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Ignite - Singles Events
We are 3 friends, myself and two females, working together to set up a new speed dating events company in London, England, called Ignite - Singles Events. The company will hold a variety of speed dating events for people in general and more specifically (eg based on background, religion, etc) in bars, restaurants and cafes in central London.
Our aim is to target a variety of markets of single professionals in London, England, from general open to everyone events, to more specific events based on religion and background, to cater for a variety of different individuals looking for people from a similar or different background. Our market will consist of professional singles (doctors, lawyers, healthcare workers, office workers, accountants, teachers, etc), ranging from the ages of 23-45, males and females.
Though there are other events companies, they do not cater fully for such a diverse population, and often to not provide an adequate service to fulfill their roles fully. We aim to promote ourselves as a stylish, elegant speed dating company, who pride themselves on using ideal, relaxed and discreet venues in bars, restaurants and cafes in central London, England, and providing full support from the beginning to post event care, to ensure people have an opportunity to meet like minded professional singles in a relaxed environment.
Below is our original guideline for our company logo. We would like to add that if someone can come up with a bold, clear and stylish logo using their own ideas from what our company conjures up, please do provide a version of your design concept as we are quite open to any ideas. As long as it contains the word Ignite, with Singles Events as a subheading somewhere. Thanks
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text: On Sep 29, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > In the previous thread I instigated about running services in cluster > nodes, there was some mentioning of precisely synchronizing the system > clocks and this issue is also mentioned in this paper: > > "The Case of Missing Supercomputer Performance: Achieving Optimal > Performance on the 8,192 processor ASCI Q" (Petrini, Kerbisin and > Pakin) > http://hpc.pnl.gov/people/fabrizio/papers/sc03_noise.pdf > > I've also read a few other papers on the topic, and it seems you > need to > sync the system clocks to ~1 uS. On top of that, I imagine you also > need > to synch the activities of each system so they all stop to do the same > system-level tasks at the same time. > > The papers I read all mentioned different OSes, or at least > specialized > hardware. Can this level of synchronization be achieved in Linux on > commodity hardware? I imagine NTP doesn't have the resolution needed > for this, and Don Becker has some strong feelings against NTP. The SiCortex systems I work on are not commodity, but they do run Linux. All the node chips in the machine are frequency locked to the same oscillator, so the core cycle counters (MIPS standard) advance at the same rate, but because the cores are released from reset at different times, they are not initially synchronized. We recently added a global clock synchronization step to booting the system by timestamping messages sent over an out-of-band channel of the interconnect. After some futzing around, we're able to synchronize all the cycle counters to within about 50 nanoseconds. The timer interrupts then happen at the same counter values system wide, which naturally synchronizes most of the daemons that wake up. I don't think we've gone to the trouble of gang scheduling them as well, which would also be a good idea. We tried reducing the standard 1000Hz timer interrupts to 100 Hz, but a bunch of stuff in the IP network stack reacted badly, slowing down IP communications. We haven't tracked it all down yet. As one would expect from the papers you cite, the clock synchronization has had a very dramatic effect on large scale collectives - a 5800 rank 8-byte allreduce is now down to 36 microseconds, where it was something like 170 microseconds before the clock project. Since clusters built from commodity servers run on independent oscillators, it it much harder to synchronize them - NTP will do a very good job estimating the relative frequencies, but all those oscillators will drift independently with temperature and aging, so you have to run NTP continually. However, the problem to solve - synchronizing local clocks with each other, is different from the one NTP is intended to solve. You don't really care what the wall clock time is, you only care that all the systems have the same time. I've seen some other papers on the subject of using LAN timestamps to provide much more accurate local synchronization. Here's one that cites 10 microsecond results: High-Precision Relative Clock Synchronization Using Time Stamp Counters Guo-Song Tian; Yu-Chu Tian; Fidge, C. Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, 2008. ICECCS 2008. 13th IEEE International Conference on Volume , Issue , March 31 2008-April 3 2008 Page(s):69 - 78 > Incidently, a good way to measure the effects of OS noise locally is to write a program that reads the core cycle counter in a tight loop, and keeps statistics on the intervals between successive samples. You can find out how often and for how long your OS is going out to lunch. _larry


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By Jacob Bunge and Brent Kendall
IntercontinentalExchange Inc. has agreed to pay its takeover target NYSE Euronext $750 million if the exchange giants' merger deal falters on antitrust grounds.
