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Catholic Charities raises $7.28M as Appeal Week activities begin
BUFFALO – The Most Rev. Richard J. Malone, bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo, announced today Catholic Charities' annual Appeal has raised $7,283,164.45 to date, representing 68 percent of the $10.7 million goal. Funds raised for Appeal 2013 support Catholic Charities' 70 programs and services offered across 61 sites throughout the eight counties of western New York.
Volunteers, supporters and the Catholic Charities of Buffalo Appeal leadership team gathered today with Bishop Malone to hear the progress of the Appeal and celebrate Appeal Week 2013, the period which marks the strongest push for parish donations.
Parishes across Western New York will continue to participate in Appeal Week activities through Sunday to recognize the support of western New Yorkers who have made a contribution to the annual Appeal and to encourage those who have not already donated to do so.
Volunteers will continue work following Appeal Week to achieve the campaign's final goal by June 30.
Bishop Malone lauded the dedication of the Appeal's county and parish leadership and its 600 local volunteers, and expressed appreciation for the generous support of western New Yorkers who have contributed thus far. He also emphasized the need to look to the future and continue the momentum toward the goal during Appeal Week and beyond, through June 30.
"In yesterday's second reading the Letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians we were encouraged to 'forget what lies behind, but strain forward to what lies ahead, as we continue our pursuit toward the goal the prize of God's upward calling, in Christ Jesus,'" Bishop Malone recalled. "While we have come a long way in a short period of time, we cannot rest on our laurels. We must press on in the days and weeks ahead to achieve our lofty financial goal, and more importantly to continue with our work in faith to serve those who turn to Catholic Charities for help."
Stephen Ulrich, 2013 Appeal chair, also thanked the volunteers and Appeal Leadership Team for their efforts and express optimism for Appeal Week's success.
"I'm confident our team will rise to the occasion and help us make plenty of headway toward our ultimate goal this week."
He also shared some of the strategies under way to reach this year's goal.
"I believe two keys to our success will be overcoming demographic trends to maintain 60,000 donors, and maintaining an average gift level of $175 or above," Ulrich said. "We must continue to reach out to and engage the next generation of donors, which we're doing through our 'Get Real. Give Hope.' social media campaign and events such as the recent successful Young Adult Networking reception at Flying Bison Brewery. We're also working hard to increase our corporate donor base and to encourage our regular donors to contribute a little bit more each year."
Sister Mary McCarrick, OSF, diocesan director of Catholic Charities, reflected on the generosity of western New York and why any size contribution is able to help those in need.
"When our community responds, Catholic Charities is able to protect, strengthen and empower people in need 'as Jesus would,'" said Sister Mary. "Each gift, large or small, will collectively bring us one step closer to the goal that allows Catholic Charities to be the special gift of the Catholic community to western New York."
She also noted the organization's excellent stewardship and quality service, as evidenced by its four-star Charity Navigator rating and accreditation for adhering to best practice standards by the Council on Accreditation.
"While many donate from the heart because it's what we are called to do, to help one another, all can rest assured that it is a wise decision as well."
Dennis C. Walczyk, Catholic Charities chief executive officer, introduced a program that will offer immigrants greater support and opportunities for integrating more completely into New York State and our community through U.S. citizenship. Catholic Charities is one of 27 organizations across the state chosen to create a neighborhood-based Opportunity Center through the New York State Office for New Americans, newly launched by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
"On our Herkimer Street campus in Buffalo, the former Nativity parish, where English as a Second Language and civic classes are taught, and where case management is provided, this grant will increase our ability to prepare new Americans for citizenship and support them in entrepreneurial endeavors," said Walczyk.
He added, "We remember that Buffalo is rich in many ways because of the various cultures that settled here as long ago as 200 years ago. Today, the richness is expanded through the cultures of the people of Bhutan, Burma, Burundi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, to name just a few, who seek their part in the American dream."
Catholic Charities empowers children, families and seniors to achieve meaningful, healthy and productive lives. In all situations, we deliver support to meet immediate needs and then assess for other needs to ensure long-term success. We are the most comprehensive human service provider serving more than 130,000 people in all eight counties of WNY with 70 programs and 61 locations. We receive highest ratings for quality of service provided and financial health/accountability as rated by the Council on Accreditation and Charity Navigator. For 89 years, Catholic Charities has been making a difference for people of every faith and ethnicity in WNY.
The patron of Appeal 2013 is Blessed Frederic Ozanam, a layman who co-founded the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
For more information on Appeal 2013 or to make a donation, contact Catholic Charities at (716) 218-1400 or go to www.ccwny.org. Check out Catholic Charities on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ccbuffalo and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ccbuffalo.


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I've read (and experienced) that brewing tea with a tea cosy on the pot results in "stewed" tea that is unpleasant and bitter. I've had this happen to both black and green tea, but white doesn't seem to suffer as much. Of course, black and green teas have so short steeping times that a tea cosy isn't needed, but some white teas are supposed to steep quite long. This Yin Zhen says seven minutes, for example. Even it doesn't get bitter with the tea cosy, is the taste still damaged? Is it better to steep without the tea cosy and let long-steeped white tea become somewhat colder?
I assume this isn't an issue for rooibos and herbal infusions that don't go bitter (please correct me if I'm wrong), but what about pu erh? I've read that the aged kind can't be oversteeped, but I'm not sure if that holds for temperature as well as steeping time. And what about raw pu erh?
Actually, after writing this, I wonder if even a pot without tea cosy causes minor stewing compared to steeping in a cup without lid due to the higher insulation/temperature of the pot. What do you think?

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Skip to comments.Charlie Sheen's age
Posted on 03/07/2011 6:57:34 PM PST by DGHoodini
Man! Is it me, or does Charlie Sheen look like he's aged about 30 years in the last two weeks? Watching his 2 and a half Men show..He always lookd to be 30 ish...But in this last interview of him, he looked more like a less fat 55 year old Marlon Brando...How sad.
He looks his age - 45 or so.
Make up, lots and lots of make up. Troweled on no doubt.
To me, he looks young for his age.
Provided that he's 85 years old.
Take a look at normal 45 year old men.
Cocaine is a he11 of a drug, ain't it?
Sheen is headed to the edge of a very high cliff. Not really a fan of his. But still, I hope the guy somehow sees the light and gets help.
It's called METH.
Have you seen the recent meth faces campaign? Some of those people aged 20 years in 2 months. It would also explain the ridiculous rants and tangents he's gone off on.
Porn chicks are notorious for meth, I guarantee he's on it.
He could be doing so much good with his fame and fortune. I understand that back in the day Hollywooders were very conservative (in the main) and staunchly defended the principles of freedom and liberty.
He's on live stream right now. Looking worse and worse.
I find the layered ironies of the Charlie/Martin Sheen Apocalypse Now 2 & half Men Pay me to act like a degenerate and scold me when I become one drama amusing.
Pretty easy to wave around a negative drug test result when the test panel doesn't test for the drug(s) you are taking.
"Its called METH."
Yep, I have to agree with you. Here's more evidence:
How sad
I'm broken up...with all the crap going on in the world and this is a sad moment??? Guess I really don't see the point here.
Sad is overdoing it.....pathetic sums it up nicely, though.
