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Memonex MOD EX 600W Power Supply Review
Memonex is a manufacturing and marketing company, which operates predominantly in the Middle Eastern markets. However, with offices now in Canada, things may be about to change. I'm sure most people won't be familiar with the name, but they all have to start somewhere, so let's reserve judgment until the testing stage is complete. Memonex specializes in memory related products that include flash memory cards, USB flash drives, card readers, ram modules, solid state and hard disk drives. They also offer a small range of computer power supplies that range from the Silent Ex 320W to the MOD EX 1000W units.
This time around OCC is taking a look at the Memonex MOD EX 600W power supply and putting it through its paces so let's move on and have a closer look.
Closer Look:
The packaging of the Memonex MOD EX 600W, when compared to the higher end of the power supply market, is on the small side, which immediately tells you it's not going to be the best. The red and black themed box doesn't look too bad and is quite striking. The top of the box carries a photograph of the power supply that appears on flames - perhaps not the way most manufacturers would depict their products? The Memonex logo, along with small pictorial representations of some of the main features and the power supply wattage, completes the top cover. The base of the box carries a comprehensive feature list, consisting of pictorial representations accompanied by a descriptive sentence or two for each feature.
The front and rear faces of the packaging carry the Memonex trademark along with a large red flaming MOD EX logo. The Memonex MOD EX 600W power supply, according to information supplied in the bottom corners of the front and rear faces, gives a real output power of 600W and is compliant with the ATX12V V2.3 specification.
Memonex trademarks, the MOD EX logo, and real output 600W are shown on both end panels along with the specification table and pictorial representations of some of the main features.
Lift the lid and the user manual is sat on top of a bubble wrapped power supply with cables and power cord tucked down the sides.
On the left, the bubble wrapped power supply along with a photograph of the box contents consisting of the modular cables, the user manual, and a power cord.
The packaging of the Memonex MOD EX 600W power supply is very basic, as are the enclosed accessories, let's move on and see how well it performs.

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NEPTUNE, N.J. - December 28, 2012 --Computer hackers have illegally gained access to personal information of more than 30,000 people connected to Army commands formerly based at Fort Monmouth.
An Army spokeswoman says the information includes names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, addresses and salaries.
The breach was discovered this month.
The commands believed to be affected include Communications-Electronics Command, or CECOM, and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, known as C4ISR.
Both were housed at Fort Monmouth up until its closing last year and are now housed at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground.
The Army tells The Asbury Park Press the databases that were breached contained information taken from former Fort Monmouth visitor logs as well as CECOM personnel files.
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By ROSEANN MCELHERAN
Special to the News
April 20
I am writing to address concerns on the fluoride issue. We the pro-fluoride of Hood River are urging people to vote No in May and Yes in November.
A lot of our citizens realize that fluoride is a good thing but they say things like, "Why can't we just give fluoride tablets to the kids that need it?" "It is good for kids, but I don't really need it." "Why can't you just educate people instead of a blanket fix?" I would like to comment on these concerns.
Most people do not realize that fluoride is not just for kids; fluoridation benefits Americans of all ages and socioeconomic status. Yes, it is important to children, to the development of strong healthy teeth. Children do not vote and are not knowledgeable about dental health. Yet, parents who don't allow their children to have fluoridated water will affect their entire lives, because cavities in childhood may become root canals or extractions in adulthood. The anti-fluoride belief is held in the face of the facts that fluoridated water tastes the same, has no ill health side effects and does not interfere with any of our activities.
Fluoride for adults with root exposure helps not only sensitivity to hot and cold but also prevention of cavities on a much more susceptible surface than enamel. Fluoride benefits the elderly because the decrease of normal saliva as we age (or with many medications) increases the risk of cavities.
If a family is financially struggling, what goes out the window is the trip to the dentist — and how could they possibly afford fluoride tablets? Research clearly shows that supplements are unreliable because not everyone takes them (even when supplied). There is worldwide agreement that any plan which relies on home application or individual citizen compliance is not effective. Also, taking supplements, as an alternative to fluoridated water, does not help the rest of us decrease cavities and keep our restorative dental work lasting longer.
It may sound good to just say, "Let's just educate," but it is very naive. Education is, I believe, what we are doing. Our area has started, funded, organized and supplied over a half dozen oral health programs, free dental services, toothbrush and hygiene "giveaways" and cooperative Head Start and Oregon Child Development Coalition programs. The results of all this effort and expense has been only very modest drops in the decay rates at best. Education programs have been studied and found to be ineffective in decreasing cavities (British Dental Journal, October 2003). There simply is no magical, yet undiscovered plan which can improve dental health in Hood River other than fluoridation.
We are a society that does things for the greater good of all, for example, iodized salt, vitamin D fortified milk, Calcium enriched vitamin C and vaccines for kids. Goiter, rickets, chicken pox, polio to name a few, are diseases of the past, thanks to "the greater good of all."
The question is whether you are really willing to sacrifice the majority of population of dental health in exchange for getting what you want — when the fluoride in the water does not cause harm to those who don't want it.
Fluoride should not be a political football; it is a health issue best left to advisers like the Center of Disease Control, which recommends the optimum level of fluoride in our community water systems. I guess it comes down to whom you believe, the Centers for Disease Control (visit their Web site at www.cdc.gov) — which has brought us the epitome of scientific research evidence — or an empirical testimonial of Joe Blow.
Roseann McElheran lives in Maupin
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SOURCE: Tensoft, Inc.
January 10, 2013 09:00 ET
Integrated Solution Complements Microsoft Dynamics ERP System
Integrated Solution Complements Microsoft Dynamics ERP System
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 10, 2013) - Tensoft (http://www.tensoft.com), a leading end-to-end ERP and supply chain solution provider for the technology industry, announced today that OAISYS, an innovator in business call recording and contact center management solutions, has successfully implemented Tensoft Revenue and Deferral Management (RDM), a Certified for Microsoft Dynamics solution that automates and streamlines complex revenue recognition processes and provides tight bi-directional integration across the General Ledger and sub-ledgers.
"Our sales model includes resellers, OEM distribution, traditional licenses, subscription sales, maintenance plans and professional services offerings, so there's considerable complexity in our revenue recognition processes," said Doug Ames, OAISYS Director of Operations. "We've just implemented Tensoft RDM, but we're already seeing benefits, including streamlined revenue recognition processes and easier reporting."
"Tensoft RDM was developed from the ground up to support technology companies' multi-channel sales models and their highly complex revenue recognition challenges," said Bob Scarborough, Tensoft's President & CEO. "We're pleased to be working with OAISYS to help them with their specific revenue recognition needs."
About OAISYS
A recent Customer Interaction Solutions Product of the Year award winner, OAISYS (www.oaisys.com) is a leading developer of call recording and contact center management solutions for a wide range of organizations. The OAISYS voice documentation and interaction management solutions help companies attract and retain customers by digitally capturing phone-based interactions for simple retrieval, playback and management.
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Combined with the core financial and reporting capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics ERP, Tensoft Revenue Cycle Management applications, such as Tensoft RDM, provide one central location -- and one integrated system -- to automate a company's lifecycle business processes such as billing and contract renewals as well as revenue recognition and FASB compliance management, using fully auditable and traceable processes.
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Tensoft provides business management applications to automate industry-specific lifecycle processes for the semiconductor, technology and software industries. Tensoft's business-ready solutions extend broad, horizontal ERP functionality to complete the most vertically demanding, high-tech needs through critically relevant content, domain expertise, embedded best practices and performance analytics. For over 15 years, technology companies worldwide have relied on Tensoft software and cloud-based services to power and improve their operations. Tensoft is headquartered in Silicon Valley with sales and support offices throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. For more information, go to www.tensoft.com or call (888) 450-4030 x406.
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EDEN PRAIRIE, MN — Life Time Fitness Inc. reported that its 2005 revenue grew 25 percent in 2005 to $390.1 million from $312.0 million in 2004. Net income grew 42.6 percent for the year to $41.2 million, or $1.13 per diluted share on 36.3 million shares. This compares to net income of $28.9 million, or $0.87 per diluted share on 33.1 million shares, for 2004.
Memberships grew 19.6 percent year-over-year, ending with more than 358,000, driven primarily by the ramp at centers opened in 2004 and 2005, said Bahram Akradi, Life Time Fitness chairman and chief executive officer. The year-over-year in-center revenue grew 39.3 percent to $25.3 million during fourth quarter 2005, and 36.5 percent to $97.7 million for the full year, which was driven primarily by membership ramp, targeted marketing programs, and new products and services, he said.
