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TOWNSEND -- Over the years, the Giving Tree project has contributed a lot to the community. This year, the organizers hope to secure more donations than ever before.
Three hundred gifts for children and people in shelters. Thousands of dollars for local and international donations. Holiday food baskets for families.
The key, said North Middlesex Regional High School faculty adviser Ray Kane, is to give people the help they need while at the same time allowing everyone to keep their dignity.
It's a cliche, he said, "but it's a hand up, not a handout."
Kane organizes the service-learning programs at the school. Students go to New Orleans or New York and work with people struggling with poverty.
It feels different when the people in need are close to home, he said.
Families who might need something, like presents or food, so they can afford to pay the electric bill, get a call from Kane.
"Those are hard phone calls to make," he said, "It's a humbling experience for me."
Everyone needs help sometime, and there are no strings attached with the gifts from the school program.
"They are our community," he said of the recipients.
Families who are picking up presents from the school can arrange to come in confidentially.
By participating in the Giving Tree, students learn to contribute to their community, Kane said.
"We have it fairly easy up here," said junior Matthew White from Pepperell, the group's financial coordinator.
"You go into Fitchburg, it's not the same," he said.
An experience at Our Father's House, an adult homeless shelter in Fitchburg, jumped out at White.
The learning group was at the shelter, to prepare and serve a meal.
"The women were coming in to eat dinner. They were shaky. They were hungry. They looked hazy," he said.
"At the same time, they were really appreciative," he said.
"That's why we do this, to help people," White said.
The tree is located right inside the main door of the school. The donations are collected and stored in Kane's room until it is time to organize and wrap them all.
As cards with gift requests are removed by donors, more cards are placed on the tree.
Despite the slack economy, the giving from the high school community has been high. This is the first year that all the requests have been posted on the tree, Kane said.
The project held two fundraisers, a coffee house and a men's fashion show, and raised $1,400. The group hopes to raise between $4,000 and $5,000 this year, Kane said.
They are doing well. By mid-December the group had already raised nearly $4,000, Kane said.
The fun part begins Saturday, Dec. 15, when more than 100 students are expected to gather in the school cafeteria for gift organization day.
Distributing the money is easy. The group can just cut a check to send to Citizens Energy or Heifer International. A few families might get a direct donation for help with fuel, but not usually, Kane said.
The other donations will be sorted and wrapped during the gift organization day. If any requests are left unfilled, cash donations will be used to purchase presents.
The big sorting day is open to anyone who would like to help. Just show up at 9 a.m. or later and stay as long as you would like.
"We try to give everybody a chance to get involved," Kane said.


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Hyper V is the virtualization software where enabling remote management requires you to either
a) use an unsupported utility to enable remote management: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/HVRemote [microsoft.com]
b) Go through a multipage web article: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jhoward/archive/2008/03/28/part-1-hyper-v-remote-management-you-do-not-have-the-requested-permission-to-complete-this-task-contact-the-administrator-of-the-authorization-policy-for-the-computer-computername.aspx [technet.com]
c) spend way too much time mucking a
Sun had Virtual Box. Dunno if it is Oracle or just plane OSS now. Either way, I use it at home (VMWare at work). I'd rather have VMWare but can't quite warrant the cost. The VMWare I use at work is 5 or 6 years old, whereas VIrtual Box is less than a year old, and the VMWare install still works better for most operating systems as guests (Using Windows as a Host for VMWare, Windows or FreeBSD as a host for Virtual Box)
Virtualbox is all well and good, but it doesn't have the infrastructure stuff. It fills the niche that "VMware Workstation" fills, with -some- parts of the server stuff too.
Tell that to Oracle:
http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/061153.html [oracle.com]
That's a VDI link. Virtual desktop technology is vastly different than desktop hypervisors, and boot-time hypervisors like Xen, Hyper-V, ESXi, etc.
So instead of Oracle, I'll tell you: oranges and tomatoes.
I used VirtualBox until recently, and liked it, but the most recent VMware Workstation blows it away. There's enough 3D acceleration for desktop bling, USB actually works (dunno why Sun had such a problem with that, but maybe that was just me), snapshotting is easy, and it's trivial to encrypt the VM I use for financial stuff. It's mostly just usability, but it was enough to get me to switch.
For the moment is it Oracle supported.
What costs? Have you ever heard of VMWare Player [vmware.com]? Does not cost a thing and works great.
That has been the trend lately, just like companies are moving towards Google's products just because they are free, even while there are much better products on the market.
GMail runs great on my Home PC (Ubuntu), Laptop (Arch), Gaming PC (Windows 7), Work PC (Windows XP), iPhone and wherever I am that has an internet enabled device with a non retarded browser. Any other email programs that run on all those platforms and cost the same as GMail (free) and are as feature rich?
Bonus points as with a google "domain" - all I do is point my MX records at google and I get gmail on the backend.
You can only have 10 users for free, but you essentially have an unlimited number of 'groups' - and when you set those groups so that "anyone on the internet can post" they turn into forwarders.
Meaning you have 10 discrete accounts on the domain, but more aliases than you'll ever need.
Microsoft's Virtual PC software may be crappy. But XEN's is not.
VMWare shot themselves in the foot on this one.
We are now investigating XEN as a replacement for VMWare because of the licensing debacle.
The fact is that while we're willing to pay for good software, dramatic price increases and new licensing restrictions will lead us to look for less pricey options. Especially when VMWare is apparently punishing customers for buying large servers with a lot of memory, exactly the kind of servers we are buyin
VMWare has a proven history. They have set the bar and when potential problems are brought to their attention, they address it. Everybody else is simply a VMWare wannabe.
... meanwhile the vmware tools still won't build on anything newer than Linux 2.6.32 without happy-fun-patching-time. Or just using open-vm-tools, if you can't get them to build at all - it does require some elbow-grease but it does work.
I don't know about that statement. I'm running VMware tools on CentOS versions from 5.1 to 5.5, all of which are running 2.6.18 variants, and never had a single lick of problem installing the vendor-provided tools.
re-read the parent post
I have re-read the parent post, he says "the vmware tools" won't build on 2.6.32 without "happy fun patching time".
I'm saying I'm using "the vmware tools" on kernels 2.6.32 (specifically 2.6.18 variants provided in RHEL/CentOS5) with no difficulties whatsoever.
The problem is that they VMWare is too expensive. So you get a high end Server that can handle 10-20 VMs then you need to pay for the OS licences and software licenses then you add VMWare and it is only a little bit less then having separate servers with a Single Point of failure being that all these systems are on one system. So you get a VMWare wannabe that doesn't even cover 10% of the feature and you pay 90% less the cost and more often then not they still make out.
The problem is that they VMWare is too expensive.
"Expensive" is relative to your needs. If you only need to host VMs on one or two hosts, don't need live guest migration, storage migration, high-availability, or the ability to manage a farm of VM hosts, then VMware's licensing will cost you exactly nothing.
Where you get into non-trivial costs is when you need guest-migration, HA, or some of their (quite awesome, by the way) power-saving features (i.e. DRS) because at that point you end up needing shared-storage and a license for vCenter and a license for vSphere (varies based on your needs.)
Dynamics on this are changing, though... Except for the recent price spike, the cost of storage has been on downward trend for some time. And the availability of tools like FreeNAS and OpenFiler mean even a small company can afford to stand up a relatively robust shared-storage platform for not a lot more than the cost of the hardware and the time required to set it up. If you married this, (or even a simple EqualLogics device, which are also darn competitive anymore) to VMware vSphere for Small Business, you're into a solution where you've spent under $1,000 to license everything you need from VMware, $0 to license the storage product, and your only other costs are hardware and licensing for Guest OS, which would also be $0 if you're running all Open Source.
Of course, there are exceptions... There are plenty of $100 million companies that are 24x7 operations and need a tighter RTO than VMware Small Biz can provide. For them a simple SAN unit without two, three or four-way mirroring is an unacceptable risk. But I've worked with companies at the $100 million level where they're so buried in server bloat and ad hoc purchasing that the thought of a VMware environment that lets the shut-off 80% of their hardware sounds fantastic.
^ This.
If you don't need HA and can live with a little guest downtime to migrate from a downed host to a cold spare, and have the wherewithal to figure out how to use the host efficiently, ESXi costs nothing and shared iSCSI or NFS storage that performs reasonably well is pretty cheap.
I've seen such a setup: a bunch of commodity Xeon 5520-equippped boxes attached to an EqualLogic SAN stuffed with SATA drives. It could have been cheaper if Equallogic would support customer-provided disks, because the premium on rotating rust, while not at EMC's level, was still pretty steep.
Yes, they have a proven history. Yet Citrix and Xen has made lots of gains, into places like AWS, etc. Hyper-V, despite its being hamstrung, isn't bad, either. KVM and LVM are pretty darn good, but work only with Linux (a good or bad thing depending on your choice).
So they're not wannabes. VMWare has priced itself at an insanely high price point, making many organizations want to leave. Yes, there's a great ecosystem and lots of attachments, options, third party support, and it's all REALLY EXPENSIVE. Got b
I agree with you 100%. Everyone else is an imitator, but Linux is also a Unix imitator. The issue is not who has the better product, it is who offers better value. Sometime recently opensource solutions reached/are reaching/will reach the level of stability and features needed by different users. The better free (as in beer) alternatives get, the small the market place for paid for visualization will become.
I'm not predicting the death of VMWare. But I would not be surprised to see them go the way of Unix
Bullshit. Most customers are impacted. I will have to more than double my licenses if I go to Esxi 5. The adjustment is still no where near enough. Maybe 64GB per license would be enough, maybe. 128GB would be more realistic. A 2 socket 24 core 128GB server is plenty cheap these days.
