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Should the government get involved?
Check out this video from ABC news concerning the present state of affairs of cereal boxes.
Cereal companies are claiming that their products are healthy options, despite the fact that they contain tons of sugar and dyes. How far can companies go with misleading information before the government should get involved?
I find this fascinating 1) because people don't stop and think, "Wow that's a lot of sugar maybe it's not so healthy" and 2) that it's actually taken this long for the FDA to purpose a new method for labeling food… these labels have been around as far back as I can remember reading cereal boxes as a child.
It's outrageous that companies can make scientific claims with really no scientific data to back it up, or rather with contradictory data and yet consumers continue to buy into it.
It all sounds a bit too familiar to the tobacco product ads that originally claimed cigarettes were a "healthy option."
[via abcnews]

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QEMU vs. VirtualBox
Why is it that the U.S. Government always releases a slew of RFPs just before Thanksgiving? I've been swamped working on proposals since the third week of November, but we got the last one submitted just before Christmas so it's back to normal (or what passes for normal around here) for a while.
I thought I'd take this relatively quiet period to do a quickie comparison between a couple of virtualization tools: QEMU and Oracle's VirtualBox. For the comparison I chose to install virtual guest instances of Ubuntu 10.10 desktop from a downloaded copy of the iso. The host system is an AMD 64-bit machine that is also running Ubuntu 10.10 desktop. Here's the kernel version of the host at the time of this writing: 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux. I used VirtualBox 4.0 for this comparison.
Both products provide a graphical interface for building a new virtual guest instance. Here are what a few of the QEMU build sequence steps look like:
This review almost did not get written, because it took friggen forever for the QEMU install to complete. It was only out of a somewhat morbid fascination that I let it go to completion. I started the install at about 8:15am in the morning, and by 1:00pm it was finally finished. By comparison, the VirtualBox install took just 28 minutes start to finish, and that included download time for updates, since I had selected the option to do that at install time. I did not select the update option for the QEMU install because I (fortunately) forgot to select NAT networking for it prior to starting the installation.
After the QEMU install was done, the Ubuntu guest remained equivalently slow. Boot time was about 6 minutes as compared to 23 seconds for the VirtualBox Ubuntu guest. Once I got the logon prompt from the QEMU guest it took a very long time to achieve the final QEMU result:
That's right, a black screen. Which lasted so long I thought that was the final product. About 15 minutes later, though, I got a login prompt, which promised to take forever to execute, so I finally put it out of its misery.
Oracle does not need to be too worried about competition from the QEMU camp just yet...
------------------------------------------------ UPDATE: 1/15/2011 -- The performance problem has been fixed by completely removing the kvm and qemu-kvm packages and then reinstalling. Thanks to all the comments which helped me zero in on the problem. Also, at the suggestion of one reader, I reset the BIOS option for enabling virtualization and then power cycled the host. Not sure if that was necessary, but I did it anyhow.
Performance of the VMs are now as others have reported, with install times taking minutes rather than hours.
Support Virtio by virt-manager
> I thought you could only do that with virsh -- virt-manager does not support virtio in its interface
That's wrong. Step 2 of 5
OS Type : Linux
Variant : Generic 2.6.25 or later kernel with virtio
Another option via virt-install. View :-
By the numbers...
I am using Virtual Machine Manager 0.8.4 from RH.
In Step 4 of 5 of the new machine wizard, I
[x] Enable Storage for Virtual Machine
(o) Create a disk image on the computer's hard drive
(o) Allocate entire disk now.
After the VM creation, I look in the details of the VM at VirtIO Disk 1 and see it's the 8GB disk file I created and allocated earlier. I'm assuming that means I'm using virtio for that drive.
I'm storing the virtual images on an older 5400 rpm 500GB SATA drive in the same machine as the VM host (i.e. not over NFS or a SAN connection).
As far as host OS, we use CentOS 5.5 as a host OS in the production environment, but I use Kubuntu at home. I'm not really one for vendor religious wars, I just use one until it disappoints me and then move to the next Aside from a little churn, the Ubuntu stuff has disappointed me least, lately.
From my limited experience, virtualization : RAM as real-estate : location.
Good luck.
Thanks for the clarification
I used exactly the same process when I created my ubuntu guest with virt-manager.
While qemu is not as fast as
While qemu is not as fast as virtualbox by using virtualization it is pretty much usable.
When I read "Testing with kvm will be the subject for another article." then I think you should try virtualbox without virtualization too.
That virtualbox uses it "by default" is not a very good excuse because qemu needs you to set many parameters "by default". It's just another way of using programs. Per default it uses 256 mb ram. I'm pretty sure you changed this on virtualbox too.
This is an impression of how it should work. For some reason my mouse didn't work. This is the first time it didn't work with qemu, no idea why.
The main difference between qemu and virtualbox are the graphics drivers. For me qemu is always a bit slow and laggy with drawing the mouse pointer or windows, no matter what virtual video card I choose (I have tried all of them). On virtualbox it really flies.
And, windows xp is booted in 3-5 seconds in virtualbox (4). Virtualization finally is usable for everyday use (if you have VT).
Well, I have to say I have had a completely different experience, but I also have different hardware.
I am running KVM with the hardware virtualization enabled in the CPU, which makes things a little bit more like apples and oranges. I am also running RedHat rather than Ubuntu as both the Host and Guest OSs. Finally I am running bridged networking rather than NAT because of speed issues on the interface.
From what I have experienced, all performance metrics are in line EXCEPT the SOFTIRQ value which seems to be running high on the Guest. While this is expected, I also have some tuning to perform and I expect the value to come down to more than one standard deviation from mean (it is currently much, much higher).
The paravirtualization, offered by VirtualBox, and the Virtual Network model, on the other hand resulted in a significant speed issue, both in the application on the guest as well as traffic through the interface at the host and the guest. Because the tested application was more than just your basic file and print, and throughput was critical, and measurable, it made VirtualBox a non-starter.
It really comes down to ensuring that you are testing the right combinations of hardware and software. I have found that it really depends on your needs and set up. Ubuntu on Fedora with a hardware KVM solution, as well as Windows XP was beastly slow and and unresponsive in a number of situations, but Windows 7, RHEL and Fedora on the same hardware platform seem to perform well. Conversely, Ubuntu and XP seemed to perform well on Virtual Box on the Fedora system while Win7 was unusable. I never bothered to dig into the why. Maybe in my spare time.
