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With a tough final stretch of the season for the Carbon High softball team, the road won't be getting any easier with state tournament play set to begin this weekend.
After dropping five of their final six games to finish the season, the Lady Dinos (9-13 overall and 4-8 in Region 12 play) will head into the 3A Tournament in what could be one of the toughest pods of the bracket.
Carbon, the fourth seed from Region 12, will travel to Cedar City to take on Region 9 one seed Cedar High on Saturday, May 10 at 10 a.m.
The winner of that game would play the winner of Juan Diego/Stansbury on Thursday, May 15 at the Spanish Fork Softball Complex.
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Power-packed Storm Expected to Miss Kitsap County
A storm forming over the Pacific Ocean likely will veer south and spare the Puget Sound region on New Year's Day, but if it bucks the odds and tracks north, Katy bar the door.
Damaging winds of 40 mph with gusts of 60 or higher could knock out power around the region, Ted Buehner of the Northwest Weather Service in Seattle said during a conference call Wednesday morning.
"But the odds of that occurring aren't very great," he said.
Although there is "a lot of uncertainty" about the intentions of a storm still forming 1,000 miles out at sea, most indicators show it making shore in southwest Washington. The weather service's Portland office is predicting that it will arrive just north of Astoria, bringing gusts to 85 mph to the coast late Thursday and Thursday night. Breezes would only be 25 to 35 mph here.
If the storm instead streams in over the Strait of Juan de Fuca and southern Vancouver Island, the Puget Sound area would become ground zero, Buehner said.
Predicting the rainfall is much less iffy than the wind. An inch or more will fall here late Thursday morning through Friday morning, and could cause rivers, particularly the Skokomish and Chehalis, to flood.
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There were five of us. Our guide, Thuan, is a Viet-Kieu, or a returned Vietnamese exile. His family left what was South Vietnam in 1975 and emigrated to France via the U.S. He returned in 1994 and has been living here in Hanoi with his English wife and two small boys ever since. Aside from knowing the countryside well, he's a great rider/mechanic/drinker/person, and we got along like old friends right from the start.
Mathias and Chantal are a 30-something couple from Switzerland. Mathias is something of a Swiss Bubba, a big, likable oaf. Chantal is a travel agent and has a travel agent's no-nonsense approach to getting ducks lined up. But she was pleasant enough to be around. And fearing she wasn't up to the chaos on the roads here, she rode on the back of Mathias's bike.
Then there was Juergen, a forty year-old heavy equipment mechanic from Germany. I had high hopes that since our group was so small, we might escape the every-group-has-an-asshole rule. But from the first time I met Juergen in the Explore Indochina office the night before we set off, my asshole meter started twitching. And it turned out during the course of the tour that my initial readings weren't too far off the mark. Though perhaps humorless prig is the more accurate epithet.
At our first breakfast together before we had even mounted up, Chantal asked if she could smoke. Trying to be accommodating, and knowing that many Europeans haven't yet been able to make the connection between smoking and an early death, I said yeah, sure. Juergen however launched into the first of many niggling harangues. "Today" he announced, "iss a goot day to shtop shmoking." We would hear that and many similar proclamations whenever something seemed to irk Juergen. And the list of things that irked Juergen was a long one. Fortunately for us, however, he only seemed to be irked when he was awake.
Ah well, at least I was pretty sure that I wasn't going to end up being the asshole in this group.
The Motorcycle
Lordy, what a piece of crap is a Minsk. First, it has no acceleration. None. Any incline steeper and longer than your average driveway and you're shifting down into first and making the engine scream like a banshee. So you learn quickly that the idea of flooring it to get yourself out of trouble is hopeless. It has laughable compression, so rolling off the throttle doesn't slow you down one iota. The tiny piston leaks so much that when it backfires, and it backfires just about any time you decelerate, instead of a nice big pow or pop-pop, all you get is a miserable pfffft. It has no speedometer, odometer, or gas gauge. It's a two-stroke engine, so it burns oil and gas together, and thus it belches great clouds of blue smoke. To say that it's noisy is like saying that the ocean is damp. The brakes are decent, but the front shocks are so soft that any time you pull hard on the front brake you dive so low that you're practically catapulted over the handlebars. And the back brake locks up the rear wheel on any surface more slippery than sandpaper. It's coated with oil and dirt and soot, which for all I know are the structural components holding it all together. In short, it's a mechanical catastrophe.
