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10 Reasons to Listen to the 47th Annual CMAs Tonight on KNUE
Country's biggest night is here and the excitement is building. The 47th Annual Counrty Music Awards will get underway tonight at 7pm. You can tune in to 101-5 KNUE to listen to the complete show, and here's 10 reasons why you shouldn't miss it!
- 1. Personally I think the number one reason to catch the show, will be the tribute of one the biggest names in country music, George Jones. "The Possum" will be remembered tonight with a duet from living legends George Strait and Alan Jackson.
- 2. Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert will sing their duet "We Were Us." This should be one of the best performances of the night.
- 3. Rumors have it Taylor Swift will take a song that all of us know and love and make it her own gorgeous version. Taylor will be joined on the performance by two of music's finest singers anywhere, Alison Krauss and Vince Gill.
- 4. The Zac Brown Band will team up with one of music's best drummer, Dave Grohl, on a new song. This should be interesting and unique.
- 5. Beyond her hosting duties tonight, Carrie Underwood will also be singing a medley of four recent No. 1 hits. (I'm sure Buddy Logan will watching to to catch a glimpse at Carrie's gams!)
- 6. Brad Paisley coming back to the stage as co-host with Carrie Underwood. Brad is the funniest, smartest and a phenomenal guitarist who will show you in his performance tonight! I wouldn't miss that for the world.
- 7. Rascal Flatts, Jennifer Nettles and Darius Rucker will be honoring another great legend, The Gambler himself — Kenny Rogers.
- 8. Luke Bryan and Florida-Georgia Line will jam tonight! Get ready ladies.
- 9. One of the most acclaimed young singer-songwriter in recent country history from Golden, Texas, Kacey Musgraves. All of East Texas will be watching as she performs with talented Hunter Hayes and Jason Marz.
- 10. Of course just watching all the performances of country's biggest stars and seeing what everybody is wearing.


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IOWA TEACHER OF THE YEAR. The Iowa Teacher of the Year Award was established in 1958 and was sponsored by the Iowa Department of Education through an appropriation from the Iowa legislature. The award provided an opportunity to recognize an Iowa teacher who motivated, challenged, and inspired excellence; who was respected by students and peers; who was a dedicated professional that helped nurture hidden talents and abilities; who was a creative, caring individual; who took teaching beyond textbooks and blackboards; and who was an exceptional teacher helping to redefine American education.
The Iowa Teacher of the Year served as the Iowa Ambassador to Education, acting as an education liaison to primary and secondary schools in this state.
Anyone, including school administrators, colleagues, students, parents, college faculty, and associations could nominate teachers for the award. Winners are chosen by a committee that included representatives of the Iowa Department of Education (DE), the Iowa State Education Association (ISEA), the School Administrators of Iowa (SAI), the Parent Teachers Association (PTA), the past Iowa Teacher of the Year, and representatives from higher education institutions.
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to think it's odd that a child without SN...(91 Posts)
who is 3 years and 4 months old, still sleeps in a crib and eats in high chair?
I'm surprised he fits, if he's not sn and it isn't a specially made crib and high chair. I don't know any children of that age that could fit comfortably in a crib or at all in a high chair.
She fits, but it doesn't seem comfortable! She seems normal size for her age to me.
Do you mean a cot or a crib,
Depends. Cot beds are bigger and if DD1 is anything to go by, some toddlers hate leaving the safety of their cots to a big scarey bed.
Also, many high chairs are made to be adaptable from 6 months up to 4/5 years. So the tray comes off and they are literally high chairs, chairs high enough to be used at the table.
If the child is happy and there is no evidence of abuse or neglect then tbh I am wondering why you care!
Ps my DD age 4 can still fit in her sister 's high chair and cot bed
Mmm...a little. Even my DC's with SN's weren't in a crib (I assume that means cot, not swinging crib as I first thought, which hurt my brain as I tried to figure out how you would fold a 3yo into one...) or highchair at that age, except one, and he is the one with the most SN's.
The one of mine that came out of a cot and highchair at the oldest age was DS2 and he was <<racks brain back in time>> 3y6mo for the cot (it was easier to tip the end of the cot up for his respiratory issues) and the highchair at around 3y2mo when it broke with him in! (He wasn't mobile so was quite heavy at that point. He's a skinny malinky now)
And he wasn't able to sit up unaided until he was 2y6mo, so it wasn't a stretch that he was in a highchair for a while after.
But for an NT DC, I would raise an eyebrow, for sure.
DS3 is 3yo on Friday. He was out of a cot at 11mo as it was too dangerous, as he was throw ing himself out of it. A toddler bed with the cot mattress on the floor was safer for him. Ditto the highchair at 16mo. And he's NOT NT.
I haven't seen her in her crib in ages so not actually sure of the fit there. I know she does still sleep in it though.
Actual crib? Are you sure?
An actual crib?
And what kind of high chair? One with a plastic tray and what not or a chair like these
I'm an American so to me a cot is an Army or camping type thing! I mean a crib like this
Bogey the high chair has not been adapted and is used with a tray. I don't "care", as in I would never say anything to the mother, I don't lie awake thinking about it, etc. I really am wondering if I am BU to think it's odd. That's why I "care".
hmm. it depends, really.
my ds is 3 yrs 4 months, doesn't have anything "babyish", slept in single bed from 17 months old, for example.
neighbours child is 3 yrs 9 months and has a dummy, baby bottle, uses highchair ( can see into their living room from mine without trying) and uses a buggy ( ie gets put in buggy, wheeled out to car and strapped into car seat, buggy folded and put in boot, reverse it for when they come home. from car to front door is perhaps 7 foot, maybe 8 at a push)
however, my ds is the eldest of 3 ( other two are 17 months and almost 12 weeks so I'm using a double buggy for them etc) and neighbours kid is an only.
maybe only children get babied that wee bit longer?
for instance, my eldest had a dummy/ bottle til 2 (so until middle dc was about 5 weeks old- middle dc came off baby bottle just before first birthday) and used a buggy til I was about 3/4 months pregnant with dc3
Ds in cot until 3yr 4 mths (never tried to climb out) and high chair until 3yr 6mths (no sn).
Ok, well I don't think it's that weird to sleep in a cot. My dd was just a bit younger than that when she went into a bed and that was because we were having dd2.
I don't get it when people do things early. My neighbour put her carseat in when she was a couple of months pregnant and bought a baby walker when the baby was two months ole etc. I don't understand that. Always going on to the next stage rather than enjoying the one you are in.
Both my dds still use their Tripp trapp chairs and my oldest is 10.
Savoy I don't think people should do things "early" or push either. I whole heartedly agree with enjoying the stage they're in...it's just to me, my first thought was that they aren't in the baby stage anymore.
But it looks like it's not so odd after all. Thanks for the replies!
Not that odd then. I never pushed my DC's to the next stage, but they each moved on when it was the right time for them.
DS3 was moved out of a cot and highchair far earlier than I would have liked, but it was purely for safety reasons. You can't tie him down or hem him in! He sits perfectly well on a dining chair, and has done since we got rid of the highchair.
I suspect that that is because he knows that he can get down, should he want to, yet in a highchair, the straps seem to instantly say to him that he can't get down.
He's the same with his bed - if I had known sooner that the reason he NEVER slept in it, and either co slept or climbed out to co sleep was because he detested the 'hemmed in' feeling of the bars, I would gave put him in a bed sooner!
From his first night in his bed, he doesn't get out of it until he wakes in the morning.
Contrary bugger, my DS3!
I reckon he will be slightly claustrophobic tbh. Never felt the need to test this yet...
My three and a half year old is on the large side but has been known to put himself into his little brother's cheap Ikea high chair. He fits.
He doesn't fit in the cot though. And there are a few 4 year olds at nursery who are collected from the school in a buggy with dummy (at that age, if they do still use one make it an at home thing - 35 years later and I still remember which kid still had a dummy in nursery because he had the mickey taken a lot about it in the following years
Yes it is a bit odd. My DS1 started in uniformed school at 3y7 months (overseas)...
All of mine were out of cots at 18 months and had finished with the high chair by then too.
