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Imagine that Barack Obama, upon taking office in January 2009, had decided to deliver on his campaign promise "to end business-as-usual in Washington so we can bring about real change." Imagine that he rejected the architects of the pro-Wall Street policies that had led to economic collapse – such as Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, and the stable of former Goldman Sachs employees that runs the U.S Treasury Department – and instead appointed Nobel laureate economists Paul Krugman and Joe Stiglitz to key positions including the chair of the Federal Reserve.
Instead of Hillary Clinton, who lost the Democratic presidential primary because of her unrelenting support for the Iraq war, imagine that he chose Senator Russ Feingold for Secretary of State, or someone interested in delivering on the popular desire to get out of Afghanistan. Imagine a real health care reform bill, instead of health insurance reform, that didn't give the powerful pharmaceutical and insurance lobbies a veto.
It goes without saying that President Obama would be vilified in the major media outlets. The seething hostility from right-wing blowhards such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh would be matched by more mainstream media outlets, who would accuse the president of polarizing the nation and "dangerous demagoguery." With almost all of the establishment media and institutions against him, Obama would likely face a constant battle for political survival – although he might well triumph with direct, populist appeals to the majority.
This is what has happened to a number of the left-of-center governments in Latin America. In Ecuador, President Rafael Correa was re-elected by a large margin in 2009, despite strong opposition from the country's media. In Bolivia, Evo Morales has brought stability and record growth to a country that had a tradition of governments that didn't last more than a year – despite the most hostile media in the hemisphere and unrelenting, sometimes violent opposition from Bolivia's traditional elite. And President Hugo Chavez survived a U.S.-backed military coup-attempt and other efforts to topple his government, winning three presidential elections, each time by a larger margin.
All of these presidents took on entrenched oligarchies and fought hard to deliver on their promises. Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president in a country with an indigenous majority, re-nationalized the hydrocarbons (mostly natural gas) industry and created jobs through public investment, as well as getting a new, more democratic constitution approved. Correa doubled spending on health care and canceled $3.2 billion of foreign debt found to be illegitimate. Chavez cut poverty in half and extreme poverty by more than 70 percent after getting control over the country's oil industry.
These presidents faced another obstacle that Obama wouldn't have: They had to fight with the most powerful country in the world in order to deliver on their promises. This was also true of President Nestor Kirchner in Argentina (2003-2007), who had to battle the Washington-dominated International Monetary Fund in order to implement the economic policies that made Argentina the fastest growing economy in the hemisphere for six years.
Of course, Hugo Chavez has been the most demonized in the U.S. media – but that is not because of what he has said or done but because he is sitting on 500 billion barrels of oil. Washington has a particular problem with oil-producing states that don't follow orders – whether they are a dictatorship like Iraq, a theocracy like Iran or a democracy like Venezuela.
All of these leaders – including President Lula da Silva of Brazil – had hoped that President Obama would pursue a more enlightened policy towards Latin America, but it hasn't happened. It seems that Washington, which was comfortable with dictators and oligarchs who ran the show for decades, still has problems with democracy in its former "backyard."


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Lime Stands With The Ukrainian People and Against War
By Wayne Ting
CEO, Lime
Like many across the world, we are saddened and outraged by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and are devastated by the impact it has had on millions of innocent lives. We stand with everyone affected by this war and today launch several measures to support organizations supplying direct aid to refugees.
Through donations from our team, we will support vetted organizations providing medical assistance, food, shelter and relief to displaced people.
We will encourage our riders to donate to organizations making an impact on the ground via our app, including:
- International Committee of the The Red Cross: Ukraine Appeal
- Razom for Ukraine
- Save the Children
- Care International
- Choose Love
- Polish Humanitarian Action
In Poland, where refugees are arriving to escape the war, we are:
- Offering two free rides for anyone in major Polish cities traveling to donate blood. Blood donation centers in Poland have launched collection drives to supply blood to medical services within Ukraine.
- Launching a Lime Hero partnership with Polish Humanitarian Action, an organization providing people affected by the conflict, both within Ukraine and outside its borders, with basic necessities like medical car, food, hygiene kits, blankets and other supplies.
Over the coming days, we will expand these efforts, adding organizations working to provide humanitarian relief as Lime Hero partners so more riders can donate in the weeks to come. This will provide the option for riders to round up the cost of their ride to support relief for those impacted by the war.
We will continue to stay vigilant of the situation and seek opportunities to offer our support. We stand firmly with the Ukrainian people and urgently call for an end to the war.

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text: Pro-Israel Neo-Con Hand-Picked McCain VP Zionists pleased as punch fanatical Alaska governor has been pushed to front of U.S. national politics By Michael Collins Piper AFP Win or lose in her bid for the vice presidency, Sarah Palin will nonetheless be a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. Thats good news to the hard-line pro- Israel cabalknown as the neo-conservativeswho brought America to bankruptcy pursuing the war in Iraq and who still dream of war against Iran. It turns out that one of the chief neo-conservative tacticiansWilliam Kristol, editor of Zionist billionaire Rupert Murdochs Weekly Standard, and Mrs. Palins foremost cheerleader in the mass mediais the very person who hand-picked Palin as John McCains running mate. Both The Washington Post and The Telegraph of London revealed Kristols pivotal role in ushering the previously little-known Palin to national prominence. For its part, the Telegraph noted on Sept. 16: Sources in theMcCain camp, the Republican Party and Washington think tanks say Mrs. Palin was identified as a potential future leader of the neo-conservative cause in June 2007. That was when the annual summer cruise organized by the right-of-center Weekly Standard magazine docked in Juneau, the Alaskan state capital, and the pundits on board took tea with Gov. Palin. The Post reported that the meeting between Palin and Kristol, along with Kristol hanger-on Fred Barnes, was initiated by a member of Palins staff. In any event, the Telegraph added, her case as John McCains running mate was later advanced vociferously by William Kristol, whose Standard touted Palin immediately after their meetingas the most popular governor and mentioned her in subsequent issues of The Weekly Standard no less than 40 additional times. In fact, as early as June 30at a time when McCain was said to be resisting pressures from those who opposed McCains choice of Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mateKristol appeared on Rupert Murdochs Fox News and predicted Palin would be McCains choice, this at a time when Palin was hardly known outside Alaska. Writing at the dailybeast.com, Internet blogger Scott Horton pointed out further that: Kristol is one of the few conservative columnists whose support of Palin has been unflinching. He has used his space as a New York Times columnist to tout her candidacy repeatedly. But in the process Kristol has never bothered to disclose his role in the decision making process that led to the Palin pick. Kristols Weekly Standard has figured as Palins chief defender, and its writers have gone after even those who dare to pose questions about Palins candidacy. Bill Kristol, it seems, has much at stake in the Palin candidacy. Underscoring the role of the neo-cons in grooming Palin, the small-circulation (but highly influential) New Yorkerpublished by the billionaire Newhouse family (hard-line Zionists known for neo-conservative sympathies)featured an eye-opening cover story on October 27 entitled How McCain found Palin, subtitled She wanted the nominationand Washington insiders helped her get it. The detailed account demonstrated that Palins national prominence (and her path to the vice presidential nomination) was entirely the result of concerted propaganda and tactical maneuvering by Kristol and his closest collaborators. Perhaps more disturbing was the revelation that it was controversial political operative Dick Morris who earlier helped launch Bill Clintons rise in Arkansas and then in the national arenawho was a key player in on laying the stage for the until-then-obscure Palins introduction to the GOP. Morris was among another group of neo-cons associated with the National Review magazinewho landed in Alaska on their own cruise (just a few weeks after the Kristol-Weekly Standard clique held court). The New Yorker said according to several accounts . . . no connection made that day was more meaningful than the one struck between Palin and Dick Morris. It is interesting the New Yorker should unveil the Palin-Morris connection resulting from the National Review stop-over in Alaska: S.I. Newhouse, publisher of the magazine, was a close friend of Morriss cousin, devout pro-Israel political operative and mob lawyer Roy Cohn, who was also close friend of National Review founderWilliam F. Buckley, Jr. As far back as the mid-1950sworking with CohnBuckley was a godfather of the modern neoconservative movement, a transmogrification of the old-line Trotskyite communists (for strategic reasons) into a new brand of conservative internationalism in opposition to traditional American nationalism. The New Yorker also cited the work of a young conservative, Adam Brickley, who established a website promoting Palin for vice president. It seems as if his website suddenly began getting widespread promotion after the neo-cons began lining up for Palin behind the scenes. While Brickley said he felt that the longer he worked on the website, the less I felt I was driving it. Something else was at work. Brickley said he believed it was the hand of God, but the evidence points more directly to earthly elements. The New Yorker describes the theological background of the Palin booster: Brickleys family, once evangelical Christians, now practice what he calls Messianic Judaism. They believe that Jesus is the Messiah, but they also observe the Jewish holidays and attend synagogue; as Brickley puts it, Jesus was Jewish, so to be like Him you need to be Jewish, too. Following her selection as McCains running mate, Mrs. Palin quickly made it clear she shares the neo-conservative fanaticism for Israel, loudly banging the drum against Iran and bragging that she keeps an Israeli flag in her Alaska office. Palins official foreign policy handlers are two key neo-conservative strategists: Randy Scheunemann and Steve Biegun. One chronicler of the neo-conservatives, author Jacob Heilbrunn, has asserted its clear Palin has soaked up the neo-con view of the world. Source: http://www.davidduke.com/general/how-a-top-us-zionist-picked-sarah-palin-for-vice-president_5340.html# more-5340 by zalkawe at wanadoo.fr


