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Maple Grove football coach Matt Lombardi has been looking for his offense to have more balance between rushing and passing. Judging from last Friday's 24-7 homecoming win over Anoka, the Crimson are getting close to being that.
The Crimson were tested by a physical Anoka team that hung close for much of the game. The Tornadoes even became the first team this season to prevent Maple Grove from scoring a rushing touchdown. However, Maple Grove, led by sophomore quarterback Karl Altenburg, struck three times via the air and added a field goal to pull away.
Maple Grove led 10-0 early on a field goal by Tyler Knutson and a touchdown pass from Altenburg to Tyler Coyne. Altenburg then threw two touchdown passes to Brady Engelke in the second half to break the game open.
"The sophomore quarterback made some plays and threw three touchdown passes," Lombardi said. "We are trying to become more balanced and get more guys involved in the offense. Karl is thrown into the fire and learning on the job but he is getting better every week."
Altenburg completed 8 of 21 passes for 163 yards, threw three TDs and had one interception. Engelke caught three passes for 78 yards and had two touchdown receptions.
"Engelke kind of reminds me of Steve Largent (the Seattle Seahawks Hall of Fame receiver)," Lombardi said. "He runs really good routes, is a hard nosed kid and every ball thrown in his direction he more than likely comes up with it. I told them that but they don't know Steve Largent."
The Crimson's passing complemented their running game, which gained 214 yards. They were missing the injured Tahi Nomane and Ian Hanson but they still had junior speedster Clark Wieneke and senior bruiser Coyne. Wieneke collected 174 yards on 25 carries and Coyne had 44 yards on eight rushes. Coyne also caught two passes for 49 yards and a TD.
"With Tahi and Ian out, Clark had to take a lot of carries and Tyler also picked up the slacks," Lombardi said. "Our running game did a decent job even though we didn't get the big plays we got in previous games. Hopefully we can be more diversified offensively but we still want to run the ball."
The offensive line anchored by Mitch Engel, Jacob Sterling, Kam Garlick, Kolton Kitterman, Kayode Awosika, Ben Shoults did another solid job of opening holes and protecting the quarterback.
Twenty four points were more than enough for the Maple Grove defense, which played another solid game, holding Anoka to 180 yards in total offense. Jake Engelken led the way with 20 tackles, Adam Brant had 11, Emmanual Ehrich, Isaac Collins, Theo Freier had seven, Blake Whitecotton and Zach Cobin and Gunnar Ayres each added six.
"Anoka played very hard nosed and gritty against us," Lombardi said. "It was homecoming with a lot of distractions. We probably did not come out with the intensity we needed. But no excuse, I give Anoka a lot of credits for a hard-fought game."
First place in the Northwest Suburban Conference North is at steak when the 5-0 Crimson next visit Centennial (4-1) Friday, Oct. 4. Both are 2-0 in league play. Maple Grove jumped to No. 2 in the most recent ranking.
"Centennial is playing very well now," Lombardi said. "They are a really good running team and have athletes that can hurt you with the pass. And their D has not given up anything for four weeks. We'll have be at our best."
Lombardi does not know whether Tahi's injured ankle will recover in time for the Centennial game.
"He was on crutches the end of last week. He was still banged up," Lombardi said. "He played through lot of pain the first three weeks but it got so bad he could not play."

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Doerr found her calling while watching Saturday morning TV
ELMWOOD--As a kid, Kyler Doerr would spend her Saturday mornings watching television like most kids.
Instead of cartoons, Doerr's interests were in baby-delivering shows one would see on The Learning Channel or The Discovery Channel, for example.
"My mom still kids me about that," she said.
It should then come as no surprise to those who know her the 2014 Elmwood Salutatorian wants to be a pediatrician as she heads to the University of Minnesota this fall to major in biology.
"It's always been a dream of mine," she said, about being a pediatrician. As for choosing the U of M, its reputation in the science field stood out.
"They offer a lot of opportunities," she explained, adding UM-Duluth and UW-Eau Claire didn't have what she was looking for, and UW-Madison was too far away from home for her liking. "I want to go to Medical School and (the U of M) offers that as well.
"To be a pediatrician, it's recommended to go into biology or chemistry before and I enjoy biology a lot more than chemistry."
Doerr credited the Elmwood High School science department for further enhancing her love of science, and specifically teacher Kris Flesberg.
To say Doerr was involved during her four years in Elmwood is an understatement. She was a member of Dance, Forensics, Honor Band, National Honor Society, FFA, Student Council, FCCLA, softball, volleyball and was a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) role model.
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Assessment of Effectiveness and Safety of Dysport® for the Treatment of Hemifacial Spasm
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The Chairman, Afribank Nigeria Plc, Osa Osunde, the bank's former Managing Director, Sebastian Adigwe and five others were arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday.Others include Isa Zailani, Chinedu Onyia, Henry Arogundade (Directors of the bank) and Peter Ololo (Managing Director, Falcon Securities Limited) and his company.
The name of Jibrin Isah (an Executive Director of the bank) earlier listed as an accused person, was deleted from the charge list on the request of the prosecution which did not give any reason for his decision.They were arraigned on an amended 33-count charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The charge was an amendment of an earlier one on which Adigwe, Ololo and his company were earlier arraigned and granted bail last year.Their alleged offences bordered on granting of loans without adequate securities, granting loan above their approval limit, manipulating the cost of the bank's shares in the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange and granting loans without prior approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
They were also accused of granting loans to companies in which they have interests, failing to ensure true reflection of the bank's accounts in its returns to the CBN, and securing loan with the bank's shares. About N55 billion is said to be involved.All the accused persons, except Adigwe pleaded not guilty to the charge. Adigwe refused to answer to the charge on the ground that he intended to challenge its competence. He said the proof of evidence attached to it failed to establish a prima facie case against him.
Justice J. T. Tsoho, granted bail to the others with the exception of Adigwe on the ground that the prosecution did not oppose their bail applications. He reserved ruling to April 26 on Adigwe's bail application. His decision to reserve ruling on Adigwe's application was informed by the lengthy arguments by both the prosecution led by Rotimi Jacobs and Anthony Idigbe (SAN), representing Adigwe, on whether or not Adigwe should be granted bail even when he failed to answer to the charge..
Others were granted as per the conditions attached by Justice Daniel Abutu to the bail granted Adigwe and Ololo on September 15 last year.Justice Tsoho ordered Adigwe to remain in the custody of the EFCC until ruling is delivered in his bail application. Others are also to remain in the same custody until they are able to perfect their bail. digbe had while arguing the Atuch'e bail application urged the court to admit his client to bail even when he did not pllead to the charge. __He cited Sections 35 (4) and 36 of the Constitution to support his claim that every accused person, except those being tried for capital offense, was entitled to bail.__He added that by virtue of Section 119 of the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA), the granting of bail is not dependent on arraignment.__Opposing bail for Adigwe, Jacobs said it was wrong for the court to grant him bail having failed to submit himself to the court's jurisdiction by pleading to the charge.__On Idigbe's argument that his client could remain of the bail earlier granted him, Jacobs said the bail has lapsed since the case has been transferred to a new judge.


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My chicks have worms. What do I do to get rid of the worms.
crazychick Senior MemberHow old are they? I'd phone an avian vet to be sure that you can dose young chicks, but I'd probably give them the water soluble run of piperazine, which is a safe and commonly used chicken dewormer. If you can see the worms in the chicks droppings, then they are pretty darn wormy. To start off, I'd be tempted to give them a half dose (half as much drug in the water as recommended) because a massive die-off of worms in such a small chick could kill the chick just as easily as the parasites themselves.