My DS (3.5) sleeps in a cot bed (cot with sides taken off) but there's no way he's fit in a high chair and he has eschewed the pram since he was younger than 2.
However, they are unlikely to be in a cot at 15 so it's not that much of a worry surely?
The sides are on, Ozzie. I know lots of kids that age whose parents took the sides off and converted it into a toddler bed.
No, it's not that much a of a worry...not a worry at all actually. It's just that every time I see it I think "hmm" so I wondered if I was odd to think it was odd! I didn't want to ask anyone IRL (mother is a friend) so thought I'd ask here.
have you asked the mum why child's still in cot/ highchair ? not in a judgey wAy, just conversationally?
Not really, this friend is pretty defensive as a whole.
Her dd was going to stay with me next month for a few days (not going to happen now) and she mentioned she would bring the pack n play (that's what we call it, like a play pen type thing) for her to sleep in. Her dd would be pretty much three and a half by then so I just said "oh no worries, I'll just put her in our toddler bed." And she said "oh I never thought of that" or something along those lines.
She has said in the past that she doesn't know how to convert the crib so she just leaves it.
Overall she and her DH do seem to think that dd is younger than she actually is, IYKWIM? like they discuss her in front of dd herself like you would a much younger child who didn't understand what you were saying.
She is an only, though, so that sort of makes sense. My friend is having another baby in September and I think once she does, her dd will seem so much older.
Could it be undiagnosed SN that the mother is responding to? On the two occasions when I have put my judgey pants on and been convinced that the parents are babying their child, same child has later been diagnosed as autistic- the parents were simply responding to something about their child even though they didn't know what it was.
A bit like my friends thought I was babying 4yo dd when I let her ride her on my shoulders on days out. I just knew she couldn't do what the others could, though it was another 4 years before her joint disorder was diagnosed.
That's a good point, Cory.
The cot thing is only odd as it is not the 'norm' I guess. If it is easier to leave the sides on the cot then it doesn't matter I suppose but TBH once my DCs were in normal beds holidays and staying out was much easier. There is also only a 2 year gap between them so I needed the cot.
I wouldn't have let my children after about 2 YO use a highchair as I think it is important they learn how to sit at the table and eat properly without getting down etc, sometimes we had a booster seat or a cushion for height reasons but not something that strapped them in.
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News Clips - October 9, 2009
From October 2 to October 9, Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 346 references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Computer Science Professor David Farber explains his opposition to net neutrality
The Washington Post | October 8
David Farber
, a professor of computer science and public policy at
Carnegie Mellon
, opposes net neutrality rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission. Here's why: Farber doesn't think there are enough examples of bad players in the telecom, cable and wireless industries to justify more regulation. And even if there were problems, consumers and companies can complain to the Federal Trade Commission or Justice Department, he says. Ultimately, net neutrality rules would be bad for innovation, says Farber, who was one of the early technologists involved in the formation of the Internet.
Will airports screen for body signals? Researchers hope so
CNN.com | October 6
"I haven't seen any research that shows that those measures from the autonomic nervous system ... measuring blood pressure, measuring breathing, measuring heat on the face, are at all related to intent," said
, professor of statistics and social sciences at
Carnegie Mellon
University. Fienberg, who participated in a government study critical of the use of polygraphs, said he worries that a lot of money is being spent on a program that in the end will show "the emperor has no clothes."
Serious child's play
TIME | October Issue
Bossa Nova robotics is a neat example of one city's transformation from 20th century industrial relic into a more entrepreneurial 21st century metropolis. It's a start-up specializing in robotic toys "designed in Pittsburgh, made in China and distributed everywhere," says co-founder David Palmer. Bossa Nova's babies are called Penbo and Prime-8. […] These are smart little toys, having grown up at
Carnegie Mellon
University (Carnegie Mellon), the renowned tech-computer-engineering school. In the aftermath of steel's fade-out, Carnegie Mellon emerged as the city's high-tech incubator.
Education for Leadership
Carnegie Mellon students illuminate the Cultural District
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Show Blog | October 2
The students also surveyed visitors on their perceptions of the Cultural District, what they like and what they are concerned about. The biggest concern is safety and the amount of dark areas that currently exist downtown and make people feel insecure when walking at night. The project hopes to address these issues by illuminating these areas as well as using light to help people navigate about the area.
Arts and Humanities
Miller Gallery's 'Moon' exhibit opens minds
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 7
So it is that a curious exhibition has opened recently at the Miller Gallery at
Carnegie Mellon
University. "29 Chains to the Moon" features 29 projects by artists who have put forth radical proposals, from "seasteads" and tree habitats to gift-based cultures, in hopes of making the world a better place.
Outsmart your emotions, cut your fees, keep it simple -- and reap higher returns.
Yahoo! Finance | October 8
Now recall the mood in September 2008. The real estate sector is crumbling, and the stock market has been slipping for nearly a year. Uncle Sam has taken over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers have failed. Investors, who couldn't wait to check their account balances when the market was rising, monitor them much less frequently now. They are suffering from the ostrich effect, a term coined by
George Loewenstein
, a professor of economics and psychology at
Carnegie Mellon
Carnegie Mellon adds computational biology center to computer science
Campus Technology | October 8
Carnegie Mellon
University has become the first institution in the country to add a computational biology department to its School of Computer Science (SCS). The center, named after benefactors Ray and Stephanie Lane, has actually existed for two years, but recently moved into a new complex that includes the Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies and the Gates Center for Computer Science.
Technological devices offer glimpse into future
PhysOrg.com | October 8
A group from
University proposed sensors in cellphones to test the air quality. "We're used to using our mobile phones as a communication tool, but it can also be a measurement instrument," said
Eric Paulos
, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon. "We know what happened when people added a camera, we got citizen journalism. . . . What happens if you could measure things? You could talk about the air quality in your neighborhood."
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh needs to encourage entrepreneurs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 4
Back then, our economic assets were natural resources such as rivers and minerals. Today, Pittsburgh's biggest assets are technology and innovation. The transformation of
Carnegie Mellon
, Pitt and UPMC over the past three decades into some of the leading centers for research in the world has given our region one of the key ingredients for successful economic development in the future.
HR leaders play crucial role in helping their companies grow
Pittsburgh Business Times | October 9
Not only does
Barbara Smith
, associate vice president and chief human resources officer at
Carnegie Mellon
University, spend her day addressing various HR issues, but she's also responsible for the child care center at Carnegie Mellon. Rather than complaining about this extra role, she says "it's just great."
Fomer professor's Nobel Prize medal presented to Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 8
On Monday, the children of the late
John A. Pople
honored his bequest and presented his gold Nobel Prize medal to
Carnegie Mellon
University at the inaugural John A. Pople Lectures in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. The presentation and lectures attracted a standing-room crowd to the Mellon Institute Auditorium.
Carnegie Mellon completes $3.3M addition to business school
Pop City Media | October 7
Carnegie Mellon
University's Tepper School of Business has completed as 4,700-square-foot, three-story addition. Designed by Friendship/Garfield-based EDGE studio, the $3.3 million addition includes a new accessible entrance on the west side of the building, a first-floor undergraduate student lounge (with floor-to-ceiling windows and a flat-screen TV), eight faculty offices (all with outward-facing windows) and a technologically advanced conference center and seminar space. Intended for Tepper academic and social events, this top floor space can be divided by a movable partition, and can accommodate up to 100 people.
Get a byte of rare literature
Times of India | October 6
IISCs' Digital Library of India has now digitized 1.5 lakh books or roughly 48 million pages. Along with
Carnegie Mellon
University and 19 other institutes, IISc is undertaking the `Million Books Project' -- the aim is to digitize a million books sourced from every part of the world. The project, which has set a target of 250 million pages or 500 billion characters, is being undertaken under the ministry of communications and information technology.
American engineers create robots that walk on the water
Globo Online | October 6
Mechanical Engineers of the University
Carnegie Mellon
had created new models of robots capable to walk on the water. The devices, that have between 5cm and 15cm and weigh few gram, can be moved quickly on a watery surface. The name of the automaton is STRIDE (Surface Tension-based Robotic Insect Dynamic Explorer) and uses the superficial tension of the liquid as bracket, exactly as they make it natural insects that if move on water blades.
