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ACI: Addressing The Changing Landscape
Industry shifts are redefining IT at all levels. On-premise IT consumption models are shifting to cloud-based services. IT as a service (IaaS) is supplanted by applications as a service. Separate development and operations are moving toward integrated development and operations (DevOps). Box-centric management models are migrating to application-centric management.
Business agility requires application agility, so IT teams need to provision applications in hours instead of months. Resources need to scale up (or down) in minutes, not hours.
Traditional approaches take a siloed operational view, with no common operational model between the application, network, security, and cloud teams. A common operational model delivers application agility, simplified operations, assured performance, and scale.
The Solution: An Application-Centric Approach to Managing Your Infrastructure
Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a holistic architecture with centralized automation and policy-driven application profiles. ACI delivers software flexibility with the scalability of hardware performance.
Cisco ACI consists of:
- The new Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches
- A centralized policy management and Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- A Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS) for the virtual network edge
- Software and hardware innovations
- Integrated physical and virtual infrastructure
- An open ecosystem of network, storage, management, and orchestration vendors
Key characteristics of ACI include:
- Simplified automation by an application-driven policy model
- Centralized visibility with real-time, application health monitoring
- Open software flexibility for DevOps teams and ecosystem partner integration
- Scalable performance and multi-tenancy in hardware
The future of networking with ACI is about providing a network that is deployed, monitored, and managed in a fashion that supports DevOps and rapid application change. ACI does so through the reduction of complexity and a common policy framework that can automate provisioning and managing of resources.
|Application Owners and Lines of Business
|Dramatic reduction in time to service delivery (days to minutes)
On-demand scale-out and tear-down lead to more predictable application and IT spending better aligned to business activity
End-to-end application health score helps meet service level agreements (SLAs)
|Applications delivered in business time
Optimized cost structure
Higher availability
|Server, Storage, and Virtualization Teams
|Central deployment model accelerates network and security infrastructure configuration
Helps enable an any-workload, anywhere deployment model
|Operational efficiency
Rapid deployment
Higher availability, and increased customer satisfaction
|Network Team
|Automated network provisioning reduces overhead and errors, accelerates deployment, and allows application owners to self-service and scale
Automated remediation reduces overhead and promotes optimal network performance for all apps 24 hours daily. Visibility across physical and virtual infrastructures shortens MTTR.
Provides real-time telemetry correlation between the virtual and physical infrastructure
|Greater productivity, accuracy, and easier scaling
Higher availability
Increased customer satisfaction
|Security Team
|Automates security policy while allowing security teams to retain control over policies for compliance
Automated insertion of virtual security services simplifies app deployments
|Improved security with faster provisioning
Simplified operations
|Cloud Team
|ACI promotes consistency of policies and services for on-premise and cloud apps
No app dependencies on underlying infrastructure supports cloud-ready apps with minimal additional effort, making them easier to manage, deploy, and migrate
|Consistency and agility across infrastructure
Flexible deployment, easier scaling, and lower TCO
|Deployment Models
|Massively Scalable Data Center
|Open programmability across all popular, common tool sets
Designed and optimized for scalability:
|Flexibility, control, and customization
Massively scalable multi-tenancy
Faster troubleshooting
|Service Provider and Cloud Data Centers
|Large-scale multi-tenancy and application security in hardware
Advanced fabric telemetry and health scoring for apps, customers, and infrastructure
Self-service automated provisioning of apps, network services, and security
|Highly secure multi-tenancy
Proactive problem resolution
Simplified operations
|Fully-deployable private-cloud solution with visibility, troubleshooting, and mobility for physical, virtual, and distributed apps
Helps ensure completion of service level agreements and performance requirements
|Apps delivered in business time
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ACI is an innovative, highly secure architecture based upon a number of different elements, outlined below.
Application-Focused Fabric
Combine hardware, software, and ASIC innovations into an integrated systems approach to take advantage of standard Ethernet and IP protocols.
The extensible, object-oriented OS offers comprehensive programmability.
Application-level health scores, counters, and policies for both physical and virtual applications simplify troubleshooting and provide visibility.
Centralized Management, Automation, and Orchestration
A common management framework for network, application, security, and virtualization teams makes IT more agile.
ACI automates all fabric management tasks, including image management, configuration, and stitching of other networking infrastructure services such as firewalls and load balancers.
Mixed Workload and Migration Optimization for Any Application, Anywhere, Anytime
Facilitate provisioning of applications while promoting performance and visibility correlation between logical and physical networks.
Normalize physical and virtual server transport between different hypervisors and bare metal servers to ease migration from virtual to physical, or virtual to virtual.
Highly Secure Multi-Tenant Environment
Advance proper isolation and SLAs for different tenants while providing a consistent security policy across physical and virtual applications.
Data center teams define security and networking policies using a common policy language abstraction. This helps security teams to provide robust policy definitions independent of the network topology.
Extensibility and Openness
ACI supports the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy, embracing open APIs, open source, and open standards. This provides the broadest choice in data center management and infrastructure.
A well-documented set of northbound and southbound APIs, available through the Cisco Developer Network, support rapid system integration and flexibility for:
- Layer 4-7 services
- Virtual network infrastructure
- Monitoring
- Management
- Orchestration services
Investment Protection – People and Infrastructure
Take advantage of existing IT teams' skillsets and infrastructure to lower overall TCO.
Innovative 40 Gb bi-directional optics allow for the reuse of current 10 Gb cabling to reduce costly fiber upgrades.
Customers can run Cisco Nexus 9000 switches in a standalone deployment or migrate to full ACI fabric mode with a software upgrade. This approach, combined with open interfaces to support existing infrastructure, provides investment protection across the entire portfolio.
ACI can enable agile deployment of applications across enterprises and service provider organizations. Its fabric foundation is built for telemetry, efficiency, scale, and application awareness, leading to lower TCO. The next-generation data center will be built upon ACI principles that are designed for current and future applications.
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Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS) provides a consistent virtual switch infrastructure between ACI fabrics and the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch for existing data center fabrics.
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) programmatically automates network provisioning and control based on application requirements and policies.
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Security for data centers solves many complexities in customer environments. ACI Security treats firewalls as a pool of resources and intelligently stitches them according to application network policies. ACI Security offers full acceleration dynamically in hardware and directly integrates into ACI.
Delivered by Cisco and our Cisco Certified Partners, service engagements result in measurable business gains for our customers with benefits such as 15-20% faster acceleration to revenue; 30% lower infrastructure costs; 50% faster disaster recovery; and 90% reduction in deployment time.
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Cisco Readiness Planning capabilities transform data centers to an Application Centric Infrastructure.
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Congenital rubella
Congenital rubella is a condition that occurs in an infant whose mother is infected with the virus that causes German measles.
Causes of Congenital rubella
Congenital rubella occurs when the rubella virus in the mother affects the developing baby at a critical time, in the first 3 months of pregnancy. After the fourth month, the mother's rubella infection is less likely to harm the developing baby.
The number of babies born with congenital rubella has decreased dramatically since the introduction of the rubella vaccine.
Pregnant women who are not vaccinated for rubella and who have not had the disease in the past risk infecting themselves and their unborn baby.
Congenital rubella Symptoms
Symptoms in the infant may include:
- Cloudy corneas or white appearance to pupil
- Deafness
- Developmental delay
- Excessive sleepiness
- Irritability
- Low birth weight
- Intellectual disability
- Seizures
- Small head size
- Skin rash at birth
Tests and Exams
The baby's health care provider will run blood and urine tests to check for the virus.
Treatment of Congenital rubella
There is no specific treatment for congenital rubella. Symptoms are treated as appropriate.
Prognosis (Outlook)
The outcome for a child with congenital rubella depends on the severity of problems present. Heart defects can often be corrected. Damage to the nervous system is permanent.
Potential Complications
Complications may involve many parts of the body.
- Cataracts
- Glaucoma
- Retinitis
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Pulmonary artery stenosis
- Other heart defects
Central nervous system:
- Intellectual disability
- Motor disability
- Small head from failed brain development
- Encephalitis
- Meningitis
- Deafness
- Low blood platelet count
- Enlarged liver and spleen
- Abnormal muscle tone
- Bone disease
When to Contact a Health Professional
Call your health care provider if you have concerns about congenital rubella, if you are unsure of your vaccination status, or if you or your children need a rubella vaccine.
Prevention of Congenital rubella
Vaccination prior to pregnancy can prevent congenital rubella. Pregnant women who are not immune to rubella should avoid contact with persons who have the virus.
Mason WH. Rubella. In: Kliegman, RM, Behrman RE, St. Geme III JW, Schor NF, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 239.
Edlich RF, Winters KL, Long WB 3rd, Gubler KD. Rubella and congenital rubella (German measles). J Long Term Eff Med Implants. 2005;15(3):319-328.
