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The men dumped their bleeding and naked bodies under an overpass. The woman's companion waved to passersby on bikes, in autorickshaws and in cars for help, but no one stopped. "They slowed down, looked at our naked bodies and left," he said.
"My friend was grievously injured and bleeding profusely," he said. "Cars, autos and bikes slowed down and sped away. I kept waving for help. The ones who stopped stared at us, discussing what could have happened. Nobody did anything."
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After about 20 minutes, three police vans arrived, but the officers argued over who had jurisdiction over the crime as the man pleaded for clothes and an ambulance, he said.
Finally, he said, they were taken to a hospital.
The man said he was given no medical care. He then spent four days at the police station helping police investigate the crime. He said he visited his friend in the hospital, told her the attackers were arrested and promised to fight for her.
Authorities have not named the man because of the sensitivity of the case. Zee News also declined to give his name, although it did show his face during the interview.
Indian law prohibits the disclosure of the identity of victims in rape cases, and police have opened an investigation into the TV station for broadcasting the interview, New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said Saturday. Violators of the law can face up to two years in prison and a fine.
The woman's companion said he gave the TV interview because he hopes it will encourage rape victims to come forward and speak about their ordeals without shame.
He said his friend was determined to see that the attackers were punished. "She gave all details of the crime to the magistrate — things we can't even talk about," he said. "She told me that the culprits should be burnt alive."
He added, "People should move ahead in the struggle to prevent a similar crime happening again as a tribute to her."
Most people in India are reluctant to get involved in police business because once they become witnesses, they can be dragged into legal cases that can go on for years. Also, Indian police are often seen less as protectors and more as harassers.
On Friday, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde called for changes in the law and the way police investigate cases so justice can be swiftly delivered. Many rape cases are bogged down in India's overburdened and sluggish court system for years.
In the wake of the rape, several petitioners appealed to the Supreme Court to take an active role in the issue of women's safety.
On Friday, the court dismissed a petition asking it to suspend Indian lawmakers accused of crimes against women, saying it doesn't have jurisdiction, according to the Press Trust of India. The Association for Democratic Reforms, an organization that tracks officials' criminal records, said six state lawmakers are facing rape prosecutions and two national parliamentarians are facing charges of crimes against women that fall short of rape.
However, the court did agree to look into the widespread creation of more fast-track courts for accused rapists across the country.
Online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgT99obFvvw
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14224 37th Ave S has a Walk Score of 54 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
14224 37th Ave S is a 18 minute walk from the LINK at the LINK LIGHT RAIL & TUKWILA STATION stop.
This location is in Tukwila. Nearby parks include Hilltop Park, Sunset Park and Codiga Park.
Nearby schools include Foster Senior High School, Cascade View Elementary School and Showalter Middle School.
The closest grocery stores are Kawsar Grocery, Camel Foods and Nsnasrulaah.
Nearby coffee shops include Sahara Cafe-Tukwila, Fountain Espresso and Kaah Fast Food LLC. Nearby restaurants include Juba Restaurant & Cafe, Juba Restaurant & Café and Tazza D'Amore.


text: I had watched 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking' before I really knew Michael to begin with. When movies I started picking out had Michael in them, I made it my mission to watch anything with him in it, and was surprised that he's a very good and convincing actor, is charming and seems to be one of those few actors that doesn't flaunt their money/fame in front of people. Michael is a down to earth kinda guy, and charming. Michael was born to play a villain, he's a natural for it! The lyrics from this graphic are 'Spellbound' by Lacuna Coil.


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Santa Carolina Chardonnay/Sauvignon Blanc Vistana
Santa Carolina - Valle Central - Chile
Chile is a fascinating country when it comes to wines and viticulture, and by far the most internationally renowned wine region in the country is the Valle Central. This expansive valley is located close to the Chilean capital of Santiago, and stretches between the Maipo Valley and Maule Valley, a long, winding fault through the mountainous regions of the country which is now almost completely covered by vineyards producing wines of exquisite character. The region itself may well be associated with the 'New World' of wines, but in actual fact, vineyards have been cultivated around the Maipo valley since the 16th century, when settlers from Europe brought vines across the ocean with which to make sacramental wines. A wide range of grape varietals thrive in the hot climate of Valle Central, from the Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot vines the country is most famous for, to Syrah, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Carmenere.
When considering the rich and fertile central valleys of Chile, where we find most of the oldest, grandest and established wineries, it is difficult to imagine a more suited landscape for vineyard cultivation and wine production. Mineral rich soils, eight months of sunshine per year, oceanic winds and clear water running down the mountainsides it is little wonder that the imported Old World grapes do so well here. Chile is renowned world-wide for producing highly drinkable wines, packed full of fruit-forward character and enjoyed young and fresh, as well as being home to more complex wines reminiscent of many Old World varieties. Whilst the Cabernet Sauvignon is widely regarded as being Chile's 'flagship' grape varietal, equally fine produce comes from Chardonnay grapes (indeed, the Sol de Sol Chardonnays are widely agreed to be amongst the New World's finest white wines) the plummy Merlot and silky, intense Pinot Noir.


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Specular holograms by Matthew Brand currently on display at the new Museum of Mathematics in New York.
See his site for more.
The technique used by Brand to create these pieces is not one of conventional holography. He meticulously controls the unique shape of thousands of tiny optical pieces placed on a surface creating a 3D effect when the light source or viewer moves. This is essentially a mathematical problem in differential geometry and combinatorial optimization. Brand is the first person to correctly describe this technique in 2008 even though it dates back as early as the 1930s (check out his paper for details).
'…Todd, trust math. As in Matics, Math E. First-order predicate logic. Never fail you. Quantities and their relation. Rates of change. The vital statistics of God or equivalent. When all else fails. When the boulder's slid all the way back to the bottom. When the headless are blaming. When you do not know your way about. You can fall back and regroup around math. Whose truth is deductive truth. Independent of sense or emotionality. The syllogism. The identity. Modus Tollens. Transitivity. Heaven's theme song. The nightlight on life's dark wall, late at night. Heaven's recipe book. The hydrogen spiral. The methane, ammonia H20. Nucleic acids. A and G, T and C. The creeping inevitability. Caius is mortal. Math is not mortal. What it is is: listen: it's true.'
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If you're sharing a pizza with another person, there's no need to cut it into precisely equal slices.
