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LONGMONT — Longmont's rail and bus station may be sidetracked for a year by a proposed RTD FasTracks study.
The project, formally referred to as the "Northwest Area Mobility Study," calls on the Regional Transportation District and the communities of the long-delayed Northwest Rail Corridor to set priorities on how to literally keep things moving. The 13-month study will list improvements that need to be made to serve the area, and look at ways to cut the $1.7 billion cost of the Northwest line.
That could include shifting Longmont to the North Metro Rail Corridor instead, expected to be finished well before the Northwest line's projected 2044 completion date. But doing that would mean putting the station on the east side of Main Street instead of the west, so that departing trains don't have to cross Main.
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In short, the station's still going at the end of the line. But before it can be built, everyone has to know which line.
"RTD is ready to go, so if we were to say we still wanted to build it in the original location, they could do it in a year," said Phil Greenwald, Longmont's transportation director. "But we're going to ask for a delay, so I'd say it would be done by the end of 2014 or early 2015, possibly."
That would still meet the original goal of having the Longmont station done by 2015. Regardless of the location, the $17 million from RTD to build it remains locked in.
RTD voters originally approved the FasTracks project in 2004. The Northwest Rail Corridor between Denver and Longmont was to be the longest of the commuter rail connections at 41 miles; it also proved to be the most expensive after the BNSF Railway raised the costs of using its tracks for the passenger service.
The first six miles of the Northwest line — from Denver to south Westminster — are expected to be done by 2016.
The Longmont City Council will decide Tuesday whether to take part in the mobility study, which would give it a hand in the decision-making process. There is no cost to Longmont or the other communities to participate.
"RTD originally wanted a financial commitment," Greenwald said. "I think everyone in the corridor balked at the idea that we would pay RTD more money for a study."
RTD has budgeted $2 million for the study, which in addition to the North Metro option, will also include:
The possibility and cost of finishing the Northwest rail line in phases, including the likely ridership for those phases.
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The exact schedule and process for the study will be set jointly by the participants and RTD, including how to proceed if consensus can't be reached on an issue. Besides Longmont, those players are expected to include Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette, Superior, Arvada, Broomfield, Westminster, Boulder County, and two groups: 36 Commuting Solutions and the North Area Transportation Alliance.
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The graphic above depicts all AL Central starting pitchers with greater than 40 innings pitched through May 18th. So far, this is the most surprising divisional breakdown I've done. Why? Simple. The White Sox.
Currently they have four starters with FIPs better than league average, and four of the top seven in the division. How have they given up so many runs this year? Their bullpen also has a sub-4 FIP. As someone who doesn't follow the team closely, this is perplexing. With Jake Peavey seemingly set to pull a Bartolo Colon, that rotation could look even scarier.
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- "Well, if droids could think, there'd be none of us here, would there?"
- ―Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Droid Revolution was a threat most of the galactic public never knew existed. It was a massive revolt planned by the IG assassin droids IG-88 A, B, C, and D which never occurred as planned. Their plan was to use massive armies of droids to exterminate all the "inferior biologicals" that plagued the galaxy. They went about creating an army by implanting sleeper codes into droids that would turn on their biological masters when the IGs activated the signal. Their plot was ended with IG-88A's destruction at the Death Star II.
The revolution started when IG-88A was created and activated on Halowan by Holowan Laboratories during Project Phlutdroid. IG-88 realized that the Human scientists were a threat to his primary programming as an assassin droid when they tried to shut him down after realizing that his sentience programming was too powerful to control. He decided that all biological beings were inferior to droids, and then turned against his creators and killed them within seconds. He then continued to activate the other IG-88s, copying his consciousness into each, and designating them B, C, and D in order of their activation. Then, together with fellow droid IG-72, who agreed to help them get off Halowan, they escaped the facility, carving a swath of destruction along the way.[1]
Insurrection on Mechis IIIEdit
The IG-88s took off on a ship towards the foundry world of Mechis III. Their first step was to take over the world, one of the galaxy's largest droid manufacturers. They planned to use the planet's vast industrial complexes to construct a droid army for their revolution, but first they had to deal with the biological beings on the planet.[1]
As they flew toward the planet in their ship, they simply hacked into the planet's security system, rerouted the planet's computer systems and transmitted a code to transfer their sentience into all droid minds. Before long, all of Mechis III's droid operators had sentience of their own, and were under the control of the assassin droids. It was here that the IG-88s took control of a servant droid, told it their plan, and instructed it what to do.[1]
The droid in question was 3D-4X, a common butler droid for the head supervisor, Administrator Hekis Thun. While delivering Hekis's tea and daily report, 3D-4X pulled out a blaster pistol and shot Hekis dead, thus starting the first uprising of the Droid Revolution. The droid operatives on the planet followed their orders and rose against their biological masters, and killed all 73 on-planet Human staff within five minutes. The entire planet was now in the hands of the IG-88s, before they had ever set foot on its surface.[1]
Their plan was to mass-produce millions of droids, with embedded sentience and then ship them out all over the galaxy. Thus, when the signal was given, all of these droids would turn on their masters. To make it seem as if nothing had occurred, the droids constructed doctored image systems, so that when Mechis III was contacted, they would think that they were talking to an organic being. To all eyes, was given the impression that biological beings were still running Mechis III. All was going well, but the IG-88's feared that soon their luck would run out, and that they might be discovered. They all agreed that they would take jobs as bounty hunters, with IG-88B as the "face" of the group, in order to lead the Imperial authorities away from their true objective.[1]
A Close CallEdit
Soon, around 0 ABY, the Empire contacted Mechis III, to construct an order of Arakyd probe droids. The IG-88's took this opportunity, and implanted spy programming into the probes, so that at the same time that the probes were working for the Empire, they were spying for them. The closest the revolution ever came to getting discovered was when the Sith Lord, Darth Vader came to oversee the production of his Arakyd Vipers. However, the droids masked their presence well, and Vader merely sensed a slight disturbance.[1]
Later in 1 ABY, IG-88 began production of droids in Nym's Factory Compound on Lok. A group of spacers attacked the compound and defeated the droid army, shutting down the factory and causing a temporary setback to IG-88's plans.[1]
Death Star IIEdit
When IG-88A received information that the Empire was building a new and more powerful Death Star, he decided to upload his consciousness into the Death Star's central computer core and become the ultimate force in the universe. To do this the droids had to create a false computer core to store IG-88 in. By the time the foundries on Mechis III churned one out, IG-88B and C had been destroyed by the bounty hunter Boba Fett, and IG-88D was killed by Dash Rendar in the Ord Mantell Junkyard. IG-88A was now on his own.[1]
He then boarded an identical shuttle to the one they would intercept which carried 100 droids disguised as stormtroopers and the computer core. The droids then intercepted the Imperial shuttle carrying the Death Star's computer core. They destroyed the escort and eventually the vessel itself. Onboard, IG-88A was surprised to find Supervisor Gurdun who had overseen Project Phlutdroid. When Gurdun told him that he should be gracious toward him, for commissioning his construction, he thanked him before planting several explosives on the vessel. Meanwhile, his mechanical stormtroopers carried the core out and downloaded its contents onto their modified core.[1]
When the Imperials installed the core, IG-88A literally became the Death Star, with complete access and control to all systems. None of the Imperial personnel knew, although Palpatine suspected his presence when a series of doors in his throne room opened and closed wildly. The mechanical stormtroopers were scattered throughout the space station doing various things. His presence was almost revealed when one of these was crippled by a fallen crane. When the sparks coming from his legs were seen, it self-destructed, killing all the witnesses present.[1]
When the Alliance to Restore the Republic attacked the Death Star, IG-88A fired the superlaser at the Rebel fleet, letting the Imperials believe they were in control, while he prepared to transmit his master control signal that would cause all droids to turn on their masters. However, he couldn't care less about this war between biologicals, he was only concerned with his plans, which were about to come into being. IG-88A was preparing to send out the signal to droids everywhere, when the Rebel General Lando Calrissian in the Millennium Falcon and Wedge Antilles in his X-wing, shot at the Death Star's main reactor, causing a chain reaction which destroyed the entire space station[2] and ended IG-88A's plans for galactic conquest.[1]
- Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88
- Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
- Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (First appearance)
- Young Jedi Knights: Delusions of Grandeur (Mentioned only)


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I'll be honest here, I don't really curate my LinkedIn all that much, and I tend to accept any request to link. I do perform a little bit of filtering, but barriers to entry a low. Very low.
