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Service-level agreement
A service-level agreement (SLA) is a part of a standardized service contract where a service is formally defined. Particular aspects of the service – scope, quality, responsibilities – are agreed between the service provider and the service user. A common feature of an SLA is a contracted delivery time (of the service or performance). As an example, Internet service providers and telcos will commonly include service level agreements within the terms of their contracts with customers to define the level(s) of service being sold in plain language terms. In this case the SLA will typically have a technical definition in terms of mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair or mean time to recovery (MTTR); identifying which party is responsible for reporting faults or paying fees; responsibility for various data rates; throughput; jitter; or similar measurable details.
A service-level Agreement is an agreement between two or more parties, where one is the customer and the others are service providers. This can be a legally binding formal or an informal "contract" (for example, internal department relationships). The agreement may involve separate organizations, or different teams within one organization. Contracts between the service provider and other third parties are often (incorrectly) called SLAs – because the level of service has been set by the (principal) customer, there can be no "agreement" between third parties; these agreements are simply "contracts." Operational-level agreements or OLAs, however, may be used by internal groups to support SLAs. If some aspect of a service has not been agreed with the customer, it is not an "SLA".
SLAs commonly include segments to address: a definition of services, performance measurement, problem management, customer duties, warranties, disaster recovery, termination of agreement.[1] In order to ensure that SLAs are consistently met, these agreements are often designed with specific lines of demarcation and the parties involved are required to meet regularly to create an open forum for communication. Contract enforcement (rewards and penalties) should be rigidly enforced, but most SLAs also leave room for annual revisitation so that it is possible to make changes based on new information.[2]
SLAs have been used since late 1980s by fixed line telecom operators as part of their contracts with their corporate customers. This practice has spread such that now it is common for a customer to engage a service provider by including a service level agreement in a wide range of service contracts in practically all industries and markets. Internal departments (such as IT, HR, and real estate) in larger organizations have adopted the idea of using service-level agreements with their "internal" customers — users in other departments within the same organization. One benefit of this can be to enable the quality of service to be benchmarked with that agreed to across multiple locations or between different business units. This internal benchmarking can also be used to market test and provide a value comparison between an in-house department and an external service provider.
Service level agreements are, by their nature, "output" based – the result of the service as received by the customer is the subject of the "agreement." The (expert) service provider can demonstrate their value by organizing themselves with ingenuity, capability, and knowledge to deliver the service required, perhaps in an innovative way. Organizations can also specify the way the service is to be delivered, through a specification (a service level specification) and using subordinate "objectives" other than those related to the level of service. This type of agreement is known as an "input" SLA. This latter type of requirement is becoming obsolete as organizations become more demanding and shift the delivery methodology risk on to the service provider.
Service level agreements are also defined at different levels:
- Customer-based SLA: An agreement with an individual customer group, covering all the services they use. For example, an SLA between a supplier (IT service provider) and the finance department of a large organization for the services such as finance system, payroll system, billing system, procurement/purchase system, etc.
- Service-based SLA: An agreement for all customers using the services being delivered by the service provider. For example:
- A car service station offers a routine service to all the customers and offers certain maintenance as a part of offer with the universal charging.
- A mobile service provider offers a routine service to all the customers and offers certain maintenance as a part of offer with the universal charging
- An email system for the entire organization. There are chances of difficulties arising in this type of SLA as level of the services being offered may vary for different customers (for example, head office staff may use high-speed LAN connections while local offices may have to use a lower speed leased line).
- Multilevel SLA: The SLA is split into the different levels, each addressing different set of customers for the same services, in the same SLA.
- Corporate-level SLA: Covering all the generic service level management (often abbreviated as SLM) issues appropriate to every customer throughout the organization. These issues are likely to be less volatile and so updates (SLA reviews) are less frequently required.
- Customer-level SLA: covering all SLM issues relevant to the particular customer group, regardless of the services being used.
- Service-level SLA: covering all SLM issue relevant to the specific services, in relation to this specific customer group.
Common metrics
Service level agreements can contain numerous service performance metrics with corresponding service level objectives. A common case in IT service management is a call center or service desk. Metrics commonly agreed to in these cases include:
- Abandonment Rate: Percentage of calls abandoned while waiting to be answered.
- ASA (Average Speed to Answer): Average time (usually in seconds) it takes for a call to be answered by the service desk.
- TSF (Time Service Factor): Percentage of calls answered within a definite timeframe, e.g., 80% in 20 seconds.
- FCR (First-Call Resolution): Percentage of incoming calls that can be resolved without the use of a callback or without having the caller call back the helpdesk to finish resolving the case.
- TAT (Turn-Around Time): Time taken to complete a certain task.
- MTTR (Mean Time To Recover): Time taken to recover after an outage of service.
Uptime is also a common metric, often used for data services such as shared hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers. Common agreements include percentage of network uptime, power uptime, number of scheduled maintenance windows, etc.
Many SLAs track to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library specifications when applied to IT services.
Specific example
Backbone Internet providers
It is not uncommon for an Internet backbone service provider (or network service provider) to explicitly state its own service level agreement on its Web site.[3][4][5] The US Telecommunications Act of 1996 does not expressly mandate that companies have SLAs, but it does provide a framework for firms to do so in Sections 251 and 252.[6] Section 252(c)(1) for example ("Duty to Negotiate") requires that ILECs negotiate in good faith regarding things like resale, access to rights-of-way, and so forth.
A web service level agreement (WSLA) is a standard for service level agreement compliance monitoring of web services. It allows authors to specify the performance metrics associated with a web service application, desired performance targets, and actions that should be performed when performance is not met.
WSLA Language Specification, version 1.0 was published by IBM on January 28, 2001.
Cloud computing
The underlying benefit of cloud computing is shared resources, which is supported by the underlying nature of a shared infrastructure environment. Thus, service level agreements span across the cloud and are offered by service providers as a service based agreement rather than a customer based agreement. Measuring, monitoring and reporting on cloud performance is based upon an end user experience or the end users ability to consume resources. The downside of cloud computing, relative to SLAs, is the difficultly in determining root cause for service interruptions due to the complex nature of the environment.
As applications are moved from dedicated hardware into the cloud these applications need to achieve the same or even more demanding levels of service as classical installations. SLAs for cloud services focus on characteristics of the data center and more recently include characteristics of the network (see carrier cloud) to support end-to-end SLAs.
Any SLA management strategy considers two well-differentiated phases: the negotiation of the contract and the monitoring of its fulfilment in real-time. Thus, SLA Management encompasses the SLA contract definition: basic schema with the QoS (quality of service) parameters; SLA negotiation; SLA monitoring; SLA violation detection; and SLA enforcement—according to defined policies.[7]
The main point is to build a new layer upon the grid, cloud, or SOA middleware able to create a negotiation mechanism between providers and consumers of services. An example is the European Union–funded Framework 7 research project, SLA@SOI,[8] which is researching aspects of multi-level, multi-provider SLAs within service-oriented infrastructure and cloud computing; while another EU-funded project, VISION Cloud has provided results with respect to content-oriented SLAs.[9] FP7 IRMOS also investigated aspects of translating application-level SLA terms to resource based attributes in an effort to bridge the gap between client side expectations and Cloud provider resource management mechanisms.[10][11] [12]
A summary of the results of various research projects in the area of SLAs (ranging from specifications to monitoring, management and enforcement) has been provided by the European Commission.[13]
Outsourcing involves transfer of responsibility from an organization to a supplier. The management of this new arrangement is through a contract that may include one or more service level agreement(s). The contract may involve financial penalties and the right to terminate if SLAs metrics are consistently missed. Setting, tracking, and managing SLAs is an important part of the outsourcing relationship management (ORM) discipline. It is typical that specific SLAs are negotiated up front as part of the outsourcing contract, and they are utilized as one of the primary tools of outsourcing governance.
