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It's my guess that pretty much everything that's been prominently discussed to date will be thrown away."about whether these technologies could be effective, whether they were advisable, and whether they were even doable, and we were only at the very beginning of understanding that and that it would take a coordinated program by government research to get there. You weren't going to get there on the margins. You are going to have to do a coordinated, focused program.
If you reach these tipping points, it's conceivable that mitigation won't even make any difference anymore."tracking it. We have the potential for the release of huge amounts of methane gas, but we have no methane observation system in the Arctic. And he points out that if a small percentage of the methane locked up in the Arctic were released every year, it would overwhelm, by a factor of ten, all emissions due to energy. If you reach one of these tipping points, it's conceivable that mitigation won't even make any difference anymore. And that is the nightmare scenario.
The last and scariest option is that we're going to intentionally manage the planet so that it doesn't destroy us."because it's conceivable that you can do them for literally billions of dollars a year — peanuts in the scale of things, and you could significantly change the temperature of the Earth that way. So you have the possibility of being able to do it. You have some information about some natural phenomena like the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which spewed a lot of sulfur aerosols into the atmosphere and cooled the Earth by a couple of degrees for a couple of years. But there are three pieces here — whether it's effective, whether it's advisable, and whether you can actually do it.
With the possibility of people becoming very desperate, it's better to know more."difficult to know that it's really the right thing to do. A lot depends on how desperate people begin to feel. And that I just don't know. But I do know one thing — it's better not to be ignorant. With the possibility of people becoming very desperate, it's better to know more. I do think what is very likely to happen is regional intervention, where a country could decide it just can't take any more of these floods, these droughts, these fires. These countries might try to do something to perturb the local climate if they can figure out a way.
I think the U.S. should take the leadership in building norms of behavior around this research."engaged than having to accept other countries' interpretations of what is the right thing to do. I'm pretty unhappy with what the Brits have done right now in terms of how they're managing this experiment. I think we should take the leadership in building norms of behavior around geoengineering research.
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Terry - Sounds like you have an awesome combination of things going on for your new venture. Best of Luck!! Love to see some pics if you ever get some free time to share.
I really like the name you picked out for your place, but it must be new to the folks in BC. I'm in CT and heard ah beetz my whole life, but not so much now. Mostly from my parents and grandparents, who spoke Italian with some "adjustments". Do people ask you about where that name came from?
"I am adding a pizza called the DiFara which in brackets I call my tribute to Dom Demarco"As a former owner of a retail food business as well as other businesses I can tell you that you should play to your local audience. Who in your part of the world is going to know DiFara/Demarco? You will know it, but you are not a paying customer. Pick local celebrities or places, national icons, etc. to individualize what you sell. A great example of this was a sandwich shop in Providence Rhode Island that catered to Brown U & RISD, http://www.providencenightlife.net/restaurants/geoffs/ I still remember the food from over 30 years ago and I only ate at the place twice on my visit! The names stuck with me. I saw a great concert including Santana & others and barely remember anything but the Turkey sandwich.PNW
Great photos and excellent looking pies. I think we would enjoy each other's pizza. Art
Nice work Terry! and nice pictures I can smell how good they are. Curious a slice of plain here in $2.00 or more A slice that caliber would be upwards of $3.50 here in NJ same market in BC? Wishing you many sunny days aheadJohn


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copied it back and it worked. That filter is too strict. Will not allow the word "scrape". As in scrape wax off a frame.
What's a skyscraper queen?
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A queen that mothers a hive that gives seven supers of honey by season's end.
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Zone 7A - Southern, MA. Elevation 138 ft.
4 hives: 1 Carniolan/Italian Hybrid, 2 Swarms from that hive and 1 Russian.
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Holey moley!!! A quick question if I may...why do you leave the honey supers all on...why not remove some before adding more? Is it to keep them all warm? Or what.....my question comes from not knowing, so please keep that in mind when answering my silly question.
Often the bees are to busy bringing in nector to cap all those supers. I've seen one sky-s-aper queen and the hive starved during the winter, the queen just kept laying and laying , they starved by xmas
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In short: The nuts of a race worth doing just to see the great fancy dress costumes!In full: Great, great fun with lovely marshalls and a big mix of experienced and new runners. Almost makes me feel festive!Date of review: December 8, 2008
In short: Great fun pre xmas workoutDate of review: December 8, 2008
In short: 10th year this year - would always come back for this one Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Great atmosphere. Fab fancy-dress. Well-organised. Could have done without the ice, but at least the sun was shining.!Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Very cold and slippery in places, but it is November!!In full: This was my first Christmas caper run after watching my son run in 2 of the previous 3 years, the organisation was excellant and the marshalls very encouraging.Will be back next year in some type of costume. Thanks to all who were involved in the organising of the raceDate of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Friendly marshalls-everyone in the Xmas spiritDate of review: December 7, 2008
In short: A very good race for all to run and it was good to see so many run in fancy dress costumes from Santa Clause to the Shepppard and the sheep !!. A good race for all runners of all ability's. Good weather today of -2 and crisp. Roll on next year. Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Great Xmas runIn full: First time for this run, really enjoyed myself. Great atmosphere, And got to dress up as a christmas tree!!! Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Hilly course, but the atmosphere makes it, will be back next year.In full: Love the atmosphere, wished it was not so icy, it made it hard going, but the race was challenging and great fun.Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Great friendly race, will return again and again and again.In full: Beautiful sunny frosty morning. So many smiles everywhere for a challenging and really good fun race. Well done and thank you Swanley for organising!Date of review: December 7, 2008
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Suitable food for wolves
Thought I had written my last wolf article but a few days ago I was told by an acquaintance that he has seen eight wolves crossing Channing Road three miles west of Channing.
This reminded me of my dad in the mid 1930s, west of Ishpeming by Little Garlic Creek. He saw the ferns moving in a circle around him and knew it was a pack of wolves closing in on him.
He was lucky to be in the middle of a year-old hard maple timber cutoff. He broke a couple of dry limbs over a boulder.
The high pitched cracks disbanded the wolf pack. A friend of my dad's was not that fortunate. While bait hunting wolves in northern Minnesota, he was found out of ammunition and partially devoured.
Also the Crystal Falls Mining Gazette had an article 50 years ago today about two men hauling broken mining equipment between Felch and Escanaba.
One man took the team of horses to Escanaba to get a new part. When he returned the other man was partially devoured with wolf tracks in the snow.
Yes, we people are suitable food for wolves when they are hungry.
We need a new approach to control the excess wolf population. Counting is not accurate and does not solve our problem but is the cause of the problem we have now.
In 1943 wolves were declared near extinction with two but no more than three and none below Koski's Korners.
In January 1943, I saw wolf tracks near Lake Ellen 30 miles below Koski's Korners and in May, 1943, a wolf growled at my friend and another ran across the river past me. I was less than four feet from the wolf which was 40 miles south of Koski's Korners, where we were told there were no wolves.
We should take a new approach to wolf population.
It makes no difference if we have 100 or 1,000 as long as they do not keep all the deer out of their natural winter habitat and into populated areas like Sawyer Lake, Kingsford, Iron Mountain and east where the farmers now have to shoot them because they are destroying their crops.
If we don't do something soon, in 20 years we will be a part of their food chain.
No walking through the forest, kids will not be safe getting off the school bus.
Take Sawyer Lake as an example. I have seen two of them running along the shore in the winter and just last week a huge wolf was see in a backyard just east of Sawyer Lake, and two weeks ago I saw a wolf on Sawyer Lake Road just west of Sawyer Lake.
As long as the deer and their fawns are around we are not in imminent danger.
We must have a solution to the wolf problem.
Just counting numbers will not solve the problem.
I am sure that most areas are not as bad as Iron and Dickinson counties and probably south-eastward where the wolves have chased the deer into the farming area.
