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My First Vlog...
... and could the freeze-frame look any goofier?
Will write a post soon... really.
... and could the freeze-frame look any goofier?
Will write a post soon... really.
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OMG Sandra - that was so cool!
You are a natural.....
Nicely done!
Sandra! That was fantastic! I'm so glad you vlogged for us. I feel like I got to know you just a little bit better, which is what make vlogging so neat.
Awesome!! Both the vlog and the new job...
Thanks for doing that, what fun.. I can't wait to hear more about everything when you check in next.
Oh Sandra that was awesome! And the job sounds great or I should say, you sound so happy and positive about it, it must be GREAT!
Sandra, it was so nice to see you vlogging! I'm glad you guys are all doing great (and I laughed out loud when your cat raised his voice from the floor during your video). :)
Hi to Joseph!
MN & Colleen-
Thank you, ladies. :-)
I agree, this vlogging thing is pretty neat-- for exactly the reason you describe.
(Loved yours and George's, btw. :-)
It was kind of fun. Vlogging might be a nice way to update folks when things get hectic over here (as opposed to letting the blog go by the way side).
I am both very happy and positive about this job. On top of feeling great about what I'm doing, I'm bringing in a paycheck (which makes paying for a CGM for Joseph in the next year, along with all of the orthodontic expenses, far less daunting).
For a split second I thought about picking Tim up when he raised his voice -- you know, letting him make his own vlogging debut... maybe next time. :-)
Loved seeing the vlog. Nicely done.
Sounds like your job is a match, and isn't it nice to love what you do. Good luck with your public forum next week!
This is really a well laid out website. I like how you have presented the information in full detail. That was a great first vlog. I will try this sometime later on with my blog. Keep up the great work and please stop by my site sometime. The url is http://healthy-nutrition-facts.blogspot.com
This is a great blog, and a great post.
Stay encouraged and keep up the terrific work!


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Anand Natarajan
Traveling Team
San Jose, CA
The Harker School
Grade: Senior
Reading (especially random trivia on Wikipedia), classical music (Western and Indian), linguistics
Quiz Bowl, Science Bowl, World Language Club, Math Club
USAMO qualifier, Intel STS semifinalist, Siemens AP Award, International Linguistics Olympiad silver medal, USACO, JETS, Wonderfest, Member of SET, Davidson Young Scholar
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1993 (or so reliable witnesses tell me) and I've lived in far too many states since then. In fact, I've lived in all of the time zones of the continental US at least once. I developed my unhealthy addiction to reading at the age of four and I have had a knack for picking up random facts ever since. I discovered that I was good at math in first grade, when my math teacher arranged to have me placed in a higher math class, which eventually led to my taking algebra in the summer after third grade. Along the way, I also skipped two grades (4th and 6th), and I ended up taking AP Calculus BC in ninth grade. I've also taken multivariable calculus and differential equations, and this year I am taking a course in "college geometry," which is basically focused on solving interesting Euclidean geometry problems.
I first got interested in physics when I read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time in first grade. I was really attracted by the idea of simple laws of physics being able to describe vast and complicated systems, like the Universe. Since then, I've read many of Feynman's works, including parts of his Lectures on Physics. I was also fortunate enough to attend a lecture by Professor Hawking a few years ago and even ate dinner in the same room as him. I have taken several physics courses, starting with the EPGY (distance learning from Stanford) AP Physics B course when I was in middle school. In high school, I took both of the AP physics courses and exams. My favorite area in physics has always been theoretical physics and cosmology, because it deals with nature on such a grand scale. I qualified to the physics team last year, and I really enjoyed the camp experience. I'm very excited (and not a little surprised) that I'll be coming back to camp again this year.
Apart from physics and math, I am also interested in linguistics. I got a silver medal at the International Linguistics Olympiad last year, and I enjoy reading obscure linguistics books and papers in my spare time. I also put my love of random trivia to use as captain of my school's quiz bowl and science bowl teams.
In conclusion, I look forward to meeting you all at physics camp, and learning a lot of interesting physics!
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Today's Supreme Court's decision in Fisher v. University of Texas is based on a distinction between the type of deference that courts can grant to universities that use racial preferences in admission. Fisher does not upset past rulings that courts must defer to "a university's judgment that [a diverse student body] is essential to its educational mission." Thus, Court's will continue to defer "to the decision to pursue the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body."
But Fisher holds that judicial deference to the university's judgment about preferential admissions does not extend much further (if further at all) than upholding a university's general conclusion that "a diverse student body would serve its educational goals." The Court demands "careful judicial inquiry into whether a university could achieve sufficient diversity without using racial classification" (emphasis added). In conducting this careful inquiry, courts will not defer to "a university's consideration of workable race-neutral alternatives."
Rather, the "reviewing court must be satisfied that no workable race-neutral alternative would produce the educational benefits of diversity." The university bears the "ultimate burden of demonstrating, before turning to racial classifications, that available, workable race-neutral alternatives do not suffice."
What does this mean, as a practical matter, in the context of litigation over race-based admissions policies? It's clear enough that, if challenged, a university will have to show that no race-neutral plan would have resulted in "sufficient diversity" to "produce the educational benefits of diversity."
But will courts defer to a university's judgment as to what constitutes sufficient diversity for that purpose? As I read the Fisher opinion, the answer is no, although this isn't completely clear. Moreover, the Court's past jurisprudence (cited in Fisher as well) indicates that a university cannot answer the question of what constitutes sufficient diversity by citing a specific percentage or other number. That would look too much like a "quota."
So is the trier of fact in a challenge to a university's racial preferences in admissions now required to decide, without deferring to the university and without relying on specific percentages, how much minority representation is needed to achieve the benefits of diversity? And will this be decided through a classroom-by-classroom analysis?
As much as I oppose race-based admissions policies, I tend to agree with the court that upheld the University of Texas' plan to this extent — courts are "ill-equipped" to make these kinds of judgments. But I also believe that racial discrimination cannot be upheld out of deference to the assertions of those (including universities) who engage in it, even if they are acting "in good faith."
Thus, if we're going to have a regime in which race-based admissions are tolerated under some circumstances (and that's still the regime after Fisher), deference to judgments of universities that use such admissions should be limited to its judgment that diversity is worth pursuing
The real question, though, is how reviewing courts will react to and interpret the Fisher decision's discussion of deference. The answer is likely to depend, to a considerable degree, on how the reviewing court feels about race-based preferences. But a sense of judicial modesty when it comes to assessing complex educational issues may create some bias in favor of deferring to the expertise of universities to a greater degree than Fisher seems to contemplate.
In any event, litigating these cases will probably be engaging enough to make me consider (however briefly) coming out of retirement.


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Matchbox Twenty to perform at Universal's Mardi Gras
Matchbox Twenty to perform at Universal's Mardi Gras
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Rock band Matchbox Twenty will be performing at Universal Orlando's Mardi Gras next year.
The band, which formed in Orlando in 1995, will perform on March 16, 2013, as part of a concert series featuring 14 artists.
The full artist lineup will be announced early next year, according to a Universal release.
The Big Easy at Universal Orlando Resort's Mardi Gras 2013 runs on select nights from Feb 9 to April 20, featuring a parade, costumed performers, New Orleans musicians, Cajun food and live concerts.
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Hi everybody, although I am a new member, I've been paying attention to the forum for some time now.
