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Displays 2.0
Just as LCD and plasma TV's become mainstream, a new wave of display technologies has arrived to supplant them.
Displays 2.0
If you are like me, happy to use a liquid crystal display (LCD) to watch words take shape, happy with the LCD on my mobile phone, but still reluctant to let an LCD rule my living room, our waiting may soon be over.
Don't get me wrong. I know the latest generation of large-screen LCD and plasma TVs offers resolutions that make my cathode ray tube (CRT) TV a laughing stock. I could use the space that a flat-panel TV would create in my living room, and would like its cool looks. I could even live with the prices. Yet despite the advantages of relegating the CRT to a back room, there are two drawbacks that have kept me from taking the plunge.
The first is the lack of high-definition (HD) content to go with an HD-ready set. Even if I replaced my DVD player with a Blu-ray disc box, the title line-up in the format is still limited. My cable TV provider isn't in a hurry to launch an HDTV service, either. And Buenos Aires isn't London, so I can forget about ATC (Argentina's equivalent of the BBC) launching 'ATC HD' any time soon.
The second drawback is image quality. Why settle for LCD or plasma when, even if I bought the most advanced model on offer, I would be replacing my CRT TV with inferior technology? Yes, I would get many more pixels per centimetre of screen. But it's the quality of those pixels that counts and, no matter how hard the makers of LCD and plasma displays try, CRT technology is still unrivalled when it comes to factors such as contrast ratio.
There's little that engineers can do to accelerate the provision of HD content by studios and broadcasters. But some of the technical shortcomings of LCD and plasma TVs are about to be swept aside by a variety of emerging flat-screen display technologies.
Organic future
For many years, engineers have been working on technologies that can match, and in some cases, improve upon, the form factors of large-screen LCD and plasma displays, while offering the contrast ratios, colour fidelity, brightness and other quality parameters previously confined to CRTs.
There are three reasons why these technologies are taking so long to become commercially available: technical challenges, unrealistic pricing, and commercial conflicts of interest.
In December, Sony launched the first commercial display to be based on one of these technologies. Still only available in Japan and the US, the Sony XEL-1 is the world's first organic light-emitting diode (OLED) television.
OLED research began in the 1980s, although it was only in the past three to five years that the technology started to find its way into small displays on mobile phones, digital cameras, car radios and portable digital media players.
The biggest advantage of OLED displays is that they don't need a backlight, unlike most high-performance LCDs. In OLED displays, the electroluminescent layer is made of a film of carbon-based compounds, which are deposited by a printing process. The organic layer is sandwiched between two conductors and two sheets of glass, and emits light when a voltage is applied to the conductors.
Doing away with the backlight simplifies manufacturing, enables thinner displays and cuts power consumption - in theory. OLED displays were first used in battery-powered devices partly because of their reputation for drawing less power than LCD screens. However, as screen size increases, engineers are having difficulties translating the energy-efficiency promises of OLED into reality.
The XEL-1, for example, whose screen measures only 28cm on the diagonal, is rated by Sony as consuming 34W. A detailed examination of the device carried out by a group of engineers and commissioned by Tech-On, a division of Nikkei Business Publications, found that average power consumption for a display showing a white screen was 28.4W, and 18.3W when it showed black.
For comparison with LCD technology, Sony's 48cm Bravia M series LCD consumes 50W. Katsuji Fujita, the former president and chief executive officer of Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology, was quoted as saying that, for screen sizes larger than 76cm, OLEDs currently consume two to three times more power than LCDs.
What's undeniable in OLED displays is their ability to adopt almost ridiculously thin form factors. The screen of Sony's XEL-1 is 3mm thick, not bad for the first commercial use of the technology. Sony has already unveiled a screen prototype that has the same diagonal measurement but is ten times thinner, at just 0.3mm thick. It has also produced a 69cm prototype OLED TV offering Full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution, with the same contrast ratio as the XEL-1.
OLED screens produce better images than rival technologies, including CRTs. The XEL-1 has a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1, a figure that one gadget website followed by a bracket saying "not a printing error". This contrast ratio makes 'absolute blacks', one of the holy grails of HD displays and one of the greatest shortcomings of LCDs, possible. CNET reviewer David Katzmaier says of the Sony screen: "Blacks produced by this TV are absolute and visually indistinguishable from the black frame around the screen in a dark environment."
Early days
So, I'm finally ready to go and buy one of these, right? Not quite. For all the advantages that OLEDs bring, there are still some commercial and technical barriers to overcome before these products will be widely attractive.
Price is the biggest issue. Sony's XEL-1 is $2,500, enough to make even an early adopter blanch. Prices should start to drop once economies of scale kick in, although Sony has so far only been able (or willing) to make a couple of thousand XEL-1 units each month, in Japan and the US.
The biggest technical issue (apart from power consumption) is that OLED screens wear out too quickly. So far, the materials used in OLEDs will only work for between 10,000 and 14,000 hours before they begin to degrade. That means that a TV that is in use for an average of seven hours a day will have a maximum lifetime of just five-and-a-half years.
Despite these pricing and technical issues, Toshiba, Samsung, Panasonic and LG are all expected to bring OLED technology to market at some point over the next three years.
Laser TV
The second display technology challenging the large-screen status quo is laser TV. One of the main advantages of laser displays is that laser beams can be combined to produce about 90 per cent of the colours that humans can see, compared with around 50 per cent for LCDs and plasmas.
The reason we're not all enjoying the benefits of laser's wide colour gamut is that it has been too expensive to use in a rear-projection TV. Mitsubishi claims to have solved the cost issue and is about to launch the world's first commercial laser TV. Drawing less than 200W, it should be about twice as power-efficient as a similar-sized LCD, and three times as efficient as similar-sized plasma screens.
Talking about size, Mitsubishi - unlike Sony in the OLED camp - isn't wasting any time and will be targeting the really large-screen sector from the word go. The Japanese vendor's debut laser TV, dubbed LaserVue, will come in 165cm and 185cm versions. The first units should ship this autumn.