Terms of the deal also require each exchange to pay their partner $300 million if another, superior bid is chosen, and $450 million to the counterparty if the other exchange's board changes its mind about the deal.
Antitrust problems sank both NYSE Euronext's and ICE's prior merger attempts. NYSE Euronext's agreed deal to merge with Deutsche Boerse AG fell apart in February after the European Commission determined that combining the two companies' interest-rate futures markets would have created a near-monopoly.


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Milwaukee: Premiere Midwest destination
Milwaukee is a premiere Midwestern meeting destination. State-of-the-art convention facilities are conveniently located at Midwest Airlines Center. Within walking distance of the convention center is Milwaukee's dynamic downtown, offering a wide range of shopping, dining and nightlife options, the RiverWalk, Water Street Entertainment District, Downtown Theater District, museums, professional sports and over 3,000 hotel rooms.
Milwaukee is an affordable destination, including everything from transportation to ticket prices. The city also gets high marks on accessibility. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal-Sun, Milwaukee is a far better air travel value than its neighbor to the south, Chicago, and has readily available taxi service, limo service and public transportation. Milwaukee's warm hospitality further sets it apart from its competition.
With room rates ranging from economy to deluxe, there's a price to satisfy any pocketbook. But the affordability doesn't stop with accommodations. The restaurant scene offers a treat for the palate and the wallet, and big-city entertainment in Milwaukee comes at small-town prices. Each month, the city hosts more than 150 events, attractions, exhibits and performances; many are available for free or less than $10.
Accessibility. The city is conveniently located between highways 94 and 43, providing convenient freeway access throughout downtown and the outlying areas. The city streets are on a grid pattern, so finding your way around is easy, on foot or by car. The city's public transportation system is also inexpensive and readily accessible, and cab companies provide friendly, safe and affordable services.
State-of-the-art. In addition to being beautiful, the building is a technological marvel. The facility is designed with cutting-edge technology, including highly advanced telephone and data services and an ATM DS3 Internet connection.
Redevelopment. The 130,000 square-foot Harley-Davidson Museum, situated along the Menomonee River near downtown Milwaukee, includes exhibit space as well as a restaurant, cafй, retail shop, meeting space, special events facilities and the company's archives. Opened in July 2008, the museum celebrates the rich history of Harley-Davidson, the passion of its riders and the stories of the employees, dealers, suppliers, company leaders and community members. The experience will extend to outdoor space where visitors can meet to share stories and enjoy the 20 acres of green space adjacent to the edge of the river.
Potawatomi Bingo Casino recently completed a $240-million expansion project - the most ambitious project taken up by the Casino since its opening in 1991. The casino now has an additional 500,000 square feet of entertainment space and a new six-story parking garage. On the gaming floor, the number of slot machines doubled with the addition of 1,500 machines. In addition, approximately 100 additional table games have doubled, and in some cases tripled, the number currently on the floor. New dining options include two new restaurants, a bar/lounge and a food court at the expanded Casino. In addition, both the four-star, four-diamond Dream Dance Steak restaurant and The Buffet have increased in size and moved to the first floor of the Casino. The Fire Pit Sports Bar & Grill also expanded.
Discovery World is the first complex in the nation to connect the natural world, with special emphasis on freshwater resources and the Great Lakes, to the human-made world through innovation, exploration, discovery and technology. Fresh and saltwater aquariums and touch tanks, maritime history displays, hands-on labs, and learning stations and changing displays invite exploration.
The Milwaukee Public Market tempts taste buds with locally grown and organic produce, meat, poultry, seafood, cheese and locally-produced specialty items. This colorful market is located in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward and features an on-site cafй and professional kitchen offering cooking classes taught by Milwaukee's culinary masters. Summer brings an opportunity to experience its weekend outdoor Farmer's Market.
