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IT DIDN'T quite work against the Reds but the Waratahs believe that their Wallaby-soaked forward pack can be used successfully to strangle teams, beginning with the Melbourne Rebels this Friday night.
There were many disappointments surrounding the Waratahs' opening round loss to the Reds last Saturday but one of the most pressing was that the home forward pack did not receive their proper reward for an outstanding performance, especially at scrum-time.
The Waratahs scrum, which included Test prop Benn Robinson playing his first major match in eight months, completely dominated their opponents, with every member of the pack, including the replacements, ensuring their set-piece was a constant weapon.
Unfortunately, out wide the Waratahs weren't as dominant, with a late error and one kick too many giving the Reds the chance to make the most devastating of an 80-minute counter-attack.
Not surprisingly, the Waratahs are set to play the same forward contingent against the Rebels, with the aim to again overwhelm the opposition up front, as they know that limiting possession will effectively stifle a team that will want to show off their new-look, high-profile attack.
As the sidelined Waratahs centre Berrick Barnes emphasised yesterday, the clues were there in the Reds match. ''In that game, we nullified some of their key threats really well, and that came from a very good set piece, in particular our scrum,'' he said. ''Our work at the breakdown was up there with some of our best. With that, we cut down a lot of time for Will [Genia] and Digby [Ioane] - and these are the guys the Reds rely on for go-forward ball.''
Waratahs coach Michael Foley stressed that the Rebels pack would not be easy to push around but gave credit to his forward pack, which includes six Wallabies, for immediately finding their form.
''A lot of the guys who had played a big international season throughout Australia have found it pretty tough coming back,'' he said. ''We had a Wallaby front-row out there, and their preparation has been limited due to different reasons, but they all jumped into it pretty well, while being ably supported by the back five.
''But the challenge this week is that the Rebels have worked hard in that area. They have [former Wallabies] Matt Cockbain and Ben Darwin coaching their lineout and scrum, and it is an area they will also be targeting.''
The Waratahs spent a great deal of yesterday's training working on their kick-chase manoeuvres, knowing that if they are astray in that area against the Rebels they could suffer from successful opposition counter-attacks.
''We've made the point that if we are to kick the ball it is with the definite understanding and purpose to get the ball back,'' Foley said.
''In the past we probably have been practising our kicking a lot, but not necessarily our kick-chase. Being able to put pressure on through a kick-chase is crucial for us in every game.''