The point is to use the ram you bought, not to use the bare fucking minimum.
Which again costs almost twice as much as what I have now.
I am using dual 6 core opterons. My density is very high because I have a lot of machines that don't use any disk and very little CPU. The simple fact is ESX 5 was a giant screwjob that will probably mean 4.1 is the last version of vmware we use.
I don't know if you're a marginal case or not, but I had a VMware employee that they felt that they had to raise prices because server core and memory densities were getting to the point where they were going to start losing revenue.
They said they had seen a tendency among very large customers to actually cut CPU licensing. Earlier adopters had started smaller on older hardware that didn't have the massive amount of CPU and RAM that's common today and the old per-CPU licensing model meant that growth in these environments meant more licenses.
But with memory and CPU densities growing, these customers now need fewer licenses, even though they still have VM growth, because they have been buying 24 core, 128GB boxes to replace 16/64 or smaller boxes. Each new box can replace 2 or sometimes 3 older ones.
IMHO, they're just making up for the general reduction in price they had once they started offering EssentialsPlus ESXi. This was much cheaper than ESX 3.5 with vCenter and vMotion licensing.
I also wonder if maybe they shouldn't have switched from per-socket to per-core licensing, but charging less per core than they had per socket. This would have allowed stable revenue with increased core counts.
Although it's true they raised the vRAM entitlements and this won't destroy 100% of the cost-advantage of VMware overnight, this may change when we get into future iterations of Windows, which will almost certainly will have memory requirements that could blot out the sun at high-noon.
But I'm glad they adjusted the vRAM thing... Of course, my first choice would have been to scrap it entirely and just raise the baseline price.
Then fire the morons and bring in the propeller heads.
This is work for smart folks, not idiots.
Bar none, PowerVM still has VMWare beat in most areas that matter, but vSphere 5 is a step in the right direction.
If we're just talking x86, though, I keep hearing that KVM will be the top virtualization solution going forward.
We use OpenNebula/KVM here.
Both are free as in speech, I can do live migration, it's easy to manage, etc.
I'm running the whole thing on an NFS share from an AoE storage backend.
100% libre software solution, and it kicks ass.
Good luck vmware.
I looked into doing something like that, the one killer feature is migrating legacy windows machines into virtualization or from one virt system to another. Only vmware seems to do that really well. I do use KVM for some other stuff, but that is a huge checkbox for a lot of folks.
VMware has a free tool called vCenter Converter that will do the migration, at which point you can use anything that understands VMware vms.
Sounds like a pretty sweet setup.
So, when a production server refuses to boot after you've just done a P2V migration, who do you call for support?
Damn, you're lazy, try http://http//opennebula.org/support:contracted [http] took me all of 30 seconds to find. Your argument is old and tired, most serious OSS solutions have options for commercial support.
You fix it yourself, or go back to the physical box until you can migrate by rebuilding from scratch if need be.
Not everything needs tons of support contracts. Centos is widely used in the enterprise market with no support at all. Support is by far and wide over rated. I would 90% of the support tickets I open with companies I find a resolution before the support person does.
I'd imagine they could call anyone on our team, including myself. We know the code intimately at this point, and have put it through extensive testing.
This is more of a problem in the proprietary wold - there is a certain point that when something doesn't work you are forced to call for support because the logs only say so much. If you can trace the software and have access to the source, you honestly don't need to call anyone. At that point, it's just a matter of your own determination and the skill set of your team.
As an aside, we did not have to address P2V migration, because this was part of a new product offering. We are considering replacing our internal infrastructure with this, but that's probably going to happen gradually over time. We have very few windows servers left, and I'm frankly considering phasing them out so we don't have to go through the hassle of activation and the big problem Windows has with changing hardware.
I wanted to explain why are are almost 95% free software house now.
About 4 years ago, I and a few guys spent an all nighter when our Exchange server myseriously stopped working. It was obscure enough I don't rememeber what the issue was at this point. We followed that up a couple months later by spending a few weeks wrestling with Sharepoint.
The logs only helped with superficial issues, and calling MS is downright expensive so it was only an option when we were at the end of our rope.
The whole time, I weigh
Calling MS is expensive?
I'd eagerly agree its often frustrating, but AFAIK, a support ticket is only $350 for something like Exchange and they will work the ticket 24/7 until its fixed.
I've even had refunds when they couldn't fix it or for fixes that couldn't be implemented for reasons outside their control.
I had one client use Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 for Exchange 2007. Not the R2 version, but the R1 version (which isn't called R1, but...). A disk went full, the system blue screened and something in IIS was fucked and required a re-install per an MS support call. The client couldn't produce the media and neither could I -- Exchange 2007 was released after 2003 R2 and nobody I've ever seen used the R1 x64 version for anything -- it wasn't even media I could download from what I could see on VLSC.
Needless to say, we did an emergency upgrade on a new VM to 2010 and migrated mailboxes because the downtime waiting for media would have been too great. MS ended up refunding the charge because they didn't fix the issue, despite the fact that the paying customer was the real problem.
Now, I thought that the 5 hours I spent on the phone was excessive for the troubleshooting work that was done (a lot of steps repeated to failure needlessly, and a lot of time spent on hold "researching..."), so it wasn't overall a great experience, but it ended up being free and even if it wasn't, it would have been worth the $350.
VMWare supports live replication. Why just migrate when you can have automatic, near zero downtime fail over with live replication?
Good luck, VMWare? Hehe, you seriously overestimate the live migration feature. Or rather, it is no longer that special. Even HyperV has live migration. The difference is, VMWare does it VERY well. And I've yet to see anyone come close to the live replication that VMWare does.
Don't be offended by this post. I just don't think you're talking real business. Maybe it's "kick
No offense taken. The replication is something we have looked at, it is possible and we are talking about solutions right now.
I think you should take AoE a bit more seriously, to be honest. We're getting better perfomance on a 10Gb ethernet switch as a backplane with AoE that the bazillion dollar iSCSI fibre channel solutions we demo'd from HP and Dell.
This is running on a multiple racks in a leased floor in a datacenter downtown - not my basement - and provides a somewhat data intensive (backups among
Why should be pay attention to stories where the headline ends with a question mark?
I thought the same thing. It's a good indicator of an opinion piece.
Sure, VMWare is dominant in business virtualization. It has great features and if you're going to do some server consolidation inside a single facility it makes great sense. So there are 1000's of corps out there invested in it. Now, look at the really big virtualization facilities like RS, Amazon, etc and they're never going to touch it with a 10k foot pole. It has its niche, and as long as that niche remains relevant VMWare will probably dominate it. The real question is whether in 5 years anyone really g
Some of the pain points of VMWare:
number of vCPUs, vMemory per VM
vSphere 5 now lets you have up to 32 vCPUs and 1024GB in a VM, which is good. vSphere4, which most people still, have is limited to only 8/256 per VM.
VMWare takes a good 15-30%. Again the hypervisor in vShere 5 is a bit better performer.
I/O drivers are included in the hypervisor, which is a bit scary.
The VMWare pricing model is overly confusing. Costs for added more vRAM to the pool? yuk.. vsphere5 makes this even wor
First of all let me say VMware makes one rock solid hypervisor. Out of all of the hypervisors I have used theirs is the least prone to issues.
VMware has a couple of really BIG problems in their platform.
1. Their management tools are windows centric and so is Virtual Center for that matter
2. Their licensing model is confusing as hell and requires a spreadsheet to figure out what you need without overpaying
3. They have so many products that it gets downright confusing to determine which one works for your purpose.
4. They use "old school" sales tactics that just don't work for more modern companies.
When I am engineering a solution and have a problem to solve I am presented with many challenges to present VMware as a solution. Finding the product that suits our needs, Figuring out what license would suit our needs, getting a quote from the vendor without a lot of harassment after the fact trying to close the sale. Rather than deal with all of that many people have found that the open source projects like KVM and XEN are good enough for their needs. Not to mention the huge numbers of free cloud products such as Openstack that gives you enterprise features "for free". At the end of the day I don't care what product get's used as long as the problem is solved with the minimal amount of budget and effort.
A small startup does not want to deal with legacy software and maintaining licensing and dealing with windows boxes. They do great with the "enterprisey" douchebags with their complex setups that cause more outages than they solve but lean and small companies don't want their stuff.
The reality here is the world is slowly changing. Big monolitic companies are failing because their business models are unsustainable without cheating and people are getting fed up with the cheating. VMware has to answer a question to themselves. Do I want to serve the needs of the dying dinosaur companies or do I want to be in business in 10 years?
VMware has a couple of really BIG problems in their platform.
1. Their management tools are windows centric and so is Virtual Center for that matter
2. Their licensing model is confusing as hell and requires a spreadsheet to figure out what you need without overpaying
3. They have so many products that it gets downright confusing to determine which one works for your purpose.
4. They use "old school" sales tactics that just don't work for more modern companies.
Your first point is slowly becoming less of an issue. With vSphere 5 you can now run a Linux appliance for Virtual Center which will do for starters, and it doesn't even require (or support) an external database. Hopefully this will expand to be the only way to get VC, but they'll expand it to use a DB when you get big enough, and make plugins work with it. There's also supposed to be a '75%' web client, e.g. good enough for 75% of tasks and a full web client in the next major update, (5.5?) That's how V
VMware has a couple of really BIG problems in their platform.
