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The following sections describes how
Developers can use Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder to create an introspector plug-in.
The process of capturing the state of the reference host begins with introspection. Your plug-in participates in introspection by performing dehydration of the reference software installation. The output of dehydration is metadata that describes the reference installation.
Later instantiation of the software appliance as a virtual machine in the target environment is known as deployment. Your plug-in participates in deployment by performing rehydration of the reference software within the context of the running virtual machine. Metadata recorded at dehydration time is available to the plug-in during rehydration.
Your plug-in is implemented as a .jar file that is packaged with the product you support. Your plug-in enters the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder environment at runtime through the dynamic plug-in discovery process. After discovery, the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder product framework arranges to invoke your plug-in's dehydration and rehydration entry points at the appropriate time and place: on the reference host during introspection for dehydration and within the running virtual machine late in deployment for rehydration.
As you begin to design and implement your introspector plug-in these are the first things you should do.
Choose a name for your introspector. Introspector plug-in jar files live within the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder software installation directory tree, each plug-in in its own subdirectory. These subdirectories are named according to the plug-in name, so each plug-in name must be unique. Choose a name related to the product that will be introspected - this will make it easier for users of your plug-in to figure out how to invoke it. The name of the plug-in is used to create the CLI command name for introspecting your product. A command name of the format introspect<plug-in name> is constructed. In the GUI your plug-in name will show up "as is" in a list of component types that can be introspected.
Decide if you will be writing a plug-in or an extension to an already existing plug-in. If your product runs on top of another product for which an Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder plug-in already exists (such as WLS), writing an extension to that plug-in may make sense.
Devise a plan for dealing with the introspection of different versions of your product. This will have an impact on the name you pick for your introspector plug-in. There are two distinct strategies, one of which may work better for you than the other. One strategy is to handle the introspection of different product versions entirely within a single plug-in; this may be convenient if the product versions being supported have similar configuration data. For a product called "foo" you could name your introspector plug-in "foo", and the plug-in would detect the product version (version 1 or version 2) and do the appropriate thing for that version.
Alternatively, if the product versions are so different that it's more convenient to keep the introspector code completely separate, you could write two plug-ins named "foo1" and "foo2", each of which is capable of introspecting only a single product version. In this case a customer who had both product versions installed somewhere on their network might have both introspector plug-ins present in a single Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder instance, and the customer would have to know what product version they want to introspect. Note that due to Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder's classloading scheme you must use different package names in the different versions of your plug-in.
As you begin to write code for your introspector plug-in, see Chapter 6, "Developing an Introspection Plug-in" and Chapter 7, "Introspection Plug-in Module Reference". These chapters contain tutorial code samples, explain common plug-in operations, and provide a reference to the modules in the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder introspection framework. You could read through the tutorials and copy the sample code to produce a plug-in that can be invoked by Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, to which you can add your product-specific code.
Introspector plug-ins are organized by the Introspector Manager. It is the core of the Introspector framework and acts as the controller for all plug-ins. The Introspector Manager is the layer that sits between the user interfaces (the Studio GUI and the command line utility
abctl) and the plug-ins. It tracks all the plug-ins and invokes the plug-ins' dehydration and rehydration methods.
Since there can be a variable set of plug-ins, a mechanism is needed to inform the Introspector Manager of the exact set of plug-ins that are available. This is done using a service model provided by Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder called SPIF. To make the Introspector Manager aware of a new plug-in it need only be registered as an IntrospectorPlugin service. The details of how this registration is accomplished are described in Chapter 6, "Developing an Introspection Plug-in". Once a plug-in is registered the rest is handled by the Introspector Framework.
The process of using Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, and triggering interactions with the plug-in, is as follows:
The OVAB user begins an introspection, indicating the type of product component to be introspected, the host where that component resides, and other information necessary to obtain the product configuration data - such as passwords, directory paths, or user names.
The appropriate IntrospectorPluginLocator for the plug-in is located and is used determine if a newer version of the plug-in exists on the reference host. If so, the user is required to upgrade before introspection can be done.
If no newer version of the plug-in is found then the plug-in's
Dehydrator.dehydrate() method is invoked, executing on either the local or a remote host, as specified by the user. The dehydrator captures the key configuration information and creates Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder metadata. It indicates what product executables, data and configuration need to be copied from the introspected system, describing them in terms of file set definitions.
The Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder framework captures file sets to be created from the introspector plug-in's file set definitions - by default this is done immediately after introspection completes, but at the user's option it may be deferred until a later time.
The OVAB user creates an assembly from various introspected components (represented in the metadata as appliances or atomic assemblies), describing their relationship to each other in terms of network connections. The user may edit other configuration parameters at this time, as well.
The OVAB user creates a deployable VM template, which combines the file sets for the appliances in the assembly with a VM system base image. These templates, along with the assembly metadata and the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder bits necessary for deployment (including the introspector plug-ins) are then combined into an assembly archive (.ova file).
The OVAB user creates a deployment plan. The deployment plan can be used to override any editable metadata. It is also used to specify network configuration for the target OVM environment that will be used for deployment.
At deployment time, a VM is instantiated for each appliance, and the introspector plug-in's
Rehydrator.rehydrate() method is run. The plug-in performs the component rehydration by converting the saved metadata state into a product configuration appropriate for the VM environment, with a modified network configuration, a new host name, etc. After the
rehydrate() method completes, the
Rehydrator.start() method is called. The
start() method performs the necessary actions to start the component.
After the assembly is deployed it can be stopped and started as a whole, and scalable appliances can be scaled up or down.
An introspector plug-in participates in both the capturing (dehydration) of a product from a reference host as well as the deployment of that product as a virtual appliance (rehydration). Each plug-in must inspect the configuration of the product on a reference host and capture enough of the data to be able to deploy the product on a virtual system. During rehydration the product configuration must be fixed to make the product work on the new host, and to apply any configuration overrides the user has specified.