Fourth quarter 2005 revenue for Life Time Fitness, a national operator of health and fitness centers, grew 26.2 percent to $103.6 million from $82.1 million during the same period last year. Net income during the quarter grew 48.1 percent to $12.1 million, or $0.33 per diluted share on 36.7 million shares. This compares to net income of $8.1 million, or $0.23 per diluted share on 35.9 million shares, for fourth quarter 2004.
"The company's fourth quarter and full year results are indicative of the continued focus and execution on our fundamental growth strategies," said Akradi.
In 2005, the company opened six new current model centers and acquired one smaller facility, closing the year with 46 open centers in eight states. So far this year, the company has opened one smaller center in Minnetonka, MN, and a new current model center in Columbia, MD, representing the ninth state in which Life Time now operates.


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If you're as much of a fan as I am of both good infographics and "The Walking Dead," you'll love the National Post's "Stopping the Dead" feature.
A few points jumped out to me:
- Handguns are absolutely the dominant method for killing zombies. They are responsible for killing 113 zombies across the show's two-and-a-half seasons.
- Shotguns were a favorite tool for the zombie slayers. But they've gone out of fashion. Not one kill in the recent half-season.
- The crew is getting more comfortable with knives. No one killed a zombie with a knife the first season. Now these are a regular weapon of choice. Hammers, pipes and pry-bars are also popular. Getting up close and personal with zombies just isn't as scary as it once was.
One thing I would have like to see compiled is the gender breakdown of the zombies killed. Is there a balance between men and women killed? Has it been shifting?
(Hat tip to Mike Dwyer at League of Ordinary Gentlemen.)


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Search.ratplee.com has infected my Chrome browser and replaced the homepage of my browser. When ever I opening my browser to surf the Internet, Search.ratplee.com is getting opened as default start page. When I used this new search provider, it is showing most of sponsored results and lost of ads on my browsing Windows. It is really a very irritating program. Please help me to delete Search.ratplee.com from my PC.
Search.ratplee.com is a nasty computer infection detected as browser hijacker. This dubious PC threat normally enter your computer silently without permission and attack the installed web browser. It is able to make unwanted changes to the browser settings and can also replace the homepage of the infected browser. It pretends to be a legitimate search provider and claims to enhance the web browsing experience of the users. Search.ratplee.com is able to infect all famous and mostly used web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and many others. This dubious threat will automatically redirect your web search on malicious websites. It will also throw lots of unwanted ads on your computer screen.
Search.ratplee.com is a completely notorious infection for your system. It will brutally mess with your system settings and downgrade your PC performance. This malicious threat will also inject its malign codes to the registry editor to get started on your machine automatically. It is mainly aimed to boost up the traffic of its partner websites and make illegal profit. Search.ratplee.com can also track your online activities and web browsing details. It can gather your sensitive information along with your financial details like online backing information, credit card number etc. and send to hackers. It is a serious threat to your computer and you must remove Search.ratplee.com from your system as early as possible.
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How Search.ratplee.com Infiltrate Your PC
The chance of having Search.ratplee.com infection on your computer increases due to unsafe surfing options. It infects all files, changes system and browser settings in minutes to begin its nettlesome activity. Generally it infiltrate user system to assemble of informative details and make income. It utilize different sorts of techniques to any how penetrate inside Windows system. Some of most common ways are discussed below.
- Piggybacked Software Installation: Search.ratplee.com mostly utilize free application (game, free security application, games, video etc) program to lurk its malicious code zip files.
- Accepting Without Reading: Many times it happens that while browsing Internet usually window or advertisement trigger update is required, or this plug-ins required to be installed in system. Without fully reading just accept the prompt make your PC vulnerable to threat attack.
- Opening E-mail Attachment: PC can get infected with Search.ratplee.com when use to read or download attachment which contain malicious code. Be caution before opening any attachment which is send from unknown names.
- Not Running Latest Updates: If you are not running latest security updates in your system it makes your system vulnerable.
- Clicking on Pop-up Window: Many of times when use t browse shopping website, have experience that affiliate pop-up or links always use to promote in different place of display web pages. If unintentionally or intentionally user click on such links automatically paves way for spyware to get install in system.
- Browser Add-ons: Piece of software which usually distribute which add for enhancement for browser, like additional toolbar, search box leads to paves way for malware threat to get in your system and browser and arise more of different problems.
Aftermath of Search.ratplee.com on PC
You can detect the presence of Search.ratplee.com in the system by its weird behavior. Once gets installed, you will not be able to complete your normal task. It is designed in such a way which can hijack the PC by performing changes in the default privacy or security settings. Some of the common symptoms are mentioned below:
- Misguides the surfing session of the users to unreliable sites for increasing their network traffic.
- Installs its own extension in the Google Chrome, plug-ins in Internet Explorer, add-ons in the Mozilla Firefox.
- Search.ratplee.com carries ability to gain the credential data of the users related to bank account, passwords etc.
- Conducts alterations in browser settings, search engine, DNS configurations, Host file system etc.
- Damage the registry entries of the compromised PC.
- Downloads dangerous potential stuffs in bundles if you download any free software without reading its EULA (End User License Agreement).
- Floods the screen by showing unwanted pop ups, advertisements, commercial ads etc.
- Presence of Search.ratplee.com will slow down the running speed of various functions of the PC including Internet connection.
- Records the surfing history, cookies, Geo-location of the compromised PC and send them to the third parties.
How to Uninstall Search.ratplee.com from Control Panel from Windows 10
- Click and Open Start Menu option
- Settings option is to be selected on the menu to show all the contents
- Click on System option
- On the system Menu, Click on Apps and features option
- Now Click on Search.ratplee.com to remove it from PC.
How to Eliminate Search.ratplee.com from Windows 8/8.1
Step 1: Press repeatedly F8 to boot PC in Safe Mode. Restart PC and select "Safe Mode with Networking".
Step 2: Press ALT+Ctrl+Del to open Windows Task Manager. After that, search all the Search.ratplee.com related processes and then click to "End Task"
Step 3: Type "regedit" in Run dialog box and open Windows Registry Editor. Search and delete all the corrupt registries added by Search.ratplee.com infection.
Step 4: Go to Start and then click to open Control Panel.
After that, click Add/Remove Program
Uninstall Search.ratplee.com associated programs from Windows 8/8.1
Uninstall Search.ratplee.com From Window 7/vista
Tap on F8 Key to Enter Safe Mode
Restart PC and select "Safe Mode with Networking"
First of all close all running programs and open Task manager by pressing ALT + CTRL + DEL keys on your keyboard simultaneously.
Now Click on Processes menu and select all the processes associated with Search.ratplee.com one by one then click on End Task.
Now go to the desktop, click on Start Menu on the left lower corner. Move to Control panel and use left mouse click over it.
The Control panel window will open, if are getting the view by Category find and click "Uninstall a program" below "Programs" group.
Now select Search.ratplee.com within programs list and click on Uninstall.
Steps to Eliminate Search.ratplee.com from Windows XP
Step 1: Restart PC in Safe Mode by continuously pressing F8 button. After that, select "Safe Mode with Networking".
Step 2: Open Windows Task Manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del together. After that, find and select all the Search.ratplee.com associated processes and then click to "End Task" button.
Step 3: Open Run dialog box and then enter "regedit.exe" to open Windows Registry. Search and then delete all the corrupt and infectious registries added by Search.ratplee.com.
Step 4: Click Start button and then go to Control Panel, click to open Windows Add/Remove Program. Search all the Search.ratplee.com related programs and then uninstall it from Windows XP.
How to Uninstall Search.ratplee.com From Your Infected Browser
A. Guidelines to Remove Search.ratplee.com From Microsoft Edge Browser
How to Reset Default Search Engine to Uninstall Search.ratplee.com
Select Settings after selecting More (…) on the address bar
Click and select on View advanced settings option
In order to input the search engine, Click on <Add new> under option"Search in the address bar with"
Select Search engine and adds as default by clicking on Add as default option.
How to Reset Default Homepage on Microsoft Edge to Uninstall Search.ratplee.com
- Select More (…) option on the address bar followed by settings
- Select specific page or pages under Open with option
- After selecting the Custom option, enter the URL of the homepage you wish to set as
B. How to Delete Search.ratplee.com from Google Chrome
Click to Open Google Chrome and then click on menu icon which is on the top right corner and then select Tools → Extensions
Select all the malicious extensions including Search.ratplee.com and then select trash icon
Again click on menu icon and select Settings and then click to Manage Search Engines under the Search section
In Search Engines, remove all the infectious search sites and set Google Chrome as Default Browser
C. How to Uninstall Search.ratplee.com From Mozilla Firefox
Launch Mozilla Firefox and find and click "Firefox" button on the top left corner on the screen.
