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LOVELYwhat an amazing product it glides on so easily and evenly highly pigmented. they also have a wide range of different colors so you can either go nude or bright lipped. love this! have too many too count and i highly recommend the whole collection! — 4 years, 8 months agorayshaviolet | 245 reviews
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A Bit Overpriced for the PerformanceI picked this up for about $7.99 on a whim because the clear packaging with the gold cap and writing on it looked so tempting, and the colors were gorgeous from what I could see. And after trying it, I'm not disappointed, but I do think that this is a bit overpriced for the performance. If I were to price it performance-wise, I'd give it a $6.99 price tag. I really like the color selection, and th...read moree packaging. The packaging is some of the prettiest and most chic I've seen for lip gloss in a long time, and the color selection has everything from clear gloss to fun glosses to work or school appropriate shades. After opening the tube, I got a whiff of the scent, which smelled like caramels. Not a bad thing unless you don't like that scent. The gloss itself is very nice. It's very moisturizing, shiny, creamy, and smooth. The colors don't look like what they did in the tube, however. They are incredibly sheer, like red and pink will only have a slight difference in tint. I have the very purple-looking plum color, but when I put it on, it looks more like a very slight pinkish lilac than a deep plum. So if you were looking for more pigmentation, this gloss will not fit the bill. But for barely noticeable, sheer color, this gloss is perfect. The formula is a bit sticky, so I have to be careful with it when my hair's down, but no complaints other than that. The application is average, it's just like any other squeeze-tube applicator: smooth, with a hole in the middle. However L'Oreal's seems to be smaller than others. This is good for precision, but for me, it made it hard to put on without a mirror. The lasting power of this gloss is okay, but it's not exceptional. It's gone as soon as you eat or sip water a few times, and without touching it, it "disappears" in about an hour. Overall, I like this gloss and I can see myself buying it again on sale for when I want barely-there color with tons of moisture, but for color, I'll look for something else. — 3 years, 9 months agooceanbubbles | 112 reviews
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Luscious!Oh-so-pretty, grown-up colors that are truly sophisticated, not sophomoric. Smooth, lightly creamy texture, glided on easily, soft yet pigmented color. The formula tastes and smells very much like vanilla cake batter to me ~ not unpleasant but somewhat strong so beware if you're sensitive. It's comfortably moisturizing for my dry lips, not sticky. I bought a gorgeous shade called Saucy Mauve - a d...read moreeep peachy coral color that does have sparkles, but they're very subtle on application, not loud or ridiculous. I'm really just loving this gloss....UPDATE: Just went and bought another tube in the shade Nude Illusion - a super-pretty nude with the softest golden glimmer. I probably will be going back and buying more shades - the colors are so gorgeous. These do not stay on very long, but the tube is so easy to use and carry with you that touch-ups are quick and painless. Yup, I LOVE this gloss! — 5 years, 1 month agonycmuse | 136 reviews
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Through the Grapevine: Ruth's Chris downtown is in its prime
Published 12:00 am, Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Ruth's Chris at Sunset Station will celebrate its 10th anniversary in June, and owner Lana Duke is ready to show off recent renovations to the restaurant and Prime Bar.
"We've got a special Prime Bar menu, so you don't have to come to Ruth's Chris just to have a big meal. You can have a couple of good beers, a couple of cocktails at a reasonable price and some nice hors d'oeuvres, and off you go," says Duke, who was recently in town to be presented with the Roy Maas' Youth Alternatives' Humanitarian award. A foster child herself, Duke supports children by sharing her story, helping build self-esteem and hosting an annual Ruth's Chris Thanksgiving Feast.
Renovations include new carpet throughout the restaurant, new high-top tables in Prime Bar and awnings outside on the patio, which is being landscaped and already has tiny lights in the trees. Inside, the bar has hardwood floors and high ceilings that carry great acoustics for entertainment on the weekends — live jazz on Saturdays starts this week. Prime Bar can accommodate about 30 people inside, and the patio has the same capacity. Its daily happy hour from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. includes a $6 Prime Bites menu with items such as Prime Sliders, Calamari and Crab Stuffed Jalapeños, and well drinks for $3. There's also a specialty martini menu with all cocktails priced at $12. The bar is open 4:30-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 4:30-11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
"Those are the firm rules, but we definitely are flexible with that," says Steve Clemens, district general manager.
Renovations were also completed in the wine cellar, include tiling the 5,000-square-foot downstairs area that seats up to 120. Rooms at either end of the cellar (Napa 1 and Napa 2) have pocket doors that can be closed to accommodate private parties of up to 25 in each room. Candles flicker on the steps leading to the wine room, and more candles and indirect lighting illuminate the cellar dining area, creating an intimate setting. Two other private dining areas — Bordeaux and Burgundy, which accommodate 40 and 12, respectively — also can be reserved.
The extensive wine list features mostly reds, but there are plenty of whites. By-the-glass options range from $10 to $20. The wine list is updated frequently to add new award-winning wines, and also to expand customers' palates.
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"We're trying to find exciting things that people may not have been familiar with that they can find at a price point that's much more accessible to them," Clemens says.
Ruth's Chris also hosts monthly wine dinners at either the downtown location at Sunset Station, 1170 E. Commerce St. or the Concord Plaza location, 7720 Jones Maltsberger. Clemens says they plan to start hosting monthly dinners at both locations.
The next dinner scheduled at the downtown location is a June 17 five-course pairing with Daniel de Polo, president of Darioush winery.
Reservations can be made by calling (210) 227-8847.
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Cold knife cone biopsy
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A cold knife cone biopsy (conization) is surgery to remove a sample of abnormal tissue from the cervix. The cervix is the lower part of the uterus (womb) that opens at the top of the vagina. Abnormal changes in the cells on the surface of the cervix is called cervical dysplasia.
Alternative Names
Cone biopsy; Biopsy - cone; Cervical conization; CKC
How the Test is Performed
This procedure is done in the hospital. You will be placed under general anesthesia (asleep and pain-free), or you will be given medicines to help you relax and feel sleepy.
You will lie on a table and place your feet in stirrups to position your pelvis for exam. The doctor will place an instrument (speculum) into your vagina to better see the cervix.
A small cone-shaped sample of tissue is removed from the cervix. It is examined under a microscope for signs of cancer. This biopsy may also be a treatment if the doctor removes all of the diseased tissue.
Most of the time, you will be able to go home from the hospital the same day as the procedure.
How to Prepare for the Test
You may be asked to not eat or drink for 6 - 8 hours before the test.
How the Test will Feel
After the procedure, you may have some cramping or discomfort for about a week. For about 4 - 6 weeks avoid:
- Douching (douching should never be done)
- Sexual intercourse
- Using tampons
For 2 - 3 weeks after the procedure, you may have discharge that is:
- Bloody
- Heavy
- Yellow-colored
Why the Test is Performed
Cold knife cone biopsy is done to detect cervical cancer or early changes that lead to cancer. A cold knife biopsy is done if a test called colposcopy cannot find the cause of an abnormal Pap smear.
Cold knife cone biopsy may also be used to treat:
- Moderate to severe types of abnormal cell changes (called CIN II or CIN III)
- Very early stage cervical cancer (stage 0 or IA1)
Normal Results
A normal result means there are no precancerous or cancerous cells in the cervix.
What Abnormal Results Mean
Most often, abnormal results mean that there are precancerous or cancerous cells in the cervix. These changes are called cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). The changes are divided into three groups:
- CIN I -- mild dysplasia
- CIN II -- moderate to marked dysplasia
- CIN III -- severe dysplasia to carcinoma in situ
Abnormal results may also be due to cervical cancer.
