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Traditional Witchcraft training Course and development group
The Coven welcomes new members once a year. We are always interested to hear from sincere followers of the craft. In the first instance those new to us will follow the traditional 13 moons integrating into the group. They will become a part of a close knit magical group working and practising together, and will also be invited to participate in most of the coven's rituals. After the first year they will be eligible to apply to join the main coven.
We stress the importance of connecting with nature around us, with local deities and spirits of the land and how to link to that flow of life, to the tides of life and to the that vast web that connects us all and will nearly always practice outside, in the woods. All this is linked to the turning of the year and the elements. We can only do this by sharing our experiences and encouraging the those new to us to develop their own magic and connect with it in the way of our group.
We will introduce you to the basics of witchcraft and, as we will also be working towards you being a member of the coven, we will also be introducing you to our ways. We are assuming that if you are interested in joining us you want to work in a group situation and part of our training is aimed at creating group energies between us all so be prepared to be open, honest and accepting of others. Everyone is also encouraged to practise alone and to share their experiences. Our coven is a group of like minded people who aim to work with a group mind, in rapport with each other and who share their thoughts and feelings and development within the craft. Our members come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences.
We usually meet once a week for rituals, social events, discussions or for our development circle.
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- (adj) closed or secured with a long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material. "he sits by a barred window"
- (adj) marked with bands of colour or light. "he spotted a barred owl"
- (verb) fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars. "she bolted and barred the door"
- (verb) prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something or from going somewhere. "journalists had been barred from covering the elections"
- (verb) forbid someone from undertaking (an activity). "the job she loved had been barred to her"
- (verb) exclude (something) from consideration. "nothing is barred in the crime novel"
- (verb) prevent or delay (an action) by objection
- (verb) mark (something) with bars or stripes. "his face was barred with light"
Barred meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning)
- सार्गल, वर्जित
Barred origin
- Middle English: from Old French barre (noun), barrer (verb), of unknown origin.
Barred in a sentence (word usage in recent Hindu newspaper)
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Briefly: RIM defends PlayBook; It Gets Better employee video; white iPhone 4Research in Motion executives spoke out in defense of the BlackBerry PlayBook, calling it "superior," while Apple employees from the LGBT community have posted a video for the It Gets Better project. Finally, Apple has again confirmed that the white iPhone 4 will launch this spring.
Speaking to Bloomberg, RIM co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis took issue with initial reviews of the 7-inch tablet that criticized the device as unfinished and having been rushed to market.
I dont think thats fair, said Balsillie in a television interview. Balsillie disagreed with reviewers, who had specifically drawn attention to the lack of native email and calendar applications on the PlayBook, and pointed out the 60 million BlackBerry smartphone users who can access their email on the tablet via BlackBerry Bridging functionality.
A lot of the people that want this want a secure and free extension of their BlackBerry, he added.
Balsillie remained optimistic about projected sales of the PlayBook, which goes on sale in Canada and the U.S. on Apr. 19. I like our chances for a lot of share, he said. Were very excited about where we are.
Investors reacted negatively to the critical reviews of the PlayBook, which were posted late Wednesday. Shares of RIM were down 1.66 percent at the close of market on Thursday.
Lazaridis defended the company's decision to go with a 7-inch form factor, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs has openly criticized. This is superior, he said. Its far more portable, its lighter in your hands, you can hold it for longer.
It Gets Better
As part of the It Gets Better campaign to end suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth, employees at Apple have created a video with their stories about coming out and overcoming adversity, offering a rare glimpse into the personal lives of employees of the notoriously secretive company.
In recent years, Apple has been rated as the top "gay-friendly" tech company, according to one survey.
In 2008, the company made a rare political statement by donating $100,000 to the campaign opposing Proposition 8, a California measure that sought to ban gay marriage.
"Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a persons fundamental rights including the right to marry should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8," the company said in a statement announcing the donation.
In January, a controversial report by Valleywag outed Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook as "the most powerful gay person in tech."
White iPhone 4
Apple on Thursday confirmed reports that the white version of the iPhone 4 will be arriving this spring, as noted by the The Wall Street Journal. After repeated delays, the Cupertino, Calif., iPhone maker indicated last October that the device would be delayed until spring 2011.
AppleInsider reported in March that Apple remained on track to ship the white iPhone 4 by the end of April. Shortly after, Apple VP Phil Schiller reiterated the company's plan for a spring release of the device.
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BEN TRE (VNS) — Two people were killed and four were injured in a collision between an ambulance and a motorbike at Mo Cay Nam District's Thanh Thoi A Commune in Ben Tre Province.
The accident happened at about 3pm on Wednesday in the Mekong River Delta Province, when the ambulance, which was travelling on Co Chien Bridge, crashed into a motorbike, the provincial police said.
The ambulance, which was carrying a child from Tra Vinh Province to hospital in HCM City for treatment, and the motorbike were travelling in the same direction.
The ambulance hit the road divider, overturned and burst into flames.
A seven-year-old boy in the ambulance, who was a blood cancer patient named Dang Trung Kien, and the motorbike rider, Nguyen Van Ut, 49, were killed in the collision.
Local residents took the victims out of the ambulance before it became engulfed in fire.
The injured people -- the ambulance driver, a nurse and the boy's father and grandmother -- were taken to the local hospital for treatment.
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Trianium Brand Black Metal Fidget Spinner
WeFidget's Original Mini Metal-Electro Spinner
"The Chunk" by Stealth Fidget Spinners
The trend is still alive! Fidget spinners had their fifteen minutes of fame, but despite being thrown out of the limelight, they're still fantastic little gadgets that actually have a few surprising benefits that you may not be aware of. They're not just toys for kids, they're the perfect cure to alleviate boredom, and keep your hands busy when you're out on the road. Here are the best fidget spinners from the four corners of the internet, and why they're awesome.
The Best Fidget Spinner
1Trianium Brand Black Metal Fidget Spinner
Crafted of 100% metal-alloy blends, this simple spinner is easy to flick, spin, or perform tricks on. Steel ball bearings give you seamless motion without jamming up, while the black and red design will be eye-catching while in motion. This model from Trianium Brand is compact enough to fit in the back pocket of your jeans and extremely fun to use. Designed for adults and children.
- BrandTrianium
- Weight1.44 ounces
2Infinity Carbon i7 Fidget Spinner
If you're OCD about specific design, you're going to fall in love with this spinner. Crafted from smooth, black carbon, this Infinity Carbon i7 spinner contours to any style, while remaining ergonomic and compact enough to slip into the pocket of your coat or jeans. You get up to five minutes of consistent spinning from a single go, plus silent operation if your child wants to use it in the classroom (they've been banned in most schools).
- BrandInfinity Fidget Spinners
- Weight2.4 ounces
3"The Chunk" by Stealth Fidget Spinners
Do you want a desk piece with function? This fidget spinner features silent operation, 3-5 minute spin durations, plus a 100% "Happiness Guarantee" by the manufacturer. "The Chunk" spinner comes in brushed stainless steel finish, and is beautifully compact, or classified as a micro spinner. We love Stealth's products and the small business feel, and the foam-padded case this model comes in.
- BrandStealth Fidget Spinners
- Weight1.9 ounces
4NUBARKO Fidget Spinner Toy
NUBARKO looks like it walked right out of a Marvel movie. Ceramic stainless steel hybrid qualities make up a fantastic weight and power, while the mellow grooves give you a unique design when you finally spin this into action. This style is fit for adults and children alike. Users absolutely love the entrancing design that captivates their imagination while spinning, reporting that this is the best stress-reducing spinner they've ever used.
- BrandNUBARKO
- Weight3.04 ounces
5Original Dragon Spinner
Desk piece, conversation piece, and epic fun all in one package – this four-pronged spinner goes against the grain. An all-metal body with boosted bearings for optimal spinning capabilities melt away your stress and look fantastic. This Original Dragon spinner has some weight to it, and fits inside of its customs case for shelf display when not in use. The compact size makes this a perfect to spin for hours.