Another thing I used to like about Sheen is his observational and sarcastic humor. Very underrated as both an actor and comedian. Threw his career and life all down the toilet.
Banging those 7 gram rocks will age you fast.
That's not all he's been banging. /s
I had exactly the same thought - he appears to have aged 15 years practically overnight.
I knew a man, who ultimately died of drugs and alcohol, who looked exactly the same way - appeared to age overnight.
that's why I'm giving Charlie 12 months more to live.
I think he looks like he's aged over night. He looks bad and he sounds terrible. The man is a wreak, only God can help him, just pray for him.
Dear God in Heaven........stop him. His self-destruction is on the fast track.
A radio station in Redding, CA has announced that they will NOT report any more on Charlie Sheen. It's really a shame that this decision were not more wide spread.
Oh man, I just watched that train wreck. He looks dead. His brain is fried from the mental illness and drugs. If there is any hope for him, it's God and God alone.
It looked like it was a scene from a film about insane asylums.
The handful of long term schizophrenics I have known had very ravaged faces. I always wondered what the connection was. It could have been a coincidence.
Anyone else know a schizophrenic with a meth face?
Can't fool me. That's Chappelle!
I think he has looked much older on his show for the last two seasons. I'd like to think that most media outlets will quit giving him air time and reporting on him...I don't think anyone wants to be the last vulture picking at the bones, before something tragic happens. I like Sheen less and less every time I see him; but, I still dread what is going to happen to him eventually.
I am 48 years old and Sheen,who's 45, looks better than most of the other guys I know my age. A lot of guys my age have turned into whales.
I think he just topped Lindsey Lo disaster.
It amazes me how people delight in the demise of a mentally ill individual. The man needs help. All of the television news about him is over the top. He needs intervention and prayer.
*I am 48 years old and Sheen,whos 45, looks better than most of the other guys I know my age. A lot of guys my age have turned into whales.*
Your whale buddies probably don't have access to a mountain of coke to keep them trim and an army of hairdressers, plastic surgeons and makeup artists to keep them looking sharp, either. Cut them some slack.
I get a really bad feeling we are all watching someone die before our eyes.
Can't one of his girlfriends or family members help him ?
And he's pretty funny...
The girlfriends, errr, excuse me, Godesses, don't really care about Charlie as long as the money, and Coke are flowing. And someone on another thread caught a little blurb on FNC, that one of the Godesses has already bugged out. Not sure which one, the Drug magazine cover girl, or the porn star.
Not saying that it would do any good at this point, but I wonder where his dad, and his brother, Emilio Estevez are right now?
Haven't heard whether they're trying to stop Charlie from driving off that cliff.
Perhaps they've tried to help, and he's run them off. Drug addicts with money and fame will do that.
He was fired today. Good.
Two and a Half Men is no more. One more piece of filth off the air.
A good team of makeup artists makes a big difference.
I believe it was Rachel aka Bree Olsen the pornstar who headed back home to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
unless he changes his life style, he will be dead in 6 months.
Dang, she's a Hoosier!
Back home eh.
Hi Mom, hi daddy... I'm back from my drug fueled whirlwind babysitting job with Charlie Sheen's kids. I'm going to take a break, and then head back to the porn studio.
I did not look like that at 45, nor do my sons! Clean living pays off, not so much clean living in Charlie's case!
"This ONE Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest"
He's NOT mentally ill, what he is suffering from, he did to himself. Sorry, no pity here!
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News - A Rocket To the Moon
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A Rocket To The Moon's new video for 'Ever Enough' is here! Watch it above and click HERE to join the band and Debby in a chat going on right now. You can also preorder a copy of the band's new album Wild & Free at arockettothemoon.net and get a free instant download of the song.
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A Rocket To The Moon's new video for 'Ever Enough,' starring Debby Ryan, will premiere Tuesday, February 19th on The Fueled By Ramen YouTube channel at 7:30pm EST. Check out the special announcement from Nick and Debby and tune in Tuesday night!
|February 11, 2013
Check out this photo of Nick Santino of A Rocket To The Moon and Debby Ryan on the set of a recent photoshoot for BOP magazine and Tiger Beat magazine. In case you missed it, the two recorded an acoustic cover of Taylor Swift's hit 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' that recently passed 1 million views on YouTube - watch it HERE.
A Rocket To The Moon's new album Wild & Free will be out March 26th on Fueled By Ramen!
|February 01, 2013
from Nick Santino of A Rocket To The Moon:
The cover of Wild & Free is one of the coolest parts of this new record. Going into the photo shoot we had these thoughts in our heads of how we could make the album title come across in a photo. We kept throwing around the idea of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys and Where The Wild Things Are. The photo has a warm feel to it and in my opinion feels very Wild & Free.
We shot the artwork with Eric Ryan Anderson in my neck of the woods in the South Shore of Massachusetts. I design a majority of the artwork and merch for the band and this album art was something I wanted to take a stab at. I had an idea of what I wanted it to look like and I think it came out amazing. I'm very proud of the final product and I hope you guys like it as well!
|January 31, 2013
Nick Santino of A Rocket To The Moon will be hosting another Saturday Music Brunch concert on StageIt.com! See Nick perform live by tuning in this Saturday, February 2nd at 11am EST. Get your tickets HERE.
|January 29, 2013
A Rocket To The Moon are happy to announce that their new album Wild & Free will be released March 26th on Fueled By Ramen.
We're happy to announce that we will be releasing "Wild & Free" through Fueled By Ramen on March 26, 2013. No more delays - this is a guarantee.
Read more about the announcement on the band's website HERE.
|January 23, 2013
A Rocket To The Moon will be setting sail on The Rock Boat, a 5-day music cruise aboard the Norwegian Pearl. They will grace the stage with Sister Hazel, NEEDTOBREATHE, The Daylights, Good Old War and many others. Find out all the details on The Rock Boat HERE.
|January 17, 2013
Hello patient friends!
It's done! The final installment in my extremely late international tour videos from early 2012! This one is from our time spent in Brazil and Chile back in March with The Ready Set. It was the end of our month long international tour so we were all a little worn out but the excitement and spirit of the fans that greeted us down there was more than enough to put the pep back in the step. I always love going to foreign countries for a number of reasons, but a main one is because of the energy fans show us the second we walk off the plane. Brazil and Chile were no different. That kind of unconditional love from new faces truly warms the heart. So thank you South America for such an amazing experience that none of us will ever forget.


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""I've got a list of corporations that have gotten out of their airplanes [because of criticism from politicians]. It is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. When you look at the time and cost savings; it does not make sense not to fly [privately]. You can't let public perception interfere with your business decision to fly. It either is a good business decision or it isn't.""
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Fred Reid, who is known for his exceptional command of English, is also fluent in French, German and Hindi. He has lived in seven countries over 36 years and held prominent positions at four major airlines. He was the first U.S. national to lead a major international carrier, Lufthansa German Airlines and also was the founding CEO of Virgin America. Here, a look into his leadership philosophy, his emphasis on values and his appreciation of diversity.
I spent the first 10 out of 11 years of my life in Ethiopia. I remember being acutely aware that we were the minority and were guests in someone else's country. There was no Internet, no television, no email. My first school had no walls.