Make four cuts at equal angles through an arbitrary point and take alternate slices. You'll both get the same amount of pizza.
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Dave Durenberger: On health reform, Obams's in the box. We should let him out.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Dave Durenberger, Senior Health Policy Fellow at St. Thomas, wrote an article defending President Obama's health care reform initiatives.
Read the full article at: http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_12908999?nclick_check=1
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I know I haven't been on much. I made a new tumblr back in December and was using that. It is much more personal and I hadn't even released my name. I most likely won't be using this tumblr anymore because it is too hard to have two tumblrs. I will leave a link for anyone who wants to follow me on there. I have followed a lot of you on that tumblr but I will finish following everyone else. I hope to see you all!


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First days of research diving in Mabini, Philippines
The 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition dive team has completed a very successful first few days of research SCUBA diving in the Mabini area of the Philippines. The team traveled with 4 trucks and vans from Manila, through Batangas, Anilao, and finally to Mabini.
Shortly after settling into accommodations, an orientation and dive safety briefing was held. This included location and review of our automated external defibrillator (AED), 1st Aid, and oxygen units (brought on each dive boat), review of the dive plan, and equipment configuration overview for the Academy research divers who are using new backplate/wing buoyancy compensators and regulators and more thanks to Hollis/Oceanic.
After the orientation, we did shore entry check out dives, getting comfortable with equipment, proper weighting, practicing a few skills, and then some collecting. The conditions were are superb with 75-100′ of visibility in flat calm 80 degree water – perfect for a first dive!
Since we're planning multiple days of repetitive diving, we decided it would be best to dive on Enriched Air Nitrox to extend our bottom time and also reduce our nitrogen exposure. Enriched Air Nitrox is a mixed gas composed of higher levels of oxygen than air (which is composed of 21% O2, 78% Nitrogen, and 1% trace gases). Specifically we're diving on Nitrox 32% which is the most common and versatile mix for our use.
The last two days were packed with scientific diving involving quite a bit of collecting along with photo and video documentation. All of the collecting requires a great amount of processing lasting late into the night.
More to come, time to get ready for another night dive!
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This is news? That was my first reaction to a "news" report about how more and more moms are popping pills to help them deal with stress. "Many moms are turning to medications such as anti-depressants and sleeping aids."
You don't say! And then??
Motherhood is, hands-down, one of the most high-stress jobs in existence. As a result, moms have been self-medicating since the dawn of time. During the Victorian era, laudanum (an alcoholic tincture of opium) served as a tranquilizer, sleeping pill, and menstrual cramp remedy. Opium was used in ancient Greece to "chase away sorrow" while women in ancient Egypt smeared poppy juice on their nipples to "quiet" crying children.
Many moms are turning to medication to deal with stress, yeah. Um, where have YOU been?
It was 1966 when The Rolling Stones released "Mother's Little Helper," an ode to Valium. (Well, what did you think they were singing about??) The lyrics are pretty straightforward, not to mention as relevant today as they were in the '60s:
"Kids are different today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
"Men just aren't the same today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
They just don't appreciate that you get tired
They're so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight
Things haven't changed much, have they?
The challenges of motherhood aren't limited to modern times or class or culture or whether a mom works or stays at home. Nor are the challenges of being human. Yes, circumstances can affect our stress levels -- a lot. But the truth is, being a mom is painful at times. Pain sucks. When we're in pain, we do what we can to relieve it.
Why everyone deals differently with pain, I don't know. But judging a mom because she needs a Xanax to get through a bad day is ignorant and arrogant. What's the difference between a Tylenol PM and a couple of glasses of wine? Better to take an antidepressant than drown your sorrows in fast food. And I mean that literally: The adverse effects of an SSRI are negligible compared to the adverse effects of an extra 30 pounds.
It really, really bothers me that people STILL feel the need to call mothers out simply because they need help. As if that was a symptom -- or cause -- of a failing society.
If that's the case, we've been going down since ancient Greece. Seems like one hell of a slow descent, so no need to panic.
Do you feel judged as a mom for using antidepressants or anti-anxiety meds?
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This is so ridiculous.
My mother never "self-medicated" because she had the strength and fortitude to deal with raising three children by herself after taking her alcoholic husband to court and proving he was a danger to himself and others, forcing him into rehab while she was left to deal with being kicked out of a home foreclosed on because husband had been lying to her.
With three kids all under the age of ten, no college degree (because she quit school to work to put husband through college), and no house, she didn't buckle.
My mother pulled herself and three of us up, said, "Okay, this is bad, but we can handle it." She found us a place to live, talked her way into a job she didn't have a background for, learned an industry, moved us out of a really crappy drug infested neighborhood, dealt with a severe heart issue that resulted in a heart attack at 32, and taught us that life is as good as we want to make it, and that we could do anything we put our minds to.
My mother is my hero, and every mother I meet is weighed by her standard.
What are these mothers, who need a Xanax to get through their day, teaching their kids?
Honestly, this article does A LOT to explain the kids I see in and out of my classrooms every year.
jpfsmom, it has nothing to do with ME. My mother is awesome. No chill pill needed, but can I offer you a net for that green-eyed monster running around your house?
I am on an antidepressant. I openly admit it. That little green pill every night helps me to be a better mom.
Without the meds, I was having a very hard time coping with life. You have to understand everything that went on before I started the anti-depressant: my husband lost his job, we lost our house, my mother had a major stroke, I had a miscarriage, I found out I was pregnant again after the miscarriage, then I was told I had cancer. This all happened within a year! Most people would suffer drepression while dealing with just 2 or 3 of these things. I had to deal with it all, all at once.
That tiny green pill saved my sanity. Without it I don't think I could have managed through all of that. I plan on trying to wean myself off the pills, one my thyroid hormones are regulated again after the cancer treatment.
One thing that I would like to point out- everyone deals with stress differently. And moms aren't the only ones who seek out anti-depressants. Overall, I feel that a medication, given under doctor's supervision is much safer than many of the alternative self-medicating habits out there.
No, not at all.


