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Discussion in 'March 2010' started by roscoe36, Nov 3, 2009.
It's tough to win when Chucky doesn't get into the game.
I missed the comeback looking at the tournament in fact when I turned it on, Summers who apparently had been instrumental in the comeback was just fouling Granger on a three point shot and it was downhill from there with Stuckey forcing shots...... but at least we are in the 5th spot temporarily...
This is key. Now, we're heading into DeMarcus Cousins territory.
What a wonderful game, who could ask for anything more. The young fellas played, we competed for 24 minutes, almost won, but Ben Garbage was smart enough to miss enough wide open shots in crunchtime to seal the loss. Stcukey looked really good out there tonight, I'll write more in depthly about this in the Will Bynum: Starting Point Guard? thread. Great Loss tonight fellas, and I'm SOOOOOO sincere about that.
Of note, both Ben Wallace and Stuckey returned to action. And they both came off the bench. I like that. Why ever just throw someone back in coming off an injury / illness. Stuckey did his best impression of the Microwave (at his best) upon entering the game. Summers was in for a spell in the first half, and we made up ground there. Ground that was lost quickly when he left the game. In the 2nd half, most of a 24 point deficit was overcame while Summers was in the game. We actually took a one point lead. I am sure someone here will say that I am calling Summers some kind of saviour. No, but, I will say he should have been playing thruout this season. Summers has a lot going for him and should not be buried on the end of the bench. Tonight, Daye barely played. So the coach still has not used all three of the rookies extensively for a game lately. JJ was overmatched in this one, but hey, I guess he has to learn to fight vs. bigger, stronger opponents. Of course, if Kuester cared to win this one, he could have went to Summers a lot sooner, who fit this game much better. So who was out there for the big comeback? Stuckey, Gordon, Tay, Summers, JMAX. For the bulk of it. OK, probably an historical moment for the Piston franchise - Rip Hamilton did not score any points in this game, and barely shot the ball. Nor was he anywhere to be seen at the end of the game. Not anywhere near the end. Heck, did he even play any in the 4th quarter? (Don't think so.) Well, good to see Stuckey and Ben Wallace back. Good to see Summers get some playing time. The 15 point straight rally in the 4th was fun to watch. But hey, what I would really love to see is Kuester coach another complete game. In this game quicker adjustments were needed. But if he does not care about winning - then play the rooks. Can't go wrong there. The more the rooks play - especially if played to matchup well, the more we can win. Or is that why they don't play more in the first place?
As long as the losses are competitive, I can live with them too. .
I was worried that the Pacers were going to show us how tanking is done by both dominating and losing the game. Shouldn't coming in last in a division carry more weight than having a worse record but not coming in last? Maybe I just miss Sheed, but I am rooting for the Pistons to get one of the headcase/enigmatic big men in the draft. I like the sound of Cousins, but do not like that he is apparently not overly athletic.
When people say Cousins has potential, in my head I finish the sentence with "to gain 30 pounds in an offseason and fall in love with his outside shot."
el Cousins is 18. If he can play as well as Celtics Rasheed, then the sky is the limit for that kid. I say take him.
UH OH. When Ernie sees you talking smack about Sheed, he will be all over you like Kevin Federline on Britney Spears.
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This problem appeared after the announcement of the new thread prefixes (read more here ==> Thread Prefixes) and each time I do a search of threads started by me (from the 'My Profile/Find latest started threads' - this is an automated search) the results shown are mainly threads started this year (or at lest the last post is from this year). Before these changes I always found all my threads; I used to do this to regularly save/update all my threads in MHT format in case infos are lost or need to use it offline.
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By: Representative Steny Hoyer
With all eyes on Washington over how to avert the looming fiscal cliff before the end of the year, critics of the public sector have been arguing that pay and benefits for federal employees ought to be among the first and deepest cuts. Like a broken record, those who continually disparage the important role played by our public employees again and again ask those employees to contribute to deficit reduction without asking the same of other groups.
Already, federal employees and retirees have contributed $15 billion in savings over 10 years through an increased pension contribution. A two-year pay freeze that has been in effect since 2011 will produce an additional $60 billion in savings. And the reduction and delay of a 2013 pay increase included in the current continuing resolution will yield a further $28 billion. That's $103 billion in cuts to one group of middle-class workers.
Yet further cuts to federal employees' pay and benefits have been proposed to offset a number of pieces of legislation, including highway funding, a payroll tax holiday extension and student loan rate reductions.
Much of the debate about the federal workforce is driven by the false stereotype that federal employees are overpaid, underworked and concentrated mainly around Washington. On the contrary: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, federal employees are paid less than their private-sector counterparts.
BLS compares the actual job duties of federal employees with similar duties of private-sector employees. In contrast, many of the think tanks criticizing the pay of federal workers use a "human capital" approach that instead compares particular characteristics, such as education, race and gender of federal workers with those of private-sector workers. As noted in a recent report by the Government Accountability Office, such comparisons are not appropriate for setting pay, and they reflect higher levels of discrimination -- especially gender-based pay discrimination -- found in the private sector that the federal government should not emulate.
I represent thousands of federal employees in Maryland's Fifth District, but people often forget that most federal employees do not work in the Washington metro area. In fact, 85 percent of federal employees live in other parts of the country. They help the victims of superstorm Sandy in New Jersey, fight wildfires in Colorado, protect our borders in Texas and Maine, support uniformed military personnel at bases across the country and fulfill many other obligations in communities from coast to coast.
Over the past two years, federal employees have repeatedly faced threats of a government shutdown that would stop their paychecks with virtually no notice. The looming automatic budget cuts in January would almost certainly require unpaid furloughs in most agencies.
Instead of treating federal employees as a convenient offset, we should recognize them for what they are: an outstanding asset. As budget talks continue, we must recognize the $103 billion contribution that federal employees have already made, and ensure that future deficit reduction asks everyone to contribute his fair share toward building a better future for our country.
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Brest, a port city in western France sits on two hills divided by the Penfeld River. A magnificent road, the Rade de Brest, spans 14 miles (23 km) and is protected from the sea by the Quélern Peninsula, and the Goulet Passage (about 1–2 miles wide [1.5–3 km]) leads to open water.
Cardinal de Richelieu decided in 1631 to make it a major naval base. It was improved by Jean-Baptiste Colbert and fortified by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The former instituted the Inscription Maritime, still functioning, which inducted Breton fishermen (18–48 years old) into the Naval Reserve. In exchange for this obligation, the Inscription offers them family security for life. Brest has been the seat of the French Naval Academy since 1830.
