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Although Portland State's 29-20 win Saturday over Sacramento State wasn't always fun to watch, the victory guaranteed the Vikings their first winning season since 2006.
Now 4-2 in the Big Sky Conference, the Vikings sit in third place behind Montana State (7-0) and Montana (6-1) and continue to keep their national playoff hopes alive.
The Vikings led for the entire game, but a number of costly penalties and turnovers slowed its normally potent pistol offense down, forcing the defensive unit to step up and lock down Sacramento State's passing game.
'When the offense sputters and basically scores 14 points for the other team, and the defense doesn't even blink an eye - that was what was key to this victory today,' said Vikings quarterback Connor Kavanaugh.
The first half saw the Vikings more than double the total yards of the visiting Hornets, gaining 111 yards more through the air. Portland State's defense forced five punts and held Sacramento Sate to only three first downs. Critical turnovers by the Vikings allowed its opponents to stay in the game, however.
After going three-and-out on its first possession, the Vikings scored the game's first points midway through the first quarter with a 30-yard touchdown run by Willie Griffin. The 5-9, 195-pound back was hardly touched on his way to the end zone.
'Once I heard the play call, and I saw how the defense was lined up, I envisioned how I was going to break up the middle, and it worked out,' said Griffin, who rushed for a career high 92 yards.
Sacramento State, unable to get anything going on offense, went three-and-out for a second time, giving Portland State another opportunity to score. Kavanaugh made two 20-yard passes to put the Vikings in the red zone, but two chop block penalties unhinged the team's promising drive. Kicker Zach Brown hit a 46-yard field goal to make the score 9-0 with four minutes left in the first quarter.
After forcing Sacramento State to punt again, Portland State looked to gain a commanding lead in the second quarter. Kavanaugh threw a pass that was tipped, however, and Hornets corner Kyle Monson took a 24-yard interception back for a touchdown, giving Sacramento State its first six points.
'I just threw a high ball and it bounced off the receiver's hands, and the cornerback made a nice play,' Kavanaugh said. 'I just got to get the ball down, set my feet, deliver a nice pass and that stuff won't happen.'
Determined to overcome his mistake, Kavanaugh led his team 63 yards down field for a touchdown, putting the Vikings up 16-6 with eight minutes left in the half. The drive, which culminated in a 16-yard touchdown pass to Robert Truax, showed poise by the senior quarterback.
'We put him in so many situations in practice, so he knows how to pull himself out of it. It speaks to the character of the kid and the character of this football team,' head coach Nigel Burton said after the game.
Don't worry about it
Once again, though, turnovers made the Vikings pay, as Kavanaugh fumbled the snap near his own goal line, setting up a 1-yard touchdown rush by Hornets quarterback Jeff Fleming. Fleming's two-point conversion pass to wide receiver John Hendershott was good, cutting the deficit to only two points before halftime.
'The message was, 'Offense, don't worry about it. You've had the defense's back how many games in a row? Let them repay you for all of it. They believe in you,' ' Burton said when asked what he said to the team at halftime.
Portland State's defense continued to look strong at the beginning of the second half, sacking Fleming during what seemed to be a potential scoring drive and forcing another Sacramento State punt - its sixth of the game.
'Watching our defense grow and say, 'No problem, we got your back. We'll take the game over' - I think that's what great teams do,' Burton said.
The Vikings took to the ground, using Griffin and backup running back Shaquille Richard heavily to dwindle down the clock and march down the field to set up a 45-yard field goal by Brown, giving Portland State a 19-14 lead. Of the 11 plays of the 65-yard drive, almost all were rushing plays.
With three minutes left in the third quarter, the Vikings defense once again disallowed Sacramento State to gain any sort of momentum, sacking Fleming for the fourth time in the game. Portland State's offense took over and finally showed the efficiency of the pistol system, as Kavanaugh kept the ball after a sneaky misdirection for a 28-yard touchdown, extending the Vikings lead to 26-14.
Sacramento showed signs of life at the begging of the fourth quarter with Fleming scoring on an eight-yard touchdown run after leading the Hornets down field. Fleming was only able to achieve success on the ground, though, rushing for more yards than passing for. Burton attributes this to the growth of the team's defensive ends.
'All those situations that we practice time after time have finally gotten to those guys to the point where it's second nature and they understand now, where as maybe last year they were still figuring it out,' Burton said.
'We're confident'
Special teams for Portland State struck right back, as Jason Diniz took a kickoff back for 60 yards to the Vikings 10-yard line. A false start penalty hindered the drive, however, and forced Brown to once again try a field goal from beyond 45 yards - this time he missed.
After forcing a turnover on downs, the Vikings caught the Sacramento State defense off guard with a left sideline pass complete by Kavanaugh to Justin Monahan for 57 yards. Kavanaugh started throwing down field much more in the second half because of Sacramento State's strategy of stacking the box - an approach teams often use against pistol-system offenses.
'Teams for whatever reason think they've figured out the pistol, but once they load up the box and force us to do some things, we have a guy who can sling it,' Burton said. 'It's becoming even more of a scary offense when receivers can make plays like that.'
Although the offense was unable to score a touchdown, Brown was able to convert this time, extending the lead to nine, 29-20, with 11 minutes left in the game.
The Portland State defense ended the game when DeShawn Shead, who finished the game with a team-high eight tackles, intercepted Jeff Fleming's middle endzone pass with one minute left.
Burton said the victory adds to the mantra he's trying to build at Portland State, which, he said, is built on self-assurance.
'We want to get this program to the point where we win because we're confident, and we're confident because we're winning,' Burton said.


