip he figured would take an hour and a half each way by train.
But soon he saw Facebook postings from other freshmen in the same bind. Before long, he said, "I found these four random guys to be my roommates."
They plan to "make it as much like a dorm as possible," he said, with one bonus: Did he mention they have a pool?
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Sinopec Takes Big Dip into Oil Industry in North Sea
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Deal gives energy giant 49% share in Canadian firm's UK subsidiary
China Petrochemical Corp, or Sinopec Group, said on Tuesday it had acquired a 49 percent stake in the UK subsidiary of the Canada-based Talisman Energy Inc for $1.5 billion, marking the first direct investment by a Chinese company in the North Sea.
The transaction came as the entry of China's largest refiner into the oil and gas business in the North Sea region and is also the largest UK-focused deal in the energy sector this year, according to Sinopec.
The company said the two parties will strengthen their cooperation to explore resource potential and accelerate the evaluation and commercial development of these assets.
"Sinopec is well positioned to increase the production capacity of the mature oil fields, while Talisman has ample project experience in the North Sea," the company said. "It will be a mutually beneficial cooperation."
Talisman's UK subsidiary is headquartered in Aberdeen, United Kingdom, and has interests in 51 North Sea oil and gas fields.
It has remaining proved plus probable reserves of 489 million barrels of oil equivalent, of which 95 percent is crude oil.
In 2011, the company's daily oil and gas output reached 71,000 barrels.
After the completion of the deal, Talisman will continue to hold 51 percent of the joint venture, but Talisman Energy UK Ltd will be renamed Talisman Sinopec Energy UK Ltd. Meanwhile, Sinopec will send employees to take part in the new company's management. Hal Kvisle Talisman President said the transaction supports a number of Talisman's key priorities and will give it the financial flexibility to invest in future opportunities.
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RICHMOND -- While beset by mounting debt and low performance grades from federal officials, the city's public housing agency funded a series of trips, sending volunteer advisers to conferences to receive training with costs amounting to $79,315 from mid-2008 to 2011.
The expense documents -- obtained by this newspaper through a public records request -- show three instances in which individual members of the Richmond Housing Advisory Commission spent more than $7,900 in a single year to travel to training conferences. In contrast, members of the City Council are allotted a $5,000 maximum per year for travel.
Funding for the advisory commission travel was discontinued in 2011 by Richmond Housing Director Tim Jones.
"We stopped the travel because money got tight," Jones said. "I had no problem with the travel expenses, which were in place long before I arrived here, and it wasn't a problem until the expenses couldn't be budgeted easily."
The funds came out of the housing authority's operating budget, Jones said.
While HAC members, who are appointed by the mayor to provide oversight and report feedback to top housing officials, were traveling to conferences in places such as Nashville, Washington, D.C., and Palm Springs, the housing authority was suffering from aging structures, pest problems and complaints of poor tenant services.
The troubles came to light in February when The Center for Investigative Reporting characterized the housing authority as among the most troubled in the nation, saddled with mounting debt, sloppy procurement practices, misuse of public funds and poor staff performance.
Jones was labeled "ineffective" by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees the agency.
The City Council last month voted to relocate tenants from the Hacienda, an aging six-story building on Roosevelt Avenue where tenants complained of pest infestation and a leaky roof.
But while advisory commission members were traveling and receiving training, the monthly reports they produced were not getting to the City Council, according to an investigation by this newspaper.
One former commissioner, Arnie Kasendorf, penned monthly reports in 2010 and 2011 complaining about mold, bug infestation, security lapses and other problems in the system, but those reports stopped at Jones and never reached the council.
Council members expressed shock and outrage when those same problems were revealed by the news media three years later.
The largest single travel expense was by former HAC member Anntheia Yvonne Harrison-Farr, who spent $9,518 on travel from July 2008 to June 2009, according to city documents. Harrison-Farr could not be reached for comment.
Commission member Jackie Thompson, who spent $7,932 on travel and training from July 2009 to June 2010, said the conferences were a good investment because the training she and other members received benefited public housing residents and the system as a whole.
"The training was valuable," said Thompson, who is also a public housing resident. "I brought back the skills I learned to conduct resident training, to teach my fellow residents about their rights and to give leadership classes."
Thompson said some members did not take their training seriously or disseminate learned information to the group or to other housing residents, but she declined to identify them.
Thompson said Jones told the advisory commission in 2011 that its travel budget would be taken away to help stem mounting debt. The city has loaned the housing authority at least $7 million over the years, which accounts in part for the agency's low HUD scores.
"Tim said we had to pay off a debt to the city, so we couldn't travel," Thompson said. "We agreed to forfeit our travel."
City Manager Bill Lindsay said he was unaware of the past travel expenses and needed to investigate the matter further.
"Although I don't know the context, I can say that those numbers are awfully high," Lindsay said of the travel amounts. "It was good that Tim (Jones) discontinued it."
HUD spokeswoman Gene Gibson said Friday that while the agency has the authority to look into travel expenses, there is no information indicating HUD funding was used improperly.
"Training and travel for tenant advisory groups is an eligible use of operating funds," Gibson said. "Whether it was a wise use of money (by the housing authority) is not a determination we will make."


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February 15, 2013
A new approach to buying in consultancy services promises to make it easier for small firms to get Government contracts and to deliver greater value and innovation at the same time.
The new ConsultancyONE framework developed by the Government Procurement Service (GPS) will replace all existing arrangements for central government departments and will be used by organisations across the UK public sector.
The new framework provides a single route for the government to buy consultancy services – where there is a clear business case in line with Cabinet Office controls – and will end reliance on big business, said Francis Maude, minister for the Cabinet Office.
The framework promises to open up competition to more suppliers and consultancies of all sizes – already 47% of the successful firms are not existing suppliers.
Francis Maude said: "With SMEs making up over 27% of suppliers on this first phase of the framework, we're creating more opportunities and boosting business for smaller providers where we know greater value and innovation can be found. In addition, SMEs have been awarded places on lots which have historically been dominated by large firms."
Cost-cutting is an important part of the initiative. Maude said: "We've already put an end to excessive consultancy spend by establishing stringent controls which have slashed the cost to the taxpayer by 85% and saved over £1 billion in 2011/12 compared to the level of spending in 2009/10."