Might not be a bad idea to contact a poultry or avian vet on this one, as chicks are pretty tiny...
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Cause : Roundworms-eggs directly move from bird to bird through feces. Tapeworms-transmitted by flies, etc. that contact contaminated feces.rjones said:My chicks have worms. What do I do to get rid of the worms.
May cause unthriftiness & slow growth. Roundworms-3-6 inches long, pencil lead in diameter. Tapeworms-flat ribbon-like, segmented.To prevent this rotate birds in yards or pens. Screen off areas of heavy fecal deposits.There are various drugs for that.There are currently two basic techniques for controlling strongyle worms in red grouse. One is a direct catch-and-treat method, and the second is an indirect method using quartz grit coated in palm oil, which is then impregnated with an anthelmintic chemical (a worm-killing drug). They both have advantages and disadvantages with neither method achieving 100% worm eradication.
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text: "Green" is a hot buzzword – but the visionary sustainable entrepreneur Gunter Pauli argues that many environmentally friendly production processes still aren't good enough. In his book Blue Economy, Pauli describes a new business model that's based on the use of local resources and consigns leftover materials and waste to the past. In the eighth Premsela Lecture on Sunday 4 November in Amsterdam, he talked about how designers could contribute to this new way of doing business. Listen to his lecture on iTunes.


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Romania as a project-oriented society
Projects and project management play an increasing role in the global economy. In a context marked by the evolution of project management from a technical function to an organizational methodology that can be embraced successfully by communities, associations, government agencies, big companies, and even by the society as a whole, the concept of "project-oriented society" gains ground. Not only is the concept on the rise, but also research on measuring the maturity level of the project-oriented society. The main assumption underlying this paper is that there is a correlation between the maturity of project orientation and the managerial competitiveness of each society. The paper explores this correlation by presenting in detail the research study "Project Orientation Romania", which focused on the main measurable dimensions of a project-oriented society.
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Optimal Liquidity and Economic Stability
Monetary aggregates are now much less used as policy instruments as identifying the right measure has become difficult and interest rate transmission has worked well in an increasingly complex financial system. In this process, little attention was paid to the potential spillover of excess liquidity. This paper suggests a notional level of "optimal" liquidity beyond which asset prices will start to rise faster than the GDP deflator, thereby creating a gap between the face value and the real purchasing value of financial assets and widen the wedge in income between those with capital stock and those living on salaries. Such divergence will eventually lead to an abrupt and disorderly adjustment of the asset value, with repercussions on the real sector.
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Samsung Galaxy Neo Android smartphone announced
Samsung has officially unveiled a new Galaxy smartphone in Korea: the Galaxy Neo SHW-M220L.
At first, I thought the Neo is the Korean version of the unannounced Galaxy S II Mini, but its specs contradict this, and it turns out it's just an improved Galaxy Ace.
The Neo (a rather curious name, if we think about Sony Ericsson's similarly-named Android handset) runs Android 2.2 and comes with a 3.5 inch WVGA display, Wi-Fi, GPS, T-DMB, 3.5mm headset jack, 3MP camera, 4GB of on-board memory, and an 800 MHz processor.
The Samsung Galaxy Neo should be available soon via LG U+, South Korea's third largest mobile carrier. Samsung didn't say if it plans to launch the new smartphone in other countries. Anyway, you can check out the Neo here at Samsung Korea's website.


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Bard Valley Natural Delights created five healthy recipes featuring medjool dates to celebrate spring.
"Thanks to a large 2012 crop and some terrific retailer promotions, we expect spring 2012 to be a banner season as more health-minded consumers add medjools to their holiday plans," Ed O'Malley, president of Datepac, a company that packs and ships Natural Delights brand medjool dates, said in a news release.
All five recipes have under 450 calories:
- Strawberry, Orange and Medjool Date Salad with Balsamic Reduction;
- Greek Yogurt with Honey Macerated Citrus and Medjool Dates;
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Zoe Saldana's husband becomes U.S. citizen
The actress spotted British star David Oyelowo also obtaining his U.S. citizenship at the courthouse.
Zoe Saldana is celebrating after her husband, Italian artist Marco Perego, officially became a U.S. citizen.
The Avatar beauty wed Marco in a secret ceremony in England in the summer of 2013, and now, three years later, he has been sworn in as an American.
Zoe, who shares twin boys with her husband, took to Instagram on Wednesday (20Jul16) to share the exciting news with fans as the couple was en route to the courthouse for an oath ceremony.
"Marco has been dreaming about this moment for a long time," she wrote beside a photo of Marco, who was wearing a suit as he drove the car. "It was a process - as it should be, but we are finally here."
The actress then shared a few words of encouragement for others seeking to gain U.S. citizenship, adding, "We are aware it isn't as easy for many immigrants to obtain their citizenship, we say to them NEVER GIVE UP. Stay the course, America would not be what it is if not for the immigrants that come for better opportunities. We send love and good vibes to you all today."
Zoe later posted another snap of Marco and her mother, who is pictured smiling widely as she waves a miniature American flag.
She explained, "My mom has been a citizen since she was a young girl. Her mother arrived in NYC in 1961 and brought my mother from Dominican Republic when she was 10. My sisters and I are indebted to them both. Because of them, we are American women. So proud she is here supporting Marco!"
Zoe then pointed out another familiar face in the background of her photo - British actor David Oyelowo, who was also celebrating a new milestone.
She quipped, "Oh, check out who is getting their naturalization today too... David Oyelowo and his wife! Congrats!"
Saldana and the Selma star aren't the only celebrities who have met at a swearing-in ceremony - last August (15), Matthew McConaughey's Brazilian-born wife Camila Alves became a U.S. citizen on the same day as British actress Emily Blunt, who was accompanied by her spouse, John Krasinski.
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Sarkozy in hot water in Israel
- By James DownieJames Downie is an editorial researcher at FP.
Nicolas Sarkozy may want to keep his opinions to himself next time Benjamin Netanyahu comes to Paris — that is, if he ever wants to come back.
Israel's foreign ministry has accused France of unacceptable meddling in its internal affairs over a reported comment by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
He was quoted by Israeli TV calling for Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who leads a far-right party, to be sacked.
The plea, which has not been confirmed nor denied by officials, was allegedly made during a meeting with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu last week.
Israeli Arab leaders have accused the foreign minister of anti-Arab racism[…]
Israeli Channel Two reported that President Sarkozy advised Mr Netanyahu to "get rid" of Mr Lieberman during their meeting in Paris.
He also suggested that his predecessor Tzipi Livni be restored to the post, according to the report.
"You need to get rid of this man… You need to remove him from this position," Mr Sarkozy reportedly said, to which Mr Netanyahu replied that "in private [Mr Lieberman] is pragmatic".
Sarkozy also compared Lieberman's private pleasantness to French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has often been attacked for anti-Semitic comments. Regardless, given that the meeting was private, it would be interesting to learn who leaked the details to Israeli TV.
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One thing that helps me in the moments that are challenging is to focus on compassion. I imagine making a ball of compassion that is bright white at the center of my chest, and I let it grow from the size of a baseball to a bright mass that reaches over my head. I remind myself the first I must have compassion for myself and acknowledge that it's hard in that moment (sometimes even out loud to myself). Being compassionate to myself is challenging, but I find when I can make space for it my feelings of not being "good enough" or patient, or just like my mother, get shoved where they should be... on the back burner. It's then easier to have compassion for my LO in the moments where she might be annoying me.
