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It's been a long time since there was a solid homegrown band that hailed from New Braunfels. Bird Dog aims to challenge that notion. But, they won't actually be executing their plan of action in the two rivers city. At least not for now. This band, which was originally conceived as a brother guitar and drum duo, left for Nashville in September of 2013 to scratch their itch for something more.


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|Oracle® Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Getting Started with Oracle Fusion Middleware Management
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The Enterprise Manager Application Dependency and Performance (ADP) capabilities automatically select performance metrics and track contextual relationships for various applications. The methodology focuses on other important activities to allow you to setup and maintain an effective application performance monitoring environment.
These activities include the following:
Figure 24-1 Steps of ADP Methodology
This methodology describes a series of steps for users to establish and maintain a proactive application performance monitoring environment leveraging the Enterprise Manager Application Dependency and Performance capabilities. Figure 24-1 illustrates these steps in a sequential order.
Map business Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to performance Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
The process of using agreed business SLAs to determine the value of performance SLOs.
Specify target performance characteristics.
Specify the ideal application performance characteristics using performance SLOs identified in step 1.
Characterize baseline performance.
Identify performance bottlenecks.
Remove performance bottlenecks.
Steps 3, 4, and 5 should be grouped together to form a process of incremental performance improvement. Iterations of this process may be required to improve the application performance to meet the performance target as specified in step 2.
Set SLOs on key metrics.
Once application performance reaches the targeted goal, you need to set performance SLOs on key metrics to establish a proactive monitoring environment. This environment provides you with warnings when key performance metrics start to report abnormalities. These warnings enable you to proactively solve potential problems before they begin to impact business.
This chapter explains the following activities in more detail:
The ADP methodology activities include the following:
To successfully setup a proactive application performance monitoring environment, the first step is to map a set of business objectives to a set of performance thresholds for you to monitor. These business objectives are often referred to as business service level agreements (SLAs). These business SLAs provide the basic application performance requirements at a high level. As such, mapping these high level SLAs to low level performance thresholds is often a very difficult activity to do well.
Using tools that only measure performance at technology levels (EJB, JSP, servlet, portlet, SQL calls, and so on) to perform this type of activity continues to be very difficult as the correlations between low-level metrics and high-level objectives are often fuzzy at best. Consequently, the mapping activity is considered by many as an art rather than a science.
By measuring performance at both technology and functional levels, Enterprise Manager makes this mapping activity significantly less complicated. Since functional metrics measure performance for high level constructs such as business processes or portal desktops, mapping business SLAs directly to performance SLOs (Service Level Objectives) is straightforward.
Defining the target performance characteristics for the monitored applications is the next step after mapping business SLAs to performance SLOs. Since these SLOs represent absolute minimal performance requirements for these applications, using these violation thresholds as target performance characteristics makes little sense. Instead, you need to define what performance range is acceptable for normal operation and when to send out cautionary alerts for abnormal activities.
For some applications, it may be sufficient to just specify a set of cautionary performance thresholds. Application performance monitoring tools, such as ADP, will send out cautionary alerts if these thresholds have been breached. Since these thresholds are cautionary, it may be acceptable to have a few violations before an alert is sent out. By defining the minimal violation duration, you can minimize the number of duplicate alerts generated. Figure 24-2 illustrates this concept.
Figure 24-2 Control Number of Alerts
In Figure 24-2, the minimal violation duration is defined to be 15 seconds. So if the cautionary state does not persist for more than 15 seconds, no cautionary alert would be fired.
For other applications, it is necessary to define both a high and low performance thresholds. Having both thresholds would effectively define a normal range of operation for these applications. With ADP, both high and low triggers can be set for any SLO.
With a set of clearly defined target performance characteristics, you are able to determine how much performance tuning is needed to achieve the ideal performance range. You will also have a set of cautionary performance thresholds to enable a proactive application performance monitoring environment to be established.
The activities explained in this section should be grouped together as a single performance improvement process. This process would start with characterizing the baseline performance of our application, move on to identifying performance bottlenecks, and finish with removing performance bottlenecks. We would continue to perform these activities in iterations until the performance of our application meets the target characteristics.
Once the specification of the target performance characteristics is completed, the next activity is to capture the performance baseline for our application. The performance baseline will be compared with the set of target performance characteristics to determine if further performance improvement is needed. If so, you will improve application performance iteratively through the next two steps until the performance meets the target characteristics.
To identify performance bottlenecks, you must first isolate performance abnormalities in your performance baseline. Once you isolate a performance abnormality, you need to determine if this issue is a localized occurrence or a systematic problem. By using monitoring and diagnostic tools available to you, you can perform the analysis needed to identify the cause of the performance bottleneck.
Once these performance bottlenecks are identified, you need to determine how to remove them. The strategies for bottleneck removal vary by cause. A few examples follow:
If the cause of the bottleneck is an application defect, the strategy would involve the application development team.
If the bottleneck is caused by a configuration problem, you would request assistance from system administrators.
If the bottleneck is in the application server or framework, you would seek help from those vendors.
The following is a list of possible bottleneck removal activities:
Change application code to fix defects
Modify environment setting to fix configuration problem
Install patches to fix software defects
Replace defective hardware
Upgrade network infrastructure
Add computing resources
Remove resource hogging programs
Tune back-end connectivity and response time
As you can see from the list, the Remove Performance Bottlenecks activity varies widely by cause. Correctly and quickly finding the appropriate groups to help resolve performance bottlenecks is the key for success for this activity. Once the performance bottleneck removal is completed, you must redo the Characterize Baseline Performance activity to confirm the fix implemented indeed improved performance.
In addition to setting application specific performance thresholds, it is also important to set performance thresholds on key system metrics and on some selective component metrics. Setting these thresholds will help you establish an early warning system and alert you to smaller issues before they manifest into big production problems.
Setting SLOs on key system metrics involves some basic understanding of how the system behaves under load. If the system becomes unstable or performs poorly when it runs out of free JDBC connections or idle ExecuteQueue threads, these system metrics should be monitored.
To determine which system metrics to monitor, it is critical to figure out the correlations between overall system performance and specific system metrics. You would use this information to decide which of the system metrics to monitor. Once appropriate system metrics are identified, you will then determine the performance range for normal operation and figure out the cautionary as well as violation thresholds.
While it is fairly straightforward to determine which system metrics to monitor and what system metric performance thresholds to set, setting SLOs on key component metrics is significantly more difficult. In theory, you can assume performance degradation at the component level would negatively impact application level performance. However, this assumption may not accurately reflect reality.
To predict application performance by monitoring component level performance metrics, there must be a very strong correlation between the performance of a specific component and that of the application. Sometimes, a drop in performance in one component is compensated by a jump in performance in another. These performance changes in opposite directions at the component level would essentially result in little change at the application level. Therefore, you must be careful not to draw conclusions by monitoring the performance of a few components unless there are strong correlations.
The last task to perform is to associate various actions and responses for various threshold violations. Once these associations are completed, you can begin to use your proactive application performance monitoring environment.
One of the primary reasons companies purchase solutions to establish proactive application performance monitoring is the demand to meet business SLAs. Business SLAs for enterprise applications are a set of service level expectations defined by internal or external customers. In most cases, these business SLAs are defined at such a high level, they are not useful for setting thresholds in application performance monitoring tools.
As a result, the process of mapping business SLAs to performance SLOs is extremely important for companies to meet the service requirements set forth by their customers. Since Enterprise Manager monitors performance at both functional and technology levels, it is easy to perform this mapping exercise.
