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It's Coming…Are YOU Ready?
November 2, 2009 by kuuipo1207
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During the course of the third weekend of November, an event will be taking place in Toronto, Canada for the first time ever. The news has been stirring for the past few weeks and as the deadline for the event approaches, random sparks of excitement and eagerness pop up here and there over the makeup community across the internet. Makeup brushes are being cleaned and prepped. Palettes are being packed. Cosmetic companies are taking inventory. Schedules are being arranged and rearranged. Keynote speakers and class instructors are being confirmed. Class discussion topics are being finalized and published for the world to look forward to. The event attendees begin to clear their minds and open their horizons to new techniques that will be learned or to be reminded of fail-proof techniques that have lasted the decades.Still unsure of the event I'm referring to? Then it's time for you get in the know.
In approximately 2.5 weeks, Make-up Artist Magazine will be hosting the first ever IMATS Toronto. Are you ready? If you're anything like me, you bleed lipgloss and glitter; you think of applying eye shadow as an artistic outlet, not a just necessity for feeling comfortable in the public eye; you can look at a Picasso and think of imaginative ways to recreate one on the canvas of a human face; and you're intrigued to by how they turned Tim Roth from "Lie To Me" into an ape. I'm ready for what's coming, and wish it would get here sooner! How about you?
Want a little background on IMATS? Here's some information about IMATS courtesy of www.imatsshow.com/, the official site of IMATS.
Make-Up Artist magazine produces the International Make-Up Artist Trade Show (or IMATS), the only show serving make-up artists worldwide. Five times a year, in four countries, thousands of make-up artists, vendors, manufacturers and enthusiasts join the make-up word's biggest gathering. At IMATS, participants display, discover, discuss and collect the best the industry has to offer. IMATS also offers excellent presentations, classes and demonstrations from industry leaders—and it's the best place to network with colleagues.
During the mid-'90s, there were no trade shows specifically for make-up artists. Because artists and cosmetics companies had expressed interest in such a show, Make-Up Artist publisher Michael Key held the first IMATS in August 1997. It offered a diverse mix of presentations, products, demonstrations and education by some of the biggest names in the business. Like Make-Up Artist magazine, IMATS continues to further Key's vision to educate and reach make-up artists around the world.
The show is held five times annually—in London in January; Vancouver, B.C. in April; Los Angeles in June, Sydney in September and Toronto in November.
I went to IMATS LA this past summer and was hooked. I decided then that if there was going to be an IMATS anywhere near wherever I was living, I would definitely be attending. Here's a little dose from LA of what's expected to come to Toronto during November 21-22nd, 2009. Yippeee!!
Tickets for IMATS Toronto can still be purchased online until November 19th, 2009. After that, you will have to purchase tickets at the door. For both days, the cost is $60 CAD. For only day, the cost is $35 CAD. The show will be held at Heritage Court located at 100 Princes' Blvd.
A list of exhibitors includes (but is not limited to):
- Ben Nye Makeup
- Crown Brush
- Eve Pearl
- FACE atelier
- Hakuhodo
- Kryolan
- Make Up For Ever
- Naimie's Beauty Center
- Naked Cosmetics
- Nigel's Beauty Emporium
- Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics
- Royal Brush
- Temptu Pro
- Wolfe Art & SFX
- Yaby Inc.
Want to get inspired? Go to IMATS. No really. Do it. I promise you won't regret it. To buy tickets, click on the picture below. For more info on IMATS Toronto and the other locations IMATS is hosted, visit www.imatsshow.com.


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Internet resources for what you need to know on NYC Demographics
Five Favorite Sites For Beginners
by Emanuel Tobier, NYU
In The News: : Census Slackers
(june '00) From now through early July, a veritable army of temporary workers will be reaching out to the households of those New Yorkers the Census Bureau didn't hear from in the mail. Most will be asked to fill out the so-called short form, which asks about the age and gender of members of the household. But a significant percentage will be called upon to negotiate a much more complex instrument: the 38-page long form which inquires about such matters as income (level and sources), marital relationships among adult household members, extent and character of participation in paid employment, educational attainment, needs for assistance in the tasks of daily living, place of birth and citizenship status and much, much more.
All terribly useful information for those who need to understand and respond to the changing nature of America's myriad social and economic structures. And, unquestionably, the Census Bureau has been capably and professionally carrying out this large-scale survey assignment every ten years since 1790. Indeed the requirement for some form of enumeration is set forth in the Constitution. But what began as a simple head count for purposes of defining Congressional Districts has morphed into what many now regard as a formidable invasion of privacy. (Note: only 16% of all households receive the long form.) Resistance on this score has escalated recently because of well-founded concerns about the abuses connected with the misuse of personal information gathered from Internet web-sites. Moreover, undocumented immigrants and the immigrant communities in general are apprehensive, despite specific and profuse assurances to the contrary, about the possible use of Census returns against them. This is because changes in the immigration laws in 1996 gave the INS swinging new powers, which it has used, to deport undocumented immigrants. And these are two categories that New York is well represented in: foreign-born residents and Internet users.
Anyone home?
As of late April, only 53% of New York City's close to three million households have returned their filled out Census forms. This rate of return is not that much different from that of ten years earlier. By borough, it ranges from a high of 60% in Staten Island to a low of 48% in Brooklyn. Nationally, the rate of return is quite a bit higher at around 65%. After two censuses of lower response rates, there has actually been a slight uptick at the national level -- because of a higher rate of return among Latinos. Thus far at least, response rates in New York City have been markedly lower in black neighborhoods than in Latino ones. Across the country though, the blacks' response rate shows no pattern of decline from the decade earlier census. New York seems to be an anomaly. As might be expected the highest responses inside and outside of the city occur in predominantly white middle income areas; 65% in Brooklyn Heights, 72% in Nassau County.
Averse to answer the Census form because of their illegal status, undocumented immigrants' non-responses are greater among Latinos than among blacks. But blacks in New York City, including middle income blacks, seem to have developed a greater degree a mistrust over time. The citywide response rate in black neighborhoods is down by 5% in 2000 to below 40%. And, as far as one can tell from fragmentary evidence, rates are down by more in middle income black neighborhoods than in low income ones. In a May 16th New York Times article, Sarah Kershaw posits that the most probable reason seems to be a general mistrust engendered by the sharp reaction among middle class blacks to several high-profile police brutality cases in the last few years in New York City.
What can the Census Bureau do about the minority undercount? Not much. The Census can and does overcome the language barrier among non-English speaking immigrant groups by printing in other languages. And they do manage to keep the INS at arm's length. But, ultimately, minority groups and undocumented immigrants must participate of their own accord.
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Dir/scr: Jenée LaMarque. US. 2013. 90mins
Zoe Kazan is a wonderful quirky delight in writer/director Jenée LaMarque's gently oddball film debut The Pretty One, a charmer of an indie comedy that has the sweet simplicity to break out. The film, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a low-key pleasure and a real audience-pleaser.
LaMarque shoots with a easy and knowingly oddball style and there are some sequences to cherish.
While at its core the film is about identity and loss, Jenée LaMarque's film is enveloped in a warm and often compassionate humour as it one young woman and her rather unusual way of getting over the loss of her twin sister. Shot with a warm burnished quality and cleverly using oddball production design, the film has a unique quality that dovetails nicely with Kazan's quirky persona here.
Audrey and Laurel (both Kazan) are identical but so very different. Audrey has left home and sells niche properties, while Laurel has stayed at home to look after her father, dressing in their dead mother's clothes and favouring a drab look. Audrey has all of the qualities that Laurel wishes she had – self-possession, style, confidence and independence.
When Audrey returns home of their birthday, her gift is a makeover for Laurel, who rather rashly decides to have her hair cut the way as Audrey. Things turn from bad to so very much worse when their car is smashed into on the way home, and Audrey dies in the crash. A fateful mix-up leaves Laurel faced with the chance to reinvent herself – and her life – as her beloved sibling.
She starts to live her sister's life – and try and deal with some of the problems left behind, learning more than a few lessons about how to live her life. She also takes a shine to her bearded next-door neighbour Basel (Jake Johnson, who stars opposite Zoey Deschanel in TV series New Girl and features alongside Olivia Wilde and Anna Kendrick in indie film Drinking Buddies) who is bemused at the change personality of 'Audrey'.
Zoe Kazan is a real delight here. Managing to make the sister's seem very different and also convincing (in a dark turn on paper) as a young women taking over her sister's life. It is the sort of plot line done many times before, but here it is played for genial laughs. It is a tough trick to pull off, but Jenée LaMarque's manages to make Laurel a sympathetic and engaging character. LaMarque shoots with a easy and knowingly oddball style – the look is Welcome To The Dollhouse meets Little Miss Sunshine – and there are some sequences to cherish, especially as Laurel and Basel get to know each other as they frolic by the next-door neighbour's pool
Production companies: Schorr Pictures, Provenance Pictures
International sales: Provenance Pictures, www.provenancepictures.com
Producers: Steven J Berger, Robin Schorr
Executive producers: Hector MaMarque, Jann LaMarque, Jenée LaMarque, Chris Ferguson, Corey Large, Alan Pao
Cinematography: Polly Morgan
Editor: Kiran Pallegadda
Production designer: Anne Costa
Music: Julian Wass
Main cast: Zoe Kazan, Jake Johnson, John Carroll Lynch, Shae D'lyn, Frankie Shaw, Ron Livingston, Luka Jones, Danny Pudi, Sterling Beaumon, Robin Reiser