Americans are kind of famous for declaring that we have good values and other people should understand our good values. There is nothing wrong with that, because as countries go, believe me, America works pretty well. But that does not mean that other countries are without merit or tremendous accomplishment.
When you are working in a country other than your own, the first thing you need to do is pay attention and listen. This is something that is easily articulated but takes effort to actually do.
Develop an attentive mind-set. Listen before you blurt things out. Try to adapt your feelings and orientation to your audience. And by the way, your audience is not just your clients. It's your employees, too.
Even if you are an American boss of an American company with American employers and American work rules, you are probably depending on workers who are nationals of the country you are living in. It is important to understand their perspective.
You need to be real–forget the polished corporate stuff that everyone sees through. Answer the question. And if you can't, say you can't and explain why. No one likes getting an answer to a question that wasn't asked.
Language is a window into a person's soul. A big breakthrough for me doing business outside the U.S. was learning the language of that culture and being able to converse in it.
We are North-American-centric at Flexjet but we fly people all over the world. Obviously our clients come from all different ancestries. Our customers are sophisticated and humble, and 85 percent of them have made their own money in the last 25 years. They don't take things for granted.
We have put more than a million dollars into technology, processes and training, which I call learning. Obviously pilots and mechanics are trained. But mostly what people do here is learn.
When I interview [job candidates], I look for heart. Obviously the technical skills are a requirement–like oxygen in a room. But we also put a large emphasis on values, attitudes, EQ versus IQ.
We almost always use hiring panels and usually will have someone from an adjacent department in the room. It's like celestial navigation. You are able to look at a new person from three or four angles to see where the viewpoint converges.
Nasty, negative people are toxic for a workplace. I don't expect people to come in skipping and bouncing up and down, but there is a fundamental attitude that goes with work, which is basic respect for other people, no matter what rank they are.
Early on, I learned that working at a peer level is just as important, if not more important, than managing up or down. You need to work across organizations instead of up and down.
Values come first. You cannot compromise on values.
Business is not all intuitive but it is not all fact-based, either. It is a human enterprise. People have feelings, and attitudes change. You can't run a business by the seat of your pants, but you also can't do it based [only] on facts and spreadsheets. You have to understand abstraction.
I gently correct people when they say, "This company is a family." In a family, crazy Uncle Eddie gets to be there for Thanksgiving no matter what. We're not a family. We are a team. If you hurt your ankle, we will pay you while you get better and you can go to the locker room and rest. But you need to run plays, move the ball. We are all equal in that regard. We all have a role to play on the team.
The whole attitude of "I'm the boss and you're going to do it my way" is pretty outdated. But on the other hand, you can't be wringing your hands saying, "Let's all take a vote."
When it comes to conflict management, I get involved right away. People get frustrated when their leaders do not get involved in visible conflict. I've come across super-capable people all my life who are so good at so many things–highly moral, hard workers, great values–but they can't handle conflict.
There have been times in my career when I have come into broken situations where I have had to totally revamp the structure. Conflict management has become easier for me over time because I have the benefit of hindsight and can see the before and after.
When there is a problem, I immediately draw a line between omission and commission.
Commission is cheating, stealing, lying, violations of trust. In those cases, you always treat the person legally and fairly and either ask for a resignation or terminate with cause.
Omissions are honest mistakes, human errors. I talk to the person, go through what happened and we talk about how we can avoid this mistake in the future and what could have been done differently in the first place.
I have always been thrilled by great communicators. I value the spoken word and I really value good writing. I value great energy, values and attitudes. In the end, it's harder to find good people and it takes longer, but you need to take the time to look at how someone will perform over years and decades.
One of the most level headed, spot on, reality based interviews I've read in a long time. Sounds like a great guy to work for! Sign me up.
work for him and is GRRRReat!
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Cygnus @ Amphibian: works by Greenbaum, Rakowski, Babbitt, Suzuki, Claman & Biscardi 4/3 @ 8pmPosted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement, tags: Amphibian concert series, Chester Biscardi, Cygnus Ensemble, David Claman, David Rakowski, Hi Art! Gallery, Matthew Greenbaum, Milton Babbitt, Re'ut Ben Ze'ev, Shoko Suzuki
Cygnus Ensemble
performing Venerable Canons featuring works by
Greenbaum, Rakowski, Babbitt, Suzuki, Claman & Biscardi
featuring Re'ut Ben Ze'ev, mezzo-soprano
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 8pm, Hi Art! Gallery
AMPHIBIAN concert series presents New Music & Video featuring Cygnus Ensemble performing Venerable Canons, works by Matthew Greenbaum, David Rakowski, Milton Babbitt, Shoko Suzuki, David Claman and Chester Biscardi on Tuesday, April 3rd at 8pm. Mezzo-soprano Re'ut Ben Ze'ev will be a special guest. The performance will be at the Hi Art! Gallery, 227 West 29th Street, Studio 4R in New York.
AMPHIBIAN is a performance series that combines new chamber music with video art. Its second season features Momenta Quartet, Cygnus Ensemble, and Temple University's 'Cybersounds,' which offers electro-acoustic and visual music under the direction of Maurice Wright. In addition to these events, the endlessly inventive Mari Kimura will present an evening of her own interactive works for violin, electronics and video, plus an electro-acoustic classic: Mario Davidovsky's lyrical 9th Synchronism for violin and pre-recorded electronic sound.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Hi Art! Gallery
227 West 29th Street
Studio 4R
New York, New York
Tickets: $15; $10 for students
About the Program
Venerable Canons, for flute & violin
by Matthew Greenbaum
Sho gyo mu jo for theorbo & baritone
by Shoko Suzuki
gone for foreign, for tutti Cygnus
by David Claman
Resisting Stillness, for two guitars
by Chester Biscardi
Soli e Duettini, for two guitars
by Milton Babbitt
Zyg Zag, for tutti Cygnus
by David Rakowski
Rope and Chasm,
for mezzo, electronic sounds and video
by Matthew Greenbaum
About Cygnus Ensemble
Critically acclaimed Cygnus was founded in 1985 by guitarist and composer William Anderson. The group's core instrumental formation consists of winds and strings in pairs, as well as a pair of plucked string players who, together, cover classical and electric guitars, theorbo (a giant Baroque lute), mandolin, and tenor banjo. The instrumentation has roots in the Elizabethan "broken consort" (combining instruments from different families), but Cygnus moves freely from the Baroque sound world into newgrass, electronica, and world music.
Cygnus proudly celebrates its unflagging commitment to a great number of diverse American composers, and has had numerous key modernist and postmodernist works composed especially for them including Milton Babbitt's Swan Song No. 1, David Lang's Warmth and Sebastian Currier's Broken Consort. The ensemble has produced many CDs, and has given concerts in the US, Europe and Latin America. The ensemble's recording of American composer Harold Meltzer's "Brion" (Naxos 8.559660) received accolades as one of the best recordings of 2010. Cygnus is currently in residence at Sarah Lawrence College and the City University of New York's Graduate Center. In February/March, 2012 Cygnus was in residence at the Library of Congress to inaugurate the Dina Koston and Roger Shapiro Music Fund concerts there. For more information, please go to www.cygnusensemble.com
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
Robert Ingliss, oboe
Calvin Wiersma, violin
Susannah Chapman, 'cello
Oren Fader, guitar
William Anderson, guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo


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IBM Lead Architect Shawn Mullen introduces PowerSC and the Redbook
IBM® PowerSC provides a security and compliance solution that is optimized for virtualized environments on IBM Power Systems™ servers, running IBM PowerVM® and IBM AIX®. Security control and compliance are some of the key components that are needed to defend the virtualized data center and cloud infrastructure against ever evolving new threats. The IBM business-driven approach to enterprise security used in conjunction with solutions such as PowerSC makes IBM the premier security vendor in the market today.