Risks of cold knife cone biopsy include:
- Bleeding
- Incompetent cervix (which may lead to premature delivery)
- Infection
- Scarring of the cervix (which may cause painful periods, premature delivery, and difficulty getting pregnant)
- Damage to the bladder or rectum
Cold knife cone biopsy may also make it hard for your health care provider to interpret abnormal Pap smear results in the future.
Noller KL. Intraepithelial neoplasia of the lower genital tract (cervix, vulva): etiology, screening, diagnostic techniques, management. In: Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, Katz VL, eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2012:chap 28.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Practice Bulletin No. 131: Screening for cervical cancer. Obstet Gynecol. 2012;120:1222-1238.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 99: Management of abnormal cervical cytology and histology. Obstet Gynecol. 2008;112:1419-1444.
Martin-Hirsch PPL, Paraskevaidis E, Bryant A, Dickinson HO, Keep SL. Surgery for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 6. Art. No.: CD001318.


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Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz - The Real Slim Shadyby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/23/2003 11:23 PM EST
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Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - linkAtari 2600 Rules! Reply
Anonymous User - Sunday, September 07, 2003 - linki love how you see amd chips compared directly to intel ones which cost 8 times as much - and then they say that the intel 'kicked arse' - also optimised code compared to unoptimised (ala sandra)
i think ill write a review 'dual AMD 3200+ = intel killer - kicks the p3-1000 arse' just wait till you see how extended 3dnow+ is going whomp intels mmx1 hehehe Reply
Jeff7181 - Saturday, August 30, 2003 - link#11... the review on the 3.0C used PC800 RDRAM's and this one uses DDR400. That's one difference... they may have also used slightly different options for testing since they seem to customize the benchmark. Reply
Anonymous User - Saturday, August 23, 2003 - linkRead Tomsharware review and xbitlabs and youll see how the p4 flies above those athlons Reply
Anonymous User - Saturday, August 23, 2003 - linkI think INTEL and their last line of Pentium 4 really kick AMD athlon ass ... and very hard ... Reply
Anonymous User - Friday, August 08, 2003 - linkHello,
I was wondering if any of you guys knows how to overclock the P4 2.8GHz on a I875PBZ MOBO
Why the bios under the same board are so limited?
Can the Intel MOBO 875PBZ upgrade my CPU? Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - linkWhy is there such a large difference in the UT2003 benchmark results between this review and that of the P4 3.0C? Hmm... Reply
Anonymous User - Saturday, August 02, 2003 - linkPictures does not work on XP using IE either. Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - linkAnother web site did testing on the same two chips and the p4 came out on top.If you want to see it go to tomshardware and read for yourselves. Reply
Anonymous User - Sunday, July 20, 2003 - linkWhat really buggers me off is that I can't see any of the attached images in this article as I am using Opera 7.11 on a linux box. Please make your site all OS- and browser-compatible. (At least to some extent anyway). Not everyone uses IE and Windows. Reply
Anonymous User - Sunday, July 20, 2003 - linkThere looks to be something fishy about this review anyway. The P4 1.6A is probably ahead of the 1600+ in most benchmarks. When those chips were new, the 1600+ looked very clearly faster. I'm not sure whether SSE2 has really made all that difference - the relative performances must have changed by about 10-20%. Reply
Anonymous User - Friday, July 18, 2003 - linkSo P4 for multimedia and Athlon XP for general office, right? Since 95% of the systems I recommend or build rarely see streaming video or 3D, then AMD is the better value for me. I think Anand is undervaluing the Business Winstone 2002 results in the overall conclusion. Reply
Anonymous User - Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - linkI agree with #4. When it comes down to price VS performance AMD stomps on Pentium. Reply
Anonymous User - Monday, July 14, 2003 - linkThis is the typical review that one might see from the Wall Street based analysts that know virtually nothing about Processor technology, and prefer to keep their heads stuck in the sand. The XP3200 was extremely competitive with the original (read NOT 800 FSB) Pentiums, which is all that AMD had to compare it with at the time of intro.
It is interesting that Intel always seems to have the newest design "waiting in reserve" for when AMD presents its newest design. What would happen if AMD never introduced another new processor? Would that mean that the newest offering from Intel would never arrive on the marketplace? You can bet on it. Instead of using Intel-oriented benchmarks and downplaying the extraordinary lengths that AMD has gone to over the last 3-4 years, you should be realistic and point to the advantages that the mere presence of AMD has created for consumers.
For the money, the AMD line is still the best value, and can equal the performance of the Pentium line is virtually all the everyday uses for a PC.
Please try to keep some shred of perspective in the future. Thanks.
Anonymous User - Friday, July 11, 2003 - linkyou're an asshole, god damn. chill, the guy was being calm about it. you're the people in teh intarweb i avoid. thx. Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, July 10, 2003 - linkFrom 1 Anonymous User to another, you are an idiot. PS2 as the best gaming platform? X-Box has better hardware in all respects, so as consoles go it is technically better. PS2 still has more games..and relating to sports that is where the console usually shines over the PC. But neither can do what a PC with proper hardware can do, in any aspect. So yes, the PC is the ultimate gaming platform, hence why both the PS2 and X-box are more like pc's than old consoles.
Also this review had a benchmark on general use, including office, etc...and AMD won nicely, so if you read the whole article your complaint was solved before you made it. But most of us do play games, which is why most benchmarks are game related, non gamers usually don't go for top end, cause they don't need it. Hopefully you will post a better message next time or at least be more informed on the facts before dribbling false info. Reply
Anonymous User - Sunday, July 06, 2003 - linkWhat about Office application performance? I read that the Athlon still blows away the P4 in most everything but games. Most of us spend our PC time doing other things besides gaming. If we wanted the best gaming platform, we'd buy Playtstation 2's. Reply


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Aging population, tough economy drive increase in multigenerational living
There is a good chance that when grandma or grandpa came for holiday dinner, they didn't have far to travel: likely from the next room.
An aging population — the Alliance for Aging Research says 10,000 baby boomers in the U.S. turn 65 every day — and a still-struggling economy have helped the extended family make a huge comeback. It's also created a new label: the "sandwich generation," which describes more than 16 million Americans who care for children and their parents in their home.
A Pew Research Center's study shows that 16 percent of households have two adult generations living under one roof, a 33 percent increase from a decade ago. From 2009 to 2010 alone, there was an increase of more than 500,000 multigenerational residences.
"With pensions failing and retirees experiencing shortfalls in savings, it's going to become even more popular," says John L. Graham, co-author of "Together Again: A Creative Guide to Successful Multigenerational Living." But believe it or not, aging parents are not the age group most responsible for the trend. That distinction belongs to young adults — especially those ages 25 to 34. In 1980, just 11 percent of adults in this age group lived in a multi-generational household. By 2008, 20 percent did, and the economy appears to have played a significant role. A Pew survey found that among 22- to 29-year-olds, one in eight say that, because of the recession, they have boomeranged back to live with their parents after being on their own.
While the increase in the number of multigenerational homes has presented financial challenges for some of those that find themselves with multiple generations living under one roof, it has presented financial opportunities for contractors who are adding additions or remodeling existing homes, and for realtors and home builders who see a new market opening.
"The demographics are changing, the economics are changing" says Alan Jones, Lennar's Arizona division president. "More Americans are doubling up and it's a trend that needs to be addressed." Lennar addressed the trend by introducing its NextGen home, which the company markets as a "home within a home."