Brest was the debarkation point for U.S. troops during World War I. Afterward its importance as a naval and transatlantic passenger port increased. The Germans, who occupied it in June 1940, built concrete submarine pens and used the port as a base against Allied shipping. The city, almost completely destroyed during World War II, has been rebuilt, its port restored and re-equipped. The naval port, behind the Lanion breakwater, is in part excavated from the rock, and some of the installations are in deep caves in the cliffs. The commercial port, which has large shipfitting installations, is separated from the city by the Cours Dajot, an excellent promenade constructed on the old ramparts in 1769 by convicts from the notorious prison hulks of Brest (closed in the 19th century when Devil's Island and the penal colony of French Guiana were established). It is, with Toulon, one of the two major bases of the French navy.
Benjamin Reginald Groom, born to Joseph Sanford Groom and Anna Cotton in 1897, joined the US Navy at some point during WWI. He was stationed on the U.S.S. Vermont and traveled to France where he purchased this postcard. Shown in the 1920 U.S. Census on line 84 he was only 22 years old when enumerated with the population of the U.S.S. Vermont.
Although he didn't address the postcard to anyone, it was found in his sister, Annie Mae Groom Stone's, belongings along with several other postcards he had purchased while serving overseas.
The back of the Brest postcard has his boyish handwriting in a brown ink. The words Imprimeries Reunies de Nancy is printed vertically on the far left side. I assume this means it was printed in the city of Nancy, France. The card is 5 1/4" x 3 1/4" and is a CARTE POSTALE. Webster's definition: a card on which a message may be sent by post, often with a picture on one side (a picture postcard).
"Here are some cards that I bought in France that may interest you. this is the Harbor where we anchored. I've been to this store twice."
The Festival of Postcards: Wheels has encouraged me to look for a second meaning to some of the images I have in my photo album. At first glance this card may not seem to belong to this May's challenge, but I see that a trolley or streetcar is waiting there on the ramp to access the Rade de Brest. I can imagine my ancestor, Reginald, catching the car along with some buddies from the U.S.S. Vermont and heading into the little town to shop. It must have been then when he purchased the postcard. At this, the close of WWI, the wheels of change were moving all around the busy Naval port and the whole of France, indeed the entire world.
Evelyn Yvonne Theriault is hosting this Festival of Postcards. She shares her Canadian Family's Vintage Postcard Collection and encourages the use of postcards in the field of family history.
Source Information on Brest taken from: Brest. (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved May 19, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/78900/Brest


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School Board analyzes post-retirement program
By Tom Lappas, Citizen Editor 09/23/12
A program that pays retired Henrico school system employees a percentage of their final annual salaries in exchange for their part-time work within the system saves considerable money on substitute teacher expenses but could provide even more value to the system with several adjustments.
That was the conclusion of an in-depth analysis completed by county and school system finance officials, who presented their findings to the School Board Sept. 13.
At the beginning of the current fiscal year in July, the board increased the requirements of retirees who participate in the Post-Retirement Earnings Plan (PREP) program, mandating that they work at least 28 days during the school year in order to receive pay equal to 20 percent of their final annual paychecks. Eligible retirees may participate in the program for a maximum of seven years; 388 participate currently.
It was the third change made in the past three years by the board, which is seeking to squeeze more value from the 32-year-old program while reducing its annual cost. The PREP budget has dropped from its peak of $8.9 million in 2009 to $5.6 million during the current fiscal year. Prior to this year's change, PREP participants received 22 percent of their final paycheck in exchange for working 24 days a year.
The program was created in 1980 as a way to provide a benefit to employees, encourage early retirement and save the school system money. During its budget process this spring, the School Board sought specific data to better determine the effectiveness and value of the program. But last week's work session was proof that categorizing that value is a challenging exercise.
Though it's relatively easy to determine the cost savings that results from using PREP retirees as substitute teachers – since there is a standard rate of pay for substitutes – it's much more difficult to determine the value of administrative retirees who perform a variety of other responsibilities, Henrico Finance Director Gene Walter told the School Board.
Walter and his staff studied 507 PREP participants who entered the program during the past seven years and whose replacements were hired immediately upon their retirement. (The study didn't include nearly 50 other participants whose former positions were eliminated, he said.)
Of those 507, 317 were retired teachers whose combined participation during those seven years saved the system $1.18 for each $1 it spent on the program, Walter said.
But Walter and his analysts could not determine a dollar-to-dollar estimate for the other 190 participants because their roles within the system were less defined and often entailed duties for which the system wouldn't have hired temporary help.
School system officials recommended that the board consider a number of changes to the program that would make it easier to determine a clear value for each dollar spent in the program, including:
• assigning every participant to serve either as a substitute teacher (if qualified) or to fill another capacity with specific and direct calculable benefit to the system (such as SOL remediation);
• capping the maximum allowable salary to a participant at $90,000 annually;
• increasing the number of required years of Henrico service from 10 years to 15 years for eligible retirees and reducing the number of required years of service in the Virginia Retirement System from 16 to 15;
• requiring that interested participants notify the system of their intent by Dec. 1 annually and begin their participation the following July 1 (as opposed to the current system, which permits entry throughout the year – a minimum of 30 days after retirement – and makes budgeting for the program less predictable);
• grandfathering all current participants under the current standards until they have completed their seven years or dropped out of the program.
"We have determined that there's a large responsibility on everyone's part here to develop something that's going to be very beneficial and cost-effective and also value-added to the school system," Superintendent Pat Russo said during the work session. "That's where we want to move this program."
Current guidelines require that participants be at least 50 years old without having attained the age for full, unreduced Social Security benefits. The program initially was designed in part to serve as a bridge between retirement and Social Security, HCPS Finance Director Kevin Smith told the board. Using current standards, 854 current school system employees would be eligible to participate in the PREP program if they retired, HCPS Human Resources Executive Director Howard Banks said.
The board is expected to discuss the recommendations and the PREP program again at a meeting next month.
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Richmond Montessori School, an independent Montessori school for children ages 2 to 14, recently earned reaccreditation from the Virginia Association of Independent Schools. The VAIS accreditation program is one of only a few recognized at the national level through the National Association of Independent School's Commission on Accreditation and is also recognized and approved by the Virginia Board of Education through the Virginia Council for Private Education. > Read more.
