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Hi Group. Recently upgraded from 8.1 to 8.3 on RHEL 5 64-bit. I've noticed some performance problems that I am guessing are WAL related based on my browsing around and wondered if someone had some suggestions for tuning the WAL settings. It could also help if someone just laughed at me and told me it wasn't WAL. I have narrowed the problem down to two pretty simple descriptions. I had a data load that I was doing with 8.1. It involved about 250k sql statements that were inserts into a table with just one index. The index has two fields. With the upgrade to 8.3 that process started taking all night and 1/2 a day. It inserted at the rate of 349 records a minute. When I started working on the problem I decided to test by putting all statements withing a single transaction. Just a simple BEGIN at the start and COMMIT at the end. Magically it only took 7 minutes to do the whole set, or 40k per minute. That seemed very odd to me, but at least I solved the problem. The most recently noticed simple problem. I had a table with about 20k records. We issued the statement DELETE FROM table where this=that. This was part of a combined index and about 8k records should have been deleted. This statement caused all other queries to grind to a halt. It was only when I killed it that normal operation resumed. It was acting like a lock, but that table was not being used by any other process. So that describes what I am seeing, let me relay what we are doing with what I think to be the relevant settings. For the log shipping, I am using scp to send the logs to a separate server. And yes they are getting sent. I have it set now to send the log about every two minutes since I am comfortable with that amount of data loss. Here are the settings from the log file that are not commented out relating to WAL. (everything below WRITE AHEAD LOG section in the default config file) synchronous_commit = off checkpoint_segments = 3 # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB each checkpoint_timeout = 5min # range 30s-1h checkpoint_completion_target = 0.5 # checkpoint target duration, 0.0 - 1.0 checkpoint_warning = 30s # 0 is off archive_mode = on # allows archiving to be done archive_command = '/var/lib/pgsql/data/logship.sh %f %p' archive_timeout = 120 # force a logfile segment switch after this Thanks for any help (or laughter) Rusty
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In 2010, Lisa Fitzpatrick started APEX Youth Center in New Orleans after seeing kids in her neighborhood getting hurt and killed in gang related violence. She quit her job as an executive at a health-care company, her and her husband Danny sold their home, cars, and used their savings and retirement to fund the non-profit.
Helping at-risk youth is something Lisa's been longing to do. When Lisa was in her 20s and living in Oklahoma she was a victim of gang violence. When she was a passenger in a car pulling up to a convenience store, a kid pulled a gun out and shot her, just grazing her face.
"It was a gang initiation, it was shoot a random person day, apparently, I was it. It was kill or be killed, I was collateral damage," said Lisa.
All day during summer, after school, and even after dark, the Apex doors are open, providing a safe place, for the more than 300 kids that are enrolled.
They provide about 30 breakfasts, 100 lunches during the summer, and 40 dinners a day. At APEX kids and teens have access to mentoring, tutoring, and community service opportunities designed to prepare them to be productive New Orleans citizens.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Nobel Prize won by Francis Crick in 1962 for his discovery of DNA was sold Thursday at auction for more than $2 million.
Heritage Auctions identified the buyer as Jack Wang, CEO of Biomobie, a regenerative medicine technology company located in Silicon Valley and Shanghai. The price surpassed the pre-sale estimate of $500,000.
On Wednesday, a letter Crick wrote to his son describing the discovery sold at Christie's for $6 million. It was a record for a letter, eclipsing a record price for an Abraham Lincoln letter that went for $3.4 million in 2008.
Crick was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins. He spent the latter decades of his career doing brain research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. He died in 2004 at age 88.
The medal was among 11 artifacts Crick's heirs offered at the Heritage auction.
Wang said the medal and diploma will be used to encourage Biomobie scientists working on regenerating damaged human organs. He said the company's work could "launch a biomedical revolution like the discovery of the structure of DNA."
Twenty percent of the proceeds from the Heritage Auctions sale will go to the new Francis Crick Institute in London, a medical research institute slated to open in 2015. Half the proceeds from the Christie's sale will benefit the Salk Institute, the granddaughter said.
Crick's son Michael, who was in New York to attend the auctions with his daughter, told The Associated Press that the family hoped the winning bids went to someone who "will give people the opportunity to look at them and that they will be an inspiration for future scientists."
The 1962 medal is struck in 23-karat gold. One side features the Genius of Medicine holding an open book in her lap, collecting water pouring out of a rock to quench the thirst of a sick girl beside her. It was offered together with his Nobel diploma, a handsome two-page vellum document that contains an original picture of a long-haired youth in a blue tunic holding the Rod of Asclepius.
Other items in the Heritage sale include Crick's endorsed Nobel Prize check in the amount of 85,739,88 Swedish krona, dated Dec. 10, 1962, and a white lab coat complete with stains and wear.
In the March 19, 1953, handwritten letter to his then-12-year-old son, Francis Crick describes his discovery of the structure of DNA as something "beautiful." The note tells his son how he and James Watson found the copying mechanism "by which life comes from life." It includes a simple sketch of DNA's double helix structure, which Crick concedes he can't draw very well.
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January is usually one of the quietest months on TV… but not on FX.
Earlier today, FX announced return dates for "Archer" and "Justified," as well as the series premiere of its new animated series, "Unsupervised."
"Archer" is set to redeploy for its third season on Thursday, January 19 2012. Created by Adam Reed, the animated series follows the misadventures of Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and his sometimes bizarre coworkers at the International Secret Intelligence Service. Or ISIS for short. And it's often one of the funniest shows on TV.