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About a month agao I was also unable to get the file from the Dynavin website either, however in the end I found out I already had the most updated version. Dynavins ROM is not that good.
I purchased one that I think was called ///M3 Revolution for about $30. It is worlds better in both preformance and functionality. It was posted somewhere on this forum. On his website is the most updated version. If I recall correctly the newest version was 1.5?
I'm not sure how much you paid for your unit, but based on mine, it was a no brainer spend the extra 5% ($30) for a ROM that is 2+ times as good.
The developer said he wants to update to Android 2.3 however he can yet enough info from Dynavin. I hope the give it to him soon to resolve the 2.2 Wifi connection issues in Android itself.
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Are we capable of showing the resolve demanded by the threat from radical Islamists? By Gregory Hywood.
How soft we have become. How short our attention spans. How unwilling to commit to a long and arduous course in defence of the communities our forefathers built.
It is not yet three years since the World Trade Centre in New York was destroyed and more than 3000 people were killed in the boldest and most aggressive terrorist attack in history. It is not much more than two years since 80 Australians died in Bali at the same hands.
Yet we lack the ability to cope with less than instantaneous success. Patience is a lost virtue.
There is no doubt the atrocities by United States soldiers against Iraqi prisoners were sick and depraved. Heads should roll. Not that of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, though - not unless those unfortunate activities are proven to be the result of high-level policy direction rather than low-level excess. But given the gravity of the issue and the damage done to the credibility of the US military and its Government, there should be a high level of accountability.
There is no doubt, too, that, while justified, the Iraqi war has gone poorly. Those, including US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who advised against invasion, have been proved correct. Once again we are reminded that it is one thing to win the war, another to win the peace.
But in the present strategic context, the torture of Iraqi prisoners is a crime, not a failure of policy. And even if Iraq continues to turn pear-shaped for the US, bringing with it military and political embarrassment, it will be because of a tactical, not a strategic, miscalculation.
The strategic issue at stake is the war on terrorism, and while the images of torture may horrify and those of endless violence of the streets of Iraq may dishearten, history will judge these events in the much broader context of whether, in the end, that war was won.
The Rumsfeld legacy will provide a bedrock of military capability and resolve.
Wars take time. They involve many mistakes and a multitude of setbacks.
In the US Civil War the northern armies of Abraham Lincoln did not really have the Confederacy on the back foot until the Battle of Gettysburg, two years after the conflict began. Over the next century and a half, conflicts crucial to defining the future of Western society were all marked by varied patterns of defeat and success, until the ultimate victory.
Yet, in modern times we have become so successful at preventing major war that we have little appetite to cope with the vagaries of a new substantive threat.
Although Australians were killed in Bali, its strategic consequence has yet to be embraced in a bipartisan manner that would deliver such discipline. Terrorism and its manifestations have become just one more lever to be pulled by the major parties in their determination to find domestic political advantage.
The inane proposal to pull the handful of Australian troops in Iraq home by Christmas underlines how a substantial proportion of the Labor Party still refuses to take the war on terrorism as a serious strategic issue. Sadly, this is typical. In most Western countries other than the US, the left has tended to regard terrorism as a conservative exaggeration, a play for power.
If only. Well funded, well armed, with time on their side, the internet at their fingertips and open societies as their targets, radical Islamists can make this a much more dangerous world in a decade or two. The sort of place where attendance at public meetings, sports events, bars, parties and the like involve inordinate personal risk. Is that this generation's legacy to the next?
This is a threat that demands leadership, resolve - and patience.
Take the Cold War as a precedent. Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945 unconvinced that Stalin was much more than a rogue. Churchill knew better and Harry Truman, one of the more unlikely presidents in US history, was soon convinced. He put in place the foundations of "containment", a policy prescription that took several years to shape and 44 years to succeed.
That period saw a bloody stalemate in Korea, complete US failure in Vietnam, the mass fear of the Cuban missile crisis, and the loss of confidence that accompanied the Soviet's sputnik launch.
But ultimately Soviet communism could not compete, and in 1989 it fell apart. And the ever-present threat of nuclear war never became a reality.
The Iraq invasion has to be seen in such context - a flawed tactical move in a larger war.
It is here that Donald Rumsfeld, unattractive individual that he is, is immensely useful. Aggressive and bullying, with none of the niceties of a Colin Powell, Rumsfeld has set the parameters for a long, effective war on terror.
He was well placed to do so. Former US secretary of state George Schulz recently wrote that Rumsfeld was one of the few public officials who 20 years ago understood the threat of terrorism and the need to act decisively.
This is not to say Rumsfeld will, in the event that George Bush is re-elected as president this year, remain a dominant force in the US Administration. Given events in Iraq, that is unlikely.
Ultimately, US policy will be fine-tuned to more neatly meet the needs of allies and reflect the lessons of Iraq. But the Rumsfeld legacy will provide a bedrock of military capability and resolve.
And just as this generation owes the early architects of "containment" and "mutually assured destruction" a debt of gratitude, so the next generation may one day be thankful that, mistakes and all, the US took a hard line early in the war on terrorism.
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Zachary Carter Eckman, 23, of Kittanning was caught in less than four hours after walking out of the garage near the courthouse on Market Street, Sheriff Bill Rupert said.
Eckman is serving a sentence of six to 24 months on charges of theft and criminal conspiracy.
"He had gained everyone's trust and was allowed to do work release," Rupert said.
But shortly before 2:30 p.m. — right before he was supposed to be taken back to jail — Eckman walked off the job.