In Software Development, specific SLAs can apply to application outsourcing contracts in line with standards in software quality, and recommendations provided by neutral organizations like CISQ, which has published numerous papers on the topic (such as Using Software Measurement in SLAs) that are available to the public at http://www.it-cisq.org .
See also
- IT Cost Transparency
- Network monitoring
- Operational Level Agreement (OLA)
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Service level
- Service level objective
- Service level requirement
- ↑ An outline of the core elements of an SLA. The Service Level Agreement.
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- ↑ SLA - Global IP Network - NTT America - www.us.ntt.net
- ↑ Global Latency and Packet Delivery SLA - Verizon Business
- ↑ AT&T High Speed Internet Business Edition Service Level Agreement
- ↑ Wikisource:Telecommunications Act of 1996#SEC. 101. ESTABLISHMENT OF PART II OF TITLE II.
- ↑ Service Level Agreements in Virtualised Service Platforms, eChallenges, 2009, doi:10.13140/2.1.1541.4723<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ http://www.visioncloud.eu/
- ↑ [not in citation given]M. Boniface et al., "Platform-as-a-Service Architecture for Real-Time Quality of Service Management in Clouds," iciw, pp.155-160, 2010 Fifth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, 2010 [1]
- ↑ Kousiouris, G.; et al. (2014). ",Dynamic, behavioral-based estimation of resource provisioning based on high-level application terms in Cloud platforms". Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 32: 27–40. doi:10.1016/j.future.2012.05.009. Explicit use of et al. in:
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- ↑ Cuomo, Antonio; Di Modica, Giuseppe; Distefano, Salvatore; Puliafito, Antonio; Rak, Massimiliano; Tomarchio, Orazio; Venticinque, Salvatore; Villano, Umberto (2013). "An SLA-based Broker for Cloud Infrastructures". J. Grid Comput. 11 (1): 1–25. doi:10.1007/s10723-012-9241-4.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Cloud Computing Service Level Agreements - Exploitation of Research Results European Commission
External links
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) S-Cube Knowledge Model


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After triceps surgery, Jake Long not sure he'll remain with Dolphins
- Left tackle has ended past two seasons on injured reserve
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PENSACOLA, Fla. — James Andrews surgically repaired Jake Long's torn left triceps this winter, and the Miami Dolphins left tackle says his best years of football are ahead of him as he enters free agency.
The No. 1 overall pick of the 2008 draft won't say if he's optimistic those years will be spent in Miami.
"You've got to talk to my agent about that one," Long told USA TODAY Sports. "That's the business side. I just worry about the football. I know a great deal's gonna get done one way or the other."
Long, 27, says he injured his arm in Week 12 of the 2012 season. He was placed on injured reserve following the next week's loss to the New England Patriots. He promptly went to the Andrews Institute for surgery and has spent the offseason working next door at the Athlete's Performance facility, the same place where former South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore and Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III are rehabbing their surgically repaired knees.
The Miami Herald reported last month that Long is seeking "at least" $10 million per season on his next contract despite finishing his previous two seasons on IR (he tore his biceps in 2011). He says he couldn't have chosen a better place to rehab than Andrews' home base.
"I've definitely had some injuries over the last couple of years that haven't been ideal," says Long, "but I've worked through them. I'm getting strong and healthy, and this is the best I've felt in a while. I'm excited for the upcoming years."
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As many of you know, we've been working on Message Wall — a new alternative to User Talk Pages that lets you have a public conversation in a fast, powerful, and organized way. During the early testing phase, you gave us boatloads of feedback that influenced our development process. Today, we're excited to announce that thanks to you, we've made many improvements to Message Wall, and it's now available in Labs. Your admins can enable it on your wiki whenever they wish!
What's Different Now?
Admins can enable or disable it. Message Wall is now a Labs product, which admins can turn it on or off via Special:WikiFeatures. "Labs" means that it's still in beta, and we're looking forward to improving it as we learn more about how it's used. It might not be in Labs forever, but we're not making any decisions about the future of the product from where we stand now.
You can get notifications for multiple wikis in one place. We've expanded the notification dropdown menu so it now displays notifications for ALL of your Message Wall-enabled wikis -- not just the one you're on. Clicking on a notification for a wiki you're not already on will open the message in a new window.
You can add a personal greeting to the top of your own wall. This is a bit of a hidden easter egg right now, so I'll tell you how to find it: Once Message Wall is enabled, go to Message_Wall_Greeting:YOUR-USERNAME and create the page (for example, mine is here). Then add whatever content you'd like, and it will appear at the top of your wall.
You can follow a whole wall. We originally planned for you to only follow the conversations that matter to you, but community members made it clear that you also want the ability to follow someone's entire wall. Now you can! Just click "Follow" on your toolbar in the same way you always have. If you find yourself getting too many notifications, just unfollow the wall and go back to following specific conversations.
You can adjust your sort order. If you prefer to read messages newest-to-oldest or oldest-to-newest, just change the sort order from the top of any wall, and we'll remember your preference. This goes for History pages, too.
Timestamps are smarter. Sometimes it's helpful to see that a message was posted "10 minutes ago." Other times, it's more important to know that someone replied at "9:15, January 26, 2012". Why compromise when you can have both? Mouse over a timestamp and it will now change from one state to the other.
"View Source" is an option. If you're the type who likes to go behind the scenes, you can enable "View Source" and it will become a menu option for every message. Just go to the "Under the Hood" tab in your Preferences, and you'll find this setting under "Advanced Display Options." Then you'll be able to see the original code for any message.
Emails, Recent Changes, and Contributions are all much clearer now. We cleaned up our presentation in a lot of areas, and we think you'll be happy with the results.
Anyone can remove. Anyone can restore. We completely revamped our tools for content cleanup so they more closely match "the wiki way." Anyone can now remove a message, and anyone can restore it, but you need to leave a note about why you're making the change so that others understand. (Admins and wall owners can restore messages in a single click, however, for fast reverts of vandalism.) You can find removed messages in Thread History and Wall History.
Anyone can notify an admin. Admins can delete. When a user removes a message, they also have the option to notify an admin. If they choose this, all admins on the wiki will receive a notification (in their new upper-right corner dropdown menu) that there is an issue with that thread. As soon as one admin checks it out, the notification will clear for the other admins. The admin can then choose to take the extra step of deleting the message, which prevents others from viewing or restoring it. (We recommend you use this option sparingly.)
What else should you know?
There are a few other things we want you to be aware of for this release:
Translations are coming soon. If you're on a non-English wiki, you can still enable Message Wall, but you'll be seeing it in English for now. If you want to help with translation, please create an account at TranslateWiki.net, which is where we manage translations for every feature on our site. The messages aren't ready for translation yet, but they will become available over the next few weeks.
Enabling and Disabling this feature will affect your current conversations. If you enable Message Wall, your User Talk Pages will be archived and linked at the bottom of your messages. All of the content will still be there, but you won't be able to edit them anymore (although admins can edit if necessary). You can continue conversations by starting them again in Message Wall. If you later decide to disable Message Wall, all of your wall conversations will be hidden from view (but they'll come back if you enable it again). Please keep this in mind as you toggle the feature.
So let's get started!
We've enabled the feature here on Community Central so you can try it out right now (come say hi to me!). If you decide you like it, an admin can enable it on your wiki through Labs, which they'll find by visiting Special:WikiFeatures.
Since this is an experimental feature, we're still collecting input are are interested in your ideas. Leave us a comment below or use the feedback tool in Labs to send us your thoughts.
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Power Outage Cancels NJ Transit's Plan To Resume Service On 3 Lines
A power outage has canceled part of NJ Transit's plan to resume service on 3 of its lines on Friday morning.
