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Borage Petroleum for Cats : How Borage Petroleum Helps Cat Wellness
Borage Oil with regard to Cats
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Borage oil often called starflower oil in the borage plant, is an popular natural herb that may boost the body's defense mechanisms. Borage oil is designed for cats because it's very rich in GLA, and gamma linolenic uric acid, a special fat acid. Because from this, borage oil with regard to cats is regularly included into large manufactured cat food and in homemade pet food recipes.
Which are the Benefits of GLA together with Borage Oil with regard to Cats?
GLA orientates that metabolism of essential fatty acids towards the functionality of hormones in whose anti-inflammatory effects are generally well-known. This production is performed at the charge of other human hormones that promote inflammatory accessories. Then, GLA supplementation enables to limit a lot of these inflammatory phenomenons with animals that suffer the pain of allergic diseases, and various cutaneous troubles.
Especially in circumstances of adult and senior cat, GLA is shown to brew a significant difference in both internal and external health in the cat. Cats with skin color or coat problems will is guaranteed to benefit from gamma-linolenic uric acid supplements or borage petroleum for cats.
Although felines require almost no GLA, they cannot linoleic acid in your body into GLA. Accordingly, one to a few tablespoons of borage oil ought to be supplementing into ones cats moist foodstuff daily.
Borage oil is believed by many nutrition experts to remain the highest method to obtain quality GLA product available. It contains two . 5 times more GLA as compared to evening primrose petroleum.
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Scope of work: Carpentry
Location: Morristown, NJ 07960
Timeline: 2 days
For practical safety reasons, and to achieve a more finished look, the owners of this home called in our team at Monk's to build new azek railings for their front porch and steps. In only two days our team had equipped this Morristown, NJ home with the exact type of railings they were imagining.
Our team worked with the homeowners to determine the style of the railings.
Once a design was settled on our team carefully measured and cut all of the building materials. These railings were built out of Azek. Azek is commonly used for exterior projects because it is a moisture-resistant material.
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The Victorian Legal Services Board regulates the legal profession in Victoria. The Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 provides the framework for the Board's regulatory functions.
In this segment of the website you will find information relevant to lawyers and the legal profession. It is divided up into six sections as described below.
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Tesla unveiled its latest electric car on Thursday night. And though it doesn't look different from past models, it's an absolute stunner.
CEO Elon Musk had teased a "D" prior to the event, but the "D" here stands for the "dual-motor" that powers this new car, which is extremely powerful and ultra efficient. But the dual-motor is just the tip of the iceberg.
Here, we break down all the new features of the new Model S so you can get an idea of why so many people believe Tesla's Model S is the future of driving.
1. The "D" stands for "dual-motor"
Tesla wanted a more powerful car, so it made one. But even with two motors instead of one, Musk and his engineers were able to overcome the penalty of increasing the mass of the motor to ensure no technical drawback. The acceleration is faster, the top speed is higher, and the new car is actually more energy efficient than its predecessor. Depending on the model, the new Model S has anywhere between 10 and 30 miles of extra range built-in, and can achieve top speeds of 155 mph, compared to 130 mph on the older models. (You probably won't drive this fast most of the time… or ever.)
2. Acceleration: accelerated.
Speaking of power, the new Tesla Model S — specifically, the highest-end model "P85D" — can achieve 0 to 60 miles per hour acceleration in just 3.2 seconds. That's faster than several high-end Italian sports cars from Lamborghini and Ferrari, and it's on par with the McLaren F1 supercar. So in case you need to speed up for the highway on ramp, or get out of a sticky situation, this car offers incredible agility.
3. Autopilot to the extreme (but not autonomous)
Thanks to 12 forward-looking long-range ultrasonic sensors, the new Autopilot functionality in the dual-motor Model S offers a "protective cocoon" that can "see anything," according to Musk, including small moving objects like children and dogs.
It has GPS and real-time traffic integrated, and it also utilizes two sets of cameras for radar: one set watches the lines of the road on the ground, while the other looks around for obstacles and traffic signs, to ensure your car obeys the rules of the road. If you use your turn signal, your car will safely move into the lane by itself; but it won't make those lane-changing decisions for you. Musk insists this tech is "not at the level where you could safely fall asleep and arrive at your destination. It's more like active safety in the limit."
But here's a cool feature that's illegal in most parts of the country (for now): The dual-motor Model S will park itself in your garage while you're out of the car, and you can summon the car to arrive at your location with your favourite music playing and the A/C running.
Finally, for Autopilot to work, the Tesla Model S requires the "tech package," a group of high-end features that includes the onboard navigation system, LED running and cornering lights, fog lamps, lighted door handles, a power lift gate, power-folding heated side mirrors, memory seats, automatic keyless entry, and rear-view mirrors that darken automatically at night in response to headlights.
4. The best brakes in the business
Musk said the new Model S comes with an all-new electromechanical braking system, which he says is much improved over past models thanks to "high precision, digitally controlled electric [assistance]." Musk says it's the best braking system ever created "for a natural driving experience," so you can feel safe accelerating but also if or when it's time to make a quick decision to stop (your car ought to see that long before you do, though).
5. All-wheel drive
The previous Tesla Model S used rear-wheel drive, while the new car uses all-wheel drive. So what's the difference? In the rear-wheel model, the rear wheels move the vehicle while the front wheels provide the steering, creating a division of labour of sorts. This is good for heavy vehicles, since more load equals more traction, and rear-wheel drive allows cars to handle heavier, fast-accelerating vehicles, including many Formula One and NASCAR autos.
