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Both of those frames are beautiful, I love all the details.ReplyDelete
What a find! Just gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Wow that was the best $20 you have ever spent. Just gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Just perfect, I love it where it is!ReplyDelete
Is it the same tone on of blue as your other frame? How perfect it is... I love it with the mirror inside... you can always hang a wreath over the mirror?ReplyDelete
That is beautiful and so you...I love the proposed changes too!ReplyDelete
You lucky duck, you! What a great find! I must say, I am rather jealous!ReplyDelete
Great find and great price! Isn't it fun when you get lucky and find the perfect piece?!ReplyDelete
What a bargain! Love it!ReplyDelete
Beautiful!! What a wonderful find and for $20, even better!! Love your display as well, very pretty!ReplyDelete
I ask ... is there anything better than "Tattered Elegance"???? NOPE! What a great eye you have Courtney to spot this gem in amongst a bin of 'yet to be displayed' items! Beautiful and you gotta love the price! Happy Monday right back at you! xoxReplyDelete
Both frames are gorgeous. I like them both together, but let us know where you move the new one!ReplyDelete
I agree with you...perfection. So very pretty. Great find!ReplyDelete
Beautiful frame-I'd lose the mirror! Have fun with it.ReplyDelete
Beautiful....and a bargain!!ReplyDelete
What a great find, and for $20! Fantastic. Looks great just like it is with a nice reflection.ReplyDelete
absolutely beautiful! Excited for you about your fabulous find! xooxReplyDelete
What a steal! I think it looks great right where it is :)ReplyDelete
Courntey, what a find! Your mirror is gorgeous! One of these days I, too, will luck upon a deal like this! One can only hope!ReplyDelete
Hi Courtney, Wow, lucky you! A perfect find, for a great price! Love your vignette and gorgous reflections too :-)ReplyDelete
Wow, the luck fairy was in your pocket that day. It is stunning. I love where you have it now, but with your great design sense, it will be wonderful anywhere! Wish I could find great bargains like that!ReplyDelete
Wow I love it when you find somethings that's just perfect!ReplyDelete
HELLO COURTNEY :)ReplyDelete
Wow...great find Courtney! I absolutely love the color(s)! ~Deb~ReplyDelete
This is one awesome THRIFTY treasure...congrats on finding it!ReplyDelete
Wow, what a find!!I love big ,old, heavy frames like that and they sell well, too!ReplyDelete
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Oh-What a great find! I love that old mirror...and it goes nicely with it's companion....even those the silvering may be a bit tatty-I like it even with a "bad" mirror...kind of adds to the charm, I think. Hugs- DianaReplyDelete
Courtney the frame is yummy, how lucky you are. I love it, I think you have a lot of good ideas of what to do with it.ReplyDelete
Courtney, what a lucky find. I think your ideas sound great.ReplyDelete
Courtney it's incredible. Do you know that is one of my favorite things? To find a treasure you don't have to refurbish. You didn't have to do a thing accept figure out where you want to put it. And at $20 it's a steal. Mirrors like that in an antique store would cost a fortune. Well done. xoxo tamiReplyDelete
It's gorgeous Courtney! Great find!!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous find Courtney! And the price can't be beat. I love how the 2 mirrors look layered together like that!ReplyDelete
THIS is why we love thrift shops!!!ReplyDelete
Yes, you are right...what a steal!! Congratulations!ReplyDelete
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Awesome find...I'd love to go treasure hunting with you!ReplyDelete
I wish I could find amazing treasures like this!! Beautiful.ReplyDelete
this was a great find! lucky you!ReplyDelete
OOOOooo Weeee.... what a FIND... coming across your blog today! I'm now a follower and I so look forward to future posts!ReplyDelete
Oh waht a beauty! You have an eye for treasures! Have a great week..................JulianReplyDelete
Great buy Courtney, now I see why you want to come and tour brocantes here in France! Thanks for stopping byReplyDelete
My French Country Home
It pays to keep our eyes open in thrift stores, don't you think? What a find! Lucky you. I'm sure it will look stunning in its' final place, with or without the mirror.ReplyDelete
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Looks like a real find. Just gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Wow! THAT is a great find, Courtney! It's just beautiful!!!! I think I need to go shopping with you...... lol!ReplyDelete
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Seriously $20 - that is awesome! It's gorgeous! Maybe you could antique the mirror to make it go with the frame better? Looks great on the mantle!ReplyDelete
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You find such fantastic things at the shops you go to. I'm trying not to be jealous but it's just getting harder and harder. ;-)ReplyDelete
As always you scored another beauty! Just love it Courtney!ReplyDelete
Your frame is just goregous! And what a steal!ReplyDelete
Blessings ~ Heidi
Very nice, what a find!!ReplyDelete
Trish xo
So beautiful! I agree, I think the frame on the mantle would look gorgeous even without the mirror.ReplyDelete
Oh, it's gorgeous. What a find....It looks fabulous with your cupboard as well!ReplyDelete
Just coming back by to say thanks for linking up to the party Courtney! :-)ReplyDelete
Your photos are so dreamy!ReplyDelete
This is an awesome post, I would really love it if you linked this up to Masterpiece Monday at Boogieboard Cottage as well! Have a nice Week! Mary :O)ReplyDelete
These mirrors are beautiful. Absolutely Amazing!ReplyDelete
Love when something unexpected pops up! Love your find. I have a stack of old frames in the attic, like you, I cannot pass one up!ReplyDelete
The frames are absolutely beautiful. What a great post. Thank you so much for linking up to my party. I really appreciate it.ReplyDelete
What a fabulous find! Don't you love it when you are about to give up and then VOILA! there it is.ReplyDelete
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Oh my goodness! What a bargain for such a beauty! Just love those old frames, ornate and detailed as you have found. Love how you have it layered with another old mirror. Swoon perfect as only you can make it Girl!ReplyDelete
Just beautiful! I LOVE mirrors. Seems like I can never have enough of them. They're all so fascinating.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful treasure you found for yourself. It is beautiful.ReplyDelete
What a great find! It looks wonderful where you have it!ReplyDelete
That mirror is gorgeous Courtney! Definitely worth digging out and the $20.00 price! thank you so much for sharing it with us and for joining my first TTF party! I hope you are having a great weekend!ReplyDelete

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No Bad News Over Email
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This week was challenging, made worse by an email, which reminded me of this video from Tim Sanders called "Rule 1: No Bad News Over Email":
Rule 1: No Bad News Over Email from Tim Sanders on Vimeo.
I get a lot of suggestions for what to put on my blog.I realize that tweets are limited to 140 characters, so pointing to a video URL without muchexplanation or warning can be dangerous. An email can at least add appropriate warnings,such NSFW (Not Safe For Work) or "sorry if this offends you". The only warning I got fora video posted to YouTube by "StorageNetworkDud" was this short email:
"Sorry about the language they have used in some translations, but not sure who put this. It was on twitter."
Fortunately, I have my browser set up not to automatically play YouTube videos. The titlehelped warn me of the content, which turned out to be a [fan-subbed] scene from a World War II movie with brown-shirted tyrannical leader of an evil empire talking to his top generals. He dismisses all but threewith "Hollis, Burke, and Twomey stay in here" followed by a lengthy recap of EMC's recent troublesin the marketplace. At least in the video, the fuhrer correctly follows Tim Sander's advice:"if you have to tell someone bad news, say it in person."
While I understand that many people don't like EMC, the #3 storagevendor in the world, this type of "geek humor" hits a new low. The video was posted over amonth ago, but in light of the recent [shooting in Washington DC], I felt it was just notappropriate to post it here.