NJ Transit spokesman John Durso Jr. says a backup generator failed overnight at the center in Kearny and couldn't be restarted. Switching equipment was affected.
As a result, service that had been set to restart Friday is suspended on the North Jersey Coast, Raritan and Main lines. Buses will cross-honor rail passes.
Northeast Corridor service between New York and Trenton is not effected and will operate from Trenton to New York on a special schedule .
The original plan for service restoration included service along three lines: Northeast Corridor service between Trenton Transit Center and Newark Penn Station, North Jersey Coast Line service between Woodbridge and Newark Penn Station, and Raritan Valley Line service between Raritan and Newark Penn Station. A special schedule will be posted on njtransit.com
"As the backbone of the NJ Transit rail system, the restoration of Northeast Corridor service is a significant step in providing a level of service to NJ Transit 's customers," said Transportation Commissioner and NJ Transit Board Chairman James Simpson. "Our work is far from done, as we still face a number of operational challenges, but we will continue working tirelessly to further restore service where we can safely do so."
Service to Penn Station New York will resume following Amtrak's restoration of the Hudson River Tunnels and it's signal system is complete.
NJ Transit says the Morgan Drawbridge in South Amboy sustained damage from boats and a trailer that collided into the bridge. There are wires and trees down, as well as rail washouts (no ballast under the tracks), between South Amboy and Bay Head.
The Morris & Essex, Montclair-Boonton, Main/Bergen and Atlantic City Rail lines remain suspended. An assessment of rail infrastructure has revealed significant damage across the system, i
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Our North Shore trip with the extended McCracken crew was a great adventure for the whole family. Between the 12 or so of us, we shared three cabins right on the water. I mean RIGHT on the water. Steps from our front (or back) door was Lake Superior.
While the shore was more one large rock, than the millions of small Lake Superior rocks we are accustomed to, it did make for some fun adventures.
Sylvia taking dad to her "climbing spot"
The girls chillin' on the ledge
Another rocky beach with some nice waves...
Of course we needed to stop at Gooseburry Falls
Big cousin Jared hanging out on the rocks
For the most part the weather was great... it was a bit warm to start the trip, but we survived due to multiple fans in the cabin. As a matter of fact, it was enjoyed so much, we are already booked for 2016! See you in 11 months North Shore!


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Chicago's "rooftop pastor," the Rev. Corey Brooks, said Tuesday he gave $2,000 in church members' donations to disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is on trial on racketeering charges.
Brooks said Kilpatrick, who was forced to resign as mayor in 2008 and served 14 months in prison, wrote a letter during the holiday season pleading for financial assistance for his family. Brooks said he responded by wiring him $2,000.
"If anybody sends me a heart-wrenching letter, the way that letter was written, if I had any power to help, I would help," Brooks said. "That's just the way I am."
A video recording shows Kilpatrick collecting the wired money at a Michigan Wal-Mart, pocketing $800 and wiring the rest to his family now living in Texas, according to Fox-TV affiliate WJBK in Detroit. Michigan authorities are investigating whether Kilpatrick deceived them by not including the $2,000 in his required report of income and gifts for December, according to WJBK and the Detroit Free Press.
Kilpatrick owes the city of Detroit hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution, WJBK said, and could be sent back to prison over failure to disclose the $2,000 gift.
Kilpatrick, his father and a longtime friend are on trial in federal court in Detroit, accused of rigging contracts. Asked about the Brooks donation outside of court, Kilpatrick labeled the matter "trivial," but said he had followed the rules of his parole, the Free Press reported.
Brooks, pastor of New Beginnings Church in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood, is best known for camping out on the roof of an abandoned South Side motel for three months last winter in a campaign to raise funds to demolish it.
Brooks said he has known the former Detroit mayor for four years.
"We talk. We pray," Brooks said. "I know he was trying to redirect his life. I've given him advice on that before."
When Kilpatrick published his memoir in 2011, he paid Brooks a visit on the roof to deliver about 50 free copies for congregants who had been convicted of felonies.
Brooks' rooftop vigil ended when movie mogul Tyler Perry pledged $100,000 to help the pastor buy and demolish the decrepit motel, a haven for drugs and prostitution. After surpassing the $450,000 needed to remove the motel, Brooks continues to raise money for a community center to go up in its place, a project he estimates could cost about $15 million.
Brooks said the money Kilpatrick received came from church members, not donors to the community revitalization project. He declined to say how he settled on the amount of $2,000 for Kilpatrick. He said it was a small portion of what the church gave to charity during the holiday season, but also declined to disclose that sum.
Brooks said his own children don't get gifts for Christmas, shopping for four or five needy families instead. The church also passes out turkeys, clothes and toys to families in need. This Christmas, he said, the congregation helped pay one young man's college tuition.
"Kwame was just one of many people we tried to help during the Christmas season," Brooks said.
The pastor kicked off his rooftop campaign the day 17-year-old Carlton King Archer was buried after being killed in a gang-related shooting. On Tuesday, Archer's mother, Kimberly Hopkins, said that while she questions Kilpatrick's behavior, she wasn't surprised by her pastor's nonjudgmental generosity.
"If you're in need and he can help you, he's going to help you," Hopkins said. "He doesn't look at you as garbage for what you've done. He don't look at that. He doesn't look at none of your past stuff. If you're coming to the Lord, you're good."
Chicago's "rooftop pastor," the Rev. Corey Brooks, said Tuesday he gave $2,000 in church members' donations to disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is on trial on racketeering charges.


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We strive to make every cake fabulous here at Bear Heart Baking Company! We Love to hear how we are doing from our Customers and would love to hear about your experience with our company! You can find some of our Customers Comments here.
Dear Amy,
The cake was wonderful and my son absolutely loved it. The cake was yummy and decorated perfectly! Jayden has been running up to it for 2 days now picking off the fondant balls and eating them. Everyone at the party couldn't stop talking about how beautiful it was. I have enclosed some pics of Jayden with the cake. Everyone who has seen the pics on facebook has commented on the cake and how amazing it is. Can't wait to have you create another masterpiece for our next special occassion!
Thanks again!
Jennifer and Jayden
This is my happy 5 year-old with his cake. He was very surprised when he saw it and actually thought it was a stuffed animal! We were pleased that he actually let us cut it and eat it, too. Thank you so much for providing us all with this wonderful birthday memory and a one-of-a-kind cake. Thanks again and good luck with your business! We will keep you in mind for our future baking needs!
Thank you soooooo much for our beautiful black and purple cake. My daughter was delighted with all of her friends comments about the beautiful cake at her sweet 16 party. It was a hit and a great conversational piece!
Hi Amy,
I have to tell you the fairy cake was a HUGE hit at my step-mom's birthday!! When I walked in the door with the cake, her face light up instantly! My step-mom is from the Philadelphia area and she's used to the homemade goodness from the bakeries around there. So when she said the cake was homemade and so good, I knew it was a winner. I wish I would have known about you sooner for my wedding cake in June, I spent close to $500 for a 3-tier small cake and it was dry and made from a box.
Thank you again and I'll be contacting you soon for my husband's birthday cake for the beginning of January. =)
Good morning! Hope you had a nice Holiday weekend. The cake was a huge hit. Everyone loved it especially my mother-in-law. She wouldn't cut it right away. She had to let it sit so she could admire it for awhile. She was very thrilled that we did that for her. Thank you again for making our vision a reality.
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Thank you so much! When we got back to the room after the wine dinner the cake was waiting. My wife absolutely loved the look of the cake and also how it tasted. Thank you so much for taking care of it on short notice and also for making sure it was delivered to the hotel on time. That is great customer service! It was truly a memorable experience for my wife's 40th and it was a great way to celebrate for both of us!
