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I'm Going to Miss the Dooley Pressers
This week in the Vol Nation, apart from being a Jon Gruden Worship Marathon, there was featured quite the weekly press conference hosted by Derek Dooley.
Tyler Bray and Justin Hunter were the subject of some lengthy appendices to answers from the head coach at the Monday presser.
There was a question about Bray's turnovers (interceptions) against Alabama as well as against SEC opponents. Dooley didn't leave us guessing about how he felt:
If he is loose with the ball, he is coming out of the game, and we're gonna play Worley, and I told him that… He's too loose with the football and he's been too loose. And, that's the way it is. We can't win, we can't beat these teams turning the ball over. And, there's gonna be inevitable turnovers in the game, so when there is one, make them have made a great play to get it, not serve it up to them, which is what we do.
A followup question explored the issue and questioned if Dooley was after perfection from Bray:
I don't think you have to play perfect at all. So, being loose with the football doesn't necessarily mean you gotta play perfect. But you can't make game-changing plays — throw it away, drop it down when you're not comfortable. There's a lot of things you can do when you're not comfortable in the pocket to not hurt the team. And Tyler knows that, so it's part of being quarterback.
Then the questioning turned to the character issue regarding Tyler Bray, specifically his decision after the Bama game to not take questions at the post-game press conference:
I was very disappointed, and I told him that. And, I have no defense for that kind of behavior. He's the quarterback and there is a level of responsibility that you have to the team, and to the fans and to the media. And if you don't like it, don't play quarterback. That is how it is and I told him that. So, that is the first time we've ever had a guy, I think, do that, and that's not acceptable in our program. So, man up. That's what you have to do. That is life. You can't have it both ways. I told the team that. You can't get upset at the fans 'cause they're angry. What do ya want them to be, happy?… They all want to get cheered, but nobody wants the criticism when you don't perform. I mean that's not how life is. So, nothing wrong with the fans.
Dooley was also asked about Justin Hunter's performance in conference games. If you thought the head coach was brutally honest about Bray, get a load of this answer when it came to the wide receiver:
Hunter. A lot of drops. Yeah. Right. Well, … First of all it's got to be done in practice, with a lot more consistency… Justin's got to understand that playing receiver is not always clean and easy — that there is a little grit you have to do to get open. You're gonna have to get hit, and good receivers are able to make those kind of plays no matter what the circumstance. He's not there yet. You know, we all want to talk about how he's this first round pick, the number one pick in the draft… He can be that. But, he's never performed to that standard in my opinion. And, he knows that. So, he needs to focus on his development on what does he do well, what are some things that we gotta keep building on, and how do we get there… He's got great character, it's important to him, and he's got a lot of special qualities for a wideout. But being able to go produce out there week after week is what matters.
Just another day at the office.
To say the least, these answers were the talk of Knoxville on Monday afternoon and Tuesday. Dooley came under intense criticism as well received some praise for his frankness.
The criticisms — examples included comments from Jason Swain, ex-Vol wide receiver and present radio talk show co-host — seemed to indicate that this was just another example of how Dooley's constant negativity causes his players to disrespect him, which may be the core of performance problems. Swain went as far to say in effect that players should stand up to Dooley and question his authority because Dooley hasn't proven anything as a head coach — at Tennessee, Louisiana Tech, or anywhere else. Swain seemed to ask why players at Tennessee should want to perform for an unqualified head coach.
Some of the praise — and there isn't much room for praise directed at Dooley these days — came from Erik Ainge, ex-Vol quarterback and also present radio talk show host. Ainge indicated that both Bray and Hunter have underperformed when considering the immense amount of praise heaped upon them by most Vol fans over the past couple of years. He agreed with Dooley's stance on both players, and used the word "entitled" when describing the mindset of Bray and Hunter as connected to each player's performances and inability/unwillingness to accept criticism.
During the early portion of Derek Dooley's tenure as head coach, I always enjoyed Dooley's direct and honest approach to his press conferences. This approach was unusual within the coaching fraternity, and to me at least, refreshing. But as last season was unravelling, I got the feeling that Dooley's squad were performing badly because they were repeatedly characterized by their coach as a bad football team, and thus were not instilled with any belief that they could rise above their poor performances.
Early this season, Dooley took a different approach. It was much more positive one — his naked criticisms were more nuanced.
Now, as another winless October appears to be inevitable, Dooley seems to have met the last straw of his frustrations with his team, particularly the biggest star players. However, this frustration may be more a response to his own predicament. This comes at a time when Dooley himself surely realizes that his days as Tennessee's head coach may be coming to an end sooner than later.
Personally, I tend to favor the Erik Ainge view than the Jason Swain interpretation. Ainge seems to be a much more analytical character when it comes to this football team. Swain seems to carry around a huge distaste for Dooley, not only as a coach but also as a person, and has for some time.
I harbor many doubts about Dooley's abilities as a head coach, particularly as a motivator. But I also view this squad as lacking leadership within its own ranks, particularly the quarterback who is immensely talented, but is one who strikes me as one who would rather rely on those talents instead of developing his understanding of the game through hard study.
Football is a relatively simple game. But the operation of a football program is a complicated endeavor, taking many talents by many people. And these people, and their talents, must come together with a sense of family and nurturing. That seems to be missing in Knoxville. The only thing that can turn this program around is the universal cure-all: winning.
To come together as a functional family, perchance to win.
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(AP) – Major events in the timeline of outgoing Sen. Arlen Specter's career in politics:
_ 1959: Hired as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia.
_ 1964: Serves on the Warren Commission, which concludes that a lone assassin killed President John F. Kennedy.
_ 1965: Runs successfully on Republican ticket for Philadelphia district attorney, even though he was a Democrat.
_ 1967: Loses election for Philadelphia mayor.
_ 1969: Elected to second term as district attorney.
_ 1973: Loses bid for third term as district attorney.