A drop down box will appear, navigate to Add-ons option and click on it.
In the next window select and click on "Extensions" in left pane.
Find Search.ratplee.com add-on and click on the center area to see the border exactly and click on Disable button.
Wait a moment and let the add-on get disabled.
Now click the "Remove" button, later on uninstall the add-on Mozilla will ask you to restart the browser.
D. How to Remove Search.ratplee.com From Internet Explorer
First of all Launch Internet explorer by clicking the Task-bar Icon on desktop.
Now Click on Tool Menu on web browser interface.
Select and click on Manage add-ons in the drop down box.
A View and manage your Internet Explorer Add-ons window will open, now click on "Toolbar and Extensions" option in left pane.
A list of all installed ad-ons will appear, select Search.ratplee.com and click on "Disable" button and Reset IE
Guidelines to Remove Search.ratplee.com with Automatic Removal Tool
Search.ratplee.com Removal Tool is one of the best-selling software available in the market and provides full protection to your PC against Search.ratplee.com. The tool is certified by the West Coast Lab's Checkmark Certification System. It is designed with latest technology and helps you to remove Search.ratplee.com along with all its related files from the infected PC. The tool uses powerful scanning algorithm so as to detect and delete Search.ratplee.com. The Automatic Removal Tool offers you 2 way protection. As, software update its database regularly and provide complete protection to your system. Also, it is capable enough to identify and delete even the newly designed threats. It offers you 24X7 tech-support for free so that whenever required you can take help of the computer experts.
Automatic removal tool comes up with unique features like System guard, Network Sentry and Scan Scheduler. It also offers you to download the demo version for free. The tool is easy to use and provides you graphical user interface. Thus, what are you waiting for simply use an automatic removal tool and remove Search.ratplee.com from your Windows PC in just few simple clicks. It is compatible with all the earlier and latest version of Windows operating system.
Automatic Search.ratplee.com Removal Tool: Let's Get Started
Step 1: First of all download and install the Automatic Search.ratplee.com Removal Tool. Click on 'Scan Computer' now button to detect Search.ratplee.com and all other threats that are present in your PC.
Step 2: Custom Scan – It help you to scan particular section such as memory files, cookies, registry entries, rootkit scan and system memory.
Step 3: System Guard – It block the malicious entry and other executable processes performed by the threats. It also protect the Process control, Registry section and Active X control.
Step 4: HelpDesk – It is an unique feature comes with an automatic Search.ratplee.com removal tool. It provides you tech support like Custom Fix System and Support Ticket System, so that if required you can direct chat with the virus removal experts.
Step 5: Network Sentry- It provides protection to your system network and won't allow unauthorized modification. It protect the DNS settings and HOST file.
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"There is a cycle of love and death that shapes the lives of those who choose to travel in the company of animals. It is a cycle unlike any other.
To those who have never lived through its turnings and walked its rocky path, our willingness to give our hearts with full knowledge that they will be broken seems incomprehensible.
Only we know how small a price we pay for what we receive; our grief, no matter how powerful it may be, is an insufficient measure of the joy we have been given."
Baby Girl here.....
I am having a wonderful time with Mona & Weenie and of course their Mommy. We didn't get to go visiting Aunt Judy's pack after all on Saturday because Aunt Sarah had two home visits to do. Both visits went wonderful and both families passed passed with flying colors. That means a girl puppy, maybe Barbie, will be going to a forever home. She's even gonna learn to swim since they have a pool. The other family wants a standard red male. Both families recently lost their dachshunds. One to seizures who was 13 years old and one to cancer who was 14 years old. Sounds like a proven track record to Aunt Sarah. We been playing outside a lot and sharing Aunt Sarah's lap.
On Mona & Weenie's last Wordless Wednesday post, they adverstised
that they had an opening for a dependable blog assistant. I'm here to tell you why Aunt Sarah almost got fired.
This is March, isn't it? Well guess what? Mona & Weenie got a package that the Mommy lost. Her was looking for something and found it in a basket that she throws trash mail in. It was a Valentine's Gift from Minna Krebs amd her siblings. Shameful!! It sat in the basket for a whole month. Now you understand why they was upset with their Mommy.
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The brand new Sunsail 41 is an outstanding addition to the Sunsail fleet, expanding on the current 39i. This superb new yacht built by Jeanneau, offers increased room throughout the interior, especially in the saloon and heads (toilets), and comes in a 3 cabin, 2 head layout.
The Sunsail 41 is a superbly balanced boat, offering a spacious cockpit with twin wheels, a generous sail plan and sleek lines which combines to give her an outstanding performance under sail and makes this boat a charterers dream.
NEW for 2010/2011 the Sunsail 41 has taken on key design innovations which include the complete rethinking of the deck and sail plans to make this boat, not only fast, but incredibly easy to handle.
Twin wheels and a large swim platform make spending time aboard the Sunsail 41 relaxing and comfortable. Flush hatches and clean decks give the boat a sophisticated look while ensuring safe movements while on board. Special curved hatches and windows give the boat a sleek look while enhancing visibility and ventilation below.
Down below, the attention to detail can be felt throughout with it's contemporary interior design, and a mass of light pouring in through numerous hull ports and overhead hatches.
Prisma Process® injected deck, ISO gelcoat surface, discontinuous balsa block coring
Solid, hand-laid fibreglass hull with ISO gelcoat surface, protective barrier coat
3rd generation inner fibreglass grid, high-load zones cut out and relaminated, drainage system through structure, special emergency repair zone in keel area
Open stainless steel bow pulpit
Stainless steel stern pulpits with flag holder and buoy bracket
Outboard engine bracket mounted on stern pulpit
Double stainless steel lifelines without PVC coating, stainless steel stanchions
Opening lifeline gates on each side
Toerail with integrated stainless fairleads and drainage for side deck
4 x Mooring cleats forward and aft
2 x Cleats placed on side deck
Sculpted, long handrails on coachroof for secure movement
8 x Fixed hull ports with track-mounted curtains and shades
2 x Opening cockpit and hull ports
6 x Lateral fixed windows with curtains
2 x Opening ports integrated into lateral windows
6 x Opening deck hatches
Sunsail striping and graphics
Yanmar 40 hp engine
Fully soundproofed engine compartment with engine access behind stairwell and from aft cabin
Fixed 3-blade propeller
Built-in muffler, forced air ventilation and stainless steel exhaust fitting aft
Fibreglass rudder
53 gal. / 200 l rotomolded fuel tank located under aft berth with deck fill
Emergency tiller delivered with the boat, chrome fitting in cockpit floor
Fuel filter with water separator
Fire resistant engine room fuel hose
Engine seawater filter
Primary and secondary anchor
Anchor roller
1000 w electric windlass with hand held remote wired direct
Anchor locker with room for anchor and tackle, integrated windlass area, holder for windlass handle
Twin steering wheels with compasses at each steering position and stainless steel grabrails
Throttle and engine control panel mounted at starboard helm, engine panel includes, RPM gauge, warning lights, ignition
Dedicated space for instruments within easy reach of helm positions, room for GPS chartplotter mounted at aft end of cockpit table with easy viewing from each helm
Throttle and engine control panel mounted at starboard helm, engine panel includes fuel gauge, RPM gauge, warning lights, ignition
Cockpit bench seating
2 x Cockpit lockers under bench seats and 1 lazerette locker under the port helm seat for technical access to steering system
GRP folding cockpit table with storage, cup holders, stainless steel handrail, courtesy lighting
12 v cigarette lighter socket
Gas locker located in lazerette locker under starboard helm seat, room for 2 gas bottles with connection to gas system and cut-off valve under stove in the galley
Retractable hot and cold water shower with tap
Liferaft locker located in dedicated compartment between helm seats
Storage compartment for companionway door in forward section of liferaft locker
Swim platform with swim ladder
Sprayhood and Bimini
Classic aluminium mast with double spreaders
Standing rigging -- discontinuous 1 x 19 stainless steel wire
Fixed backstay
Genoa furler with double slot, attachment to stemhead fitting and furling line lead aft to port helm winch
Topping lift, mainsail halyard, genoa halyard, mainsheet, genoa sheets
Rigid boom vang & tackle
2 x reef lines (single line reefing)
Upgraded, heavy duty fully battened mainsail
Upgraded, heavy duty furling genoa with UV protection strips
Heavy duty lazyjacks and stackpack system
2 x Self-tailing genoa winches