Bar-Oz B, Levichek Z, Moretti ME, Mah C, Andreou S, Koren G. Pregnancy outcome following rubella vaccination: a prospective controlled study. Am J Med Genet A. 2004;130(1):52-54.
Robertson SE, Featherstone DA, Gacic-Dobo M, Hersh BS. Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome: global update. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2003;14(5):306-315.
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"The authority board awarded the contract to the Kiewit Parsons team in July 2011 with a limited scope of design and pre-construction activities," said construction authority CEO Habib Balian. "Today's action gives the contractor the go-ahead to complete the entire project and keeps us on schedule for construction completion in 2015."
In July, the construction authority was in the process of working to meet two major conditions placed on the project by Metro, which limited the availability of funds. The authority issued the Interim Notice to Proceed at that time to allow the contractor to begin work on the design and pre-construction phases of the project, while the authority continued work to meet the two funding conditions. The first condition, BNSF's abandonment of the rail right-of-way west of Irwindale was completed in February. The second condition, full control over more than 50 percent of the land needed for the project's 24-acre maintenance facility, was met late last month.


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Data Quality Services (DQS) is a brand new feature in SQL Server 2012. In short, DQS enables you to build a knowledge base, and use that knowledge base to perform a variety of critical data quality tasks such as correction, enrichment, standardization and de-duplication of your data. DQS enables a data steward or IT professional to maintain the quality of their data and ensure that the data is suited for its business usage.
Building a knowledge base is easy – using your own data, DQS allows you to discover knowledge directly from samples of your data, combining computer-assisted and interactive experiences. In addition, you can also extend your knowledge base with 3rd party data providers, using cloud-based Reference Data Services (RDS) from Windows Azure Marketplace, such as Melissa Data, Digital Trowel, Loqate and CDYNE Corp. You define the rules that DQS will apply when validating data, and the action taken when those rules are breached.
DQS also provides batch capabilities with a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) component, as well as integration with the Master Data Services (MDS) Excel add-in.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
What a day
We talk a little
We eat a little
We sew a little
And we oooo and ahhhh over everyone's beautiful accomplishments!
And here is the same pattern in a different color way.
I'm still working on my BOM pattern.
Love those teapots :-)
Happy Quilting!
16 comments:
- Mary said...
It is fun to see quilt patterns in more then one color way or diferent types of fabrics. I had quilt bee at my house last week and one friend showed same quilt two color ways, and two friends showed same charm pack, two patterns. It was a lot of fun.
- March 14, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- Julia said...
It must be so much fun to get together with sewing buddies!
- March 14, 2011 at 8:06 AM
- Cathy said...
How sweet. I love tea pots and cups. Hugs
- March 14, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- andsewon said...
Love them all!
- March 14, 2011 at 8:26 AM
- Snoodles said...
Those are adorable! Are ya'll following a pattern - where can I check out and buy it? So cute! (I'll put it on my list, lessee, I should be able to get to it in 2014!!)
Jacque in SC
- March 14, 2011 at 8:41 AM
- Loris said...
Ahhh, tea. My favorite :-) Sounds like a lovely day. The quilts are sweet!
- March 14, 2011 at 9:34 AM
- Stray Stitches said...
It's all so beautiful! Fantastic work.
- March 14, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- Esther Joy said...
Thank you for your encouragement to me in my new experiences as a blogger! I've enjoyed looking at your blog, and plan on recommending it to my daughter, who loves quilting.
- March 14, 2011 at 3:11 PM
- Cheryll said...
Days like that are just fantastic. Nice work too!
- March 14, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- IHaveANotion ~ Kelly Jackson said...
You all did a lovely job...cheerful. Its good to stitch with friends.
- March 14, 2011 at 7:03 PM
- Sallie said...
Love the tea cups and teapots! Nothing like sharing a cuppa with a DD or close friends.
- March 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM
- Sonia said...
Cool! I like the quilts. This pattern would be great to make for my Mom, as she collects tea pots. :)
- March 14, 2011 at 7:44 PM
- Crispy said...
What a cute project!! How fun to get with friends and make something together and to see what happens in the different color ways.
- March 15, 2011 at 7:56 AM
- Thelma said...
Sounds like a perfect day to me!
- March 15, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- Talin's Corner said...
I love it when friends work on the same project. It is always so nice to see the different results. Hope you get to have more of these days.
- March 15, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- John'aLee said...
Oh I can't wait to see your quilt when it is done. We had that quilt in for a trunk show when I had my shoppe and made up kits in different color ways for people. We even did one in blue and yellow! Good luck with it.
- March 15, 2011 at 6:36 PM


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Makeover Potato Cheese Soup Recipe
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This makeover recipe has about 40% fewer calories, two-thirds less fat, less than half the saturated fat, about half the cholesterol and a third less sodium of the original. Yet its comforting taste and creamy consistency will surely please the soup lovers in your family!—Bethany Thayer, Troutville, Virginia
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- 4 cups water
- 2-1/2 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth
- 5 cups diced peeled potatoes
- 2 large carrots, finely chopped
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons sodium-free chicken bouillon granules or 3 vegetable bouillon cubes
- 2 celery ribs, finely chopped
- 1 large sweet red pepper, finely chopped
- 4 ounces reduced-fat process cheese (Velveeta), cubed
- 1/3 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
- 2 cups shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat Swiss cheese
- 1/4 cup mashed potato flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- In a Dutch oven, combine first six ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 10-15 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Stir in celery and red pepper; simmer for 10 minutes or until tender. Reduce heat to low. stir in process cheese and mayonnaise until blended. add cheddar and Swiss cheeses; stir until melted. Stir in the potato flakes and pepper. Remove from the heat; let stand for 15 minutes. Yield: 12 servings.
Editor's Note: This recipe was prepared with Knorr vegetable bouillon. A half-cube makes 1 cup prepared bouillon.
Originally published as Makeover Potato Cheese Soup in Light & Tasty February/March 2004, p17
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11 February 2009
(vintage from Etsy, APC spring collection, Orla Kiely spring collection)
25 comments:
- futurelint said...
ooh, I would wear the orla kiely ones in a hearbeat!
- February 11, 2009
- Anonymous said...
When I was little I used to own two pairs of corduroy overalls, one in sky blue and another in light purple.
- February 11, 2009
- svenskaussie said...
Me too, mine were black cotton and I wore them to Uni most days, I lived in them. Can't see myself wearing them again, I bet you'd you fab in them though.
- February 11, 2009
- Helen said...
Oh I had loads of dungarees! i had some bright orange short ones and some blue denim ones from the gap and a dungaree dress too. they were ridiculously comfy.
i spotted this girl wearing some on w_r the other day
she makes them look very cute.
- February 11, 2009
- Niki said...
I adore overalls. I am debating on buying a cord pair as we speak. The shorts and skirt versions are especially epic. I cannot wait for spring/summer!
- February 11, 2009
- Hannah @ LONDON--ROSE ♥ said...
I loveee your blog! && was wondering if you wanted to exchange links?
let me know ♥
- February 11, 2009
- Eyeliah @ stylesymmetry.com said...
Oh Untamed Heart, one of my all time faves when I was a teen. I had the overalls too, would love to see them make a comeback.
- February 11, 2009
- copperoranges said...
i think overalls are adorable, but i dont think i'll be wearing them again! i already look young as it is!
- February 11, 2009
- Lo said...
do it!
- February 11, 2009
- jayne said...
wow the last pair is fantastically cute, i remember wearing those when I was 8 hehe
- February 11, 2009
- indigorchid said...
Oh, you're spot on! I've actually noticed a couple of them too - mostly in ads in Nylon. I too remember vividly wearing overalls, but I think I was about 10, and most of the allure came from my older sister wearing one. It probably looked way cooler on her anyways. Haha!
- February 11, 2009
- thevintageyear said...
I totally feel you on this one... I spent several of the '90s years getting about in overalls too. I had a lemon yellow corduroy pair and a stripy blue and white pair. They were hideous but now I kinda wish I'd kept them! I wish I could've seen your floral ones though, I'm sure they were the best!
- February 11, 2009
- WendyB said...
Brings me back to 1983.
- February 12, 2009
- Shay said...
oh god, no. I had a pair of Ikeda overall shorts, remember those?
- February 12, 2009
- Frances Baker said...
Wow! I just did a post on my own new pair of overalls! I did actually have a few concerns about re-wearing what I wore in my teens. I also rediscovered how comfy overalls can be though! I really like the short ones you pictured on the right.
- February 12, 2009
- Manja said...
I absolutely love the one on the right! Luckily, I never wore a jeans overall during my teenage years so this wouldn't be a "bad 90s memory" fashion revival for me haha
- February 12, 2009
- Parapluie said...
