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I think you are neglecting a place I like to call 'Bamberg'
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I know what you thinking - you must be - isn't there anything better to do it Cordoba? Answer - no..
How bored am I? Below is a list of some of things that I have resorted to to pass the time:
- played Street Fighter II in a random little local arcade;
- cooked a meal. Really;
- took photos of my shoes;
- watched American Football on TV;
- seen how many times I could say Jesus ('Haysoos') in a conversation with a local - just because it sounds cool; and
- contemplated running around the city naked, but resolved that sleeping was a much more worthwhile use of my time.
Pretty bored hey. I mean - American football?
The other day, I was thinking 'is this cynical view of Cordoba a result of post-Buenos Aires blues? Perhaps
Overcome by a need to escape, I pen this entry as I sit in a cafe in the town of Villa General Belgrano, south of Cordoba. So what's here? Well, the other day I overheard someone saying - 'yeah, it's a little German town with lots of traditional German influence' and thought to myself - 'yeah. Little German town. Traditional German influence. Good thinking'. Of course, it was only once I got here that I remembered that I don't really like little German towns. Given this, this disneyland-inspired, touristy, artificial, faux German abomination of a town stood little hope of impressing. Endless tacky wooden signs featuring cerveza chugging, leiderhausen clad gents seemingly happy to be stuck in this awful town is enough to drive anyone mad. Or perhaps, it's just enough to drive someone mad enough to buy a truck. A big fucking pick-up truck. The town is full of them. I love it. Indeed, it is the best thing about the town - big pick-up trucks. Quality... And just to complete the entire experience, like a cherry on top or a tierce de picardi at the end of a prelude, Villa General Belgrano also made me instantly recall some of those wonderful, near death experiences of the World Cup Road Trip of the Devil of the Death, the mere reference to Leberwurst still enough to send nauseating chills pulsing through my body
In summary, Cordoba and Villa General Belgrano? Holes. In the ground. Contour lines on a map of Argentina would probably reflect this.
So, to the Top 5. By now, you may have realised that I don't have the greatest opinion of Cordoba. Yes - it's a hole. But plenty of other places that I've visited have been holes as well. For some perspective, here are the Top 5 holes fallen into so far on the Trip of the Devil of the Death from Hell:
5. Santiago de Chile
4. Strasbourg
3. Casablanca
2. Kaiserslautern
1. Cordoba
I've dug myself out. To Salta...
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I live in Cordoba, and completely agree.
The point of the city are his universities, so no tourist attraction. The hidden catacombs are just for church mads. They are awful.
Nonetheless, If you choose to study here (you can get an engineer title on free education), you can swim on women of any kind, and for any taste. Night parties on parks. Pools. Asados. Girls, girls, girls. Travel to lakes, fish on mountains, Rio Dulce, Mar Chiquita; boar hunt with knife and dogs. Weekend escape to small town full of hungry blondes and brunettes (most males leave small town, so they end overpopulated with women), the Cosquin Rock, (best rock on entire Latin America)
Unfortunately, tourists can't experience it.


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How I Met Your Mother - Season 4 Episodes
How I Met Your Mother - Season 4
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER returns for a hilarious fourth season! It all started when Ted's best friend, Marshall, dropped the bombshell that he was going to propose to his long-time girlfriend, and now wife, Lily, a kindergarten teacher. At that moment, Ted realized that he had better get a move on if he too hopes to find true love. Helping him in his quest is Barney, a friend with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women. When Ted met Robin, it was love at first sight, but when things didn't work out, Ted realized destiny must have something else in store. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future.
"Do I Know You?"
After Stella accepts Ted's proposal, Ted realizes he knows shockingly little about his bride-to-be. The two spend time getting to know each other better, and Ted tests their true compatibility by having Stella watch his favorite movie, Star Wars, which she has never seen before. Meanwhile, Lily learns Barney has feelings for Robin that he has been keeping bottled up all summer. Thrilled with the new, warmer Barney, she sets out to help him express them.
"The Best Burger in New York"
When Marshall reminisces about finding the best burger his first night in New York but not being able to find the restaurant since then, the gang sets out on a mission to find the legendary burger. But as the search grows futile, Marshall becomes overly fixated in finding the burger, making the gang question if this has more to do with him not being able to find a job and the toll it's taking on him.
"I Heart NJ"
Tired of spending most of his time on the train commuting to Stella's in New Jersey, Ted convinces the group to hang out at her place one night, even though they hate New Jersey. While at Stella's, Ted tries to sell the gang on how great it is but when he learns Stella expects him to move to New Jersey after they're married, Ted has a change of heart about the Garden State. Also, Robin gets a job at a CNN-style news station and quits her old job. However, after quitting she finds out she didn't actually get the job, only an audition. In the end, Barney and Lily help Robin regain her confidence and she winds up with a big career opportunity to be a foreign correspondent in Japan.
In packing up the apartment to move out for good, the gang starts to get cold feet. While sorting through old stuff, Ted discovers that at one point Marshall and Lily were going to stage an intervention to tell him not to marry Stella. After admitting they thought Ted and Stella were moving too quickly but now realize they were wrong, Ted then starts to question if maybe his relationship is moving too fast. His hesitation towards change then makes Marshall and Lily question whether they should move into their apartment, and Robin becomes uncertain about taking the job in Japan.
"Shelter Island"
When Stella's sister's rustic wedding falls apart, Ted and Stella step in to get married with only a few days' notice. Despite the short notice, Robin catches a flight back from Tokyo. But when Stella finds out Ted invited Robin, the divisive issue of whether an ex should even attend a wedding threatens to overshadow everything. In an effort to make Stella okay with Robin attending, Ted winds up inviting Stella's ex, Tony, and in the end learns the hard way why it's not a good idea to invite an ex to your wedding.
"Happily Ever After"
After being left at the alter, Ted tries to pretend it didn't happen despite his friends' concerns that he hasn't dealt with his emotions. They take steps to try to get him to open up. But only a chance crossing of paths with Stella herself finally allows Ted to see that he has major unresolved issues and he sets out to confront her about everything that happened.
"Not a Father's Day"
Marshall and Lily consider whether or not they're ready to have a baby. After deciding they're ready, Lily panics and turns to Ted and Robin for advice since they have very different points of view on the subject. And, after finding out he's not going to be a father, Barney creates "Not A Father's Day," a new holiday that celebrates single guys everywhere.
When the company Barney works for needs an architect to design its new headquarters, Barney gets Ted a shot to throw his hat in the ring and pitch his ideas. But when Barney prefers a flashy Swedish design over Ted's, Barney has to decide whether friendship or business is more important. Meanwhile, Robin rediscovers the "Woo Girls", the single party girls, and Lily feels left out as a friend.