"Lennar is the first home builder in the nation to address this demographic shift in our country," says Jon Jaffe, Lennar's chief operating officer. "Having multiple generations living under one roof is deeply rooted and desired by several cultural backgrounds in the United States. Plus, the aging of America is creating a need to care for parents, and for most people the most economical way to do that is at home. This home within a home design offers privacy for everyone."
Lennar's NextGen home has a specific floorplan incorporated into the main house that includes a separate first-floor living space with its own entrance, living area, kitchenette, attached garage, patio and barbecue area. There is a door that accesses the main living area. "Everyone living in the house can then share space as they see as appropriate," Jones says. "We are actually building a home for the way that people are already living."


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Holidays, memorials and parades are a few of the ways Americans honor and remember the commitment and sacrifice of our military.
Now there's a new flag designed by a proud father to recognize those who have paid the ultimate price.
Millions of service men and women have laid down their lives for our freedom. And one man is on a mission to see that their sacrifice is never forgotten.
"Everywhere I would see the P.O.W. flag and I thought, 'Wow, what an awesome tribute to that group of individuals,'" said George Lutz, founder of Honor and Remember.
"They were given a flag to remember that they were missing, that they were captured, and I thought what an honor and then I thought the fallen need a flag."
George Lutz's son, Tony was killed in Iraq in 2005. The loss inspired George to design the "Honor and Remember flag" -- which he hopes will one day fly in all 50 states as a tribute to American heroes.
Lou and Mona Gunn lost their son, Cherone, in the USS Cole bombing in October of 2000. They believe the Honor and Remember flag will help bring closure.
"When you give honor to American heroes or our troops, that's an honor in itself and to have something distinguish them," Lou Gunn said. "This honor is so overwhelming and is so joyful."
"With time, people forget, but it's something that the parents and the relatives don't ever forget and to have that flag as a symbol of always remembering those who gave all, it's very meaningful and it's a blessing," Mona Gunn said.
Congressman Randy Forbes of Virginia has taken up the cause -- introducing a bill to make the Honor and Remember flag an official national symbol.
"There's no one flag you look at it and say that flag is just designated for those men and women who've given their lives defending the great freedoms we have in this country and many veterans across the country began to realize this is important that we do, from that we took this bill and began working on it," Forbes said.
Goldstar mom Marge Hickey lost her son in Vietnam. She is hopeful the flag will bring healing to so many families as it did hers.
"And it's just always like it was today, you never forget," Hickey said. "It makes you feel proud to know that you are, that he is remembered and not forgotten, because so many don't know what the flag is for."
"To realize this nation is willing to step up and say in avery tangible way, we really care and not only that we care but we're going to continue to remember and salute the loss that you had, means a lot to these parents," Forbes said.
Lutz said, "They were individuals each one, one name, one life, one folded flag at a time and they deserve remembrance."
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Our pick of the week's science and technology stories include a U-turn on GM crops, killer smartphones and why intelligent bots will be everywhere.
In praise of genetically modified food
Mark Lynas | Mark Lynas | 3 January 2013
Campaigner recants. "I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment."
Will Gutenberg laugh last?
Nicholas Carr | Rough Type | 1 January 2013
We say we like books. And it turns out that we do. Sales of e-readers are slowing. Early adopters have adopted. Print sales are holding up well. Printed books may have more of a future than seemed probable even a year ago.
Better than human
Kevin Kelly | Wired | 24 December 2012
Intelligent robots, coming soon. "You'll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots. Ninety percent of your co-workers will be unseen machines. There will be a blurry line between what you do and what they do."
Leap seconds
Randall Munroe | What If? | 1 January 2013
"Could we speed up Earth's rotation, so that we do not need Leap Seconds?" Short answer: Yes. But the bad news is, we would die in the process. "To get enough spin, we have to hit the Earth with a billion litres of rock per second."
Embodied cognition
Benjamin Bergen | Scientific American | 28 December 2012
Scientists pitch into age-old philosophical debate about language, meaning and thought: "Maybe we understand language by simulating in our minds what it would be like to experience the things that the language describes."
Look out, he's got a phone!
Charles Mann | Vanity Fair | 19 December 2012
Murder by smartphone: Hack the victim's pacemaker. "You don't have to know anything about medical devices' software to attack them remotely. You simply call them repeatedly, waking them up so many times they exhaust their batteries."
What turned Jaron Lanier against the web?
Ron Rosenbaum | Smithsonian | 24 December 2012
Silicon Valley visionary, pioneer of virtual reality, recants his faith in Web 2.0: "You can draw an analogy to what happened with communism, where at some point you just have to say there's too much wrong with these experiments."
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This is the first of three pieces brought to you by Distance Minnesota about some of today's hottest career fields.
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It's no secret that technology has changed how we live. From tablets and streaming video, to big data analytics and network security, we live in a digital world that impacts us every minute of every day. However, technology not only improves the way we live and work in the present, but also offers great opportunity for the future.
The rush of technology advances and innovations brings a wave of career opportunities to those with the right training, whether your objective is to advance in your current profession or explore a new one within the many business sectors under the realm of IT. Going back to school for an IT degree to increase your skill set could be the right path for you. Why?
• The workforce needs IT pros with up-to-date skills. You may think that years of past experience are the key to success for IT professionals, but that's not necessarily true. More than nine-in-10 – 93 percent – of U.S. IT and business executives report that there is a vast difference between existing and desired skills among their staffs, according to CompTIA, a non-profit trade association representing the IT industry.
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Anna Kendrick's outfit is perfect for date night—here's how to get that same star power for pennies.
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When Anna Kendrick went to the Casting Society of America Artios Awards, she wore a chic dress from Halston Heritage, carried a Louboutin Pigalle Spikes clutch and matching Louboutin heels. a stunning, but pricey outfit.
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Chad's Favorite Versions of "Always on My Mind" [Video]
Country music icon, Willie Nelson, is coming to The Centre in Evansville TONIGHT. Willie is bringing his Willie Nelson & Family tour to town and we have been celebrating over the last couple of months with ticket giveaways and more. A few weeks ago, we had a TAD POLL about Willie during The WBKR Waking Crew. And that poll was . . . What is YOUR favorite Willie Nelson song? I don't have to hesitate a second to name mine. It's Willie's classic "Always on My Mind." And, I must say, there are several versions of that song I absolutely love. While Brenda Lee recorded the original version, it's a handful of covers that are on my mind. Check these out.


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|A stair nose is designed to create a clean transition from a step to a hardwood floor. Also used around steps and stair landing trims.
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We installed Koka Oak flooring made by Casa de Colour. The product has a very smooth surface to it, more like a birch or maple than an open-pored oak. One of the reasons we chose this flooring was because we could buy mathcing trim pieces, and it's important to me that everything match.
The stairnose trim (and reducer, which we also bought) is made by Bellawood, NOT Casa de Colour, and it does not match the floor. The color is very good, but the texture is completely different -- it's very rough, all the oak texture and open pores clearly visible. So, butted up against the perfect, shiny, smooth floor it stands out like an eyesore.
I'll be returning the stairnose as I find it unacceptable and we made an alternate solution work. Unfortunately, we have to keep the reducer which spoils the look but had no other choice.
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Welcome to Misty Oaks Vineyard!
Award-winning Misty Oaks is a family owned and operated vineyard and winery located just west of Sutherlin in the Umpqua Valley appellation.
Owners Steve and Christy Simmons planted and now cultivate 15 acres, growing six varietals and producing their acclaimed wines at their own on-site winery. Named for the mists that hug the hills of the Tyee Range, often leaving only the tops of the gnarly oak trees visible, the vineyard is divided into distinctive growing areas where each unique grape variety can best thrive.