Eckman was spotted by a correctional officer about 6 p.m. along North Water Street riding as a passenger in a friend's white Pontiac Grand Am, the criminal complaint alleges. But Eckman was not in the car when it was stopped by state police.
Driver Harley Storrs told police he had dropped Eckman off and arranged to pick up the fugitive again so he could be arrested. Within 10 minutes, police stopped the car again, this time with Eckman inside.
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If cameras were sold on looks alone, the A40 would certainly be worth the money. Pentax pretty much invented the ultra-compact digital camera, and over the years it has refined its design down to a fine art. The A40 has a robust all-metal body finished in either matt black or silver, with chrome trim and controls. The design incorporates a small textured thumb grip on the back, and the small raised flash detail on the front also provides some grip, so despite its exceptionally compact dimensions the camera feels solid and secure to hold. It measures just 57 x 89 x 23.5mm and weighs only 150g including battery, and its smooth-cornered shape slips easily into a shirt pocket.
The control layout is basically identical to the Optio A30 and several previous Pentax ultra-compacts. The power button and shutter release are on the top panel, while on the back are the D-pad, playback and menu buttons, the zoom control and the Green Button, the instant easy-mode control found on all of the Optio range. The zoom control is a relatively chunky rocker switch positioned under the right thumb, but it is stiff enough that it isn't easy to operate it accidentally. It's not the most sensitive control in the world though, and the zoom is stepped with seven positions from wide to telephoto, so precise framing is going to mean some moving backwards and forwards.
In common with most high-spec compacts the A40 offers some manual exposure control, in the form of shutter priority or full manual modes. The only available aperture settings in manual exposure mode are minimum and maximum (f/8.0-f/15.4), although shutter speeds from four seconds to 1/2000th of a second are available in 1/3EV increments, so there is some room for creativity. The menu does also offer some degree of picture control, with adjustable contrast, saturation and sharpness, but there is no control over noise reduction. It does offer some other creative features though, including multiple exposures on the same frame, and a wide range of scene modes.
The Dynamic Range Adjustment feature is similar in function to Sony's DRO system. It proportionally increases the sensor gain in darker areas and reduces in in highlights, reducing the occurrence of black featureless shadows and burned-out highlights in high contrast shots. It has four settings; off, weak, strong and automatic. I found that it didn't do much about the highlights, but was able to pull out about a stop and a half of extra shadow detail without significantly increasing image noise, which should go some way towards alleviating the inherent dynamic range limitations of the 12MP 1/1.8-inch sensor.
Pentax's moving-sensor image stabilisation system is well-proven, and I found I was able to take sharp hand-held shots at full zoom at 1/25th of a second, a gain of about two and a half stops. This is approximately the same performance and Panasonic, Canon and Sony's optical image stabilisation systems.
Having previously owned an Optio digital camera and been very pleased with the performance I bought the Optio A40 last year. Within a few days (I had used the camera only once) the screen display was broken (I hadn't dropped it, banged it, just had the camera in a bag in its case). After a bit of a battle Pentax repaired the screen at no cost. But the screen has just gone again. I have researched this issue and it seems that this is a particular vulnerability for these cameras.
I shot professionally for a number of years and have been searching for compact digital camera I can take on vacations. Like most professional photographers, I like having control of the image every once and a while and that is what is missing from most compact cameras; they were mostly point and shoot. For me the Pentax Optio A40 is just what I was looking for. I first tested for the A40 was a back-lighted subject and was impressed with its ability to adjust based on where I put the point of focus. Having the ability to have manual control over f-stop and shutter speed in a compact camera for less than $200.00 is great. So far I am impressed. A great buy
After a bit of researching on the net, I bought a Pentax OptioA40 on 10.03.2009. I used it twice. The second time I was using it, I was wandering around a public garden taking photographs..one minute the camera was ok...the next..the sreen display looked like something had burned out in the centre of it...I returned it to the store who sent it off to Pentax...I have just been informed today that it would cost me £92 to have it repaired and a further £6.90 to have it returned to me!!...They've told me its 'impact damage'..which I totally dispute!...I asked how the camera can be in perfect condition on the outside whilst sustaining an impact severe enough to break the innner display and was told these cameras are very delicate....RUBBISH!!!..I owned a digital camera for 7 years...not I may say a Pentax...without any problems...Bill D..you are right..these cameras obviously have a fault and they are trying to 'shaft' the customer when they go wrong...I intend to have mine independently examined and until I get some satisfaction..I intend to post about my experience with Pentax on every site relating to them that I can find!!!
Goodness, I found this page while searching to find an exact replacement for my Optio A40 in advance of claiming through my house insurance for accidental damage!
I bought mine in Comet on 01.04.2009 at £99.99 They state 12 months manufacturer's guarantee and I did not take out an extended warranty as these often equate to the cost of a replacement anyway!
It has worked well and I have taken some 600+ pics and done a fair amount of editing with them in the short 4 months since I bought it. It's been snapping away beautifully at the top of the snow covered Cairngorms and then around sunny Kent within weeks and here, there and everywhere in between. I hardly left home without it!
However, I was carrying mine around inside a camera pouch secured to my belt some 2 weeks ago and when I took it out to take a pic, the screen had gone!
I concidered this a great little camera that I had just got to replace, but having read the above posts it seems not to be the case.
Looks like I'll be heading in to Comet in the morning.
I shall update soon.
Pat F, looks like you bought yours just weeks before me, any news on your independant examination?
I bought a Pentax Optio A40 from Comet on the 28/12/08 at a discounted price of £89.99. I was extremely pleased with my 'bargain' purchase and had been very happy with it up until last week.
Again, like the stories above, one day the camera was fine, the next day the screen had gone! It had not been bashed, dropped or exposed to water or extreme temperatures. The top screen is perfectly in-tact, yet there is a 'crack' line in the top right hand corner underneath the top screen that appears to have colour seeping out of it (the rest of the screen is white).