_ 1976: Loses GOP Senate primary.
_ 1978: Loses GOP gubernatorial primary.
_ 1980: Wins Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat and joins new Republican majority in the chamber.
_ 1986: Elected to second term in Senate.
_ 1987: Helps defeat President Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.
_ 1991: Aggressively questions Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearing.
_ 1992: Elected to third term in Senate.
_ 1995: Announces candidacy for president. Suspends campaign later that year amid fundraising difficulties.
_ 1998: Elected to fourth term in Senate.
_ 2004: Ekes out win in Senate GOP primary, beating U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey by 17,146 votes, or 1.6 percentage points. Wins a fifth term in November.
_ 2005: Begins two-year term as chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee.
_ February 2009: Votes for Democrats' economic stimulus package, inflaming GOP sentiment against him.
_ April 15, 2009: Toomey announces he will mount another challenge to Specter in 2010 Senate GOP primary.
_ April 28, 2009: Specter announces he is changing party registration from Republican to Democrat.
_ August 4, 2009: Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak announces his Senate candidacy.
_ May 18, 2010: Sestak defeats Specter in Democratic Party primary.
_ Dec. 22, 2010: Specter takes last vote in Senate.
_ Jan. 3, 2011: Senate term ends.
_ Oct. 19, 2011: In speech, Specter blames the tea party for removing GOP moderates, says Washington gridlock has become "like a war."
_Aug. 28, 2012: Confirms that he is battling cancer again, calls it "another battle I intend to win."
_Oct. 14, 2012: Son confirms Specter's death at his Philadelphia home of complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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One last thought about motivating each other. The Beatles once sang, "I get by with a little help from my friends." As it turns out, we all need a little help from our friends every now and then.
Case in point: A self-diagnosed workout-aholic, I was spending a beautiful Saturday morning running a few laps at my local track in preparation for an upcoming 10K race. A few laps into my run, a group of 12 decked out in head-to-toe camouflage fatigues joined my "ranks" (military pun intended). After quickly surveying the scene to make sure no official military action or invasion was taking place in Kansas (silly, I know), I finally figured out what this diverse group of ages and races was doing: the Army Physical Fitness Test, or the APFT.
I have covered military fitness for the magazine for more than two years, so I like to consider myself fairly knowledgeable about each branch's requirements and programs. However, I'd never seen an actual fitness test up close and personal (and without government clearance, no less). It was serendipitous to say the least.
The troops lined up at the starting line for their two-mile run, and once their sergeant yelled "Go!", they were off. Some were faster than others. A couple of the younger and obviously in-shape guys sprinted off and easily finished the run in less than 15 minutes. (I decided to time them after they lapped me not once but twice.)
However, some of the older, heavier soldiers took a bit longer. In fact, after just one lap, their faces reddened and they slowed to a jog. By lap three, they were walking, gasping for breath. I imagine that because some of them were older, they probably had higher ranks in the military and were pretty distinguished. Yet here they were at the high school track, unable to run even half a mile.
I have spoken with countless military fitness professionals whose primary job is to prepare soldiers, airmen, etc., for this exact thing. They've always said it isn't easy — you can only motivate and train someone to a certain extent. Eventually, people have to take charge of their fitness.
At a health club, a person might simply fail to renew their membership, but failure is more serious for a service member. They have three choices: make the cut, go on probation or get kicked out of the Army entirely. Granted, I have no idea what the past APFT history of these runners is or if this was their first or final attempt to pass, so the urgency of this particular test was still up in the air. However, for drama's sake, let's assume that this was their final chance.
Here comes the warm and fuzzy part: Instead of quietly stretching or watching the last three guys and gals hurrying against time to the best of their ability, about five of the finishers went out to the other side of the track and ran alongside the winded runners/walkers shouting words of encouragement as they paced them.
This outwardly team-oriented cheerleader behavior warmed my heart. And sure enough, all of those in danger of failing to pass the test picked up their pace and crossed the finish line within their age- and gender-adjusted time. After each one finished, the team shouted and cheered.
Imagine how the health of the average American might change if every deconditioned layperson received this sort of attention. I'm not just talking about personal training clients — I mean all members. We need to teach all members how to enter their height and weight on the elliptical. We need to show them the proper form of a bicep curl. We need to encourage healthy eating. The deconditioned need a little extra help and a lot of encouragement.
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The 2011 version of Smackdown vs. Raw is out, and we thought it appropriate to set two old-school gamers -- and SLAM! Wrestling veterans -- to it. Enjoy the contrasting opinions of Jon Waldman and John Powell.
Jon Waldman
For the last few years, I've had the opportunity to try the Smackdown vs. Raw series of games on an annual basis, and throughout that time I've been able to play wrestling's most popular franchise on a variety of platforms.
It started with No Mercy on Nintendo 64, graduated to the Playstation 2 for a few titles and, most recently, Nintendo Wii for the 2009 and 2010 editions.
This year, I'm making the move one more time, to Xbox 360, just in time for Smackdown vs. Raw 2011, and I'm glad I did, because quite frankly 360 is my new home for WWE video games.
While I enjoyed the last couple editions of Smackdown vs. Raw, or SVR as the kids call it, 360's robust capabilities make the Wii versions pale by comparison. The graphics are sharper, the variety of matches is larger and the controls are much easier.
So having said that, you can pretty much guess that SVR 11 is my favourite fifth gen console wrestling game. But it's not just because it's my maiden voyage on the good ship 360; rather, THQ did a great job amping up the game this year.
John Powell
Moving onto video games from SLAM! Wrestling years ago was a natural fit as I have been a gamer since the first Pong machine was plugged in at an arcade. During those years, my passion for pro wrestling and video games tag teamed many times from the Commodore 64 to the Nintendo Gameboy to the Xbox 360. From big to small, beat 'em ups to strategy games and RPGs, I have experienced a wide variety of wrestling games. Some great. Some good. Some absolute abominations.