Joining "Archer" on January 19 (and on all Thursday nights thereafter) is the new animated comedy, "Unsupervised;" which is created and produced by "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" veterans, Rob Rosell, Scott Marder and David Hornsby. "Unsupervised" features the voices of Justin Long, Fred Armisen, Kristen Bell, Kaitlin Olson, Alexa Vega and Romany Malco as it chronicles the lives two teens named Gary and Joel as they navigate through life without any interference from their parents. The animation for "Unsupervised" is also being produced by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson from "Archer."
And finally, "Justified" bows for its third season on Tuesday, January 17. In the wake of the Bennett family's fall, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) and his rival Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) find that the underworld of Harlan County is up for grabs as a mysterious man named Limehouse (Mykelti Williamson) and Quarles (Neal McDonough), a Detroit mobster both make their own power plays.
Carla Gugino ("Sucker Punch," "Karen Sisko") will also appear in the third season of "Justified" in the recurring role of Karen Goodall, an old colleague of Raylan's who may also be one of his former lovers.
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A young man was indicted by the Be'er Sheva District Court on Friday for his alleged involvement in the hit-and-run killing of an 85-year-old woman. The suspect, Asher Abutbul, was indicted on charges of leaving the scene of a crime, obstruction of justice, destroying evidence and driving without a valid license. The first charge alone carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Prosecutors also requested that Abutbul be held in custody until the end of legal proceedings.
The indictment stated that one evening this past June Abutbul hit the deceased, Be'er Sheva resident Lula Amdur, and did not stop to call for help. Two passengers who were in the car at the time, Lior Edri and Lital Gabai, have also been charged for failing to call emergency services after the accident. This last charge carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison. According to the indictment, Abutbul shouted at Edri and Gabai immediately following the accident, "I don't have a license, I'm not stopping."
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The product manager is able to turn ideas and design concepts into reality, by transforming creativity into a commercial offer. Participants will learn about the skills needed to organize and implement production quality assurance protocols of a fashion product. Participants will acquire a deep and broad understanding of various textiles, their properties and uses. Participants will have an idea of the process of cutting and manufacture in relation to production timelines. This course is for those who already work in or who want to work in this sector and would like to specialize and improve their skills.
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And just when you thought the adulation for Jay-Z couldn't reach higher heights, GQ Magazine has included Jiggaman in their esteemed "Men Of The Year" list and even crowned him "King." Justin Timberlake & Jimmy Fallon, Mila Kulis and Michael Fassbender join Jay in four different cover images for the mag's annual issue celebrating those who led the way. Scribe Alex Pappademas got Shawn Corey to sit down for an interview where they discussed Kanye's perfectionism, his own father and fitting a car seat into the Maybach.
Jay-Z on Kanye's obsessing over microdetails during the recording of the album:
"I think he just can't help himself," Jay says. "He puts so much into everything, and he's like, 'You have to treat it like I treat it.' It drives you crazy sometimes—like when you've put seventy-five versions of a snare on one song and he's like, 'No!' and you're like, 'Come on, man.' "
…on his father leaving and how that affected him:
"If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts—but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real," Jay says. "Not to say it's any better—but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero."
"[I talked about] what it did to me, what it meant, asked him why. There was no real answer. There was nothing he could say, because there's no excuse for that. There really isn't. So there was nothing he could say to satisfy me, except to hear me out. And it was up to me to forgive and let it go."
…on their (he and wife Beyonce) decision to announce their baby at this year's MTV Video Music Awards:
"It was actually Bey who wanted to [announce] it," Jay says. "You want to be in control of your life."
…Jay-Z, when asked if he'll be putting a car seat in the Maybach:
"Yeah," Jay smiles. "Wouldn't that be great? That would be a great picture."
The December issue hits newsstands nationwide on November 22nd. Read the full interview at GQ.


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Better watch out: NORAD trademarks Santa operation
DENVER — The U.S. military has clamped a trademark on its wildly popular NORAD Tracks Santa operation and licensed a private company to sell T-shirts and other goods — not to make money, officials insist, but to keep profiteers from cashing in.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, which stages the Santa-tracking event from its headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., obtained the trademark this year.
The Defense Department's Branding and Trademark Licensing Office — yes, Virginia, there is a Pentagon trademark office — advised the military to sell NORAD Tracks Santa merchandise to cement its ownership of the name, said Navy Cmdr. Jeff Davis, a NORAD spokesman.
"We had a vulnerability by not having a NORAD Tracks Santa trademark," Davis said. "The vulnerability was that anyone could come along and sell merchandise or somehow use it to make a profit."
NORAD signed the licensing agreement in November with U.S. Allegiance of Bend, Ore., which specializes in licensed souvenirs and has worked other deals with the military.
The company launched http://www.itrackedsanta.com on Dec. 1. The biggest seller so far is a customized letter from Santa, said Steve Crawford, president of U.S. Allegiance. Another favorite is a red T-shirt that says "I tracked Santa 2012."
To Crawford's surprise, many orders are coming in from overseas. He said he plans to expand the line of goods next year to include languages other than English.
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Sam Ceckowski has just returned from a Sweetbay supermarket in Sarasota, and he's offering his housemates a bag full of candy.
"Would anyone care for a white-chocolate-covered macadamia nut?" the lanky 19-year-old college student asks. A few takers extend their open palms.