But it's one hell of a lot of fun to ride. Go figure.
The Ride
First, I should say something about the traffic here in Vietnam:
No really, everything I had read and heard didn't prepare me in the least for the free-for-all chaos on the roads in this country. Explore Indochina provided me with a four-page description of the "rules of the road" (Hah!) and the best strategies for staying alive. I had committed them to memory and had read all the warnings in the Lonely Planet guidebook and on traveler's web sites. Their information was very complete and accurate, but the chasm between theory and practice is immense.
The only rule is that there are no rules. Well, that's not entirely accurate. There is one rule: size matters.
99 percent of the vehicles on the road here are motorcycles. And the government won't license anything with an engine size over 125cc, so they're all pretty much the same. There are a few cars and some trucks and buses. But it's pretty much all motorcycles all of the time. The trucks and buses, however, rule. Anywhere they want to go, they go. If that means moving into your lane and coming at you head on, then you are obliged (unless you're suicidal) to move onto the shoulder. If you come around a blind turn on a country road and have the temerity to be in the middle of "your" lane, you may soon be dead meat on a truck's bumper. So planting yourself waaay over to the right side of your lane is the strategy there. Of course, the right side of the road is where all the children and dogs and ducks and pigs and chickens and buffaloes and drying corn and rocks and bamboo poles and carts and market stalls, etc. are, so you're basically screwed no matter what you do.
Traffic out in the countryside is disorder, but Hanoi traffic is pandemonium. There is no discernible order. You launch yourself into it and your only chance of survival is to act like a red corpuscle in the bloodstream, tumbling along with all the other corpuscles. You try to avoid hitting anything or anyone, of course. And your head is on a constant swivel as you react to other vehicles coming at you from all directions. At intersections you slow a bit as you swerve to avoid cross traffic and head-on collisions. But if you stop, you're dead. Chaos then becomes mayhem. So you keep moving at all costs.
Your horn is used to notify those around you of your presence. You honk as you come up behind another vehicle. You honk to alert pedestrians ahead that you're about to take them out. You honk as you wedge yourself in between other motorcycles to let them know you're claiming those twelve inches. And you honk for the hell of it. It's just white noise after a day or two.
Strangely, traffic flows. Go figure.
Anyway, enough background. We met for a big breakfast in a modern high rise built adjacent to the old prison known as the Hanoi Hilton during the war years, when Senator McCain was one of the guests there. Afterwards we assembled in the back parking lot and got our first glimpse of our Minsks. I was too excited to be underwhelmed by my bike's unprepossessing appearance as I listened to Thuan's instructions on how to start it and what the drill was going to be once we got on the road.
It's been a while since I've used a kick starter, but with a little choke action and a few pumps I got the beast rattling to life. We took off into the sea of traffic, which Thuan assured us was unusually light because of Tet. Sure didn't seem light to me.
We made it out of Hanoi and onto the main highway heading west. Made it all of 8 km before our first breakdown.
Well, it wasn't really a breakdown. Mathias's Minsk suddenly lost power and he drifted off to the right. Juergen and I were behind him, so we pulled off as well, but Thuan didn't notice us and he disappeared into the distance.
We had been told that this might happen from time to time, and we were to just sit tight until he returned. In the mean time Juergen got to work diagnosing the problem, inspecting the spark plug, and checking the carburetor.
Thuan came back to rejoin us after a few minutes and took over the work. He got the bike up and running again, but since it was still underpowered, it was decided that Mathias and Chantal, being heavier, would switch bikes with Juergen. This did the trick, and the general consensus was that it was probably just a batch of bad gas.
Soon we turned southwest and rode past rice paddies and craggy limestone karsts, stopping for breaks every few hours at roadside cafes.
Our destination was Cuc Phuong, Vietnam's first national park. Ho Chi Minh himself dedicated the park in 1963, and we got to spend the night in some bungalows right in the center of the 222 sq. km park, surrounded by tropical rain forest and vociferous nocturnal wildlife.
I got to share my bungalow with Juergen, who of course groused about my snoring the next morning and lectured me on various natural cures.
We rose early the next day to find ourselves enveloped in a thick mist, and the 20 km ride back out of the park was eerily beautiful, in spite of the Minsk's shattering racket.
From the park entrance we swung northwest and into the mountains. Our destination was Mai Chau, a village inhabited by one of the many non-Vietnamese ethnic groups, in this case White Thai. The ride up was breathtakingly beautiful, with the flat paddies of the Red River delta region giving way to terraced rice fields being plowed by buffalo in preparation for planting.
