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It seems to be a struggle to purchase a Christmas gift for those that spend the majority of their life surrounded by cows and calves. They would likely prefer a calf jacket for their newborn calf, rather than a new one for themselves. A new calf milk pasteurizer will probably get the nod over remodeling an outdated and tiny kitchen.
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Nevada Union High School has decided to enact a closed campus policy for its students, to begin in the 2014-15 school year, according to NU Assistant Principal Dan Frisella.
"We wouldn't be doing it if we didn't think it would be good for the school and the students at the school," Frisella said Monday. "All of our decisions were made with the students' best interests in mind."
Frisella, who will replace Mike Blake as NU's principal on July 1, said that the decision to have a closed campus was finalized three weeks ago. School faculty were notified last Friday that the decision was confirmed, and Frisella says the policy will be officially announced to the public at the Nevada Joint Union High School District board meeting on Wednesday. Frisella also said that a possible change in the school's bell schedule may be in the works as early as the 2015-16 school year.
The potential for a closed campus at NU has been on the table since winter of last year, and administrators have since been in discussions with the school leadership team and faculty. Administrators and faculty conducted surveys for community input in regards to the closed campus policy and held meetings with the school's parents group to get their take on the issue.
Frisella said that they also had conversations with NU's student congress and student council.
"They're not super thrilled about it, as you can imagine," Frisella said. "Overall they understand why, and they feel like it's a few people that are kind of ruining things for them in regards to behavior issues that we've had at lunch. But really, their input has been great."
Hailey Barbe will be a senior at NU in the fall and says that she thinks the closed campus policy is "going to be a train wreck.
"Kids that want to go off campus are going to find a way off of campus," Barbe said. "I know that I like going off campus because it enables … many different lunch options. I know many people that have to go home to take medicine at lunch and have other things to do. It's bittersweet in my mind, but I believe it's going to go out with a bang."
According to Frisella, though, community members have reported misconduct from NU students who go off campus during lunch.
"We've had a few theft issues at places like BriarPatch, but the substance abuse has been the primary issue with students, to be frank ... ," Frisella said.
Natasha Thornton, a former NU student, said she doesn't think the school is equipped to serve all of its students during lunch time but said there are positive aspects of having a closed campus.
"There's going to be less traffic and less dangers," Thornton said. "Because the kids do zip around the campus and around town. I've almost been hit by students from Nevada Union, so it's kind of hard because it's going to do some good and bad."
According to Frisella, the school is in the process of making some adjustments by offering more activities during lunch, a better food menu that includes a "Farm to School" program that will attempt to serve more fresh vegetables on campus, a new concessions area at Ali Gym and food trucks that will come to campus to give students more choices.
"We have the potential for partnership with local businesses. It's difficult for them because of the food regulations, but we're open to that and we're going to reach out to them," Frisella said. "We've also been granted a new salad bar that's a hot-cold salad bar, where we could do a baked potato bar, or a soup bar, or something with greens and salads."
NU parent Ranee Lawson, though, said that having sufficient amounts of food on a closed campus is just one thing the school needs to worry about.
"It's also going to bring more of the riff-raff that should be off campus, and it's going to bring all of that onto campus, and there are going to be more fights," Lawson said. "Six of my very good friends are teachers there, and they say they can't referee them because they need a break at lunch time, too. So who's going to referee those kids on a closed campus?"
Lawson, 45, also added, "We had my son's truck broken into three times because of kids in parking lots. There's going to be a lot of vandalism now because the kids won't have anything to do."
But Frisella says the school has a plan in place to accommodate the increase in student population during lunch. "We will increase security and eyes on campus," he said. "Students will be subject to progressive discipline for defiance, and those details are in development this summer.
"We'll see what happens," Frisella added. "I mean, they'll certainly not be happy at first, but if we can provide good food options and activities at lunch to get them engaged in the school, there might be some growing pains with it, but I'm sure they'll settle into it."
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Jones' resume includes stints with the likes of Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Sam & Dave, and Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes. In addition to his renowned funk guitar work, Jones is also a songwriter and singer with deep roots in gospel music – a fact he exploited when putting together the vocal group the Dynamic Insiders, an ensemble that worked with Brown for more than a decade. His singing and arranging talents also aided Jones during tours with the Ink Spots and the Platters, for whom he served as both guitarist and vocalist.
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Brown Bird, comprised of David Lamb and MorganEve Swain, plays a strain of folk music that forsakes transparently commercial concerns in favor of striving for a deep, organic connection to the Old, weird America. Though Brown Bird's sound boasts aspects of string-laden "chamber folk," what Lamb and Swain conjure has much more in common with indie-folk acts like the Low Anthem or Trampled by Turtles, than with the more arena-friendly faux-folk of, say, Mumford and Sons. That's good news for folks who frequent the Ninth Ward @ Babeville (341 Delaware Ave.), for that warm, intimate venue offers the perfect setting for such stirringly emotional music.
Brown Bird's most recent effort, the gorgeous, harmony-heavy "Salt For Salt," is sure to be given an airing at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Ninth Ward. Tickets for Brown Bird, with guests Hookan and Friends of the Sun, are $10 (box office, Tickets.com).
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Aqueous leads a workshop beginning at 8:30 tonight, to be followed by a live performance slated for 10 p.m. at SlyBoots Headquarters (351 Ellicott St.). Between the workshop and the gig, a complimentary dinner will be served. Tickets for this interesting and unusual workshop/performance are $10 for the workshop, $10 for the performance, or $15 for both.
Dive House Union kicks off a tour that will conclude in Memphis at the International Blues Challenge with an 8 p.m. show tonight in the Tralf Music Hall. The band will be joined by Lynne Fredericks and the Willie Haddath Band. Tickets will be $30 at the door of the Tralf.
Funktional Flow and Formula 5 share the bill at 9 tonight in Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar (253 Allen St.).