However, rear-wheel drive usually comes at a penalty to one's gas and performance. In all-wheel drive, the vehicle gets the benefits of solid gas mileage from front-wheel drive, but the stability and power of rear-wheel drive. It can transfer weight dynamically, so you never need to worry about your vehicle's load, or what kind of weather conditions you're about to get into. There are many more ways in which rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive differ, but the bottom line here is that Tesla wants its car to be powerful, stable, and efficient in any weather condition, and all-wheel drive provides that capability.
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My one-year subscription to the Wall Street Journal is coming to an end, which has put me in a bit of a funk. Despite what some of you may think, I really enjoy the paper. Its news article are short, concise, and quite accurate. Unlike other third rate news outlets (CNN, Fox News) they actually wait for facts before posting something on its site. And while I've enjoyed the newspaper as a source of information, I've had a field day berating the op-ed section and its writers. Well since this may be my last for a while, I better make it count.
Former media executive Steve Cohen is an ignorant asshole. Yes, he may have been a successful executive at one point in his life, however on the subject of unpaid internships, yeah – an ignorant asshole. You see, Mr. Cohen writes in this WSJ op-ed that the value of an internship is in the experience gained. Because of this experience, it does not matter that one will not be paid for services completely irrelevant to ones field of study. He is apparently an expert on the subject because he recently graduated New York Law School and in the process "worked" multiple internships, unpaid of course (as did his son at a national magazine – a nice irrelevant fact pointed out in the article). And he has no complaints, because while he spent the majority of his time making copies, the experience was well worth it.
Here's the problem Steve (can I call you Steve?), you have a lot of money and live a privileged life. You can easily afford to work somewhere for free because apparently you are at a point in your life where you can go back to school, work multiple full-time unpaid internships, and support your son who is also working for free. I'm not trying to take a stab at your successes in life, I'm sure you worked hard and earned every penny, but this does not make you an expert on the inequality of unpaid internships. Sorry, it just doesn't, not even close as a matter of fact.
First, lets put aside the argument that the experience is the salary – because I agree with this. Proper internships can be invaluable in experience. This is not the problem with unpaid internships, the real problem is the lack of equality. There are students in this world that cannot afford the luxury of accepting an unpaid internship, believe it or not. Some students have to work full time jobs just to get through school, so they cannot possibly afford the time needed to work a full-time, unpaid internship. Now, you may think equality is not that important, I disagree. Equality is important for two reasons 1) if the pool of potential interns opens from those who can work for free to those who can and cannot, then employers can be sure they are getting the best available talent for a given role and 2) those potential interns that could not have worked for free now have an opportunity they could not have obtained otherwise. We live in a country of opportunity, yet if we don't pay people to perform a job, then we are essentially limiting that opportunity to a certain class of people.
Now, you may make the argument from the employers perspective that they don't care about the talent of an intern necessarily, because frankly they are only being brought on to perform mundane tasks, like making copies. So why should they care about the talent quality of students? Well, I would compare this to slave labor. Sure, it's not a perfect comparison; after all the students wouldn't be performing tasks against their will. However, from the employers perspective, they are gaining a service they would normally have to pay for simply by calling a mundane job an internship. In this case, the employer doesn't have the interest of the intern at heart, they are merely looking for a way to get a job done at the lowest possible cost.
Ultimately, we can break down the argument into two very simple goals for our country: do we want to be the country of opportunity or a country of maximizing the cost of work?


text: This is my first smartphone. I was really excited to try the Geocaching I had heard so much about, but I can't get it to stop jumping around! I have calibrated my compass many times, I use the opensource C:geo and make sure I am updated on that. In compass-mode, I pay attention to the +/- info on the bottom of the screen to show the location accuracy, but the compass will freeze up (for instance, North is obviously pointing South, etc - but the cache direciton arrow may sill be rotating. The distance jumps all over the place too. I've just sat down with my phone so it can reorient itself, or do the figure 8 thing with it, but it dosen't help~! Is this just a bad phone for geocaching?? Or is it the app? I used the carneo c:geo app for a few months before the opensource one came out too, but I was still brand new at it and didn't have much luck then either, mostly due to inexperience. As far as I know this is the best FREE app to use. Does it just not work well with the Cliq2? I am so frusterated! Thanks for any help you all can offer. --hopeful geocacher


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Datacenters in the U.S. consume anywhere from 1.5% to 3.0% of the nation's energy production. IT infrastructure and cloud computing are growing in response to the overwhelming growth in computed, stored, and transferred data. Studies show that the core elements of datacenters (servers, storage, and networking) typically run in low-utilization conditions where they operate at an inefficient ratio of computing performance to energy consumption.
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System techniques such as virtualization can increase utilization and allow system operation in the efficient region of the power-performance space. Improved utilization is not always feasible on a sustained basis, though. However, protocol improvements can allow key interface intellectual property (IP) such as PCI Express (PCIe) to operate in an energy-proportional manner and bring tremendous power savings in the idle states.
Datacenter Traffic And Workload Growth
From Google searches to Amazon shopping to the more mundane corporate IT infrastructure, datacenters are a vital part of the everyday technology landscape. Their ubiquity makes how we utilize and optimize them critical.
Cisco Systems forecasts that annual datacenter traffic will reach 6.6 zettabytes (1021 bytes) by the end of 2016 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31% from 2011 to 2016 (Fig. 1).1 In 1992, daily Internet traffic was of the order of 100 Gbytes. In 2012, more than 12,000 Gbytes of data crossed the Internet every second. This number is projected to triple by 2017.
