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The materials listed below outline issues, activities, resources, and promising practices on the prevention of eating disorders, traumatic events that can lead to their development, and cultural norms that reinforce unhealthy attitudes around weight and body image.
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The materials listed below outline issues, activities, resources, and promising practices regarding the prevention of eating disorders, traumatic events that can contribute to their development, and cultural norms that reinforce unhealthy attitudes around weight and body image .
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Prevention & Health Promotion (3 p.) by National Eating Disorders Information Centre (NEDIC) staff and revised by Merryl Bear, M. Ed. (2003). This is an outline of strategies and concepts related to prevention of eating disorders.
Eating Disorder Prevention (1 p.) National Eating Disorders Association. This one-page resource introduces basic concepts of prevention, as well as some behaviors and strategies that individuals can use to attempt to prevent distorted eating.
Eating Disorder Prevention Programs: A Meta-Analytic Review (22 p.) by Eric Stice and Heather Shaw of the University of Texas at Austin (2004). This article from the Psychological Bulletin outlines a research study focused on prevention programs. The results identify promising prevention programs and list factors and strategies for prevention.
Incorporating Diversity in Your Prevention Efforts (1 p.) by the National Eating Disorders Association (2005). This one-page resource is for educators interested in creating culturally competent programs when working with youth to prevent eating disorders.
Coaches & Athletic Trainers Toolkit (45 p.) by the National Eating Disorders Association (2010). This guide, written for adults working with young adults in sports groups, outlines prevention and intervention strategies, signs and symptoms, and resources regarding eating disorders among young athletes.
Questions & Answers (7 p.) by Jeanine C. Cogan of the Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy & Action, USA and David B. Herzog of Harvard Eating Disorders Center (2005). Published in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention, this article makes the case for policy change and action in order to prevent eating disorders. Recommendations include increased awareness efforts, funding for research and prevention, and legislative initiatives to promote wellness.
What We Have Learned About Primary Prevention of Food and Weight Preoccupation (4 p.) by Gail McVey, Ph.D., C.Psych for National Eating Disorders Information Centre (2003). Dr. McVey outlines some trends in primary prevention, as well as the need for a comprehensive approach due to the complexity and nature of eating disorders. Topics include the role of schools and parents and guardians in prevention.
Childhood Trauma Prevention
Given the connections that have been identified between eating disorders and sexual violence, the following resources may help those working in the prevention of child sexual abuse.
Enough Abuse - This website provides parents, professionals, and concerned adults with knowledge and skills they need to help prevent child sexual abuse in their homes and communities. The Enough Abuse Campaign was formed in 2004 by the Massachusetts Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership to develop and evaluate new strategies to engage adults and communities in the movement to end child sexual abuse.
Talking To Children and Teens (Stop It Now!) (3 p.) by Stop It Now! (2010). This provides clear examples and strategies for preventing child sexual abuse through age-appropriate information and communication. Aimed at parents, adults, and community members who work with, support, or interact with children.
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Information Packet by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (2011). This information packet was developed for sexual violence prevention educators, advocates, and their allied partners in public health and other disciplines. It contains resources to support the prevention of child sexual abuse and draws from research on child sexual abuse prevention programming, child sexual abuse risk and protective factors, and the public health model of prevention.
PCAR Technical Assistance Bulletin: Conducting Prevention Programs with Young Children (4 p.) by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (2011). This resource offers information for educators and advocates implementing prevention programs with young children. The emphasis should be focused on healthy relationships and interactions with their environment.
Please see the CSA Prevention Online Collection for additional information.
Understanding the Impact of the Media
Body Image and the Media (1 p.) by Hardy Girls Healthy Women (n.d.). This one page tip sheet was created to help adults have discussions young women about the media and its effects on girls.
Hardy Girls Healthy Women: Five Tips for Raising Media Savvy Kids (3 p.) by Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., and Mark Tappan, Ed.D for Hardy Girls Healthy Women (n.d.). This resource provides information for parents and adults on how to build media literacy among young children in order to boost self-esteem and critical thinking of media.
From Awareness to Prevention: Developing solutions through media literacy (6 p.) by Louise Armstrong for the National Eating Disorders Information Centre (2001). Armstrong discusses the outcomes of a conference on eating disorders and the importance of understanding the media's impact on body image.
Self-Esteem, Positive Body Image, & Promoting Healthy Behaviors
New Moves: an alternative physical education program just for girls (85 p.) by New Moves (2009). This curriculum for teachers is designed to help educators working with girls and young women to encourage positive self-talk and promote healthy body image. The program is designed to be used with the Girl Pages exercises PDF (164 p.), as well as other materials for activities and guest speakers HTML.
Tips for Coaches: Preventing Eating Disorders in Athletes (1 p.) compiled by Karin Kratina, PhD, MPE, RD, LD for the National Eating Disorders Association (2005). This one page resource lists strategies for coaches working with young athletes who may or may not be at higher risk for developing an eating disorder.
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Brain Imaging and Eating Disorders (video, 13:24) a conversation with Walter Kaye, MD, a member of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Board of Directors and of the NEDA Research Committee (2010). Dr. Kaye discusses what is known in terms of risk or contributing factors for eating disorders, potential biological forces, and the future of using brain imaging for research.
The First Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) of the Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa (2 p.) by Walter Kaye, MD (2010). This resource summarizes findings from a study conducted on brain physiology and genetic information in regards to risk factors for eating disorders.
Anorexia may be more metabolic than mental, scientist argues (1 p.) by Stephanie Pappas of MSNBC.com (2011). One researcher, Donald Dwyer, asserts that chemical processes in the brain brought on by under-eating are the underlying biological cause of difficult-to-treat anorexic patients. The research has not been evaluated with human participants and does not appear to be the general opinion of practitioners.