Sceptics highlight two main drawbacks of laser TV technology: a potential blinding hazard due to high-power lasers; and a technical glitch known as image speckle noise caused by the narrowband light source.
Mitsubishi insists it has overcome both, by using integrated diffusion filters to reduce the threat from high-power lasers, and proprietary technology to tackle the speckling issue.
The first LaserVue TVs will feature a 120Hz refresh rate and will apparently be competitively priced against comparable LCD and plasma alternatives. But more work will be needed to reduce the 25cm depth of the cabinet.
Fed up
The third display technology with a chance of dethroning the current incumbents is the field emission display (FED). It combines the image quality of CRTs with the slim shape of flat panels.
To achieve this, FEDs borrow from CRTs the idea of using a beam of electrons to light up a phosphor layer. In CRTs, the beam from an electron gun is swept across the phosphor coating of the tube's front glass to paint the image. In FEDs, carbon nanotubes are deposited to form a static two-dimensional array of millions of tiny electron guns that each illuminate a fixed patch of phosphor. Apart from shrinking the depth of the cabinet, to around 50mm judging by the first emerging screens, this allows for better energy efficiency than LCDs and plasmas. Contrast ratios in excess of 20,000:1 are also possible.
FED technology has been in development for decades. In 2006 Sony felt it was mature enough to spin off an independent company, called Field Emission Technologies, to commercialise the company's FED research. The Tokyo spin-off introduced its first product, a 49cm display called nano-Spindt FED, last year. It is being marketed for broadcasting, film-making, medical and other professional applications first. This will be a relief to broadcasting professionals, who are finding that the CRT master monitors they rely on to evaluate the quality of video signals are going out of production. As with any other phosphor-based screen technologies, FED users will have to look out for the susceptibility of the display to phosphor burn-in.
There's one more pretender to the flat panel crown, and that's surface-conduction electron-emitter displays (SEDs). These are a variant of FED technology, with each phosphor pixel being illuminated by a single tiny cathode ray tube, rather than millions of carbon nanotubes.
SED developers claim similar benefits in terms of power consumption, image quality, response times and thickness to those creating FEDs. But a continuing patent dispute involving Canon, Toshiba and a firm called Nano-Proprietary is making industry insiders pessimistic about SED's chances of joining OLED, laser TV and FED in the battle to conquer living rooms around the world. Mine included, of course.


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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) stocks slipped over 4% early on Monday, despite news of their technological partnership with Qiagen (NASDAQ: QGEN), a holding company that provides sample to insight solution for Biological samples, at the annual ASCO 2017 meeting over the weekend. According to Qiagens' Press release, they signed an agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb to explore the use of next-generation sequencing or NSG, technology. This will be used in predictive or prognostic tools for therapies in cancer treatment. According to the head of Development, Oncology, of Bristol-Myers Squibb, Fouad Namouni, M.D., Greater precision in the treatment of cancer may enable faster decision making to identify which patient populations are most likely to derive benefit from our immuno-oncology agents… We believe working with QIAGEN will help develop better diagnostic tools to target the most appropriate immunotherapies across a number of different tumor types."
It appears to be a good start of the week for many biopharmaceutical companies that focus on cancer research; however Bristol-Myers Squibb seem to go in the opposite direction. On June 2, their stocks hit $55.08 per share and dropped to $52.24 during midday trading on Monday 06/5/207. Even considering that the company's earnings from Q1 of 2017 were above analyst estimates.


text: Josh Bell, Austin Meadows, Ke'Bryan Hayes are some of my favorite prospects in the Pirates organization. But one question always seems to come up when I am talking with other prospectors. Where is the power? According to my research the Pirates coaches are working on various adjustments to help these guys tap into their power potential. Do you expect these three to ever reach their moderate to plus power potential?


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As I sat in my car, the ancient red Chevi that Jacob had brought back from the dead as a wedding present, I thought about the occurrences that had brought me to make this decision. I had thought that I would be happy, that my life could finally become peaceful. However, regretful acts were coming back to haunt me, and nothing I did seemed to stop all of the problems piling up. My future seemed to wait, shrouded, inches from me, and all I had to do was unveil it. Could I ever be strong enough?
I knew how much I had hurt the people that I loved. I had hurt them, and it was all for nothing. I didn't deserve the happy life that I imagined, the life that I had neither anticipated nor wished for it. But that was a thing of the past. I yearned for this-the life I had turned my back on, the love I had scorned. It can take the smallest things to change a heart completely. But I knew that, though it was easy to convince myself that I was doing this for others, it was an entirely selfish act. I hadn't in the slightest earned the reward that I strove for.
With a sigh, I cut the engine and left the car, walking swiftly towards the door of the house I wished to enter. I knocked quietly, but he heard me, and opened the door. I stood still, wondering what his reaction would be. I noticed his quick eyes zero in on the slight bulge beneath my stomach with distaste. I said the first thing I could think of, not sure whether it would pacify or anger him. "It's yours, Jacob."


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The result of a design competition sponsored in 1974, the building is still owned and managed by a nonprofit that is comprised entirely of architects.
Film Screening: Paris, Ni Hao
Documentary film about Chinese immigrants in Paris. Screenings Wednesday, April 20th, at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, April 23rd, at 2:00 p.m. in McCormick Hall 101
Fluvial Metropolis Workshop 3
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SoA Exhibit: SALVAGE
Curated by Sylvia Lavin. Opening April 11 in the SoA Gallery.
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Detroit 101: History, Race, and Real Estate
Betts Auditorium (6pm) Thomas Sugrue, Dan Kinkead, and Jerry Paffendorf
SoA Exhibit: Gallery Reception
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Detroit 101: Philanthropy & Public Policy
Betts Auditorium (12p-1:30p) Don Chen, Ford Foundation
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SoA Exhibit: A Citizen's Guide To Real Estate Investment
Princeton University School of Architecture Gallery. March 21 - April 1, 2016.