Like Danni above, I took it back to Comet as it was still under guarantee! After being passed around three customer assistants (there's a contradiction in terms!!) I got told that the damage must have been caused by impact, and that the guarantee did not cover this.
I have since been in contact with Pentax, who told me that they would take a look, but if it needed a new screen, it would cost £92 plus £6 to return it to me. (I now realize how they make up their profit losses!)
But I'd like to thank the people above who took the time to tell of their experiences, as now I definitely feel that the damage to my camera was not my fault, but what seems to be a pretty common complaint of this camera.
Subsequently, I am going to print off their stories and send them with my camera back to Pentax to hopefully strengthen my case. (I may even pay a visit to Comet and inform them that it is possible for the screen to be damaged without any impact! - Mind you, they might just say that we ALL must have dropped/bashed them without realizing!)
I had exactly the same experience as the above - ie one day the camera was fine - the next the screen had gone - except it has happened to me twice. I had bought the camera from Jacobs on-line, who said Pentax insisted it must have been compresssion or impact damage. I paid up to have it repaired. Working fine - and I was especially careful with it. I took some pictures one evening, left it on my desk - and the next morning the screen was gone again. This time I wrote to the Jacobs Chief Executive, only to get the same old story. I now have a quote frm Jacobs who say the "The Pentax technicians have formulated an estimate for repair of your camera"..."£138", which not only makes Comet's £98 above look value, but is about the price you can now buy the A40 for for new. You would have thought a specialist retailer like Jacobs with a reputation to sustain might have pointed that out. I'm going to write to their Chief Executive again, armed with the above stories. There is clearly a bad flaw with this camera, which is a shame because its concept and performance when working were excellent.
Full marks to Jacobs, who after some correspondence got onto Pentax who repaired the camera without further charge. So I'm now using it again - still a great camera, pity about the malfunction.
I bought mine optio A40 in 2008 for £260 from hardware store.
Price was high because I'm from Croatia and all prices on electronics are high.
It was my first camera, and I was very happy with it's abilities. I took something like 1500 pictures, when suddenly it's LCD gone wrong. I always wore it in my pocket. Once I was walking I found great scene - I took camera from pocket, turn it on without watching it and try to focus on scene - but what the hell - I noticed little crack in right down corner of screen.
I was shocked and very sad and took it to repair service. I tried to explain them that it crashed by itself with no reason, and screen was broken from inside. Repair guy lied that he is assured that I could drop my camera from 32 ft (10 meters) hight and it shouldn't be broken. What a liar. It took them ONE MONTH to repair my camera so I missed my holidays pictures. I paid £60 and was happy again with it until one month later same thing happen. I was carrying it in bag on some T-shirts on a trip, took it out and yes, of course, LCD gone bad for no reason. I don't have to mention how furious and raging I was, missing my pictures from trip. So again I took it to repair service, trying to explain what happened with no results, waited one month for repair and paid £60 more.
But, dear readers, the best part comes now :) - I paid and while I was going home, I tried to set up camera settings - to find that camera green button is MISSING! Then I was totally crazy. I swore all the way back pentax, my camera and incapable service-man. I asked a girl in repair office if she could find anything unusual with my camera. She was so stupid that I had to explain her that they have lost my camera button. What idiots. She even try to convince me that I lost my button - 20 minutes after guarantee repair! OMG. After I told them that I'll complain, repair guy came out and said not to worry - He'll repair it in 10 minutes. I sat in office, waiting 30 minutes. Finally guy came out with big smile - "You see" - he said - "now everything is OK!" First look on cam said to me that NOTHING WAS OK! I found out that green button was half smaller than it should be leaving nice hole for dust. They tried to convince me again that it is "ORIGINAL optio A40" button and that they actually know their work. I smiled and ordered office girl to type in google keywords "optio a40". Of course, they realized that it is "a little different". They apologized, but couldn't find my original button. So, I waited one day more and finally received cam from repair. Just few months after LCD gone bad again. I put cam away and forget it for year and half. Then I found on ebay LCD for £12. I just repaired cam without any repair-service following some instructions on youtube while writing this post. It's working like a pro at the moment, but for how long? Maybe Pentax knows. One thing I'm sure - never will I buy pentax cam again.
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my room is treated with FRK corner traps all around.
60 Hz is still should be tamed - it's 15-20 DB louder than 55 and 65.
all other frequencies are OK (incl 90 and 120).
i'm thinkin to implement Ethan's advise and covers also all ceiling/wall corners.
i found a source for acrylic wool which has NRC of 0.85 (0.45 at 125 hz and 0.49 at 250 hz) - which i guess is quite good, isn't it?
what puzzles me they say that according to their measurement it's equivalent to rockwool at dencity 4.5pcf and to fiberglass wool at dencity 1.5 pcf.
so are those 2 types of wool really behaves so much differently?
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I never tested this combination of materials, but I can tell you that covering more corners, and the front and rear walls too, is the best approach. Any of those materials should be fine, with FRK type facings being better than unfaced for the corners.
Hi Ethan,
what they mean is not a combination - they say that it's equivalent to rockwool at dencity 4.5pcf or to fiberglass wool at dencity 1.5 pcf.
this indicates that rockwool and fiberglass behaves very diffrently - which is strange to me.
what is your expirience?
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  Many of my discussions about WebSphere CloudBurst script packages revolve around their use in packaging up WebSphere Application Server administration scripts. While that may be the most typical use case for these script packages, it certainly is not the only use case. You need only look at the way we integrate WebSphere CloudBurst pattern deployments with Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere projects in order to understand that the script package mechanism is extremely flexible and powerful.