Readers, I appreciate all the suggestions, but give me some better warning next time!
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Helping Young Students - Part 1
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This week's theme: you don't have to "go somewhere" to do "something important."
Seth Godin has a great list of suggestions for do-it-yourself [graduate school for unemployed college students]. Here's an excerpt:
In 2007, 51 percent of graduating college students could find jobs in their field, and this year it has dropped to only 20 percent. If you find yourself with some time on your hands, either recently graduated or recently unemployed, consider volunteerism.Last year, I chose to donate my time and money to an innovative project called "One Laptop per Child" [OLPC]. It was one of my [New Years Resolutions] for 2008. I was actually "recruited" by folks from the OLPC after they read my [series of blog posts] on things that can be done with their now famous green-and-white XO laptop.
In recognition of these efforts, I was awarded last week the bronze[U.S. President's Volunteer Service Award] through the USA Freedom Corps and the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.To learn more about these projects, see my [OLPC wiki page].
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Helping Young Students - Part 2
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Continuing this week's theme of doing important things without leaving town, I present our results foran exciting project I started earlier this year.
For seven weeks, my coworker Mark Haye and I voluntarily led a class of students here in Tucson, Arizona in an after-school pilot project to teach the ["C" programming language] using [LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT robots]. The ten students, boys and girls ages 9 to 14 years old, were already part of the FIRST [For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology] program, and participated in FIRST Lego League[FLL] robot competitions.Since the students were already familiar building robots, and programming them with a simple graphical system of connecting blocks that perform actions. However, to compete in the next level of robot competitions, FIRST Tech Challenge [FTC],we need to leave this simple graphical programming behind, and upgrade to more precise "C" programming.
Mark is a software engineer for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and has participated in FLL competitions over the past nine years. This week, he celebrates his 25th anniversary at IBM, and I celebrate my 23rd. The teacher, Ms. Ackerman, and the students referred to us as "Coach Mark" and "Coach Tony".
This was the first time I had worked with LEGO NXT robots. For those not familiar with these robots, you can purchase a kit at your localtoy store. In addition to regular LEGO bricks, beams, and plates, there are motors, wheels, and sensors. A programmable NXT brick has three outputs (marked A,B, and C) to control three motors, and four inputs (marked 1,2,3,4) to receive values from sensors. Programs are written and compiled on laptops and then downloaded to the NXT programmable brick through an USB cable, or wirelessly via Bluetooth.
We used the [RobotC programming firmware] and integrated development environment (IDE) from [Carnegie Mellon University].The idea of this pilot was to see how well the students could learn "C". With only a few hours after class on each Wednesday, could we teach young students "C" programming in just seven weeks?
My contribution? I have taught both high school and college classes, and spent over 15 years programming for IBM, so Mark asked me to help.We started with a basic lesson plan:
At the completion of these seven weeks, I sat down to interview "Coach Mark"on his thoughts on this pilot project.
Why "C"?
This is a practical programming skill. The "C" language is used throughout the world to program everything from embedded systems to operating systems, and even storage software. This would allow the robots to handle more precise movements, more accurate turns, and more complicated missions.
Can kids learn "C" in only seven weeks?
Part of the pilot project was to see how well the students could understand the material. They were already familiar with building the robots, and understood the basics of programming sensors and motors, so we were hoping this was a good foundation to work from. Some kids managed very well, others struggled.
Did everything go according to plan?
The first two weeks went well, turning on motors and having robots move forward and backward were easy enough. We seemed to lose a few students on week 3, and things got worse from there. However, several of the students truly surprised us and managed to implement very complicated missions. We were quite pleased with the results.
What kind of problems did the kids encounter?
Touch sensor required loops waiting for pressing. Motors did not necessarily turn as expected until more advanced methods were used. Making 90 degree left and right turns accurately was more difficult than expected.
Any funny surprises?
Yes, we had a Challenge Map representing the Mars planetary surface from a previous FLL competition that was dark red and divided into squares with thick black lines. An active light sensor returns a value of "0" (complete darkness) to "100" (bright white).However, the Mars surface had craters that were dark enough to be misinterpreted as a black line causing some unusual results. This required some enhanced programming techniques to resolve.
Did robots help or hurt the teaching process?
I think they helped. Rather than writing programs that just display "Hello World!" on a computer screen, the students can actually see robots move, and either do what they expect, or not!
And when the robots didn't do what they were expected to?
The students got into "debug" mode. They were already used to doing this from previous FLL competitions, but with RobotC, you can leave the USB cable connected (or use wireless Bluetooth) and actually gather debugging information while the robot is running, to see the value of sensors and other variables and help determine why things are not working properly.
Any applicability to the real world of storage?
We have robots in the IBM System Storage TS3500 tape library. These robots scan bar code labels, pull tapes out of shelves and mount them into drives.The programming skills are the same needed for storage software, suchas IBM Tivoli Storage Manager or IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.
The world is becoming smarter, instrumented with sensors, interconnected over a common network, and intelligent enough to react and respond correctly. The lessons of reading sensor values and moving motors can be considered the first step in solutions that help to make a smarter planet.
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Dynamic Infrastructure Virtual Forum 2009
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Continuing this week's theme of doing important things without leaving town, there is a four-hour [worldwide virtual forum covering Dynamic Infrastructure] that you can attend next week without travel.
The event is sponsored by [IBM, F5, NetApp, Panduit, and VMware] and features some top-notch executive speakers:
In addition to these presentations, you will be able to "walk" around to different booths and have on-line chats with subject matter experts and download resources. Don't worry, this is not based on [Second Life], but rather using "On24" much simpler visual interface.Of course, you can follow on [Twitter] or join the fan club at[Facebook].
This is a worldwide event, with translated resource materials and on-line subject matter experts in six different languages (English, French, Italian, German, Mandarin and Japanese). Those in North, Central and South Americas can participate June 23, and those in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world on June 24. [Register Today] and mark your calendars!
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Liz Goes To Tanzania
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This week, I have been presenting how to do important things without travel. Of course, there are times where you need some boots on the ground, while your support team remains remote.
Last month, fellow co-worker Liz Goodman reached out to me. She was part of a ten-person team that went to Tanzania as part of IBM's[Corporate Service Corps]. Other teams went to Brazil, China, Ghana, Romania, South Africa, The Philippines, Turkey and Vietnam.(I've been to half these other countries, but the closest I have ever been toTanzania was a safari I took in Kenya that included the Masai Mara national park which runsalong the border with Tanzania's Serengheti national park).
Liz was one of the lucky[200 candidates chosen among over 5000 applications] IBM reviews each year for this program. IBM does business in over170 countries, so learning to work in or with emerging growth markets requires a bit of "cultural intelligence".Liz and three others worked with the University of Dudoma [UDOM] to lead some students in adopting a [Moodle] infrastructure based on Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL [LAMP] platform. She noticed that I had experience with both Moodle and LAMP from [my work with OLPC], and reached out to me for help.I was able to provide some insight, things to watch out for, and how to tackle not just the technical challenges, but a few that many don't consider:
How well did her team do? Liz blogged before, during and after her trip. Read all about iton her blog [Liz Goes To Tanzania]!
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We All Have Day Jobs
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Jon Toigo has a funny cartoon on his post, [As I Listen to EMC Brag on "New" Functionality…]. Basically, it pokes fun that many of us bloggers argue which vendor was first to introduce some technology or another. We all do this, myself included.