Jon Waldman
To start, the new physics system is absolutely incredible. Being able to put an opponent into a ladder and seeing the damage or break a chair into pieces after a few whacks is awesome and gives it that extra sense of realism.
But what takes the cake for me is the simplicity of the interaction on the ropes. For years, a wrestler could pull off a suplex, crashing their foe, in theory, into the ropes; instead, the animation would shift over as if the ropes were just a glitch. Now, however, if you hit a move near the ropes, the manoeuvre reacts realistically as the wrestler folds into the bending ring restraints.
Beyond the on-screen system, I really am digging the 360 control system. Aside from the fact that THQ has always been pick-up-and-play friendly, they offer a tutorial at the start of the game that gives you the full rundown of changes. Well done!
Another cool adaptation has been the WWE Universe integration into the regular run of the game. Every basic match now is recorded as part of a season of WWE TV, which means you can either create your own perpetual stories and build them into the mode or play the pre-selected message. The intuitiveness of THQ's build will even put extra storyline touches in like run-ins or guest broadcast commentators.
While none of us may ever know what exactly was in the Iron Sheik's boot all those years or the exact chemical make-up of The Great Kabuki's green mist or why the WWE all of a sudden wants to be a "family friendly" company once again, what Smackdown vs. Raw fans do understand is the tried and true control system. Well, we thought we did.
Just like Roddy Piper changing the questions when we thought we had all the answers, the game's developer, Yuke's, has decided to mainstream the control system and by doing so has killed off many of the superstars' trademarked moves. Now after all these years, all that it takes is a uneducated flick of a joystick to perform a manoeuvre.
The trade-off for that simplicity and opening up the game to your Uncle Horace and your grade school sister Jenny, is that we lose a whole ton of moves. How many moves are we talking about exactly? Try about 300.
Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 is about two steps away now from being nothing more than a high-rent version of Mortal Kombat. Okay. Okay. In point of fact, that isn't true. Mortal Kombat has more moves.
If that gameplay change wasn't enough, Yuke's has resurrected the abominable backstage roaming and built the "Road To WrestleMania" mode around that. You will now spend more time blundering around backstage, engaging in futile conversations instead of enjoying a cut-scene and wrestling your next match. What is unintentionally funny about that whole thing is that in order to build up your abilities, you have to talk to the "medical trainer." All that's missing from this punch line folks is the needle in your arm.
"Career Mode" has been replaced by something called "WWE Universe" which monitors your gameplay then formulates rivalries, storylines accordingly. It really doesn't do a half bad job either.
The terminal defect of Smackdown vs. Raw is the result of another developmental shortcut that Yuke's took. To make the "boss matches" in the popular Road to WrestleMania mode challenging, Yuke's gave the top echelon grapplers like The Undertaker, Triple H and Randy Orton the uncanny ability to reverse almost every hold you put on them. It is like they all became Dean Malenko overnight or something. It is one thing to test your abilities. It is quite another to just frustrate the living hell out of people. Not fair, Yuke's. Not fair at all.
As we've seen in the past, the moveset built into the game has been amped up. There are a variety of new moves that are part of the game and old ones have been re-designed with a much slicker look. THQ has also continued to include finishing moves from ex-WWEers and current TNA'ers, along with some puro and Lucha-inspired match-enders.
If there is any problem with move selection it is that names we are long familiar with from WWE broadcasts have been changed, primarily those belonging to departed superstars. I really don't understand why these names have been changed. This has long been an annoyance to me, since it makes move selection a longer process. Did programmers really need to change the name of the Spin-A-Roonie?
One aspect that has been improved upon is the Create-a-Finisher. For comparison sake, I have done a Forward Fisherman's Buster in SVR10 and SVR11, and the transition between move elements is much smoother this year.
As always, the wrestler creation section has been improved upon from the previous year, while other creation elements like storylines and entrances are pretty slick.
Improvements like "Create A Finisher" and "Create A Match" are very welcome but because of the new control system, you don't have as many moves to choose from for your creations. This makes designing your own CAWs so much easier but your overall creation is very limited compared to your past builds. It doesn't seem like Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 is compatible with older versions in the series so you cannot upload your past CAWs either, which is a total chairshot to the head, if you ask me. Nobody wants to keep recreating their stable of superstars or downloading them again every single year.
I've always been impressed by the look of SVR, and can admit to doing a couple double-takes. Of course, as mentioned earlier, 360 is stunning compared to Wii, but to me realistic elements like seeing the sweat on a wrestler's body haven't been a big deal to me. Still, it seems like you can see a wrestler's body get redder as they incur their beatdown which is cool.
It's far more important for me, however, to not see wrestlers disappear into the mat or blatantly see their bodyparts separate from the torso, which plagued earlier incarnations. In this regard, SVR 11 meets my expectations.
For sound, this is always tough. It's good to see that the commentary has changed, by and large, from the soundbites that were previously part of the game. For the Gen 4 years (i.e. the Playstatyion 2/Xbox/Gamecube), we'd hear the same bits game after game, which made me want to eliminate any commentary.
But this isn't 100% the case. Some of the soundbites are very clearly re-used, to the point where you can hear the difference in volume and tone between fresh and recycled commentary. I'm also not a fan of hearing Michael Cole talk to Jerry Lawler about the upcoming main event in the middle of my match. Oy.
For me, the bottom line is that if a game like NHL 2011 can have a plethora of commentary options, so could the WWE series. The sound effects, crowd chants and music options (which are about halfway to where they should be) are integral parts of the game, but don't hold nearly as much importance as the broadcast team.