People with body-image disorders process 'big picture' visual information abnormally (2 p) by Mark Wheeler of the University of California Los Angeles (2011). This is a summary of a study published in the Journal of Psychological Medicine. Researchers found that individuals suffering from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) process visual images and information differently than those not impacted by the disorder. It is not conclusive whether the processing is a contributing factor or an effect of BDD.
Eating Disorders are Medical Diagnoses (webpage) by Eating Disorders Treatment Help (2008). This website discusses how eating disorders are considered genetic brain diseases. There is a listing of various quotes from medical associations and physicians that attest to the fact that an eating disorder is a medical diagnosis rather than solely a psychiatric disorder.
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Let's not panic. We all know that Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder bread and the rest of Hostess Brands' oddly everlasting foods aren't going away any time soon, even if the food culture that created them is gasping its last.
Hostess is on the brink of closing after years of losses and a strike by 5,000 of its 18,500 workers. A last-ditch mediation session between the company and the Bakery Workers union Tuesday afternoon may have been just a speed bump on the way to shutting down.
But before you rush out to stockpile a strategic Twinkie reserve, consider a few things. Namely, that Twinkies never die. You know full well that the snack cakes down at your corner 7-Eleven are going to outlive us all. Probably even after they've been consumed.
And then there's the acquisition-happy nature of the business world, an environment that increasingly prizes intellectual property above all. It's hard to imagine the fading away of brands as storied and valuable as Ho Hos, Ring Dings and Yodels. Within hours of announcing the closure last Friday, the company already had put out word that Zingers, Fruit Pies and all the other brands were up for grabs. (Saputo, a Montreal-based company, already owns the rights to Hostess brands in Canada.)
Even if production really did stop, how long do you think it would take for some enterprising investor intoxicated by a cocktail of nostalgia and irony for the treats mom used to pack in his G.I. Joe lunch box to find a way to roll out commemorative Twinkies? Special edition holiday Ho Hos? It's just the nature of our product-centred world. Brands don't die, even when perhaps they should.
But let's pretend for a moment they did. What would we lose if Twinkies fell off the culinary cliff?
Certainly few obesity-minded nutritionists would bemoan the loss. With some 500 million Twinkies produced a year, each packing 150 calories... Well, let's just leave it by saying that shaving 75 billion calories from the North American diet sure could add up to a whole lot of skinny jeans.
Except that Twinkies aren't merely a snack cake, nor just junk food. They are iconic in ways that transcend how Americans typically fetishize food. But ultimately, they fell victim to the very fervour that created them.
Despite the many urban legends about the indestructability of Twinkies -- Did you know they are made with the same chemical used in embalming? Or that they last five, no 15, no 50 years? -- and the many sadly true stories about the atrocious ingredients used to create them today, these treats once upon a time were the real deal.
They started out back in 1930, an era when people actually paid attention to seasonality in foods. James A. Dewar, who worked at Hostess predecessor Continental Baking Company in Schiller, Ill., wanted to find a way to use the bakery's shortbread pans year round. You see, the shortbread was filled with strawberries, but strawberries were available for only a few weeks a year.
So he used the oblong pans to bake spongecakes, which he then filled with banana cream. Bananas were a more regular crop.
Let's pause so you can wrap your mind around that for a moment. Twinkies once contained real fruit. Twinkies were created because of seasonality.
All went swimmingly until the Second World War hit and rationing meant -- say it with me -- Yes! We have no bananas. And so was born the vanilla cream Twinkie, which was vastly more popular anyway. Even then, there was a crafted element to these treats. The filling was added by hand using a foot pedal-powered pump. Pump too hard and the Twinkies exploded. These days you see that when teenagers post YouTube videos of themselves microwaving them.
It was around this time that American food culture did an about-face. It was an era when the industrialization and processing of cheap food wasn't just desired, it was glorified. Cans and chemicals could set you free. And they certainly set Twinkies free of the nuisance of a short shelf life. It's not formaldehyde that keeps these snack cakes feeling fresh, it's the lack of any dairy products in the so-called "cream."
"Something about it just absolutely grabbed the popular culture imagination," says Marion Nestle, a New York University professor of nutrition and food studies -- and no fan of junk food. "It's the prototypical indestructible junk food. It was the sort of height to which American technological ingenuity could go to create a product that was almost entirely artificial, but gave the appearance of eclairs."
When Twinkies signed on as a sponsor of the Howdy Doody show during the 1950s, their cultural legacy was sealed. Taglines such as "The snacks with a snack in the middle" began etching themselves into generations of young minds and it was considered perfectly fine that Twinkie the Kid would lasso and drag children before stuffing his sugar bombs in their faces.
It was the snack cake heyday. Twinkies were being deep-fried at state fairs, doing cameos in movies like Ghost Busters and Die Hard and being pushed by Spider-Man in comic books. A pre-vegan President Bill Clinton even signed off on including Twinkies in the nation's millennium time capsule (the two-pack was later removed and consumed by his council overseeing such matters for fear mice would add themselves to the time capsule).
Sure, not all the attention was positive. Somewhere along the line, Twinkies became the butt of jokes, mostly about their perceived longevity (though Hostess staunchly maintains 25 days is the max). And not all associations were great. The so-called "Twinkie defence" came out of the 1979 murder trial of Dan White, whose lawyers included his junk food obsession among the evidence of his supposed altered state of mind.
Then something happened. Suddenly, Americans who for decades had been tone deaf to how food was produced suddenly started paying attention, seeking out organic goat cheeses made from the milk of an unoppressed herd raised on a fence-free collective within a 40-kilometre radius of home. Even Doritos went artisanal, and an awareness of seasons and availability crept back into the culinary consciousness.
Suddenly products that had so prospered by their artificiality lost their allure. Even Hostess has acknowledged that consumer concern about health and food quality changed the game. People just weren't buying snack cakes like they used to.