Could you start a Saturday morning cuddle tradition? Play music you like (something relaxing) and have everyone in PJ's, and pillows and cuddle for a little while after just waking. Sometimes the physical affection can help with encouraging more patience, stamina for challenging behaviors and a good family bond.
I might suggest that you start a gratitude journal as a trial for two months. In the evenings try writing five things every day that you were grateful for with your kids. A special moment, a time you acted as you wanted, a peaceful nighttime story. Appreciating your children is a good first step to enjoying them. And after two months you can reflect back at the things you've written and note if there are any patterns. Do you notice you really seem to be having nice dinners together? Or looking forward to special time in the mornings? Find the things you like about mothering and expand them.
It's hard to get out of a negativity rut, when you're working so hard to keep your kids together and play. I know many people recommend the book Playful Parenting for ideas of how to bring more playfulness into their day. Please be kind to yourself, sometimes mothering is difficult.
I can be great for awhile and then stress comes into play or I'm super tired, etc. and I revert back to those aweful, aweful behaviors that are ingrained from my childhood.
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Alyce Muncy, 76-year-old resident of Little Falls, formerly of the Pierz/Buckman area, passed away Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014 at St. Gabriels Hospital in Little Falls.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, at St. Michaels Catholic Church in Buckman, with Father David Maciej officiating. Burial was held in the parish cemetery.
Alyce M. Zilkoski was born Oct. 28, 1937 in Flensburg, to the late Cyril and Francis (Zorn) Zilkoski. She attended rural country school in Flensburg and the Little Falls Community High School. Alyce was united in marriage to Clifford Muncy Oct. 9, 1956, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Flensburg. Alyce and Clifford owned and operated Cliffs Bar and she worked at Munsingwear in Little Falls. Alyce also cooked at the Rich Prairie Livestock in Pierz for a few years. She enjoyed traveling with her husband and family especially the trip to Alaska. Alyce was a fantastic cook, baker and enjoyed hosting family and friends. She enjoyed trips to the casino, fishing, deer hunting and playing cards with her family, especially Smear, 31 and Whist. Alyces favorite holiday was Halloween. She was known to overload the children with pop and treats. She was a member of St. Michaels Catholic Church and the Christian Women in Buckman.
Left to cherish her memory are her children, Duane (Jody) Muncy of Little Falls, Roxann (Dale) Slimmer of Little Falls; siblings, Laverne Schneider of Little Falls, Betty Gibson of Sioux Falls, S.D., Joannie (Eddie) Zilka of St. Louis Park and Shari (Dave) Kirchner of Minnetonka; grandchildren, Kristina VanHove, Sean Flahave, Jocelyn LeBlanc, Jonathon Slimmer, Cody Muncy, Brady Muncy and Kyle Muncy; great-grandchildren, Taylor VanHove, Carter VanHove, Alexis Anderson, Ryleigh LeBlanc and Avery Flahave.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Cyril and Francis Zilkoski; husband, Clifford Muncy; siblings, Violet Schneider, Lorraine Miller, Bernie Lyon-Gruber, Carol Theis and John Zilkoski.
In lieu of flowers memorials are preferred to St. Michaels Church Cemetery or Building Fund.
Alyce Muncy
Alyce Muncy, 76-year-old resident of Little Falls, formerly of the Pierz/Buckman area, passed away Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014 at St. Gabriels Hospital in Little Falls.


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Over the Top Tents
Dramatic design transformations turn tents into stunning venues.
Designers and the tenting industry are performing magic these days, taking four walls and a ceiling and transforming them into glittering ballrooms, cozy lounges and rockin' nightclubs. Here's a look at some of the latest innovations.
Starry, Starry Night
Transparent ceilings blend the boundaries between indoors and outdoors, opening the interior of the space to the heavens while still providing the comfort of indoors.
For the grand opening of the Virtua Voorhees Hospital in Voorhees, New Jersey, JR Global Events worked with Classic Party Rental in New York City to erect this 36,597-square-foot tent in the hospital parking lot. The clear top provided a stunning view of the towering new hospital from the reception area. An adjoining white top tent with seating for 1,300 and staging was constructed for formal presentations by the CEO and key donors.
U.S. Tent Rental Inc., based in Sarasota, FL, used chandeliers, draping and lighting to make the clear tent top a canopy for this glittering evening soiree. The 50-by-100-foot tent had open sides, allowing the surrounding foliage to become part of the setting. Photo courtesy of Damon Tucci Photo
Step and Repeat
Little tents can have big impact when grouped symmetrically and splashed with color and branding. Economy Tents in Miami, FL, which was recently acquired by Anchor Industries, specializes in frame tents up to 10 by 40 feet.
Tent Elegance
Glittering chandeliers reflect on the dance floor in this tent supplied by U.S. Tent Rental.
Dramatic Draping
Tent draping doesn't have to be white. For this corporate VIP event, Exclusive Events in St. Louis, MO. played the drama card with the company's colors, which were hues of blue and a touch of green. Twelve people worked nine hours to hang the draping. Exclusive Events also created the fabric chandeliers in-house specifically for this event. The tent was provided by Crown Rentals. Photo courtesy of Exclusive Events.
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War history: Why they cross the globe to honour Anzac heroes of First World War
PUBLISHED: 13:11 28 April 2014
This weekend I will be on the battlefields of the Somme with a group from Australia and New Zealand. The most important part of their programme will undoubtedly be attendance at the dawn service at Villers Bretonneux. The service takes place every year at first light on April 25, a day known to Aussies and Kiwis as Anzac Day.
The date marks the anniversary of the first landing of Anzac troops (it stands for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. Even at the time in April 1915, this amphibious landing on the beach at Anzac Cove had huge national significance for Australia in particular. The landing of national units was viewed then, and even more so today, as a gigantic step toward Australian nationhood. Every year since the first landing, Australians have commemorated this momentous event across the world. Major dawn services take place in London, Gallipoli, Ypres and at Villers Bretonneux. When you read this I will already have attended the 2014 service at Villers Bretonneux, close to the French city of Amiens.
I always look forward to being there; the gathering has a unique atmosphere. Thousands turn out in the darkness and pre-dawn chill of the Somme, regardless of the weather conditions. Although remarkable in itself, what makes it so special is that the majority have journeyed all the way from the southern hemisphere to be there. Each individual or family has come to make their own private battlefield pilgrimage.
The typical Anzac visit to the Western Front usually includes all the battlefields synonymous with the Australian and New Zealand experience of the First World War − Ypres, French Flanders and the Somme feature prominently. However, the dawn service is the primary reason for the long trek across the globe to France.
Significantly, the entire event, along with the main service held at Gallipoli, is broadcast live in Australia and New Zealand, where similar services are also held. Anzac Day has a prominence akin to our own Remembrance Sunday; it is a national event that dominates that date every year without fail.
This may all seem very interesting but little to do with East Anglia and our own experience of the war. It is worth considering just how many British people have close family bonds with Australia and New Zealand. So many of those Anzac men were born and bred in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. When the war engulfed Europe, many returned home to join British regiments or enlist in the Royal Navy.
However, much larger numbers rushed to join the new home-grown armies that were destined to make up the Anzac Corps. So many would never return to either their new or mother country. We should not forget that they came, and should always remember their sacrifice alongside those who served in more familiar county regiments.