- BrandDragonSpinners
- Weight4 ounces
6Mydeal Smooth Bearing Five-Prong Spinner
Mydeal Smooth Bearing Five-Prong spinner dares to be different. Five prongs of sturdy brushed metal give you excellent weight and balance on your 1-3 minute spin lengths. This spinner comes in a protective pouch, and comes at the absolute perfect size. These bearings make for fast speed, and this brand boasts seven other models (some with six prongs) on the Amazon sales page. There's a design and color variation for anyone; perfect for adults and children
- BrandMyDeal Products
- Weight3.68 ounces
7WeFidget's Original Mini Metal-Electro Spinner
If you're all about the function and less about the flair, this model comes with sleek black metal on two prongs, allowing you to reap the rewards of stress reduction and focus enhancement, all without the flashy design. WeFidget's Original Mini is perfect for concealment due to its small size, solid black appearance, and quiet operation. Easy access allows you to twist off the WF branded finger holster button, and replace the ultra smooth bearings as time goes on. Available in multiple other colors.
- BrandWeFidget
- Weight3.2 ounces
8"The Hornet" Metal Fidget Spinner
If you're going to spin, do it in style. All-metal and high-speed bearings spin your three metal prongs, while promising four to six minutes of continuous operation. You get a 100% satisfaction guarantee, along with a brushed-looking silver case to keep it in when not in use. Quiet operation, complimented by sleek and stylish design and a quality build weight, make "The Hornet" the ultimate fidget spinner for adults.
- BrandKrunset
- Weight3.36 ounces
Fidget Spinner Buying Guide & FAQ
There aren't a whole lot to the physical build of fidget spinners, but there are some benefits and tips on how to use them that you may not be aware of (take it from a guy who has two in his desk at all times). Let's get into it.
Q: What is a Fidget Spinner?
A: These devices spin to perform tricks, entertain, and even start conversation. Fidget spinners were marketed as toys for kids, but they're so much more than that. Essentially, you have three soft points that operate on ball bearings to spin, giving your hands something to do while you're between tasks, or just plain bored. They have psychological benefits, which we'll get into in just a second.
Benefits of a Fidget Spinner
- Greater Focus: Fidget spinners give you something to focus on, which can actually increase your concentration. What quickly began as a marketing tactic on children and their toys evolved into a little device to help you focus, and it's been proven to work. In some instances, it's able to increase your creativity. Focus and creativity rely on each other.
- Anxiety Relief: One issue with anxiety is the constant dread. There's constant panic, there's constant worry, but then, you get one more constant thing in your life - a fidget spinner. Focusing on the movement and colors (some models come with lights embedded in the spokes) allows your mind to rest, relax, and focus on one constant item that doesn't come with negative attributes.
- ADHD: Attention deficit hyperactive disorder affects hundreds of thousands of school-aged children, but that's where the conversation usually stops. Nobody talks about the fact that adults also suffer from ADHD, and that they require solutions as well, besides medication. Utilizing a fidget spinner when you notice your attention drifting can lead to better concentration, work performance, and can be used as a coping mechanism.
- Autism Coping Mechanism: When your children or relatives are suffering from autism, there are number difficulties they face on a normal day, things that we know nothing about. Focus and consistency are able to help them calm down in difficult situations, and focus their energy on something exciting.
Types of Fidget Spinners
They all serve a similar purpose, but there are different types of fidget spinners that come with varying reasons for purchase. We've boiled them down to three main categories:
- Decorative: There are some really cool fidget spinners that make excellent decorations, such as this bonus spinner that wasn't on our list, among others. Many of them showcase your favorite designs from television, movies, and iconic book series, and make excellent miniature decorations for your desk, that you can actually use when you're feeling bored.
- Light Up: Some spinners come with LED lights throughout (and some of them are programmable through micro USB connection to make your own designs). These are the spinners people usually use to start a conversation or draw attention, and while they provide function, they're mainly meant to be flashy.
- Pure Function: These are simple, basic, and that usually reflects in the cost of these models. They don't come with licensing for popular brands, so you can get them for relatively cheap. These spin, are comfortable, and it ends there.
Tips When Using a Fidget Spinner
There are a couple of tricks you can master with a little bit of time, and a whole lot of effort. These make fidget spinners a lot more fun, and give you or your children the opportunity to challenge one another, and show off some exceptional dexterity.
Hand Transfer Trick - This one looks like you're a real master of fidget spinning. You spin as normal, and keep your eyes on the spinner. All you're going to do is focus on the ball of your thumb (which should be on the bottom of the spinner) and gently toss the spinner from one hand to the other. By focusing on your thumbs, you're able to create a beginning and ending point, which really sums up the entire trick without making a spectacle of it. Over time, increase the distance between your hands, and, for an added trick, lower the receiving hand to create a multi-directional throw.
FInger Transfer Trick - Similar to the hand transfer trick, except you're not going from hand to hand. Follow the golden rule of fidget spinning - focus on the starting point, and the ending point. Separate your fingers after you begin spinning, and gently toss the spinner into the air, (about 3-4 inches above your hand), and have it land on your neighboring fingertip. If you get good at this method, you can do it rapidly.
Pro Toss - This one is a lot of fun, because it requires greater motion. Spin, and turn your spinner vertical - this trick has to be done quickly before momentum dies down. While it's spinning and between your fingers vertically, raise your hand up as high as you can, and drop it - quickly bend your knees and squat down, using your other hand to capture it without ruining the spin.
Fidget Spinners aren't Going Anywhere
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- Miwon Pork Bulgogi Marinade Sauce (spicy) are imported directly from Daesang Coperation Korea, a traditional brand of 30 years Chung Jung One.
- Detail selection of Korean pear, apple combine with 100% fermented sauce create a deep, delicious flavor yet still retain rich nutrients.
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This week's SLIAC Game of the Week will be a key matchup for postseason berths in men's soccer as Spalding University visits Greenville University. The two teams battling for position in the standings will face each other on Saturday, October 21 at 2 p.m. in Greenville, Ill.
Greenville University 'PANTHERS'
Greenville begins the week with a 7-8 overall record and a 2-3 record in the SLIAC. They will face Iowa Wesleyan on Wednesday before taking on Spalding. The Panthers currently sit in 7th place in the standings but are just one game out of 5th with the top four teams making the tournament.
The Panthers have netted 36 goals this year, second-most in the SLIAC, and average 14.8 shots per game. Caleb Carpenter leads the team with 20 points, scoring a team-high nine goals this season. Adam Jones has totaled six goals and seven assists while Edgar Bueno has three goals and seven assists. In net, Nick Holland holds a 2.18 goals-against average with 58 saves and two shutouts.
Spalding University 'GOLDEN EAGLES'
Spalding is currently 6-7 overall and 3-2 in the SLIAC. The Golden Eagles have won three straight and will host Blackburn on Wednesday at 1 p.m. before taking on Greenville. Spalding is currently tied for 5th place in the SLIAC standings.
Spalding has scored a SLIAC high 42 goals this season. They are averaging 16.8 shots per game and lead the conference with a .193 shot percentage. Kornell Hilliard has 28 points this season, on 11 goals and six assists. Trustun Ashburn and Mirza Ugarak have each tallied six goals. Nick Lucas has seen the majority of the time in net, with 44 saves and a 1.69 goals-against average.
Last Meeting - October 19, 2016 in Louisville, Ky. - BOX SCORE
Game Notes
- Greenville leads the all-time series against Spalding 6-1-1.
- Spalding captured the program's first-ever SLIAC regular season title last year, going 9-0.
- Greenville is looking to make their first SLIAC Tournament since 2015.
- Spalding has won three consecutive games, tied for the second-longest active winning streak in the league.
