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I roasted some butternut squash, then stored it in the refrigerator for a few days before I had time to puree it all. When I pureed it I discovered that it had fermented. What caused this to happen? It smelled and looked fine, but the bag I stored it in kept puffing up and it tastes strongly fermented like I added yeast to it.
Assuming you cooked thoroughly, your squash got innoculated after you took it out of the oven. Was your counter clean? Had you just made bread? What's the history of the storage bag? Did you recently spill yogurt in the fridge? You've got a source of contamination, and need to think carefully about everything that came in contact with the squash after you pulled it from the oven.
Pureeing creates and enormous amount of surface area to become contaminated. This is the same reason ground meat is so dangerous. Roasting the squash helped to turn much of the starch into sugar. as Roland Taylor said, the squash likely picked up spores through the air or from your hands. A warm sugary squash is a great place for yeast to begin turning sugar into CO2 or alcohol. I would try cooling it down faster or pureeing immediately after cooking and then simmering to kill any live cultures that might cause fermentation.
I think Wayfaring nailed it. Bread is most likely. After years of baking you may find you have a certain population established in your kitchen as well. It is also possible you had your windows open because it was a fine spring day and some natural yeast wandered in.
Could be that it picked up yeast or some kind of fermenting bacteria from contact with your hands, or even from the air through spores. If the agent responsible can survive the cold, then that explains it.
Being in a bag would help that process btw.
A second possibility is that you got some bacteria/fungi from the air on your squash. It's easily possible.


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I use ubuntu 10.10 and installed the Eclipse indigo from the official eclipse website. It's a java editor (not CDT) and characters on the content assist popup are not readable.
Is there any solution?
After little research:
gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0
paste and save:
Then you must logout or change your style in order to reload new settings.
Let me to cite answer for 12.04
Simply edit the file /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc search for
change the shade percentage from 0.94 to whatever visible like 0.54
then it works.
Your screen capture looks what I get. It's OK for me but if it's no good on your screen, you should be able to change the colours by going to Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts and changing either or both of 'Content Assist background color', 'Content Assist foreground color'. But it doesn't look like you can separately control the colours for highlighted and other lines.
When using the default Ubuntu 12.04 Ambiance colour scheme I changed tooltip background colour to tooltip_bg_color:#7F7F7F allowing inspector popup windows to show visible text:
Log out of ubuntu and log back in to see the effect
For more of a Ubuntu experience try using #DA8C6D as the new background colour.
This might be a dumb answer but... is it possible that the font color is set to white so you can't actually see anything? I guess you can change the font color somewhere in in Preferences.

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January 30, 2013
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Funeral services were held at the Iona Presbyterian Church in Iona, MN on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Deb Klaassen officiating.
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Evelyn Lentz was born on February 27, 1925 on the family farm near Reading, Minnesota to George and Josephine Virt Hindt. She grew up on the family farm and attended Country School District # 70. On July 14, 1947 she and William "Junior" Lentz were married at the St. Columba Rectory in Iona, Minnesota. Following their marriage they made their home in Iona. Evelyn worked at Red Owl in Slayton and later a Midwest Supply in Slayton. Evelyn taught ceramic classes for many years and had a shop in their home. Evelyn also helped Junior with his tree trimming business and they both worked as custodian for the Iona Presbyterian Church for many years. Junior passed away on August 9, 1998. Evelyn remained in their home until October 2011 when she moved to the Golden Living Center-Slayton. Evelyn passed away there on Friday, January 25, 2013 at the age of 87. She was a member of the Iona Presbyterian Church in Iona where she served as elder. Evelyn was a charter member of the VFW Auxiliary Galles-Piepgras #9680. She also was a member of the Iona Senior Citizens. Evelyn enjoyed square dancing, ceramics, playing cards, doing crafts, crocheting fishing and traveling.
Survivors include her 10 brothers and sisters and their spouses: Josephine "Doll" Taylor, Fergus Falls, MN, Dorothy Gehlsen, Slayton, MN, Marion and Joseph Lentz, Slayton, MN, Rich Hindt, Iona, MN, Florence "Tootie" and Irvin Greger, Minneapolis, MN, Helen Vogel, Slayton, MN, Rose Knutson, Redwood Falls, MN, Lloyd Hindt, Iona, MN, Carol and Pete Kuhl, Ontario, CA and Gary and Jenni Hindt, Wabasso, MN; two sisters-in-law Phyllis Hindt, Minneapolis, MN and Joyce Hindt, Lincoln, IL and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Junior; infant daughter Valarie Kay Lentz; sister Clara Spartz and her husband Frank; brothers: Donald and George Hindt; four brothers-in-law: Bill Taylor, Howard Gehlsen, Pete Vogel and Mahlon Knutson; two sisters-in-law: JoAnn Hindt and Carol Hindt.
Funeral services were held at the Iona Presbyterian Church in Iona, MN on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Deb Klaassen officiating. The organist was Cheri Paulsen with special music by Erica Huber. The pallbearers were Alvin Boock, Al Lentz, Larry Vogel, Denny Spartz, Jeff Knutson, Randy Hindt, Terry Hindt and Rodney Spartz. Interment is Slayton Memorial Gardens, Slayton, MN.To send condolences visit totzkefuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial are preferred.
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5 Apr 2013 4:25 AM #1
Unanswered: GXT 2.2.5 charts problem on firefox and safari
I'm having problems with charts on safari and firefox.
I'm using version 2.2.5 of GXT and recently I add some charts to my project. It works fine on chrome and ie but I can't see anything on safari and firefox, even if I look the charts on sencha site.
Please help me
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Have you tried running the code from one of the samples on the website that do work? Go to http://sencha.com/examples-2/, find an example that works, and copy the source from the Code tab into a project, and try only drawing that sample in your entrypoint.
If that does not work, it suggests that something is wrong with your project setup. Does firebug show any errors? Safari has an Inspector tool also that might also indicate if files are missing or errors are occurring.
If it does work, then it suggests that something is wrong with your chart setup. Try reducing your project setup to a single entrypoint and share it here so that we can try to help find what the problem is.
Moved to Q&A as there is no bug reported in this post.
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Thanks for the reply, but I solve the problem.
Mia culpa, I recently reinstall my pc and i miss the flash plugin for firefox and safary. After installing the plugin all works perfectly.
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Roger Ebert passed away yesterday at the age of 70. I'm not sure if there's ever been a more influential or well-known critic, and I mean critic of anything, not just film. He was the first person to receive a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism, back in 1975, and only 4 other people have received that reward since. He had fought with cancer for 11 years prior to his death, losing a large portion of his jaw and his ability to speak due to surgery complications in 2006.
