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Will The Next PlayStation Console Feature An Optical Disc Drive?
With all this talk about physical video game media disappearing in the future in favor of digital downloads, PS4 Talk has wondered: will the next PlayStation feature the seemingly essential optical disc drive?
Although we're not the biggest fans of removing the disc format entirely, we have to agree that without the disc drive, Sony would have more design freedom with the PS4. First of all, it wouldn't even have to lie flat or stand erect; it could look however you wanted it to look, and to top it all off, we wouldn't have size limits for games, anymore. Currently, a game has to be made to fit on a Blu-Ray disc, but without the disc, there's no restriction. Of course, this could lead to a spiraling issue that results in 100GB games quickly maxing out HDD space. Then again, perhaps by that time, HDD space won't even be a hindrance (what with all the technological advancements and all). The machine would also be quieter, smaller, and could also be less expensive thanks to major savings on manufacturing costs. Oh, and if you wanted to buy a game, it would merely be a matter of turning on your PS4, putting in the relevant information, and hitting the "Download Now" button. No braving the elements and the crowds trying to get to the stores.
However, it appears to be a race more than anything else. If - if - digital downloads start to become the preferable mode of delivering video games, will it take hold fast enough for the release of the PS4? Or perhaps the better question is this: shouldn't Sony be working on initial designs of the PS4 already? If so, are they really considering a machine that doesn't boast an optical disc drive due to the digital download expectation...?
12/8/2008 Ben Dutka
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Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 10:06:11 PM
i do not like the idea of not having a hardcopy of my video games. what if i am in a situation or a location where i can't get internet access?
that idea of 'no hardcopy' is aggressively supported by the evil microsoft corporation.
its a form of control.
the benefits sounds all nice, but later on, we are forced to download games once this happens.
i bought a ps2 as a dvd player. others bought a ps3 as a blu ray player. why can't we keep advancing the technology instead of getting rid of the disks?
pretty soon i would have to download everything in a digital format from games to movies. its inevitable but i want to push it as far as it can be pushed.
with the slow crappy internet of america (good compared to other countries but sucks compared to countries like japan/korea) do u know how long it would take me to download a 100gig worth of digital data? when a game launches, are we going to have network failures and server downs cuz of all the ppl trying to buy the game at the same time?
it may sound nice, but to protect ourselves from all these corporate BS, we need to fight the idea, if not fight, at least not be so supportive.
Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 10:16:01 PM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 12:06:47 AM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 12:58:30 AM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 1:48:17 AM
downloading everything is realistically going to happen in the next ten years with the expansion of games being bigger and the internet being slow
even if there was a huge improvement in internet service it wouldn't be fair to use it as people may not be able to make the move to this new internet service, it's only been in the last 2years that everyone's finally made the move to broadband
with the new blu ray disk coming in at a massive 400gb, i don't think they will be turning they're back on the disk format just yet
Thursday, December 11, 2008 @ 6:05:30 PM
Sunday, December 14, 2008 @ 10:05:04 AM
Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 10:17:12 PM
the other side of me just wonders what happens if there was like a big file loss in the servers and all you purchase history was gone and you no longer could use the stuff you bought or download it again.
Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 10:17:30 PM
You also cut out a huge social aspect of gaming, i.e. "hey man, you played Gears yet?" "Na man, haven't gotten around to it" "Hey, I finished it, you wanna borrow it?" "ya man, thanks"
the whole scenario is gone with downloads.
It's bad for me, the customer, and you cut out a huge chunk of market share when you go completely digital. I don't see it happening.
Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 11:08:31 PM
Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 11:32:36 PM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 6:37:07 AM
Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 10:20:05 PM
Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 10:20:49 PM
Bring this topic up again in 5 more years and we'll see where things stand.
Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 11:31:37 PM
DRM, Net Neutrality, as well as bandwidth caps all conspire against direct downloads at this point in time. Gimme some 100Mbps connection speeds and at least 1000GB a month and I might consider it as long as I don't have to redownload and reinstall things with a huge hassle each time.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 1:05:53 AM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 12:09:42 AM
i believe for sometime now that microsoft would do this because they are not about to use Sony's
technology.it would be funny if they started using some kind "flash" card or similar,kind of ironic since company's stopped using cartidges for cd's,then dvd's, and now blu-ray
i think sony is just going to keep expanding blu-ray. maybe in 10 years they might make one but not now, then again i could be wrong....
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 12:12:59 AM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 12:49:49 AM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 12:52:32 AM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 5:24:27 PM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 2:24:26 AM
Troy Powers
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 5:39:39 AM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 5:51:52 AM
Maybe Sony will make a special console for me without optical drive? Or not. . lol.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 8:11:13 AM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 8:26:25 AM
With the whole world being more aware of environmental issues, the idea of less packaging and waste, not to mention emissions needed for shipping, the idea of doing everything online to reduce a carbon footprint will force companies to use less physical media. There are already a few full games for download on the PSN store now. I have a feeling that towards the end of the PS3's life, we will see more and more.
Everyone is worried about their dvd/bluray collection becoming obsolete, but when is the last time you actually went to a CD store to buy a CD? Sure some companies are going to go under with the loss of the optical drive, but it's happening now with CD stores. It happened with record stores before that. Stores like Gamestop and EBgames are either going to enjoy the ride while it lasts and make the most of it, or learn to adapt somehow. The optical drive will dissapear eventually, it's just a matter of when. It's part of the evolution of the industry. You're only going to have 2 options, adapt, or fade away....
Think of how much of distribution costs are involved in buying a game. If we go online, there is no more need for distribution. The gaming manufacturers will have cut out the middle man. This will hopefully mean that we get cheaper better games. More than likely it will mean these companies make more money for themselves. Which should translate into better, faster products and better R&D.
I know we're aren't ready for this technology yet, but when it does come, I'll welcome it.
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 5:28:10 PM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 9:38:34 PM
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 9:32:12 AM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 9:32:58 AM
Until Broadband ISP's can provide service ANYWHERE in the USA, then I don't think they should switch to digital media downloads.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 10:14:27 AM
If you're not a PC gamer, Steam is the best solution to content delivery I've seen to date, you can even buy the disk version of a game and never actually put it in the drive to play, you type in your key to your game and it adds it to your games list, available for download wherever you are.
Or simply having games in compressed format on USB pens could be a start, take your pen (comes with the console) to the game outlet and copy files directly, needs work but getting away from limitations is a godsend for developers.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 10:18:42 AM
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 11:36:39 AM
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 12:49:46 PM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 12:57:15 PM
They would be shooting themselves in the foot if in 5-10 years time they suddenly told everyone that their Blu-Ray collection is obsolete. That would be a big "Thanks for the money, but you're screwed!" move.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 3:18:52 PM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 3:35:46 PM
Your mate calls round can I borrow oh no I cant can I its in your machine, what games you got on there oh yeah its all on your machine.
I myself like having physical game in my hands I love new smell of games and game booklets as you open them specially if they are shrink wrapped. That's all gonna go with digital downloading. If they are going to offer it it should be as a choice not dicatating how we download our games, plus how do you trade in ? Sell them back online to the store or who ever. I wouldnt like to do that its bad enough downloading stuff like updates imagine uploading stuff it would take forever plus the speed, so more and more of us are gonna be up on the net half the night as the nets faster at night etc etc etc.