So what will we lose if Twinkies really disappear? From a culinary standpoint and from a nutritional standpoint, it's hard to love the Twinkie (or pretty much any Hostess product). It's hard not to wonder how the North American diet, the North American palate, would be different if the parents of the '50s hadn't begun a cycle of turning to processed packages as the de facto snack of childhood.
And does nostalgia alone justify the continuation of something so patently bad for us?
Of course nostalgia, even irony, taste awfully good.
And I notice that a growing number of -- dare I say it -- artisanal bakeries are going retro, creating their own inspired takes on classic processed snack cake, but with real ingredients. So perhaps it isn't time for Twinkies to go away. Or to stay the same. Maybe it's time for them to go back to their roots. And then, we lose nothing.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Despite a two week span between games, the Saint Leo men's basketball team managed to shake off any rust as the Lions defeated host Palm Beach Atlantic 72-63 on Friday afternoon.
Starting off with a back-and-forth contest where the Sailfish held a lead through the first media timeout, Saint Leo (10-2) managed to put together an impressive eight minute run to close out the first stanza where they outscored PBA 22-9. The run, where they controlled the final minutes of the half, allowed the Lions to head into the break holding a 37-24 advantage.
The beginning of the second half was much of the same as the Green and Gold were able to extend the advantage to as much as 20 points by the 7:28 mark, but PBA was able to make one final run to make things interesting. The host Sailfish managed to cut the lead to single digits behind consecutive three-pointers and successful trips to the free throw line, but the Lions would prove to be too much and managed to keep the lead at arm's length to preserve the win.
Jerrel Harris again proved to be the big contributor for the Lions with 23 points on 5-of-10 shooting where 11 points of his game-high total came from the free throw line. Also in double figures for the fourth time this season was freshman Marcus Dewberry as he tied his career high with 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting.
Ron Foxx and Spenser Mitchell teamed up to be a threat on the boards for Saint Leo as they split 16 of the Lions' 41 rebounds evenly, while the entire Saint Leo defense kept PBA to just 34 percent (21-of-62) shooting from the field.
As a team, the Lions shot nearly 40 percent (23-of-58) from the field and connected on four 3-pointers.
For PBA, Evin Graham was the only player to reach double digits in scoring with 12 points for the Sailfish in the loss.
With a quick turnaround before the Christmas break, the Lions will return home to face Shaw on Sunday afternoon. Tipoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo men's basketball team, be sure to visit SaintLeoLions.com. Fans can also stay up-to-date on the latest Lions news by following Saint Leo Athletics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.


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The Texas Master Naturalist program — now with 38 chapters across the state — develops a corps of well informed citizen volunteers who educate their communities about natural resource management. The Texas program has won numerous awards and helped spawn a similar national movement.
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The Phantoms of NZXTby Dustin Sklavos on 1/9/2013 4:29 AM EST
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Reaper2794 - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - link"Phantom 630 features absolutely everything the Phantom 820 did: custom illumination with a rainbow of color options"
So the 630 has the integrated HUE? Really? Do you just make shit up without doing your homework? Because nowhere does it say that the 630 has the HUE built in. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkThe one they had on hand in the suite appeared to have the HUE built in. I could be mistaken, sure, but hey, I only report on what I actually see with my own two eyes. Reply
jonthezombie - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkE-thug. God do you talk like that to people IRL? Reply
maximumGPU - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkNice case, waiting for the review. I too find NZXT refreshing in their case design compared to the sea of look-alikes out there.
On another note:
"Some work is done by engineers. Some work has clearly been done by people with at least a little bit of a liberal arts education, people who are having fun with their jobs."
did you just imply that engineers can't have fun with their jobs? this might not sit well with anandtech audience! :) Reply
TeKRaVen - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - linkI can absolutely say I have purchase the Phantom 410 Case in Red, But from my point of you, that the Mid Tower case is really perfect especially if you are building a new rig, It can actually fit up to 4 GPU, Cooling Fans & etc. Reply
Owls - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkThe inside looks like a cooler master HAF case. Except white. I don't see the innovation here, sorry. Reply
extide - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkCan you post more detail about this power monitoring thing on the 24-pin ATX connector on that psu? Reply
dcianf - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkAny details about those liquid cooled graphics cards? As one of those people who likes to stick an i7 into a toaster sized computer, my graphics card is in dire need of closed loop liquid cooling. Reply
pnosker - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkToo bad you left the iBP party... they redrew your card and I won your Intel SSD :-p, so thanks!
And I'm enjoying your well thought out analysis of the computing world as always. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkCongratulations on my SSD. ;) Reply


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Men's Squash Schedule | Women's Squash Schedule
PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's and women's squash teams will open up their 2013-14 seasons this weekend setting their sights on successful seasons and improving upon 2012-13.
The Quakers men's team begins their campaign Saturday at 3 p.m., taking on No. 11 Williams College (3-2) at home. Penn will then host No. 19 George Washington (3-0) on Sunday, again at 3 p.m.
The women's team hosts three matches to begin the new season. Penn will take on No. 13 Williams (4-0) on Saturday at 3 p.m., followed by two matches on Sunday, against No. 7 Stanford (0-0) at noon and No. 14 George Washington (1-0) at 3 p.m.
Jack Wyant, head coach of both the men's and women's teams, is looking forward to the 2013-14 campaign.
"This should be a very exciting season for our program. Both squads have an opportunity to improve upon last year's record and final season ranking," says Wyant. "This opening weekend is a great test for both teams. We are looking forward to good support at the five matches."
The men's team aims to improve upon a 2012-13 season that ended with a 5-12 record and a loss in the consolation finals of the Hoehn Cup. The Quakers will have to do so against a schedule that features 13 matches, and only one opponent ranked outside the College Squash Association's preseason top 20 rankings. Ranked 14th, the men will host eight home matches at Ringe Courts, including the CSA Individual Championships at the end of the season.