2 x Self-tailing coachroof winches
Genoa tracks with adjustable cars located on coachroof
2 x Winch handles with ball-bearing grip
Mainsheet and genoa sheet lead back to helm station with jammers
Line jammers on both sides of coachroof with return blocks
Roof-mounted mainsheet traveller with ball-bearing cars, control lines lead aft to cockpit
80 amp 12 v alternator
Charge distributor/isolator
1 x 110 amp start battery
3 x 110 amp domestic batteries
40 amp battery charger
Positive battery switch for engine and domestic bank and general cut-off switch mounted on panel in aft cabin
Shorepower inlet with differential breaker, one plug per cabin, plug in galley, saloon and navigation station
Shore power cord wired direct (no transom plug)
Electrical panel with 12 v breakers, 12 v ammeter, 12 v consumption meter, 12 v charging meter
12 v plug per cabin and at navigation station
Flush mounted chrome brass ceiling lights in saloon, head compartments and cabins
LED reading lights in forward and aft cabins
Indirect halogen lighting under side decks in saloon and head compartments
Gooseneck chart light mounted at navigation station
Propane solenoid valve
Electronic depth and speed reading speed over ground from the GPS
Chart plotter mounted in cockpit
Waterproof speaker for VHF in cockpit
Stereo/CD with front socket for MP3 with inside speakers
Waterproof cockpit speakers for stereo
Fans in each cabin plus saloon and galley
LED navigation lights and anchor light
2 x Rotomolded water tanks located under forward and aft berths with separate deck fills. Total capacity 140 gal. / 530 l
21 gal. /80 l rotomolded holding tank located in each head compartment with valve for
overboard discharge via gravity and deck fitting for pump out
1 x additional 21gal. / 80 l waste tank
Hot and cold pressurised water distributed through-out the boat via semi-rigid hose
"Heavy-duty" water pump and accumulator tank for consistent water pressure
10 gal. / 40 l hot water tank that is connected to engine heat exchanger and to 110 v or 220 v electrical system
Electric bilge pump on float switch and manual dual-action pump in the cockpit
Digital water level display
Shower sumps equipped with individual electric pumps with filters and on-off switches
Large manual pump marine toilets
Contemporary interior design in "Fine Teak" laminated panels with solid wood trim around galley, companionway and cabinetry, finished in satin UV stabilised varnish
Laminate floorboards with light-coloured lines, varnished edges
Headroom: 6 ft 3 in / 1.92 m
Saloon with U-shaped seating area to starboard, wrap-around cushions and storage under seating area
Saloon dining table
Saloon table converts to a double berth
2 stools in saloon
Saloon cushions
Storage cabinets along hull sides
Lounge seating to port with plush cushions and upper storage cabinets
Saloon stereo speaker
Headroom 6 ft 3 in / 1.91 m
Galley with double stainless steel sinks with covers, and reversible cutting board, solid counter tops, chrome plumbing fittings, storage cabinets and drawers
L-galley to port with glass separator between galley counter and seating area
Storage compartment for books and magazines
Stainless steel gimballed stove with 2-burners, oven and grill. Stainless steel protection bar
47 gal. / 180 l Fridge compartment with vertical access
Single fridge box with freezer area, wire baskets, 12 v refrigeration and integrated
Full-function navigation station with general electrical panel, room for GPS chartplotter and bookshelf
12 v cigarette lighter socket at chart table
2 head compartments
Chrome shower taps in heads
Forward head compartment with:
Clothes hook, mirror, towel holder, toilet paper holder, wastebasket
Cabinet above sink
Large, manual toilet
Electric drainage pump
Large aft head compartment with:
Separate plexiglass shower
Clothes hook, mirror, towel holder, toilet paper holder, wastebasket
Cabinet above sink
Large, manual toilet
Electric drainage pump
Access from saloon
Headroom: 6 ft 4 in / 1.94 m
Companionway with non-slip steps
Plexiglass companionway door with dedicated storage location
Forward cabin with central berth and storage forward of the berth
Headroom: 6 ft / 1.84 m
6 ft 10 in / 2.1m x 6 ft / 2m double berth, with wood trim, high-density foam marine mattress
Deep cabinet with shelves and hanging rod
White vinyl lining on hull with lateral wood shelf
Headroom: 6 ft 4 in / 1.95 m
6 ft 6 in / 2.00 m x 5 ft 1 in / 1.57 m double berths with high-density foam marine mattress
Deep cabinet with shelves and hanging rod per cabin
White vinyl lining on hull with lateral wood shelf
Bedding, linens and galley equipment
Mosquito screens
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Allison Williams, one-quarter of the coming-of-age female confederation in HBO's "Girls," finds herself at the center of a heated discussion, at least among the show's modest but fervent audience: Is Marnie a bad friend? Or is Hannah a bad friend?
The culturally polarizing comedy spent much of its debut season redefining sexual parameters and narcissism for the millennial generation. But friendships are at the core of the Lena Dunham-created series, and they're experiencing growing pains. The on-the-surface unusual bond between Williams' Marnie (the uptight friend) and Dunham's Hannah (the carefree friend) no longer has the tape of college keeping their friendship together as they transition into the scarier world of adulthood.
And the troubled relationship, which produced a simmer-to-boil screamfest at the end of Season 1 over who was a bad friend, has been the driving undercurrent of the show's sophomore term and the talk of the blogosphere.
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Seafood Crêpes
Makes 6 main-dish or 12 appetizer servings
Find this recipe and more in Chef Paul Prudhomme's Always Cooking!.
Crêpes BATTER
1½ cups milk
2 eggs
1½ tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon sugar
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
pinch of salt
¾ cup + 1 tablespoon sifted all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
¼ cup finely chopped onions
1 tablespoon Chef Paul Prudhomme's Seafood Magic®
½ cup finely chopped green onions
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1¼ cups heavy cream
½ cup lump crabmeat (picked over)
2 pounds peeled medium shrimp
12 crêpes
how to prepare
To make the crêpes:
In a medium-size bowl combine the milk, eggs, oil, sugar, nutmeg and salt; mix well with a metal whisk. Add the flour and whisk again just until blended and no lumps of flour remain; do not overbeat.
Very lightly oil an 8-inch slope-sided crêpe pan (or 10-inch nonstick skillet), then wipe it with a towel until the pan has only enough oil on it to be shiny. Heat the pan over medium heat about 2 minutes or until a drop of batter sizzles as soon as it is dropped in the pan. Then pick up the pan and slant it away from you. Pour 2 tablespoons batter into the pan, quickly rolling the batter so it thoroughly coats the bottom and slightly up the sides of the pan; make the crêpe as thin as possible.
Cook until the edges and bottom are golden brown, about 30 seconds to 1 minute; brown only one side of the crêpe. Remove the crêpe from the pan and place it on a plate to cool, browned side up. Heat the pan about 15 seconds before cooking the next crêpe. Repeat with the remaining batter, re-oiling the pan if necessary.
Keep the crêpes covered with a damp cloth at room temperature until ready to serve. They should be used within 2 hours.
For the filling:
Melt the butter in a 2-quart saucepan over high heat. Add the onions and sauté until they start getting tender, about 2 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the Seafood Magic® or Blackened Redfish Magic and cook about 1 minute, stirring occasionally. Add the green onions and flour, stirring until flour is completely blended into the butter. Then stir in the cream and bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Add the crabmeat; return to a boil, stirring often and leaving crabmeat lumps intact as much as possible; reduce heat and simmer until sauce has thickened slightly, about 1 minute, stirring almost constantly. Return heat to high. Add the shrimp and cook until shrimp are pink and just starting to curl, about 2 to 4 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat and serve immediately.
To serve for a main course:
Place 2 crêpes on each heated plate; fill each crêpe with a scant 1/3 cup filling, then fold crêpe in thirds, with fold side down. Spoon a little extra filling on top. For an appetizer, serve 1 crêpe per person.
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He would be the worst poker player ever. Were Joe Jackson to walk away from basketball and slide into a seat at a high-stakes table for a game of Texas Hold 'Em, he'd be cleaned out quicker than he can dash past a defender on his way to the rim. His every emotion streams across his face in LED animation, like with one of those ribbon boards in the FedEx Forum.
Joe is frustrated now. Joe is fighting himself. Joe is wondering if transferring might fix all this. Joe is feeling the pressure, again, of living up to his reputation as a Memphis prep legend.
That was the old Joe Jackson, of course. "It's so much of a difference because what else bad could I do?" he says. "I turned the ball over. I missed free throws when people wanted me to hit them. And I made big shots, so I got a little bit of everything. I sat on the bench. I played big minutes. So what it's all about now is putting a whole year together of consistency, show my maturity level, show how hard I've been working. And I think everything will fall into place."
