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This article was published 2/12/2012 (1694 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The 2008-09 recession prompted many baby boomer entrepreneurs to delay their retirement plans and stay in business longer than they had anticipated, according to a new report, Passing on the Business to the Next Generation, based on survey data from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).
"The recession clearly had an impact on succession planning," Doug Bruce, CFIB's vice-president of research, said in a release.
"Instead of passing the business on to the next generation, some small businesses decided to hold onto their business until its value returned to pre-recession values."
Almost a quarter (23 per cent) of business owners said they have delayed the timing of their exit date between one and four years.
That will have economic impacts — Canadians will see a massive transfer of small business assets in the next decade — possibly more than a trillion dollars.
But we also suggest it will have an impact on volunteer organizations and service clubs who rely on those energetic new retirees who have full days on their hands with nothing to do.
It's those "young" retirees who have a lot to offer volunteer organizations. Especially if they bring with them a business knowledge that allows them to work at higher levels in the groups.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out in years to come.


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A Galileo Multi-Instrument Study of Europa's Color Heterogenieties
J.C. Granahan, F.P. Fanale, T.B. McCord (STI and Univ. of Hawaii), G. Hansen (Univ. of Hawaii), R. Carlson, L. Kamp, D. Matson, A. Ocampo, W. Smythe (JPL), A.R. Hendrix, C.A. Barth (LASP), F. Leader, R. Mehlman (UCLA), R. Greeley, R. Sullivan (ASU), B.E. Clark, P. Helfenstein, J. Veverka (Cornell), P. Geissler (LPI), M.J.S. Belton (NOAO), K. Becker, T. Becker, D. Cook (USGS), Galileo NIMS, SSI, and UVS Teams
The present study combines data from the the Galileo Near Infrared
Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS), the Solid State Imager (SSI), and the
UltraViolet Spectrometer (UVS) to investigate the compositional
diversity of the surface of Europa. Three of the terrains studied
here (mottled terrain, linea, and trailing hemisphere dark terrain) were
known from Voyager results. Galileo revealed an additional terrain
(infrared bright plains) that represents bright Europan icy plains
materials with unusually large near infrared (890 and 990 nm) albedos
(Greeley et al. 1996).Our G1 orbit SSI/NIMS composite spectra show
that the mottled terrain possesses spectra which offset the dominant
water ice bands to slightly shorter wavelengths. Observations of the
linea taken during a NIMS E6 observation and a G1 SSI clear filter
image indicate that the linea and some dark dome-like features have a
spectral signature similar to that of the mottled terrain. This suggests
that the same darkening agent is the water ice contaminant for both
mottled terrain and the linea. The best spectral matches for this
component are evaporite, hydrated minerals which are produced as
aqueous weathering products. The trailing hemisphere dark terrain
of Europa has been studied using a G2 SSI color observation,
3 E4 NIMS , and 3 E4 UVS observations . The dark terrain on the trailing
hemisphere appears to mask the indigenous Europa surface albedo
and may be due to a form of sulfur material (a finding consistent
with previous Voyager and IUE studies). The infrared bright plains
were best observed in the G1 NIMS and SSI northern high latitude
observations. The infrared bright plains are interpreted to contain
purer water ice and/or water ice with larger grain sizes than the
immediate surrounding regions.

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Gaza Strip: Israeli forces remove crashed reconnaissance aircraft
Israeli military forces made a limited incursion into the Gaza Strip east of Gaza City on Thursday. Eyewitnesses said a number of Israeli tanks entered about 300 meters across the Mantar crossing east of Gaza City, firing intermittently, while others said about two or three tanks crossed at Sufa in southeast Gaza. According to press reports, the Israeli forces entered the Palestinian enclave in order to evacuate to lift an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft which crashed in the Palestinian territory.
Locals said the bulldozers moved towards Shijaiya to recover the reconnaissance aircraft that crashed in farmlands east of the neighborhood. It crashed about 300 meters from the border. The sources said it is believed the cause of the crash relates to a technical glitch during its flight over the Gaza Strip.


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UNITED NATIONS (Jul. 21)
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Yehuda Blum, declared today that the emergency session of the UN General Assembly which opens here tomorrow to discuss Palestinian rights is the climax of "a grotesque force" that has been in preparation for at least tow years.
Addressing a press conference here on the eve of the session, he charged that the meeting is "illegal" and clearly "in violation of the rules of procedure of the UN" and therefore, any resolution emanating from the emergency session will be illegal as well. Israel had engaged in a vain last-minute effort in major world capitals to forestall the session. But a majority of the member nations canvassed by the Secretary General supported it. The U.S. remained appeased.
A working paper in preparation for the upcoming debate calls on Israel "to completely with draw its forces from all the accepted Palestinian and other Arab territories, including Jerusalem" and urges that such withdrawal begin no later than Nov. 15, 1980. The working paper is a prelude to a draft resolution.
Blum pointed out that the "emergency" of the meeting is a "protracted emergency" that was planned in Havana last year at the meeting there of the non-aligned countries. According to the plan, the Security Council was called into session in April for the specific purpose of drawing a U.S. veto of a resolution endorsing Palestinian statehood. On that pretext, the General Assembly has been called into emergency session, Blum explained.
He emphasized that the "emergency" meeting was not called forthwith but was planned to be held almost three months after the Security Council veto. The Israeli envoy explained further that the illegality of the emergency session, from the formal point of view, is technical since the April Security Council meeting did not fulfill the essential prerequisite for an emergency as defined by the UN Charter.
He noted that the Charter says that an emergency meeting can be called only after the Security Council has debated an issue under the terms of Chapter 7 of the Charter dealing with a breach of peace and sustains a veto. The April meeting of the Security Council did not meet these conditions, Blum said, since the issue under debate was Palestinian rights, a subject not covered by Chapter 7 of the Charter. Therefore, Blum declared, there is no emergency.
He said that Israel will not attend the opening session of the debate tomorrow because of Tisha B'av, the Jewish day of mourning. It will attend the Wednesday session when Blum said he will explain to the General Assembly why its meeting is not legal.
Meanwhile, the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) in a wire today to President Carter, asked him to "totally reject the specious and obvious attempt by some nations to circumvent the Camp David process" at the General Assembly session. The wire, signed by JLC president Don Slaiman, called on Carter to instruct the U.S. Ambassador Donald McHenry "to totally reject" instead of abstain on any resolution emerging from the session.


