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HDD-based video servers are now seriously limiting the scalability and potential of video surveillance, causing risks for both video surveillance companies, and those that they serve. Utilizing flash storage as primary storage represents a new way forward with profound implications for quality, throughput, and cost.
In a complex world, video surveillance is playing an increasingly critical role, providing reliable intelligence, improving security, and helping to detect and solve crimes. The promise of video surveillance and its success to date means that it will only be deployed in larger volumes in the future, resulting in a need for more cameras, better quality, and more primary storage volume for video servers. With the vast amounts of video data being collected, the need for greater amounts of timely analytics is increasing as well.
Unfortunately, traditional video surveillance server technology based on hard disk drives (HDDs) is beset by numerous challenges that directly thwart these goals. Limited HDD throughput often results in a loss of critical quality. Even with compression, limited throughput also impacts the ability to do timely analytics, as HDD-based video servers often lack the ability to serve simultaneous reads and writes without dropping frames. Moreover, recovering a RAID volume from an HDD failure can take considerable time and reduce throughput further, causing unacceptable frame losses that compromise video integrity and put analytics at risk. With HDD capacity and throughput limited, the number of required video servers is growing steadily, raising concerns around server sprawl and both capital and operating expenses.
Substituting flash for primary storage can eliminate many of the shortcomings of traditional HDD-based video surveillance solutions. While flash is often used in cameras, and also as efficient server boot devices, SanDisk has evaluated high-throughput flash storage as primary storage for video surveillance servers. Flash storage can provide both dramatically higher capacity and sustained throughput, and with them higher density and scalability for video servers. This higher capacity and throughput can be used to store video at higher frame rates and resolution, or it can be used to deliver significant server consolidation. Dramatic reductions in total cost of ownership (TCO), total cost of acquisition (TCA), and operational expenses (OpEx) are the direct result. At the same time, flash storage provides predictable quality of service (QoS), eliminates frame loss, and offers shorter RAID recovery times (with no loss in video integrity). By providing throughput headroom for simultaneous read and write access while recording, flash storage also allows for near-instant access to video data, enabling emerging real-time analytics while video data still has predictive value.
Traditionally, cost and media endurance have been viewed as concerns for using solid state devices (SSDs) in video servers. Technology advances and SanDisk's innovations have now eliminated these objections, making flash storage a competitive and compelling solution. To evaluate the role of flash storage in video surveillance environments, SanDisk has partnered with Milestone Systems—a global leader in video management software—to perform testing and certification. Testing has shown at least five-fold better throughput for flash than HDDs, for a 150-camera system. Moreover, projecting these results to a 1500-camera deployment demonstrates substantially lower three-year TCO than an HDD-based system.
Video is increasingly a key witness to events. Now considered essential for physical security, organizations from businesses, airports, and schools to municipalities are deploying video surveillance with ever-increasing numbers of cameras. In particular, video can help provide a disinterested perspective in analyzing complex situations, ideally allowing law enforcement to act on critical actionable intelligence.
The demands on video surveillance systems will only increase. Going forward, video surveillance systems must respond with key improvements, including:
Comparing Flash Storage with Traditional HDD-based Video Surveillance Solutions
Traditional video surveillance solutions have served well, but they are running up against very real physical limitations. Perhaps nowhere are these challenges more pronounced than in the key areas of storage system capacity, throughput, and response time, where flash storage has significant advantages (Table 1). HDD throughput constraints can result in frame loss when throughput demands outstrip the spinning media's ability to respond. Because of the nature of video, it can be very difficult to detect these losses after the fact.
Frame loss can mean that a critical event might well be eliminated from the video stream, impeding analytics from detecting key events. The shortcomings of HDD-based video servers have been met with limited analytics being done in the camera. Unfortunately, this approach misses the opportunity for more advanced and comprehensive computational analytics, and the ability to correlate events beyond a single camera.
|Response Time
|Random I/O Pattern Ability*
|Simultaneous Read/Write?*
|Hard disk drives (HDDs)
|Spinning platters, moving heads
|Up to 1.8TB (10K RPM drives) Up to 600 GB (15K RPM drives)
|Solid state devices (SSDs)
|Solid state
|Up to 4TB
Table 1. Comparing HDD and flash storage for video surveillance
The properties of HDDs are a poor match for the rigors of video surveillance. With multiple cameras writing to multiple files, fully random I/O patterns are typical in video servers. Random writes (for recording) are often interspersed with random reads (for archival or analytics), which can quickly result in bottlenecks given limited HDD throughput. These kinds of write patterns can cause significant head flutter, significantly reducing the practical lifespan of HDDs and causing early and frequent failures. In fact, HDDs in a video surveillance environment typically incur at least a 5% annual failure rate.
Capacity is another significant challenge. To achieve sufficient throughput, high-speed 10K or 15K RPM drives are typically deployed on video servers. Unfortunately, these faster drives are only available at lower capacities, making it difficult to accommodate sufficient primary storage volume. As a result, larger and larger numbers of RAID controllers and video servers are needed as more cameras are deployed. Not only does this drive higher acquisition costs, but maintenance costs and OpEx are accelerated as well.
Enhancing Video Surveillance with SanDisk Flash for Primary Storage
SanDisk flash storage presents a unique opportunity to evolve and consolidate servers for video surveillance. Higher primary storage throughput and capacity results directly in the ability to deploy fewer more dense servers to support a given number of cameras. With rapidly evolving network technology and increasing available network bandwidth, video server clusters will be able to grow and scale more effectively, with higher bandwidth to individual servers aiding server consolidation efforts. Key flash storage advances promote:
Significant Simplification and Cost Reduction Through Server Consolidation
While low throughput and capacity of HDDs tend to drive the numbers of drives, controllers, and servers upward, SSDs have the opposite effect. By providing up to five times the throughput and substantial improvements in capacity over 10K and 15K RPM HDDs, SSDs can offer up to a five-fold increase in the number of cameras that can be supported on a single server. This server consolidation in turn means that dramatically fewer servers are required to support a given number of cameras. SanDisk has found that SSDs also provide:
Full TCO analysis demonstrating these results can be found later in this document. These advantages will be particularly important as the number and quality of video streams increases.
Video management software (VMS) and network video recorders (NVRs) expand traditional surveillance and security system capabilities, providing efficient network based monitoring, transmission, and digital storage of IP video. Milestone's commitment to open platform technology through standards based interoperability gives organizations the freedom to choose the widest range of equipment. Milestone partners with hundreds of companies in the security and IT infrastructure industries to offer products that focus on ease of use, scalability and solving modern end-user challenges.
SanDisk conducted Milestone Technology Partner Certification to evaluate SanDisk flash storage for video surveillance, and to establish performance baselines for in-depth TCO analysis. The Milestone Technology Partner (MTP) Certification program seeks to confirm that server, storage, and network solutions provided by qualified MTP vendors meet the performance benchmarks required to support the Milestone XProtect VMS applications, and to measure the maximum performance available to Milestone customers if they choose to build a solution using certified MTP products. Partners who participate in the certification, such as SanDisk, are valuable members of Milestone's Open Platform eco-system, and have demonstrated a strong and lasting commitment to partnership.