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Hopefully during the past several days you've read a variety of stories on a host of Pirates who visited the area as part of the team's annual Winter Caravan.
I know I read them all, being a lifelong Bucs fan, and found them to be very interesting.
However, while they provided insight into the upcoming season, they all lacked some REAL information regarding the players/ coaches/ broadcasters. The information you've been craving (you know, the real juicy stuff) but no one had the courage to ask - until now.
During Wednesday's visit of pitchers Jeff Karstens, James McDonald, second baseman Neil Walker, pitching coach Ray Searage and broadcaster Tim Neverett I asked the following probing questions:
1. What is your favorite sports movie?
2. What is your favorite non-sports movie?
3. What person living or dead would you most like to meet?
4. If you weren't doing what you're doing what would you be doing?
Their answers were to say the least surprising and interesting. And here they are:
1. Sports movie: "Pride of the Yankees"
2. Non-sports movie: "Spartacus."
3. Person you'd want to meet: JFK
4. Occupation not related to baseball: Architect. Searage said he always admired his father, who was an architect.
1. Sports movie: "Major League"
2. Non-sports movie: "Old School" and "Dumb and Dumber"
3. Person you'd want to meet: Michael Jordan
4. Occupation not related to baseball: Something pertaining to physical therapy. Karstens said he's always had an interest in physical therapy and never was confident he'd ever make it in baseball.
1. Sports movie: "Sandlot"
2. Non-sports movie: "Dumb and Dumber"
3. Person you'd want to meet: Babe Ruth
4. Occupation not related to baseball: Owning a business. Walker said he thought somewhat of an advantage since he has "decent people skills." He also said he would seriously consider it once his playing days are over.
(At this point, I feel I must inform you the answer of "Dumb and Dumber" from both Karstens and Walker is not, I repeat, not a misprint. I posed the question to both in different sections of our gathering spot. There was positively no way either could have heard the other's answer.)
1. Sports movie: "Hardball "
2. Non-sports movie: "Transformers 2"
3. Person you'd want to meet: Jackie Robinson
4. Occupation not related to baseball: Fishing guide. McDonald said he'd like to take people on chartered fishing trips.
1. Sports movie: "Slapshot"
2. Non-sports movie: "Braveheart"
3. Person you'd want to meet: JFK
4. Occupation not related to broadcasting: Neverett said he couldn't answer this question because he's always been interested in broadcasting. He said he got his start as an intern with Nashville, N.C., a former AA affiliate of the Pirates. He said at the beginning of the season he was doing anything and everything for the broadcasting team except actual broadcasting. He said he begged and begged and finally they allowed him to do play by play for a couple of innings part of the way through the season. He said by the end of the season they apparently were happy with his work because be was doing every inning of both games of doubleheaders. Neverett said he's also done some Olympic games and currently does some college basketball.
OK, there are the answers, What can we make of them? Other than the similar answer by Karstens and Walker, which I personally find a bit scary, I haven't a clue!
(Rossano is news editor for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times.)


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Says assadmd, "Cape Town's sunsets are beautiful, but so are the sunrises. This was one of those beautiful mornings where the mist filled the city and the rising sun left a beautiful orange haze. This was photographed off De Waal Drive."
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I'm about to order an additional lens ring for use with my RS-1 and was planning to also purchase a universal stop plate for it. I don't see it in the store - has it been discontinued?
I'm about to order an additional lens ring for use with my RS-1 and was planning to also purchase a universal stop plate for it. I don't see it in the store - has it been discontinued?
Thanks Heinz, but that's not what I was referring to. I meant the plate referred to in the third post of this thread:
it's has a slot with nylon inserts that allow the stop position to be customized. I have one in the ring on my Nikkor 16mm and wanted another for the ring I plan to buy for the Sigma 8mm.
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Hi Mos,
I'd prefer the shaved Nikkor 10.5 over the Sigma 8mm. I own both and I shaved my 10.5 because I've been disappointed with the Sigma. It tend's to get soft very early and the quality of the pics is not what I liked. .Specially at f 8 or f11. But this is my personal feeling.
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We are finishing the tool to make custom rails stops. That will be more neat than the universal one. It will be available by the end of this month. If you provide the settings, you can ask reseller to custom make it for you.
We listen. We try harder.
We have updated the current line up of stop plates - see bottom of page at http://shop.nodalninja.com/accessories-parts-1/
yes, I made for all LRP models. But I think the new one will be much better.
We listen. We try harder.
getting everything together now. Some final quality assurance. Do you have R1 or R10?
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Somebody thought it would be funny to recommend this game to me, so I've played it for several hours during which time I have universally failed at everything it has thrown at me. During a typical journey to London Victoria station I received the message "Station Stop Failed" at each stop without fail, even though I arrived at the station, loaded/unloaded, saw virtual people getting on and off my train before setting off to the next stop.
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Greetings all
I think there may be an error in the settings for d300 with 18-70 zoom.
The distance from the tripod mount to the lens mount on Nikon d70 is 36mm (distance L1 refer- http://wiki.panotools.org/Entrance_Pupil_Database)
The distance from the tripod mount to the lens mount on nikon d300 is 42.6mm (distance L1 refer- http://wiki.panotools.org/Entrance_Pupil_Database
a difference of 6.6mm
I have checked these distances and they appear to be correct
this should mean that there is a difference between the D70 and D300 in upper rail distances for the 18-70 lens
however, they are listed as the same settings on the nodal ninja camera settings page
if the d70 figures are correct then I would expect the d300 settings would be plus 6.6mm for each focal length
Perhaps other who have used D70 and 18-70 or D300 and 18-70 would post their settings
the settings i have used (below) for d70 and 18-70 are different from those on the nodal ninja camera settings page.
Nikon d70 and nikon 18-70
focal length upper rail dist nn3
18mm - 79
24mm - 75
35mm - 65
50mm - 51
I have a nikon D300 now but havent had time to work out new settings for myself


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I have a macbook 5,1 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed. Using the default Unity interface (that is, compiz).
With time the case on where the GPU is located gets very hot, a few more degrees and I'd hurt myself. This is usual for some gaming, but in idle state surely not. The fans get working, and I can keep running, but my poor laptop gets burned :( and battery is consumed faster.


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Friday, July 15, 2005
(FORT WORTH, Texas.)-Columbia College-Fort Worth awarded a $500 scholarship to Marc A. Mayfield of Keller in honor of Frank S. Westling. Westling was a former dean of the college's Extended Studies Division, which serves adult learners and military personnel nationwide.
Mayfield is a junior business administration major and senior chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy. He is vice president of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth Chief Petty Officer's Association, an organization that serves Big Brothers Big Sisters of Texas, the Fort Worth Battered Women's Shelter and other community groups.