  I point this out about script packages because recently I put one together that is not a WebSphere Application Server administration task, but does provide configuration logic common to many WAS deployments. Specifically, I put together a script package that configures an IBM HTTP Server to be a reverse proxy server. This of course, allows clients to send requests to the IBM HTTP Server and have those requests pass through to a specified back-end destination (i.e. a service hosted on WebSphere Application Server) based on URI paths.

  The script package is not all that different from many of the ones I put together. It contains a shell script (which provides configuration and orchestration logic) as well as a cbscript.json file that defines the script package's characteristics when I upload it into WebSphere CloudBurst. The notable difference in this script package is that I include a Perl script that modifies the IBM HTTP Server configuration file. This just reiterates the point that you are not limited to only wsadmin and shell scripts within your script packages.

  The workings of the script package are quite straightforward. It starts with a call to the shell script that modifies the IBM HTTP Server's configuration file to ensure the loading of a couple proxy modules:

   sed -i s/"#LoadModule proxy_module modules\/mod_proxy.so"/"LoadModule proxy_module modules\/mod_proxy.so"/g $HTTP_CONF
 sed -i s/"#LoadModule proxy_http_module modules\/mod_proxy_http.so"/"LoadModule proxy_http_module modules\/mod_proxy_http.so"/g $HTTP_CONF

 perl /tmp/createProxy/createProxy.pl $PROXY_PATH_INFO

  As you can see, the createProxy.pl script accepts a single argument. This argument represents the reverse proxy configuration information provided by the user during deployment. The Perl script parses the single argument and creates the appropriate proxy directives in the IBM HTTP Server's configuration file:

   open (CONF_FILE, '>>/opt/IBM/HTTPServer/conf/httpd.conf');
 @proxyInfo = split(/;/, $ARGV[$0]);
 print CONF_FILE "ProxyRequests Off\n";

 foreach (@proxyInfo)
 {
 @pathInfo = split(/\|/, $_);
 print CONF_FILE "ProxyPass $pathInfo[0] $pathInfo[1]\n";
 print CONF_FILE "ProxyPassReverse $pathInfo[0] $pathInfo[1]\n";
 }

  After the invocation of the script above, control returns to the shell script. The shell script restarts the IBM HTTP Server so that the configuration changes take place. The result is an up and running IBM HTTP Server acting as a reverse proxy based on information supplied during deployment. The listings here do not show the full script package, but I hope to have it up on our WebSphere CloudBurst Samples Gallery soon.

  If the script above provides some configuration logic you can use, that is good. However, my main point for bringing it up here is to point out that WebSphere CloudBurst script packages can be more than shell and wsadmin scripts that perform WebSphere Application Server configuration tasks. You can use them to do any sort of scripted activity that is essential to your application middleware deployment process. Happy scripting!

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The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference announced today that Canisius senior guard Billy Baron has been named the MAAC Player of the Week. Baron was honored after he averaged 30.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 5.7 assists per game in three MAAC contests against Marist, Rider and Monmouth. Baron has been honored as the MAAC Player of the Week two times this season and four times in his career.
Baron has scored 25 or more points in five-straight games and in six of the team's last seven outings after scoring 27 points at Marist Jan. 6, a career-high 38 in a double-overtime win over Rider Jan. 10 and 26 points in the team's victory over Monmouth Jan. 12. In the victory over Rider Jan. 10, the East Greenwich, R.I., native finished the night with 38 points, which ranks second all-time in program history for points scored by a Griff in Koessler Athletic Center. He also had the No. 7 play on ESPN SportsCenter's Top Plays Jan. 10-11 after he hit the game-winning 3-pointer from the right wing as the final horn sounded in the second overtime.
In addition to his 30.3 points per game scoring average last week, Baron was good for 7.3 rebounds per game, highlighted by his game-high eight boards in the team's win over Monmouth. He dished out 5.7 assists per game as well, with seven of those assists coming in the double-overtime win versus Rider. Against the Broncs, he played a career-high 48 minutes and ended the night by scoring or assisting on 23 of the Griffs' final 25 points of regulation and 40 of the team's final 50 points through the second half and the two overtime periods. In 124 total minutes played last week, Baron was charged with just four turnovers and he closed out the weekend with just one turnover in his last 98 minutes of game action.
Baron currently ranks sixth in the nation in scoring average at 22.9 points per game and he ranks fourth in the country in total points scored with 389 in 17 games. In the latest NCAA rankings, Baron ranks 25th in 3-point field goals per game (3.1), 35th in 3-point field goal percentage (43 percent) and seventh in free-throw shooting percentage (92.2 percent). Overall, he is averaging 4.9 assists per game, which ranks second in the MAAC and 67th in the nation, and he ranks second in the conference with his assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.44.Canisius is 11-6 overall and 5-1 in the MAAC after beating Monmouth 87-67 Jan. 12, at home. The 5-1 start in league play marks the program's best conference record through six games since 1996-97, when the team also started the conference slate with a 5-1 mark. The Griffs will return to action Friday, Jan. 17, when the team travels to play Iona in New Rochelle, N.Y. That game will tipoff at 9 p.m., and will be televised nationally on ESPNU.