For the curious: RHEL6 x86 running on Dell R610 6 core, 6GB RAM with hardware virtualization enabled is one of my configuration while my laptop is a Dell M4400 Dual core with 8 GB RAM running Fedora 13 x64. I will be upgrading the RHEL to 64-bit moving forward.
David Lane, KG4GIY is a member of Linux Journal's Editorial Advisory Panel and the Control Op for Linux Journal's Virtual Ham Shack
I was a bit surprised myself
I was fully expecting the KVM/qemu system to perform equivalently to VirtualBox or VMWare on my system, based on what I've read. FYI I also tried to get Windows XP installed as a qemu VM, but it too was unmanageably slow.
My suspicions are that something in the kvm.ko or kvm_amd.ko kernel modules are broken in my current kernel version. I'll keep an eye on the kernel developer sites to see if I can verify this.
XP and Virtio Drivers
I have found virtio drivers to be essential with XP guests on qemu/kvm. With those drivers, performance was equivalent to virtualbox on my systems. My main issue was crawling disk io without virtio drivers.
Kevin Bush is a Linux systems admin, dad and book-lover who spends far too
much time tinkering with gadgetry.
Interesting article
Even more interesting comments.
It would seem that QEMU is not using hardware virtualization for whatever reason. It doesn't make sense that there would be such a difference in performance when everything else I read says that performance is comparable.
I look forward to seeing followups.
kvm/qemu confusion & networking
Why are kvm and qemu involved with each other? This causes massive confusion. Qemu needs a decent tutorial. Virtualbox suffers from being limited to a GUI. Qemu is much more versatile. But networking doesn't work out of the box with qemu, and I haven't been able to get it to work past DNS. That's right 'ping google.com" resolves to an IPaddress, end of story. Qemu is fast and flexible once you get kvm and kvm-amd involved, but it badly needs polish. Virtualbox, on the other hand, works from the start but is a PITA to use.
VirtualBox limited to a GUI?
VirtualBox does not need the GUI. Any Guest can be fully configured via the command line.
I'm convinced
Since you obviously have some knowledge of hardware, software, and Ubuntu, I'm convinced that Virtualbox is a better choice than QEMU+KVM for the user who wants an easy-to-use and good performance desktop VM with minimum effort. Your addition of some mention of the extra research you did to try to get QEMU+KVM working supports my conclusion.
@Anonymous: obviously QEMU+KVM doesn't work "out-of-the-box" nearly as well as Virtualbox, unless you're assuming Mr. Roberts is unusually inept (which seems unlikely to me based only on this article). He obviously didn't have to "Ask for help ... [to] figure it out" with Virtualbox.
Not my experience
Virtualbox isn't OSS all the way to the end. Extensions that are somewhat important imho aren't under a traditional OSS licences and, in my opinion, Oracle hasn't proven themselves as OSS friendly.
Besides, I think you're comparing apples to oranges. We have one solution that caters to desktops more and another that caters more to the full virtual server environment. Both can work in the direction of the other, but... Anyway. I think that's key to your experience.
I'm running a qemu+kvm virtual server with the appropriate hardware and find it to be plenty sufficient for my needs running production servers. Start-up times are definitely measure in seconds not minutes as you experienced. Ubuntu is running on my host and some guest machines. I'm pulling the storage for the VMs from iSCSI and managing them remotely with virt-manage, which is the buggy part of it. I'm thinking about giving up and just going with virsh instead. Otherwise, my experience is quite different.
I'd suggest that the hardware may be insufficient or the configuration not as good. Perhaps a comparison on Ubuntu server with the virtual machine host option in install would make some significant difference for you.
try virtio
You probably need to choose virtio block devices. I had the same issue. Slow VMs that became peppy after configuring them to be virtio. There are drivers for Linux & Win. FreeBSD drivers are in the works.
You lost me
I'm afraid that I did not understand your comment. Where in the VM setup process is this choice made?
I suspect you made 2 errors.
I suspect you made 2 errors. 1) You used basic Qemu on its own, rather than using the kqemu module, or even better KVM (which need Virtualisation extensions in the CPU). 2) You did not use virtio.
Quite frankly, if you knowledge of Linux Virtualisation is this limited, why are you commenting on it? I use KVM at work and it is as fast as Xen, and wipes the floor with VMware.
If you do not understand what these concepts are then please re-consider what you write about (Windoze maybe?) - this is laughable.
win32 virtio
You may also refer to http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/set-up-rh-virtio-scsi-driver...
I don't believe it's on the
I don't believe it's on the interface yet. Virsh (the shell equivalent) however, should be able to support it. For example, on my shell:
# virsh version
Compiled against library: libvir 0.8.1
Using library: libvir 0.8.1
Using API: QEMU 0.8.1
Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.12.5
* You may need to create a block device to install your guest OS. I have LVM, so this is an example
lvcreate -L 15G -n /dev/lv01/guest_1.fs
* Then bootstrap your install
# virt-install --name=virtio_template \
--ram 1024 \
--os-type linux --os-variant debiansqueeze \
--disk path=/dev/lv01/guest_1.fs,bus=virtio \
--network network=default,model=virtio \
--vnc \
--noautoconsole \
--cdrom /home/lmwangi/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso \
--virt-type kvm \
--force yes
The GUI client is probably doing something akin to:
virt-install --name=virtio_template \
--ram 1024 \
--os-type linux --os-variant debianlenny \
--file /dev/lv01/guest_1.fs \
--network network=default \
--vnc \
--noautoconsole \
--hvm \
--cdrom /home/lmwangi/debian-505-amd64-netinst.iso
--force yes
Which was incredibly slow.
PS: You can also convert your existing VMs by trying virsh edit
Mine looks like:
I hope this helps
I thought VirtualBox and KVM/QEMU colide...
(I'm sorry I don't have the source.) I read somewhere that these two will have issues running on the same box.
I recently used the KVM virt-manager to install two VM's, one was Ubuntu the other Fedora 14. I had the Fedora VM up and running in less than one hour; the Ubuntu install took a very long time, at least 6 hours - I went to bed while it chugged away. Like you, I also find that the boot up of the VM's takes a long time and the response is not acceptable for my needs. (I wonder if I have VirtualBox installed and it is stepping on my KVM?...)
I wish to find a usable headless solution - while wishing, I also wish to have more time finding a solution; I digress...
