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CAPE GIRARDEAU - The Sikeston Bulldog tennis team avenged its only dual loss this season with an 8-1 victory against Cape Central on the road on Thursday.
Sikeston (9-1) has now won nine straight dual matches, plus last week's first place Poplar Bluff Invitational finish.
The victory snapped a four-match losing streak to the Tigers, including a 6-3 setback in the first match this year.
"We'd been looking forward to this match for a while now," said Sikeston head coach Brian James. "We really came out fired up and we seemed to play well. Cape's got a very good team. They beat us at the beginning of the season, they play a very good schedule, and they're team is probably favored to win their district again this year. It was a very good day for us and I can't be more pleased for our effort."
Sikeston swept the singles competition. Stephen Pobst beat Trevor Blattner 6-2, 6-3; Adam Hahs beat Andy Tansil 10-7; Ryne Vickery beat Andrew Eaton 11-10 (7-4); Peter Jones beat Eric Dauny 10-6; Marc Leible beat Tyler Roeger 10-6; and Chris Robey beat Grant Hengst 10-7.
In doubles, Vickery/Jones beat Eaton/Dauny 10-6; and Leible/Robey beat Roeger/Hengst 10-8.
Sikeston's only loss came in the No. 1 doubles match where Cape's Blattner and Tansil beat Pobst and Hahs 10-8.
"We really played well in doubles, even in the match we lost," said James. "Our number one doubles was playing the team that got seventh in the state last year and they had a chance to beat them but they just came up a little short."
Sikeston will host Lindbergh today at 4 p.m.


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"Revolution" Ends, "TMNT/Batman:TAS" Begins in IDW's November 2016 Solicitations
Comic Books
And we're done!
96. Stargirl – 63 points
97 (tie). Deadman – 62 points (1 first place vote)
97 (tie). Mr. Mxyzptlk – 62 points
99 (tie). Hawkgirl – 61 points (1 first place vote)
99 (tie). Metamorpho – 61 points
If anyone wants to e-mail me reasons why you voted for these people, feel free to do so at firstname.lastname@example.com
Hey, there's Mxyzptlk. Nice to see him. Great to see Stargirl too.
Isn't Mxyzptlk unaffected by the physical laws of "our" dimension? What exactly prevents him from speaking underwater, since he appears to be breathing just fine?
I've been waiting on Deadman since the start as he was in my top 10 (I think…it all seems so long ago). Glad he scraped in past the finishing post at last. I wasn't sure about him making the top 100 at all as he's always had a limited following often just cropping up as a supporting character and due to the lack of interaction with other characters who often don't even know he's there – part of his appeal to me really, I love the way he manages to affect outcomes without anybody knowing.
I'm glad it wa Boston Brand who made it as I really didn't like the rethought Deadman who had the recent run on Vertigo. Boston is a far more likeable character and has been sorely underused in the past….He would make an awesome addition to the Shadowpact team; even if they were unaware of his presence although they would probably have someone around who could sense/see or interact with him. I'd love to see a Deadman possessed Detective Chimp!
Alas, poor Ampersand…
I totally forgot Deadman I love Boston, I can't believe I totally blanked on voting for him….
Did Poison Ivy make the list?
None of the Flash rogues?
Curses! Can't you brainless goombahs grasp a true possessor of superior strength and wisdom when you see one! The horror…the horror.
PB: Fifth dimensional speech is water-soluble.
Stargirl's bottom half looks really strange. Like he used an overweight model, but in the process of trying to reduce the hips and thighs, lost the scale and couldn't really recover it.
Glad that Metamorpho could make it…
No Ray? No Damage? No Triumph?
No Eradicator? No Cyborg Superman?
No SPOILER!!!!!?????
The most shocking ommission is Enemy Ace.
Well, I think we can see why Hawkgirl got canceled.
This also makes me wonder how well the Metamorpho Year 1 book will do.
Well from my top 10 it seems a few missed the top 100–I can't say I'm surprised, but missing were:
Nuklon (Albert Rothstein)-A much better name than Atom Smasher.
G'nort (figured he'd miss)
Scarlet Skier(figured he'd miss)
Ben, seriously, at this point can you just reveal Grant Morrison's point total?
Pretty please?
Is there any chance we could see some sort of "Others receiving votes" rundown?
There's always a chance for most anything, Sue!
So long as you don't call me Ben.
I think I'm missing something. I see 96, 2 97's, and 2 99's. Where's 98 and 100?
I think I'm missing something. I see 96, 2 97's, and 2 99's. Where's 98 and 100?
Is that a serious question? If so, I'll explain it – just checking first.
Actually yes.
I was expecting ties to count as one and not displace the others.
But that's how ties operate.
You don't come in second place if 100 people are ahead of you, but happen to all be tied.
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Style.Com has a cute piece about Coco Rocha raiding their beauty closet. She literally just helped herself to whatever she wanted in the alphabetized, beauty addict's heaven. But who can blame her?! I thought I liked her new dark hair but, in this picture at least, it really washes her out.
Speaking of models hanging out at magazines Teen Vogue welcomed Chanel Iman to their infamous fashion closet. Chanel actually helped out the interns with organizing the closet rather than stocking up on basics.
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Liverpool are set to make a move for Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke as they prepare for life without Luis Suarez.
The Daily Mail reports that Benteke is set to have discussions over his future with Villa when he returns from international duty but a host of clubs including Atletico, Spurs, Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester are interested in signing him this summer.
Benteke hit 19 goals in 34 games for the Villans last campaign in a season which they struggled in and with Suarez said to be considering his Liverpool future could be set to make the move to Merseyside.


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This is the kind of time in which people say things like "We are all Bostonians." But supportive sentiments aside, you can hardly be a fan of American pop culture without loving Boston. It's ballsy, it's beautiful, and it's given us so many things we adore. Things like:
All the great Beantown bands, like Boston itself and Dropkick Murphys (Quincy, Mass.)...__
And that romantic something about Boston that tempts us all into being musical posers. Vampire Weekend, with their popped collars and odes to the Cape, are actually from New York. (But we can't really judge them—who among us has not yelled the above Dropkick Murphys song while doing a pitiful faux-jig?)
Actually, we were set up to love all things music and Boston by these guys. And our dolls modeled after them.
Something about the place pairs well with soapy law shows (Ally McBeal, Boston Legal).
And speaking of shows: Normisms. "Gentlemen, start your tabs."
Also just the Cheers intro in general, which is for some reason making me cry today.
Obviously, Rachel Dratch (Lexington, Mass.) and Jimmy Fallon's sloppy-teen tribute to the city.
Chris Evans (Sudbury, Mass.). We love that guy.
All the books that make it seem like Boston is the very best setting for a fall-into-it, can't-quit-it story. These are just three of my favorites.
That time Steve Carell (Concord, Mass.) "ran" the Boston Marathon for a Daily Show segment. This clip is from April 2001.
Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on FacebookThat time a young guy from Brookline named Conan O'Brien tried out to be a late-night host.
That time a young guy from Newton named Louis CK started doing stand-up.