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Neil Burton, the founder of Strangeways Brewing in Henrico, will serve on the 2017-18 Leadership Council of The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild (VCBG). Burton will share the chairmanship of the Marketing & Tourism Committee with Kevin Erskine of Coelacanth Brewing. Other local brewers in leadership positions include Eric McKay of Hardywood Park Craft Brewery (VCBG chair), Hunter Smith of Champion Brewing Company (co-chair of the Government Affairs Committee) and Kate Lee of Hardywood (co-chair of the Quality Committee). > Read more.
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James River Juvenile Detention Center will celebrate its largest class of high school graduates June 27, as 13 residents receive their high school diploma or GED certificate.
The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. at the detention center, 3650 Beaumont Road in Powhatan County. The graduates will mark their academic milestone by walking across a stage in a cap and gown before an audience of family members. A reception will follow. > Read more.
The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. at the detention center, 3650 Beaumont Road in Powhatan County. The graduates will mark their academic milestone by walking across a stage in a cap and gown before an audience of family members. A reception will follow. > Read more.
Henrico School Board selects redistricting Option E
Citizen Staff Reports 06/23/2017 EducationGeneral News
JUNE 23, 10:30 A.M. – The Henrico County School Board Thursday concluded its latest redistricting process by selecting a plan for middle school redistricting that will impact a number of students in the western and northern parts of the county, as well as a few in Eastern Henrico.
The process sought to reduce overcrowding at Hungary Creek Middle School, create room at Wilder Middle School for a gifted academy and address the poverty level disparity among some middle schools. It will impact about 775 students, according to school system officials. > Read more.
'Senior Cool Care' program to help older adults in Metro Richmond
Citizen Staff Reports 06/22/2017 FeaturesGeneral News
For the 27th year, Senior Connections, The Capital Area Agency on Aging is helping older adults combat summer heat through a program now called "Senior Cool Care" (formerly the Fan Care program) that provides fan and air conditioning units for eligible senior citizens.
The program is available to low-income older adults age 60 and older who reside in the City of Richmond and the counties of Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent and Powhatan. > Read more.
'Senior Cool Care' program to help older adults in Metro Richmond
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Teens and Sexting
Sexting, the combination of the words sex and texting, is the practice of electronically sending explicit images or messages from on person to another. There has been a lot of media attention in recent years looking at legal cases involving teens and sexting as well as cases of bullying or harassment of the teen who's picture is spread beyond the intended recipient.
But data on teen sexting has been lagging and different authors site numbers somewhere between 1% of teens to 30% of teens who have engaged in sexting. There is now some new real data out of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston that not only looks at the prevalence of sexting among high school students, the study also looked as the relationship between sexting and sex and risky sexual behaviors. This was a really interesting study!
The study looked at 948 high school students from 7 public schools in Houston area, over a 2 year period. Participants ranged in age from 14-19 years and were in either 10th or 11th grade.
So, 28% (that's more than 1 in 4) of teens reported having sent a naked picture of themselves via text or e-mail (sexting). There were no differences between the number of boys and girls who sent a sext. However, 68% of girls reported having been asked to send a sext, compared with 42% of boys. But, 46% of boys had asked someone to sext compared to 21% of girls. Of those who were asked to send a sext, girls (27%) more often reported being bothered a great deal by this than boys (2%). Almost all girls and half of the boys were bothered a little bit by having been asked to sext.
Age also played a role in sexting with the proportion of teens who reported having been asked to send a sext peaking at 16-17 years of age (61%) and declining in those 18 years and older (53%).
Lastly, for both boys and girls, teens who had sexted were also more likely to have begun dating and to have had sex than those who did not sext. The study also showed that teen girls who engaged in sexting also engaged in more high risk sexual behaviors, admitting to multiple partners and the use of drugs or alcohol before sex.
Yes this is yet another topic for discussion among parents and their teens and also for pediatricians to discuss with their adolescent patients. Office visits keep getting longer; discussing sexting may also be a way for doctors to discuss sexual behaviors with teen patients.


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Use of Sildenafil (Viagra) to Alter Fatigue, Functional Status and Impaired Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients With CFS
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified February 2009 by Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science.
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Use of Viagra to Alter Symptoms in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
|Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
|Drug: Sildenafil (Viagra) Drug: Placebo
|Phase 4
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Phase 4 Study of the Use of Sildenafil (Viagra) to Alter Fatigue, Functional Status and Impaired Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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MedlinePlus related topics: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Fatigue
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- The principal aim of this study is to determine whether chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is due to inadequate blood flow to the brain and to test a medication, Viagra, which should help increase blood flow to the brain and improve the symptoms of CFS. [ Time Frame: 6 weeks ]
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|December 2010
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Double Blind study- one group will be on Sildenafil (Viagra) and the other group will be on placebo.
Drug: Sildenafil (Viagra)
25 mg tid of either Sildenafil(Viagra) or Placebo for first week. 50 mg tid of either Sildenafil (Viagra)or Placebo for second week. 100 mg tid of either Sildenafil (Viagra)or Placebo for 3rd,4th, 5th and 6th week of study participation.
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Drug: Placebo
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Use of Sildenafil (Viagra) to Alter Fatigue, Functional Status and Impaired Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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|18 Years to 49 Years (Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients meeting the CDC definition of CFS.
- All races, ethnicities, socio-economic status (SES), and gender
- Age greater than 18 (because of concerns about radioactivity, we and the Cedars-Sinai and Harbor-UCLA IRBs have decided not to enroll subjects below the age of 18).
- Age less than 50. Because of concern of sildenafil exacerbating coronary artery disease, we will only enroll patients younger than 50.
- Able to provide informed consent.
- Willingness to be off all medicines and supplements for 3 weeks prior to the study.
- Patients with psychiatric disorders (see below) will be included, if they could be off their medications, and if their psychiatric diagnosis clearly occurred after their fatigue symptoms began.
- Patients with concurrent fibromyalgia will be allowed to participate if the meet diagnostic criteria for CFS.
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- Disabilities that would prevent them from participating in the study.
- Current use of prescription medicines (starting at 3 weeks prior to the study) and supplements (starting at 1 weeks prior to the study) except acetaminophen or aspirin. This includes herbal supplements and vitamins.