This news sucks and blows.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 4:23:13 PM
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 5:08:13 PM
But I still love putting the shiny into the slot. Nothing will ever be able to top that...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 5:36:36 PM
I think we'll see much the same hardware set-up as current systems (i.e., both relatively small HDD and multi-layer BRD), hopefully with the ability to add larger HDDs (and SSDs) as they become available.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 3:22:16 PM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 @ 5:33:18 PM
If space is a problem, why can't they just concentrate on making discs that can support more data. Like everyone said, if the 400gig is coming, then that should be enough for next gen.
I also read about the beneficial on digital media on being more quiet, smaller, less cost, and design.
-I mean is the current system so loud we need to make it quieter?
-Is it so big, we need to make it smaller?
-Isn't the cost of internet service gonna add to the cost loss in production?
-And are they seriously limited to a design of a system with a disc drive?
We should always have a choice like how we have a choice between credit cards and cash.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 3:19:42 PM
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 4:06:26 AM
To me the PlayStation has been a more than a gaming machine. My PS1 was a nice music player. The PS2 movies and music. I love my PS3 as it keeps me connected to the online world.(PC died :( ) as well as offers loads of other entertainment.
Now if the next system did not offer an optic drive Sony has a way to get content to its users. It can use wireless technology(like Amazon's Kindle) so no mater were your at you are connected.
I am a big fan of innovation but digital property is not the same as holding the game in your hand. Think back as a young child on Christmas or your birthday you unwrapped a game you wanted. How would someone buy a game for you? And what do you do with that Walmart/K-mart gift card grandma got you?
I could think more into this but i better stop now.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 3:14:24 PM
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 3:57:05 PM
GameStop, Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon, Toys R' Us, etc... would all suffer in a download-only environment. This would not be good for the economy because it would cause more people to be laid off in the future, and it would not be good for the consumer.
Furthermore, I guarantee game companies will still charge $50-$60 for their games; and the consumer won't have the benefit of picking up cheaper used copies.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 4:38:55 PM
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 4:56:19 PM
The PS3 having the ability to play cd's, dvd's, ps1 (for some), ps2(for some), ps3, bd rom, and even read some data cd's, it makes no sense to ditch you're entire library if you got rid of the players required for all of those formats.
The bottom line is that while there are some consumer benefits, there are far more drawbacks.
Thursday, December 11, 2008 @ 12:40:42 AM
Thursday, December 11, 2008 @ 3:39:44 AM
How am i meant to buy my family PS3 and 360 games and puit under the tree...i wont be able to, i will have to think of something else to get them :( lol.
I think we need to wait untill everyones broadband is better....i can only get 8mbps. The new virgin fibre optic one is 20mbps
Thursday, December 11, 2008 @ 7:34:42 AM
Uh, no. Two major errors in the article: you sould still have design limitations, and you would still have size limitations. Games wouldn't exist solely in the ether surrounding your star-shaped, wall-hanging console.
On the game size: your limitations are the size of your hard drive and the quality & speed of your internet connection. And remember most hard drives have moving parts, so they die, eventually. Heck even my DVR is starting to grind... So lets assume a couple 1.5 TB drives, that's a good amount of space! But for how many games? You eventually reach the limit, unless you want to DELETE a game you paid for... Maybe you can offload it somehow? Impossible. Sony has gone to some extreme ends (read: root-kit) to prevent people from infringing on their copyrights. In their zeal to protect their interest, they've made it impossible to make my _legal_ backup of software I purchase. Good thing Blu-ray doesn't scratch easily. On top of that, how long do you think it would take to download a 50GB game over your network?
Also in that vein, Sony has always fallen back to using physical copy protection techniques for their games. Digital downloads would be far too easy to pirate & copy.
On the freedom of design: Have you seen the size of the PS3? Its a bit bigger than the combined dimensions of an optical drive and hard drive. There's a lot of hardware in there. There's a reason PCs are still box-like. And the bigger the box, the better the hardware. (I've yet to see a slim or micro-atx case that can handle a raid-5 array with Firewire and a current gen graphics card.) The PS3 is a computing beast! It needs a lot of cooling for the processors if nothing else. Any cutting edge hardware will have that requirement as well.
So while we might have visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads, I'm happy with my PS3. I assume the next gen will be generally box-shaped, have some kind of removable fixed-state media (maybe a new generation of micro-SD carD?), expand on the technical interoperability (new wireless networking, maybe an HD tuner?), and some kind of internal memory for downloadable content, or transient local installs (fixed-state disk drives are getting bigger...).
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Most brands fail to effectively market the video content they produce.
Competitive pressures force brands to use similar video marketing strategies
Clear industry clusters point to companies within the same industries pursuing very similar content strategies and achieving comparable results— some great; some not.
The best brands use targeted YouTube advertising on an on-going basis
Advertising extends reach, drives channel engagement and grows subscriber audiences.
YouTube Marketing Best Practices (according to Pixability)
1. Be a well-oiled, consistent, video content machine
- The most successful brands have 50% more videos per channel compared to the least successful ones.
- The best-performing brands publish high volumes of content on a regular schedule.
- Top aggregate brands publish approximately 78 videos per month. Leading media brands produce even more: close to 500 videos per month.
2. Take video optimization and YouTube channel architecture seriously
- YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine, so discoverability is key.
- YouTube SEO follows very different rules than traditional SEO.
- Within traditional SEO—Google prioritizes web pages with YouTube video embeds.
- The best performing 25% of Top 100 Global Brands took more care in optimizing their videos and channels, maintaining twice the number of playlists and video tags than the bottom 25%.
3. Don't get caught in the overproduction trap; lesser quality video works well, too
- The best YouTube marketers produce a broader range of video content.
- Videos do not need to be prime-time quality because those with lower production value can be just as effective.
4. Apply an "Always On" strategy to video marketing
- The most successful brand marketers on YouTube integrate their online video strategies with their traditional, offline marketing strategies.
- Successful video marketers don't hesitate to produce video series for very limited, but highly engaged audiences, such as event participants.
- 17 of the Top 100 Global Brands use less than 50% of their channels.
- Continued advertising results in sustainable channel growth and subscribers.
5. Apply branding consistently, intelligently and methodically
- The top performers consistently brand their videos in both the video content itself as well as in metadata, which includes titles, tags, and descriptions.
- An appropriate level of branding within videos is essential because successful YouTube videos are often used outside of the context of a branded YouTube channel, such as website embedding.
- Over-branding may limit sharing within independent communities of interest.
6. Adding more content is more important than adding more channels
- 37% of all channels have not been updated with fresh content for over 120 days.
- Successful marketers have YouTube channels that clearly focus on specific target audiences.
7. Engage your community with social media
- Facebook and Twitter are among the most important sources of traffic on YouTube within the Top 100 Global Brands.
- Users frequently share videos on social networks, and video content is attractive for sharing.
- The top 25% of brands had significantly higher social sharing of video than the bottom 25%.
- Viewer sentiment is starting to show distinct trends by industry. Home and luxury segments have the highest sentiment, while financial services and consumer goods have the lowest.
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There's the transparency we have all been waiting for.
Ping for later vomiting.
You mean someone other than Glenn Beck actually has the backbone to show the video??
It's beyond me that this clown still has a job. He would have NEVER made it through a Senate confirmation hearing. He wouldn't have even been nominated in the first place.