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Air Jordan Force V (AJF 5) Fusion – Black – Varsity Blue – Blue Ribbon
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Air Randy comes thru again with another colorway of the Air Jordan Force V Fusion with just three simple solid colors. The upper is neary all black except for the "23″ in white and red stitched on to the heel. The midsole is clear and the outsole is a nice blue ice. The lining is lined with a nice varsity blue. There is no release dates attached to this shoe which could mean they don't drop til much later in the year or these are player exclusives, look out for more info soon. Via Air Randy / Kenlu
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"They were buying more of what we consider second bedroom furniture," said Bill Griffin, merchandise manager for the Orlando, Fla., store. "The age group changed, and the market has really changed. Bunks, trundles and captains are still very popular up to about age 8, but a lot of the boys did not feel we had their look. It was too juvenile. They wanted something more grown up."
Danae Tirikos, an associate buyer in charge of the youth department, has seen this nouveau sophistication firsthand in her own home. Her 10-year-old son turns his nose up at anything that seems too juvenile. "If it looks too young, he wants nothing to do with it," Tirikos said.
Girls do not seem to feel the same pressure to drop the affectations of youth, Griffin said. "She may get rid of all the pink flowers, but the bedroom furniture she starts with as a little girl seems to stay with them all the way through the teen-age years."
The parental units may be playing a role in the choices boys are making, Griffin acknowledged. "Many parents want them to be able to take it with them when they go off to college or get a job."
Expanded youth departments
Based in Fort Myers, Fla., Robb & Stucky has youth furniture departments in its three superstores in Orlando, Fla.; Plano, Texas; and Scottsdale, Ariz. The company has four other home furnishings showrooms, but they are in markets where the young-family market is not as proportionally large, and Robb & Stucky opted not to install youth departments in those cities.
A Top 100 furniture store with 2009 sales of $220 million, Robb & Stucky has been a star among high-end design stores for more than a decade. The company, driven by the energy and vision of Clive Lubner, started opening superstores – Altamonte Springs north of Orlando was the first – in the mid-2000s. The current prototype, as seen in Plano or Scottsdale, has 115,000 square feet of display.
Since the superstores only started opening seven years ago, youth is actually a fairly new category, but it's also one that the company has been giving more attention as well as more display space.
For instance, in Scottsdale, the kids department was doubled to about 3,200 square feet in a project that was completed just prior to Labor Day. "Before, it was too small and it was very confined," said Judy Hunerberg, merchandise manager there. "With all the walls, you really didn't know we had it unless you were with one of our designers."
While the product was selling, the company felt it could do better. "We made it very open and very easy to see from several areas of the store," said Alan Reinken, general manager. "Even though our sales were fine, this department wasn't presented as we would have liked."
Line of sight makes for best advertising
And since the company doesn't advertise the category, relatively few people were seeking it out. Robb & Stucky still does very little to advertise youth, and yet the department is growing at a nice rate. "It's not that it's a destination category we're known for, but since we design and furnish so many homes, kids furniture is a natural part of that for families with children," said Eric Anderson, advertising manager.
The best advertising may be the placement of the department. For instance, it's in the back of the store in Scottsdale, which is normally not advantageous, but in this case it works just fine because the store's café is nearby.
"Since we rearranged things, we have fabulous sight lines from the café to the youth furniture department," Hunerberg said. "It's rare that anyone who visits our store doesn't wind up in the café. The smell of the cookies draws them like a magnet."
Especially kids — kids who are stuck nosing around a furniture store while their parents try to decide whether they should add a piece or do the entire room. "We find many times that the kids are bringing the parents into the department," Hunerberg said. "The kids are intrigued by what they are seeing."
What they are finding at any of the stores is a comprehensive presentation accessorized from the walls out. The stores show about a dozen of the "traditional" youth bedrooms, meaning the captains beds, lofts or bunks, princess suites and that sort of thing. Each one is in a space with a color-coordinated backdrop, which is often the most stunning aspect of a Robb & Stucky store. In Orlando, a girls vignette currently has grass-green walls with hundreds of poppy flowers pinned to the walls.
"This kind of thing really gets their attention," said Griffin.
While the walls in Scottsdale have been rearranged to improve both flow and sight lines, the department still requires walls as backgrounds to the furniture. "The magic is how you place the walls and how you see around them," Hunerberg said, who gives each furniture grouping its own identity through the use of distinct colors and decorations on the walls. "I'll move six groups around if I have to depending on the space it needs and how important we feel it will be in the market," she said.
Something for everyone
In addition to the bedrooms that are clearly for kids, Scottsdale has five bedrooms that are less easy to identify as youth, except for the fact that they are in the youth department. "We show these for young teens and tweeners," Hunerberg said. "If we're going to be a complete furniture store, you can't leave that customer out. This group wasn't finding what they needed in our store."
The beds are always queen or full sized. "It's rare that you're going to get a teen still in a twin bed," Hunerberg said.
While the backdrops are full of color and excitement, Hunerberg doesn't go over the top with accessorization. She said she plans to hang some compact discs on the wall in one space and maybe install a huge chalkboard, but those are still backdrops more than accessories.
"We probably accessorize a little on the light side," she said. "We've gone really cute. We've gone into posters and we've gone into teeny little lamps. We've done all that, but we've found that children have what they want in their rooms. We just have to give them the backdrop to store it or put it away or sleep on." The store does pump up the volume in that zone of the store, and the music selection is certainly more oriented toward pop.
The group from Stanley shas a light maple finish and a contemporary design that could work for either boys or girls with the appropriate accessorization. "We're going to do some real high-tech and retro stuff," Griffin said. "We're trying to go after the teen-agers, and we think this is going to do it."


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Overpopulation- nwo propaganda to justify Genocide
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All HUMANS must die, or at least 80% of us, so the rich twisted elites say, who have acquired much control of our planet. Under the *cloak* of environmentalism, to protect the trees, land and animals, claim we must kill off our own kind. They are *inbred* within "royal" families and Nazi Rothschilds and English Rothschilds, worst than any hillbilly could ever imagine, which are both the same and Collectivist/Communists who advocate sterilization of females as a must, to save the Earth, of course, within the UN(United Nations), which if they have their way, will become the central governing authority of the planet quite soon. IF their royal blood-lines REALLY were the best genes on Earth, maybe there would be some logic to this perhaps, but it's no more logical now than it was in the dark ages. Simply put, they are inbred crazy people with illusions of grandeur. Price Philip wrote in his book, "If I Were an Animal" that "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation." Nazi Germany is happening all over again, but this time globally, if we allow it.
I found this on youtube, titled:
Humans Killing the Earth - Cartoon
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Eeeeeee September 20, 2011 8:39:51 PM CEST
Say It Like It Is Kuergun...The Universe IsInfinite. If Technology Would Run Free Maybe WE Would Allready Be Populating Other Planets. Earth Isn't The Only Planet In The Universe.