- Greenville's Edgar Bueno and Adam Jones are tied for the SLIAC lead with seven assists.
- Spalding's Kornell Hilliard leads the SLIAC in points with 28 and is second in goals with 11.


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A model home is a silent salesperson. Merchandising is a simple way of drawing in your target buyer. Models are intended to influence homebuyers by reinforcing their lifestyle desires, creating memory points and triggering their emotional buttons. This creates a sense of urgency in the buyer and solidifies their decision in choosing the builder. It also provides value to them by showing them what an otherwise blank canvas COULD look like (with a little help).
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Increase the perceived value of your product with homebuyers.
Demonstrates to the buyer how space could be utilized, leaving less to the imagination.
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Maintains continuity with your company, brand, and image.
- Creates an awareness throughout the targeted market that will create and drive more traffic to your model homes.
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It is an interior designers job and sole purpose on this earth to create beautiful living and working spaces. That is what we do.
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Aside from that, potential buyers will be greeted with a fully furnished home, leaving less to the imagination. We do this to help give them a "creative prompt" and get their mind working on the possibilities this space can have and the way it looks with new, modern furniture.
By incorporating professional interior design into your home staging and model home projects, you will maximize return, peak interest, sell faster, and improve your brand image. A win/win.
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Job Opportunities at Fabtech Projects & Engineers, Pune.
Applications are invited from suitable candidates by Fabtech Projects & Engineersfor various vacant positions in Pune, Maharashtra. This resource briefly describes the key skills, education and experience needed to apply for the positions.
Job opportunities at Fabtech Projects & Engineers.
Fabtech Projects & Engineers invites applications from suitable candidates for the following vacant positions in Pune:
-Site Engineers: Mechanical & Civil:
Number of positions available: 15.
Education: Diploma / Bachelors in Civil / Mechanical Engineering from a recognised Institute.
Experience required: 5 years in site fabrication of LPG Mounded Vessels, Pressure Vessels, Horton Spheres.
Skills: Not mentioned.
-Planning Manager:
Number of positions available: 2.
Education: Degree/Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from a recognised University or Institute.
Skills: Not mentioned.
-Receptionist/ Front office executive:
Number of positions available: 1.
The position is available only for female candidate.
Education: Graduate in any discipline.
Experience: More than 2 years of relevant work experience.
Skills: - Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent command over English.
- Good telephone etiquettes.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Knowledge of MS Office.
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Today we are hosting an event we call Honeyfest! It's a celebration of local pollinators, bees in particular. For this occasion, Sunflower's owner, Ana Gourlay, has written us a post regarding the danger that our pollinators face and what that means to people!
Here she is...
As many of you already know, there has been a dramatic decline in the honey bee population over the last decade. Colony Collapse Disorder (the loss of entire hives) has dramatically affected commercial honey bee keepers and the crops pollinated by these bees. Our modern agricultural methods (huge plots of land designated to a single crop which generally flower all at one time - think apple trees & blueberries) require a massive number of pollinators to fertilize the flowers in order for the plant to make "fruit." Many farms rent bee colonies to pollinate their crops.
It is estimated that every third bite of food we take is dependent upon bee pollination. With a shortage of bees comes the growing concern of crop shortages and higher food prices.
Honey bees, though a welcome guest, are not native to America (they're from Europe). Of the 4,000 species of bees in North America, more than 90 percent lead solitary lives (they do not live in a colony and thus are not easily transported for agricultural purposes). The foraging range of native bees ranges from 500 feet to half-mile (depending on the size of the bee). Creating and preserving a good nesting habitat and providing a variety of sequentially flowering food sources can encourage the growth of our native bee population and other native pollinators (butterflies, moths, beetles, etc).
A few helpful hints to encourage pollinators:
1. Don't use pesticides on your lawn or garden.
Pollen samples collected by scientists have shown an average of 9 pesticides per sample, the high being 21 pesticides. Chances are if it harms "bugs" it harms bees.
2. Soften your borders
A nice mowed lawn is attractive, but it leaves no flowers for the bees. Can you leave a strip of "weeds" at the edge of your yard? Some common lawn volunteers are actually some of our most nutritious foods and useful medicines. Join us next Saturday (August 24th) here at Sunflower and herbalist Nathan Searles will tell you more about the virtues of dandelions, yarrow, red clover, and burdock.
3. Plant flowers
As any perennial gardener will tell you, one of the greatest challenges is creating a flower garden that is always in bloom. Flowers come and go in very quick succession. By selecting sequentially flowering species and long blooming flowers, you not only ensure the beauty of your garden, you also feed the bees!
Thank you for your expertise, Ana! Those are some helpful and manageable tips for homeowners who would like to help our bee population. We hope our readers enjoyed this post, and we would love to see you all soon. Stop in sometime today to learn more (and sample some delicious honey treats!), or sign up for the free class Ana mentioned by speaking with an employee, calling 524-6334, or emailing your name and number to Julia(at)SunflowerNH(dot)com.
* References: Attracting Native Pollinators - The Xerces Society. Post by Ana Gourlay.


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School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies
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Subject Areas: English Literature
Theresa is a member of UCLan's Institute for Black Atlantic Research, and researches race and performance, theatre history and culture. She is currently working on a second book for Edinburgh, on Transatlantic Theatre, as well as an article about African American actor Ira Aldridge who toured Britain and Europe between 1824 and his death in 1867. Theresa is also collaborating on several projects around Irish playwright Dion Boucicault's nineteenth-century melodramatic productions.
Theresa is a member of the of Literature and Cultures Research Group.
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Theresa is the Recruitment and Resources Manager, and Academic Development Lead for the School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies. In these roles, Theresa manages the experience of students coming into UCLan and supporting them through their time here.
In her teaching, Theresa specialises in eighteenth and nineteenth century literary and theatre cultures. She guest lectures on core modules to students on our undergraduate programmes and supervises Postgraduate research projects in literature and theatre.
Theresa welcomes postgraduate proposals in any area of theatre culture from 1800-1950s. Theresa is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a qualified practitioner in Higher Education.
Theresa is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and has been a Visiting Scholar at universities in America.
In addition to her monograph on American Theatre (2011) ,Theresa has also published articles on popular theatre of the nineteenth century, particularly pantomime and burlesque, race, gender, sexuality and performance – a list of her publications is available on this website.
Theresa is currently writing a book on Transatlantic theatre for Edinburgh University Press (2018) and completing articles on Irish playwright Dion Boucicault, in collaboration with Professor Lisa Merrill at Hofstra, New York. She is also working on a project around nineteenth century African American actor, Ira Aldridge.
Theresa actively supports the American studies research community and was Treasurer of the British Association for American Studies Executive Committee (2008-2012). Theresa is also an active member of the European Association for American Studies.
Theresa obtained her first degree and her PhD (2003) at Manchester Metropolitan University and has been teaching at UCLan since 2005.
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Theresa has published several articles on The Conversation, to read them please follow the links below.
Selected Publications
"In Dahomey in England: A (Negative) Transatlantic Performance Heritage." Atlantic Studies, Volume 13, Issue 2, pages 265-281, February 2016
"The Ghost Dance: (In)justice and Native American Performance." European Views of the United States, Amanda Gilroy and Marietta Messmer, eds. Volume 8, April 2016, 184-204
'Sexual Transgression on the American Stage: Clyde Fitch, Sapho and the "American Girl"', Literature Compass, Volume 10, Issue 10, pages 735–747, October 2013
American Theatre: History, Content, Form. Edinburgh University Press (2011)
'The Art of Theatre in Nineteenth-Century America: George L. Fox, Pantomime and Artaud,' Literature Compass, Volume 7, Issue 9, September 2010, pp. 753–762
'A Pair of Handsome Legs: From Breeches to Burlesque on nineteenth-century American stages', Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 15:1, 2009 pp.27-44
'Introduction: Expanding American Theatre History,' Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 15:1, 2009 pp.6-10
Building on her research interests in literary culture, Theresa is part of a team developing a series of public engagement talks in literature, involving visits to major literary sites, for example, the Lake District and Haworth. If you are interested in attending these talks, please contact Theresa for further information.
