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Annabelle Fuller, long time 'friend' of UKIP MEP Nigel Farage, is reported to be back on the scene following her departure from UKIP a couple of years ago. Her departure prompted the following email from the party chairman to members of the NEC:
Dear NEC
We all regard the posting on youtube of the video of John West's euro-candidate selection interview as unacceptable.
It has been argued that the source of this posting may have been Annabelle Fuller, who was involved in the interview and had possession of the relevant computer records.
I have received a statement from Miss Fuller in which she denies making this posting. She does, however admit to negligence, saying that she left a laptop computer containing the file in a taxi in London around 4 July. This was returned to her some 5 days later by the taxi driver who advised her that he had, in the meantime, passed it to a third party who had inspected the files in order to identify the owner.
Miss Fuller has not been working in the UKIP press office for some weeks. I understand she has now resigned from the party and from her post as press officer.
I am disinclined to take further action.
John Whittaker
The above appeared on the UKIP Bunker click here to read.
Since then John West, the wronged party, has been hounded and smeared by senior UKIP members. Although why Ms Fuller would still want to associate with UKIP, apart from her 'friendship' with Nigel Farage, we can't work out, after all here is her side of the story of her departure:
Terrified: Annabelle Fuller says she was forced to quit her UKIP role following a two-year smear campaign
A former top aide to UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage broke down in tears yesterday after revealing she had received 'threatening' telephone calls accusing her of being 'a whore'.
Distraught Annabelle Fuller, 26, claimed that she was the victim of a vicious two-year smear campaign aimed at undermining Mr Farage.
Ms Fuller said the phone calls and an 'irrevocable breakdown in working relationships with my closest colleagues' had led her to quit as Mr Farage's spin doctor.
She told The Mail on Sunday: 'I have been terrified. Absolutely terrified. I've had years of people writing abuse about me and saying abusive things – purely because I was loyal to the leadership of the party. People tried to get at Nigel by attacking me.'
Mr Farage defended Ms Fuller yesterday, saying: 'She is a bloody good writer and a very good press officer. She decided to move on because she got p***** off with politics. I don't blame her.'
His defence comes after UKIP's annual conference in Bournemouth was tarred by a feud between Mr Farage, leader since September 2006, and his critics in the party.
In his main conference speech to delegates, Mr Farage vowed to root out 'half a dozen people who wish us ill'.
Ms Fuller joined UKIP in Brussels as a researcher in October 2004. She said she joined because she was passionately committed to its key aim of pulling the UK out of the EU.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage defended Ms Fuller, calling her a 'very good press officer'
She said it was after she moved in June 2006 to handle press inquires for Mr Farage and his party at Westminster that the abusive calls began.
On one occasion an anonymous caller phoned her at 3am and accused her of being 'a whore'.
'I don't know who that was,' she said. 'I never reported it to the police because I was told that's what happens in politics and these people were doing it not to get at me, but at Nigel.'
The calls continued even after she left her job at UKIP in July this year.
'It's like trying to stab a dead person,' sobbed Ms Fuller. 'I could have made a big deal about it but I have my career in front of me.'
Ms Fuller said she decided to go public because she thought the calls were part of a wider plot to undermine Mr Farage.
'I heard they were trying to overthrow Nigel and I thought I'd let people know what they are really like,' she said. 'You know what respect I have for Nigel. He has been a good boss and a good friend.'
To read the original click here.
They really don't sound like very pleasant people in UKIP do they?
If you would like to read some of the delicate Ms Fuller's ramblings click here where you get ladylike pearls such as:
It really does fuck me off when I read about women who sue their employers because they get knocked up and want the world to revolve around them.
UKIP, such a lovely group of people.


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I wish I had something profound to say today to mark my third Mothers' Day as a mom. But alas, it feels like five hundred pounds of snot have worked their way up my sinus cavities to my brain and have set up camp. I can't stop sneezing and coughing, and my head feels really hot. Honestly, I just want my mommy. I always do when I'm sick. You see, growing up she took such good care of me when I was sick-- washing the throw up out of my hair, giving me cough syrup and propping my pillows, setting me up on the couch with fluids and the remote-- she always makes me feel better. She molded that into the foundation of my being: Mommy can make it feel better.
I only hope as I sneak into Ladybug's room at night when she's coughing and slip another pillow under her head, or snuggle Stinkbug on the sofa when he has a fever, that I'm building the same knowledge in their little hearts-- mommy can make it feel better. She can't make all the owies go away, or the nightmares, or the trouble of the world, but she can kiss it and make it feel better.
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Eric Balenseifen is convinced federal meddling in health insurance is ruining his business, forcing him to pay more for employee coverage each month than he pays to rent the land for his oil-trucking business.
Chris Crigler is just as certain federal health care reform is saving his small business.
One employee of his HOA services firm had in the past gone to the emergency room for strep throat, paying hundreds of dollars for the visit and antibiotics; with national tax credits now allowing Crigler to offer insurance, that same employee got a Kaiser Permanente appointment and medication for a $10 co-pay.
Colorado's bad law/good law face-off over health care reform will begin anew Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court starts an unprecedented three days of arguments over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.
With the two-year anniversary of the law's signing last Friday, backers and opponents of the act are counting up their gains and losses. The 2010 act has already transformed the cost of health care for hundreds of thousands of Coloradans. But it has yet to fulfill its promise of reining in health costs for business and government, leaving the dispute as bitter as ever.
"Every year, we have to reduce what we can cover for our employees and increase what they have to pay," said Balenseifen, president of the Rex Oil distribution company in north Denver. "It's having exactly the opposite effect of what they said they were trying to do."
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• Children under 26 can stay on their parents' health insurance, covering 44,000 people in the state.
• More than 42,000 Colorado Medicare clients got a $250 "donut hole" drug rebate in 2010, and about 40,000 took 50 percent discounts on brand-name drugs.
• Newly free preventive services, such as mammograms, wellness evaluations and colonoscopies, went to 382,000 Medicare patients in Colorado. Nearly 1 million private insurance clients in the state got new access to preventive service without co-pays.
• Watchdog rules on private insurance plans prohibit lifetime limits for expensive, major illnesses, and shine added scrutiny on any premium increases over 10 percent.