David Smith, commercial director at the Department for Work and Pensions and senior responsible officer for the consultancy framework, said: "I very much welcome this single framework for Government which will offer us better value for money and greater and direct access to the innovation and expertise that SME providers can offer."


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DETROIT — Mike Napoli's majestic homer began a rare early Boston breakthrough, Junichi Tazawa again bested Miguel Cabrera in a crucial spot and the Red Sox moved within one win of reaching the World Series by edging the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Thursday night.
Boston returns to Fenway Park with a 3-2 lead in the AL championship series. Game 6 is Saturday with the Tigers' Max Scherzer facing the Red Sox's Clay Buchholz.
Cabrera was thrown out at the plate in the first inning, halting an early Detroit rally, and he hit into a double play against Tazawa with runners at the corners in the seventh. The Tigers scored a run on the grounder, but it was a trade-off the Red Sox were willing to make.
Napoli led off a three-run second with a drive off Anibal Sanchez into the ivy beyond the wall in center field.
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What You Will Learn
With the advent of server virtualization, two basic assumptions of data center network design have changed: multiple OS images (or virtual machines) are now allowed to transparently share the same physical server and I/O devices, and the relationship between an OS image and the network is now dynamic. The access layer of the network extends further to support local switching between different virtual machines within the same server, thus invalidating the traditional assumption that each network access port corresponds to a single physical server running a single image. Further complicating the picture, each virtual machine can be moved from one physical server to another within the data center or even across data centers.
One option for network virtualization is to implement a software switch as part of the hypervisor. Another option is to enable the switching function to be performed by an external switch. Both approaches offer advantages and should be looked at as complementary options for different workload profiles and data center designs.
This document describes the two main standards for virtual networking and briefly discusses existing Cisco® solutions.
Definitions: Virtual Embedded Bridge, Reflective Relay, Multichannel, and Port Extension Capabilities
Cisco and other major industry vendors have made standardization proposals in the IEEE to address networking challenges in virtualized environments. The resulting standards tracks are IEEE 802.1Qbg Edge Virtual Bridging and IEEE 802.1BR Bridge Port Extension. Note that these standardization efforts focused on the specification of the data plane functions of a virtual network switch (or bridge) without addressing the network-to-hypervisor management functions that are necessary to deliver a deployable and supportable solution.[1]
Virtual Embedded Bridge
A virtual embedded bridge (VEB) is an embedded bridge used in virtualization applications (Figure 1). Note that there is no separate standard for a VEB. A VEB may be a fully standards-compliant IEEE 802.1Q Ethernet bridge that resides within the hypervisor. Alternatively, a VEB may be hypervisor aware and may take a streamlined approach; for example, it may get MAC addresses from the hypervisor instead of learning them. VEBs provided by hypervisor vendors are often managed through hypervisor management tools instead of by traditional bridge management functions.
The Cisco Nexus® 1000V Switch, as will be further discussed in a later section, is an example of an extremely advanced VEB. As such, it performs as a standard IEEE 802.1Q bridge that works with all existing bridges and servers and does not require any change to the existing frame format.
The VEB approach is extremely valuable for current and future data center environments because it enables flexible and ubiquitous deployments, dense virtual machine environments, and rapid deployment of new features.
External Hardware Switch
A complementary approach both in the standard tracks and in the solutions proposed by the market leaders enables a mode on the VEB, hypervisor, or adapter in which all traffic sourced by a virtual machine is forwarded to an external controlling switch (a traditional access-layer switch).
Within this category, a further distinction can be made between tagless (reflective relay) and tagged (multichannel and port extension) options. These options are currently under development in the IEEE within the IEEE 802.1Qbg and 802.1BR projects.
The Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card (VIC) is an example of a complete port extension solution that uses the external controlling switch to switch virtual machine traffic. Use of an external switch has the benefit of consolidating the virtual and physical switching infrastructure into a single entity and simplifying the management infrastructure.
IEEE 802.1Qbg Edge Virtual Bridging
Reflective Relay
Reflective relay (Figure 2) is the only tagless option that uses an external controlling switch for virtual machine traffic switching.
In this approach, the VEB forwards all frames sourced by the virtual machines to the adjacent controlling switch. The controlling switch applies various policies on those frames and then forwards them back to the VEB. The VEB then forwards the frame to the appropriate virtual machine (or machines) based on the MAC address and VLAN ID.
IEEE 802.1Qbg specifies a function in the controlling switch that allows a packet received on a switch port to be pinned on the same port, a behavior called reflective relay. The standard does not specify how the hypervisor, network interface card (NIC), or VEB uses this relay function, hence making it vendor dependent and proprietary.
Reflective relay and the proprietary relay function are simple to implement since they do not require a tag. They partially free computing resources from advanced policy and monitoring functions by offloading these to the controlling switch, though at the cost of extra link bandwidth utilization. Most server access switches can provide this capability through software upgrade: that is, without hardware modification. This option is useful for policies that need to be applied globally across virtual machines; however, this approach has strong limitations in its ability to apply policies to a subset of virtual machines.
This mode requires nonstandard modifications to the hypervisor to implement the relay function. Also, although computing resources are partially freed from advanced policy and monitoring functions, this benefit is offset by the consumption of CPU resources because each packet must pass through the VEB twice. Further, from a management perspective, there are now two separate elements, a VEB and a controlling switch, that require coordination to determine where specific features are applied and implemented for the same virtual machine traffic.
Currently, no products are shipping with the proprietary relay function.
Multichannel Capability
Reflective relay operation depends on the capability of devices using it to perform source suppression of multicast frames. Such source suppression requires knowledge of all the MAC addresses in use by the device. However, this knowledge is not possible with a large class of data center applications, including firewalls and load balancers. The multichannel approach (Figure 3) overcomes some of these limitations by introducing a tag to explicitly specify the source and destination of virtual machine traffic to handle critical applications such as these.
The multichannel approach specifies a new function of the VEB and the controlling switch. The VEB continues to be managed as a standalone device. Deploying multichannel capability is somewhat equivalent to adding a switch, further complicating management.
Multichannel capability does not efficiently handle multicast frames. A separate copy of each multicast frame is required for each channel in a multichannel deployment, thus consuming additional bandwidth.
Mulitchannel capability is specified as optional by IEEE 802.1Qbg. Currently, no products are shipping with multichannel support.