The scholarship was awarded to one student at most of Columbia College's 30 nationwide campuses. To qualify for the Westling scholarship, applicants had to:
- Complete a scholarship application
- Pursue degree completion with Columbia College
- Have a minimum Columbia College GPA of 3.0
- Have residency of at least 15 hours with Columbia College
- Have a history of leadership and service to their community, school or country
- Write a 400-500 word essay on their achievements and career goals
"Columbia College is proud to offer this scholarship to students at our extended campuses," said Mike Randerson, Columbia College vice president for Adult Higher Education. "Frank Westling was instrumental in establishing the Extended Studies Division to serve working adults and military personnel, and he would be pleased to know the scholarship is helping fulfill the educational goals of students around the country."
Prior to joining the college, Westling served in the U.S. Army for 31 years and retired as a colonel. He was a highly decorated infantry soldier and was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal and Silver Star.
The Westling Scholarship is a nonrenewable scholarship and will be awarded to a new student each year.
Columbia College was founded in Missouri in 1851. Today, the college serves 20,000 students at its Day Campus, Evening Campus, Graduate Program, 30 nationwide campuses and Online Campus.


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January 13, 2004
The ramming machine bores into the side of the new automobile at a speed of 50 kilometers (31 miles) per hour. Within a fraction of a second, sensors situated all over the test dummy signal details of the stress load. Shortly afterward the overall results of the Euro-NCAP crash test will appear in all the specialized automobile magazines.
January 13, 2004
During the depths of the manufacturing slowdown that has cost the fabricated metal products sector nearly 300,000 jobs since 2000, Steven Southwell, president of Des Plaines, Ill.-based Nu-Way Industries Inc., faced a depressing challenge from one of his multinational OEM customers??either meet the ??total cost of acquisition? achieved in China or purchase the part from the Chinese supplier, inventory it, and incorporate it into the family of parts supplied by Nu-Way.


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Suspense to the end, President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney yield to voters (+video)
David Goldman, AP
CLEVELAND — Campaign 2012 packed frantic suspense to the finish Tuesday, with Vice President Joe Biden flying unannounced up next to Republican Mitt Romney in battleground Ohio even as voters across the country were deciding who would win the White House.
President Barack Obama stayed in hometown Chicago, reaching out to swing-state voters on the phones and via satellite while the other three men on the rival tickets had a high noon show-down along the shore of Lake Erie.
Romney and running mate Paul Ryan had scheduled the stop together just Monday, and Biden flew in to play defense as Romney waited on his plane for Ryan's arrival. The vice president rolled off the tarmac without comment to the surprised media traveling with him, just as Ryan's charter pulled in for a landing.
The rush for Ohio and its 18 electoral votes highlighted the importance of the state to both campaigns' victory plans. Polls going into Election Day showed Obama with a narrow lead there, and Romney said the eleventh-hour campaigning was meant to leave him with no regrets.
"I can't imagine an election being won or lost by, let's say, a few hundred votes and you spent your day sitting around," Romney told Richmond radio station WRVA earlier in the day. "I mean, you'd say to yourself, 'Holy cow, why didn't I keep working?' And so I'm going to make sure I never have to look back with anything other than the greatest degree of satisfaction on this whole campaign."
Meanwhile, Americans headed into polling places in sleepy hollows, bustling cities and superstorm-ravaged beach towns deeply divided. All sides are awaiting, in particular, a verdict from the nine battleground states whose votes will determine which man can piece together the 270 electoral votes needed for victory.
Obama has more options for getting there. So Romney decided to make the late dash to Cleveland and Pittsburgh on Tuesday while running mate Ryan planned another stop in Richmond, Va.
Obama visited a campaign office close to his home in Chicago and was met by applause and tears from volunteers before he picked up a phone to call voters in neighboring Wisconsin. He told reporters that the election comes down to which side can get the most supporters to turn out.
"I also want to say to Gov. Romney, 'Congratulations on a spirited campaign.' I know his supporters are just as engaged, just as enthusiastic and working just as hard today," the president said. The tightness of the race didn't keep Obama from winding down with his traditional Election Day basketball game with friends.
Romney was asked on WTAM radio in Cleveland whether he agreed that voters always get it right in the end. "I won't guarantee that they'll get it right, but I think they will," Romney replied.
It wasn't just the presidency at stake Tuesday: Every House seat, a third of the Senate and 11 governorships were on the line, along with state ballot proposals on topics ranging from gay marriage and casino gambling to repealing the death penalty and legalizing marijuana. Democrats were defending their majority in the Senate, and Republicans doing likewise in the House, raising the prospect of continued partisan wrangling in the years ahead no matter who might be president.
The forecast for Election Day promised dry weather for much of the country, with rain expected in two battlegrounds, Florida and Wisconsin. But the closing days of the campaign played out against ongoing recovery efforts after Superstorm Sandy. Election officials in New York and New Jersey scrambled to marshal generators, move voting locations, shuttle storm victims to polling places and take other steps to ensure everyone who wanted to vote could do so.
In New York City, authorities planned to run shuttle buses every 15 minutes Tuesday in storm-slammed areas to bring voters to the polls. In Ocean County along the New Jersey coast, officials hired a converted camper to bring mail-in ballots to shelters in Toms River, Pemberton and Burlington Township.
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Prosecutors and the defense outlined their cases Tuesday afternoon in opening statements of the Katie Autry murder trial.
16 jurors were seated around 2 Tuesday afternoon to hear what is expected to be up to 3 weeks of testimony from a witness list that numbers in the hundreds.
Warren County Commonwealth Attorney Chris Cohron got up first this afternoon to tell jurors why he believes 23-year old Lucas Goodrum raped Katie Autry, then set her on fire in her dorm room.
Cohron painted a gruesome and violent picture of the crime, saying Goodrum slammed Autry's head into a concrete wall before he raped and sodomized her, ordered co-defendant Stephen Soules to spray her with hair spray, then lit her on fire.
Cohron said Soules was in the room, but was an unwilling participant, who feared for his family's safety if he disobeyed Goodrum's orders.
Cohron admitted to the jury that the prosecution has no physical evidence tying goodrum to the crime scene, but says Soules has no reason to lie when he testifies that Goodrum was there.
But defense attorney David Broderick described Soules as the mastermind and sole perpetrator of the crime, and said Goodrum has never been to Hugh Poland Gall, and had nothing to do with crime.
In fact, Broderick says, Goodrum was 20 miles away in Scottsville when the crime happened, and he intends to prove that.
Time will become an important factor in this case, as the two sides' timelines of events the night of May 3, 2003 agree up until Lucas Goodrum left the Pi Kappa Alpha party where he saw Katie Autry.
