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The Source For Women Of Houston, Inc.
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6009 Richmond Avenue Room No 130 Houston TX 77057 USA
Pregnancy tests, counseling, information regarding fetal development and abortion alternatives, referrals for medical care and adoptions, payment of medical expenses. Instruction in nutrition, childbirth and parenting, provision of clothing and furnishing for babies and expectant mothers.
Pregnancy tests, counseling, information regarding fetal development and abortion alternatives, referrals for medical care and adoptions, payment of medical expenses. Instruction in nutrition, childbirth and parenting, provision of clothing and furnishing for babies and expectant mothers.
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9 people found this review helpful
When I found out that I was pregnant for the first time, I was excited and in shock all at the same time. I was happy to be having a baby, but was also worried about my current financial situation. I wanted to be able to give my baby the best, but at the was struggling to make end meets. When I first came to the Source for Women I felt at peace once I entered the door. The environment as well as the staff was very comforting. I received help and reassurance with my complicated situation. The staff was genuinely happy for me and my soon to be new addition, and the entire experience gave me hope. I didn't mind the questions I was asked in the initial visit consultation. I felt that the information they would receive would further help me and other future clients with assisting them with different needs. It also let me know that The Source was here to assist all kinds of women with all kinds of pregnancies, as well as a variety of decisions that maybe made on behalf of those pregnancies. After my first visit was complete I know there was no other place I would rather be and no other place I would rather have to assist and guide me through my very first pregnancy. I was actually given a list with a number of facilities to choose from, but I know without a doubt that The Source for Women was the place for me. The Source has helped me feel calm and confident about my entire experience. They have provided me with knowledge on how to better take care of myself as well as my baby. I have been given clothes, formula, diapers, and much more. They threw me a baby shower that I will always remember and appreciate. The fact that I am originally not from this state, doesn't know many people and don't have my family around makes my experience that much more challenging. However coming to The Source I have meet great people, made new friends and feel confident that my baby will have everything she needs. (Entered by GreatNonprofits staff member on behalf of reviewer)
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Between the constant support and love from the Staff and Teachers, and the Blessing Room which is filled with all of my baby's necessities, I truly feel that our needs have been met.
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Since coming to The Source I have started eat better, think better, and have even improved my relationship with my boyfriend (the father of my child).
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I have had a truly amazing experience with The Source for Women. I never knew that this type of resource was available to women. I found out that I was pregnant in December 2009. I was devastates because I had not planned on having anymore kids, now that I am 37 years old. I already have a son (14), and a daughter (11) that resides with my ex-husband in Dallas Texas. I thought my baby days were over. I live with my boyfriend of 2 years who is the unborn baby's father. He is 10 years older than me (47). I researched places regarding pregnancy counseling and assistance once I found out I was pregnant, because I was trying to make a decision on whether or not I wanted to keep the child. I am a recovering alcoholic, so I did not know what effects my past could have on my child. Or if I would be able to maintain my sobriety throughout the term of my pregnancy. The counselors and staff that assisted me were so very kind and thoughtful. They offered insight and advice in a spiritual manner in which was exactly what I needed to hear. They reinforced the ideal that I was not the first person to face this predicament and that my faith was enough to get me through this pregnancy successfully. (Entered by GreatNonprofits staff member on behalf of reviewer)
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Jews and Judaism in Black Africa and its diasporas
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The first International Conference of ISSAJ is dedicated to a broad and interdisciplinary overview of the study of black African Jewry.
A number of recent studies have dealt with the constructions of Judaism or Jewishness among Black Africans and their relation to the historical experience of migrations, slavery and colonialism. What is the state of this field of study? What are the main points of discussion?
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Dubai explores the world of art
Dubai tours will give travellers the opportunity to expand their cultural horizons later this year when one of the emirate's major venues presents two exhibitions of art from around the world.
The unfamiliar Korean art scene will be the first to be explored at a show opening at the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre on May 29th.
Scheduled for a short run to June 3rd, this exhibition will feature a number of works by renowned Korean artists, including colourful and vibrant pieces that represent a dynamic and thriving art scene.
The focus will then move to the southern hemisphere with a showcase of paintings by two female artists from South Africa.
Opening on June 9th and running to June 18th, this display will consist of a series of rich paintings that offer a new take on the urban landscape and explore the environments in which we live and work as "desert gardens".
The Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre is one of Dubai's major cultural venues and in the past has hosted the Gulf Film Festival and runs of High School Musical, The Importance of Being Earnest and other shows.
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How dare you, Neil (won't call him governor any more)?
He has dishonored the wish of Sen. Daniel Inouye, his last dying wish. How inconsiderate. Is he saying that Inouye did not know what is best for Hawaii? How can he not honor this great man's last wish? Who is he?
Now, if a vote was taken for Brian Schatz or Colleen Hanabusa without Inouye's wish, I would not vote for either of them. But I took Inouye's recommendation as the best informed source we could get. Neil knows more than him? No way.
Neil appointed a man who sued his own parents, left the Mainland and got a lease for apartment at the last minute, just so he could run for office.
Neil knows nothing about Hawaiian values or about Hawaii at all. And I bet Brian knows less.
I cannot believe how he has dishonored Inouye and our state. Because of him, I feel ashamed to be from Hawaii.
I know Sen. Inouye will forgive Neil, for he is a honorable man of the highest integrity. I wish I was so humble and forgiving.
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This is my favorite time of year when finally I start seeing new life pop up in the woods, along the streams, across the fields. This week, as I took a walk with teachers whose students were competing in one of Missouri's regional Envirothon contests, I saw this year's first Dutchman's breeches in bloom. (The Envirothon is a contest for high school students in the United States and Canada that covers their knowledge of forestry, wildlife, soils and water issues. The teachers took a nature tour while their students competed.)
But back to the wildflowers… As we strolled along a woods trail near a creek, I spotted three of the classic early flowers. (I say classic because I actually remember their names, unlike some of the later bloomers.) It's later than usual for some of these flowers to appear. The spring beauty usually shows up by middle March in central Missouri. Bloodroot is an interesting flower in that its petals open and close each day. I did a time-lapse scene of a one doing that in "Blooming Secretes," a movie I made 22 years ago for the Missouri Conservation Department. The third white flower of early spring woods is Dutchman's breeches, whose flowers look like the short pants of traditional Dutch clothes. When I made the film on wildflowers, the thing that most amazed me was what I started seeing when I paused to really look closely at a flower. It might be a small, shiny, green bee gathering pollen or a moth hidden under a petal in the rain or a crab spider waiting for prey. So while the flowers themselves are fun to see, if you look a bit more closely or pause just a little longer, an expanded world of spring life appears.


