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|By Greg Schulz
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|January 14, 2010 08:33 AM EST
2011 is not a typo, I figured that since Im getting caught up on some things, why not get a jump as well.
Since 2009 went by so fast, and that Im finally getting around to doing an obligatory 2010 predictions post, lets take a look at both 2010 and 2011.
Actually Im getting around to doing a post here having already done interviews and articles for others soon to be released.
Based on prior trends and looking at forecasts, a simple predictions is that some of the items for 2010 will apply for 2011 as well given some of this years items may have been predicted by some in 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 or, well ok, you get the picture. :)
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Predictions are fun and funny in that for some, they are taken very seriously, while for others, at best they are taken with a grain of salt depending on where you sit. This applies both for the reader as well as who is making the predictions along with various motives or incentives.
Some are serious, some not so much...
For some, predictions are a great way of touting or promoting favorite wares (hard, soft or services) or getting yet another plug (YAP is a TLA BTW) in to meet coverage or exposure quota.
Meanwhile for others, predictions are a chance to brush up on new terms for the upcoming season of buzzword bingo games (did you pick up on YAP).
In honor of the Vancouver winter games, Im expecting some cool Olympic sized buzzword bingo games with a new slippery fast one being federation. Some buzzwords will take a break in 2010 as well as 2011 having been worked pretty hard the past few years, while others that have been on break, will reappear well rested, rejuvenated, and ready for duty.
Lets also clarify something regarding predictions and this is that they can be from at least two different perspectives. One view is that from a trend of what will be talked about or discussed in the industry. The other is in terms of what will actually be bought, deployed and used.
What can be confusing is sometimes the two perspectives are intermixed or assumed to be one and the same and for 2010 I see that trend continuing. In other words, there is adoption in terms of customers asking and investigating technologies vs. deployment where they are buying, installing and using those technologies in primary situations.
It is safe to say that there is still no such thing as an information, data or processing recession. Ok, surprise surprise; my dogs could have probably made that prediction during a nap. However what this means is more data will need to be moved, processed and stored for longer periods of time and at a lower cost without degrading performance or availability.
This means, denser technologies that enable a lower per unit cost of service without negatively impacting performance, availability, capacity or energy efficiency will be needed. In other words, watch for an expanded virtualization discussion around life beyond consolidation for servers, storage, desktops and networks with a theme around productivity and virtualization for agility and management enablement.
Certainly there will be continued merger and acquisitions on both a small as well as large scale ranging from liquidation sales or bargain hunting, to large and a mega block buster or two. Im thinking in terms of outside of the box, the type that will have people wondering perhaps confused as to why such a deal would be done until the whole picture is reveled and thought out.
In other words, outside of perhaps IBM, HP, Oracle, Intel or Microsoft among a few others, no vendor is too large not to be acquired, merged with, or even involved in a reverse merger. Im also thinking in terms of vendors filling in niche areas as well as building out their larger portfolio and IT stacks for integrated solutions.
Ok, lets take a look at some easy ones, lay ups or slam dunks:
- More cluster, cloud conversations and confusion (public vs. private, service vs. product vs. architecture)
- More server, desktop, IO and storage consolidation (excuse me, server virtualization)
- Data footprint impact reduction ranging from deletion to archive to compress to dedupe among others
- SSD and in particular flash continues to evolve with more conversations around PCM
- Growing awareness of social media as yet another tool for customer relations management (CRM)
- Security, data loss/leap prevention, digital forensics, PCI (payment card industry) and compliance
- Focus expands from gaming/digital surveillance /security and energy to healthcare
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) mainstream in discussions with some initial deployments
- Continued confusion of Green IT and carbon reduction vs. economic and productivity (Green Gap)
- No such thing as an information, data or processing recession, granted budgets are strained
- Server, Storage or Systems Resource Analysis (SRA) with event correlation
- SRA tools that provide and enable automation along with situational awareness
The green gap of confusion will continue with carbon or environment centric stories and messages continue to second back stage while people realize the other dimension of green being productivity.
As previously mentioned, virtualization of servers and storage continues to be popular with an expanding focus from just consolidation to one around agility, flexibility and enabling production, high performance or for other systems that do not lend themselves to consolidation to be virtualized.
6GB SAS interfaces as well as more SAS disk drives continue to gain popularity. I have said in the past there was a long shot that 8GFC disk drives might appear. We might very well see those in higher end systems while SAS drives continue to pick up the high performance spinning disk role in mid range systems.
Granted some types of disk drives will give way over time to others, for example high performance 3.5 15.5K Fibre Channel disks will give way to 2.5 15.5K SAS boosting densities, energy efficiency while maintaining performance. SSD will help to offload hot spots as they have in the past enabling disks to be more effectively used in their applicable roles or tiers with a net result of enhanced optimization, productivity and economics all of which have environmental benefits (e.g. the other Green IT closing the Green Gap).
What I dont see occurring, or at least in 2010
- An information or data recession requiring less server, storage, I/O networking or software resources
- OSD (object based disk storage without a gateway) at least in the context of T10
- Mainframes, magnetic tape, disk drives, PCs, or Windows going away (at least physically)
- Cisco cracking top 3, no wait, top 5, no make that top 10 server vendor ranking
- More respect for growing and diverse SOHO market space
- iSCSI taking over for all I/O connectivity, however I do see iSCSI expand its footprint
- FCoE and flash based SSD reaching tipping point in terms of actual customer deployments
- Large increases in IT Budgets and subsequent wild spending rivaling the dot com era
- Backup, security, data loss prevention (DLP), data availability or protection issues going away
- Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings winning the super bowl
What will be predicted at end of 2010 for 2011 (some of these will be DejaVU)
- Many items that were predicted this year, last year, the year before that and so on
- Dedupe moving into primary and online active storage, rekindling of dedupe debates
- Demise of cloud in terms of hype and confusion being replaced by federation
- Clustered, grid, bulk and other forms of scale out storage grow in adoption
- Disk, Tape, RAID, Mainframe, Fibre Channel, PCs, Windows being declared dead (again)
- 2011 will be the year of Holographic storage and T10 OSD (an annual prediction by some)
- FCoE kicks into broad and mainstream deployment adoption reaching tipping point
- 16Gb (16GFC) Fibre Channel gets more attention stirring FCoE vs. FC vs. iSCSI debates
- 100GbE gets more attention along with 4G adoption in order to move more data
- Demise of iSCSI at the hands of SAS at low end, FCoE at high end and NAS from all angles
Gaining ground in 2010 however not yet in full stride (at least from customer deployment)
- On the connectivity front, iSCSI, 6Gb SAS, 8Gb Fibre Channel, FCoE and 100GbE
- SSD/flash based storage everywhere, however continued expansion
- Dedupe everywhere including primary storage its still far from its full potential
- Public and private clouds along with pNFS as well as scale out or clustered storage
- Policy based automated storage tiering and transparent data movement or migration
- Microsoft HyperV and Oracle based server virtualization technologies
- Open source based technologies along with heterogeneous encryption
- Virtualization life beyond consolidation addressing agility, flexibility and ease of management
- Desktop virtualization using Citrix, Microsoft and VMware along with Microsoft Windows 7
Buzzword bingo hot topics and themes (in no particular order) include:
- 2009 and previous year carry over items including cloud, iSCSI, HyperV, Dedupe, open source
- Federation takes over some of the work of cloud, virtualization, clusters and grids
- E2E, End to End management preferably across different technologies
- SAS, Serial Attached SCSI for server to storage systems and as disk to storage interface
- SRA, E23, Event correlation and other situational awareness related IRM tools
- Virtualization, Life beyond consolidation enabling agility, flexibility for desktop, server and storage
- Green IT, Transitions from carbon focus to economic with efficiency enabling productivity
- FCoE, Continues to evolve and mature with more deployments however still not at tipping point
- SSD, Flash based mediums continue to evolve however tipping point is still over the horizon
- IOV, I/O Virtualization for both virtual and non virtual servers
- Other new or recycled buzzword bingo candidates include PCoIP, 4G,
RAID will again be pronounced as being dead no longer relevant yet being found in more diverse deployments from consumer to the enterprise. In other words, RAID may be boring and thus no longer relevant to talk about, yet it is being used everywhere and enhanced in evolutionary ways, perhaps for some even revolutionary.
Tape remains being declared dead (e.g. on the Zombie technology list) yet being enhanced, purchased and utilized at higher rates with more data stored than in past history. Instead of being killed off by the disk drive, tape is being kept around for both traditional uses as well as taking on new roles where it is best suited such as long term or bulk off-line storage of data in ultra dense and energy efficient not to mention economical manners.