Splashed across Jackson's taut features this afternoon, as he sits upstairs in the Larry O. Finch Center, where the Memphis Tigers practice daily and Jackson hammers at his game and his body well beyond those hours, is the unrestricted promise of a new year. There wasn't anything particularly wrong with how he ended last year. For the second time in two college seasons, he delivered an MVP performance at the Conference USA Tournament. For the second time in two college seasons, he ensured the Tigers would participate in the NCAA Tournament.
As anyone who has seen The Departed can tell you, it is possible to have a great story without a great ending. For Jackson, it has been the opposite: The first part leads you to ponder sneaking toward the exit, but the finish is something you've got to see. And he is sick of this. He wants a year that plays like Goodfellas, a title-to-end credits classic.
And it is all on him.
But not like before.
Jackson is 6-1, 171 pounds—wait, let's double-check that because he is going to want every inch, every pound due to him—yet he has carried such a burden. His coaches have counted on him. His teammates have counted on him. The vast majority of the city of Memphis that cares deeply about Tiger Basketball, as well. His family depends on him in other ways. But this is different. This is about shedding whatever has encumbered him, everything that somehow slowed the quickest player in the college game, and from here on playing basketball like only Joe Jackson can.
"He's got a tremendous clarity," Memphis coach Josh Pastner says. "I don't think that would have happened if he didn't have to go through some of the turbulences. It hardened him. It gave him a strong immune system. It allowed him to weed out things that he needed to weed out in order to develop as a player.
"When guys come in with so much hype as freshmen, they all want to be superstars right away. But it's not easy. That's why you have four years."
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* * *
Jackson gets himself out of bed each day about 6 a.m. in an apartment a few short miles from the University of Memphis campus. Nearly all the other players live in the dorms. That's the rule. Pastner wants them together, and only three players in the coach's three seasons have been granted an exemption.
Jackson receives special treatment because that early wakeup call has a purpose: Each day, he drives to his family home in Orange Mound to pick up his younger sister and then chauffeurs her 20 minutes to East Memphis so she can attend Southeast Prep, a charter-type academy run by the city school system.
"I've got to do it because that's my sister," Jackson says. His own childhood passed without such attention, Jackson moving from home to home and frequently missing school until his grandmother, Lillie Collins, took him in about the time he entered the eighth grade. Things got better after that, but all that was lost in those early years is not lost on him now.
"I didn't stay in a house with a daddy," Jackson says. "A lot of things I go through, I just have to learn from it. If you have a mom or dad that's really into what you've got going on ... my grandma's a great lady, but she's not a sports person."
Jackson most certainly is. There is only the one sport, though, and not enough time in the day to conjure new ways to work at improving. Beyond the moments he spends in the car with his little sis and the hours he spends working on the degree in organizational management he will receive this spring, fully a year ahead of schedule, there isn't much in Jackson's life beyond his obsession with basketball.
"I feel like I get off track if I go to a party," he says. When he plays NBA video games, he tries to think like a point guard so he'll enhance his basketball IQ. More often, he'll try to sneak in a half-hour of ballhandling drills alone in the Finch "because that's going to give me an edge."
After he finally found a permanent home, Jackson rapidly developed into a prized basketball recruit—a McDonald's All American, a state champion at White Station High, the No. 18 prospect in the 2010 recruiting class according to Rivals.com. The ability to penetrate defenses was growing ever more important, and Jackson was so fast with the ball defenders only could dream of getting in his way.
He is not driven to pursue his NBA dreams because of a desire to elevate his family from its present circumstance. Jackson figures at the very least his education will take care of that, or even the money he might make playing ball in European leagues. "That's not a reason I play basketball," he says. "I want to be the best basketball player that I can be just because I want to be that."
He knows what the obstacles are to his dream of basketball success—in the course of an hour he cites nearly every tiny guard who ever has excelled in the NBA as someone to emulate. Terrell Brandon. Jameer Nelson. Ty Lawson. Allen Iverson, of course.
Not even 20 players in the history of the NBA All-Star Game were shorter than Jackson, and that's if you buy Jackson's listed height of 6-1. When he makes a point about the battle small players face by pointing to someone who stands 5-7½ and exclaiming, "We're your height," or when he declares, "I want to be the best 6-foot player ever to play"—well, it's hard to be sure.
"I know I've got a point to prove," Jackson says. "I'm trying to focus on what the coach wants me to do, the things I need to do to be a better leader and on top of this hearing all this, 'He's small.' "All that built on top, and it's like, 'Dang, nobody wants to see me make it.' That was just me being weak-minded. Instead of listening to all that and letting it bury me into the ground, what I should have been doing is laughing at it, shaking it off ... and just continuing to believe."
* * *
Here on the estate of Tom and Robin Watson—and we do not use the term estate loosely—we at last discovered the limits of this city's devotion to Tiger Basketball. Hundreds of the most committed and influential fans, the group known as the Rebounders, eagerly drove through rush-hour traffic and another good 20 minutes beyond the I-240 loop to attend the annual High Tops Party welcoming the team back to school. And the Watsons were willing to let each and every guest park on their enormous lawn.
They all kept an eye, though, on the blistering thunderstorm inching across from Arkansas, lightning slicing the sky as if to signal each lapse of a 35-second shot clock. As soon as Pastner introduced the last of the Memphis players, and as soon as that player finished whispering inaudibly into the microphone he'd been handed by his coach, nearly everyone in attendance fast-breaked toward their cars before they could be drenched, or worse.
In advance of everyone bolting, though, junior center Tarik Black made sure to use his mike time to thank the mostly white, mostly well-to-do Rebounders for their loyalty: "We're nothing without you guys. You're the reason why we came here."
By here, he did not mean the Watson's home. He did not mean the party. He did not mean Memphis—many of them grew up in the city. By here, he meant Tiger Basketball.
"It doesn't matter what color you are, what your political affiliation is," says Jerry Hubbard, an executive at First Tennessee Bank. "Everybody bleeds Tiger blue. It's like an equalizer. There's nothing like it. If you could bottle it, all the problems in Memphis would just go away."
In all of college sports, there is nothing quite like Tiger Basketball. It has an almost medicinal ability to unite sometimes disparate factions: rich and poor, white and black, the city proper and the county suburbanites. Alumni of SEC universities, even those who identify religiously with their school's football programs, proudly wear royal blue Memphis gear during Tiger Basketball games.
Its most uncommon quality through the years, though—with the exception of when John Calipari coached and largely recruited elsewhere—has been the extraordinary number of locally born players comprising its rosters.
Larry Finch was a star at the city's Melrose High not long after the assassination of Martin Luther King in downtown Memphis. With racial tension in the city almost electric, with Memphis State's basketball program previously closed to African American players such as Bobby "Bingo" Smith, Finch and big man Ronnie Robinson accepted the offer to play for the Tigers and changed both the program and their city forever.
Since Finch became a sort of Jackie Robinson figure in microcosm, since he led the program to its first Final Four and the 1973 NCAA championship game, Tiger Basketball has been flooded with home-grown talent and a symbol of harmony in a city that often struggles with its various divides.
By the time Penny Hardaway entered the program in the early 1990s and became its greatest star and enduring symbol, the flow of hometown Tigers had long since been an established trend: William Bedford, Andre Turner, Vincent Askew, Elliot Perry. When the Tigers reached the 1995 Sweet 16 with Finch as coach, 10 of the team's 13 players on the roster were homegrown. On Dana Kirk's 1985 Final Four team, it was 11 of 12, if you're willing to stretch the definition across the Mississippi River to West Memphis, Ark. To get the great Keith Lee on your club, you certainly would.
In the best of times, this is an extraordinary advantage. The players understand the embrace they receive from the community is different than elsewhere. Not as extremist as at Kentucky, not as singular as at New Mexico, but always more intimate, particularly for the Memphians among them.
"It's like living out a dream that I never even had," Black says. "Basketball came to me late. I never really watched it. I knew who the Tigers were, but I never was one of those kids who said that would be my dream come true.
"Now that I'm doing it, it's like, 'Why didn't you have this dream?' "
In the toughest of times, that proximity to longtime friends and coaches, to one's own history, can be daunting. Jackson endured the challenges of his first two Memphis seasons while being presented with far too much advice and almost no counsel. So many had an opinion to offer, but who had an ear?
He scored only one point and turned over the ball four times when the Tigers took on Kansas at the Jimmy V Classic in New York his freshman year. There were four turnovers in a loss to Georgetown, five in a humbling loss at Tennessee.
