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Taste Test: Whole-Grain Breadby Dana Angelo White in Taste Test, July 16, 2009
A few weeks back we gave tips on buying the best whole-grain breads and you all chimed in with your favorites. Always looking to try out new foods, Toby and I decided to sample your top picks. From all the comments, we compiled the 5 most popular and evaluated them based on the most important Ts: taste, texture and toast-ability. Then, we scoped out the nutrition info and even got feedback from our families (kids and adults, alike).
The results are in…
NOTE: Below we list the brand, give the bread a rating (5 being the highest) and share the total calorie and fiber per slice (two biggies for breads).
Martins Whole Wheat Potato Bread
Rating: 3.5
Nutrition Info (Per Slice): 70 calories; 4 grams of fiber
Our Take: Made with a combo of whole-wheat and potato flour, this was a soft-style bread with decent flavor and texture (it was even better toasted); some of us noticed a slight bitter aftertaste. Sugar is low on the ingredient list, and we're impressed with the fiber content (the highest of the bunch!). There are some preservatives and thickeners like calcium propionate and guar gum, but that happens with packaged breads sometimes. I served this toasted with salmon burgers instead of hamburger buns, and they were a big hit with my husband and me.
Pepperidge Farm 12 Grain Farmhouse Bread
Rating: 3
Nutrition Info: 120 calories; 3 grams of fiber
Our Take: This bread was very soft (almost too soft), and the flavor reminded us of plain ol' white sandwich bread with a slight crunch from some nuts and seeds. Despite the "12 Grain" in the name, this bread isn't made with whole grains (many multi-grain breads aren't). Tell-tale sign: Ingredients like "wheat flour" instead of "whole-wheat flour" mean a bread is made with refined, more processed grains. This bread is also sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.
Food For Life Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Whole Grain Bread
Rating: 4
Nutrition Info: 80 calories; 3 grams of fiber
Our Take: This was the biggest surprise to our testers. Even folks that aren't fans of grainier, dryer sprouted grain breads may like this one. Toasted with a bit of jam made it even better. Instead of grinding dried grains into flour, sprouted grain breads are made from the germinated sprouts of grains like wheat, barley and millet; many believe these sprouts provide more vitamins and nutrients (learn more at the Food For Life website). Overall, this was a tasty, flourless bread with no preservatives or sweeteners.
Arnold 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Rating: 4.5
Nutrition Info: 110 calories; 3 grams of fiber
Our Take: This loaf was the overall favorite — a good, standard whole-wheat bread for toast, sandwiches and even French toast. Toby's kids were asking for seconds. Like most store-bought breads, it contained some sugar and the preservative calcium propionate. Oh and it made some finger licking-good grilled cheese and tomato.
Alvarado Street Bakery Sprouted Soy Crunch Bread
Rating: 4
Nutrition Info: 90 calories; 2 grams of fiber
Our Take: Another good sprouted grain option. Like Ezekiel, this bread was grainy and tasted better when toasted. The soy ingredients (toasted soy nuts, soy beans and soy flour) and touch of molasses for sweetness gave it a unique flavor. A word of warning about these sprouted breads: They tend to get moldy faster because they don't have preservatives. Store them in the refrigerator or freezer to keep them fresher, longer.
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Richard A Flavell, PhD, FRS
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Research Interests
Biology; Diabetes Mellitus; DNA, Recombinant; Immune System; Immunity; Lyme Disease; Autoimmunity; Gene Expression; Gene Transfer Techniques; Mice, Knockout; Cell Lineage; Lyme Neuroborreliosis
Research Organizations
Immunobiology: Flavell Lab: Principal Investigator | HTI | Lymphocyte Development
Fellowship Training
Rheumatic Diseases Research Core
Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale
Stem Cell Center, Yale: Stem Cell Niche and Homing | Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Cell Symmetry
Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program
Yale Cancer Center: Cancer Immunology
Research Summary
Richard Flavell is co-discoverer of introns in cellular genes: he showed DNA methylation correlates inversely with, and prevents, gene expression. He was the first to develop reverse genetics as a postdoc with Weissmann and in his own lab continued in this field throughout his career; he is a pioneer in the use of this approach in vivo to study function. Dr. Flavell's laboratory studies the molecular and cellular basis of the immune response. He has been instrumental in discovering the molecular basis of T-cell differentiation from precursor cells into differentiated subsets. This work led to the discovery of GATA3 as a critical regulator of the Th2 response and the first example of such a molecule in Th cell differentiation. He went on to demonstrate the first case of regulation of gene expression in trans, via "chromosome kissing." Moreover his laboratory has elucidated the mechanisms of immunoregulation which prevent autoimmunity and overaggressive responses to pathogens. Specifically, Dr. Flavell's laboratory has elucidated the role of TGF-β in the regulation of immune response. This work is of relevance both to the control of autoimmune disease and the evasion of immune response by tumors.
Dr. Flavell's laboratory has discovered the role of several receptor families in the innate immune response, including the role of several Toll-like receptors and intracellular Nod-like receptor families (NLRs). This has recently led to the elucidation of function of Nod2 in inflammatory bowel diseases and Nlrp proteins in the production of IL-1. Most recently he has established a fascinating connection between inflammasomes, microbial homeostasis and chronic diseases. He showed that inflammasome dysfunction causes dysbiosis of the microbiota which, in conjunction with a susceptible diet, leads to IBD and Metabolic Syndrome, including Obesity, Fatty Liver disease and Type 2 diabetes.
Speciailzed Terms: Animal Models; Autoimmunity; Diabetes; Gene Expression; Gene Transfer; Genes; Immune System; Lyme Borreliosis Or Lyme Disease; Molecular Cellular Entities; Recombinant DNA; Transgenic Animals; Autoimmunity; Knockout Mice; Lyme Disease; T Cell Lineages; Tolerance; Transgenic Mice
Extensive Research Description
The innate immune system contains genome-encoded receptors that
provide a first line of defense to infection. Activation of innate
immunity triggers adaptive immunity. There are three classes of innate
immune receptors:
- Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which sense agents in the extracellular/vesicular space;
- Nod-like receptors (NLRs), which sense microorganisms that penetrate the cytoplasmic space; and
- RIG-like receptors (RLRs), which recognize viral infection and trigger type 1 interferon production.
The Nalp proteins comprise a second arm of the NLR family. We study several of these, including Nalp3 (NLRP3), which senses infection or other stress that leads to K+ efflux and activates the "inflammasome" through oligomerization with the adaptor apoptosis-associated speck-like protein (ASC), enabling ASC to bind to and activate caspase-1 to process pro-IL-1ß and other substrates. We found that multiple stimuli activate the Nalp3 inflammasome, including Listeria infection. Jürg Tschopp (University of Lausanne) showed that this inflammasome recognizes uric acid crystals, explaining the inflammatory properties of uric acid in gout. We found that alum, a crystalline immune adjuvant and the only USA-approved human adjuvant, activates the NALP3 inflammasome, which triggers macrophage inflammatory cytokine production and adaptive immunity in vivo.
Disruption of the pathway eliminates alum's adjuvant capacity. Likewise, particulate environmental pollutants, including silica and asbestos, also activate the Nalp3 inflammasome to cause devastating chronic inflammatory disease. Thus, inflammasomes mediate anti-infective immunity, immunopathology to environmental pollutants, and adaptive immunity. The immune response sometimes reacts to self-tissues, causing autoimmunity. How can antigenic stimulation of a lymphocyte lead to such different outcomes? During an immune response or in autoimmunity, the lymphocytes divide and differentiate into effector cells. However, when immune tolerance occurs, the cell is either inactivated or dies.
How are the decisions made to proliferate, differentiate, be tolerized, or die, and how is this controlled?