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Bike MS to travel through Middletown
MIDDLETOWN >> For a second time, the Riverfront Boathouse in Hartford will host the 2013 Bike MS: Cardio Express Ride, presented by Cashman + Katz, on Sunday, Sept. 8. Cyclists will travel through Middletown's scenic downtown, cross the Arrigoni Bridge, and will pass through eight other Connecticut towns.
The 2013 ride marks the 18th anniversary of the Bike MS: Cardio Express Ride. In its history, more than 2,000 cyclists have pedaled over 200,000 miles to raise more than $1 million to support local chapter programs and services as well as scientific research to find a cure for multiple sclerosis. Organizers hope to raise $110,000 from the event this September.
Peter Rusconi, owner of Cardio Express Fitness Centers, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2004, serves as spokesperson for the ride.
"I know firsthand how MS can affect lives," said Rusconi, who captains the MS fundraising team known as MS Express. "I encourage others to join us and help move us forward in the fight against this disease."
More than 6,000 Connecticut residents, like Rusconi, are affected by multiple sclerosis, a potentially debilitating disease affecting the central nervous system. The cause is unknown and there is currently no cure for MS. Symptoms can include, among other things, numbness in the limbs, difficulties with vision and speech, stiffness, loss of mobility and, in some more severe cases, total paralysis. The progress, severity, and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot be predicted.
Cyclists will ride 75, 50 or 25 miles into the scenic Connecticut countryside before returning to Hartford. This city to country ride is unique because it is the only bike ride in Connecticut with a route that crosses three bridges: the Founders, Charter Oak and Arrigoni. At the starting line and along the route, bicycle mechanical support will be available.
Registration for this year's ride is $45 with the minimum fundraising amount per registered rider $175. Participants must be at least 12 years old to ride.
Finish line festivities include music from The Local Suspects, a barbecue, beer tasting compliments of the Olde Burnside Brewing Company, tastings by Peel Liqueurs, and massages by Massage Envy. Vendors such as the Hartford Bicycle Studio and Rel Distributor L.L.C. will be offering frozen fruit popsicles and more.
Check-in for the 75- and 50-mile routes begins at 7 and both rides depart at 7:30 a.m. Check-in for the 25-mile route begins at 9 and the ride takes-off at 9:30 a.m. The Riverfront Boathouse is located in Riverside Park at 20 Leibert Road, in Hartford.
For more information or to register for the Bike MS: Cardio Express Ride, visit ctfightsMS.org.


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STORRS >> When Connie Ballestro and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis headed their separate ways after an incredible run of success as teammates with a local recreation league, they figured their paths might cross again on a basketball court. However, the two Orange County, Calif., products never envisioned it would take place in the heart of icy New England. Thanks to the NCAA tournament committee sending Ballestro's Idaho squad to face Mosqueda-Lewis and UConn in a first-round game at Gampel Pavilion, there will be an on-court reunion today at about 1:30 p.m. "We have known each other since I was a fifth-grader and she was in sixth grade. We played on the same club team, we went to the same grade school and we were like 76-0 there," Ballestro said. "We kind of went our separate ways in high school, and in college we are meeting up again so it is pretty awesome. "She was always fun to be around, definitely a baller. Always good, always top of her class, great shooter, great rebounder. She is really athletic; everyone wanted to be like Kaleena." Sixteenth-seeded Idaho, which opened the season by losing 10 of its first 14 games, needed to win three straight games in the Western Athletic Conference tournament to secure a berth. The prevailing notion was that Idaho would be sent to play Stanford in the first round, not 2,750 miles east of campus. "I was shocked," said Ballestro, who leads Idaho with 108 assists. "I said, 'Wow, this is actually happening.' It was pretty cool. "The first team up was Stanford and we didn't see our name, so the whole room just gasped and it was kind of weird. Then we saw it was against UConn and we were like, 'Oh my God, we are going to UConn. That is awesome.'" Mosqueda-Lewis, who is UConn's leading scorer and needs just four 3-pointers to set the Huskies' single-season mark, is excited to meet up with Ballestro as well as Krissy Karr, another of her former teammates with the National Junior Basketball Stars program. "I am closer with Connie than I am with Krissy," Mosqueda-Lewis said. "Connie's a good athlete playing basketball, doing camps. I am not surprised that she is doing well for Idaho. It is very exciting for her in her first year to do something like that and lead your team to an NCAA tournament. It (is tough) to have to travel all the way to Connecticut to play UConn, but they did well the whole season and they deserve to be here." With five California natives on the Idaho roster, including freshman starters Ballestro and Christina Salvatore both hailing from Orange County, the first-round game is creating quite a stir back in California. "(Mosqueda-Lewis) was the biggest thing coming out of Orange County. I talked to my mom and she said everybody is DVRing if they aren't seeing it live, so there are still a lot of people who are working it into their schedule."
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Bridal Beauty... What I've Learned
- Having set times for each bridesmaid to come meet me (there was a half hour for each) allowed for them to schedule their afternoon and take care of eating, napping, hair, etc... as opposed to just having everyone sitting there waiting on me the whole time.
- Having a well-organized train case full of products that were carefully chosen. I knew basically what skintones I was working with, and planned the overall "look" so I didn't overwhelm myself with a zillion shades of this or that.
- Packing plenty of disposable items that I'd be reaching for often and sitting them out so they were readily available- sponges, q-tips, pointed q-tips, mascara wands, Kleenex.
- Having a trashcan nearby. Seems like a no-brainer, but it kept me from tossing a used tissue or q-tip onto my work-space, potentially making me look cluttered, unsanitary, and unprofessional.
- Having brush cleaner & alcohol in spray bottles... allowed me to quickly sanitize brushes, lash curlers, and makeup products.
- Doing my homework with the girls between "sessions"- asking the next one about her skintype, and what amount of makeup she's accustomed to wearing... sort of getting a feel for her comfort zone.
- Allowing a lot of extra time for the bride (my last person)... Setting aside 1.5 hours for her was the reason everything stayed on schedule & the girls made it to their pictures on time... since I slowly got behind schedule as I did the whole group. (The two mothers weren't initially factored into the plan).
- Doing my own makeup & hair in advance so only touch-ups were needed for myself. The wedding got underway about a half hour after I got done with Katie, so I pretty much had to throw on my dress & go!
What I'd do differently...
- Allow for more time per person. While 30 minutes was pretty much fine for the makeup application- I could've used an extra 5 minutes in between to allow more time for brush cleaning, sanitizing, and re-organizing stuff.
- Have an assistant (at least when doing lots of people's makeup). I probably could keep the times the same if I just had another set of hands helping with the brush cleaning, etc. I also would've liked for pictures or video to be taken during the process, and an assistant could've helped with that.
- Bring a stool... everyone sat in a typical chair which put a strain on my back as I leaned over each one. Getting the girls more on eye-level with me would've been nice.
- Handed out my business cards with my websites on there... I had them with me but totally forgot to give them to the girls!
Well, that pretty much sums it up! Thanks for taking the time to read this! I have so much respect for the makeup artists out there who do tons of makeup like this on a regular basis. There are so many little details to think about, but it is truly fulfilling when a beautiful face is smiling back at you, excited about the way they look and feel! :)