The Quakers will be led by their captains, senior John Dudzik and junior Jack Maine, and look to get significant contributions from sophomores Tyler Odell and Augie Frank. Odell is the top returning Penn men's player from 2012-13, with an individual record of 11-6.
The women's team enters 2013-14 with high aspirations after finishing 14-3 overall and third in the Ivy League and the Howe Cup a year ago. The Quakers start the season ranked third in the CSA preseason rankings. Every opponent the Quakers will face begin the season ranked inside the top 20. The Penn women will host nine home matches and the CSA Individual Championships, while traveling on the road four times during the season.
Penn is looking for strong seasons from sophomore Yan Xin Tan and senior captains Chloe Blacker and Courtney Jones. Tan earned CSA first-team All-American in her freshman season, sporting a record of 14-4 playing in the top two positions for the Quakers. Blacker compiled an 18-2 record a season ago, while Jones finished at 8-3.


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A COUPLE celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary this week in the same road they have lived in for their entire married life.
Pete and Pat James married in the heavy rain and blustery wind 60 years ago but honoured the anniversary of their special day in glorious sunshine surrounded by their loved ones.
Mrs James was born in Marlow Road, Bisham Village 82 years ago, and after getting married on July 24, 1954, moved just a few doors down the road.
However, when they were expecting their first child, they swapped homes back with Pat's parents and the couple have lived in the same house ever since.
The couple's four children, Susan, Robin, Janet and Daniel will all join their parents for a special meal to honour the occasion.
Mr James, 80, said: "I don't think there is any secret to a successful marriage as long as you love each other, we just take each day as it comes.
"I am actually her toy boy as she is two years older than me and when we first got married a few people said it wouldn't last, but it looks like we have proved them wrong.
"We have been the same really, always had a laugh, we have never stopped laughing all these years."
Mr James, a former service personnel and bricklayer, said he can still remember the wedding day.
He added: "We had the reception at the Bisham Village Hall and I remember the landlord of the Bull rolled down a barrel of beer for us.
"It is funny how things change now, you read about all these fancy expensive weddings.
"Our wedding cost £80 for everything, although Pat made all the bridesmaids dresses herself."
Mrs James said: "I always regretted not making my own wedding dress too. After the wedding we had it altered so I could use it as a dancing dress.
"We always enjoyed dancing and that is how we first met, we used to go dancing almost every night."
Two days after speaking to the Bucks Free Press the couple received a special letter from the Queen to commemorate their marriage.


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- Reduce access to tobacco products and limit tobacco industry marketing to youth.
- Increase the number of smoke-free outdoor spaces, including parks, beaches, and entryways.
- Increase the number of apartment buildings, co-ops and condos that are 100% smoke-free.
- Engage community partners to build support for policy campaigns.
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Paul Ghostlaw 90 and Beantown Physio offer free physical therapy to Boston Marathon bombing survivors
The bombings at the Boston Marathon in April 2013 killed three people and injured an estimated 264 others. Nearly 11 months later, survivors are still on the long road to recovery but one member of the Ithaca College family is helping them get there with less of a financial burden.
In the video below, Ithaca College PT graduate Paul Ghostlaw '90 discusses the care he's provided bombing survivor Michele Mahoney in the months since the attack.
Ghostlaw is the founder of Beantown Physio in Brookline, MA. Shortly after the attack he pledged that his business would provide free physical therapy to anyone injured in the bombings.
For more information about Beantown Physio and Ghostlaw's pledge, click here.


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Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery will Feature Work by Student Visual Artists from Across the United States
ITHACA, NY — "NCUR Visual Artists," an exhibition of student artwork for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), will open at the Handwerker Gallery on March 21 and run to April 2. A public reception will be held in the Gallery on Thursday, March 31, from 5 to 7 p.m.
In addition, the artists will speak about their work in a series of 20-minute public talks on Thursday, March 31, from 1:15 to 2:35 p.m. and 2:45 to 4:05 p.m.; and on Friday, April 1, from 12:45 to 2:05 p.m. and 3:40 to 5 p.m.
This group show includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures and an installation by 27 contemporary student artists selected for NCUR from across the nation.
Established in 1987, NCUR is dedicated to promoting undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activity in all fields of study by sponsoring an annual conference for students. Through this annual conference, NCUR creates a unique environment for the celebration and promotion of undergraduate student achievement and helps to improve the state of undergraduate education. NCUR 2011 will be held at Ithaca College from March 31 to April 2. For more information, visit /ncur2011/.
All Handwerker Gallery events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and weekends, noon to 5 p.m. The gallery is closed to the public on Tuesdays but can accommodate group or class visits by appointment.
For more information, visit www.ithaca.edu/handwerker or call the Handwerker Gallery at (607) 274-3018. To schedule a group or class visit, e-mail Erika Fowler-Decatur (email@example.com).
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Erika Fowler-Decatur at (607) 274-3548. Please make requests for accommodations as far in advance as possible.


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Data Sheet
Cisco Resource Policy
Management System
Wholesalers face a challenge when delivering service level agreements (SLAs) on a common network, especially when providing a range of services for different customers.The Cisco Resource Policy Management System (RPMS) is a software tool that provides policy management of platform resources whether the service is data or voice. With Cisco RPMS, wholesalers are able to offer a variety of services to a variety of customers on a single set of gateways. Cisco RPMS offers not only effective resource management but the capability to build and deliver flexible service models that fit customers' unique requirements. Cisco RPMS can grow to support a wholesaler's changing needs, scaling as the network expands and delivering the Cisco Any Service, Any Port (ASAP) services that customers demand, including:
The industry's first example of second-generation policy management tools, Cisco RPMS brings to voice solutions the level of control previously enjoyed by data network providers.