Certification of a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) server equipped with SanDisk SSDs helps ensure that any surveillance system built using these products in combination with the Milestone XProtect components will be able to record and archive an amount of video consistent with the recommendations of the Milestone Server and Storage Calculator (www.milestonesys.com/support/presales-support/Storage-Calculator/). Certified products have been proven and documented to support the XProtect VMS. Performance expectations, design best practices, and specific configuration details are all documented as a part of the certification. Integrators, and end-users can reference the certification results to determine exactly what size VMS system these products will support.
Milestone XProtect Corporate was the VMS chosen for the certification tests with SanDisk SSD storage. As a part of this testing, the following Optimus® and Lightning® Gen. II SAS SSDs from SanDisk were certified with Milestone XProtect Corporate.
Performance of the solution may vary if different XProtect products and/or system components not listed in the test details are included.
Testing and Certification Environment
For certification testing, all functions related to the XProtect surveillance system were supported on a single recording server (Figure 1), including the Database, Management and Recording Server services. The camera simulation targets were generated on the same server. Multiple live viewing stations ran Milestone's XProtect Client software and were connected via Gigabit Ethernet. The recording server was an industry-standard COTS system (Dell™ PowerEdge™ R730 server) configured as follows:
The two Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H730P storage controllers featured:
The first controller was connected to HDDs with a 2-disk RAID 0 volume for the OS and an eight-disk RAID 6 for archive storage. The second controller was connected to SSDs with a two-disk RAID 1 volume and a eight-disk RAID 6 volume.
Figure 1. COTS server configuration for SanDisk SSD Milestone certification
Live Milestone database testing was configured on the following configurations utilizing both Optimus Eco 6Gbps SAS SSDs and Lightning Ascend Gen. II 12 Gbps SAS SSDs:
After two hours, all video content was archived to a RAID 6 volume consisting of eight HDDs. A variety of tests were run, culminating with a final run with the SSDs configured in RAID 6 supporting 150 cameras in 1280x720 resolution (Table 2). All of the test scenarios complied easily with the performance criteria of the Milestone Certification program, and no frame loss was detected in any of the tests. The scalable, modular configuration of the XProtect VMS, along with the capacity and performance offered by the SanDisk SSD solution implies that systems can easily be built to support hundreds to thousands of cameras. Importantly, to stress the system, the test scenario represented constant recording from the 150 cameras, with no Video Motion Detection (VMD) used to minimize video recording throughput or volume. In real-world scenarios individual video streams are likely to be less challenging due to VMD.
|Frame Rate
|Video Compression
|Recording Percentage
|1280 x 720
|30 fps
|100% (no VMD)
Table 2. SanDisk SSDs were tested in RAID 6 with no VMD using MJPEG streams
Performance Results and Key Findings
The chosen SSD configurations used in the test easily supported the benchmark level of performance when storing the data using MJPEG codecs. These solutions can be used to support XProtect Recording Servers with up to 150 cameras recording at megapixel resolution at 30 frames per second. Larger systems could be built using multiple storage solutions, alternative disk configurations, and multiple Recording Servers. Integrators and end users designing, installing and operating surveillance systems which incorporate these solution components should have complete confidence that the system will record large amounts of megapixel resolution video very reliably.
The solution was able to reliably store large amounts of video without impacting the performance of the Milestone system. SanDisk SAS SSDs are ideal for any system that requires high performance video recording using hundreds of multi-megapixel video streams. SanDisk SAS SSDs and Milestone XProtect VMS combine to create a solution that is highly scalable, high performance, standards based, and easy to use.
Performance results from the maximum performance test were measured, and are provided below. Importantly, consolidating more video streams onto individual video servers does result a commensurate increase in CPU loading. In this case, the subject system was well equipped to deal with the increased load, but system designers should be careful to ensure that sufficient CPU capacity is available to handle the larger number of video streams. Full throughput and latency results for the tests conducted are given in Table 3.
|Live Video Database Write Latency (ms)
|Total Disk Throughput (MBps)
|Frame Loss
|Two Optimus SAS SSDs (RAID 1)
|0.65% average, 11% peak
|Two Lightning Gen. II SAS SSDs (RAID 1)
|Eight Optimus SAS SSDs (RAID 6)
|Eight Lightning Gen. II SAS SSDs (RAID 6)
Table 3. Latency and throughput results for SanDisk and Milestone Systems testing (1280 x 720p, MJPEG, 30% compression, 30fps)
The Milestone sizing calculator states that a 15K RPM HDD supports an average disk throughput of 12.5 MB/s. Importantly, this metric assumes a 90% write 10% read workload mix associated with video server usage in a video surveillance environment. Any RAID based configuration drops this due to mirroring or parity overheads. Based on the results listed above, SanDisk Optimus and Lightning SSDs can easily support throughput of more than five times the throughput of HDDs, even after taking the RAID overhead into consideration.
Data Protection and Reliability
There are significant advantages in terms of data protection, reliability, and power consumption that help make flash an even more compelling solution for video server primary storage. HDDs have some inherent limitations that can adversely affect a solution in terms of data protection. To get a reasonable performance access density (IOPS per GB) relatively high-speed (low-capacity) HDDs must be used in video servers. Unfortunately, a relatively large number of the storage devices are required to meet capacity requirements, in turn requiring multiple RAID controllers. In contrast, the large capacity of SSDs reduces the storage device count significantly. The lower device count means that the RAID controller count drops as well. In turn, the overall solution MTBF is greater because of the removal of so many potential points of failure.
Enterprise based NAND devices also typically have 10-fold better reliability compared to HDDs with respect to the uncorrectable bit error rate (UBER). As a result, there is a 10-fold lower chance of encountering any read errors or any failures occurring during the RAID rebuild process.
RAID Rebuild Under Milestone Load
The throughput limitations of HDD-based systems can also strongly impact video storage in the event of a failed disk. As discussed, the random write patterns of video servers virtually guarantee frequent HDD failure. While most video servers employ RAID 6 for high data availability, the HDD-based RAID rebuild process can take days to accomplish. Moreover, during RAID rebuild, HDD-based systems can suffer throughput limitations that can approach 50 percent, which can result directly in frame loss for live cameras still attempting to record to the video server. Given the length of time typically required for HDD-based RAID systems, the likelihood of a second drive failure is non-trivial, and something that could greatly compromise the ability of the video server to continue recording successfully.
Flash storage provides much higher throughput headroom and only minimally lowers throughput during a RAID rebuild event. In the event of an SSD failure, the system has sufficient processor and throughput headroom to easily accommodate both the RAID rebuild process as well as ongoing video recording. The rebuild process also requires significantly less time than an HDD-based volume, reducing the chances of a secondary device failure.
To evaluate the cost effectiveness of various systems, SanDisk carried out a three-year TCO analysis comparing a HDD-based system against a flash-based configuration using SanDisk Optimus Eco SSDs. Informed by the Milestone testing, the TCO calculation made conservative assumptions about SSD performance in a video surveillance environment. The analysis demonstrated that the server consolidation from Flash-based video surveillance servers can provide a dramatically lower three-year TCO than a system equipped with HDDs.