Theresa guest lectures in teaching Literary Culture of 1660-1789, and Romantics to Decadents: Literary Culture 1789-1900 as well as running the detective/forensic fiction modules, CSI: Lit. As Academic Development Lead, Theresa manages the experience of students across the School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies.
In addition to publishing on American theatre, Theresa is developing extended research projects, on Transatlantic Theatre 1702-1914, a study of Dion Boucicault (with Professor Lisa Merrill, Hofstra, New York) and an assessment of Charles Dickens as a playwright and performer. Theresa also gives public talks on literary culture, particularly on Charles Dickens, as well as theatre culture.
With the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, Theresa has been involved with the organisation of several events, including "Lost Children" in May 2015, featuring Black British writer, Professor Caryl Philips.
Theresa has also given talks at the Great Northern Creative Festival, hosted at UCLan, to the UCLan Student Union, for Black History Month, and participated in a series of performances with Lancaster Theatre Productions: "A Taste of Dickens, and "Dickens at Christmas," to celebrate the bicentennial of Dickens' birth.
Theresa regularly attends academic conferences to present her work and has organised international conferences, including the British Association for American Studies Annual Conference (2010) and Theatre and performance (2013).


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Bret Fetzer writes plays and fairy tales. His collections of original fairy tales, Petals & Thorns and Tooth & Tongue, were published by Rampant Books in Seattle, WA, and are available through www.pistilbooks.net. His plays (including The Three Policemen, Planet Janet, The Story of the Bull, and Scream Queen) have been produced around the U.S. Seattle Children's Theatre has commissioned him to write an adaptation of the picture book Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like, currently scheduled to be produced in 2004.
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Opinion: Hats off to the whistle-blowers
Thank you, whistle-blowers
Thanks to the whistle-blowers who have had the courage to come forward. Whether you agree or disagree with the motives and the legality of the one who blew the whistle on the NSA, I hope you agree, based on what we know about the IRS and the snooping into conservative lives, we need to know what is going on when it intrudes on our lives, especially in the era of Obamaland, where all is political, and motives are to change America as we know it, and damn the Constitution. Now we will find out what was done or not done regarding the killing of four Americans in Benghazi; we will learn who specifically targeted conservatives and leaked information to a liberal group; we will learn who was targeted, if anybody, regarding NSA surveillance, and we will learn what is going on in other agencies designed to promote the political agenda of this administration. There is a common thread running through all of this. Latest poll, 56 percent of the people have lost trust in the government. This number is bound to increase.
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6 Great Places to Eat Outdoors in Los Angeles
After a late evening of partying among L.A.'s bustling nightlife scene, there's nothing quite like enjoying brunch outdoors to recuperate.
The city is abundant with upscale restaurants and casual eateries that offer outdoor seating in the various LA neighborhoods. Grab your sunglasses and a shawl to eat at one of these top al fresco spots in Los Angeles:
Adored among Los Angeles residents for its tasty California-inspired French cuisine, AOC is a prime spot for lunch and dinner. The focus is on small plates with local produce.
The house favorites are the vintner's and farmer's plates. The vintner's plate comes with rillettes, cured meats, cheese, pickles and roasted grapes, while the farmer's plate is an assortment of winter veggies, muhammara, burrata, and chickpea puree.
Those lucky enough to snag outdoor seating can enjoy the European vibe of the patio. Family-style booths allow for communal seating while smaller tables are ideal for intimate dining. Look around to find country-style windows, foliage lining the walls and a sunny sky peeking through the trees overhead. While here, make sure to sample vinos from the extensive wine list.
Dominick's gives you the feel of a New York eatery, except with the warm breeze and gorgeous views of L.A. Inside, the restaurant is themed after the Big Apple circa the 1960s, when the Rat Pack was in its heyday. Pass by swanky booths and cool cats sipping martinis as you make your way to the outdoor seating located on the patio.
Grab a seat near the fireplace or at the outdoor bar and take in the beautiful scene: Greenery lines the red brick walls, and the tables have the feel of a traditional Italian diner– plain white tablecloths with dark wood chairs.
The food is as delectable as the environment. Traditional Italian dishes rotate according to the seasonal offerings. You might find whitefish picatta, ricotta fritters, wood-grilled artichoke, or traditional Sicilian rice balls. Keep in mind that Dominick's is only open for dinner, and you may need reservations on a busy weekend evening.
Malibu Seafood
When you arrive at Malibu Seafood, it may look like anything but a quaint dining spot, depending on where you're coming from. The place is divided into two parts: a tiny market to the right where the line to purchase fresh fish runs along the block and a counter for ordering food ready to eat.
The food offerings include bay shrimp, clam strips, fries, rice pilaf, fish tacos, and Dungeness crab, and be sure to get some house-made clam chowder and coleslaw.
Once you pick up your order at the window off to the side, you can sit down at at one of the three levels of picnic tables. The outdoor seating area is a vast patio with a magnificent view of the coast. Bright red umbrellas protect diners from the sun, and the picnic tables match to boot.
It can get quite busy, particularly during the lunchtime rush, but it's usually only a few minutes of waiting for a seat to open up.
Blending Hawaiian and Asian cuisine, A-Frame is the brainchild of Roy Choi, who has been revamping the menu in 2015 to take a more traditional approach. New items on the menu include Spam musubi, huli huli chicken, and loco moco, and brand new chefs are in the kitchen cooking up these masterpieces.
One of the most interesting facts about A-Frame is that it was once an IHOP. Despite its history as a major chain restaurant, the building is architectural beauty. Inside are high wood rafters lining the A-frame ceiling and tree-filled window views complemented by gentle, ambient lighting.
Outdoors, you'll find a more modern-looking setting with a whole lot of kitsch. Bright yellows and reds make up the frame and furnishings of the patio, and white umbrella-like lights hang overhead, providing shade during the day and lighting at night.
Cafe Pinot
Cafe Pinot has a lot to pat itself on the back for, such as a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award, but it's perhaps most loved for its outdoor seating. Set among beautiful Jacaranda trees, the patio offers a view of the Central Library, a landmark from the 1920s, as well as the sight of a small park with a charming fountain.
The cuisine here is modern Californian-French, and the menu items are based largely on what's available at the local farmers market. There's a daily rotisserie, but you can also order items like baked barramundi, pork belly, crispy veal breast and the popular "Toad in the Hole," which comes with a duck egg, French ham, pain de mi, spinach, mornay sauce, and piquillo peppers. Be aware that the patio menu can be more expensive than than the indoor menu.
Nobu Malibu
Last but not least is Nobu Malibu, a Japanese restaurant with outdoor seating right up against the edge of the beach perched over the water. As if the view weren't magnificent enough, the patio contains Japanese trees and shrubs as well as elegant light-wood tables.
Some argue that it's the best spot to watch the sunset in Los Angeles. With that being said, Nobu Malibu is immensely popular and reservations are typically necessary.
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Sedation Dentistry
What is sedation dentistry?
Sedation dentistry is the use of medications to help patients relax during dental treatment. Sedation can help increase cooperation and reduce anxiety and/or discomfort associated with a dental procedure. There are many types of sedation available for the pediatric patient.
Complete Dental Care Without The Pain
Dental treatments need not be painful. Sedation dentistry can help pediatric patients to receive comprehensive dental care without worrying about dental anxiety.
Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas)
Nitrous Oxide sometimes called laughing gas is a safe and effective sedative agent that is mixed with oxygen and inhaled through a small mask. The small mask is usually scented and fits over the nose. We offer a variety of scented noses; cherry, bubble gum, grape, and orange.