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Carol Clinkenbeard is a fan, saying her 24-year-old daughter wouldn't have coverage if she couldn't stay on the family plan. "Plus, for me, there are free annual checkups now, with no co-pays," she said. "That's a happy little surprise."
Balenseifen and other business owners feel they're the ones paying for that government largesse.
Rex Oil's health-insurance premiums went up 28 percent last year, he said, and he believes part of that comes from government mandates on what insurers must cover. "Our average age is 52, and yet we're paying for maternity coverage," he said.
Small-business federations have also begun lobbying hard against the "HIT," or health insurance tax, that begins in 2014. It's a tax on the insurance companies, but businesses argue it will be passed on to them through higher premiums.
Colorado taxpayers are already funding "new bureaucracies of questionable benefit" because of the reform act, argues Linda Gorman, director of the Health Care Policy arm of Golden's Independence Institute. Colorado is spending more than $1 million a month from a federal grant to start up the health insurance exchange for 2014, she said.
The mandate gives the federal government enormous control over household spending decisions, Gorman said, because families will have to find money for insurance or pay a penalty. The exchanges will expand the power of federal and state Medicaid programs. And they will encourage private employers to give up their coverage and send workers to get insurance through the exchange's subsidies, she said.
Reformers and opponents disagree whether the act has begun to "bend the cost curve" in health care, or slow inflation, as advocates promised. The Lockton Benefit Group predicts average employer health premiums will go up 9.4 percent this year.
Those increases are "crushing" small businesses, said Bob Graboyes, an economist for the National Federation of Independent Business who spoke to Denver business leaders this month.
And yet reform advocates consider 9.4 percent somewhat of a victory over double-digit increases in recent years.
"It's a story when health-insurance costs don't go up 10 or 20 percent," said Dede de Percin, director of the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, which backs national reform efforts.
Some of the Colorado rhetoric in health reform is uttered with one eye on a partial or wholesale Supreme Court rejection of the act. Legal scholars aren't sure what happens to the complex law if portions of it are rejected by the justices.
Supporters want the public to know what new benefits they've gotten used to, even if other parts of the law are struck down. Regional Medicare chief Jeff Hinson listed those freebies for seniors last week at Denver's Windsor Gardens community. "A colonoscopy that used to cost you $100 is now free," Hinson told a few dozen seniors gathered in the auditorium.
Sam Dominy, 67, is a believer. For his first two years on Medicare, Dominy said, he paid $400 a year out-of-pocket for exams and flu shots. "This last year," Dominy said, "it cost me zero."
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The legal issues
The Supreme Court review of President Barack Obama's health care law carries an unprecedented combination of economic, political and legal stakes.
The court, which will hold three days of arguments beginning Monday, will determine the fate of a measure that would extend insurance for more than 30 million people and revamp an industry that accounts for 18 percent of the U.S. economy. The case may become a legal landmark, determining how much authority the Constitution gives Congress.
Public debate has focused on the Affordable Care Act's requirement that Americans either get insurance or pay a penalty. That's only one of four issues before the court.
Monday The first day's arguments will center on a question that could scuttle the whole case. Under the 1867 Anti-Injunction Act, judges can't rule on challenges to federal taxes until the levies are assessed. A ruling that says the act applies would force postponement of the clash until after the first penalties are imposed in 2015.
Tuesday The justices turn to the main issue: the insurance requirement. The Obama administration says Congress could enact that provision under either its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce or its authority to impose taxes.
Wednesday The court first will hear arguments on what happens to the rest of the law if the insurance requirement is found unconstitutional. Later, the court will take up whether the law, by expanding the Medicaid program, unconstitutionally coerces the states into spending more on health care for the poor.
Two groups are challenging parts of the law: Twenty-six Republican-controlled states, plus the National Federation of Independent Business, a Nashville, Tenn.-based advocacy group for small businesses, and four of its members.
The fate of the insurance requirement will turn on the court's interpretation of three parts of the Constitution. The first is the commerce clause, which says Congress may "regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states." The court has relied on the commerce clause to uphold laws including the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The court previously has extended the reach of the commerce power through the necessary-and-proper clause. That provision says Congress may "make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution" its enumerated powers.
Congress also has power under the Constitution to "lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises." The Obama administration says the tax clause provides a second, independent constitutional basis for the law.
The Medicaid issue centers on the Constitution's spending clause, which authorizes Congress "to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States." The Supreme Court has said that provision lets Congress put conditions on federal funds. The states say they are being unlawfully coerced.
The Obama administration argument The rationale points to both older and recent precedents in support of its contention that the insurance requirement is within Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce. The government relies on Wickard vs. Filburn, a unanimous 1942 ruling that said a federal quota on wheat production could constitutionally apply even to wheat used on a family farm for consumption on the premises. The U.S. also cites Gonzales vs. Raich, a 6-3 ruling in 2005 that let the federal government prosecute people for locally grown medical marijuana. The government says those two cases show that Congress can regulate local activities, even non-economic ones, when that's necessary to make a broader regulatory system effective.
The opposing argument The 26 states and the independent business federation cite two other rulings that they say show the high court will and should step in when Congress goes beyond the powers listed in the Constitution.
In 1995, the court voted 5-4 to strike down a federal law barring possession of guns near school buildings as being beyond Congress' power under the commerce clause. The majority pointed to "a distinction between what is truly national and what is truly local."
Similarly, the court in 2000 struck down a provision in U.S. law letting victims of gender-based violence sue in federal court, rejecting government contentions that the measure had a sufficient connection to interstate commerce.
They were divided. Of the four federal appeals courts to rule, two upheld the law, one declared the mandate unconstitutional and the fourth said the Anti-Injunction Act made a court review premature.
Mark your calendar for the last week of June. The court typically wraps up its nine-month term at the end of June, and chances are the health care ruling will be one of the last delivered. While the ruling might come sooner, the justices tend to work on their opinions in the biggest cases until the last possible minute.
Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News


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And with Gaddafi's regime about to fall, we have this report from Euronews, at www.euronews.net, where Gaddafi himself is blaming none other than the phony Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, for the Libyan revolt! This shows that this man has absolutely lost it and is on the cusp of insanity! Here is that article for my own readers to view:
Bin Laden to blame for Libya's revolt: Gaddafi
The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has given an extraordinary interview by phone with Libyan state television blaming the revolt against his rule on al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden, he said, was the real criminal.
Gaddafi said he himself had only moral authority in Libya and likened himself to Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
He offered his condolences to those who had died in the fighting uprising.
And he called on people in Zawiyah 50 kilometres from the capital Tripoli to disarm the protesters, who he said had been taking hallucinogenic drugs.
Copyright © 2011 euronews
NTS Notes: This would be laughable if it was not for the fact that this madman has turned his military on his own people, and thousands of people seeking real freedom are now dead. Blaming his own evil doings and murderous methods of desperately trying to stay in power, on a man who has been dead now for 9 years, shows how seriously deranged this madman has become. And according to this article he calls himself the only "moral authority" in Libya? The cusp of madness indeed....
Absolutely absurd and insane indeed. If this is the best that this murderous madman has as an excuse, then it is time for him to either step down immediately, or flee from Libya! The sooner the better for the citizens of Libya...
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CD8+ T Cells Restrict Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infection: Bypass of Anti-Phagocytosis by Targeting Antigen-Presenting Cells
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CitationBergman, Molly A., Wendy P. Loomis, Joan Mecsas, Michael N. Starnbach, and Ralph R. Isberg. 2009. CD8+ T Cells Restrict Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection: bypass of anti-phagocytosis by targeting antigen-presenting cells. PLoS Pathogens 5(9): e1000573.
AbstractAll Yersinia species target and bind to phagocytic cells, but uptake and destruction of bacteria are prevented by injection of anti-phagocytic Yop proteins into the host cell. Here we provide evidence that CD8+ T cells, which canonically eliminate intracellular pathogens, are important for restricting Yersinia, even though bacteria are primarily found in an extracellular locale during the course of disease. In a model of infection with attenuated Y. pseudotuberculosis, mice deficient for CD8+ T cells were more susceptible to infection than immunocompetent mice. Although exposure to attenuated Y. pseudotuberculosis generated TH1-type antibody responses and conferred protection against challenge with fully virulent bacteria, depletion of CD8+ T cells during challenge severely compromised protective immunity. Strikingly, mice lacking the T cell effector molecule perforin also succumbed to Y. pseudotuberculosis infection. Given that the function of perforin is to kill antigen-presenting cells, we reasoned that cell death marks bacteria-associated host cells for internalization by neighboring phagocytes, thus allowing ingestion and clearance of the attached bacteria. Supportive of this model, cytolytic T cell killing of Y. pseudotuberculosis–associated host cells results in engulfment by neighboring phagocytes of both bacteria and target cells, bypassing anti-phagocytosis. Our findings are consistent with a novel function for cell-mediated immune responses protecting against extracellular pathogens like Yersinia: perforin and CD8+ T cells are critical for hosts to overcome the anti-phagocytic action of Yops.
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As I grow older, new years don't feel so new any more. Take this year for instance, it is totally packed with teaching and other tasks until the 10th of February. In the first 7 weeks of the semester I will be doing all my teaching this semester and next (until 1st of October). I have known this since August, nothing new about it.
That's why I have decided to make a few adjustments to 2006, so it fits my life better.
New Year will be celebrated properly 11th of February, without a stack of papers to grade hovering in the corner.
My birthday, which is normally at the end of a looong line of other birthday celebrations, is moved to give the family a chance to recover before celebration. I have moved it a month, but this year March 6th disappears, so I have to move my birthday a month and a day to make it fit.
—Torill Mortensen — 2006 version 1.1 (Thinking with my fingers)
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Marvin M. Daniels, age 79, of Glenbeulah, passed away peacefully at his home, surrounded by his loving family early Sunday evening, February 5, 2017.
He was born in Ladysmith, WI on September 30, 1937, son of the late Leland and Bernice (Vasseur) Daniels.
Marvin graduated from Weyerhaeuser High School in 1955 and continued his education at Purdue University and St. Norbert College in DePere.
On November 10, 1956, he married Geraldine Wutkiewicz at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Weyerhaeuser, WI. The couple has resided in Northern and Southern Wisconsin for 25 years and in the Plymouth area for 25 years.
He worked in the insurance field for 48 years and was a district manager for the Rural Insurance Company for the last 25 years, retiring in 2005. Upon retirement, he was an avid wood worker creating much sawdust.
Marvin was a member of Shepherd of the Hills Catholic Church in Eden and also belonged to the Outdoor Adventure Foundation, Rusk County Wildlife Association, Northern Kettles Chapter of the NWTF, Jaycee's, and Rotary Club.
Survivors include: His loving wife of 60 years: Geraldine of the Town of Greenbush; Three daughters: Julie (Mike) Burkart of Plymouth, Cindy (Hank) Jahnke of Lancaster, SC, and Linda (Steve) Horvat of Louisville, KY; One son: Michael Daniels of Sheboygan; Seven grandchildren: Aaron (Emily) Burkart of Plymouth, Lisa (Teague) Martis of Fond du Lac, Stephanie (Zach) Lee of Fond du Lac, Adam (Meghan) Jahnke of Landrum SC, Grant Jahnke of Charlotte, NC, Keaton (Clare) Horvat of Louisville, KY, and Austin Horvat of Louisville, KY; Six great-grandchildren: Oliver and Henry Burkart, Elizabeth Fincher, Colton and Josette Jahnke, and Ellie Horvat; Two brothers: Rodney (Karen) Daniels of Minneapolis, MN and Bernard (Gladys) Daniels of Cameron, WI; One Sister: Shirley Kaas of Sheboygan Falls; and Sister-in-law: Jenny (Tom) Kaminski of Minneapolis, MN.
He is also survived by nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.
Marvin was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers-in-law, and two sisters-in-law.
Funeral Mass was held on Thursday February 9, 2017 at Shepherd of the Hills Catholic Church in Eden. Father Mark Jones, Pastor of the Church officiated. Cremation took place following the services.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund is being established in Marvin's name.