The prosecution will begin presenting it's case Wednesdat morning at 9:00, which is expected to take up to a week.
The defense will get its shot whenever the prosecution rests.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo has expanded the reach of its award-winning bystander intervention program, "Stand Up for One Another," by launching a new "Stand Up" section on the college's website.
A steering committee representing voices from across campus developed content for the multi-tiered section of the website, which focuses on six functional areas: sexual assault awareness; harassment/bullying prevention; hazing prevention; mental health and suicide prevention; bias-related incidents; and alcohol and other drugs. Counselors, health care professionals, students, administrators and others provide guidance and support on the interactive site via video and text.
"These are all areas of concern found on most college campuses and we felt that consolidating the issues and resources in an easy and engaging manner would help make the information quickly accessible for students," said Tamara Kenney, assistant dean of students for student conduct and community standards. "Having the information in one location gives students the tools and resources necessary to take action and stand up."
Geneseo introduced its "Stand Up for One Another" bystander intervention training program in the fall of 2009. The program encourages students to intercede and act on their concern for their fellow students' well-being. Among several unique features of the section is an option for individuals to report positive by-stander encounters in our community. They can also easily report an incident via the website.
Joining Kenny as steering committee co-chair was Lauren Taraska, Geneseo's coordinator of student organizations and campus activities. Others on the committee were Lt. Matt Austin from University Police; Ravina Chawla, student and Health Guard peer health educator; Melinda DuBois, administrative director of health and counseling; Paul Dotterweich, head coach for swimming and diving; Dana Minton, coordinator of health promotions; Michael Mooney, interim director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation; Fatima Rodriguez Johnson, coordinator of multicultural programs and services; Marybeth Ryder, student and Health Guard peer health educator; and Wendi Kinney, coordinator of Greek affairs and off-campus living.
Development of the layout, design and function of the site was completed by Kristen Fuest, Student Association graphics coordinator; Laura Kenyon, web communications manager for the college; Paul Jackson, assistant director for information systems; Gang Wang, information systems web developer; Lauren Taraska, of student organizations and campus activities, and video development assistance from Joe Dolce, coordinator in information systems.
Members of the interactive cast from the college included Christopher Dahl, president; Carol Long, provost; Bob Bonfiglio, vice president for student and campus life; Jennifer Katz, associate professor of psychology; Chip Matthews, director of college union and activities; Lt. Matt Austin, police officer; Ryan Moton, area coordinator, residence life; Laura Canfield, facilities servicers manager; Colin DeJersey, men's hockey player/student; Gina Giordani, financial assistant, College Union and Activities/student; Will Labate, Student Association director of student affairs/student; Meghan Lijewski, Inter-Greek Council president/student; Brittney Ross, Late Knight event staff/student; Rob White, resident assistant/student; Tracy Gagnier, assistant director of alumni relations/Geneseo Alumna; Ce'coria Hardy, Black Student Union president/student; Jordan Garbarino, Alpha Chi Rho member/student; Michelle Rodriguez, women's swimming team member/student; and Toby Maxwell, ultimate Frisbee player/student.
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I always thought the largest scale of banks use Oracle. However, there is no proof they really use Oracle instead of Mysql or PostgreSQL, nobody knows the secret.
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The wife of a former Sloan Convention Center Board Member accused of mishandling $745,000 of public money is asking to be released as a defendant in a lawsuit surrounding the controversy.
An independent report released in March found former Board member Steve Catron owes the city $745,000 in alleged overbilling and missing money stemming from his tenure on the board.
After failed settlement negotiations, the city filed suit to try and recoup the lost money, and named Dr. Deborah Catron, Steve Catron's wife, as a co-defendant. The suit alleges that the Catron's partially or wholly paid for 5 pieces of property with Convention Center funds in an effort to protect the funds from any future legal action. The Catrons, through attorney Jeff Herbert, deny those charges, and say the inclusion of Dr. Catron as a defendant is an attempt to force a settlement.
Herbert filed a motion with Judge Steve Wilson for summary judgement to dismiss Dr. Catron from the lawsuit, claiming that all the property in question, valued at nearly $1 million was purchased through loans, and not with personal funds.
City Commissioner Jim Bullington, who has been at the forefront of the investigation, told WBKO that Dr. Catron was included in the lawsuit to ensure that any and all of the Catrons' assets were fair game if a monetary judgement against Steve Catron is rendered by a judge or jury.
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I have used Frank's calculator at:
and made my own calculations, but do not have a 16mm fisheye to test them with, so am asking for anyone who has used this combination if they would like to pass on their experiences please?
Unfortunately he is some 4000Km from me so I cannot just pop round and have a look.


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I have been given the task of documenting my MOSS 2007 site. What is the best way to go about documenting an entire sharepoint site?
Not to advertise or something but i've had excellent results with the following product SharePoint Documentation Toolkit (http://www.spdockit.com) which does the whole farm if needed to.
Beyond this, manually you could simply rely on SharePoint Designer for structure and depending on what exactly "documenting" means, you could envision looking at:
This should give a head-start, also make sure you get Microsoft's worksheet on the Sharepoint site for more ideas.
I havent used this myself but it should work just fine! Its free too :)
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can you search for code in google ? not just git hub ect but i mean live code so instead of searching by site content, search by sites source code ? (obviously only client side code)
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Research and Analysis by Gerald F. Riley
Longitudinal Patterns of Medicaid and Medicare Coverage Among Disability Cash Benefit Awardees
This article analyzes the effect of longitudinal interactions between the Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs in providing access to Medicare and Medicaid, using a sample of administrative records spanning 84 months. Our study is the first effort to link and analyze record data on participation in all four of these major, and highly interrelated, public benefit programs in the United States. We find that SSI facilitates high levels of Medicaid coverage for SSI awardees overall and provides access to Medicaid for many DI awardees during the 24-month Medicare waiting period. Many people who exit SSI retain their Medicaid coverage, but the gap in coverage between continuing SSI participants and those who leave the program increases over time. After Medicare kicks in, public health insurance coverage is virtually complete among awardees with some DI involvement, including dual Medicaid and Medicare coverage for some.
Longitudinal Patterns of Participation in the Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income Programs for People with Disabilities
We analyze longitudinal interactions in benefit eligibility between the Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs and the lags arising from processing time in receiving the first payment, based on Social Security administrative records. We find that longitudinal interactions enhancing the bundle of cash benefits available for awardees over a 60-month period is much more common than apparent from cross-sectional data and identify distinct patterns of longitudinal interactions between the two programs. SSI plays an especially important role in providing benefit eligibility during the 5-month DI waiting period. Transition to nonbeneficiary status is more prevalent among SSI awardees because of exits attributable to the SSI means test. We also find that there is substantial variation in the lag in receiving the first disability payment.