When he tore through the C-USA Tournament, scored in double figures in a two-point NCAA Tournament loss to Arizona and then started at point guard for USA Basketball in the FIBA Under-19 World Championship in the summer of 2011, it seemed he'd outgrown his struggles to adapt to college ball. Then he began his sophomore season almost directly back where he'd begun his college career: laboring to make open shots, to control the ball and, most important, to contain the ball as a defender at the point of attack. Pastner, looking for any possible answer, put shooting guard Chris Crawford in charge of the offense and tried Jackson off the ball. And the chorus of criticism nearly drowned Jackson.
"You've got your neighborhood, you've got people who know how good you are, who know you're not playing up to your level," Jackson says. "So when they see you, they're going to tell you. People don't think you're supposed to struggle at all because you had all this high school success.
"It's hard to play at home. If I would have ever left Memphis, I would probably be clear-minded all the way. I wouldn't know any of the fans. I wouldn't know anybody. I'd just be out there working on my game every day. ... I kind of feel like my first year or two, I was kind of being a little immature. It's a learning process. You've got to go through some stuff to be the player you want to be."
* * *
Believe this or not, Joe Jackson sat in a chair beneath this message, stenciled directly onto the wall in the head coach's office, during the meeting that almost certainly saved Jackson's basketball career: "The sole purpose of accountability and consequences is to improve performance. It is not to humiliate."
By Pastner's account, the meeting last December, between Christmas and New Year's, was over in about a half-hour. Pastner could have merely pointed to the wall and left it at that, but it might have lacked the personal touch that helped Jackson recognize that transferring to escape the hometown pressure—quitting, to remove the euphemism—might have come to define him.
"I didn't want to lose Joe. I wanted him here," Pastner says. "But it wouldn't have worked if I were like, 'Hey, I want you here; I'm begging you.' We would never have gotten past that point. He needed to have total, direct honesty and to have some space.
"The hardest thing for people is to change, and sometimes before they change they've got to hit rock-bottom. I think that meeting right there, it was rock-bottom. There was so much swirling. He wasn't playing the way he wanted to play.
"When he sat right there, you could tell the stress on his face."
Just before Christmas, Jackson had shot 0-for-7 in a loss at Georgetown and scored just two points. Four days after the holiday, the Tigers handled Robert Morris even though Jackson was shut out in his 21 minutes of playing time. The reports of a possible transfer began to rage through Memphis, which can buzz about such matters with the fervor much of the world reserves for half-naked pictures of royalty.
"It was just frustration," Jackson says. "I was just a child trying to get out of the struggle. I woke up that day and I wasn't feeling like I was supposed to be here, but everything worked out for the best. I didn't leave. I stayed. Sometimes I look back on that and wish I'd never have done it because it makes you look like you're a crybaby or something like that. But it's not even that.
"I tried to rush into the process, but you can't rush into it. I'm trying to be great. I'm not trying to be just a mediocre ballplayer. So it'll stress you out."
When Jackson returned to Pastner's office after sitting out a victory over Charlotte and rejoined the team for good, the coach saw a difference almost instantly. He'd asked his point guard to fully invest in the team, and though Jackson was trusted with only 15 minutes in a win over Tennessee, he repaid that trust with four assists and a steal. "He was terrific defensively," Pastner says. "And the crowd, when he came in, the crowd went nuts. I think that was a big turning point for Joe."
As Memphis surged to the C-USA regular-season title last winter, Jackson contributed 16 points and five assists against Houston, 21 points and six assists against Marshall, 16 points and five assists against Tulsa. In the league tournament, he averaged 15.3 points and four assists.
"After that December meeting, he took full accountability and responsibility," Pastner says. "Joe has been, of all the guys I've coached even as an assistant, he's been one of the most dependable and reliable. He's never late.
"It has just taken some time because Joe came in at a time period when we had tons of young guys. We didn't have that older crew."
Now, the Tigers do. With Jackson at its core.
* * *
They played together through the summer of 2009 with the Memphis Magic Elite—Jackson, Crawford and Black—and they signed together to join the Memphis Tigers a few months later. Although forward Adonis Thomas was a year younger, they pretty much knew he'd be along in another 12 months.
That is the group at the heart of this Tigers team. Four Memphians, with adopted son Shaq Goodwin of suburban Atlanta joining as a freshman this year to give them frontcourt muscle that might help them last longer in March. Their NCAA Tournament experience currently consists of back-to-back one-and-outs.
"We're tired of losing in the first round," Crawford says. "It doesn't get any simpler than that." He knows some things must change to avoid another disappointing NCAA seed and another early tournament exit. "We need to be better at having each other's back," he says.
Crawford mostly means in the area of help defense. That has been a weakness at key points in each of the past two seasons. Pastner, though, acknowledges, "We didn't have the best chemistry the last year or two."
He isn't concerned about sharing the ball properly because statistics indicate the Tigers are getting more than half their baskets from assists, a respectable number. "So it's more just maybe the chemistry part of a lot of immaturity," Pastner says. "Not having upperclassmen to show them. We had a lot of guys who had to go through the fire to learn stuff."
Meaning Jackson, of course. It will always come back to Jackson, as long as he is around. Pastner needs him to be the best conditioned point guard in Division I because he wants the Tigers to push for every fast break possible and Jackson to defend the entire court as a "one-man press." He needs him to communicate on the floor. He needs him, most certainly, to lead.
"Just go out there and ball and they're going to love you more," Jackson says. "They're going to say, 'He got his head right, and can't nobody out there do nothing with him.' I've got to step up if we want to win. I don't have room to be inconsistent.
"I've got the raw talent. I can jump. I'm fast. I can shoot the ball. It's just consistency with all that. One thing I know about this sport: It's about your mind. You can't let your brain shrink because of what you hear somebody else say. Just because I didn't come to college and be Allen Iverson, I don't have to be mad at myself. I can still work and be the best Joe I can be."


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At this year's VMworld, Red Hat conducted a survey of over 1,200 attendees on their cloud plans. One of the questions was, "What primary development framework are you planning to use in the cloud?" The results were as follows:
- Java EE 32%
- Perl 8%
- Python 6%
- Spring 6%
- Ruby/Rails 5%
Whilst the survey doesn't allow responders to distinguish between "Java with a framework other than Spring", and "Java EE", and the results should therefore be treated with some scepticism, they do chime with other research. Many enterprises have made a considerable investment in Java - a recent Forrester survey suggested that around 64% of businesses use the platform - and a Java EE PaaS would provide a straightforward way for these enterprises to transition their existing Java EE applications to the cloud.
However Java EE compliant PaaS products are thin on the ground. Red Hat's OpenShift, which follows Red Hat's acquisition of Makara in November of 2010, is one of the first. The product is currently in free developer preview, running on top of Amazon's EC2. It comes in two versions – Express and Flex. Express is a free multi-tenant offering that supports the Java EE 6 Web Profile. The Flex platform offers the dedicated application servers (JBoss, Tomcat) shell access, and dedicated hosting. Since JBoss AS 7 isn't certified against Java EE 6, the product doesn't quite support the full Java EE 6 standard, but it will do once JBoss AS 7.1 is released.
One of the problems for vendors wishing to offer a Java EE PaaS is that the platform has substantial memory demands, an issue which Oracle is looking to address through the Jigsaw modularity solution, and other changes planned for Java EE 7 and SE 8. However, many Java EE vendors have introduced modularity to their application servers based on OSGi, allowing them to circumvent the problem to a certain extent. Issac Roth, formerly of Makara and now PaaS Master at Red Hat, told InfoQ
The issue is that the JVM is not really set up to run multi-tenant, and to get it that way would require a very fancy implementation of the JVM, or ideally some adjustments to the language spec. We are indeed running Java EE in a multi-tenant environment which gives us terrific density for JEE workloads. We've done this by creating the slimmest Java container out there - JBoss AS 7 - and using the OS-level virtualisation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Since some of the code in OpenShift has come through acquisition, Red Hat hasn't yet released it as open source, though it has signaled its intention to do so. The company is also yet to publish pricing information, though Roth told us that it expects it to be in line with other providers.
Roth also told us that the company is actively involved in the Java EE 7 expert groups, and will be using some of the knowledge it acquires from running OpenShift to feed into the Java EE 7 design process.
Another firm with plans to support Java EE 6 using JBoss is Platform as a Service startup CloudBees. At present CloudBees, which launched in November 2010, includes DEV@cloud, a service that lets developers take their build and test environments to the cloud, and RUN@cloud, which lets teams deploy these apps to production on the cloud.
The RUN@cloud product is based on Tomcat, with a JBoss version announced but not yet released. It is offered both hosted atop Amazon EC2, and is working on a private offering that lets users run the PaaS on-premises.
