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The ultimate toy to keep your pet entertained and active. Made of tough polyethylene. It does not need air, so biting and rough play will not make it lose it's shape. Assorted colors.
The Tug-N-Toss Jolly Ball for Dogsby Jolly PetAs low as:$7.29
The Flippy Flopper Dog Frisbee is a great fetch toy for your dog. It flies, floats, it's soft and all around fun for you and your pet.
Flippy Flopper Dog Frisbeeby BMBPrice:$5.49
A great non-deflatable flexible toy, this ball-on-a-rope can be thrown, kicked, carried and tugged. The Romp-N-Roll can float and is made to be extra durable so the fun lasts and lasts! It's non-toxic and safe for everyone. 100% satisfaction guaranteed.
Romp-N-Roll Dog Toyby Jolly PetAs low as:$11.95
Colorful plush Hedgehog dog toys with a squeaker are soon to be your pet's favorite new go-to toy. Assorted colors.
Hedgehog Dog Toyby MultipetPrice:$4.95
The perfect gift set to give your favorite furry friend. Set includes (1) Look Who's Talking Pig, (1) Look Who's Talking Chimp, and (1) Look Who's Talking Cow.
Look Who's Talking Dog Toy Gift Setby MultipetPrice:$14.95
You and your pet will instantly fall in love with these adorable 22", soft plus safari toys. With squeakers in all four limbs, your buddy will have the best of both worlds: something to snuggle with while staying entertained.
Swingin' Safari Dog Toysby MultipetPrice:$7.50
"The dog toy that speaks for itself." Plush dog toys with sound boxes hidden safely inside. Give a squeeze and instantly fall in love with the amazing lifelike sounds!
Look Who's Talking Dog Toysby MultipetPrice:$5.99
The perfect gift set to give your favorite furry friend. Set includes (1) Flippy Flopper and (1) 50 ct box of Pig Ears.
Flippy Flopper + 50 ct Pig Ears Dog Chewsby Valley Vet SupplyPrice:$69.95
The perfect gift set to give your favorite furry friend. Set includes (1) Deedle Dudes Monkey, (1) Deedle Dudes Mouse, and (1) Deedle Dudes Rabbit.
Deedle Dudes Dog Toy Gift Setby MultipetPrice:$14.95
Crazy, cuddly, adorable, fun-looking buddies for your pet. Plush dog toy with squeaker for hours of fun. Assorted zoo animals.
Bark Buddy Dog Toyby MultipetPrice:$4.95
Brightly colored knotted rope ball toy perfect for a game of fetch or tug of war. The 9" size has a 2 1/2" tennis ball, the 14" size has a 4" tennis ball. Assorted colors.
Nuts for Knots 4-Knot "X" Rope with Tennis Ball Dog Toyby MultipetAs low as:$4.95
12" Loofa Squeaker Mat Dog Toy is the best of both worlds. A fun, bright-colored loofa toy in a squeaker mat body. Every square squeaks when touched. Assorted colors.
Loofa Squeaker 12" Mat Dog Toyby Multipet
Pet parents will love to monkey around during playtime with their pup, thanks to the Sock Monkey Shaker toy. Great for fetch and tug of war. Assorted colors.
Sock Monkey Shaker Dog Toyby MultipetPrice:$7.69
A fun way to cool down your pet on those hot days. Your dog will love the cool water from the holes on the front of the toy that melts as the Popsicle defrosts. Perfect for small breeds or puppies teething. Reusable.
Cool Pup TPR Freeze Dog Toyby Petedge
This season's hottest toy for humans is now available for dogs. Chew Spinnerz are solely representations of fidget spinners and do not actually spin, but every pooch will want to play with these soft yet durable rubber toys. Not only can they relieve boredom, Chew Spinnerz can also help clean teeth and promote good dental hygiene in dogs. Assorted colors.
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With an oink oink here, and a woof woof there. Plush toy with hidden voice box. Give a squeeze and the toy suddenly sounds like it has come to life.
Grriggles Pals Plush Dog Toyby PetedgeAs low as:$5.95
Plush multicolored monkey that squeaks with short 'crew-cut' hair. Available in assorted colors.
Multi Crew Monkey 17" Dog Toyby MultipetPrice:$7.49
Wiggly, giggly, plush veggie fun! Healthy, vibrant colored toys with easy-to-activate noise makers will soon make this the favorite in your household.
Giggling 9" Plush Veggie Dog Toyby PetedgePrice:$8.95
5.5" plush birthday cake that will sing the "Happy Birthday" song when squeezed.
Birthday Cake Plush Dog Toyby MultipetPrice:$6.95
Dogs in need of a soft and squeaky play companion will love Multipet's Wrinkleez plush animals. The plush texture is perfect for snuggling, and the squeaker inside signals when play time is on. Assorted animals.
Wrinkleez Dog Toyby MultipetPrice:$7.95
Your four-legged baby will love to bring their new colorful Deedle Dude with them everywhere they go. These soft, cuddly, snuggly little Dudes sing a sweet little "Deedle-D-Do" song when squeezed or pulled on. Filled with polyester fiber and made with a cloth outside, the surfaces can be easily wiped off. Once you see their bright white smiles, you won't be able to resist them. Approximately 7" tall.
Deedle Dudes Dog Toyby MultipetPrice:$6.95


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1. Re: Help with CPU Fan 3770KAlvaro_Intel May 2, 2012 1:13 PM (in response to masamune)
Please keep in mind that the Temperature in BIOS may be higher if the Operating System is not installed. This is because the thermal control features are not running on the system. We would recommend installing the Operating System and verifying if the issue persists.
If the fan is working properly and you are receiving the same error message, you should have an option in BIOS that will alert you when the cooling fan is running slow. Please contact the motherboard manufacturer for better information about how to disable this option.
If the issue persists, we would recommend you to contact the Place of Purchase. These components are covered by a 30 days warranty from the date or purchase.
2. Re: Help with CPU Fan 3770KNessuno May 5, 2012 7:37 PM (in response to Alvaro_Intel)
What you could try is to connect the fan to a differend header on the mainboard to see if it spins up correctly .
(leave the heatsink on your cpu )(Do not take the fann off and turn the system on!!)
only plug the fan connector on a different header on the mainboard.
Also 50c is not that much off a problem.
if it does not spin up correctly i would sugest to test it on a other system.(if u have that option)
But from my experience in the past, a fan that does the quarter spin is eighter being blocked by wires or other stuff.
Look closly if there is nothing stuck between the blades of the fan and the heatsink.
Last but not least.
If you are not sure what you are doing.
Take your machine back to you reseller, thats also the way to go if your fan is realy broken.
3. Re: Help with CPU Fan 3770Kmasamune May 7, 2012 4:57 PM (in response to masamune)
Thanks for the advice/help guys. I installed the OS and the issue continued to persist. If I simply restart the computer the fan will usually work properly on the second boot. I have not yet used the computer for any extended period of time so I don't know if it will ever suddenly stop spinning after restart. I just got back from a trip so I haven't gotten around to checking to see the fan works as intended in a chassis fan slot. I will likely get to that tomorrow
4. Re: Help with CPU Fan 3770Knupe123 Jun 20, 2012 9:01 AM (in response to masamune)
Hey there I'm having the same exact problem as your having and I have the same mobo and cpu as you. Have you had this issue resolved?

