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Will the Price Be Right?
Do not want to douse even a smidgen of the fires that have blazed brightly recently within the Rays Republic as the the growing enthusiasm and enlightenment after Tampa Bay Rays southpaw starter David Price's recent flame throwing display against the Toronto Blue Jays. But I would be guilty of deception if I didn't remind the Rays Republic, this same action is going cost us.
It really doesn't seem possible that Price has been going to the Rays hill every 5 days for almost 3 full Major League Baseball seasons. It still seems like just yesterday he thrust his arms and glove into the Trop's air celebrating a ALCS Game 7 victory over the troublesome Boston Red Sox. Has time, and Price's abilities really flown by us that fast, and vaulted that high into the stratosphere?
Considering Price just pulled a proverbial late Dog Days of Summer juicy rabbit out of his Rays cap during his uniform inspired 14 strikeout matinée performance, all Price's agent and Rays front office could visualize on Sunday was a plethora of giant "$'s" piling up instead of the classic "K's" around Tampa Bay.
Believe me, I am not trying to downsize or minimized the importance of this feat of establishing a new Rays single game K mark, it just come at a bit of a….price.
Most of us around the Rays Republic possibly have dug a deep hole in our subconscious to hide the fact that Price will wander into virgin territory this off season becoming first arbitration eligible for the first time This Winter Price could easily double his current $ 1 million dollar 2011 salary. Some "guesstimates" have his starting figure at $ 1.8 million and growing with each impressive outing.
You could realistically say that Price is pitching his way right now towards either a lucrative possible multi-year situation with Rays management somewhat like the Rays payroll team friendly contract guidelines that fellow Rays starter and graybeard James Shields signed a few years ago.
Even if Price were to command a larger starting point to a multi-seasonal, possibly $ 2 for 2012 then escalating, it would be more payroll friendly than awaiting yearly arbitration figures to be exchanged and possibly going to a hearing and having the Rays come out on the losing end. I know we all collectively hope the writing will be on the wall soon to shadow a possible long-term Price love fest.
Maybe the Rays are secretly whispering sweet nothings, or sliding little Fourth Floor Conference Room Post-It notes already with respectable dollar figures to Price's representation as we speak. I can see the Rays wanting to adamantly keep Price's mind and talent between that 60 feet 6 inch tunnel until the season is completed, with no interruption, and no tangled webs.
You have to believe that the ever tightening purse strings of the Rays bankroll from here on out this Winter will be stretched so far Ben Franklin will be screaming from the pain. With the likes of Price, B J Upton, Andy Sonnantine, J P Howell and Joel Peralta all hitting arbitration this Winter, money allocated might be tighter than 2011, possibly even reduced a bag or two of Franklin's.
But Price is the big fuzzy prize that needs to be either compensated with a nice salary escalation, or his escalating arbitration amount could possibly transform into a yearly bloody dagger thrust deeply into the Rays payroll's heart.
Of the 5 names above, Price is the one that will possibly get the lion's share of the arbitration prize, with Upton all but assured publicly being granted his walking papers this Winter by so many outside Rays prognosticators.
Even with so many hurlers knocking on the Rays doors to get a Major League chance from the Rays Triple-A Durham Bulls corral, Price is still the Rays King of the Hill, their Ace par excellent, The Rays promotional focal point for many years. Price is here to stay, and that will come with… a price.
Believe me, I am one of those who think that the Los Angeles Dodgers discussions with their own ace Clayton Kershaw will have a direct correlation with what happens with Price this Winter. Kershaw's "secret covert" contract extension could set the early bar as to what extent or how wide the Rays will have to open their own pocketbook. The Dodger Blue have been spoiled this season by the emergence of Kershaw, and his pay day is also coming this Winter.
In the end, Price deserves to be rewarded. He has been a valuable and valiant member of this Rays rotation and has plenty of more years and feat still hidden within the cells of that magical left arm. With every feat however his salary balloons, the Rays chances of retaining Price when he finally hits that top plateau increases.
Price is magical both on and off the field. Be it community events, signings or even a small chat by the walls before a Sunday contest. Price is proving every 5 days his ascending worth and value to this Rays franchise. Soon it will be the Rays time to show Price a balance sheet to illustrate their own projections of his worth through their own eyes. Hopefully they will not see the "$'s", but will see his heart bleeds Rays Carolina blue and reward him for his sweat, tears and occasional sunflower seed showers.


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Frenchmen lead first two stages of Enduro World Series at Winter Park's Colorado Freeride Festival
The fourth stop of the international Enduro World Series promised a showdown heading into Winter Park, with top racers separated by less than 200 points. The first two stages of the first-ever Enduro World Series competition on U.S. soil saw the series' number one and two riders, Frenchmen Jerome Clementz and Nicolas Vouilloz, holding a tenuous lead in the top two spots. Australian rider Jared Graves, who ranked third heading into Winter Park won the first stage but a mechanical problem in the second stage saw him drop from contention and finish the first two stages in 104th place out of 121 positions.
Two more stages on Saturday and a final stage on Sunday leaves the podium wide open with less than 30 seconds separating the top 13 spots, which includes seven U.S. riders.

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AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge
Attention engine builders! Here are nine manufacturers who are stepping up to pay big money at the 2013 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge!
We are pleased to announce the following company and product category Contingency Sponsorships for the 2013 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge:
Camshafts: COMP Performance Group, Lunati LLC
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Our next updated full listing will be on 1/10/13.
Excitement continues to grow from the PRI Show Announcement of the 2013 AMSOIL Engine Masters Rules as the potential earning amount for the overall Winner's payout, which has increased dramatically to $3,500 per product category used. Second place earns $400 per category, while Third place will net $100 for each verified contingency product used in competition.
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Ottawa, Ontario Bests British Columbia for a Spot in the Little League Baseball® World Series
Ottawa, Ontario Bests British Columbia for a Spot in the Little League Baseball® World Series
Going into the final day of action of the Little League Baseball® Canada Region Tournament, East Nepean Little League from Ottawa, Ontario, had only lost one game. Unfortunately, the British Columbia team that defeated them earlier in the week also made it to the semi-finals, and in order to reach the Little League Baseball World Series, the team from Ottawa would have to find a way past the team who beat them once already.
Ottawa was up to the challenge, and behind a solid pitching performance from Angus Adams, East Nepean defeated White Rock South Surrey Little League from White Rock, B.C., 5-1., advancing Ottawa to the 2013 Little League Baseball World Series.
Earlier in the day, East Nepean's pitching shutdown the host team from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 5-0, in their semi-final game. The number-one seed, White Rock, B.C., used a dominant offense to best the team from Quebec, 11-1, setting up for a final showdown between the top seeds.
East Nepean Little League becomes the 11th team from Ontario to advance to the Little League Baseball World Series. The league also sent a team to South Williamsport in 2004.
For the Championship, Mr. Adams threw a gem, striking out 10, and only allowing two walks and two hits, shutting down the British Columbia offense. Learn more about the Canada Region Tournament.
The Canada Region Champion will go on to face Asia-Pacific Region Champion, Chung-Ping Little League from Taoyuan, Chinese Taipei, in the first round of the Little League Baseball World Series on Friday, Aug. 16 at 1 p.m. on Volunteer Stadium. The game will be broadcast on ESPN and available on the WatchESPN app.
The 67th Little League Baseball World Series begins on Thursday, Aug. 15 in South Williamsport, Pa., with the Championship Game scheduled for 3 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 25. For more information on the Series and to follow the action live, visit llbws.org.
The Canada flag being raised at the World of Little League Viewing Plaza by 9-year-old Little Leaguer Alexander Wootton of Walworth, N.Y. Alexander and his family were visiting the newly reopened museum.


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Agency can find funds
Why should public money have to pay for private mistakes?
That's the question we were asking after the Fulton County supervisors voted 11-8 on Monday to spend $40,000 to help the Fulton County Center for Regional Growth recover $3 million.