I have felt like I have been hit by a Stone Cold Stunner. Yuke's attention to detail has been one of the hallmarks of the Smackdown vs. Raw series over the years. Their character model work has been some of the best in the business when it comes to duplicating the WWE superstars from the hair on their heads to the tats on their bodies to their facial features. SVR11 is the first time in the series that both the graphics and audio have regressed. New models like the "Celtic Warrior" Sheamus look very, very bland and there is so much erroneous commentary, it really becomes quite irritating. It doesn't seem like the developers even recorded any new commentary either. Like so much else with this game, Yuke's shortcuts here are unbelievably unsatisfactory.
Each year I compare SVR to its predecessors, analyzing whether it will inspire me to shelve previous versions. This time around, my mind isn't conflicted whatsoever.
SVR11 has a couple flaws, but this edition far out-distanced SVR10 in my opinion. Yes, I'm coming from a different perspective, but everything that was faulty on Wii is infinitely better on 360 and the aspects that were universal to all platforms have been heavily improved upon this year.
Sorry Nintendo, but when it comes to wrestling, I'm an Xbox convert. Now, it's just a matter of waiting to see what THQ will do next year, when Kinect will be fully integrated as a control system; but don't wait until then to join me in moving to Microsoft -- pick up SVR11 for Xbox 360, no questions asked!
Rating: 7/10
If something ain't broke, you don't fix it. Yuke's has tinkered so much with the Smackdown vs. Raw formula, fans have to wonder about the future of the series. Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 remains as the greatest wrestling simulator ever made. So much has changed in a year though. Like 'The Underfaker' or 'New World Order' Sting, Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 is nothing but a pale imitation that, if not for WWE Universe mode, would not be worth any wrestling fan's time and attention if they already have SVR10 sitting on the shelf.
Two final notes. In order to have blood in the matches, you have to change the pre-set options. It comes turned off out of the box. Also, each new copy of the game contains an Online Pass allowing one user to play the game online for free. Subsequent players who rent or purchase that copy of the game used will obtain a trial of Online Pass and will have to buy their own Online Pass when the trial period runs out. Sucks that.
Rating: 4 / 10


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It seems the greener your operation is, the more green you can make. The CCX offers a good way for farmers to get paid for being environmentally conscious. "Government subsidies are going to continue to get smaller unless [farmers] get greener," Haubenschild says. "The exchange is another tool for us to use."


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The Nov. 4 ballot is set for city and school district races in Stanislaus County, which also has numerous unopposed candidates.
Patterson has the most crowded field, with four people running for mayor and six seeking a pair of council seats. Turlock, Riverbank, Waterford and Newman also will have city races. Oakdale and Hughson will not, because the number of candidates equaled the number of seats up for election.
Filing closed last Friday for seats where an incumbent is running and was extended to Wednesday for other races. Here is how it shakes out:
Turlock: Michael Brem and Gary Soiseth are vying for mayor; incumbent John Lazar is not running. Council members Forrest White and William DeHart face challengers Matthew Jacob, Donald Babadalir and Sergio Alvarado.
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Riverbank: Council members Cal Campbell and Leanne Jones Cruz face Larry King, who was not on a candidate list posted last Friday.
Oakdale: Mayor Pat Paul is unopposed. Cherilyn Bairos and J.L. McCarty were the only candidates for the council seats to be vacated at year's end by Farrell Jackson and Michael Brennan.
Hughson: Mayor Matt Beekman and council members George Carr and Harold Hill will get new terms without opposition.
Waterford: Councilman Mike Van Winkle is the only candidate for mayor; incumbent Charlie Goeken is not running. Incumbents Ken Krause and Joshua Whitfield will square off against challenger Keith Self in the race for two council seats.
Patterson: Mayor Luis Molina is being challenged by council members Sheree Lustgarten and Dominic Farinha, both in the middle of their four-year terms, and by Ralph Arredondo. The race for two council seats drew incumbents Larry Buehner and Deborah Novelli and challengers Troy McMahan, Dennis McCord, Carlos Gustavo Fierros and John Stobb.
Newman: Incumbent Ed Katen is unopposed for mayor. Incumbent council members Nick Candea and Donald Hutchins face challenger Casey Graham.
Yosemite Community College District: The three incumbents are unopposed – Lynn Martin in Area 1, Don Viss in Area 2 and Anne DeMartini in Area 4.
Hughson Unified School District: Incumbents Rick Applegate, Randall Heckman and Cindy Cunningham-Gipp are unopposed.
Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District: Incumbent Paul Wallace and challenger Alfredo Esquivez are running in Area 2. Vernon Snodderly is unopposed in Area 5.
Salida Union School District: Incumbent Ivan Wyeth faces Steve Cleek in Area 1. Incumbent Virginia Berry is running against Jeffrey Hook in Area 2. Incumbent Catie Englebright is opposed by Nanci Fox in Area 5.
Stanislaus Union School District: Michael Tognotti is unopposed in Area 1. No candidates filed in Area 3. Incumbent Gilbert Jackson is unopposed in Area 5.
Waterford Unified School District: Three incumbents are unopposed – Tim Bomgardner in Area 2, Sheila Collins in Area 3 and Jim Weaver in Area 5.
Del Puerto Health Care District: Donna Sesock-Miller and incumbents Harold Hill and Steven Pittson are unopposed for the three available seats.
Oak Valley Hospital District: Incumbents Wendell Chun, Daniel Cummins and Edward Chock are unopposed.
Westside Community Health Care District: Incumbent George Schmidt is unopposed in Zone 2.
The ballot also will have races for statewide offices, the state Senate and Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives, along with a few propositions. The candidates were chosen in the June 3 primary.
Four local measures will go before voters. Turlock will consider a sales tax increase for street repairs and a switch to district council elections. Oakdale will vote on continuing a sales tax increase for city services. Newman could set an urban growth boundary.


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Organizations that train their staff and volunteers create an environment that better protects children. Perpetrators are drawn to places where they can have easy access to children. An organization that emphasizes prevention through training and appropriate policies is an unwelcoming place for a perpetrator. Training increases staff and volunteer awareness and teaches them to recognize the signs that an opportunity exists for abuse to occur, and the signs that abuse has occurred. It is also critical that staff and volunteers know how to react if they recognize the signs or if a child discloses abuse.
