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Hi everyone I am the blog owner, I have 3 children I live with one daughter and my partner.
I first got into crafting by a neighbour in 2012. I enjoy all aspects of crafting.
I love colouring with pencils,
I first got into blogging to show some cards I had made, I then got spotted by Bonnie who at the time was running her own challenge blog with another owner this was in 2013. I then started on a few different design teams.
Which took me into digital stamps and colouring.
Up until then I had only coloured a few digital stamps.
I eventually ended up running my own challenge blogs I love running challenges and meeting all sorts of different people, and love working with different digital stamp companies.
I have also been on the design team at Polka doodles and felt honoured to have had various different makes I made from polkadoodles on the tv at create and craft.
I love every minute of it.
blog http://crafty-stamper.blogspot.co.uk/
Hi I'm Carol married with three children and five grandchildren.I have always crafted -knitting,crotchet,cake decorating and now papercrafts,from cards,mini albums,decorated canvas and now into mixed media and rediscovered my love of stamping.
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Two way transfer from Cuesta JC will see action on the mound as a hard throwing lefty and is also battling for a starting outfield position.
Cuesta College
JC All-American and First-team All West Coast Conference at Cuesta College, which made it to the California JC Baseball "Final Four" State Championships... Coached by Coach Lee...Batted .315 with six home runs as an outfielder and first baseman...Posted a 6-1 record with a 1.27 ERA, seven complete games, two shutouts and five saves as a pitcher.
High School
Never lost a varsity game, going 15-0 in pitching career at Wilson High School...Coached by Coach Boaz and Clabough...First-Team All-CIF, Press-Telegram First-Team "Dream Team", First-Team All-Moor League, and team MVP as a senior...Batted .415 with six home runs, 38 RBI and 10 stolen bases in senior year...As a junior garnered All-State Underclass, Moore League Pitcher of the Year and First-Team All-Moore League...In the process, batted .425 with five home runs, 33RBI and 10 stolen bases...Went 9-0 as a pitcher with a 1.07 ERA highlighted by three one-hitters...As a sophomore batted .465 with three home runs and 35 RBI while posting a 2-0 record and 1.40 ERA from the mound...Made honors list with 3.3 overall GPA.
Born August 12, 1980...Sociology Major...Favorite sports team is the Oakland Athletics...Favorite athletes are Tom Glavine and Michael Jordan...Favorite movies are Gladiator and Dumb and Dumber...Enjoys watching The Simpsons...Most memorable sports moment was winning two Little League World Series...Favorite aspect of Santa Barbara is everything...Has three siblings, twin brother Chris, Chad and Jennifer...Son of Al and Pat Miller.


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Contrast can be used to tell a visual tale.
By George R. Walker
Pages: 20-21
From the August 2011 issue # 191
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Every season writes its own story in color. Winter has its stark contrast between snow-covered fields and crisp cobalt skies. Spring gushes neon green underfoot while the treetops sprout pastel oinks and reds from the end of every twig. Summer is a whole box of crayons spilled out before us. But Autumn, that's when nature paints with abandonment. No holding back. Reds are deeper, and golds and yellows have a richness that took the entire year to create.
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September 7, 1920- April 26, 2013
Pine Island, NY
Edward J. Lepski, Sr., a retired custodian for the Warwick Valley Central School District, passed away peacefully on April 26, 2013 at Valley View Rehabilitation Center in Goshen NY, surrounded by his loving family. He was 92 years old.
He was born in Throop, PA, on September 7, 1920, the son of the late Walter and Helen Ermel Lepski.
Edward was an avid NY Yankees fan and his greatest joys were spending time with family and enjoying holiday dinners. He had an astounding knowledge of history and trivia. His kind, loving and easygoing nature will be greatly missed.
He proudly served our country in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II. He was the recipient of the Bronze Star for meritorious and heroic service and the prestigious combat infantry badge. After the war ended, he served as a translator for a Colonel and a Major in his regiment.
He was the proud and loving father to his daughter, Rosemarie Zygmunt and husband, Gus; son, Edward Lepski, Jr. and his wife, Suzanne, and son, Ronald Lepski and his wife, Susan and the mother of their children, Sophie. He is also survived by his five grandchildren: Jeffrey and Ryan Zygmunt, Jillian, Emily and Elizabeth Lepski; numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his brother, Walter.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, April 28th from 4 to 8 p.m. at the T.S. Purta Funeral Home, 690 County Route # 1, Pine Island, NY 10969. Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, April 29th at St. Stanislaus Church, Pine Island. The Reverend Joseph Tokarczyk will officiate. Burial will be in St. Stanislaus Cemetery, Pine Island, NY.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Stanislaus Church Restoration, 14 Glenmere Avenue, Florida, NY or to the Pine Island Volunteer Ambulance Corps., P.O. 264, Pine Island, NY 10969.
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10 tips for learning a foreign language
Learning a foreign language is not necessarily obvious. Vocabulary, irregular verbs, grammar, accent ... A whole panoply of difficulties that are often scared before they even begin! However, learning a second language is a source of personal enrichment and opens up many professional doors.
I give you my 10 tips to facilitate the learning of foreign languages.
ten tips and tricks for learning a foreign language
1. The earlier you learn, the better.
Yes, it is well known, children learn much more easily than adults. Why not teach them a second language at an early age? In addition, learning allows the brain to develop more easily; The children will have facilities in other areas afterward.
2. Nothing better than total immersion in a foreign country
If you've gone over to youth, why not leave for six months abroad? Yes, nothing better to facilitate learning than to rub shoulders with natives! This will allow you to acquire the musicality of the language and expressions of everyday life not necessarily listed in the books.
3. Watch movies and series in VO
Of course, it is not necessarily obvious to take holidays without balances but other solutions exist such as watch movies and series in Subtitled Original Version. This allows you to acquire the true accent and also to discover some common expressions! This is what emerged from our study concerning the level of children in English: the latter is improving since they watch cartoons in VO.
4. Learn by phrases, not by words
Learning words alone is not necessarily the right method. Indeed, it is often difficult to reuse them in the right context. This is why it is advisable to familiarize yourself with whole sentences in order to project in a particular situation: it is easier to remember and to reuse later.
5. Repeat, repeat, repeat
With a minimum of 15 minutes per day every morning you will more easily remember the mechanism of the language. Indeed, learning is good, but the important thing is to remember! Repeat and re-read the same phrases several times, this will help you master the language over the long term.
6. Do not focus on grammar rules
Of course, the rules of grammar and irregular verbs are important. However, the main one is to understand in general how the language works. The exceptions exist, but starting with them is a mistake.
7. Talk and practice!
The second step once the basics are gained is to get started and talk! If you have within your network of foreign friends this is perfect. Otherwise, try to register on forums or practice the language with a face-to-face or telephone teacher. Yes, practice is the key to success!
8. Dare to make mistakes
Even if you have worked hard, the beginner's mistakes are inevitable. However, it is absolutely not necessary to focus on the latter and to apprehend the discussions. The main thing is to make you understand and your interlocutors will correct you as and when.
9. Set goals
Learning a language is long and tedious, so it is necessary to be rigorous. Setting goals are paramount in order to maintain his memory. Two days a week for 1 hour, book a niche so you can work the language of your choice and repeat some sentences every 15 minutes. Include it in your schedule and do not touch it anymore, it is as important as a customer appointment if you want to evolve!
10. Diversify your learning
Read, watch movies in VO, talk with your friends ... No matter how the main thing is that you enjoy learning the language. Go to international cocktails (Polyglot Club, Wine & Cheese Speaking-agency ...) to meet strangers and throw yourself in the water! Even if you do not understand each other every time and you meet two or three little moments of solitude, you will grow out of it. Have fun!
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York's entertainment industry moved closer to full throttle Monday, as a new week and largely restored downtown power meant something of a return to normalcy for the city's upended cultural landscape.
While Broadway theaters and midtown TV studios were back in business within about two days of Superstorm Sandy, much of downtown New York — its off-Broadway theaters, independent movie theaters, Lower East Side concert halls and Chelsea galleries — only got power back late Saturday.
For the first time, the Office of Film Theatre and Broadcasting began issuing permits on a case-by-case basis for film shoots in exterior locations, meaning the city streets would again be providing background for the two dozen TV series shooting in New York and the dozen-plus movies in production. Permits for location shooting in the city's Zone A — including Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn — were still not being issued.
"We're getting back on track and back into business," said Katherine Oliver, commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. "There was minimal damage to stages last week — a little bit of water damage here and there. But they were able to get back on stages at the end of last week and, as of today and going forward, they will be on exterior locations as well."
Not yet clear was the overall economic impact the storm had on the city's film and TV industries, which last year employed 130,000 people and generated $7.1 billion in revenue, according to the mayor's office. Oliver said an estimate for the cost of impacted film and TV production wasn't yet possible.
The reporting of weekly grosses of Broadway theaters was delayed from Monday until Tuesday because of the storm. Many downtown off-Broadway theaters — which were dark for days longer than Broadway theaters — are offering discounted tickets with the code "SANDY" to lure back audiences.
Uptown, Carnegie Hall was forced to continue to cancel performances. Having been shuttered for a week because of the storm-damaged hanging crane on West 57th Street, which caused the closure of streets in the neighborhood, Carnegie Hall announced that Tuesday's concerts, too, would be postponed while work continued to restore utilities in the building.
For many downtown destinations, losing nearly a week's business was a significant hit. The nonprofit Film Forum, one of the city's most beloved movie art houses, was essentially closed for six days as it waited to get power back.
"That's a big loss of business. For us, that hurts. For any theater, that hurts," said Karen Cooper, president and director of the Film Forum, lamenting not only the loss of box office, but the lesser attention to its currently playing films.
"My assumption is that movies are always open," said Cooper, who only closed for two days following Sept. 11. "They're open on Christmas. They're open on Thanksgiving. They're open 365 days a year. They're a public trust, OK? You can quote me."
Though several productions were delayed, Hollywood was weathering the storm quite well. Though at one point, some 300 movie theaters had been forced to close, most were online by the weekend.
Ticket sales for the weekend box office were brisk, even on the East Coast, where many sought escapism in warm theaters. Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" earned $49 million and Paramount's "Flight," took in $24.9 million — both surpassing expectations.
"If there was a theater that wasn't running, the theater around it was doing almost as much business to completely make up for those that weren't operating," said Dave Hollis, head of distribution for Disney. "It may have taken a little more driving, a little more work, but it seems as though people were willing to make the effort to find the show."
The struggle to work through the storm was difficult for many media outlets, particularly New York Magazine, which had to relocate to a board room in the midtown offices of its parent company, New York Media. Staffers hauled computers from the magazine offices just south of Astor Place so that an improvised newsroom could be set up in order to get this week's issue out on time.
"We're back to our normal offices and never appreciated them more," Editor-in-Chief Adam Moss said Monday. He called the experience of getting the magazine out "both trying and exhilarating."
The National Book Awards ceremony, a highlight of the fall publishing season, is still scheduled for Nov. 14 even though the offices for the awards' organizers, the National Book Foundation, have been closed because of flooding and will not re-open before next week. The hotel where visiting judges were to stay was flooded and guests had to be booked elsewhere, foundation executive director Harold Augenbraum said Monday. But Cipriani Wall Street, where the ceremony is to be held, did not sustain major damage.
Music was again flowing by Saturday night on the Bowery, where the New York native band Jon Spencer Blues Explosion kicked things off at the Bowery Ballroom with a concert that donated a portion of sales to the Red Cross and hurricane relief.
"The Blues Explosion has lived in downtown Manhattan for many years and it means a lot to us to be among the first bands playing after the storm," Spencer said in a statement on the band's website.
The band added that they were "coming to bring their healing power to downtown Manhattan."
"Saturday Night Live," too, resumed with host Louis C.K. In a message to fans Saturday, C.K. said there were considerable challenges in prepping the show during such a week.
"There are kids in the studio every day because members of the crew and staff had to bring them to work," he wrote. "Many people are sharing lodging. Everyone is tired. But there's this feeling here that we've got to put on a great show. I'm sure it feels like that here every week. But wow."
AP National Writer Hillel Italie contributed to this report.
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Over the weekend I have been trying out Barielle's Protect Plus Color Nail Strengthener.
It comes in beige, dark pink and pink, very natural shades and is both a polish and a nail protector meaning I can avoid base coat altogether and just throw on two coats:
I like this – its completely easy for someone like me to use (a nail dunce!) and the fact I don't have to use a base or top coat with it is a bonus really.
My cuticles are still screwed from my manicure session!
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THEATER: United Solo Theater Festival
The third annual festival of one-person performances opens in New York City Thursday — National Coming Out Day, which is appropriate, given the many LGBT-themed pieces in the fest. Some of these are The Bronx Queen (pictured above), Joe Gulla's show about growing up gay in that tough New York borough; Death in Venice in First Person, Rory Lance's take on Thomas Mann's classic homoerotic novel; Growing Pains, in which Nathan James dissects stereotypes of black men in hip-hop culture; and To Carry On … A Tribute to the Life and Music of Laura Nyro, with Mimi Cohen portraying the iconic lesbian singer-songwriter and the people in her life, including manager David Geffen. The fest runs through November 18; click here for the full schedule.