Whilst the PaaS space is still quite young and fragmented, there are some obvious front runners, with firms like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft already well established. Thus any company wishing to enter the space needs a strong market differentiator.
For CloudBees one key differentiator is continuous delivery. Last year the firm, led by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey, acquired InfraDNA, and its founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi who created Hudson and now leads the Jenkins fork of the Hudson CI server. CloudBees' first PaaS product was Jenkins as a Service under its DEV@cloud branding. DEV@cloud allows developers to build their code using Git, Subversion, and/or Maven, test it using Jenkins, and then deploy it into the RUN@cloud service. Labourey told InfoQ
We care about the complete application lifecycle. You will see a bunch of PaaSs out there which define a PaaS as being "how to deploy an existing application into the cloud". So there is a focus on this production/runtime aspect only. We think that is just part of the picture, and that for the cloud to make sense you need to provide a solution that helps developers along the entire application lifecycle, from development to production.
A second differentiator is the firm's concentration on the JVM. Whilst many PaaS vendors are aiming to be language agnostic, CloudBees solely supports the JVM. Of course the JVM is polyglot by its nature, and CloudBees applications can be written in Java, Scala, Clojure or any other JVM-based language, but this concentration, the firm argues, allows it to have greater depth of coverage for developers targeting the JVM.
Pricing for the JBoss product is yet to be announced, but is expected to be around 50% more then the existing Tomcat offerings.
CloudBees employees around 30 people. It is VC funded, most recently raising $10.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and joined by Matrix Partners, the latter of whom also provided the Series A funding.
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Amazon PaaS
Chris Edge-Alexander
VMWare PaaS
Chris Edge-Alexander
It is also built on top of EC2 I believe.
Heroku PaaS
Chris Edge-Alexander
Google PaaS
Chris Edge-Alexander
I only mention these links for completeness as the article does not contain them.
Re: Google PaaS
Charles Humble
True. There are others too, including MS Azure. But none of these are Java EE PaaS providers, which is what the article was concentrating on, hence why I didn't include them!
non-java ee
Chen Wang
Jelastic PaaS
Ruslan Synytskyy
You can mix and match your software stacks. Select from Tomcat, GlasshFish, Jetty application servers and SQL (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL) or NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB) databases. It's easy to use.
Re: Google PaaS
Chris Edge-Alexander
I take yours and Chen's point with GAE and Heroku (I succumbed to a frenzy of locating PaaS providers).
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William Smith
The servlet spec is part of Java EE, but a servlet container like Tomcat doesn't qualify as a Java EE compliant container. There's a lot more to even the basic web profile than just servlets.
Re: VMWare PaaS
Slobojan Ryan
VMWare's own Cloud Foundry is also an existing PaaS platform for Java:
It is also built on top of EC2 I believe.
Not true - you can target a CloudFoundry VM to run on several types of VMs, including EC2 instances or vSphere instances, however the current public CloudFoundry is not based off of EC2. Lots of details at the CloudFoundry FAQ, but basically it's open source and I see it as a VM which provides a PaaS layer over top of an underlying infrastructure VM (just as the JVM provides a higher abstraction layer over top of the underlying x86/Sparc/x64/ARM Windows/Linux/Mac machine).
Re: VMWare PaaS
Eberhard Wolff
VMWare's own Cloud Foundry is also an existing PaaS platform for Java:
It is also built on top of EC2 I believe.
It runs on their own infrastructure, not EC2. There is a pretty cool way to run in on Ubuntu on EC2: cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/09/from-zero-to-drawbridg... and Ubuntu 11.10 will include Cloud Foundry. Might be a nice platform for private PaaS.
Re: non-java ee
Sacha Labourey
VMW is not the only infra+app company, RHT is as well. In any case, I fail to see how this is an advantage (both of those offering are stil in beta or developer preview FYI).
As for Java EE, I know it is not super-hype to step up and promote Java EE, but EE6 and its web-profile have been extremely well received by Java developers, probably because it is one of the less complex Java programming environment for server side application development.
Sacha Labourey
List of PaaS providers for Java applications
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Lecture 7, Nothing Left to Chance:
This Lecture is from the Teaching Series Classic Collection.
About the Teaching Series, Classic Collection
For more than forty years, Dr. R.C. Sproul has served as a teacher in the church. In this collection, ten of Dr. Sproul's most well-known messages have been compiled in one set. During his ministry, these messages have been used to challenge and encourage Christians throughout the world. This set will not only serve as a good introduction to Ligonier, it will also serve as a teaser of some of the best material Ligonier has to offer.


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Swamp Escape: Everglades Hostel
A few years back, I spent a couple weeks traveling along the Florida coast. After a week on a friend's sailboat in the Keys, it was time to head to our next destination — the Everglades. One might wonder, where do you stay in the Everglades? How about the Everglades International Hostel, located a mere fifteen minutes from the National Park. For those that just cringed at the word hostel (and an American hostel at that!), keep reading...
While you won't find fancy bed linens or flat screen TV's - what you will find is a friendly, laid-back vibe with an eclectic mix of guests and decor. The hostel is situated among lush tropical gardens, with varied sleeping arrangements. There's the typical dorm bed style, private room, semi-private room, and garden camping; ranging in price from $18 to $75. And to prove their good nature, the hostel has an open-door policy where they will never turn anyone away. It might mean loaning you a tent to sleep in the garden, but hey, you have a place to sleep. A few of the other amenities include free internet, a fully-equipped kitchen, it's pet-friendly, a large-screen movie room, laundry facilities, free all-you-can-eat pancakes, and no curfew. For the adventurer, they offer bicycle rentals, Everglades sunrise and sunset tours, canoeing tours and rentals (some are even overnight, varying from 1 to 10 nights!), and a shuttle service.
If you're the outdoorsy type that can do without some of the comforts of a fancy hotel - then this is the place for you. The hostel is a family-run business and it shows. While I was there we shared a delicious staff-made communal dinner (for a nominal fee), followed by drinks and conversation in the candle-lit garden, then we crawled into our tent with the sounds of nature lulling us off to sleep. It was a good day!
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Plot Summary: SpongeBob SquarePants is an extremely energetic and optimistic sea sponge (although his appearance more closely resembles a kitchen sponge) who lives in a pineapple under the sea with his pet snail Gary, who meows like a cat. Although Gary only speaks in a few episodes, the characters have shown an ability to understand him. Living two houses down from SpongeBob is his best friend Patrick Star, a dim-witted yet friendly starfish who lives under a rock. Living between the two is Squidward Tentacles, an arrogant and egotistical squid who lives in a moai and dislikes his neighbors (especially SpongeBob) for their child-like behavior. He enjoys playing the clarinet and painting self-portraits.
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We were spoiled last season.
The Heisman Trophy winner, Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III, wasn't even the best true quarterback in college football. That was the domain of Stanford's Andrew Luck.
And neither Griffin nor Luck accomplished what Boise State's Kellen Moore did — win 50 games in his career against just three losses.
No quarterback was better down the stretch than USC's Matt Barkley. No quarterback put up gaudier numbers than Houston's Case Keenum (5,631 yards, 48 touchdown passes). No quarterback was more efficient than Wisconsin's Russell Wilson.
We were spoiled. But that does not appear to be the case as the 2012 college football season kicks off Thursday night.
Just yesterday, Oregon coach Chip Kelly announced redshirt freshman Marcus Mariota would start the season over redshirt sophomore Bryan Bennett.
With the exception of Barkley, who likely would have been a Top 10 pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, there is no elite quarterback in college football.
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly still has not announced if Everett Golson, Andrew Hendrix or true freshman Gunner Kiel will start when the Irish face Navy in Ireland. All that is certain is last year's starter, Tommy Rees, won't play in the opener while he serves a suspension for his role in an off-campus altercation.
Boise State coach Chris Petersen has decided the best way to handle his quarterback uncertainty is to make all of his quarterbacks off-limits to the media. Word has it Joe Southwick has the edge over freshman Nick Patti.
Texas coach Mack Brown said David Ash would start the Longhorns' opener against Wyoming but he did not say he was the starter over Case McCoy.
"As we have been saying, it is obvious you have to have one walk out there first," said Brown.
Wow, what an endorsement. Maybe coaches dealing with an unsettled quarterback situation should also make themselves off-limits to the media.
Rutgers coach Kyle Flood announced earlier this week Gary Nova would start over Chas Dodd. Stanford coach David Shaw named Josh Nunes over Brett Nottingham for the right to face a season-long comparison to Luck.
"It's the biggest shoes I think you could have to follow," Nunes said.
Florida quarterbacks Jeff Driskel and Jacoby Brissett will both play against Bowling Green.