Your plug-in can specify parameters to be supplied by the user when they introspect your component. These parameters appear as command line options when using abctl, or as text field entries in the GUI. For details on the different job parameter types and how they are presented to the user read the Job Parameters tutorial in Chapter 6, "Developing an Introspection Plug-in".
Note that password type job parameters are treated differently from other parameter types by abctl for security reasons. Instead of the user entering the password so it appears in clear text on the command line, the user will be prompted to enter the password when the plug-in or extension asks for the value.
Dehydration is the process of capturing the relevant configuration information for a given product into metadata and a file set definition. The definition of 'relevant' is product-specific - there is no need to capture every possible configuration element so that the user can reconfigure the system completely from the introspected reference system to the deployed virtual system, because reconfiguration is the domain of Oracle Enterprise Manager. The dehydration process must capture only enough information for the critical portions of a configuration that you expect a user would change from one system to another. For example, if your product has a password, it would be good if the user were allowed to change the password prior to deploying a new system.
Note that the product's installation paths specified in the file set definition remain the same on the deployed VM as they were on the reference host, so your plug-in doesn't need to do any path fix up and should not expose file set paths to the user for customization.
Your plug-in must provide a Dehydrator implementation. The
Dehydrator.dehydrate(DehydrateContext context) method is called during introspection. The
DehydrateContext passed in to this method gives you access to the JobParameter values supplied by the user. It also has methods used to create the Appliance or Assembly that will be the result of dehydration.
There are different types of metadata that can be used to describe different aspects of your product and these will be described in detail in Section 5.4, "Metadata Overview".
Rehydration is the opposite of dehydration. Rehydration is the process of taking captured metadata and applying it to a virtual system. Rehydration occurs on the deployed virtual server and is invoked by the Deployer as the last step of deployment.
Your plug-in must provide a Rehydrator implementation. The
Rehydrator.rehydrate(RehydrateContext context) method is called when it is time for your plug-in to reconfigure your product during deployment. The
RehydrateContext passed in to your
rehydrate() method provides access to the metadata associated with the appliance being deployed.
The following methods may be of particular interest:
RehydrateContext.getTargetAppliance() gets the target appliance (the appliance being deployed) and access properties, inputs, outputs, etc.
RehydrateContext.getHostForTargetAppliance() gets the VM hostname
There are some things you should know about the virtual machine environment during rehydration:
The Rehydrate job always runs as 'root' on the deployed system. Any files you copy or create will have root ownership, etc. You will need to change the user and group ownership of any files you create during rehydration as appropriate.
The files included in a file set definition will automatically get set to the 'owner' and 'group' values in the definition. If no value is specified by the plug-in during dehydration or by the user when the assembly is edited, both the owner and group will be set to 'oracle'.
The files included in file set definitions will be created with their original permissions on the VM.
RehydrateUtils in the oracle.as.assemblybuilder.introspector.plugin.util module has the ability to run commands as a specific user. Make sure to start processes as 'oracle' where applicable.
Your plug-in code has access to all the metadata in the assembly during rehydration. You can use the RehydrateContext.getAssemblyNavigator() method to get an AssemblyNavigator to help in finding the metadata you need.
Introspector plug-in Rehydrators are involved in other operations in addition to rehydration. Deployed assemblies can be stopped and started . The Rehydrator.stop() method gives you a chance to shut down your component gracefully when the deployed assembly is stopped. The
Rehydrator.start() method is called during deployment right after the
Rehydrator.rehydrate() method is called, and it will also be invoked when an assembly is started after being stopped.
These sections describe the various Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder metadata constructs that the introspector plug-in writer should be familiar with. The Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder metadata is mostly stored as XML files in the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Catalog, under the $AB_INSTANCE/catalog directory.
Before you continue through the metadata overview, consider what kind of metadata your plug-in should create as a result of introspecting your product.
The simplest option is to produce a single appliance, which is metadata and associated product configuration data that may eventually be deployed as a single Virtual Machine.
A more complex option is to make your plug-in create an atomic assembly, which is a collection of related appliances whose shape cannot be altered by the user - that is, appliances cannot be added to or removed from the atomic assembly, and any connections between those appliances cannot be changed during assembly editing. Each appliance in an atomic assembly will be instantiated as its own VM.
An appliance is the primary output of the introspection process. An appliance is a metadata construct that can (after additional configuration steps) be instantiated as a running VM. Part of the appliance metadata describes the configuration of the product environment on the introspected system. An appliance can also have associated content resources, such as product configuration and other files, that are necessary to instantiate the product on a VM. This product data and appliance metadata is stored in the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder catalog.
The appliance also has a set of resource requirements, which for instance allow the plug-in writer to specify that a VM instantiating the appliance should have a minimum amount of memory or a minimum number of CPUs available to it.
Each appliance also has scalability information that describes the number of VMs that should be created from the appliance - minimum, target, maximum, and absolute maximum. The "target" value is the initial number of VM instances of the Appliance that will be created by default. The minimum and maximum values are bounds on the number of VM instances, and these bounds are in effect after the Assembly containing the Appliance is deployed. The "absolute maximum" value is an upper limit on the maximum value. Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder does not support an absolute maximum of more than 2000.
An appliance also has interfaces, which describe its relationship to the network configuration on the VM's host, as well as inputs and outputs, which describe network connections to other appliances.
The appliance creator is the introspector plug-in or extension name, and cannot be altered by plug-ins. It is added to the appliance automatically. This value is used by the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder framework to determine what plug-in to use to operate on the appliance.