Analysis Assumptions
To conduct the TCO analysis, SanDisk modeled a 1500-camera video surveillance system. The TCO modeling was based on the actual performance results obtained in the Milestone certification testing described herein. Identical server configurations were used, with only variation in the number of cameras per server. The TCO calculations were driven by:
TCO modeling was then conducted on the following configurations, scaled out to provide support for 1500 cameras:
Total Cost of Ownership
Figure 2 illustrates the TCO comparison of the 30, 90, and 150-camera configurations, with both total cost of acquisition (TCA) and three-year operational expenses (OpEx) shown. The dramatic cost advantages of video server consolidation are easily visible for the SSD-based configurations. The 90-camera-per-server SSD configuration is dramatically less expensive than the 30-camera-per-server HDD configuration, even though the initial cost of acquisition is slightly higher. The 150-camera-per-server SSD configuration represents an easily achievable five-to-one server consolidation. It is both less expensive to acquire, and fully half the cost of the HDD-based system over three years.
Figure 2. SSD-based video surveillance servers exhibit dramatically better three-year TCO over video servers with HDDs
Total Cost of Acquisition
Figure 3 details TCA for the three video server configurations. Though the relative storage costs are higher for the SSD-based configurations, the server-related costs are dramatically lower due to consolidation. The overall TCA for the 150 camera-per-server SSD-based configurations is again significantly lower than the HDD-based configurations.
Figure 3. TCA is lowest for 150 camera-per-server SSD-based configurations
Three-Year OpEx
Figure 4 illustrates the OpEx results from the three-year TCO calculation with considerable savings over a three-year period. Again, the network and rack costs for the two SSD-based configurations are dramatically lower than the HDD-based configuration. The smaller numbers of more dense SSD-based servers occupy significantly less rack space, and require significantly less power to operate.
The power savings are particularly pronounced for the SSD-based solutions. Not only do the individual SSDs require less power to operate, they generate less heat and vibration than the moving parts of HDDs. Fewer larger storage devices coupled with fewer storage controllers and fewer required video servers helps to drive simplicity and keep power and cooling costs down.
Figure 4. SSD-based video servers are denser, and cost significantly less to operate for a 1500-camera configuration
HDD-based video servers are now seriously limiting the scalability and potential of video surveillance, causing risks for both video surveillance companies, and those that they serve. Utilizing flash storage as primary storage represents a new way forward with profound implications for quality, throughput, and cost. SSDs can provide fully five times the throughput of HDDs, with linear density and throughput scaling—resulting in a five-to-one consolidation of required video servers. These throughput advantages coupled with growing capacities are making flash a compelling alternative to spinning media. SanDisk flash storage enables the future demands of organizations with uncompromising video surveillance requirements, including higher quality and resolution, more cameras, no data loss, longer retention periods, and real-time analytics. Given the trajectory of solid state technology, these comparisons will only become more favorable over time. Contact SanDisk for more information on partners delivering flash-based video server solutions, or visit our Data Center Solutions page at www.sandisk.com/business/datacenter for more information.
Milestone Systems is the world's leading provider of open platform IP video surveillance software. Milestone has provided easy-to-use, powerful video management software in more than 100,000 installations worldwide. Milestone XProtect® products are designed with open architecture and are compatible with more IP cameras, encoders and digital video recorders than any other manufacturer. Because Milestone provides an open platform, you can integrate today's best business solutions and expand what's possible with future innovations. Visit www.milestonesys.com for more.
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Reddick astounds with two dazzling catches
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- February's not even over, and Josh Reddick already made the catch of the year.
Many are convinced it's the best they've ever seen.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- February's not even over, and Josh Reddick already made the catch of the year.
Many are convinced it's the best they've ever seen.
"By far," said 13-year veteran Nick Punto. "I'm still in awe."
And that was only the first one.
That's right. Reddick channeled his inner Spider-Man on two occasions Wednesday, both times against the Giants' Michael Morse in Oakland's Cactus League opener at Scottsdale Stadium, robbing the outfielder of at least one home run -- maybe two.
"He's known for doing that, man," Morse said. "I'm happy to help him work on it in Spring Training, I guess."
Stationed at shortstop, Punto almost missed the first one in the second inning, simply because "I assumed it was a home run, and it was," he said. "It was a lot over the fence. Not a little. I kept thinking, 'Oh, that's nice of him to do a courtesy jump.' He was at least 3 feet over a 10-foot wall."
Reddick leaped high above the ground and grabbed hold of the fence, and by the time he turned his head, the ball was already over it. That didn't matter.
"When I looked up, it was probably 2 feet above my head and I guess got lucky to throw my glove at it," Reddick said. "I just quick-snatched it, I guess you could say. I was shocked, even being able to come close to it."
"It all happened so fast," said Sam Fuld, watching from center field. "It's not like he was waiting, camped underneath it. He went from being 20 feet away from the ball to leaping for it. It was perfectly done. He didn't even gather himself. I don't know. I'm guessing he doesn't practice it, but it looks like he does. He was going full speed, and that fence is high. It was definitely a home run. A home run by a lot."
A giddy Reddick didn't even hesitate when asked if it was the best catch he's ever made.
"Without a doubt," he said. "I have no idea how I did that."
"That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen," said catcher John Jaso. "That was unbelievable. I'll never forget it. That was just such a cool way to start off Spring Training. Everyone was so pumped up in the dugout. Tomorrow, that's all we're going to be talking about."
And probably the day after, too.
Even Giants fans displayed the ultimate gesture, rewarding the 2012 Gold Glove winner with a standing ovation after the inning.
"For being on the road, especially against this team," Reddick said, "I was really surprised of the noise that was made between just those Giants fans. It was unreal. It goes to show they respect the game just as much as they do the rivalry. It was something special, had my heart pumping for a little bit."
Fans only had to wait an hour to see it again.
Reddick didn't have to jump as high for the second one, snatching another Morse ball right at the yellow line in the fourth inning, but it was still a special sight to see, on any other day the best of the web gems. This time, it ranked second.
That's just how good the first one was.
"The first one he made was the best play I've ever seen, on the field or as a fan or anywhere," said Fuld. "Best play I've ever seen live, and then it just got wacky with the second one. You'll never see that ever again. I just hope they had the TV cameras going, because that's going to be on TV for a while."
Reddick has since invited Morse to dinner via Twitter.
@Mcode38 dinner on me brother whenever you want- Josh Reddick (@joshreddick16) February 26, 2014
"After the second one, I turned and looked at him, because I knew he was going to have something to say," Reddick said. "We've known each other over the years. He just held his hands up, like, 'Why?' and gave me a little air fist pump. All I could do is bend over and laugh at him and kind of say, 'I'm sorry.'"
Joked Morse: "I thought we were friends."
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com.

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Gate City Musings: Nashua VFW to sell home
December 02. 2012 10:33PM
Editor's Note: Gate City Musings, a column on City Hall happenings and other Nashua items, is published every other Monday. It is written by a veteran political observer whose identity is known to the editors but who wishes to remain anonymous, and breathing.