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Detroit 101: The Arts of Urban Transition
Betts Auditorium (12p-1:30p) ; Oge Ude, Alexander Quetell, Lauren Wodarski
Detroit 101: Urbanism & Design
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SoA Exhibit: Itineraries - 2015 Butler Traveling Fellowships
Stone, Manning, Clark, Kluytenaar, Meyer-Madaus
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Now, a new generation of Republicans like Senator
That holds the potential to threaten two wings of a Republican national security establishment that have been warring for decades: the internationalists who held sway under the elder President George Bush and the neoconservatives who led the country to long and costly wars in
Members of both camps said this week that they fear returning to a minimalist foreign policy, as articulated in different ways by Mr. Paul, Senator Mike Lee of
"A real challenge for the Republicans as they approach 2016 is what will be their brand?" said
The split in the party was on display in muted terms here on Thursday at the opening session of the
Moments later, Mr. Paul told the conference that the filibuster he conducted last week over the Obama administration's drone policy was aimed at the limits on presidential power and American power abroad. "No one person gets to decide the law," he said.
Some Republicans are so nervous about the positions championed by Mr. Paul and his supporters that they have begun talking about organizing to beat back primary challenges from what Dan Senor, a veteran of the younger Mr. Bush's team of foreign policy advisers, described as a push to reorient the party toward a "neo-isolationist" foreign policy. That policy, Mr. Senor said, "is sparking discussions among conservative donors, activists and policy wonks about creating a political network to support internationalist Republicans."
But in Mr. Paul and the
But other party leaders are rushing to embrace Mr. Paul and Tea Party Republicans as they build coalitions of young voters who dislike the foreign wars and the cost of fighting them. Those voters may be a key to winning back the White House in 2016.
After Mr. Paul's 13-hour filibuster last week, leading Republican figures heaped praise on the freshman senator. Senator
Mr. Haass said Republican leaders are beginning to recognize the electoral power appeal among some voters to Mr. Paul's foreign policy views.
"Some of what Rand Paul says resonates," he said. "Either party that ignores it does so at its peril. On the other hand, one does not simply want to embrace it because it goes too far."
Mr. Paul calls himself a "realist, not a neoconservative nor an isolationist." But his view of America resembles that of his father, former Representative
Senator Paul, who is mulling a presidential bid in 2016, is less strident and more subtle than his father. In a speech at the
The question for the Republican Party is whether Mr. Paul and his followers will emerge as a vocal enough part of the Republican electorate to reshape the party's foreign policy without taking it back to the strictly isolationist approach.
"This is a divide that has been festering and deepening for a generation," said Thomas Donnelly, a fellow at the
Some Republicans are less worried. They view Mr. Paul's crusade as nothing more than the usual attempt by members of the opposition party to undermine the assertive foreign policy of an incumbent president.
In the 1980s, Democrats harshly criticized President
"The last three presidents have worried about a rising tide of isolationism," said Peter D. Feaver, a professor of political science at
Mr. Feaver said that many Republicans who praised Mr. Paul do not share his broader views about a limited role for the United States abroad. "Part of what you're hearing is cheerleading for someone on our side who actually dunked the ball and it actually went through the net," Mr. Feaver said.Continue reading the main story


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FBI warns that fake bin Laden video is a virus
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned computer users Tuesday that messages claiming to include photos and videos of Osama bin Laden's death actually contain a virus that could steal personal information.
The warning comes as security companies said that they've spotted the first samples of malicious software disguised as photos of the dead Al Qaeda leader.
Security vendor F-Secure said Tuesday that criminals are e-mailing a password-stealing Trojan horse program called Banload to victims, and Symantec said its seen criminals spamming victims with links to fake "Osama dead" news articles that launch Web-based attacks on visitors.
U.S. authorities do have photos of bin Laden, who was shot in the head during an early morning raid Monday in Pakistan. But these photos have not been released publicly.
Scammers have also used a technique called search engine poisoning to try to trick search engines into listing hacked Web pages that are loaded with malware in their search results. "It's unlikely you'll find pictures or videos of Bin Laden's death online -- but searching for one will certainly take you to sites with malware," wrote F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hyponnen in a blog post.
The FBI warned Internet users to watch out for fake messages on social network sites and to never download software in order to view a video.
"Read e-mails you receive carefully. Fraudulent messages often feature misspellings, poor grammar, and non-standard English," the FBI warning stated.
As a major international news event, bin Laden's death has shown the amazing way information can spread online. Many learned of the terrorist leader's death through Twitter, where the story first broke, or Facebook.
But it also underscores how the unfiltered media can quickly spread bad information worldwide.
In the two days since the early morning raid, the bin Laden story has generated fake photographs, fake quotes, and plenty of scams.
Security experts said that shady marketers and so-called rogue antivirus vendors have also jumped on the bin Laden bandwagon. The rogue antivirus software bombards victims with pop-up messages telling them they have a computer problem. Its aim: to nag them into paying for bogus software.
Shady marketers are spreading messages on Facebook that try to lure victims into spreading the message to friends and visiting marketing Web sites, by claiming they have a censored video.
A file called Fotos_Osama_Bin_Laden.zip is being spammed via e-mail. The archive contains a file called Fotos_Osama_Bin_Laden.exe (md5:d57a1ef18383a8684c525cf415588490).
Fotos_Osama_Bin_Laden.exe / Osama bin LadenOf course, running this file won't show pictures of dead bin Laden. Instead it executes a banking trojan belonging to the Banload family. It will install itself on the system (as
msapps\msinfo\42636.exe) and starts to monitor your online banking sessions (via a BHO), trying to redirect your payments to wrong accounts.
US-CERT detect this one as Trojan-Downloader:W32/Banload.BKHJ.


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CBLDF Launches "Spirit of Giving" Holiday Gift Drive
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Celebrate The Spirit of Giving this holiday season by getting once-in-a-lifetime presents for the fans in your life in support of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! When you do, The Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation will make a contribution to the CBLDF for every donation and membership placed during this campaign!
CBLDF is offering the best presents in comics, including graphic novels personalized to the fan in your life by icons including Neil Gaiman, art spiegelman, Frank Miller, Dan Clowes, Robert Kirkman, Dave Gibbons, and many more. Plus you'll get an exclusive Will Eisner gift card that tells them your gift helped do good for comics!