- Existing medical illnesses, such as heart disease, hypertension, cancer, rheumatological diseases, endocrinopathies or hormone replacement therapy, seizure disorders, severe obesity (BMI > 32 kg/m2),
- Severe psychiatric disorders including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia and previous or current diagnosis of alcohol or substance abuse within the past year. Patients with depression of such severity as to warrant treatment with anti-depressants will be excluded.
- Current abuse of illicit drugs or heavy ethanol use.
- Pregnant women will be excluded because of radioactivity exposure from the SPECT scans.
- Abnormal EKG
- Abnormal CBC, blood chemistries, thyroid function tests, and HIV, ANA, RF and ESR tests.
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Muscular Diseases
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Neuromuscular Diseases
Sildenafil Citrate
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Enzyme Inhibitors
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National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) expresses outrage over portrayal of sexual violence at Super Bowl
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Date: February 2, 2004
Contact: Delilah Rumburg, Executive Director NSVRC 717-728-9740, Ext. 119. Susan Lewis, Communications Director (NSVRC) 877-379-3895, Ext. 102.
Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) expresses outrage over portrayal of sexual violence at Super Bowl.Enola, PA:
"Where's the outrage?" asks Delilah Rumburg, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR) and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). Consensual or not the breast baring, halftime show at the Super Bowl portrayed an act of sexual violence that should have offended and outraged everyone. Surprisingly, not everyone recognized the act as anything but entertainment, missing the real "story," of sexual violence. In most, if not all states the act of ripping a dress and exposing a breast is an indecent assault. Yet, entertainment goes too far when it desensitizes millions of viewers, especially children and teens, to acts of sexual violence portrayed as acceptable behavior. "Such a portrayal sends a message that sexual assault is okay and if you want it, you take it," said Rumburg. She expressed deep concern over how such a lewd and tasteless act was tolerated and not recognized for what it was, sexual violence. She continued, "the Super Bowl brings families and viewers of all ages together to watch one of the biggest televised sporting events of the year. For some it's about football, for others the advertisements but for everyone who tunes in, it's about entertainment." In wake of yesterday's incident, CBS, Justin Timberlake and nearly everyone involved have offered apologies. Yet according to Rumburg, "the real damage is not easily remedied because the performance sent a reverberating message that sexual violence is tolerable, and as a result, further imprints its acceptance into our culture."
Today, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced its intention to investigate the incident. FCC Chairman, Michael Powell, said in a statement about the Super Bowl telecast that the "celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt. Our nation's children, parents and citizens deserve better."
If you share in this outrage, Rumburg encourages you to express your view and hold those who are accountable, accountable. "Try writing a letter to those involved in this production such as CBS, MTV, AOL, Janet Jackson, and Justin Timberlake. Do not forget your consumer power!


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Our fourth annual compilation of the current year's most notable technology-related 25th anniversaries includes Microsoft's release of Windows 1.0, registration of the first dot-com domain names, the founding of AOL, the publication of Richard Stallman's GNU Manifesto, and the first fatal attack by the Unabomber. (With a couple of not-so-techie odd-balls tossed in for fun.) The press will revisit many of them one by one over the next 12 months, but here they are today, neatly assembled for your perusal.
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Last year the country of Japan suffered a devastating disaster of unspeakable proportions. A massive earthquake on the eastern coast of the country triggered a deadly tsunami that caused the flooding of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Three dominos fell at once, resulting in a significant and tragic loss of life and property. I visited Japan earlier this year. As I traveled throughout the Tokyo area, I couldn't see any evidence of these disasters. I asked several residents of the city and all told me that the earthquake did not affect the rest of Japan very much. They all discussed how ready Japan was for earthquakes, having suffered many over the centuries. It was in Tokyo that I learned that not many people actually died as the result of the earthquake. Most of the deaths were the result of drowning in the flood waters created by the tsunami. Over and over again, the people I met wanted to talk about how well their buildings were designed to resist the destructive force of earthquakes.
In 2003 a much smaller earthquake struck Iran. Measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, the Bam earthquake had much less energy but was more destructive than the 2011 Japanese earthquake, which had a magnitude of 9.0. (Data provided by United States Geological Survey.)
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text: Asia will wield more global power than the US and Europe combined by 2030, a forecast from the US intelligence community has found. Within two decades China will overtake the US as the world's largest economy, the report adds. It also warns of slower growth and falling living standards in advanced nations with ageing populations. Global Trends 2030, issued to coincide with Mr Obama's second term, says it aims to promote strategic thinking. Published every four years, the report from the National Intelligence Council (NIC) aims to draw together a wide sweep of "megatrends" driving transformation in the world. 'Slow relative decline' The NIC suggests that by 2030, Asia will have more "overall power" than the US and Europe combined - taking into account population size, gross domestic product (GDP), military spending and investment in technology. The National Intelligence Council says it does not believe China will become a superpower like the US "China alone will probably have the largest economy, surpassing that of the United States a few years before 2030," the report says. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20671917#TWEET437101


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Would be fun to see pics of boxes y'all have made. :)
Quote from: lotsobees on May 07, 2009, 12:07:38 AMWould be fun to see pics of boxes y'all have made. :)
It seems like quite a few of the more experienced beeks build their own supers, brood boxes, frames, bottom boards, etc. I had the chance to watch someone build frames using a assembly fixture/jig.
It looked pretty simple. I'm guessing that assembling supers, brood boxes and the rest of the basic hive isn't too difficult.Assuming that you have the time, ..... is it worth the effort in building your own hives, using purchased parts?By doing so, can you build a better hive ? (i.e. better workmanship, screws & glue vs. just nails, etc.)What have been your experiences?
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Bryan Bell, AIA, describes his practice as "public interest architecture in a professional, for-profit firm." This business model, he explains, allows him to provide good design to a wider range of people and still make a decent living. A past Harvard Loeb Fellow and recent Latrobe Prize winner, Bell discussed the research conducted for these grants and how it affected his work as well as how other architects can get involved.