At the Daniel M. Soref Planetarium, audiences can book their own cruises through the cosmos at an eye-popping new $2.6-million facility in Wisconsin's largest and most modern dome theater. An astronomy experience awaits with breathtaking vistas of the night sky, planets, the Milky Way and distant wonders of the universe. The planetarium features a full-color Digistar 3 Laser projection system, ultra-high resolution, state-of-the-art digital imaging and 12,000 watts of surround sound. Only three other planetariums in the world - in New York, Los Angeles and China - are scheduled to get this techno-package.
Bayshore Town Center has transformed one of Milwaukee's popular shopping malls into a pedestrian-friendly destination of approximately 1 million square feet of retail, office and living space, upscale restaurants and inviting green space.
Throughout its history, Milwaukee has proven itself to be a place where people with ethnic roots from all over the world come together to form a community of great cultural diversity. This multicultural population has flourished and grown over the years, influencing every facet of the city's evolving personality and creating the "majority-minority" Milwaukee that exists today.
We invite you to experience a city alive with the laughter, creativity and savvy of people from many different walks of life. Come celebrate the unique cultural traditions and common human aspirations of Milwaukee. Milwaukee's people make the difference, much like other popular destinations, Milwaukee has many things to see and do, including a vibrant arts scene, a wealth of outdoor activities and a wide range of cultural attractions. What distinguishes Milwaukee from other cities is the warm hospitality and friendly attitude of the people who live here. The city's personal touch and heartfelt welcome makes Milwaukee an extraordinary place to visit.
Favorite Milwaukee traditions, such as ethnic festivals and brewery tours, are sharing spaces with many new and exciting developments that are changing Milwaukee's skyline and defining it as a premier urban destination. Two aspects of Milwaukee's state-of-the-art convention center make the Midwest Airlines Center one of the most distinctive structures of its kind. Throughout the building there is $1.2 million in public art, including several elements which are integrated into the building itself. The diverse artwork represents Wisconsin's fascinating history, geography and culture. Milwaukee's accessibility is a key reason groups and tourists continue to choose it as a destination. General Mitchell International Airport, rated one of the nation's top three airports in user-friendliness, is only eight miles from downtown. The airport serves approximately 90 cities with nonstop or direct flights from 14 major airlines. The airport has roughly 230 daily departures. The Greyhound Bus Station and the Amtrak Railway Station are located in the downtown area, just blocks from the convention center.


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Cleveland Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski said the battle for the starting quarterback job between Brandon Weeden and Jason Campbell was "close" earlier this week.
It may not be so close after Weeden's performance Thursday night against the Detroit Lions.
Weeden made some brilliant throws in completing 8 of 12 passes for 112 yards with two touchdown passes to tight end Jordan Cameron. In two games this preseason, Weeden has completed 18 of 25 passes (72-percent) for 224 yards and three touchdowns and a passer rating of 139.0.
Weeden has been taking all of the first-team snaps in practice and has had two solid performances in the Browns' first two preseason games. He's done nothing to open the door for Campbell to supplant him on the depth chart.
Offensive tackle Joe Thomas didn't feel the competition was all that close. We agree. Brandon Weeden has done enough to prove he should start for the Browns Week 1.


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The Alabama Farmers Federation is fairly sure that tax increases will be introduced during the current session of the state's legislature. What isn't known is who will introduce them and how big the proposed increases will be.
Warding off tax increases will be one of the key issues for Federation lobbyists this year, and the increases could be disguised in many forms, says Freddie Patterson, director of governmental affairs for the Alabama farmers federation.
Gov. Bob Riley already has indicated that he is likely to propose an accountability package that he says won't have revenue increases associated with it, says Patterson.
"We agree with that concept, and our approach will be to support real accountability — namely the way that revenue is projected and the way budgets are formulated based on those projections," he says.
Legislators already have lined up to introduce tax increases, says Patterson, including property tax millage increases, reductions in sales tax exemptions, and changes in Alabama's property tax classification system.
"Voters made it very clear last September when they overwhelmingly defeated Amendment 1," he says. "Voters said they don't want to pay more taxes. I think if the voters were convinced that their current tax dollars are being spent wisely, then — and only then — would they consider a tax increase."