Recently, Claus Mikkelsen's, currently with HDS, [brought up accurately some past history from the 1990s], which is before many storage bloggers hired on with their current employers. Claus and I worked together for IBM back then, so I recognized many of the events he mentions that I can't talk about either. In many cases, IBM or HDS delivered new features before EMC.
I've been reading with some amusement as fellow blogger Barry Burke asked Claus a series of questions about Hitachi's latest High Availability Manager (HAM) feature. Claus was too busy with his "day job" and chose to shut Barry down. Sadly, HDS set themselves up for ridicule this round, first by over-hyping a function before its announcement, and then announcing a feature that IBM and EMC have offered for a while. The problem and confusion for many is that each vendor uses different terminology. Hitachi's HAM is similar to IBM's HyperSwap and EMC's AutoSwap. The implementations are different, of course, which is often why vendors are often asked to compare and contrast one implementation to another.
In his latest response,[how to mind the future of a mission-critical world], Barry reports that several HDS bloggers now censor his comments.That's too bad. I don't censor comments, within reason, including Barry's inane questions about IBM's products, and am glad that he does not censor my inane questions to him about EMC products in return. The entire blogosphere benefits from these exchanges, even if they are a bit heated sometimes.
We all have day jobs, and often are just too busy, or too lazy, to read dozens or hundreds of pages of materials, if we can even find them in the first place. Not everyone has the luxury of a "competitive marketing" team to help do the research for you, so if we can get an accurate answer or clarification about a product that is generally available directly from a vendor's subject matter expert, I am all for that.
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What Happened to Barry Whyte?
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As I mentioned in my post [Moving Over to MyDeveloperWorks], those of us bloggers on IBM's DeveloperWorks are moving over to a new system called "MyDeveloperWorks" which has a host of new features.
Fortunately for me, I missed the note to volunteer to be one of the first bloggers on the block to volunteer to move over. I was traveling and decided not to deal with it until I got back.However, fellow IBM Master Inventor, Barry Whyte, was not so lucky. It is safe to say he was stupid enough to volunteer, and is probably regretting the decision every day since. In case you lost his RSS feed, or can't find him anymore on Google or whatever search engine, here is his[new blog].
Today, he posted an interesting discussion on [SVC Split Cluster - How it works].
As for my blog, I have asked to postpone the move until all the problems that Barry has encountered are resolved. That might be a awhile, but if you lose access to mine sometime in the near future, hopefully at least you have been warned as to what might have happened.
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Captain Steve and Storage Administrators
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Over at Freakonomics blog,Stephen Dubner has a guest post from Captain Steve titled[What Captain Sullenberger Meant to Say (But Was Too Polite to Do So)] on the sad situation the airline industry is in.
Ideally, every airline would use the most experienced seasoned professional airline pilots money could buy, but some airlines, in an effort to compete on ticket price, may elect instead to have less experienced pilots.Here's a great excerpt:
Airline history lesson 101: It used to be, up until the mid 1980's, that a young pilot would be hired on at a major carrier, become a flight engineer (FE), and then spend a few years managing the systems of the older-generation airplanes. But he or she was learning all the while. These new "pilots" sat in the FE seat and did their job, all the while observing the "pilots" doing the flying, day in and day out.
To become the public speaker I am today, IBM put me through a variety of speaking classes. I taught high school and college classes to practice in front of groups. But most importantly, I traveled with seasoned colleagues and watched them in action from the front row.I learned how to handle tough questions, how to react to hecklers causing trouble, and how to deal with the unexpected before, during and after each presentation. In addition to speaking skills, I ended up having to learn travel skills, foreign language skills, and a variety of cultural social skills. All part of the job in my line of work.
Likewise, being a storage administrator is an important job, and for some data centers, not something to give lightly to a fresh college graduate. Unless they have had format IT Infrastructure Library [ITIL] certification coursework, I doubt they would understand the processes and disciplines demanded by the typical data center. I have been to accounts where new hires are not allowed to touch production systems for the first two years. Instead they watch the seasoned professionals do their jobs, and are given only access to "sand box" systems that are used for application testing or Quality Assurance (QA). Sadly, I have also been to other accounts where people with no storage experience whatsoever were tossed into the admin pool and let loose with superuser passwords, all in an effort to save money during times of exponential data growth rates, only to pay the price later with outages or lost data.
The parallels between the airline industry and the IT industry are eerie.
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Fellow blogger Alex McDonald from NetApp brings back some [funny mainframe humor] about the IBM "OS/VU" operating system from 1979.
Could this have been the motivation for Second Life as well?
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The battle over data deduplication
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Now that the frozen economy is starting to thaw, I have been traveling like crazy this month. So far, I have been to Rochester, MN, Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and now currently in Austin, TX. On the plus side, I was able to enjoy the [Fourth of July] holiday weekend on the beaches of San Diego.
(If you have not been to California beaches lately, here's a quick [video] reminder)
So the big news this week is that the auction over Data Domain is over, and EMC's bid finally won over NetApp. Both NetApp and EMC have data deduplication capabilities in their existing product lines, but neither could compete against IBM's TS7650G ProtecTIER Data Deduplication gateway and TS7650 ProtecTIER appliances, and so were hell-bent to buy Data Domain for large amounts. The final price agreed upon was over two billion US dollars for Data Domain.
For the most part, Data Domain's products are targeted towards small and medium sized businesses, whereas IBM's TS7650 and TS7650G products targets medium and larger sized enterprises.So now that EMC has a viable data deduplication solution, it looks like it will be yet another IBM-vs-EMC debate going forward.
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The high-profile arrest of Sinn Fein's leader Gerry Adams sheds light on the legal battle to access an academic archive of testimonies including those of former IRA militants accusing him of murder.
Gerry Adams's decision to hand himself over to police in Northern Ireland on Wednesday to be arrested and questioned over his alleged role in the 1972 murder of Jean McConville is the latest step in a saga involving former paramilitaries, academics and judicial authorities on both sides of the Atlantic.
While the leader of the Sinn Fein political party has always denied ordering the murder of the mother of 10 or any other direct involvement in the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the testimony of a former republican militant recorded for a US history project clearly points the finger at him.
"There was only one man who gave the order for that woman to be executed. That man is now the head of Sinn Fein," IRA veteran Brendan Hughes said in an interview with researchers documenting the oral history of the Northern Ireland Troubles for the US-based Boston College between 2001 and 2006.
Boston College promised interviewees, who lay down their arms after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, that their taped confessions would remain secret until their death. After Hughes died in 2008, his testimony became public in a book and a TV documentary two years later.
"It's quite possible that other cases may arise from the Boston College tapes," Mary Harris, a historian at the National University of Ireland in Galway, told FRANCE 24.
UK government vs. John Kerry
Legal action by the British authorities has begun to expose the content of the archive much earlier than planned. In 2011, the UK government started to make requests to access the material under its mutual legal assistance agreement with the US. The academics behind the testimonial archive challenged the British demands all the way to the US Supreme Court.
John Kerry, who is from Boston and chaired the US Senate's foreign relations committee at the time, wrote to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to ask her to resist British attempts to access the tapes. "It is possible that some former parties to the conflict may perceive the effort by the UK authorities to obtain this information as contravening the spirit of the Good Friday Accords," Kerry wrote just months before he replaced Clinton as the US's chief diplomat.
Despite successive appeals, a final ruling granted the British authorities access to part of the tapes last year. In March 2014, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) produced the first extracts from the academic recordings as evidence against Ivor Bell, a former republican militant on trial in Belfast for allegedly assisting in Jean McConville's murder.