This weekend, spare a thought for the Anzacs and consider the words etched into the memorials marking the battles of the New Zealand Division and commemorate their many dead:
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Mike Peters is Galloway's resident military historian and chairman of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides


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On Oct 22, 2005, at 0:47 , Neil Saunders wrote: > I'm writing a property rental web application, and one of the metrics > I wish to track is the number of page views per month for each > property. > > I originally envisaged a table with a column for each month (one row > per property), for which the relevant column would be incremented each > time a property is viewed, depending on the month. But this raises > questions as to the best way to maintain this table (i.e. Create a new > month column each month) I'd prefer to keep all logic in the database, > so would prefer not to use a cron job to do this. I strongly suggest *not* making a column for each month, but rather a row for each month--or even for each page view for greater granularity. Databases are a great way of storing raw information and transforming it into different kinds of summaries, one of which could be a cross tab of properties and the hits per month. In this case your raw data is tracking when a page view occurred, so you'd want to have a table that captures this information: property, timestamp (or date). Take a look at tablefunc in contrib about how to generate cross tabs. I've found them very helpful for generating this kind of summary (though in my case it's been orders per month). Depending on your performance needs, you may want to generate an interim table that pre-calculates your totals per month. For example, if your property view tracking table is create table property_views ( property_id integer not null references properties (property_id) , view_timestamp timestamp(0) with time zone not null ) without oids; you'd have a table create table property_views_per_month as select property_id , date_trunc('month', view_timestamp) as view_month , count(property_id) as view_count from property_views group by property_id, view_month; You'd then generate your crosstab from the property_views_per_month table. (Of course, you'd have to drop and recreate or otherwise update this table periodically, as it doesn't capture up-to-date data). This is an optimization step, however, so unless you find that you need the data faster, you can just use a view and generate the crosstab from the view, e.g., create view property_views_per_month_view as select property_id , date_truc('month', view_timestamp) as view_month , count(property_id) as view_count from property_views group by property_id, view_month; Hope this helps! Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com
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EMC charges HP with duplicitous dedupe claims
EMC's backup and recovery team says Hewlett-Packard is playing games with its numbers in claiming its B6200 backup system with StoreOnce Cataylst software is significantly faster than EMC Data Domain arrays with DD Boost.
HP said its StoreOnce B6200 disk target with Cataylst can ingest data at 100 TB per hour with the maximum of four two-node pairs, compared to EMC's claim of 31 TB/hour with its new Data Domain DD990 with DD Boost. However, the B6200's nodes are siloed. That means an eight-node system actually consists of four separate pools, and it would take an aggregate performance to get to 100 TB/hour.
In an email, an EMC backup/recovery spokesman pointed out the DD990 would achieve 620 TB/per hour if measured the same way that HP measures performance. EMC's 31 TB/hour claim is for a single storage pool but 20 pools can be managed from one Data Domain Enterprise Manager console.
According to EMC's e-mail, "As lofty as they sometimes seem, we do make a concerted effort to keep our performance claims reasonable and defensible. This announcement by HP was, by contrast, very much a smoke and mirrors effort."
The truth is that all vendor performance claims – including benchmarks – should be taken with a grain of salt because they are achieved in optimal conditions, often with hardware configurations that would bring the price up considerably. A smart backup admin knows that performance will vary, and these vendor claims need to be verified in real-world tests.
IBM incorporates compression into storage arrays
For all of its talk about smart storage this week at IBM Edge, Big Blue's storage announcements amounted to mostly cosmetic changes. The lone exception was the addition of real-time inline compression for primary storage arrays.
IBM ported the Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) technology acquired from Storwize in 2010 into its Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controller (SVC) virtual storage arrays. This is IBM's first integration of the compression technology into SAN arrays.
Until now, IBM used the technology only in its Real-Time Compression Appliances, which were re-branded boxes that Storwize sold before the acquisition. Even the Storwize V7000 launched in late 2010 lacked compression, despite its name.
Now IBM is claiming it can compress active primary data with no performance impact on SVC and Storwize V7000 storage, and says it can reduce primary data accessed via block-based protocols by up to 80%.
It turns out that integrating data reduction into primary storage isn't easy. Dell bought primary deduplication startup Ocarina around the same time that IBM picked up Storwize, and has yet to port primary dedupe onto its Compellent or EqualLogic SAN arrays. Dell did launch a backup appliance using Ocarina dedupe in January, and may have a primary data dedupe announcement next week at its Storage Forum.
Other IBM enhancements include support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and non-disruptive volume moves between I/O groups for SVC and Storwize V7000, and four-way clustering for Storwize V7000.
IBM added thin provisioning and Enhanced FlashCopy (allows for more snapshots) for DS3500 and S3700 midrange arrays, and a new web-based UI for the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) suite. For tape management, it added IBM Tape System Library Manager (TSLM) software that helps manage multiple libraries, and an IBM Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Storage Manager for customers using LTO-5 tape libraries and IBM's LTFS Library Edition.
IBM also said it plans to extend its Easy Tier automated tiering software to direct attached server-based solid-state drives (SSDs) so customers can migrate data between disk systems and servers.
EMC buys Watch4net with eye on cloud services
After seven years of partnering with Montreal-based Watch4net, EMC this week bought the software company to bolster its IT infrastructure management capabilities.
Watch4net describes its APG software as "a carrier-class performance management application that provides real-time, historical and projected visibility into the performance of the network, data centers and cloud infrastructures."
EMC resold Watch4net software, and the software is already integrated into the EMC IT Operations Intelligence (ITOI) Suite. ITOI provides availability management, correlation and root-cause analysis for storage, networks and compute resources. Watch4net merges performance metrics from ITOI into custom reports and provides ITOI with alert information when performance thresholds are exceeded.
The acquisition gives EMC greater control over Watch4net's intellectual property. Watch4net CEO Michel Foix and most of the company's 70 employees will join EMC as part of its Infrastructure Management Group. EMC considers an expansion of its infrastructure management software a key part of its move to provide cloud services.
GreenBytes gets greenbucks for green techStorage
Flash storage vendor GreenBytes closed a $12 million funding round this week, led by Al Gore's venture capital firm.
GreenBytes sells two platforms of hybrid arrays combining solid-state drives with hard drives, and in February launched Solidarity – an all-SSD drive with a starting price of under $100,000 for 13.4 TB. The startup said it will use its second funding round to expand sales, marketing and channel development.
Generation Investment Management LLP, co-founded by Al Gore in 2004, led the round with a contribution from Battery Ventures and GreenBytes management. Former U.S. vice president Gore is chairman of Generation Investement, which claims to make investments based on a company's economic, environmental, social and governance sustainability factors.
That means it's probably more interested in the green than the bytes with its new investment. Flash vendors say they are green because their systems have a smaller footprint and use less power than spinning disk storage.
Regardless of their environmental impact, flash array vendors are pulling in the green. EMC reportedly paid $430 million for XtremIO this month, and Violin Memory, Whiptail and Starboard Storage have closed funding rounds this year.
EMC World: Proof of how vendor events are changing
Last week's EMC World would have to be viewed as a major success for EMC. There were customers, press, analysts, resellers, and even other vendors there with something around 20,000 people – counting EMC employees. The crowd was so large, getting through the corridors of the Venetian was a moving body rub.