Bell's presentation centered on strategies that he compiled as a result of his experience and extensive research into public interest architecture. He surveyed nearly 400 AIA members and conducted 150 interviews with architects doing this type of work including Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, and Michael Pyatok, FAIA, both of whom also presented at Reinvention. Bell distilled that wealth of information into nine ways that architects or firms can become successfully involved in designing for the 15 percent:
- Expanding firm roles and services
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- Demonstrate value of architect-designed buildings in the social arena
- Create prototypes—research
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The SEED Network was Bell's last topic. SEED stands for Social, Economic, and Environmental Design and the network offers third-party certification that takes into account more than just sustainability. He founded SEED to bring a professional standard to socially responsible design so architects can communicate to clients and the community what they'll get, which he hopes will eventually build stronger public trust in architect-designed buildings. The program allows architects to document in quantifiable ways the results of their designs. "SEED brings design rigor to all levels of a building," Bell explains, "not just green aspects."
The SEED Network offers a free tool that walks architects through the certification process and training courses are available through the Public Interest Design Instituteweaetxdyvaydzcwq, yet another organization created by Bell.
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Marist's Historic Cornell Boathouse
Without question the campus athletic facilities with the greatest amount of history in the Marist Athletics Department are the boathouses, located on campus, which sit on the banks of the Hudson River. Currently, two houses exist. The first is the original boathouse once occupied by Cornell University's crew teams during their annual training and racing at the IRA National Championship Regatta, which was held in Poughkeepsie from the late 19th century until 1949. The second boathouse is currently home to the Marist men's and women's rowing programs. The Marist boathouse, which stands on the former site of the University of California and University of Washington boathouses, is adjacent to the Cornell boathouse.
Completed in 2009, Marist's historic Cornell Boathouse is a two-story building which remains as a functional boathouse on the first floor, while the second level plays host to a wide variety of campus events. The boathouse has a number of original features despite the remodeling. There is a plaque commemorating the dedication of the structure that hangs above a refurbished gas fireplace. Also, the second floor is decorated with wooden beams overhead, which provided the original structure to the boathouse in the 19th century.
There are a number of shells on the first floor, including "The Jonah and Joan Sherman," a four-seat vespoli, which was dedicated in September 2008 at Longview Park. Finished with all hardwood floors, the second story of the Cornell Boathouse is a popular meeting area for the entire campus. The room has played host to luncheons, meetings and other events for the entire Marist community.
Marist acquired the historic Cornell boathouse from the university of which it is named in 1977, as part a deal with the City of Poughkeepsie. This would enable local high school rowing programs to have access to the facility. This stipulation remained in effect until 2002. A five-year restoration began in 2004. The process began with the addition of windows and replacing outer shingles. During the process, workers tore down inner walls, installed insulation, replaced the deck, repainted the ceiling beams, and added an elevator.
1939 photo of Boathouse Row. From left to right, Cornell University Boathouse (still in use), University of California Boathouse (no longer standing) and the University of Washington Boathouse (no longer standing-site now used by Marist College crews).


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Weren't temperatures warmer than today during the "Medieval Warm Period"?
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When Charles was 32 years old he married the very young Polly Sapp, daughter of John Sapp and Elizabeth King. Polly was born in
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In the Autobiography of Phillip Wade Hampton Richards, Mr. Richards states, "My father's father was Charles Richards, was raised in Alabama, but came to Texas May 1833; was in the Mexican War, with Sam Houston; was killed by a horse on the streets of old San Augustine in 1838."
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Well, the literature on the website implies a tour is almost guaranteed in this cat but in the four years my buddy has done it, they've not skinned up once. This year was no difference. If you had a group of six and no one wanting the skin, I'm positive they wouldn't force it on the group even if skinning was good idea. They certainly have some sick lines accessed with hikes and even belying in but I'm not sure the snow conditions that would make them accessible. Despite the upside down snowpack, flat light, and getting 10-20cm each day for my three days out there, we rode very interesting and challenging terrain right off the cat...albeit mostly in the trees.
The snow was the most active I've personally witnessed. On the last day with all the new snow, 30-40cm slabs would break off the top of every unsupported roll or cliff if you cut it. We were very aware of slough and where your buddy was. We didn't really do any steep pitches outside the trees except the occasional couloir/chute that they manage often. We never felt in danger and the amounts of snow sliding were not the type to get you buried...just might knock you over or into a tree.
This was my first Multi-Day cat trip. I've been to FWA and the cat operation right off the resort in Revelstoke and both were day trips. The lodge here is about a 2.5 hour bus then cat ride from the #1 Highway and they only do 3 or 4 day trips at Mustang. There is WiFi at the lodge and a sat phone. Everything was first class and they apparently keep getting better each year. Safety briefing/beacon training was good. Everyone wears a pack all the time. An added bonus and new this year was that each person gets a real VHF radio (not mickey mouse FRS) and each group has their own channel. This is a great thing as you can imagine.
Staff were all great, rooms were more then adequate, and everything was clean. The food was really great...breakfast to dinner and the après appetizers was top rate. For lunch, they setup a large buffet and you make whatever you want to bring on the cat.
In this cat (maybe all) its all about skiing/riding. They cater to the strongest in the group not the weakest and warn that if you are out of your element, they'll let you know. If your fitness is not up the task, they suggesting sitting early or often instead of holding up the group with spent legs on the last runs or having a fall.
Our lead guide was awesome and we kept the same one all three days. Dude is also an engineer and builds roads and glades as well. Notably, he helped design and build the course for the Red Bull Ultra Natural event at Baldface, his home mountain.
The typical terrain for us was trees with mostly a black diamond pitch (35-40deg) with occasional sections much steeper. Our runs were littered with big rollovers or cliff bands and even some pillow lines. I would say there were probably no mandatory airs in they runs we did but if you were comfortable doing that it sure made it more enjoyable and faster then looking for an alternate route. If you were looking for air, the guides certainly knew where to get it and you could likely pick your poison from 10 to 35 footers. We also did a few couloirs and chutes that are always fun.
Given the conditions and visibility, we rode some of the same runs that the other cats did but I think the difference was that we didn't avoid the steeper and more interesting sections and the guide really had confidence that we could billygoat out of most situations if the need arose. There was not much hand holding and we were really only warned about life threatening features Other then that, it was mostly...here's what you can expect, see you at the bottom.
I spend every weekend at Fernie throughout the winter season and get a lot of good powder days. Lodge experience aside, I can honestly say that these three days were likely my best on the snow ever. The snow and even the somewhat limited terrain were simply awesome. I think the incremental cost for the steep chutes cat is worth it if you are that type of rider. We had 12-13 runs on both the short days and got 16 runs on the full second day. Likely could have done another but the cat was running out of gas...seriously. Its the kind of thing that can ruin you for resort riding forever.
