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New design 6Watt RGB laser show light dj light [NP6RGB]
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New design 6Watt RGB laser show light dj light [NP6RGB]
NP6RGB, it is a new type, new design case for 6watt RGB laser show projector
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A Taliban gunman singled out and shot the girl, Malala Yousafzai, on Tuesday, and a spokesman said it was in retaliation for her work in promoting girls' education and children's rights in the northwestern Swat Valley, near the Afghan border.
Yousafzai was removed from immediate danger after the operation in a military hospital in Peshawar early Wednesday, during which surgeons removed a bullet that had passed through her head and lodged in her shoulder, one hospital official said.
The government kept a Boeing jet from the national carrier, Pakistan International Airlines, on standby at the Peshawar airport to fly Yousafzai to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for emergency treatment if necessary, although senior officials said she was too weak to fly.
"She is improving. But she is still unconscious," said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the provincial information minister, whose only son was shot dead by the Taliban in 2010. He said Yousafzai remained on a ventilator.
Hussain announced a government reward of more than $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of her attackers.
"Whoever has done it is not a human and does not have a human soul," he said.
Across the rest of the country, Pakistanis reacted with outrage to the attack on the girl, whose eloquent and determined advocacy of girls' education had made her powerful symbol of resistance to Taliban ideology.
"Malala is our pride. She became an icon for the country," Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.
The cricket star turned opposition politician Imran Khan offered to pay for her treatment.
Even Jamaat-ud-Dawwa, the charity wing of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which follows a different strain of Islam from the Taliban, condemned the attack.
"Shameful, despicable, barbaric attempt," read a message on the group's official Twitter feed. "Curse b upon assassins and perpetrators."
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The three alternatives we have to pallets are: 1) new lumber, which is costly and not very green-oriented just to burn without being used for something else first; 2) downed trees split, cured and dried not only a lot of work, but how many of us in the city have land and trees just to cut for firewood at home or a firepit? Come on, really?; and 3) old building demolition — depending how old the structure, will have at least one of the following on it: fiberglass insulation, lead-filled paint or — better yet — asbestos, which is found in every residential home built before 1970. In OB, that is 90 percent of structures here.
The point is that officials are trying to get rid of all the fire rings because it costs something to maintain them — al-though this is only a fraction of their last pay raise. What I see is a few people trying to cut out pennies from the budget when they should be aiming a lot higher. It costs more for the bulldozers to come out and put up the sand berm along most of the county's beaches and then coming back after each high tide or storm to clean up the kelp and debris from our beaches. They delayed the Brighten Avenue bathroom two years because it suited their agenda at the time. In the meantime all of the tourists and locals were forced to use the Santa Monica facility that was way overused and poorly maintained over that three-year period, maybe longer.
In the end, they put a law into use that was badly researched or not researched at all because it fit their agenda.


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The entire St. Francis Prep girls tennis team huddled together by the Court 13 bench for what top singles player Katie DeRienzo described as "a little group cry." Coach John Brennan came over to console his players after congratulating jubilant Leon Goldstein and losing his first match 13 years after he took over the program.
After 12 Mayor's Cup crowns and 203 straight victories, the Terriers streak came to an end in the Mayor's Cup final at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing on Sunday. Goldstein, the two-time PSAL champion which nearly ended the run in this exact match last June, pulled out a dramatic, 3-2 victory behind its first doubles team's gutty three-set victory.
"It was kind of a shocker, but it's OK," DeRienzo said. "It was gonna end eventually. It wasn't going to go on forever."
Nicole Druzhinsky and Maria Shabashkevich came back from a set down, a 2-love deficit in the final set and withstood a brief rain delay to clinch the crown, topping St. Francis' Samantha Rosco-Sipot and Rossella Scarpa, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
"It's elating," said Goldstein coach Victoria D'Orazio, who is retiring from coaching. "I don't know if I'm going to go to sleep tonight."
It came down to that final match. DeRienzo shocked Goldstein star Becky Shtilkind in first singles, 6-4, 6-3, but the Dolphins' Destina Grunin and Elizabeth Tsvetkov prevailed in second and third singles, respectively.
St. Francis' Alana Davidson and Paula Faltynowicz took home a straight-set victory over Goldstein's Ruta Pranaityte and Kim Salkin, setting up the dramatic first doubles showdown. St. Francis won the first set, and was down 4-3 in the second set before rain delayed the match 30 minutes. When play resumed, Druzhinsky and Shabashkevich came storming out of the gate and took the second set. They trailed by two games early, but rebounded to stop the bleeding as Druzhinsky held serve.
"That third game was crucial," Brennan said. "If they got up 3-love, the other team may have checked out."
Druzhinsky and Shabashkevich are an unorthodox double pair as neither plays at the net. The baseliners were consistent, forcing St. Francis mistakes – the kind of play that has often been a St. Francis trademark. Druzhinsky clinched the title, ripping an inside-out forehand past Rosco-Sipot.
Shrieks from Goldstein soon ensued and the entire team engulfed Druzhinsky and Shabashkevich in a big hug by the net.
"There were no nerves at all," Shabashkevich said. "We ignored all the cheering and played our game."
Goldstein nearly topped St. Francis in the Mayor's Cup finals last year, too, but fell a match short. History didn't repeat itself on Sunday, however.
"It means a lot," Shabashkevich said. "We improved a lot, we played a lot of matches. It's awesome to beat St. Francis Prep."
Brennan knew this day was coming, if not Sunday then next year. He loses his top three singles players and his top doubles player. Goldstein returned its entire team from last year. Brennan, in fact, said prior to the match he felt the Dolphins were the slight favorite. He left the National Tennis Center disappointed, disappointed the steak had come to an end, disappointed with the defeat, but not disappointed in his players.
"They gave 100-percent effort," said Brennan, a two-time cancer survivor. "They came up a little short."
They continued the tradition which began when he took over the program 13 years ago. They played their hardest and toughest and handled themselves with class, which is all he has ever asked of his players.
After the final point, Brennan didn't move. He wasn't sure how to react.
"I don't know how to feel," he said. "It hasn't happened. It felt strange, but that shows how long it's been. I don't like it. If I liked losing, we wouldn't have gotten to this point. But you have to accept it. We lost to a good team. Those girls earned it.
"I guess 13," he added, "is an unlucky number."


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Beck Uses Last Show To Reminisce About Some Of His Greatest Hits
Research ››› ››› MIKE BURNS & HARDEEP DHILLON
On the last episode of his Fox News show, Glenn Beck took some time to reflect on some of his wildest theories as well as people and organizations he repeatedly smeared during his tenure at Fox.
Beck Brags About Taking On George Soros
On His Last Show, Beck Says: "We've Taken On ... George Soros." From the June 30 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: We made an awful lot of enemies on this program. We've joked before, gosh, can we -- is there anybody else we can take on? I mean we've taken on every single person we've been told not to take on from the anarchist to the president to the Republicans to George Soros because the truth has no agenda. It will lead us where it leads us. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 6/30/11]
Beck Has Repeatedly Smeared Soros With Anti-Semitic Stereotypes And Falsehoods.