The appliance type defaults to the plug-in or extension name, but a different value can be specified by the plug-in if it is desired. It generally only makes sense to specify a type different from the default if the same plug-in can create multiple appliance types.
After an assembly is deployed, the user may choose to scale the appliances, which is to say that the user may create additional VMs that instantiate the same appliance. The introspector plug-in can specify restrictions on the scaling behavior of the appliances it creates, by specifying minimum and maximum numbers of instantiations of each appliance. Decide whether it makes sense for your appliance(s) to be scalable, and if so what the bounds should be.
An assembly is a container for appliances and sub-assemblies, allowing us to maintain connections between them. Only a non-atomic assembly can have a deployment plan, so a lone appliance or atomic assembly not contained in a 'top-level' assembly cannot be deployed to the virtual environment. (The simplest assembly contains only a single appliance, and the deployment of that assembly would result in a single appliance instance, or VM.)
Assemblies created by introspector plug-ins are called atomic assemblies. Atomic assemblies may not contain sub-assemblies. Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio restricts the editing operations that users can effect on atomic assemblies - the connections between appliances created by the plug-in in an atomic assembly cannot be edited by the user, nor can appliances be added to or deleted from an atomic assembly.
An atomic assembly is deployed as a unit, so the appliances created in the assembly by the plug-in should have their network connections in place where appropriate.
All appliances in an atomic assembly must share file sets. This is because the introspection process only goes to one host to capture the file sets. Appliances that share file sets are called siblings; after the first appliance is created, siblings are added to the atomic assembly using the
Assembly.createSibling() method.
For example, in Oracle WebLogic Server, the Admin Server contains all the same files as any of the Managed Servers, so the Admin Server is the only machine that needs its file sets captured, and the other appliances can be siblings of the Admin Server appliance.
If, however, your product consists of multiple types of different appliances that need to have file sets captured separately, then you need to have your plug-in generate appliances and not an atomic assembly. You may need multiple plug-ins, or you may be able to accomplish this using a single plug-in. Each appliance may then have its file sets captured separately and then it will be left to the User to assemble these appliances into a proper assembly with all the necessary connections.
A property is a name-value pair that stores values of various types (string, integer, password, boolean and file reference). Most other Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder metadata constructs can have properties attached to them, including assemblies, appliances, inputs, outputs and interfaces.
There are two categories of properties: user and system, which differ in that user properties can be overridden by the OVAB user whereas system properties are read-only. Either type of property can be marked as required or not, and in the case of a user property, an initial value can be specified, or not. Before an assembly can be deployed, values must be specified for all required properties on all metadata associated with that assembly. These values can be specified in the assembly metadata during assembly editing or via the deployment plan.
Properties can be sorted into property groups by attaching a common prefix to the names of all the properties that are meant to be grouped together. Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio uses groups as a way to organize the properties when they are displayed to the user. In plug-in code, groups of properties can be retrieved by specifying the name prefix associated with the group.
Properties not in defined groups are displayed in Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio according to a heuristic that groups properties based on common prefixes (if any) and splits the property name string on the '.' character.
Note that property group names starting with "OVAB", "Ovab" or "ovab" are reserved for internal use.
Synthetic properties are properties that do not exist in appliance metadata and are not created by plug-ins; they exist only in the deployment plan. For example, there is a synthetic property named com.oracle.ovab.deployer.anti-affinity-min-servers that may be overridden in a deployment plan to specify how many physical machines should be used to host the VMs for an appliance. This property is only relevant for instantiated appliances and hence does not exist in the appliance metadata.
For most property types, creating the property during dehydration and retrieving its value during rehydration is straightforward. Password properties and file reference properties need some additional explanation though.
Passwords are encrypted when the metadata is persisted to disk in the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder catalog. When retrieving the password value during rehydration you need to use the
TypedValue.getPasswordValue().getAsChar() method to get the clear text value. You will get a
char[] which, for security reasons, you should clear out as soon as you are done with the password, as follows:
Arrays.fill(passwd, (char) 0);
A file reference property has a value that points to a file. The file can be provided by the plug-in during dehydration by specifying an existing content resource. A null value can also be specified. If the property is marked required and a null value is specified by the plug-in, the file must be provided by the user via the deployment plan.
To override a file reference type property via the deployment plan the user specifies a local file from disk. This file is then sent to the VM during deployment and can be accessed from the plug-in rehydration code.
File reference properties are only visible in the deployment plan - they cannot be seen or edited during assembly editing.
To access the file during rehydration the plug-in must get the value of the FileRef property and parse it to find the name of a content resource. The property value will be a URI value like "contentresource:<name>". The methods java.net.URI.getScheme() and java.net.URI.getSchemeSpecificPart() may be useful for parsing the value. Once the content resource name is obtained the content resource can be accessed using the usual SDK methods provided for accessing content resources.
Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder reserves the right to support other URI schemes for FileRef property types in the future. Plug-in code should be robust to this, that is, check the URI scheme to ensure that it is "contentresource", and ignoring properties with an unknown scheme, before trying to look up a corresponding content resource. This is especially true if a plug-in is scanning through all available properties.


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Normally, these meetings are scheduled years in advance. I recall at last year's conference in Bermuda, the folks from Egypt were happily looking forward to hosting us. By spring, it became obvious the meeting would need to be moved. The people in Marrakech stepped up in a big way and have delivered an event that has benefitted the membership, while also providing an enjoyable experience and a glimpse into Moroccan culture and history.
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More than 50% of all deadly train accidents occur from poorly marked train crossing areas. Often victims are taken by surprise because they were not aware they were in a train crossing area. The victim then does not have enough time to evade the situation and the freight train driver does not have enough time to stop resulting in an accident.
