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Sun turns to EMC and HP for help selling storage
Virtual tape good to go too
Posted in The Channel, 13th October 2006 11:10 GMT
Long troubled by the art of selling storage, Sun Microsystems has decided that buttering up rivals might help it move gear. The company this week celebrated a new partner program with the likes of EMC and HP and finally announced its heterogeneous tape management plans.
The Sun StorageTek Ready program looks more fluff than substance. Sun has long depended on the kindness of partners in the storage game, so teaming with third parties is hardly news. Although, Sun does appear to be drawing closer ties to traditional enemies such as EMC and HP. The members of Sun's exclusive partner gig have pledged to make their gear work well with Sun's own products and to consider reselling arrangements where appropriate.
"Membership in this elite group assures customers they can be confident we are working extensively together to meet their needs - through interoperability testing, access to technical resources, information exchange, and cooperative support," Sun said.
Touching stuff.
BakBone Software, Brocade, Dot Hill, EMC, Hitachi, HP, LSI Logic, McData, Oracle, and Symantec are the members of Sun's storage club.
On the product front, Sun announced that its VTL (virtual tape library) Plus appliance will ship this quarter. The product is essentially Sun's replacement for the Virtual Storage Manager Open tape technology crafted more than two years ago by the StorageTek crew. Sun whacked StorageTek's efforts, post acquisition, much to the dismay of customers.
FalconStor is apparently involved with making some of the software for Sun's VTL product, although neither company will provide solid details. ®


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What she was actually hearing was Canadian army supply clerk Denis Lortie spraying gunfire in the legislature in an attack that left three people dead and 13 others wounded.
Lortie's goal on the morning of May 8, 1984, was clear: "destroy the Parti Quebecois'' and then-premier Rene Levesque.
"I didn't know it was gunfire," Cannon said in an interview Thursday. "There was so much construction going on at the national assembly. You'd often hear drilling."
Cannon, who was 20 at the time, was working as a secretary for Pierre Paradis, who was, and still is, a Liberal member of the legislature.
As she began hearing on the radio what was unfolding, Cannon hid under the desk in Paradis' office.
"It was a Tuesday morning," she said. "There wasn't a lot going on at the assembly and I wondered if someone would think I was in my office and come and get me."
After 10 minutes, MNA Ghislain Maltais turned up.
"When we left the building, I only had one shoe. We'd been running. I didn't have my handbag. I had nothing."
Thirty years later, Cannon is still shaken when she sees archival footage from that day.
"I realize I was there," she said. "I was young and less aware of things. It could have been a lot worse than it was."
Some visible signs of the tragedy still exist, including a hole in a window shutter and a graze on a marble wall.
The legislature was minutes away from convening that misty morning when Lortie, dressed in camouflaged army fatigues, entered the historic building through a side door carrying two submachine-guns.
Witnesses said he shouted on his arrival: "Where are the MNAs (assembly members)? I want to kill them.''
Before arriving, he had delivered an audio tape to a Quebec City radio station vowing to "destroy the Parti Quebecois,'' describing it as "worse than the Communists.''
Georges Boyer, 59, and Camille Lepage, 54, both legislature messengers, were fatally hit by gunfire in the head as Lortie made his way to the legislative chamber.
A group of schoolchildren was pinned down in a room across from the chamber when Lortie entered the chamber and began spraying gunfire. Police later rescued the children, who escaped injury after a chaperon told them to get down.
Roger Lefrancois, 57, an employee of Quebec's chief electoral officer, was shot as Lortie entered the chamber. He died later in hospital.
Lortie installed himself in the Speaker's chair, firing wildly around the chamber. At one point, he howled in rage, pulled out his dentures and hurled them out into the room.
As wounded moaned from behind bullet-splintered benches, Rene Jalbert, the legislature's sergeant-at-arms, entered and tried to calm Lortie.
Jalbert, a retired major with the fabled Royal 22nd Regiment, spoke soldier-to-soldier to Lortie, offering him a cigarette and eventually getting him to release about a dozen hostages cowering in the chamber.
As one man limped past, Lortie said: "I'm sorry for wounding you, but that's life.''
Jalbert then took Lortie to his basement office where they continued talking because the sergeant-at-arms was worried about police moving throughout the building.
Once in Jalbert's office, the two men discussed the military and Lortie soon surrendered quietly to police.
Jalbert, who was later awarded the Cross of Valour, Canada's highest decoration for bravery, said later he never felt his life was in danger.
He said he did not know at the time that Lortie had killed anyone. Jalbert, who died in 1996, said when he got home and heard three people had died in the attack, "I had a couple of Scotches.''
Lortie was convicted of first-degree murder after his first trial in 1985 but a new trial was ordered because of errors by the judge. In 1987, he pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder, allowing him to be eligible for parole after 10 years.
Francois Gendron, who was a PQ member of the national assembly in 1984, remembers the chaos and commotion outside the legislature that day.
"There were ambulances, police, security personnel going in and out," he said in an interview Thursday at a PQ caucus meeting in Scott, Que.
"It hit home because that's where we were heading."
Asked whether he believes such a tragedy could happen again, Gendron said the possibility has been greatly diminished because of increased security over the years.
"But anything can happen," he said. "You've seen what's happened elsewhere. We live in a difficult and modern world where there's a lot of questionable behaviour.
"It's fine and dandy to be more open in allowing people to have access to the legislature but at the same time there's the need for a minimum of protection and security for the men and women involved in public life."
And even though he wasn't actually in the national assembly at the time of the shootings, Gendron said the events still affected him.
"Yes, when you know there's a bullet hole in your desk and when you look at the clock and you realize that if you'd been in the room at the time there would have been a good chance you'd have been riddled with bullets."
A plaque in memory of those who died and were injured will be unveiled at the national assembly at a later date.
— With files from Martin Ouellet in Scott, Que.