The one on the right is so wonderful!
- February 12, 2009
- Ashley B ;-) said...
I think I wore overalls for three years solid back in the day. They were my favourite thing to wear! I'm actually kinda glad they're coming back (though I will say I'm also very happy with the improvments). I love the Orla Kiely ones!
- February 12, 2009
- Hippy Chic said...
oh yes, they are coming back I can feel it! I have been scouring thrift stores to find the perfect pair, no luck yet..
jess s.
- February 12, 2009
- Anonymous said...
Its funny to think that one of the regular places my friends and I shopped at was the army surplus store. Cheap and chic, indeed. I love to see the trajectory of all these styles and trends. Thanks, Sally, for bringing up the connection to the early 90's. Even the girl's hair in the center photo is very like that era.
- February 12, 2009
- Andrea said...
Ah, those ruffles are killing me! Too cute!
- February 12, 2009
- Rachel C. said...
that last pair is absolutely adorable! being old enough to actually remember the entire decade that is the 90's, there are many popular fashion trends that have made their way into the revival that i just can't bring myself to sport - cute overall shorts like these my change my mind, though.
- February 12, 2009
- Fashion Fille said...
ahh yes!
- February 14, 2009
- NCM said...
Oh! I love the ones on the far right
- February 14, 2009
- bibprofessor said...
Hi Sally, yes overalls are coming back in may sorts, so much that we are some overalls fans organizing an international overalls day on November 20, and on my blog you can find links to more overalls fans, some of them also interested in fashion !
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Exploratour - Carbon Cycle of Mars
Carbon Dioxide
Carbon can be found in many different places on Earth. You can find it in rocks, trees, oceans and in groundwater. It is also found as a gas in carbon dioxide, or CO2.
Just as H2O circulates between the atmosphere, the ground, and ocean waters in the water cycle, CO2 also circulates between these three reservoirs, solidifing as rock, dissolving out of rock into the water, baked out of rock into the air, or being absorbed directly into the waters at the Earth's surface. The transfer of CO2 between the air, water, and the ground is called the carbon cycle.


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In nearly 40 years of working at Colorado, Philip DiStefano has seen a lot of coaches and administrators come and go.
The chancellor couldn't be happier with the leadership currently in place in CU's athletic department.
"When I look at who is at the senior leadership, with Rick George, with Ceal Barry, with our coaches -- (Mike) MacIntyre and (Tad) Boyle and (Linda) Lappe and the others -- I think we have the best team we've had at that level in a long time," DiStefano said.
He'd better feel that way, since the Buffs are paying their leaders an unprecedented amount of money. MacIntyre, who was hired in December, is the highest-paid football coach in CU history. Boyle is the highest-paid men's basketball coach in CU history.
This week, George came aboard as the new director of athletics. He is not only the highest-paid AD in Colorado history, he is the highest-paid administrator ever in the CU system.
DiStefano believes the money is worth it to get the caliber of people the Buffs now have on board.
"I'm convinced we have the right head coaches now, especially in men's and women's basketball and football," he said. "And, I believe now we have the right AD in place."
George, of course, still has to prove himself. He's still a few weeks away from his first day on the job. That'll come on Aug. 12. But, he has made a good first impression on some of those he will lead.
"I thought it was really refreshing just to see and hear a new voice for the direction of the athletic department," said Deric Swanson, the executive director of BuffVision. "What we had in the past was excellent, but with the change, we needed to go in a new direction. It sounds like we got a guy that has a vision, has a plan and the new voice was really exciting for most of the people in the room."
Former AD Mike Bohn, who was forced out in May, was well-liked by many in the athletic department. He had his detractors, too. Regardless, CU staff members have run through some emotions during the change.
"After everybody got over the shock that Mike was gone, it was just really, 'OK, who is going to be our next leader?' " said David Plati, CU's sports information director.
Now that they have their new leader, Plati said, "People naturally are excited, yet nervous, by change."
George is the fifth athletic director during Plati's time at CU. He said in every case of a new hire, people on the staff get nervous about whether the new AD will make staff changes, and how his philosophy will differ from the previous AD.
Three of the four previous ADs Plati has worked for -- Eddie Crowder, Bill Marolt and Dick Tharp -- were already in the CU system when they were hired. Bohn came to CU after a long career in collegiate athletics that included two previous AD jobs.
George comes to CU with some previous experience in college athletics (including at CU from 1987-91), but it's been 15 years since he worked in this atmosphere. During the past 15 years, he has worked for the PGA Tour, the Fore!Kids Foundation and the Texas Rangers baseball team.
"In Rick's case, it's a very unique blend of background he's got that we've never had before," Plati said. "What's exciting is, what is he going to apply from outside of college athletics that nobody really has had here before?"
Those in the athletic department, including the athletes, are curious to find the answer to that question. There is confidence, however, that George can lead the Buffs forward.
"The bottom line is, everybody takes the job to try to move the ball forward and down the field -- to advance the mission of the university and the athletic department," associate athletic director Jim Senter said. "There's no question Mike took it to a certain distance. Now Rick's charge is, 'You take the ball and you carry it.'"
DiStefano was more than happy to hand the ball to George. Barry, the senior woman administrator and associate AD, is happy to see George carrying the ball, too.
"I think it's a great choice for the university," she said.
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Rangers power on at summit
Jon Daly's 21st goal of the season helped League One leaders Rangers extend their unbeaten run to 30 games with a 2-0 win over Ayr United.
The Irishman headed home the clincher on the hour after Nicky Law had opened the scoring at Somerset Park 30 seconds into the second half.
The victory over the Honest Men - Rangers' 23rd league win of the campaign - maintains their 23-point lead over nearest challengers Dunfermline.
And the numbers keep stacking up for Ally McCoist's side, who can now clinch the title with just five more wins, provided the Pars do not slip up before their potentially decisive Ibrox clash on March 15.
Rangers were sloppy in the first period and had Cammy Bell to thank that they were not behind at the break.
But a faster tempo and improved passing display following the interval saw the Glasgow giants through in the end.
McCoist had to reshuffle his back four as a result of the suspensions being served by centre-halves Lee McCulloch and Bilel Mohsni.
Brazilian Emilson Cribari came in for just his third start of the season as Sebastian Faure moved to the middle of the back four while Richard Forster returned at right-back.
And there was a shaky moment for the new-look defence inside the first two minutes as Alan Forrest - younger brother of Celtic winger James - wriggled into space on the by-line to tee up former Ibrox hitman Kevin Kyle.
Bell was there with a smart stop, though, and the keeper did even better 10 minutes later as he sprang to his left to push away a dipping Craig Malcolm volley fizzing towards the top corner.
Rangers threatened seriously for the first time after quarter of an hour as David Templeton sent stand-in skipper Lee Wallace sprinting down the left. The full-back found Dean Shiels with his cut-back but the Northern Irishman's shot at David Hutton was tame.
Ayr were testing the Ibrox side's makeshift back-line with a series of dangerous corners but while Rangers just about clung on, there was enough menace in the deliveries to have McCoist worried.
But again the Gers manager had his number one to thank on the half hour as Bell saved brilliantly down to his left after Michael Donald was somehow allowed to gather Brian Gilmour's corner before smashing a shot from 10 yards out without a player in blue in sight.
It was a let off but the visitors should have responded with an instant sucker-punch. They broke swiftly up field as Shiels powered forward before rolling in Fraser Aird.
The Scottish youth international's strike cannoned off the bar but there was a red face waiting for Law after the midfielder skied the rebound with the net gaping.
Malcolm then wasted another Ayr chance by blasting wide from 18 yards as Rangers continued to look sloppy at the back.
But whatever McCoist said to his team at half-time, it worked as within 30 seconds of the restart they grabbed the lead. Ayr failed to clear their lines and that let in Aird to buzz a dangerous ball across the face of goal for Law to bundle home.
Malcolm came close again with a low shot but Rangers went up another gear as Daly beat Hutton to Wallace's tempting cross to nod home the second.
The fight went out of the home side after that and only a decent stop from Hutton prevented substitute Andy Little adding a third for the Light Blues in the closing stages.
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I recently tried to get my daughter a library card, but due to where we are renting, we are out of the library district. They asked that we pay $84 a year. I tried to explain due to our finances, that would be unrealistic for me. I personally don't need a card, but I do feel our youth needs to be familiar with being in a library, being responsible for the book you borrow. The whole experience, I feel, is most important to our children.
Not enough kids read nowadays, and my little 4 year old who loves books is being turned away. The library is a beautiful institution that should be enjoyed by all children regardless of where they live. There should be some type of "all children welcomed here" program. It is unfair to punish the child for an adult's decision to set rules of boundaries and for another adult's lack of funds. I truly believe allowing a child to be part of a library and borrow books today prepares them for tomorrow.