One of the first issues legislators are scheduled to address is the state budget for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, 2004. Gov. Riley has said the state's bleak financial picture and rising costs of health care and pensions could cause some state programs to be cut by 50 percent.
House Speaker Seth Hammett, D-Andalusia, says the legislature will address the revenue shortfall, adding that he hopes it will be in concert with the governor. However, if the governor doesn't come up with a plan, he expects legislators to step into a leadership position on taxes.
Hammett says it will take $400 million in new money to maintain state programs and public education.
In addition to opposing tax increases, Patterson says the Farmers Federation will push for other legislation that will benefit farmers.
The Family Farm Preservation Act is expected to be introduced again in the current session. If adopted, it will keep a farming operation — abiding by current rules and regulations — from being declared a public nuisance. The proposed act also would stipulate that any person or group that sues a farmer — who is abiding by current rules and regulations for public nuisance and loses — must pay the farmer's attorney's fees and any expenses associated with the case.
Federation lobbyists also will examine weight and width restrictions on farm equipment operated on public roads. According to Patterson, some equipment manufacturers are making equipment that exceeds limits for weight and width regulations.
A drought management plan that could include possible permitting for farmers also is being considered during the legislative session. The Federation, says Patterson, will be closely monitoring regulatory functions of the Office of Water Resources, a division of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, as well as regulations and funding for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management where it pertains to farm and rural issues.
Constitutional revision also is likely to be proposed again this year, and the Federation will continue its efforts to preserve current constitutional protections, including current use and property classifications.
Other items the Federation will be monitoring include rural economic development, hazardous materials regulations and enforcement, worker compensation laws, revenue department functions, the Alabama Insurance Department and health services funding and regulation.
"In regards to insurance legislation, we will seek to protect insurance premium tax credits and liability limits and prevent any increases in licenses and fees that affect the insurance industry and Alfa customers," says Patterson.
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One of the city's oldest gathering places is on the verge of becoming St. Lucie County's only "pet friendly" emergency shelter.
The city received a $779,712 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to rebuild the Ravenswood Community Center on Prima Vista Boulevard up to Category 5 hurricane standards.
The center, built more than 20 years ago, will be designed to withstand hurricane force winds of up to 200 mph and will provide shelter for at least 100 animals, if not more, and their owners, said Public Works Director Donald Freedland.
St. Lucie County spokesman Erick Gill said providing emergency shelter for pets during hurricanes has been a big issue in the county. Other than the special needs shelter, the county uses schools for shelters and has not been able to identify money for possible locations for a pet shelter, Gill said.
The city expects to seek bids on the project in the next 30 days and start construction in the summer. The center should be completed by the summer of 2011, Cunningham said.
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In Evil Twin, you play the as Cyprien, a naive but resourceful 10-year-old orphan who has been transported into a dream world corrupted by an uncanny menace. To discover what this menace is, you must travel through the eerie, dreamlike settings to search for clues and to interact with other characters. You must also fight terrible creatures to free others from the grip of the menace's evil power. At these moments you become Super Cyprien, the warrior side of the character, and you acquire fighting powers that are unattainable as plain Cyprien.
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Max Frederick Bishop, the second baseman for Connie Macs last three pennant winners and one of the greatest leadoff batters of all time, died in his sleep at the home of a cousin in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1962 at the age of 62. Death is believed to have been caused by a heart attack. Bishop, who resided in Baltimore, had returned to the town of his birth to attend funeral services for his mother, Mrs. Lulu Bishop, 93, who had died on February 22, 1962. She was buried several hours after her sons death. The gentlemenly and reserved former star had planned to retire as baseball coach of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, a post he had held for 24 years, on March 1. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Baltimore following services at the Ellsworth Armacost Funeral Chapel
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Professor W. Thring (1915-2006) named his fully adjustable metal leg frame an 'exo-skeleton'. It relieves pressure on the joints of people with arthritis. The user is strapped into the metal frame and rests their weight upon the adapted bicycle seat. The frame supports the joints and is hinged at all the same points as a human body. This allows a full range of movement. Thring was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Queen Mary College, London University during the 1960s. He set up a Design and Invention workshop there. Thring was one of the first people to work on domestic robots. As a keen inventor he created several aids including an artificial hand with rotating wrist (1997-801).