Aside from the nuts, the guys' kitchen table holds a German chocolate cake and a cheesecake. Their fridge teems with hummus, salad dressing, artichokes, cucumbers, swiss chard, firm squash, mangoes, romaine hearts and asparagus so fresh it snaps. The only offensive items are some moldy strawberries and a carton of organic milk they let spoil.
Not a bad spread, considering all this food came from the trash.
Ceckowski and his roommates live as "freegans," people who can afford groceries but instead choose to live off of food they find in garbage bins, in an effort to reduce consumption and waste. The term combines the words free and vegan, though that's a bit of a misnomer, since many freegans eat and use animal products. (It's also called Dumpster diving, or Dumpstering, although any brand of waste receptacle will do.)
So far, Tampa Bay freegans are scarce. But ever since Oprah Winfrey did a show on the freegan lifestyle in February, several online Tampa Bay communities, including Yahoo and Meetup groups, have sprung up as would-be Dumpster divers try to form a viable local community.
Ceckowski and his mates, who share a two-bedroom house in Tampa near the University of South Florida, each spend about $2.50 a week on food, rounding out the Dumpstered loot they share with store-bought baking supplies, spices and butter.
"I don't eat garbage. I eat delicious food that happened to be in the trash can," says one of the roommates, David Japenga, 19. "Big difference."
'Free food. Let's get it'
Freeganism works best in a community setting, because many stores throw away unsold food in bulk. If you scrounge up eight boxes of cereal and your friend snags a few gallons of milk, then together you're golden.
Japenga and his roommates moved to Tampa from Romeo, Mich., on a whim in August. They already had experience scavenging up North after Japenga read a book called Evasion, the true tale of a man who Dumpster-dived across the country.
Two years ago, when the buddies began plundering bagels from Big Apple Bagels in Michigan, they had never heard the word freegan.
"It was just like, 'Free food. Let's get it,' " Ceckowski says.
The roommates scavenge about once a week, usually hitting three trash bins for about 10 minutes each. They like to go around midnight; one holds a Maglite while the other rummages through the garbage. The guys have a fleet of jalopies in their driveway, but they bike almost everywhere, including, often, to the trash. And they know where the getting is good: Winn-Dixie, 7-Eleven, Einstein Bros. Bagels. Suburban waste bins are lucrative, too, and there's less competition.
Much of the food the guys find is less than 48 hours past its sell-by date, and they've had some amazing harvests: Sixty-dollar cuts of ham, still cold. An entire dairy section, still cold. For Easter dinner, they ate stuffed mushrooms, made from Dumpstered portobellos and stuffing.
"One time I found a Dumpster full of frozen ice-cream cakes. It was up to my knees in ice-cream cakes," Ceckowski says. He shared them with the neighbors.
But it's not all mushrooms and ice-cream cakes. Dumpsters smell as foul as you'd expect. There's rotten food and bags of blood from supermarket butchers. They once encountered maggots.
But they've never come across anything repugnant enough to turn them off from freeganism — no rats, drug paraphernalia, feces or dead babies. "Stuff that most people think you would find, I've never found," Japenga says.
And despite their unconventional means of putting food on the table, freegans live otherwise normal lives.
They have mainstream friends. Twenty-four-year-old Quinn Hechtkopf, who grew up in St. Pete, is a leader in New York City project Freegan.info, the unofficial authority on U.S. freeganism. He'll go to a restaurant with consumer friends and sip water all night.
Freegans have children, feeding them the same food they eat and dressing them in clothes handed down from other freegan parents.
They have pets. Hechtkopf's cat, Kitty Squat, eats Dumpster-dived meat.
And yes, they date. Japenga says his girlfriend, Lily, does not go Dumpstering but will eat food he has found.
Moreover, freeganism extends beyond found food. The guys' house is full of used items, including thrift-store clothing and a table they built from lumberyard scraps. Ceckowski once found a working Yamaha keyboard while Dumpstering at a Sam Ash music store.
But they've never found anything they believe someone threw away by mistake. "We're never that lucky," Ceckowski says. "We never find gold bars."
Scavenging setbacks
Technically, Dumpster diving is not illegal. In fact, you could get in more trouble for tossing trash into a Dumpster — say, stashing your broken TV in a supermarket's trash bin.
"It is unlawful to put something in the Dumpster," says James Ransom, spokesman for the Hillsborough County Solid Waste Management Department. "I do not know of a law, and we could not find any law, that says you cannot go in and take something out of a Dumpster."
Of course, in order to Dumpster dive you have to trespass, which is a misdemeanor.
Then there are the health risks. Japenga and Ceckowski say they've never gotten sick from eating Dumpstered food, but Hechtkopf once ate some blue cheese that gave him diarrhea.
"Your body will get dehydrated if you don't take care of yourself. It can kill you," says Doug King, food and waterborne illness investigator for the Hillsborough County Health Department. Meat and dairy products, he says, are especially dangerous.
"They're moist, they're protein-rich, so bacteria thrive in those environments," King says. "Then, obviously, when they're not refrigerated, the food stays in the temperature danger zone, and the bacteria grow and multiply." And maggots are never a good sign, as they indicate something is decomposing.
King says the freegans are at risk for parasites, viruses, fecal contamination, salmonella and E. coli, a bacteria that can cause kidney failure and is potentially fatal.
But King also said Dumpstered produce is probably safe. And even the stores say Dumpstered food isn't necessarily bad; Sweetbay and Publix say that once their food passes its sell-by date, much of it gets donated to local food banks while it's still safe to eat.