In the meantime, it should be illegal to shoot deer in cities but the state should stungun them and send them into natural winter habitat.
I have 40 acres of cedar swamp, easily accessible, in the middle of 200 acres of cedar swamp which is mostly owned by the state that can be the dumping area for the stunned deer.
How do we know how many wolves to eliminate?
Easy, keep on eliminating wolves until the deer start back into their natural habitat.
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Posted on 04/27/2012 2:18:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats is expected to find there is little evidence the harsh "enhanced interrogation techniques" the CIA used on high-value prisoners produced counter-terrorism breakthroughs.
People familiar with the inquiry said committee investigators, who have been poring over records from the administration of President George W. Bush, believe they do not substantiate claims by some Bush supporters that the harsh interrogations led to counter-terrorism coups.
The backers of such techniques, which include "water-boarding," sleep deprivation and other practices critics call torture, maintain they have led to the disruption of major terror plots and the capture of al Qaeda leaders.
One official said investigators found "no evidence" such enhanced interrogations played "any significant role" in the years-long intelligence operations which led to the discovery and killing of Osama bin Laden last May by U.S. Navy SEALs.
President Barack Obama and his aides have largely sought to avoid revisiting Bush administration controversies. But the debate over the effectiveness of enhanced interrogations, which human rights advocates condemn as torture, is resurfacing, in part thanks to a new book by a former top CIA official.
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The Senate is wrong!
Democrat report! To be expected!
He was water boarded and thereafter he talked. But because he didn't give up the courier while he was still wiping the water off his face, they dispute a "causal connection".
I recall that KSM himself told them he could cooperate without feeling guilty because he was watdrboarded.
"Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats"
Putting the Oxy back in the Morons.
Democrats have proven to us all they are the enemies of truth.
Waterboard them.
"A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats..."
Don't need to read any further. There is no way the Dumb-ocrats could find any truth not within the sphere of their own preconceived notions in this subject. And, we've heard their pathetic arguments for years.
So, it worked.
I guess that's why the Dhimmocrats are retreating as fast as possible.
I think we need to waterboard some, maybe most, in the Senate to find out what they know and when did they know it.
I suspect they won't find anything.
Except when it came to getting information from detainees about Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti Bin Laden't courier, they mean.
If torture doesn't work, why has it been so popular over the years?
Who cares? The "war on terror" is over! /heavy sarcasm
The history of torture is that it extracts the answer you want, not the correct answer. There are more effective, less distasteful methods.
Hmm, 'rats saying what a GOP President did was ineffective. Shocking! In intel, every little scrap of information matters. Of course there were no bombshell revelations during interrogations. This is the real world, not Hollywood.
...committee investigators, who have been poring over records from the administration of President George W. Bush, believe they do not substantiate claims by some Bush supporters that the harsh interrogations led to counter-terrorism coups.
Well, they can believe whatever they want. People believe all kinds of crazy stuff in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Were these "investigators" intel experts, or mere political hacks looking for anything to attack Bush and the GOP with? Bets anyone?
One official said investigators found "no evidence" such enhanced interrogations played "any significant role" in the years-long intelligence operations which led to the discovery and killing of Osama bin Laden last May by U.S. Navy SEALs.
No evidence of a "significant" role in one op. Carefully worded. I guess that depends on your definition of what would be significant. It also carefully sidesteps intel successes on all other operations. I doubt going after OBL was the only intel op we've had going on in theater the last few years.
President Barack Obama and his aides have largely sought to avoid revisiting Bush administration controversies.
Bwaa haa haa! So horrendously far from the truth it doesn't even merit a response. That should go under the Friday silliness thread here on FR.
Tell it to Jack Bauer
You mean the mythical television character?
I don't think using a tv show is a solid basis for opinion.
The report is just a LIE. The reason of course is political like anything else with the socialist democrats. For these maggots power and politics trump everything else including national security.
In a well planned interogation, when a prisoner refuses to talk, you can extract no information. If a prisoner talks, even if they lie, they provide information. The more you talk, the harder it is to keep the lie straight and to keep nuggets of truth out of the lie. The primary purpose of enhanced interogation is to establish in the prisoners mind that they will talk, there is no avoiding it. Then the skilled interrogator can go to work on them.
The driver who provided the first break in the trail to Osama did not do so during torture. He slipped up weeks after he started talking.
I will wait for the Minority Report that will provide the TRUTH.
Kinda like the Zimmerman and Trayvon Media episode.
so exactly why is Abu Garhib still open for business? Why isn't the media howling about that daily and why is the Ego-In-Chief breaking his campaign promise to close it? Must be another "run of bad luck."
If any information obtained from these three in these sessions resulted in actionable intelligence we know it did work.
Actually, the downside (according to what I know about communist torture of our POW's) is not that people give you the information you want to hear, it is that they give you everything including the truth, things you don't want to hear, and things that are lies.
It makes it difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
But, everyone breaks and talks. Everyone, except for some extremely rare examples.
The bottom line, though, is this "report" is not worth the electrons it took to send it over the Internet.
This would have as much significance as hearing "Democrats find little evidence that lowering taxes has any positive effect."
I can assure all of you that anyone who is worked on the Waterboard with earnest will tell anyone everything they know.
Every time.
No human could resist a concerted effort to extract information under that duress.
So, if this is the contention of the Senate Committee, either the captured persons didn't KNOW anything, or the Senate folks are lying.
It can be only one or the other.
The point that some made is that a person undergoing torture will say "anything" to make it stop. But "anything" also includes the truth.
This is why torture should not be used UNLESS YOU CAN VERIFY THE ANSWERS through other means. In the famous "hidden time bomb" scenario, you make clear that the torture will continue until the bomb is actually found. In other circumstances, you are not satisfied until you obtain actionable intelligence: location of safe houses, caches of weapons, secret bank account numbers, etc.
Then why the Senate Study to prove what is already known historically?
I would say that torture is just an extreme version of coercion and or intimidation which seeks to force people to do things INCLUDING extracting the answer you want; however, that does not mean that you will not get any truthful answers.
The history of coercion and or intimidation shows that people can be forced to do what they otherwise would not INCLUDING revealing information.
The definition of torture rather than being the extreme has evolved to include what is not actually in the extreme including the "more effective, less distasteful methods" you suggest are the alternative.
Enhanced techniques work. It is as simple as that.
Depends on how you do it.
If you do it willy-nilly and just ask questions where you fire away on questions you have no clue as to the answer, that is not helpful.
However, throw in questions where you know the answer. . .that is the key.
Interrogate and ask questions where you know the answer and ask questions where you do not know the answer and the prisoner hasn't a clue if he will be caught in a lie.
This confuses the prisoner because he doesn't KNOW what you know, and therefore risks being punished even more if he is caught in a lie.
It is keeping the prisoner mentally off-balance, never really knowing what is known or not that makes the technique effective.
Did they talk to former head of counter-terrorism Jose Rodriguez who in the May 2, 2011 issue of Time Magazine said enhanced interrogations of KSM lead to the eventual locating and killing of Bin Laden?? And many in the intel. community agree waterboarding KSM also stopped a 9-11 style attack on L.A.
This Senate panel was just a conclusion looking for an investigation. They knew what they were going to conclude before they ever even started.
The conclusion was written before the first hearing was held.
Well I don't agree with the first part of your statement but I do agree the U.S. doesn't need to use torture (but should always reserve the right to do so). That is why we use non-torture means for interrogation such as water-boarding.
If these buffoons really believe that torture isn't effective, they aren't doing it right.
I think someone needs to break out a battery on these dumocrats.
This statement is absurd on its face. Both are definitively torture. They are inhuman and unAmerican.
Second give me examples of the more effective methods.