In this section, our example explains how to use the Enterprise Manager Application Dependency and Performance features to determine the proper performance threshold values for a set of business SLAs.
In the example, we were given the following high-level business SLAs:
Table 24-1 Example - Guidelines for Business SLAs
|Business SLA
|SLA Requirement
Fast customer self-service portal.
On average, pages in customer self-service portal should load within 2 seconds. This SLA must be fulfilled 99% of the time.
Customer service representative portal must be as fast as mainframe system.
All pages in customer service rep. portal must load within 6 seconds. This SLA must be fulfilled 99.9% of the time.
Fast to schedule a service call.
On average, scheduling a service call should take less than 30 seconds. This SLA must be fulfilled 99.99% of the time.
Let's map the first business SLA to a performance SLO. This SLA requirement states that the average response time for customer self-service portal (desktop) should be less than 2 seconds. In Enterprise Manager, we would set a high-level performance SLO at the desktop. Using the hierarchy in the ADP UI, you would select the customer desktop and right-click to set the SLO.
Because ADP monitors performance at both functional and technology levels, you can directly translate business SLAs to SLOs on functional metrics. In our example, it is the response time for portal desktop customer. For our example, we would proceed to set a violation SLO and a warning SLO.
We can calculate how often violations occur to figure out whether or not our current system is able to meet the SLA requirement 99% of the time. With Enterprise Manager, we can see whether there are any obvious violations. If there are any violations or close calls, we should confirm by examining actual data. If we have data for at least 24 hours, we would use the export capability within Enterprise Manager Application Dependency and Performance to prepare raw data for this calculation.
For the other two business SLAs, we would set performance SLOs on the appropriate metrics.
Also known as performance base-lining, characterize baseline performance involves a set of activities to capture the baseline performance of a system under specific level of load. For example, you can measure the baseline performance of a portal application deployed to a WebLogic cluster.
For example, you can display the performance data during the first four hours of a load test. The number of active sessions grows at a steady pace for the first ninety minutes. Eventually, the number of active sessions stays at approximately seven hundred as the number of new and expiring sessions reach an equilibrium.
Visualize the portal performance following a typical pattern of slow performance initially and gradually reaching a steady state. The initial slow performance is expected as the application server load components into memory and populates data into its caching mechanism. The performance improves gradually and reaches a steady state after approximately thirty minutes. The performance pattern during this initial thirty-minute period can be characterized as startup performance during increasing load. After thirty minutes, performance of the portal application stabilizes.
Enterprise Manager's ability to quickly establish an application performance monitoring environment allows you to carry out characterize baseline performance painlessly. Because Enterprise Manager is able to monitor at cluster level as well as at individual server level, it can characterize performance for the entire cluster or individual servers.
By verifying that a less loaded server has lower resource utilization and faster performance, you can draw the following observations about the performance characteristics of a portal application running on this environment:
Since Server A's resource utilization is near maximum, we can use the load on that server as the maximum limit for individual servers. We can calculate individual server maximum load limit by using the load metric provided by the Enterprise Manager Application Dependency and Performance features.
We should examine the load balancing algorithm and the configuration of the load balancer.
Comparing load and resource usage of two servers in a cluster confirms resource usage is inversely correlated to the load.
Note:This is a very basic performance characterization of an individual server. Performance of a multi-server cluster cannot be calculated by multiplying performance characteristics of individual servers because of the overhead involved with a clustered configuration. True cluster level performance must be measured with application performance monitoring tools like Enterprise Manager.
Enterprise Manager can also be used to quickly identify performance bottlenecks in QA, staging, and production settings. You can use the hierarchical model within the Enterprise Manager Application Dependency and Performance feature to identify an application performance bottleneck. Furthermore, you can use Enterprise Manager to track down an application performance problem caused by resource starvation.
Since the performance problem seems to affect all components in the same way, we should suspect there is some type of performance degradation at the system level. To view system level performance data, we would look under the Resources hierarchy. Performance metrics under the Resources hierarchy provides the raw data for us to perform correlation analysis. This type of analysis is needed to determine whether resource starvation is the cause of the performance slowdown.
Graphs can reveal some interesting patterns.
OS Agent Abnormalities
We noticed a sudden drop in CPU utilization and a sudden increase in disk utilization during the time period in question. This pattern indicates a large amount of virtual memory paging activities on this machine. Memory paging to disk is extremely expensive and slows down request processing as indicated by lowered CPU utilization. To understand why page is occurring, we will take a look at performance metrics on the JVM.
JVM Heap Size
We noticed that for the initial twelve hours of this example, both total JVM heap size and free JVM heap size grew at a steady pace. The growth of the total JVM heap size stopped at 512 MB - an expected behavior since we configured WebLogic to have a maximum heap size of 512 MB. While we expect the free JVM heap size to stop growing after total heap size reached 512 MB, the free JVM heap size actually starts to drop. Combining this information with some previously obtained information such as no sudden increase in load, we can conclude that there is a high likelihood of a memory leak.
This abnormal consumption of memory caused the total JVM heap to reach its pre-defined maximum. It is also very likely this memory leak caused the increase in virtual memory paging activities and corresponding reduction in CPU utilization. This reduction in CPU utilization impacts the response time for all components running in this machine including JDBC Connections.
Memory Leak
We were able to identify a memory leak in the WebLogic JVM gradually caused resource starvation and eventually impacts application performance. In order to further diagnose this problem, a deep-level memory profiling tool is required to understand memory usage of the JVM.
This step in the Oracle Methodology allows you to proactively monitor key system metrics to avoid catastrophic failures such as server hangs (non-responsive), server crashes, cluster hangs, and more. The ability to recognize signs leading up to these catastrophic failures is a must to maintain quality of service for your WebLogic infrastructure.
You can proactively set thresholds and actions for key WebLogic system metrics. Table 24-2 lists the key system metrics for the WebLogic Platform:
Table 24-2 List of Key System Metrics for WebLogic
|Key System Metric
|Reason to Monitor
ExecuteQueue Idle Thread Count
Running out of ExecuteQueue threads is often a precursor to application server hangs (non-responsive). In some severe cases, when the application server runs out of ExecuteQueue threads, all of its operations would stop working.
ExecuteQueue Pending Request Count
A steady increase in the number of ExecuteQueue pending requests is also a precursor to server hangs. This metric is inversely correlated with the ExecuteQueue Idle Thread Count metric.
Total JVM Heap Size
There are two reasons to monitor this metric:
Free JVM Heap Size
A steady decrease in the free JVM heap size is an indicator of either a memory leak or misconfigured application server. A JVM running out of heap will experience instability and performance degradation as garbage collector and JVM competes for resources to perform cleanup and object creation respectively.
Open Sessions Count
If open session count drops to 0 and remains at 0 for a period of time, some investigation is warranted. Often this pattern indicates a network or load balancing problem.
Application Invocation Count
If application invocation count drops to 0 and remains at 0 for a period of time, some investigation is warranted. While this pattern often indicates a network or load balancing problem, it could also be a symptom of a hanged server.
Understanding these key WebLogic system metrics, setting the SLO thresholds and assigning appropriate responses are critical to establishing a proactive monitoring. In this example, we will configure SLOs and actions with ADP.
