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More agenda changes approved by county
Changes will be reviewed by ethics commission
February 22, 2013
PARKERSBURG — Proposed agenda and meeting procedure changes for the Wood County Commission will now be forwarded to the West Virginia Ethics Commission for review and suggestions....
Wharton needs to review his ethics, he's a lame prosecutor!
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Geeze with all the rules & exceptions to the rules, I'm surprised anyone can figure out when they need to be there. Good luck calling down there to find anything out. What a joke. Anyone who votes for this Dunn clown again is not very astute. Obviously the guy just wants the pay, the perks and the title. He is no public servant.
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I think the payment of invoices and routine payroll items, including "authorized" overtime, that are contemplated and within the line items of the annual budget (that has previously been adopted by a vote of the Commission) do not have to be voted upon again and, therefore, do not need a specific mention on the Agenda. "Signing" disbursement authorizations of such items is merely an administrative act and not a "new action" that requires a vote. The law must be followed, but there is no need to bog-down routine business. If it is a major expenditure or is otherwise not within the approved budget, then of course it should have its own required placement on the advance Agenda and separate vote.
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Dunn do you make appts. at your dentist office? don,t you think the public should have the same op at the commission meeting or are you better than everyone else.Seems to me you will object to anything that is good for those who put you in office.If you don,t want to do you job that you were elected for then step down
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Madoff Trustee Seeks to Block $80 Million Fairfield Settlement
The trustee seeking to recover funds for the victims of convicted Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff asked a federal judge to block a $80 million settlement with the founders of Fairfield Greenwich Group , which funneled billions of dollars to Mr. Madoff.
In court papers, lawyers for Irving Picard, the Madoff trustee, said the settlement, if allowed to proceed, will "thwart the Trustee's efforts to recover funds for equitable distribution to the victims of the Ponzi scheme." They asked a federal bankruptcy judge to block the settlement.
The $80 million settlement reached with a group of Fairfield investors earlier this month represents a "substantial portion" of the assets that might be recovered from the individual Fairfield defendants, including Fairfield Greenwich's founding partners, according to court papers.
It is separate from a deal reached last year between Mr. Picard and the liquidators of Fairfield Greenwich's various funds, in which the Fairfield funds gave up their claim against the Madoff estate to $1 billion lost by investors and agreed to divide any future recoveries from the funds' operators and others.
"We're confident the trustee's attempts to block the settlement is meritless and will not succeed," said David A. Barrett of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, which was co-lead counsel for the Sentry investors.
Separately, a federal district judge gave preliminary approval to the Fairfield settlement on Friday. A final approval hearing is set for March 22.
A hearing on Mr. Picard's motion has been set for Dec. 13.
Mr. Picard previously moved to block a $410 million settlement reached between New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and money manager J. Ezra Merkin, another larger "feeder" to Mr. Madoff.
Lawyers for investors in the firm's Fairfield Sentry and Greenwich Sentry funds alleged that Fairfield Greenwich falsely claimed to have conducted extensive due diligence of Mr. Madoff's firm and disregarded "red flags" regarding his operations. Losses by those funds are estimated by lawyers for the investors to exceed $1.3 million.
The settling defendants maintain that they had no idea about wrongdoing at Mr. Madoff's firm until his fraud was revealed in December 2008, that they or their family members lost more than $72 million in his fraud and that the firm was among financial companies and regulators fooled by Mr. Madoff.
Mr. Picard has estimated as much as $7 billion was invested by various Fairfield funds with Mr. Madoff, including investments by the Sentry funds.
The settling defendants include Fairfield Greenwich's founder partners, Walter Noel Jr., Andres Piedrahita and Jeffrey Tucker, who will cover the bulk of the settlement. The deal also includes the individual sponsors, managers and advisers to the feeder funds, as well as other individuals associated with Fairfield Greenwich.

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When it comes to scouting out new chemical compounds as potential drug candidates, "we recognized early that China was the place to be," says Mireille Gingras, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Huya Bioscience International.
Huya is named after the Chinese abbreviations for Shanghai (Hu) and Asia (Ya). Through partnerships with Chinese research institutions and biotechnology companies, Huya identifies new molecular entities and accelerates their worldwide development by providing a bridge into the international development process and global biopharma market. Huya has partnered with a number of large pharmaceutical companies including Abbott, Schering-Plough (now part of Merck), and Solvay Pharmaceuticals (recently acquired by Abbott).
Dr. Gingras formed the San Diego based firm in 2005 with the goal of discovering promising new compounds. Her worldwide travels took her to China, where she learned about a new treatment for Alzheimer disease. "The science was excellent, but the intellectual property was lacking," recalls Dr. Gingras. From this experience, she recognized that a great pool of scientific talent exists in China, which she subsequently turned into a business opportunity to in-license Chinese drug candidates. Huya has built a continuously expanding portfolio of Chinese compounds to treat oncology, neurology, immunology, and hematology disorders, among others.
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SANTA CRUZ -- A group of world-class surfers that could include 11-time champion Kelly Slater will return to the Bay Area for the second consecutive year when the O'Neill Coldwater Classic is held Nov. 1-11 at famed Santa Cruz break Steamer Lane.
The annual Coldwater meet has been elevated to an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) world championship tour competition this year as 34 of the top pros chase a $425,000 purse.
It is the penultimate stop on the ASP tour, which held an event at San Francisco's Ocean Beach in 2011.
Besides Slater, other top 10 surfers expected to compete include Australians Joel Parkinson, Mick Fanning and Owen Wright, Brazilians Adriano de Souza and Gabriel Medina and France's Jeremy Flores.
Parkinson currently leads Slater for the overall title with Fanning third. Slater, considered the greatest surfer in history, won an unprecedented 11th crown last year in San Francisco. The event was marred because of an embarrassing mix-up in calculating the points gave him the title two days early.
Parkinson, 30, won the 2000 Coldwater Classic, which for the past few years has been a second-tier competition.
"It has been a long time," Parkinson said of surfing in Santa Cruz. He added in a statement that the right-breaking wave off Lighthouse Point "suits my surfing. I can't wait."
The event coincides with the 60th anniversary of Santa Cruz's Jack O'Neill helping spawn the surf industry. O'Neill was a pioneer in the invention of wetsuits while living in San Francisco in the early 1950s.
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Waking up to find his town enshrouded with thick fog, commenter Nimzy wonders if game developers have fully harnessed the power of the weather in today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
I left my house this morning to find my entire town engulfed in fog. It's the first time I've ever had to walk through fog, too—it's cold, clammy, and slightly damp. You can't see very far: trees and buildings loom like ghosts, and people appear as shadowy silhouettes if you can see them at all. Not having played any of the Silent Hill games, I immediately thought of the world of Persona 4. Now I knew precisely what it was like for the characters to wander lost in the fog of the game.
On my way to work, I began wondering if there were any other games where the weather had featured prominently in the telling of the game's story. There's the crucial weather report of Harvest Moon, the hostile blizzard of the Thing, the titular rain of Heavy Rain ... But is that all of them? Are developers forgetting about the importance of weather in games?


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Martha Washington was married to the first President of the United States, but she was never referred to as the First Lady. That term wasn't used until the death of Dolly Madison in 1849. However, title or not, the first First Lady died on May 22, 1802, at her home in Mt. Vernon, Virginia.


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Humor can heal. That is one message behind an event coming up in Ontario County featuring nationally-recognized motivational speaker and humorist Karen Vadino. Vadino has more than 30 years experience in the fields of human services and chemical dependency.
