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Just as NetApp dominated the older version of the SPEC SFS97_R1 NFS benchmark back in May of 2006 (and was unsurpassed in that benchmark with 1 million SFS operations per second), the time has come to once again dominate the current version, SPEC SFS2008 NFS.
Recently we have been focusing on benchmarking realistic configurations that people might actually put in their datacenters, instead of lab queens with unusable configs focused on achieving the highest result regardless of cost.
However, it seems the press doesn't care about realistic configs (or to even understand the configs) but instead likes headline-grabbing big numbers.
So we decided to go for the best of both worlds – a headline-grabbing "big number" but also a config that would make more financial sense than the utterly crazy setups being submitted by competitors.
Without further ado, NetApp achieved over 1.5 million SPEC SFS2008 NFS operations per second with a 24-node cluster based on FAS6240 boxes running ONTAP 8 in Cluster Mode. Click here for the specific result. There are other results in the page showing different size clusters so you can get some idea of the scaling possible.
See below table for a high-level analysis (including the list pricing I could find for these specific performance-optimized configs for whatever that's worth). The comparison is between NetApp and the nearest scale-out competitor result (one of many EMC's recent acquisitions – Isilon, the niche, dedicated NAS box – nothing else is close enough to bother including in the comparison).
BTW – the EMC price list is publicly available from here (and other places I'm sure): http://www.emc.com/collateral/emcwsca/master-price–list.pdf
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Before we dive into the comparison, an important note since it seems the competition doesn't understand how to read SPEC SFS results:
Out of 1728 450GB disks (the number includes spares and OS drives, otherwise it was 1632 disks), the usable capacity was 574TB (73% of all raw space – even more if one considers a 450GB disk never actually provides 450 real GB in base2). The exported capacity was 288TB. This doesn't mean we tried to short-stroke or that there is a performance benefit exporting a smaller filesystem – the way NetApp writes to disk, the size of the volume you export has nothing to do with performance. Since SPEC SFS doesn't use all the available disk space, the person doing the setup thought like a real storage admin and didn't give it all the available space.
Lest we be accused of tuning this config or manually making sure client accesses were load-balanced and going to the optimal nodes, please understand this: 23 out of 24 client accesses were not going to the nodes owning the data and were instead happening over the cluster interconnect (which, for any scale-out architecture, is worst-case-scenario performance). Look under the "Uniform Access Rules Compliance" in the full disclosure details of the result in the SPEC website here. This means that, compared to the 2-node ONTAP 7-mode results, there is a degradation due to the cluster operating (intentionally) through non-optimal paths.
|Cost (approx. USD List)
|NetApp is almost half the cost while offering much higher performance
|SPEC SFS2008 NFS operations per second
|NetApp is over 35% faster, while using potentially better RAID protection
|Average Latency (ORT)
|NetApp offers almost 40% better average latency without using costly SSDs, and is usable for challenging random workloads like DBs, VMs etc.
|Space (TB)
|864 (out of which 128889GB was used in the test)
|574 (out of which 176176GB was used in the test)
|Isilon offers about 50% more usable space (coming from a lot more drives, 28% more raw space and potentially less RAID protection – N+2 results from Isilon would be different)
|$/SPEC SFS2008 NFS operation
|Netapp is less than half the cost per SPEC SFS2008 NFS operation
|NetApp is about 20% less expensive than EMC per usable TB
|Per-file protection. Files < 128K are at least mirrored. Files over 128K are at a 13+1 level protection in this specific test.
|Ask EMC what 13+1 protection means in an Isilon cluster (I believe 1 node can be completely gone but what about simultaneous drive failures that contain the sameprotected file?)NetApp RAID-DP is mathematically analogous to RAID6 and has a parity drive penalty of 2 drives every 16-20 drives.
|Boxes needed to accomplish result
|140 nodes, 3,360 drives (incl. 25TB of SSDs for cache), 1,120 CPU cores, 6.7TB RAM.
|24 unified controllers, 1,728 drives, 12.2TB Flash Cache, 192 CPU cores, 1.2TB RAM.
|NetApp is far more powerful per node, and achieves higher performance with a lotless drives, CPUs, RAM and cache.In addition, NetApp can be used for all protocols (FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS) and all connectivity methods (FC 4/8Gb, Ethernet 1/10Gb, FCoE).
Notice the response time charts:
NetApp exhibits traditional storage system behavior – latency is very low initially and gradually gets higher the more the box is pushed, as one would expect. Isilon on the other hand starts out slow and gets faster as more metadata gets cached, until the controllers run out of steam (SPEC SFS is very heavy in NAS metadata ops, and should not be compared to heavy-duty block benchmarks like SPC-1).
This is one of the reasons an Isilon cluster is not really applicable for low-latency DB-type apps, or low-latency VMs. It is a great architecture designed to provide high sequential speeds for large files over NAS protocols, and is not a general-purpose storage system. Kudos to the Isilon guys for even getting the great SPEC result in the first place, given that this isn't what the box is designed to do (the extreme Isilon configuration needed to run the benchmark is testament to that). The better application for Isilon would be capacity-optimized configs (which is what the system is designed for to begin with).
Some important points:
- First and foremost, the cluster-mode ONTAP architecture now supports all protocols, it is the only unified scale-out architecture available. Any competitors playing in that space only have NAS or SAN offerings but not both in a single architecture.
- We didn't even test with the even faster 6280 box and extra cache (that one can take 8TB cache per node). The result is not the fastest a NetApp cluster can go 🙂 With 6280s it would be a healthy percentage faster, but we had a bunch of the 6240s in the lab so it was easier to test them, plus they're a more common and less expensive box, making for a more realistic result.
- ONTAP in cluster-mode is a general-purpose storage OS, and can be used to run Exchange, SQL, Oracle, DB2, VMs, etc. etc. Most other scale-out architectures are simply not suitable for low-latency workloads like DBs and VMs and are instead geared towards high NAS throughput for large files (IBRIX, SONAS, Isilon to name a few – all great at what they do best).
- ONTAP in cluster mode is, indeed, a single scale-out cluster and administered as such. It should not be compared to block boxes with NAS gateways in front of them like VNX, HDS + Bluearc, etc.