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Photographer's Note
Late afternoon sun and reflections of the eastern embankment of the River Arun in Littlehampton, West Sussex, England.
APOLOGIES! - frustratingly my anti-virus software will not let me access the forums or join in the discussions on TE - as a result I am not able to respond directly to any critiques, comments or questions, so please do not think I am ignoring you or being rude!
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Royaldevon (68453) 2014-04-15 1:10
Hello Brian,
I thought this was spring and was so surprised to see that it was January! It looks idyllic!
Great use of the f/g for the sense of depth.
The fencing creates an opening as well as f/g interest.
The reflections and the buildings themselves make sure there is interest right across the frame.
I love how the colours help to carry the movement across the frame, too.
Have a great day,
Bev :-)
macjake (94907) 2014-04-15 1:20
Hi Brian
so is there also a place called 'bighampton'?
sorry...couldnt resist :)
Oh man those water reflections are the best!
have any zoomed in shots of those puppies???
love the colors, and once again the reflections and how they seem to be 'snaking' down the water.
very cool!
crisp and cool temps too i bet.
nice post
pasternak (15185) 2014-04-15 2:00
Deep composition with wonderful light and nice distorted reflections. The composition is structured by the lines.
besnard (59196) 2014-04-15 2:05
Bonjour Brian
Une belle photo avec des reflets en zig-zag bien saisis.
Amitiés et bonne journée.
SnapRJW (31631) 2014-04-15 2:06
Beautiful light and colours Brian. I like the way you have composed this in the vertical and with layers of contrasting detail from the grasses through to the sky.
Warm regards
kathryn_weir (2056) 2014-04-15 2:06
HI Brian,
A great shot with your superb sharpness and detail. I love the quality of the light in the late afternoon and the long, low shadows are beautifully subtle. I am always drawn to fabulous refections and you certainly captured those- I think you have incorporated a perfect balance of perfectly blue almost unblemished sky to balance the detail in the lower half of the shot.
Thanks for sharing
shreya2000 (2815) 2014-04-15 2:19
Dear Brian,
The clarity of our pics are always very nice so that in this pic. Colours and pic are good.
claudeD (47754) 2014-04-15 2:37
Hello Brian,
very fine picture from UK showing this picture like a painting. Excellent composition, colors and perfect reflections in the water.Very well done.TFS.
With regards from Luxembourg
Giustiniani (3650) 2014-04-15 2:39
Bonjour Brian,
un bon POV, des couleurs intenses avec de beaux contrastes. La lumière et les reflets mettent ce beau paysage en valeur. Une très belle capture.
Bonne journée.
snunney (130967) 2014-04-15 3:36
Hello Brian,
The beautiful light and reflections steal the show here. An image ideally suited to the vertical frame and having a pleasing layered effect to it. Lovely warm tones and excellent clarity.
Romano46 (18472) 2014-04-15 3:43
Ciao Brian
i colori sono quelli brillanti ai quali ci hai abituato, la composizione impeccabile e la nitidezza sempre di qualità superiore.
Un ottimo lavoto.
Ciao e buona giornata
jhm (196737) 2014-04-15 4:13
Hello Brian,
Nice vertical picture with the reflections of the houses in background.
A very early springtime day or a good winterday.
Sharpness and clarity make these picture wonderful.
Excellent composition, nice presentation.
Very well composition, TFS.
Best regards,
sabermonajati (11533) 2014-04-15 5:31
fascinating composition you captured.facade of buildings have nice contrast and with blue sky exist nice frame.
carlo62 (81157) 2014-04-15 6:31
Ciao Brian
incredibile luce, molto bella, con eccellente nitidezza, il tutto porta ad avere dei bellissimi colori e un riflesso fantastico, grazie anche al leggero mosso dell'acqua.
Bella composizione e ottimo taglio verticale.
williamcoombs1 (365) 2014-04-15 6:54
Hi Brian,
This is another richly evocative waterside study. The colours - blues, reds and tinges of green - all bring this superbly composed photo to life.
All the best,
Cricri (176) 2014-04-15 7:36
Hi Brian
Très jolie la composition de cette image, des couleurs et des reflets vraiment magnifiques, superbe
Belle journée
rychem (71009) 2014-04-15 8:46
Colors and light, two elements creating this photo, simply beautiful and eyecatching
regards Ryszard
npecanhuk (79329) 2014-04-15 12:02
Hi Brian!
Very beautiful picture!
Saturated colors, management of light, vertical format, level of sharpness, chosen pov and composition are all excellent!
TFS - congrats,
marabu61 (11587) 2014-04-15 12:09
Hello Brian
Now that is a very pleasing light you got in this fine composition. The warm glow and the nicely saturated colors are truly gorgeous, not to speak of the amazing reflections.
have a great day
ktanska (37931) 2014-04-15 12:25
Hi Brian,
Beautiful late afternoon light. Lovely riverside view where the reflections of those nice old buildings add extra charm. Strong perspective with nice details from front to back.
Corry (4508) 2014-04-15 21:18
Bonsoir Brian
Magnifiques reflets des couleurs sur l'eau. Très belle composition. Bravo.
jjcordier (79299) 2014-04-15 21:54
Une lumière et des couleurs superbes pour cette très belle photo. Les reflets sont particulièrement intéressants. Peut-être un tout petit peu trop de ciel bleu dans la composition?
ChrisJ (156137) 2014-04-16 13:32
Hello Brian,
Wonderful warm cold color contrasts between the richly saturated yellow green grass and the blue sky and water. Wonderful rippled reflections and the decaying piers add interest. Nice repetition of the boats on the far shore. Tfs!
emka (145695) 2014-04-16 23:36
Hello again,
Marvelous view of the river Arun, so quiet and allowing beautiful reflections. Fantastic deep colours, as always.
Have a nice day
annjackman (23019) 2014-04-18 4:26
Hello Brian,
The late afternoon sun has lit everything to perfection. Good use of the FG grasses and wooden posts. My eye is of course drawn to those zig-zag shaped reflections. A stunning scene.
Kind Regards, Ann
adidas5nb (5743) 2014-04-23 5:43
fantastic pov and frame.really like the combination of elements , and they provide the pic with a leisurely pace.like the light and bright colors.
jmdias (96596) 2014-06-12 15:55
I liked the use of these reflections and this kind of light and strong colors. a compo full of beauty and well done. TFS.