If you must talk, text or twitter, do not do it while driving
Economist.com | October 2
Cognitive researchers at
Carnegie Mellon
University reckon that just listening to a conversation can reduce activity in the region of the brain associated with spatial- and visual-information processing (the part used for driving) by as much as 37%. Cognitive distraction causes drivers to focus on a narrow space ahead, with little awareness of what is going on around them—something researchers call "inattentional blindness". This is what causes motorists to miscalculate distances and drive too close to the car ahead.


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Hello We need to collect list of names who would use this stop and send to DOT DaveContinue
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Bloomberg will announce waterfront plan Monday 03/14/11. There is already a three year commitment for frequent ferry service starting this summer. Williamsburg,Greenpoint ,and LIC are in. Astoria is pending. We need to send a few hundred names to DOT to get a ferry stop also
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Aaron Wilson of the Carroll County Times reports that Ray Rice will be 'franchised' by the Ravens tomorrow. Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com joined the Norris & Davis Show to discuss.
Ray Rice Franchise Tag Coming?March 1, 2012 8:39 AM
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I have seen Mr. mansell, and have engaged myself to undertake his defence.
Mr. mansell was not at the breakfast-table when Mr. Byrd came down.
One evening, however, a huge crowd slowly congregated in mansell's study.
Fifthly is the result of my poking about among Mr. mansell's traps.
"Which probably means that it's most damnable nonsense," whispered mansell.
Mr. mansell is the last man to wear a ring, I must acknowledge.
Mr. mansell, despite his self-command, began to look uneasy.
"Your men will always find me at my desk in the mill," said Mr. mansell, coldly.
mansell fluctuated; one week he "bagged" the translation Clarke was using for scholarship work.
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Far across the galazy, a young third baseman on the planet Zim-Ra trembled before the world-consuming might of Galacticus and weighed an awful choice. He could have the cherished Gold Glove if only he would serve Galacticus as his personal herald of evil and destruction. Surely a small price to pay for universe-spanning power and glory.
"No," said the sleek young third baseman.
Galacticus roared his rage foreshorteningly. A being who devours worlds whole is not accustomed to being turned down. "If you will not accept," Galacticus said in a voice that echoed across the spheres, "Scott Rolen will. You see, the Gold Glove does not go only to he who defends best. When Glacticus wills it, the Gold Glove is awarded based on reputation, and batting!"
Shaken to his core, the young third baseman trembled at the dire knowledge of this injustice. "That's not fair! I don't believe you!" he cried.
"How else do you explain Don Mattingly?" Galacticus replied in a voice that shook moons from their orbits.
The young man from the planet Zim-Ra understood then, the fell mysteries of the universe laid bare before him.
"If you will not serve me, Rolen will have the Gold Glove in your stead," Galacticus said, his voice like a thousand pipe organs tuned to chords deeper than a black hole swallowed by another black hole in a distant galactic core. "And you, valiant, foolish young man from Zim-Ra, you I will punish with exile to the Nationals planet as the Silver Slugger. There, you will be an alien among lesser peers, an outcast from the big markets like New York."
Galacticus paused, a silence emptier and vaster than the void between the stars.
"And I shall curse you with such extraordinary instincts and range that you will field balls that others would not catch, and in fielding them, you will risk making errors on plays that other third basemen would never touch. And for this, you will be denied the Gold Glove many times over. Bwa-ha-ha!"
A destiny that would have crushed the soul of a billion lesser men, but one the Silver Slugger bore with stoic resolve and foreshortened forearms, at least until Jack Kirby retired and John Byrne gave him a gritty reboot. But that's another story, for another time. Next month: A thrilling crossover puts Wolverine on the cover, even though he only appears in one panel on page 11.


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Dancing With Sharks! Epic Fail! Slater's Rich!
Collisions and GoPros go together like tiger sharks and dancing.
Dancing With The Sharks
100% real yet pure magic.
Dropping Knowledge
A wise man once said, "anybody that's ever been attacked by a shark, actually fears them less."
Attempted Murder Caught On Film
Good luck getting that to stand up in court, buddy.
Epic Fail
When the wave breaks here, don't be there!
Who is Jackass 4.0
On the next episode, Poopies gets his own face tattooed on his back.
Point Break, Danish Edition
"You'll never find yourself until you find your wave!"
Surfer FB Comments
Hoverboard Video
Lame! It's like a Segway mixed with rollerblades on a wakeboard. Stop!!!
We don't need anymore stupid gadgets, the ocean is already over crowded as it is. Stay Out! SUPs should stay the F* away too!
It's cool and all but let's see someone drop in on some big pipe on one.
Don't act like you don't want one.
A Literal Thruster
Coming to lineups near you soon.
Slater Cashes Out
If you were concerned about The Champ's financial well-being, don't be. He's selling 35% of his GoPro stock for "a cool $1.1 million."
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|Food Labeling; Gluten-Free Labeling of Foods; Public Meeting
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|Mr. Marc LeBeau
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|Individual Consumer
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| 'Gluten-free' on a food label must mean that there are no gluten-containing ingredients in the product AND that there is minimal chance of contamination of the product by other gluten-containing products prepared or packaged in the same facility. My family identifies foods that contain gluten by relying on THE CSA GLUTEN-FREE PRODUCT LISTING and by word-of-mouth with others that suffer from gluten allergies. Grocery shopping can take hours each week because of the time spent reading the labels of nearly every product that we want to buy. It makes it so much easier and safer to shop when products are marked as gluten-free. About 10 - 20% of the packaged foods we purchase already have the gluten-free labels and I will always purchase the product that is labeled as gluten-free over a competitor's product that is not clearly labeled.


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Knights coach Wayne Bennett said Penrith coach Ivan Cleary's provocative post-game comments about Kade Snowden had cost the in-form Newcastle prop an extra week on the sidelines.
Snowden will miss games against the Roosters on Sunday and Brisbane on Friday week as he serves a two-game suspension. The 26-year-old pleaded guilty to a grade-two dangerous contact charge for using a raised knee that struck Penrith lock Adam Docker in the face early in Newcastle's 32-14 victory over the Panthers last Sunday.
Cleary said Docker ''had a broken cheekbone from a fairly dubious knee'' and complained Snowden was neither penalised nor reported by referees Ashley Klein and Adam Devcich. Docker has since been cleared of a fractured cheekbone and Cleary named him to play against Cronulla on Sunday.
Bennett said the NRL had instructed coaches and club officials to refrain from making inflammatory comments about incidents that were likely to be dealt with by the match review committee and judiciary.
''I've got a fair bit of concern about it actually, particularly when the NRL talk pretty tough about coaches not commenting on judiciary,'' he said. ''I've got no doubt at all he [Cleary] got Kade the extra week. Kade lifted his knee, and I'm not disputing that, but Ivan came to the press conference and was very condemning about the action and he had a player [Docker] with a broken cheekbone, and it's all turned out the player will play this weekend and our guy's doing time. I think he's doing an extra week for it anyway … The game talks tough then we get a player that gets a suspension because of it, well partly because of it, then there's no action taken at the other end of the spectrum. I'm disputing the part that there's been no penalty or fine given to the Penrith club … because of the outspoken position Ivan Cleary took on it, which has been proven to be wrong. What we all do know is the NRL is influenced by the media, and by coaches and their comments.''


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Saturday, June 12, 2010
#82 World Cup Evangelism
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- Luther Zwingli said...
While you're in the mood for world cup +humor, check these out:Stuff White People Like
The Onion Sports Introduction to the World Cup
- June 13, 2010 at 8:19 PM
- SteveC said...
I had a friend who did this in France a few years back. Between the drunk English hooligans and the militant French Muslims (who physically assaulted him and his team members more than once), he had a pretty rough go of it.
- June 15, 2010 at 12:35 PM
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- June 19, 2010 at 5:21 AM
- Library Lady said...