When you support the CBLDF's Spirit of Giving drive between now and December 16, the Will and Ann Eisner Foundation will make a contribution of $1 for every donation and gift order placed on the CBLDF's website. In addition, they will contribute $5 for each new, renewing or gift membership made from now until December 31!
Be a hero this holiday by giving the most unique gifts that make a real difference when you support the CBLDF with the Spirit of Giving!
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When you place your order with the CBLDF for these holiday premiums, you can have each of the offered books personalized to one or two names, and the artist will sign and personalize the book on a high quality CBLDF-branded bookplate. When you place your order, you'll be prompted to indicate how you want the book personalized in the comments section. Please include the personalization request, such as: For Will, For Carl & Nancy, or To The Groppers! Sorry – artists will not be able to provide sketches or other messages.
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The CBLDF protects the First Amendment rights of comics by paying for the defense of important Free Speech cases; maintaining top retained legal counsel to assist with day-to-day First Amendment issues that people need help with; and membership in Media Coalition to fight unconstitutional laws. Donations made during this campaign will help us pay down our current balance to retained counsel and our Media Coalition dues, which they graciously allowed us to defer when we made the first contribution to the Canada Customs case last September.
These donations will also shore up our resources to contribute to the defense of the Canada Customs case, going to trial early next year. This is the case of Brandon X, an American citizen facing a minimum sentence of one year in Canadian prison and registration as a sex offender because Canada Customs alleges that Japanese horror and fantasy comics on Brandon's laptop are child pornography. His case is important because it raises important precedent questions about the artistic merit of comics and the rights of readers and artists traveling with comics on their electronic devices. The CBLDF needs your help to pay the lawyers defending this case because we seek to establish a precedent that protects comics in Canada and influences courts in the United States.
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Located in Alameda County, in the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, the city of Berkeley ranks fourth in terms of population size in Alameda County. It also only occupies a total area of approximately 18 square miles. That doesn't mean, however, that Berkeley is content to remain in the sidelines.
This leafy university town is known throughout the world as a cultural hub and a leading educational center. Amid its tree-lined streets are centers for learning, art spaces, homegrown establishments, and acres of green spaces. Socially progressive and culturally diverse, Berkeley welcomes new residents from all over the world.
Berkeley is best known for being the home of the University of California, Berkeley– the oldest campus in the University of California system. The world-class Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is also located in the city. It's not always about studying in Berkeley, however, as there are plenty of opportunities to play.
Berkeley real estate and homes for sale in Berkeley
Berkeley is a popular choice for home buyers who are looking to live in close proximity to Oakland and San Francisco, both of which are a short drive away. In addition, Berkeley, being the home of a world-class university, is a prime destination for students from different parts of the globe.
Since many different people come and go to Berkeley, the local real estate market offers a variety of opportunities to meet specific needs and preferences. Depending on where one looks, home buyers will find a wide selection of homes in different architectural styles. Craftsman bungalows, Victorian homes, secluded hillside or hilltop retreats, and stately older properties are just some of the treats home buyers will find in Berkeley's real estate market.
Some of the most coveted homes in Berkeley are those designed by famous architects. You'll find homes in the city designed by Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck, and John Hudson Thomas.
Experience the Berkeley lifestyle
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First off, what version of Cassandra are you using? > We've noticed that when we restart cassandra disk utilization decreases dramatically Presumably you mean 'utilization' as in free space. Specifically on a restart, this type of behavior is likely due to Cassandra deleting compacted SSTables. Compacted and therefore unused SSTables are deleted on A) a full GC, B) when requested due to insufficient space and C) on a restart. > I'm curious when the CommitLogs get cleaned up, is it during a compaction or is it when everything in the commit log is written to SSTable I dont know the specifics of what actually triggers a commit log segment to be deleted but they are eligible for deletion once all the memtable data is flushed (ie, your second point). Default settings are to flush CFs at least every 60 minutes so you should plan for commit logs sticking around for about 60 minutes. Provided you are using a recent Cassandra version (late 0.7 or 0.8.x) I doubt the commit log is your problem. My experience using Cassandra as a time series data store (with a full 30 days of data + various aggregations) has been that the commit log is a trivial fraction of the actual data. That said, its highly dependent on how you use your data and when it expires/gets deleted (with considerations for gc_grace). As one final point, as of 0.8, I would not recommend playing with per-CF flush settings. There are global thresholds which work far better and account for things like java overhead. On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Derek Andree <email@example.com>wrote: > I run a single node cassandra instance, and we have lots of overwrites on a > hot CF and disk utilization seems to grow pretty fast. We've noticed that > when we restart cassandra disk utilization decreases dramatically (dramatic > being something close to 50%). Most of this growth seems to be in the > commitlog directory which are replayed when cassandra starts, then removed. > > So I understand that writes go to commit log and then to memtable, then to > SSTable. I'm curious when the CommitLogs get cleaned up, is it during a > compaction or is it when everything in the commit log is written to SSTable? > Is there an easy way to keep commit log size down without killing > performance? > > I've read this: > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableThresholds > > Since larger memtables help to absorb overwrites, I'd like to increase > MemTableThroughputInMB and maybe play with MemtableOperationsInMillions as > well, but I'm wondering if this will lead to even more dramatic disk > utilization in the commitlog directory. It seems like larger memtables > would naturally mean more disk utilization by the commit logs. > > Our write load is very predictable and always the same, tons of writes for > time series statistics every 5 minutes. > > While I'm fine with temporary commit logs growing in size, I'm wondering if > we should be forcing compactions, forcing GC, or doing some form of cleanup > to keep them from getting too big. Mainly I just need to know how much disk > utilization I can expect from a given number of writes, and I'm wondering if > there is some "fudge factor" I should account for with commit logs. Any > advice appreciated. > > Thanks, > -Derek
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Efforts to keep Cindy Corrie from speaking at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, ban the film Rachel altogether, and/or defund the festival, inspired filmmaker and peace activist Rachel Leah Jones to write this moving letter from Tel Aviv. Jones is friends with Rachel filmmaker SImone Bitton, and was planning to go to the West Bank the day Corrie was killed in Gaza. The appropriate intensity of Jones' response reveals the profound chasm in the Jewish world. As though seeing for oneself what the occupation hath wrought, instead of reading the filtered fundraising letters of our childhoods from various Jewish groups, transports one into an entirely different parallel universe. As more and more of us make that journey- literally or metaphorically – the two worlds threaten to explode on contact.