Her talk on Sept. 16, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., will be free and open the public, with donations welcome. The event will take place in rooms 2 and 3 in the Ontario County Safety Training Facility, 2914 County Road 48.
The talk is co-sponsored by the Partnership for Ontario County Inc. and Council on Alcoholism and Addictions of the Finger Lakes.
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First off just switched from TVersity to PSM and I find PSM to be an amazing server, and am happy I switched.
Anyway, just wanted to post a little fix I discovered to help anyone else who may need it. The PS3config file under supported video formats for whatever reason has the number of supported aac channels capped at 2. I found all my video files with 5.1 channel aac transcoding. The simple solution was to delete the n:2 and BAM, life's all good and my files play without a hitch.
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Its all melding together
By Rajat Bhargav on Mar 07, 2013
Let us start our discussion of the 5-layer model with looking at the changes in consumer behavior - the apex layer that has knock on effects on all the rest.
In other words, let us examine our own behavior when we buy things these days. How often do we rely on just the product label for product information? We rely quite a bit on multiple sources of online information in addition to traditional media such as TV and print. Our awareness of products and brands is built not only on personal research & experience but that of others.
The smartphone, especially one of the consumer oriented ones since iPhone's launch, is now a trusty tool for the shopper - a link to all the information she needs. BTW, it has just been 5 years since the iPhone was launched - hard to imagine, isn't it?I list the most notable trends that have implications for value chains.
| Change / Trend
| Mobile Computers
| Smartphones and tablets marry the computational capacity and connectivity of PCs with the ubiquity of a phone.
|Imagine for a while your day without your phone - it is difficult to just think about that. Let alone readjusting to life without it. As an 'always online' and 'always with me' implement, it is a valuable medium to reach customers / consumers.
|Online Commerce
|Online sales are growing (see more details below) and is no longer a geeky curiosity. In fact, mobile phones and tablets have only increased the ease with which consumers can shop online.
|The endless aisle. The long-tail. The cheaper storefront option when compared to a brick and mortar store. E-commerce is all that and also table stakes for those selling to the the Gen-Y and the Millennials. It offers the ability to reach remote markets and run very targeted promotions.
| Price Comparison
| Price comparison bots and mobile phone apps that allow shoppers to pick the best deal have made price competition fiercer.
The stiff price competition has implications for both operations and marketing. Supply chains need to improve operational efficiency and drive out costs. Marketing needs to 'differentiate' the offering thus making comparisons difficult.
| Opinions from friends & family ...
| Social technology e.g facebook, twitter is making it easier to get views and opinions of people who have always mattered.
| At the very least, companies need to know what is being said about them or their offerings. Eventually they need to master it to the same extent as traditional media.
| ... even complete strangers
| Every one of us has looked at a product review on Amazon.com even though it was to research a product buy somewhere else.
|As with social media this represents a huge source of market intelligence that cannot be ignored.
Macy's financial results announced last week have been the subject of many omni-channel related articles, not least because of Macy's clear enunciation of their strategy but also because it is clearly showing results.
Online sales are a big and increasing contributor to their growth. What is interesting from a value chain perspective, is that Macy's has been using the stores to fulfill online orders and plans to do more of that in the future. Considering that brick and mortar retailers carry vast amounts of inventory in their stores, this trend is likely to grow as the tools and processes to handle fulfillment from stores develop further.
Staying on the subject of online sales a bit longer, let us do a back of the envelop estimate of Macy's online sales. If 60% (extrapolating comp-sales for all stores) of their $1.28B of top-line growth came online sales and online sales grew 41% in the year then their online sales in fiscal 2012 are ~ $2.6B. Roughly 10% of sales but 60% of revenue growth. In this light, the emphasis on an omni-channel strategy is obvious.
Macy's is not unique though. According to the US Census Bureau, which has a special section tracking the electronic economy, eCommerce has been growing monotonously for the last decade (see the seasonally adjusted sales in dotted blue in their chart below). Even the financial crisis that triggered the great recession was merely a brief dwell.
As the mid and small end of the retail industry moves online, the share of online sales will grow. Predicting where it will stabilize at is an interesting but mostly academic exercise. For businesses right now, the more immediate area of inquiry should be to re-imagine their operations with an omni-channel consumer in mind.
Why you ask? The clue is something that you find posted on many stores in India. It is Mahatma Gandhi's quote from when he was a civil rights activist in South Africa of 1860 - "A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption of our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider of our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so". The answer to our question is that consumers are 'favoring' omni-channel retailers - and falling out 'favor' of the consumer is not a viable business strategy.
To be sure the omni-channel challenge is not just to provide a unified merchandising and fulfillment experience. It is not just the ready access to online and mobile channels. It is also the monitoring of vast sources of market information on online fora as well as the influence of friends and family. All that information needs to get internalized in the business processes of the organization - to inform and improve the merchandizing and fulfillment processes.


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The 1930s had been a very expansive period in the history of Volvo trucks. From a very modest beginning with old-fashioned trucks, the product programme grew into modern vehicles with highly efficient engines and huge payloads, sometimes with more than two axles.
The 'Roundnose' trucks, which were introduced as '1940' models in late 1939 were to be perhaps the most successful Volvo trucks until the F trucks of the 1970s onwards.
Similar look - different transport applications
These 'Roundnose' consisted of a wide range of trucks that looked similar but covered a large number of transport applications. At a glance, they looked much the same, but in fact they were different. The front, for instance, was available in at least three distinctly different lengths, of which two were available in early models with petrol (or Hesselman or producer gas) engines.
The visual appearance seems unique nowadays. The fact is, however, that the appearance of the 'Roundnose' trucks was very much influenced by both American, British and German truck styling of the era. This is not very strange, since the 1930s was a decade when design was a prominent part of product design and when trends spread from country to country, influencing the design of nearly all makes of trucks from almost every manufacturer.
The main choice of the army - and others
The advent of this range of trucks was not a very promising one. The introduction of the first version took place in late 1939, at the same time as the beginning of World War II. This meant that sales of civilian trucks soon went very slowly. Fortunately, military customers turned up and Volvo became a main supplier to the Swedish armed forces. During WW II, thousands of 'Roundnose' trucks were delivered, in a standard model, with simplified design, and also in an all-wheel-drive model.
After WW II, this family of trucks became very successful. More than 10,000 units of the most successful range, the 'LV125 series', was sold, an enormous number at a time when the truck was accepted but was far from the main means of transport (the railway still playing a major role).
A wide variety of power and strength
Despite a rather similar appearance, the power and the strength of the 'Roundnose' trucks was very varied. The basic engine was a modest side valve engine of up to 90 hp, while petrol engines with overhead valves offered up to 105 bhp. Normally, there were Hesselman options which used the less expensive oil fuel, while producer-gas engines were used during WWII, giving very limited performance but being able to run even in times when petrol was available only for the most needed (military) use.
Overall, this range of trucks was produced from 1939 to 1954, i.e. for 15 years, with more or less no mechanical changes apart from detail modifications. More than 40,000 'Roundnose' trucks were produced and sold, an enormous number considering the limited use of trucks in that era (compared with today).


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Golf is in full swing this winter at the Lake Dillon Theatre with its latest comedic offering, "The Fox on the Fairway," opening Friday and running through Dec. 16.
Set in the taproom of the Quail Valley Country Club, the story revolves around the follies of two rival golf club managers as they each conspire to win the annual golf tournament.
Self-assured of a rare victory, Quail Valley manager Henry Bingham (played by Len Rella) makes a huge wager with Crouching Squirrel manager Dickie (Bradley Sumner), which includes a hefty sum of personal money and his wife Muriel's (Victoria Budonis) antique shop as collateral. Both men have dirty tricks (and secrets) up their sleeves that quickly unravel as the plot unfolds.