Eeeeeee September 20, 2011 8:39:31 PM CEST
Say It Like It Is Kuergun...The Universe IsInfinite. If Technology Would Run Free Maybe WE Would Allready Be Populating Other Planets. Earth Isn't The Only Planet In The Universe
Kuergun July 23, 2011 6:55:34 PM CEST
To a point I agree there are many mouths to feed. There is also millions of acres of land that can produce enough food for every one. Yet the evil rulers won't let us use that land nor will they allow us the free energy technology to fulfil the needs of the many.In the end it comes down to the way we are educated!! Lies ,lies ,lies If only we were told the truth we could have been more in control and less of a slave!!
Krowklown July 23, 2011 6:39:15 PM CEST
the government may be greedy but open your mind to the fact that the world is overpopulated and if we continue to grow at today's pace we will not survive for much longer..we already have to eat dna altered food to reach the demand of the people we're blind to the fact that is WE ARE OVERPOPULATED and it is a hard fact to deal with because we all have a heart that tell's us to love life and all things..but this is the facts...
Kuergun July 23, 2011 12:56:03 PM CEST
What these evil people will not admit to, is they stopped all forms of inventions that were energy saving and clean.Now they blame us!! But what if they are right!! We out number them by millions and yet did nothing!! We STILL out number them and do nothing !! So as long as we do NOTHING we are to blame !!!It is time and now is the time for all of us to unite and say no more !! Now is the time we should no longer leave it to some one else but do it for ourselves knock on your neighbours door wake him up to the truth!!Tell him of the short future his children have because of EVIL GREEDY GOVERNMENTS!!Persuade the police and army to stand with us If we all become one then and only then will we win and save ours selves and this world we live in.!!!


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The City Council did a smooth job contending with a first-term mayor's new administration. Even better, councilors remained professional while negotiating Mayor Richard Berry's budget cuts.
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Dateline: Belgium—An accountant in Brussels purchased a long-shuttered Dexia Bank branch to house his business and ended up making a profit on the deal after finding more than 300,000 euros ($393,000) in an old bank vault. According to England's Telegraph newspaper, Ferhat Kaya, 33, purchased the property at a cost of about $235,000 but turned down the real estate agent's quote of $5,000 to remove an old safe. Instead, Kaya called a friend to help take out the building's metal vault. "When the vault was open, it revealed bags of 20 and 50 euro bills," said Murat Tufan, who helped with the demolition. "The receipts were still there dated Dec. 31, 2001. We started counting." After speaking with his Turkish father, Kaya decided to call police and report the cash, which had been abandoned in the building for almost a decade. "My friend and I thought we would really make a statement with it: that even immigrants are people that say honesty is the best policy," he told reporters. Dexia Bank spokesperson Ulrike Pommée said an investigation has been opened but suggested no trace of the money would ever be found. "We want to determine what happened. It was probably a human error. But the investigation will not be easy, because the money is from 2001." Pommée said the company was looking into offering Kaya a reward.
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Ride starts at 7:45 am, at 2820 South English Station Road, Louisville, KY, which is the former location of Jordan Technologies. Mike Pitt will provide the cue sheets and also is posting the ride on RideWithGPS.com.
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What happens when you merge rack servers with blade servers? You get the newly announced Dell PowerEdge VRTX. Three years in the making, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX (pronounced "ver-tex") is advertised as a revolutionary, easy-to-manage office-optimized data center that converges servers, storage and networking into a compact package. In the following post, I'll give you a deep-dive look into the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution.
The first thing you might say when you look at the PowerEdge VRTX is "this is just Dell's entry into a small blade chassis." While that may appear to be the case, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX offers something that no other blade server solution offers (without eating up blade server slots) – the ability to use regular, rack server PCIe cards. Yes, you read that right. Dell has found a way to combine the density of blade servers with the flexibility of rack server I/O options with PowerEdge VRTX. This means you have the flexibility to use less expensive PCIe cards giving you a plethora of choices all while being managed through shared chassis management. So enough small talk, let's dig into what's under the covers.
Chassis Overview
The PowerEdge VRTX can hold up to four server nodes and up to 25 x 2.5" hot-swap drives offering up to 3TB of RAM, 64 processing cores and 48TB of storage.
In addition to the 2 – 4 ports of on board networking, the PowerEdge VRTX also offers I/O expansion via 8 shared PCIe slots (3 Full-Height, 5 Low-Profile).
Unlike what you might expect with the Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis, the PowerEdge VRTX chassis management controller, or CMC, resides inside of the chassis in the form of installed cards (shown with redundant card installed.)
Here's an actual photo of the Chassis Management Controller (CMC):
The PowerEdge VRTX is available as a tower model as shown above, but it can also be racked (5U in size) with the addition of the optional rack mount kit.
Server Node Overview
The server nodes used with the PowerEdge VRTX are modeled from the PowerEdge M520 and M620 blade servers offering you the following choices:
- M520 server node – Up to 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2400 CPUs, up to 384GB of RAM, 4 x 1GbE NICs You can find the full specs at http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-m520/pd?~ck=anav.
- M620 server node – Up to 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2600 CPUs, Up to 768GB of RAM, 2 x 10GbE (used as 2 x 1GbE at launch) NICs. You can view the full specs at http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-m620/pd?~ck=anav
If you noticed there was no mention about the mezzanine cards that you typically find in Dell blade servers, there is a reason for that. They are not used for the traditional I/O expansion via external fabrics. Instead they are used for connecting to the PCIe infrastructure. More on this below.
Technical Overview
Now for the fun stuff. What's under the covers? How does everything work. Here's the cheat sheet of all the components within the PowerEdge VRTX:
PCIe Infrastructure Overview
After you spend a few minutes studying the diagram, one of the things you might notice is that there is only one I/O fabric – Fabric A. I'm going to review Fabric A shortly, but first, focus on the mezzanine card slots on the server nodes. Instead of using traditional I/O modules for Fabric B or Fabric C, Dell has designed the PowerEdge VRTX to use PCIe slots. This is done via two PCIe switches – one for Fabric B and one for Fabric C. Each PCIe switch ties into one of the two mezzanine cards on the server nodes as shown in the diagram below.