That night we stayed in a traditional Thai stilt house, owned by a Mr. Duc, who along with his wife (a former sharp shooter in the "American War"), ran the place.
We slept on mats in the big room upstairs and ate our meals under the house, where the livestock used to live. The village is fairly touristy these days, so they even had a cold shower for us. And the livestock reside elsewhere. But just beyond the houses rural life goes on pretty much as it has for centuries.
At dinner we were introduced to the local rice liquor, a high-octane rocket fuel which looks and tastes pretty much like rubbing alcohol. Mr. Duc came down to wish us a happy new year with the traditional "Chuc Mung Nam Moi!" whereupon we knocked back slugs of the white lightning. Then his wife came and did the same, and various uncles, aunts, and cousins followed at decent intervals to toast us and wish us well. We were all pretty well blasted by the time we tumbled upstairs to sleep it off. But a good time was had by all.
The plan for the next day was fairly adventurous. After a little stretch on tarmac, we were going to veer off onto the "Old French Road," the only remaining part of the highway from Hanoi to Dien Bien Phu, where the colonial French army made its infamous last stand in 1954. When the Vietnamese built a major hydroelectric plant nearby, most of the road disappeared under a reservoir, and what's still above water hasn't been maintained for about 50 years. So it's pretty much a nasty dirt road.
It only got nastier when rain began to fall by mid-morning. Our thin street tires slid around on the mud like melting butter on a hot skillet, and we crept uphill at a snail's pace. At one point Juergen did a complete 180, his back tire swinging around until he was facing directly at me, and it took all of my skill to stop and remain upright.
Still, the rain was fairly light. So the mud never really got too thick and gooey, just a thin layer of mucous-like slime on top of hard clay. It was a hard, but fun ride.
The sun came back out just as we reached the summit and we stopped for a picnic lunch high above the terraced rice paddies below. Then we thrashed our way down on dry, bumpy dirt to rejoin the main highway and ride down to the reservoir, where a ferry took us across to the other side for the final sprint into Phu Tho, where we spent the night in a hotel.
Before dinner I sat out in the hotel's garden with my maps, plotting my route south to Ho Chi Minh City. Thuan joined me after a while, and over a few bottles of Tiger beer I showed him my planned itinerary.
He thought what I have in mind is doable, and he gave me a few pointers on where to stay and what roads to avoid. Primarily he advised me to stay off the main Highway 1, which follows the coast. This suits me just fine, as I really want to try to stay inland in the cooler highlands and avoid the heat and truck traffic as much as possible.
The next morning dawned clear, but the rain soon came back heavier than before. We stopped to grab some lunch and to dry off in the big provincial town of Yen Bai. The plan for the day was to leave the bikes in the nearby town of Yen Binh and take a boat out to the tiny Dao settlement of Da Dung to spend the night.
Thuan told us that the place was very primitive, with no modern facilities to speak of, and urged us to consider a Plan B, which would have us spending the night at a hotel in Yen Bai, and then ride back to Hanoi on the next, our last day. Then he left us alone for a few minutes so that we could discuss it.
I was pretty cold and wet by then, and the thought of a nice hot shower was tempting. But Chantal was eager to go to see the village, and Mathias and Juergen were non-committal, so I bowed to the inevitable and went along with Chantal.
I think Thuan was a little surprised, but didn't try to make us reconsider. So we rode out to the lake and changed into dry clothes before boarding a small motor launch for the two-hour ride up the lake.
Thuan wasn't kidding about the primitive part. The village has stilt houses like in Mai Chau. But here the livestock still live down below, and running water is part of a distant future. There's electricity, but little else in the way of modern conveniences. Not even a pit toilet. You just walk outside the house and let it fly like the animals.
Mr. Nang, the village chief greeted us at the shore and ushered us up into the house for some green tea served in filthy porcelain cups.
After a brief chat between Mr. Nang and Thuan we left the house and wandered up the hill a ways to view a small waterfall accompanied by all of the village's children.
We were certainly the main attraction that afternoon. They swarmed around us, clutching at our clothes and laughing and shouting. One little girl in a green dress "claimed" me, pushing away the other kids and pulling me around by the hand.