"I told both of them: 'The last position I'm worried about is quarterback,' '' said Florida coach Will Muschamp. "I feel very comfortable about both guys."
Just not comfortable enough to name a starter.
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien made an early decision tabbing Matt McGloin over Rob Bolden and Paul Jones. UCLA'S Jim Mora tabbed Brett Hundley, a redshirt freshman, over three more experienced players. Auburn's Gene Chizik chose Kiehl Frazier over three others.


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Simon's Gameplay Tour comes to Lakewood's Colorado Mills Mall Oct. 26
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The Simon's Gameplay Tour will be converging on Colorado Mills Mall in Lakewood this Wednesday, 26th.
Nintendo 3DS will be taking center stage at the event.
Ten pods will be available for gamers including a variety of products from 2K Play, Capcom, Eidos, Sega, Namco-Bandai, Warner Brothers Interactive, THG, 2k, Atara and Edios/Square Enix.
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This story reminds me of when I got lost at the apartment that I lived in. My favorite part was when Gil the ant got home because everyone likes being at home.
I recommend this book because I like Gil the ant. I like this book because I like the part when Gil the ant got scared of the clock. I like the illustrations because they are very colorful. I thought that Gil the ant is interesting because Gil must have many other adventures.


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Origins and Status
SST arose from the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme (ACEP) when it was a New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) flagship programme in 2006 and 2007. At that time, ACEP was operating in the Western Indian Ocean with partners in Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, and Tanzania.
The member countries of the programme decided that a long-term education trust was needed to cater for sustainability and poverty alleviation of coastal communities through education and skills development.
SST became registered in South Africa as an international, charitable trust (IT 2203/ 2006), as a Not for Profit Organisation (NPO Number: 078-120-NPO) and a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO Number: 930022444). Although currently focused on South Africa, SST has a mandate to work in other coastal countries of Africa.
Dr Ribbink, who was managing ACEP at the time, became the first CEO of SST late in 2007.


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Metallica. Harvester Of Sorrow Readymade
Metallica. Harvester Of Sorrow. Vintage Patch
Rare. Good condition.
Denim Front. 5 Panel Snapback.
100% dark blue cotton denim / 100% polyester mesh back
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5 Panel, seamless front, Pro high-crown. Structured mesh back, Contrast stitching. Pre-curved visor. Plastic snap closure. One size fits most.
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How long does it take to get my Readymade cap once I've ordered one?
Readymades usually ship out within 1-2 days.
How's buying a cap here different from buying a cap from a boxstore?
Besides being longtime collectors of vintage patches, we're also cap customizers. We let you choose the exact vintage patch and cap combination you want, and then we custom sew your chosen patch and cap together here in California. We carefully select each and eveyone of our vintage patches. We've been collecting for years, and we only buy mint condition vintage patches.
We offer a one-year warranty on every Flexfit cap we sell – unheard of in the cap industry. We believe a well-made patch should last a lifetime. That's why if you ever want to replace your cap, send it back to us and we'll transfer you vintage patch onto a new cap – at a fair market price. Plus, boxstores are where evil clowns hang out during union breaks – or so we've heard.
Do you ship worldwide?
Oh yes. Name a country, and we've probably shipped it there.
Where is Megadeluxe located?
We're based in Berkeley, California. Home to some of the best people, weather and food in these United States.
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Nah, that would be honest work. All of our sales are done here or on Instagram.
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We offer a one-year guarantee on all of our Readymade caps. After the one-year is up, if you decide you'd like another cap, just send it in and we'll remove the patch and sew it on a brand new cap at a fair price. We believe a well-made patch should last a lifetime.
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We've been collecting vintage patches for decades. We scour flea markets, garage sales, and estate sales for mint condition patches. Now that we've been around, people sell us their vintage patches.
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One thing with babies
Is they eat...ALL THE TIME
Once I saw this lady trying to cover up with a blanket while nursing at a restaurant
The baby up and ripped that blanket off her face, giving everyone quite the show.
So I made this...because I may be outgoing...but not THAT outgoing.
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 5 minutes
Cost: Less than 5 dollars
Suspender Clips
Glue Gun
Fabric (optional for embellishments)
Step 1: Cut a 20 inch piece of ribbon
Step 2: Glue around Suspender Clip
Step 3: Glue on Embellishment (Don't glue it too high, or clip won't open)
And you're done. Seriously...5 minutes...and most of that time is
waiting for the glue gun to heat up.
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Stone & Honey is the Portland-based brand well-known for translating natural elements into creative, simple jewelry. And, while crystals and marbled stones were the go-to materials of the past, the label's latest collection, Arcos, is all about rustic takes on geometric shapes.
Hammered loops become like flattened rainbows, and linen-wrapped copper ovals are the hoop earrings for a different generation. The designs also feature belly-button-grazing necklaces as the new kind of statement necklace — one that doesn't need sparkle or loud color to command attention.
What else are we loving about this collection? The lookbook — created by veritable indie-Portland royalty, Megan Hart of Summerland and Anja Verdugo of Clever Nettle — is making us covet pretty much every piece. Some of our favorites (yes, those rings) clock in around $50, while the others feel like a totally worthwhile mini splurge.
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MIAMI, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Hundreds gathered in Miami on Saturday to commemorate what would have been Trayvon Martin's 19th birthday. Martin's parents, who started a foundation in his name in 2012, led a peace walk around Miami Gardens, while actor Jamie Foxx spoke to the crowd about gun violence.
"The blood that flows through America that is from gun violence is mostly African-American, and yet you young black folk sit here mute and ya'll don't say nothing about it," Foxx said.
"I said you've got me for life, man," Foxx said of his support for Martin's parents, Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin. "Don't think that Hollywood isn't thinking about you. Everyone that I talk to wants to be here or is tweeting right now or Instagramming or myfacing or whatever they call it. You young people know what it is. Whatever it is, but they are doing that."
Foxx promoted the event via his Twitter page, telling followers that commemorating Martin was "not about race, not about color, but about PEACE for our children!"
Neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman was acquitted last year in the shooting death of 17-year-old Martin, which launched a nationwide discussion about Florida's so-called "Stand Your Ground" laws.
Zimmerman recently said he would take on anyone in a fight, but his boxing match with rapper DMX was canceled on Sunday.
"We choose not to expand any energy on that situation," Martin's father, Tracy, said of the bout on Saturday. "If you consider yourself a celebrity after you killed a child, something's wrong with you. I have a problem with that."


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Released by Doug McBride with DSHS:
The Texas Department of State Health Services is warning consumers not to eat certain imported dried plums and products containing imported dried plums because they have elevated levels of lead.
Most of the products typically are sold as salted or candied treats in Asian and Hispanic markets but also are available in other retail outlets. DSHS officials believe the dried plums came from Asia, but an investigation to identify specific sources is ongoing.
Test results from the DSHS laboratory in Austin show that the dried plum products or products containing dried plums contain lead levels ranging from 0.11 parts per million to 30.3 parts per million.
Health officials say lead should not be consumed in any amount but DSHS used a U.S. Food and Drug Administration established maximum of 0.1 parts per million for candy as a guide in assessing elevated lead levels in the dried plums and dried plum products.
A list of products and product photographs are available online at: www.dshs.state.tx.us/foods/. Consumers are advised to discard any of the products and to check the Web page periodically for updates. More dried plum products may be added as pending laboratory test results become available.
DSHS is working with the FDA and with health officials in California and New York, where some of the product distributors are located, in an investigation. DSHS also is working with Texas distributors on product recalls.
Officials emphasized that the warning does not apply to dried plums, or prunes, from the United States.
Lead can accumulate in the body over time. Too much can cause health problems, including delayed mental and physical development and learning deficiencies. Pregnant women, infants and young children especially should avoid exposure to lead. People concerned about blood lead levels should contact their physician or health clinic to ask about testing.


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A new video is available at the re-designed SkyOS website, showing the proof-of-concept work on a Media Station application for SkyOS. This proof-of-concept shows the first steps of what will hopefully become a full, specialized application (or possibly complete version) of SkyOS in the not-too-distant future. Additionally, a number of other new features can be seen in this video.


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Describing a seemingly uneventfull evening but, after a few phone calls and ringings at the door bell, the evening turns out to be a nite of immaculate proportions.
I needed to rest last night, but the phone rang, the door bell rang, and I ended-up having a majestic nite.
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Opinion: GOP Losses in Senate
Editorial board member Steve Moore and Americans for Prosperity president Tim Phillips on whether the tea party is to blame for some of the GOP Senate losses, including in Indiana, Wisconsin and Missouri.
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