Yet Harris remarked that the Boston College tapes were not the only source driving recent efforts to prosecute crimes committed in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1998. The historian pointed out that a statement by the late former IRA member Dolours Price to the media also implicated Gerry Adams in Jean McConville's murder. "Anyone involved in the Troubles may come forward, it is unpredictable," she said.
Northern Ireland's courts and police have made breakthroughs in several high-profile cases recently. On Wednesday, police investigating a bomb attack on McGurk's Bar in Belfast in 1971 said they had arrested a man, the second in six weeks. Only one loyalist (pro-British) militant has so far been convicted of the bombing, which killed 15 people in the Catholic-owned pub. Earlier this month, a Belfast court charged a dissident IRA militant with 29 counts of murder for the 1998 Omagh bombing.
'Politically contrived' arrest
Sinn Fein's deputy leader Mary-Lou McDonald told Irish media on Thursday that she felt the timing of Adams's arrest was "politically contrived", just three weeks before their party is tipped to make strong gains in European and local elections.
But Harris argued that recent prosecutions may just be the result of sufficient evidence becoming available decades after the crimes. "In the context of the peace process, the Historical Enquiries Team was set up to investigate thousands of killings," the historian said in reference to the special PSNI unit set up in 2005 to revive cases such as the McGurk's Bar bombing.
Dealing with such cases will not be easy. In February, the prosecution against John Downey, an IRA operative accused of a bomb attack against Royal Guards in London in 1982, collapsed when it emerged that the British authorities had sent him and around 200 other paramilitaries a secret letter promising them immunity in exchange for their participation in the peace process. A judge appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron to determine the validity of the letters is due to hand in his report this month.
"There was no general immunity granted at the time of the Good Friday Agreement and the letters to on-the-run paramilitaries came as news to all of us," said Harris.
On New Year's Eve last year, talks brokered by US diplomat Richard Haass failed to bring the former parties to Northern Ireland's conflict to an agreement on outstanding issues including "dealing with the past".
This followed a year of repeated, violent riots as traditional summer marches and protests over whether to fly the British flag on Belfast City Hall ended in unrest reminiscent of the Troubles.
"Underlying grievances remain," Harris said. "The question of political parades is a very difficult one to resolve, and there is a sense of urgency now that we are entering the marching season."
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Everyone likes dessert, so lets have a dessert social get together. Bring your favorite dessert, or buy something. Bring it, and/or snacks, chips, or soda, (no alcoholic beverages please) (coffee will be supplied) and come out and meet the people behind the names you see on the log pages. It doesnt matter what you bring (as long as its sweet), just bring something to share.
This geo meet is for any cache nut that wants to get together with fellow cache hunters. Its for anyone, from the new-bees with only a couple cache finds, to the old timers who have been at it for a couple of years. Come out to socialize. Come out to make new Geo friends. Come out to strangle the people that put out the caches youve come to hate, (not me of course). Come out to engage in discussions about geocaching. Come out for dessert. Come to swap travel bugs, or coins.
This meeting will be held at a Secret Lodge, on Sebago Lake. (Off the Cole Hill Rd, off 114 in Standish).
Meeting starts at anytime after 5:00 pm and will end around 10:00 or so.
We plan a time of socializing, then a dessert break, and then we will gather around to discuss topics like : placing caches, quality of caches, various types of caches, difficulty ratings, different types of containers, etc. There will be experienced persons on hand to answer questions and offer advice to the new cache hunters.
We will be discussing the formation of the Southern Maine Geocaching Association. We envision this as a loose knit organization of individuals who like Geocaching and wish to work together for the betterment of the game, by promoting good will, and by placing, and maintaining quality cache hides throughout southern Maine.
We will also be discussing the biggest Geo event to hit the New England area, since caching started up here. The up and coming Southern Maine Geo rally. A 250 to 300 mile event covering 5 southern Maine counties. Over 24 caches will be placed. There will also be over 30 locationless caches and other geo targets you have to find as well. We will be accepting preregistration for the rallye at this meeting. More info at the meeting.
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The way Todd Dunivant sees it, the better team didn't win MLS Cup 2009.
The Galaxy finished first in the Western Conference, then beat rivals Chivas USA in the first round and a tough Houston side in the conference final before meeting eighth-seeded Real Salt Lake in the championship game.But things didn't go the Galaxy's way at Qwest Field in Seattle last November.
"We felt pretty strongly that we were the better team and we should have won, but on that day Salt Lake beat us," Dunivant said after training on Wednesday. "That's how it goes."
Having exceeded expectations and improving significantly from the previous season, the Galaxy could be forgiven for entering the 2010 season feeling good about their accomplishments from 2009.Instead, it's both the success and failure from last year that will fuel the club this season.
"I think it's going to drive us a little bit harder this year," Dunivant said of the MLS Cup loss. "We don't have an air of comfort, if that makes sense. We still have a lot to prove."
For starters, the Galaxy need to prove to the rest of the Western Conference that 2009 was no fluke. Los Angeles seemingly caught a lot of teams off guard, and while the club wasn't winning early on, neither was it losing. In learning not to lose, the Galaxy discovered they had a strong defense, a strong goalkeeper and the ability to score timely goals. Confidence was born.
This season, Galaxy players know coming in what the team is capable of. Thus, the team needs to surpass what happened a year ago, veteran midfielder Chris Klein said.
"Last year was a little bit different," Klein said. "It was to have a team atmosphere again and establish ourselves in the playoffs. The reality of MLS is every year it becomes a challenge to get back there. This team has the right focus and the right mentality because of how we prepared last year and what we saw from that preparation."
What needs to be replicated more than anything from 2009 is the attitude and approach the team had when finding itself last year.
"Guys were determined last year," Klein said. "We have a group of guys that has the right attitude. We have a better understanding of the preparation that needs to be done."
What will help is returning nearly the entire squad. David Beckham, of course, might be out for most, if not all, of the 2010 season after tearing his Achilles tendon with AC Milan. But Beckham was never supposed to be here at the start of this season anyway. The key players from last season return, and there will be no need to search for an identity like there was throughout the early part of 2009.
"We're starting a lot further ahead than we were last year," Dunivant said. "Last year we were putting the pieces together through the first third of the year and getting that core. Now we have a lot of the same guys back and an understanding of what we need to do. That makes a big difference. To get that kind of continuity from year to year that really goes a long way."


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Cubs minor league recaps for Friday July 6.
The AZL Cubs scored two runs in each of the first three innings and they continued to add beating the AZL Giants 10-3. Daniel Vogelbach only had one hit today, but made it count connecting on his third home run of the season. He was also the only Cub to drive in more than one run on the day. Timothy Saunders was 2-for-5 with a double, a run scored, and an RBI. Carlos Escobar had two doubles and drove in a run. Cubs also got RBI's from Justin Marra, Carlos Penalver, and Izaac Garsez. Ryan Hartman got his first win of the season in relief. He gave up two runs on five hits in 3.1 innings of work. Matt Ianazzo was outstanding in his two innings of relief as he struck out four in two scoreless innings.
Boise lost a tough one on Friday night falling to Tri-City 5-4. James Pugliese got the start and gave up three runs, two earned on six hits in five innins. Pete Levitt couldn't hold the lead giving up a run in the seventh. Michael Heesch then came on to strike out four in two scoreless innings. Bryce Shafer who has been really good for Boise gave up a run in the eleventh which proved to be the game winner. At the plate Jeimer Candelario was 2-for-5 with a double and a run scored. Chadd Krist was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Bijan Rademacher was 2-for-5 with double and an RBI. Wilson Contreras also had two hits and drove in two. It was a tough loss for the Hawks as they had a lead for most of the game.