Cisco RPMS allows service providers to:
- Manage customers' use of shared pools of gateway resources capable of processing voice or data calls on a per-call basis
- Establish a policy to accept or reject a call before answering based on:
- Guarantee their customers' subscribed ports and allow oversubscription from a shared overflow pool
- Model virtual points of presence (POPs) by grouping trunks and enforcing usage limits per virtual POP or trunk
- Manage heterogeneous network access servers conforming to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) RFC standards
- Send busy signals to the PSTN if call volume exceeds defined thresholds
- Generate start/stop Call Detail Records (CDRs) with a rich set of information about accepted and rejected calls
- Distribute call processing and policy management across multiple servers to build resiliency and scalability
Cisco RPMS manages ports across gateway stacks. Cisco AS5000 Universal Gateways Cisco IOS® Port Management can be used independently of Cisco RPMS for port management within one gateway.
Figure 1
RPMS in a Wholesale Network
Cisco RPMS enables wholesale service providers to offer an assortment of services to multiple retail customers on a single network without dedicating ports, addressing service providers' needs to generate new, higher margin sources of revenue while controlling costs (Figure 1). Cisco RPMS supports the delivery of many services, including:
Global Long-Distance VoIP Services3
Service providers can deliver services that terminate voice calls originating from the IP network. Cisco RPMS tracks these calls using the DNIS, IP address, or an IZCT identifying the originating network. Cisco RPMS for voice supports both H.323 and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) call-signaling protocols. With Cisco RPMS, a call enters the wholesale network only if the caller is authorized and resources are available to process the call.
Prepaid and Postpaid Calling-Card Services3
Service providers resell ports to retail providers of calling-card services whose voice calls originate from or terminate to the PSTN. Wholesalers can enjoy the higher-margin revenue from VoIP long distance without incurring expensive marketing costs. Cisco RPMS tracks voice calls originating from the PSTN using the DNIS used by the subscriber to get to the prepaid interactive voice response (IVR) system. Cisco RPMS preauthenticates the caller before the call is answered per customer SLA so that no network resources are expended answering a call and playing a voice response for rejected calls.
Wholesale Dial Service
Cisco RPMS is ideal for combining retail and wholesale dial services using Cisco AS5000 Universal Gateways or the Cisco AS5300 and Cisco AS5800 Access Servers. Call management and call discrimination occur before answering the call, conserving network resources. Wholesalers can share ports among multiple customers, which maximizes the use of their networks. Cisco RPMS monitors and enforces SLAs to prevent a disproportionate use of network resources by a customer. Cisco RPMS differentiates dial customers using configurable customer profiles based on the DNIS and call type determined at the time of an incoming call.
Access VPN Service
Service providers can deliver VPN access services to enterprise customers using the Virtual Private Dialup Network (VPDN) feature. When management by VPDN is configured, a VPDN group contains the information to set up or reject a VPDN session. VPDN setup can be based on the DNIS received during call setup or the domain name after the call is answered. Cisco RPMS can scale to meet customer needs by balancing the load across home gateways. Because Cisco RPMS guarantees that customers receive their required ports, wholesalers can ensure that higher revenue VPN customers have access to the network.
Table 1
Features and Benefits of Cisco RPMS
Table 2
ASAP Voice Features and Benefits of Cisco RPMS
System Architecture
Cisco RPMS is a client server solution employed for managing shared resources for customers across multiple gateway stacks. Cisco RPMS acts as a server process to gateway clients, granting or restricting resource allocations based on configurable limits and current known session limits. Its distributed architecture allows call processing and policy enforcement components to reside on separate servers, enabling Cisco RPMS to scale to accommodate service providers' growth. Cisco RPMS includes an HTML browser application that offers flexibility in customer configuration, reports, accounting, scalability, and robustness while supporting multiple POPs in a wide geographic area with cost-effective management tools. Deployment of multiple servers will meet the advanced requirements for managing high-capacity data networks and diverse geographic locations.
The Cisco AS5000 Gateways Cisco IOS Port Management function is within the Cisco IOS Software that is part of the gateway platforms. This function provides port management for single gateway management and serves as the client for Cisco RPMS solutions.
Fault Tolerance and Resiliency
Cisco RPMS tolerates system and client failures. Fault tolerance is enabled through information redundancy, multiple services, and nonreliance on a single component for resource management.
Specifically, the Cisco RPMS system handles fault tolerance using a hot standby server. Cisco RPMS servers are deployed in pairs. The primary Cisco RPMS passes all messages received to the hot standby server. If the primary Cisco RPMS fails, the gateway automatically switches to the secondary server. State is preserved, so no calls are dropped. The Cisco RPMS database can replicate on a secondary server. Cisco RPMS is designed so that the failure of the database causes no service disruption.
The preferred deployment of the system is to have more than one server known to the gateway clients in the same manner that exists in today's gateway environment where a list of external servers is contained in the gateway "database." If an external server cannot be reached, then the list is iterated until a server is located.
System Requirements
Cisco RPMS has the following minimum system requirements:
Cisco RPMS Hardware
Cisco RPMS Software
Cisco RPMS Client Browser
1Cisco ASAP voice features in Cisco RPMS require a planned Cisco IOS Software release containing "pre-authentication for voice calls." Please consult your Cisco representative for availability.
2When voice support becomes available.
3Cisco ASAP voice features in Cisco RPMS require a planned Cisco IOS Software release containing "pre-authentication for voice calls." Please consult your Cisco representative for availability.


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It's one of the brightest comedy stars on the planet -- MELISSA McCARTHY! Whether she's cracking us up in "Bridesmaids" or her hit CBS comedy "Mike and Molly," you can count on Melissa to be absolutely hilarious! The Emmy-winning star is always game for something fun when she's here; like creating a scene for "Bridesmaids 2" or driving a motorcycle under an open water main! Don't miss what she and Ellen get up to today!