Boston terriers. So spunky and yet so squeezable.
Good. Will. Hunting. Responsible for an entire generation of Eastern Seaboard good girls enduring a "I'm going to marry a bad boy from Boston" phase.
The Departed.
HIMYM nailing all guys' obsession with The Departed.
Mindy Kaling. Our darling Mindy hails from Cambridge, Mass., and talks about her Boston-area childhood in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? I'm partial to the passage in which her middle-school clique goes to the city to get a badass caricature of themselves.
That time Sabrina the Teenage Witch moved to Boston for college. And the show changed the intro to her twirling around the city.
Sox fan Seth Meyers doing rejected "Weekend Update" jokes at Boston University a few weeks back.
Love Story, which gave us Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal making out all over the Harvard vicinity.
Fenway Park, a true movie star. From Fever Pitch to Moneyball to Ted, the stadium is one of the most magical backdrops in movie history. This great scene from Field of Dreams feels eerily apt today:
__Go the distance, Boston. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.


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Siri works great in conjunction with the built-in Reminders app. Not only can Siri create and add reminders to pretty much any list you have, Siri can also make it incredibly easy to manage and share a shopping list. So the next time you need milk or want someone in your house to pick it up while at the store, just tell Siri!
- How to create a shopping list in the Reminders app and add items with Siri
- How to share your shopping list with iCloud
How to create a shopping list in the Reminders app and add items with Siri
- Launch the Reminders app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap the plus sign by New List at the top.
- Title it Shopping.
- Pick a different label color if you'd like and then tap Done in the upper right hand corner.
- Now press and hold the Home button on your iPhone or iPad to launch Siri.
- Say something like "Add bread to my shopping list." — you can obviously replace bread with whatever item you'd like.
- Tap Confirm to add your item.
That's all there is to it! Repeat this process whenever you need to add items to your shopping list. It's much easier than unlocking your iPhone or iPad, launching the Reminders app itself, and typing in your items. Sure that may be easier when you have lots of items to add at once, but when it needs to be quick, Siri is a better bet.
Now that only leaves one thing left, sharing your new list!
How to share your shopping list with iCloud
Sharing your shopping list with others in your house makes it incredibly easy to make sure nothing gets forgotten at the store. Just remind them to add anything they need before you head out to do your shopping. After you share your list, iCloud will sync all changes between both of your iPhones and iPads so you see what each other adds and ticks off in real time.
Unfortunately Reminders lists can't yet be shared right from your iPhone or iPad, so for this step, you'll need to open a web browser.
- Go to iCloud.com from any web browser.
- Log in to your iCloud account that contains the list you want to share.
- Click on the Reminders icon once you're logged in.
- In the left hand navigation, click on the share icon next to the reminders list you'd like to share — in this case, the Shopping list.
- Type in the iCloud email of the person you'd like to share the shopping list with and click Done.
That's it! The person on the receiving end will receive a notification that you've shared a list with them and they'll be able to accept it right on their iPhone or iPad. Once they do, both of you will have easy access to adding and checking off items in your shopping list! You can repeat this process any time you want to share a list with anyone.


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SYSA Night at the NE Revolution
Save the date for the SYSA Night at the NE Revolution. We are booked for the Rev's season finale on Sunday October 23rd against the Montreal Impact. The game kicks off at 4 pm, but there will be an opportunity for tailgating before the game. Stay tuned for more details about ordering tickets. This is a great way to bring the team together midseason.
New System of Play
New Coaches Meeting - August 31, 7 pm
Save the date for the Fall season's New Soccer Coaches Meeting. It will be at the Grange Hall at 7 pm on Wednesday August 31st.
This is a required meeting for all those who have not coached with SYSA before. See you there.
Fall Gear Distribution
The Fall Gear Distribution Day for coaches was August 20th.
If you cannot pick up equipment on the 20th or need equipment before then, please email Andy & Ailsa at firstname.lastname@example.com so alternate arrangements can be made.
New BAYS Kits for Fall 2016
We are four years in with our current kit. That is one more year than we originally expected. Going forward, all SYSA BAYS teams will don the new UnderArmour Maquina kit. SYSA elected to keep the red top, blue short, and blue sock combo with our families in mind. Players can continue to wear the current blue short and blue sock.
All kits must be ordered online. They are available now for order at Brines' Teamsport site.
Roster Size Recomendations
Sudbury Youth Soccer tries to accommodate all players in town through varying ability levels. We take care in recommending ideal roster sizes to achieve maximum playing time while giving equal playing time to all.
Goal: Each player will have at least 60% playing time. There will also be at least three subs at 3v3 and 4v4 between both teams, three subs at 7v7 and 9v9, and four subs at 11v11
K roster (3v3): 11 = 55% playing time, 10 = 60%, 9 = 67%
Recommendation 9-10, with 9 being ideal
1/2 roster (4v4): 14 = 57%, 13 = 61%, 12 = 67%, 11 = 73%
Recommendation 11-13, with 12 being ideal
US Soccer Birth Year Changes
US Soccer have made a significant change to how it forms teams to unify all states and all clubs into one, consistent system. The changes must come into effect for January 1, 2017.
Each state organization, in our case MYSA, provided its town leagues with the opportunity to change how it currently configures teams or not.
BAYS have decided to change its configuration to play by birth year AND grade. This means, rather than allowing only players born on or after August 1 to make a particular team without restriction, it now allows players born on or after January 1 to play on the team providing they are in the given grade.
Soccer Gear Drive for South End Soccer
Now is the perfect time to start breaking those new soccer boots in before the Fall season. It is also a great time to clean out the closets and donate your gently used cleats and shin guards to the SYSA Soccer Gear Drive for our friends at South End Soccer. Donations can be made at Brines' Sporting Goods. Anyone who donates a pair of cleats will receive 20% off of a new pair at Brines as well. It is certainly a win-win for everyone.


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The FCPA Battle Royale
A group of 33 non-governmental organizations sent a letter to every member of Congress Thursday, urging them not to amend the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, as the battle over the foreign bribery law heats up.
In one corner stand the NGOs, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice, in the other, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and much of the country's white collar legal profession.
The NGOs argue the FCPA is a model for other international anticorruption regimes, and narrrowing it would have a negative effect on global commerce, human rights, and the standing of the U.S. in the world. The DOJ and the SEC have also opposed changing the law.
Meanhwhile, the Chamber argues the law is written too broadly and the U.S. government is stretching the FCPA in ways that are hurting U.S. business.
Some on the Hill have been receptive, including Democrats.
U.S. senators Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) and Chris Coons (D., Del.) have said they plan to introduce legislation that would clarify parts of the law. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R., Wis.) said during a hearing on the FCPA in June that he would also put forward a bill, and Rep. Bobby Scott (D., Va.) said he might support it.
Thursday's letter was an apparent attempt to tamp down support for any changes to law.
The group of NGOs, which included anti-corruption organizations like Global Financial Integrity, Global Witness and Transparency International-USA, warned that amendments proposed by the Chamber and others would constrain the DOJ and SEC and improperly limit companies' liability.