Other types of train accidents or railroad accidents resulting in injury:
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- A train accident colliding with another train
- A train accident colliding with a pedestrian
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Mechanical Failure – Faulty breaking mechanisms, poor maintenance or mechanical malfunction.
Heavy Cargo – Failure to abide by government cargo weight regulations decreases the ability for a train to successfully stop when attempting to avoid a collision.
Conductor Error – Fatigue, intoxication, failure to sound a warning horn or other human error can contribute to an accident.
Poorly Marked Crossings – Automotives unknowingly fall in the line of danger when a train crossing area is not properly marked.
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Approximately 1,000 people die in train accidents each year. In addition chemical spills occur biweekly as a result of train accidents. Chemical spills can range from minor cleanup to major cleanup requiring the evacuation of local residents.
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- In 2011 there were 106 accidents involving passenger trains.
- Hazardous cargo derailments occur approximately every 2 weeks in the United States.
- 2,086 persons were evacuated from their homes because of chemical spill after a train collision.
- According to the Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration, approximately 80% of railroad crossings do not have adequate warning signs or devices.
- While train and vehicle collisions have decreased over the past few years, pedestrian accidents involving trains have increased.


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Grillo seems to be reprising mercantilism. Add in a one-party state and a hero figure and you get classical fascism. Fascism does work, albeit not very well or fairly. Unlike socialism and communism, the populace has an incentive to work and accumulate- but innovation is discouraged and competition is outright forbidden. For those interested check out National Recovery Act ca 1933


text: At the Casino April 5, 2010 Issue Floorscapes Casino carpets By Lauren Collins Table of Contents About seventy per cent of the world's tufted carpet is produced in the vicinity of Dalton, Georgia, according to the Carpet and Rug Institute, a trade association whose continuing-education program includes such seminars as "Fibers and Yarns" and "Carpet in Acute Care Facilities." On its Web site, the institute boasts, "Gone are the days of having to select only conventional loop pile. . . . New technology can produce multilevel loop and cut-loop patterns allowing diamond, bow, pin dot or fleur-de-lis designs that 'pop out' in sculptured effects." Almost all of the world's most elaborate tufted carpets, according to an informal study by a New York-based photographer named Chris Maluszynski, can be found in the casinos of Las Vegas. Maluszynski, who moved to the U.S. from Stockholm five years ago, first noticed casino carpets—like the upholstery on Chinatown buses, they tend toward trippy, Day-Glo patterns—on assignment for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He was supposed to be doing a story on the World Series of Poker. "You step out of the plane in Vegas and you're surrounded by slot machines and all these sounds and lights and colors," Maluszynski recalled. "You're in a prison of sensory impressions. I was trying to rest my eyes, and I looked at the carpet and thought, Shit, I can't do it there, either." Just for fun, Maluszynski started taking pictures. He found himself thinking about the scene in the movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" in which Johnny Depp's character hallucinates that his leg is being attacked by a deep pile carpet, which the movie's production designer described as resembling "living pink worms." As far as Maluszynski can tell, Vegas carpets come in three categories. Many of them are geometric: dots, orbs, metastasizing lattices. Then, there are what Maluszynski calls "the organic ones," which feature curvilinear elements: underwatery ripples in turquoise and cobalt, gilded tendrils that seem to be derived from plants. At the nicer hotels, carpets often have themes. The Luxor used to have sphinxes. New York, New York once had subway tokens. At the Paris, the carpet evokes lily pads. "It made me think of the Impressionists," Maluszynski said. "It was, like, spots of different colors, but they were almost smeared." (His new show, "Feared and Loathed: The Carpets of Las Vegas," opens at the 25CPW gallery, on Central Park West, this week.) Maluszynski is an admirer of the Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk, who, several years ago, published a series called "Office," which made visual exotica of potted plants and trash cans. The casino carpets are fascinating in their baroque mundanity. Like those public-service announcements at the beginning of movies, in which there's always a popcorn box with legs, the carpets represent an aesthetic tradition that is as identifiable as it is mystifying. Theories abound about why casino carpets look the way they do. The camouflaging argument makes sense—the more curlicues, the less noticeable the dirt and Coke and vomit. But Christine B. Whittemore, who runs a blog called Carpetology, believes that the carpets' primary function is psychological. "A lot of the busyness of the patterns may be about keeping people active, as too much relaxing may not inspire gambling," she said. "You also have to be careful not to use the same pattern on stairs as you do on flat surfaces, because of how the brain processes depth." Recently, Whittemore took a tour of Steve Wynn's new Encore hotel. She recalled, "There's some carpet in this delightful little café-bar area, and what comes to mind is Marc Chagall—the idea was the butterfly, the metamorphosis, the dream." The butterflies flutter over a scarlet grid. Whittemore went on, "The head designer explained that red is a good-luck color in many Asian cultures." In 2005, David Schwartz, the director of the Center for Gaming Research, at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, gave a talk called "Art for Gamblers' Feet: Casino Carpets from Coast to Coast." He posted a gallery of pictures and wrote on his Web site, "Note the regal tones of Caesars Palace, the bountiful bouquet of Mandalay Place . . . all whispering 'Gamble, gamble' just out of the range of consciousness." Schwartz keeps getting calls from people who want to buy the carpets. As for Maluszynski, he's moving on to motel bedspreads. ♦ Lauren Collins began working at The New Yorker in 2003 and became a staff writer in 2008. 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The Montessori School of Lakewood is a private school for children 2.5 to 12 years.
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The Montessori School of Lakewood recognizes the child's need to learn by doing, therefore we provide an environment rich in experiences.
The children work spontaneously and with pleasure.
Teachers work with each child according to individual requirements and interests.
In this environment, each child is able to reach the same or even a higher level of scholastic attainment as under the traditional system.