Then, she's nominated for an Academy Award for her brilliant performance in the critically acclaimed film "Silver Linings Playbook." Australian actress JACKI WEAVER is sitting down with Ellen to tell her about the making of the film -- nominated for Best Picture!


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Breakfast is traditionally said to be the most important meal of the day, but can you track how well yours is doing?
In the cornucopia of customised and specialised indices, it is astounding that no one has yet come up with a family of breakfast indices. Surely in the innovative and imaginative world of exchange traded funds and commodities, someone is planning this.


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This weekend I am playing two live shows in East Germany in the same night. I play at The Sky Club in Leipzig from 2:00AM – 3:00AM and I play an large event called Hard & Smart in an abandoned sugar factory from 4:30AM – 5:30AM. I've done this kind of thing before but I always laugh a little thinking how crazy it is (especially considering I am flying from NYC to do it). Everything could go smoothly because the booking agency will be driving me and watching the clock. Howver, I do wonder if I will start my show on time at the Alte Zuckerfabrik (Old Sugar Factory). Reason being I played there before and it get so crowded it's hard to get to the stage and set up without people stopping you to chat. Here's a photo from the last time I played there:
I will test out a few new songs and if I am not too sweaty I will break out the iPhone and use sampleToy (iTunes link) live. Before each show I send out a Madmimi promotion. I highly recommend Madmimi for email marketing. You can see the latest one here: http://mim.io/570f2
Madmimi recent also created mini sign up forms you can embed on your websites like this one below the contact form on my record label's website: thingstocome.com/contact/
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"The Duke" John Wayne Auction Brings in 5.4 Million [VIDEO]
One of the greatest actors of our time "An American Icon" John Wayne, his estate recently sold over 700 of his movie items bringing in 5.4 million dollars. Items like the eye patch that he wore in 1969 "True Grit" sold for over $40,000. The "Green Berets" brought in the most money with a single item valued at over $179,000. John was in over 200 films spanning nearly 50 years, he had a total of 7 kids from his marriages and 15 grandchildren.


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Lessons To Resume After Fire Killed Horses In Ohio
OREGON, Ohio
An equestrian center in northern Ohio is going forward with riding therapy lessons after a devastating fire killed six of its therapy horses earlier this week.
The operators of the Vail Meadows Equestrian Center near Toledo plan to hold their weekly sessions on Saturday even though the fire killed all but of their therapy horses.
The center has offered horse-riding therapy programs for people with cerebral palsy, autism, and emotional and learning disabilities for two decades.
The horses that died were in a century-old barn that burned down Thursday. The cause isn't yet known, but investigators don't suspect arson.
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Although Berkeley is also a participant in Coursera, the purveyor of massive open online courses offered to thousands of students, the data science program will not be a MOOC. Quite the opposite. Classes will be small, with no more than 15 to 20 students.
Students will participate in live, face-to-face classes with fellow students and professors via the Web. Additional coursework will include lectures, interactive case studies and collaborative assignments. Classes will use 2U's online platform and feature self-paced content developed by I School faculty and a video chat feature for online discussions.
"This will be our first major effort in online education, so we wanted a partner to help us do a good job," Saxenian said. Engaging with 2U as a cloud service made sense even though Berkeley has its own technology in place for offering online courses, she said.
"Online education is really less about the technology than you might think. It's really a service business as much as anything," Saxenian said. "So much of the education process is about getting students engaged, making them feel comfortable on the platform, and building the social world they feel comfortable in. What we know about education is that students need to be engaged and motivated. A lot of hand-holding goes on with the students at every stage, and the high-touch piece of this is very important."
2U is also "rightly proud of its completion rates, which are very high -- 80% or more -- which is not true of the MOOCs," Saxenian said.
2U's Paucek said he is also enthusiastic about Saxenian and the rest of the I School's leadership. "They're ready to do something that's not just a toe in the water," he said. Students will also be required to participate in a one-week immersion program, on campus, so that they will meet their professors and the other students in person.
Some of the technical aspects of the program are still under development. For example, Saxenian is investigating providing every student with an Amazon Web Services account for data-crunching projects as part of the package. In partnership with 2U, faculty members are hard at work developing videos and other course content that will be delivered asynchronously.
Because 2U's contracts are structured on a revenue-sharing basis, Paucek said his company is also making a bet on the program as a good one to get involved in. "Unlike some of the other companies in space, we're not trying to power as many programs as possible. We'll put in $10 million before we really start to see a return, so we have to be very careful about what we work on. It's not a small decision, and it's definitely a two-way decision, because we're not really a vendor. It's really a partnership."
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The transfer of power in China from the outgoing regime led by Hu Jintao to the incoming leadership of Xi Jinping has occurred without a hitch. This is a mark of increased political maturity in China.
In fact, the handover has been described by Citigroup economists as the first complete and orderly transition of power in the 91-year history of the Chinese Communist party.
During President Hu's decade, China's real GDP per capita rose at 9.9 per cent per annum. China accounted for 24 per cent of the entire growth in the global economy, and Chinese annual consumption of many basic commodities now stands at about half of the world total. Perhaps the most important question in the world economy today is whether China's economic miracle can continue in the decade of Xi Jinping. The IMF forecasts shown in the graph above suggest that the miracle will persist, but many western economists disagree. Read more


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The bank's standard variable interest rate remained at 6.4 per cent, after a reduction of 0.2 percentage points in December.
''Variable interest rates for small business lending also remain unchanged,'' the bank added in a statement.
On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank kept interest rates on hold at 3 per cent during its first board meeting of the year yesterday, citing an improving global economy and subdued inflation. But the Board kept the door open for further cuts if needed.
In its quarterly statement on monetary policy released today, the RBA said banks' outstanding funding costs were estimated to have been ''broadly unchanged over the past few months''.