The CRG – the parent company of the Fulton County Economic Development Corp. and the Crossroads Incubator Corp. – is engaged in an ongoing legal effort to recover the money from fired agency executives Jeff Bray and Peter A. Sciocchetti.
Federal income tax returns from 2010 showed Bray, former Fulton County EDC senior vice president, and Sciocchetti, former Crossroads executive vice president, received about $1.5 million apiece in bonuses their boards of directors later said were not approved.
We support the CRG's attempt to get the money back, which could help economic development in Fulton County.
However, the CRG should not rely on taxpayers. The organization has maintained it is a private agency -not a public one – and should find some other means of paying for its legal expenses.
In October, Fulton County and the CRG announced a stronger partnership involving more accountability and more funding. Officials at the time said the EDC and CIC were facing financial difficulties and would be dissolved. The county later increased its annual taxpayer allocation to the CRG from $25,000 to $75,000 for 2013. The CRG developed a new business development marketing plan for the county. Two county supervisors – Perth Supervisor Greg Fagan and Gloversville 5th Ward Supervisor Michael Ponticello – are now voting members of the CRG Board of Directors. The partnership also makes the CRG more accountable to the county, and the Board of Supervisors has had an increased role in governance of the CRG.
While that all sounds good, there is still no guarantee this oversight will work any better for the private agency.
Fulton County already was doing enough to help the local economic development agency succeed. The agency should seek to recoup its losses without more money from taxpayers.


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ST. PAUL, Minn., March 3 (UPI) -- Mikko Koivu scored the go-ahead goal in the third period and added two assists Sunday in the Minnesota Wild's 4-2 win over Edmonton.
Minnesota outshot the Oilers 18-0 in the second period but the game remained tied 1-1 entering the final frame.
Koivu, however, found the net just 9 seconds into the third and Charlie Coyle followed with the eventual game-winner 6 minutes later, giving the Wild the momentum they'd need to register their third win in four games.
Jared Spurgeon also tallied with a helper and Dany Heatley added a power-play marker in the victory.
Niklas Backstrom made 19 saves to record the win.
Magnus Paajarvi and Sam Gagner each found the net and Devan Dubnyk stopped 39 shots as the Oilers dropped their third in four outings.


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Slim Randles' Home Country
Here's to Kaldi
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[November 17, 2012]
"Ahhh! Coffee!" said our
resident cowboy, Steve, raising his cup at the philosophy counter.
"Let's raise our cups to whichever Brazilian came up with this
"Actually, Steve," Herb said, in his most professorial tone, "his
name was Kaldi. He lived in Ethiopia."
And here Herb grinned fiendlishly at Steve. "And he was a
"No way, Herb!"
"The truth, cowboy, nothing but the truth. In fact, it wasn't so
much as Kaldi doing anything, it was his sheep. You see..." (and he
turned to face the tables and booths to find he held a rapt
audience) "... ol' Kaldi had noticed his sheep munching these red
berries and going kinda hyper all over the place, looking for a lion
to whip or something. Well, Kaldi knew that hyper sheep were too
busy running around eating the plants flat to the ground to be
putting on any mutton, so he decided to investigate. He chewed some
of these berries himself and beat the sheep back to the ol' Mutton
Mansion. He made a couple of laps around the house and said, 'Man, I
just can't live without my coffee!'
"Now that was about 1000 A.D., you know. The word got out, and
people started up their drip machines, and morning stopped being
such a dirty word.
[to top of second
"Of course, as with anything good, there are always party poopers
who want it stopped. And so it came to pass with coffee. Six hundred
years after Kaldi's sheep, a bunch of Christians (obviously on
decaf) petitioned Pope Clement VIII to ban coffee, believing
anything that made mornings pleasant must be the devil's drink.
"Being a fair-minded guy, the pope didn't want to do that without
giving it a try first, so he had some cardinal whip up a batch and
he sucked it down. Well, he gave the drink his blessing, said it was
an official Christian beverage, had a mug made with 'Clem' on it and
hung it over the sink.
"Here's to coffee!" Herb said to the audience, "The choice of
sheepherders everywhere!"
Where does he get these things?
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Thursday, 29 October 2009
Many subjects discussed below
This has been the fastest ultra recovery I've had to date. And much faster than the two marathon's I have run. I am back to running normally and without pain just 5 days after the race. It seems like the more long races I do, the shorter the recovery is. Makes sense, I guess. Or maybe it is my diet that has improved (let's just say I eat more than oatmeal and gum now).
May-Britt (who also ran) has unfortunately had some bilateral hamstring problems, which she hasn't had before, so it can't soley be dependent on the number of long races one has run.
My modeling career
So I was asked by one of the fathers at The Lorax's daycare if he could take a picture of me for the local health store Body Kick http://bodykick.dk/. I am quite tickled by this. I even went so far as to buy anti-aging cream for around my eyes. I don't even own make-up, so this was vanity to the extreme for me. I'll hopefully be able to get a copy of the picture they are going to use for their website.
The Bois' language development
I recently became concerned that The Bois was not learning words quickly enough. My mother reminded me when I was in Wisconsin of the list she still has of the over 600 words I could say when I was 20 months. The Bois, who is also 20 months, can say about 30, though some are complete sentences. He basically refuses to repeat words, but will only say them if he knows exactly what they mean. It is quite strange because when he listens to the radio, he sings most of the song lyrics after he hears them sung and also will sing the radio station's jingle, sometimes even before they play it. But I did some reading and apparently the tendency with kids in houses where two languages are spoken is for them to hold back in repeating because they are confused by the multiple words which mean one thing. There were a couple of larger studies that showed this. This certainly makes sense in the Bois' case. He just spent two weeks with my parents and they couldn't understand a single Danish word he said. I can see how that would be frustrating for him. Anyway, it has been interesting to observe. If I know mothers correctly, there will certainly be someone who comments saying their child could speak 700 words in 3 languages at 10 months. And that's cool.
My IUD and pregnancy thoughts
I have now had rather heavy bleeding in connection with my IUD every day for the last three weeks and before all my blood is bled out, I am considering having the thing removed. I even made an appointment to have it done. Is this too much information to write on a blog? But we are trying to figure out if it is too early to have another little one. Once you have one baby, it is like all of these forces in your body work together to convince you need to have another. Any other mother's agree with me on this? If I were sensible, I would wait until we were getting near the end of data gathering in the PhD project, otherwise the project would just be on hold because of my bad planning. Plus 3 kids in one house is suddenly a lot! But don't get me wrong. I certainly would be thrilled if it happened.
Like Oprah says, Danish rye bread is the best, especially when homemade.
Running Song of the Day: Milan Allé by Magtens Korridorer
11 comments:
- SteveQ said...
Einstein and Edison didn't speak at all until they were two, so it's not much of a predictor.
Me? Apparently I started speaking in full sentences. "Yeah, I don't think so," "I can't change myself!" and "Tom hit me." I was a weird child.
- 29 October 2009 at 16:26
- Danni said...
I've heard some kids are just really quiet for a long time and hardly talk and then suddenly speak articulately in complete sentences. I wouldn't worry.
Yay for modeling and quick recovery. Boo for blood. Yay for eating more than oatmeal and gum. No cranky caveman are you.
- 29 October 2009 at 17:16
- -A said...
In terms of language, it is more than likely the bilingual thing. And? If he's stringing words together he has at least 50 words, I'm not entirely sure if that counts each language separately or together. At twenty months stringing words together, he's fine! As a twenty month, soon to be bilingual child? He'll be okay once he sorts everything out!
- 29 October 2009 at 18:05
- Olga said...
Boys are always later (ok, usually). And never pick it up to the girl's level - neither at early age, nor later in life:) Bilingual doesn't help either. My older and younger boys are an example in difference.