Bridge Port Extension
IEEE 802.1BR introduces a new device called a port extender, One or more port extenders can be attached to a controlling switch. A controlling switch and its set of port extenders form a single extended switch. An extended switch is managed as a single entity through the controlling switch. Adding a port extender to a controlling switch is like adding a line card to a traditional switch.
Similar to the multichannel approach, port extension (Figure 4) specifies the use of a tag that is added to the frame to enable the controlling switch to identify the source extended port of a frame and to explicitly direct a frame to a destination extended port.
As mentioned earlier, multichannel capability requires the controlling switch to transmit the same broadcast or multicast frame multiple times: once for each channel in the multichannel deployment, forcing the switch to create and queue multiple copies of the same packet in the same egress queue and so introducing the need for additional hardware modification and entailing significant on-the-wire inefficiency. With port extenders, the controlling switch sends the frame only once with a replication control tag, and the port extender replicates the frame to the appropriate ports, making port extenders significantly more efficient.
Additionally, port extenders can be cascaded. Cascading has several benefits. It allows multiple network layers to be managed as a single layer. Also, without cascading, the controlling switch to which a server is connected is most likely the simplest device in the network hierarchy (either a blade switch or an access switch), and it may not support advanced functions that may be needed for virtual machine traffic switching (such as advanced quality of service [QoS], policy enforcement, and troubleshooting). Port extenders can be installed up the hierarchy until a switch with the desired capabilities is located.
Cisco has been shipping prestandard port extension products implementing VNTag since 2009 (Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Switches distributed access architecture and the Cisco UCS M81KR VIC in the Cisco Unified Computing System™). These products deliver the same capabilities provided by the port extension standard currently under development. After the IEEE 802.1BR standard is complete, Cisco is expected to be able to deliver a product that fully supports a heterogeneous environment of VNTag and standards-based solutions.
Cisco Offers Industry-Leading Virtual Machine Support
Cisco has led the way in virtualized environments specific products, making the network infrastructure virtual machine aware. It provides tools with the same level of visibility, security, and troubleshooting for virtual machines as customers are accustomed to using for physical devices.
Cisco Virtual Machine Networking helps enable:
● Policy-based virtual machine networking
● Transparent network and security policy mobility with virtual machine migration
● Nondisruptive operational model, with the network administrator managing both virtual and physical networking resources with a consistent set of tools
The portfolio of Cisco Virtual Machine Networking products provides a variety of options that meet a range of customer needs, including advanced hypervisor switching as well as high-performance hardware switching. It is flexible and extensible, interoperable with developing standards, and service enabled.
Cisco Nexus 1000V
The first product to deliver Virtual Machine networking is the Cisco Nexus 1000V. The Cisco Nexus 1000V is the industry's most advanced software switch for VMware vSphere, providing switching for up to 64 VMware ESX hosts from a single point of management. Built on Cisco NX-OS Software, it offers advanced features such as QoS, access control lists (ACLs), Encapsulated Remote Switched Port Analyzer (ERSPAN), NetFlow, control-plane security features, and integration of network services (Figure 5).
The Cisco Nexus 1000V consists of two main components that virtually emulate a modular Ethernet switch with redundant supervisor functions:
● Virtual Ethernet module (VEM)-data plane: This lightweight software component runs inside the hypervisor. It enables advanced networking and security features, performs switching between directly attached virtual machines, provides uplink capabilities to the rest of the network, and effectively replaces the virtual switch (vSwitch). A VEM is embedded with each hypervisor.
● Virtual supervisor module (VSM)-control plane: This standalone, external, physical or virtual appliance is responsible for the configuration, management, monitoring, and diagnostics of the overall system (that is, the combination of the VSM itself and all the VEMs that it controls) as well as integration with VMware vCenter. A single VSM can manage up to 64 VEMs. VSMs can be deployed in an active-standby model, helping ensure high availability.
With the Cisco Nexus 1000V, traffic between virtual machines is switched locally at each instance of a VEM. Each VEM is also responsible for interconnecting the local virtual machines with the rest of the network through the upstream access-layer network. The VSM is responsible for running the control plane protocols and configuring the state of each VEM accordingly, but it never takes part in the actual forwarding of packets.
Cisco UCS M81KR and P81E Virtual Interface Cards
The Cisco UCS M81KR VIC is a virtualization-optimized, dual-ported 10 Gigabit Ethernet converged network adapter (CNA) in a mezzanine form factor that enables near-bare-metal I/O performance, ease of management, and network visibility benefits for joint VMware and Cisco customers (Figure 6). The same VIC card is available in a stand-alone PCIe form factor, the P81E VIC.
Two main innovations available with the VIC are:
● Port-extension-like functions with Cisco VM-FEX (Virtual Machine Fabric Extender): The VIC is the first implementation of VM-FEX technology from Cisco. VM-FEX eliminates the vSwitch within the hypervisor by providing individual virtual machine virtual ports on the physical network switch. Virtual machine I/O is sent directly to the upstream physical network switch, which takes full responsibility for virtual machine switching and policy enforcement. This approach leads to consistent treatment for all network traffic, virtual or physical. VM-FEX consolidates virtual and physical switching layers into a single layer and reduces the number of network management points by an order of magnitude.
● Hypervisor pass-through: The VIC uses VMware VMDirectPath technology to significantly improve throughput and latency of virtual machine I/O. VMware VMDirectPath allows direct assignment of PCIe devices to virtual machines. Virtual machine I/O bypasses the hypervisor layer and is placed directly on the PCIe device associated with the virtual machine. The Cisco VIC is the industry's first implementation of this technology. VMware VMDirectPath supports VMware vMotion, thereby enabling dynamic workload management.
The Cisco VIC enables VM-FEX functions in both VMware and Red Hat virtualization environments.
● The Cisco Nexus 1000V is a standard IEEE 802.1Q bridge and does not require any proprietary tag.
● Both port extension and multichannel capabilities require new tags.
● Both port extension and multichannel capabilities require modification of the NIC and the controlling bridge hardware.
● Port extension can also be used outside virtualized environments with strong benefits, including simplified management and reduction in the number of devices. An example of such a non-virtualized case is a distributed access layer design using the Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series.
● The Cisco Nexus 1000V has shipped more than 1 million ports since its introduction.