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Bozeman – Montana State University, Associated Students of Montana State University and Karst Stage have teamed up to provide a low-cost shuttle service to Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport for students traveling during winter break.
Outbound service from MSU to Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport will be available Dec. 12-15, with return inbound service from Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport to MSU being offered Jan. 5-7.
Students will have the choice of either a one-way or round trip fare, which will cost $10 or $18, according to Chelsea Schmidt, MSU assistant director of business and community relations.
"MSU is glad to be working with Karst Stage to provide students with this convenient and affordable transportation option," said Schmidt. "This idea has been in the pipeline for a while, and we are grateful to Karst for so generously donating a portion of their services to get this up and running."
The shuttle will make three stops on campus for each trip to the airport. Those stops will be at the corner of 8th Street and Harrison Avenue, in front of the Strand Union and in front of Hedges Complex, all of which are regular stops used by Streamline Bus. Students using the return service from the airport back to campus will be asked to meet in the shuttle lane in front of the rental car counters.
"We know there are a lot of students traveling during winter break. Providing this shuttle seemed like a great opportunity to serve our students in another way and give them one less thing to worry about during finals week," Schmidt said.
For more information, or to reserve a spot on the shuttle, visit www.montana.edu/airportshuttle. Reservations are required by Dec. 10.
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Ya lets throw it in a labs branch. I like the unquoted attributes, html5ish, scripts at the bottom approach. ;) https://gist.github.com/2830598 On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Michael Brooks <email@example.com> wrote: > Thanks for the summary Tim. > > I've created CB-1061 "Create Hello Cordova Sample Application" [1] to track > this project. > > I don't mind starting work on this app. I can probably have a testable > sample done by end-of-day tomorrow. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1061 > > Michael > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Tim Kim <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > >> Apparently Steve is having issues with his email's bouncing, so I shall >> email on his behalf: >> >> 1.) We like Libby's app but it shouldn't be what users see when they create >> a new project. It would be nice to include this as a example kitchen sink >> app in the download. It would need to be tested on all the platforms and >> would have to be maintained with each release. It would be good to discuss >> the inclusion of a kitchen sink app in person next week while most of us >> are going to be at PG Day. We can bring what we discuss back to the mailing >> list. This should probably wait until post 2.0. >> >> >> 2.) We should standardize the Hello Cordova app. Two gists I see are >> https://gist.github.com/2830598 and https://gist.github.com/2830156. We >> should pick one of these and standardize it across the projects. We should >> be able to make this into 2.0. >>
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With our natural advantage in this area, our mission is simply to become the UK's most sustainable and environmentally friendly supermarket.
Our responsibilities
We partnered with The Carbon Trust to help us re-evaluate our strategic direction for carbon and waste. A revised, more targeted strategy is being prepared, taking into account our rapidly growing business and ever changing industry.
For the reported period, our CO2 emissions increased relative to the previous year. The business has continued to grow significantly, highlighted by a rise in order volumes of more than 30% at both Ocado.com and Morrisons.com. The carbon efficiencies implemented however, has meant that despite our substantial growth we have successfully achieved a three-year trend of improving energy efficiency, culminating in a 11.9% efficiency gain relative to our 2013 baseline year.
Our progress is illustrated in the table below.
PwC has carried out a limited assurance engagement on selected GHG emissions data(table below) in accordance with the International Standard on Assurance Engagements 3410'Assurance engagements on greenhouse gas statements' (ISAE 3410), issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and, in respect of the intensity measure, in accordance with the International Standard on Assurance Engagements 3000 (Revised) 'Assurance engagements other than audits or reviews of historical financial information' (ISAE 3000 (Revised)). A copy of the limited assurance report
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GHG Emissions (Tonnes CO2e)
The largest share of our emissions are attributable to vehicle usage (62%), followed by the operation of our premises (37%); mirroring the findings of our previous two years' greenhouse gas reports. As a result, developing the fuel-efficiency technologies within our operation and addressing the energy efficiency of our CFCs continues to be the focus of our carbon reduction strategy.
With regard to minimising the environmental impact of the fleet, we are continuously evolving the design of our vehicles to improve aerodynamics, capacity, and trialling fuel efficient technology developed in-house. Further, our strategic geographical expansion is in part designed to alleviate the use of fuel in our operations, opening new spokes to reduce the overall mileage of our delivery vans.
Environmentally-conscious customers may also select 'green van slots', saving fuel and reducing emissions by having a delivery at a similar time to another customer local to them. Through implementing a range of initiatives, investments in our fleet have positively contributed to our substantial company-wide improvement in energy efficiency.
The Group's reported emissions have been prepared and calculated with reference to environmental reporting guidelines (2015), issued by Defra and using conversion factors published by DECC/Defra May 2015.
We continue to monitor our waste closely and we remain confident that our waste volumes are very low when compared to the industry. The partnership with Ecometrica includes analysis of waste, and we look forward to reporting on this in more detail in future years.
The Ocado business model is based around delivering groceries from a highly-efficient, climate-controlled warehouse. This model differs in every way from the store-based model operated by traditional supermarkets. Our business model is built around efficiency and low waste; our warehouses use sophisticated automation and software to pick approximately 2 million items every day directly into final customer orders, which are delivered locally in using fuel-efficient vans. This helps us to deliver food which stays fresh for longer, reducing food waste.
We use single-use plastic carrier bags to line our delivery crates. Each crate contains three separate bags, and these bags both segregate and protect goods from damage during the picking process. The bags also allow us to safely separate potentially hazardous products from edible items in the customers' order, complying with UK and EU legislation. They also allow drivers to safely carry groceries into our customers' homes. However, their primary use is to line the crates which travel on a supremely efficient, highly-automated system around our warehouses collecting goods. This unique distribution model means the bags a customer receives from Ocado are not strictly carrier bags, but crate liners.
Operationally we are unable to cease using these crate liners at the moment, but we are constantly looking at ways this might be possible in the future. We continue to trial alternative bag materials and containers, although none so far have proven to be as efficient or as cost effective as plastic bags.
We have always been mindful that we produce a large number of crate liners. In 2007, we launched a programme to recycle our crate liner bags. Our drivers asks customers to hand back their used crate liners (along with any unwanted carrier bags from our competitors.) We then recycle these into new bags. To reduce our carbon footprint further, this recycling is carried out wholly within the UK, rather than the Far East. We are satisfied that this keeps down "supply chain miles" and carbon emissions to a minimum.
In case you've ever wondered why such a bright and colourful brand uses such muted colours on its bags, we also altered the design of our distinctive colour-coded bags to make it easier to recycle bags produced by other competitors. This allows us to avoid bleaching the raw plastic that makes our bags.
Ocado is included in the legislation requiring a 5p charge on new single use carrier bags in England. The intended aim of the legislation is to reduce bag littering and damage to wildlife. We believe that this is best done in the first place by preventing the bags from becoming litter, and removing the bags from circulation. One of the unintended risks of the Single Use Carrier Bag Charging Legislation for us is that it could encourage our customers to keep hold of carrier bags rather than return them to us for recycling, so we took the decision to build on our existing (and very successful) bag recycling programme by offering a financial incentive for customers to return used bags to us. We call this our Bag Buy Back Scheme. We use a large majority of the proceeds from the Charge to fund this scheme, as we believe that using a Bag Buy Back Scheme to proactively retrieve and recycle used crate liners from a customer's home correlates closely with the aim of the legislation, and is environmentally more sensible than simply donating all the proceeds to a charity.
We use the remainder of the money from the Charge to support a number of waste, litter and recycling charities across the UK. This supports the desire of the Single Use Carrier Bag Charging Legislation to see some of the money raised go to environmental causes such as supporting work to help tackle littering. Our CR strategy has four strategic pillars – Education, Entrepreneurship, Environment and Eating Well – focusing on areas where we can make a meaningful difference. This year, our CR team has made good progress in all four 'E's:
Environment - partnering with local UK charities to encourage and incentivise litter-picking. We will have spent over £50,000 in this area by end of November 2016.
Education - working with charity partners to educate children and young people on waste and recycling. We will have spent over £100,000 in this area by end of November 2016.
Entrepreneurship - continuing trials on alternative bag materials and containers. We will have spent over £50,000 in this area by end of November 2016.
Eating well - furthering our partnership work with local UK food banks and reducing food waste. We will have spent over £100,000 in this area by end of November 2016.
During the 2015/16 reporting period, we generated the following;
The Ocado Foundation was established in April 2015 with the aim of our employees and customers helping us make well-aimed actions at a local level across the UK – we try to choose projects where our input will be the most valuable and our impact the greatest. The same sentiment applies here to the carrier bag proceeds, whereby the funds are being held in the Ocado Foundation to be spent on local waste and recycling projects across the UK, trying our best to maximise our impact in as many local communities across the UK as possible.
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Saintsbury Stanly Ranch Carneros Pinot Noir 2006
Pinot Noir from Carneros, California
Winemaker's Notes
The modern viticultural history of Carneros begins on Stanly Ranch in the 1950s when Louis Martini who then owned part of the historic property began a clonal trial of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay with UC Davis and another historic California wine family, the Wentes. The well-known Martini and Wente clones of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay emerged from these trials and were propagated and sold by the Wente grapevine nursery.
The historic ranch of Judge Stanly greets visitors to the Napa Valley as they drive up Highway 29 towards the city of Napa and anchors the southeastern corner of the Carneros. The fourth incarnation of grape vines on this property began in 2001 with the development of 350 acres of vines using modern clones, spacing and vertical trellising on the property's clay-loam soils and gently rolling hills. Saintsbury has purchased Stanly Ranch fruit since the 1984 vintage and during the last 20 years it has been a significant source for the Carneros Pinot Noir and Reserve bottlings. We have now come full circle with the Vineyard Series Stanly Ranch one of the successors of the Reserve Pinot Noir in our Pinot Noir lineup.
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Burghound.com - "Here the nose is every bit as complex as the Brown Ranch with really lovely and attractively subtle spicy red and blue fruit aromas that display a touch of cranberry before merging seamlessly into detailed, pure and delicious medium-bodied flavors that possess a dusty and ever so slightly edgy finish that is presently on the youthfully austere side that comes up just a bit short relative to the Cerise."
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Saintsbury specializes in Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The Chardonnay is fermented and aged in barrels coopered in Burgundy. Three styles of Pinot Noir are produced: "Garnet" is a fresh, lively wine full of cherry and raspberry fruit; the wine simply called Carneros Pinot Noir is a more classic rendition; and the Reserve Pinot Noir is the richest and most fully flavored of the vintage. View all Saintsbury Wines
About CarnerosView a map of Carneros wineries
Technically a part of Napa Valley, the Carneros region straddles both Sonoma & Napa counties. It's the Napa region closest to the San Francisco peninsula and the San Pablo Bay, which is instrumental in controlling the climate of the area. The winds from the San Pablo bay create a cool weather pattern ideal for growing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Notable FactsBoth Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from Carneros are delicate, yet complex, with firm structure and acidity. And while the pair are the most popular varieties of the region, some winemakers have branched out, particularly with Syrah. The cool climate Syrah of Carneros is well structured and stylistically similar to Syrah from the Northern Rhone, though often fuller-bodied.
About CaliforniaIt's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country unto itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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2 ratings, 1 with reviewMary R - Huntersville, NC210/8/201049/28/2010Lovely red berry nose. Soft fruit forward, good acidity. Nice funky earthy depth. Puts French Pinot to shame at this price point. Better profile than the '06 Brown Ranch. Perferred this to the Saintsbury Brown Ranch.


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Coventry to pay £100,000 for trying to put three children into care
Coventry council has been ordered to pay £100,000 towards parents' court costs after trying to put three of their children in care, according to this yarn on the BBC.Saying the council had "fallen below accepted standards", Judge Clifford Bellamy ruled the council was wrong to accuse the parents of abuse and should pay their court [...]
South Wales authorities failed to protect sexual abuse victims, says joint SCR
A serious case review published jointly by Neath Port Talbot, Caerphilly and Pembrokeshire councils says practitioners failed four children who were victims of sexual and physical abuse, as well as neglect, over a number of years.The review says: "There were gaps in communication across agencies, a lack of urgency, and procedures were not consistently applied [...]
Baby P employment tribunal: "Children in Haringey were not safe"
Claire Kober, leader of Haringey Council, told an employment tribunal brought by two social workers involved in the Baby P case that the council was not fit for purpose when she took control over two years after the death of the child, according to reports.Kober said: "I cannot overestimate the extent to which things were [...]
Liberal Democrats hear recommendations from young people
Children's minister Sarah Teather – out in force at the Liberal Democrats' annual party conference here in Liverpool – heard some of the pithiest recommendations today from one of the country's youngest child poverty experts. Although thirteen year old Martin's trainers barely touched the floor as he addressed a room full of delegates during a round table [...]
Baby P clinic doctor is suing the NHS
A doctor who made a complaint about the clinic where Baby P was seen days before his death is suing the NHS for forcing her out of her job, according to reports.Kim Holt is seeking £100,000 from Great Ormond Street Hospital, her employer.Holt was signed off, due to stress, months after filing her complaint in [...]
Involving fathers leads to less family break-down
While decline in relationship satisfaction is common among new parents, a paper by the Fatherhood Institute highlights a growing body of evidence showing new fathers' involvement in infant care is strongly correlated with relationship satisfaction. Therefore, involving fathers with their children and considering them in the creation and provision of family services leads to less [...]
British teens among worst for forgetting contraception due to drink
One in four sexually active British teenagers does not use contraception, according to a report, with 19% blaming drink for their negligence.The report, put together by the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International, said only Norway, where 29 per cent do not use contraception, had a worse record. The UK also ranks high [...]
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UC Davis student volunteers, include several fraternity brothers from Theta Chi helped renovate the Rose and Flower Garden pathways on Saturday, February 16th. At 10 am, there was a mighty 5 cubic yard pile of wet and heavy decomposed granite. Two hours of shoveling, wheelbarrowing, spreading, and compacting later, the garden paths looked brand new! This new layer of decomposed granite will help make the paths more firm when they're wet and will reduce weed growth in the pathways. Many thanks to all the volunteers who helped with this labor intensive project.
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Cocker, who put the line-up together as artistic director, will be singing The Jungle Book song I'm the King of the Swingers.
Speaking to the BBC's David Sillito, he said: "I think Disney songs were due a bit of makeover."
The week-long event will take place at the Royal Festival Hall.
The venue has recently undergone a refurbishment to improve its acoustics.
Former Pogues singer MacGowan will sing Zip-a-dee-doo-dah from Song of the South, while Doherty is set to perform Chim Chim Cher-ee from the film Mary Poppins.
Motorhead will open the festival on 16 June, with Iggy & The Stooges and The 13th Floor Elevators also performing at the event.
Previous Meltdown directors include Patti Smith, Morrissey, David Bowie and Nick Cave. KPM Allstars, formed to commemorate the 60th birthday of the library music label, will perform TV theme music on 17 June.
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Description: During the 1930s, when times were tough, big bands criss-crossed the U.S. by road and rail, their tunes ballyhooed via radio. Their stars were household names. Their beat -- which was swing -- was the default groove for dancers. Band singers like Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ivie Anderson, Dan Grissom, and Dick Powell inflamed hearts around the globe. Their music was the soundtrack of the age, and it will be celebrated over two nights as Michael Feinstein hosts Wynton Marsalis and Vince Giordano's Nighthawks alongside vocalists Nellie McKay, Connie Evingson, and Sachal Vasandani to highlight the history and the music of one of the most exciting and crucial crossover movements in the mix of jazz and American popular song.


