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This project, the third monograph by Elinor Carucci, follows a logical trajectory from her earlier work. Closer (2002), chronicled her tumultuous relationship with her husband and parents through incidences of infidelity (hers), too much dope (her husband's) and her parents fractious relationship and eventual divorce. The mood was gentle, though, with plenty of high notes; the everyday ebb and flow of relationships were lovingly and lavishly documented, while the larger narratives played out in the background.
Diary of a Dancer (2008) changed direction slightly and concentrated on Carrucci's life as a professional Middle Eastern dancer, acting as the hired entertainment for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs around the five boroughs of New York. It showed the loneliness, physicality and endurance of endless subway rides and blistered feet between the sparkle and exoticism of her performances.
Mother shifts gear again. It starts with her pregnant with twins and concludes when they are 8 years old – a moment when Caruccci saw a change and a growing independence in her children. The intimacy and sensuality for which she has become so well known is amplified and, as she says in her introduction, she has never seen so much as she does as a mother. Her gaze has certainly become more intense, and her actions stronger, as she hugs, dresses, holds, licks, pulls, feeds, caresses and cares for her children. The little-discussed eroticism that so often exists between mother and child is played out honestly and easily – a beautiful, fluid link between generations.
As with Carucci's other work, the everyday is the focus of and propulsive force behind the book, as multiple layers of reality unfold in her concentration on detail. Meals, parties, subway journeys, daydreams, fights -- they're all chronicled here. But the book is also an exploration of national identity and how having children in a different country from your own makes one look at that country more acutely. It makes an immigrant engage in one's adopted home in a way that was easy to avoid before.
Both Closer and Diary of a Dancer were their best when the photos were indoors and intimate, but led by her children Carucci is forced out of doors, to the streets, playgrounds and school. It opens her up to document life in the city, meaning that in some elemental ways, the book is as much about New York as it is about her family.
There are photos made in McDonald's, and outside Duane Reade. Resolutely American holidays like Halloween and quintessentially New York giant pretzels from street vendors feature in a way that would have been unimaginable in her earlier work. Her children are American; she has lived in New York for nearly 20 years (she emigrated from Israel), and the differences between the two cultures are implicitly infuse the pictures.
Photographically, having children allows her to look at the city afresh and her wonderment and pleasure in photographing is palpable. The sidewalks and subway stations are places where emotions are expressed just as openly as behind closed doors – something one has to very quickly get used to as a parent in New York. In this, Carucci continues to do what she does best: namely, dealing seamlessly with the collapse of private and public space.
In his 2005 novel, Saturday, Ian McEwan writes beautifully about the inevitable letting go that parents must enact as children grow older and more independent. The book's narrator, a middle-aged neurosurgeon, feels that wrenching sense of loss as he watches his son's fingers slipping through his own as his son walks up a flight of stairs, away from his father. Carucci captures much of that same profound, inevitable sense of loss in her photographs. But in Mother, rather than dwelling on melancholy, the images celebrate the connection between twin brother and sister, and a mother's attempts to see, feel and express her enduring relationship with her children.
Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-American photographer based in New York. Her third monograph, Mother, is available through Prestel. LightBox previously profiled Carucci's earlier work here.
Susan Bright is a New York-based writer and curator. Her upcoming book, Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood, is available through Art/Books from November 30, 2013. Bright previously wrote for LightBox about her favorite photographers turned music-video directors.


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Posted by Editoress on 06/12/03
City of Edmonton to Ban Riding on Singletrack
Courtesy Mike Sarnecki, Off Road Trail Advocacy Director, Alberta Bicycle Association
The City of Edmonton is planning to effectively ban all singletrack riding in the river valley with the new parkland bylaw as the city's definition of trail does not include singletrack.
Excerpt from the bylaw proposal Q & A: What is meant by a "trail"? The Parkland Bylaw defines two types of trails, improved and unimproved. In both cases they refer to an identifiable path, track or public right-of-way on parkland intended for use by pedestrians and vehicles other than motor vehicles. Improved trails have a width equal to or greater than 1.5 metres and have an improved surface such as pavement, granular material or mulch, or a maintained grass surface. Unimproved trails have a width equal to or greater than 0.5 metre and have a natural surface. Unimproved trails are best suited to activities that can be done 'single file' or where a smoother surface is not required. (For a more complete definition of trails, please see the proposed Parkland Bylaw)
Paths or tracks that have a width of less than 0.5 metre are not trails, as defined in the Bylaw. Narrow 'animal paths' that often crisscross Edmonton's river valley are not considered trails, but are deemed to be part of natural areas. Individuals may only travel in natural areas if they remain on an improved or unimproved trail. This rule will ensure that animal paths don't become enlarged by human impacts.
Councillor Phair has expressed below, the current public feedback is very anti-bikes. "As you know Council is dealing with the proposed new parkland bylaw. Although the [Community Services] Committee again recommended passage to Council, I think it will be very close and may well lose. We are getting numerous e-mails and letters and phone calls and letters to the editor saying the 'cyclists' are bad or cause trouble and should not be allowed in the valley etc. I think if you know people or groups who would say differently you might want to get them to e-mail,call etc. Council will deal with this on Tuesday [June 17]--somehow the entire bylaw has gotten framed as a parkland for cyclists bylaw!"
If you want singletrack trails to become open to riding your are urged to contact the city. It is time for us quiet cyclists to make our voice hear. You can view the entire proposed bylaw at www.edmonton.ca/comm_services/parkland_services/parks/Bylaw2202/bylaw_2202.html and email your concerns and comments before council votes on this bylaw on June 17th to: email@example.com
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The Sciences and Technologies General Collectionis an umbrella for wide-ranging collections that document the environment, science, and technology generally. Among its targeted collections, Florida Environments Online and the Florida Geological Survey Publications, there is special attention to Florida's environment. The Florida Environments Online collection focuses on the species and ecosystems of Florida. Among its holdings are the Bulletins of the Florida Museum of Natural History and more than 200 seminal works selected by Florida's scientists. The Florida Geological Survey Publications collection makes available the print catalog of the Florida Geological Survey, which document not only the landscape of Florida but its natural habitat as well.
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...that I have been quieter as of late. Not as many RP posts, not as many writings, not as much silliness. Hell, even my presence in gaming is not big lately - I don't think I've talked to a single person via voice in the past few months.
Why is it, then?
Well, over the last few months, my life has changed significantly, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I'm going to be a father again, I have a new place, unfortunately a demotion at work which was really