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February 27, 2013, 10:47 AM
I have a G20SF I bought a few years ago when they first came out. It has fixed factory sights. I'd like night sights on it. Any suggestions? What kind, where to get them done and cost?
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February 27, 2013, 08:15 PM
I had Trijicon Bright & Tough night sights installed on my 30SF at the LGS for $100. It took about 20 minutes.
February 28, 2013, 09:34 AM
I have Ameriglo on mine--they are just rebranded Trijicon. I was always a Meprolight fan because I thought the dots were bigger, but these are plenty bright and visible.
February 28, 2013, 01:11 PM
Hands down XS big dots
February 28, 2013, 08:26 PM
The TruGlo TFOs are a neat innovation. Fiber optic for daytime, tritium for night time. I own one set and like them very much.
However, Trijicons have one advantage that makes them a "best buy" for me:
Tritium's half-life is stated to be 12 years, but I have seen many night sights that were borderline worthless at 6 or 7 years. If you are a buy-and-sell type, that may mean little to you.
If you keep a gun with night sights, they will go dim. When that happens, you can pay for new sights... or you can send the old ones to Trij and they will replace the tritium capsules for $18 each (54 for all three capsules).
Or, you can send the slide to them by USPS Priority Mail for about $6. This will not disturb the zero, and you will not take the chance of damaging the sights (or the capsules) during removal/installation.
I would advise buying insurance on the slide...just in case. Having a frame and a barrel, but no slide...yeah, that would suck.
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Apple asks the court to add 6 more devices to Samsung patent suit, including Samsung GALAXY Note II
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Apple filed with the U.S. District Court to add six more Samsung devices to its infringement claims against the Korean manufacturer; Apple asked the court to include the Samsung Galaxy S III rJelly Bean, the Samsung GALAXY Note II and others...
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23. angelesmec (unregistered)
Apple is jelous because more and more people and realizing which platform and brand is the better choice.
They are afraid that the company that they build will came to an end, maybe not sooner but it will surely come. - The inevitable.
27. dampv (Posts: 5; Member since: 06 Oct 2012)
Here we go again..
28. byazatt (Posts: 269; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
I love the many thumbs down I got. I'm just expressing an I don't care about these two giants cuz after all is said and done, they are about my money as a customer. that's what they are all about.. May be some are less aggressive at it than others but it's the same thing. so, where are their new toys already?
30. timtimity (Posts: 196; Member since: 13 Aug 2012)
I used to think the patent court cases were quite funny. Apple suing Samsung, so Samsung sued them in return. I'm bored of it now. These companies may lose money and sales on the outcome of court cases, but it doesn't seem to make a massive impact to them and how they operate.
The only losers of these cases are the customers. Banning products and reducing the choice of products is disheartening to customers who in turn shun certain manufacturers and causes innovation to stagnate.
32. j2jared (Posts: 2; Member since: 16 Apr 2012)
What I don't understand that even if the devices are "banned" people still have them...Its not like your going to force the individuals to turn in their devices? Plus other companies have ice cream sandwhich and honeycomb. ie. Motorola, and LG....This is crazy... Please shed some light on this.
35. RapidCat (Posts: 351; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
This is apple problem.
Because i see samsung keep innovating with note ii. Sgs iii . Samsung add alot of new feature special to samsung device.
In the other side, i dont know much about apple innovation. All i know apple playing catch up with other oem.
37. ricodroid (Posts: 16; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)
both of them are a bunch of retards seeking more attention ..f**k em both .. i read and laugh at how childish this war of gaytent has become
38. f1r3z0r (Posts: 92; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
Apple spend money in how to make better ipads instead of suiting everyone... Why galaxy note?
40. darkkjedii (Posts: 21344; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Apple stop adding Samsung phones to lawsuits, and instead add a facelift to iOS. I like the platform, but c'mon...it's gotten a little boring to work with. Still a top notch os don't get me wrong, but its time to drop the litigation, and pick up the innovation cuz touchwiz, sense, and wp8 r kicking ur a$$ in the UI department. iOS is still my daily driver, but geez lets get it going apple.
41. raphael007 (Posts: 43; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
Well that is what happened when you run out of ideas, Apple is not innovating fast enough, therefore they have to find any little sh*t to get a revenue from. Next they will start patenting letters you know A P P L E, whichever device contains these letters will be subject to be sued.....
45. darkkjedii (Posts: 21344; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Well I don't think revenue is the problem. It's not wanting to play fair, but Sammy is just as guilty as apple. They have both copied, and used each others ideas. I've used so many Samsung, and apple phones over the years and have seen the copying that goes on between the two. It's not always rite on the surface, sometime it's subtle but as techies we know how to dig into an os and find stuff. Both r guilty, but apple is playing dirty baseball... They're trying to pitch high, and tite against every batter (Samsung device)... And it could result n a grand slam being hit against them.
80. tedkord (Posts: 11706; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Apple can't innovate fast enough. One small company tightly controlling its product in all aspects like Apple cannot keep up with multiple OEMs competing on the same platform. We saw it with Windows vs. Mac, we are seeing it with iOS vs. Android.
42. Thephonegeek (Posts: 118; Member since: 22 Nov 2012)
This is getting extremely annoying. And Apple was crowned world's most innovative company. They are the world's most sh*tty company.
47. syedzain (Posts: 175; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
oh come on..... enough of this legal SHI*..... what the hell.. tired of this idiotic stuff.. Grow up apple and samsung.
52. aliugd (Posts: 4; Member since: 13 Feb 2012)
Apple is sick... Zombie...
Apple is copier, not Samsung...
54. dorianb (Posts: 599; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
OK, this is getting out of hand all over.
55. dragonstkdgirl (Posts: 144; Member since: 07 Apr 2012)
Everybody loses in a pissing match.
61. StreetNerd (Posts: 819; Member since: 08 Dec 2010)
why do u guys care bout this?
if u are smart u ignore them and join Nokia's camp
67. dragonscourgex (Posts: 307; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
2014? None of these devices will even matter by that time.
68. Googlethis (Posts: 179; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
this is pathetic on both sides and it needs to stop. any suggestions people.