Burlington scored two in an inning four different times to beat Peoria 8-3. Offensively Dustin Geiger stayed hot hitting his fourth home run in three days, he drove in two on the night. Taiwan Easterling had two hits, a run scored, and an RBI and Javier Baez was 2-for-4. Starling Peralta got the start and took the loss, but was let down by his defense giving up six runs, only two earned on four hits in five innings. Sheldon McDonald pitched well in relief striking out four in 2.1 innings of work.
Daytona had a nice win on Friday beating Dunedin 5-1. Matt Loosen got the start and very impressive improving his record to 7-3. He struck out 10 while only giving up three hits and allowing no runs in seven innings of work. Matt Spencer and Scott Weismann each pitched a scoreless inning in relief to preserve the win. At the plate the Cubs had some really special nights. Arismendy Alcantara was a single a way from the cycle. He ended the night 3-for-5 with two runs scored and two RBI's. Rubi Silva also was impressive going 4-for-5 with an RBI. Ronald Torreyes and Taylor Davis each drove in a run and John Andreoli had a triple and also scored a run.
Game one of the double header belonged to Eric Jokisch and the Smokies beating Jacksonville 5-1. Jokisch pitched six inning allowing one run on five hits while striking out two and walking one. Marcus Hatley threw a scoreless seventh to close the game out. Offensively Justin Bour and Michael Burgess each recorded a hit and two RBI's. Greg Rohan also drove in a run and scored one ending the game 1-for-3 with a double. Nelson Perez and Michael Brenly each had a hit and Brenley scored a run.
Game two was a different story as Jacksonville came out on top beating Tennessee 3-1. Nicholas Struck took the loss, but didn't pitch that bad as his defense let him down. He struck out six in five innings pitched and gave up three runs, only one earned in five innings. Tony Zych who struck out three and Frank Batista each pitched a scoreless frame. Offensively there wasn't too much to talk about Logan Watkins, James Adduci, Juan Apodaca, and Nate Samson were the only Smokies to recored hits. Apodaca drove in Adduci for the only Smokies run in game two.
Alfredo Amezaga played the part of the hero on Friday delilvering a base hit in the 11th inning to give Iowa a 5-4 win. The unsung hero's in this game were the bullpen. Casey Coleman got the start, but only lasted three innings and gave up three runs. Frankie De La Cruz pitched four solid innings of relief allowing no runs on three hits. Jay Jackson followed suit pitching a scoreless inning. Michael Bowden did blow the save, but was able to pitch a scoreless tenth and eleventh inning in route to his second win. Offensively Dave Sappelt was 2-for-5 with a double and two runs scored. Blake Lalli also had two hits including a double. Welington Castillo hit his third home run of the season and had two runs scored and two RBI's. Josh Vitters kept his average at the .300 mark going 1-for-3 with a double and a run scored. Adrian Cardenas also added a hit and an RBI on Friday. Brett Jackson missed his second game in row.
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By leaving the Super Bowl champion Ravens, linebackers Paul Kruger and Dannell Ellerbe hit the jackpot.
Kruger got a $40.5 million contract from the Cleveland Browns, and Ellerbe was paid $35 million by the Miami Dolphins.
They received a grand total of $75.5 million to leave the Ravens as unrestricted free agents.
Kruger was always regarded as someone who would be too expensive to retain as a top pass rusher with nine sacks during a breakthrough year last season. And Ellerbe was also poised to cash in after a career-high 89 tackles and 4 1/2 sacks last season as well as a game-high nine tackles in the Super Bowl.
Here's a full breakdown of the deals obtained by The Baltimore Sun.
Kruger got a $6 million signing bonus this year as well as a $6.285 million roster bonus with guaranteed base salaries of $715,000 and $7 million in 2013 and 2014. He has a total of $20 million in guaranteed money.
Kruger gets a $7 million base salary in 2015, $6.5 million base salary in 2016 and $7 million in 2016, the final year of the deal.
Ellerbe, a former undrafted free agent once signed by the Ravens for $2,000 as a rookie, got a $7 million bonus and fully guaranteed base salaries of $1 million in 2013 and $6 million in 2014. He has annual $25,000 workout bonuses.
In the third year of Ellerbe's deal, $3 million of his $8.425 million base salary is guaranteed for injury only at the itme of signing. It can later be converted to fully guaranteed, though.
Ellerbe has nonguaranteed base salaries of $6.45 million in 2016 and $6 million in 2017, the final year of the deal.


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DHD UHac/Local
This page should contain all the information you need to know to get to Utrecht, get around, and get out. If it doesn't, let us know.
Before you arrive!
We are using several different venues for DHD >>= UHac. The main reason for this is money (or lack thereof).
DHD at Ordina
Ordina is gratefully sponsoring the DHD with their fine facilities and delicious food (Seriously! We held the first DHD there, and we're happy to go back.)
Getting there
UHac at the BBL (UU)
UHac starts out after the DHD in a classroom in the BBL building at the "Uithof" campus of Utrecht University. Since the organizers are located there, and class is still in session, we don't have to pay a thing.
Getting there
- Via the bus
From the central station, take bus 11 or 12. The both go to the Uithof, but they take different routes: bus 11 goes through the city center, and bus 12 stays to the south of the center.
- With bus 11, take the "Botanische Tuinen" (Botanical Gardens) stop. The penultimate stop is "Wim Sonneveldlaan."
- With bus 12, take the "Padualaan" stop. The penultimate stop is "Rijnsweerd Zuid."
Once off the bus, walk north (from both stops) to the red building called the "Minnaert" (with its name spelled out in large letters on the facade).
- From the Minnaert
Walk through the Minnaert to the BBL (indicated by the arrow in the photo above). The easiest way to find the path is by following a line of small, circular, metal plates on the walkway to the entrance of the Minnaert. These plates continue inside and lead directly to the BBL. Once you cross a bridge (with a view of bamboo!) into the BBL, simply take the stairs or elevator in the center of the building down to the ground floor and walk to the room.
UHac at Newton (UCU)
Over the weekend, UHac will be held in classrooms at the University College Utrecht campus. UU wanted us to pay more than we could afford to keep the classroom (and thus the building) open when class was not in session, but UCU has students living on campus, so the buildings are already open, and we can afford their rates.


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Hopes weren't high, were they. Regardless of whether the recent media flurry over Kele Okereke's purportedly terminal Bloc Party role held any truth, was merely desperate journalism or just appallingly cynical marketing, the fact that a few provocative headlines from the NME served to entirely overshadow the announcement of this EP pretty much says it all.
Perhaps the greatest surprise was that people still knew who he was. Whatever Kele had hoped to achieve with his solo project, longevity can't have been part of it: The Boxer was a record that sounded dated the moment it emerged, a Frankenstein creation staggering in the shadows of the artists it so brazenly thieved from. It had some moments, sure, but few worth remembering - though certainly nothing to justify the level of vitriol garnered from some quarters. This simply wasn't an album worth hating.
Doubtless the coming weeks will see a similar churn of extreme response from a subculture that's still pining, tediously, for a repeat of Silent Alarm, and for whom Kele's continued flirtation with electronic music constitutes an affront to some natural order. But like its predecessor, The Hunter doesn't warrant such emotion: heck, there's even - whisper it, with a slight cringe of shame - some bits here to like.
There's some sifting to do first, mind. You know the formula by now - the cycled synth chords and slightly nauseous beats, looped and layered and married with Okereke's slightly simpering vocals: it's Eurodance by way of a sixth-former on the cusp of being dumped. "What did I do wrong?" he whimpers on the EP's opener, and it's tempting, oh so tempting, to start drafting him a list.