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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court ruled on Thursday that people have the right to claim compensation from service providers if their Internet access is disrupted, because the Internet is an "essential" part of life.
The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe made the ruling after hearing the case of a man who was unable to use his DSL connection, which also offered a telephone and fax line, for two months from late 2008 to early 2009.
He had already received compensation for the cost of having to use a mobile phone, but wanted to be compensated for not being able to use the Internet. Under German law the loss of use of essential material items can be compensated.
"The Internet plays a very important role today and affects the private life of an individual in very decisive ways. Therefore loss of use of the Internet is comparable to the loss of use of a car," a court spokeswoman told Germany's ARD television.
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Java Not Working, And Still No Answers. What Gives?
Okay, decided to start this topic anew, since the only response I got to the other one was a post calling me "rude and impatient" (I guess that's what they're calling "persistence" nowadays..) , instead of...well...ignoring my admittedly pushy and harsh tone and actually being helpful. However, for the sake of it, I do apologize for my attitude in my last topic.
But I digress, let's start off on a new foot, eh? On to the problem that is STILL at hand(in other words, "patience" hasn't gotten me jack, not even a "we don't know yet"):
So last night (10 PM January 20th), the Firefox Plugin Checker said that my Java version was outdated. I also got a pop-up saying that my current version of Java at the time (Java 7 update 10) had vulnerabilities. So to try and fix this, I went to the Java page and downloaded the update (Java 7 update 11).
To check and see if my update was working, I went to Java's check page, as well as another page I use. And here I discovered a problem. I got a notification that an old version of Java had been detected, and another prompt to download the current version (which I had already done). So I erased all versions of Java from my control panel, and tried to check it again. And when I did, I got this: http://oi50.tinypic.com/35b6xx2.jpg and http://oi47.tinypic.com/15fg37p.jpg.
As you can see, both pages tell me that I need to install a missing plugin of some sort. So, thinking this would resolve the issue, I clicked the Install Missing Plugin button. This is what it told me was missing: http://oi45.tinypic.com/302uwbl.jpg. So I clicked next to install it.... and got this: http://oi45.tinypic.com/2cici0x.jpg, which I assume means that the plugin did not install. So I pressed Manual Install... and was lead/linked right back to the Java download page (where it all began, and what doesn't seem to be working in the first place)
I go to check my plugins again (Just to make sure and also for extra information), and it appears to say that my Java version is current (is that what "Java Deployment Toolkit 188.8.131.52" is? I don't know, I am not good at technology at all. Either way, here is what it looks like: http://oi48.tinypic.com/4kxzz4.jpg). So...if it is current, why is it not working (i.e. I am unable to play games, DO MY COLLEGE CLASSWORK, or play Java-based games)?
If it helps anything, here is what my control panel looks like in regards to Java right now: http://oi45.tinypic.com/2qlxu9t.jpg Am I missing anything that would make Java work?
And before anyone says that Java is not essential: It may be that way to you, but I need Java to do classwork for college. Veterinary college.
So, in short, what is going on with Java, and how can I fix it?
EDITEDITEDIT: I Have found that I can do my classwork without Java. HOWEVER, this DOES NOT mean that the problem is solved or over with. I STILL WANT TO KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM AND GET JAVA TO WORK. Even if I never actually need it, I would still like to have a (working!!!) Java version because of two reasons: 1) I would rather have such a program and not need it, than need such a program and not have it, and 2) aesthetics. Sorry to say, but I am very particular about how things look when it comes to my belongings, and the fact that Java is messing up is making me actually stressed. In short, I still want the above issue solved, even if it's just purely for the sake of Peace Of Mind.
Another note: I would (please!) appreciate a timely response on this matter. Even if the response is a "We don't know what the issue is and/or we are working to solve this issue.", that would satisfy me for the time being. I would just like a semi-timely response that would let me know that FF/contributors here have read the above and actually give a semblance of a care about their userbase.
Thank You.
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You have a Java detection problem, which can happen after updating to Java 7 Update 10 or 11 if an outdated standalone JavaFX is still installed. If that applies to you, the solution is to uninstall JavaFX, as explained here:
For more information, see:
Alice, thanks, there is a bit of an improvement, but no actual solution yet. (And yes, I did follow the instructions in the links you gave). Here's what I get now:
1) http://oi47.tinypic.com/11slfdu.jpg the initial page
2) http://oi48.tinypic.com/de8f8y.jpg After clicking to "activate the unknown plugin)
3) http://oi50.tinypic.com/kd4vg2.jpg After clicking "Run".
Not quite what I was looking for, and not even close to what you posted in a similar thread...but I do thank you for trying to be actually helpful and admittedly giving some progress on the issue, or at least something that is do-able for me right now.
I would, however, like to see a permanent solution if one is found.
Modified by cor-el
That is a consequence of current Java versions still having security vulnerabilities.
Oracle also has tightened the security setting in Java.
The default security level for Java applets and web start applications has been increased from "Medium" to "High".
This affects the conditions under which unsigned (sandboxed) Java web applications can run.
Previously, as long as you had the latest secure Java release installed applets and web start applications would continue to run as always.
With the "High" setting the user is always warned before any unsigned application is run to prevent silent exploitation.
The first prompt you see in Firefox to activate Java is because Java is currently on the Mozilla blocklist ( the "Hot Topic" article How to allow Java on trusted sites explains the reason for block and how to activate Java, including how to bypass the plugin activation prompt for trusted sites).
cor-el is right about why you are seeing a second Java "Security Warning" when trying to view Java applets, that you have to click to run. This is a Java security feature and not anything Firefox does.
Try the same Java sites in Internet Explorer .... don't you also see the Java "Security Warning?" If you want to lower your Java security back to "Medium" in the Java Control Panel, see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/jcp.html#security for details. That's up to you but I would leave it on "High " since Java 7 is still basically insecure, according to the reports I've seen and this "Protecting Users Against Java Vulnerability" Mozilla blog post.
If the second Java prompt is your only remaining issue then your problem is really solved, since it is a new Java security feature and not anything in Firefox.
Some background:
At the time I was helping you in the older thread you started (now locked because you started this one) the solution to uninstall JavaFX wasn't known. On Dec 13th I wrote, There may be problems with Java 7 Update 10 since a number of Windows users have reported that Firefox is not detecting the plugin and I linked to a couple of related threads, including this MozillaZine thread, in which uninstalling JavaFX as a solution was posted 22 Dec 2012. On 25 Dec 2012 in the same MozillaZine thread, I posted a link to this Dec 24th bugzilla comment by an Oracle employee, who posted that uninstalling JavaFX was a solution for Oracle's Java 7 detection bug. Oracle has been working on the bug (to be fixed in an upcoming Java 7 release) and they created this java.com help page, which is now included in the related MozillaZine and Mozilla Support articles on Java that I posted above.
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You need to click on the plugin icon that looks like a little square Lego block, see here:


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As the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq nears, violence still plagues Baghdad and other cities in the nation.
At least nine people died from violence across the country on Monday, authorities said.
In the capital, three employees with the trade, environment or health ministries were shot and killed in three incidents, and two civilians also were shot dead, Baghdad police said.
In the Dibbs district about 270 kilometers (167 miles) northwest of Baghdad, three people were killed and more than 50 people were wounded when a car bomb exploded outside a police station, officials in Kirkuk said.
The head of al-Rutba local council died Monday in a hospital in Ramadi, a day after he was shot by several people.
Next week will mark 10 years since a coalition of troops led by the United States toppled the regime of longtime dictator Saddam Hussein.


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B.F. Skinner on Schedules of Reinforcement
Posted by The Situationist Staff on May 3, 2008
This one-minute video discusses schedules of reinforcement in B.F. Skinner's experiments. Reinforcement is delivered to different animals on a schedule that states the contingencies on which reinforcement depends. Interval schedule is contingent upon the passage of time. Ratio schedule is contingent upon the number of responses emitted. A variable ratio schedule (contingent upon an unpredictable number of responses) produces a very high and stable rate of responding.
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newarenanow wrote:I know not all stories will be like that, but IMO, sometimes if you want to find a job and make money, it may be in a field you do not love (there are not many jobs for history, music, etc degrees) and you may have to take your lumps early and live with debt for a few years. And yes, you do have to go above and beyond getting a college degree if you truly want to be successful.
Just my thoughts.
I think that's what many (maybe not most, but the vocal ones referenced here) College grads don't get, and it's not limited to Millennials. I'm an X-er and lots of us thought we were going to get hired right out of college, too. It's not all the students' fault, though. Part of it is the sales job colleges do when recruiting. It's to their benefit to put a gloss on how many of their students get hired, go to good grad schools, etc.
Part of it is also parents not telling them (or not realizing) what it's going to be like when they get out of college. Rest assured that my kids will know that I worked retail for a year out of college, then moved away and got a temp job with benefits 100% on me, before being hired permanently and getting my employer to pay for my MBA, which I did at night. They will always have a home here (concerns me about my oldest) but they better be woikin', even at jobs they think are beneath them just because they have a sheepskin.
I think a lot of kids entering college view college itself as "taking your lumps." It's not- it's preparing you to take your lumps in your chosen field.