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- Copyright: Brian Denton (timecapturer) (49288)
- Genre: Lugares
- Medium: Cor
- Date Taken: 2014-01-20
- Categories: Vida Diária, Natureza, Transportes, Arquitectura
- Camera: Sony Alpha 850 DSLR, Sony 28-75mm F2.8 SAM
- Exposição: f/22, 1/100 segundos
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Brand name: INNOVA MEDICAL CENTER
Address: Uzbekistan, Samarkand region, 140110, Samarkand, street DAGBITSKAYA, 1
Country code: +998
Legal name: SAMARKAND REGIONAL ENDOKRINOLOGIC DISPENSARY
Brand name: SAMARKAND REGIONAL ENDOKRINOLOGIC DISPENSARY
Address: Uzbekistan, Samarkand region, Samarkand, street ATAKHODJAEV, 63
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This picture of Maggie Smith as The Doctor is amazing. And just one of some insanely great casting suggestions.
Top image: Maggie Smith as the Doctor via commenter ponyprincess, moving Tardis from aussiegall
In response to this post looking at, and then dismantling, the objections to casting a woman as The Doctor, we started to put together a working casting list of women we'd love to see in the role. As commenter Craig Michael Ranapia noted "The perfect person to play The Doctor is the one who walks into the audition room and when they're done you just couldn't imagine anyone else in the role."
Besides Maggie Smith, as suggested (via photoshop) by commenter ponyprincess above, here are just some of the women that we could see doing exactly that:
Claudia Black - AdxLib
Tilda Swinton - KwesiJ
Tatiana Maslany - Sajanas1
Emma Thompson or Thandie Newton - Matt Barbot
Dame Judy Dench or Helen Mirren - Michael Schultz
Have a favorite pick or someone you want to add to the list? Tell us now in the comments.


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Alas, I have been infected with the Six Unspectacular Quirks meme that has been going around. Mama on the Edge was gracious enough to follow the rules, and in so doing, slogged me. While I've enjoyed learning about the quirks of my fellow bloggy mamas, I thought I was too boring to have any quirks, let alone six. But lo and behold, I thought about it and I have more than I thought.
So is this why my kid is so quirky???
Thought it might help to define "quirk" and "quirky":
A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy
informal terms; strikingly unconventional [synonym: far-out]
Far-out? I love dictionary.com.
1. I never wear blue on Wednesdays, and neither do my children. When I was young, I got a brand new pair of brown boots with the fur hanging over the edges. While waiting for my mother to pick me up from school, I decided to run across an open field of snow that was knee-high. I lost one of my beautiful brown boots in the snow and got in big trouble with my mom. My teardrops fell on my shirt, and I noticed that I was wearing blue and it was Wednesday. Since then I have never worn blue on Wednesdays.
2. I am mold-averse. I will not eat bread or any other baked good (cakes, cookies, etc.) that is older than 2 days. Even though you may not see the mold, believe me, it is there. I also will not drink milk if it's within 5 days of expiration. I check expiration dates like a maniac.
3. I keep dead flowers in my house. I am too busy (or lazy) to water the flowers and too busy (or lazy) to throw them out after they die. O.k., o.k., maybe this is not a quirk. But the dead flowers remind me of Miss Havisham's house in Great Expectations.
4. My twin sister and I can, without warning, bust out into hip hop lingo. "Yo G, what be up witchu, dawg? It's ya sista Coolio." Mind you, this does not sound like an Ashton Kutcher trying to be down. We are truly down… because we are of the "darker shade"… thus, we are genetically pre-disposed to coolness. (Our husbands beg to differ).
5. I talk to my fears. "Hi mold. I know you're in there, so you can forget it. I'm not eating you.", "Hi mice. I'm walking into the subway station now. So run away, o.k.? I'm coming in."
6. My sisters and I quote whole passages of old movies, songs and T.V. shows to each other (with dramatic flare, of course). We know tons of lines from Little House on the Prairie, the Cosby show, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Heidi, Gone with the Wind, Sound of Music, etc. I guess you could call it appropriate scripting. 8)


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RedWolf "Paint our wall" Contest (2012-02-16)
RedWolf "Paint our wall" Contest
To celebrate the successful move into our new office, we are hosting an artwork design competition for a chance to have your artwork displayed proudly in our office, AND a win one of five amazing prizes!
What we are looking for:
Your entries will be evaluated by a RedWolf panel based on creativity, innovation, coolness and most importantly, your expression on RedWolf Airsoft?s identity as ?The Leader of the Pack?.
You may use any one or multiple themes or style surrounding Wolves, Weapons, Military, Femme Fatale, or anything Airsoft. The submission must be a digital image of the medium of your choice including but not limited to paint, computer graphics, airbrush etc. If you choose to include people in your submission, you are responsible for obtaining the necessary releases from the individuals depicted, and must be able to provide copies of those releases to RedWolf Airsoft upon request. Artwork must not infringe on the rights of any other artist or person. Color usage is limited to Red, Black and 3 other colors of your choice.
How to enter:
Your artwork must be submitted electronically, Only via our newly re-launched RedWolf Pack Forum.
1. Use your RedWolf ID and password to login to The RedWolf Pack Forum (http://forum.redwolfairsoft.com/) if you do not already have an account, you may register at www.redwolfairsoft.com
2. After logging in, enter the thread ?RedWolf Wall Art Competition?
3. Submit your artwork thumbnail (under 1 MB) in JPEG format, Full Name, and a short description of your artwork and colors you chose.
4. Each person can only submit one entry, any duplicate or additional entries will disqualify you from the competition. If you wish to submit revisions, please do so by deleting your previous submission first.
Deadline: Online entries can be uploaded on The RedWolf Pack Forum, under the ?RedWolf Wall Art Competition? 10:00 GMT on Feb. 15, 2012. Deadline for submitting entries is 23:59 GMT on Mar. 31, 2012.
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Grand Prize RedWolf Winner Will have their artwork displayed in our new office and, Receive a Echo1 M240B (Licensed by Ohio Ordnance)
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Little Idyll is a grade II listed thatched, stone property, dating back to the 16th century, set in Ningwood, in the beautiful West Wight countryside.
The exterior of Little Idyll projects an image of the quintessential 'Old England'. Step inside, and you'll find that the stonework and ancient timbers have been skillfully blended with a few contemporary pieces.
With only two double bedrooms, the house is ideal for an intimate escape in splendid, rural surroundings. The large garden has a tranquil fish pond, and usually has a flurry of garden birds popping in for their meals. As well as the odd fox, rabbit, pheasant and woodpecker. You may find that you waste a couple of hours just watching all the creatures rush about with their daily business.
Little Idyll is only a short walk from the Horse and Groom pub (winner of the Great British Pub Awards 2009), including the 1st pub crazy golf on the Island. There are numerous country walks nearby, both for beginners, and for reasonably fit walkers.
The beautiful town of Yarmouth is 5 miles down the road. The town has grown up as a result of its natural harbour, which is guarded by Yarmouth Castle, a fortification built to protect the Solent from invading forces by Henry VIII in 1547.
Calbourne water mill and rural museum is 3 miles away. The mill is known to be approximately 1,000 years old, and was first mentioned in the Domesday Book A.D 1086, which makes it the original Island attraction!
Osborne House - East Cowes
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Architectural Contracts Approved in Lansdale
Lansdale Borough Council Wednesday night approved contracts with the architect that will design the new municipal complex on Vine Street as well as draw up plans for finishing rennovations at the old Performing Arts Center on West Main Street. Spiezle Architectural Group also assessed borough facilities last year and concluded the police station needs alot more room and Borough Hall is in an extreme state of disrepair. Borough Council members Jack Hansen and Rich DiGregorio voted against approval of the contracts because they were not put out for bid. Borough Council also voted to apply for a $500,000 state grant that would be used for rennovations at the old Performing Arts Center. A contract was also approved for the consultant that will develop programming and a business plan for the Community Arts and Cultural Center that is replacing the old Performing Arts Center.