Like the SF Jewish Film Festival, which has, ironically, been a model of integration and vision, understanding that our Jewish community is wide and broad and varied and strong enough to be just that.
It simply remains a fact: any just solution and lasting peace will absolutely require that we join these universes together.
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Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 2:22 AM
From one Rachel to another
An open letter to Rachel Corrie as the screening of the film that bears her name, honors her life, and condemns her death faces shameless criticism and censorship
Dear Rachel,
The day you were crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza, was a stormy day in Tel Aviv.
March 16, 2003 — to be exact.
I was seated at my computer editing a collection of reports by Amira Hass filed from Ramallah (reporting from ramallah). It was the first compilation of writings by this Jewish Israeli Ha'aretz journalist to be published since she left Gaza for the West Bank. Come afternoon, I was to head from Tel Aviv to Ramallah, where I intended to meet up with my friend and colleague, filmmaker Simone Bitton. Simone was working on a series of daily video diaries (Ramallah DailY). It was raining so hard, I wondered if I had it in me to schlep across Qalandia checkpoint. It never dawned upon me whether I had it in me to face a D9 house-demolishing bulldozer in Rafah.
I went online to check the forecast, to see if the storm was going to let up, and I saw the newsflash announcing your crushing; anonymous, faceless, nameless. I remember the words American, peace-activist, female. I didn't know yet that, like me, your name was Rachel. Nor did I know that you too were a "Greener." I just knew that some folks in the states might mistakenly worry at first glance that the said woman was me. I dropped my mother a line to assure her I was fine. And off to Ramallah I went.
Simone was in a production frenzy but I remember we exchanged a few words about it: "Did you hear?" "I heard." Finally the rain subsided, and posters bearing your likeness sprang up like mushrooms. Ramallah was covered in them: a blond, blue-eyed, "girl-next-door," sweatshirt-wearing martyr. People were deeply moved. Someone other than they, someone who "didn't really have to," had put their life on the line. And since we all know that in the deranged Western economy of imagined human worth one blond, blue-eyed, sweatshirt-wearing life is worth 100 if not 1,000 brown-haired, brown-eyed, not sweatshirt-wearing lives, your death was like a massacre.
Two months later I found myself, coincidentally, at Evergreen College, in your hometown of Olympia, WA, where I had not set foot since I graduated 10 years prior. I was 33 and you were 23. Although a decade apart, we both chose Israel/Palestine as the site for our independent study (I during the first Intifada, you during the second Intifada). As it turns out, we shared some teachers too. When they invited me to screen my film 500 Dunam on the Moon, about the occupation and depopulation of a Palestinian village and its transformation into a Jewish artists' colony, I dedicated the screening to you and added Simone Bitton's film THE bombing (which addresses the common, yes common, mourning of Palestinian suicide-bombers' families and Israeli victims' families) to the bill in honor of your parents, who were in the audience. In the discussion that followed, I was asked the usual question: "What hope do you have and/or solution do you see, for the situation in the Middle East?" (as if the "Middle East" were the situation). "To be honest," I said, "right now, I have none and/or see none." Not my usual answer, and an utterly useless one at that. Cindy Corrie got up, practically from sitting shiva so to speak, and proceeded to rock the house with her optimism. I was impressed, but also ashamed. Who was I to feel hopeless, when your mourning mother didn't? One might have thought, the Corries need to give your death meaning right now, otherwise, how could they possibly live with it? But six years later, Cindy Corrie is still willing to rock the house. That is, if the house will let her.
This is where our paths diverge, yet nevertheless cross. I am a Berkeley girl, born and raised. As far back as I can remember, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival was a place that year in and year out fed the Jew in me, the leftist in me, and the filmmaker in me. It is where I had the honor of screening my first two documentaries, 500 dunam on the moon and ashkenaz, where Simone Bitton screened political films in the past (mahmoud darwish: as the land is the languAge and Wall) and where countless other American and Israeli Jewish filmmakers have taken the State of Israel to task, at least cinematically. And herein lies the problem, I fear. Had you been Rachel Koret, rather than Rachel Corrie, things would look quite different. You would have had the proverbial "right," in mainstream Jewish eyes, to criticize, to protest, even to die. And your mother's campaign against Caterpillar, i.e. her activist kaddish, would be tolerated if not sanctioned. But you were not Rachel Koret or Korn or Cohen. Just Corrie. A shayna punim shiksa who had no business telling D9 bulldozers, even if they are "Made in the USA," what to do. Certainly not bulldozers nicknamed "Dubi" which is Hebrew for teddy-bear.
[This is where I'd like to go on a tangent praising the Jewish ISMers who traveled to Palestine at the expense of "Birthright Israel," but I won't…]
And while the SFJFF is standing by you, or at least the film bearing your name, as well as its maker Simone Bitton, and your mother (your maker) Cindy Corrie — large and powerful segments of the Jewish community apparently aren't. And all I can think is: how dare they. Like me, they never stood up to a house-demolishing bulldozer. Unlike me, they probably never even sat down in front of this film.
The day the film RACHEL will screen at the SFJFF, will be a stormy day in San Francisco.
July 25, 2009 — to be exact.
I am still seated at my computer in Tel Aviv. I can no longer say that it never dawned upon me whether I have it in me to face a D9 house-demolishing bulldozer in Rafah, or anywhere else. I believe I don't. I believe most of us don't. Love Israel/Palestine or leave it, like Simone Bitton's politics or not, the film RACHEL deserves to be seen and Cindy Corrie deserves to be heard because, if nothing else, Rachel was an exceptional "girl-next-door." Chances are, had an occupying army come to bulldoze your house, she'd have defended it too.