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"Well done! Christopher West has done a masterful job of confronting the inherent dualism lurking in much of modern Western theology, exposing the deepest longings of the human soul as an authentic yearning for union with God."
–Wm. Paul Young, author of The Shack and Cross Roads
"Fill These Hearts is a cultural balm. Christopher West writes with great love, of great love, drawing readers into His Sacred Heart."
–Kathryn Jean Lopez, nationally syndicated columnist and editor-at-large, National Review
"Christopher West has a great gift for theological exploration. In this book he weaves lessons from classical and contemporary art, pop music, movies and the Christian mystical tradition to explore the ancient idea that the yearnings we feel in our bodies and spirits reveal the cry of our hearts for God."
–Nicky Gumbel, vicar and bestselling author of Questions of Life
"Drawing deeply from the well of the Theology of the Body, Christopher West explains that the Faith is not simply about following a code of conduct but about Beauty. The beauty of the human body, the beauty of our culture and the beauty of the whole cosmos are all a reflection of this same Beauty. This is the mystery that needs to be proclaimed joyfully for all to hear for it holds the key to joy in this life and the next, for each of us. Above all, West writes with this joy."
–David Clayton, Artist in Residence and Fellow at Thomas More College
"Christopher West is a gifted and effective evangelist with a passion for tackling one of the greatest obstacles to belief today: the heresy that Christianity is a joyless, rule-bound religion. Not so, argues West, in this timely, powerful book. Drawing upon Scripture, the saints and the glimmers of truth in pop culture, West reminds us that Christianity is essentially a love story, and Christian sexual ethics exist to help us fulfill, not repress, our deepest desires. For anyone who has ever doubted that Christ's call to purity of heart is good news, Fill These Hearts will prove a surprising and consoling read, one with the potential to change your life as well as your mind."
–Colleen Carroll Campbell, author of My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir
"In Fill These Hearts, Christopher West explains the nature of desire, freedom, and love, including erotic love. He does so as a believing Catholic, yes. But if you come to this book with the typical prejudices aimed at what Catholics believe about these things, you are likely to be shaken to your very core. Be warned: this book is unlike any other you've ever read. It holds up the spirit of our age – as expressed in modern, presumed "secular" idioms like rock 'n' roll and popular movies – and places it under the searchlight of the most fundamental understandings of human nature. What emerges is a book that is as knowing about the modern world as it is about the teachings of Christ and the mystic-saints who have followed him throughout the ages. In fact, West brings these phenomena together in a way that has never been done before, and does so without a false note on either score."
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NFS and VMware: Perfect for Small Business? Part 1 – IntroductionAugust 22, 2012
Nexenta System's "open storage" software made significant inroads into the VMware community over the last year with NFS storage. Even though Nexenta has been a partner with VMware for much longer, the storage vendor really made it's debut at last year's VMworld 2011 Hands-on-Labs by showcasing it's NFS-for-VMware solution running on commodity hardware:
And, here's the kicker, NexentaStor was running on industry standard hardware from Supermicro with STEC drives for write and read cache and 7200 rpm SAS drives for capacity. Monday some DRAM on one of the four servers (two HA pairs) failed. And no end users noticed because of our HA cluster performed correctly and failed over. Meanwhile our load increased from a designed 33% to over 60% of the total load of the Hands on Lab due to unspecified issues with either NetApp or EMC.
While this was indeed an important inflection point in the VMware/Nexenta relationship, in broader terms Nexenta's success at VMworld was the probably the moment when commodity NFS stepped out of the shadow of block storage. To be fair, there are many enterprise alternatives to Nexenta for NFS storage – like NetApp and EMC, but there are few can be deployed on commodity hardware, fewer that do both hardware and virtual storage appliances, and fewer still that have commercially licensed and community licensed distributions of the same platform.
If you've ever asked the question, "what's the best storage solution for my vSphere stack?" I'd be willing to bet that NFS was not high on the list of recommendations. If you've looked at the related product marketing materials, as I have, or engaged front-line VMware personnel in a discussion of primary storage solutions, between 2009 and 2011, as I have, you'd be hard pressed to leave the conversation with a recommendation to use NFS. If Nexenta's appearance can "prove" that open storage solutions based on NFS (and commodity hardware) are "ready" for big cloud infrastructures, can it be true that it's a perfect fit for a small business' private cloud? I'd say a resounding YES, but…
Introduction, NFS versus Block Storage
Before you say, "thanks for the tip, Collin, but who needs commercial stuff when NFS services are included in practically every Linux distribution, and "no cost" solutions -like FreeNAS – make NFS cheap and easy?" While it is true that solutions like this have been very popular with lab and bare-bones users, but most enterprises (even small ones) require a "bet the business" level of support and stability that isn't often found in "community supported" distributions and do-it-yourself implementations. Even if
the though "any NFSv3 server" – properly sized and configured – should work with VMware according to its abilities: it's up to you to decide if the basket fits your eggs. The commercial NFS vendors really know their stuff, so you're buying expertise, experience and a well-refined playbook: something you'll be giving up when you go it alone.
Despite being "block storage's whipping boy," to say NFS is "not ready for prime time" in today's VMware product matrix would be the height of FUD-peddling. On the contrary, a well know post in 2009 from noted EMC'r Chad Sakac and NetApp's Vaughn Stewart made a great case for NFS in the enterprise in their multi-vendor post back in 2009. Since then, many improvements in NFS offerings and vSphere capabilities have increased NFS' appeal in that space, not diminished it. To quote the Virtual Geek:
"NFS is an absolutely legitimate storage model for VMware – with many advantages."
– Chad Sakac, aka Virtual Geek, EMC VP VMware Technology Alliance
Certainly there is a lot to like in pairing NFS with vSphere 5.x no matter the scale of the enterprise. Here are some of the high-points:
- NFS works seamlessly with Storage I/O Control and Network I/O Control to support converged network architectures;
- NFS exposes VMDKs to 3rd party tools and scripts without VMFS proxies, enabling:
- Simple Backup/Recovery of VM, VMDK from NAS is a file copy operation
- Linux, Windows7, etc. support NFS clients out of the box
- Replication of VM or VMDK from NAS can be achieved simply with rsync
- Use of snapshotted NFS volumes does not require ESX/VMFS
- Reclamation of unused storage is not array dependent (file deletes return to storage immediately without SCSI Unmap support or equivalent)
- Not subject to LUN locking and related performance issues in block/VMFS
- It's simpler to use: in the link above, VMware dedicates 24 pages to block/VMFS and only 3 to NFS
- Presentation and management of NAS storage is very familiar (it's a filer)
- NFS is very forgiving of "imperfect" network configurations – compared to iSCSI, especially where network time-outs and latency are concerned
- NFS storage does not need to be available at ESXi boot time, enabling VMs to exist on VSA running on-top of the host ESXi server (enabling recursive storage possibilities and reduced/shared hardware costs)
- Mounting an NFS snapshot to vSphere does not include a signature operation (or risk possible collision)
- NFS does not require VAAI to resolve SCSI file locking and VM loading limitations consistent with SCSI-based block storage
- vSphere 5 currently support 256 NFS mounts per host
- NFS.MaxVolumes (per host) – default 8, max 256
- Single file size not limited on NFS file systems, however
- Without 3rd party NAS VAAI, all VMDKs on NAS are always thin provisioned
- Single file size limited to NAS vendor file system constraints
- VMDK uses 512-byte sectors, so it suffers from the same limitations as physical disks, hence it will still have a 2TB-512-byte limit (since VMware has no 4K-byte sector VMDK, there will be no way to support 2TB+ VMDKs on NFS until that time)
- NFS volumes are not limited in size
- For NetApp WAFL, the limit is up to 100TB (with restrictions)
- For NexentaStor, the limit is determined by the zpool size
- On-line expansion of an NFS file system is a one-step operation: expand the file system on the filer
That said, NFS still cannot replace block storage on Tier 1 applications that were designed for block storage. Even iSCSI – arguably the least common denominator in shared block storage for VMware – still has some built-in advantages (and unique disadvantages) as compared to NFS. Likewise, when we're talking about block storage in VMware we're usually talking about VMFS too:
- Writes are almost always asynchronous, making even low-end iSCSI "appear" to be faster than low-end NFS
- Interface redundancy is straight forward and deterministic with many good options for redundancy
- Storage latency in iSCSI/block is "more predictable" across common use cases
- vSphere 5 currently supports 256 LUNs per host (similar to NFS mount limit)
- Disk.MaxLUN (per target) – default 256, max 256
- Total VMFS LUNs per host cannot exceed Disk.MaxLUN, regardless of type (FC, SAS, iSCSI, etc.)
- vSphere VMFS3/5 limits single file size (VMDK and virtual RDM) to 2TB (minus 512 bytes)
- VMFS3 limits single volume size to 50-64TB depending on block size chosen when formatted
- User selectable formatted block size of 1MB, 2MB, 4MB and 8MB
- Single file size limit to 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB based on block size
- Uses 64KB sub-block size for smaller files
- to achieve the 50-64TB limit, the volume must be made up of multiple LUNs that cannot exceed 2TB in size
- VMFS3 file systems upgraded to VMFS5 will retain some of VMFS3's limitations
- VMFS5 limits single volume size to 64TB for VMFS5 (always uses 1MB block size)
- Uses 8KB sub-block size for smaller files
- A single extent in a VMFS5 volume can be up to 60TB in size
- vSphere's storage telemetry is still geared towards block versus filer storage, making trouble-shooting of "performance issues" more available
- Pairing storage to interface is much easier to do, even on-the-fly
- Exchange 2010 expressly forbids the use of NAS storage as VMDK datastores
- Virtual RDM and Clustering (shared block) require block storage (in some cases, not even iSCSI qualifies for support)
- Tier 1 application support on block-based storage is generally better (familiarity and testing)
- VMware VAAI for block storage ships with vSphere, similar acceleration features for NAS must come from the vendor (creating a much lest robust out-of-the-box experience for SMB)
- On-line VMFS expansion usually requires two steps, with some caveats:
- For VMFS expansions using a single LUN expansions under 2TB: (1) expand the underlying LUN on the SAN, (2) expand VMFS with the new space on the LUN
- Single LUN expansions over 2TB require VMFS5
- VMFS3 volume expansion beyond 2TB require multiple extents, each of which may not exceed 2TB-512B – loss of a single extent in a multi-extent volume could mean a loss of the entire volume
- VMFS5 supports single LUNs (extents) as large as 60TB
Sparse VAAI issues aside, NFS is a great go-to storage protocol for most virtual workloads that do not strictly require block or shared-block storage back-ends (clustering, et al). Where NFS struggles today – in terms of VMware implementations in the SMB space – is in network resiliency. It is not that you cannot make NFS resilient to network failures, it's more or less that redundancy is not neatly baked-into the service or protocol like it is for iSCSI, SAS and Fiber Channel – these block-based services have mature, multi-session amd multi-path capabilities at the service level (multi-path targets and initiators).
Note about 2TB VMDK limitations – given that most modern OSes running as supported virtual machines support some form of LUN concatenation (extents) to bypass 2TB physical disk limitations, the very same facilities can be leveraged to bypass the 2TB VMDK limits for these OSes. While this is not an optimal solution, it is a supported one. Today's physical disks that exceed 2TB in size do so with 4KB sectors instead of 512B sectors. Currently, there is no 4KB sector VMDK analog.
Next Up, NFS and Path Redundancy
Hopefully by now there's a compelling argument to look deeper into the NFS/VMware question, but – as with most shared, network storage – the rubber meets the road at the network layer. To me, the secret to making NFS more robust is in the network architecture that underpins it: depending on the complexity of the environment, the network layer will make or break an NFS implementation. In some ways there's a lot more to making NFS "redundant' (due to it's lack of multipath capabilities): it's not impossible; it's not difficult; it's just full of options and caveats.
Unlike block storage, you can't "throw up two network interfaces, two target ports and two initiator ports" and easily have path redundancy and multipath data. With NFS, the network – not the storage service – does most of the "heavy lifting" and – as you'll see in the next post – NFS has absolutely no concept of multipath. Therefore, I'm going to spend the next entry reviewing some of the main points driving network and NFS service dependencies that make understanding NFS network resiliency a bit more accessible.