The Suchon Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Plymouth is assisting the family. For online condolences, please visit www.suchonfh.com
The family would like to send special thanks to the staffs at Mayo Clinic, Froedtert Hospital, the Vince Lombardi Cancer Center, and Heartland Hospice for the wonderful care and compassion given to Marvin.


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Microsoft had one more heavy hitter to round out the show this year and that was Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 which did not disappoint. The graphics looked amazing with barely any difference between cinematics and game play. Treyarch seems to have stepped it up a notch and even though no one plays Black Ops for the story. I'm not going to ruin it, except for this part where you get to fly a Harrier-looking aircraft around a decimated LA destroying drones. Way cool. According to Treyarch and Microsoft, "The Future is Black" on 11/13/2012.
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Experts highly rate floor tiles made of porcelain, especially SnapStone's interlocking porcelain tiles, according to Consumer Reports, as of 2015. They also recommend cement tiles for floors, though cement tiles are a pricier option than porcelain tiles and require greater upkeep.
Porcelain tiles are a type of ceramic tile that is fired at a higher temperature than standard ceramic tiles, making them denser. They do not absorb moisture the way that standard ceramic tiles do, making them less prone to mold. Porcelain tiles are ideal for floors because they are largely impact-resistant and easy to clean. They are typically available in a wide variety of different styles and colors.
SnapStone's interlocking tiles are easy to install. They conveniently install over most existing flooring, including vinyl, wood, tile and concrete, as long as it is flat and smooth. SnapStone's interlocking tiles do not require thinset or underlayment, making them faster to install than most other tiles.
Although people do not commonly use them, cement ties are excellent for floors, as they are very resilient, holding up to heavy foot traffic. People need to seal them after installation, because they are prone to etching by acids and harsh detergents. They also require periodical resealing after their initial installation.


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Giuseppe Quintarelli was one of the world's most enigmatic and maverick winemakers. He took over his family estate in 1950 and embarked on numerous improvement projects. Although he still used the traditional appassimento method (drying the grapes until they became raisins), he was always a great moderniser and ever the perfectionist. Above all, the wines were allowed time. No stranger to innovation and experimentation, Giuseppe began producing a cuvee incorporating Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot; the famous Alzero. The estate's Valpolicella and Amarone are typically made with Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella and are aged for as long as they need in large old oak casks, depending on the vintage and the cuvee. This can often be up to 8 years. Such perfection and rarity have made these wines highly popular among enthusiasts and collectors the world over. Thankfully this amazing legacy seems set to continue, as the late, great Giuseppe was succeeded by his daughter and grandsons in 2012.
Now the largest wine-producing region in Italy, Veneto sits in the north-east of Italy stretching westward to Lake Garda and north to the Austrian border. Soave and Valpolicella are the regions two most important zones, but drastic enlargments of existing DOCs means that quality is not always assurred. Look for quality conscious growers such as Gini who use the single varietal Garganega rather than the other, permitted but somewhat neutral varieties.
A combination of three classic Bordelais grapes. The Cabernet lends weight and structure, the Petit Verdot softens and colours. A match made in heaven.
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Today I have a fun one to share. In honor of Halloween and my favorite series starting back up, The Walking Dead, I bring you this amazing green polish!!
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This might be fun to top with Dolish's Urban Camo!
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Readers' Advisory: Reluctant readers, especially young boys
This particular Readers' Advisory takes a slightly different approach. I've realized that I've made some underlying assumptions about the patrons I'm supposedly dealing with: a) that they like to read, and in the case of my previous RA, b) that they're girls. Boys (for purposes of this discussion, roughly ages 9-12) are often overlooked, and boys who are reluctant readers even more so.
Laura Barnett's article at The Guardian addresses this in some way, offering suggestions that young boys might like, with a fairly broad selection of genres. Jessica Piper provides a list based on which books are popular in her classroom, and while not focused specifically on boys, has many books they would like. Neither of those lists appears to address the issue of young readers whose reading age may be lower than their physical age, but there appears to be an intense focus on getting them interested in books, which is definitely a component of engaging reluctant readers.
While it would be impossible to recommend simply one book, thanks to the fact that everyone's preferences will vary wildly, the lists mentioned above appear to offer many choices. I can't really hope to expand on that, but will offer some suggestions below, as a way of ensuring that boys aren't left out too.
You might like…
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer: 12 year old Artemis Fowl II desperately attempts to restore honour to the family's name, after his father loses a lot of money by trying to corner the Russian mafia. His solution? Capture a fairy and demand a ransom in gold. The fairies don't like that. Fast-paced and suspenseful, this fantasy has just enough familiar elements to not alienate young readers, while still being compelling.
The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling: The popularity of this series is phenomenal, so it would be impossible to do the whole series justice with a short blurb. But the basis is this: scrawny 11 year old Harry Potter discovers he is a wizard, and is sent to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to learn magic. But the evil Lord Voldemort is trying to restore his power – and get rid of Harry in the process. Suspenseful and with a richly detailed world, the series is bound to capture the imagination of young readers, particularly the earlier books, which are shorter and more appropriate for a younger age.
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan: When Percy Jackson discovers that the father he never knew is actually Poseidon, God of the Sea, he gets sent to Camp Half-Blood for others like him. There he gets caught up in a quest to prevent another war between the gods. Fast-paced and action packed, there is enough there to engage young readers.
Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz: After the death of his uncle, 14 year old Alex Rider discovers that he was actually a spy, and preparing Alex to be one too. Recruited into the British intelligence service MI6, he begins to track down villains to carry out his uncle's mission. The first in a series, the story is action-packed and suspenseful, while featuring a variety of locales.
Sure Fire, Jack Higgins: Twins Rich and Jade aren't happy they have to go live with their father following their mother's death. But when their father is kidnapped, they find themselves tackling bigger problems. Like Stormbreaker, the series features a variety of exotic locales to explore and plenty of adventure.
Pop, Gordon Korman: After moving to a new town midsummer, 16 year old Marcus Jordon feels lonely. However, he befriends retired linebacker Charlie 'Pop' Popovitch, who trains him well, but has a prankster streak that often gets Marcus in hot water. But Charlie is hiding a secret that he doesn't want his family to discover. An intense, emotionally-driven novel, it touches on a variety of issues besides football.