As for IUD, for some reason American version really tends to bleed a bunch. The one I had back in Russia stayed put and caused no changes in period. With the one here - last one stayed 12 years, and my period went from 4 weeks to 2-2.5 weeks - and very heavy. The new one (freshly done) is not causing short in-between officially, but does cause bleeding in the middle, so it's almsot like 2 periods in a month, one short and light, one regular. Too much info? I guess, but hope this helps. I still choose it for convenience.
As for trying to have another baby - I'd probably lean towards waiting for completeing (or close to it) PhD, but sure do know the "call". The longer you wait, the weaker the call is:) So if you do want to have another, try not to have them any more than 5 years apart - they may end up not playing much together, and it's like having two "only" child(s) instead of 2 kids. Your hands wiull be tighted up all the time.
Oh, and recovery - ditto. the more you do, the less you need - body adapted. That's why when I complain I am not running much, say, a week after a 100, and most folks say I have an excuse, I say - no, I don't. I am fine, I am just lazy:)
- 29 October 2009 at 18:18
- Abbie said...
Ya, my daughter is 19 months and barely says 10 words. She understands everything I say to her though... We were in the grocery store and she pointed to the chips and said, "chips!" so I know we'll get there soon. I think all the studies on child development (while amazing and wonderful) sometimes make us nervous as parents if our child is lagging.
Good luck with the pregnancy thing. It's a tough choice. I feel the same way as you... would be happy to have another one but still am not sure if I'm ready.
And PS. I loved that Oprah show!
- 29 October 2009 at 19:36
- Allison Chapple said...
I have an IUD and am having it removed in December. I think you're right about having a child and how it makes you want to have another one! I am both excited and terrified and the prospect of another kiddo in our house but it's never going to be a perfect time. Might as well do it! Good luck!!!!
- 29 October 2009 at 22:24
- Marathon Mom said...
I hear you on the pregnancy thing and other commitments. Although I am only having #1 soon, both my husband and I are in grad school and working. I know it will be tough, but with all other aspects the timing was right. I don't think there is ever a perfect time, you just need to look for something that works for the situation.
- 30 October 2009 at 01:06
- H said...
That doesn't sound behind at all. Angeline is coming on 15 months and barely says anything at all - doctor says it means nothing if they seem to hear and attempt to communicate/imitate sometimes, and that it's common in children who are especially physical (Angeline was walking at 9 months and is still ahead of the curve in coordination and physical abilities) I think the best thing is to not stress unless your doctor is worried!
- 30 October 2009 at 09:56
- Angela said...
My experience with the IUD is the bleeding got better with time if you can hold out. I love mine now but the first 6 months were rough while my body adjusted to the change. It is a fragile system and an IUD is definitely change. You might want to be checked that nothing else is causing the bleeding and hold out if you really don't want to worry about prenancy now.
- 30 October 2009 at 14:41
- SteveQ said...
Running song of the day: "Lisztomania" by Phoenix. Check it out.
- 30 October 2009 at 16:14
- sea legs girl said...
Steve Q, Okay I am doubtful that Einstein and Edison could not speak until they were two. Do we really know much about their young childhoods? I read a biography of Einstein and while back and don't recall that. Point taken, though, that number of words does not have much significance.
Agreed, Danni. And thanks for find me on Facebook!
Thanks also for your thoughts, Angela!
Olga, how did on know you would be an expert on these subjects? :) I really appreciate your advice. Interesting about the Russian IUD. Was it a copper one?
Thanks, Abbie! That "chips" story is so cute. SR and I both got a good laugh out of that. It is fun that we have little ones so close in age.
The Chappels, Good luck to you, too, if it's baby time again :). Yeah, I am more leaning towards it (like what if I suddenly become amenorrheic again like I was an entire 6 years before I met SR???), but of course SR has to agree, too.
Yeah, thanks Marathon Princess, and all the best to you with your #1! It IS hard to find a PERFECT time, but best to avoid a DISASTROUS time.
Heather, agreed. I don't think anything is wrong with The Bois. It is just interesting to see how he seems to be holding back because of the two language thing. Wow, that your daughter walked at 9months. Same story with my best friend's daughter. Amazing.
I have acutally had the IUD in for a year and a half, so it is surprsing the problems just started. And I woke up Monday morning with sheets and shorts dreched in blood and yellow fluid (yuck!) that's when I figured something was weird. But now it's normal again. Who knows.
Steve, I've got that one on the ipod. I don't know, the tempo just doesn't work for me, but it is a cool song. Thanks!
Erin (from last post), thanks for writing and that is crazy you had such problems with your IUD. There is nothing like birth control to make a woman's body go completely wack. But without it, our lives would be wack :). (Is "wack" to 80's of a term?)
- 31 October 2009 at 08:14


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The Cameron University Department of Music will present the Cameron University Concert Band in concert on Tuesday, December 3 at 7:30 p.m. The concert takes place in the Cameron University Theatre. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students and senior adults. Cameron students, faculty and staff with CU I.D. are admitted at no charge.
The Cameron University Concert Band is conducted by Dr. Matthew Mireles. Members include
Kelsey Alden Cox, Irmtraud Bryant, Brittany Curtis, Prezell Duckett, Lacey Flaig, Anthony Gustave, Daniel Jones, Joseph Kinsman, Britnie Mendenhall and Paul Smith, all of Lawton; Tommy Agee, Lorenzo Diaz, Gus Echols and Marquis Williams, Duncan; Tabatha Den Dekker, Kelly Knapp and Dylan Shadaon, Elgin; Jake Downing, Poteau; Lilah Gilmore, Iowa Park, Texas; Lori Jester, Sterling; Cole Martin, Cache; Tyler Reeves, Denton, Texas; Austin Tinney, Marlow; and Ja'lyn Yarbrough, Anadarko.
The concert will include John Philip Sousa's "The Liberty Bell," which is also recognizable as the theme for "Monty Python's Flying Circus," "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Elliot Del Borgo, "Elegy for a Young American" by Ronald Lo Presti, "The Tree of Life" by Anthony Barfield, Shostakovich's "Prelude Op. 34, No. 14," "Incantation and Dance" by John Barnes Chance and "Benediction" by John Stevens.
For further information please call the Cameron University Department of Music at 580-581-2440.
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There is a great new study out of Canada that suggests that exercise and especially weight lifting can help prevent and alleviate symptoms of lymphedema. Lymphedema is a condition many of us that have lymph nodes removed along with a breast are a little concerned about. I had a mastectomy about six years ago and at the time had 11 lymph nodes removed. Lymphedema was something my surgeon was particularly careful about. He advised me about it and assured me that he would be working to avoid this during surgery, although no surgeon can guarantee that you won't ever develop this condition. Some women develop this even a decade after surgery for breast cancer. Accepted conventional wisdom suggests that you baby the affected arm; usually the side of the mastectomy. Recently though, studies indicate that exercise and even weight lifting can alleviate current symptoms and even help prevent the condition.
My April 24th, 2009 blog on exercise and lymphedema was written after I had done research on the lymph system and how to keep it healthy. I am no expert, but I am a huge believer that each of us has to be our own patient advocate so learning about how to reduce our risks for certain conditions is our responsibility. I wrote about light exercise and rebounding. This current study is more focused on weight lifting. This is great news especially for younger women concerned about lifting their young children and for any one that has avoided sports like bowling and even lifting shopping bags. The additional benefits of weight lifting is that it supports maintaining bone density, something that can be affected by decreased estrogen levels after treatment.
I try to get up early most mornings to run-walk. I find that this helps with my weight control. Intermittently I have included free weights or tension bands because my arms could use much shaping up. I have been a little concerned to get too involved in this kind of exercise because of my fear of lymphedema. This study pretty much gives me the go ahead. That means I could develop arms as lovely as Michelle Obama's!


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Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2
Greetings! We're happy to say that another free ebook is now available.
Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2, by Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker with the Windows Server Team at Microsoft, can be downloaded here (XPS file, 28 MB) and here (PDF file, 11 MB).