Yours, Rachel Leah Jones
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In the past few weeks many things happened which influenced my state of mind. Maya Angelou died, and popular media exploded with stories and quotes from her life. The New York Times ran an article about the dangers women face when they travel: an article that spoke a truth that is rarely spoken. A misogynistic, mentally unwell man went on a shooting spree in California. People responded to the shooting with #YesAllWomen: a platform of discussion and intention around the treatment of women worldwide, calling for change.
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Women often ask me if I'm afraid of getting raped when I travel solo. The answer is yes. I am. I am terrified of being raped.
But it's a more complicated answer than simply yes. I was raped in my late twenties by a man I barely knew. He broke into my apartment, raped and tortured me for days: I barely survived it. The rape was brutal, leaving me severely beaten and in shock. Afterwards, people, even those very close to me, asked me what I had been wearing, or what I done to encourage him. I had done nothing at all, but this seemed to make little difference in the minds of people.
Afterwards I shut down almost entirely: I stopped eating, I spent my days in bed sleeping, I watched as my body seemed to fall apart, disintegrate. Suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome, I hallucinated my rapist constantly, lived in a state of half aliveness, just breathing.
The house where I was staying had a long bookcase in the hallway, and one day, wandering down the hall, I chose a book with a bright yellow cover. It was Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. I don't remember why I chose it, but I think it may have been a simple reason: on the cover was a bird in cage, and I felt like that bird.
I took it back to bed and read it over and over: here was someone who understood. Understood raw, numb, closed. Understood that I was afraid to leave the house. Understood silence, chatter, madness.
Angelou had written more than a book: she had come to life, and now she sat on the edge of my bed, stroking my hair, and I did not mind she was there.
Slowly, over months, I began to feel better: I began showering, I cut my hair, I changed the bed sheets, I ate, I dreamed, and finally one day I left that house, and went out into the world again. I was still closed, still terrified, still hurting, but I knew I had to become someone more than I had been being.
It's been more than sixteen years now, since that rape. I never talk about it, although I write about it. Sometimes people treat me differently when they find out I've been raped: they don't know what to say, or they use it against me. A few men have treated me like I was dirty or tainted, or too troublesome to have a relationship with. Some people have told me I was being a victim when I have talked about it, other people have broken down in front of me and told me their stories of being raped. Some people feel sorry for me, other people get very uncomfortable. Talking about it often feels like an exercise in powerlessness: everyone has an opinion about it and strangely there does not often seem to be room for my own. But here I can share my opinion, and it is this: it was the worst thing that ever happened to me, and I wish sincerely that it had not happened at all. But since it did, I had to use it the best way that I could, I had to find something good to come out of it, otherwise I think I would have never left that bed, and just slowly starved to death.
It made me tougher. It forced me to think harder about who I was as a woman and what I wanted as a woman. My womanhood, my personhood, my life. It made me fight for myself in a way that reached deep. I had to do it, for there was no one else to do it for me. It meant a daily practice of overcoming for years: nightmares, recoiling from touch, folded. Slowly it moved from overcoming into flying: soaring high above my old self, above the rape, above what society said I was. It made me draw on a courage that I had not known I had.
Traveling solo as a woman is an act of independence: it says, I can be here, despite whatever you may think. I am free to go where I want to go and experience more than what you may believe I should. One reason I prefer to travel alone is that it is a courage-building exercise: it is not for the faint-hearted, it is for the Joan of Arcs, the Warrior-goddesses, the Valkyries. It took me a long time to get to the place that I actually enjoyed it. When I first started intensively traveling solo, I was so afraid I could hardly sleep, scarcely able to enjoy the travel itself. But I've experienced firsthand how traveling can make me whole, and it is through travel that I found myself again.
Even though I travel alone much more comfortably now than I did ten years ago, I still have fear. I still have doubt. I still ache for the ease of a tour, a perfectly planned vacation with a guide, no decisions, minimal risk. That ache is just a small ache, however. An impression, fading. For I am well aware that to have the kind of richly varied and adventurous experiences I seek, I need to travel alone. For its only in traveling alone that a strange partnership is forged within me: a balance of vulnerability and power.
It's not all roses traveling alone. I've had my share--perhaps more--of danger, of close calls, of almosts.
The time I was locked in a Honduran border patrol office and the official took off his clothes, telling me that he was going to rape me. The time I was on a crowded Calcuttan street and a group of men groped me. The time a Columbian taxi driver refused to let me out of his cab and drove me around for hours, talking dirty to me. The time I discovered my hotel room in Bangladesh was full of peepholes and I had been being watched for months. The time an Englishman, the husband of a dear friend, offered to take me on a day tour of London and instead took me to a hotel, and I when I refused to go in with him, he held my wrists so tight he bruised them. The time in Spain, along the remote trail of the Camino, that a man forced himself on me, trying to kiss me, holding my arms down as two other men laughed. The time in Bihar that I couldn't stand being cooped up anymore in the compound with the women, so I went on a walk and found myself surrounded by a crowd of angry men who wanted to teach me a lesson since I had wandered out without a headscarf. So many more stories I have:countless leers, jeers, stares, fondles, lingering touches I had not asked for.
When these things have happened to me, I have done whatever I needed to do to escape. Smiled. Prayed. Yelled. Pushed. Fought. When it was possible, I have tried to search for the humanity in each man, and in doing so, helped him to see mine. When I saw that the Honduran border patrol officer was actually going to rape me, I knelt on the ground in front of him and prayed the rosary in Spanish. When the Columbian taxi driver would not let me out of his cab, I asked to see pictures of his children, encouraged him to tell me his life story. Other times, I have left the scene running so fast I barely touched earth, shaking and angry, wondering if I should go home and stop going places. Sometimes I have locked myself in my hotel room for days, too afraid to go out. But when the hurt passes, I open the door and go out again, into the city, the village. I am a fighter, I am doing battle. I refuse to miss out on what is extraordinary, what is beautiful, what is important, simply because in that place, there will be a handful of men there that have a different idea of who I am and what my identity is as a woman.