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LONDON (AP) — The British government on Monday announced that schools would be required to teach "British values" after inspectors found school board members with hard-line Muslim views had intimidated teachers and imposed religiously motivated restrictions at several institutions.
Inspectors were called in after an anonymous letter alleged a plot called "Operation Trojan Horse" by Muslim fundamentalists to infiltrate schools in the central England city of Birmingham.
Authorities believe the letter was a hoax, but the alleged plot triggered several inquiries and inflamed tensions in Britain's second-largest city, which has a large Muslim population.
Regulator the Office for Standards in Education said Monday it had found a "culture of fear and intimidation" at a minority of the 21 schools it inspected. Five were found to have failed to protect students from extremism.
Chief schools inspector Michael Wilshaw said there was evidence of an "organized campaign to target certain schools" by some members of their governing bodies.
Inspectors said members of governing boards had promoted a "narrow faith-based ideology" at some schools, whose students are overwhelmingly from Muslim backgrounds. One school attempted to ban mixed-sex swimming lessons; at another, music lessons were dropped because they were considered un-Islamic; and at a third, board members vetted the script for a nativity play and told staff they could not use a doll to represent the baby Jesus.
"Staff and some head teachers variously described feeling 'intimidated', 'undermined' or 'bullied' by governors, and sometimes by senior staff, into making changes they did not support," Wilshaw said.
Park View Educational Trust, which runs three of the criticized schools, rejected the inspectors' verdict and said it would launch a legal challenge. Vice chairman David Hughes said the inspectors "came to our schools looking for extremism" but had not found any.
The "Trojan Horse" furor exposed a feud between Education Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May, who is responsible for law and order. Newspaper reports based on leaks and anonymous briefings saw each department blame the other for failing to tackle the roots of extremism.
Gove told lawmakers in the House of Commons Monday that he planned new rules to ensure that "all schools actively promote British values."
But there may be little consensus on what those values are — or what constitutes extremism.
The Muslim Council of Britain said it was concerned that the inspectors were conflating religious belief and extremism.
It said in a statement that "extremism will not be confronted if Muslims and their religious practices are considered as, at best, contrary to the values of this country, and at worst, seen as 'the swamp' that feeds extremism."


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Hello All,
I've had the unfortunate luck of getting my period and a cold at the same time! My supply really took a hit. My period has ended and I'm on the tailend of my cold. At possibility that my supply will go back to normal? I will admit I was bad a few days and missed a few pumping sessions while I was sick (I decided rest trumped pumping for a quicker recovery). but now i"m back to my regular pumping schedule. I'm pretty much EP and my baby only breastfeeds once a day in the AM when I have the most supply. I pump every 3 hrs (although not as frequently at work...it's just not possible). My goal is to get her to one year and she's going to be 10 mon on tues. I have very little freezer supply and I have had to start supplementing with formula because I'm not making enough.
So I was just wondering if I can expect my supply to go back up (without having to like super pump or take supplements). Because I'm not sure what to do if I run out...my LO won't take straight formula! And we're almost there!
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That would be great. I just searched the internet and found out, that you can buy an "unchanged reprint" of the third edition of 1890/92 and 1898/1904. But it costs a fortune (245 Euro) and it has 2677 pages...The 19th century is the 1800s, right? In that case, it should be out of copyright and into the public domain.

It is pretty much the same with the Gemoll. I have seen lots of auctions at ebay.de and it was never under 20 Euro...

Some books on ebay are never cheap ...

That's a good question...
I wonder how long it would take Jeff to scan so many pages. And how large would the PDF file be?

Scanning is never a problem. I have a production scanner that can do 45 pages per minute. PHOTOCOPYING the book in order to get it through the scanner's sheet feeder does take time. Digitial cleaning where I remove photocopy marks, remove book markings, deskew. etc. also takes time. It's a tiresome process that's rather boring but very rewarding once the book is complete.
I wonder how long it would take Jeff to scan so many pages. And how large would the PDF file be?