- Beck Has Used The Anti-Semitic Stereotype "Puppet Master" To Describe Soros. Glenn Beck has repeatedly attacked Soros with anti-Semitic stereotypes, referring to Soros as a "puppet master" and accusing him of controlling the media, the political process, and the global economy. In fact, Beck has claimed that he will "expose" Soros and has referred to Soros as "the head of the snake." Beck has also fearmongered that the "republic's at stake - set your DVR now" for "one of the most important shows I've ever done...a special hour on the puppet master, George Soros." Moreover, in his efforts to paint Soros as a villain, Beck repeatedly relied on a number of anti-Semitic sources including a book from Nazi supporter Elizabeth Dilling. [Media Matters, 11/09/10]
- Beck Revived An Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory To Smear George Soros. During the October 5, 2010, edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck, Beck, citing former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, suggested that Soros might have "helped trigger the economic meltdown" of Southeast Asian currencies in 1997. Mohamad's claims to that effect, during which he noted that "coincidentally, Soros is a Jew," were completely unsubstantiated. Mohamad later retracted the claim about Soros. [Media Matters, 10/6/10]
- Beck Has Falsely Claimed Soros Was A Nazi Collaborator. Beck has falsely claimed that Soros took "the lands from the people, his Jewish friends and neighbors who were being sent to the gas chambers." In fact, in the interview on which Beck's comments were based, Soros said he "had no role in taking away that property." [Media Matters 11/9/10]
- Beck: Soros "Collapses Regimes," And America Is "His Target Now." During the November 9, 2010, edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck, Beck claimed: "Along with currencies, Soros also collapses regimes. With his Open Society Fund, which was founded in 1979, Soros has helped fund the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine, the Rose Revolution in Georgia. He also helped to engineer coups in Slovakia, Croatia, and Yugoslavia. So what is his target now? Us. America." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 11/9/10, via Media Matters]
Beck Says He's Taught His Audience About The Dangers Of Social Justice
On His Last Show, Beck Calls Social Justice Dangerous. From the June 30 edition of Beck's Fox News show:
BECK: Social justice, a phrase that is so dangerous because it can be used for good, but when you know the history behind social justice you better investigate, especially because it's being used in churches. They've also hijacked the word even further to include environmental justice, reproductive justice and economic justice. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 6/30/11]
Beck Has Repeatedly Attacked Social Justice As A Danger To Society.
- Beck: "They Are Injecting Social Justice Into Our Churches...This Is The Last Dying Breath Of Our Churches If We Don't Snap Out Of It." During the May 18, 2010, edition of his show, Beck predicted: "[T]he government is going to merge with churches under the Democrats, you would have said I was stark-raving insane...The reason I warned you about this is because they are injecting social justice poison into our churches and it is the last -- this is the last dying breath of our churches if we don't snap out of it." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 5/18/10, via Media Matters]
- Beck Has Also Said: "They Call It Social Justice" But The White House And Progressives Are "Taking You To A Place To Be Slaughtered." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 11/3/09, via Media Matters]
- Beck: Obama's Agenda Is Based On "Reparations" And "A Model That Will Settle Old Racial Scores Through New Social Justice." In July 2009, Beck stated: "Here is "The One Thing" tonight: everything that is getting pushed through Congress, including this health care bill, are transforming America and they are all driven by President Obama's thinking on one idea: reparations." He then added: [Obama's] goal is creating a new America, a new model, a model that will settle old racial scores through new social justice. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 7/23/09, via Media Matters]
Beck Says He Has Educated His Audience About The Caliphate
On His Last Show, Beck Tells His Audience "You're Informed On The Caliphate." From the June 30 edition of Beck's Fox News show:
BECK: We learned about ACORN. You're informed on the caliphate. This information has allowed us to look at everything in a whole different way. It has allowed us to look and have some perspective. To believe that, yeah, things like -- things are possible. Things are indeed true that there are some people who want to harm the United States. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 6/30/11]
Beck Has Developed A Wild Theory That The Arab Spring Will Result In Socialists And Islamists Working Together To Form A Global Caliphate.
- Beck: "This Isn't Happenstance," "The World Is About To Be Dominated," "A Muslim Caliphate" Will "Emerge." As revolutions now known as the Arab Spring spread across Egypt and the rest of North Africa, Beck declared on January 31 that "this isn't about politics, this is about world denomination." According to Beck, the revolt in Egypt was the first step towards the emergence of "a Muslim caliphate" that "controls the Mideast and parts of Europe." He then asked: "What happens to us?" [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 1/31/11, via Media Matters]
- Beck: The Caliphate Moment "That I've Been Saying For Five Years" Is Coming Here To America With A Speech Scheduled For March 3, 2011. In February Beck predicted that the caliphate moment that he had predicted "for five years," "the moment that [he had] been saying for five years" was coming when a speech would be delivered on March 3, 2011. In fact, the speech Beck referred by Shariah 4 America was canceled and Shariah was never implemented in America. In fact, the Supreme Court ended its term by issuing rulings based on the U.S. Constitution, not Shariah. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 2/28/11, via Media Matters; Media Matters, 3/3/11; Supreme Court of the United States, accessed 6/28/11]
- Beck Used Events With No Connection To Each Other To Validate His Theory. Glenn Beck took to showing images of unrest anywhere in the world as proof of his wild conspiracy theory of a global caliphate. Beck decided that protests in Ivory Coast, Sudan, Mexico, and even Madison, Wisconsin supported his claims that radical leftists and extremist Muslims were working together to create global chaos in order to destroy Israel and the "Western way of life." As Media Matters has previously documented, these events had no connection whatsoever to his predicted Marxist-Islamist revolution. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 2/17/11, via Media Matters]
Beck References Perennial Bogeyman ACORN
Beck: "We Learned About ACORN" On This Program. From the June 30 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: We learned about ACORN. You're informed on the caliphate. This information has allowed us to look at everything in a whole different way. It has allowed us to look and have some perspective. To believe that, yeah, things like -- things are possible. Things are indeed true that there are some people who want to harm the United States. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 6/30/11]
Beck Has Repeatedly Lied About And Vilified ACORN.
- Beck Hyped Dishonest ACORN Video Sting Created By O'Keefe And Pushed By Breitbart. Beck was the first major media figure to promote videos targeting ACORN created by James O'Keefe and hyped by right-wing Andrew Breitbart. The videos, and the claims about them, were proved to be largely fictitious and ACORN was cleared of wrongdoing. [Media Matters, 9/10/09, 7/21/10]
- Beck Made False Claim That The Stimulus Package Included "Billions Of Dollars" For ACORN Or Groups Like Them. During the May 6, 2009, edition of his Fox News show, Beck echoed a false Republican talking point by stating, "By including ACORN, or groups like them, in the stimulus package, we have guaranteed them billions of dollars to buy more votes for the party that helps them the most." In fact, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 does not mention ACORN or otherwise single it out for funding; ACORN itself has said that it is ineligible for the funds and has no plans to apply for them. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 5/6/09, via Media Matters; Media Matters, 4/24/09]
- Beck Has Repeatedly Fearmongered About ACORN To Attack President Obama. For instance, on the July 27 edition of his Fox News show, Beck said: "Our president is not just bankrupting our country. He is fundamentally transforming it as he promised, and he is doing it to the core. In the next few years, I promise you, America will look more like ACORN in structure and less than anything that our Founders had in mind." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 7/27/09, 7/24/09, via Media Matters]
- Beck Has Pushed Tenuous Or Tangential "Connections" Between ACORN And Various People And Groups. For example, in June 2009, Beck asserted that Frances Fox Piven, who "community organizers like ACORN revere," teaches at a university that received money from AmeriCorps. In addition, on the July 6, 2009, edition of his Fox News program, Beck said that SEIU has a "powerful connection" to ACORN because they "share goals and office space." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 6/29/09, via Media Matters; Fox News, Glenn Beck, 7/6/09, via Media Matters]
Beck Warns Of Possible Hyperinflation
Beck: "Only Way Out Of [Debt Crisis] Is Real Trouble Now, And Maybe It's Hyperinflation." From the June 30 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: We showed you that this debt clock -- only way out of this is real trouble now, and maybe it's hyperinflation. Maybe. We showed you that that can happen. We asked you to prepare. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 6/30/11]
Beck Has Continually Warned Of Imminent Inflation, At One Point Predicting That It Would Occur On November 3, 2010.
