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Meet the Virts
Virtualization technology isn't new, but it has matured a lot over the past 30 years.
When you dig into the details of supposedly "overnight" success stories, you frequently discover that they've actually been years in the making. Virtualization has been around for more than 30 years—since the days when some of you were feeding stacks of punch cards into very physical machines—yet in 2007 it "tipped." VMware was the IPO sensation of the year; in November 2007 no fewer than four major operating system vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, and Sun) announced significant new virtualization capabilities; and among fashionable technologists it seems virtual has become the new black.
What is it?
Virtualization is the provision of an abstraction between a user and a physical resource in a way that preserves for the user the illusion that he or she could actually be interacting directly with the physical resource. While you could imagine virtualizing any physical resource, the focus of this issue of Queue is the computing machine virtualization that is the current rage. The user gets a high-fidelity copy of what appears to be a complete computer system, while he or she is actually dealing with an abstraction layer known as the VMM (virtual machine monitor) that runs on the real machine and maps resources on behalf of the user.
It's interesting to go back to Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg, writing in 1974, to see that from a model point of view very little has changed: "A virtual machine is taken to be an efficient, isolated duplicate of the real machine," they wrote, explaining the concept through the idea of the VMM: "As a piece of software a VMM has three essential characteristics. First, the VMM provides an environment for programs which is essentially identical with the original machine; second, programs run in this environment show at worst only minor decreases in speed; and last, the VMM is in complete control of system resources."1
Figure 1 is an illustration from Popek and Goldberg's 1974 paper, compared side by side with a modern illustration from one of VMware's white papers.2
Why is it interesting?
In 1882 J.P. Morgan's house on New York's Madison Avenue became the first private residence with incandescent lighting.3 The lack of abstraction from the complexity and unpredictability of power generation/delivery, along with the lack of distance between him and the generation source (a steam engine, boiler, and pair of generators in his back garden), caused Morgan and his neighbors considerable inconvenience.
Abstractions are useful, particularly if they are simple and efficient. The main benefit of any abstraction is the decoupling that it facilitates. With virtualization the user is able not to care about the hardware and how it actually behaves. As long as the performance characteristics are met, the user can also be freed from caring about who operates the hardware, where the hardware is located, and whose logo (if any) is on it. The ultimate extension of this is the utility computing model provided by virtualized compute services—for example, Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud).
It's worth looking at the benefits of virtualization from two points of view: from the perspective of the user who is above the VMM and from the perspective of the infrastructure provider beneath it.
The view from above
To an application developer or service operator, virtualization can be very enabling. You can have access to (virtual) quantities of resources in combinations that aren't practical or cost effective in the physical world. You can achieve the illusion of having hardware components that are unattainable or fleets of systems that you can't afford. You can isolate applications into distinct environments to facilitate needs such as business continuity, destructive testing, closer observation, or crash-only operation. You can spend less time upgrading operating systems and qualifying hardware. You can isolate an application that you don't trust in a jail, or indeed be jailed yourself if you're not to be trusted by others. Finally, it's important to bear in mind that various virtual machine environments with quite distinct requirements can run simultaneously on a single set of physical hardware resources.
In some organizations the combination of procurement policies and vendor lead time pressures application developers to specify production systems before their application is even designed. Guesswork ensues. Virtualization has the potential of reducing the cost of a bad guess, and beyond that it could facilitate self-scaling and right-sizing applications that make guesswork a thing of the past.
The view from below
Running multiple virtual machines, perhaps with different operating systems, on a single physical machine is the most widely discussed advantage from the point of view of the hardware infrastructure provider. Such server consolidation facilitates more efficient use of physical infrastructure assets.
There are other interesting benefits from the infrastructure provider's point of view. You might make changes to the physical infrastructure to scale capacity, to repair equipment, or to modify the configuration of devices and subsystems without involving your users, as long as the fidelity of their abstraction is preserved and their performance expectations are met. You can enable the user to keep running an old application even if it expects an operating system that doesn't run on modern hardware. You can have homogeneity in your physical infrastructure and host operating system and still provide your users with choices and potentially with heterogeneity at the guest operating system level if required. Of course, you can also use virtualization to protect the hardware from your users and to do inspection and policy enforcement.
Why now?
Why does a technology such as virtualization "tip" and quite suddenly gain so much momentum? One turning point was the 1997 Disco work by Mendel Rosenblum and colleagues at Stanford University on using virtual machines to run multiple commodity operating systems on a single scalable multiprocessor.4 Their later breakthrough in 1998, after founding VMware, allowed users to run multiple instances of x86-compatible operating systems on a single commodity PC.
As the adoption of open source operating systems on commodity hardware gained momentum, in 2003 researchers at Cambridge released Xen, an open source VMM that allows multiple commodity operating systems to share conventional hardware very efficiently.5 The availability of both commercial and open source VMMs for commodity hardware and the excessive (for many applications) capacity of modern PCs and servers have combined to lead to the rapid adoption of virtualization in recent years.
How is it done?
The VMM provides the hardware abstraction that encapsulates and isolates a given virtual machine from other virtual machines on the physical machine. The guest virtual machine may have privileged and nonprivileged instructions that need to be run. For efficiency the nonprivileged ones can be executed directly without the involvement of the VMM. The privileged instructions are caught by the VMM where they can be simulated or mapped to a physical resource.
In the Xen implementation the VMM can operate at a higher privilege level than the supervisor code of the guest operating systems in the virtual machine, and as a result it is described as a hypervisor. On x86 architectures the supervisor code from the operating system in the guest VM is typically run in the otherwise unused ring-level one, and is thus isolated from applications in the guest virtual machine that will run in ring three.
At what level virtualization?
The special focus of this issue of Queue is on machine or platform virtualization, but there are other levels at which virtualization can be provided to facilitate useful abstractions.