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Seal Shield Introduces World's First Waterproof iPhone Case With Antimicrobial Product Protection
Healthcare company to demonstrate new family of waterproof solutions at CES booth# 26319
Jan 07, 2013, 10:15 EST
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Seal Shield LLC (Jacksonville, FL), today announced the Sea Lion™ waterproof case for the iPhone® 5. Developed for the healthcare market, The Sea Lion™ is the world's first waterproof phone case with antimicrobial product protection. The Sea Lion's sealed, form-fitted polycarbonate shell is light weight and durable, providing maximum shock protection in an attractive and unobtrusive design. The Sea Lion™ case makes the iPhone® 5 one hundred percent waterproof, fully submersible and washable, while providing complete functionality of all phone features. Utilizing Silver Seal™ technology, the Sea Lion™ contains an antimicrobial, fungistatic additive which reduces the growth of mold, mildew and odor causing bacteria on the product's surfaces.
Smart phone and tablet devices have been proven to harbor harmful bacteria and viruses. According to Dr. Jeffrey Cain, Chief of Family Medicine at Children's Hospital Colorado, "Bacteria and other infectious agents on a phone can cause Flu, Pinkeye or Diarrhea." Hospitals have been rapidly expanding their use of tablets, smart phones and other personal devices, but have found that those devices represent a challenge for infection control efforts.
"Our healthcare customers are demanding infection protection for their cell phones and tablets," states Seal Shield CEO and Chairman, Brad Whitchurch. "We developed the Sea Lion for healthcare, but its unique features also make it the ideal solution for active lifestyles," he concludes.
The Sea Lion™ is currently in stock and available from major resellers and distributors worldwide at a suggested retail price of $79.99 US. The product is one of several new waterproof and antimicrobial solutions that Seal Shield will be introducing at the Consumer Electronics Show, beginning January 8, 2013 in Las Vegas, NV. Other new products include waterproof headsets and ear buds as well as waterproof solutions for iPhone® 4, iPhone® 4s, iPhone® 5, iPad® 2, New iPad®, iPad Mini®, and Samsung® Galaxy® S III.
Seal Shield designs, develops and manufactures medical grade, infection prevention technology for hospitals and the home, including waterproof keyboards, mice and TV remotes. Seal Shield is a world leader in infection control technology, specializing in washable electronics and antimicrobial science. For more information please visit http://www.SealShield.com/
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Seriously anyone who has even seen the Switch kites knows their build quality is very good. I would assume you are a competitor or retailer who doesnt like their distribution methodNicklas wrote:My Switch Kites have bad quality if i compare to my old RRD, Naish and Flexifoil. Depowerline sucks, bar suck's. It not so high quality on the Metod. The quality is so much better in RRD Religon for a exemple.
Had so much problem with my 7:an if i compare with my old ones.
Fly feeling is super but all the rest suck's. The bag brakes first time I try to lock it. Need to change lines on the bar after 2-3 months because they broke. Broke my depower line a day when I was need to do a QR. Lucky me my friends get my kite before it go away...
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Thus far in his career, Brady has earned $835,000 per start and $1.07 million per win. That's not too shabby at all. Add in another Super Bowl ring, and that will end up having cost the Patriots $39.2 million per Lombardi under Brady.
2. Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh Steelers
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In comparison, Big Ben has been nowhere near as successful as the rival he's set to take on Sunday. Though, that's nothing against the Steelers' quarterback and future Hall of Famer. Brady is simply on his own level.
For Roethlisberger, this weekend's AFC Championship game is all about etching his name in stone when it comes to the history books of one of the most successful franchises in NFL history. With a win on Sunday, he will tie Terry Bradshaw for the most Super Bowl appearances in Steelers history (four).
Big Ben is currently playing under a
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he signed back in March of 2015. His average annual salary of $21.9 million makes him the seventh highest-paid quarterback in the NFL. Again, there's a lot of value the Steelers are receiving here.
Roethlisberger has led his Steelers to three Super Bowl appearances, two Lombardi trophies and five conference title appearances in his first 12 seasons. We can now add a sixth conference title game to his resume. If it weren't for Brady, this would be the talk of the NFL right now.
When it comes to regular season success, Roethlisberger has won twice as many games as he's lost. He's also led Pittsburgh to nine double-digit win seasons.
To put this into perspective, the aforementioned Joe Montana won double-digit games seven times during his 16-year NFL career.
Not much more different than Brady, Roethlisberger has earned $865,000 per start and $1.3 million per winning during his career. With another Lombardi, the Steelers will have paid Big Ben $58.2 million per Super Bowl title.
3. Matt Ryan, Atlanta Falcons
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This one was a bit surprising when crunching the numbers. We're still not sure how Ryan and his combined two postseason wins has earned more cash than two-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers. But that's what we're here to do ... figure it out.
What we do know is that Ryan benefited from the old collective bargaining agreement when rookie salaries were not capped. Shortly after being selected No. 3 overall back in 2008, Ryan inked a whopping six-year, $67.5 million contract with Atlanta. This was before he even took a snap in the NFL.
It is, however, important to note that this wasn't an uncommon situation under the old CBA.
The following season saw the Detroit Lions select Matthew Stafford No. 1 overall. He proceeded to ink a
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Two-year-old Amelie had a new baby brother. Amelie was much loved and her parents expected that she would welcome baby Noah with their support. Although Amelie was loving towards the baby, she became very clingy to her mother, started to show off when visitors came to admire the baby and no longer wanted to go to the playgroup that she had always loved. Her parents gave her as much time and love as they could and allowed her to decide for herself whether or not to go to playgroup. Over the next few weeks Amelie gradually became more like her old happy self and one day said that she would like to go to playgroup again.
Adults sometimes look back on their childhood as a time when they were always happy, but life's ups and downs are a part of childhood too. Children need to build resilience skills to be able to both enjoy good times and deal with hard times. Helping children learn how to manage life's ups and downs and build their coping skills supports their mental health and wellbeing now and into the future.Feeling good protects mental health and wellbeing.
Did you know that experiencing positive emotions such as joy, pleasure and having fun are essential experiences for building and maintaining a healthy mind across our whole lives?
Children develop these skills and qualities and learn to keep a balance over time, initially through their experiences in coping with small stresses with help from supportive adults. When bigger stresses come along, even though at first they might feel quite distressed, children can draw on what they have learned about helping themselves to cope and feel better. Looking to others for support continues to be an effective way of coping.
Resilience is the ability to cope with life's ups and downs. Children's resilience is enhanced when they:
Feeling optimistic and hopeful are key parts of mental health and wellbeing.
This information has been adapted from the International Resilience Project
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When it comes to restaurants in Arlington, TX, you'll likely find anything you need and everything you expect. There are the family favorite eateries. Sandwich joints and quick-casual options that provide fast fuel on the run. A nice mix of kid-friendly spots and places to try out when it's just the grownups. And famous spots profiled on TV shows like "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives." And, don't let the city fool you. We have some of the best ethnic cuisine gems around.
Yeah, you're going to need to save lots of room. And maybe do a little dieting when you get back home. (But don't worry – it will totally be worth it). Ready to make a reservation?
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Hi, this may seem like an inane question but I would like to know how secure one's Id and info are in chat rooms. I am extremely careful not give out any information and in fact even my registration info for my accounts in chat rooms is not accurate. However, I have noticed that once a person in a chat room asked me how I was doing in the country I reside in at present, although this is not the country I had used in filling out my form, nor had I mentioned it at any time in the chat room...and the other strange thing that happened was someone else in another chat room at another time said Hi to me using a name that appears in a separate account with completely different details. So, for example, although I was in the chat room under one account under the name of Jade, this person addressed me as Jolie, a name I use in another account. How could they have known? Can anyone help me with advice on this. I use all the basic knowledge I have on security but I found those two incidents unnerving...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Wisconsin and No. 14 Nebraska likely will play Saturday night's Big Ten title game in front of at least a few empty seats.
A little more than 24 hours before kickoff, thousands of tickets remained unsold and local organizers and Big Ten officials were already saying they didn't anticipate selling all of them.
``I think from the vantage point in the press box, you're going to see empty seats,'' said John Dedman, a spokesman for Indiana Sports Corp., which helps the Big Ten put on the game. ``But at the same time, there's going to be a lot of people in those seats. There are 67,000 seats in there.''
This has not been a good year for the Big Ten, which has four teams ranked in the Top 25.
No. 4 Ohio State (12-0, 8-0) isn't playing for the title because it's ineligible for postseason play. Had the Buckeyes made it, ticket sales likely would have been more brisk.
Penn State (8-4, 6-2) finished second in the Leaders Division but also is out of the mix because it cannot play in a bowl game.
So the third-place Badgers (7-5, 4-4) have a chance to become the first conference team to reach the Rose Bowl in three straight years since Michigan in the late 1970s.
Both Nebraska (10-2, 7-1) and Wisconsin are known for taking large contingents of fans on the road. But this time, neither school sold its entire 15,000-ticket allotment, and general public ticket sales fell behind last year's pace, too, making plenty of seats available for walk-up sales Saturday.
``It's noticeably behind last year,'' Dedman said of the pace. ``Obviously, it's been a unique year for the Big Ten. But it also means that those who are coming downtown tomorrow can walk right into Lucas Oil Stadium and see what we think is going to be a great game.''
It's an unusual situation in Indianapolis, a city that has embraced all forms of major sporting events ranging from the Final Four and Super Bowl to national championships in track and field, swimming and diving and gymnastics.
This is the second straight year the title game will be played in Indy. Last year, the game was nearly sold out, and the title game is scheduled to return to Indy in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Coach Bo Pelini said at a news conference Friday that he expects the retractable-roof dome stadium to be closer to capacity than most expect.
``I know I can speak for the Nebraska fans, saying I can guarantee you there are going to be a tremendous amount of walk-ups,'' Pelini said. ``Anybody that was at the Northwestern game and saw how many Nebraska fans showed up and how they represented our program and the passion that comes along with it. I would expect nothing less tomorrow night.''
And even if fans fulfill the expectations and the stadium isn't as close to capacity as it was last season, Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema still expects the stadium to have a festive atmosphere.
``Everybody is asking about the crowd size. I know everybody, a lot of people are going to be in red and white Adidas, I know that much,'' Bielema said, drawing laughter because the teams have the same colors.
How many people will actually show up for Saturday's game?
Organizers are hopeful it will be a lot more than the current projections.
``We've got a lot of people coming to town and a lot of people who are excited to be here for the game and are looking forward to tomorrow night,'' Dedman said.