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The jackpot in the Mega Millions lottery in the US has reached a record breaking $US540 million ($520 million), triggering lottery mania across America.
No gambler has matched all five numbers in the Mega Ball lottery since January 24, making it 18 drawings without a winner.
It is the biggest lotto jackpot in history, organisers say.
The odds of winning the huge jackpot are just one in 176 million, while the odds of scoring any of the Mega Millions prizes are about one in 40.
The lucky winner gets to choose between an immediate cash option of $389 million or to get the full amount of $540 million disbursed over 26 annual payments.
The lottery, set to be drawn on Friday night local time, surpasses the previous record of $390 million, split by winners in Georgia and New Jersey in 2007.
Many US media outlets offered advice to gamblers.
The Los Angeles Times gave the addresses of "lucky" California ticket sellers that have sold winning tickets recently, while CBS suggested hiring an investment adviser.
When the jackpot was earlier estimated at $500 million, Yahoo News compiled a list of all the things one could buy with the winnings.
The list said the money could buy 192 Bugatti Veyron Super Sports cars - the world's most expensive vehicle - education for all of Harvard's 6000-plus undergraduates or an 8550-square-metre house in Monaco.
Others also urged potential millionaires to be careful.
"People look at you differently and treat you differently," Michael Willis, whose Michigan-based law firm has advised lottery winners, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Mega Millions is played in 42 US states plus the capital Washington and the Virgin Islands.
The Mega Millions is more than double Europe's biggest jackpot, which was £161 million ($247 million).
Scottish couple Colin and Chris Weir won that record-breaking EuroMillions lottery on July 12, The Guardian reported.
Spain's El Gordo is considered to be the world's biggest lotto, with €2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) distributed to winners across the country at Christmas last year.
Each ticket with the winning number was worth €400,000, the BBC reported.
AFP and smh.com.au


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Optic readers of last Friday's paper were finally informed of important facts about fracking and its potential harm, or not, to our water supply. In the past coverage on this subject as it relates to Mora and San Miguel counties, Optic readers were only given one side of the issue. Citizens are not well informed on any important issue if they are not given all the facts. It would be a great service to us all if one of those "pro and cons" series were published.
Many thanks to Frank Splendoria for giving us the other side to a very complex subject.
In response to Mr. (Frank) Splendoria's "groupthink" opinion, I would like to offer a few thoughts.
Election day will soon be upon us and I feel that the office of State Representative in District 40 is very important. One of the candidates is Regensberg. The fact that I have the same last name has nothing to do with it. I have always been a professional.
It is true that a 20-year-plus friendship runs deep as this is what we have shared with Tomás and Loretta Salazar, but it also serves to offer an accurate reflection on the other´s character. Both professionally and personally, Tomás Salazar, a Democrat who is currently a candidate for State Representative District 70, has exemplified the highest qualities of leadership, integrity and honesty.
Tomás Salazar is my candidate for State Representative in District 70. Tomás is a rancher from rural San Miguel County. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics and sits on several prestigious committees at both the local and national levels. Tomás retired from New Mexico Highlands University in 2003 after serving as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
What is an "underdog"? Webster's Dictionary defines it as a person who is expected to lose in a contest or a victim of social or political injustice.
Many of us have experienced being an underdog at one time or another.
Some people give up and lose hope, their self-esteem and go with the flow.
Whatever happens, happens. Some people fight the underdogs and change happens, the battle is won. These are challenges that some of us encounter in life.
We are writing this letter to state some concerns with the four-day change that Superintendent Sheryl McNellis-Martinez has proposed.
First off, we would like to say it is an exciting idea to cut back days for more instruction time, but at the same time, it has a major effect and impact on students and parents who can't cope with this schedule change.
Regarding the four-day school week: I agree that a free Friday is unnecessary for practicing teachers to complete professional development.
They can do that during the summer months. However, I strongly support the four-day week if Fridays are used to their best advantage.
This letter will hopefully explain my actions over the past two years or so.
On May 1, a Las Vegas police officer approached me while I was watering my garden and a fruit tree on my property. The officer wanted to know if I was using filtered city water. He looked into my buckets of water to verify, since one of my fellow citizens had reported me as violating city ordinance.
Copyright © 2017
The Las Vegas Optic is your source for local news, sports, events, and information in San Miguel County and Las Vegas, NM, and the surrounding area.


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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal dash pc dot org> wrote:
> Thompson, Andrew wrote:
>> What does this message mean:
>> kernel: pid 613 (dhcpd), uid 0 inumber 106 on /: filesystem full
>> I have a lot of them in my log, running V1.3. DHCPD stops handing out IP
>> Addresses as well. Memory Usage is at 12% right now, rebooting the Alix box
>> will fix the problem, so it's obviously something building up over time, but
>> how do I fix ?
> The virtual file system is full. It can be logs or kernel panics. We need
> to see what is killing the space.
> Lee
I 've seen the same problem. (also on 1.23x)
I noticed that shortening the dhcp max lease time fixed the problem somehow.
All networks I've seen this on were having quite a few mac OsX
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Written and Illustrated by Bill Halliar
Manga Type Comic
Full Color
Page Count: 48
This one's got it all folks! Sea monsters, sailors, goblins, robots, Cthulhu, two Teslas and a zombie! Don't let this one pass you by. A rare and terrifying glimpse into a mind racked by primordial fear and an unnatural need for cheeseburgers!
Book 3 in the wierd and wierderful sketchbook library of Bill Halliar!
Rough Beasts TM and © Bill Halliar. All rights reserved.
Tony says, "I'm a push-over for a good sketchbook. This one is well done and fun. Love the eye-candy!"