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Yes, the GoPro HERO actioncam is waterproof rated down to 197 feet (60 meters) but it doesn't float, and it likes to sink really fast. In murky water this can be a problem. Fortunately, GoPole, a GoPro accessories company, created The Bobber.
The Bobber is a bright yellow handle for the HERO. It's fine for boating, swimming, and other water-based activities. The Bobber acts much like a buoy for your device and it's supposed to be capable of holding the weight of GoPro's 3D system or cameras with LCD or battery packs. There are other flotation systems available for the HERO, but GoPole claims that it's the only one that doesn't block the user's view of the LCD screen.
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The Orioles today announced their 2013 Grapefruit League schedule, which opens February 23 with a 1:05 p.m. game against the Minnesota Twins at Ed Smith Stadium. 2013 marks the fourth consecutive spring training for the Orioles in Sarasota, and the third in the renovated Ed Smith Stadium.
Baltimore will face eight different opponents during the 2013 Grapefruit League campaign. The O's will host the Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates three times each and the Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays two times each, with the New York Mets also making one visit to Sarasota. In preparation for this year's World Baseball Classic, Team Brazil will come to Sarasota to play the Orioles, rounding out the 18-game home schedule.
The Orioles will play 16 games on the road during the 2012 Grapefruit League schedule. They will make four trips to play the Pirates, three trips to play the Blue Jays and Twins, two trips to play the Rays and Red Sox and one trip to play the Yankees and Phillies.
Fans interested in season plans, five-game flex packs or group tickets, or those wishing to receive additional spring training ticket information may call the Orioles spring training office in Sarasota at 941-893-6300.
The Orioles are also offering the official Spring Training Travel Package that includes hotel accommodations, rental car, game tickets, optional airfare through Southwest Airlines and other amenities. For more information or to order travel packages, fans should visit www.orioles.com/springtravel or call 1-800-892-7687.
Single game tickets for all 18 of the Orioles' Grapefruit League Games at Ed Smith Stadium will go on-sale January 26, 2013. Pitchers and catchers will report to Sarasota February 12 and position players will report on February 15.
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Saturday February 23 Minnesota Twins Sarasota 1:05
Sunday February 24 at Toronto Blue Jays (ss) Dunedin 1:05
Monday February 25 New York Yankees Sarasota 1:05
Tuesday February 26 at Pittsburgh Pirates Bradenton 1:05
Wednesday February 27 at New York Yankees Tampa Bay 1:05
Boston Red Sox Sarasota 7:05
Thursday February 28 at Minnesota Twins Ft. Myers 1:05
Friday March 1 Pittsburgh Pirates (ss) Sarasota 1:05
Saturday March 2 at Tampa Bay Rays Port Charlotte 1:05
Sunday March 3 Philadelphia Phillies (ss) Sarasota 1:05
Monday March 4 OFF DAY – –
Tuesday March 5 at Toronto Blue Jays Dunedin 1:05
Wednesday March 6 Brazil (WBC) Sarasota 1:05
Thursday March 7 Toronto Blue Jays Sarasota 1:05
Friday March 8 at Pittsburgh Pirates Bradenton 7:05
Saturday March 9 at Boston Red Sox Ft. Myers 7:05
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Monday March 25 Boston Red Sox Sarasota 1:05
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Rapper/actor LL Cool J has opened up about his life as the victim of child abuse, revealing he was physically and emotionally tortured for years by his mother's ex-boyfriend.
The "Going Back to Cali" hitmaker, real name James Smith, first touched on his tough childhood in his 1998 memoir "I Make My Own Rules," claiming his mom's former live-in boyfriend Roscoe started abusing him when he was only four years old.
He wrote, "Living with Roscoe was like being a little kid who gets to play in the daisy field every day. But every evening that kid has to go home and sleep in a cemetery with a dragon. It was the most horrible experience. I was defenseless and I didn't understand. The pain went so deep."
Now he has spoken out about his painful past in a new interview with Oprah Winfrey, claiming he was routinely stripped and beaten.