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"Thanks to the highly-efficient architecture of the ETERNUS DX storage system, we improved performance by a factor of five and can flexibly fulfill customer requirements. "
Thomas Scherer Manager of the Z.I.E.L. GmbH data center
Z.I.E.L. products are known for their user-friendliness. With years of experience, the company's specialists are very familiar with the requirements of travel agencies and specific conditions in the travel industry. Z.I.E.L. has used its practical knowledge since 1984 to develop software products and services for travel agencies according to its motto "Specialization without Compromises." Its Web-based SYNCCESS® travel agency software is increasingly popular. Some 800 travel agencies currently profit from hosting of their back office administrative systems by the Z.I.E.L. data center.
More requirements must be fulfilled by the data center as Z.I.E.L. hosting services for travel agencies become a success story. However, this had become much more difficult with an ageing server and storage infrastructure. Z.I.E.L. has used virtualization for a long time, but the heterogeneous environment made administration cumbersome. At the same time, data growth and the increasing number of virtual servers slowed the storage system, increasing customer complaints about performance. That led to Z.I.E.L.'s decision to upgrade its data center infrastructure. Thomas Scherer, manager of the data center, describes the company's estimations for the new complete solution: "We wanted a homogeneous infrastructure with a lot of power that would also be energy efficient, compact, and easily expandable."
Following an analysis of the current server/SAN developments, Z.I.E.L. chose the PRIMERGY BX blade server and the ETERNUS DX online storage system. Fujitsu and Bytec proved their point by running a test with an ETERNUS DX. Major improvements in performance values utterly convinced Z.I.E.L. The proven data center components support hosting for a constantly growing number of customers, offering maximum power and superior scalability. They also work perfectly together, can be flexibly configured, and are extremely energy efficient. As a result top performance capability and economic efficiency go hand in hand. Z.I.E.L. reckons that performance has been improved by a factor of five and that energy savings total 60 percent.
Hosting by the SYNCCESS® back office system is increasingly popular with travel agencies and is of strategic importance for Z.I.E.L. It soon became clear that the system would be based on the PRIMERGY BX blade server, since the entire dynamic server infrastructure in a box with ten height units is extremely compact and offers top power density with up to 18 server blades in one chassis. This considerably reduces the complexity of the Z.I.E.L. data center while leaving plenty of room to expand the hosting business. Administration is now much simpler, too, thanks to I/O virtualization and simple management of the physical and virtual environment.
"When choosing the storage system, we were initially unsure which one was right," reveals Thomas Scherer, raising a problem that faces many IT decision-makers these days. Storage systems in modern data centers must fulfill many requirements, which can also change quickly. That makes planning far more difficult. For example, in addition to predicting data growth, Z.I.E.L. also had to include a sufficient power buffer for server virtualization in its calculation and find a solution that would allow it to fulfill different customer requests economically. But Z.I.E.L. was confident that its chosen solution was also the best, because "we knew that Fujitsu offers the most comprehensive portfolio on the market with SAN, NAS, and unified storage systems," says Scherer. After initially being tempted by another maker's system, Z.I.E.L. ultimately decided on an ETERNUS DX. "The final tipping point was a test run; the performance values of the ETERNUS DX convinced us," explains Scherer.
An ETERNUS DX90 S2 is the backbone of the new SAN in Z.I.E.L.'s highpower data center. The flexible data safe for dynamic infrstructures has an architecture with a large cache, a slim operating system, and optimized algorithms, guaranteeing brief response times even under full load "We can realistically say that we expect that performance to be improved by a factor of five," reports Scherer. Hard disk types such as SAS, Nearline SAS, and SSD can be used at the same time in one system, so Z.I.E.L. can now offer optimum performance for every customer requirement with no difficulty in reconciling power, capacity, and costs. For example, Z.I.E.L. plans to deploy extremely fast SSDs for certain customer groups and implement a RAID array of SSDs during a later expansion phase. Z.I.E.L. is now very flexible in the area of data growth as well: The storage capacity of the ETERNUS DX90 S2 can be scaled up to 360 TB, and thanks to the uniform design of the entire ETERNUS DX product family Z.I.E.L. can grow simply from one model to the next. Another important aspect is that thin provisioning keeps the initial investment to a minimum.
Higher-quality service for travel agencies and increased flexibility are two main advantages of the new data center environment. A third is that running costs are much lower. One reason for this is integrated server and storage management along with functions such as automatic tiering. Another important factor is the energy efficiency of PRIMERGY and ETERNUS DX: "We are achieving energy savings of 60 percent," reports Scherer. The new equipment also gives off much less heat, so he is convinced that Z.I.E.L. will be able to install smaller, more energyefficient air conditioners the next time they have to be replaced.
"Close cooperation with our partners Bytec and Fujitsu made it much simpler to plan the new data center environment."
Thomas Scherer, manager of the Z.I.E.L. GmbH data center
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Shirley tells me that she didn't go to the Ontario Archives as her first outing, instead she conducted some genealogy research at Toronto's First Post office. This post office was built in 1833. It is the sole surviving example of a British Colonial post office in Canada (the Canadian postal service was established in 1851) and the only museum in Canada that collects and studies pre-confederation British North-American postal history.
According to the website, its library and archives are available to researchers by appointment. As a National Historic Site it tells the story of the Royal Mail in Upper Canada (present day Ontario).
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — What is the biggest long-term threat to the price of gold?
You could argue it is rising interest rates, which will push up the cost of holding an asset that doesn't earn any kind of return. You could argue that it is deflation: If prices start to fall, then paper money will look a lot more valuable. Or you could argue it is a resurgent dollar DXY, -0.14% . As the American currency grows in strength — as seems likely given its relative performance compared with the rest of the world — then gold will be less valuable as an alternative.