The first task is to set a cautionary and a violation SLO for ExecuteQueue Idle Thread Count metric so the appropriate person can be alerted when available ExecuteQueue is running low. To configure SLOs, right-click on the Execute Queues metric and select Configure service level objects. In this example, we will create the following SLOs for ExecuteQueue Idle Threads:
Table 24-3 SLOs for ExecuteQueue Idle Threads
|SLO Name
|Threshold Type
|Threshold Value
|Trigger On
Low ExecuteQueue Idle Threads
ExecuteQueue Idle Threads Exhaustion
When SLO trigger is set to Low, ADP will fire an alert when current measurement reaches the threshold value AND the previous measurement has a higher value than the threshold.
For example, we would create the following actions for the SLOs previously configured:
Table 24-4 Action for SLO
|SLO Name
|Action Name
|Action Type
Low ExecuteQueue Idle Threads
Enter Low ExecuteQueue Idle Threads event into server log
ExecuteQueue Idle Threads Exhaustion
Email ExecuteQueue Idle Threads Exhaustion alert
ExecuteQueue Idle Threads Exhaustion
Send ExecuteQueue Idle Threads Exhaustion SNMP trap to HP Overview
ExecuteQueue Idle Threads Exhaustion
Enter ExecuteQueue Idle Threads Exhaustion event into server log
After configuring these SLOs and actions, we now have a proactive monitoring environment to detect ExecuteQueue resource starvation related problems before a catastrophic event occurs. We would use this approach to establish proactive monitoring for other key WebLogic system metrics.
The following is the Oracle recommendation:
Table 24-5 ExecuteQueue Pending Requests
|SLO Name
|Threshold Type
|Threshold Value
|Trigger On
ExecuteQueue Pending Request Warning
5 ~ 10Foot 1
ExecuteQueue Pending Request Violation
10 ~ 20
Footnote 1 Threshold values for these SLOs vary by environment. Figuring out what threshold values to use is an iterative process. Users should gather information about the performance characteristic of their WebLogic environment as the first step. Based on this information, users can set SLOs accordingly. As users continue to improve the performance of their WebLogic environment, they should re-evaluate these threshold values and change them as needed.
When SLO trigger is set to High, ADP will trigger an alert when current measurement hits the threshold value.
Table 24-6 Total JVM Heap Size
|SLO Name
|Threshold Type
|Threshold Value
|Trigger On
JVM Heap Reached Max
512 MBFoot 1
JVM Heap Reached 0
Footnote 1 Threshold value for this SLO varies by environment. Users would set this value to the maximum heap size specified in the WebLogic configuration file.
Table 24-7 Free JVM Heap Size
|SLO Name
|Threshold Type
|Threshold Value
|Trigger On
Low JVM Free Heap Warning
Low JVM Free Heap Violation
Table 24-8 Open Session Count
|SLO Name
|Threshold Type
|Threshold Value
|Trigger On
No user session in system for 5 minutes
Metric.J2EE.WebApplication. OpenSessionCurrentCount
Footnote 1 In the example, this SLO would have a measurement window of 5 minutes. By setting the measurement window to 5 minutes, ADP will fire an alert only if this condition persists for at least 5 minutes.
Table 24-9 Application Invocation Count
|SLO Name
|Threshold Type
|Threshold Value
|Trigger On
No application invocation in system for 5 minutes
Setting these SLOs and corresponding actions establishes a proactive monitoring environment for your WebLogic deployment. This proactive monitoring approach allows you to identify problems leading up to catastrophic problems before they impact your system's performance and availability.
The ADP Methodology is a critical aspect of your application performance management strategy. By following this methodology carefully, you will be able to use ADP to improve your ability to proactively monitor the performance and availability of your deployed applications and WebLogic infrastructure. ADP's automation reduces time, effort, and errors associated with manual processes. This allows ADP users to focus on other crucial activities such as the ones listed in the Oracle Methodology.

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Hello, folks. Welcome back to Bad Beats, the column you visit for betting advice and sad tales of gambling woe. Read past Bad Beats here. Got any stories for us? Email us at email@example.com. Subject: Bad Beats.
We're all losing, no matter who you had last night. I had OKC -4 and watched as the lead eroded along with with Durant's ability to shoot and Russell Westbrook's ability not to shoot. If you had Dallas in the game, or in the series, you're probably pretty perky today.
But maybe you shouldn't be. Last night, the US Department of Justice seized ten domains—some poker, some sports—including Bookmaker.com, one of the bigger (and better) online sportsbooks, and DoylesRoom.com, a poker site known for its longtime affiliation with hat-wearin' Texan Doyle Brunson. The immediate lesson is that online sportsbooks and poker rooms won't be able to use .com domains. More importantly, though, we learned that federal law enforcement is digging in for a long fight with offshore gambling websites.
These seizures follow the April Black Friday poker seizures, which shut down US operations and indicted executives of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, among other sites. (Brunson actually ceased his relationship with Doyle's Room after Black Friday.)
The feds found the backdoor bankers for these sites all over—in Panama, Malta, Portugal, and the Netherlands—but say that all sites needed some payment processing in the US. Accordingly, the Department of Homeland Security set up a phony payment processing business (called "Linwood Payment Solutions") that handled millions in transactions over two years for several of the leading poker sites and sportsbooks. This was an old-fashioned sting operation—your tax dollars at work funding a fake company, with several employees as part of its legitimate-seeming operations. They went to meetings, wearing wires, the whole thing. Then again, perhaps the mission pays for itself: the Baltimore City Paper reported in 2010 that federal gambling seizures had netted $30 million in two years. But if some of that money is in your online account, that's probably cold comfort.
Michael Garone, who was charged with laundering money on Bodog's behalf in 2008, was recently named as an informant in an "extensive undercover operation." Given that Garone's involvement with the feds ended in November (when his case was unsealed), it seems a safe bet that he was involved with the Linwood undercover operation. Garone eventually received one year's probation on the money-laundering charges. One payment processor charged on Black Friday has already pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with authorities.
Today's affidavit (which you can read here) mentions Bodog, which probably has the largest American customer base of any sportsbook, in the same sentence as PokerStars, Full Tilt, and Absolute Poker. All are "gambling sites... that allow a gambler to play various games of chance and to wager on the outcome of various sporting events." Funny, because those three sites were seized, with indictments and prosecution, and Bodog hasn't been touched. Funnier still because, as of today, Bodog.com is now Bodog.eu. Their domain hasn't been seized yet, and Americans can still place bets and deposit there. But it looks like Bodog sees the forecast that we all do. They're ready for the shit to come raining down on them, too. (They declined to comment for this story.)
Bookmaker also has a new offshore site—bmaker.ag, an Antiguan and Barbudan domain—and American-friendly wagering again. They too declined comment.
In the interim, you should only worry about having to learn a new web address for your bookmaker. Yet it's apparent that Homeland Security has started and will continue to chase the sites around the globe. If you're the nervous type, make sure your online bankroll is somewhere you can get to it quickly. Don't let slick web design and Verified by Visa fool you: We still have a foot in the Old West.
TONIGHT: Consider the Sharks +155, the Bulls +5, and, if you really like dogs, Kirstie Alley at 8/1 to win Dancing With the Stars.
Bad Beats: Readers Share Their Tales Of Woe
Reader Michael writes in:
I am in college at the University of Illinois circa 1987-1991 when I get my first taste of serious sports gambling (for a college student with limited funds that meant betting $50-$100 a game a couple of games a week).
It is Monday Night and I am chasing a very bad Sunday. The Los Angeles Rams with Jim "Chrissy" Everett are 2 1/2 point home dogs to the San Francisco 49ers. I like home dogs on Monday night so I pound em.