Yuzuru is the new, and rising skater in men's figure skating. He's one of my favourite skaters, and my absolute favourite new skater. I love his Romeo and Juliet FS - it just takes my breath away. It's not exactly the type of music I would expect a 16 year old to skate to, assuming he hasn't been through the pain of lost love (of course, he might have...I wouldn't know).
What do you guys think about him? I definitely think he will be a podium threat at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. I predict he will be a world champion by 2014, and win the Japanese Nationals within the next few years. He has so much talent...if only he can improve his physical strength and stamina


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Jesse Heikkila's loses long fight with a rare form of brain cancer, surrounded by family and resting in his parent's arms.
MIDDLEBORO – Jesse Heikkila lost his painful battle with brain cancer and died in the arms of his parents.News of Jesse's death swept over the Middleboro community as residents remembered the 7-year-old boy who captured their hearts.
On Thursday as his parents, Suzanne and Jeff Heikkila, and other family gathered at his bedside at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and said their farewells, Jesse was taken off life support, said his aunt Tina Mallard.
"We all left, and Jeff and Suzy laid with him," Mallard said.
The parents held their boy as his life slipped away.
For the first time in his short life of 4 years, Jesse's brother Colton, left the hospital with both parents. In the past, Mallard said, his mother and father took turns keeping watch over Jesse, while the other took Colton home.
Later that night Suzanne Heikkila told the community from her Facebook page that her son was gone.
"It is with great sadness that we share the news that Jesse became an angel today. We miss him already. Please continue to pray for Jesse and hope he is safe and cancer free in the loving arms of Jesus and his cousin Krystina (Hennessey)," she posted.
Now the parents grapple with burying their first-born son and helping his little brother deal with the loss.
"It's going to take some time for him to realize Jesse's not coming home," Mallard said.
It's been a long road for the Heikkilas. Jesse was diagnosed in 2009, and money has been tight. Mallard said townspeople have stepped up in support of her nephew and his family.
"Middleboro has been amazing. People paid their electric bill, someone opened an account at Bridgewater oil company, people call asking what they can do, people who don't even know them. It's amazing."
Even the police stepped in.
State police at the Middleboro barracks took Jesse under their wing after hearing he wanted to be a police officer when he grew up, Mallard said.
Last week folks lined the streets with yellow balloons in hopes of seeing Jesse come home one last time, and state police were at the hospital to provide an escort.
"It made them so happy that the town came together to do that for their child," Mallard said.
But it was not to be.
Jesse took a turn for the worse and his lungs began filling with blood. Instead of escorting the tow-headed youngster, police escorted a broken-hearted mom home to Middleboro.
On Friday, hundreds of people had posted online condolences. At Jesse's school, Burkland Elementary, his picture was posted in the halls and the staff wore yellow ribbons in honor of the brave young boy, who fought a long and painful battle before succumbing to Stage 4 neuroblastoma – brain cancer.
Jesse's last visit home was on Christmas Day, when he got his new puppy Chico, Mallard said. The Heikkilas goal was to see Jesse just be a little boy.
Visiting hours will be held Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Prophett-Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home, 98 Bedford St., Bridgewater. Church services will be held 9 a.m. Wednesday at St. Edith Stein Parish, 71 East Main St., Brockton.


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Anthem defends new health planBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
September 18. 2013 9:38PM
CONCORD — Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield officials said the insurer lowered premiums 30 percent by narrowing the provider network for individual policies it will offer through the electronic marketplace or exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act.
The company received federal approval for its plans Tuesday, the final step before the exchange opens Oct. 1 for policies that go into effect Jan. 1.
Anthem NH President Lisa Guertin told state senators at a meeting Wednesday the company was not aware it would be the only general health insurer to offer plans when it negotiated with hospitals for its Pathway plan, which she described as "the best balance of access and affordability."
But Alan Felgar, president and CEO of Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester — one of 12 of the state's 26 hospitals not in the plan — criticized the Affordable Care Act, saying it promised competition in the marketplace and that everyone could keep their own doctor. Neither is true, he said.
"We've done everything we are supposed to do. Is this the way New Hampshire operates?" Felgar said. "We were never asked to participate and I think that is unfair."
Guertin said the network was not "quality-tiered" because all the state's hospital do a good job, but based on distance and travel time for patients. She noted: "If we do not stick with what we've got now, the whole thing blows up."
Anthem will offer 11 plans in four tiers, with premiums ranging from $177 a month to $2,226 based on age and the level of coverage. Deductibles range from $1,000 for an individual to $11,500 for a family.
For those who qualify, subsidies will lower or eliminate the premiums.
For example, an individual earning $11,490 or less or a family of four with an income of $23,550 or less would owe no premium for a "Bronze policy," which has deductibles of $5,750 for an individual and $11,500 for a family, with a 10 percent co-pay.
Guertin said her company believes most of the first-year exchange customers will be individuals at 138 to 400 percent of the federal poverty level who will receive a federal subsidy.
Anthem is also offering three plans on the small business exchanges, but does not expect many customers because small business mandates do not go into effect until Jan. 1, 2015.
All other business customers will continue to use the company's broader network, Guertin said, noting 90 percent of its customers will not see a change.
Others not affected include self-funded programs administered by Anthem or those on Medicaid or Medicare.
Anthem currently has 29,000 people on individual plans, of which 5,000 are exempt because they were in place before the ACA passed in March 2010.
The insurer did not compare prices between current policies and those it will offer on the exchange, but did say the exchange policies have additional benefits required under the ACA.
"While showing people how much policies will now cost through the exchanges is a good first step, it's critical that the public gets a chance to see the impact of the Obamacare mandates and regulations on the cost of health insurance," said Greg Moore, AFP-NH state director. "The President and other supporters have said that this law will make care more affordable, so it's important that we see whether or not that's a reality or fiction. Anthem should have provided comparable data from this year to allow everyone to see the difference."
Sen. Russell Prescott, R-Kingston, said he owns a business with 38 employees and pays 100 percent of the cost of insurance, but will probably stop doing that.
He criticized the ACA and its community rating, which narrows the premium costs between young and old, and eliminates other discounts, noting rates will go up between 9 and 29 percent.
Guertin downplayed the impact the narrower network would have on hospitals, saying 90 percent of its customers are on its broader network. All hospitals should see a reduction in charity care with more people covered by health insurance, she said.
"Do I think this is putting a knife in the hearts of these other hospitals?" Guertin said. "I really do not."
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Previously... on This Little Pig Day Piggy...
And now for the long overdue 3rd and final chapter to this little porcine trilogy -- an afternoon in the kitchen. A potluck of ideas and recipes on what to do with pork, the results of which were to be shared with everyone at dinner. Here are some of the delicious results.
I ended up with pork chops to play with. Butcher Jim's recommendation was to deep fry them. How could I possibly disagree with the man? I improvised, and didn't think much of it. But Dingley Dell boss Mark Hayward went around the tables at dinner asking who made them because he was rather taken with them! *Beam*
So I thought I'd share with you what I did. Pardon the complete lack of proportions!
The spice rub:
Sea salt flakes
Cracked black pepper
Runny honey
A touch of spicy English mustard
Make a small bowl of the rub, enough to thinly coat however many pork chops you have, such that they look like this...
If possible let the chops sit with the spice rub for a few hours.
The batter:
1 can (330ml) lager or light golden ale
1.5 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
Pour the beer into a large bowl. Sift the flour and salt into the beer. Whisk until the batter is light and frothy. Set aside.