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Definition of extirpate in English:
extirpateSyllabification: ex·tir·pate
Pronunciation: /ˈekstərˌpāt /
verb[with object]
Root out and destroy completely: the use of every legal measure to extirpate this horrible evil from the land
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- And the roots of the 1950 conflict have yet to be extirpated.
- Certainly whites must keep extirpating vestiges of racism, even within their own souls.
- Much as one would wish it so, politically motivated violence directed at civilians by desperate people can no more be extirpated than can 'evil' itself.
weed out, destroy, eradicate, stamp out, root out, wipe out, eliminate, suppress, crush, put down, put an end to, get rid of
late Middle English (as extirpation): from Latin exstirpare, from ex- 'out' + stirps 'a stem'.
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- Most people would notice a correlation like that, just in terms of cause, effect, the apparent proximity of events, etc., but not our eagle-eyed extirpator of heresy.
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A message from the Director of Alumni Relations...
Greetings Dragons,
Your connection to Tiffin University does not stop after graduation; it is a lifelong connection that we truly value. There are several ways that you can show your DRAGON PRIDE years after you leave campus.
If you are interested in the DRAGON PRIDE program and want to learn more about how you can stay connected, browse the information below or contact me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The mission of the Dragon P.R.I.D.E. program is to build and cultivate the DRAGON PRIDE between TU alumni, current students, family and friends of Tiffin University. We strive to build relationships, strengthen traditions and develop a lifelong loyalty to Tiffin University, all in pursuit of the Universitys mission of a life of excellence, leadership and service.
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I had a new girlfriend, and we listened to Is This It all the time. Our love story was based on this album. When we play some songs live, I can feel that some people are seeing parts of their past again— they remember what they were doing when they first heard the song. Being a musician is such a good job, your music is the soundtrack of a lot of people's lives.
The Strokes could make a great album right now, but if it's just the same thing, what's the point? I know when we did Moon Safari, it was like, "OK, if people like that, they will listen to it forever. We don't need to make another one." The Strokes' first album is perfect like it is. They don't need to make another one of those."—
Nicolas Gaudin, Air
5-10-15-20: Air | Features | Pitchfork
This is a great interview. Also reminds me of how bummed I am that I missed out on seeing Coeur de Pirate on Friday, could have used a shot of nostalgia for sitting in that apartment in Angers at 3am.
Lana Del Rey: Born to Die | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
At this point, I don't really care about whether or not Lana Del Rey is 'authentic.' While she has obviously been unfairly criticized because she is a woman, we need to focus on the unhealthy vision of femininity that she presents.
Matador Records | Perfume Genius Biography
Mike Hadreas' song-by-song explanations of each song on the new Perfume Genius record are amazing and incredibly thoughtful. This may be the best bio I have ever encountered, actually.
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To be fair, Klosterman did end his piece by saying that he was rooting for Merill Garbus' legacy as a genius, though he warned of possible, impending "doom." After all, maybe in a warped, tough love kind of way, this piece could be considered a preemptive favor to Garbus and her fans alike. It's right of critics to doubt and question the "genius" label whenever these unwieldy things get hitched to a musician. But it's Klosterman's method of dissecting Garbus that feels snidely less-than-honest, not to mention less-than-informed.
In some ways, this could be because Chuck Klosterman represents a slightly older guard of music critics, the ones stuck firmly in a mostly male-dominated High Fidelity kind of indie-verse. Maura Johnston, music editor of the Village Voice, rightly labeled his position on Garbus as "Old Man Yells At Cloud That He Seems To Find Gender-Ambiguous" but Klosterman's piece seems more deliberately irresponsible and misleading than that. Perhaps, "Old Man Attempts to Discredit Artist Who Challenges Gender Binary by Calling Her 'Asexual'" would be more apt. Thing is, it's been over a decade since High Fidelity came out. Indie rock is no longer fairly represented by the slightly greasy, slightly antisocial Rob Gordons of the world. Time to get with the times, Mr. Klosterman."—On tUnE-YarDs, Chuck Klosterman and the End of the High Fidelity Era of Music Criticism | The Measure
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this isnt so bad, but oh god, paper heart was awful!
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I appreciate the number of times you saw Scott Pilgrim.
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Paper Heart is definitely not the worst movie on this list. (I didn't love it, but I did respect it for trying a different way of story telling.) Guess which ones I only saw for the trainwreck factor or on account of being stuck with a group of people who wanted to see it!
I think I personally accounted for about a fifth of Scott Pilgrim's box office income. I'm still sad that it didn't get more attention and came out during the Michael Cera hate saturation point.
And, uh, thanks.
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I like James Blake when he's not claiming he knows what women want/don't want, but this really does sum up his music pretty well.


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Calm down Nick, New Girl will be back with new epsidoes next season.
The upfronts are next week– it's like Christmas for me! Vulture is assessing the big four broadcast networks and what they're trying to achieve with their schedules for the 2012-2013 season. First up is NBC, which still is trying to pull itself out of the pit dug by past management, but has some hope thanks to the success of The Voice and Smash.
Meanwhile, we know a few more shows that will be on NBC's schedule. In addition to The New Normal (which snicks told you about), the Peacock Network has ordered the Anne Heche comedy Save Me about a woman who think she's channeling God after her marriage falls apart. The series also stars American Horror Story's seductive maid Alexandra Breckenridge and the ridiculously handsome Michael Landes.
NBC also ordered Revolution, a thriller form J.J. Abrams and Supernatural creator Eric Kripke set in a world where all forms of energy have ceased to exist.
Finally, late on Monday NBC ordered two more comedies, Animal Practice which stars Justin Kirk as a veterinarian who loves animals but hates humans, and 1600 Penn, a family comedy set in the White House and co-written by Book of Mormon's Josh Gad.