Medicare Costs Prior to Retirement for Disabled-Worker Beneficiaries
Eliminating the Medicare Waiting Period for Social Security Disabled-Worker Beneficiaries
Statistical Methods for the Estimation of Costs in the Medicare Waiting Period for Social Security Disabled Worker Beneficiaries
This paper presents the statistical methods used to estimate Medicare costs in the waiting period that were presented in text tables 2–3 of Bye and Riley (1989). The first part describes the development of Medicare utilization equations for each Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program status group. The second part describes how these equations were used to predict expected costs per month and how the monthly estimates were aggregated to yield estimates of costs in the full 2-year waiting period and in the second year only. Finally, there is a brief discussion of the accuracy of the predictions.


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Where's the World's Best Private Museum?
Some of the world's finest collections can be found at private museums. Where would you say is the world's best?
Some of the most fascinating museums in the world were, at their very start, private collections of artwork, relics, natural ephemera or elaborate playthings put on display by their curious and wealthy owners. Hence the private museum was born. Today more and more collectors are putting their treasures on view in grand, spacious and eclectic spaces. Here are some must-see privately owned museums.
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What private museum would you say is the world's best—and why?
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For sheer quirkiness, ambience and location, you'd be hard-pressed to go past MONA, Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art: http://mona.net.au/
Set on the shores of the scenic Derwent River, a lift plunges you deep into various levels of a subterranean cave featuring exhibits ranging from the confrontational to controversial. One thing's for sure – you WILL be surprised. And after you emerge, you can stay on for fine dining at one of the complexes restaurants, catch an open-air concert on the lush green grounds or even stay on at one of the luxury six-star pavilions.
The best museum no one has heard of is in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The Katherine Freeman Clark Museum holds all of the paintings of a very private, very talented artist who refused to part with any of her work. She was an admired contemporary of artists in New York in the early 1900's, and signed her work "Freeman Clark" to hide her identity, since it wasn't ladylike to be such an avid painter. The museum is run by her descendants, who guide while telling personal stories of the great lady.
For design and collection, my pick is the new Soumaya Museum in Mexico City. Named in honor of his deceased wife, the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, has a collection befitting his financial number one ranking.
The spectacular aluminum-clad building houses an enormous and eclectic collection of art spanning centuries and styles, running the gamut from colonial Mexican religious painting, to the largest collection of Rodin sculptures outside Paris. Interspersed among the novo-hispano coins are Mexican masters (José Guadalupe Posadas, Tamayo, and Dr. Atl) and pieces by Tintoretto, Henry Moore, and Dalí. And admission is free of charge!
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I would propose the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, a suburb of the Swiss city of Basel. The collector, Ernst Beyeler, was an art dealer who put together a breathtaking collection of works of art — paintings and sculptures — from the Impressionists onwards.
Beyeler and his wife set up the foundation more than a decade ago, and asked Renzio Piano to design a museum that is one of the most successful museum buildings I have ever seen. It is set in a delightful garden. The museum restaurant is on the ground floor of a neighboring building, a nineteenth century villa, so that guests can sit outside and enjoy the garden when the weather permits.
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Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen established by the Carlsberg family over 100 years ago is a must when you are in the dansh capital. You can spend hours there enjoying a huge collection of french impressionists, and romantic danish paintings from the golden age. The etruscan collection is wordclass as is the several statues from ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt. The winter garden with palms and water fountain is a bliss, after having your head turned around by all the artwork.
I love the Gehry building, but my favourite is the Fondation Baur, a Museum of Fine Arts of the Far East in Geneva. Exquisite porcelain, jade, ceramics, netsukes, painted screens and a formal Japanese garden are displayed to perfection in an elegant town house, former home of collector Frederick Baur. Not open all the time, but if you find yourself in Geneva it is not to be missed.
Great choice. The Barber Museum is fantastic unto itself, but the setting reminds me of Agusta National. Many of the motorcycles were shown in the "Art of the Motorcycle" exhibit at the Guggenheim which broke all records. It is one of our national treasures for both design and content.
Imagine my happiness when I clicked on your link and my recommendation was the featured photo. The Galleria Doria Pamphilji is my number one favorite private museum in the world and inspired me to pursue a Masters in Museum Studies while living in Rome via San Francisco. Running a close second for me is the Palazzo Altemps, also in Rome. In either of these, after a day spent coursing the veining streets of Rome, I find myself longing to rest inside these aristocratic residence turned museum spaces. The Doria Pamphilji offering its visitors a good look at how an affluent family can build a magnificent collection through patronage and love while the Palazzo Altemps' aesthetically simple but beautiful surroundings- its courtyard flocked by the marble forms of the Greeks, grants its visitor a feel for a smaller collection with a large impact.
These palazzi offer their visitor a look insides domestic spaces coupled with the flair of world renowned masterpieces.


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Today in Tweet Beat, some celebrities are disappointed that marijuana was not legalized for recreational use in California yesterday. Meanwhile, Heidi Montag seems like she's high anyway.
Hilarious is seeing drug dealers hanging out at the polls with t-shirts that read "No on 19." Wonder if any of them are even registered?"
I hear prop 19 didn't pass. As many weed heads there are aint none of them high bastards get up to vote? Yall puff puffed then passed
Up With Hope, Down With Dope! http://bit.ly/bFNDFI
good news: californians also rejected prop23, which was sponsored by oil companies. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS30…
Did it go through? RT @minik8: @katewalsh What do you think about the proposition to legalize Majijuana in California?
Umm yeah, totes, (cue eye roll) sorry, been busy launching a brand and playing a doctor on television. RT ... http://tmi.me/2QQeW
I take the Republican win as more of a referendum on Jon Stewart than Barack Obama.
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Experts Discuss Past, Future of Delaware Chancery Court
Leading scholars and practitioners gathered for a vibrant exchange with the court's chancellor and all of its sitting vice chancellors
Columbia Law School recently hosted a group of more than 300 corporate law professors and securities litigators for a conference examining key developments at the Delaware Court of Chancery under former chancellor William B. Chandler III and assessing the future of the country's leading business court.
The conference, titled "The Delaware Court of Chancery: Change and Continuity," included panel discussions on the evolution of mergers and acquisitions litigation during the Chandler era, trends and developments in specialized business courts, and key issues facing the court under its current chancellor, Leo E. Strine Jr.
John C. Coffee Jr., the Law School's Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, co-chaired the day-long event with Justice Jack B. Jacobs of the Delaware Supreme Court and William Savitt '97, a partner in the litigation department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City.