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February 20, 2013 11:00 ET
SMART Storage Systems' Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD Offers Industry's Highest Combination of Performance, Capacity, Endurance, and Reliability in the Space Conscious Form Factor
SMART Storage Systems' Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD Offers Industry's Highest Combination of Performance, Capacity, Endurance, and Reliability in the Space Conscious Form Factor
NEWARK, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 20, 2013) - SMART Storage Systems, an innovative enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) technology provider, today announced the industry's first 1.8" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD with an extension to its Optimus product line. The new Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD is designed for applications that need industry-leading performance, capacity, endurance, and reliability where space constraints are a concern.
Designed for blade servers, caching and other high-density computing environments which typically have physical space constraints, the Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD delivers random read/write performance of 100K/45K IOPS and sustained read/write speeds of 500/500MB/s using the test methodology defined by the Storage Networking Industry Alliance's (SNIA) Solid State Storage Enterprise Test Specification with consistent performance throughout the five year warranty. The Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD is available in useable capacities of 200GB and 400GB. To operate reliably under mixed and write intensive workloads, the new Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD achieves 10 full drive writes per day for a period of five years while leveraging cost-effective consumer-grade MLC NAND Flash. Extending from the 2.5" to add a 1.8" form factor, the Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD provides enterprise organizations and OEMs with a single SSD platform that spans multiple enterprise applications that require different form factors while meeting their performance, capacity and endurance requirements at an affordable cost.
The new Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD leverages the Guardian™ Technology Platform to provide the endurance and feature set required for enterprise environments. A comprehensive suite of proprietary features, the Guardian Technology Platform is comprised of FlashGuard™, EverGuard™, and DataGuard™ technologies. FlashGuard, an innovative combination of Aggregated Flash Management and Advanced Signal Processing technologies, enables commercial MLC Flash to achieve higher endurance levels, making it suitable for the enterprise environment. DataGuard and EverGuard technologies ensure that data integrity and drive reliability are never compromised, satisfying the demanding reliability requirements of Tier-1 enterprise storage applications. Additionally, Optimus features full T10 DIF support and TCG enterprise encryption, resulting in an optimal blend of endurance, performance, reliability and value.
"Prior to the introduction of our Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD, enterprise organizations and OEMs that were dealing with confined physical spaces in storage appliances were forced to sacrifice performance, capacity or endurance when selecting an 1.8" SSD. They were also limited to only leveraging the SATA interface, which denies users the dual-port and T10-DIF support which is necessary in enterprise environments," said John Scaramuzzo, president at SMART Storage Systems. "The Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD puts an end to this compromise. With the 1.8" SAS form factor, dual port operation and T10 Data Integrity Feature (DIF) are now available to enterprises. Enterprise organizations and OEMs can now select a single SSD platform that meets their storage needs no matter what form factor their application requires."
The Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD will begin sampling to select customers in Q2 of 2013. For more information about Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD or SMART Storage Systems, please visit the company's website at http://www.smartstoragesys.com, the company's blog at http://www.smartstorageblog.com, find us on Twitter under the handle (http://www.twitter.com/SMARTSSD), or connect with us on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/company/smart-storage-systems).
About SMART Storage Systems
SMART Storage Systems is a technology leader in the design, development and deployment of current and next-generation enterprise solid-state storage products. Combining leading-edge, enterprise-class design and proven world-class support, SMART Storage Systems leverages its deep expertise in Flash and enterprise storage technology. SMART Storage Systems delivers high-quality, high-reliability solutions to a broad customer base including tier one storage and server OEMs. In support of these designs, SMART Storage Systems provides award-winning innovations in solid-state storage technology, such as NAND high-endurance Guardian™ technology, to a variety of customers in the enterprise storage, enterprise server, data center, defense and industrial markets. SMART Storage Systems is part of the SMART family of global companies. See www.smartstoragesys.com for more information.
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The SMART family of global companies are leading designers, manufacturers and suppliers of electronic subsystems for the most demanding OEMs around the world. The SMART companies have led the way over the past 23 years providing standard and custom products to today's leading global OEMs crossing all major electronic industries. These industries include PC, enterprise and industrial servers, networking, telecom, defense, aerospace, gaming and embedded application markets. Taking innovations from the design stage through manufacturing and delivery, SMART Modular Technologies has developed a comprehensive memory product line that includes DRAM, SRAM and Flash memory in various form factors. SMART Storage Systems offers high-performance, high-capacity SSDs for enterprise storage, enterprise server, data center, defense, aerospace, industrial automation, medical and transportation markets. SMART's presence in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America enables it to provide its customers with proven expertise in international logistics, asset management and supply-chain management worldwide. See www.smartm.com for more information.
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This is an example as good as any that we're basically running out of fine band names in metal. I Am I? Seriously? I'm not impressed but we'll leave that for now. This release will be known for marking the return of former DragonForce vocalist ZP Theart to the metal scene since his departure from [ Read More ]
(Review originally published in 2007) Ghost Machinery began its journey in 2002 when Pete Ahonen of Burning Point decided to form a new band since he had come up with a few songs that didn't fit into the Burning Point vein which he didn't feel like throwing away. He called two of his old friends [ Read More ]
Talk about one mysterious band! Suicide and masked identities. One never ceases to be amazed, these days. But on the other hand we humans are in need of mysteries to enrich our lives. The question is whether or not The Way Of Purity and more specifically "Biteback" can be flagged as those more relevant mysteries? [ Read More ]
Just by looking at the band name (and the cover artwork) one can easily get a somewhat clear picture of what to expect from this release. Yes, that's right. Five tracks with strong ties to power metal and hard rock in general are being served to us by this Swedish band in the form of [ Read More ]
Just read the band name and look at the cover artwork, people. This can hardly be mistaken for anything else than metal, right? The real question is rather if this is qualitive metal or lesser good metal? Let me get back to you on that. The first track "Bound At Birth" is peculiar. It starts [ Read More ]
Carpathian Forest, one of the most well-known black metal legions of Norway is with this release presenting a pretty mediocre piece of plastic. The opener "Skjend Hans Lik" is – as you probably already have guessed – taken from 2003′s multi-platinum selling (just kidding!) album "Defending The Throne Of Evil". Here we get the chance [ Read More ]
One of my main theories in life is that one shouldn't complicate things more than necessary. This is something that Danish metal act Defecto most likely agree with me on wholeheartedly. Despite mixing rock and metal with progressive enhancements, these guys manages to make the entire soundscape sound natural and genuine. Not complicated at all [ Read More ]
Knowing your limitations in life is one hell of an important lesson to learn. Things might go downhill fast otherwise, unless you gain this valuable experience. This is something that can be applied to Human Sculpture and their first release "Our World/Torn Down" in particular. They are aware of their current limitations. This band from [ Read More ]
Upon first listening to this album, I thought I would be in for another ride around the death metal cliché' world. Upon listening a few more minutes, I found I was quite mistaken, and found to my pleasure that this was definitely not the case, I found something inspiring, inventive, and rebellious. Ok, so the [ Read More ]
Silliest album cover of 2006? Maybe, but there's a good reason for it. You see, the German metal machine kind of caught everyone by surprise with this release, by abandoning some of its much associated power metal sound in favour of a more hard rock-oriented feel. The ending result turned out to be an album [ Read More ]


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The Niagara University women's basketball team has announced the non-conference portion of its 2013-14 schedule. Niagara plays two Big Four contests and travels to take on the Atlantic Coast Conference's Syracuse Orange.
The Purple Eagles begin the season at home when Lehigh University comes to campus on Nov. 8. NU then plays the next two contests on the road as it travels to take on Bowling Green on Nov. 15 before playing rival St. Bonaventure on Nov. 19.
Niagara returns home on Nov. 23 to face Binghamton, a team it beat on the road, 63-57, in 2012 after holding on to a lead late in the fourth quarter.
Two road games a week apart are next on the bill as the team ends November with a game at Oakland on Nov. 27, and it brings in December with a game at Kent State on Dec. 4.
The last three games alternate home and away contests as the Purple Eagles come back to the Gallagher Center to take on new assistant coach Kyle Hejmowski's former team, Robert Morris, on Dec. 16. The final road game of the non-conference season is Dec. 19 when the team heads to Syracuse to take on the Orange. The final game before the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference season comes on Dec. 21 against Big Four rival Buffalo at 1 p.m.
Niagara is led by head coach Kendra Faustin, who enters her seventh season as bench-boss on Monteagle Ridge. Meghan McGuinness, who averaged 9.6 points per game last season, is the top returning scorer.
All game times, with the exception of the Buffalo game, are to be announced. This season, Free Fridays have been replaced with a buy-one-get-one promotion where fans can gain free entrance to any women's basketball home game with a purchased ticket from a prior game.
For more information, call the Niagara Athletic Ticket Office at 716-286-8499.