You have to love how the MSM just ignores this guy, and others like him that hold the position of "Zcar" for the Executive branch.
Where are the journalists?!?!?!?
Eco-Capitalism, will that be enough? No >> according to the dialog content of this link
If you have been holding out on buying that big screen TV or Blu-Ray player, you might want to get it now. America is going banana republic for the commies. We're all going to be broke in the very near future. The American dream is now over.
Ho-ho-ho, Green Jobs Czar!
Am I supposed to be surprised? Obama is a communist. What do you expect?
I don't find such statements overly shocking, and I'm a fairly centrist Independent. I've never been sure how folks bought into Obama's whole moderate routine during the campaign. One only had to look at his Senate voting record to know what he was all about. I think there were just a lot of Independents who wanted change and so they voted for him. I'm not going to fault them, and I'm glad they're opening their eyes in droves the past few months.
Barak hussien obama's ambition for the USA is the complete destruction of our society, our military, our medical system, our economy, and our country. John McCain's ambition is to reach across the isle and help barak.
Dumbass leftwing academic BS
I'm torn between wanting to lock and load and falling on my knees asking God to take these evil people out of MY AMERICA!!!!!
"We, the American people, hereby demand the immediate firing of this and all other special advisors aka "czars" or "commissioners" and, we hold the president directly responsible for the mismanagement of the executive branch of our government. We the American people, do hereby remind Congress and the President that they are elected by the people, and that we, the people, can and shall use the Constitution of the United States to ensure that our Republic is purged of these domestic enemies. To all those military members who have ever taken the oath of office we beg them to remember their terms of commitment to the constitution of this country and entreat them to adhere to their oaths."
how's that for a response to the czarist POS?!
Van Jones strikes again and the MSM is silent.
We need a national strike until these jerks are thrown out of government. Shut it down.
Who is John Galt?
Why should I pay taxes to support this jerk?
"Green" is the new "Red" Baby.
From David Horowitz's
Born in 1968 in rural West Tennessee, Van Jones earned a B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin and then attended Yale Law School. During his years at Yale, Jones served as an intern with the San Francisco-based Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR), which views the United States as an irredeemably racist nation and "champions the legal rights of people of color, poor people, immigrants and refugees, with a special commitment to African-Americans."
Jones says that he first became politically radicalized in the aftermath of the deadly April 1992 Los Angeles riots which erupted shortly after four L.A. police officers who had beaten the infamous Rodney King were exonerated in court. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th," says Jones, who is black, "and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."
Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, "I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."
After earning his Juris Doctorate from Yale in 1993, Jones relocated to San Francisco, where he helped establish Bay Area PoliceWatch, a hotline and lawyer-referral service that began as a project of LCCR. In 1996 he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which, claiming that the American criminal-justice system is infested with racism, seeks to promote alternatives to incarceration. According to the Baker Center:
"Decades of disinvestment in our cities have led to despair and hopelessness. For poor communities and communities of color it's even worse, as excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration have left people even further behind."
By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a now-defunct Bay Area Marxist-Maoist collective that was staffed by members of various local nonprofits, a number of whom had ties to the Ella Baker Center.
In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER, a front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. STORM also had ties to the South African Communist Party and it revered Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader (of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands) who lauded Lenin as "the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples." (In 2006 Van Jones would name his own newborn son "Cabral" -- in Amilcar Cabral's honor.)
During his tenure with STORM, Jones collaborated on numerous projects (including antiwar demonstrations) with local activist Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, who served as a "mentor" for members of the Ella Baker Center. Martinez was a longtime Maoist who went on to join the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), a Communist Party USA splinter group, in the early 1990s. To this day, Martinez continues to sit on the CCDS advisory board alongside such luminaries as Angela Davis, Timuel Black (who served on Barack Obama's 2004 Senate campaign committee), and musician Pete Seeger. Martinez is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, the parent organization of Progressives for Obama. Martinez and Van Jones together attended a "Challenging White Supremacy" workshop which advanced the theme that "all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration" with blacks.
In 2005 Jones and the Ella Baker Center produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration, a project that eventually would evolve into the Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign -- "a job-training and employment pipeline providing 'green pathways out of poverty' for low-income adults in Oakland."
Soon after attending the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, Jones launched "Green For All," a non-governmental organization "dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy - especially for people from disadvantaged communities."
In 2008 Jones published his first book, The Green Collar Economy, which focused on environmental and economic issues. The book received favorable reviews from such notables as Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Laurie David, Winona LaDuke, environmentalist Paul Hawken, and NAACP President/CEO Ben Jealous.
Jones has served as a board member of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including the Rainforest Action Network; Free Press; Bioneers (which accepts the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Report's warning that "[h]uman activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted"); the National Apollo Alliance (which seeks "to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs"); the Social Venture Network (which aims "to build a just economy and sustainable planet"); and Julia Butterfly Hill's "Circle of Life" environmental foundation.
Jones was also a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called "Green Jobs Czar." Jones' formal title is "Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation" for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
In a July 2009 interview with Newsweek magazine, Jones said he could not explain exactly what a "green job" is:
"Well, we still don't have a unified definition, and that's not unusual in a democracy. It takes a while for all the states and the federal government to come to some agreement. But the Department of Labor is working on it very diligently. Fundamentally, it's getting there, but we haven't crossed the finish line yet."
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Early this year I went to a local quilt show to find that there was a sale of fabric from the quilters stash to benefit the guild. Ummmm, score. I found 4 yards of this delicious peach fabric that was light and drapey. I planned to make a spring button-up dress. Disaster struck after a wash and dry cycle and during ironing I discovered a dark stain. I held on to it waiting for the right pattern in which I could cut around it. But that stain was pesky and in a perfect spot to ruin the fabric.
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I had an epiphany while driving to work– dye it a darker color. Cover the blasted stain. That is just what I did. One sunny Saturday morning I made a crazy amount of boiling water and threw all 4 yards of the fabric in a big bin to dye. It worked like a charm. I intended the fabric to be black but I took it out early to get this eerie effect. Once dried, Jules threw the fabric over his head and went to Spotify to play the Harry Potter theme song – "I am a dementor here to suck your soul!" he cried. Henceforth it became the dementor fabric. I rather liked the creepy drapey vibe and knew it would make a lovely dress version of the Sudley pattern from Megan Nielsen.
Of course I had to deviate from the pattern directions. The pattern has separate lining pieces. I did not have enough fabric to do a full line. Instead, I split the bodice in back and self lined with the fabric. As a result there is a seam in the back bodice - I don't mind at all.
I also opted not to put a tie on the keyhole feature. Instead, I under stitched the lining around the keyhole to help it lay flat.
This is a roomy dress. Very roomy. Nuff' said. But I absolutely love it. It is very different from he dresses I would normally gravitate towards but I am thrilled to have given it a try.
Absolutely nutter butter! A stinkin' cute dress that was perfectly creepy for Halloween. Apologies for such a short post but I have been swamped at work and reckoned it was better for a short post rather than nothing at all! Hope your Halloween was creepy and candy-filled!
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ah, swimming. lol I can say my girls are not water babies, despite the fact the big kids are, but they are trying
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Nine San Jose Fiber Huts installed by Google over the next three years
San Jose is one of the ten largest cities in the United States having passed one million residents in the early part of the 21st millennium. It's much larger than any other city where Google Fiber has been successfully installed. So three year estimated roll-out of Fiber to this grand Silicon Valley city isn't all that far fetched.