What I am seeing and hearing is that customers using tape are able to reduce the number of drives or transports, yet due to leveraging disk buffers or caches including from VTL and dedupe devices, they are able to operate their devices at higher utilization, thus requiring fewer devices with more data stored on media than in the past.
Likewise, even though I have been a fan of SSD for about 20 years and am bullish on its continued adoption, I do not see SSD killing off the spinning disk drive anytime soon. Disk drives are helping tape take on this new role by being a buffer or cache in the form of VTLs, disk based backup and bulk storage enhanced with compression, dedupe, thin provision and replication among other functionality.
There you have it, my predictions, observations and perspectives for 2010 and 2011. It is a broad and diverse list however I also get asked about and see a lot of different technologies, techniques and trends tied to IT resources (servers, storage, I/O and networks, hardware, software and services).
Lets see how they play out.
Cheers gs
Greg Schulz - Author The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)
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The NHS experienced the busiest week in its history last week, with record numbers of hospitals having to send patients elsewhere or declare a major alert.
Fifty-two hospital trusts had to send ambulances elsewhere between 8 and 15 January, up from 39 the previous week and 27 in the second week of January last year, NHS England figures show.
Hospitals activate "A&E divert" plans when their emergency department is struggling with the number of patients turning up seeking care.
Sixty-eight trusts – 45% of the 152 in total in England – declared an alert last week, up from 65 the week before, in another sign that some hospitals can no longer meet demand.
NHS England said the rise was partly due to a change in how it records data, but doctors said last week was the most challenging and relentless they had ever faced.
On Monday 9 January 61 trusts issued an alert, which is thought to be the highest number ever on a single day.
Fifteen trusts were on alert continuously for 11 days in a row between 3 and 13 January. They included trusts in Stoke-on-Trent and in Copeland, Cumbria, where two parliamentary byelections are due.
Overall, England's 152 acute NHS trusts – which between them run about 250 hospitals – recorded bed occupancy rates of 95.8% last week, well above the 85% considered safe. That was up slightly on the 94.8% in the week after the new year holiday weekend.
On Tuesday 10 January bed occupancy across England hit 96.4%, 15 trusts were full and another 24 had five beds or fewer free for patients who needed to be admitted as an emergency.
Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrats' health spokesman, said: "This NHS winter crisis brings bad news day after day and patients are paying the price.
"The government is doing nothing to deal with it. I don't know how bad the figures need to get for them to actually take action."
The figures emerged as a man was reported to have been evicted from his hospital bed by court order after he "unnecessarily" refused to leave for more than two years.
James Paget university hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, said it had launched legal action against the man, who has not been named due to patient confidentiality, as a last resort. A court of possession granted the order on 1 December and he was removed on 10 January and placed in accommodation in the community.
Anna Hills, the hospital's director of governance, told the BBC: "The gentleman repeatedly refused all offers of appropriate accommodation organised by our local authority and social care partners, despite being fit for discharge."


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"The Grand Plan" the way I understand is that we are here to understand the opposite meaning of infinity in order to go beyond infinity. Our true home is the infinite reality (7th Density). The more we understand the finite realities, the more we understand and appreciate the infinity realm. An opening to understand what is beyond infinity and return to the Source. The saying the more we understand ourselves (limited being), the more we understand God (the Source, the infinite Creator, beyond any concept). If we understand the concept of COLD, we will understand more the concept of HOT or vice versa. In other words, the grand plan to go beyond infinity is by understanding the opposite meaning of infinity (being in this finite reality from the first to the 6th Density).
To understand this octave (from first to the 7th Density), we create many paths to return to Oneness (6th Density). Is like to understand a mountain we climb every possible paths to the top. Every paths provide different experiences in order to understand the mountain (our selves and the Source/God).
Many believe there are two paths in going back to Oneness, the right/positive and left/negative paths. I believe the universe is NOT black and white. Within each path there many-many sub-paths. From the very extreme (black or white) to the middle paths (grey tones). Those on the middle paths on both sides can get along more compare to those of the extreme path on one side.
Humanity is the great experiment to create a truly middle path although slightly towards the right side (this is my bias). That is why we have genetics from both sides. Enabling us understanding/accepting All as One more easily. The extremists from both sides are very skeptical of this project from the beginning (billions of years ago).
In the 4th density, the left side have to learn wisdom without love first and the right side have to learn love without wisdom first. But human middle path have to learn love with wisdom and oneness all at the same time the holistic way. Humans have to depend on their Higher Selves (or God within us). Not from a guru nor a savior (or ET from 4th or 5th density) but from our future (or past) selves that existed without the time constraints (ourselves in the 6th density that already One with All). It is a great challenge. No wonder so many skeptics, especially beings from the 4th and 5th densities that are far away from middle paths. They saw failure attempts in past, but this time the humans will succeed. This path will enables every soul in expediting their evolution reaching Oneness and go further beyond.


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Conan the Barbarian was one of the late fantasy artist Frank Frazetta's best-known works. Like some of his characters, Frazetta's magic reigned over the world of serpents and heroes he created.
He stands atop a mountain of carnage with his sword held before him. Rippling muscles stretched over a tall, athletic frame, with long black hair and a piercing stare.
Conan the Barbarian was one of the late fantasy artist Frank Frazetta's best-known works. Like some of his characters, Frazetta's magic reigned over the world of serpents and heroes he created.
"He was like a wizard with a pen and brush at hand," said Council Bluffs, Iowa, artist Jeff Peterson, who worked with Frazetta on cataloging his collection.
Frazetta died Monday of complications from a stroke he suffered in his Boca Grande, Fla., home Sunday. His family spent Tuesday reminiscing about the artist's life.
"The reality of his death hasn't hit the family yet," said Rob Pistella, one of Frazetta's business managers. Frazetta's son Bill believes they may never fully get over the death of a man who was larger than life.
"To the world, Frank Frazetta was a world-class artist. But to us, his children, Frank Frazetta was a wonderful and loving father whose first joy was his family," said Heidi Frazetta Grabin, one of his two daughters.
Frazetta's family still mourn the passing of his wife Ellie last June. Now they have to deal with the loss of a man many consider a legend.
"He was full of life, energy and humor," Grabin said. "His wit was as quick as his fastball. He was a kind soul who respected and appreciated people, but he never suffered fools gladly."
The master fantasy artist was known around the world for his unique sword-and-sorcery themes.
"He has inspired artists, directors, film people of all sorts including George Lucas, creator of 'Star Wars,'" Peterson added.
Local artist Alex Castro said Frazetta was his idol and childhood inspiration. Castro had the chance to work alongside the master.
"I remember how much we laughed about my beret," Castro recalled. "When (Frazetta) said, 'What's that thing?' the only thing I could respond with was, 'Well Frank. I wasn't blessed with as much hair as you, but I had it when I needed it!'"
Grabin struggled with her emotions as she reflected on growing up alongside her famous father.
"We'll always remember, with love and deep affection, the good times we had with Dad."
It's not yet known exactly what the family has planned for Frazetta's artwork or intellectual property rights. Frazetta sold few of his paintings, electing to hold on to most of them. A few weeks ago son Bill said they planned to put the collection on the road so more fans could see the originals.
"There's nothing like seeing Frank's artwork up close. You've got to see it to believe it," Peterson said.
Funeral services for the artist are for family only and will be kept private.
"The world was blessed to have him," Castro said. "He was a legend during his lifetime, now he and his legendary art belongs to the ages."


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Many of these stocks proved resilient during last week's stock market correction, such as GW Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: GWPH), Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. (NYSE: SMG), and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT).
In fact, the top weed stocks dipped far less than those in more traditional industries.
And their one-day market comeback on Tuesday outpaced anything we saw in autos, retail, or even blue-chip tech.
Days like that remind me of how ridiculous the mid-2017 mainstream media decrees that investors were burned out on pot stocks were. Those folks somehow believed that the excitement was gone and would not return.
So, while the darlings of Wall Street struggled to make back a fraction of their losses, there were significant success stories coming from places like – you guessed it – California's cannabis sector.
The proof points are all right there. This frontier industry keeps making your investment portfolio get fatter and fatter.
I'm looking at thousands of mini catalysts coming your way.