The Fabric B PCIe Switch provides connectivity to the following:
- PCIe slot 3
- PCIe slot 6
- PCIe slot 7
- PCIe Slot 8
- Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller (SPERC)
The Fabric C PCIe Switch provides connectivity to the following:
- PCIe slot 1
- PCIe slot 2
- PCIe slot 4
- PCIe slot 5
The PCIe slots are non-shared and thereby dedicated to one server node within the PowerEdge VRTX system. The PCIe slots can be re-assigned to a different server through the CMC as needed. Each slot is capable of being exclusively assigned to any blade server, although it does require powering the server node off. I've got a screenshot of this later in the management section.
Here's a cheat sheet for the PCIe Slots:
The following PCIe cards are planned to be supported at product availability:
- AMD FirePro W7000
- 6Gb/s SAS HBA (low profile and full height)
- Broadcom Dual Port 1Gb (low profile and full height)
- Intel Dual Port 1Gb (low profile and full height)
- Intel Dual Port 10Gb Base-T (low profile and full height)
- Intel Dual Port 10Gb Base-SFP+ (low profile and full height)
- Intel Quad Port 1Gb (low profile and full height)
- Broadcom Dual Port 10Gb Base-SFP+ (low profile and full height)
Fabric A Overview
As you take a look closer at Fabric A, you notice that the same fundamental principle applies as in the Dell PowerEdge M series blade servers – the onboard networking, or LOM (LAN On Motherboard), directly maps to Fabric A. The difference, though, with PowerEdge VRTX is that there is a single fabric A. Why only one? The answer lies within the target audience of this solution – remote office / branch office. Throughout the 7,700 customer conversations Dell had during the planning phase for PowerEdge 12th generation servers, it was conveyed that remote and branch offices don't typically use or need redundant top-of-rack switches, so to reduce costs, PowerEdge VRTX has a single network fabric. At product availability, there will be two options – a Pass-Though Module and an Ethernet Switch Module.
A pass-through module are often less expensive than Ethernet switches, but they require a 1:1 connection. If you don't plug-in a RJ-45 Ethernet Cable into the corresponding external port, the blade server network port will not be active. There also is no communication within the server nodes since the pass-through module is an extension of the NIC port as shown above. A final thing to note, is that when you use the PowerEdge M520 server node, which comes with 4 x 1GbE ports, only 2 of the 4 ports will be capable of being lit up with a pass-through module. Here is the diagram for the PowerEdge VRTX Pass-Through Module:
In comparison, an Ethernet switch module not only reduces the amount of cabling required externally (as little as 1 external Ethernet cable could be used) it also allows for intra-chassis communication – a key performance advantage for virtualization environments. As you can see in the diagram, using an Ethernet switch module allows for all ports of the LAN on Motherboard to be used including the 4 x 1GbE ports found on the PowerEdge M520 server node. Here is the diagram for the PowerEdge VRTX Ethernet Switch Module:
Storage Overview
One of the key advantages that PowerEdge VRTX offers is integrated, shareable storage. PowerEdge VRTX supports either 12 x 3.5" hot-swap drives or 25 x 2.5" hot-swap drives (determined at purchase). The drives are supported by a shared PowerEdge RAID Controller, or SPERC.
The shared PERC8 is connected to each server's mezzanine card through the PCIe switch and feeds two x4 mini-SAS connectors to the storage subsystem.
The chassis management controller, or CMC, allows for the user to create virtual disks which can be assigned to a single server node, or across multiple server nodes. Since the storage is shared, each server node will see the storage as its own singular storage pool. The Shared PERC8 will offer RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50 and RAID 60 as well as options like hot-spare.
The drives that are planned to be available at launch include the following:
- 500GB 7.2k NLSAS 2.5" HDD
- 1TB 7.2k NLSAS 2.5" HDD
- 600GB 10k SAS 2.5"
- 900GB 10k SAS 2.5"
- 1.2TB 10k NLSAS 2.5" HDD
- 146GB 15k SAS 2.5"
- 300GB 15k SAS 2.5"
- 1TB 7.2k NLSAS 3.5"
- 2TB 7.2k NLSAS 3.5"
- 3TB 7.2k NLSAS 3.5"
- 300GB 15k SAS 3.5"
- 450GB 15k SAS 3.5"
- 600GB 15k SAS 3.5"
- 4TB 7.2k NLSAS 3.5"
PowerEdge VRTX Management
The last section to review is management of PowerEdge VRTX. As stated above, the PowerEdge VRTX uses a chassis management controller, or CMC, to manage the system. This includes management of server nodes, the power, cooling and the storage and PCIe subsystems. It is important to note, that the PowerEdge VRTX CMC is not the same CMC as you might find in the PowerEdge M1000e. The firmware is different and provides additional functionality not found within the M1000e, but if you are familiar with the CMC of the PowerEdge M1000e, the PowerEdge VRTX CMC should look familiar.
The PowerEdge VRTX CMC allows you to manage the networking as well:
Here's a look at what the PCIe management looks like:
As with the M1000e CMC, the VRTX CMC allows for management of up to 9 PowerEdge VRTX chassis – anywhere on your network.
Additionally, with the addition of the free Dell Open Manage Essentials software, users can visually pin point the locations of the PowerEdge VRTX systems (known as GeoView).
CMC Licensing
According to my sources, the PowerEdge VRTX will come standard with an Enterprise license for the CMC. However, there may be customers who won't need the advantages the Enterprise license offers, so for those customers, an "Express" offering is being planned.