- Beck Warned Of "A Lot Of Similarities" Between Weimar's Monetary Policy And Ours. On his Fox News show in April 2009, Beck said: "I have read about the Weimar Republic, and there are a lot of similarities on what they did and what we did to the money, and that was one of the real breeding grounds." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 4/10/09, via Media Matters]
- Beck Again Pushed Parallels Between The U.S. And Weimar. In August 2009, Beck again suggested parallels between the United States, the Weimar Republic, and Zimbabwe, claiming, "[W]e're closing now, in on our -- what did Forbes.com call it today? Oh, I remember, our 'Zimbabwe Moment.' We could never suffer Zimbabwe's fate of hyperinflation and collapse -- oh, no, no." He added: "What was it that turned those Nazis into Nazis? Oh, I remember, they were the Weimar Republic, and then, debt, hyperinflation and Nazis. Oh, I remember, but this is America. We're immune to hyperinflation or any kind of problems -- Jimmy Carter -- that never happens here." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 8/12/09, via Media Matters]
- Beck Hyped Gold Because "Inflation Is Going To Go Through The Roof." On the May 19, 2010, edition of his Fox News show, Beck stated: "Well, if you think a collapse is coming, if you think things are bad, if you think inflation is coming, well, you're not going to put your money into gold. I mean, into treasuries. You're going to put it into gold, which made this happen." He further said: "What you do is you buy these and you say, they're lying, man! Are you kidding me? Inflation is going to go through the roof." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 5/19/10, via Media Matters]
- Beck Predicted "The Weimar Moment" On November 3, 2010. On the October 25, 2010, edition of his Fox News show, Beck claimed that on "November 3rd, the Fed hits the Weimar moment." He repeated the claim, this time about the Treasury, on his radio show the next day. And on October 29, he once again argued that "the Weimar Moment" would come immediately following Election Day. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 10/25/10, 10/26/10, 10/29/10, via Media Matters]
- In November 2010, Beck Said That "Come Next Year, You Are Going To See Prices Skyrocket." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 11/2/10, via Media Matters]
- In Reality, There Has Been No Weimar-Style Hyperinflation. During the period of hyperinflation in Weimar Germany, prices on average "quadrupled each month" for sixteen months. By contrast, according to the latest inflation numbers, U.S. inflation is currently at 3.6 percent over the last 12 months. [EconLib.org, accessed 6/28/11; Bureau of Labor Statistics, 6/15/11]
Beck Mentions Hindenburg Omen, His Predictor For Stock Market Crashes
Beck: On This Program "We Showed You The Hindenburg Omen." From the June 30 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: We showed you the Great Depression of 1920. How many people even know that? And how it was turned around and it can be done again if we learn from history. We showed you the Hindenburg Omen, the Kondratiev wave, the Overton Window. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 6/30/11]
In 2010, Beck Twice Predicted An Imminent Five Percent Drop In The Stock Market Due To "Hindenburg Omen."
- In August 2010, Beck Said "The Hindenburg Omen" Had Been Triggered, Meaning A 5 Percent Drop In The Market "Usually Takes Place Within The Next 40 Days." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 8/16/10, via Media Matters]
- After The 40 Day Period Passed, Beck Reset The Clock On The Hindenburg Omen On October 5, 2010, Saying, "[W]e Just Entered The 30 Day Period." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 10/5/10, via Media Matters]
- The Crash That Beck Predicted Didn't Occur. In reality, the stock market has risen since October 2010. While there have been ups and downs, the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the NASDAQ are all higher now than they were in October 2010. [The New York Times, accessed 6/28/11, via Media Matters]
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Crannóg Red Branch Irish Ale is Not Vegan Friendly
|by Crannóg Ales
|706 Elson Road
Sorrento, BC, V0E 2W1
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|Double checked by:
|Shannon, Yolanda
|almost 7 years ago
Company email (February 2013):
"I was just looking at the site [Barnivore] and noticed some of our seasonal ales are listed there as 'not vegan'. You may need to wait until the brewers return, but some of them may be vegan. Here's what I can verify for certain:
Crannóg Backhand of God Stout: Vegan
Crannóg Red Branch Irish Ale: Not Vegan
Crannóg Gael's Blood Potato Ale: Not Vegan (because of isinglass… not human blood haha)
Crannóg Insurrection IPA: Not Vegan"
Company email (February 2013):
"Unfortunately the big bosses here (Rebecca and Brian) are on vacay for the next couple weeks, but having talked to them about this very topic last week, I feel confident in fielding your question. We have four main beers that we brew year round. Of those, only our Backhand of God Stout is vegan (isinglass is used in the other three). Crannog Ales is a small Certified Organic Brewery in Sorrento, BC and is not manufactured anywhere else in the world!"
Company email (August 2012):
"We use Isinglass as a fining in all our beers EXCEPT the Backhand of God Stout. We do not use any animal ingredients in any of our beers otherwise, except for the occasional cask which uses honey, and which is stated on the beer. You are highly unlikely to get any cask ales from us anyway, so not to worry about it.
We respect all life, animal or vegetable. Our ethic is to live and brew in a way which supports a vital ecosystem, including livestock, wild animals, insects, soil biota, vegetation etc. We are aware that our lives depend on the lives of everything around us, regardless of class or family."
Company email (March 2012)
- We are certified organic - all our beers, all the time. No non-organic ingredients.
- We are fully committed to ethical and responsible farming and brewing. Our brewery is as close to zero-waste as current recycling availability allows, we have reduced our water use to 1/8 that of most breweries, and we re-use our wastewater on the farm. We have reduced packaging and re-use almost everything in the brewery. Both the farm and the brewery are certified organic, and our primary focus is to build and regenerate the eco-system within which we operate. We build soil through our brewery and farm processes.
- We use isinglass as a processing aid in all our beers except the Backhand of God Stout. It is a processing aid that drops out of the beer before packaging, and is not present in the final beer.
- We do not pasteurize or filter our beers, so that they remain live products with active yeast and all the flavour we work so hard to put there in the first place.
- We use honey in some of our seasonal ales, indicated in the name or description of the beer. The honey comes from hives on the farm, which surrounds the brewery. (By the way, honey is produced by bees, it's not an "animal" ingredient. Just like wool is produced by sheep, they are not harmed in the shearing, and their health depends on being shorn annually!)
- We continue to institute energy-saving methods in the brewery, from water re-use to heat-on-demand systems so that our footprint remains sustainable.
- We raise livestock on the farm, as their manure and grazing assists in the creation of healthy soil and a viable eco-system. Without their input, our soil would become depleted and we would need to use chemical fertilizers! Responsible and ethical livestock rearing is extremely important to us.