He says, "It wasn't sexual, it was just beatings… (Getting) kicked out in the snow, (and being ordered to) stay outside… (Getting) beat (sic) with vacuum cleaner pipes, (getting ordered to) strip naked, 'Put your
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WATERVILLE — Scott Kinney, 43, who has been logging the Maine woods since he was a teenager, remembers a particularly rough day after the ice storm of '98.
That day, he said, he was almost seriously injured several times by broken treetops, supported only by unstable tangles of limbs and poised to fall on the logger who was not quite quick enough to get out of the way.
That day of dodging the treetops, called "widowmakers" in the logging industry, convinced Kinney that he and his brother Kevin had to find a better way to work the woods.
Kinney had already suffered a significant injury while operating a chainsaw three years earlier, in 1995, when a moment of lost focus on a rainy day allowed a beech limb to spring up into his face, leaving a cut that required 34 stitches.
"If we're going to live very long in this industry, we need to go mechanized," he remembers saying to his brother Kevin, 45, who also logs with him.
Today, the Kinney brothers are one of the few logging operations in the area that use "cut-to-length" equipment, a method of processing the tree that is not only safer for loggers, but more environmentally friendly.
When a tree is felled by a cut-to-length harvester, it never touches the ground, John Williams, president of the Maine Pulp and Paper Association, said.
Instead, the harvester grips the tree with a claw while it is cut. Then it lifts the tree straight up and processes it right there at the stump, shearing it of its limbs and cutting it to length before loading it directly onto a trailer.
"It's much safer," Williams said. "You're not out there with just a chainsaw and a hard-hat. You're in the cab of the harvester."
The process is also significantly easier on the environment, Williams said.
Because trees aren't falling, there's less of a need to clear out neighboring trees, which allows the logger to be much more selective about which trees are actually cut down.
The harvester is also able to work quickly and easily with the tops of the trees, which can be placed on the ground to create a road that softens the impact of the equipment on the ground below.
The Kinneys are currently working a 20-acre woodlot behind the home of Michael Donihue, an economics professor at Colby College.
Donihue said that he and his wife saw the Kinneys working on another property and were impressed with their philosophy of woodlot management.
After asking around, he heard that the Kinneys "have a good reputation for working in environmentally sensitive areas in the Belgrade Lakes watershed," Donihue said.
Donihue, who has been involved in Colby's efforts to study the watershed, said cut-to-length forestry "appeals to us because it's a sustainable method of harvesting a woodlot that puts a priority on erosion control, wildlife habitat, regeneration, and mitigating environmental damage."
Williams said most cut-to-length logging operations operate in the northern and western parts of the state, where larger tracts of land support the high cost of the equipment. In central Maine, he said, there are fewer operators, who tend to be in high demand from those who like the environmental advantages.
The appeal of Kinney's operation has allowed him to consider the long-term impact of taking on a new customer. He said he likes to have a conversation with the landowner in the beginning to make sure that the job can be done in a way that makes sense for both of them.
"We try to meet the landowner's objectives, the economics of logging and sound forestry practices," he said. In the end, he wants to "meet the landowner's goals and leave the land in a way that's aesthetically pleasing."
For this reason, Kinney won't clearcut land unless it's to make room for a commercial development. He said that irresponsible land management can hurt a logging company's reputation.
"I have to think about what work I want in my portfolio," he said.
Kinney harvests from woodlots and commercial building sites within a 30-mile radius of his hometown of Belgrade. He sells logs, firewood, pulpwood and chips to customers including Verso Paper in Jay, Hammond Lumber Company in Belgrade, Sappi Fine Paper in Skowhegan, Tukey Brothers in North Belgrade, and area schools that use the woodchips to power biomass heating systems.
In a conventional operation, dragging the cut trees along the ground can damage the earth and other trees in the area, resulting in a larger environmental footprint and also dirtying the wood.
The cleanliness of the wood the Kinneys harvest is another advantage to the wood's buyers, particularly those who burn wood chips to supply heat.
The demand for clean woodchips that result from cut-to-length forestry seems to be growing — Colby College opened its biomass plant in January 2012. School districts based in Skowhegan and Oakland have also recently turned to biomass, partially because federal stimulus money to promote green energy eased the cost of the transition.