I greatly look forward to reading about your VM adventures and the constructive feed back of your readers.
It appears that I do not have VirtualBox installed on my host, so the slow VMs (KVM/QEMU) can not be attributed to any conflict between them.
Correction: I did not use virt-manager to create the VMs, I used the command line virt-install program. (The same command from Linux Journal Issue 201 page 75 - "Managing KVM Devpoyments with Virt-Manager".)
After reading this post and the user communities comments, I will be removing all traces of KVM/QEMU and installing VirtualBox and see if I get better results.
Follow up to my followup....
Short version: I have my KVM/QEMU VM working much faster now!!! It is actually very usable. (However, it did require much more digging/googling than I would have liked.)
Long version: (My host is modified Fedora-12 if that matters.)
I did not give up on KVM/QEMU like I said I was going to do... Since I'm using a quad-core Intel cpu, I did the 'grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo' and since four lines were returned I made the bad assumption that my host was using the VT hardware. I found out ( thanks to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/kvm ) that my bios had VT hardware disabled - thank you Intel... After fixing that, my VMs were still very, very slow... I deleted my Ubuntu 10.04.1 VM and recreated it with:
virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
--name=ubuntu-10.04.1 \
--ram=1024 \
--vcpus=2 \
-f /storage/VMs/KVM/ubuntu-10.04.1.qcow2 \
-s 24 \
--cdrom=/storage/VMs/KVM/ISOs/ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso \
--vnc \
--virt-type=kvm \
--noautoconsole \
--accelerate \
--os-type=linux \
--os-variant=generic26 \
I would really like to use virtio, but I am not using VLM, so I was unable to use a previous posters advice. I'm tired of reading and researching on how to get KVM/QEMU tweeked to the point of usable...
The new install only took about 20 minutes compared to the hours it took before!!!
As you can tell, I am not a VM expert and I have now desire to be one. With that in mind, it would be very helpful if the software would have given me a hint to check my bios since dmesg knew my bios had it disabled...
Stop reading here! I'm very surprised at some of the negative attitude here, it is not what I am accustomed too in the linux world where people help others. I hope this is the exception and not the norm. I hope fanboys, fanatics and trolls do not kill this thread.
Follow up to my followup....
Short version: I have my KVM/QEMU VM working much faster now!!! It is actually very usable. (However, it did require much more digging/googling than I would have liked.)
Long version: (My host is modified Fedora-12 if that matters.)
I did not give up on KVM/QEMU like I said I was going to do... Since I'm using a quad-core Intel cpu, I did the 'grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo' and since four lines were returned I made the bad assumption that my host was using the VT hardware. I found out ( thanks to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/kvm ) that my bios had VT hardware disabled - thank you Intel... After fixing that, my VMs were still very, very slow... I deleted my Ubuntu 10.04.1 VM and recreated it with:
virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
--name=ubuntu-10.04.1 \
--ram=1024 \
--vcpus=2 \
-f /storage/VMs/KVM/ubuntu-10.04.1.qcow2 \
-s 24 \
--cdrom=/storage/VMs/KVM/ISOs/ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso \
--vnc \
--virt-type=kvm \
--noautoconsole \
--accelerate \
--os-type=linux \
--os-variant=generic26 \
I would really like to use virtio, but I am not using VLM, so I was unable to use a previous posters advice. I'm tired of reading and researching on how to get KVM/QEMU tweeked to the point of usable...
The new install only took about 20 minutes compared to the hours it took before!!!
As you can tell, I am not a VM expert and I have now desire to be one. With that in mind, it would be very helpful if the software would have given me a hint to check my bios since dmesg knew my bios had it disabled...
Stop reading here! I'm very surprised at some of the negative attitude here, it is not what I am accustomed too in the linux world where people help others. I hope this is the exception and not the norm. I hope fanboys, fanatics and trolls do not kill this thread.
One thing you might have
One thing you might have missed: when you enable VT in bios, it is not enough to save the changes and reboot, you actually have to powercycle the machine. This is a pit I've fallen into myself before figuring it out.
Hope this helps.
I did not know that. However, I did verify that the bios virtualization setting was enabled, so power cycling the machine isn't required. BTW, as a test I disabled the bios setting and then tried to load the kvm kernel modules. I discovered that kvm-amd cannot load with the bios virt setting disabled.
VirtualBox Virtues
Don't forget to mention that VirtualBox supports 'headless' operation allowing connection via any Remote Desktop Client. A big plus if the OS itself doesn't support RDP or VNC! The Guest Additions allow for resizing the host's desktop. Boot times are very respectable too.
Has anyone done anything with Promox VE which supports VNC?
Ok, but what about
Ok, but what about Qemu+kvm?
I ran out of time
Testing with kvm will be the subject for another article.
virtualbox automatically installs a kernel module, so if you haven't installed kvm for qemu, then you're comparing apples to oranges. the conclusion that qemu is slow is painfully should have been obvious; this article didn't need to be written. if qemu can't get access to hardware virt, then its going to revert to software virt, and that is obviously going to be much slower.
Kvm for qemu was installed
The following packages were installed:
The kvm kernel module is also present:
roberts@igor:~$ locate kvm.ko
was it actually loaded?
$ lsmod | grep kvm
and if not load it with
$ sudo modprobe kvm
roberts@igor:~$ lsmod | grep kvm
kvm_amd 40563 0
kvm 298966 1 kvm_amd
...but nothing is using it.
...but nothing is using it. Note the 0.
This article is ridiculous. Your conclusion is based on a poor knowledge of the subject and anyone who doesn't read past the article to get to the comments will be deeply misinformed. As I and many others can attest to, qemu+kvm is rock solid.
Nothing is using them,
because the qemu guest is not running.
And, your insulting behavior does you a discredit. What's your real name?
QEMU requires CPUs that support hardware virtualization
See this web page: http://warpedtimes.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/hardware-accelerated-virtual...
Hardware virtualization
My processor (AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core) reports that it supports svm virtualization:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep svm
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
VirtualBox seems capable of taking advantage of this.
apples to apples?
Pure QEMU is _only_ an emulator. It cannot take advantage of VT/AMD-V without KVM, and is actually not supposed to.
So if you want to compare speeds, test with KVM, or test on a system with no AMD-V at all.
If you do want to compare QEMU to anything, look for another multiple CPU architecture emulator, and compare there. You will not be able to bring up an ARM OS on VBox, or a MIPS based OS for example. But you can easily do that on QEMU, because that is what it's for.