Eventually they led us back down to the village where we settled in for dinner. And drinks. The dinner was pretty nasty, pieces of chopped meat of various unknown origins, served on dirty plates with rice and cabbage in a soupy broth. My stomach had been acting up a little since the day before, and I wasn't eager to make things worse. So I mostly just picked at the offerings.
But then the rocket fuel came out. One toast after another followed. At first I cheated by just taking a sip instead of downing the whole shot each time the glasses were refilled. But after about 6 or 8 shots Mr. Nang got wise to me and made it clear that I wasn't following protocol. Thuan said it was OK for me to refuse, but Mr. Nang was having none of that. It seemed a point of honor to him, so I bowed to the inevitable for the second time that day and knocked back a slug. This seemed to mollify him greatly, as he clasped my head with both of his hands pulled our foreheads together.
The toasting continued for hours as each male family member came over to our group to toast us, and then the females, and then neighbors came over and kept the party going. I have no idea how many shots I downed that night, but I was pretty incoherent by about 9 o'clock.
So I just propped myself against one of the 36 thick mahogany pillars that held up the roof and tried the keep the room from swimming.
The kids had gathered around again after dinner and attempted to teach me their names and how to count to ten in Vietnamese. I was a very enthusiastic student, but I don't remember the lesson. Go figure.
Eventually the party died down and we collapsed on our thin mats to sleep it off. You might have thought that I'd be pretty anesthetized by the rice hooch, but that hard wooden floor kept me up most of the night.
We had to board the boat back to Yen Binh at first light. So we were up at six, gathering our things and staggering down to the boat. Mathias and Chantal slept all the way back while I sat at the bow letting the cold air clear my head. Considering how much poison we had downed, we didn't really suffer all that much.
Breakfast was waiting for us back in Yen Binh, and that helped. Getting back into our still wet clothes and setting off again into the light mist which had descended by then didn't.
But it didn't last long. By noon were within about 70 km of Hanoi, and by five o'clock we had survived the scrum of end-of-Tet traffic to make it back to Cuong's Motorcycle Adventures, where I'll be renting a bike for the trip south.
In spite of the weather and other, um, hazards, I had a blast. The scenery was stunning. The people we met everywhere couldn't possibly have been friendlier or happier to see us. The riding was great, and the Minsk was a revelation. Even Juergen's passive-aggressive kvetching couldn't spoil the fun. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
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On Tuesday, the third day of new peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli leaders, President Barack Obama had a phone chat (so retro!) with Palestinian Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in which he voiced his support for the two-state solution and urged both parties to refrain from stirring up discord as the delicate negotiations took place. —KA
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I'm looking to set up a VM with C: and D: drives to handle Task, Package and Deployment services for my Altiris 7.1 SP2 server. My NS will eventually be managing a little over 4000 clients where I have yet to come across minimum system requirements for how I should size the D: drive. Similar to my NS, figured only Windows 2008 R2 would be on C: and whatever Altiris services would be loaded on or use D: for storage.
I don't want to go overboard with configuring the capacity for the D: drive but at the same time don't want to make it too small. Any general guidelines on how big I should make my D: drive? 200 GB too small considering we may not delve too much into OS deployment? It's unfortunate that I can't run everything (well...SQL is off-box) from my 2 CPU (3.33 GHz, 6-core per proc) server with 24 GB RAM considering there's tons of free space on its D: drive.
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Ventura Unified School District officials are cautiously celebrating the apparent approval of a parcel tax measure.
Measure Q, a $59 parcel tax that will go toward sustaining academic and arts programs for the next four years, was approved by a thin margin.
"I am worried," said Superintendent Trudy Tuttle Arriaga. "The information we have right now is we are barely over the threshold. It would be heartbreaking if we went backward."
With all the precincts counted early today, Measure Q was approved by 177 votes. The tax measure needed 66.7 percent to pass and received 67.1 percent.
Ventura County elections officials were uncertain how many provisional and absentee ballots have yet to be counted. The county has until Dec. 4 to certify the results.
But the narrow victory was reason enough for educators and students to rejoice. Foothill Technology High School students today posted "Thank you, voter" notes on Measure Q signs in the community.
If the final vote count confirms the approval of Measure Q, $2.7 million would be generated annually for the next four years to keep class sizes at current levels and maintain science, math, reading, writing and arts programs. Even though Measure Q doesn't restore the $25 million in cuts dealt to the district in recent years, Arriaga was happy that preliminary results showed Ventura voters backed the measure.