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Alcoa to consider more plant closings to cut costs
Falling aluminum prices are prompting Alcoa Inc. to take a close look at idling or closing more plants to cut costs, the company said Wednesday.
To remain competitive, the nation's largest aluminum producer has idled about 13 percent of its smelting capacity as prices have fallen more than 33 percent since a peak two years ago. A review during the next 15 months could affect another 11 percent of capacity worldwide.
"Because of persistent weakness in global aluminum prices, we need to review every option to maintain Alcoa's competitiveness," said Chris Ayers, president of Alcoa's global primary products. "Any action taken will only be done after a thorough strategic review and consultations with stakeholders."
The review will focus on plants with higher costs and long-term risks because of energy costs or regulatory uncertainty, the company said.
Alcoa is headquartered in New York and has its operations center in Pittsburgh, where its annual meeting of shareholders will be held Friday.
"It's expected, and it's necessary," said metals analyst Charles Bradford, president of Bradford Research in New York. "They're going to make less money because aluminum prices are lower, and that's the key."
Aluminum declined 2.4 percent to $1,825.50 a metric ton Wednesday on the London Metal Exchange. The price of the commodity, used in products ranging from beverage cans to aircraft parts, has fallen 14 percent in the past 12 months, and 33 percent since reaching a high of $2,797.00 on May 3, 2011.
"Alcoa sells a commodity product, and they can't control the selling prices, which have come down a lot. So costs have come down," Bradford said.
At Friday's annual meeting, Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld likely will tell shareholders that cuts must be made, according to Bradford, because there is too much aluminum capacity worldwide and too little demand.
In its announcement Wednesday, the company said its goal for 2015 is to reduce aluminum production costs by 10 percentage points. The review will look for ways to cut 460,000 metric tons of smelting capacity. Alcoa already has idled about 568,000 metric tons of capacity, including the closing of its Alcoa, Tenn., smelter; part of its plant in Rockdale, Texas; and cutbacks in Italy and Spain.
Bradford said Alcoa also is opening lower cost production in a joint venture with Saudi Arabian Mining Co., a state-controlled company also known as Ma'aden, which started production late last year.
Growth is slowing in China, the biggest consumer of the metal, in Europe, Brazil and Russia, Bradford said.
When Alcoa issued first-quarter financial results on April 8, Kleinfeld said he expects worldwide output will exceed demand by 155,000 tons this year, even as demand grows 7 percent.
Those earnings exceeded analysts' estimates with net income rising 59 percent to $149 million, or 13 cents a share, from $94 million, or 9 cents, a year earlier. Alcoa said it cut $247 million in costs through productivity gains and increased sales of engineered-products. In recent years, the company has moved more of its business to parts for industry and away from mining and refining.
Last week, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its credit rating outlook on Alcoa to negative from stable because of the aluminum price slump. Alcoa's cash flow and debt are "well outside our expectations" for the company's BBB- corporate credit rating, the ratings company said.
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Urvish Joshi is a photographer by passion and a doctor - a public health professional by training He took up photography as an art during his undergraduate years. Span of about 16 years has seen him toying around with the film-SLRs, the point-&-shoot digital cameras and the dSLRs. Professional requirement of visiting the remote areas and witnessing the life in its crudest form helped him grow as a sensitive artist capturing the essence of human life in every form. His widely recognized work has seen many laurels which range from several internationally acclaimed organizations to some regional ones. Apart from winning contests in several prestigious salons and photo-forums across the world, his work has been featured at London, Chennai, Kolkata, Howrah, Bangalore, Palakkad, Lucknow and Ahmedabad in various shows and exhibitions with more than 20 features in the photo-magazines like Better photography and book/music-band covers.
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Urvish Joshi These are HDRs. Thanks guys
zdonjuan1 i love the shot of the bicycle. what technique do you use to create that dramatic "feel"? it is clearly more than simply messing with "levels" or "curves" in Photoshop...
julie harpum photoshop does wonders for camels doesn't it .. this is a surreal world, starting with good photos of the desert and elevating them to a divine surrealistic world of fantasy images


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Classes have ended, final exams are here and the most wonderful time of the year is right around the corner! Heading home for the holidays is always full of excitement as we look forward to all the Christmas festivities with family and friends. These are the wonderful times that give Fashionistas the opportunity to dress up in their favorite holiday apparel while going to family events and other social gatherings. My advice is not to just focus your style eye on your festive dress, and then cover it up with that big winter jacket that doesn't go with anything. Outerwear is one of the best things about winter fashion that can be easily overlooked as you rush out of the house and grab the same puffy coat everyday. So what exactly is one thing that you should have on your Christmas list this year? The perfect winter jacket!
A winter coat is often the first and last thing others see you in, so it pays to choose wisely. When looking for a coat, it is important to keep in mind how versatile it can be in transitioning from daytime to evening plans. One tip that today's Fashionista demonstrates in her outerwear ensemble is focusing on the fit of the jacket. She wears the classic black and white tweed print in a button-down coat from 344. The style of the jacket accentuates the pattern with a high-waisted fit. The cinched in waist adds a chic appeal to her appearance that can be worn to a family Christmas gathering, and easily transformed into a night on town with friends from home. Along with the defined waist, the loose mid-thigh cut delivers elegance to her look that is perfect for pairing with your favorite skinny pants and tall boots.
If you want to Christmas shop for a winter jacket similar to this Fashionista's, try this alice + olivia high-waisted coat found on Polyvore. For a loose fitted look, you can try this swing coat with a flare from ASOS. Or if you are looking for the classic peacoat, check out this grey toned jacket from Forever 21. This is the best style to find in a variety of colors that you can bring back on campus with you.
So Fashionistas, 'tis the season to find the perfect jacket that's the right fit for you!