I want to thank you tremendously for your great customer service and great cake! Not only did the cake have bronze and beauty, it tasted fabulous!! We were so thankful and impressed that you could accomodate us like that within such a short time period (less than 16 hours). Your creativity is amazing! I am definitely telling my friends and family about your business and wish you the best of luck!!
Dear Amy~
My daughter Libby loved loved her birthday cake. I can not say enough good things about the ease of ordering this cake and how you translated my short emails into exactly what she was dreaming about! The delivery and set up was on time and perfect in everyway but most importantly was the way my daughter's eyes lit up when she saw the cake. Thank you so very kindly!
Everyone loved the cake! They were very impressed with the design and the flavor.
Sincere Thanks!
Good afternoon Amy. I just wanted to let you know after a trying weekend of weather causing change in party date and change in location, Jensen's first birthday party turned out wonderful. We received rave reviews on both the cake and the cupcakes. The monkey was the cutest and matched the decorations perfectly. It was exactly what I had envisioned. You may actually be receiving a call from one of our relatives to order a 30th birthday cake in the shape of a Dooney & Bourke purse as they were so impressed. All party guests absolutely loved the red velvet cake and we had multiple comments stating it was the moistest cake they've ever had, and I completely agree.
Before I had my son I never thought I'd be one of those mothers that went completely overboard for things such as birthday parties. But now that he's here I realize things like 1st birthdays are cherished memories worth going overboard, and your cake/cupcakes made the party and memories only that much better.
We will be ordering from you again.
Thank you,
Hi Amy,
Your cake was a hit!! Everybody loved it. And somehow, we were able to pull off the surprise. My daughter had no idea. The evening was a great success.
Thanks again for your beautiful addition to Sada's party. It helped make the night even more special.
I wanted to send you a personal note to let you know how much everyone LOVED your cakes. They were not only beautiful but they were delicious too! Everyone raved about the cakes, and of course as the hostess, I couldn't have been happier with my decision to have BearHeartbakery make them! Not only did you interpret my ideas accurately and beautifully, but people couldn't stop commenting on how delicious BOTH cake flavors were. The blackraspberry filling was to die for and the carrot cake was scrumptious! The only complaint I have is that they were so good I found it impossible to stick to my diet!
Thank you again. I will recommend BearHeartBakery to everyone I know.
The party went great and everyone was so impressed with the cake. You were right, the black was better. I was very happy that the cake also tasted fantastic! There was plenty for people to take home as well, and boy did they take the extra cake! I am glad you could help us. I only took pictures of the cake. I honestly was so busy being hostess that I missed the cookie tray. People ate them so fast. I only saw kids running with them and eating them as fast as they could.
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Hello all,
This is my first time posting on the forums, but I'm sure I will be a regular poster pretty soon as I'm very much involved in Java Programming now.
I'm new to Java, but not new to programming, so I was a bit suprised when I had this issue. I have also googled the problem and had a lot of hits, but nothing that has solved the issue.
I'm trying to write to a text file, some lines of data. Its for an email conversion program. I'm using Rational Application Developer for WebSphere. When I run the code, the text file is empty. Here is the code:
try { PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(strFileName))); EmailItem emailItem = emailConv.convertStreamToEmailItem ( new FileInputStream("test.dxl"), "test", ".\\"); out.println("FROM: " + emailItem.getFrom()); out.println("TO: " + emailItem.getTo()); out.println("CC: " + emailItem.getCc()); out.println("BCC: " + emailItem.getBcc()); out.println("SUBJECT: " + emailItem.getSubject()); out.println("BODY: ### " + emailItem.getBodyHtml() + "###"); out.close(); } catch (Exception e) { e.toString(); e.printStackTrace(); }
I have tried not using bufferwriter, I have also tried flushing, although close() does do a flush anyway, I'm completely at a loss, whatever I do, nothing is written to the text file.
Any idea's? Thanks in advance,


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Central Connecticut women's basketball senior Jessica Babe was named Second Team All-Northeast Conference on Thursday morning. She also garnered a spot on the NEC All-Defensive Team after finishing second in the league in steals per game. Both honors were announced in the conference's annual release of postseason awards and were voted on by the NEC's head coaches.
Babe finished the 2013-14 season among the top-12 in the NEC in points, rebounds, assists and steals. She also led the Blue Devils in each of those categories.
Earlier this season, Babe earned CoSida Capital One Academic All-District First Team honors for her performance on the court and in the classroom. She was also a Choice Hotels/NEC Player of the Week selection on Dec. 9.
Babe capped her career with an exceptional senior season in which she averaged a career-high 13.1 points per game. She also recorded a career-high 116 assists and assist-turnover ratio. In addition, Babe averaged 6.5 rebounds per game to lead CCSU for the third straight season and recorded 65 steals.
Her 116 assists this season rank as the third highest single-season total in program history. The 2013-14 season marked the third straight 100+ assist campaign for Babe.
Babe finishes her career with 990 points, 658 rebounds, 377 assists and 233 steals. In CCSU's Division I era she ranks 16th in points, ninth in rebounds, third in assists and third in steals for her career.
In addition, Babe posted the first triple-double in CCSU women's basketball history earlier this season at Rider. She finished that contest with 15 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.


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End-User Documentation
- Building the DRI Instructions for building the DRI on your own machine.
- ConfigurationInfrastructure This page describes the configuration file format and contains links to a configuration GUI.
- DriverFiles This page describes the files that make up the 2D and 3D drivers and DRM for each driver.
General Developer Documentation
- Development This page collects various information related to development of the DRI.
- Linux DRM Developer's Guide Incomplete, but much more recent (2009) than most of the other docs here - new enough to mention TTM and GEM.
- Introduction to the Direct Rendering Infrastructure This document was written for a tutorial session at LinuxWorld 2000 (San Jose) and explains the DRI at a high level.
- Managing Graphics Hardware Vendor Relationships in the Linux Developer Community A paper presented at the Linux World Conference and Expo in San Jose, CA on March 4, 1999. This paper offers guidelines to anyone who is responsible for establishing or maintaining business relationships. Although the paper is written to describe a specific type of business relationship, it can be applicable to many similar situations.
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- Data Flow Diagram - with explanation
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- A Multipipe Direct Rendering Architecture for 3D, High-Level Design Document
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- Direct Rendering Infrastructure, Low Level Design Document
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- Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
- A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
- DRI Extensions for supporting the Direct Rendering Protocol Specification
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The first Olympic weekend is over! Of course it's the taking part, not the winning, that counts, but let's face it: it's the medals, especially the gold ones, we all get most excited about. So while we were sitting glued to the telly watching the joys of weightlifting, archery and judo we started pondering some serious questions....
The eyes of the world will be on London tonight as the opening ceremony will mark the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ceremony will feature the largest harmonically tuned bell in Europe, there'll be NHS dancers, the Queen will be there too of course, and the grand finale will be the Olympic torch lighting the cauldron. While London has been gearing up for these momentous events, we here at Plus have been busy too.
Yesterday we brought you two Olympic brainteasers and here are another two. Enjoy!
While the athletes are flexing their muscles, why not train your brain with these two Olympic puzzles?
Will Britain be able to turn the home advantage into the top spot on the medal table this Games? Predicting medal counts is a tricky business, but, never afraid of a challenge, we will reveal our own predictions for the top 20 countries here on Plus on Friday. In the meantime, why not come up with your own mathematical method for predicting the results? To help you along, here are two articles we produced for the 2008 Games in Beijing:
What can you do to out sprint Usain Bolt to the taxi rank? Was he unlucky to lose at the Jamaican trials or is Yohan Blake really faster? Get in training for a summer of sport with a talk from John D. Barrow at the Science Museum tomorrow, 25th July. The talk is part of an evening dedicated to science and sport, part of the Science Museum Lates series.