I hope my suggestion gets taken into account; having to tell my daughter she was not allowed to get her own card brought her to tears. It really broke my heart, and I felt it should of broke the lady's heart behind the counter too. But unfortunately society leaves us with this "tough cookies; it's not my problem; I just follow the rules, I don't make them" mentality.
As I mentioned above, deny me a card that's fine. But not a child of 4 years old.
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Consider lines l and m. Imagine that they intersect each other and form a 90° angle between them. In this situation the product of the gradients from each line is equal to -1.
l: y = ax+b
m: y = mx+n
l and m form a 90° angle. (I don't know the precise English linguistics describing such a situation, please enlighten me).
a * m = -1
Here's what I can't figure out: How do I setup a proof of the above? I mean I can prove that a * m will be negative, because if the two lines form a 90° angle then the two lines can't be both positive nor negative, they have to be one of each, which will always yield a negative number. I can also see in my head that if m is 2 then a must be negative and 1 divided by m.
I need to be able to write QED at the end, can someone help me please?


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A House committee has approved legislation that would change the way Arkansas approves charter school applications.
The House Education Committee on Tuesday advanced legislation that would designate the state Education Department and not the Board of Education as the primary authorizer of charter schools. The proposal by Republican Rep. Mark Biviano of Searcy now heads to the House for a vote.
Biviano's proposal would require the state education commissioner to appoint a panel of his staff to review and approve charter school applications. The Board of Education would have the power to review that panel's decisions.
Biviano had originally proposed legislation that would have taken the power to approve charter schools from the state board and would have created a new independent commission to consider applications.


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Jeff Jonas is an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of the IBM Entity Analytics Group. The IBM Entity Analytics Group was formed based on technologies developed by Systems Research & Development (SRD), founded by Jonas in 1984, and acquired by IBM in January, 2005.
Prior to the acquisition Jonas lead SRD through the design and development of a number of unique systems including technology used by the Las Vegas gaming industry. One such innovation played a pivotal role in protecting the gaming industry from aggressive card count teams. The most notable known as the MIT team featured in the book "Bringing Down the House", and movie "21." This work is frequently featured in documentaries appearing on, the Discovery Channel, Learning Channel and the Travel Channel.
Following an investment in 2001 by In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA; SRD began playing a role in America's national security and counterterrorism mission. One such contribution includes an analysis of the connections between the individual 9/11 terrorists. This link analysis is now taught in universities and has been widely cited by think tanks and the media, for example, an extensive one-on-one interview with Peter Jennings that aired on ABC PrimeTime.
Jonas designs next generation technology that helps organizations better leverage their enterprise-wide information assets. With particular interest in real-time "sensemaking" these innovative systems fundamentally improve enterprise intelligence which makes organizations smarter, more efficient and highly competitive.
Jonas' work has received wide media attention from the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, to Fortune Magazine, MSNBC and National Public Radio. A highly sought after speaker, Jonas travels the globe discussing innovation, national security, and privacy with government leaders, industry executives, leading global think tanks, privacy advocacy groups, and policy research organizations. He is a Member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, a Board Member of the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), on the EPIC Advisory Board, on the Privacy International Advisory Board, a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and a Distinguished Engineer of Information Systems (adjunct) at Singapore Management University.
Jonas periodically testifies on privacy and counterterrorism in such venues as the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, and other federally convened commissions.
Jonas was briefly a quadriplegic in 1988 following a car accident. Today, he competes in Ironman triathlons around the world. He has three wonderful children he raised as a single father.
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Northern Trust Corporation (Nasdaq: NTRS) today announced that it received no objections from the Federal Reserve to the proposed capital actions contained in its 2014 Capital Plan.
Northern Trust's Capital Plan, which was approved by its Board of Directors prior to submission to the Federal Reserve, requested authority to increase its quarterly common stock dividend to $0.33 per share from $0.31 per share, effective in the second quarter of 2014. At its regular April meeting, Northern Trust's Board of Directors will consider formal approval of the planned dividend increase, which is expected to be payable July 1, 2014.
In addition, Northern Trust's Capital Plan provides for the repurchase of up to $425 million of its common stock through the open market or in privately negotiated transactions between April 2014 and March 2015. The timing of the common stock repurchases and the exact number of shares repurchased will depend on various factors, including Northern Trust's capital position, internal capital generation, market conditions, and other investment opportunities.
"Northern Trust continues to have a focused business model, strong capital position and conservative risk profile, and we are pleased that the Board will consider a dividend increase at its April 15, 2014 meeting," Northern Trust Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frederick H. Waddell said. "We believe our Capital Plan, and the level of capital distributions that it included, demonstrates the strength of Northern Trust's financial position."
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This morning the sun souses
and shimmers through trees swaying
in an arc over a road I've never before
noticed called Millstone: two syllables,
accrued weight. Soon leaves
will flame and fall to the ground like prayer
reminding me why I keep vigil at the town
square, draft statements, help build a school.
This morning after the first sip of Native Thunder
coffee roasted by a neighbor, I pick up last
night's cups stuffed with crumpled tissue, not
annoyed about the mess but grateful the messers are
here walking through the house in underwear
and unbrushed endless hair. They are my life, as is
the light seducing the trees. My daughters, blinking
like stars dropped into life on earth, appear on this
summer morning and first Johnny Cash
then Chucho Valdes ripples through the house.
We plan what we will cook for dinner; green beans
their father grew spill out of baskets and bowls.
"Gratitude" is one of three poems by Kathy Engel in the Beloit Poetry Journal's spring 2012 issue, which serves as the chapbook for the Split This Rock poetry festival in Washington, D.C., from March 22 to 25. Ms. Engel, who lives in Sagaponack, will join Alice Walker and Naomi Shihab Nye, among others, in reading "poems of provocation and witness" at the festival, which aims to promote social change through workshops, panel discussions, and youth programs. Ms. Engel is a founder of the women's organization Madre and of the Hayground School. She teaches at New York University.


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Lancaster Super Speedway is back in action Saturday, Aug. 15 when LSS hosts the Back To School Bash and Fan Appreciation Night at the half-mile track.
LSS, after taking Saturday, Aug. 8 off, will feature five divisions running.
Track action will include the Faith Funderburke Realty Super Stock, Deal 1 Auto Sales SECA Crate Sportsman, Cauthen Motors Renegades, U.S. Bonding Vintage and M&M Garage Extreme 4.
The Faith Funderburke Realty Back To School backpack giveway is for the first 50 kids, ages 5-12, through the grandstands gates.
Lancaster Super Speedway will host the Smokehouse 25 on Saturday, Aug. 1.
Headlining the night will be the SECA Crate Late Model Division paying $2,000 to win with a $100 entry, 12 or less cars $150 start, 13 or more cars $200 to start.
Some of the Carolinas top SECA Crate Late Model drivers will compete for the $2,000 payday.
For the 2015 racing season, the SECA Crate Late Model winners list is Steve Banal with two wins; Timbo Mangum, two; Brandy Baker, two; Benji Knight, one and Trent Ivey, one.
Lancaster Super Speedway will feature the return of the Limited Late Models, with some of the area's top Limited Late Models and 525's drivers expected to be at the half-mile dirt oval on Saturday, July 25.
Heintz Performance has put up a tire and wheel bonus for the race.
Lancaster Super Speedway had another rain out for the 2015 racing season Saturday, July 18 at the half-mile track.
LSS officials, with the weather cancelation, are gearing up for a big race this weekend.
Lancaster Super Speedway features six divisions of racing Saturday night, July 18 at the half-mile track.
Lancaster Super Speedway will offer bang-up racing action at the half-mile oval on Saturday, July Fourth.
LSS will host the Cauthen Motors July Fourth Showdown to highlight its Independence Day celebration of our nation's 239th birthday.
Lancaster Super Speedway fans were provided thrilling racing Saturday night, June 27 at the half-mile dirt oval.
In the Faith Funderburke Realty Super Stock main event, the front row was Andy Hodges and Joseph Engelbrecht.
The Lancaster Super Speedway caps the June schedule with six divisions of racing Saturday, June 27.
The LSS card is highlighted by the return of the SECA Crate Late Model Division, Faith Funderburke Realty Super Stock, Deal 1 Auto Sales SECA Crate Sportsman, Cauthen Motors Renegades, U.S. Bonding Vintage and M&M Garage Extreme.
Action last week, June 20, provided some of the best racing of the season as some tempers were flaring as well.
Travis Sharpe captured the second annual Buddy Crook Memorial Race, featuring the Monster Minis at Lancaster Super Speedway on Saturday, June 20.
The Monster Minis front row for the $2,500-to-win Buddy Crook Memorial had Wes Helms and Nick Walker.