I took some video and always try to find time to put an edit together for myself. The footage is likely not great as the focus turns to riding not filming once you get out there....especially with a shitty GoPro Hero 3 that keeps freezing up and needs to have the battery pulled constantly.
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Jefferson County on Tuesday granted a decade-long grace period on a loan of more than $6.4 million to an undeveloped metropolitan district for construction of the C-470 and Alameda interchange.
Green Tree Metropolitan District, which is governed by at least one developer who has contributed substantially to Jeffco Republican campaigns, borrowed the money in 2007 from the county to help construct the $17 million interchange.
Some ninety-one golfers took to the ice Sunday morning at Evergreen Lake during the inaugural Ice Golf Tournament.
The ice popped and cracked beneath the golfers' feet as tennis balls — used in place of golf balls — bounced haphazardly around the course, occasionally making their way into the numbered holes drilled a few inches into the ice.
"It's great that they're doing this, and it's super-fun," said Jordan Alexander Owens of Evergreen.
Since the first of the year, two dangerous house fires have broken out in fireplaces in Genesee and burned through the walls to the outside, generating enough smoke and flame to attract the attention of passing motorists.
Carlton Babb, chief of the Genesee Fire Department, is urging residents in Genesee Foundation, Genesee Village and Chimney Creek to have their fireplaces and chimneys inspected by a certified chimney inspector for buildup and wear at least annually.
After 20 years as a successful career woman in the an era when women were still a novelty in the business world, Kim Rowley decided to trade in her single life in Los Angeles to concentrate on her marriage.
She left the West Coast and joined her husband in a more low-key existence in the resort-like retreat of Evergreen. An enthusiastic golfer, Rowley was twice named women's champion of the Hiwan Golf Club.
Over the next 10 years, cities and special districts can expect to get less grant money from the Jefferson County Open Space Division as the agency faces the reality of a not unexpected, but substantially diminished, nest egg.
A large portion of the $160 million in bond money authorized in 1998 to fund acquisitions has been spent, meaning there is a lot less available for buying up raw land.
A Golden-based grassroots group opposed to the proposed Jefferson Parkway drew about 400 people to a meeting Jan. 18 in the auditorium of the American Mountaineering Center in Golden.
The toll-road plan is being scrutinized in the wake of Jefferson County's offer to help buy $5 million of open space (Section 16) along Colorado 93 in exchange for Boulder dropping its opposition to the highway.
The 19-year-old Evergreen man who pleaded guilty Nov. 3 to murdering his sister in their home on Hilltop Drive on April 8, 2010, has been sentenced to 75 years in prison.
"This is clearly a tragedy for everyone involved," Jefferson County District Judge Margie Enquist said at a hearing on Jan. 21.
As outlined in the plea deal reached in November, Zachariah Santaguida will serve 48 years for second-degree murder and 27 years for second-degree kidnapping, to be served consecutively. He could have received as much as 85 years.
Jefferson County Commissioner Kevin McCasky announced Jan. 19 he will be stepping down from his elected position to accept a job as president and CEO of the Jefferson Economic Council.
McCasky, 50, a Republican whose term would have run through 2012, had previously sat on the JEC's board as a representative of the county. His hiring was unanimously approved Jan. 19 at the nonprofit's board meeting.
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An Evergreen man has been arrested on suspicion of Internet luring of a minor.
Ryan Michael Lafferty, 33, was arrested by Jefferson County district attorney investigators Jan. 10 and charged with Internet luring of a child and attempted sexual assault on a child. Lafferty posted $1,500 bond the next day. A preliminary hearing is set for Feb. 11.
According to the arrest affidavit, Lafferty was arrested after allegedly communicating by Internet with Jefferson County investigators who were posing as a 14-year-old girl from Littleton.
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I've heard some mixed reviews about Kahr's reliability. So I would like to hear from people that actually own a Kahr as to how reliable they are. If you had to do it over again, would you still buy a Kahr?
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I've heard some mixed reviews about Kahr's reliability. So I would like to hear from people that actually own a Kahr as to how reliable they are. If you had to do it over again, would you still buy a Kahr?
I have also heard stories. I bought a PM9, and LOVE it. My wife took it away from me the 2nd day.She loves it too. We had 3 FTE in the first 2 magazines. After that, it has been flawless for over 800 rounds. My wife trusts it for her CCW, and I am buying another one for my CCW. :smt023
I have the P9 and have put about 300 rounds of hardball through it, with not a single hiccup.
I owned and carried a Kahr K9 for a time. It was 100% reliable in a couple thousand rounds, and I am not exactly famous for my meticulous gun-cleaning regimen. I ended up selling the K9, but for reasons totally unrelated to its reliability.
I own a P9 and carry it as my summer CCW since it is so light and compact. I have had a ejection failure or two once the gun has had about 50 or so rounds through it but it may be the ammo I use at the range.(I get the cheap stuff for that) Other than that I love the weapon and I always have it with me with expensive rounds in it. :)
about 300 rounds through a used P40, ball and hollow point. No problem.
Mixed results for me. I own a K40. Couple of hiccups during break in period (first 200-300rds) but after that......sweet. My department just T&E'd the PM9 and P9. The P9 FTRB constantly. Even after swabbing, wiping, lubing. We basically failed it. A friend of mine bought one and had the same problem. Could be flukes, but I think their steel ones are built much better. If it had functioned properly I would have liked it. Good ergonomics, controllable recoil, etc. Accurate as well for its size.
I too had heard of reliability issues on the PM9. I have owned one for 6 months now and have fed over 700 rounds of fmj, jhp and powerball (my choice for everyday carry) with 0 failures of any kind. The first few hundred rounds I thought this little gun would never loosen up, but all of a sudden it got smooth as silk and I could not be more pleased. I recently put an armalaser on it and it is unbelievable how easy it is to carry and fire accurately from any position. It is a great pistol and I highly recommend it.
We had two MK-9s. We still have the 2003 Elite, which has been perfect. I had a lesser model which began failing to return to battery. It is gone.
I've got a P40 I bought new that has been 100% reliable. I've got about 1000 rounds down range with an assortment or range & SD ammo.
My K40 has also performed flawlessly...only about 400 rounds to date.
I really like kahr
PM 40 w/ ArmaLaser.
Fantastic Post-Break-In. After the first few boxes (where I experienced a few battery issues) it's been fine.
Zero Failures.
Light, compact, powerful, managable.
Buy one.