"Even the perception that the U.S. commitment to combating bribery is waning would weaken the global fight against corruption," the letter said. "As leaders in the public interest community dedicated to advancing human rights and curbing corruption, we therefore urge you to halt any attempt to introduce amendments to the FCPA"
Simon Taylor, the founding director of Global Witness, warned lawmakers that supporting the amendments would be bad for their public images.
"Lawmakers should not underestimate the level of support for the FCPA," Taylor said. "Efforts to undermine it will be extremely damaging to the reputations of those involved."


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Simply the best beer, brewed in Boekelo, unique for it's swingtop bottle with a porcelain cap (new bottles are with plastic caps).
Beers that absolutely suck. heineken and amstel
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When we brew the grolsch, we brew it longer, for a fuller taste.
SCHTOP! This bride, she is not ready yet. She has 100 million years of evolution; haven't you guys ever heard of the Darwin? You can't rush these things. It's like when we brew the grolsch. We brew it longer, for a fuller taste.
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A form of beer (US English) or lager (British); brewed in Groenlo, the Netherlands. A popular export product. Best known for it's unique bottles with porcelain caps.
I'll have a Grolsch please.
Teunkie tarafından 23 Nisan 2003, Çarşamba
Something you'd do to a girl and not tell your friends.
Dude, last night...we grolsched.
You grolsch her?
You grolsch her?
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actually beer and lager are slightly different things, but americans call both beer
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When Did Scary Spice Get Scary Hot?!
4/14/2014 12:00 PM PDT, by Emily Trainham
Guys, guys, this is the most important thing you'll see all day, or maybe all year: it's Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B, also known as Scary Spice, twerking her heart out. Honestly, it's probably the most impressive celebrity twerking we've seen to date. Miley Cyrus dreams to be at this level of twerking. She will surely watch this video time and time again, studying the technique that seems to come so easily to Melanie here. What she doesn't know, however, is that twerking like this? It's in the soul. It's raw, mesmerizing power.
But for real, have you ever seen anything better than this?
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"It's 100 percent clear that they had no idea who was in that vehicle and just lit it up," says attorney Christopher Driscoll.
Driscoll is representing Maggie Carranza, 47, and her mother, 71-year-old Emma Hernandez, the two women who were shot on Thursday, Feb. 7 in Torrance, CA by LAPD officers. The officers were on the hunt for Christopher Dorner, and claim to have mistaken Carranza and Hernandez's truck for Dorner's.
"They had a description of the suspect, they had a description of the suspect's vehicle. The two women obviously do not match that description in any way," Driscoll says.
ReasonTV's Tracy Oppenheimer sat down with Driscoll to discuss how this tragedy could have happened.
"When an officer is injured, or goes down, or is threatened, the team mentality really steps up," Driscoll says, "you have that concern that individual citizens' rights are going to get trampeled when the officers are attempting to get justice for their brothers.


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September 27, 2014 4th-8th 9 a.m.- Payroll Advance (8) vs. KHAOS (3) 10 a.m.- HomePride Bank (6) vs. Longdollar (4) 2nd-3rd 11 a.m.- Harris Construction (5) vs. Clarity AV Solutions (1) 12 p.m.- Ava Parks and Rec. (5) vs. Donald ...Read More »
Ava High School Homecoming Is Being Observed This Week
It's Homecoming at Ava High School this week, and all the events will climax with the coronation of the 2014 Homecoming Queen and King on Friday night. Coronation will be held at halftime of the Ava-Houston football game. A Homecoming ...Read More »
Bears Hold Off Salem For 23-21 SCA Win; Houston Here Friday For Homecoming
Junior quarterback Caleb McFarlin scored three touchdowns – including a 61-yard touchdown run – at Salem last Friday night, leading the Bears to a 23-21 SCA win. In addition to scoring all three of Ava's touchdowns, McFarlin picked up a ...Read More »
Ava Cross Country Team Makes Strong Showing at West Plains
The West Plains invitational Cross Country meet was held on Tuesday, Sept. 17. Ava had a full busload of runners traveling to run as there were races for varsity, junior varsity, junior high and 5th and 6th graders. In the ...Read More »
Lady Bears Win 3 of 4 Games In Softball Action This Week
The Ava Lady Bears softball team won three of four games during the past week. However, the one loss was a conference game at Thayer. On Saturday the Lady Bears played two games at Hollister, defeating Hollister 16-1 and Springfield ...Read More »
7th & 8th Grade Volleyball Teams Play At Home
Ava 7th and 8th grade volleyball teams were at home on Monday, Sept. 15 and played host to the Lady Bears of Willow Springs. Ava 8th grade defeated Willow in a two game match, 25-19, 25-20. Gracie Heinlein served 13/14 ...Read More »
Plainview Welcomes Grandparents
On Friday, Sept. 5, Plainview School hosted Grandparent's Day. For the special occasion, students welcomed family members into their classrooms and entertained with a host of special activities and planned events.Read More »
Ava R-1 Holds September Meeting, Henry Reports Annual Performance Up
Spurlock Reads Board's Grievance Policy; Wallace Defends Stance On Nepotism By Sue Curry Jones The Ava R-1 School Board met in regular session on Thursday, Sept. 18, with board member Jeff Davis absent from the meeting. In closed session, the ...Read More »
Douglas County Prosecutor Responds to Recent News Article
In response to the West Plains Daily Quill article on September 21, 2014, involving alleged nepotism issues that may exist on Ava R-1 School Board, the Douglas County Prosecutor, Roger Wall, has made a response. While it has never been ...Read More »
Soccer Schedule
September 27, 2014 4th-8th 9 a.m.- Payroll Advance vs. KHAOS 10 a.m.- HomePride Bank vs. Longdollar 2nd-3rd 11 a.m.- Harris Construction vs. Clarity AV Solutions 12 p.m.- Ava Parks and Rec. vs. Donald Collins Law K-1st 8:30 a.m.- Casey's General ...Read More »


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This is a discussion on Urgent!!! Informix Database Administrator for Singapore - OS2 ; VAM SYSTEMS is a Business Consulting, IT Technology Solutions and Services company with operations in UAE, Qatar, USA, Singapore & India. VAM SYSTEMS currently looking for Informix Database Administrator for our Singapore operations with the following skill set and terms ...
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1. Min 1-2 years experience in Database Administration of Informix
2. Scripting experience with Unix and/or Windows platforms (Shell/Perl/
Java script)
3. Database Administration experience with Oracle Databases
3. Trade interface applications that captured executed trades into
Back Office applications
4. Settlement Systems like Clearance & Settlements which track trade
settlements and interact with various custodians and banks for stock
and cash settlements
5. Messaging systems that communicate with Clients, Custodian, Banks
etc. via the SWIFT network
6. Trade Confirmation systems like CLS, Accord, FXALL, CMS that send
and mange trade confirmations to clients
7 .Reconciliation tools.
1. Installation / Configuration / Administration of Informix
2. Support Backup / Recovery issues for current production
3. Facilitate migration of production to DEV & UAT environments to
support testing. Includes performance tuning.