As the Simmons first tended their vineyards, they named these different blocks after some physical attribute or incident related to its development. As a tribute to these unique sites, each Misty Oaks wine is labeled with its own vineyard name. To that end the current offerings of wines crafted from the vineyard are: Gobbler's Knob Red Blend, Constitution Ridge Pinot Blanc, Jones Road Cabernet Franc, Stuckagain Heights Pinot Noir, Julio's Hill Pinot Gris, Friendswood Gewurtztraminer and Viper Trail Malbec.
Misty Oaks wines have received many awards and accolades, including the Greatest of the Grape's only Platinum Award for their 2006 Stuckagain Heights Pinot Noir which has also earned Gold and Silver medals as well as the Grand Award of Excellence. The 2006 Gobblers Knob Red Blend was also honored with the Grand Award of Excellence. Most recently, the 2007 Jones Road Cabernet Franc was crowned Best in Show at the 2009 World of Wine.
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FULLERTON, Cailf-- The TMC distance squad officially opened their season on Saturday March 10th, at the Ben Brown Invitational hosted by Cal State Fullerton. The evening's distance carnival boasted eight heats of the 5000m, where the entire Mustang squad made an impressive appearance in seven of them.
Kicking-off to what promises to be the most successful track season for the Mustangs since the rebirth of the program in 2009, almost all of the fifteen TMC athletes ran a lifetime best of 5000m on the track. "To open up the season racing faster than you ever have in your life is always a good thing," said Coach Schroeder. "There were quite a few of our athletes that would have liked to produce faster times, but you just can't be disappointed with a PR, especially your first race of the season."
The most notable performances of the evening were those of standouts Anthony Pizzo and John Gilbertson. After phenomenal showings in the cross country season, the duo earned NAIA All American Honors. Finishing 3rd (Gilbertson) and 5th (Pizzo) in the nation, the two men look to pick up the 2012 track season right where they left off. Racing hard from the gun, Pizzo and Gilbertson ran a strong effort, posting times of 14:10 and 14:11 respectively, the 3rd and 4th fastest times of the night. The duo's marks qualified both athletes to the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships, and currently boast the top two times for 5000m posted on the NAIA National Performance List.
With the entire team achieving times within seconds of Coach Schroeder's projections, the squad's training over the winter appears to have paid off, setting the remainder of the season up nicely. The Mustang's will be back in action March 15th and the 16th (9:00 & 10:00 am) where they will compete in the Cal Relays in Cerritos.


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There may be no dessert flavors better paired than chocolate and raspberry. We´ve highlighted this perfect match in a creamy cheesecake with a rich fudge topping.
Preheat oven to 325°F. In medium bowl, combine chocolate crumbs and 1/4 cup sugar. Stir in melted butter until completely combined. Press onto bottom and up sides of springform pan. Bake 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
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Preheat oven to 325°F. In large bowl, beat cream cheese and remaining 1 cup sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in sour cream and eggs, one a time. Add vanilla and almond extracts; beat until smooth. Spread half the fudge ganache mixture onto crust. Sprinkle with fresh raspberries. (Set aside several for garnish.) Place pan on cookie sheet. Pour filling over raspberries. Place a small pan of water on bottom rack in oven. Bake cheesecake 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours or until set. (Middle will still be jiggly.) Turn oven off; leave cheesecake in closed oven for 1 hour. Cool and refrigerate at least 4 hours. Drizzle remaining ganache over cheesecake. Refrigerate an additional 15 minutes to set ganache before serving. Garnish with fresh raspberries.
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I hate to be confrontational or argumentative. Right?
But NHL.com did a list of the most exciting players of all time … and somehow Wayne Gretzky wasn't on it. Nor was Mario Lemieux. Or Jaromir Jagr, who, love him or not, was a thrill a minute when he wanted to be.
I don't get that at all. What was more exciting than TGO scoring 50 goals in the first 39 games of a season? Or scoring points in 51 consecutive games? Or zooming past Phil Esposito's record and breaking the 80, and then the 90 barrier?
Come on.
I mean, Denis Savard? Yeah, he did the spin-a-rama, which might be the dumbest expression in sports. And he's a Hall of Famer. But more exciting than 99? You kiddin' me?
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Fair Trade Provides Life-Changing Educational Opportunities
All around the globe, the fair prices and opportunities connected with Fair Trade are keeping kids in school. In many countries, impoverished farmers and workers often need their children to work in order to make enough to support the whole family. Fair Trade helps provide farming families with the income and stability they need to keep their children in school, instead of in the fields and factories. Ghana: Kuapa Kokoo, a cocoa cooperative, has been Fair Trade Certified for 14 years and in that time has used the special Fair Trade social premium to build four schools and two daycare centers for the children you see pictured. Paraguay: Children of the Arroyense Cooperative are being trained in word processing, typing, and Excel on computers purchased with money from sales of Fair Trade sugar. Students of all ages are given books and school uniforms to support their education from pre-school through high school graduation. India: The local elementary school received craft supplies and math materials to teach young children of tea estate workers. Nilgiri Estate cooperative members voted to use Fair Trade social premium development funds to buy school buses so that the students who live far away can get to classes. Community Fair Trade funds are also used to pay for a hostel for students who live even farther.
Shiragami, a tea picker at Nilgiri, says "Together, we have elected to use Fair Trade profits to fund a local vocational college. I have big dreams for my children. They are extremely ambitious, and want to go on to higher education."
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Hi Rahul, that sounds great - I suggest registering for the course on the Google Groups and introducing yourself and what you are trying to do. You can follow all the discussions on the Google group and add your own thoughts and ideas too.
Rahul I will be happy to know more about your project as I am in process to setup a community based college called "Mahatama Gandhi College of Social Work" which is located at remotest village of India. I have been trying to setup http://aasraindia.igloocommunities.com e-larning portal however I am not software professional.
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POUNDING the beat will be taken to the extreme by two Bury police officers when they compete in the Bolton Ironman Challenge.
Phil Slingsby, aged 33, and Kev Elliott, aged 38, are set to take on a 112-mile bike ride, a 2.4 mile swim and then a marathon in aid of inspirational twins.
They are tackling the punishing triathlon later this month for Twincess – a campaign launched by colleagues Matt and Jodi Parry to tackle the misconceptions around Down's Syndrome.
Matt and Jodi, who work in Bury, set up the charitable trust to focus on the positives of the condition after their daughters Abigail and Isobel were diagnosed soon after birth.
The identical twins, who turned three last month, are the poster girls for their parents' mission to banish misconceptions and provide honest advice.
Phil, who lives in Bolton, thought he may never complete another triathlon after suffering severe knee problems in September, 2011, which doctors could not diagnose.
He was told not to exercise again but through physiotherapy, special training programmes, improving his diet and sheer determination, he is ready to have a go.
Phil said: "I've entered Ironman, an event I have never attempted before , to challenge myself and my knees and to have something to tell my two-year-old daughter Hattie about when she is older. I also want to make my wife Sarah and the rest of my family proud.
"I am expecting it to be the hardest day I have ever had, both mentally and physically."
Kev, who lives in Westhoughton, started running in 2009 and after signing up for Ironman bought a bike — and learned to swim front crawl.
After completing a triathlon at the beginning of last month, he knows the bike section is his weakest discipline and wants to push himself to finish before the cut-off time.
Kev said: "It is inspiring to see how, along with their son Finlay, Matt and Jodi created Twincess following the birth of their beautiful twin daughters, Abigail and Isobel.
"They change the misconceptions and celebrate the positives while offering advice to new parents of children with Down's Syndrome, and I am proud to be doing something to help them achieve this."