Gym Candy, Carl Deuker: Mick Johnson struggles not to make the same mistakes as his former football star father. But after making the varsity team, he struggles to keep his edge and make his father proud. This drives him to try out "gym candy" or steroids, despite the known health risks. A disturbing but powerful novel, Deuker does not gloss over steroids side effects, taking the reader through an emotional roller coaster that is paralleled by Mick's emotions. It is an intense read, but may be appropriate for an older set.
The Million-Dollar Throw, Mike Lupica: Eighth grade Nate Brodie's family is going through stressful times, and to top it all off, his best friend Abby is going blind. But he gets a chance at fixing that, by being able to win a million dollars if he completes a pass during the halftime at a Patriots game. Will the pressure to succeed overwhelm him? A realistic fiction that has an intense, emotional plot.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney: Greg records his sixth grade experiences as he and his friend Rowley struggle to get through. But when Rowley becomes more popular, Greg must do what he can to save their friendship. A funny and relatable series that young boys might like.
Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!, James Patterson: When Rafe is accepted to an art school in New York City, he naively believes that he will be able to leave boring old math and history behind forever. He's wrong. Finding the intense academic achievement stifling, he looks for fun and adventure in other activities. Part of a series, beginning with Patterson's Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, this is a funny, but also very emotional, series that young boys might relate to.
Barnett, Laura. (2012) 10 books to help boost young boys' reading. The Guardian. Retrieved March 15, 2014, from www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2012/feb/08/10-books-boost-boys-reading
Fries-Galther, Jessica. (2009) Strategies to Engage Boys in Reading (and the Girls, Too. Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears. Retrieved March 15, 2014, from beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/issue/arctic-and-anarctic-birds/strategies-to-engage-boys-in-reading-and-the-girls-too
Piper, Jessica. (n.d.) Top 12 Young Adult Books for Reluctant Readers. TeachHUB. Retrieved March 15, 2014, from http://www.teachhub.com/top-12-young-adult-books-reluctant-readers


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You'll see users with numbers in front of their names on the server. This is the sign of an 'Epic Builder'. Someone who's built something that's impressed the mods with it's style, skill, and beauty.
Higher numbers aren't an easy thing to come by.
You* need to build something that's awesome, and then do /promotion when you're standing in front of what you've built all by yourself. Someone will come and have a look at it, and if it wows them, they'll call another couple of mods to check it out. If they all agree it's great, you'll be promoted.
You can always /warp standard to have a look at what we consider the 'bare minimum' to be promoted. We'll occasionally copy some amazing builds into the area around spawn.
*That's right, YOU need to build it yourself. Not someone else. This includes copying video tutorials. That is not your own work.


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Santa Barbara Porsche celebrates the production of the 100,000th Porsche Panamera in Leipzig, Germany.
Porsche is proud to announce that it just recently produced the 100,000th Porsche Panamera. First introduced in 2009, the new Porsche model series has become quite a success story, with strong sales across the United States and throughout the world, now available in over 120 countries. Santa Barbara Porsche is pleased to recognize this important milestone and offers this incredible vehicle at a remarkable value for Santa Barbara Porsche fans.
Award-Winning History
The Porsche Panamera has received a wide array of accolades and awards since its inception. Most recently, it earned the 2013 Best Resale Value Award from Kelley Blue Book. Furthermore, Motor Trend remarked on its impressive driving control and Automobile claimed the Panamera GTS has overall body control second to none.
Celebrating the Panamera's Success
To mark the completion of the 100,000th Panamera, the car was driven off the assembly line in Leipzig, Germany through a paper wall signed by the plants employees. The specific milestone vehicle was a new Panamera S E-Hybrid. It is the world's first plug-in hybrid in its luxury class and was debuted in April of 2013. It offers Porsche drivers the ultimate combination of efficiency, sportiness, and luxury comfort.
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It is not my nature to be peevish or small about this kind of thing, but there's a kind of mean-spirited angle to the parody here that actively courts it.
So here's a point by point dissection of the above from a developer's perspective very keenly interested in issues of FPS level design. (Also, just watch the video, don't bother downloading, lugubriously installing 768 megabytes for a 4 minute spoof on Call of Duty. There's a metatextual joke about the install size/gameplay time ratio in AAA games here, if only I could find it.)
- @0:33 COD's leaden pre-mission voiceover cinematics are also there to disguise loading--once the level is loaded you press a key to jump right into the mission. It's interesting to point out that the Unreal Engine masquerading as COD, at least in this configuration, isn't able to manage the same; we get a second (albeit brief) loading screen after the pre-mission voiceover/satellite spoof. I think it's interesting that only by way of doing a direct parody does the engine beg this sort of comparison and here, fall short.
- @0:36 Gunhaver tic: having the M4 have the wrong ammo count seems intentional, but it's only off by a little bit--what's the joke here? That we wish we had two more rounds for an in-game M4, or rather a single extra round past 30+1? That the Bulletstorm developers think it is silly to know how many rounds go into a STANAG magazine?
- Also, the BUIs (back-up iron sights) are folded down, giving the weapon no rear sight. The game gives no option to sight-up on the (missing) ironsights, another COD gameplay hallmark. Or is this not present in the parody because Bulletstorm also features ironsight aiming, like everyone else chasing COD's crown?
- @0:38 The voiceover is consistently funny, to me--but what's the joke about sticking the objective in the player's face? Are we saying that Epic isn't as thoroughly guilty of technobabble comm traffic about MacGuffins in Gears of War, or more pointedly, that we will be free of this in Bulletstorm? The "Story and Characters" trailers seem to suggest otherwise. An easy joke to make but harder to follow through on--leading the player by the nose with objectives is de rigeur now; does Bulletstorm offer an alternative?
- @0:52 nice gag about gated gameplay areas... but once again, who is this directed toward? All Gears of War levels are rigidly gated this way, and I find it hard to believe Bulletstorm is bucking this trend either.
- @0:56/throughout: an excessively linear slalom of obstacles where enemies appear at random intervals. Again, if the developers of Bulletstorm are suggesting that their game is something other than a very pretty linear corridor slalom with spectacles or special scripting at interval, consider me elated.