- In ONTAP cluster mode, workloads and virtual interfaces can move around the cluster non-disruptively, regardless of protocol (FC, iSCSI, NFS and yes, even CIFS can move around non-disruptively assuming you have clients that can talk SMB 2.1 and above).
- In ONTAP cluster mode, any data can be accessed from any node in the cluster – again, impossible with non-unified gateway solutions like VNX that have individual NAS servers in front of block storage, with zero awareness between the NAS heads aside from failover.
- ONTAP cluster mode can allow certain cool things like upgrading storage controllers from one model to another completely non-disruptively, most other storage systems need some kind of outage to do this. All we do is add the new boxes to the existing cluster 🙂
- ONTAP cluster mode supports all the traditional NetApp storage efficiency and protection features: RAID-DP, replication, deduplication, compression, snaps, clones, thin provisioning. Again, the goal is to provide a scale-out general-purpose storage system, not a niche box for only a specific market segment. It even supports virtualizing your existing storage.
- There was a single namespace for the NFS data. Granted, not the same architecture as a single filesystem from some competitors.
- Last but not least – no "special" NetApp boxes are needed to run Cluster Mode. In contrast to other vendors selling a completely separate scale-out architecture (different hardware and software and management), normal NetApp systems can enter a scale-out cluster as long as they have enough connectivity for the cluster network and can run ONTAP 8. This ensures investment protection for the customer plus it's easier for NetApp since we don't have umpteen hardware and software architectures to develop for and support 🙂
- Since people have been asking: The SFS benchmark generates about 120MB per operation. The slower you go, the less space you will use on the disks, regardless of how many disks you have. This creates some imbalance in large configs (for example, only about 128TB of the 864TB available was used on Isilon).
Just remember – in order to do what ONTAP in Cluster Mode does, how many different architectures would other vendors be proposing?
- Scale-out SAN
- Scale-out NAS
- Replication appliances
- Dedupe appliances
- All kinds of management software
How many people would it take to keep it all running? And patched? And how many firmware inter-dependencies would there be?
And what if you didn't need, say, scale-out SAN to begin with, but some time after buying traditional SAN realized you needed scale-out? Would your current storage vendor tell you you needed, in addition to your existing SAN platform, that other one that can do scale-out? That's completely different than the one you bought? And that you can't re-use any of your existing stuff as part of the scale-out box, regardless of how high-end your existing SAN is?
How would that make you feel?
Always plan for the future…
Comments welcome.
PS: Made some small edits in the RAID parts and also added the official EMC pricelist link.
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Barack Obama's 2008 promise to "bankrupt" the coal industry is now coming to fruition with the EPA's announcement of crippling CO2 emission limits on new plants that will effectively block the building of any new coal plants in the United States, accelerating the move towards total deindustrialization.
"The Obama administration proposed on Tuesday the first ever standards to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants, a move likely to be hotly contested by Republicans and industry in an election year," reports Reuters.
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"It's very exciting and gratifying. We had a positive result, of reducing infection and limiting antibiotic resistance," said Dr. Mary Hayden, associate professor of infectious diseases and pathology at Rush University Medical Center, and a co-author of the study, which The New England Journal of Medicine published in May.
"All clinical infections declined," she said.
The study demonstrates that to reduce the risk of infection by the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, care providers must clean the skin of all intensive-care patients each day with antiseptic wipes containing chlorhexidine and apply an antimicrobial ointment to their noses.
The study included almost 75,000 patients in 74 adult intensive-care units in 43 hospitals during a 21/2-year period.
"Very few of this type of study have been done before. It's very encouraging, and I hope more studies like this are done," Hayden said.
It's not easy to carry out and finish such a large study, with obstacles such as getting people to participate and following the procedures for the duration of the research, she said.
There were three main outcomes, Hayden noted. The first was that the presence of MRSA among intensive-care unit patients dropped by 37 percent. The second was that all bloodstream infections decreased by 44 percent. The third was that MRSA bloodstream infections decreased, but by an amount that was not "statistically significant," she said.
A major problem with MRSA is that it is "resistant to first-line antibiotics," such as penicillin, Hayden said. This makes the disease "harder to treat."
This drug resistance means that care providers must substitute second-line antibiotics for the first-line medications. However, second-line are "more expensive, more toxic and less effective," she said.
The research included three different approaches to care. The first isolated patients who were screened and found to be carrying MRSA and provided them with routine care; the second isolated MRSA carriers, bathed them with medicated soap containing chlorhexidine and treated them with a nasal ointment; and the third did no MRSA screening but treated each patient with a chlorhexidine bath and nasal ointment.
The research took place within hospitals that are all part of the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) system, which is one of the largest operators of private hospitals and clinics worldwide.
"A lot of coordination was involved," Hayden said. "It was a huge team effort."
The other paper authors were from several universities, HCA, research programs at two Department of Health and Human Services' agencies, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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For future research, one question to investigate is whether a similar study would be effective in non-intensive-care unit settings, Hayden said.
Dr. Suzanne Bradley, infection control program director and internal medicine professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, called the trial "particularly impressive, given the number of hospitals and ICUs involved across the United States and the almost 75,000 patients involved."
"The simplicity and practicality of the study design seems to have been a major factor in the success and compliance with this trial," she said. "Even hospitals with little research experience or resources were able to participate, and this bodes well for wider implementation of this approach."
"Proving that infection control interventions work has been a challenge for this field," Bradley said. "This study is a significant achievement in that regard."


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Chicken with Garlic Sauce
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Cook: 30 min.
Makes4 servings
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour, divided
- 1-1/2 teaspoons minced fresh rosemary or .4 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1-1/2 teaspoons rubbed sage
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (1-1/2 pounds)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 20 garlic cloves, halved lengthwise
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/4 cup white wine or reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1-1/4 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine 2 tablespoons flour, rosemary, sage, salt and pepper; add chicken. Seal bag and shake to coat. In a large nonstick skillet, brown chicken in 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat for 4 minutes on each side. Transfer to an 8-in. square baking dish coated with cooking spray. Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in the same skillet, saute the garlic, onion and red pepper flakes in remaining oil until onion is tender and garlic begins to brown, about 3 minutes. Stir in wine or broth; bring to a boil. Boil until wine is reduced by half, about 2-3 minutes.