Application virtual machines provide an abstraction from other applications within the same operating system, rather than below the operating system. Aside from abstraction and isolation, their purpose is to allow applications to be portable, without modification, to different computer architectures or operating systems. Examples include the Java Virtual Machine and the Microsoft .Net CLR (Common Language Runtime).
A different level of abstraction is evident in the various approaches to providing managed desktops and application mobility to personal computer or terminal users. Among these are the research on the Collective architecture done at Stanford6 and the Sun Ray virtual thin client that Sun Microsystems uses for desktop virtualization.
In addition, a variety of efforts are under way to provide a higher level of abstraction by creating a desktop environment within the confines of a browser. One example is WebShaka's YouOS.
Performance impact
As noted earlier, performance is one of Popek and Goldberg's essential characteristics of a VMM.7 While presenting the implications of virtualization for software developers, Uli Drepper covers the performance topic extensively elsewhere in this issue ("The Cost of Virtualization"), while Scott Rixner discusses performance impacts specifically in the area of network I/O ("Network Virtualization: Breaking the Performance Barrier").
Availability impact
Virtualization on its own has little direct impact on availability. In some cases there can be a positive effect from the user's abstraction from the physical hardware. In addition, the spreading of multiple instances of an application across many small virtual machines can force the application owner to consider how to scale out rather than up. Mendel Rosenblum et al. have researched the possibility of encapsulation of the complete state of a running virtual machine, including its operating system, applications, data, and processes.8
This has led to what's now widely called live migration, the ability to suspend a running virtual machine and subsequently to resume it on a different physical system. This is done not only for availability reasons such as working around planned downtime, but also in some cases so that a system can be resumed on a more appropriately sized virtual machine. Some applications will not deal gracefully with the suspension of time, however. As an approach to fault tolerance, the attempt to keep an instance alive through live migration contrasts markedly with the model advanced by the ROC (Recovery-oriented Computing) joint project between Stanford University and UC Berkeley.9 The ROC group doesn't focus on MTTF (mean time to failure). Such a focus might assume that failures are generally problems that can be known ahead of time and should be avoided (or if possible routed around or migrated around). Instead they take a crash-only approach that focuses more on MTTR (mean time to repair). The ROC model appears to be gaining traction among major Internet services.
Business impact
One benefit of virtualization is the breaking of coupling between applications, operating systems, and the physical hardware. Some interesting possibilities arise as the relationship between users and the hardware that they consume is abstracted in a virtualized environment, as long as the fidelity characteristic is maintained. Not least of these possibilities is vastly greater resource utilization, especially in utility computing environments as discussed elsewhere in this issue by Werner Vogels ("Beyond Server Consolidation").
Yet another business consideration is the impact that virtualization might have on software licensing. Although a clear pattern has yet to emerge, one likely model is treating a virtual processor as equivalent to a real licensed processor or core. Another possibility is metered licensing that is based on how long the virtual machine runs.
Virtualization looks set to become more widely adopted. The capabilities of the technology have evolved considerably in recent years, and it now provides a useful abstraction that is of benefit both to the virtual machine user and to the physical infrastructure provider.
- Popek, G. J., Goldberg, R. P. 1974. Formal requirements for virtualizable third-generation architectures. Communications of the ACM 17(7): 412-421.
- VMware. Understanding full virtualization, paravirtualization, and hardware assist; http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware_paravirtualization.pdf.
- Jonnes, J. 2003. Chapter 1 in Empires of Light. New York: Random House.
- Bugnion, E., Devine, S., Govil, K., Rosenblum, M. 1997. Disco: Running commodity operating systems on scalable multiprocessors. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 15(4): 412-447.
- Barham, P., Dragovic, B., Fraser, K., Hand, S., Harris, T., Ho, A., Neugebauer, R., Pratt, I., Warfield, A. 2003. Xen and the Art of Virtualization. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (October).
- Chandra, R., Zeldovich, N., Sapuntzakis, C., Lam, M. S. 2005. The Collective: A cache-based system management architecture. Proceedings of the Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.
- See reference 1.
- Sapuntzakis, C. P., Chandra, R., Pfaff, B., Chow, J., Lam, M. S., Rosenblum, M. 2002. Optimizing the migration of virtual computers. Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation: 377-390.
- Patterson, D. A., Brown, A., Broadwell, P., Candea, G., Chen, M., Cutler, J., Enriquez, P., Fox, A., Kiciman, E., Merzbacher, M., Oppenheimer, D., Sastry, N., Tetzlaff, W., Traupman, J., Treuhaft, N. Recovery-oriented Computing (ROC): Motivation, definition, techniques, and case studies; http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ROC_TR02-1175.pdf.
TOM KILLALEA has worked at Amazon.com since 1998 and is the vice president of technology with responsibility for infrastructure and distributed systems engineering.
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Paychecks for the uber-wealthy
One of my favorite voyeuristic pastimes is reading about the compensation of corporate CEOs. Every year, the Star Tribune's business staff helpfully compiles a list of the highest-paid executives, and when a new paycheck becomes public, we publish it. Recent revelations include outgoing Target CEO Robert Ulrich's nearly $116 million windfall and Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson's $49.3 million total compensation last year.
We only know about these salaries because the federal government requires them as a way of giving investors more information about the companies they own. The agency that is supposed to regulate Wall Street, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has a searchable database with the friendly name of EDGAR. It has regular corporate filings that have a plethora of information about a company's financial condition, executive compensation, legal troubles and other info.
Most of the Minnesota millionaires look like paupers compared to hedge fund managers, according to a recent New York Times story. One of them, John Paulson, took in $3.7 billion last year because of his skill betting on drops in the mortgage industry, among other clever ventures. Just for comparison's sake, that amount earned by that individual is nearly four times the budget deficit tormenting the Minnesota Legislature. By another measure, Paulson's pay equals the annual salaries of 304,000 workers earning today's minimum wage of $5.85 per hour. And it's about the same as the gross domestic product last year of Tajikistan, a Central Asian nation of 7 million people.