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By Sarah Pullman • Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 19:37
Michael CrichtonCrichton says that true skeptics are a dying breed. He says that whenever there is a big mass movement, skeptics vanish, and he believes that we need skeptics, and we need them to be especially vigilant whenever debate seems to end.
He made some pretty dramatic claims about terrible things that happen in hospitals – people's tissues being stolen and sold, cadavers being stolen, bones from bone cancer patients being given in transplants, genes being patented.
He says that he was not paid by anyone to write State of Fear.
Crichton was pretty slippery during the question period, I felt. He carefully dodged most of the questions that came at him. There was a question from the audience about whether there should come a point when you concede that the evidence has stacked against a position – like evolution. Crichton managed to avoid actually addressing the point of the question and said instead that he does agree with evolution, though he would still like to see speciation occur.
He maintains that all the global warming fear is about the future, and all based on computer models. He says that these computer models are "not good enough for me." He does conceede that the earth is warming, that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and that it is increasing as a result of human activity. What he disputes is what the climate sensitivity is, and he says that no one knows.
He kept coming back to his own examples, including comparing acting upon global warming to eugenics. Eugenics was based on phony psuedo science, and if it's happened once, then it could happen again, he says.
An audience member asks how we can get more skeptical viewpoints in the media. Seems to me that there isn't really a shortage of climate change skeptics getting air time in the media? Crichton doesn't even address this one, saying that new media will replace old.
Concedes that if he were peer reviewed, nothing he wrote would ever get published.!!
John StossellStossell is the host of 20/20. Has received many Emmys for his work and his recent book is a bestseller. Graduated from Princeton. Has a bad mustache and admits to being shorter in real life than on TV.
He opened by saying that he considers global warming to be a spiritual issue, and went so far as to put it in his book with astrology and UFOs.
He thinks that fear and alarmism sell, much more so than saying "we still don't know." Reporters listen to the ones who scream the loudest, he says.
His talk was entertaining and focused on fear-mongering, rather than on climate change per se. (I assume that the attempt was to convince us that climate change is also the product of fear mongerers and that we should be very wary of the science we hear.)
Applause from the audience for standing up to fear mongering. Apparently there is a healthy crowd of libertarians here amongst the liberals (Chris Mooney said the same to us earlier, that he had been defending himself against them through the whole lunch hour).
The debate turns to health care systems, and Stossell informs us that Canadians are getting healthcare from the 50s, though we seem to be happy about it because it's cheap and we don't know better. Apparently socialist systems take a while to collapse, but fear not, we're on our way.
When an audience member finally held his feet to the fire about climate change, he was totally dismissive. "Global warming? Even Crichton agrees the earth is warming! So what!" "But George Bush is ignoring the recommendations of all these scientists." "Global warming isn't a recommendation! Sign Kyoto is a recommendation but even its proponents think it's inadequate!"
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I found it interesting that Michael Crichton said almost nothing about global warming.
As a person who is learning how to think critically, I saw this conference as an opportunity to put aside my politics and emotions, listen to the evidence on both sides of the argument, and then come to a conclusion based on whatever data were presented.
Based on that, I have to say that the scientists who presented data showing the correlation between humans and global warming were the most convincing. (esp. Tapio - great job!) Michael Crichton and John Stossel pretty much avoided the topic altogether. I'm not even sure I know what their views are. (I have not read Michael's book - but was that a prerequisite? Shouldn't he have at least talked about the views he expressed in the book, and why he holds them?)
Michael Cricton and John Stossel could not even comment on the presenters from earlier in the day because THEY DID NOT ATTEND! Is this how to conduct a debate??? In my book they lose by default, and it also comes across as very arrogant - as if they are too important to be forced to listed to other people.
Michael Cricton may have done a lot of impressive things in his life, and he is obviously intelligent and tall and intimidating, but he gets an "F" from me.
Have to agree
I was very much left with the feeling that these two men are masters of messaging, not masters of the issue of climate change. They took every single question that didn't suit them and went straight around it and back to one of their talking points. Clearly they weren't prepared to actually discuss climate change, but both had an agenda to sow doubt in general. Not the way to make yourself seem open-minded an intelligent – rather, they both seemed quite pompous.
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Cricton and Stossel
I'm not surprised they didn't attend the scientific prresentations. Why would they? It's all hype to them, because they don't believe it using false analogies and other fallacies to discredit legitimate scientists like Michael Mann and James Hansen. I've started to shop my answer novel to State of fear around and there are no takers, yet. Commercial publishing can't handle the truth in fiction. Crichton's was a smear against science.
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actual climate data tells the real story
I stumbled across your blog while looking at some Michael Crichton listings and dropped by. I was disappointed that no one mentioned facts. It doesn't matter what the "experts" say. It matters what the data say. The data are readily available and I suggest people check it out for themselves rather than taking someone else's word for it. You can get the data from several government servers as listed in the files listed below. I have gathered the data and put it in Excel spreadsheets so that it's easier to look at; but provide links so you can go and get the original raw data yourself and check to be sure I'm being absolutely honest–something I invite you to do.
Download the Zip files, unzip each into a folder, and then open the Excel file. The "polygons" are triangles that grid the area (like England or the Earth). "Triangularization" means covering the whole area in triangles so you can add up how much area (or significance) to associate with each measurement point. GSOD is Global Summary of the Day.