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By DAVID GREEN
We live in a smoky neighborhood of back yard fires. That's not always good when you cool your house with a window fan drawing in the cool night air.
If weather conditions are right, it's easy to ignore. The live-and-let-live attitude prevails and you're happy that your neighbors are having a good time.
On a still night when the wind isn't taking it all away, it's a different matter. Last night, for example, we were driven from our bedroom and went searching for better sleeping territory.
Colleen walked into the dark and ran into a vanity set bench that wasn't there the night before. Maddie was packing for college earlier in the day and she moved some things around. Colleen responded loudly and painfully. Better watch out, neighbors.
I shined a flashlight beam her way and she tried what is still known as Rozee's bedroom. No better.
She moved on to what's known as Maddie's high school room. Our old room. Maddie's summer room? It's where she's been sleeping the last few weeks.
Colleen pronounced it the best of the three choices so off we moved. A little mini-vacation.
When I awoke in the morning, I saw the phonograph stand from my grandmother's house. The turntable is still on top and there's a collection of my old record albums underneath. I'd forgotten about them.
I wanted to pull a few out and look them over, but it was too dark in that little nook of a sleeping area. It's underneath a loft that Ben made in college and rebuilt at home for his sisters. It also serves as a closet through some college ingenuity, and clothing blocked out the light.
I wasn't about to interfere with Colleen's sleep—that would be as bad as stubbing your toe on furniture in the dark—so I'm ending this column for now. I'll be back.
It's nearly 5 p.m. now and Colleen is up. Actually, she's been up most of the day, but I've been hard at other tasks.
Harry Chapin (1972) is visible at the end and I assumed these were my albums, but after a second Chapin comes Annette Funicello's "Beach Party" from 1963. This album belongs to my sister, Diane.
Now we're drifting off even further from my collection. "I Hear America Singing" by the Morenci Elementary School fourth grade class of 1976. Introduction by Michelle Grieder. "Yankee Doodle Boy," Wess Wolf, soloist. David Craig, Nellie Ford, Eric Emmons, Phil McCaskey, Dan Hoffman, Mike Gillen, etc. What a cast.
The next one in is "Virtuoso Recorder." It's mine, although I've never listened to it. When I returned to college to get a teaching degree, I learned to play the fipple flute, commonly known as the recorder. I bought this album at a very cheap price because I wanted to hear how the pros played fipple.
Next comes "Let It Bleed" by the Rolling Stones. I like this album, but it belongs to my brother Dan. Finally, another one of mine: Donovan Leitch's "For Little Ones" (1967). A Scottish singer. I really liked that guy.
"I Can Really Write" and "I Can Really Count" from Scholastic Books. I wonder if these are owned by the retired second grade teacher, my mother.
Next comes a good collection of early Bob Dylan from the 1960s—those are mine—but then it's Colleen's stuff. Jackson Browne (1974). Lily Tomlin's "And That's the Truth." Jethro Tull. There's Elton John's "Captain Fantastic" that actually belongs to her brother, Mark.
Digging in deeper is the Living String Orchestra presenting an album of elevator music. Who wants to claim this one?
There are more mysteries, such as "South Pacific" and "Oklahoma" combined on one 50¢ album, and a Johann Sebastian Bach double album.
Out comes "Lorca" by Tim Buckley. I saw him perform in Ann Arbor around the time of that album. He was booed by many people who didn't like his new style. There's a Greg Brown album from 1982 that was autographed for baby Ben Green at a Minneapolis coffee house.
At the back is a Tom Rush album (1972) that could be mine but isn't. He's singing Jackson Brown: "Jamaica say you will / Help me find a way to fill / These empty hours...."
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Step off the Red Line at Argyle, and though you're only eight miles from downtown, it feels a world away. Tucked under Vietnamese, Thai and Chinese language signs, some of the most authentic Asian restaurants in the city serve flavorful eats at budget prices. Grab a hungry friend to serve as your dining accomplice and hit up these three tried-and-true favorites in Uptown.
FIRST: La Patisserie P (1052 W. Argyle St. 773-878-3226)
Pastry master Peter Yuen has racked up prestigious international pastry awards, but his Vietnamese bakery is charmingly unpretentious. Fresh-baked red bean buns (95 cents) pull apart to reveal a soft, sweet filling, and his super-flaky croissants ($1.95) are some of the best in the city.
NEXT: Tank Noodle (4953 N. Broadway. 773-878-2253)
Stop for a quick bowl of noodles at Tank, where a small army of servers scurry around a packed dining room full of families. The giant menu can be intimidating, but newbies need only know one word: pho. The savory, clear Vietnamese broth is served with whichever meats you'd like, plus add-your-own basil leaves, bamboo shoots and chili paste for an extra kick ($6.95-$8.95).
LAST: Sun Wah BBQ (5039 N. Broadway. 773-769-1254)
Save room for the lacquered rainbow of Chinese barbecued meats at Sun Wah. Regulars know to call ahead for the off-menu Beijing duck dinner, a three-course smorgasbord of whole duck carved table side, served with soup and rice ($37). The crispy ducks hanging prominently in the window could seem off-putting, but they're just portents of the feast to come.
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Keeping History Alive
With the seeds of Revolution planted in the late 18th century, the Pawtuxet Rangers, or the Second Independent Company for the County of Kent, were chartered by the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations on Oct. 29, 1774 to protect the village of Pawtuxet.
More than 200 years later, Pawtuxet is under no threat, but the Rangers continue to march the village streets during Gaspee Days each year.
The unit was re-activated in 1972. The parade had already been established as an annual tradition, and the Gaspee Days Committee was in search of a local fife and drum corps. Two years later, in 1974, the Pawtuxet Rangers militia company was formed, and the fife and drums corps was later integrated with the militia. Today, the Pawtuxet Rangers are among the oldest chartered commands in the country, still operating under the original charter of 1774. The company includes a color guard, musket line and artillery, and the fife and drums corps.
The Rangers are always looking for new members. Annual dues are $25 per year, and students join for free through college. Militia members must be 18 or older, though fife and drum applicants can join at 16. The Pawtuxet Rangers meet every Wednesday at the Remington Street Armory at 8 p.m., and participate in parades, encampments, battles and ceremonial functions throughout the year.
For more information on getting involved, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.pawtuxetrangers.com.


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WEDF Announces Mini-Grant Recipients
The Worcester Educational Development Foundation, Inc. (WEDF) is pleased to announce the mini-grants recipients for spring 2017.
WEDF requested civic engagement proposals to help students become better informed citizens for the preservation of our democracy. WEDF is awarding a total of $ 4,800 for the following:
Colleen Kelly - Mini Lecture Series for AP US History Students (District-wide)
Jayne Cardin - Civics with Digital Literacy (Rice Square)
Christine Rovezzi - Worcester, You Have a Friend in Me (Gates Lane)
Brenda Dubrey - All American City Tour (Thorndyke Road)
Allyson Houlihan - North High Community Outreach Committee (North High)
Alexizendria Link - Unitey Culinary & Musical Arts Series (North High)
Phyllis Goldstein - Lin-Manuel Miranda: A Study in Text to Music (North High)
Chris Pappas - Civic Engagement: Teens Learning About and Supporting Early Literacy (Alternative High)
Jennifer Rochon - 3 Dimensional Design Renditions (Worcester Technical)
Rick Torres - Aligned with ADA Guidelines
Lilyvette Perez - Bullying Prevention Project (Chandler Magnet)
Steve Alzamora - Cultural & Linguistic Library (New Citizen Center)
Brian Cummings - Understanding OSHA Regulations (Worcester Technical)
WEDF was established in 2005 for the sole purpose of supporting the Worcester Public Schools. Through WEDF, more than $ 4 million has been invested in students and teachers through field trips, educational supplies, professional development, scholarships and awards, and special opportunities. WEDF is a 501 (c) 3 no-profit organization. Funds for mini-grants are raised through the Distinguished Alumni and Friends of the Worcester Public Schools event held annually.