- Stir in chicken broth; bring to a boil. Boil until broth is reduced by half, about 7-8 minutes. Remove from the heat.
- Combine butter and remaining flour; whisk into skillet. Return to heat. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until sauce thickens. Serve warm over chicken breasts. Sprinkle with parsley.
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Mar 25, 2011
This chicken is amazing! It's easy and flavor-filled. I made one change: I used 9-10 garlic cloves, minced instead of sliced. I think that evened the flavor out better. The rosemary gives a unique flavor that some may not like, but I did!Oh, and I had no sage, so I omitted it, and it was fine
Oct 17, 2010
We really didn't seem to enjoy this recipe. Even though it had so much garlic, you couldn't really get a garlic taste without biting into one of the slices of garlic. It seemed kind of plain. Perhaps if the garlic were roasted, it would make a difference. Made a very pretty presentation, however.
Nov 16, 2009
loved it. Made it with pinot grigio, delicious!!!


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Humanity shall do something... But I bet that humanity will do nothing useful, this is not a new history at all
When Dreissena polymorpha appeared first time on USA, the americans did... nothing.
Now, we, humans, can not fight this simple small mussel creating damages of hundreds of millions of dollars in our water and energy resources. Burning two or three billions more each year.
We can't eliminate it. Government plays with glossy drones in some desert of the world.
Frogs, rabbits, ants, birds, rats, minks, jellyfishes... biological invasions occur just right now every day. Sadly we don't care to much about it, look for aliens and simply wait. Then we put tons of money into the new black hole each year
The stupidest form of life can beat us, and it does all the time.
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In today's post, I'll let you know how I got on using the Crafters Companion Stick n Spray adhesive, with The Slice Elite.
I really struggled to apply sufficient glue to the 12″ x 12″ glass mat for the Slice Elite using its own liquid glue. My paper would lift during cutting and destroy the die cut as it went round. A friend (Glitter Monkey) recommended using the Crafter's Companion Stick and Spray glue as an alternative adhesive. I gave this a try and here are my results.
- Much quicker and easier to apply an even coat of adhesive, compaired to The Slice own paint on glue
- I have had no problems cutting even the most detailed design with my Slice since using this adhesive
- Any smell from the initial application of adhesive, quickly dissipates as the glue dries.
- I highly recommend you use this spray outdoors if you can, as its quite smelly.
- There is a small amount of sticky residue left on the back of the die cut, it is minimal and since I tend to stick the resulting die cut to a project, it hasn't been a big problem for me. Reduce this by using a piece of scrap card and stick it to the mat and peel off repeatedly for a few times just to take off the access sticky from the mat, before you use your favorite card/paper.
***If you have pets indoors, especially if you have birds, then apply spray outdoors.***
- Spray into a box to catch the over spray
- If you have a flat glass mat for your slice, cut a piece of acetate to lay over it for storage in between uses. It will keep 'fluff' off the mat and help the glue last longer. The Glass mat with the hands free kit, had a drop over cover in with the packaging, put that on when you put your mat away to protect the surface for those.
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September 26th, 2010, 15:29 Posted By: bandit
Yesterday, we posted the news on the Proof of Concept PSGroove ported to PlayStation 3 Sixaxis. Today, hasuky, from ElOtroLado who made the video (seen below), has posted the guide on how to modify your PS3 Sixaxis controller. Some soldering skills will be required. Also, it doesnt seem to be an actual port of the PSGroove. Its seems to be more of installing a PIC inside the PS3 controller and wiring it to the USB port. For the amount of work put into it, I personally prefer to just purchase a USB development kit. Hopefully, he can provide clearer pictures for us to see. Until than, enjoy.
Translated via Google:This Mod is based on a pic 18F2550 PsgrooPic with Sixaxis PS3 controller adapted to take into account that will comply with 2 main functions:
Ps3 launch debug mode without losing any original settings and also be updatable.
Clarified, as any MOD is to make use of solder on the board of control, nothing complicated, only 8 of them.
Materials:1 Control Sixaxis PS3 (in my case I have one of a Pack of 80g without vibrator, will also be worth for DUALSHOCK 3 but I have not tried).
1 Pic 18f2550 and to have a list to create a Picgroove in components as much as the programmer. In EOL there are many TUTORIALS on the matter, I personally I used the scheme of th0rin, in its version 1.2, that is to say, PSGroo 1.2.pdf can see tambiem it in this connection: hilo_tutorial-psgroopic-programador-casero-esquema-elsemi_1484968_s580 in an appointment of our companion calvo225, follows all the passages until having pic programmed. I recommend the Art2003 programmer with the WinPic800 program EYE: Pin 26 must go to mass if option LVP in the Config eyelash of the WinPIC800 were selected. If option LVP were not used, it is not necessary.
Cable to do puestes (uses cable of data for them hard disk IDE of 80 very pratico wire and a single hair.
Soldering iron, tin, scissors, graze FLUX, etc
We already take pic previously programmed with the PSGrooPIC_wBTL_HEX_V1.5.hex file we doubled all the legs to him to be able to perfectly place it in a place of the control:
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This it is the best place than I obtained pic enters perfect, to put it with the legs seeing towards outside
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Seeing where it goes ours we removed pic, we cut it pieces of cable IDE but of 5 cm. and already do not come to weld the points: 1,8,9,10,13,14,15,16,19,20,25,26 one by each point. To remember that pic is seeing towards outside, points 126.96.36.199, 25 and 26 they are below pic and habria that to double them upwards, nothing complicated for the other points is but easy since they are in the part superior.
Now it is necessary to weld all the necessary components for the Pic:
2 10 Resistance of k.
1 Resistance 330 ohm.
1 470 Condenser of 220 or nf.
2 22 Condensers of pf.