We manufacture only in our own brewery, nowhere else. Why? Because the whole focus of what we do is sustainability, and exporting/outsourcing is simply not environmentally sustainable.
Therefore, the only beer that we make that adheres to your requirements would be the Backhand of God Stout, which uses no isinglass. It is widely available throughout southern BC - there's a list of where you can get it on our website.
Other products by Crannóg Ales:
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Endocrinology and Diabetes
Endocrinology is the study of hormones. Hormones travel in the blood and control many important body functions by delivering signals between the cells. Insulin, for example, is a hormone that moves food energy from the blood into muscle, fat and liver cells. If your child's body does not make enough insulin or becomes resistant to its effects, your child may develop diabetes. Diabetes is a lifelong condition in which the body doesn't properly control the amount of sugar in the blood.
The Endocrinology and Diabetes program at Seattle Children's provides long-term care for children and teens with diabetes and other endocrine system problems, such as puberty, growth and thyroid disorders. We believe in caring for your child while helping you learn how best to manage your child's condition. Seattle Children's program meets national standards set by the American Diabetes Association. Our team is experienced in caring for growing children, and includes doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified diabetes nurse educators, dietitians and social workers. We work closely with you and your child's primary care doctor to help your child thrive.
Awards and Recognition
In 2018, U.S. News & World Report ranked Seattle Children's as the #1 pediatric endocrinology and diabetes program in the Northwest, and among the top 10 nationwide.
Conditions We Treat
We care for children and teens with a broad range of endocrine disorders, including:
The adrenal glands release hormones that control many important functions, including puberty and your child's response to stress. When the adrenal glands don't work properly, your child may develop one of a number of disorders, depending on which hormone is affected. One of these disorders is Cushing's syndrome. It happens when a person's body makes too much of the stress hormone called cortisol. Another disorder is adrenal insufficiency, which occurs when the body makes too little cortisol.
The minerals calcium and phosphorus are important to many parts of the body. Calcium helps with brain, heart and muscle function. Together, calcium and phosphorus build strong teeth and bones. Many problems can develop when levels of calcium and phosphorus are too high (hypercalcemia and hyperphosphatemia) or too low (hypocalcemia and hypophosphatemia). Calcium and phosphorus disorders are often caused by problems with production of the parathyroid hormone. They can also be the result of problems with the way vitamin D works in the body.
Diabetes is a condition that causes the level of sugar (glucose) in the blood to get too high. In type 1 diabetes, blood sugar levels rise out of control because the body has stopped making enough of the hormone called insulin. The job of insulin is to move sugar from the blood into cells. Type 1 diabetes is most often found when a person is a child or young adult. Read more. (PDF)
Diabetes is a condition that causes the level of sugar (glucose) in the blood to become too high. In type 2 diabetes, the body doesn't respond properly to the hormone called insulin, which moves food energy from the blood into cells. Glucose is less able to enter the cells and supply energy, which causes blood sugar levels to rise.
The gonads – testes in boys and ovaries in girls – produce most of the body's sex hormones. When the gonads produce too little hormone (hypogonadism) or too much hormone (hypergonadism), health problems can occur. In girls, hypogonadism during childhood stops menstruation and breast development from occurring, and slows growth. In boys, too little sex hormone during childhood slows development of muscles and facial hair, and results in short stature. In both boys and girls, too much of the hormones can speed sexual development.
A growth disorder is any problem in babies, children or teens that prevents them from meeting what is considered normal growth. Many conditions can cause growth disorders, including those involving hormones (endocrine diseases, such as hypothyroidism). Growth hormone deficiency occurs when the pituitary gland does not produce enough of the hormone to make normal growth possible.
Lipid disorders occur when people have trouble keeping proper levels of body fats, including cholesterol, in the blood. In children and teens, some studies show that high levels of "bad," or LDL, cholesterol add to the risk of developing heart disease early in life.
Puberty is the time of life when your child becomes mature sexually. Most often, it happens between ages 9 and 14 years for girls, and ages 11 and 16 years for boys. When children begin puberty unusually early or late, there may be a problem with the way hormones are released and used by their bodies. Puberty that begins very early – before age 8 in girls and before age 9 in boys – is called precocious puberty. In girls, when the first period (menstruation) hasn't come by age 16 or breast development by age 14, doctors call the condition delayed puberty. For boys, the sign of delayed puberty is testicles that have not grown larger by age 14.
The thyroid gland produces hormones that help control the process that turns food into energy the body can use (metabolism). While there are several thyroid conditions, they can be divided into two main types. Hyperthyroidism is when the gland releases too much thyroid hormone, which can cause your child to stop gaining weight while growing. Hypothyroidism means too little hormone is in your child's blood, which can slow growth and delay puberty. Read more about thyroid conditions and Seattle Children's Thyroid Program.
Paying for Care
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Shawnee is in the Frontier Country region of Oklahoma.
While normally not on the sight-seeing itinerary of those who do not know someone already living there, Shawnee could prove to be an interesting day trip.
In recent days, Shawnee has become increasingly known for its numerous Native American casinos.
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By car[edit]
Practically the only method of getting in or out of Shawnee is on the highway. Taxi cabs can be hired by calling a taxi service to have them pick you up, although doing so from another city could prove expensive.
There is an Enterprise rent a car in Shawnee and Shawnee Airport, so car rentals must be made before hand. Many times this is done at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City.
Most traffic enters and exits Shawnee via Interstate Highway I-40, although State Highway 3 and US Highway 177 pass through Shawnee as well.
By bus[edit]
Greyhound buses make daily stops in front of the American Colony motel on the far north side of Shawnee.
From there you will have to either call a taxi or arrange another form of pickup.
By train[edit]
Originally established as a railroad hub, Shawnee still has many infrequently used rail tracks. While logistically difficult as well as illegal, it could be feasible to stow aboard a freight car inbound to Shawnee. Not recommended.
By plane[edit]
Chartered flights can be acquired to fly you in to Shawnee airport, most likely originating from Oklahoma City or Tulsa. There are no commercial flight charter services based in Shawnee, so arrangements for your eventual pickup would have to be made as well.
On Foot[edit]
While towns in Oklahoma are quite spread out, some have been known to hitchhike especially along I-40. Not preferred.
Get around[edit]
If you are a tourist, getting around in Shawnee means either calling a taxi cab service to pick you up or using a rental car.
Shawnee is very, very spread out and if you will quickly abandon any thoughts of walking if you ever want to get where you're going.
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In recent years, Shawnee has spent over a million dollars revitalizing a three block section of Bell Street, one of Shawnee's oldest roads and site of the Aldrige Hotel and former Round House Building.
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18 hole course, Pro Store, and Club House dining available. 2501 Augusta, Shawnee, OK, (405) 273-4076 , Golf Shop (405) 273-2764, Greens Keeper (405) 273-0784, Office- 2300 East Highland (405) 273-1763
18 hole course; usually considered to Shawnee's budget golfing: "Golfing for the price of a gordita", Miniature Golf located nearby. 1901 South Gordon Cooper Drive, (405) 275-4471
Driving range and batting cages also available. Shawnee Lodge 657, (405) 275-1060
Public Parks[edit]
Since Shawnee's many public parks are used infrequently by locals, a quiet and serene environment can usually be expected.
(Exceptions noted below)
Shawnee's Twin Lakes[edit]
hello Shawnee's Twin Lakes offer enjoyable avocation and adventure to anyone who likes to experience the outdoors and water related leisure.