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Thinking of planning a city break to St. Louis. Expedia have a great range of hotels and accomodation in St. Louis near Gateway Arch that will help make your stay that little bit more special. But before you go make sure to check out the Expedia travel guide on Gateway Arch first, so you can find out everything you need to know before you go away.


text: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:06:54AM -0700, Martin Siegert wrote: >On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:24:37PM -0400, Robin Humble wrote: >> and LAM queries PBS/torque for the node list via the tm interface and >Unfortunately that is not an option: we support a bunch of different >architectures, most systems come with the vendor's MPI distribution >(e.g., the p595 IBM systems), other's offer more than one MPI implementation using the tm interface is probably still the best long term solution. maybe hassle your vendors? >> you can do nodes=8:ppn=1, and in maui.cfg set >> NODEACCESSPOLICY SHARED >> and make sure JOBNODEMATCHPOLICY is unset, and that'll work. >> http://www.clusterresources.com/products/maui/docs/a.fparameters.shtml > >Thanks! I try that. But in principle torque/maui (or torque/moab in our case) >should support 3 different cases: > >1) nodes=4:ppn=2 >2) nodes=8:ppn=1 > (e.g., for MPI jobs that require the full network bandwidth between > processes, but can tolerate a serial job on the other processor in the > nodes) >3) ncpus=8 > (the don't care choice) > >As far as I can tell your solution supports 1 and 3, but not 2, correct? yes. with the SHARED maui option, case 2 becomes the same as 3 - the 8 cpus are scheduled anywhere. however with both SHARED and JOBNODEMATCHPOLICY EXACTNODE (which is what we use), then your cases 1,2 are handled correctly. I have no idea about case 3 - maybe try it and see! :) it would be great if it worked... your case 2 is a bit scary though - you really want to make sure that the 2nd job that PBS puts onto the shared nodes has small network requirements. perhaps there's a way to request a fraction of network bandwidth per node, like there is with memory per node. if there is, then that would likely be the best solution to make case 2 work effectively. we just use nodes=8:ppn=2 for jobs which fall into case 2, and then run with (LAM syntax again) mpirun N instead of the usual mpirun C. The 'N' says fire up one process per node instead of one per cpu. That way they reserve the whole node worth of network (and memory), and nothing conflicting can be scheduled onto it. low-tech, but it works. mpirun N is also our solution for OpenMP + MPI jobs that want to fire up multiple threads per node. cheers, robin -- Robin Humble http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~rjh/