At the top would be 'Goodbye Horses', a cover of the 1988 Q Lazzarus song that manages to take the poignancy of the original and drown it under a lazy mess of starter beats and tired vocals. Elsewhere, 'Release Me' is irredeemably poor, a beige-by-numbers of bland synth stabs and trite lyrics that somehow manages to be both incredibly dull and, like the EP's cover, unintentionally hilarious. In a pleasing win for irony, Kele's attempts to break away from 'boring' indie have seen him become, at his worst, utterly generic, a shameless purveyor of the lowest-common-denominator dance that seeps from city centres at weekends, carried along on a flow of broken glass and vomit on its way to the gutter.
The Hunter is much better when it drags its focus away from the clubs. 'Devotion' trades the dancefloor for a cinematic widescreen, adding a Vangelis tinge to Okereke's range, whilst closer 'You Belong To Someone Else' does much the same as 'Rise' did on The Boxer, seeking out a middle-ground between innovation and a massive bass drop. The clear standout though is 'Love As A Weapon', which builds from glitches and light percussion into a mesh of samples and piano arpeggios and hummed melodies lifted straight from 'The Prayer'.
Ultimately, however, it's a bit sad that the strongest elements here merely seem to be referencing earlier points in Kele's career, recycled and repackaged and a little bit washed out. Whatever his claims regarding his former band, it must rile Kele a little that 2008's 'One More Chance' had Bloc Party nailing the electronic thing far better than anything he's managed since. But let's not reignite those arguments: it's just not worth the time.
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Pattern Design, unlike any other form of design
Designing patterns is difficult because of the intricate demand to detail, and the level of skill required to visualize how the finished pattern will evolve. Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator have attempted to simplify the process, but haven't really hit the solution that satisfies. Enter Artlandia.
The latest version 3 of SymmetryShop, an Adobe Photoshop plug-in for professional pattern design markedly simplifies the pattern design workflow by making the plug-in functionality available as a floating Photoshop panel. So we thought we would look around and see how this technology is being put to work by world-class talents using this plug-in. Wow -- here are three "Designing Women" who take their patterns, and SymmetryShop very seriously!
Dr. Karen Miller Anderson from Smithfield, NC is an artist and photographer, and one of her passions seems to be creating the most extraordinary patterns, iterations and imagery based on the geometry of nature and recurrent themes. Our header above testifies to some of her awesome art. Check out her site, www.kmafiberart.com, but most importantly her
Flickr Photostream of Patterns
SymmetryShop automatically creates the seventeen mathematical types of symmetric patterns as well as drop and diamond patterns, grids, gradations, sateens, and other standard repeat systems. The plug-in keeps the image source available for unlimited iterations and refinements throughout any number of Photoshop sessions. The new version makes this core functionality more easily accessible and adds new important features.
Alice Schlein, a self-taught weaver for the past 40 years, exhibited artist, teacher, contributing editor of Weavers magazine and co-author of The Woven Pixel -- Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop. She writes:
(SymmetryShop) It's very useful for creating repeat patterns, whether you are designing print fabrics, wallpaper, woven or knit jacquards, etc. (Its sister product, named SymmetryWorks, works with vector-based files rather than pixel-based files, and is to be used with Adobe Illustrator).
See: Alice Schlein's Online blog
What a doll!
Robin Wood made all the fabrics for these wonderful dolls using Artlandia's SymmetryShop. At her blog, she writes:
The more I use that plug-in, the more I like it. I had a ball making these, especially the Red Kaleidoscope one. In fact, I probably have something like 40 patterns based on the "seed" for that one now. (I haven't counted.) It's like using a real Kaleidoscope. Every time you tweak something, another beautiful pattern emerges, and I find that I want to save them all!
Check it out at : robin-wood.blogspot.com
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Dear Gillnetter,
This is an example of literary work that it's hard for me to understand. I've got it from this site: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011
The Half-Finished Heaven
By Tomas Tranströmer
Despondency breaks off its course.
Anguish breaks off its course.
The vulture breaks off its flight.
The eager light streams out,
even the ghosts take a draught.
And our paintings see daylight,
our red beasts of the ice-age studios.
Everything begins to look around.
We walk in the sun in hundreds.
Each man is a half-open door
leading to a room for everyone.
The endless ground under us.
The water is shining among the trees.
The lake is a window into the earth.
Besides, I still need your assistance to check my grammar in a poem which I've tried to compose. I really appreciate your help, and thank you so much.
In the Night's Still
Well, what I look;
it looks like unstable.
Well, what I feel;
it seems like a flash.
All I know is
just a contrast.
All I think is
just a part of situation.
The whole is in contrast
Just like this night's wish.
Darkness needs a still to be stylish,
and it always tends to condense.
But, it lists some noisies,
looks colorful filled with mercury lights that dance.
Hear if you can't listen to..
See if you can't observe..
Everything's just a paradox:
Opposite edges build inbox.
Student or Learner


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Now that the S&P 500 has broken all-time highs above 1,700, has the stock market's mood gotten too giddy?
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) has climbed 21.04% year-to-date, and that impressive rise has caused people to totally change their mind about stocks.
On Jan. 2, 36% of investors polled described themselves as bears compared to just 18% on July 10, according to the AAII Sentiment Survey. Put another way, the percentage of individual investors that are "bearish" on the U.S. stock market has been cut in half since the beginning of the year. What a reversal!
What about market volatility?
The CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index (^VIX) is one of the easiest ways to gauge the stock market's temper. It can tell us a lot. Over the past 12 years, the VIX has moved in the opposite direction as the S&P 500 around 80% of the time.
A depressed VIX can be interpreted as too much complacency or lack of fear in the stock market. Conversely, an elevated VIX infers a high level of anxiety or fear.
In a July 10 post, Michael Moran at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) wrote: "Since 1990 the average daily close for the VIX Index was 20.3, but in the first half of 2013: the VIX average daily close was 14.2, and the VIX closed above 20 on only two days – June 20th (at 20.49) and June 24th (at 20.11)."
Really, the last two years have been a period of muted stock market gyrations. Since late 2011, the VIX hasn't traded above 30.
VIX ETPs like the ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (VIXY) and the iPath S&P VIX ST Futures ETN (VXX) continue to get crushed. And although the VIX has now marched toward 52-week lows near 11, market volatility is a sleeping giant that never goes away.
What about people going into debt to buy stocks?
NYSE margin debt hit a new all-time high in April, slightly exceeding the previous peak which coincided with the market top in 2007. We know that today's modernized stock market has many of the safeguards that the 1929 market didn't have, but excessive speculative borrowing is a red flag in any decade.
Finally, frenzied penny stock buying is another warning sign.
The dollar volume traded in OTCBB stocks is already at 24,459,441,278 for the first six months of this year compared to just 13,295,767,536 for all of 2012! In other words, the public's appetite for dicey penny stocks is insatiable.
From a contrarian point of view, none of this means that stocks can't or won't continue to rise. Prudence, however, means doing the opposite of the crowd.
Or as Sir John Templeton put it: "Common sense is not common; but common sense and careful logic show that it is impossible or produce superior investment performance if you buy the same assets at the same time as others."
The ETF Advisor Pro Newsletter and its Mega Investment Theme Report identifies major market trends along with actionable ETF strategies.


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Freshman Alyssa Bellini picked up one of the Lady Bisons' singles wins, defeating Belmont's Laura Stack in a three setter, 6-4, 1-6, 11-9. Bellini fell earlier in the tournament to Vanderbilt's Erica Robertson 6-2, 6-2 and Belmont's Lindsey Bennett 6-3, 6-3.