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Balanced Beam
A day before the barn-raising in Leeds, the frame cutting was going ahead the way it would have 150 years ago.
Behind the Ben Ayers '99–Kirsten Walter '00 farmhouse, barn designer and friend Brad Morse '99, along with neighbor Bruce Bell, was cutting beams from hemlock timbers that Bell and son Nat had milled. On Morse's T-shirt was the phrase "Measure twice, cut once." An understatement, actually, said Morse with a smile. "I'm pretty picky about everything, so I do it more than twice."
There were a few concessions to modern convenience — the whine of Bell's Big Foot circular saw represented one — but other sights were pure Americana. Graybeard neighbor Ian Ormon, seated at a shaving horse, was using a drawknife to shape oak pegs. The next day, a huge wooden maul ("commander") would be used to bang the pegs into place to fix the mortise and tenon joints.
Metaphorical Bates pegs abounded. All the wedding guests — including 35 Bates alums — would etch their names into the transom's stained glass, created at the Maine Art Glass Studio in Lisbon Falls, co-owned by Jim Nutting '76. Wedding guests would enjoy a meal prepared by L'Acadie Catering, owned by Jon Weislogel '94. His goal is to create "100-percent Maine, organic…food that supports the emerging green and fair-trade economy."
The fare reflected Ayers and Walter's social mindset, as each is wise to the ways of social entrepreneurship. After graduation, Ayers founded Porters Progress to help Nepali mountain porters and says he fueled it with high-octane idealism. Recently, he found it hard to build a sustainable management structure for the nonprofit, one that didn't depend entirely on his vision and direction. The lesson learned? "Sometimes you have to renegotiate your idealism."
For Ayers, this renegotiation has yielded a balanced, rewarding life. While his current work is with dZi Foundation, supporting social programs in Himalayan communities, Ayers is also involved in Maine forestry (he logged the timbers for his barn). Settled in an old farmhouse, and looking ahead to restoring it with Walter, is "something I thought I'd be able to do only when I was an old man."
When writer and illustrator Eric Sloane wrote An Age of Barns in 1967, he thought that the American ethos behind great 18th- and 19th-century timber-frame barns had eroded. Gone were farmers (who were also woodsmen, teachers, artists, weavers, farriers, and more) who executed diverse tasks with a "reverence for excellence." The term "sustainable" wasn't available to Sloane in the '60s, but when he bemoaned the erosion of excellence, he was lamenting the loss of a sustainable ethic.
A new timber-frame barn now stands beside a circa-1800 farmhouse in Leeds. Its physical and ethical construction reflects Sloane's revered principles — the triumph of experience grafted to idealism — and it was built by Bates people who live that ethos.
Barns, Sloane wrote, are shrines that "ought to be remembered." The barn of Ben Ayers and Kirsten Walter is a shrine all right. It's a monument to what Sloane believed was fading, but has not.
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In their article, the authors speak of their "fundamentally new strategy" that, "at its core is maximizing value for patients: that is, achieving the best outcomes at the lowest cost."
Boy, who wouldn't want that?
In their piece, they then propose six steps to "fix" healthcare:
- 1: Organize into Integrated Practice Units (IPUs)
- 2: Measure Outcomes and Costs for Every Patient
- 3: Move to Bundled Payments for Care Cycles
- 4: Integrate Care Delivery Systems
- 5: Expand Geographic Reach
- 6: Build an Enabling Information Technology Platform
As nicely written as the article is, I don't think so.
To me, their "Integrated Practice Units" sound strikingly similar to the "Pit Crew model" previously promoted by others. Measuring Outcomes and Costs, while it sounds nice, is enormously difficult as "outcomes" that benefit business might not be "outcomes" that benefit patients and costs (both direct and indirect) are rarely, if ever, disclosed publicly. "Integrated Care Delivery Systems" with their high through-puts sounds an awful lot like someone else's Cheesecake Factory analogy. And bundled payments are hardly "new," having already been implemented in some health care markets. When put this way, the authors' "new strategies" sound like a rehash of plenty of Harvard "old school."
Here's A Real Idea to Ponder
If these authors were really about value to patients, they need to think like patients. Here's an example:
Some time ago, I inquired from one of the major medical device companies if they would sell a defibrillator directly to a patient. That's right: direct-to-consumer with no middle man. They could name their price for he had the cash to buy it. That's because he is self-insured business owner. Being a business man, he wanted to purchase the device himself and then shop the implant between centers to get a deal in a way not too dissimilar from the way one man recently shopped his hernia repair.
But what I was told was surprising.
I was told they could not sell the defibrillator directly to a patient because "we cannot ship directly to patients due to regulatory requirements around product tracing abilities."
What the...?
Seriously? Our regulatory environment prevents such a deal? Where's patient "value" there? Why do medical device companies sell "only to doctors and hospitals" and not to patients themselves? Where is the patient "value" opportunity there?
But to Porter and Lee, this form of "value" is ignored. They're business guys. In their pro-business environment, "value" is defined as lower overhead, lower expenses, and more volume. And thanks to prices that are artificially held high by the government's (Medicare) payment rates, they can continue to mark-up prices to cover other expenses which may not be of value to the patient, like lobby facades. After all, they have large indirect costs to support. Insurers, too, must assure their cut for profits as they negotiate what they'll pay for device implants. And still more layers of bureaucracy exists with complicated coding, billing and collection that also has limited "value" to patients, especially in the case of a patient who is willing to pay cash.
We should ask ourselves if these intermediaries are the reason we are where we are in the meltdown of health care costs.
I think this more transparent model (or a variation of it) will become more common in the years ahead as patients are forced to foot more of their medical care bill. Certainly, it won't be for everyone. But as we continue down this health care reform path, patients will turn a keen eye to health care out-of-pocket costs. To assure value for themselves, patients will demand THEY pay for the device, THEY chose their provider or treatment facility, THEY decide who receives funds for care delivery, and THEY have access to their medical and device data.
THAT is the novel health care cost model that's coming that will be disruptive, not an overly simplified six-step business school "fix." Businesses involved in all aspects of health care that provide patient-care materials, be they drugs or devices, would be wise to be an early adopter of the patient-empowerment movement.
After all, most patients (I believe) will eventually demand real medical value for themselves, not business.


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Suburban Water Systems-San Jose
The Suburban Water – San Jose Hills, an investor-owned water utility and a part of SouthWest Water Company, provides water for about 171,182 residents living in the West Covina area, including portions of Walnut, Hacienda Heights, La Puente and City of Industry. Established in 1946, the Suburban Water - San Jose Hills collects water from its wells in the Main San Gabriel Groundwater Basin. Suburban also distributed treated groundwater from 1) La Puente Valley County Water District (LPVCWD) and Valley County Water District (VCWD); and 2) treated surface water from Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWDSC) and Covina Irrigating Company (CIC).
Covina City Drinking Water Quality
Consumer Confidence Water Quality Reports
Under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the EPA requires Suburban Water Systems-San Jose to assess local water quality each year and distribute a Consumer Confidence Water Quality Report.
The information in this report includes the source of your water, whether your water meets EPA standards, detailed tables of detected contaminants, detailed descriptions of those contaminants, possible reasons why they're present, and potential health effects (if any).