"If you're smart — and they sound like they're smart — you can use our own standards against us," says Sweetbay spokesman Steve Smith. "Food safety is No. 1 at any retailer. Because of that, we will always put expiration dates that are before when the product actually would expire. You're always going to give yourself some padding. So they're smart in that you absolutely can eat that product — some products."
Still, there are other hazards, Ceckowski and Japenga say. Trash compactors. Angry managers. Some donut shops that used to throw out pastries by themselves have begun discarding coffee grounds in the same bag. A dollar store recently starting dousing its trash with bleach.
Stores have good reason to discourage Dumpster divers: If you get hurt while scavenging, the store could be in a lot more trouble than you. In 1992, two 9-year-old boys died from exposure to toxic chemicals after playing in the trash bin at Durex Industries plant in Tampa. A Durex executive pleaded guilty to a charge of storing waste illegally and had to pay each boy's family $400,000.
Smith, of Sweetbay, agrees that garbage bins are dangerous by nature, even for pros like Ceckowski and Japenga.
"In general, keeping people out of Dumpsters seems like a good thing," Smith says. "But I gotta tell ya, I love their resourcefulness."
Their life, their choice
Sitting around their back-yard fire pit on busted kitchen chairs they'd found on a curb, Japenga asks Ceckowski, "What's your mom going to say when she comes down here, Sam?"
"Oh, I dunno," Ceckowski says with a laugh. "She'll yell at me."
Ceckowski and Japenga live this way by choice. They have jobs and savings accounts and middle-class parents. "We don't want to give any false illusions of us being underprivileged. We're not bohemians, we're not pretending to be," Japenga says.
Quinn Hechtkopf, the New York freegan, graduated from Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Pete and earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Wesleyan University, a private college in Connecticut. He isn't in school and has no full-time job. He spends much of his time volunteering with children and at a bike workshop.
When he needs money, he does electrical work for a few weeks and then takes a few months off. He, like Japenga, does not have health insurance. His only recurring expenses are his $300 share of the rent, utilities and razors. His last big splurge, in March, was a $20 bus ticket to Washington, D.C.
Hechtkopf calls himself a "waste parasite," living off the excesses of capitalism. He believes the U.S. economic system will soon collapse, so he and the others at Freegan.info are developing alternatives to freeganism. These include rooftop gardens and foraging edible plants in city parks.
"I guess what he's trying to do right now is find his way and what he can do to make a difference," said his mother, Bonnie Hechtkopf, who owns Kobie Marketing in St. Petersburg. "And I think that it's a bigger picture than saving some bread out of a Dumpster."
In October, Bonnie Hechtkopf — who is also a licensed dietitian and nutritionist —
attended a freegan community dinner while visiting her son.
"I certainly believe in reusing, recycling, all that kind of stuff, but going into this dinner I certainly was a little apprehensive," said Hechtkopf. "First I wasn't going to eat anything, but they had a whole table with a really lavish spread."
Salad. Baked tofu. Wild Brown Rice. Broccoli. Biscotti. Two kinds of bread. Apple cake. An Ethiopian flaxseed beverage. The only thing she didn't dare touch was the smoked salmon appetizer.
"It was impressive," she said. "It would've cost a fortune buying it in the market here, and the quality was really very good."
Bonnie Hechtkopf thinks her son will one day earn a salary as an advocate for homeless people or for he environment. Other freegans, like Ceckowski and Japenga, are content simply to spread the gospel, telling curious onlookers about their choice. It doesn't bother them when people offer them $20, mistaking them for indigent. And if you accused them of being lazy, of squandering their privileged upbringings, that wouldn't upset them, either.
"It is lazy, I guess," Japenga says. "But (the markup on food) is economic violence against me."
One way or another, he says, he'll live this way forever.
"I can't bring myself to buy a bagel at Einstein's," he says, "when I know there's a whole Dumpster full in the back."


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Historical land-use changes and potential effects on stream disturbance in the Ozark Plateaus, Missouri
Open-File Report 94-333
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AbstractOzarks streams have been aggraded by substantial quantities of gravel beginning at or near the time of European settlement. Historical data illustrate multiple, significant changes in land use that may have contributed to stream disturbance. The earliest change was replacement of riparian forest with cultivated fields and pasture, followed by extensive harvesting of shortleaf pine and oak during 1870 to 1920. Selective cutting of timber, use of livestock for skidding logs, and avoidance of steep slopes minimized increases in runoff and sediment supply from logging of uplands. Expanded use of valley bottoms for agriculture and roads, and extreme regional floods from 1895 to 1915 probably initiated significant stream disturbance during this period. The period during 1920-60 included the institution of annual burning of uplands, increased open-range grazing, and increased use of marginal land for row crops. Models for land-use controls on runoff and erosion indicate that this period should have been the most effective in creating stream disturbance. Historical sources corroborate that upland erosion was severe on small areas used for row crops and moderate on large areas subjected to seasonal burning. The most severe effect on streams, however, probably occurred during this period as a result of destruction of riparian vegetation by open-range livestock. From 1960-93, cultivated fields and pasture decreased, while cattle populations increased. Whereas some riparian areas have reverted to bottomland forest, this stabilizing effect occurs on only a small portion of valley- bottom land. Recovery processes aided by riparian vegetation are limited by channel instability and frequent, large floods.