Phil, who is friends with both Matt and Jodi, has been raising money for the Twincess Campaign since it began. He added: "I cannot think of a more worthy cause. It is very close to my heart."
The 10th anniversary Ironman competition is on July 20 and consists of a Pennington Flash swim, a new bike route which ends at the Reebok and a 26.2 mile run to Bolton town centre.
To sponsor Kev and Phil, go to uk.virginmoneygiving.com/kevandphilironmanchallenge For more information about Twincess, go to twincess.co.uk


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This webinar recording discusses why sex work is so common among transgender people and outlines the additional barriers standing between sex workers and crime victim services. A copy of the slides for this presentation is available.
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Mastalgia: Benign Breast Pain
Many women experience mastalgia —breast pain that is not of cancerous origin. Breast pain and tenderness may be a routine part of the monthly menstrual cycle. But if the pain seems unbearable, or occurs during mid-cycle, it may be time to take action.
When faced with breast pain on a monthly basis, some women suspect the worst and think cancer. Others simply accept the pain as a burden. But neither scenario is necessarily correct. Any persistent, sudden, or severe breast pain warrants a visit to your doctor to rule out a serious illness. If nothing is found, which is often the case, your doctor can work with you to discover the real cause of your discomfort and find a remedy that works for you.
A Proper Diagnosis
Your doctor may not seem overly concerned when you report pain in your breasts. In fact, most breast pain is caused by problems that are not life-threatening, and only a small percent of diagnosed breast cancers present with pain as a symptom. Physical exam of the breast is usually the first step in a diagnosis. If the physical exam is normal, your doctor will make a decision about whether testing, such as mammography or ultrasound studies are needed.
You will be asked to determine whether your pain is cyclic or noncyclic. Keeping a daily chart of breast changes and pain can help you understand your body's changes and what might be causing the pain. Cyclic and noncyclic pain can be caused by a wide array of factors and sometimes can be reduced by changing your diet, clothing, or medication.
Cyclic PainMonitoring the PainFinding Dietary CausesTaking Medication
Cyclic pain is probably caused by the hormonal changes—especially the estrogen surge—that are a part of your menstrual cycle. As the body prepares for a possible pregnancy, or a menstrual period, the number of milk-producing cells and amount of breast fluid increases.
The resulting enlargement causes a pain that has been described as dull and aching. It is usually greatest in the upper and outer portion of the breast, closest to the armpit where most of the milk duct tissue is. The pain is often felt more acutely in one breast, although both are usually involved.
Keeping a record of your pain and its intensity will help you determine whether the pain occurs before your upcoming menstrual cycle. It may offer some psychological relief when you realize that the onset of menstruation relieves the pain. At this point, you can begin experimenting with a range of possible remedies.
Some studies have shown that relief may start with simple dietary modifications:
- A low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet may decrease breast tenderness and swelling before your period.
- Adding a soy protein drink to your diet might help cyclic breast pain.
Mechanical interventions such as a properly-fitted support bra, hot and cold applications during intense pain, and breast massage may also relieve your pain.
If you have no success with these remedies, medication may be advised. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, are sometimes recommended for breast pain. Prescription medicines like danazol, tamoxifen, and bromocriptine are sometimes prescribed. Because they can have significant side effects, most health practitioners use them only as a last resort.
Noncyclic Pain
As with cyclic pain, you should keep a daily record of your discomfort to help determine the cause. Noncyclic pain is usually localized in a specific area in 1 breast and is not related to the hormonal fluctuations of your menstrual cycle. Benign changes in the breast include cysts, fibroadenomas, duct ectasia (widening), mastitis (inflammation), injury, and breast abscesses. Fibrocystic disease, a common and benign condition, is also possible. All require medical evaluation. In fact, if your breast pain occurs with redness of the skin, fever, or warmth in the breast, you should seek medical attention right away. This could point to an infection.
If these problems are not the source of your pain, you might have a musculoskeletal condition causing your pain, such as costochondritis , an inflammation of the cartilage connecting the ribs to the sternum. Noncyclic breast tenderness and pain can also be caused by medications prescribed for hormonal conditions, high blood pressure , and heart and gastrointestinal problems. Some women even find their pain is made worse by herbal products, particularly products that are marketed as reducing premenstrual symptoms.
Know Your Body
For many women, breast pain significantly affects quality of life. It is a condition that women find painful, and physicians often find frustrating to treat. Many women suffer in silence. And when you do finally seek treatment and are reassured that you do not have cancer, it still may take time to identify the source of your pain.
The steps to understanding and coping with breast pain are within your reach. Awareness of any breast changes and keeping track of your pain will help. It may take time to fully manage your pain, but take heart in the knowledge that many women have found relief.
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1) I get all of this: That wins are wins are wins. That the bottom line is, did you get the two points? That there's no such thing as a perfect game. That sometimes you have to win when you don't play your best. That it says something when you gut it out and find a way. But I think the Rangers lately are playing too many incomplete games and getting away with them, and that often leads into a losing streak. Just sayin'.
2) This whole Michael Del Zotto thing is a dangerous game. John Tortorella has handed out tough love to skilled players in the past, and he knows what he's doing. You'd have to grant him the benefit of the doubt on that. And maybe a little trip to Hartford would have long-term benefit. Or maybe it won't come to that, and instead these healthy scratches will be enough. But I think there's a risk that Del Zotto will become too shell-shocked, that he will be afraid to be aggressive and to use his skills and weapons. And I think back to Brian Leetch, who went from being an all-star to an all-timer when Mark Messier arrived and he learned to not worry about making a big mistake once in a while. And I also think that other than, perhaps, Marc Staal, no Rangers defenseman has more potential to be a special player than Del Zotto.
3) I know I ride Staal sometimes. I thought he was fabulous in this game. His partner, Dan Girardi, too.
4) In every game there are good bounces and bad bounces, good breaks and bad breaks. Well, that's true, but the Rangers got a great bounce and a great break when Jason Arnott had that enormous chance late in the third and shot it over the crossbar and into the screen.
5) Henrik Lundqvist was terrific, and he needed to be that, and he really does rule the Devils.
6) Brian Boyle=Monster.
7) The Devils are a mess, and you already knew that. But when you have a team that scores exactly one goal every game, how is it a good thing to bring in a Jacques Lemaire to coach it, a guy who believes in backing off and squelching offense? Was the thinking that, "well, we can't score two, so we'd better try to win 1-0?"
8) Anybody glad it was Lou Lamoriello, and not Glen Sather, who went after Ilya Kovalchuk?
9) Wonder if we're going to see Dubinsky-Stepan-Gaborik for a while now. And if Erik Christensen's injury means another dose of Dale Weise.
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Talks over Ilkley missing out on free Sunday car parking are to take place with a Bradford Council car parks boss.
Ilkley and Haworth are the only major centres in the Bradford district to charge for parking in council-run car parks on Sundays, Ilkley Parish Council has learned.
Bradford Council offers free Sunday parking at car parks in Keighley, Bingley and Shipley, as well as Bradford city centre.
Concerns were also raised about the additional free parking offered in other towns in the run-up to Christmas – and the lack of publicity for limited periods of free parking in Ilkley's central South Hawksworth Street in December.
Councillor Stephen Butler is planning to meet Bradford Council parking services manager Paul Ratcliffe next week, to discuss free parking.
Coun Butler heard about free parking in the district's other towns when the parish council was contacted about Christmas parking arrangements.
He told councillors: "I was surprised to learn Ilkley and Haworth were the only car parks which don't have free parking on Sundays throughout Bradford Met. That's something I can't understand.."
He claimed the authority seemed to consider Ilkley to be a "cash cow".