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I feel really, really stupid right now. Can I borrow the dumb hat because I can't seem to figure out the cat one. *smacks self on head for having a dumb moment*
logan is right some of those are like...porn words! Oh well. I think Logan and I are just about the worst ones on here because we can't seem to stop talking about these swear words!
What on earth does fornification under consent of king have to do with this?
ding dong the witch is dead which old witch the wicked witch
With apologies to Eve Einsler we have no desire to take back this word
Vulgar Language Is Ugly
Vulgar Language Is Ugly
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- 2002 Villa Maria Merlot Reserve - New Zealand, North Island, Hawkes Bay (8/19/2006)
Deep ruby/purple. Not showing too much on the nose; just a bit of plum, boysenberries and a hint of oak. Nice silky texture on the M-F bodied palate, with a sense of elegance about it. Rather closed and primary still, it really seems to need more time. But there's some nice fruit there - earthy plums, chocolate, and smoky blackberries and rasberries. I'll try my last bottle in 3-4 years. (B+/A-)
This wine really doesn't seem to have moved much in the last year and a half since I first tasted it in NZ. There's promise here, but I think a little patience will be rewarded.


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Xbox Music Features
Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft's New Xbox Music Player
Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft's New Xbox Music Player
The music industry has reinvented itself more times than Madonna. First came records, then cassettes, then CDs, and the rest — legal downloading of MP3s, music subscription services, and free Internet radio — is history. But there weren't any options to combine all these new services until earlier this week, when Microsoft released Xbox Music, an all-in-one music platform.
Since there are already plenty of services you use to listen to music on the web, take a look at the reasons to make room for Microsoft's new music player in your online world.


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Monday, July 18, 2011
Daily News of Open Water Swimming.....Great Review of the Peaks to Portland
Before the Peaks to Portland Swim, Ellen Shockro of California introduced herself to me. She's an amazing athlete and swim enthusiast. Today, I received an email from her and she mentioned that she wrote an article about Saturday's 2.4 mile ocean swim for the internationally recognized website "The Daily News of Open Water Swimming" . It's a fantastic article on the Peaks to Portland Swim. Please visit their website http://dailynewsofopenwaterswimming.com/ . I'm hoping that swimmers in the international community will want to plan a vacation in Maine next year and swim the Peaks to Portland. It's a great swim promoted by the Cumberland County YMCA. Also, it's a YMCA fundraiser that all proceeds go directly to their swim programs. Thank you, Ellen, for writing such a great review of the Peaks to Portland 30th Anniversary Swim. It is very much appreciated.
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- Nitsirk said...
It was great to meet you today on the beach. I can't wait to read all about your adventure. Good luck! -Kristin
- July 23, 2011 at 7:49 PM
- Virginia Wilder Cross said...
Pat, we are so inspired - good luck from all your friends at Pine Point Beach. Ginny, from Gorham
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Homicide detectives say Jessica Alinsky told at least nine different stories about how her boyfriend ended up with a fatal gunshot wound to the head following a domestic dispute at their Hazle Township residence two years ago.
She refused to say anything Monday.
The 29-year-old invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when called to the witness stand during a coroner's inquest in which a Luzerne County jury is being asked to determine the manner of death of Matthew Ryan Gailie.
"She will not be testifying in the proceeding," her attorney Gary Marchalk told Luzerne County Coroner William Lisman, who called for and officiated over the rare court proceeding.
Luzerne County Assistant District Attorney Dan Zola is calling witnesses and presenting evidence, and will eventually ask the six-member jury to recommend whether Gailie's death was accidental, suicide or homicide.
Following a frantic 911 call by Alinsky the night of Sept. 2, 2011, police and paramedics found a bloodied Gailie dead on the couple's living room floor with a gunshot wound to the face. Alinsky insisted Gailie, a 34-tear-old state prison guard who she was dating for two years, shot himself following a heating domestic dispute about finances, several state police officials testified Monday.
Those same officials noted the story immediately sounded suspicious and the scene seemed "staged."
"This is a scene that was disturbed and manipulated. Everything relevant was moved or manipulated," testified Trooper John Corrigian, a member of the forensic unit for state police at Hazleton. "Nothing appeared right or normal for it to be suicide."
It's clear Gailie's body had been moved, Corrigan said. Gailie was found laying on his back, with his head propped against a wooden chair, the trooper said. Alinsky was adamant that's how she found him, but it was clear Gailie initially dropped facedown in a nearby couch because of a large pool of blood that soaked through a blanket and then a cushion.
Most telling, investigators said, was where they found the gun: still in Gailie's hand with his finger in the trigger well.
"You find it everywhere, but in the victim's hand," Corrigan said.
Troopers also thought it was curious the right-handed Gailie had the gun in his left hand.
"There's absolutely no way the gun would end up where it was," said state police Cpl. Shawn Williams.
Williams said Alinsky, who was covered in blood all over her body, agreed to be interviewed by police at the Hazleton barracks and the blurted out some odd comments while walking to his cruiser.
"She turned to me and said, 'Did I kill him? My finger was on the trigger. Our fight caused this to happen,'" Williams recalled. Alinsky would later say she didn't literally mean her finger was on the trigger, but that she worried Gailie killed himself "because of the fight," Williams said.
During the course of several interviews over several days, Alinsky gave police multiple inconsistent statements and even told some outright lies, Williams said.
"Her story didn't make sense to us," Williams said.
Each time she was confronted, her story changed a bit to the point where she gave nine different accounts, he said. Initially, she claimed she was upstairs when she heard a pop and found Gailie wounded. Then she said she was in a downstairs bathroom. Soon it changed to being in the same room with him pleading with him to stop pointing the gun to his head. Her "final version," Williams said, was that during their argument, Gailie came from behind her as she covered her head with her arms. She said Gailie reached his arms around her body and the gun fired as it was pointed at his face, Williams said.
Williams noted that Alinsky acknowledged moving Gailie's body to clean him with a towel. He noted she also admitted waiting almost 10 minutes before calling 911 because she was in "shock."
Testimony regarding ballistics and gunpowder residue results is expected today when the inquest resumes.
The Luzerne County Coroner's Office has considered Gailie's death as undetermined since his death. Lisman told jurors it will be up to them to give a recommendation.
"It's the issue you, the jury, must decide," Lisman said.
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Private Networks For Public Safety 45
JonZittrain writes "Projects like the New American Foundation's Commotion are designing ad hoc mesh networking to keep communications open when governments want to censor. Former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and I argue that mutual-aid-based networks can be helpful for public safety, too, after attacks or natural disasters. There should be easy practices for anyone to open up an otherwise-closed Wi-Fi access point if it's still connected to broadband and is near people in trouble, and separately, to develop delay- and fault-tolerant fallback ad hoc networks so users' devices can communicate directly with one another and in a mesh. This can happen even while full packet-based ad hoc mesh is being figured out. The ideas have been developed a little in workshops at Harvard's Berkman Center and the FCC. Why not bring the human rights and public safety communities together towards a common goal?"


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Just put it off for a while. It can be done safely. The path is obvious.
Their replacement energy sources doesn't seem like a good alternative.
...from a dude that owns a solar-power company? The story is slashdot-worthy, but the tone is partisan fluff. Is he really the only guy submitting this story?
To be fair TFA does actually say they are planning to drop nuclear by the 2030s, and other sources [nhk.or.jp] agree. The guy is a wanker but unfortunately he was the first one to get this story voted onto the front page, so let's get on with the debate.
from a dude that owns a solar-power company
This isn't wikipedia, you can submit a story about yourself if you want, and if it is deemed interesting it will go to the front page.
Is he really the only guy submitting this story?
Which parts of his submission do you take exception to, whoever you are besides a coward?
The summary appears to be accurate and the article is real enough.
As for as partisan fluff, could you please tell me what you are talking about? I don't see it.
If the story is good, who cares who submitted it? I don't perceive much partisan fluff in the summary.
Oh man, a mdsolar story. I was beginning to miss his astroturf shenanigans.
They have even been repairing units 5 and 6 at Fukushima Daiachii to go back on line within the next few years. All other nuclear plants are being repaired and re-fitted. It looks like a long way from a plan to phase out nuclear power any time soon.
Again! [wikipedia.org]
The way I have seen the debate presented:
1. The world runs on fossil fuels primarily
2. Fossil fuels contribute to global warming
3. The world needs energy sources that don't contribute to global warming
4. Atomic energy does not produce CO2, but questions about its safety (Chernobyl, Fukushima, 3 mile) or public worries about its safety persist
5. Renewable energy sources, in there current state, can't satisfy current or projected demand for energy
6. Oh no.
The real solution are LFTR reactors.
No more enrichment, ever.