Read the Consumer Confidence Report for Covina City main water system here:
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When you move to a new home in Covina City, you'll most likely already have running water, but you'll still need to set up water service with the Suburban Water - San Jose Hills. Luckily, Covina City has made it pretty simple with the following online form. Starting service generally takes just two business days.
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The wife of cheating South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will pen an "inspirational memoir" about how she's stayed happy even after her husband's exotic, globe-trotting affair with an Argentine woman was revealed earlier this year.
Jenny Sanford's memoir will be released by Ballantine Books in May 2010, the Random House, Inc.-affiliated publisher said Tuesday. The book will "grabble with the universal issue of maintaining integrity and a sense of self during life's difficult times," the publisher said.
Sanford wrote the proposal herself, according to PR reps at Random House who said the book is expected to be "very good." No title has yet been released.
U.S. & World
Mark Sanford, once a possible GOP candidate for the 2012 election, admitted in June he'd engaged in a yearlong affair with an Argentine woman, carried on as he lied about his whereabouts and told reporters and constituents he was on the Appalachian Trail.
Jenny Sanford moved out of the Governor's mansion in South Carolina in August.
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Speeding up host TCP metric collection
We currently use Sensu to monitor our environment, and I've taken to using standalone checks to collect various metrics. Standalone metrics don't rely on the server to issue a check request which provides more reliable interval between checks. One of the metrics we collect is the number of TCP sockets in each of the possible states on each server. We started off using the metrics-netstat-tcp.rb check from the excellent set of Sensu community plugins.
This plugin was doing the job quite nicely, until I noticed that some of our machines had widely varying intervals for publishing this data, especially when under load. This started to be noticeable once the server passed roughly 10k connections, and got worse as the number of connections increased. Given that it's not uncommon for some of our servers to handle in the region of 100k connections during busy times, I decided to have a closer look at what was going on. Closer inspection on one of the servers revealed that the script was pegging a CPU core at 100% and still taking around 10s to complete when a server had ~60k TCP connections in various states – not a good use of valuable resources.
Taking a look at the code of this plugin for the first time, everything looked pretty reasonable and nicely readable, but the large regular expression running for every line in /proc/net/tcp looks glaringly suspicious. As my skills with awk are greater than my skills with ruby, I decided it would be quicker for me to simply rewrite the check using a tool that was built for running efficiently over large text files. The result a few minutes later was metrics-netstat-tcp.awk. Although the parameters are not the same, the output and functionality matches making it an almost but not quite drop in replacement.
The more important feature for me though is that collecting the metrics on a machine with ~60k connections now completes in under 60ms instead of around 10s. Hopefully the lesson for everyone else is that the older tools are still around for a reason, and you need to know when and how to pick the right tool for the right job.
ZFS on Linux 'insufficient replicas' panic
I run a lovely little HP N54L MicroServer at home to keep all my important bits. It's been a faithful companion for many years across two continents. I'm running Ubuntu LTS on it, booting off a small SSD but keeping years worth of backups across two ZFS mirrors.
I discovered this evening that the little PCIe card I was using for my boot drive had failed. There's a spare SATA port on the motherboard I never bothered using (it's only SATA II, the SSD is SATA III), so I just pulled out the old card and booted off the onboard controller. Imagine the horror when I got the following response to my
zpool status after the first boot:
root@dumpy:~# zpool status pool: first state: UNAVAIL status: One or more devices could not be used because the label is missing or invalid. There are insufficient replicas for the pool to continue functioning. action: Destroy and re-create the pool from a backup source. see: http://zfsonlinux.org/msg/ZFS-8000-5E scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM first UNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas mirror-0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas sda UNAVAIL 0 0 0 sdb FAULTED 0 0 0 corrupted data pool: second state: UNAVAIL status: One or more devices could not be used because the label is missing or invalid. There are insufficient replicas for the pool to continue functioning. action: Destroy and re-create the pool from a backup source. see: http://zfsonlinux.org/msg/ZFS-8000-5E scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM second UNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas mirror-0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas sdc FAULTED 0 0 0 corrupted data sdd FAULTED 0 0 0 corrupted data
The whole point of having two separate mirrors was so that bad things like this would need something more serious than an unconnected controller failure corrupting them!
After taking a deep breath I had a look at the data again, and at the rest of my system.
/dev/sda was now my boot SSD, but ZFS thought it was part of an array. Looks like using the on board port had shuffled drive names around. This data is stored in
/etc/zfs/zpool.cache to speed up mounting on boot. Moving drives around had invalidated this information.
So, I did the following:
rm /etc/zfs/zpool.cache
- Rebooted the machine (unloading the ZFS modules should also theoretically work)
zpool import<my pools>
And all my bits were back in the correct order!
root@dumpy:~# zpool status pool: first state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 3h27m with 0 errors on Sun Dec 14 03:27:14 2014 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM first ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-WDC_WD20EARX-00PASB0_WD-WMAZA6447754 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-WDC_WD20EARX-00PASB0_WD-WMAZA6448154 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors pool: second state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 9h42m with 0 errors on Sun Dec 14 09:42:32 2014 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM second ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-WDC_WD20EARS-00J2GB0_WD-WCAYY0231617 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-WDC_WD20EARS-00J2GB0_WD-WCAYY0221030 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors
I initially created the system with an early
0.6.0 release candidate of ZFS on Linux, which is why it was doing something as silly as identifying drives by
/dev/sd? in the first place. Now I'm running on the
0.6.3 release I'm happy to see it using drive serial numbers instead.
Hopefully this information will save someone from blowing away a valid mirror and having to restore from backups…
High Resolution Timestamps with Logstash and rsyslog
It's been way too long since I've posted anything here, so I've decided to resume again with what I've been busy with lately.
We've been using Logstash for quite a while now, and one of the annoyances I've had is that with the default configuration we threw together we only got second resolution on our timestamps. 99% of the time this has been good enough for the simple things we've been trying to keep an eye on, but now and again it's resulted trouble stitching together the exact sequence of events when trying to diagnose a problem.
Rsyslog is the primary tool we use to get data into Logstash in the first place. As we don't have the luxury of using anything cloud oriented we need to care about our hardware too, and using syslog makes this very easy. Add to this how simple it is to get most applications to log via syslog too and it makes using it a no brainer.
Getting the high resolution timestamps into your rsyslog messages is actually really simple. Just make sure you have the following configuration option set in your rsyslog configuration:
$ActionForwardDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_ForwardFormat
The story of Ecks
I've just release Ecks into the wild, a Python library for accessing SNMP data from a server without having to deal with the pain of knowing about what a MIB or OID is. SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol, but for most people it is anything but simple. It's pretty straight forward once you understand what's going on, but most people are daunted by the learning curve.
What results from this resistance is that when your average developer decides he wants to monitor CPU usage or disk space on his machine he or she ends up doing it in the most obtrusive way possible – SSH. While I'm a big fan of small shell scripts, this is one place they do not belong. Let me give you an example:
I set up a new server here in London for one of our Chicago teams. Being a conscientious team, the first thing they did was wire in some monitoring that wrote for their servers. It checks things like disk space, memory usage, CPU load and the state of various processes that they care about. They need pretty fine grained checking intervals, so they check these every minute. The easiest way they know how to do this though is to SSH in to their machines and run df, free, netstat,etc and scrape the output. Every minute. Which on this nice shiny server consumed almost 20% of the CPU right off the bat. Educating them on the use of SSH ControlMaster helped, but it's still doing a lot of work on the machine.