In the short term, those factors will all have an impact, and may well explain the huge drop in the gold price US:GCQ3 over the last three months.
But in the medium to long term — and gold is nothing if not a long-term investment — the most important threat is the rise of alternative digital currencies such as bitcoin. Why? Because as a rival to paper money, gold has had the market to itself. Now it will have competition, and that always drives down the price of any product.
Gold has been on a roller-coaster ride over the past three years, even by its own volatile standards. Back in 2011, it soared close to $2,000 an ounce as it looked as if the euro EURUSD, +0.1239% was in danger of imminent collapse. Since then, it has dropped all the way back to between $1,200 and $1,300. In the last three months it has seen some dramatic one-day falls, enough to take the metal into bear-market territory.
That is all the result of short-term factors. The euro crisis has calmed down. Central banks look set to turn off the supply of printed money. The dollar is getting stronger, and inflation shows little sign of emerging anywhere. As investors reckon the global economy is getting back to normal, they want to own less gold, and that has driven the price back down.
None of that means very much. Prices always go up and down. In the background, however, digital currencies are rising all the time, and that will be a lot more significant.
True, bitcoin has a long way to go still to establish itself as a serious currency. The digital money is still in its infancy. It is a wild and unregulated asset, with about as much credibility as the Zimbabwean bond market. But it is slowly and steadily making progress from the fringes to the mainstream of the financial world — the Winklevoss twins' proposal to create an ETF that tracks the bitcoin price is just the latest example of that.
Even if bitcoin crashes and burns, that doesn't mean digital currencies will not be successful.
Netscape created the first popular Internet browser, but it didn't ultimately capture that market. In technology, the pioneers are not always the real successes. Financial sophisticates might dismiss digital currencies as a craze. But plenty of other industries have been taken apart by the Internet — there is no reason why the money market should be any different. We don't listen to analog music, or read paper books, or send letters any more — there is no reason why we should use paper money supplied by a central bank. It may be some other company that cracks the mass market, but the chances are it will happen.
That has big implications for the gold price.
The key argument for owning the precious metal is that it is the main alternative to paper currencies. You can argue about whether that is necessary or not — plenty of people agree with the British economist John Maynard Keynes that it is a "barbarous relic." That doesn't matter, however. The fact is some people — including a lot of central banks — believe that gold is an alternative to paper money and buy it for precisely that reason.
In the past, silver and a few other precious metals provided some competition, but by and large gold has had that market to itself. If you just wanted a reliable place to stash your cash, you had two options — deposits in banks in a currency controlled by governments, or else gold. There wasn't anywhere else to go.
But new digital currencies such as bitcoin are explicitly designed as an alternative to paper money — and indeed largely mimic gold in their limited supply. Of course gold has been a medium of exchange for a few thousand years — and bitcoin for about five minutes. Still, as it and its rivals grow in importance, gold will have a genuine competitor.
In many ways, digital currencies may be a better alternative to paper money than gold. They are designed to have a permanently finite supply, so no one is going to suddenly start finding a lot more of them (whereas there is a heck of a lot of gold in meteorites – and some companies have already started working on ways to go up into space and get it).
Bitcoins are less likely to be manipulated by governments or banks. They are purely digital, so despite the efforts of governments to control or tax them, the chances are they will escape any supervision. They are not controlled by anyone, so there is very little incentive to debase them. And they are hard to steal, so you don't have to pay men with guns to protect them in deep vaults.
That is good for investors. In any market, it is always better to have a choice. Two rivals to paper money are better than one — and three would be better still.
But it can only be bad for the gold price. If it is not an alternative form of money, then gold is just a decorative metal, good for making necklaces and not much else. And its price will start going down. That moment may be some way off, but anyone buying gold for the long-term needs to be thinking about the threat posed by digital currencies, and maybe start hedging their bets with a few bitcoins in the vault alongside the ingots.


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Cheap outfits ideas for autumn/winter #5
Time for a post with some cheap outfit ideas for autumn and winter! They're also really similar to what I usually wear so I hope you like them!
Usual witchy outfit :D I already have the coat and I can say is one of my favorite outwear pieces so I really recommend it to you! For this season fake leather skirts are a must have, this one is really cool because it's high-waisted and it has also some tiny spikes on it! I'll pair the skirt with a lace top to get a really feminine outfit!
Dress - Fur Coat - Hat - Necklaces Set
An another witchy otufit this time more elegant! Lace dresses are also a must have in every closet, I really love them coordinated both in elegant or casual way! Fake fur coats are my favorite for the winter time, they're so cozy and warm I can't resist buying them even if I already have 3 in my closet ahah! Really cool ideas to sell a layered set of chokers/necklaces!
The last one is for every leopard lovers like me :D I know there aren't so many fans of it here, but I really LOVE leopard fur coats, it remembers me when I wacthed (and read) Nana a lot of years ago, I drooled for years over Nana coords. As always a cool pleated tennis skirt is great with almost everything, I'm also waiting for a top like this and I can't wait to make some coords with it! It makes your outfit edgy without adding a lot of accessories!
I hope you like these ideas! Let me know what's your must have for this season :D


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Seventy percent of our skin is made of Collagen. However, the body's natural supply of Collagen begins to decline at about age 25, causing wrinkles and other skin health issues. Collagen production decreases at a rate of about 1.5% per year; that means by age 60, you've lost about half of your natural collagen supply!