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WHITE PLAINS — A City of Newburgh man who admitted being involved in three murders as a member of the Latin Kings received a 40-year prison sentence in federal court on Tuesday.
WHITE PLAINS — A City of Newburgh man who admitted being involved in three murders as a member of the Latin Kings received a 40-year prison sentence in federal court on Tuesday.
Jose "King Gordo" Lagos, 23, was one of a trio indicted on charges they were high-ranking Latin Kings who controlled the crack and heroin trade in Newburgh's East End and used violence, including murder, to punish rival gangsters and their own members.
The sentence by U.S. District Court Judge Cathy Seibel came eight months after Lagos pleaded guilty to being involved in the mistaken killing of 15-year-old Jeffrey Zachary in May 2008 and the killings of John "Tarzan" Maldonado and Jerome "Rude Boy" Scarlett in March 2010.
"With this sentencing, and the pending sentencing of Lagos's two key accomplices, the leadership of the gang that deprived the citizens of Newburgh of their well-being has been decapitated," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.
Gordo, Wilson "King Gunz" Pagan and Christian "King Chi Chi" Sanchez were among more than 100 alleged Latin King and Bloods gang members arrested in a series of raids by the Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force beginning in May 2010.
A 42-count indictment named the three as leaders of a Newburgh Latin Kings chapter that controlled drug dealing in the East End from at least 2007 to September 2012.
The gang peddled crack and powder cocaine, heroin and marijuana from drug markets in the areas of Benkard Avenue and William Street; Broadway between South Miller and Lutheran streets; Washington and Clark streets; and Dubois and First streets, prosecutors alleged.
Violence reinforced the gang's power, prosecutors said. Its leadership ordered hits on members of its own gang and rival gangs, attempted to rob a drug dealer in New Windsor and threatened informants, according to the indictment.
Zachary was killed on May 6, 2008, on Dubois Street, mistaken for a rival Bloods member the Latin Kings had allegedly ordered shot.
Scarlett was murdered on March 11, 2010, allegedly by Maldonado as the two were supposed to be carrying out a hit for the Latin Kings in the area of Farrington and Lander streets. Maldonado was killed the next day on the orders of gang leadership, prosecutors said.
In March, a federal grand jury found Pagan and Sanchez guilty of drug, murder and racketeering charges, with Pagan convicted of being involved in Zachary's killing and Sanchez found guilty in the murders of Maldonado and Scarlett.
Both face mandatory life terms when they are sentenced later this year.


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I know that this has been brought up again and again, with the answer that YES a Zune HD will work with an old Zune AV dock - *but* with only SD (480i) output thru composite.
Here's a new approach that I'm eager to try, to save a few $ instead of buying the >$85 Zune HD official AV dock: why not change the pinouts on the the old docks? I'm constantly finding the old V1 & v2 docks for between $7 and $15 on Amazon, so...
Here's the pinout I've found:
The old docks which have RCA connectors should be using Audio L (pin13) and Audio R (pin14)for two of the RCA connectors, with Pin 09 being Video. They are all centrally grounded, if I understand properly, to pin 12 (AV Grnd). On the old docks, the pins not being used *should* therefore be 10 (Pb output) and 11 (Pr output), which causes the Zune HD to switch Pin 9 from the usual component Y to composite out. So - if the connections on Pins 13 and 14 are switched to 10 and 11, we could theoretically get the Zune HD to output the proper, 720p component high-def video.
Only problem then could be sound - since I'm not interested in the aesthetics of the dock, I'm thinking that I'll just drill 'er out, so I can get a 3.5mm jack into the bottom of the zune. If this isn't possible, such as the 3.5mm jack getting locked out when the zune is placed in the dock, then I think I'll just solder 2 additional RCA audio cables back onto Pins 13 and 14.
Well, that's my plan. I'm looking for comments/advice on the feasibility of this plan. Worst case, I'm only out $20 bucks and a few hours of time, after all!
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I work in the x-ray field, which includes imaging of women which is required in order to examine female patients. What is the ruling on fasting for the woman who has to have such imaging done – should she break her fast and repeat it later on? What is the ruling on my wudoo' if I examine a woman for the purpose of imaging, noting that I wear gloves during the examination?.
Having x-rays done does not affect the fast, and it is not regarded as one of the things that invalidate the fast, unless the patient takes medicine or is told by the doctor to eat or drink something before the x-ray (or other procedure), in which case the fast is broken because of eating or drinking.
Carrying out the examination does not affect the fast of the one who does it. We have already explained in the answer to question no. 20710 and 22757 that the correct scholarly view is that touching a non-mahram woman does not invalidate wudoo'.
It is not permissible for a man to treat a non-mahram woman or vice versa except in cases of necessity, and necessity should be evaluated in a proper manner. It is not permissible to uncover for the slightest reason or the slightest sickness, and it is not permissible to look at more than the site of pain that needs to be uncovered. And it is not permissible for the medic and the patient to be alone together. The answer to question no. 2198 explains the ruling on men treating women.
It is haraam for a man to touch a non-mahram woman and vice versa. Putting on gloves makes the matter less serious if it is essential for treatment.
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The results are in: "Bridesmaids," the much-hyped girl-raunch comedy touted as the long-awaited antidote to Judd Apatow's "bromance" phenomenon, opened way bigger than expected at the box office, thereby proving that women can be just as funny — and, moreover, sell as many tickets — as men. (Apatow, it should be noted, is a producer on the film.)
Funny girls: In Meghan Daum's May 19 column about comedy and women, Amy Heckerling was identified as the director of "Mean Girls." Mark Waters directed "Mean Girls"; Heckerling directed "Clueless."
Billed in its tagline as evidence that "chick flicks don't have to suck," "Bridesmaids" is being seen as a watershed, a final blow to the notion that women in Hollywood comedies have two choices: the predictable, bland heroines endemic to romantic comedies or the improbably hot love interests of Apatow-style schlubs.
This logic has largely been based on the theory that women will see movies about men (no matter how drunk, crude, clueless or otherwise unappealing) but that men would rather subject themselves to a Brazilian wax (memo to Apatow: How about "Brazilian Wax," a buddy comedy set in Rio, where five guys looking for fun get more than they bargained for?) than sit through two hours of big-screen female funny business. The spin on "Bridesmaids," however, is that men will like it as much as women, and come to it in the same droves that turned films such as "The Hangover" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" into blockbusters.
That remains to be seen, of course. Only a smattering of men braved the showing of "Bridesmaids" that I attended, almost all of them in the company of a woman. If the film's promise of crossover appeal holds true, those men will presumably report back to other men that there's enough gross-out humor and scatological set pieces in the film to offset all that estrogen. They may also mention that the film's gamine star and co-writer, Kristen Wiig, exposes so much leg that she often appears to have forgotten to put on pants. That might offset the appearance of the '90s pop trio Wilson Phillips.