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Extreme Bars come with three lateral bars and vertical stanchions between outside impact bar and center lateral for extra strength. Can easily be reversed from up to down position by simply removing security bolt and sliding off mounting system. Use up position to protect Jeeps side panels when off-roading, while down position can be used as a step for easy entry and exit of vehicle. Manufactured with 1-1/2 inch diameter extreme heavy wall steel tubing, provides protection between any obstacle and your Jeep. Easily bolts on without drilling. Comes in three powder coated finishes.
Since 1953, California-based Olympic 4x4 Products has produced bumpers, racks, side guards and other accessories for Jeep enthusiasts. Whether you are looking to upgrade or replace OEM parts on your Wrangler JK, TJ, YJ, CJ or Cherokee, Olympic is a one stop shop for products made in the USA and thoroughly tested and wheeled in off-roading environments. Olympic 4x4 Products are authentic, easy to install and afford enthusiasts multiple choices in style and fit. Their extensive off-roading experience and location in City of Commerce with close proximity to off-road trails makes the company an authority on designing and manufacturing durable parts that go the Olympic distance. Shop Olympic 4x4 Products Now


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Digitally Downloaded writes: "Straight Right is a game development studio based in Melbourne, Australia, and in conjunction with BioWare and EA, it's the one responsible for porting Mass Effect 3 to the Wii U. Being its first console title in development, we were naturally curious about its experience and impressions on how it was faring with building the title on Wii U."
"Well it is a next-gen platform, in that it's the next generation of hardware from Nintendo. Will the successors to the PS3 and 360 be more powerful? Almost certainly."
from the mouth of the developers who are porting ME:3.
All it will be is ME3 with the same bad ending ported on to the WiiU with a couple of rudamentary touch/motion features that could otherwise be completed in less time or more efficiently with a keyboard & mouse or controller and this is true for most of this touch/motion tech.
Why didn't they just port the Mass effect Collection to the Wii-u too? The whole point of Mass Effect was that it's a 3 game adventure, wasn't it?
Xbox and PS3 owners will be paying $60 for the entire trilogy while Wii U gamers will be paying $60 for just 1 game.


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Pavement... dimming sights. As a breeze creeps up the Westside, a scene superlative. Soothing dusk, admiring vivid streets on a canvas of adulation. Clean slate, meditate. Beautiful night cloaks the borough's semblance, a loss I couldn't take. Doubled back to the place discerning comfort in growing fast, All my life kept silent, always feeling alone, until I found love in a city that never loathes. Now it all maps out. Deep so vast but what's the worst thing that could happen to you when a light starts shining? Soaked in elation, all of the streetlights are at attention. Flickering focus in my direction, glimmering optimistic lessons. I can make it through the night, Yeah I can make it through the night. Concrete vessel, keep me sailing safe. I can make it through the night.


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Hello, there! Are you enjoying your summer yet? I'm happy to share some exciting SRM wands with you today. I used Live Life-Wet N' Wild to decorate the wands.
The stickers are so fun and colorful. I used the colors for my inspiration.
The wands were filled with Cotton Candy-flavored jelly beans. I die cut two pieces of Inverted Scallop circles and punched two small circles through and strung them over the wands' top. Just add ribbons and stickers and secure the circles with threads ! Done!
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PORT JERVIS — A yellow school bus drove into a church parking lot last Friday afternoon with a group of heartened Port Jervis residents, returning from their hearing with 10 high-level officials of the state Health Department.
PORT JERVIS — A yellow school bus drove into a church parking lot last Friday afternoon with a group of heartened Port Jervis residents, returning from their hearing with 10 high-level officials of the state Health Department.
They had gone to Albany to make their case against Bon Secours Community Hospital's application to close its maternity ward, which requires Health Department approval.
Fourteen people gave presentations, including two ob/gyn physicians, three nurses, the mayor, two councilmen and one former councilman. A dozen others attended for support.
"Richard Cook was very attentive and responsive to questions," said Jack Austin, referring to the Office of Health Systems Management deputy commissioner.
"He listened and knew the facts on both sides," said Jim McMahon, a community activist, who provided background research on population and hospital statistics.
McMahon presented findings that he said undermined the hospital's rationale for closing the maternity ward — declining numbers of births at Bon Secours and declining numbers of women ages 15-44 in the Port Jervis area.
McMahon said that since 2000, the total decline in that age group was 21, and those ages 15-29 had increased slightly.
McMahon also explained the decline in births at Bon Secours. He said the hospital fired a popular obstetrician in 2008, creating a service gap until the doctor was hired by Middletown Community Health Center in 2009. He died in 2010, leaving another service gap that year, McMahon said. Then in 2011, MCHC, the hospital's primary referral source for deliveries, was closed for four months after a fire.
Dr. Fred Nichols, ob/gyn, said he was ostensibly hired to help recruit new obstetricians to Bon Secours, making the position more viable by providing back-up. Because he had his own obstetrical practice 14 miles away, in Hamburg, N.J., he would be insufficiently available to provide obstetrical services in Port Jervis, though he would see gynecology patients.
But he said hospital administrators had done little recruitment, and he interviewed only two candidates — one partially retired and one recent medical school graduate who already had a job.
Meanwhile, Caren Fairweather, executive director of Maternal Infant Services Network, submitted results from focus groups MISN conducted with recent mothers on birth experiences, highlighting the importance of local services.
Fairweather said Medicaid pays for 50 percent of Port Jervis births, and the local preterm birth rate is high, 16.22 percent, compared with 9.06 percent for Orange County overall.
She said that even with a local maternity ward, many women get little or belated prenatal care — 33 percent, compared to 6 percent countywide — and many in Port Jervis lack cars.
Women who gave birth at Bon Secours were enthusiastic about the care and congenial environment in the maternity ward, Fairweather said.
However, she said they worried about Bon Secours administrators' plans to have deliveries done in the emergency room after the maternity ward is closed. She said they are concerned about possible exposure to disease and having other sick or injured ER patients listen to the sounds of labor. They also feared being transported while in labor, and possibly having their babies delivered by an emergency service technician.
"An ER nurse shot holes in the plan," said Anne Horsham, a trip organizer, referring to nurse
Andrea Sheridan. "She only got 10 hours training in deliveries. And (Councilman) Gerald Oney said it's not an easy ride to Middletown. An ambulance 20 minutes away (from Bon Secours) would have 45 more minutes to Middletown."
Oney had been an ambulance volunteer. The Orange Regional Medical Center, the nearest maternity ward to Port Jervis if the Bon Secours ward closes, is outside Middletown in the Town of Wallkill
Austin, a retired Child Protective Services case worker, said Cook took note of evidence presented that the hospital had already closed the maternity ward — remodeling the ward and transferring obstetrical patients to the Town of Wallkill.
"He hinted he might send someone to take a look," Austin said.
However, Austin added, "he was diplomatic, but I wouldn't predict his decision."


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NEW YORK (AP) — "Dancing With the Stars" duo Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have shimmied aboard the Broadway-bound "Forever Tango."
Producers said Wednesday the pair will perform in the show at the Walter Kerr Theatre from July 9-28.
Smirnoff is a mirror ball champion who won five U.S. National Championships. Chmerkovskiy has been on Broadway before, in "Burn the Floor" in 2009. Salsa star Gilberto Santa Rosa will also appear through July 28.
The show traces tango's birth on the streets of 19th-century Buenos Aires to its more modern manifestations. Throughout, men and women hook legs, parry and thrust in a sexual battle of wills.
"Forever Tango" originally opened on Broadway 1997 and earned multiple Tony nominations. It returned for a limited four-month engagement in 2004.