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LOL *pats Taichi's head* It'll be ok...i promise...Originally Posted by Taichi
Originally Posted by JeMaBo2
Got mine this morning I got the gift set and I'm lovin it.
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I'll prolly get it sometime today or tomorrow, so no worries......hehOriginally Posted by Rainbow Brite
Last DVD I bought was SG-1 season 4 at Best Buy.
I want more DVDs, but am too broke for more right now...
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way happy for ya Katy........Originally Posted by Rainbow Brite
so, didja buy the Widescreen, or fullscreen version?
Fullscreen...i've never been a fan of widescreen.Originally Posted by Taichi
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eew, you enjoy your half a movie then, and I'll get the real film........Originally Posted by Rainbow Brite
sorry, but I want the movie as I saw it in the theater, and as the director originally intended.......
Blah blah blah At least i'll be able to see people's faces without squintingOriginally Posted by Taichi
Awesome news katy. i am getting it tomorrow I just saw it in a dollar theatre last week.Originally Posted by Rainbow Brite
I just threw the Seinfeld giftset on layaway at Wal-mart there were only three total
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quit living in the 80s and buy yourself a projection TV and it won't be a problem!Originally Posted by Rainbow Brite
I can see everything right down to the fillings in the kids' teeth!
Isn't it good??Originally Posted by MOTUfan
I've never understood the concept of layaway...how does it work?I just threw the Seinfeld giftset on layaway at Wal-mart there were only three total
LOL My tv works perfectly fine, thank you very much! lolOriginally Posted by Taichi
okay then.....
it's personal preference, but I'd rather get more scene for my buck!
ok layaway at Wal-mart is 10 percent of the total after tax. And what you do you have a set amount of time to have the items paid off. Like for instance I put the Seinfeld Giftset on Layaway, it was $84 something after tax so the minumum down payment was $8.40 or something like that so I put $10 down, Layaway is good if you dont have enougfh cash at the moment Like this one is due off on the 15th of December due to Christmas so thats cool I get paid on the 8thOriginally Posted by Rainbow Brite
Now K-Mart is worse with Layaway they ask for a minumum of $8 up to a certain amount and then its 10 percent. and they are stricter where with Wal-Mart you can just pay whenever, K-Mart they give you set dates, every two weeks, with set minimum payments to be made, and if you miss one, on the next payment date you owe double. I do not like layaway at K-mart...ugh.
Now to get the DVD tomorrow and watch it on my 50" tv, pop some popcorn
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So you get to take the item home as soon as you put it on layaway? But you have more time to pay for it?
No you have to have the item paid off before you can take it home. My gf does it all the time. Me personally, I'd rather just buy it with my credit card and take it home right away.Originally Posted by Rainbow Brite
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Comments made by Sangamon County sheriff candidate Wes Barr on a local radio show reveal a lack of experience in dealing with the department�s budget, his opponent said Tuesday.
Undersheriff Jack Campbell, Barr�s opponent in the March 18 Republican primary, met with The State Journal-Register�s editorial board for an endorsement interview Tuesday morning. During the interview, Campbell said Barr�s attitude on the budget during the radio interview was �fairly flippant.�
On Feb. 14, Barr was on WMAY�s �The Kramer Show,� and said 85 percent to 90 percent of the department�s budget is salaries and benefits, which are set by union contracts. Barr added that when other costs such as food and medical service for the jail and fuel for patrol cars are added, about 96-97 percent of the budget is accounted for.
�Really, managing the budget is not that big of a thing,� Barr said on the radio show.
Campbell said that managing the budget is a big part of the job. The sheriff�s office accounts for about $18 million of the county�s $100 million budget.
�In other words, if the sheriff�s office sneezes, the county catches a cold. Everything we do affects everything in Sangamon County,� Campbell said. �For my opponent to say that, it really reveals his lack of experience and lack of understanding of the budget.�
While Campbell agreed that salaries are set by contract, he noted that there are personnel costs such as overtime that the sheriff can manage.
�You have to manage the 96 to 97 percent because that is the bulk of your budget,� Campbell said.
Campbell said that managing the budget has been a part of his job description since 2007. He�s been with the sheriff�s office since 1992.
�I would think that the taxpayers and voters out there recognize that the person who is going to take over as sheriff has to have the understanding of the budget and understand how important it is and how hard it is to manage,� Campbell said.
Barr, contacted later by phone, said he does take the budget seriously, and added that he has budget experience.
Barr, who retired last year from the sheriff�s office as a lieutenant after 28 years in law enforcement, said he was president of the Fraternal Order of Police local at the office for four years and was very involved with the budget when he was chairman of the board for the local Red Cross office. He has also served on the Fancy Creek Township Board the past eight years.
�The fact is, I have budget experience,� Barr said. �I do take the budget seriously. It�s the taxpayers� money. I want to go in and see where we can save money.�
Barr is scheduled to meet with the SJ-R editorial board later this week.
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So here are some pics of my 55 chevy body I airbrushed. I used red irredescent paint so it shifts color in the light. made a few mistakes with layering and the flames. Theres some red fasglitter mixed in with the flames too. But not a bad job I think since I'm still learning to airbrush.
Thrash It, Bash it, Break it, No Regrets!!!
Dude that body is sick and so is the paint jobIf only the body was smaller so it could if my pede 4x4......peace
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Thanks, I didn't realize how big the body was until I picked it up. had to remove both the front and rear bumpers. It's thin but looks sweet. Glad you liked it.
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What is the make of that body dude.......peace
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Parma Fifty-Five SC Baja
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welcome to the club did this one for my brother for his birthday working on mine nice job Dknuckles this is a sweet body do the shoo glue and drywall tape on the body , it will last longer and make it more stronger. haven't decided on my colors yet will post them here
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np Dknuckles i feel ya. im close to trying the airbrush too. Is it more time consuming when you airbrush D?
It's more time consuming for sure. But that could be my inexperience too. I just started the last couple of months. But you can certain get more detail and elaborate with airbrushing then with a spray can.
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They should allow that body in a race.. like a throw back open 4x4 with whatever body and wheel combo lol.. on a short course track of course lol..
Whatever I just said.. I'm probably wrong..
That would be sweet to see this style of body in a race.
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Nice looking cars. I used to Drag Race 55 Chevys. We are building 2 of these Baja 55's in to Street Drag Racers. Would love to see other paint jobs. Keep them coming.
ok finally finished my 55 chevy
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I like this body and great paintjob!
i do too clutch gonna do son and grandson next. jussbad i see your in cali pm with the custom painter info if you dont mind. Dknuckles gonna try the next few cars with the airbrush let you know how it goes
All these 55' Chevy's look awesome!
Has anybody tried the Traxxas Funny Car rear Wheels on their 55' body conversion....now that's some drag racing I could go for.
Photoshop anybody?
those are amazing
hey dknuckles what airbrush do you use? im waiting on a Renegade Volocity by badger to go with the one i have.did another 55 have to post the pics here put them in the gallery already will post it here later. All equip should be in by fri and i can start on it this weekend.
I'm using a Paasche Talon and a Talon Siphon feed too. I also shoot fasglitter with my paasche VL.
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Nice paints on the 55's guys......
"enjoy your ride"
I'm sort of lucky to have 2 hobby shops within 12 miles of my place...... And both of them stock a lot of parts for most everything except boats.
"enjoy your ride"
candy rootbeer and pearl white
What size bodies fit the Slash? All of these incredible 55 Chevy's have me wanting a new cover for my Slash!
My 55
I have been off the board for too long...i need a new body..great work
Slash 4X4, MM 2200kv
Tekno Bigbone
Those are proline extended body mounts
They last pretty well. I have bought 1 replacement set, but that is because i only needed 1! I bash hard too!
Awesome Parma 55 bodies. I just got mine yesterday. My Slash is in pieces for repair so i dont have a pic with it on the chassis yet but youll get the just of it. I won mine from the BigSquidRc show, Charlie Barnes did the custom paint job at RCX at his booth. I still have yet to add my own flare to decal wise. And ill probably remove the Team Parma decal from the door so i can put my car number there.
"You just got passed by a Traxxas"
Yes that does look very nice!!!!
"enjoy your ride"
That is just plain sick dude ........peace
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Last year, the state's 66 conservation districts received $4.2 million, drawn from the state's General Fund.
This year, they are to receive $5 million, but not from the General Fund. That line item is "zeroed out" in Gov. Tom Corbett's $28.4 billion budget proposal. Instead, the money will be drawn from the impact fee authorized by the state's shale gas law, Act 13.
So, a different source, but more money — and in 2014-15, the funding will increase to $7.5 million. That doesn't sound like a bad deal.
So why is Robert Maiden, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts Inc., not happy?
There are two reasons, I learned from conversations with Maiden last week and Monday. But first, some background.
Conservation districts provide advice and technical assistance for local environmental efforts. In Central Pennsylvania, they provide critical assistance to farmers being called upon to limit agricultural runoff as part of the multistate Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort, Maiden said.
The state is obliged to limit various pollutants affecting the bay to a "total maximum daily load," or TMDL for short. The Environmental Protection Agency is overseeing the bay's "pollution diet" and can issue fines for noncompliance.
If the conservation districts pull back on their efforts, Pennsylvania agriculture could end up taking a serious economic hit, he said.
"We are the backbone of meeting the Chesapeake Bay TMDL," Maiden said.
The work is not part of the agencies' core mission, Maiden said, but it's a natural extension of what they do.
Conservation districts receive both state and county funding. In 2008, the state portion totaled $5.4 million. So last year's $4.2 million represents a drop of about 22 percent.
Since 2008, conservation districts have cut 53 staff positions, out of a little more than 500 statewide, Maiden said.
Meanwhile, the workload has grown significantly larger and more difficult, he said. Staffers are dealing with complex new environmental rules, as well as new issues, such as shale gas.
Doing more with less goes only so far; at some point, you need the tools to do more, he suggested.
Maiden's second concern is equity. Impact fee money is supposed to go toward counties experiencing impacts from shale gas drilling. However, until now, conservation districts in the Chesapeake Bay area have received a greater share of funding.
Marcellus Shale counties and Chesapeake Bay counties both can make good cases for needing the money. It's hard to envision an allocation that will make everyone happy, Maiden said.
Of the $5 million, half will be divided equally among the 66 districts. The State Conservation Commission is in charge of choosing how to allocate the other half.
Last year, some counties cut back funding to their conservation districts when the impact fee money — the first such infusion — came in, Maiden said.
The bottom line: The impact fee "isn't the big plus for funding that the state is saying it is," Maiden said.
The Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts had wanted impact fee money to supplement General Fund appropriations, not be a substitute, he said.
State officials, however, said the impact fee is a better funding source.
"By any measure, Act 13 is providing the conservation districts with more money … guaranteed funding that does not rely on General Fund appropriations," Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Kevin Sunday said in an email.
Likewise, Patrick Henderson, Corbett's energy executive, said in an email: "Conservation districts are ensured of certainty in funding — at a level that will exceed their prior General Fund appropriations."
The assured funding reflects Corbett's appreciation of conservation districts' vital work, Henderson said. Moreover, counties can use their own impact fee revenues to supplement conservation districts' funding on a case-by-case basis.
"That said, I understand that he (Maiden) is seeking additional money," Henderson said. "There is no downside in him asking."
Tim Stuhldreher covers banking, finance, energy and environment. Have a tip or question for him? Email him at email@example.com. You can also follow him on Twitter, @timstuhldreher.