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Hey guys So listen up, we've all been wondering how the power levels of the Bijuu are divided. I have come up with a theory of my own (at least I hope no one else has brought this up before). So my theory is this: With every tail the power doubles. So the Matatabi is twice as strong as Shukaku, Isobu is twice as strong as Matatabi, Son Gokuu is twice as strong as Isobu, and so on. That way it makes sense that with the tenth tail, the Juubi is as strong as all Bijuu combined, as well as how Kurama manages to kick the consecutive butts of his five brethren.
...Sooo expand or comment? :D
I don't think the forums are to be used for this, but discussions about how to improve the site or questions. :O Skitts (talk) 22:01, February 2, 2012 (UTC)
Eh... Interesting theory there. so 2 tails+3 tails+5 tails+6 tails+7 tails= 9 tails power? Yeah I don't think it's twice as much...
I don't think that the tails is true. As Gyuki said: "You shouldn't judge someone's strength by the number of their tails!" Meaning that it is not depending on the amount of tails, although it's already been proven otherwise:
Killer B, using Gyuki, was able to stand up against Sasuke Uchiha, back when he had only the Mangekyo Sharingan. This shows that Gyuki's chakra is massive, yet all Naruto/Gamabunta had to do to defeat Shukaku is simply to transform into Kurama, with none of it's chakra.
Another example is that Kisame said fighting Son Goku was difficult, being the Four-Tails. However, he was only defeated once Guy went into his Seventh Gate. This means that there must be a connection between the tails and the power, but i'm not sure if it's 2 times as much. I think that the Ten-Tails is simply Kurama's chakra, but with a bit more chakra, and much more dense/dark. Conclusion: I think that the connections are different, and that Kurama was only able to annihilate the others because of the huge connection in power. Nami-Chan! Talk to me... 13:54, February 3, 2012 (UTC)
While I personally couldn't care less about the exact differential in the power of the tailed beasts, there are some considerations to be made.
1. Naruto has an adverse reaction on his enviroment when Kurama's chakra is loose. That is to say, Kurama's chakra became visible, could act independantly and destroyed anything it touched. Shukaku when fully manifested in a body of sand seemed to have no direct chakra effect and didn't cause nearly as much Damage as Naruto at higher tail levels. This would at least imply that Shukaku doesn't have the same vast destructive chakra of the others, instead possessing sand control without the chakra shroud.
2. Naruto gets stronger the more tails are present. This is at least an indicator of tails = power in Naruto's case as the more he has, the stronger he gets, though this could also be said to be purely more of Kurama's full power manifesting and the lower levels are in fact weaker than other Bijuu. Given previous statement of Shukaku, this seems unlikely, but Shukaku could just be insecure about sucking for all we know and Naruto in 2-6 tails mode is weaker than the other bijuu (Seems true compared to full power Gyuki at any rate)
3. Naruto's Chakra cloak starts to do damage to him at four tails. Killer Bee's chakra cloak didn't damage him until all eight had been manifested. As a pure subject of math this would mean Kurama's chakra is twice as potent. In that same train of thought Naruto only has Kurama's Yang chakra, only half of his over all being, which would in theory mean that Kurama's chakra is four times as potent. However, Killer Bee has shown the ability to readily swap between Version 1 Chakra Cloak, Version Two, bone manifestation and Full Tailed Beast mode easily, so it is more likely that it was simply Bee chosing to adopt the Version two at Eight tails and he may in fact be capable of doing it with less.
4. Bee's fight with Kisame. This is the first indisputible proof that the number of tails is linked to chakra value. When Kisame attacked Bee in Version Two chakra cloak mode, Bee not only lost his cloak, but several tails of his shroud. Being a fully in control host with Gyuki actually helping Bee willingly, it was not a lapse in control that caused the change but the draining in chakra which directly resulted in the reduction of tail number. Thus proving that number of tails is directly linked to chakra capacity. Further more highlighting that Bee does need to reach a certain number of tails in value before he can enter Version two, much like Naruto, though Bee seemed to change back after losing only one chakra tail. This is not coclusive however as when he first enters Version two he has Seven tails, he is then depicted with eight, then in Version One with Eight and then with seven, so it is vague at best, but at the very least implies he cannot achieve it with less than seven tails. This cannont be used as a value for all Tailed beast transformations however as later points will illustrate and only speaks to Gyuki's capacity as the value of each tail may change between beasts and further more Chakra amount is purely an indication of capacity, not strength or potency, as Shikamaru proves regularly.
5. Bijuu battle. In the fight between all the Bijuu and their hosts we got to see several more distinct manifestations, unfortunately given the lacking mental capacity of the opponents, we can't really call anything here as definite indicators of power so much as skill or lack there of. So going purely by what can be said as indisputible facts. Each of the hosts Version Two shrouds destroyed Bee's ink clones. Their Chakra release at that time, all of them, were more powerful than Bee's ink clones, this is a fact. Each of the hosts only showed the ability to manifest Version Two with all the tails of their respective Bijuu. At no point did any of the hosts show fewer tails while in Version Two. This is also a fact, but this can easily be related to fine control, not power as Tobi was manipulating them all by his will, not the Bijuus and Naruto only gained this version at Four Tails against his will, both Yugito and Yagura managed with fewer tails total, adding another point to it being a control and not a potency thing, or if it is, lending a point to there being no difference in over all power between the beasts themselves. Then there is the clash of Bijuu Bombs. Five against one in a stalemate is fairly damning evidence for the power of Kurama, however this is where my own theory kicks in. As previously stated the number of tails for each individual beast is indicative of the chakra they're using at the time, but as we know Kisame did not in fact consume 6/8 of Gyuki's total chakra in one swing, just what he had manifested at the time, it could be said that the tails on display are "Readily Accessible Chakra". Allow me to explain, as we saw when Naruto first used the Bijuu Bomb, the chakra for it was expelled from his body, condensed, consumed and fired. In this case I propose that this is not a clear indicator of Kurama being stronger than Five total of his bretheren, but being more power efficient. With more tails, he can readily access more chakra at a given time, thus can produce a stronger Bijuu Bomb in a shorter time than the others which allowed him and Naruto to match their attack despite starting later and only having one Bijuu to draw from.