1) Zipped Excel file containing polygons for UK, stations for England extracted from GSOD, daily average temperature showing slight warming trend: http://www.dsllc.com/download/UKtemps.zip
2) Zipped Excel file containing polygons for US (lower 48), old stations, number of record highs/lows per year, showing no trend in more record highs in recent years: http://www.dsllc.com/download/lower48.zip
3) Zipped Excel file containing old global stations from USDOE data set with global triangularization, monthly averages, and area-weighted delta-Ts from the 1700s through 1990. Running average shows warming trend in 1951 through 1971 and slight cooling trend beginning in 1982 with over 6000 stations reporting. http://www.dsllc.com/download/OldGlobalTemps.zip
4) Zipped Excel file containing recent global stations from GSOD data set with global triangularization, monthly averages, and area-weighted delta-Ts from 1994 through 2005. Running average shows no trend at all with over 20,000 stations reporting. http://www.dsllc.com/download/NewGlobalTemps.zip
The big difference between these files and others you might have seen is that they contain raw data. I don't adjust the temperatures in any way. I simply take the differences year-to-year for each station and multiply by the fraction of the surface area of the Earth represented by each station. It's just that simple. The temperature at the airport in New York City is truly insignificant when compared to the temperature in Billings, Montana. Area weighting assures this is properly accounted for.
Don't believe something just because some "expert" says it so. Insist on seeing the raw data for yourself! The data don't show global warming!
I just want you to think for yourself.
I checked out your web site, SaraPullman.com, and it doesn't look like you're too fond of geeks. You'd probably classify me as a geek. Sorry about that. I don't work for any "carbon" company and my income doesn't depend on the popularity of global warming. I work for a little company that tries to figure out better ways to clean up and manage the environment.
I won't actually say whether I think the climate is getting warmer or colder; because I don't know. What I do say is that the data don't show what the global warmers say that it shows unless they mess with it first–something I don't do.
This may all seem like geek speak or splitting hairs to you; but it's all part of a larger, far more important concept: truth and how you come to know it. I always challenge people to think critically, to question things, and to check facts for themselves. This is what I tell my daughters, "I just want you to think for yourself; because I won't always be here."
I'm a proud father too
My daughters do think for themselves; and I'm proud of them! My two oldest, Katie and Emily, were in the subway in London on July 7, 2005 when a terrorist blew up the car they were in. According to Scotland Yard they were only 8 to 10 feet from the blast! You probably saw them on TV last year. After surgeries and rehab they've recovered remarkably well.
critically examine today's headline
Let's just look at this article published today and do some critical thinking:
Study Says Earth's Temp at 400-Year High
Jun 22 11:10 AM US/Eastern
By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press Writer
"The… recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia… and human activities are responsible… surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose about 1 degree during the 20th century… academy scientists relied on "proxy" evidence from tree rings, corals, glaciers and ice cores, cave deposits, ocean and lake sediments, boreholes…"
First, I don't give a rip what they conclude from tree rings, corals, and cave deposits. For right now I'm just interested in measured temperatures. Anything else involves unprovable assumptions and speculation. We've got 150 years of actual measurements; so let's use them. You notice they were careful to say Northern Hemisphere? That's because if you include the Southern Hemisphere in the averaging there's nothing to report. If there's nothing to report it doesn't matter who's fault it is.
So the bottom line is: if you leave out the speculation and tell the whole story then there's no evidence for global warming. In order to make nothing into a headline the National Academy of Sciences has to separate out just the Northern Hemisphere (that only gets them "about 1 degree") then they have to add a bunch of speculative calculations so they can extrapolate out to centuries. All I'm asking is that you examine the evidence critically.
Missing the point
I think you're missing the point of our website here.
We are very explicit that we're not here to argue the science – we're here to investigate the PR people who operate in the climate change arena. Who are they, and who pays them? And when you do some digging into the most vocal voices denying that climate change is happening, it turns out that you can almost invariably trace them back to big oil and coal. Our site exists because we think the public deserves to know that so much of what they read in the papers, that would have them believe that there is a serious scientific debate happening, is the work of industry-paid PR people.
And finally, as a matter of fact I'm very fond of all the geeks I know (and there are many). In fact, I count myself among them. :)
It's a sad place you've come to.
I quite agree that hypocrisy should be exposed; but it's really sad that where you all have come to is ad hominid attacks on people who don't agree with you. Everyone has to make a living somehow. The proponents of global warming live off grants. By your reasoning that makes all of them hypocrites and invalidates what they say–that is, if you were being consistent. The whole basis of your web site is a refusal to deal with facts–that is, the issue itself–and to limit yourselves to mud slinging. What's worst is that the whole tone of the web site gives the impression that you all think this is somehow being more noble.
Yes, they do.
The raw data files are available at http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/ndp070/.
It is not at all correct to say that "The data don't show global warming!"
The data do show a very clear warming trend:
It is also not correct to say that record high temperatures are all well in the past:
The ten warmest years of the global record (land plus ocean) have all occurred since 1990. These are, in descending order, 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2001, 1997, 1995, 1990, and 1999. The average near-surface air temperature of the globe (land plus ocean) has warmed about 0.8°C since the late nineteenth century.
(from http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/temp/hansen/hansen.html)
Also available from CDIAC are a number of very interesting articles on the subject of temperature trends over various time scales:


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A Letter to the Editor in the Oct. 5, 2010, Tomahawk Leader
Dear Readers:
I, as many others, am very tired of all the recorded ads polluting our phones with nothing but negative political messages. These calls are received at the most inopportune times, at dinner or evening leisure times. I received one on Sept. 20 at 12:05 a.m. The recording started by saying, "Hi, I am a steel worker, Mike Olin," and I hung up. I wish I knew who he was promoting. A call at that hour is frightening…
I wish we were able to include these calls in our No Call List! I for one, will not vote for any of these politicians. They would be better served conducting their agenda on radio interviews, news articles or town hall meetings, promoting their plans to the public benefit.
I will not vote for any of these disruptive politicians and I hope you agree. These recording are an affront to the voters' intelligence. No more negative messages, please!
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Milwaukee police are investigating a case of a body discovered Tuesday night.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's office said the body, discovered near 60th Street and Hampton Avenue was of a white man in his early 30s.