Former Lake Dillon Theatre Company performers Kara Dombrowski ("Xanadu") and Brett Figel ("The 39 Steps") play Louise and Justin, two youngsters who happen to work as assistants at Quail Valley and who happen to be engaged to each other. Enter ridiculous plot points hinging on taproom frolics, golf decorum and an engagement ring flushed down the clubroom toilet.
Rounding out the characters is Pamela (Serena Vesper), vice president of the board of directors for Quail Valley, a woman as experienced on the golf green as she is in the boudoir and whose secret past, when finally revealed, gives the play its final putt.
The light-hearted, two-act comedy is the third play by Ken Ludwig that the Lake Dillon Theatre Company has produced in four years, following the sold-out runs of "Lend Me a Tenor" in 2008 and "Moon Over Buffalo" in 2010. And while the former shows affectionately pay tribute to the worlds of opera and regional theater respectively, "Fox" lovingly spoofs the outrageous rules and superstitions of the famed sport of golf.
Lake Dillon Theatre Company producing artistic director Christopher Alleman directs the production, infusing the witty, quick-moving script with sight gags galore and moments of what can only be described as controlled chaos.
The Lake Dillon Theatre Company regularly tackles big productions at its intimate, 60-seat theater and "Fox" is no exception. Jared Grohs's immense set design recreates the world of golf club comfort and offers a surprise in the final scene that highlights the Lake Dillon Theatre Company's creative ability to overcome its confined space. Jacob Welch's lighting design contributes to the lively atmosphere while Nicole Harrison's detailed costumes garner laughs on their own.
Furiously fast-paced and uproariously funny, "The Fox on the Fairway" guarantees an evening of laughs for families and friends wanting a different sort of holiday outing this season.


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I will arrange my schedule so that several days before a Boy Scout "driving trip," I will get a good night's sleep every night to avoid the cumulative effect of not getting enough sleep.
I will make trip preparations far enough in advance so that last-minute preparations don't interfere with my rest.
I will make travel plans that take into account my personal biological clock and only drive during the part of the day when I know I will be alert.
I will be smart about engaging in physical activities during Scouting outings and will make sure that I will be ready to drive alertly.
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I haven't found an easier way of doing this, so this is how I got it done. If someone knows of a better way please let me know. I sure hope this is helpful to those of use that enjoy our PS3 to the fullest.
Requirements of course PS3, PS3 Media Server, Windows, LAN & SiriusXMStreamer. (http://www.permanence.com/sirius/)
You should already have your PS3 setup using PS3 Media Server and have internet access.
This is how I setup SiriusXMStreamer (I haven't got around to taking screenshots but I will) but your setup may differ depending on your preferences.
Once SiriusXMStreamer is setup, run the app & go to "Configuration". Enter your account info for either Siriux/XM (or both like me ). Under "Default Stream Format", I set it to "HTTP - M3U". "SiriusXMStreamer Server" was already prefilled so I left it alone. You'll notice "TVersity Media Server", but I left that alone since obviously that's not what we're using & I'm not sure how it's setup using that app. Apply the settings & Start the Server. Now you'll need to make 2 entries in the "WEB.CONF" file of the PS3 Media Server. Below is the sample of the entries I made to mine from the default settings that were already included in the "WEB.CONF". The IP address of course may be different depending on how your LAN is setup. To get the correct addresses for your feeds you can either just substitute the static IP of your PC running PS3 Media Server or go to SiriusXMStreamer & click on the "Sirius Channels" & "XM Channels", select "Feeds" then directly to the right using the drop down arrow, choose "Copy URL M3U" & paste the info into your "WEB.CONF. Restart the PS3 Media Server & both feeds should appear under "WEB - Sirius / XM". The only part I haven't been able to figure out is why the feed shows a total run time of 1:45:32. When it reaches this time lapse, it'll automatically move to the next feed. I've tried messing with a few settings but no luck so far maybe you can help!
#audio podcasts
[UPDATE] Forgot to mention the firewall port exception. Thanks to <tahdahrah> for helping me realize I had excluded this. If you're having problems streaming make note of the TCP port in the URL of the stream. If anyone needs help setting that up let me know. If I get enough requests, I'll make it part of this HowTo. I still haven't figured out how to get around the stream time limit of 1:45:32. I've hesitated posting another topic in hopes that others setting this up will noticed something that I haven't that gets around this limit. I was hoping to get more feedback but oh well plenty of views so far.


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Sixteen Indianapolis 500 races. An incredible, injury-defying 500 victory in 1996. Runner-up on two different occasions, and in the Top 5 in two other Indy efforts. Add to that that one more Top 10, and you have an Indy 500 résumé just about any driver would be understandably proud of.
That's Buddy Lazier's career stat line at Indianapolis, but it's perhaps more remarkable for all the items it doesn't show. The fact that he somehow kept coming back for more after a practice crash during his first year at Indy, and not qualifying in his second. The spirited runs that came close to granting him another 500 victory. The fact that he expertly, sometimes amazingly, qualified entries that had no business creaking along on the track. The fact that even in his last effort, in 2009, in a car that was clearly too old and outclassed to make the field, resulted in the fan in the stands still thinking, "If anyone can do it, it's him..."
Looking at Buddy Lazier's time in Indy, it wasn't all roses and sunshine. He had his share of DNFs, though in the interests of fairness one should point out only one of those (2002) was chalked up to an accident, the others being mechanical. As one would expect in a career somehow touching four different decades at Indianapolis, there were some ups and downs. But the perception of Lazier as the enduring 500 champion, as the clutch last-minute driver, is the one most fans see.
Maybe this year will be different. It's a team that's not completely assembled, with sponsorships not entirely worked out, working on a single chassis, without a backup, trying to beat established experienced DW12 teams and find a way into the race, or perhaps even a decent qualification result. That's a tall order for any driver and team, even a 500 champion.
But let's ask this: Given a minimal amount of time to practice at Indianapolis, with a small team, no backup car, and the odds stacked against your effort, which driver would you rather have to jump in the car and somehow, beyond all reason or laws of physics, pull together four laps fast enough to make the show? If that list has any names in front of Buddy Lazier's, I bet there aren't many.
Throw five IndyCar and Indy 500 fans in a room, ask them who the greatest drivers at Indy were, and you'll come back an hour late to five fans with black eyes and a few loose teeth. Buddy Lazier's stats aren't in the realm of Rick Mears, but he does have a claim to inclusion in a pretty exclusive club. He was listed in IMS's Greatest 100 Indy 500 drivers during the Centennial Celebration. He ranks 8th all-time in laps completed. Yet again, we have to go to intangibles to see what makes Lazier's return to Indy such a popular one. He has often been referred to as a "bulldog" on the track, or as one of my fellow J-Standers is fond of saying, "there's no quit in him". He's not just a former 500 winner, he's a former winner that shrugged off a broken back to get his victory, has endured from the nastiest days of the split to the earliest days of reunification, and has never seemed to have lost the hunger and fire for the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
I don't know how Buddy Lazier's return to the Indianapolis 500 will go this month. We're not even sure yet what Bump Day will look like. I hope I look back on this article next month and can point to another amazing effort by Lazier to make a qualification run stick. Perhaps the comeback story ends before Bump Day even begins. I'm not sure. But whether he finishes 3rd or 33rd, I won't fail to include Lazier on my list of all-time Indy Legends. As long as the #91 is on track, there's a chance that legacy will be added to. Whatever the circumstances, Buddy Lazier can't be counted out.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
The Legacy and Legend of Buddy Lazier
Posted by Zachary Houghton at 7:38 AM
Labels: Buddy Lazier, commentary, Indy 500
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- AnonymousMay 9, 2013 at 10:14 PM
Well written and I agree. I've been to every single one of Buddy's 500's and you are spot on. Imagine if Buddy had been in top equipment his whole career. We likely we would be talking about at least a 3 time winner! Nonetheless, this guy can flat out get around Indy and will always be one of my favorites!!ReplyDelete
Nice piece. I wasn't very excited about the prospects of Buddy Lazier in the race at first, but I've warmed up to it. This kinda reminds me of a similar situation with a similar driver back in 2011.....Hmmmmm......ReplyDelete
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Indiana Xtreme 2000--12U will be holding tryouts August 7th 12:00-2:00 at Scecina High School @ 3500 Brookside Parkway Indianapolis, In. Located at the NW corner of 16th and Sherman.