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Jerry Hickey is a pharmacist and radio personality and fills the esteemed role of Scientific Director and President of Invite Health. He has spent his professional life analyzing nutritional information and medical studies with the aim of creating the highest quality and most natural nutraceuticals for user's maximum health benefits. Here, Jerry speaks about the benefits of collagen…
Our new Collagen is in now stock. We have an upgraded supplement that's fantastic. We actually got a hold of the collagen that's used in human clinical trials. It's a bio company called Rousselot. Rousselot is in Belgium, Spain and France. Recently, they came to the United States and Brazil. They're the number one manufacturer of collagen in the world. We found Brazil as a source years ago, and the ingredients coming in are extremely clean. They are squeaky clean and very pure and of extremely high quality. Brazil's herbs that are imported to the United States are the finest herbs in the world.
For instance, we get the acai berry from Brazil. In our Para Hx® formula, so many ingredients are from Brazil. We've been getting stuff from Brazil for years now, and it turns out they had the number one collagen in the world that was the exact same collagen they've used in human clinical trials. Now, human clinical trials have covered many areas; skin health, wrinkles, bone health and joint health, for example. Dermatologists use it because they give collagen injections into lips. They give collagen rubs for the skin. Dentists use it for the gums. It is used for burn victims. I mean there are literally hundreds of thousands of studies using collagen, because it's used so frequently. This supplement is used by plastic surgeons in people. It turns out that we received the exact collagen used in the human clinical trials. It's called the Peptan B 5000HS.
Collagen production in human body decreases with age. This is an important point. By the time you're 25, your body starts to produce less collagen. Collagen production decreases at a rate of 1.5% per year. By the time you're 45, that translates to a 30% loss of collagen. By the time you're 60, you've lost more than half of your collagen. That affects your bones, your skin, your hair, your nails, your muscles and your waste. I mean everything; especially your joints. It is perfect for your joints. 90% of the organic mass of your bone is made out of collagen. Your bone is mostly collagen and calcium. That's what makes your bone. Doctors learn in medical school how important collagen is for the bones, but they don't learn about collagen supplementation for the bones. So, it's important that these studies get around. 70% of your skin is made out of collagen and most of the rest is made out of an ingredient in collagen called hyaluronic acid which is a chain of thousands of sugars. In fact, the wrinkles are damaged sugars; they're called hyaluronic acid. They've shown that, when you give collagen to people with wrinkles it helps smooth out the skin.
Approximately two-thirds of the cartilage in your joints is made out of collagen. They did a couple of studies now with the InVite Collagen. These are studies out of France and Japan, and these are with women in their 20s, women in their 50s and women in their 60s. They gave them a spoon of hydrolyzed collagen daily for six weeks and found that their skin became smoother, more flexible and more elastic. Dark spots that occur with age, such as liver spots were going away. It causes less sagginess of the skin. For them, the skin was nicer, it wasn't as dull and it had a sheen to it. The dryness was reversing itself and it was becoming more hydrated. Now, this is very important for women who have sun-damaged skin. That's what a wrinkle is. When you have a wrinkle, whether it's from cigarette smoke or just a lot of cold weather and hot weather and dryness or the sun, the collagen and the sugars on the skin called hyaluronic acid are getting damaged. They've shown that when you give women the collagen, you start to fill in the wrinkles, you make the skin more elastic, you make the skin thicker and you improve the tone and the texture. You're evening it out, even discolorations like liver spots. So, it really has a fantastic effect on the skin.
Let's talk about bones; 90% of the organic mass of your bone is made out of collagen. This is important because they've shown that when they supplement people with hydrolyzed collagen, even within four weeks, it improves bone health. These studies are 24 weeks long though, and show that collagen helps with the bones. What they've shown is a couple interesting things. Your bone matrix, the organic part of your bone that looks almost like a spider web, is filled with calcium. That "spider web" is made out of collagen. So, when you take it, you're laying the groundwork and you're making the super structure. You're making the framework for your skin. In other words, if you're going to build a house, you can't just put up a roof and a floor. You got to frame out the house. This supplement builds the frame for your bones and then the calcium and the Vitamin D and the other things go in there and strengthen it into bone, solidify it into bone and filling in the holes.
But something else happens. As you get older, your bone-building cells, which are called osteoblasts, don't last long; they die at a really young age. Osteoclasts, the cells that destroy bone, go on living, though. So, that's what they're finding now. In older people, the bone-building cells don't survive and the cells that dismantle bone, that destroy bone, they thrive, and you get a net loss of bone. So, in younger people, there's a balance. They're removing old bone while they're building new bone. In older people, that doesn't function properly any more. It's just the opposite. Instead of building bone they're just removing bone. They found that when they give older people collagen, it preferentially stimulates the osteoblasts, the cells that build your bone instead of the cells that destroy your bone called osteoclasts, thus, triggering bone building.
Case Western University and the University of Illinois Medical School over in Chicago both reviewed the studies on collagen and said this stuff is absolutely good for joint health, and the worse the joint health is, the better the stuff works. They also said given its importance for bones, it should be used in a bone-building program. So, if you're on Fosamax, alendronate, any of those drugs that build bone, Evista, etc., just add collagen. It is remarkably important for building bones, and for joints.
Here's a study from multiple orthopedic centers, a clinical trial on 250 patients. The patient's knees were not healthy, so they supplemented them with hydrolyzed collagen for six months. This provided a good improvement in knee comfort and increased flexibility. In a different study, when they compared hydrolyzed collagen to glucosamine and chondroitin, it worked three times better than glucosamine and chondroitin. Glucosamine and chondroitin did have an effect; it did help people's knees and hips, but the collagen worked 300% better. It was much more effective in helping people with their joints.
Hydrolyzed collagen breaks down bonds. It is a very big molecule and so is hyaluronic acid. So, you have to break down the bonds. In this study, they use hydrolyzed collagen which means the hyaluronic acid is smaller, the keratan sulfate, the chondroitin sulfate, and the collagen peptides themselves. It is easier for us to absorb and they are body-ready ingredients. They're biologic. You don't have to change or metabolize them in order for them to work. They go right to work for you. So, this is very important.