It's hard to come by a serious discussion of "Bridesmaids" that doesn't invoke Christopher Hitchens' infamous 2007 Vanity Fair rant, "Why Women Aren't Funny." Working with the thesis that men have a biological imperative to make women laugh, whereas women — thanks mostly to the gravity of their reproductive duties — are imbued with sacredness and seriousness that are antithetical to the very nature of humor (also, if they look pretty, they don't have to speak), Hitchens seems to regard comedy as a poor cousin to more respectable genres like drama (and in this case motherhood). Besides, he wrote, filth is connected to 50 percent of what composes humor. And the "fair sex" doesn't go for it.
"Bridesmaids" literally vomits all over that. It skips most girl-movie cliches (the shopping scenes; the lip-syncing to Aretha Franklin using a hairbrush as a microphone) and jumps headlong into boy-movie cliches. The result is not only critical acclaim but sociopolitical props. It's suddenly "irrefutable," says the New York Times, that "women can go aggressive laugh to aggressive-and-absurd laugh with men." Slate suggested that Hitchens' "perennially circulated head scratcher" has been definitively answered with "a whoopee cushion fart."
Does that imply that the whoopee cushion, as the basest form of humor, is also the purest form of it? The anointing of "Bridesmaids" as a breakthrough suggests as much. After all, despite the hype, it's not the first time we've seen women writing and acting in funny, atypical chick flicks. (Amy Heckerling's "Mean Girls," Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right" and the films of Nicole Holofcener come to mind.) It is, however, the first time we've seen women writing and acting like men in funny movies (and, even then, only a certain subgenre of men; we're not talking Michael Palin or Chris Rock). The fact that it's being touted as a yardstick for measuring a comedian's skills — "If she can do a fart joke, she can do anything!" — suggests that the problem all along hasn't been who is considered funny but what is considered funny.
So listen up, aspiring comedy stars, if you want to make it in Hollywood, it's not enough to deliver the jokes. You need the whoopee cushion too.


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The Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) provides individual and group income-protection insurance. Unum also offers long-term care insurance, group benefits, and life insurance. It is the largest domestic disability insurer in the United States, with the majority of premiums coming from employer insurance plans.
UNM also provides a complementary portfolio of other insurance products, including employer- and employee-paid group benefits, life insurance, long-term care insurance, and other related services. UNM operates in three major business segments: Unum US, Unum UK, and Colonial Life.[1]
Headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Unum Group (UNM) was created following the June 1999 merger of Provident Companies, Inc. and Unum Corporation. Along with disability insurance, the company provides long-term care insurance, life insurance, employer- and employee-paid group benefits, and related services. Since January 2003, UnumProvident has been classifying its operations into five segments: Income Protection, Life and Accident, Colonial, Corporate, and Other. Effective July 1, 2005, the company modified its reporting segments to separate its United States business from its United Kingdom subsidiary, Unum Limited. On January 16, 2007, the company stated its intention to change (for broadening branding initiatives) its name to Unum Group from UnumProvident Corporation, after obtaining the necessary legal approvals (effective March 2, 2007). In the intervening time, the company will use its new operating segment names U.S. Brokerage will be called Unum US, and Unum Limited (the U.K. business) will be called Unum UK. The company's business operations are now segmented as follows:
The Unum Group provides a wide variety of insurance products. It is the largest provider of group disability insurance in the United States, and it also provides other insurance products such as income-protection, life, long-term care, and corporate-oriented group insurance. Unum also provides services in the United Kingdom through Unum U.K.
Unum's insurance products are usually sold through insurance brokers. Unum is also trying to shift its focus on small and medium-sized group plans.
In 2009, UNM earned a total of $10.1 billion in total revenues. This was virtually the same as the previous year's total revenues of $10.0 billion.However, this had a substantial impact on UNM's net income. Between 2008 and 2009, UNM's net income increased from $553 million in 2008 to $853 million in 2009.[2]
Due to the risk involved in insuring large groups, Unum has set underwriting procedures. If a particular individual in the group does not meet its general requirements,the insurance purchaser must provide proof of that individual's insurability. Unum attracts new customers by offering one to three-year rate guarantees on its policies, although policyholders wishing to renew typically receive a one-year rate guarantee. Unum pays special attention to its obligations for these products as they are especially susceptible to economic recessions. Policies for larger groups tend to have smaller profit margins and less risk than those to smaller groups since large policyholders can usually weather a certain amount of economic turmoil.
Unum works with companies to sell these products as employee benefits. Its accidental death product mainly covers travel accidents, and its life insurance product is typically linked to employees' wages.
Policyholders may receive a certain percentage of their monthly income if they are sick or injured. These policies may be custom-tailored to include temporary transfer of ownership in a business and payment for business overhead expense. The rates are determined, amongst other things, by age, gender, and occupation.
Since the reserves are set apart using expected liability payments, if actual payments exceed expected payments, then current earnings will be overstated and the excess amount will be deducted from current earnings. Likewise, if the opposite occurs, then current earnings will be understated.
Epidemics, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and other events of similar magnitude could result in a rise in claims that Unum could be unprepared for financially. Certain risks, such as that of terrorism, cannot be diversified away. For other events, such as natural disasters, the claim number can be influenced by government policy and government preparedness.
Unum, like most other insurance companies, invests a percentage of the premiums it collects. Unum invests a large portion of it in fixed-income securities. Fluctuations in the economy, accounting fraud, and problems with cash flows could affect the fixed-income securities market, which in turn affect Unum's portfolio yield.
Unum does business in the United States and the United Kingdom. A change in insurance laws in any of them could affect Unum's cash flow. In the United States, Unum must conform to Federal, state, and local laws regarding insurance. An increase in the reserve requirement would weaken its earnings. In the United Kingdom, the Financial Services Authority has the ability to bar Unum from conducting business if it fails a regulatory guideline.


text: I chose to nurse exclusively (on cue) for baby's first year. Now he is almost 14 months old. He is a high-need child and so he is rarely inclined to compromise or settle for something that he perceives is the best. That's where the trouble comes in: we are having a much more difficult time transitioning to solid foods than we had expected. I plan to continue nursing at least until 2 years old. But I feel like he is not getting the nutrition he needs from just breast milk now, I can tell my milk has changed, and have read a bit about that too. Also, even though I try to drink and eat more calories, I feel so drained of energy--sometimes it is really bad…like lying on the floor utterly exhausted! (I'm vegan also, and we had no problem the first year, but now it is difficult for me to get enough protein and iron at this point to support my body and also a 26 lbs babe!) So I've been feeling desperate lately trying to find a way for him to get more calories from food. We've tried various pureed foods, water flavored by fruits and veggies, small bits of soft sliced or diced fruits and veggies….smoothies in a sippy cup….smoothies in a glass held by me….we've tried feeding from baby's bowl and spoon, and from adult dishes/spoon. Some of these methods have worked temporarily, then he will start refusing and demanding to nurse instead when offered food. Or he'll feed it to the dog. Oddly enough, he seems willing to taste just about anything. The problem seems to be more that he doesn't want to transition. We've practiced Attachment Parenting almost religiously from his birth, and he's always been allowed to nurse whenever he needed/wanted to, so I don't want to force him to eat or force him to wean either. I've come across the phrase: baby-led solids but I don't know anything about that concept, so if anyone practices that, I'm a bit curious about it. I gratefully welcome any advice, constructive opinions, or ideas to help us through this!!