Regulatory cells producing inhibitory cytokines are critical to prevent autoimmunity. Of these, the CD4+CD25+Foxp3+Treg is the most studied. The functioning, generation, and maintenance of regulatory T cells (Treg) are controlled by cytokines. Both transforming growth factor-ß (TGFß) and IL-10-family cytokines are important. Mice lacking TGFß develop autoimmunity to several tissues. To elucidate upon which cells TGFß acts, we expressed a dominant-negative TGFß receptor (dnTGFßRII) on either T cells or antigen-presenting cells (APCs). Mice displaying the dnTGFßRII on T cells recapitulate the diseases of TGFß-knockout mice: autoimmunity and IBD. In addition to autoimmunity, such animals have an enhanced anti-infective response, better resistance to infection. Finally, mice carrying the dnTGFßRII on their T cells are resistant to tumors. Thus, tumors use TGFß to inhibit the antitumor T cell response; but if TGFß cannot act, immune clearance of tumors occurs. To determine whether TGFß controls innate immunity, we expressed dnTGFßRII using the CD11c promoter, which expresses in dendritic (DC) and natural killer (NK) cells, both key mediators of innate immunity. When innate immune cells cannot be inhibited by TGFß, both NK and DC innate, as well as adaptive, immune responses are enhanced. CD11c dnTGFßRII mice are also more susceptible to autoimmunity, because TGFß fails to control APC function. Thus, TGFß controls T cells, APCs, and NK cells. We revealed additional mechanisms of TGFß function by studying conditional-knockout mice lacking TGFßRII on T cells. TGFß is required for Treg homeostasis and function and TGFßRII must be present on a target cell for a Treg to be suppressed. We also found that TGFß controls the magnitude of T helper 1 cell (Th1) response by setting the level of CD122 ß chain of the IL-15 receptor, which controls the pool size of Th1 cells. Many cells make TGFß. To determine which TGFß source is important, we first eliminated TGFß on T cells, using conditional targeting. Mice with T cells that cannot make TGFß also developed autoimmune disease and IBD, albeit slower than mice lacking the receptor on all T cells. Thus, T cell–produced TGFß is important in immune response, but other sources must play a role. Regulatory T cells that cannot produce TGFß poorly control IBD, and T cell–produced TGFß is essential to generate Th17 cells, which mediate disease in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. T cells are activated and differentiate into specialized effector cells.
How is the effector pathway triggered that is appropriate to the class of infection? We found the Th2 response is activated when parasite antigen induces Notch ligand expression on dendritic cells. This activates Notch in naïve T cells, which in turn induces GATA3, the key Th2 transcription factor, by a Notch-responsive promoter. Thus is a pathogenic signal converted to a signal for T cell differentiation through Notch. We identified cis-regulatory elements that are the targets of transcription factors, such as GATA3. In the interleukin-4 (IL-4) locus, the IL-4, IL-13, and IL-5 genes are clustered, and several DNA elements within that region are important for gene expression. IL-4 gene regulation occurs through epigenetic mechanisms that target regulatory elements distal from the IL-4 gene. One of these elements is a previously unrecognized locus control region (LCR) that is found embedded in the introns of the RAD50 gene in the cluster. This LCR, together with these respective promoters and other cis elements of the locus, is in a preassembled complex in naïve T cells that serves as a hub from which epigenetic changes in histone acetylation and DNA methylation occur and enables rapid response of the loci. When naïve T cells are activated, both the IL-4 locus on chromosome 11 and the interferon-? (IFN-?) locus on chromosome 10 are expressed almost immediately, despite the fact that following differentiation these loci are never coexpressed but instead are alternatively expressed in the Th2 and Th1 lineages, respectively. To investigate this rapid coexpression, we examined the physical relationship between these two loci on the different chromosomes. The LCR of the IL-4 locus on chromosome 11 and the IFN-? gene region on chromosome 10 are associated in the interphase nucleus of the precursor cells but separate upon differentiation into effector cells. Mutation in the LCR on chromosome 11 delays expression of the IFN-? gene on chromosome 10. We find other such associations and further evidence for their functional roles. Thus, regulatory sequences on one chromosome likely control "in trans" gene expression on other chromosomes. Our laboratory retains a long-standing interest in the underlying mechanisms of apoptosis. The program of cell death is triggered through the activation of cysteine proteases called caspases. Caspase-3 and -7 cleave similar substrates. Caspase-7–knockout mice have only a mild phenotype, but the combination with caspase-3 deficiency results in embryonic lethality. Caspase-3 and -7 are also required for upstream mitochondrial functions in apoptosis, via a positive-feedback loop, in addition to their roles as effector caspases.
- TGF-b in autoimmune diabetes
- TGF-b in memory T cell development
- The role of BCL2 in aging of the immune system
- AMCase in lung inflammation
- The role of TGF-b in the immune response to melanoma
- Generation and analysis of mice with human immune systems
- Developing immune therapies for Type 1 diabetes
- Genetic approaches to immune function and tolerance
Selected Publications
Immunoglobulin a coating identifies colitogenic bacteria in inflammatory bowel disease.
Palm NW, de Zoete MR, Cullen TW, Barry NA, Stefanowski J, Hao L, Degnan PH, Hu J, Peter I, Zhang W, Ruggiero E, Cho JH, Goodman AL and Flavell RA: Immunoglobulin a coating identifies colitogenic bacteria in inflammatory bowel disease. Cell. 2014 Aug 28;158 (5) :1000-10. PMID: 25171403
NLRP6 inflammasome orchestrates the colonic host-microbial interface by regulating goblet cell mucus secretion.
Wlodarska M, Thaiss CA, Nowarski R, Henao-Mejia J, Zhang JP, Brown EM, Frankel G, Levy M, Katz MN, Philbrick WM, Elinav E, Finlay BB and Flavell RA: NLRP6 inflammasome orchestrates the colonic host-microbial interface by regulating goblet cell mucus secretion. Cell. 2014 Feb 27;156 (5) :1045-59. PMID: 24581500
Development and function of human innate immune cells in a humanized mouse model
Rongvaux A, Willinger T, Martinek J, Strowig T, Gearty SV, Teichmann LL, Saito Y, Marches F, Halene S, Palucka AK, Manz MG and Flavell RA: Development and function of human innate immune cells in a humanized mouse model. Nat Biotechnol. 2014 Apr;32 (4) :364-72. Epub 2014 Mar 16. PMID: 24633240
Inflammasomes and intestinal homeostasis: regulating and connecting infection, inflammation and the microbiota
Gagliani N, Palm NW, de Zoete MR and Flavell RA: Inflammasomes and intestinal homeostasis: regulating and connecting infection, inflammation and the microbiota. Int Immunol. 2014 Sep;26 (9) :495-499. Epub 2014 Jun 19. PMID: 24948595
miR-181 is a cellular metabolic rheostat essential for NKT cell development
Henao-Mejia J.*, Williams A*, Goff L.A., Staron M, Licona-Limón P, Kaech S.M., Nakayama M, Rinn J.L., Flavell R.A. miR-181 is a cellular metabolic rheostat essential for NKT cell development. Immunity. (2013). PMC3738211
IL-22BP axis is regulated by the inflammasome and modulates tumorogenesis in the intestine.
Huber S, Gagliani N, Zenewicz LA, Huber FJ, Hedl W, O'Connor W, Murphy AJ, Valenzuela DM, Yancopoulos GD, Booth CJ, Cho JH, Ouyang W, Abraham C, Flavell RA IL-22BP axis is regulated by the inflammasome and modulates tumorogenesis in the intestine. Nature
Inflammasome-mediated dysbiosis regulates progression of NAFLD and obesity.
Henao-Mejia J, Elinav E, Jin C, Hao L, Mehal WZ, Strowig T, Thaiss CA, Kau AL, Eisenbarth SC, Jurczak MJ, Camporez J-P, Shulman GI, Gordon JI, Hoffman HM, Flavell RA. (2012) Inflammasome-mediated dysbiosis regulates progression of NAFLD and obesity.
NLRP6 inflammasome is a regulator of the colonic microbial ecology and risk for colitis
Elinav E, Strowig T, Kau AL, Henao-Mejia J, Thaiss CA, Booth CJ, Eisenbarth SC, Gordon JI, Flavell RA. NLRP6 inflammasome is a regulator of the colonic microbial ecology and risk for colitis. Cell 145:745-757 (2011) May 27. PMC3140910
Control of TH17 cells occurs in the small intestine.