The access to EMC executives and staff was a real credit to the event. They provided information and fielded questions and did not just "make an appearance" and then bolt. EMC technical people were available as well, and many attendees took advantage to ask about usage in specific environments. For analysts, there was a program to meet with executives and product owners and find about directions and new capabilities.
There has certainly been a sea change in storage events over the years. Meeting with vendors and hearing about their products or their latest announcements was done at large, multi-vendor events such as Storage Networking World (SNW) in the past. Now, the information is more available at the vendor events such as EMC World.
Most vendors have also changed their approach to releasing information. The vendor events are when the next generation of products or features are announced, and future capabilities previewed. There was a time when vendors rarely pre-announced products or capabilities. The announcements came when the products were available.
That practice was relaxed somewhat to coincide with major industry events and products or features were announced that were going to be available within the next quarter. At the major vendor events now, the announcements may be for features or products that will come out over the next three quarters. This is a much longer view and has both positive aspects such as creating interest and publicity for the vendor and negatives in that it may freeze purchases while customers wait for future releases.
EMC uses its show as what the vendor calls a "mega launch," with significant announcements or releases involving most of its key products. It creates interest and has turned EMC World into a must-attend event where the amount of information is so great that not attending will leave people feeling they might be missing valuable information. Certainly that is the intention and it works well. The result may be that the industry-wide events such as SNW have less new information and their importance has diminished in the minds of many.
As an analyst, access to the executives and product people along with the explanations about the announcements are incredibly valuable. It is also a great chance to catch up with friends that you've worked with in the past.
The economics for these mega events are well understood by marketing – they cost a great deal and must result in increased or sustaining revenue to justify the investment. EMC has certainly set the bar for these shows, and we can expect more of the same from their rivals in the storage arms race.
(Randy Kerns is Senior Strategist at Evaluator Group, an IT analyst firm).
NetApp keeps flash plans under wraps
Like EMC, NetApp executives say they expect to offer flash in many areas of their storage systems. But NetApp so far only sells flash as a cache in storage arrays (Flash Cache), and solid state drives (SSDs) that can complement hard drives in a hybrid approach.
EMC has a VFCache server-side PCIe card, and its roadmap includes a PCIe-based shared storage appliance and all-flash array — all pieces NetApp lacks. And while EMC predicts a hybrid implementation of SSD and hard drives in the same system will be the most popular, NetApp maintains Flash Cache is the best way to go. NetApp is also more guarded about its flash roadmap than EMC.
"We have consistently said that flash will be deployed throughout the hardware stack, and our flash offerings will be aggressive and multi-faceted," NetApp CEO Tom Georgens said on the vendor's earnings call this week. "Our belief is that offering flash primarily in the form of the cache is the most efficient and effective way to deploy this technology in storage arrays, and most of the industry is now following this approach."
Georgens said all NetApp FAS6000 systems have 500 GB of flash embedded, and most FAS3240 and3270 arrays ship with flash. "Our R&D pipeline contains projects to further the use of flash on other layers of the stack, and our next release of OnTap [NetApp's operating system] will contain additional flash-related offerings," he said.
NetApp executives visited XtremIO's Israeli headquarters before EMC grabbed the all-flash array startup for $430 million. An analyst on the call suggested EMC outbid NetApp for XtremIO as it did for Data Domain three years ago, but Georgens would not confirm that NetApp wanted XtremIO.
"Obviously, we spend time with a lot of people and visit a lot of people, talk to a lot of people about potential engagements," he said. "As far as flash goes, I see that as an innovation and a way to promulgate our data management capability. And that's going to be the key part of our strategy. So I think you'll see NetApp participating in flash on multiple dimensions, and primarily, it is to expand our data management footprint."
HP's 3PAR passes EVA in sales
Hewlett-Packard's storage team maintains it remains committed to the EVA midrange platform, and continues to upgrade the product. But you have to wonder how long that commitment will remain as the company faces restructuring and EVA sales keep dropping while 3PAR's soar.
HP CEO Meg Whitman characterized HP's storage as "a tale of two cities" during the company's earnings call Wednesday. "3PAR continued to gain strong traction in the marketplace, growing more than 100 percent year-over-year," she said. "At the same time, tape and EVA are declining. This is an anticipated product transition and we're effectively managing the shift to our next-generation storage arrays."
This trend has been ongoing ever since HP acquired 3PAR in late 2010. HP CFO Cathy Lesjak added on the call that 3PAR has replaced EVA as the vendor's largest revenue storage array. She said the two midrange platforms grew a combined 19% year-over-year compared to one percent overall storage growth. That means without 3PAR, HP's storage revenue declined.
HP said its StoreOnce deduplication software nearly doubled in revenue, but that product had little revenue a year ago before it was relaunched last November.
EMC World 2012 Wrap: Sneak peaks at Projects X and Thunder
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — EMC was stingy with details of its pet flash projects during most of EMC World 2012, but offered glimpses of early versions of "Project X" and "Project Thunder" Tuesday during chief marketing officer Jeremy Burton's keynote on future technologies.
Burton called up XtremIO's product manager VP Josh Goldstein for a quick demo of what EMC is calling Project X – XtremIO's all-flash array. Goldstein showed how the flash array scales out by adding nodes for "unlimited IOPS," said it takes only 20 seconds to provision 1 PB of data, and claims a single node can produce 150,000 write IOPS and more than 300,000 read IOPS. He said it can handle a mixed load of reads and writes at 180,000 IOPS. Goldstein said the product is made up of commodity components to keep the price down. EMC execs say Project X is entering pre-beta deployments and will not be generally available until next year.
Project Thunder is an appliance with up to 10 1 TB flash cards and connects to servers through 40-Gigabit Ethernet or InfiniBand switches. Dan Cobb, CTO of EMC's flash, gave a brief demo on stage and strongly hinted that Thunder will be shipping by the end of the year. "[EMC COO] Pat Gelsiner would like an early Christmas present, and he seems like he's the kind of guy who gets what he wants," Cobb said. …
Even with Projects Thunder and X, EMC expects most flash implementations in the near future to be the addition of SSDs to hard drive arrays. Or, as the president of EMC's unified storage division Rich Napolitano put it, "A little flash goes a long way."
Napolitano said if a storage array has five percent of flash, that flash can handle 70% to 80% of all IOPS. He also said more than 60% of EMC's midrange storage systems now include flash, and claimed that all-flash systems are too costly for midrange systems. "Ninety percent of use cases will be covered with a hybrid array," he said. "The challenge with all-flash arrays is, if they're not hybrid, they just can't hit the cost point for the midrange." …
Syncplicity customers hoping that EMC will improve the online file-sharing service's enterprise features might get their wish. Jeetu Patel, chief strategy officer for EMC's information intelligence group, said there are plans to add enterprise features.
"We looked at many products in this space and found that Syncplicity was the best at providing a simpler user experience with the richest set of security, policy and management controls for IT," Patel said. "It is already enterprise-strength and we have numerous exciting enhancements planned."
Patel said recent customer surveys indicated more than 80% want an enterprise solution for syncing and sharing files. "It is critical that our solution breaks down the barriers between operating systems, devices, and business apps to allow data to reside everywhere users need it," he said.
Patel said there are no pricing changes for Syncplicity planned "at this time." …
EMC CEO Joe Tucci said the vendor will continue to split its product development resources between internal development and acquisitions. He said EMC spends about $2 billion a year each on R&D and M&A.
"We never comment on what technology areas we're interested in acquiring, that only ends up working against us," he said during a Monday press conference. "We will do multiple acquisitions a year. XtremIO will not be the last one we'll do this year."