Cheap fuel (currently is a waste product of mining)
No more 100+ Atmosphere pressure vessels to burst
No more backup generators needed
Accidental meltdowns are impossible
Turn reactor on/off in hours/minutes not months
Unable to weaponize any part of fuel or waste.
Needs Uranium only to start the reactor
Creates leukemia fighting medical isotopes from waste
Creates isotopes for space-grade batteries for NASA from waste
Very little waste is left-over and it's radioactive for about 300 years.
Prototype was run for 5 years+ in the 70s.
Both China and India are working on it (and THEY will get the patents)
-Regulations set by existing Nuke industry.
-"Nuclear is bad" mentality of public and politicians.
The real solution are LFTR reactors.
Unless, of course, they get scooped by LENR reactors [wired.co.uk].
(Hey, a guy can dream)
Prototype was run for 5 years+ in the 70s.
Enough said?
So it ran 1975? That is roughly 40 years ago, in case you are bad at math
If 'someone' would decide to build one now, it would be 15 years development time and on top of that another ten years to find a site where you can build it and get a permit to do so.
You know, in our days people fight against 5 wind mills build 10 miles away from their home.
Frankly, the only countries where you can build a nuclear plant, regardless of thechnology, are 3rd world
Your idea of problems with nuclear power are interesting.
Three Mile Island really affected nobody - not even plant workers. It is somewhat of a blot on the history of nuclear power, but there are plenty of those anyway.
Chernobyl was caused by a stupid test that was mismanaged - sort of a stupid on top of a stupid. There has certainly been some health considerations for a few thousand people and it is likely the most widespread effect of nuclear power, ever. And it would be nice if it stayed that way. But, there is no accounting for stupid.
Fukushima could have been forseen, but the environmental conditions were a bit extreme. Part of the problem is and continues to be spent fuel storage. We should be reprocessing this but because the fuel rods contain plutonium this is viewed as a way to make bombs and strictly forbidden right now. So we are all waiting around for either a reprocessing plant or two to be built - since the 1950s - or for there to be constructed a disposal site - since the 1960s at least.
Probably 90% of the problems with nuclear power could be solved by having a small number of reprocessing plants for spent fuel rods built. Understand that the fuel rods have been only around 5% "spent" and could be reprocessed into new fuel rods with the 95% of the active materials still present in them. The "no reprocessing" philosophy is like having a car that spews 95% of the gasoline out the tailpipe unburned and leaving this situation for 50 years.
Silly Japan, how are you going to fend off all of those space aliens without giant nuclear powered mecha?
In fact, it could be more than 20 prime ministers until that time.
The big question is, whether Japan is even capable of doing anything like this at all. They have been unable to implement internationally widespread safety measures that the contructors of the very reactors recommended, that have been destroyed in the accident. And that would have been cheap, less than $10bn for all 50 reactors, yet the Japanese didn't. And this isn't a singular experience.
Japan has stagnated economically for the last 25 years. Last year, the global shortage of harddisks wasn't down to the tsunami in Japan, but a flood in Thailand of all places. (Which intends to build at least 5 nuclear reactors, btw.) Currently, Japan is paying on the order of $30bn on imports per year to very imperfectly compensate for the lack of nuclear power - "volontary" blackouts and shutdown are continuing as power saving measures during the summer. And unlike other expenditures, Japan can't pay for this with domestic debt, because they actually have to pay a foreign country in foreign currency - which is unsustainable in the long run without a source of income, which hasn't been forthcoming in Japan for the last quarter of a century. And as Steins Law says, this will stop.
Renewable energy is expensive and no country has as yet installed anything in the way of the infrastructure require to use them on more than a small scale. So far, only the low-hanging fruits have been picked that stress the existing infrastructure to its limit. And Japan, being an island with two separate power systems, is in an even worse position than just about any other country imaginable.
The question for anyone outside Japan isn't just whether Japan will be capable of pulling it off. The question isn't just if one of the regularly resigning Prime Ministers of Japan turns his or her back to this policy and makes it null and void. The actual question is whether, by 2040, Japan is still going to matter.
The big question is, whether Japan is even capable of doing anything like this at all.
There is no question, Japan was forced to do it when almost all reactors were taken offline simultaneously in the wake of the earthquake, and coped quite well.
They have been unable to implement internationally widespread safety measures that the contructors of the very reactors recommended, that have been destroyed in the accident. And that would have been cheap, less than $10bn for all 50 reactors, yet the Japanese didn't. And this isn't a singular experience.
Which highlights just how broken the nuclear energy market is. The main problem is that $10bn is a lot to the nuclear industry, what with their shareholders demanding profits. The risk seemed remote and besides which the government was always going to pick up most of the tab if something did go wrong.
That's the bottom line really, either way it would
You really like to have reality bend your way, don't you?
Read the repont of the "Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission" and you will find that safety measures not being implemented, was *not* a matter of nuclear energy being nuclear energy, but a matter of nuclear energy being in Japan. The conclusion was, that Fukushima was a disaster "Made in Japan". Google it, read it.
You will also find that the epicenter of the quake was *not* in Fukushima. It was more than 100km away. That makes your cl
What is your math behind that: If germany wants to get 15% of total electricity from photovoltaics, it needs to install 150% of Germanies midday power cosumption??
That is complete nonsense.
On perfect days, much of wind and much of solar, germany is producing 60% of its power by wind and solar (around mid day). The long run (over a year) production by wind is already close to 20%.
Wasting solar energy is not the same as wasting burning coal or oil
Jesus fucking Christ Slashdot, how did this guy get modded up?
What are they going to replace it with? Oil? Natural gas?
TFS and TFA both state clearly that the intention is to boost renewable energy to 30% of the mix or more. Before 11/3 Nuclear accounted for about 23% of Japan's electricity, so the plan is quite clear.
TFS and TFA both state clearly that the intention is to boost renewable energy to 30% of the mix or more. Before 11/3 Nuclear accounted for about 23% of Japan's electricity, so the plan is quite clear.
Let me know when you find a renewable energy source that provides constant power 24/7/365.
Jesus fucking Christ Slashdot, how did this guy get modded up?
What are they going to replace it with? Oil? Natural gas?
TFS and TFA both state clearly that the intention is to boost renewable energy to 30% of the mix or more. Before 11/3 Nuclear accounted for about 23% of Japan's electricity, so the plan is quite clear.
Clearly stated intentions and actual reality are two separate things. You must be very gullible to believe everything the gubmint tells you.
If they increase their renewables to 30% of their total then that will more than replace current nuclear capacity, so their use of oil and coal for electricity won't go up. Furthermore you would actually expect it to go down as people switch to electric vehicles.
Nuclear power has an very low deaths per kWh, even when you include chernobyl, 3mile island and fukushima ( http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html [nextbigfuture.com] ). chernobyl is a terrible design (as the coolant boils, the reaction goes faster. fail), nothing like that could happen in any modern (by which i mean anything made in last few decades).
Switching to any other form of power generation will cost lives.
From a environmental point of view, suppose japan can build enough wind and solar to replace nuclear (big job on the scale of a war effort), if they did that along side nuclear they would be reducing carbon emissions. if you do it instead of nuclear then you are standing still. Now take a look at this http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ [noaa.gov] and have a read of IPCC, and explain how we are going to not hit 400 ppm.
These nuclear-phobic countries will be out-competed by China.
to shut nuclear plants down at a "country" level.
Either you reduce (axe) your power hunger, or you buy electricity from another country.
Replacing that by natural resources (non renewable) would be overkilling for the health.
There's also the theoretical renewable energy solution. But the time and the investments needed would scare all politicians.
A solution at planetary level it's a different thing. Probably photo-voltaic plants in a few main deserts plus a planetary power grid could be enough.
But also this
A solution at planetary level it's a different thing. Probably photo-voltaic plants in a few main deserts plus a planetary power grid could be enough.
But also this would scare all politicians!
So, forget it.
Actually, it's already underway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec
We provided them with some of our nuclear technology in the 1940s, too.
The nuclide release wasn't neglible, it wasn't acceptable in any way whatsoever and I have yet to see anyone in authority say so. That's nonsense. Period.
It is true, it was much smaller than that of Chernobyl, especially considering that 3 reactors were involved. But it was still so large, that the evacuation of the population was definitely necessary - though on a smaller area and for a shorter time. It also not in all places that were evacuated (especially in the south) and not in the way it was done, es
So, why - while you think radiation leaks are neglectable - is an area of 70km times 30km evacuated?
Unless Japan manages to scale back its energy demand, then I find it difficult to believe that there is anything that trumps nuclear in terms of energy production, especially given its geography. For me the focus should be on improving nuclear and making it safer. Heck, I am curious why we haven't managed to develop a good thermocouple instead of using nuclear powered steam engines?