Army Field Manual 34-52 Chapter 1
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The use of force, mental torture, threats, insults, or exposure to unpleasant and inhumane treatment of any kind is prohibited by law and is neither authorized nor. condoned by the US Government. Experience indicates that the use of force is not necessary to gain the cooperation of sources for interrogation. Therefore, the use of force is a poor technique, as it yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say whatever he thinks the interrogator wants to hear. However, the use of force is not to be confused with psychological ploys, verbal trickery, or other nonviolent and noncoercive ruses used by the interrogator in questioning hesitant or uncooperative sources.
The psychological techniques and principles outlined should neither be confused with, nor construed to be synonymous with, unauthorized techniques such as brainwashing, mental torture, or any other form of mental coercion to include drugs. These techniques and principles are intended to serve as guides in obtaining the willing cooperation of a source. The absence of threats in interrogation is intentional, as their enforcement and use normally constitute violations of international law and may result in prosecution under the UCMJ.
Additionally, the inability to carry out a threat of violence or force renders an interrogator ineffective should the source challenge the threat. Consequently, from both legal and moral viewpoints, the restrictions established by international law, agreements, and customs render threats of force, violence, and deprivation useless as interrogation techniques.
I am a Christian, a conservative and an American. Torture violates all three of those things. Cheney happens to be a great American, but he and Bush are wrong on torture. It has caused net/net more harm than good to America and American interests.
Hosenball was a close ally of CIA marxist turncoat Philip Agee, and was thrown out of England in the 1970's as a threat to their security.
Under no circumstances is he to be trusted. I know that he has done some interesting writing for Newsweek, but a lot of it was innoccous in terms of hurting the communists or the jihadists.
Along with Hosenball, so-called journalist William "Big" Arkin (Institute for Policy Studies, Wash. Post columnist) is another "intelligence" journalist who is definitely an enemy of America. His exposure of reported American nuclear weapons stations across the world gave the KGB/GRU a intelligence coup that would have taken them years to gather by themselves. His other stories also did a lot of harm to America.
Another guy I don't trust is the Wash. Post's military/intelligence writer Walter Pincus. We have had a debate here at FR years ago about Pincus's background, but instinct, and over 40 years of writing/participating in internal security affairs has raised my Alert Antennae to DefCong 5 on this guy. Remember, he was the writer who published the first information on the "Neutron Bomb" (i.e. Enhanced Radiation Bomb) that led to the massive Soviet/Communist Bloc and US Anti-Defense Lobby protests on the development of this weapon, as well as against the stationing of Soviet tank busting and retaliatory weapons such as the Pershing and Cruise missiles in England/Germany, etc.
The Soviets and now Russians, are the masters of "disinformation" , "misinformation", "white lies, gray lies, and black lies" re propaganda they get published, often by paid KGB sympathizers, in the foreign press (Blitz, for one).
If you know who to watch, then you gain the advantage of being on guard against their lies against America as well as their exposing of national security programs and systems.
in other news, Juan McCain perform acrobatic feat by signing senate torture document with his head up his @$$.
Can't seem to find the time to pass a budget!
Can't seem to find the time to pass a budget!
What is the definition of torture?
The senate is setting us up for something.
This is a trial balloon for ????
Bin Laden is dead, Jim.
Obama is tryng to take credit for the very techniques that led to it, which he oppoesed, and which, if he had been President earlier, would never have served up the intelligence that led us to get him.
That dog don't hunt.
"First of all water boarding and sleep deprivation is not torture.
This statement is absurd on its face. Both are definitively torture. They are inhuman and unAmerican."
I am happy to see you have unilaterally taken it upon yourself to define behavior that is "unAmerican". Your sanctimony expresses your own values not necessarily those of a large sector of Americans.It especially does not express my values because I agree that controlled enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation can be effective to a certain extent to get them talking.Then it becomes a delicate matter of separating the disinformation from the kernels of truth.Because it may be distasteful to some and because it is a difficult task does not mean you do not do it.Further, because it may not work in one circumstance does not mean it will not in another.
The Army Field manuals you cited are bureaucratic documents to govern the conduct of large masses of troops in the field who may have a difficult time discriminating what degree of interrogation constitutes "torture" so the manual applies a blanket prohibition against pretty much everything beyond basic questioning. Note the catchall reference to prohibiting "unpleasant" treatment.Pretty silly on its face as "unpleasant" is undefined. Is "unpleasant" treatment torture or unAmerican?
At higher levels of intelligence as relates to the CIA that can discriminate and apply techniques under controlled circumstances, Army Field manuals have no application nor relevancy.
One last thing, John McCain may have expressed his disapproval of enhanced interrogation techniques but he will be the first one to tell you from experience that it does work.Don't listen to his words.Read his book. There are some techniques that are and should be off limits. But sleep deprivation and waterboarding are not such techniques.
"A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats..."
Well that's as far as I got.
How can anyone question the impartiality of investigators that are partial to a particular outcome?
My dear Chuckee I don't care what a "large sector of Americans" thinks. I am a republican, a Christian and an American and my values supersede those of the mob. That alone makes torture, including waterboarding and sleep deprivation, wrong.
If on a jury someone were accused of waterboarding Chuckee and keeping Chuckee up for days on end, I'd consider it torture and move to convict accordingly. Torture of enemy combatants or terrorists by Americans is nearly always wrong and becomes a recruiting tool for the enemy. The only exception is the rare "hot" need to know - it works mainly in the movies.
Your argument that the rarefied field of highly trained, objective and competent torturers allows for effective torture doesn't hold water with the experts themselves or the science of interrogation. The article itself, along with objective fact, point this out. We had to waterboard KSM 183 times. If it were so effective shouldn't it have worked much, much earlier?
Don't get me wrong. Kill the enemy in combat, destroy his means of support, and eliminate their will to fight. Effective counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency techniques can include appropriate violence, just not torture. Long term the dangerous to liberty "War on Terror" will be won in the madrassas and mosques and even through liberty and econoomics and not on the battlefield. The idea of Islamic terrorism must be destroyed.
Conservatives shouldn't shoot the message just becaue they don't like the messenger. Torture is unAmerican. It isn't effective, nor is it in keeping with our values. Cheney, who I otherwise like and admire, is wrong. Since the anti-torture movement has been compromised by liberal surrender monkeys conservatives shouldn't be knee-jerk for it. We should regain the moral high ground and take the issue away.
The three fundamental questions are: 1. Is torture effective? 2. Is torture in keeping with American values and our Constitution? 3. Is it in our national interest. The answer to all three is "no". Do the research yourself and you'll come around.
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My favorite Sarah Vaughan album is a live date recorded in 1958. It's After Hours at the London House, and Sassy's voice is at its absolute peak. She's backed by sidemen from Count Basie's band, who deliver sterling laid-back performances. And the club's energetic ambiance only enhances the recording's you-are-there intensity.
Most importantly, After Hours includes what I regard as the definitive version of Detour Ahead and an impossibly great Speak Low. There's also a lovely and lyrical Thanks for the Memory, complete with touching mistakes and strong accompanying solos. After Hours has it all and is an audio time capsule capturing what it must have been like to see this artform at one of its most defining moments.
The album was recorded at Chicago's London House on March 7, 1958. Sarah climbed onto the stage at 2:30 am, after having already performed three sets that night across town at Mister Kelly's. (Back in August 1957, she had recorded a live album at Mister Kelly's with just a trio, and in January 1958 she had recorded part of the album called No Count Sarah with members of the Count Basie Orchestra, completing the session 10 months later in December.)
In March 1958, the invitation-only audience at the London House was made up of entertainers and photographers from Life magazine and Mercury Records. According to the album's linter notes, the session was completely improvised—Sarah had just a handful of sheet music and lyric sheets—making this date even more fabulous.