Milwaukee Police Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer said the West Allis man was discovered around 10:15 p.m.
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Mamie L. Boleen, 88, of Geneseo, died Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, at Hillcrest Home, Geneseo. Per her request, cremation rites have been accorded and a graveside inurnment service will be held at a later date in Oakwood Cemetery, Geneseo. Memorials may be directed to Hillcrest Home or a charity of the donor's choice. Vandemore Funeral Home and Cremation Services is assisting the family with arrangements.
She was born on Aug. 9, 1924, in East St. Louis, the daughter of Harry and Helen Myrtle (McCredie) Wallar. She was a graduate of Centralia High School, Centralia. She married Beverlee S. Boleen in November 1941 in Geneseo. He died in 1990. She was an optometrist lab assistant for 35 years for Dr. Zimmerman and later worked as a sales associate for both GWK Enterprises and Lambin Jewelers in Geneseo. She belonged to First United Methodist Church and the American Legion Auxillary.
Survivors include one son, Monte Boleen of Geneseo; four grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; and one sister, Grace Auberry of Centralia. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one son, Hilton Boleen; and one brother, Herbert.
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Please show your support for Australia's Olympic Reps by sending a message to them via the Australian Olympic Committee Fan Wall. Would love it if you can wish our figure skaters well.
*P.S. Fingers crossed for Brooklee. The CAS hearing is this week from my understanding of the reports.
Congratulations to Jordan Dodds for scoring a PB at the 2013 Winter Universiade and qualifying for the Free Skating Event.
Bad Luck to National Bronze Medalist Mark Webster as well as Andrew Dodds who didn't make the cut. I must admit, for a university games, this field at this Universiade is tough.
Are such huge fonts necessary? They were hurting my eyes. But thanks for the reports anyway GF2445. Congrats to Chantelle!
Brooklee-An inspiration to all teenagers.
In this blog, Brooklee talks about her presentation she gave to students of her former High School about balancing skating with study and with life and let me tell you, what she does in nothing short of amazing! Even Figure Skating's largest Championships or even the Olympics are not a legitimate excuse for her not to do keep up with her studies and end up on top with her cohorts!
"BLOG: Last week I had the pleasure of returning to my High School as an Alumni.
My mum got an email from my Honours Chem teacher Dr. Nuzzo while we were in Australia for Nationals. Dr. Nuzzo was putting together a presentation for the school about how I managed school, skating and the college process and asked mum for pictures and if I would have time to answer some questions by email for the Friday the 13th program. Since we just returned from Nationals I was having a more flexible schedule of ice hours and I was able to be there in person!
It was an honour and gave me great pleasure to go back to Joel Barlow High School and be able to give back to the school that gave so much to me...."
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Published December 18, 2013
The CAS hearing was reported to be last week. Does anyone have any news?
I haven't heard anything. We are talking about a court here, I guess, so we can't expect it to be too speedy...
On the Court of Arbitration for Sport's official website:
Given that that was posted on the 17th (Tuesday), we will be lucky to know before Christmas...Lausanne, 17 December 2013 - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has registered several new appeals at its decentralised office in Sydney, Australia, including a request filed by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) on behalf of Athletics Australia for a determination from the CAS with respect to a possible whereabouts violation and, if applicable, sanction, for the Australian sprinter Joshua Ross.
The CAS Oceania Division has also been called to decide a selection dispute relating to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The Australian figure skater Ms Chantelle Kerry has filed an application requesting that Ms Brooklee Han be declared ineligible for selection and that she herself be declared eligible instead.
Both procedures are being conducted by Sole Arbitrators on an expedited basis. The final decision in each matter will be issued as soon as possible.
And luckily we won't have to wait until then:
Thank goodness. I hope Kerry will keep improving. She'll have her time!Brooklee Han will represent Australia in ladies' figure skating at February's Winter Olympics after Chantelle Kerry was unsuccessful in challenging her position at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
I hope Kerry and/or her parents/enablers now drop any further attempts to hinder Brooklee's career as the years progress and focus instead on Chantelle's own career. She can work hard now to try and earn her own way to the 2018 Olympics
Congratulations to Brooklee - Olympian! Now she can enjoy her holidays and focus on the Games.
Wow. That was faster than I expected.
Well, thank goodness that it's all over and Brooklee can focus on Sochi!
Brooklee really deserves her trip to the Olympics-my hope is that Chantelle will be an Olympian at a later Olympics-she has a lot of promise! Maybe in 2018, Australian will qualify two spots


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If a player is drafted, does it mean she is automatically signed to a contract?
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Does playing fastpitch professionally affect a college student's scholarship?
YES, NCAA students are affected! This is one of the reasons that NPF will not draft college underclassmen. Should an NCAA student-athlete sign a professional contract, she immediately loses her college playing eligibility and financial aid. If a drafted senior signs an NPF player contract after her college season is over, her eligibility is not affected.
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I am an undergraduate college athlete and would like to intern with NPF or one of its Teams. Would this work jeopardize my college athletic eligibility?
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A person who goes to that massively overrated dump of a school called UF. One who cites statistics such as merit scholar recruitement as a sign of their school's greatness, when there even the University of Texas has them beat. One who can calls an overcrowed, dumpy, overrated school in the middle of a hick town great. One who is gay and attends UFAG.
I am one of those gaytors, I have 1200 people in my chem class, there are asbestos warnings in my dungeon of a dorm room, UFAG good.
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A student at the University of Florida. See Gator
Steve Spurrier is the most famous Gaytor.
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derogatory term for Gators fans, frequently used by fans of teams who got the shit stomped out of them by the Gators.
Oklahoma University Fan, BCS 2008 pre game: "OMG WE ARE RANKED NUMBER 1 IN THE NATION, GATORS ARE GOING DOWN!!!"