He was proved correct on that last claim hours later when EMC announced it acquired Syncplicity. …
Facebook is in the news for other reasons these days, but the social media giant may have set a record for the largest storage purchase in history earlier this year. Computer Weekly's Jennifer Scott reports Facebook is the customer EMC CFO David Goulden referred to during the company's earnings call last month when he said a web company bought 28 PB of Isilon storage. "We believe it was the largest capacity single-order in the history of storage," Goulden said. EMC execs have refused to publicly name the customer. …
A representative for cloud service provider Nirvanix claims EMC's Atmos upgrades this week shows the vendor still doesn't understand the cloud storage concept. Steve Zivanic, Nirvanix's VP of marketing, dashed off an email mocking EMC for thinking speed enhancements to its Atmos object-storage platform will help customers who want cloud storage.
Zivanic wrote the Atmos upgrade shows that EMC still views storage as a product instead of a service. "When it's a storage product, the risk is all on the buyer," Zivanic wrote. "When it's a service, the risk is on the seller. Atmos is still a product customers have to buy and manage and operate and maintain, versus a cloud service they can simply access as required."
Zivanic wrote that customers have to pay up to millions of dollars to build private clouds using EMC technology, and its talk of hybrid clouds is hollow because the vendor has no public cloud of its own. That means it cannot enforce SLAs and security policies between a private and public cloud in a hybrid setup.
"EMC is still stuck in the old paradigm," he wrote. "Once a customer uploads data to the cloud, it's the last data migration they'll ever do. That's the new paradigm that EMC refuses to fundamentally embrace. It doesn't matter how much faster Atmos is, EMC is still fighting the disruptive change that cloud storage represents."
Hitachi Data Systems, EMC divided about federation
EMC's new Federated Tiered Storage (FTS) for VMAX arrays allows customers to run other EMC platforms or competing storage systems behind VMAX, much like Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has virtualized arrays for years behind its Universal Storage Platform (USP) and current Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) systems.
Not surprisingly, EMC claims its virtualization features go beyond those of Hitachi's, and HDS claims EMC is off base with those claims.
Brian Gallagher, EMC president of enterprise storage, made the case for EMC's virtualization Monday during the opening of EMC World.
"We've extended Symmetrix's data integrity to non-EMC devices. Hitachi does not do that," Gallagher said. "Also, our technology is free of charge. You can virtualize any amount of non-EMC storage behind Symmetrix. Hitachi gives you a certain amount of terabytes for free, and then they charge when you go beyond that. Hitachi will also tell you not to use virtualization for databases, we don't say that. We also extend FAST to other arrays. They [Hitachi] don't extend auto tiering [to VSP]."
Claus Mikkelsen, chief scientist at HDS, disputed EMC's points in an e-mail to Storage Soup. He said the HDS VSP supports "full inheritance" on externally virtualized storage devices from HDS or other vendors.
As for EMC's free claim, Mikkelsen said "EMC states that software license enablement of FTS is a no-charge feature to customers, but fails to mention the future impact on software maintenance costs for the FTS license and any other EMC software license that charges maintenance based on installed capacity. With the Switch It On program from HDS, virtualization is free and third-party capacity is deeply discounted."
Mikkelsen said HDS offers "prudent" advice on using virtualization with databases.
"We state that that Hitachi Dynamic Tiering on VSP will intelligently place data pages based on an application's I/O access pattern," he said. "Additionally, we recommend that customers do not immediately place OLTP database environments with high I/O transaction rates and low average response time requirements as externally virtualized storage. This is prudent advice that any intelligent storage vendor would recommend."
Finally, Mikkelson said HDS' technology does extend its Dynamic Tiering to third-party virtualized arrays.
EMC's FTS will require time for users to kick the tires before it can be accurately judged, but the virtualization features are welcome additions.
"This is at least a step down the path to VSP-style virtualization," said Ray Lucchesi, president of Silverton Consulting.
You can expect more steps – and more spats with HDS – before EMC's array virtualization story is finished.
Tucci invents a 'Name that creep contest'
If the EMC World 2012 logo using the head with a cloud on top of one half and weird-looking tubes sticking out of the other half makes no sense to you, you're not alone.
EMC CEO Joe Tucci commented on the face during the opening minutes of his keynote today, pointing to it behind him on stage and asking "How many of you does this guy creep out?" After applause, he added "I'm not the only one. Let's have a contest and see whoever comes up with the best name for this person. But I'm glad I'm not the only one creeped out."


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Cheap Colorful Way To Cover Cakeboards...
Decorating By knel Updated 27 Jul 2008 , 9:14pm by butternut
.... forgive me if anyone has discovered this ahead of me......
Anyway, I like to cover my cakeboards in colored paper (particularly children's birthday cakes). The only thing, is that I cannot find ANYWHERE locally to buy grease resistant paper, unless it is gold, white, or silver, and even if I could, they are at least $8 a roll. While I was in Walmart today, a lightbulb went off, and I bought a hot pink plastic party tablecloth for a dollar. Anxious to see how this works out...
If anyone has tried this before me, and feels the need to stop me for a good reason, please do so... Preferably before Thursday!!!
I did this over the weekend for a wedding cake and grooms cake and I will DEFINITELY be doing it again. It is so much easier than trying to cover the board with fondant or some other expensive covering.
I do this, and I love it. You can cover several boards with it too!
I was hoping I was on to something.... good to know someone has "been there, done that" and done it successfully!!!!
Thanks for the feedback!
Haven't tried it but thanks for sharing the idea, will have to give it a try!!!
I've tried it before but don't know if I will again. After I iced the cake there was some on the cake board and when I wiped it off with a paper towel, some of the color from the plastic tablecloth was on the papertowel.
I use wrapping paper that I get at the dollar store and then just cover the paper with clear contact paper!! I love doing that and I like that there are sooo many options of colors, patterns, etc!!!
This sounds like such a great idea!!!! I do have a question, what is the best way to anchor the tablecloth to the board? No problems with any shifting of the cake?
Plastic tablecloths are all I use for my boards! I buy them from hobby lobby in EVERY color they carry! I just use a strong packing tape to secure it to the back of the board.
They are perfect, a variety of colors, and it doesnt absorb the grease from buttercream!
This sounds like such a great idea!!!! I do have a question, what is the best way to anchor the tablecloth to the board? No problems with any shifting of the cake?
I haven't used a tablecloth, but whenever I cover my board in something that's not self stick (i.e. contact paper), I use packing tape on the bottom of the board. As long as the covering is put on the board nice and snugly, that's all it requires.
I also use plastic table cloths with holiday decorations that you can get after the holiday CHEAP!!!! They are a little thicker and hold up well.
Plastic tablecloths are all I use for my boards! I buy them from hobby lobby in EVERY color they carry! I just use a strong packing tape to secure it to the back of the board.
They are perfect, a variety of colors, and it doesnt absorb the grease from buttercream!
I use fondant, but I just add a strip of it around the cake after the cake has been placed on the board. It saves a lot of fondant compared to covering the whole board. I use foam core board and just place the cake directly on it. It works great.
OK, I have a dumb question. What is clear Contact paper and where can I get it? I would love to cover the cake board with gift wrapping paper to match the theme (not that I have decorated too many cakes) and cover it so that I can place the cake directly on it. I don't think gift wrapping paper is food safe. Is clear contact paper food safe?
contact paper is the same stuff you line your cabinets with. You can get it at walmart, target, etcc. or any home improvement store. It comes in lots of colors, etc... they have one that is clear..
does that help?