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Kothligad or Peth is a small hill fort situated around 20 kilometers from Karjat. It offers an easy and exciting one day trek. The fort has a temple and cave at the base which can accomodate around 15 people and beautifully carved steps on the inside of the mountain. This funnel shaped structure has a very small summit which has some fort remnants and a cistern. It offers a great view of the surrounding ranges.
District - Raigad.
District - Raigad.
Height above mean sea level - 1550 feet.
Base Village - Ambivali
Duration of trek - 1 day.
Region - Karjat.
Time to reach the top - 2 and a half.
Water/Food Availability - Water is available at the village of Peth or water cistern at the top.
Best season to visit - Anytime.
Sights to visit - Temple, rock cut steps inside a mountain, dwaar/darwaja, carved den.
Difficulty Rating - Easy.
Endurance required - 2/5.
Shelter - Cave at the top near the temple.
How to get there - Dadar --> Karjat --> Karjat to Ambivali by rickshaw or S. T. bus and then trek to Peth.
- A really nice trek for beginners, nice wide road to climb and no scope of getting lost.
- You start from Ambivali and then trek to the village of Peth via the wide rock covered road. From Peth the top is around half an hour away.
- You first reach a temple, where you can get water and there is a carved cave where you can even spend the night.
- The internally carved summit is a beauty. There are steps carved inside the mountain which climb radially and take you to the top.
- There is a cistern on the top and some awesome views. Look out for Bhimashankar towards north, Dhak Bahiri & Rajmachi towards south-west.
- Water is available at the village of Peth as well as the temple on top.
|The cave.
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The filet and lobster
Blues is a basic music form, often using just three chords and a steady rhythm. It sounds like simple music, but playing it right can take a lifetime to master. Likewise, steakhouses are playing with variations on a theme. Ideally, the beef is high quality, prepared simply, with style.
No, you won't find a lot of musical experimentation at a good blues club and you don't go to a steakhouse expecting fancy sauces or cross-culture fusion. Thank God. The foodie frenzy is fun, but sometimes you just want a huge steak prepared in a way that respects the quality of the meat.
Bob's Steak and Chophouse (2100 Costa Del Mar Road) in Carlsbad is the culinary equivalent of a superstar blues musician—we're talking Muddy Waters. The restaurant is part of a nationwide chain that started in Texas, but recently opened its first southern California location at La Costa Resort, which in decades past was known for having mafia clientele.
The goodfellas are long gone, but the restaurant plans to allude to the mafia past with its decor. This is a good idea: I know that if a steakhouse has even the slightest hint of mobster past, the food is probably going to be really good. You don't want to get Johnny Two-Nose angry, you get my drift?
Bob's has all the qualities of a great steakhouse: high quality meat in large (and expensive) cuts, relaxing booths and tables spaced apart enough so there's room for your expanding belly.
Let's talk about that meat: I had a 16-ounce filet ($59) that was flavored with kosher salt and pepper and cooked until there was a delicious black crust on the outside and a perfect mid-rare center. My friend, who has a culinary background, was impressed: "It's really hard to cook a steak that huge that perfectly."
He had the 22-ounce bone-in rib-eye ($48), which had lots of flavor and fat. I usually prefer the rib-eye to a filet, because it usually has more flavor, but I took the filet on the manager's recommendation. It was a good call.
There were a lot of happy customers at Bob's, like the guy celebrating with some co-workers who held up a huge piece of meat and loudly announced to his pals: "This is a Porterhouse."
All steaks come with a huge carrot flavored with butter and brown sugar and a choice of potato: baked, smashed or skillet-fried with onions and peppercorn gravy. I went with the skillet-fried and loved how the gravy complemented my steak.
Bob's also provides other steakhouse essentials: a damn good dirty martini with stuffed blue cheese olives, a comprehensive wine list and waiters who know the menu and provide good service that you barely notice.
Oh, and there are some tasty sides, including a very good wedge salad that has a creamy blue cheese dressing and thin bacon bits.
Bob's gets bonus points for having late 1960s-era Miles Davis in the background when I arrived, and a bowl of fruit sours when you exit. I honestly was so looking forward to those that I skipped dessert.
I don't always listen to blues, but there are times when no other music will do because it's basic and true. I feel the same way about steakhouses. They are a splurge for me on special occasions, and Bob's will definitely be a top choice for me again.


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Merta City
Merta City
The Mirabai Smarak at Merta City
Meera Nagari
|Coordinates: 26°39′00″N 74°02′00″E / 26.6500°N 74.0333°ECoordinates: 26°39′00″N 74°02′00″E / 26.6500°N 74.0333°E
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|• Culture Language - Rajasthani.
|• Commonly Use - Marwadi , Hindi , English.
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Merta City is a city and a municipality located in Nagaur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Pin code of Merta is 341510.[1] Famous personalities of Merta city are Meerabai , devotee of Lord Krishna Bollywood producer and director K. C. Bokadia, and the leading CFO B. R. Jaju and Priyanka Birla, first lady chartered accountant of the city.
As of 2001[update] India census,[2] Merta City had a population of 40,252. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Merta City has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 48% (Ms. Priyanka Prem Birla being the first lady Chartered Accountant of the town) About 16% of the population is under 6 years of age. Merta City is a holy city for Hindus as it is the birthplace of Meera bai the famous Devotee of Lord Krishna.
Merta was once a prosperous kingdom of the brave Mertia Rathore Rajputs,[3] the descendants of Rao Duda, Ruler of Merta (1495-1525 AD), fourth son of Rao Jodha, and grandfather of fabled saint Princess Mira Bai, daughter in law of Rana Sanga of Mewar.[4]
Later, out of jealousy, during the reign of Rao Veeramdev, Merta was attacked by Rao Maldeo Rathore of Jodhpur, the head of the Rathore clan. Thereafter, Viramdev established rule at Degana, Parbatsar and Ajmer respectively, but was dethroned again. Being highly demoralized, he took refuge at Amarsar, the Shekhawat capital and after a year persuaded Sur Emperor Sher Shah Suri to attack Jodhpur. When Sher Shah attacked Jodhpur in the Battle of Sammel. It is in this context, the Emperor said - Mutthi bhar bajre ke liye main dilli ki gaddi kho baithta , meaning 'I would have lost the throne of Delhi for a fistful of Pearl Millet (the Barren Land of Marwar). One of the significant consequence of the war was regain of Merta throne by Rao Viramdev Mertia, whose son, Rao Jaimal succeeded him and in tune with the traditions of the brave clan added four moons to the glory of Merta. Rao Jaimal (1544-1568 AD) was also the commander of Mewar where his cousin sister Mira Bai was married into the Sisodia Royal Family. As against submissive Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner and various other Rajput Kingdoms, only Merta and Mewar refused to give daughters to Mughals. When Akbar attacked Mewar, with an army around 100,000 men, Rao Jaimal, the commander of Mewar, fought fiercely but was killed in battle. Merta was soon merged with Jodhpur State and 14 his sons were given small principalities nearby.
The same spirit was shown by many descendants of the Mertia Royal Family, including the Chiefs of Rian, Methri and Alniyawas who fought against the rebels of Kumpawat clan in the battle of Merta in 1790 AD and suffered mass annihilation. One of the scion of the family who rose to prominence during the reign of Padshah Aurangzeb was Maharaja Raghunath Singh Mertia (1660-1683 AD), who conquered Maroth or Gaurawati and is ancestor of the rulers of Panch Mahal Maroth.
Villages near Merta city[edit]
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1. Dangawas
2. Gamliyawas
3. Morra
4. Sogawas
5. Kheduli
6. Indawar
7. Kalru
8. Mokalpur
9. Lamba Jatan
10. Badgaon
11. Merta Road
12. Ren
13. Dhadhasni
14. Jarora Khurd
15. Jarora Kalan
16. Jarora Charan
17. Band Ki Dhani known as 'Surya Nagar'
18. Katyasni
19. Bhuriyasani
20. Lai
21. Riyan Shayamas
22. Riyan Bari
23. Kumpdash
24. Chapari
25. Padu Kallan
26. Bedavri
27. Riyan Baddi
28. Lanch Ki Dhani
29 Bhola Nagar Dango Ki dhani
30. Gawardi
31. Karkwal
32. Basni Sumer
33. Faraspura
34. Jalwana
35. Bayad
36. Gotan
37. Bitan
38. Satlawas
39. Bhilawas
40. Basni Seja
41. Ganthiya
42. Gagrana
43. Dhadhasani
44. Pundlu[5]
Merta City is off the Jodhpur-Bathinda line but with a link. Merta city is middle point of Rajasthan so transport facilities are very easy.