Express license does not include:
- 1-to-many configuration
- 1-to-many server firmware update
- Remote syslog
- Enclosure level power capping
- OpenManage Power Center integration
- Server cloning
- Stacking multi-chassis management
- LDAP/Active Directory
- Enclosure level backup & restore
- Ipsec (future)
- FlexAddress
- PK Authentication (for SSH)
- Single Sign-On (for LDAP)
- Two-Factor Authentication (with smart cards)
- Repository Manager integration (future)
- Profile-based configuration (future)
- Dynamic PCI slot assignment
- Virtual Media File share
- OME VRTX GeoView enablement
Both the Enterprise and Express versions include the following:
- Web GUI
- Racadm CLI
- Health monitoring
- Serial access
- Power control
- Cooling control
- Real-time power monitoring
- Historical power counters/graphing
- Enclosure level inventory
- Password level security (local users)
- Role-based authority
- Email alerting
- Location information
- SNMP alerting V1
- SNMP alerting V2C, V3 (future)
- Telnet/SSH access
- Hardware log
- CMC log
- SSL encryption
- iDRAC/OMSA launchpoints
- Local SSO
- LCD & associated deployment wizards
- Device summary pages
- Roll-up health status
- Configurable network ports
- IP blocking (login/ranges)
- PERC configuration
- Dynamic DNS
- IPv6
- VLAN tagging
- Soft licensing upsell
- Enclosure level auto discover (future)
- Enclosure level firmware rollback
- iDRAC/OMSA launchpoints
- Local SSO
PowerEdge VRTX is a lot different from what I speculated back in April of 2011 (http://bladesmadesimple.com/2011/04/dell-to-introduce-a-new-mini-chassis-for-blades/). It offers remote and branch offices the flexibility of a data center in a box. It includes high-performing servers, integrated storage, networking and management. Since it is a modular design, you can easily scale with your remote office needs. PowerEdge VRTX is currently scheduled to available for shipping June 25, 2013 in the United States and globally shortly after.
Additional Information Links
(Updated 6/6/2013) For more information, here are some additional links to review:
- Main Dell Landing Page – www.Dell.com/VRTX
- Product Specific Page – http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-vrtx/pd
- Dell Blog – Introducing PowerEdge VRTX
- IT Pro Product Review – http://www.itpro.co.uk/server/19937/dell-poweredge-vrtx-review
- Storage Review – Dell PowerEdge VRTX Shared Infrastructure Announced
- PC World – Dell takes converged systems to small sites with PowerEdge VRTX
- Server Watch – Dell Debuts PowerEdge VRTX for Converged Infrastructure
- InfoWorld – Dell takes converged systems to remote sites with PowerEdge VRTX
- The Register - Dell crams baby small-biz data center into a tower chassis
- CRN – Dell Intros PowerEdge VRTX: Converged Infrastructure For SMB, Remote Office
- Dell TechCenter – Dell PowerEdge VRTX How to Assign Shared Storage (video)
- Computer World (Singapore) – Dell takes converged systems to small sites with PowerEdge VRTX
- Internet News – Dell PowerEdge VRTX Converges Office Server and Storage Tech
- American Banker – Dell to Roll Out 'Branch in a Box' Device for Banks
- Dell TechCenter- Dell PowerEdge VRTX Shared Infrastructure Platform
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Bede Carroll
If only the SPERC allowed JBOD/Direct passthrough of the disks it would be perfect.
"owerEdge VRTX offers something that no other blade server solution offers – the ability to use regular, rack server PCIe cards." hmm not really … HP propose Expansion Blade since 2006 :) http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/blades/expansion/
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Yes, but not without sacrificing server slots. You have to admit using PCIe cards in lieu of I/O modules is a cool concept. Thanks for the comment.
Yes its true :)
Mathias K.
Hey Kevin, great review. Can you tell few words 'bout the integrated network fabric? Is it a layer 2 / 3 switch that has the known smb feature range (like lacp/link aggregation, etc.)
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It's a layer 2 switch with basic capabilities. I posted a list on my Facebook site at https://www.facebook.com/bladesmadesimple
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Pawel W.
Hi Kevin,
It is nice review. Indeed PowerEdge VRTX is interesting concept, however lack of network redundancy and single PERC make it useless for demanding businesses, where you can not accept few hours of break when those elements breaks.
http://BladesMadeSimple.com/ Kevin Houston
Saying that Dell PowerEdge VRTX is "useless" is a poor choice of words. VRTX was designed for remote and branch offices, which rarely have redundant network and storage environments. Even when you look at the competitive marketplace, the HP BladeSystem C3000 and IBM BladeCenter S both have single network fabrics and only offer redundant storage fabrics with the sacrifice of future I/O expansion. If redundancy is a requirement in your remote office, then take advantage of the PCIe slots in the PowerEdge VRTX (i.e. connect a NIC to a 2nd switch or attach to redundant storage.) There is also the option of having a spare PERC or integrated switch. By the way, if you look at the storage diagrams I showed above, you might get a hint of what's to come on the PERC. Bottom line is don't discount VRTX because you are used to datacenter products. It's a unique offering that gives you a lot of flexibility. Thanks for the feedback.
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Lokman Hakim Azli
Thank you for the detailed overview of the VRTX. Just the info that I'm looking at.
Trenton Townsend
Hitachi CB2000 has 16 PCIe 8x slots in the back of the chassis, doesn't sacrafice blade slots.http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-2000.html?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_cb2000
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Thanks for sharing – glad this solution is working for you.
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My doctor cleared me to return to my part-time serving job, which requires carrying up to 40 lbs of food with one arm at 3 weeks post-breast augmentation. I am excited to get back to work, but I'm also nervous that lifting or carrying things around with this much weight will cause problems due to my recent augmentation. Would other doctors agree that I can return to this type of work at 3 weeks post-op?
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Limit Lifting to No More Than 15lbs for 4-6 Weeks Following Breast Augmentation
Heavy lifting and strenuous activity following breast augmentation can result in post-operative complications. In some cases, heavy lifting can cause bleeding and resultant hematoma formation. In other cases, heavy lifting can result in implant displacement with resultant implant malposition.
For these reasons, limitations are often placed on lifting in the post-operative period. We generally limit lifting to no more than fifteen pounds for four to six weeks following breast augmentation. In addition, we stress that patients not lift their elbows above their shoulders and that they avoid repetitive arm movements.
In the short term, it may be necessary to make slight modifications in your life style to avoid complications. Make sure you discuss this issue with your surgeon prior to proceeding with breast augmentation surgery.
Lifting during breast augmentation recovery
For three weeks following breast augmentation surgery, I recommend that patients try not to lift more than five pounds. I also ask them not to lift their elbows above their shoulders. Many of our patients are young women with young children and cannot strictly adhere to the five pound rule. The five pound rule, however, gives them a good idea as to how careful we want them to be during that period.
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Heavy lifting restrictions after breast implant augmentation surgery
If implants were placed over the muscle I don't see any reason why you could not return to heavy lifting. If placed under the muscle I would consider a 6 week restriction for heavy lifting.
Web reference: http://www.bodysculptor.com/breast-surgery-chicago/
Back to work questions
Congratulations on your surgery and your new look.