4. Support client connectivity software configuration including I-net
on Unix.
5. Support maintenance scripts for Informix database.
6. Support weekend maintenance jobs.
7. Secondary responsibilities will include:
8. First level user support globally for Treasury & Banking systems.
9. Responding to user queries for all aspects of the system and
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10. Monitoring of systems for performance and stability.
11. Liaise with other technical areas to address technical as well as
functional issues.
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This a private bedroom with a double bed very nice, its charming and colorful. There's extra mattresses in the room if there are more than 2 guests. Guest may use the kitchen on the following conditions: They wash up all dishes, cutlery, pots and pans. They clean the cooker, hob, all work surfaces and table. They sweep the floor of any crumbs. They return all utensils to their original place. They put all rubbish in the bins at the entrance to the building.
The place is about 400 meters from New Cross Station, which gives you access to the Overground and the mainline railway (Note: the Overground is connected to the tube/underground - it just runs over ground - all tickets are valid). Deptford Bridge Station is even closer. From here the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) will take you to Greenwhich and Canary Wharf. There are also numerous buses, which pass New Cross Road and go straight to central London, including several night buses, so you can always get home no matter what time of night! You can be in Trafalgar Square (by train) in just 15 minutes. The vibrant and eclectic area of Shoreditch is also just 15 minutes on the Overground. The location is ideal for any tourist or person working in central London!
So far all the guests in the house have been very nice, interesting, responsible and very respectful of one another. I believe that they have all enjoyed their stay. The apartment is maintain daily to a high standard. In the local area you will find everything you need for a great stay; there are 24 hour food shops, cafes, restaurants, supermarkets, some really nice traditional English pubs and the famous Deptford Market all within walking distance of the place. The place is very close to Goldsmith University campus, so could be an ideal base if you are visiting the university for a conference.
Bathroom: Guests are asked to hang the bath mat up after use. Guests are asked not to leave any soap, shampoo, shower gel or any other such items in the bathroom. Guests are asked to leave the shower in a clean and fresh state. Guests are asked to leave the toilet in a hygienic and fresh state.
Bedroom: Guests are asked to wear house shoes in the bedroom and the rest of the house. Guests are asked to refrain from playing music before 10am and after 10pm. Guests are reminded that smoking is not permitted in any part of the property. This includes the bedroom and smoking at the bedroom window. Anyone found to have smoked in the property will be asked to leave. Guests are asked to remove all litter and rubbish from their room at least once a day.
Please note that a cleaner will clean all common parts of the apartment each day. We ask guests to leave the area when the cleaner is at work. There is no need to leave the room as this is cleaned at the beginning an end of your stay.
Please note that guests are not permitted to have others staying with them in the room. If a guests wants someone to stay over at any point the guest should agree this with Sidney before. There is an extra charge for this. Please ask for more information. Also note that smoking is not permitted anywhere in the building. Please do not violate this.
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The apartment was fine other than the terrible smell the place had. The neighbourhood is not the nicest but we didn't have any troubles. Sidney was helpful and accurate with directions/info before our arrival
Very disappointed..I know it was cheap but it didn't look like the picture and the whole apartment was so shabby! The shower either scalded you or was freezing..no in between. The other guests were very noisy and used all our milk out of the communal fridge - although that's obviously not the owners fault - couldn't wait to get home for some sleep!
The room was in a good location for getting to the station and to the centre. It was as shown in the wimdu pictures. All was cleaned daily by the cleaner from Brazil. We were allowed to use everything in the kitchen and the wifi connection was fast.
After the last review we got a little scared to stay in this place. However, all was good. The room was as in the pictures and we found no smell. Everything was clean and quite new. Wifi was fast. The station and buses were close and the trip to the centre was about 20 minutes. Sidney was friendly and accommodating. We would recommend.
The appartement was very well located, 20-25 min by train from downtown. The room was very clean, and during the 7 nights we stayed there, it was very quite. While spending the most part of the day visiting London, this simple appartement suited all our needs.
I visited Sidneys' apartment in June 2014 with my daughter and her girlfriend (13 years). The address was easy to find from the very good description. The room was not ready when we arrived (after 10 a.m.) but it was cleaned when we got back later that day. The place was further away from the City than I thought, but I guess that's just due to my own lack of research ;-). The bus line 436 was convenient to use to get to the center. It took about 30 minutes and it was stopping at the nearby bus stop every 5-10 minutes. I find the apartment suitable for just spending the night and the price fits the standard.
Pobyt u Sidney'a był naszym pierwszym doświadczeniem z Wimdu. W Londynie byliśmy przez tydzień i było świetnie.
Mieszkanie jest położone w drugiej strefie. Najbliżej jest stacja kolejki naziemnej "New cross" (8-10 min piechotą do stacji). Dojazd do centrum zajmuje ok. 30 min. Trzeba przesiąść się na metro, albo można też dojechać bezpośrednio autobusem (40 min). W pobliżu mieszkania są liczne sklepy oraz pub, chociaż okolica nie wygląda na bezpieczną i przyjazną.
Sidney jest bardzo dobrym gospodarzem, dał nam precyzyjne wskazówki jak trafić, odebrać i oddać klucz (raczej nie oczekuj, że się z nim zobaczysz, on nie mieszka pod tym adresem). W dniu wyjazdu można zostawić bagaż w kuchni (nie w pokoju).
Mieszkanie znajduje się na pierwszym piętrze w bloku, który właśnie jest remontowany, więc za oknem są rusztowania i od rana pracują robotnicy. Słychać też przejeżdżające pociągi, ale nam to nie przeszkadzało. W mieszkaniu są cztery pokoje. Nasz był dużo mniejszy, niż mogliśmy sądzić po zdjęciach zamieszczonych w ofercie. W wyposażeniu jest łóżko ( wygodny materac) oraz stolik, krzesła, suszarka do włosów i wieszak (nie ma szafy). Łazienka, toaleta i kuchnia są wspólne z innymi lokatorami. W trakcie naszego pobytu wszystkie pokoje były zajęte, ale nie było problemu z korzystaniem z łazienki czy WC. Kuchnia jest dobrze wyposażona i czysta. Łazienka i toaleta są małe, sprzęty raczej zużyte i niezbyt czyste, ale wszystko działa i woda jest ciepła. Każdy pokój jest zamykany na klucz.
Podsumowując, myślimy, że jest to dobre miejsce, żeby zatrzymać się tam na kilka dni, jeśli twoim celem jest zwiedzanie Londynu, a mieszkanie wykorzystujesz tylko, żeby się przespać.
Staying with Sidney was our first experience with Wimdu. In London we were for six days and it was a great time.
The flat is located in the second zone, close to the overground station 'New cross' (8-10 min walk to the station). Access to the city centre takes about 30 min. You may travel by overground (it goes every 30 min), but you have to change to the tube, or you can also take a direct bus (about 40 min; it goes every 5-10 min). The place is near a small range of shops and a pub, although the area do not look much safely and friendly.