One lake is reserved for fishing and angling.
Its counterpart lake is for those who wish to swim or take part in non fishing related activities such as water skiing, jet skiing, or drinking. (Consuming alcohol while fishing can be dangerous to yourself and those around you; it is strongly discouraged.)
(Note: Due to pervasive droughts and low water levels, Shawnee Twin Lakes are often closed during the summer)
In recent years, Shawnee has been surrounded by gaming establishments who advertise to be "just like Vegas". For smokers, these establishments offer the convenience of having their own smoke shops, which are not subject to local tobacco tax statutes.
Since the passage of the 2005 passage of a Tribal Gaming Amendment, Native American casinos can now offer card games along with their slot machine mainstays.
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As a classic example of middle sized town Americana, Shawnee boasts a variety of shopping opportunities, both budget and luxury oriented.
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Like most towns of any size in Oklahoma, Shawnee is inundated with most of the fast food restaurants you can think of and also has many all-you-can-eat buffets (mostly Chinese food).
Most places to eat are located either on the northern edge of town along interstate highway I-40, sprinkled along Harrison and Kickapoo Street, or downtown on the south side of Shawnee.
You cannot go very far in Shawnee without running into a Sonic Drive-In of which there are 5, Braum's hamburgers and ice-cream (3), McDonald's (3), Arby's roast beef (2), Pizza Hut (2), or a Taco Bell (2).
Shawnee is home to what has been labeled as "Sonic number 3000". This label is up for debate however, as some state that it was not the 3000th Sonic drive-in to be erected.
Other fast food chains set up around town include Wendy's, KFC, and Taco Bueno. Higher-end chains include Cracker Barrel, Red Lobster, and Chili's.
If you're wanting something more special, authentic Italian cooking with menus that go way beyond pizza and spaghetti can be found at Frateli's, just south of OBU on Kickapoo. Also on south US 177 you'll find Jay's Classic Steakhouse. Perhaps the best Mexican menu in town is at Abuelita's, found at the corner of Harrison and Independence.
Shawnee also has many pizza kitchens, although many of these are carry-out/delivery only.
Don't forget to try "Vans" a local BBQ favorite, located on Highland Street
Hamburger King, located downtown, is a fun diner. Orders are placed using phones located at each booth.
Also on the menu is Robb's Smokehouse, the 2nd most popular BBQ place in town, located at 2321 N. Kickapoo, across from OBU.
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Ralph Schneck - Senior Pastor
Pastor Ralph earned his Pastoral Theology degree from Baptist University of America. He served as the Youth Pastor at Capital City Baptist in Columbia, SC for seven years. He is the founding pastor of FBC. Pastor Ralph and his wife, Melissa, have been married since 1984. Their daughters, Hollie and Emily both graduated from Clemson University and Hollie married Andy Slemp in 2014 and Emily married Jonathan Whittle in 2015. Pressing on!
Contact Pastor Ralph
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Hollyn Mangione knows first hand the risks of a small overlap frontal crash. Driving her 2012 Kia Soul to a friend's house on a clear evening last November, Mangione, 48, encountered an oncoming 1999 GMC Yukon that had veered into her lane on a rural road in Hanover County, Virginia.
"I looked up and saw the other vehicle coming toward me, and I remember thinking, is there someplace I can go? Can I get off the road? I took my foot off the accelerator trying to buy myself some time to make a decision. There wasn't anywhere to go on this narrow road because it was tree-lined, and there was a big ditch.
"I remember thinking, please just stay in your lane," she recalls. "Once I heard the boom and felt it, I was unconscious."Afterward, she says "I remember the EMT holding my head and my telling her, 'That really hurts.' And saying to them, 'But I'm stuck over here where my knee is pinned in the car.' And then I don't remember anything until they were putting IVs in, in the ambulance."
Mangione, who was using her safety belt, sustained facial injuries from contact with the Kia's door frame. She had a left facial fracture and laceration, concussion, whiplash, left eye injury and dental injuries. Crash damage to Mangione's small car was similar to damage patterns in the Institute's small overlap crash test. The driver's space was compromised by intruding structure. The A-pillar, hinge pillar and forward portion of the window frame were driven rearward and inboard as the wheel and tire were forced rearward. The side curtain and torso airbags didn't deploy.
Only 3 of 11 midsize luxury and near-luxury cars tested earn good or acceptable ratings in the Institute's new small overlap frontal crash test. The test involves 25 percent of a vehicle's front end.
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My friends and I spotted Oreo (as we have fondly named it because it looks like a cross between Pearl and Rupert, our former island swans) June 4 on our morning walk around Balboa Island — and subsequently on June 5, 6 and 7. It seems to favor the North Bayfront area and the strip of water along Bayside Drive (across from Promontory Point).
Does anyone know where this swan came from and whether it is a new resident or just visiting? I've done a little research, and it's actually called a black neck swan, native to South America (Chile, in particular). How did it make it to Newport Harbor?
I have become infatuated with this amazing-looking bird (my husband says "obsessed!"), and thought others might find it interesting also.
I'm curious and hopeful that someone out there has more information on how the swan made it to our area.
Julie Frey
Balboa Island
Mesa Water strategy
Recently, the Mesa Water District changed its financial strategy from "Be financially responsible and maintain competitive rates" to "Be financially responsible and transparent."
In changing this goal it leaves the impression the district is not that concerned about the rates it charges customers. One would hope that the goal that replaced it would be important, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
The district is getting ready to discuss and approve the budget for the next fiscal year. This document lays out the financial plan, the spending priorities and what will be accomplished with the rates collected.
It is probably the most important financial document the board considers during the year. The meeting for this review and possible approval is taking place at 3:30 p.m. instead of in the evening when the regular board meetings are held.
This earlier time allows for less public participation in the process, thereby reducing transparency. If the district was serious about being financially transparent, it would hold this important meeting at a time that would allow for more public input and involvement.
Glynis Litvak
Costa Mesa
The writer is a former Mesa Water District employee.
Hoag abortion ban
I was disappointed to see the letters in your mailbag section all held the same opinion — that Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian was wrong to ban abortions at its facility.
I hope you will publish other opinions as well about this matter. I, for one, applaud Hoag for its decision. If abortion supporters are worried about where they or their daughters can get their next abortion, they need only look in the yellow pages for any number of providers.
I must say that the fact that one writer called abortion "a service" is unconscionable. The suction and dismemberment of an unborn human being forcibly torn from its mother's womb is anything but a service.
Karen Fisher
Huntington Beach


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The Isuzu Oasis was a direct reply to the Honda Odyssey that was released in 1995. The Oasis was born a year later in 1996 and ran in the U.S. market until 1999. It was built in collaboration between Honda and Isuzu, an agreement that allowed Honda to repackage the Isuzu Rodeo and Trooper into its own vehicles.
The Isuzu Oasis was a reliable vehicle with a good-build quality just like the Odyssey. The body was well-suited for the suspension system, so the Oasis gently hugged the road during curves. The shocks make for a smooth and carefree ride.
Unfortunately, the interior was very noisy. The engine contributed a bit to this, but the build quality of the interior also allowed a lot of road noise to enter the cabin of the vehicle. The engine is especially loud and weedy during acceleration.