In addition to Sarah's working trio of Ronnell Bright on piano, Richard Davis on bass and Roy Haynes on drums, a clutch of Basie band members were crammed onto the club's tiny stage. The sidemen that night included Thad Jones, Henry Coker, Frank Wess and Wendell Culley. According to Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie, band members appear to have been available for the date as Basie tended to family business following the death of his father.
For me, the instrumental stars on this date were Ronnell Bright and Roy Haynes. Bright demonstrates impeccable taste as an accompanist, putting down lush chord after lush chord on ballads while keeping a rock-solid beat on up-tempo numbers. Roy Haynes is constantly doing something interesting on drums, rhythmically egging Sarah on to take greater and greater chances—and she does, executing perfectly.
From Sassy: The Life of Sarah Vaughan (1993) by Leslie Gourse:
"Jimmy Jones decided to leave Sassy's group and concentrate on writing and arranging; at the end of 1957, he was replaced by pianist Ronnell Bright. Bright had been playing with the Johnny Pate trio at the Steamliner in Chicago in 1956 when he first me Sassy. It wasn't until the next year that she really paid attention to Ronnell. He had gone to New York, where John Hammond had heard him and arranged for him to play at the Embers, a fashionable Upper East Side supper club. Willard Alexander took over Ronnell's bookings and sent him to Storyville in Boston, where he alternated sets with Sassy for two weeks. Four months later, George [Treadwell, Sarah's manager and husband], who had never met Ronnell Bright, called, at Sassy's request, to ask him to replace Jimmy Jones.
One of Ronnell's first recordings with her was done live at the London House in Chicago, at a time when albums were rarely done live. Sassy began singing Thanks for the Memory; when she came to the word Parthenon, she started toying with it. 'Parthenon? Parthenon" Parthenon...I don't get this word here...Parthenon...one more time, and we can go home...PartheNON....'
Speak Low was an excellent example of how slowly Sassy could sing and require her group to play. Her accompanists often mentioned they felt as if eons were passing between each note, but she was singing ballads at exactly the right tempo to create the atmospheric sound she needed to express the full feeling of the lyrics. She might use her high, pure soprano or her mature, resonant contralto; her varied sounds were often the messages of the songs."
What Gourse overlooks is that when Sarah blows her lyrics on Thanks for the Memory and comes to a screeching halt—twice—Bright re-starts the song differently each time, showing off just how beautifully he could play as an accompanist.
Yet Detour Ahead remains the album's stunner. It's flawless, from Ronnell Bright's rich intro to Haynes final drum roll. Sarah crawls inside this song and delivers its knowing and innocent lyrics.
Bill Evans' version from Waltz for Debby is certainly another heart-stopper. But to fully appreciate this song, you really have to hear Sarah kittenishly deliver the lyrics: "Turn back while there's time, can't you see the danger sign: Soft shoulders...surround you." Wow.
Wax tracks: Sarah Vaughan: After Hours at the London House is available at iTunes, but I recommend owning the CD. It's an album that has to be heard from start to finish, just as it was played out in the wee hours of March 7, 1958. You can buy it, remastered, here for $12.
If you want to hear Sarah in January and December 1958 backed by the Basie band, I strongly recommend downloading Moonlight in Vermont, Darn that Dream and Stardust at iTunes. All are from the EmArcy album No Count Sarah, which isn't available at iTunes. But you can cherry-pick these selections out by simply typing in "Sarah Vaughan" and locating the songs alphabetically.
All three songs are wonderful executions and will leave you tingly. The rest of No Count Sarah is pretty thin, so you won't miss anything by not grabbing the rest of it.
Wax videoclip: To hear Sarah Vaughan in all of her 1958 magnificence, go here for Somewhere Over the Rainbow. This was her year—before she was shoved into recording tons of misconceived junk in a blind, frantic bid for commercial fame.
Just listen to what she does with Over the Rainbow's melody. Watch how she uses her head to deliver the mood, and notice her arms moving uncontrollably in sync with the time— remember, she was the piano player in Earl Hines' and Billy Eckstine's great bands of 1943-1944. And listen to Ronnell Bright's dense accompanying chords.
In 1958, Sassy couldn't be beat.
STARTING TOMORROW: Part one of my three-part interview with legendary jazz vibraphonist Teddy Charles!
From burlesque to Juilliard...from the East Coast to the West Coast...Teddy Charles shares stories from the 1950s—and the fight between Mingus and Elvin Jones over a copyist mistake that nearly halted a Miles Davis recording session.


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The Columbus Dispatch - April 27, 2012 10:39 AM
The landmarks of life -- births, marriages, divorces and deaths -- are of obvious importance to genealogists.
Amid growing interest in filling out the branches of family trees, some researchers are upset with recent changes in the search functions of vital-statistics computers made available to the public at the Ohio Department of Health.
They complain it is harder to find people in the state databases without exact names and dates, which often aren't available to those hunting for the missing links of family ancestry.
But, there is a simple and cheap solution available to genealogists and any others with an interest in such public records.
One can obtain copies of the computerized databases to massage the information and rummage for information in searches under user-set parameters.
While apparently not well known to the public, or some genealogists, a public records request to the vital statistics section of the state health department will yield a wealth of information burned to CDs, which could be free or no more than $1 each depending on the scope of the request.
The databases, which we have obtained and used for years at The Dispatch, contain births since 1908, deaths since 1954, marriages since 1970 and divorces since 1967.
It's the easy out, because the health department is authorized to charge $3 (for each 10 years searched) when its employees search for information without needed information such as a date.
The vital-statistics databases "are available to the public and we are happy to assist in accessing these records," said Robert Jennings, the chief of public affairs for the Ohio Department of Health.


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NoKo: Pressing Buttons
Kim Jong-Il is apparently not content with good old-fashioned saber rattling, and instead wants to push the envelope (or the button, as it were) a little further:
North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.
The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers), would be launched from North Korea's Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast, said the Yomiuri daily, Japan's top-selling newspaper. It cited an analysis by the Japanese Defense Ministry and intelligence gathered by U.S. reconnaissance satellites.
The missile launch could come between July 4 and 8, the paper said.
While the newspaper speculated the Taepodong-2 could fly over Japan and toward Hawaii, it said the missile would not be able to hit Hawaii's main islands, which are about 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers) from the Korean peninsula.
A spokesman for the Japanese Defense Ministry declined to comment on the report. South Korea's Defense Ministry and the National Intelligence Service — the country's main spy agency — said they could not confirm it.
If North Korea does carry out such a plan, it would be a most provocative act, bordering on a casus belli. Figuratively speaking, it would not be any different than the child's game of swinging one's arms within inches of one's sibling while declaring "not touching!" In realpolitik terms, it is simply a threat.
Of course, the real question is, what do we do about it?
President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met in Washington on Tuesday for a landmark summit in which they agreed to build a regional and global "strategic alliance" to persuade North Korea to dismantle all its nuclear weapons. Obama declared North Korea a "grave threat" to the world and pledged that the new U.N. sanctions on the communist regime will be aggressively enforced.
In Seoul, Vice Unification Minister Hong Yang-ho told a forum Thursday that the North's moves to strengthen its nuclear programs is "a very dangerous thing that can fundamentally change" the regional security environment. He said the South Korean government is bracing for "all possible scenarios" regarding the nuclear standoff.
In a rare move, leaders of Russia and China used their meetings in Moscow on Wednesday to pressure the North to return to the nuclear talks and expressed "serious concerns" about tension on the Korean peninsula.
The joint appeal appeared to be a signal that Moscow and Beijing are growing impatient with Pyongyang's stubbornness. Northeastern China and Russia's Far East both border North Korea, and Pyongyang's unpredictable actions have raised concern in both countries.