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Francis Levy's "Seven Days"
What price buttocks? Ask Kenny Cantor, he's a money-minded Manhattan C.P.A. taking a sex tour of a profligate South American city in Francis Levy's "Seven Days in Rio," just out from Two Dollar Radio. Mr. Levy, who has a house in Wainscott, will read from the novel on Saturday at 3 p.m. at the East Hampton Library.
There's more than tight pants, waxed privates, and pre-op transsexuals to the tale, however — try a stint at a psychoanalytic conference on for size. As the protagonist himself says in the book's epigraph, "I have come to regard almost everything that happens in life as a form of therapy."
Mr. Levy, the author of "Erotomania: A Romance," has had his stories, humor, and essays published in The Village Voice, The Times, and The Star. He is co-director of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination and writes a blog at TheScreamingPope.com.
Food for Your Head, Too
You're probably familiar with the experience of opening wide for a steaming burger barely contained by its bun, but what about pairing that with a simultaneous effort to wrap your mind around top-flight fiction? It's all waiting for you at Rowdy Hall in East Hampton, where the Rowdy Readers Club convenes hourlong book chats on Thursdays at 12:15 p.m.
Sad to say, a chance to chew over Denis Johnson and his new novella, "Train Dreams," has passed, but fear not, today's book is "The Buddha in the Attic" by Julie Otsuka, and next week brings Gunter Grass's "The Box." Readers can then wipe their mouths and head over to BookHampton for a 15-percent discount on the titles in the series, which runs through Nov. 10.
Can't do lunch? In Sag Harbor, Phao, the Thai joint, has started a reading group that meets on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m., the twist being a focus on short stories of the past 50 years, with a different decade each week. "Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley, from the 1960s, is slated for next week, for example, and on Oct. 26 it's Ann Beattie's 1970s story "The Cinderella Waltz," which appeared in The New Yorker. After that, the late great Raymond Carver, and onward till Dec. 14.


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Brilliant idea
March 10, 2006 -- Who would be better to talk about the pressure of the NFL Draft than perhaps the biggest bust in league history?
NFL Network - which for the first time will provide counter-coverage to ESPN's presentation on April 29 - is interested in having Ryan Leaf, the 1998 No. 2 pick, as part of its draft show, an NFL Network spokesman confirmed.
Last month, Leaf accepted a job to be the quarterback coach for West Texas A&M University. Leaf would likely be part of a round-table of players on the show.
"We think he would offer a unique perspective,'' an NFL Network spokesman said.


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WTF Wednesday: A WTF Buffet For You Today From Ohio, Syracuse And British Columbia!
Found a few things for you today; a trifecta of WTF-ness! They're finding feet in Vancouver, penalizing friends mourning friends in Ohio and apparently it's not about "what you do" in Syracuse, but "how much you make doing it"!


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A hearing in former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson's violation of probation case in South Florida has been delayed.
Johnson's defense lawyer asked to reschedule the hearing, which was set for Monday, and prosecutors agreed, according to the Broward State Attorney's Office. The hearing was rescheduled for June 10.
Johnson is accused of failing to meet several terms of his probation, which stems from when he pleaded no contest in Broward County in a domestic battery case involving his then-wife, reality TV star Evelyn Lozada.
According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, Johnson twice failed to meet with probation specialists and didn't show proof of enrollment and completion in the "Batterers Intervention Program." A warrant for his arrest was issued in May, and Johnson eventually turned himself in.
He was booked into a Broward jail and later released on bail.


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so i only feed my son on 1 side. the milk on that side is yellow. any reasons why. should i worry
so i only feed my son on 1 side. the milk on that side is yellow. any reasons why. should i worry
How come you only feed him on one side? Just curious :P But I think it's probably normal. Milk can often appear yellowish. How old is your son? Could you possibly be pregnant again and producing some collostrum again as well? Has it always been this way?
Young SAHM of
Afton (A1) (1/24/09) and
Autumn (A2) (8/29/11)
Sealed in the SLC Temple
and and now CDing!
Depending on what you eat, your milk can take on different hues.
"At other times, the milk may take on different tints of color.. This can be in relation to something mom has eaten or a medication she is taking. The color of the milk is not harmful to the baby. And keep in mind that if the milk was not expressed, noone would be any wiser as to its appearance as it left the breast straight into baby's mouth."
source - http://www.motherandchildhealth.com/...reastmilk.html
3/2011 {EBF to 6mos, now BF and BLS, CD, EC'ing since 5mos - in underwear at 11mos, and babywearing}
Babywearing International has chapters - see if there's one near you... most have lending libraries!