Right. Get a big pan and drizzle in some sunflower or vegetable or rapseseed oil. Let the oil get hot, then put in as many chops as the pan will fit. Do this in batches if needed. Fry for about 7 minutes each side. A little less if your chops are thinner, a little more if they are thicker. Check by sticking a sharp knife into the chop. The meat should be white and opaque rather than pink and seeping pink juice.
When all the chops are done being pan fried, pour in about an inch of oil and let it heap up till it starts to smoke.
Dredge the chops 1 by 1 in the batter quickly, then place in the pan until the batter is golden brown, probably about 30 seconds for each side. Don't do many chops at a time at this stage. You don't want the temperature of the oil to drop significantly.
That's it! Serve up, chow down.
A final thanks to the Edwards brothers, butchers Jim and Wayne, Rachel and Donald for organising and fellow participants for making it such a fun and memorable day!


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At the suggestion of Bert in his capacity as pharr-c guide, I have produced a document explaining how one might go about reciting dactylic hexameters. I'm not sure this is quite what he had in mind. In any case, there's a bunch of text talking about likely stumbling blocks, but the PDF also has a bunch of links to MP3 files of me jabbering away.
Reciting the Heroic Hexameter.
There may yet be some fine tuning.
I beg listeners' indulgence at my vocal quality. The transition out of and into winter always leaves my voice a little rough.
The mp3s contain the dread Reconstructed Pronunciation. Those modern Greeks who expect me to pretend that Homer talked like them will cry. So don't listen.
By way of penance, at the moment I'm listening to an Haris Alexiou album quite loud, Di' Efhon.


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Mamma Mia! (US - BD)
Gabe did his best for the ABBA fans in the house, but this just isn't for him...
Mamma Mia was created by seventeen of the most talented scientists from fourteen countries, who were sequestered for a gruelling seven months in a halogen bleached, hyper-sterilized lab. Their mission: create the ultimate chick flick, one that will so overpower the audience with its oestrogen that never again will a major motion picture studio have the need to pander to anyone but the ten to forty five male market. The scientists were told that it'd be nice if the film could work as a bit of counter-programming to The Dark Knight as well.
For the first six months and three weeks the scientists goofed off, spending their time creating cures for cancer and cold fusion (both of which are now the sole property of Universal Studios). Realizing they only had a week to finish their project (the one they'd been paid for), the clever team decided to adapt a Broadway musical that women already loved. It was based on the music of ABBA, the story concerned a wedding, a pretty island, an A story about middle aged women, and a B story about twenty-somethings. The hardest part was the casting, but fortunately, apparently, the exact scientifically ideal candidates were all available…with one exception. What the scientists failed to do was account for was how difficult it would be for an audience to watch Meryl Streep make an ass out of herself.
Because the scientists were so successful in completing their mission, critics found themselves with an un-reviewable film. There was nothing they could say about massively predictable plot-lines, overly hammy performances, unstoppably sappy montages, loads of heavy handed morals, or toothpick supported story structure (really, it took more than thirty minutes to tell this story?), without snaps of 'that's not the point', 'you're just being mean spirited', or 'it isn't that kind of movie'. All we can really do is unfavourably compare the film to better recent film musicals, like Enchanted (a more effective and charming romance), Once (a much classier film), Across the Universe (a more imaginative take on a famous pop group's music), and Sweeney Todd (a better stage to screen adaptation). At least I can give them a little earned shit for tacking 'Waterloo' at the end of the film ('crap, we forgot their most famous song!'), even if it was the most interesting thing in the entire film.
If anything, Mamma Mia is a bright and colourful movie. Even during the night-time party sequence blacks act more as contrast to rather light blues. Obviously filmmakers can take a lot of liberty with the decorative nature of a stylish musical, but setting the thing on a Greek island kind of automatically ups the ante. The photography is mostly rather stunning, and the colours are beautifully represented on the disc. The hues lean a little red, but are very pretty. There are a few genuinely blurry moments with real detail loss in faces and other important elements, but most of the blur is possibly purposeful. To match the candy colours (and possibly because some of the older actors and actresses know too well the harshness of high definition) almost everything is shot in soft focus. Overall the details aren't really any tighter than I've seen on upscaled DVDs, the Blu-ray's strengths show themselves in the lack of noise and grain (of which there's almost zero), and the brightness of the colours.
Musicals really do sound fantastic in lossless surround sound, especially when the people mixing the music know how to use the rear channels. The music sounds unsurprisingly super-duper in DTS-HD Master Audio. The tones are warm and rich, the instruments and vocals are sharp, and effectively divided, and the underlying bass track is warm and poppy without warbling, or overpowering the rest of the track. The vocal mix between talking and singing is surprisingly consistent. There isn't a lot of tonal difference, and that's impressive to me. The non-musical aspects of the track are just fine, including some effective directional effects, and some nice surround channel work.
The U-Control extras include a behind the scenes PiP option, and pop-up information on the songs as they are sung. The PiP bit didn't work on my Profile 1.0 player, of course.
Standard extras begin with director Phyllida Lloyd's commentary. Lloyd has been the architect of Mamma Mia since its theatre days, so she's very familiar with the material, perhaps too much so. Her tone is almost insufferably serious, and she seems to greatly overestimate the dramatic aspects of the film (she really hammers down how deadly serious she thinks parts of the exclusively silly motion picture). But Lloyd is consistent and full of information for the film's fans.
There are two 'sing along' options, as the film plays, or a pick and choose option. These, of course, include on screen lyrics. The deleted scenes are presented as a non-anamophic reel, without chapter stops or menu options. All together they run about eight minutes. The outtakes, or blooper reel, is presented in the same non-anamorphic fashion and run a minute and a half. There is one deleted scene that's presented in full HD video, and DTS sound—a three minute musical number called 'The Name of the Game'.
'The Making of Mamma Mia' is cut into three bits. 'Birthing Mama Mia' starts with the process of securing the film rights from the original writers, moves into the cast and crew talking about how great the process was, and some minor behind the scenes info. 'The Filmmaking' concerns everyone's love of first time movie director Lloyd, the song and dance training and design, and the production design. 'The Cast' spits a little more sappy love at the audience, running down the absolute ultra greatness of every one of the actors and actresses. Watching the studio singing sessions is actually quite amusing, and makes even a non-fan like myself really appreciate the fact that the actors are singing for themselves. The whole making of runs about twenty four minutes.
'Anatomy of a Musical Number: Lay All Your Love on Me' runs down the process of training the actors (Dominic Cooper and Amanda Seyfried in this case) the song, the actors recording the song in the studio, training the background actors, and choreographing and blocking the scene. 'Becoming a Singer' is eleven minutes more about training the actors' voices, and the process of singing on and off of set. 'A Look Inside' is a very basic EPK, basically a trailer. The extras finish off with a music video for 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!', trailers, and a bit highlighting Bjorn Ulvaeus' cameo a little more than is seen in the film.
I've got nothing against ABBA, musicals, or chick-flicks, believe it or not, and I really, really want to avoid offending anyone of the film and play's massive fans, but I didn't enjoy Mamma Mia. I didn't find it particularly stylish, I didn't like the storyline at all, and pretty much only grooved at all to the three top male performances. Streep has a great voice, and she throws herself into the role, but I thought she just looked foolish. The disc's sound and sing along options should please fans, though the extras are pretty weak.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13
Disc Details
Release Date: 16th December 2008
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DTS 5.1 French, DTS 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Extras: Director Commentary, All-New Musical Number "The Name of The Game", Sing-Along Function, The Making of Mamma Mia!, Becoming a Singer, On Location, Amanda Seyfrieds "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" Music Video, Deleted Scenes, Outtakes, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Cast: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgard
Length: 108 minutes
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LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - After a day of high winds, heavy rain and blowing dust, the tornado warnings have expired for Dickens, Kent, and King County. The Tornado Watch that included most of the South Plains has been lifted, but Borden and Scurry were still under a flash flood watch going into Thursday night.