"The Naked Man"
When Ted walks in to find Robin's date sitting on the couch naked, he stumbles onto a phenomenon that revolutionizes the gang's concepts on the art of seduction. For Ted has discovered "The Naked Man": a move on a first date that involves waiting until the woman leaves the room and then stripping nude in hopes that when she returns, she'll be charmed by the man's bravado and decide to sleep with him.
"The Fight"
When the bartender at MacLaren's gets into a fight with some patrons sitting in the gang's favorite booth, Ted and Barney decide to back the bartender up and get into their first fight. Ted wants to prove he's not the pathetic guy who got left at the alter and Barney wants to impress Robin, who thinks fighting is sexy. But when they step outside and find the bartender, Doug, has knocked the guys out in a flurry and thinks Ted and Barney helped him do it, Ted and Barney decide to go along with the legendary story. The story of the fight makes them heroes at the bar until the guys who got beat up decide to press charges, and Ted and Barney have to decide whether or not to come clean.
"Little Minnesota"
When Ted's younger sister, Heather, comes to visit and decides she wants to move there, Ted worries that she's not mature or responsible enough to survive in NYC. Being the overprotective older brother, Ted tries to keep her out of trouble, and in particular keep her away from Barney. But when Ted becomes too overbearing, Heather teaches him a lesson that gives him new respect for her. And after northern natives Marshall and Robin bond during the first frost of the year, Marshall helps Robin get through her worst bout of homesickness by introducing her to his favorite Minnesota themed bar.
Robin and Ted navigate being exes who are now roommates and discover they get along better when they're sleeping together as "friends with benefits". Barney is trouble by the news and has a hard time dealing with his emotions. In an effort to reduce Ted and Robin's roommate conflicts and stop them from sleeping together, Barney helps out around the apartment, leading Ted to suspect something is up and confront Barney about his feelings towards Robin. Also, the bathroom situation at Marshall's work is super-stressful, and as a result he has trouble doing certain business there.
"Three Days of Snow"
When a snowstorm hits the city before Lily returns from a teacher's conference in Seattle, Marshall and Lily agree to forego they're longstanding airport reunion ritual. But when they each start to worry that letting another ritual retire means that their relationship is losing its magic, Marshall enlists Robin's help to get to the airport in time while Lily tries to pick-up a Seattle souvenir for Marshall, all in the middle of a blizzard. Meanwhile, Ted and Barney are meeting two women at MacLaren's, so when Carl threatens to close up because of the storm, they offer to watch over the bar until the women show up. After having fun tending the bar, things get out of control when the girls arrive with their thirsty band-mates.
"The Possimpible"
Robin discovers that she only has four days to find work as a television reporter or she will be deported back to Canada. Willing to try anything to avoid deportation, she agrees to let Barney produce a new reel and video resume for her, but pulls the plug on the project when Barney's directions become too ridiculous. However, Barney comes through for Robin in the end, after putting together a video resume from footage they filmed before Robin walked out. Meanwhile, Ted, Lily and Marshall update their own resumes to more accurately depict their credentials.
"The Stinsons"
After noticing some bizarre and elusive behavior from Barney, the gang starts to suspects that he may have found a girlfriend. When he mysteriously leaves MacLaren's during drinks they decide to follow him, and they discover that he's actually been secretly visiting his mother. However, they also discover that Barney has convinced his mother that he's married and has a son, and that he'd hired actors to portray them. After barging in on Barney with his "family," the gang has no option but to play along, until Ted gets caught cheating with Barney's "wife." Meanwhile, Lily admits to Marshall that she hates his mother, while Robin commiserates with the old soul portraying Barney's "son."
"Sorry, Bro"
When Lily and Marshall hear that Ted's college girlfriend, Karen, has moved to New York City, it immediately becomes clear that they can't stand her. They tell the gang about how pompous Karen was and how she cheated on Ted. They insist that Ted stay away from her, but soon find out that Ted has not only already called her, but that they have gotten back together. Meanwhile, Marshall tells a story about forgetting to bring dress pants to work which Barney finds hilarious.
"The Front Porch"
When Ted's girlfriend Karen finds one of Robin's earrings in his bed, she accuses him of cheating on her and breaks up with him. Ted soon learns that Lily, who couldn't stand Karen, planted the earring in his bed in order to break up the relationship. Ted goes on to discover that Lily had actually broken up several of his relationships, and had even been behind his break up with Robin. Meanwhile, the gang all gathers at Lily and Marshall's to watch Robin's new early morning news show, and Barney discovers how comfortable sleeping in a nightshirt can be.
"Old King Clancy"
Marshall and Barney lie to keep Ted from finding out the headquarters he'd been hired to design for GNB has been cancelled.
When Barney is banned from Laser Tag, he plans to get revenge by TPing the Laser Tag center and asks Ted to help.
"Mosbius Designs"
After losing his job, Ted forms his own architecture firm which he sets up in the apartment he shares with Robin.
"The Three Days Rule"
Ted meets a new girl, Holly, and the gang insists that he wait three days before calling to ask her out. Ted reluctantly agrees, but decides that texting her before then is fine, and he strikes up a text conversation with Holly that lasts several days. However, he soon discovers that he is actually texting with Marshall and Barney, who had swapped Holly's number in Ted's phone for Barney's to keep him from calling her before the three days was up. Furious after discovering the truth, Ted goes ahead and calls Holly to ask her out, and discovers that the three day rule is more apt then he once suspected.
"Right Place, Right Time"
Ted explains to his future children that being in the right place at the right time can have a massive impact on a person's future, and that the universe tends to have a way of pushing a person toward their destiny. He presents an example where seemingly unimportant and unrelated occurrences in Robin, Marshall and Barney's lives lead him to an unexpected encounter with Stella, which sets him on the path to meeting his children's mother. Meanwhile, Robin suffers through a bout of food poisoning, Marshall deals with an addiction to graphs and charts and Barney celebrates his 200th female conquest.
"As Fast as She Can"
After Ted bumps in to Tony and Stella on the street, Tony shows up at Ted's apartment and insists on taking responsibility for his part in Ted being left at the altar. He explains to Ted that his family is very wealthy and can help him with his career, but Ted tells him he has no obligation to help and that the past is behind them. However, Tony won't give up trying to help and finally Ted goes off on him, insisting that he is happy to have Stella out of his life because she is such a terrible person. Tony reflects on this and ends up breaking things off with Stella himself. Stella then asks Ted to talk to Tony for her, to convince him to take her back. Meanwhile, after finding out that Marshall and Robin have successfully gotten themselves out of speeding tickets, Barney gets intentionally pulled over several times to prove that he can as well.