Nitrous oxide is the mildest sedative used in pediatric dentistry. It is not intended to put a patient to sleep but to place the patient in a more relaxed state. Nitrous Oxide is useful for reducing anxiety, reducing untoward movements toward dental treatment, increasing tolerance for longer procedures, reducing the gag reflex and to aid in the dental treatment of an individual with special health care needs.
Oral Conscious Sedation
When nitrous oxide sedation is not enough, oral conscious sedation or "oral sedation" can help increase cooperation and reduce any anxiety and/or discomfort associated with dental treatment. A child will drink a liquid medication chosen based upon your child's overall health, level of anxiety, and dental treatment recommendations. Most children become relaxed and/or drowsy and may drift into a light sleep from which they can be aroused easily. Unlike general anesthesia, oral sedation is not intended to make a patient unconscious or unresponsive. Some children may not experience relaxation but have an opposite reaction such as agitation or crying. These are also common responses to the medicines and may prevent us from completing the dental procedures. In any case, our staff will observe your child's response to the medications and provide assistance as needed.
General Anesthesia
Children, who are of a young age, have high anxiety, or who have special health needs and who have extensive dental decay may receive a recommendation to have their dental treatment completed in under general anesthesia.
General anesthesia renders your child completely asleep. This would be the same as if he/she was having their tonsils removed, ear tubes placed, or a hernia repaired. All necessary dental treatment is performed under an ideal setting and helps prevent the development of a lifelong fear of dentists and dental treatment. Once all of the concerns have been addressed, good dietary and home care instructions will be shared for implementation at home for a path to healthy dental habits for your child.
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The NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) was established in 1995 as a not for profit Special Health Authority which fulfils several different roles. The main purpose of the NHSLA is to provide indemnity cover for legal claims made against the NHS, which are almost always the result of cases of medical negligence. It also offers other legal and specialist advice to its members and uses the information pooled from dealing with a range of claims in order to support learning around the issues of medical negligence, litigation and improved clinical outcomes in general.
In practice, the roles of the NHSLA can be broken down as follows:
Managing Claims
The NHSLA manages claims made against NHS members and also private practitioners who provide care on behalf of the NHS. When the NHSLA feels that a claim for compensation is justified it strives to settle the claim as quickly and fairly as possible, but if it is felt that a claim is unjust it will be defended in a robust and firm manner. The NHSLA feels that this reflects not only natural justice and fairness for its members but also means that precious resources will be protected and kept for use within the wider NHS.
Resolving Claims and Disputes
The NHSLA attempts to deal with all claims as quickly and efficiently as possible. 99% of the claims it deals with are actually resolved without the necessity of going to court, something which keeps legal costs as low as possible.
Reducing Risk and Claims Moving Forward
As well as dealing with ongoing claims in a practical manner, the NHSLA uses the information it gathers in order to increase safety in the NHS and, as a consequence, reduce claims in the future. As part of this process it also provides the National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), which offers support to the NHS and its practitioners where there might be any concerns with performance levels.
As well as these practical matters, the NHSLA aims to encourage a sense of openness and transparency within the NHS, under which it is hoped that any problems will be honestly accepted and dealt with, rather than, as may have been the case in the past, being swept under the carpet.
The Annual Reports
Part of this commitment to openness is reflected in the fact that the NHSLA publishes annual reports detailing the work it has done during the previous year and setting out the amount of compensation paid out and the overall range of the costs associated with dealing with claims of medical negligence. The latest report, covering 2014/2015, was published in July of this year and, amongst a wealth of findings, it revealed that the annual cost of negligence claims to the NHS had risen to £1.1bn. In part, as highlighted by the BBC coverage of the report, it was felt that this increased cost was caused by a higher number of claims. The NHSLA believed that this increase in the number of claims being made reflected a more positive attitude toward making a complaint amongst patients who felt they had been let down. As Dame Julie Mellor, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, pointed out in 2014 "Often, older people fear negative repercussions when they make a complaint, or they simply don't like to "make a fuss".'
It is hoped (and believed) that the more open attitude toward the complaints procedure which has been fostered by the NHSLA encourages more people to stop 'suffering in silence' and to make their concerns known, in the belief that their claim would be dealt with fairly. One of the side effects of this is the increase in the amount being paid out in the event of successful claims.
In terms of simple facts and figures, the annual report made it plain just how much the amount being paid out has risen in the past decade. In 2005, there were 5,967 claims made, which resulted in overall costs of £560.3m, including £406.0m in actual damages. By 2014/15, the number of claims being made had risen to 11,497, with costs going up to £1,169.6m, which included £774.4m directly in damages.
Other highlights to be gleaned from the report included the following:
More patients than ever are being treated by the NHS. The overall number of hospital admissions in 2013/14 was 15.462m, which is an increase of 32% on the figure of 11.699m admitted a decade earlier.
More patients are reporting incidents than ever before, with the number rising from 867,000 in 2006/7 to 1,637,000 in 2013/14, which represents an increase of some 189%.
Other facts and figures within the report, which at some points suggests that more adverse incidents are leading to compensation claims (although the figures show that this increase is in fact only slight), tend to be presented as if the popular conception of a 'compensation culture' was reflected in the facts and figures collected whereas, when these figures are drilled down into more deeply, the idea of too many people claiming compensation without due cause doesn't really hold up. Indeed, the increase in the amount of compensation being paid out could be a reflection of the successful impact of the work carried out by the NHSLA. It would be interesting to gather the views of ordinary patients with experience of the 'frontline' of NHS care, to see whether the patients themselves feel that the NHS has moved in the direction of a positive reporting culture in which they feel empowered to speak their mind and demand the best possible treatment.


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High Temperature Oxygen Index Apparatus
Fire Testing Technology (FTT) offers a Temperature Oxygen Index Module (TOI or TI), which assesses the oxygen index (ASTM D 2863, ISO 4589-2) of specimens at temperatures of up to 400EC (ISO 4589-3). It must be used as an attachment to an Oxygen Index apparatus, for example the one manufactured by FTT, and not as a stand-alone unit.
Oxygen index values decrease as the temperature of the atmosphere surrounding the specimen increases. Elevated test temperatures are set by adjusting the pre-heated gas temperature levels and setting the heated glass furnace wall temperatures. An LCD display continuously shows the temperatures of both heated sections. When tests are conducted with different oxygen levels, gas is conserved by using air from an integral pump running quietly between tests, with bottled nitrogen and oxygen switched on only for the actual tests.
The FTT unit has been designed to be compact for efficient use in a standard fume hood (or under a simple ventilation hood that FTT can supply if needed). It provides continuous digital display of oxygen concentrations in the test atmosphere, so that settings can be made easily and no additional flow adjustments are required. In this way the unit is made as automatic as possible.
- Test temperature to 400°C.
- Digital display of sample temperature.
- Digital display of column and pre-heater temperatures.
- Transparent radiant heated test column.
- Highly effecient gas pre-heater
- Air pump to conserve oxygen and nitrogen supply during standby period
- Digital readout for oxygen concentration: +/- 0.1%
- Dimensions (mm): 350(w) x 370(d) x 280(h)
- Column size (mm): 160 max(dia) x 75mm (internal dia) x 570(h)
- Weight (kg): 17
- Voltage: 230V 50Hz 10.25A or 110V 60Hz 20.5A
- Operating Manual: Supplied
- Other Service requirements: Bottled O2/N2, Propane, Requires Oxygen Index


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The InfoWorld Test Center picks the year's best and most innovative hardware and software for business and professionals
If you caught "InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies" in November, you had a running head start on our 2010 Technology of the Year Awards. MapReduce, desktop virtualization, I/O virtualization, NoSQL databases, cross-platform mobile application development, and application whitelisting topped our list of high-impact technologies, and not surprisingly, all are represented in our list of top products as well.