● The Cisco UCS M81KR VIC has shipped hundreds of thousands of virtual ports since its introduction in Q1CY10.
● The Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series distributed access architecture has shipped more than 2 million ports since introduction.
● All standards related to virtual networking are in the draft stage at this time.
● Cisco's virtualization offerings continue to evolve and are expanding with the addition of virtual network services and advanced experimental features.
For More Information
Follow these links:
● http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns836/ns1124/vm-fex.html
● IEEE 802.1Qbg documentation: http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1bg.html
● IEEE 802.1BR documentation: http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1BR.html
● Cisco Virtual Machine Networking Technologies: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns894/index.html
● Cisco Nexus 1000V: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9902/
● Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series distributed access architecture: http://www.cisco.com.az/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps10110/solution_overview_c22-588237.html
● Cisco UCS M81KR VIC:
◦ http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10331/index.html
◦ http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10276/solution_overview_c22-555987_ns894_Networking_Solution_Solution_Overview.html
◦ http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10280/data_sheet_c78-525049.html


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SANTA CLARA -- A 77-year-old man who died after his vehicle careened into a pole Wednesday morning has been identified as Dorcas Taylor, of San Jose.
According to Santa Clara police Lt. Matt Hogan, officers were called to the scene of a major injury accident at Alviso and Lewis streets around 10:15 a.m. and found Taylor with "significant injuries as a result of the collision."
He was immediately taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 11:30 a.m., according to the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner's Office.
"No other vehicles or pedestrians were involved," Hogan said, and Taylor was the sole occupant of his vehicle.
He said investigators are looking into the cause, and "have not ruled out a possible medical event" preceding the crash.
An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday.
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Thank you for giving!
Each year, the BIA Cares Holiday Bike Drive raises funds to purchase bikes for underprivileged children in San Diego County. Bike Cares — BIA's non-profit committee — last year purchased and provided 235 bicycles for local kids.
BIA industry leaders were asked to participate with a $75 donation, which purchased a bike, a helmet, and got it delivered to a worthy local charity. One hundred percent of funds donated were expended toward the purchase of holiday bikes. The BIA Cares Holiday Bike Drive's motto is: More Money = More Bikes = More Happy Kids!
Eric Jones of Harcourts Pacific Realty and Mark McMillin of The Corky McMillin Companies established the annual bike drive in 1995.
The 2012 Bike Drive recipients included: Pro Kids Golf Academy & Learning Center, STARPAL, San Diego Community Solutions, Promises to Kids, Salvation Army Homeless Program, United Cerebral Palsy, Athletes for Education/C.S. Keys for Kids and CW Channel 6, It's all About the Kids Foundation, CBS Channel 8 Toys for Tots, Channel 7/39 Toys for Marine Families Program, NFL Players Association/Steven Pierce Foundation and Catholic Charities Holiday Program.
Over the years, BIA Cares has provided bikes to more than 6,750 children and to 75 different charities in San Diego.
"We have been so pleased with the monies raised the last few years, even in a down economy," said said Jones, chairman of the BIA Cares Bike Drive. "We have touched so many different children's lives with the one item a kid always wants for Christmas, a bike! Our BIA members each year donate their money, time, labor and trucks to get the bikes out to each and every charity. We make sure each child gets paired up with the proper bike. Walmart has been our ongoing community partner by assembling the bikes we purchase. It's very rewarding to see the joy on the childrens' faces who receive the bikes."
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Elaine Soule's relationship with Gifford began at birth, and possibly before. Her mother graduated from the nursing school in 1923 and worked under hospital founder Dr. John P. Gifford. Elaine was born at the Randolph hospital in 1933.
Raised in Randolph Center, she attended local schools and married the summer following high school graduation. His career in the U.S. Air Force took them around the country and beyond. Elaine's own six children were born on military bases in New York, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Bermuda, Louisiana, and Maryland.
In 1971, after 20 years of military life, the family returned to Randolph. Before the families' furniture had even arrived, Elaine had landed a job at Randolph National Bank. She started out typing signature cards and eventually became a branch manager of what was Randolph Savings and Loan, then Vermont Federal and finally Vermont National over her 28-year career.
Along the way, Elaine worked at Gifford on weekends from 1990-1995 in patient registration. After retiring from the bank in 1998, she came to work at Gifford in 2001 as the volunteer services coordinator.
"I have always felt close to Gifford," says Elaine, who served on the hospital Board of Trustees for nine years in the 1990s.
So when Elaine retired in 2006 after five years as volunteer services coordinator to undergo cancer treatment, she knew she'd be back. "I knew I'd come back to volunteer, because I wanted to be part of this place," says Elaine. "I just loved the Gift Shop. I'd loved volunteering. I thought it was a way to continue to be involved with Gifford after I retired."
For months, Elaine came to Gifford as a patient for chemotherapy treatments. "My cancer treatments were wonderful," Elaine says, calling the staff "so compassionate". When her treatments ended in early 2007, Elaine continued her trips to Gifford – this time as a volunteer two days a week in the Gift Shop.
"Now I don't have to be here, but I choose to be here," she says from her post behind the desk of the boutique. "I think the volunteers at the Gift Shop are great. I hope we serve a purpose. I think we do."
For Elaine, now 79, it is about staying active and connected in her community and at her community hospital. "I love it because it gets me out of the house to meet people and I feel that I am contributing to Gifford in a small way," she says.


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Former funeral home owner faces more charges
Published: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 25, 2013 at 7:18 p.m.
A former Hendersonville funeral home owner now faces a total of 22 felony counts pertaining to illegal activity including forgery, the Hendersonville Police Department said Monday.
Richard Jarrett Mosley, 53, who owned South Park Funeral and Cremation Services, faces felony counts for obtaining property by false pretense and writing worthless checks. On Monday, he was also charged with one felony count each of obtaining property by false pretense, forgery of an instrument and uttering of a forged instrument.
Hendersonville police, working with the N.C. Board of Funeral Services, have helped five families locate the cremains of loved ones whose bodies were sent to be cremated but were lost when the funeral home closed its doors March 1. Arrangements have been made to return the cremains to their families.
Mosley was taken into custody Monday and is being held at the Henderson County Detention Center in lieu of a $14,000 secured bond.