Here is the book's Content at a Glance:
Introduction xvii
Chapter 1 What's New in Windows Server R2 1
Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration: Adding R2 to Your World 9
Chapter 3 Hyper-V: Scaling and Migrating Virtual Machines 25
Chapter 4 Remote Desktop Services and VDI: Centralizing Desktop and Application Management 47
Chapter 5 Active Directory: Improving and Automating Identity and Access 65
Chapter 6 The File Services Role 91
Chapter 7 IIS 7.5: Improving the Web Application Platform 109
Chapter 8 DirectAccess and Network Policy Server 129
Chapter 9 Other Features and Enhancements 147
Index 163
And here's part of the Introduction:
Windows Server 2008 R2, or simply R2 for short, is the second release of
Windows Server 2008. It isn't a completely new release, but rather adds
additional features and refinements to the existing release. In this book, we focus
on the new features and refinements in R2. We assume you have at least a general
knowledge of Windows Server, and that you have some familiarity with Windows
Server 2008, although we don't assume you're actively running Windows Server
2008. Where an R2 feature is a refinement of a feature that was new in Windows
Server 2008, we provide background on the Windows Server 2008 feature to
provide context.
Who This Book Is For
This book is targeted primarily at Windows server administrators who are responsible
for hands-on deployment and day-to-day management of Windows-based
servers for large organizations. Windows server administrators manage file and
print servers, network infrastructure servers, Web servers, and IT application
They use graphical administration tools as their primary interface but
also use Windows PowerShell commandlets and occasionally write Windows
PowerShell scripts for routine tasks and bulk operations. They conduct most
server management tasks remotely by using Terminal Server or administration
tools installed on their local workstation.
What This Book Is About
Covering every aspect of Windows Server 2008 R2 in nine chapters and approximately
200 pages is clearly an impossible task. Rather than try to cover everything,
we've focused on what is new and important, while giving you the context
from Windows Server 2008.
Chapter 1, "What's New in Windows Server R2" Provides a brief overview of
all the new features and capabilities of Windows Server 2008 R2.
Chapter 2, "Installation and Configuration: Adding R2 to Your World" Covers
minimum system requirements, basic installation and configuration of R2, and
what is involved in adding an R2 server to an existing Windows Server network.
Configuration of the Windows Server Core installation option, added in Windows
Server 2008, is covered, along with the steps required to add a Windows Server
2008 R2 domain controller to an existing Windows Server network.
Chapter 3, "Hyper-V: Scaling and Migrating Virtual Machines" Covers the
new Hyper-V features of Windows Server 2008 R2, including dynamic storage
management and Quick Migration of clustered virtual machines (VMs). Covers
creation and management of virtual machines using the Hyper-V Manager
console, Windows PowerShell, and the Failover Cluster Manager console and
discusses the features of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.
Chapter 4, "Remote Desktop Services and VDI: Centralizing Desktop and
Application Management" Covers Remote Desktop Services (the new name
for Terminal Services) and the enhancements of Windows Server 2008 R2, including
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which uses the new RD Virtualization
Host capability of R2 to provide desktop virtualization. R2 also includes an all-new
Remote Desktop Services provider for Windows PowerShell.
Chapter 5, "Active Directory: Improving and Automating Identity and
Access" Covers the new features of Active Directory (AD), including an AD
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My name's Warren Ellis. I write comics, graphic novels, books, journalism and anything else that people pay money for. Sometimes I even go out in public. I live in south-east England.
I'm the writer of the graphic novel RED, the film version of which (starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman & Helen Mirren) came out in October 2010. (A sequel is apparently due next year.) I'm the writer of the GRAVEL graphic novels, under development for film by Legendary Pictures. I also wrote the novel CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. I have an Amazon.com page here. (Ignore anything it says about LISTENER, that book was lost and cancelled years ago.)
My next novel, GUN MACHINE, is due from Mulholland Books in autumn 2012.
A collection of the writing I've done here and elsewhere on the internet, SHIVERING SANDS, was published in 2009.
Sometimes I speak at conferences, or do other kinds of talks and appearances.
The easiest way to contact me in the first instance is probably to message me on Twitter.
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Justin Bieber -- Pelted By Water Bottle in Brazil
Justin Bieber Pelted By Water Bottle in Brazil
Justin Bieber took a water bottle to the face during a live concert in Brazil this weekend ... just like he did in 2009 ... but this time, he reacted MUCH, MUCH differently.
You remember the 2009 shot, when someone beaned the cute, adorable (shirted) pop star -- and he reacted by smiling and telling the crowd, "Ow! That didn't feel too good."
But Brazil was different -- an unshirted Bieber got smacked (while singing "Boyfriend") ... and reacts by mad-doggin' the crowd and storming off the stage.
How quickly they grow up ...
9:30 AM PT: Looks like Bieber had quite the weekend in Brazil -- during a show the next night a fan bum-rushed the stage ... and was swiftly taken care of by the backup dancers.
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Giving Thanks and Enjoying Life
Today is the day that we give thanks to family, friends and the community for the blessing that we have recieved over the year. Nothing matters today besides the family and the fine food we are about to devour like true carnivores. If it is turkey, brother save me a drumstick, if it is a succulant ham, save me a piece from the end that is overflowing with the juices and the honey glaze.
We enjoy everything from the green bean casserole, to the stuffed mushrooms. We wander from the hall table full with appetizers and mouth-watering goodies that will live in our minds for day, years, and maybe a lifetime. We are celebrating the second best day of the year………Thanks giving.
As we sit down at the table, it is customary that we all tell what we are thankful for this year. By tradition I am always the last to speak my piece because I am the one in the family who loves to give thanks for everything from TIVO to Amazon.com. As we sit and raise a glass of fine beverage we all acknowledge that the year has been a wild ride and the new one is going to be filled with greater advetures and smooth sailings.
As the tabel leans in to finally hear my list of wishes, I remind them that this might take a while and ask if anyone needs to get anything from the fridge or the table. I nod to my other half and tell her to begin to cut the 4 pies that she hand baked last night for the guests and proceed to tell you what I am hopeful and thankful for in 2008:
I am thankful that I have a hometown major league team ( Rays) ,where some cities have minor league or communitie base semi-pro leagues throught out America.
I am thankful and blessed to be a member of a great cheering group with the Rays, the "Maddon's Maniacs", and be enshrined in my team's Fan Wall of Fame.
I am thankful to the man who finally brought us Tampa Bay Rays baseball after being struck down twice by MLB for purchasing teams, but stood firm and finally got us our team. Vince Namoli does not get the love he should for doing what everyone else could not for Tampa Bay.
I am thankful for Stu Sternberg, who bought the club and made good on a promise to make Tampa Bay a winner……….alot sooner than even he thought it would happen.
I am blessed and thankful to the entire staff of the Rays for letting me take a Team Photo with them in May, not knowing the significance at the time of what would happen in October.
I am thankful to America for staying the home of the brave and the land of the free. While baseball players are sequestered and defiled for wanting to enjoy the simple liberties we take granted daily.
I am thankful for the sacrifice and the honor bestowed on every man or woman who steps off a transport overseas, that his tour be short and his life be richer for the experience, in a positive way.
I am thankful for the men and woman who daily police the cities and the countryside to keep us safe in our homes.
I am thankful for the right to sleep in late, or stay up until sunrise and know that life is only going to get better.
I am thankful for the friends and family that I have now and have lost, either by death or by time passing between us.
I am thankful for the travels to other stadiums and cities to enjoy another team's culture and fandom in their home enviorment, even Boston and Philadelphia.
I am thankful I have been at our teams clinching games for a playoff berth, AL division series, and AL pennant wins. The bonus was to attend 4 of the 5 World Series game this year by my team.
I am thankful and blessed to be friends with people in baseball, including the Rays, who know my passion and my desire to see baseball and not politics played on the field.