After meetings at the Kremlin, Chinese President Hu Jintao joined Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in urging a peaceful resolution of the Korean standoff and the "swiftest renewal" of the now-frozen talks involving their countries as well as North and South Korea, Japan and the United States.
"Russia and China are ready to foster the lowering of tension in Northeast Asia and call for the continuation of efforts by all sides to resolve disagreements through peaceful means, through dialogue and consultations," their statement said.
Keep in mind, as well, that North Korea need not tip anyone of those missiles with a nuclear warhead (which it does not yet have the capability to do) in order to pose a significant threat. Reportedly, the Stalinist regime is well-equipped with chemical weapons as well:
The independent International Crisis Group think tank, meanwhile, said the North's massive stockpile of chemical weapons is no less serious a threat to the region than its nuclear arsenal.
It said the North is believed to have between 2,500 and 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, including mustard gas, phosgene, blood agents and sarin. These weapons can be delivered with ballistic missiles and long-range artillery and are "sufficient to inflict massive civilian casualties on South Korea."
Although the nations involved have been ready to talk sternly about "grave threats" and to urge further negotiations to quell the tensions, Kim Jong-Il is notably unimpressed. Rather than seeking to retard the North Korean leader's ambitions, everyone seems insistent upon being cautions in order to avoid "provoking" Kim Jong-Il. That is a shrewd plan when dealing with a crazy person, but in the end, a bully is just a bully, whether he's crazy or not.
Unfortunately, at some point a swift smack on the nose will be necessary if we truly want to back the recalcitrant dictator up a step or two, which admittedly carries its own unfortunate possibilities. Even if that point is not now, or if and when North Korea sends its missiles hurling dangerously close to our sovereign territory, it does seem to be approaching quickly. Given the rather meek approach taken by all nations thus far, one can only hope that Kim's own machinations do him under before the international community's hand is forced.


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Wayde Renee Ferry of Ludowici, Georgia, formerly of Fredonia, New York lost his battle with cancer on January 30, 2013 at his home surrounded by his family and friends.
He was born on Aug. 9, 1960 in Dunkirk, NY to Kenneth A. Ferry Sr. and Margie Seleska.
Renee attended Fredonia Schools before moving to Brunswick, Georgia at age 17, where he became a well-respected auto mechanic for the past 30 years, the last 5 years owning and operating his own garage, "The Busted Knuckle" with his business partner, Bruce Strout.
He enjoyed motorcycles and car racing. He was true to his friends and family. His biggest love in his life, was his daughter, Breanna and his granddaughter Lora-Lei, who was born on Oct. 26, 2012.
He is survived by his daughter, Breanna Ferry; granddaughter, Lora-Lei Ferry; son Chris Combs; and by his parents, Kenneth (Linda) Ferry Sr. of Largo, Florida; and Margie (late Clifford) Seleska of Cassadaga, New York.
He is further survived by brothers Kenneth (Susan) Ferry Jr. of Fredonia, NY, Wyatt Dean Ferry of Dun-kirk, NY, Daniel Ferry of Cassadaga, NY, Eric (Diana) Ferry of Riceboro, Georgia and Brian Ferry of Ludowici, Georgia; and his sisters, Sandra Ferry of Cassadaga, NY and Athena Jaszczak of Cassadaga, NY.
His very good friends also survive him: Lee and Susan Davis; Bruce and Kim Strout; and Nita Harrelson, all of Georgia, who all cared for him and sat by his side throughout his illness. Also survived by many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
Family and friends are invited to attend a Memorial Service which will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 12:00 noon at the Laona United Methodist Church located on the corner of Porter and Wilson roads in Laona. A luncheon will follow the ceremony.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (2 votes).
In short: never have i been so cold!!In full: it was brilliant fun!!! the start warm up was very well organised, the wave start was good. The mud was very muddy, the ice was very icy, the water was very wet! cannot think of a better way to spend Saturday morning! Already signed up for April next yearDate of review: October 29, 2012
In short: Tough water obstacles, great fun, great camaraderieIn full: Great scenery in Weston Park on this cold day, meant there were few spectators, but the competitors and organisers made a wonderful atmosphere.Organisation was almost perfect, only a shortage of goody bags and t-shirts made me consider a score below 5 stars, but everything else was so good, and we've been promised t-shirts in the post. Route to venue was signposted. This was the first time I've found a raceday PA to be actually audible. The route, although complex, was well marked throughout. All tough obstacles were manned. A small changing area and baggage drop tent was available. Toilets were just about adequate for 500+ competitors.Excellent support makes this very beginner friendly, but it's not for the feint hearted.It was my first event of this type, and I'm looking forward to the next one!Date of review: October 28, 2012
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Interactive Travel Map | Text the SecretaryToday, Secretary Clinton met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, West Bank. Secretary Clinton said:"It is a pleasure and an honor to be back here and to have the opportunity to meet with you, a leader of courage and dedication to the Palestinian people. I am very proud to stand beside President Abbas to deliver a message from my country and our President.
The United States supports the Palestinian Authority as the only legitimate government of the Palestinian people. As a partner on the road to a comprehensive peace, which includes a two-state solution, our support comes with more than words. As I pledged in Sharm el-Sheikh, we will work with President Abbas, Prime Minister Fayyad, and the government of the Palestinian Authority to address critical humanitarian, budgetary, security, and infrastructure needs, both in Gaza and in the West Bank.
As I said in Sharm el-Sheikh, a child growing up in Gaza without shelter, healthcare or an education, has the same right to go to school, see a doctor, and live with a roof over her head as a child growing up in any country. That a mother and a father here in the West Bank, struggling to fulfill their dreams for their children, have the same right as parents anywhere else to have a good job, a decent home, and the tools to achieve greater prosperity.
The United States aims to foster conditions in which a Palestinian state can be fully realized, a state that can provide these opportunities, a state that is a responsible partner, is at peace with Israel and its Arab neighbors, and is accountable to its people. That is the state that this government is attempting to build."
You may read the transcript of Secretary Clinton's remarks with President Abbas here. You may also read about U.S. assistance to the Palestinians.
Rosemary in New Jersey writes:
Hi Hillary!
I saw your pictures at the Amideast Event today! Many of my students come via Amideast to study for a Master's degree to teach ESL/EFL. I have been familiar with this organization as a conduit for international students for 26 years, and I hope they will continue to send students to American universities for undergraduate and graduate studies.
By the way, you looked great teaching that lesson -- wish I could see a video. You might not know it, but while I am a teacher of applied linguistics, you are my teacher. I have learned a lot about web 2.0 from following you. You have also made me aware of domestic and international events via your dispatches from the Senate and your dispatches and blog here.
Thank you so much for all you have taught me, for always being so accessible, and for everything you do for our country and for people all over the globe. To me, your are Superwoman!
May God and the angels continue to watch over you.
Patrick in Maryland writes:
Great meeting & discussion about the two-state vision plan. I thought that His Excellency President Abbas was really open to the idea of a two-state region, and to the forwarding of the peace between Israel and the Palestinian people. I also like that he said that Iran should mind their own Business or affairs. I am glade that the United states is working with the Palestinian people,to help rebuild their country. I think they have a great future ahead of them and Israel, if they work together.
I also read about Hillarys visit to AMIDEAST.I think the "English Access Program" was a great idea. I hope that more young people will be able to take the classes in the future.I also like the "yes" program,high school exchange students. The Astronaut Idea "Her Exellency Hillary" had i don't know lol. Its a good thing she didn't become one, because we wouldn't have a great Secretary Of State today.
Cya :)
Austin P. in Maryland writes:
I completely agree with the statements said by Secretary Clinton, although I believe she only scratched the surface of the true solution to peace between Palestine and Israel. Although we can hope as hard as we like for peace through means of photos of leaders shaking hands and signed treaties, that will do nothing to lessen the anger of the average Palestinian citizen who feels that his or her land has been stolen. Instead, we must emphasize education and economic expansion.