"I was born and raised in Ventura, and I've never been prouder to be a Venturan," Arriaga said.
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So, you want to finally buy that Umbreon PokeDoll you've had your eye on for some time now. A quick eBay search, and...wow, these are pretty cheap! Of course they are, they're bootlegs.
Umbreon is one of the most popular and bootlegged Pokedolls because of the high price it often fetches among collectors.
First off, what is wrong with bootlegs? Why should I pay nearly $50 for a legitimate Pokedoll when I can grab this one for $5?
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- You might support illegal actions by purchasing from bootleg sellers
- While factory rejects are not stricly bootleg items, they often have errors and lack parts. Official items are quality and look better!
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This is what an official Umbreon PokeDoll, from the Pokemon Center in Japan looks like:
Original release, with red Pikachu tag.
Re-release, with Pokedoll tag that depicts a picture of the Pokemon.
And the American release from Nintendo World.
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1. Takara Tomy is not the manufacturer of PokeDolls. Takara Tomy DOES in fact make official Pokemon merchandise, but PokeDolls are exclusive to the Pokemon Centers in Japan. Bootleggers are getting craftier in putting brand names in descriptions to fool people.
2. The price. Sorry, but you're not going to get any legit PokeDolls for about $3, especially not an Umbreon one.
3. Shipping from China. This is personally the first thing I look at when looking at eBay auctions. 95% of the time, things that are shipped from China or Hong Kong are bootleg or factory rejects. Not EVERYTHING is, but if you are not 100% sure, it's better to be safe than sorry. The plush that are available in Japan are manufactured in China, and often times factory rejects are stolen from the factory and resold on eBay, passed off as legitimate plushes from the Center. This is what looks to be happening here.
4. The plush itself. First, there's only one image. This should ring a bell. Another thing is note is that often times bootleg sellers often use stock images of said item. Most legitimate sellers use actual photos of the item and will provide more upon request.
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Swords barely misses cut at USGA Girls Amateur
Newnan golfer Annie Swords was unable to hang around for match play at this year's USGA Girls Amateur.
While making her third trip in four years to the prestigious tournament, Swords missed the cut by just one shot following two rounds of stroke play.
She closed Tuesday at Forest Highlands Golf Club in Flagstaff Ariz. with an 8-over-155.
For a time, it appeared the Newnan standout was going to advance to match play while hovering on both sides of the cut line, which also concluded at 6-over. At one point late in Tuesday's second round, the line was moved to 8-over.
The top 64 golfers move on to match play.
Swords shot five-over par to begin play on Monday, but came back with a solid round of golf and was just three over par on Tuesday including birdies on holes four, five and seven to begin the front nine.
She also birdied the last two holes on the course after a double bogey on No. 16 turned into her worst hole of the day.
It was that double bogey that might have ended her chances to move on. She also had the first of her first of two double bogeys in stroke play on Monday with a six on the par-4 hole No. 13.
Swords struggled with her game at times both Monday and Tuesday with six bogies on Tuesday and four on Monday.
In Monday's opening round she also had just one birdie, carding a two on the par-3 second hole. She was one of 10 players who finished stroke play at 8-over par including fellow Georgian Sabrina Long from Alpharetta.
California resident Angel Yin ran away with stroke play, shooting a 13-under par to grab the No. 1 seed heading into the match play portion of the tournament.
Yin was six under on Monday and came back to shoot seven under par on Tuesday . She had 16 birdies over the two days of stroke play, including eight in each round.
She was five strokes better than Mexico's Marijosse Navarro who finished stroke play with a 70 on Monday and a 66 on Tuesday for second place.
Georgia will be well represented in match play with three girls from the state moving on in the tournament.
John's Creek's Janet Mao had the best score of the Georgia players, finishing tied for 19th at 1-over par. Norcross' Bailey Tardy was tied for 33rd after shooting 3 over and Atlanta's Amanda Doherty was tied for 48th after shooting five over.
Swords isn't done playing golf in the national spot light this summer.
The rising high school senior qualified for her first the U.S. Women's Amateur last week, clinching a spot in the event with a birdie on hole No. 18 during a qualifier at Bear Creek Country Club in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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MANCHESTER: He may not be The Boss, but The Kid lent his high-octane rock & roll late Monday to the final rally of Mitt Romney's 18-month campaign, on the eve of the US presidential election.