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'I've spoken to four journalists in four years' – Why news publishing CMS development needs a desperate rethink
Send me your tales of crappy CMSs, dodgy workarounds and other online publishing nightmares. Can be anonymous. Email.
Have you ever listened to a journalist using a content management system? It usually goes something like this:
*Click*… *click*…*sigh*. Wait. Waiitt. "Oh for fu… oh, it's working, I think". *Click*. "Why's that bit not showing? Oh right, I need to put that in there. I always forget that". *Click*… *click*… "Oh it's fuc…. oh… no… erm… oh right. Joe, that's live now".
And that's on a good day. On a bad day, Joe gets told he'll have to wait because a glitch means the page looks completely insane. Or all the text has been gobbled up never to be seen again. Or a crash at a crucial moment means your entire effort is blasted out into the digital void, leaving the journalist to explain to an editor that it did exist, and it was brilliant, but no, I didn't back it up in Word because there was simply no time. I'll stay late.
I've said it many times: Online journalism is, in many ways, the purest journalism of all. A medium defined not by constraints, but by possibility. Think about it: TV journalism needs pictures. Radio needs great audio. Print needs, well, a day's lead time.
But in online, to quote Yomanda, you're free to do what you want to do.
At least that's how it should be. Content management systems (CMS) are the most neglected part of the online journalism process, a vital cog that, in too many newsrooms, is allowed to fall by the wayside through under – or over – investment, ignorance or internal politics.
Systems and processes are becoming defined by workarounds and hacks rather than good design and intuitive publishing – and this is a big big problem.
As this brilliant piece in AdWeek puts it, good content management in newsrooms is as vital as oxygen.
Perpetual cycle
A bad CMS hurts. It means people cut corners. It means more time is given to fart-arsing about with HTML code than writing good editorial. It means time that should be spent refining headlines, opening pars and article structure is instead spent wrestling with 'quirks' that slowly sap away at a reporter's motivation to do the job right.
It's infectious too, don't forget. A CMS that causes problems means slower news. It means news without due depth as more time is given too production rather than reporting. This in turn means the website isn't as good, and therefore doesn't get as many readers, which loops nicely into the journalists feeling hopeless once again.
It's a perpetual cycle which the bean counters will use to justify cuts in online because "less people are looking at that section anyway".
What's more, in mainstreaem organisations with 'big' names, online journalism can often be about convincing the old hands to get stuck in. After a long stressful day, a TV journalist can be convinced to write 600 words of copy. But when he sees that it doesn't appear for a few hours, and that it barely receives any comments and so on, will be excited enough to do it again? Probably not – and the CMS is at the heart of that disenchantment.
There's a glaring question that arises from all of this: Why? Why are CMSs not very good? Why aren't basic problems which – as I've just discussed – create wider implications spotted and squashed within days?
"People who decide what gets done pretty much always would put resources into changing what the public sees," a senior source in development at a major UK news group told me. For the sake of this blog post, I'll call him John.
John is right, of course. Of the last few re-designs I've been a part of, only one – the BBC's move to its latest new look – also corresponded with a CMS upgrade. This is understandable, a CMS change is expensive, potentially troublesome and requires training.
But the underlying point that many of the decision makers in top publishers put external aesthetics ahead of internal harmony is a fair one. Re-designs are short-term gains. Sites like Drudge show us that content is king – if it's good enough, a website can look like a donkey's arse and still gain massive popularity.
'Four journalists in four years'
Site enhancements can bring a positive energy to a news site. Turning an ugly site into a pretty one will give journos a psychological boost, but they still need help from an improved CMS to make the most of the new opportunities – rather than, as I've seen in many places, having to hack their way around an old crappy system to fit the latest facelift.
It's a question of communication. There is none. Instead, a middle man (often, in my experience, executive editors), pass on what they see as the priorities to a dev team which will duly execute the commands.
But in the same way Philip Clarke probably doesn't know about irritations with the tills at Tesco, executive editors have a tendency to look at the bigger picture ("We'd like to enchance our live blog offering") rather than the niggles that bring everything to a depressing halt ("It takes fifty clicks to add a quote box and it makes me want to kill a kitten").
And that really is the problem. Communication. Not technology, not budgets, not skills – communication.
Even Developer John made this candid admission: "In my four years in the industry I have maybe spoken directly to about four journalists."
Incredible, isn't it? Here's a person who is responsible in a big way for a successful CMS at an enormously influential publisher. And yet, he's rarely in contact with the people who use the product of his work.
If he was, he'd hear from people like this reporter – who got in touch after I sent out a tweet asking for CMS rants and raves. Again, anoymous, but I can say he works for a weekly within a UK publisher (not the same place as the developer above) of around 150 titles, most of which are newspapers.
"My pet hate is nibs and non-web stories. Each one still has to be categorised, geo-tagged and filed twice before it can be used in print – information that is only useful for stories that will be uploaded to the web.
"We're told this information are for archive purposes, but by far the most useful way of tagging stories for future search is to ask the reporter to add their own individual keywords – something that is often skipped by a reporter just labelling their story with the useless keyword 'news'."
More evidence of corner-cutting and time-wasting. Issues like this can be solved in moments, you'd imagine, but I think I'm not being harsh on my source when I say that it probably never goes much further than a few swear-words at the end of the day. Likewise, the developer who never talks to journos just doesn't get this information. Both sides are frustrated.
'Nobody bothered'
While working at the BBC World Service, I'd often grumble about one of its internal systems. Yet despite the existence of a very capable, and very well monitored, bug reporting system – not once did I take any of my complaints further.