Congratulations are in order to officials of both the Nashua VFW & the Soup Kitchen on their joint announcement that the VFW will sell its home on Quincy Street to the Soup Kitchen. The VFW and the American Legion are the two major players working with and supporting our city's vets.
The Soup Kitchen provides much-needed meals to those in need and the VFW supports our deserving veterans who served abroad defending our freedom. Both VFW Commander Barry Palmer and former Soup Kitchen board president John Fisher and their members worked very hard negotiating the sale and they deserve the thanks of our city for making it possible. Needless to say, it will strengthen both organizations.
It never rains but it pours when it comes to our city's fathers and mothers finding ways to spend our hard-earned tax dollars on questionable projects. Seems our city leaders are now involved (in a six-figure contract, by the way) with a Tennessee consulting firm who will put in place a "new branding initiative and at the same time create a strap line and logo to help market our city" ... whatever that means.
North Star Destination Strategies of Tennessee will tell those of us who are not sure what Nashua has to offer about our city's "affordability, friendly climate and high-tech businesses."
One wonders why the Chamber of Commerce and our city's economic development director and our many community development department officials aren't doing this "work."
One also wonders why our highly regarded colleges and universities located right here in the Gate City weren't "consulted." Rivier University, Daniel Webster College, Granite State College and Nashua Community College all have the professorial and staff expertise and talent to offer these "services" to the city at a reasonable cost. And at the same time this could give their students an opportunity to work in the field and enhance their experience and employment opportunities following graduation.
If, as the "Volunteer State" consultants say, many of us are not clear as to what Nashua has to offer, then what have the Chamber and our highly paid city economic development director been doing all these years?
One also wonders what the rush is to continue to "upgrade" city hall with "technology improvements" to make city officials more appealing to city TV viewers and spending upward of $250 million to purchase a new downtown parking meter system.
Another suggestion, before the Mayor and Board of Aldermen go off half-cocked on these spending measures - maybe they should consider the plight of the taxpayer, considering these projects will cost upward of a half-million dollars. And certainly before our city mothers and fathers go ahead with a new parking meter plan they should take a few minutes and travel to the Queen City to see how our brothers and sisters to the north and their Manchester downtown merchants, as well as the multitude of shoppers, like their new system.
Our local officials should talk to Manchester shoppers, who many times in bad weather first have to find the machines, then deposit the parking fees to obtain a ticket (which tells the local parking constabulary how much time the parkers have) and then race back to their vehicles and affix the ticket to the windshield, regardless of weather conditions.
Musings was also concerned that some city officials, including the mayor, were not cognizant or chose to ignore our state's Right-to-Know law when they met behind closed doors to discuss non-secret city business.
Kudos to At-large Alderman Jim Donchess for chastising his fellow lawmakers, who obviously didn't care they were breaking the law. At least two aldermen-at-large (Donchess and Deane) care about keeping city business public. Of course "Big Mac" McCarthy and "Saucy" Tabacsko, should have known better, but didn't.
Isn't it time for our mayor and aldermen to take another look at the "monopolistic" contract our city has with Comcast and open it up to competition? Comcast's television and Internet monthly charges are among the highest in New England. Competition never hurt anyone and long-term monopoly contracts are not in the best interests of our citizenry.
Perfect weather, lots of good food, great music and entertainment greeted the upward of 10,000 strollers this year at the annual Holiday Stroll. Thanks go to the organizers, financial supporters, entertainers, event locations, our city's Public Works Department and event volunteers, all of whom do so much for our city and its downtown. There isn't a better holiday event in New England.
Also kudos to the Nashua North football team for its Turkey Day" victory. Anyone wonder why Bishop Guertin isn't in the mix? Granted, they are a much smaller high school, student-population wise, but they have a lot of heart and deserve to be given a chance to play. Year after year North and South coaches, administration and supporters along with our illustrious Board of Education have put cold water on this suggestion. Isn't it time to re-think this decision that shuts out one of our local high schools?
Remember ... if you have a subject, complaint or praise about what our city officials are up to, or you have a suggestion for "kudos," email them to email@example.com. Musings would love to hear from you.


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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that a Syrian-style revolt against the government "will not happen" in his country, despite mounting street protests by minority Sunnis against his Shiite-led rule.
In Syria, President Bashar Assad, a follower of a Shiite offshoot of Islam, is battling a nearly 2-year-old Sunni-led uprising that morphed into a civil war in response to a brutal government crackdown.
In Iraq, Sunnis complaining of official discrimination have staged weekly anti-government rallies since December, including on Friday when tens of thousands blocked a major highway west of the capital Baghdad.
Protesters have called for the cancelation of anti-terrorism laws and government policies they believe target Sunnis unfairly, and have called for the ouster of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Al-Maliki told the Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya on Saturday that he is ready to engage with the protesters to some extent. However, he alleged that some were trying to exploit the protests, including the al-Qaida terror network and supporters of Saddam Hussein, the late dictator ousted during the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
"There are some people who are planning to transfer the battle from Syria to Iraq, whether they are locals, the al-Qaida organization and (Saddam's) Baath party," al-Maliki said. "These people are working and planning ... and they have been doing it for some time."
Earlier this week, an al-Qaida front in Iraq urged Sunnis to take up arms against the government, though protest organizers later distanced themselves from the group and called for peaceful marches.
Al-Maliki said regional governments were also involved in alleged efforts to destabilize Iraq, but did not name any.
"What happened in Syria will not happen in Iraq," the prime minister said. "In Iraq, there is freedom. There are no detained journalists or politicians. There are parties and elections."
Critics have accused al-Maliki of systematically sidelining political opponents and squashing dissent, a charge his supporters deny.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report this week that Iraq's leadership has used "draconian measures against opposition politicians, detainees, demonstrators and journalists, effectively squeezing the space for independent civil society and political freedoms in Iraq."
In another development, hackers broke into al-Maliki's official website Saturday, calling him an "oppressor" and comparing him to the embattled Syrian president.
The statement by "Team Kuwait Hackers" told the Iraqi leader: "You want to be like Bashar Assad ... Bashar is over."
The message was accompanied by a picture of wailing black-clad women in mourning. It was up for several hours until the site was taken down.
Telephone calls to al-Maliki's office went unanswered.
Associated Press writer Sameer N. Yacoub in Baghdad contributed to this report.


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Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster
By: Legacy Staff
5 years ago
Many actors dread being typecast. The idea of one successful role leading to a career full of rehashes can be, understandably, depressing. The majority work to avoid it, seeking out roles that showcase their diverse talents.
Not so Al Lewis.
Lewis, who died seven years ago today, played Grandpa on 1960s sitcom "The Munsters," alongside Yvonne De Carlo as his daughter Lily Munster and Fred Gwynne as his son-in-law Herman Munster. A combo of mad scientist and Dracula clone, Grandpa Munster tried to help the family out with his weird experiments.
And as for Lewis, he was happy to be associated with the genial vampire for the rest of his life. "Why not?" he said of his repeat engagements as Grandpa Munster, from movies to video games to hosting TBS's "Super Scary Saturday." "It pays the bills."