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Governor Deval Patrick today signed into law legislation ensuring that only foods that meet established nutritional standards are sold in public schools during school hours. The law, "An Act Relative to School Nutrition" (H 4459), also mandates that the Department of Public Health (DPH) create specific food guidelines through the regulatory process.
"This law is an important step toward ensuring that there are healthy choices for kids at school," said Governor Patrick. "I want to thank our partners in both the Legislature and in the private sector for recognizing that the health and well-being of our children is a key part of ensuring a solid foundation for their futures."
"This law reflects the Patrick-Murray Administration's deep commitment to promoting wellness and controlling obesity in the Commonwealth," said Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. JudyAnn Bigby. "It's significant because it helps children develop habits that will impact their overall health throughout their lives."
"We're committed to providing a high-quality education for every student in the Commonwealth," said Secretary of Education Paul Reville. "But we recognize that academic achievement is the result of a combination of factors including high expectations and excellent teaching, but also the readiness and preparedness of students when they arrive in school. Nutrition plays a key role in student learning and this bill will help schools with their efforts to improve the ability of students to be successful."
"This new law will help kids choose healthier foods during the school day," said DPH Commissioner John Auerbach. "It's a wonderful complement to Governor Patrick's Mass in Motion anti-obesity initiative, which is dedicated to creating conditions that promote healthy eating and physical activity."
"This is a great day for nearly a million children in the Massachusetts public schools," said Executive Director of the Massachusetts Public Health Association, Valerie Bassett. "This law will put healthier food choices in schools, so that the next generation has a fairer chance at long, healthy lives free from diabetes, heart disease or other preventable chronic illness."
The legislation signed today encourages and supports the use of local, fresh farm products in schools and requires the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables as snacks at schools. It also calls on the Department of Public Health and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to set guidelines for the training of school nurses around the issues of obesity, diabetes and eating disorders. Additionally, the bill makes a special effort to allow for reasonable exemptions at extracurricular events, special fundraisers and other venues.
"This will be an important milestone in our fight to curb the epidemic of childhood obesity which is a major public health problem and can lead to chronic diseases in adults such as diabetes and heart disease, " said Senator Susan C. Fargo.
"In helping schoolchildren by expanding healthier options for school meals, including an increase in the availability of locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables, we can prevent diseases like diabetes that are debilitating for families and put a tremendous burden on our health care system," said Senator Richard T. Moore, Senate Chairman of the Committee on Healthcare Financing. "Our success in improving the future wellness of the Commonwealth depends on our efforts in appropriately educating our children in school nutrition, and this bill sets in motion many provisions that that will enlighten our youth to the benefits of making healthy decisions."
"Many experts predict that, for the first time in the history of the world, we are raising a generation who may have a shorter life expectancy than that of its parents. This law is a victory for these children in that it will lower the chances of developing life-long chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease," said Representative Peter Koutoujian. "As a parent, I watch what my kids eat at home to help them stay healthy and our schools should make every effort to do the same."
"The signing of this bill is the culmination of several years of work to improve the nutritional options for our public school children. I hope this bill will contribute to teaching children life-long healthy eating habits and will improve the wellness of the next generation," said Representative Lida E. Harkins.
"Given the obesity crisis that we're facing as a nation, we should do everything we can to ensure that our schools are aware of the food being consumed by our children. This short term planning will lead to great savings in healthcare for the long run," said Representative Louis L. Kafka.
As part of Administration's commitment to combating obesity, DPH has aggressively promoted health and wellness initiatives across the Commonwealth through programs like the Mass in Motion public health campaign launched in 2009. Similarly, efforts to increase wellness and reduce health care costs, through addressing the root causes of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease, has remained a top priority of the Patrick-Murray Administration.
Source: http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3pressrelease&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Agov3&b=pressrelease&f=100730_School_Nutrition_Signing&csid=Agov3


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>I'm having difficulty making htdig-3.1.0b2 on Dec Unix 4.0D. I get error
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I'm sorry, I don't remember. Which error messages (there were a variety).
>My question is this patch included in 3.1.0b2? Or will Paul Meyer's patched
>version of Connection.cc and Connection.h work with 3.1.0b2?
It's included (check the release notes). There were also fixes to the
configure scripts that may help with building the db stuff.
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Best Of :: Arts & Entertainment
The entire 20th century was brought under microscopic scrutiny in this North American premiere courtesy of the Dallas Theater Center and director Preston Lane, who made a revelatory debut as a main-season captain after he had previously worked at the perennial task of resweetening DTC's hard-candy fave A Christmas Carol. We've grown so accustomed to the computer-created special effects provided by weather-driven disaster flicks like A Perfect Storm that we forget their major dramatic thrust is entrapment, forced intimacy, unlikely alliances, major decisions made in stressfully minor allotments of time--in other words, the mtier of theatrical tension. Inexpressible Island was the fictionalized true account of a group of British explorers in 1912 sailing to the South Pole. They didn't reach their goal, but were instead sequestered for months inside a carved-out ice cave, bickering over raisins and seal fat and the English proprieties that were a clumsy fit inside this icy hell. The ruling officers attempted to keep order through various disciplinary mind games and the academic lectures of a comrade too learned on contemporary art and history and literature for everyone's good. The men are driven almost to mutiny by the impudent disordering of faith and logic and traditional narrative of which he earnestly speaks. With screeching winds, a slick and steep stage level, and a backdrop of crazily kaleidoscopic night stars, Inexpressible Island kept everyone--actors and audience--unsteady and unsettled. Sadly, after making such a strong mainstage directorial impression, Lane is heading to North Carolina in 2001 to open his own theater.
Of course, we have no harbor for the tall ships to float into. No signature bridges to decorate. No peaks or buttes to illuminate with fireworks. We are a seat of commerce, a maze of office buildings and malls stitched together by roads. So why not celebrate the reopening of our own Mother Road with a parade? What could be more fitting in a city where there are more cars than people? So make your own parade and drive it while it's congestion-free. We hear 2.5 million more people are on the way, and at least 1.25 million of them drive fat-assed Suburbans.
In these highly litigious times when frivolous lawsuits are filed by too many lawyers clogging up too few courts, it's a rare judge that can remain even-handed as well as even-tempered. Hartman is part of that rare breed. Believing that talk is cheap and mediation is even cheaper, he is the most ardent proponent of alternative dispute resolution. His views on its propriety as a prelude to legal warfare have been adopted throughout the county. In recent years, he has been plagued by illness (Parkinson's disease). Lesser men would have succumbed to its ravages with growing impatience, but you can still get a fair hearing in his court, as well as a helping hand and a kind word. Judge Hartman still rides high in the Dallas Bar Association popularity contest known as the Bar poll, scoring in the 90 percentile range ever since he was a baby judge.
At intermission during this remarkable, semi-autobiographical world premiere from resident playwright Linda Daugherty, a DCT official commented that Webb's unnerving submersion into the role of a Down's Syndrome teenager was especially striking, because "he's the pretty boy in the company." Generally speaking, we don't shower accolades on pretty performers just because they've decided to black out a tooth or revel in a disability just to prove their "range." Yet we were so startled by Webb's wet, gaping mouth, his half-sensical spray of speech, and the cursiveness with which he went from temper tantrums to eager hugs, that we attributed facial prosthetics that weren't there to the performance. This production was a difficult, even dangerous step for Webb and Dallas Children's Theatre as a whole. It was important that the kids in the audience be able to stare at his character and ask questions so they could be educated, yet similar cruel curiosity helps make life with a Down's person so arduous. How to indulge drama without encouraging a freak show atmosphere? All parties acquitted themselves beautifully, mostly because they were so honest about painful emotions. Webb reported some personal flinch-worthy moments when older children would laugh, but for the most part, the theater was silent as a graveyard when he shuffled onstage, fearlessly authentic.
Set in a trailer park on the outskirts of Dallas, this dark little play that won awards and rave reviews off-Broadway revolves around a dysfunctional family determined to have Momma bumped off so Worthless Son can get together some quick insurance money to pay off a drug debt. When you need a job like that done fast and efficiently, whom do you call? A Dallas cop (played in the original New York production by Scott Glenn) with a busy off-the-clock sideline that has earned him the nickname "Killer Joe." The author's mom, successful novelist Billie Letts (Where the Heart Is), says of her boy, "Everybody in Tracy's stories gets naked or dead." A fascinating evening in the theater unless you work for the Dallas police or the Chamber of Commerce.
The library system definitely deserves its due from the citizenry, especially the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library. While good ol' J. Erik doesn't have all that he needs (and deserves), the catalog is deep enough that you are sure to find most of what you are looking for, and the staff is helpful in aiding your search through the stacks. If a book is available at another branch, they'll transport it to a branch nearest you, and if the book you want is checked out, they'll send you a friendly postcard when it returns. The library is also a great place to check out children's books, and many libraries offer story-time hours for families. The genealogy section is always crammed with silver foxes, and there are excellent Texas history collections. You can find socialist newspapers in the lobby of the parking garage. And many homeless people quietly use the Internet, reading sports sites and sending e-mail to fellow homeless. With all these unheralded pluses, why not direct some resources to fill the minuses?