Only four days to go until the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games! To get into the spirit, we cast our minds back to one of our favourite features of the 2008 Beijing Games: the beautiful aquatics venue, known as the water cube. Looking like it had been sliced from a giant bubble foam, the design was based on an unsolved maths problem. And although the bubbles look completely random, the underlying structure is highly regular and buildable.
Henri Poincaré died 100 years ago today. He is most famous for the conjecture (now theorem) which carries his name and which remained unproven for almost 100 years, until Grigori Perelman announced a proof in 2003. But the famous conjecture isn't all there was to Poincaré.


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Tea Cup Pincushion
I finished my Katherine hat two days ago and was in need of a quick crafty fix. Searching through my queue of projects, I found the pattern for this!
I had issues locating poly-fil last night to stuff it so was forced to wait until morning to dig through the garage. I finished it up while Maggie kept me company (slept) on my bed. "The dude" was being difficult though and insisted I go outside and play with him…which I ended up doing because let's face it, he rules the house.
Overall I'm really happy with it! I wish I had some emery or pellets as the pattern suggests to weigh it down at the bottom. Hope everyone has a great weekend! Pics of the Katherine Hat coming soon…
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Holy shit that's adorable. That looks like an excellent pin cushion because I bet you could stab darning needles into that.


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Working on a project that was created to track individuals that have been listed in some Pedigree Charts. These charts have been researched, but the documentation was not included in the charts. I do know, that the research has been completed and proven, but I want to have some documentation for these charts.
I am entering the data into FTM2012 and using the TreeSync™ feature to post the same file as an Ancestry Member Tree. I have entered 233 people into my file and wanted to see how the hints / shaky leaves matched up.
The data in this file is very limited as to Facts. 233 people, 67 marriages, 9 generations and 61 Surnames. The date range is 1471 to 1713 with most in the UK. The average Fact per person is 4. That would include the Name, and two identification facts. There are 46 places, again in the UK.
This screen is from FTM2012, Plan Workspace, More File Statistics
In FTM2012, I determined that there were 41 Ancestry Hints for 11 people. 4 of the 41 were for unnamed people.
Ancestry Member Trees (AMT) have a way to see a summary of hints.
In FTM2012, I have the Member Tree feature turned off, so the number of Records in the AMT is very close to that of FTM2012. It will be interesting to see the "Story", but I think that will be on someone's Member Tree.
Bottom line here, is the number of Hints are very, very close. Now to start looking at those hints.
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Catching up with Eli Manning – again!
While the Yankees are enjoying an off day in the midst of winning six of their last seven, their football counterparts – the New York Giants – are getting prepared for mini-camp this week. Each year, the day before football activity starts, two-time Super Bowl champ and MVP Eli Manning hosts the Guiding Eyes for the Blind Golf Classic at the Mount Kisco Country Club.
Last year I had the pleasure of covering the event, and as fate would have it, I was given the assignment yet again this year. This year marked Manning's seventh year as host of the outing; the QB speaking with the press, then demonstrating what it's like for a blind golfer to sink a putt on the green.
Instead of simply blogging about the experience of interviewing a legendary player as I did last year, I'll post some video I took of Manning's demo, and him answering a couple of my questions, as well as my story for the newspaper.
Note: part of my first question was cut off at the beginning (didn't hit record until I after had asked the first part of it). The question to Eli was, "What kind of advice would you give to young athletes in New York, like Matt Harvey, who are following in your footsteps, becoming franchise players very quickly?
Another side note: Shout out to the gentlemen from the Public Access TV station. Afterward they approached me and gave me a proverbial "pat on the back" telling me I asked a couple of good questions. Thanks for that, fellas.
Anywho, on to my story from the day…
MOUNT KISCO – The 2013 NFL season will surely bring plenty of storylines and work for the New York Giants, yet every year, before the football madness ensues, quarterback Eli Manning dedicates himself to a worthy cause. Guiding Eyes for the Blind put on its 36th annual golf classic at the Mt. Kisco Country Club Monday afternoon, and for the seventh consecutive year, Manning was on hand serving as host.
The MVP of Super Bowls 42 and 46 started golfing at a young age, and was introduced to the Guiding Eyes tournament by blind golf champion Pat Browne – a longtime friend of the Manning family. The Giants' QB looks forward to the outing every year, and has noticed steady growth and participation over time.
"It's really grown over the years," Manning said. "I got to meet a lot of people whose lives have been greatly impacted by Guiding Eyes and the guide dogs, so it's been a pleasure to work with them over the years.
Seeing first-hand some of the success that these people have because of their guide dogs; the impact it's made and how it's changed their lives, and how the guide dogs have helped them go on to have successful careers in anything that they want to do. There've been a lot of amazing stories that have occurred because of this. I'm really proud to be involved and keep helping out."
Manning also spoke about how impressed he is with the blind golfers, who year in and year out make the Guiding Eyes golf classic a tremendous success.
"Having been in this tournament a number of times and played with some of the blind golfers, it's amazing to watch them go out there and compete, get around the course, and make pars," he said. "It's incredible, it's a lot of fun to be here and watch them do their craft."
Taking to the practice green, Manning put on a blindfold, and got a taste for what it's like for a blind golfer to sink a putt. Standing 14 feet from the hole, Manning swung his putter and came up just short during the demonstration, missing the hole by about three inches – contrary to last year when on his first attempt, he sank the putt from 10 feet away.
Manning also offered a look into the Giants' upcoming season, which will begin with an automatic bang when the G-Men face off with the Denver Broncos in Week 2; Manning being pitted up against his older brother Peyton for the third time in his career. Although Peyton has won the first two meetings between the brothers, Manning wants nothing more than to turn the tables and make the third time the charm.
"At the end of the day one of us is going to lose," he said. "I'll look forward to the day, it'll be the third time I've gotten to play against Peyton's team before and I don't know if it'll be the last one – it could be, so hopefully I'll get a win under my belt. He's already got two wins."
Manning might have all the incentive he needs to want to beat his brother this season, yet reaching Super Bowl 48 when it's all said and done may be on the top of his to-do list, considering the big game will be held on his home turf: MetLife Stadium at the Meadowlands.
"I think anytime you have the Super Bowl in your home town or in your home stadium, you'd like to play in it and be a part of it," he said. "You want to win a championship, it's always your goal, but it would be very special to be the first team to play a Super Bowl in your own stadium."
Manning then finally offered some words of wisdom to up-and-coming athletes in New York who'd like to follow in his footsteps: a path that's led to a legendary career, one that will undoubtedly live forever in the minds of New York area sports fans.
"Work hard, be a good teammate, try to earn the respect of your teammates, coaches, and fans," he said. "Enjoy being an athlete in New York – and if you win a championship, it makes things easier."


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1976 Fender Starcaster in ebony
A prime example was when Fender paired the name of the now legendary Sunn amps as acquired by Fender together with that of the Fender Mustang guitar which originally appeared in 1964. However, the resultant Sunn Mustang was just a budget Strat copy (early examples were made in India and seem to have their fans - but that's a discussion for another time).
Fender did the same thing with the Starcaster. It used to be a 1970s-era offset-body semi-hollowbody guitar (see above pic) - Fender's answer to Gibson's 335 but with a bolt-on maple neck, but AGAIN years later they have applied the name to yet another budget conscious Strat copy. Ask any teenager into guitars what a Starcaster is, and it is the latter-mentioned guitar they will be most likely be thinking of (unless they are really cool).
Anyway, here is an example currently for sale on eBay of a Fender Starcaster from 1976 in a rare ebony finish (most I've seen previously tend to have the natural finish or sometimes sunburst). Despite not being Fender's first attempt at a semi-hollowbody - that would be the Coronado from 1966-1972 - it is one of Fender's more intriguing lesser-known guitars. Such a shame they have to sully its name with a cheap Strat knock-off.