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The fonds consists of lectures, speeches (in person and on radio broadcasts), and sermons given by Seeley in his capacity as priest, religious leader, and provost. Files include programmes from services, events, and conferences, pamphlets written by Seeley, notebooks, and correspondence between Seeley and others. Fonds also includes letters received by Mrs. Seeley after her husband's death, newspaper clippings and obituaries, official documents, photographs, and a printing plate.
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Billing and first fill program
Existing claims
Pharmacy providers are required to submit bills for outpatient medications at the point-of-service in all claims, including situations prior to a BWC claim number being assigned. In order to submit a bill at the point-of-service, the pharmacist must transmit at least two of the following three items, along with the other billing information, to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM):
- BWC claim number;
- Social Security number; and/or
- Date of injury.
The PBM verifies the information, processes the bill and sends the pharmacist an appropriate message based on the claim's status, allowed conditions and formulary coverage and restrictions. The PBM pays pharmacy provider bills according to BWC's fee schedule.
Outpatient medications administered at a skilled nursing facility are to be obtained from a licensed pharmacy provider that electronically submits the bill(s) to the PBM for payment, and delivers the medication to the facility for administration.
First Fill Program
BWC established a program to provide reimbursement for the first fill of prescription drugs for medical conditions identified in a pending workers' compensation claim. The program is limited to the first fill of prescription drugs that occur prior to the date BWC issues an initial claim determination order.
Prescription reimbursement is limited to the following:
- A period of 10 days or less at the most commonly prescribed dosing schedule, and no refills will be approved;
- One drug per therapeutic drug class listed in the appendix to the rule;
- Extemporaneous compounded prescriptions are not eligible for reimbursement under the first fill program and;
- Prescription drugs listed in the appendix to the rule along with the maximum quantity of each. Prescription drugs not listed in the appendix are not eligible for reimbursement unless prior authorization was approved by BWC.
The prescribing physician or their agent must write 'work-related injury' on and sign the prescription in order for the prescription to be eligible for the first fill program. Pharmacists and pharmacy interns are permitted to write the phrase and sign telephone prescriptions. The pharmacy provider is guaranteed payment for reimbursed prescription drugs so long as the first fill program requirements are followed regardless of final claim acceptance or denial.
First fill prescriptions are reimbursed in the same manner as other prescriptions. Pharmacy providers should follow the steps outlined above in the existing claims section for guidelines. Custom messaging will direct the pharmacy provider to resubmit the prescription after consulting the first fill medication list to ensure coverage.
Generic drug requirement
BWC does not reimburse for brand name drugs when a generic equivalent is widely available. This rule applies to all claims, regardless of date of injury. If a brand name drug is dispensed, the injured worker pays the difference in price between the generic price and the brand name drug requested.
Injured worker outpatient medication reimbursement
Injured workers can request payment for prescribed outpatient medication only. Since pharmacy providers are expected to submit bills directly to BWC's pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) electronically, the use of the C-17 reimbursement request form should be rare or for special circumstances.
Durable medical equipment; disposable medical supplies; and home infusion therapy
MCOs determine reimbursement eligibility for the following services that may be obtained in a pharmacy: Contact the MCO for specific requirements for the use of the Service Invoice (C-19) or HCFA 1500 — MCOs determine reimbursement eligibility for the following services that may be obtained in a pharmacy: Contact the MCO for specific requirements for using the C-19 and HCFA 1500.
MAC pricing policy
The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) utilizes a Maximum Allowable Cost (MAC) pricing program for retail pharmacy reimbursement. The MAC program aligns the incentives for the pharmacy, injured worker and the BWC program.
BWC is committed to ensuring that MAC pricing allows for retail pharmacy profitability while ensuring the cost effective use of program funds. For all generic products, the objective is for the pharmacy to make equivalent or greater gross profit percentage per prescription as compared to the equivalent brand product.
The program's funds will be used to continue providing quality prescription coverage to Ohio's injured workers'. The MAC prices will maintain reasonable profitability incentives to dispense generic products over brand products.
Drug shortages and pricing
Drug shortage information is verified through the FDA website. In addition, if you feel a product is in short supply or unavailable; please fax the information to BWC using the MAC Price Inquiry form.
Use the MAC Price Inquiry form to provide feedback for both MAC pricing and multiple source generic product availability. BWC will research concerns submitted via the MAC Price Inquiry form within 24 hours of receipt.
Products with supply issues, where no generics are available, will be removed from the MAC list within 24 hours of discovery and non-MAC pricing will apply. Products with supply issues, where other generics are available, will have pricing modified within 24 hours of discovery. Once supply issues have been resolved on these products, the MAC price will be reestablished.
Exception process to update MAC list
The MAC list will be reviewed with ongoing adjustments based upon market changes in pricing and product availability. BWC and the PBM will work jointly to review items where profitability is questioned. For further questions concerning the MAC list, please contact BWC at 1-877-543-6446.
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James Craig and Irene Scala Designing with Type Award Announced
POSTED ON: March 20, 2013
With great pleasure, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art announces the James Craig and Irene Scala Designing with Type Award, made possible by a generous gift from James E. Craig A'63. The Designing with Type Award provides a stipend for a School of Art student with a strong interest in design, who will study abroad in the Fall or Spring semester of the 2013-2014 academic year. The stipend provides $5,000 to help cover travel and living expenses while students advance their skills and engage in life-enhancing experiences by interacting with people of different cultural backgrounds.
"As a young man, travel to Europe played an important role in shaping my personal and professional development," Mr. Craig, at left, says. "I have created the Designing with Type Award to extend that same opportunity to Cooper Union design students today."
Applicants must have enrolled in design courses in the School of Art at The Cooper Union, and have been accepted by a school outside the United States that has a formal exchange agreement with the School of Art. Upon their return, award recipients will submit a report to the Dean, which will be shared with the donors.
Born in Montreal, Canada, James Craig studied fine arts in both Montreal and Paris before immigrating to the United States in 1957. After receiving a BFA from The Cooper Union, he earned an MFA from Yale University in 1965. Mr. Craig was the Design Director at Watson‑Guptill Publications for 30 years and taught Typography 1 at The Cooper Union from 1978 to 2008. He is the author of a number of books on graphic design and typography, among them Designing with Type, now in its fifth edition. Mr. Craig continues to give workshops on typography at art schools around the world while also working on his books and websites.
Tipping his cap to a former student turned professional colleague, Mr. Craig added Irene Scala (née Zborovsky A'97) to the award's name. Ms. Scala co-taught the Typography 1 class with him from 2001 to 2004 and co-authored the textbook, ebook and website for the fifth edition of Designing with Type. Like Mr. Craig, study abroad shaped her career. "Putting Irene's name on the award seemed obvious. She represents the future of typographical design," Mr. Craig says.
We are deeply grateful to Mr. Craig for his generosity and foresight in making possible the Designing with Type Award. For more information and an application, click here.