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2nd Star Productions The Secret Garden
W. Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's tale The Secret Garden has delighted readers and audiences for over a century. Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon's 1991 musical adaptation transforms it into a visceral experience that 2nd Star Productions delivers in a heady spray of song and drama. This musical drips with lush, hummable melodies whose subtle dissonances save it from predictable sweetness.
In this G-rated ghost story, an orphan's benign ancestral spirits guide her to a healing garden that restores her broken family, physically and mentally. It's Disneyesque but sophisticated enough for mature audiences, so it is fitting that the youth in this production shine as brightly as the adults.
Chief among them are rising stars Vivian Wingard as the orphan Mary Lennox and Zachary Fadler as her friend Dickon. Wingard is a rosebud waiting to bloom: a charming actress, graceful dancer and accomplished singer with a pure, unspoiled sound. She is refreshingly innocent yet capable of holding her own against a cast of old pros. It is Fadler, however, who steals the show as Dickon, Mary's best friend. When he enters in "Winter's on the Wing," all else disappears under the spell of his exuberance and vocal edge. Warmth is palpable when he sings it in in "Wick."
Equally compelling is Mary Dickson, who plays Dickon's sister Martha, the maid. Her effortless mezzo is as inspirational and grounded as a mother's embrace, notably in Act One's "A Fine White Horse" and her blockbuster finale "Hold On."
Working folk aside, Mary feels unloved and alone. Her cold Uncle Archibald Craven (Eddie Chell) is haunted by Mary's resemblance to his deceased Lily, the wife his brother Neville (John Dickson) also loved from afar. These two fine actors and singers set a solemn tone for the show's most memorable music: "A Bit of Earth," "Lily's Eyes," "Quartet" and "Where in the World." Dickson's voice is resonant and authoritative in both speech and song, but most compelling in the lilting Irish tenor melody, "Disappear."
The situation is complicated by the congenital illness of Archibald's only child, who barely knows his father thanks to Dr. Neville's overprotective care. Austin McKinnis' hypochondriacal Colin (double cast with Gabe Needle) is perfectly obnoxious, hardy of spirit but otherwise frail.
An excellent Greek chorus of omniscient ghosts is omnipresent and too numerous to mention by name, but Kevin Cleaver as Captain Lennox has the most haunting voice and bearing. Samantha Feikema as Lily Craven has the most daunting role and operatic style, with a piercing coloratura reminiscent of Sarah Brightman. But lovely as is her solo "Come to My Garden," her voice does not blend in chorus. Malarie Novotny as Mrs. Medlock is another highlight of an already bright ensemble. Opening night also featured a fine surprise performance by co-director Brian Douglas as Major Holmes. Cheramie Jackson is a loveable and realistic Mrs. Medlock.
This show is a late bloomer, poorly set by the overture and a rocky opening number. Past its initial awkwardness, it captivates. A piccolo's birdsong brings the outdoors inside, and a magical sense of time and place is achieved with exquisite costumes, décor and choreography. The English furnishings and tapestry look like they belong at Sotheby's. The Indian Shiva dance in "Come Spirit Come Charm" with Ayah (Ruta Kidolis) and Fakir (Michael Mathes) is as exotic as incense. "Come to My Garden," Lily beckons with good reason. It's a beautiful place.
Director and set designer: Jane B. Wingard. Musical director: Joe Biddle. Lights and sound: Garrett R. Hyde. Costumes: Linda Swan.


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A simple, elegant look. A pattern of ashes, similar to a starry night sky, over a beautiful solid color glass backing. This one is orange, but I do have other colors, and if there is a color that you're interested in, just send me an email and I can show you examples.
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I hope that having one of these will bring some comfort to you, and that it will act as a reminder of the joy that you and your companion gave each other.
The colors and designs of these pendants can be customized. I'll work with you to create your own personal memorial pendant. If there's a color that you're curious about, feel free to contact me and I'll show you examples of the color.
If you decide to order a custom pendant, I'll send you instructions (and help you) to get a very small amount of ashes to me. As soon as they arrive I'll begin creating a unique piece of wearable art for you. I'll be very careful and respectful with the ashes, and I'll return any remaining ash to you along with your necklace.
When you order, if you'd like to, you can send me a photo and tell me about your companion. I'll think about that as I make your piece. That description can influence my work, and in a way, can help to bring the spirit of your friend into this custom pendant.
These beautiful, one of a kind heirlooms are carefully crafted in my small studio in Northern California. They are made with high quality borosilicate glass (which is much more durable than standard glass) and are kiln annealed.


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Worldwide IT spending is forecast to grow from $US2.46 trillion in 2015 to more than $US2.8 trillion in 2019, with IT vendors urged to target pockets of growth amidst a "volatile economy."
"With the global economy entering a new and uncertain phase, IT spending will be heavily influenced by economic cycles and wild cards over the next five years," says Stephen Minton, Vice President, Customer Insights and Analysis, IDC.
"Recent sluggishness in China has caused severe disruption for emerging markets, while the collapse in oil prices continues to challenge energy producers and stock market volatility poses new questions for investment firms.
"In many industries, business leaders will turn to IT solutions, including data analytics and infrastructure optimisation, to help them navigate the stormy economic waters.
"For IT vendors, the need is greater than ever for a detailed approach to targeting pockets of growth and opportunity amidst this volatile economy."
From an industry perspective, Minton says the largest IT expenditures will be found in the discrete manufacturing, banking, and telecommunications verticals with each delivering more than eight percent of all spending throughout the forecast period.
Minton says these three industries will be followed by process manufacturing, federal/central government, and professional services.
The fastest growing vertical industry over the 2015-2019 forecast period will be healthcare, with a five-year CAGR of 5.5 per cent.
Banking and insurance are tied with media and the resource industries for the industries with the second fastest-growing IT spending, each with a five-year CAGR of 4.6 per cent.
In terms of company size, over 40 per cent of overall IT spending will come from very large businesses (more than 1,000 employees) while the small office category (the 70-plus million small businesses with 1-9 employees) will provide roughly one quarter of all IT spending throughout the forecast period.
Medium (100-499 employees) and large (500-999 employees) business will see the fastest growth in IT spending, with CAGRs of 4.4 per cent and 4.8 per cent, respectively.
"Organisations from all industries and of varied sizes are investing in a combination of customer-facing initiatives, enterprise-focused projects, and 3rd Platform technology adoption and advancement," adds Jessica Goepfert, Program Director, Customer Insights and Analysis, IDC.
"To truly capitalise on this opportunity, vendors would be well served to not only listen to their strategic client's feedback but also to respond and react accordingly.
"Knowing the client's industry is table stakes. In order to become more embedded in their customers' businesses and make a significant impact, the conversations between vendor and client must change to be process and outcome focused."
Software spending will be the fastest growing technology market segment with a 6.7 per cent CAGR, led by healthcare and financial services investments, followed by business services at 6.2 per cent with strong spending growth from media and resource industries.
In contrast, hardware and IT services spending will grow at rates slower than the overall market.
Within the software segment, applications that facilitate enterprise and IT operations, such as enterprise resource management and operations & manufacturing applications, will receive the greatest share of software spending.
The fastest growing software categories will be network software, collaborative applications, and data access, analytics & delivery applications.
Hardware will remain the largest market segment overall with roughly 40 per cent of all IT expenditures going to devices, infrastructure, and telecom hardware throughout the forecast period.
Telecom hardware including smartphones will represent more than half of all hardware spending through the forecast while PCs will remain an important category of IT spending despite a five-year CAGR of -1.6 per cent.
Spending on enterprise infrastructure will be driven by solid growth in the server and storage segments with CAGRs of 2.6 pe rcent and 3.2 per cent, respectively - IDC claims that healthcare and telecommunication firms will represent the strongest opportunities here.