The conference included a discussion on the court's competitors, with some panelists suggesting plaintiffs' attorneys have been more prone to file cases in federal courts and business courts in other states because of a perception that they can receive higher fees or less scrutiny in other forums. Coffee struck a diplomatic tone in outlining the conference organizers' assessment of the Delaware Court of Chancery and other state-based business courts. "Our premise is not that one side is better," Coffee said, "but that judges should communicate, and that they can learn from one another."
In the conference's final session, Coffee hosted what he referred to as the "Chutzpah Panel"—a group of academics and practitioners tasked with analyzing the court's effectiveness in handling a range of issues, including executive compensation, shareholders' rights, and creditor protection.
During that session, panelist Jeffrey N. Gordon, the Law School's Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law, noted that much of what is taken for granted in the realm of executive compensation, including the payouts and golden parachutes that have sparked public outrage, has its roots in the decisions of the Delaware Chancery Court. "Decisions taken in the next term of the court will crucially affect whether existing compensation patterns will persist or change," Gordon said.


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Necessity is the mother of invention–and tool hounds. Say you've got to cut curves into some huge oak timbers that weigh 400 lbs. apiece. Your bandsaw is out–or is it? Not if you're Mark Orwig and Dennis Smith. The two master carpenters loaded their bandsaw onto a dolly and moved the saw–not the beams–to shape them for a large Tudor house they built.
The carpenters devised another invention when they had a bunch of 10x10 porch posts to mill. Most carpenters expect green timbers to check and twist; Smith and Orwig figured the timbers wouldn't check as much if they dried the material from the inside out and the outside in. They needed something that could hollow out the inside of each post.
First, they elongated the shaft of their 3-5/8-inch self-feed bit by welding a 4-foot length of 3/4-inch pipe to it. Then they built a jig to guide Orwig's T-handled drill straight through the post. Drilling slowly from both ends to the middle, they cored the posts like apples to let air into the center for more even drying.
Smith and Orwig aren't ones to brag about their problem-solving skills. They're quiet guys whose craftsmanship does the talking on everything from artfully designed homes to church renovations.
Their latest challenge? Finishing a 10,000-square-foot house with molding details that could send a trim carpenter to therapy. Every 1-inch dentil in the crown above is three pieces; the scroll-cut block is nailed up into a coved block that acts as a capital. So the capital's profile continues to the next scroll-cut dentil, they built a jig and coped the middle piece like a window mullion. This saved cutting hundreds of inside miters for the middle pieces. They skipped a ton of work this way, but it's still enough to put you in therapy.
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Carlyle Lake
The largest man-made lake in Illinois (26,000 acres), is a premier location for outdoor sports. Known to sailors, it is one of the best and most challenging for sailboats. There is also boating, fishing, hunting, bird watching, sand beaches, and camping areas. Hotels, cabins and golf courses make the area a true outdoor lover's playground.
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Illinois' only United Nations World Heritage Site. This 2,200-acre site preserves the central section of the largest prehistoric Indian city north of Mexico. An Interpretive Center presents a coherent account of this sophisticated prehistoric culture. Climb Monk's Mound, see the film and life-size village. Don't miss annual events that focus on Native American culture.
The Old Chain of Rocks Bridge
Built in 1927, Old Chain of Rocks was the fifth bridge to cross the Mississippi River, which shortened the distance between St. Louis, Missouri, and Edwardsville, Illinois by 15 miles.
World's Largest Catsup Bottle
This 170-foot-tall bottle that resembles a Brook's Catsup Bottle served as a water tower for the catsup manufacturer after being constructed in 1949. A popular roadside attraction, it makes for a great photo op.
Laser Force Lazer Tag Zone
A 5,000 sq. ft. laser tag arena and a 2,500 sq. ft. game arcade is conveniently located by hotels and restaurants off I-64.
Splash City Family Waterpark
Surfing in Illinois? Yes! The FlowRider creates a perfect wave for surfing and body boarding. Water slides, a lap pool, the lazy river, a sandy play area and "Monsoon Mountain" make for a family adventure.
Gateway Fun Park
Gateway features mini-golf, go-karts, an arcade, bumper boats, a kiddie track and Rudy's Restaurant.
National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows
The Shrine has 200 beautifully landscaped acres of gardens and devotional areas, including the Outdoor Amphitheatre, Shrine Church, Lourdes Grotto, Stations of the Cross, Millennium Spire, the Visitors Center with a restaurant and gift shop, and the Shrine Hotel.
Rainbow Ranch Petting Farm
Meet the wide range of animals at this real working farm. Bottle feed kids and lambs. Pet the goats, camels, chicks, rabbits, camels and even two zebras.
Hidden Lake Winery & Banquet Center
Welcome! Hidden Lake Winery and Banquet Center, located in rural Aviston, IL, is situated in "Silent Forest," a wooded parcel of land abounding in local lore. Our winemaking began in 2004 and is influenced by the German heritage of the farming families who settled this part of Illinois. At Hidden Lake Winery, our goal is to offer a variety of wines that will satisfy many different palates. Our wines are produced with locally-grown fruit and bottled here in our cellar. Guests can enjoy a glass of wine (or other beverage if desired) in a tranquil setting with old friends, or perhaps with new ones.
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds & Exposition Center
Home to the annual St. Clair County Fair, several craft shows and monthly flea markets, the complex also includes the Belle-Clair Speedway, with stock car races and demolition derbies.
J-H Bison Ranch
Tours of this family-run bison ranch include baby bison feeding, herd tours, and photos with baby bison, llamas and horses.
Gateway Geyser Fountain
As the world's tallest fountain, the Gateway Geyser Fountain reaches 627 feet in height, and is centered in a pond that holds five million gallons of water.
CITY:East St. Louis
Carlyle Dam East Spillway Campground
Swimming, fishing, boating.
Bilbrey Farms
Just outside of Edwardsville, Bilbrey Farms is home to exotic animals and trained birds. Come feed the animals or stay at the bed and breakfast.
Pleasant Ridge Park
Tucked back away from the street, a relaxing place to get away from it all is Pleasant Ridge Park. The centerpiece is the Kensella Log Home.
CITY:Fairview Heights
Indian Mound Golf Course
Indian Mound offers an 18-hole golf course.
CITY:Fairmont City
Coles Creek Recreation Area
148 sites, electricity, shower, reservations
Centerfield Park
Spend the day tackling go-karts, miniature golf, batting cages, bumper boats and a video arcade.
Melvin Price Memorial Park
The 24-acre park has a pavilion, walking trails, and many other amenities. It is also the site of the Veterans of All Wars Memorial and the September 11 Memorial.