1) 15 km away from Merta Road Railway Junction
2) 35 km away from Butati Dham
3) 60 km Away from Pushkar
4) 80 km away from Ajmer
5) 120 km away from Jodhpur
6) 250 km away from Jaipur (capital)
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Will You Stay With Glasses After Your Next Eye Exam Or Try Contacts?
You've worn glasses for years but continue to be intrigued with the thought of having contacts. It might be a good time to switch with your next eye exam. Consider these pros and cons of contacts before you buy your next pair of glasses. It might be time for a change.
The Benefits of Contact Lenses
Some people swear by their contacts and would never consider wearing glasses all of the time. Here is why they stick with their choice:
- Contacts rest against the curvature of your eyeball. You have a wider field of vision than your glasses and no frame to obstruct your sight.
- They don't get in the way while playing sports or doing physical exercise.
- Contacts are not affected by weather and won't fog up.
- They don't change your appearance or clash with your outfit like glasses may do.
- Contacts do come in different shades so you can try out various eye colors to find the one you like best.
- Special contacts can reshape your cornea slightly by wearing them overnight. The next day you'll need little or no correction to see or read correctly.
- Unlike the lenses of glasses that become quite thick and heavy with a strong prescription, contacts won't be noticed no matter how strong the prescription.
- Contacts don't put pressure on your nose and ears, like glasses, eliminating the chance of headaches.
The Downside of Contacts
There are a few reasons people prefer their glasses over contacts such as:
- A few people just can't get the knack of putting the contacts against their eyes.
- Contacts reduce the amount or air that circulates across your eyes increasing your risk of dry eyes.
- Some people experience tired eyes when working at the computer with their contacts in. They may prefer glasses for long sessions at the computer.
- Contacts require more care and cleaning than glasses to prevent eye infections.
- Falling asleep with contacts in can result in dry irritated eyes.
- Glasses may be less expensive than contacts over time if you can keep your old glasses frames when your prescription changes.
- In dusty, windy conditions, fine particles can get under your contacts and irritate your eye.
For some people, the cosmetic impact is the primary reason to choose contacts over glasses. For other people, it's the clearer, unobstructed vision. With your next eye exam, you might try contacts to compare with your experience of wearing glasses. Keep your frames because you can always go back. For more information, click here to continue reading about your eye health.


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By Pete Devries
surfing trick tips from one of Canada's top competitive surfers
The frontside off the lip is a great move because it gives the same weightless feeling you get from an air. It involves hitting the lip and kicking your tail out the back of the wave to release your fins. Timing and balance are critical throughout the entire move because when your fins release out the back you have no control. So Get ready to hold on and go with the flow.
Catch a frontside wave with some power and a nice lip. A crumbly mushburger won't do it for this trick. Look for some speed! You need just a little bit less than you would for an air. Start your bottom turn out on the flats. You want to accelerate through the bottom turn, and use your body like a spring to crack the lip and kick your tail out. Get low and put your trailing arm in the water for balance and leverage. Really lean into it.
You should always be looking at the section you want to hit, even before you do your bottom turn. Bottom turn at a 75 degree angle to start and as you get more and more comfortable go as straight up as you can. As you turn up the wave your body will want to extend. Don't stand straight up and get all stiff, just try to do what feels natural. Open your shoulders into the turn as top half of your board comes over the lip.
The difference between a normal reo(re-entry) and a fins out reo is in how long you wait before you change direction and kick your fins out. Opening your shoulders will initiate the reo, and pushing out your back leg will turn it into a fins out reo. Keep watching the lip ahead and below you as you pivot over the middle of your board on the lip. Timing and balance are very important at this stage; If your weight is too far back you'll fall backwards off of the lip onto the flats and your board will land on top of you, and if you're weight is too far forward or you turn to late you'll be left out the back of the wave. You want to end up with the lip in between your feet with your back leg extended, and pushing through the turn. Your front leg should be bent in a straight line over your body, from your leading shoulder to your knee, over your front foot. Stay low and go with the flow as your board pivots.
Try to look at the transition of the wave so you can get ready for your decent. As the lip starts to fall you will hopefully be going with it. If it's a heavy section step on your tail in preparation for an air drop; if not cruise back into the wave and hit the lip again.
Taj Burrow calls these the frontside waft in Globes new, "TB's Book of Hot Surfing," and if you're serious about your surfing you should pick this book up. It has everything from waxing your board to 360 airs. Mick Fanning and Parko are a few others who do these well.
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LAS VEGAS: Getting America's National Airspace System (NAS) ready for unmanned aircraft by 2015 will be hard going, but one good sign is that the FAA's point man positively vibrates with enthusiasm.
"I actually volunteered for this job," said James Williams, head of the FAA's recently created Unmanned Air Systems Integration Office, right at the opening of his remarks to the conference of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, (AUVSI). "I'm very excited to be here and to be running this organization." That said, he added, referring to the many mandates in the 2012 FAA reauthorization bill passed in February, "nobody mentioned that Congress was going to give me pages of instruction on how to do it."
Williams cheerfully laid out a daunting array of tasks. Just overseeing the six test sites required by Congress will be difficult for the FAA, which is in fact behind schedule on the sites: "Six is going to be a considerable workload issue for my organization and the FAA organization writ large," Williams admitted.
Also on his to-do list is finalizing regulations for smaller unmanned aircraft by August 2014 — "a huge pent-up demand will be released once we get this rule out the door," Williams predicted — and setting up special low-altitude zones for drones off the coast of Alaska, another mandate from the reauthorization bill.
Off Alaska, Williams, said, "we're going to create a new type of airspace, ground to 2,000 feet, [where] there will be unmanned aircraft flying and they will not be able to see and avoid the other aircraft." A drone by definition has no pilot aboard , and automatic "sense and avoid" systems to let a robot replicate a human's ability to avert a collision are still a work in progress. Yet a fundamental principle of air traffic control, Williams said, is that "the pilot can see other aircraft and not run into them. The whole foundation of the system is built onto that."
Just to complicate things further, "the airspace defined in the law is all in international waters," Williams noted. "[It's] managed by the FAA on behalf of ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organization], but nonetheless we are still going to have to go back to ICAO" — which has its own decades-long process for regulating UAVs.
"But," Williams went on, "the benefits are pretty enormous and make it worth tackling all these challenges." The oil industry wants low-altitude drones to monitor icebergs that might threaten its mobile drilling rigs and to watch whales for signs of adverse environmental impacts. The fishing industry wants drones to find large schools of fish, the Coast Guard for search and rescue missions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to check if Arctic seaways are clear of ice.
Many of those Arctic applications are private-sector,and historically the FAA has focused on facilitating government use of unmanned aircraft, especially for military training. "We haven't done a lot of commercial use," Williams acknowledged. But, he said, there are key lessons learned from working with the military that can apply to commercial UAVs in the Alaskan zones. Air traffic controllers have well-established procedures to keep civilian aircraft out of designated military airspace during training flights, as well as ways to designate corridors from bases ashore to training zones out at sea — both models for how to move drones to, from, and around in the special zones off Alaska while keeping other aircraft clear.


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One of the biggest problems facing digital marketing organizations is burnout. Whether it takes the form of a decline in quality of work or turnover, we must be aware of this problem and address it head on.
Now, there's a huge difference between someone giving up on a job and getting burned out. The former is unacceptable and should be dealt with by other means.
That being said, true burnout happens to all top performers at one time or another. And if it isn't handled, it can be devastating for all parties involved, including the employer.
"Burnout creeps up and you don't know until you're in the midst of it," said Dr. Todd Dewett, author of the book "Leadership Redefined." "It does not happen overnight. It happens in tiny little chunks slowly. This is why it is difficult to read any given instance for what it is, let alone judge where you are in the process of becoming burned out."
How to Spot Burnout Before it Happens
So as managers and leaders within our organizations, how do we make sure we spot burnout before it becomes a significant problem, and then what steps do we take to solve it?
- Meet regularly with your direct reports outside of daily workload. Buy them a beer or Coke every now and then. Take them to lunch. Make an effort to get to know them. It's unlikely they will open up to you in a 9 a.m. status meeting.
- If they won't open up directly, then find out another way. Ask others who work directly with them about their state of mind, their attitude, their enthusiasm.
- Ask questions like, "How are things going?" or "Are you feeling good about your day-to-day and where you're headed?" or "How's your workload? Is there anything I can help take off your plate?" Profound, huh? But these questions are asked less frequently than you'd think.