1. Their management tools are windows centric and so is Virtual Center for that matter
2. Their licensing model is confusing as hell and requires a spreadsheet to figure out what you need without overpaying
3. They have so many products that it gets downright confusing to determine which one works for your purpose.
4. They use "old school" sales tactics that just don't work for more modern companies.
Your first point is slowly becoming less of an issue. With vSphere 5 you can now run a Linux appliance for Virtual Center which will do for starters, and it doesn't even require (or support) an external database. Hopefully this will expand to be the only way to get VC, but they'll expand it to use a DB when you get big enough, and make plugins work with it. There's also supposed to be a '75%' web client, e.g. good enough for 75% of tasks and a full web client in the next major update, (5.5?) That's how VMView has been for at least the last major release too, the previous might have been web too, I can't remember.
They have a lot of products because they do a lot of things... regular old server virtualization, enterprise grade server virtualization with HA, desktop (I want a test box), desktop (VDI), disaster recovery (with a replicating san), disaster recovery (without a replicating SAN)... If you don't know what you want to do, looking at their product sheet won't help you any.
I'll give you that vRAM is evil and sales people are douches, but isn't that one a given?
I defy you to go to VMware's website and tell me what the current version of ESXi is, what the free license includes, what the cost is for an academic institution that wants the cheapest licensed version, what features that includes - with specific descriptions, not just names and vague "Enable more robust blah blah" horseshit, and what exactly you would need to download.
The site is intentionally a mess in order to trick people into buying more than they need. It also makes getting updates and changelogs near impossible because you never know what version of what shittily-named product you have. They recently went to ESXi 5, and there was a press release that touted hundreds of new features, and explained about 5 of them in the vaguest detail possible. There are links to various pages on their site to learn more about the hundreds of other new features, but that information simply doesn't exist. All you can get is the shitty presser.
And look at this fucking 10 page topic on "Is there a free version of ESXi 5?". http://communities.vmware.com/thread/320883 [vmware.com]
The short answer is "Yes, just install it with no license.", but the real answer is there is no fucking specific license for a free version, so there is no guarantee it will remain an option, or that anupdate won't break it, or that your trial license won't be invalidated at some point, or that features won't be turned off for no reason as they did when going from ESX 3 to ESX 4 / ESXi 4.
VMware is fast approaching IBM and Cisco levels of intentional ambiguity. All they need is a shitty "brand awareness" marketing campaign that doesn't feature a product or service, but shows school kids in china teleconferencing with school kids in the US, with no lag, in the middle of the day at both locations.
I couldn't agree more. I actually sent a nasty email to some VP at VMware chiding them for making downloads so difficult to do, despite the fact that I was a VCP.
So I get to be a VCP and work selling/installing your product and when a client needs a critical upgrade/patch but nobody knows the support login, you're going to block me from downloading it? It was just stupid.
BTW, love the Cisco insight. I didn't notice that when I saw the commercial and it's totally hilarious.
totally agree with points 2 and 3: I don;t even know what half of the products do - vSphere? is that a hypervisor, or a management package addon? How about Fusion? it's all so unclear and confusing that I can;t go to their website and find out exactly WTF it is that they're selling in clear and simple terms.
It doesn't help that they jiggle the names and features around every so often too. Licencing... I just don't bother, I stick with the free stuff from them and don't even bother trying to navigate the nig
I really like the functionality, stability, and feature set of VMWare, but due to their licensing change, I'm sticking with vSphere 4 for now -- I'd have to buy too many new licenses to move to vSphere 5 because of the amount of memory we have.
We're evaluating HyperV now and may end up with a split cluster - HyperV for our Windows servers and VMware (or maybe even Xen) for the Linux side.
I was in the same boat, went to Citrix and Xenserver and never looked back. I have a few servers that I even paid for, at less than a quarter of the price of VMWare and with much simpler licensing it was definitely one of the easier decisions I've made.
VMWare licensing is so bad that I bought a HP blade enclosure and filled it with 12 servers. The VMWare representative couldn't even get the licensing right. After the third time I sent it back to him I discovered XenServer, had it installed with a 12 node p
We've already started the migration to Redhat's KVM. Our testing environment has been completed. We beginning the rollout for Production now.
Why switch? The price.
I'm a fan of VMware but clearly any competition - and specifically, the more robust the competition gets the better the pricing models will be for the end users.
Right now we have very little if any issues with our virtual infrastructure - although View could use some work (we're still on 4.0 though...). VMware's support is excellent. Their tools are excellent. Their online documentation is excellent. Other than $ there wouldn't be a lot of motivation to start shopping for another vendor anytime soon.
With production enterprise experience with Xen, HyperV, and VMWare hosting linux VMs.
It's still VMware, just based on some of the showstopping issues encountered with Xen and HyperV.
It's only a matter of time until VMWare competitors catch up, which is good for all of us, however based on my personal experience VMWare is still my preference.
Note, environments vary. Just based on environments I've worked with.
> What do IT-savvy Slashdotters have to say about moving away from one of the more stable and feature rich VM architectures available?"
Um, how about "over my dead body"?
If you want free stuff like VirtualBox or VirtualPC, more power to you. It helps push the envelope and provides for competition.
For large enterprise installations, there is VMWare. I'm sure that won't always be the case, but for now, you'll have to pry my vCenter from my cold dead hands.
Xen is quite nice, so is KVM packaged up by RHEL.
Neither is as nice with the pointy clickey stuff, but do you really need that? Real Vmware admins use the CLI anyway.
Two years ago, VMware was the only serious player in the enterprise hypervisor market. It could demand a price premium and had weight with other software platform vendors to demand support.
Now, with Hyper-V being somewhat more mature and with the Xen product line, VMware is falling into a competitive market. Naturally, there will be an erosion of market share in that case.
The bigger threat that faces VMware is the same threat that faced Netscape in the 1990s-- VMware is a competitor of Hyper-V which Microsoft can include "for free" in its server operating systems. And Microsoft still has the same monopoly influence over the major hardware vendors (to discourage pre-installs or reseller agreements). And it can control the licensing for its operating systems to inconvenience VMware customers (you have to buy a separate license for each ESX VM, but if you run on Hyper-V you get 10 VM licenses for free) and/or control its support of its enterprise application stack (We'll only support Exchange/Sharepoint/SQL Server/Link/IIS/whatever if it's running on Hyper-V. If it's ESX, please reproduce the problem on physical hardware to make sure it's not an ESX issue)
I work for a major *.edu -- we use VMware, we pay their exorbitant pricing, and subsequently get threats of additional fees for not renewing support on time (an amusing tactic). We don't really find ourselves using the fancy feature sets. In fact, a large part of our *.edu is going KVM -- probably for similar reasons, more likely pricing. As others have said, VMware continues to change their licensing models -- it ends up being nickle-and-diming for features, where I'd just rather pay one flat price a
Google and Facebook are working on applications that are much more extensive than VMware customers are working with. It is not a real apples to apples comparison. What kind of organizations besides Google and Facebook really need 1000 web servers? 10,000 web servers?
Most of the environments I have seen have some big databases on the back end. Those are not virtualized. Then you move up to what I will call the processing, or workload tier. Depending on the size of the workloads, those servers can usual
Dear VMware,
I started out with you at Workstation version2. Since that time, I have never seen anyone really do Virtualisation as well as you did. Ever. Workstation is still sold with new features, and some nice pricing. I played and ran ESXI 3-5 and at each step its been accompanied with a rising tide of pain. No matter how brilliant a product is, if you start throwing in silly licensing and serious costs - and stupid complexity (in licensing) - well - you get what VMware is right now.
And the worst part is
VMware's original edge was their code patching hack which allowed visualization on hardware that didn't really support it. Once x86 machines got some virtualization hardware support, that hack was no longer needed, and anybody could write a hypervisor.
Now most of the virtualization issues are more about systems for managing instances of virtual machines. The hypervisor itself is a small part of the overall product.
So 38% of virtualization customers are planning on switching, but 2/3 of all virtualization customers are VMWare with the other 1/3 being somebody else. There's a lot of floating data points here.
We can come up with lots of fun theories...
Maybe VMWare numbers will drop to 30% of the market and those will all get sucked up by Hyper-V.
Maybe everyone using Hyper-V thinks it blows and are going to Xen, leaving 22% of the original survey to allocate to leaving either VMWare and Xen for one of the two they're no
I stopped caring about vmware when their marketing people got editing rights over their technical documentation. Seriously, go to their website, try to figure out what product will work for you (if you can make it through the marketing drivel) then look at the documentation for it.
Technical documentation is supposed to be
People don't care what software runs their virtual machines. The very target market for this is people who don't want to commit to platforms.
VMWare doesn't do anything that is substantially proprietary.
If something comes along which does the same things as VMWare, and reads VMWare disks, but is better in some way than VMWare (for instance by being free for all the freetard masses), it's bye bye.
Once, the selling point of VMWare was "cool, you can virtualize a machine". That is a commodity now. The selling p
IT: VMWare is the best! We need to use it for all our VM needs.
Boss: It's to expensive. I read that Windows does the same thing for free.
IT: No, it only does 10% of the stuff VMWare does. We need VMWare!
Boss: Glad we agree! Start implementing Windows Virtual Server tomorrow....
What do IT-savvy Slashdotters have to say about moving away from one of the more stable and feature rich VM architectures available?
That submitter Lashat is shilling for EMC.