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How can a power outage at a refinery spark $5-a-gallon gasoline at some L.A. stations? Why would the fact that California had to switch to the winter-blend fuel at the end of October — a fact known all year — raise gasoline prices to record levels?
This price surge is not a freak phenomenon or the result of a convergence of refinery problems, as the oil industry has argued. It's happened before (only the $5 level is new) and will happen again and again because California oil companies can make more money by making less gasoline.
California's under-regulated gasoline market resembles our briefly deregulated electricity grid during 2000-01, when energy pirates such as Enron manipulated prices. Why? The market is geared to shortages and scarcity. So when an inevitable problem occurs to shock the system, such as a refinery outage or pipeline problem, gasoline prices and company profits go through the roof in tandem.
The state's gasoline, the lifeblood of our economy, is priced by an under-regulated commodities market largely controlled by a handful of companies. Over the last decade, Californians have consistently paid prices that are 10 to 20 cents a gallon higher than the rest of the nation, and we have lower inventories. The rest of the continental U.S. has about 24 days of gasoline on hand; California's average is 10 to 13 days. Not surprisingly, over the last 10 years, refineries on the West Coast consistently have been among the most profitable in the continental U.S.


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Recently I noticed that my battery indicator has been losing bars. I checked. I turn it on, and run it for a while and it doesn't lose or gain even 1%. I turn it on the next night and it's 1-2% lower. This has gone on for a little while now. I'm at 44% and falling.
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The last time Munster were in action was against Edinburgh in the Heineken Cup and it will be the league leaders' first home PRO12 game of 2014.
Their head coach Rob Penney was full of praise for the Thomond Park crowd and is hopeful the Munster supporters will be out in force.
"They're terrific for us," he said. "Hopefully there will be a lot of people there to embrace this mixture of experience and youth.
"We will have a real crack and see if we can get points against Cardiff and get this little four-week block on the road for us nicely."
Munster winger Simon Zebo recently returned to full fitness and New Zealander Penney is looking forward to seeing more from the Corkman after two appearances as a replacement in January.
"He's a terrific footballer, he had that niggly injury but that's all healed up now and he's maintained his physical state really well. Now it's about him performing and showing the world what he's capable of."
South African CJ Stander, who recently signed a two-year contract extension with the province, is looking forward to Saturday's clash with ninth-placed Cardiff.
"They're a really tough side, it's going to be a good game. All the internationals are away so it's going to be a nice, open game. The crowd at Thomond Park always lift me up so hopefully they can lift the whole team," said the back rower.
Cardiff Blues' Robin Copeland, who will join Munster in the summer, was included in Ireland's Six Nations squad but flanker Barry O'Mahony is hoping that Copeland features for his Welsh regional side this weekend.
O'Mahony has been in fine form for Munster 'A' and the flanker is excited by the prospect of facing the Wexford man.
"It will be interesting, I played Sevens with Robin a couple of summers back. We toured around Ireland playing in different tournaments so I know him well," he said.
"He's a great player and there will be no love lost anyway if he comes over this weekend!"
It is good news on the injury front for Munster as Sean Dougall (ankle), Cathal Sheridan (knee) and Luke O'Dea (hand) returned to training this week. O'Dea was available to play for Shannon in the Ulster Bank League last Saturday, but the game was postponed.
It is also positive news for Donnacha Ryan and Ivan Dineen. Ryan is continuing his recovery from a knee injury with limited training this week, while Dineen has started rehab running after injuring his ankle for Munster 'A' against Nottingham.
Paddy Butler's fitness is improving after he hurt his neck playing for Shannon recently against Blackrock College in the Ulster Bank League, but he will not be involved in training this week.
Damien Varley did not train today after sustaining delayed concussion from the game against Edinburgh. Varley will complete the IRB return-to-play protocols before he is back in action.
Academy player Johnny Holland returned to training after injuring his ribs playing for Munster 'A' against Stirling.
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Attorneys and government entities will be required to file their civil cases electronically in the Second (Ramsey County) and Fourth (Hennepin County) judicial districts beginning September 1, 2012. The requirement includes family cases, but not probate/mental health or conciliation court cases. Training on how to use the service is available through the two courts.
Electronic case filing has been available for civil and some family cases in the two counties on a limited, voluntary basis since Oct. 2010, as part of the Judicial Branch's eCourtMN initiative. On May 24, 2012, the Minnesota Supreme Court promulgated rule changes making eFiling for civil and family cases filed by attorneys and government entities mandatory effective September 1.
eCourtMN is a multi-year effort to move courts from paper files to an electronic case information environment. The eCourtMN initiative calls for the development of eFiling and eService for self-represented (pro se) litigants at a later time.
Attorneys and government entities must register to use eFiling and eService before they can file electronically. Prior to registering, attorneys and entities must first attend an eFiling and eService training.
Additional details are available online at http://www.mncourts.gov/district/2/efile (Ramsey County) and http://www.mncourts.gov/district/4/efile (Hennepin County).
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2004-05 Men's Basketball
Weekly Recap Dec. 14
Men's basketball defeated by DI Bowling Green State University
By Ben Risinger, sports information director
December 13, 2004
The Bluffton University men's basketball team (3-4) played one game last week at Division
I Bowling Green State University on Dec. 8. The Falcons won the game 87-60. The team
will be back in action this Saturday, Dec. 18 when they travel to Hiram College. Start
time for the game is scheduled for 3 p.m.
Bowling Green State University 87, Bluffton University 60
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bluffton University men's basketball team (3-4) was defeated 87-60 by Division I Bowling Green State University (4-1) at Anderson Arena on Dec. 8.
Leading Bluffton for the night was junior Scott Bergman (Elmore/Woodmore) who posted a team-high 15 points and five rebounds. Junior Eric Sweet (Ottawa/Ottawa-Glandorf) ended the double figure scoring with 11 points. Sophomore Michael Anthony (Ohio City/Delphos St. Johns) and junior Michael Kingsley (Bluffton/Bluffton) both ended the game with nine points.
"We played very well and we played very hard," head coach Guy Neal said. "We would
go through a few minutes when everything was good and then they (Bowling Green) would
have a six to ten point spurt. I just think that's the difference in the level of
play between Division I and Division III."
Bowling Green came into the contest with a definite height advantage that forced the Beavers to take their game outside. The tallest man on Bluffton's roster is 6'6" (Eric Sweet) compared to Bowling Green who has six players who are 6'6" or taller. The Falcons height advantage would hurt the Beavers inside game as it limited them to only 12 points in the lane as Bowling Green posted 52 points under the bucket.
The Beavers did go outside to shoot as they were 9 of 28 from the three point line and 18 of 51 in total field goals for the game. Bluffton shot 35 percent compared to Bowling Green's 64 percent for the contest.
Leading the Beavers on the season
Junior Scott Bergman leads all scoring for Bluffton and the Heartland Conference with 137 total points (19.6 ppg average). Bergman posts 17 assists and 15 steals to lead Bluffton in both categories and is second on the team in rebounds with 31 (12 offensive, 19 defensive). Junior Eric Sweet leads the team in rebounding with 34 for the season (4.9 rpg average) and blocks with a total of 13 for the year. Sweet is second on the squad in points with 81 total (11.6 ppg average) and ranks 16th in the HCAC in scoring. Junior Simeon Talley and sophomore Eric Schwieterman are second on the squad in assists with 16 for the season. Sophomore Michael Anthony is third on the team in rebounds with 29 (16 offensive, 13 defensive).


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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked riots after the acquittal of the four officers involved, was found dead in his swimming pool Sunday, authorities and his fiancee confirmed. He was 47.
King's beating after a high-speed car chase and its aftermath forever changed Los Angeles, its police department and the dialogue on race in America.
King was 25 and on parole after a robbery conviction in April 1991. In an interview in 2011, he recalled he had been drinking and was headed home from a friend's house when he saw a police car following him and panicked, thinking he would be sent back to prison. So he attempted to flee.
"I had a job to go to that Monday, and I knew I was on parole, and I knew I wasn't supposed to be drinking, and I'm like 'Oh, my God,'" he told CNN.
He realized he couldn't outrun the police, but looked for a public place to stop. "I saw all those apartments over there, so I said, 'I'm gonna stop right there,'" he said. "'If it goes down, somebody will see it.'"
An amateur cameraman caught the scene as four white police officers struck King more than 50 times with their wooden batons and used a stun gun on him.
King said as the officers beat him, they yelled, "We are going to kill you, n***er," although the officers denied using racial slurs.
The video shows King cowering on the ground and attempting to crawl away as he is surrounded by a crowd of police officers. Four of them used their nightsticks to strike him.
King was beaten nearly to death. Three surgeons operated on him for five hours.