I was in London the day the U.S. played the Brits in the WC.
It was THE talk of the town. "Are you watching THE game?" "Did you see THE game?", ad nauseum. I finally had to ask, "What game?" People looked at me as if I had three heads, instead of my usual two.
I was so NOT interested -- I took a tour to Salisbury, Bath, and Stonehenge instead. The cathedral experience in Salisbury was further enhanced by a choral rehearsal taking place avec a lovely pipe organ.
Tres marvelous!
I didn't know Pele was no longer playing soccer...bummer. Just where did the 70s go to?
- June 19, 2010 at 5:23 AM
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This made me laugh so hard! Thank you for your satirical sense of humor...I look forward to reading many more posts!
- July 7, 2010 at 2:35 PM
I must tell you that everything you said is true way beyond humor. I took part in an outreach in the 2006 World Cup with a mission organization and while the majority wasn't White American Christians, they were there and it wasn't pretty... I come from a football crazy nation and I can actually play and talk football (only Americans call it soccer...) and it was an amazing opportunity to share the gospel with people from many nations in the same spot. So don't loose heart, just come better prepared! And ditch that Brazilian soccer jumper is you are not Brazilian, people will expect you to play and you know what happens then...
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SQL Saturday #57 was this weekend! Sean and I went, talked, webshow-ed, and then presented a total of SIX sessions!
Sean and I drove down Friday afternoon – only confusing I-35 with I-45 for about an hour, and then diverting back toward Houston. We really enjoy these trips together, because we're DBAs and parents, so we rarely get to have a full conversation with each other without the phone ringing or one kid or another demanding chocolate milk.
The speaker dinner was a lot of fun. After, we met up with
in our hotel room for the DBAs@Midnight show (ep 2.23). Tim and Eric played heckler, and we had a nice jaw with Wes and Patrick. (The preview will be up on YouTube.com/MidnightDBA later this week, and the episode itself will be up on MidnightDBA.com next week.)
Six hours later, we rolled out of bed and on toward the event. SQL Saturday Houstondid a really good job with logistics, venue, sponsors, communications, food (Panera muffins for breakfast!)….just about everything. I pinged them a little for signage, but only a little…they had a great venue map and great schedule communications that more than made up for a little weakness in signage.
We made sure it was okay with the organizers, and went ahead and live-streamed all of our sessions. Hey, you'd know these things if you followed us on Twitter!
Sean's first (of FOUR) Powershell session was "Beginning Powershell for DBAs 1.0". It was moderately attended – SQL Saturdays tend to have a lot of people that skip the 8am sessions (go figure) – but well received. I didn't get to attend his second session ("Beginning Powershell for DBAs 1.5"), but I hear it was better attended, and I like the idea of a nice two hour beginner's event.
I didn't get to hit that 9:45am session because *I* had my first session: "Women in Technology: Why are we Still Talking About This?" This was a last minute addition for a speaker dropout, so I decided to make it a panel discussion. Karla Landrum (blog, Twitter) was kind enough to join me on almost no notice, and we had a great talk. Geoff Hiten (blog, www.Twitter.com/SQLCraftsman), MVP and newly appointed SQLPASS Board Member, joined us. As it turns out, Geoff now has the WIT virtual chapter under his umbrella of responsibility, so he's getting involved!
Next, I went straight to my second session, "T-SQL Code Sins: The Worst Things We Do to Code". Here we have to break from the narrative and describe the venue:
The venue was really quite cool. It's a church, laid out in four adjacent buildings. The main SQL Saturday building has a large open area for registration, noshing and mingling, surrounded by 5-6 classrooms and the speaker room. The second building we used is clearly the youth center. On one end is a really nice area with tables and chairs, then an open area with couches and video games, and finally a very nice concert hall (seats about 200) with a professional light and sound setup and a BROAD, RAISED STAGE.
In short, the session went very well, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. I gave out a dozen Ding Dongs, and two books, to the people that pleased me the most (either with nodding, laughing, questions, or their answers).
The rest of the day went well – lunch, attending Erin Welker's 0 to Cube session (which was fantastic, despite some major glitching with the display), and Sean's last two sessions.
In the rock room, of course. Nancy thanked volunteers [pic on phone], sound guys, sponsors. Nicest room by far for the big presentations. Announced Dallas SQL Saturday (April 2). "Anything we did right today, it's because we watched them do it first." Awwww….
If you live in or around Houston, be sure to join the HASSUG and be a part of this great group!
As I said, we live-streamed our sessions via our Droid X phones on Ustream.tv. These recordings don't get the screen, and the video and sound aren't professional by any stretch. But IMHO they're still worthwhile, because you get the entire talk immediately, without having to wait for us to produce them. (Speaking of which, I'll put up code and slide deck and more later this week…)
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SACKVILLE, N.B. – CHMA is gearing up once again for its annual Stereophonic Music Festival.
Featuring some of the best independent music from around the Maritimes and beyond, the 11th annual Sterephonic will kick off in Sackville tonight and will run through the weekend.
"Like birthdays, anniversaries and holidays, Stereophonic is a way of celebrating another year of community radio, local music, and friend's music from across Canada," says Kevin Brasier, one of the festival organizers.
More than two dozen performers will take the stage at six different venues throughout the four-day lineup, featuring the likes of Julie Doiron, Lucas Hicks, BA Johnston, Baby Eagle, among many others.
"There is something for everyone at this year's Stereophonic," says Brasier, "from the softer singer-songwriting of Jennah Barry, to the alt-country sounds of Fiver, and the loud, high energy music of Julie Doiron and the Wrong Guys."
This year's line-up will also include a handful of brand new Sackville bands that have sprung up since the last Sterephonic, he says.
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The first of the shows get under way tonight (Jan. 15) at 8 p.m. at the Sackville Legion featuring Lucas Hicks, BA Johnston and Max Grizzly and the Entertainment.
On Thursday, Jan. 16, the Mount A Chapel and the Pond on campus will be the places to be with shows including Michael Duguay, Nick Ferrio, Good Things, Walrus and Grease Beast.
Friday's performances will kick off at 7:30 p.m. at the Vogue Theatre with Pat LePoidevin, Baby Eagle, and Jennah Barry, followed up by a show at George's Roadhouse featuring The Grubbies, Weird Lines, Construction & Destruction, The Mouthbreathers, Julie Doiron and the Wrong Guys starting at 10 p.m.
Brasier says he is especially anticipating Saturday afternoon's performances, which will put the spotlight on several local youth who are involved in an all-girls rock camp this week.
"I'm most excited for the Radio Girls Rock Camp showcase on Saturday at the Vogue," he says.
Radio Girls Rock Camp is a music camp for girls which has been put on with the support of CHMA and Leadership Mount Allison.
"There has never been a program in Sackville that specifically encourages young girls to engage with positive female role models in an exclusively artistic and cultural context. The camp is running all week, and on Saturday the town will get a chance to see what these talented girls can do."
The show will also include the all-female band Dark for Dark.
On Saturday night, music lovers can take in performances at Struts Gallery and George's Roadhouse by the Boxers, Wooden Wives, Jerk Damaged, Kappa Chow, Nap Eyes, Fiver, Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers.
Stereophonic is an annual music festival organized by the staff and volunteers of CHMA 106.9 FM, a 50-watt campus-community radio station serving Mount Allison University and the greater Tantramar region.
Now in its 11th year, the festival is dedicated to promoting local talent and volunteerism on all level and celebrating the vitality of independent music.