"The Leap"
In a last ditch attempt to bring business to his fledgling architecture firm, Ted stays up 24 hours straight working on an pitch. With Ted refusing to leave his work, Marshall tries to lure Ted to the roof for a surprise 31st birthday party. However, before he makes it up to the roof, he is attacked by the goat Lily had rescued and left in the bathroom. After ending up in the hospital, the entire ordeal helps Ted realize that he needs to explore other career options, and he decides to take a job as a professor. Meanwhile, Barney finally decides to admit to Robin that he has feelings for her however, he is thrown when she beats him to the punch and says she is in love with him. Also, Marshall contemplates finally taking the leap from their building to a neighbor's roof.

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I caught a swarm about a week ago - first one for me. I got about 80% of the bees. The folks whose yard it was in contacted me today saying that the remaining bees are still there and have started building comb.
Three questions:
Does this mean I didn't get the queen?
I'm going back tomorrow to get the remaining bees, will they merge with the bees I got earlier okay?
Is there any hope whatsoever for the swarm to survive the winter, even I feed them? (I'm in Vermont).


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APCNews 123 – History of APC, Pakistan censorship
APCNews – July 1 2010 – Year XI Issue 123
The news service on ICTs for social justice and sustainable development
"The whole idea was that information is enormously powerful," recalls early APC member Roberto Bissio. In the mid-1980s the internet was still a disconnected set of separate government and commercial networks. The people who found the APC in 1990 were determined to provide cheap instantaneous communications to progressive organisations worldwide by breaking down technological and commercial barriers and connecting the networks. From anti-apartheid South Africa to Indian ecologists, from US peace activists to women's groups working in Eastern Europe, APC networks pioneered their use of technology and made it possible for the first global actions to take place.
The internet is a "radically different" place because of APC
MONTEVIDEO (Frederick Noronha and Karen Higgs) – The pioneering work of APC founders in the mid-1980s helped establish the internet as a public and open platform for global communications and the decisions they took created an open network, years before the first web page was written. "We would open up the networks at a time when commercial operators were intent on keeping their systems as isolated islands," says founder Mitra. By 1992, APC was connecting non-profits in over 90 countries. Frederick Noronha and Karen Higgs delve into APC's past to commemorate APC's twenty years networking online for social justice and sustainable development.
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NOW IN FRENCH AND SPANISH: Do you have a right to online knowledge? Report shows open internet in danger
JOHANNESBURG (APC for APCNews) – A major report that reveals how vulnerable the internet as we know it is, has just been published in French and Spanish by two global civil society organisations. The annual report, called Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch), was launched in November by the Association for Progressive Communications and Dutch development agency Hivos. GISWatch 2009 is entitled "Access to online information and knowledge – advancing human rights and democracy". The full publication is now available in French , and an abridged version in Spanish.
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Confidential Pakistani document reveals plans for stricter control of the internet and freedom of expression
ISLAMABAD (Bytes for All for APCNews) – Since May 20, Pakistan has experienced a wave of strict internet content control with thousands of web pages blocked following a Facebook campaign inviting users to "Draw Muhammad". The Facebook campaign pushed Pakistani authorities to actively engage in blocking and filtering internet content, leaving Pakistani citizens powerless against the online blanket ban. Further plans by the government to continue to filter any content it considers "objectionable" have been revealed in a confidential document obtained by APC member Bytes for All. "These new guidelines will give Pakistan's government the power to cripple Pakistani citizens' access to information and freedom of expression over the internet," say internet rights activists.
Special FAO online forum to discuss Gender, ICTs and rural livelihoods
CAPE TOWN (Jennifer Radloff for APC Africa Women) – From 5 – 16 July 2010, a special online forum being hosted on e-agriculture.org will discuss the issues surrounding gender, ICTs and rural livelihoods. The forum will be moderated by the APC's Jennifer Radloff as part of the Gender, agriculture and rural development in the information society (GenARDIS) project. Join e-agriculture and GenARDIS for this forum, which will look at what has and has not worked, good practices, as well as the critical area of capacity building and what can be done to empower women and men in playing a more vital role in ICTs for agriculture and rural development.
Survey: How has funding changed in the ICT for social change arena?
MONTREAL (Chad Lubelsky for APC) – As part of its Network of networks project for a free and open internet, the APC is conducting a survey to examine how funding is changing within the ICT for social change arena. The survey will also examine the possibilities for creating an annual civil society summit on ICT public policy. The survey only takes about ten minutes and results will be shared with the community. Please complete the survey before Monday 5 July 2010.
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Cliff Pace, the 2013 Bassmaster Classic champion, stayed abreast of the proceedings of last week's Classic at which he would've been the defending champion, but was forced to miss due to an injury suffered when he fell out of a deer stand in December. He certainly didn't obsess over it, however, as he continued recuperation and rehabilitation of his surgically repaired leg at home in Mississippi.
"I did watch the final weigh-in and saw (winner Randy Howell) have his moment, and that was good to see," he said. "That really made me regret not being there, but it's something I've come to terms with. Now I just look forward to getting back out there."
He said he's reached the point at which he's fairly proficient at transporting himself on crutches and the pain has begun to lessen. He hopes to get back into his boat by late spring and fish competitively at some point this year – event if it's just in a local derby.
He'll sit out the upcoming Elite Series campaign on a medical exemption and his 2014 Classic slot has been rolled over to next year's event at Lake Hartwell in South Carolina.
"I saw three doctors and two therapists trying to figure out a way to allow me to fish (the Elite Series) this year, but that wasn't going to happen. But I started physical therapy this week and on my latest X-rays, the plate and the pins haven't moved and my body hasn't rejected anything. You can see where one of the bones is starting to mend and the one that was crushed has started to grow back.
"As the pain gets less and less, I'm wanting to get out there more and more every day, but I'm at the mercy of the doctors and what they tell me. They don't want me to do too much before I can handle it."
The only fishing-related activity he's done since his surgery is sort through some tackle.
"I had my wife bring a bunch of it into the house and I had it all scattered around the table. I was just looking for anything to do to make the day go by."


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Last edited by dosier69; 09-29-2012 at 10:36 PM. Reason: Sold
still waiting on a tune
Update: Lowered asking price
Also if I get close to my asking price, I either will ship to you or drive this car to you (continental 48 states only...dont feel like driving to Alaska this year
Mileage has gone up = lowered price.
just turned 143,xxx so lowered my asking price another $500.
plenty of inquiries....but no buyers have brought me cash yet. need to sell before i keep putting miles on it
Wow man great car, quality modification and kept clean. Also it looks like its very well built and cared for. Do you have receipts and maintenance info on your car? Its almost exactly how i would build it myself other then the set of wheels id choose. If only it wasn't taking forever to get my insurance check from an idiot totaling out my 301whp Subaru WRX. I had about 5 grand in exterior JDM modification and another 10k in a full turbo, injector, ECU, and suspension modification. Most of which were ruined in the accident. I was able to pull the turbo and exhaust as well as my UTEC ECU system but not much else. It really made me want to cry seeing my blood and sweat sitting totaled on the back of a tow truck.