We will be traveling out of state and playing a year-round schedule.
Tentative Schedule:
Sparks Invite- IL
Lady Laser-OH
Stingray's Invite-OH
Tournament in TN & MO
USFA World Series in Panama City, FL and/or USA/ASA Nationals--Moline, IL
We can do private tryouts for anyone who is interested please call or email LeAnn Jenkins @317-691-9045, firstname.lastname@example.com or Tim Jones @ 317-402-5814, email@example.com.
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as clofarabine and cytarabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving clofarabine together with cytarabine may kill more cancer cells.
PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best dose of clofarabine when given together with cytarabine and to see how well they work in treating older patients with acute myeloid leukemia that has relapsed or not responded to treatment.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|60 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia
- Relapsed* or refractory disease NOTE: *Remission must have lasted < 1 year
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Serum creatinine ≤ 1.0 mg/dL OR glomerular filtration rate > 50 mL/min
- Serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST/ALT ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for ≥ 6 months after completion of study treatment
- No history of serious organ dysfunction or disease involving the heart, kidney, liver, or other organ system that may place the patient at undue risk for undergoing study treatment
- No other concurrent severe disease
- No uncontrolled systemic fungal, bacterial, viral, or other infection, defined as exhibiting ongoing signs/symptoms related to the infection with no improvement despite appropriate antibiotics or other treatment
- No concurrent significant disease, illness, or psychiatric disorder that would compromise patient safety or compliance or that would interfere with informed consent, study participation, follow-up, or interpretation of study results
No diagnosis of another malignancy, unless the patient has been disease-free for ≥ 3 years following the completion of curative intent therapy
- Patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer, in situ carcinoma, or cervical intraepithelial neoplasia are eligible (regardless of disease-free duration) provided definitive treatment for the condition has been completed
- Patients with organ-confined prostate cancer are eligible provided there is no evidence of recurrent or progressive disease based on PSA values AND hormonal therapy has been initiated or a radical prostatectomy or definitive radiotherapy has been performed
- No currently active gastrointestinal disease that may affect the ability of the patient to absorb oral clofarabine
- Recovered from all prior therapy
- More than 30 days since prior and no other concurrent investigational agents
- More than 2 weeks since prior anticancer therapy, except hydroxyurea
- No prior cytarabine or clofarabine
- No prior surgery that may affect the ability of the patient to absorb oral clofarabine
- No concurrent alternative medications (e.g., herbal or botanical medications for anticancer purposes)
- No other concurrent chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or immunotherapy
- No other concurrent cytotoxic therapy
See this trial at ClinicalTrials.gov
Access protocol and consent forms at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Please remember:
- Talk to your health care providers first before making decisions about your health care.
- Whether you are eligible for a research study depends on many things. There are specific requirements to be in research studies. These requirements are different for each study.


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No one would argue that software auditing is not an important feature of mission critical applications. If a software based process is critical to the life of your company, then so is the security and access control surrounding resources managed by that software based process. Auditing is the way you track who did what to what and when it happened. Lately, however, the software industry has been lackadaisical at best regarding auditing. Off the shelf software developers either care about auditing, or they don't. When they do care, they either create elaborate custom auditing solutions that don't inter-operate with existing tools, or they simply send a few extra messages to the system logging facility and call it auditing—more often the latter. This article is about the benefits of the Open Group's Distributed Auditing Service (XDAS), and particularly about OpenXDAS, a free software implementation of the XDAS standard sponsored by Novell.
A quick history of software auditing
In the early days of computers, software was almost a by-product. When companies like IBM and Hewlett Packard were custom-manufacturing large mainframe computer systems for banks, businesses and institutions the software was free. Heck, if you bought a computer back then, you probably just blew any budget you might have had for software, anyway! But that's the way things were done. Computer hardware was so expensive that hardware manufacturers would write and maintain custom software for their customers—almost as a fringe benefit.
As requirements were collected, software developers would try to find a fit between existing software they'd already written, and the software system that would fall naturally out of the requirements gathering process. Sometimes, only small changes were necessary to the customer's process in order to reuse an existing package already written for a previous customer. At that point, negotiations between customers and developers would result in the ability to reuse some existing software, with perhaps a few customizations. But since computers were a big deal back then, customers were willing to change their processes significantly in order to accommodate the "requirements" of the computer.
Heck, if you bought a computer back then, you probably just blew any budget you might have had for software, anyway!
Over the last 30 years, the roles of hardware and software have become juxtaposed. As elaborate general purpose software systems were developed, hardware manufacturers found it more and more difficult to sell their wares to a customer based on the merits of the hardware. Customers began to expect all of the features of certain well-known software systems from their hardware vendors. Slowly vendors began to make the transition to selling the software for real money, while nearly giving away the hardware.
Free market pressures have pushed this paradigm to the limit in recent years with common off the shelf (COTS) software packages. It now costs far less for both hardware and software than it ever has, but the ratio of software prices to hardware prices has stabilized at around two to one (respectively). For a real world example, a reasonably high-end Intel processor-based CAD/CAM system today costs about US$3000. But a copy of AutoCAD 2006 costs twice that amount, at around US$6000.
What's happened to our priorities?
Unfortunately, those same free market pressures that brought (relatively) cheap hardware and COTS software to market have also hurt software quality. Software features that are not readily visible to CEOs such as auditing have slipped through the cracks. Software security architects often know the advantages of software auditing, but don't have the clout they need with their engineering and product managers to ensure that auditing is a well-designed aspect of their company's software products. Auditing is not sexy and, much like insurance policies or regular backups, it's not missed until there's a problem.
There's no doubt about it—our priorities have degraded to the point where we're willing to settle for whatever we can get these days with regard to software auditing or other important back-end features.
Auditing vs. logging
Let me lay it on the line for you. Logging is not auditing. It's really that simple, and yet we're being sold a bill of goods these days by software vendors who don't really understand proper software auditing anymore than we consumers do.
By logging, I mean either the use of existing logging systems as the Unix Syslog facility, or the Windows application and security event logs. Or, even more simply, the use of a file-based logging system, where software sends messages to the log file whenever something happens that is considered worthy of such a message. Often what's considered worthy is extremely subjective—arbitrary really—as developers are given the task to "log something", so sales people can spout terms like auditing and logging with some degree of integrity.
But auditing is really very much more than logging. Logging allows a system to send free-form informational messages to the console or to a log file. Log messages are really designed from the start to be read by humans. They contain informational text messages such as, "Xenobar system successfully started on 3 Oct, 2006 at 15:32", or "Footech subsystem loaded properly". Audit messages, on the other hand, should be machine readable. Not that they should be unreadable by humans, but rather that they should be easily parsed and categorized by software.