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Asia's Anti-Democracy, North Korea: a lecture by John Delury
One of the last surviving planned socialist economies, history's only communist dynasty, and an ideological hybrid of Confucianism, Christianity, Stalinism, and Maoism, North Korea is truly unique. To its south lies arguably the most democratic society in East Asia'South Korea. Across its northern border, China is being remade by relentless socio-economic dynamism. But North Korea's regime has proven itself remarkably resilient, and at least for now is East Asia's most undemocratic state.
John Delury, associate director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, explores what paths, if any, to democratic rule are imaginable for the North Korean people and what can be done to lay foundations for a more moderate and liberal regime. He speaks on April 29 as the third and final speaker in the 2010 BP Speaker Series: Prospects for Democracy: China, Afghanistan, and North Korea.
Delury's credentials include serving as project director for a major task force on North Korea organized by Asia Society and the University of California's Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation. The October 2009 task force report, North Korea Inside Out: The Case for Economic Engagement, argues that sanctions and isolation have failed to alter North Korea's truculent behavior and that now is the time for a different approach. "We recommend a sustained and determined process of economic engagement with the D.P.R.K. by means of activities that do not jeopardize U.S. security concerns, and could catalyze a process with positive long-term effects," the report states.
Delury, who is also director of Asia Society's China Boom Project, has a BA and Ph.D. in history from Yale and has taught Chinese history and politics at Brown University. His article "North Korea: 20 Years of Solitude" appeared in World Policy Journal (Winter 2008/09). He has also written for Far Eastern Economic Review, Policy Review, Project Syndicate and Journal of Asian Studies.
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No matter how carefully you vet your prospective tenants, there is always a chance that the tenancy could end with a dispute, with deposits and cleaning usually among the biggest bones of contention.
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Conduct a full inventory using an independent clerk and ensure that the assured shorthold tenancy agreement signed by both parties is clear and concise. A bit of extra preparation in advance to specify contentious points such as who looks after the garden could prevent a dispute further down the line.
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You must insure the deposits of your tenants in a deposit protection scheme. These government-backed schemes guarantee that you will receive remuneration should your tenant fail to pay rent or damage your property.
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Olympus' EVOLT E-500; Ease Of Use And Versatility In An Affordable 8-Megapixel Digital SLR
· High resolution, pleasing color rendition, snappy contrast, superb image quality at ISO 100-400
· Supersonic Wave filter is highly effective in removing dust from CCD sensor
· Overall speed should satisfy most photo enthusiasts
· Vast range of features to satisfy both novices and experienced digital shooters
· Two lens kit offers excellent value
· Obvious digital noise at ISO 800, problematic noise at ISO 1600; new NR (Noise Reduction) filter blurs image details
· Some features less than ideal: complicated depth of field preview, autofocus-assist available only with flash, small viewfinder, only three focus detection points
An upgrade over the EVOLT E-300 released a year earlier, the E-500 features
more traditional SLR styling, a few technical enhancements, and several new
amenities. The external differences are obvious at even a quick glance. Instead
of the long and flat body, the E-500 features a typical penta-prism hump, more
logical control layout, and a larger LCD monitor. A more versatile and reliable
8-megapixel camera, the E-500 is just as affordable. It retains all of its predecessor's
features, including the Four-Thirds format (17.3x13mm) Kodak CCD and the unique
"Supersonic Wave" filter that removes dust with vibration.
The specifications indicate many upgrades over the E-300. In my estimation, the most noteworthy include: a 0.3 lb weight reduction, a more sophisticated and reliable 49-zone evaluative metering system, extra features for exposure control, manual focus bracketing, plus additional options for black and white effects.
Exposure & Color Accuracy
Design And Capabilities
Although it's one of the smallest and lightest digital SLRs on the market, the E-500 has a solid feel that exudes high quality. That was achieved with an aluminum and plastic exterior, aluminum die-cast chassis, and a metal lens mount. Although the body is compact, the handgrip is large and well sculpted. The viewfinder seems very small, however. The LCD monitor is oversized, great for image playback and for viewing the various menu items that are shown with easy-to-read symbols and numbers. The camera sports analog controls for most of the frequently used features, all conveniently placed.
First time SLR buyers will find the E-500 easy to use thanks to the 15 Program modes selected with the Scene setting on the mode dial. Information as to the intent of each is displayed on the LCD monitor. For example, Night Scene program is described as: "For shooting illuminated scenes in evening or night. Uses a slower shutter speed than in normal shooting." When appropriate, the built-in flash pops up automatically. All of this is quite simple, great for the novice without a full understanding of advanced photographic concepts.
Portrait Program Mode
Naturally, Olympus provides many advanced options as well, including some
we do not expect in a $649 camera. Most of those functions are accessed with
the five-part electronic menu. In spite of the logical layout, however, navigation
is tedious if only because of the sheer number of items. And some of the features
definitely call for a review of the instruction manual for full specifics as
to their purpose and value. After an initial setup to meet personal preferences
however, there's rarely a need to access the menu.
Evaluation: Anyone trading up from a compact digicam will appreciate the increased number of external controls. While they make the camera appear to be more "complicated," they reduce the need for hunting through the menu. In fact, I wished that Olympus had provided two additional buttons: one for quickly selecting the Capture mode (raw, TIFF, or JPEG) and another for simpler depth of field preview activation. Some owners may miss the ability to use the HLD-3 vertical grip, an E-300 accessory that's incompatible with the E-500. In other respects, the E-500 is a fine example of intelligent design, probably based on input from photographers who own previous E-series bodies.