Festival passes for Stereophonic 11 can be purchased at Stereophonic headquarters at 19 Bridge Street, next to Black Duck cafe, or at the shows. For full details on Stereophonic Music Festival's schedule, visit the event's blog at http://stereophonicmusicfestival.wordpress.com/


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Staniforth, Andrew D and Schilling, Richard J (2003) Reuse of Occluded Veins During Permanent Pacemaker Lead Extraction: A New Indication for Femoral Lead Extraction. [Journal (Paginated)]
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Objectives: This study examined the utility of a novel technique for reuse of thrombosed veins when extracting permanent pacemaker leads via a femoral vein approach. Background: Although lead extraction permanent pacemaker using a femoral approach has advantages over the subclavian approach, it cannot be used to provide access for a new lead using currently employed techniques. This is important because up to 23% of patients have occluded veins after permanent pacemaker implantation. Methods: The pacemaker lead to be extracted was released from the generator and retaining sutures at the implantation site. The lead was then grabbed from below using a needle-eye-snare or basket. The lead was then cut short and a drag through technique performed where a guide wire was pushed into the gap between the insulation and the coil. This guide wire was then drawn into the right atrium as the lead was pulled down from below. This guide wire was then used to introduce a sheath through which a replacement lead could be inserted. Results: A total of 34 consecutive patients (21 male, aged 63±14 years, mean±SD) had 57 (1.7/patient) leads extracted. Fourteen patients required implantation of a new system and were suitable for immediate lead replacement using the drag through technique. All leads were successfully extracted, with 5 partial successes (9.1% of leads). The drag-through technique was successful in all, including 4 with subclavian vein occlusion. Procedure and fluoroscopy times, including the time required for implantation of a new system, were 143±65 mins and 31±23 mins respectively. There were no complications and hospital stay was 1.6±1.2 days for patients undergoing the drag-through procedure. Conclusion: The drag-through technique can be successfully used to provide access in order to replace pacemaker leads removed using a femoral approach.
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Why doesn't Sydney have a subway system like London or New York? According to transport experts, the city doesn't need one. While Sydney has a tightly packed central area, it's much less dense in its suburban areas than, say, New York or Paris, they say.
"In terms of the origin and destination profile of Sydney, it's fairly low density," said Professor David Hensher, the director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney.
"Although the Bradfield plan from years ago clearly suggested a more expansive underground network than we currently have, there are good reasons why it didn't continue. Clearly, if money was no object, we would have done it."
*Read more about the Bradfield Plan, which was first mooted in 1916.
So what could work for Sydney? A more integrated network that connects origins and destinations, with rail services in higher density areas and buses servicing lower density areas, the experts told the Herald.
A better public transport system would also have to be coupled with changing the behaviour of Sydneysiders.
"It's all very well to build lots of public transport, but I don't think that's going to be enough - in terms of costs - to make a difference on congestion. All the while, the car remains a fairly attractive mode of transport," Professor Hensher said.
"Despite the concern about traffic congestion being bad in Sydney, many people say it's not bad enough for me to get out of my car ... People will complain because it's not as good as it used to be, but it's not bad enough to make a difference."
Professor Hensher said it would take only 6 per cent of car users (85 per cent of trips in Sydney are by car) to make a switch away from driving during peak hours to make a difference to congestion levels.
"If we price the use of the car in the peak where the congestion's bad, they'd switch to the off-peak rather than use public transport, because they can do that."
Professor Hensher is one such commuter. He works from home from 7am to 9.15am to avoid the peak and then drives to work after that.
It's all very well to build lots of public transport, but I don't think that's going to be enough - in terms of costs - to make a difference on congestion
"It's much more enjoyable and it's much more productive. Lots more people could do it. They don't even bother to think they could do it," he said.
Another way of reducing congestion in Sydney's city centre was to minimise car parks in office buildings and tax car spaces, Sydney transport expert Dick Day said. The City of Sydney council already restricts parking, but more could be done, he said.
"The thing that dissuades people from using cars in the end is often congestion. London is a good example and Hong Kong's the same.
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IT would be incongruous for any diehard north Queenslander to think Johnathan Thurston would seriously consider swapping sunshine in paradise for the Sydney rat-race.
There is no doubt quitting the Cowboys would be a gut-wrenching proposition for Thurston.
The comfortable option is to stay loyal to the club that gave him a chance when no others would in 2005.
The braver move would be to wipe the slate clean, sign with Penrith and take on the challenge of rebuilding a struggling club in an NRL-mad city where his every move will be forensically analysed.
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Money, as Israel Folau discovered in the AFL, does not guarantee happiness.
Thurston has become a sporting brand in north Queensland and there is every likelihood he could name his price with local sponsors if he ended his career in Townsville.
But the competitor in Thurston would relish a fresh canvas in Sydney's west. His immediate future aside, Penrith supremo Phil Gould has big post-football plans for Thurston, including presiding over the Panthers Playmakers Academy which was created last year.
A television career would beckon at Channel 9, giving Thurston the chance to become a legitimate corporate heavy-hitter in Sydney.
Former Queensland lock Scott Sattler understands the dilemma confronting Thurston.
A Gold Coast boy, Sattler moved to Penrith in 1999. He went on to win a title there in 2003 and dismissed suggestions Thurston would not enjoy life in western Sydney.
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Under-Explored Aspects of Structural Adjustment - Growing Inequalities Among Women and Implications for Feminist Movements: A View from India
Since the 1980s, neo-liberal economic globalization for developing countries has entailed economic reforms called structural adjustment programs (SAPs) that were imposed on debtor countries which borrowed loans from the International Monetary Fund. SAPs include minimizing the role of the state, privatization of the public sector and exposing domestic industries to foreign market competition. Contrary to promised benefits, SAPs have resulted in escalating poverty and inequality, deteriorating health, education and housing conditions, and degradation of the environment in debtor countries. Women in so-called developing countries have faced the major brunt as SAPs have transformed crucial aspects of their lives. While the outcomes of SAPs for women have been well-documented, most extant literature views women as a homogeneous group ignoring differential impacts of economic reforms across class, caste, religion and other social markers. This paper contends that feminist writings have largely overlooked that in several countries SAPs have, in fact, benefited middle- and upper-class women while further impoverishing their resource-poor counterparts. There is little information about growing inequalities among women and their paradoxical effects on women's political action. Conversations about differences between women are seen as a betrayal of the feminist cause. This paper asserts that a forthright discussion of the growing inequities among women can allow re-imagining feminist agendas in terms of broad-based mass movements that can thwart neo-liberal and concomitant fundamentalist forces. With a focus on India, the essay highlights the escalating disparities among women that have remained under-researched, and accentuates the need to investigate the repercussions of these egregious inequities for feminist organizations.
Keywords: Structural Adjustment, Inequalities Between Women, Feminist Organizations, Gender and Development
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1. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance IssueRajiv Dewan Jan 22, 2013 10:06 PM (in response to idm1983)As compare to other versions, it is little bit slow.1 person found this helpful
You can follow this:
2. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance Issueidm1983 Jan 24, 2013 3:57 PM (in response to Rajiv Dewan)I had already performed the JVM tunings and also provided the AWR report to Oracle for analysis.
Oracle A team looked into the configurations at the weblogic level and didn't see any issues. The RAM used is hardly 10GB.
And as of now only the admins are using the console and no end-user logs in yet.
Reponse from Oracle is they are still trying to figure out the issue.
Not sure if we have to any further tunings related to the ADF.
Kunal Jain
3. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance IssueRajiv Dewan Jan 24, 2013 5:40 PM (in response to idm1983)As Oracle experts already looked into your environments, so there's nothing much to investigate.1 person found this helpful
One more thing which you can check which is Network Issue. Connection between OIM, Databse, SOA are working fine. You can capture network packets through some tool like Wireshark and monitor the responses.
4. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance Issueidm1983 Feb 12, 2013 5:51 PM (in response to Rajiv Dewan)To add further Oracle has recommended to apply BP03 which was released in last week of Jan.
5. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance Issueuser13059242 Mar 15, 2013 8:05 PM (in response to idm1983)Is there any luck in the performance issue? Did you able to improve the performance in any ways?
We are exactly facing the same problem as like yours. Only 3 people are using the server and 15k users in OIM. The performance is really bad. Oracle also can't find anything wrong in the WLS setup and they asked us to apply BP04. We applied BP04 but as expected it didnt help in anyways.
Plz let us know if you could manage to fix this issue or any workaround which you are following.
6. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance Issueramesh.gk Mar 15, 2013 9:48 PM (in response to idm1983)Hi,
Where exactly is the performance issue? Is it in the UI or during reconciliations or provisioning?
7. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance Issueuser13059242 Mar 16, 2013 6:26 PM (in response to ramesh.gk)Not during the provision/recon. Issue is while loading single user record and navigate between tads inside user data such as loading Account tab, loading the resource and process form attached with that user. Refresh in the account tab takes min 60-90 sec. Loading the user form takes same 60-90 sec.
But search user returns the result set in 5 secs.
8. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance Issueramesh.gk Mar 18, 2013 10:08 PM (in response to user13059242)What are the versions of your stack. I have setup a trial vm with RHEL 5.5 64-bit with JRockit 22.214.171.124, Weblogic 10.3.6, SOA 22.214.171.124 and IAM 11gR2. I could not able to reproduce the issue.
9. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance Issue683919 Mar 19, 2013 3:31 AM (in response to user13059242)We are also using r2 and NOT facing something what you said. Definately its a env thing
10. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance Issueramesh.gk Mar 26, 2013 9:39 PM (in response to ramesh.gk)Just in case this may help - Oracle has created a performance tuning guide for 11gR2 which covers some aspects of ADF UI performance fine tuning as well. Please refer to 1539554.1
11. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance Issueuser13059242 Mar 27, 2013 12:17 AM (in response to ramesh.gk)Mukual and Ramesh,
Thanks for your updates. Actually I have tried modifying the env by following the new oracle OIM11gR2 performance tunning guide. However no luck.
As Mukual said, it sounds like the env related issue. But couldnt find out what is going wrong. Opened an oracle SR and working with them, but lo luck yet.
12. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance IssueVirtuosity250-Oracle Jul 27, 2013 10:32 AM (in response to idm1983)
Can you attach the config of your environment, and/or the SR you worked on?
13. Re: OIM 11gR2 Performance Issueidm1983 Sep 4, 2013 5:05 PM (in response to Virtuosity250-Oracle)
We applied patches released from Oracle. All the way to BP06 and an ADF patch.


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Modelling Indirect Tax Reform in Australia: Should Tax Rates Be Uniform?
This paper examines the question of whether indirect tax rates should be uniform using four different modelling strategies. First, marginal tax reform is examined. Second, the welfare effects of a partial shift from the current indirect tax system in Australia towards a goods and services tax (GST) are considered, with particular emphasis on differences between household types and the role of exemptions. The third approach examines the extent of horizontal inequity and reranking that can arise when there are non-uniform tax rates. Fourth, in view of the stress on a distributional role for exemptions of certain goods from a GST, the potential limits to such redistribution are considered.
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A book containing many fantasy related scenes created with computer software.
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Michael was born in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA. After graduating from Purdue University in 1969, he moved to north Texas to work in the aerospace industry. He has helped design fixed wing military jets, helicopters, and Tilt rotor aircraft. Art has always been a passion which he pursued as a hobby in his spare time. During the late 1970s he created a part time business creating direct metal sculpture from brass, copper and stainless steel. From 1986 to 1988 Michael enjoyed painting miniature pewter figurines, of various scales, using artist oils. He created about 50 figurines of dragons, warriors and beautiful woman. Finally in 2002 he discovered the wonderful world of Digital Art. He began using Poser and later added Bryce, Terragen and DAZ Studio. Michael posts his digital art on the Renderosity website, http://www.renderosity.com . He is known as CATMANDO on this website and his gallery contains over 607 posts created in Poser, Bryce, Terragen or DAZ Studio.
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North York Moors Railway
Ever wanted to take a trip back in time and travel on a genuine working steam line?
Take the opportunity of a day trip with a difference and the chance to visit PICKERING – a busy market town, GOATHLAND village – perhaps better known as Aidensfield in YTV's Heartbeat, LEVISHAM – with its beautiful forest drive and walks, GROSMONT – a genuine 1950s railway junction where you can take a break in the station café, visit the engine sheds and view the locomotives under restoration and on many days throughout the year, journey onwards to the historic port of WHITBY. ..more info
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Written and Illustrated by Brandon Dayton
Mini Tradepaperback
Black & White
Page Count: 48
Alexey plunges into a brutal struggle with the giant, Oxbreaker.
Green Monk follows the adventures of a Monk cast out of his order, wandering a mythical Russian countryside armed only with a magical blade of grass.
Green Monk TM and © Brandon Dayton. All rights reserved.
Wayne says, "High fantasy, monsters and a world that feels kind of like it's alive, breathing and will be around long after you're gone. There's not a whole lot more you could ask for from a comic."


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QLogic's SANbox 5200
Storage switch shows off easy install, strong management
Logic's new stackable storage-area network switch - the SANbox 5200 - that features 10G bit/sec interconnections begs the question of how well this architecture can stand up against a chassis full of Fibre Channel port modules.
Logic's new stackable storage-area network switch - the SANbox 5200 - that features 10G bit/sec interconnections begs the question of how well this architecture can stand up against a chassis full of Fibre Channel port modules.
In our tests, the SANbox 5200 offered effortless installation, very efficient management and interesting features, but only middle-of-the-road performance.
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QLogic markets its SANbox 5200 under a "simplicity" tagline, a term that is fitting, given its quick-start guide and configuration wizard. The guide was easy to follow and well organized. The detail provided in the configuration wizard makes the installation process easier by giving users the necessary technical background in clear, bite-size chunks.
Once the SANbox 5200 was installed and configured, we had to connect the test gear, a process that could use some improvement. The switch's port labels make it difficult to find specific ports. The switch supports beaconing - a diagnostic mechanism for locating a specific port in the SAN fabric - but only on a per-switch basis.
In the real world, our test gear would be replaced with host bus adapters and connections to other switches. This can pose a challenge to any Fibre Channel SAN switch because of interoperability issues that plague the SAN industry. QLogic offers an effective interoperation guide on its Web site.
After we configured the switch domain ID - a unique number that identifies the switch to the fabric - the switch required a reset for the changes to take effect. That's not normally a problem, but SANbox Manager didn't forewarn us, and went ahead and reset itself: All traffic on that switch unexpectedly stopped.
QLogic's bundled management capabilities are impressive. The overarching management application is called the SANbox Manager. Its diagnostic tool belt is especially well outfitted with features such as Fabric View - a real-time monitoring application that graphs throughput and errors on a per-port basis - and a searchable, filterable, sortable event manager. However, some of the events these tools reported could offer more detailed information.
The SANbox Manager's centralized management capability is a nice plus for monitoring a stackable switch, but the administrator still must configure the majority of settings one switch at a time. This could tie up an administrator when configuring or reconfiguring a larger deployment.
When configuring Fabric View options, the administrator has a dynamically constructed view of the fabric topology, including all switches and their inter-switch links.
The drill-down, single-switch view offers a graphical representation of the switch with individual port status. An extensive array of counters display real-time statistics on Fibre Channel control traffic and errors, and current port configuration. This feature was useful while tracking performance issues.
Most notable among the SANbox 5200's architectural features is support on each stackable unit for four 10G Fibre Channel ports. This feature enables effective stacking, thus eliminating the need to steal from the 16 2G bit/sec ports for inter-switch links (ISL) and thus reducing the overall number of switches you need.
SANbox 5200 had another noteworthy feature called I/O StreamGuard. When a device logs onto a SAN fabric, it generates a notification of a fabric change that must be propagated to and processed by other devices, causing a small interruption to the fabric. This notification is critical when the state of a storage device changes, but it is unnecessary for hosts and servers accessing storage. I/O StreamGuard suppresses such host notifications, staving off this expected drop in throughput.
Also noteworthy is QLogic's pay-as-you-go licensing approach for the SANbox 5200. Users can license the use of four ports at a time, allowing for more detailed scalability.
On a single-switch unit, we measured line-rate throughput, and latency results registering less than 10 microsec, when sending bidirectional traffic between port pairs (see How we did it). Under the more grueling mesh tests, however, where data from each port is sent in a round-robin fashion to all other ports, there was a performance drop-off. The worst-case test - where we tested a full-mesh configuration and pushed small frame size (60 bytes) - resulted in a 4% drop in throughput per port. But despite that, the distribution of throughput was even across all ports in every test, including the congested tests.