Kid Rock was the star attraction at an arena in New Hampshire, the state where the Republican nominee's presidential bid began 18 months ago, and several thousand supporters gave him and the Romneys a rousing welcome.
Romney and President Barack Obama are locked in a neck and neck election that will come down to a handful of swing states, and as the candidates brought their months of raucous campaign rallies to a conclusion, they roped in major musical acts to drive home their message.
For the president, it was legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen - nicknamed "The Boss" - and hip-hop king Jay-Z, who raised eyebrows by changing the lyrics of one of his songs to: "I got 99 problems but Mitt ain't one."
Springsteen offered some political nuggets on stage in Wisconsin and later in Ohio, including describing how he has been writing music for 30 years "about the distance between the American dream and American reality."
"Our vote tomorrow is the one undeniable way we get to determine the distance in that equation," said Springsteen, who played a short set in Madison, Wisconsin with songs like "No Surrender" and "Promised Land."
Unlike Springsteen, Grammy nominee Kid Rock opted not to "talk politics,"saying he preferred to "leave that to the professionals."
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France coach Philippe Saint-Andre has no doubt where one of Les Bleus' biggest battles will lie in this season's Six Nations Championship - showing consistency.
Saint-Andre's squad have been installed as Six Nations favourites by many pundits on the back of a 2012 campaign highlighted by a comprehensive victory over Australia in Paris.
But reproducing those type of performances on a regular basis has often eluded French teams down the years.
"We know the big problem of French rugby is to be consistent," Saint-Andre said at Wednesday's Six Nations media launch in London.
"We won four games consecutively in the autumn. This is quite a big event for French rugby, but we would like more and more of this.
"On our best day we can beat the best in the world - on our worst we can lose to anyone.
"It's a big step this Six Nations because we have three away games. We did well in the autumn, but we were at home.
"This year is big. We are trying to show how tough we can be mentally and physically away from home."
France will be led into the tournament by Stade Francais lock Pascal Pape, with Saint-Andre giving his 2011 World Cup captain Thierry Dusautoir time to concentrate on playing again following an injury.
And Saint-Andre believes Pape has done an outstanding job in the leadership role.
"I think with Pascal, what you see is what you get. He gelled very well with the young players, the young players respect him and I think he has a lot of charisma.
"If he asks them to work very hard on the pitch, the guys follow him and I think the spirit in the team is very important.
"Thierry was a fantastic captain also, but Pascal did well on the pitch and I think it was fair to carry on with him."
One of Saint-Andre's key selections will be at fly-half, where Toulon star Frederic Michalak is likely to win the vote despite playing much of his club rugby in the number nine shirt alongside half-back partner Jonny Wilkinson.


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Given that guarantees are a myth, solutions that ensure availability in case of server failures afford productivity, not to mention peace of mind. Just off the press on developers.sun.com is a technical article that describes such a solution:
Updated: Configuring Load Balancing for Sun Java System Access Manager 2005Q1
Originally published in March, the article walks you through the procedures for installation, configuration, and testing. Also included are troubleshooting tips and a suggestion to beef up the setup for high availability, scalability, and session failover.
In this new edition, Sun market development engineer Xinfeng Liu and I corrected a configuration step and added explanatory notes.
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Because of these sundry attitudes it is easy, perhaps too easy, to dislike the man, or at least his writings. Ultimately, Steiner's great strengths far outweigh whatever weaknesses he has. In an age of diminished expectations, he is spectacularly ambitious. Everything is always at stake in all of his writings, as though history and the future of mankind itself hang in the balance. And so what if that is not the case? You have only to read a few salvos of his prose to understand just how spare are the aspirations of most of his latter-day colleagues of the scribal class, just how little faith they have in the power of words to do anything more than meet a deadline.
Steiner's abiding reverence for words is apparent in every sentence he writes. Yes, he has his silly tics. For some reason he seems to feel that he is accomplishing something valuable by making a plural out of words conventionally used only in the singular: "The vanities of eloquence . . . the aggressive certitudes of the self-taught man . . . [Guy] Davenport's publications are in fact privacies"-and so on. Then there is such euphonious palaver as "Masters of clairvoyant sadness . . . the annals of insight . . . the anonymity of the proverbial." Most of all, Steiner seems rather to indulge in the mellifluous methodologies of the nonscientific-if I may be pardoned a Steinerism of my own-and thus, in energetically overrating Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Steiner announces that it is "formed of dualities, binary oppositions, presences, values, codes of utterance in conflict."