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In his last five starts, the left-hander is 3-1 with a 1.51 ERA. His ERA for the season is down to 3.97. "He has really gotten it together, from where he started early in the year," manager Robin Ventura said. "He has pitched to where hes always giving us a chance right now. He becomes tough when he has the feel of the changeup like that and spotting his fastball. It just seems like he has a little more on it as far as spotting his fastball." Viciedo, who was just 2 for 23 on the homestand before Tuesday, went 2 for 4. His fifth-inning blast ended a stretch of 51 at-bats without an RBI. Hunter Pence went 2 for 4 with a home run for the Giants, who have dropped four straight and seven of eight. Giants starter Matt Cain (1-5) allowed eight runs -- seven earned -- and 10 hits in five innings. "He got off to a good start," San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said of Cain. "Those first two innings, he looked real sharp. He looked like he was on track. Then the third inning got a little long there, long at-bat and he ended up giving up a home run. Then he just got derailed." Pence opened the scoring with a homer in the first inning, and the Giants made it 2-0 with an unearned run in the third. The White Sox tied it in the bottom of the third as Adam Eaton singled with two outs, stole second and then trotted home on Beckhams two-run shot. Chicago took a 5-2 lead with three runs in the fourth. Jose Abreu led off with a single and one out later Alexei Ramirez and Viciedo both singled to load the bases. Alejandro De Aza popped up in foul ground on the first pitch for the second out, but Tyler Flowers drew a walk to drive in a run and make it 3-2. Eaton followed with a slow grounder to shortstop that Brandon Crawford fielded cleanly but threw wide of first base after rushing to get the speedy Eaton. Eaton was credited with a single and one RBI as both Ramirez and Viciedo scored for the three-run lead. Crawford was charged with an error for allowing the second run to score and both runners (Flowers and Eaton) to advance a base. Chicago added three runs in the fifth to break the game open. Adam Dunn had an RBI single and two batters later Viciedo hit a two-run, two-out homer for an 8-2 margin. "We needed it," Beckham said. "It was nice to break out against a good team." NOTES: Bochy was a teammate of Tony Gwynns and later managed the Hall of Famer, who died Monday. "Just a huge loss for baseball and San Diego," Bochy said. "We all know what a great player he was and a great hitter. But he is getting recognized for being such a tremendous person." ... White Sox C Tyler Flowers had a bases-loaded walk to drive in a run, but is 18 for his last 111 at-bats with 50 Ks as his average dropped to .247. ... Giants OF Angel Pagan (lower back) was out of the lineup for a second straight game and is listed as day-to-day. ... C Buster Posey was used at DH after taking a foul off mask on Sunday. ... The finale of the brief two-game series has a marquee pitching matchup of RHP Tim Hudson (7-2, 1.81) vs. LHP Chris Sale (5-1. 1.97). Lamar Jackson Ravens Jersey . -- Byron Scott is taking over the Los Angeles Lakers with the vocal support of his fellow Showtime greats. Anthony Averett Jersey . A better question yet may be this: How many times has the same player been involved in both? Morneau hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning and helped the Colorado Rockies turn the third triple play in team history as they beat the San Diego Padres 8-6 on Sunday. http://www.ravensrookiestore.com/Ravens-Hayden-Hurst-Jersey/ . David Perron had a career high four-point night with two goals and two assists as the Oilers experienced an offensive explosion, blasting the Columbus Blue Jackets 7-0 to record a rare home win for their second victory in a row.SEOUL, South Korea - Second-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic defeated fifth-seeded Varvara Lepchenko of the United States, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-2 on Sunday to win the Korea Open. Pliskova stormed out to a 4-0 lead in the third set at Olympic Park Tennis Center and held on for the second WTA title of her career in a match that lasted 2 hours, 11 minutes. Pliskova added the Korea win to her first WTA tittle she won in Kuala Lumpur last year. Anthony Averett Ravens Jersey. She was playing in her fourth WTA final this year. She lost the first three in Pattaya City, Nurnberg and Hong Kong. Lepchenko beat top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska in the quarterfinals but couldnt build on the momentum in Sundays final. 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WASHINGTON — Afghanistan's disputed election and Iraq's unraveling are giving members of Congress and US allies in the region reason to think President Obama should reconsider his decision to withdraw virtually all Americans troops from Afghanistan by the close of 2016.
The White House says Afghanistan is different from Iraq, mired in sectarian violence since shortly after US troops left, and that the drawdown decision is a done deal.
Some lawmakers, however, are uncomfortable with Obama's plan, which responds to the American public's war fatigue and his desire to be credited with pulling the United States out of two conflicts. Ten senators, Republicans and Democrats, raised the drawdown issue at a congressional hearing Thursday.
They argued that it is too risky to withdraw US troops out so quickly, especially with the Afghan presidential election in the balance. They do not want to see Afghanistan go the way of Iraq; they fear the Afghan security force, while making gains, will not be ready for solo duty by the end of 2016.
Under Obama's plan, announced in May before Sunni militants seized control of much of Iraq, about 20,200 American troops will leave Afghanistan during the next five months, dropping the US force to 9,800 by year's end.
That number would be cut in half by the end of 2015, with only about 1,000 remaining in Kabul after the end of 2016.
Marine General Joseph Dunford, the top US commander in Afghanistan, testified in the past week before the Senate Armed Services Committee. He spoke highly of the 352,000-strong Afghan security force that assumed responsibility in June 2013 and lauded them for keeping violence down during the recent election.
The US withdrawal plan is based on being able to fix the Afghan security force's shortcomings by the end of 2016.
Dunford described gaps in planning, programming, budgeting, delivering spare parts, fuel payment systems. Afghanistan also needs to brush up its intelligence operation and develop the nascent air force.
He laid out his best-case scenario under the current plan:
■ The Afghan presidential election is resolved.
■ Afghan security forces continue to improve and are sustainable by 2017 so a small US presence inside the US Embassy in Kabul — a ''security cooperation office'' — is sufficient.
■ Shortfalls in the Afghan forces are addressed.
■ The United States and other donor nations continue to fund the Afghan government, security forces, and development projects.
■ Afghan-Pakistani relations improve and the two nations have adequate capabilities — and the will — to counter terrorism.
His worst-case outcome: The election remains unresolved; Afghan-Pakistan relations sour and both countries fall short of battling extremist militants; Al Qaeda or other militant groups regain their footing in the region and plot attacks on the United States.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said, ''There's a disaster in the making to our homeland and to losing all the gains we fought for inside of Afghanistan by drawing down too quick and not being able to help the Afghans in a reasonable fashion.''


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by Alison Bodine, Published on Council on Hemispheric Affairs, March 29, 2019 On March 16, 2019, more than 1000 activists from across the U.S. gathered in Washington, DC for the "U.S Hands Off Venezuela!" demonstration. However, Canadian journalist Arnold August was not one of them – earlier in the day he was unjustly denied entry into the United States at[…]Read more
Over two hundred million workers and famers are on strike but the bourgeois press in India and of course in the U.S. decided to ignore what is the largest labor strike in human history. In the U.S. the anti-capitalist opposition is being held hostage by reformists.
Are US and Israel trying to start a war with #Iran? No war with Iran!
The ONLY nuclear armed country in the Middle East, Israel, just assassinated a nuclear scientist in Iran, a country that has signed a deal to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons. Where is the world outrage???
Civil liberties are under attack. We most support Assange, Snowden and Manning and fight to keep & extend freedom of speech.
I echo the call for full pardons for Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and reparations for Chelsea Manning.
Watch @therevcoms call out Smerconish's lies that he put out on @CNN in reaction to @Kaepernick7 demanding Mumia be released: https://youtu.be/DqW5xjZ143s
#KaepSaysFreeMumia #ImWithKap #FreeMumia #FreedomAndAbolition #DefendBlackLives #BLM #BLMPhilly #DefundThePolice
The stock market goes over 30,000 while food lines in the US extend for miles. The stock market has nothing to do with the real economy. It is simply a betting scheme for the rich to get richer.
The US, Saudi, Israeli meeting may be planning for war with #Iran. Before Trump leaves?
Happening the 28th! 🔥🔥🔥 Join us! https://twitter.com/jncatron/status/1329831881270026245
I'm really excited about an event @uspcn is organizing online, a week from tomorrow, about a key moment in the anti-imperialist struggle. If you have any interest in the history of the Arab revolutionary left in the diaspora, *or* the labor movement in the U.S., don't miss it!
I'm sure the advantage of US troops over Russian troops is even greater near the US border. There should be no US troops near the Russian border
Russian troops outnumber U.S. troops near the Russian border. Of course they do. Why is this a news story? https://twitter.com/HeritageDataViz/status/1330934143308476417


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Frontiers in Modern Cosmology
The k-essence theories admit the superluminal propagation of the perturbations on classical nontrivial backgrounds. In this talk I will review our arguments from arXiv:0708.0561v1 and show that in spite of the superluminal propagation the causal paradoxes do not arise in these theories and in this respect they are not less safe than General Relativity.
We investigate the effect of evaporating primordial black holes on the ionization history of the universe, with emphasis on limits derivable from the CMB and future 21-cm observations of high-redshift neutral hydrogen.
The cosmological power of Type Ia Supernovae depends on their ability to determine distances. The astrophysical limitations, like reddening, local velocity inhomogeneities and intrinsic variations, are a severe impediment for the cosmological applications of these cosmic explosions. Overcoming these systematic restrictions must be the goal of any future supernova projects.