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WASHINGTON >> Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for free birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.
Obama's compromise means ultimately that women would still get birth control without having to pay for it, no matter where they work. The president insisted he had stuck by that driving principle even in switching his approach, and the White House vehemently rejected any characterization that Obama had retreated under pressure.
Yet there was no doubt that Obama had found himself in an untenable position. He needed to walk back fast and find another route to his goal.
The controversy over contraception and religious liberty was overshadowing his agenda, threatening to alienate key voters and giving ammunition to the Republicans running for his job. It was a mess that knocked the White House off its message and vision for a second term.
Leaders from opposite sides of the divisive debate said they supported the outcome — or at least suggested they probably could live with it. Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, the head of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops and a fierce critic of the original rule covering hospitals and other employers, said the bishops were reserving judgment but that Obama's move was a good first step.
Conceding he wanted a resolution, Obama ordered advisers to find a middle ground in days, not within a year as had been the plan before the uproar. He said he spoke as a Christian who cherishes religious freedom and as a president unwilling to give up on free contraceptive care.
"I've been confident from the start that we could work out a sensible approach here, just as I promised," Obama said. "I understand some folks in Washington may want to treat this as another political wedge issue, but it shouldn't be. I certainly never saw it that way."
Under the new plan, religious employers such as charities, universities and hospitals will not have to offer contraception and will not have to refer their employees to places that provide it. If an employer opts out of the requirement, its insurance company must provide birth control for free in a separate arrangement with workers who want it.
"Very pleased," was how Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association, reacted in a statement distributed by the White House. Her trade group represents Catholic hospitals that had fought against the birth control requirement, and Keehan said the new arrangement addresses the concerns it had.
Planned Parenthood, a prominent women's health organization, said Obama had reaffirmed his commitment to birth control coverage. The group's president, Cecile Richards, added, though, that it would be monitoring for "rigorous, fair and consistent" enforcement so women get the promised coverage.
Before announcing his decision to reporters, Obama telephoned Keehan, Richards and Dolan.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, many shrugged and said the rewrite did not change anything.
"It's an accounting trick," said Mike Gonzales of the Heritage Foundation. "Do they think people are stupid?"
The debate within the White House was intense even before the Jan. 20 decision was announced to exempt only churches and other houses of worships from the requirement that employers must cover free contraception. Other religious organizations were given an extra year to comply, but that concession didn't do enough.
First in a rumble, and then in a roar, critics formed a movement to overturn what they considered to be an egregious violation. Bishops assailed the policy in Sunday Masses and Republican leaders in Congress pledged to push a legislative repeal.
The White House seemed to be caught flatfooted.
"The past three weeks have witnessed a remarkable unity of Americans from all religions, or none at all, worried about the erosion of religious freedom and government intrusion into issues of faith and morals," said Dolan, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The turmoil, in turn, prompted advocates from other sides to get vocal in the battle for public opinion. They defended the rights of women and the need for preventive health care, including contraception, to be provided without fee for people of all faiths, no matter where they work.
Officials said Obama has the power under his health law to compel insurance companies to provide free contraception coverage directly to workers.
The health insurance industry voiced concern that putting the burden on them could set a precedent of shifting cost its way. The insurance companies will weigh in later as Obama's new policy undergoes review, said Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for the America's Health Insurance Plans trade group.
Administration officials say providing birth control won't cost insurers any more in the long run, because it's less expensive than the costs of maternal care and delivery. But insurers say they'll have to pay drug companies for pills and doctors for prescriptions, so it won't be free to them. The costs probably will be passed on to policy holders, as is happening already with other requirements of the health care law, such as allowing young adults to stay under their parents' coverage until age 26.
By keeping free contraception for employers at religious workplaces — but providing a different way to do it — Obama was able to assert he had found "a solution that works for everyone." Unclear was why the White House had not come up with the idea in the first place.
While Obama in 2008 won the total Catholic vote, 54 percent to Sen. John McCain's 45 percent, he lost the white Catholic vote, 52 percent to 47 percent, according to exit polls. Once reliably Democratic, Catholics are now swing voters, with white Catholics making up the majority of the group.
The Rev. Joel C. Hunter, a moderate evangelical leader and a spiritual adviser to the president, said he thinks Obama responded quickly enough to heal the rifts with many of his religious allies. "I think it's simple enough that most people will say, 'Oh good, we can get to other things now,'" said Hunter.
Yet the change just led to more criticism from some of Obama's opponents.
Texas Republican Rep. Kevin Brady said the revamped rule marked a "full scale retreat by a disconnected president who now knows that Washington shouldn't force American to abandon their religious convictions."
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said that that initial response indicated church leaders were not yet convinced the mandate respected religious freedom. Boehner has said he believes the original measure violates First Amendment rights, and his office said Friday that he would seek legislation.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., an ardent support of the original measure, offered a restrained response. Focusing on the benefits of health care, she said: "I appreciate the president's unifying approach."
Associated Press writers Julie Pace, Erica Werner, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Jim Kuhnhenn, Laurie Kellman, Rachel Zoll and Jay Lindsay contributed to this story.


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Dear Parents:
Before being allowed to participate in any sport, all Grand Prairie ISD student-athletes must complete the 2018-2019 Athletic Pre-Participation Physical Evaluation Packet, which includes the following forms:
- Grand Prairie ISD/UIL Pre-Participation Physical Examination and Emergency Information Form
- Acknowledgement of Rules Form
- UIL Parent and Student Agreement/Acknowledgement Form for Anabolic Steroid Use and Random Steroid Testing
- Grand Prairie ISD Pre-Season Pre-Participation and Consent Form for Concussions
- UIL Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Form
- Pre-Participation Physical Evaluation - Medical History Forms
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GReddy's developed a showcase 2.0T Hyundai Genesis Coupe for the upcoming SEMA show chock full of goodies including custom bodywork and paint, suspension bits, but most importantly, a bigger intercooler, cat-back exhaust. It'll need it to hit its 500HP goal.
As the faint report of the SEMA crazy train whistles in the distance, every tuner in the universe is coming out with their version of the next best thing, GReddy seems to be throwing everything at the Genesis Coupe this year, which was something of an unofficial darling of last years show, right up there with Nissan GT-R and Dodge Challenger. This car tarts things up with a de riguer body kit with a new front fascia and splitter, rear spoiler, side skirts, look-at-me paintjob and loud graphics, intercooler, cat-back exhaust, "racing" downpipe, an adjustable coil-over suspension and six-piston front, four-piston rear brakes.
The car coming to SEMA will have a mere 350 HP and 320 lb-ft of torque, 0-60 MPH is in the sub six second range, but the team at GReddy plan to add more goodies after the show and shoot for a lunatic-fringe 500 HP. Remember, this is a 2.0 liter turbo four pot making Corvette Z06-like horsepower.
Genesis Coupe Customized by GReddy to be Featured at SEMA Show 2009
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 6, 2009 – To enhance the tunability of its most dynamic performance car ever, Hyundai has teamed up with GReddy Performance Parts to manufacture products for the Hyundai Genesis Coupe. These high-performance parts will be displayed on the "GReddy X-Gen Street Genesis Coupe" show car at SEMA 2009. The vehicle from GReddy is designed for the enthusiast looking to make modifications for daily driving or a weekend at the track. All of the GReddy parts designed for the Genesis Coupe are planned to be released as a production kit and available for enthusiasts everywhere. The vehicle will be on display at the Hyundai booth at the SEMA Show in the Las Vegas Convention Center from Nov. 3 – Nov. 6, 2009 (Booth # 24387).
The Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T will follow the GReddy Total Tune-Up theme that will not only increase the performance of the engine, but also improve handling and braking. The finished car will blend reliable street performance with a powerful driving experience. The initial performance targets of the GReddy-powered Genesis Coupe will be 350 horsepower and 320 ft/lbs of torque with a 0-60 time under six seconds. Following SEMA, GReddy plans to make additional engine modifications, pushing horsepower to nearly 500.
"The Hyundai Genesis Coupe is a perfect car for the automotive enthusiast and the GReddy products are designed to maximize the performance capabilities of the vehicle," said Kenji Sumino, general manager, GReddy Performance Parts. "The Genesis Coupe is the ideal car for SEMA and we are building upon the overall concepts originally designed by Hyundai engineers and are looking forward to developing a must-see car at this year's SEMA Show."
Mechanically, GReddy plans to include a GReddy Performance Products Turbo Upgrade Kit, large front-mounted intercooler kit, a SE Spectrum Elite cat-back exhaust system, MX racing downpipe, Type-S fully adjustable coil-over suspension and numerous other modifications. The vehicle will also feature GReddy six-piston front and four-piston rear brake calipers.
"The performance parts from GReddy allow enthusiasts to capitalize on the rear-wheel drive Genesis platform," said Michael Deitz, manager, product development, Hyundai Motor America. "The modifications made by GReddy to the Genesis Coupe 2.0T will highlight the performance capabilities of the vehicle that can be achieved in a real-world setting."
Styling modifications to the GReddy Genesis Coupe will include an Aero lip spoiler, carbon fiber hood, aggressive rear spoiler, Volk Racing G2 wheels and Toyo performance tires. The unique vehicle graphics will be designed and completed in collaboration with artists from Hyundai's North American Design Center in Irvine, Calif. Inside, SEMA Show attendees will find Sparco racing seats, modified gauges, boost controller and a turbo timer as well as a remote switching system.