Lewis even ran as the Green Party candidate for governor of New York in 1998, requesting that the ballot list him as "Grandpa Al Lewis," since that's how most people knew him best. He was denied, but it didn't stop his supporters from calling him Grandpa.
Reports differed as to Lewis's age at the time of his death Feb. 3, 2006. He sometimes claimed to have been born in 1910, making him 96 when he died. On other occasions, he said he was born in 1923. Though no official record of his birth exists, sources seem to point to 1923 as the more likely date, making Lewis 83 at the time of his death. But no matter how old he was, Al Lewis is still one of our favorite grandpas.


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Forgive me, I haven't posted here in a while.
I hope this is in the right place.
My almost 3 year old DD is self weaning (and I'm currently 24 weeks pregnant so my milk has dried up I'm sure). I have always heard that if a child nurses at least 4 times a day, they do not need to drink cow's milk. I have tried offering DD milk in a variety of ways since becoming pregnant, but she refuses to even try it. Although this doesn't surprise me too much because she is an extremely picky eater (refuses to try many things), I am concerned that she is not getting the nutrients she needs now that I have no milk/she is weaning. I'm at a loss as for what to do. Also, is it ok to let her wean? Does anyone have any experience in this area or how to get a little one to try new things? Thanks so much in advance!
Just wanted to add, I did post this on another forum a few weeks ago but do not feel my question was answered (though the ladies did have some wonderful ideas on different ways to incorporate various foods in her diet).


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The ongoing saga of the legal battle between Britney Spears and her former bodyguard just gained another chapter. According to the security firm he worked for, she gypped them out of half a year's worth of fees, and now they're taking her to court for more than $140,000.
The news comes courtesy of TMZ, whose sources say this latest lawsuit stems from the sexual harassment charges filed last year by bodyguard Fernando Flores.
According to the company, the Advanced Security Concepts Corporation, Spears' representatives demanded that ASCC cover her legal expenses in the sexual harassment case. ASCC claims that after they refused, Spears fired them, and then withheld fees for the six months remaining on their contract — which she was apparently obligated to pay whether or not she actually used their services. Nice gig, huh?
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By Alfredo Merlo
Racing striker Luciano Vietto is edging nearer to securing a move to Europe after attracting interest from some of the continent's leading clubs.
Juventus, Atletico Madrid and Sevilla are among those understood to be keen on luring the 19-year-old away from Argentina in the future, and are believed to be considering offers for the player.
The company owned by the player's agent, Jorge Cyterszpiller, confirmed it had been inundated with enquiries regarding the starlet, but stressed an official offer had yet to be tabled by any would-be suitors.
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Vietto, who has been capped by Argentina at Under-20 level, was handed his professional debut by Atleti coach Diego Simeone, and the former midfielder is understood to be interested in teaming up with the youngster once more.
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Simplified Living in an Elegant California Home
In the most traditional of houses, a Los Angeles designer embraces a new attitude
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Toss the visual clutter to achieve a simplified, more peaceful life. That's the advice often recommended to clients by experts in the field of interior design.
Why? Because the concept does, in fact, work. Just ask Janis and Jeffrey Susskind. In their traditional Brentwood, California, home they started with formal rooms full of saturated palettes and pretty floral and toile fabrics that offered a mass of visual treats. It was a picture of loveliness—but not a simple canvas. Years of art collecting directed the couple toward a new and updated aesthetic: a neutral palette and contemporary furnishings that would flatter the Susskinds' assemblage of fine art.
Enter Beverly Hills interior designer Natasha Baradaran. Her well-curated selections made the interior scheme fall into place. A simple ivory base provides a classic backdrop for a roster of interesting textures and shapely furniture that matches the artistic qualities of the artwork on the walls.
"Their style has evolved into a transitional look," says Baradaran. "They wanted to balance the architecture with clean-lined pieces to create spaces that appeared collected instead of over-designed.
In the living room, Baradaran applied a gray-green hemp material to the walls, enhancing the light that gleams through the windows. Other textural fabrics—chenille on the sofa, mohair on the ottoman, and silk-linen on the armchairs—add to the interplay of light and shadow. Architecturally, the fireplace is the room's focal point, but a vignette in the back of the room impresses with a David Hockney lithograph and a faceted object by sculptor Ken Price.
On the other hand, the dining room was a lesson in tension established by existing antique pieces and new contemporary forms. An antique Georgian dining table and sideboard, both purchased in New Orleans, are anchored by a Persian rug. The modern silhouette of new dining chairs and a cloisonné bowl by Robert Kuo offer interesting contrasts.
In the kitchen, the Susskinds ordered a comprehensive renovation that would retain the existing skylights but outfit the space with all-new components. "They wanted this space to hint at those glossy Italian kitchens," explains Baradaran. "I used white because it implies clean and then added retro lighting, flat drawer fronts, and modern hardware that made the area sleek while still maintaining the same warmth that emerges from the other rooms."
For the family room, the Susskinds needed a large sectional for times when the family gathers to watch TV or a movie, but they didn't want it to be in a light color. Baradaran found a low-profile piece upholstered in neutral gray, a color that offers more visual weight. Red accents thrust additional fashionable color into the room.
Once bathed in red-and-white toile, the master bedroom was reimagined as a serene oasis. Baradaran applied wallpaper patterned in lavender and blue blossoms on the wall behind the bed and installed coordinating color-block drapery panels.
Although the total transformation was bigger than they initially anticipated, the Susskinds are happy with the metamorphosis of their home's interior spaces.
"I'm not sure that, at the onset of the project, we envisioned as much of a change as actually occurred," says Janis. "But once we saw the results of Natasha's initial work—being able to incorporate favorite antique pieces into a contemporary environment that would enhance our artwork—we were so pleased."
Photography: Luca Trovato
Architect: Richard Landry, Landry Design G roup, 11333 Iowa Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90025; 310/444-1404, landrydesigngroup.com [1].
Interior design: Natasha Baradaran, Natasha Baradaran Interior Design, 9454 Wishire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212; 310/278-6003, natashabaradaran.com [2].
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Entry Hall
The spacious two-story foyer provides additional room for entertaining.
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Living Room
Designer Natasha Baradaran included sculptural pieces in the furniture mix. She designed the fireplace screen and added other textural elements to the scene, like a table from Donghia with Moroccan influences. An Eric Orr painting leans on the mantel.
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Living Room Details
A side table with a twig base from Holly Hunt adds to the elegant textural variety in the living room.
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Living Room Details
Against a wall covered in grass cloth, a moonstone-embellished lamp from Fuse Lighting rests on a rosewood console table.
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Natasha Baradaran knows no limits. Born and raised in Los Angeles, her design portfolio spans the globe from projects in Beverly Hills to Dubai to Milan. She's transformed not only residential interiors but commercial spaces that include restaurants, spas, and luxury hotels. Currently, Baradaran is focusing on her furniture collection, to be launched this fall. Inspired by the facets of gems (her mother is a high-end jewelry designer), Baradaran has created a capsule line
of 10 pieces built from geometric shapes. "I've combined my two loves—jewelry and fashion," says the designer.