One of the first things that Google Fiber will need in San Jose is a hub for all the connections. Whereas you might find the infamous "Lawn Fridges" adorning the landscape in most cities, Google Fiber consolidates these into a small box known as a "Fiber Hut". Each Fiber Hut amasses 40,000 fiber connections to the surrounding homes and businesses. But in a city of over 1,000,000 people, quite a few huts would be required.
Not every single person in San Jose will be getting their own connection, but 360,000 connections, or nine Fiber Huts, would seem to be enough to cover the city. The next thing you're probably thinking about is, NIMBY or "Not In My Back Yard". Fortunately each Fiber Hut will occupy city-owned land and centralized to each of the city's districts. Below is a list of (most of) the locations and districts that each Fiber Hut will be placed into.
- (01) Williams Rd near Moorpark Ave
- (02) Hellyer Ave & Bernal Rd
- (03) Bird Ave & Virginia St
- (03) Guadalupe Parkway near Mission St
- (05) Mexican Heritage Plaza Parking Lot
- (07) Lone Bluff Wy & Oldham Rd
- (10) Glenbury Wy & Thornwood Dr
- (10) Blossom Hill Rd & Camden Rd
The installation of these small buildings will indicated to the locals that Google Fiber will soon be available in their neighborhood. At which time it would be good to check with Google Fiber to find out when you can get access to the service.
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Last Tuesday, July 22, the Angus Senior League travelled to Arbroath where they suffered a defeat.
Thursday night The Brechin Rotary Club had their annual bowling evening where everyone had great fun.
Saturday afternoon Parkview travelled to Lochlands for a friendly but again were beaten - the score being Lochlands 150 to Parkview 109.
Parkview Bowling Club would like to congratulate the pair of Grahame Ritchie and Gordon Duncan for winning the Forfarshire Pairs last Sunday.
On Saturday, August 2, Parkview play Brechin at home and on Sunday the club host the Moir Open Pairs.


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Why do they check babies at the airport? More practically, how do they reasonably justify their actions to check babies at the airport as worth while? What are they trying to prevent? What are they really able to prevent? Think about it. A baby is stolen from a hospital or a family. doesn't matter where. […]Click here to see the full text


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Bully, Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Bullycide – These four words continue to appear with ever greater frequency in the lexicon of the modern American family. We hear these words on the evening news, we read these words in our newspapers, and online in all forums. We live in 2011, but to see how we treat one and other from afar, you'd think perhaps the calendar had rolled back a few centuries. You see – individuals be they young or not-so-young are bullied both at school and at work. The tragedy is, our youth of today, by and large are not prepared for today's always-on world, even though they live it 24/7. The fact that in 2010 we lost 34 children where bullying was a principal issue in their decision to end their lives speaks volumes. There were 33 who committed suicide. Then there was one young man who was killed while trying to extricate his sibling from two bullies who were pummeling his sibling, he was shot and killed. Each of them has a story, I share these below. But before we get to the individual stories, I'd like to share a bit about how we can, collectively take a step (or two) to address bullying.
In my recent pieces, "Bullycide: How many are too many?" and "Every day is worth living" I included my call to action for parents, educators, and communities as a whole to address the ever-increasing instances of bullying in our society. My sincere hope is that we may collectively reduce to zero the number of children who meet their demise due to bullying, by changing the way we address bullying. This requires far more than just laws and rules – this requires our collective action. There are three sides of the equation: Those who bully; Those who are bullied; and Those who stand by and watch the event.
My call to action:
- Encourage your children to accept who they are, and be all they can be with the capabilities given to them.
- Direct your young on appropriate use of the Internet as a tool of collaboration, knowledge sharing and commerce, and not as a tool of hate.
- Make it your business to know and understand the many ways in which your child is engaging online and communicating – Smartphone, laptop, Xbox or wii and where: your house, your neighbors, the library, etc. Then monitor this activity. I've often said, it is not espionage to know who and what your child is being exposed to online or via any other communications medium.
- Teach your young how to cope when overwhelmed and how to discuss this with you.
- Ensure your child understands mistakes are universal, and unless it stops the sun from rising in the morn, you and they can work through the perceived error.
- Show your child how to report and confront bullying and call it out as wrong. Show them how to do this in a non-confrontational, but direct manner. To be a silent witness is to endorse the action.
Negative behavior impacts all of our children, the children identified below are not of one religion, nor are they uniform in their sexual orientation, nor will you find them to be of the same age, nor geographically centralized, or of the same economic strata. Bullies exist everywhere in today's society and thus bullying knows no boundaries. Bullying can however be addressed and in fact obviated. As I said above in my call to action, if we can nip the "drive" to bully, then we stand a chance in creating not only better members of our communities, we will no doubt save lives while we are at it.
Though I am but a lay person when it comes to behavioral studies, I early on called out the connection between bullying and suicide. I recently came across an article in a recent psychiatric Times, "Bullying and Suicide" (see link below in resource section) the authors concluded:
Whether by traditional means or via cyberspace, bullying and peer victimization puts adolescents at increased risk for suicide, especially when comorbid psychopathology is present. Longitudinal studies have just started to be published, and this research field needs to be further developed. In the meantime, findings from cross-sectional studies suggest differential risk profiles by sex as well as by the frequency and severity of the bullying. Female bullies are at increased risk for suicide, even when their bullying is infrequent. Males appear to be at increased risk for suicidal ideation, but only when they are bullied frequently. Bullying and peer victimization lead to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, but this association varies by sex and may be mediated by depression or conduct problems.
I then came across another piece in Child Development, "The Impact of Enhancing Student's Social and Emotional Learning" (see link below in resource section) which found value in Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs in our schools and the improvement in both social interaction as well as in academics.
In addition to person-centered explanations of behavior change, researchers have highlighted how interpersonal, instructional, and environmental supports produce better school performance through the following means: (a) peer and adult norms that convey high expectations and support for academic success, (b) caring teacher–student relationships that foster commitment and bonding to school, (c) engaging teaching approaches such as proactive classroom management and cooperative learning, and (d) safe and orderly environments that encourage and reinforce positive classroom behavior
We need to invest in our children. I firmly believe programs such as those offered by SocialSmarts™which address the need for improved social skills with our children is a good proactive step, coupled with social media/network awareness, meshed with online safety and security tools, will go a long way toward reducing the instances of bullying. In 2010, we failed 34 children. How many will we lose in 2011? (As of 21 February 2011 – we have lost seven children whose suicide is directly related to their being bullied – i.e. they are victims of bullycide).
Please take a moment and visit with each of the 34.
My most recent pieces on the topic of bullying, bullycide and cyberbullying.
American Bar Association resolution addressing Bullying and Cyberbullying
Every day is worth living (originally a guest blog at Social Smarts)
Bullycide: How many are too many?
Bullycide: My time has come and so I'm gone
Social Smarts: SocialSmarts™ is a series of courses that addresses the need for improved social skills in our young people. Created by The PoliteChild, the SocialSmarts program offers age-specific curriculum for students from toddlers to teens that teaches not only appropriate and successful behaviors, but also works to build and reinforce the underlying motivations and foundations for those behaviors. SocialSmarts is designed to have students understand how they should behave, but even more importantly, why it's important to behave that way, grounding students in such important virtues as respect, compassion, trustworthiness, integrity and more. Skills and abilities they need not only now, to succeed in the school system, but also beyond school, as they transition to the workplace.