When a SANbox 5200 configuration grows beyond one switch unit, the 10G bit/sec ISLs are introduced into the fabric. We verified that one 10G bit/sec ISL could hit a maximum throughput of 1,255M byte/sec - just a smidgen less than six 2G bit/sec ports - while adding no more than 9 microsec of latency. The fairness of throughput distribution, and line-rate throughput between port pairs, is maintained when the same traffic streams are sent across ISLs. Also, the SANbox 5200 recovers well from an ISL failure, which requires that there were multiple paths between switch units. We clocked the fail-over time at 59 millisec.
QLogic recommends growing the switch fabric up to four stackable switch units - a total of 64 user ports. It also recommends one ISL hop from one switch to every other switch and multiple paths to all switches. This practice yields the best possible performance when redundancy between all switches is required. But it also creates an over-subscribed fabric - a point QLogic freely concedes.
We pushed the fabric to the edge with a full-mesh test and saw a 7% drop in theoretical maximum throughput for large frames and a 14% drop for small frames.
We verified the SANbox 5200 could perform a code load and activation while under load - a true differentiator for a switch in this market. We tested the switch's ability to recover from a power failure and noted no residual problems once the switch returned to an operational state after 2 minutes, 32 seconds.
Overall, there is room for performance improvement but its simplicity and innovative features earn QLogic's SANbox 5200 a very solid standing.
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By Attorney General Roy Cooper
In a tight job market, education can make the difference between getting hired and getting passed over for another applicant.
Many North Carolinians are going back to school to learn new job skills, and our state's local community colleges offer quality education at an affordable price. Private, for-profit career and trade schools can also train students to qualify for jobs such as automotive technicians, medical assistants, and paralegals. But check out a school thoroughly before you enroll.
Some for-profit schools offering classes are excellent. But others seem to be more interested in making money than keeping their promises to students. My office recently won a court order to stop a for-profit school, Thomas Healthcare Institute, that had lost its license to teach classes but kept operating and collecting tuition.
Tuition at some for-profit schools can cost up to four times what a community college might charge, and their claims of top quality teachers and classes and high job placement rates and future salaries can turn out to be hollow.
To avoid problems, do your homework before enrolling at a for-profit college or trade school:


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Check out our Nissan Skyline photo gallery with 44 HQ pics. Last update in Skyline gallery: 2007-10-17
Nissan is in its nifty BladeGlider EV up the hillclimb course at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed.
A court in South Korea has upheld a government investigation finding that the Qashqai from Nissan used a defeat device in order to pass the oxides of nitrogen tests.
The current 370Z offering from Nissan has been in use for more than 8 years. It also has long been overdue for a makeover.
Nissan has presented an innovated concept at this year's Auto Show held in Detroit. It previews the autonomous driving technology.
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Mt. Pleasant Township to upgrade regulatory and warning signs
Mt. Pleasant Township's board of supervisors focused on ways to keep the municipality safer and cleaner during its regular monthly meeting Monday.
Supervisors approved a resolution to establish and implement an assessment or management method to maintain regulatory and warning sign retroflectivity standards established by the Federal Highway Administration.
Supervisor Jack Rutkowski, the board's chairman, said the resolution is required to meet new federal regulations which require signs to reflect a certain amount of light from vehicle headlights so they can be more easily seen.
Supervisor Frank Puskar said that, even though the township was alerted to the new regulations just two weeks ago through a letter, they were already partially in compliance and it mainly related to the older signs in the municipality.
"We've been doing it for a while now. For all of the new signs, we have met the new regulations," Supervisor Duane Hutter said.
Rutkowski said the board is unsure of the cost as of yet to meet the regulations, but that supervisors do not expect it to be significant.
"It's only for the major signs like stop signs and speed limit signs," he said. "Instead of purchasing entire new signs, we can just purchase new facings for them."
During last month's meeting, Rutkowski reported a problem with trash and junk on several properties in the municipality, and he appealed to residents to clean up their properties.
"I want to thank everybody who cleaned up their yards, and there were a lot of people that did," he said. "Unfortunately there was one resident who did not comply that we will be taking to the magistrate on June 30."
Rutkowski declined to identify the resident that did not comply. Supervisors also announced that crews will begin working on summer road projects in mid-July, and that they will cover all of the areas affected by the newly installed sewage lines.
"We are asking anyone who parks on the street in those areas to keep their cars off of the roads," Rutkowski said. He said the work is scheduled to begin July 14 and continue through at least the first week of August.
The board also granted final conditional approval to the daily subdivision located along State Route 2021 also known as Brinkerton Road.
The next recycling date for the township is July 10.
Linda Harkcom is a contributing writer for Trib Total Media.


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When I arrived at the motel I usually stay at just north of Indianapolis on I-65, it was snowing and the road was so slippery I was glad to park my rig and get off the road. I was looking forward also to having a good fuck with Milly, the motel's night manager.
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My name is George and I'm a six-foot-two, black, long- distance trucker. I own an eighteen-wheeler and haul various items between Atlanta and Chicago.
When I arrived at the motel I usually stay at just north of Indianapolis on I-65, it was snowing and the road was so slippery I was glad to park my rig and get off the road. I was looking forward also to having a good fuck with Milly, the motel's night manager.
Milly is one of those white women who likes to be fucked by a big, ebony log, and I'm just the guy to supply one! I was disappointed when I was greeted at the desk by a tall redhead. "I'm George from Atlanta. I believe you are holding a room for me," I said.
"Yes sir, we are holding your usual room for you. It sure is a nasty night out there, ain't it" she replied.
"It sure is and I'm glad to be off the road. By the way, where is Milly tonight"
"Milly's kid is sick, so she took the night off. But she's told me a lot about you. I'm Terry, the day manager, and I'm working her shift tonight," she said in a sultry voice, and her hand brushed mine when she took my registration card. "I hate to think about driving all the way across town to get home with all the snow on the highway, but all the rooms are taken," she said. I looked into her pretty blue eyes and said, "I'm willing to share my room with you.
You can sleep in the second bed," I volunteered.
"It will take me about a half hour to close up, and if I decide to accept your offer, I will come to your room," she said, as she handed me the key to my room and gave my hand a light squeeze.
"Sounds great," I replied quickly. I picked up my bag and walked next door to my room. Once in the room, I opened my bag, took out a bottle of Jack Daniels, got out of my clothes and headed for the shower. While in the shower, I mentally thanked Milly for her word-of- mouth advertising for bringing me another horny white woman.
I had just put my pants back on when I heard Terry at my door. When she came in, she said, "It's a blizzard out there. Those snowflakes are as big as cornflakes. Anyone would have to be crazy to drive in this storm."
"Have a drink, it will warm your innards," I said as I handed her a glass of Jack Daniels.
After we sat around and talked a while, Terry said, "George, will you excuse me while I take a shower. I've been in these clothes all day and I'm feeling really crummy." I offered to wash her back.
As she went into the bathroom, she turned and said, "Okay, I'll call you when I'm ready." I poured myself another drink and turned the covers down, because I knew it was just a matter of time until I was going to ball this sexy redhead.
I waited until I heard the water running in the shower. Then I took my pants off, walked naked into the bathroom and pulled the shower curtain back. This long-legged redhead had a body that was built for fucking. she had slim, tapered thighs and firm, upright melons with apple-blossom pink nipples and a hairless pussy with swollen cunt lips that glistened like jewels as the water from the shower drenched her body. My cock was already iron-hard when I stepped into the shower and took Terry into my arms, drawing her body close.
"Oh, George, Milly told me you had a big cock, but I thought she was exaggerating. You don't have a cock, you've got a Louisville Slugger! I don't know if I'm built big enough to take it, but I'm eager to try," she said as she held my hard tool with both hands. We soaped each other's body, then our hands explored every inch and crevice of our soapy bodies. I was sucking her nipples and fingering her hole as she squirmed and moaned, while babbling that she had been waiting for me to arrive all day. I fingered her hole until she was begging me to taker her to bed.