A old lady blew a red light T-boning my Suby. The worst part it was about 10 miles from my apartment and i had just spent like 5 hours fully detailing it for a Subaru car meet later that night. I clay bared it, 2 coats of wax and a top to bottom interior detail. She looked nearly new.
But on the upside i have always wanted a B5 S4 preferably a Avant but your is a great deal and built well id take a sedan. I still love the sedan plus the fact of how hard Avant S4's in 6SPD are to find. I'd prefer a nogaro, white or my first color choice is the rare dark green they come in. I have only seen like 2 for sale on here ever. But they looks great with that green and a nice set of dark bronze wheels. I really also want the blue alcantera seats but I'm not to picky on the seat color mainly the exterior color.
Well if you have it in a month or so maybe we can make something happen. You would have to be somewhat negotiable because I'm probably getting 9-11k in my insurance check. Well anyways bump for a great car that's well kept and owned by someone who respects there cars and understands how to drive a fast boosted car. Well bump for you and "RIP" to my 301whp 299TQ 03 Subaru WRX.
I was in the process of getting my V1 JDM STI carbon Fiber front lip paint matched cause i grew out of the carbon fiber thing. Even though it was a extremely rare front lip and took 6 months to get from Japan to my house i still think it would make the car look cleaner if painted the same color. Plus there are only about 5-10 of the carbon V1 JDM STI lips in the US when i ordered mine. I also hadn't installed my JDM grill and hood scoop yet since I received them in the mail 3 days after the accident. Which sucked cause i waited 2 months for them to get shipped from Japan as well. Anyways hopefully you are negotiable a bit and that its still available in a month or so. Cause I'm very interested just completely broke until that insurance check comes.
Here is 3 pics taken a few months before it got totaled. You can see my flat black painted front mount intercooler if you look hard. I loved the fact that to 99% of people it looked like a radiator. She was definitely fast i was still running the rather weak 5spd transmission and basically rolling off the line and i still ran a 12.7. I feel if i risked the transmission and launched it at 6K using my UTEC's launch control i could have run low to mid 12s. I only launched her at 6k twice using my launch control and it didn't seem to hurt the transmission much cause it broke all 4 wheels free for a split second. I feel its when the wheels don't break free is when you blow gear sets or axles.
But i just didn't have the money for a upgraded set of gears or a 6SPD swap at the time if i ended up grenadeing my transmission. So babying and rolling off the line was the smart thing to do. But i want my next build to be close or slightly over the 400WHP mark and break into mid to high 11s. I'm not really about proving my self on drag strip even though it is pretty fun to beat any muscle car in a import cause they get so mad. I never understood that i have respect for most fast and well built cars but most muscle car people are close minded and hate anything but 8cyl cars.
I'm more of a road course driver but i do like to take a few passes after installing power upgrades and doing a moderate tune on the street with my knock sensor and a wide band A/F gauge. Since a few runs down the strip is a great way of fine tuning things and dialing in my Air/Fuel Ratio to a safe level prior to getting her on a dyno and finishing off the full tune. So i can squeeze out all the power that i didn't get on the street and with my mediocre tuning talent there is always like another 25-50WHP left. As well as having a good tuner smooth out my power and torque curve. Plus with the K04's in the S4 i can safely make over 400WHP from what i have been researching and its nice to know i can do that on basically a stock turbo upgrade since i believe the KO4's come from the RS4.
So in my eyes my next car choices were either B5 S4 with KO4's, Version 8 Evo running a GT30 or 35R turbo. Or Another WRX with a Version 7 STI motor since i get a 8K redline and forged internals from the factory with the 2 liter Version 7 STI engine. Then I just need a GT30 or 35R or similar turbo and supporting mods. All would make 400+WHP rather reliably if taken care of and drive properly. And since i baby my cars that wouldn't be and issue. Anyways sorry for the ramble and hopefully we can talk about your car when i get from insurance check. So hopefully you can work with me a little on price if you still have your beautiful car. Thanks for your time and hope you liked my old WRX cause i sure miss her. Again sorry for the long response but i got excited about your car and then about my car I'm replacing with hopefully yours. Thanks again for your time.
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pretty clean looking scooby you have there.
I will leave this ad up until the car is sold. so feel free to reach out to me whenever you are ready and we can discuss price & stuff in more detail then.
would you be intrested in a very clean bagged jetta 1.8t with a bunch of add ons including bora front end and front mount intercooler? won alot of shows as well
@davisgti - thumbs down because I'm selling a sedan? or you are trying to trade a sedan?
PM sent
I am seriously interested in this car, but would like to check it out in person. Will you be in attendance at the APR BBQ on October 13th?
But if not, then yeah -- we could meet sometime. Just to be upfront with you though, I can't spend more than 10K on whatever car I'm picking up. If that's a deal breaker, then I understand.
Mileage has gone up...price has gone down.
Asking $11k for a well sorted stage 3 S4


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Ne-Yo revealed to MTV News he will be heading into the studio with Beyonce, working on material for her new album, due out early in 2013. Last Friday in New York, the R&B star said, "I actually just spoke to her tonight about that before we got here. So definitely going to get in some stuff with her. Who knows? Maybe we'll get another 'Irreplaceable' out of the batch. You never know."
Shinedown and 3 Doors Down have announced the second leg of their 2013 co-headlining tour. P.O.D. opens up the arena tour, which kicks off in Moline, IL on February 1. The new round of dates begin on March 9 in Orlando and run up to March 30 in Fargo, ND.
Columbia Records will release an album of tomorrow night's 12/12/12 Hurricane Sandy benefit concert at Madison Square Garden. A 24-song set will be available on iTunes "as soon as possible." The album can already be pre-ordered. Proceeds from the album will of course go to charity to help victims of the storm.
Jason Mraz hopes to release a new album by the end of next year. Speaking to Billboard, the singer-songwriter says he will be on the road overseas in the spring, but then hit the studio. He added, "if all goes well, I'll have a new record out in 2013. It'd be [out at] the end of 2013."Hollywood Undead will return to the road early next year in support of their new album, Notes From The Underground. The band will be returning to the underground to play small clubs for their die-hard fans on The Underground Tour commencing in Los Angeles on release day January 8. The brief tour runs through January 23 in Toronto.Fueled By Ramen has announced the release of Girls Volume 1, music from the HBO series, and it features exclusive new tracks by Grouplove, Santigold and fun. Other artists featured on the soundtrack include Robyn, Fleet Foxes and The Vaccines. The soundtrack is due on January 8.Depeche Mode has confirmed that their next album will be out in March via Columbia Records. "I am very happy with how the album turned out," comments Martin Gore in a statement on the band's website. "The music has a similar vibe to Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion and I think the songs on the album are among some of the very best weve done." Dave Gahan adds, "The album has a very organic and direct feel to it. It's not a blues record, but it definitely has a soulful vibe. During the recording process we really tried to get the elements of performing and the live show into the album more." A world tour will follow the release of the new album.