We're expecting more heavy thunderstorms Friday night with isolated thunderstorms expected through the weekend and most of next week.
Girard and Jayton hardest hit
The towns of Girard and Jayton, both about an hour and a half southeast of Lubbock, were hit hardest by severe weather on Thursday.
Winds as high as 92 miles per hour were reported in Jayton, knocking down trees and causing damage to a number of roofs.
KCBD Meteorologist Cary Allen was in the middle of it and saw the damage firsthand.
Cary says most of the damage was caused by straight line winds - damaging winds that come down to the ground, usually at the front of a thunderstorm. These winds are powerful enough to push buildings over and uproot trees.
Flooding in the area closed off roadways and prevented electric company crews from being able to repair downed power lines.
Howard Heath, the Emergency Management Coordinator for Kent County, said that around 600 people were without power in the area on Thursday afternoon.
"There were no homes that we've seen destroyed or anything completely stripped from the foundation or anything like that, but we do have a lot of roofs that are either all the way peeled back or partially peeled back - those type of things," Heath said.
Wall of dust hits Lubbock, Ralls and Dickens
Lubbock was spared the worst of the severe weather on Thursday but we still got hammered by a wall of dust. Visibility was reduced to about a mile. Some Lubbock residents suffered power outages caused by high winds. LP&L was still working to restore power to around 20 homes Thursday night. All repairs are complete as of Friday morning.
Winds reached 40 to 50 miles per hour around Ralls. In Dickens, visibility was down to zero.
The dust storm took about four hours to finally pass through.
No reports of serious damage in Lubbock County, but it did leave people with a nice orange glow.
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A British man who chatted online with a New York City police officer about kidnapping and cooking women says the talk was "all fantasy."
Dale Bolinger spoke briefly with reporters after his arrest in Canterbury, England, where he was being investigated in connection with the ongoing trial of NYPD officer Gilberto Valle.
Valle is accused of conspiring to capture and eat several women. But his lawyers say the supposed plots were all fantasies that he shared with other fetishists, and that he had no intention of carrying them out.
Bolinger has told newspapers including the New York Post (http://bit.ly/VUdkos) that none of that talk was real. But he calls himself "an idiot" for his behavior.
Prosecutors say Valle also illegally used a police laptop in his patrol car to look up information on three women he is accused of targeting in a cannibalism conspiracy.
The government elicited information Friday from police department witnesses about Officer Gilberto Valle's (VAL'-ee's) use of a national crime database.
The testimony came as the government winds down its case against the 28-year-old officer. If convicted, he could face life in prison.
Defense lawyers are expected to call witnesses next week to support their argument that Valle never intended to harm anyone and was indulging only in Internet fantasies.
Valle's trial in New York City is scheduled to resume Monday.
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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Miami says Dye will no longer be on 'Canes roster
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Dyron Dye will no longer be part of the Miami football program, a decision Monday that ends the Hurricane career for the last member of the program with any real ties to the Nevin Shapiro scandal.
The university made the announcement Monday, the same day that Dye was hoping to receive clearance from doctors to resume playing. He injured his Achilles' and needed surgery after Miami's spring practice season, and it was never clear if he would be physically able to play at any point this year anyway.
That point is moot now, and Dye's days as a Hurricane are over.
"The University of Miami has informed football player Dyron Dye that he will no longer be a member of the Miami football program," the school said in a statement. "Given the totality of the circumstances and unresolved issues regarding the NCAA investigation, the University has decided to move ahead."
The decision on Dye comes with Miami still waiting for the Committee on Infractions — the group that heard the Hurricanes' case against the allegations made by the NCAA — to issue its decision on any possible additional sanctions the school may face. That decision could come at any time, especially since Miami urged the NCAA to act before this year's football season opens on Aug. 30.
"The team decided that it doesn't want Dyron to be a member because they determined he would be too much of a distraction," said Darren Heitner, Dye's attorney. "The one nice thing is that it won't affect his aid. But as far as his future playing for the University of Miami, that door's closed."
Dye met with investigators three times during the NCAA's probe of the Hurricanes, most recently in May when college sports' governing body had questions why the player said certain things during one interview with them and changed his story in a statement he gave on behalf of Aubrey Hill, a former Miami assistant coach. Hill is among the former Miami staffers who faced charges in the notice of allegations brought against the school in February.
In that statement, Dye said that in an Aug. 16, 2011 interview with the NCAA he "felt compelled to testify in a manner that would be consistent with the manner in which ... (now-retired NCAA investigator Rich) Johanningmeier was directing me in order to keep my eligibility." Dye also said that Hill did not provide travel for one of his unofficial recruiting visits to Miami, or allow him to stay at his home or eat meals there on that trip.
Part of the allegations the NCAA brought against Miami said Hill and another former assistant, Clint Hurtt, allowed Dye and two other recruits — eventual Miami player Ray-Ray Armstrong (who was dismissed from the team in 2012 over eligibility questions) and Florida player Andre Dubose — allowed the recruits to stay for at least two nights at each of their homes, and were provided at least two meals in both cases without cost.
Those allegations were strongly denied, and Dye said the NCAA "twisted his testimony to use it negatively against" Hill.
In the notice of allegations against Miami, as reviewed by The Associated Press, Dye is one of 38 Miami players and recruits who was alleged to have gotten the improper benefit of partying at the home of Shapiro, the former booster and convicted Ponzi scheme architect whose claims of wrongdoing sparked the investigation.
The NCAA also alleged that Dye received nightclub access, a strip-club trip, bowling trips and meals, all provided by Shapiro during the recruiting process.
Dye came to Miami as a defensive lineman, then switched to tight end before trying to return to the defensive line this year. He caught four passes for 48 yards and appeared in 24 games with the Hurricanes.


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Today's App of the Day on Pocket-lint is about music and the best kind at that - free music. We don't know how long this app is going to be around and we're not going to get too bothered thinking about it either. Just download, enjoy and when the time comes, well, the time comes.
4shared Music Downloads
- Platform
- Android
- Price
- Free
- Where
- Here
"Is "Is this legal?" reads one of the comments on the Google Play Android app store under 4shared Music Downloads. So far, the answer seems to be yes. 4shared.com is a cloud locker, syncing and, yes, file-sharing service of sorts and this particular app - one of a few you can get for the site - has a focus on the music side of things, and it's something that you can only get on Android.
It's fairly basic in both its appearance and function. The idea is that it gives you cloud access to any of your music files stored up in the service. You can stream them to your Android phone or tablet or you can pull them down in full as MP3 downloads.
The trick is that much of what people choose to store in their 4shared space is public. So, in fact, anyone can search for it, stream it and, yes, even download it. The result is that you effectively have access to a pretty impressive music catalogue and for absolutely nothing at all. Perhaps the cheekiest part is that once you download someone else's song it actually becomes part of your library in your locker space
You won't find the most obscure of bands and there's a certain amount of junk advertising banners to put up with, but the sheer convenience still makes 4shared Music Downloads and an absolute must.