1 Crystal of 8, 12, or 20 mhz.
1 Condenser 100 nf.
1 LED (any color, I have not placed it).
Puden to follow this scheme for easy interpretation
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Utilizen cable pieces IDE to be able to connect them to pic, the subject of the Jumper and exits VCC, D+, D and GRN leave to cable sufficient about 10 cm more or less to have chest of drawers the installation if there is to cut cut. The LED that leaves not places it since I do not believe that it is necessary, now if they alquien wants to place it well, In this photo I show more or less as it must be before welding something, also can look for another form to place them for my was the best one than encontre:
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Before welding something to the order they deberan to try that pic works I correctly I connect to him to exits VCC, D+, D and GRN a connector usb and probe if took exploit, if everything goes well we come to the step to weld to the control, the points marked with colors are those that so go soldiers to the plate what without altering nothing.
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One sees that in diagram it leaves as everything connected goes are simple welds, in the part of the JUMPER is necessary to remove the two lines and to place them in the button stick straight (THIS IS TO UPDATE the PIC FOR FUTURE UPDATES OF the PSGROOVE).
In the right part superior notese that is one extencion of button RESET have extended I it and added switche that goes adapted to the housing of the order I had to use a Dremel to be able to place it and to leave it outer (this it is but the important one of all so that when driving it annuls it to any funcionabilidad usb of the offer giving entered the Exploit). I recommend beings to cover everything to place insulators between cables, pic and the mini connector usb to guarantee the good operation.
OperationIn order to be able to take the Xploit usb in the console and the control only places the cable, to have previously extinguished and ignited the console in the back button, soon to have tight button RESET and next to push button POWER next button EJET to activate way DEBUG, to hope until it leaves the logo the console, you can retire the control and push button PS (is the one of means of the control with the PS abbreviations, to look for games and sides the two folders that indicate that everything to come out well.
In order to update the PIC it must have these programs installed in the PC: vcredist_x86.exe
After to install them you run the program:
3. HIDbootloader.exe
that he is the one in charge to program pic, usb in the control places the cable acontinuacion to have tight simultaneously in button RESET and the button of the left Stick (the button reset is for annulling to any activity usb in the control and stick analogical left abre step to activate the way to bootloader of pic) already to have fulfilled that coarse one to install the other end of the cable usb to the PC. Automatically the program would detect the device at issue. This same one becomes at the beginning of tuto before installing it in the control to program in .hex of exploit, in the interface of the program is very easy to interpret.
Note: to only do this when we have a new update for the Pic, we must take into account that already it has completes installed it updated and can play without inside having no disc (in some cases there are games deserves that it).
Good up to here everything by the moments, I hope that for something it serves east project since for my to be very encouraging it to have realised in spite of the bad criticisms that I have had thanks to all what they supported to me and to the equipment of Eol.
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Ps3 launch debug mode without losing any original settings and also be updatable.
Clarified, as any MOD is to make use of solder on the board of control, nothing complicated, only 8 of them.
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Insult the King and… Go Directly to Jail
Truth on Trial in Thailand: Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté
She sits calmly smiling at me across the lunch table: quiet, matter-of-fact, professional. Yet just a week ago, Joop's husband, Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, was condemned to ten years in prison for lèse-majesté—plus a further year on a related defamation charge. What was Somyot's mortal insult to Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch?
A magazine he edited had published two articles: one, a tale about an unnamed family that kills millions of people to maintain itself in power, the other, a fictional story about a ghost that haunts Thailand and plots massacres. The court held that both referred to the king and his Chakri dynasty, and that merely publishing them merited ten years in prison under Article 112 of Thailand's criminal code. As the Good Soldier Švejk exclaims in Jaroslav Hašek's classic novel: "I never imagined that they'd sentence an innocent man to ten years. Sentencing an innocent man to five years, that's something I've heard of, but ten, that's a bit too much."
At first it might be tempting to view Thailand's lèse-majesté laws as a minor eccentricity in the exotic setting of The King and I, the self-styled "land of smiles," a favored holiday destination for millions of Western tourists. But when you meet someone whose husband has been unjustly sentenced to more than a decade in prison, the smile is wiped off your face. As you look a little closer, you realize that all this is deathly serious. In a sense, the political future of an important Southeast Asian country hinges on that one small article of the criminal code. And these days, Anna, the governess in The King and I, might be locked up just for singing "Shall We Dance?"—let alone "Shall I Tell You What I Think of You?"—on a YouTube video.
As David Streckfuss explains in Truth on Trial in Thailand, his richly informative book on lèse-majesté in Thailand, early-twentieth-century edicts to protect the absolute monarch of Siam were originally inspired by European examples—notably that of Wilhelmine Germany. But over the last one hundred years, European and Thai law and practice have evolved in opposite directions. While lèse-majesté laws remain nominally on the statute books of some European countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain, you can in practice say whatever you like about the queen of the Netherlands, who earlier this year announced her abdication, or the king of Spain—not to mention his son-in-law, the Duke of Palma, currently on trial for corruption. (Try that on the crown prince of Thailand.)
They order things differently in Thailand. Article 112 of the 1957 criminal code prescribed imprisonment "not exceeding seven years" for "whosoever defames, insults or threatens the King, the Queen, the Heir-Apparent or the Regent." In a 1976 amendment, the…
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DETROIT -- Rising new-car sales and a big jump in the number of consumers opting to equip their vehicles with sunroofs put Webasto Roof Systems Inc. in a bind.
After sales crashed in 2008, the German supplier closed one of its U.S. roof systems plants and reduced its work force to ride out the recession. Now, with sales booming, Webasto's automaker customers are pressuring the company for more product.
Webasto Roof Systems CEO Erik Roeren faced some tough choices earlier this year in figuring out how to boost production and keep costs down when he wasn't sure whether the recovery had legs.
Roeren's options were to reopen an old plant, build one, expand an existing one -- or figure out how to increase production in the same manufacturing space and avoid a major capital expenditure.
He said Webasto's senior leaders did not want to relive the anguish and expense of an expansion only to have to close a plant and furlough workers in the next downturn.