Volbeat has announced a spring tour of North America with Danko Jones as the opening act. Details on Volbeat's fifth studio album will be shared in the coming weeks. The tour launches on March 6 in Dallas and wraps on April 11 in Philadelphia.
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In May 2007 Georgia Rush Technical Director Russell Finch received a phone call from his parents in England, informing him that his Auntie had lost her 2nd battle with cancer.
"It was tough to hear over the phone considering I was living half way around the world in California. It made me realize that some people only react to something when it happens to the ones you love and that is exactly what happened to me. I then decided to implement programs that encouraged others to donate without having to be affected directly by the disease.", stated Finch.
One of the programs Russell implemented while at SCU was participation in the Revlon Los Angeles 5K Walk/Run. The entire girls program participated and donated money for Breast Cancer.
"It was a very special day for me as the girls' director at SCU. We had players, parents, siblings, relatives and even grand parents that could barely finish the walk participating and representing the club. It was also significant because Revlon puts the run on in May which is the month my Auntie passed away."
When Russell took the job this past May at Georgia, Rush he decided to continue implementing such programs by creating "RUSH for the CURE." Select players would wear pink jerseys during the month of October and every time a goal was score Rush families would kindly donate a $1 to their goal can.
Getting the green light from Tim Schulz, President of Rush Soccer, to purchase pink Nike Rush jerseys was great, now we could make a difference on and off the field. I decided that since the kids were putting the work in on the field to score for the cure then the funds raised should go back to children's health, which is why I contacted Juliana at Children's Health Care of Atlanta (CHOA). With the assistance of our team managers and administrators, we made and distributed goal cans to every select team and just by scoring goals we were able to raise $1100 for the children at CHOA. On November 3rd, FahmiEl-Shami, GA Rush President, three of our U19 players, and I went to CHOA and present the check. This was a tremendously moving experience for all who were involved.
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Daily Caller discovers Journolist plot to spike Wright story, smear conservatives as racists
posted at 8:45 am on July 20, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
After someone torpedoed Dave Weigel's Washington Post gig by breaking the code of silence on the Journolist listserv, the race has been on to see who would sell the entire contents of the e-mail messages between the liberal members of the group — and who would get to buy them. We may never know who sold it, but Tucker Carlson and the Daily Caller wound up with the data, and they found a big story to lead off their exposés. In the first of a series on Journolist, Daily Caller reporter Jonathan Strong lays out a strategy plotted by Journolist members to kill the Jeremiah Wright story during the 2008 primaries — and to smear Barack Obama's critics as racists:
It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama's political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher's rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama's campaign.
The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright's remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, "Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?"
Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. "George [Stephanopoulos]," fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is "being a disgusting little rat snake."
Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists."
Gee, doesn't that sound familiar?
One of their efforts was completely public. Journolist members collaborated on an open letter criticizing ABC's Charlie Gibson for asking questions about Wright during ABC's presidential debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton. The letter eventually appeared in the New York Times, and while it could be argued that a campaign by professional journalists to tell ABC not to ask tough questions about a candidate's links to radicals is a rather strange idea, it isn't any different than any other collaboration on an open letter. The Journolist listserv probably made the process a little more efficient, but the end result was public and obviously the result of a collaboration.
Ackerman's attempt to rally his colleagues into another strategy entirely — the racist attack — was deliberately political:
And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they've put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.
Let's put this in its proper perspective. Ackerman wasn't talking about a strategy to expose real racists, in the media or anywhere else. The Washington Independent reporter wanted to conduct a campaign against any figure on the Right, including journalists like Fred Barnes, to smear him as a racist for the political purposes of electing a Democrat to the White House. Notice that Ackerman doesn't even bother to ask people to look for actual evidence of racism, but just suggests to pick a conservative name out of a hat. Tellingly, the pushback from members of Journolist had less to do with the outrageous idea of smearing an innocent person of racism to frighten people away from the story than with whether it would work. Mark Schmitt, now at American Prospect, warned that it "wouldn't further the argument" for Obama, and Kevin Drum objected because playing racial politics would "probably hurt the Obama brand pretty strongly."
It certainly puts efforts by the Left to paint the Tea Party as racist in an entirely new light. It also calls into question the ethics and judgment of anyone who participated in that Ackerman thread. Finally, this first entry in the Journolist exposés — Tucker Carlson promises more to come — shows that far from being a benign place to have chats among colleagues, Journolist also served as a place for journalists to plot against their political opponents and strategize to twist the news and propose smear campaigns.
Update: But was the campaign effective? Ed Driscoll put together a video showing the correlation of this effort on Journolist and the declaration by CNN that it would be a "Wright-free zone." Correlation isn't causation, but this is a pretty interesting juxtaposition.
Update II: There is something to keep in mind in this particular story, which is that the people involved in the specific conversations regarding the smear are all opinion journalists, and not people filling roles in objective reporting. The Prospect, the (Washington) Independent, and the Nation are all publications with an explicit point of view, although the Independent offers a little more of a pretense of traditional reporting. That doesn't relieve them of responsibility for proposing and/or considering an odious smear campaign, but it does make it difficult to tie this to other journalists filling a different role.
Of course, those journalists in different roles who participated in Journolist, assuming any did, didn't exactly leap to expose this smear attempt, either. And we haven't seen the last of the Daily Caller's Journolist stories, either.
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An Efficacy and Outcome Study of Supplemental Oxygen Treatment in Patients With Suspected Myocardial Infarction (DETO2X-AMI)
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The use of supplemental oxygen in the setting of suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is manifested in international treatment guidelines and established in prehospital and hospital clinical routine throughout the world.