70. Jeradiah3 (Posts: 1032; Member since: 11 Feb 2010)
does it REALLY matter who copied who???? we copy off of everyone else so what difference does it make!!!!!!!!!!
honestly, i dont see why Samsung AND Apple just let this lawsuit end. Apple and Samsung are going to copy off of each other because most smartphones are similar ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dont care what they do as long as I can upgrade to the Note II (AT&T) and call it a day lol
71. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
But before this APPLE will have to reveal details of their deal with HTC. Surprisingly PA doesn't report such stories
Unfair isn;t it :)
72. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Apple is now shooting in the dark hoping that it will hit some and miss many :D
75. rickywinataa (Posts: 262; Member since: 05 Apr 2012)
i would like to hear each devices from apple and samsung have violated the patents and restricted to sell their product in us, that would be hilarious and htc nokia lg and rim would be ROTFL
77. Castanedaa99 (Posts: 28; Member since: 07 Nov 2011)
I like both of these companies for different reasons, but I really hope another company blows up (in a good way) and leaves these two bickering children in the dust. This is old already.
85. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
Yeh you R right...Nokia is on it's way....
79. meccausa02 (Posts: 5; Member since: 13 Jan 2012)
F**k Apple and Michigan still sucks
82. sthashilan07 (Posts: 11; Member since: 21 Nov 2012)
apple couldnt do nything on the sales of samsung therefore all these nonsense is happening ..
84. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
Being an Nokia fan..this Tech war will benefit Nokia...
87. Gary123 (Posts: 7; Member since: 19 Sep 2012)
I agree with you....i am very impressed by Nokia Lumia 920..
86. Gary123 (Posts: 7; Member since: 19 Sep 2012)
I wonder what's the phone the judge is using, Apple or Samsung...? Haha
91. pliskin1 (Posts: 59; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
I wanna know what the Rugby pro, a rugged military spec smartphone, has to do with iProducts. There's like..nothing in common.


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GW Lacrosse Opens Three-Game Road Trip at George Mason on Wednesday
Colonials Look for First Win over Patriots
Feb. 28, 2012
WASHINGTON - The George Washington women's lacrosse team visits perennial foe George Mason in nearby Fairfax, Va., on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Patriots' George Mason Stadium.
The Colonials (2-1) are coming off a 20-6 rout of Long Island on Saturday at Mount Vernon Field. Freshman Addi Bolin scored a career-high six points on four goals and two assists, while senior Sarah Phillips also tallied six points on two goals and four helpers. In addition, senior Megan Seidman and freshman Rachel Mia notched their first hat tricks of the season.
The Patriots (1-2) are coming off a 13-1 loss to UMBC on Saturday. Attacker Anna Kopecka scored Mason's lone goal of the game, while goalie Brittany Pastrana made 18 saves between the pipes. Attacker Mary Schwartz and midfielder Caitlin Formato lead the Patriots with six goals and eight points apiece, and defender Kiersten Jauschnegg is tops with nine caused turnovers and six ground balls. Pastrana has posted a 14.80 goals-against average and a .417 save percentage.
GW has never defeated George Mason in 10 all-time meetings. Last season, the Patriots defeated the Colonials, 17-9, at Mount Vernon Field. Phillips and Mia Breheny led GW with three points on two goals and an assist, while Formato and Madalyn Jamison each notched hat tricks for Mason.
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Win, Lose or Draw: The Colonials set a program single-game record with 22 draw controls in their 20-6 victory over Long Island on Saturday. GW won 22 of the 27 draws in the game, as senior Hilary Quinn recorded eight draw controls and junior Nicole Lacey had seven. Already GW's career record-holder for draw controls (134), Lacey matched her own school record with 10 at Drexel on Feb. 19.
20/20: GW has scored 20 or more goals in a game twice this season for the first time in school history. The Colonials defeated Howard, 22-5, in the season opener on Feb. 15, and the 22 goals were the second-most in program history to the 25 they scored against the same Bison in a 25-7 victory on March 26, 2004. Ten days later, GW beat Long Island, 20-6, for the program's sixth-ever 20-goal game.
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One-Two Punch: Seidman and Phillips have combined to make an outstanding scoring tandem for the Colonials over the course of their careers, and both rank among GW's all-time offensive leaders. Phillips is GW's career leader in assists (69), and she ranks third in points (156) and eighth in goals (87), while Seidman ranks fourth in goals (98), sixth in points (126) and ninth in assists (28). The duo is at it again this season, as Phillips leads the team in goals (9), assists (7) and points (16), while Seidman is second in assists (5) and points (12) and third in goals (7). In addition, Phillips leads the Atlantic 10 Conference in assists per game (2.0) and ranks second in points per contest (5.0) and third in goals per game (3.0), as GW is the league's highest-scoring offense, averaging 17.33 points per game.
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Tenacious D: Senior Casey Disharoon ranks sixth all-time at GW with 55 career caused turnovers.
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Today is September 29, 2016 -
Mattot/Ma'asei 5769
Posted on March 23, 2011
by Arielle Beer
July 18, 2009/26 Tammuz 5769
This double parsha takes place at the end of the book of Bamidbar. We are heading towards the end of the journey to the Promise Land and an incident comes up that teaches us about solving a problem that will effect multiple tribes. The Israelites are about to cross over the Jordan to being to take the land. The tribes of Gad, Reuven, and half of Menashe have observed the beautiful land that has already been conquered and want to settle there. Moses becomes angry at this request so they reach a compromise in which the 2 and a half tribes will inherit the land and their wives and children may stay but the men must continue on to fight against the Canaanites. After all the land in Canaan has been conquered, the men may return to their homes.
This is a good example of a team effort that goes a little sour. Imagine having to accomplish something and members of your team back out on you after they accomplish what they but before you have. It is similar to being in a group for a project at school and having a partner that doesn't care what grade you get on it because it won't effect them. These tribes went on to help finish what they started which is a good lesson because you cannot be respected if you don't help those you are working with finish what you all start as a team.


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Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif) has announced she will run for an eighth term in the United States Congress.
Capps made the announcement during an interview with NewsChannel 3 and Central Coast News on Tuesday.
She was first sworn in as a member of Congress in 1998, succeeding her late husband, former University of California, Santa Barbara professor, Rep. Walter H. Capps.
Capps serves the 24th Congressional District which includes all of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, and a portion of Ventura County.


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SALEM - A representative of Quaker City Castings addressed city council Tuesday regarding a proposed change to the ordinances dealing with M1 light industrial and M2 heavy industrial zones to prohibit auto wrecking lots, scrap yards and junk yards.
Geoff Korff, vice president and general counsel for the manufacturing facility at 330 E. Euclid St. in Salem, explained how the company brings in scrap material and melts it down to use in other operations.
He said he understood current companies would be grandfathered in, meaning they wouldn't be held to the new zoning rules, but said the proposed ordinance would place some level of restriction on companies to take in, sort and process scrap material.