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OSHKOSH, Wis., Sept. 26 (UPI) -- A new all-terrain military vehicle for unconventional and reconnaissance missions has been unveiled in the United States by Oshkosh Defense.
The Special Purpose All-Terrain Vehicle was specifically designed for high-speed unconventional missions in urban or rugged terrain, features the latest Oshkosh Defense technologies and comes in multiple weight and protection configurations.
The Oshkosh vehicle was placed on display at Modern Day Marine 2012 in Quantico, Va., where the company is also displaying its Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain Vehicle.
"We have developed a broad range of high-performance light vehicles to offer warfighters next-generation capabilities for future battlefields," said John Bryant, vice president and general manager of Joint and Marine Corps Programs for Oshkosh Defense.
"Our L-ATV and S-ATV platforms, coupled with an array of Oshkosh-developed HMMWV upgrade solutions, demonstrate exciting innovations. The off-road mobility, crew protection and reliability that are hallmarks of our heavy, medium and MRAP platforms have been leveraged in different ways across these light vehicles to meet a range of operational needs."
Oshkosh said it was contracted by the military in August to deliver 22 Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain Vehicle prototypes for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Engineering, Manufacturing and Development phase of a project for possible vehicles to replace Humvees.
Oshkosh said its L-ATV has an advanced crew protection system, can accept multiple armor configurations and uses TAK-4i intelligent independent-suspension system.


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"MPIBA a Big Success"
October 10-12, 2013
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"MPIBA a Big Success"
October 10-12, 2013
Although there were plenty of great children's books on display at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers annual trade show, which took place at the Denver Renaissance Hotel from October 10–12, the 71 authors present indisputably stole the show, particularly those who spoke in front of the 155 MPIBA booksellers in attendance. Valerie Koehler, owner of Houston's Blue Willow Bookshop, described the slate of authors as "spectacular," a sentiment echoed by scores of others.
This year's MPIBA show kicked off with the Children's Author and Illustrator Breakfast, featuring Matt de la Peña (The Living, Delacorte), Lauren Myracle (The Infinite Moment of Us, Abrams/Amulet), and Robert Sabuda (The Little Mermaid, Little Simon), who spoke before booksellers seated at tables festooned with colorful plastic sea creatures and seashells.
(From l.) Matt de la Peña, Lauren Myracle, and Robert Sabuda adorn themselves with the table decorations at the Children's Authors & Illustrator Breakfast.
"It's the first time I've ever seen this book," de la Peña said, as he held up an early hardcover of The Living. "It's very pretty." De la Peña, who has written four other YA novels, related some stories from his childhood, growing up Mexican-American and working-class in Southern Calif. Describing his earlier books as having "race and class out there as the focus," de la Peña called The Living "more contextual": Espinoza, a teenager working on a luxury cruise ship, and Addie, wealthy teenage passenger, are thrown together after an earthquake off the California coast releases a tsunami that sinks the ship.
"This was my attempt to tone down the class and race issues and play up the larger story elements in the hopes of reaching a broader audience," de la Peña said.
Lauren Myracle also addressed inclusiveness in her presentation of her most recent novel, The Infinite Moment of Us. "One of my goals is in writing books is to make the point that we are so much more alike than different," said the author, who has written 19 books for middle-grade and teen readers. "To downplay anyone's struggles is to do them a disservice."
Robert Sabuda signs The Little Mermaid, his 24th pop-up book.
Describing her YA novels as stories about teens whose "souls [are] colliding, as well as bodies colliding," Myracle explained that she wants to contradict the myths that society perpetuates concerning teenagers. "Boys can be nervous about sex and girls can enjoy sex," she said, before reading correspondence from "haters" as well as from parents wanting to know how they could connect with their teenage children more effectively.
Adolescent concerns resurfaced with an unlikely author, when pop-up creator Robert Sabuda joked that The Little Mermaid is the story of "a young woman with body issues who doesn't understand the phrase, 'he's just not that into you,.' " Sabuda related the details of hisjourney toward becoming an acclaimed illustrator and engineer of 24 pop-up books published since 1994, when The Christmas Alphabet was released.
"From the first moment that I could pick up a crayon and draw it across the paper, I knew I would be an artist," he said. At age eight, he received a Cinderella pop-up book by the Czech artist Vojtech Kubašta as a gift and tried to replicate it, using manila folders his mother brought home from work. When he was 15, Sabuda disclosed, he was caught shoplifting oil paints from an art supply store, but was let go after the mall security guard asked him if he was an artist. "Was it a subconscious respect for art in a poor part of Michigan?" Sabuda asked the MPIBA booksellers.
Literary Speed-Dating
At the Children's Author Tea, eight tables of booksellers each welcomed a rotating procession of authors making five-minute elevator pitches.
"My books are traditional fairy tales with a tough-girl edge and set in the West," said Erin Zweiner, a Montana resident and debut author; her next book will be titled Snow White and the Seven Burros.
"I never thought there'd be this many," Jennifer Adams said of her Babylit series, which now has seven classics adapted for toddlers. "I do read the originals; I want to capture the spirit of the book and make it approachable."
MPIBA booksellers listen to an author's five-minute presentation during the Children's Authors Tea at MPIBA.
Holly Goldberg Sloan said that her Counting by 7s "is not a happy book, but it's a hopeful book." Though it's aimed at middle-grade readers, it's also appropriate for both YA and adult readers, she added, calling it a "family novel."
According to Todd Mitchell, Backwards is hard to describe, and told in reverse. Dan commits suicide, and his alter ego, The Rider, "loves life." Mitchell, a high school teacher, explained that he wanted to "address the seriousness of suicide, but also write an uplifting book that would attract readers who wouldn't normally read books about suicide."
Julie Berry told booksellers that she had "stumbled upon a character" and wrote All the Truth That's in Me in the second person in a short amount of time, drawing upon her own "stalker mentality" as a teenager.
Paolo Bacigalupi explained that Zombie Baseball Beatdown targets those boy readers in the third to seventh grades "who think that books suck." Mark Tatulli also wants to engage reluctant boy readers, he said, even though he hopes that girls will like Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic as well. "It's not Gone with the Wind, but it's a gateway to reading. If they have a positive experience with a book, they'll want to read more."
(From l.) Author Jennifer A. Nielsen, bookseller Valerie Koehler of Houston's Blue Willow Bookshop, and Liesl Freudenstein of Boulder Bookstore chat after the Children's Authors Tea.
Jennifer A. Nielsen's three Ascendance novels – The False Prince, The Runaway King, and The Shadow Throne (out February 2014) – are also for the reluctant reader, the author noted: "This is a good middle-grade alternative to Harry Potter. It's got romance and adventure and the action goes on and on." As Nielsen wound up her short presentation, she celebrated the partnership between booksellers and authors, noting, "When we write books and you sell books, we make magic. Neither of us can do it alone."
During the author presentations, "there was a lot of laughter and poignancy," Blue Willow's Koehler noted as the show wound down Saturday. Sue Fassett, who manages Dolly's Books in Park City, Utah, said that she's "always surprised at how eloquent and entertaining authors can be. Of course, they're wordsmiths, and it often translates. MPIBA chose their authors well."
|Updated October 18, 2013
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Sam Moore may be "The Legendary Soul Man," but a federal appeals court says he doesn't have sole use of the title.