You don't have "hardware
You don't have "hardware virtualization" per your title. You really need to make sure that you understand the requirements and have qemu+kvm configured correctly before publishing this type of artice. It's not difficult to enable KVM and a quick google of "kvm ubuntu" would provide you with numerous examples. By not doing your homework, you've done a disservice to KVM and QEMU.
A "quick google" ?
I spent several days doing "long googles" for documentation on how to get qemu and kvm running on an Ubuntu host. What you see is the result of that exercise.
Perhaps there was one magic "quick google" link that I missed, but I think not.
However, since my hardware supports virtualization, and since I did substantial research on the topic before writing the topic up, I'd like to suggest another explanation for the poor performance of the qemu guest OS on my system: qemu/kvm is not quite mature enough yet for everyday use.
too difficult to type "modprobe kvm_amd" ?
Not sure how you would have missed that QEMU hardware virtualization requires a kvm module during your "substantial research." Installing a few packages with apt-get install and typing a modprobe command (or just rebooting) are not difficult. Really, KVM works "out of the box" on Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, and probably others that I haven't tried.
You really need to rewrite this article. Ask for help if you can't figure it out.
You don't read very carefully
Earlier comments addressed the kvm module issue. So save you the effort of actually reading the previous comments, I'll recap here:
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kvm_amd 40563 0
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This week's competing offers for Hillshire Brands from Pilgrim's Pride and Tyson Foods brings the level of overall hostile and unsolicited bids (including withdrawn) to $296.2 billion from 36 deals for year-to-date 2014, a slight uptick in number of deals compared to a year ago and the strongest year-to-date period, by value, in seven years.
Since 1984, over 1,800 hostile and unsolicited deals have been announced with 58% of those deals eventually withdrawn, including this week's collapse of the $6.9 billion merger between Scotland's Weir Group and Finland's Metso Oyj and Pfizer's $122.3 billion offer for AstraZeneca. The withdrawn total includes target companies which eventually went to another bidder, such as this year's dual bids for Time Warner Cable of the United States and France's SFR. Within the universe of withdrawn unsolicited bids over the past 30 years, 23% had a successful competing offer.
Walt Disney Co's $2.0 billion investment grade corporate debt offering marks the largest debt offering from the company in over two years and brings the volume of investment grade debt issued by US media & entertainment companies to $10.8 billion, a 36% decline compared to a year ago and the slowest year-to-date period for US issuance in the sector since 2009.
Asia Pacific follow-on offerings total $46.5 billion so far this year, a decline of 16% compared to last year at this time and the slowest period for follow-on activity in the region since 2010. This week's $1.4 billion offering from an investor in Macau's Sands China Ltd more than tripled the volume of issuance in the Asia Pacific casino & gaming sector, which saw an offering from Macau Legend Development Ltd earlier this year. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which was sole-bookrunner for the Sands China offering, moved into fifth place for Asia Pacific follow-on underwriting, up from seventh place last year during year-to-date 2013.
A $2.1 billion follow-on offering from CI Financial Corp pushed the volume of Canada equity capital markets activity so far this year to $10.7 billion, a 55% increase compared to year-to-date 2013 and the strongest period for issuance since 2011. Energy and power, financials and materials issuers account for 80% of overall ECM activity in Canada this year. RBC Capital Markets tops the list of Canada ECM bookrunners so far in 2014 with 19.8% market share.


text: Not only does spring herald warmer days and blooming flowers, it also kicks off fireball season—a time of year when bright meteors appear in greater number than usual. Oftentimes fragments of asteroids and comets, meteors typically range in size from a few feet to smaller than a grain of sand. As these objects enter Earth's atmosphere, they break apart in fiery displays that last only seconds. In the weeks around the start of spring, the appearance rate of bright meteors, aka fireballs, can increase by as much as 30 percent. The reason why is still unknown, but one hypothesis is that more space debris litters this section of Earth's orbit. In search of the answer, NASA scientists set up a network of ground cameras that track and record video of meteors flaming overhead. The footage can be used to pinpoint a meteor's orbit and origin. Watch the video to learn more.


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I have images placed in a table inside a page (http://noelmarichalar.com/proyectos/), as some kind of portfolio, where each image is linked to a different page related to that individual project. As each image behaves different from each other, I didn't place them in a default gallery provided by wordpress' theme.
The reason for placing images inside the table, is because I wanted to be shown in a 2x2 column display, and I thought this was the easiest way to do it (or at least with my little knowledge in html and css)
When shown in an Ipad the page does the job, but when reached through an Iphone (or any device with a small resolution), the layout is really screwed.
What I really wanted is to show bigger images (w=350px-400px), and to resize them to a smaller format when shown in other devices, but always in displayed in 2 columns.
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Welcome to a new "season" of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. You may have noticed I've stopped numbering the shows. That's something I've been toying with for a while, since I don't want people thinking that they need to have listened to any previous shows to enjoy this one.
Sound reasonable?
Yeah... I thought so, too. Anyway, what's in this edition? I'm guessing you've seen the pic, so you're assuming there's going to be some Sepultura. You'd be right. There's also some Kreator, Alter Bridge and news about Triaxis' new vocalist.
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Sepultura - Phantom Self
Gravebreaker - At The Gates Of Hell
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Kreator - Satan Is Real
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Record Of The Week: Solitude - Don't Need Mercy
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For some time a friend of mine has been writing a number of utilities that sit inside Excel that need to recurse directories for information. He has used the DIR() function and we found that it doesn't like being called multiple time on the stack. We worked around this by storing the sub-directories that needed… Read More »


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Milos Raonic likely to be seeded 8th for French Open
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Canadian tennis player Milos Raonic is ranked ninth in the latest ATP rankings released Monday.
The Thornhill, Ont., native is back in ninth, a result achieved for the first time in his career in April, after a one-week stint in the 10th spot.
Raonic is coming off an impressive semifinal result at the Italian Open, the last major tournament before next week's French Open in Paris.
While Raonic is ranked ninth, he is projected to be the eighth seed at the French Open due to the injury absence of Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina. That will represent the highest Raonic has ever been seeded at a Grand Slam tournament.
Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil is 31st, trying to climb pack towards the career-best 25th he achieved in late January.