Although the engine can get noisy, the fuel economy is quite good, with 18/24 mpg city/highway. An initial 2.2-liter, single overhead-cam, four-cylinder engine was available on all the Oasis vehicles. It produced 140 horsepower, which is good for take-off but lacking at top speed. In 1998, a 2.3-liter, dual-overhead cam that produced 150 horsepower was introduced. Both engines used a four-speed automatic transmission.
The Oasis was definitely known for its carriage capacity. Cargo space clocked in at a whopping 102.5-cubic feet. You could also fit up to seven passengers. However, the minivan is a bit narrower than others on the market, making shoulder room a bit of a problem. The three-passenger benches felt a bit cramped as well, seriously hindering the ride. One nice element of the seating is that the third row bench folds into the floor, allowing extra storage space.
The Oasis also boasted four doors that swung out, as opposed to two swinging doors and two sliding doors on many minivans.
There were a few mechanical problems with the Oasis throughout its run; some of them serious and some of them minimal.
1996 models often have a cigarette lighter socket that tended to pop out due to a loose ring that holds it in place on the back. These rings can be replaced with a stronger one at minimal cost. The 1996 model also has a faulty glove box lock that causes the glove compartment to open on bumps. A design problem with the fuel gauge needle makes the gauge unreliable. The needle is not long enough to go all the way up to the ""F"" indicator. Another problem on the 1996 model is excessive cabin noise due to a faulty vacuum check valve, which causes the dashboard to rattle. Another fault lies the seatbelts, which sometimes stick or retract slowly; this is seen on the 1996 and 1997 models.
1999 models often have a misfire problem that could be serious, causing a loss in power, greater carbon emissions, and manifold clogs. The fuel door is also a problem, sometimes getting stuck and refusing to close properly.
Very few changes were made to the Isuzu Oasis during its run.
In 1997, the Oasis was unchanged mechanically. It did receive a new body-color mirror feature, which replaced the old black units.
1998 saw the introduction of the new, more powerful engine. The 2.2-liter single-cam four-cylinder was replaced with a 2.3-liter that increased the horsepower by ten. The horn was also changed on the vehicle to a pad in the middle of the steering wheel as opposed to the button on the previous model.
In 1999, the Oasis continued with the present course, although Honda redesigned the Odyssey, making it larger and more current with the public taste. Isuzu decided to drop the Oasis that year.
Overall, this vehicle performs just like the Odyssey, a solid minivan that has sold quite well over the years. Although smaller than other minivans, the four swinging doors was a really nice feature that may appeal to some buyers. If you're considering an Oasis, check the repair records to ensure many of the faults covered earlier have been dealt with appropriately. Furthermore, avoid purchasing the single-cam 2.2-liter engine that was available at the Oasis' introduction. This weak engine will cause more headaches than it's worth. Look for the 2.3-liter engine to ensure the best power from the vehicle. Also, skip the 1996 Oasis to avoid some of the nagging issues of the early model's mechanics.
1998 Isuzu Oasis
1997 Isuzu Oasis
The 1997 Isuzu Oasis is very similar to the Honda Odyssey in terms of price, features, appearance, and design.
1996 Isuzu Oasis
The 1996 Isuzu Oasis is essentially the Honda Odyssey with a different grille and wheel covers.


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Balancing liberties and security is a national discussion
Two years ago, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a 32-year veteran of Congress, warned that the American people "will be extremely surprised when they learn how the Patriot Act is secretly being interpreted."
Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old computer jock who revealed the existence of two secret government programs that collect information about citizens, we know. And, yes, we were surprised to learn that government was vacuuming up the records of every telephone call, who was called, when, from where and for how long, all in the name of national security. Surprised, but not shocked. Trust in government is too shaky for that.
Snowden also outed a National Security Agency program with the spy-thriller name Prism that collects data from email, photos and other information transmitted overseas via the internet. His revelations have been called an act of treason by some and patriotism by others. The truth, if the facts bear out Snowden's account, are more the latter than the former. He wanted not to profit personally or to harm the United States, but rather to inform the public of what he felt was dangerous and potentially unconstitutional government action.
The two NSA programs are legal. Some in Congress knew about and apparently approved them. Which makes one wonder why James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, lied to Wyden during a hearing last spring when he denied that the NSA collects information on millions of Americans.
What Snowden did was, of course, illegal. He should have taken his concerns to Congress or expressed them first in a legal channel. But his actions were also a service to the nation, which as some members of Congress and President Obama have noted, needs to have a frank discussion about how to balance security and privacy. We can't have 100 percent of both, the president said. The discussion is overdue. We live in an era where business is conducted and lives lived online, and the technology exists to collect, store and mine vast quantities of personal data.
How much intrusion into citizens' private lives is warranted in the name of security? Do the intrusions keep us safe? Is the collection of that data "reasonable," or an unreasonable, unwarranted search under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution? Are we a democratic society, a surveillance society or both? Can both exist simultaneously?
Did the data collection programs need to be secret? We doubt it. The public, polls suggest, is only too willing to ignore Benjamin Franklin's warning that people who trade liberty for security will get neither. It would approve the spying. And any terrorist with a thimble full of brains expects that phone and internet communications will be monitored.
Should the government have faith in a clandestine intelligence system that can be compromised at any moment by any low-level player with a security clearance? Bradley Manning, the man behind the massive leak of classified federal information to WikiLeaks three years ago, was an Army private. Snowden, though he worked his way up to a $120,000 per year job, started as a security guard at a NSA facility. There are hundreds if not thousands of potential Snowdens in what has become a vast, semi-privatized federal intelligence system.
A government that watches its citizens needs to be watched back. Abuse of power has a long history.
It's time to talk about where we are — a nation with a Patriot Act that's open to semi-secret if not secret interpretation, national security letters that forbid citizens to say they are being secretly investigated and personal privacy that seems a distant memory — and where as a nation we want to be.
— The Concord (N.H.) Monitor


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Of Clint Eastwood, Chairs, And A Job Well Done
The presentations at the Republican National Convention (RNC) were strong with a theme that was gifted to the Republicans through an unscripted moment in a campaign speech (are there any other kinds of public address with Barry?) delivered by our 44th President, Barack Obama.
Mr. Obama mocked successful business owners through the phrase brought about when he characterized these business owners as being smarter or gaming the system when they built there businesses and hired people saying "You didn't build that", insinuating that businesses would not exist without help from the Government.
The RNC said over, and over again – We Built This!" – and tied the President to his failed record on job creation, the economy, the increase in debt, and with Clint Eastwood's help, his lack of leadership for all Americans no matter party affiliation, ethnic background, religion, or talent.
Clint Eastwood was a surprise headline evening podium guest and instead of coming on stage with a tightly scripted presentation that included background video, testimonials, and props … save one. All Clint did was talk to the crowd and carried on a conversation with one prop, an empty chair.
The Empty chair, as explained by Clint Eastwood, was to symbolize our current president, Barack Obama.
What a classic metaphor which played on many levels – from this president not being in his chair while playing in one of his record number of golf outings (well over 100 games played since he assumed office), to being MIA (missing in action) on policies that promote as opposed to inhibit job creation and growth, to operating the government without a formal budget since taking office (that's right, NO BUDGET), an additional 6 Trillion dollars added to our debt (a sum greater than what all other Presidents have added to the debt before Obama), and finally, the concept of "Leading From Behind" in all things relating to foreign affairs (and really, there is much, much more).