The Board of Funeral Service continues to collect information provided by the public regarding any past involvement with South Park. Any citizens who have concerns about the former funeral home's services should contact the Board of Funeral Services at 919-733-9380 or www.ncbfs.org.
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President Barack Obama's meeting Tuesday with tech titans was billed as an opportunity to chat about HealthCare.gov, the government's efforts to improve technology procurement, income inequality, and oh, "national security" issues.
Don't be fooled. After the president's joke with Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings about "House of Cards" ("I wish things were that ruthlessly efficient," he said about the TV series set in Washington) and the doors were closed, the real discussion during the two-hour meeting was all about the tech industry's outrage over the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance practices, according to reports that leaked afterword.
And, more important, the meeting, which included Tim Cook of Apple (AAPL), Marissa Mayer of Yahoo (YHOO), Dick Costolo of Twitter, Google's (GOOG) Eric Schmidt and 11 others, comes as the once-close relationship between Obama and the tech industry has hit the rocks, riven by what appears to be genuine disgust at companies like Google and Facebook and Twitter over intelligence programs that they feel have put their reputations and businesses in serious jeopardy.
Despite the bad blood, both sides still need each other.
Facing tough midterm congressional elections in 2014, Obama is counting on the tech industry's financial support as he tries to hold on to a Democratic majority in the Senate and fight back the GOP domination of the House. He also needs its help keeping legislative priorities, like immigration reform and the health care law, moving forward. To that end, the administration announced Tuesday that it had tapped former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene to take over HealthCare.gov.
And there is Obama's post-White House life to consider, says Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and onetime speechwriter for former California Gov. Pete Wilson.
"Does he want to be in Silicon Valley and part of the tech community? Will they welcome him into the board room? These are relationships the president cannot afford to burn," he said.
The tech industry has its own reasons to see the relationship repaired. Most critically, the industry wants major reform of the surveillance program.
And there are other tech policy priorities, such as the immigration measure that is stuck in the House, as well as patent and tax reforms.
The relationship started out as a romance, with both candidate Obama and the tech industry embracing each other as the new new thing. Silicon Valley lavished money and its technical expertise on the president's campaigns. The president decided to make his mark by using tech as a way to make government more transparent. He appointed the first federal chief technology and chief innovation officers.
From Steve Jobs to Intel's (INTC) Paul Otellini, the industry's iconic leaders have been ready props for the president to hold up as examples of American ingenuity, expertise and economic strength.
"The tech sector has fawned over Obama for years now and showered him with bags of campaign cash," said Adam Thierer, senior research fellow at George Mason University.
Sure, the industry hasn't always felt it's had a seat at the table in Washington. In his first term, the industry's high expectations for the Obama tech agenda were bound to be disappointed, even as it won a huge victory in a copyright legislation battle with Hollywood and also saw passage of the JOBS Act, which gave private firms more flexibility when raising funds and was supported by Silicon Valley venture firms and startups.
Obama's second term started off on a more promising note, with progress on immigration reform in the Senate and the administration's backing of patent reform.
But the NSA revelations have pitted the tech industry against the administration, with the highest-profile breach coming in November when major tech companies, in a letter to Obama and Congress, demanded sweeping changes to the NSA and a ban on bulk collection of data.
Can this marriage be saved?
It's unlikely the meeting in Washington will be enough, despite the soothing words afterward. Some of the tech companies released a joint statement saying, "We appreciate the opportunity to share directly with the president our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urge him to move aggressively on reform."
And according to a White House statement, the president "listened to the group's concerns and recommendations, and made clear that we will consider their input."
Sounds like a promising step, but both sides need to work to rekindle the romance.
Contact Michelle Quinn at 510-394-4196 and firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her at Twitter.com/michellequinn.


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'Asheville's Wing War II' set for March 10
Published: Friday, March 1, 2013 at 1:10 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 1, 2013 at 1:10 p.m.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Lush Life Productions and G Social Media are partnering again for "Asheville's Wing War II" at 4 p.m. March 10 in the Asheville Music Hall, 31 Patton Ave, Asheville.
At the event, bars and restaurants in Asheville battle it out for the title "Asheville's Best Buffalo Wings." With a ticket that includes unlimited beer, wings (while supplies last) and local music, the event has sold out in the past.
The wings will be judged by a panel of celebrity judges in two categories: specialty and traditional Buffalo-style. There will also be a people's choice award.
The beer will be provided by Sierra Nevada and Pisgah Brewing and will be included in the ticket price. Southbound Turnaround band will entertain with its classic rockabilly sound.
Tickets for the event are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Visit www.ashevillefoodfights.com for more information.
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Richard Burnett was hired as the Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning for Islanders Athletics in September 2012 and was elevated to Head Strength and Conditioning Coach in October 2014. Before taking a position on a full-time basis, Burnett worked as graduate assistant in the department while working towards his Master of Science degree in kinesiology.
Burnett is an NSCA-Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, as well as being certified in CPR and first aid. He also has his SCCC credential through the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa) and is FMS Level 1 certified. He earned his bachelor's degree in exercise science from Texas A&M – Corpus Christi in May of 2011, and completed his master's degree in December 2012.
An active contributor to the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Burnett currently serves as an Advisory Board member of the NSCA Texas State Division and has presented at several NSCA state and national conferences.
· "Doing More with Less: Making the Most Out of Your Facility Limitations" – NSCA Texas State Clinic, February 23, 2013
· "Posture: Implementing the Optimal Position for Safe and Effective Performance Outcomes" – NSCA Texas State Clinic, May 31, 2014
· Abstract Poster Presentation: "A Comparison Between the Modified Single-Leg Squat and the Back Squat in Division I Collegiate Baseball Athletes" – NSCA National Conference, July 2013
He previously worked as an Athletics Performance Coach at Pinnacle Performance and Fitness. Burnett also graduated from the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in 2009 and continued his training before a voluntary disenrollment from the Platoon Leaders Course program in April of 2010.
Burnett also serves as the Huddle Leader for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's branch of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He resides in Corpus Christi with his wife, Amanda.


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Piedmont Technical College's fall 2012 Senior ADN Nursing class sponsored their annual health fair and worked through the Nursing Management and Leadership course to provide community service and raise money.
If your New Year's resolution is to enroll in college, Piedmont Technical College can help make it easy.
PTC will be offering Instant Admissions Day on Thursday, January 3. Admissions and financial aid counselors will be on hand to help students through the entire enrollment process in just one day.