This was the last straw that lead to the creation of Ecks. People will always follow the path of least resistance, so if you want people to do the right thing, you need to make it the easiest thing to do. SNMP has all this information available, modern snmpd implementations are stable, have a tiny footprint and are more secure than providing SSH access to your machine.
The hardest part of all though is what to name this little library. When discussing the problem with Julian Simpson (the @builddoctor), he pointed out that MIB always reminded him of the Men in Black. Reading the Wikipedia article on the original comic book series had some interesting snippets:
The Men in Black are a secret organization that monitors and suppresses paranormal activity on Earth…
Replace "Earth" with "a computer" and you're starting to get somewhere. Then I noticed this gem:
An agent named Ecks went rogue after learning the truth behind the MiB: they seek to manipulate and reshape the world in their own image by keeping the supernatural hidden.
Many people think that the complexity of the MIB keeps SNMP data hidden. And so the name was chosen…
£106.50 per Terabyte Storage Server
With the price of storage dropping all the time, there is a constant perception from people who don't deal with it every day that "disk space is cheap", especially when it comes to developers. The problem is that so called "Enterprise" storage costs are still astronomical compared to what people are used to paying for home storage – even when using SATA disks.
A lot of this extra cost comes from a perceived requirement for the highest available capacity, availability and performance. Achieving all three characteristics is expensive, but if you're willing to sacrifice one of them then costs start to fall considerably. Lowering requirements on two of the three drops it even more.
One of the teams I work with has a requirement primarily on capacity. Performance and availability are nice, but capacity is the key. We generate gigabytes worth of log files every day, but didn't have one place to store it all for easy analysis. Just before I joined the team they'd purchased the cheapest "Enterprise" storage system the IT team at the time would allow – it ended up costing in the region of £12k for 12TB of raw storage. That's £1000 per TB!
In addition to the price, the other problems were accessibility and management of the data and managing growth. This inspired a hunt for something that would provide a cheaper and more flexible solution.
Our requirements were:
- *nix based system. The current storage solution was based on Windows Storage Server, but all our systems and tools for this team are Linux based. Yes, Windows does technically provide things like an NFS server, but fighting with the file system permissions and overall performance are two things that impacted us.
- Cheap to expand. We need to have a clear path to grow the storage in the server easily by simply adding more disks.
- Large filesystems. There's nothing more wasteful from a storage point of view than having lots of small filesystems. Besides the management overhead, there's also many wasted blocks lying around un-used.
- Cheap to build. This inevitably means commodity hardware.
- Reasonable availability. We don't need 99.999% uptime, but would be happy with somewhere in the region of 90%+
- Reasonable performance. Primary access to the data on this machine is via gigabit Ethernet. As long as it can keep up with the network card we're happy…
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DevOps: State of the Nation
When I got back from DevOpsDays in Hamburg this year I felt the need to explain my journey to the "DevOps" world and my view on where it's headed. I started writing a State of the Nation paper to lay it all out. A couple of weeks in I got a message from Matthias Marschall asking if I'd like to do a guest post as part of their DevOps series. I agreed, and after a lot of effort (and help from a couple of great editors) you can now read it here.
It's by far the longest article I've ever written, and I was amazed at how ideas that had been floating around in my head for a while crystalized through the processes of writing them down. I found I got so passionate talking to people about what was in it that I've decided to make a talk out of it, the first iteration of which will be in Chicago on Tuesday (see previous post).
Speaking at Chicago DevOps Meetup
I'll be in Chicago next week and I'll be speaking at the local DevOps group meetup on the 7th of December. Places are limited, so please sign up here if you'd like to attend.


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The San Antonio Life Sciences Institute, a joint venture between The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (HSC), has selected the winners of the Postdoc Initiative Pilot Program. The winners, Emily Boice from UTSA and Lei Huang from HSC, will receive $25,000 for their project titled, "Novel engineered ferritins for tracking and protecting neural stem cells in post-ischemic environment."
The research of Boice and Huang focuses on a treatment for stroke through stem cell therapy. Stem cell therapy is a promising treatment for stroke, but is not without its challenges. After a stroke, the brain has a deficient supply of blood and areas surrounding it are filled with toxic iron. This toxicity is damaging to engrafted stem cells and prevents stem cell induced healing. Boice and Huang are working on an innovative way to protect stem cells in the post-stroke, hostile environment and allow for them to be tracked by MRI machines.
Since stroke is the fourth leading cause of death and the leading cause of long-term disability worldwide, their research into this field could not only change the landscape of the disease in Texas, but also the world.
The SALSI Postdoc Initiative program sought to bring together innovative postdoctoral research fellows from UTSA and HSC to collaborate on the development of novel solutions that will ultimately advance research directions in targeted disease areas which impact the south Texas region. This initiative aims to benefit both postdoctoral fellows and their faculty mentors by introducing new technologies, expanding the research focus, and yielding data for innovative research proposals.


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We love Sephora events… and we love giving away amazing boscia goodies even more! Come visit us at one of our upcoming events and give the code word "AMY" (she's our national trainer, if you haven't heard!) and receive a free boscia gift, just for stopping by. Here's where we'll be in the upcoming weeks… and we'll keep adding dates as we get them. And in the meantime, check out photos of some of our recent events below!Friday, August 12 Sephora Prudential Centre Boston, MA 12-6 pm Saturday, August 13 Sephora Natick Mall Natick, MA 12-6 pm Friday, August 26 Sephora Dallas Northpark Center Dallas, TX 12-6 pm Saturday, August 27 Sephora Southlake Town Square Southlake, TX 12-6 pm *Promotion valid while supplies last. Only redeemable during event's specified hours, as listed above.


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Well, not really. But if Nick Hogan did have one, this is totally the Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe he'd drive. In fact, we bet he has a poster of this exact car on his jail cell wall right now. We'd also say the odds are high on this Phantom sticking out like a sore thumb at the Pebble Beach Concours.
(Thanks to J.F. Musial for the tip!)


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104,323 Hawaii County residents are registered to vote in the 2012 General Election. This is the official voter registration count for the 2012 General Election and is not subject to change for this election.
As of November 1st, Hawaii County has received 18,221 voted absentee mail ballots. Voters are reminded that the deadline to submit an absentee mail ballot for the General Election is 6:00 p.m. on November 6, 2012. Voters are further reminded that absentee mail ballots may be submitted for the General Election by: (1) mailing their ballot to the Hawaii County Elections Division, (2) hand delivering their ballot to the Hawaii County Elections Division office in Hilo, (3) hand delivering their ballot to any absentee/early walk-in voting location in Hilo, Waimea and in Kona, (4) hand delivering their ballot to any precinct on election day, November 6, 2012, no later than 6:00 p.m.
On October 23rd, Hawaii County opened absentee/early walk-in voting precincts in Hilo, Waimea and in Kona. Absentee/early walk-in voting is open to all registered voters at any early walk-in voting precinct on the island, regardless of district or residency assignment. Absentee/early walk-in voting will continue until November 3, 2012.
As of November 1st, 7,162 Hawaii County voters have voted absentee/early walk-in voting in Hawaii County.
For more information please contact Lehua Iopa, Acting Elections Program Administrator, Hawaii County Elections Division (808) 961-8277 or by electronic mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Heather James Fine Art - Palm Desert CA
november 15, 2018 - april 29, 2019
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A large collection of prototypes now online
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Edited by Debra Burchett-Lere with featured essay by William C. Agee
This innovative and long-awaited catalogue raisonné brings together, for the first time, all the known paintings on canvas and panel of California-born abstract expressionist Sam Francis (19231994) and offers a comprehensive chronicle of his artistic journey. One of the twentieth centurys leading interpreters of light and color, Francis maintained studios not only in New York and Los Angeles, but also in Paris, Bern, and Tokyo, making his reach truly international.