Coun Butler, also a longst-anding member of Ilkley Business Forum, says the issue would also be of concern to local businesses.
Special Christmas parking arrangements were made on more days in December in the other towns, he said.
Councillor Brian Mann said he had raised the issue of free parking before with Mr Ratcliffe, and had been told Ilkley car parks were still full, despite the charges.
Councillor Mike Ridgway pointed out council parking wardens patrolled Ilkley on Sundays, issuing tickets.


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If you are using Adobe Reader you will notice that you are unable to write/save content in PDF files.
Adobe Reader is a PDF reader provided free-of-charge and does not allow users to "write" content in PDF files by default. In order to make and save changes to a PDF file, you need a license for Adobe Acrobat, or LiveCycle Reader Extensions. Changes that normally require Adobe Acrobat include: entering text, saving a PDF form, and adding comments.
PDF authors can use either Adobe Acrobat or Reader Extensions Server to enable individual PDF files with specific privileges to allow Adobe Reader write and save content into the PDF files. If you/your organization has a license for Adobe Acrobat or Reader Extensions Server, you can apply these privileges to the PDF file before distributing it, so that users can open it in Adobe Reader to write the content.
You can use one of the following solutions to enable the PDF files:
Solution 1: Enable the Typewriter tool for Adobe Reader.
- Enable the Typewriter tool on the PDF.
- With Adobe Acrobat:
Note:You must have at least one Acrobat Professional client installed.
- Open the PDF in Acrobat Professional.
- Follow instructions depending on Acrobat version:
- Acrobat (8 or 9): choose Tools > Typewriter > Enable typewriter tool in Adobe Reader, or Advanced > Extend Features in Adobe Reader.
- Acrobat X: choose File > Save As >Reader Extended PDF > Enable Adding Text in Documents.
- Save the PDF.
- With Reader Extensions Server:
Note:You must have a Reader Extensions server installed in your organisation.
- Go to the ReaderExtensions server portal (http://[servername]:[port]/ReaderExtensions).
- Upload the PDF file.
- Apply the commenting right to the PDF.
- Save the resulting PDF to your computer.
- With Adobe Acrobat:
- When you now open the same PDF in Adobe Reader, you will have a new tool available under Tools > Typewriter (Reader 8/9), or Tools > Add or Edit Text Box (Reader X).
- You can use this tool to type characters on top of the PDF content.
Here is a video tutorial showing how to use the Typewriter tool on a PDF: http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-add-text-pdfs
Note: The typewriter tool is only available for static PDF files, not for dynamic files, as it is part of the commenting functionality. Imagine if you lay down a comment on a certain part of the PDF and then the PDF structure changes dynamically and shifts the content down a page to accomodate a new subform. The comment/typewriter text would no longer be pointing to the same position.
Solution 2: Enable the usage rights on the PDF in Acrobat.
Note: You must have at least one Acrobat Professional 8, or later, client installed.
- Open the PDF in Acrobat Professional.
- Choose Advanced > Enable Usage Rights in Adobe Reader (Acrobat 8/9), or File > Save As >Reader Extended PDF > Enable Additional Features (Acrobat X).
- Save the PDF.
- When you now open the PDF in Adobe Reader you will be able to fill the form and save the data.
Solution 3: Enable the appropriate rights on the PDF using Reader Extensions Server.
Note: You need to have a Reader Extensions Server installed in your organisation.
- Go to the ReaderExtensions server portal (http://[servername]:[port]/ReaderExtensions).
- Upload the PDF file.
- Select the Usage Rights you wish to apply to the PDF (you need Form Fill-In if you wish to complete the PDF form fields and save the data, or the Commenting right to use the Typewriter tool).
- Save the resulting PDF to your computer.
- Open the resulting PDF in Adobe Reader and you will be able to fill and save it.
Note: Reader Extensions server is a LiveCycle product to be deployed in an enterprise environment, and for this reason, may not be cost-effective if you only want to enable a handful of forms or PDFs.


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Topic: RIP mother
My mother just passed away on last sunday .she was diagnosed on 16/6/2013 so it was very short period but I know it was full of struggle against this beast which took the most valuable person in the family who was providing unconditional love to all people even outsiders who could not stop there tears. I will keep you all in my prayers and I will keep following this club hoping for a cure that will prevent this disease from taking the loved ones.
My belief that my mother will definitely go to heaven is the real thing that keeps me standing


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A great time to be a geek
The problem with getting older is that I sometimes find myself set in my ways — gravitating toward things that I knew (or was at least interested in). I confess that I sometimes feel a little overwhelmed by the many abstract concepts emerging across the industry like big data and the Internet of Things just to name a few. After all, I'm a hardware guy, and finding ways to monetize or justify business value in 26 billion connected devices or securely deliver streaming content to a multitude of remote device users is tougher to wrap my brain around than the newest Intel command set. There are moments when I'd rather just move to Nebraska and raise alpacas.
But watching this morning's keynote address by Gartner's Chris Howard on "Scenarios for the future of IT" at Gartner IT Operations Strategies & Solutions Summit in Orlando, Fla., reminded me of something that I'd long-forgotten: IT has never been about servers and networks and stacks and all of the engineering stuff; IT is about solving business problems and enabling the business.
Back in those ancient days before the Internet (yes, I was there), IT supported the business by storing and serving up files and even supporting the groundbreaking notion of collaboration. Later, networks and user bases expanded, and businesses needed IT to solve new problems, allowing businesses to support remote users and market the business differently on that thing called the world-wide web.
As we fast-forward to today, Howard's hour-long keynote focused on the challenges of the digital business. This included the importance of context, providing access to data that isn't tied to devices, where devices have the intelligence to determine where you are and what you need. He also talked about the need for analytics that extend to the edge of the environment (not just in a data center) to decide what data is important and how it should be used.
And while Howard cited numerous examples of these issues — where many of the working elements are already in place — there was NO mention of the underlying systems, networks, software, or other elements needed to make all of these business activities possible. It was then that I realized there shouldn't be.
It's not that the underlying parts aren't important. It's just that the underlying parts aren't the point. Thinking back, it really never mattered what server or disk group served up files back in the day. The only goal was that IT needed to deploy, configure and maintain that capability. While today's business demands and pace has changed dramatically, the basic role of IT remains essentially unchanged; to enable, protect and support those competitive business capabilities in a reliable, cost-effective manner. The underlying "stuff" is there, and IT professionals have the savvy to make it all work.
So the real challenge for today's IT pros is to embrace these many new ideas and find the way to map those complex business needs to the underlying infrastructure, which must inevitably evolve and grow to meet ever-greater bandwidth, storage, and computing demands.
Who knows what the next few days in Orlando might bring? Maybe this old dog might actually learn a new trick or two?
The 19 variables that most affect Google data centers' PUEdata center
Google used machine learning to parse the multitudinous data inputs on its data center operations, as a way to bust through a plateau in energy efficiency evidenced by its measured power usage effectiveness (PUE).
In a white paper describing the effort to improve PUE below 1.12, Google's Jim Gao, data center engineer, wrote that the machine learning approach does what humans cannot: Model all the possible operating configurations and predict the best one for energy use in a given setting.