Rams look great from the kickoff and take a 17 point lead into the 4th quarter with me up 19 1/2 points and celebrating.
Joe Montana proceeds to throw 3 TD's including 2 90+ yarders to score 21 in the 4th and covering. I was never the same again which is probably a good thing as it got me off serious sports gambling even as I got older and had more cash to lose.
It was my worst beat.
Here's Jon:
I never really bet on anything, conventional or unconventional, until I went to college in 2003. It was in my freshman dorm that I met a guy named Bill (name changed to protect againt anyone figuring out who would take the other side in the most morbid bet of all time).
Bill introduced me to the practice of gambling on everything and anything...over/unders on the length of a road trip, who could sink the most putts from one end of the dorm hallway to the other, how many shots I could take before booting, etc. We started off betting money, but Bill had the habit of satisfying his debts by estimating the market value of items he owned and substituting them for cash. Because it's not really fun to use the headphones your buddy gave you to settle a bet right in front of him, we eventually decided to bet only in increments of liquor/beer.
My initial reluctance to make bets soon gave way to a crushing gambling addiction, and by the fall of our sophomore year the bets we made with each other were becoming increasingly absurd, which leads to the bet I made on October 9, 2004 (significant for reasons very soon to be revealed) that prompted me to write in in the first place. While sitting around the table getting hammered that night, I innocently stated that I was confident Christopher Reeve would walk again.
Bill, seeing the opening I'd provided, immediately asked me if I cared to wager on it. I told him that I was confident enough to bet a case of beers that the man who played Superman would walk again within one calendar year, and Bill quickly accepted the bet. Cut to the next morning, when I'm woken up with a text from Bill telling me to pay up that case of beers I owe him. My fuzzy brain, still waking up, was slow to make the appropriate connections, but sure enough after about 2 seconds on the Internet it had been confirmed...Christopher Reeve died on 10/10/04. It's been 7 years and I still can't shake the nagging thought that somehow my terrible betting luck finished off Superman.
Stupid Prop Bet of the Week
Courtesy of Paddy Power, what will David Cameron's first cliché be during Prime Minister's Questions on 8 June?
President Obama 3/1
Labour's mess 10/1
Driving Licence 25/1
Big Society 11/2
Broken Society 10/1
Penalty Points 33/1
Superinjunction 11/2
State visit to Ireland 12/1
I'm enjoying this 40/1
Special Relationship 7/1
Massive deficit 12/1
Calm Down Dear 50/1
Victims of crime 9/1
Safeguarding and reforming the NHS 16/1
Alternative to the monarchy 50/1
NHS Future Forum 9/1
I love the NHS 16/1
Hug a hoodie 66/1
Ryan Giggs 10/1
Oh, there's really only one choice for us. Although "massive deficit" isn't a bad longish shot, either.


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Highlights from the Royal Opera House Youtube channel.
A day of live broadcast from behind the scenes at The Royal Opera (streamed on 7 Jan 2013).
Tweet us your thoughts with #ROLive.
Schedule on the day:
- Eugene Onegin rehearsal with Simon Keenlyside
- La donna del lago Model showing with director John Fulljames
- The Minotaur stage rehearsal with the cast including John Tomlinson, Christine Rice and Johan Reuter
- Antonio Pappano and Kasper Holten interview
- Nabucco Chorus rehearsal
- The Minotaur Sitzprobe with the cast and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth
- Fight workshop. Jette Parker Young Artists
- Eugene Onegin choreography rehearsal
- Eugene Onegin vocal coaching
- La bohème behind the scenes
- Antonio Pappano vocal masterclass
- La bohème vocal warm up. Youth Opera Company
- Conductor preparation for La bohème with Mark Elder
- Die Walküre backstage pass
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Special Note:
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One-Day Outings/ Birding Routes: Pack a picnic lunch or enjoy lunch at any of the local cafes.
Playa Lake Route:
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Optima Lake (2-6): Go east (left) on Hwy 412 to Road 49 east of the town of Hardesty and turn north (left). Low-water levels have kept this impoundment from becoming a lake but is instead an outstanding wetland and very important for migrating shorebirds and wintering waterfowl. The road and parking areas along the Optima Lake (2-6) provide an excellent overview of this wetland. Return to Hwy 412 and travel east to County Road 53. Turn north and travel to Road T (~7 miles). Turn west and follow to County Road 49, follow south into Optima WMA (2-4). This area covers over 8,000 acres of sagebrush, buffalo grass, sand plum thickets, mixed-grass prairies and cottonwood trees. The many gravel roads within the WMA will take the visitor to different access points. Caution: After a rain these roads can be difficult to drive. Turn left onto Hwy 94 to visit Optima NWR (2-5) which traverses through bottomland hardwoods and prairie grasslands. Visit Shultz WMA (2-7) by following Road 47, 5 miles south of Hwy 412. This is a walk-in only WMA which offers creek-side habitat, mixed-grass and shortgrass prairies, and sandplum thickets.
Please Note: there are no restrooms on Optima Lake.
Sunset Lake & Game Reserve (2-1): Pack a picnic and spend the day relaxing at this exceptional park, maintained by the city of Guymon. Named for its view of beautiful sunsets, the 32-acre lake offers a 1 mile concrete walking trail around the lake through a diversity of trees and shrubs which provide an oasis for songbirds. Fishing in winter for trout and year-round for catfish is exceptional and fishing licenses can be purchased at City Hall and other locations in Guymon (580.338.5838). Just north of the Lake across the dam is the Wild Game Reserve. Drive around the enclosure around the Reserve to view bison, prairie dogs, elk and exotic wildlife.
Beaver Dunes Park (2-14): Offers a variety of family recreational activities including a 1-mile interpretive hike through the dunes, horseshoes, volleyball, picnicking areas and of course there is the Off-Road Vehicle dune area for motorcycles, dune buggies, ATV's and 4 x 4's. Park Permit Required. Contact Information above.
Beaver River Wildlife Management Area (2-15): With a high-clearance vehicle a traveler can truly experience the sagebrush and shortgrass prairie, the classic western river bottom and the shrubby sand dunes within this 17,000 acre area. For travelers without a high-clearance vehicle, drive the main north-south area road (11 miles west of Beaver, south side) through this amazing wildlife area. Note: No Public Restrooms.
Guest Ranches:
Pheasant Ridge (2-8)
is a 2000-acre working farm and ranch which will transport a visitor back to
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spectacular lodging (accommodates 18) and good food along with
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Flynt Farms Upland Hunting (2-12) is 3,400 acres of diverse terrain of grain fields, both irrigated and dry land, CRP grassland, tree rows, playa bottoms, and more than 10 years of wildlife shrub and tree plantings. This farm offers excellent wildlife watching opportunities and hunting experiences. Contact: 580.778.3556, http://www.flyntfarms.com/.
High Plains Hunting and The Bunkhouse (2-13) is a working farm located in the middle of agricultural fields, CRP grassland, and shortgrass prairie. The lodge offers lodging (sleeps 13) with complete amenities, walking trails, camping and pheasant hunting opportunities. Contact: 580.778.3697.
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Analytical forecasts show police force where, how to allocate officers
Western Australia Police forecasts workforce demand and crime within 1.5%
As director of strategy and performance for Western Australia Police, Shaun Hodges knows the crucial role of analytics in public safety.
"Intelligence-driven policing means looking at the analytical side of things," explains Hodges. "We not only look at where crime is happening, how much of it is happening, and who is likely to be involved in it, but also how many police officers are going to be available to deal with it."