And yet, for all his linguistic oddities, he has a rare sense of style. Take this wonderful opening of an essay on the French Annales historian Philippe Ariès:
I do not know what goes on at the Institute of Applied Research for Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, outside Paris [where Ariès was director of information]. I prefer to imagine. There must be white-robed mandarins equipped with the panoply of competitive qualifications that in France are indispensable to every professional caste, from literati to chiropodists. . . . The seeds of a rare fly-eating plant, smuggled out of the New Guinea uplands, sprout in the window box. As the Institute is housed at Maisons-Laffitte, discreet libations are, from time to time, poured from the noble vintage of a kindred name.
From these few sentences it should be clear that few living writers can summon the syntactical powers of English as skillfully as George Steiner.
And just as Steiner does not write quite like anyone else, so he does not read like anyone else. At the risk of penning the sort of magniloquent generality that Steiner favors himself, a truly original reader is almost as rare a thing as a truly original writer. Most readers, even or especially professional readers-
What is so impressive about George Steiner the reader is not how much he has read, but how inspired he has been in selecting the authors who mean most to him. It is here that Steiner's reverence for the exile, the displaced person, the "dépaysé," reaches its fullest fruition. Most people who take letters seriously view their native literature with a parochial, even tribalistic sense of proprietorship, just as they regard foreign literature as-foreign. But both of these postures necessarily entail a falsification of literature. Because Steiner is, in a sense, nowhere a native, it follows that he is foreign to no culture, at least no European culture. And so he can and does view the scattered artifacts of world literature as inhabiting a kind of free-floating critical ether, as partaking of an essentially trans-
Certainly, like all powerful critics, he errs on occasion, as in his bizarre assertion that Racine is "the greatest of all French writers." But what is so impressive about his essay on the Romanian-born French philosopher Emil Cioran is how he begins it with a history of the epigram in France and Germany. Surely it is one thing to research a subject in preparation for having to write about it: Any cultured and intelligent writer can pull that off with reasonable success. But in Steiner's case you have the sense that his familiarity with authors such as Chamfort and Vauvenargues, with La Rochefoucauld, Lichtenberg, and Nietzsche is the residue of many years of deep and passionate acquaintance.


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Survivors include one son, Mark West of
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Mark Stewart, 60 of Borger died
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years ago and worked for the city of Borger in the parks and recreation. He loved to
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America's biggest carmaker, General Motors, yesterday declared itself bankrupt with debts of $172bn (£105bn) in a move paving the way for the Obama administration to take control of a 101-year-old stalwart of the US manufacturing industry.
[efoods]GM filed for chapter 11 protection from its creditors at a federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan at 8am local time, kicking off the largest industrial insolvency in US history.
The owner of brands such as Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and Vauxhall will continue manufacturing and selling cars, while a New York bankruptcy judge, Robert Gerber, scrutinises its future.
Under a rescue plan put forward by the White House, the US and Canadian governments will pump $30bn of taxpayers' money into GM in return for a 70% equity stake – a move Republicans angrily criticised as a political power grab of a vast industrial company.
In a televised address, Barack Obama warned there will need to be deep sacrifices to keep GM afloat. As he spoke, GM, which employs 235,000 people globally, announced 14 of its 47 car factories in the US will shut by the end of 2011.
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A top government official in the troubled Kandhamal district of India's eastern Orissa state has assured Christians that orders to demolish churches, or to stop reconstruction of damaged church buildings, will not be enforced.
Rajesh Prabhakar Patil, the District Collector of Kandhamal, told a delegation of Christian leaders that the order to prevent church construction had been issued by junior officials, and he would overrule them. Five churches in Kandhamal had been covered by the orders for either demolition or a halt to reconstruction. The orders were issued in August, on the 3rd anniversary of a burst of mob violence against Christian in Orissa, which had resulted in damage to many churches.
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juice of 1 Lemon
1 small Onion
1 clove Garlic
1 slice Bread
handful of Fresh Parsley
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Pre-heat the grill to a moderate heat. Place the open mussels on a baking tray and squeeze the lemon juice over them.
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Can my child bring his or her favorite toy to the hospital?
Children may bring their favorite toys to the hospital. The hospital staff will work with you to help reduce the risk of infection. The toys will be kept in a closed storage container while not being used. Also, all toys must be wiped with antibacterial cloths before being taken into the child's room. Stuffed animals are usually not permitted; however, we recognize that children sometimes have a strong attachment to a particular stuffed animal or blanket. Exceptions will be made for such security objects as long as they are washed at least every other day.