OU fan after losing 24-14: "Stupid Gaytors" *sniff*
OU fan after losing 24-14: "Stupid Gaytors" *sniff*
A fan of University of Florida athletics.
Did you see that Gaytor wearing jhorts and an Emmitt Smith jersey at the game? His girlfriend had a sweet white trash tat!
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A championship football team that was once known as the gators. Winners are known as gators, losers are known as gaytors.
Did you see the gaytors coach grab that referee to call a bogus timeout against Auburn, then wait too long to call a really needed timeout against LSU? The gaytors have a two game losing streak because they're too busy playing grabass, not SEC football.
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Indications of fraud in the June 12 Iranian presidential election, together with large-scale street demonstrations, have led to claims that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not actually win the election, and that the majority of Iranians perceive their government as illegitimate and favor regime change.
An analysis of multiple polls of the Iranian public from three different sources finds little evidence to support such conclusions.
The analysis conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland (PIPA), was based on:
• a series of 10 recently-released polls conducted by the University of Tehran; eight conducted in the month before the June 12 election and two conducted in the month after the election, based on telephone interviews conducted within Iran
The study sought to address the widely-discussed hypotheses that Ahmadinejad did not win the June 12 election and that the Iranian people perceive their government as illegitimate. It also sought to explore the assumption that the opposition represents a movement favoring a substantially different posture toward the United States. The analysis of the data found little evidence to support any of these hypotheses.
Steven Kull, director of PIPA, said, "Our analysis suggests that it would not be prudent to base US policy on the assumption that the Iranian public is in a pre-revolutionary state of mind."
On the question of whether Ahmadinejad won the June 12 election, in the week before the election and after the election, in all polls a majority said they planned to or did vote for Ahmadinejad. These numbers ranged from 52 to 57% immediately before the election and 55 to 66% after the election.
Steven Kull comments, "These findings do not prove that there were no irregularities in the election process. But they do not support the belief that a majority rejected Ahmadinejad."
The analysis did reveal factors that could have contributed to the impression that Ahmadinejad did not win. University of Tehran polls show that in the first few weeks of the campaign his support dropped precipitously and he did not enjoy majority support in the city of Tehran. But in the week before the election, his support recovered outside the capital.
Going into the election 57% said they expected Ahmadinejad to win. Thus it is not surprising that, in several post-election polls, more than seven in ten said they saw Ahmadinejad as the legitimate president. About eight in ten said the election was free and fair.
The polls did reveal some reservations about the government. Less than a majority expressed full confidence in the Guardian Council (42%) and the Ministry of the Interior (38%). While over eight in ten said they were satisfied with the current system of government, in June less than a majority (49%) said they were very satisfied and this number dropped to 41% in July.
However none of the polls found indications of support for regime change. Large majorities, including majorities of Mousavi supporters, endorse the Islamist character of the regime such as having a body of Islamic scholars with the power to veto laws they see as contrary to sharia.
To address the possibility that the data collected within Iran may have been fabricated, PIPA compared the patterns of responses, including within subgroups, in data collected inside Iran to those collected by calling into Iran from the outside. Steven Kull comments, "The patterns of responses at many levels are so similar, whether the data was collected inside Iran or by calling into Iran, that it is hard to conclude that these data were fabricated."
Another concern is that Iranian respondents were not answering candidly out of fear of some type of reprisal for making statements in support of the opposition or critical of the regime, particularly in the post-election environment. As noted above, on some questions majorities expressed views that were less than fully laudatory of the government.
Some analysts have suggested that if the opposition were to gain power this would lead to fundamental changes in the Iranian posture toward the US. Focusing on those respondents who said they voted for Mousavi, as an approximation of the opposition,
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Not saying he didn't. He was absolutely dominant BUT I think its a different game. With small ice, the passes need to be crisper, the plays quicker. You get hit more and have less time to react. Its just a different game. You cant comapre them.
Sammy's point totals since his first arrival in Detroit were:
45pts/71gms-DET - .63 ppg
34pts/53gms-DET - .64 ppg
40pts/73gms-DET - .55 ppg
53pts/74gms-VAN - .72 ppg
50pts/70gms-VAN - .71 ppg
31pts/54gms-VAN/FLA - .57 ppg
If we have Sammy putting up an average of .60 ppg and playing a far superior 2-way game to Hudler and getting 5-10 less points I'd take him any day of the week. Add Tootoo who had 30 points in 77 games getting garbage ice time on a team that sucks offensively at .38 ppg, i'd love that on the 3rd/4th lines along with the grit and intensity he brings. Right there along with Brunner, our 2nd-4th lines have been upgraded. The only thing we didn't get was an elite offensive talent, but we didn't lose that either and what left, has been replaced. The biggest blow is that we lost Lidstrom and since then it's been all doom and gloom here.
No matter what Kenny does this offseason, we still don't have Lidstrom to run the blue line, or Stuart to block shots more than anyone else and throw hits.
I can't wait for the season to start and for Nyquist and Brunner to start lighting the lamp and for Smith to be over .5 ppg in the top 4 instead of on the 3rd D pairing and making us forget that we lost Stuart to the Sharts. If the season started tomorrow, and assuming Quincey is in the starting lineup, I'd be fine with what we have right now. I'd like to add Vandermeer or Jurcina, but if our lineup looked like the folliwing when the puck dropped on the start of the season i'd be ok with it:
I like that there's a lot of potential for a lot of guys to step up, and that the team is actually getting younger despite Z and Dats getting older.
Brunner looked pretty good playing on a heavy underdog Switzerland team at the world championships putitng up a point per game.
I like the Brunner signing but honestly, we have NO idea how he is going to react to the NHL game......I hope he kicks azz (obviously) but until he adjusts, who knows.
Also, just your point on Sammy...again, the career year came while playing between the Sedins. ANYBODYS PPG goes up playing the ham in the Sedin sandwich...just sayin'


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Gregory Dean chose to attend Westminster College for numerous reasons: a quality education, small class sizes, a men's soccer team, and the Honors Program.