Psychiatric Times: Bullying and Suicide, Detection and Intervention
Child Development, "The Impact of Enhancing Student's Social and Emotional Learning


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The festivals and events are calendared in Lunar months. Normally, a lunar month is later than western month of around 30 days. For those who are deeply interested in cultural and spiritual events, choosing Vietnam tours and taking part in Vietnam festivals will be one of the best ways to enjoy Vietnam holiday and Vietnam travel.
January and February are the most interesting festive months in the year, in Vietnam. Plenty of the festivals and special events would be organized throughout Vietnam in this occasion.
Tet - Vietnamese and Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important festival of Vietnamese people. This sacred festival sometimes falls between late January or early February (depends on Lunar Calendar) and Tet has become so familiar to the Vietnamese that when Spring arrives, the Vietnamese, wherever they may be, are all thrilled and excited with the advent of Tet, and they feel an immense nostalgia, wishing to come back to their homeland for a family reunion and a taste of the particular flavors of the Vietnamese festivities. Despite officially being a three-day affair, festivities may continue for a week or more with every effort made to indulge in eating, drinking, and enjoyable social activities. It is also a time for family reunions, and for paying respect to ancestors and the elders. Gifts of food are made to friends, neighbors and relatives in the days before Tet.
Tet, above all, is an opportunity for the household genies to meet, those who have helped during the year, namely the Craft Creator, the Land Genie and the Kitchen God. Tet is also a chance to invite and welcome deceased ancestors back for a family reunion with their descendants to join the family's Tet celebrations. Finally, Tet is a great time for family members to meet up. This custom has become sacred and secular, therefore, no matter where they are or whatever the circumstances, family members find ways to come back to meet their loved ones, gather for a dinner of traditional foods like bánh chưng (a square cake made of sticky rice stuffed with beans and pork), canh măng (a soup of boiled bamboo shoots and flied pork) and xôi gấc (orange sticky rice). This is followed by a visit to the local pagodas.
Everyone is in a rush to get a haircut, buy new clothes, spruce up their homes, visit friends, settle outstanding debts, and stock up on traditional Tet delicacies. Businesses hang festive red banners which read "Chuc Mung Nam Moi" (Happy New Year) and city streets are festooned. With colored lights. Stalls spring up all over town to sell mut (candied fruits and jams), traditional cakes, and fresh fruit and flowers. Certain markets sell nothing but cone-shaped kumquat bushes. Others sell flowering peach trees, symbols of life and good fortune which people bring into their homes to celebrate the coming of spring. As vendors pour into the City with peach trees strapped to their bicycles, the streets look like moving pink forests.
The "Mam Ngu Qua"
The "five-fruit tray" on the ancestral altar during the Tet Holidays symbolizes the admiration and gratitude of the Vietnamese to Heaven and Earth and their ancestors, and demonstrates their aspiration for a life of plenty. Legend said abot of theories but in a simpler way, the five fruits represent the quintessence that Heaven and Earth bless humans. This is one of the general perceptions of life of the Vietnamese, which is "When taking fruit, you should think of the grower".
Dao, Mai, Quat (the Peach, Apricot and Kumquat)
Coming to Vietnam during the season of the Tet festival, the visitor is engulfed in an ocean of colorful flowers. Visiting flower shows, contemplating the buds and blooms, and purchasing blossoms represents one of the distinct Vietnamese cultural characteristics. The peach blossoms (in the North) and the apricot blossoms (in the South) are symbols of the Vietnamese Tet. The warm pink of the peach blossoms could very well match the dry cold of the North, but the hot South seems to be flourishing in the riot of the yellow of the apricot. The mandarin is symbolic of good fortune and, therefore, people tend to choose the little plants laden with fruit, big and orange, and verdant leaves for a longer display.
The Giao Thua (New Year's eve)
The Giao Thua is the most sacred moment, the passage from the old to the new year. It is popularly believed that in Heaven there are twelve Highnesses in charge of monitoring and controlling the affairs on earth, each of them taking charge of one year. The Giao Thua is the moment of seeing off the old chieftain upon the conclusion of his term and welcoming in the new one upon his assumption of office. For this reason, every home makes offerings in the open air to pray for a good new year.
The very first moment after the Giao Thua is the start of the new year with many customs and practices, amusements and entertainment, all of a distinct Vietnamese folk culture. If you have an opportunity to visit Vietnam during the Tet Holidays and to welcome the Tet Festivities, together with the Vietnamese people, you will surely be profoundly impressed by the distinct traditional culture that is rich in national identity.
Food specialties for Tet
In the last day of the old year, the preparation of food to offer to the ancestors is of special significance. Dishes to offer to the ancestors differ in the Northern, Central and Southern parts of the country, depending on their respective weather conditions at the time and on different local agricultural products available. What is common in all regions of the country during Tet holidays are the varieties of soups, fried, boiled, or stewed dishes, meat, fish, vegetable... The foods that the Vietnamese eat during Tet are varied and diverse What they have in common is that the people throughout the country all want to have the best and the most beautiful looking food on this occasion to offer their ancestors and to treat their friends and guests.
Starting Dates in Western Calendar 31 Jan 2014, 19 Feb 2015, 8 Feb 2016, 28 Jan 2017, 16 Feb 2018
The Lim Festival is organized in Lim village, located 18 km from Hanoi, where Quan Ho, the special folk song is performed. It takes place every year on 13th day of the 1st lunar month. Tens of thousands of visitors come here to enjoy the dialogues performances between "lien anh" (male singers) and "lien chi" (female singers), the country's most skilled Quan Ho singers. These are male and female farmers who sing different types of songs in the pagodas, on the hills, and in the boats. Besides this, visitors can come to the Lim Festival to enjoy the weaving competition of the Noi Due girls. They weave and sing Quan Ho songs at the same time. Like other religious festivals, the Lim Festival goes through all the ritual stages, from the procession to the worshipping ceremony, and includes other activities.
The Lim Festival is a special cultural activity in the North. The festival celebrates the "Quan Ho" folk song which has become a part of the national culture and a typical folk song that is well loved in the Red River Delta region.
The Lim Festival is also celebrated with traditional temple games. In one game, teenage girls must mind a stranger's baby, chew pieces of sugar cane in order to create fuel with which to start and maintain a fire, cook rice, and prevent a frog from jumping out of a circle marked on the ground. If the baby cries, the fire goes out or the frog escapes, the girl is disqualified.
Starting Dates in Western Calendar 12 Feb 2014, 3 Mar 2015, 20 Feb 2016, 9 Feb 2017, 28 Feb 2018
This festival of lower Thai Duong Village in Huong Hai Commune of Huong Dien District is organized annually on the 12th day of the 1st lunar month in memory of the village tutelary genie Truong Quy Cong. His alias is Truong Thieu, and he was a native of the North who came to the village to settle, teach the locals how to fish, and trade junks. On the eve of the festival, the entire village begins making offerings. Both parts of the village, the upper and lower parts, worship to Truong Quy Cong. Late at night, the "fish worshipping ceremony" occurs, where people pray for peace and the future abundance of fish. Every three years, games representing sea fishing activities are organized, such as the "fish catching" game and "net-casting" game. After these games, people tend to go watch the rowing skiffs. The "net-casting" performance is a form of entertainment that is characterized by rituals to commemorate the merits of the village tutelary genie.