New applications continue to drive the need for increased performance. The need for faster delivery of greater quantities of data is a key driver of datacenter growth. According to Josh James of Domo.com, nearly 700,000 Facebook updates occur each minute.2 Google receives more than 2 million queries in the same period of time. Cisco Systems says that mobile and video applications are among the biggest drivers of Internet data.3
In parallel, a transformation in the datacenter landscape is causing a rapid shift from traditional datacenters to cloud datacenters. Cloud datacenters offer application and data access on multiple platforms to an increasingly mobile population of business users and consumers. Declining storage costs, coupled with "unlimited" e-mail services and a plethora of cloud-based solutions, have driven up the amount of digital material stored.
Two-thirds of traffic in 2016 is forecasted to be cloud-based, displacing traditional datacenter traffic. While compute workloads on traditional servers will grow by approximately 33%, virtualized workloads on cloud servers are projected to increase by 200%, Cisco Systems says.4 The company's study also finds that nearly three-fourths of datacenter traffic is internal to the datacenter, inter-server, or between servers and storage.
Impact On Energy Consumption
Online datacenters and cloud computing facilities are designed for handling unpredictable peak usage. While breaking news can bring servers down, e-tailers build out capacity to handle the peak loads of infrequent events such as Cyber Monday. Further, to prevent against downtime in the event of power failure, many datacenters use diesel backups that are significant polluters.
The 2010 Report on Toxic Air Contaminants from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District lists the Bay Area's refineries as top polluters, followed by utilities and dry cleaners.5 Unbeknownst to most denizens of Silicon Valley, many of the area's tech titans can be found sandwiched between the refineries, utilities, and dry cleaners on this list.
Published research estimates that active servers use less than 20% of datacenter energy.6,7 A significant amount of energy is spent on cooling needs as well as power consumption in idle states (Fig. 2).
The waterfall chart is instructive in providing insight into areas where energy savings might be found.8 Power consumption can be reduced in low utilization states, either through higher utilization (more computing for the same power consumption) or through better design. These savings can have a ripple effect in system cooling costs.
Server energy consumption varies widely. If the average server usage is 850W/h, then average daily consumption is approximately 20 kW/h, or nearly 7.5 MWh/year.9 At average energy costs of 9.83 c/kW/h, this average server costs $731 per year in energy costs. The cooling and infrastructure energy costs for this server make this number significantly higher.
Server Utilization And Energy Consumption
A key study on the topic at Google from Barroso & Hölzle used SPECpower_ssj2008 as a benchmark and found that average power decreases linearly as a function of utilization, but the performance/power ratio (an indicator of efficiency) declines much faster because system power consumption decreases at a slower rate under lower utilization compared to how performance decreases with lower utilization.10
Barroso and Hölzle found that average power declines nearly linearly with utilization, but performance to power (efficiency) degrades much faster (Fig. 3). At utilizations of less than 50%, a significant gap exists due to idle power consumption in servers. For optimal use, you should operate in the region on the right side of the chart.
Barroso and Hölzle further measured server utilization patterns over a period of time and found an interesting distribution. Their measurements showed that servers were never really idle, and most of the time was spent in the low utilization regions in the 10% to 50% range. These studies aim to find ways to achieve "energy proportionality," i.e., energy consumption that is a linear function of utilization.
The study states: "This activity profile turns out to be a perfect mismatch with the energy-efficiency profile of modern servers in that they spend most of their time in the load region where they are most inefficient."
The results of the studies cited so far provide some options for designers to consider to reduce energy wastage in servers. Software and operating-system scheduling can be used to improve utilization through virtualization and batching of compute loads. Improving system energy consumption under low utilization is a task for systems designers. This improvement can be aided significantly through improved ASIC designs that enter much lower levels of energy consumption under low utilization conditions.
Raising Utilization
Batch processing is one of the old workhorses of computer technology. For applications that do not need to run interactively or in real time, improved scheduling can create better utilization. However, many applications in today's connected world require instant gratification. These applications do not lend themselves well to batch processing.
Virtualization is one of the key drivers of cloud computing services. Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, and Force.com are major names in this arena. Their services have achieved widespread adoption. For example, the online movie service Netflix runs on Amazon's Web servers.
Virtualization targets underutilized servers to reduce energy wastage by moving the operating point to the right along the x-axis in Figure 3. Virtualization allows a single computer to run multiple "guest" operating systems (OSs) by abstracting the hardware resources (CPU, memory, I/O) through a hypervisor.
In a virtualized system, a guest virtual machine (VM) can be migrated from one hardware system to another (Fig. 4). A VM that runs out of resources such as memory during peak usage can be migrated to another server that is currently underutilized. This relocation requires the ability to manage hardware and other resources so the migration is transparent to the VM. Network addresses are a good example of a resource that needs special handling to work correctly when a VM is migrated to a server on a different subnet in a datacenter.
In practice, virtualization increases utilization, but still runs the risk of underutilization at non-peak loads. Further, strict service-level agreements (SLAs) will require providers to guarantee performance levels. SLA requirements may manifest in terms of unused capacity in the average case (and low utilization) as cloud providers must maintain spare capacity for peak usage, although at a lower level than if systems were completely dedicated to single OSs/applications.
Further, datacenter operators must maintain redundant equipment on tap to allow for failures. This set of idle machines adds to the inefficient energy consumption. However, we are still not power efficient unless we can maintain utilization at 70% level or higher (Fig. 3). So, are there solutions that we can apply for low utilization states?