I'd say this attitude among journos is common. Developer John told me how his team invited over 200 or so users of their CMS to test out new features.
"Almost nobody bothered – and when we thought it's fine (because of no requests to fix something) and turned the old version off there was this shitstorm about some minor things not working properly (which could have been fixed in couple of days)."
"Small improvements could make journalists life much easier but if they don't want to participate they shouldn't expect much either."
Strong words – but important ones. Then again, in a busy newsroom, there simply isn't time to log complaints and bug reports. Time is constrained enough as it is without then having to spend another 10 minutes explaining why something took too long.
Can it be solved? Sure it can. But it's not a problem that can be fixed by simply flinging money at it. As the issues discussed in this post show, like so many business problems, crappy content management can be overcome with better communication between the people who really matter: the creators and the users.
Journalists need to speak up when something's rubbish – and not just to their immediate colleagues. They need to make more effort to quantify just why it's such hindrance.
Developers, for their part, need to observe how journalists work – sit in for a week, a month – and work out why current set-ups are failing.
And, most of all, managing editors and publishers need to take the cancer that is a terrible CMS seriously. Do something!


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Crystal Huss
Mrs. Crystal Huss
Adjunct Professor of Piano
Crystal hails from Charlotte, North Carolina and is a 2nd generation graduate of CCU. She began her formal music training at the age of 10 under the direction of Lillian Damazo. At 14, she was ranked among the top 3 jr. pianists in Charlotte and in the top 20 for NC. Crystal's exposure as a performer was increasing and at 16 yrs. old, she left Mrs. Damazo to study with composer and noted pedagogue, Randall Hartsell. She soon learned, however, that Mr. Hartsell's focus was on beginning and intermediate students and she needed an advanced teacher who could prepare her for a college music program. Mr. Hartsell highly recommended Latvian pianist, Dzidra Reimannis, to coach Crystal through her senior year of high school.
Crystal's practice schedule was more intense than most students her age. A typical week of practice would consist of 5-6 hrs/day Monday-Friday and 7-8 hrs/day on weekends. Unfortunately, such extended hours of constant playing caused massive physical problems for her hands and in the spring of her senior year, she was told by an orthopedic specialist to "pick a new hobby because you won't be a pianist." This news was devastating on so many levels as she had focused with such intensity to be a performer. Recommendations from trusted friends led her to Dr. Alan Ward, orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand and arm abnormalities and dysfunctions. Dr. Ward labeled Crystal as a musical athlete and took her on as a patient, renewing her confidence that she would continue to play.
She enrolled at CCU as a piano major and had her first of three hand surgeries over Christmas break her freshman year. Crystal took on part-time teaching positions in music studios around the Cincinnati area beginning in her sophomore year. Her teaching experiences helped to segue her initial goal of stage performance to a passion for piano pedagogy and a desire to prevent other students from having to endure the same physical pain brought on by poor technique and misuse.
Crystal enrolled in the Master of Music program at East Carolina University where her pedagogical studies with Dr. Kerry Carlin focused on injury-preventative techniques for beginning and intermediate piano students. After successfully completing the program with a 4.0, she opened her own private studio and became heavily involved with the North Carolina Music Teachers Association, serving as Vice President of the Greenville (NC) chapter.
Crystal and her husband, Davon, have been married since 1998. They have held ministries in NC, VA, and LA; and are currently ministering with the Pleasant Ridge Church of Christ in Rising Sun, IN. They have 2 sets of twin boys: Alex, Andy, Zach, and Zane; all of whom are homeschooled and involved in various performing arts. One of their children has Aspergers, or high-functioning autism. Having a child with special needs has made Crystal more attuned to various learning styles. She strives to adapt concepts and techniques so that they can be easily understood by each individual student, whether they are visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learners, while maintaining a focus on injury prevention.
After 17 years of private studio teaching, Crystal returned to CCU in 2011 to teach Applied Piano Piano and Proficiency Studio to minors and electors on a part-time basis. She considers it a privilege to prepare students for a lifetime of healthy musical enjoyment and ministry.
• MM Piano Pedagogy, December 1998
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda, Summa Cum Laude
• BM Church Music and Piano Performance, May 1996
Cincinnati Christian University, Cincinnati, OH
Recipient of Church Music Award
Professional Experience
• Studies in performing arts medicine, specifically injury-preventative techniques for
• Studies in pedagogical techniques and literature for beginning and intermediate students
• Piano studies with Lillian Damazo, Randall Hartsell, Dzidra Reimannis, Howard Helvey,
and Dr. Kerry Carlin
• Live radio solo performance on WBT 1110 (Charlotte, NC)
• Studio work on solo album: In His Presence
• Pianist for Solid Rock and Come Alive teams sponsored by CCU
Professional Organizations
• Music Teachers National Association
• Ohio Music Teachers Association
• Pi Kappa Lambda (National Music Honor Society)
• Voices of Indiana Board of Directors
Teaching Responsibilities
• Applied Piano Lessons for Minors and Electors
• Piano Proficiency Studio
Contact Information
• Telephone: 513-244-8188
• Cell: 812-571-0918


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After the tour of the facility it was time for a great lunch. One of the best parts of the Road Tours is the fantastic meals that we are treated to on the trips. Sherry and Doc made sure that everyone had plenty to eat at Totally Stainless.


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We went the route to start with an accelerometer. B_ shared us a model ADXL3xx (thanks!).
As we were told, an accelerometer needs calibration. In the case of the ADXL3xx, even when it's still its speed components report values bigger than 100. Also, if the accelerometer is rotated (in any of the 3 axis), its new still position will report different values than the previous still position.