text: Main Content Senate Bill 0909 (2012) rss? friendly link printer friendly Friendly Link: http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?2012-SB-0909 Public Act 387 of 2012 (Effective: 12/19/2012) Find this PA in the MCL Sponsors Thomas Casperson - (primary)Bert Johnson, Michael Kowall, Rebekah Warren (click name to see bills sponsored by that person) Categories Transportation: other; Local government: authorities; Transportation; other; regional transit authority; establish. Creates new act & repeals secs. 4a & 4b of 1967 PA 204 (MCL 124.404a & 124.404b). Bill Documents Bill Document Formatting Information [x] The following bill formatting applies to the 2011-2012 session:- New language in an amendatory bill will be shown in BOLD AND UPPERCASE.- Language to be removed will be stricken.- Amendments made by the House will be blue with square brackets, such as: [House amended text].- Amendments made by the Senate will be red with double greater/lesser than symbols, such as: <<Senate amended text>>. (gray icons indicate that the action did not occur or that the document is not available) Documents Senate Introduced Bill Introduced bills appear as they were introduced and reflect no subsequent amendments or changes. As Passed by the Senate As Passed by the Senate is the bill, as introduced, that includes any adopted Senate amendments. As Passed by the House As Passed by the House is the bill, as received from the Senate, that includes any adopted House amendments. Public Act Public Act is a bill that has become law. Bill Analysis House Fiscal Agency Analysis House Committee Summary/Enacted Version (12-04-12)This document analyzes: SB909, SB0445, SB0911, SB0912, SB0967 Senate Fiscal Analysis COMMITTEE SUMMARY (Date Completed: 2-14-12)This document analyzes: SB0909, SB0911, SB0912 FLOOR SUMMARY (Date Completed: 4-2-12)This document analyzes: SB0909, SB0911, SB0912, SB0967 ANALYSIS AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE (Date Completed: 5-7-12)This document analyzes: SB0909, SB0911, SB0912, SB0967 SUMMARY AS ENACTED (Date Completed: 4-25-14)This document analyzes: SB0445, SB0909, SB0911, SB0912, SB0967 History (House actions in lowercase, Senate actions in UPPERCASE) NOTE: a page number of 1 indicates that the page number is soon to come. Date JournalAction 1/26/2012SJ 7 Pg. 70REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION 3/15/2012SJ 27 Pg. 401REPORTED FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-3 3/15/2012SJ 27 Pg. 401COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED IMMEDIATE EFFECT 3/15/2012SJ 27 Pg. 401REFERRED TO COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE WITH SUBSTITUTE S-3 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2243REPORTED BY COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-7 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2243SUBSTITUTE S-7 CONCURRED IN 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2243PLACED ON ORDER OF THIRD READING WITH SUBSTITUTE S-7 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2245RULES SUSPENDED 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2245PLACED ON IMMEDIATE PASSAGE 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2245AMENDMENT(S) OFFERED 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2245POSTPONED TEMPORARILY 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2249AMENDMENT(S) WITHDRAWN 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2249AMENDMENT(S) OFFERED 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2249POSTPONED TEMPORARILY 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2254AMENDMENT(S) ADOPTED 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2254AMENDMENT(S) DEFEATED 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2254PASSED ROLL CALL # 753 YEAS 22 NAYS 16 EXCUSED 0 NOT VOTING 0 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2259VOTE RECONSIDERED 11/27/2012SJ 72 Pg. 2259PASSED ROLL CALL # 756 YEAS 24 NAYS 14 EXCUSED 0 NOT VOTING 0 11/27/2012HJ 74 Pg. 2296received on 11/27/2012 11/27/2012HJ 74 Pg. 2306read a first time 11/27/2012HJ 74 Pg. 2306referred to Committee on Transportation 12/5/2012HJ 78 Pg. 2471reported with recommendation without amendment 12/5/2012HJ 78 Pg. 2471referred to second reading 12/5/2012HJ 78 Pg. 2484read a second time 12/5/2012HJ 78 Pg. 2484placed on third reading 12/5/2012HJ 78 Pg. 2484placed on immediate passage 12/5/2012HJ 78 Pg. 2484read a third time 12/5/2012HJ 78 Pg. 2484postponed temporarily 12/6/2012HJ 79 Pg. 2506postponed temporarily 12/6/2012HJ 79 Pg. 2515passed; given immediate effect Roll Call # 691 Yeas 57 Nays 50 12/6/2012HJ 79 Pg. 2515returned to Senate 12/11/2012SJ 78 Pg. 2475GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT 12/11/2012SJ 78 Pg. 2475ORDERED ENROLLED 12/27/2012SJ 82 Pg. 2750PRESENTED TO GOVERNOR 12/19/2012 @ 11:56 AM 12/27/2012SJ 82 Pg. 2760APPROVED BY GOVERNOR 12/19/2012 @ 3:22 PM 12/27/2012SJ 82 Pg. 2760FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE 12/19/2012 @ 5:30 PM 12/27/2012SJ 82 Pg. 2760ASSIGNED PA 0387'12 WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT


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Little Big Town Schedule Free Concert to Benefit the Dogwood Project
Little Big Town will perform a free concert at Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. on Feb. 6 to benefit the Dogwood Project, a non-profit organization created by the group's Kimberly Schlapman and her husband, Stephen, following the tragic death of Stephen's brother, Allen Schlapman.
The concert was originally scheduled for last year, but was canceled following the senseless tragedy that took place over the Thanksgiving holiday. The Schlapmans have been able to cope with their loss through the creation of the Dogwood Project, an effort to comfort young children who are dealing with the death of a parent.
"The Dogwood Project will seek out and reach out to children like my niece and give them what might be their first glimpse of hope after the death and funeral of their loved one," the LBT singer shares with Taste of Country. "The Dogwood Project stands for comfort and hope and purpose and life."
The project has focused its efforts in middle Tennessee, but the Schlapmans and their team hope to expand their outreach as donations from compassionate individuals grow in number.
"Ultimately, we hope to expand beyond the initial expression of love and support to help ensure that each and every child has access to grief counseling so that they can learn how to envision and create a future without this person they so loved," the project's ambassador reveals.
General admission to the show is free for music fans 21 and up. All cash donations will be donated directly to the Dogwood Project. Fans outside the area can visit the project's official website to offer a tax-deductible donation online and to learn more about the organization.