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Four schools -- Amador Valley, Foothill, Dougherty Valley and San Ramon Valley -- took gold awards from the magazine. Five others -- California, Monte Vista, Dublin, Granada and Livermore -- were awarded silver honors.
Amador was No. 54 in the state and 331 in the nation, while Foothill was 70th in the state and was ranked No. 370 in the nation. San Ramon Valley was rated 80th in the state and 416 nationally. The magazine ranked Dougherty Valley 59 among California high schools and 328 nationally.
California High was ranked 185 in the state and 907 in the nation, while Dublin High was rated to be 333 statewide and 1,452 nationally; Granada High placed 270 in the state and 1,196 in the nation, Livermore High was rated 331 in California and 1,421 in the country, and Monte Vista was ranked 131 in the state and 680 in the country.
The study looked at 21,035 high schools across 49 states (Nebraska did not provide enough data to be included), and ranked all 2,039 high schools in California.
U.S. News used American Institutes for Research to do its study. AIR did more than just rank those who are college bound, but used a number of performance indicators on the principle that a great high school "must serve all of its students well," and "that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes" to show the school is educating students. The same methodology was used in the 2013 rankings, which were not available for comparison.
The ratings were based on a three-step process, looking at overall performance by using test scores and factoring in the number of poorer students "to identify the schools that were performing better than statistical expectations."
For the schools that made it past that step, AIR compared each school's math and reading proficiency rates for disadvantaged -- black, Hispanic and low income -- students with the statewide results to see how they ranked compared to other schools in the state.
Finally, if a school made it over those hurdles, it was judged on whether its students were college ready. The study used AP scores to determine that.
Rankings, from top to bottom for high schools in the Tri-Valley


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"Cops wanna knock me, D.A. wanna box me in. But somehow, I beat them charges like Rocky." - Jay-Z
Amazing Race:Family Edition
Man, I have never ever in my whole life watched a television program and thought to myself, "Please, make it end now, because I'm going directly to hell."
First of all, they went through and named all of the families. And the Black Family? Well, they're the Black Family. Yes, that's right, the African-American family is "The Black Family." I know, I know, it's not that funny, it's just their last names, but still, it was weird as Phil announced it. I couldn't help but think, "Sheeesh, can't they call them 'The African-American Family?' Get with the times people!"
And the first family that they introduced that had kids in it? My first thought was, "Oh, great, another season with 'little people.'"
Oh, and it gets worse, I can't even stand it. That family made up of a widow and her kids? Her husband was killed when he was run over by a race car. I spent most of the first episode making bad jokes about how they're going to break down in tears every time they hear the word "race." Some other team will say, "Hurry, we're in a race!" And the widow family will just stop where they are, start crying, and say, "Hey, no fair, rubbing it in!"
I said that I made these jokes for most of the first episode. That was only until the mother got run over by a buggy. You'd think that if your husband died getting run over by something you'd somehow be more careful. And, what if something happened to her? Can you imagine those kids going through the rest of their lives?
Yeah, I totally need to stop watching that show. I can't live with myself being this snarky.
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I too watch the Amazing Race, and was quite skeptical about having kids do the race. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the young children, and in disbelief of how those two teenage kids treat their parents (the Jersey team). Looking forward to next week though....ReplyDelete
My husband said the same thing when Phil announced the Black family.
- Jersey BoyOctober 01, 2005 8:57 AM
I hated that to. But, just to let you know, that family is not from Jersey. They are from upstate New York. My coworker who is from there said that everyone is like that. Here in Jersey, kids don't mistreat their parents that way.ReplyDelete
I stand corrected about that. One of the other teams during the show referred to the team as such, and I assumed they knew more about the team's locations than I did. My bad.ReplyDelete
So basically what you're saying is: This is really good tv! ;-)ReplyDelete
I missed the opener b/c of a tragic tivo season pass conflict (stupid Firefly marathon!), but I'm looking forward to plenty of snarkorific domestic strife tonight.
My gfriend's theory about this family edition is that it won't be as good b/c, while our society is fully comfortable w/the spousal abuse that usually occurs on the show, we don't really have the stomach for the child abuse that will probably be part of the family edition. From what you say, perhaps we'll be treated to some good parent abuse, too!
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WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Wednesday he still has "serious differences" with President Barack Obama over how to resolve the year-end "fiscal cliff" as top Republicans vowed to stay in Washington until just before - and after - Christmas to reach a deal.
"I was born with a glass half full. I remain the most optimistic person in this town. But we've got some serious differences," Boehner told reporters at a news conference.


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Native Americans used cranberries for both their medicinal and natural preservative powers. They brewed cranberry mixtures to draw poison from arrow wounds. They also pounded cranberries into a paste and mixed the paste with dried meat to extend the life of the meat. The name cranberry was given to this plant because the Pilgrims believed the plant looked like the head of a sandhill crane and was originally named "craneberry." Over time, the "e" was dropped.
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New Line Cinema is in final negotiations to have Neil Jordan as the director of "Killing on Carnival Row" and Mark Waters as that of "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past."
Apparently determined to get its two high-profile projects on the move as soon as possible, New Line Cinema is holding final talks with Neil Jordan and Mark Waters to helm its "Killing on Carnival Row" and "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past", respectively.
Written by Travis Beacham, "Carnival" is a future fantasy set in a city called the Burgue where humans live side by side with other mythical creatures like faeries, elves, and vampires of which some become the target of a serial killer. "Ghosts", on the other hand, is a rom-com flick revolving around a bachelor who goes to his younger brother's wedding and gets visited by the ghosts of his past girlfriends.
Jordan, an Irish filmmaker who is also a novelist, last directed "Breakfast on Pluto" for Sony Pictures Classic and recently wrapped up filming his latest work "The Brave One." Meanwhile, Waters, known for his works in "Mean Girls" and "Just Like Heaven", has been assigned to direct "The Spiderwick Chronicles" for a 2008 release under Paramount Pictures banner.