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The Appalachian State University Men's Glee Club was organized in the Fall of 1962 as an extracurricular musical ensemble. In the fall of 1966 the Men's Glee Club became one of the accredited performing organizations in the School of Music. Glee Club membership continues to draw from most colleges and divisions of the university. The common bond between members of this ensemble is the enjoyment of singing together.
The ensemble's repertoire include both sacred and secular music from all historical periods, concentrating primarily on literature composed specifically for the male chorus. Attention is also given to the extensive repertoire of folk music arranged for men's voices.
Activities of the Glee Club include performances on campus and across the southeastern United States, providing entertainment and educational programs at community and school functions. The Glee Club was the featured ensemble at the General Session for a North Carolina Music Educator's Association In- Service Conference in Winston-Salem, NC in 1995.
Dr. Philip M. Paul, retired Professor of Music at Appalachian State University, was director of the Glee Club between 1966 and 1997. After Dr. Paul's retirement, Dr. Clinton Parker took over the group. Dr. Parker was the founder of the Men's Glee Club and today serves Appalachian State as the Senior Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs. Mr. Mike Clawson was an assistant to Dr. Parker from 1997-2000. He is also a former member of the ASU Men's Glee Club. After Mr. Clawson's departure from the group, Mr. Edward Alton was brought in as an assistant to Dr. Parker. Mr. Alton became director of the group in the spring of 2001. Today, the ASU Men's Glee Club is under the direction of Dr. Roosevelt Escalante Jr. Dr. Escalante is an assistant music director at the Hayes School of Music.
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Jay Wherley (SEI) wrote:
> i would think any filesystem/device FreeBSD could mount could work. this little
> bit of code in the statistics gathering script is what copies the database
> off to permanent media:
> if [ $mins -eq 30 ]; then
> /sbin/umount -f /cf
> /sbin/mount -w -o noatime /cf
> cp /var/net4801.rrd /cf
> /sbin/umount -f /cf
> /sbin/mount -r /cf
> fi
Ahh, nice :).
> note that the 100MB capacity doesn't make any difference in the particular
> round robin database we've setup - our database is 1MB in size the moment it is
> created, and remains 1MB in size as records are added every minute, day by day,
Yes, but in the moment I have only a 1.44 MB Floppy-Drive which holds
the config for the mOnOwall as well and the ZIP-Drive is the next bigger
drive (without using a "real" Harddisk) which I have in my
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August 05, 2005
JBoss shutdown doesn't play nice with JDK Logger class
I spent better part of today fighting with a JBoss-4.0.2 idiosyncracy with regard to its handling of Logger class during shutdown.
The Problem
I have a JBoass XMBean compliant MBean (meaning it extends JBoss class ServiceMBeanSupport) that initialized a
The Diagnosis
My first diagnosis was that the shutdown command was not calling the stopService() method. But I had to reject this diagnosis after seeing System.out.println() output from this method. Then I got suspicious about the identity of the Logger object. However, a println of the Logger object address confirmed that it was the same object in both startService() and stopService(). The next step was to print various attributes of the logger object -- level, handlers etc. This helped in pin-pointing the problem. The getLevel() method was returning null (it should have been Level.INFO).
So, JBoss is traversing the tree of Loggers and resetting them before calling stopService() method of deployed MBeans!
The Fix
The only fix I could think of was to keep my Logger object away from the Logger hierarchy manitained by JDK logging library and hence the JBoss. But how to do that?
That is when I stumbled upon getAnonymousLogger() method. Replacing the call
Wouldn't this be better located in the JBoss forums
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-2087Posted by: Adrian Brock on August 8, 2005 07:24 AM
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This was a family talk (i.e. kids and adults together) that I delivered at the Olivet New Church in Toronto on Sunday, June 6. The actual talk was only in outline form, so this is just a rough write-up of what I remember saying. David Spares Saul A Sermon by Rev. Coleman S. Glenn This [Read More…]
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Pakistan arrests 100 in crackdown on extremists
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Pakistan has detained more than 100 suspected Islamic militants in response to international pressure to crack down on extremists after the London bombings, police sources said today.
Security forces raided religious schools and offices across the country after President Pervez Musharraf issued "clear orders" to stop the spread of violence and hatred, a top official monitoring the operation said.
"We have rounded up over 100 suspected militants in raids on seminaries, offices of religious groups and houses throughout the country," the official said.
"This crackdown is aimed at eliminating a network of nurseries (madrassas) where militants, including those coming from outside, get ready-made facilities for grooming and training," the official said.
Pakistan has been in the spotlight since it emerged that three suicide bombers involved in the July 7 London attacks were Britons of Pakistani origin who had recently visited the country.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday said he was "anxious" for Pakistan to crack down on Islamic schools or madrassas where extremist views might be taught.
Armed police went into action the same day after Musharraf held a meeting with top civil and military intelligence officials to give his approval for the campaign, the official said.
"The crackdown is in response to the London bombings. We are obviously under tremendous pressure to show the world that we are moving against militants," said a senior intelligence officer.
Another senior official stressed the raids were aimed at shaking the network supporting foreign militants but denied reports that a senior al-Qaeda figure directly linked to the London attack had been detained.
Musharraf, who has waged an often unpopular campaign against extremism and escaped at least two assassination attempts by Islamists, was expected to give a televised address to the nation on Thursday in which he was expected to outline new measures to stop extremist preaching at Islamic schools.
At a conference in Islamabad on Monday, the Pakistani leader - a staunch US ally since the September 11, 2001 attacks - said the nation had to reject extremism.
"Stand up and launch a jihad (holy war) against extremism - and jihad for peace, brotherhood and unity in the society," Musharraf said. "Launching bomb attacks in London in the name of Islam is not Islam."
At least 56 people died and 700 were injured in the London bombings, and at least one of the bombers is believed to have attended a madrassa in Pakistan.
Pakistani immigration authorities said that Shahzad Tanweer, 22, and Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, arrived at Karachi airport on November 19 and left almost three months later on February 8.
The third bomber, 18-year-old Hasib Hussain, arrived last July via Saudi Arabia but his point of departure has not been established.
Pakistani police sources said raids were mounted in several cities in the central province of Punjab, which has thousands of religious schools and is home to some of the most radical militant groups.
Police also raided a mosque-seminary in the Pakistani capital. Witnesses said police used tear gas to disperse an estimated 1,000 Islamic students who were protesting against the raid.
In the southern port city of Karachi police raided an apartment and arrested three members of an outlawed militant Islamic group.
Police detained Shakeel-ur Rehman, Mohammad Shoaib and Mohammad Sajjad from the banned Harkatul Mujahideen group and recovered weapons and explosives, a senior police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Pakistan has arrested over 700 suspects linked to Al-Qaeda since the September 11 attacks, including the group's number three Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
However critics, including the government in neighbouring Afghanistan, regularly accuse Pakistan of failing to do enough to control Islamic militancy within its borders.
Many analysts suspect Osama bin Laden and his main Al-Qaeda lieutenants are hiding in the northern tribal lands of Pakistan.
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As you may have guessed, the Australian Kelpie originated in Australia, where she mostly works as a sheepdog (there are rumors that the Kelpie has some Dingo blood in it, but very few would actually admit to cross breeding with Dingos, given their predatory nature in the outback!). The Australian Kelpie has two registries in Australia — working dogs and show dogs — but is not recognized as a registered breed by the American Kennel Club in the United States.
As a working dog in Australia, the Kelpie stands at about 20 inches at the shoulder and stays busy guarding and managing almost every type of livestock. Sheep, cattle, goats or pigs – you name it, the Australian Kelpie will manage it! His signature move is walking across a flock of sheep on the sheeps' backs – without his paws ever touching the ground!
The Kelpie as a whole is friendly and loyal, but he needs to be kept busy. Without an outlet for mental and physical energy, he can become destructive and high-strung. For this reason, Kelpies are not appropriate for apartment living. Luckily, grooming is easy with this short-haired dog – an occasional brushing is all he needs.
Energetic though they are, Australian Kelpies are still prone to a number of hereditary and congenital conditions that can adversely affect their health – not to mention your budget. Some of the conditions and illnesses Kelpies are prone to include eye conditions such as progressive retinal atrophy; knee problems like medial patellar luxation; brain conditions such as cerebellar abiotrophy; muscle conditions such as cutaneous asthenia; and developmental problems such as cryptorchidism.
Thankfully, Petplan pet insurance covers all hereditary and chronic conditions as standard. Which means if your Australian Kelpie inherits more than a strong herding instinct, you're covered.
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Technology Meets High Quality Wines and Customizes Your Wine Deliveries! Forbes Delivers Value and Wines Selected "Just For You".
Although we may receive free samples or commissions on some sales, our opinions are always our own.
- Customized Wine Delivery!
- Free Wine Profile
- Great Value
- $9.95 Tasting Kit
- $7 a Bottle in first delivery!
- Easy Cancellation Policy
- Only Option is a Case Club
- Shipping not included in price
- Price is hidden on site (they *should* tell you, as it's a great price!)
Review of Forbes Wine Club
When you're looking to buy wine via a wine of the month club, your biggest hope or expectation is that you will like the wine.
First: let's take a step back.
Forbes. You know the name. You've heard of the brand all your life. It's well known for its affluent demographic and the high quality lifestyle that is associated with its audience.
Forbes Brand, Forbes Style, Forbes Quality
To set their Wine Club apart, Forbes has wisely partnered with a cutting edge company known for its patented technology in the wine industry, called TastingRoom. This partnership gives Forbes the ability to do something that no other wine club in this category can do: Forbes sends you customized wine selections based on your own, personal taste preferences.
However, with the Forbes Wine Club, their 'personalization' of wine deliveries is quite personal. The process by which they determine your personal wine preferences and tastes is unique, too. (That's where the partnership with TastingRoom comes into play.)
Here's how it works:
Now, you sample the wines in the tasting kit. By following the instructions, you will have logged into your online account with Forbes Wine Club and will rate the wines. (No, you don't have to be a wine snob or a trained sommelier to rate these wines. On the contrary: You're simply asked which wine you like better (a) or (b). It's painless and fun!)
The result of this tasting kit rating? You've created your initial 'Tasting Profile'. It's a really gorgeously-designed (and eerily accurate) document that displays your personal wine taste preferences ' it has totally 'figured you out'! (If nothing else, buy a tasting kit to see what you like!)
There's another key result from this tasting kit rating. Your first case of wine is already customized to your taste preferences!
Around 30 days from the date of your wine tasting kit's arrival, you'll receive your first case of wine. (That means you want to complete your tasting profile quickly! If you don't get it done before they send the first case, that wine can't be customized to your tastes. The wine is still delicious and a great value, so you'd still be happy with the wine. But, why wouldn't you want every case of wine to be customized to your personal tastes? So, just get the tasting kit completed asap.)
This case of wine will be shockingly accurate to your tasting preferences. Every bottle in the case has been matched with your personalized tasting profile.
Great value. Easy on the wallet.
To help ease you into their club, Forbes offers new customers really great introductory discounts and promotions. (Tasting Kit costs only $9.95, shipping included. The first case of wine is half off and includes shipping), resulting in a price of only $7 per bottle for the first case! And, to keep you ordering every three months, Forbes keeps their prices really reasonable. (The normal price is really good. It's only $149 for a full case of wine, plus $19.95 flat-rate shipping. That's about $12.50 per bottle of award-winning wines that were selected just for you)
So, like the competitors in this space, you get convenient delivery of delicious wines at a discount off of retail prices. But, with Forbes, you only spend $9.95 upfront (which results in your really cool personalized Wine Profile) and you get their introductory price of $84.49 including shipping (half off) for the first case of customized wine.
Other Reasons why we love this club
100% Satisfaction, Guaranteed. You're going to love the wine. Period. If not, you let them know and they'll make it right.
Easy, no hassle cancellation. You don't have to jump through hoops or call at "just the right time", or hear a busy signal when trying to call to cancel. You can simply email customer service or call their fully-staffed, professional phone operators and cancel at any time. It's simple.
Great Personalized Gift!
Now this may be my favorite part of this wine club: you're guaranteed to send wine they'll love!
Seriously. Isn't that the biggest fear you have when sending wine? You ask yourself, "What if they don't like it?", or "What kind of wine do they really love?"
With this exclusive personalized process by Forbes, you simply can't go wrong. (Phew!)
Remember, your gift recipient will have to love the wine because they're getting wines based on their own, unique personal tastes! This isn't a gift that you have to guess at. It isn't a painful, stress-filled process for you to dwell over in order to send them 'just the right wine club'.
This simply is just the right wine club. (It has to be! It's customized to their personal preferences.)
So, instead of asking yourself if they'd prefer red or white wine, then try to determine if they'd prefer California Wines or wines from Europe - let them decide for themselves! With Forbes' personalized wine deliveries, you know that you're sending the exact wine they love. (And the tasting kit experience is unique and fun!)
Like a good bottle of wine, it gets better with age.
If you do not exercise your easy cancellation option, and remain with Forbes' wine club, you'll get a new case of wine every 3 months. You can (and should) rate each of these wines within your Forbes account. Why? Because with this information, Forbes can continually enhance your wine profile and get smarter and more accurate with your wines in the upcoming deliveries!
...so, the longer you stay with the Forbes Wine Club, the better it gets!
Highly Recommended. (Please let us know what you think if you order from them.)
Reviewed by Todd Farmer on February 13, 2014
Ship-To States
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Forbes Wine Club ship their Forbes Wine Club to: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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... and you probably think that you've made it. People are sending you free stuff! That's amazing! You've made it this far already but there are quite a couple of things I'd like to tell you.
While you can be very proud of this accomplishment, you have to realize that by deciding to start accepting review copies, you're also accepting responsibility.
Here are some things I wish someone had told me when I accepted my first copy.
1. Don't go overboard
I know it's super exciting to realize that you've been blogging long enough to be considered to receive review copies, but please please don't see this as a sign to start requesting everything.
2. Don't request backlist titles
That's a thing many newbie bloggers don't know about - backlist titles are books that have been out for a while. Typically publishers have a set amount of review copies that are sent out at a certain time before or shortly after a book's release. Backlist titles are usually not available for review, so only request review copies of books that aren't out yet to avoid wasting someone's time.
3. Don't accept any and every review copy sent to you
It won't take long until lots of people will reach out to you. Usually it will be indie authors and small publishers first who will ask you to review their books. Don't say yes to every single book just because it's free. Keep in mind what kind of blog you run. Is this book something that you'd even pick up in a bookstore? If it's not, don't accept the copy. Just because it's free, you shouldn't say yes to everything because -
4. People expect you to actually read the book
Sure, this is the old drama, some people think review copies don't have to be read, it's only an agreement to consider - yada yada, let's not have this argument right now, this isn't the point of this post. You're getting the copy because something is expected in return, whatever that may be. Don't request a billion books with no intention of reading them, that's just not a nice thing to do.
5. Don't be afraid to publish a negative review
Just because you got something for free it doesn't mean that you can't dislike it. Don't be afraid to publish a negative review for a review copy! Nobody will be mad at you for that. You're asked for your honest opinion in 99.5% of the cases, and that also covers the possibility that you might dislike it.
6. - but don't be a jerk about disliking the book
Especially with ARC for indie and small-published books you have to realize that your review might be the first review that people see when they go look for the book.
Sure, disliking and publishing really negative reviews is absolutely 100% fine, but pay attention to the tone. Reviewing is a skill, it's an art in itself to be able to express your negative opinion without being a complete douchebag about it. Meaning no insults.
7. Consider that you might receive backlash
If you read an early copy and are one of the first people to review a book, of course more people will see the review. Be prepared to have people disagree. Consider this while writing the review. Again, don't be a jerk. If you're going to be a jerk regardless, know that you might receive backlash.
8. Don't send negative reviews to the author or publisher!
You may have seen on twitter for example that many reviewer tag authors in reviews. This is a great way to get your review out there, but please, please, please only do this if you rated the book 4 stars and abover and/or hardly said anything negative about it.
Many authors are very vocal about not wanting to be tagged in negative reviews unsoliticedly. Publishers won't reshare your negative reviews either and it's basically just wasting everyone's time / ruining somebody's day. So please don't do that.