"The schools aren't set up to handle the dirt and mud," said Kinney, who sells to Colby through Cousineau Forest Products.
While the work is safer and more environmentally friendly, there are still surprises, he said.
"Sometimes we find axes grown into the trees, from the days of axes and bucksaws," he said. "And you wouldn't believe how many bullets are in the trees."
Kinney said he hopes to continue logging into his 60s.
"There's a lot of product out here and a lot of land to be managed," he said. "We want to leave the earth better than when we found it."
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Re-installing Windows XP isn't a good idea as a blind first step in troubleshooting problems, but there are specific contexts where it is necessary, as the cleanest way to "make things work". One of these contexts is after a motherboard change that invalidates XP's core assumptions, typically causing a STOP BSoD on any sort of attempted XP boot (from Safe Cmd to normal GUI).
This is the situation that edgecrusher is in, as posted in comments to the previous post in this blog, and this post is my response.
Before you start
Firstly, I'm going to assume you have all the necessary installation and drivers disks, have your XP product key or retrieved this via Nirsoft Produkey or similar, excluded malware, and verified RAM overnight e.g. via MemTest86 or MemTest86+ and hard drive e.g. via HD Tune.
Make sure the edition (OEM vs. retail, Home vs. Pro, etc.) of the XP installation disk you will use for the repair install is one that matches your product key, that the disk actually has the ability to do a non-destructive install (as many OEM disks do not), and that the disk can be read without errors (as tested by copying all files to a subdir on the hard drive before you start).
It's a good idea to make a partition image backup of your XP installation before you start, using something like BING. Simply copying off every file is not enough, because unlike Windows 9x, XP will not work when copied in this way.
Also before you start, you may want to uninstall any OS-bundled subsystems that you've upgraded past the baseline of your XP installation disk, such as IE7 or recent versions of Windows Media Player. Things are cleaner and more likely to be "supported" if you uninstall these before the repair, and re-install them afterwards, plus you'll have valid entries in Add/Remove Programs should you need to uninstall them again later (e.g. as a troubleshooting step).
Several sites describe the XP repair install process, starting from how to start the process, and going on to a step-by-step slide show or providing more detail. In this post, I will mention a few specific gotchas to avoid...
137G capacity limit
If your hard drive is over 137G in size, then the Service Pack level of the Windows XP installation disk must be at least SP1 to install, and SP2 to live with. In other words, you cannot safely install XP "Gold" (SP0) on a hard drive over 137G, and should apply SP2 or SP3 over an XP SP1 installation.
If your install disk pre-dates SP1, you need to slipstream a later Service Pack into this and make a new installation disk that includes SP1 or later, built in. Your other option is to install XP "Gold" onto a hard drive smaller than 137G, apply SP1 or later, and then use a partition transfer utility to copy the partition to the larger hard drive where the partition can then be resized to taste.
XP "Gold" has no awareness of hard drives over 137G and is very likely to mess them up. XP SP1 is supposed to be safe on such hard drives, but there are some contexts where the code that writes to disk is unsafe and may cause corruption and data loss; from memory, these contexts typically apply to C:, e.g. writing crash dumps to the page file. XP SP2 and SP3 are truly safe over 137G.
F6 driver diskette
Yep, you read right; that's "diskette" as in "ancient crusty old stiffy drive"!
Most current motherboards have S-ATA hard drive interfaces that are not "seen" by the native XP code set (affecting Bart and Recovery Console boot disks as well).
The trouble is, the latest PCs often have no diskette drive, and the latest motherboards often have no legacy diskette controller. You may come right with an external diskette drive plugged in via USB. You'll also have to find and download the relevant driver diskette image and make a diskette from this, if yours is missing or unreliable.
If you use a USB keyboard, and this is not initiated at the BIOS level, then your F6 keystroke to read the driver diskette will be missed. If so, you can plug in a PS/2 keyboard... as long as your new motherboard has PS/2 sockets; the newest ones don't.