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Osteoporosis is estimated to cost the community more than $7 billion a year, and that figure is also expected to double within 20 years.
Professor Eisman said that the survey, conducted by a pharmaceutical company, Merck Sharp & Dohme, showed an alarming rate of undetected osteoporosis. The company produces medication to treat the bone condition.
"Eighty per cent of people surveyed [have] not [been] tested for an osteoporotic fracture in the past two years," he said.
Follow-up treatment for people who presented with osteoporosis-related fractures was lacking. "If somebody had a heart attack, nobody would say: 'You've got over your heart attack, go home'," he said.
Osteoporotic fractures should not be seen as part of aging, Professor Eisman said. "What we have to do is to change that way of thinking - that [osteoporosis] is necessarily something to do with getting older."
Preventive measures included weight-bearing exercises, getting enough calcium, not smoking and not drinking to excess, he said, but osteoporosis was largely genetic.
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|For updated information, please see Follow-Up to the October 2008 Updated Early Communication about an Ongoing Safety Review of Tiotropium (marketed as Spiriva HandiHaler).
Update 10/07/2008: FDA's Early Communication About an Ongoing Safety Review issued on March 18, 2008 stated that Boehringer Ingelheim, the maker of Spiriva HandiHaler (tiotropium bromide), had conducted a pooled analysis of 29 trials that suggested a small excess risk of stroke (2 cases per 1000) with tiotropium bromide over placebo. FDA has now received preliminary data from UPLIFT (Understanding the Potential Long-Term Impacts on Function with Tiotropium), a large, 4-year, placebo controlled clinical trial with Spiriva HandiHaler in approximately 6000 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The preliminary results of UPLIFT reported by Boehringer Ingelheim to the FDA showed that there was no increased risk of stroke with tiotropium bromide (Spiriva HandiHaler) compared to placebo.
Two recent publications1, 2 reported increased risk for mortality and/or cardiovascular events in patients who received tiotropium or inhaled anticholinergics. Both studies examined cardiovascular outcomes. Singh et al.1 performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of 17 clinical trials enrolling 14,783 patients treated with inhaled anticholinergic drugs used for the treatment of chronic obstructive lung disease. Lee et al.2 performed a case-control study of 32,130 patients (320,501 controls) treated with inhaled medications, including an anticholinergic, for the treatment of chronic obstructive lung disease.
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1. Singh S, Loke YK, Furberg CD. Inhaled anticholinergics and risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. JAMA 2008; 300 (12): 1439-1450.
2. Lee TA, Pickard S, et al. Risk of Death Associated with Medications for Recently Diagnosed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Annals of Internal Medicine 2008; 149: 380-390.
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The manufacturer of Spiriva HandiHaler, Boehringer Ingelheim, recently informed the FDA that ongoing safety monitoring has identified a possible increased risk of stroke in patients who take this medicine. Spiriva HandiHaler contains tiotropium bromide and is used to treat bronchospasm associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Additional information is needed to further evaluate this preliminary information about stroke in patients who take Spiriva HandiHaler.
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CRYSTAL PALACE 0 v 0 QUEENS PARK RANGERS
Welcome to this afternoon's match at Selhurst Park between Crystal Palace and QPR.
Neil Warnock makes one change to the side that beat Norwich on Tuesday as Paul Ifill returns in place of Shefki Kuqi, who can feel slightly hard done by following his performance in the last two games. Shaun Derry and Matt Lawrence remain on the bench, and Leandre Griffit is also in the 16.
For QPR, ex-Eagle Mikele Leigertwood starts and Gary Borrowdale is on the bench.
Palace: Speroni, Clyne, McCarthy, Fonte, Hill, Watson, Carle, Oster, Scannell, Ifill, Beattie. Subs: Lawrence, Derry, Moses, Griffit, Kuqi.
QPR: Cerny, Delaney, Stewart, Mahon, Leigertwood, Parejo, Blackstock, Agyemang, Gorkss, Ramage, Ephraim. Subs: Rowlands, Di Carmine, Cole, Helguson, Borrowdale.
2 min: One interesting battle today will be Warnock and ref Rob Styles - the two don't like each other very much. The latter gives Palace a free-kick on the advice of his linesman that eventually falls to Beattie and he curls straight at the keeper. Palace have started the better.
9 min: Agyemang gets the ball in loads of space on the left and puts in a great cross for the onrushing and unmarked Parejo but he scuffs his shot. Good chance.
14 min: Hill makes a break down the left and frees Ifill, whose low cross is cleared to Watson but he can only drill his shot about a foot wide.
18 min: Scannell skins Gorkss in the box but his cross for Beattie is too close to Cerny.
20 min: Palace look the better side and have played some nice stuff, passing the ball around confidently, but they haven't tested Cerny.
24 min: Carle finally shoots after Palace put together countless passes in the midfield but it's deflected over and Watson's delivery to the back post is only just cleared ahead of Hill.
27 min: Agyemang shows his power and pace to get around Fonte in the box but Speroni is out bravely to block at his feet. It's all a bit stale right now.
30 min: McCarthy does well under pressure from Blackstock before there's a little break in play as Scannell gets winded.
37 min: All very quiet at Selhurst. McCarthy has been off for treatment but is back on, as is Scannell.
40 min: Good chance for Ifill as his half volley is saved by Cerny at this near post. Oster's corner is just cleared ahead of Fonte.
45 min: A last-ditch header from Gorkss denies Beattie as the fourth official signals there will be two minutes of time added on.
45 min: YELLOW CARD: Ephraim booked for a late challenge on Watson.
HALF TIME: It's goalless but Palace have been far the better side. They are passing it around with confidence but doing nothing with it. They've been guilty of overplaying it too much and need to be more clinical after the break against what is a poor QPR side.
46 min: SUB: Parejo off, Helguson on.
47 min: And straight away the sub misses an open goal. The Eagles overplay it on the QPr box and the visitors break. Leigertwood puts Agyemang through whjo pokes it past Speroni but Helguson shoots wide with his first touch for QPR.
50 min: That was a bad miss that. Palace may have dominated but that was a stark reminder that they are not going to have it all their own way. It's raining quite heavily too.
53 min: Blackstock hooks Agyemang's deep cross on to the roof of the net at the back post.
55 min: Speroni gathers Leigertwood's drive at his near post.
57 min: YELLOW CARD: Carle booked for a late studs up challenge on Mahon.
59 min SUB: Blackstock off, Rowlands on
60 min: Rowlands is now playing behind Agyemang and Helguson and immediately has acres of space but drives his shot well wide.
63 min: It's a different Palace team this half and they're finding it hard to keep the ball. Derry and Kuqi look imminent.
65 min: DOUBLE SUB: Ifill and Carle off, Derry and Kuqi on. Derry takes over the captaincy from Hill.
68 min: Beattie twists inside Ephraim who brings him down 30 yards out just to the left of centre and Watson's kick hits the wall and goes over.
71 min: Palace back on top as Oster crosses from wide and Kuqi heads weakly at Cerny.
72 min: Clyne puts in a fantastic ball straight on to Scannell's head but it goes miles wide.
77 min: Kuqi chests down Oster's ball to Watson on the edge of the box but Stewart blocks his shot.
80 min: Long stoppage as the linesman by the dug out cannot continue and is being replaced by the fourth official - who decides to go a warm up jog before play can start again.
81 min: Attendance: 16,411
86 min: This has been apoor second half, Helguson's early miss the only action of note. Grifft is preparing to come on.
87 min: SUB: Scannell off, Griffit on
88 min: YELLOW CARD: Delaney booked for pulling back Griffit, the free kick is poor.
90 min: Five minutes added on, was sort of hoping there wouldn't be any.
91 min: SUB: Di Carmine on, Agyemang off
93 min: Palace almost snatch it as a great ball from Griffit finds Beattie whose shot is parried by Cerny and scrambled to safety.
FULL TIME: It's safe to say that was a pretty dire display but it keeps up Palace's mini unbeaten run. Next up is Derby County away next Saturday, see you then.