Junior Danielle Hansen also scored a victory for Lipscomb with a win in her first match over Belmont's Abbey Hogan 3-6, 6-0, 7-5. Hansen went on to be defeated by Vanderbilt's Kelly Ulery 6-1, 6-2 and later fell to Memphis' Andrea Arques in a close two set match 7-5, 6-4.
Sophomore Carlina Jow could not post a win for the Lady Bisons, falling to Arques 6-1, 6-2, Belmont's Natalia Nunes 6-0, 7-5, and Hogan 6-2, 6-0.
Picking up the Lady Bisons' final singles win, senior Kara Jackson posted a win over Belmont's Spenser-Anne Edwards by default. Jackson was defeated earlier in the weekend, falling to Vanderbilt's Rachael Dillon 6-0, 6-2 and Belmont's Abbey Leatherwood 6-2, 6-0.
The doubles duo of Keevil and Hansen picked up a win in their final match of the tournament, defeating Hogan and Nunes 8-3 after falling to MTSU 8-2, Murray State 8-4, and Belmont 8-3.
Jackson and Bellini fell to Memphis 8-2 before picking up the Lady Bisons' final win over Leatherwood and Hogan 9-7. The pair also fell to Murray State 8-2 and MTSU 8-6 throughout the weekend.
The Lady Bisons concluded their fall season and will enter an offseason of training before beginning their main spring season.
Erica Robertson (VU) def. Alyssa Bellini (LU) 6-2, 6-2
Lindsey Bennett (BU) def. Bellini (LU) 6-3, 6-3
Bellini (LU) def. Laura Stack (BU) 6-4, 1-6, 11-9
Danielle Hansen (LU) def. Abbey Hogan (BU) 3-6, 6-0, 7-5
Kelly Ulery (VU) def. Hansen (LU) 6-1, 6-2
Arques (Mem) def. Hansen (LU) 7-5, 6-4
Andrea Arques (Mem) def. Carlina Jow (LU) 6-1, 6-2
Natalia Nunes (BU) def. Jow (LU) 6-0, 7-5
Hogan (BU) def. Jow (LU) 6-2, 6-0
Rachael Dillon (VU) def. Kara Jackson (LU) 6-0, 6-2
Abbey Leatherwood (BU) def. Jackson (LU) 6-2, 6-0
Jackson (LU) def. Spenser-Anne Edward (BU) Default
Nomoto/ Dachos (MTSU) def. Keevil/ Hansen (LU) 8-2
Canty/ Cunitz (Murray) def. Keevil/ Hansen (LU) 8-4
Leatherwood/ Stack (BU) def. Keevil/ Hansen (LU) 8-3
Keevil/ Hansen (LU) def. Hogan/ Nunes (BU) 8-2
Hawkins/ Gray (Mem) def. Jackson/ Bellini (LU) 8-2
Jackson/Bellini (LU) def. Leatherwood/ Stack (BU) 9-7
Canty/ Cunitz (Murray) def. Jackson/ Bellini (LU) 8-2
Nava/ Bigus (MTSU) def. Jackson/ Bellini (LU) 8-6
Written by Ashlan Williams, student assistant in Lipscomb athletics media relations.


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Cold Brew vs. Iced Coffee: How Are They Different?
Ordering a coffee isn't a walk in the park anymore. Experienced drinkers are likely familiar with the classics - Americano, cappuccino, cortado, flat white, latte, macchiato - but there's a new sheriff in town by the name of cold brew, and most people aren't even sure what that means.
What's the difference between iced coffee and cold brew? For starters, the former is made by brewing hot coffee, letting it cool, and then pouring it over ice. The whole process is relatively quick. On the contrary, cold brew is made by steeping ground coffee in cool, filtered water for hours at a time. Because it's made without heat, it nixes much of the acidity you get with drip coffee. The end result is naturally sweeter and smoother.
"It's all about the water temperature. With drip coffee, we use water that's between 195 and 205 degrees to really extract flavor. That's why it happens so fast. You know, you get it within four to five minutes," Chad Moore, manager of global coffee and tea education at Starbucks, told The Daily Meal. "With cold brew, we're using cold water. So the water that's cold takes a lot longer to extract flavor. It's usually around anywhere between 20 to 24 hours steep time. You have to really prepare ahead for cold brew."
When it comes to calories, there isn't a difference between the two whatsoever prior to adding any flavoring. Cold brew's naturally sweeter, creamier profile might make it easier for some drinkers to cut back on cream and sugar though, which can increase your coffee's calorie count by hundreds.
According to the nutritional facts on Starbucks' website, a 16-ounce iced coffee, dubbed grande, has the same amount of calories as a cold brew, which is 5 calories per cup. At the chain's competitor, Dunkin' Donuts, one 16-ounce iced coffee, which is considered a small, is 10 calories, as is a cold brew.
There is a slight contrast in caffeine content, though. Moore says because cold brew stays cold through and through, "the water and the coffee stay together longer," creating a perfect storm for a bigger buzz. One 16-ounce iced coffee at Starbucks contains 195 milligrams of caffeine. A cold brew has 205 milligrams. In a weird twist of events, Dunkin' Donuts' iced coffee rings in at 198 milligrams. This is significantly stronger than its cold brew, which tops out at 174 milligrams.
A spokesperson for Dunkin' Donuts told The Daily Meal that the chain's cold brew formula was designed for flavor without regard for caffeine content, adding that "there is no hard and fast rule that one way of brewing coffee has more caffeine than another, as many other factors come into play, such as the coffee to water ratio, serving size and the type of coffee or coffees used to make the brew."
The general consensus is still that cold brew typically has more caffeine and a smoother flavor than iced coffee, and if you're like us, that matters. The up-and-coming drink is having its shining moment now, and that's why we tasted 9 chain cold brew coffees to find out which one is best.


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Here is a more complete account of the battle from http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/arrian-bookVIII-India.html:
Thence they set sail and progressed with a favouring wind; and after a passage of five hundred stades the anchored by a torrent, which ,was called Tomerus. There was a lagoon at the mouths of the river, and the depressions near the bank were inhabited by natives in stifling cabins. These seeing the convoy sailing up were astounded, and lining along the shore stood ready to repel any who should attempt a landing. They carried thick spears, about six cubits long; these had no iron tip, but the same result was obtained by hardening the point with fire. They were in number about six hundred. Nearchus observed these evidently standing firm and drawn up in order, and ordered the ships to hold back within range, so that their missiles might reach the shore; for the natives' spears, which looked stalwart, were good for close fighting, but had no terrors against a volley. Then Nearchus took the lightest and lightest-armed troops, such as were also the best swimmers, and bade them swim off as soon as the word was given. Their orders were that, as soon as any swimmer found bottom, he should await his mate, and not attack the natives till they had their formation three deep; but then they were to raise their battle cry and charge at the double. On the word, those detailed for this service dived from the ships into the sea, and swam smartly, and took up their formation in orderly manner, and having made a phalanx, charged, raising, for their part, their battle cry to the God of War, and those on shipboard raised the cry along with them; and arrows and missiles from the engines were hurled against the natives. They, astounded at the flash of the armour, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way. Some were killed in flight; others were captured; but some escaped into the hills. Those captured were hairy, not only their heads but the rest of their bodies; their nails were rather like beasts' claws; they used their nails (according to report) as if they were iron tools; with these they tore asunder their fishes, and even the less solid kinds of wood; everything else they cleft with sharp stones; for iron they did not possess. For clothing they wore skins of animals, some even the thick skins of the larger fishes.