This IBM Redbooks® deliverable helps IT and Security managers, architects, and consultants to strengthen their security and compliance posture in a virtualized environment running IBM PowerVM.
Table of contents
Part 1. Business drivers and solution overview
Chapter 1. IT security and compliance management business context
Chapter 2. Introducing the IBM PowerSC solution
Part 2. Technical concepts and deployment guidelines
Chapter 3. Security and Compliance Automation
Chapter 4. Real Time Compliance
Chapter 5. Trusted Logging
Chapter 6. Trusted Network Connect and Patch Management
Chapter 7. Trusted Boot
Chapter 8. Trusted Firewall
Chapter 9. Trusted Surveyor
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Site structure and chronology of 36 Lake Mojave and Pinto assemblages from two large multicomponent sites in the central Mojave Desert, southern CaliforniaJenkins, Dennis L. (University of Oregon, June , 1991)[more][less]Jenkins, Dennis L. 2009-07-17T23:56:23Z 2009-07-17T23:56:23Z 1991-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9459 xxviii, 463 p. : ill., maps. A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT F868.M65 J45 1991 The environmental context and chronology of the transition from Early Holocene Lake Mojave to Middle Holocene Pinto cultural complexes of the southern California deserts has long been debated. This dissertation re-examines that debate, based on excavations at two major sites, and a rethinking of our most basic assumptions concerning culture change, cultural ecology, site formation processes, and dating techniques. Archaeological data recovered from two Lake Mojave/Pinto sites at Fort Irwin, in the Central Mojave Desert, were analyzed in order to track chronologically sensitive shifts in Lake Mojave-Pinto artifact assemblages through time. The archaeological assemblages recovered from Rogers Ridge and the Henwood sites were carefully analyzed into 36 depositional/analytical components for this task. Defining and chronologically ordering these assemblages required systematic consideration of artifact distributions and the development and application of 3 obsidian hydration rates based on associations with twelve 14C dates. The analysis shows that the Pinto Complex occurred in three phases. Phase I, ca. 8,200 to 7,500 BP, is marked by the addition of Pinto points to the Lake Mojave assemblage and a continuation of the basic Lake Mojave settlementsubsistence patterns. Phase II, 7,500 to 5,000 BP, is marked by the gradual disappearance of Lake Mojave points from the archaeological assemblages. Dramatic decreases in assemblage size and increases in assemblage diversity mark changing logistical strategies to infrequent and specialized site use. Phase III, 5,000 to 4,000 BP, is marked by a strong predominance of Pinto points and slightly larger assemblages. Patterns of variation among assemblages suggest that logistical strategies continued to emphasize infrequent and specialized site useage. The link between environmental change and shifting settlement-subsistence strategies was apparently relatively direct during the Pinto period, Environmental changes during the Early Holocene (11,000 to 8,000 BP) Mojave Desert led to subsistence stress among populations of the Pinto Complex. Cultural adjustments resulted in smaller human populations moving through larger home territories. It is suggested that critical thresholds in communication and mating networks were crossed which resulted in the collapse of social systems in the Mojave Desert about 7,000 BP. Committee in charge: C. Melvin Aikens, Ann Simonds, Don E. Dumond, and William Loy en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Anthropology, Ph. D., 1991; Paleo-Indians -- Mojave Desert Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mojave Desert Rogers Ridge Site (Calif.) Henwood Site (Calif.) Site structure and chronology of 36 Lake Mojave and Pinto assemblages from two large multicomponent sites in the central Mojave Desert, southern California Thesis
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (815 votes).
In short: A great race with variation. Would be great for a first half marathon entrant.Date of review: April 28, 2013
In short: Wonderful day in Stratford - exorcised the ghosts from 2012... In full: First time for me doing the Shakespeare Marathon but I'd read the horror stories from last year. I'd done the Milton Keynes Marathon on the same day so I know how horrendous it was, and was grateful that we had had the opportunity to run the full distance that those running in Stratford had not.This was a special race for me (my 13th marathon) because it was the first ever half-marathon for my daughter, and we ran together for the first lap before going our separate ways. She finished in a creditable 02:10 and was singing the praises of the race organisation - so I can say with some authority that this race is perfect for beginners.The marshals, water stations and local people were just superb. I loved the informality of the start and the loop of the town before heading off to the countryside. You can't really say that the course is flat, and certainly that long hill at mile 7/18 was a heartbreaker, but at least there was a nice descent for every climb, and a refreshing breeze in your face.The weather was great, although (unbelievably) it got a little too warm in the early afternoon. The Greenway plays horrible mind games with you on the second lap as it's a lot longer, and the dust scraped up by thousands of running shoes wasblowing around mercilessly. The brave folks at the water station on the Greenway were being sandblasted all afternoon!Loved the set up at the finish and a chance for a (free) cup of tea at the end. This was a really good day out and a great racing experience - well done Stratford!Date of review: April 28, 2013
In short: Splendid raceIn full: Lovely day, weather was kind, very friendly Marshals (I hope thanked them all on the way round), water stations well run and efficient. In all a super race. One little comment, what happened about the medal this year, didn't seem a patch on past years?Date of review: April 28, 2013
In short: is that bleedin greenway getting longer?In full: fourth time running this one a tad warmer than the hurricane we got last year. Great organization and really supportive Marshalls as well as brilliant water stops. One negative Stratford council now charge to spend a penny THANK YOU so much to the kind man who gave myself and my wife 20p as we had left our money in the car a lovely episode of human kindness thank you. Surprisingly warm once we got going but nice breeze on greenway. That second lap on the greenway how long was that? fantastic day and great to see the real Stratford marathon back on the map well done RotaryDate of review: April 28, 2013
In short: Really good organisation. Great support from marshals, spectators and other runners. I always find the bridleway part of the course challenging but overall a really good marathon. I'll be back next year.Date of review: April 28, 2013
In short: Beautiful marathon if a tad expensiveIn full: Really enjoyed this mornings run at the stratford marathon. Great course in lovely spring sunshine with a couple of hills thrown in for good measure. If I could fault it then it'd have to be on value for money, just a medal wasn't great. Even if they'd just given us a bit of cake or chocolate...Saying that I won't hesitate from doing it again if the weather is as nice as it was today.Date of review: April 28, 2013
In short: Debacle!Date of review: May 29, 2012
In short: Shame about the weatherIn full: First time I've done Stratford half and was worried about it being a bit warm when I entered. No chance of that, conditions were atrocious.In the circumstances I thought the organisers adopted a sensible approach. Though I can understand the disappointment of those who had entered the full marathon.Marshals were fantastic as were the spectators who braved the elements. Despite the weather I enjoyed it though it was very hard work.Date of review: May 13, 2012
In short: Seventh year running for my hometown race.In full: Despite the truly awful weather I really enjoyed it this year. Didn't really have time to think about being sore or out of breath as was trying so hard not to be blown over! I have sympathy for the organisers who had some difficult decisions to make on the day but I think they made the right ones. I'll be back again next year. I do wish they'd knock the entry fee down just a little bit though. I know it's for charity but £30+ is quite steep and then to only get a banana and a bottle of water at the end is a bit tight.Date of review: May 8, 2012
In full: cancelling the marathon.sensible but on 2 mins notice?gave runners no preparation.in my opinion would have been fairer to postpone both events/re-schedule later in the year.racing in those conditions was a nightmare.27 quid entry-no goody bag or t-shirt?seems a bit harshDate of review: May 7, 2012
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Utility crews are doing an up-close inspection of underground electricity equipment Downtown, part of a continuing investigation of Feb. 28 explosions that spawned a fireball and shattered a manhole cover but caused no injuries.