To solve this, we made a calibration by code. In the setup method, we calibrate the accelerometer, that is, we store in variables the initial values for the speed components:
long int avgX = 0; long int avgY = 0; long int avgZ = 0; void setup() { // initialize the serial communications: Serial.begin(9600); /* beginning of calibration */ int i; for(i = 0; i < 100; i++){ avgX += analogRead(A0); avgY += analogRead(A1); avgZ += analogRead(A2); } avgX = avgX / i; avgY = avgY / i; avgZ = avgZ / i; /* end of calibration */ }
Then, we will use the values avgX, avgY and avgZ later on the loop method:
void loop() { ... calX = analogRead(A0) - avgX; calY = analogRead(A1) - avgY; calZ = analogRead(A2) - avgZ; ... }
The accelerometer must be as quiet as possible during the calibration fase, and the still position, like a reference position, must remain always the same in this case.
We assume that, effectively, the accelerometer will always have the same position in relation to the punching bag.
Improvements to do: An improvement for this will be to have the calibration in a routine, and then call this routine in the loop method if some trigger is called. A pushbutton wired to the arduino or some trigger from a notebook through serial communication can do the job.
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For this, we made a poll for people to complete
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When you arrive at the collection center, ask the attendant to direct you to the proper receptacle. The collection centers will not accept more than five gallons of waste oil per person. Ask your neighborhood automotive service center if they will accept your used oil for recycling. Keep rainwater and leaves from accumulating in the used oil storage container.
Southwest Landfill (Scale House)2 miles west of Archer on SR 24. 495-3257
Alachua-High Springs Solid Waste Collection CenterMidway between Alachua and High Springs on US 441. 454-2563
Fairbanks Solid Waste Collection Center6 miles north of Gainesville on SR 24 (Waldo Road) 334-3873
North Central Solid Waste Collection CenterNorth Central Alachua County, SR 121 (also called NW 34th St) 2.5 miles north of US 441. 334-3875
Phifer Solid Waste Collection Center6 miles east of Gainesville on SR 20 (Hawthorne Rd) 334-3874
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A Forest Reborn: Ten Years of Restoration at Athnamulloch 1
Practical Results of our Work
The 63 hectare Athnamulloch 1 exclosure, situated just west of the Athnamulloch bothy in Glen Affric, was fenced by Forest Enterprise in 1990, when the only living trees in it were a handful of mature downy birches near the Affric River. The presence of numerous pine stumps sticking up above the surrounding vegetation indicated that the area had been more forested until relatively recently, and it is thought that those pines were cut down, probably as a source of wood for Affric Lodge, in the late 19th century.
During the springs of 1991 and 1992, Trees for Life volunteers planted a total of 21,400 Scots pines there. I took part in most of those Conservation Holidays, and I experienced the site then as a bleak and barren place, with an almost-palpable sense of loss permeating the denuded landscape. I found it sad and depressing to be amongst the stumps of the vanished forest, imagining what the area must have been like just a hundred years earlier. However, the hard physical work of planting the young trees provided me with an important sense of hope, as I wrote in the Trees for Life newsletter at the time:
"I pictured in my mind what the forest we were planting will look like in 250 years, when these seedlings reach maturity. I know that people many generations from now will enjoy and appreciate the forest, as people in the past must have done. it is only those of us alive now, for this time which is short relative to the 10,000 year history of the forest, that see Athnamulloch bereft of trees."
This summer, ten years after the planting was completed, I've spent a couple of days walking throughout the Athnamulloch 1 exclosure, and the transformation in the intervening decade has been dramatic. Some of the planted pines are now 4 metres tall and have been flowering for the past 4 years. Naturally-regenerating rowans are prolific, and some have been producing berries for several years, thereby assisting the further return of the forest. Bushy young eared willows have sprung up in various sites, and in the area around the mature birch trees, young naturally-regenerating birches up to 3 metres tall are growing so densely in places as to be almost impenetrable!
The full impact of the changes only struck me, however, when I went to re-photograph the stump shown here in the picture from 1991. At first I couldn't find it at all, and it was only when I looked very closely at what I thought was a different and much smaller stump, and compared it in detail to the photograph from 1991, that I realised it was the same one! In the absence of grazing, heather has grown profusely and covered up the exposed roots, grasses have flourished around it and blaeberries are growing over the top of the stump. Without the old photograph to compare it to, I would not have believed it was the same site, so complete is the transformation - what had appeared a desolate wasteland in 1991 is now a healthy, vibrant and diverse young forest.
Walking on through the exclosure, I saw various small birds perching on the leader shoots of the growing pines, and leaf-eating insect larvae on the leaves of the birches. Life has returned in abundance to Athnamulloch in the space of just ten years, and it provides a potent example of the land's ability to heal itself, when it is given some care and assistance by people. Although it will be 250 years before there are mature pines on the site again, the new forest at Athnamulloch can already be enjoyed as a living demonstration of what restoration can achieve.
Alan Watson Featherstone
Pages about Athnamulloch on this site
- An ancient forest re-born, 20 years on Caledonia Wild! Summer 2011
- Comparison of the effectiveness of deer control and deer exclusion in promoting natural regeneration of woodland - results of a research project in 2009
- Return of the Wild Garden! Caledonia Wild! Winter 2007-08
- The Athnamulloch Bothy, Glen Affric (temporarily unavailable)
- A visit from the Bushtucker man! Caledonia Wild! Summer 2003
- Ecological processes which influence the performance of planted Scots pine seedlings
- Ten years of restoration at the Athnamulloch 1 Exclosure
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Communion for dogs? Why not?
An Anglican priest in Canada who drew criticism for feeding a communion wafer to a dog has apologized.
Donald Keith, 56, and Trapper, his German shepherd-Rhodesian ridgeback mix, frequented a park outside St. Peter's Anglican Church in Toronto, and would sit on its steps as part of their daily routine.
Last month, Rev. Marguerite Rea welcomed both inside and gave them both a wafer during communion — an act of kindness that, as can happen when it comes to religion, created a furor. One parishioner filed a formal complaint with Anglican Bishop Patrick Yu, leading Rea to apologize this week.