The video of the beating appeared on national television two days later, focusing attention on the issue of racially-motivated police brutality.
"We finally caught the Loch Ness Monster with a camcorder," King attorney Milton Grimes said.
Four LAPD officers -- Theodore Briseno, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind and Sgt. Stacey Koon -- were indicted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force by a police officer.
But following a three-month trial in the predominantly white Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley, three of the officers were acquitted of all charges. The jury, which had no white members, deadlocked on one charge of excessive force against Powell, and a mistrial was declared on that charge.
Powell's attorney, Michael Stone, said earlier this year the unedited video worked against King and helped prove the officers' case.
"Most of the nation only saw a few snippets where it's the most violent," Stone said. "They didn't see (King) get up and run at Powell."
But African-Americans in Los Angeles exploded in outrage. Rioters ran through the streets -- looting businesses, torching buildings and attacking those who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The violence was responsible for more than 50 deaths and $1 billion in property damage.
On the third day of rioting, King emerged from seclusion to make a plea: "People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?"
The violence ceased, but the debate did not.
Nearly a year later, the
four officers stood trial in federal court on civil rights charges. Two
African-Americans were picked for the jury, and King testified. He
hedged, however, on whether police used racial slurs during the beating.
He told CNN in 2011 that slurs were used, but said he vacillated on the
stand because his mother had told him to avoid talking about race.
Koon and Powell were found guilty and sentenced to 30 months in prison. Briseno and Wind were acquitted.
"It was like ... I just
hope we just get one," King said. "I hope we just get one on that. If we
get one, we're good. So to get the two, I was really happy."
King also sued the city of Los Angeles and was awarded $3.8 million in damages.
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TRENTON — A snapshot of the current real estate market in Mercer County continues to look grim for now but as the days get brighter and warmer, so might sales.
According to a recent report from The Long and Foster Real Estate Agency Market Minute, although there was an 11 percent increase in the total number of units sold January 2013 versus January 2012, the numbers of active listings are down an astronomical 22 percent year over year.
"This time of year, because of the cold weather, we don't see a lot of people shopping for homes and a lot of clients believe they should wait for a spring time market to list their homes," said Paul Murray Broker Associate with Long and Foster at Princeton Junction.
The report filed by the agency shows new listings of homes in January 2012 was 466; for January 2013, the number of new listings dropped 16 percent to just 393 listings. According to Murray, the drop in listings during January is not unusual and could actually forecast a better sales market for the spring.
"We saw a very strong level of activity during December of last year, and typically it is not unusual to see a drop in January because of the colder weather and people don't want to list their homes if they have children who are back in school," he said.
"In fact inventory being down is very positive and we are hearing that the markets are stronger and are coming back,"
A combination of low interest rates and a stabilized housing market could help to solidify 2013 as a buyers market, according to the industry veteran. It is also a perfect opportunity for die-hard realtors and brokers to earn a better commission. "During the downturn in the economy, we saw so many people becoming real estate agents and they were basically giving their commission away just to make the sale," said Murray.
"All of a sudden there are less agents in the market and they are starting to ask for a fair price and are expected to provide a higher level of service."
A typical commission rate for a real estate agent is between five to six percent, for each sale said Murray. Brokers and agents will negotiate based on the price location of the home.
Although the median sale price for a home in Mercer County is down two percent compared to last year, the market research did acknowledge a slight uptick in the sale price versus the list price ratio. In January, the average sale price in Mercer County was 95.3 percent of the average list price, which is 2.5 percent higher than at this time last year.
And as in many counties across the United States, location determines the value of the property. "It is never a bad time to buy in West Windsor and Princeton Junction area because of the transportation hub and the school district," he said.
Expert analysis does position the real estate market to increase during 2013 and possibly turn the page to a sellers' market by early 2014. Investors looking for a bargain are encouraged to take advantage of low interest rates and sellers who are motivated to sell.
"Real estate is very circular, goes in seven year trends," said Murray. "This is an excellent time to buy."


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- 2 cups Wheat Chex
- 1-1/2 cups Corn Chex
- 1 cup chow mein noodles
- 1/3 cup shelled pistachios
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 3/4 cup dried cranberries
- In a large bowl, combine the cereals, noodles and pistachios; set aside. In a small bowl, combine the butter, orange juice, curry, salt, garlic powder, basil, orange zest and pepper. Drizzle over cereal mixture; toss to coat.
- Transfer to a 15x10x1-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 275° for 40 minutes or until golden brown, stirring every 10 minutes. Stir in cranberries. Cool on wire racks. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 5-1/2 cups.
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"I've made this three times - the only thing I do differently is triple the sauce and double the stuff, in order to make a bigger and more flavorful batch. Everyone I've made it for loves it!"
"I made this today, it sure made the house smell great. I was enticed by the spices and ingredients- even though I am not much of a chex mix person. So my review might not be too fair. I am sure this would disappear at a party and be thoroughly enjoyed. Its spicey with the sweetness of the yummy cranberries! I have been making recipes as I get them in my mailbox- instead of just earmarking them and saying oh Ill make that someday. (I just need more eaters!)"
"I haven't made it yet, but fully intend to! Since I don't like chow mein noodles, I intend to use sesame sticks instead! Can't wait!"
"This is okay, but I've had better tasting chex mixes. The cranberries are a nice change though."


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In this working paper from the Center for Global Development, Johnny West says Iraq's oil industry has an opportunity to introduce an oil dividend based on expanding production.
RWI of oil, gas and mining company listings on 35 global stock exchanges.
This paper from Bishop Stephen Munga of Tanzania highlights the inherent policy challenges of equitable taxation in a context of growth and development.
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative - EITI and the Implementation Perspective of Vietnam
A new study on Vietnam's natural resource sectors explores the country's oil, gas and mining industries and the possibilities for joining EITI.
This report from EG Justice highlights the importance of full civil society participation in Equatorial Guinea's EITI process.
A presentation by RWI on based on analysis of EITI reports from 23 different countries.
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A wire harness terminal repair kit is available for repairing electrical wiring harnesses. This kit allows the dealer to repair broken or corroded terminals instead of replacing an entire wiring harness.
If wiring repairs are required, dealers can obtain a kit by using the included Order Form (Figures 6-11) shown. Pricing information is included for the complete boxes and restocking merchandise for the individual drawers.
Dual Wall Heat Shrink Tubing provided with Repair Kit Box # 3 may be used for 16, 18, or 20 gauge wire only. For wire gauges larger than 16, a Deutsch Jiffy Splice must be used (available in Repair Kit Box # 1 and # 2).
Dual Wall Heat Shrink Tubing containing hot melt wax is included with Repair Kit Box # 3 and offers a Ford-approved method for joining two (2) circuits. When properly used with a soldered circuit joint, this Ford-approved heat shrink tubing will provide a stable, low electrical resistance connection for years of service in any Ford or Lincoln-Mercury vehicle.
If an unreliable splicing method is used, the circuit joint may be unstable, resulting in variable resistance or a short circuit. Variable resistance can be the result of oxidation (corrosion) caused by air within the joint. A short circuit (signal leakage) is caused by either moisture on the circuit joint or a frayed wire coming in contact with another wire. Either situation may cause electrical Systems to malfunction.
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The Wonderful and the Obscure Volume 1: Rodd Keith
"Poems urgently needed to set to music! Write clever poems, catchy rhymes. Achieve fame, money in popular music field!" screamed the advertisement in the March 1955 issue of Popular Mechanics. Aspiring songwriters all over the country sent their lyrics and varying sums of money to the New York address at the end of the ad, lured in by the promise that their words would be turned into stellar songs which would be sent to radio stations and record executives- but as it turned out, the music was thrown together in minutes by bored studio musicians, and the songs would be left to languish in obscurity. This was the modus operandi of the song poem industry, a scam which started at the turn of the 20th century and has lurked at the fringes of the music world ever since.
Many song poems have become cult classics, including "Virgin Child of the Universe", "Jimmy Carter Says Yes" and "Green Fingernails". The singers and songwriters who recorded them have gained infamy as well, such as Ramsey Kearney, singer and composer of the infamous "Blind Man's Penis (Peace and Love)". But one man is revered over all others by song poem aficionados. Troubled genius, acid casualty, known as "the Mozart of Song Poems"- Rodd Keith. His weird and wonderful recordings have been compiled in the releases I Died Today, Ecstasy to Frenzy, and Saucers in the Sky. Now Happy Puppy Records has put together a new collection of Rodd's best, from the private archives of collector Bob Purse. This collection includes such gems as "Country Boy," which showcases Rodd's attempt at a Southern twang, the Muzak-esque "Before I Go Out," and the syrupy "If I Had A Million Dollars" (not to be confused with the Barenaked Ladies song, or the Eminem song).