Family Fun Tyme
Located in Maryville, this facility has an indoor arcade, batting cages and lots more fun for kids. Alfonzo's Restaurant is right next door for pizza lovers.
Scheve Park
This expansive park features picnic areas, baseball and softball fields, playgrounds, tennis courts, horseshoe pits, and sand volleyball courts. The centerpiece of the park is an old train depot, a full-size caboose, and a train car that can be reserved for groups.
Boulder Recreation Area
Swimming and fishing, boating, tent camping
Spring Valley Golf Club
Spring Valley offers a par 18 golf course.
Woodland Park
50-acre wooded city park located in the heart of Collinsville. Amenities consist of picnic shelters, playgrounds, fishing lake, and softball diamond.
Stonewolf Golf Course
The 18-hole, par 72 Stonewolf is one of only four Jack Nicklaus Signature courses in Illinois and Missouri.
CITY:Fairview Heights
Julius J. Knobeloch State Nature Preserve
Beautiful. untouched nature preserve which way originally purchased by the Knobeloch family in 1874. After a family disagreement, the land was auctioned off to the nature conservancy and then sold to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Marissa Recreation Area
Two lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a camping area, a cottage/residence area, as well as picnic shelters, are features of this great park.
Yorktown Golf Course
Designed by golf legends Pete Dye and Bob Goalby, Yorktown offers an 18-hole lit par 3 golf course.
The Orchards
The Orchards offers an 18-hole golf course.
Tamarack Country Club
This 18-hole golf course was designed by Pete Dye.
Fults Hill Prairie/Kidd Lake Marsh State Natural Area
This natural area comprimises 532 acres of forest, prairie and flowering trees, with a trail and pond.
CITY:East St. Louis
Kaskaskia River Marina
The marina on the Kaskaskia River is the site of drag boat races in September. Next to the marina, enjoy batting cages, ball fields, and roller hockey in the park.
CITY:New Athens
Roland Barkau Memorial Golf Course
This 18-hole golf course was designed by Robert Garard and Gary Hoelcher.
Watershed Nature Center
A 3,000 ft. wheelchair-accessible pathway at lake level and wood-chipped trails wind through forested areas. An elevated walkway spans the wetlands and two observation towers, a wildlife viewing blind, an outdoor amphitheater and classroom.
Grand Marais Golf Course
Grand Marais includes an on-site restaurant and pro shop.
Frank Holten State Park
A great place to spot water birds, fish, boat, or play a round of golf. The park covers 1,125 acres, including two lakes and a wetlands area.
CITY:East St. Louis
Mascoutah Country Club
This nine-hole golf course was designed by Darryl Stein.
White Oak Golf Course
This nine-hole golf course opened in 1954.
Carlyle Dam West Campground
Swimming, fishing, boating, tent camping
West Access Marina
A year-round facility for large and small boats located at the southwest end of Carlyle Lake. Suited for a complete variety of water sports.
Three Springs Park
Three Springs Park is a multi-purpose facility with a lighted softball and baseball field that can be converted in to smaller fields for a total of six. Also at the park are tennis courts, soccer fields, basketball courts, and volleyball courts. a half-mile walking trail and playground equipment round out the amenities.
MEPRD Trailhead
The MEPRD Trailhead features dawn to dusk trail parking, parking lot surveillance, trail maps, air compressor, bicycle parking, picnic areas, drinking fountains, a pet drinking fountain, rest areas and most importantly, clean restrooms! Conveniently located in close proximity to I-55, I-70, I-255, and IL 157, MEPRD's Trailhead offers easy access to the regional trail system.
Nashville Municipal Golf Course
This nine-hole golf course opened in 1967.
Metro East Park and Recreation District
More than 150-miles of trails line the rural, suburban, and scenic landscapes found throughout Madison and St. Clair Counties in Illinois. Put it this way, you will personally run out of fuel before you run out of trails! The interconnected system of trails that crisscross the region have been built utilizing partnerships and collaboration amongst multiple public agencies, but no contribution has been more significant than that of both Madison and St. Clair County Transit Districts. Each of the transit districts have made trail building a top priority, so new trails are always coming online. Be sure to check out MEPRD's online trail map to see the latest developments!
Glidden Park
Home to newly added in-line hockey rink. Sitting on 30 acres, five tennis courts, soccer field and basketball court, walking track 4 to 10 mile.
Eldon Hazlet State Park
The largest campground in the Illinois State Park system. The park covers 3,000 acres on the west shore of Carlyle Lake. Every year more than 3/4 million visitors come here to hunt, fish, picnic, camp, boat, water ski, and hike.
Chouteau Island
Route 66 runs through the island which connects Illinois and Missouri. East side of the Mississippi River.
CITY:Pontoon Beach
Stonebridge Golf Club
Stonebridge offers 18 holes of first-class golf.
Bur Oaks Camp Ground
Open all year, swimming and fishing, handicap access.
Far Oaks Golf Club
This par 72, Goalby-designed golf course has 18 challenging holes.
Moody Park (formerly Longacre Park)
Lighted tennis courts, playground, sand volleyball courts, baseball, softball, and soccer fields. a 1.5 mi walking/running path, concession stands, picnic pavilions, a large lake. The Midwest Salute to the Arts is held every year here in August.
CITY:Fairview Heights
Schnucks Park
One of the newest parks with over 9 acres of natural habitat. Sporting a new playground, small fishing pond and a wooden gazebo on its shore.
Carlyle Lake Sailing Association
CSA has docking for 380 boats, 3 electric jib cranes, 1,300 ft. of dock and 2 launching ramps. Special events feature annual regattas.
U.S. Ice Sports Complex L.C.
An ice arena offering hockey leagues open skate and entertainment for all ages. The facility offers two rinks, a game room and concession area.
CITY:Fairview Heights
Kaskaskia River Marina Campground
100 sites, recreation building, cable TV, swimming, fishing, tent camping, handicap access.
CITY:New Athens
Clinton Hill Golf Club
Boasting some of the largest greens in the Midwest, the 18-hole Clinton Hill has matured into one of the finest public golf courses around, with a great blend of par 3s, 4s and 5s.
Governors Run Golf and Country Club
This championship 18-hole course has 13 lakes scattered throughout the par 72 layout. It boasts five sets of tees to accommodate all skill levels on exquisitely manicured greens.
Jaycee Ball Field
This softball field is located in Woodland Park.
Red Barn Rendezvous RV Park
30 sites, phone hookups, handicap access
Freedom Farm
40 sites, lake swimming and fishing, tent camping, handicap access.
Bent Oak Golf Course
This par 9 course is located in Breese.
Fox Creek Golf Club
Fox Creek features an 18-hole golf course.