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You're right - OMG MITCH HEWER!! What has he been in? He's gorgeous!
You're right - OMG MITCH HEWER!! What has he been in? He's gorgeous!
Aaron Eckhart's taken the number 2 spot on my dilf list!!!
Anyone has hot nake pics of these actors? Pls post and share. I mean the actual pics, not fake
definitely Sean faris
Sean Maher
"If you can't do something smart,do something right."-Jayne Cobb
Dan Futterman!!!! How COULD I forget about him!!!
Peter Krause
from Six Feet Under, The Lost Room, and Dirty Sexy Money
Well my fav was Chris Pine was under the radar forever..
Um Rafi Gavron, Ed Westwick, Tad Hilgenbrink, James Marsden and Penn Badgley
I'm going to add Justin Hartley to my list.
Brandon jay mclaren is underated
Someone mentioned an actor from Six Feet Under earlier and I would like to say Michael C. Hall from the show is amazingly sexy and I have no idea why.
He is also the actor that plays Dexter (showtime). It is hard to find a good picture of him but in his shows I cant help but stare at his cuteness.
Andrew Walker....GORGEOUS!!!!
Josha Jackson is looking quite sexy on Fringe
Still Brandon Jay McLaren LOL
Alan Ritchson
Bona to vada
Dan Futterman is my eye candy of choice in Urbania, and Matt Keeslar is always worth looking at. Still, let's not forget about Samuel Ball--even if he DOES keep his clothes on in that one.
David Faustino. A bit vertically challenged, yes, but the guy packs a lot into his 5 feet 3 inches.
I know he isn't to everyone's taste, but I'm a Steve Zahn fan from way back.
Finally, even though he get the cred he deserves in the gay community, I don't think Christopher Meloni has gotten the sex symbol status he has by-God earned for himself in the world at large. I won't post any pics. You know you've seen them.
Eric Winter's a hottie as well.
no picture, but did anyone catch Shawn Ashmore in "The Ruins"? he's always been cute, but i didn't even recognize him at 1st in the movie. THAT's how hot he looked.
I've been on a Timothy Olyphant kick lately
eric ryan james.
I stopped by a Walker Texas Ranger episode only to see more of him
I have never watched the show (nor do I ever intend to do so), but there's something sexy in a kinky way about this guy:
I also liked David Morrissey in BI2
Another random zapping happy finding I had some weeks ago http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128737/
He's a Brazilian actor (as far as I know) and has recently been on the Brazilian version of 'Dancing with the Stars'.
I haven't got a clue what he's saying - but when someone looks THIS good, who cares!!!!
^Pretty(ish) body.
Dan Futterman: was walking through Miami airport terminal and noticed him walking beside me! He smiled like "yea, it's me" and I let him walk on.
Should have said something, but at moments like that you are too shocked to do anything. . . .
Peter Krause from Six Feet Under, The Lost Room and Dirty Sexy Money
Daniel Letterle
A shame that he haven't been in more movies.. He is HOT!!
I think i have a crush on him..
james roday from usa's psych
paul rudd
dave annable
eric winter
Vincent Corazzza
Peter facanelli (sp). The only vampire worth fucking from twilight.
There are a million things I could have said, but nothing compares to what is in my head.
Joey Lawrence
Matt Dallas is insanely hot. Aside from his lead in Kyle XY, though, I don't see or hear him talked about a lot. He's a great actor, too.
Chris Olivero, who plays Declan on KXY, is good too.
too lazy to look for pictures right now, but Eric Balfour
my blog:
all the porn "actors" !!!
Tim Roth ... and on occasion, even John Malkovich
Eric Winter...WOW. He was gorgeous on Chelsea Lately a few weeks ago
Todd Lasance & Lincoln Lewis.
All of these are pretty much great
Sort of embarrassing, but I was watching 10 Things I Hate About You on ABC Family and caught a glimpse of this guy. His name is Ethan Peck and I think he is actually Gregory Peck's grandson. Also, his voice is crazy deep and takes you by surprise a little bit.
anybody watching CW's "The Vampire Diaries"? decent show, but i think it's the guys that'll be holding my attention. 1st up there's Zach Roerig. cute face(especially those eyes), HOT body but he's got this sexy, smoky voice that really does it for me.
then there's Paul Wesley. had a thing for this hottie for awhile.
and finally there's Ian Somerhalder. always thought he was hot, but he never really did anything for me until this show. fucking GORGEOUS!!!
those eyes are RIDICULOUS!!!
oops, Zach's pic didn't work the 1st time.
forgot all about this guy. Jason-Shane Scott. drop dead gorgeous. One Life To Live fans should remember him as "Will Rappaport"...they really need to get him back


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Here's a clicky.
This looks like a lot of fun!
New York Times Bestselling author David Baldacci
takes students on a virtual field trip to the Smithsonian's National
Museum of American History to explore some of history's great mysteries.
With David Baldacci as their guide, students will meet renowned museum
curators, go behind the scenes, and investigate some of the most
fascinating moments in American history.
Post-webcast Common Core aligned classroom materials.
DO HISTORY! Use free standards-based resources from the Smithsonian to explore history with your students!
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JOIN THE CLUB! Sign up for The 39 Clues Reading Club and get a FREE starter kit, meeting ideas, and downloadable activities.
Very cool I am so looking in to this!
Me, too!
What age group is the 39 Clues books geared towards. I have an advanced second grader but I think these might be too challenging? Can you compare it to another popular series that would be equivalent reading wise?