"If I have hurt, upset or embarrassed anyone, I apologize," Rea said on Sunday. "It was a simple church act of reaching out."
Keith, a 56-year-old truck driver, got Trapper three years ago from a shelter, where, after three previous owners declared him unmanageable, he was likely going to be euthanized, according to the Toronto Star.
Every day, the two sit on the front steps of St. Peter's for "reflection and spiritual renewal," Keith told the newspaper. In late June, police urged the two to move off the spot, and Keith stepped inside the church to complain. Rea, the interim minister, invited Keith and Trapper to attend church.
When offered communion, Keith accepted. Trapper only sniffed the wine, but gobbled up the wafer.
Bishop Yu called the act a "misguided gesture of welcoming."
But Rea says she's received support through phone calls, visits and emails. The congregant who complained has since left the church, and others have no problem with the minister's gesture.
"We're all God's creatures," said one of them, Suzette Mafuna. "If a dog goes into a church, he's entitled to every service that's offered, including spiritual nourishment."
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Once upon a time I asked a question…What the fuck Amanda Bynes? What. The. Fuck?
I have now decided that this is all one giant performance art piece called I HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY SO I'MA GONNA GET STONED AND TWEET RANDOM SHIT OF AWESOME —caps mandatory!
Amanda decides she wants to go somewhere that she does not have to drive because she is kind of banned from driving in LA so she moves to New York. All of New York celebrates —oh wait they are New Yorkers, they don't give a shit about Amanda Bynes.
Because she is going to set the fashion/fragrance world on fire she gets her checks pierced. Everybody goes crazy —okay nobody goes crazy but everybody that you tell about Amanda Bynes piercing her cheeks thinks it's weird.
Amanda appears to like to smoke weed on the streets of NYC —you do what you gotta do, girlfriend, for this amazing performance art piece/documentary which I hope is like the Joaquin Phoenix/Casey Affleck mockumentary I can't watch cause Joaquin scares me.
Amanda Bynes locks herself in a dressing room for two hours, wears clothes on her head, is thrown out of an adult gymnastics class in lingerie, and/or wears only a bra and panties at the gym —if you have ever gotten high, then you know this all results from her being stoned all the fucking time.
Amanda claims there is a red headed imposter and that she is blond but then she clearly has red hair —again she dyed her hair stoned and went out for snacks and forgot she dyed hair and walked through Times Square.
She wanted wheel-chair Jimmy to murder her vagina —ummm I'm not sure what she meant but I watched Degrassi TNG so I can't have sexual thoughts regarding Drake, it makes me uncomfortable.
She has twitter selfies of AWESOMENESS for days, for realsies! She would also like gossip blogs and mags to use said selfies instead of pictures of her IMPOSTER (who is most likely her stoned and looking for snacks).
Because the tabloids lie (US Weekly never lies) she is suing everybody —Amanda I implore you, please don't fill up the courts with frivolous lawsuits.
She tweeted that she has an eating disorder and that paps photos make her look pregnant, therefore fat —I can't make fun of this, it's just sad. Amanda you are lovely and you do have "legs for days". You are not fat and do not need to live at the gym unless you REALLY enjoy exercise.
Now to help you get into the spirit of America's cutest stoner, I give you Mamrie Hart's fantastic video on how to make the drink the "Amanda Bynes' I'm Doing Just Byne!"


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I substituted regular yellow cornmeal + baking soda for the cornmeal mix, cut the buttermilk down to 2 cups and used 1 real egg instead of egg substitute and the muffins were delicious.
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Giraffe Mimicry
Power Manifestations hell yes.
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that's kind of half-assed I guess. :( Would work well if I could fly tho.
Emotional Manifestation
Sounds kinda creepy.
Skin Manipulation… another one that sounds kinda creepy.
Pain Empowerment.
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Accelerated metabolism.
I wish that was the case. Then I could eat all I want, stay skinny, and be super awesome. ._.
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I'm sure Hamid Karzai has some problem, but it strikes me as intuitively a bit absurd to hold him personally responsible as being "not up to addressing Afghanistan's many troubles." It's not, after all, as if Afghanistan has some long record of troubles being well-addressed and everything going smoothly until Karzai showed up. Meanwhile, neither the United States nor the Europeans have done as much as they/we should or even said we would to help out. Shifting the blame onto Karzai is just a low blow.
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After his first film role in 1972, as a panhandler in a drama called Fuzz, he embarked on what would become the trademark of his career with his first gangster role, as Johnny Ola in Coppola's The Godfather Pt. II (1974), the classic, starring Al Pacino. Chianese also appeared in All the President's Men in 1976, and would work with Pacino again in the 1979 thriller ...And Justice for All.
Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Chianese had numerous roles of all kinds from major feature films to stage to made-for-TV movies. He was featured in Fort Apache, the Bronx in 1981, and had a small role in Pacino's Looking for Richard in 1996. In 1999, HBO debuted its mobster series The Sopranos, starring James Gandolfini, and Chianese's long-term experience acting in all kinds of mob-related roles finally paid off with his part as Corrado "Uncle Junior" Soprano. The series earned incredible success, and in 2001, Chianese was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series for his role on the program. In 2002, he was featured in Adrian Lyne's drama Unfaithful, starring Diane Lane, Richard Gere, and Olivier Martinez. ~ Sarah Sloboda, Rovi


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The monthly survey of manufacturers in New York State conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The September 2014 Empire State Manufacturing Survey indicates that business activity expanded at a robust pace for New York manufacturers. The headline general business conditions index rose thirteen points to 27.5, a multiyear high. The new orders index moved up three points to 16.9, and the shipments index advanced two points to 27.1. The unfilled orders index fell three points to -10.9. The prices paid index declined three points to 23.9, indicating a slower pace of input price increases, while the prices received index climbed nine points to 17.4, suggesting a pickup in the pace of selling price increases. Employment indexes showed a slight increase in employment levels and hours worked. Indexes for the six-month outlook conveyed a high degree of optimism about future business conditions.