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Mistakes of World War 1
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- Part 2
by Joshua Horn
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In part one we examined three of the mistakes of World War I, one of the biggest wars in world history. These were the German navy's failure to attack at the beginning of the war, the Allies' frontal attacks and the Allied defeat at the battle of the Dardanelles. Today we will examine three more of the mistakes of World War I, the continued attacks of the Allies, the German U-boat war and the German frontal attacks. All these mistakes, and many more, contributed to create one of the bloodiest wars of human history. World War I changed Europe forever. In Britain alone one third of the male population were casualties. We should learn from these costly mistakes of history so that we will not make similar errors.
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Perhaps the largest and most costly error of the war was the Allies' frontal assaults. The Allied generals continued to send their troops forward in bloody charges against German's positions. They lost tens of thousands of men for at the very most a few miles of ground. Virtually every family, village and town across Great Britain and all of Europe had soldiers who were killed. There were 37 million casualties, which is almost the entire population of Canada or Germany today. Most of these huge casualties accomplished almost nothing. Winston Churchill, a member of the British government at the time, said, "All this hard and fruitless fighting would be tolerable if the German losses had been equal to our own."1 The Allies almost lost the war because their armies' numbers were greatly weakened through these fruitless assaults.
The next mistake of World War I was the German's assault on the British navy through the U-Boat war. In 1917 the German navy authorized their submarines to attack merchant ships around Great Britain without first ordering them to surrender. They did this to try to shorten the war by forcing Britain to surrender by cutting off all their supplies which they needed to subsist. They realized that eventually this would bring the neutral nations, such as the United States, into the war because it broke the international law of nations, but they were willing to take the risk to win the war. This German attack broke the law of nations because they sank ships without requesting them to surrender. Several days after the submarine war began, the United States declared war on Germany, but it took months before the United States could get its first troops prepared for battle. At first the submarine war succeeded very well. One month 25% of the British commerce was sunk. Fisher, one of the most famous admirals of the day, said, "Can the Army win the war before the Navy loses it?"2 But finally through various methods the British and American navies were able to stop the U-Boat war. The German navy made a terrible mistake in the submarine war by forcing the United States to join the Allies.
In the beginning of 1918, the German army decided to launch a forward offensive against the Allied positions. This was their final mistake. For years the British had wasted their troops in attacks against the German entrenchments, and now it was the German's turn. The German attacks did drive the Allied positions far back, but they did not rout them. At the end of the attack the Allied lines were still intact, and the Germans had weakened themselves greatly. Winston Churchill said, "[T]he British inflicted upon the Germans losses even greater than those they themselves endured, losses irreparable at this period in the war, losses which broke the supreme German effort for victory at the outset, and rang the knell of doom in the ears of the overwrought German people."3 After the German attacks stalled, the Allies counter-attacked and drove them back even more quickly than the most optimistic hoped, and ended up causing Germany to surrender and lose the war.
We have just seen three more of the worst mistakes of World War I. These were the Allies' useless attacks, the German navy's submarine attack forcing the United States into the war, and the German army's frontal attacks. These mistakes changed the course of history. For example, the German attack near the end of the war may have seemed like the way to win the war quickly, but it actually caused their defeat. We should study and learn from the mistakes of the men in the past so that we do repeat their mistakes.
1 Churchill, Winston. The World Crisis (London: Odhams Press Limited) vol. 2, p. 833
2 Ibid, p. 1167
3 Ibid, p. 1313


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In view of the demographic challenge of an ageing population, researchers who will significantly advance scientific progress in the ageing field are of high importance. Therefore, the aim of ProMoAge is to provide conditions that allow the participating and associated PhD/MD candidates to develop into competent young scientists who will prospectively address topics of molecular age research in academia or industry in a collaborative manner. The ProMoAge programme follows a high-quality interdisciplinary and scientific approach on different aspects of ageing research with a focus on the role of long-lasting protein modifications as key mechanisms. The programme contains a lecture series "Research into Ageing", which will provide specific insights into PTMs and their functional consequences but will also cover other molecular as well as translational and social aspects of ageing. In addition, ProMoAge will offer state-of-the-art methodological platforms with respect to model systems, special microscopy techniques, proteomics and clinical cohorts. Mentoring/supervision modules will complement the qualification programme.
The ProMoAge training programme consists of mandatory (80%) and elective modules (20%) as in the figure shown below. Mandatory modules comprise ProMoAge-specific modules (workshops including the lecture series, summer schools and retreats), activities in the individual research groups (progress reports, literature seminars) and courses in good scientific practice, biostatistics and transferable skills.These modules will be supplemented with elective modules based on individual interests and needs. Elective modules involve lecture series of local graduate schools, guest lectures of interest, transferable skill courses presented by local graduate academies, as well as method courses on demand offered by ProMoAge groups. Two training coordinators (designated: R. Horstkorte, Halle, head of the doctoral board of the medical faculty, and R. Heller, Jena, coordinator of the JSMM and the graduate programme of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Clinical Research, IZKF) will be responsible for the programme and coordinate the activities of doctoral researchers. The annual study programme of every PhD fellow will correspond to an overall work load of 210 hours (7 ECTS credit points). MD candidates will participate in the qualification programme for one year – the expected duration of their experimental work.