System Solutions
Performance and bandwidth needs drive up the complexity of hardware used in datacenters. Multicore machines increase efficiency of threads/watt and reduce the cost per unit of performance. These designs demand very-high-bandwidth coherency links between sockets. Coherency is required to maintain cache values and consistent data between processors. These designs also require suitable bandwidth in the I/O subsystem to feed the inputs and outputs of the system (Ethernet, storage, etc.).
The main sources of power consumption within a server are the processor cores, memories, disk drives, and I/O/networking. Various techniques have been developed over the years, of which some have more promise than others.11
Lowering power while the CPU is active through techniques like dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) improves power consumption at some performance cost. As process technology evolves and the gap between circuit nominal voltages and threshold voltages shrinks, DVFS advantages will shrink simultaneously. Deep scaling impacts performance significantly.
CPU clock gating works well within the core, but shared caches and on-chip memory controllers typically remain active as long as any core in the system is active for coherency reasons. Given the nature of workloads in the datacenter, full system idle rarely occurs, so optimizing for complete system idle state offers little practical benefit from a power savings perspective (Fig. 4).
Barroso and Hölzle document power efficiency over the activity range for various subsystems in a server. CPUs have a dynamic range greater than three times. In other words, the power varies three times over the activity range, making it fairly proportional to the usage. By comparison, the dynamic range for memory is of the order of two times and is even lower for storage and networking (1.2 to 1.3 times).
Opportunities exist in the memory and I/O subsystem to leverage active low-power techniques to reduce power consumption. Memory techniques like self-refresh assist in improving memory energy efficiency as well. These techniques allow DRAM refreshes to happen while the memory bus clock, phase-locked loop (PLL), and DRAM interface circuitry are disabled, reducing power consumption by an order of magnitude.
Power consumption from interface links as described above is becoming a major contributor to idle and peak usage mode. Interface IP consists of complex analog circuits and has very restrictive protocol requirements. Interface protocols are evolving to improve power efficiency and take advantage of low-usage or no-usage cycles.
Among the interface protocols, PCIe is a ubiquitous technology used for storage, graphics, networking, and other connectivity applications. The PCI-SIG has actively focused on platform power-reduction enhancements to the specification. These techniques line up with the energy-proportionality concept: to reduce power consumption in response to lower utilization levels.
PCIe ECNs Save Power
The PCI-SIG has updated the PCIe spec with engineering change notices (ECNs) that help improve the system power consumption. These advances help increase the dynamic range for power consumption on PCIe devices based on activity and utilization, improving system energy proportionality.
Latency tolerance reporting (LTR) allows a host to manage interrupt service (by scheduling tasks intelligently) to optimize the time it stays in a low-power mode and yet service the device within the device's window for tolerating service latency.
Platform power management (PM) policies guesstimate when devices are idle, with approximations from inactivity timers. Incorrect estimation of idle windows can cause performance issues or, in extreme cases, hardware failures. As a result, PM settings often result in suboptimal power savings. In the worst case, PM is sometimes completely disabled to guarantee correct functionality.
With LTR, the endpoint sends a message to the root complex indicating its required service latency. The message encompasses values for both snooped and non-snooped transactions. Multi-function devices and switches coalesce LTR messages and send them on to the root port.
The ECN also allows endpoints to change their latency tolerance when service requirements change— for example, when sustained burst transfers need to be maintained. In an LTR-enabled system, the endpoints provide actual service intervals to the root complex. The platform PM software can use the reported activity level to gate entry into low-power modes. LTR enables dynamic power versus performance tradeoffs with the low overhead cost of an LTR message.
Optimized buffer flush/fill (OBFF) allows the host to share system-state information with devices so devices can schedule their activity and manage to optimize the time spent in low-power states. In a typical platform, PCIe devices in the system do not know the power state of central resources. CPU, root complex, and memory components cannot be optimally managed because device interrupts are asynchronous, fragmenting the idle window.
The premise for OBFF is that devices could optimize request patterns if they knew when they were allowed to interrupt the central system (Fig. 5). This would enable the system to stay in a lower-power state longer by expanding the idle window. The OBFF mechanism broadcasts power management hints to devices. OBFF can be implemented with expanded meanings of the WAKE# signal or with a message.
The PCIe protocol defines a number of link power states (Table 1). Driven by market and regulatory needs, the PCI SIG proposed an ECN to lower power consumption in the L1 state. The current low-power state (L1) that is used most often has power consumption in milliwatts. The new ECN, "L1 Power Mode Substates with CLKREQ" (PCI-SIG, 2012), redefines the L1 state as L1.0 and includes two substates defined as L1.1 and L1.2 (Table 2).
The addition of these states allows the standby state to reduce power consumption. IP providers have announced implementation of these states in PCIe controllers and physical layers (PHYs), allowing the standby power consumption to drop by two orders of magnitude to low microwatts while providing compelling transition times between active and idle states.
The two new substates define lower-power states that realize power savings through disabling circuitry not required by the protocol in these substates. L1.1 and L1.2 do not require detection of electrical idle, and CLKREQ# controls them. L1.2 reduces power further by turning off link common-mode voltages.
Exit latencies from these new low-power modes are critical because system performance can suffer from long latencies. Further, there may be functionality issues if LTSSM timers are not honored correctly. PHY designs are being pushed to the limit to reduce exit latency while providing low current consumption simultaneously.
Designing IP For Low Power
Applying techniques that provide coverage for process, voltage, and temperature variation can reduce active-mode PCIe PHY power. Without these techniques, PHYs must be designed with greater overhead that increases power consumption significantly. Through the use of clock gating and power islands, leakage current also is significantly reduced, optimizing static power consumption.