I am blessed to finally know what it is like to cheer for a winner. I was a member of an SEC title celebration, but only got to see one side of the joy and excitement from the field, and never before this year got to feel the fans' side of the joy and energy.
But most of all, I am thankful and blessed to have people like you read my rants and raves daily and who comment and live my Rays dream with me. For that I am extremely grateful and give you this promise today. I will read as many of your great articles as time allows me, and comment and show positive vibes where ever possible with MLBlogs.
So with that, I raise my glass of fine wine and salute you, the readers and writers of MLBlobs, for you are the reason we are, and the reason we write. May your days be bright and memories always as vivid as the day they were made.
God Bless and let's get ready for a rocking Holiday Season and a blast of a New Years for all.
Cliff Wittig
Known 364 days a year as Rays Renegade
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That is a great entry. We certainly have a lot to be thankful for! Check out my Thanksgiving entry, and have a great day!
Thanks for the comment Kaybee.
I will check out your blog in a bit, about to do some pre-turkey day appetizer straffing runs in a minute here.. Stuffed Mushrooms to the left of me, spinich dip to the right.
I will be also straffing the blogs du jour after dinner tonight to help the great dinner settle in my belly. Looking forward to your and many other great writea about this food festival of fun
Rays Renegade
You put some thought into that entry. Nice job. Keep up your great blogging and you and your family have a great T-Day…D
Hey Rockpile,
You keep up those great trivia contests and questions. It is a great day to not be a turkey, or a pecan. Seriously, I enjoy your take on things too.
Keep safe and have a dose of pepto nearby tonight, just in case.
Might even give you a line when the Rays come out to Denver in the Interlegue in 2009.Free pizza for all Rays fans at a small pizzeria out there when we come to town.
Have a fantastic day and enjoy yourself.
Rays Renegade
Really nice post, Cliff. Thanks for your great contributions to this blog and for stopping by to comment on mine. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I just posted my post-turkey saga. I'm so full from all the amazing food I was lucky enough to have!
Glad to hear youe Turkey Day was full of fun, food and watching Rick Astley during the Macy's parade.
I have fun writing these, and tend to sometimes get a sentimental side going. The holiday and the Wrold Series tend to bring that out in me.
Thank you again for stopping by and leaving such great comments for me……….I will go check out your T-giving blog in a bit here
Rays Renegade


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This tutorial shows one way to create your own snow to use in animations.
How to make snow:
Open your animation program. Select canvas size. Larger is better, since it is easier to crop out the extra snow around the edges when adding it to your still pic than it is to add more. I chose width 300 and height 350 pixels.
If you are using a plain background, right click the canvas and select New Blank Object.
Use the fill tool to color your background.
Any color will do, but a darker color helps the white snow to show up better. Or you can add a picture to use as the background if you like, as I did. Go to file and add image. Find your image wherever you have it saved on your computer, and click open.
Add several more frames. My example has 5 total. Click each frame and highlight the background picture so it is in each frame.
Create a new blank object in frame 1 (your background will still be in the frame). Bring the new object to the front. Under order, click the third arrow, as shown.
Use the paint tool, settings: shape: O, size: 3, transparency: 0, soft edge: 0, line: squiggly, allow painting on transparent areas: checked.
Paint several white dots on your canvas, but dont include the entire canvas. Just pick a rectangular area near the top of your picture.
Copy your snow (the dots). Paste into the same frame. Right click on your snow, select object properties, position and size. Check the number next to the H, which is the height of your object. Mine is 74.
Check how far from the top edge your object is. The numbers next to your object, at the right, in the parentheses, stand for how far the object is from the left and how far it is from the top. So if your object has (6, 12) after it, then it will be 6 from the left, and 20 from the top. Mine is 13 from the top. 13 + 74 = 87, so we will move the second snow object that we pasted down to 87. Copy this object and paste again. Add the height again, in this case it will be 74 + 87 = 161. So we move it down to 161.
Repeat this process until your snow covers your entire background. If it goes past the bottom of the picture a little bit, that is okay.
Highlight all of your snow objects at the right (but not your background), using ctrl + click.
Go to object, combine as single object.
Next we center it. Make sure your snow object is highlighted and then click the pick tool.
Under alignment, click center both, as shown.
Copy the snow again and paste into the same frame. Then move the snow you just pasted up until the bottom part of it touches the top part of the other one. Crtl+click these two snow objects and combine as single object. It should now be about twice as high as your background.
Copy your snow and paste into the next frame. Right click, choose object properties, position and size. Move it down by 30 and to the right by 10. For example, if left has a 1 next to it, youd change it to 11, and if top has a 5 next to it, youd change it to 35. Then copy this object, and paste into the next frame. Move the snow down by 30 and left by 10. Repeat for frame 4, moving the snow down by 30 again and right by 10. You can stop here or add another frame or two and repeat the process.
Adjust timing. Ctrl + click to highlight all frames at the bottom.
Right click and choose frame properties. Pick removal method smart. Change delay to 18. You can choose a different number depending on whether you want the snow to move faster or slower.
Preview. Make adjustments until it looks right. Save as GIF.
If you dont want to make your own snow, you can use mine, as long as your background picture is not bigger than 300 x 350. If it is smaller than that, it will be fine. I realize that this picture looks blank, but trust me, there really is snow there! Highlight it and see for yourself if you dont believe me. Then save the snow to your computer.
Find the picture that you want to use for your background. Right click and open with UGA5.
Click on File, Add Image.
Find your snow.
Make sure the following settings are checked:
Insert in the current frame
Distribute to individual frames if input consists of multiple frames
Click open.
Adjust timing, as explained above.
Save as Gif.
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I forgot to mention, if you want to save your snow without the background pic, as I did, you will need to right click on the background pic at the right and click delete object. Then save it.
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A winner was selected from 32 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Looking for a creative design of a logo to highlight our groups Overarching Message:
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Desired Color Scheme:
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See current (OLD) logo on website at http://www.en.org
Our goal is a logo that well represents us but gets away from the desert look and feel. Open to new schemas and something that conveys our message.
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Enterprise Network is the leading resource for the Valleys emerging businesses. The programming and networking opportunities offered provide participants with access to specialized knowledge about obtaining capital and planning for growth.
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Success breeds success. Each month, Enterprise Network presents the business communitys elite leaders as featured mentors sharing their companys success stories. Leaders of emerging businesses discover first hand how they overcame their adversities and rose to the top.
Funding the future. Many growing companies require an infusion of capital to take their next big step. Enterprise Network provides opportunities for emerging business leaders to connect with professionals in the banking, finance and lending industry who are tapped into the pulse of the Valleys investment community.
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Facebook is attempting to downplay its own report that it's losing teens, with chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg calling the reports exaggerated.
"I think the reaction to that comment has been blown out of proportion. As we said on the earnings call, overall U.S. teen usage of Facebook remains stable," Sandberg told AllThingsD. "The vast majority of U.S. teens are on Facebook. And the majority of U.S. teens use Facebook almost every day."
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News from around the country and around the globe
Instead, Sandberg said that the first rumors of Facebook losing teens and being uncool started when she joined the social network in 2008 and have been dogged, but not necessarily true.
Facebook chief financial officer David Ebersman said that Facebook was losing teens in the 13 to 19 age range during Facebook's earnings call last month.
"We did see a decrease in [teenage] daily users [during the quarter], especially younger teens," Ebersman said during the company's third-quarter earnings call, but despite the decrease he said that usage was still stable for most U.S. teens. Facebook also earned $621 million in the third quarter, double the social network's year-over-year profit.
Many critics have suggested Facebook is losing teens and young adults to photo-messaging apps such as Snapchat and Whatsapp where they're trying to avoid parents and other relatives. Recent news that Facebook offered $3 billion for Snapchat seems to indicate that this is likely the case. Unfortunately for Facebook, Snapchat rebuffed the offer.


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Unfortunately you cannot.