The 19 factors that interrelate to affect energy usage are as follows, according to Google's program:
- Total server IT load (kW)
- Total campus core network room IT load (kW)
- Total number of process water pumps (PWPs) running
- Mean PWP variable frequency drive (VFD) speed: Percent
- Total number of condenser water pumps (CWP) running
- Mean CWP VFD speed: Percent
- Total number of cooling towers running
- Mean cooling tower leaving water temperature set point
- Total number of chillers running
- Total number of dry coolers running
- Total number of chilled water injection pumps running
- Mean chilled water injection pump set point temperature
- Mean heat exchanger approach temperature
- Outside air wet bulb temperature
- Outside air dry bulb temperature
- Outside air enthalpy (kJ/kg)
- Outside air relative humidity: Percent
- Outdoor wind speed
- Outdoor wind direction
Gao states: "A typical largescale [data center] generates millions of data points across thousands of sensors every day, yet this data is rarely used for applications other than monitoring purposes." Machine learning can understand nonlinear changes in efficiency better than traditional engineering formulas.
Read the paper here.
SearchDataCenter's can't-miss articles of May
Time's tight and alerts are always rolling in, so you're bound to miss some great articles during the month. If you only have time to peruse a few good reads, here are the stories that other data center pros recommend.
Most controversial topic:
Cloud threatens traditional IT jobs, forces change
The tension between outsourcing to the cloud and keeping workloads in the owned on-premises data center is increasing, and especially pressuring traditional job roles within the IT department.
Must-watch technology trend:
Flash storage here, there — everywhere?
Flash storage offers some impressive improvements over disk-based technologies, and the integration options range from server-side flash to full arrays and everything in between.
Look inside your peers' data centers:
Align the data center with corporate goals
Enterprises aren't in the business of running data centers — they sell goods and provide services. But data centers are crucial to operations. Here's how a coffee company and a law-school centric organization work better thanks to their data centers.
Best-read interview:
A check-in with Facebook's Chef chief
Facebook's Phil Dibowitz talks about the company's DevOps migration and how they work with Chef and other open-source tools.
Best planning tips:
What to update and upgrade this year
Parts of your data center are due — perhaps long over-due — for improvements. Smart investments will pay off with higher performance, energy savings and more reliable service.
Bonus link:
Modern Infrastructure's May issue
The May issue of Modern Infrastructure tackles containers, cloud and colocation options, the changes in Ethernet technology and more. Ever heard of ChatOps?
Long weekend in the data center
The IT team never really gets a break — it's the first week of July and everyone else is taking a long weekend, but you're on call, minding the beeps and flashes of some uncaring, disinterested servers. While the storage array quietly dedupes its backups, take a little downtime with data center comics, viral videos and other fun links.
This post was inspired by a conversation with Kip and Gary cartoonist Diane Alber. You can check out her comic at http://www.kipandgary.com/and see what kind of trouble could be brewing in your data center if you did clock off for a week at the beach.
More fun:
An oldie but goodie, no one makes data center backup media come to life like John Cleese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgxgYL5P4z4&feature=kp
Yeah, you've been there. The Website is Down pits the sys admin against the world, or at least against the sales team in the conference room. Commiserate with the series on YouTube (warning: language, though we've chosen a safe-for-work episode to start you off): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlbrL1H1ngs
Let's hope you haven't been here– this .gif of a server rack falling off the loading dock is strangely mesmerizing: http://i.imgur.com/mk5rbvg.gif
Is there one person on your IT team looking a little frazzled and muttering to himself about five nines? Try writing it all down, a la Sh*t My Cloud Evangelist Says (again, language): http://www.shitmycloudevangelistsays.com/blog/
What are your favorites? DevOps reaction .gifs? Network admin rants? Lego men running a colo?
Converted-mine data center tour amidst rocks and racks
Data center colocation providers have gotten creative with where they place facilities to save energy or increase security, and one cloud provider has found its home underground.
Lightedge Solutions, a cloud infrastructure and colocation provider in the U.S. Midwest, opened a facility in SubTropolis Technology Center, a converted limestone mine in Kansas City, Mo. The underground data center build eschewed precast walls and typical construction, saving 3-6 months on the new build compared to an above-ground data center, according to president and COO Jeffrey Springborn.
"Looking back, everything has gone really smoothly for a first project in a retired mine," Springborn said.
IBM roadmap coming to a fork in the road between software and hardware
Over its 100-year history, IBM has reinvented itself numerous times to remain competitive in hot, emerging markets or, more rarely, just to survive and remain whole.
The last reinvention 20 years ago addressed the second reason when IBM grew too fat and happy about 20 years ago, and missed a couple of important technology trends below the mainframe platform. The company put up an unprecedented three consecutive years of losses, and seriously considered breaking itself up into a loose federation of 13 business units, called the Baby Blues. But then Lou Gerstner came in and took things in exactly the opposite direction, making the units work together more cooperatively.
Today, IBM doesn't need an immediate reinvention — but maybe it should start thinking about it. For several quarters in 2013, sales of IBM's mid-range servers, its Power Series, plummeted dramatically. Despite IBM's steady delivery of new hardware technology and decision to replace Unix with Linux as the primary operating system for Power servers — a wise choice — a growing number of data centers are choosing Intel-based servers instead.
Compounding IBM's woes, its X Series of Intel-based servers that compete with HP and Dell has shrinking margins. So much so that earlier this year, IBM was engaged in talks with Lenovo to sell off the series.
Most observers don't see IBM exiting the hardware business any time soon — mainframe sales have actually picked up significantly this year and its Power Series appears to be producing enough profits for now. But others already see Big Blue transitioning to more of a software-and-services company, one keenly focused on cloud opportunities. One that will, oh yeah, also sell some hardware.
"I think you will see IBM move from a hardware-and-services company to a services-plus-software company just because of the way enterprises are consuming software. [IBM] are setting themselves up now for what they see coming over the next number of years," said Matt Casey, an analyst with Technology Business Research in Hampton, N.H. "If this shift results in growth over the short term, great. But I see this as the beginning of a larger journey."
This shift in IBM's roadmap, whether intentional or not, is already taking place financially. At the end of fiscal 2012, IBM generated $25.4 billion in software revenues, with hardware producing only $17.6 billion. IBM Global Services easily holds up its end of the software-plus-services focus, raking in $40.2 billion last year. And the gap is growing wider still in 2013.
But can IBM's software business grow fast enough to offset its hardware business declining? Unlikely, given the recent growth of IBM's bread-and-butter server-based applications, and the fact its cloud-based products portfolio, while growing, is only about $2.2 billion right now, with a goal of reaching $7 billion by 2015.
And, are we looking at a smaller IBM over the next few years? The company has always proved adept at growing the top line, even when it sells off billions of dollars worth of business, such as its still-profitable $11 billion PC business to Lenovo back in 2004.
"IBM is a company run by the CFO, so becoming a smaller company would be a difficult case to make with stakeholders," Casey said. "But if they decide the Intel (server) business and even the Power business no longer fits its core mission, they will sell it."
Casey adds that IBM would take the proceeds from selling such units and buy or develop whatever it needs to maintain its size and ability to fulfill its core mission as a full-service provider of information processing technologies for large enterprises.
It is difficult to predict if current server hardware trends will force another reinvention of the world's second-largest IT company, but it will be interesting to see what new directions IBM may take to stay on track.
The trouble with server efficiency and performance
The tradeoff between the high cost of better performance and the forward-thinking energy efficiency is something IT shops must ponder when deciding what servers to buy. As chips shrink and become more efficient through manufacturing, the costs to chipmakers go up and those costs are passed on to buyers. So how can server chip design keep improving without incurring the cost of building whole new manufacturing facilities?
Researchers in China may help existing chip infrastructures become more efficient by improving the flow of electrons through semi-floating gates. All well and good, but both ARM and Intel boast fast, energy efficient server chips already and semi-floating gates are not a new concept.