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|DETermination of the Role of OXygen in Suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction (DETO2X-AMI) Based on the SWEDEHEART Registry
- 1-year all-cause mortality [ Time Frame: 1 year ]1-year all-cause mortality on an intention to treat basis (ITT)
- MACE 1 [ Time Frame: 1 year ]All-cause mortality or rehospitalization with heart failure at 1-year
- MACE 2 [ Time Frame: 1 year ]All-cause mortality or rehospitalization with heart failure or readmission with myocardial infarction at 1-year
- STEMI-PCI-MACE [ Time Frame: 1 year ]All-cause death or rehospitalization with MI or cardiogenic shock or stent thrombosis at one year
- Rehospitalization with heart failure [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Rehospitalization with heart failure at 1-year
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- unwillingness to participate
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|Leif Svensson, Professor of Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet
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|NCT01787110 History of Changes
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|February 1, 2013
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|March 1, 2017
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Keywords provided by Leif Svensson, Karolinska Institutet:
Acute coronary syndrome
Acute myocardial infarction
Non ST-segment Myocardial Infarction
ST-segment Myocardial Infarction
Unstable angina
Randomised trial
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Myocardial Infarction
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Angina, Unstable
Pathologic Processes
Myocardial Ischemia
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Angina Pectoris
Chest Pain
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
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Stan Musial, one of baseball's greatest hitters, dies at 92
ST. LOUIS — Stan Musial, the St. Louis Cardinals star with the corkscrew stance and too many batting records to fit on his Hall of Fame plaque, died Saturday. He was 92.
Stan the Man was so revered in St. Louis that two statues in his honor stand outside Busch Stadium — one just wouldn't do him justice. He was one of baseball's greatest hitters, every bit the equal of Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio even without the bright lights of the big city.
Musial won seven National League batting titles, was a three-time MVP and helped the Cardinals capture three World Series championships in the 1940s.
The Cardinals announced Musial's death in a news release. They said he died Saturday evening at his home in Ladue, a St. Louis suburb, surrounded by his family. The team said Musial's son-in-law, Dave Edmonds, informed the club of Musial's death.
"I never heard anybody say a bad word about him, ever," Willie Mays said in a statement released by the Hall of Fame.
Earlier on Saturday, baseball lost another Hall of Famer when longtime Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver died at age 82.
Musial spent his entire 22-year career with the Cardinals and made the All-Star team 24 times — baseball held two All-Star games each summer for a few seasons. He was the longest-tenured living Hall of Famer.
"Stan will be remembered in baseball annals as one of the pillars of our game," Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said. "The mold broke with Stan. There will never be another like him."
A pitcher in the low minors until he injured his arm, Musial turned to playing the outfield and first base. It was a stroke of luck for him, as he went on to hit .331 with 475 home runs before retiring in 1963.
Widely considered the greatest Cardinals player ever, the outfielder and first baseman was the first person in team history to have his number retired. Ol' 6 probably was the most popular, too, especially after Albert Pujols skipped town.
"I will cherish my friendship with Stan for as long as I live," Pujols wrote on Twitter. "Rest in Peace."
At the suggestion of a pal, actor John Wayne, Musial carried around autographed cards of himself to give away. He enjoyed doing magic tricks for kids and was fond of pulling out a harmonica to entertain crowds with a favorite, "The Wabash Cannonball."
Humble, scandal-free, and eager to play every day, Musial struck a chord with fans throughout the Midwest and beyond. For much of his career, St. Louis was the most western outpost in the majors, and the Cardinals' vast radio network spread word about him in all directions.
Farmers in the field and families on the porch would tune in, as did a future president — Bill Clinton recalled doing his homework listening to Musial's exploits.
"We have lost the most beloved member of the Cardinals family," team chairman William DeWitt Jr. said.
Musial's public appearances dwindled in recent years, though he took part in the pregame festivities at Busch during the 2011 postseason as the Cardinals won the World Series. And he was at the White House in February 2011 when President Barack Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor for contributions to society.
At the ceremony, President Obama said: "Stan remains to this day an icon untarnished, a beloved pillar of the community, a gentleman you'd want your kids to emulate."
He certainly delivered at the plate.
Musial never struck out 50 times in a season. He led the NL in most every hitting category for at least one year, except homers. He hit a career-high 39 home runs in 1948, falling one short of winning the Triple Crown.
"Major League Baseball has lost one of its true legends in Stan Musial, a Hall of Famer in every sense and a man who led a great American life. He was the heart and soul of the historic St. Louis Cardinals franchise for generations," Commissioner Bud Selig said. "As remarkable as 'Stan the Man' was on the field, he was a true gentleman in life. All of Major League Baseball mourns his passing."
In all, Musial held 55 records when he retired in 1963. Fittingly, the accolades on his his bronze Hall plaque start off with this fact, rather than flowery prose: "Holds many National League records ..."


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Storage from A to ZFSBy David Baum
How organizations optimize storage with tiered Sun flash, disk, and tape solutions from Oracle and enable unified storage with the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
Most business users don't spend time thinking about where their files are stored. They log in to the applications they need, create documents, retrieve information, enter transactions, and periodically hit the Save button. They have been told that if they follow a few simple guidelines, all of their critical information will be saved, backed up, and duplicated behind the scenes. The vast storage infrastructure that automates these activities is largely hidden from view.
Storage infrastructures grow as the demand for information grows, but strategic storage solutions, from tape libraries to flash and disk arrays to unified storage solutions, can simplify the essential tasks of storing and managing enterprise data. Two organizations, Novant Health and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, have created business-ready storage systems that exemplify best practices for information management as they efficiently deal with many terabytes of new data every day.
Keeping Critical Data Online
Novant Health is a nonprofit integrated healthcare system that serves communities and patients from Virginia to South Carolina. Like most of today's healthcare providers, Novant needs to provide physicians and administrators with rapid access to clinical and business information, comply with regulations regarding the security of patient information, and reduce the cost of capturing, storing, and delivering an immense volume of structured and unstructured data.
Novant's storage odyssey began nearly 10 years ago, when the IT department created a digital archiving system that enabled more than a dozen hospitals to capture, store, and retrieve images electronically. Led by Jim Grossman, manager of system services, and Robert Dick, storage and UNIX administrator, Novant created a radiographic imaging system that stores files for X-ray, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computed tomography (CT) scans. It wasn't long before Grossman and Dick realized that they could broaden this solution for other applications that needed to store and archive patient data. They designed an extensible storage infrastructure around Sun Storage Archive Manager, which now manages 1.4 petabytes of information and supports 38 clinical applications with differing data sets.
"Our storage system was architected around the principle that an application's access to data is top priority," explains Dick. "That means not only being able to safeguard the data in more than one location, but also being able to ensure that it is accessible and survivable through any disaster, so authorized users can always access clinical data."
As files are created by Novant's radiographic equipment and enterprise information systems, one copy is immediately written to a high-speed FC Sun Storage 6000 series array from Oracle, and two copies are written to mirrored tape archives in two different datacenters.
"We're backing up data as we create it and archive it," explains Dick. "Data is instantly available to the applications, and within 15 to 30 minutes, we have two backup copies in identical file systems in secure, remote locations. Thanks to this mirrored data storage environment, requests can be virtually redirected from one file system to the other without the user or the application being aware of the difference."