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The case for network smarts
Let's face it: SANs as they currently exist only deliver about half of what you might hope for in the way of efficiency and optimal utilization. The best bet to deliver the other 50% is network-based storage intelligence. You'll have to get past the magic-wand claims for this latest pancea from storage vendors, though. And not every incarnation of smart switches or appliances is going to be right for you.
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of networked storage. But they've also made it clear that a heavy management burden and substantial cost won't be cured just by putting lots of disk behind a fabric. Now the same vendors that sold you a SAN to solve your management and cost issues are peddling a new technology to solve the management and cost issues that have resulted from trying to solve your management and cost issues.
So, what's the latest cure-all? Network-based storage intelligence, and everybody's doing it.
| Is it smart to cache
in the network?
Both DataCore, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and Melville, NY-based FalconStor employ network caching as a ways of improving performance, albeit differently. For FalconStor, caching comes by way of a solid state disk used to store frequently accessed files. DataCore, meanwhile, uses the system's internal RAM cache to speed up the I/O performance of the back-end array.
"It's not just that we're minimizing latency," says Calvin Hsu, DataCore product marketing manager, "we're actually increasing the performance of the array."
In an independent evaluation, The Evaluator Group found that a DataCore SANsymphony implementation could deliver 400,000 I/Os with 100% cache hit, numbers which "far exceed any single box storage system published results encountered so far," the analysts wrote.
However, whether for political or technical reasons, larger subsystem and switch vendors seem to think that caching from the network is ill-advised. Perhaps not surprisingly, EMC's Mark Lewis, executive VP, chief technology officer, says that caching from the network is out, as is putting RAID functions in the network.
"You'd never want to put [RAID] into the network because you'd lose performance, and then you'd have to add caching and then ... you'd have a RAID array," says Lewis, adding that "it's easier to make a RAID array into a switch than a switch into a RAID array."
Similarly, Scott Gready, director of virtualization, HP storage software group, advocates "keeping caching closer to the disk drives, in the array controller."
Others worry about scalability and reliability. If you have more than one device on the network, you now need to worry about keeping cache consistent between the devices, says Dave Stevens, Brocade director of business development and strategic alliances. He also worries what happens if the network device goes down before it has time to flush the cache to disk: "You lose all your I/Os."
The idea behind moving intelligence into the storage network is simple: Get it off of the servers and the arrays, where you are bound by proprietary operating systems, and you gain the flexibility to mix and match storage environments. Or as is more often the case, integrate incompatible storage systems.
Take copy services such as Network Appliance's Snap family of point-in-time copy and replication functions. Much loved by users, it requires that the target of any Snap function also be a NetApp array. Meanwhile, if you run storage services--volume management, for example--from the host, you're limited to providing services for that one host. In environments with a large number of hosts, that can be a real management headache.
Then, there's the fact that many network-based services rely on virtualization engines, which provide additional benefits in their own right, including improved utilization, increased ease in provisioning and insulation from the details of an underlying storage device.
While centralizing storage services is a solid concept, the devil will be in the details of your particular environment. And you'll have to sort out competing models of network-based services. Finally, only time will tell if the price will be right.
Killer apps for network services
Better utilization, simpler backup and streamlined management are among the many benefits promised by network intelligence, but by far, the reason most storage managers deploy network-based storage software now is for copy services such as data replication, snapshots, cloning or simply data migration.
In today's world of array-based replication--such as EMC Symmetric Remote Data Facility (SRDF) or Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) on IBM Enterprise Storage Server (a.k.a. "Shark")--users that need these features often buy more expensive storage hardware than they really need, says Rich Napolitano, Sun vice president of data services platform, and a founder of Pirus Networks, which Sun acquired last summer. Because copy services must run on both the initiator and the target, users are typically locked into one particular brand.
One early adopter of network-based copy services is Rod Lucero, chief architect at Conseco Finance Corp. in St. Paul, MN, who was recently put in charge of migrating the company's data center from an AS/400 environment to open systems. After finding that EMC's SRDF didn't meet his performance and cost requirements, Conseco moved to "a poor man's replication," i.e., database dumps and Unix remote copy functions. Servers quickly got bogged down, though, and database administrators petitioned Lucero "to give them their CPUs back."
So, Lucero set out to find a way to do data replication that wouldn't run on an array or impact production servers. He decided on DataCore's SANsymphony, which he uses to replicate asynchronously between data centers, across EMC and Hitachi Data Systems arrays.
Even stalwarts of array-based replication are offering the ability to copy data between dissimilar systems. IBM's recently announced Storage Volume Controller (SVC) replicates between high-end Shark and midrange FAStT arrays, says Bruce Hillsberg, director of storage software strategy and technology, IBM Systems Group. EMC's recently released SAN Copy performs similar functions between Symmetrix and Clariion.
But contrast the limited versatility of those efforts with Hewlett-Packard's Continuous Access Storage Appliance (CASA), which--in terms of capacity--supports about 90% of arrays in production, estimates Scott Gready, director of virtualization for HP's storage software group. And because of the underlying virtualization engines that power network-based storage services, storage managers are also unearthing other benefits.
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intelligent switch?
Data replication, backup, volume management--these are just some of the storage services slated to move into the network. But what about that most commonplace of storage services--file services, e.g., NFS and CIFS support?
These days, the mainstream approach to file services is network-attached storage (NAS) appliances and heads for file services, which will probably remain the case for the foreseeable future, says Jeff Hornung, vice president of marketing and business development at Spinnaker Networks, Pittsburgh, PA, a start-up offering NAS and NAS head products.
It's conceivable that over the next couple of years, NAS heads will come as add-on blades within an intelligent switch vendor's chassis, he says. That may provide benefits in terms of space savings, but introduces the downside of becoming locked into a switch vendors' platform for NAS capabilities. Later on, we could see tighter integration with intelligent switch platforms, but NAS, "as a file service, sits at a level above" blocks, and as such, wouldn't benefit much from port-level processing.
"When you think about moving intelligence into the network," Hornung says, "you only want to do what makes sense, that is, what brings a significant benefit to IT."
At least one major OEM agrees with Hornung's sentiments. "There are people that want to load these platforms with everything but the kitchen sink--here's an appliance that's a desert topping and a floor wax," says Scott Gready, director of virtualization, HP storage software group, in charge of HP's CASA line. But while "it'd be quite easy for us to load file services on," Gready says, "we just haven't seen a demand for it."
But that doesn't mean that there isn't a role for network-based services in the NAS world. Rainfinity, San Jose, CA, for example, sells a data migration appliance called RainStorage which allows NAS administrators to do the unthinkable: move data between NAS devices during the day, without disrupting end users, says Jack Norris, Rainfinity vice president of marketing. How does it work? The RainStorage appliance simply sits out-of-band on a VPN until an administrator initiates a data migration, at which point it moves in-band, managing copy functions, and transparently redirecting end-user file requests. When the data movement is done, RainStorage moves back out-of-band until the next time an administrator wants to migrate data.
Relief for backup
Copy services also open the door to better backup. Rather than bringing down an application in order to perform backup, you take a snapshot of it, which you can then use as the basis of your backups.
According to John Webster, senior analyst and founder of the Nashua, NH-based Data Mobility Group, the advent of network-based storage services could finally result in "the long-awaited, vaunted" serverless backup.
It could also mean substantially faster disk-to-disk backup. Virtual tape software vendor Alacritus, Pleasanton, CA, has ported its software, Securitus, to the Brocade SilkWorm Fabric Application Platform (SilkWorm Fabric AP), for an anticipated 3X boost in performance (from 500MB/s to 1.5GB/s) over running it on a PC, says Don Trimmer, Alacritus co-founder and chief strategic officer. HP recently demonstrated a 3TB/hr backup, "but they threw a couple million dollars in hardware at it," Trimmer says. In contrast, Alacritus expects to achieve 5TB/hr backup rates "with $150,000 worth of hardware."
Another big bonus is improved utilization. Conseco's Lucero, who pools 70TB across various EMC arrays, has seen utilization skyrocket since installing SANsymphony approximately a year ago. For example, by assigning three servers with a total of 3TB of capacity to SANsymphony, Lucero was able to "buy back" 1.3TB of captive capacity. At $.08/MB, Lucero figures he saved his company over $100,000 with that example alone.
Virtualization can also keep utilization rates high by automatically provisioning capacity to applications. SANsymphony, for example, can assign applications capacity in granular 128MB chunks as needed.
Appliance or switch?
If network intelligence is a consensus choice, the package it should be delivered in is not. Your options will revolve around the in-band PC appliance model, such as FalconStor's IPStor, DataCore's SANsymphony, as well as IBM's SVC and HP's CASA; and the out-of-band intelligent switch, as exemplified by Brocade's Silkworm Fabric AP, Cisco's MDS 9000, and Maxxan's MXV320--technology that's thus far unproven, but that has many proponents. Certainly, the appliance model has the longest track record and most traction in the marketplace, with many happy customers.
James Dyches, director of computer operations for IT distributor Bell MicroProducts, San Jose, CA, built a new data center in Montgomery, AL, two years ago around FalconStor's IPStor. Previously, the company's main data center was housed in San Jose, CA, "but we had no backup, no disaster recovery--no nothing." Working with FalconStor, Dyches built a new data center around an active/active pair of FalconStor servers virtualizing two Rorke Data Fibre Channel (FC) arrays with a total of about 500GB of data, largely e-mail and end-user files. The data is then replicated over ATM to the San Jose data center. How does he like it? "I couldn't be happier with my access times, I couldn't be happier with my uptime, I am completely contented," Dyches says.
At the same time, there are some users who aren't about to take the risk of putting those appliances in front of enterprise class arrays.
HP CASA user Mark Deck, director of infrastructure technology at National Medical Health Card Systems Inc. (NMHC), a pharmacy benefit manager in Port Washington, NY, is one of them. In addition to midrange SAN equipment, NMHC also owns an HP XP256 array. "As much as I'd love to" virtualize the xp256 with CASA, "it could be a bottleneck," he says. Instead, he'll wait for CASA to run on Brocade's SilkWorm Fabric AP, as promised by the two companies this March.
Why does he think the PC-based CASA would be a bottleneck? For one thing, all the hosts connected to NMHC's CASA box are Wintel boxes, and "they only run at half a gigabit." You can connect a lot of servers before you saturate your virtualization appliance. The same can't be said of NMHC's large HP-UX servers, though.
Similarly, Roy Singh, an independent consultant specializing in data center design and implementation, is all for the concept of network-based virtualization, but has reservations about the PC platform approach.
"Virtualization in a network environment would make EMC and HDS [arrays] look more homogeneous, which would make my life much easier," says Singh. But "performance is my thing," he says. For that, you need to "elevate [virtualization] to another level, closer to the port."
In contrast to virtualization engines running on PCs, intelligent switch platforms are purpose-built devices with processors at every port. And whereas existing virtualization engines run in-the-data path or "in-band," intelligent switch platforms also offload some processing onto an out-of-band control path.
For example, Brocade's SilkWorm Fabric AP is built around the so-called XPath architecture, which separates out the data and control paths. Nearly all traffic (approximately 95%) travels over the data path stream, including SCSI I/O reads and writes, block-based copy and mirror and virtualized I/O translation frames. The control path, meanwhile, manages less frequent traffic--for example, volume configuration and placement, error handling and recovery and security.
According to Dave Stevens, Brocade Communications' director of business development: "Applications tend to be bi-modal--that is, 90% of the code is performance-sensitive, but not very computationally complex, and 10% is computationally complex, but not very performance-sensitive." In Brocade's architecture I/Os get pushed down to dedicated port-level processors, while non-performance sensitive data gets crunched by a general purpose processor. This approach has resulted in approximately 60,000 I/Os per port, and near wire-speed throughput of 195MB/s.
The number of intelligent switch ports you'll need in addition to basic FC SAN ports is a function of the port performance, and the I/O and throughput needs of the hosts you want to virtualize. Given Brocade's preliminary performance specifications, five hosts generating a total of 50,000 I/Os could be pooled with a single SilkWorm Fabric AP port.
|Bottom line: easier management
Ultimately there's one very powerful argument for running storage services in the network: to simplify management.
Just take a look at managing licenses for your volume management software. Assuming price is not a factor, "as an administrator, would you rather manage licenses for 50 volume managers running on the host, or just one in the network?" asks Jeff Silva, VP, strategic planning, Maxxan.
Centralized management is one benefit that isn't lost on Chas Peterson, director of hosting at Sprint, which is evaluating Sun's 6300 family: Its 6120 arrays, as well as the 6320 management station, both precursors to the first standalone product based on Pirus technology (the 6920) due out in Q3 of this year. As a hosting provider, Peterson appreciates the way it can dedicate a 6120 array to individual hosting customers, but centrally manage the arrays.
And it's not just that management is simpler with network-based services--it's downright easy, says HP CASA user Mark Deck, director of infrastructure technology at National Medical Health Card Systems, Inc. (NMHC), a pharmacy benefit manager in Port Washington, NY. The virtualization provided by CASA "has done to storage management what Windows did to servers--click here, click there and you're done," Deck says.
"With 15 minutes of training, I was carving up LUNs," Deck says. "For me, who doesn't do much hands-on work anymore, it was pretty amazing."
NMHC is using CASA to virtualize its midrange SAN array, the HP Virtual Array 7400, which Deck says translates directly into lower total cost of ownership, "because I don't need to have a genius managing this thing--I can teach pretty much anyone to manage it."
Improved management is also what Scott Thomas, director of discovery IS at pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca R&D Boston, Waltham, MA, hopes to get out of Sun's N1 data platform. Currently, AstraZeneca has 19TB of capacity on Sun T3 arrays, connected to Sun (QLogic) switches.
"Supporting a fast-paced scientific research environment requires us to continually configure storage and computer systems for new projects and experiments, which is very costly," Thomas says. "By centralizing storage provisioning and improving our ability to provision storage capacity, Sun's virtualization may allow us to reduce the cost of support."
But all this performance comes at a cost. Brocade's Stevens estimates a 2.5X per port cost out of the SilkWorm AP, but Randy Kerns, a partner at The Evaluator Group, Greenwood Village, CO, expects it to be more like 5X.
But that's just the price of the port--not the price of the software running on top of it. It's not clear how the software will be priced. For example, if you ran Veritas' volume manager on Cisco's switch, who would you make the check out to? Cisco? Veritas? A combination of both? Furthermore, how is the software priced? As a site license, or according to the total number of virtualized hosts? Perhaps you'd be paying for total capacity? For the time being, "there are a variety of different routes to market," says Kris Hagerman, Veritas senior vice president of strategic alliances.
No matter how low the price per port goes on an intelligent switch, it will be tough for it to drop as low as a PC. Conseco's Lucero runs DataCore software on $6,000 PCs with 6GB of cache, and he, for one, won't be buying an intelligent switch. "I'm going to spend a lot less money" on appliance-based software, "and get just as much out of it."
So, when will all this goodness arrive? Maxxan's MXV320 is in customer trials, but that's about as close as an intelligent switch has gotten to market. Most vendors talked vaguely about Q3 or Q4 of this year, but among analysts, that's seen as optimistic. "Nobody's going to make a dime off of intelligent switches this year," says The Evaluator Group's Kerns.
Furthermore, ramp up will be slow, and "vendors are at very different levels of sophistication and delivery," Kerns says. That in turn will "create a lot of confusion and disillusionment among potential customers." For the time being at least, "the appliance model is easier for people to swallow."
Past history suggests that's not the end of the story. Back in the mid-'90s, for example, when the Web was just coming on to the scene, IT managers found that their Web servers couldn't handle the load, recalls Peter Wang, CTO at iSCSI storage vendor Intransa, San Jose, CA. That led to the development of appliance-based load balancing software from the likes of Alteon and Arrowpoint, later acquired by Nortel and Cisco respectively, and integrated into high-end chassis switches.
The current trend of moving storage services to the network, is therefore, "something that all networks go through," says Mark Davis, senior VP of marketing at Milpitas, CA-based Candera, a start-up developing a so-called network storage controller. "It happened to the telephone network, it happened to IP--it's the natural evolution of the architecture."