"Is it the right thing for us to increase our fixed costs? All of us in the auto industry know that it is dangerous to do that because if the business goes down even slightly, you have a fixed cost increase," Roeren said.
After studying the layout of the company's plant in Rochester Hills, Mich., near Detroit, Roeren saw a way to boost production without driving up costs. He would reconfigure that plant and operate it like a Webasto plant in Japan.
"I looked at the unproductive, nonvalue-added space in the plant and asked what could we minimize," said Roeren, who speaks with a German accent.
He said Webasto had been using a "supermarket-warehouse" style of logistics at the Rochester Hills plant, which makes glass sunroof assemblies. Roeren said the plant supplies automakers in North America.
On the plant floor, all the components to assemble a sunroof were stored on shelves within easy reach of workers on the production line. That's the supermarket. Those shelves were restocked from a warehouse of parts in another part of the plant.
Areas that were being used for storage, parts bins and maintenance equipment were cleared. Workers transferred the parts warehouse and nonproduction equipment to another building nearby. That increased floor space available for production by about 35 percent, enabling Webasto to install another production line.
To keep production running smoothly, Webasto now practices a form of just-in-time delivery. But instead of suppliers delivering the parts to the assembly line, Webasto employees bring parts from the warehouse just in time, Roeren said, from a building about two miles away.
"The one thing we looked at was moving our warehouse of parts, everything that would not need to be replenished in the span of one to two hours," he said. "That would move outside the plant to maximize the productive space inside the plant."
Since the change, production in Rochester Hills has increased 25 to 30 percent. The plant runs three eight-hour shifts a day five days a week and two shifts most Saturdays.
"From the business-case point of view, it was absolutely the right thing to do because now we have more flexibility to move production up and down with the business," Roeren said
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Last year, I decided to seek out the best bike case.
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- Offered protection
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- Deal with people asking you every five seconds what's in your case!
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Dear Dr. Holdren,
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Administration's Grand Challenges of the 21st Century. The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is a nonprofit scientific association dedicated to advancing biological research and education for the welfare of society. Founded in 1947 as a part of the National Academy of Sciences, AIBS became an independent, member-governed organization in the 1950s. AIBS is sustained by a robust membership of individual biologists and nearly 200 professional societies and scientific organizations representing the breadth of the biological sciences. The combined individual membership of the latter exceeds 250,000.
In the report "Strategy for American Innovation," President Obama proposed a plan for fostering the innovation economy of the future. As the Administration moves forward with efforts to prioritize the scientific and engineering challenges that will constitute the strategy, several additional areas should be included in the plan. Food security, healthy ecosystems, cataloging biodiversity, and access to scientific data are all grand challenges for the 21st century.
A growing world population, increased energy demands, degraded agricultural lands, and a rapidly changing climate are straining our capacity to produce an adequate, healthy, and sustainable food supply. According to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, we must increase global food production by 70 percent by the year 2050 if we are to meet the demands of the world's growing population. In 2009, the National Research Council recognized food security as a grand challenge in the report, A New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution. The report stated: "A better fundamental understanding of plant growth and productivity, as well as of how plants can be conditioned or bred to tolerate extreme conditions and adapt to climate change, will be key components in increasing food production and nutrition in all areas of agriculture to meet the needs of 8.4 billion people by 2030 (Census Bureau, 2008), while allowing adequate land for energy production and environmental services."
The United States is a leader in agricultural research. Through the research activities of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), we have increased crop productivity, addressed pest outbreaks, and created drought-tolerant crops. These efforts, particularly through USDA's National Institute for Food and Agriculture, should be expanded. By increasing collaboration among scientific disciplines and between American and international scientists, we can work to end world hunger while exploring energy production from some biofuels and addressing the domestic obesity problem. These efforts would also yield economic returns. According to USDA's Economic Research Service, each dollar invested in agricultural research returns approximately $10 in benefits.
Whether producing commodities (e.g. timber or fish), purifying water and air, or providing recreational opportunities, ecosystem services from properly functioning environmental systems are essential to everyone. Collectively, biological systems provide trillions of dollars in ecosystem services each year. Unfortunately, as you are well aware, overuse and degradation of some systems has produced real environmental problems. As noted in A New Biology for the 21st Century, "Fundamental advances in knowledge and a new generation of tools and technologies are needed to understand how ecosystems function, measure ecosystem services, allow restoration of damaged ecosystems, and minimize harmful impacts of human activities and climate change."
Understanding ecosystems and the services they provide is essential if we are to develop sustainable models of natural resource use and responsible environmental stewardship. Federal agencies, such as the United States Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, conduct or support important ecosystem research and monitoring programs. These efforts can help the nation and the world address climate change, improve human health, and build a green economy based on carbon neutral fuels. A significant and sustained federal investment in the research and monitoring programs of these agencies would drive innovation, create jobs, and contribute to the resolution of our grand environmental challenges.
Biological products and genetic resources identified or derived from living organisms contribute to the economy. One-quarter to one-half of all pharmaceuticals are derived from biological products. Naturally-derived medications like taxol are helping to fight cancer. Modern agriculture is based upon domesticated species, which continue to be modified through the introduction of genes from wild populations. Living organisms are also catalysts for advancements in materials science, such as the development of adhesives that can be used underwater or the creation of bulletproof vests from spider silk. With countless new discoveries waiting to be made, it would be wise to make a sustained and significant investment in a coordinated effort to identify and study the planet's biological diversity.
The nation's scientific collections are one of our greatest resources for understanding biological diversity. Natural science collections, which include biological specimens ranging from organisms to tissue and cell samples to proteins and genes, are records of the diversity and history of life on Earth. Indeed, the important contribution of scientific collections to our nation's research infrastructure was recognized by the Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections: "...scientific collections are essential to supporting agency missions and are thus vital to supporting the global research enterprise."
The United States should strive to discover and document all living species within its borders and to work with international partners to do the same throughout the world. A key aspect of these efforts will be the digitization of object-based scientific collections, which will provide researchers and students with greater access to specimens and data. Additionally, if we were to digitally capture the specimens and associated data currently in our nation's scientific collections, this knowledge could be made available to students learning in the digital libraries envisioned by the President.