"A component of our business is taking in and processing scrap material," he said, noting that most of it's done under roof.
Korff said the company acquired the old Colfor manufacturing space and that was part of his reason for being there, because they may want to use that space for part of their business.
Council held first reading on the changes to the two zoning ordinances dealing with M1 and M2. Two additional readings will be needed for the measures to pass.
The paragraph to be added to each ordinance reads: "No lot or premises may be used for auto wrecking, scrap yard or junk yard which would include, but not be limited to, the collection, sorting or processing of scrap or salvage material or for the storage of such material or for the extraction of gravel, sand or other raw material."
Councilman Clyde Brown told Korff he's never had a complaint about his business and the business is 100 percent in compliance because everything is done inside the building. Council President Mickey Cope Weaver referred Korff to city Planning and Zoning Officer Patrick Morrissey for any questions he may have.
After the meeting, Morrissey said he had spoken to Korff previously and explained that the company had nothing to worry about because their primary business was the making of castings. He said they're not taking in scrap and reselling it or running a scrap business.
Part of the reason the issue of scrap yards came up was because of concerns Brown had raised about a business on Pershing Street which he claimed was in violation of the zoning for heavy industrial. The city had sent a letter to the business last year about concerns with material being cut up outside, in violation of the zoning, but since then has found the business in compliance.
Brown has contended at several meetings that the business was still violating the rules, but on Tuesday, he said he was throwing in the towel, so to speak.
"After one year and a half, of addressing concerns for the scrap yard, on West Pershing Street, I'm informing my Second Ward residents, that I have no choice, but to wave the white flag." he read from a written statement. "Not to lack of effort, but because, I've been unable to convince those in higher authority, the business isn't operating under the requirements of city ordinances."
In other business, Southeast Boulevard resident Lewis Dowd complained to city council about speeding on his street where the no parking was being enforced. He had complained to council earlier this year about the change in parking, saying he had always had parking on the street since he moved there. Now he said the speeding is worse, describing the street like a race track and expressing concern for children in the neighborhood.
He was very critical of the administration and council and said city Service/Safety Director Ken Kenst should not have been able to decide on his own about the no parking. When the issue first came up, Kenst explained that it was already a no parking zone and they were just putting up new signs closer to the area where there was a problem and enforcing it. During a Traffic & Safety Committee meeting in February, there had been discussion of stepped up enforcement regarding speeding on the street and other traffic offenses.
"I don't know what the answer is, but the no parking didn't help," Dowd said.
Councilwoman Cyndy Baronzzi Dickey, who lives on Southeast Boulevard, agreed there was more speeding, but she didn't know if that was because of the warmer weather or not, and also talked about increased truck traffic. She also said she's seen less police presence on the road.
Weaver referred Dowd to Councilman Brian Whitehill, who chairs the Traffic & Safety Committee and said he was scheduling another meeting and would be talking with the police chief and Kenst.
Council also heard once again from former councilwoman Mary Lou Popa, who's been asking for a citywide cleanup for months and said she's disappointed about the lack of interest by council. The topic has been discussed at two Finance Committee meetings. Brown reminded Popa that he's told her many times he supports the idea of a cleanup.
Council also held first reading on a new proposed taxicab and transit vehicles ordinance.


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Kimbetohia is a genus of mammals from the extinct order Multituberculata. It lived from the Upper Cretaceous to the Paleocene in the United States. The genus was named by the paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson, in 1936 (Simpson, 1936). Kimbetohia has also been called Kimbetohi.
K. campi
The species Kimbetohia campi has been discovered in New Mexico and Wyoming, in the Nacimiento Formation of the San Juan Basin. The deposits date from the Maastrichtian stage of the Upper Cretaceous to the Puercan stage of the Paleocene.
The species was first described by Simpson in 1936 (Simpson, 1936). Some material associated with this species was referred to Clemensodon megaloba, by D. W. Krause in 1992.
?K. mzaie
Kimbetohia mzaie is a possible, unpublished species from the deposits of the Denver Formation, in Colorado, which have been dated to the Puercan stage of the Lower Paleocene.
- Z. Kielan-Jaworowska Z and J. H. Hurum. (2001) Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, pg. 389–429.
- George Gaylord Simpson. (1936) Additions to the Puerco fauna, Lower Paleocene. American Museum Novitates 849, pages 1–11.
- Much of this information has been derived from MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Ptilodontoidea, an internet directory.
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HIS RANDY PEDIATRICIAN, DR. DOUG Ross, may be the resident heart-stopper on NBC's hit hospital drama ER, but George Clooney, 33, insists the role could be pulled off by a Hippocratic oaf. "I can be a schmuck all day long, at the end of it save some old lady's life—and still be a hero," says the chiseled, 170-pound six-footer. "If you stuck a mannequin in my part, he'd get all the fan mail."
Diagnosis: chronic self-effacement. "I always kind of got by on personality and jokes," says Clooney, who admits to only one vanity: straightening his naturally curly chestnut hair. Now he's clearly being groomed as a leading man. He recently signed to costar with Quentin Tarantino in the action film From Dusk Till Dawn.
Meanwhile, as ER's cast cutup (he boasts his own remote-controlled whoopee cushion), George has "that hoo-hah quality," says his aunt Rosemary Clooney. "He's okay, that kid." More than okay, with those twinkling brown eyes, that rough-hewn chin, that come-soothe-me brow. Alas, the divorced actor bestows his best bedside manner on one that sleeps at the foot of it: Max, a 150-pound, pot-bellied pig. "I love him," says Clooney, flashing that surgical grin, "but he's a pain in the butt." End of consultation.
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Just over a week ago we wrote about LeMoyne College nursing students traveling to Ghana over their January break. They are visiting a rural village, working at the hospital to conduct screenings for vision, hearing and blood pressure and acquaint themselves with health practices there.
Susan Bastable, chairperson of LeMoyne's nursing department, is leading the trip to the village of Worawora (say: Ra Ra), in Ghana's Volta region. Her husband, Jeff Bastable, is traveling with them and helping to chronicle the journey.
It's the first time to Africa for all of them. Jeff's first impressions, which he shared in an email from Ghana, are vivid and insightful. They throw into sharp perspective what we have here.
Here are excerpts from his email:
"The hospital - it's hard to imagine the setting...think of an abandoned motel on Rt 20. ...many buildings...some falling apart, one burned out by a psychiatric patient, others very unfinished 'cabin like'.
The operating theater is perhaps in best shape but almost no equipment. Some screened windows. Do not think for a moment that the Ghanaians we meet are not well educated. They are sharp and capable with what they have.