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Five former high school friends -- now in their 30s -- reunite for a funeral. What begins as a sad gathering turns into a night of fun, bittersweet memories and surprising revelations in this drama from Austrian director Barbara Albert. The classmates --pregnant Nina, office worker Alex, prison parolee Nicole, actress Carmen and teacher Brigitte -- revisit the past, divulge present disappointments and face their fears about an uncertain future.


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There is still time to register for How to Publish a Book Online on Saturday, November 7 at 0900-1600 (includes breaks). Call ISC at 250-748-7529 to register. The code is 5461.Read More
Still time to register for Online Publishing workshop!
Writing and Publishing Workshops in 2015
This fall I am teaching two workshops for writers at the Island Savings Center in Duncan, BC. Contact ISC at 250-748-7529 to register. Creative Writing Saturday, October 24 from 9:00 – 4:00. Learn some of the secrets of writing interesting stories.This workshop includes point of view, narration, description, characters and dialogue. You will learn how to give your stories strong beginnings, believable conflict and satisfying...Read More
Who makes ebooks? The easiest and cheapest way to get your book in print is to make it into an ebook. Publishing it through the many websites out there is free! As an independent publisher, you will learn to like anything for free. All the companies also offer a free author page that you can use to market yourself and your book. You simply format your book and upload it to a site that converts it into an ebook and puts it for sale on the...Read More
The interior design of your book is important too
When I gave a presentation about book design to the Federation of BC Writers on January 24, everyone asked for a copy of my material. I wasn't prepared for giving handouts for more than 70 people, so I promised I would post it on my blog. I have taken my outline and turned it into a three part series about Book Design Inside and Out. The Most Common Features Inside Your Book The difference between professional design and amateur...Read More
Book Design Inside and Out
I made a presentation about book design to the Federation of BC Writers on January 24 and everyone wanted a copy of my material. I give my presentations from an outline, so I couldn't just photocopy it. But I did promise to post it here on my website. In order to make it more manageable both for me to write and for you to absorb, I plan to put the information up in three different posts – Interiors – Ebook Formatting...Read More
Vancouver Island Self-Publishing Conference
I am giving a presentation on Saturday, January 24 at the Vancouver Island Self-Publishing Conference being held in Nanaimo, BC. It is being presented by the Federation of BC Writers. You don't have to be a member to attend and you don't have to pre-register. For more information visit their website http://bcwriters.ca/self-publish-vanisland/Read More
Why do I need an ISBN? What is it anyway???
A lot of my readers ask me what an ISBN is and why they need one. It's actually a very important part of your preparation to publish. An ISBN puts your book on to lists and into data bases. It makes sure your book doesn't get lost in the millions and millions of books in the world. It is used by booksellers and libraries to find, identify and order books. The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) identifies your book as a...Read More


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Looking at Lithium
In the announcement, Elizabeth told us about a little Lithium and why Engine Yard chose to sponsor the project. In this post, I hope to provide a bit more detail about Lithium, its origins, goals, along with the current and future status.
Every project originates from a unique place. For Lithium, that place was CakePHP. The years of experience gained by the founders from interacting with the community, learning from their challenges, and experimenting with solutions provided invaluable insight into how to design and build a high-performance, high-adoption, easy-to-use tool. Lithium focuses on applying that insight to a blank slate where the best framework possible could emerge. This allows Lithium to push the boundaries in pursuit of the project goals. Lithium strives to be a quality, fast, and flexible framework, with the simplest API possible.
Quality has to be first because everyone relies on a stable foundation. At times, stringent requirements like test cases and code sniffing for every change can get in the way of greater contribution. To compensate, Lithium implemented a custom test suite that provides a solid interface and quick execution. In addition, the team offers the li3_quality plugin to make sure every commit conforms to coding standards. Running this through Travis for continuous integration ensures Lithium continues to work on PHP 5.3 and 5.4 the way anyone would expect.To be fast, Lithium is consistently profiled through XHprof. There are cases where the pursuit of the simple API costs milliseconds. In these cases, choices are made that balance rapid development and execution speed, always giving developers the opportunity to break out of the framework with a hand-tuned solution. Currently, Lithium stands up as one of the fastest full stack frameworks available.
To be flexbile, Lithium implements variants on Dependency Injection, Aspect Oriented Programming, Hierarchical Model View Controller, and other useful patterns. This enables Lithium to push extra features to plugins and external libraries, and keep the core light, sleek, and agile.
To be simple, the team draws on experience and continued education to craft the most succinct API. Sane defaults, environment based configuration, and consistency drive every decision. Developing frameworks is constantly evolving with new ideas presented and new projects appearing to expose the next great feature. Growth adds complexity, but with easy integrations for third party libraries and tools, Lithium can maintain the simple approach.
There are still a few things left on the roadmap. Some of them relate specifically to core code, like model relationships, others like completing the documentation and plugin repository are important to provide the best experience. Stop by #li3-core on freenode.net to learn more.
The future is bright for Lithium. Now is a great time to start contributing. Help Lithium get to the all-exciting 1.0 release.
The Lithium community continues to grow with projects like lithium101.com, sphere.orchestra.io, over 200 plugins, and plenty of friends in the #li3 IRC channel. Hope to see you there.
Want to find out more about Lithium? Join us for a special webinar tomorrow at 9:30AM PST. Register for it here!
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Ph.D. in Public Administration- Western Michigan University 2016
Ferris State University, M.S. - Criminal Justice Administration
Ferris State University, B.S. - Criminal Justice
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Policing, Police Supervision & Management
Professional Experience:
24 years of Law Enforcement experience. I started my career as a Community College Public Safety Officer. I next spent over 19 years with the Grand Rapids, MI Police Department. While at GRPD, I held positions as patrol office/police paramedic; Major Case Team Investigator; Police Sergeant, serving in the following assignments: Internal Affairs, Patrol, Field Training Officer supervisor, and Traffic Unit; and Police Lieutenant serving as a Patrol Unit Watch Commander and a Service Area Administrative Lieutenant. I next spent 4 years with the Kissimmee, Florida Police Department as a Deputy Police Chief responsible for Recruitment and Training, Communications, Professional Standards, including Internal Affairs and Accreditation, Records, and Financial Service.
Current Research Interests - police stress and women in policing
Professional Organizations - ACJS, ASC, NAWLEE
Hobbies: Cooking, quilting and needle work, golf, scuba diving, biking and watching football and hockey.