Other product categories yielding 2010 Technology of the Year Award winners include CPUs, blade servers, server virtualization, SANs, development tools, cloud services, social networking software, and smartphones. Some of the picks were no brainers, such as Intel's amazing Nehalem processor and Cisco's revolutionary Unified Computing System; others required careful consideration and even debate.
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Our most difficult dilemma was between Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7. Mac OS X was not only our reigning champ, but Snow Leopard edged Windows 7 in our PC vs. Mac death match. We also recognize that Snow Leopard, a wholly 64-bit Intel-based OS that finally sheds the baggage of Apple's PowerPC days, is the culmination of an extremely well executed transformation of Mac OS X. But for its dramatic and sorely needed improvement over Windows Vista, Windows 7 wins our award.
Read on to discover the rest of the year's winners (including a special nod to venerable Windows XP) and our reasoning behind the choices.
Intel Nehalem Processor (Xeon 5500 Series) The usual progression of processor performance dictates that we enjoy a new generation of chips every couple of years. Attaching the term "generation" to this biannual ritual of incremental feature additions has robbed the term of its importance as the marker of a new epoch. Instead, users have had to settle for hard-to-perceive performance benefits as processors excitedly moved from single to dual to quad core.
Then, suddenly this year, Intel upended the apple cart by releasing Nehalem, a chip so vastly different from its predecessors that it might honestly mark not just a new generation but the beginning of a whole new era in the storied history of the x86 processor.
Not only did Nehalem deliver the key technology advantages that AMD had been touting for years in its Opteron processors -- namely, its memory management -- but it broke new ground in power consumption and performance balancing, and it did so in dramatic fashion.
Nehalem is the first x86 processor to have multiple cores and multiple threads within those cores. If you like parallel, Nehalem gives you eight pipelines per chip. And unlike some RISC architectures that have multithreaded cores, these pipelines are capable of heavy work.
If parallel isn't of interest, Intel gives you Turbo Boost mode that enables the clock of operating cores to be increased within the thermal constraints of the chip. If other cores are quiescent, the remaining cores can be boosted by as much as 11 bin speeds, meaning 11-step increments, which gooses a sub-3GHz processor well past that threshold.
To enable maximum data access, Intel expanded cache to a three-level system and let cores share the capacious level-3 (L3) cache. If few cores are running, they each get more cache. Furthmore, Nehalem adds faster access to memory and access to faster memory -- all this with lower power consumption than its forebears.
Nehalem's performance improvement was clear from the start, and it has shown up dramatically in InfoWorld's benchmarks and reviews. Year-over-year performance nearly doubled in our workstation comparisons; our tests of Nehalem-based tower servers produced similarly impressive results. This is easily the best performance gain in a decade between releases of a processor. Add the diminished power requirement and Nehalem is a shoo-in for Technology of the Year.
-- Andrew Binstock
Microsoft Windows 7 No one can doubt that Microsoft's credentials as a designer of good operating systems took a beating when the company released Windows Vista in late 2006. After months of hyping the new OS, the Redmond giant shipped a product with demanding hardware requirements, a poorly considered security policy, and unimpressive eye candy. In addition, the company changed numerous features for seemingly little gain. Market response was quick and unforgiving. The tide of negative press so attached itself to the Vista moniker that when Microsoft released a service pack that did away with most users' complaints, nobody cared. It was too late to make a good impression.
With Windows 7, Microsoft made none of its previous mistakes. There was no oversell prior to release. And when the product arrived this year, users were pleasantly surprised. The company had taken the best of its Vista experience, tweaked it in small but important ways, and released the OS under a new name. Suddenly, consumers and enterprises were paying attention and recognizing that the only major operating system not directly derived from Unix had a lot to say for itself.
Windows 7 is responsive. Its kernel -- an accelerated version of the Vista kernel -- runs rings around Windows XP in graphics benchmarks, if not all tests that duplicate user application activity. To this has been added better exploitation of hardware so that power consumption is significantly less than Vista, while performance in multimedia has improved. Boot-up and shutdown time -- a bane of XP users -- is significantly shorter, and the inherent functionality of the OS has increased via a redesigned Windows shell, built-in virtualization, and support for a wide range of new devices.
Microsoft was able to deliver the new features without breaking backward compatibility with Vista. Vista device drivers mostly run without difficulty, and the 64-bit versions of the OS are no longer forlorn stepchildren but rather an integrated part of the Windows 7 family.
The nature of these changes might seem incremental in absolute terms, but their combined effect cannot be denied: According to Wikipedia, Windows 7 was the highest-grossing pre-order in the history of Amazon.com. Press and analyst reviews have been largely glowing, and adoption has been rapid -- the OS reached in three weeks the market penetration Vista attained after a long seven months. Windows 7 gets Windows right and once again Microsoft is an important innovator in the PC user experience.
-- Andrew Binstock
Microsoft Windows XP: A Lifetime Achievement Award Windows XP is the most successful operating system in history. It has shipped on more than a billion PCs worldwide and has spawned a supporting hardware and software ecosystem that is the envy of Microsoft's competitors. It truly is an epic product that touches every corner of the information technology industry.
XP's rise to dominance was not devoid of controversy. Early releases were buggy and prone to crashing, with many vendors struggling to transition device drivers and other system software from DOS-based Windows 9x to the NT-based Windows XP. Later editions were plagued by security exploits, giving the OS a reputation as malware's favorite target and forcing Microsoft to divert resources from XP's successor to fix the existing version's myriad flaws.
Yet despite its many shortcomings, Windows XP continued to expand its sphere of influence to a point where its "crayons and watercolor" Luna interface became synonymous with personal computing. In fact, XP became so popular that when Microsoft tried to replace it with the fatter, even buggier Windows Vista, customers revolted. They signed petitions demanding that Microsoft save XP, and used their downgrade rights to express their dissatisfaction.
Ultimately, this very public backlash forced Microsoft to rework Vista, pruning the excess fat and making it more palatable to the XP fence-sitters. The net result, Windows 7, is now shaping up to be the XP successor that many customers had hoped for. And for those of us who've successfully made the jump to Windows 7 (and loving it), we have the much maligned -- yet seemingly omnipresent -- XP to thank for paving the way.
-- Randall C. Kennedy
Cisco Unified Computing System Cisco unleashed the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) in March, and most of the world scratched their heads and asked what all the fuss was about. If there's anything lacking about UCS it's the fact that it's hard to communicate to most folks exactly how different it is from every other computing platform available today.
UCS combines the fluidity and malleability of Cisco's legendary modular switches with an extremely well-architected core management framework and an extremely usable GUI, then backs it up with solid Intel Nehalem-based blades with staggeringly high maximum RAM support.
Unlike the traditional model, UCS dispenses with fixed ports and internal switching. It removes the smarts from the chassis as well. Each chassis is essentially just sheet metal and a backplane. No switching occurs within a chassis; the chassis is simply an extension of the UCS fabric, which is driven by two redundant Fabric Interconnects.
The scalability of UCS has to be seen -- and understood -- to be believed. By addressing computing resources exactly as they address switching blades in a core switch, Cisco has ensured that capacity is always available and made it hot swappable. By leveraging 10G copper throughout, Cisco significantly reduced complexity and cabling costs.
Management is also greatly simplified. Instead of server-based management components or external packages, everything is driven from the Fabric Interconnects themselves. The entire configuration for any UCS implementation is a single XML file, and the XML API available with UCS makes custom scripting a breeze.
Cisco UCS is an extremely good idea, implemented extremely well, especially for a version 1.0 hardware platform. If Cisco can spread the good word about UCS next year, it should really take off. It's a paradigm shift in datacenter infrastructure whose time has come.