- @1:01 I laughed at every one of these leveling up messages. But here again--really? Are we taking a swipe at one of the most successful leveling mechanics for competitive multiplayer games? Not that it isn't worth very serious questions about, as well as a good bit of fun-poking... yet Epic is one of the leaders in this kind of thing. Gears of War 2 features multi-stage Achievements that you grind like any other experience point system, in order to unlock arbitrarily gated content.
- @1:05 I also laughed at the "b-b-b-bloody screen (so real)" gag every time it came up... but again. I guess the joke here is that COD pretends to some kind realism that is undercut by a regenerative health mechanic. Little argument from me on that point... but from what I understand Bulletstorm will, like Gears of War, also feature a regenerative health mechanic? (In COD the effect only vignettes the screen--Gears of War sees fit to place a bloody COG emblem dead center of the screen.)
- @1:12 The M4 is not fun to shoot. The gun is limited to semi-automatic fire at a glacial pace, with a tired "boring" intoning with every shot. How is that fair? COD is king because they have gotten certain details very, very right, and one of those is exquisitely responsive gun handling. People love to shoot these virtual guns, for hours on end. Bulletstorm can potentially get a lot of mileage out of its colorful set of outsized science fiction weaponry, but the 'negative campaigning' here so to speak seems deeply wrongheaded.
- @1:31 "You have picked up a small meaningless stick. Congrats." Incisive for most shooter games but again, Epic's own headlining franchise is equally as cut down here. Intel briefcases in COD single player games are exactly the same as COG tags in Gears of War titles.
- @1:40 a funny cutscene--but aside from the gag about the slow-mo, the same criticism also applies to Gears of War.
- @2:40 Serpentine linear layouts are equally damning to all shooters.
- @3:00 "you cannot shoot me because this a cutscene." Also equally damning to most shooters, and I defy Bulletstorm to do anything with their Story and Characters that is beyond this paradigm.
- @3:28 A player-openable door? Gasp. Everyone knows your COD hero player character, no matter the era, is completely unable to open doors themselves--they can press a context key to plant breaching charges, but not use that same key to open a door. So I guess this is one of the first legitimate criticisms that applies only to COD here?
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After loosing her husband the good looking Milf Sayuri Shiraishi is still at her sexual peak and needs to be satisfied a lot. Her body easily gets the itch and she uses her fingers and kinky toys to cal the raging fire inside her. She likes to masturbate with a vibrator that she hides in her flower pot. One day she gets surprised, she was just about to masturbate but her favorite toy was nowhere to be found. She started searching for it and suddenly her step-son appears. He pushes her down and starts using the vibrator on her juicy parts, shaming her, telling her he knew what she was doing since his father died. After her nipples are suckled she give into the temptation. They make out. He rubs her slit before suckling on it and getting it wet. After his cock is sucked they get into a 69, pleasing each other until it's time to put the rod deep inside her. She finally gets satisfied and her face is covered in cum.
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Looking at my stats, as I find myself obsessively doing, I saw that one of my most often hit on pages is "DX Futures", whilst others relate to Thom Hogan's speculations, (which are now nearer lamentations) on Nikon's plans for DX. Ever since the announcement of the Sony NEX 7, there has been some expectation of a D400 with a similar 24mp sensor. In actual fact, what came were better sensors, or perhaps uses of that sensor, in the more budget priced D3200 and more recent D5200. Those entry-level models, whilst capable of astonishing results in the right hands, are no-where near well-specified enough to be the main camera of a serious enthusiast. For this, you need at least the features of a D7000, in terms of speed and build, or preferably the 'semi-pro' standard of the D300(S). In fact, only the later makes the semi-pro grade and is currently the nearest a DX user can get to the ergonomics and security of a D800. So, for some time and perhaps still, a 24mp D400 has been expected, yet the future of DX definitely is cloudier now. I can tell you why in two words; 'D600' (if that counts as a word!) and 'mirrorless'.
Whilst we probably will see a D7100 with such a sensor, if not better, it is far from certain that a D400 will make it to the living breathing world of reality. The D600, whist itself a little under-specced, is being offered as the D800 'lite'. Now a D400 may well make the cut, with presumably better video (1080p at 60fps) and HDMI out, the D800 AF unit and 7-8fps, which will be a very attractive camera for a lot of people, but if the price is high, it may be a hard choice between that and a D800 or even D600, for those who can't get both and have actually been waiting for full frame. Plus, the D800 does offer 15mp DX shooting, with fantastic dynamic range, which for many purposes would be more than enough. Okay, but lets say the D600 is really treated the way it should be, as the second rung of full-frame, the D7000/D90 etc choice below the pro (D4) and semi-pro (D800) and above whatever lower-specced one Nikon might make yet. Suppose the D400 comes out and suppose it sells at least okay… which is a worry for Nikon, no doubt. What then, does that mean that there will be a new generation of serious DX lenses to go with it? I have to say, probably not. Yet the answer for that is the second magic word, 'mirrorless'.
Sooner or later and preferably sooner, to be honest, Nikon needs to have DX mirrorless, or something like it. N1 is an interesting and even fascinating addition, but it's inability to capture sufficient dynamic range or use existing lenses as anything other than near-telescopes (okay, I exaggerate, as telephotos one and all, though), not to speak of the impossibility of bokeh shots with today's technology, all says that if Nikon is going to have a serious mirrorless, it will have some aspects of the Canon M. Yet I fully expect it will have much better build, EVF and the fast AF of the 1-series. Such a mount will be able to easily use DX or any AF-S lenses with an adapter, with full AF functions. even better, if the phase-detect is as good as the positively revolutionary Nikon 1. Yet they will be large and ungainly on the small body, they will negate the miniaturisation slight as it may be compared to smaller sensors, but with pancakes and foldable optics very significant nonetheless. All they will do is entice current users to stay in the system… but a new system with new lenses, which undoubtedly are being planned and designed as we speak.