Although the National Science Foundation has invested in this area, the federal investment is insufficient to meet the need. Funding will help the scientific community ensure access to and proper curation of irreplaceable biological specimens and the associated data, and will stimulate innovative new computer systems, digitization technologies, and database management tools. A sustained investment in this programmatic area will advance science and cultivate new technologies and economic markets.
The federal government maintains data on weather, health, natural resources, and other topics. The Administration has initiated efforts to make more of these valuable data sets available to the public. Despite these efforts, many other data sets compiled by federal agencies are not available online or have not yet been transcribed into an electronic format. This information, if made available in an easily accessible format, would advance our nation's research enterprise.
Making federally-managed data available to the public would facilitate interdisciplinary research that could contribute to the President's stated grand challenges in human health. These data could be incorporated into classrooms around the country as part of research-driven learning experiences. In order to realize these benefits, the Office of Science and Technology Policy should lead an effort to work with federal agencies to prioritize the inclusion of data and to set data format standards. Although the launch of data.gov was an important first step, more work remains.
Thank you for your consideration of our comments. If AIBS may provide further assistance to you on this or other matters, please do not hesitate to contact me or AIBS Director of Public Policy Dr. Robert Gropp at 202-628-1500.
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Hello my friends, Spot here!
We're going to be taking a trip down memory lane today 🙂 My mummy says we have lots of new followers who've not seen some of our baby pics before, and indeed a lot of the photos I'm going to share have not been seen by even the longest standing of our friends 🙂
So it's all about me today! 😆 But my mummy said I need to include Lula too, so I suppose it would be nice to do that 🙂
Lula and I were born on 14th May 2011, we were the only two in our litter and we've not spent a night apart ever 🙂
We came to live with mummy and daddy in August 2011 and we soon settled in.
We found lots of new games to play like "playing with the scratching post that doubled up as a door post" – I bet you've not heard of that game before have you?
We also soon discovered the lovely new tunnel that the hoomins had bought for us
We loved our scratching post too, though it didn't last all that long and is now replaced by our Tigga Towers 🙂
It was also good for snoozing on… at least I liked to snooze, Lula always has been the more alert out of the two of us 🙂
Even when she lay down, she didn't always sleep!
But she did give in and have a nice catnap now and again, and we both looked so innocent!
When we weren't sleeping, we explored around the house, Lula liked the bath
When the water wasn't switched on, she found a more conventional way to have a drink 🙂
Meanwhile, I liked to practise the camouflage look in the houseplants!
Sometimes I spent some time alone on the cat tree
And Lula snoozed on the sofa!
At the end of the day, it was all about being cute, and here I am trying to be just that! 🙂
I hope you liked these pics, my friends!
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Why don't you put a paragraph of your writing up so people can have a look at it and make some comments and offer help?
Student or Learner
hi to all am asking you for help.
what can I do to be a good writer...
pliz can someone help me...
Why don't you put a paragraph of your writing up so people can have a look at it and make some comments and offer help?
thanks so much to your attention and my paragraph concerning the speech of reading is more interesting than watching tv.
concerning reading is consider as a way to acquire an information from sorts of knowledge books.there was many advantages of the reading,such as,improve the level of the reader in writing and speaking.avoid you to waste your time by doing some things is not interesting,bring up the habit to be curious to read any thing is new.meanwhile watching tv which is only a cause of destroying the skills of thinking and giving comments about it.
so sorry if it is long
Your English is amazing! It needs a lot of work. Wrong tenses, parts of speech, punctuation. It's just a quaint jumble of poorly constructed statements. I wonder where you are learning. Do you actually have a teacher or are you trying to learn by yourself??
ok newbie.I DONT KNOW HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT!AND IF YOU WANT TO HELP,THAT MUST BE BY POSSITIVE POINT NOT THE OPPOSITE AND NO ONE COULD BE SKILLFUL FROM THE FIRST STEP REMEMBER THAT.SO,IF YOU THINK YOU ARE A TEACHER SHOW ME HOW CAN YOU CORRECT MY MISTAKE
Let's take this a bit at a time.
concerning reading is consider as a way to acquire an information from sorts of knowledge books.
Firstly, use capital letters at the start of a sentence- it makes it easier for the reader.
Now, let's look at the first phrase- conserning reading is consider
What function does 'concerning' have there? We know the writing's about this subject, so we can delete it:
Reading is consider
This should be the past participle:
Reading is considered as a way to acquire an information from sorts of knowledge books.
Now, what else needs changing?
as we don't need it here
an information information has no plural and never uses 'an'
sorts this needs a modifier, let's try 'many'
knowledge books this phrase doesn't work, so
Reading is considered a way to acquire information from books and other sources.
Now, we have a correct sentence in terms of language, but is it true? We can read for many different purposes- I read a newspaper for information, but I read a comic for fun.
sorry but I couldn t see and read all those stuff and without saying anything...
souna we are here to learn ,we should be open to be hear what others think of us;because as we speak or even write ,we may make some mistakes;and it s up to others to make us aware of those mistakes;so a little tip is try to be open and willing to hear what others think of your abilities on general;and it s up to you to choose and decide whether they are true or not...
I hope that you understand what I meant to say...
Hi souna, why don't you take into consideration the explanations and corrections Tdol gave you and rewrite your paragraph or even try to think about a knew topic (write about yourself, for exemple).
Just keep on reading books and english newspapers so that your english gets improved.
Good luck
Remember, we are all here for the same reason: to learn, and to gradually improve our English. Everyone starts at a different level, and everyone learns at their own pace. Sometimes typed messages appear harsher than they were intended to be, as we can't hear the tone of voice or the facial expression. The best thing for all of us, though, is to be patient with one another, and to offer assistance whenever possible.


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About UsJob seekers in Whitman County have a valuable resource to assist with resumes, computer skills, online applications, or career research and employment opportunities. This enhanced service connects people to career resources.