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National Political Commission of the Communist Party of Brazil.
São Paulo, March 15, 2012.
The Communist Party of Brazil – PCdoB – turns 90 on March 25, 2012. It has had the longest life among the political organizations in the history of Brazil, connected to the workers' longing for the socialist ideal. It envisions Brazil as a great nation, loving peace and solidarity among peoples, rejecting war and imperialist rulings.
In nine decades generations of communists joined the party ranks. In different stages, three personalities inscribed their names in the saga of communists in Brazil: Astrojildo Pereira, Luiz Carlos Prestes and João Amazonas.
Astrojildo Pereira led the foundation in 1922 and symbolizes the generation of those first days. Prestes joined the Party in 1934, already the "Hope Knight," and led the generation until 1960. Amazonas joined the Party in 1935 and led a generation that reorganized it and conducted it until the first election of Lula.
As Renato Rabelo was acclaimed president of the Party in 2001, shortly before the passing of Amazonas, a new generation is taking position in the communist trenches.
Today PCdoB is a well-known and prestigious force, a powerful political and moral asset, a strong presence among workers, a predominant influence among the youth, with outstanding presence in the Parliament, in local governments and in the Lula and Dilma Rousseff administrations.
Without underestimating the divergences of the past, the current board of PCdoB is aware that this party is the one founded in 1922 and reorganized in 1962, built by all those generations of communists. The anniversary that we proudly celebrate is that of all those generations.
1. The legacy of the founding generation
The first expressive contribution of the Party to our history is its own foundation. It introduced in the political stage, for the first time among us, a working class party with its own organization and specific objectives, starting with socialism.
At that time, the working class already started strikes for their rights and had active unions. But, under anarchist influence, it resisted the political struggle. However, they received news from Russia, according to which workers brought down a tyrannical regime, took power and started to build socialism. And a piece of information started to circulate: such achievement was only possible because they had a communist party.
Building a party of that kind in our country was the mission started by the nine delegates that founded the Communist Party of Brazil: Astrojildo Pereira, Cristiano Cordeiro, Abílio de Nequete, Hermogênio da Silva Fernandes, João da Costa Pimenta, Joaquim Barbosa, José Elias da Silva, Luis Peres and Manuel Cendón. Astrojildo and others, such as Octávio Brandão, led the first generation of communists.
The Old Republic was entering a crisis and the dispute that led to the Revolution of 1930 eight years after was already growing. The recently founded Party introduced a new element: it led the working class to politics. It organized the Labor and Peasant Bloc, BOC, which systematized for the first time among us a platform of social and labor rights. The Party, by means of BOC, elected in 1927 two communist councilors in the city of Rio de Janeiro: Octávio Brandão and Minervino de Oliveira. In 1929 – with the banner of a unionist coalition that it has defended since 1922 – it created the General Confederation of the Workers of Brazil, CGTB.
In the elections in 1930 Júlio Prestes was the ruling candidate and Getúlio Vargas represented the opposition. The Party proposed Luiz Carlos Prestes as its candidate, which was denied. It then launched the candidacy of Minervino de Oliveira, Secretary-General of CGTB. The campaign suffered from unusual violence and the candidate was imprisoned several times. He had few votes. But the historical fact remained: in 1930 the Communist Party of Brazil launched a unionist worker, a black man, Minervino de Oliveira, as a candidate to the Presidency of the Republic.
As the Revolution of 1930 unfolded, the Party did not support it. It judged – wrongly – that mere oligarchic contradictions were at stake.
The founding generation also left a valorous legacy in divulging the ideas of the Party. The Movimento Comunista magazine was issued in 1922; the A Classe Operária newspaper was launched in 1925; in 1927 it issued the first communist daily, A Nação.
In the theoretical front, the founding generation is also credited for launching the first Brazilian edition of the Communist Manifesto, followed by other works by Marx and Lenin. Octávio Brandão published Agrarismo e Industrialismo (1926), the first essay on the Brazilian reality under the Marxist point of view.
2. Struggle for liberty, development and culture
When the Revolution of 1930 showed its limits, the Party contributed to launch the National Liberating Alliance (ANL) in March 1935. Prestes, who joined the Party in 1934, was its president of honor. ANL rapidly spread in the national territory with its motto "Bread, Land and Liberty" and with its mobilizations against Nazi fascism and its local version, integralism. Then it was banned by the Vargas administration, leading alliance groups connected to the Party to try to form a popular government with the uprising in November 1935, which was soon asphyxiated because it was fundamentally based on the barracks of the Army.
Repression was always heavy on the Party. After the uprising in 1935, it was extensive and cruel, with more than 15 thousand imprisoned. Prestes remained nine years in jail. Olga Benário, the young German connected to the Communist International, Prestes' companion, was handed to Hitler's Gestapo and died in a concentration camp. The repressive wave proceeded until 1937, in the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, the New State.
In the 63 years from 1922 and 1985, the Party had only two years and fourth months of legality. The dominant classes always curbed its freedom. But in several occasions repression not only victimized communists, but also the whole of society, such as during the Estado Novo (1937-1945) and the military dictatorship (1964-1985). The most used pretext was the "communist threat." Therefore, one of the Party's legacies to the history of Brazil is its extensive fight for freedom.
During the Estado Novo the party leadership was disbanded, demanding a new restructuration that culminated with the Mantiqueira Conference (1943). That is when the second generation of communists appeared, headed by Luiz Carlos Prestes (imprisoned until 1945), Diógenes Arruda, Maurício Grabois, Pedro Pomar, João Amazonas, Amarílio Vasconcelos, Júlio Sérgio de Oliveira, Mário Alves and Carlos Marighella.
The Party fought to make Brazil enter Word War II to join the allied forces, among which the USSR, against the Nazi fascist Axis. It strived for the constitution of the Expeditionary Brazilian Force that fought in Europe, in which many communists enlisted.
After the defeat of Germany in World War II, the Estado Novo came to an end and the Party became legal for a short period. It launched Iedo Fiúza as its presidential candidate in 1945, obtaining 10% of the valid votes; and elected Prestes in the Senate with many votes and 14 deputies for the Constituent Assembly, among which the most voted for deputy in Rio de Janeiro, João Amazonas, as well as Maurício Grabois, Carlos Marighella, Gregório Bezzerra, Jorge Amado and Claudino José da Silva, the only black man in the Constituent Assembly.
At the Constituent Assembly, the Party stood out for its unyielding defense of democracy, the rights of workers, the agrarian reform and national sovereignty. And it highlighted the role of the Soviet Union in defeating Nazi fascism.
The Constituent Assembly became effective in the already poisonous climate of the Dutra administration and the Cold War. The Party lost its permit in 1947 and shortly after its elected Congress members were expelled. That was a rude and contemptible attack against democracy.
In clandestinity again, communists displayed another of their characteristics: the defense of development and national economy. The campaign "The oil is ours" was started at that time, leading to the creation of Petrobras in 1953.
During this period the communists organized great campaigns for peace, against sending Brazilian troops to fight in the Korean War and for the banishment of nuclear weapons.
In this generation the Party sought closer ties with the intellectual and artistic production. Among those directly connected to the Party were writers such as Jorge Amado and Graciliano Ramos; architects and artists such as Oscar Niemeyer, Cândido Portinari, Di Cavalcanti, Carlos Scliar and Tarsila do Amaral; playwrights and actors such as Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Francisco Milani, Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, Dias Gomes and Mário Lago; musicians such as Cláudio Santoro and Guerra Peixe; directors such as Ruy Santos and Nelson Pereira dos Santos; scientists such as Mário Schenberg; sportsmen such as João Saldanha; jornalists such as Aparício Torelli, the Baron of Itararé.
3. Reorganization and the struggle in many fronts against the dictatorship in 1964
Dreadful facts affected the Communist Party of Brazil between 1956 and 1962. On the one side, the majority of the Brazilian leadership accepted opportunist trends disseminated in the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), headed by Nikita Khrushchev. On the other hand, that same majority adopted a national-reformist trend. Therefore, in 1961 a new reformist organization called Brazilian Communist Party published a new Program and Statute.
Immediately a group of experienced leaders reacted and, in February 1962, reorganized the Communist Party of Brazil, with its original name, tradition and revolutionary character, starting to use the acronym PCdoB. The Party became smaller, but revitalized. It started to think more about Brazil and defined its policies in line with the events. The organization was headed by João Amazonas, Maurício Grabois and Pedro Pomar.
After half a century, life has proven those who reorganized the Party. PCdoB has grown and stood firmly. Nobody today doubts which is the Communist Party of Brazil.
Two years after the reorganization the generals brought about the coup in 1964. The Party concluded that the dictatorship had come to stay. The doors to institutional action were closed. Therefore, it opened the way to armed resistance. In the following years, while the dictatorship became increasingly violent, PCdoB prepared and directed the Araguaia Guerilla.
The Araguaia was a heroic chapter in the history of Brazil that honors and praises PCdoB. The Guerilla resisted for almost three years. The dictatorship mobilized many troops to confront it, prohibited the press to divulge it and resorted to "dirty war." But the alarm remained: Brazilians did not accept the dictatorship and other Araguaias could appear.
During the Guerilla, almost all of the greatest organization opposing the dictatorship, the Marxist-Leninist Popular Action (APML), joined PCdoB after a long ideological struggle: it was the most important and successful unifying process in the history of the Brazilian left.
In 1976, already in its declining stage, the dictatorship perpetrated the Lapa Massacre, in São Paulo, where three communist leaders were murdered: Pedro Pomar, Ângelo Arroyo and João Batista Drummond.
Amazonas headed a leading core recomposed with leaders from APML and young cadres, guiding a third generation of communists.
In 1975 the Party concentrated the struggle for the end of the dictatorship under three banners: broad, generalized and unrestricted amnesty; the revocation of the exceptional acts and laws; and a free and sovereign Constituent Assembly. In 1979, though distorted and incomplete, the amnesty freed political prisoners and allowed the return of exiles. The social movements started over, with strikes and other journeys such as the Movement against Destitution. And the Party took part of it. In 1984 one of the greatest mass demonstrations in the history of Brazil took place: the Diretas Já (Direct elections now) campaign. Despite its banishment, PCdoB took to the streets. But the Congress did not approve the Diretas Já.
The nation was shocked. The opposition was doubtful. Part of it attempted to form the "Direct elections only" movement. Tancredo Neves, the possible opposition candidate, would have to renounce the government of the state of Minas Gerais in order to become a candidate. Amid such confusion, would he resign?
PCdoB was not confounded. It stressed that the opposition would go to the Electoral College not to legitimate, but to put an end to the dictatorship. It also declared that if a candidate would openly make such a commitment, the Party would take to the streets to legitimize his candidacy. Amazonas went to Minas Gerais to explain that position to Tancredo Neves. He became a candidate and the great demonstrations of Diretas Já were repeated. Victory finished the College and the dictatorship.
The defeat of the Soviet experience in 1991 was another crucial moment. Capitalist proclaimed that socialist was finished. Politicians and intellectuals, even progressive ones, believed that lie. Many communist parties put their flags down, changed their names and their symbols and renounced Marxism.
PCdoB did not lower its flag, did not change its name, did not change its symbol and did not deny Marxism. It tried to learn from the defeat, studying and learning with the successes and mistakes of the Soviet experience, adjusting the struggle for socialism to the new conditions of the world. It stressed that that defeat took place when socialism was still in its infancy, taking its first steps. The Party called an Extraordinary Congress (1992) and after a substantial debate the conclusion was unanimous: "Socialism lives!"
Today it is capitalism that struggles under the claws of a systemic crisis. And its epicenter is exactly in the capitalist metropolises: in Europe and in the United States.
Much to the contrary, socialism displays its vitality. We can see that in great China – the second strongest international power – heroic Vietnam and fearless Cuba, among other experiences, including the socialist project in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. The rebellious movements in Wall Street and Europe also stood out.
It is a new struggle for socialism that is unfolding all over the world and especially in Latin America. That is a revolutionary and renovated socialism that does not copy a single model, absorbing national particularities and opening the way with courage and an open mind. That is the socialism of PCdoB.
4. A new time, democratization, the Constituent Assembly, a Party in the government
Redemocratization after the dictatorship followed an unexpected path. Tancredo Neves passed away and his vice President, José Sarney, took the decisive steps. The Party was legal once again and took part in the new Constituent Assembly in 1987-88. Its 1,003 amendments dealt with broadening democracy; labor rights; development and national sovereignty. Such as in the Constituent Assembly in 1946, one of them guaranteed religious freedom. The Communist Party of Brazil is the only party of all active organizations today that took part in the three Constituent Assemblies in the republican period.
On January 1st 2003 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated in the presidential palace. It was not a mere change of names. A new era started in the history of the country.
PCdoB is proud of its leading role in building that cycle. It is the only party, apart from the Workers Party, that fought for it since the beginning. It supported Lula since his campaign in 1989, in his three initial defeats and in the three following victories until the election of President Dilma Rousseff in 2010. It engaged in the difficult resistance to the neoliberal era, in the great popular students' demonstrations that led to the impeachment of the President of the Republic in 1992. In the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration it fought against the neoliberal policy, privatizations, the IMF, the Apagão (energy blackout), the diplomacy that raised its voice against Bolivia and lowered it with the USA. The Party helped to turn that tenebrous page – we hope it is forever.
The change in Brazil is part of a broader movement. It is almost all of Latin America that has rebelled in a true red, democratic, patriotic and progressive tide dyed with the Latin American blood.
Rebellion follows an original path where the main weapon is popular vote. By means of the victories of advanced candidates, backed by popular movements, the transformation progress follows its course.
To the Party, 2003 brought an unprecedented reality. It was called to take part in the government of Brazil for the first time in its history. And the offer was accepted.
PCdoB has supported and participated in the struggle and success of the democratic-popular administrations of Lula and Dilma Rousseff. It offered them some of their best cadres to work – with outstanding success and immaculate integrity – in areas such as Sports, political articulation, Oil, Culture, Science and Technology, Health and Tourism, among others. In the crucial days of the crisis of 2005, when conservative opposition thought they would "get rid of those people," PCdoB brought the people to the streets to shout "Stay Lula!".
At the same time, PCdoB does not mix up loyalty and support with playing second fiddle. It preserves its political independence in relation with the government. It defends the autonomy of social movements, the mobilization of the people as indispensable to change. It believes that the government needs both support and criticism in order to advance and defend itself from right-wing coup-like attempts. It believes that to criticize what is wrong is a form of support.
5. Call
The Communist Party of Brazil is a Brazilian political force engaged in pursuing objectives such as the transformation of Brazil into a prosperous, developed and free Nation, loving peace among peoples, marching towards a socialist transition. It is aware of its past of struggles that contributed – often with unprecedented sacrifices – to take Brazil to where it is today.
The world is now undergoing a great crisis of capitalism that is further aggravating growing inequalities and social crises and increasing war conflicts in the world. In such a context, the main issue is which way to follow, which alternative to choose.
That is why PCdoB, in its 90th anniversary, calls the people to embrace its Socialist Program, to apply and develop it.
The Socialist Program results from mature thinking regarding the situation of the country and the world. It went through years of elaboration and embodies a new programmatic concept.
The current Socialist Program of PCdoB takes a new step forward: it proposes a direction and a route. Socialism is the direction. Strengthening the Brazilian Nation is the route.
Strengthening the Nation is achieved by the materialization of a New National Development Project based on four principles: the struggle for sovereignty and the defense of the Nation; the democratization of society; social progress; and the solidary integration with Latin America. The Program presents a broad set of proposals that will allow directing that project.
That route could lead to a popular democracy under the hegemony of workers and the majority of the Nation, therefore creating conditions for the transition to socialism. It will represent a leap for civilization, the third in the rough but victorious history of Brazil.
It is armed with that Program and the New National Development Project that PCdoB makes this call and, certain that increasing its political representativeness will contribute to advance the achievements of the people, it will be fully committed in the elections next October, disputing city halls in many capitals and other important cities. The Party maintains its doors open and accepts in its ranks all Brazilians that are looking for an organized and transforming political activity.
Reaching 90 years of existence is a great victory of the Communist Party of Brazil. But even greater is our joy to turn 90 fully active, revitalized and confident. It remains active because it never failed to defend workers and Brazil. It is revitalized because it never had so much people in its ranks in order to face the tasks of the future. And it is confident of being in the path that will lead to a stronger Nation and socialism.
Long live March 25!
Long live PCdoB!
Long live Socialism!
Long live Brazil!
Communist Party of Brazil