Elegantly boxed, the Sam Francis catalogue raisonné includes a richly illustrated book with informative texts and two DVDs with authoritative entries for the canvas and panel paintings in an easily browsable, groundbreaking format. It offers the ultimate reference on this artist and a vital research tool.
Color images and documentation for all 1,850-plus paintings on canvas and panel by Francis (hundreds reproduced for the first time) on two DVDs
A lavish book with an extended essay by Francis scholar William C. Agee and a biographical timeline by catalogue raisonné editor Debra Burchett-Lere
Rare footage of Francis at work, writings by the artist, and descriptions of his studios and techniques
Access to electronic updates as they become available
Easily searchable information in a groundbreaking, twentieth-first-century format
Debra Burchett-Lere is Director and Curator of the Sam Francis Foundation. William Agee, Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York, is coauthor of Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, author of Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, and contributor to many books, including Patrick Henry Bruce, American Modernist: A Catalogue Raisonné.
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Sam Francis: The publication of his long-awaited catalogue raissonnée provides the second-generation Abstract Expressionist with a first-rate reexamination. by Richard Speer
Buy the catalogue online.
Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) occupies a prominent position in post-war American
painting. Although associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement and Clement
Greenberg's Post-Painterly Abstraction, unlike many American painters of he
time he had direct and prolonged exposure to French painting and to Japanese
art which had an individual impact on his work.
On leaving the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1944 owing to illness Francis took up
painting as a hobby. He decided to make this a serious undertaking studying
under David Park in 1947 and completed his BA and MA at the University of California.
He was greatly influenced by Abstract Expressionism particularly the works of
Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock. In his use of space on the canvas to allow
free circulation of strong colour and the sensitivity to light Francis developed
his own style by the time his studies had ended.
Francis moved to Paris in 1950 where he met Jean-Paul Riopelle who was to remain
an important influence, and study of Monet's Waterlilies had a profound impact
on his work. From a very muted palette of greys and whites he returned to the
qualities of light and colour producing such works as Big Red 1953. He continues
to develop the use of white space and increased the dimensions of his paintings
for greater emphasis. During his period in Europe he executed a number of monumental
mural paintings.
Francis returned to California in 1962 and was then influenced by the West Coast
School's preoccupation with mysticism and Eastern philosophy. Blue had become
a more dominant feature of his work since 1959 inspired by personal suffering
and the great joy of becoming a father for the first time in 1961. This led
to combinations of hard colour and more disciplined structures with centrally
placed rectangles during the 1970s. Eventually these more rigid structures gave
way to looser configurations sometimes of snake-like forms with web-like patterns.
Blue, sometimes brilliant, remained an important part of many later works.
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I drive a lot, and lately I've been listening to Suze Orman Podcasts while I'm on the road. Suze often refers to one's twenties and early thirties as "the compounding years," because money saved in retirement accounts during these years will yield highly compounded dividends by the age of retirement.
Don't worry, this isn't going to be a financial post. The term "compounding years" got me thinking about a different kind of equity we build in adulthood as a way to invest in our retirement future. Or at least the fact that we should be thinking of it in this way.
That is, our health equity.
In our twenties and early thirties, we work out and stay active maybe just as a way to look great, or beat personal bests, win sporting contests, or just to have fun. And while these may very well be reasons we work out in our late thirties and forties, it takes on a much greater weight (no pun intended).
If we choose a sedentary or minimally active lifestyle while we're young we may not be building muscle, but we're not actively losing it either. And metabolism in your younger years usually hums along at a steady enough pace regardless. We are young and strong, with energy to carry us through even the most intense days. But that all changes when we hit our mid-thirties; muscle starts to waste, metabolism slows, and we begin to lose bone mass. Incrementally at first, then at an accelerating rate, until our bodies ultimately fail and we die. Such is life.
The only way to slow the wasting and immobility that comes with age is to stay active.
So while we may work out and be active in our thirties and forties as a way to look great, beat personal bests, win sporting contests, or just to have fun, we should also be thinking of these as our "compounding years" for health. The more healthy activity we can incorporate into our daily life in our mid-life, the more strength and vitality we will carry with us through our retirement years.
And the good news is, just like it's never too late to start investing money for retirement, it's also never too late to start investing in your health.
Happy investing.


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I've had the good fortune of keeping Albert Pujols for the past five seasons now. I'm wondering if a good thing is about to come to an end. Reports out of ST have him considering Tommy John surgery at the end of July if the Cards aren't in contention. I think that puts him at about 105 games for the season.
Is anyone else in this situation?
My other two keepers are David Wright and Ryan Howard. Our league allows three keepers and I also have Carl Crawford on my team from last season. So I suppose the question is this: 105 games of Pujols or 162 of Crawford? What should I do?


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Was Aretha Franklin's concert at Harrison Opera House in Norfolk on Saturday a triumphant romp through R&B history or an expensive disappointment? That depends, I suppose, on your expectations.
Franklin, 70, brought a big band to Norfolk. There were as many as twenty musicians and singers on stage backing up the legendary Queen of Soul. The group gave her a massive, brassy foundation on which to perform hits including "A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)," "Think," "Call Me," "Chain of Fools," and "Respect," which was saved for a predictable encore.
The queen's voice doesn't possess the raw power it did in decades past. Her background singers did much of the high-register heavy lifting and at times that mighty band obscured rather than supported her vocals. Still, her soaring, unsurpassed tone broke through for brief moments. On songs such as Curtis Mayfield's "Hooked on Your Love," her wonderful mid- and low-ranges rang out clear and true. It's too bad she didn't choose to craft her set to emphasize those strengths.
Instead, we got pretty much a standard greatest-hits revue and one that lasted a total of 80 minutes -- including a brief break where Franklin left the stage while the band entertained without her.
Some of the best moments of the show came when Franklin improvised long codas to songs, letting her voice dip and leap in bluesy, gospel-flavored runs. Unfortunately, some of her most passionate singing came during the peppy-but-lightweight "Freeway of Love."
Franklin's demeanor on stage was warm and engaging. She's lost significant weight and seemed to be in good spirits as she referred to health problems now overcome. She even engaged in a brief bit of crowd-pleasing rump shaking.
So was the show worth the $75 to $113 price of admission? I heard no grumbling as the audience filtered out of the opera house. Those thrilled by the notion of sharing some time with a giant of American music got what they wanted. Anyone thirsty for a concentrated dose of soul inspiration got more of a sip than a long, satisfying drink.


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Rajarshi Bhose is a Senior Research Associate and Manager at the Cloud Computing Center of Excellence at SETLabs, Infosys Technologies. Kashyap Santoki works in the Cloud Computing Center of Excellence at SETLabs where he specializes in .NET, Java, and performance engineering. They can be contacted at [email protected] and [email protected].
Cloud databases are an emerging type of non-relational databases which do not follow relational algebra. Generally speaking, they are key-value oriented systems used for storing internet scale data and provide easy programmatic access. Databases suc as Amazon SimpleDB, Facebook's Cassandra, and Apache CouchDB among others fall in the category of non-relational databases that have been widely used in large consumer-based applications.
Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented, non-relational, schema-less database used for storing Internet-scale data. Apache CouchDB provides a rich set of REST-based JSON API's to access the database to perform administrative as well as CRUD operations. Apache CouchDB follows all ACID properties and also allows distributed updates and replications. Apache CouchDB is implemented on the Erlang OTP Platform.