But one solution might be to use the file in a program source, than generate a compile listing and copy the specs from the listing into a new DDS scource.
There is a system API that will generate SQL/DDL source for a file object, and put it into a source file and member of your choice.
The name of the API is QSQGNDDL. This can be done through iSeries Navigator as well. Also, if you have Aldon CMS/LMi, there's a menu option to accomplish.
Why not take this opportunity to convert your original DDS sourced object into an SQL table? The compiled SQL object will be implemented as a physical file with the same functionality as the original one compiled from DDS, and using SQL/DDL gives you more flexibility since you can utilize more of the database functionality in the future.
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BROOKINGS, S.D. – The Georgia College baseball team put three players on the Daktronics All-Southeast Region teams, the organization announced recently.
Outfielder Shawn Ward (Evans, Ga.) and shortstop Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) each earned first team slots, while catcher Richard Pirkle (Norcross, Ga.) picked up a second-team nod.
The Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Co-Player of the Year, Ward put up gaudy numbers in 2011. A .398 hitter, Ward paced the PBC in RBI at 61, adding a slugging percentage of .612 and 49 runs scored. Ward gives GC two-straight years with outfielders earning first-team honors on this list, as Sean Harrell (2006-10) took a spot a year ago.
In his first year with the Bobcats, Funk was second on the team in hitting at .393 with two home runs and 54 RBI. He also led the PBC in doubles with 20. He slugged .520 and scored 45 runs. Funk is the first Bobcat shortstop to take honors in the five-year history of the awards program.
Pirkle is now a two-time Daktronics All-Region recipient, after being named to the second team in 2010. The senior backstop hit .301 with 12 home runs and 37 RBI. Pirkle finished second in the PBC with the home run total, adding a .566 slugging percentage and 13 stolen bases.
All-time, GC baseball has put 12 student-athletes on the Daktronics All-Region squads. Funk and Ward will now move on to the All-America ballot.
The Bobcat baseball team went 35-17 in 2011, a season that saw them hold down the No. 1 spot in the country for two weeks. The Bobcats finished second in the PBC West, honoring three all-region players, including PBC Co-Player of the Year Ward.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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IQAir's GSMultiGas has long been the #1 recommended air purifier for people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS). This is why we were very excited here at Reviewboard to have a chance to review IQAir's newer version the New Edition GCMultigas. While the original model was the "gold standard" for the air purifier industry when it came to gas and chemical filtration – these new air purifiers are now up to 32% quieter, have up to a 20% longer filter life and produce up to 21% more clean air. For people with MCS this is nothing short of a breakthrough in air cleaner technology. MCS itself is an extremely complicated condition. The world around us is filled with 1000s of different gases and chemical fumes that are now a part of our modern industrialized life. There are chemicals used in the manufacture of furniture, carpeting, household cleaners, fragrances, etc… The list is almost endless when it comes to the gases and chemicals that daily affect the health and comfort of people with MCS. Some estimates state that up to 15% of people in America (as many as 46 million people) suffer from some form of sensitivity to the gases and chemical fumes in their homes. And many more don't suffer from MCS but have problems with household odors (caused by gas or chemical fumes), cigarette or cigar smoke, and other forms of industrialized pollution like automobile exhaust fumes from a nearby highway. But best of all, the New Edition GC MultiGas doesn't just remove gases and chemicals – it also filters out allergens and other airborne particulates.
But Which Gas and Chemical filter is right for you?
IQAir actually makes several specialized gas and chemical filters in their GC line. With the introduction of their New Edition models – all of their original air purifiers have been improved. This is a pretty powerful statement about a line of air purifiers that was already widely regarded as #1 (see Reviewboard's recent reviews of IQAir's New Edition HealthPro Plus and New Edition HealthPro Compact). IQAir's New Edition GC line includes:
- The New Edition GC MultiGas – targeting the broadest range of gaseous compounds, odors, particulates and smoke
- The New Edition GC VOC – targeting Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), solvents, odors and particulates
- The New Edition GC AM – best at removing toxic ammonia, amines, ammonia-based vapors and allergen particulates
- The New Edition Chemisorber – targeting formaldehyde, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, nitric oxide and allergen particulates
For our review we chose the New Edition GC MultiGas because along with being the best all round air purifier for people with MCS it is also the best choice for common household chemicals and odors – especially in my case for handling my pesky cigar smoking neighbor.
Gas, Chemical and Particulate filtration with No ozone, no ions and NO "off-gassing" plastic
If you suffer from MCS, it can be just as important what your air purifier doesn't do as what it does do. Most air purifiers are simply not effective enough to make a difference in an MCS sufferer's indoor environment. But with a full 13 lbs of gas and chemical absorbing media – the New Edition GC MultiGas powerfully filters gas and chemical vapors from your home. The HEPA pre-filter captures airborne particulates down to 0.003 microns with a guaranteed minimum efficiency of 95% – trapping larger 0.3 micron particles at a rate of over 99%. But most important to people with MCS is that the New Edition GC MultiGas does this without emiting any ozone or ions – and all IQAir products are constructed from ABS plastics. Why is this important? Simple – ABS plastics don't "off-gas" any chemical fumes into your air. Like we said – it can be just as important what an air purifier doesn't do as what it does do – and IQAir air purifiers don't emit ANY byproducts in the name of air cleaning.
Why is the New Edition GC MultiGas the best gas and chemical filter available?
A gas and chemical filter needs to be rated on two main criteria. The first is how much air it cleans. The second is the quality of its gas and chemical filtration media itself. The New Edition GC MultiGas contains more gas and chemical filtration media than any other air purifier available. Each system contains four filter cartridges packed with the highest grade activated carbon from bituminous coal. This is extremely important because most air purifiers don't contain any gas or chemical filtration media at all. The few that do usually use a cheap coconut-shell based carbon. Coconut shell carbon can actually cause allergic reactions in sensitive people. The New Edition GC MultiGas also contains the highest grade alumina pellets impregnated with potassium permanganate to remove formaldehyde from the air. Formaldehyde is one of the chemicals most commonly found in homes. Together, these powerful filtration media don't just protect MCS sufferers – they also help those of us who are troubled by household odors and smoke. Now add to this that the New Edition GC MultiGas filters now last 20% longer than the original model and provide 21% better air flow and you have better performance AND better value.
Particulate filtration too
The New Edition GC Multigas doesn't just filter gases and chemicals. It also features two particle filters that work together to provide a reduction of over 99% of all particles (0.3 microns and larger). First the HEPA pre-filter eliminates micro and nano particles such as pollen, dust, allergens and bacteria. This helps extend the life of the gas/chemical-phase filters by preventing the filtration media from being clogged with particulates. Additionally, the New Edition GC MultiGas gas and chemical filter cartridges are wrapped with a micro-charged sleeve that stops particles from being released into the carbon absorption and alumina pellet chemisorption media.
But the real secret is the 3D UltraSeal
Most air purifiers make efficiency claims based on the theoretical efficiency of their parts – usually their filters. Unfortunately, leakage (air bypassing the filters) causes most air purifiers to perform at far lower efficiencies than their label claims. Some air purifiers literally don't even meet 10% of their label claims. IQAir states their efficiency ONLY based on the total system efficiency of their air purifiers. To make sure that 100% of the air passing through their air purifiers is cleaned by its filters – IQAir invented their patented 3D UltraSeal. The 3D UltraSeal gives the New Edition GC MultiGas knife-edge-in-groove sealing between the filter, its frame, and the air purifier's housing. This means the New Edition GC MultiGas has absolutely no air escaping its powerful seals.