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Since updating to Win 10 1709, TBI Notify is sending a message to Windows Notifications that a backup hasn't been done in X days. However, my daily scheduled backup has been running without error every day and the Image for Windows Summary Log confirms that is so. The IFW version is 3.09 (x64) and TBI Notify is v1.01.1. This discrepancy between the No Backup warning and the summary log was not occurring in Win 10 1703 running the same versions of IFW and TBI Notify.
[edit 11/13]I tried updating to IFW v3.12 which also installed TBI Notify v1.02.0 on 11/9, but the Win Notifications have returned. No scheduled backups have actually failed since Win 10 was installed on 10/19. The warning is not posted every day, but shows up from time to time with a different number of days being missed. The number of days missed doesn't seem to be related to the IFW upgrade since that was 4 days ago and the "days missed" said 2. The only 2-day-old event was the previous differential backup before today. My backup schedule is FDDDDDD starting each Sunday, so no differential backup has happened in 2 days, but there was a successful full backup in between.


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On September 4th, 1888, 122 years ago, George Eastman applied for a camera patent. It wasn't the first camera, but it was the first portable film camera Vintage Coloured Photographs
George's interest with cameras had first ignited when he planned to take a camera on vacation to Europe. He ended up canceling the trip, but he became obsessed with photography. It was such a hassle to take a picture with the glass plates and wet chemicals and so he was a banker by day and chemical experimenter at night spending all his time after work scheming up a way to make the camera portable. He started experimenting with taking Vintage photos on paper that had been painted with emulsion and later he got the combination right by putting photos on cellulose which allowed him to easily roll the film up for storage and development later.
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In his patent he refers to it as a "detective camera." I can only imagine that it's because a detective would be the type of person who would need a portable camera. The way it worked is you would take 100 pictures and send it to Kodak for processing and they would send you back 100 pictures and a new roll of film.
Vintage Photography's earliest practitioners dreamed of finding a method for reproducing the world around them in color. Some nineteenth-century photographers experimented with chemical formulations aimed at producing color images by direct exposure, while others applied paints and powders to the surfaces of monochrome prints. Vigorous experimentation led to several early color processes, some of which were even patented, but the methods were often impractical, cumbersome and unreliable. 12 vintage cigarette ads
After decades of wishing for a practical color process, photographers were thrilled when Auguste and Louis Lumière announced the invention of the autochrome process. The Lumière brothers, inventors of the motion picture camera, presented their invention to the French Academy of Sciences in 1904.
The process used a screen of tiny potato starch grains dyed orange-red, green and violet. Dusted onto a glass plate, the dyed grains were covered with a layer of sensitive panchromatic silver bromide emulsion. As light entered the camera, it was filtered by the dyed grains before it reached the emulsion. While the exposure time was very long, the plate could be processed easily by a photographer familiar with standard darkroom procedures. The result was a unique, realistic, positive color image on glass that required no further printing.
George Eastman House has significant holdings of autochromes, including over 3900 examples by amateur photographer Charles Zoller of Rochester, New York. The museum also holds autochromes by Edward Steichen among others.
Woman in Oriental inspired gown, sitting in wooden throne, 1915
Costumed man examining jewelry, ca. 1910
Woman posed as Sphinx, ca. 1910
Genre scene, woman in kitchen peeling vegetables, ca. 1910


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Wine? Gimme. If you're a wine fan like myself you end up with a bottle
or 4 that just ends up going out in the trash or with the recyclables. Why not make it shine? Break out the glitter and the modge podge and finish up your last glass of pinot noir. We're gonna need that bottle.
Wine bottle(s) label removed
Modge Podge
Red Solo Cup (to keep things classy)
Paint Brush or Foam Brush
Large Cardboard Box
Mix the glitter with the modge podge, I used about 3tbsp of glitter and about 1/4 cup of modge podge, add more glitter to make it shinier!
The mixture will not look very pretty, don't be afraid, it's gonna dry up and shine up nice.
You're basically painting the modge podge/glitter mix on the wine bottle. I suggest doing all of your work inside a cardboard box to reduce messiness…unless you genuinely enjoy scraping glitter off your surfaces for weeks.
Once your workspace is set, just start painting. Try to keep even strokes, and try to avoid dripping/clumping
Once you've completed your first layer of painting it should look something like this
Let it dry for an hour (or until it's no longer sticky) and paint your next layer. I recommend 3 layers, but once a layer has dried you'll know if you want more.
See my little clumps and runs? Yea, don't do that. It's a fun simple and fairly inexpensive way to add a little touch of sparkle to a little corner. Depending on the glitter you use you can be as crazy or as subdued as you'd like.
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Game On! Sports Schedule for March 29-31, 2013
By the end of the weekend, we will have a Final Four field. And we will also have kicked off a new baseball season.
Twelve teams are still alive and looking to punch their tickets to Atlanta. Two teams will advance on Saturday and the other two will complete the quartet on Sunday.
The national pastime also returns Sunday when the Texas Rangers visit the Houston Astros in a battle of the new-look American League West. The Astros have switched leagues and will start things off against their intra-state rivals.
Here's a complete look at this weekend's sports schedule. All times Eastern:
Friday, March 29
Washington at Orlando 7 p.m.
Atlanta at Boston 7:30 p.m.
Charlotte at New York 7:30 p.m.
Toronto at Detroit 7:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Cleveland 7:30 p.m.
Houston at Memphis 8 p.m.
Miami at New Orleans 8 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Minnesota 8 p.m.
Los Angeles Clippers at San Antonio 8:30 p.m.
Brooklyn at Denver 9 p.m.
Utah at Portland 10 p.m.
NCAA Tournament
(12) Oregon vs. (1) Louisville — 7:15 p.m. (CBS)
(4) Michigan vs. (1) Kansas — 7:37 p.m. (TBS)
(3) Michigan State vs. (2) Duke — 9:45 p.m. (CBS)
(15) Florida Gulf Coast vs. (3) Florida — 9:57 p.m. (TBS)
New Jersey at Tampa Bay 7:30 p.m.
Anaheim at Chicago 8:30 p.m.
Minnesota at Dallas 8:30 p.m.
Columbus at Calgary 9 p.m.
Saturday, March 30
Chicago at Dallas 2 p.m.
Orlando at Atlanta 7 p.m.
Charlotte at Philadelphia 8 p.m.
Los Angeles Clippers at Houston 8 p.m.
Memphis at Minnesota 8 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Milwaukee 8:30 p.m.
Brooklyn at Utah 9 p.m.
Indiana at Phoenix 10 p.m.
Los Angeles Lakers at Sacramento 10 p.m.
Portland at Golden State 10:30 p.m.
NCAA Tournament
2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament — East Regional Final
(4) Syracuse vs. (3) Marquette 4:30 p.m. (CBS)
2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament — West Regional Final
(9) Wichita State vs. (2) Ohio State 7 p.m. (CBS)
Boston at Philadelphia 1 p.m.
New York Islanders at Pittsburgh 1 p.m.
Carolina at Winnipeg 3 p.m.
Nashville at Colorado 3 p.m.
Washington at Buffalo 7 p.m.
New York Rangers at Montreal 7 p.m.
Toronto at Ottawa 7 p.m.
New Jersey at Florida 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Minnesota 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Edmonton 10 p.m.
Phoenix at San Jose 10:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 31
Texas Rangers at Houston Astros 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Toronto at Washington 6 p.m.
Cleveland at New Orleans 6 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago 7 p.m.
Miami at San Antonio 7 p.m.
Boston at New York 7:30 p.m.
NCAA Tournament
2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament — Midwest Regional Final TBA (CBS)
2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament — South Regional Final TBA (CBS)
Chicago at Detroit 12:30 p.m. (NBC)
Anaheim at Columbus 6 p.m.
Los Angeles at Dallas 6 p.m.
Washington at Philadelphia 6 p.m. (NBC Sports Network)
Boston at Buffalo 7:30 p.m. (NBC Sports Network)