I've been a VMware customer since 1999, and I must count myself among those disappointed by recent releases and pricing changes. Parallels, Microsoft, Citrix, and Oracle all have competitive offerings, at least two of which are substantially free software. If we hadn't invested so much time and energy into VMware at work, I'd seriousl
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|View Poll Results: Ratings for Shippuuden 06
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|8 out of 10 : Very Good
|7 out of 10 : Good
|6 out of 10 : Average
|5 out of 10 : Below Average
|4 out of 10 : Poor
|3 out of 10 : Bad
|2 out of 10 : Very Bad
|1 out of 10 : Painful
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|2007-04-04, 13:17
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*While in the manga, such chapter also left the impression that Sune could have done much more against an invader, it wasn't that bad for a reason:
The fight didn't last much there.
And for a good reason -which clearly, the anime team didn't get- It is supposed to be quick and brutal.
It's meant to show that while non invincible (Deidara loose an arm), such organization is force to reckoned. And that they are now really on the move.
If they can break through the vigilance of a whole Shinobi village and defeat a grown up Gaara -with Shukaku- and in his territory, then things are getting extremely dangerous for everyone. But again, all that dragging just weakened the effect. Almost as if Gaara could have had a chance when in reality, it wasn't the case. At all.
*Other problem is, that they added some scenes from the Sune village that will definitively reduce the impact of an event, later on the story.
Basically, they are just shown stuff from Sune's situation, that it wasn't meant to be even hinted yet. Bad, too bad.
*Plus, all that stuff of Tsunade sending Naruto to irrelevant missions is quite illogical, considering that he and Sakura just passed an exam that set them on a more equal ground to a Jounin.
Not only would also conflict with Jiraya's plans for him, it's also pointless: why allowing him to train with a Sannin for almost 3 years, if when he comes back, you just sent him away to do basic missions, but now also dragging your best medical student and a full Jounin?
It's like the whole Oro/Sasuke/Akatsuki/reconstruction /rival villages stuff no longer mattered. Rather poor.
|2007-04-05, 05:10
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The eps was a bit draggy, but towards the end looks like another good battle, great suspense buildup though....
Man the face of sasori is what a real fuckn ninja should look like, he reminds of the game Return of The Shinobi, on the sega genises system brings back the memories....
|2007-04-05, 06:55
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It's Great to see Kankorou will have some action, (with a New puppet to show off) mabye not a whole lot but still I'm looking forward to it! however... they chose to animate it.
Though it wasn't a big moment in the episode, one of the best scenes has to go to Kakashi, it really came out of nowhere
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|2007-04-05, 10:00
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I look at the poll results and...WoW talk about mixed reception.
All ratings have been voted for with a pretty even distribution that it's hard to tell from the result if the episode was bad or not. Guess shippuden's approval rating is 50/50 among Naruto fans.
People keep saying things will get better but 7 episodes in a series is too long a set-up...I'm sure it's safe to say that what we've seen now is the general direction and pacing of the show.
Lucky for the producers that Naruto is such a big franchise it can afford to have all these setbacks. Other less known shows would have lost its following by now (reduced to the hardcore fans or maybe Naruto Shippuden just has such a large following that even when its only the hardcore fans watching they still equate to a commercial success...)
|2007-04-05, 10:47
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Wow, I only just read up on the manga to see that that anime hasn't even covered six chapters worth of material yet. Using the same pace as was normal for most of pre time-skip Naruto, these seven episodes would have been less than three!
|2007-04-05, 14:45
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We wish...
I know you're a fan, so have you seen the new marketing campaign for the Transformers Movie?? It's beyond pathetic...
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|2007-04-06, 10:33
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i coudlnt agree with you more. its been shown in these fisr few episodes already that he hasnt grown that much. he still uses kage bunchin like CRAZY. i thought he would have learned some new jutsu by now . i Especially hate the fact that he hasnt learned to do the rasengan one handed yet. What the hell was he doing for 2.5 yrs? i mean come on. He was personally trained by jiraiya, the man who trained the fourth hokage himself. Naruto is just a dissapointing character all around. i guess we just have to except that. hell always be weak, stupid, and continue rely on the fox to fight his battles whether he wants to or not.
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|2007-04-06, 21:02
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Just because Naruto used Kage Bunshin pre-time skip doesn't mean it's still not a great jutsu post time skip. I believe it was ranked as Jounin class jutsu?
I'm iffy on anime episodes... while I don't mind storylines, fights are usually a big reason I look forward to anime episodes.
Plus Hinata seems to get more screen time in anime, or at least she did pre time skip
|2007-04-06, 22:17
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second, wanting to see improvement after time skip is a litgitament complaint... Not only has it been 2.5 years with all other characters being promoted to Chunin, but Naruto was being trained by one of the sannin... You would expect that he would have some damn good new moves to show and show serious signs of improvment, but so far he hasn't really shown any... Hell, even sakura, most useless ninja pretimeskip, has shown enough improvment to be called a potential future Tsunade... you would expect that Naruto would have learned a few new kick ass tricks; when you see what Sakura managed to learn, you get seriously disappointed that Naruto doesn't do much
Ofcourse, the anime team can't really be blamed here, only Kishi... even in the manga chapters that this anime covers, Naruto showed no signs of improvment; the bell test was notorisously short and didn't really show much of anything of naruto... enough fighter skills to give kakashi some trouble and slightly better intellgence is a VERY minimal increase when you are trained by one of the strongest characters in the series... Really, the least Kishi could have done is throw in a new move or two so that we know naruto learned something... like maybe atleast some toad summonings or something, or a few of jiarya's moves... Kage Bushin is actually a good move for Naruto, but it couldn't hurt to add to his arsenal
|2007-04-06, 23:04
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Deleted, not even gonna put manga info in here on spoiler window lol
But yeah, I hear ya on that Slayer good point. Although I did watch all of the fillers (I enjoyed some background story explaining on characters. Plus Hinata was in like 2/3 of the fillers lol) I somehow forgot the repeated Kage Bunshin no Jutsu screaming
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Let this serve as a reminder: if you want to get in on the free games that come with a higher price tag on the Nintendo 3DS, you should get thee to a store toot sweet. Starting this Friday, the price drop goes into effect and you can grab the system for $169.99. If you buy one and log on to the eShop by 11:59 pm EST on Thursday, though, you'll be recognized as a 3DS Ambassador, which nets you 20 free downloadable games.
Some retailers have already started offering sales, in apparent attempts to beat others to the punch. Online retailer Amazon is offering the models for $209.99 (Blue) and $217 (Black); if you use that route, though, make sure it will ship in time to login to the eShop. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart has reportedly jumped the gun entirely, offering the $170 price tag today at some locations. Call ahead to your local store to be on the safe side.
For Ambassadors, ten free NES games (with multiplayer) will arrive September 1. Those include Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr., Balloon Fight, Ice Climber, and The Legend of Zelda. The other five are still a mystery.
Ambassador-exclusive GBA offerings will follow sometime this year, including Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Metroid Fusion, WarioWare Inc: Mega Microgame$, and Mario vs. Donkey Kong. An apparent leak from Nintendo of America claims Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 and Kirby & the Amazing Mirror will be included as well, but Nintendo has not confirmed those or the other GBA titles.
Nintendo made no bones about the Ambassador program being a goodwill gesture toward fans who may have bought the system for $250 and felt burned with a price drop after only 4 months on the market. But then, a price drop was wholly necessary; the 3DS hasn't performed to expectations, leading to a financial loss, along with a stock drop and executive pay cut.
For its part, Nintendo is being fairly open about the system's weaknesses. Iwata recently commented that the system's sluggish sales are due to a lack of "big hit software titles." While it came in the same breath of downplaying the threat of smartphones, at least that means Nintendo brass knows they need some games to boost the system's popularity.


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RICHMOND – Electronics can be recycled at Nippersink Middle School on May 4.
The event, which is sponsored by the school's parent-teacher organization, will run from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the school, 10006 N. Main St.
Cellphones, printer cartridges, gaming systems, TVs, computer monitors with screens less than 32 inches, and pretty much anything that is battery-powered or has an electrical cord can be dropped off.
The PTO is requesting a $5 donation for the disposal of TVs and monitors to cover the additional fees that come with processing them.
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Lady Chucks down Damsels volleyball
RIMERSBURG — After dropping the first full match of the year, the Lady Chucks ran their win streak to four with a 3-1 road volleyball victory over the Damsels of Union Monday night in Rimersburg.
Punxsy (4-1) came out hot off the bus with a 25-10 first game win before Union was able get its footing.
The Lady Chucks captured the second contest, 25-20, before dropping a tight, 23-25, third game.
The Damsels were unable to keep the momentum as the visitors came back to end the match with a 25-21 win on the fourth affair.
"In the first set, we came out on fire, and the score reflects that. We were right where we needed to be," pointed out Punxsy coach Heather Good. "The rest of the sets, we fell under what we are capable of. I think the fact that we came out with the win is a real testament to our heart, even when things don't go as planned."
Setters Ashley Reitz and Shaina Painter played key roles in the Punxsy win. Reitz handed out 18 assists to go with four digs, two kills and an ace. Painter added 11 assists and a dig.
"Our setters, Shaina and Ashley, really put it all out there tonight and made good decisions with set choices," praised coach Good.
The two setters helped set up middle hitter Sydney Weaver for 14 kills and Taylor Newcome for 10 kills of her own along the front line. In fact, Weaver finished with a .429 hitting percentage, lined four aces, blocked 4.5 attacks and dug nine balls.
Shayla Brink and Emilee States both chipped in six kills apiece in their time on the front row. Brink also had three aces, two digs and a block.
On defense, Chelsea Engeholm paced the way with 17 digs and hit one ace. Sydney Phillips contributed three digs and an aces, and Emily Reitz served three aces.
Bella Gallina rounded out the Punxsy players with three kills and an assist.
The Lady Chucks served up 13 aces as a team.