Back to work questions can be complicated. There's no strict formula for when it is ok to go back to work. Determinations are made based on some of the following factors:
1. Type of operation
2. Complications post-op
3. Your pain tolerance and narcotic pain medication needs
4. Your job
In my San Francisco area practice people are typically back to work after one or two weeks (usually closer to one week). Because this can be a complex issue make sure you've communicated with your surgeon the type of work you do and what your post-op concerns might be.
I hope this helps!
Lifting after a breast augmentation
Lifting post-op
In my practice, I allow you to lift as much as you like as of one month post op but no more than 15 pounds for that whole first month. Best of luck.
Lifting or Exercise After Breast Augmentation
I recommend that patients avoid heavy lifting for at least 3 weeks after surgery and certainly exercise for 3 weeks after. By 4 weeks one can resume all activities with no restrictions.
Lifting restrictions after breast augmentation
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SPOKANE, Wash. - Visiting Montana Tech blistered the nets for 60% shooting from the field on the way to an 83-73 win over sixth-ranked Whitworth in a non-conference men's basketball game on Saturday night at the Whitworth Fieldhouse.
The Orediggers (5-4), NAIA Division I members of the Frontier Conference, ended the Pirates' 41-game home-court winning streak - what had been the longest active streak in NCAA Division III.
Montana Tech shot 68% (15-22) in the first half, jumping out to a 10-0 lead and eventually leading by as many as 12 points (22-10) midway through the half. But in spite of the Orediggers' hot half, the Pirates still took a 45-42 lead into halftime thanks to their own three-point shooting. After a slow start (2 of 8), Whitworth finished the half 11-21 (52.4%) from beyond the arc. Wade Gebbers led the way in the first half with five of the threes and 17 of his points. He made one from 35 feet as time expired, giving the Pirates all the momentum and a 45-42 lead as the teams went to the locker rooms.
Whitworth (6-1) would stretch the lead to as many as five points three times in the second half, the final time coming on Gebbers' sixth three-pointer of the game, giving the Bucs a 62-57 advantage with 12:18 to play.
But then Whitworth would go cold again. Montana Tech outscored the Pirates 16-2 over the next six minutes to turn a five point deficit into a 73-64 Oredigger lead with 6:16 to play.
Whitworth tried to make a final comeback, pulling within 74-71 after a steal and lay up by Dustin McConnell with 2:44 to play, but Brian Cummings answered with a three-pointer for Tech the next time up the court to stem the Pirates' momentum. Felix Friedt's two free throws with 1:52 left that pulled Whitworth within 77-73 would be the final Whitworth points of the game as the Bucs missed their last four shots and the Orediggers made 6-8 from the free throw line in the final minute.
Idris Lasisi led Whitworth with 23 points, Gebbers finished with 20 and Friedt scored eleven. Friedt was the Pirates' top rebounder with six and Lasisi had four assists and four steals. Whitworth cooled off severely from three-point range in the second half, making only 3-19 (16%) from beyond the arc. The Pirates took 40 of their 59 shots from three-point range.
Adam Greger scored 23 points to lead Montana Tech. Cummings finished with 16 points and Cole Conway scored 14. AJ Payne had 12 points and five assists. The 'Diggers second half shooting was only slightly worse than their first half shooting and they finished the game by making 60% (27-45) of their shots from the floor, 50% (8-16) from beyond the arc.


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Slicing Obama's 2013 budget proposal four ways
With Obama's recent budget for next year proposed, Shan Carter et. al of The New York Times let you explore the plan in their new interactive. It provides four distinct views of what the breakdowns look like, all the while keeping a distinct link between each click with smooth transitions and consistent objects (much of which was handled with Mike Bostock's D3).
Initially, a view of all spending is shown at once. Each bubble represents a chunk of spending, and each is colored by the change from last year. Green shows more money and red means less, and as indicated on the chart, spending is oriented from largest increase to largest cut, top to bottom.
Next tab: types of spending. This is when the magic happens. Instead of skipping to a new graphic, the existing bubbles divide to show mandatory and discretionary spending. Jump to the next view to see changes to discretionary spending, and finally see spending shown by department.
The transitions make this graphic. It's often useful to see data from different angles, and the smooth transitions (rather than abrupt jumps) let you see how things are and how they have changed, effectively. This is fine work.
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I agree that the transitions are what make this graphic. They do a really good job of keeping the context for the user as they transition from one view to another.
My biggest complaint about this viz, though, is that the very small amounts in the budget are practically impossible to find or analyze. This graphic is really only good if you want to see what the big elements in the budget are. If this had zooming, I would be happier.
Since the data shows both expenditures and income, grouped by categories, I wonder if a stacked bar chart for each department wouldn't have been easier to read…
I would classify this as entertaining. From an analytic stand point, a bar chart would be more effective.
From an analytic stand point, getting the raw data from http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget then running your own analyses in R to answer your own questions would be more effective than expecting a newspaper company to do it for you :-P
(seriously though, I don't understand the constant assumption in data vis circles that when an organisation publishes a visualisation, the target audience must be the one demographic (data analysts) who are capable of doing it themselves…)
As I said, it is entertaining. The NYT is more in the entertainment business than the helping people understand things business. If their objective is to entertain, then they have succeeded. If their objective is to provide people with understanding, they have failed. I spent about 5 minutes trying to draw conclusions from the viz before getting frustrated and considering making my own. I do think it is possible to seriously enlighten and entertain at the same time.
I agree with Mark. From a comparison standpoint the bubbles are not the best choice. The best part of this chart is the 'organic' transitions from one panel to the next, but you really don't get a good sense of the different sizes of the categories with the use of bubbles.
Great info but I must agree with Lyell, Mark and Jon. Comparing size (bubbles) is more difficult than comparing length (bars) so I would also suggest a bar chart to get the most out of the chart.
I agree with the comments above, with an analytical and professional hat on.
Yet, it is about the audience. For most, I believe that this would be about revelation and exploration, not analytics. The proportionality issue mentioned above doesn't detract too far from the objective of relative comparison.
I tend to get more agitated when design impedes or enhances rhetoric and polemics. Here, in the context of exploration, I think the organic bubble approach is wonderful.
Along with the comments above, I too find that the bubbles are nicely designed and the transitions make the overall piece a wonderful experience. But, if I want to actually use the piece for any comparative analysis of the budget proposal…well I struggle to do so.
I think that the Times actually did a better job last year with their tree map approach. I wish they had continued to develop and refine that approach instead of creating this wholly new method.