-- Paul Venezia
VMware vSphere 4 The leader in x86 virtualization continued to improve its juggernaut in 2009, adding features and capabilities that again set the standard for competitors. The April VMware vSphere 4 release touched on almost every aspect of managing a virtual infrastructure, from ESX host provisioning to virtual network management to backup and recovery of virtual machines. Thanks to features such as VM clustering, agentless VM backup, hot additions of CPUs and RAM, and vApps, which are collections of VMs that comprise specific applications, VMware vSphere takes a substantial step forward in the management of virtual environments.
For instance, a vApp might have a database server and several front-end Web servers that can be addressed and administered as a single entity. Another big addition is the new fault tolerance method that allows for a single VM to run in lockstep across two hosts, with only one VM in production. If that should fail, the passive VM is immediately put into service without missing a beat. There's also the ability to run VMs with 256GB of RAM and eight vCPUs, and map PCI devices directly to a VM. The management tools have also been improved to a degree, with better reporting and trending features.
These and other enterprise features show that VMware is in fact leaps and bounds ahead of competitors in this market, even though a few of them pretend to be nipping at VMware's heels. Not to say there won't be challenges ahead for VMware as the virtualization market continues to grow and mature -- the competition is large, and it isn't going away. Luckily, that's a benefit to us all.
-- Paul Venezia
Citrix XenDesktop 4 The taming of the corporate desktop is arguably one of the industry's failures over the past decade. No matter how many strides are made in the datacenter, the user experience is largely unchanged: Most companies are still running Windows XP on a local desktop. Citrix XenApp (formerly Presentation Server, formerly MetaFrame) and terminal services in general have been around for seeming eons, but in general-purpose deployments, there were always pitfalls and corner cases that made full-scale adoption problematic, if not impossible.
For some use cases such as call centers and data entry, Citrix has always been an excellent solution, but that's of small comfort to a corporation trying to control costs and reduce complexity by using thin clients on every desktop, regardless of the users' application requirements and workload. Pity the poor user who needs more.
After acquiring XenSource in 2007, Citrix pushed forward with a three-pronged approach to this problem. By leveraging their tried-and-true application virtualization technology alongside application streaming and finally virtual desktop infrastructure, they can now claim to cover all the bases. Building on XenApp, XenDesktop weaves together all of these technologies, allowing the shortcomings of each to be overtaken by the advantages of another.
If an application cannot function normally in a traditional Citrix farm, it can be run on a virtual desktop system under Xen or VMware, with the application seamlessly piped to the client. If the application can be streamed, it can be pulled from that particular pool. The cost to implement is high, but the rewards can be great with the right deployment.
Perhaps there is some light at the end of the corporate desktop tunnel after all.
-- Paul Venezia
Sun VirtualBox 3.1 We love disruptive products -- the kind that sneaks up on an established category or market segment and shakes up the apple cart. In the case of desktop virtualization, the cart has needed a good jolt for some time now. With VMware focused primarily on ever more vertical niches and Microsoft effectively withdrawing from competition, true examples of innovation have been few and far between.
Fortunately, an interloper has emerged to add some drama back into the mix. Sun VirtualBox 3.1 is proving to be a compelling alternative to VMware Workstation for many usage scenarios. And while the product still can't match its commercial contemporary's tight integration with Visual Studio or its robust VDI-authoring features, Sun VirtualBox 3.1 has actually pulled ahead of VMware in one important area: scalability.
With version 3.x, VirtualBox now supports up to 32 virtual CPUs per VM (VMware Workstation supports just 4). Add to this improved snapshot capabilities and 2-D acceleration for virtualized applications, and you have a solution nipping at VMware's heels in the general desktop virtualization space. However, even greater innovation is happening behind the scenes.
In a page straight out of the Microsoft playbook, Sun has quietly been building a live migration capability around the VirtualBox engine. The feature, dubbed Teleportation, first debuted with version 3.1 as a command-line function. Using a simple syntax, users can take a VM running under VirtualBox on one system and "teleport" it to another VirtualBox system, all the while preserving the VM's runtime state.
Needless to say, this is a huge development for Sun Microsystems, one that places it on a collision course with heavyweights VMware and Microsoft in the virtualized datacenter. But the most remarkable aspect of this story is how quickly the company has brought this virtualization platform along. In a little over a year, Sun has turned this relatively unknown fledgling from an obscure German software developer (Innotek) into a potent threat.
Our advice to VMware (and Microsoft): Be afraid. Be very afraid.
-- Randall C. Kennedy
Compellent Storage Center 4.2 From vendor to vendor, SAN storage systems generally share not only core functionality, but also what used to be considered advanced features, such as thin provisioning and local and remote replication. Compellent still offers features that many others don't. One of these is automated tiered storage, a data migration capability that EMC recently announced with a great deal of fanfare, several years after Compellent introduced it. Another is the ability to map multiple volumes to multiple virtual machines simultaneously. And yet another is consistency groups that allow easy setup of single LUNs mapped to multiple virtual machines for VMware VMotion and Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migration.
But what Compellent does better than other vendors is provide great ease-of-use and all the performance you could ask for at very moderate prices. In Compellent Storage Center, wizards make everyday tasks simple enough for untrained administrators to do, while a command-line scripting interface makes it simple for experienced admins to provision multiple LUNs with one step. Setting up a second Compellent Storage Center for remote replication of a local Storage Center is literally a matter of six clicks, and if the local SAN has a lot of data, there's an easy way to attach USB-based portable drives to seed the remote SAN without having to ship the whole rack around.
Extraordinary ease-of-use combined with great performance is the hallmark of the Compellent Storage Center, and the reason it once again wins InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Award.
-- Logan G. Harbaugh
Dell EqualLogic PS Series Dell EqualLogic SANs subscribe to the concept of "Do one thing and do it well," and boy, do they do it well. EqualLogic SANs are iSCSI only -- no multiprotocol file serving such as NFS, CIFS, or any other doodads, just blazing fast iSCSI performance and a hugely scalable design that guarantees that you cannot add storage without adding requisite redundant bandwidth.
The attention to detail throughout the PS Series product line is exemplary. Upgrading the firmware on an EqualLogic SAN is very simple, and can be accomplished without taking the array offline at any point. If some components need their firmware flashed, the upgrade process takes care of the whole process from start to finish. The management GUI is as good as any other, and the SAN HQ software gives a wide view of all storage components, processes, and performance.
Dell also takes things a step further with their integrated backup hooks. You can link to specific Microsoft SQL Server databases for instance, arrange for snapshots to be taken of that file system on a regular basis, and automate the restoration of just that database should a failure occur.
There are more reasons why we like Dell EqualLogic SANs so much, but our position can be summed up with the simple statement that Dell EqualLogic has produced a simple, stable, and elegant storage framework that will bring peace of mind to any infrastructure.
-- Paul Venezia
Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services (AWS) is something like the world's biggest shopping mall of cloud-based services. Its array of selections is wide, ranging from storage-based services like SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service, and Elastic Block Store to compute services like the Elastic Compute Cloud and Elastic MapReduce; to online ecommerce services like Amazon DevPay and Amazon Associates Web Service; to difficult-to-categorize services like the ad hoc job matchmaking service of Mechanical Turk.
A sizable ecology of freeware libraries and tools for accessing AWS continues to flower. While AWS's chief language of use is Java, you'll find tools for Python, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, C#, and more. Access to AWS is primarily through HTTP-based Web services, so the API is universally accessible to any mechanism that can generate an HTTP request. In addition, Amazon's micropricing architecture makes it possible for even the most cash-strapped developer to test the viability of a cloud-based application.
Whether cloud computing ultimately establishes itself as a permanent platform for storage and data processing remains to be seen. One thing is certain, however; should cloud computing ultimately fail in its aspirations, no one will be able to blame Amazon for not trying. AWS extends to just about every dimension of cloud computing currently known. No doubt more "cloud solutions" are on the way, and as soon as someone figures out what they are, Amazon will probably be the first to provide an offering.