The agency has used SAS for 20 years in operational areas like financial management for budgeting and forecasting as well as for business intelligence and data integration.
Using advanced analytics is certainly helping us to deliver better policing outcomes.
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Forecast accuracy within 1.5 percent
Analytical forecasts show WA Police how to most effectively allocate their workforce where and when the demand is most needed.
"If we are going to spend $1 million on a breath-testing campaign, we can analyze historical data to find out where to stage it," Hodges says. "We can forecast workforce demand and crime within 1.5 percent, such as look at the number of break-ins that have occurred this month and forecast how many are likely to occur next month – within 1.5 percent. This helps us plan where our workforce needs to be to counteract crime."
He wants information in each police officer's hands to improve how they do their job. "We want to link data and analysis to thermal maps so that each regional manager can see if they need more police resources," Hodges says. "They will produce reports where crime has occurred and overlay it with data from police vehicles. This means we can really start to look on the ground at where the crime is happening to plan strategies."
Seeing the impact on crime
Data integrity is essential to forecast accuracy, Hodges emphasizes.
"Initially, our accuracy margin was 10-15 percent," he explains. "We discovered that this was due to a delay in the officers submitting their reports. We improved accuracy dramatically once they could see the impact that data-driven policing can have on reducing crime."
Eventually, Hodges says, he wants the department to go beyond predicting how many crimes will occur to uncovering the lead indicators for different types of crime. "What I want to do now is understand what drives crime," he explains.
His overall objective is to make sure the department makes the right decisions about where to increase police presence to serve the community when it's at its most vulnerable.
"With my background as a police officer and detective, I understand what information police officers need when they are dealing with situations and need to get on the front foot," says Hodges, a former officer. "If they're better informed when they go into a situation, they achieve a better outcome – and that's a better outcome for the community."
"Using advanced analytics is certainly helping us to deliver better policing outcomes."
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One of eight jurisdictions in Australia, WA Police covers 2.5 million square kilometers, including two regions, 14 districts, 163 police stations and nearly 4,000 uniformed officers.
Western Australia Police needed a solution that would drive better policing outcomes by being able to more accurately forecast where resources should be allocated.
Able to forecast, within 1.5%, the likelihood of particular crimes occurring in areas and allocate the most appropriate policing resources to counteract it.
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Shavuot is a difficult holiday. It is of utmost importance since it commemorates the giving of the Torah, yet it has so few rituals associated with it (unless you count eating cheesecake which I happen to do very well!) that it's hard to stay focused.
In fact, the only other significant custom is to stay up all night learning in anticipation of receiving the Torah -- but I've long been way too old and tired for that!
So what do I concentrate on? How can I make the most of this holiday before I fall into a sugar-induced stupor brought on by the excessive quantity of cheesecake consumed?
I think, perhaps for me, the key is appreciation. What makes the giving of the Torah so crucial is the recognition of what it means to us, individually and as a people; the understanding of all the wonderful ways in which it positively impacts our lives.
When I put down my fork (did you try the chocolate truffle one?), I can sit back and think about the gifts which a life of Torah imbues. I can think about the sense of meaning and purpose. I can think about the intellectual pleasure of grappling with ideas. I can think about the excitement of really working on oneself and trying to grow. I can contemplate the stimulation involved in sharing these ideas with others. I can think of the myriad kindnesses I have received through membership in the Jewish people and the ways in which I have been privileged to help others. I can think about the power and beauty of Shabbos. I can focus on the unique, almost painful, joy of raising children who will also know the Torah and follow its ways or the special wisdom involved in building a Jewish home and marriage.
I can be appreciative. And grateful, very grateful.
Maybe that's why there are so few external customs on Shavuot. The work is internal. It's a time to introspect and examine who we are and what this gift has done for us. (Oh, and did I mention the cheesecake?)
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For over a month now, the miners based in the northern Spanish province of Asturias have been on a strike that has frequently erupted into armed fighting between themselves and police. The reason behind the strike? The new conservative Spanish government has gradually been trying to policy their livelihoods out of existence. They've slashed mining subsidies knowing that without that funding, the mines will have to close. They also reneged on a deal made to help out the miners whose jobs they're taking away. Since the men who work in the mines know no other way of supporting their families, they've not taken this well.
So it was that I came to spend Wednesday, the 4th of July scurrying around as the few hundred miners left at the Soton mine in Asturias (in the 90s, a few thousand worked these pits) used burning barricades and homemade rocket launchers to fend off the riot police sent up into the mountains to deal with this hardcore of renegade pitmen.
The miners have responded to the government's decision to destroy their lives by blockading the roads and rail lines that run south through the centre of Asturias towards the capital, Madrid. It's a battle that has played out on loop for over a month and it's strange one, because while the miners are fighting for their futures, to the authorities it's essentially a traffic dispute (albeit one that's already cost one policeman one of his eyes).
There's a temptation to compare the clashes to our own miners' strikes, but the reality's very different. The battles may be pitched, but as rowdy as Arthur Scargill's mob got back in the 80s, they never attacked the police or treacherous scabs with fireworks, slingshots and rocket launchers they'd fashioned from bits of old pipe.
The miners have a few different varieties of bazooka – the strongest ones use an explosive charge to fire out these weird, massive golf balls, but only at vehicles. If they fired them directly at cops, they'd soon be up in court on murder charges. Despite the language barrier, I learned that if the situation deteriorates further, the miners may consider turning their more powerful weapons directly on the police. They hope very much that they don't arrive at that last resort.
On Tuesday, I was talking to some of the miners and their families. Many were saying that they'd strike for as long as they have to, when a barricade was announced for the next day at the Soton Mine in Carrocera. In Asturias, barricades are an almost everyday occurence, but they're not usually planned in advance. It's become imperative to surprise the police recently, as the miners suspect they've been bugging their phones and sending undercover cops into meetings and protests to gather information.
I was told to be ready outside my hotel at 4.20AM on Wednesday, where I was picked up by my guides from the previous day. Neither spoke any English and my translator was busy – instant added fun. Next thing I knew, I was getting driven to a car park near the mine and told to switch cars. I had no idea why – I guess to throw off anyone who might be tailing us? – but I did it anyway. Two minutes later the car stopped, I was told to get out and one of the miners took a chainsaw from the boot.
This didn't do anything for the composure of my bowels, but as it turned out, he wasn't about to carve me into a puzzle of messy limbs, he just wanted to cut down some trees and block the road. Phew!
We arrived back at the mine, where large groups of miners were now arriving, felling more trees and dropping them from a footbridge that connected one side of the valley to the mine. They added tyres and petrol to the pile of debris in the middle of the highway beneath and set them alight, which has its risks, but helped the miners achieve their aim of creating a massive traffic jam.
To stop the cops from using the footbridge, the miners fashioned a spiked barrier that they hammered into place. On the front of the gate they'd wriiten "No entry for bastards", which was clearly aimed at the cops and not early morning dog walkers.
At the entrance to the mine, another tree was brought down. Just to ward off the cops that teensy little bit more, they set fire to it as well.
Meanwhile, back at the footbridge, the fire on the highway was running a little low, so the miners went for broke and started feeding whole fucking trees into it. It's kind of impossible not to look like a badass when you're doing that.
Three hours had passed and the cops were still nowhere to be seen. As the miners chatted amongst themselves and checked the defences, I began to think they weren't going to show at all. I was wrong:
I headed back to the barricade at the entrance to the mine, when, out of nowhere, riot vans pulled up on the other side of the river and started firing volleys of tear gas at the miners, who responded with their rocket launchers.