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Rasa Sayang Resort and Spa Unveils Mr. T, The Resort Mascot
Shangri-La's Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa, Penang recently unveiled Mr. T, the resort's official mascot.
Mr. T is a customised turtle mascot with round, friendly eyes and a smiling, upturned mouth. It is made up of different shades of plush green material. He was created in a costume factory in Bangkok, Thailand and delivered to the resort in August 2013.
Mr. T is a green turtle known by the scientific name, Chelonia mydas. Mr. T's moniker is short for "teman", which means "friend" in Malay. Standing just over 6 feet tall and weighing about 30 kilograms when not worn, Mr. T is equipped with an internal fan to cool the wearer down. A netting allows the person donning the mascot costume to see. The person wearing the turtle mascot costume has to be at least 162 centimetres (5 feet, 4 inches) tall to look resplendent in the costume.
Mr. T loves clean beaches, friendly people, moonlight and sea breezes. He dislikes plastic bags, styrofoam, floating garbage and noisy environments. When in costume, Mr. T is not allowed to speak. He is allowed to gesture with his hands to express himself.
Mr. T is a gentle reptile aged about 40 years old and weighing 200 kilograms. He is herbivorous, his favourite food being sea grass and algae. When he was a young, growing turtle, he used to eat jellyfish, crabs and sea sponges. In the wild, green turtles can live up to 80 years old, grow to an average height of 5 feet and weigh up to 318 kilograms (700 pounds).
Mr. T's female relatives, his mother and sisters, love habitats with plenty of sand and beach cabbage plants scientifically known as Scaevola taccada. Beach cabbage creates a conducive environment for turtles laying eggs. Turtles always return to the beach where they hatched themselves to lay their eggs. Penang is one of the few remaining turtle nesting sites in Peninsular Malaysia (aside from the states of Malacca and Terengganu). Mr T serves as a reminder for the resort to continue its turtle conservation and education programmes for the local communities.


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In the Eagles search for a defensive coordinator, there's been considerable attention paid toNFL experience. In fact, the presume frontrunner at this point is 49ers defensive backs coach Ed Donatell, with Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham also previously discussed as a candidate. (The Eagles are not making any official announcement) Both have been coordinators in the NFL.
The term "retread" is often attached to a former head coach who gets a second chance, but the formula clearly works for defensive coordinators. Both coordinators in this season's Super Bowl -- Baltimore's Dean Pees and San Francisco's Vic Fangio -- have previously been defensive coordinators in the NFL.
In fact, this will be the fifth consecutive season in which the Super Bowl-winning defensive coordinator was on at least his second NFL defensive coordinator job:
SUPER BOWL DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS, past five years
2012 – Ravens, Dean Pees (2nd defensive coordinator job); 49ers, Vic Fangio (4th defensive coordinator)
2011 – Giants, Perry Fewell (2nd defensive coordinator job)
2010 – Packers, Dom Capers (3rd defensive coordinator job, 2 head coaching jobs)
2009 – Saints, Gregg Williams (4rd defensive coordinator job, 1 head coaching job)
2008 – Steelers, Dick LeBeau (4th defensive coordinator job, 1 head coaching job)
And five is not just an arbitrary number. The defensive coordinator for the 2001-2006 Super Bowl champions were also on at least their second defensive coordinator stint.
This does not make it a surefire way to go. But it's something to consider, especially when considering the coordinator will work with an NFL coach who has never before spent a day in the NFL.