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Modelling of Spray Combustion, Emission Formation and Heat Transfer in Medium Speed Diesel Engine
Research output: Book/Report › Doctoral thesis › Monograph
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|Tampere University of Technology
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The thesis deals with the spray combustion, emissions formation and heat transfer theories of phenomena and their modelling related to medium speed diesel engines. The aim of the work has been to develop a simulation tool for medium speed diesel engines that can be applied later in the optimisation process of the engine economy with the allowed pollution level. In developing work of the KIVA-II code main attention was focused on the following phenomena: the drop vaporisation under a high-pressure envinronment, the soot formation modelling by the Hiroyasu or TM models and the oxidation by the NSC model, the soot radiation modelling by the simplified model(pure emission) or the DOM, the convective heat transfer modelling and the spray turbulence modelling by the RNG/STD k-e turbulence models.According to the results obtained the high-pressure drop vaporisation model is necessary in the code instead of the corresponding low-pressure model in order to get a more realistic ignition of the fuel vapour/air mixture and combustion. Also the Hiroyasu soot formation and the NSC soot oxidation model were added into the code and formulated into the source term form using either the computational cell average or the EDC-weighted values of the cell quantities in the soot transport equation. The soot emissions after modifications were a more realistic level than in the case of the original formulation and the models. Also the lack of a NSC soot oxidation model able to predict the soot oxidation rate correctly was taken into account by the extra constant in the model. The soot radiation was taken into account in the internal energy equation by simplified model(optically thin radiant media) from the radiant media or the RTE solved by the DOM. The radiant heat flux to piston top becomes the more realistic level with the DOM than with the simplified model compared to the experimental values of the slightly other type diesel engine than the modelled medium speed diesel engine. This shows that the absorption of soot radiation in the radiant region must also be taken into consideration. Effect of the soot radiation on temperature of the gas appears only in the soot region, not in the fuel vapour reaction zone where the soot is not found. Therefore the soot radiation does not reduce maximum temperatures of the gas in the fuel vapour reaction zone or in the nitrogen oxide formation regions near the reaction zone and so influence in the NOx emissions from the engine. Further the original temperature wall function of the KIVA-II based on the modified Reynolds analogy under-predicts the heat flux to wall considerably. The model was replaced by the model which was based on the use of a one-dimensional energy equation and the correlation of the dimensionless temperature including an increasing turbulent Prandtl number near the wall. The heat flux to piston top with the new model was a more realistic level than with the original model of the code compared to the experimental values of the other type diesel engine.Finally in the work the modified RNG k-e model was improved based on the results obtained with the STD and the basic RNG k-e models. According to the results mentioned above the STD model is too diffusive while the basic RNG is too less diffusive in the high rate of the strain region(spray region) and therefore the fuel vapour mixing(combustion) occurs in an un-satisfactorily way. In the turbulence model developed the additional term of the epsilon equation was modified suitably and therefore the spray spreading and the combustion occur more realistically compared to either the basic RNG or the STD k-e turbulence model cases. The gas turbulence intensity was reduced in the early phase of combustion and emphasized in the later phase of combustion compared to the situation with the STD model. The cylinder pressure curve becomes by far the closest with the new turbulence model than either of both the models mentioned above. In the work the failure of the basic RNG turbulence model of the KIVA-3V was found and rectified.
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G Is For Giving Up; H Is For Healing
As many of you have noticed, I stopped my daily blog entries before I could even get halfway though the A To Z Challenge. It is a lovely idea and a great group of people; I just honestly had no idea when I started this project in April that I'd also end up tackling a much tougher project: cutting back on my beta-blockers in an attempt to feel a little bit healthier.
I'm pleased to report that nearly 20 days after deciding to finally do something about the beta-blockers, I have successfully cut my dose in half. This is a much faster transition than doctor's recommend, but one of the "special" things about me is that when I set my mind to do something, I tend to want to reach goals as fast as possible. I had a terrible two weeks of withdrawal and rebound symptoms, and know these symptoms may keep on going for a good while yet, after reading the experiences of others. But I'm proud of myself for making it this far.
One of the strange and most distressing symptoms is pain and swelling in my fingers, which make it difficult to write longer blog entries like this one. I've never had anything like this before, but do spend a large percentage of my day typing on electronics. I am hoping it is a temporary problem or side effect of drug withdrawals, and not an entirely new health issue or worrisome symptom of my "mystery illness". In any case, all of this has caused me to simplify my life, check out of anything causing stress or deadlines, and having to give up on the A-To-Z challenge. I'd love if all of you who wrote supportive messages would keep coming back to visit, and my thanks for that support. I'm also very sorry for having to abandon something I was very excited over doing…that is not like me at all. I do tend to overload my plate with things I want to do and get very stressed out about that, and it just wasn't something I could handle while going through withdrawal symptoms. I promise I will be back next year, though.
I do not know if cutting back on the beta-blockers has helped me, but it certainly hasn't hurt. I've started to wake up earlier, started working even a minimal number of hours again, dropped a few pounds, and some days, I catch myself feeling way happier than I have in a long time.
One of the things that goes along with dealing with a chronic illness is that people think you're depressed, especially when it changes your lifestyle from being the life of the party to being a bit of a recluse. Earlier in the week, The Guy I Am Currently Dating and I got into a fight because he found out I'd been spending time playing a game online every day, meeting new online friends, and didn't mention it for a year or so. I understand why he was angry about it, that I kept something important to me a secret. However, when you're sick, sometimes it's important to have a space of your own, where people don't treat you like someone who is sick…even the rare people you strike up friendships with via Skype or e-mail. It is important to have a space to just be yourself, the you that you were before something came along and took away pieces of your spirit and your life. It is important to meet other people, even strangers, who may be suffering in their own lives, but rarely talk about it because it is a relief to escape from the world and the people in it that consistently want to help, but just remind you that you're not normal, and hurt you because you can't give the thing they want: the old, energetic, healthy you back.
Sometimes, remembering what it's like to be healthy for a few hours is more helpful to a person suffering with chronic illness that the most supportive and loving friend. You don't love your friends any less, but when they are living out in your old life, in a world you can't participate in, it kind of hurts and is hard not to be depressing or feel depressed after a while.
I do not generally feel depressed, even if I can't go out and play. A friend of mine has told me that everything that has happened to me has made me a more substantial person. I am happy and appreciative of the small things; the TV shows I love, reading and writing, a lovely chat with a friend, a visit on the weekends, a surprise for no reason. I am no longer spending hours posting pictures of myself, and getting involved in arguments on Facebook, or spending every Sunday in bed with a hangover. I am not even killing myself with anxiety over sick family members, financial troubles, or even what has made me so ill for so long, and if there's going to be a diagnosis or treatment. My primary focus in life is me and doing the things that make me happy, for maybe the first time in my life. Pleasing others is no longer something that is there to define me. It may seem selfish, and it may seem weird, but I am not depressed. Some days, I am even optimistic that a day will come when I have my life back, and still have that greater appreciation for the small things. Some days, I am even happy; I smile and I laugh. I am not always at peace with my situation, but I am at peace with myself more than I've ever been. There is a reason that when people are recovering from anything, whether it's addiction, mental illness, or a physical ailment, "putting yourself first" becomes less of a foreign concept. I still feel guilty over it sometimes, but when "feeling the best you can today" becomes your most important thing, so many other things are secondary.
Healing, even a little bit at a time, is a personal journey…but I really do appreciate everyone who cares, everyone who leaves comments or chats with me on the internet or sends me Skype messages or posts things on Facebook I like. I know that The Guy I Am Currently Dating may be bored with all our "quiet time", but the 100% truth is that I look forward to Friday nights with Boston Market and Amazing Race every bit as much as I did going to the coolest new restaurant, and drinking until 4 AM at the club. Yes, I still miss those things and someday, adventures may be part of my life. But for now, things that used to bore me and be met with a "Why can't we DO something?" are now things to which I look forward.
Perhaps it's fair to say all these struggles have helped me grow up, just a little, without my even noticing.
Thank you to everyone who is sharing my journey with me. It may not be the road I'd have chosen for my early 30's, but I am not alone and I am not depressed. In fact, I've started feeling happier than I have in a long time, looking forward to things that are months away, without the caveat "If I'm still around".
I would have liked to have the energy to finish my A To Z project, but instead, I spent April focused on healing, baby steps at a time, so that maybe I'll be in a better place for next year's A To Z April. 🙂
And who knows? Perhaps this less than desired chapter of my life will make a wonderful book someday.


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17 Best Non-Disney Animated Movies You Should Watch (P.1)
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Disney isn't the only studio that's created some of our animated favorites.
1. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Five years have passed since Hiccup and Toothless united the dragons and Vikings of Berk. Now, they spend their time charting the island's unmapped territories. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons, and a mysterious dragon rider who turns out to be Hiccup's long-lost mother, Valka (Cate Blanchett). Hiccup and Toothless then find themselves at the center of a battle to protect Berk from a power-hungry warrior named Drago.
2. Spirited Away (2000)
In this animated feature by noted Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, 10-year-old Chihiro (Rumi Hiiragi) and her parents (Takashi Naitô, Yasuko Sawaguchi) stumble upon a seemingly abandoned amusement park. After her mother and father are turned into giant pigs, Chihiro meets the mysterious Haku (Miyu Irino), who explains that the park is a resort for supernatural beings who need a break from their time spent in the earthly realm, and that she must work there to free herself and her parents.
3. An American Tail (1986)
A young mouse named Fievel Mousekewitz (Phillip Glasser) and his family emigrate from Russia to the United States by boat after their home is destroyed by cats. During the trip, a fierce storm throws Fievel from the ship, and he loses contact with his family. Luckily, he manages to sail to New York in a bottle. There, Irish mouse Bridget (Cathianne Blore), an Italian mouse named Tony (Pat Musick) and a kindly cat named Tiger (Dom DeLuise) help Fievel search for his loved ones.
4. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
In this animated feature set in the 1940s, the troubled yet heroic Batman (Kevin Conroy) is pitted against a mysterious figure who is rubbing out Gotham City's most dangerous criminals, and who many believe is the caped crusader himself. Batman's alter ego, millionaire Bruce Wayne, is about to get married to the lovely Andrea Beaumont (Dana Delany), who helps him recover from his need to avenge his parents' murder, meaning that his crime-fighting days may be numbered.
5. The Iron Giant (1999)
In this animated adaptation of Ted Hughes' Cold War fable, a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) crash-lands near the small town of Rockwell, Maine, in 1957. Exploring the area, a local 9-year-old boy, Hogarth, discovers the robot, and soon forms an unlikely friendship with him. When a paranoid government agent, Kent Mansley, becomes determined to destroy the robot, Hogarth and beatnik Dean McCoppin (Harry Connick Jr.) must do what they can to save the misunderstood machine.
6. Kung Fu Panda (2008)
Po the panda (Jack Black) works in his family's noodle shop and dreams of becoming a kung-fu master. His dream becomes a reality when, unexpectedly, he must fulfill an ancient prophecy and study the skills with his idols, the Furious Five. Po needs all the wisdom, strength and ability he can muster to protect his people from an evil snow leopard.
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life, he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.
8. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Young Kubo's (Art Parkinson) peaceful existence comes crashing down when he accidentally summons a vengeful spirit from the past. Now on the run, Kubo joins forces with Monkey (Charlize Theron) and Beetle (Matthew McConaughey) to unlock a secret legacy. Armed with a magical instrument, Kubo must battle the Moon King (Ralph Fiennes) and other gods and monsters to save his family and solve the mystery of his fallen father, the greatest samurai warrior the world has ever known.
9. The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Mrs. Brisby (Elizabeth Hartman), a widowed mouse, must move her children out of their home in a field before the local farmer starts plowing. Unable to leave because her son is ill, Mrs. Brisby seeks the help of nearby rats, who have heightened intelligence after being the subjects of scientific experiments. She receives an unexpected gift from the elder rat, Nicodemus (Derek Jacobi). Soon Mrs. Brisby is caught in a conflict among the rats, jeopardizing her mission to save her family.