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Department of Organizational Communication Graduate Teaching Assistantship
The Department of Organizational Communication offers Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTA) to selected candidates. The selection process requires candidates to complete an application, provide three letters of recommendation and undergo an interview with the Basic Course Director. Selected GTAs are responsible for evaluating students and directing speaking labs. For more information contact Patty Parish, Basic Courses Director at 270-809-4465 or email@example.com.


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Double take: Twins galore on Havana street
HAVANA (AP) — Some say it could be something in the water. Others point to a tree with mystical significance for locals. Maybe it's just chance.
But neighbors all marvel at the 12 sets of twins living along two consecutive blocks in western Havana, ranging in age from newborns to senior citizens.
"We were the first ones," said Fe Fernandez, 65, who wears her gray hair closely cropped.
"It's incredible!" said her identical sister, Esperanza, who shares the same features but whose black-dyed hair falls to shoulder length.
At first blush there isn't much about 68-A Street to mark it as different from anywhere else in the city. Children play ballgames in the rugged road nearly free of traffic, as tropical music floats out from behind graceful porches and balustrades.
But if you spend any amount of time here, before long you might think you're seeing double.
"Hi, I'm Carla, and this is my sister Camila," said Carla Rodriguez, a smiley, bespectacled 9-year-old. "We're twins and we love living on this block because we have twin friends."
"I never expected it. No fertility treatments. It was my first pregnancy, and at five weeks they did an ultrasound and I was carrying twins," said Tamara Velazquez, who's been busy raising 6-year-old identical sisters Asley and Aslen.
"It's a lot of work. It requires a lot of patience," Velazquez said. "They are very active and dominant, although each has a different character."
Ten of the twin sets here are identical, and the other two fraternal. None of the mothers interviewed by The Associated Press said they had received fertility treatments. None of the families are related to each other.
All but one of the sets were born into these homes, and the lone newcomers moved into a house that was vacated by twins who moved to Spain. Others have died or moved away over the years.
"Twins leave, twins come," Fe Fernandez joked.
The 70 or so houses on these two short blocks are home to around 224 people, extrapolating from national statistics on average household size.
That works out to about one set of twins for every 20 people. Historically the rate has been about one per 80 live births, though experts say that's rising globally, primarily in developed countries where fertility treatments are more readily available.
It's impossible to say what could be behind the high number of twins here, or whether there is any cause at all.
Scientists say a variety of factors play into twin births, such as race, the mother's age and diet. Western Africa, from where many Afro-Cubans can trace their ancestry, has significantly elevated rates of twinning.
Meanwhile statisticians caution against the human tendency to seek patterns of serendipity in a random world.
"Something could definitely be there, it could be a combination of various factors," Andrew Gelman, a statistics professor at Columbia University, said via email. "In addition, opportunistic counting can make a small and natural pattern appear larger."
For example focusing on these two blocks without considering other surrounding ones, he added, "puts the spotlight on a small subset."
While there's been no scholarly study of the twins on 68-A Street, they nonetheless consider themselves part of a special community. Some look to faith for an explanation.
"There are neighbors who are religious. Many say it's the Siguaraya tree, which people ask for things and is in one of the homes," Fe Fernandez said. "The people believe in it strongly."
Leafy and embellished with delicate white blossoms, the Siguaraya is considered sacred in the syncretic Afro-Cuban Santeria faith and is associated with a powerful "orisha," or spirit.
Others, like Mercedes Montero, mother of 21-year-old Xavier and Lorena, chalk it up to the luck of the draw.
"It's a very big coincidence," Montero said, "one of those strange things in life."
Associated Press writer Peter Orsi and video journalist Fernando Gonzalez in Havana contributed to this report.
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Weekend Must ReadsPosted by on November 10, 2013
Wall Street Journal | Affordable Housing Is What You Can Afford
American Action Forum President Douglas Holtz-Eakin on a Senate housing "reform" bill that includes provisions for politically motivated lending.
Baltimore Sun | Consumer protection bureau fails to protect
A report by a Bipartisan Policy Center task force comes after almost a year's worth of in-depth review and analysis and seems to support what critics of the CFPB have been saying all along: This unaccountable bureaucracy harms business and consumers alike.
Heritage Foundation | Fannie and Freddie: What Record of Success?
The notion that the housing finance system in the U.S. worked until banks foreclosed on millions of homes is inaccurate.
Los Angeles Times | Dodd-Frank: Obama's other big bad law
The financial reform measure, like Obamacare, is flawed, with a similar potential to harm ordinary Americans.


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The Return of Martin Guerre is set in France during the Hundred Years' War. Imagining herself a widow, Nathalie Baye is astonished when her husband Gerard Depardieu returns after nine years. He looks like her husband and sounds like her husband, and certainly has a working knowledge of the couple's prior relationship. Still, neither Baye nor her neighbors can shake the notion that Depardieu is an imposter--especially since he's a much nicer and more responsible person than the man who marched off to war so long ago. Matters come to a head when the local magistrate sentences Depardieu to hang for his own murder. Return of Martin Guerre was the principal source for an American film, Sommersby (1993).~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Director: Daniel Vigne
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Gerard Depardieu and Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
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T. S. Eliot once remarked that "there are some things about which we can say nothing, but before which we dare not keep silent." This is a good starting place for the Christian understanding of God. Since our concepts apply to the world of objects in the physical universe, and God is not part of this, God cannot be conceptualized exactly. The witness of our philosophers, theologians and saints tells us that God dwells in absolute mystery. So when we consider divine revelation concerning God, we must be mindful of our limits.
But we dare not keep silent. In today's first reading, we find Moses finishing his first long speech in Deuteronomy. It is clear that Yahweh is not one of many gods, a point that Israel did not really grasp until after the exile. Rather, there is only one God. "All this you were allowed to see that you might know the Lord is God and there is no other."
Christianity, of course, remains loyal to this monotheism; our God is the God of Abraham, and there is only one God. But now we have to deal with such revelation as "The Word was with God and the Word was God" (Jn 1:1), "the Lord is the Spirit" (2 Cor 3:17). In the Gospel, Jesus sends his disciples out into the world "baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Mt 28:19). This reflects the baptismal formula of the early church and obviously witnesses to a Trinitarian revelation.
Now how does one conceive of one God as Trinity? Are there three divine beings separate from each other but all sharing the same divine nature? Scripture often seems to say this: the Father sending the Son, the Son giving us the Spirit, the Son glorifying the Father and the like. The use of the term persons also conjures up images of distinction. But such distinction, taken absolutely, undermines the monotheism of "The Lord is God and there is no other."
Or perhaps we might consider a single divine being who is experienced in three modes. This view protects monotheism, but hardly seems Trinitarian. This position became known as the heresy of Sabellianism, and it has not been completely stamped out. Last Trinity Sunday I heard a homily in which the priest likened the Trinity to ice, water and vapor—three expressions of the same substance. After Mass I felt like saying, "You know you're a heretic, right?" Instead, I said something like, "Nice homily, Father" and let it go. The early church debated for centuries about the Trinity, mostly deciding on what was unacceptable, trying to protect both revelation and the mystery of God.
The dogma of the Trinity is central to Christian spirituality. Our tradition sees the Holy Spirit as the spiritual horizon through which we come to the risen Christ. Life in the Spirit brings us intimacy with Jesus. We believe that the Father is the eternal source from which the Son and Spirit eternally proceed. This gives the Father a kind of priority as we pray to the Father through the Son, in the Spirit.