That makes five new comedies for NBC which is looking likely to order a final season of 30 Rock, one made of only 13 – 14 episodes. If Community and Parks & Recreation get renewed, they may also get similarly short seasons. So far, all of NBC's new comedies are single-camera shows, so it looks like they're not dumbing things down.
I have one more link to share about the upfronts. Jace Lacob has read the scripts for this year's pilots and picked the best dramas of the lot. He's pretty positive about Bryan Fuller's Hannibal and Mockingbird Lane.
American Horror Story has added award-winning actor James Cromwell to its season-two cast. He'll play a doctor at the mental hospital and another rival (the main one, apparently) to Jessica Lange's couple.
When asked by The Hollywood Reporter, Connor Paolo said he'd be open to returning to Gossip Girl providing his two shows can make the scheduling work.
USA's Political Animals just added Dylan Baker as the Vice-President who clashes with Sigourney Weaver's Secretary of State.
Max Greenfield taught a spinning class for charity this weekend and did an incredible job of it. Even better, he did it in character as Schmidt.
EW has a preview image of how Lady Gaga will look when she appears in the May 20 episode of The Simpsons. It's one of 18 looks.
Showtime has ordered a third season of compelling softcore trainwreck Gigolos, though Jimmy and Vin might not be back. (So they're keeping Brace? Uhhmm-kay.) Interestingly, producer Richard Grieco wants someone to go gay for pay.
The return of Sherlock was a good night for PBS. The popular mystery series was watched by 3.2 million viewers who watched it live. That doubles PBS' average performance but doesn't match Downton Abbey.
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Stephen Colbert's next stop in promoting I Am a Pole (And So Can You!) is a visit to the Live! set.
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Ricky Martin is visiting the View set today to perform with the cast of Evita.
Glee (Fox) 8:00 PM ET
Last year, Glee's prom had the drama of Kurt and Karofsky being elected prom king and queen as well as Glee showing us it could make a performance of "Friday" a surprising amount of fun. Whatever they've got planned for this year, it's going to be hard to beat the ghost of proms past.
Cougar Town (ABC) 8:30 PM ET
A hurricane is expected to blow through town so you know that that means for Jules — time to break out the wine. Okay, that's Jules' reaction to everything. Meanwhile, Travis is about to make a move on Laurie, which also makes Jules want a drink.
L.A. Complex (CW) 9:00 PM ET
While Tariq and Kaldrick may be an intriguing couple, we have to watch them go through the usual storyline where Kaladrick treats Tariq badly to cover up for their relationship.
New Girl (Fox) 9:00 PM ET
For the first season finale, Nick considers moving out, prompting a trip to the desert for the whole gang. This should be an interesting test of what kind of show New Girl wants to be — does it wrap its first season setting up a new status quo for the second season, or is New Girl the kind of show that resets everything for the next season?
The Voice (NBC) 9:00 PM ET
It's time to announce this season's winner… and find ways to fill up a two-hour results show.
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Dan's next stop is the University of Central Florida where he'll talk with a lesbian who is starting to notice she sometimes finds herself attracted to men. Uh-oh.
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Tonight, Andy's guests are chef Cat Cora and a return visit by The Real Housewives of Orange County's Alexis Bellino. Sigh. With all my "Who is this Bravolebrity?" searches, Google is starting to think I'm a huge fan of the Real Housewives.
Chelsea Lately (E!) 11:00 PM ET
Not only is Ross Mathews on tonight's panel, Morgan Spurlock will talk with Chelsea about his new documentary Mansome. I bet Chelsea has a few snarky comments about the focus of Mansome, which is men's grooming
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This week, the Chew team is celebrating Mother's Day by including their mother's on the show. Tomorrow, it's Clinton Kelly's turn.
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A first and a last.
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Prepping myself for the inevitable emotional trauma that is Series 7.
So here's some happy Doctor. :)
Ahahahaha, did I just lose 8 followers from this activity?
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Race Car Cake
What young boy, and girl for that matter, doesn't love go karts! This cake was made for a boy who was turning 10 and having his birthday party at K1 Speed, an indoor karting center.
He loved the idea of a tire cake with fire, and wanted a go kart on top. The cake is vanilla with cream cheese buttercream.
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LeBron back to Cleveland, and that's not a bad thing
- 12:41 pm Friday, July 11th, 2014 by Mark Bradley
LeBron James is taking his talents to …
How about we just retire that tired line here and now? How about we just say, "LeBron James is headed back to Cleveland to play for the Cavaliers?" Is that good enough?
I'll be honest: I never thought he'd leave Miami — a good organization based in Florida, which has nice weather and no state income tax — but the Cavaliers, of all teams, closed the sale. (LeBron announced his decision via an essay on SI.com, which beats the heck of "The Decision," that overblown hour of ego-gratification that aired on ESPN in [More]
Carmelo to the Heat? It'd be fascinating
- 9:02 am Thursday, June 12th, 2014 by Mark Bradley
ESPN's Brian Windhorst and Marc Stein report that the Miami Heat are preparing to pursue the free-agent-to-be Carmelo Anthony in the hope that their Big Three will become a foursome. On its face, this is astonishing news. The Heat's biggest task of Summer 2014 figured to be keeping the Big Three intact — LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh can all opt out of their contracts. But Pat Riley, who's the best in the business, wants to add yet another All-Star to his mix.
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Tokyo Promenade: A Content Management System on top of Tokyo Cabinet
I didn't know that Mikio Hirabayashi, the creator of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet, the successor of Tokyo Cabinet is also offering GNU licensed content management system: ☞ Tokyo Promenade that runs on top of Tokyo Cabinet.