Starting Dates in Western Calendar 11 Feb 2014, 2 Mar 2015, 19 Feb 2016, 8 Feb 2017, 27 Feb 2018
If you go to Tay Ninh, you should visit Nui Ba, a beautiful mountain located in the middle of the Mekong Delta, 11km from downtown Tay Ninh. Nui Ba (Ba Mountain) is often called Ms. Den Mountain. According to a legend, the mountain was named after a young woman called Denh, but who was referred to as Den. She was the devout daughter of a guard officer of the Mien ethnic minority group. Den left her house to enter a monastery in the mountains. She became a nun due to family pressure to marry a guard officer's son from the Trang Bang Area. She remained at the monastery until she died. After her death, the Nguyen Dynasty ordered that a mould of her be cast in black bronze in her honour as the Linh Son Thanh Mau ( Saint Linh Son). During the spring until the afternoon of the 30th day of the 1st lunar month, and especially on the day of the full moon of the first month, tourists from Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces of the south pilgrimage to worship and sightsee. Starting at the bottom of the mountain, tourists climb one half of the mountain to Saint Linh Son's communal house and then follow a path that leads to a pagoda. This pagoda offers vegetarian meals. Tourists can eat as much as they want, but should donate some money to the pagoda; the amount of the donation depending on the budget of the tourist.
Starting Dates in Western Calendar 28 Feb 2014, 19 Mar 2015, 8 Mar 2016, 25 Feb 2017, 16 Mar 2018


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How do you handle system stats when your gather_system_stats returns MREADTIM < SREADTIM?
Do you live with the optimizer using the adjusted dfmrc value?
Apply some calculation to SREADTIM to generate a larger MREADTIM?
Ignore all stats where MREADTIM<SREADTIM and pick some average for the remainder?
Or what?
We have dynamic memory buffer caching turned on here (HP-UX ia64 itanium). Is this the likely reason why often MREADTIM<SREADTIM? Or do I blame the SAN?
... and ...
My gathered system statistics are much more variable that I would have thought. For the same time period that is.
Is it possible that the two instances on the same server will affect each other's system statistics?
Is there likely to be a problem with gathering system stats for both instances at the same time?
Even so, what do you suggest to handle this variation? Plan A is to take the average of all of the stats.
Instance1: 08:30-14:30
D27JUL0830 .995 1.13 1194 6 94699520 D26JUL0830 1.378 1.649 1190 6 34324480 D25JUL0830 1.482 1.088 1191 5 386048 D22JUL0830 1.67 .723 1185 5 13148160 Instance2: 08:30-14:30
D27JUL0830 4.065 10.643 1120 30 68080640 D26JUL0830 .659 7.064 1194 31 38184960 D25JUL0830 .622 9.988 1198 28 23548928 D22JUL0830 1.558 9.757 1195 29 1528832 Thanks
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Hating Ourselves Dead: Black Boys, Suicide and State Violence
In this short Life
That only lasts an hour
How much – how little — is
Within our power
– Emily Dickinson
I am sometimes called to police stations to help young people in conflict with the law. Back in August, my neighbor's son was arrested and I received a panicked call from her. They live in a building across the street from mine. By the time I got to the police station, he was being released. Apparently he was part of a neighborhood sweep and was arrested with several of his friends by our local police. He insisted that he had done nothing wrong. I believed him especially since he was so quickly released from custody.
I received some devastating news this morning. The young man shot himself two weeks ago in South Carolina. He is dead and he left no note. His sister called to tell me the news. The entire family is crushed.
Apparently, the young man had been sent to live with his uncle in South Carolina in order to provide him with a less stressful environment. His mother had been rocked by her eldest son's arrest. She worried deeply that he might meet a tragic end if he continued to walk the streets of Chicago. A young black man in this city is always at risk. My neighbor who is a single mother of three thought that her brother could provide her first born with the support and mentorship that she felt she no longer could when he turned 17 last March. After the August incident, she shipped him off to South Carolina for his senior year of high school.
Now he is gone… Too soon… Today I am haunted by some words that he shared with me when I ran into him a week after his arrest. I asked him how he was doing. He answered in the way that 17 year old young men sometimes do, with a monosyllabic response: "OK," he said. I told him that we would need to get his arrest expunged from his juvenile record. Then he said: "It doesn't matter, nothing good is going to happen for me anyway." I was on my way to a meeting (which I was running late for) and I casually answered: "Don't say that. Of course good things are in store for you." I told him that I had to run and that I would see him soon. I am ashamed to say that I didn't think about our conversation again until this morning after I heard the news of his suicide.
As I write this, I am having trouble seeing the computer screen through my tears. I didn't follow up to see how he was doing. I didn't know that he had been in South Carolina since early September. I didn't recognize the depth of his pain. I simply didn't see it.
His sister told me that a friend of his has said the young man was depressed and saw no future for himself. He didn't have the grades to get a scholarship for college. Apparently, his friend told the family that he received an e-mail from the young man a couple of weeks before he shot himself. In it, he wrote in capital letters: "I HATE MYSELF AND MY SKIN."
The tears won't stop. I have no more words. I don't want to write anymore so I will let James Baldwin, my favorite writer, speak for me. In 1970, he wrote his eloquent Open Letter to Angela Davis. I basically have the letter memorized because I find it so relevant and timely for our current historical moment in the U.S. I will quote two particular passages that are, to my mind, relevant to the tragedy of my neighbor's son's untimely passing. May his soul find the peace that he couldn't find in our world.
"The American triumph—in which the American tragedy has always been implicit—was to make Black people despise themselves. When I was little I despised myself; I did not know any better. And this meant, albeit unconsciously, or against my will, or in great pain, that I also despised my father. And my mother. And my brothers. And my sisters. Black people were killing each other every Saturday night out on Lenox Avenue, when I was growing up; and no one explained to them, or to me, that it was intended that they should; that they were penned where they were, like animals, in order that they should consider themselves no better than animals. Everything supported this sense of reality, nothing denied it: and so one was ready, when it came time to go to work, to be treated as a slave. So one was ready, when human terrors came, to bow before a white God and beg Jesus for salvation—this same white God who was unable to raise a finger to do so little as to help you pay your rent, unable to be awakened in time to help you save your child!
We know that we, the Blacks, and not only we, the blacks, have been, and are, the victims of a system whose only fuel is greed, whose only god is profit. We know that the fruits of this system have been ignorance, despair, and death, and we know that the system is doomed because the world can no longer afford it—if, indeed, it ever could have. And we know that, for the perpetuation of this system, we have all been mercilessly brutalized, and have been told nothing but lies, lies about ourselves and our kinsmen and our past, and about love, life, and death, so that both soul and body have been bound in hell."


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bill-swift - May 3, 2012
I think she's on her fifteenth kid or so, but Reese Witherspoon continues to ripen ever so quite nicely during her 'with child' months, in a body clinging dress showing off her swelling melons and curving body and all kinds of other hidden fetish worthy goodness that could turn a Reese Witherspoon liker into a luster during her glowing times.
Yes, we often fret when our favorite sexy celebrities get knocked up by their future ex-husbands and boyfriends, but the results often end up being some of the better visuals ever. Enjoy.