American Electric Power crews are doing the work in 259 underground vaults that are accessible through 714 manhole covers throughout Downtown. They are trying to find any immediate safety concerns in the vaults and gathering evidence about what might have caused the explosions.
"They are looking for the cause to make sure it doesn't happen again," said Fay White, an AEP spokeswoman.
The inspections began last week and will continue for at least another week. After that, the larger investigation will continue for several more months, she said.
Workers are shutting down traffic lanes, which has contributed to congestion on some streets.
On Feb. 28, the first of several blasts occurred about 1:30 a.m. on E. Lynn Street near N. 4th Street. The heavy metal manhole cover split into pieces, which went flying, shattering an east-facing window of the Chase Tower. Another piece landed on the roof of a nearby building.
Several blocks of Downtown lost electricity for much of the day.
The explosion came from a vault, which is an underground metal structure that can be as small as a refrigerator or as large as a bedroom. It contains wires, transformers and other electricity equipment.
On the morning after the blast, AEP Ohio President Pablo Vegas noted that the vault was near the site of flooding related to a water-main break in early January. He said this might have contributed to corrosion of wires.
"Fortunately, there was nobody out on the street at that time," he said.
There is no precedent for this type of explosion in central Ohio, but there are many examples from other cities that resulted in injuries and deaths. Often, the blasts are caused by the seepage of natural gas. The gas can occur naturally or come from a leak from nearby pipes. For the gas to spark, there often has to be an exposed or corroded wire.
It is not yet known whether any of those possibilities apply to what happened on Feb. 28.


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Topic: Accessing attributes on join table?
Is there any way to access attributes on a join table used in has_many :through relationship?
For example:
An article has_many :readers through :readings.
A reader has_many :articles through :readings.
There are attributes on the readings join table (which is itself a model) such as rating and review:
Table readings:
id int
article_id int
reader_id int
rating int
review mediumtext
If you are accessing a particular reader.article, is there any way to access the attributes of the reading record (such as rating and review)? E.g.:
for reader in Readers.find(:all)
reader.article.rating (this won't work, but it's the desired result)
That way, you can have a view spit out something like:
John Doe has read three articles:
Bla bla (4 stars)
Yada yada yada (2 stars)
Ok Ok Ok (1 star)
The only solution that has been suggested to me is to traverse the readings directly, which is sort of missing the entire point of the :through relationship. In that case, I basically have to rewrite the logic that rails is supposed to be doing for me with the :through concept, by iterating over all of the readings and screening out only that subset with the reader_id I care about.
I see discussion in some pages found through my googling that the has_and_belongs_to_many method has a deprecated feature that allows you to mess with attributes on the join table (push_with_attributes). I don't think what I am trying to is particularly novel. Even just getting the ID of the record in the join table that connected this article to this reader would be enough or me to subsequently get at the attributes of the join table that I care about.


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Return to Fort Dodge
Tony Trotter is the newest member of the city engineering staff in Fort Dodge, but he had knowledge of many of the local infrastructure projects well before his first day on the job.
Trotter is a St. Edmond High School graduate who began his engineering career nine years ago with McClure Engineering Co., which has an office in the city.
He began working last week as the project manager in the office of City Engineer Chad Schaeffer.
"The opportunities in Fort Dodge are exciting, I believe," Trotter said Friday.
In his new role, he'll work with city staffers, consulting engineers and contractors to manage construction projects.
Because he is a licensed professional engineer, he will do the engineering for some projects himself.
For the last three years, he worked in the Utilities Division for the city of Cedar Rapids. Previously, he worked for Howard R. Green Co., of Cedar Rapids, and McClure Engineering Co. in Fort Dodge.
He recalled that he started doing land surveying when he was 15. He said that while he was in high school, he did some of the construction staking work needed for the construction of four-lane U.S. Highway 20 between Webster City and Fort Dodge.
During his junior year of high school, Trotter constructed a working model of a trickling filter, which is a significant component of a wastewater treatment plant, for a science class project. The filter was made in a big trash can and was powered by a fish tank pump. Because his father, Mike Trotter, worked for McClure Engineering Co., he was able to get some of the microbes used in the city's wastewater treatment plant to clean the water. He was also able to obtain some wastewater that was destined for the plant. After he got the model running, he displayed glass containers filled with water in various stages of treatment, ranging from dirty water to water that looked like someone could drink it.
"It's pretty cool how you can grow bacteria that will consume the waste constituents in the water and clean the water," he said.
His father had an impact on his decision to enter the engineering profession, he said. But he was also attracted to the kind of problem-solving that engineers do.
"There are hardly ever two situations that have the same solution," Trotter said. "The thought process that is involved in finding those solutions is intriguing to me and I enjoy that."
Trotter graduated from St. Edmond High School in 1992. He went to Iowa State University in Ames with the initial goal of studying meteorology.
He decided that meteorology wasn't for him, and left college to enlist in the U.S. Air Force. For most of his four-year military career, he was assigned to the 909th Air Refueling Squadron stationed at Kadena Air Base in Japan. He flew aboard a KC-135 Stratotanker and operated a long boom at the plane's tail through which fuel was pumped into other planes.
Upon being discharged from the Air Force, Trotter studied for one semester at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge. He then returned to Iowa State University and earned a bachelor's degree with emphasis on environmental engineering.
Trotter is filling a vacancy created when Scott Meinders resigned in January to become the Winnebago County engineer.
He said there will not be any conflicts of interest between his new job and his previous one with McClure Engineering Co. He added that his father no longer has an ownership stake in that company, and has a reduced workload.


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Welcome to the Washington Nationals 2015 Ticket Exchange Program! We are excited to offer our Season Plan Holders a more convenient way to exchange their tickets online. Please be advised that ticket exchanges will NOT be processed at Nationals Park during normal business hours or during games.
The Ticket Exchange Program is only available for tickets included in full (82 games), half (42 games), and partial (21 games) season packages. Ticket exchanges are not valid for any mini or flex packages. Red Carpet Rewards tickets are not eligible for exchange. Please note, the maximum number of exchanges allowed for Full Season Members is 20, Half Season Members is 15 and Partial Plan Holders is 5. Tickets issued through the Ticket Exchange Program shall not be resold.