Performance And Speed
During the test period, I made hundreds of images indoors and out in order to test reliability, speed, and image quality. Start up took over 2 seconds, including the time required for automatic sensor cleaning. Outdoors, the camera responded almost instantly without any noticeable shutter lag. Autofocus performance was excellent in both single shot and continuous autofocus; the system had no difficulty in tracking the motion of cars approaching my position. Unlike some of its competitors, the E-500 employs only a three-point autofocus sensor that does not cover a wide area. When I was shooting horizontal photos, that arrangement was fine except for subjects far off-center; in vertical framing, however, extra focus detection points would have been useful.
Dim Light Performance
In darker locations, autofocus response remained reliable, with or without
the focus assist (flash) feature. During a native powwow competition in an indoor
arena, focus acquisition took a 1/2 sec, about average for a digital SLR. My
only real complaint was that the Continuous system had some difficulty tracking
moving subjects in the low-light environment.
In Continuous Drive mode, I was able to shoot four raw images or five Super High or High Quality JPEGs in a burst, at 2.5 fps. Because I was using very fast CompactFlash cards, the camera was ready to take another three shots after a 1-second delay for clearing its buffer (memory). It could take a full five shot burst after a 2.5-second delay. That may not qualify as "super fast" but it's fine for photo enthusiasts who do not frequently shoot sports action.
Maximum buffer clearing speed was achieved with a remarkably fast 1GB SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash card. When I used a 2GB Lexar Pro 80x CompactFlash card, the process was almost as quick. Switching to a 256MB xD-Picture Card produced a slowdown. A full 6 seconds were required after a full JPEG burst, although the camera allowed for taking a shot or two during that time, minimizing frustration. If you want to shoot bursts in Raw Capture mode, be sure to buy a high-speed card. Using an xD-Picture Card (or an inexpensive CompactFlash) results in a 10- or 12-second wait before you can snap off another four frame raw series.
Evaluation: In terms of overall speed, low-light autofocus and tracking focus, the EVOLT E-500 rates in the middle of the pack among recent digital SLRs in the sub-$850 (street price) category, qualifying it as a competent performer.
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Crawford to transfer?
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Looks like Crawford's been checking his stat line too. I'm pretty sure he burned his bridges with UM, and with the way things appear to be shaping up for the '06 class, I doubt Michigan will be a player in this.
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Brooking: Vikings' decision was 'classless'
Published: January 17th, 2010 | Tags: Brad Childress, Brett Favre, Dallas Cowboys, Keith Brooking, Minnesota Vikings
The final touchdown by the Vikings in their 34-3 win over the Cowboys is creating quite a stir — at least from Cowboys LB Keith Brooking.
According to published reports, Brooking went at the Minnesota sideline after the Vikings, holding a 27-3 lead, chose to go for a fourth-and-3 with 1:55 remaining in the game. The play resulted in an 11-yard touchdown pass from Brett Favre to Visanthe Shiancoe, extending the lead to 31 points.
Brooking also let his thoughts be known following the game.
"I just thought what happened at the end of the game was disrespectful, and it was classless," Brooking said, according to the team's official blog. "All the things that are in that category, I'll throw out to the Vikings organization and whoever is over there calling the plays. It just wasn't the right thing to do at that time, period."
Vikings coach Brad Childress defended the decision during his postgame news conference, explaining why he didn't run out the clock in that situation.
"Just staying aggressive with it, if you will," Childress said. "We put our defense back on the field, and we talked to all the coordinators — offense, defense, special teams guys that we weren't going to put the field goal group on the field. As Lou Holtz used to say, 'It's our job to score points. It's their job to stop us from scoring points.' That happens. It wasn't rubbing it in. It's just taking care of business and being aggressive at the end of the game."
Favre echoed Childress' thoughts, saying the Vikings didn't run up the score.
"I didn't see that," Favre said. "I think that everyone who has every played against me or who knows me knows that I'm not about that. We tried to run and run and run and run, but we were not getting too far."


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Is there going to be a Audisport stand at VW Festival on the 20th August in Leeds?
That could be cool, especially if the weather is as nice as it has bin... could make a weekend of it and put the tent up for the 1st time in 3 years!!
I'm game... Will be there either way.
...and I can say with some certainty that it won't be GTI-I all over again, my car will either be finished this week; or I'm just gonna buy af***inother one.
Right, DPM Autostyling are thinking about having a stand at VW Festival so if anyones interested in going on the stand please contact me!
Do we get any discounts or parts to advertise on our cars?
I'm sure we could do something!
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Focus: Liberalising cross-border investment in RMB
11 January 2012
In brief: The Chinese Government has made further moves towards the internationalisation of its currency with the release of a number of regulations regarding the use of the RMB both in investments made by Chinese companies overseas and, significantly, investments made by overseas companies into the PRC. Special Counsel Ross Keene , Senior Associates Adrian Fisher and Maggie Ma and PRC Consultant Michelle Ding report.
- Background
- Overseas direct investment by a PRC entity
- Direct investment into the PRC by foreign investors
- Conclusion
How does it affect you?
- Certain foreign investments into the PRC are now able to be settled in RMB.
- Similarly, certain investments by domestic PRC entities outside the PRC are now able to be settled in RMB, and income made through those investments may be repatriated to the PRC in RMB.
- The PRC has recently released regulations relaxing the level of approvals required to settle RMB investments into the PRC, and introducing more certainty as to the processes that companies seeking to invest in the PRC in RMB must follow.