Lots of one-story quonset hut facilities. One for maternity, another for men, another for women, one for outpatient. Others for public health, TB and AIDS, administration, pharmacy.
A few homes for the leadership staff and nursing..homes is not the right word. In one living area they cook, sleep - and live, less than 100 sq ft. per person.
Wish that you could see our team here and what they do in the hospital with patients. It's astounding. They must understand and engage with professionals with very different cultural norms, different practice styles and ethos...all with almost zero resources.
A blessing has been Welch Allyn's stethoscopes, blood pressure devices, and otoscopes and laryngoscopes.
Had we known the limits here we would have brought so much more.
Our women are teaching local nurses and PA's how to use these new tools. We are learning from them how to give care with no resources. Clinical judgement vs. testing and technology are valued assets here because in all cases that may be all one has.
One doctor serves the entire hospital and he is also CEO. This man should be nominated for a CNN Real Heroes award.
Susan, several nurses and I made rounds with Dr. Mensah yesterday morning. His core questions in each case were a wonder to see. His laser questions and diagnostic tree of questions inclusive of fine clinical judgement gave actions on patients.
Dr. Mensah did a breach cesarean at 1 a.m. the night before last, plus helped with two deliveries. He is a great teacher. We saw two bulking inguanal hernias that will be operated on tomorrow. Our gang will scrub in on those cases via rotation. We saw an active case of typhoid.
Very sick people. A woman with advanced pneumonia whom the doctor said "let this go too far and waited too long." Two of our team noted on the afternoon she was not breathing and had expired.
The conflict our team felt centered on how we would respond in this case and how these professionals here do not respond. Needless to say some tears were shed. It's a bit overwhelming. 25 patients....all in one large area...privacy surely challenged.
Family members provide food and water for patients or they would starve. There is no food offered at the hospital. If you have no family you have a problem.
Several followed a young mom through a difficult delivery by midwife..some practices alarmed our team...she delivered. Two students bathing a newborn.
Our clinical confidence grows by leaps and bounds, because it has to.
Several men were badly injured in a van rollover near here. 30 injured...terrible cuts and abrasions.
Think of our wonderful ladies today and smile.
Best. Jeff


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One of the world's leading big cat experts will address the annual meeting of the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, next month.
Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, chief executive officer of Panthera will present "Connecting the Dots: Saving the World's Big Cat Species on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Science Center.
While NH Fish and Game claim there are no eastern cougars left in the state and do not have any evidence to suggest a return of the big cats, residents and visitors have claimed there are signs that the cats have returned, including one report from hikers last year in the Squam Range, just behind the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center.
Pathera's goal is to preserve wild habitats for the largest and most imperiled cats. These include snow leopards, jaguars, cougars, lions and tigers.
The event begins at 6 p.m. with cash bar and appetizers, includes a live auction and Dr. Rabinowitz will begin his remarks at 7:30 p.m.
The annual meeting for members, is at 5:30 p.m. and there is no charge.
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The Tourism Authority is discussing including in the tax credit project companies who promote domestic tourism.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
In order to look into this, consultations are being held with the Ministry of Economy and Finance regarding the feasibility of the initiative. The aim is to promote tourism in other provinces.
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The project, to be presented to the National Assembly in early 2012, aims to promote tourism within the country.
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Vice President Joe Biden has denied reports that he used the word "terrorists" to describe Republicans who opposed raising the debt ceiling.
But several representatives of the media didn't hesitate to make the comparison during the recent debt debate.
The Media Research Center, a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the public and media on bias in the media, put together a list of some of the starkest examples.
For instance, MSNBC's Chris Matthews said Republicans have become the "wahhabis" of American politics.
Newsweek editor Tina Brown called conservatives "suicide bombers."
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman referred to the Tea Party as the "Hezbollah faction" of the Republican Party.
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In Conversation: Karen Green, Columbia University
Karen Green is an expert in sequential art. As the librarian for Ancient & Medieval History and Graphic Novels at Columbia University, Green deals in illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages to comic books by contemporary artists. In 2005, when Green started Columbia's graphic novel collection, the university had just a handful of comics on the shelves; today there is an international collection of over 3,000 titles. Green is also responsible for establishing Columbia's comic archive, which includes the papers of Chris Claremont, Denis Kitchen and Al Jaffee. In an interview with MIXED MEDIA, Green discusses the connections between medieval art and contemporary comics, and gives us a recipe for starting an archive from scratch.
How did the graphic novels collection and comics archive evolve?
When I proposed the collection in 2005, which was the circulating collection, I emphasized a kind of New York-centric nature to the collection; I felt that would be the easiest sell. I had promoted the collection as "American comics born in New York." Columbia's full name is Columbia University in the City of New York and that was one of the three prongs of my argument. They gave me a small budget of $4,000, which I immediately overspent by 25%. So the next year, they gave me $5000. Before the crash, it used to work like that with our budgets. First of all, you were allowed to overspend, and if you did overspend, they would give you that much next year, which was awesome and I really miss it so much.
I proposed the collection as New York-centric. I started also looking at award winners. One of the other prongs of my argument was about growing academic and critical acceptance, so I wanted things that had been recognized. I looked at Eisner Award winners, Harvey Award winners, Ignatz Award winners. I kept a spreadsheet - which I still keep and is very long now - of everything I ordered and I could go in and rearrange it by author. I could see whose names kept cropping up over-and-over-and-over again. I built out those collections so I had the entire corpus of a given writer's or artist's work. Then people started requesting things and it just kind of took on a life of its own. Now my criteria are anything of literary, artistic, historic or pedagogical merit, which is pretty broad. And to a very great extent, the collection reflects my view of what's important, which sounds egotistical, but basically every selector does that for his or her subject area. I do the same thing for ancient and medieval history, which is the job I was hired for. I don't just buy everything that's out; I buy from certain publishers, I buy in certain areas. It's about discernment and discrimination - in the positive sense of discrimination. I try to do the same thing for the comics collection; buy the things that are generally recognized and personally recognized as important.
When Chris Claremont contacted me, that was a very different situation because I don't actually have the authority to accept archives for Rare Books [Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library]. They are an autonomous institution - I don't work for them. So I took that proposition to their director and we had a long conversation and he said, "Yes, I think this sounds like a very nice thing to have." And I said, "Well, you know, if we get this, there may be other creators who contact us." He said, "I wouldn't want it to exist in isolation. I would want it to have a context."