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Dining Room
Color pops from a Joan Miró painting that contrasts with the iconic painted-silk pendant light from Fortuny.
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Pattern plays a key role on the natural surfaces in the white kitchen. Mosaic tile from Ann Sacks and Calacatta marble on the island create depth and avoid any hints of a cold, sterile environment.
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Breakfast Area
The weighty breakfast table mixes an oak top with a nickel base and is tempered by see-through chairs covered in gray raffia.
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Family Room
Built on a cream, gray, and red scheme, the space is accessorized in facets. The fabrics' subtle sheen adds a touch of glamour to the casual room.
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Family Room Details
The shapes of vases by Robert Kuo on the coffee and game tables are echoed in an open light fixture designed by Baradaran.
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Back Exterior
Behind the Susskind house are the pool and areas for lounging and dining. The home was designed by Los Angeles-based architect Richard Landry.
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Janis and Jeffrey Susskind outside their Brentwood home.
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Master Bedroom
The contemporary angles in the master bedroom are softened by a spa-like palette and the loose-patterned De Gournay wallpaper behind the bed. At the foot of the bed, a bench by Holly Hunt is both functional and decorative.
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Master Bedroom Details
In front of an antique, French marble fireplace, a Baradaran-designed chaise is topped with pillows in a fabric by Mark Alexander.


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The Schecter Omen Extreme 6 and the Omen Extreme Floyd Rose are both mahogany body, with the fabulous quilted maple top as seen above.
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Injuries reported after bull gets loose at Dakota County Fair in Farmington
A runaway bull caused injuries to several visitors to the Dakota County Fair Wednesday night. DISCLAIMER: The attached video does contain explicit language.
The bull escaped from his pen, then broke through the gates and ran through the fairgrounds. At least seven people were injured in the incident, according to Farmington fire marshal John Powers.
Bull rider Nick Stolt, who was in town for the Bulls and Barrels rodeo, was sitting on the chutes when the bull escaped. He didn't see the bull get loose, but word spread quickly among the riders, he said. A handful of bull riders grabbed lassos and went after the bull.
Farmington residents Leif and Lori Classon had a full view of the evening's incident. They were seated on the northernmost bleachers of the grandstand. Lori Classon said they could see that the bull had escaped from its pen and was in the northeast corner of the fenced area around the grandstand.
Several bull riders and the rodeo's pickup man tried to lasso the bull. At one point, one successfully roped the bull by the horns.
"But the bull took off and pulled the rope out of his hands," Classon said.
The bull ran along the northern fence line to the gate. The Classons saw the bull jump up on the gate, which caused the gate to open. From the top of the bleachers, they watched as the bull ran north through the parked cars, all the way to the east gate entrance.
Spectators heard gunshots, Classon said. A sheriff's deputy shot the bull, but it still knocked the deputy down before it turned left and headed west across the parking lot.
"(Bulls) have a lot of force. They buck really hard," Stolt said. "You never want to be in the way. You never want to be hit by one."
But the bull hit at least seven people, including a woman who received significant injuries and had to be airlifted to Hennepin County Medical Center.
The bull turned again. It started running south toward the midway. Rodeo staff and Dakota County sheriff's deputies chased the bull back toward the grandstand area. The pickup man threw a lasso at the bull, and caught it again. This time, the bull didn't get loose. It was guided back into the arena, then led to a trailer. It had been shot twice, Stolt said.
"He really struggled for a while, too. That bull did not want to go back. He even laid down on the ground for a while," Classon said.
A short round of applause and a few cheers went up once the bull was secured. But the applause didn't last long.
"We cheered when they brought the bull in, but it was just kind of an odd silence after that because that's when we started hearing rumors that people got run over by the bull," Classon said.
Many spectators wanted to leave after the incident, but deputies held them back until all emergency personnel were finished tending to the injured fairgoers. The rodeo started up again about 45 minutes later, Stolt said.
"Everybody prayed for the people who were injured," he said. "It really sucked the energy and the momentum out of the riders. We were OK if it wasn't going to go on."
The rodeo was a Midwest Bull Riders Association event, presented by Rice Bull Riding Company of Princeton.
This sort of incident is not common among rodeos, Stolt said.
"I've never seen anything like that happen before in my 12 years (of bull riding)," he said. "It was scary."
Scary, for him, because his wife and young son were right next to the pen when the bull escaped.


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Ever since the run-up to the war in Iraq, we have heard the word "quagmire" thrown about loosely. Those who use the term never seem to provide a test for determining whether a quagmire exists but, for my money, a good test is whether "ceasefires" are occurring. Now that they are in Iraq, it may be time to officially acknowledge that we are in a quagmire. Alternatively, it may simply be time to cease the phony ceasefires. Jed Babbin, for National Review Online, makes the case that it is long past time to end the one in Fallujah. After that, "no more ceasefires anywhere, please, until the insurgents are beaten decisively."
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Journey fans will have the chance to celebrate Neal Schon's wedding as the rocker plans to televise the upcoming ceremony to raise money for charity. The guitarist is set to marry his fiancee Michaele Salahi on 15 December (13) at the Palace of the Fine Arts in San Francisco, California and he plans to make the ceremony public through a live pay-per-view TV service.
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Oct. 2, 2012
TULSA, Okla. – The Seminoles have advanced to the third round of both the singles and doubles qualifying rounds of the ITA All-American Championships after the fourth day of competition. No. 100 Benjamin Lock takes on the singles draw while Anderson Reed and Dominic Cotrone compete in doubles.
"I am really proud of Benjamin," said head coach Dwayne Hultquist. "It was a great come from behind win. His opponent came out to win early with the first set, but Benjamin broke the third set at 4-all and won it. I was proud of Dominic and Anderson who were also down, but really fought through the adversity to get the win."
In singles play, the Seminoles went 1-1 in the second round on Tuesday. Lock, a sophomore, defeated Nikita Fomin of George Washington 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 and takes on VCU's No. 80 Max Wennakoski Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. CT. Sophomore Dominic Cotrone fell to No. 92 Ben Davis of Middle Tennessee 6-4, 6-3.
In doubles play, senior Anderson Reed and Cotrone produced an 8-5 win over Sebastian Florczyk and Marc Herman of Nebraska in the second round. The duo will take on Connor Glennon and David O'Hare of Memphis at 2:30 p.m. CT.
Senior Jordan Kelly-Houston and freshman Michael Rinaldi lost 8-3 to Tennessee's Brandon Fickey and Edward Jones in the second round while sophomore Cristian Gonzalez Mendez and redshirt-freshman João Gauer fell to Arturs Kazijev and Mischa Nowicki of SMU 8-5. In the first round, senior Andres Bucaro and sophomore Benjamin Lock lost 8-3 to UNC's Esben Hess-Olesen and Nelson Vick.
Singles quarterfinalists, doubles finalists and consolation champions will receive an automatic entry into the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in November.