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1. The child is a deep sleeper who does not wake up even
if there is noise or disturbance.
2. The child has a small capacity bladder.
3. The child produces large amounts of dilute urine during
the night. This is caused by the lack of a hormone produced by the brainstem
that tells the kidneys to concentrate urine during the overnight fast.
1. Alarm systems—These are devices that will vibrate or ring when
wetness is first detected on the undergarment. The child will be awakened
and will stop urinating and get up and go to the bathroom. This method works
by causing the child, who has been awakened on the first few nights, to
sleep at a lighter level in order to avoid being woken. Often the alarms
fail to waken the deeply sleeping child so there is no improvement. The
earliest age when it is worth trying these alarms is five to six years of
age. They sometimes work.
2. DDAVP—This is a synthetic replacement for the brain hormone needed
to signal the kidneys to make smaller amounts of concentrated urine. It
also has an effect of enhancing the brain's sensitivity to signals
from the bladder. It comes in pills or nasal sprays which are given at bedtime.
DDAVP is a very safe medication but it cannot be used if the child has had
a lot to drink right before bed. Doses should be increased if the initial
dose is not helping. The maximum dose is 4 tablets or four sprays per night.
It only works on the night that it is taken. We often use it just for sleepovers
or for camp in the older kids.
3. Imiprimine—This is an antidepressant, given in small doses, which
has two beneficial side effects. It causes the bladder to hold urine longer
and stretch to a larger capacity. It also causes the child to sleep a little
lighter so he will notice the full bladder. Imiprimine is an old drug. It
works well in some children. We can add it to DDAVP if either one doesn't
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John Main OSB, "Death and Resurrection," MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 68-70.
The whole Christian tradition tells us . . .that if we would become wise we must learn the lesson that we have here "no abiding city". . .But the principal fantasy of much worldliness operates out of completely the opposite point of view. . . The wisdom of our tradition… .is that awareness of our physical weakness enables us to see our own spiritual fragility too. There is a profound awareness in all of us, so profound indeed that it is often buried for much of the time, that we must make contact with the fullness of life and the source of life. We must make contact with the power of God and somehow open our own fragile "earthen vessels" to the eternal love of God. . . .
Meditation is a way of power because it is the way to understanding our own mortality. It is the way to get our own death into focus. It can do so because it is the way beyond our own mortality. It is the way beyond our own death to the resurrection, to a new and eternal life, the life that arises from our union with God. The essence of the Christian Gospel is that we are invited to this experience now, today. All of us are invited to death, to die to our own self-importance, our own selfishness, our own limitation. We are invited to die to our own exclusiveness. We are invited to all this because Jesus has died before us and has risen from the dead. Our invitation to die is also one to rise to new life, to community, to communion, to a full life without fear. I suppose it would be difficult to estimate what it is people fear most—death or resurrection. But in meditation we lose all our fear because we realize that death is death to fear and resurrection is rising to new life.
Every time we sit down to meditate we enter this axis of death and resurrection. We do so because in our meditation we go beyond our own life and all the limitations of our own life into the mystery of God. We discover, each of us from our own experience, that the mystery of God is the mystery of love, infinite love—love that casts out all fear. This is our resurrection, our rising to the full liberty that dawns on us once our own life and death and resurrection are in focus. Meditation is the great way of focusing our life on the eternal reality that is God, the eternal reality that is to be found in our own hearts. The discipline of saying the mantra, the discipline of the daily return morning and evening to meditation has this one supreme aim—to focus us totally on Christ with an acuity of vision that sees ourselves, all reality, as it is. Listen to St Paul writing to the Romans:
No one of us lives, and equally no one of us dies, for himself alone. If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Whether, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord's.
Meditate for Thirty Minutes.... Remember: Sit down. Sit still and upright. Close your eyes lightly. Sit relaxed but alert. Silently, interiorly, begin to say a single word. We recommend the prayer-phrase "Maranatha." Recite it as four syllables of equal length. Listen to it as you say it, gently, but continuously. Do not think or imagine anything—spiritual or otherwise. Thoughts and images will likely come, but let them pass. Just keep returning your attention—with humility and simplicity—to saying your word in faith, from the beginning to the end of your meditation.
After Meditation, from W.S. Merwin, "The String." In THE RIVER SOUND (New York: Knoph, 1999), p. 133.
Night the black bead
a strong running through it
with the sound of a breath
lights are still there from
long ago when
they were not seen
in the morning
it was explained
to me that the one
we call the morning star
and the evening
star are the same.
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Former Sen. Warren Rudman diesBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
November 20. 2012 9:15AM
CONCORD - Former U.S. Sen. Warren Rudman, co-author of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction act and a key backer of fellow Granite Stater David Souter's being named to the U.S. Supreme Court, has died. He was 82 years old and died just before midnight at George Washington Hospital from complications from lymphoma.
He had been in declining health for some time.
Rudman's first campaign manager and friend, Manchester attorney Brad Cook, called Rudman 'one of the great public servants in New Hampshire in the 20th Century.' Cook said Rudman was another of the great legacies of former Gov. Walter Peterson, who died last year.
'Walter plucked a young attorney in Nashua to be legal counsel to the governor and then named him attorney general,' Cook said. 'There would be no Justice Souter without Warren Rudman, no Tom Rath with all the good he has done and his influence, and no Brad Cook. He got more out of people than they knew how to give.'
Former Gov. John Sununu said this morning, 'I am sorry to hear that Warren Rudman died last night. He was a very good friend and a great public servant. He was a great senator and as one of the authors of the Gramm-Rudman budget process helped bring control to America's finances in the 1980s. Nancy and I extend our condolences to the Rudman family.''
Former New Hampshire Attorney General and Gov. Stephen Merrill said, 'Sen. Rudman set the standard for the New Hampshire Attorney General's office. He instituted modern trial practices and modern hiring practices. He had a national reputation among his peers and is still spoken of today at AG meetings. He will be sorely missed.'
Gov. John Lynch said Rudman was a man who worked across the aisle and was true to his principles.
"Warren Rudman work tirelessly to serve the people of New Hampshire and the nation. As a leader in the U.S. Senate, he was someone who stuck to his principles, yet was able to reach across the aisle to work toward a bipartisan resolution on the issues of the day,' Gov. Lynch said. 'His long public service and statesmanship are examples for us to follow and he will be missed. My thoughts and prayers and those of my wife, Susan, are with the Rudman family at this time.'
Rudman won a spirited Republican primary in 1980 to face former Democratic U.S. Sen. John Durkin, who won one of the closest U.S. Senate races in history. Durkin died last month.
Rudman defeated Durkin and then ran for reelection in 1986 before deciding to retire after his second term in the U.S. Senate. Before he left office, Rudman was instrumental in the appointment by President George H.W. Bush of now-retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
Former U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg won the Senate seat in 1992 when Rudman retired. Tuesday morning he said Rudman was a huge player in the state's political life as well as in Washington, D.C.
"He brought a lot of respect to New Hampshire in the way he represented us,' Gregg said. 'He was a leader who did important things: whether on international policy where he was an expert or on domestic spending issues with Graham-Rudman, a major discipline on federal spending.'
Gregg noted he and Rudman were good friends and their families grew up together in Nashua where Rudman's father owned a manufacturing plant across the street from his grandfather's.
"It was a great honor to follow him in the Senate and try to live up to his standards,' Gregg said.
Current U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said Rudman will be remembered for his unwavering commitment to justice and his devotion to country.
'As attorney general and U.S. senator from New Hampshire, he always put principle over politics and fought for what he believed in. Sen. Rudman's willingness to work across party lines to get the job done remains an example for all elected officials,' said Shaheen. 'Our state is a better place because of Warren Rudman. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of his family.'
State Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley said he was saddened by Rudman's passing. "Sen. Rudman was a tireless public servant throughout his decades-long career which included service in the United States Army during the Korean War, serving as New Hampshire's Attorney General and as then as United States senator,' Buckley said. 'Sen. Rudman will be deeply missed by the people of the Granite State and by all those his service touched. My thoughts are with his family at this time.'
New Hampshire Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, said he appreciated Rudman's support and counsel while he served in Congress. 'Warren served his country as a soldier, a senator and a statesman. He will be remembered as someone who cared deeply about our national debt and national security long before others understood the need to pay attention to these issues,' Bradley said. 'He stood firm for his convictions both here in Concord as attorney general and in Washington as our U.S. Senator. His leadership will be missed and our thoughts are with the Rudman family today.'
Rudman was best known for co-writing the deficit reduction bill with fellow Republican Sen. Phill Gramm of Texas and Democrat Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. The bill required 'sequestration' of federal funding if deficit targets were not reached. The move helped reduce the federal deficit during the 1990s.
'My favorite expression from Warren was 'Just tell the truth and watch them scatter,'' said Cook, 'which was a hallmark of his service in Washington.'
After Rudman left the senate, former President Bill Clinton asked Rudman to become his Treasury Secretary, but Rudman declined. Clinton did appoint Rudman as vice chair of the influential President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
Not long after he left office, Rudman formed the Concord Coalition with former Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas to bring attention to the country's financial problems and growing debt.
Before and after his retirement from the U.S. Senate, Rudman was associated with the Sheehan, Phinney, Bass and Green law firm in Manchester.
Rudman was active in national presidential campaigns, including fellow Sen. Bob Dole's 1996 effort and John McCain's 2000 bid.
He was an Army combat infantry commander and saw much action during the Korean conflict.
He served as N.H. attorney general from 1970 to 1976.
'Warren's legacy is the number of people in New Hampshire and the country who he inspired and taught and who learned from him,' Cook said. 'Many, many, many of his assistant (attorney generals) who came through his office are the top lawyers in New Hampshire.'
He was born in Boston, Mass., on May 18, 1930. At the time of his death, Rudman was co-chair of the international consulting firm Albright Stonebridge Group and was of counsel to the New York-based international law firm Paul, Weiss.
Rudman's wife, Shirley, died last year. They have two daughters, Laura Rudman of Amherst and Debra Gilmore and son-in-law Dan Gilmore of Wayland, Mass. Their son, Alan, died in Maine in 2004.
Rudman is also survived by his wife, Margaret Shean Rudman, who resides in Washington, D.C.; three grandchildren, Ben, Sarah and Rebecca Gilmore; and two sisters, Jean Gale of Cape Neddick, Maine, and Carol Rudman of Washington, D.C.,
Memorial services are being planned in both Washington, D.C., and New Hampshire. The service in Washington will be on the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 29, at a location to be determined.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Wounded Warriors Project, the Salvation Army, or the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
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An Alternative IntegrationLi, Xin (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In a recent article in European Management Review, Pitelis and Teece (2009) argue that extant explanations of the nature and scope of firms, such as transaction costs, property rights, metering team production, and resource-based, can be integrated into a more general (capability-based) theory of the firm. Despite acknowledging their account offers new insights on the issue, I am critical of their claim that the (dynamic) capability-based perspective can integrate the existing theories, which they in fact have failed to substantiate for three reasons. Firstly, they downplay the role of opportunism and simply categorize it as a kind of market failure, which they suspect its explanatory power. Secondly, their account is entrepreneur-centric, ignoring the role of employees in the formation of the firm, a problem they see in the transaction cost theory but nevertheless fail to address themselves. Thirdly, their critique of the market-failure-based explanation is problematic. I briefly introduce my own relationship-based theory as an alternative integration of the existing theories. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8055
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A Chinese PerspectiveLi, Xin (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this paper, I argue that all the existing theories of the firm, i.e., the transaction cost, knowledge-based, and entrepreneurial theories, are insightful yet partial since they only deal with one or another possible situation in which the first ever firm came to exist. In addition, all of them have a common problem of buyer/entrepreneur/firm-centrism because they all ignore the role of employees in the formation of the firm. I argue, since they are complementary to each other, a new, comprehensive and integrative theory of the firm must be able to unify them with a consideration of employees. I propose a relationship-based theory of the firm (R'BT) as such a candidate theory. The R'BT places the employer-employee (or broader, firm-stakeholder) relationships at the centre of its whole theoretical framework and argues that the notion of relationship harmony is fundamental in explaining the nature of the firm. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8054
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Geeks Who Drink hosts "Game of Thrones" trivia night
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Quick, can you identify who said, "Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them!"
If you know the answer (below), you should consider playing on game night. Here's a Denver-based company making Colorado proud: Geeks Who Drink hosts pub trivia game nights around the country, and next up is a "Game of Thrones" event set for Saturday, June 8 in Denver and 11 other cities. Locally, the fun begins at 2:00pm at The Rackhouse Pub on 203 S. Kalamath St. Questions are drawn from both the books by George R.R. Martin and the HBO series.
The contest, sponsored by the proudly obsessive fansite Westeros.org, requires each quiz player to pay a $5 admission fee. Fans form six-person Noble House of Westeros teams for the eight-round, two-hour event. Winning teams reap a cash prize of $200-$500. And, mostly, geek bragging rights. There's more info and chat on the Facebook page, "Fire Cannot Kill a Quizmaster."
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Dear TFL'ers
I'm on an obligatory pause from baking, as i've underwent a spinal fusion Surgery in my lower back. Can't bake nothing now, nor bend forward... It is a dead pause for 3 months at least! I'm bound to this dreadful back brace, so the only bread related activity i'll do is watch TFL, and learn more, take it easy, and enjoy some time in some personal reflection (remembering how vulnerable we are as humans, and that without God's mercy and grace, we are helpless).
In the meantime, my dried starters are now dormant in my freezer, and i'm looking forward to the day when i'm ready to fire them up again :)
My thoughts and wishes to you all, especially those of you experiencing tough times.