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Don't let wires get in the way of your workout. Get Bluetooth and get moving with Denon's AH-W150 Exercise Freak headphones. This sweat-proof headset keeps you in control and your mobile device out of harm's way while you're putting your body through the ringer. The lightweight AH-W150's built-in amplifier delivers big sound with a little extra bass to keep your heart pounding and fuel your workout.
The Exercise Freak's earpieces feature built-in buttons for easy control of your compatible Bluetooth device. Answer calls, skip tracks, or hang up and get back to your workout. Need more volume to power through that final mile? Reach behind your ear and tap the volume up button to pump it up and kick it into high gear.
Stylish and durable, the Exercise Freak headphones come with four pairs of anti-microbial ear tips, so you can select a set that stays comfortable when you're on the move. A snug fit also seals out external noise, like the heavy-breathing guy on the treadmill next to you. Prefer to run outside? The reflective headband will keep you visible to motorists when the sun goes down. Audio alerts warn you when it's time to recharge the battery with the supplied USB cable for up to seven hours of listening.
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Denon designed the AH-W150 Exercise Freak headphones a little differently. A built-in amplifier delivers big sound and a little extra bass.
Overall, I think wireless Bluetooth headphones are the way to go if you need music when you exercise. There are no cords, and I didn't have to worry about a sudden move causing the cord to go taut and earbuds being yanked out of the ears (ouch).
The AH-W150 Exercise Freak headphones address those problems, and does so well. The electronics in the earpieces may take up some room, but they're so lightweight, I hardly knew they were there. The sound from the Labs' iPhone® was nice and tight. Plenty of bass, and plenty of detail. The in-ear buds are set on swivel posts, making them pretty easy to get set into your ear. Take the time to do it properly (and change sleeves if you need to). The better the fit, the better the sound.
My only caution about the W150's is that those electronics stored in the section of the headphones that rest behind the ears take up space. Not a problem unless, like me, you wear glasses. I found that the headphones didn't sit quite as securely as I wanted them to when they were resting on my glasses' frames. When I removed my glasses and tried the W150's out, they fit comfortably and securely.
These are the best workout headphones I have used. The wireless works great and they have great sound! [ Steve Oct 24, 2016 ]
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But rather than being an excuse to slack off, experts say giving staff the go-ahead to work from home is an opportunity to increase productivity.
Working from home gives people the freedom to focus on their work when it suits them, which increases motivation. Businesses have figured out working from home also makes it easy to measure people on their productivity and output, rather than how long they spend chained to their desk.
Allowing staff to work from home also reduces the number of staff off work due to illness because people who work from home don't come into contact with viruses and colds as much as do staff who are permanently in the office. It also reduces the risk of employees being involved in car accidents because they're not travelling to and from work each day.
Investment bank Citi is one firm that encourages its staff to work flexibly, which includes enabling staff to work from home. For example, Joanne Allen, head of human resources for Australia and New Zealand, works four days in the office and Wednesdays at home.
"I needed to be able to work flexibly so I could focus on my family as well as my work," says Allen, who uses her time on Wednesdays to take her two small children to pre-school and daycare, talk to the teachers about her children's progress and be involved in their life outside home.
"I'm back at home working by 10.00 am and spend my time developing strategic projects and initiatives, away from the demands of the office, until about 2.30 pm when I pick up the kids and spend the afternoon with them."
The benefits for Citi are manifold. Importantly, by enabling Allen to work flexibly they were able to attract her back to the business. In Allen's words it also means she's a "highly loyal, engaged and committed" staff member because Citi has an appreciation of her need to focus not just on her career, but also on her family.
Stacey Barr is a performance measurement expert. She says if businesses are thinking about allowing staff to work from home it's critical to define performance before attempting to measure the output of at-home workers.
"How performance is defined will depend on the nature of the work. For a data entry employee working from home, performance could mean fast turnaround times to complete data entry projects, and the accuracy of the data entered, which can be measured by sampling their work. The definition of performance should be results-oriented, not activity-oriented like reporting a checklist of what activities were performed while at home."
According to Barr "the key to measuring sales staff who work from home is to make the outcomes of their work clear. Basically, their job is to move potential customers through the sales pipeline to become not just customers, but loyal customers. The results you want include things like filling sales pipeline regularly, converting customers through the pipeline, adding profitable customers to the company's accounts, and giving customers a great experience along the way."
Barr says sales staff "could be measured by new leads in the pipeline, lead-to-customer-conversion rate, average profitability of customers in the first 12 months and customer satisfaction with the sales process. If you just reward sales staff for the number of calls they make, and the number of customers they convert, you can too easily drive destructive behaviours that result in the company having too many unprofitable customers who don't stick around."
Nicky Wakefield, human capital partner at professional services firm Deloitte agrees a benefit of allowing staff to work from home is that it enables a shift from measuring performance in terms of input – that is, how many hours they spend at work – to measuring employee output, a more informative measure of productivity.
The definition of performance should be results-oriented, not activity-oriented
She says "it's not about how long you spend at work, it's about what you do with your time when you're there and achieving targets and metrics."
Wakefield says working from home also allows people to work according to their own style. "People are productive in different ways. Some people like to sit and focus on their work for hours. Others prefer to get up every half hour. If people are achieving their targets, it doesn't matter which way they work," he says.
Training and performance management specialist Derek Stockley says when it comes to motivating staff to work at home it's all about "creating the right environment. Motivation is related to the nature of the work being performed. If the work provides a challenge and gives someone a sense of achievement they will be motivated."
Stockley says in terms of monitoring performance it's also important to "maintain regular contact by email and phone also occasionally face-to-face or video conference so virtual workers don't feel as though they are lost in the system."
Interestingly, Deloitte's Nicky Wakefield says social media will increasingly be used by staff who are working from home to keep in touch with colleagues. "People are starting to use tools like Yammer and internal Twitter to build relationships within businesses," she says. Yammer is an instant messaging tool businesses can use to set up private networks.
Nicola Brazil is a human capital director with professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. She says it's not just about allowing people to work from home. It's also about giving people the opportunity to work at home, at a client's office and also at the office, depending on what suits them. This ensures staff stay connected with their colleagues no matter where they are.
"It's important people who are working from home don't feel like they're missing out. Giving people ongoing development opportunities no matter where they work is really important. We make sure relevant development programs are online so that people can access them at a time and place that suits them. This incentivises people to work flexibly and at the same time develop their career."
Brazil says "working from home can be a win-win situation. It encourages people to work in a way that makes sense for them, and at the same time gives businesses staff that are motivated, engaged and productive."