Primary data resides in the FC storage environment for 15 to 30 days, sometimes longer, depending on the service-level agreement determined for each application. After that it is relegated to secondary storage on a Sun Storage 6000 series array. Sun Storage Archive Manager moves data automatically from tier to tier. "Once you set up your storage policies, Sun Storage Archive Manager automates the movement of data from drive to drive and from primary to archival storage," Dick says.
Thanks to a high degree of automation, Dick is able to maintain the entire archival storage environment by himself (with part-time help from two associate storage managers when he is away). "We bring in, on average, 2.5 terabytes of new data each day," he says. "This system is very stable. In general, it's relatively hands-off."
"The system is designed to maximize security and mitigate risk," adds Grossman. "We're not putting tapes on a truck and physically shipping them off to another site."
Sun Storage Archive Manager ingests 2 million files per week. "We've been running it for more than 10 years, and to date I have no record of ever having lost a single file," says Dick.
Growing Data Volumes
Novant's storage solution improves patient care through faster, more-accurate diagnoses while eliminating the risk of lost data. It provides physicians with extremely fast access to patient imaging studies: a 10 MB file can be retrieved from disk and delivered to a physician or technician in less than three seconds.
According to Dick, the stress on an archiving system is not necessarily due to access performance or a growing volume of total data stored, but rather to the total number of files that the system has to manage. The higher the number of files, the more difficult it is to restore the data in the event of a disaster. That's a pressing issue for Novant Health as it strives to eliminate hard-copy patient records and securely move more information online.
"We have a new document imaging application for scanning patient records that is expected to add 450 million files into the system over the next four years," Dick notes, citing just one example. "Because of these stresses, we're moving to solid-state disks, FC, and SATA [serial ATA] drives in a three-tier configuration."
Novant's Sun servers will be replaced by newer gear—Novant is strongly considering a pair of Oracle's SPARC T3-4 servers with 16 processors per core, tied to the existing FC and SATA arrays. "We're also considering adding Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array," Dick adds. "Our Oracle storage solution is so flexible that every time we have an archiving issue, we can solve it with the system that's in place. Oracle continues to enhance its storage solutions and renew our faith in the solution set that we started with."
Dick believes that while solid-state disk technology is ideal for high-performance data retrieval, it's not a suitable solution for every part of a storage environment. "If you're not going to access data for a period of time, it makes much more sense to let it sit at rest in a tape library, where you can get it at a minute's notice, as opposed to keeping all that data spinning and burning resources—generating heat and using power," he points out. "Tape technology has not seen its swan song. It is still a very viable technology."
Benjamin Woo, program vice president for worldwide storage systems at IDC, agrees with this assessment. He says an effective storage strategy only places truly active data on expensive FC or solid-state disk drives and moves less-active data to more-cost-effective storage media—often tape. "It doesn't make sense to keep data spinning if you're not going to be looking at it for a few months," he says. "It should reside in less-expensive media. Our research shows that less than 20 percent of the data in today's datacenters is actively used. Thus a very small percentage of information needs to reside on very expensive, very fast storage."
These multilevel storage systems are often called tiered storage environments because they assign different stages of data to different tiers of storage media, with the goal of preserving accessibility and reducing cost. "Once you have a tiered infrastructure, the key is to create policies to automate the movement of data so it requires minimal human intervention," advises Scott Tracy, senior director of flash and disk products at Oracle.
According to Tracy, most tiered storage strategies have three basic components. Primary storage stores new data from mission-critical applications and databases, with access time measured in seconds. Storage media typically includes ultrahigh performance flash or solid-state disk (SSD) drives and FC storage arrays. Secondary storage stores 30- to 90-day-old data that needs to be kept on hand for business continuity as well as fixed content and backup/recovery data. Access time is measured in minutes, and storage media includes unified storage solutions such as the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and less-expensive SATA disks. Long-term or archival storage stores data older than 90 days, often for historic reasons or for legal compliance. Access time can range from minutes for file retrieval from disk or automated tape systems to hours for broader recovery and offline file retrieval. "Use of tiered storage strategies typically results in around 75 percent reduction in costs compared to single tiers of disk storage," notes Tracy.
A Multitiered Solution for Scientific Data
Tiered storage is what the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) uses to manage multiple petabytes of scientific data. As Australia's national weather, climate, and water agency, BOM's expertise and services assist Australians in dealing with the harsh realities of their natural environment, including droughts, floods, fires, storms, tsunamis, and tropical cyclones. Through regular forecasts, warnings, monitoring, and advice spanning the Australian region and Antarctic territory, BOM provides one of the most fundamental and widely used services of government. The agency also supplies specialized forecasting to the aviation industry, oil rigs, fire departments, police forces, and other emergency services, in addition to bulk data uploads for universities and scientific organizations.
BOM's data storage environment was put to the test earlier this year during Cyclone Yasi, the largest tropical storm to strike Australia since Europeans first settled there in the 18th century. With winds of 186 mph and waves on the coast reaching as high as 30 feet, Yasi wrecked more than 10,000 homes and businesses but did not cause any fatalities, thanks in part to BOM's precise forecasts and reliable information-management infrastructure.
BOM's Oracle-based data storage environment gathers about 40 TB of data each week from 6,000 meteorological devices including warning buoys, oceanographic sensing gear, flood hydrology stations, weather balloons, satellites, and aircraft. After being digitized, cleansed, transformed, and stored in an Oracle database, the data is processed by nearly 300 applications—some of which can predict the path and trajectory of cyclones days in advance.
In 2008, Sun systems were selected to provide the computing and storage facilities for this massive operation, including service, support, and regular equipment upgrades over a five-year period.
"We wanted a one-stop shop—one vendor that could provide a complete solution," states Robert Lovery, chief information officer at the Bureau of Meteorology. "We didn't want to have disparate issues with vendor finger-pointing. Oracle's Sun offerings presented a unified, efficient, large-scale storage system that was flexible enough to grow with our rapidly evolving data processing workload."
Today BOM's core meteorological atmospheric modeling prediction services are housed on a Sun technical computing solution and the output is archived on a large-scale data storage system. "About 10 percent of the data is corporate structured data, and 90 percent is unstructured scientific data such as satellite images," says John de la Lande, the high-performance computing, storage, and facilities manager for BOM's IT environment.
The technical computing system shares resources among many nodes as it processes thousands of inputs from meteorology stations. It stores the output in four tiers. Tier 1, also called main storage, is mission-critical storage, with 99.999 percent availability. For this tier BOM uses a primary storage system from Sun. Tier 2, also called deep storage, utilizes Sun Storage 6000 series arrays with FC disk drives. Tier 3, also called bulk storage, utilizes Sun Storage 6000 series arrays with SATA drives. Tier 4 maintains archival data on a StorageTek SL8500 modular library system in conjunction with a StorageTek T10000 tape drive.