According to the main page, Tokyo Promenade offers the following features:
- simple and logical user interface : aims at conciseness like LaTeX
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- hybrid data structure : available as BBS, blog, and Wiki
- sufficient functionality : supports user management and file management
- high performance : uses embedded database, Tokyo Cabinet
- lightweight : implemented by C99 and without any dependency on other libraries
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These are the things Julian has slurped tastes of from our fingers over the last week or so: avocado, extra-virgin olive oil + red wine vinegar, tiny crumbles of Piave, cream cheese, Grade B maple syrup, bacon (which he liked so much he went back for thirds – he is his daddy's boy).
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Wal-Mart's Solorzano leaves Latam CEO post
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) is replacing the chief of its Latin American unit, who had run the retailer's business in Mexico when the company reportedly began a probe into bribery allegations in the country.
Eduardo Solorzano will step down as president and chief executive of the unit, and will be succeeded by Enrique Ostale. Solorzano will remain as chairman of the board of directors at Wal-Mart de Mexico (WALMEXV.MX), the Mexican unit of the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart said on Friday.
The move comes as the world's largest retailer remains under fire following a New York Times report in April 2012 that said Wal-Mart had intentionally stifled an internal probe in 2005 into allegations that Walmex officials had paid bribes to help build stores in Mexico.
Solorzano, 55, became the CEO of Walmex in early 2005 and held that role until early 2010, when he became president and CEO of Walmart Latin America.
Solorzano's career at Walmex began in 1985. According to the Times and emails released by U.S. lawmakers on Thursday, Wal-Mart executives were made aware of alleged bribery in the fall of 2005.
Wal-Mart has said it is cooperating with the U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Mexican authorities in their investigations of the bribery allegations.
The timing of Solorzano leaving the Latin America job had nothing to do with the investigation, the company said.
"He will remain as chairman of the Walmart de Mexico Board of Directors. The changes we're announcing today are just part of our normal process as we work to develop global talent," Wal-Mart said in a statement.
Wal-Mart shares edged up 27 cents to $68.63 on Thursday.
Ostale, 52, had been president and CEO of Walmart Chile, formerly known as D&S, and will take on his new role in Mexico City on March 1, Wal-Mart said. He will be responsible for operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua, which include 3,832 retail units and 373,000 employees.
Walmex's chief operating officer, Gian Carlo Nucci, will replace Ostale as president and CEO of Walmart Chile. Nucci, 43, joined Walmex in 1993.
Ostale joined D&S in 1989, left in 2000 and returned in 2006. Wal-Mart bought D&S in 2009. Wal-Mart said Ostale was key in leading the transformation of D&S to Walmart Chile.
Ostale is set to become the fourth CEO of Walmart Latin America since that position was created in 2004.
Separately, Danish pension fund PFA Pension said it would no longer invest in Wal-Mart, saying the retailer does not meet its standards for workers' rights, citing recent events such as a protest by U.S. workers the day after Thanksgiving, the busy shopping day known as Black Friday.
PFA Pension said it would withdraw an investment of 50 million Danish kroner ($8.79 million). The fund said it had pulled out of its Wal-Mart investment in the past, but then bought back in as it started to see improvements.
(The story is refiled as Wal-Mart corrects Solorzano's age)
(Reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago, additional reporting by Cyntia Barrera Diaz in Mexico City; editing by John Wallace, Nick Zieminski and Richard Chang)
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Year: 2010
Cameron Wake leads NFL in sacks – and couldn't care less
- 5:29 pm Friday, December 31st, 2010 by Brian Biggane
If most of us were one game away from being crowned sack king of the NFL, the champagne would be on ice and some kind of trophy would be at the ready. Not Cameron Wake.
Wake insisted Friday he didn't even know where he stands or who's been creeping up on him these last two sack-less weeks as the Dolphins wrapped up the intense part of their preparations for Sunday's season finale at New England.
"I don't really concentrate on my stats," Wake said when asked how important it would be to him to lead the league. "I didn't even know my numbers until Channing (Crowder) told me. I didn't know how many tackles I had, who was behind me, in front of me. I just try to go out there and win." [More]
Miami Dolphins Talking Points: Michael Lombardi report hard to believe
- 7:30 am Friday, December 31st, 2010 by Brian Biggane
We like NFL insider Michael Lombardi and frequently take his scoops as gospel. But one point he made this week is a bit tough to swallow, which is where we begin our talking points for Friday:
1. It's hard to imagine a bad loss this week could get coach Tony Sparano fired.
According to Lombardi, Sparano is safe unless things go very badly at New England on Sunday. So we're supposed to believe that losing to Cleveland, Buffalo and Detroit at home didn't cost him his job but getting pasted by 13-2 New England could?
For one, it seems unlikely Bill Belichick will be in any mood to run up the score against Miami the way he did against Rex Ryan and the Jets a few weeks ago. As soon as he gets a comfortable lead he'll start resting his starters, and while the Dolphins had plenty of trouble against Dallas' backups in the preseason finale last September, their starters should be able to hold their own against the likes of Brian Hoyer, Alge Crumpler and Julian Edelman. [More]
Video: The latest on Tony Sparano and the Dolphins
- 6:46 pm Thursday, December 30th, 2010 by Post Staff
I break down the latest on Tony Sparano's future with the Dolphins as of Thursday evening:
Dan Henning ducks retirement question; defends Chad Henne, Tony Sparano
- 2:09 pm Thursday, December 30th, 2010 by Brian Biggane
Given the opportunity to announce his retirement, offensive coordinator Dan Henning took a pass Thursday. Then he launched into a vigorous defense of both coach Tony Sparano and quarterback Chad Henne.
Henning, who at 68 is widely anticipated to retire after the season, was asked pointedly at the beginning of his final get-together with the South Florida media if it was his last press conference.