Nadal to be top French seed
Kei Nishikori slips from ninth to 10th, with the top eight rankings unchanged.
Rafael Nadal, winner of the French Open a record eight times, will head into Roland Garros as the top seed for just the third time in his career.
The Spaniard lost in three sets at the Italian Open on Sunday to Serbia's Novak Djokovic, who is ranked second in the world.
Australian Open winner Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland is third in the world.
Swiss legend Roger Federer, looking to add to his total of 17 majors, is ranked fourth, followed by Spain's David Ferrer.
Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic (sixth) and Scotsman Andy Murray (eighth) round out the top 10.
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OTTAWA — John Tortorella started looking down his bench as the Rangers began going deeper and deeper into a shootout standoff. Fresh from the minors, P.A. (Pierre-Alexandre) Parenteau was ready to step up and deliver.
Parenteau scored the deciding goal in the seventh round of the shootout to give the Rangers a 2-1 victory over the Senators yesterday.
Parenteau, who missed a shot at an open net late in regulation, put a shot into the top right corner on the Rangers' seventh attempt against Brian Elliott.
"It's a good feeling," said Parenteau, who was recalled from Hartford of the AHL on Friday. "Torts asked me if I was doing well in the minors in the shootout and I said, 'I do pretty well, decent,' so he gave me a shot. I think I pretty much redeemed myself for the goal I missed with a minute left so I'm pretty happy right now. I've got a lot of family and friends in town so it's a good moment for me."
Henrik Lundqvist stopped five Ottawa shooters, including Milan Michalek on the Senators' seventh and final attempt.
Vinny Prospal scored a short-handed goal midway through the second the Rangers, who had lost two in a row.
Brian Lee opened the scoring with his second of the season earlier in the middle period for Ottawa. The Senators have lost two straight and five of seven.
The Rangers finished the extra period short-handed after Ales Kotalik was sent off for tripping Milan Michalek 3:37 into overtime.
The Rangers' Ryan Callahan blocked consecutive point shots by Daniel Alfredsson during the ensuing 4-on-3 power-play.
"You know, he's one of our key guys when it comes to the PK," Lundqvist said. "He's been there for a couple of years and the big part is reading the game, to be in the right lane when they pass the puck."
Faced with an opportunity at an open net moments later, the Ottawa captain fanned on a swipe at a bouncing puck off the end boards.
"I thought I had it for sure and it just took a wicked bounce straight over my stick," Alfredsson said. "I saw it coming and I thought I timed it pretty good but it just took off and I didn't get a piece of it."
Lundqvist made 35 saves in his second straight start after missing two games because of a lower body injury.
"It's tough to get a 4-on-3 at the end of the game but the guys were unbelievable, blocking big shots and it was tough to see the puck," Lundqvist said. "That's what you need. We were ready to pay the price and we did a lot of great things out there, especially on the PK."
Elliott stopped 27 shots in his first appearance in six games.
Rangers captain Chris Drury missed his second game in a row. Drury sustained a concussion one week earlier on a hit to the head by Curtis Glencross in a 3-1 loss in Calgary that went unpenalized in the game, but drew the Flames forward a three-game suspension from the league on Monday.


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Black & White "Swirls" Short Kimono with Hat (2003)
About Felt
Felted wool fabric is one of the most ancient textiles. There is evidence of the use of felt for garments and decorative wall hangings from the 6th century BC in Europe and Asia. In Asia, particularly Mongolia, felt is still used for nomadic tents (yurts), clothing, blankets and storage bags.
In recent years there has been a resurgence in feltmaking in Europe and North America. Unlike weaving, felt is not confined by a rigid grid. Felting is much more a proces of painting with fibre. Felting is also a highly tactile process of transformation from loose fibres to a substantive textile.
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All felt pieces are wool and need to be cared for accodingly. Never use a washing machine or rough hand washing for felted items.
Scarves, collars and most throws can be gently hand-washed with any gentle soap recommended for woollens, then rolled in a towel, ironed to block and hung to dry.
Silk-lined garments, tea cozies and hats should be dry-cleaned.
Wall hangings and most sculptures should also be dry-cleaned.
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I�ll not be bent to lawlessness. Mark it nought, if we be men of honour.
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Originally posted by Sausage Fingers View PostFirst rule of the Red Tent: You don't talk about the Red Tent!Current World Rank: 2857th
Lowest Rated Round: 777
Worst Tournament Finish: 2nd From DFL MA2 GNO 2008
Worst Drive: 10 Feet behind teepad
Shortest Putt Missed During a Tournament: < 1 foot (Not Kidding)
Best Fall: Hole 11 Trojan Park, before cement teepads
Dirtiest Ace: Hole 12 Horning's Canyon Course through the "V" tree.
Pairs of Shoes Ruined: 6
Ray's great cooking, fried bread, home brew, Q's ace on 17, and beating Sam again.
I'll be getting the story one way or another at BSF.... bewareeeeee.... heh. besides, the stories would probably fall on Deaf ears anyways, and who am I to tell? Mute is the word...
Originally posted by the flogging putter View PostRay's great cooking, fried bread, home brew, Q's ace on 17, and beating Sam again.�I believe I can hit 18 greens, hit every fairway, you know � Vision 54, which means you birdie every hole, that�s in the back of my mind. I want to putt better, chip better. That day when I hit 18 greens and one putt, I�ll know I�m a complete golfer. Will that ever happen? I�m not sure, but it�s possible. The 54 vision is always in the back of my mind.�
~Annika S�renstam
Here is my recap of the weekend.
I am in Texas---worried about the "swine flu" while sitting in training. Log on to PDGA to see if I can get any updates. NONE
Same day---later time---still a little worried about the flu but its 88 degrees outside so before going outside after training, I check for updates-NONE.
This goes on all weekend and now I'm home----still no updates!!!
BUT---I have read this thread and I can't thank you guys enough for the recap. I missed all of you so much but you have made feel like I was there.
Thank you and I hope everyone had a wonderful time. If you didn't, I wasn't there.
See all of you at BSF!!!!!PDGA President
The memories are many and somewhat dulled by now. I didn't even visit the Red Tent!
Plan was to leave at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, bumped to 10:00 but after getting up early and realizing I was packed and ready to go I couldn't take any longer and upted the time to 9:00. Heading down I-5 I got a call from my wife and her Grandmother had passed away earlier in the morning. I offered to turn around and head back home but she would have no part of it and insisted I go ahead as planned. She made all of our travel plans to Santa Barbara and packed for both of us. I love my wife soooooooooo much.