Esplugues E1, Huber S, Gagliani N, Hauser AE, Town T, Wan YY, O'Connor W Jr, Rongvaux A, Van Rooijen N, Haberman AM, Iwakura Y, Kuchroo VK, Kolls JK, Bluestone JA, Herold KC, Flavell RA. (2011) Esplugues E1, Huber S, Gagliani N, Hauser AE, Town T, Wan YY, O'Connor W Jr, Rongvaux A, Van Rooijen N, Haberman AM, Iwakura Y, Kuchroo VK, Kolls JK, Bluestone JA, Herold KC, Flavell RA.
Unraveling the genetics of autoimmunity
Zenewicz LA, Abraham C, Flavell RA, Cho JH. Unraveling the genetics of autoimmunity. Cell 140:791-797 (2010).
The polarization of immune cells in the tumour environment of TGFb
Flavell RA, Sanjabi S, Wrzesinski SH, Licona-Limon P. The polarization of immune cells in the tumour environment of TGFb. Nat. Rev. Immunol. 10:554-567 (2010).
The dual-nature of TH17 cells: shifting focus to function
O'Connor W Jr., Zenewicz LA, Flavell RA. Perspective. The dual-nature of TH17 cells: shifting focus to function. Nat. Immunol. 11:471-476 (2010).
Requirement for AHNAK1 mediated calcium signaling during T lymphocyte cytolysis
Matza D, Badou A, Jha MK, Willinger T, Antov A, Sanjabi S, Kobayashi KS, Marchesi VT, Flavell RA. Requirement for AHNAK1 mediated calcium signaling during T lymphocyte cytolysis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106:9785-9790 (2009). PMC2701053 [Available on
A protective role for IL-17A in T cell-mediated intestinal inflammation
O'Connor W, Kamanaka, Booth CJ, Town T, M, Nakae S, Iwakura Y, Kolls JK, Flavell RA. A protective role for IL-17A in T cell-mediated intestinal inflammation. Nat. Immunol. 10:603-609 (2009). PMID: 19448631 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
NALP3-mediated inflammation is the principal cause of progressive renal failure in oxalate nephropathy
Knauf, F., Asplin, J.R., Granja, I., Schmidt, I.M., Moeckel, G., David, R., Flavell, R.A., and Aronson, P.S. NALP3-mediated inflammation is the principal cause of progressive renal failure in oxalate nephropathy. Kidney Int. 84:895-901, 2013


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This spell summons a swirling thunderstorm that rains fire rather than raindrops down on the character and everything within a two-mile radius of him or her. Everything caught unprotected or unsheltered in the flaming deluge takes 1 point of fire damage each round. A successful Reflex save results in no damage, but the save must be repeated each round. Unless the ground is exceedingly damp, all vegetation is eventually blackened and destroyed, leaving behind a barren wasteland similar to the aftermath of a grass or forest fire. The fiery storm is stationary and persists even if the caster leaves.
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Seti not Yeti as scientists admit to no results still in their search for intelligent aliens, reports Richard A. Kerr, Science, February 20, 2004 The Phoenix Project came up empty. 'We found nothing,' says radio astronomer Frank Drake, founder of the modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence." Drake and his colleagues have searched more than seven hundred sun-like stars since 1960. Their next step is taking shape on California's Mount Lassen with the construction of three new antenas funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, with a gift of $11.5 million. Final aim is 350 new antenas. "You can expect the speed of reconnaissance will double every 18 months," says senior astronomer Seth Shostak. "Within the next two decades we'll check out not a few thousand, but a few million new stars. If the galaxy is populated by only ten thousand advanced civilisations, success is a few decades down the road." SETI physicist Paul Horowitz of Harvard, says "there's got to be life in the galaxy".
Editorial Comment: Their faith in evolution, and its implication that life will happen wherever natural circumstances permit is causing Paul Allen to give his multi-million dollar tithe to this belief. How many more millions will be wasted until men learn that life will only be where the Creator put it, and all the physical and revealed evidence indicate planet earth is it. (see Genesis 1 and 2). (ref. SETI, space, life)


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Knox decommits from Gators' 2014 recruiting class
Published: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 10:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 12:07 a.m.
Benjamin Knox's anticipated exit from Florida's 2014 class finally took place Tuesday night.
The 6-foot-6, 260-pound offensive tackle from DeLand decommitted from the Gators after not hearing from the staff in more than a month.
"I think they stopped recruiting me," he said. "I called them once or twice, and they didn't answer."
Knox picked UF at its Junior Day on Feb. 16 but told The Sun in April he was 55 percent solid and would likely back off his pledge if Florida landed another prospect at his position.
Knox struggled when he worked out at UF on June 15 and was one of only two commits who didn't speak with Gators coach Will Muschamp at the camp. The other, New Orleans (La.) St. Augustine offensive guard Joseph Paul, is also gone from Florida's class, which now has 14 members.
Knox lists Louisville as his leader and plans to make a decision on signing day.
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• ponderous •
Pronunciation: pond-êr-ês • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. Very heavy, very bulky, clumsy, unwieldy, slow moving from bulk and weight, such as a ponderous elephant. 2. Important, worth pondering, such as ponderous words. 3. Belabored, slow-moving, dull, as a ponderous speech (see Word History).
Notes: No, today's Good Word has nothing to do with ponds or pondering, though historically the latter comes from the same Latin root. It is accompanied by an adverb, ponderously, and two nouns: ponderousness and ponderosity, both rather appropriately ponderous themselves.
In Play: The initial meaning of today's word is not merely "very heavy", but "very heavy and clumsy": "Rhinoceroses are creatures as dangerous as they are ponderous." The second meaning is heard less frequently, but it is still around, longing to be used: "Reginald thinks that everything he says is so ponderous, he records every word that passes through his lips." Everyone around him thinks Reginald's words are ponderous in the third sense.
Word History: In the discussion of pensive, I introduced today's Good Word as a relative of pensive. We traced both words back to a Proto-Indo-European word with a Fickle S, (s)pen- "to draw, stretch, spin", claiming that ancients needed a weight to stretch hides or spin wool into threads. To understand the connection between thought and weight, we have to remember how people once weighed things. They had pans of equal weight hanging equidistant from the center of an arm. They placed the object(s) to be weighed in one pan, and weights of a known weight in the other. When the arm balanced, the object's weight was known. That is why even today we say things like, "Maisy weighs all her options carefully before reaching decisions."


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A decidedly Scrooge-like report this week may tamp down holiday spirits in IT departments -- or move you to hit the egg nog harder. "If tech is so important, why are IT wages flat?" lays bare one of tech's inconvenient truths: "Despite information technology's ever increasing role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat." The sluggish U.S. economy gets most of the blame, but truth is IT salaries simply have not kept pace with inflation, according to Janco Associates, which reports on IT wage compensation. And a new report by the Economic Policy Institute shows the average wage in computer and math occupations has increased less than a half-percent a year over the past decade. Bah humbug.
If base pay for tech workers is going nowhere, the outlook for IT bonuses is also murky. IT pros are divided when it comes to bonus expectations this year, according to tech jobs site Dice.com. It seems all that hard work and overtime you've been putting in doesn't necessarily translate into a fatter bonus check. "Generally speaking, people view bonuses as a personal achievement -- meaning individual performance determines if a person is going to receive a bonus. But that's not the case in the IT department, where bonuses gained and lost are thought to be determined by company conditions," says Alice Hill, managing director at Dice.com and president of Dice Labs.
Offshoring continues to affect IT jobs and wages. In a significant symbolic shift this week, IBM's India workforce now likely exceeds that in the United States -- I say "likely" because whereas Indian firms report hiring on a quarter-to-quarter basis as a source of pride, big IT firms in the States do not break out headcounts by country. However, according to an internal document, Big Blue now has 112,000 workers in India, up from 6,000 in 2002, and the average pay for all IBM workers in India was $17,000. In comparison, "[t]he only source today of IBM U.S. employment data is from the Alliance@IBM/CWA Local 1701, which puts the U.S. headcount today at about 92,000."