The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld the dismissal of Moore's suit against the Weinstein Company and MGM studios over the 2008 film "Soul Men" and its soundtrack and promotions.
Moore sued saying the movie, starring the late actor Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson, bore too much of a resemblance to himself and one-time singing partner, Dave Prater Jr.
Moore and Prater, who died in 1988, performed together for two decades, sometimes billed as "Double Dynamite." Their hits include "Soul Man," ''Hold On, I'm Comin'" and "When Something is Wrong with My Baby."
Judge Deborah L. Cook wrote the movie and promotions may have had some resemblance to Moore, but were different enough.
"Without a doubt, the movie added significant expressive elements to any purported use of Moore's identity," Cook wrote in a 16-page opinion joined by judges John M. Rogers and Gregory Van Tatenhove.
Messages left Thursday for the Weinstein Company and one for Moore's Washington, D.C.-based attorney were not immediately returned.
After Prater died, Moore continued to perform, billed as "The Legendary Soul Man," although he never formally trademarked the nickname. Moore was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of Sam and Dave in 1992. He sued the filmmakers, claiming the movie violated an unregistered trademark he holds because of his fame and notoriety.
The film focuses on two characters forming two-thirds of a 1960s soul trio named "Marcus Hooks and The Real Deal." The trio's third member, lead singer Marcus Hooks, portrayed by musician John Legend, leaves the group for a successful solo career.
The movie tracks Jackson's and Mac's characters as they reunite in Los Angeles and travel across the country, playing in small-town bars and venues on the way to the Apollo Theater in New York for a tribute concert to Hooks. During one of the stops, they perform "Hold On, I'm Comin'."
Moore claimed Jackson and Mac were portraying Sam and Dave.
To promote the movie and soundtrack, Concord Music Group, a defendant in the lawsuit, put out a CD and DVD with several pages of an insert titled "The Original Soul Men Are At Stax," the renowned recording studio in Memphis, Tenn. The cover art featured various Stax Record albums, including artists Otis Redding, Issac Hayes and another insert page that featured a Stax-promoted concert in Norway in 1967.
Moore claimed the insert misappropriated his publicity rights. Cook was unimpressed with Moore's argument.
"Read in context, no reasonable juror would mistake this 'Soul Men' reference to Sam & Dave," Cook wrote. "And, the fact that the soundtrack producers marketed their product to fans of a variety of soul artists, including Sam & Dave, does not suggest otherwise."
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HAVERHILL - A Grafton County Superior Court Judge Peter Bornstein Tuesday dismissed two of seven sexual assault charges against a former Dartmouth College student.
Later in the day, both the prosecution and defense rested their cases after seven days of testimony in the matter of Parker C. Gilbert, 21, of London, England.Gilbert still faces five counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault against an 18-year-old student who said she was sleeping in her dormitory room last May 2 when she awoke in the early-morning hours to find Parker, then a member of the Big Green rugby team, sexually assaulting with her.The alleged victim from Connecticut has also since left Dartmouth but returned to New Hampshire last week to provide emotional testimony that Gilbert had no permission to enter her unlocked room that night last spring. She told jurors he refused repeatedly to cease attacking her when she asked him several times to stop.Defense attorneys say the encounter was consensual sex between two students who had been drinking and had seen each other earlier in the night at a campus fraternity party.Gilbert also faces a Class A misdemeanor count of criminal trespassing on the night of the alleged attack.Bornstein is expected to deliver instructions to the jury today, before attorneys for both sides present their closing arguments and the jury begins firstname.lastname@example.com


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I've searched the web far and wide, and the only souces I've found yet are some introductionary notes to some edition of a work by Descarte and some sparse comments on the Wikipedia article on Neo-Latin, but with that and some living (albeit really dead) examples, this is what I've understod so far:
´ is used where the accent is not on the antepaenult and before enclitics, sometimes above the q in -que, sometimes above a q as an abbreviation for -que.
` is used on adverbs and indeclenebilia, i.e. quam the adverb opposed to quam the relative feminine article, and on the præposition a.
^ is used on long vowels, whereelse the meaning would be uncertain, and almost always above ablatives. Sometimes abouve some of the endings in the fourth declension.
& is always used for et, and et in etc. thus &c.
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The Ashland Hopewell site is a specialty chemicals plant with a heavy emphasis on chemistry. We produce a variety of cellulose-based chemicals in 5 distinct operating plants. Our varied products are used by a broad range of other industries including Paint & Coatings, Food, Pharmaceutical, Energy, and Construction. This broad base provides many opportunities for growth. On the Hopewell plant, there are many of the classic unit operations. This includes Reactions, Distillation, Separations, Drying, and Grinding. The Pilot Plant for Ashland cellulose-based products is also located at the Hopewell site.
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For best performance, all HADB processes (clu_xxx_srv) must fit in physical memory. They should not be paged or swapped. The same applies for shared memory segments in use.
You can configure the size of some of the shared memory segments. If these segments are too small, performance suffers, and user transactions are delayed or even aborted. If the segments are too large, then the physical memory is wasted.
You can configure the following parameters:
The HADB stores data on data devices, which are allocated on disks. The data must be in the main memory before it can be processed. The HADB node allocates a portion of shared memory for this purpose. If the allocated database buffer is small compared to the data being processed, then disk I/O will waste significant processing capacity. In a system with write-intensive operations (for example, frequently updated session states), the database buffer must be big enough that the processing capacity used for disk I/O does not hamper request processing.
The database buffer is similar to a cache in a file system. For good performance, the cache must be used as much as possible, so there is no need to wait for a disk read operation. The best performance is when the entire database contents fits in the database buffer. However, in most cases, this is not feasible. Aim to have the "working set" of the client applications in the buffer.
Also monitor the disk I/O. If HADB performs many disk read operations, this means that the database is low on buffer space. The database buffer is partitioned into blocks of size 16KB, the same block size used on the disk. HADB schedules multiple blocks for reading and writing in one I/O operation.
Use the hadbm deviceinfo command to monitor disk use. For example, hadbm deviceinfo --details will produce output similar to this:
NodeNo TotalSize FreeSize Usage 0 512 504 1% 1 512 504 1%
The columns in the output are:
TotalSize: size of device in MB.
FreeSize: free size in MB.
Usage: percent used.
Use the hadbm resourceinfo command to monitor resource usage, for example the following command displays data buffer pool information:
%hadbm resourceinfo --databuf NodeNo Avail Free Access Misses Copy-on-write 0 32 0 205910260 8342738 400330 1 32 0 218908192 8642222 403466
The columns in the output are:
Avail: Size of buffer, in Mbytes.
Free: Free size, when the data volume is larger than the buffer. (The entire buffer is used at all times.)
Access: Number of times blocks that have been accessed in the buffer.
Misses: Number of block requests that "missed the cache" (user had to wait for a disk read)
Copy-on-write: Number of times the block has been modified while it is being written to disk.
For a well-tuned system, the number of misses (and hence the number of reads) must be very small compared to the number of writes. The example numbers above show a miss rate of about 4% (200 million access, and 8 million misses). The acceptability of these figures depends on the client application requirements.
To change the size of the database buffer, use the following command:
hadbm set DataBufferPoolSize
This command restarts all the nodes, one by one, for the change to take effect. For more information on using this command, see Configuring HADB in Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 High Availability Administration Guide.