"We wanted to provide students with a one-stop option to enroll in classes," said Tanisha Latimer, dean of enrollment management.
The Multipurpose building at Piedmont Technical College was the setting for the culmination of many dreams for the more than 200 Piedmont Technical College graduates who took center stage Thursday.
Dr. Ray Brooks, president, welcomed graduates, family and guests to celebrate the accomplishments of the graduates.
Piedmont Technical College's work to implement the Lean methodology in a community college setting has won the College a second national recognition.
PTC has been selected as a finalist for a prestigious 2013 Bellwether Award, which recognizes outstanding, innovative programs and practices that are successfully leading community colleges into the future.
As the new Goodwill Store and Job Connections opens its doors in Greenwood, Piedmont Technical College has already completed training for six people who are searching for employment.
Goodwill has partnered with technical colleges around the state to provide training based on the needs of an area. With the opening of the new facility in Greenwood, Goodwill partnered with Piedmont Tech for a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) class.
Piedmont Technical College will be holding fall commencement exercises on December 13.
Commencement exercises will begin at 3 p.m. in the Multipurpose Building at Piedmont Technical College in Greenwood. Due to limited seating, tickets will be required for all guests attending the graduation ceremony. Each ticketholder, including children, will be entitled to one seat.
In recognition of their excellence and the stories they have told about their journeys in higher education, three graduating students will be speaking at the commencement ceremony.
Piedmont Technical College offered its fourth Instant Admissions Day recently. Admissions and financial aid counselors were on hand to help students through the entire enrollment process in just one day.
The Piedmont Education & Business Alliance recently hosted its tenth annual Guidance Standards and Career Development Workshop at Piedmont Technical College. The event drew more than 100 school counselors and career development professionals from 10 school districts in Abbeville, Clinton, Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick, Newberry, Ninety Six, Saluda and Ware Shoals.
The Piedmont Technical College Foundation has named several new board members for the coming year.
Ten new members were recently inducted into the Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society at Piedmont Technical College. Tau Alpha Pi is the national honor society for engineering technology, just as Phi Beta Kappa is for liberal arts and Tau Beta Pi is for engineering. Founded in 1953 and managed for more than 30 years by engineering technology educator Frederick J.


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SOPHOMORE (2013): Came off the bench in 15 of the Broncos' matches to make an offensive impact … attempted a shot in the Broncos' season-opener vs. SIUE (Aug. 30) … picked up an assist in the Broncos' 2-1 victory at UCI (Sept. 22) ... collected his second assist of the season at Saint Mary's (Oct. 13) … attempted two shots for the Broncos vs. Portland (Oct. 20) … scored the game-winning goal vs. Saint Mary's (Nov. 18) which kept the Broncos in the running for the WCC title.
FRESHMAN (2012): Played in 15 games during his first collegiate season … College Sports Madness tabbed Hegardt as its projected 2012 West Coast All-Conference Freshman of the Year … Hegardt appeared in 15 games and made one start – the Broncos' season-opener vs. Cal (Aug. 24) … registered a season-high three shots at home against Portland (Oct. 26) – a game which was televised live nationally on the Fox Soccer Channel … totaled four shots on the year … appeared in nine of the team's 12 WCC contests.
HIGH SCHOOL: Highly accomplished prep player from San Diego's Cathedral Catholic High School where he earned First Team All-CIF honors … captained the Dons and led the team to the CIF Division III finals as a senior in 2011-12 … the Dons were 2012 Western League Champions and Hegardt was named the league's Player of the Year by the North County Times … tabbed as the Sports Magazine Boys' Soccer Player of the Year in 2011-12 ... also an All-Western League selection as a junior and a Second Team All-CIF pick … led the Dons to the Division III title game as both a freshman and sophomore … 2010 US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (US Youth Soccer ODP) 1994 Boys Champion with Cal South … also tabbed to play with the Region IV ODP teams ... residency with the U.S. U17 National Team, were he played alongside future SCU classmates Kendall McIntosh and Ryan Masch … also played for the BU18 Academy Team at San Diego Surf Soccer … represented the South Coast Strikers at the 2011 Northern Ireland Milk Cup ... began his extensive youth club career with the Fallbrook Fury U8-U10 … also spent six years playing for Nott's Forest.
PERSONAL: Born in Seattle, Wash. … son of Ron and Kim Hegardt – both Santa Clara University graduates … has three younger siblings, Mattie, Audrey and Chris … notes skiing and reading as hobbies … major is undeclared in the Leavey School of Business.


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United States Department of Agriculture
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1a.Objectives (from AD-416):
Establish baseline responses to insecticides where feasible and evaluate longer term performance to safeguard against resistance development. Incorporate resistance management strategies into pest management programs for particular pests of cotton and associated crops including silverleaf whitefly, glassy-winged sharpshooter, and Lygus spp.
1b.Approach (from AD-416):
Develop bioassay methods for various insect pests that realistically depict the type of exposures that occur in the field. Collect target pests in their crop habitat and establish and maintain cultures for repetitive testing. Evaluate relative susceptibilities to crucial insecticides by examining dose-mortality responses of immature and adults stages. Determine stability of resistance when it occurs in populations and formulate effective strategies for mitigating resistance by incorporating information on resistance stability. Documenst SCA with UC Riverside. Formerly 5347-22620-017-12S (6/09) & 5347-22620-018-02S (12/09) & 5347-22620-017-14S (12/10).
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SAN JOSE -- Sharks coach Todd McLellan is carrying out his plan to rest netminder Antti Niemi more frequently at this point in the season by giving Thursday night's start against the Winnipeg Jets to backup Alex Stalock.
It will be only the second start at SAP Center this season for Stalock, who earned his first NHL shutout in a week ago when San Jose beat the Florida Panthers, 3-0. So is he still getting adjusted to his home rink?
"Maybe a little bit," Stalock said, "but I've been watching for so many games in this rink. You know how the crowd is when they get behind you."
Both teams are on four-game winning streaks, Winnipeg's starting with a coach change that saw Paul Maurice replace Claude Noel. The Jets became the first team to win in regulation this season at the Honda Center when they beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 on Tuesday night.