The growth of cloud computing may also be causing staffing problems. As InfoWorld's Eric Knorr points out in his Modernizing IT blog, "An increasing number of [enterprise development] projects will be supplanted by an abundance of narrowly targeted, cloud-based, collaborative, mobile-friendly apps that will effectively cut IT out of the loop."
The news isn't all bad: "Although there's a shift to the cloud, no one is saying that on-premises enterprise IT is going away. There's an abundance of assets and workloads that no company would cede to an outside service provider. But hoping you won't be last to grab a chair when the music stops is not a career strategy."
If a New Year's resolution to spruce up your resume and hit the networking sites is beginning to form, you might want to head over to this week's report on hot LinkedIn buzzwords, which observes "so much for being 'creative': It remains the most overused LinkedIn profile term for the second year in a row among U.S.-based professionals as well as those worldwide." The social business site recommends reworking your LinkedIn profile with a news-style headline, and "rather than just calling yourself creative, make sure you cite creative projects on which you've been involved." It probably doesn't hurt to throw in some of the site's nine other top buzzwords.
If all else fails, take heart in knowing that even if the monetary rewards aren't exactly flowing these days, there's still the satisfaction of a job well done. Which leaves the workers exposed in this week's Off the Record blog the prospect of a decidedly downtrodden Christmas -- top awards for a crazy-but-true tale of managing IT go to the manager who found a trove of thousands of pornographic pictures on the company server. It seems the employee responsible initially refused to remove them, then marched off to the HR director to ask for a CD burner to make copies before deleting the files.
Is that laughter I hear down in Whoville?
This article, "The grinch who stole IT's Christmas ," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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A MAN who has suffered from liver disease since the age of 10 is urging more people to become organ donors.
Henry Steele, who lives in Ampleforth, wants to see the introduction of Government legislation that would automatically register people as donors from birth.
The 24-year-old has suffered from a number of long-standing medical conditions, including primary sclerosing cholangitis and ulcerative cholangitis, but his health has deteriorated over the past 12 months.
Henry sleeps for more than 17 hours a day and has spent weeks in hospital. "I need frequent attention and am suffering blackouts, which has meant I have had to move back in with my family. I am unable to drive or go out far," he said. "To encourage myself to stay positive and focused, I have a keen interest in photography.
"One of the side effects I get is extreme itching, which feels like I am bathing in itching power and leaves me climbing the walls."
Despite his illness, Henry completed some studies, but was forced to leave further education because of ill health. He worked in security at festivals and as a door supervisor for a number of years.
"I do have a very positive outlook, but it is difficult as my condition has a big impact on my life and I am more or less housebound now," he said. "At the moment I am judged too healthy for a transplant, but I hope this year I will be re- assessed and get on the waiting list, so I can eventually get back to work and lead a normal life. I want to highlight the need for people to become donors and also highlight the process involved in being put forward for a transplant, which can often be long and difficult."
His mother, Yvonne, said Henry had first become ill when he was at primary school. "He started saying he was tired, but I thought it was an excuse not to go to school. Then he started passing blood and looking more and more yellow and jaundiced," she said. "I took him to the local GP, who referred him to York Hospital and then St James' Hospital, in Leeds, where he was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis and ulcerative colitis and then with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)."
Yvonne said she was told it was not contagious and the causes were unknown, but likely to have a genetic link which possibly needed an environmental trigger. "Basically, Henry's immune system went into hyper drive and started attacking his liver and large bowel," she said. "Fortunately it was very quickly diagnosed and, along with the treatment and support we received from the medical profession, we were also put in touch with the Children's Liver Disease Foundation, where we could meet other parents, which was a fantastic support."
Yvonne said they knew Henry would possibly need a liver transplant in the future. "His condition is regularly reviewed, and, when and if a transplant is approved, there are substantial risks involved with the operation."
Yvonne said all the medical staff had been fantastic.
"We couldn't ask for anything more, but it is a waiting game," she said. "Henry is very positive and loves life and people, but his condition means he is very isolated and unable to live independently. I hope that this is the year that he finally gets a transplant and can get on with his life."
• NHS figues show that 73 people died in our region while waiting for organ transplants in the past five years;
• Fifty people received organ donations last year, but 200 more are on the waiting list;
• The NHS Blood and Transplant service is encouraging people to register as organ donors. To join the NHS organ donor register, visit www.organdonation.nhs.uk or phone 0300 123 23 23.


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As of January 1, 2014, all individual/family and small group health plans must include a complete package of "essential health benefits." Your policy will provide more detailed information on your costs for receiving these covered services:
Also, preventive services are covered 100% with no cost share (you don't have to pay any copay, coinsurance, or meet a deductible before the service is covered). These benefits include:
Lifetime coverage limits were eliminated in 2012, and in 2014 annual dollar limits went away.
There are a lot of things that affect the cost of health insurance, for example what services are covered; how much you pay for care compared to how much your plan pays; coverage limits; a deductible; your medical history, age, gender, and tobacco use, etc. Some of the new requirements have increased the services that plans must cover (including care for pre-existing conditions) and eliminate annual and lifetime limits on coverage, but also provide tax credits for those who qualify. Premiums also won't be based on gender, and there are limits on how much premiums can increase for age. That means costs will depend on each person's unique situation—they could increase for some people, but go down for others.
Rest assured, all carriers, including Health First, must provide detailed evidence about medical and administrative costs to the appropriate regulatory agencies to review and approve premiums for each plan.
An eligible dependent is defined as the subscriber's lawful spouse, and/or the subscriber's or covered spouse's child until the end of the calendar year in which the child reaches age 26. The term "child" includes the subscriber's or covered spouse's natural born child, stepchild, foster child or legally adopted child of the subscriber upon placement in the subscriber's residence, provided proof of such guardianship is presented. In the case of the birth of a newborn adopted child, a written agreement to adopt such child has been entered into prior to the birth of the child.
The Affordable Care Act requires health plans to offer dependent children continuity of coverage until the child reaches the age of 26. In addition, Florida law requires fully-insured plans to offer continuity of coverage for dependent children after the child turns 26 until the end of the calendar year in which he or she turns 30 if the child:
To find out if this applies to your benefit plan, please check your plan documents or contact Customer Service.
As of January 1, 2014, all individual/family and small group health plans must include a complete package of "essential health benefits". Your policy will provide more detailed information on your costs for receiving these covered services:
When healthcare reform first began in September 2010, health insurance carriers were allowed to "grandfather" those plans that were in place at that time. That means a plan may not be subject to all the rules of healthcare reform if it has not undergone any significant benefit change since that time. There are specific rules around what benefits/plans may be grandfathered, and once a plan loses its grandfather status all benefits must be brought into compliance with the current requirements.
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York artist Dan Savage is celebrating a notable national double.
Dan, of Artstop Studios, was winner of last year's prestigious Building Better Healthcare Awards.
Now Dan has done it again with his art scheme for a new young people's mental health centre in Northumberland.
The Building Better Healthcare Awards celebrate "the people, processes, products and premises that are helping to transform medical practices across the UK".
Last year, Dan won the Interior Design category for his artwork at York Hospital's Bereavement Suite. The new mental health centre, Ferndene, which will be officially opened later this month by the Duchess of Northumberland.
It provides inpatient assessment and treatment for young people with complex health, behavioural and emotional needs and is the first such integrated service of its kind in the country.
Dan's artworks run throughout the centre, from the entrance gates to the bedroom windows, café and courtyards, were created to provide a supportive atmosphere with positive calming distractions.
in 2009, Dan, who was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2003, won a national award for his work in raising awareness of the disease in the young when he was named Macmillan Cancer Relief's Young Cancer Champion of the Year.
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Mix all dry ingredients. Add the cooked rice and sweet corn, mix well. Add the oil and rub into the ingredients with your hands to evenly mix. Combine the soymilk and water. Add to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Oil a cast iron skillet with oil, liberally coating the sides and bottom. Heat skillet over a high flame until it begins to sizzles but does not smoke. Pour the batter into the skillet, cover and reduce the flame to low. Cook for 30 to 35 minutes until the bottom and sides are crispy brown and the inside is done.
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From Our 2013 Archives
Will New Gout Findings Get a Toehold?