Logging is not auditing. It's really that simple
The software I'm talking about here is called security analysis software. Entire companies have become prosperous by providing security analysis software that spends literally 90 percent of its CPU cycles just parsing and categorizing human readable log messages. They spend most of their time trying to heuristically extract minuscule bits of security-relevant information from near useless log messages pumped out by mission critical software packages. The Sentinel product by eSecurity (recently acquired by Novell) is an example of such a security analysis software package.
And now, consider what happens when a new version of Xenobar is shipped, and the latest developer working on this version decides to change all of the log messages throughout the program because he doesn't like the format used by the previous developer. After all, they're just log messages, right?
"But," you say, "if a company recognized that security analysis software would be designed to read their log messages, could they not provide a well-defined format, and then ensure that it never changes from version to version?" Sure, and this has been done before. Novell's eDirectory product, for example, contains a trace facility that is widely used by eDirectory customers for many reasons—including system auditing. This trace facility was originally intended to be used only as a debugging tool by eDirectory engineers, but they soon discovered that several key customers were relying on third-party tools to parse eDirectory trace logs, in order to extract information critical to their business processes. After that, the developers were ordered not to change the format of most of the trace messages between versions. It's sad really, because now this debugging tool can no longer be used effectively for its original purpose—to help engineers find and fix defects in the product.
Proper auditing demands three key features:
- An application programmer's interface or API, entirely separate from the logging facility.
- A common standardized audit event record format.
- A common standardized audit event taxonomy (a set of events with associated well-defined and documented semantic meanings).
The Bandit Project—the future of identity?
Novell has always been a market leader in enterprise-level identity services. Since the acquisition of SuSE Linux several years ago, Novell has also become a leader in providing standards-based free software solutions for the enterprise.
The Bandit Project (http://www.bandit-project.org) is a free software effort sponsored by Novell to support the best free software identity infrastructure components on the internet today. If Bandit Project administrators can't find a required identity infrastructure component, then they create a free software project around the missing concept, using existing open networking standards whenever possible.
Besides OpenXDAS, the Bandit Project sponsors a role calculation engine based on the RBAC standards, an authentication credential store called CASA, and an identity attribute service (IDAS) provider for the Higgins identity framework. Higgins is an Eclipse technology project designed to bring identity providers together into a single authentication realm that can be used by service providers and consumers on the internet, as well as within the enterprise.
Novell and the Bandit Project are primary sponsors of the OpenXDAS project. Bandit Project members consider software auditing a required part of a well-rounded identity services infrastructure component set. Bandit Project identity infrastructure components are designed to work equally well in the free software world and at the enterprise level. By providing free identity services infrastructure components, Novell promotes one of its primary goals—to grow the industry.
Enter OpenXDAS and the XDAS standard
In 1998, the value of proper auditing was being reconsidered by a group of major software vendors around the world. These companies approached the Open Group, an open standards organization famous for world-wide computing standards such as the Single Unix Specification, the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), CORBA and the XWindow system, and many other well-known standards and certifications. Representatives formed a working group called the Distributed Audit Service (DAS) working group, in an effort to define a common standard audit record format for both storage and transmission. Their goals included the definition of a record format that was both easy for machines to parse, and for humans to read.
The results of this year-long effort were published in the initial XDAS preliminary specification in 1999. Unfortunately, a series of coincidental events culminated in the discontinuation of the project. It's interesting to note, however, that nothing better than XDAS has ever been suggested to any standards body since that time. Other network and device management standards have arisen, as well as proprietary specifications, which have incorporated some of the features of XDAS. But no auditing standard as concise and focused has ever been attempted since the dissolution of the XDAS working group.
In 1998, the value of proper auditing was being reconsidered by a group of major software vendors around the world
XDAS defines a basic C language application programmer's interface (API). This API was designed with two goals in mind—simplifying the transition from the traditional use of logging facilities as an auditing tool, and capturing all of the required bits of information. The XDAS C language API is designed to be as simple as possible, but no simpler. Developers accustomed to instrumenting their applications for auditing with a logging facility might be disinclined to use a complex auditing interface when they've been using a simple, single-function formatted string logging interface in the past. While the XDAS C language API is not as simple as, say Syslog for example, neither is it difficult.
Developers create an OpenXDAS session once at process startup, and close the session once at process termination. During the life of the process, each time an audit-worthy event occurs, the program should call an OpenXDAS function to create a new record, and another function to commit that record.
XDAS defines a standard record format containing what the DAS working group deemed to be a canonicalized form of the key elements of an audit record:
- Event
- Originator
- Initiator
- Target
- Source
- Data
These standard audit record elements make up the auditing equivalents of what we might recognize as the key verification elements present in human interactions. For instance, when a journalist quotes someone regarding a witnessed event, he or she includes the following information in the article:
- The event (the nature of the news-worthy occurrence)
- The journalist's own name and credentials
- The person or organization that initiated the event
- The person or organization affected by the event
- The person reporting the event (or sometimes just "anonymous trustworthy sources")
- Additional interesting data about the event
Another analysis of this critical information set shows that it parallels human conceptual events. Take the following sentence, for example:
Joe rode the bus.
There are three critical bits of information in this simple sentence. These are formally called the "subject", the "action" and the "object". The subject is usually found in the first part of the sentence and refers to the initiator of the action. The action itself is the verb—what's happening—the occurrence that's being reported. Finally, the object is generally at the end of the sentence and represents the target of the action. In this example, "Joe" is the subject who did something. "rode" is the action, or what it was that Joe did, and "the bus" is the object, or what was affected by Joe's action.
OpenXDAS is a free software implementation of the Open Group's XDAS standard. The OpenXDAS project is still in its infancy. What this means is that OpenXDAS is not yet a complete implementation of the XDAS standard. So is it useful? The answer is a resounding yes.
The XDAS standard defines several categories of API functionality. One of these is called the "Event Submission" API. Event submission implies the ability to generate complete audit event records in the XDAS common record format.
In truth, OpenXDAS attains about 80 percent of its most useful functionality just by implementing the event submission API. OpenXDAS implements the XDAS standard as a C language client instrumentation library, a Java language client instrumentation library, and a client-side service or daemon process that provides a common point of client-side filtering and configuration management.
The initialization API provides the following functions.
xdas_initialize_session must be called once at application startup, and
xdas_terminate_session must be called once at shutdown:
int xdas_initialize_session( int * minor_status, const char * org_info, xdas_audit_ref_t * das_ref); int xdas_terminate_session( int * minor_status, xdas_audit_ref_t * das_ref);
The event submission API provides five functions, but don't let this number deceive you—the submission API can be effectively used with only two of them:
int xdas_commit_record( int * minor_status, xdas_audit_ref_t das_ref, xdas_audit_rec_desc_t * audit_record_descriptor); int xdas_discard_record( int * minor_status, xdas_audit_ref_t das_ref, xdas_audit_rec_desc_t * audit_record_descriptor); int xdas_put_event_info( int * minor_status, xdas_audit_ref_t das_ref, xdas_audit_rec_desc_t * audit_record_descriptor, unsigned event_number, unsigned outcome, const char * initiator_information, const char * target_information, const char * event_information); int xdas_start_record( int * minor_status, xdas_audit_ref_t das_ref, xdas_audit_rec_desc_t * audit_record_descriptor, unsigned event_number, unsigned outcome, const char * initiator_information, const char * target_information, const char * event_information); int xdas_timestamp_record( int * minor_status, xdas_audit_ref_t das_ref, xdas_audit_rec_desc_t audit_record_descriptor);
Developers must call
xdas_start_record and
xdas_commit_record. The remaining functions exist for convenience in special cases.