Entering deep low-power states has a deleterious impact on exit times from these states. Using superior PLL design techniques for fast lock times can reduce exit latency significantly, improving the resumption time and user experience.
Cadence has optimized its PCIe controller and PHY to support these new L1 power-saving states. The Cadence implementation of these low-power states is available in x1 to x16 configurations, allowing for all applications that use these devices to benefit from power savings. The 28HPM implementation of the Cadence controller is first to market with a wire-bond PHY option. It also is available in flip-chip designs.
Datacenter growth will continue in the foreseeable future with negative impacts for energy consumption unless we find solutions that allow us to operate systems more efficiently. In absolute terms, engineering design continues to find low-power methods across the spectrum for semiconductor and system implementations. In relative terms, energy proportionality design goals require designs to optimize their usage so idle and low-utilization states are more efficient.
Virtualization enables systems to increase utilization and operate at more efficient operating points. However, virtualization is not a panacea as most systems continue to operate in the sub-optimal low-utilization region of the power-performance spectrum. Protocol enhancements such as the PCI-SIG's L1 Power Mode Substates with CLKREQ ECN are an example of making low-utilization and idle states more energy efficient.
Finally, such protocol advances can be effective only when chip designs apply innovative techniques to optimize area and power while improving performance. Commercial manifestations of the PCIe PHY, such as Cadence's low-power IP, make this vision a reality.
1. Cisco Systems, "The Zettabyte Era—Trends and Analysis," May 29, 2013
2. James, J., "How much data is created every minute?" June 22, 2012
3. Cisco Systems, "The Zettabyte Era—Trends and Analysis," May 29, 2013
4. Cisco Systems, "Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2011–2016," October 2012
5. Bay Area Air Quality Management District, "Toxic Air Contaminant Control Program Annual Report," July 31, 2012.
6. Glanz, J., "The Cloud Factories: Power, Pollution, and the Internet," The New York Times, September 22, 2012
7. Kay, R., "Taming Datacenter Power Usage," Endpoint Technologies Associates Inc., Forbes, October 18, 2012.
8. Rocky Mountain Institute of Technology, "Designing Radically Efficient and Profitable Datacenters," August 7, 2008
9. Hammond, T., Toolkit: Calculate datacenter server power usage, ZDNet, April 8, 2013
10. Barroso, L.A., & Hölzle, U., The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, M.D. Hill, Ed., Madison, Wis., Morgan & Claypool, 2009
11. Meisner, D., Sadler, C.M., Barroso, L.A., Weber, W.D., & Wenisch, T.F., PowerNap: Eliminating Server Idle Power, ISCA 2011, San Jose, ACM
Arif Khan is the product marketing director at Cadence Design Systems. He has more than 15 years of design, management, and marketing experience in the semiconductor industry. He has a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Bombay, a master's degree in computer science from the State University of New York, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Osman Javed is a senior manager for product marketing SoC realization at Cadence Design Systems. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.


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Welcome to the soundworld of Christian Welde.
The music of composer/producer and keyboardplayer Christian Welde music has elements of electronica, classical, jazz and pop.
Since the debut in 1998, a comprehensive catalog is available to you through streaming services and downloads.
"Norwegian composer and electronic musical wiz Christian Welde is, clearly, a big Pink Floyd fan. Illuminate, his latest collection of atmospheric and highly charged soundtrack-esque material, features a Floyd backing vocalist (Durga McBroom-Hudson) and an overall feel of Floyd's later work. Think The Division Bell meets the ambient soundscapes of Brian Eno meets the progressive tilt of a Porcupine Tree. The music is mostly synthesized or digitally manifested, but the results are nonetheless powerful and moving …"


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Yesterday Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced her government's latest cabinet reshuffle.
The Department of Climate Change will be merged into the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research, and Tertiary Education – except for energy efficiency, which will be moved into the Department of Resources and Energy. Greg Combet, previously Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, will now be Minister for Climate Change, Industry, and Innovation.
In her speech announcing the reshuffle Gillard referred to the contest between the Labor Government and the Liberal/National Opposition. This framing is ironic because it was originally the Opposition's policy to merge the Department of Climate Change with another department (in their case Environment).
Gillard denies the merger means Labor is backing away from its commitment to climate action. She claims it is "inevitable, natural, logical" that the government needs fewer staff working on climate now it's introduced a carbon price, further reinforcing Labor's irresponsible narrative that the carbon price precludes any need for further action. In reality, climate change remains a global emergency and Australia has yet to act on anywhere near the necessary scale.
It is also concerning that the government has chosen to associate the portfolio of climate change with innovation specifically, because it suggests Labor is moving toward the right-wing argument that we must invent new technologies to solve climate change. In reality, we have no time to wait for innovation, and we already have the technologies needed to power Australia with 100% renewable energy; we just need to deploy them.
It gets worse. It turns out I spoke too soon when I said on Friday that "the resignation of Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson raises hope for some improvement on Australian energy policy". Ferguson's successor Gary Gray is on record as having described climate change as "pop science" and "middle-class conspiracy to frighten schoolchildren" when he was Labor's National Secretary in the 1990s. He spoke at the launch of the climate-change-denialist Lavoisier Group in 2000, founded by Western Mining Corporation executives Hugh Morgan and Ray Evans and Gray's father-in-law Peter Walsh (though Gray himself has never been a member). He was a Woodside Petroleum executive from 2001-2007, before entering Parliament at the 2007 election.