Sidney is a very good host. He gave us precise directions and instructions about how to pick up and return the keys. It's worth to read them carefully as they are very helpful and informative. Rather do not expect to see Sidney, as he does not live at this address. He visited us once during our stay. On the day of departure you can leave your luggage in the kitchen (not in the room).
The flat is on the first floor in an apartment block which is being renovated now, so the window is covered by scaffoldings and workers work from early morning. You can hear the trains passing too, but it did not bother us. The apartment has four rooms. Ours was much smaller than we judge by the photographs in this offer. In the room there are: bed (comfortable mattress), table, three chairs, hair dryer and a hanger (no wardrobe/closet). The bathroom, toilet and kitchen are shared with other guests. During our stay all the rooms were occupied, but there was no problem with using the bathroom or toilet. The kitchen is well equipped and clean. Bathroom and toilet are small. Appliances are rather used off and not very clean, but everything works and the water is warm. Each room can be locked with a separate key.
In conclusion, we think that this is a good place to stay for a few days, if your goal is to explore London and you use flat just to get some sleep.
To make sure you understand this rating correctly: This was original written in english.
Let's start at the start:
Room and apartment:
We found the place pretty easily. Sidneys description was precise and understandable.
Unfortunately Sidney was not there at the time, but he wrote an email pointing that out and left instructions how to get. - Two tips on the side for all travellers: Keep your emails with you and use international prefixes for ANY phone numbers you are using. Else it could be you would reach someone, but somehow they can not hear you.
The apartment was in an old building and it has seen a lot of residents. It was clean though and the room itself was okay.
It was NOT the one from the photo. We asked Sidney for the room advertised here and he said it would be available, but closer to the train (so louder) and that he had to change rooms, because of overbookings.
We decided to stay in the room nevertheless, because it was enough for the few days we were there.
The toilet and the bath (both in separate rooms, which is great until you need to wash your hands) were clean. The bath is very old and needs refurbishment though.
The shower...yeah..it was okay. But especially if you are a girl, you really need time for this thing. Not only, because you only get very cold or too hot water out of it. For this you need like five minutes of fine tuning and then the pressure is very low (girl with long hair specific problem).
Soap would be a nice to have thing there. Comming from the toilet standing there, thinking "...no soap?" was kind of irritating. I know it was no hotel, but anyway, it would have been nice.
Kitchen had all we needed. Place to stash our groceries, a cooker and even a washing machine. Dishes and cutlery also. A fridge for everyone to use and split by rooms (4 altogether) was also there.
The room itself was okay for a few days. We (2 persons) had enough place to turn around ^^
A closet would have been nice (not only, because there was one in the picture), but we had at least a clothes rail and managed to get along with it.
The train was not so much audible as it would have distracted our sleep at any time.
The construction workers (there is currently a scaffold all around the house. Modernization is going on ;)) started very late with the loud work and we even found sleep over the day.
The bed and the room as everything were very clean.
The internet was kind of good until others arrived. I researched that problem and it seems to have something to do with the ISP. I reported that issue to Sidney on our last day there and he said he will take care of it.
Transport connection
The train is really close. Let it be a five minute walk. The bus also arrives almost half the way to the train.
It has a really great connection to the city. The one thing you will see the most is the London Bridge Station if you are heading into the city ;P
BUT! you need to be very careful with relying on the train at night. You - at least we could not - can not reach the station at night after 00:00 o'clock. You need to take busses then and believe me: That can be an adventure.
Take a really good look at the time tables of those if plan going out partying or stuff that keeps you up late.
A little tip: New Cross Gate is NOT! very far (about 5 minute walk) from New Cross Station. We found it a lot easier to get a bus there than to New Cross Station or the other bus station that is only 15 meters from there, but closer to the apartment.
The apartment is really close (about three minute walk) to all kinds of shops or snack bars. You can get take away food on the whole street. About seven minutes from the apartment there are grocery stores. The 99 pence store has really ALL you need. But I recommend not to buy any meat there. It tastes kind of funny. But for drinks, snacks etc. it is great.
We were a little disappointed.
Wimdu misleadingly uses the phrase 'couchsurfing' which is not what this it offers. It offers sometimes pricing seemingly anonymous apartment (rooms) offered (sometimes) by private persons.
We wanted to stay with someone giving us some tips, someone we could maybe sit and breakfast with and dip into his/her British life for some days.
Also couchsurfing is for free ;P
But this is not by any means Sidneys fault. He gave us a pricing opportunity to stay in London close to the central city.
He talked to us, gave us some tips and had an open ear to all of our questions. He was always reachable when we needed him and reacted very promptly if there was a problem or anything else.
The shower, the internet and the other small issues mentioned above are not that bad if you are out of the apartment for the whole day and just want a place to sleep and freshen up. You also can avoid or at least compensate situations like coming home late with the bus by good preparation and/or mobile internet.
Thanks for the stay, Sidney. :)
Maybe we see each other again ;)
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First, let's look at what you bring to the table. If you've racked up extra certifications, such as night diving, deep diving, or dry-suit diving (just a few examples), you're much more valuable to a potential employer. Translated: You can make that employer more money, not only from teaching the higher-level classes, but from sales of additional dive gear and accessories at the employer's dive shop. If you've mastered web design skills, you can help jazz up your employer's website so it stands out in the local dive market.
Now let's look at your potential workplaces and how each employer might compensate you. At a dive shop, you might get a set hourly wage or base salary, plus commissions on courses you teach and gear you sell. Depending on how prosperous the dive shop is, you might also get some bennies out of the deal. Examples might include gear discounts, good rates on dive travel packages, or some type of savings plan. If you're teaching at a dive resort, on a cruise ship or aboard a live-aboard dive vessel, you'll likely receive a lower salary. However, you'll probably get free room and board and maybe even some nice tips. All the more reason to be nice to your students.
Perhaps you've decided to float along as a freelance dive instructor. Yes, you can command a pretty nice rate for your services. However, you'll need to rent your classroom, pay for pool time (although you might negotiate a package rate), and pop for really good liability insurance. Yes, this is one profession where you don't want to skimp on the liability coverage. You'll also need to keep your class' dive equipment maintained and cover travel costs for students' certification dives. That further cuts into your profit margin.
With all that said, let's look at the numbers. Within the United States, a SCUBA instructor will probably make between $35k and $40k per year, which likely includes all his income sources. At dive resorts, newbies gross around $20k annually, while seasoned instructors make about $22k per year. On a cruise ship, expect to make about $1,700 per month; while your live-aboard dive instructor salary comes in around $2,000 per month. If you manage to land a private yacht gig, you can expect to rake in close to $3,000 per month. You should also remember the room, board, and tips you'll receive through your excellent customer service. Of course you'll report them, right? We thought so.


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Eveoke Dance earns La Jolla Playhouse's next resident company position
La Jolla Playhouse named its 2011-12 season resident company — Eveoke Dance Theatre — making it the first time dancers have been chosen for the four-year-old program. Eveoke has produced more than 30 original, socially conscious works throughout San Diego since it was founded in 1994.