The instrumentation library sends messages to the service through a local IPC channel, which applies filters and then forwards remaining records to installable logging facilities. It might surprise you to read that after all of the above discussion of the lack of merit in the use of system logging facilities as audit frameworks, one of the supported OpenXDAS logging facilities is none other than Syslog. The problems with using a system logging facility as an audit framework are not related to the data store, but rather to the record format. When OpenXDAS applies the XDAS common record format to syslog messages, they become so much more useful to security analysis software, which is already designed to read syslog message logs.
The benefits of a taxonomy
Another aspect of a well-designed audit system is a common event taxonomy. Remember when I said that machines must be able to easily parse and classify audit events? Well, a common record format makes parsing easy, but a common event taxonomy makes event classification easy. An event taxonomy is nothing more than a standardized set of common audit events, sometimes organized into a suitable hierarchy. XDAS defines a standard set of events that are general-purpose enough to capture a high percentage of audit-worthy events in a software system. Interestingly, there are only about 30 standard events in the XDAS event taxonomy. The events in the taxonomy are divided into nine major classes as follows:
- Account Management Events
- User Session Events
- Data Item and Resource Element Management Events
- Service or Application Management Events
- Service and Application Utilization Events
- Peer Association Management Events
- Data Item or Resource Element Content Access Events
- Exceptional Events
- Audit Service Management Events
Events in the Account Management Event class include the following:
- Create account
- Delete account
- Disable account
- Enable account
- Query account attributes
- Modify account attributes
A standard event taxonomy allows security analysis software to quickly and efficiently capture the essence of an event. The software may be configured to generate an alarm or execute an external program on receipt of a specific type of event. This process is completely deterministic with a standard event taxonomy, but somewhat arbitrary and subjective with free-form log messages. A certain log message may have been intended to convey the desired information, but was simply not formatted according to the pattern matching criteria specified by the analysis software. A standard event taxonomy alleviates this problem.
Often, developers come to me, ready to instrument their applications, with questions like, "My application doesn't manage accounts! How can you say these events fit my needs?" Developers must realize that this is a very generic set of high-level security-relevant events. While account management may be a perfect fit for software systems that keep track of users through user accounts, account management might also be thought of more generally as a set of events related to the creation and management of the persistent storage of attributes associated with users in any fashion. Some applications simply may not have anything to do with account management in any form, so they won't use the account management events.
Security-relevant, or just stuff that happens
The XDAS standard is aimed at creating a common security infrastructure in the face of existing security or pseudo-security systems already widely in use. For instance, one of the XDAS C language API functions is designed to import records from native logging facilities. This import process sorts through the myriad of log messages in a system log, extracting messages that have security relevance, and reformatting them into XDAS format. Remember that one of the fields of the common XDAS record format is the "Source" field. This field is generally left blank when XDAS instrumented applications commit audit records. It's used during import when log records in other systems are converted to XDAS common record format and then submitted to the XDAS auditing framework. The Source field contains a referral to the original record from which an XDAS record was generated. It could be any type of referral, but in today's world, a URL seems an appropriate vehicle for source record information.
So often, developers submit reams of log records containing nothing useful to security analysis software
So often, developers submit reams of log records containing nothing useful to security analysis software. The XDAS common event taxonomy helps developers determine what's security-relevant, and what's just interesting stuff that happened.
Getting the package
OpenXDAS is available in several package formats, including SuSE and RedHat binary RPM's for Intel and AMD 32 and 64 bit platforms, Windows installer packages, simple "tarballs", and of course full source code archives in both tar.bz2 and zip formats. You can download the latest version of the OpenXDAS packages from SourceForge, and you'll find the project page there too. Both pages are cross-linked, so you should have no trouble getting to one from the other.
There is also very complete documentation in both OpenOffice (2) format and Adobe PDF format. Documentation currently includes a complete user's manual targeted toward developers wanting to instrument their applications to submit XDAS audit records, and even a conversion guide for developers who have previously instrumented their applications using the Novell Nsure Audit SDK.
More than ever, corporate software consumers are begging vendors to include more robust auditing features in their software packages. OpenXDAS provides a well-designed, standards-based approach to relatively simple audit instrumentation. As time passes, consumers will demand better auditing functionality. This is not an opinion, but a fact driven by recent business world events such as the Enron and Arthur Anderson fiascoes. The US Securities Exchange Commission is cracking down with tougher requirements for corporate security policy. A better auditing system is coming, and Novell and the developers of OpenXDAS hope to pave the way through this new legal requirements jungle with a well-designed common audit record.
correction, confusion, and a question
first, a correction: CORBA is maintained by the OMG, not the Open Group (though the Open Group has a validation suite for ORBs called CORVAL).
second, my initial confusion: it took me until the bottom of the first page to realize what you meant by "software auditing". first i thought, "good, we need an open source alternative to Coverity's Prevent (fka Standford Checker)." then i realized you weren't talking about that kind of "software auditing", so then i thought, "can't we just get behind auditd and snare so we have at least one standard linux audit subsystem?" then i finally realized you were talking about a library for standardized application self-reporting. (maybe i'm just slow or have been thinking about those other things way too much. ;-)
third, my lingering question: is what you described really called "auditing"? yeah, i guess a common definition (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=audit) doesn't require a "third party", "outside observer", etc, but no one takes a self-audit seriously. and when it comes to security, there are too many reasons not to trust a self-audit (mistakes, misunderstandings, subversion, rogue). The correlation between events and audit messages gets overlooked, are misinterpreted, or are subverted (buffer overflow, code injection).
is the "auditing" concerning the application's upstream or downstream (humans and/or other processes)? so that an application's use of openxdas is not to audit the application itself, but to verify upstream (verify the user's actions) and/or downstrean (the application says it connected to the database, but the database didn't report it)? is it to create a composite picture of the whole system, like interviewing everybody at the scene of an accident to piece together what really happened (like the blind men each describing a different part of the elephant)?
on the first page you make a big deal about the differences between logging and auditing, but from my single-application security-critical perspective, your "auditing" is really nothing more than "standardized self-reporting".
Response to confusion and question
Hmmm...Interesting viewpoint. So what you're saying is that the only proper way to do a secure audit is to build and install a trusted kernel-level service that monitors and reports on system calls made by user-space applications?
This would certainly solve the problem of instrumenting packages - all packages are automatically instrumented - to the degree that they can be using this method.
I don't actually disagree with this approach. The problem I have with it is that many companies write software for multiple platforms, and they would like to have audit records (events) reported on all of their target platforms. But each platform has a different set of system services - or at the very least different names for the same classes of services. Who's going to write it, and who's going to standardize it, so that everyone will want to use it?
Novell has been doing what you call self-auditing for decades. People not only trust it, but they want it. The fact is, system administrators tend to trust the software they purposely install - foolish notion perhaps, but true, nonetheless. They trust it to do what it was advertised to do - but more to the point (and definitely less foolish), they trust it to send proper audit information to audit servers.