Let's start with the Chinese team. In a paper published in Science Magazine, the researchers describe a way to use a hybrid of the floating gates found in flash memory and the traditional logic gates, which use complex rules to define which bits get through, and are used in most chips.
The researchers' method is essentially a modification to the transistor's isolation of the gate — floating gates are completely isolated from electron inputs and drains, where other gates are connected — and the research team says it can get better speed than current chips and has an energy efficient operating voltage of less than 2 Volts.
Looking at ARM and Intel chip efficiency improvements, it seems many of these come down to the fabrication process and less to the design of the chip itself. Take a recent ARM development by SuVolta, for example. It basically swapped out existing transistors for what it calls "Deeply Depleted Channel" transistors, which use dynamic body bias to reduce electric current leakage while the transistors are turned off. This isn't necessarily a change to chip design, just switching out technology to consume less power.
Intel, on the other hand, is shifting manufacturing processes to 22 nanometer fabrication. This approach shrinks transistors and keeps them cooler during operation, thus helping to conserve energy. Instead of the side-by-side approach used by many chip makers, Intel has started stacking its transistors. This method improves performance and shortens the path of electricity on the chip, but producing 3D transistors requires up-front manufacturing investments, and may not provide enough return on investment to make it worth pursuing.
That's the trouble with both SuVolta and Intel's approaches. They rely on cost-prohibitive manufacturing processes to make smaller and more efficient chips. Every time a new transistor design is developed, a whole new set of equipment must be built. Plus, according to some analysts, Moore's law is coming to an end, so smaller chips may not be a long term solution. Chip makers can only use manufacturing to boost efficiency for so long before they can't shrink any further.
The current issues with return on investment for server chip manufacturing combined with the future limits of manufacturing technology are why the semi-floating gates proposed by the Chinese research team may be worth exploring — they're not based on shrinking parts. For now, however, changes to chip fabrication seem to be making positive strides toward energy efficiency.
What do you think? Do prohibitive fabrication costs and a looming end to Moore's law mean server chip makers need to find alternative methods for efficiency?
IT surfaces from the back room to take the helm
By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
SAN FRANCISCO — The overarching theme here at ChefConf 2013 this week has been a sense of empowerment for IT folk who are used to shoveling coal in the boiler room of an IT infrastructure.
As cloud computing and scripting languages like Chef and Puppet mature, IT will captain the ship, predicted conference attendees and presenters.
An especially resonant quote from a book called The Phoenix Project was recited from the keynote stage on Thursday morning to drive home this point: "Any COO who doesn't intimately understand the IT systems that actually run the business is just an empty suit."
It's easy to dismiss all this talk as self-serving posturing, but in an increasingly Web-based world, it happens to be true. Consumers now interact with businesses through mobile and Web interfaces much more often than on a sales floor or over the phone. And when was the last time a new startup opened up a storefront without a Web presence? It simply isn't done these days.
No, now the keys to the castle belong to your company's computer guy. Let's hope you've been nice to him.
It's also easy to get bogged down in the intricacies of cookbooks, recipes, the finer points of erlang vs. Ruby, Chef vs. Puppet, DevOps vs. traditional operations, at a conference like this. The bottom line, though, is that it's all a means to the end of making the current world economy work.
Heady stuff. Let's hope IT wields its newfound power only for good.
Go thin or go home — that's the graphene way
Some analysts estimate that Moore's Law — the ability of manufacturers to double the number of transistors on a chip every 18 months — will end in 10 years. At a certain point, the electrons of silicon circuits become unstable and can no longer be used to process information. While the end of the road may be coming for silicon-based transistors, there may be a rising contender to the computing throne.
The 2010 Nobel Prize in physics went to two men — Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov — for their research on graphene. The graphite-based material is perfect for data center applications — not to mention consumer electronics, high-speed Internet networking and medical equipment — because it is not only highly conductive, but it also handles electron movement and heat better than silicon.
But a recent article on Wired.com brings up an excellent point: Not too long ago, carbon nanotubes had the same hype but until recently were too pricey to expand much beyond R&D labs.
Graphene has been tapped as a possible material to make flexible touchscreen displays for consumer devices, and its single-electron properties makes it an excellent choice for the transistors of the future.
Envision, if you will, the size of a current enterprise data center. Now imagine if each processor could hold 3 billion transistors and take up only the width of a pencil tip. Add in the fact that a processor based on graphene transistors would run cooler than current silicon-based processors, and you've got a change in cooling infrastructure as well.
If graphene keeps rolling at its current development pace, we'll be in the future before you know it.
Boston's ARM servers aim to kick x86 AaaS
There's been a lot of bluster about ARM servers and how they'll upend the traditional x86 market when 64-bit ARM offerings come to market, but the fact remains that software designed on x86 servers does not readily translate to ARM architecture. To ease this transition, server maker Boston is offering developers a platform to rework x86 code without having to buy an ARM server through its cloud-based ARM as a Service.
Boston's product — reminiscent of OpenStack's TryStack.org which encourages the use of OpenStack on ARM servers — aims to coax curious but wary developers into an ARM sandbox by providing cloud servers that come with a pre-installed flavor of Linux along with development platforms and porting tools.
News of Boston's AaaS (no, really) comes hot on the heels of news that China's Baidu has decided to go with Boston rival Marvell's ARM servers to run its behemoth of a search engine.
As intriguing as Baidu's ARM evolution and Boston's cloud service are, will they generate enough buzz for mainstream IT ARM server adoption? Only time will tell.


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'Once Upon a Time' Cast Previews Tension Amid Its Charming Family Reunion
"There's immediately new problems. It's not like Emma gets a break! We have a party at Granny's and then there's a whole set of new of problems," Morrison laughed when Celebuzz visited the Vancouver set of Once Upon A Time last fall.
"As much as Regina has been a negative force, she also is central to everything initially, so now that we've sort of lost the mayor, who was keeping the town sort of centrally together, everyone's looking to David because he was the Prince in the other kingdom," Morrison continued.
"Emma [comes] back and is still Sheriff technically, but then David was Sheriff… Regina has a great line at one point where she's like 'I'm glad this is a family affair!' A Sheriff family!"
Though the Charming family may be reunited physically, they have to settle in with each other for the first real time since truly meeting each other. Emma and her mother had time to bond in heightened circumstances in fairytale land, and now it's David and Emma's turn — as well as David and Mary Margaret's chance to get reacquainted.
There is a minor complication of David not necessarily wanting to stay in Storybrooke at all. Sure, the women in his life explain to him that the land he remembers as a magical, beautiful place is actually not that anymore, but he feels a sense of duty to restore it.
"David wants to get back to their kingdom — the kingdom that they fought for; the kingdom that they love; the kingdom that is their home. And Mary Margaret maybe might think a bit differently. As she tells him, 'Fairytale Land is not as you remember it,' and the way he feels is then all the more reason to return there and make it right and make it better — make it better than it was," Dallas said.
"They also need to reconnect, you know, reconnect as a couple and not find their love again but explore it again and get in with each other, but they never have time. There's always something going on; something always needs to be fixed or someone needs to be saved or there are other dimensions."
"Snow has never inflicted a fatal wound on anyone — even in battle scenes [like] Snow versus the Black Night, she knocks everyone out. And so I think it's a matter of… her feeling that she is keeping her resume clean, if that makes sense. She can't feel self-righteous if she errs; there's a sense of entitlement there; she has to have a perfect record," Goodwin said.
Once Upon A Time returns Sunday at 8PM on ABC.
Do you think good will truly always defeat evil in Storybrooke? Let us know how you think the Charming family can stick together and take down their enemies in the comments below!
Note: Travel and accommodations were provided by ABC.
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