Before it executes them, HADB logs all operations that modify the database, such as inserting, deleting, updating, or reading data. It places log records describing the operations in a portion of shared memory referred to as the (tuple) log buffer. HADB uses these log records for undoing operations when transactions are aborted, for recovery in case of node crash, and for replication between mirror nodes.
The log records remain in the buffer until they are processed locally and shipped to the mirror node. The log records are kept until the outcome (commit or abort) of the transaction is certain. If the HADB node runs low on tuple log, the user transactions are delayed, and possibly timed out.
Begin with the default value. Look for HIGH LOAD informational messages in the history files. All the relevant messages will contain tuple log or simply log, and a description of the internal resource contention that occurred.
Under normal operation the log is reported as 70 to 80% full. This is because space reclamation is said to be "lazy." HADB requires as much data in the log as possible, to recover from a possible node crash.
Use the following command to display information on log buffer size and use:
hadbm resourceinfo --logbuf
For example, output might look like this:
Node No. Avail Free Size 0 44 42 1 44 42
The columns in the output are:
Node No.:The node number.
Avail: Size of buffer, in megabytes.
Free Size: Free size, in MB, when the data volume is larger than the buffer. The entire buffer is used at all times.
Change the size of the log buffer with the following command:
hadbm set LogbufferSize
This command restarts all the nodes, one by one, for the change to take effect. For more information on using this command, see Configuring HADB in Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 High Availability Administration Guide.
The node internal log (nilog) contains information about physical (as opposed to logical, row level) operations at the local node. For example, it provides information on whether there are disk block allocations and deallocations, and B-tree block splits. This buffer is maintained in shared memory, and is also checked to disk (a separate log device) at regular intervals. The page size of this buffer, and the associated data device is 4096 bytes.
Large BLOBs necessarily allocate many disk blocks, and thus create a high load on the node internal log. This is normally not a problem, since each entry in the nilog is small.
Begin with the default value. Look out for HIGH LOAD informational messages in the history files. The relevant messages contain nilog, and a description of the internal resource contention that occurred.
Use the following command to display node internal log buffer information:
hadbm resourceinfo --nilogbuf
For example, the output might look something like this:
Node No. Avail Free Size 0 11 11 1 11 11
To change the size of the nilog buffer, use the following command:
hadbm set InternalLogbufferSize
The hadbm restarts all the nodes, one by one, for the change to take effect. For more information on using this command, see Configuring HADB in Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 High Availability Administration Guide.
If the size of the nilog buffer is changed, the associated log device (located in the same directory as the data devices) also changes. The size of the internal log buffer must be equal to the size of the internal log device. The command hadbm set InternalLogBufferSize ensures this requirement. It stops a node, increases the InternalLogBufferSize, re initializes the internal log device, and brings up the node. This sequence is performed on all nodes.
Each row level operation requires a lock in the database. Locks are held until a transaction commits or rolls back. Locks are set at the row (BLOB chunk) level, which means that a large session state requires many locks. Locks are needed for both primary, and mirror node operations. Hence, a BLOB operation allocates the same number of locks on two HADB nodes.
When a table refragmentation is performed, HADB needs extra lock resources. Thus, ordinary user transactions can only acquire half of the locks allocated.
If the HADB node has no lock objects available, errors are written to the log file. For more information , see Chapter 14, HADB Error Messages, in Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 Error Message Reference.
To calculate the number of locks needed, estimate the following parameters:
Number of concurrent users that request session data to be stored in HADB (one session record per user)
Maximum size of the BLOB session
Persistence scope (max session data size in case of session/modified session and maximum number of attributes in case of modified session). This requires setAttribute() to be called every time the session data is modified.
x is the maximum number of concurrent users, that is, x session data records are present in the HADB, and
y is the session size (for session/modified session) or attribute size (for modified attribute),
Then the number of records written to HADB is:
xy/7000 + 2x
Record operations such as insert, delete, update and read will use one lock per record.
Locks are held for both primary records and hot-standby records. Hence, for insert, update and delete operations a transaction will need twice as many locks as the number of records. Read operations need locks only on the primary records. During refragmentation and creation of secondary indices, log records for the involved table are also sent to the fragment replicas being created. In that case, a transaction needs four times as many locks as the number of involved records. (Assuming all queries are for the affected table.)
If refragmentation is performed, the number of locks to be configured is:
Nlocks = 4x (y/7000 + 2) = 2xy/3500 + 2x
Otherwise, the number of locks to be configured is:
Nlocks = 2x (y/7000 + 2) = xy/3500 + 4x
Start with the default value. Look for exceptions with the indicated error codes in the Application Server log files. Remember that under normal operations (no ongoing refragmentation) only half of the locks might be acquired by the client application.
To get information on allocated locks and locks in use, use the following command:
hadbm resourceinfo --locks
For example, the output displayed by this command might look something like this:
Node No. Avail Free Waits 0 50000 50000 na 1 50000 50000 na
Avail: Number of locks available.
Free: Number of locks in use.
Waits: Number of transactions that have waited for a lock."na" (not applicable) if all locks are available.
To change the number of locks, use the following command:
hadbm set NumberOfLocks
The hadbm restarts all the nodes, one by one, for the change to take effect. For more information on using this command, see Configuring HADB in Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 High Availability Administration Guide.
This section describes some of the timeout values that affect performance.
These values govern how much time the server waits for a connection from the pool before it times out. In most cases, the default values work well. For detailed tuning information, see Tuning JDBC Connection Pools.
Some values that may affect performance are:
response-timeout-in-seconds -The time for which the load balancer plug-in will wait for a response before it declares an instance dead and fails over to the next instance in the cluster. Make this value large enough to accommodate the maximum latency for a request from the server instance under the worst (high load) conditions.
health checker: interval-in-seconds - Determines how frequently the load balancer pings the instance to see if it is healthy. Default value is 30 seconds. If the response-timeout-in-seconds is optimally tuned, and the server doesn't have too much traffic, then the default value works well.
health checker: timeout-in-seconds - How long the load balancer waits after "pinging" an instance. The default value is 100 seconds.
The combination of the health checker's interval-in-seconds and timeout-in-seconds values determine how much additional traffic goes from the load balancer plug-in to the server instances.
For more information on configuring the load balancer plug-in, see Configuring the Load Balancer in Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 High Availability Administration Guide.
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|December 2, 2012, 08:29 PM
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Problem with RCBS 505 Scale
So I've been using a RCBS 505 scale for the last few years. I went down to reload tonight and am having a problem with it. I had this problem in the past once before and I tried it out again the next day and it worked fine.
The problem I'm having is when I try to zero the scale it seems like it's way off. So I adjust the height of the scale to zero it and once I get it zeroed I take the pan off and put it back on, and the scale has a different reading. I can then take the pan off and put it back several times and the scale has the same reading, but the marks will no longer be zeroed the mark on the beam will usually be higher reading like something is in the scale. I will then zero it again to these marks. Then once I remove the pan and put it back on, the beam will be quite a bit lower. It's just a back and forth cycle and I can never get it zeroed so that it will read the same thing after removing the pan and reinstalling it.