My Pm9 has been up and down first it fell into the barrel recall and then I would say just normal wear and tear on the extractor causing replacement,
Once the bugs where worked out and got it running with JHP's Its now my every day gun in the pocket backing up my T-9.
The Poly version are a hit or miss in my book, find one that runs and they are great but the opposite is true all so.
T-9 now has 2500 rounds down range, Pm9 is getting real close to 5500
I'll keep them
In fact, I removed the sights from the gun enirely. It fits in a Uncle Mike's pocket holster with no mods, and draws smoothly.
Just watch the lens when cleaning. I'll often put a piece of black tape over the front of the laser when I wipe the gun down.
I had the gun my thigh pocket of a pair of cargo shorts the other night. tripped taking them off, and stepped on the damn thing. Right on the laser and slide. NO change to zero! NO effect to function! Great combo.
Now I'm just waiting for the PM45.....
Hey Folks: I must step in; my shooting buddy bought new;
I had a box of 225 from Dick's Sporting unopened. Neither of us knew much about a Kahr.
I loaded; he shot; I loaded; he shot; and on and on.
My turn; he loaded I shot; he loaded; I shot
Guess WHAT:
Not nary a mal nothing. Accurate and 225 later we went looking for more bullets.:anim_lol:
Would I entertain having one: Yes.
Don't like the feeder spring; too stiff; makes thumb hurt:smt023
I'm just a few weeks from getting my CCW permit and I'm having trouble making my mind up on the Kahr PM9. I really want a pocket pistol because it fits my lifestyle as well as the hot humid summers here in the Midwest, but paying 600.00 for a pistol that I my not be able to trust is a tough choice. Seems like the choices are limited as far as dependable pocket pistol with at least the stopping power of a 9mm. Any thoughts or advice would be a big help.
My P9 and CW9 work perfectly.
I actually sold the P9, regretted it and bought the CW9...Saving pennies for a PM9.


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By Charlene M. Jett
What a present we had today from Evergreen Outreach, a huge blessing named Harold Swofford. As our main entertainer, well more about him later!
The excitement was growing as 42 seniors boarded the Cavilla big green bus to head to Branson on Tuesday, June 22.
The group enjoyed seeing old friends and making new as they played "all about me" games, singing and playing bingo on the bus. By the time they reached the Six Flags area, they decided to have breakfast.
After another stop for lunch in Springfield, Mo., for lunch, they arrived at Grand Oakes Hotel, their home away from home for the next four days.
By Charlene M. Jett
God's angel in charge of "Joyful Noise" landed at Evergreen Outreach on Monday. I expect the angel in charge of Pastor James Fackler had a senior moment, because we missed pastor VERY much!
However, Donna Smith, with her quiet demeanor was our leader and pianist, while I was somewhere in the clouds, looking for more angels!
By Charlene M. Jett
Another great day at Evergreen Outreach and First United Methodist Church in Vandalia. Our leader was Beulah Brown (I'll tell you more about the hidden secrets she brought later).
Our mighty fine and exuberant pianist was Bette Stolte. She came loaded with a touch of dynamite in her fingertips!
John 15:5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he is it that bears much fruit, for apart from ME you can do nothing.
St. James celebrating 150th anniversary
St. James Lutheran Church in Vandalia is celebrating its 150th anniversary, and the celebration includes a commemorative book.
The book includes the early history of the church and every baptism, confirmation, marriage and funeral as recorded in the three parish registers from 1871 to the present, as well as membership rolls.
By Charlene M. Jett
God is GREAT and God is GOOD! We renewed our old friendships today and made new ones at Evergreen Outreach.
Last week, on April 5, Christians all over the world celebrated what really should be considered the Holiest day of the year. Of course, I'm speaking of Easter Sunday.
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Several years back I was at the JLC Live show and noticed an exhibitor selling Scandinavian-designed work pants that had built-in sleeves for holding kneepads, waist-level nail pouches, and all kinds of specialized pockets. I bought a couple of pairs and before long I stopped wearing my old work pants. Those first pairs were from Blåkläder, but I have since switched to a brand called Björnkläder.
I currently own five pairs of Björnkläder pants, three from the Jubilee line ($83 apiece) and two of the Ace Carpenter style ($95). After wearing European-style pants for so many years, I cringe at the thought of kneeling down on a nonpadded knee. The pads are always there on the pants, but they're not heavy and uncomfortable the way strap-on kneepads are. I have introduced any number of guys to European-style work pants and they all swear by them.
The Ace Carpenter pants are my favorite. They're made from heavy cotton duck with reinforced fabric at the bottom of the legs, at the knees, and above the tool pockets. They have an incredible number of things built into them: hammer loops, pockets on the lower leg, zippered pockets, and pockets designed to hold tools, fasteners, pens, phones, ID, and the like. There are so many pockets and loops that I actually cut some of the smaller ones off.
The Jubilee pants are similar to Ace Carpenters but are made from cotton twill; they're lighter and more breathable so I tend to wear them when it's hot. The twill and duck are both very tough, and after years of hard use I have yet to put a hole in either style of pants — not even in the knees.
The cut of Björnkläder men's pants (the company also makes women's) is more European than that of, say, Carhartts, which tend to be baggy. Ace pants are cut for a slimmer fit around the legs, which means the kneepads stay in front of your knees and don't flop around to the sides. The Ace kneepads are slightly longer than the Jubilee kneepads, and I like that.
I avoid wearing a toolbelt, and with these pants I can go without the belt and still have a large number of tools on me. This feels pounds lighter and much more compact than wearing a toolbelt. On those days when I have to use a toolbelt, I wear a pair of Jubilee pants that have had the waist pockets cut off so the belt fits more comfortably. But I still have the kneepads and all those other pockets.
Björnkläder gear is not widely distributed in the U.S. I order it from J&R Distributors (www.jr-distributors.us) and you can also get it from Faceline (www.facelineinc.com).


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The Netherlands is becoming the surprising center of conflict over the extent of free speech, religion and allegations of racism. The debate centers around an upcoming film by a local politician, which expresses strong criticism against Islam faith.
Several Islamic government have sought to ban materials criticizing Islam. The most recent example of this was when
Pakistan blocked the website YouTube
for promoting non-Islamic or anti-Islamic materials,
inadvertently crippled the country's internet traffic
Nearby Denmark found itself in the center of a similar controversy when a Danish newspaper aired cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the most important Islamic historic religious figure, in an embarrassing light. The cartoon led to protests worldwide outside Dutch embassies, death threats and at least one murder.