The air was thick with tear gas and smoke from the fireworks (the miners used €4000 worth on this one day alone), but I'd been wise enough to buy a gas mask and goggles on the day of my arrival. Unfortunately, not all the miners had come as prepared, and were forced back by the gas.
The police were mainly attacking from the front, but they also sent a number of vehicles to the rear of the mine and blanketed the area in tear gas. The miners responded with rockets and slingshots, and even started throwing the tear gas canisters back.
With the thick plumes of smoke, the frequent large explosions and all the screaming people running across the industrial landscape, it felt like a re-enactment of Stalingrad, except not with toy weapons, because no one here was lame.
The tear gas eventually forced the miners back but, as they withdrew, other miners set up firing positions to cover their comrades:
The police, under the cover of a smokescreen, were able to remove one of the road barriers at the rear of the mine, making it possible for them to flank the miners and attack from the front. A large contingent of miners then moved to defend the entrance to their workplace:
The police then attacked the footbridge, trying to clear the miners who were defending it. Somehow they mistook me for a miner and decided to fire a volley of rubber bullets my way, too. Cheers, guys!
The miners slowly began to run out of rockets for their launchers and so at times resorted to throwing stones and drawing the police out into the open.
Though the police seemed more than happy to cower behind the guard dog's house.
At this point, the barricades had been in operation for almost five hours and the miners were getting tired. Can you blame this guy for taking a well-deserved break?
The break wouldn't last long though, as the cops used tear gas to disperse the miners that were throwing stones. Once again, other miners who had conserved some rockets made sure they were covered.
The guy in the blue cap was one of my guides. Just the day before, my translator had said that if I wanted to see action, I should stick with him. Sure enough, while it was kicking off he was in the middle of it all. As you can see, he's a hell of a shot with the rocket launcher. I've nicknamed him "Juan Rambo".
This trigger-happy fella had been firing rubber bullets from his shotgun all day. These rubber bullets aren't your average kind – instead of firing a shell that resembles a regular bullet, this design fires a rubber ball that bounces around and the more it bounces, the stronger its ultimate impact is. It's not that accurate, though; I didn't see anyone get hit by one of them all day.
At this point, the miners had almost completely run out of ammo and so withdrew further into the mine, out of the reach of the cops. The police refuse to enter the mine – that guy I told you about earlier who lost his eye did so chasing the miners down into their pit. I was lucky enough to be invited up into the huge tower that overlooks the battleground. From there, some miners would occasionally slingshot out a bolt to remind the cops to stay the fuck away.
As things quietened down, the cops escorted a fire truck to douse the fire and move the wood, but as you can see in the video above, the miners had other ideas. They fired off two rockets and the firemen retreated.
Whilst the battle raged on, the barricade still held across the highway, creating a huge tailback during rush hour. At one point I saw one of the miners attempt to tear off the door of a coach and wondered what he was doing – turns out they sometimes attempt to demobilise coaches and HGVs by stealing the keys, or snapping them off in the ignition, to add more blockades to the highway. In this instance though, the driver was having none of it and reversed away at speed.
After the last rockets of the day, the police got bored and simply drove off. This, BTW, is a very different policing style to that used in the UK. If this happened on some coalfields in Wales you'd expect every trouble-making miner to either be arrested on the day or in their homes further down the line. Down here, you could easily mistake the fighting for a game. Neither side really wants to seriously injure the other – if a cop was killed, it would damage the miners' cause, and if a miner was killed, there's the possibility that they'd be made a martyr, aggravating the situation further. At the same time, though, they need to show each other who's boss.
With a bailout looming and unemployment at 25 percent, these are volatile times for Spain. This strike is only adding to the uncertainty surrounding the country's future – but for now, the miners can't worry about the future of their country, as their own destinies, as well as those of the people who depend upon them, are just as unknowable.
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The Center for Research in Implementation Science and Prevention (CRISP) is one of three new national centers funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that focuses on improving clinical preventive services within primary care practice. CRISP brings together expertise in implementation of preventive services, practice-based research networks (PBRNs) and national authorities in innovative health information technology (HIT).
The CRISP mission is to enhance implementation of effective preventive care in diverse populations by:
CRISP is administratively housed at the Colorado Health Outcomes Program (COHO) and Children's Outcomes Research (COR) and is directed by Allison Kempe, MD, MPH. There are 4 cores within CRISP to support research projects, develop novel methods in implementation, aid in dissemination and creation of future projects:
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Essentially, I think something like this would be a practical necessity if you desire to haul many things and don't want to have to use a car or a team of oxen. And since there are many people who lack oxen and are trying to go without a car and are still desirous of being able to schlep (Andy and Frank Schlep are world famous utility cyclist brothers) large items, this trailer seems like a worthwhile investment for you. I'd like to thank Ted from BikeShopHub for letting me know about the trailer and I wish them the best of luck in bringing the Tuba to a mass audience.
As for the bike commuting, I rode the Brompton around Lincoln Park, up Mass Avenue and then around the newly (partially) paved (!) Columbus Circle.
I hope that the next time I ride around here all of the paving will be completed and there will be stripes on the road, include striped bike lanes, which are planned. The road construction around Union Station has long been a bane for drivers and cyclists (and the bane might continue for cyclists until the stripes go down- it's a bit of a cluster without lane markings) and I'm glad that we're almost at the point where it won't be completely terrible.
E Street to 11th to G Street to 15th. I might have gotten stuck at each red light. As far as I can tell the lights are optimized for bikes, but they don't seem to be optimized for cars either. Another example of big government regulations stifling our freedoms.
Riding in front of the White House I was flagged down by Laura on her way to coffee. She asked for a Brompton folding demonstration and I managed to almost sort of do it without screwing up too much. There were many more folds and unfolds over the course of Friday Coffee Club and I think I've finally figured out how I'm supposed to do it and can maybe do it without incident. Also at Friday Coffee Club was Ben, whose Mars Needs Mechanics just "dropped." And Jon showed up with one of his extremely cute little daughters. And I met for the very first time (in real life) longtime tweep Mary Lauran from AmericaBikes. A fairly eventful coffee, it seems.
Afterwards, Chris and I rode down G to 20th and then across Penn to L street, where he turned to head to work and I continued onward to Massachusetts. He was on his new Disc Trucker, a definitive Bike for the Rest of Us, even though when I test-rode it, it wasn't really the bike for me. I like me bike to be tiny and bright blue, thank you.
Up Mass, almost turned into by a church van, and then a long haul up the hill. It seemed slightly easier than the day before, but it's still going to be a challenge on the small wheels. I guess I have no choice but to get better at it or go slower.
After work, I took the same route home, at least for the first part. I had to stop halfway down Mass to readjust my seat, which wasn't exactly pointing straight ahead and was a little askance causing me some discomfort. Thereafter it was a fine ride and I alternated between street and sidewalk as the traffic conditions mandated. I skipped Q and instead elected to ride through the circle, down 19th street (past the Jamba Juice and The Palm- there's synergy there for people who like smoothies, steaks and lobbying!) and made a left onto Pennsylvania. I think 19th street has become something a revelation for me. It's way faster than taking Q across town to 11th, at least on a Friday of a holiday weekend when there's no car traffic. The only thing I don't like about it is how I don't know what side of street I should ride on. M is one-way west, L is one-way east, K is both ways and so is Pennsylvania, meaning that if I stick to the right, I find myself in the right turn lane at M, which is kind of inconvenient and if I stick to the left, which is the side of the street I'd like to be on where I eventually turn left on Penn, I'll be in a "go fast lane" of traffic. I normally start on the right and work my way over left after K and that's generally is ok, assuming that I can merge.