When interviewed by Emma Alberici on ABC TV's Lateline last night, Gray said he has since changed his mind:
I was a vocal climate sceptic. And as national secretary of the Labor Party I said things that frankly, Emma, nowadays embarrass me when I hear it played back.
When I joined Woodside in early 2001, I was exposed to a company whose own insights into the environment in which it operated was far in advance of mine. I was fortunate to work with terrific engineers and outstanding environmental scientists who were capable, Emma, of extracting oil and gas in the most delicate marine environments. I was in awe of that work. And in getting closer and closer to those engineers and serious builders of business, I began to realise not only was I wrong, but if you get the equation right you can actually build better businesses and build a better future. I became a convert to that.
I think there's an undeniable connection between human industrial activity and carbon pollution that we need to address, that we should address and also that we can address.
However, like Woodside's commitment to climate action, Gray's conversion seems to be largely rhetorical. In the same interview he openly said he would continue "business as usual" and sees little difference between himself and Ferguson. He also said: "I am not a green, Emma, and any green who thinks I am a green is mistaken." And just as the fossil fuel lobby lamented Ferguson's resignation, they welcomed Gray's appointment:
Western Australia's Chamber of Minerals and Energy (CME) had been gunning for a local, given the state's dominance in the industry.
CME director Nicole Roocke said Mr Gray, formerly the special minister of state, had a very good understanding of WA and the sector, and his challenge would be to ensure federal politicians and bureaucrats understood the impact of their decisions on the state.
His new position would not be compromised by his former role with energy giant Woodside, she said.
"We don't see that it will put him in a difficult situation," Ms Roocke said.
She also urged Mr Gray to engage with the environmental portfolio, "because that is one area we are being hamstrung by government policy".
The Greens have issued a press release asking whether Gray accepts the implication of climate change science that the vast majority of fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground to limit global warming to below 2°C. To my knowledge, Gray has not responded.
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1.To be an influence for creating, designing and repurposing for a greener environment. 2.Develop a more artistic and whimsical approach to furniture and possessions. 3.Be an influence for greener thinking in the artistic community through fostering reuse and repurposing of salvaged and found items that surround us daily.
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This is a design company that uses as many green and repurposing methods as possible to create one of a kind pieces. The list of repurposed products tends to grow as we do. Our pieces range from themes on vintage cars and yachts to high end art, all done on what remains fully functional furniture.
You can also see our work at chelle.com and leave comments on any of the pieces. Its a web site set up more like a blog, allowing interaction and dialogue between us and our clients.
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Designers, Paul Wilson and Chelle Swanson-Wilson are individually creative artists who have come together with a common goal. Chelle has been an artist, singer and songwriter from a young age. Paul developed his interest much later. When the two met a synergy developed that continues to grow. There are pieces Paul does, pieces Chelle does and pieces they do together.
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Mexican Pine Pieces Goes Asian!
We picked up two of these at auction. One was converted into a bar last week, but this one went to an existing client who wanted a custom Aisian themed piece for their bedroom. This... is the...
Van Gogh Inspried Hutch
This is a custom commissioned piece ordered from Chelle by an existing client. She wanted a piece for her daughter inspired by Van Gogh and Parisian themes and this... is the result.
Junk Mafia Rat Rod - Stella Gets Her Groove Back!
Darren and Ed, collectively known as the Junk Mafia, have a local radio and cable TV show directed at the repurposed and antique crowd in the Kansas City area. They have a rat rod wagon that they...
TWA Island
This wonderful cabinet was found at auction, cleaned and sealed leaving the original patina in tact. Found a piece of marble that perfectly fit the top and added 4" wheels to bring it all up to...
Kansas City Here I Come! Dresser
Vintage chest on chest with the Kansas City skyline added by Chelle! Come to Repurposed Designs and see other works of ours.
KC Union Station Chest
Early 1900's chest with handpainted art of Kansas City's famous Union Station added to the front. Come see other works of ours at Repurposed Designs!
60's ViewMaster Lamp
I love to make lamps out of unsuspecting objects! This time, we bought some items by the box at auction. When we got them home and examined the items we had actually bought the boxes for, this little...
British Invasion Buffet!!
This was formerly a built in piece from a 1930's home. The buffet bottom and hutch top are two pieces. When I was working on it I found a Butlers button so you could buzz for the "domestic help" when...
Freighliner Chest
This is a chest done in the style of the vintage Freightline semi truck, with the actual logo from the truck and working clearnace lights on top that actually light!! Feel free to find us on Facebook...
Kansas City Skyline Waterfall Buffet
Waterfall buffet design
Wooden Cigar Box Purse
Here's another one of Chelle's purse designs using old wooden cigar boxes. These are NOT your run of the mill "craft" projects! The are totally lined with vintage fabric, have sections, pockets...
Lipstick RED T-bird Chest
This is another earlier piece from Repurposed Designs. Its based on the Lipstick Red T-birds, T-Bird logo and a faux "bumper" made from the Ford door jam section that goes in the bottom of the door...
The Korean War Cabinet
Another consignment store find, it was under painted red, black on top then distressed down to some of the red. The cabinet door insets are actually pin-up style pictures of my Mom that she took to...
Weeping Willow Console/Chest
This was actually a $5 garage sale find in Old Leawood. Its Chelles design, she did all the work and it came out gorgeous. The center of each drawer has full width, curved wood that acts as the...
Crestliner Chest w/ Buick Grill Center and Working Tailights!
This is actually one of the first pieces I did. The chest came from a dealer who had it, but it was too bad to restore. Too bad to restore = PERFECT for what we do, since it ends up distressed with...