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More than 372,000 Bostonians are eligible to vote in tomorrow's municipal election, Mayor Thomas M. Menino's office said.
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to the city's election department.
City Councilor John R. Connolly and State Representative Martin J. Walsh are vying to replace long-time Mayor Menino.
Voters will also elect at-large and district city councilors. Residents of East Boston will vote on the proposed Suffolk Downs casino.
The city is broken into 22 wards with a varying number of precincts. Ward 18, Hyde Park, is the largest, with 23 precincts and more than 37,000 voters, according to the election department.
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Neil Wagner celebrated being added to the Black Caps test squad by hitting the winning runs to help seal a three-wicket win for the New Zealand XI against England at the Queenstown Events Centre yesterday.
It was pretty much the perfect day for the South African-born left-armer.
"It is something I've been working hard for," Wagner said of his inclusion in the test squad. "You've just got to keep fighting every day to get a spot in that team and that is what I've been trying to do."
Wagner's cameo of 28 not out helped inflict England's first defeat in a first-class warm-up match since February 2006. It was a fantastic match which ebbed and flowed.
England declared on its overnight total of 256 for nine, setting the home side a target of 334.
Black Caps wicketkeeper-batsman BJ Watling had a cracking game. He took seven catches, did not concede a single bye and anchored the chase with a superb 89 not out after posting an undefeated 66 in the first innings.
Wagner, though, was probably next best. He ran in and bowled with good intent and finished the match with six wickets for 154. He got the nod for the national team ahead of Wellington's Mark Gillespie, who had some success but was also wayward at times and guilty of bowling too many no-balls.
For Wagner, yesterday's announcement means he is step closer to redemption. It is fair to say there was a lot of expectation when he was first named in the Black Caps squad for the test series against the West Indies last year. He had waited four years to become eligible to play for his adopted country and most of the hype surrounding him was justified.
In the last two years before he got clearance from the ICC, he took 97 wickets for Otago at an average of just over 22. He also grabbed the headlines when he took five wickets in an over during a Plunket Shield game against Wellington in 2011.
Seemingly, he had all the credentials to be successful at the highest level and his debut was keenly anticipated. He was quick without being express, he possessed the prerequisite aggression needed for the role and, in the right conditions, could get the ball to swing.
But, in his test debut, he struggled and so did the team. The West Indies won by nine wickets and Wagner finished the match with one for 144.
He improved in the second test at Sabina Park with three for 65. But New Zealand lost by five wickets and Wagner did not get another opportunity until the second test against South Africa at St George's Park in January this year. He took one for 135 and, after three tests, has just five wickets at 68.80.
Not the start he would have hoped for. But with the Black Caps likely to play four seamers in Dunedin for the first test beginning on Wednesday, Wagner should get an opportunity to improve his record.
"I've had a couple of chances and I would have liked to have done better. But I've worked a lot on certain parts of my game. It is just about knowing your game and knowing what you've got to do and then execute it."