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Jan 19, 2020
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Jan 19, 2020
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Jan 17, 2020
I was not too sure given their reviews but the dress arrived promptly . Besides a few fixes my mom had to do ( shoulder sticking and side lining since it die not have much lining on the side as shown in their pic ) the dress looked awesome. Wore it for my engagement.
Nov 09, 2019
Loved this dress so much. I had mine altered as I did not want as much cleavage. But the dress is beautifully made and the fabric is gorgeous. It was the perfect length using my measurements.
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I purchased this dress in a size two, I am 4'11 and around 110lbs so it was a bit long, but i got it shortened and the top raised and it fit perfectly! I had my mom add lines of pearls to to the waistline and i was absolutely in love!!
Sep 17, 2019
The dress was beautiful, the quality was perfect (especially for the price, but it was not the color requested. I would definitely recommend and purchase from again!
Sep 12, 2019
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the dress is as it looks in the picture and is of good fabric and construction. However the sizing can be tricky. I am quite a tall person 5'11 and i order the dress based of my bust and hip sizes of the dress's size guide ( ordered a UK 12). the dress fits but i could of gone for a size down as the dress is slightly lose on the back and the top half of the body so could of been more drawn in. The sleeves do not fit as correctly ( that may be because of the dress size however). The split was a lot lower down the leg than in the image as well as the length of the dress is a lot longer. Overall, the dress was beautiful and only had a few minor complications with sizing and upper body fit.
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Perfect two piece white skirt and top for my daughter's 8th grade prom,true to size, very nice material, everyone loved it, happy and blissful, perfect turn out.
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Removing system encryption
Removing system encryption with dm-crypt and LUKS.
- An encrypted root filesystem or other filesystem that cannot be umounted while booted into the operating system.
- Enough drive space to store a backup.
- An Arch Linux (or other) live CD.
- A few hours.
Boot into a Live Environment
Download and burn the latest archlive cd, stick it in, reboot your system and boot to cd
Activate Partitions
Note About Different Setups
An example setup is shown here:
|other os
The grey sections only add a frame of reference and can be disregarded. The green partitions will be modified. Green text must match your system's setup. The yellow partition will be used as storage space and may be changed at will. In the example system: myvg contains lvs called cryptroot and cryptswap. they are located at /dev/mapper/myvg_cryptroot and /dev/mapper/myvg_cryptswap. Upon boot, luks is used along with a few crypttab entries to create /dev/mapper/root and /dev/mapper/swap. Swap will not be unencrypted as part of this guide, as undoing the swap encryption does not require any complex backup or restoration.
The example system is not indicative of all systems. Different filesystems require different tools to effectively backup and restore their data. LVM can be ignored if not used. XFS requires xfs_copy to ensure an effective backup and restore, DD is insufficient. DD may be used with ext2,3,and 4. (Someone please comment on jfs, reiserfs and reiser4fs)
Once Partitions Are Located
Load necessary modules:
modprobe dm-mod #device mapper/lvm modprobe dm-crypt #luks
Activate lvm volume group:
pvscan #scan for Physical Volumes
vgscan #scan for volume groups
lvscan #scan for logical volumes
lvchange -ay myvg/cryptroot
Open the encrypted filesystem with luks so it can be read:
cryptSetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/myvg_cryptroot root
Enter password. Note: The only partition that will be operated on that should be mounted at this point is the backup partition. If a partition other than the backup partition is already mounted, it can be safely umounted it now.
Mounting backup space
Only if using NTFS to store the backup
# pacman -S ntfs-3g
The next step is important for backup storage.
# mount -t ntfs-3g -o rw /dev/sda5 /media/Shared
or use netcat to store the backup on a remote system
TODO: add netcat instructions.
Backup Your Data
Using xfs_copy:
xfs_copy -db /dev/mapper/root /media/Shared/backup_root.img
Note: -d tells xfs_copy to preserve uuids and -b tells xfs_copy to work with filesystems that do not allow direct io (like ntfs-3g).
Using dd:
dd if=/dev/mapper/root of=/media/Shared/backup_root.img
Now walk away. Get yourself something to eat or drink, or do some homework. This will take a while.
Undo Encryption
Now the crucial moment, the point of no return if you will. Make sure you are ready to do this. If you plan to undo this later, you will have to almost start from scratch. You know how fun that is.
cryptsetup luksClose root
lvm lvremove myvg/cryptroot
Restore Data
We have to create a new logical volume to house our root filesystem, then we restore our filesystem.
lvm lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n root myvg xfs_copy -db /media/Shared/backup_root.img /dev/mapper/myvg-root #notice the second drive name is changed now.
Reconfigure the Operating System
You need to boot into your operating system and edit /etc/crypttab, /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, /etc/fstab, and possibly /boot/grub/menu.lst.


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(1) Part or all of your payment can be used to offset past-due federal or state income taxes or non-tax federal debt such as student loans and child support.
(2) The rebate currently being issued is an advance on a special credit on your 2008 federal income tax return. It is calculated based on the information on your 2007 Form 1040 (or 1040A). You will reconcile your advance to your 2008 information on the 2008 Form 1040. If your situation has changed and you are entitled to a rebate that is greater than the amount you already received you can claim the additional amount on your 2008 tax return. If you got more then you are entitled to you do not have to pay back the difference.
(3) You must file by October 15, 2008 in order to get your advance payment this year.
Consider this situation -
John Q Taxpayer owes "Sam" about $10,000 in back federal income taxes from 2001 through 2004. He has been current with his 1040 payments since 2005. If he files a 2007 federal income tax return by October 15th he will not receive a "stimulus" rebate check, as the entire amount of the rebate will be applied toward his outstanding tax debt. He also will not be able to claim the rebate amount on his 2008 Form 1040 because technically he received the advance.
What if JQ filed a 2007 Form 4868 (Automatic Extension) in early April of 2008 and paid in full his anticipated federal income tax liability with the extension request. And what it JQ does not file his actual 2007 Form 1040 until December of 2008. Since he paid the entire 2007 tax liability in full with his extension there will be no penalty for late filing or late payment.
Because JQ filed his 2007 Form 1040 after October 15, 2008, he will not be eligible for an "advance" rebate.
When JQ files his 2008 Form 1040 he indicates that he is entitled to a $600 rebate, but did not receive an advance payment in 2008. The reason he did not receive an advance payment was not because the money was taken to pay back taxes. Because he submitted his 2007 income tax return after October 15th no advance payment was processed.
Will JQ be able to apply his $600 rebate against his 2008 tax liability on the 2008 Form 1040? Say his 2008 tax liability is $2,000 and he has $1,300 in federal income tax paid in either via withholding or estimated tax payments. Can JQ add the $600 rebate for which he qualifies, and which he did not receive as an advance in 2008, to the $1,300 in payments and only need to send "Sam" $100 when he files the 2008 Form 1040 in early 2009?
By following this strategy will JQ be able to avoid having his $600 rebate taken to offset past tax debts and be able to reduce his 2009 "out of pocket" payments for 2008 federal income taxes by the amount of the rebate if he wants to remain "current" with his 1040 filings?
Now what if JQ's $2,000 tax liability for 2008 represents self-employment tax only? He is able to wipe out any federal income tax liability via deductions and credits. Will the amount of his rebate be applied toward self-employment tax liability? Remember, this rebate is very different from the one issued in 2001. This rebate is not an advance on a future income tax savings – but an out and out gift from the government.
So what do you think?