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Note: The solutions presented in this article require SQL Server 2005 Beta 1 or higher. They were developed and tested on a pre-release version of SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 by Lubor Kollar and Itzik Ben-Gan.
Imagine that you need to know whether one person is an ancestor of another person. A data structure called transitive closure can help. For example, Fosco Baggins is the father of Drogo, and Drogo is the father of Frodo; therefore, Fosco is an ancestor of Frodo by transitivity. Simply put, transitive closure is a data structure, constructed in this case from family trees, that can help you quickly answer such questions. More formally, transitive closure is an extension or superset of a binary relation such that whenever (a,b) and (b,c) are in the extension, (a,c) is also in the extension. In essence, this data structure lets you efficiently answer "reachability" questions such as, Does a path from point a to point b exist? The input to the process (which in this case is T-SQL code) that generates the transitive closure is a directed graph (pairs of nodes with direction that can be followed in only one way).
Many databases store such graphs—for example, a bill of materials (BOM) with assembly/item pairs, Web links from source page to target page, and employee hierarchies. The output is pairs of nodes that have a path between them. For example, the transitive closure of a BOM input is all pairs of containing/contained items, be they contained directly—e.g., if a cake contains cream, return (cake, cream)—or indirectly—e.g., if a cake contains cream and cream contains sugar, a cake transitively contains sugar; return (cake, cream), (cream, sugar), (cake, sugar).
The transitive closure of a Web links graph is all pairs of source/target pages—again, with direct or indirect links between them. Once the transitive closure of the input graph is established, you can simply determine whether a certain pair exists to answer questions such as, Does item a contain item c? and, Can I get from page x to page y by following Web links? You can find the formal definition of transitive closure and related terms and algorithms at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Web site (http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/transitiveClosure.html).
You might want to generate transitive closure in a database when your application needs to answer, as quickly as possible, frequent reachability requests against a graph stored in your database. For example, suppose you get many queries against the BOM in your database asking whether one item, such as a chocolate cake, contains another item, sugar. You can use T-SQL to implement an iterative or recursive algorithm that, for each request, traverses the graph starting with the containing item and looks for the contained item.
However, if you're familiar with such iterative solutions, you know that they're usually slow and costly in overhead. Alternatively, you can write T-SQL code that generates a transitive closure of your BOM and materializes it as a table. The table will contain the transitive closure of the BOM—namely, all pairs of items that have a path between them. As soon as your code materializes the transitive closure of your BOM, you can use it to answer all queries about whether one item contains another with a simple query that performs one seek operation within the index you created on the pair of attributes.
A related problem is finding the shortest path between two nodes in a graph. For example, if you have Web links information stored in your SQL Server database, your application might need to answer frequent requests for the minimum number of Web links that would take you from one Web page to another. Robert Floyd's and Stephen Warshall's transitive closure algorithms are commonly used in other computing environments. (For details, search the keywords Floyd and Warshall at http://www.nist.gov/dads.) However, although these algorithms might offer the most convenient programming solutions for the aforementioned problems, they don't work for relational databases because they can't be expressed in SQL queries.
With the introduction of recursive common table expressions (CTEs) in SQL Server 2005, you can provide pure T-SQL solutions to the transitive-closure and shortest-path problems. Let's look at some of these now. We first present solutions for acyclic graphs, in which no path exists from a node to itself; these are fairly simple. Next, we examine the more complex solutions for cyclic graphs, in which a path can exist from a node to itself. We assume here that you're familiar with recursive CTEs. For information about recursive CTEs, see "Get in the Loop with CTEs," May 2004 (InstantDoc ID 42072), and "Cycling with CTEs," June 2004 (InstantDoc ID 42452).
Acyclic Graphs
Our examples use a Web links scenario. Before we begin, run the code that Listing 1 shows to create the Links table and populate it with sample data. The Links table contains a row for each Web link, including two attributes: source page ID (src_pid) and target page ID (tgt_pid). The sample data represents an acyclic graph, meaning that no path you can follow leads from a page to itself. Figure 1 depicts the acyclic directed graph represented by the Links table.
The first situation we'll look at is a request to generate the transitive closure of the Links table. Table 1 shows the desired output, which contains all pairs of source/target page IDs that have a path between them. Listing 2 shows the solution to the request.
At callout A, the anchor member of the CTE called TC returns all (source, target) Web-page pairs from the Links table, representing target pages that can be accessed directly from the source pages (following a single link). The recursive member at callout B joins the result of the previous step (TC aliased as P for Parent) to the Links table (aliased as C for Child) in order to return target pages that a user can access indirectly from the source pages (by following more than one link). The JOIN condition looks for rows in Links where the source page ID is equal to the previous step's target page ID. The SELECT list returns the source page ID from P and the target page ID from C.
The first invocation of the recursive member returns target pages that are two links away from the source. The second invocation returns target pages that are three links away from the source, and so on, until the recursive member finds no more linked pages. The outer query then selects the distinct list of source/target pairs from the result of the CTE. We applied DISTINCT because without it, you get duplicate result rows when multiple paths lead from a source page to a target. If you remove the DISTINCT, you'll see two additional rows in your result set. Both the (1,7) and (1,8) pairs have duplicates because paths exist from 1 to 4 to 7 and 1 directly to 7 for the pair (1,7) and 1×4×7×8 and 1×7×8 for the pair (1,8) in the input graph.
With a minor addition to the CTE, as Listing 3 shows, you can also calculate the minimum distance (shortest path) between the nodes of this acyclic directed graph. In other words, the minimum number of links that you need to follow to get from one page to another. In the anchor member, add the constant 1 as the distance because the anchor returns direct links. In the recursive member, the recursive member calculates the distance as the parent's distance plus 1. The outer query groups the result by source and target page IDs, and returns the minimum distance for each pair. Running the code in Listing 3 gives the desired results that Table 2 shows.
Note that the Web links graph is equidistant—that is, the distance between any source and target pair is considered the same (one click away), as opposed to a non-equidistant graph, which has an attribute containing the distance between nodes in cases where there might be a different distance for different pairs. So, we use the constant 1 as the distance between source and target Web pages, both in the anchor member and as the increment in the recursive member. Non-equidistant graphs (e.g., a map of roads and highways with different distances between various pairs of source and target locations) require a slight revision to calculate the cumulative distance. Simply replace the constant 1 with the attribute holding the actual distance value between the nodes.
Cyclic Graphs
Cyclic graphs, in which a path might exist between a node and itself, are more complex to deal with than acyclic graphs, mainly because you could end up traversing paths infinitely. An example of a cyclic graph is a Web site, where you might end up in the same page you started browsing after following a series of links. The trick in dealing with cyclic graphs is to identify the cycle so that your code will know when to stop traversing.
Run the code in Listing 4 to repopulate the Links table with a graph that contains cycles. Figure 2 illustrates the relationships between the Web pages in the repopulated Links table. The Links table now represents a cyclic directed graph.
Listing 5 shows a solution that returns all possible paths and their lengths in a cyclic directed graph. In a moment, we show two modifications of this query that produce transitive closure and the shortest path between any two nodes of a cyclic directed graph. The query in Listing 5 navigates paths starting from each page as anchor, since each page might be the beginning of some navigation. While navigating, the query calculates the distance from the anchor page and constructs an enumerated path of page IDs leading from source to target. The recursive member filters out nodes for which it detects a cycle; a cycle is detected if a target page ID already appears in the source page's enumerated path. Your CTE identifies a cycle by using the LIKE predicate in the recursive member's filter. (For more information about the enumerated path construction and cycle detection, see "Cycling with CTEs.")
Running the code in Listing 5 produces the desired output that Table 3 shows. To return the transitive closure of links (cyclic directed graph) that Table 4 shows, you can revise the outer query in Listing 5 so that it returns only the distinct list of source and target page IDs. The code in Listing 6 has two revisions to the code in Listing 5. It returns only the pairs of source and target page IDs without returning the distance and the path attributes, and only the distinct list of pairs, generating as a result the actual transitive closure. Remember that transitive closure contains the distinct list of source and target items that have a path between them.
Finally, the code in Listing 7 shows how to return the shortest paths (as opposed to all possible paths) between pages in the Links relation representing a cyclic directed graph. In Listing 7, the CTE's body is the same as the CTE in Listing 5. The outer query calculates the minimum distance for each pair of pages, then generates the derived table MD from this data. Then the outer query joins all paths (an instance of TC called AP) to MD. The JOIN condition is based on source- and target-page ID matches, and the distance from AP must be equal to the minimum distance from MD. The join between AP and MD is the main addition to Listing 5's code, which returns all paths. The significance of the join is that you get back only pairs of pages that have the minimum distance between them, plus the actual paths. Run the code in Listing 7 to get the desired result, which Table 5 shows.
Transitive Closure and Recursive CTEs
Now you can utilize the new recursive-querying capabilities of SQL Server 2005 to provide short, elegant, ANSI-compliant, set-based solutions to transitive closure and shortest path problems. You can implement the techniques we've described in applications that handle requests for hierarchical information such as you'd find in BOMs and applications that deal with reachability questions, such as for road systems. The solutions for acyclic graphs are fairly simple and are based on traversal of one level at a time. The solutions for cyclic graphs use similar traversal of levels but also utilize cycle-detection techniques to stop traversing when a cycle is detected. Using the techniques we demonstrated in this article, you can quickly respond to requests for finding a path between two items and finding the shortest path between two items.


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