Pennsylvania was quick, as was 15th as was Pennsylvania on the other side of 15th. For a few blocks I rode alongside an open-top tour bus, though I don't know what was said about the John A Wilson Building that caused so many tourists to snap pictures. "THE Kwame Brown? Fully-loaded!? I read about this back in my hometown paper" says no tourist ever.
I rode in queue behind some other cyclists most of trip, but I don't remember where they went and then I made it up Capitol Hill without incident, dodging the tourists and the joggers and the staffers (oh my).
On East Capitol, I saw a guy riding a Brompton in the other direction. His was black and had the trekking handlebars and I think that we nodded at each other simultaneously, which makes us simultaneously huge dorks.


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Narrator: This is a podcast by the U.S. Agency for International Development. I'm Kelly Ramundo.
Narrator: When you think of Ghana as a tourist destination, perhaps what first comes to mind are the forts and castles that line the West African country's former "slave coast." These were the exit points for millions of Africans forced across the Atlantic by the European powers from the 1400s until the early 19th Century when the slave trade was finally abolished.
Two of those slave castles, at Cape Coast and Elmina, were declared UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1972. These sites have long held special historical meaning for the African American diaspora. For some, traveling to Ghana for what is known as "roots tourism" is a rite of passage.
But by the 1990s, Ghana also started to expand its tourist offerings, investing in attractions that feature the country's rich natural bounty - beaches, rainforests, and a bird-watchers' paradise.
In 1991, 135 square miles of rainforest were officially protected as Kakum National Park, around 20 miles to the north of Cape Coast Castle.
Four years later, with support from USAID, Ghana opened a first-of-its kind attraction for Africa-- a canopy ropewalk that took visitors a hundred feet off the ground offering spectacular views of the forest.
Today, Kakum is one of 22 critical biodiversity hotspots worldwide, and it is one of Ghana's most famous attractions drawing visitors from around the world.
I visited the canopy ropewalk in May of 2013. I'm about to venture out on the canopy, which is a series of wood foot planks with mesh rope walls, broken up by seven platforms built high around tree trunks. A group of excited schoolchildren has just gone up the canopy walk ahead of me.
Agnes Ampon: You have to walk a little fast...When you walk slow…no no no no...
Narrator: So right now a bunch of kids are going across the canopy. The canopy is shaking, they're stopping. So a guard is going after them, telling them to walk a little bit faster.
Nana Enseign is my guide, and he says that people can react to the ropewalk in wildly different ways. Some people are terrified when they see how high up they are and the rangers have to be prepared for that.
So we are out on the platform, it's a little bit wobbly. And we are currently 28 meters from the ground.
What you hear there is the kids going a little bit crazy. All right we've reached our first platform.
Narrator: Today the park is teeming with tourists. In 2010, 180,000 visitors made their way to Kakum National Park. The numbers have grown dramatically from the early 1990s when the visitor list was in the tens of thousands and the park lacked basic infrastructure.
Ampon: If you know you are afraid of heights, don't look down…
Narrator: One park guide Agnes Ampon has been working in Kakum for 13 years. She's a member of the local community that used to rely on the park for a living, hunting the wildlife, and chopping down the timber. She says great efforts were made to convince the community to preserve the park. Now, she says, the locals are on board and many are employed here.
Agnes: Oh yes, the communities around are involved for the protection of the park. I am one with the community.
Narrator: USAID has played a large role in this long-running education and anti-poaching campaign. Part of its success has been helping locals find new sources of income, as tour guides, as artisans, as beekeepers, or working in the park's restaurants and shops.
Narrator: We are coming up on the second platform. So do you actually see any wildlife? Do you see any wildlife from up here or are they all hiding from the kids? It gets a little bit narrow.
Nana: They are hiding; the monkeys come out though.
Narrator; I didn't see any monkeys while I was there-- most likely they were scared off by the roar of school children -- but Kakum is home to about 40 species of mammals, including elephants and seven species of primates.
If you want proof that they do exists, Agnes says just ask the farmers. She says that the community still has trouble with rogue elephants that stray from the park's boundaries and gobble up the local farmers' crops, including her own family's.
Agnes: And my father's land is near to the forest, and because of that we sell it. Anything they do they will come and destroy it, they eat it.
Narrator: It would be better, Agnes says, if the community could be compensated for that.
Narrator: On the way out, I run into a group of excited group of kids.
How was it? Was it fun?
Students: Yeah! Good!
Narrator: Another visitor, 27 year old Ben, says it's his first time in the park. I ask him what this attraction means for Ghana.
Ben: Oh, it's a tourist attraction for everyone. You have experience on how our rainforest is like.
Narrator: And did they teach you about the conservation and why it's important?
Ben: Yes.
Narrator: Do you think something like this is important?
Ben: Yes. It's important because we foreign aid from it, like money and revenue from it to have the country.
Narrator: Thank you, have fun! Thank you.
This conservationist and tourist-minded attitude among Ghanaian youth impresses Fenton Sands, who was head of USAID's economic growth office in Ghana from 1997 to 2002. He says that starting in the 1990s, USAID worked to get local communities to understand the significance of their cultural and ecological heritage -- including the importance of preserving wildlife habitats and areas that were historically important to the slave trade.
Sands: And what we did was working with the Ministry of Tourism was to go into these areas and try to get the local to people to appreciate and understand the significance of what they had. And it meant locating these places, going to those areas and trying to get people to understand that if you wanted to make it into a tourism site, this is what you would have to do: and trying to make sure its indigenous, its authentic…
Narrator: And while tourism has grown in Kakum, Sands says it was actually only a small part of what USAID was trying to do in Ghana in the early 1990s.
Sands: The relationship that started the spark in tourism was relating to the fact that we were also pushing non-traditional exports of say horticultural crops. And that was trying to get Ghanaians to meet world standards of exports peppers, melons, pineapples, for example.
Narrator: Sands says that with the rise in tourism, there was increased domestic and regional demand for these types of new crops, especially in the hotels. And this pushed Ghana's agricultural boundaries.
Today, as back then, agriculture is the backbone of the Ghanaian economy. And Sands is back in Ghana working on Feed the Future, the U.S. Government's flagship food security initiative. He says Ghana is a much different place from when he arrived in 1997. Today Ghana is largely food secure, meaning it can provide enough food for its population and more for the region. This is why the country is so important to USAID's larger efforts to bring food security to millions of West Africans.
Sands: It's a stability force in the fact that this country is not seen to be one that is likely to become food deficit: it can provide food for the region and that's a big shift. Ghana was not viewed like that before.
Narrator: Though Ghana is still a poor country by most standards, Sands notes clear signs of progress, though some of them are bittersweet.
Sands: On a personal level, just to shows you how things have changed in a different sense that is annoying, is that the traffic is terrible. It is horrible, to the point where it becomes an actual real factor in people lives. This is one of the costs you might say of becoming a lower middle-income country. The numbers of cars has gone up dramatically, the infrastructure has not adjusted….
Narrator: Another visitor at Kakum National Park has noticed the changes, though she is decidedly upbeat.
Rita Norman: My name is Rita Norman, and I'm with an organization called ROPE for Girls, which stands for Rites of Passages program, and we're here to have a rite of passage here in the Cape Coast area this this week.