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WEDNESDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) -- The big toe is not the biggest culprit in gout flare-ups, contrary to popular belief, a new study reports.
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., found that people with the highest risk of repeated cases of gout are those whose gout first appears in other joints, such as the knee or elbow, rather than in the joints of the big toe.
Gout is a painful form of arthritis caused by uric acid buildup in the body. Continuing to take medication is essential to prevent recurrences, the researchers said.
"Because patients often think that a gout flare-up means their medications are not working, they may stop medications like allopurinol. It is especially important for these patients to continue taking gout medication to prevent flare-ups," study co-author Dr. Eric Matteson, rheumatology chair, said in a Mayo news release.
The study was scheduled for presentation at the annual meeting of the European League Against Rheumatism, June 12 to 15, in Madrid.
Researchers followed 46 gout patients for about 13 years on average. Their first gout attack occurred at an average age of 66.
Mayo researchers presented other studies at the meeting. Among those findings:
Data and conclusions presented at meetings are typically considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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When you design the synchronization plan for a network of Cisco WAN switches, the fundamental design goals include:
Synchronize the greatest number of network elements to the smallest number of independent clock sources. Ideally, all network elements are synchronized to a single clock source.
Use clock sources of the highest quality (in terms of stability and long-term accuracy). This implies that available clock sources are used with this priority:
Clock sources (typically stratum 2) provided by a national or international carrier.
The internal (stratum 3) clock source provided by a BPX node.
The internal (stratum 4) clock source provided by an IGX node, a PBX, or other customer premises equipment (CPE).
In order to ensure resiliency of the synchronization, plan in the face of possible failures of clock sources, network elements, or network trunks.
There are no specific requirements for this document.
This document is not restricted to specific software and hardware versions.
Refer to Cisco Technical Tips Conventions for more information on document conventions.
It is the responsibility of the network administrator to identify and define the available network clock sources during the creation of the network synchronization architecture
Network versus Node Clock Sources
It is critical to note that the network administrator does not explicitly identify which clock source is to be used by each node in an IGX or BPX network. Instead, the network, as a part of switch software, automatically selects the best available clock source and path for each node.
For MGX nodes, the network can do this as well if the Network Clock Distribution Protocol (NCDP) features are enabled. Otherwise, the administrator is required to manually select the clock sources per node.
Available clock sources can be any number of these items:
Any trunk between nodes that is explicitly clocked (typically by the carrier that provides the facility). The definition of one or both endpoints of such a "clocked" trunk as clock source(s) allows the network to synchronize to the high-quality clock that the carrier provides.
Note: This includes subrate trunks with X.21, V.35, or RS-449 interfaces on NTM cards in IGX nodes.
Any line that connects a piece of customer-premise equipment to the network. This includes any T1, E1, T3, E3, OC3, and OC12 line (provided the line provides a clock, which may not be the case in all networks). Note that this does not include any T1 or E1 Frame relay ports, or any RS232, V.35, X.21, or RS449 data or Frame Relay ports in the network.
Any external clock source that is connected to the External Clock input port.
This table details the required clock signal formats:
|Switch Type
|Acceptable Clock Signal
|The RS-422A square wave at 1.544 MHz or 2.048 MHz.
| The T1 or E1 bipolar AMI pulse stream. For example, E1 IAW Table 6 of ITU specification G.703 .
Note: Table 10 of ITU specification G.703 is not acceptable.
|MGX with PXM-UI
|The T1 bipolar AMI stream or E1 IAW G.703, Tables 6 and 10 of ITU specification G.703 .
|MGX with PXM-UI-S3
|The T1 bipolar AMI stream or E1 IAW G.703, Table 6 of ITU specification G.703 only—no square wave signals (Table 10).
In BPX/IGX networks, each clock source is defined as a primary, secondary, or tertiary clock source. The designation of a clock source as primary, secondary, or tertiary is strictly at the discretion of the network administrator. The best available clock sources are typically defined as primary with other clock sources defined as secondary or tertiary. In MGX nodes, the selections are Primary or Secondary. Under NCDP, the stratum level of a clock can be specified and the protocol selects from the available clock sources considering the stratum level.
Automatic Node Clock Selection Algorithm – BPX/IGX Networks
Once the available clock sources are defined for the network, the system software of the network automatically determines the specific clock source to be used by each node in the network.
In order to ensure resiliency, the node clock source selection algorithm is re-executed as a result of these items:
The addition or deletion of a network clock source by the network administrator.
The failure of any defined network clock source.
The failure or repair of any node in the network.
The failure, repair, or clock configuration of any trunk in the network.
The algorithm used for node clock selection is very straightforward. Each node uses the nearest, highest-priority (primary, secondary, tertiary, or internal) clock source available to it.
Therefore, if there is only one primary clock source defined in the network, then all nodes synchronize to it, if possible. If there is more than one primary clock source defined in the network, then each node synchronizes to the nearest (measured by hop count) primary source. (See item 6 for a discussion of the implications when you have nodes synchronize to multiple clock sources.)
If there are no primary clock sources defined (or all are failed), then each node synchronizes to the nearest secondary clock source.
If there are no primary or secondary clock sources defined (or all are failed), then each node synchronizes to the nearest tertiary clock source.
If there are no primary, secondary, or tertiary clock sources defined (or all are failed), then each node synchronizes to the internal (stratum 3) clock source of the BPX node with the highest internal node number.
If there are no primary, secondary, or tertiary clock sources defined (or all are failed), and there is no BPX node available, then each node synchronizes to the internal (stratum 4) clock source of the IGX node with the highest internal node number.
Pass Synchronization on a Trunk: Yes or No? What Does it Mean?
In the algorithm in item 2, and for NCDP, a node must be able to indirectly synchronize to a remote clock source. This is accomplished with the identification of a clock path between the remote clock source and the node. Each element (node or trunk) in the path is synchronized to the previous element "upstream" in the path. Thus, a node is frequency-locked to the upstream trunk, which is then frequency-locked to the upstream node, which is then frequency-locked to the next upstream trunk, and so on. This continues until the defined clock source is reached.
The key to the success of such a scheme is the ability of a node to frequency-lock to its neighbor over the trunk that joins them. This requires that the trunk between the nodes be "unclocked," or able to pass synchronization between nodes.
A trunk can have a setting of "Pass Sync : Yes" or "Pass Sync: No". Use the cnftrk command to change the parameter. Configure the trunk to not pass synchronization:
If the trunk is clocked by the carrier.
Unfortunately, there is no way for the nodes to determine automatically whether a particular trunk is clocked or not. Similarly, there is no test procedure that can be performed by the network administrator to determine whether the trunk is clocked or not. This information must be provided by the service provider.
If, for any reason, the network administrator wishes to prevent the trunk from being included in the clock path between any nodes in the network.
This is sometimes done for trunks that are prone to frequent outages.
Note: Subrate trunks by definition cannot pass clocks and are therefore blocked from being configured as Pass Sync. Virtual trunks are physically unable to pass clocking information but are not restricted from being configured as "Pass Sync: Yes." Ensure that you do not configure the network to pass clocking information across virtual trunks.
A trunk configured as "Pass Sync: Yes" cannot be configured as a network clock source.
A trunk configured as "Pass Sync: No" is not used in the clock path for any node.
Note: An IGX node cannot be included anywhere in the clock path of a BPX node. The reason for this is that the clock recovery circuitry and internal oscillator of the IGX is stratum 4 whereas the internal oscillator on the BPX is stratum 3.
How Can I Tell if a Trunk is Clocked or Unclocked?
The simple answer is that only the service provider who provides the trunk can determine this. The reason is that a particular trunk can be either clocked or unclocked based on what equipment the trunk traverses inside the infrastructure of the service provider.
Some reasonable rules of thumb are:
A cable is unclocked.
A fractional T1 trunk is usually clocked because it goes through the Digital Access and Crossconnect System (DACS) of a carrier somewhere.
A full T1 is usually not clocked unless it is provided by Sprint. However, some short-haul trunks provided by other carriers may be clocked.
A T3 trunk is rarely clocked because broadband framing structures are specifically designed to support a large number of DS3 data streams. Each is clocked independently with the performance of dynamic bit stuffing.