Thanks Mcdonald. Can you tell me if it is self sticking or I have to tape it?
Contact paper is self sticking. You have to remove the paper backing from the sticky side of the plastic. There's clear and other ones (patterned).
Also, something I forgot to mention before, is I like to use freezer paper when I just want a plain white board. Works incredibly well.
I've used wrapping paper before, too, and love it... however, I have always used cellophane to cover over the paper. I don't lilke doing that because there is always a "seam" overlapping. I love the contact paper to cover over the wrapping paper. Thanks for the idea!
I have used both the plastic tablecloths and gift wrap for my cake boards and have found both to work equally well. I will also cover the gift wrap with just clear plastic wrap ie Saran Wrap and tape it down on the back of the board if I don't have the clear contact paper and it works almost as well. If you want to add a real spark of interest, use colored plastic wrap over metallic wrapping paper...gives it a little different perspective to the sparkle.
I used a double layer of tissue paper covered with clear contact paper for this cake board last night. Up until now I've been purchasing different color foils from a cake supply store. Tissue paper and wrapping paper comes in endless colors and designs. I wish I'd known about this method sooner. I hate to think how much money I spent on that foil.
Ooo... I bet you could also use the contact paper to cover decorative scrapbooking paper (if the cake board is on the smaller side)
I need to try this! Thanks for the tips
I forgot to mention that when you use the cellophane, you need to use the extra wide kind or you do end up with the "seam" issue that knel mentioned. Have fun playing with all the different options!!
Can I ask if the vinyl tablecloths and clear contact paper are food safe? I am not trying to stir up anything here, I have just never used either and am wondering ... ? They are a superb idea.
I've been using the plastic table clothes to cover my boards for a long time now. I got the idea from someone here and it works just fine. I attach it to the back of the board with regular 'ol scotch tape and never had a problem.
I do almost all of my cakes on boards covered with wrapping or scrapbooking paper, I have even used dress makers patterns http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1150080 and junk mail http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1181018
Almost anything cheap and appropriate for what I am doing. Sometimes it helps with the overall look of the cake and means I go into less detail with the decorating, it can really become a feature in itself. I have an embarrassingly huge collection of paper I cover my boards with whatever I am using and then contact plastic over the top. As for whether it is food safe, I heard that teflon and margarine cause cancer and people still use them...
I usually staple my fabric to the underside of the foamcore board. I might try scrapbook paper then just put a ribbon boarder around the edges.
As for food safe. Put your cakes on a board before putting on the base board & you won't have to worry about it b/c it doesn't come in contact w/ the covers/boards.
Hey amber!! Can I come and scrapbook at your house??!! LOL
Don't ya just love all the creative people in the CC!!!???
In my farmyard cake pic, you can see I tried using a heavy wrapping paper...forgot to cover it in plastic...can you say greasy ring???? Dang it!!
Lesson learned and boy do I have some really good new ideas thanks you all of you!! Woohoo!!
I thought I was the only one cheap enough to use colored tissue paper.
Got to try the colored cellophane over the metallic cake board... I'm thinkin' some green or red for Christmas........ definately add some dazzle... Thanks for the tip...
(chuckle...) I thought that I had really discovered something big and I was going to be famous for "my" idea of covering cake boards with plastic tablecloths... Oh well..........
I LOVE the ideas that you guys come up with!! going to have to try the plastic table cloth one for sure!
Amber - I added your dressmaker's cake to my favorites! And using junk mail on the cake board - super idea! I'm making a cake for two avid gardeners in a couple weeks. I'm thinking I could use some flower catalogs that I have around here.
I love this site!


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Police have rescued 20 potential victims of human trafficking and arrested three men as part of a probe into labour exploitation.
The 20 Romanian victims were rescued at various stages since last Wednesday at two locations in county Armagh. The 14 men and 6 women range in age from 20 to 48.
Police have liaised with the UK Human Trafficking Centre and a number of agencies to ensure the victims are safe and translators have been flown to Northern Ireland from England to cope with the number of victims involved and the volume of information which needs to be processed.
The three suspects, aged 23, 27 and 31 have been arrested in counties Armagh and Antrim during the course of the investigation. They are being questioned at the Serious Crime Suite at Antrim police station on suspicion of human trafficking, forced labour and slavery and money laundering. Two properties have been searched and three vehicles seized.
Detectives from Organised Crime Branch have also been liaising with the Gangmaster Licensing Authority as part of their investigations which are linked to food production.
Detective Inspector Todd Clements from Organised Crime Branch said: "This has been a fast-moving and complex operation which may continue for some time. The 20 people we have identified as potential victims of human trafficking for labour exploitation are in places of safety now. Our inquiries are continuing."
Police said there is "no suggestion" that any employers have been complicit in any trafficking or labour exploitation, but were unable to give any further clarification on the issue.
Justice Minister David Ford congratulated the police on the rescue of 20 potential victims.
He said: "The trafficking of a human being for profit is a heinous crime and should not be tolerated in any community.
"I welcome the action by the PSNI which has led to the rescue of 20 potential victims of human trafficking in Co Armagh and would urge all members of the community to be vigilant to this terrible crime.
"Anyone with information or concerns about potential human trafficking should immediately contact either the Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555 111 or the PSNI directly."
Lord Morrow has welcomed the rescue of 20 potential victims but warned that in his view, the matter sends a clear message that tighter legislation is required.
The DUP peer currently has a bill passing through the assembly which would, if passed, make it a criminal offence to pay for sex, which he believes will reduce demand for trafficked women in the sex trade.
He said: "The PSNI are to be commended for this action which I understand has been underway since last week. I am advised all those rescued are Romanian – 14 men and six women – and they are now in places of safety. In addition, extra translators have been flown to Northern Ireland from London to assist.
"The potential victims are believed to have been engaged in forced labour within the food production sector in County Armagh. How they arrived in Northern Ireland has yet to be established, but it is my understanding three males have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, money laundering and slavery.
"I do not wish to pre-empt the outcome of the investigation, but I will be closely monitoring this situation.
"However, it is impossible to avoid the fact that Northern Ireland has been seen by those behind this incident as a hot-spot for slavery and the degradation of human beings through forced labour for financial gain.
"That is deeply troubling and something which I remain committed to eradicating through my Private Member's Bill. For now, I take comfort from this swift action by PSNI which has freed 20 potential victims from slavery.
"The three main objectives of my Bill are to tackle the scourge of human trafficking, ensure support mechanisms are in place for victims and tougher sentences for those responsible. I remain convinced current laws are insufficient to deal with this appalling and inhuman crime."
Grainne Teggart, Northern Ireland Campaigner with Amnesty International, also commended "the determination of the PSNI to tackle human trafficking in Northern Ireland".
She added: "Human Trafficking is a grave abuse of human rights taking various forms including forced labour, sexual exploitation and domestic servitude. It is vital that all those responsible for such heinous crimes are brought to justice".
UUP MLA for Newry and Armagh Danny Kennedy said: "I am shocked and appalled to hear that 20 people may have been trafficked to County Armagh. Those responsible are parasites on our society. The PSNI and other agencies must be applauded for their patient investigation which has led to the rescue of these vulnerable people from a modern form of enslavement and cruel exploitation. If anyone has any information regarding those responsible, they should inform the PSNI immediately."