The dogma of the Trinity tells me that the very nature of divinity is dynamic love. For any lover there must be a beloved, and love shared abounds in creative power. Love gives love (Father to Son), shares love (Son and Father) and becomes a fountain of life (Holy Spirit). Love itself is triune. The Holy Spirit is the life of the church because the Spirit is the common good of the Father and the Son. The Spirit infuses us with God's love for us and draws us into the mystery of our redemption. We know the Trinity not by mental abstractions but by the experience of the Father's love for us, infused with the Spirit in intimacy with Jesus Christ. Trinity is a mystery for sure, but not meant for confusion. Fundamentally, the dogma of the Trinity reveals profound truths about God's dynamic life and love.


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Niese overcomes rain, Phillies to take series opener
PHILADELPHIA -- Something about the coldest, nastiest conditions appeals to Jon Niese. Something about wind, rain snow, hail, sleet -- whatever, really -- seems to bring out the best in him.
So it was Tuesday, when Niese shrugged off some miserable conditions at Citizens Bank Park to deliver seven strong innings, leading the Mets to a 6-1 win over the Phillies that moved them four games above .500 for the first time since July 14, 2012.View Full Game Coverage
PHILADELPHIA -- Something about the coldest, nastiest conditions appeals to Jon Niese. Something about wind, rain snow, hail, sleet -- whatever, really -- seems to bring out the best in him.
So it was Tuesday, when Niese shrugged off some miserable conditions at Citizens Bank Park to deliver seven strong innings, leading the Mets to a 6-1 win over the Phillies that moved them four games above .500 for the first time since July 14, 2012.View Full Game Coverage
"It's amazing," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "He's done a tremendous job the way he's handled this inclement weather -- not just the cold, but the wet, soft mounds. I'll tell you what, he went out and pitched another great game."
The win also gave the Mets 15 victories in April, their highest total in the season's opening month since 2007.
Much of that was thanks to Niese, who succeeded despite the weather in a way that Phillies starter Cole Hamels could not. Keeping the Phillies off balance with his curveballs and cutters, Niese did not allow his first hit until former teammate Marlon Byrd homered off him with two outs in the fourth. Though he turned relatively mortal after that, giving up three additional hits in seven innings, the Phillies did not score off him again.
"Niese has been effective against us, this club, for a couple years now," said Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg, referring to the left-hander's 3.00 career ERA against the Phillies. "We did hit some balls hard right out of the gate for two or three innings, but didn't have any baserunners on that. He seemed to take that and run with it and really settled in."
Niese did so despite a one-hour, 28-minute delay and a resulting game-time temperature of 46 degrees. The mercury dropped a bit during the game and the actual conditions must have felt even colder than that, considering the steady rain and winds gusting upwards of 20 miles per hour. At certain points, the precipitation reached something close to a downpour, sending fans scattering for cover.
Yet this was nothing new for Niese, who owns a 3.10 ERA over his last seven outings in sub-50-degree weather. Just 11 days prior, Niese had pitched quite well despite nasty conditions at Citi Field in a game against the Braves.
"It seems like the more I pitch in cold weather, the more I figure out how to stay warm," Niese said.
Compare that to Hamels, who struggled mightily with his control for much of the night. Though Hamels opened the game in relatively good form, he walked four batters in the fourth inning alone, including two -- Niese among them -- with the bases loaded.
An inning later, Hamels issued another walk and hit a batter, setting the table for Ruben Tejada's two-run double.
Offense came from all angles for the Mets, who received multi-hit games from Daniel Murphy and Tejada, as well as RBIs from Murphy, Tejada, Niese, Chris Young and Josh Satin. Murphy also extended his streak of stolen bases without being caught to 28, five shy of the franchise record.
"We had good at-bats tonight -- really good at-bats," Murphy said. "It was up and down the lineup."
And it was despite poor conditions for everyone, with more rain waiting for Bartolo Colon and Kyle Kendrick in Wednesday's series finale.
Perhaps Colon can take some tips from Niese, who memorably pitched in frigid conditions last year on the Mets' first road trip through Minneapolis in Denver -- a trip that included three postponements due to wintry conditions. The left-hander performed relatively well in those starts considering the challenge, though Collins hinted later in the summer that the arm trouble that followed -- a partially-torn left rotator cuff that knocked him to the disabled list for two months -- may have stemmed from all his work in the cold.
Still, Niese learned along the way how to pitch effectively in the cold. Between innings Tuesday, he found refuge in his jacket, which contained hand-warmers in each pocket. He gravitated to the dugout heaters. On the mound, Niese simply tried to move around as much as possible in an effort to stay warm.
His next outing is scheduled for Sunday in Denver, where temperatures could soar into the 80s. Most pitchers would relish such a forecast.
Niese? He's not so sure.
"When you see the likes of Hamels [struggle], and Jon just keeps cruising along," Collins said, "you've got to be pretty impressed with the way he's gone about it."
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo.


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ATLANTA (AP) — It's odorless, colorless and deadly. And if carbon monoxide is leaking in a school, it might not be detected until people are ill.
A leak at an Atlanta elementary school that sent 42 students and seven adults to hospitals had school officials considering whether to install carbon monoxide detectors, a possibly life-saving move that is only required in a handful of states.
The detectors are not required in schools by law in Georgia and other states. Connecticut requires them in schools, while Maryland requires them in newly built and remodeled schools. Building codes and local rules can require them in schools elsewhere. When properly installed, the detectors give a warning when carbon monoxide reaches unsafe levels.
"To me, it's somewhat of a no-brainer in the sense that you've got fire alarms," said Doug Farquhar, program director for environmental health at the National Conference of State Legislatures. "There's no school in the country that's going to open unless there's a fire alarm system. Why not add carbon monoxide?"
The leak in Atlanta proved serious but not fatal. Superintendent Erroll Davis credited officials at Finch Elementary School with quickly evacuating the school after children started getting sick. The kids are attending classes at a nearby middle school until the problem is fixed. Fire department officials Tuesday said the school is not allowed to reopen until a deficient boiler system is inspected and certified.
Carbon monoxide, a byproduct of combustion, was discovered at unsafe levels near a school furnace. When it builds up in enclosed spaces, people exposed to the gas can experience headaches, dizziness, weakness, nausea and confusion, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Inhaling high levels of the gas can eventually cause loss of consciousness and even death. The poisoning can be difficult for doctor to diagnose since its symptoms mirror those of other ailments.
Leaks are not unheard of. A malfunctioning water heater was blamed for sending higher-than-normal levels of carbon monoxide through an elementary school in Glen Rock, Penn., in September, sickening around 40 people. In February 2011, about 40 students and faculty were treated for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. Another carbon monoxide leak forced the evacuation of an elementary school in St. Paul, Minn., in 2010. Firefighters traced a leak back to basement boilers.
A model environmental policy for schools published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends that schools install carbon monoxide detectors near combustion sources, such as boilers, stoves and water heaters. It also advises that ventilation systems receive regular maintenance.
"Improperly managed ventilation and filtration systems can contribute to airborne mold, infectious diseases, and carbon monoxide poisoning," the report said.
Commercially available carbon monoxide alarms designed for homes range in cost from around $13 to more than $100. Alford said Atlanta school officials have recently discussed models that cost around $15.
Facility managers in school sometimes must make financial decisions on which safety upgrades they can afford, especially when those fixes are not required by law. Still, Farquhar said the alarms are relatively cheap for the protection they provide.
"It's not asbestos where you need to go in and rip everything out and close the school for months on end," he said. "You just put the detector in and it's pretty cheap and cost-effective."