"We are incredibly jazzed and grateful about the amazing opportunity we have to learn from the wisdom of the La Jolla Playhouse staff and organizational best practices," said Eveoke Artistic Director Erika Malone. "This is a rich opening for our organization to expand, stretch, and deepen the roots that will sustain us as a passionate and activist dance theatre company for years to come."
Spearheaded by Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley, the Resident Theatre Program aims to encourage the artistic development of up-and-coming performing arts organizations, while advancing and contributing to the San Diego theater scene as a whole.
Eveoke will be in residence Sept. 8–25 in the Playhouse's Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre with a production of "Las Mariposas." On Nov. 25, 1960, three sisters known as "the butterflies" were brutally murdered for their participation in the resistance movement against Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. A fourth sister survived and shared their story of courage, conviction and compassion. Adapted from the Julia Alvarez novel "In the Time of the Butterflies," "Las Mariposas" allows audiences to experience key moments in the sisters' lives and witness the circumstances and choices that led them to participate in their country's revolution.
The company returns to the Playhouse May 31–June 24, 2012 with "Refuge," in which emerging choreographers Becky Hurt and Myriam Lucas tackle issues of gender, sexuality, and cycles of violence through hip-hop dance and spoken word.
Previous resident theater appointees include Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company (2008), Moxie Theatre (2009) and the San Diego Asian American Repertory Theater (2010).


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Spreading Awareness and Hope for MS
05.24.11 | By Kate Connors
Today is World MS Day, a day intended to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis and to create a stronger network among the more than 2,000,000 patients around the world who live with this debilitating disease.
To help with the goal of raising awareness, PhRMA produced a brief, informative video featuring a multiple sclerosis expert, Sanofi's Associate Vice President and Head of the Multiple Sclerosis Distinct Project Unit Anita Burrell.
The video provides a comprehensive look at the disease as well as some positive insights about the work being done. As Burrell straightforwardly says to patients: "Your disease is important." After all, 38 potential new medicines are currently in development to treat MS.
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A Grameen Foundation Community Knowledge worker speaks with a Ugandan farmer
A piece recently published on both the Scientific American and Fast Company's CoExist websites highlights our most recent work with the Grameen Foundation. We participated in Hacking for Hunger, a first-of-its-kind hackathon held by the Office of Innovation & Development Alliances at USAID, which focused on global food security issues. From the article:
Palantir took 28,000 geo-located soil samples Grameen had taken from across Uganda and combined them with data on soil types, population, income, and other factors. The developers hope the system can also help identify potential disease outbreaks, and help create an alert system for farmers who might be affected.
Read on for more about the data-driven work that Grameen Foundation is doing, pioneering the use of smartphones as two-way information conduits to rural farmers in Uganda, and how Palantir is helping with those efforts.
Video submission to the Hacking for Hunger hackathon
Grameen Foundation is the charitable organization inspired by the work of Grameen Bank, one of the first organizations to pioneer microfinancing loans for the impoverished in the developing world. The foundation grew out of the success of the bank, and is a separate entity working on lifting people out of poverty. From their website:
Grameen Foundation helps the world's poorest, especially women, improve their lives and escape poverty by providing them with access to small loans, essential information, and viable business opportunities. Through two of the most effective tools known—small loans and the mobile phone—we work to make a real difference in the lives of those who have been left behind: poor people, especially those living on less than $1.25 per day.
A CKW t-shirt reads, "ASK ME ABOUT FARMING."
One of their units, the AppLab builds mobile phone applications to leverage the power of cell networks to disseminate information to those who have the least access to it. The Community Knowledge Worker (CKW) Program hires people in Uganda and provides them with Android phones running an open source, custom agricultural information app with an entire data collection platform behind it. These CKWs then travel around Uganda, engaging with rural farmers to provide them with essential information to help them be better farmers. Everything from market pricing, best practices, and disease information is included in the application, and cached for offline access when the CKW is off the grid.
The first time CKWs meet a farmer, they register him or her in their phone, record some brief demographic information ("How many children under 11 do you have?", "Do your children have shoes? Clothes?", "What do you use for cooking fuel?") and start answering questions. Most of the these farmers live outside of the coverage of Ugandan cell networks, but the phones use their GPS satellite signal to record the exact time and location of each query. When the phones return to the grid, all of the data about the queries are uploaded to a central server. The upshot is a perfectly geocoded dataset that maps out a large amount of rural farming done in Uganda.
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Object Explorer plot of acreage farmed vs. count of farmers (log scale)
Of all the non-profits that the Philanthropy team has engaged with, the Grameen Foundation has some of the finest data we have ever encountered. They know that their data and their two-legged sensor network have value. They are widely regarded to have the best known data on agriculture in Uganda.
Object Explorer plot of query distribution among categories
Palantir's Philanthropy added Grameen Foundation as a partner in mid-2012, having first met them at DataKind's San Francisco Data Dive.
One of the first workflows that we were able to uncover in their data (highlighted in the video submission) is using query data to track the outbreak of crop and livestock illness. It is possible to see the progression of blights in the query data, which was not foreseen when the CKW data set was being collected. Once the data was imported, it only took about twenty minutes to start mapping out the spread of a chicken blight.
Heatmap of baby chicken blight: Animals Chicken Local Diseases Whitish Diarrhoea In Chicks Less Than 2 Weeks Old And High Death Rate
Public presentation of our work with Grameen Foundation began earlier this year with a presentation by Philanthropy Team Lead Jason Payne to a USAID-sponsored conference on African food security as part of the G8 meeting in Chicago. Here's a recorded version of that earlier presentation:
Our work in the hackathon was a success. We integrated a new dataset collected by the CKWs—the 28,000 soil samples mentioned in the article—and built up some new workflows around the data. We were one of four finalists chosen as part of the hackathon. Grameen Foundation and Palantir will be traveling with USAID to the Iowa Hunger Summit (put on by The World Food Prize Foundation) on October 16th to present our work.


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Monday of last week I had the chance to talk to the very charming and multi-talented Meg Carriero who's not only an actress but bakes some awesome cupcakes with cannoli cream! Meg was kind enough to bring some cupcakes the previous week and it didn't take long for us to devour them, especially with the assistance of a certain someone whose name rhymes with "giller".
Without further ado, here's how the meeting went:
So you've been in theatre, TV/film, and promos. Why baking?
Meg Carriero (MC): I loved to bake ever since I was a child. It'd be someone's birthday and my mother would be like, "Let's bake a cake." and it was always a really happy time for me. My mother passed away about 5 years ago so I didn't do it for a while and I was trying to find a way to remember that and get close to her again so I started baking. And I enjoyed it! I was like, this is fun. I like it and I started looking into doing boxed cakes. I started looking for recipes online and slightly altering them and changing some things from there.
So you grab the recipes online and change them up?
MC: I was, originally, and now I'm trying more to make them right from scratch start to finish to make them completely mine.
Was using cannoli cream your idea?
MC: Actually, I've been trying to figure out ways to get the cupcakes out there and I became pretty good friends with Sean [Sullivan] from Feed Your Hole and I asked him if he was interested in picking up my cupcakes maybe once a week/month or if he'd want to try them first and then place an order and we go from there. He's Irish-Italian and I was adopted into an Irish-Italian family and he mentioned cannoli cream. I've been wanting to do legit cannolis for a while and I was like, this is great, let's do this! That's where it came from; basically, Sean had requested it.