The Punxsy Junior Varsity spikers didn't start out quite as hot but still pulled out a win over Union. The Damsels edged out a 23-25 first game before the Lady Chucks rallied for 25-18 and 25-19 contests for the 2-1 victory.
"After losing the first set, the girls rallied together with good communication and aggressive playing to pull out the win," commented JV coach Tabi Bowers. "In the second game, Taylor Cary and Hailey Brady really came through at the serving line for the team. During game three, Lexie Smathers came in during a critical time toward the end of the game to go on a short serving run, which was just what we needed to finish off the game."
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The Warhammer 40,000 could only resist the appeal of free-to-okay for so long. Space Wolf is coming next year, and it will offer card-based strategy with no up-front investment.
In the game, you will be using collectible cards to drive the action of your player in a third-person 3D environment.
You can check out the screens for the gallery below, which feature a few of the cards that will be in the game. From this very early glimpse, it seems reminiscent of the Metal Gear: Acid games that released for PSP.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf is planned for release on PC and iOS and Android devices next year. If you want to learn more about the game, you can head to page two to see the full press release with more details. If you want to play a Warhammer game right now, you can check out Space Hulk, which just released.
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A student housing task force on Wednesday formed a committee that will meet with city police officials to learn more about crime in the residential complexes. The second meeting of Mayor Walt Maddox's student housing task force also saw the group grow from 16 to 19 members.
A student housing task force on Wednesday formed a committee that will meet with city police officials to learn more about crime in the residential complexes.
The second meeting of Mayor Walt Maddox's student housing task force also saw the group grow from 16 to 19 members.
Maddox's executive order forming the task force allowed for the addition of four members at the discretion of the task force chair and members.
On Wednesday, the panel exercised that option by adding a University of Alabama student representative, a UA land planning official and another voice from one of the many neighborhoods devastated by the April 27, 2011, tornado.
Julie Elmore, assistant director of off-campus and Greek housing at the University of Alabama, nominated Madalyn Vaughn to represent the UA student community, saying that she believes Vaughn will be able to speak for a broad number of students.
Philip Pitts of Glendale Gardens was nominated as a new member of the task force by Robert Parsons, a current member. Parsons, a Forest Lake resident, said he thought it was appropriate to have more than one representative from a neighborhood that was destroyed by the tornado and is now a potential target for future student housing developers.
And Dan Wolfe of UA's planning department was recommended by Grayson Glaze, the executive director of the Alabama Center of Real Estate, which is housed on UA's campus.
Wolfe, Glaze said, is in charge of the comprehensive master plan for the campus and is aware of the current and future student housing needs.
"He would be an incredible resource," Glaze said.
The fourth and final slot for the task force remains open and could be filled at a later date. While the owner of a local rental property company was nominated, he failed to garner enough votes to be added to the panel.
The task force discussed several topics during its second two-hour session, including an attempt at defining what student housing is, as well as the boundaries of an ideal student housing complex zone, called "the box" by the panel, near the UA campus.
No consensus was reached on either topic and the task force members agreed to discuss again at a future meeting, although it was generally agreed that the cause of the most concern was the number of large, rent-by-the-bedroom complexes designed strictly for college students that have been constructed in recent years in Tuscaloosa.
"I think we should focus on what we want to encourage and what we want to discourage," said task force member Robert Reynolds, who is representing the city's Planning and Zoning Commission. "That's what zoning is all about."
The group took action only once more when it appointed Jay Evans, the president of College Station Properties; Chase Adcox, the task force's representative from the Historic Preservation Commission; Tim Harrison, president of Harrison Construction; along with Parsons and Elmore to meet with Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steve Anderson.
The purpose of the meeting is to gather information on which kinds of crimes and nuisances the Police Department typically deals with from private student housing apartment complexes. The committee will report back its findings to the full task force at a later date.
For the task force's next meeting, set for Sept. 4, the group plans to hear from local and out-of-town developers on why they consider Tuscaloosa a ripe market for large student housing developments, such as The Grove at Tuscaloosa, the new $30 million, 628-bed student housing complex that gained unanimous approval from the Tuscaloosa City Council on Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- This week the Los Angeles County, Department of Public Health's Office of AIDS Programs and Policy is launching its most comprehensive community outreach campaign ever to encourage HIV testing. In Los Angeles County, one in four of those who have HIV does not know it.
Titled "Virus," the multi-faceted campaign is designed to raise doubt and make Angelenos ask the question: "Could I have HIV?" Throughout the execution of the campaign a striking green image of the actual HIV virus appears with the headlines: "Is it in you?" and "Get Tested. The virus could be in you." (find artwork of the campaign attached.)
The campaign's call-to-action to "Erase Doubt" and get tested for HIV is captured in a unifying symbol or logo that will consistently appear throughout future executions of the campaign. The campaign cleverly twists the familiar red AIDS ribbon into a question mark with an arrow pointing to a dedicated URL www.EraseDoubt.org. The combination of the AIDS ribbon and the question mark imply doubt about one's HIV status while the arrow directs one to erase any doubt by going to the campaign's Web site to locate a testing site and get more information about HIV/AIDS.
"We developed a campaign around the idea that people go through several stages when considering HIV and how the disease affects them," said Mario J. Perez, Director, Office of AIDS Programs and Policy. "Our goal is to move people from assessing their risk, to questioning whether or not they have HIV and finally getting tested and, if necessary, seeking treatment. We hope this campaign will educate residents about their risk and make sure they are aware that free HIV testing and treatment are available. This is especially important today when so many are faced with economic hardship."
The "Virus" campaign will officially begin rolling out this week and will be executed in three phases through 2010. The campaign will be in English and Spanish and will strategically target those who are most at risk for HIV in Los Angeles County. These groups include gay and bisexual men - with an emphasis on Latinos and African-Americans - and women of color. A majority of HIV infections in Los Angeles County are among men who have sex with men while HIV infection rates are growing fastest among Latinas and African-American women.
To effectively reach these audiences, the campaign will utilize a variety of traditional advertising mediums including billboards, buses, bus shelters and radio. And, for the first time ever, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health will tap into the growing popularity of guerilla marketing and social media sites with an ongoing presence on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Many of the campaign's advertisements along with other campaign elements, such as viral videos can be seen at Facebook.com/EraseDoubt, Twitter.com/EraseDoubt, and YouTube.com/EraseDoubt.
The first phase of the advertising effort showing the striking image of the HIV virus will address the growing complacency around HIV/AIDS, reminding Angelenos the disease is still a serious health threat while also raising doubt about one's own HIV status.
In December 2009, the second phase of the campaign will personalize HIV forcing one to face head-on the possibility they could be infected with the virus. One of the advertisements features a young African-American man who appears to be healthy. However, the same striking green HIV virus appears in one of his eyes, and the headline reads: "Get tested. The virus could be in you."
The third phase, starting in 2010, will address the fact that many in relationships - gay or straight - falsely believe they are not at risk for HIV. Focus groups conducted when developing the campaign showed that gay men and women in relationships thought they were not necessarily at risk for HIV. The campaign features gay and straight couples where the same green HIV virus appears in the eye of one of the partners. Again, the headline reads: "Get tested. The virus could be in you." The campaign will seek to raise doubt about one's HIV status even though they are in a relationship.
In an effort to normalize HIV testing and make it as convenient as possible, the campaign will also host a series of community events titled "Test-Fest" that take HIV testing mobile units into the community. The first "Test-Fest" will take place on Saturday, July 25 from 11 am to 5 pm at Ted Watkins County Park in South Los Angeles.
The event includes live entertainment, celebrity appearances and is expected to be the largest HIV testing event ever in Southern California with more than 10 mobile HIV testing units at the event. Anyone attending the event can get a free, easy, painless and anonymous rapid HIV test with results in about 30 minutes. Between 300 and 400 people are expected to get tested.
The mission of the Department of Public Health's Office of AIDS Programs and Policy is to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles County by preventing its spread, maximizing health and social outcomes, and coordinating effective and efficient targeted services for those at risk for, living with, or affected by HIV.
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Pacers Get:
Chris Webber
Manu Ginobili
Jazz Get:
Ronnie Brewer
James Thomas
*Also claim Nash.
*Pacers have cap space once the Nash waiver is processed.
I accept. Webber has no bird years so he's only good for a yr and he wasn't even starting for me. Get a solid prospect in Brewer for the future and gives me Nash in this as well.


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MONTREAL (AP) — Max Pacioretty had two goals and an assist, linemates David Desharnais and Erik Cole also had three points each, and the Montreal Canadiens ended a three-game skid with a 4-1 win over the New York Rangers on Sunday night.
Pacioretty opened the scoring 2:39 in and restored Montreal's one-goal lead at 2-1 with his 15th of the season 3:54 into the second. The Canadiens scored three times in the middle period.
Desharnais had a goal and two assists, and Cole had three assists on a line that combined for nine points.
Peter Budaj made 28 saves, and Mike Blunden also scored for Montreal (17-20-8), which is 12th in the Eastern Conference. The Canadiens, 18 points behind East-leading New York, have won six straight against the Rangers at home.
John Mitchell scored in the first for the Rangers, who became the first team to reach 60 points this season when they beat Toronto 3-0 on Saturday night. However, New York has lost two of three after a 10-1 spurt.
Henrik Lundqvist, who was rested Saturday, stopped 25 shots.
Rene Bourque made his Montreal debut after he was acquired from Calgary on Thursday in a multiplayer trade that sent Michael Cammalleri to the Flames. Bourque sat out Saturday night's 3-2 shootout loss as he served the final game of a five-game suspension for elbowing Washington's Nicklas Backstrom in the head on Jan 3.