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Is iSCSI good enough?
Organizations of all sizes have adopted iSCSI because it's easy to install, inexpensive, behaves just like Ethernet and doesn't require specialized skill sets like Fibre Channel does. But do analyst claims that iSCSI performance falls short of that for Fiber Channel hold up?
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| Users praise their iSCSI SANs, citing low cost, ease of use and better-than-expected performance.
Consider Dave DePillis, manager of IT operations at Allied Cash Advance in Miami, who installed an iSCSI SAN (IP SAN) two years ago to make use of the cabling, switches and network adapters installed in his Gigabit Ethernet network. "Installing iSCSI was absolutely a no-brainer, especially since I had such a small initial investment," says DePillis. He's using iSCSI to back up file shares on four to six virtual machines with Symantec Corp.'s Backup Exec 11 to a Network Appliance (Net-App) Inc. FAS2020 file server. "I have more flexibility with iSCSI since I can use my LAN switches," says DePillis.
James Santillo is another happy iSCSI user. "iSCSI is easy to use and configure," says Santillo, systems administrator at Weiss Group Inc. in Jupiter, FL. He implemented iSCSI capability by installing StorMagic's SM Series iSCSI software on some industry-standard servers equipped with Serial ATA (SATA) drives.
The technology is implemented by loading a software-based driver--called an initiator--on an Ethernet adapter or by adding a dedicated iSCSI host bus adapter (HBA) to the host computer. Another initiator is added to the target storage array, which allows it to serve up data that will be transported across the network via the iSCSI transport.
iSCSI initiators are available from a number of sources and are categorized by operating system type. Two of the most popular are a Windows initiator from Microsoft Corp. and a Linux initiator from SourceForge (see "iSCSI initiators," below).
Target storage arrays are available from almost every storage vendor, including EMC Corp., NetApp and Overland Storage Inc., among others. Target software--available from vendors such as FalconStor Software Inc., Open-E GmbH and StorMagic--lets users add to commodity servers or gray-box storage arrays from Intel Corp. to make them iSCSI compatible, and so they appear to the client as a local SCSI device (see "A sampling of iSCSI target devices," (PDF) below).
iSCSI can also be implemented with gateway technology in which an iSCSI controller attaches to a block-level storage array, thus enabling iSCSI transport. Examples of gateway-enabled iSCSI products are available from Reldata Inc. and StoneFly Inc.
In addition, a number of vendors have joined the iSCSI and FC worlds with what's called unified or multiprotocol storage. Vendors such as Microsoft, NetApp and Pillar Data Systems market arrays or software that can attach to the Ethernet network as a NAS or iSCSI device, and to the FC SAN.
Various-sized businesses have adopted iSCSI because it's easy to install, inexpensive, behaves just like Ethernet and doesn't require special skills like FC does.
"We don't have Fibre Channel experience," says Scott Christiansen, IT director at Leo A. Daly, an architectural and engineering firm in Omaha, NE. "To get the iSCSI SAN up and running was so quick and easy; it was just unbelievable." Christiansen adds that the SAN "uses the same media as the Ethernet network; it's nice in the sense that everything we buy is Category 6 cable--it works for Ethernet, it works for the IP SAN."
Applications running on iSCSI
"Our primary business app runs off a Microsoft SQL Server," says Mike Leather, network services manager at Safeway Insurance Group in Westmont, IL. "Our developers and database administrators were telling me that our disk I/O performance wasn't acceptable; that was because we were growing too big for the original solution [and] we needed to look at something else."
Leather looked at FC SAN storage, but was wary of the challenges and expenses involved. He installed an EqualLogic IP SAN (now owned by Dell Inc.) primarily for his SQL Server environment, but soon found he was using iSCSI for everything. "The whole thing started out for SQL Server and exploded," he says. "We are using the SAN for file storage, Exchange servers and our VMware environment."
Weiss Group's Santillo found that iSCSI will support all of his applications, whether they're business critical or not. "Our custom in-house customer relationship management [CRM] app, which was running on Fibre Channel, is being moved to iSCSI," he says. "We had six SQL Server apps on Fibre Channel, but [they] are now on iSCSI. And we're moving our two Exchange databases to iSCSI. The CRM app is going on the Xiotech box [which is iSCSI enabled]. We're also moving our file systems and unstructured data over to Xiotech," he says. "I needed enterprise-level reliability without the price." Santillo says his six-year-old IBM FC SAN will become "end-of-life'd. We're migrating everything off to iSCSI."
Adaptec Inc., Alacritech Inc. and QLogic Corp. originally marketed iSCSI adapters complete with features such as TCP Offload, which negates some of the overhead of TCP/IP. These adapters were expensive and often sold for as much as $750, which is four to five times the cost of standard Ethernet adapters.
"We use the VMware and Microsoft iSCSI [Software] Initiator, and we also use iSCSI and Fibre Channel HBAs from QLogic," says Chris Rima, IT systems supervisor at UniSource Energy Corp. in Tucson, AZ. "We've been decreasing the use of the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator because it's not as efficient as the VMware iSCSI initiator or the QLogic iSCSI HBAs. There's a higher cost associated with the QLogic HBA, but it's minimal compared to the performance gains we get."
But other users have overwhelmingly adopted the use of software initiators from Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft and the open-source community because they're inexpensive or freely downloadable from a vendor's site.
"We use the Microsoft software initiator and it works fine," says Mark Kash, IT specialist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington, WV. "It's reliable and I haven't had any instances where it's corrupted anything," he says. "Originally, we considered using TOE cards from QLogic because we were thinking a firmware-based platform may be more reliable, but we saved money using the software-based alternative."
Microsoft's iSCSI Software Initiator Version 2.06 is the most popular iSCSI initiator. It supports multipathing for load balancing and failover, 64-bit platforms and IPv6. Multipathing lets the initiator establish multiple sessions with one target, enabling load balancing and failover among multiple network adapters or HBAs.
"We ran some performance tests to see the difference between iSCSI and Fibre Channel, and we saw what the industry saw: iSCSI is able to offer about 80% the performance of 2Gb Fibre Channel," says UniSource Energy's Rima. "4Gig Fibre Channel is a little bit more, but it's not substantial enough given the cost to use it."
Rima chose iSCSI because it fulfilled his "performance needs." He runs Microsoft Exchange on iSCSI, and has been able to scale his storage up but "maintain a network topology that's low cost and low impact in terms of support."
Jim Bollinger, systems and network engineer at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA, has seen the same performance results as Rima. Bollinger installed Overland Storage REO disk-based appliances to back up his storage environment.
"iSCSI has been capable of doing everything we need it to do," says Bollinger. "You could take iometer.exe and take the array right up to 100Mb/sec. It's every bit as good as local SCSI and sometimes better. We've had no trouble on big files filling the pipe on our LTO-3 backup--up around 70MB/sec to 80MB/sec--and we've been backing up 7TB to 8TB a day."
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Bollinger, who uses QLogic HBAs that perform both TCP and iSCSI offload, says he'll migrate to 10Gb/sec Ethernet for the trunks between university buildings.
"10Gb/sec to 100Gb/sec is in our planning process and further validates our decision to deploy iSCSI," says Kash at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "I'm comfortable that iSCSI is going to take over from Fibre Channel, and [that] it will no longer be considered a low-cost, lower performing alternative."
Rima says "we can do TCP Offload with the TCP Offload on our NetApp boxes," adding that "10Gig should allow us to scale up quite a bit."
Besides the use of existing Ethernet switches, adapters and common Category 6 cabling, users have seen other advantages. "The ROI of iSCSI is hard to measure, but our complaints from users on performance issues are practically non-existent now," says Safeway Insurance Group's Leather. "That's a huge ROI. In our business, if someone has trouble with our Web site while they're writing insurance, they won't wait for us, they'll just go to the next insurance carrier. You can't measure the lost business."