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For 18 months, Mastronarde was my bible. Now, as I move on into extended reading, I have to go to a dictionary. I use Perseus and the choice is typically L&S, Middle Liddell, Slater, or Autenrieth. Here are some related questions:
1) Is there a good dictionary that is not on this list? I read Plato, Aristophanes, and Demosthenes presently. Homer will be way down the road I'm afraid. So I'm mostly interested in Attic right now.
2) I don't really like the way any of the dictionaries do the principal parts. I'm sure that there are lots of variations across dialects etc, but would it really be so hard to just have a list with six entries (perhaps some blank) somewhere in the definition? (I assume the answer here is yes, but I'd like to hear somebody say it.) I sometimes feel like I have to study the history of the word just to get the aorist or the m/p perfect.
3) If mastering L&S is essential looking forward, does anybody have any tips? I sort of understand the entries, but they basically make my knees shake.
4) Would there be any merit/interest in looking at a longish entry in detail?


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Popular Japanese video-sharing site uses HP IO Accelerator cards to consolidate key video-content cache servers, while implementing a more scalable, higher performing growth platform.
The Challenge
Dwango's Nico-Nico Douga service is a popular Japanese video-sharing site with 1.5 million paid subscribers and over 26 million registered users. It is one of the most visited websites in Japan.
As Dwango's video-sharing business grew, scaling its video-hosting caching tier became problematic. Nico-Nico Infrastructure Manager Tetsuya Sato realized Dwango needed a solution that could address the following challenges:
The Solution
Raising the Roof on Reporting Performance
Tetsuya knew that slow disk I/O was a key constraint in Dwango's environment. After seeing the ioDrive card's excellent price/performance ratio, he decided to test its performance on some of Dwango's MySQL databases.
Tetsuya said the results were better than he had hoped. "On jobs that typically took a day to run, the ioDrive cards reduced their processing times to just hours. This enables us to make business decisions that weren't previously possible."
This impressive performance convinced Tetsuya to test whether the ioDrive cards could be as effective on Dwango's video-hosting servers.
Maximizing Scale-Up to Minimize Infrastructure Footprint
Dwango's primary objective was to consolidate the footprint of its video-caching tier to halt the escalating costs of its disk-based system. At the same time, it could not sacrifice its best-in-class performance. The SanDisk-powered caching tier accomplished this, enabling Dwango to slash its server footprint by 75 percent, and eliminating 1,600 hard disks, all potential failure points, from its system.
"Using ioDrive cards, we consolidated the video-hosting caching servers by a factor of four to one, cutting 200 servers to about 50 servers," Tetsuya said. "This consolidation fully utilizes the 10GbE bandwidth in each server and leaves plenty of I/O headroom for complex, on-demand traffic for a 200,000-user workload."
Hot Performance for Hot Data
A challenge that Web content providers are keenly aware of is accommodating massive traffic spikes as content popularity surges. Disk-based systems require massive scale-out to build in this headroom—something that is not the case with SanDisk-powered systems.
"Hot videos can be viewed by tens of thousands of simultaneous users," explained Tetsuya. "Supporting high performance for our hot content used to require about 20 servers. The ioDrive cards have allowed us to support these same traffic spikes with just four to five servers at the most. This allows us to guarantee our customers a consistently good experience for all content, regardless of popularity, and without the over-provisioning we used to need."
Tetsuya Sato, Infrastructure Manager, Nico-Nico Douga, Dwango
Cutting Costs
In addition to cutting its hardware spending, Dwango realized an immense reduction in facilities costs and total cost of ownership that included the following:
Video-Hosting Caching System
Implementing Fusion ioMemory solutions gave Dwango the following benefits:
Tetsuya is thrilled and told us, "SanDisk has made what we once thought impossible a reality. The ioDrive cards have become a major contributor to a paradigm shift to support Dwango's next level of growth."
About Dwango
DWANGO Co., Ltd. is a Japan-based company providing content for online entertainment and game software, providing services for mobile devices, games and gaming software, animation, live event coverage and general entertainment. Its Nico-Nico Douga service is a popular Japanese video-sharing site with 1.5 million paid subscribers and over 26 million registered users. It is one of the most visited websites in Japan.
The performance results discussed herein are based on internal Dwango testing and use of Fusion ioMemory products. Results and performance may vary according to configurations and systems, including drive capacity, system architecture and applications.
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IMPORTANT: In order to create a surf spot you must first register for a free account using a valid email address (your password is sent to this email address). If you do not receive an email check your spam folder. This process is necessary in order to prevent your private surf spots from becoming visible to all SurfWise users. SurfWise does NOT share you email or account information with any other parties.
The SurfWise public spot database currently includes surf spots throughout the United States. Other countries will be added shortly. SurfWise users from other countries still have the ability to create private surf spots.
Tired of not being able to find a surf report or forecast for your local surf spot?
SurfWise is the next generation of mobile surf forecasting. Finally, an app that offers accurate, user generated, surf reports and forecasts for any coastal location. Turn any local beach break into a surf forecasting location.
-Create your own Surf Spots with detailed reports and forecasts
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Ladies First, By Melanie Strong
But what began as a transparent effort to win the heart of a man turned into a lifelong passion. Thanks to the many men who are often the ones to teach us how to ride, but please let us pass.
Land of Enchantment, By Robert Ward
Miles upon miles of singletrack, great all-season riding, delicious food, and a colorful local community are all reasons Santa Fe is becoming the epicenter for mountain biking in New Mexico.
Access Action: A Silver Lining in Pay-to-Play? By Oliver Lazenby
Twenty-five miles east of Seattle is a trail system that has been a popular mountain biking destination for many years. Today, the Tokul Creek trail system is latest victim of increasingly frequent pay-to-play requirements.
The Carbon Cycle, By David Boerner
Most carbon mountain bike frames can take a beating, but accidents to happen. If they happen to you, take comfort in the fact that carbon is the most repairable frame material out there, and carbon repairs are often quite affordable.
Yoga For Mountain Bikers, By Jenn Childress and Jennie Date
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Saints have refused to accept the refereeing chiefs' decision to rule out action against Mark Clattenburg after he was accused of verbally abusing midfielder Adam Lallana.
Southampton are considering an appeal to the FA over the ruling by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) that Clattenburg has no case to answer for his conduct in the December 29 Premier League 2-1 defeat to Everton.
Southampton wrote to the referees' governing body on New Year's Eve, to formalise their complaint against Clattenburg. But after a review the PGMOL have ruled there is no case to answer.
In a letter seen by the Press Association, Southampton claimed Clattenburg told Lallana: "You are very different now, since you've played for England - you never used to be like this." Now Southampton have pledged not to let the matter lie.
A club spokesman said: "An official insulting any player, no matter his intentions, is clearly not acceptable behaviour. For this reason we do not accept the verdict of the PGMOL in relation to this case, and do not consider the matter to be over.
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Processed Meat Increases Heart Disease, Diabetes Risk
By Kimberly Beauchamp, ND
Healthnotes Newswire (July 29, 2010)—A new look at the interplay between diet and disease shows that when it comes to protecting health, avoiding processed meats may help. According to a review published in Circulation, one serving per day ups the odds of developing diabetes by 19% and heart disease by 42%.
The popular message to eat less red meat for heart disease and diabetes prevention hasn't been consistently backed by the research, and not all of the studies have looked at the types of meat that people were eating. So, what if some of the perceived risk actually stems from the way the meats are prepared, rather than the meat itself?
A team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health reviewed 20 different studies, looking for clues about the connection between red and processed meat consumption and the risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.