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Today I was sitting at WebWise 2012 listening to Rob Stein talk about TAP/TourML and he started talking about games and stories referencing Marc Reidl's work. It reminded me a lot of the world of interactive fiction and it got me thinking about whether it would be possible to use TourML to generate text adventures. […]
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A Monthly Online Publication of Los Angeles International Airport
A Quarterly Online Publication of LAX Community Relations
Welcome to the new and improved version of the Van Nuys Airport e-newsletter - Flight Tracks. In this edition, you will find news and information about the airport and airport-related events as well as an upcoming calendar of local community events. [more]
Amid an atmosphere of increased safety, security and preparedness in aviation, Van Nuys Airport was excited to host the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) 2017 General Aviation (GA) Issues and Security Conference from August 20-22, 2017. As one of the world's busiest general aviation airports, served as an appropriate backdrop to address topics related to the GA community.
Van Nuys Airport is moving full-speed ahead on its journey to becoming a cleaner and more efficient community for airport users, operators, neighbors and the environment. On July 21, 2017 it was confirmed that VNY has achieved the necessary requirements to enter at Level 2 of the Airport Carbon Accreditation Program, which bolsters airport efforts to continue to reduce, manage and ultimately neutralize their carbon footprint.
In a press event on August 18th, the County of Los Angeles Fire Department formally announced the return of the beloved CL-415 Bombardier "Super Scoopers" and Erickson Air Crane Helitankers to Van Nuys Airport to assist the region during fire season, which has been declared earlier than usual this year.
On May 19, Van Nuys Airport welcomed more than 1,200 LAUSD students and 40 aviation-related organizations for the 12th Annual "The Sky's the Limit: Aviation Career Day" event, which helps introduce youth to the broad career opportunities in the aviation industry.
The underground of the Sherman Way tunnel has, in the past, been met with attempts at defacing and served as an open space for passersby to litter. Maintaining its cleanliness has been point of concern for our community. With debris along the curbs and graffiti blemishing the walls, it was a poor representation of our greater community and was not conducive to supporting the community's overall image goals.
The 4th Annual YMCA Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser in June was a huge success! The Van Nuys Airport volunteer group Team LAWA, in collaboration with the Mid Valley Family YMCA and LAFD Station 114, served pancakes and a side of family fun inside the Station 114 hangar to more than 200 guests at this year's fundraiser breakfast. After a serving of pancakes and sausage, attendees were also invited to participate in family-friendly activities including a toss game, a balsa wood and candy airplane station, a Legacy of Van Nuys Airport historical film viewing area, tours of the LAFD Air Operations facility and chances to win some great raffle prizes.
Students were a soaring success at Van Nuys Airport's annual Aviation Careers Education (ACE) Academy, a free week-long summer program that introduces interested students to the spectrum of career opportunities within the aviation and aerospace industries. Familiar locations and new program hosts alike provided exciting and informative visions of the possible career futures available to our academy participants.
Do you know a young person who dreams about
working in, on or around aircraft? On May 19, Van Nuys Airport (VNY) will welcome
approximately 1,400 local high school students interested in exploring what
careers the aviation and aerospace industries have to offer.
Van Nuys Airport (VNY) and the Aeroplex/Aerolease Group will
co-host a "Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness Event" on Tuesday, April
25 to facilitate ongoing communication and collaboration among airport tenants,
community representatives and emergency response personnel.
On February 3rd, 2017, the Van Nuys Airport
community lost a valued friend and advocate in the passing of Neil Looy at CAPS
Aviation (formerly Corporate Air Parts, Inc.)
Renovation of the VNY air traffic control, which commenced
last November, is approximately 38 percent complete. The project includes the
installation of new communications equipment and technology.
On February 2nd, aviation-related business
mentors were greeted by 34 students from Van Nuys High School eager to learn
about the diverse career opportunities at Van Nuys Airport (VNY) during
Groundhog Job Shadow Day. This annual event is held in partnership with Junior
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Eye Injury: First Aid for a Black Eye
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A black eye is a type of bruise. Simple bruises are treated with ice and by elevating the head. The bruise should be gone in 2 to 3 weeks.
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Columbia International University Professor Dr. Larry Dixon has an answer to Pastor Rob Bell's controversial book, "Love Wins." It's "Jesus Redeems!"
"Love Wins" has caused a stir in the evangelical community. Its author is The Rev. Rob Bell, the founding pastor of Mars Hill, a rapidly growing mega-church located in Grandville, Mich. near Grand Rapids. Bell addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith — the afterlife — arguing, would a loving God send people to eternal torment forever?
Dixon's answer to Bell is flushed out in his new book, "Farewell, Rob Bell – A Biblical Response to Love Wins." Dixon shows that Bell is an inconsistent Universalist, that his arguments are neither new nor original, and that the message "Jesus Redeems!" is a far better than "Love Wins."
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GMR Group Achieves Financial closure of GMR Malé International Airport Private Limited, Republic of Maldives and takes over operations of Male International Airport
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Kuala Lumpur, 26 November 2010 - GMR Malé International Airport Private Limited (GMIAL), a subsidiary of GMR Infrastructure Limited (GIL) has achieved financial closure for the project to Modernize, Expand and Operate the Malé International Airport. Earlier this year on June 24th 2010, the consortium led by GIL with Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) had won the concession for the Male Airport for a period of 25 years. GMIAL is the special purpose vehicle formed in Maldives pursuant to the concession in which the stake of GIL and MAHB is 77% and 23% respectively.
The total cost of the modernization and expansion project, estimated at USD 511 million, is being funded through a combination of debt and equity in the ratio of 70:30. The debt component of USD 358 million has been tied up with Axis Bank Ltd., Singapore Branch, who is acting as the Sole Underwriter and Mandated Lead Arranger for the entire debt facility. The debt has a door to door tenure of 12 years with ballooning repayment over 7 years commencing from June 2015. Axis Bank is also acting as Security Trustee and Facility Agent whereas State Bank of India, Maldives Branch is acting as Account Bank for the debt facility
At an official ceremony held today at Hulhulé Island, the aerodrome license was handed over by Chairman of Malé Airports Company Limited, Mr Ibrahim Saleem to Mr Kiran Kumar Grandhi, Business Chairman, Airports, GMR Group. The ceremony graced by HE President, Mahamod Nasheed, his cabinet ministers and Senior General Manager Operation Services of MAHB, Dato' Azmi Murad, was well received. Starting today, GMR & MAHB will operate the Malé International Airport, 4 months ahead of schedule.
Malé International Airport is the gateway to the idyllic and enchanting Maldives and is one of the fastest growing airports in the region. Situated on Hulhulé Island in the politically stable archipelago of Maldives at the South Western tip of India, MIA is the largest airport in Maldives located in the capital city of Malé. The traffic at the Malé Airport in the year 2009 was 2.6 Million passengers with traffic growth in first half of 2010 clocking over 20% on YoY basis.
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Summary: With an easy-to-handle Microsoft Surface Tablets Video Converter, you can easily convert and play any 1080p HD video on Microsoft Surface RT and Pro Tablet.