Through all this observation, some of which perhaps being true, other parts perhaps not, there are but a handful of facts we can actually derive and these are as follows.
1. Shukaku apparently lacks the chakra abilities of his bretheren, instead replacing them with fine sand and wind control. 2. The amount of tails a Bijuu is displaying is a direct indicator of the amount of chakra they are using. 3. A sudden release of any Bijuu's chakra can easily overwhelm a decent sealing technique. 4. Naruto is the only host who has displayed the ability to enter Version Two with any more than one fewer than his maximum number of tails. 5. From the very start of the Series Kurama has been running on half of his total chakra, only possessing his Yang Chakra, not his Yin.
Now then, all that being said and done, if nothing else Kurama's belief that tails equate to power should be noted in his article. So I'm gonna go check if its there. Bye bye now. --Hawkeye2701 (talk) 23:05, April 6, 2012 (UTC) i think a fight is not only chakra level if you talk about the chakra levels your teory is good (that make sense the 10 tails is the combination of all the bijuu) but i think gyuki and bee vs kurama and naruto wins the fist because they have a better collaboration stronger tecniques of the pair... so in a fight the chakra level is not all there is even the strategy and the collaboration --Nitram86 (talk) 23:11, April 6, 2012 (UTC)
Yin/Yang Chakra
Can we please move on from this idea that the nine tails only has half his chakra? The fourth had to seal him in two goes because of the vastness of Kurama's chakra. Where was it said that this meant Kurama's power had been permanently halved?
188.8.131.52 (talk) 04:21, December 15, 2012 (UTC) Brendo
- Where was it ever said it wasn't? Kurama was never said to have regenerated its Yin chakra. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 04:27, December 15, 2012 (UTC)
Not to mention that when Naruto uses his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, its made of Yang chakra.Umishiru (talk) 23:38, December 23, 2012 (UTC)


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I wish I could say "why aren't you doing usability tests? Everyone else is." But it's simply not true. Most companies and organizations don't do usability testing and they are missing out on a great opportunity. Church staffers and other non-business people you need to read this too. While businesses can certainly benefit from usability testing, so can churches…and anyone else with a website for that matter. So, what is usability testing and why is it so important for you to start doing it?
Note: In this article I'm going to write about usability testing in relation to websites. However, keep in mind that usability testing can be used for just about anything, from products to flyers to church program formats and so on.
What Is Usability Testing?
Usability testing is simply testing a website to see how real people actually use it. How do people interact with the website and are they able to easily complete the intended goal of the website? For example, if you create a new section for your website. A usability test would be to bring people in who are not familiar with the new section and have them go through the section and use it and see how they interact with it. You would have them perform tasks, read information, answer questions, and give their opinions about the section. From watching them do these things and listening to their comments, you can learn what is working on your website and what needs to be changed.
Why Should We Be Doing Usability Testing?
1. Because you want stuff that works.
Most organizations don't create things just to create them. They intend those things to do something, to accomplish something. If you create a website, you intend it to give information and cause the website visitor to do something, perhaps buy a product or visit your church. But does it? Usability Testing can show you where visitors are getting lost, what visitors don't understand, what information they wish was on the site but isn't, and lot more. Usability testing also shows you what is right about your website.
When we did usability testing on the design section of the OurChurch.Com website, we found that most people didn't know what CMS was and that the term "CMS" was confusing to them. So, we ended up changing the names of our Design packages so they did not include the term "CMS".
Usability testing tells you if what you have created is actually doing what you want it to and whether it's doing it well. Without usability testing, you are doing little more than guessing that you've created your website well. For all you know, you may have created something entirely useless or very frustrating to visitors.
2. It gets rid of assumptions and insider lingo.
Most of the time, when an organization creates a website, they ask people who are both familiar with that organization and familiar with website design. Since these people are familiar with the organization they may make assumptions about what people know about the organization and what language people use. The example with the OurChurch.Com usability test finding that people weren't familiar with the term "CMS" is a good example. It made sense to us, but we talk about CMS all the time. We had assumed that others would be familiar enough with the term or would pick up on what it was quick enough, that we could use it (plus it sounded cool). That was a false assumption.
3. It gives you fresh eyes.
Whenever a person or a small group works on a website for a while, they get used to what they are working on. It becomes easy to overlook issues. It is helpful to have a set of fresh eyes take a look at the website and tell you what they see. You may find that there are issues you wouldn't have thought of or issues that you've been staring at for weeks, but didn't see.
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When you have a group of people working on website, there are bound to be disagreements about aspects of the site. Typically, these disagreements are resolved either by looking online to find an "expert" or by someone using the "Most people prefer…" line. Unfortunately, there are far too many "experts" online that don't really know what they are talking about and the reality is that there are very few things, if any, that "most people" prefer. These arguments can lead to great frustration and, in the end, it all ends up just being opinion anyway.
So, why not stop arguing about what needs to be done and simply test to see what works best? If you're not sure whether you want your navigation menu on the top or the left, do a usability test and see which format allows the test subjects to navigate the website the easiest. You can save some hurt feelings and frustrations because you can't argue with what is working. And, in the end, you will know which option to choose instead of just having an opinion.
There are plenty of other reasons to perform usability tests, but the main reason is simply that you can make your website, or anything else you test, perform better. That means more sales, more signups, more church visitors, more students, or whatever it is that you want to achieve.
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