For the purposes of the review, red meat was defined as unprocessed meat from beef, hamburgers, lamb, pork, and game.
One serving of red meat was 100 grams (about 3.5 ounces).
Processed meats included any meat preserved by smoking, curing, salting, or adding chemical preservatives, such as bacon, salami, sausages, hot dogs, and processed deli meats, including some poultry.
One serving of processed meat was 50 grams (about 1.8 ounces).
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The review showed that eating red meat didn't raise the risk of heart disease or diabetes, but eating processed meat did. Just one daily serving of processed meat increased the risk of heart disease by nearly 1.5 times. Similarly, eating two slices of bacon each day increased the risk of diabetes by almost two times. Few studies looked at the link between meat consumption and stroke risk, but those that did found no connection.
There were little differences in calories, protein content, and amount and types of fats between red and processed meats. The biggest difference was in the amount of sodium and non-salt preservatives, such as nitrites and nitrates. "Higher levels of [these additives] in processed meats could plausibly contribute to increased cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk," said the researchers.
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Just because this review didn't show a connection between red meat consumption and heart disease or diabetes risk, there are plenty of other benefits to planning your diet around an assortment of veggies, whole grains, fruits, legumes, and nuts. When you do opt for some red meat, make sure it's the real thing, without salt or chemicals.
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Gate City Musings: Finally, some restrictions on city's 'double-dipping'Gate City Musings, a column on City Hall happenings and other Nashua items, is published every other Monday. It is written by a veteran political obse
January 13. 2013 11:39PM
"Musings" has long wondered why it has taken so long for politicians (and the Nashua daily) to come to the conclusion that "double-dipping" is wrong. As has been pointed out repeatedly, this practice is whereby government employees at all levels retire one day, collect a sizable pension and then within hours or days take another job (many times in the same department of their previous employer) and receive a sizable salary and their pension to boot.
Kudos to the Nashua Board of Education for taking the lead in hopefully making this practice less easy here in the Gate City. While it has been going on for years, it's nice to see, finally, the Gate City's daily paper also on board. Musings also acknowledges the New Hampshire Union Leader's opposition to "double-dipping" long before it became fashionable. In fact it wasn't that long ago when the N.H. General Court enacted legislation allowing seven long-time appointed state department heads to collect pensions and then be kept on the state payroll as "retirees" with salaries and pension for many of them at more than $200,000.
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Onto the Broad Street Parkway, which will cost local, state and national taxpayers more than $83 million, up from an original estimate of $40 million just a decade ago. Is it too much to ask our decision-makers to go a little light on "aesthetics" and a little heavy on watchful spending?
Kudos to At-Large Aldermen Dave Deane and Jim Donchess as well as citizen Geoff Daly and others for standing up in opposition to the expenditure of almost $2 million to make three of the city's bridges "more attractive." Mrs. Mayor chimed in, stating that the entire project is under budget and she wouldn't object to spending some of these excess funds to beautify the bridges' facades if she had more community support. Talk about taking both sides of the argument. "Musings" wonders why it is more financially feasible to look for ways to make public works projects more appealing to the eye in one sense and then not funding other more important street improvements?
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Another "Musings pat on the back" to Aldermen-at-Large and fiscal guru Deane and Mayor-wannabee Donchess to push for more security in our city's schools. A previous attempt to secure our schools with door monitors, alarms, a buzz-in intercom camera system, panic switches, etc., was made three years ago, only to be vetoed by the Mayor.
City mothers and fathers: is there anything more important than keeping our students safe? If there is, then pray tell us what it is.
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A "Musings knock" goes to At-Large Alderwoman Barbara Pressly for wanting to spend federal stimulus money just "because if we don't spend it some other community will." Where do federal funds come from, Barb, if they aren't from us ... and is Nashua obligated to spend them? Wouldn't it be unique if our city pols said: "Mr. Federal Government, we don't need to spend all you send us."
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And while we are on a roll, a suggestion to our newly elected legislators: Roll back that silly law giving the NH Liquor Commission the sole right to approve its own contracts that resulted (unless the court rules otherwise) in a well-respected local firm losing a contract renewal to warehouse wine and spirits for the next 20 years.
Law Warehouses and its dedicated and honest employees have done an admirable job for the state and it appears the now all-powerful Liquor Commission has chosen an Ohio firm, which doesn't give a hoot for what has been a successful relationship.
Any local, state or federal governmental entity with no oversight that chooses to operate in secret begs hanky-panky. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have right-to-know laws.
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Musings can't let it go by as the Gate City loses its only locally owned bank as The Nashua Bank, founded and funded by a majority of publicly spirited local citizens, becomes a division of a much-larger Granite State and Vermont banking enterprise this week. We can't fault the stockholders who made big bucks in the merger, but what about the many Gate City citizens who supported the fledgling bank because it was going to be local?
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HUDSON - Local police are investigating a hit-and-run accident that occurred along Route 102 Saturday night.
Hudson police were called to the intersection of Route 102 and Ferry Street Saturday at 7 p.m., where they say a 2000 Acura driven by Mary Kocinski, 66, of Nashua, was hit by a silver sedan while waiting to make a right turn onto Ferry Street.
Police say the sedan, which suffered heavy driver's side damage, came across the intersection from an unknown location, staying to the left of the island separating the two lanes of traffic on Route 102 and hitting the driver's side of Kocinski's vehicle. Police say the suspect vehicle stopped for a few moments before driving away.
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Jennifer Lopez asked her teacher mum Guadaloupe to accompany her on tour
and tutor her four-year-old twins - so they are best prepared for kindergarten
next autumn (13). The pop star is currently travelling across the globe with the
tots as part of her Dance Again World Tour and she invited her mother and cousin
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rehearse. And she got tutorial sessions thrown in for free - in a bid to ensure
little Max and Emme - her twins with ex-husband Marc Anthony - don't miss a step
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"When they get up, they have breakfast, and then they go in with my mum for
their lesson." And Guadaloupe also takes them on educational field trips. The
singer adds, "Even my own family questioned my decision to bring Max and Emme on
tour. But being with me is so much better than not being with me and wondering
where mommy is... They look at maps, they know the world is big, they've learned
different bits of languages. "When I have a day off, it's all for them, and if I
can't go out, they still go with my mum or their Aunt Tiana. They sight see.
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ASUS presents this high-speed DVD burner that does not have a solution for Blu Ray media reading, but supports the Lightscribe feature (of which you can read a small presentation somewhere amongst the pages of the present review). It also supports DVD burning up to 20X speed and comes along with an extra Black Panel while at the same time being supposed to be "optimized" for Windows Vista users. We didn't have the luxury to check this drive on Windows Vista, but, this way or the other this fact, along with the SATA interface, can be considered as some of this drive's advantages.
The retail package of the drive includes the Asus drive, a quick installation guide and Nero 7 Essentials software.As we previously mentioned, an extra blank panel is also included.
Below there is an image of the internal of the drive. The heart of the drive is the Mediatek MT1899LE chipset, also met at the company's 1814BLT 18x DVD burner.
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Update March 5 2008 - New firmware v1.02 was installed.
In this update, we mainly focus in the areas where the Asus drive had given weak performance, mainly during the burning session with DVD recordable media. The following DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL MIDs were burned and tested again:
In addition, we tested again the reading /writing performance of the drive with 12x DVD-RAM media. The drive burned them at 14x, meeting the nominal speed.
Notice that the reading tests in the following pages were not updated, since no major issues were reported with the original firmware ver1.00 installed.