We can look at the Golden Arches theory of conflict prevention. As long as a nation has a tangible stake in the ebb and flow of the global economy, they will avoid war. Palestine has yet to truly connect with the network of world markets, but if there are enough educated Palestinian professionals and if there is a profitable international industry within Palestine, peace will follow their prosperity.


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Former U.S. National Team member Michael Tang (Boston, Mass.) has been appointed to the position of Regional Programs and Development Advisor for USA Taekwondo. In this role, Tang will formulate regional programs and development efforts for the New England Region.
"Coach Tang has been a loyal and active USAT member for many years," stated USA Taekwondo CEO David Askinas. "We have worked with him before on certain media projects and he has been active in creating successful local and regional athlete development programs. We are looking to tap into Michael's expertise in this area and in fundraising to explore how to apply a number of these concepts to a national framework."


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- Policy-driven QoS and security compliance is automated with UCS Manager Service Profiles and templates
Cisco UCS Central
- Simplifies management of multiple Cisco UCS domains across data centers and geographies with global templates and policies
- Provides a centralized fault summary for faster problem resolution and improved reliability
- Improves IT productivity with centralized inventory and automated policy-based firmware upgrades
- Uses the same interface as UCS Manager and maintains role-based access control (RBAC) at both UCS Manager and UCS Central levels
Cisco Cloupia
- Unifies management across computing, networking, storage, and virtualization layers
- Provides comprehensive management of physical and virtual resources
- Increases IT efficiency
- Gives IT the flexibility to adapt to changing business requirements
Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects
- Deliver line-rate, lossless 10 GE and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), with native Fibre Channel SAN connectivity
- Provide more than double the ports of the prior generation with universal port connectivity
- Lower barriers to deploying a virtualized environment for data centers
- Provide single-wire connectivity for LAN, SAN, and unified management, including rack servers
- Support native storage zoning and direct attached storage
Cisco UCS Fabric Extenders for UCS Blade Server Chassis
- Provide converged LAN, SAN, and management connectivity to blade servers with the same hardware
- Offer flexibility of LAN Ethernet/FCoE 1/10 GE or SAN Native Fibre Channel
- Improve bandwidth utilization through load balancing with Port Channels
- Manage chassis power supply, fans, and blades by means of the fabric interconnects
Cisco Nexus Fabric Extenders for UCS Rack Servers
- Seamless inclusion of UCS rack servers into UCS Manager domain with UCS blade servers
- Connect rack servers to UCS fabric interconnects with a single cable for I/O and management
- Provide converged LAN, SAN, and management connectivity to blade servers with the same hardware
- Deploy the right server and keep management simple by integrating with UCS fabric interconnects and UCS Manager
Cisco UCS 1200 Series VICs
- Deliver up to 80 Gbps aggregate server bandwidth
- Wire-Once Architecture - simplify network infrastructure and reduce cost
- Enhance Virtual Machine management and visibility using Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX)
- Available for both Cisco blade and rack servers
B-Series Blade Server VICs
- Reduce TCO by consolidating NICs, HBAs, cables, switches, and physical servers
- Collapse networking infrastructure using Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX)
- Provide I/O policy coherency and visibility to help enable workload mobility
- Promote hypervisor and Cisco UCS Manager integration
C-Series Rack Server VICs
- Deliver up to 20 Gbps aggregate bandwidth in a rack-server-optimized form factor
- Reduce TCO by consolidating network interface cards, host bus adapters, and other devices
- Collapse networking infrastructure using Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX)
- Provide I/O policy coherency and visibility to enable workload mobility
- Enable integration with UCS Manager domains
UCS Storage Accelerators
- Speed up data access with reduced storage access latency
- Increase data caching intelligence and reduce complexity
- Boost application performance of database workloads
- Improve performance of virtualized desktops and applications
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)
- Improve performance by offloading compute-intensive portions to a GPU
- Use the power of parallel processing for applications
- Improve VDI graphics performance in virtualized environments
- Enhance user productivity with faster and more flexible business applications
UCS E-Series Servers
- Single and double- width form factors housed inside the Cisco ISR G2 chassis
- Compact data-center-class servers with Intel® Xeon® E3 and E5-2400 series processors
- Dedicated blade management with Integrated Management Controller; consistent management with standalone Cisco UCS C-Series
- Virtualization-ready hardware with support for Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen Server
- Ability to host applications locally, either bare-metal or virtualized, depending on business needs
Cisco R Series Racks
- Ideal for mission-critical data center environments that require reliability, structural integrity, and security
- Deliver exceptional power, cooling, and cable management
- Optimized and certified for use with the Cisco Unified Computing System
- Part of a complete infrastructure solution, including computing, network, rack, power, and services
Cisco RP Series Power Distribution Units
- Offer flexible, reliable, easy-to-deploy power distribution with branch circuit protection
- Cost-effectively and efficiently distribute power to up to 24 outlets
- Protect against overload conditions and simplify cabling from the rack
- Optimized and certified for use with the Cisco Unified Computing System
Data Center Security
Strengthen security for your critical applications, infrastructure, and data while helping to ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance.
Cisco ASA 5585-X Adaptive Security Appliance
- Provides intelligent threat defense and highly secure communications services
- Protects multimedia, highly transactional, and latency-sensitive applications
- Integrates firewalls, unified communications security, and VPN technology
- Implements capacity for scalability and investment protection
Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG)
- Integrates with Cisco Nexus 1000V switches and hypervisors
- Enforces security policy at the virtual-machine level
- Isolates applications in virtual data centers and multitenant environments
- Enforces separation of duties between security and server administrators
- Improves visibility and compliance
ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall
- Provides multitenant edge security and default gateway functionality
- Protects against network-based attacks using proven ASA security platform
- Complements VSG to help secure private and public cloud infrastructure
- Uses Cisco Nexus 1000V for increased flexibility and operational efficiency
- Is managed by multitenant, dynamic Virtual Network Management Center (VNMC)
Data Center Switching
Increase business agility, simplify operations, and protect your investment with the architectural flexibility provided by data center switching.
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
- Provides the switching foundation for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
- Supports up to 1.92 terabits switching capacity per slot
- Delivers high-density 1,10, and 40 Gigabit Ethernet today, and is 100 GE-ready
- Operates in standard Cisco NX-OS as well as in ACI mode
- Offers full virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) bridging, routing, and gateway support
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
- Offers highest switching capacity; up to 1.3 terabits per slot, 83+ terabits per chassis
- Provides high 1,10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet scalability
- Offers the industry's most comprehensive data center feature set
- Delivers advanced services; high availability; hitless In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)
- Is ideal for data center access, aggregation, and core deployments
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series
- Provides high density 10 GE and 40 GE solution in a small four-rack-unit (RU) form factor
- Delivers rich integrated Layer 2 and 3 functionality at line rate and low latency
- Offers operational efficiency with Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) architecture support and robust analytics tool kit
- Supports 40 GE Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for LAN and SAN convergence
- Is ideal for high density access and space constrained aggregation deployments
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
- Consolidate data center while protecting investments with unified I/O
- Decrease total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Simplify data center infrastructure
- Increase business agility through pervasive data center virtualization
- Enhance business resiliency with greater operational continuity
Cisco Nexus 3000 Series
- Delivers flexibility and performance for top-of-rack deployments
- Offers Cisco Algo Boost capabilities with superior low latency, visibility, and control
- Simplifies management with Python scripting, Embedded Event Manager (EEM), and XML management tools
- Increases business agility with a comprehensive software-defined networking (SDN) solution, including OpenFlow and Cisco OnePK
Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
- Provides 100 MB, 1 GE to 10 GE server connectivity with 10 and 40 GE uplinks
- Optimizes space for top-of-rack (ToR) topologies
- Reduces data center cabling costs and footprint with optimized inter-rack cabling
- Extends support to partner blade servers like HP and Fujitsu
Cisco NX-OS for Nexus Switches
- Builds on proven LAN and SAN deployments
- Supported across Cisco Nexus and MDS switching families
- Offers high availability, virtualization services, and convergence
- Provides flexibility for integrating new innovations and evolving industry standards
Data Center Management and Automation
Increase efficiency with IT automation products that save time, provide clear visibility, and strengthen control over operations.