Loop Clock on a Trunk or a Line: Yes or No? What Does it Mean?
In the configuration command for each trunk and each line (the cnftrk and cnfln commands, respectively), there is a parameter that allows the network administrator to specify "Loop Clock: Yes" or "Loop Clock: No." This parameter specifies the source of the transmit clock (used to send bits from the node out onto the trunk or line).
If "Loop Clock: No" (the default) is chosen, then the transmit clock on the trunk or line is derived from the master clock of the node. (This is not necessarily the internal oscillator of the node. If the node is frequency-locked to a remote clock source or the internal oscillator on a remote node, then the master clock of the node is not its internal oscillator.)
If "Loop Clock: Yes" is chosen, then the transmit clock on the trunk or line is frequency-locked to the receive clock (derived from the incoming bit stream) on the trunk or line. This is commonly done on:
A time-division multiplexing (TDM)-based line (such as one that connects to a PBX) when the device at the other end of the line cannot be synchronized to the node. This allows the device to transmit and receive bits at its own frequency (which can be different than the frequency of the node). This prevents the data loss associated with uncontrolled frame slips. In such a case, the line and the attached CPE have no problem using a frequency that is independent of the master clock of the node.
A trunk that is clocked by the carrier and the carrier's clock is not used as the clock source for the node. This configuration prevents uncontrolled frame slips (and the corresponding data loss) in the carrier's facilities.
Is it OK to Have Multiple Clock Sources in Use in the Network?
In some cases, it is unavoidable for some nodes and trunks in a network to synchronize to one clock source and to synchronize other nodes and trunks in the network to another clock source. This is especially common in international networks or in networks in which trunks are obtained from a variety of service providers. Such a network is said to be synchronized in a plesiochronous fashion.
If two pieces of equipment that are synchronized to different clock sources are joined by an unclocked trunk, input buffers on the interfaces at each node periodically overflow (at one end) or underflow (at the other end). This overflow or underflow condition is commonly known as a frame slip because an overflow condition usually causes one (or more) frame of data to be discarded.
In a TDM-based network, almost every frame slip causes data to be lost, since there is likely to be data contained in at least one timeslot of every frame.
On a trunk in a FastPacket or ATM network, many idle packets or cells transmit every second. All IGX and BPX trunk cards discard idle cells from the network before they are buffered and processed. This prevents the error condition of input buffer overflow from occurring.
Because of the fundamental characteristic of cell-based networking, a network with a plesiochronous synchronization plan can usually operate free of error.
What Errors Do Clock Problems Cause?
Clocking problems typically cause frame slips on circuit-line interfaces, especially circuit lines to TDM devices such as a PBX. Frame slips can occur on either or both ends of the line. Both the PBX and the switch can record frame slips. In order to help resolve frame slips, configure the external equipment to receive clock from the network. If the external equipment cannot accept network clock, configure the circuit line interface for loop clock. If the configuration of one end of the circuit line for loop clock does not eliminate frame slips, evaluate the clocking architecture of the network and external equipment.
Clocking problems typically cause Packet Errors, HEC errors, PLCP errors, or frame-sync errors. The error depends upon the type of trunk interface used. Errors result from a difference in frequency between adjacent nodes or Telco clocking of trunks. Clock errors on trunks typically occur on one end. This is because the BPX or IGX trunk-card suppresses the input buffer overflow by deleting idle cells. The errors indicate underflow slips. Configure the end of the trunk that does not experience errors for loop clock to minimize errors.
A trunk clocked by the carrier can exhibit errors on both ends. Configure either or both ends of the trunk for loop clock to minimize the error condition.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Police arrested a woman who repeatedly called 911 to report a burglary at her home.
Daytona Beach police say 43-year-old Dedra Jones called dispatchers earlier this week to report that her home had been broken into. But when police didn't arrive quickly enough for her, she called again. And again. And again.
Jones faces charges of abusing the 911 system.
Records show Jones told dispatchers she knew who took her stuff, that she was going to the culprit's house and that she needed to talk to a supervisor. The dispatcher told her after the seventh call that she'd be arrested if she kept calling 911.
An arriving officer says she ignored him because she was calling 911 for an eighth time. That's when Jones was arrested.
She later posted bond and was released from jail.
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Put quinoa, Edensoy, and salt in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Add sesame butter and syrup. Mix well. Add kuzu, stirring constantly until mixture thickens. Add vanilla and spices. Top with your choice of chopped nuts, roasted seeds or fruit. Delicious warm or chilled.
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When you beat Cristian/Orton, you know you're doing something right
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Decent ppv last night. I judge a ppv mainly on how well I remember it. And I remember practically everything regarding the matches of CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio, Christian vs. Randy Orton, and R-Truth vs. John Cena.
CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio. Now this is the CM Punk we expect. He and Rey put on the best match of the night with some unbelievable sequences. They had some pretty heavy competition to beat too, in Christian vs. Orton. But they did. If it is actually true these guys don't actually like eachother, I don't see how, given that when they step into the ring together they produce magic. Rey actually lost clean, and with his match and his promo, Punk proves once again he is without a single doubt the most complete talent the WWE has to its name. Damn good match. How much would it suck if Punk left the WWE? When he leaves people will just look at it and realize what a huge loss it is once it's not there. But if Punk does leave, this match could set up a mask vs. career feud which would be a great way to send Punk off. And if what happened at this ppv is any indication, the show the two put on will worthy the stakes.
But their competition was hot too. As per usual for them. It wasn't as good as their earlier matches , and it was a bit slower but Christian vs. Orton was fun beginning to end and had a better finish than CM Punk vs. Mysterio. These guys (christian orton) put on a great match every time they step into the squared circle together and I take nothing in WWE as seriously as those two guys and their feud right now. It's pretty awesome. I'm really excited to see what happens now on SD. Does Christian become even more heel? Does he tween now? Are they trying to tween him? It seems like the writers are actually out thinking everyone. Looks like they've abandoned completely making Orton a canonical face at the cost of some of his grittiness. And with the finish to their match it makes Christian's role as canonical heel doubtful or least a bit layered. Though I have a nagging feeling that maybe they thought Christian couldn't handle another loss, but if that's the case, it means they are thinking about this feud long-term, and damn right.
Something else doubtful is a John Cena match being fun. But this was. I enjoyed seeing Truth beat the crap out of Cena and I defy any you to call the Lie Detector stupid when you see it landed on John Cena for almost a 3. R-Truth's video promo was absolutely perfect and so was the finish to their match. Truth's face when he was taking a drink of water was absolutely golden. No doubt this feud will surely continue as Truth has done a good job of entertaining the older crowd unlike Miz, while playing a good heel to John Cena and not taking the focus or relevancy away unlike Punk. Also, it should continue cause, Truth's @#%#% awesome.


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Pigskin Previews - Week 7
Princeton (0-6, 0-5) at Macomb (6-0, 6-0)
Gametime: 7:30 p.m. Friday
BCR insider: The Bombers are in the driver's seat to win the West Central Conference with a showdown with 2011 co-WCC champ Rockridge (5-1, 5-1) next week. Macomb is a defensive-minded team, averaging 22.8 ppg while allowing just 14.8 ppg. PHS is scoring just 9.9 ppg while surrendering 40.5 ppg.
This will be the last meeting between the schools with Princeton moving to the Three Rivers in 2013. PHS' lone win in six series meetings came in the 2002 playoffs (49-7).
Last week: PHS lost to Monmouth-Roseville 42-0; Macomb beat Pittsfield 27-24.
Last year: Macomb 52-13.
All-time series: Macomb 5-1.
Radio: WZOE 1490 AM.
Fulton (2-4, 2-4) at Bureau Valley (4-2, 4-2)
Gametime: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Manlius
BCR insider: The Storm look to become playoff eligible with a win Friday. The Steamers won't go down without a fight. They showed late life with two scoring drives to pull within 10 points before falling 35-18 at St. Bede Saturday.
Last week: Fulton lost to St. Bede 25-18; BV beat Riverdale 34-6.
Last year: BV 33-0.
All-time series: BV 8-1.