I appologize for not being more clear on the nature of XDAS in the first place. I see now as I re-read the article with this thought in mind that you are correct - the context is not very well defined up front.
i admit, it's semantics
yes, the ultimate assurance would be a formally verified kernel (see "EAL 7" and MILS, "Multiple Independent Levels of Security") that reported application behavior. but that's not always necessary, just as an IRS "audit" is not to the same level as a criminal court case (with evidence, witnesses, jurors, judge, etc).
what's necessary? depends on the requirements and what level of security/assurance is needed. there are 7 levels of EAL because each successive level costs more to implement and the insurance shouldn't cost more than the respective risk (you don't buy a $1000 safe to protect $100).
but i think my hang-up was in semantics: "auditing" communicates to me a third-party/outside-observer arrangement, where what you describe is "logging" or "reporting".
examples of auditing:
- linux kernel audit subsystem ("auditd"): kernel reports on user-land syscalls
- NTFS "auditing": NTFS reports on user & system file actions
- IRS "audit" (for americans): IRS scrutinizes supporting documentation and recalculates tax return comparing it to submitted tax return
examples of logging/reporting:
- Windows event log: applications & system report on themselves
- syslog: applications & kernel report on themselves
- SMART ("Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology"): hard drive reports on itself
okay, the event log and syslog are not good examples because they actually contain both "logs" (from the applications about themselves) and "audits" (NTFS auditing output ends up in the event log, pam login failures go to syslog).
logging is useful in friendly situations when you trust the reporter (debugging, record keeping), where auditing is required in adversarial situations where the reporter needs to be reasonably trusted (if only due to degrees of separation, no "conflicts-of-interest", bypartisan, etc).
if Novell (Netware, i presume) is reporting on file system permissions exercised by the users, then i would call that "auditing" (the users). if Novell is reporting on administrative actions (creating a new user, changing user permissions, etc) then i would call that "auditing" (the administrators, as that is probably who initiated the action). but if Novell is reporting on what itself did (wrote 80 MB to the network, sustained 20 MB/s to the disk array, wrote a file to disk), then that's "logging".
logging and auditing are both useful (and even more useful when standardized across platforms/systems to facilitate processing), but they are not the same and, imho, should not be used interchangeably.


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Okay, here's what I need to do.
- Tonight, I need to e-mail friends about my travel plans and any party plans.
- Saturday morning, I'll cram the last requirement for KMD2004. No word yet from groupmates; v. odd.
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- Sunday evening: Christmas dinner? Final chance for pictures with people.
- Monday: print e-ticket, pack, pack, pack, KMD2004 revision
- Tuesday: last-minute cramming, pack, fly
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- Salmon flakes for Papa
- Electronics
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- Clothes I plan to wear while there
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Hi DRDollie and thanks for taking the time to pass along some useful info. Will definitely be checking them out for tips.
Hi Art and thanks a bunch! Your story is definitely inspiring and I will be checking out your blog as well. Really greatful that there's a whole community dedicated to trying to live life better.
I started to run again in Jauary of 2010. Not a lot, but enough to start feeling a little better physically. I was right where you are now. When I started I was getting winded very quickly. But after a few weeks - 2 minutes turned in to 5 and 5 turned into 10 and so on. I'm still not anywhere close to where I want to be, but I'm still on the right path. I've found that keeping a journal or something that you can share with others and reflect back on personally will really show you what you've accomplished.
Glad you are looking to get active!
Running on a treadmill is really difficult. I love to run, but absolutely HATE running on the "dreadmill". I suggest trying outdoor runs. Find a path/sidewalk and just run. Maybe a park that has some trails.
Running outside takes your mind off of what you are doing while you look at the scenery. Just run until you feel winded, walk a bit, and when you can, start running again. I tend to run faster and longer when I don't pay attention to things on the treadmill like the time, the distance, my speed.
On the treadmill, you pick a speed that feels comfortable and run at that, but you don't always run a constant speed, which is what is nice about running outside. You just do what feels natural.
If you are looking to lose weight, you may also want to consider doing weight/strength training. In the end, it works better to keep the weight off because your muscles keep your metabolism high.
Good Luck!
I started the c25k last year , I have lost weight and feel so much better now that I still continue to run 4 days a week. I was just like you and then I watched a show that really put me in motion to exercise and eat right. I haven't looked back! Good Luck
I am glad to have found this forum. From what I have seen, this is the best place to look for and find answers to your running questions. I tried the couch to 5k a couple of times and never got past the 2nd week. However, This seems to be a very very sucessful training program here. I found my current program from the book " Getting Real About Running" by Gordon Bakoulis. The page number is 20. You run 1 minute and walk 4 for week one. After you take 30 seconds from the walking time and add it to the running segment, keeping the whole at 5 min per cycle. The only thing I am worried about is week 9 where there are no walk segments just a continuous 20 minutes. Week 8 is run 4:30 walk :30 so I guess its not a big leap, but its still scary. Anywho, Good Luck. I just finished week 2 so find what works for you. I am using a treadmill and hooked up my laptop so I can watch The Biggest Loser, I mean, I can run a measley 1:30 if they are dealing with super tough trainers and more weight to loss then me. Its worked for me so far ( It helps that Hulu is free too). The other thing that helps is knowing that I registered for a 5k in May, it really helps me keep focused and attentive to where I am heading. I made sure to put it several weeks after I finish my 9wk training so that if I have to repeat a week, I can, and also to get me used to running outside beforehand. Its a 5k pretty close to home but I think it is good for me to have a straight committed focus (which is what I have lacked in the past). Anywho, sorry to ramble, hope this helps.
Good for you!!!! I think the key to sticking with it is finding support from friends and family. I've found that the online communities (active.com, facebook, twitter etc) have all been a great means for finding supportive friends to cheer me on. Get some online buddies with the same or similar goals and hold each other accountable. I've also enjoyed reading blogs of others that are training for a race.
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Thanks for your kind input and for staying dedicated.
Thanks for sharing and I definitely will check out your blog.
You know, I think I'm definitely going to try the 1min/4min rule this week and see how that makes me feel. Sometimes when I see veterans running at full speed for minutes on end, I get so intimidated and feel a little discouraged but from now on it's going to be just trying to stick with my own pace and not focus on others. Been toying around with signing up for a 5k so maybe I should. Afterall, better to keep it moving than relapase into being a couch potato all over again.
Thanks a lot for the useful tips.
Hi everyone,
What can i say? This website is truly different and I really look forward to sharing my journey as much as time permits. The support has been tremendous and I hope to be able to encourage others as they too begin this journey to living a more fulfilling life. Keep running!
I understand being intimidated seeing other runners but we all run at different levels at majority of us starting out using the c25k program, when i first started into running i remember the day, i was off work so i decided you know what maybe this week i'll start into running, so i rode down to a local park, then went over to a tree and spent 3-4 minutes stretching and then started to run, 30 seconds later, lungs were burning, ankles were burning, feet were burning, i gave up and went home. I thought i could never run, but the next week i found a c25k program and started into it, yes it hurt bad for a few weeks, i remember i could sleep right at night my knees and ankles were so sore but after i finished the c25k and ran a 5k race i was feeling better, when i first started i was 269 pounds and today i'm 170 and trying to get back to 165, i finished my first marathon last October and i'm going to run the LA Marathon next month. When i was training for the 5k i kept thinking how can i ever manage to run 26 miles that's way to long but you'd be amazed at what your body can do, you just have to tell your mind you can do it. If your anywhere near Long Beach, California i'd help you on your c25k program, i just finished helping my wife run a 5k program and now she is starting onto 10k.
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4 very thin wires out the right side plug two sets of red and black that go into an elbow covered with a lot of expanding foam, which I can only assume is the heater, but how can wires that thin power a heater? They are the thickness of dental floss? I figured sensor wires, but where is the heater and where is it getting power from if not. I see no inline heater, like on every other spa I have had just after the pump that is. Did the old pump have the heater built in?
Left side of board is the pump connection and two sets of white and black wires that I see running to the waterfall light and underwater light.