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Members of the Rockhurst DPT Class of 2013 presented the results of their student/faculty research projects on Friday, March 1 in Mabee Theater on the Rockhurst campus.
The presentations were the culmination of a five course research sequence that the students began in the first semester of the curriculum. As a part of that sequence, small groups of students collaborated with a faculty mentor to ask a research question, gather data and analyze their results.
The presentations were excellent and the students did a great job sharing their knowledge with the group.
Here are the titles and authors of all the projects presented. We'll post summaries of all the projects a little later this spring.
The Effect of Strengthening Exercises on Scapular Upward Rotation Range of Motion in Older Adults
Dave Seibel, SPT; Jake Spinka, SPT ; Rachel Swift, SPT; Lauren Vaughn, SPT;
Faculty Mentor: Jim Dronberger, PT, DPT, OCS, MBA
Static Stretching Does Not Affect VO2 Max or Time to Volitional Failure During Graded Cycling
Daniel Finn, SPT; Trebor Besser, SPT; Andrew O'Neill, SPT; Bryan Evans, SPT
Faculty Mentor: Don Hoover, PT, PhD
The Effects of Motor Imagery Practice on the Motor Imagery Ability of Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Ballet Dancers
Amanda Johnson, SPT; Molly Alfermann, SPT; Kati Mayer, SPT; Kiley Green, SPT
Faculty Mentor: Catherine Thompson PT, PhD, MS
The Effects of Motor Imagery Practice on the Dance Performance of Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Ballet Dancers
Jessica Duvall, SPT; Elizabeth Kennedy, SPT; Emily Nieters, SPT; Sarah Anderson, SPT
Faculty Mentor: Catherine Thompson PT, PhD, MS
Impact of Student & Clinical Instructor Learning Styles on Student Performance and/or Satisfaction During Clinical Internships
Melissa Brace, SPT; Katherine Ruble, SPT; Stephanie Schuelke, SPT
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Effect of Resistance Placement and Knee Joint Angle on Torque Production and Electromyography Activity of Knee Muscles
Tessa Campbell, SPT; Julie Foss, SPT; Travis Kostal, SPT; Ewa Zarycka, SPT
Faculty Mentor: Mohamed Kohia, PT, PhD
The Effects of Whole-Body Acceleration on Balance Performance in Healthy Populations
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Faculty Mentor: Amy Foley, PT, DPT
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Faculty Mentor: Brian McKiernan, PT, PhD
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Health and Wellness Behaviors of Students Enrolled in Physical Therapist Education Programs
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Faculty Mentor: Brian McKiernan, PT, PhD
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Faculty Mentor: Jean Hiebert, PT, PhD
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You cannot use POP3 or IMAP4 to connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailbox through Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access. When you try to connect, you receive following error message:
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For South Dakota (3-4), which had won its previous three games, Casey Kasperbauer shot 6-of-9 from 3-point range en route to 20 points, while Trey Norris (15 points), Trevor Gruis (14) and Brandon Bos (13) were also solid.
Air Force shot 47.8 percent from the field in the first half, but South Dakota was even better at 52.0 percent, as the Coyotes carried a 40-32 lead into intermission.
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December 18th, 2007SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW :: Music Version by Xarj
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Do Hard Drives Belong in Your Portfolio?
By Ryan Palmer - July 26, 2013 | Tickers: STX, TOSBF, WDC
Modern hard drives have been around since the 1980's. The hard drive industry as it exists today has three dominant players: Seagate (NASDAQ: STX), Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) and Toshiba (NASDAQOTH: TOSBF).
If you live in America, for the past few years you've probably noticed the rise of smartphones and tablets. This rise has coincided with a decline in sales of personal computers. Those who are bearish on more »
Bigger TVs Won't Revive The Collapsing TV Market – Not For Long
By Criag Adeyanju - June 26, 2013 | Tickers: PCRFY, SSNLF, SNE, TOSBF
While whole world is going "smart" – which I'm not so positive about – in term of our choice of gadgets, the TV market believes going "un-smart", at least in terms of size, is what it needs to ramp up sales again. Technology consultancy IHS found that sales of LCD TV in the US dropped 3% in 2012 and a further 11% drop during the first quarter of this year. In more »
Industry Consolidation Calls for DRAM Price Appreciation
By Red Chip - June 6, 2013 | Tickers: MU, SSNLF, TOSBFInvestors who are following the DRAM industry must be aware of the depression in prices, which have had a harsh effect on DRAM manufacturers. This decline in prices was due to the sluggish PC market. In the DRAM industry, Samsung (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF), Toshiba (NASDAQOTH: TOSBF) and Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) are the key manufacturers.In May, double data rate 2 (DDR2) memory prices dropped down below $2, while the manufacturing more »
This Healthcare Unit Is Attracting Attention From Big-Name Bidders
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The recent announcement that beleaguered electronics manufacturer Panasonic (NASDAQOTH: PCRFY) would solicit bids for its non-core healthcare business has cheered investors and spurred renewed interest in the company's stock. Although a final timeline for the division's sale has not yet been established, it was recently announced that the preliminary round of bidding had closed. Panasonic is expected to conduct a follow-up bidding round next month.
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These Hard Disk Makers Are Still a Bargain
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The decline in PC sales as a result of the rapid rise of devices such as tablets has not only hurt the stock price of PC manufacturers, but also producers of PC components and peripherals. Although hard disk makers have rallied enormously over the last year, two of them are still trading at extremely low multiples. With earnings on the rise, and strong momentum for these stocks, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDCmore »)
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This year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013) did more than just pump up the adrenaline levels of geeks. Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 800 and NVIDIA's Tegra 4 chips are not only blazing fast, but have also unfolded growth prospects for the hard drive industry. These chips are capable of recording and rendering 4k content, which would naturally pump up the data storage requirements with their gradual adoption.