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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Democrats in Montgomery County planned Sunday to come up with a replacement candidate for an Ohio lawmaker who withdrew from running for re-election.
The county party's central committee scheduled a meeting late Sunday afternoon to replace state Rep. Clayton Luckie on the November ballot. Luckie dropped out Friday, a day after the Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said Luckie was under investigation. The prosecutor has said little other than that the probe doesn't involve bribery.
Luckie remains in office. He had been seeking a fourth term.
Whoever is chosen will run against Iraq war veteran and Republican Jeff Wellbaum of Kettering, in the 39th District.
Former Dayton Mayor Rhyne McLin took her name out of consideration for the Democratic slot, the Dayton Daily News reported (http://bit.ly/RJo2N4 ). The former state legislator said she is focused on running for Dayton city commission next year.
Former state legislator Fred Strahorn was also mentioned as a possible candidate. The Ohio Demcratic Party adviser said he was interested in running for the seat.
And Mark Owens, the county party chairman, said retired Army officer Vic Harris had also expressed interested.
The House district includes much of Dayton.
Luckie issued a statement Thursday underscoring that the investigation isn't related to bribery, but to "errors on some reports that are currently being addressed."
He did not say what types of reports had errors.
"I take these matters very seriously and have instructed my team to conduct a full review of the reports in question," he said. "Out of respect for the process, I will not be addressing any questions until my team has completed their analysis."
Before becoming a state representative, Luckie was on the Dayton Public School Board from 1996 to 2006.
He serves on the powerful state controlling board, which oversees capital and operating expenditures by Ohio agencies and has authority to approve or vote down any other state financial activities. Luckie also serves on the education and insurance committees.


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The clinical signs in fish with the diseases listed in the OIE International Aquatic Animal Health Code (referred to hereafter as the Code) are not pathognomonic. Moreover, these infections may occur as subclinical infections of asymptomatic pathogen carriers.
The only dependable approach for diagnosis of fish diseases therefore lies in the specific identification of the pathogens using laboratory methods. These methods, which are suitable for the diagnosis of isolated cases of disease as part of national aquatic animal health surveillance/control programmes, form the main contents of this the Diagnostic Manual of Aquatic Animal Diseases (referred to hereafter as the Manual).
Such health surveillance programmes aim to determine, from the results provided by standardised laboratory procedures performed with samples collected according to defined rules, the health status of aquatic animal stocks from a particular production site and even a geographical zone or entire country. The satisfactory implementation of such aquatic animal health surveillance/control programmes, requires the existence of both adequate legislation and resources in each country interested in aquatic animal health.
The diagnostic methods presented in this Manual are all direct diagnostic methods. Due to the insufficient development of serological methodology, the detection of antibodies to pathogens in fish has not thus far been accepted as a routine diagnostic method for assessing the health status of fish populations. However, the validation of some serological techniques for diagnosis of certain infections could arise in the near future, rendering the use of serology more widely acceptable for diagnostic purposes. At present, the only diagnostic methods that are accepted in those countries where aquatic animal health control programmes are implemented, are based either on isolation of the pathogen followed by its specific identification, or on the demonstration of pathogen-specific antigens using an immunological detection method. General information on diagnostic techniques for fish diseases is given in Chapter I.1.
Molluscan and crustacean diseases differ in some ways from fish diseases. For example, diagnostic methods must be direct because these animals do not produce antibodies to pathogens. General information on diagnostic techniques for mollusc diseases is given in Chapter I.2. and for crustacean diseases in Chapter I.3.
As detailed in Parts 2, 3 and 4 of the Code, the list of notifiable diseases of aquatic animals includes only major diseases of proven aetiology and limited geographical range. The OIE Fish Diseases Commission, therefore, recommended the creation of a list entitled 'Other significant diseases'. The diseases on this list include:
* those that are serious, but that have a broad geographical distribution;
* those causing significant mortality, that are transmissible and of limited geographical range, but for which the aetiological agent has not yet been identified, or for which standard diagnostic methods are not yet available;
* those with the potential for causing large losses, but which are too new for the geographical range to be defined or for the essential epizoological elements to be understood.
It is expected that the diseases on this list will either be elevated to notifiable status or dropped from the list as new information is obtained.
The Manual includes descriptions of diagnostic methods for these 'Other significant diseases' as well as for the notifiable diseases.


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Justin Bieber – Outrageous Celebrity Purchases
$750 for His Haircuts
Here's the thing about a really expensive haircut: The hair will grow back. It will always grow back. Ya know, that's how hair works.
Celebrity hair stylist Vanessa Price cuts the Biebs' hair, but she only makes house calls, like a true celeb stylist.
Justin's hair always looks nice, but is there that much of a difference between a $75 haircut and a $750 one? Especially when you're getting it touched up every couple weeks? We call shenanigans!
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My favorite is hot, buttered, salted popcorn in a glass of cold milk, eaten with a spoon. You'd be amazed at how much you can cram in a glass. It's like eating popped cereal, but better. My mom passed this down to me, but my kids and everybody else think it's definitely weird.


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This one time, at band camp, Mitch (WebCob) said:
> > > err, chaps, that is part of the tcp protocol. all tcp connections
> > > follow that behaviour, be it http, ssh, smtp, pop and stuff. udp is
> > > a connectionless protocol and doesnt. udp examples include dns,
> > > RADIUS, and some p2p networks.
> >
> > i never implied otherwise. there are other protocols besided TCP and
> > UDP, i'm not familiar with all of them. i expect some are ACKing, and
> > others are ACKless. HTTP was just an example of the former.
> Err... which others are you thinking of?
> TCP/IP and UDP/IP are your two choices on top of raw IP.
what about ICMP (ping a bell? :-). it is not a part of TCP or UDP, but is
it's own IP protocol. here's a partial list:
ICMP (IP prot 1)
TCP (IP prot 6)
UDP (IP prot 17)
GRE (IP prot 47) for PPTP?
IPv6 (IP prot 51) for IPSEC
there are well over 100 protocols that are built on top of IP, granted
that TCP and UDP are arguably the most common, at least on the internet
and in home/office networks. for a more-or-less complete list:
i used to have a slackware 7.1 box as my firewall/router, but i recently
had to purchase an iNexQ router appliance because i needed to pass PPTP,
and the (old) ipfw, etc., on my slackware box only handled TCP and UDP,
but i lacked the time/expertise to patch/reconfigure slackware. the iNexQ
is now a backup to my m0n0.
> Anything else is at a higher osi layer protocol...
no, but to be fair it is a confusing issue. for example, there were some
VPN packages (like checkpoint's secure remote?) which could encapsulate
IPv6 in UDP for servers behind a firewall that suffered the same
shortcomming as my slackware 7.1 box. but even that didn't work for some
older firewalls that could handle only TCP.
> Anything that uses TCP by definition uses ACK's for packet flow control
> - regardless of whether the application protocol is http, ftp, smb or
> other...
> Does this help?
again, i never suggested otherwise. to be clear, my original points were:
- TCP uses ACKs
- UDP is stateless and doesn't use ACKs at the protocol level
- other protocols may or may not use ACKs (or a similar scheme)
does this help? :)