A Sun Blade server and Sun x86 Rackmount servers from Oracle process the data under the direction of Supervisor Monitor Scheduler. The output is then passed to Sun Storage Archive Manager, which automatically moves data from tier to tier according to previously defined storage policies. According to Richard Oxbrow, storage manager at BOM, Sun Storage Archive Manager automates the entire information lifecycle, from fast disk to tape. It includes continuous backup and fast recovery features to enhance productivity and improve resource utilization. Thanks to a high degree of automation resident in the Oracle-based systems, two or three people maintain the entire storage infrastructure.
Evolving to Unified and Flash Storage
BOM's storage infrastructure is constantly evolving as Lovery and his team add new hardware and software to improve speed and capacity. For example, the Sun Blade server features solid-state drives (SSDs) that deliver I/O performance of up to 400 hard disk drives. BOM recently purchased two of Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliances, which use hybrid storage pools with flash-based caches to dramatically improve application response times.
Oracle's Tracy says these unified storage solutions are ideal for organizations that wish to consolidate and virtualize their storage infrastructure, as well as for companies adopting cloud computing. Oracle's unified storage product line, anchored by the Sun ZFS Storage series, can transparently manage where data is placed in a multitiered storage environment with hybrid storage pool technology, holding copies of frequently used data in fast SSDs while storing less frequently used data in less-expensive, high-capacity SAS disks. (For more information on Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage product line, see "Unified Storage with the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance" .)
As BOM evolves its information systems, Lovery believes the move to engineered systems, such as storage appliances, is right for the organization. "We are extending our key vendor relationships to partnerships," he says, "because we believe that our services are critical enough and important enough to merit this level of commitment."
David Baum (email@example.com) is a freelance business writer based in Santa Barbara, California.
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Why Aren't More of Us Losing it Like Trudeau?
Oh, the outrage. Who knew that you need to swear to get the media coverage on climate change, even if indirectly? You'd think that the threat to human civilization itself would be enough.
And while Justin Trudeau quickly apologized to Environment Minister Peter Kent for calling him a "piece of sh*t," saying it was "decidedly unparliamentary," Twitter lit up largely in support of the outburst, tapping into a wave of anger across the country with many Canadians feeling deeply betrayed by their government for reneging on Canada's international climate commitments.
But we are now supposed to go back to being polite and ignoring our anger, to respecting rules of decorum, and to generally going along with the agenda of our duly elected government, even if that agenda involves undermining the conditions of life on Earth for our kids so that the oil industry can ramp up the strip mining of northern Alberta?
I have a five-year-old boy and, like all parents, I would throw myself in front of a bullet heading his way; yet somehow I'm supposed to suspend that instinct when it comes to climate change. I'm supposed to bide my time until the next election, hoping somehow that Canadian voters will not be duped by the multi-million dollar campaign of tar sands companies, and by the relentless spin of a government that has chosen to represent them rather than its citizens.
I'm supposed to bite my tongue when Peter Kent characterizes his dirty oil as "ethical," and roll over when his colleague Joe Oliver says that his government will not respect the "conspiracy theories" of the "unlawful people" who clearly don't want a new tar sands pipeline to the B.C. coast.
When scientists tell me that we are in deep trouble unless we quickly switch away from fossil fuels, I'm supposed to force this to the deepest recesses of my soul where it will not interfere with some oil executive's myopic definition of Canadian "nation building," despite the fact that others around the world are already looking at our nation and wondering how it could have gone so wrong.
All this, and we marvel when somebody like Justin Trudeau has an angry outburst? The more surprising thing is that we don't see it much more often, as the situation actually demands.
Part of it is our Canadian-ness, our hard-wired politeness, even when unwarranted. We may be just waking up to the fact that Ottawa is now being run by a group of people who don't themselves play by these rules, yet rely on the fact that everybody else does. They lash out and then smile to themselves when those they hit feel the need to apologize for the altercation. This is how they get their way.
It needs to end. We Canadians need to learn to be outraged by the outrageous. We need to learn that democracy is now a full contact sport that requires us to repeatedly raise our voices in order to be heard, and not to wait for our turn to quietly mark an X on a ballot once every four years.
It is only when our outbursts turn into a regular drumbeat that we will start to see the change that we and our children need. We each need to join in calling bullsh*t, and then actively pitch in to clean it all up.
However you look at Canada's 15th prime minister, it's hard not to see Pierre Elliott Trudeau as a politician cut from a very different cloth. While much of his globe-trotting, playboy image was doubtless driven by the media -- Trudeau was actually a workaholic and sleepless intellectual -- the man certainly had his moments. Luckily, the news wasn't delivered quite so relentlessly in 1971 as it is these days - or Trudeau wouldn't have heard the end of it when he told an opposition member to "F-- Off". Well, actually he mouthed it. And although the TV tape clearly captured his salty salute, Trudeau was allowed to tell reporters he had actually said 'Fuddle Duddle'. And that was that.
Outspoken doesn't seem to quite cut it when describing NDP MP Pat Martin. The man speaks out a lot. And every now and then, he brings the thunder. Like last November, when he treated his 1,400 Twitter followers to a smorgasbord of swearage. "This is a f---ing disgrace... closure again. And on the Budget! There's not a democracy in the world that would tolerate this jackboot s---." And the cherry on top? Telling one of his followers, "F-- you."
Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae took a page from Pat Martin's profanity playbook on Wednesday -- and took it to Twitter. A tweet about a feud between liberals Zach Paikin and Max Naylor may have caught him before breakfast. "What bullshit is this?" he tweeted back. Sure, the word likely ceased offending most people decades ago. In fact, we don't even bother covering most of the letters with asterisks. But hey, it does incorporate the s-word - which we still cover with asterisks.
Unlike his father, Justin Trudeau didn't merely mouth the words. In fact, he let them ring out from the rafters at the House of Commons on December 14. 'You piece of sh---' The recipient? Environment Minister Peter Kent. You know, Canada's public face of Kyoto withdrawal. Also unlike his father, young Trudeau probably knew the Fuddle Duddle Defence wouldn't cut it. So within minutes of uttering the words, he owned up to them. "I lost my temper and used language that was most decidedly unparliamentary and for that I unreservedly apologize and withdraw my remark," Trudeau said at the end of question period.
Treasury Board President Tony Clement was forced to apologize after calling 15-year-old Keith Pettinger a "Jack ass" in a private Twitter message. Clement sent the message after the teen criticized the spelling in one of the minister's tweets.


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