Ocean Surf Buffet
This is another auction find that came to us as a nondescript buffet with what looked like a coat of housepaint! It peeled off like rubber! Chelle has done a couple of these and they are just...
Repurposed Wooden Cigar Boxes as Art Purses
These start life as wood cigar boxes. They are almost all theme based, these two are the Beatles and Drew Barrymore. All with original art, hand painted, slightly blinged and completely lined with...
54 Olds Buffet LIT UP and DONE!
Heres the finished product! I posted it earlier at about 90%, here it is with the lights working, hardware on it. Come see us at Repurposed Desgins on FB!
67 VW Bus End Table
This is a table we found, at auction, for $1.50. We added the 67 VW Bus dash and grills, powered it so that the dash and warning lights light! It sold in Carthage, MO at the Maple Leaf Festival and...
6' Black Buffet with 54 Oldsmobile Painting and Parts
This is a black buffet Chelle and I found at auction. I designed the piece, she did all the dimensional painting that made it come to life! It has wired and working headlights, actual parts from the...
Grandfather Clock - revisited
This is a abstract junk version of the old grandfathers clock. The main body of the clock is a piece of drift wood, part of an old dock most likely, that Chelle and I found in Heritage Lake on a walk...
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Re: Junk Mafia Rat Rod - Stella Gets Her Groove Back!
Well, thank you, Jodie, I hear youre not so bad yourself!!!
Re: British Invasion Buffet!!
Brian, We are going to have to stop meeting like this!! Im glad YOU like this stuff, no other Junk Market people seem to be noticing, so, as USUAL, we appreciate you!
Re: Grandfather Clock - revisited
Thanks, Midge... actually the Lions piece is just there to mimic the top decorative parts you usually find on a grandfather clock. Its all symbolism. Glad you like it.
Re: Wooden Cigar Box Purse
Vanj...you can buy them from her by email or over the Facebook site. She also is shown at two retail shops in KC.
Re: Crestliner Chest w/ Buick Grill Center and Working Tailights!
No, Jammin, live in Olathe, that one piece is in Pittsburgh. Thanks so much.
Re: Crestliner Chest w/ Buick Grill Center and Working Tailights!
....and Sue, if you wanted to do some kind of feature wed be open to that!
Re: Crestliner Chest w/ Buick Grill Center and Working Tailights!
Thanks Sue! What we do certainly addresses a niche market but I love doing it.
Re: 54 Olds Buffet LIT UP and DONE!
Makeinit, I could tell you, but there are at least 3 steps...and it gets tricky! Seriously though, I layer multiple tones of same color, in patchy layers, very random and the oxidation look comes from how i sand through the layers. The real secret to this piece though is how Chelle does the dimensional paint and shading. Shes the brains behind that. Thanks and glad you like it.
Re: Crestliner Chest w/ Buick Grill Center and Working Tailights!
Joanne, that was me. I think it was the Sunday Getting Started section. Good memory and glad you liked it! Yes, we have several pieces in Nuance all the time. Go see Rachael. She owns the place and an old friend. We also have a clock and several purses at Kansas Coffee across from the Courthouse in Olathe. Go there too while you're over here. Kassie and Crystal have that place and its wonderful. Chelle and I have coffee there most mornings. Come see us then go to Rachaels!
Re: 6' Black Buffet with 54 Oldsmobile Painting and Parts
Oldnews, that must have been MNU and I just had coffee this morning with the founders son, Barth Smith. Thanks for the compliment, its really a great piece. And dont forget, we take PayPal and can crate/ship anywhere, so it could be lit up in your own home!! Thanks again.
Re: 6' Black Buffet with 54 Oldsmobile Painting and Parts
Its for sale at Nuance Boutique and we ship world wide, dont let that stop anyone.
Comming next week, a line of designer purses done by Chelle, theme based, unsing wooden cigar boxes!
Thanks for your kind words!
Paul and Chelle


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He said four men died in the neighbourhood of Jabal Mohsen, populated mainly by members of the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shias to which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad also belongs.
A fifth person was killed near Bab al-Tebbaneh, a neighbourhood of the port city located opposite Jabal Mohsen and populated mainly by Sunnis opposed to Assad's regime. Heavy automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade fire was heard in the two districts throughout Monday, an AFP correspondent said. Battles first erupted on Saturday between residents of the rival neighbourhoods after security forces arrested Shadi al-Mawlawi, a Sunni Islamist, on charges of belonging to a terrorist organisation. Mawlawi's supporters say he was targeted because of his help for Syrian refugees fleeing to Lebanon.
Some 500 of them blocked a main road leading into Tripoli on Monday and said they would leave only after Mawlawi was released.
"We will stop when Shadi is freed," said Abdel Qader Hamid, a security guard at a Salafist Mosque in Tripoli. "If the army tries to force us to leave, we will defend ourselves even if 100 of us have to die." Tripoli MP Mouin Mereebi said the situation was getting out of control in the city and accused the army of failing to intervene to please the regime in Damascus. "The army does not want to intervene without political cover," he told AFP. "Tripoli MPs have urged them to enter the areas (of clashes), telling them we would walk in front of them, but they refused."
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The army said in a statement that two soldiers were wounded on Sunday night when their patrol came under attack by armed men as they were trying to reopen a freeway between the two neighbourhoods.
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Prime Minister Najib Mikati, a Sunni Muslim from Tripoli, met with religious leaders in the city on Sunday and appealed for calm. Meetings between the army, politicians and religious leaders were also held on Monday.