The one other lineup change McLellan appears to be making has right wing Mike Brown returning to the lineup after missing the past three games. Brown, who hasn't played since he and Washington Capitals forward Aaron Volpatti traded punches in a bloody fight on Jan. 14, disclosed he had been bothered by a stiff neck since then.
"Didn't want to go out there and not do anything," Brown said. "When I go out there, I've got to play the way I play and that's a hard-nosed, physical game. If something's bothering me like that, I'm not going to contribute the way I can."
It appeared that Brown was taking James Sheppard's spot in the lineup.
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.


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Bonneville Collection
The Bonneville Collection is a collection of late nineteenth century photographs, postcards and artifacts pertaining to the American Plains Indians.
Collected Civil War Papers of Colonel Benjamin Franklin Eshleman
This collection contains the mementos Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Franklin Eshleman, a former commander of the Washington Artillery battalion, saved in his scrapbook. It portrays a civil war colonel's dedication to preserving the memory of his unit along with a larger more important purpose of memorializing the era of the confederate soldier.


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IDAHO SPRINGS -Battle Mountain boys basketball coach Tom Padilla knows that his team hasn't faced a nonconference slate full of world-beaters, and he's not apologizing for it.
The Huskies made it 5-0 on the young season with a win against Middle Park, 55-49, Friday Night in the opening round of a tournament at Clear Creek.
"We haven't played anybody this year," Padilla said. "It's a confidence-builder for us. I'm doing something different this year. We have nine guys who can play and we're giving everyone playing time. This is going to help us in the long run."
Joe LyBarger led the way with 17 points, while Alex Banegas had nine. The Huskies face Clear Creek in the championship game today.
The Huskies girls basketball team made some strides in a 30-28 loss to Middle Park Friday night.
Logan Nash and Elizabeth Olivas each had 10 points for Battle Mountain (1-3).
"That was the best we've played in the last three games, but we still should have pulled it out," coach Vinny Cisneros said. "The girls are getting better at being more aggressive. At this level, you have push back when you get pushed."
Skiers top Devils
GLENWOOD SPRINGS - Eagle Valley boys basketball fell from the ranks of the unbeaten Friday with a 66-58 loss to Aspen at its annual stop at the Glenwood Springs tournament.
"Aspen is a very good basketball club," said Devils coach Jim Bair, whose team fell to 2-1. "They're well-coached and they played well. We had trouble finding the bucket. We got the looks, but we couldn't capitalize."
Eagle Valley plays Faith Christian at 10:30 a.m. today, followed by the host Demons at 4:30 p.m. The Devils girls basketball team will also be in attendance.
Sports Editor Chris Freud can be reached at 970-748-2934 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Building TechExcel Reports
February 4th, 2010
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Good morning, today I'm going to go through setting up reports in TechExcel so you, your manager, or your team can get important data out. I'll show you in this article how to go about setting up your own reports. Subsequent articles will go into detail on other topics about TechExcel reporting.
- The first thing to do is to log into the technician portalof TechExcel.
- Next click on the Utilities tab at the top of the screen.
- Expand the plus sign by the Report Settings link in the Utility Settings box on the left of the screen.
- Click on the My Report View link. If you do not see these options, please submit a ticket for the TechExcel admins to check your account type. It may need to be altered to allow reports to be run.
- In the top right corner of the browser, you'll see a button called New Report. Click this button, it's the launching point for all new report creation.
- You'll see a list of all the report types available like this:
Looking over the list of available reports, the most common ones to use are Incident Distribution, Incident List, and Incident Trend. The distribution report lets you see who is doing what. Incident trends let you look at your workload over time. Incident Lists allow you to view all the details about all the tickets that have come your way. This data can be exported to Excel for further analysis or printed if desired. For this example, I'll be using an Incident List report. Find it in the list of reports and check the check box. Click the Submit button.
- You'll now be presented with a configuration screen for the report. Give it a meaningful name, if not you can end up with a lot of Incident Lists show up and not be able to differentiate them. Add any desired data fields from the left hand list to the right side by using the Arrows. Add grouping to the report in the same fashion. Grouping allows data to be listed together based on a particular attribute in the report data. If grouping isn't setup, you'll be presented with a long list of data ordered by your specification.
- Below this section, you'll see more configuration options for sorting, sort order, field return size and a new feature in 8.0, showing the conditions used in the report execution. This allows users to see how the report was set up if the box is checked so they can recreate it if desired.
- Once completed, click the Submit button.
- Now it's time to run the report that was created. Click on the Report tab.
- From the Report drop down, find My Reports in the list and select the report you just created. In order to execute the report, a few conditions need to be set. In the below example, you can see I'm going to run the report I just created for my team's queue, the consulting/training queue. Other options include ticket statuses and date ranges. Click the Refresh link in the top right section of the report area to execute the report or by clicking the Go button. Do NOT click the browser's Refresh button (F5).
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What Happens When Apple Features Your App
"Infinity Blade" is an action-adventure game for the iPhone that is more than two years old. Just a few days ago the 99-cent app was unranked on Apple's list of most downloaded apps.
Today, Infinity Blade is in the top 5 on the App Store's free download ranking. That's what happens when Apple features your app as "App of the Week."
More importantly, the app appears to be making more money than it was just a week ago when it charged 99 cents. Like other freemium titles, it offers in-app purchases that help you advance your character through the game more quickly.
Here's a closer look at what's happening, via a chart from AppData. Being featured on the "App of the Week" list gives the app's rankings a nice hockey-stick effect. The fact that app is now free helps — in exchange for Apple highlighting an app, the developer must offer the app for free for one week. But the visibility in a store full of roughly 800,000 apps doesn't hurt either.
The promotion basically serves as free marketing for developer Epic, which has a sequel also on the App Store: "Infinity Blade 2." That game is also behind a paywall — it costs $7 — but it is seeing a nice halo effect from the App of the Weak feature for its predecessor.
Here's another AppData chart that illustrates the effect for "Infinity Blade 2″:
The difference isn't as pronounced as with the free app (a jump of several hundred spots in the rankings) but it is seeing a very nice lift. Keep in mind that this is a bit pricier than its predecessor too.
"Infinity Blade 2″ also has in-app purchases, like its predecessor. The moral here is basically that converting the game to freemium — even for a week — is driving more monetizable users to Epic's games.