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But many of us travel with our camera gear.
And in the last decade just how difficult has this become?
Often the 'problems' one encounters are not security driven but airline rules and regs.
Tighter rules on the number of pieces of luggage and a big focus on the weight of bags.
How many times have you had to put your expensive gear in an unlocked bag in the hold?
On 17 /11/11 at 19.00 GMT I will explain and share some of my coping techniques which have helped me navigate sometimes baffling rules.
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Server blades and storage
Many IT shops are moving from traditional rack-mounted servers to blade configurations in hopes of reducing power and floor space requirements in their data centers. But combining blade architectures with server virtualization can cause problems with I/O and storage systems.
Blades offer many advantages over traditional servers, but they create some unique storage and application issues.
PETER CHAU is the infrastructure architect at North Shore Credit Union (NSCU), a North Vancouver, British Columbia, organization with 44,000 members, 12 branches and a new software banking system that runs on a bunch of Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. blades. From Chau's vantage point, his blade infrastructure is finally ready for prime time, approximately two years after NSCU got into the blade market with HP's first iteration of blades, the p-Class. That changed Chau's infrastructure to a smaller footprint with decreased power costs, but it didn't change his life. That came later, with HP's c-Class and its Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, says Chau. By creating bay-specific I/O profiles with unique MAC addresses, Virtual Connect allows network and storage administrators to establish all LAN and SAN connections during deployment, and lets them avoid having to do it again even if additional servers are deployed or existing ones are changed. "If the blade on slot 1 fails, all I need to do is replace it with a new one," says Chau. "The back-end connections to the SAN and the network remain intact; it doesn't change. Previous to [Virtual Connect], I would have to engage the SAN admin to re-establish the LUN connections and map to a new WWN." The technology, he says, has not only made his IT shop more efficient, but freed up some precious time for him to work on new projects. Chau's p-Class blades did leverage a SAN back end but, from an admin perspective, he might as well have been using standard rack-mountable servers. "With the c-Class and its Virtual Connect Onboard Administrator, we feel it's ready to facilitate our banking system and BI [business intelligence] infrastructure," he notes. The increasing popularity of blades in the data center has helped fuel serious competition among vendors who are all trying to package, or stuff, the same capabilities of a traditional four-socket rack-mount server into a blade form-factor. However, many users and analysts agree that blades, while just another server form-factor, present unique challenges from a storage management perspective. Managing aggregated I/O for multiple blades, proprietary technology, and the mistaken assumption that blades will automatically lessen your power and cooling costs are among the chief challenges for storage pros considering blade strategies. James Jancewicz rejected two blade server products. Jancewicz, who took over the storage duties at a large insurance organization 10 years ago, says his firm (which he asked not be named due to company policy) brought in competing HP and IBM Corp. blade centers and dumped a workload on them to see how they would perform. As far as I/O is concerned, they didn't overload the individual blades, he says. "But it was much more difficult to manage a box when you had aggregated I/O for multiple blades running over common interfaces--both fibre and IP," he explains. |
For Jancewicz's shop, the pizza box storage they already used offered more flexibility. "When we max out the VM, we don't worry about adding any additional guests to it," he explains. "We still get the benefits of virtualization." Blade technology is proprietary, despite what you might hear about industry-standard servers. Matthew Ushijima, director of network operations at Northlake, IL-based Empire Today LLC, issued this warning to his IT peers: "Make sure your storage vendor has done thorough testing on the very specific technology you are implementing." Being aware of the proprietary nature of your hardware is crucial, he says. "Look for a vendor that shares parts commonality between their rack mount and blade hardware." And the savings aren't guaranteed. Plenty of users are surprised by the cost of a blade project, says Anne Skamarock, research director at Boulder, CO-based Focus Consulting and co-author of Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs. "A fully populated blade system may require more cooling and power than a fully loaded rack system," she cautions. And if you don't have a SAN in place, you should establish one as the foundation for a blade project, adds Skamarock. "That's an upfront investment you should make as you prepare for a growth strategy with blades," she says. Many analysts will tell you that real returns on blades can only be seen when you buy enough blades--more than eight--to cancel the price of the chassis. "What we're finding is that people are asking us 'How would we go about transitioning from a siloed environment to a virtualized, bladed environment?'" says Skamarock. While blade projects can't be guaranteed to always lower your power and cooling costs, many blade enthusiasts say the smaller data center footprints make them a worthwhile investment. For Gentry Ganote, CIO at Golf & Tennis Pro Shop (GTPS) Inc., the consolidation resulted in obvious cost savings as they relate to staffing. A couple of years ago, GTPS started growing quickly due to the expansion of its PGA Tour Superstores at key golf locations across the country. "We were growing and had a lot of one-use servers that we were putting in the data center. We're basically a [Microsoft] shop, and every time we needed to do something we would add a new server," says Ganote. Each one of those provided about a half a gig of storage, and he says they finally realized they didn't want to die or choke from server sprawl. |
Ganote needed to get away from directly attaching storage to one-use servers, so he went shopping for a new blade strategy. He started with a new SAN, and the IT team evaluated different SAN vendors before deciding on Compellent Technologies Inc. Switches (built into the backplane) from Brocade Communications Systems Inc. were installed and Cisco Systems Inc. was chosen as their network equipment provider. "From a cabling standpoint, we took this spider web of cabling down to a minimum," he says. Ganote took the project to the next step and virtualized four of the blades. "We actually have more than 12 of our servers virtualized," he explains. (That translates to three or four virtual servers per blade.) "The timing was perfect for us from a financial perspective," says Ganote, whose shop settled on Virtual Iron Software Inc.'s server virtualization product. When it comes to staffing, he notes, the savings are obvious. "If we didn't have a blade infrastructure and have virtualization in place, I'd definitely need four or five people just to manage the servers," he says. Charles Falcone is president at Devon Health Services Inc., a preferred provider organization (PPO) in King of Prussia, PA. He was fairly sure blades were too expensive for his long-term IT strategy and when he first saw the cost of the IBM BladeCenter package designed for small businesses, "pricey" was his first thought. "But at the end of the day, we thought that, overall, it was a better product than its competitors," he says. For Devon Health Services, it was a matter of available power, says Falcone. "Literally, we were maxed out as to what we had available in our data centers. To bring more power in, I'd have to upgrade the backup generator and that would have been a fairly costly initiative," he says. Like many blade users, the "green movement" motivated Falcone, as well as a data center that was a source of shame. "It was ugly," says Falcone. "It wasn't something we showed people. We had to clean it up." The company isn't running its BladeCenter at full capacity yet. It holds up to 14 servers, and Falcone is currently running nine of them. "That's taken over for 30-something odd servers" from various vendors, he explains. Just like NSCU's Chau brags about the power of HP's Virtual Connect, Devon Health Services' lead storage architect Michael Salerno raves about IBM BladeCenter's remote management tool. "With some other systems, you have to run a separate network cable if you're running any kind of remote management system. What's nice about the BladeCenter is that it's already plugged in. You can remotely manage any given server in the BladeCenter via a built-in KVM console, even on a Saturday," says Salerno, who's a member of an eight-person team. "The BladeCenter makes it easy enough for us to be able to focus on new initiatives." |
Blades and the back end But with systems that share network modules (the equivalent of a network card on blades) against multiple blades (i.e., 10 blades across four network modules), many IT pros will ask "Who gets the access?" says Stephen Foskett, director of data practice at Mountain View, CA-based consultancy Contoural Inc. "People are very interested in the impact of VMware on storage because it makes use of a lot of back-end I/O," he says. "You can get a four-port NIC card and, in some cases, you can even get each blade a new port. That leads users to start looking at 8Gb Fibre Channel [FC] and solutions like virtualized InfiniBand. Those two things--8Gb or 10Gb Ethernet cards, and InfiniBand--come from this idea that we're pushing all this through the same pipe in the back end." With multiple virtualized servers sharing the same FC attachments, Contoural's Foskett is predicting a surge in popularity in N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) technology, which essentially lets users virtualize their host bus adapters (HBAs). "If you have more than one instance of an operating system running on the other side of the port--as you do with virtualization--suddenly it might not be a good idea to have one, two or 20 servers using the same N_Port ID. There are ways you can keep them from seeing each other's storage," he says. "But, basically, it's a bottleneck problem." With NPIV, a virtual N_Port ID is assigned to each server. This is important because users can move a port and that port name will follow. Indeed, Foskett is predicting a "perfect storm" collision of 8Gb FC or 10Gb FC over Ethernet (FCoE), N_Port ID and virtualized servers as more users adopt blade strategies and combine them with virtualization. This technology storm is gathering strength around blades, rather than standalone servers, because of the way blades share resources, he says. "Blades share physical resources on the back end," says Foskett. "With blades and server virtualization, you can have more than one server or more than one instance of the operating system all passing through a single interface. Therefore, they can oversubscribe those resources and make demands on them that can't be met." Even though NSCU's Chau is ready to run a new banking system on his blades, he cautions anyone investigating blade strategies that it "definitely brings more complexity to the environment." NSCU is revamping the hardware architecture to support its BI initiative by implementing four HP ProLiant BL680c G5 Server blades. One runs Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and there is one each for SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, Reporting Services and Integration Services. (Those blades are quad-core x 4 sockets, and 64GB RAM, with all connecting back into a HP Storage- Works EVA 8100 array.) "There has to be some sort of application profiling," says Chau. "For example, SQL is I/O-intense and file printers are not that intense. So you have to mix and match. You can't just rely on the hardware infrastructure and what it can do. You have to do some performance profiling or there comes a point of diminishing return," he adds. (See "Performance tips," below.)
Blades on the cutting edge Take Verari Systems Inc., which has a product that supports two quad-core processors (from Intel Corp. or Advanced Micro Devices Inc.) on a single 1U vertical blade and up to 96 blades. Verari's selling pitch is that the HPs and IBMs of the world are offering relatively low capacity in dense packaging, while it backs up its blade servers with standard-sized motherboards tipped up on their ends and slipped into a proprietary rack that equals the floor space density of an IBM BladeCenter or HP c-Class. Perhaps what's most interesting about Verari's systems are its SB5165XL StorageServer and disk blades that are essentially used to create NAS and iSCSI SAN appliances within the rack. These can be mixed in with their server blades in the same rack. Verari bills its SB5165XL StorageServer product as the industry's first high-density, blade-based, all-in-one storage appliance. "[Verari's] systems are designed and tailored for the ultra-large environments, people with very large data centers," says Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst at StorageIO Group, Stillwater, MN. "This is what HP had in mind when they said they were going to take their c-Class and attach PolyServe to it. What they're really following is the bulk storage market," he says. Jim Damoulakis, CTO at Framingham, MA-based GlassHouse Technologies Inc., says many vendors are anticipating the I/O problems users might have when they begin testing the limits of their blade infrastructures. A key development, he says, is that some blades are now shipping with PCI Express ports. "That's high-bandwidth, back-end ports. You can plug in an InfiniBand card and go to a concentrator. Essentially, the software presents virtual NICs and it's InfiniBand on the back end, and Ethernet and Fibre Channel on the front end," he says. Last month, Verari announced a partnership with Xsigo Systems Inc. to help make it easier to virtualize I/O between blade servers and storage. The partnership is designed to let customers reduce the number of storage and network connections, and make it simpler to manage the rising number of virtual servers connected to networks and storage. When talking about blade centers, many industry analysts agree, it's the connectivity issues that have users looking to vendors for help. That's what blade switch specialist Blade Network Technologies Inc. and 10Gig Ethernet vendor NetXen Inc. were anticipating last year when they announced what they called "the industry's first solution offering 10Gb connectivity for blade servers." In April, Blade Network Technologies announced its new RackSwitch. The devices are 1U 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet switches the company says will manage network connectivity for server blades for competing vendors. |
Martin MacLeod, a London-based consultant who authors a blog on blades in his spare time, says users are being inundated with an impressive range of options from vendors trying to take advantage of the consolidation and virtualization craze. He has dedicated a spot in his blog for "peripheral blade vendors" as technologies converge. In his practice, he often fields questions about purchasing and chargeback, he says. "The first blade encounters all of the cost: the new enclosure, the power supplies and the switches," he says. "So if HR requires another blade, do we need to buy another enclosure? Is that an HR cost or an IT cost?" (See "Buying tips," below.) Scott Lowe specializes in virtualization for ePlus Technology Inc., a reseller headquartered in Herndon, VA. For many of his customers, says Lowe, blade servers have no real impact on storage unless they're being coupled with virtualization. Because they're so popular, and so much of the sales pitches around blades highlight the simplicity of buying and using them, Lowe sees some users underestimate their impact. "I've seen a lot of customers not think about it," he says. "You need to realize that a blade is a bona fide, fully fledged, fully independent piece of hardware. You need to incorporate that into your design just like you would any other switch or server."