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Exchanges must be requested 3 business days* prior to both the game(s) being turned in and the game(s) for which the tickets are being exchanged. Tickets may be traded only once and are traded on a ticket-for-ticket basis. Tickets will be exchanged at the same ticket price or at a lesser value, based on availability at the time the tickets are traded in. Locations are subject to availability and refunds will not be given for downgrades. Parking passes are eligible to be exchanged as well based on availability.
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Old School Jam Of The Moment Remixed: "Sexual Healing" Marvin Gaye X Dilla
Our Old School Jam Of The Moment Is "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye.
This time....with the help of DJ. B.Bless we are doing it in a remix. Dilla would be proud n so would Marvin.
The mix titled "J. Gay aka Marvin Dee" mixes "Sexual Healing" in a funky way you never heard of before.
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A dog and a goose, who live in the same farm in China, are now inseparable following an accident. The goose was hit by a car and the dog picked the goose up by his mouth and carried him to safety, according to Orange News.
The mature dog brought the goose back to the farm, which is located in a village named Urumchi, and the feathered-animal did not look like he was going to survive, the media outlet reports.
The owner of the animals, whose name is Yu Yanping, was startled when he saw the goose in the dog's mouth. He initially thought the worst, only to be later surprised. Now the animals do everything together.
"They eat from the same bowl and even share the dog's kennel," said Yanping to the news source. "When the goose hears anything he starts honking - and that starts the dog barking. They are a great burglar alarm."
Dogs are notoriously heroic companions. According to the Associated Press, a pitbull recently woke up his owners because a fire had started, possibly saving their lives.


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When it comes to investing, determining your risk level is the first step in planning your strategy. Stop and think. Do your endorphins start rushing when you're teetering on the edge of danger or do you have heart palpitations? Are you comfortable taking big chances for the possibility of reaping large rewards, or are you more content to play it safe for more modest, but more reliable rewards? Your answers to these questions will give you a sense of your risk tolerance levels, but to determine your full risk profile, you'll need to dig a little deeper.
Assessing your risk range is a calculated exercise that considers your time frame for meeting specific financial goals, investing experience and comfort level with worst-case scenarios. Even if you're young and have a long-term horizon, you may not necessarily be comfortable investing aggressively.
There are other factors that can impact your tolerance of investment risk as well, such as your personal experiences and history, personality, current circumstances and future prospects. For example, maybe you are risk-averse because you got burned by a previous investment (or relationship) or saw your parents lose much of their nest egg in the last downturn. Or maybe you are an A-type entrepreneur and your whole life is about risk-taking.
If you want additional help figuring out your risk profile, there are plenty of free calculators available online with recommendations for the appropriate corresponding investment mix (or "asset allocation"). Charles Schwab offers a questionnaire in PDF format that you can save on your computer and print out. It also includes their asset allocation models, which interestingly illustrate that the difference in average annual returns between their most conservative and most aggressive portfolios is just 2 percent, but the worst-year return difference is over 31 percent! This goes to show that you can still get competitive returns with a "conservative" portfolio and that having an "aggressive" portfolio is sometimes not worth the risk (or anxiety).
Keep reading for more on how to invest for your risk profile.


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According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, the global home video market is poised to see further declines in the years ahead. Apparently, even the adoption of Blu-ray by mainstream consumers does not drive the market upwards, the analysts believe. As a result, studios will need to help develop ways of digital delivery.
"We believe the Hollywood studios now need to increase their focus and resource allocation to digital distribution as fast as possible, or face the consequences of a stagnating market in the coming years," said Martin Olausson, director of digital media research at Strategy Analytics.
Global revenue from sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs (BDs) declined more than 4% in 2009, to $35.7 billion, and is set for another 2% drop in 2010. At the same time digital distribution channels for home video entertainment are not developing fast enough to offset the decline in packaged media formats. The total packaged media market, including both retail and rental of DVDs and Blu-Ray, is projected to decline 3% in 2010, to $53.3 billion and by 12.6%, to $48.1 billion by 2013.
"The future of the home entertainment market is within digital distribution of home video," added Martin Olausson.
According to Strategy Analytics, the lack of advanced digital distribution services also slows down consumption of new movies as well, therefore, development of such services is crucial for movie companies.
"This stagnation in the home video market is principally supply-side driven. Our advanced user experience research on early adopters of digital media services, undertaken by our Digital Home Observatory service, suggests that early adopters are almost universally consuming more content now than they did before they started using digital media services," added Kevin Nolan, vice president of user experience research at Strategy Analytics.


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Harlan 'Buck' Buckman
HASTINGS, Mich. – Harlan "Buck" Buckman, 86, 591 Riverwalk St., Hastings, Mich., passed away Wednesday morning, Feb. 6, 2013, at the Pennock Hospital in Hastings.
Harlan was born Nov. 7, 1926, in Gladstone, the son of Albert and Julia (Erickson) Buckman. He was raised in Gladstone where he graduated from Gladstone High School in 1944. After graduating he served his country in the U.S. Navy as a Radioman 2nd Class- Pacific Theater on the U.S.S. Curtis. After service he attended Augustana College followed by Michigan State College where he earned a bachelor's degree in business. This was followed by a masters degree in education that he earned from the now Michigan State University.
His first career was in sales, starting early by working at the family Gambles Hardware Store. Later he worked at Sears Roebuck and Company in Flint, Mich. After moving back to Gladstone in 1970, he became a teacher of retail skills in Gladstone Public Schools, then to Delta County Intermediate School District.
Harlan married Grace Ann Taylor, Dec. 27, 1953. They celebrated 40 years of marriage before Grace passed away in 1994. On July 18, 1997, Harlan and Patricia Ann Carlson were united in marriage.
Harlan's faith was important to him. He was a member of the Hastings Baptist Church and former member of the First Lutheran Church in Gladstone. Harlan was always humming a song and he provided a beautiful base voice to the Lakewood Area Choral Society and the Escanaba and Gladstone Barber Shoppers. For the kids of Gladstone, he planted the "seed" to build Kid's Kingdom and even made a small scale model of the play park. He never embraced computers, preferring instead to drop a quick handwritten note in the mail which often included a newspaper clipping of interest to the recipient. He was a talented woodworker and tinkerer extraordinaire. He could fix anything. Harlan left a legacy of hand-made cradles for his grandchildren and crches for his children to cherish every Christmas. Finally, Harlan loved being a husband, a dad, and a "papa" to his grandchildren and new great-grandson. He will be deeply missed and loved forever.
Harlan is survived by his loving wife, Patricia; sons, Bruce (Jan) Buckman, Eric (Kathleen) Buckman, Troy Carlson, Sean (Nicole) Carlson; daughters, Julie (Frederick) Leavitt, Kelli (Kevin) Houle, Tricia (Bob) Gouin, Renee (J.D.) Scoville; brother, Mark (Marilyn) Buckman; grandchildren, Heather Leavitt, Erik Leavitt, Laura (Jered) Van Kirk, Mary (Cole) Meredith, Arthur Buckman, Anna Buckman; great-grandson, Alexander Van Kirk; nieces, Chris Buckman, Kim Buckman, Cindi Galbraith and Brenda Nyquist. Also surviving are 12 step-grandchildren
Harlan was preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Julia; wife, Grace (Taylor) Buckman; and brother, Richard Buckman.