Cisco UCS Director
- Delivers IT efficiency to better support business strategy
- Shared infrastructure policies and resource pools speed deployment time
- Transparent physical, virtual and bare metal infrastructure support
Cisco Prime Network Services Controller
- Enable hybrid cloud computing with VM workload mobility between enterprise data centers and public clouds
- Rapid and scalable network services management with dynamic, template-driven policies and security profiles
Cisco UCS Manager
- Manages Cisco UCS servers as one entity across multiple blade chassis and rack servers
- Provides granular UCS visibility and control to higher-level systems tools
- Simplifies infrastructure provisioning, and shifts focus from maintenance to strategy
- Helps improve IT productivity and business agility through a programmable infrastructure
Cisco Data Center Network Manager
- Simplifies operations of virtualized and unified next-generation networks
- Provides single-pane-of-glass visibility across SAN and LAN technologies
- Deploys innovative NX-OS and SAN technologies quickly and efficiently
- Provides visibility into performance and capacity
Cisco Network Services Manager
- Offers ability to create different levels of service tiers
- Defines the capabilities and resources available in each tier
- Specifies how VLANs, service capabilities, and virtual machines are defined and deployed
Cisco Prime Service Catalog
- Deploy an end-user service catalog for both cloud computing and workplace IT use cases
- Improve efficiency, ensure governance, and increase end-user satisfaction with IT service delivery
Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud
- Software stack that provides efficient IT management in cloud environments
- Supports all cloud models, as well as virtual and physical infrastructure
- Helps meet business demands for speed and adaptability
Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
- Eliminates errors and delays caused by multiple job scheduling tools
- Establishes single job scheduling standard for the enterprise
- Provides broad platform application coverage
- Automatically executes and tracks scheduled processes
Cisco Process Orchestrator
- Provides a single platform for automating IT processes
- Supports best practices for many popular technologies
- Makes automation easier through a visual workflow development environment
Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation for SAP
- Automates SAP incident response, task management, and corrective actions
- Orchestrates complex operational processes
- Expedites automation through preconfigured SAP content
Storage Networking
Cisco MDS solutions establish new benchmarks for storage networks with superior performance, reliability, and architectural flexibility.
Cisco MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Directors
- Switching capacity to accommodate future physical, virtual, and cloud environments
- Up to 384 line rate 16-Gbps Fibre Channel or 10-Gbps FCoE ports
- Fully redundant components and fault tolerant design
- Multi-protocol innovations for architectural flexibility
Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
- Designed for large virtualized data center environments
- Up to 528 1/2/4/8-Gbps Fibre Channel ports
- Intelligent network services
- Platform for intelligent storage applications
Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches
- State-of-the-art multiprotocol and multiservice convergence
- High-performance SAN extension
- Intelligent storage services
- Compact form-factor
Cisco MDS 9100 Multilayer Fabric Switches
- Enterprise-level capabilities, such as virtualization and security
- Highly reliable and available performance
- Cost-effective incremental scalability
- Optimized storage for virtual server environments
- Simple configuration and management
Cisco NX-OS Software for MDS 9000
- Enterprise-class operating software based on SAN-OS
- Unified operating environments for SAN and LAN
- VM-aware SAN can be enabled
- Support for advanced storage services within the fabric
Virtual Networking
Get highly secure multitenant services by adding virtualization intelligence technology from Cisco to your data center network.
Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch for Microsoft Hyper-V
- Includes an advanced NX-OS feature set and associated partner ecosystem
- Innovative network services architecture supports scalable multitenant environments
- Offers a consistent operational experience across physical and virtual environments and hypervisors
- Tightly integrates with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 (SCVMM)
Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere
- Integrates directly with VMware vSphere hypervisors
- Delivers virtual machine-aware network services such as VM mobility in cloud environments
- Accelerates server virtualization deployments and simplifies management
- Reduces total cost of ownership; provides consistency and network visibility
Cisco Nexus 1000V InterCloud
- Extends the enterprise private cloud to the public cloud
- Provides consistent network policies and services across private and public clouds
- Offers application transparency with Layer 2 extension
- Uses a simple single pane of management
- Virtual form factor helps enable easy deployment
Cisco Nexus 1100 Series Cloud Services Platform
- Dedicated hardware platform supports critical virtualization infrastructure
- Offloads application servers from running virtual service nodes
- Improves scalability and performance of virtualized data center
- Separates security policy management from VMware virtualization administration
Cisco Virtual Security Gateway for Nexus 1000V Switch
- Integrates with Cisco Nexus 1000V vPath technology and is hypervisor-agnostic as Cisco Nexus 1000V is available on multiple hypervisors
- Offers best-in-class, efficient, fast, and scale-out, zone-based security architecture
- Delivers security policy enforcement and visibility at a virtual machine level that follows VM mobility
- Logically isolates applications in virtual data centers and multitenant environments
- Provides ease of deployment and consistent operational experience (separation of duties between security and server administrators)


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Texting harassment case results in probation
STEUBENVILLE – Two 16-year-old girls who used social media to send messages to a 16-year-old Weirton rape victim entered guilty pleas this morning to a telecommunication harassment misdemeanor and were placed on probation for six months.
The two Steubenville High School students also were sentenced by Jefferson County Juvenile Court Judge Samuel Kerr to 30 days in juvenile detention, but the judge suspended the sentence in favor of the probation and 40 hours of community service.
The two were initially charged with felony intimidation of a witness and aggravated menacing and telecommunication harassment, both misdemeanors.
The girls through their attorneys officially denied the charges during a court appearance in March.
Both defendants told the judge this morning they "made bad tweets."
The juvenile court did not release the girls' names.
They were originally arrested by City Police on March 18, the day after visiting Juvenile Judge Tom Lipps found Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville and Trent Mays, 17, of Bloomingdale delinquent of rape. Mays also was found guilty of a charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material for allegedly having a picture of the 16-year-old victim in an outgoing text message on his cell phone.
The judge also ordered the girls' cell phones be released to them.
Assistant Prosecutor Samuel Pate said he was satisfied with the plea agreement and the statements made today by the two girls.


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Orange-Balsamic Glazed Chicken
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken thighs or breasts or any combination of light and dark meat
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 2 to 3 sprigs fresh rosemary, leaves chopped
- 1/3 cup orange marmalade
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/2 cup chicken stock
- 2 scallions, whites and greens, finely chopped
- 4 cups baby arugula
In a large pan, heat the extra-virgin olive oil over medium-high to high heat.
Season the chicken liberally with salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. When the oil is hot and ripples, add the chicken and brown for 5 minutes, then turn and sprinkle with rosemary. Cook until the chicken is tender and cooked through, about 5 minutes more.
In a small bowl, stir together the marmalade, vinegar and stock and pour over the chicken. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until the sauce has thickened and becomes a thin glaze. Add the scallions during the last minute of cooking time. Arrange on a serving platter and serve topped with arugula greens.
Recipe courtesy of Rachael Ray
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Milk should be removed from school lunches, a doctors group argues.
The promotion of milk to help build strong bones in kids is, "in effect, the promotion of an ineffective placebo," writes the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in its petition. "Milk is high in sugar, high in fat and high in animal protein" — all of which counters its purported benefits to bone health, the committee argues.