After arriving and setting up camp we hit the course for a round of good ol' golf. Grilled steak and homemade fries for dinner, putting in camp, Darr on guitar, campfire, laughes, and more putting. Friday morning brought hot breakfast with good friends, moving of camp to Group site, run to town for cash, more golf, homemade chili, putting, good friends, campfire, putting and more good times with new aquaintences and old friends.
Saturday morning..........Tournament ON! I won't tell of any great shots by myself, since there weren't any. Actually none all weekend! But fun none the less. Saturday night glow discs flying all over the fairway of hole 18 was spectacular. Early to bed for me and it was lights out! This old man was beat so no Red Tent for me.
Sunday morning found my eyes wide open by 6:00 a.m. even though my round didn't start till late. I'm always concerned with conditioning and how my old bones will react to three big rounds in two days. I was ready to go and on my way to hole 6 for our start I was ahead of the other guys and for some reason as I got to the bottom of the hill I found my feet moving faster and broke into a run up the hill. (I don't run, EVER) I did it again part way up 13. My golf for the weekend really sucked, but I felt great and being able to finish and still have energy was a great accomplishment for me.
Two moments stand out most for me from the GNO however. One was of a Pro player showing the worst display of UNprofessional attitude I've ever witnessed. I hope I never see anything like again!
The other was of a Pro player showing the BEST display of Professional attitude under the worst of circumstances. I witnessed the Ace by Susie on 17 and was one of 20-30 spectators to jump up cheering loudly. I was also waiting to watch Nate Sexton drive on 18. As I jumped up yelling I turned my head to see Nate, his head down, shoulders slumped, standing on the tee pad with no disc in his hand. I then realized what had happened. It was such a bittersweet moment. As Nate walked off, up the fairway, he was already smiling laughing and understood the situation and how it was what it was. Nate Sexton is an incredible human and the best representation of Professional sportsmanship. I'm honored to know him and be able to play in any event he is part of. You rock, young man!
I would love to hear more about the UNprofessional actions by whoever it was. Name not be included of course. PM me if you dont feel ok posting it here, thanks.All I want for Christmas is Sharpies and Rit Dye!!!!
My moments were mostly with Bob since we were on the same card all weekend. But here's the deal. Bob, you are the classiest act out there. When I was PO'd and letting the expletives fly and the bad attitude at so many bad shots, you were always there with a calming influence. I apologize if my bad play and bad attitude hindered your weekend in any way. You are indeed..... The Man. Thanks for all you do. Disc Golf needs you.
Missed you at Two's this week.
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On 2/13/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote: > bitmapqualorig = list_difference_ptr(bitmapqualorig, qpqual); > > What's not immediately clear is why the condition was in both lists to > start with. Perhaps idx_lieu_parking is a partial index with this as > its WHERE condition? Yes, it is: "idx_lieu_parking" btree (parking) WHERE parking = true . Sorry for not pointing it immediatly. If not, the index is not used at all (there are very few lines in lieu with parking=true). So the basic explanation is that it's in both lists due to the partial index and only qpqual keeps the condition? I would have expected the opposite but it doesn't change anything I suppose? Thanks for your answer. -- Guillaume
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Joss Whedon recently cleared up some rumors on Whedonesque.com; namely, about how much he's going to clear on "Avengers 2".
"I'm not getting $100 mil[lion] on Avengers 2," he wrote. "I'm not making Downey money. I'm making A LOT, which is exciting. I'm not pretending to be a poor farmer, an Everyman, an ANYman. But that number is nuts."
The "Downey" in question would be Robert Downey Jr., who stars in "Iron Man 3' and is reportedly paid quite a nice sum for the role.
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Hi guys.
I was going to let it slide, but I've got this sour taste in my mouth. (Mmmm, lemonade!). Some facts are not facts. I'm not going to go into the whole thing, but jeepers, I'm not getting $100 mil on Avengers 2. If I were, I would come on this site and laugh and laugh and laugh. I'm not making Downey money. I'm making A LOT, which is exciting. I'm not pretending to be a poor farmer, an Everyman, an ANYman. But that number is nuts. A few other things about me that have been "reported" that people should take with a grain of salt:
That I throw wild Hollywood parties where everyone is naked and dancing and wild and I remember to serve enough snacks.
That I can get a movie greenlit by sighing and staring into the middle distance.
That I ate a unicorn and made it winter for three years.
That I "can write."
Well, that's a load off. Sorry to get so personal -- the whole thing's a bit tawdry. But honestly, it bugged me. I'm off for a nice juicy steak. There's a place downtown that does it with rosemary butter, it tastes just like unico -- like a steak.
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Texas toast is made from extra-thick slices of white bread and is usually sold with other breads. Some people add tomatoes to this hot layered sandwich.
Level: Easy
Yield: 6 servings
Serves: 6
- 6 slice Texas toast
- 12 oz. thinly sliced cooked turkey breast
- 12 slice tomato
- ¼ tsp. Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 slice bacon
- ¼ tsp. paprika
Cheddar Cheese Sauce:
- 1 tsp. stick margarine or butter
- 3 tbsp. all-purpose flour
- 1½ c. 1-percent low-fat milk
- ½ c. shredded reduced-fat sharp cheddar cheese
- 1 tbsp. dry sherry
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ¼ tsp. ground red pepper
- .13 tsp. onion powder
- 1 jar diced pimento
- For Cheddar Cheese Sauce: Melt margarine in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir in flour; gradually add milk, stirring with a whisk until blended. Cook until thick (about 10 minutes), stirring constantly. Remove from heat; add cheese, stirring until cheese melts. Stir in sherry and remaining ingredients.
- Preheat broiler. Arrange toast in a 13- by 9-inch baking pan or baking dish. Top each toast slice with 2 ounces turkey and 2 tomato slices; sprinkle with pepper. Spoon Cheddar Cheese Sauce evenly over tomatoes, and sprinkle with bacon and paprika. Broil until lightly browned.
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"Relative obscurity drawing to a close"
It would be difficult to describe Federated Media's kid-gloves treatment by the media and bloggers as an example of "obscurity," but that's just what Battelle does in this Federated Media screed about the mean people complaining about his company:
As we build FM, I've realized that our period of relative obscurity is drawing to a close. We are under increasing scrutiny, and should be, given the high profile sites we now represent.I was also struck by this odd defense:
FM's model is based on the idea that content creators should get 60% of the dollars, not 10-15%. Sounds a lot better, doesn't it?Yes, that sounds quite wonderful. The question is this: Has there ever been an online advertising agency that claims 85% or 90% commissions?