Anyone had this issue? Any tips to get it fixed? Having had this issue, it always makes me scared it's going to act up while in the middle of loading and throw my loads off, but so far I've been pretty lucky with that.
|December 2, 2012, 09:03 PM
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Fusion, first make sure all the conditions are right, solid level surface, eye level, no draft and clean the hinge point. Do you have weight checks? I zero mine then check the calibration with several weights varying from .2 to 20gr. And then back to zero. I also always tap the beam and let it bounce to make sure it "settles" correctly. It seems sometimes with small weights it "hangs" usually a little low.
|December 2, 2012, 09:57 PM
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Fusion, I have the same exact problem with my 505. Very fustrating!
|December 2, 2012, 10:29 PM
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Dust in the "v" grooves.
|December 2, 2012, 11:30 PM
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+1 ^ ! The 505 is a great scale. Dust or bigger gunk is causing your problems.
|December 3, 2012, 08:07 AM
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That is exactly the way my beam scale behaves if there is dust in the v-groove where the knife edge rests.
So, I ALWAYS clean the v-groove AND the knife edge with a Q-tip before I zero and use the check weights.
That has always resulted in the scale holdng zero and giving proper check weight readings for me.
If that doesn't work for you, then I would suspect that the knife edge has been damaged.
When you clean it, be careful that you don't damage the knife edge. You are just trying to remove dust, not scrub it or polish it.
|December 3, 2012, 08:36 AM
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I would also suggest to simply/gently "tap the table" next to the scale as you would when people "drum" with their fingers. You would be amazed how this simple action settles things out to a true reading -- both quickly & precisely every time.
|December 3, 2012, 07:45 PM
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Thats guys. do your "White plastic V grooves" move around freely? Meaning are yours fixed or are they able to move. Mine can move around in the holder. I have a 505
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|December 3, 2012, 11:29 PM
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I have the Dillon equivalent and had noticed the same problem. One other thing to look at is the poise or what ever its correct name is (the thingy that you move to change weight). When set to 0 for the 1 grain portion of the scale, it would sit at different angles. It was in the 0 notch but it hung down at different angles. Once I started making sure that was the same every time, most of those problems went away. So clean and make sure it always sets at the same angle.
|December 4, 2012, 08:11 AM
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The "plastic grooves" on my scale also move SLIGHTLY. That has never been a problem for me. I suspect (but don't really know) that it was designed that way so that the "grooves" can align with the knife edges on either side of the beam. Any misalignment might cause unreliable measurements.
|December 4, 2012, 08:21 AM
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The "plastic grooves" are not "plastic" but are Agate, a type of quartz.
The agate pieces are ment to move so the knife edges can aline properly.
The agate give the knife edges a place to rest that will not change over time, like a metal will (corrision,rust).
|December 5, 2012, 10:22 PM
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Every so often you may need to remove the notched agate blocks and clean the housings they set in as well. They are supposed to float unimpeded in their cradles to function properly. Good old rubbing alcohol works fine to clean these as well as the stones and the knives on the beams.
|December 5, 2012, 11:41 PM
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The very slighest draft will throw things off too. It's winter, is there an air duct anywhere nearby? Keep a cloth cover over it when not in use so as to keep it clean.
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|December 6, 2012, 08:53 PM
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OK, I "fixed" my probelm. I know this is not the right way to do it and I'm sure someone will say that I messed something up but its rock solid consistent now with reading weights.
Whats I did was I noticed the "agate grooves" would pivot on the frame a bit, so I took a piece of paper and folded it once and then cut a tiny square out of it. I put the piece on one side of the "agate groove" piece so that it would fit snug in the frame so it would not move at all.
I know that this is not the way that the scale is designed to work but the scale works rock solid now
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Starting Thursday, the manufacturer of OxyContin — the prescription pain reliever known as "Hillbilly heroin" for its ability to produce a heroin-like hit when snorted or injected — is phasing out the drug and replacing with OxyNEO, a reformulated version that its maker says is harder to crush or liquefy.
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Restricting access isn't likely to make a meaningful dent in the problem of opioid abuse, said Juurlink, head of clinical pharmacology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
Addicts, the Toronto doctor said, will simply switch to something else.
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What doctors have been taught about the prescribing of opioids such as oxycodone has come largely from pharmaceutical companies and doctors paid to speak on their behalf, Juurlink said, "and what we've been taught is wrong."
Although some chronic pain patients clearly do benefit, "there are also a number of patients who do not," he said.
By some estimates, more than 100,000 North Americans have died in the past 25 years as a result of prescription opioids, he said. Juurlink is blunt: "An awful lot of people have died because of our willingness to prescribe opioids for chronic pain."
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Opioids slow the transmission of pain signals to the brain. They also alter the sensation of pain. They produce, on average, about a 30 per cent reduction in chronic-pain intensity. Their side effects include nausea, dizziness, sedation, constipation and fatigue, and new research has started linking their long-term use with osteoporosis and immune-suppressing effects.
Today, Canadians are among the highest users of prescription opioids in the world. In the past decade alone, our opioid consumption has more than doubled, and the biggest increases have been for the heavy-hitters, including oxycodone (which is one-and-a-half to two times more potent than morphine) and hydromorphone (five to six times more potent than morphine), according to a recent study by British Columbia and Ontario researchers.
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Putting any medication on EAP creates a huge barrier to its use because of the paperwork and "hassle factor" involved for doctors, he said. The average time to process a request in Ontario is currently three months.
"Can you imagine what will happen in a year from now when they receive tens of thousands of extra requests due to the OxyNEO issue?" Jovey said.
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Jovey said he is not opposed reducing the amount of opioids being prescribed. "But you have to offer something else and right now physical treatments (for pain) aren't funded, psychological treatments aren't funded.
"How do you expect physicians who are faced day-to-day with folks sitting across their desk saying, 'I really hurt.' How do you expect them to reduce their prescribing? The prescription pad is one of the few tools that we have."
Other pain doctors worry that family doctors will jump to more potent opioids more quickly than they otherwise would, or that patients who aren't getting their pain controlled will overuse over-the-counter pain medications in doses high enough to damage their livers or cause gastro-intestinal bleeding.
But Juurlink says an aggressive approach is needed.
In a study published last year, he and his colleagues at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto examined trends in opioid use and dosing among social assistance recipients in Ontario.
They found that prescriptions rose 16 per cent between 2003 and 2008. By 2008, one-third of beneficiaries receiving long-acting oxycodone were getting between 200 and 400 mg of morphine equivalent per day, in excess of national guidelines; 15 per cent were taking "very high doses" — more than 400 mg of morphine equivalent per day.
The risk of death from any cause was about tenfold higher in people on very high doses of the drugs.
Doctors "need to ease up on the prescribing of these drugs," Juurlink maintains, "and anyone who suggests otherwise is wrong."
Most prescribing is well intentioned, he said. "Doctors don't want their patients in pain. I myself have sometimes prescribed opioids for chronic, non-cancer pain." But he said opioids are self-perpetuating.
Problems arise, he said, when the pain is reduced only slightly, "and so the doctor increases the dose, and the pain is perhaps reduced a little bit more, but then the patient is physically dependent on the drug.
"We shouldn't be resorting to opioids as readily as we are. We should not be escalating doses as rapidly as we are, and we should be abandoning opioids if they are not very clearly reducing the pain a patient is experiencing," Juurlink said.
Dr. Norm Buckley agrees that some patients are getting higher-than-necessary doses. Much of the OxyContin that's being abused is being diverted from legitimate prescriptions and by patients deluding doctors into thinking that they need the medication, said Buckley, professor and chair of the department of anesthesia at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.
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