Now Holland is back in the limelight. Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, head of a reactionary party which controls 9 seats in the 150-seat Dutch Parliament, promoted his new film which portrays Islam in an extremely critical light, only to find his website taken down amid a storm of criticism. The film was promoted on the site which formerly had a simple title image, the words "Fitna" ("Coming Soon"), and an image of a gilded Qu'ran.
website has since been taken down
, and a note is posted stating that Network Solutions, the U.S. based service provider, is investigating whether the site violates its terms of service. The note about Wilder's site states, "Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation."
Network Solutions hosts the website of Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based organization labeled by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization.
While the company could not be reached for comment, its terms of service do include a broad provision banning, "objectionable material of any kind or nature." While the former website gave scant details about the upcoming 15-minute film, to be released on March 31st, it is certain to be found objectionable by some. Filmmaker Wilders says the film will underscore his belief that the Islamic holy book is "fascist."
Wilders prepared to distribute the video over the internet after being met with refusal from television stations unwilling to grant it airtime. Wilders, who lives under police protection due to death threats, refuses to be deterred, and was quoted Dutch news agency
on Saturday stating, "How many ways are there left for me to be worked against? If necessary, I'll go hand out DVDs personally on the Dam." The Dam is a colloquial name for Amsterdam's central square.
On Saturday protesters crowded the Dam to voice their distaste for Wilders. Amid sleet and heavy wind, between 2,000 and 3,000 protesters of mixed ethnicities assembled "Netherlands Shows Its Colors" in an advanced reaction against the film. Protesters carried signs such as "Standing Together Against the Right-Wing Populist Witch-Hunt."
One protester, Elisa Trepp, said, "I'm very much against Geert Wilders and racism in general. I think it's really important to show not only Holland but the rest of the world that there's a lot of people who do not agree with his ideas."
Hassan Iaeti, another demonstrator, traveled for hours to make it. He states, "The government could really do something. That's in the interest of the country - stop him, just stop him."
Dutch officials fear that the film may spark violent protests worldwide. Free speech in the U.S. is currently solely limited against making statements that would incite imminent lawless action (riots) as defined by the case Brandeburg v. Ohio. Similar limits to free speech exist throughout much of Europe, much to the chagrin of free speech advocates. As the video may spark worldwide lawlessness, the government may see it fit to block the video.
However the government remains relatively apathetic to the situation by all indications. No prominent politicians showed up at the protest. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has said previously that he did not agree with Wilders views, but supported his right to free speech. Balkenende did add that the video could threaten Dutch interests worldwide.
In Afghanistan protesters burned effigies of Wilders and demanded the withdraw of NATO-deployed Dutch troops from the country. A Dutch court will hear complaints against the film lodged by Muslim groups, on March 28th, however Wilders can elect to release the film before then.
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Just in time to demo at the RightScale User Conference, we started a private beta of two new cluster monitoring features: stacked graphs and heat maps. We've been using them for a while internally and they've been invaluable to quickly determine the cause of issues. The idea behind these types of graphs is not new, but what we've been able to do is automate the back-end machinery that lets you create these graphs across any cluster of servers with just a few clicks.
The cluster monitoring we've had for a while shows an individual graph per server. Below is an example showing the CPU load on our web front ends. Each graph shows user time in blue and idle time in green over the course of one week. You can see that one of the last two servers has been sitting idle and the other one was launched less than a day ago. These individual graphs are nice for a small number of servers, but once your cluster has more than about a dozen they cease to be practical.
A stacked graph is a great alternative to display many servers on one graph where their activity contributes to a total or sum. In the case of the web front-ends, they all serve HTTP requests and contribute to the total of HTTP requests served by the cluster. This is what the graph below shows: each color band shows the requests/sec for one server, and the color bands are stacked on top of one another such that you can read the requests/sec served by the application at the top. This now gives a nice overview of what's happening in aggregate. Also, if one server were serving a lot more requests than the others, you'd be able to spot it because its band would be significantly wider. However, something that is actually not easy to notice in the stacked graph is that two of the servers are not serving requests. You'd have to start counting color bands to notice.
A heat map shows a somewhat different view of the same action. In the heat map below each color bar represents the activity of one server and the color of the bar at each point in time shows how "hot" the server is, i.e., the value of the variable being displayed color coded from blue to red. Here you can again see that the top two servers are outliers, one being idle the whole time, the other having just launched. On the other hand, it's pretty difficult to make out absolute values for how busy a server is.
The bottom line is that none of the cluster graph types is better than the others, it just depends on what you're looking for, so it's nice to be able to flip back and forth. To illustrate this further, here is a real-life example of an issue we encountered. On a Wednesday morning we had alerts going off on a small number of our monitoring servers that showed unusually high load on those servers. We first looked at the heat map plotting I/O wait time for the cluster:
You'll notice that there are a lot of bars! The heat maps are currently limited to showing 100 servers at a time and we have more than 100 monitoring servers, so you're seeing a sampling (including the longest running, the shortest running, and some of each different ServerTemplate). Also, you'll notice the color coding alternates between blue-red and green-orange every 10 servers to make it easier to count. The red bars make it pretty clear that something started to affect a small number of servers around 8am. After looking at a number of other variables we saw the following stacked graph of the number of servers monitored.
Here each color bar represents the number of customer servers monitored by one of our monitoring back-ends. This view displays the activity for a whole week and highlights the fact that a slew of additional servers were monitored right when we got the alerts. From there it was easy for us to pinpoint the cause, which turned out to be a limitation in our monitoring back-end assignment algorithm.
I'm really excited about these new monitoring features in part because I've built similar graphs manually several times at different companies and being able to get them automatically is amazing. You may have noticed that we produce the graphs using RRDtool, which we've extended quite a bit, in particular to draw the heat maps. The way the graphs are rendered is that a monitoring front-end queries the data series from the appropriate back-end servers and then assembles everything into one graph which is sent to the browser. The result is that each of the two graphs above displays 60,000 data points, that's a lot of data to be able to see at a glance!
The stacked graphs and heat maps are currently in private beta. If you're running lots of servers using RightScale and would like to try them out, please drop me an email. One of the tasks still ahead of us before we can release this to everyone is improving the parallelism of the data fetching so we can plot more than 100 servers at a time.