New Edition fan – the most powerful fan ever used in a residential air purifier
The New Edition GC MultiGas features the most powerful fan ever used in a residential room air purifier. This is why the 3D UltraSeal had to be invented. In order to contain the powerful increase in air flow and have 100% of the air pass through its filters, IQAir had to optimize every aspect of the New Edition GC MultiGas' design. The two most important part of any air purifier are its fan and its filters – but every other component must support those two critical parts in doing their job. The new fan increases that amount of air cleaned by the New Edition GC MultiGas by a whopping 21%. That alone is a great reason to buy. Whether you have MCS, are troubled by household chemicals or odor – or if you can't bear the stench of cigarette or cigar smoke – the New Edition GC MultiGas offers a powerful solution to your problem.
But what if IQAir added one more major improvement?
The New Edition GC MultiGas is now the quietest high performance air purifier
With a 32% reduction in perceived sound the New Edition GC MultiGas is now the quietest high performance residential gas and chemical air purifier. By placing the powerful new fan in the center of the redesigned filters, seals and housing – IQAir has achieved what for many is a dream come true. We all want the cleanest air possible, but we also want the lifestyle advantage of a quiet indoor environment. Now with the New Edition GC MultiGas you really can have both – the cleanest air and the quiet you need for a good night's sleep.
There was a lot to like about IQAir's original GC MultiGas. Now, with 32% less perceived noise, 20% longer filter life and 21% more clean air – there is even more to like about the New Edition GC MultiGas. At $1,199 it isn't cheap, but it is definitely a case of "you get what you pay for" – and in this case you are getting the very best gas and chemical air purifier in the world today. When you are the best in your category you get to be a little pricey, they are still in line with the higher end competitor pricing. This is why we can't do anything other than award the New Edition GC MultiGas from IQAir with a Best Buy Award!
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- Looks – it's really quite nice looking.
- Functionality – it's all there and much more.
- Price – While it is priced in the upper range of the category they are the best and more than that they retain their value. A used IQAir machine sells for more than all the rest of the competitions used equivalents combined. That's saying something.
- Build Quality – A solid machine that will take a beating.
- Support & Warranty – Outstanding all the way.


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Quality Awards IV: It's a tie--EMC and NetApp share enterprise array honors
In the four years we've conducted our Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for enterprise arrays, we've never had co-winners ... until now. EMC Corp. rode to the top on very strong scores in the product features and reliability sections, while co-winner NetApp was a model of consistency.
| In our closest Quality Awards finish yet, EMC and NetApp tied for first, with Hitachi Data Systems and Hewlett-Packard only a few fractions of a point behind.
In the four years we've conducted our Diogenes Labs–Storage magazine Quality Award for enterprise arrays we've never had co-winners until EMC Corp. and NetApp tied for first place this year.
EMC has risen steadily in this survey and enters the winner's circle for the first time. Similarly, NetApp rose from prior disappointing results in the enterprise array category to join EMC at the top. Both companies posted overall scores of 6.53 on the survey's 1.0 to 8.0 scoring scale. NetApp is on a roll after winning top honors in the most recent NAS survey for its enterprise and midrange systems. Hitachi Data Systems Corp., the winner of all three previous enterprise array awards, fell to third place with a score of 6.50. And to further emphasize what a horse race this year's competition was, Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. trailed Hitachi by a mere 0.01 of a point. IBM Corp. finished fifth with a 6.39.
The competition was close across the board (see "Products in the survey," below). Our survey includes five sections and within those sections we had four different companies post the high score (see "About the survey," below). EMC was the only company to win two categories: product features and product reliability. Surprisingly, previously dominant Hitachi Data Systems didn't win a single section. Sun Microsystems Inc. (sixth) and 3PAR Inc. (seventh) were the other two companies that didn't win a category, although Sun had a respectable 6.32 overall finish. 3PAR, in its first year as a finalist, experienced just how brutally competitive this category can be. While its 5.94 final score indicates strong user satisfaction, it was the only company to finish below 6.0, coming in last in all categories.
Average scores were slightly higher than last year, a trend with recent surveys. EMC's and NetApp's winning score of 6.53 was the highest overall tally we've seen in any of our enterprise surveys. In last year's survey, 30% of EMC respondents reported having more than 200TB of data, earning the firm the designation as the group's "heavy lifter." While 30.5% of EMC users topped the 200TB mark this year, Hitachi Data Systems nudged past EMC to claim the "heavy lifter" crown with 30.7% of its respondents having that amount of data. Across the board, large-scale sites increased significantly. All but one of the vendors in the survey had at least 20% of its users in the 200TB-plus range, the exception being 3PAR with 5% (one user).
Sales-force competence
The sales-cycle experience plays an important role and often lays the foundation for the ensuing user experience. Scores for the sales-force competence section of our survey generally correlate closely with overall results, but not this time. HP, which placed fourth overall, ranked highest for its sales force with a 6.43. NetApp wasn't far behind with a 6.39, followed by Hitachi Data Systems (6.38) and EMC (6.35). In this section, we asked users to tell us their experience regarding sales-force knowledge, flexibility and negotiability.
For many users, the sales process often involves a reseller and the product manufacturer. "We go through a reseller, but usually the reseller brings in resources from Hitachi," says Bryan Moore, storage manager for enterprise IT operations at Scripps Networks in Knoxville, TN. But even with a reseller in the picture, the vendor still plays a pivotal role. "Whenever we have anything outside of normal growth," says Moore, "we bring [Hitachi] in and they assess what our needs are and try to create the best possible fit."
James Odak, senior global systems engineer at Chicago's Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., worked with both his reseller and HP to acquire the company's StorageWorks XP10000 and XP12000 arrays. His reseller "brought in the HP guy to help them out with the sale," he says. "They did a good job." Odak had a good idea of what Wrigley needed, but used his sales resources to confirm his choices. "I kind of tell them what I really need and they just sanity-proof it," he says.
HP's sales-force competence score was the lowest high score of any survey section. Yet no vendor knocked the cover off the ball in any particular area. Most vendors did well on the statement "My vendor's sales support team is knowledgeable," with NetApp receiving the highest score. The statement also provided EMC with its highest category score (6.58). HP received its highest score (6.63) for "My sales rep is flexible."
Product features
Wrigley's Odak has found his two HP XP systems slightly tougher to use than HP's midrange EVA line. "The EVA is extremely easy to manage--the XP takes a bit of understanding and knowledge before you can figure it well," he notes. Still, keeping the XPs up and running is hardly onerous for Odak. "Unless you're changing or adding disk constantly, there really isn't a whole lot to operation," he says.
Scores above 7.0 were hard to come by in this survey, but EMC came very close in this section with a 6.98 for "This product scales to meet my needs." EMC users apparently value the product's features in total better than its individual attributes, as it scored a 6.86 for "Overall, this product's features meet my needs." Individual responses to its snapshot, mirroring and replication features were solid, but not as high.
NetApp placed second in the section with a 6.57, and received its best section score for "This product's snapshot features meet my needs." Users also like the product's scalability, giving it a 6.73. In the reverse of EMC, NetApp users gave higher marks to individual features than to the overall system.
"It's been great," says Bates College's Bauer, referring to the overall feature set of his dual NetApp FAS3040s, but he's particularly impressed with the boxes' data protection features. "The snapshot takes five seconds at most; to start and stop the database takes three or four minutes," he notes.
One statement in this section, "This product is interoperable with other vendors," received lower scores relative to other areas across the board. EMC had the highest score of the group with a 6.73, while NetApp had its lowest section score (6.19). Only 3PAR fared worse with a 5.94.
Initial product quality
Again, how well a vendor works with its local resellers can make a big difference. "There was a NetApp engineer and one of the local engineers," says Bauer, describing his FAS3040 installations. Moore at Scripps Networks had a similar experience with the role his vendors and reseller played for the installation of his Hitachi Data Systems and 3PAR arrays. "Both are very involved in installation, and they don't leave until we're happy," he says.
NetApp apparently has the best out-of-box experience, receiving its highest section scores for "This product was installed without defects" (6.77) and "This product was easy to get up and running" (6.57). NetApp also had the highest score for "This product is easy to use" (6.49).