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Malaga v Borussia Dortmund; UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg, La Rosaleda; Wednesday 3rd April; 19:45 KO
Team News
Manuel Pellegrini will have a strong team to choose from for their game against Borussia Dortmund, with Portuguese winger Eliseu being the only casualty with knee ligament damage which will keep him out.
On-loan Paris Saint-Germain defender Diego Lugano is expected to return after being rested, as well as Ignacio Camacho and Duda who are also back following suspensions.
Dortmund left-back Marcel Schmelzer broke his nose in their last game and will need a facemask to play, but is expected to feature.
Poland captain Jakub Blaszczykowski has travelled to Spain but has a slight groin injury and impressive German centre-back Mats Hummels is certain to miss out with an ankle problem.
Robert Lewandowski will lead the line for the Bundesliga club and will be supported by Mario Gotze and Marco Reus who are catching the eye of a number of clubs.
Nuri Sahin aware of Malaga threat
On-loan Nuri Sahin has stated he knows the threat that Malaga possess, and believes the German outfit must be wary of the quality they have.
The Turkey international has returned to the club where he started his career and knows that the trip to the south coast of Spain will not be an easy one.
The 24-year-old is on-loan from parent club Real Madrid, and Sahin featured four times against Malaga last season.
The midfielder was previously at Liverpool earlier on this year, but failed to impress at Anfield and sealed a switch back to Dortmund.
"I played against Malaga four times last season in the league and in the cup and they made it hard for us,' he said according to The Daily Mail.
"They lost some big names over the summer but they have still had an outstanding season in the Champions League. They have nothing to lose. They can play more freely in the quarter-finals and that could be a problem for us.
"We must not allow them to get the ball moving. That is very important, otherwise we'll see how good their football can be. We have to be focused from the first minute.
"I'm looking forward to it. In the quarter-finals there are no favourites. Our slight advantage perhaps is that we will play at home in the second leg."
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My Current expertise: C(Expert), C++(Expert), Java (Basic)
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1) Create a database which will contain the entire customer data of an Insurance company. ( I have spoken to an insurance company who will let me do this project for them).
2) Create separate modules for the Call center, Lead Management, Sales followup, Renewal Tracking all within the scope of manipulating and massaging the exiting data.
3) Generate an automated log in credential for each customer, wherein they can service their own policy and change their contact details.
4) Send automated email and SMS to customer on life cycle points like renewal reminder, calamity notice, birthday greeting etc.
5) Create separate secure log in for each back-end user and higher management.
6) Display summaries and basic analytic of data according to the user log in type as relevant to the user.
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Benton council makeup changes with outcome of general election: Two aldermen to face off in Nov. 29 runoff
When all the votes were counted, the results from Tuesday's general election gave the Benton City Council two new members and returned four incumbents to the positions they now hold.
However, two current members — who were part of a three-way contest for the Ward 4, Position 1 seat — will face off in a runoff on Nov. 29.
That race is the only one that will necessitate a runoff, according to Saline County Election Coordinator Darlene Westbrook.
The candidates are Alderman Brad Moore, who currently holds the Ward 4, Position 1 seat, and Alderman David Sparks, now serving in the Ward 4, Position 2 seat. Suewonna Robbins ran third in Tuesday's election.
The final tally gave Moore 977 votes or 44.15 percent; Sparks, 688, 31.09 percent; and Robbins, 548, 24.76 percent
Before the election, both Moore and Sparks were serving in separate Ward 4 positions on the council. Sparks, however, became a candidate for the position that Moore held and did not seek re-election to his post.
Lori Beaty Terrell is a new council member, defeating longtime alderman Doug Stracener in a close race for the Ward 5, Position 2 seat. The final tally showed Terrell with 1,281 votes and Stracener with 1,223 votes.
Also new to the council by running unopposed is James Herzfeld, who will serve in the Ward 4, Position 2 seat now held by David Sparks. Herzfeld's position was not included on the election ballot.
Retaining their seats were:
•Frank Baptist, the incumbent, who defeated challenger Mary Deitemeyer in Ward 1, Position 1. The vote total was 1,612 for Baptist and 793 for Deitemeyer.
•Kerry Murphy, the incumbent, who defeated challenger Greg White in Ward 1, Position 2. Murphy received 1,294 votes to 1,103 for White.
•Joe Lee Richards, the incumbent, who defeated challenger Roger Winfield in Ward 2, Position 2. Richards drew 939 votes to 838 for Winfield.
•Jerry Ponder, the incumbent, who defeated challenger Rick Holland, a former mayor, in Ward 3, Position 2. Ponder garnered 1,739 votes to 1,261 for Holland.
Retaining their seats on the council without a race in the general election were Aldermen Charles Cunningham, Ward 2, Position 1; Alderman Bill Donnor, Ward 3, Position 1; and Alderman Steve Lee, Ward 5, Position 1.
Both Moore and Sparks said they are looking forward to the runoff and each expressed appreciation to supporters who worked in their campaigns.
"We're happy we came out ahead today," said Moore, who led the three-candidate race.
"The battle's not done and we're looking forward to getting back out to the people," he said. "We're going to work hard to make it happen.
"I'm happy to have served the residents of Ward 4 and hope to have the opportunity to do it again," he added. "I appreciate everyone who supported me, especially my parents and wife (Lexi), who worked so hard.
"I've enjoyed the campaign," Moore said. "I've enjoyed meeting people. Campaigning is a very interesting process."
Sparks also expressed appreciation to those who supported him.
"I want to thank everyone who voted for me and everyone who worked for me," he said. "I appreciate every one of them. It just looks like we've got more work to do.
"We'll need to get our strategy together," he added. "I'm really happy to be in the runoff and appreciate everyone who helped me. I look forward to starting over tomorrow (today) and doing it all again."
Terrell, a new member of the council, made no secret of her pleasure at winning the election.
"I'm excited and looking forward to serving the citizens of Benton," she said. "As I said when I announced my candidacy, I feel this is the natural next step for me to serve the citizens and I'm super-excited about getting started."
Stracener, who has served on the council for seven terms, expressed appreciation to those who supported him.
"The 14 years have been a true honor," Stracener said. "Looking back to 1998 when I won the first time, I'm grateful that I've been honored to have been given that trust seven times. God decides the winners and the losers.
"I slept very good Tuesday night knowing that his plan is in place. I think if the leaders in the city of Benton can follow that thought, the future of our city is very bright."


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(Too bad neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times is front-paging real-time coverage. There's a deluge of web traffic with nowhere to go.)
UPDATE: Here's the SCOTUSblog post. The Second Amendment case is out:
Erin: Alito announces McDonald v. Chicago: reversed and remanded
Tom: Gun rights prevail
The opinion concludes that the 14th Amendment does incorporate the Second Amendment right recognized in Heller to keep and bear arms in self defense
Tom: 5-4
Erin: Stevens dissents for himself. Breyer dissents, joined by Ginsburg and Sotomayor.
Tom: The majority seems divided, presumably on the precise standard
Erin: The majority Justices do not support all parts of the Alito opinion, but all five agree that the 2d Amendment applies to state and local government.
Erin: Alito, in the part of the opinion joined by three Justices, concludes that the 2d Amendment is incorporated through the Due Process Clause.
Erin: Thomas thinks the Amendment is incorporated, but not under Due Process. He appears to base incorporation on Privileges or Immunities.
Tom: The difference between the majority and Justice Thomas doesn't affect the fact that the Second Amendment now applies to state and local reguation...
Erin: The McDonald opinion is here.


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How much can a geek get for a good gadget?
With the countdown to a Sept. 10 unveiling of the latest iPhone, Best Buy (BBY) said Thursday it will offer a 50% discount for customers trading up to the iPhone 5.
CNET is reporting that this weekend only, customers with working iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S phones can trade them in for a half-off iPhone 5. Story here. Consumers who want trade-in value have plenty of other options, too.
Apple (AAPL) offers a recycling program and this week All Things D confirmed Apple Store customers will be able to trade in used iPhones for a credit toward a new phone, which could boast a chip that is 30% faster than that of current models, some have speculated. Wireless carriers including AT&T (T), T-Mobile and Verizon Communications (VZ) have trade-in programs, as do some retailers and phone manufacturers. NBC news has a handy chart showing how much — hundreds of dollars in some cases — trade-ins are worth.
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Bridgwater police get out and about on bikes
11:41am Wednesday 16th July 2014 in Somerset, By Kirsty James, thisisthewestcountry.co.uk
BRIDGWATER police are benefiting from a specialised van which carries mountain bikes, allowing them to cover more ground faster.
As part of the force-wide Operation Velo, PCSOs Dan Wheller and Nick Mizon have been benefiting from a 'police bike van'.
The specially adapted marked police van carries two mountain bikes inside.
Insp Andy Pritchard said: "Although many of our team already use bikes, this van enables Dan and Nick to travel right across Sedgemoor, taking their cycling skills wherever they are most needed.
"This cycling team has already assisted a search team in Burnham, following an allegation of a sexual assault.
"There they were able to cycle through parks and lanes which are not accessible to police cars.
"Contact your local policing team if you can think of a time or place that Dan and Nick can help."