Instead of requiring schools to serve milk, the USDA should promote sources of calciumwith "a more healthful, nutritional profile," such as beans, tofu, broccoli, kale, collard greens, cereals and other calcium-fortified beverages like orange juice and soy milk, PCRM recommends.
Oh yeah, lose the dairy and pile on the kale! That'll get kids all the calcium they need.


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Club Med Val d'Isere Reviews
Hotel was good, although the rooms are slightly tired. The food was well above expectation as were the staff and the level of service received during our stay. Our only complaint was the Ski Hire & Ski return procedure was lengthy and in our opinion, unnecessary, due to poor opening times of the ski hire facility.
Apres Ski: 5/5
Accommodation & Value: 4/5
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Great organisation getting to the resort-private taxi. Overall resort was very good-snow fine and ski in and ski out very good. Excellent skis/boots etc. Food in hotel very good, club rooms just about ok. Christmas dining carnage though! Wine pre ordered didn't arrive and dining room packed! Bar and entertainment all good.
Apres Ski: 5/5
Accommodation & Value: 4/5
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Topic: Anyone else using RubyMine on Macbook Pro
Jetbrains is now sponsoring the Agile Philanthropy Group and I just loaded an evaluation copy of RubyMine on my Macbook Pro. I really like it's seamless integration with Git [something RadRails hasn't quite gotten to yet.] I also like some of it's templates so far and good code completion.
Anyone else have any early feelings about it?


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Brown County Board approves wheelage tax
NEW ULM – Brown County commissioners unanimously approved a wheelage tax of $10 per vehicle Tuesday.
The 2013 Legislature approved the expansion of the wheelage tax authority to all 87 Minnesota counties, as of January 2014. The tax applies to most vehicles except motorcycles, trailers and collector vehicles.
"We're starting to fall behind. If we let roads go, it costs more to rebuild them later," Brown County Highway Engineer Wayne Stevens said. "This won't solve the problem but it will help us get more projects done."
Commissioner Jim Berg said he preferred a wheelage tax to using county property tax money for highway projects.
It is estimated that Brown County's 28,600 vehicles subject to the tax would yield about $286,000 a year for transportation expenses.
The new draft Five-Year Construction Program shows an unmet need of $18,950,000 in transportation projects that should be in the five-year plan but are not due to the funding shortage.
In other action, commissioners:
Set aside a Local Option Sales Tax, which was approved by the 2013 Legislature. It gave county government the authority to impose the tax following public hearings. Referendum (votes) are not needed to approve the tax.
The tax rate can be up to one-half of 1 percent. Tax proceeds must be dedicated exclusively to a specific transportation or transit project and must terminate when revenues are sufficient to fund the project.
Increased county probation officers and social worker on-call rates to $110 per weekend. Probation officers are required to be "on call" on weekends. They receive phone calls from law enforcement asking if someone should be held in jail, detention or released; electronic monitoring firms call about people using or absconding; parents call on curfew, absconding or use violations; and other probation officers seeking case advice.
Family Services Director Tom Henderson said state laws require social workers to provide child protection services around the clock. He said Brown County rates are similar to surrounding counties.
Approved adding a part-time BA social worker and family-based worker for up to 25 hours a week to the 2014 budget. Workers would be involved with child protection and the Parent Support Outreach Program (PSOP).
Last year, Brown County Family Services received a $25,000 a year, five-year PSOP grant from the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS). The grant is based on the number of child protection reports that are "screened in" during the year.
This year, the Legislature made the grant statewide and the DHS changed funding from a grant to an allocation, based on open PSOP cases the previous year.
The PSOP program targets families with children under age 10 and at risk of maltreatment. Last year, BCFS served 26 families and spent the entire grant. Funds went for buying basic needs like food, rent, clothing, utilities, gas and medication plus family-based staff salaries.
The program should reduce out-of-home placement costs by preventing families from entering the system and freeing up child protection social workers so they can provide more intensive work with families already in the system. Preventing one child from entering foster care saves the county $10,000 to $20,000 a year.
Approved drainage ditch repair requests of $18,487.65 to replace 400 feet of tile in County Ditch 75, Section 17, Milford Township, and $1,563 to fix a tile hole in CD 52, Section 29, North Home Township.
The CD 75 repair was difficult tile replacement due to quicksand conditions that required the contractor to move equipment in and out of the project several times. The CD 52 repair was normal maintenance repair.
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|Blue Pool Track
This short, pleasant walk, starts close to the Glenbrook entrance of the Blue Mountains National Park. The walk follows a staircase and track down to Blue Pool. The blue colouring of the water can vary in intensity, depending on water and weather conditions. A popular swimming hole, this creek is particularly dangerous after rain, take care when swimming. (open in app)
Bushwalking track notes photographs, maps and camping spots for Blue Pool Track
Map of Walk
Map of Blue Pool Track
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Map Scale 500 meters
Base maps are used under licence and is © Department of lands Panorama Avenue Bathurst 2795 www.lands.nsw.gov.au
Maps that cover the walk area (please always carry maps of the area)Print a map and track notes here
Photo Gallery
Please note: This is a 'return' style walk and therefore these graphs only show the terrain for the first half of the walk (until the turn around point.)
Cross sectional view of the Blue Pool Track bushwalking track
Analysis and summary of the altitude variation on the Blue Pool Track bushwalking track
Overview of this walks Grading - Based on the AS 2156.1 - 2001
These details are new. This new feature still requires more testing and refining. Please use the 'Walker Feedback' for report specific issues. Please e-mail Matt if you have any general comments. Hope you find it helpful.
Under this standard, a walk is graded based on the most difficult section of the walk.
Some more detail of this walks Grading
Here is a bit more details explaining the grading looking at sections of the walk.
150m of this walk is very steep and another 65m has gentle hills with occasional steps. The remaining (50m) has short steep hills.
Quality of track
This whole walk, 260m follows a formed track, with some branches and other obstacles.
This whole walk, 260m has directional signs at most intersection.
Experience Required
This whole walk, 260m requires no previous bushwalking experience.
This whole walk, 260m is not usually affected by severe weather events (that would unexpectedly impact safety and navigation).
Around 210m of this walk has limited facilities (such as cliffs not fenced, significant creeks not bridged), whilst the remaining 50m has limited facilities (such as not all cliffs fenced).
Track Notes
Since this is a 'return' style walk once you have had enough of the walk, turn around and retrace your steps back to the start.
Getting therePlan your trip to the start of the walk and back from the end of the walk
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Near by
Campsites in the park
Acacia FlatBurralow Creek camping groundCoxs River Camping AreaEuroka campground - Appletree Flat campervan and camper trailer areaEuroka campgroundIngar campgroundMount Werong campgroundMurphys Glen campgroundPerrys Lookdown campgroundEuroka Campground - DarugEuroka Campground - Red GumEuroka Campground - NiokaEuroka Campground - Bennetts Ridge
Nearest know Outdoor Stores near the start of this walk
A list of the nearest UHF CB repeaters I found to Blue Pool Track.
Weather and Park info
Fire Danger
Please Note: Each park may have its own fire ban, this rating is only valid for today and is based on information from the RFS Please check the RFS Website for more information.
Weather and Climate
Weather and Climate summary detailed weather and climate information here
Blue Mountains National Park Link to official closures and fire bans page
Attracting over 3 million visitors annually, Blue Mountains National Park holds some of Australia's most spectacular and diverse wilderness areas. Explore the Grose Valley, with its sheer sandstone cliffs, waterfalls and scenic walking, or enjoy the famous views of the Three Sisters. Easy access makes a day trips very worthwhile, but with such diversity it would be great to stay in one of the many B&B's and spend a few days soaking up the region.
Region: Sydney & Surrounds
Park fees Camping Facilities I am not aware of any closures in this park at the moment.
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