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Shale gas has transformed the North American market, turning it from a substantial gas importer into a potential exporter within a few years. Beach is drilling shale gas wells in the Nappamerri Trough area of the Cooper Basin, although it has yet to confirm the quality of the gas or flow rates.
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Riley Cooper making huge impression on scouts at Senior Bowl
When the Florida football season ended, Riley Cooper said he planned to put all his energy into proving NFL scouts that he's a much better wide receiver than most believed.
He said he needed to prove he was strong enough, fast enough and had good enough pass-catching skills to play at the next level.
Apparently, he's doing just that this week during practices for the Senior Bowl. While his former roommate Tim Tebow is drawing mixed reviews, Cooper is apparently making a strong impression on NFL personnel.
"I was very impressed,' ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay said. "I think Riley Cooper, if you wanted a list of six or seven guys that really helped themselves this week, I would put Cooper on that list. I think from his size to his athleticism. He's quicker and more athletic than I expected. When you see him in these drills and working against these cornerbacks – there are some really, really talented cover corners here . And I think the fact that he held up as well as he did and caught the ball with as much consistency as he did, I think it really speaks volumes about the type of player he could be at the next level.''
Cooper announced this week that he has decided not to play professional baseball and concentrate solely on an NFL career. He was a 25th round pick by the Texas Rangers last August, but did not report earlier this month as the Rangers had expected. If McShay is correct in his assessment, that may turn out to be a very wise decision for Cooper.
"He's not going to be a first-round pick, but there's a chance, it's an outside chance, but there's a chance a team would take him late in the second round,'' McShay said. "But I think he now projects somewhere in that third round range, which is really moving up if you think about it. Coming into the year, he was I don't want to say an afterthought, but he was more a fifth, sixth, seventh round prospect. He really had to show a lot this year and he did. Now he's done everything he can at the all-star game. And if he works out well, he's got a chance to get into the top three rounds.''


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A sought-after expert in criminal pathology, Dr. Charlotte Stone regularly sits face-to-face with madmen. At the age of sixteen, she herself survived a serial killer's bloodbath. Because of the information she gave police, the Boardwalk Killer went underground, but Charlie kept her postmortem visions of the victims to herself. Years later, to protect her credibility as a psychological expert, she tells no one about these apparitions. Now a teenage girl is missing, her family slaughtered. The Boardwalk Killer—or a sick copycat with his M.O.—is back. This is the one case Charlie knows she shouldn't go near. But she also knows that she may be the one person in the world who can stop this vicious killer, especially when she receives help from an unexpected source: The fiery spirit of a seductive bad boy who refuses to be ignored.
About the Author
Karen Robards is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of forty books and one novella. The mother of three boys, she lives in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.
Praise for Karen Robards Draw a line between two extremely popular genres, mysteries and romance novels, and in the middle you will find the bestselling Robards. She merges the two worlds like no one else, deftly interlacing plot and passion. Albany "Times Union" "" Robards has a true flair for characterization and excels at adding large doses of humor to the spicy mix. "RT Book Reviews" One of the most popular voices in women s fiction. " Newsweek" "" Robards is one terrific storyteller. "Chicago Tribune""
Series: Charlotte Stone
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 416
Published: 30th April 2013
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 17.3 x 10.4 x 3.3
Weight (kg): 0.2