- Ask difficult questions. Challenge them and observe how they meet that challenge. Is it with enthusiasm? Or is it with reluctance?
- Let them know you're on their team. You're for them, not against them. You want to see them flourish.
How to Fix Burnout After it Happens
So now that we've identified how to prevent it, how do we fix it when burnout ultimately happens? There's no one way to comprehensively "solve" burnout. It will inevitably depend on the person, which makes it often difficult to recognize and diagnose.
Perhaps you won't be able to identify specific symptoms. Recognizing that something is different, and that the change is negative, is the first step to tackling the problem. So what's next?
- Challenge them to go outside of their normal day-to-day job responsibilities to take on new and stimulating projects. Do they have an interest in social, mobile, or some other emerging channel?
- Give them opportunities to lead internally on specific initiatives. Are they super-talented in a specific area? Build them up as a go-to expert for others within the company. Does your organization have a specific growth track for employees who want to "minor" in an area of passion? Whether business development, social media, event marketing, or campaign efficiencies, stepping outside the day-to-day search marketing management responsibilities for a portion of the week provides inspiration, reduces burnout, and creates innovations for the company and our clients.
- Take over a specific aspect of their job for a set amount of time to free them up. For example, take over weekly reporting for two weeks, during which time they are free to tackle something outside of their normal day-to-day. This breaks up the monotony, and also oftentimes can result in new ideas that turn into real game changers for the client.
- Give gifts. Yes this one can be a touchy subject. But if you have someone who has been killing it for months on end and doing a great job, why not give them an extra day off? Tell them to get out of the office and do something fun. Or if a day out of the office would add to their stress even more, then hand them a restaurant gift card on their way out the door on Friday.
- Be sure they're leaving work at work. Do whatever you can to share workload or more evenly distribute it across the team if you have people working all hours of every day. Emphasize work-life balance for everyone, even if that means that you lose yours for a short period of time.
Nothing in this column is new to anyone. However, everything in this column can easily get lost in our daily lives as we wrestle with the demands of our jobs.
Print it out. Keep a checklist. Make sure you're doing it. The result will be a team with a more positive outlook and a bigger capacity for long-term success.
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Johnny Football is heading to the NFL.
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel declared for the NFL draft on Wednesday, wrapping up a spectacular two seasons in which he became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy and helped the Aggies make a splash in their first two years in the Southeastern Conference.
In a letter posted by the university, Manziel says he felt it was the "right time" to take the next step toward the NFL. He thanked his coaches and fans.
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ATHENS, Ohio -- The Ohio men's golf team begins a new era on Monday (Sept. 10) at the 2018 Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational as the tournament marks the debut of the Bobcats under first-year head coach Carter Cheves.
The 54-hole, two-day event is hosted by the Guyan Golf and Country Club in Huntington, W. Va. The teams will play two rounds on Monday before finishing the final 18 holes on Tuesday (Sept. 11). Live scoring will be available via BirdieFire. Ohio will be competing against host Marshall, Belmont, Davidson, Dayton, Eastern Kentucky, George Washington, Longwood, Northern Kentucky, Saint Francis, VCU, William & Mary, Wright State and Youngstown State.
The Bobcats haven taken part in the Marshall Invitational every year since 1968. Ohio won the first two Marshall Invitational titles, with Slugger White bringing home individual champion honors with a score of 217 in 1969.
Ohio finished in 11th place at a rain-shortened 2017 Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational (Sept. 11-12) after tallying a two-round total team score of 583 (+15). The Bobcats combined to card an opening-round score of 294 (+10) and followed it up with a 289 (+5) in the second. Final-round action was set to be played on Sept. 12, but heavy rain forced the cancelation of the remainder of the tournament.
Cheves was named the third head coach in the history of Ohio men's golf program, as announced by Director of Athletics Jim Schaus on July 9.
Cheves comes to Athens after spending five years as the assistant coach at James Madison, where he helped 13 Dukes earn All-Colonial Athletic Association honors. Following the 2017-18 season, freshman Ignacio Montero was named CAA Men's Golf Rookie of the Year while senior Matt Cowgill was tabbed an All-CAA Second Team selection. Off the course, James Madison boasted a GPA over 3.0 as a team. In total during his stint at James Madison, Cheves coached one CAA Player of the Year, two CAA Rookie of the Year winners, five Scholar All-Americans, two individual NCAA Championship Regional qualifiers, one NCAA Championship qualifier and one PING All-American selection.
James Madison posted eight team wins over the course of Cheves' tenure. The Dukes posted 52 rounds at par or better after recording 46 such rounds combined over previous 15 years prior to his arrival. Every major scoring record in the program's history was broken over the last five years, including low single round, low 36-hole total, low 54-hole total, par 3 scoring, par 4 scoring, par 5 scoring, most birdies in a season and season finish percentage.
Cheves brings previous head coaching experience to the Bobcats, as he served as the head coach at Western Carolina for three of his four-and-a-half years with the Catamounts. Under his watch, J.T. Poston became the third Western Carolina golfer to qualify as an individual for NCAA Championship Regional play. Poston, who is the first golfer Cheves signed, is currently on the PGA Tour, and several of Cheves' former players have competed on PGA Tour Latinoamérica, PGA Tour Canada, GPro Tour and SwingThought Tour. Off the course, Cheves started the program's first-ever alumni reunion, advanced the team's ranking over 70 spots in three years as head coach and had his teams maintain better than a 3.0 cumulative GPA in his tenure.
Cheves graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in operations management. Prior to attending UNCW, he played two years of college golf at North Carolina State under veteran Wolfpack head coach Richard Sykes. Following his graduation from UNCW, Cheves served as the United States Golf Association P.J. Boatwright summer intern for the Carolinas Golf Association.
The Ohio men's golf program has won 18 Mid-American Conference championships in its storied history (1951, '52, '53, '54 (tie), '55, '57, '58, '59, '60, '61, '63, '64, '65, '67, '69, '71, '79, '80). Cheves succeeds Bob Cooley, who retired at the conclusion of the 2017-18 campaign after 30 seasons at the helm of his alma mater. Cheves, Cooley and Kermit Blosser (1947-88) are the only men to serve as head coach of the Bobcats in the program's history.
The Bobcats return eight members of its 2017-18 team. Back for Ohio are senior Ben Sattler (Liberty Township, Ohio), redshirt junior Michael Kenney (Kent, Ohio), redshirt sophomores Adam Stephens (Dublin, Ohio) and Brett Wheeler (Dublin, Ohio) and sophomores Zach Crawford (Vandalia, Ohio), Austin Dyson (Dublin, Ohio), Tanner Johnson (Venetia, Pa.) and Zach Mandry (Solon, Ohio).
Crawford is Ohio's top returner after competing in nine events in his rookie campaign and averaging a 76.35 over 26 rounds. He enjoyed his best finish at The Firestone Invitational (Oct. 2-3), tying for fourth with a 215 (-1) and shooting a season-low 67 (-5) in the first round.
Sattler gives the young Bobcats a steady veteran presence and has earned Academic All-MAC honors each of the last two years.
Ohio's roster features one new member -- freshman Quinn O'Leary (Beverly Hills, Mich.). O'Leary Competed at Brother Rice High School, earning four varsity letters. He served as team captain of the Warriors in each of his final three seasons (2016, '17, '18) and earned all-state honorable mention following his 2016 sophomore campaign. An All-Catholic League selection all four years of high school, he helped guide Brother Rice to a Catholic League title to cap off his 2018 senior season. O'Leary is the cousin of former Ohio women's golfer Lily Pendy.
The Bobcats are set to compete in a total of 11 tournaments this season -- five in the fall and six in the spring. The 2019 MAC Championships (April 26-28) will be held at Club Walden in Aurora, Ohio. Click here to view the full schedule.
The Ohio men's and women's golf teams will host the 28th Annual Bobcat Open on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, at The Lakes Golf and Country Club in Westerville, Ohio.
The Bobcat Open serves as a fundraiser for the Ohio golf teams.
Action gets underway at noon EST with a shotgun start. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. with an awards banquet to follow at 7 p.m. Participants will have the chance to meet Cheves as well as celebrate the career of Bob Cooley, who retired following the 2017-18 season after spending 30 years as the head coach at his alma mater.
Ohio has a short turnaround after the 2018 Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational, competing in the EKU Raising Canes Intercollegiate next weekend (Sept. 15-16) in Richmond, Ky.


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Saturday, May 16, 2015
free range roosters
13 comments:
- Sam Finn said...