I'd like to verify everything is working correctly and done right, before I start buying parts. Some idiot hooked up the ground/ green to the hot plug, and hot wire to the ground plug of the main plug and I think took out the 110v GFCI because that's what I see the system has nowadays. I'll be hooking it up to a GFI so I won't need an inline unit, but I wish it still had it. WTF was the last guy thinking? The only thing I could think of was that a repair guy did it so that the owners would not try to turn on the spa without repairing something thus making it short out, or they didn't pay him??? This plug miss wire scared me into doing a major inspection.
The upper control module is toast from the look of the damaged plastic etc and I' m not willing to plug the Cat5 jack in to get electrocuted even though it's probably only 12 volts but I don't want the board to fry either.
I'm wondering if I should just buy a universal heater/board/controller like I did at my old house, but I'd like to verify everything works without the controller first and just spend $90 if possible. I enjoy doing this stuff so no problem for me and I am a handy man and know electrical very well.
Replacement pump I jumped the board wires to it and it worked. I plugged the wires back into the board where they came from.
I'd like to verify the heater works and I forgot the procedure Ohms at the element right? Or should I bypass and verify the board is working correctly. I had an older tub last time that had mechanical relays so it was easy to hold them in myself and test things. I see no mechanical relays to push in and test things so I'm just trying to get the diagram to see if everything is laid out correctly or if someone went willy-nilly and moved stuff around like on the plug.
The white is plugged into the green on the board, but the ground is sent to the board's box and plug to the same spot so it's okay. and then the box's ground bar to the pump housing as well. But why is the board labeled green for the neutral? Hot is on black. A diagram would help sort this out.
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Kraus C-GV-700-19mm-10AB Antique Brass 17" Rhea Glass Vessel Sink (19mm Thick) with Kraus KGW-1700 Waterfall Vessel Faucet, Pop-Up Drain and Mounting Ring
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Technical Specs
|Sink and Faucet Specification / Installation Guide
|Basin Depth
|Basin Length
|Basin Width
|Drain Assembly Included
|Faucet Finish
|Antique Brass, Chrome, Gold, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Satin Nickel
|Faucet Holes
|Faucet Included
|Faucet Material
|Faucet Model
|Flow Rate (GPM)
|Glass Thickness
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|Low Lead Compliant
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17" Rhea Glass Vessel Sink (19mm Thick) with Kraus KGW-1700 Waterfall Vessel Faucet, Pop-Up Drain and Mounting Ring
Synergy, the concept that multiple parts working together can create more than the combined total of their independent efforts; this is a good way to describe Kraus bathroom combos. In many cases, Kraus has specifically designed their faucets and sinks with combos in mind, meaning that the intentional pairing guarantees you a professional post-install presentation. Kraus bathroom combos include the sink, faucet, pop-up drain, and mounting ring (if required).
For more bathroom combos that include this sink, search: "GV-700-19mm combos"
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A lot of manufacturers use the tag line "where style meets function," but when you dig deeper, you find that their line of product is actually rather traditional. Fortunately for you, the reader, you have found a manufacturer where style really does meet function. The meaningful innovation of Kraus vessel sinks shows intelligence for art and design, while the above-counter design frees up cabinet space. In fact, Kraus vessel sinks are so highly regarded that they have almost single-handedly created an industry. But while others have tried to copy, Kraus is still the definitive leader in vessel sinks for four reasons: Quality: Glass is hand-blown, making each piece unique, then is tempered for your protection. Interior and exterior is polished to ensure years of clear beauty. Reviews: Kraus vessel sinks tend to shock people with how beautiful they really are – pictures do not do them justice. Price-point: At around $150, these are a smoking deal. Certification and Warranty: All sinks are covered under a limited lifetime warranty which means they protected for as long as you own your home. UPC certification guarantees the product complies with all codes – something other vessel sink manufacturers cannot say.
- Add a touch of elegance to your bathroom with a glass sink combo from Kraus
- Stylish glass sink and matching waterfall faucet will complement any bathroom decor
- Installing Kraus combo is an ideal home improvement project
- Glass sink is constructed from solid tempered glass
- Sink features smooth interior with a vibrant color pattern
- The interior of the vessel combines various shades of brown, orange, and copper with pearl white colors; while the textured exterior features a gorgeous brown color.
- Designed for above counter installation with standard US plumbing connections
- Solid brass umbrella pop-up drain and mounting ring are included in the same finish as the faucet
- Diameter: 17 inches
- Height: 6 inches
- Glass thickness: 0.75 inch (19 mm)
- Mounting ring adds 0.5 inch height
- 1.75-inch standard drain opening
- Manufactured by Kraus
- Limited Lifetime Warranty
- Certified and Listed by UPC, cUPC, CSA, IAPMO, ANSI and SCC
- The handcrafted nature of this product will produce minor differences in design and sizing. Subtle variations will occur from piece to piece, adding to its unique qualities. Measurements may vary slightly.
Faucet Product Details:
When Kraus launched their now legendary waterfall faucet, the world was taken back. The design was not only bold, but a bit daring. By incorporating glass into the faucet, Kraus created a faucet unlike any other on the market – and the market rewarded them. A smashing success, Kraus has since launched a variety of other breathtaking bathroom faucets, nearly all of which have been in high demand since their release. When shopping bathroom faucets, we know you have a lot of choices. Beyond style, here is why you should consider Kraus: Quality: No plastic shells, seals or handles here – all Kraus bathroom faucets are made from solid brass or stainless steel (depending on selection), with brass fittings and ceramic disc cartridges. Price-point: Unique bathroom faucets can cost a fortune, but this is not the way Kraus does business. Kraus vessel faucets come in around $160 – a fraction of total bathroom remodel costs. Reviews: As with all Kraus products, customers consistent give Kraus faucets 5-out-of-5 stars. Certification and Warranty: Limited lifetime warranty and UPC certified.
- Waterfall faucet is constructed from solid brass
- Available in Chrome, Satin nickel, Antique brass, Oil rubbed bronze and Gold finishes
- High-quality ceramic cartridge
- Single-hole, top-mount installation
- Single lever water and temperature control
- Standard US plumbing connections
- All mounting hardware and hot/cold waterlines are included
- 7 inch matching glass plate made of tempered glass
- Faucet height (overall): 13 inches
- Spout height: 8 inches
- Spout reach: 5.5 inches
- ADA compliant
- Manufactured by Kraus
- Limited Lifetime Warranty
Please note that in the Accessories Box (to the right of these product details) you will find five vanities which are built to accecpt Kraus vessel sinks and faucets. If you are interested in a Kraus bathroom combo and don't yet have a vanity, we encourage you to check these out. To view all of our vessel sink and faucet ready vanities, simply search: "vessel ready vanity."
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Our SKU: C-GV-700-19mm-10
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Longest posse cut ever. Even longer than the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" and The Game's "One Blood (everyone at All-Star Weekend mix)"…yep, put together! Mucho raps from representatives of Green Ova, Bruiser Brigade, Rad Reef, Sortahuman, Das Racist, and ut amounts much more…over some cocaine synths courtesy of Ryan Hemsworth. 22+ minutes never rapped so smooth. You do the math on all of that though.
MondreM.A.N., Squadda B, TRPLBLK, Chavis Chandler, Kool A.D., Big Baby Gandhi, Key Nyata, Isaiah Toothtaker, Joeybagadoughnutz, Dizzy D, Supa, Snaxx, Left Leberra, Don D, Rod Fuego, 9Gs, Zachg, Lakutis, Fat Tony, Lofty305, Lowercase, Himself the Majestic, Shady Blaze, Keyboard Kid, Antwon, Western Tink, & Chippy Nonstop "Hyperbolic Music Chamber" (Produced by Ryan Hemsworth)
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