There have been so many articles written about what to do when you prepare for solo travel as a woman. How to dress, how to walk, how to wear your hair, how to ask for directions, how to take a train. Where to sit, where to eat, where to go and not go. I'm not going to write any of that here. It's obvious to me that when I travel somewhere else, I'm going somewhere else. Therefore there are always a plethora of customs and beliefs which must be paid attention to, rules to break and rules to follow. I don't like some of rules in other places, but I feel like I'm changing things for the better, for women everywhere, just by going.
Traveling solo can be a lot of different things. But it's not limited to fears and challenges. It's also this wonderful high, this sublime conversation with yourself: you are actually here, doing this, alone. This is, for me, the greatest achievement of my life: I can get on plane and go anywhere on Earth and have a marvelous time. Every time I do it, I'm terrified. Yet slowly the fear takes leave of me and I begin to take on the colors and patterns of a new place. I'm not limited by my fear of rape, of having been raped, of wondering if it will happen again and what I will do if it does. I'm trying to encourage other women to just go, to not plan, to take charge of their own experience of the world. I'm calling the world out, I'm calling that rapist out, I'm calling men out, I'm calling women out. I'm saying, I am here.
This is my tribute to Maya Angelou, a truth-teller, a sooth-sayer, a woman whose words got me out of bed and out the door into the world.
This is my answer to all the questions I get about traveling solo as a woman.
This is my #YesAllWomen.
Amy Gigi Alexander
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There has been a plethora of research that argues the link between attitudes and aspirations and educational achievement. Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that positive attitudes and aspirations could potentially be mediating factors that can impact children's educational achievements. Their analysis of the British cohort Study identified patterns between intergenerational poverty relating to attitudes and aspirations, and found that cognitive inequalities were being passed down to children relating to the notion of learned helplessness ( Gregg and Goodman, 2010).
Our academy recognises the importance of maintaining a positive environment where children can achieve higher outcomes. This was also commented on in our recent Ofsted Report.
"Children flourish in a rich and stimulating learning atmosphere where every opportunity to inspire children to learn is provided".
In numerous staff meetings, discussions have developed into how we can achieve improved parental engagement with the academy, and thus their children's learning. We recognised that children from disadvantaged backgrounds were faced with challenges of equal difficulty with their peers and "they endorsed emergent entity theories of intelligence and were likely to show a lack of persistence in the face of academic challenge" (Brown, 2009, Persistence in the face of academic challenge for economically disadvantaged pupils).
In order to improve parental engagement and help parents to support their children to achieve better outcomes, a number of open school sessions in the form of 'Inspire days' are held across our academy.
The Inspire days are held so that children can share all aspects of their learning with their parents. The children take full responsibility for the planning of the day, from the invitations to the activities held on the day. In providing this environment, our aim is to provide higher quality interactions between parent and child, which in turn leads to a higher level of cognitive development and a raising of children's aspirations and self-esteem.
This is in line with the view that early attachment relationships and quality of care are significant in relation to children's educational outcomes. Research has recognised the importance of developing attitudes and aspirations, as they can hold more significance in relation to intellectual and social development than their socio-economic background. The impact of a child's socio economic background is indeed more than about a lack of income. A Unicef report succinctly describes it in terms of a "poverty of opportunity and expectation".
This is one of the reasons why the academy focuses on a lot of self-directed learning where children are intrinsically motivated to succeed through an inspiring curriculum which leads to improved self-esteem and higher aspirations.
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text: 3 Apple Announcements I'm Excited About by Steven Stefanik September 11, 2015 Tags: agency life On Wednesday, Apple announced some exciting new hardware and software. You can read a great summary of the entire event on The Verge, but I'd like to highlight just a few specific things I found interesting: Apple TV While the demo may have made it look just like another video streaming box with some games on it, it really is going to change how we consume TV. It's the beginning of a new platform— a hybrid between interactive apps and passive TV. The MLB app was a great example. The demo was only 2 minutes long, but it really showed the kind of functionality you can expect from video inside an app. You can get stats related to the baseball game you're watching, and those stats are time-synced. So if you pause the live video, all the stats are paused too. This kind of interactive broadcast is going to be the future of watching sports. Siri integration with the TV remote is very cool, and the demo looked great. But I constantly have trouble with Siri on my iPhone and Apple Watch, so I'm not too optimistic about Siri on the Apple TV. I also still feel stupid talking out loud to a computer, especially when it doesn't understand me half the time! iPhone Interaction 3D Touch and Taptic Engine are the future of touch screens. 3D Touch measures how hard you're pushing on the screen and the Taptic Engine lets you feel it. It's almost like pushing a physical button. This gives a whole new level of interaction to a flat piece of glass. The new "peek" and "pop" gestures are tied to 3D Touch, and will be just as intuitive as tapping and swiping. Because of the hardware and software integration required to implement it, it will be very hard for any other smartphone to duplicate. It's also another differentiator from Android that complicates cross-platform development. Apple Watch The Apple Watch now has two new aluminum colors (gold and rose gold) and a bunch of new band colors. They also announced a watch from French luxury goods maker Hermes, which comes with a specially branded watch face. A lot of tech press have dismissed the new bands, but I think Apple realizes that wearables will not succeed if they aren't fashionable and customizable. I expect that the Apple Watch and accessories are going to be a big seller over the holidays. But while the watch is gaining more traction, that doesn't mean you need to have a watch app. Even with the updated watchOS, third-party app functionality is still very limited. You really need to have the right use case for your app to succeed on the wrist. If you have the time, you can watch the full presentation. If you don't have two and a half hours (!!!), many of the promotional videos and ads that were shown are also available on Apple's YouTube channel. And if you want the new iPhone, pre-order starts tomorrow at 2:00AM Central Time! Comments Blog post currently doesn't have any comments. Leave comment Name: E-mail: Your URL: Comments: Enter security code: Related Blog Post Help Us Raise Funds for the American Lung Association Read Blog Post Related Blog Post Four Unspoken Truths About Your Client Relationship Read Blog Post Related Blog Post What To Expect When You're Expecting an RFP Response Read Blog Post


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Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek™: The Klingon Empire
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nuqneH! So are you bored with ordinary vacations to places like Risa or Wrigley's Pleasure Planet? Want to discover a unique and ancient culture not bound by standard niceties and social mores? Then Qo'noS (pronounced Kronos, for you Earthlings) and the vast Klingon Empire are for you – and your audience!