Radio: WZOE 98.1 FM.
Hall (0-6, 0-6) at Sterling Newman (6-0,6-0)
Gametime: Noon, Saturday at Eades Field, Sterling High School
BCR insider: Two teams going in opposite directions with the Comets looking to remain undefeated and the Red Devils seeking their first win. Between them, the new BRC rivals have six state championships (Newman 4, Hall 2) and three runner-up finishes (Newman 2, Hall 1). Game being played Saturday with host Sterling High School playing under the Friday Nights Lights on its new synthetic turf.
Last week: Hall lost to EP 56-26; Newman beat Kewanee 42-0.
Last year: Did not play.
Radio: WAJK 99.3 FM.
Other area games
Annawan/Wethersfield (6-0) at River Valley (2-4)
Christian Liberty Academy (0-6) at Marquette (6-0)
Dixon (0-6) at Ottawa (6-0)
Erie/Prophetstown (4-2) at Kewanee (1-5)
Geneseo (3-3) at Sterling (4-2)
L-P (2-4) at Streator (0-6)
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Thread: [RPS] A Call to Arms
Supreme giraffe should only need to talk to the platoon leaders I think
So if he told platoon lead 1 to attack 2 bases, it'd be up to the platoon lead to split the squads how they saw fit and report progress back up. With that the platoon lead could ask for a big attack on base A and smaller ones on B and C and the actual logistics of which squad goes where aren't in his hands.
Basically a slightly bigger chain of command that doesn't put too much pressure on any individual.
[edit] Also thanks to all who took charge and led people and a welcome to any new peeps sniffing around :3
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All in all, I have to say that I think we did very well last night. Sure there were some ghost caps in the beginning, efficiency was not at peak capacity and there wasn't really any information about what the other platoons were doing (this is my speaking as a normal grunt).
But it was also the first time we did something like this and there were a lot of new people playing who either weren't familiar with the game, or the way the outfit plays. Almost half the squad I was in were "non-veterans" and we still managed to work together as a group, including taking and holding points, for most of the evening. So sure, maybe things weren't as they COULD have been, but they were quite frankly as good as could be expected.
So, that being said, we managed to take a lot of territory (over 50 % of the map at some point), we had some truly epic fights (Silver Valley, Auraxis Firearms, etc.) and as a whole I think we got most people cooperating and working together. So I think we did really good.
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Just wanted to say thanks to Cooper, Dr Barnowl, Grible and others for looking after us noobs last night. It was my first time fighting in an outfit since the Beta, and it was great to feel like I was fighting as part of a squad rather than just being in one. I look forward to more nights like this in the future.
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I didn't get to join in last night, but did have some fun this morning with 12 or so people! So looking forward to trying out this massive amount of people!
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Yeah playing Ps2 solo is just... a bad game there are alot better games if you just wanna shoot some people in the face. But get in a outfit, especially an outfit that works with other outfits to stage big attacks on an entire continent Then there really is no other game that gives an experience like it. (well except for Eve then...)
Thank you to everyone who pulled together to make this happen.
Thanks too to the dozens of new people who turned up. It was a wonderfully hectic night.
One thing: Next time we get 100+ we need an overlord. Someone who is probably not actually 'playing' but is sitting in command chat, has direct connection to every PL, and is basically telling us what to do and who can regularly speak to all of us to let us know the "grand plan".
One thing I think we didn't do too well was get across quite how what we were doing on the ground filtered into the efforts of hundreds of people playing. Partly because we weren't necessarily working that well on a strategic level to actually know really what we were doing on that large-scale...
There was limited inter-platoon coordination, probably because all PLs were busier than normal with platoon "admin". There was zero inter-outfit cooperation, but I did give The Vanu Accord a heads up on that likely being the case. Both of these could be solved by someone pulling an "enrico" and playing gentle general for the empire that night. Empire orders were rarely used, it would have been nice to have shown [RPS] leading coordination across all Vanu on Miller as we often do...
Apart from the disconnect between "on the ground" and strategic empire-level stuff (which, to be honest, we are usually much better at than anyone else) it went incredibly well.
We were never going to be an efficient fighting force nor anywhere near as flexible and responsive as we usually are. Which is totally fine, because what we did have was still bloody impressive stuff. I did my best to try and get in a mix of styles from Gal drops to magriders in my platoon, if sometimes at the detriment of being particulalry effective (a platoon of magriders without a fight and nowhere to go but a biolab was a bit embarassing...). I like to think we offered a really good night to the new players.
If anything, one of the best things about the RPS community (in general, not just PS2 players) really, really shone through last night. I am continually amazed at just how excellent everyone is. Really. We had almost zero 'problem characters' and everyone was incredibly friendly, and I think we managed to be much more welcoming. Entering into an established community can be daunting, and sometimes alienating. I think we managed really well in that regards."KING GEORGE IS A FROG
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I think a supreme leader approach is simply bad.
One person can't coordinate 10 squads. That is impossible. We need to learn to work as independent groups in cohesion via sheer knowledge of where we are on the map, as well as leaders communicating where they are, as well as PL telling their platoon overall directions and goals. It should then mainly be up to SLs to figure out how. This is in my book the difference between PL and SL and I think we should stress that SLs need to be more independent. PL should act as the coordinator, not the one who decides angles of approach and tactics - but strategy.
If we have multiple platoons, we really should use my proposed comms system. In that we should also have PLs talking to eachother a la "pl1 going here. pl2 go there?" "sure pl1" - nothing logner, no discussion, nothing complicated - unless we have downtime. Easy cooperation. We should then have comms liason (who has no other responisbility other then necessary beacon jockey duty in the squad that person is SL in, but is not actually leading) doing direct input to PLs to coordinate on the larger stage.
We still discuss stuff way too much in command chat when we should not be. SLs should be able to focus on squad leading. Not filtering audio. I would see this is as our number one reason why we have issues getting squads sticking together and such - that SLs are pre-occupied with other duties.
TLDR: SL = tactical. PL = strategic. Supreme Giraffe CO = probably not the best.
On topic, I had a great time yesterday. Big thanks to all of you that pulled this together! Being so many RPSers had a very epic feel to it, especially the push for Silver Valley and Splitpeak Pass, and the assault on Sungrey Amp. Great fights and lots of galdrop practice in Stratgir Charlie.
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Maybe the problem is not Overlording but at the squadleading level.
Essentialy squad leaders are squadleading and manning the "radio" at the same time. Squads should have a tactical officer (leading the squad and deciding how to act on the terrain) and a second player should be a radio officer being in charge of handling communications with platoon leader and other squads. So the squadleader can focus on... squad leading, while the comm officer can radio talk and admin all of this. Those two people could train to work together in order to be most effective.
An exemple could be this:
Platoon leaders channel:
Platoon 1 leader: Platoon 1 is pushing from the north, Platoon 2 can you cover west flank while we advance?
Platoon 2 leader: ok, we are taking position in the mountain.
Platoon 2 channel:
Platoon 2 leader: We are holding the west flank in the moutains. Alpha you take position on the moutain facing west. Beta will get to hold the pass. Delta will serve as backup. And Gamma will provide air support.
Delta squad channel:
Delta comm officer: We have to provide backup for alpha that will hold the mountain and for beta that will hold the pass.
Delat squad leader: okay, the moutain is too steep for a sunderer, we will use a galaxy in order to respond quickly.
Gamma squad channel:
Gamma comm officer: We have to provide air support for alpha that will hold the moutain and for beta that will hold the pass.
Gamma Squad Leader: okay, we are going in three liberators and three air to air scythes to cover us. Don't forget to get at least one engineer in each aircraft.
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Purple Giraffe for Charlie Squad!
Thanks to Nick for repeating orders many, many times. We were bantering non-stop and though I did explain why people occasionally had to shut up I didn't labour the point. I would like to know if this was problematic for Nick and whether I should enforce more radio discipline in future, so as not to cause chaos for the brass. And thanks to CMaster for nudging us in the right direction, without any name-calling, tautologous though that might have been! I did need it pointed out to me
I get the impression that the chiefs had trouble controlling such a large force but on the smaller scale I found we were more disciplined than usual but - at least in the squads I was in - without the silence that normally characterises Strat nights. For me this is the most enjoyable way to play, whether or not we lock the continent.