Pacioretty fired a loose puck in the slot over a sprawled Lundqvist to give the Canadiens an early 1-0 lead. He made it 2-1 when he deflected in Cole's shot early in the second.
Blunden increased the lead to 3-1 with his second goal at 7:11.
Desharnais finished off a nice centering pass by Pacioretty from the right side for his seventh goal, Montreal's third in a row at 12:18.
Mitchell scored his third of the season 12:49 into the first to tie it at 1. He put away a rebound after Budaj made the initial stop on Derek Stepan's point-blank one-timer off a pass from Marian Gaborik from behind the net.
Montreal left wing Mathieu Darche was struck around the throat by teammate Lars Eller's shot early in the third. Darche held his glove to his throat as he skated off the ice and went directly to the medical room, but he returned moments later.
Winnipeg's Blake Wheeler was hospitalized Saturday after he was struck in the throat during the Jets' loss to New Jersey.
NOTES: Rangers C Brandon Dubinsky missed his third straight game because of a shoulder injury. … C Petteri Nokelainen and D Chris Campoli were left out of Montreal's lineup. … No. 1 Canadiens G Carey Price had made nine straight starts, and 18 of 19, before getting the night off.
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"Asus has just announced the cure for the common 20-something-inch 1080p display: a small TV-sized 31.5-inch monitor with a massive resolution of 3840x2160. Engadget reports that the Asus PQ321 display, which uses IGZO technology to reduce energy usage and thickness, includes DisplayPort and dual-HDMI input, integrated speakers, and an adjustable stand." The dread of 1366 and 1080p is being removed. Finally.
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The world doesn't sum up to Apple.
The world doesn't sum up to Apple.
But then again the Apple Cinema display is a very nice high end display that uses a standard connection that allows it to be used with any computer you have.
For a very long time it was about the best screen for the money you could get if you wanted a very high res screen, whilst the PC world stagnated at 1920x1080 and then started regressing to 1366x768.
The PC used to lead the high res display market, the 3840x2400 IBM T220 came out in 2001, it shouldn't have taken 12 years for us to get a slightly lower resolution with a much lower DPI and a less ideal aspect ratio to market.
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Wearing a top hat and tails, with his grandfather's Boer War medal pinned to his chest, Clive Palmer welcomed guests aboard the Titanic.
Not THE Titanic II. That's still a few years down the track. And this one was well and truly on land.
No, last night's welcome was to guests on board the re-creation of the doomed ship at Palmer Coolum Resort on the Sunshine Coast.
Greeted at the entrance by a photographer, who took their pictures with a mock representation of the Titanic's bow, guests were then ushered into one of seven vintage cars Mr Palmer owns (from a collection of 50) and taken to the ballroom.
Mr Palmer stayed at the front of his resort and greeted early guests, agreeing to the odd photograph (including one with this reporter). He seemed happy to play up to the night's comic value, but when he had had enough, we all knew.
Once at the ballroom, a man playing the bagpipes greeted guests and piped them to an area where French champagne was flowing freely.
Mr Palmer was one of the last to arrive.
Surveying the expressions of the more than 200 guests, which ranged from the bemused to the shocked to the awed, he nodded.
Say what you want about Mr Palmer. The man can throw a party.
At $155 a head, it wasn't the cheapest of nights. Still, with 10 courses - for which Mr Palmer made his chefs learn 1900s cooking techniques to ensure the recreation of the Titanic menu of April 14, 1912 was as close as possible to the real thing - and red burgundy and chablis to wash them down, Mr Palmer did not expect to make a profit. Not that he cared. ''I don't need to make a profit,'' he said. ''I'm making a statement.'' What that statement was is unclear.
To ensure he had authentic dinnerware for his guests, Mr Palmer bought an entire gift shop attached to an exhibition of Titanic relics in Singapore. The story floating around the dinner guests was that when Mr Palmer bought the store, visitors standing in line holding their intended purchases were asked to return them to the shelves.
That's the thing about Clive Palmer. Half the time he speaks, his tongue is firmly in his cheek. He seems to enjoy the media spotlight and knows just how much to say to result in ''a beat-up''.
Those are his words.
But with a comedy troupe hired from Melbourne on hand to entertain the wide-eyed guests with songs and dance between courses, an illustrator employed to draw caricatures free of charge (including one for Mr Palmer's four-year-old daughter, Mary, who ran around the ballroom proudly waving it) and visits from the ''professor'' himself, no one left last night unimpressed.
The Palmer Coolum Resort Titanic week was another public declaration of the billionaire's love affair with the famous ship.
In April, Mr Palmer announced he was planning on building a near replica of the Titanic, to add to his tourism portfolio, in conjunction with the state owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard.
He made the announcement on the same day he said he was considering running against the federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, for the Brisbane seat of Lilley.


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Brain Pacemaker Helps Treat Alzheimer's Disease 62
First time accepted submitter Press2ToContinue writes "Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is the use of a pacemaker-like device implanted in the brain to treat the symptoms of diseases like Parkinson's, or other maladies such as depression. For the first time in the US, surgeons at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland have used this technique to attempt to slow memory loss in a patient suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. The fornix, a vital part of the brain that brings data to the hippocampus, is being targeted with this device. Essentially, the fornix is the area of the brain that converts electrical activity into chemical activity. Holes are drilled into the skull, and wires are placed on both sides of the brain. Then, the stimulator device pumps in small and unnoticeable electrical impulses upwards of 130 times per second. Half of the patients will begin the electrical treatment two weeks post-surgery, but the other half won't have their pacemakers turned on until a full year after the surgery to provide comparison data for the study."


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POP Daft Punk "Random Access Memories' Daft Life/Columbia ***1â 2
The fourth album by the French duo Daft Punk may well go down as one of the best albums ever by an electronic dance music act — except that it's not really an EDM album. This time out, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manual de Homem-Christo indulge a deep and genuine infatuation with the polished, disco-flavored R&B of the late '70s, particularly the smooth sounds that emanated from Los Angeles more so than the grittier flavors of New York City. And they do it to a T, meshing it so seamlessly with Daft Punk's contemporary sensibilities that it sounds like it could have come out 35 years ago — or tomorrow.
COUNTRY Darius Rucker, "True Believers' (Capitol Nashville) ***
After two country chart-toppers, it's probably time to have some true belief in the Hootie & the Blowfish frontman's solo career. His third outing shows the benefit of taking a bit of time (three years) between albums and crafting something deeper than the annual ledger-satisfying exercises at which most country acts excel. Rucker gets into some genuinely deep subject matter here — the title track is a clear-eyed look at the challenge of sustaining a long-term relationship — but he has plenty of fun, too, on the honky tonk spirit of "Take Me Home,' the soaring guitar rock of "Heartbreak Road' and the funky twang of "Radio.' And his remake of the Old Crow Medicine Show/Bob Dylan collab "Wagon Wheel' with Lady Antebellum guesting is icing on top of an already tasty country cake.
New & Noteworthy:
Airbourne, "Black Dog Barking (Roadrunner): The third release from this British group holds to the same hard rocking path set by its two predecessors.
Alpine, "A Is For Alpine' (Votiv): The U.S. debut of the buzzed-about Australian sextet fronted by a pair of lead singers.
The Beach Boys, "Live — The 50th Anniversary Tour' (Capitol): This two-disc souvenir of the group's 2012 reunion tour will rekindle warm memories — and make you wonder why they're not doing it again this year.
Brand New Heavies, "Forward' (HeavyTone): Vocalist N'Dea Davenport is back on board for the British acid jazz group's first new release in seven years.
Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes, "Baby Caught the Bus' (Vanguard): Who can resist a name like this — or the racket this bangin' Australian nine-piece makes on its first U.S. release?
Marshall Crenshaw, "Stranger and Stranger' (self-released): The second EP in the Berkley-born rocker's new subscription series includes a cover of the Carpenters' "Close to You' and a new recording of his own "Mary Anne.'
Cold Satellite, "Cavalcade' (Signature Sounds): A second offering of Americana from the team of rocker Jeffrey Foucault and poet Lisa Olstein.
Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, "Seesaw' (J&R Adventures): The powerhouse vocalist's second rootsy collaboration with guitar hero Bonamassa comes just six weeks after her own new solo album.
Highness, "Hold' (Magic Bullet): The debut from New York/Virginia collective of members from Darkest Hour, Christie Front Drive, Antarctica, Forensics and other underground concerns.
Indigenous, "Vanishing Americans' (Blues Bureau): The Native American blues-rock group ventures deeper into Mississippi Hill Country on its latest release.
Bob James and David Sanborn, "Quartette Humaine' (OKeh/Sony): James and Sanborn bring their piano and saxophone master, respectively together for this tribute to Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond.
James McCartney, "Me' (ECR): Beatle Paul's guitar-playing son issues his first full album after a pair of well-received EPs.
Bret Michaels, "Good Songs & Great Friends' (Poor Boy): The Poison frontman steps out solo again, loading his "Friends' list up with the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Loretta Lynn, Miley Cyrus and pals from Aerosmith, Van Halen, Kiss and beyond.
French Montana, "Excuse My French' (Coke Boys/Bad Boy/Maybach/Interscope): The debut album from the Moroccan-born New York rapper was overseen by Sean "Puffy' Combs and Rick Ross, who both guest along with Snoop Dogg, Birdman, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Ne-Yo and others.
Willy Moon, "Here's Willy Moon' (Island): The New Zealand rocker's debut sports a Wu-Tang Clan sample on the first single, "Yeah Yeah.'