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Since the outbreak of the revolt in Syria in March 2011, a spillover has been feared in Lebanon, where the government is dominated by a pro-Damascus coalition led by the powerful Shiite group Hezbollah.
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The U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Department of State work together issuing passports to U.S. citizens. They provide multiple services to expedite this process and make it easier for you to understand.
The USPS has an interactive map that allows you to find post office locations nearby. However, make sure the location contains passport distribution services. You can find these by clicking the "Location Types" dropdown menu and selecting the "Passport" option.
You can fill out the passport application online, print it out and then bring it (along with the additional required documents) to a relevant post office. This should save you and the post office time. You may, of course, still receive and fill out the application at the post office too.
Once the post office has your application and documents, you will need to:
- pay a fee (for a regular adult passport book, it will typically cost $110 for the application and $25 for an execution fee);
- provide a picture (most post offices can take a picture of you on the spot); and
- let them do the rest.
Once your passport is ready, the post office will mail you your official United States of America passport.
The USPS recommends that you apply for your passport several months before you need it. Processing times can vary, so it's better to do it earlier rather than later. Typically, it takes about four weeks to process an application. However, if you need to get your passport in a hurry, they do provide expedited services — such as using Priority Mail.
Even though the process sounds a bit intimidating, it remains completely doable — as long as you've done your research!
Last updated April 6, 2017.
About the Author
Bethany McDaniel is the Editorial Director for GeorgiaGov. She graduated from Berry College in Rome, Ga., with degrees in Visual Communication and History.
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Freedom, New Hampshire
|Freedom, New Hampshire
Location in Carroll County, New Hampshire
Location in Carroll County, New Hampshire
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|United States
|New Hampshire
|• Board of Selectmen
Les Babb, Chair
Ernie Day, Jr.
Neal Boyle
|• Total
|38.1 sq mi (98.7 km2)
|• Land
|35.0 sq mi (90.6 km2)
|• Water
|3.1 sq mi (8.1 km2) 8.23%
|439 ft (134 m)
|Population (2010)
|• Total
|• Density
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Freedom is a town located in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,489 at the 2010 census.[1] The town's eastern boundary runs along the Maine state border. Ossipee Lake, with a resort and camps, is in the southwest of the town.
The town was once a part of Effingham called "North Effingham". Following an influx of new settlers from Maine, there was a conflict of culture and religion between them and people from the New Hampshire seacoast area who already populated Effingham. As a result, North Effingham separated into a town of its own. The community, incorporated in 1831, was appropriately named "Freedom".
The town was the setting for the children's fantasy book The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth, first published in 1956 but reissued years later, and a 2001 broadcast of This American Life, "House on Loon Lake". The episode depicted an abandoned house explored by young boys in town for summer camp at Loon Lake.
Freedom is situated between the Lakes Region and the White Mountains. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of Script error: No such module "convert"., of which Script error: No such module "convert". is land and Script error: No such module "convert". is water, comprising 8.23% of the town.[2] The highest point in the town is the summit of Cragged Mountain, at Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level. Freedom is drained by the Ossipee River and lies fully within the Saco River watershed.[3]
Freedom is one of several sites for Nature's Classroom. It is also home to one of the permanent campsites of the Luethi-Peterson Camps and to Cragged Mountain Farm, a co-ed summer camp on Cragged Mountain started by Dr. Henry Utter in 1927, and still owned by the Utter family.
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,489 people, 699 households, and 457 families residing in the town. The population density was 42.5 people per square mile (16.4/km²). There were 1,580 housing units at an average density of 45.1 per square mile (17.4/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.8% White, 0.1% African American, 0.3% Asian, 0.1% some other race, and 0.7% from two or more races.[1]
There were 699 households out of which 19.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.9% were headed by married couples living together, 5.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.6% were non-families. 28.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.5% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.12, and the average family size was 2.57.[1]
In the town the population was spread out with 15.6% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 16.8% from 25 to 44, 35.9% from 45 to 64, and 26.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 53.1 years. For every 100 females there were 101.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.8 males.[1]
For the period 2007-11, the estimated median annual income for a household in the town was $47,375, and the median income for a family was $50,769. Male full-time workers had a median income of $40,536 versus $33,958 for females. The per capita income for the town was $32,537. About 6.0% of families and 7.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.4% of those under the age of 18 and 3.6% of those 65 and older.[4]
The largest ancestry groups in Freedom as of 2007-11 were:
- 29.8% English
- 27.2% Irish
- 22.0% French and French Canadian
- 9.6% Scottish
- 7.7% Swedish
- 7.5% German
- 5.7% Scotch-Irish
- 5.2% Italian[5]
Sites of interest
- Allard House & Works Museum, Freedom Historical Society
Notable people
- Frank S. Black (summer resident), 32nd governor of New York
- ^ a b c d "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Freedom town, Carroll County, New Hampshire". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
- ^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001) - Freedom town, New Hampshire". U.S. Census Bureau American Factfinder. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ^ Foster, Debra H.; Batorfalvy, Tatianna N.; Medalie, Laura (1995). Water Use in New Hampshire: An Activities Guide for Teachers. U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Geological Survey.
- ^ "Selected Economic Characteristics: 2007-2011 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (DP03): Freedom town, Carroll County, New Hampshire". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
- ^ "Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2007-2011 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (DP02): Freedom town, Carroll County, New Hampshire". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
External links
- Town of Freedom official website
- New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile
- Freedom Public Library
- Freedom Old Home Week
- "House on Loon Lake" episode of This American Life