Family will receive friends on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 10:30 to noon at the First Lutheran Church in Gladstone. Funeral services to celebrate the life of Harlan "Buck" Buckman will follow the visitation with the Pastor Peggy Rose officiating. Luncheon will follow in the First Lutheran Church Parish Hall. Burial will be in the Fernwood Cemetery in Gladstone.
A memorial service will also be held on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 11 a.m. at the Hastings Baptist Church, 309 East Woodlawn Avenue, Hastings, Mich. Memorial contributions in memory of Harlan may be directed to the Gladstone Public Schools. The Skradski Family Funeral Homes of Escanaba and Gladstone are assisting the Buckman family.
Please visit www.skradskifuneralhomes.com where you can express your sympathy to the Buckman family, or to leave a memory tribute about Harlan.


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Dolores Blakey, DSU alumna, portrayed Harriet Tubman during the program.
During an event in which Gov. Jack Markell signed a proclamation making March 10 Harriet Tubman Day in Delaware, DSU alumni represented themselves well through music and dramatic presentations.
As a kickoff to 10 days of events celebrating the historic contributions of Harriet Tubman as the conductor of the Underground Railroad -- which coursed through the First State -- the proclamation signing was part of program at the Old State House in Dover.
During the program DSU alumni Donald Blakely ('58) gave some relevant black history of the Central Delaware area; and his wife and alumna Dolores Blakey ('62) portrayed the conductor of the Underground Railroad.
The Blakeys were joined later by DSU alumni Ruth Shelton ('96) and Pat Randolph ('69) as part of the Del Del Interdenominational Choir and gave a music selection during the program.


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Depending on how you have configured Tomcat, you may use a different URL to access the main page of nGrinder. If you didn't change ${TOMCAT_HOME}/conf/server.xml and didn't change nGrinder controller war file name to ROOT.war, nGrinder should have the following URL.
Once you access the URL, you can see the log in page.
nGrinder creates 4 users at the first run. The predefined IDs are as follows.
Each has name that reflects its role.
There are 4 user types (referred to as Roles)
|Manage nGrinder system including : User Management, Test Observation, Test Report Statistics and Agent Management, etc.
|Test script, and then get its report data files.
|Reserved for internal use
|Observe whole tests executed in nGrinder instance but can not configure the system.
To configure the system, you need to log in with an admin account.
NOTE: Please don't forget to change your password when you log in for the first time. If you leave your account with the default password, your nGrinder instance can be used by a hacker for a DDOS attack.
Agent management in the admin menu offers agent operation and monitoring functions. Even when you have configured the agent to connect the controller, you need to approve each agent in the controller to make it effective. This step is required to prevent abnormal agents trying to connect to the controller from abusing the controller.
If you are admin, the menu above should be visible. You can click the Agent Management menu to manage agents.
Then, you should see the screen shown above. This shows the statuses of the attached agent. If we just allow all agent connections, there would be a potential risk. For this reason, nGrinder only uses approved agents. If you confirm that the agents listed here are OK, you can approve them. Some agents can be only used for specific users. Please refer to User Agent for details.
You can monitor agent performance status by clicking each IP.
This graph shows the performance of each agent in the last 1 minute.
From nGrinder 3.3, agent management page includes the agent auto update feature. See Agent Auto Update for detail.
Admin can create/delete and modify users through the user management menu. Each user can also modify his/her own profile as well.
This is a useful admin tool for debugging. Admin can input Groovy code to monitor and control nGrinder internal status. for example:
println(agentManager.getAllAttachedAgents())This feature is disabled by default. To enable the script console, put the following option in the system configuration.
controller.enable_script_console=falseIt is important to know what you can refer in the script. The following variables are available.
This is a useful admin tool for debugging. Admin can input Jython code to monitor and control nGrinder internal status. for example:
print agentManager.getAllAttachedAgents()
It is important to know what you can refer in the script. The following variables are available.
Please refer to nGrinder javadoc to learn the available classes and methods.
Sometime it's important to see the server log to identify a problem and send a bug reports to the developers. Instead of catalina.out which tomcat uses by default, nGrinder intercepts the logging system and writes a log in the ${NGRINDER_HOME}/logs/ngrinder.log file.You can see the currently printing logs in the Log Monitoring menu. This is refreshed every 5 seconds in order to show the latest available logs.
Log monitoring is available in the not cluster mode.
Sometimes, you need to configure whole test execution policy. For example, you can set the maximum count of agents that each test can use. Or you can limit the max concurrent number of tests to minimize network loads. These kinds of policies can be configured by configuring the ${NGRINDER_HOME}/system.properties file.
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Skip to comments.JPMORGAN: The US Recovery Is About To Hit A Pothole
Posted on 01/06/2013 3:54:54 PM PST by blam
JPMORGAN: The US Recovery Is About To Hit A Pothole
Walter Kurtz, Sober Look
Jan. 6, 2013, 8:43 AM
As discussed earlier (see post), US manufacturing sector has begun to recover. Manufacturing orders in the US as well as in Emerging Asia (see post) have diverged from other large economies. This trend is becoming reflected in the broader economic activity.
However according to JPMorgan, the result of the latest fiscal negotiations will soon create headwinds for this expansion and dampen GDP growth. The tax increases on higher income households as well as the hike in payroll taxes will crate a drag on growth. That in turn will limit global economic activity.
JPMorgan: - Regionally the US and Emerging Asia are leading the move up in our global surveys. In the US, early December labor market reports and consumer indicators reinforce this message. Unfortunately, the economy is about to hit a pothole as the household sector absorbs a large front-loaded drag resulting from the fiscal cliff agreement. The increase in payroll taxes and higher marginal rates on high-income households is set to depress 1H13 income growth by roughly 2%-pts at an annualized pace.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
No kidding. Why do you think they are talking about trillion dollar platinum coins?
That means JPM is about to be granted more feral government Cha-ching!
I think the "fiscal cliff" avoidance "deal" has sent the country over the cliff.
Tyranny: When the people fear government. Liberty: When government fears the people.
TYRANNY: When the people fear government. LIBERTY: When government fears the people.
TYRANNY: When the people fear the government. LIBERTY: When the government fears the people.
I'm not worried - in four years theres been no net job growth, no improvement in GDP, credit downgrading... this recovery has survived it all. What could possibly stop it now?
JP Morgan will be alright. They process the EBT cad transactions, so they will always get a cut.
It is about to hit a "black hole" and I am not being racist.......
What recovery?
There is no recovery. Every time I hear or read some pundit talking about recovery, I want to hurt someone. The lie is getting old. Repeating it doesn't make it so.
Hit a pothole? More like colliding with reality. If a family with a declining income tries to maintain their lifestyle by maxing out their credit cards we all know what happens. Its called real bankruptcy and it is never pretty. This country is not only bankrupt but Obama's regulatory agencies such as the EPA are bizarre, anti capitalists who are issuing endless rules and regulations that are contracting existing business and discouraging entrepreneurs. The economy is actually contracting.