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Springfield, Mo — The Tan Co. plans to grow to 100 locations by the end of the year and 500 salons within five years, the company announced last month. Many of those locations are expected to be within health clubs.
The Tan Co. is offering two salon models: a small store with 12 beds and the superstore featuring 20-plus beds. Initial investment is between $250,000 and $500,000, including a $30,000 franchise fee. Royalties are 6 percent of gross sales paid monthly, and franchisees are required to make a 3 percent contribution to an advertising fund.
Dan Martin, a health club operator in Ozark, MO, added tanning beds to his facility several years ago, but he soon had to expand because the beds were so popular, he says. He decided to invest in the Tan Co. as a franchisee so that he could offer his members a full-service salon.
"Not only was everything extremely clean and state-of-the-art, but the training and support the company provided could not be matched," he says.
The Tan Co. has 72 locations in 13 states, but most are in Missouri where the company started in 2000.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The congregation of Christ's Church gathered Sunday for its first services since youth minister David Lawson was accused of sexually molesting a 15-year-old.
Lawson was arrested at the church Wednesday and charged with four counts of lewd and lascivious molestation.
Church officials say the congregation is trying to understand how something like this could happen in a place they consider sacred.
"As your pastor, one of my greatest joys is sharing the 'Good News' of the gospel. But sometimes I need to call our church family together to share bad news as well.," Pastor Jason Cullum told the congregation in a statement posted on the church's website. "In light of what we know at this time, and at the direction of our attorney, we have terminated David's employment at our church effective immediately."
Cullum went on to write, "During our close relationship with David, there has never been a hint or accusation of impropriety on any level and that is why these allegations come as a complete shock. Regardless, our hearts and prayers go out to David, his family, our church family, and especially to the victim and the victim's family."
Cullum assured church members at both the 9 and 10:30 a.m. church service Sunday that they implement strict safeguards and background checks on all their employees. He then asked the church to pray for the alleged victim in this case, adding that the church will be reaching out to Lawson and his family to help in any way they can.
Lawson worked at the church for nearly seven years in a number of different capacities.
Church officials say as a result of the arrest they've moved new leadership into place in their high school program of their Mandarin Campus.
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Picture book
Ages 2-8
By Russell Hoban
Illustrated by Lillian Hoban
40 pages
The husband and wife team of Russell Hoban (1925-2011) and Lillian Hoban (1925-1998) were a giant force in the world of children's books. Together the pair created Bedtime for Frances (as well as several other Frances books) and Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (which is the basis for the fantastic Muppet special). Their stories are sweet and funny and are imbued with valuable life lessons; their characters are endearing and identifiable.
These farcical stories featuring grumpy characters make for two truly adorable books. Russell Hoban's writing is charmingly droll; Lillian Hoban's art is delightful. Though the images are small, they're saturated with life. Her depiction of the Brutes is marvelously comical and readers will quickly fall in love with their homely faces and bad attitudes.
The Little Brute Family opens, "In the middle of a dark and shadowy woods lived a family of Brutes."
The Brutes—Papa Brute, Mama Brute, Brother Brute, Sister Brute and Baby Brute—were unhappy and angry creatures.
No one ever said "please" or "thank you." During mealtimes, Brother and Sister would kick each other under the table while Mama and Papa made faces. For breakfast they ate sand and gravel porridge; for dinner Mama made stew from sticks and stones.
In the spring the little Brutes made kites that were too heavy to fly, so they dragged them on the ground. In the fall they jumped into piles of leaves and stomped on each other, yelling.
Then one day Baby Brute caught a wandering good feeling in a field of daisies. He put it in his pocket and said, "How lovely."
At dinner, when Mama Brute served Baby Brute his stick-and-stone stew, he said, "Thank you."
"Then the little good feeling flew out of his pocket and hovered over the table, humming and smiling."
The good feeling spread quickly throughout the Brute family and they wished for it not to hover, but to stay. The following day, instead of collecting sticks and stones for stew, Papa collected wild berries, salad greens and honey. In the spring the little Brutes made kites they could fly instead of drag; in the fall they collected nuts and acorns to roast by the fire.
"The little good feeling stayed and stayed and never went away, and when the springtime came again the little Brute family changed their name to Nice."
The contrast between the brutish behaviors and the new nice attitudes makes the nice parts all the more satisfying. The Little Brute Family provides a gentle reminder to focus on the good parts of life, in a heartwarming and hilarious way.
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The Stone Doll of Sister Brute
Picture book
Ages 2-8
By Russell Hoban
Illustrated by Lillian Hoban
32 pages
Out of print
The Stone Doll of Sister Brute begins, "Once upon a time, before the Brute family changed their name to Nice, Sister Brute had nothing to love."
When Sister Brute asked Papa for a doll he just walked away growling, so she asked Mama. "Mama gave her a stone."
Sister Brute loved it anyway. She drew a face on it, made it a dress and named it Alice Brute Stone. One day, while Sister Brute and Alice Brute Stone were out walking, they encountered an ugly dog in hobnailed boots demanding to be loved. Though Sister Brute explained that she already had something to love, the dog threatened her.
'"Love me," said the dog, "or I will kick you very hard."'
Then he kicked her! Sister Brute kicked back but her kicks weren't as hard because she wasn't wearing hobnailed boots. Sister Brute threw her stone doll at him but, since nobody ever played dolls with him before, he thought Sister Brute was playing and took this as proof of her love.
"So he followed her home with Alice Brute Stone in his mouth, and he kicked Sister Brute lovingly all the way."
Before long Sister Brute complained that all she had was "tiredness and kicks and bruises." Mama correctly responded, "Maybe that is because you have been loving only a hard stone and a kicking dog."
When Sister Brute asked what else she could love, Mama said, "I don't know." It was then that Mama noticed Alice Brute Stone's face, the one Sister Brute drew herself, and it looked just like hers.
'"You could love me," said Mama Brute, "and I will give you soft hugs and kisses and sing you lullabies."'
'"What will Papa give me if I love him?" said Sister Brute."'
Papa would give her kisses and knee rides. Brother had smiles and string to offer, and Baby had rusty bolts, colored glass and turtles to share.
Sister Brute realized she could love Mama Brute, Papa Brute, Brother Brute, Baby Brute, her stone doll, and her kicking dog.
As many times as I've read these books I never fail to laugh, a lot, and I love them more and more each time.
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Winter Sports Safety
By Amy Scholten, MPH
To you, the first snow fall is a signal to strap on the skis and skates, or even jump on a sled. You may look forward to days in the frosty snow, but like any activity you need to play safely. Winter activities can lead to the same bumps and bruises of every sport with added concerns of exposure to cold temperatures. A little snow safety strategy can help you avoid some of the most common winter sport injuries.
No matter what your winter sport is, it is important to take a few minutes and make sure you know how to be safe. Suggestions include:
- Don't wait until the last minute. Start strength training the muscles you will need a month or so ahead of time. This will help you get into proper shape.
- Make sure you are in good physical condition for activities in the cold. If you are unsure, check with your doctor.
- Warm up with light exercise for 5 minutes before you engage in any sport.
- Make sure your equipment and protective gear is in good condition and fits well.
- Always wear the appropriate protective gear for your sport.
- Dress properly for the cold. Protect yourself from frostbite and hypothermia.
- Wear several layers of tops and pants under warm jackets. Wear hats and water-resistant gloves. Face masks may be necessary for very cold weather.
- Protect your eyes from snow glare with shatter-proof sunglasses or goggles with UV protection.
- Take lessons to improve your ability. Better skills will allow you to adjust to changing conditions.
- Many organizations, like the National Ski Areas Association, recommend the use of helmets for downhill winter sports to prevent head injury.