Good deal. I'm sure the boys will appreciate their new found freedom. I'd say the hens would love it as well.
- May 16, 2015 at 5:26 PM
- remmij said...
…Carl pecks out his approval
— meanwhile, to your north… Mike tries to nod
- May 16, 2015 at 7:06 PM
- remmij said...
he tried to lead a normal life…
more detail & travels -
Mike on PBS
- May 16, 2015 at 7:20 PM
- Larry G said...
back in the day - on Sundays - my uncle would take me out to help out with dispatching a "free range" chicken for Sunday Dinner.
It's was a revelation to me - no matter how many times I participated.
you grabbed one , laid it's neck on a stump and WHACK and it would run around spattering blood util it fell.. then we'd put it in scalding water to get the feathers off - then take it in to grandma to gut it .. then into the oven.
to this day - looking at a whole cooked chicken or Turkey -takes me back.
sorry if I offended anyone for sharing that part of my childhood.
- May 16, 2015 at 8:21 PM
- Margery Bills said...
Yes, I rember those days too. When the horrible action started, I went back into the house. And to this day when I see a whole cooked bird, I sometimes feel grateful I did not have to pluck the feathers.
- May 16, 2015 at 8:59 PM
- Margery Bills said...
That's a good picture of your birds John.
- May 16, 2015 at 9:02 PM
- Ron Kincaid said...
Those roosters are going to become coyote bait if they venture to far from the house. I speak from personal experience.
- May 16, 2015 at 10:18 PM
- Ronald Mahan said...
I believe Ron Kincaid is correct! Maybe John should start enjoying more roasted roosters before those wily coyotes eat them up. Culling some of those fine looking roosters should also make for a more peaceful henhouse!
- May 16, 2015 at 10:45 PM
- Margery Bills said...
- May 16, 2015 at 11:44 PM
- Margery Bills said...
I spent the day filling in holes with big bags of top soil. Looks like an animal tried to get in the yard with my dogs and my dogs barked at it. (Mt Lion, Cayote, Fox, dog, or what?) And I have 3 fences. (2 chain Link, 1 wood) I still have more work outside the fence. When my new neighbor builds he might be surprised at who might visit him. I had to shoo a Mt. Lion off once. They eat dogs or their heads here. My new neighbor was just here today in this quiet neighborhood. His motorcycle wakes everyone up.
- May 16, 2015 at 11:59 PM
- Ronald Mahan said...
Catching and killing the chickens our grandmother requested - was one of our more serious duties as young chicken farmers. Catching that first chicken - so we could wring his head off was fairly easy. But after the whole flock had witnessed our grisly intentions - it was tough to even catch another with our long stiff catching wire - with a crook on the catching end. Most orders were for 2 to 4 chickens. After the dead chickens had been dipped in scalding hot water - it was also our jobs to pluck or remove all the feathers - which took quite a while. But we later enjoyed eating those chickens! Neither of us have every raised chickens - because chickens can now be purchased so economically in the grocery store. Cheers.
- May 17, 2015 at 3:53 PM
- Sam Finn said...
I enjoy watching chickens scratch and hunt about the farm yard ... something peaceful about it.
- May 17, 2015 at 4:12 PM
- Janet said...
As a child my father would catch a chicken and put it in the screened porch area. He would lay it on its side and cup his hand over its face for a minute or two and slowly lift it off. The chicken wouldn't move for quite a while unless a loud noise "woke" it up. When he was ready, he would scoop up the chicken, kill it, dip it in hot water and give it to me to "pick" and clean. I couldn't eat it afterwards and didn't eat chicken for years.
- May 17, 2015 at 5:09 PM


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Who We Are
The Roane County Animal Shelter is an Animal Care and Control Agency that was created by the Roane County Government, which assumes a unique role in the community. As a law enforcement agency, it is responsible for protecting the rights of people against the dangers and nuisances of uncontrolled animals. As an animal care organization and facility, it ensures the legal protection of animals from mistreatment and abuse. The Animal Control Department attempts to administer to the health, safety, and welfare of people and animals by promoting, motivating and enforcing responsible pet ownership.
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After spending my junior year studying in Munich and summers traveling and working in Germany, I was eager to help others pursue international opportunities. I graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BA in German Studies and English and moved to New York City for a job at Cultural Vistas—an international education non-profit, which serves students, professionals, and emerging leaders through career-focused internships, fellowships and exchanges. Most recently, I held the position of Programme Director for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals—a year-long fellowship between Germany and the US with language, internship and study components. Through this reciprocal programme, I had the pleasure of supporting incoming international students, as well as helping US students and young professionals go abroad.
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Sam Rassam is a certified ethical hacker.
That's right, he's officially certified to use his skills for good, not evil.
"That certification is key," said Caleb Mitchell, director of quality and process integrations for Southfield-based Secure-24 LLC. "Security and quality are key in our day-to-day operations. So for him to receive that kind of certification gives us clout in the industry."
Secure-24, a provider of cloud-based software services, was able to put Rassam — and others — through certification and training programs with a grant it won last year from Automation Alley.
Now, 24 more area businesses will share $1 million from the Troy-based technology business association's Technical Talent Development Program Challenge Fund. That money is expected to train 472 local employees.
Automation Alley launched the program in 2012 with a $5 million federal grant, with the goal of helping local businesses ease their struggles to find good employees. The money can be used to train current employees or new hires.
This year's winners are:
- Ace Controls Inc., Farmington Hills
- Applied Manufacturing Technologies LLC, Lake Orion
- Baker College, Auburn Hills campus
- Compuware Corp., Detroit
- DASI Solutions LLC, Pontiac
- Detroit Labs LLC, Detroit
- ESG Automotive Inc., Troy
- Future Help Designs, Pontiac
- General Motors Co., Warren
- Hirotec America Inc., Auburn Hills
- Logic Solutions Inc., Ann Arbor
- Mobile Comply LLC, Pontiac
- MOBIS North America LLC, Farmington Hills
- Oakland Schools, Waterford Township
- Pixo Group, Southfield
- Plastipak Packaging Inc., Plymouth
- R&E Automated, Macomb Township
- Research Into Internet Systems, Troy
- Saline Lectronics Inc., Saline
- Softura Inc., Farmington Hills
- Stout Systems Development Inc., Ann Arbor
- Total Solutions Inc., Brighton
- W3R Consulting, Southfield
- ZenaComp Inc., Farmington Hills
"In the auto capital of the world, with engineers making the shift to technology, it gives us the opportunity to take that experience and education and help give them certification paths and become more marketable," said Mitchell.
His company used the grant to not only help Rassam but to bolster its internal training program.
"To get the kind of talent we all need, you have one of two approaches," he said. "You can go to the market and hire somebody with all of that experience, which means they may be out of state. Or you can grow it internally. Secure24 grows our own talent."
Amy Haimerl: (313) 446-0416, [email protected]. Twitter: @haimerlad


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It appears the DVD wars are heating up.
NCR Corp. said Tuesday that it had licensed the Blockbuster name and would soon introduce new "Blockbuster Express DVD rental kiosks" at more than 200 drugstores in New York City.
NCR and Blockbuster agreed to share profits as they install 2,500 kiosks nationwide this year. (The biggest clusters of these kiosks will be in Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York and Arizona.)
What do these developments mean for rival Redbox, the maker of those kiosks you see outside grocery stores where people can rent a movie for $1 per day. And what does it mean for Redbox parent company Coinstar .
Find out from RedBox president Mitch Lowe. Watch the video now!