"Are you telling me something I don't know?" he responded, before adding, "I'm coaching a game here, men. You don't think about anything other than coaching this game." [More]
Inside the NFL: Bill Parcells convinces Stephen Ross to retain head coach Tony Sparano … for now
- 8:17 am Thursday, December 30th, 2010 by Post Staff
Former Oakland and Cleveland executive Michael Lombardi reported last night on Showtime's "Inside the NFL" that Bill Parcells has convinced Dolphins owner Stephen Ross to retain head coach Tony Sparano — for now.
Lombardi qualified his report by stating that "things could change with a bad loss (this Sunday) in New England, but for right now, Tony Sparano is due to stay."
Sparano's future with the Dolphins became muddied in recent weeks, with his team eliminated from the playoffs after losing consecutive home games to the Browns, Bills and Lions to finish a 1-7 season at home. The Dolphins are 25-22 in three seasons under Sparano, with a division title and playoff appearance in 2008. The Dolphins have not publicly announced anything regarding Sparano's future, and Dolphins president Mike Dee declined to comment about the report, referring to the team's "one voice" policy, in which Sparano is the only person who comments about football matters.
Miami Dolphins Talking Points: Brady's pass record blows Sparano's mind
- 7:30 am Thursday, December 30th, 2010 by Brian Biggane
1. Coach Tony Sparano admitted Wednesday that Tom Brady's latest streak is mind-boggling.
Maybe it's because his own quarterback has gotten through only three of 14 games this season without being intercepted, but Sparano said Brady's NFL-record streak of 319 passes without an interception "blows my mind a little bit."
"When you think about tipped balls, the level of play in secondaries, how good those people are in the back end," Sparano said, shaking his head. "But a simple tipped ball — a tipped ball has haunted us three or four times in different ways, whether it just flutters up in the air and lands on the ground. To think none of those have happened in 300-plus attempts is pretty impressive." [More]
Tony Sparano pulls out the stats to defend Chad Henne's recent play
- 4:07 pm Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 by Brian Biggane
Some things never change, and it seems one of those is coach Tony Sparano's insistence that, but for a few mistakes, quarterback Chad Henne has had a pretty good first full season as quarterback coach of the Dolphins.
As attention turned away from the ending of Sunday's 34-27 loss to Detroit and toward this week's finale at New England, Sparano was at the ready with statistics to underscore his conviction that Henne has played well in his last two games, in which he was a combined 62-of-89 passing for 554 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions.
"The last couple weeks he's put out there have been pretty good," he said. "In two weeks he's completed 68 percent of his passes, he's 5-of-6 in the red (zone), he's 41 percent (converting) third downs. As an offense that's where we are, and he's the quarterback." [More]
Patriots coach Bill Belichick recounts the story of Phil Simms when stressing patience with young QBs
- 12:07 pm Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 by Post Staff
So Dolphins fans haven't been too pleased with Chad Henne this year, in case you haven't heard. Henne, anointed by Dolphins management as the team's quarterback of the present and future, has not played well this year, with a 15:18 touchdown to interception ratio, a 77.1 passer rating (26th best) and an 0-for-5 mark on fourth-quarter comeback attempts this year as the Dolphins have fallen short of the playoffs for the ninth time in 10 seasons.
But is it time to give up on Henne, after 26 career starts and two seasons as a starter? Patriots coach Bill Belichick didn't comment on Henne's situation, but he certainly remembers a similar situation from his time with the Giants 30 years ago.
Simms, the seventh overall draft pick in 1979, threw 39 touchdowns against 42 interceptions in his first three seasons, while posting quarterback ratings of 66.0, 58.9 and 74.0.
"We had three or four years where the fans and the media and all were talking about him being a bust and wasted draft pick and all that," Belichick said Wednesday morning on a conference call with South Florida media. "And he's one of the best players that ever played for the Giants."
Miami Dolphins Talking Points: Time for Dan Henning to bid adieu
- 7:30 am Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 by Brian Biggane
1. Regardless of the future of Tony Sparano, Dan Henning has to be nudged back into retirement.
Henning likes to talk about how he already has retired twice and only came back this time as a favor to his old buddy Bill Parcells. This time, at 68, he should be advised that whatever else happens, he won't be back in Miami in 2011.
Could this be enough to save Sparano's job? It's doubtful, though hiring a dynamic young coordinator and then letting him do his play-calling thing might be an argument Sparano would want to use when he meets with owner Stephen Ross about his future.
Like Parcells, Henning is run-oriented and conservative when it comes to running an offense, and those characteristics worked against the Dolphins' efforts to build any kind of lead all season. Then, when Chad Henne was unable to perform late in games, the many times the Dolphins settled for field goals instead of gambled for potential touchdowns came back to bite them in the butt.
Miami Dolphins Talking Points: C Joe Berger may be on his way out
- 7:30 am Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 by Brian Biggane
Largely overlooked in the 34-27 loss to Detroit Sunday that left the Dolphins with a 1-7 home record for 2010 was the fact Richie Incognito started at center ahead of Joe Berger. That's where we start our talking points for Tuesday of the final week of the regular season:
1. Incognito is likely in and Berger out as the center heading to 2011.
Incognito played a lot of center early in his career and, after getting all the snaps there last week, was the surprise choice to start there against the Lions. Coach Tony Sparano said Monday the move had a lot to do with ongoing injury problems Berger has been battling, but you've got to think this was a way to see if Incognito can get the interior of the offensive line back on track after a poor season. [More]


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Common Homebrew mistakes Common homebrew mistakes are common as most have made them. Every brewer has either made, or been given some kind of monstrosity that is supposed to be beer, wine or elderflower champagne. For some these early homebrew … Continue reading
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