Is the cannoli cream cupcake your main cupcake?
Before that I had a cappuccino cupcake that has gone over really well. I've been working on a signature cupcake which is a spiced carrot cupcake with Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum.
I don't think that's for the kids!
MC: (laughs) Right! That's more for the adults. It won't be heavy but it will have a hint of it just to give it the adult flare.
I was thinking of the name for a long time and I went with Yummy Bunny. I love my bunny ears I wear and I was thinking this was a good way to help parents who are super busy with kids' birthdays and they don't want to buy store-bought cupcakes. I can deliver them wearing bunny ears! I was thinking, what rhymes with bunny that's about food and so Yummy Bunny came up.
How many times have you delivered them to kids?
MC: I haven't done it at all yet because I've been working on recipes. I've kind of moved away from that and more into just getting them out there any way possible right now which is why I brought them to Sean and BiteHunter.com…
We loved them by the way!
MC: Thank you! Awesome! So hopefully I can use you guys as testers in the future.
Any upcoming major orders?
MC: I've been talking to Sean on when he wants to do them so we're in discussions right now. That'll be my first really big one and I'm very excited!
When you started, did you get it right the first time or was your house filled with smoke?
MC: (laughs) I've always been good with cakes and brownies and truffles but the first time I tried making churros I did set my kitchen on fire. (laughs) I don't do churros anymore. I've been removed from churros for a year so I may bring that back.
With all the work you do outside of baking, do you find it hard to find time to bake?
MC: I do. Right now it's good that things are being planned far in advance for the most part with it so I have time to plan things around it and make sure not to have gigs around that time. If it gets busier there are decisions that have to be made as to what I'm going to do and what I'm not as far as things outside of baking.
So would you ever consider baking a full-time career?
MC: Goal-wise I'd like to have a storefront one day. Whether I personally run it myself is up in the air because acting is my first love, I absolutely enjoy it. Promotions I also do and enjoy but it's not something I want to do my entire life which is why it'd be nice if the baking took off because I'd enjoy that a lot more.
What part of baking do you love the most?
MC: The decorating. When it comes to the frosting and what goes on the frosting it's just so much more artistic at that point.
Speaking of which have you tried Babycakes?
MC: I have not! I hear many things about them, I've looked over their cookbook and I know they do a lot of vegan and gluten free baking. I want to get into that too because there are so many people now with problems with wheat allergies. So many people are moving away from dairy that I would love to pick their brains on how they started and what ingredients they use.
What is your favorite cupcake to make?
MC: That's a tough one. I love them all for different reasons. The carrot cupcake with real shreds of carrots is a recipe I haven't perfected yet and it's been a challenge and since it's the signature one I really want it to be special and perfect. I've been testing that one out a lot and I feel that when I finally perfect it it's going to be a weight off my shoulders. That's completely 100% my own creation.
Were truffles a natural progression from cupcakes?
MC: That came out of me not having a lot of money to do Christmas this year. I felt everyone loves chocolate so I made four different kinds and put them in nice boxes. I gave them to all my family and some of my friends.
Was it easy to make?
MC: It was. It was time-consuming but it's pretty easy as long as you have a good knife. I didn't have a good enough knife to cut the chocolate fine but most of it is to let it sit for a couple of hours and making sure to have the time to do it.
At the end of all this, what would be your main goal with your baking?
MC: Honestly, it's going to sound really cheesy and cliche but to make people happy! There has been a lot of people who get excited when they see them and they love how they taste. That makes me feel good and it brightens they're day and it's really cute. It'd be nice to leave promotional work and still do this. I'll have more control over my life and have a little more leeway with my scheduling which would be nice.
I'd like to thank Meg for taking to time to talk about cupcakes and her love of baking. If you want to know more about Meg Carriero check out megcarriero.net. Also, check out Yummy Bunny for more about Meg's baking.
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When I was One-and-Twenty
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Try, try again. Repetition is the key to this poem: it's only by shoving his age in our faces at every possible turn that the speaker is able to slam home the point that he was pretty dumb when he was 21. Subtle? Not exactly. But if you've listened to the same commercials over and over, chances are you'll start to remember a company's slogan. In this case, repeating our speaker's age reinforces just how stubborn and unchanging he really is.
- Lines 1, 8, 9: These lines repeat various forms of the "when I was one-and-twenty" refrain, making sure we realize how important it is.
- Line 15: Here it is: the non-repetitive line. We know it's important because it's almost syntactically identical to line 8, which makes its differences even more apparent.
- Line 16: Ending the poem with a repeated phrase makes us think that he's summing up an argument. As it turns out, he is!


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moreFresh out of college in the summer of 1961, Happy lands his first job as a graphic designer (okay, art assistant) at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. Life for Happy seems to be -- well, happy. But when he's assigned to design a newspaper ad recruiting participants for an experiment in the Yale Psychology Department, Happy can't resist responding to the ad himself. Little does he know that the experience will devastate him, forcing a reexamination of his past, his soul, and the nature of human cruelty -- chiefly, his own.
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The powerful story that has captivated the sports world and inspired many to believe in miracles
On October 16, 2010, during a college football game against Army, a crushing tackle left Rutgers defensive lineman Eric LeGrand paralyzed from the neck down. The months to come would be a long, grueling, and emotional road to recovery but also a remarkable, transformative journey—one so profound that Eric would call the time since his accident the best years of his life.
In this moving memoir, Eric tells the uplifting story of how he is rebuilding his future with faith. Doctors said that he would never again breathe without a ventilator. Five weeks later, he astonished them by drawing breath on his own. A year after the accident, the nation watched as he led his Rutgers teammates onto the field in his wheelchair.
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter Roger Chillingworth Quotes
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"It was my folly! I have said it. But up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain. The world had been so cheerless! My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one!" (4.18)
Aw. We could almost feel sorry for poor, lonely Chillingworth—except that he's about to prove himself a psycho-stalker.
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"Here on this wild outskirt of earth, I shall pitch my tent; for, elsewhere a wanderer, and isolated from human interests, I find here a woman, a man, a child, amongst whom and myself there exist the closest ligaments." (4.26)
Chillingworth and Hester do have some things in common, after all. Both hold a secret. Both are unhappy. Both have a very desirable skill (Chillingworth is a doctor and Hester is an amazing sewer). And both live on the outskirts of this Puritan society. You'd think they'd have a happier marriage.
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"Peace, Hester, peace!" replied the old man, with gloomy sternness. "It is not granted me to pardon. I have no such power as though tallest me of. (…) Ye that have wronged me are not sinful, save in a kind of typical illusion; neither am I fiendlike, who have snatched a fiend's office from his hands. It is our fate. Let the black flower blossom as it may. Now go thy ways, and deal as thou wilt with yonder man." (14.32)
Okay, since the evil Chillingworth obviously thinks that he and everyone else are ruled by fate, we're going to go out on a limb and say that Hawthorne is coming down on the side of free will. He totally does have control of his actions.