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DOE released its first annual report on developments and trends in the U.S. wind power market on May 31st. The publication, "Annual Report on U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends: 2006," analyzes trends in the marketplace, including project costs, turbine sizes, and developer consolidation. The report concludes that wind power is competitive and has been consistently priced at or below the price of electricity produced at fossil-fueled or nuclear power plants. Wind project performance has also been increasing due to improved project siting and technological advances in wind turbines.
The report notes that U.S. wind power capacity increased by 27 percent in 2006 and that the United States had the fastest-growing wind power capacity in the world in 2005 and 2006. For the second straight year, the United States led the world by installing 2,454 megawatts (MW) of wind power capacity in 2006—16 percent of the capacity installed worldwide that year—followed by Germany, India, Spain, and China. Leading the way in annual capacity growth in the United States are Texas, Washington, and California. The report also notes that GE Energy is the dominant wind turbine manufacturer for the U.S. market, although it is facing increasing competition from both domestic and foreign companies, several of which are building manufacturing facilities in the United States. See the DOE press release, the complete report (PDF 2.5 MB), and a summary presentation about the report (PDF 2.9 MB). Download Adobe Reader.
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Earlier this year, we revealed that there are currently more than 5,000 medicines in the biopharmaceutical pipeline around the world, including more than 3,000 potential medicines for cancer patients. These potential new medicines offer great hope to millions of patients suffering from disease.
Innovative medicines also help to control healthcare costs, as reflected in the Congressional Budget Office's long-term view that medicines can reduce spending on expensive hospitalizations, procedures and other acute and chronic care. This is important to point out as the full value of innovative medicines to patients, the economy and the U.S. health care system is often misunderstood.
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Oakland Raiders quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo spoke highly of San Jose State but declined to state when asked by this newspaper on Thursday if he has interest in the Spartans' head coach opening.
"First of all, let me say I couldn't be happier for Mike MacIntyre and his family," DeFilippo said. "Mike did an unbelievable job at San Jose State. I love the place. It's a great place.
"My effort, 100 percent is on the Kansas City Chiefs this weekend and getting Carson (Palmer), Matt (Leinart) and Terrelle (Pryor) ready to go to 100 percent of their ability."
DeFilippo spent the previous two years on Mike MacIntyre's staff at San Jose State before joining the Raiders this season. He was the Spartans' quarterbacks coach both seasons and their offensive coordinator in 2011.
The 34-year-old DeFilippo, whose offense is still run by San Jose State, seems a logical choice to emerge as a candidate for the opening created by MacIntyre's departure for Colorado. He was well regarded during his time with the Spartans and played a role in recruiting some of the current SJSU players, including quarterback David Fales.
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PHOENIX — Monday was a good day to be Sean Doolittle.
The left-handed A's reliever came in having been pain-free for three days in the wake of suffering a right calf strain last week. Then he went on the mound and threw as if he'd never missed any time at all.
He showed good velocity, if not pin-point command.
``I felt really good,'' Doolittle said. ``It was important to test it, but I didn't think it was any big deal. I tweaked it on Tuesday and by Wednesday night I wasn't feeling any pain.''
The thing is, Doolittle is actually ahead of schedule, at least based on his 2013 spring when he was held out of competition
Not only was he coming off a good, long rookie year last spring, but he was still raw as a pitcher, having only just made the switch from hitting to pitching.
``Last year I was coming off my first year of pitching,'' Doolittle said. ``Combined in the major and minor leagues I'd thrown over 70 innings. Now having some more experience, my body has responded better.
``I can now get thrown in with some of the other guys and just get ready and be lie one of the normal guys.''
Manager Bob Melvin and pitching coach Curt Young held Doolittle out of early work at this time last year, so the way the pitcher sees it, he's ahead of the game.
``I guess I'm a coup of days behind, but I was like a week behind last year,'' he said. ``This way we can take our time and I can get integrated into the group. I like this a little bit better.''


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AT&T to Ease Restrictions on FaceTime Use on Cellular Network
AT&T plans to phase out controversial restrictions on the use of Apple's FaceTime mobile video-calling application over its cellular network.
The telecom company has required subscribers to sign up for its new data-sharing plans to use the feature over its cellular network, causing an outcry from public advocates that the move violated the Federal Communications Commission's neutrality rules. AT&T said it will phase in the unrestricted use of FaceTime on its network and expects to eventually allow all customers to use the service.
FaceTime uses a camera on the iPhone to connect with others on their phones, iPads or Mac computers.
The application had originally been available for use only over Wi-Fi connections, but the latest version of Apple operating system released in September allowed for use over cellular networks. Sprint and Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group, didn't place any restrictions on its use.
AT&T will initially allow the application to be used on Apple devices that can connect to its next-generation LTE network, which would include the iPhone 5 and some versions of the iPad, it said.
The service would be limited to customers on tiered-data plans, meaning those that still have grandfathered unlimited plans wouldn't be able to use the service. At the end of September, 64% of AT&T's smartphone subscribers were on tiered-data plans of some sort.
"We expect to roll out this functionality over the next 8-10 weeks," said Jim Cicconi, senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs, in a post on the company's public policy blog. He acknowledged that AT&T policy had "raised questions and some concerns."
AT&T said it recently made cellular FaceTime available to deaf and hard-of-hearing customers who qualify for special text and data-only packages. The company plans to analyze network data "over the next few months" and expects to "expand the availability of FaceTime to our customers on other billing plans in the near future."
Several public-interest groups had previously notified AT&T of their intent to file a formal complaint at the FCC over its practices.
In a statement Thursday, advocacy groups Free Press and Public Knowledge said they will move forward with the complaint "if AT&T fails to make FaceTime available to all of its customers in a timely manner."
The groups contend that FCC rules forbid carriers from blocking an application that competes with their voice service. Because AT&T was only offering FaceTime in packages that included unlimited voice minutes, other customers were unable to use the service as a way to conserve voice time. The groups contended that customers should be allowed to use the data they purchase in the way they see fit.
The data consumption from FaceTime on a cellular network could be significant for regular users. Mr. Cicconi cited data usage for the company's limitations because AT&T has more iPhones on its network than other carriers, and so FaceTime would have a greater impact on its network. AT&T was the exclusive seller of the device for years.
With so many iPhones, AT&T said there was no way to predict the increased data usage from FaceTime, so it took "a more cautious approach", he said.


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