Microsoft finally unveiled their self-built first ever tablet -- Microsoft Surface Tablet, which comes in two iterations - Surface for Windows RT tablet and Surface for Windows 8 Pro tablet. The Windows RT model is designed to run on ARM processors, while the Windows 8 Pro model will run the full-featured version of Windows 8 and give you all the benefits of a desktop computer.
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Since taking over West Port's football program in December, Matt Franklin has talked about wanting to write his own history as the program's coach.
Since taking over West Port's football program in December, Matt Franklin has talked about wanting to write his own history as the program's coach.
He started in the right direction, as the Wolf Pack snapped a six-game losing streak to Dunnellon with a 17-6 triumph Friday for their first win over their rivals since 2007.
West Port also snapped a five-game losing streak in regular season openers with the victory.
It was also the best defensive effort by the Wolf Pack since 2010, when they downed Lake Weir 7-6.
West Port will look to make more history when it hosts Forest this week.
"I'm hoping our place is packed because these kids deserve it," Franklin said. "These kids deserve their home crowd, they deserve the biggest student body in Marion County, 2,600 kids, to have their butts in the stands rooting for these kids because they put the work in."
The Wildcats lead the all-time series 11-2 and are 5-2 at WPHS. The Wolf Pack last knocked off FHS in 2005 and will try to snap an eight-game skid in the series.
"Coach Franklin's got them going over there," Forest coach Skip Austin said. "He's got them believing. Our thing is we've got to make our guys understand that it's not the same old West Port team that has not been very good. They're a good football team and they've got some skill guys."
GETTING DEFENSIVE: Belleview improved to 3-1 all-time against The Villages with a 17-7 win. It was the fewest points Belleview allowed in a game since 2007. The previous low allowed by the Rattlers was in a shutout against West Port seven years ago.
Belleview improved to 7-12 in regular season openers and moved coach Phil Yancey's career mark to 15-13 in season-opening contests.
The Rattlers will now try to win "The War for the Oar," for the second straight year when they visit Lake Weir. Belleview snapped a four-game losing streak to the Hurricanes with a 13-10 win last September at the Strike Zone.
The Rattlers lead the all-time series 10-5, but Lake Weir won five of the last seven meetings.
Belleview will try to snap a three-game losing skid at Hurricane Field.
BACK AT IT: Dunnellon will try to avoid its first 0-2 start since 1993 against Inverness Citrus, which will attempt to knock off the Tigers in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1997-98.
Citrus opened its season with a 7-0 win over Class 6A, No. 10 Spring Hill Springstead thanks to Sam Franklin's 76-yard interception return on the final play of the game.
Last season, Citrus snapped a 15-game losing streak for Citrus County schools against Dunnellon with its 14-8 win at Ned Love Field.
It also ended a six-game losing streak for the Hurricanes against the Tigers.
Since 1966, Citrus holds a 15-9 edge over Dunnellon in the series.
BATTLE OF THE NORTHSIDE: The rivalry between North Marion and Vanguard has been about as even as it could be since it began in 1970. Both teams have won 23 games in the county's longest continuous running series.
A year ago, it was the final game of the decorated coaching career of former North Marion head coach Craig Damon, whose team snapped a three-game losing streak to the Knights with a 21-20 win.
Last year's game was the sixth since 1982 that was decided by a field goal or less and the 16th decided by a touchdown or less.
This time around, it will be the first go-around for both head coaches, North Marion's Stephen Field and Vanguard's Edwin Farmer. The only other time the two programs were led by first-year coaches was 1975, when Tom Freeman led Vanguard and Mike Clayton was in charge of North Marion.
FLAGGED: Both North Marion and Dunnellon will need to clean up their act when it comes to penalties in week two.
The Colts were flagged for 17 infractions against Forest, three off the school record for most penalties set in 1999 in a 13-0 loss at Daytona Beach Seabreeze.
Meanwhile, Dunnellon tied its school record with 16 penalties in its loss to West Port. The other time the Tigers received that many penalties was in the 1994 season opener, a 26-18 win over Lecanto in triple overtime.
DHS was 10 yards off the school record for penalty yards in one game — set in that same Lecanto game — with its 142 against West Port.
NMHS was 13 yards away from the single-game school mark of 175 set in a 1986 win over Callahan West Nassau. In that game, the Colts and Warriors combined for 29 penalties for 315 yards.
Marion County's most penalized game took place in 1984 when Forest and Orlando Boone combined for 361 yards in penalties, with Boone whistled for 22 of the 31 infractions.
TOUGH TRIP: Both Trinity Catholic and Palatka were rained out in their opening contests and will face each other this week.
This will be the second meeting between the two schools, with the Celtics holding a 20-14 victory over the Panthers in 2013.
TCHS, ranked No. 4 in 3A, will make its first trip to Veterans Memorial Stadium, a notoriously tough place to play.
Palatka, however, hasn't defeated a ranked opponent since 2006 when it won 28-27 at North Marion. Palatka has since lost 14 straight games against ranked opponents and is 1-17 against teams in the top 10 since 2004.
DUBIOUS RETURN: St. John Lutheran surrendered a county record 41 points in a quarter during its 55-0 loss to the Community School of Naples. The previous high mark for points allowed by a county team occurred in 1974, when Dunnellon gave up 38 in a quarter during a 64-0 loss to Wildwood.
The previous worst quarter in school history for the Saints came in 1999, when they allowed 35 points during the second quarter of a 98-14 loss to Crescent City prior to the adoption of a running clock.
DID YOU KNOW?: On the way to its first state championship in 1974, Forest saw current TCHS head coach John Brantley pass for 74 yards and one touchdown and add 38 more yards on the ground in a 20-0 win over Palatka South (name of present day Palatka High) at Booster Stadium. After the game, then-FHS head coach Brent Hall said the win was his "biggest to date" in the Star-Banner.


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Siegfried Gnoyke, 73, of Stroudsburg, passed away on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at Pocono Medical Center, East Stroudsburg, after a short illness.
He is the husband of Heidi (Luedke) Gnoyke, they were married for 51 years.
Born Nov. 6, 1939, in Danzig, Germany, the son of the late Fritz and Meta (Jahn) Gnoyke, he immigrated with his wife from Germany to the United States in 1964.
He was of the Lutheran Faith; and a member of the German American Society of the Poconos.
Siegfried enjoyed sailing at Lake Wallenpaupack for many years; and traveling with his wife to Germany. He also walked at the Stroud Mall where he had many friends.
Prior to his retirement in 2001, he was employed as a machinist for the former Wilkra Co. in Portland.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a sister, Rita Andreas, several nieces and a nephew, and his sister-in-law, all in Germany.
Memorial funeral services will be private and at the convenience of the family at the Thomas Funeral Home, 401 N. Fifth St., Stroudsburg, with Dr. Rev. Sherry L. Sneed officiating.
There will be no viewing. Cremation will be private at the H.G. Smith Crematory, Stroudsburg.
At the request of the family, memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, R.R. 13, Box 2138, Stroudsburg, PA 18360.
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Siegfried Gnoyke, 73, of Stroudsburg, passed away on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at Pocono Medical Center, East Stroudsburg, after a short illness.