That could work pretty well Sigildorn. It's worth testing out at least, but then we need quite a few volounteers.
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It was a really fun session!
I wanted to join because my experiences with Folk ARPS were so good, and the Giraffes did not disappoint!
What did disappoint was my computer, with low fps almost constantly, and a pretty big crash at the end. If I manage to fix these problems, I think I'll become a regular.
But I still managed to snap a picture of some mad Danish/Hungarian galaxy piloting skillz:
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I had a blast with my Bravo squad, i think i had mostly new guys at least new to RPS if not to the game which meant we were a bit short on AMS sunderers a while but that did not have any major impact on our game. I tried to be as active a leader as i could by giving us smaller objectives in the bigger fight (like the vehicle terminal in silver valley). I realise I might not have been clear enough with certain things to the new guys and I was pretty bad at trying to gather the squad for attacks so that we often ended up spread out over battles. But I do hope the new guys had fun and want to play with us again.
The biggest change from having veterans to new players is the lack of AA, sure everyone has 1 burster but they do lack the oomphf of a double burster and new guys are not as quick to pull them out if needed. Killing tanks we had no problems with as shown outside Split peaks when we jump out of our sundie and had the whole squad change to heavies in less than 10 seconds and sending a barrage of rockets at the lightnings trying to hold us back. That was really impressive actually.
I did have quite a few guys who did not use mics/did not have mics which made it slightly harder to have a good conversation and intro with them but think we did good anyway.
Mad props to the entire outfit for keeping this together and actually managing to keep it as smooth as it was. Sure the 2nd platoon was a bit slow to get rolling and could have used a few more veterans but once we got rolling we always had something to do even if it was just capping empty TR bases.
I really do agree with Ridebird though, squads really should take the initiative and instead of asking the PL "What do we do now? Give us orders!!!" just go "Hey Alpha is moving to this base to help flank the enemy!" and if that is stupid or wrong the PL can just tell you what he needs instead.
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Ridebird, I'd be up for trying this with you some time, in either role, if you're up for it.
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Lies, damned lies, and statistics!
If you have read my three previous posts (1, 2, 3), you may walk away with an impression that on a drive presented from a high-end enterprise class disk array, Windows file fragmentation does not have a significant performance impact. And I've given you empirical data—oh yeah, statistics—to support that impression.
But that is not the whole story! No, I didn't lie to you. The numbers I presented were solid. It's just that the story is not yet finished.
In these previous posts on the performance impact of file fragmentation, I presented the I/O throughput data as the evidence. The arguments were valid, especially we did see file fragmentation causing the I/O throughput to degrade in a directly attached storage. But I/O throughput is but one I/O performance metric, and it is not enough to look at the I/O throughput alone.
Let me start with an analogy. So suppose we have an eight-lane super highway going from New York City to Los Angles. As we pumping (okay, driving) more cars from NYC to LA, we take measure at a checkpoint in LA to find out how many cars are crossing that checkpoint every hour, i.e. we are measuring the throughput of the super highway. Now, instead of building the eight-lane super highway straight from NYC to LA, we have it take a detour via Boston. At that same checkpoint in LA, we again measure the throughput. Everything else being equal, we should get the same throughput.
However, for a given car, the trip from NYC to LA would take a lot longer on this detoured highway.
An I/O path is similar to a super highway. While its throughput is an important measure, how long it takes for an I/O request to complete—I/O latency or response time—is also an important measure. The question is, will file fragmentation take your I/O traffic for a detour?
Indeed, empirical test data show that when a file is severely fragmented, the maximum I/O latency of large sequential reads and writes (e.g. 256KB reads and writes) can suffer significantly. The following chart shows the impact of file fragmentation on the maximum I/O latency. The data were obtained from the same tests whose throughputs were reported in Part III of this series of posts.
Clearly, when the test file was fragmented into numerous 128KB disconnected pieces, some of the 256KB reads suffered terribly latency degradation. And if your applications happen to be issuing these I/Os, you would most likely experience a performance degradation regardless whether the I/O path can maintain the same I/O throughput.
Having some valid statistics may seem to add force to an argument, which makes it so much easier to be misleading if the whole story is not told, and technically everything is valid, and nobody is lying. By the way, this is a trick often employed by the vendors, who tend to conveniently ignore the bad news, or intentionally bury it with statistics on the good news. In my book, that would be lies, damned lies, and statistics.
There's a flaw with the analogy in the article. The way bandwidth is measured for I/O, the round trip is the metric that is most important. So in the highway sample that would be the time for a pool of cars to do a round trip from NYC-LA-NYC and detour at Boston will have a huge impact on the final number.
If you are measuring th time of a round trip, you are measuring the response time (or latency). And if that's what you are measuring, the detour would have a huge impact. I don't think we are in disagreement.
From the DBA's perspective, it would be really hard to create a data file or log with lots of 128k or 2MB fragments. However, the default autogrow setting for a database created through the GUI is 1MB. If you had to guess, how would that behave on an enterprise SAN?
128K fragments are a bit extreme and were chosen on purpose to help explore the boundary conditions. If I had to guess with the help of the results from 128K fragments and 2MB fragments, I'd say you probably will see very little degradation, if any. I have more results to post on this topic, and hopefully will help make it clearer.
A great post Linchi...I think that file fragmentation presents potential issues in a number of counters. Great analogy of throughput as well.
Most san vendors will tell you that file fragmentation does not matter on a san. It's very easy to get fragmentation because if you load a number of databases onto a drive whereby you need over 50% of the capacity eventually as you create and load the databases they will fragment as the files will not positione themselves sequentially. Add database growth and attempts to defrag the drive and very soon you get fragmented mdf files. With lots of free space this doesn't happen, but most san vendors aim to get 80% or better utilisation, so you never get to fragment your files. Proving there is an performance hit is another matter, I always like your posts because you seem to get to do so much most of us probably can't - keep up the good work.
Thanks Grnpy Old DBA! I should have highlighted that the latency numbers I have in the chart are maximum latency in each test. The average latency numbers were actually about the same in each of the three test scenarios.
The other thing is that on a drive presented from a SAN (disk array) is not a drive in terms of the traditional disk geometry. I don't believe the usage (i.e. how full it is) has as much an impact on performance as you would see on a traditional disk drive.
You have been measuring in-cache transactions in the tests before, so why does it affect you so badly, still?
BTW: the bigger problem with your tests is that you are a single appliction connected to the Storage Array and fit in cache. If you add multiple other applications you only get a fraction of the cache and also increase the time you have to wait for a seak (opposed to read aheads).


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Foreign Entanglements: Release the KiloTrombly!
On the latest Foreign Entanglements, I spoke with Dan Trombly about Syria and sundry:
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Any thoughts on this? I get that civilian consultants are already a major part of our foreign policy apparatus, but the fact that the Kagans were willing to work for free 18 hours a day for free scares me more than if DOD had hired them outright.
So that's what he looks like….
Anyway, yeah, Kagan story really, really weird. Petraeus seems particularly vulnerable to ego-massaging by civilians….
The central reason I have doubts about Assad being overthrown, merely as a matter of time, is that I simply don't see a real rebel army with a real political apparatus behind it. From the broader picture that I've been able to gather, Assad clearly seems to have a set strategy, internally and externally vis á vis allies. Said strategy looks very much to be based in part on playing for time. If Assad was really tottering, I think there would be much more of an effort at a real ground campaign. More than this, if huge elements of this army was not reliable, I think we would have seen more and more serious defections in unit sizes. After all, these guys homes are being bombed, so people say.
I think there is a very good chance that examining reveal preferences would show that Assad still have strong support (as the least evil option) among urban Sunni, let alone the other religious minorities. I also think that the rebels have a major statebuilding project ahead of them during the winter. There is just no Maoist strategy if everyone thinks you're bad news.
Another important thing to watch is how well the rebels can generate more manpower via recruitment.
I mean, all the US had to do in Fallujah is to bomb it silly until will and manpower for resistance ceased to exist.
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