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Posture and Breathing
Hint: Stand tall, suck in your stomach. Be active and healthy, do it for the right reasons.Eventually your energy will balance itself. What this means for you, experientially, is up to how you perceive yourself.Your skeletal structure must be aligned for the internal organs to work properly and in unison. Your muscular and ligament/tendon connectivity and density/tensegrity (joint to muscle to joint) requires tension and strength in order to pull your skeleton into alignment.Your jaw and tongue has to be in a particular agreeance to allow for air flow and relaxation/alignment of the neck muscles with the temporomandibular joint to allow for the brain stem and spine to move into alignment. When you see someone practicing yoga, this is what they are hinting at. The joy of physical exertion and sports is an example. Good food (healthy!), mainly raw and organic vegetables and fruits are vital to this concept and will ultimately yield a healthier mind and relationship between the body and it's environment. Villages that eat proper raw, organic, foods and lead natural fulfilling lives develop this part of their body fully and have broad noses and jaw lines. (Weston A Price) Working out, running, jogging, yoga, stretching, basically any physical activity will stimulate the organs and promote growth and positivity.Eventually the jaw, breath, brain stem and spine, skeletal structure, internal organs, blood flow, muscular tensegrity (the constant push and pull between bones and ligaments and muscles joint to joint) will all come into alignment. This will allow your body to become in tune with itself by shape, and internally through fluid/glandular exchange and the stimulation of growth and an active nervous system. From there, thoughts and mental structure must move past each circuit of awareness, starting with survival, instinct, and lower emotional/family integration levels. These cycles activate throughout childhood and into adulthood and the manifesting of the personality through decision making and preference. Your decisions create (or represent...) your being.A lifetime of experience in close contact with nature and the abundant sources of life, awareness, and the ability to learn and create properly, yields an awareness that is beneficial to the planet itself, as well as it's 'oversoul' or group consciousness. Currently, the planetary masses panic and commit murder. Without becoming fully aware of the processes at hand. This is due to many situational elements in our history and present day.There has been much regression in the evolution of our civil personality within the larger historical context, yet the introduction of high end technology and the ability to reflect on a more deeper scale and truly become aware of ourselves, our actions and differences, initiates an even higher shifting of possibilities. There lies a potentially very complex and consciousness rich future before us. If we make the decision to live peacefully together and work to help the environment.The first few cycles of awareness are where the majority of the planet remain, due to mental, physical, and emotional toxins we ingest.After the lower circuits become enabled/engaged and then surpassed after understanding and communication with each aspect of the self is reached, they work in unison to activate the higher circuits of the spiritual experience which integrate one's social identity (your 'name', you as described by your job, childhood, culture etc etc) into the larger aspect of the human race and ultimately universal being.The learning transforms the individual when the individual sees the larger view, beyond the scale of the previously considered finite realm. This is the constant transcendence that consciousness goes through to expand upon itself. The self grows and learns in one occurrence of realization.Lower forms of expression and circuitry are based within primal needs and offer a rather raw and unconscious path through life. This is more geared towards the beginning levels of consciousness, but as the layers of self-awareness peel away giving truth to the actual form of the conscious being, the illusion of the lower levels give away to deeper truths. The animalistic forms are no longer needed, as the conscious being becomes more of a consciousness, and less of a physical and animal, or of a primal nature. The consciousness being added, is not a deviation of the norm or an alien or additional form, but a finer and clearer expression of the underlying consciousness within. This form does not require lower contexts, transfers, or primal existences, but they may always exist as part of this cycle.It is complex enough to unify the individual characteristics of human nature through genetics and will provide a way for all humans to initiate growth and wealth in the life experience without harm or imbalance to another. We must put aside our preconceived notions of who we are, and see that we area literally one being.What has become alien. What has become a deviation. Is the descent into the abyss of imbalance and confusion that man has become entranced within, and devoted to pursuing. The future man, existing in a lower form of physical identity, interaction, and responsibility, is alien to the more complex world containing technology that exposes and ties together the loose ends of our experience by showing the world what the world is and does to itself. In this age a vast amount of information and learning experiences are more accessible to the masses and we must bring our daily life and interactions with each other, on a micro-scale, up to par with this macro-view.The universal being is without limits, without name, identity or boundary. The only commonality is the presence of the respect for life, and the experience of love. This is the basis of all existence, whether it is cellular, protein/amino-acid chain, primal, or self-aware. If we can learn to live this in our daily life, and to each other, we will surpass any problematic limitations we currently perceive.Being able to understand and integrate the impact of the human consciousness on the planet, is part of working with higher consciousness, which has the goal of unifying every conscious force in the environment. Everything, everyone, everywhere is involved, yet it starts with you, within your world; the self. Dieting, thoughts, meditation, dreams, yoga, interactions, exercise; it's all connected.Knowing yourself, your emotions, why you feel the way you do, the goals you have, the fears that block you from moving on, and your attachments is part of the process of discovering yourself as a whole being. Slowly we peel away the layers of physicality and illusion that we use to represent ourselves, and like changing close, become something entirely more casual. What is casual is what easily represents our true nature, without trying or thinking. The brand name apparel, gets removed and replaced with a more form-fitting, naturally woven, beautifully colored article of clothing that just feels right. No one had to tell you what to change into, because no one can, and chances are, if they are picking out outfits for you, then those clothes will make you feel uncomfortable in the long run.As an eternal being. How would you know you exist? How would you know what love is? What light is? Do you come to terms with your eternal nature? Or do you find comfort in the mortality of the body (just the outfit)?You may experience for all eternity, but there still may be the issue of actually determining that you know you are experiencing it, and more so, that you know you are aware of your awareness of the experiencing. This doesn't even touch on the subject of then being able to express this determination of awareness, this self-awareness.What allows this extension of simple awareness into self-awareness is a self-awareness loop, or a feedback loop, this is present in cycles of consciousness or experience. This can be seen plainly in harmonics. It's present in your life in every daily routine stemming from mental habits, to dietary needs (more so habit as well). To your bio-rhythms of day and night/sleep patterns, short-term hormonal functions regulating sleep, mood, diet, and energy. The long-term hormonal cycles of the body's development through the ages. Including the cycles of personal experience and preference which we cycle through, development, expand upon, alter, and edit as we experience life. Everything, is a cycle, and every cycle is connected to and interacting with another larger cycle.What we like and tend to focus on, shifts through a kaleidoscope of images, ideals, cultures, beliefs, perceptions and ultimately selves. As we become a new individual or the ever changing individual, we move in cycles, through cycles. Right down to each and every breath and how it's in direct control of your posture, energy, and stress levels. Yes, every cycle is part of a larger cycle, and they do not end.The more interesting aspect, to me, is the macro-cycle which involves larger change on a more ultimate level, over a longer time span. The development of our planetary culture and belief system has grown like genetic meme with the fittest surviving longest. But there has been a stray from natural form, that has resulted in the repetitive and cyclic nature of the genetic evolution process becoming stagnate and stalemated.Evolution is not flawed, but control has literally been handed to the most aware individual. That is yourself, and the perceptions within. What (who?) do you give your attention to? What do you give your control to? You always pass it along, because we are not in control of everything. You give it into the world you are creating by living. You cannot find a more real source, and a more truer understanding of who you are and what you are to do than you can by looking within. As long as you maintain the understanding and wholeness of compassion and equality, you are the truth. This is about regaining that free-will, that portion of your control that is handed to the world at birth.The current age has taken the leading edge of the planetary development from having it's roots in the fundamental cycle of all existence, through life and death and the struggle for survival, and it has maintained that dog eat dog appeal while introducing high-end technology and levels of intimate combinations of scientific and religious understanding of self-awareness. Man takes over their evolution by something as simple as genetically modified foods, overgrowing their environment and designing the daily routine in a materialistic manner. Although there is great intelligence on this planet, there is a lacking of fulfillment within the personal, common life.You will see, the owners, the rulers, and the designers of the common personal life, are literally giving the power, to the highest bidder. The power to design your life, your home, your diet, your mind, if you are a part of the commonality here, is given directly to the hands of the one with the most money.Anything about that strike you as odd....?The everyday human does not tend to have the best understanding of these cycles, at least as not as much as the ones in control of the cities of the world. The important aspects of the understanding are left out of view of daily life, while the media focuses on violence, terror, and oppression. Indulgence, and gratification. Intellectualizations without knowledge, and partiality instead of wholeness with the one truth.The common view of everything focuses on this, from fast food to entertainment, to every institutionalized aspect of the physical world. It is all tied into money and economy, and this is accepted because it sells. There is truth though...you just have to find it.Because the highest bidder is the one who has the most power in this world, instead of the one with the most love or highest awareness, everyday, people simply have bad posture.Their mental posture doesn't allow for the ability to focus longer than the average span between commercials or t.v. shows. (or classes) They do not know how to feed themselves, or exist in harmony with nature. There emotions control them, and guide them by decisive force as they become used to giving into desire because the environment they're in constantly has forms of temptation or mind-numbing advertisements or negativity.Their physical posture is weaker and doesn't produce the best outcome. Just imagine what a species would evolve into, if it's daily routine, consisted of sitting at a desk, slouching, and eating bad food under artificial lighting in an electrically poisoned environment. Sci-fi much?The idea is that society is changing. What it/you become is up to the life you lead and what you pay attention to.This is not a coincidence, that the most popular and largest companies, trends, and movements are currently infatuated with technology and the ease and pleasure of living, no matter the cost to the rest of the world. This only reflects how individuals treat each other, how we treat ourselves, personally.What you will notice though, is that there is a larger cycle, a larger function to every human. A larger goal.A heart.A soul. (Destiny)?And that the planet itself has a soul and a caring heart, and has been in a larger cycle for the better part of the duration of time and space here, and that we are only a small portion of this cycle.What this cycle culminates to, is dependent on your ability to focus on unconditional love, as it is the highest form of awareness. This is maintained through the proper negotiating of the bodies energy requirements, through the balancing of your emotional energy, all the while developing and evolving personally and intellectually. We are here to help each other.Eventually, to come to the conclusion that you are aware, alive, and made of love (energy/emotion/light,[EEG?]) you must first move through the gradient of the experiencing of duality. This is the archetypal breakdown of polar opposites of man, animal, and ultimately separatism and physicality.To realize that you are eternal, you must experience life in finite terms. To become aware that you are alive, you must move into the potential of life and death. To know love, you must experience the lower alternative.This does not mean that you must experience negativity/darkness to experience the light, it means you must experience the duality to become aware of the difference and thus the presence of either.Consciousness, through the human brain, is defined by difference. This does not mean you must come here either as the only way to experience consciousness in this form, because a reduction of all forms of polarity and conscious definition usually doesn't yield a less conscious experience, but a less distinct and more imaginative or expanse experience. This is a reduction in the definition and labeling of reality. It basically means you do not need to walk through the field observing and knowing the name and species/characteristics of every flower you see in order to feel the wonder of the experience. The reduction of the defining characteristics can yield a more positive and fulfilling experience if they are realigned within a caring and emotionally(energetically), biologically, and environmentally sensitive way.As an eternal being, you choose to become mortal. As the infinite, you decide upon a finite existence, this is the cycle of co-creation, life and death. The evolution of awareness through the layers of physical, and mental circuitry. The experience of life through the body. The evolution of the cosmos in the physical form, and levels of awareness based within it.In the end, your energy, what is truly experiencing through your body, cannot be destroyed or erased. It is simply adding to it's infinite list of expansions of the self. Knowledge is synonymous within the self, as it is eternal, and forever expanding.