Which all means that I don't expect many, or even any DX primes, but rather for Nikon's main efforts to go into DX-sensor compatible mirrorless lenses, which may well be sharper and better than DX ones, anyway, if the m4/3 system is anything to go by. I have no information about this, by the way, but it does make perfect sense. The process will indeed take years and yes, it is wrong of Nikon to keep DX users 'hanging on' for new lenses, but I think most of us know by now that it is an unrealistic expectation both technically and (for Nikon) economically, as their pros and serious users migrate to full-frame, only a minority of serious ones staying solely with DX and those same users would be better-served by a Nikon V2 with DX sensor, light adapter and grips to help use longer lenses. That, anyway is the way I see things going. Which is why I went into m4/3 for my primes, but keep using DX for other uses, as I currently have no need for Full-frame.
Would I get a D400, if it cost more than a D600? It's a good question. It would certainly have much better performance in many areas. But it wouldn't offer the wide-angle bokeh and supreme image quality of FX, so it is a toughie. I couldn't promise either way. Would I go for a serious, competitively priced mirrorless DX, that effectively used my existing lenses and offered great video and high frame-rates? Now that is much more likely, even if it didn't have a focus motor. It's a price I'd be willing to pay. Assuming many others think like me, despite the potential for ever-greater sensors in DX as in other sizes, it seems likely that we will only have a turbo-charged D7100/D9000 which will attempt to amalgamate the D300S and D7000 into one body, but whether it will have the build quality of a true 'D400' isn't clear.
Finally, despite their attempts, I don't think Nikon will be able to tempt enough people into FX with their compromised bodies, or massive FX lenses as they would like. This means there will remain serious, lens-buying DX users who want newer technology than their aging cameras can provide, so Nikon will simply have to offer higher-end DX bodies, or else risk losing users. They also can't ignore the fact that people leaving DX if they think it's abandoned, may just as well go the route of Canon, or even m4/3, since they need to get new lenses anyway. Sony especially hopes to cash in here, though as ever their lens selection holds them back. So even if it means them using third-party lenses from Sigma or Tokina, who are making some very interesting options, Nikon would rather keep such users on board and perhaps at some point migrate them to DX-sized mirrorless, or get them over to the FX camp the next time round, when presumably the AF issues and low frame-rates are fully worked out.


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Parent and Friends Association
Stourfield Junior School
Pergola and Sensory Planting
Accessible area for pupils with physical and sensory impairments including an increasing number of children with autism and challenging behaviours. The Gardening Club and parent volunteers will build and plant during February half term. (contribution towards £3,950)
Stour Valley Supporters Group
Themed tree seat for Wildlife Garden
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Pokesdown Community Primary School
Raised vegetable beds for school garden
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Townsend Community Association
Birch Drive Project – Development.
Expansion and development of gardening work carried out in and around Birch Drive. This will further develop, maintain and refurbish areas created by recent volunteering work.
Jewell Academy
School Garden / Allotment
Poly tunnel for year round gardening and vegetable growing.
Muscliff Primary School
Nature and Sensory Garden
Transforming disused part of playground into a nature / sensory garden. To be used by all year groups for gardening and investigating nature. The SEN and nurture groups will use as part of their group time.
Transition Bournemouth
Slades Farm Community Garden
Replace wicker fence around vegetable beds (re dogs) with chestnut paling to match pond fence. To host 2 public events Spring & Summer to involve volunteers / schools to get involved.
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Avonbourne Trust
Boscombe Regeneration Mural
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Kinson Village Green II
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Stour Valley Supporters
Interpretative play tunnel
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My scripture for today ~
"As for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded".
2 Chronicles 15:7
Something I needed to hear today. Everyone always thinks I'm so strong and courageous…but I'm not. The LORD knows the battle I fight 24/7 every day of my life. I know a lot of my friends are fighting similar battles…and no matter how much you love someone or how many friends you have, there is that personal battle that only YOU can deal with. I love my family and friends. They're so supportive. I try hard not to complain or whine…(Ernie will tell you I fuss constantly and I'm sure he's correct.) I beg for his patience. I am truly blessed.
So, for all my friends who are facing illnesses, family issues, financial issues, work issues or whatever…. Hang in there, DON"T GIVE UP! The BIBLE holds promises from our LORD to his faithful believers. Read, pray, believe and trust in HIM.
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You Know You're A Hard-Core Rider
...when your bike is worth more than your car!
By Lieutenant Tony Gibson
Special Operations Division
Event Commander for the Conference
Wanna-be Bike Unit Guy
"I didn't know bikes did that," my wife said, as I explained how I saw riders in an advanced class go over a skinny little 2 x 4 piece of wood, up onto pallets stacked up at nosebleed levels and then back onto another 2 x 4. I can tell you that my bike doesn't do that!! At least not with me on it. And "oh", I went on, "you should have seen the obstacle course race thing at Eldorado Park; it was intense." That Aussie jumped like six steps, it was incredible! "Oh man," I was telling my non-police friend and fellow mountain biker, you should have been at the BBQ at the Galleria.
This EMS guy from some southern state was a part-time auctioneer and he auctioned off stuff for Special Olympics. He was a riot! If you follow redneck humor, "Let's get 'er done!" prevailed, because he raised hundreds of dollars for the Special Olympics on stuff that Ron Gorski had been collecting for months (some of it under suspicious circumstances). Between the raffle and the auction, we raised more than $2300. If you want to see how Ron did it, go to his website,"shakedownmaster.com". And then there was the poor student who came limping in after one of the off-road rides. All I could think of was that song by the surfing band, "The Surfaris" – Wipeout! Wait a minute, this was the fun part. Let me take you back three months.
It was January 7th, 2005, when I first learned that that there was a bike conference coming to Scottsdale. I wasn't in the bike unit, never had been. I was a motor for six years and that was the closest I had come to riding two wheels on the job. I was pretty sure riding a motor was tougher than riding a bike. Wrong. OK, first thing on bikes – you have to pedal them. And just a heads-up – you have to go uphill sometimes and over things that "aren't natural." And then of course there's that pedaling thing again. That's work. But back to the conference thing this bike group needed. I've done a few conferences, lots of events. So what, pray tell, does this IBMPA, or MBPIA or whatever need? A big room, lots of little breakout rooms? Been there done that. What??? They need what? Pads, bikes, smoke grenades, bike pumps, pre-planned bike rides, guns, overheads, wood…wood – you have to build things?