EMC trailed closely in most areas of this section, registering its highest score for "This product was installed without defects" (6.76). If EMC had an Achilles' heel in this section, it appears to be related to the statement "This product requires very little vendor intervention." Its 5.91 score was a rare sub-6.0 score for EMC in the entire survey. With a 6.0 or higher score on this statement, EMC would have been the outright survey winner. Of course, a higher score on any question would have pushed EMC beyond NetApp to be the outright winner, but this is the most obvious example of where the company was oh-so-close.
The statement "This product delivers good value for the money," is normally a bellwether to the overall order of finish. But this time, the results were somewhat upside down. Hitachi Data Systems was deemed the "best value" by its users with a 6.48 for this statement, and Sun was second with a 6.46. (Sun re-brands Hitachi's systems). HP, another Hitachi OEM, placed third with a 6.34. NetApp was fourth with a 6.30, followed by IBM (6.27), EMC (6.23) and 3PAR (5.88).
Despite its unimpressive ranking in this section, Moore likes 3PAR's value. "It's pretty cut and dry; when you buy it, features that are separate or unavailable in other platforms are simply built in," he notes.
EMC scored the only 7.0-plus rating in the entire survey for "This product experiences very little downtime" (7.08). Hitachi came very close with a 6.97 for the statement "This product requires very few unplanned patches." NetApp also narrowly missed a 7.0 score for "This product meets my service-level requirements" (6.96).
The statement "Patches can be applied nondisruptively" has been a key indicator in the past and was so again. EMC had the highest score on this statement (6.77), narrowly beating Hitachi's 6.75. NetApp trailed with a 6.60, but that was still good enough to be in the top three.
"The XP is rock solid," says Wrigley's Odak. "We've never had any downtime whatsoever due to the XP."
"It's never been down since it's been powered up," says Moore of one of Scripps Networks' Hitachi Lightning arrays, which was first fired up four years ago. Scripps' 3PAR InServ Storage Server S400 hasn't achieved that kind of longevity yet, but in its nine months or so of operation, Moore reports they "haven't had any problems with it."
The statement "The vendor provides comprehensive upgrade guidance" often generates below-average responses. This was true for most vendors, but EMC and NetApp bucked the trend with ratings of 6.77 and 6.76, respectively.
Technical support
According to our survey, Hitachi has the most knowledgeable support group. It received a 6.89 for the statement "Vendor's support personnel are knowledgeable." EMC was second with a 6.61. EMC's only other slip in the survey was for "Problems rarely require escalation," where its 5.96 was solid but still below the 6.0-plus norm. Nevertheless, it received a 6.30 for "Problems are resolved in a timely manner."
Enhancing tech support with services like automated phone-home services helps to resolve problems and avoid bigger ones. "So far, we haven't had to have any onsite service," says Bates College's Bauer of his two NetApp arrays. Bauer says NetApp's phone-home monitoring service sent replacement disks before the suspect disks actually failed.
Odak had a similar experience with his HP XP systems' phone-home support. "As soon as something happens, they know it right away and they're on it right away," he says.
Co-winners EMC and NetApp achieved their identical scores through different means. EMC rode to the top on very strong scores in the product features and reliability sections, while NetApp was a model of consistency. NetApp was the only company to finish in the top three of every section, even though it had the high score in only one section. Nearly every vendor demonstrated some positive attributes in this survey, as well a few areas where they would probably like a do-over. That's a good reason to do it again next year.


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After endless hours of study by the Loveland Utilities Commission, and three evenings of City Council review at study sessions, the question of how high to ratchet city water rates likely will be settled Tuesday.
The expected result will mean average monthly water bills for home and business owners will more than double by 2022, part of a package that will fund nearly $50 million in water system improvements.
Loveland's water rates have been flat-lined for about a decade while those in other cities in the region have climbed steeply. Greeley's residential rates, for example, are already twice those paid by Lovelanders.
The city's water treatment plant is near capacity and must be expanded to accommodate growth, and water lines are crumbling at a rate that makes replacement the only choice.
Councilors have spent a year debating the philosophically opposed options of long-term debt to fund the projects or the pay-as-you-go plan that has historically guided public works projects.
What: Loveland City Council regular meeting.
When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Where: City Hall's Council Chamber, 500 E. Third St., televised on city cable channel 16.
What councilors will consider on Tuesday is a hybrid, a plan that includes:
A 20-year external loan, taking advantage of historically low interest rates, to raise $10 million of the projects' costs and make it immediately available.
An eight-year, $6 million loan to the water utility from its electric power twin, to be repaid partly with an annual appropriation of $750,000 from the city's general fund.
Rate increases that will begin at 13 percent in 2014, shrink to 9 percent from 2015 to 2019, and to 8 percent from 2020 to 2022.
The average monthly residential water bill would climb from $24.25 this year, to slightly more than $53 in 10 years.
For business customers, the average bill would rise from $78.56 to more than $182.
Councilors had originally scheduled the public hearing on rate increases for their Feb. 5 meeting. The absence of a member, and the prospect of conducting the discussion past midnight, led Mayor Cecil Gutierrez to seek councilors' consent to reschedule action on the issue.
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IG Online kicks off its annual holiday series with a feature on gymnastics superstar McKayla Maroney, the 2011 world champion on vault and double medalist from the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Recovering from recent surgery on her left tibia, Olympic gold and silver medalist McKayla Maroney told IG that her holiday plans include spending Christmas with her family and riding in the famed Rose Bowl Parade on New Year's Day.
Maroney has enjoyed several months of touring and media attention since she won a team gold medal and vault silver medal at this summer's London Olympic Games. She attended Saturday's holiday show at All Olympia Gymnastics Center in Los Angeles, where she trains under coaches Galina Marinova and Artur Akopyan.
Because of her injury, Maroney did not perform in the show, but signed autographs and posed for photos with participants and fans.
Maroney, who turned 17 on Dec. 9, said she and her family are already in the holiday spirit.
"We got our Christmas tree, of course," she said. "That's something we always do as a family. We go and spend about an hour trying to pick out the perfect tree. Ours is 13 feet. It's huge and perfect, and we love it. We decorated it together, and I put up a great picture of my brother, sister and me. It's really cute."
Maroney, her younger siblings and their parents always celebrate Christmas Day together.
"On Christmas morning we pretty much just wake up and open presents from Santa," she said, noting that her sister is 6 years old. "We have a lot of fun and some family time."
Maroney and Olympic teammate Kyla Ross, a fellow Southern Californian, will ride in the first float ("it's ginormous!") at the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena on New Year's Day, which coincides with Maroney's parents' wedding anniversary.
Eager to return to training and competition in 2013, Maroney said her New Year's resolution is to remain determined and focused on her goals.
"It's probably to always follow my heart and never give up on something I want till I go for it," she told IG. "That's pretty much always my resolution – to follow my dreams."
Read an in-depth interview with Maroney in the January/February 2013 issue of International Gymnast magazine, and "Focus Forward," IG's cover story/interview with Ross, in the November 2012 issue of IG. To subscribe or order back issues, click here.
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I got a bit of a late start on my costume this year, but luckily my friend Marc & I had already decided on Evil Dead 2 last Halloween while creating our They Live costumes. I've been wanting to try and recreate a version of these hats from a painting I did a while back, so it was a great excuse to give it a shot! I went as the cabin, Marc went as Necronomicon, and we bloodied up my husband to play Ash.
If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, you may have already seen some of these, but I decided to add a few work in progress shots. Hope you have a Happy Halloween!
Marc created the foam-core structure (complete with a light & switch), while I built up the structure of a vintage hat and painted the cabin. Add a hot glue gun, tiny trees, a matchbox car, tease up the hair, and Presto!
Marc built his book with a skull mask as a base.. Yep, it actually opens & closes!
Marc did Wes' blood, while I used that cheap haircolor/spray you can get at a Halloween shop (it actually worked, surprisingly!) to spray his hair dark (he's normally a redhead)
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