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- Normal visiting hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., daily. Parents are encouraged to visit at any time.
- Visitors should be limited to immediate family and selected close friends.
- There should be no more than three visitors in the patient's room at a time, including parents.
- Infants under the age of six months should not enter the patient's room. Infants older than six months may visit as long as they are immunized and in good health. Other siblings under the age of 17 will be permitted to visit as long as they are not sick.
- Anyone who has received live virus vaccines, such as oral polio, is not permitted to visit within 30 days of receiving the vaccine. If someone has recently been immunized, please ask the hospital staff if he/she can visit your child.
- No visitors with fever, upper respiratory infection, rash or other symptoms of contagious disease are permitted in your child's room.
- Everyone MUST wash their hands thoroughly before entering the room.
- Visitors wearing wool clothing must wear a gown.
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- If there is any question as to the health of a visitor, it is best that he or she does not visit until symptoms have improved.
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Your child may not feel like eating for awhile after the conditioning therapy and stem cell infusion. In order to maintain his/her weight, nutrition may be given into the vein through your child's central venous catheter. This source of nutrition is called Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN).
To reduce the risk of infection, certain food restrictions apply while your child's immune system is suppressed.
- While hospitalized for transplant, patients are to use sterile ice and sterile or bottled water until the ANC is greater than 1000. The sterile ice is kept in the pantry room on the patient floor. Sterile water is available from the hospital.
- Packages of dried foods (crackers, cookies, etc.) are permissible and can be used multiple times once opened.
- Moist or wet foods can only be used once. Food and drink (including the sterile water) may not sit in the room and must be thrown away after being open for two hours.
- Fast food is also not allowed until the ANC>1000.
- Cooked food from home is allowed. There is a microwave oven available on the patient floor and a refrigerator for short-term storage of food.
- All cooked or canned fruit and vegetables are permitted. Only fresh fruit or vegetables that can be easily peeled or washed are permitted. For example: NO lettuce or berries until the ANC>1000 and until mouth sores have healed. Bananas, peeled apples and peeled cucumbers are okay.
- Parents and other visitors are not permitted to eat or drink in the room at any time during hospitalization for the transplant.
These restrictions are typically in place for a minimum of 100 days after the transplant.
Maintaining a safe environment
Your child's room must be kept as clean as possible to reduce the possibility of infection. Here are some important rules to follow to maintain a safe environment:
- All objects from outside the room must be wiped with antibacterial cloths.
- Frequent handwashing is essential to prevent the spread of infection. All visitors, including parents, should wash their hands each time prior to entering the room. Hands should be washed in the anteroom with the provided antibacterial soap and warm water.
- Fresh flowers or arrangements are not permitted in the room. Dried flowers and potpourri are not permitted.
- Balloons are not permitted in the room.
- Pets, although an important part of the family, are not permitted in the room. If possible, you could give your child videotapes of your beloved pets to help them to deal with the separation.
- Parents and other visitors are not permitted to use the toilet or shower in the patient's room. Other facilities are available.
- Your child should avoid crowds (busy malls, indoor museums) and people with suspected infection. Think of a crowd as more than eight people in an average-size room.
- Your child should wear a face mask when in crowds.
- Your child should avoid people recently vaccinated with live viruses, such as chicken pox or oral polio. Discuss with your child's transplant physician if another family member requires immunizations during this period.
- Your family should wash hands frequently, especially before handling food.
- Your child should not swim in public pools or lakes for at least a year after transplant.
- Your child should minimize exposure to animals, especially barnyard animals. Patients should not handle animal feces.
- Your child should avoid construction sites and home remodeling.
- At the start of fever or other signs of infection, promptly call your child's transplant service. Infections are most easily treated when caught early.
- Your child should avoid using well water. If you have any questions, please discuss the situation with the transplant physician.
These restrictions are typically in place for a minimum of 100 days after the transplant. However, you should verify with the transplant physician before discontinuing these and other precautions.
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- Shampoo carpets and wash floors.
- Clean drapes, blinds and upholstered furniture.
- Change air-conditioning and furnace filters and then run them for several cycles to clear them of bacteria, fungi and viruses.
- Keep windows and doors closed.
- Turn off humidifiers.
Last Update
October 21, 2014
October 21, 2014