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Box Coat by Susan Crawford
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Box Coat
Interesting over sized 1940s military style jacket, knitted in a chunky weight yarn (yarn used 60m per 100g) with yoke details and box head sleeves.
Materials required
17 (20, 22, 25, 28) skeins shade 026
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A Breakfast for Dinner Event - Friday, October 10, 2014
To Benefit Arizona's Children Association
Hickman's Family Farms will partner with some of the favorite breakfast restaurants around the Valley to celebrate PJs & Eggs. The sixth annual event will be held on Friday, October 10, 2014. The "breakfast for dinner" will begin at 5:00 p.m. at participating locations to benefit Arizona's Children Association (AzCA) foster care programs statewide.
Customers who have breakfast for dinner at each participating restaurant on October 10 are invited to wear their pajamas and asked to bring a new pair (any size for kids ages newborn to18) to be donated to children in the AzCA's foster care programs. In return, each customer will receive a certificate for a free dozen Hickman's eggs. Some participating restaurants also will donate a portion of the proceeds from the evening to AzCA. Pajama collection will begin in September at participating locations and will continue through the night of the event. Donations received after October 10 will be forwarded to AzCA.
"The event is in its sixth year with continued support from many of the locations that have participated since the beginning," says Sharman Hickman of Hickman's Family Farms. "PJs & Eggs offers a unique opportunity to share in an event that is fun and extremely useful. It's hands-on help for our local communities' kids in foster care. Participants know that whatever donations they make go directly to local children in need. Our goal this year is to reach 6,000 total pairs of pajamas donated since the start of this event."
AzCA's adoption and foster care programs, offered throughout the state, are vital resources for matching children in need with safe and loving families. There are more than 14,000 children in Arizona's foster care system ranging from in age from newborn to 18 years old.
About Arizona's Children Association
Arizona's Children Association is the best resource for helping children and families in the state. For 100 years, Arizona's Children Association (AzCA) has stayed true to "Protecting Children, Empowering Youth, Strengthening Families," serving more than 42,000 children, individuals and families in all 15 counties each year. Learn more at www.ArizonasChildren.org.
Donate new pajamas (any size)
to benefit Arizona's Children
Association Foster Care Programs.
Participating Restaurants
for 2014 PJs & Eggs
Breakfast for Dinner Event
Avondale / Buckeye / Glendale / North Phoenix / Phoenix / Prescott / Tucson / Wickenburg
TJ's Homestyle Restaurant
310 N. Dysart Road
Avondale, AZ
Website / Facebook Page
Café 25:35
409 E. Monroe
Buckeye, AZ 85326
Website / Facebook Page
Kiss the Cook
4915 W. Glendale Ave.
Glendale, AZ 85301
Website / Facebook Page
9832 N. 7th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85020
Website / Facebook Page
Over Easy
4730 E. Indian School Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85018
Website / Facebook Page
2045 E. Camelback Rd., A17
Phoenix, AZ 85016
PLEASE NOTE: Snooze will celebrate PJs & Eggs during their regular daytime breakfast and lunch hours.
Website / Facebook Page
Sue Ann's Apple Pan
510 W. Gurley Street
Prescott, AZ 86301
Chaffin's Diner
902 E. Broadway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85719
Facebook Page
Lydia's La Canasta
2023 W. Wickenburg Way
Wickenburg, AZ 85390
Facebook Page
For more information and participation contact:
Sharman Hickman - firstname.lastname@example.com, 623-872-1120.
For more information, contact:
For more information and participation contact:
Sharman Hickman - email@example.com,
- Media Release - PJs & Eggs
(view, print, download)
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It brings to mind the early days of using computers in this industry when spell checkers would miss something, and we'd be asked why the technology failed. We'd become so accustomed to relying on the technology, that we stopped actually reading our copy to proof for errors.
One of the things about this story which encourages me is the follow-up, in which IT is significantly absent from the story. That's a good thing. The fact of the matter is this isn't about IT, and we shouldn't be looking for technology to prevent this sort of error. We'd like to think that such a solution exists, but the fact of the matter is that there are many cases in which we've simply got to be careful. This could just have easily come about as the result of leaving a document lying around on a copier, or faxing it to the wrong number, neither of which would necessarily be viewed as a technological breakdown. Mistakes are going to happen, and unfortunately technology can compound these mistakes, significantly faster than leaving a paper lying around.
Are there technological solutions to this problem? Maybe there are. I'm skeptical. Having heard a couple suggestions already, they still have holes. It always seems to come back to a people issue. An HR executive has got to be extremely careful when crafting this sort of message using e-mail. They should be double and triple checking their addressees before ever hitting the send button. The best way to combat those mistakes is by learning these lessons, and in teaching our users to be thoughtful and careful when using the technology. It's a tough lesson to learn the hard way.
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For those of us in the Advertising business, this is nothing new. If the prediction does come true, it will probably have some impact on us as well. Right now, I think we're fairly typical of Ad Agency's – We use Mac's for Creative, and PC's for everything else. If there were a change in this mix, I wouldn't be surprised to see more of a split between Macs and PC's among our Account Service staff. We're doing a small amount of this now in situations where Creative staff has moved to Account Service rolls, and it hasn't caused any unsurmountable issues. Part of the increased market share would also come from Agencies moving from a split to all-Mac environments. I think this is much more likely in smaller Agencies.
How will this impact other businesses? That will be interesting to watch, especially for those of who have lived in a dual-platform world for a while. Will the increased market share come primarily from smaller company's? Will we start to see the Mac make some inroads into larger company's? Will it happen with IT's blessing, or will IT have no choice? Where will corporate IT find folks to support the Mac and deal with cross-platform issues? Who knows, maybe those of us who have been doing this for a while may become a hot commodity.
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The reason I'm going back is that I was spending way too much of my time on the PC side of things. Once I had things setup the way I wanted, I found that I was spending 60-75% of my time running something under the Windows VM running on Fusion. It's simply a function of what I do on a daily basis, and much of my time is spent on Remote Desktop sessions to our Windows servers. The Mac actually handled this very well, but the reality is it added a layer between me and what I needed to get done.
Performance was never the issue, although I'm not sure I'd agree with those who argue that Windows actually runs better on a Mac VM. I definitely noticed things slowing down on the Windows VM, especially when I started to push things with numerous apps running simultaneously.
By no means was the decision a slam-dunk. If my time was split 50/50 between the Mac and PC side of things, I probably would have at least stayed with the experiment for a bit longer. If I spent more time on the Mac than the PC, it would also be a no-brainer. I'd definitely side with the Mac in that scenario.
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In fact, we spend a great deal of time doing just the opposite. We've been actively encouraging our users to sign up for, and use tools such as Facebook, WikiPedia, Twitter, etc., While most of the IT world may be worrying about how to restrict the use of such sites, we're doing exactly the opposite. We encourage our marketing and PR folks to actively monitor social media sites and blogs for news or comments about their clients. We encourage our creative users to actively monitor the latest trends in digital media.
It might be a bit out of the ordinary for IT to turn a blind eye to this stuff, or maybe to even encourage users to frequent these sites, but this business has always been a bit different. I'm just thankful that I have one less thing to police.
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To give you a better idea of what this means, here are some actual examples. We have a client folder in our Sarasota office which contains the current advertising files which are currently under production. This folder is about 85GB. While this might not seem like a huge volume if you're a large company, I would argue that it's a good size folder for an office of less than 20 people. We have one office which currently has no Creative staff, and the client folders in that office are less than 10 GB in size. Again, these examples are from our smaller offices. The file size dilemma becomes larger when you look at us as a whole and include our larger offices in the equation. I've had vendors tell me that we're more like a 3,000 employee company when you consider our storage needs, and we currently have about 275 employees.
Copying 85GB across our WAN in order to have a live copy of our Sarasota clients folders is not an option for today. However, we are looking at tools for replication and data deduplication which might allow us do just that. For now, we'll have to settle on backing things up the old-fashioned way, using tapes and off-site storage. It works, but it would certainly be nice if I had an up-to-date copy of my Sarasota client folders sitting here in Syracuse, ready to be brought to life if necessary. It's one of our goals to have such a system in place in the next year or so.