Skiing and snowmobiling
Skiing and snowboarding have their own special equipment. The right equipment and the right fit are as important as knowing what you are doing. This will reduce your risk of injury. Here are some other things you need to know:
- Take lessons from an expert. Evidence supports that beginners are hurt more frequently. The quicker you improve, the safer you will be on the slopes.
- Stick with your abilities. Do not attempt to ski a slope that is beyond your personal abilities. Ski marked trails and observe trail signs. Rest when you get tired.
- Be sure that equipment is properly maintained and clean—no dirt or salt between boots, bindings, and the binding mechanism.
- Properly adjust bindings to reduce the chance of leg injuries. Test your ability to escape bindings by standing in the skis, then twisting to release the toe and heel pieces
- Wear the proper gear for snowboarding. This includes snowboarding pants, wrist guards, arm guards, and shin guards.
- When approaching the lift, be aware pieces of clothing that could become entangled.
- Wear a helmet specifically designed for snow sports.
- Always ski or board with a buddy.
- Know and observe all the rules about crossing a trail, passing, and stopping.
- Wear sunscreen.
- Wear bright colors.
- If you are cross-country skiing for long distances, take snacks, water, extra clothes, and first aid supplies with you. Take a cell phone if you will be skiing in a remote area.
Skating injuries often result from tripping on bumps in the ice, colliding with other skaters, and falling through the ice. Recommendations to skaters include:
- Skate with a buddy or at least make sure there are other people around.
- Stick to shallow flooded fields and supervised areas.
- Avoid lakes, ponds, or rivers until the ice has been tested by a local official.
- Never skate close to open bodies of water.
- Supervise all small children.
- Never build fires on ice.
- Avoid driving cars on ice.
- In case of a fall into icy water:
- Do not climb out right away. Kick into a horizontal position and try to slide onto solid ice.
- When out of the water, roll away and do not stand until you put several body lengths between you and the broken ice.
- Call emergency medical services right away and do not walk up to the break.
- Use a reaching aid, such as a rope. If possible, form a human chain, each person holding onto the heels of the next person.
- If you have to go onto the ice, distribute weight by lying flat over a wide area. Try to use another reaching aid to close the distance between you and the break in the ice.
- To rescue others that have fallen through the ice:
Hockey-related injuries can occur on the ice, street, field, or in the gym. Recommendations for hockey players include:
- Always wear protective equipment. This includes helmets, pads, hockey pants, gloves, athletic supporter or cup, and neck protector.
- Make sure everything fits you properly and that it is in good condition.
- Show good sportsmanship. Do not hit other players and bystanders who happen to get in the way.
- Do not engage in fighting.
Sledding and tobogganing
Sledding is fun at all ages, as long as you are safe. Follow these tips:
- Make sure your sled is in good condition. Repair any broken parts, split wood, or sharp edges. If you cannot get your sled repaired, get a new one. Sleds that steer are a safer option.
- Never sled on the street or on hills that lead directly into the street.
- Never hook rides on the bumpers of cars.
- Make sure that slopes do not have bumps, big rocks, trees, or tree stumps.
- Avoid steep hills where you could gain too much speed and may not be able to stop.
- Do not go sledding on frozen lakes or ponds unless the ice has been tested by a local official and declared safe.
- Keep hands, arms, and legs inside to avoid limb injuries.
Snowmobiles are high-speed vehicles and should be treated as such. Most deaths and accidents involve collisions with fixed or moving objects like:
- Fence posts
- Trees
- Cars, moving and stationary
- Barbed wire—can cause death by decapitation
Alcohol is the leading cause of snowmobiling deaths. It contributes to impaired judgment involving speed, and driving in the dark or in bad weather. It also may make you feel like you can drive better than you really can. Do not drink before or during any snowmobiling activity.
Know your environment, snowmobile fatalities have occurred when people tried to ride over thin ice. Ride with other people. If you are going out alone make sure someone knows where you are going and when you should be back. You can get into trouble if your vehicle breaks down and you are stranded in cold temperature.
Make sure you are wearing proper gear before you head out including:
- A helmet with a face guard or goggles. Helmets should be designed for high-speed motor sports.
- Layers of clothing for warmth. Be sure that your clothing does not have any parts that could get caught in the snowmobile.
Know your machine:
- Become familiar with the particular model of snowmobile before driving. Even if you are an experienced driver, accidents can happen if you are unfamiliar with the model.
- Inspect the entire machine—brakes, throttle control, lights, and emergency shut-off switch before departing. Be sure you have a full tank of gas.
- Take extra spark plugs, tools, a first aid kit, and other repair and survival supplies, such as flares and matches.
Follow local regulations and operation instructions. While on the trail:
- Know the terrain. Know where fences, gullies, branches, fallen logs, barbed wire, and rocks may be hidden. Beware of open bodies of water and thin ice.
- Travel on marked trails.
- Avoid driving at night and in bad weather. A single strand of barbed wire is hard to see.
- Remember that the loud noise generated by the snowmobile may prevent hearing approaching trains, cars, and other snowmobiles. Be alert.
- Travel in groups. In case of emergencies, someone can go for help.
Check with your state or the state you are visiting about minimum ages for riding on or driving snowmobiles.
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If You Want To Fix U.S. Broadband Competition, Start By Killing State-Level Protectionist Laws Written By Duopolists
from the long-overdue deptFor fifteen years now I've watched as phone and cable duopolies lobby to pass draft legislation designed to keep broadband uncompetitive. Specifically, in more than a dozen states these protectionist measures either hinder or outright ban a town or city's ability to wire itself for broadband (either alone or with a private industry partner) -- even in cases where nobody else will. If the laws don't ban such efforts outright, they force anyone looking to build a broadband network to jump through layers upon layers of bureaucratic hoops, during which the regional duopolies with limitless budgets harass the efforts with lawsuits and negative publicity campaigns (I've seen ISPs hire push pollsters to tell locals that a government-built network would ban their religious programming).
The worst part of these bills is that at their base they're simply duopolists buying laws that keep towns and cities from making regional infrastructure decisions for themselves, whether that's building their own core fiber network or developing a public/private network build partnership. Carriers get to have their cake and eat it too; they're not going to build you better broadband networks, but they're not going to let anybody else do it, either. Some of these projects work, some don't (it depends on the specific business model), but if the country is actually serious about improving broadband competition, these miserable bills are the very first thing that need a long, hard look.
For many years these bills were quickly passed without much debate, public scrutiny and absolutely no tech-press attention. All too often, when they were noticed, they were defended using traditional partisan tropes. Locals simply trying to get connected by any means necessary are usually vilified and portrayed as supporting "government meddling with industry." It's a shame, given that, like so many technical issues, there should be nothing partisan about protecting your local rights. Fortunately, with Google Fiber's entry into the market I've seen a renewed flurry of attention on these bills, in large part because several would have impacted Google Fiber's expansion, and Google Fiber, as I've noted, appears to have captured the imagination of the public.
In Kansas, for example, cable operators recently ran into a bit of a chainsaw when they attempted to ban towns and cities in the state from running their own fiber or working with partners like Google Fiber (operating in Kansas City). SB304 claimed to allow such efforts if they targeted unserved customers, but then sneakily defined unserved as someone unable to even get satellite or a cellular dial tone, ensuring that nobody would get that designation (a pretty common trick to make the bills seem more reasonable). In Utah, SB190, one such bill pushed in part by regional incumbent CenturyLink, also won't be surviving this year thanks in part to the new attention Google Fiber (who purchased a network in Provo) has brought to the issue.