-- Rick Grehan
Apache Hadoop Hadoop is a data analysis application specifically designed to handle large data sets by employing distributed processing. Hadoop's scalability is remarkable; you can create and run a single-machine Hadoop system on your laptop or -- provided you have the space and finances -- deploy Hadoop across several thousand inter-networked computers.
More specifically, Hadoop is an implementation of the Map/Reduce algorithm developed by Google, running atop the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS). Map/Reduce is a two-step process (the map step, followed by the reduce step), but each amounts to the mapping of one set of key/value pairs to another. When you create a Map/Reduce task to run in Hadoop, you write map and reduce routines (both are often remarkably small), and Hadoop acts as a managed runtime environment for them. Hadoop sees to it that distributed instances of your routines are executed, that input data is partitioned and sent to your routines, that the results are gathered and passed on to the next stage, and even that crashed instances are restarted and the situation is "healed."
Though the concept is simple, the result is powerful. Developers quickly catch on to writing map and reduce functions. (Nor are programmers restricted to a specific language for the functions; although Hadoop is Java based, you can write map and reduce functions in any language that can read and write standard input and output.) And Hadoop's scalability is practically linear. If your data gets twice as big, then double the number of systems in your Hadoop network. You need write no new code to accommodate the increase in the number of processors or expanded disk space; Hadoop sees to all that.
Best of all, Hadoop is an Apache project (and is therefore free) and has spawned several subprojects, each geared toward using the Hadoop technology to tackle huge data sets. Commercial users of Hadoop range from Amazon to Facebook to the New York Times. Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service is a Hadoop implementation.
-- Rick Grehan
Amazon SimpleDB Amazon's SimpleDB is precisely what its name implies: a simple database. It is simple in that creating a table (or, rather, SimpleDB's equivalent of a table -- a Domain) requires no schema. You don't have to tell SimpleDB "I am going to build a Domain whose structure is thus-and-so." You simply begin putting data into the Domain, and the structure happens.
SimpleDB is not a relational database (you could use Amazon Relational Database Service for that), but a comparatively feature-rich example of the new breed of "NoSQL" databases. Data is sorted in SimpleDB as name/value pairs, organized into items. The architecture of SimpleDB is best visualized as a table in a spreadsheet: attributes are columns, items are rows, and values are cell contents.
Operations in SimpleDB are a minimalist's dream. Domains are created or deleted using the CreateDomain and DeleteDomain requests, respectively. To read data, use GetAttributes (coupled with Select, which searches for specified data). To write data, use PutAttributes. To delete data, use DeleteAttributes. The Select operator -- analogous to SQL's SELECT statement -- recognizes a limited set of conditionals, but can handle the majority of basic queries.
SimpleDB is ideal for persistent storage and searching of structured data. It is used by AdaptiveBlue's Glue social networking tools, Pluribo Technology's summarization engine, and Mindscape's LightSpeed .Net object/relational mapping tool. Devver.net, a development company that builds cloud tools, uses SimpleDB with Ruby. As with other Amazon Web Services, SimpleDB's strength is its micropricing (which encourages proof-of-concept testing) and its ease-of-use.
-- Rick Grehan
The Eclipse IDE is also well served by subprojects that provide construction kits for building tools that abstract higher-level development tasks. For example, the Parallel Tools Platform furnishes building blocks for creating Eclipse-based plug-ins that assist in development within parallel computing environments. Photran -- a FORTRAN development environment in Eclipse -- is a product of the Parallel Tools Platform.
Other toolkits within Eclipse cater to activities adjunct to development. The Data Tools Platform provides tools for managing RDBMSes, executing SQL, managing database meta-content such as triggers and stored procedures, and so on. The Web Tools Platform is invaluable not only for working with Java EE-based applications, but its included Web Services Explorer can be used to interactively navigate SOAP-based Web services.
Best of all, Eclipse is platform agnostic. Eclipse-based tools run on Windows, Linux, Unix, and (in many cases) Mac OS X.
-- Rick Grehan
Apple iPhone OS 3.0 and App Store How do an evolutionary operating system upgrade and an established online store make our Technology of the Year list? They do it by reinforcing the supremacy of one of the seminal products of the decade.
Some might say that the iPhone 3GS was the big news of the year, but by bringing most of the newest iPhone's capabilities to the previous generation of hardware (as a free upgrade no less), iPhone OS 3.0 kept a huge block of users happy with their smartphones. It also kept the feature bar high for a parade of would-be iPhone killers, none of which came close to accomplishing the mission.
The challenges posed by the BlackBerry Storm, the Palm Pre, and the Android 2.0-based Droid were all made more difficult by the tens of thousands of applications available for ready purchase, download, and installation through the App Store and iTunes. The applications, which range from silly to mission-critical, have made the iPhone a viable mobile business platform for many, and a source of endless diversion for many more.
While Google's Android may yet prove to be a serious alternative to the iPhone, it will do so by following the model established by the iPhone and the App Store. The latest version of Apple's most portable operating system didn't radically remake the user experience in 2009, but the richness of that user experience and the store that supports it left little opportunity for alternatives. That's enough to land the pair on the Technology of the Year list.
-- Curtis Franklin, Jr.
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What is the "I'm Sorry Law" for physicians? What is the purpose of this law?
The "I'm Sorry Law" is a law that allows physicians the opportunity to express sympathy to a patient for an unexpected outcome of the care they provided. This law actually protects healthcare professionals. The whole purpose of the "I'm Sorry Law" is an attempt to encourage transparency and communication between the healthcare professional and patient and at the same time reduce the fear of the doctor making some statement that could later be viewed as evidence of medical malpractice.
Everyday mistakes happen in the provision of healthcare to patients; mistakes are inevitable in the healthcare world. Some of these mistakes are minor and some are major with some even resulting in death. We all know that human beings are capable of making mistakes; no one is perfect. But in the provision of healthcare should there be mistakes? Is the "I'm Sorry Law" simply legal guidelines that protect healthcare providers when they do make mistakes? How would you feel if your healthcare provider admits they made a mistake and gave you an official apology? Would this make things better for both you the patient and your healthcare provider? The reason why I am asking this is because many states have enacted the "I'm Sorry Law".
Which states have adopted the "I'm Sorry Law" for physicians?
The following thirty states have adopted the "I'm Sorry Law" for physicians: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming and the District of Columbia.
This law adopted to protect physicians is not all black and white. There are gray areas and these areas are stipulations to the law itself. For example, in order for the "I'm Sorry Law" to protect a physician, the following contentions must be met: There must be no medical negligence involved, if there is alleged medical misconduct it did not result in the damages claimed by the plaintiff, and/or if the plaintiff is not injured to the extent claimed. If a physician has made any oral or written statement that is not consistent with any or all of the above contentions, their statements may be considered to be "admissions against interest".
Most people who sue doctors are not just suing for money. They are suing for not being able to understand exactly what went wrong and are seeking some type of explanation and resolution. The good news is that under the American Medical Association's (AMA) Code of Medical Ethics physicians are required to be honest with their patients and apologize for their mistakes if medical complications arise due to their error. Some legal experts feel that this in itself makes it bad for the physician because it is basically an admission of guilt and is therefore not advised by malpractice attorneys. However, many others believe that an official apology from a physician encourages them to develop more sincere human relations, without fear of sanctions.
The society we now live in is very eager to sue and the malpractice lawsuits against physicians are steadily on the rise. The mass media is very much responsible for this unfortunate reality. After all when we watch TV and/or listen to the radio we constantly hear about ways to sue our doctor. To counter act this many states have ruled that a doctor's apology cannot be used as evidence of liability in a malpractice lawsuit. Also, a report on medical liability produced by the AMA confirms that physicians who apologize for their mistakes are favored for owning up and showing responsibility. Therefore, it may be safe to say the "I'm Sorry Law" serves a great purpose in the healthcare world because it has the potential to actually strengthen the doctor-patient relationship.


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