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Reckless Kelly to play free show Tuesday in Steamboat
Country concert is part of Cowboy Downhill festivities
January 15, 2010
If you go
What: Reckless Kelly concert, part of the 36th annual Cowboy Downhill
When: About 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, after the Cowboy Downhill awards ceremony
Where: Gondola Square at the base of Steamboat Ski Area
Cost: Free
Call: 970-879-6111
Online: Learn more about the band at http://www.myspace.com/recklesskelly. See an event schedule for the 36th annual Cowboy Downhill at http://www.steamboat.com/cowboydownhill.
Steamboat Springs — Texas country rock band Reckless Kelly started hitting the road about 14 years ago. The quintet, led by brothers Willy and Cody Braun, toured around the Lone Star State, playing four-hour gigs to raucous honky-tonk halls.
That kind of playing required Reckless Kelly to keep a wide array of country and roots music standbys on its song lists. As the group has become more popular and shifted into larger, more rock-oriented venues, it has dropped some of those old western tunes, lead singer Willy Braun said.
"Our show started getting a little more concert-style," Braun said. "Instead of doing the four-hour bar sets, we're doing two-hour sets now, so we don't throw in as many of those old traditional tunes anymore."
When Braun and his band do return to that style — playing back to the songs they heard growing up as members of a family band in Idaho — they have fun doing it. Those early influences are prevalent on Reckless Kelly's upcoming record, "Somewhere in Time," and they're likely to work into a free concert Tuesday at Steamboat Ski Area.
The concert is part of the 36th annual Cowboy Downhill. Cowboys of various skiing abilities are scheduled to race down the hill at 4 p.m. Tuesday. An awards ceremony for the race is expected to start at about 5:30 p.m. in Gondola Square. Reckless Kelly plays the Gondola Square stage after the awards.
Reckless Kelly made a name in the Texas alternative country scene with its powerful shows and updated look at country songs. A frequent member of the Texas country cast that makes its way to Colorado every January, Reckless Kelly has maintained an edge that would feel as home in a stuffy rock club as it would in Ryman Auditorium.
"Our thing is to try to rock it out as much as we can without losing the originality of the song. We tend to play a little bit more rock 'n' roll stuff these days," Braun said.
On the upcoming record "Somewhere in Time," the band — Willy Braun on vocals, Cody Braun on fiddle and other instruments, guitarist David Abeyta, bassist Chris Schelske and drummer Jay Nazz — revisits the songs of friend and songwriter Pinto Bennett. It's a style that's closer to the Hank Williams and Gram Parsons songs the Brauns grew up with, though it's not a style that totally ignores the brothers' childhood listening experiences with Chuck Berry and The Byrds.
"We just try to take a little bit of a modern direction as far as the sound quality, and the instrumentation is pretty much the same as we've always done," Braun said.
Willing to be behind the times with its classic rock and classic honky-tonk elements, Reckless Kelly promises plenty of energy in its show Tuesday, Braun said.