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BERLIN- Worcester Prep's girls' varsity soccer team lost its first game of the young season this week, falling to visiting St. Andrew's, 1-0, in the waning seconds of a hard-fought game between both teams.
Both teams had great opportunities to score throughout the contest, but minute after minute clicked by with no goals on the scoreboard until St. Andrew's finally broke through with under a minute remaining in regulation. With just 48 seconds left, St. Andrew's crossed the ball in front of a crowded Mallard net and was able to get a shot past substitute Worcester goalkeeper Shelby Zimmer, who was outstanding all day. Zimmer, who is usually an anchor on the Worcester defense, recorded 13 saves while filling in for regular keeper Abbie Tyler.
The late goal ended a game that had been tense and well played from the outset despite the goose eggs on the board. Each team had opportunities throughout the game. For example, with just over 24 minutes left, Worcester's Lillian DiNardo made a nice move past a St. Andrew's defender deep in the Mallards' offensive end and fired a shot that crossed in front of the St. Andrew's goal and clanked off the far goal post.
At the 18:31 mark, St. Andrew's had its best opportunity when a player got behind the Mallard defense including a charging Zimmer and dribbled a shot toward an open goal, but Worcester defender Alissa Talbert scurried back and cleared the ball before it crossed the goal line.
St. Andrew's had another great opportunity with just over three minutes left in the contest, but Zimmer made a great save on the shot and kept the score at 0-0. Meanwhile, Worcester had several opportunities of its own late in the game. Mary Clare Regan dribbled the ball through the St. Andrew's defense on a fast break opportunity, but the St. Andrew's keeper came out and made a nice save.
Even after St. Andrew's finally went ahead with just under a minute left, Worcester made a last ditch effort to tie the game. DiNardo got the ball and streaked down the left side of the field as time expired and fired a shot on goal, but the St. Andrew's keeper corralled the shot against the near goal post and preserved the 1-0 win.
The loss was the first of the year for the Mallards and dropped their season record to 3-1. Worcester will face ESIAC rival Salisbury School on the road next Tuesday. The Mallards cruised past the Dragons, 7-0, in their first meeting of the year back on September 9.


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On the back: "Joyce and Ernie, November 1942."
On the back: "To Mrs and Mr King from Rachel". Saxony Studios isn't included on the ACL database.
This is from an old postcard -- unfortunately, it was apparently never used, as nothing is written on the back to tell us what this gathering was all about.
This photo is another I find intriguing. The photographer was NZ Photo Co. of Wellington (no info on ACL database). So ... what was this chap doing? Where was he? What's he looking at?
Just a glimpse of the lady in the greenhouse. No information on the back, unfortunately -- but whoever she was, she had a green thumb.


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IFC Seoul Creates a World-Class Meeting Space with HARMAN Professional Solutions
May 28, 2019
SEOUL, South Korea—The International Finance Center Seoul recently partnered with TechData Co., Ltd. to install a HARMAN Professional Solutions networked AV system in The Forum at IFC for meetings, conferences and more.
The International Finance Center Seoul (IFC Seoul) is a large commercial complex containing the Conrad Seoul hotel, the IFC Mall and three IFC office buildings. Located inside the complex's smallest building, The Forum at IFC is a world-class meeting space for executive seminars, board meetings and more. In order to meet the needs of various industry professionals, IFC Seoul recently decided to upgrade the existing AV system in The Forum. After consulting with industry-leading distributors TechData Co., Ltd., IFC Seoul installed a HARMAN networked AV system.
"The Forum at IFC Seoul requested a state-of-the-art AV system capable of delivering latency-free video conferencing and audio recording," said Mark Shin, Technical Engineer, TechData Co., Ltd. "In order to create a system powerful enough to meet their needs, yet simple enough for the staff to operate without a professional engineer, we decided to create a solution using HARMAN's class-leading products."
To deliver immersive sound in The Forum, TechData deployed a line array of column loudspeakers, including JBL Intellivox HP-DS170, Intellivox DC115 and CBT 100LA-1 speakers. For added depth, TechData installed JBL Control 18C/T ceiling-mounted loudspeakers. JBL AC15 and EON610 loudspeakers on the walls provide balanced coverage throughout the facilities. The system is powered with Crown XTi 2002 and XTi 1002 amplifiers. A versatile Soundcraft Si Performer 1 mixing console provides advanced processing for audio and DMX signals.
TechData utilized an array of AMX products to provide complete control over the system. AMX NMX-ENC-N1122, NMX-ENC-N1115-WP, NMX-DEC-N12222 and NMX-WP-N1512 processors provide HDMI-quality video and audio over IP. The AMX NMX-ENC H.264 encoder captures live video recordings directly to a USB hard drive. To complete the setup, the AMX SC-N8001 AV control system was installed along with NX-3200, EXB-IRS4, and EXB-REL8 control interfaces. An MSD-1001 wall mount touch panel offers intuitive control over all devices in the network.
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No diff available.Everything started with a blog entry in February 2007 called RSS Everything where I wanted various UNIX-like tools for processing RSS or Atom feeds. Based on some discussions and input from Jean-Etienne Poirrier, here is some test scripts and how to use them.
The current scripts can be downloaded from my git repository : rss-tools git repo
rssdir is a simply-and-dirty script to rssify any directory on the filesystem.
python2.5 /usr/local/bin/rssdir.py --prefix http://www.foo.be/cours/ . >rss.xml
rssmerge.py is a simple script to gather rss feed and merge them in reverse time order. Useful to keep track of recent events.
This is still an early prototype and assume that you have full control of the remote rss feeds (if not you may have some security issues).
TODO : - rss 2.0 and atom output / - full html output / - filter items by keyword
python2.5 --maxitem 30 --output phtml url1 url2 url3
python2.5 rssmerge.py --maxitem 200 --output phtml "http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=journal&tile=AdulauMessyDesk" "http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=31797858@N00&lang=en-us&format=atom" "http://git.quuxlabs.com/?p=adulau/.git;a=rss;opt=--no-merges" "http://www.librarything.com/rss/reviews/adulau"
rsscluster.py is a simple script to cluster items from an rss feed based on a time interval (expressed in number of days). The maxitem is the number of item maximum kept after the clustering. An example use is for del.icio.us where you can have a lot of bookmarks during one day and you want to cluster them in one single item per a defined time slot in RSS or in (X)HTML.
python2.5 rsscluster.py --interval 2 --maxitem 20 "http://del.icio.us/rss/adulau" >adulau.xml
rsscount.py is a simple script to count how many items are in a RSS feed per day. This is used to build the wiki creativity index. There is no limit for url arguments.
python rsscount.py "http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=journal&tile=AdulauMessyDesk&full=1" | sort 20080106 1 20080112 1 20080123 1 20080210 2 20080217 1 20080313 1 20080407 1 20080502 1 20080503 1