With the amount of individualized attention you receive at Westminster, you get to know your professors very well. I consider my Westminster professors my friends. They are all very accomplished, highly skilled teachers who truly care about their students and want to help them achieve their goals.
One benefit of the 3–2 Engineering program at Westminster is financial: for a far lower cost, it gives you a solid foundation for your education. The other advantages of the 3–2 Engineering program are simply unparalleled: you graduate with a bachelor's degree from both Westminster College and the University of Southern California (USC) or Washington University in St. Louis. Both USC and Wash U have some of the best engineering programs in the nation. You get to spend the first three years at Westminster studying your "background science," which varies depending on the specific branch of engineering you want to go into. Those first three years are extremely valuable because you get much more individual attention and interaction with your professors while you are laying the foundation that your future coursework will build on.
When I first transferred out to USC, I wanted to see if my education at Westminster had prepared me properly for engineering or if I would be far behind the students who had gone straight into an engineering program at USC from high school. My education at Westminster prepared me so well that I am now in the top 10th of my class in USC's Viterbi School of Engineering. I was also recently accepted to USC's Progressive Degree Program, which allows accepted students to get a master's degree in one year. The 3–2 Engineering program at Westminster prepares you to succeed in the world of engineering.
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quote: The thing about that article is that it's very much a snapshot in time. The Apple Store employees in the article say the rise in infection rate is almost exclusively MacDefender. If I'm not mistaken, the scam company behind MacDefender has been shut down. Apple also has explicit articles on malware and MacDefender so they are hardly hiding the issue, for example:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4651http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4650An update on the article for the current malware situation on Mac would be useful.https://www.threatpost.ca/en_us/blogs/apple-revamp...Charlie Miller has already said Lion addressed his previous complaints on lacking a full ALSR implementation and sandboxing and that Lion is now comparable to Windows in security. Apple does seem to be at least a little more conscious of security than before.
quote: I always love it when Windows apologists and/or iPhobes squirm about trying to construct an optical illusion to prove that Apple and Macs somehow have a poor security record
quote: PC users are more stupid than Mac users and that's why Windows gets all the security problems?
quote: Meanwhile in the real world the people who buy computers know perfectly well on which platform security problems are ubiquitous and on which platform they are vanishingly rare.
quote: As I said feel free to continue in general with the delusional arguments.
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Starting at 0 (zero) accumulate the difference
between advancing issues minus declining issues within the composite
The Advance/Decline Line ("A/D Line") is undoubtedly the most
widely used measure of market breadth. It is a cumulative total of the
Advancing-Declining Issues indicator. When compared to the movement of a
market index (e.g., Dow Jones Industrials, S&P 500, etc) the A/D Line
has proven to be an effective gauge of the stock market's strength.
The A/D Line is helpful when measuring overall market strength.
When more stocks are advancing than declining, the A/D Line moves up
(and vice versa).
Many investors feel that the A/D Line shows market strength better than
more commonly used indices such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average ("DJIA")
or the S&P 500 Index. By studying the trend of the A/D Line you can see
if the market is in a rising or falling trend, if the trend is still
intact, and how long the current trend has prevailed.
Another way to use the A/D Line is to look for a divergence between the
DJIA (or a similar index) and the A/D Line. Often, an end to a bull
market can be forecast when the A/D Line begins to round over while the
DJIA is still trying to make new highs. Historically, when a divergence
develops between the DJIA and the A/D Line, the DJIA has corrected and
gone the direction of the A/D Line.
A military analogy is often used when discussing the relationship
between the A/D Line and the DJIA. The analogy is that trouble looms
when the generals lead (e.g., the DJIA is making new highs) and the
troops refuse to follow (e.g., the A/D Line fails to make new highs).
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The Fitness Center Club at Davis & Elkins College recently used funds from the College's Student Assembly to purchase a range of new equipment.
The items include nine premium hanging club mats, an elite power medicine ball, a rep band 6-yard roll, a VersaBall, two PowerRopes, a Premium Revolving 20-inch straight bar and a BOSU Balance Trainer for the Robbins-Madden Fitness Center.
Joyce Nestor, Fitness Center advisor, said that in addition, approximately $4,000 of the Student Assembly funds will be used for a yearlong service agreement contract with Noritsu America Corporation, which is crucial for maintaining all of the equipment in the heavily used fitness center.
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Displaying some of the new items at The Fitness Center Club at Davis & Elkins College are, from left, Fitness Center Club members Lukas Letan, a freshman from Elkins, Dallas Poyner, a freshman from Elkins, and Shade Combs, a senior from South Point, Ohio; and Fitness Center Club President Ray Beverly, a junior from Baltimore.
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May 4, 2013
Editor: I thank God that Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and President Barack Obama failed to take away our guns. I thank God for the wisdom of the framers of the U.S....
What....you all don't lie very well. Bwahahaha.....Walker....no one in here believes you except What. Bwahahaha.....rof****......at two liberal 'not so good' liars for Obama. Hilarious.
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Joe Manchin fooled me once but he'll never do it again. Man's a snake.
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Democrats will NEVER take away our RIGHT to defend ourselves. MILLIONS of REAL AMERICANS will NEVER allow it. That scares the corrupt little common criminals in the democrat SOCIALIST party....but we don't really care....they are the biggest cowards in the nation anyway. Their own shadows scare them!
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Puremagix, by your "logic" it would follow that the DMV is not trying to protect drivers from unsafe vehicles and careless drivers, but to clandestinely take your car away... Can you see how ridiculous this is? And by the way, if the government wanted your guns they would have them by now. Don't kid yourself into thinking that your little arsenal is a match for our national guard (which if you think just one move ahead you would realize that THIS is who you would be fighting) Government takeover of your gun is fantasy. They have better things to do than peer into the personal life of Puremagix... I think, like so many, you confuse the second amendment with the second commandment...