I kind of expected people to start beating down the doors, which did not happen. In part because there's another institution in this country that's been doing this for 35 years, which is the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at Ohio State. [It was] started by an incredibly visionary woman named Lucy Shelton Caswell. In the comics industry, if they thought of giving their papers at all, they thought of giving them to Ohio State. I was trying to create a New York-based, Northeast Corridor-based alternative. And again, the focus was New York City creators, but because Columbia's Rare Book archives also have a certain strength in publishing history, I went after some other people and I think it worked pretty well. We got Wendy and Richard Pini and we got Denis Kitchen, who were two hugely important elements in the history of independent comics publishing outside of the big two. Neither of them have a strong New York focus, this was more in line with the publishing history. Al Jaffee on the other hand, he's a New York City institution all on his own. So that was just a natural and he had appeared here [at Columbia] on panels. He's just a lovely, lovely man and so I asked him!
How did the Al Jaffee and the Kitchen Sink Press donations come about?
I asked.
You just asked?
I literally just asked. I went up to Al at New York Comic-Con 2012 and I had been meaning to ask him for a while, but I kept on missing him. I couldn't go to things that he was at, or he wasn't at things that I was at. So finally we ended up in the same room and I said, "Al, I've been meaning to ask you, what are you doing with your papers?" He goes, "Well you know, nobody's ever asked me." I was shocked because I figured there would be a huge turf battle with everybody, but no, nobody had asked him. I knew his stepdaughter [Jody Revenson] a little as well. I know her better now because she's been organizing his studio so she knows what he has. He said, "Talk to Jody." So I talked to Jody and brought over colleagues from Rare Books and that happened.
With Denis, I went up to him at a book launch party at Book Expo America in Spring 2012. I knew him a little as well; he had also appeared on a panel here in March 2012. Someone had told me that he had kept every letter that everyone had ever sent him in the original envelope. So that was intriguing to me. I went up to him at this book launch party and I said, "Denis, have you ever thought about what you're going to do with your archives?" And he looks down at me - he's very tall - and he says, "Why; does it look like I'm dying? This is a very morbid question you're asking." I'm like, "No, no! I'm thinking of your legacy, Denis." And that opened up a series of talks, which ended quite successfully.
Is there a turf battle in terms of collecting comics?
I don't know, probably not. Jenny Robb, who is the current curator of the Billy Ireland Library and Museum, she and I had a talk, she and I were friends already. I saw her at San Diego Comic-Con in 2011, right after we'd signed the papers with Chris Claremont. I was afraid to tell her. I was afraid it would harm our friendship because everybody knows that that stuff goes to Billy Ireland. And she just laughed and said, "No, no, no, the more people who are collecting this, the better. But we should probably talk about ways of defining our scope so that we aren't going after the same people." So that's when the New York-centric element entered into it. But there are other people; University of Wyoming is collecting comic book editors, they've got Stan Lee's archives, for example. The Library of Congress, Northwestern University and Berkeley have cartoonist archives. So there are other people doing this and to a certain extent they're looking first at local people. Being in New York gives you a maybe a few more local people. Although the amount of cartoonists that come out of Ohio would blow your mind!
Tell me about appraising cartoon archives.
It's funny because a lot of people assume, I think in part because Billy Ireland is a museum as well as a library and that has set the model, a lot of people assume that we're going after original art. That can be tricky to get because original art is valuable to the creators and perhaps they would like to pay off their mortgages or put their children through school. What we're looking for is process materials, and materials that tell the story of the person's career, and of the profession in general. We're looking for roughs, sketches, pencils, business contracts, correspondence, fan mail; we're looking for all the things that are the auxiliary around the creation of the actual finished product. Not to say we'd turn down original art, but that's the icing. But we're also very, very interested in the cake.
Have you already received these auxiliary materials and what sorts of stories do they tell?
We haven't gotten all of anybody's except Chris Claremont so far. We've gotten one wave from Al Jaffee, we've gotten two waves from Richard Pini. Richard gave us this wonderful bed sheet that was created I think in the '90s by a Dutch Elfquest fan club. They took this huge white bed sheet and everyone in the fan club did some original art, fan art, and sent it to Wendy and Richard. That's an element of fan culture, of audience and reception, of reinterpretation; there's a lot that you can get out of that bed sheet.
Al has given us these two wonderful notebooks from his 90th birthday; one is fans' cards and another is fellow cartoonists' cards. Some of them riff on the [Mad magazine] fold-in, some of them riff on Snappy Answers. Some of them are gorgeous and some of them are just infused with the love of the person for Al, which kind of transcends their perhaps technical proficiency. It's lovely to see things like that. In Denis' papers, which I've seen literally seen .00001 percent of so far, you have letters with suggestions of cover art, "What do you think of this?" or "Should I work on this topic?" You have people asking about pay rates, people talking about pay rates; you get a sense of what people were being paid for underground comics in 1973. You have fan letters from Stan Lee to Denis Kitchen, envying his freedom to do whatever kinds of stories he wanted to do without any constraints, like the Comics Code Authority. You've got a lot that tells the story of the industry that is not simply the obvious thing.
Is there a connection between the visual culture of medieval art and modern comics?
Humankind has been telling stories through series of images since the caves of Lascaux; this is not a new phenomenon. If you look at Trajan's Column, you'll see panel after panel after panel describing the wars of Dacia as you go down the spiral. The Bayeux Tapestry tells the story of the Norman conquest in clearly delineated panels, not separated by gutters, but separated by trees or towers. And there's often dialogue. If you look at medieval illuminations or paintings of the Annunciation, archangel Gabriel comes to Mary and out his mouth comes a little ribbon on which is written, "Ave Maria Plena Gratia - Hail Mary Full of Grace." It's a scroll that's known as a banderole, but it's essentially a word balloon. You've got stained glass windows with stories of the saints. You've got this long tradition of telling stories in sequential visual pieces. Comics are just another part of that. They are perhaps in this country long not considered an important part of that, but I think that's really changed, profoundly changed. In Europe and in Asia, there's a bit more respect for the medium, perhaps because they see this clear line; they have all those medieval cathedrals and manuscripts, they've grown up with the stuff. To me, it's all kind of much of a muchness. I don't see a clear distinction, other than in subject matter and skill and materials.
That's why I'm fascinated by archives, they tell stories.
There's a great story in this book called, The Social Life of Information. The guy is in an archive and he's doing some historical research. He sees a guy at another table, who has a box full of letters and he's picking up the letters and he's smelling them. The author is intrigued and he asks him, "Watcha doing?" The guy says that these were written during a time of plague and people at this time believed that vinegar could cleanse plague infection off something. If they lived in a plague infected town and they needed to send a letter out, they would rinse the letter in vinegar. He was smelling for that vinegar-smell to see if the letters came from a plague town. That is amazing! And that is something that will never be conveyed through digital archives unless you've got an extremely intricate metadata schema. That's history and the materials of history.