Laura Mvula, "Sing to the Moon' (Columbia): The first full-length outing from the soulful British singer-songwriter who's still riding a buzz from her South By Southwest performances in March.
The National, "Trouble Will Find Me' (4AD): The Cincinnati mood rock group fortifies its sixth album with guests such as St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens, Doveman and members of Arcade Fire and Dark Dark Dark.
Chip Taylor, "Block Out the Sirens of This Lonely World' (Trainwreck): The adventurous Americana singer-songwriter ventures overseas to soak up the mood of post-2011 massacre Norway with the help of producer Goran Grini.
30 Seconds To Mars, "Love Lust Faith + Dreams' (Virgin/EMI): Jared Leto stays faithful to music with his band's fourth album, which sports more electronic flavors than its predecessors.
John Zorn and Pat Metheny, "Tap, The Book of Angels Vol. 20' (Tzadik/Nonesuch): Metheny brings his virtuoso guitar skills to Zorn's Masada repertoire, assisted by drummer Antonio Sanchez.
From The Vaults: Captain Beyond, "Live in Texas — October 6, 1973' (Cleopatra); David Crowder*Band, "All This For a King: The Essential Collection' (sixteps/Sparrow); The Moody Blues, "Live at the Isle of Wight 1970' and "Live at Montreux 1991' CD/DVD (Eagle Rock); Primus, "Sailing the Seas of Cheese (Deluxe Edition)'; Diana Ross, "Playlist: The Very Best of Diana Ross' (RCA/Legacy; Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, "Playlist: The Very Best of ...' (Epic/Legacy).
New Music DVDs: Queen, "On Fire — Live at the Bowl' (Eagle Rock); The Rolling Stones, "Crossfire Hurricane' (Eagle Rock).
Gary Graff's work can also be found at www.goanddomichigan.com, www.twitter.com/GraffonMusic and in the Facebook group Gary Graff on Music, while his Classic Rock Insider reports appear at www.wcsx.com. Gary's latest book, "Rock & Roll Myths: The True Stories Behind the Most Infamous Legends' (Voyageur Press) is available now.


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All Saints Byzantine Catholic Church
All Saints Byzantine Catholic Church is hosting an Ethnic Pirohi Dinner today, Feb. 9, from 3-6:30 p.m.
Featured in the dinner will be pirohi, stuffed cabbage, vegetables and a dessert of your choice with coffee or tea for just $12 per person.
Baked goods will also be available for sale at the dinner.
The church is located at 10291 Bayshore Road, which is 1 1/4 miles east of exit 143 on I-75, in North Fort Myers.
For information, call 239-543-6363.
All Soul's Episcopal Church
Gerry Gardner of Compelled by Grace Ministry will present "Hearts that Matter Much," Saturday, Feb. 23, at All Soul's Episcopal Church, 14640 N. Cleveland Ave., in North Fort Myers.
The program runs from 8:30 a.m. top 4:30 p.m. (lunch on your own). To register, visit www.comelledby-grace.com or email email@example.com
For additional information, call 239-543-7831.
Cape Alliance Church
Cape Alliance Church's current sermon series is "Journey with God; cure for a wasted life."
Cape Alliance Church is located at 4307 Skyline Blvd., Cape Coral. Telephone: 239-542-7844. On the Web: Cape4Christ.com. Sunday worship celebration is at 9:30 a.m. - family atmosphere, casual dress. Nursery care through age 4; Children's Church for children age 5 through 5th grades.
Cape Baptist Church
Hey kids! Join Cape Baptist Church each Wednesday from 6:30 - 8 p.m. for Awana youth clubs! Awana is an energetic youth club for kids ages 3 years old through 6th grade. Kids have an exciting time playing games, winning prizes and learning about Jesus Christ.
Ladies are invited to attend the weekly Bible Study Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Currently the group is studying the amazing life of Joseph.
Visit the church's website at www.capebaptist.org. For more information about Awana, call 239-242-8022 and ask for Pastor Rod. Cape Baptist Church is located at 435 S.E. 10th Terrace in Cape Coral.
Cape Coral Community Church
Cape Coral Community Church will hold a GriefShare recovery seminar and support group Tuesday 6-8 p.m.from Feb. 12 through May 7. The church is located at 811 Santa Barbara Blvd.
GriefShare sessions include a video, featuring nationally recognized experts of grief, and group discussions focused on those who have lost a loved one through death. Seminar sessions include "The Effects of Grief," "Why" and "Stuck in Grief."
For more information please contact Susan Johnson at 239-541-9099 after 5 p.m. or 239-728-7982.
Cape Coral First United
Methodist Church
The Who Is This Man series continues at Cape Coral First United Methodist Church.
GriefShare is a special seminar and support group for people grieving the loss of someone close. During small group discussion time, you'll have the opportunity to interact with others who have experienced a recent loss, learn about their experiences and share your own. GriefShare is a nondenominational group and features biblical teaching on grief and recovery topics. The group meets from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Contact Pastor Dennis Ball at email@example.com
DivorceCare is a special weekly seminar and support group for people who are separated or divorced. CCFUMC will be offering this Biblically based 13-week support group. Divorce Care meets from 6-8 p.m. Child care is available upon advanced request. This class is open to everyone regardless of church affiliation. Questions? Contact Pastor Dennis Ball at firstname.lastname@example.com
Alpha started Jan. 23. It is a 12-week course to learn about the basics of Christianity. We will explore the meaning of life, faith and God in a relaxed setting. The class time will be from 6-8 p.m. Childcare will be available upon request. More information to come!
Foundations Early Learning Center provides childcare; preschool and afterschool care for children from infants to 4 years old in a new facility as part of the growing family and youth programs at Cape Coral First United Methodist Church. The preschool's website is www.foundations-elc.org. For information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or call 239-542-4051.
The Intersection Youth Ministry of Cape Coral First UMC meets from 5-7 p.m. All Middle and High School students gather in The Intersection Youth Center. All students, 6th -12th grade are welcome!
Cape Coral First is located at 4118 Coronado Parkway, Cape Coral. Phone: 239-542-4051. www.capecoralfirst.org . Sunday services are at 8:45 a.m. - Traditional Service and 11 a.m. - Casual Service. Come as you are!
Cape First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a small church with a big heart that Gathers in Faith, Worshiping in Freedom and Living in Fellowship. Open to all, Worship Service is held every Sunday at 10 a.m., Bible Study is the first and third Saturday of each month at 9 a.m.
First Congregational Church is located at 312 Santa Barbara Blvd., Cape Coral. Call 239-574-6184. Please visit our website at www.firstchurchcape.org.
Crosspoint Christian Church
The Story continues at Crosspoint Christian Church. The Story is a journey through the story of the Bible from beginning to end. The story will help you see the Bible in a new and inspiring way. If you have struggled to understand how the Bible fits together, this series will help put it all in focus.
A safe, enriching program for children birth through fifth grade is available during all of our Sunday worship experiences.
Crosspoint meets at 204 S.W. 11th Place in Cape Coral. It has three worship services every Sunday at 8:30, 9:50 and 11:10 a.m.
Everyone is invited. To learn more visit our website at crosspointcape.com or call 574-1422.
Evangelical Presbyterian
Church of Cape Coral
Women of the Word began an exciting new Bible study Tuesday, Jan. 15. The women will be studying the book of Galatians. Two sessions are being offered, 9-11 a.m. and 6:30-8 p.m. If you have small children, bring them along, the church will have exciting activities planned for them! (Note: only in the 9-11 a.m. session.) Registration is open! Call 549-5556.
The church offers counseling services to individuals, couples and groups. Colleen Shue is the director of counseling. Call 549-5556, extension 18, to make an appointment. No fees for church members and a sliding scale fee for non-church members.
Sunday morning worship service starts at 10:25 a.m. to noon. Adult and Youth Sunday school classes, ages 2 through 8th grade, are offered starting at 9:15 a.m. During worship service and Sunday school hour, director Stacey Lakes provides a loving place for infants to Pre-K. Sunday evenings at 5:30, dinner is served in the Fellowship Hall followed by a time of praise and worship at 6 p.m. The children's program and youth group meet on Sunday nights as well.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church is located at 701 Mohawk Parkway. For additional information, visit www.epchurch.net or call 549-5556.
Fort Myers Shores
Seventh-day Adventist Church
On Sunday, Feb. 24, Fort Myers Shores Seventh-day Adventist Church will hold a FUN TIME Fund Raiser Formal Banquet & Program at 4 p.m. Contributions $25 each, children ages 3 to 10 $10 each and children under 3 free. Fort Myers Shores Seventh-day Adventist Church is located at 14830 Palm Beach Blvd., Fort Myers. Call Pastor Robert Ferguson at 239-878-6750.
Grace Community Church
Please join Grace Community Church for its 2nd Annual Pet Expo Saturday, Feb. 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Grace Community Center, 4152 Hancock Bridge Parkway, North Fort Myers.
The event will feature local rescue shelters with animals seeking forever homes, a number of pet-related vendors, veterinarians, groomers, animal sitters and more. There will also be craft and food vendors, and pet contests. Face painting, tattoos and bounce houses will be provided for children.
Admission is a donation of dog or cat food to help stock the shelves of our Feed the Pack Pet Ministry. For more information, contact Carol at 574-7161 or visit our website at www.egracechurch.com
Mother of God House
of Prayer Retreat Center
Mother of God House of Prayer Retreat Center at 17880 Cypress Creek Road in Alva will present a play-filled workshop exploring the dichotomy that connects the merriment of Mardi Gras and the quiet fasting of Ash Wednesday beginning on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 5 p.m., and ending on Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 2:30 p.m. The cost of $100 includes meals for both days and overnight accommodations. Register early - maximum 8.