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In general, I get a lot of questions from various customers about HTTP session persistence. With Web 2.0 technologies taking off, more and more Web applications are being redesigned, and as they get changed, these same questions come up even more frequently. If you are involved in redesigning any Web applications for Web 2.0, here are answers to some of the questions you might soon be asking.
- If I don't need session persistence, can I turn it off?
Yes, you can configure session management to run with in-memory sessions, which is actually the default. You can still use HttpSessions in this mode, but if a failure occurs, the data stored in the HttpSessions will be lost.
- What are the session persistence options with WebSphere® Application
Server Network Deployment, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of
The two main options for HttpSession are database persistence and memory to memory replication. SipSession replication only can use the memory to memory replication. In IBM® WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, memory to memory replication uses what is called the data replication service (DRS). Additionally, the ObjectGrid (OG) feature of IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale also offers memory to memory replication for HttpSession.
Database persistence is the most widely-used option. The performance of database persistence is also better than memory to memory replication, when not taking the extra hardware that the database is running on into account. Another advantage is that this solution can handle cascading failures of application servers, which is only possible with more than one replica in a memory to memory configuration. The disadvantage of database persistence is the cost of the database, particularly if the session data stored in the database should itself be highly available.
The DRS memory to memory solution is a good solution for many deployments. DRS is "best effort" memory to memory replication, which performs slightly worse than database persistence, depending on data size and number of sessions. The primary advantage of DRS is that you avoid the cost of the database. The disadvantage of DRS is that it is less reliable than the other options. Although we say that DRS is "best effort" and sessions might be lost in the event of a failure, the chances of session loss are minimal in a properly tuned system.
The third option is the OG memory to memory solution. The advantage of this solution is that it provides everything from asynchronous replication that is not best effort to guaranteed synchronous transactional replication. It is also less expensive than most database solutions. The primary disadvantage would be the added cost above WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, even though this is less than most database license costs.
- If I need to come up with a one-size-fits-all general architecture, which do
I choose?
In my opinion, I would start with database persistence and investigate OG memory to memory persistence to reduce database costs. Database persistence is the most commonly used architecture and it performs the best.
- Under what conditions can data be lost?
The most common scenario for session loss is when the write frequency is set to something like time-based writes. Any changes in the session between the last write and a server failure can be lost. This applies to any session replication options.
As I pointed out above, DRS has only a slight chance of losing a session because it is best effort. We say that DRS is best effort because it has no acknowledgements to ensure the data is received by the backup system, and in a system that has congestion issues, a session might not get replicated at all. When the high availability management system in WebSphere Application Server gets very busy, a failure to send the session might occur. While DRS will attempt to retry the send of the session, it might eventually fail if the congestion still exists with each retry. The number of retries and the retry interval is configurable. In the end, you might lose a session if a heavy workload causes these congestion failures for eac h initial try and for the retries, and if the server with that session fails. In this case, the session will be lost and the application will need to handle such a scenario.
The important thing to understand about DRS is that under non-failure conditions, the session will always be there. When a failure does occur, data that has not been written out before the failure occurred might be lost, regardless of whether the server is using database or DRS persistence. If this is a problem for a specific application, you might consider using something like the ObjectGrid cache instead of the session to store those objects. ObjectGrid provides transactional semantics around the object to ensure that if a failure occurs, you know when the change has been committed so that, if the error occurred before the change is committed, you can roll back.
- Will a loss of session affect any of the other WebSphere Application Server
Some parts of the application server itself depend on session to store state like JavaServer™ Faces (JSF) widgets. When a session is lost, however, those pieces are able to recover with some notable problems. For example, if a tree JSF widget was expanded to a certain section and a failure occurs, the next refreshed view of that tree might no longer be expanded.
- What are other recommendations for using sessions that will be persisted?
- Keep the session state small, preferably less than 4K overall.
- Use transient variables when possible, particularly when caching items in the session. A transient variable enables the application to keep a copy in local memory, but rebuilds the object if using the backup copy.
- Consider using an object cache like WebSphere eXtreme Scale rather than using the session for caching. While sessions might be convenient, the APIs are not purposed as a cache and do not meet many of the needs you could encounter with an object cache.
- Should I use a single row or multi-row schema with database persistence?
A single row schema provides fewer database queries overall and pushes more data to the database with each update. However, a multi-row schema can be more efficient -- or even necessary -- when there are large session attributes or very few changes to the attributes. Larger amounts of data can be stored using these multi-row schemas since each attribute is stored in its own row in the database. However, the resulting performance can be worse with a multi-row schema, since gathering attributes out of the session might cause multiple queries.
- What tuning parameters are available for HttpSession in WebSphere Application
Server Network Deployment?
The major session tuning options are outlined in the WebSphere Application Server Information Center. For HttpSession, a good place to begin tuning is the write frequency. Basically, you can configure how often the session manager writes to the database or to the peer server's memory. The best performing options will perform the writes less frequently via the time-based options. The worst performing options are at the end of servlet service method (when the servlet returns from whatever method it was called through) or the manual update (where the servlet itself calls a method on the IBMSession object to cause the write to happen). The manual update can be the most efficient means of session persistence if the attributes are infrequently updated. However, they do introduce the potential for the application failing to call the sync method on the IBMSession after having updated the attribute.
The next major piece to change would be the "write contents," or the options as to what the session manager will write out. Those options consist of whether to write all the session attributes out to the persistence mechanism, or to write just the updated attributes. Writing all of the attributes out each time should really never be done. Aside from the performance not being as good as writing out just the updated attributes, it also can hurt portability to other platforms. Some servers do not support anything but the basic requirement, which is to persist the attribute when a setAttribute method is called.
With these answers, you should be able to decide on a session persistence strategy that best suits the requirements from both the business and application perspective. It is generally a good idea to simulate a failover under load in your test environment so you can see how not only the Application Server, but the application itself, will react to the session moving from one server to another. This is the best way to account for basic issues, such as forgetting to make one of the attributes stored in the session serializable, which could cause larger issues in a production environment.
The author extends special thanks to Bobby Goff and Rohit Kelapure for their comments and input when reviewing this article.
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Definition of aitch in English:
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Mesrine: Part 1: Killer Instinct
2008R113 minutes
This blistering biopic stars Vincent Cassel as notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine. The first in a duology, the film details the genesis of Mesrine's career, including an incident in the army that gave him his first taste of violent power. Gerard Depardieu co-stars in this commanding, stylish film (based on the autobiography Mesrine wrote shortly before breaking out of prison), which has been favorably compared to Brian DePalma's Scarface.


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On 2006-04-05, Gary Morrison
> Is there a way to tell HotSync to only sync appointments from Palm to
> computer and not the reverse (but still HotSync everything else both
> directions)?
Yup, look at the HotSync config; there are setting for various conduits
like "handheld overwrites desktop" and vice versa.
Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317
"The tao is in all programming languages, but try to avoid
using COBOL." - Nicholas M. Moffitt