Thanks to a Renew Washington Grant called Whitman County Library Occupation Resource Connections, or WORC, this grant of $48,160 is administered by the Washington State Library and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Erica Willson, Whitman County Library Outreach Services Coordinator, is certified in Career and Technical Education. She is the WORC Program Coordinator overseeing the eight month project. Andr�e Marcus, MSW, is serving as the Outreach Educator, a temporary grant funded position. Andr�e and Erica will provide the skill-building workshops, teaching online database usage and providing valuable customer support.
Whitman County Library is now offering workshops, resources and programs countywide is addressing the growing needs of job seekers. Look for information in your local paper or on the library events calendar.
In addition to the countywide workshops, a WORC website has been developed for job seekers to explore a wide range of employment and community resources in one place. The program also brings WOIS and Bridges, valuable online occupational information services to all residents.
Collaborative partners like WorkSource, Community Action and the Whitman County Health Department will also participate by offering program information and regional sessions as part of the WORC project.
For more information about Whitman County Library's Occupational Resource project, contact Erica Willson or Andr�e Marcus at 1-877-722-3375 or by email at:


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Plea deal reached with suspect in Ball beating
Trial for 2 suspects scheduled for Dec. 17
MADISON, Wis. — One of three men accused of assaulting Wisconsin running back Montee Ball has agreed to a plea deal ahead of a trial scheduled for the other two suspects.
Court records indicate Wendell J. Venerable, 21, is scheduled for a plea hearing Dec. 17. He and the other two men were charged with substantial battery.
Jury selection for a trial is scheduled for the same date for Deonte J. Wilson, 21, and Robert A. Wilks, 22.
Probable cause affidavits stated a witness and surveillance video place the three University of Wisconsin-Madison students in the area where Ball was attacked Aug. 1.
Ball suffered a concussion during the early-morning assault near campus.
Madison police Detective Dave Gouran testified at an earlier hearing that people nearby heard the attackers say they planned to beat up football players in retaliation for a previous fight at a party when one of them was hurt.
The first Madison police officer who responded to the call described what witnesses told him the night of the incident. Officer Jacob Conrad said witnesses told him that after Ball was struck in the face, he fell to the ground and five men started kicking him.
Police also said that two different sets of video surveillance cameras, one at Peace Park and another outside a downtown apartment, helped investigators identify the suspects.
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B.A. (Natural Sciences)
The Johns Hopkins University , 1990.
M.S. (Physiology and Biophysics)
Georgetown University , 1991.
Georgetown University, 1995.
Post-Graduate Training
Intern in Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 1995-1996.
Resident in Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1996-1999.
Fellow in Stroke and Clinical Instructor in Perioperative Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1999-2001.
Fellowship in Neurophysiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2000-2001.
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A Pilot Study of Darbepoetin Alfa for Prophylactic Neuroprotection in Aortic Surgery
. Neurocrit Care April 2012.
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Vascular distribution of stroke and its relationship to perioperative mortality and neurologic outcome after thoracic endovascular aortic repair.
Journal of vascular surgery 56: 1510-7, 2012.
Becker DA, McGarvey ML, Rojvirat C, Bavaria JE, Messe SR.
Predictors of Outcome in Patients with Spinal Cord Ischemia after Open Aortic Repair.
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Reversal of delayed-onset paraparesis after revision thoracic endovascular aortic repair for ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm.
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A Panel of Neuron-enriched Proteins as Markers for Traumatic Brain Injury in Humans
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Heat Shock Proteins HSP70 and HSP27 in the Cerebral Spinal Fluid of Patients Undergoing Thoracic Aneurysm Repair Correlate with the Probability of Postoperative Paralysis
. Cell Stress Chaperones 13(4): 435-446, Dec 2008.
Szeto WY, McGarvey M, Pochettino A, Moser GW, Hoboken A, Cornelius K, Woo EY, Carpenter JP, Fairman RM, Bavaria JE
Results of a New Surgical Paradigm: Endovascular Repair for Acute Complicated Type B Aortic Dissection
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Clinical Problem-Solving: Brachial Plexus Closed Injury and Reconstruction
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Siman R, Roberts VL, McNeil E, Dang A, Bavaria JE, Ramchandren S, McGarvey M
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What is sundowning?
Sundowning is a symptom that can show up in people who have Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. When someone becomes confused, anxious, aggressive, agitated, or restless consistently later in the day (usually late afternoon or early evening), this is called sundowning.
It is thought that sundowning can be a problem for as many as 66% of people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. It can occur at any stage of the disease but it tends to peak in the middle stages of dementia and lessens as the disease progresses.
Sundowning often affects the person's quality of life and it can be exhausting for the caregiver.
Behaviours associated with sundowning
Some behaviours are typical with sundowning. They include:
- Becoming demanding or aggressive
- Experiencing delusions and hallucinations. Learn more about delusions and hallucinations.
- Pacing or wandering
- Doing impulsive things
- Attempting to leave home
- Having difficulty understanding others
- Having difficulty doing tasks that were done without difficulty earlier in the day
What causes sundowning?
A variety of events or issues can trigger sundowning. These include:
- Being tired at the end of day (can lead to an inability to cope with stress)
- Low lighting and more shadows (can create confusion and hallucinations, especially with common objects that look different when it is darker)
- Disruption of the Circadian cycle (sleep/wake pattern) because of the dementia (the person cannot distinguish day from night)
- Not as much or no activity in the afternoon compared to the morning (can lead to restlessness later in the day)
Responding to sundowning
Finding a way to respond to sundowning may take some trial and error. Every person is different and may react differently. Some ways to try to head off a sundowning episode or to lessen it once it has started are:
- See if the behaviour is being caused by discomfort (hunger, need to use the toilet, pain).
- Allow for rest and naps between activities.
- Avoid making appointments, bathing, or other potentially stressful activities in the late afternoon or evening.
- Prevent over-stimulation from the television or radio, which can lead to increased confusion.
- Provide adequate lighting to lessen shadows when it begins to get dark.
- A rocking chair can provide stimulation while having a calming effect.
- Brisk walks or other forms of physical activity throughout the day may reduce restlessness or the need to wander later.
- Keep him active and distracted when sundowning may occur (for example, preparing dinner, setting the table).
- Allow quiet time if this helps
- decrease agitation.