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I hope that the topics of my posts provide interesting reading, even for those of you who don't work in this particular industry. I'd also like to ask those of you who might be regular readers to provide some feedback. Are the posts relevant to you because you work in this business, or is it the topics themselves which are of interest?
The Mac vs. PC thing will undoubtedly continue to be a topic I come back to again and again. However, there are other issues which impact those of us in this business, but which might seem very general in nature. Case in point, my recent post regarding the commoditization of IT (Am I The Director of Electricity?) is a topic which has been covered by plenty of bloggers before me. I hope my angle on it was just a little bit different, in that I make a case that the Advertising business may be one of the first to see this trend take hold.
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I spent a day where I was doing quite a bit of work using Microsoft's Remote Desktop, connecting to several servers at once and jumping back and forth between them and my own desktop. The issues became evident when one of my admins joined me in my office, and we attempted to fire up an external screen which I attached to my laptop. I immediately started running into difficulties with screen resolution, to the point where I was completely unable to access the menu bar on some of my windows. I was stuck having to use keyboard shortcuts in order to get out of trouble. Once I disconnected the external monitor, I continued to have trouble and finally decided it was time to reboot the VM session.
I had similar network troubles in the afternoon when something tripped a circuit breaker in my part of the building. The Mac handled the network interruption without too much trouble, but I had to reset the virtual network adapter on the Windows VM. At another point I lost the sound completely on the Windows VM, and the only fix which seemed to work was a complete reboot of the Mac.
This stuff didn't cripple my efforts to work, not by a long stretch. But it did serve to highlight some of the issues which can crop up. I'm also not blaming Apple, VMWare, or Microsoft. When you think about what's happening with this sort of configuration, it's pretty darn amazing that it works at all. This stuff isn't easy, and when we start screwing around with external monitors, screen resolution, and sudden network interruptions, I'm not the least bit surprised when the trouble starts.
The bigger issue is what happens when the user is an Account Executive connecting to a projector for a presentation, or trying to make a connection to a wireless network. It's possible to do all this stuff, but it's also not possible to provide a set of instructions for every situation which might arise. For now, I'm convinced that this sort of setup would be difficult to manage for most average users. I'd only consider for end-users who were extremely comfortable in dealing with these kinds of issues, and those users are few and far between.
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As those of us in the IT community know, perception can easily become reality in our business. When a negative groundswell exists regarding a technology product, it can become exceedingly difficult to support it. I've seen it work in reverse as well, where people fall in love with products, and before we know it we're rolling something out much more rapidly than we expected.
It's up to us to attempt to control these perceptions, whether they arise on blogs or in the hallway. We need to stay on top of what's being said, and we need to counter these arguments when necessary. In my own case this morning, the particular user doing the commenting was someone whom we respect and was asked to evaluate the software. We defended ourselves with an explanation about how we test and deploy new software, and hopefully a little bit of humor. In the future, I'm going to be a little clearer about asking them to at least give me a heads-up before they go public with a negative review, but I'm also not going to attempt to censor the discussion.
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So far, I've been fairly happy with the results. Performance has not been a huge issue, and other than some sizing issues with the drive space I allocated, it's been smooth sailing. I'm still switching back and forth a bit between Fusion's Unity mode which allows me to run the Windows apps on the Mac desktop, and the full-screen Windows mode. At this point, about the only time I jump back into full-screen Windows mode is when I need to access something like Remote Desktop which I haven't yet configured to launch from the OS X dock.
This isn't my first foray into desktop virtualization. I used it previously on my Vista laptop, running VMWare's Workstation product to give myself a virtual copy of XP to switch back to. That worked well for me also, and it provided me a way to easily maintain copies of both Office 2007 and Office 2007 on the same machine. In both cases, virtualization has proved invaluable in giving me with a simple way to keep one foot in two (or more) different camps during OS and application migrations.
All that being said, you also can't lose sight of the costs associated with virtualization. You do have to license all this software, but it's still not as costly as doing the same thing with two different pieces of hardware. I think this is a great tool for those of us in IT, but I have some concerns about putting it into end-user's hands. It's not always easy configuring and using networks and peripherals. We have a couple end-users trying to run it on MacBook Pro's, and they are struggling with that aspect of things. Even more troubling from my perspective, we're starting to get some requests for copies of both Office 2007 to run under their Windows VM in addition to the copy of Office 2008 they are running on the Mac. While I'm sure Microsoft would have no trouble selling me two copies of Office for one machine, it's a trend which will make this a very expensive option. Something else we're getting ready to take a look at is application virtualization, probably via Microsoft's SoftGrid.
What's even more interesting is watching how Apple deals with virtualization in general. We're jumping into this in a big way on both the server and desktop, but something is missing – there is no way to virtualize OS X. I have plenty of capacity left on my VMWare ESX servers, and I'd love to add an OS X server into that mix, taking advantage of my investment there as well as the reliability and cost savings it provides. I can't see Apple sitting this out entirely, but if and when they do jump into virtualization, I suspect they'll only allow it on Apple hardware. That's too bad. I think they could sell a lot of software. In fact, if I could virtualize Apple applications in a similar manner, I'd probably purchase 150 copies of Keynote tomorrow.
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Over the years I've moved back and forth between both platforms, and at times I've had both platforms on my desk. The single most significant change since I last used a Mac regularly has been the introduction of virtualization on the desktop, and that's exactly what has brought me back to the Mac now. We're running VMWare Fusion, and since I'm a glutton for punishment I'm running a Vista VM on my new Mac. Two or three days into this experiment I'm not so sure that was a good idea. My MacBook Pro has 4GB of RAM, and I've allocated 2GB to the Vista VM. I've heard the hype about virtualization turning Macs into the best Windows machines, but I'm not buying into it – at least not with Vista. The speed on this machine is ok most of the time, but when I'm running a lot of apps I can definitely feel the hit. My Dell laptop (running Vista with 4GB of RAM) definitely outperforms it when I'm multitasking. Still, I'm going to continue using this as my every day machine for a while. It does do a pretty good job running Windows for 90% of what I do, and it really is convenient having both platforms in one package.
I'm keeping the Dell close by for a few more days, but unless my opinion changes dramatically, it looks like I'm finally going to practice what I've preached.
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I'll be honest I don't watch the news. It's too depressing. I only read the funnies in the paper because who wants to read more about how the world is falling apart, the stocks are falling, etc? You might, but I don't.
What do I read? Well I check out Happy News everyday to get my dose of what's going on in the world.
"What's Happy News?" you ask.
Happy News is: "Real News, Compelling Stories, Always Positive"
They believe virtue, goodwill and heroism are hot news so they bring up-to-the-minute news to lift spirits and inspire lives. Citizen Journalists report positive stories from around the world.
This site is easy to navigate too. Just use the side menu to check out International, National, Business/Money, Health, Science & Technology, Environment, Arts & Entertainment, Sports, Heroes, and Opinions & Editorials.
If you scroll down the main page you can get some headlines for those sections. And you'll see their quote of the day section – when I was there the quote was:
"Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are." – John B. Sheerin
I think you will like this change of pace from all the horrible things happening in the world. We've forgotten as a community to report the good and uplifting moments in life.


text: raju October 02, 2013 4:21 PM I am not why Maverick Vinales was not picked in the team and instead again he was chosen by a satellite team(not sure if he is getting same equipment as Rins/Salom. I am not really sure. Maverick Vinales is next casey stoner/ Alex Rins is next jorge lorenzo. Reply Report abuse 2 agree 3 disagree