"So I've got Mr. Obama sitting here and I just was going to ask him a couple of questions. But you know, I remember 3½ years ago when Mr. Obama won the election and, no, I wasn't a big supporter," Eastwood said as he looked at the empty stool next to his podium.
"I was watching that night when he was having that thing and they were talking about hope and change," he added. "'Yes we can' and it was dark and outdoors and it was nice, people were lighting candles, they were saying 'I just thought this is great.' Everybody's crying, Oprah was crying. And I was even crying."
"I haven't cried that hard since I found out that there's 23 million unemployed people in this country. Now that is something to cry for because that is a disgrace, a national disgrace, and we haven't done enough; obviously, this administration hasn't done enough to cure that," he said.
The actor, who officially endorsed Romney earlier this month, continued on a winding rant in which he hit the president for failing to keep his many 2008 promises.
"Somebody had the stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York City. … I know you were against the war in Iraq and that's OK, but you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You thought that was something worth doing. We didn't check with the Russians to see how they did there for the 10 years," Eastwood said.
"I'm not going to shut up. It's my turn," the actor blurted out a few moments later, still glancing over at the make-believe Obama sitting in the empty chair next to him. "I just wondered, all these promises, and then I wondered about you know, … what do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him that. … Tell him yourself. You're absolutely crazy."
Photo "Tweeted" by Barack H. Obama, himself. Tweet: This seat's taken. http://OFA.BO/c2gbfi , pic.twitter.com/jgGZTb02 – The fact that this 44th President couldn't pass the chance to respond speaks volumes.
Eastwood went on - "I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we -- we own this country.
We -- we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours."
Clint then addressed the crowd in the hall and on the camera with this line – "Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go."
Clint Eastwood is right, we, as Americans living during Carter's Second Term, have to let this 44th President and his administration go come November 2012.


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Pure Storage Aims To Close The Flash Price Gap
A common perception is that flash storage is more expensive than high-performance (that is, 10K/15K RPM) hard disks. On a raw, per-byte basis, that may be the case, but that is not the right measure; instead, the comparison should be between bytes of usable storage, not raw storage. That is to say, the measure should be applied to the storage that is actually put to work. Plus, since using deduplication and compression magnifies the actual raw capacity of flash storage into a much larger quantity of usable storage, the price difference may very well vanish in, well, a flash.
Pure Storage argues that the idea of HDDs being less expensive than flash is no longer valid.
Pure Storage is an all-flash, controller-based, scale-up enterprise storage vendor that competes directly with traditional and hybrid storage arrays, as well as with all-flash storage arrays. It claims that its flash storage is less expensive than high-performance HDDs, and that the gap favoring flash storage will only increase over the next few years. The company has also tackled and addressed supposed reliability issues with flash storage so that, from a cost and reliability perspective, flash storage in a controller-based, all-flash array measures up.
Without going into too much detail, Pure Storage builds deduplication and compression into its flash storage arrays as a standard feature that the customer cannot turn off (and, in fact, for architectural reasons having to do with managing writes, would not want to turn off). Although different storage workloads are not subject to deduplication and compression uniformly, Pure Storage claims approximately a 6-to-1 data reduction ratio on average, but results can be higher or lower. Still, that means that each 1 Tbyte of flash purchased produces 6 Tbytes of usable storage, a ratio that makes investing in flash highly attractive.
How valid is the company's claim? Well, VCs have just advanced Pure Storage $150M in additional funding. Although large vendors are obviously investing even larger sums in flash storage, smaller vendors are often able to take a focused approach and don't have to worry about protecting existing legacy investments.
Deduplication and Compression
The obvious question is: Can't hard disks perform those same deduplication and compression functions just as efficiently? Now, compression can be applied successfully to HDDs, but that practice has not seen broad acceptance. Deduplication in the form of single-instance file deduplication is fairly common, but generally not really block-level deduplication. (And there is no reason that single instancing could not be applied before block level deduplication on flash, anyway.)
Pure Storage has identified four specific reasons why similar deduplication and compression technology is highly unlikely to be applied to HDDs. All take into account the difference in architectures between flash storage that (as a solid state technology) has no moving parts and HDDs that (as electromagnetic devices) do.
• Flash storage is more efficient than HDDs in dealing with random I/Os on reads. The process of deduplication takes out duplicate data and replaces with pointers; the result is that any given dataset may be spread over much of the storage array. Thus, when reading a file whose pieces were originally sequentially linked, pieces may be anywhere. This creates random I/Os, which are the bane of existence of HDDs. Think of all the moving heads when trying to reassemble a file from a large number of individual disks versus the "virtual" hop and skip approach (so to speak) of flash storage -- that is why the different pooling architectures matter with deduplication on reads.
• Flash is better at dealing with writes. Deduplication and compression add operations complexity (such as verifying the validity of the data that is being written) that take time and CPU cycles; flash storage can deal with these issues without the significant additional overhead that HDDs have to use to do the job. Consequently, flash storage is more efficient on the write side.
[Read how EMC makes a case for flash in traditional storage systems in "EMC VNX: Flash Storage Takes Center Stage."]
• Flash is more effective in handling storage virtualization. The data reduction produced by the combination of deduplication and compression requires the complete virtualization of the array (as the process of necessity separates the logical position of the data from its physical placement). This virtualization is very fine-grained (such as 512-byte chunks), which leads to a metadata structure that can handle the pointers to billions and potentially to trillions of objects. Pure Storage argues that retrofitting the controllers of standard HDD arrays simply isn't possible; even doing it upfront with a flash array is very difficult. Flash storage makes it easier to deal with the modified data using compression.
Compression is non-deterministic in size; that means that when a file is over-written or modified, it may not fit in the same space. That can lead to a read-modify-write cycle in which, among other things, decompression and recompression have to take place. Although StorageTek's Iceberg addressed this problem as far back as 1994 on HDDs, the latencies involved with mechanical devices are far larger and more cumbersome than with flash.
The bottom line is that flash storage can make data reduction in its entirety work, and that there are significant challenges in doing the same with HDD arrays.
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MILWAUKEE — Around here, the only thing sliding downhill more than the Dodgers is Bernie Brewer.
The mustachioed mascot, who goes for a ride down a yellow half-tube every time the home team homers, slid from his perch twice Saturday. Carlos Gomez and Khris Davis cranked a pair of long balls against Zack Greinke as the Dodgers lost to the Milwaukee Brewers, 4-1.
If the Dodgers were finding different ways to win during the Freeway Series against the Angels, they have found a different way to lose their first two games against the Brewers.
Friday, Justin Turner's glove betrayed him in the seventh inning and the Dodgers' bullpen coughed up a one-run lead.
Saturday, they couldn't hit.
"When I was with the Brewers, we scored like 11 runs a game," Greinke said. "When that happens, it doesn't matter what you do."
Milwaukee recalled right-hander Mike Fiers (1-1) from Triple-A to start his first game of the season. Fiers has never been able to stick in the big leagues over parts of four seasons, but he's stuck it to the Dodgers twice — once in May 2012 and again on Saturday. He allowed only three hits, and six balls out of the infield, in eight outstanding innings.
"He wasn't a total mystery," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said of Fiers. "He's coming right after us, got ahead in the count."
Using a fastball that topped out at 92 mph, a cutter, a curveball and an occasional changeup, Fiers looked better than his rudimentary repertoire would suggest. The 29-year-old right-hander exited to a standing ovation from the announced crowd of 40,553 at Miller Park.