In December Minister Ford told the News Letter there had been 37 confirmed human trafficking victims in Northern Ireland since 2009 – 26 in sexual exploitation, eight in forced labour, two in domestic servitude and one from 'unknown' origins.
However the authorities dealing with such victims agree that there are likely to be more who have not been detected or who are too scared to testify against their traffickers.


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Professor Martin Buber, the noted Jewish thinker who has just arrived in Germany for an extended lecture tour, will receive the 1953 "Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, "it is announced here.
First winner of the $2,500 prize, in 1950, was Jewish author and pacifist Max Tau. In 1951 it was awarded to Albert Schweitzer and last year to Catholic moral philosopher Romano Guardint. Professor Buber will accept the prize at a ceremony in Frankfurt's secularized St. Paul's Church next September.
Professor Buber, who has a considerable following in German intellectual circles, lectured to a crowded auditorium at Frankfort University, where he taught comparative religion from 1924 to 1933. He was warmly welcomed by the University's Jewish President, Professor Max Horkheimer. He will also lecture at the universities of Bonn, Munster, Gottingen and Tubingen.


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Company fined for pollution violations
PERHAM, Minn. -- A metal coating company will pay a $60,000 fine and make improvements to its Perham facility after a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency investigation of air quality and hazardous waste violations.
An inspection at Industrial Finishing Services found emissions of volatile organic compounds that exceeded the facility's permit thresholds, a news release from the MPCA said.
The company needed a piece of equipment called a thermal oxidizer to control hazardous air pollutants associated with coatings the company uses. Because emission levels were increasing, the company should have applied for a different category of permit in 2009 but did not do so until 2014, the release states. The violations were discovered during the application process for the new permit.
The MPCA also discovered the company had begun construction on an expansion before receiving a required MPCA permit, and found other issues with contingency planning, training, use of a non-licensed site for hazardous waste disposal, and pollution risks.
The company has agreed to changes that will bring the facility into compliance with air pollution and hazardous waste regulations and pay a $60,000 civil penalty.


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Committee recommends two prong-approach for university online education
The board of Governors' Strategic Planning Committee met today to come up with a plan for increasing online education at colleges and universities, a priority of House Speaker Will Weatherford. The panel decided the state university system should determine one university that will offer new degree programs and house a research center that will study ways to improve online education. The committee also wants Chancellor Frank Brogan to create a workgroup to improve coordination between schools.
Here is more from a Board of Governors press release:
The Strategic Planning Committee of the Florida Board of Governors on Wednesday offered up a comprehensive plan to better coordinate the online degree offerings across the State University System.
The proposal, which calls for both long- and short-term actions, is the product of more than a year of work with our universities, the State College System, Florida's independent colleges and universities, state leaders and experts in the online learning industry. The Board expressed a willingness to seek funding from the Legislature to support this effort. It includes the following:
• The Board of Governors should use preeminence metrics, approved by the Board for use in university workplans, to determine a university that would offer a new, separate arm of high-quality online degree programs to students in Florida and across the globe. The designated university should also create a research center to develop cutting-edge technology and instructural design of online programs and ensure the success of online students.
• State University System Chancellor Frank T. Brogan should form a systemwide workgroup to continue to determine ways in which universities and other higher education delivery systems can better coordinate online degree offerings now and in the future.
"The world of online higher education is ever-changing, and there are many opportunities for improvement," said John D. Rood, chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. "Through this process, we are confident Florida will emerge as as an even stronger national leader in online education—not only for providing high-quality offerings to our students, but for developing best practices that meet the strategic needs of Florida."
The decision followed a presentation by the University of Florida on its online learning strategies. The recommendations will be presented to the full Board of Governors for consideration at its telephonic meeting Feb. 21. The goal is to deliver an online education framework to the Legislature prior to the start of Session in early March.


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The Elk River City Council has approved the hiring of Brian Beeman as the city's economic development director.
Four candidates were interviewed.
Beeman most recently was the city administrator for the city of Melrose. He also was city administrator for the city of Sutton, Neb., a state trooper in Nebraska and a second lieutenant in the Army National Guard. He served in Operation Enduring Freedom.
The council voted 3-1 to hire Beeman. Mayor John Dietz voted no and Council Member Matt Westgaard was absent. Dietz had wanted the city to do more "due diligence" after City Council members received an anonymous email regarding Beeman.
City Administrator Cal Portner said he did further checking and didn't find anything that led to any concern.
The city also did its own background and reference checks "and everything has been well above board," Portner said.


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Who Is Covered under Your Homeowners Policy?
To understand who is covered under your homeowners policy, it's helpful first to understand what homeowners insurance covers. Basically, homeowners insurance covers your home and other physical structures on the property (property insurance), your personal belongings (personal property insurance), and liability resulting from bodily injury or property damage suffered by others in connection with your property (liability insurance). Your homeowners policy protects more than just the owner of the house. But depending on who you're talking about, they may not be covered in all three areas.
Named insured
Every homeowners policy lists a named insured. This person is the individual primarily insured under the policy and is usually the same person named on the deed as the owner (if the house is jointly owned, both people should be listed as the named insureds). The named insured receives the most extensive coverage under the homeowners policy--property insurance, personal property insurance, and liability insurance. If something happens to your home (e.g., a storm shatters your windows, a car crashes through your fence), you'll be the one to make the claim with the insurance company.
If your spouse resides in the home, he or she is covered by personal property and liability insurance, even if he or she isn't identified in the policy.
Children and other residents
Any individuals who live in the home are also covered by personal property and liability insurance if they are related to you (e.g., your children, an aging parent) or if they are under 21 years of age and in the care of any member of your family. So, if your daughter moves back in with you after college, she would be covered for personal property and liability insurance, even if she's over age 21, but a nonrelative would not.
Any employees you may have, such as housekeepers, au pairs, or landscapers, are covered by your policy's personal property insurance.
Guests and other visitors
Your guests and other invited visitors (as opposed to trespassers) are covered by personal property insurance, provided you contact your insurance company at the time you purchase the policy to request this coverage.
Although your homeowners policy covers many people, there is one group who generally isn't covered--tenants. To protect their belongings in case your home is damaged, renters will need to get a separate renters insurance policy. A renters policy can also provide them with liability protection if someone suffers an injury or property damage due to their negligence.
If you have an in-law apartment, determining whether your tenant's personal belongings will be covered under your homeowners policy is a bit trickier. For some insurance companies, a private entrance is the deciding factor on whether a separate renters policy will be necessary. For others, the deciding factor is whether the person occupying the in-law apartment is a relative. Make sure you confirm your coverage with your insurance agent before you have to file a claim.
If you own a home and are renting it out, keep in mind that your standard homeowners policy may not be appropriate for you because (1) you don't need to insure the contents of the house (unless you're offering it fully furnished), (2) you'll probably need more liability insurance, and (3) you may want to protect yourself against the loss of rental income. If so, you might be interested in an insurance policy designed specifically for rental property.


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Texas Department of Criminal Justice
If you chose TRUE, you are correct.
True, it violates policy.
An employee is violating policy when she passes out an Avon catalog to fellow co-workers during regular working hours. An employee during working hours cannot use state time or property to further one's personal business. This should be done during lunch or non-working hours in the parking lot in one's car or at a designated meeting place. Please review the Opinion found at the end of the training regarding this issue. Please note this does not only include Avon, but others such as Mary Kay, Tupperware, Home Interior, etc.