They absolutely have to ut either Obamas face or Karl Zmarx on te 1 Trillin dollar coins.
My best investing years are draining away because of some communist SOB ruining the economy with his bankers.
Ugh problem posting from iPad.
Those who missed the recovery won't notice much difference when the pothole gets hit.
Not to go off topic, but why do sinkholes always seem to be nearly perfectly round? Just like crop circles. oo-wee-oo
Sorry. I've been off "visiting" & a whole bunch of the dummies are right off the reservation. I came to a post about the *GOP* "cracking up" & lost it. I'm still hysterical.
I think it's because water collects under the surface and begins to pool, until it "eats" through enough to make it collapse
Well, thanks. I really did wonder about that.
This is what Ubama and the Democrats fought for - - a drag on the economy which will result in the creation of more parasites who are dependent on government handouts, which in turn translates to a larger moocher class of Democrat voters.
Congratulations to Ubanga and the Democrats.
The fact something that ridiculous is even being considered shows how bad things really are.
I think there is a solution to the effects on the economy. Please go sign and help promote the White House petition
Produce a Trillion Dollar Coin for Every U.S. Citizen for the Purpose of Paying Taxes
Activities and services pledged by the U.S. government exceed the ability to pay based on current tax revenue. The budget deficit is added to the national debt, and federal taxes are used in part to pay for the debt and interest.
"Trillion dollar" coins are being considered to pay the national debt, however, we petition the U.S. Government to mint an adequate quantity of "trillion dollar" coins to pay off the national debt, and enough additional coins to provide one for each citizen of the United States.
These coins can only be used to pay federal, state, and miscellaneous taxes for the lifetime of the recipient. Residual funds from each coin will be available to heirs of the recipients, and will be exempt from inheritance tax.
Gravity. I believe they naturally form domed ceilings while being undercut, like you see in caves with large rooms formed by rockfalls. When it all finally gives way you have a circle.
:-) Well, now I'm getting glad I asked. I needed a non-political break & this one is fascinating.
JPM wanted Soros to be their CEO. He's liquidated much of his investments with them so it's probably true but more like a hole all the way to China with no way to fill it up with government Cha-ching.
And the Obama'care' Commune Tax, and the thousands of business-destructive new Federal Regulations, etc.
Well, I'm pretty sure it is still George Bush's fault. ;-)
But of course. Dubya wasn't my favorite president by any means, but (if I had it) I'd pay big money to have him back now.
Sending prayers for their family.
I second that. I have no idea what to do with my 401k leave it in safe allocation, put it back in risk, or pray to god the Dems don't confiscate it.
I really wanted to buy some stocks this year but unfortunately Obama got re-elected and I don't know what to do either.
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Firefly Projects Rail Yard
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The Firefly Projects Rail Yard is a small yard off the Broker Line, located in Firefly Projects. It is found at the end of Ringo Street which connects to Mohegan Avenue. It is just north-west of the Broker - Dukes Expressway intersection.
The siding comes off the main subway track, just before the Hove Beach Station. Next to the highway, it comes down to ground level, but is protected from stray cars by a metal fence and yellow bars low to the ground. Many lines branch off into the train shed, but more continue to a siding. Here a flatbed car and an oil holder are parked. There is also an engine wash, but the entrance is barred of with a gate. It appears to be a Car Wash, but with a track instead of a road. The yard does not look abandoned, and could still be used in operation by the Liberty City Subway, although trains are never found working here, nor are there any pedestrians who appear. On the road nearby, many gang members spawn, and can attack the protagonist if provoked. Some large buildings appear on the site, but they are smashed and, unlike the actual railyard, seem to be abandoned. A large building overhangs the yard. Across the road there is an abandoned piece of land, full of car wrecks and an old shed with no walls.


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The audio technician conducts one last sound test, and my public affairs colleagues prepare to stream the event live on www.state.gov. The press officers escort the media to the Benjamin Franklin Room, where many State Department events take place. Everything is occurring according to a process, one of which we've carried out dozens and dozens of times. And, yet, the event that is about to occur is anything but routine. The Vice President of the United States is minutes away from ceremoniously swearing in the 68th U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry.
As we wait for the ceremony to begin, my coworker and I reflect on our time at the State Department. I remember arriving on my first day and reciting the oath of office every employee takes, a pledge similar to the one Secretary Kerry is about to make to uphold our Constitution.
And I remember on my first day meeting one of my colleagues who immediately offered me a handshake and her name, and then said, "Cyrus Vance. He was the first Secretary of State I served." She briefly reminisced about the Secretaries of State who had led the Department since Vance's tenure and told me that each one brought new ideas and new opportunities. A new Secretary of State inspires you.
The ceremony begins, and Secretary Kerry addresses the crowd, a group of individuals who represent the many chapters in his record of public service. In his remarks, the Secretary says:
"We can help people to help themselves. We can protect children as we did in Africa, where PEPFAR has saved millions of lives. We can keep students learning even after an earthquake destroys their schools, as we did in Pakistan. We can help young girls pursue their dreams of education, as we did in Afghanistan and other places in the world. That is what the Department of State can do."
As our new Secretary of State departs the room, I can't help but think that my colleague, who served 10 Secretaries of State from Cyrus Vance through Condoleezza Rice, was right.
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India & EU
India to enforce the budget to expand social infrastructure, civil engineering private think time. Everyone knows the story. by specifying one of the official languages, with one language movement-tier local race, and we must enforce policies that expand women's social participation. Perspective now that I'm back in the day, in order to recover the money invested, India, to develop a specific hierarchy and specific areas only, underdeveloped policy, but rapidly growing underclass to (like me) interested you put it out there, and the second to try to extend the period.
Symbiosis with the outside world through the give and take, normally, growing at a normal country, the Indian underclass to rise into the middle class - economic, social, educational, national efforts should be guaranteed would be Exhausted the stock of manufactured goods to India to push the policy now, it will be six months after the failed policy.
Induced in the right direction to induce reform and join the people and India, need strong leaders.
Europe, the eu budgeting am It's too futuristic. At least one year, even policies that expand employment opportunities and protect the unemployed, you should try. An investment in the future is put on hold, eu wrong and tried to enforce that policy, I personally think. Spain, Italy and the UK at least, at least, should try to ensure normal economic activity is waranty.
Susan C. in Florida writes:
I too know what it is like to work under many different bosses...in my case they were many different educational administrators. Each one brought their own style and new ideas, and it was most often a very positive experience. I have been a reader and frequent blogger on DipNote. Thank you for continuing to inform us "out here". Before reading DipNote, I never knew how much the State Department did around the world, and I am very impressed. I want to welcome Secretary Kerry. I know he will do an outstanding job!
Anna in Washington, D.C. writes:
I was so impressed with the work of Secretary Clinton, and the tireless work of her staff, including those at Dipnote. I am excited about the continued work of those who serve our country at the State Department. Keep up the great work Dipnote and welcome aboard Secretary Kerry!
Melissa in Maryland writes:
I don't always agree with what I read on this blog, but I do appreciate its authors who give some insight into U.S. foreign policy. I hope Secretary Kerry continues to promote this openness. I also hope he continues Secretary Clinton's work on women's rights.