Fiers struck out five batters and allowed only a long home run by Adrian Gonzalez in the fourth inning. Gonzalez also homered Friday.
Brewers closer Francisco Rodriguez walked one batter and allowed a single to Gonzalez in the ninth inning. The Dodgers had runners at first and third — their only runner in scoring position all day — when the game ended on a routine groundout by Matt Kemp.
"He's always been good every time I've seen him," Greinke said of Fiers, his teammate from 2011-12. "I don't know if he had a tough year last year but I looked at his minor-league numbers this year (2.45 ERA, 0.948 WHIP for Triple-A Nashville) and they're amazing. I was asking some guys in their organization and I think the main reason is the (major-league) pitching staff's been so good.
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Both Greinke and Mattingly compared Fiers' repertoire to that of Arizona Diamondbacks right-hander Josh Collmenter. The key difference: Collmenter has a 6.87 ERA over four games against the Dodgers this season.
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Sunday, 8th January, 2012, 08:00 AM #1
WotC Seeks Unity with a New Edition
This is one of three articles covering this announcement. The other two articles are Off to See the Wizards: The Day that WotC Showed Me D&D 5th Edition and Bet You Wish Your Workplace Looked Like WotC?
One thing made clear by Mike Mearls and other WotC staff at the "WotC Summit" last year - at which they formally confirmed to us that they were working on a new edition of D&D - is that they intend to do it very differently this time around. The approach to the development of 5th Edition (or whatever it ends up being called - it's referred to by a code name at WotC, or by phrases such as "a new iteration"; there's an implication there that simply calling it a "new edition" may be underselling their goals which appear to be more inclusive of all D&D players and which we hope to be able to share soon) is very specifically planned to be inclusive of fans, with the ultimate goal of having the fans actually help shape the new edition.
They've never done this before - at least, not to this degree; it's a very different process to that used with previous iterations of the game. But it was made clear that they really, really, really want to put out a game that is unifying rather than divisive; that caters - as much as possible - to as many as possible. And which is, ultimately, a game that all D&D players, whatever their preferred flavor, will want to play. And so they intend to engage the community to an unprecedented level.
During a conversation last month, Mike Mearls, head of R&D for Dungeons & Dragons, made this comparison: "D&D is like the wardrobe you use to go to Narnia." I wrote it down so as to remember it. I was fortunate to have an opportunity to do some playtesting for the fledgling 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons with Mike Mearls as the DM and by the end of the event I really felt that is what Wizards was attempting to do with the new edition.
Wizards of the Coast described the goal of the new iteration of D&D in the following way: "The goal of this project is to develop a universal rules system that takes from the best of every edition and get at the soul of what D&D is. What better way to do that than to look to the fans to help us in this effort?" This is more revealing than it looks: WotC has acknowledged publicly that they made mistakes in the buildup to 4E, and has learned important lessons from that period.
That's why the buildup period of the new edition will be far more inclusive than ever before. Fan feedback and public playtests are a core part of WotC's strategy this time around. In their own words, "This is a whole new process for Wizards and were excited to enlist the fan base to help shape the future of D&D." They intend to engage the fans in a way they have never done before; and summarize their approach most clearly when they say "this process is an opportunity for fans to help us craft a new edition and help determine how the game is played moving forward." In many ways, this really is an exciting new approach to designing a new edition of the game; and it's exciting for us fans because this time we aren't just spectators waiting for scraps of information - we're going to be part of the process. We're going to have opportunities to take part in playtests (and these very soon - we're not talking months in the future here), and respond to specific questions or concepts. For sure, DDXP is going to be an exciting convention this year for those who are able to attend. There is a new edition playtest called Caves of Chaos at the event, which you can find details about here - "Join the first public playtest of the next iteration of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. The playtest offers players the chance to run pre-generated 1st-level characters through the Caves of Chaos, a four-hour D&D adventure. Wizards of the Coast staff will be running several tables each day. As part of the playtest, participants must sign a special non-dislcosure agreement for playtesters."
You've already seen some preliminary elements of this process in the Legends & Lore columns, although I personally feel it's a mistake to look at those columns and conclude that you know what the new edition is going to shape up like. Those columns aren't previews of what they're doing; they're a way of floating concepts out there and seeing what you think. Some are popular; others less so, and this is important. I feel it's vital not just to find some things that gamers want in their new D&D, but also to discover what they definitely don't want.
WotC also wanted to emphasize its commitment to tabletop face-to-face gaming. There are many, many rumors flying round the web, and much speculation; a lot of this is centered around an expectation of a more digital, online focus. WotC stated clearly "[We are] extremely committed to tabletop gaming and the face to face experiences that D&D brings." There is clear recognition that although digital tools can enhance and supplement a game, the company has not lost sight of the fact that D&D is a tabletop roleplaying game, and not a digital experience.
I encourage you to write them, to post about them, to be active on the message boards here at EN World, the Wizards of the Coast site, and elsewhere (but mainly here). The idea of getting fan feedback to help craft the newest edition of the godfather of role-playing games should excite anyone who plays or has played D&D in the past. Make sure you get signed up for the playtest and keep giving feedback on the Legends & Lore columns. I suggest voicing your opinion in a positive way; if you really want to help shape this game - and you can - please try not to actively alienate the folks who are attempting to engage you. This news will stir up some fervor and Wizards of the Coast expects this. Keep in mind that we are a community and all share a passion for the same hobby. There are no right or wrong answers, just your opinions.
You can expect to see this development process much more clearly very soon. The playtests can already be signed up for (see the link above); DDXP is going to be very exciting; and in the coming months you'll be able to witness - and participate in - something which is new to us, and new to WotC. It's an exciting time to be a D&D player!
NOTE: The "I" in this article is EN World's WotC correspondent, @Gaming Tonic. The article was added to and posted by Morrus.
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Had no plans to go to D&D Experience this year, but I may have to see if I can make the trip this year...
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Shocked....no not really. But really the open playtest thing is going to be cool. I am looking forward to seeing it roll out and how it all unfolds. And truth be told I am ready to come home .
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From the Wizards new D&D blog:
Mike Mearls, Team Lead
Greg Bilsland, Team Producer
Monte Cook, Design Team Lead
Bruce Cordell, Designer
Robert J. Schwalb, Designer
Jeremy Crawford, Development Team Lead
Tom LaPille, Developer
Rodney Thompson, Developer
Miranda Horner, Editor
Monday, 9th January, 2012, 03:35 PM #7
There is a movie from 1980 - Steve McQueen's last one - titled THE HUNTER, where McQueen (whose usual ride is a 1950s era Studebaker) has to rent a car. In this case, it's a 1980 "F-Body" Trans Am.
As the rental agent leaves him with the car he calls out to her "DON'T YOU HAVE SOMETHING WITH A CLUTCH?" (although the idea of a big 350 equipped air-breather like a Trans Am being automatic just turns my stomach). He drives around town, looking for the bad guys, the car moving in comical fits and starts the whole way as he comes to grips with a "modern" vehicle. The denouement to this act is when he finally chases the bad guys down and returns to the rental agent with the car literally in pieces, the front drive train and rear body portion lying separately on a flatbed truck.
I have a feeling my playtesting 5e would go something just like that.
(Like McQueen's character though, I'll do it just the same...)
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Monte Cook as lead designer? Dang. Everything comes round again...
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