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New Catholic Dictionary – Saint Comgall
(c.510–601) Abbot, founder of the monastery of Bangor, born near Magheramorne, Ireland; died Bangor. After a short military career he studied under Saint Finnian of Clonard, and Saint Ciaran. With a small following he retired to an island on Lough Erne and practised austere monastic life. He founded the monastery at Bangor, 552. Emblems: fish, pebble. Cult approved, 1903. Feast, 10 May.


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John Golding, Renowned Cubist Scholar and Abstract Painter, Dies at 82
Source: Gallerist NY, 4-18-12
John Golding. (Courtesy the family of John Golding/The Guardian)
John Golding, one of the premier historians of cubism and an accomplished abstract painter, died on April 9 at the age of 82, according to The New York Times. The news was first announced by the Courtauld Institute of Art, in London, where he taught for many years. No cause of death was available.
Golding is perhaps best known for his 1959 landmark book Cubism: A History and an Analysis, 1907–1914, one of the earliest thorough studies of the topic. Margalit Fox, writing in The Times, had this to say of the work:
In that book Mr. Golding refuted the idea, widely prevalent at midcentury, that Cubism represented a break with the realistic tradition. On the contrary, he said, the Cubist perspective, with its emphasis on spatial depiction from simultaneous multiple vantage points, marked a singular return to realism after the misty prospect of Impressionism.
Fittingly, Elizabeth Cowling's obituary for Golding in The Wall Street Journal carries the headline "Cubism's Vasari."
Golding organized a number of major exhibitions on artists like Picasso, Braque and Matisse, including "Matisse Picasso," which examined the close (and competitive) relationship those two artists shared for many decades. It visited the Museum of Modern Art's temporary Queens branch in 2003.
Born in Mexico, in 1929, he did his undergraduate work at the University of Toronto, and earned master's and doctoral degrees from the Courtauld Institute.
In addition to being a practicing painter, exhibiting widely, Golding penned a number of well-regarded essays for The New York Review of Books. (His pieces are available here.) In The Guardian, Michael McNay singled out Golding's almost 11,000-word essay "The Triumph of Picasso," published in 1988 in The NYRB, as "one of the finest accounts of Picasso's achievements." Added Mr. McNay:
In person he looked a little like Picasso, but his voice was soft and his delivery almost contemplative, as though he was thinking his way forward, trying his ideas out on his audience as he formulated them, even on subjects he knew well.
His partner of four decades was historian James Coll, who died in 1994.


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Pastorboy aka (He who shall not be named) confirms Outlaw Preachers are having "church"! Yes, the beloved ODMafia discernmentalist graduate Pastorboy stated on his Twitter account this:
Now, the bible is clear that woman are to keep quiet in church and not teach, preach, or speak until they get home, take off their shoes, fix their husbands a meal, and then (and ONLY then) can ask questions about the preaching they did not understand. We know woman are truly dullards only good for cooking in the kitchen and sexing in the bedroom so it is easy to understand why a woman would get confused about a sermon. Now, what Pastorboy confirmed was that the Outlaw Preachers were having… church and not a conference! We know of not one example of a woman doing anything good in the bible as far as teaching and the denomination Pastorboy is in would never ordain a woman let alone let her be an evangelist or influence the Christian Missionary Alliance in ANY way!
Now, the only issue is that if the Outlaw Preachers are having church, it is possible that Pastorboy may also be committing heresy by stating that the Outlaw Preachers may be brothers and sisters in Christ.


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With his current musical project, iconic musician, composer and artist David Cain honors the past and welcomes the future in collaboration with seven-time Grammy-winner Paul Wertico and multi-instrumentalist, Larry Gray. Improvised melodic expanses, brewing grooves, telepathic group interaction, kaleidoscopic textures, soulful words…
Sound Portraits by Wertico Cain & Gray. "Awesome! Amazing! Total trip! Great performances!" ~ Frank Alkyer, Publisher, Downbeat Magazine) "Musicians of peerless talent Paul Wertico, David Cain, and Larry Gray take musical artistry to unchartered waters with explosive, creative improvising that is truly on the cutting edge … and beyond. A passionate, trailblazing, mind- blowing performance, setting a new direction in music!" The DVD and Instant Video are available at Amazon.
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My goal is to create and share reality as a constantly changing flow of inspiration, creation, improvisation, orchestration, collaboration, interaction… Hence the new name, The Art of Changes. Change is the rhythm of living. Living is the art of changes. Our senses inform our perceptual reality. Time changes that. My wish now is to expand the possibilities of art and life through an expanded continuum of perceptual reality, media and art forms…
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Jdbc4Olap overview
Jdbc4Olap is a JDBC Type 4 driver for OLAP datasource, which implements partially JDBC 3.0 specification. It can communicate directly with most of OLAP databases using the XMLA protocol : SAP® BW, Microsoft Analysis Services®, Mondrian...
Furthermore, in order to be widely used, Jdbc4Olap include a SQL-MDX converter and virtual relational map of OLAP databases.
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Jdbc4Olap driver is available under LGPL v2 license. That means you can use it in your own work, distribute it, modify it freely. Read the license for more informations.Download it !
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JDBC API is the industry standard for database access. Jdbc4Olap is an open source java driver for OLAP databases having XMLA connector. You can use MDX or SQL to query directly into multi-dimensional cube thanks to its SQL-MDX converter.
MDX, created by Microsoft, is the most widely supported language for querying multidimensional databases. Unfortunatly, very few BI reporting solution can use MDX. That's the reason why a SQL-MDX converter is included within jdbc4olap.
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This community is centralized in the North Central/Town Center area of Virginia Beach. They meet throughout the month for family gatherings at someone's home, have gender-specific Life Groups that meet for discipleship and accountability, and engage in activities in and around their region. For more information about the community and when and where they gather, please contact Nathan Kassebaum.
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Suspects allegedly beat woman, threaten medics, cause standoff
Victim not cooperating with police
Police arrested two men after they threatened two paramedics and had a standoff with officers.
Elmwood Place officers said the medics saw a man dragging a woman and hitting her head against a wall. When the medics tried to help the woman, the suspects threatened to shoot them in the head.
An Elmwood Place officer responded to the scene and when he attempted to take the suspects into custody, he was assaulted.
The 16- and 19-year-old suspects then fled the scene and hid in an apartment on Township Road, police said.
They called in extra units and blocked the street just before 2 p.m. Sunday.
After about an hour, the standoff ended with the suspects being taken into custody.
Police identified one of the suspects as James Robinson. The other suspect was only identified as Robinson's brother because he is a minor.
Robinson spoke exclusively with WLWT News 5 Sunday night.
"No, I wasn't beating up on a 16-year-old girl. They was just having an altercations with my brother and his friends who was running around here. They was having little altercations or whatever, you know. Girlfriends and boyfriends and situations and stuff like that," Robinson said.
Robinson said he regretted the situation.
"I got sons. I go to school. I go to work and I got jobs. I'm a good citizen and a good person. I just messed up. I wasn't thinking," Robinson said.
But he did not apologize for threatening the medics.
"I would apologize, but why would I apologize for something I didn't do? All I did was run from the cops," Robinson said.
Neighbors said they were worried about the other kids on the street during the tense situation.
"I seen about 26 police cruisers pulling up and I seen them take out one black male," neighbor Willian Bauman said. "I'm scared. I'm sitting there and I seen them coming out with assault weapons. I thought I might get shot through my wall or something."
Bauman said lots of children live near where the suspects had a standoff with police.
Police said the woman who was assaulted did not want to go to the hospital for treatment or help police with the case against the suspects.
Robinson said he wasn't worried about the charges because he would get the charges against him, "dropped to disorderly conduct."
Robinson and his brother both face five charges including aggravated menacing and assault. Robinson was in the Hamilton County Jail Sunday night and will appear before a judge Monday morning.