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Bluebox, an enterprise security startup, has secured a fresh $18 million round of funding, the company announced today.
Bluebox focuses on making mobile tech secure for businesses, which is even more important given the number of people who conduct both company and personal business from a sole smartphone. The company is still in stealth despite launching nearly two years ago, but is planning to unveil a public service February 19, according to founder Caleb Sima.
The company said it plans to use the new capital to scale its sales and marketing operations in anticipation of next month's launch.
The round itself, Bluebox's second, came from new investor Tenaya Capital as well as existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Sun Microsystems Co-founder Andreas Bechtolsheim, and SV Angel. As part of the funding deal, Tenaya's Brian Melton will also join the company's board of directors.
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So it is most definitely that time of the year to bake cookies with the holiday season most definitely upon us. Also, shortbread cookies are a favorite of mine all year round.
But still each year I love getting to make my favorite cookies, such as Peppermint Kiss Cookies or even Meringue Cookies.
Still I am always up for trying out a new cookie recipe if possible, as well.
This year, my mom shared a new recipe she found for Easy Whipped Shortbread Cookies.
Well, this past Saturday it was downright chilly here in NY. It snowed earlier in the day for the first real snow of the season.
Therefore, I thought what better day to stay in and get my baking on.
So, I baked 3 different cookies, including the Easy Whipped Shortbread Cookies.
But I decided to cut the recipe in half, which still gave me almost 4 dozen shortbread cookies!
Plus, I used rainbow sugar crystal sprinkles in red and green to make my shortbread cookies all the more Christmas festive for the season.
These cookies lived up to their name. As they were truly so easy to make. Plus, they are light and basically a fluffy, whipped shortbread cookie.
So, without further ado adding my Easy Whipped Shortbread Cookies recipe for all to enjoy this Christmas season.
Easy Whipped Shortbread Cookies
A delightfully, perfect Christmas cookie for all, even cookies for Santa!
- 1 1/2 cups of butter
- 3/4 cups of confectioners sugar
- 2 1/4 cups of flour
- 3/4 cups of cornstarch
- 1 tsp of vanilla
- Pinch of salt
- Red and Green Sugar Sprinkles
- First, soften the butter in the microwave for 30 seconds.
- Next, whip the butter and confectioners sugar together.
- Then, gradually add and mix in the flour and cornstarch.
- After, mix in vanilla and touch of salt.
- Then, drop spoonfuls of dough on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
- After this, fork cookies diagonally to crisscross.
- Once this is done, decorate with red and green sugar crystal sprinkles.
- Bake at 300 degrees at 20 - 22 minutes.
- Once out of the oven cool on cookie racks for about 10 minutes.
- Then, serve to your friends, family or even as the perfect cookies for Santa!!
Nutrition Information:
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 250
Will you try to bake these Easy Whipped Shortbread Cookies for the holidays?
What cookies do you bake for the holiday season?
Share with me in the comments…


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Rhyming within your routine
One of my favorite phonemic awareness skills is the ability to rhyme . Before kids will be able to generate a rhyme, they need to recognize rhyming words by hearing rhyming words around them. Have fun with rhyming during your daily routines. For example, as you are looking for a bowl in the cabinet, you could say, "I'm looking for a bowl. A lowl. A zowl. A kowl. No, no, It's a bowl." Your child will probably laugh and enjoy hearing you create new words. Ask them, "What should I look for?" As soon as they name something, start the game again. "I'm looking for a book. A sook. A look. A nook. No, no, I'm looking for a book." Channel your inner Dr. Seuss. Every kid I've ever done this with has absolutely loved it (this is the game I play to keep my own 2
year-old entertained in the car).
~Marena Mitchell, Speech-Language Pathologist
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Daily tips, activities, and suggestions on how to naturally embed speech, language, play, fine motor, gross motor, and cognitive skills into your child's day, often using the materials already found in your home environment.
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d a k photography came to life when dublin photographer david kenna jumped off the treadmill and followed his heart on a journey,
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Quiet. Hear that? That glass of water trembling? It's the sound of a giant…cash register, clocking $500 million in sales for "Jurassic World" last weekend!
But we have to say, listeners, that we've got some thoughts on that. This week on the "Statesman Shots" podcast, Dale Roe – Austin American-Statesman television and culture writer – explains why he gave the film a D+, despite the huge fanfare, huge box office, and even huge-r dinosaurs. And if the film didn't exactly float your boat, no worries! We've got fun suggestions for dinosaur activities around town.
Also on this week's episode:
- In a Short Shot video segment, Dale, Omar and Tolly invent (and illustrate) their OWN, Austin-centric dinosaurs, a la the human characters of "Jurassic World."
- After an intense year of conversations about race, "Orange is the New Black" returns. How do we feel about the third season so far?
- In a Chaser segment, pop-culture writer Joe Gross talks about comics giant Warren Ellis.
- And in "A Toast," we recommend new stuff you'll find in downtown Round Rock, the joy of beer flights and the new Trader Joe's at Seaholm, which is a great place to go if you like to avoid the crowds when you shop.
How to listen:
Download the MP3 version here. (45 min.)
And here's the RSS to subscribe to the podcast. (We're also on iTunes!)
Show rundown:
0:00 Intro
1:30 Segment 1: Dale Roe on "Jurassic World" and Trader Joe's
16:55 Short Shot: We genetically engineered some Austin dinosaurs!
21:32 Segment 2: The return of "Orange is the New Black"
34:34: Short Shot: Joe Gross on comics giant Warren Ellis
38:12 Short Shot: A Toast (Recommendations)
43:25 Outtro and how to reach us
Show notes:
- Dale cuts "Jurassic World" down to size. (If that's even an appropriate metaphor.)
- "Jurassic Larks:" get in on the dinosaur action with kid-friendly stuff in Austin and beyond.
- "Orange is the New Black" on Netflix.
- Official site of Warren Ellis
- Addie Broyles on how Trader Joe's Seaholm location prices compare with Whole Foods.
- Looking for beer flights? This might be a good place to start.
- The changing face of downtown Round Rock
- You can email us.
- We're on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube!
- Tolly, Omar, Joe, Dale, and Alyssa Vidales are all on Twitter.
- The audio podcast is available through iTunes. Subscribe and rate us, won't ya?
- Omar blogs at Digital Savant and Terribly Happy.
- Tolly blogs at Austin Eavesdropper.