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As a liberal I will try - probably without success - to explain to the majority of thick-headed NRA-worshipping, fear-driven, pro 2nd amendment whackos out there that the amendment that was defeated by the cowardly Congress was neither intended to nor capable of "taking away" your precious playthings. It was a first step - albeit a weak one - to keep assault weapons out of the hands of the whackos who murder kids in schools. If you - for any reason - fear that you may fail a simple background check - then you probably have no business having a firearm in the first place. And if you believe that your little arsenal is going to stop some made-up government takeover of your guns, then you're probably too stupid to own guns. The government is not your problem. A massive weapons manufacturing industry supported by the NRA is spending millions to instill fear in the minds of the most ignorant among us. And from the letters in this post I'd say it's working.
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I seriously wonder about your mental capacity, Puremagix. You are so full of vitriol. There are times that the venom that you so graciously spew on here gives me pause. I bet you believe you're being watched by some nefarious government agency. I'm sure the Obama administration is responsible for every ill that befalls this country. Democrats are all demons from*****and tin foil hats should be given out in kindergarten to save the little children from mind control. Sweet baby Jesus I hope you aren't in any power position lol
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Thank you Duane.
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Forgot to mention Pat Toomey in any of those rants. You know, the REPUBLICAN CO SPONSOR of the bill???
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Manchin is just another controlling power hungry liberal.....taking his orders from another just like him; Obama!
Manchin deceived us once. He WON"T deceive us again. He's out!!
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Putting Laboratory Tests into Practice: Part I II III IV V
The FDA classifies medical devices, including laboratory tests, based on the level of control needed to assure that the device is safe and effective. Devices that support or sustain human life, present a potential or unreasonable risk of illness, or can greatly prevent human health from being impaired fall into FDA's most stringent category, Class III, and must demonstrate reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness before being approved for marketing in the US. These are tests that are subject to the highest standards of proof of their safety and effectiveness and may require the most time and resources to gain approval. Examples of Class III devices in the laboratory are the tests used to diagnose cancer and those used to detect antibodies for the Hepatitis C virus, which, if untreated, can lead to chronic liver disease.
By comparison, Class I devices pose little risk to human life and are generally not as complicated, so they are exempt from FDA review. A simple blood test to determine uric acid concentrations in serum uses a method that is well understood and has been in use for many years. It is relatively straightforward to monitor the quality of test results and to ensure that the test is performing to specifications. In addition, the test, which falls under the Class I category, provides supportive evidence to a doctor's preliminary diagnosis of gout, a nonfatal and generally treatable disorder.
Besides assessing the potential risk to the patient, the other factor used to classify tests is the FDA's familiarity with the test process itself and the medical devices and equipment used to produce the result. Under the 1976 Safe Medical Device Act that established the FDA's regulation of medical devices and tests, manufacturers are required to notify the agency of their intent to market a new product. The FDA permits most Class I and II medical devices to be marketed after the manufacturer can demonstrate that the device is "substantially equivalent" or as safe and effective as a similar device already on the market.
Devices or tests that have a new use or that pose new issues of safety and effectiveness generally require submission of a pre-market approval (PMA) application with valid findings from human clinical trials that demonstrate that the device is clinically effective for its intended use. In addition to reviewing and approving the clinical data from the company-sponsored trials, FDA also confirms that the device will be manufactured in conformance to good manufacturing practices.
As an example of a PMA, in December 1998, the FDA granted approval to Vysis, Inc., a genomic disease management subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, to market a testing kit that can detect amplification of the Her-2/neu gene from human breast cancer tissue specimens. Detection of multiple copies of this gene in patients is important since these patients tend to experience rapid tumor growth, resistance to therapy, and decreased survival rates. Detection of the gene can allow doctors and patients to choose the most beneficial form of treatment, according to the company.
In addition to FDA approval, all commercial tests must be evaluated by individual laboratories before they are put into use. A lab must demonstrate that it can perform the test with the same accuracy and precision as specified by the manufacturer of the test. And commercial tests, once they have been put into practice, must be evaluated on a regular basis with in-house quality assurance programs to ensure that performance of these tests continue to meet specifications. As is true for any laboratory test, on-going assessments of commercial tests are regulated by CLIA. This topic is discussed further in the article Lab Oversight: A Building Block of Trust.
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Outsourced: IT layoffs at Plano-based J.C. Penney are followed by major systems contracts with Redwood City-based Oracle Corp.
J.C. Penney Co. just became one of Oracle's biggest customers.
Penney has hired Redwood City, Ca.-based Oracle Corp. to take over a suite of systems following the company's recent layoffs of IT employees at its Plano headquarters.
Penney CEO Ron Johnson has said the retailer had too many legacy systems that were all customized and so came with expensive maintenance costs. The outsourcing move is one of the cost-saving decisions that Johnson is implementing with the goal of coming up with $900 million in annual expense cuts. Those cuts are paying for Penney's transformation into "America's favorite store." Penney employees will run Oracle's software and it no longer will need as many IT people as it did to run and update its legacy systems.
Other retailers that use one or more of Oracle systems include Nordstrom, Saks, Belk, Disney Stores, Lululemon and Sephora.
Penney is adopting a host of systems in merchandising, planning and optimization, supply chain and store operations.
Oracle's claims are that it "reduces layers and equips business teams to better shape assortments and respond faster to customer preferences."
It also generates reports in real time. Apparently, Penney managers had to ask IT for reports and wait for them to be returned.
Penney's chief technology officer Kristen Blum said in an Oracle press release out this morning, "We need an IT foundation that delivers real-time, mobile access to accurate information throughout the organization. We selected Oracle based on its deep retail functionality and the fact that it is proven to handle the volumes of transaction, customer and business data generated by a large organization. Together, we will deploy modern merchandising, planning, supply chain and store systems to help us deliver a seamless and engaging customer experience."