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Web Date: April 16, 2012
Pink Slime
News Channels: Analytical SCENE, Biological SCENE, Environmental SCENE
Keywords: Pink slime, beef, food chemistry, ammonia
What a difference a few years make for South Dakota meat processor Beef Products Inc. In 2008, the Washington Post lauded the company's process for eliminating bacteria from beef. For an industry haunted by the specter of Escherichia coli outbreaks from the 1990s, it seemed like a triumph of technology over nature. Today, though, that same process is being vilified by the media and the public. And the company's marquee product, which it calls boneless lean beef or lean finely textured beef (LFTB), has become infamously known by the unappetizing name of "pink slime."
The story of pink slime is a case study in what happens when companies that lack transparency clash with a public that wants to make well-informed food choices and balks at mysterious-sounding food-processing efforts.
The slime (or LFTB, depending on whom you talk to) comes from beef trimmings, says James S. Dickson, a food microbiologist at Iowa State University who has conducted studies in collaboration with Beef Products. After cutting a cow carcass into roasts and steaks, "you end up with these odd-sized pieces of meat," which have high fat content and can be susceptible to bacterial contamination, he says. In the name of reducing waste in beef production, companies including Beef Products and agribusiness giant Cargill turned to chemistry.
At Beef Products, Dickson explains, technicians release the beef from the trimmings by heating trimmings to roughly 100 °F, which liquefies fat. They then separate the fat and protein with a spin on an industrial centrifuge. To kill bacteria, the protein portion is exposed to a puff of ammonia gas. Ammonia reacts with water in the meat to form ammonium hydroxide, raising the processed product's pH to as high as 9.35, according to a 2001 Beef Products study obtained by the New York Times.
"Bacteria can't tolerate extremes in pH and they simply die," Dickson says. The resulting finely textured beef gets frozen and cut into small chips. When the finished product is blended with other trimmings to make ground beef, the level of ammonia that results is about 0.02 g for every 100 g of meat, Beef Products spokesman Rich Jochum tells C&EN by e-mail. That's on par with other foods and is less than what's contained in products such as salami and bleu cheese, according to the University of Michigan's Risk Science Center, citing a 1973 analysis of foods' ammonia content (Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 1973, 26, 487).
Beef Products founder Eldon Roth was the first to patent ammonia as a beef sanitizer, but companies have several ways of making finely textured beef—most methods use food-grade acids such as citric or lactic acids as antimicrobials.
This isn't even Beef Products' first time through the media meat grinder. A 2009 New York Times investigation revealed that its ammonia treatment didn't always finish off bacteria. "While the pH enhancement process is very effective in eliminating pathogens, no process is foolproof," Jochum wrote. The method "is only one step in a multihurdle food-safety system," including a sample testing program used to improve the process and ensure contaminated products don't reach consumers, he adds.
"We're not in the habit of endorsing products or companies, but we've seen no reason to believe that the ammonia process itself is dangerous for consumers," says Sarah Klein, a food-safety attorney for the nutritional watchdog Center for Science in the Public Interest.
"That's not to say that American consumers want it," Klein adds. Safety is one of many factors that can determine food choice, she explains. "The consuming public may say, 'We don't care if it's safe, we don't want it anyway.'" Plenty of other products represent the high-tech marriage of engineering and food, she says. "Pink slime is just the most well-known this month."
In the aftermath of pink slime ire, Department of Agriculture officials on April 4 said they'll grant requests from some meat producers to list lean finely textured beef as an ingredient on packaging. Federal officials had previously agreed with Beef Products that ammonia was a processing agent and didn't need to be listed on labels, according to the 2009 New York Times story. It was a former scientist from USDA, Gerald Zirnstein, who coined the term "pink slime" in disgust over that decision.
"Food isn't just about nutrition, just like politics isn't just about policy," says Robin D. Hanson, a professor who teaches health economics at George Mason University. "There's just an ick factor about the kinds of things that go into our foods."
Though it may be too late to mend pink slime's image, Klein adds, "the industry could do a better job of educating consumers about the benefits of not wasting parts of an animal, to avoid the public outcry that happens when people feel they've been misled."
- Chemical & Engineering News
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Kaley Cuoco Reveals Her Biggest Fashion Blunder
Kaley Cuoco got brutally honest with herself at The Hollywood Reporter and Jimmy Choo's Most Powerful Stylists luncheon Wednesday, where she admitted that there's one beauty blunder she'll never forget.
"I will never do that again!," The Big Bang Theory star tells People about her controversial bangs at this year's SAG Awards. "I got reamed a new A-hole ... That was my faux pas, and because of that, they hated everything: the [Romona Keveza] dress, my shoes, everything."
Pics: Tops & Flops -- The 2013 SAG Awards
She also explains that there was a purpose at the time for the unflattering 'do.
"I had a black eye, so we were trying to hide it," she says. "Next time, if you're going with a black eye or bangs, go with the black eye."
But the perpetually good-natured star has no regrets about going for the hard to pull off look.
Video: Kaley Cuoco Reveals Her 27 Valentine Dates
"I know what I want, so even if everyone said 'Bangs don't look great,' I loved them," she reflects. "I think that on the carpet, they read worse than they did at home … I just accepted it and made fun of myself and moved on. You show up at the next one and you look fabulous and fine and they make fun of someone else."


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ST JOHN'S, Antigua — Test batsman Kraigg Brathwaite has been named Captain of the West Indies Team for the International Cricket Council's Under-19 World Cup in Australia next month. The tournament runs from August 11 to 26.
Brathwaite, a steady opening batsman, has played nine Test matches with four half-centuries. Left-hander John Campbell, who will be Brathwaite's opening partner, was named as Vice Captain. Former West Indies Captain and fast bowling legend Courtney Walsh will again be Team Manager with Roddy Estwick as Head Coach.
Brathwaite and Campbell have formed a good opening combination for the past two years. They opened the batting at the last ICC Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand when the West Indies placed third. The other opener in the squad is Keiron Joseph, a small right-hander who is good against the short ball. The middle-order is strong with left-handers Anthony Alleyne and Akeal Hosein; stylish right-hander Kavem Hodge; as well as reserve wicket-keeper Sunil Ambris and first-choice keeper Seven Katwaroo.
The team includes two fast bowling allrounders — the hard-hitting Kyle Mayers and the hardworking Justin Greaves. There are also three specialist quick bowlers — Marquino Mindley, a lively swing bowler with a smooth action; Jerome Jones, the strongly-built left-armer; and Ronsford Beaton, the loose-limbed six-footer who has played nine first-class matches for Guyana.
The squad is rounded off with two specialist spinners Amir Khan, who bowls leg-breaks and googlies; and the ambidextrous Derone Davis, who bowls left-arm orthodox and is also an outstanding close-to-the-wicket fielder. Hodge is also a part-time left-arm spinner and Alleyne is a part-time off-break bowler.
The West Indies team will depart from Barbados on Tuesday, July 17. They will travel to Brisbane for a camp before the official pre-tournament matches. The Windies have been drawn in Group C alongside India, Zimbabwe and Papua New Guinea in the 16-team biennial event.
Kraigg Brathwaite – Captain (Barbados)
John Campbell – Vice Captain (Jamaica)
Anthony Alleyne (Barbados)
Sunil Ambris – Wicket-keeper (St. Vincent/Windwards)
Ronsford Beaton (Guyana)
Derone Davis (Trinidad & Tobago)
Justin Greaves (Barbados)
Kavem Hodge (Dominica/Windwards)
Akeal Hosein (Trinidad & Tobago)
Jerome Jones (Barbados)
Keiron Joseph (Trinidad & Tobago)
Steven Katwaroo – Wicket-keeper (Trinidad & Tobago)
Amir Khan (Guyana)
Kyle Mayers (Barbados)
Marquino Mindley (Jamaica)
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The Integral was a medieval torture device, likely invented by Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein. Somewhat surprisingly, it is still in use today in many Schools across the globe.
The opposite of the Chainsaw, the Integral takes small pieces that seem to be Nonsense, or just might be dried apples. The Integral follows the concept of the Elizabeth Taylor Series, but then again, who knows?
Oscar Wilde[edit | edit source]
Oscar Wilde, the greatest town crier to ever have lived, has nothing to say on the subject. If he did, he would probably not say it, as he prefers to huff kittens in his spare time. Also, he believes that integrals are for babies (strangely enough, as his agent strongly recommends that he deny the existence of babies.)
Early Implementation[edit | edit source]
When the Integral was first invented, it was applied to victims that had been seized for heresy. Some of this unfortunate number spent the (short) remainder of their lives, screaming, "Noooo...Calculus." Due to the extreme cruelty displayed, the Integral was replaced by other, kinder forms of torture, such as being forced to drink 32 pints of water. Somewhat later, a revolution in torture (as well as the fact that many of the sissies who went soft on felons had died) rendered all previous methods of Integral Flogging or Lynching obsolete.
Currently, the most deadly integral known to man, marmot, and carrier pidgeon is "dcabin/cabin." While many have tried to identify the solution as "ln(abs(cabin))+C", many regurgitate their entrails and vomit profusely before the words escape.
The Other Perspective[edit | edit source]
In the USA, India and 133714nd, the integral has been the subject of a religious cult known as The Holy Order of Calculus Freaks has come to praise the Integral and its counterpart, the derivative. Their holy book is only known as "The Textbook" and is rumoured to contain nothing but equations. The cult members have been accused of being aliens, since no human mind could survive the horror of <latex>\int_0^1 \sin(\tan(x))\,dx</latex>. It even has sin in the equation! These allegations are of course totally unfounded (NOT!). However, it has been proven that a linking of the world's most cool supercomputers would be able to solve it in 12,676,923,764,234 years, give or take a few billenia. Fortunately, these calculus freaks are few and far between. Indeed, only one Uncyclopedia user is one. It is Loopquanta137.
It sucks to the core. The supercomputers aforementioned would have to be constructed with 64 core processors, as 64=(2*L*J)^6, whereas L = love, J = Jesus, and since these are two "touchy feely" words, they cancel. Much in the way that two negatives cancel, the two words of hope and joy must cancel or else this just wouldn't be calculus, now would it?
Multiple Integrals[edit | edit source]
After the raging success of the integral, the world's leading nerds began to discover ways to take the concept further. The Double Integral is not a torture device, but serves two purposes. It can either be a set of fancy poles for strip dancers or it can be used to find the volume under surfaces such as your mom as a function of x and y in 3 space. There is a formal definition involving limits and sigmas and cows, but no one cares. The Triple Integral is a superfluous piece of crap of which Jesus does not approve. Instead of going under your mom, the Triple Integral will cut your mom up into cubes to find the actual volume of him/her.
Line Integrals[edit | edit source]
Caution: Line integrals are known to rapidly draw lines through vector fields, possibly causing bodily harm. Line integrals are for external use only and should not be taken with alcohol.
Toxicology information of the integrals[edit | edit source]
CAS number: x^69-69x+69 ; Classified in the larrythinides family; Use extreme caution due to the quite extreme oxidation involved in the process of integrating some transcendent functions. It is strongly recommended to ask your doctor if integrals are made for you because a black hole will be most likely to be created in your brain if you have never experienced derivatives before integrating. Also, please use integrals responsibly or you may become a physics teacher and want to integrate your wife from the center of your conductor to the infinity.