As a medievalist, I've always been fascinated by things that historians use to make history. When I was a grad student here and working as a TA, that was something that I tried to get the undergraduates to understand; this isn't all received from scrolls from above. Historians look at letters, chronicles, manuscripts, art, coins, they look at all of this stuff and they construct a story out of it. There's that old Naked City line, "There's 8 million stories in the naked city." There's 8 million stories in any archive. Just pick any box at random and it's going to tell you a story.
Do you have any tips for newly-minted librarians and archivists?
Well, I'm not an archivist.
But you started the comics archive from scratch. You are also a sort of a curator of both the graphic novel collection and comics archive.
To a certain extent, I think you could say that. When I went to Michael Ryan [former director of Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library] with the Claremont offer, one of his questions was, "How does this fit with what you're collecting in the circulating collection?" Because you want there to be an interdependence; you want the general collection to support the archives and to a certain extent vice versa. I think if you're interested in starting an archive, you need to think about how you're going to pitch it and how you're going to define its scope. I'm still working with our curators on defining a scope of the comics archives. I have a somewhat irrational exuberance - let's get that person and that person! And I have to be [told], you know we can only go at this pace and it has to be balanced with all these other areas that we also collect in. I guess the big tip is patience and perseverance.
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According (PDF) to the latest Monmouth University Poll, "a large majority of Americans acknowledge climate change is happening, although they are divided on whether human activity is mostly responsible for it."
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of the classic Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, second edition (Greenwood Press/University of California Press, 2009), by NCSE's founding executive director Eugenie C. Scott.
What are the challenges to creating a resilient and confident educational community capable of addressing natural hazards and climate change in a scientifically accurate and pedagogically appropriate manner? That was the question that NCSE's Minda Berbeco and Mark McCaffrey addressed in their "Fostering Educator Resilience: Engaging the Educational Community to Address the Natural Hazards of Climate Change."
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the Rabbinical Assembly, adopted in 2006.
Two bills introduced in the Florida legislature — House Bill 899 and Senate Bill 1018 — are ostensibly aimed at empowering taxpayers to object to the use of specific instructional materials in the public schools, for example on the grounds that they fail to provide "a noninflammatory, objective, and balanced viewpoint on issues." There is reason to believe that evolution and climate change are among the targets.
Zack Kopplin
Writing in The Daily Beast (December 28, 2015), Zack Kopplin reviews the last decade of antievolution strategies — with the assistance of a former employee of the Discovery Institute, the de facto institutional home of "intelligent design" creationism.
Alfred G. Gilman, via University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The eminent pharmacologist and biochemist Alfred G. Gilman — a member of NCSE's Advisory Council — died on December 23, 2015, at the age of 74, according to The New York Times (December 24, 2015). Gilman and Martin Rodbell were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1994 for "their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells." The Times explains that their "research helped scientists understand how the body receives signals and transmits outside stimuli like light and odor, and from a variety of hormones in the body" and also increased understanding of certain types of cancer and hereditary glandular disorders.
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the Royal Astronomical Society, adopted in 2011.
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Senate Resolution 337, introduced in the United States Senate on December 17, 2015, would, if passed, express the Senate's support of designating February 12, 2016, as Darwin Day, and its recognition of "Charles Darwin as a worthy symbol on which to celebrate the achievements of reason, science, and the advancement of human knowledge."
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I have to agree with Wirt on this. Recently I have heard the cry of
hawks in town. Something I can never recall as a kid. Since I grew up
both in the country and in town (small town), the cries of different
birds was something of a game with my brothers and me.
There does seem to be a proliferation of wild life that we just didn't
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Matthew Perdue wrote:
> Quoting Reid E. Baxter:
> The exact same thing has been occurring at my house for the past three
> weeks. The bird ( I'm no Avian expert, but is is [sic] red breasted)
> incessantly flys [sic] into one of our windows until we open the blinds
> every morning.
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I cant believe how many posters on here accept Broners behavior.
Its fooken amazing!
We all know that Broner is a uneducated fool with no common sense!
make all the excuses about him being from the hood or him being young
Oscar grew up in east LA
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all im saying is quit making excuses for this tool and just admit
he is a retarded ignorant clown
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Dude needs to grow up. I know 5 year old kids with down syndrome who are more mature and intelligent than this imbecile. Hopefully DeMarco surprises us and knocks this fool out.
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man yall kids lookin for new reasons to hate all day huh? yall cant peep a young up and coming undefeated slick fighter so yall just hate on small things that dont even matter! i hope it pisses u off tho! yall is payin the bills lmao. i was at broners last fight and and all yall haters was quiet at the arena lmao. hes young but more importantly who cares if u think he's ghetto or not. he keeps winnin and u cant handle it
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You can tell Seth felt awkward being around Broner, he had a fake smile on, he really held back from telling him to show some respect.
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What the **** was it with tickets in his mouth and making childish sounds? Was he high or is he always like this? This was absolutely terrible. I can't even conceive the notion that at 22 its cool to be this way. That s definitely America's problem. Too much coddling grown ass people. I was cooking by 10 and doing my laundry at 10. To some that might be interpreted as bad parenting or a broken home. In my family that's called manning the **** up. 22 and you're acting like that? Definitely too many passes given out to people simply because they reach some level of fame. And for fighting? That makes the fans seem even worse. I thought this was a gentleman's sport or at the least blood thirsty men who were crazy but still acted like men not an early teen.
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The replay of production workloads in a test environment helps DBAs to identify potential robustness and performance issues related to changes in the DB2 environment. Examples of these changes are:
- Migration or upgrade of the DB2 engine
- Refresh of tables and indexes statistics
- Installation of new security plugins
- Modification of an application server
The test system is usually not identical to the production system. For example, it may have a smaller amount of memory. In order to realistically simulate a workload from the production system on the test system you need to scale the number of users and amount of instance memory, as well as the values of memory-related parameters.
The variables that will be used to formalize scaling are defined in the next section. The article then discusses the scaling of the number of users and instance memory size. Finally, it describes the scaling of the remaining memory-related parameters and automation sample script.
The following seven variables are defined and will be used to formalize the scaling process in the following sections.
- Ip – The size of the
INSTANCE_MEMORYparameter on a production system
- It – The size of the
INSTANCE_MEMORYparameter on a test system
- Up – The number of users on the production system
- Ut – The number of users on the test system
- N – The total number of memory-related parameters
- Mi,p – The size of the i-th memory-related parameter on the production system
- Mi,t – The size of the i-th memory-related parameter on the test system
User and instance memory
This section discusses relations between the number of users and instance memory on the production and test systems. In order to ensure consistent behavior, the amount of memory allocated to a given user should be the same on the production and test systems.