- The purpose of the changes is to provide greater flexibility in the use of the RMB, thereby increasing its use and importance as an international currency.
In July 2009, the PRC Government officially launched a trial regime for cross-border RMB trade settlements in certain pilot regions in the PRC, including Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. This, for the first time, enabled PRC companies to settle cross-border trade transactions in RMB.
In a series of subsequent regulations, the PRC Government has expanded the regions to which the program applies, as well as the scope of the program, from trade settlements only to a range of investments both out of and into the PRC. Notably, the following regulations have been promulgated in 2011:
- On 6 January 2011, the PRC's central bank, the People's Bank of China (the PBOC), issued the Measures for the Administration of the Pilot Scheme for Settlement of RMB for Overseas Direct Investment (the measures). The measures allow certain Chinese companies to use RMB when making investments outside the PRC. The measures initially applied only to companies registered in the same pilot regions as identified in the PRC Government's 2009 regulations relating to cross-border RMB trade settlements.
- On 3 June 2011, the PBOC issued the Circular on Clarifying Relevant Issues Regarding Cross-Border RMB Business (Circular 145). Circular 145 provides for the use of RMB by overseas companies seeking to invest into the PRC in certain circumstances.
- On 24 August 2011, the PBOC, along with other PRC authorities including the Ministry of Commerce, issued the Notice on Expanding the Regions for Cross-border RMB Trade Settlement (the notice). The notice expands the list of the pilot regions to which the trial regime for cross-border RMB trade settlements applies, so that the program effectively covers the whole of the PRC.
- On 12 and 13 October 2011 respectively, the Ministry of Commerce and the PBOC issued further regulations that outline a number of procedural and administrative requirements that must be followed when a foreign entity is seeking to settle investments into the PRC in RMB.
We set out below some of the impacts of these regulations.
Overseas direct investment by a PRC entity
The measures state that domestic PRC institutions may use RMB to establish or invest in overseas enterprises or projects, provided that they have approval from the competent regulatory authority or authorities, being the Ministry of Commerce and/or the National Development and Reform Commission (the approving authority). The measures apply only to non-financial domestic institutions.
In addition to obtaining the approving authority's approval, under the measures, a domestic institution must apply to the local branch of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) before remitting RMB out of the PRC as part of an overseas direct investment. The measures anticipate that a domestic institution may make any 'initial phase' payments that are part of the investment (in principle, the cumulative 'initial' payments should not exceed 15 per cent of the total investment by the Chinese party) before receiving approval from the approving authority but after receiving SAFE approval. If the domestic institution then fails to receive approval from the approving authority within six months after the date of the remittance in RMB of the 'initial' payments, it must transfer the remaining capital earmarked for the overseas investment back to its domestic RMB account. The measures also place responsibility on the bank to prompt the domestic institution to transfer the remaining capital back to its domestic account if approval is not received within this six-month period.
The measures allow the domestic PRC institution to repatriate income (including dividends or other profits or income from a decrease in equity holding or liquidation) back to the PRC, or to make any further overseas remittances relating to the investment (eg if it decides to increase its investment), on the basis of the approving authority's initial approval.
The domestic institution must, within 30 days, report to SAFE any major changes to the overseas enterprise or project that is the subject of the overseas investment, including where there is a change to the basic information of the enterprise or project (such as its name, business term, joint venture partner and type of joint operating model) or where there has been an increase or decrease in the investment, or any merger, division or liquidation of the enterprise.
The measures also allow a bank to provide a loan in RMB to an overseas enterprise or project in which a domestic institution has invested. If a bank does so, it must report that loan to the local branch of the PBOC within 15 days.
Direct investment into the PRC by foreign investors
Released in June 2011, Circular 145 sets out the approval procedures and settlement requirements that must be followed for foreign direct investment into China in RMB, which has been implemented to date on a pilot basis under Circular 145 and regulations released earlier in 2011 by the Ministry of Commerce and SAFE.1 The purpose of allowing foreign investment in RMB is to provide a further means by which RMB held by foreign companies offshore can be utilised.
Circular 145 allows foreign investors to invest into the PRC in RMB to establish new onshore companies, make acquisitions (excluding round-trip investments2), increase capital held in existing subsidiaries or make shareholder loans, provided:
- the investment is approved by the local branch of the Ministry of Commerce;
- the settlement is approved by the head office of the PBOC; and
- the project is not a project that is:
- in an industry or business type listed in the 'Restricted' category of the PRC's Foreign Investment Catalogue; or
- 'under the key control of the State' (Circular 145 does not indicate what this phrase means).
The additional measures released by the PBOC on 13 October 2011 (called the Administrative Measures on RMB Settlement Business for Foreign Direct Investment) provide further detail around the requirements for settling investments into the PRC using RMB, and set out administrative procedures for foreign invested enterprises borrowing RMB from foreign sources such as their overseas parent company. Significantly, the measures also relax the approvals required for some RMB settlements. Foreign investors may now apply for RMB settlement accounts in the PRC without the need to seek PBOC approval.
On 12 October 2011, the Ministry of Commerce released the Notice of the Ministry of Commerce on Issues Relating to RMB Foreign Direct Investment. These new regulations relate to foreign investment into China in RMB only (and not other forms of cross-border trade, including by way of loan), and require that all such investments be approved by the Ministry of Commerce. Depending on the size and nature of the investment, approval may ultimately need to be given by the Ministry of Commerce at the national level. For example, if the investment is valued at RMB 300 million or more or the investment is in certain industries, such as cement, iron or steel, or is undertaken by a venture capital or private equity firm, approval will be required at the national level.