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Lake Roosevelt is being held at a level about 47 feet below the full mark while maintnenace is completed on the drum gates that hold the water back when the lake is full.
The Bureau of Reclamation, which operates Grand Coulee Dam, reports the lake will likely remain below 1,255 feet above sea level until May 10.
The water forecast for the Columbia River drainage above Grand Coulee Dam, from April to August this year, is estimated to 82.5 percent of normal, so the maximum level allowed for flood control right now would actually be 1,283.3 feet, less than 7 feet below spilling over.
But such flood control elevations are the maximum elevations allowed to ensure enough room in the lake for the spring runoff. Actual elevations may be lower "based on power demand, unforeseen power emergencies, changes in weather events, maintenance on the dam, etc," the bureau explains on its website.


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A new ad hoc group of Arab American organizations and leaders is waging a national education campaign on Jerusalem, arguing that sovereignty over Jerusalem must be shared with the Palestinians in order to achieve an enduring peace.
The Washington, D.C.-based American Committee on Jerusalem is pressing what it calls the mainstream Arab American position on Jerusalem.
"We believe strongly that there can be no monopoly on sovereignty over Jerusalem by either party if there is to be a just and lasting peace," said Raafat Dajani, coordinator of the ACJ and a member of the American Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee.
The two organizations operate out of the same office complex but are considered independent.
The status of Jerusalem is one of the key issues to be addressed in the final status talks between Israeli and Palestinians that are expected to begin in earnest after Israel's May 29 elections.
Israeli officials have stated that the entire city must remain the undivided capital of the sovereign Jewish state. Palestinian negotiators argued that eastern Jerusalem, with a heavy Arab population, must serve as the capital of a new Palestinian state.
While these positions appear intractable, ACJ members see room for compromise.
According to Khalil Jahsan, a member of ACJ's board of directors, the prevailing opinion among mainstream Arab Americans is that Jerusalem should not be redivided. They envision a united city serving as a capital for both Israel and an emerging state of Palestine.
Sovereignty would be shared and the city would be split into two boroughs – eastern and western Jerusalem – with independent city councils managed by a joint mayoral council of Israelis and Palestinians, said Jahsan, who is also executive director of the National Association of Arab Americans.
"There is widespread support for this" position in the organized Arab American community, Jahsan said. "This seems to be the least common denominator in terms of Israelis and Palestinians.
"If Israel wants sovereignty over East Jerusalem, Palestinians must have some sovereignty over West Jerusalem," Jahsan said.
ACJ was established last September as a non-profit organization with an initial budget of $150,000. By producing resource materials, organizing seminars and planning for a possible conference in June, the Arab organization is targeting the American public and U.S. government on Jerusalem-related matters.
The committee claims that in the past information on Jerusalem has been supplied almost exclusively by the Israeli government and pro-Israel groups in the United States.
"We provide the other side of the argument," said Dajani. "We're saying that Muslims, Christians and Palestinians have an equally valid claim and in some cases longer historical and religious claims to Jerusalem then Jews."
ACJ is directed by a board of governors that includes Jahsan, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, executive director of the American Muslims Councils, and AAADC president Hala Maksoud. The committee's president is Rashid Khalidi, a professor at the University of Chicago.
"The odds are stacked against the Palestinians across the board in this peace process," said Jahsan, whose NAAA has lobbied Congress on related issues for years.
Jahsan charged that worldwide celebrations this year of Jerusalem 3000, touting Jewish heritage in Jerusalem, were designed to preempt negotiations. In addition, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill last year to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognizing the city as Israel's eternal capital.
"You can't have your cake and eat it tool," Jahsan said of the United States, which also is the main mediator in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Although ACJ has not taken a formal stand on Jahsan's shared sovereignty proposal, Dajani said the committee could support such a compromise. However, he departed from that position when pressed on whether eastern Jerusalem would be part of Israel.
"That depends on how you define Jerusalem," Dajani said. He considered eastern Jerusalem not as a part of Israel but as land "occupied" by the Jewish state.
"This territory has to be returned to people it was forcefully seized from."
Current Israeli maps of Jerusalem depict both eastern and western Jerusalem as part of one city.
While Prime Minister Shimon Peres said "Jerusalem will remain the undivided capital of Israel," Dajani claimed there might be room for compromise because the Israeli leader does not define the borders from "point A to point B."
"The actual `all of Jerusalem' has not been precisely defined," he said.
Gadi Baltiansky, press counselor at the Israeli embassy, said there is no ambiguity in the prime minister's position.
"We are talking about the current borders of Jerusalem under Israeli law, which encompasses eastern Jerusalem," he said. "There is no gray area. Jerusalem is one city and it will not be divided."


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Prayer workshop slated
Nikiski Aglow and Nikiski New Hope Christian Fellowship will host a gathering of God's gap people at 7 p.m. today at the church. Joanne Meckstroth will be the featured speaker. She will teach and facilitate prayer, there also will be a time of individual prayer ministry. For information, call 776-8022, 776-8691, 776-8841 776-8794 or 776-3405.
Addictions group meets
Reformers Unanimous, a Christ-centered addictions program, meets at 7 p.m. Fridays at the Immanuel Baptist Church. For more information, call 283-9361.
Clothes available
Clothes Quarters is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays. It is in the back of the parking lot of Our Lady of the Angels Church, 225 S. Spruce St. in Kenai.
Baha'i classes continue
Spiritual education classes for children ages 5 to 7 is held weekly at 10 a.m. Saturdays.
Classes for adults and older youth also are available. For more information, call 283-6650.
Kenai Aglow meeting slated
Kenai Aglow will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at The Salvation Army Chapel, 201 N. Forest Drive in Kenai.
Soldotna aglow to meet
Soldotna Day Aglow meets from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesdays at Peninsula Christian Center, behind The Salvation Army. A Beth Moore Bible study is in progress.
The topic is seeking the heart of God through the study of David.
For more information, call 262-2569.
Nikiski holds bible study
Nikiski Aglow is offering the Beth Moore Bible Study program centered on the Word of God on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. at the North Star Methodist Church in Nikiski.
Coffee, tea, snacks, prayer and fellowship are included.
For more information, call 776-8841, 776-8691, 776-8794, 776-3405 or 776-8022.
Group studies book of Joshua
"Precepts," a women's Bible study on the book of Joshua, is being offered at 10 a.m. Thursday by the First Baptist Church of Kenai. Child care will be provided. For more information, call 283-7772 or 283-7672.
Band concert set to play
The Moody symphonic band will give a free concert at 7 p.m. March 14 at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium. David Gauger ll will conduct.
The band is comprised by students from the Moody Bible Institute undergraduate program. The band will play band and orchestral music and hymn and gospel arrangements.
Gauger holds a bachelor of music from Wheaton College and a master of music from Northwestern University.
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A message archiving system saves all or specified incoming and outgoing messages on a system separate from Messaging Server. Sent, received, deleted, and moved messages can all be saved and retrieve in an archive system. Archived messages cannot be modified or removed by email users, so the integrity of incoming and outgoing messages is maintained. Message archiving is useful for compliance record keeping, but it is also useful for message store management. For example, some customers may use archiving to perform message back-up or to move older messages from more expensive message store storage to less expensive archive storage.