If the It is fixed, then the maximum number of users on the test system is given by Ut = It × Up ÷ Ip.
Consider the following example. Suppose that Ip = 100Mb, Up = 10 users, and It = 70Mb. The maximum number of users on the test system is then equal to Ut = 70 × 10 ÷ 100 = 7 users.
If you want to mimic a specific number of users on the test system, then you can calculate the test system's instance memory size that is needed to achieve this task, using It = Ut × Ip ÷ Up.
For example, if you want to simulate five users on the test system (Ut = 5 users), and Ip = 100Mb and Up=10 users then It = 5 × 100 ÷ 10 = 50Mb.
Once the number of users and instance memory size are set, you can determine the size of the remaining memory configuration parameters.
Remaining memory configuration parameters
The remaining memory configuration parameters can be determined using one of the following approaches.
- Constrained approach – This preserves the same ratios of all memory-related configuration parameters' values on the production and test systems. This approach can be used to mimic a production system with fixed memory-related parameter values, or a production system with uniform workload.
- Relaxed approach – This preserves the same ratios of some memory-related configuration parameters' values on the production and test systems. This approach can be used to test a production system with memory-related parameters managed by the DB2 engine.
A constrained approach is ideal if all the memory configuration parameters
on the production system are fixed. Preservation of the memory parameters'
values ratios will yield a realistic test system. However, if some of the
parameters are set to
AUTOMATIC and/or managed
by Self-Tuning Memory Management (STMM), then the values of the parameters
may fluctuate as workload changes. This would imply that fixing the values
will not yield a realistic picture. An exception to this rule exists. If
your workload is uniform, then the parameters' values are stable. This
means that even if it is set to
AUTOMATIC, the
values will likely not change. In this case the constrained approach will
yield good results, even if some parameters are managed automatically.
If some of the memory parameters are managed automatically and are volatile, the relaxed approach may provide a more realistic solution. However, since the size of memory instance on the test and production systems are different, the behavior of automatic memory managers may differ on the systems, hence not always leading to perfect scaling results.
A compromise technique, mixing constrained and relaxed approaches, lies in capturing the sets of parameters' values under different loads on your production system and then running similar scaled loads on your test system with scaled parameters' values for each set of parameters.
The rest of the section is structured as follows. First, additional details are provided on implementation of the constrained and relaxed approaches. Then the automation sample script section describes a sample Perl script automating implementation of these approaches.
Constrained approach implementation
In order to preserve the same ratios of all memory parameters on the test
system you should disable STMM and set
AUTOMATIC values to fixed values, applying the
same ratios for memory parameters on the test system as on the production
system. The process can be summarized using the following algorithm.
Disable STMM on the test system by executing "UPDATE DB CFG USING self_tuning_mem OFF" For i = 1 .. N Set Mi,t = It × Mi,p ÷ Ip Execute "UPDATE [DB|DBM] CFG USING i-th_config_keyword Mi,t"
Relaxed approach implementation
The relaxed approach is similar in nature to the constrained approach. However, you will allow the test system to manage memory parameters that were managed automatically on the production system. You need to enable STMM and initialize memory parameters with scaled values. If the values were managed automatically on the production system, then let them be managed automatically on the test system. Otherwise, you should manage them manually.
The process can be summarized as follows.
Enable STMM on the test system by executing "UPDATE DB CFG USING self_tuning_mem ON" For i = 1 .. N Set Mi,t = It × Mi,p ÷ Ip If the i-th parameter was set to AUTOMATIC on the production machine Then Execute "UPDATE [DB|DBM] CFG USING i-th_config_keyword Mi,t AUTOMATIC" Else Execute "UPDATE [DB|DBM] CFG USING i-th_config_keyword Mi,t"
Automation sample script
A sample Perl script called
memscaling.pm is
included with this article that automates the constrained and relaxed approaches
algorithms. The script calculates the scaling factor and outputs
"update [DB|DBM] cfg" statements for the test
system to a text file.
Once the data is captured, execute
on any computer, providing the following options.
--approach_type or -a <c|r>
- The type of memory scaling approach: 'c', constrained, or 'r', relaxed.
--db_cfg or -db <file containing db config>
- The name of the file containing database configuration.
--dbm_cfg or -dbm <file containing dbm config>
- The name of the file containing database manager configuration.
--output or -o <output file>
- The name of the output configuration file.
--param or -p <file containing parameters of interest>
- The name of the file containing memory-related configuration parameters of interest being scaled.
--test_inst_mem_sz or -s <test instance memory size>
- The size of the memory available for the DB2 instance on the test system in 4K pages.
--help or -h
- Provides additional documentation.
In order to use the script, you need to store the production system's database and database manager configurations in text files, for example, you could use the following.
$db2 GET DB CFG > db.cfg $db2 GET DBM CFG > dbm.cfg
The file containing memory-related configuration parameters should have the
following format: one parameter (namely a keyword enclosed by parenthesis
in the output of "
get DB | DBM
cfg") per line
in no particular order, as shown in the following example.
instance_memory db_memory mon_heap_sz
This article has described scaling of the number of users, DB2 instance memory, and memory-related configuration parameters on a test DB2 system, based on configuration of a production DB2 system. This information should help you to create a realistic test system that is scaled from production, improving analysis of changes in the test environment.
|Sample Perl script automating the algorithms
- Visit the DB2 V9.7 Information Center to read a summary of DB2 configuration parameters.
- Read the Self-tuning memory overview in the DB2 V9.7 Information Center.
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I am currently using Gftp and it is ok to do the occasional upload. For
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them, then do another minor change and upload.
First Gftp asks me to confirm an overwrite. This is anoying to me,
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Burdens of Proof
Ronald J. Allen
Northwestern University Law School
June 10, 2013
Journal of Law, Probability and Risk, Forthcoming
Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper 12-17
Northwestern Public Law Research Paper 12-25
The conceptual foundations of burdens of proof are examined, and the unified theory of evidentiary devices derivable from those foundations is explicated. Both the conceptual foundations and the unified theory generated are shown to rest on questionable assumptions about conventional probability theory. The resulting analytical difficulties are analyzed. Inference to the best explanation and the relative plausibility theory are examined as potentially providing the foundation to a superior conceptualization of the burden of proof.
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Keywords: evidence, epsteimology, burdens of proof, persuasion, production, trials, probability theory, inference to the best explanation, relative plausibility
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