Given the developments discussed above, Chinese authorities have given a clear signal to domestic and foreign investors that cross-border RMB investment will be promoted in the future.
However, while it is clear that the PRC authorities have set the course for the further liberalisation of foreign investment into the PRC using RMB, the laws and regulations regarding the internationalisation of RMB in the PRC are still at an early stage and in a constant state of flux. The most recent set of regulations released by the PBOC and the Ministry of Commerce ease the levels of approval required for RMB settlements and provide further clarity as to the processes companies must follow when investing into the PRC in RMB. We expect that further regulations will be released in the coming months.
The recent changes are part of broad moves by the PRC authorities to promote gradually the RMB as an international currency, which will in turn strengthen the PRC's role in international financial markets.
- See the Notice of the Ministry of Commerce on Issues Concerning the Administration of Foreign Investment of 25 February 2011 and the Notice of the General Affairs Department of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Issues Related to the Standardization of the Business Operations of Cross Border Renminbi Capital Account Items of 7 April 2011.
- This term refers to an inbound investment by an offshore investment vehicle directly or indirectly owned or controlled by a PRC domestic institution or individual.
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Alps Road Elementary School's third and fourth grade basketball team finished the season 11-0 for 2012 and were named 2012 champions. Team players are Ethan Corley, Jalen Gary, Tracy Hill, Chris Johnson, Seaver King, Jaavan Mack, Jairus Mack, Zachary Quick and Issac Ward. The team is coached by MacIntosh, Hennecken and Wilson. The team parent is Dr. Jon Ward.
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Despite what her song might imply, Miley Cyrus really can be tamed.
"If I'm ever seen out dancing at a club having fun, I don't want people to immediately go, 'Oh, she's on drugs, she's drunk," Cyrus, 17, said Thursday on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show. "I'm never going to be that person. As long as I steer clear of that and keep that mind frame, I think I'll be cool."
Still, she admitted that when she's of legal age, she won't exactly be a teetotaler.
"I'm not gonna be like, 'I'll never have a drink in my entire life,' because that's probably going to be a lie," she admitted. "There's a right way to do so -- everything is good in small portions."
Miley -- whose parents also abstain from drinking -- also cited her collaborator, Bret Michaels, for inspiring her to steer clear of alcohol and drugs.
"Having him in my life and him telling me some of stories and some of the dumb crap that happens...he just makes me never want to do that stuff," Cyrus said.
The young actress also opened up about her relationship woes with beau Liam Hemsworth, her boyfriend of nearly one year.
"I don't want to be heartbroken," she revealed. "He could go back to Australia any second. But I'm happy. It's different from anyone else because he really is just an awesome friend too."


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For starters, Rays vs. Diamondbacks
Update 5:44 p.m. RHP Alex Cobb said he threw a 50 pitch simulated game in Port Charlotte today and it all went well. The blister on his right index finger is healing, and he expects to make the first of two rehab starts Saturday for Class A Charlotte.
*Rays manager Joe Maddon said they're not yet ready to announce their plans for the rotation after the Diamondbacks series - whether it's a four-man rotation or not - but could deliver that news on Wednesday.
*RHP Brandon Gomes (lat strain) said he was happy with how all his rehab outings went with Charlotte, and is ready to come back, he's just waiting for word from the Rays. The Rays acquired RHP Jesse Crain from the White Sox yesterday, and he's expected to arrive in St. Pete Wednesday and continue his rehab of a shoulder injury. Maddon said he's confident, with the Rays medical staff, they can get him ready to make an impact this season.
*The deadline for non-waiver trades is Wednesday at 4 p.m., and it's unclear whether the Rays are close to any more moves (considering they already acquired some bullpen help in Crain).
*There was still plenty of talk about Monday's emotional and controversial 2-1 win over the Red Sox. OF Sam Fuld said while he's thrown people out before, it was probably one of the biggest throws of his career. Fuld joked he lost a lot of fans in his native New Hampshire, and is probably the most hated guy there other than umpire Jerry Meals.
Maddon praised both Fuld's positioning and throw, as well as the job C Jose Molina did catching the ball and blocking the plate.
Update 5:25 p.m. The Rays lineup includes Ben Zobrist in the No. 2 spot.
Rays lineup
Jennings cf
Zobrist 2b
Longoria 3b
Loney 1b
Myers rf
Scott dh
Joyce lf
Molina c
Escobar ss
Hernandez rhp
Parra rf
Hill 2b
Goldschmidt 1b
Chavez dh
Prado 3b
Kubel lf
Nieves c
Eaton cf
Pennington ss
Kennedy rhp
Developing: The Rays have - finally - returned home for the first time in 16 days, coming off a successful and dramatic road trip through Toronto, Boston and New York where they went 8-2 and moved into first place in the American League East.
Tampa Bay arrived in the early hours this morning from their emotional, 2-1 win over the Red Sox, a makeup game that included a controversial call at home plate on Sam Fuld's eighth-inning throw.
The Rays (63-43) are tied with Oakland for the best record in the league, having won 10 of their last 12 and 25 out of 31. They begin a five-game interleague homestand tonight with the Diamondbacks.
RHP Roberto Hernandez will get the start on the mound, admidst speculation he could be the odd man out when and if the Rays go to a four-man rotation next month. The Diamondbacks will start RHP Ian Kennedy.
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