Sometimes your mileage may vary, depending on the mode that your S-ATA is set to operate in CMOS Setup. RAID and AHCI will generally not be "seen" natively by XP's code, whereas IDE mode may be. But some nice S-ATA features may not work in IDE mode, e.g. hot-swapping external S-ATA or NLQ, and changing this after XP is installed may precipitate the same crisis as the motherboard swap... requiring a repair install to fix, again.
All of this is a reason why I consider the XP era to be over, when it comes to new PCs. I appreciate how old OSs run beautifully fast on new hardware, and how attractive that is for gamers in particular - but XP's getting painful to install and maintain, and this is going to get worse.
Duplicate user accounts
Later in the GUI part of the installation process, you will be prompted to create new user accounts. You can try to skip this step (best, if that works... I can't remember if it does), or create a new account with a different name that you'd generally delete later.
But many users are likely to create a new account with the same one as their existing account, and that's likely to hurt...
The two accounts will show the same name at the Welcome screen, but both will be selectable via this UI; I have no idea what will happen if you were to force the more secure legacy logon UI, which requires the account name to be typed in.
Each account will have a unique Security Identifier (SID), which is the real "name" used behind the scenes - but you can't login with that. There will also be separate account subtrees in "Documents and Settings"; the one with the plainest name is likely to be the original, and the one with numbers or the PC name added to it is likely to be for the newly-spawned account.
At this point I'll mention another user account hassle that I generally don't see, because I avoid NTFS where I can. If you find you can "see" your old user account's data, but aren't permitted to access the files, then you may have to "take ownership" of these files from a user account that has full administrative rights.
This issue is well documented elsewhere; search and ye will find!
Broken update services
It's a given that the "repair" is going to blow away all patches subsequent to the baseline SP level of the XP installation disk you are using, unless you've slipstreamed these into your installation disk.
What's less obvious is that after you do the "repair" install, you won't be able to install updates. It doesn't matter whether you try via Automatic Update, Windows Update or Microsoft Update, the results will be the same; the stuff downloads OK (costing you bandwidth) but will not install, whether you are prompted to restart or not.
The cause is a mismatch between the "old" update code within the installation CD, and the newer update code that was controversially pushed via update itself. I can see Microsoft's logic here; if you ever wanted updates to work (e.g. you'd chosen "download but don't install", or disabled updates while planning to enable them later), then the update mechanism has to be updated - but doing so, invalidates the original installation disk's update code.
This topic is well-covered, as is the fix; manually re-registering a number of .DLLs that are needed for the update process to work.
Broken settings
It's often asserted that a repair install "won't lose your settings", and is yet waved around as a generic fix for undiagnosed problems. Part of why it sometimes works as a "generic fix" is precisely because it can and does flatten some settings, which may have been deranged to the point that the OS couldn't boot!
So if you do apply any non-default settings, you should check these to see if they've survived. I always check the following, and can't remember with certainty which ones survive and which don't:
- System Restore (may be re-enabled on all volumes)
- System Restore per-volume capacity limits
- Automatically restart on system errors
- RPC Restart the computer on failures (may survive)
- Show all files, extensions, full paths, etc. (may survive)
- NoDriveTypeAutoRun and NoDriveAutoRun
- Standard services you may have disabled
- Hidden admin shares, if you'd disabled them
- Recovery Console enabling settings
- AutoChk parameters in BootExecute setting
- Shell folder paths
- Windows Scripting Host, if you'd disabled it
- Settings detail in IE, including grotesquely huge web cache
- Windows Firewall settings; may be disabled if < SP2 !!
- Anything else you've dared to change from duhfaults
It's particularly crucial to enable the Windows Firewall (or install a 3rd-party alternative) before letting your PC anywhere near any sort of networking, especially the Internet, if your installation is "Gold" or SP1. Not only do these dozeballs duhfault to "no firewall", they're also unpatched against RPC (Lovesan et al) and LSASS (Sasser et al) attacks, so you'd be "open and revolving".
By now, the original PoC Lovesan and Sasser worms may be extinct, but these exploits are often crafted into subsequent workaday bots and worms. You may still get hit within an hour of plugging in the network cable if so, and probably before you can pull down updates for the OS, antivirus scanners, etc.


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