- Restrict the amount of caffeine and sugar he has in the morning.
- Maintain a regular eating and sleep schedule as much as possible.
- It may be helpful to keep a daily journal to pinpoint the causes of sundowning symptoms and see which strategies help.
- Familiar routines may help him feel more secure. They can include readying the home for evening (closing curtains, turning on lights) or bedtime routines that include warm milk and soft music.
- Change sleeping arrangements, for example, adding a comfortable chair to the room, a night light, or leaving a door open.
- Doctors may recommend certain medications to ease the symptoms, for example, antipsychotics, sedatives, or sleep-regulating hormones such as melatonin. These can help some people, but because many have serious side effects such as dizziness, sedation (causing sleepiness), or dependence, it is recommended that other options be tried before relying on drugs. Talk this over with the doctor.


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Gangsta rap pioneer Ice Cube used to be a pretty intimidating guy, before he started making children's movies about family vacations.
But take heart, N.W.A. fans. It looks like Ice Cube is going to try to make better movies. In fact, he's working on a documentary film about the Raiders.
Ice Cube even made an appearance at Raiders practice Tuesday in Alameda. The San Francisco Chronicle's David White was the first to note Ice Cube's unexpected appearance at Raider practice on his Twitter feed, and faithfully tweeted all of Cube's comings and goings at Raiders HQ. "Ice Cube a superstar out here, even the country boys shaking his hand," White posted to his Twitter page. "JaMarcus w/longest visit."
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JaMarcus Russell and Ice Cube had a long visit? I'm guessing that "low-calorie foods" did not come up as a topic in that conversation.
The Oakland Tribune's Jerry McDonald asked around as to why Ice Cube was attending Oakland Raiders practice, and reports that "(Raiders) CEO Amy Trask said he is working on a few projects with the club."
Fortunately for internet gossip hounds like me, Ice Cube's movie-making posse does not have the same knack for obsessive secrecy as the Oakland Raider football organization. Turns out that Ice Cube has been enlisted by ESPN to make a documentary called "Straight Outta L.A.," a film which will document the period during which the Raiders played in Los Angeles.
"The Raiders captured a large number of black and Hispanic fans in L.A. at a time when gang warfare, immigration, and the real estate boom were rapidly changing the city," says an ESPN press release about the project. "The L.A. Raiders morphed into a worldwide brand as the team's colors, swagger, and anti-establishment ethos became linked with the hip-hop scene that was permeating South Central Los Angeles."
This is just the kind of publicity that the NFL loves!
"Still a die-hard Raiders fan," the release continues, "Cube will explore the unlikely marriage between the NFL's rebel franchise and America's glamour city and show how pro football's outlaw team became the toast of La La Land."
Exciting that Ice Cube is doing a project about the Raiders, but disappointing that it focuses on the period during which they left Oakland. Fortunately for Oakland Raider fans, we know how this movie ends.
Joe Kukura is a freelance writer who tried to incorporate some N.W.A. lyrics into this article, but just couldn't come up with anything printable.


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My Friend Rabbit illustrated and written by Eric Rohmann. (Roaring Brook Press/ Millbrook Press)In the book, Mouse shares his brand-new toy airplane with his friend Rabbit, and no one can predict the disastrous—but hilarious—results. When the airplane lands in a tree, the chaos only builds as Rabbit drags, pushes and carries the whole neighborhood, including Elephant, Hippo, and Crocodile, to the rescue. It's a lighthearted celebration of a friendship that will last – even if whatever Rabbit does and wherever he goes, trouble follows. "Eric Rohmann's hand-colored relief prints express a vibrant energy through solid black outlines, lightly textured backgrounds and a robust use of color," said Pat Scales, chair of the 2003 Caldecott Award committee. "The black frame cannot contain Rabbit's enthusiasm in this dramatic visual romp, as the characters tumble and spill from the page and back on again. The artist shows his respect for his audience and keen understanding of picture book design. Whatever they do and wherever they go, children will claim Rabbit as their friend.
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The Spider and the Fly illustrated and written by Tony DiTerlizzi. (Simon & Schuster)
DiTerlizzi's wickedly delicious tribute to silent film – based on the cautionary tale penned by Mary Howitt in 1829 – presents an old-fashioned, cackling villain and a naïve damsel in distress in this ambient, moody picture book with all the allure of the flickering silver screen.
Hondo & Fabian illustrated and written by Peter McCarty. (Henry Holt)
"Hondo & Fabian" skillfully interweaves a beach outing for the dog and a full day at home for the cat in this quiet tale of friendship with spare text and soft, flowing illustrations.
Noah's Ark illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney. (Sea Star/North-South Books)
In his strikingly beautiful rendition of Noah and the Great Flood, Pinkney has integrated the well-known story from Genesis with masterful pencil and watercolor illustration to create a stunning whole.
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Roc, Nov 2003, 14.00, 352 pp. ISBN 0451459482 He's a gifted psychic who gave the police the break they needed to find Mary English, a serial killer who killed fourteen children. Deacon Silvey solved many cases for the Atlanta police before the ugliness he subjected himself to finally wore him out. He was an unemployed drunk living in Birmingham when he met Chance, a young woman on the right side of the tracks who wanted Deacon but only if he ga...
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Roc, Sep 2004, 14.00, 352 pp. ISBN: 0451459962 Niki Ky and Daria Parker have not made peace with the events that happened in Spider's basement in Birmingham, Alabama. Daria is a famous rock star who uses liquor to drown out the memories while her lover Niki is a schizophrenic seeing things and people no one else does and getting through the day on drugs. These �imaginary� figures are becoming more real to her until her former lover Spyder final...


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Sitting atop of the hill, Damai Restaurant offers one of the most magnificent view in North Bali during sunset time if you decide to have a dinner here. Damai serves organic vegetables and meats from our own small farm, together with fresh catch from the bountiful Bali sea and imported delicacies. Western and Asian cooking are combined in the innovative à la carte menu while the daily changing three-course menu reinvents the traditional Balinese cuisine serving new versions of classic dishes. A vegetarian menu is available and special dietary and individual requests are catered for.