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There have been two sub-strands to this work. The first explores the persistence of agricultural research and development themes such as de-stocking, mixed farming and fodder legumes despite consistently poor results from promotional programmes.
The second strand focuses on agricultural research as a development intervention. Here he has published on the farming systems research movement; farmer-participatory research; the potential role of concepts from industrial 'new product development' in targeting research; and the value of systems of innovation theory in understanding the challenges to agricultural research in sub-Saharan Africa.
More recently he has worked on the agricultural development potential of "home-grown school feeding", the changing global food system and the growth of interest in 'local' food within the UK.
He joined IDS as a Research Fellow in October 2009. Previously he served as Programme Director at The New Economics Foundation and Senior Lecturer in Natural Resource Management in the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia. He has also held research positions at WADRA - the Africa Rice Centre, the International Livestock Centre for Africa, CARE International and the Gambian Livestock Department.
A sweet deal? Sugarcane, water and agricultural transformation in Sub-Saharan AfricaGlobal Environmental Change 39 (2016)
Globally, the area of sugarcane is rising rapidly in response to growing demands for bioethanol and increased sugar demand for human consumption. Despite considerable diversity in production systems and contexts, sugarcane is a particularly "high impact" crop with significant positive and negative environmental and socio-economic impacts. More details
The adoption problem; or why we still understand so little about technological change in African agricultureOutlook on Agriculture 45.1 (2016)
The notion of adoption is central to efforts to measure technological change in African agriculture, and plays an important role in the evaluation of return on investment in agricultural research and technology development. More details
Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World
Over the last 40 years, suggest the editors of Contested Agronomy, agricultural research in the developing world has been profoundly influenced by three powerful trends. More details
Mind the (yield) gaps(s)Food Security 4.4 (2012)
This paper explores the origin of the notion of "yield gap" and its use as a framing device for agricultural policy in sub-Saharan Africa. The argument is that while the yield gap of policy discourse provides a simple and powerful framing device, it is most often used without the discipline or caveats associated with the best examples of its use in crop production ecology and microeconomics. More details
Public Agronomy: Norman Borlaug as 'brand hero' for the Green RevolutionJournal of Development Studies 48.11 (2012)
This article examines the role played by Norman Borlaug in promoting the notion of Green Revolution as a way to rapidly transform agriculture in the developing world. More details
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IDS Welcomes Matasa Fellows12 Sep 2016
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Rethinking 'adoption' in African agriculture02 Sep 2016
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Youth savings – it's a family affair22 Jun 2016
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Africa's structural challenges can't be solved by "youth innovation"17 Jun 2016
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Putting young African researchers at the heart of change14 Apr 2016
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Contested agronomy: more heat than light?18 Feb 2016
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Is agriculture the answer to the Africa youth unemployment challenge?08 Jan 2016
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Are Young People the Answer to Africa's Food Security?09 Dec 2015
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Protest Context: The History of Mubarak Abuses
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on The Brian Lehrer Show, Lawrence Wright, staff writer for The New Yorker and Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division, discussed the history of oppression and abuse under the Mubarak regime.
While the army has cultivated a image of neutrality throughout the protests, The Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday that human rights groups have documented the detainment and torture of hundreds of protesters at the hands of the military.
Amid reports that Mubarak will step down today and power will be transferred to Vice President Omar Suleiman, the former top intelligence chief and military officer, Stork was quick to say the public should not assume the army is taking the side of the protesters, despite their claim they are stepping in to "safeguard the country."
Language about protecting the country or even protecting the citizens, when an army is using that language, I wouldn't assume that's in the best interest of citizens.
As the White House said, this is a fluid situation, and no one knows what the repercussions of a transfer of power would be. Though the crowd in Tahrir Square is cheering, Stork said they are likely to be disappointed unless major changes are made in country whose authorities have a culture of torture.
Will the same individuals who have been responsible for the kind of abuses we've seen over the last 30, 40 years be essentially the same people doing the same thing? We don't know. Or will the army be taking on more of a policing role, which it's very ill-equiped to do, both in terms of training, equipment, and so forth. So we're looking at what could be a very messy situation.
Wright noted that Egypt's horrific practices implicate the United States—damaging our credibility as a force for good in the region.
One of the shameful things of our own Egyptian policies is we took advantage of that kind of system to let them interrogate some of these Al Qaida suspects.
Ending police abuse has been a major rallying cry among the protesters. Stork said unless the government adopts a zero tolerance policy to torture, it will continue to afflict the population.
Torture actually spread, it became sort of an epidemic, which is what it is today, I'm sorry to say. It happens in police stations, it happens not just with political dissidents, it happens with people just picked up for suspicion of committing ordinary crimes. This has become a serious and widespread problem.
Human rights defenders like Stork are more concerned that any change at the top would be accompanied by institutional changes like ending the 30-year law that allows the president to arrest anyone who is perceived to threaten the government's security (in practice, this has meant any political opposition groups).
There are things that should happen before Mubarak leaves, such as ending the emergency rule. I think that's more key than whether Mubarak steps out of the picture today, tomorrow, or next week. And I'm afraid this is going to preclude that.


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In 1971, Mimi Selbert and John Maher founded Delancey Street Foundation with a paltry $1000 loan and a big dream: to provide individuals at the bottom of societal totem pole a priceless opportunity to turn their lives around. Clients include former substance abusers, former felons, teenage mothers and others individual who have hit 'rock bottom.'
Delancey Street freely houses each individual as 'residents' for a minimum of 2 years and most individuals stay an average of 4 years- drug free, alcohol free and crime free. During their time at Delancey, residents work to earn a high school GED, are provided with vocational training and learn proper social and interpersonal skills, allowing them to successfully acclimate into mainstream society.
Here's why Delancey passed our social business test.
Not only has this foundation been named the most successful rehabilitation project in the United States- turning over 14,000 lives around and counting but equally importantly, Delancey is self-sustaining and has accepted no governmental grant since its founding. Instead, it has grown into a 20 million dollar empire through the launching of a series of small businesses which provide necessary operational capital as well as providing a basic training ground for residents to acquire rudimentary entrepreneurial and business skills.
Delancey Street Foundation
- Delancey Street Foundation is the country's leading residential self-help organization for former substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless and others who have hit rock bottom. Delancey was founded in 1971 and has grown to serve thousands of residents in five locations throughout the United States.
- Organization Type: Non-Profit
- Website: www.delanceystreetfoundation.org
- Founder(s): John Maher & Mimi Silbert
- Founded: 1971
- Location: New York, New Mexico, Los Angeles, North Carolina
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Catholic parishes that allow cross-dressing homosexuals to play female saints in the Santa Cruz de Mayo procession were told by Cardinal Rosales, Archbishop of Manila, they were deliberately insulting the Virgin Mary. The Santaxruzan procession is a major event in the Philippinesand most parishes organize elaborate processions. Over the years the processions have shifted from ones in which religious figures dominated into opportunities for beauty queens to display their bodies, and, in many cases, famous movie stars assume roles in the religious pageant.
The empowerment of gay groups has led some parishes to ignore the orders of the Archbishop and organize processions with cross-dressing gays portraying saints. Cardinal Rosales exploded and said: "The procession is religious. But what the parishes do is organize it as a parade of homosexual cross-dresers. That's an insult to the Blessed Mother." He threatened to ban the holding of Masses at any parish that disregards his warning. The Cardinal made clear he had nothing against gays as long as they kept their distance from religious processions.