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TWO multinational coal giants have taken the unusual step of threatening legal action against union workers involved in a pay dispute with a different company.
The Rail, Tram and Bus Union has been in salary negotiations with Asciano's New South Wales coal division, Pacific National Coal. The union's members, who drive trains that transport coal, have threatened to take protected strike action.
Asciano, Australia's largest listed national rail freight and ports operator, walked away from negotiations with the union over a new enterprise agreement last week.
Xstrata Coal NSW, which is not involved in the salary negotiations, has written to the union threatening to take legal action if a strike goes ahead. A third company, Whitehaven Coal, has threatened to make a complaint to the Fair Work Commission.
The dispute is expected to fuel a national union campaign against the return of WorkChoices under a Tony Abbott government, if it is elected this year.
Xstrata's chief operating officer, Ian Cribb, has written to the union saying his company has contracts with Pacific National for rail freight of 30 million tonnes of coal each year from its mines in the Hunter Valley and Tahmoor, south-west of Sydney.
"If any industrial action is organised by the RTBU, and engaged in by its members employed by Pacific National Coal, it will cause significant harm to the business of Xstrata Coal," he said in the letter obtained by BusinessDay.
"Xstrata Coal is entitled to take all necessary steps to prevent any harm to its business," he said. "This may include the commencement of proceedings in a court or tribunal to stop or prevent industrial action from being taken without further notice to the RTBU."
The union's national secretary, Bob Nanva, said it was "unheard of" for a third party, not directly involved in an industrial dispute, to threaten legal action. He said the strike action would be protected, having been approved by Fair Work Australia.
"This is a co-ordinated assault on the right of union members to collectively bargain and strike," he said.
"This is a forerunner to what will happen if Tony Abbott is elected prime minister later this year.
"These companies are straining at the leash and desperately want to bring back WorkChoices."
Pacific National's NSW coal division has been in negotiations over a new enterprise agreement for 12 months. The union said most of its members were on annual base salaries of $63,000.
A spokeswoman for Asciano said its coal division has been negotiating in "good faith" with the union and was keen to finalise a new agreement. "We have put forward what we consider to be a strong wage offer, which is above current CPI and many other current industry wage claims," she said. "Despite having modified the terms of our offer over time, the RTBU has indicated that it is unacceptable and it is now apparent that the bargaining process has been exhausted."
University of Sydney Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, who specialises in industrial law, said it was unlikely the union could be successfully sued if it was taking protected strike action, unless it had failed to satisfy all legal requirements under the Fair Work Act.
"If the action is protected and they are validly striking during bargaining over content that can be included by law in a collective agreement then that action is protected and one can't bring legal action against it," he said.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Tech baseball team looks
to continue its strong start to the season with an exciting week on
theschedule. The Golden Eagles (10-4) will travel to Knoxville,
Tenn. to faceSoutheastern Conference foe Tennessee (8-8), before
returning to Cookeville toopen Ohio Valley Conference play against
Southeast Missouri (10-6).
Tech's hot start can be partially attributed to its offense.The Golden Eagles are hitting .308 as a team this season, and six differentTech players are batting over .300. But the Tech pitching staff is getting thejob done as well, allowing opponents to hit just .258, while lefty AdamLiberatore leads the conference with a perferct 0.00 ERA opponents battingaverage of .119.
Tech took a 9-7 victory over the Volunteers a in Cookevillea season ago, which marked only the second time in 26 years a Tech squad beatTennessee. OVC teams are 3-4 against SEC teams this season.
"I hope our guys play the same way against Tennessee as theydo Saturday and Sunday, and the same way they played against Valpo last week,"head coach Matt Bragga said. "Every game is important, and needs to be playedhard."
The Volunteers are led by sophomore catcher Blake Forsythe,who is batting .407 with nine home runs and 26 RBIs on the season. Firstbaseman Cody Hawn is leading the team with 26 RBIs.
The Golden Eagles are scheduled for a three-game seriesagainst Southeast Missouri to open conference play on Saturday and Sunday, witha double header slated for Saturday.
"Once conference play starts the fun really gets going,"Bragga said. "This is what you play for, it's exciting."
The Redhawks took three out of four games from Tech a yearago, and were responsible for ending the Golden Eagles' season, winning anelimination game in the OVC tournament.
"We are excited about the challenge ahead of us," Braggasaid. "We have a good team that plays good baseball, and we will continue to dothat."


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Police said an argument between a Columbus couple took a violent turn when a man set his girlfriend on fire.
The victim was caught in this fire long enough to receive second and third-degree burns on her hands and face.
Robert Williams, 35, is in jail, charged with aggravated assault and battery. Police said he poured lighter fluid on his girlfriend Valleri Smith in the bedroom of their Havenbrook Court apartment and then set her on fire Tuesday morning.
Neighbors said after emergency crews arrived, they could tell right away that this was not a normal fire.
"I saw all the fire trucks and stuff. After I found out what happened, I thought, why should it have happened like that when they could have solved it another way?" said Cornell Bryant.
"I feel like, if [she]was going to leave him, he should have just left... I didn't even know they were fighting," said Geayye Geoe.
The blinds in the apartment window are warped and melted, evidencing the amount of heat the fire must have produced.
Smith, 44 was burned so severely, she needed to be treated at a hospital in Atlanta. Her family said she was released from surgery Wednesday afternoon.
She is currently being treated at the burn center in Augusta, GA. Family members are asking the public for prayers as Smith remains in critical condition.
A judge set Williams' bond at $100,000 Wednesday morning and he is still behind bars.
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Mariko Mori: Rebirth
The cycle of life from birth to death and back again forms the arc to this major display of Japanese sculptor Mariko Mori. In the opening, clinic-white room, a star has died to make the glossy glass menhir, 'Tom Na H-iu II' (2006), come to life. Its pulsing inner lights are powered by cosmic rays and neutrino bursts or supernova, which are beamed as data from an observatory in Tokyo and translated into ethereal green, pink, yellow or blue afterglows.
Maybe this white dwarf or black hole or whatever it was (Patrick Moore would have known) stopped emitting its cosmic flares momentarily, because it was dark when I first went in – but then circling back to the start is what the show is all about.
When not animated by light or interstellar juice, Mori's installations can look like posh spas, full of smooth stones and ergonomic pebbles. All that is missing is the infinity pool, although the final room does have a natty water feature. Mori has, in fact, been ploughing this same peculiarly extraterrestrial, sci-fi furrow for the past two decades, making iPad-like touchable tablets long before the technology existed. Of course, like Apple, she is also guilty of skeuomorphism (the use of retro design elements) in her primitive Stonehenge reprises and Zen-garden analogies, and is similarly fond of attaching a neo-spiritual, cultish self-aggrandisement to her slick and genial work, which Steve Jobs would have appreciated.
Faced with all these inscrutable, pearlescent baubles that look like futuristic car designs, it's easy to dismiss Mori's hippy-dippy themes of interplanetary transcendence and ancient resonance. That is, until you sit with one of her better works. Like the showstopping standing stone at the beginning, the final room is an immersive experience, this time about the birth of a star. 'White Hole' (2012) takes you down a fallopian corridor to a womb-like chamber lit by a tiny ball of energy that floats behind a screen (think James Turrell with movement). Bathing in the luminescent trail of this star being born, I began to stare as if in hope that this little blob of light would become something. The longer I stayed, the more I saw. My cynicism about her lava-lamp aesthetic duly washed away: Mori had won me over.
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ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- A popular overseas indie music festival is making its North American debut in the Detroit area.
The inaugural Laneway Festival Detroit is set for Saturday at Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester Hills.
The nearly two-dozen acts scheduled to perform include Swedish duo Icona Pop and Beyonce Knowles' sister, Solange.
The Laneway Festival was founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 2004. It now spans eight cities and four countries -- Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the U.S.
The Detroit installment is to include several stages for performers as well as space dedicated to showcasing local food and drink.