So Insight Editions, under license by CBS Consumer Products, is proud to announce the second installment of the Hidden Universe series set in the truly iconic Star Trek universe. This work compiles over fifty years of lore and legend into one essential volume, Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: The Klingon Empire. Plus it explores every facet of the revered warrior society in painstaking detail.
Hence this one-of-a-kind travel guide provides readers with all the information they need. As a result, they can plan, enjoy, and survive a trip to the very heart of Klingon territory, from an overview of Klingon history to tips on what to wear (fur and leather are very popular). Plus a glossary of important phrases such as nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'?: "Where is the bathroom?"
In addition, every major location in the Klingon Empire—from the breathtaking First City to the charming prison planet Rura Penthe—is meticulously mapped and catalogued. In addition, there are tips on where to eat (true travelers haven't lived until they've tasted gagh blood worms), how best to get to and from noteworthy destinations, and what to do if challenged to a bat'leth battle to the death.
With exclusive maps and awe-inspiring illustrations, Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: The Klingon Empire is the perfect reference guide for any visitor. What are you waiting for? Qapla'!
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Dayton Ward is the New York Times best-selling author or coauthor of numerous novels and short stories. This includes a whole bunch of stuff set in the Star Trek universe. He often writes with friend and coauthor Kevin Dilmore. He lives with his wife and daughters in Kansas City.
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Celebrated for its unwavering dedication to quality, Insight Editions is a publisher of innovative books and collectibles. These push the boundaries of creativity, design, and production. Through its acclaimed film, television, and gaming program, Insight strives to produce unique books and products. These provide new ways to engage with fan-favorite characters and stories. Under this program, Insight has published books covering the worlds of Star Wars, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Destiny, Assassin's Creed, Halo, Diablo, World of Warcraft, and the Harry Potter films, among many others. Insight's award-winning art, photography, and sports titles celebrate the artistry and history of a wide-range of subjects. These include the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash, the San Francisco Giants, and the Dallas Cowboys. Other divisions include a line of deluxe stationery products. In addition, there is a children's imprint, Insight Kids. For more information, visit www.insighteditions.com.
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Victoria and Austin's Love Story in their Own Words
Victoria moved across the country to Tennessee in January 2013. This critical decision was made by narrowing down the absolute best forensic anthropology schools in the country down to just a few, and thankfully, she chose Tennessee over many others. Enrolling in Spring 2013 classes, she would have no idea what life in Knoxville would look like, let alone what the people would be like. However, encouragement from her family to pursue her dreams of studying at The Body Farm at UT pushed Victoria to live in Knoxville despite not knowing anyone in the city, or the state of Tennessee.
Austin's family decided that life after some twenty years in the Air Force warranted some peace and quiet in the foothills of Appalachia. The Martin family left Tampa Bay and arrived in Tennessee almost a decade ago. After receiving a full Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship to the university of Tennessee for a Civil Engineering degree, Austin came to Knoxville in Fall of 2011.
The Spring 2013 semester saw both of our travelling hearts enrolled at the same university, a university of 27,410 students that is. The University of Tennessee is by no means, a small school. With Victoria in Anthropology, ankle deep in cadavers, and Austin's similarly busy with concrete forming, the odds of two students running into each other is small.
Enter Bill Dean's Geology 101 course. Somehow it panned out that Austin and Victoria would both register for this GenEd course and also the required lab class. As the first few weeks passed they began talking and walking to and from class together. Before long they had their first date at a little coffee shop nearby.
(Although Austin has no recollection of this, Victoria remembers actually meeting Austin even earlier in the semester. She was on the phone with her sister, Kristin, discussing how her first week of school was going on her walk home from class one day when she saw a guy holding a puppy. She told Kristin to hold on a second and she said hello to the puppy and the cute guy -who was actually Austin. He told her that he had just found this dog roaming around and was trying to establish who it belonged to. Victoria wished him good luck and walked away telling Kristin how cute both the puppy and the guy were. When they met later in Geology, Victoria couldn't tell if Austin had been the guy with the puppy or not. She ended up asking him if he ever found a lost dog on campus on one of their early dates. Turns out it had been him all along.)
We chose the Knoxville Botanical Gardens because we wanted a venue outside and in Knoxville. We looked at other places but the Botanical Gardens had more to offer us for our money: gorgeous scenery outside, a brand new elegant building for the reception, plus lots of chairs and tables (and even some decorations) included in the package! We couldn't believe we could afford such a beautiful venue.
The most emotional moment of my wedding day was when I was walking down the aisle. Obviously that's not something I do on a regular basis so it was very nerve racking. But as I walked, I made eye contact with all of our family and friends and they had such happy faces that I stopped worrying about all the trivial things like if my steps were in time with the music and how sweaty my hands were. I just focused on them and and felt at awe to have so many people's love and support. Then I walked past the front row where my mom and sister were sitting and they had happy tears welling up in their eyes and I totally almost lost it. I wanted to stop and hug them but I had to steel myself and walk a few more steps. Luckily, Austin's eyes caught mine and I knew I had made it.
I think my favorite moment was when we finally shared our vows with each other. We had been working on them for a while and Austin was dead-set on not sharing them with each other until the ceremony. I, on the other hand, desperately wanted to know what his said. Then, the night before the wedding, we put them in the same book and it took everything in me not to peek. It was worth the wait though. They were so beautifully written they took my breath away.
We rescued Basil from Young Williams last May when she was three months old. She was dropped off there by someone (we don't know who or why) but she was only there for three days when we signed the papers. Since then she hasn't gone a day without a snuggle, a toy, or a snack. She loves meeting new friends, learning new tricks and playing fetch. We love her so much and are so happy she could be a part of our wedding day.
Congratulations, you two!!
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