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By now I'm sure you've noticed that I love blogging skins and all the makeup that go along with them but it's very rare that I actually like wearing add-on makeup from other designers. I usually feel that no matter which ones I try they never seem to go with the skin I want to wear or they just look a bit off. Well, Constance Daehlie has a little marketplace shop called Adored Bodyshop. I bought a few eyeshadows a while back and fell in love with them. Not only do they go with all the skins I've tried using them with but the colors are vibrant and simply well done. Below I'm showing all 10 of her newest shadows, Glissinin.
Skin: The Skinnery – Alice 1 Champagne (The Arcade)
Eyeshadow: Adored Bodyshop – Glissinin Aquarium Life (New on MP)
Eyes: IKON – Perspective Eyes Oxidation (Sept. Group Gift)
Lashes: Beetlebones – Mesh Lashes Tintable
Hair: Wasabi Pills – Gloria Gingerbread
Earrings: HANDverk – Zelda Earrings Blue
Top: Tres Blah – Short Sleeve Blouse Cream (C88)
Pose: Elephante Poses – Watch N' Learn #4


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Karl Rove predicts that Mitt Romney will win at least 279 electoral college votes, and 51 percent of the popular vote to President Obama's 48 percent in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. But it's a very different prediction than the one Rove has been making on his own website. In his latest map, updated on Oct. 29 and seen at left, Rove gives Obama 221 electoral (from either solid or leaning states) and Romney has 206 electoral votes. So lets look at how Rove has to divide the remaining 111 tossup votes on his own map to get to a Romney victory of 279.
The top image is one possibility: Romney wins Ohio, Colorado, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Florida. "It comes down to numbers," Rove writes, before using a lot of words to argue why the numbers in the Ohio polls are wrong. Even after suggesting that Democrats registration and ground game advantages are overrated, Rove doesn't fully come out and say Romney will win Ohio. But he kind of has to. Romney has lead in only two of the last 20 polls in Ohio. Ohio doesn't register voters by party, but of the 1.3 million votes that have been cast, 30 percent were by people who voted in the Democratic primary, while 24 percent had voted in the Republican primary.
At right is another way Romney could hit 279: Obama wins Ohio and New Hampshire, but Romney wins Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nevada. Longtime Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston says that while Republicans are doing better than they did in 2008, Democrats are still crushing them in early voting. Democrats got a huge lead in registration for two presidential elections straight. Romney hasn't lead a poll in Wisconsin since mid-August. Romney has lead in a few polls in Iowa, but never averaged a lead at Real Clear Politics.
This might be a good time to look at the predictions Rove has made in the past, ones we can already examine in this election. In March, Rove wrote about Obama's troublingly high "burn rate" -- that he wasn't raising money nearly at the rate he needed to given how much he was spending. Worse, Obama was spending so much not because of ads, but because of a huge staff, which would take longer to shrink. That sounded awfully ominous. But in October, the Obama campaign announced it had raised $1 billion.
Then, in June, Rove wrote that Obama was blowing all his money on ads, which was futile, because Democrats could never keep pace with Republican super PACs. Now, the Obama campaign is widely credited for driving down Romney's favorable ratings with those ads, especially in Ohio, a swing state that's crucial to both men. There were three times as many pro-Obama ads as pro-Romney ones from April through mid-September. Pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA outraised pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future in September.
But maybe Rove will be right on his electoral vote prediction, the most important prediction of all, but his map suggests it's a longshot.
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New Tudor Watches
Tudor Watches for Sale
Introduction to Tudor Watches
Swiss brand "The Tudor" also known as Tudor is a subsidiary brand under Rolex. Tudor was born in February of 1926 in Geneva. The idea of the brand came when Hans Wilsdorf, one of the Rolex founders, wanted to create a more affordable watch that could appeal to the masses. The key feature of Tudor brand watches was that Wilsdorf emulated the dependability that Rolex watches are renowned for but at a lower price point.
The first set of Tudor watches for sale were released to the Australian market in 1932. The Willis company had exclusive access to distribute them only to the best jewelry stores across the country. The initial design of Tudor watches appeared in a rectangular shape with beveled sides. On these Tudor-signed watches, the Tudor logo can be seen as a signature with a "long T" above the other letters.
On some rare vintage Tudor watches, you may even find the Rolex name to guarantee Tudor watch quality as the company began to build its brand recognition. During this time, some luxury watches even featured double named dials depending where they were retailed. Leading up to 1990, many timepieces actually used Rolex Oyster cases and crowns before they manufactured their own independent materials in house. Tudor's watch designs have been known for being thoughtful, functional, and contemporary. Customers can find both ladies' and men's Tudor watches for sale.
By 1946, Hans Wilsdorf formally expanded the brand and focused on cultivating its identity under the "Montres TUDOR S.A." company. It was apparent that Wilsdorf wanted Tudor to have the same reliability and integrity of Rolex. He was confident and ready to take this brand onto the next chapter in history. For Tudor specifically, he included the Oyster case and auto wind movement along with the full Rolex guarantee – which still stands today.
The Evolution of Tudor Watches
In 1936, Tudor's logo changed from having only the signature to a shield bearing the Tudor rose. From 1947 and on, Tudor has embraced an updated logo that consisted of a finely drawn company name and rose, removing the shield. By 1969, the company image evolved to its current logo, which resurfaced the shield and leaft behind the rose.
As the company went on to create more innovative and functional timepieces, the brand introduced their first Tudor dive watch in 1954, known as the Tudor Oyster Price Submariner reference 7922. With numerous versions and improvements over time in a quest to create an optimal divers' watch, Tudor Submariners were able to advance in many sectors to reach new depths and heights. A few of Tudor's excellent dive watches include the Tudor Pelagos, the complete mechanical divers' watch with waterproof levels up to 500 metres and the Tudor Heritage Black Bay, an iconic collection for over 60 years.
Tudor Watch Collections for Sale
The Tudor Black Bay series has evolved with newer models over the years. The company released the Tudor Black Bay Chrono at Baselworld 2017, which is now available and features a self-winding movement powered by the brand's very own manufactured caliber MT5813. Currently, the latest model of Tudor Heritage Black Bay for sale is the Fifty-Eight, launched in July 2018. This watch is designed for slim wrists and vintage fanatics. The brand had to downsize its previous 41mm in diameter with 14.75mm thickness to a new thinner model measuring 39mm in diameter and only 11.9mm in height. Therefore, this watch was only possible with the creation of a new slimmer caliber – the MT5402, manufactured by Tudor themselves.
To cover more on Tudor's tool watches, the Tudor Fastrider was first developed during a collaboration between Tudor and Ducati back in 2011. Its endeavor was to create a functional watch, dedicated to its sport and appealing in style. The sporty line is visually pleasing, dressed in bold colors, and finished with impeccable details. For the Tudor Fastrider Black shield edition, this wristwatch features a precisely cut high-tech ceramic case to ensure the high quality and resistance offered. The high-tech ceramic itself is tough, sturdy, and scratch proof.
As Tudor continues to express its creativity and explore alternate styles, one of the iconic choices they made was to equip their watches with fabric straps. Since 2009, Tudor has been offering fabric straps with their watches that have now become a part of Tudor's identity. Tudor, working with Julien Faure – innovators in the fabric manufacturing industry with exception skills in weaving jacquard ribbons – engineered an incredible fabric with over 500 threads per centimeter in length.
For a more refined look, the timeless Tudor Classic collection makes a fine choice for professionals. Including both ladies' Tudor watches and men's Tudor watches, this collection is divided under the Tudor Classic and the Classic Date-Day with a variety of case dimensions to choose from. Those looking for Tudor watches for sale online can compare the various styles available at Watchshopping.com.
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Tony Umadhay, PHD, CRNA, APRN
Dr. Tony Umadhay is the Associate Dean at Barry University's College of Nursing and Health Sciences in Florida. Originally from the Philippines, he completed his undergraduate nursing degree at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. He obtained his Master of Science in Nursing degree from Florida International University and his Doctorate in Philosophy from Barry University. His current research interest focuses on minorities and vulnerable populations. In 2009, Dr. Umadhay was the recipient of the New York Life Doctoral Fellowship Award presented by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Foundation.
Dr. Umadhay was past president of the Florida Association of Nurse Anesthetists and served on the National Board on Certification and Recertification of Nurse Anesthetists.
In 2013, Dr. Umadhay received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Florida International University's Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences for his leadership in nursing education and exceptional professional achievements.