I'm on a computer that doesn't support SVG, so I can only look at static images. I'm wondering though, wouldn't bar charts complicate the comparison in their own way? I see about 40 groupings, each having anywhere from 2 to 20 subgroupings. Sure, it's hard to compare the porportionality: But, wouldn't it be equaly hard to compare all of these as bars? They are trying to display something that spends over 900 billion (HHS) alongside something that spends 78 million (USPS). How do you bar chart that? I think circles are the best alternative precisly because their porportionality.
Michael T hit it right on the head — it's about audience, and "revelation and exploration, not analytics." People don't read the Times because they want to do hardcore data analysis. From a purely technical standpoint I'm excited to see they're using d3 and throwing older browsers under the bus — other organizations will begin to follow suit and the glorious post-IE6/7/8 future will arrive that much more quickly:)
In case anyone would like to implement something like this with their own data, here's a little tutorial I wrote up on how to do it:


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Be honest: Who among you would volunteer to be locked in a building for 15 hours with two dozen Kool-Aid-fueled preteens?
Once again, it's up to me to take one for the team.
Last Friday was my church's annual Hallelujah Night lock-in. Think of it as a safe and uplifting alternative to the usual Halloween debauchery. This marked my third year participating in the event and since I'm sure y'all are tired of me talking about how great Kendrick Lamar's new album is, allow me to break from the norm and share the insanity of last weekend. I'm sure it knocked a year or two off my life.
One of the biggest draws of the event is the community costume contest, in which we ask people in the neighborhood to stop by for a free dinner and a chance at prizes for winning costumes. Every year, I reiterate NO SCARY COSTUMES but every year we get at least one ugly vampire, witch or a Nicki Minaj. *shudder*
Ah, but who cares about them. Every year I'm known for going all out on my costumes. Peep the past ones:
This year, the kids were so excited about my costume that one of them introduced me to the crowd before I made my entrance. Feast your eyes:
How did the adults in the crowd react?
"Who is you? Rick James?"
"You look like a black Louie Da Four-teeth."
"You some kinda rock star or something?"
But the kids had my back: "IT'S PRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
So the 11-year-olds knew I was Prince, but the people who are the same age as Morris Day were confused. We need to do better.
Well, the night progressed with dinner, a roundtable on image issues (i.e., why our race is still ridiculously obsessed with skin color) and a candlelight vigil. Afterward it was time for games and snacks.
Oh lord, the snacks. Snacks for kids is like alcohol for adults. They become raging psychopaths. One boy was running around trying to Brogue Kick kids like Sheamus from WWE while I swear some of the kids were trying to pull the keys out of the piano. My tears were like Purple Rain.
Once the kids calmed down, I engaged in some of the most bizarre conversations I'd had all year. The kids tried to convince me that 2 Chainz was "a great rapper" and that my Cousin Chris Brown was a magnificent singer. One girl said, "Chris Brown has a beautiful voice," like some old woman reminiscing about Lutha singing for the prince of Zamunda. Playa please. I almost had another prayer vigil on the spot.
We also got into a discussion about my upcoming birthday. The kids asked what I wanted, and, as always, I kept it real - I want a 95-inch TV for my living room. They told me to just buy it. First, why would I buy my own gift? Second, why can't THEY buy it for me? Geez, 12-year-olds are soooo selfish. Anyway, I told them that my check would bounce like Kris Kross if I tried to buy a TV. Their solution? Put it on layaway. These kids should be solving the national debt crisis.
At some point, a spontaneous karaoke session broke out (I was too busy fussing about Cousin Chris to notice) and suddenly everyone started chanting, PRINCE! PRINCE! PRINCE! Well, I had to give the people what they wanted - the WORST version of "When Doves Cry" ever performed. I could barely remember the words (give me a break, it was like 1 a.m. at this point) but the kids were screaming, "fainting," and afterward I had to sign about 15 fake autographs.
Soon after, we threw on a DVD of The Avengers and I doubt the kids made it through the first 20 minutes. I stayed up for the rest of the night while kids and other adults slept. If a fly on the wall saw "the black Louie Da Four-teeth" staring at a bunch of kids all night, it would probably be freaked out. But I didn't mind. By the way, kids pass a LOT of gas while they sleep.
I guess it was an OK night after all, even though I'm still struggling from my annual post-lock-in head cold. Today I have a fever and no voice. Lovely. But the kids seemed to enjoy themselves, at least. All in a night's work for Rick James.
Oh, and three days later, as I was flipping through my notes at work, look what I found scribbled in my notebook:
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I really need help on choosing a color for the exterior of my house. I like greys and blues but don't know which one to choose. Thanks so much!!!
Grey / Brown tones with wood accents would be a good update for the exterior.
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Thank you so much but I was thinking about a more lighter tones. I live in PR and love the colors that are used in the Old San Juan area.
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Lovely house. How about a blue-grey color for your house . A grey color would be nice on your house also. You can always get a small can of each color that you like and paint an area on the house to see which one you like best. You can post the colors for the Houzz community also. Try Lowes or Home Depot or another store that carry paint.
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A blue and tan combination like this would look good: Breakers Beach House. A Sea Foam green would give it a bit of an art deco vibe: SeaFoam Bungalow. Or you could go grey: Dean Nota FAIA.
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44 Years ago today Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. It's striking me as an especially poignant date this year, in light of the fact that people are still, all this time later, being killed for being black.
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
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What does 8:31 offer you today? What does God do on your behalf (8:31-34)? Who or what cannot separate us from God's love (8:35-39)? Do you live as if there are exceptions to this list? What do you think they are? Based on this passage, is that an accurate assessment?
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Why is it when something bad happens, when things don't go the way we want or expect, our tendency is to question God and His love for us? Maybe we need to keep a note card with Romans 8:31-39 on it in our purse or pocket to help us not go there. You see, these verses are so clear. They leave no doubt that NOTHING can separate us from the LAVISH love of God.
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The Groupware project is split into two major sections. One is the implementation of Microsoft's Exchange Server for a University-wide email and calendaring service. The second is the implementation of Microsoft's SharePoint system which will help academics, administation staff and our student population to share information and work together more seamlessly than has been possible before. The following two sections highlight some of the advantages of both systems to the University as a whole.
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 provides the critical communications tools that support our day-to-day working life. Whether we are working, studying, teaching or researching – the availability of email, calendars, attachments and contacts is crucial to how we operate within the University.
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