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Today was a busy day! My day started off at school with kindergarten graduation. The kiddo's did an amazing job sharing what they've learned about the 7 Habits (we're a Leader In Me school and trying our best to implement the program into every facet of the school). I'm going to miss this group as they move on to first grade, we've had a fun year. I did pick up a cute new dress, that I'd love to have in every pattern they make. You can find the dress here and the shoes here.
After our graduation was over, I headed to BK's school to see her end of the year program. She and I should probably have a real talk about how to stand on stage and not pull up her dress the whole time. That comes with age, right? Right?
At least she gave everyone a good laugh. Three is such a fun and unpredictable age, and when I say that I mean, she'll always be having fun, we just don't always know how she'll be doing it. I was just incredibly thankful that I laid a pair of shorts out for her to wear under the dress.
This year has flown by, but I'm positive we made a great choice by enrolling her for two days a week. She's had a great time making new friends and really fallen in love with her teachers. She actually keeps telling us that this isn't her last day. We have really seen her blossom over the past year and I adore that spunky little personality that always manages to find herself front and center.
Here's a little look at how much she's grown.
We had Cheesecake Factory for lunch, it's my favorite and I ordered my go-to dish, White Bean Chicken Chili. I have a half-piece of White Chocolate Macadamia Nut and Caramel Cheesecake waiting in my fridge, I didn't want to indulge until after I went shopping for a new swim suit. It didn't help, by the way.
I also bought my Mother's Day gifts. Well, I asked for a little retail therapy for Mother's Day, so I actually spent that money on a few things. Like Chaco's for our upcoming Disney trip and a new swim suit. I have plenty of one-piece choices from over the years and I'm basically my pre-pregnancy size. The problem is, I need something that I can chase a toddler in and not worry about making adjustments or giving anyone more than they bargained for, I think this sea foam crochet one-piece is the perfect option. Also, it is super flattering, I couldn't pass it up.
I've had the best day with my sweet family, now I'm off to eat that cheesecake. 🙂


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The College Board has canceled plans to offer the SAT exam to gifted students enrolled in a $4,500 summer program, a spokeswoman announced on Tuesday.
The organization does not typically offer an exam during the summer, when students have finished the school year, but it was planning to make an exception on Aug. 3 for students enrolled in the National Society for the Gifted & Talented University Prep summer program.
Opponents, including Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of FairTest, have criticized the "rich kids SAT" in the news media and blogs, calling the exclusive test date for a high-priced program unfair because it gave "even more advantage to kids who have had every opportunity in life."
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KK Challenge- 3 Games Tonight
by Paul on 04/21/11 at 05:01 PM ET
Comments (69)
Montreal tries to go up 3-1 at home.
Vancouver needs a win to move on to the WC Semifinals. Chicago needs a win to stay alive.
LA Kings need a win at home to even the series at 2-2.
You need to give me the winner from each of the above games and also give me the total goals scored for all three games.
I will toss a hockey related, $50 gift certificate your way. You need to get all three games right and need to be the closest to the tie-breaker (total goals for the night, all three games). If a tie exists, a random drawing will be held to pick the winner.
Good luck and to be eligible to win, you must be a KK member (join here).
added 11:39am, In order to be eligible to win, your submission must be time stamped no later than 7:00pm EDT tonight.
*Original time stamp for post was 11:33am ET
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Paul, you are the man. Thanks for putting this together for all of us.
Habs (4 goals)
Canucks (6 goals)
Sharks (4 goals)
14 total goals tonight.
Posted by Leo_Racicot on 04/21/11 at 12:37 PM ET
Boston, Vancouver, San Jose.
15 total goals.
Posted by Guilherme from Brazsil on 04/21/11 at 12:37 PM ET
Montreal (4 goals)
Hawks (5 goals)
Sharks (5 goals)
14 goals total.
Posted by DetCapC19 from Vancouver, BC on 04/21/11 at 12:39 PM ET
Montreal, Vancouver, LA
13 goals
Posted by NathanBC on 04/21/11 at 12:39 PM ET
Montreal, San Jose, Vancouver
Posted by WingsFaninCO on 04/21/11 at 12:41 PM ET
Los Angeles
16 goals
Posted by Ian! from Baltimore, MD on 04/21/11 at 12:49 PM ET
Montreal will beat Boston 2-1 in OT (3 goals)
Vancouver will beat Chicago 4-2 (6 goals)
Los Angeles will beat San Jose 3-2 in 2OT (5 goals)
total for the night = 14 goals
Posted by ecouls1 from Baltimore, MD on 04/21/11 at 12:58 PM ET
Bos 4 Mtl 2
Van 5 Chi 1
Guess that a grand total of 19 goals
Posted by Mac from Canada on 04/21/11 at 12:59 PM ET
Boston over Montreal (4) goals
Vancouver over Chicago (2) goals
La Kings win over SJ (1)
7 total goals
Posted by Datfan on 04/21/11 at 01:01 PM ET
19 goals total
Posted by dickshilling on 04/21/11 at 01:04 PM ET
MON, CHI and SJ to win, 16 goals total.
I actually think Vancouver will win, but this way (a) I'm not duplicating anybody else's answer and (b) there's a slim possibility that I won't feel like throwing myself off something if the Hawks manage to win. Gotta hedge those bets…
Posted by fcjbencard on 04/21/11 at 01:10 PM ET
Hey, Paul. Love it when you do these things.
-Los Angeles
Total goals scored: 22
Posted by SYF from Twerkin' with Anastasia Ashley on 04/21/11 at 01:21 PM ET
Montreal, Vancouver, San Jose
19 Goals
Posted by Modnar on 04/21/11 at 01:22 PM ET
MTL, VAN, LAK - winners
16 goals
Posted by redxblack from Akron Ohio on 04/21/11 at 01:36 PM ET
Montreal, Vancouver, San Jose
Posted by gosabres123 on 04/21/11 at 01:37 PM ET
Montreal, Vancouver, San Jose
12 goals.
Posted by Nate A from Detroit-ish on 04/21/11 at 01:40 PM ET
21 total.