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LevLane Names Account Manager to Open Atlanta Office
Advertising agency LevLane has hired Laura Reese as account manager at the agency's newly established Atlanta satellite office, where she will be responsible for the coordination of all programs and promotions, and for developing sales concepts, for the seventeen-member Atlanta KFC Advertising Co-op. Previously, Reese was regional broadcast manager for Rubin Postaer & Associates, Atlanta, working primarily on Honda and Acura.
LevLane president David Lane states, "Laura knows the Atlanta DMA inside and out, and that's critical for us. QSR [the quick service restaurant category] is all about having brains in the market: shopping the competition, watching the local TV, being in the thick of it. We're excited about what this office will be able to accomplish for Atlanta's KFCs."
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....as Meeta aptly says - "It's the type of food that picks us up when we are down, warms us when we are feeling lost and cold and blurs out the bad mood. The first mouthful takes us straight back to the familiar, the good; to the time when all was well. "
Yes, I made this dish a zillion times before, but I am never ever bored of it. It is THE thing-fling between me and this dish since childhood and oh, it still continues.. U could say its my FIRST LOVE or Love at first sight (..*taste*)..I still remember the day, my mom made this for me ... *on a Sunday morning*..and since then there was no stopping for both of us...:)
.. and its none other than .... ***** TOMATO RICE *****
Thanks to Meeta, I got another good reason to meet my love and spend some silent, comforting moments with it..:DD
You check out the recipe here, the slight variation is, I used Biryani Pulav Masala, instead of normal Garam Masala!
Also sending this to Mala's "Kid's Food Event" - this being my favorite food since childhood!
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Crocodile tears from the parents of Jihad Jamie?
Ms. Paulin-Ramirez's interest in Islam "came out of left field," said her mother, Christine Holcomb-Mott, in an interview at her home Friday, wearing a blue sweatsuit with a silver cross around her neck.How out of left field?
Mr. Mott, a convert to Islam himself, says he went to Denver to find his stepdaughter but couldn't track her down.This woman is married to a Muslim, but neither she nor her husband can grok where in the world their murder-plotting daughter/step-daughter ever got exposed to this worrisome religion that subducts so many of its followers into terrorism.
Their disgust at daughter Jamie sounds sincere, but their blatant dishonesty about how she could have gotten interested in Islam suggests otherwise. It is possible, however, that The Wall Street Journal's paraphrase is not precise. If put on the spot, Holcomb-Mott would likely clarify that she has no idea how her daughter ever got interested in murder-cult Islam.
There is a way that this could actually happen: if Mr. Mott is some kind of multiculturalist do-gooder who converted to Islam in sympathy with the idea that "Islam was hijacked too" on 9/11. Such a person could have converted without comprehending the well established Islamic pedigree of violent aggressive jihad.
Don't scoff. This same "Islam is a victim too" sentiment is right now allowing a giant Mecca oriented crescent to be built on the Flight 93 crash site. After all, it would just be too horrible to reject the Crescent of Embrace memorial simply because it is in the shape of a giant Islamic crescent, not when Islam itself was amongst the victims on that terrible day. No, we must do the opposite and embrace Islam.
If Mott is thinking the same way, he has hardly gone any further than the Memorial Project. But then it seems that his step daughter took one step further still and actually read the Koran, with its endless commands to slaughter the unbelievers. Thus did an unhappy misfit finally find a home for the vicious vindictiveness that the religion of her birth had kept in check.


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Severe nausea during pregnancy can be fatal, yet very little is known about this condition. Hormonal, genetic and socio-economic factors may all play a role.
Almost all women experience some nausea or vomiting when pregnant. Approximately one out of every hundred suffers from acute nausea during pregnancy (hyperemesis gravidarum) and may need hospital treatment to restore hydration, electrolytes and vitamins intravenously.
"At worst, women may die if they go untreated. Many women find that the condition has an adverse effect on their work and family lives," states Åse Vikanes, senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and specialist in gynaecology and obstetrics.
Making up for insufficient research activity
Hyperemesis came under the spotlight earlier this winter when Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, was hospitalised because of it.
But research projects on this illness have been few and far between. When Dr Vikanes completed her doctoral degree in 2010 with funding from the Research Council of Norway, her thesis was the first in this field in Norway in 70 years.
"This is a relatively common affliction among women and even so it has been difficult to win understanding for the need for research. Not too many years ago, people sincerely believed that the cause could be the woman's subconscious rejection of the child and the child's father. The attitude in part has been that the pregnant woman needs to pull herself together," Åse Vikanes explains.
The real cause behind severe nausea during pregnancy remains unknown and looks to be complex. But there is little to support the idea that the explanation is psychological.
Both hormones and genetics involved
Several studies have shown that elevated levels of oestrogen and the pregnancy hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), may be involved. The likelihood is that hormonal, genetic and socio-economic factors all play a part.
In her doctoral project, Åse Vikanes demonstrated that there is wide ethnic diversity in the occurrence of hyperemesis. In addition, the risk is higher among women whose mothers suffered from the syndrome. Non-smokers with a BMI that is higher or lower than the norm also show a higher tendency to experience severe nausea during pregnancy, whereas smoking appears to provide protection from the nausea.
The occurrence of hyperemesis also varies with the mother's age and the gender of the fetus, with younger mothers carrying baby girls at the greatest risk.
Nutrition and physical activity part of the picture
Dr Vikanes and her colleagues are now working to identify more risk factors linked to hyperemesis and to examine possible consequences of the condition on mother and child. Recent research has actually shown that the mother's diet during pregnancy may be significant to the health of the child later in life.
Dr Vikanes is also involved in projects examining the impact of nutrition, physical activity and what can be referred to as "candidate genes." Candidate genes are genes that may cause an individual to be predisposed to illness -- in this case, hyperemesis.
"We need to learn more about this so we can help women who suffer from this condition to get better treatment," Dr Vikanes concludes.
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This will be mostly wordless. I broke out in hives all over, likely due to eating...something? Current fore runner is some chicken tikki masala, which kills me as that's one of my favorite dishes! So this post is brought to you via Blogging On Benedryl.
Thanksgiving: (By the way, we went with a sausage stuffing recipe that was AWESOME. thanks for the suggestions!)
And post Thanksgiving sewing - I knew that I had ordered way too much white silk this spring when I made my wedding dress, but I figured it could be put to good use making Christmas dresses for the nieces. So this weekend out came some of the white shantung and silk crepe de chine from Susan Khalje's store.
This stuff was a dream to sew and press and I spent a lot of time just holding the silk up to the light and petting it. I'm not the only one who has the sit and fondle the fabric before diving in, right?
I used New Look 6907 for Kate's dress. My sister asked for a plain white dress so that they could add different colored sashes and get more use from it. My favorite part was picking out the laces to use.... I have a weakness for going into MJ and buying lace "because I'll use it someday on little dresses for the nieces."
Here's the insides... I just zigagged the armholes where the lining met instead of using more bias binding. It is just a kids dress, so I didn't want to go TOO crazy.