For reservations, call 239-728-3614 or email email@example.com
Trinity Reformed Church
Trinity Reformed Church of Cape Coral will hold the following services:
9:30 a.m. - Sunday School for children and adults.
10:30 a.m. - Sunday morning worship service
6 p.m. - Sunday evening worship service
The church's "Missionary of the Month" is the Rev. Allen Vander Pol. He is a missionary and professor at Miami International Seminary. He writes theology courses in English for students around the world who study with MINTS. He writes courses in Systematic (doctrinal) Theology. He supervises students and study centers in Southeast Asia. He travels to India, Myanmar and the Philippines to teach and supervise the work of study centers there. Rev. Vander Pol was pastor of Trinity Reformed Church for 13 years before he went into full-time missions.
Trinity Reformed Church is a member of the United Reformed Churches of North America, a federation of churches located throughout the United States and Canada. We are part of the wider Reformed and Presbyterian family of churches.
Listen to the church's sermons every week for free at www.sermon-audio.com/trinityreformed.
Trinity Reformed Church is located at 2220 Hancock Bridge Parkway.


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Nov. 4, 2003
The Record: Overall 12-3-1 Big West 4-2-0
This Week's Schedule
Wednesday, November 5th
No. 15 UC Santa Barbara 12-3-1 / 4-2-0, 1st - Big West
at No. 21 Cal State Northridge 10-3-2 / 3-2-1, 3rd (t) - Big West
1:00 p.m. at CSN's Matador Soccer Field
Saturday, November 8th
No. 15 UC Santa Barbara 12-3-1 / 4-2-0, 1st - Big West
vs. UC Riverside 6-8-1 / 2-4-1, 5th (t) - Big West
7:00 p.m. at UCSB's Harder Stadium
Let the Shakedown Begin
Parity has been the key word when it comes to the Big West men's soccer standings this season. Although UC Santa Barbara has held the points lead all but four days and has never had its win total surpassed this season, the Gauchos' 12 points are just one point ahead of second place UC Irvine, and two points ahead of third place Cal State Northridge and Cal State Fullerton. UCSB has games remaining with all three opponents within relative striking distance, starting this week with quite possibly the biggest threat, 21st-ranked Cal State Northridge.
Back in the Mix
If there was any questions as to whether midfielder David McGill was ready to return to the pitch, they have been answered. In a rain soaked Harder Stadium on Friday night, the senior from Dublin, Ireland looked to be the player he was before being injured, creating numerous scoring opportunities and tallying his sixth assist of the season. After streaking down the waterlogged sideline, McGill whipped in a perfect cross into the top 6-yard box and onto the head of Neil Jones to break the scoreless tie. Currently tied for 28th in the nation averaging 0.50 assists per game, he is just two assists short of second place in the Big West while having missed over a third of the season. Now with McGill nearly 100%, he gives opponents two players to worry about in the midfield, joining Memo Arzate, who leads the nation averaging 0.88 assists per game.
Halloween Monsoon
With the conditions present in last Friday's match with the University of San Francisco, in order for the Gauchos to come out with a win and snap their two-game losing trend they where going to need their big men to step up. While being dowsed with what turned out to be nearly 1.5 inches of rain, UCSB's scoring tandem of Neil Jones and Drew McAthy, neither of whom started the match, broke out of their three-game scoring slump. Jones got the offense going less than two minutes into the second half when he grabbed a McGill cross out of the air with his head and put it in the top left corner of goal to give Santa Barbara a 1-0 lead. As the rain continued to fall and the temperature dropped, USF knocked in a loose ball to knot the match at 1-1 and send the game into overtime. The Gauchos didn't waste anytime in OT, just over a minute in Memo Arzate picked up the rebound off of his own corner kick and lopped a perfect ball to the back post, setting up Drew McAthy for his sixth game-winning goal of the season. Now with 11 goals apiece, Jones and McAthy are tied for 24th in the nation with a 0.69 goals per game average, and adding in Jones' four assists, his 1.62 points per game mark is tied for 26th.
The Game That Gets Bigger and Bigger
The Gauchos travel to Northridge for a Wednesday afternoon match against the 21st ranked Matadors for the final regular season meeting between the two. Having already beaten CSN this year 3-2 before nearly 1,000 fans in Santa Barbara on October 18th, UCSB ran it's career record to 10-8-3 against the conference foe. Freshman defender Jeff Murphy netted Memo Arzate's corner kick for the game-winner in the 64th minute, giving Santa Barbara the upper hand in its race for a third straight Big West Crown. This week's showdown is a whole different story however, as UCSB will now be playing on Northridge's pitch, a place where it has not won since 2000. In 2001, the Matadors pulled out a 3-2 overtime win to hand UCSB just one of its two Big West losses that season. And last year, the game at CSN became the Gauchos' lone blemish in conference play, as the two battled to a 0-0 double-overtime time. Over the course of the last three seasons, three of the five games have been decided by one goal...or less. The Matadors are lead by freshman forward Willie Sims with seven goals, including the game-tying goal when they played in October. Junior midfielder Jesse Servin has paced the offense with eight assists, second only to UCSB playmaker Memo Arzate in the Big West. Junior Rademus Lafaurie has played all by 17 minutes beaten the pipes this season for CSN, posting a 1.31 GAA and 80.4% save percentage.
Welcome to Santa Barbara
UC Riverside enters Harder Stadium this Saturday having never defeated the Gauchos at home. In fact, UCSB has only lost once to the Highlanders, back in the 70's. Over the course of the series Santa Barbara has compiled a 10-1-0 record against UCR, including a 2-1 win earlier this season in Riverside. Forwards Neil Jones and Drew McAthy both netted goals in the match, amidst streak of three consecutive games in which both players scored a goal. Since the Big West reinstated men's soccer in 2001, the Highlanders have yet to score a goal in Harder, where UCSB has beaten them by a combined 6-0 margin. The year could be different because of UCR's Luc Harrington who is third in the conference with eight goals, sitting behind the tandem of Jones and McAthy. On the other hand, the rest of the team has struggled, as a team the Highlanders have only scored eighteen goals, with freshman Edgar Alejo's four goals being the only other multi-goal total. Senior Josh Alexander has stepped for injured Charles Alamo in goal, starting the last six matches, including the UCSB match, where he made ten saves to keep UCR in the game.


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Never Before Seen Rocky I Choreography Footage [VIDEO]
New video has just surfaced of Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) and Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed) in the ring going over choreography for the first Rocky movie. It's hard to believe this video is nearly 40 years old. Watch the Italian Stallion prep for the unexpected. At this time, no one thought Rocky I would be the highest grossing film of 1976, go on to win three Oscars (including Best Picture) and spawn five sequels!


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PUPPY LOVE: Shelter makes hard decisions but not without heart
COLUMBIA CITY — Discussions regarding the care and concern for stray and abandoned animals in Whitley County have been thick with controversy.When the Whitley County Humane Shelter petitioned the County Commissioners for funding, several letters were submitted to The Post & Mail that spoke of strong opinions both for and against the county's financial support.With the recent charges brought against numerous individuals found to have participated in a dog-fighting ring, the shelter was once again thrust in the spotlight.Three dogs were recovered from the dog-fighting incident and placed in the custody of the shelter. Treatment began immediately to help heal the serious injuries each dog had.At the time the shelter took the dogs in, Lindsay Pease, the humane shelter's director of operations, was not only concerned about the dogs' visible wounds, but the emotional and mental stability and recovery of the animals as well.A plea was made for financial help in giving the dogs the specific care and treatment needed. According to Pease, the community supported the initiative to try to rehabilitate the dogs.Whitley County Humane Shelter took in the dogs in December of 2012. Since then, the animals have been in the care of the shelter and have spent months receiving treatment.However, Monday, The Post & Mail reported that two of three dogs had been euthanized, according to court documents.Pease confirmed that two dogs were put down, but strongly expressed the reasoning behind such a decision.To read the rest of this story, see the April 11 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook and twitter.


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Prominent from the start of the 6 ½ furlong sprint, Executiveprivilege asserted her superiority at the head of the stretch in taking command and kept to her task in winning by a length and one-quarter in 1:16.98 for the 6 ½ furlongs.
Executiveprivilege, from the power-laden barn of trainer Bob Baffert, is a daughter of First Samurai purchased for $650,000 at a two-year-olds in training auction last April.
First prize of $90,000 pushed her earnings to $210,000 and ensured that she will be the strong favorite in the Grade I $300,000 Del Mar Debutante Saturday, September 1 at seven furlongs.
The winner, who scored in the Landaluce Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park July 14, returned $2.80, $2.20 and $2.10 to her backers in a crowd of 12,142. Because of heavy wagering to show on the winner, there was a minus pool of $9,198.
Speedinthruthecity paid $4.40 and $3.40, while Switch to the Lead returned $4 to show.
Executiveprivilege provided Bejarano with his eighth stakes success from 17 added money events thus far this summer at Del Mar. The record for most stakes wins in a Del Mar meeting is 12 shared by four riders.
Through 16 days of the season, Bejarano leads Garrett Gomez by a single victory, 24-23. Gomez doubled Wednesday, aboard Apply in the second and Swift Eagle in the sixth.
With a carryover of $257, 477 from Sunday's program, $1.604,176 in "new" money was bet in Wednesday's Pick Six for a total pool of $1,861,653. There were 77 perfect tickets and each returned $14,472.80.