In your joint, there's cartilage, hard rubbery substance on the end of the bone so the bones don't rub together because the bones would not glide smoothly over one another. There would be a lot of friction and you would wear down your bones. So, you have these cartilage end-caps on your bones, this hard rubbery substance, and that has to be maintained. It's maintained by a thin layer of fluid in the joint called synovial fluid. Now, that synovial fluid has many activities. One, it's a shock absorber. So, when you take a step, that absorbs the shock from the body weight, and this way, it helps protect your knee health and your joint health, your hip health. So, that's one thing the fluid does. But the fluid also, the new baby joint cells are born in that fluid. The new baby joint cells are born in that fluid and then, when you bend your knee, they rush into the cartilage end-capped on your bones and they lubricate it andhydrate it, but they also put the new baby cells in there. So, they heal it. They rejuvenate it. They keep it going. So, it's a very important supplement for the maintenance and the health of your joint and your flexibility and making it easier to walk again, so you can get out there on the golf course or tennis court. So you can take walks and feel comfortable. So you can walk up and down stairs and get out of a chair or lift something. It's great for your neck, your shoulder, your fingers, your elbow, your hip, your knee; it's fantastic.
There you go, collagen is real stuff. You could take it for your knee, your hip, your neck, your back, your shoulder, but also for your hair, your nails, your skin, and also for your bones. If you're on a bone-building regimen, you should be on collagen. It's the ingredient that people don't know about yet.
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Pacific Barracudas, Sphyraena argentea
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Description & Behavior
Pacific barracudas, Sphyraena argentea (Girard, 1854), aka California barracudas and silver barracudas, are thin barracudas rarely exceeding 4.5 kg, they grow to a maximum length of 1.2 m. They can be distinguished from Mexican barracudas, Sphyraena ensis, by their silvery sides and a general lack of bars or spots. Pacific barracudas are slender, predatory fishes with small scales, a large mouth with fang-like teeth, and a protruding lower jaw. The tail fin is forked and the two dorsal fins are widely separated.
World Range & Habitat
Pacific barracuda are prevalent from Point Conception, California to Panama.
Feeding Behavior (Ecology)
Pacific barracudas have well-deserved reputations for being a voracious hunters. Fish, such as groupers, grunts, snapper, bream and even young barracudas are among its prey. The barracuda attacks swiftly, charging at its prey at great speed and taking a large snapping bite with its powerful jaws. The barracuda uses its acute eyesight to hunt and will usually move quickly toward light or sudden movement that might indicate the presence of prey. In murky water, it tends to attack an object even before identifying it. When several barracudas hunt in a group they will often herd their prey together into a dense shoal, forcing the fish towards shallow water so that they can feed on a greater number of fish.
Life History
The nature, timing and location of spawning of Pacific barracudas has not yet been documented. Barracudas do not care for their young. They mature around 2 years of age. Distinctions between males and females have not yet been documented either. No one knows the life span of Pacific barracuda with certainty, but it is estimated at 14 years of age.
Conservation Status & Comments
Smaller barracuda species swim in schools, but larger species tend to be solitary. Although barracuda attacks on humans are rare, they are feared by swimmers in some places. Evidence shows that the barracuda can be dangerous when provoked by humans, by erratic movement and by bright and/or shiny colors. Barracuda flesh can become poisonous when they feed on reef fish which in turn feed on algae or smaller fish which have fed on toxin-containing micro-alga such as Gambierdiscus toxicus. See more about ciguatera poisoning.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Gull-billed Terns
Before I got very close most of them flew off a little way to another part of the roost.
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terns are such cool looking birds!ReplyDelete
So love that last shot of flight!ReplyDelete
Very beautiful images of a species that is declining in numbers in North America, of particular concern here in Florida.ReplyDelete
Hi Mick; they're each delightful photographs; a great spot to visitReplyDelete
Beautiful photos! The scenery is gorgeous. I really like that flight shot!ReplyDelete
Again, great shots!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.ReplyDelete
Wonderful birds to see... I really like the last shot.ReplyDelete
I have always love the terns. Your Gull billed tern looks big? Awesome photos.ReplyDelete
I have always love the terns. Your Gull billed tern looks big? Awesome photos.ReplyDelete
Wonderful photos of the Gull-Billed Terns. I especially like the last with the wings spread wide.ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos especially in flight...thank you for visiting my woodpecker post...ReplyDelete
They are such Beauties, especially in their breeding plumage!ReplyDelete
In the second shot they look at you like they wanna say "Man, you are one huge bird with one huge beak"
Those flight shots are truly wonderful! Loved your photos!ReplyDelete
Great shots all but that last one is the kind of dream of. Well done.ReplyDelete
Hi there - very nice collection of shots.ReplyDelete
We get Gull Bills down here from time to time, but not when I look for them!
I was not the only one in our group who was surprised at how well the crakes were showing!
Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne
So much to learn . . . water birds have never really been my forte so I never would have thought of checking the look of the bill.ReplyDelete
Nice shots Mick.
I wish you a wonderful year of great birding!
The last shot is great!!ReplyDelete
Such flexibility in their wing movements.ReplyDelete
Love the last shot, especially.
Thanks Mick
Lovely looking birds, and I love that last shot Mick.ReplyDelete
Wonderful photos!ReplyDelete
They are so cool:)ReplyDelete
don´t think I have seen this one before. Great shots Mick.ReplyDelete
Interesting group shots. Love the last flight shot!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 10:31 PM
Beautiful pictures. In that one, the godwit (I guess it is) looks like he is babysitting the terns.ReplyDelete
Sweet shots Mick! Kind of amazing the wing surface as opposed to body size. What a beautiful bird.ReplyDelete
Happy New year Sir!
These are wonderfil Mick! The last flight shot is brilliant!ReplyDelete
I would love to get to these poarts of SE Qld
Great shots of the Gull-billed Terns Mick! That last in-flight shot is just incredible!ReplyDelete


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