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!
Posted by Kate from PA now in SC-made in Detroit on 04/21/11 at 01:43 PM ET
Boston (5)
Vancouver (3)
San Jose (8)
16 Total Goals
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 04/21/11 at 01:46 PM ET
19 Goals
Posted by WICNMKYzerman from Detroit, MI on 04/21/11 at 01:48 PM ET
13 - Boston, Chicago, LA
Posted by mspike007 on 04/21/11 at 01:49 PM ET
Bruins, Canucks, Kings - 17 goals
Posted by winger19 on 04/21/11 at 01:50 PM ET
Habs (2)
Hawks (6)
Sharks (4)
Total goals (12)
Posted by gretzky_to_lemieux on 04/21/11 at 01:54 PM ET
As always you are the man Paul!
15 Total Goals
Posted by redwingrob on 04/21/11 at 01:59 PM ET
18 goals
Posted by CaptainDennisPolonich from The Land of Fake Boobs and Real Nuts on 04/21/11 at 02:03 PM ET
17 Goals.
Posted by Da lil Guy from Guelph, Ontario on 04/21/11 at 02:13 PM ET
Vancouver (5)
Boston (2)
11 goals total
Posted by Chris in A^2 from Nyquist Puck Control on 04/21/11 at 02:36 PM ET
Habs (4 goals total)
Vancouver (6 goals)
San Jose (6 goals)
Posted by Matt Fry from Winnipeg on 04/21/11 at 02:39 PM ET
Boston (4)
Vancouver (5)
San Jose (7)
Total 16 goals
Posted by Sp4r7an on 04/21/11 at 02:45 PM ET
Habs (4 goals)
Canucks (7 goals) OT 1
Sharks (6 goals)
Total 17 goals
Posted by Gary A$$ SUCK !! from Fort Myers, Florida on 04/21/11 at 02:59 PM ET
16 goals
Posted by NHLJeff from Pens fan in Denver on 04/21/11 at 03:03 PM ET
Winners Montreal Vancouver San jose
Total goals 18
Posted by quibell_17 from Portland OR on 04/21/11 at 03:06 PM ET
Canucks - 8 goals
Bruins - 4 goals
Sharks - 6 goals
Total 18
Posted by Jesters Dead on 04/21/11 at 03:10 PM ET
Total - 14
Posted by Steve J from Columbia, MO on 04/21/11 at 03:16 PM ET
Boston, Vancouver, LA
13 goals
Posted by NickLidstrom from a Higher Ground on 04/21/11 at 03:29 PM ET
with total goals of 16
(its funny how deep down in my heart i'm pretty sure i actually think Montreal, Vancouver, and San Jose are going to win tonight… so naturally my strategy was to pick the direct opposite of that)
Posted by perfection from LaLaLand on 04/21/11 at 03:36 PM ET
Total Goals= 16
Posted by Crow on 04/21/11 at 03:45 PM ET
17 goals in toto.
Posted by nosferatu from Albany, NY on 04/21/11 at 04:19 PM ET
SJ - 7 goals
'Nucks - 7 goals
Habs 5 goals
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 04/21/11 at 04:31 PM ET
Bruins Wins(3-2)
Vancouver Wins(4-2)
L.A. Wins(5-3)
Total Goals: 19 Goals
Posted by tbassett on 04/21/11 at 05:07 PM ET
San Jose
Posted by jkm2011 on 04/21/11 at 05:15 PM ET
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Bishops of Central African Republic urge: do not take revenge against Muslims
January 14, 2014
As French and African peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic quell the influence of the Islamist Séléka movement, the nation's bishops urged Christians not to take revenge on Muslims.
An estimated 1,000 people have died since December as members of Anti-balaka, a network of militias often identified as Christian, fight against the Islamist Séléka forces that helped bring Michel Djotodia to power in March.
The bishops denounced atrocities committed by Anti-balaka members and made clear that the movement is not Christian.
Members of the Séléka rebel coalition assumed power in the nation in March and "embarked on months of looting, raping, and killing," in the words of a December Reuters report. Islamist Séléka members, some of them foreigners, attacked Christian institutions, raising fears of genocide. Djotodia said that he has no control over Séléka, which he officially disbanded.
Under pressure from regional African leaders, Djotodia resigned on January 10 and is now in exile in Benin. The nation's parliament has appointed an acting president.
"What do we do in this time of crisis?" the bishops said in a January 8 pastoral letter in which they denounced atrocities committed by all sides. "The temptation of revenge is great. Muslims accused rightly or wrongly of being accomplices of Séléka were delivered to the mob and executed without reason. Remember that life is sacred."
In their pastoral letter, the bishops traced the history of the national crisis, expressed gratitude to the international community for intervening, called for forgiveness and national unity, and offered proposals for the future, so that the Central African Republic might no longer be a place in which killing is "a banal and trivial matter."
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- Message des évêques de Centrafrique aux fidèles chrétiens, aux hommes et aux femmes de bonne volonté (JournaldeBangui.com)
- Bishops' Message: "Let us rebuild our Country together in peace" (Fides)
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Grainger Industrial Supply
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Description: Grainger helps customers save time and money by providing them the right products to keep their facilities up and running. Grainger's customers are 2.0 million businesses and institutions in 157 countries. While each customer has a unique facility to operate and a different problem to solve, our... (more)
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Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week has officially begun and we at First Class Fashionista are on full-trend from the runway watch. As the shows and collections make their debut, it's obvious that black and white will make its way into our wardrobe. Although, not an unlikely duo, the color pairing has departed from being just another basic. Designers Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri completely reworked the hues into rich luxury garments for their "Hansel and Gretel" storybook inspired collection. Intricately sewn details adorn the delicate collars of blouses, while thick knitwear is belted at the waist.
Part German Heidi, part New York school girl.
Mod clearly stood as the center of inspiration for designer Lisa Perry's pre-Fall collection. Perry who is known for her casual luxury pieces, added noticeable pops of fair throughout her collection. In addition to her stark color pairings, thick fur trims and opticals, hounds-tooth also made an appearance.
Juicy Couture's Fall collection proves the line is no longer reserved for the California maven. Although there were still obvious signs of beach lifestyle, the collection took a departure from their terrycloth tracksuits and traded up for some serious style. As if the black and white heeled oxfords weren't enough to make us beg for more, the patterned printed tops and metallic pants had us wishing for Fall.