Here's a list of the Oracle systems that Penney is adopting: Oracle Retail Merchandising Operations Management, Oracle Retail Merchandise Planning and Optimization, Oracle Retail Supply Chain Planning and Execution, Oracle Retail Stores and Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics.
Penney already uses: Oracle Commerce, Oracle Database and several components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle's PeopleSoft Applications and Oracle Hyperion Performance Management applications.


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Let's suppose that I have a Java application that requires reasonable amounts of data (let's say, like a high-end BW OLAP client), but is VERY voracious in processing power, to the point that it is not executable on a production server. Could I use HANA's vast memory to run this application with decent response times ? Or is HANA's geared only to database performance ?
HANA can be connect to the non-SAP system also. So, you can connect the system to HANA and you can see the capabitiies of HANA.
yes, HANA will provide you the result with the good response.
The MPP (Massive Parallel Processing) power of HANA coupled with In Memory architecture can definitely be used for processing.
You need to ensure that the business logic implementation is then passed to the database rather than to the Java application server or front end. This will enable you to utilize the power of HANA.
Thks Ravi.
Francois, there are 2 main use cases for HANA / IMDB, the first one is when you query massive database. The other is when you query database in series. The situation is that you query database and the result is used to query database further. Now individually the queries could take few seconds in traditional database, but if you had 100 steps that you cannot run in parallel, the savings cumulatively would be quite significant.
I guess the answer would have to relate to your specific case and design.
You have to ask what exactly is causing you the performance bottleneck. Is it CPU, is it Memory outage. (A simple check could tell you that) and why?
You may e.g. get away with loading large arrays within Java, which is all you can do with a IMDB in your case, but programmers could find it difficult to program something that is fail-safe for power outages.
So, I think the best answer to your question is 'it depends' on your specific case.
PS: I would also like to add to the above by mentioning that within IMDB, calculations are pushed to the database and so your Java would only handle very limited amount of calculation logic. Since HANA is newer technology, I would presume, it is much better geared towards handling calculations of performance intensive applications.
Anand, thanks for your answer, which clarified my thinbking. Now I see it as a case of: 1) make a massive query, load this data in arrays, and handle the processing logic in the application vs 2)move the processing logic to the IMDB.
But I was not even sure if HANA could allow 1). From the answers I got, it seems that yes, the memory can be used for application purposes as well...
Precisely Francois. In option 1, bear in mind, you would have to create the infrastructure of fall-back and an array that mimics column store. etc etc. If you have a great programmer, maybe he can do it, but if you have budget, go for HANA.
HANA is beautiful.
Hi Francois,
For sure you can fire a massive SQL statement and get the resultset in arrays or similar structures in Java App server, but that will make your application server large enough to hold the data volume and process the same.
I am sure you wish they implement a JVM in the Database like Oracle does :-), which can handle the Java coding / EJBs etc. But as of now, you'll have to settle with the DB Stored procedures to implement your business logic in HANA.
So it completely depends on where you want to put your investment for Infrastructure and development effort. :-)
I am sure you wish they implement a JVM in the Database like Oracle does :-), which can handle the Java coding / EJBs etc. But as of now, you'll have to settle with the DB Stored procedures to implement your business logic in HANA.
Actually we are already working on something like this. It isn't Java based, but we are building a light weight application server directly into HANA called HANA Application Services (sometimes referred to as XS or XS Engine). It allows a thin layer of application logic directly in HANA. Its ideally suited for creating REST services or support UI event logic - things that wouldn't be easily possible in SQLScript.
In fact, in HANA 1.0 SPS3 you can already see the process for this portion of HANA:
Currently only SAP internal teams are allowed to develop in this layer, but in the future we will open this up for customers and partners as well.
Thomas, great update. Thanks.
Excellent, thks Thomas. When you say non-Java based, I understand that it will not execute Java, correct ? And will XS be able to execute "normal" ABAP programs ? I am thinking of the case of one customer, who does a complex BOM explosion + costing, it takes hours one a "normal" server to run, but it is more a question of algorithmic/CPU consumption than of DB access: could he simply port this ABAP application to HANA-XS ?(supposing that he previously prepares the datastructures, of course) .
Hello Thomas,
I have a doubt.. If I am able to consume my information models, in which i was able to push down my business logic and consume the same in my java application, will it help me to increase the performance?
Or it will still be the same?
Krishna Tangudu
Hi Krishna,
My personal opinion is the performance will be improved. In the current state, the information models provide less control over information processing. Mostly it would be in the form of stored procedures and functions which act completely on the database objects. The built-in function library and processing capabilities are also limited to the database features.
When I mentioned about the JVM in Oracle, during those days, it brought in a lot of change in the Application logic design and application client side validation logic, which is now expected in the HANA XS or XS-Engine.
Depending on the implementation of the XS-Engine and integration points with the UI interfaces, I hope to see a change in the Information model designs too.
Hi Ravi,
Thanks for your points now am able to understand. Till now i was thinking, when we are able to consume those models in JAVA, why we are thinking about "JVM"/
Krishna Tangudu
Great discussion guys:
It always helps to distinguish HANA with other options to boost performance or in other words to see where HANA can add value in solving bad performance.
My thoughts: HANA's performance secret / power lies within the 1- Columnar table architecture with high compression ratios, 2 - MPP (massive parralell processing) enabled hardware with multi core CPU and 3 - flexible modelling options available using freelance SQL within calculation view, procedures, etc..
Addressing your main question: Yes, we can use SAP HANA with any application that requires a performance enhancing database and is capable of accessing an ODBC or JDBC complaint database connection.
Note: HANA is not certified for use outside the SAP HANA studio and SAP BW applications. So, usage will be at own risk.