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Anybody who is following the DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) industry must be aware of the recent crash in DRAM prices, which wreaked havoc on most DRAM manufacturers. The crash was a result of falling PC sales, while ultrabooks failed to grow at the expected rate.
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Due to continued oversupply of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) modules and a 5% reduction in annual PC sales (in 2012), prices of 4GB DRAM modules had plunged to the $15 mark. As a result, manufacturers cut down on their production which created a strain on its supply, and eventually led to a price recovery. According to a recent report, DRAM module prices surged by 11% in January alone, and more »
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Since the beginning of the year the "currencies wars" have taken another step forward. The recent developments are coming from Japan. The political change in Japan and the decisions of Bank of Japan in the past several months to take its monetary policy to the next level are among the contributing factors for the devaluation of the Japanese yen. This shift brings uncertainty to the region, but could also prove more »
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In Part 1, I covered a couple of device makers along with CPU and graphics chip makers. In Part 2, I'll cover software and the components that matter the most.
After all nobody cares if they have a dual core or quad core or 1GHz or 1.5GHz processor other than geeks like me. What people care about is how cool the display looks and how easy is it more »
Apple's Newest Suppliers-Should You Invest?
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With Samsung (SSNLF) being phased out of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) universe, a new crop of component suppliers has come on board. Apple is the world's leading chip buyer and these companies should be kept busy producing enough chips to meet the tech giant's demands. The financial health of the three companies Apple selected to replace Samsung is summarized in the following chart.
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Profiting from the shift to Ultrabooks
By Piyush Arora - August 28, 2012 | Tickers: OCZ, SNDK, STX, TOSBF, WDC
The first thing that comes to my mind when I go to purchase any electronic gadget is, how many months before it becomes outdated. That's the same business practice that perhaps, most businesses earn their revenues from. I purchased a laptop nearly a year ago, thinking that this choice might just turn out to be future proof. Yet here I am looking at the new range of ultrabooks, which more »
Mixed Earnings Review for The Shaw Group
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It is no secret that 2011 was a mixed bag for the heavy construction industry. While some saw the worst of times in 2010, several players in the industry had to take a long look in the mirror to determine an effective strategy back to profitability. Today let us look at The Shaw Group (UNKNOWN: SHAW.DL), who just released its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday.
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Historic triple with BMW Motorrad: Michael Dunlop also triumphs in the Senior TT on the Isle of Man.
Isle of Man/Munich, 8th June 2014. BMW Motorrad and Michael Dunlop (NI) have repeated history, echoing Georg Schorsch Meiers (DE) legendary Senior TT victory of 1939 on the Isle of Man. Dunlops third BMW-powered victory of the week came in the most prestigious race of all: the blue riband Senior TT race. Before that, Dunlop had already won the Isle of Man TT Superbike and Superstock races on the BMW S 1000 RR. And it was him again who triumphed in an exciting and thrilling Senior TT race.
BMW Motorrad UK entered into road racing in 2014 to celebrate Meiers famous victory of 75 years ago, in which he rode his factory Type 255 Kompressor and took BMW Motorrads first ever TT win. Joining forces with Hawk Racing, the team behind the Buildbase BMW Motorrad British Superbike entry, and supported by BMW Motorrad Motorsport, BMW Motorrad / Hawk Racing was formed.
The experts from Munich helped with their expertise, but also with technical support. For example, BMW Motorrad Motorsport supplied the Superbike engine for Dunlops RR. Beginning with the North West 200 in May, Dunlop and the team took victories in both the Superstock and Superbike classes as part of their build up to the Isle of Man TT. The BMW Motorrad / Hawk Racing team have now added a further three TT trophies to the tally, proving that the BMW S 1000 RR is a force to be reckoned with in road racing.
Twenty five-year-old Dunlop has secured his own place in history by increasing his total to a stunning 11 TT wins, three of them coming this week onboard BMW S 1000 RR machines in the Superbike, Superstock and Senior TT races. He also became the first rider in history to win four TT races in two consecutive years.
The Senior TT race is the only one Ive not won before at the Isle of Man and its very special to have won it this year. Ive given BMW Motorrad three wins here and weve repeated its victory in the Senior TT in 1939, said Dunlop. At the start of this fortnight people were saying I was mad to be here on an unproven bike. I think now nobody will doubt the BMW S 1000 RR. The whole package is fantastic and the team has been brilliant. For BMW Motorrad to have built a bike that can come here for the first time, to survive six race laps without missing a beat, and to win... that is amazing.
It is so overwhelming that I am nearly lost for words. What happened this week on the Isle of Man is simply unbelievable, enthused Berthold Hauser, BMW Motorrad Motorsport Technical Director. Michael had never ridden the RR before, but he came, jumped on it and raced from victory to victory. Believe me: I have been involved in motorcycle racing for decades but I can hardly recall something similar. Especially as we are talking about the most cruel and treacherous challenge in road racing, the Isle of Man TT. We are happy and proud that we could do our bit in achieving this success by providing technical support and all our expertise regarding the RR. A big Thank you to Michael for joining us in this adventure and winning all three races and to everybody who made this success happen.
This is a very proud moment for BMW Motorrad Motorsport, added Udo Mark, BMW Motorrad Motorsport Marketing Director. There could be no better way to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Schorsch Meiers victory than to return to the Isle of Man and to win again. Congratulations to Michael and the team. They have shown an unbelievable performance in winning all three races. We are very proud that we played our part and that our joint effort with the team led to this historic triple.
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Mariners topple Angels
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