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Parents in Merthyr Vale are hoping to raise £40,000 to improve the facilities at the site.
The playground has been earmarked by Merthyr Council as a potential site for a housing development.
The council is expected to decide in November whether the park will go.
The playground was built in Merthyr Vale - the neighbouring village to Aberfan - using money raised from the people of Coventry following the 1966 landslip which claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults.
But housing has been made priority as part of £28m improvements planned for Merthyr Vale over the next 10 years and the site is being considereed as one for potential development.
Parents living near the playground set up an action group to fight the plans and have campaigned to safeguard the future of the site as a place for children to play.
Carol Jenkins, is the chair of Coventry Playground Action Group, said that the group wanted to start raising money to improve the facilities at the site even though no final decision had been made yet.
"We want to show the council that we are committed to improving things at the playground," she said.
"If we can start raising the money, it will show them that we are serious.
"We are prepared to put in the effort to save the playground because it is still used by the children.
"They are in there every night after school."
She said that she hoped that the efforts made by the group would have a positive effect on the council's decision on the site.
"We are quite hopeful that they will save the playground," she said.
"We are hoping to raise at least £40,000 to update the playground with more facilities for the children."
Campaigners fighting to save the playground have staged various marches and demonstrations to highlight their cause.
Around 5,000 people from across Wales have signed a petition to keep the playground, and a similar petition with about 500 names was complied in Coventry.
The council has described the playground as being in a poor condition, and added that it attracted anti-social behaviour.
It has said that a memorial marking the generosity of the people of Coventry would be included in any new development on the site.
A council spokeswoman said: "There are no further developments on this issue at this time."


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Business groups including the Australian Industry Group, of which Mrs Ridout is the outgoing chief executive, and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, fear the nation's $700 billion payroll could increase by billions a year.
The federal government passed a law last week raising the compulsory super contributions paid by employers from 9 per cent to 12 per cent over a decade.
On Wednesday the Australian Council of Trade Unions ruled out any trade-off in wages for the increase in compulsory superannuation.
"It's going to cost the government $250 [million] to $500 million, over the next few years to do this. And yet it's going to cost business many multiples of that," Mrs Ridout told ABC radio yesterday.
The Australian Industry Group had asked the three-member panel examining the Fair Work Act, which includes fellow Reserve Bank of Australia board member, John Edwards, to reintroduce a section that was part of the workplace laws in 1992 when the superannuation levy began.
It would compel the industrial tribunal, Fair Work Australia, to consider the super rise when deciding on national wage cases.
"The unions have campaigned for this increase in the SGC for years. They've been the most aggressive campaigners for it, yet they don't want to make a contribution to paying for it and, frankly, it is part of wages," Mrs Ridout said.
The ACTU's outgoing secretary, Jeff Lawrence, said there was unanimous support among the delegates at the meeting on Wednesday that there would not be any trade-off in enterprise bargaining or national minimum wage cases.
Workplace Relations Minister
The Australian Financial Review


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by Gary Smith
Hurricane, UT
This is a tool box I made to keep my hand tools in one place. The design was based more around necessity than anything else. I looked around at a lot of tool boxes - most were real big and very fancy, and that's fine, I like that - but I just used the leftover wood in my shop. The box is poplar with some maple and the plywood is birch. On the inside, the tool holders on the sides go to the bottom, and they all slip out. So the box could be used for a lot of different things. It's really easy to make inexpensively and it is very strong.
I like Making Miniature Chuck Wagons as well.
I also built my work bench - I would have gotten some better shots but my shop is full!
I don't know how I got by without this bench.
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text: 10 Ergonomic Ways to Enhance Your Office Space Make your work space as ergonomic as possible with this gravity chair, leg-mounted mouse pad, single-handed keyboard, and more. VIEW ALL PHOTOS IN GALLERY VIEW ALL PHOTOS IN GALLERY Whether it's at home, across town, or an hour-long train ride away, our office is where we spend a good portion of our lives. We go there each day to work, meet deadlines, impress clients and, well, make money. At PC Magazine, we're glued to our computers for at least 8 hours a day (we're so conscientious!). As a result, there are some among us that suffer from fatigued eyes, sore wrists, and aching backs. Sure, we love what we do, but no one wants to be popping aspirin every day. That's why it's so important to take the time to make your workplace as comfortable and ergonomically safe as possible. To that end, this week's top ten is a collection of little-known, ergonomic ways to enhance your office space. As per our usual, we've taken the "strange" slant, including a gravity chair, leg-mounted mouse pad, and single-handed keyboard. Hey, at least we've got you thinking about ergonomics! More Top Tens: VIEW ALL PHOTOS IN GALLERY


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Left: Al-Nabahin wearing a body-armor vest and armed with a rifle (Hamas forum website, November 5, 2012). Right: The body of Ahmed al-Nabahin, wrapped in a green Hamas flag at the Al-Bureij mosque (Shabakat Al-Wusta TV, Gaza Strip, November 5, 2012).
Rockets Fired into Israeli Territory Since the Beginning of 2011[1]
Some of the imported iron seized by the Israel Security Agency at the southern Israeli port of Ashdod, and destined for the Gaza Strip (ISA website, November 1, 2012).
One of the submachine guns (IDF Spokesman, October 31, 2012).
· The Bahrain School in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, built in collaboration with UNRWA.
· A technological center for the handicapped at the Islamic University in Gaza City.
· A library in the Al-Fakhari School in the northern Gaza Strip and a medical center in Khan Yunis.
· Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO's Executive Committee, left for Germany to participate in an international convention dedicated to the future of Middle East peace and to meet with important people, among them the Austrian foreign minister (Wafa News Agency, October 30, 2012).
· Muhammad Ashtiya, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, left for a state visit to the Scandinavian countries to enlist support. He carried three communiqués from Mahmoud Abbas for the heads of the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Finland (Ma'an News Agency, October 31, 2012).
Left: Anti-Abbas poster (Hamas forum, November 3, 2012). Right: Demonstrators trample a picture of Lord Balfour and Mahmoud Abbas on the background of the British and Israeli flags (Hamas forum, November 3, 2012).
· Ismail Haniya, head of the de-facto Hamas administration, said that the interview had dangerous implications and harmed the "right of return" not only of Mahmoud Abbas, but of six million Palestinians (Al-Aqsa TV, November 2, 2012).
· Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesman, said that Mahmoud Abbas lived in a state of confusion and was unaware of the reality of the Palestinian people's struggle against Israel. He said that diplomacy without resistance [i.e., terrorism] would not realize "one percent of the Palestinian people's aspirations" (Al-Aqsa TV, November 2, 2012).
· At one of the demonstrations in the Gaza Strip, Salah al-Bardawil, senior Hamas figure, stressed that Hamas would not recognize any agreement signed by Mahmoud Abbasbecause he represented only himself (Palestine-info website, November 3, 2012).
· Yahya Musa, senior Hamas figure, claimed that Mahmoud Abbas had lost his national legitimacy (Palestine-info website, November 3, 2012).
Hamas commentary on the "concessions" of Mahmoud Abbas (Filastin al-'Aan, November 3, 2012).
Muhammad Kaya (center) holds a press conference at the monument erected by Hamas for the "activists" killed aboard the Mavi Marmara (Alresala.net website, November 4, 2012).
The PRC launches its campaign
Pictures of the suspects issued by Jordanian News Agency Petra.
[1] As of November 5, 2012. The statistics do not include mortar shell fire.
[2] Bahrain's Royal Charity Organisation is headed by Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa, son of the Bahraini ruler.
[3] For further information see the March 8, 2011 bulletin "The Palestine Return Centre: London-based center for anti-Israeli propaganda, affiliated with Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood, outlawed in Israel. It promotes the demand of the Palestinian refugees to return as a way of destroying Israel. Senior PRC figures send flotillas and convoys to the Gaza Strip and transfer funds to Hamas."
[4] In November 2005 three simultaneous suicide bombing attacks were carried out in three hotels in Amman. They caused the deaths of 67 civilians and wounded an estimated 200. There were only minutes between the attacks. The organization headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a branch of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, claimed responsibility for the three suicide bombing attacks.