What there's more? Oh yeah! Bike stands, radios, computers, cones, 24/7 command post, batteries, paperclips (the fancy kind) tents, security guards, bullets, sand bags and sand, bike mechanics, banners, trolleys, lights, ice, water, copy machine, vans, and trailers for bikes and more vans, t-shirts, ball caps, more cones, four off site venues, rain day site, airport transportation, a shooting range, more cones, grass to fall in, and wrestle in (green grass…in Arizona??)….and oh yeah, try to limit the OT. OK – wait!!! Time out!!!
How many instructors, 10, 15? No, more like 50 and by the way, that one instructor likes his water cooled to 59 degrees, stirred, not shaken, served in a plastic fluted bottle. Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a little. The bottle didn't have to be plastic.
And while you're at it, you better review the outlines for resources needed because some of the things have changed since Ron Gorski last attended any actual classes in 1988, and that one instructor is going to need a translator. He's from London! Great! Sounds like no problem. "OK, good," said my boss, "because they're coming here April 16th and we haven't started on this yet." Great. Get me a Tylenol. Well, two months later, and about $1 billion in long distance charges between Maureen B. and the bike unit, we were ready.
I have to tell you that although the bike unit worked hours and hours getting ready and then ten days straight, we had a great time. To quote one of my guys on day four, who stood there disheveled, red-faced, sweat dripping from his chin, but with a smile on his face, "attending these things is a lot more fun than putting one on!" But, there were lots of "Kodak moments" and some wonderful memories. We saw old friends and made new ones, learned new things and had tons of fun.
What a great introduction to the world of police biking for me. I'm a pretty experienced mountain biker, but I ride single track, not 2 x 4's and pallets, and not slow speed, that's too hard! I learned that while I can ride, I lack panache. Is that a word? This was a real eye-opener. I had a great time. The people really made it fun.
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Google is revealing more information about how the company secures information for users of its Google Apps suite, specifically its ability to handle outages -- with claims of uptime and failover performance that could make any enterprise IT manager jealous.
"Will you be ready when disaster strikes?" Rajen Sheth, Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) senior product manager for Google Apps, wrote in a blog post on Thursday. "It's an uncomfortable question for many IT administrators, because answering it with confidence usually requires boatloads of money, immense complexity, and crossed fingers."
Enterprises typically spend those "boatloads of money" on things like backup servers, remote disaster recovery centers and other backup services and technologies designed to minimize the loss of files and data in a disaster.
Sheth noted that disaster recovery solutions are usually measured in two ways: RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective). RPO is how much data a company is willing to lose when things go wrong, while RTO is a measure of how long you're willing to go without service.
"For a large enterprise running SANs [storage-area networks], the RTO and RPO targets are an hour or less: the more you pay, the lower the numbers," Sheth said.
"That can mean a large company spending the big bucks is willing to lose all the e-mail sent to them for up to an hour after the system goes down, and go without access to e-mail for an hour as well. Enterprises without SANs may be literally trucking tapes back and forth between datacenters, so as you can imagine, their RPOs and RTOs can stretch into days. As for small businesses, often they just have to start over."
By contrast, Sheth said Google's design RPO design target is zero and its RTO is "instant failover." The company accomplishes this by live or synchronous replication using multiple datacenters. For example, "every action you take in Gmail is simultaneously replicated in two datacenters at once, so that if one datacenter fails, we nearly instantly transfer your data over to the other one that's also been reflecting your actions," he said.
This live replication has been available for years for Gmail, and Google has expanded it to other programs in the Google Apps suite (Calendar, Docs, and Sites) over the past year, a Google spokesperson told InternetNews.com.
But Google's cloud-based system has suffered a few, mostly limited outages over the past year that cut some user's access to Gmail and Google Apps despite the synchronous replication.
And Sheth was careful to note that Google can't guarantee it will never lose anyone's data related to Google Apps. "Our goal is not to lose any data when it's transferred from one datacenter to another, and to transfer your data so quickly that you don't even know a data center experiences an interruption."
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Of course, much of Sheth's discussion served as a pitch for Google's business offerings, which the company has been pushing hard as a competitor to productivity suites like Microsoft Office and collaborative tools like SharePoint .
IT analyst Charles King said what Google offers should appeal to companies who can't afford disaster recovery services or haven't already implemented a comprehensive solution.
"Any company considering Google Apps or other cloud solutions should measure whether the level of security and functionality matches what they need. But I've heard of so many companies that have no disaster recovery solution in place, or something that's very lightweight, so why not consider working with a company like Google that goes all the way?" King, president and principal analyst of Pund-IT, told InternetNews.com.
"What Google is able to offer is a great testimony to the commoditization of storage media -- pennies per gigabyte these days," he added. "The economics of backup and recovery have really come down."
But making the pitch to move from installed software to the cloud isn't always the easiest sell, with companies still reluctant to move critical data off their own infrastructure. Not surprisingly, cloud computing was a big focus at this week's RSA security conference, where many of the vendors present exhibited security solutions designed to address concerns about the cloud.
"If the benefits of cloud computing are so obvious, why isn't everyone using it?" VeriSign CTO Ken Silva said during a speech at the show. "The answer is pretty simple: They don't trust it. They really only trust themselves. They will spend a lot more money on running their own datacenters to be sure."
A fix to this story corrects the time period that live replication has been offered in Gmail and Google Apps.
David Needle is the West Coast bureau chief at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals.
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Kris Humphries & Scott Disick: These Fashion Week BFFs Attended The Jill Stuart Show Without Their Ladies!
The Kardashian men head out without their better halves — they've become so close after the wedding!
Kris Humphries and Scott Disick are best known for their famous women — Kim & Kourtney Kardashian, respectively. But now these two bros are becoming BFFs, and they're bonded by fashion!
Kris and Scott were at the Jill Stuart show on Sept. 10 during Fashion Week in NYC, and they were having a great time together. In fact, they drew a huge amount of attention from photographers and screaming girls — they're already superstars in their own right!
What do you think, HollywoodLifers — are Kris & Scott really BFFs or are they just hanging out for the cameras?
— Reporting By Katrina Mitzeliotis, Written By William Earl
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