In Apache CouchDB, the key is the "document ID" and the value is the associated document and where each document can have multiple fields. CouchDB also allows retrieving documents based on field values; this is done with the help of "views".
In this article, we demonstrate how to use CouchDB for CRUD and administrative operations using Java. We have used Java 1.6 version and CouchDB driver from Google code. The development environment is Eclipse 3.4.2 on Microsoft Windows XP-SP3 and Apache CouchDB on Fedora 9 System.
Before Your Start
This article provides a step-by-step guide for using Apache CouchDB using Java. Here we will use Java code to:
- Create a database in CouchDB,
- Store employee data (Employee number, Name, Designation, etc).
- Perform some CRUD operations on the data that is stored.
- Show the use of "Views" and how it can retrieve data based on field values.
The software we use includes:
- Apache CouchDB 0.9.0 installation
- Couchdb4j-0.1.2 jar file
- Json-lib-2.2.3-jdk15 jar file
- ezmorph-1.0 jar file
- Httpclient-4.0-beta2 jar file
- Httpcore-4.0.1 jar file
- Java 1.6
- Eclipse 3.4.2
Documents are the basic unit of data in CouchDB. They can contain any number of fields as well as attachments. Documents also contain metadata information which is maintained by the CouchDB. Fields in a CouchDB document are uniquely named and contain values of different types like text, number, boolean, lists, etc.
A CouchDB document is a simple JSON object. The following is an example of a CouchDB document:
{ "_id":"1234", "_rev":"1-550825736", "EmployeeNo":"1", "Name":"Ram", "Unit":"Research Labs", "Address":"Bangalore", }
In the above example document, EmployeeNO, Name, Unit, Address are the fields that contains values 1, Ram, Research Labs, Bangalore, respectively.
Any fields with a name starting with a _ prefix are reserved for use by CouchDB itself. Common examples for such fields are _id (document id) and _rev (document revision), as shown above.
A CouchDB database is a flat collection of all these documents. Each document is identified by a unique ID (_id).
Creating New Projects and Establishing Sessions with CouchDB
To start, you need to create a new project in Eclipse, and a new class in that project. You can then add all the previously mentioned jar files to the project. At this point, you can start writing Java code in the class you have created.
The first step in using or accessing CouchDB is to create a Session. If you don't create a Session, you won't be able to perform any operations on the CouchDB. In short, Session is mandatory. You need to provide two input parameters to create a Session -- Host name and Port. The following code shows how to create session object or how to establish Session:
Session dbSession = new Session("localhost", 5984);
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, there's always a heart-pounding thrill at the finish line in Nome, a rollicking frontier city on Alaska's western coast.
The city's siren blares as the winning team trots along Front Street at the edge of the Bering Sea. Spectators are heavily bundled against the bone-chilling cold as they cheer and chant the victor's name.
This year, a sudden storm blew the leader, Jeff King, off course just 25 miles from the finish, and Dallas Seavey rallied from third place early Tuesday to defeat Aily Zirkle by just 2 minutes and 22 seconds.
Here are five other memorable finishes in the annual race that began in 1973:
WINNING BY THE BLINK OF AN EYE : Only one second separated the winner from the runner-up in 1978, the closest race ever. The frantic dash down Front Street left Dick Mackey as the winner over Rick Swenson, who went on to become the Iditarod's only five-time champion.
QUEENS OF THE TRAIL : In 1985, Libby Riddles forged through a blinding blizzard nobody else dared to enter to become the first woman to win the race. It took 18 days and 20 minutes — the fourth slowest Iditarod on record. The late Susan Butcher, who would go on to win four Iditarods, was knocked out of the running that year when a moose ripped through her team, killing two dogs and severely injuring several others. Butcher defended her team using only her ax and parka against the moose, which was shot by another musher.
MASTERS OF MOMENTUM: The 2011 winner, John Baker, held the record for the fastest Iditarod completed, clocking in at the Nome finish line in eight days, 18 hours and 46 minutes. That time was four hours faster than the previous record set by Martin Buser in 2002. This year, Seavey set a new record, finishing in eight days, 13 hours, 4 minutes and 19 seconds.
EMPLOYING A LITTLE TRICKERY: Lance Mackey, the son of photo-finisher Dick Mackey, pulled off a stunt in 2008 that proved to be the turning point in his second victory of what would be four consecutive Iditarod wins. He could not shake four-time champion King for much of the trail until the two reached Elim, a checkpoint 123 miles from Nome. Mackey, who was leading by three minutes, made a show of settling in for a nap, telling checkpoint volunteers to wake him in an hour. With King soon snoring, Mackey sneaked out of the checkpoint 70 minutes ahead of his opponent, beating him to Nome by one hour and 19 minutes.
POKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS: The Iditarod's first winner, Dick Wilmarth, completed the race in a whopping 20 days and 49 minutes, followed by an even slower race the following year, when the winner took 20 days, 15 hours and one minute to reach the finish line. Winning times have gradually quickened, thanks to innovations in dog breeding and gear and stiffer competition among mushers. Times finally reached the nine-day mark in 1995. Even the last musher to reach Nome these days is often faster than the early winning teams.
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Press Release:
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino Fist-Pumping His Way To Wizard World Austin Comic Con, October 27th
It's a "Situation" as the Reality TV Star & Future Comic Book Superhero Turns Up The Heat In Texas
NEW YORK and AUSTIN, Texas, October 2, 2012 – Pop culture icon, reality TV star and comic book superhero Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino will take his "GTL lifestyle" to the Southwest this fall when he attends Wizard World Austin Comic Con on Saturday, October 27, at the Austin Convention Center. "The Sitch" will meet fans, pose for photo ops, sign autographs, and signing copies of his Collector's Edition #1 comic book.
Sorrentino and Wizard World announced a publishing and development deal to create a comic book superhero based on "The Situation" and his family. The series is written by Paul Jenkins and drawn by Talent Caldwell with a cover by Greg Horn.
In Austin, Sorrentino joins an impressive list of celebrities like Patrick Stewart, Eliza Dushku and WWE® Superstar CM Punk®attending what is shaping up as the biggest Wizard World Austin show ever and the Southwest's No. 1 Pop Culture Convention.
"We are thrilled to welcome our partners Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino and his family to their first Wizard World show," said John Macaluso, CEO, Wizard World. "Austin is a large-scale event, which is perfect for someone like Mike, who knows a thing or two about big crowds and enthusiastic fans."
"I am looking forward to being a part of the Wizard World experience," said Sorrentino, who grew up as a comic book fan. "It's exciting to think about how many fans of comics, TV and pop culture will be there, and I'm honored to be included with stars like Patrick Stewart and Eliza Dushku."
Wizard World Austin Comic Con, produced by Wizard World, Inc. (WIZD.PK), will bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels, comics, toys, video gaming, television, sci-fi, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more.
For more on the 2012 Wizard World Austin Comic Con, visit http://www.wizardworld.com/
About Wizard World:
Wizard World produces Comic Cons and pop culture conventions across North America that celebrate graphic novels, comic books, movies, TV shows, gaming, technology, toys and social networking. The events often feature celebrities from movies and TV, artists and writers, and events such as premieres, gaming tournaments, panels, and costume contests.
The full event schedule can be found at www.wizardworld.com.
October 26-28, 2012 – Wizard World Austin Comic Con
November 30 – December 2, 2012 – Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con
February 22-24, 2013 – Wizard World Portland Comic Con
May 30 – June 2, 2013 – Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con