A few years ago, these bills would have flown through state legislatures with nary a mention. Not only are new bills starting to fail more regularly under heightened public awareness, I'm starting to see -- for the first time in my many years covering the industry -- pushes to roll back some of these ridiculous protectionist measures. In Tennessee, for example, there's four different bills in process that would roll back such incumbent-friendly bills, and they're coming from both sides of the political aisle. Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica, who has been doing an absolutely fantastic job lately making these important issues interesting for readers, notes how local ISPs quickly complained about the sea change:
"We are particularly concerned about four bills that have been introduced this session," Tennessee Telecommunications Associations chief Levoy Knowles said in an announcement. The TTA claimed to be presenting "concerns of rural consumers" but are more worried about the potential of losing customers. "These bills would allow municipalities to expand beyond their current footprint and offer broadband in our service areas. If this were to happen, municipalities could cherry-pick our more populated areas, leaving the more remote, rural consumers to bear the high cost of delivering broadband to these less populated regions," Knowles said."Yes, god forbid you'd have to face a new competitor and adjust your business model accordingly; you might even have to work with a local government to determine what works best in each region! Meanwhile, Google Fiber's recent announcement to help 34 cities in nine regional markets examine local fiber needs should bring greater attention to the issue. Google intentionally targeted regions like North and South Carolina, where regional incumbent Time Warner Cable passed protectionist bills a few years ago (on their fourth try). It only took fifteen years, but we're only just starting to see people realize that perhaps letting your regional duopolists write laws dictating what you can and can't do for your own community might not be the best idea.
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Linking Trees' Fibonacci Sequence to Solar Power Wins Student A Young Naturalist Award
Friday, August 12, 2011
When 13-year-old Aidan took a winter hike through the Catskill Mountains, he noticed something spectacular about the bare trees. "I thought trees were a mess of tangled branches," he would later recall, "But [then] I saw a pattern in the way the tree branches grew."
Armed with a protractor, Aidan measured the angles of the branches and discovered they grew in a Fibonacci sequence—a mathematical pattern that can be observed throughout nature, from the curve of nautilus shells to the spirals of galaxies. In this famous sequence, each number is the sum of the previous two: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, continuing infinitely. Could this branch pattern help trees absorb more sunlight? Aidan's pursuit of that question in his essay The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees earned him a 2011 Young Naturalist Award.
To test his hypothesis, Aidan constructed a model tree based on the Fibonacci sequence of an oak, using PVC pipes as branches and PV solar panels as leaves. After testing his prototype against a flat solar panel, Aidan confirmed that trees outperformed the traditional model—in winter, by as much as 50 percent.
As it turns out, this distribution of branches minimizes the extent to which limbs shade the leaves below them. And unlike a flat solar panel—which must be mechanically readjusted to follow the Sun's moving path—a Fibonacci-sequence tree can still absorb light when the Sun sits low in the sky. "Collecting the most sunlight is the difference between life and death," wrote Aidan, who thinks humans can put treelike solar panel designs to use, especially in urban spaces where sunlight is scarce. He has already applied for a patent for his PV solar panel tree.
For his next project, Aidan plans on comparing the Fibonacci sequences of different trees to see if one species' branch arrangement is more efficient than another. He knows he'll find another secret in nature if he just keeps looking up.
The Young Naturalist Awards is a nationwide, science-based research contest for students in grades 7 through 12 presented by the Museum. To learn more and to submit your own project, visit amnh.org. The deadline for the 2012 contest is March 9, 2012.
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The ground war over gun control after the Newtown, Conn. massacre has begun. Across the country, members of Congress are being hit with grassroots campaigns and ads aimed at pushing them to one side or the other in the current debate over gun violence.On Friday, the remnants of President Obama's reelection campaign will hold its first "Day Of Action" since the November election, rallying its millions of supporters to join the call for gun control legislation at grassroots events nationwide. The group, Organizing For Action, is also putting ads online that will "target more than a dozen members of Congress" who haven't signed onto Obama's gun control agenda, according to USA Today.
OFA's move caps off a week that has seen gun control tested at the ground level of politics, where the races are won and where the mountains are moved. Thus far, most of the post-Newtown gun control debate has taken place at presidential press events and Senate committee hearings. Now it's part of actual politicking.
The National Rifle Association is targeting several members with ads of its own, running full-page newspaper spots in Arkansas, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina and West Virginia.
In the past, this kind of saber-rattling by the NRA would likely scare moderate Democrats into submission on issues like universal background checks for firearms purchases, which polling shows the public supports but the NRA opposes.
This time around, though, gun control advocates and their allies say the ground fight favors them. "I believe the price to be paid politically will be to those who refuse to act, who refuse to step forward [on gun violence]," Vice President Biden said Thursday. "Because America has changed on this issue."
But it's not just a shifting public attitude gun control advocates are relying on. They've also got wealthy allies in the field they've never had before, giving them resources they've never had. New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg's war on the NRA put him at the center of the Illinois special election to replace Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr (D). Bloomberg's PAC spent heavily to back candidate Robin Kelly (who's now expected to win) and clear the field for her with ads highlighting NRA-friendly comments made by her competitors.
Bloomberg has made it clear he intends to do more of of this, and he's got powerful allies in former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) and her husband, Mark Kelly, who have also pledged to get involved in races on behalf of stronger gun laws.
The NRA still has a lot of sway in Washington and it still has a lot of money to fight political battles in the field. But there are signs it's losing the DC fight — a bipartisan group of senators is reportedly close to a deal on universal background checks. That's a big victory for gun control advocates. (The House is a different story, though some conservatives have expressed an openness to expanded background checks.)
Having pushed the conversation in its direction in DC, the gun control crowd has now turned its attention to the ground, where it will test the NRA's grassroots strength against the nascent political machinery of the new gun control coalition.
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Calgon carbon was granted U.S. patent #6, 129, 843 for controlling Cryptosporidium parvum in water using low levels fo ultraviolet (UV) light.
Cryptosporidium is highly resistant to traditional treatment methods such as chlorination. It was thought that very high doses of UV light, at least 3,000 mJ/cm2, were required to kill Cryptosporidium. Calgon Carbon's research discovered that low levels of UV could be used to prevent Cryptosporidium from replicating by disrupting or crosslinking its DNA and RNA.
This research was used to commercialize the Sentinel UV disinfection system as a reliable barrier against viruses, bacteria and parasites. The Sentinel is an environmentally safe technology that doesn't produce disinfection by-products.
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A Russian jumbo jet was forced to abort his landing and head back into the sky after another passenger plane suddenly appeared in front of him on the runway.
The near-miss captured on camera shows the terrifying moment disaster loomed as the Boeing 767 from Russian airline UTair was making its final approach to land at Barcelona.
But seconds from touchdown the Russian pilot was forced to pull up his landing gear as a he making a final approach to land as an Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340 taxied across his path.
The Russian Boeing screamed back into the air, barely missing the taxing plane, as it was forced back into the air to cricle the airport before landing safely on the second attempt.
The heart-stopping moment was caught on camera by budding plane enthusiast Miguel Angel, who described it as "one of the worst experiences I have ever had".
He uploaded the video to YouTube, where it has gone viral racking up well over 1 million views since the weekend.
Said Miguel: "An Utair Boeing 767-300 incoming from Moscow as UT5187 and Aerolíneas Argentinas Airbus A340-300 were involved into what could have been the biggest disaster of Barcelona Airport.
"The Utair 767 was about to land on Runway 02 while the Argentinas was crossing the runway.
"By the time Russian pilots sighted the taxing Argentinas for take-off on the runway while they were on final approach, they did their best making an impressive and close go around.
"After that incidence the plane landed safely on runway 02, and the Argentinas took-off heading Buenos Aires."
But the Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (AENA), claimed there was never any danger of a collision as there was sufficient space to carry out a landing meaning the second plane on the landing would have been gone before the time UTair pilot had touched down at Barcelona's El Prat Airport, in eastern Spain.
A pilot will perform the manoeuvre like this when they do not have a clear view of the landing, whether that is because of weather or any other reason that leads them to doubt that it might be safe to go ahead.