When we finally dried off, I scooped her into my arms and carried her to the bed. I asked her if she wanted to mount my cock or if she preferred to get fucked doggie- style.
"I like big cocks, and even though yours is the largest I have ever seen, let's try doggie-style first." She got into position her knees and elbows and lifted her ass in the air. Her hairless pussy was juicy and quivering for action. I pushed my pulsating knob against her swollen cunt lips and gave a gentle shove until the head of my ebony log eased into her tight hole. She let out a small whimper as I pushed more in, and then she was backing up against my pubic area telling be to give it all to her.
It took her a couple of minutes to get used to my ten- inch log, and then we started fucking like a couple of alley cats, squealing, grunting, and crying out in ecstasy. My joy pole was slamming into her love hole like a pile driver, and she was bucking her ass to meet my every thrust. My cockhead could feel her hot juices exploding as she experienced her orgasms. When I shot my wad into her hole, I swear her screams could be heard a block away.
Her beautiful body thrashed and trembled for a good minute until she collapsed from exhaustion.
I didn't get back on the road until eleven o'clock the next morning when the snowplows cleared the interstate. Terry and I had fucked and sucked all night until we were too exhausted to move. I think we both had about two hours sleep before it was time to get up and get down to earth.
She told me she was going to talk to Milly and see if we could have a threesome on my net trip. I told her I would be looking forward to seeing them both next time. Fucking two white women in the same bed will be a new experience for me, but it will be an experience I will be looking forward to.
Black pussy is super, but I like to vary my diet with a little white meat.
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The new power
Minato: Hey Naruto How you doing?
Naruto: A little bit hurt but fine
[Minato Charges]
Minato: Madara ARGH !! {Angry face}
Minato: You dare to hurt my son ! [Uses his kunai and came behind Madara –RASENGAN-!]
Madara: [-Susano'o guard-] Humph Fourth Hokage huh? Don't make me laugh. What comes next the Third Hokage?
Minato: If I were you I would bother our fight first.
Madara: HEHEH I murdered those stubborn Kages all at a time and you think you can defeat me? Even the lady Fifth..
Minato: Fifth? Who?
Madara: What was her name again?.. Tsunade and some other stupid Kages. Amuse me Fourth ! HEHE
Minato: [-Rasengan-]
[ Madara uses his Gunbai to stop the Rasengan]
Minato: He can read my movements with those eyes.
Sakura: Naruto that's your father?
Naruto: Yup.
Sakura: wow ( They look the same and he's strong to)
Naruto: Don't worry Sakura he will be fine it's my dad after all.
Minato: EVERYONE LISTEN! For now I will take care of Madara, Handle the Tailed Beast!
Shinobi Alliance: ?!? That's Impossible.
Naruto: DON'T BE SCARED I HAVE BEEN PROTECTION YOU ALL AGAINST THE JUUBI.
Shinobi Alliance: … Let's go!!
Bee: [-BIJUU DAMA-] YEAH..
[At the other Dimension]
Kakashi: I'm still protecting Rin in my heart.
Obito: …
Kakashi: How could you let go Obito? You loved Rin more than I did.
Obito: {Losing mind} STOP THIS ..
Kakashi: Our team went different path's, two died but still bound by friendship.
Obito: [-Banshō Ten'in-] This eye has waited too long.
[Obito pulls Kakashi closer what is he up to. He really intends to kill Kakashi.]
Hashirama: Go .. I have something to do.
Tobirama: Don't be reckless Minato is about to summon us soon.
Sasuke: Humph let's go.
Suigetsu: Those Hokages are always doing this on their own.
Hiruzen: Watch it .
Suigetsu: …
[They go off without Hashirama]
Hashirama: [Focuses his jutsu and freed himself from Orochimaru]
Orochimaru: (He did it..)
Hiruzen: What is wrong Orochimaru?
Orochimaru: Hashirama freed himself
Tobirama: Stupid Orochimaru did you really think you can control my brothers power?
Orochimaru: Don't worry I knew it just wanted to test something out hehe
Tobirama: (Shit he is way too smart) Hiruzen You rised him the wrong way he could have been a fine Shinobi
Hiruzen: I know ..
Hashirama: This should be good enough to face the "new" Madara.
[Hashirama went off to. Does he also has a new power before his death? The fight between past Friends and foes will begin.]


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Abacela Albarino 2008
Albarino from Umpqua Valley, Oregon
Winemaker's Notes
This Galician style wine exhibits aromas and flavors of crisp apples and pears, orange, pineapple, and delicate white flowers all carried on a frame that skirts the razors edge between creamy textures and steely minerality.
Critical Acclaim
Wine Enthusiast - "Abacela has single-handedly revolutionized winemaking in southern Oregon, introducing Iberian varieties with great success. This estate-grown Albariño is a high-acid wine, still spritzy and reduced when first opened. With breathing time it cleans up and shows the beginnings of varietal character."
Abacela Winery
For years we, Earl and Hilda Jones, have pursued our passion for fine Spanish wine made from the Tempranillo grape. Our goal is to produce fine wine from that grape in America.
Thus, the "Abacela" idea was to find in America a similar climate to that of the finest Tempranillo growing areas in Spain. The "marginal" climate sought was hot enough to ripen the fruit but not so hot that it cooked out the essence of the grape. A climate which provided dry summers and cool but wet winters, relatively free of severe freezes to minimize potential cold injury to the vines.
Searches through tomes of wine books, climate records, and maps led us to the West Coast. The search ended in the Umpqua Valley in Southern Oregon, 11 miles southwest of Roseburg Oregon. Here, the vineyards bask by day in the hot summer sun and are cooled at night by Pacific Ocean breezes. The long growing season allows the fruit to ripen slowly and fully. Our Abacela idea, now a working winery, was christened Abacela, utilizing an old Castilian word that means "to plant grapevines." View all Abacela Wines
About Umpqua ValleyView a map of Umpqua Valley wineries
The Umpqua Valley is much smaller than its northern neighbor, the Willamette Valley. Not necessarily in size, but in wine production. Like the Willamette Valley, the region lies between the Coast Range and the Cascade Range. The Umpqua Valley is a little bit drier than the Willamette, but less dry than the Rogue Valley.
Notable FactsThe soil is diverse and the grapes best suited to it include Riesling, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Some winemakers are experimenting with other varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon and other Bordeaux varieties.
About OregonOregon has long been an agricultural state, producing everything from hazelnuts to cattle. The Willamette Valley in particular is a fertile basin for all sorts of produce. Not quite pegged as a wine state, in 1965, a UC Davis graduate named David Lett decided that the Willamette's climate mirrored that of Burgundy in France. With that in mind, he decided to plant some Pinot Noir clones to see how they did. And a good gamble it was. The Willamette is now one of the only regions in the world to focus solely on Pinot Noir as its red variety. Also known for Chardonnay and Pinot Gris. The southern part of Oregon has been slower in delving into the world wine market, but has been making excellent strides with their Rhone style varietals, like Syrah and Grenache. There are also coastal regions producing promising wines.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0160 Wednesday, 24 January 2001
Date: Tuesday, 23 Jan 2001 16:59:49 -0500
Subject: Female Othello
I once directed the murder scene with a female Othello (a woman playing
a man) and men playing Desdamona and Emila (the scene was combined with
Desdemona's "willow song" scene). I think it
raises some very interesting questions in the audience's mind when
Othello is cross-cast.
After seeing Patrick Stuart's Othello at the Shakespeare Theater here in
DC, I am convinced that the play contains to strong themes that can
sometimes get in the way of each other -- 1) race relations, and 2)
"domestic" abuse. Personally, I felt Stuart's production was muddied by
trying to give equal weight to each, but that's another discussion....
By casting a woman as Othello, one could bring the violence against
women theme to the foreground over the racial one. Obviously, the
audience would be focused on the incongruity of a woman acting out the
violence of a man against a woman. I'm not sure whether Desdemona need
be cross-cast as well for this to work.
I also like the idea of a female Othello since it opens up a wide range
of possibilities for Iago. Is he in love with her/him? Or is he just
further emasculated by such a commander?
-- Harry Teplitz