Archived messages can be accessed through a separate archiving software GUI client or through Messaging Server. If the messages are deleted from Messaging Server, then the archiving client can be used to search for and retrieve those deleted messages since archived messages are never deleted. Note, however, that archived messages are not stored in mailbox folders as they are in the Messaging Server.
The system can also be set up so that archived messages can be accessed from Messaging Server. For example, you can set up a system to archive messages over 2 years old. Instead of having message bodies reside in the message store, they would instead reside in the archive system. From the users standpoint, the message appears no different from a regular email message. The same header and subject information will appear (this is still stored in the message store storage), but the message body is downloaded from the archive server by the message store when needed. Thus, there may be a slight delay as messages are downloaded from the archive server. In addition, archived messages cannot be searched from the email client. Searching must be done from the archiving GUI.
There are two types of archiving, compliance and operational. Compliance archiving is used when you have a legal obligation to maintain strict retrievable email record keeping. Selected email (selected by user(s), domain, channel, incoming, outgoing and so on) coming into the MTA is copied to the archive system before being delivered to the message store or the internet. Archiving can be set to occur either before or after spam and virus filtering.
Operational archiving is used for mail management purposes. For example:
To reduce storage usage on the Messaging Server message store by moving less used (older) messages to an archiving system which uses lower cost storage.
As an alternative for data backup.
Note that compliance and operational archiving are not exclusive. That is, you can set up your system so that it does both compliance and operational archiving.


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Let be a continuous function and differentiable everywhere . Further, let . Show that exists and equals .
So here's what I've done thus far:
First note that since is continuous on all of , that exists in the very least. Now, the limit statement translates into the following: given any there exists a such that:
However, by the mean value theorem, we get the following estimate:
For some . Then we get the following results:
So I'm up to the point of having to produce a that works, but I don't see where it's coming from at all. Can someone point me in the right direction?
By the way, if anyone here has any general tips and tricks as to how to produce the appropriate in these type proofs, I'd love to hear them. It just seems like they come out of thin air a lot of times!


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In a 1973 concert in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Tapestry Room, longtime concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Joseph Silverstein plays Johannes Brahms' "Sonatensatz" with pianist Virginia Eskin.
On the program:
Beethoven: Sonata in A Major, Op. 12, No. 2
Brahms: Sonatensatz
Schubert: Fantasia in C, D. 934
Joseph Silverstein, violin
Virginia Eskin, piano
(photo of the Tapestry Room at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by Sean Dungan, courtesy of ISGM)


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I am not normally political on my photography site, however I would like to call attention to a petition that has come out which is asking the town of Chamonix and Les Houches to ban circuses using animals from performing in the valley. Anyone who loves Chamonix either as a resident or tourist is welcome to sign it.
You can sign this petition (which is all in French) here – Stop aux Cirques avec Animaux .
The English Translation of the petition follows.
BAN Circuses with ANIMALS in Chamonix and the valley (Haute Savoie – 74)
We would like via this petition to draw your attention to the conditions of life and the exploitation of animals in numerous circuses which come each year in our communities, notably Cirque Star, many Médrano circuses, Cirque Jean Richard etc..
Like us, animals are endowed with emotions, the feel fear and they feel pain. They form strong social bonds and as we do, they want to live free.
We firmly oppose their exploitation and suffering for our "entertainment".
And so we ask that you put into place a ban on circuses with animals in our towns.
During the low season, the animals stay in their transport boxes, in stables or even in trucks or trailers. It is rare that a circus has the means or the willingness to invest in proper shelters when they will only be used a few months a year.
This imprisonment has devastating physical and psychological consequences. An American study reveals that captive elephants spend around one quarter of their day in shaking their heads or moving from foot to foot compulsively, and bears pace the length and breadth of their cages.
Animals used in circuses are transported constantly from one show to another in an environment where their most elemental needs cannot be satisfied. For 90% of the time they are shut in trucks for "livestock" or in temporary enclosures and they can be beaten or punished with inhuman training methods. This has nothing to do with "entertainment".
Animals in the circus are deprived of all which is natural and important to them. Their mental state is broken and they are isolated, chained, alone, degraded and without purpose. Animals used in performances frequently end up with behaviours such as pacing, biting their bars, turning in circles and self-multilation. It is now recognised that this neurotic behaviour is caused by their captivity and an artificial way of living for them.
All animals living in circuses have specific needs. Some such as lions need a hot climate, others like the bear require a colder climate. All animals have a requirement for space, natural activities and social links as well as food and water in sufficient quantity. In circuses, they do not all have this. They are shut in transit cages or electric fences and only are allowed out for their performance.
Because animals do not naturally ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on giant balls or jump through burning hoops, the trainers use whips, tight collars, muzzles, stun guns, bull hooks and other painful tools to force them to perform their number. Physical punishment has long been the standard training method for circus animals.
Captive animals are known to crack under this pressure. There are dozens of cases of death and injuries to humans which can be attributed to animals kept in circuses or other captive environments.
In their place, would we prefer a free life, with the risks that it entails, but to be able to take pleasure in our liberty surrounded by our families – or to live a life of solitude in a cage, travelling many kilometres and kilometres in a truck, then make a few circles at the behest of a trainer, to always be subjected to their will and to do unnatural acts such as to be forced to sit down – which for an elephant can actually cause grave internal injuries.
Would it not be better to encourage conservation programs for these species in their countries of origin, and to show beautiful documentaries on their lives to our children and adults who want to discover these animals in their natural environment ?
Here is an interview with the mayor of La Ciotat, Monsieur Boré Patrick , who has just banned circuses with wild animals in his town:
- http://www.europe1.fr/emissions/l-invite-actu/le-maire-de-la-ciotat-interdit-les-cirques-avec-animaux-sauvages-dans-sa-ville-2693260
Here are some videos showing the training and consequences of this life on animals, several of which were recorded in France :
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU3QCqBQV5Q
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubcbzEIfchw
- http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xca3st_enquete-dans-un-cirque-zavatta_animals
- http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhw6ij_elephant-maltraitance-cirque_animals
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkH5s3ulwvY
In your role as mayor and according to article 211 of the Code Rural, you have the power to take measures necessary to preserve the safety of persons who could be in the presence of animals in your town and also to refuse to allow the installation of a circus which holds animals.
A growing number of French towns such as La Ciotat recently, Truchtersheim (67), la Ville de Thaon Les Vosges, Bagnolet, Montreuil, Ilkirch, Vernaisson and Chassieu as well as many foreign cities and countries have already restricted or banned the use of animals for amusement – such as Belgium, Iran, Catalonia in Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Mexico, the USA, Canada, Slovenia and India ….
Times have changed. It is no longer acceptable to treat animals like objects for our amusement. We hope that you will be in agreement with this position, and that you will become an example for other French towns in refusing to give out permits for circuses with wild animals in the public territory.
We are aware this decision is difficult to make, but it is a courageous one.
Here is a template for deliberating the banning of circuses with animals in your town : http://www.cirques-de-france.fr/sites/default/files/doc_a_tel/Delib_Conseil_municipal.pdf
The French, and permanent foreign residents who live in your communes, as well as the tourists who all love animals thank you in advance for taking this progressive decision.
In awaiting your response, and please accept our sincere greetings,
You can sign this petition (which is all in French) here – Stop aux Cirques avec Animaux .