Narrator: Norman is on the trip with seven high school girls from Dallas, Texas, including her daughter. She is taking them to places of special historical significance to the African slave trade, teaching them about their roots. No stranger to Ghana, Norman says that this is her fifth time in the country since 2009.
Norman: And I can see the improvements just since 2011, which is when I came before. Every place that we've stopped, I've seen improvement, even in the painting the buildings and adding artwork along the sides of the buildings. It's a BIG difference, it's a big difference.
Narrator: Ghana still has far to go before becoming a mainstream tourist destination. It will need better roads, more well-developed sites and more investment from the government. But for those that have been around to see it, the progress of the past two decades is substantial. In 2012 the Word Economic Forum estimated Ghana's tourism sector to be worth over 2 billion dollars, making up around 5 percent of the country's GDP. And judging by the activity at Kakum National Park on a weekday in May, tourism will be a healthy part of Ghana's future.
I'm Kelly Ramundo reporting from USAID.
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Love ya T.A, but if your ankle isn't right you're not that useful. We need you to be able to stick Kobe. It sucks that you got injured again, especially at this time, but those are the breaks I guess. Love ya Nate, but you're not big enough to guard Kobe. You should be able to spell Rondo as the backup point guard, but you can't be a backup wing. Love ya Finley, but unfortunately you're just too old and slow to stick with quicker guards. If Tony is hurt we only have one option on the bench to cover Kobe Bryant and his name is Marquis Daniels.
Marquis was the consolation prize last Summer when we fell short of signing Grant Hill (even though Gary Tanguay told us it was a done deal). Marquis started the season off strong, earning the nickname "Nasty" on CelticsLife. He was the type of player that just helped your team. Non explosive, but he had a Pierce like smoothness to his game. Then he got injured (as he often has before) and hasn't really been heard from since (with the exception of his neck piece and his role in Avatar).
After T.A. got injured in the Orlando series and continued to be ineffective Doc hinted that it might be time for a change. Time to dust off #7. Well Marquis got into a game and promptly got a concussion and hasn't been seen from since. Where as Big Baby played the following game after his concussion, Marquis remains inactive. If the doctors are refusing to grant Marquis clearance then that's one thing, but if he is physically able to give it a go, it's time to step up Marquis. Doc chose Tony over you at the end of the season, because you weren't playing with energy and heart.
You have a second chance now. You played in the Finals before (back in Dallas). We know you can stick the self dubbed "Black Mamba." We can't have Pierce and Ray wasting all their energy and fouls on Kobe. Tony's ankle isn't right. It's time for you to go into Doc's office and say, "Put me in coach. I'm ready to play. I want to play. Let me at Kobe."
Love ya T.A, but if your ankle isn't right you're not that useful. We need you to be able to stick Kobe. It sucks that you got injured again, especially at this time, but those are the breaks I guess. Love ya Nate, but you're not big enough to guard Kobe. You should be able to spell Rondo as the backup point guard, but you can't be a backup wing. Love ya Finley, but unfortunately you're just too old and slow to stick with quicker guards. If Tony is hurt we only have one option on the bench to cover Kobe Bryant and his name is Marquis Daniels.
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Maureen Maiquez says:
Go Celtics. I have high hopes on you! :)
Agreed completely JR. We need Marquis now.
KWAPT says:
You're gonna call him a "consolation prize" and then expect him to like this article?
First off, aint nothing wrong with consolation prizes. Al Jefferson was Danny's consolation prize after his guy Robert Swift was taken. Grant Hill would have been the better pick-up, but he chose Phx.
Secondly, if my main goal was for Marquis to "like" the article, I probably wouldn't have included a pic of him on a milk carton and instead made a pic titled "Marquis Daniels is Great."
Not sure if you were being sarcastic or not.
Come on Marquis. We need you!!!!!
When he's not playing D, he can also hit from 15 feet when left alone (unlike TA) creating a little more spacing
Shit we have one bad game and everyone is ready to fall apart. Shit game 2 is going to be a whole nother ball game we don't need daniels we just need to step it up. I still believe we got the finals. And when all is said and done and we don't win. I'm still a Celtic fan. This franchise has more heart and pride than any other and we give up were just as lame as flaker fans cause when Kobe retires they'll all be lebron fans.
Agreed ThomasJ. The other guy I wanted (after the deadline passed) was Raja Bell. Unfor the Warriors didn't waive him in time, but I thought he would have been a much better option over Finley.
It seems Marquis will be available today:
So this gives us a guy that can play D and with some fresh legs. If he gets a little of his confidence back he can help us. Listen, he is not Grant Hill, James Posey or Raja Bell but he is much better than what he's been able to show in the last months. At the beginning of the year nobody spoke about Hill anymore and there was a point in which even the players wanted to get him some minutes with the starters because of his smart game. So let's give Marquis some minutes and another chance to redeem himself. See what happened with Nate, see what happened with Sheed...our bench is better than LA's for sure and we'll need these guys to rest the starters
tb727 says:
Would've loved Raja Bell- but Marquis is a good player, hopefully he can make an impact
We found Daniels:
"Marquis dressed and ready to play. No limitations. Went full practice Saturday and ran into some Perk picks for test."
I guess the milk carton thing really works. ;)
Three Toe says:
Shit you start one sentence with shit, you gotta start em all with shit. Nobody is freaking out, Jeff, the article is just pointing out that the Celtics would benefit from having the option of playing Marquis.
Anyways, It's not really fair to call someone out when concussion-related issues can last a day or months depending on the severity of the concussion. Also, a slight knock on one part of the head can generate a worse concussion than a forceful blow to another part. It seems as though Daniels is doing better, but just be thankful he didn't get a Savard-esque one.


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This is an old revision of the document!
Sparky Backup Core lets you backup your existing Sparky installation, and create a new iso image of it. The tool is based and forked from Remastersys.
sudo apt-get install sparky-backup-core
Sparky Backup Core provides two tools:
- 'sparkybackup' - text based, which creates a new iso image.
- 'sparkylinux-installer' - a text and Yad (GUI) based live installer which lets you install your Sparky based re-spin on a new partition, disk or machine. The tool is called Sparky Advanced Installer, and is available in all Sparky iso images.
Usage of the 'sparkybackup' tool in a text mode is manuall only, means all preperations have to be done step by step by you, before starting the process.
The tool configuration is placed in /etc directory:
Edit the file by a text editor, as root, and change some options as you like:
a. Working directory (make sure you need up to 20 GB of space to create 4GB iso image):
b. The live system label:
c. New iso image name:
I do not suggest to change the live system user name, simply leave is as it is (live).
Your desktop configuration should be copied to the /etc/skel directory to use it in a new live system.
Simply copy (as root) any desktop environment or window manager configuration to skel, for example:
sudo cp ~/HOME/.jwmrc /etc/skel/
sudo cp ~/HOME/.config/openbox/* /etc/skel/.config/openbox/
etc., etc.
Make sure that the target folder do exist in the 'skel' directory.
After changing all your custom setting, the building process can be started via the command:
sudo sparkybackup dist
Building with no errors will place your new iso image, package list and check sum files in your working directory. Copy them to other location, before buildning next one.
After the building process been completed, and you copied the iso and other stuff to a diffent location, you HAVE to clean the working directory BEFORE making another iso image:
sudo sparkybackup clean
Starting from version 20171009, the tool got text line shortcuts called "spb", for example:
You should also read Tricks & Tips page.


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