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Walter Mignolo
William Hane Wannamaker Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies
Mignolo's research and teaching have been devoted, in the past 30 years, to understanding and unraveling the historical foundation of the modern/colonial world system and imaginary since 1500. In his research, modern/colonial world system and imaginary is tantamount with the historical foundation of Western Civilization and its expansion around the globe. His research stands on four basic premises: a) the there is no world-system before 1500 and the integration of America in the Western Christian (European) imaginary; b) that the world-system generated the idea of "newness" (the New World) and of modernity and c) that there is no modernity without coloniality—coloniality is constitutive no derivative of modernity; d) the modern/colonial imaginary was mounted and maintained on the invention of the Human and Humanity that provided the point of reference for the invention of racism and sexism together with the invention of nature.
Briefly stated, Mignolo's research has been and continues to be devoted to exposing modernity/coloniality as a machine that generates and maintains un-justices and to exploring decolonial ways of delinking from the modernity/coloniality. Because the political dimension of his work, in the past fifteenth years Mignolo's energy has been increasingly devoted to the public sphere working with artists, curators, and with journalists, writing op-eds and giving frequent interviews in English and Spanish, co-organizing and co-teaching Summer Schools in Middelburg, Bremen, and at UNC-Duke. He is also frequently delivering workshops for faculty and graduate students in South and Central America, Asia, and Europe.
Mignolo was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovaks prize (MLA) for The darker side of the renaissance: literacy, territoriality and colonization (1996) and the Frantz Fanon Prize by the Caribbean Philosophical Association for The Idea of Latin America (2006). His work has been translated into German, Italian, French, Swedish, Rumanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, and Korean. He is an Honorary Research Associate for CISA (Center for Indian Studies in South Africa), Wits University at Johannesburg. Recently, he has joined the Dialogue of Civilizations (DOC) Program Council as a senior adviser and was distinguished with an Honoris Causa degree in the Humanities (Filosofia y Letras) by the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Ph.D., Ecole Des Hautes Etudes (France) 1974
Mignolo, W. "Splendors and Miseries of "Science": Coloniality, Geopolitics of Knowledge, and Epistemic Pluri-versality." Prudent Knowledge for a Decent Life, Forthcoming, edited by B. D. S. Santos, University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
Mignolo, W. 3) 'Un paradigma otro': Colonialidad global, pensamiento fronterizo y cosmopolitanismo crítico. Edited by G. Verdesio, The University of Michigan (Department of Romance Studies), 2005, pp. 127–47.
Mignolo, W. 7) Prophets Facing Sidewise: The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference. Edited by J. Maffie, Routledge, 2005, pp. 111–28.
Mignolo, W. D. "Philosophy and the colonial difference." Latin American Philosophy: Currents, Issues, Debates, 2003, pp. 80–86.
Mignolo, W. "Capitalism and Geopolitics of Knowledge: Latin American Social Thought and Latino/American Studies." Critical Latin American and Latino Studies, edited by Juan Poblete, University of Minnesota Press, 2003, pp. 32–75.
Mignolo, W., and Freya Schiwy. "Double Translation: Transculturation and the Colonial Difference." Translation and Ethnography: The Anthropological Challenge of Intercultural Understanding, edited by Tullio Maranhao and Bernhard Streck, University of Arizona Press, 2003, pp. 3–30.
Mignolo, W. "Globalization and the Borders of Latinity." The Latin American Perspectives on Globalization. Ethics, Politics and Alternative Visions, edited by Mario Saenz, New York: Bowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 77–101.
Mignolo, W. "Rethinking the Colonial Model." Rethinking Literary History, edited by Linda Hutcheon and Mario Valdez, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 153–93.
Mignolo, W. "Colonialidad global, capitalismo y hegemonía epistémica." Indisciplinar Las Ciencias Sociales, Geopolíticas Del Conocimiento y Colonialidad Del Poder, Quito: Universidad Andina/Abya Yala, 2002, pp. 215–44.
Mignolo, W., and Freya Schiwy. "Beyond Dichotomies: Translation/transculturation and the Colonial Difference." Beond Dichotomies, edited by Elizabeth Mudimbe, Syracuse University Press, 2002, pp. 251–86.
Mignolo, W. "Posoccidentalismo: las epistemologías fronterizas y el dilema de los estudios (Latinamericanos) de área." Revista Iberoamericana, 1996, pp. 176–77.
Mignolo, W. "Occidentalizacion, imperialismo, globalización: herencias coloniales y teorías postcoloniales." Revista Iberoamericana, vol. 179071, 1995, pp. 27–40.
Mignolo, Walter D. "Loci of enunciation and imaginary constructions: The Case of (Latin) America." Special Issue of Poetics Today, edited by Walter D. Mignolo, vol. I and II, 1995.
Mignolo, W. "Decires fuera de lugar: sujetos dicentes, roles sociales y formas de inscripción." Revista De Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, vol. 41, 1995, pp. 9–32.
Mignolo, W. "Human Understanding and (Latin) American interests." Poetics Today, vol. 16, 1995, pp. 171–214.
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In Conversation with Walter Mignolo: The Failure of Neoliberalism and the Roads to the Future. January 12, 2012
Los futuros en marcha y los tres pilares de la memoria americana: Abya Yala, Europa y Africa. January 5, 2012
Humanitas Anthropos and Rights: Second thoughts on Who speak for the "human" in Human Rights?. November 19, 2011


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Bicycle May Speed Up Parkinson's Diagnosis
Ability to ride a bike may help doctors distinguish between motor disorders, study says
FRIDAY, Oct. 7, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- A patient's ability to ride a bicycle can help doctors determine whether the patient has Parkinson's disease or atypical parkinsonism, regardless of the terrain or riding situation, a new study indicates.
Atypical parkinsonism includes disorders that appear similar to Parkinson's disease but respond differently to treatment. It was already known that patients with atypical parkinsonism lose the ability to cycle early in their illness, while Parkinson's patients can still ride well.
But it wasn't known if this "bicycle sign" was universally applicable across the varieties of riding environments or situations in different countries.
In this study, Japanese researchers assessed the reliability of the "bicycle sign" in their country, which has hilly, narrow roads crowded with cars. They found that 88.9 percent of Japanese patients with atypical parkinsonism stopped cycling during the first few years of their illness, compared with 9.8 percent of Parkinson's patients.
They compared this to the bicycle-friendly Netherlands, where 51.5 percent of patients with atypical parkinsonism stopped cycling early in their illness. The difference may be due to the fact that cycling is much more difficult in Japan.
The study was published Oct. 6 in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease.
"Although bicycling cultures may differ between countries, it is possible that the 'bicycle sign' could contribute to earlier and better differential diagnosis of parkinsonism during the diagnostic interview. When we see patients with parkinsonism without a definitive diagnosis, it is a simple thing to ask the question, 'Can you still ride a bicycle?'" Hideto Miwa, of the neurology department at Wakayama Medical University, said in a journal news release.
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The U.S.-based National Parkinson Foundation outlines the different types of atypical parkinsonism.


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Microsoft Outlook pulls in Facebook status updates
- 14 July, 2010 02:46
You can now check your Facebook status updates and add friends within Microsoft Outlook, thanks to an update to the Outlook Social Connector plugin.
The plugin, Microsoft's attempt to create a Facebook-like inbox within Outlook, was announced last November but did not yet support Facebook.
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With updates to the plugin just unveiled, the tool now supports Facebook and Windows Live Messenger, in addition to the previously supported LinkedIn and MySpace.
Twitter is still not among the list of supported social networks.
The Outlook Facebook plugin is a download that ranges between 9.7MB and 21.7MB, and works with Outlook 2010, 2007 and 2003.
"The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook allows you to connect your Facebook account to the Outlook Social Connector and obtain information about your friends and colleagues," Microsoft says. "You can see status updates and recently posted items from your Facebook contacts
"You can also use Outlook Social Connector to display a quick view of related Outlook content when you click on an e-mail from a contact, such as recent e-mail conversations, meetings, and shared attachments to help you easily track your communications."
No word yet on when the Outlook Social Connector will officially support Twitter, but some third-party developers have built integrations to connect the two programs.
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