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These are the results of 223 responses. We are still getting more in, of course :)
You can see some of the raw data here and here. It required manual tallying the data, since I couldn't figure out how to get Excel or google docs to tally it for me.
|When looking at this data, you must remember that those who responded (voluntarily) found this chart via either my blog, a person who reads this blog, or the forum posts Arael made on wowhead and mmo-champion.
Update of the first charts I had posted:
As you can see, most of the responses were introverts (I's) and druids :) What do you think this mass of introverts means, particularly in comparison to the large chunk of extroverts (E's) found among the ENFJ's? Something to ponder.
Raw results vs World Pop Statistics:
This I found also interesting, and helps highlight the difference in introverts vs extroverts that responded (granted, 223 is a small pool to look at). Most notable is the difference in large numbers of:
...and in the relatively small numbers of:
What do you think causes it? Something else to ponder on. Factors include:
- Those who play WoW
- Those who found this survey
- Those who decided to answer the survey
Guild "Jobs"/Roles compared to class, broken up by MBTI types:
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Most who answered the survey and put down a role said that they were class leaders or role leaders, either voluntarily or found themselves locked into such a position.
|For a quick breakdown and synopsis of what each type E/I, S/N, T/F, J/P is like, check out http://www.personalitytype.com/career_quiz
Guild Masters: these tended to be the Intuitive types rather than sensors ("big picture" types, inventive, looking to the future), Thinkers rather than Feelers (rational, don't take things personally), and those who Judge rather than Perceive (can make decisions, schedule-driven, rule-driven). This makes sense to me. I/E didn't factor in as much. What I would like to look into more is who among these GMs were the "casuals" vs the hardcores, and how raid style plays into the GM's personality.
Raid Leaders: it surprises me the number of Introverts that claim to be raid leaders; again, something to perhaps look into raid style for more conclusion, and is probably also affected by the sheer number of I's vs E's in this data pool. Again, Thinkers are favored over Feelers (objective, direct, able to see flaws without bias for feelings), and Intuition over Sensing (creativity, like to figure things out, big picture).
Class/Role leaders: these are pretty even across the board, and it seems personality has little impact on players serving in this role. Thinkers seem to be favored a bit over Feelers (honest, direct, able to see flaws without the bias of feelings), though Feelers themselves make a good standing in this role as they tend to be very diplomatic, and often serve the role as a go-between for the other officers/RL/GM and the raid members.
Bloggers: the vast majority are intuitive introverts (IN types). It seems ironic, doesn't it, that a bunch of shy people are sharing themselves and their ideas through a blog? I am amused by this, and understanding of it, being an INFP myself :) Are these types more drawn to blogging than others? What sorts of blogs (guides, theorycraft, funny stories, accomplishments) does one type more often have over another? This may be answered somewhat by raid style.
Web Admins: your IT people. Not too surprised that this is dominated by introverts! They are also predominately judgers rather than perceivers: they are serious and can concentrate on things like code. Judgers also tend to be the ones who can more easily make decisions for themselves, and who are most focused on *finishing* a project over just *starting* one... /whistles innocently*
Nannies: these are the people who find themselves dealing with the guild drama. They've cropped up in every personality, meaning that most of those who answered the survey often find themselves pulled into such roles, regardless of their personality.
Recruitment officers: not all guilds have this role fall on the GM, so I broke it out out of curiousity. One noticeable bump is that most are Thinkers rather than Feelers, following the same logic as with leading a guild or a raid: objective thinking, seeing flaws without bias, and aren't as likely to be bent into recruiting someone into raids that is only there because they talk pretty or because they're so-and-so's younger brother, even though he stands in void zones.
~So, what are your thoughts? I'll certainly be throwing up more charts and detailed comparisons over time, but even this alone is plenty for a mind to chew on!~


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Item #0265
45-60 Days. Florida Broadleaf can't be beat - its great mustard flavor and productivity have made it a long-time favorite of Southern gardeners and cooks. However, gardeners everywhere can grow and enjoy these healthy and delicious greens. Small leaves can be harvested for baby greens and added fresh to salads. Large leaves can be prepared a variety of ways - steamed, boiled or braised.
This packet sows twenty 10-foot rows.
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When to sow outside: RECOMMENDED. 4 to 6 weeks before average last frost, or in late summer (8 to 10 weeks before first frost). The advantage of late summer sowings is the best mustard flavor occurs after light fall frosts.
When to start inside: Not recommended.
Harvesting: Start harvesting leaves when they are 2" tall, as needed, or let plant grow to maturity and remove entire plant. Spring harvest should be complete before summer heat arrives. Late summer crops will last until the first hard freeze.
Artist: Libby Kyer
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Each Botanical Interests seed packet is rich with information on the outside and inside to guide you through each step of growing from seed to ensure…More…


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Dear Family and Friends,
It has been another wonderful year for our family! Here is what has been going on.
Spencer (our youngest) started kindergarten this year. He has an awesome teacher that challenges him and meets his needs. He is very smart (like his sister). He is in the top group of his class and his teacher says he has the best hand writing of anyone in the class. He also can read very well now. In his free time, Spencer loves to play angry birds Star Wars and loves to draw and build things. He played soccer this year and is about to begin his second season of basketball. He is a very funny little boy, he is always rhyming and singing made up songs. He loves to laugh. Spencer recently turned 6 years old and he is a joy to have around.
Emma (our oldest) will be turning 8 this month. She is so excited to be getting baptized in January. She is in 2nd grade and in the gifted program. She is a self proclaimed "math and science geek" and has a great desire to be a doctor someday. She also played soccer this year and is finishing up her 1st season of volleyball. She will also be playing basketball soon but her real love is for gymnastics. That is right, she can't walk across the living room without doing a cartwheel, round off or backbend. She is constantly moving and improving her gymnast skills. She goes once a week for 1 hour and that is not enough for her. In 3 short months she has moved up 3 levels. Emma is a giving little girl. She is always wanting to give gifts or help people out in some way. We love our "little Em."
Kathy was released from her church calling as Primary President this summer. I guess they thought 5 years was long enough. She misses it but really enjoys teaching the 12 & 13 year old girls now. What's fun is most of these girls she has in primary! Kathy is a homemaker and was excited because this was the first year that both kids were in school. She is on the PTA and volunteers at school. She loves to read and is in a book club. She also loves to bake and sew. She has also been playing volleyball although a should problem has put that on hold. Kathy enjoys being a mother and wife.
Steve is in the high priest group leadership at church. He is still working at American Airlines and hit his 5 year mark this summer. He recently got promoted to "Principal Infrastructure Architect". It is a big deal and we are so proud of him. He loves to do wood working and garden in his spare time. He is a great father and husband.
As a family we traveled to Utah and Wyoming this summer for a Fowler family reunion. It was awesome to visit Yellow Stone National Park, it is beautiful! Kathy and the kids made a few trips this summer to Minnesota to visit her mom and had fun at the Mall of America. We also had fun on a camping trip at Tyler State Park the day after Thanksgiving. The weather was great and the fall colors were amazing, not to mention the smores!
Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
-Steve, Kathy, Emma & Spencer


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Think of this as the Hindu Christmas, a modern winter holiday full of family-centered happenings, but with five days of gifts for the kids, not one. From December 21 to 25 Hindus worship Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed Lord of culture and new beginnings. Family members work to mend past mistakes and bring His blessings of joy and harmony into five realms of their life, a wider circle each day: family, friends, associates, culture and religion.
Pancha Ganapati includes outings, picnics, feasts and exchange of cards and gifts with relatives, friends and business associates. A shrine is created in the main living room of the home and decorated in the spirit of this festive occasion. At the center is placed a large wooden or bronze statue of Lord Panchamukha ("five-faced") Ganapati, a form of Ganesha. Any large picture or statue of Ganesha will also do. Each morning the children decorate and dress Him in the color of that day, representing one of His five rays of energy, or shaktis.
Each day a tray of sweets, fruits and incense is prepared and offered to Lord Ganapati, ideally by the children. Chants and songs are sung in His praise. After the worship, diverse sweets are shared by one and all. Each day colorfully wrapped gifts are given to the children, who place them before Pancha Ganapati to open on the fifth day. The adults receive gifts, too! On each day one of the five faces of Pancha Ganapati is worshiped.
December 21, yellow: The family discipline for this day is to create a vibration of love and harmony among all members. Rising early, they decorate the shrine, then perform a grand puja invoking Ganesha's blessings. Sitting together, they make amends for past misdeeds, insults, mental pain and injuries caused and suffered. They conclude by extolling one another's best qualities.
December 22, blue: Day two is devoted to creating or restoring a vibration of love and harmony among neighbors, relatives and close friends. This is done by presenting heartfelt gifts and offering apologies to clear up any ill-will that may exist. Relatives and friends in far-off places are written to or called, forgiveness is sought, apologies made and tensions released.
December 23, red: Today's discipline is to establish love and harmony among business associates and the public. It is the day for presenting gifts to fellow workers and customers and to honor employers and employees with gifts and appreciation. It is a time for settling all debts and disputes.
December 24, green: The spiritual discipline of day four is to draw forth the vibration of joy and harmony that comes from music, art, drama and dance. Family, relatives and friends gather before Ganesha to share their artistic gifts, discuss Hindu Dharma and make plans to bring more cultural refinements into the home.
December 25, orange: The discipline for this day is to bring forth love and harmony that comes from charity and religiousness. As the gifts are opened, one and all experience Ganesha's abundant, loving presence filling their home and hearts, inspiring them anew for the coming year.
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I've been lax – forgot to mention some cool interviews going on at the Finding Education blog. They have an interview series going on, and are interviewing educators and librarians … "that rock."
Here's a list of the librarian interviews I've seen so far:
- Sarah Houghton-Jan (newest one)
- Me! (they interviewed me about my book, Designing the Digital Experience)
- danah boyd
- Joyce Valenza
- Helene Blowers
The interviews cover emerging trends in libraries, and all have some fun, thought-provoking questions and answers.
Check em out!