Drost Park
Drost Park features a 7-acre lake, pavilions, 1-mile walking trail, boat ramp, playground, and restroom facilities. The University of Illinois' Master Gardeners keep it seasonally beautiful.
Triple Lakes Golf Course
This 18-hole golf course opened in 1962.
Washington County State Recreational Area - Nashville, IL
A 248-acre lake fed by two creeks is the focal point of the Washington County State Recreational Area. The area offers several barrier-free facilities, including camping, hunting, picnicking and a fishing pier.
Oak Brook Golf Course
Oak Brook features a 27-hole golf course.
Washington County State Recreational Area
The 248-acre Washington County Lake offers wildlife viewing, fishing and hiking, as well as 900 surrounding acres for hunting. The natural area also has picnic and camping sites.
Riding Center
Stop in or make a reservation to ride the trails. Lessons are also available.
Locust Hills Golf Club
This 18-hole golf course was built in 1933.
Twin Oaks Golf Club
Twin Oaks offers a scenic nine-hole golf course.
Carlyle Lake Golf Club
This nine-hole golf course was designed by John Kueper.
Tradewinds Marina
Able to accommodate boats up to 45 ft. in covered slips and 40 ft. in open slips, Trade Winds Marina is a great place to moor your boat. The new clubhouse features showers, restrooms, and a lounging area for members.
Keyesport Lodging
Five cabins, cable TV, lake swimming and fishing.
Tri-Township Park
Just miles off I-55, I-70, and I-270, the park has easy access and has many features for travelers, like a petting zoo, playground equipment, picnic pavilions and a small lake.
South Shore State Park
33 sites, fishing, boating, tent camping.
Tomahawk Camp Ground
142 sites, electricity, water, sewer, showers.
Hideaway Campground
95 sites, electricity, water, sewer, showers, reservations.
McNair Group Camping
42 sites, lake swimming and fishing, boat rentals, tent camping.
Coles Creek
148 sites, swimming, fishing, boating, tent camping
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We are moving to the dataceneter and planning to have tiered storage on EVA4400 - FC RAID 10 for SQL databases and RAID5 across 24 FATA 1TB disks form VMware ESX guests.HP is describing FATA disks as suitable for near online storage, however I am not convinced that 24 spindles will not be enough for running VMWare for 3 ESX servers.
Does anyone has opinion on why this could be a such a bad idea?
I'm a big EVA customer and fan, and I have a lot of those exact 1TB FATA disks and think they're great BUT there's something you need to know. The first box we had with those in saw an enormous number if drive 'failures' within it's first year, some were real requiring new disks, many just eject/reseats - the root cause of the problems were that we run out data centers at a steady 19C and we were told that this was too cold and also that the disk, being a mid/near-line model was specifically not capable of a >30% duty cycle and we'd been using them 24/7. The 450/600GB 15krpm disks are perfect but these 1TB ones were the bain of our lives until we started treating them as they were meant to be treated. Hope thus helps somehow.
Honestly, the root partition of modern OSs has very low IOP requirements. Most libraries and executables are cached in RAM and the needs of services like logging, etc are very light.
The only way to tell for sure though is to calculate the IOP requirements of your guests and see if the disk can handle it. But from my gut feeling 24 spindles even seems overkill for 3 guests.
24x1TB in a single RAID5 set strikes me as very risky due to rebuild times and the high probability of another disk failing during that rebuild (and you losing your entire set).
RAID6 is a much, much safer alternative in this case, although you will lose a bit of write performance. All the more reason to measure your I/O as well as I/O patterns. You need read IOPS, write IOPS, and the percentage of sequential to random I/O.
As for where to get this data, I assume you are not buying direct - leverage your reseller to get you a copy of HP's sizing tools (they MUST have something for pre-sales use) which will gather this data for you and aggregate it into some actionable recommendations.
They are covering their bases I would imagine. They want you to buy FC for a couple reasons...one is price...they want to sell a costlier product of course.
However, they also know that if you can afford it and you buy it, FC disk has the least chance of dissatisfaction from a customer based on performance issues. This is especially true of virtualized environments where iops are in effect consolidated (i.e., disk i/o for how many dozens or hundreds of servers running against relatively few disks). The "bad idea" part comes in when there's a customer that spent good money but didn't get the performance they needed either for whatever reason.
As you're guessing, 24 spindles of non-FC disk may well be more than fine for your workloads. For regular/moderate workloads of heterogeneous iops, it wouldn't surprise me to find that this would be adequate for 3 ESX hosts' worth of guests (especially if we're not talking really high numbers of guests per host).
As joshperry says, it's really a matter of working out your iops...once you know that, you can make an informed choice about whether or not the value-proposition of the FATA spindles works for you.


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WASHINGTON – Since June 16 when President Obama first sent several dozen troops to Iraq to begin assessing the state of the country's Army, the United States has spent around $500 million on operations there.
Briefing reporters on Friday, Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said the price tag has run on average about $7.5 million per day since June, sometimes less and sometimes more. But taking that average number, that would put the US price tag at $550 million through Aug. 28
Operations are paid for through the 2014 overseas contingency operation (OCO) account, and have funded US personnel to staff two joint operations centers in Baghdad and Erbil, 110 U.S. airstrikes, and a constant stream of manned and unmanned surveillance sorties. The United States has also flown a number of humanitarian flights to deliver food, water, and supplies to the stranded Yazidi population in northern Iraq.
Kirby said that when it comes to using OCO funds, "we think we've got it covered in terms of 2014. We're well within the limits."
Speaking on Thursday, Obama struck a cautious tone when discussing further operations in Iraq and reports that his administration is weighing airstrikes in neighboring Syria, where the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has its home base. When asked about the potential strikes, he warned that "I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet" for dealing with IS, he said.
Obama met with his National Security Council on Friday, and is continuing to weigh military and non-military options. "The options that I'm asking for from the Joint Chiefs focus primarily on making sure that [IS] is not overrunning Iraq," he said.


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15 May 2012 10:40 AM #1
Ho to mock GXT widgets?
GWT provides GWTMockUtilities which will disarm/restore calls to GWT.create so GWT can be tested using standard mocking frameworks such as EasyMock. How can I do the same for GXT widgets?
The problem seems to be the GXT class has static members which call GWT.getModuleBaseURL(), and that method is not disarmed like create is. Is there a way around this? I've tried modifing GWTBridge to contain this method but it seems the original one is always loaded before mine.
15 May 2012 11:38 AM #2
I will open a ticket to remove the static initializer in GXT, as it is not really required. Thanks for bringing it up.
15 Nov 2012 11:06 AM #3
Interesting class there David, thanks for pointing it out.
I've made the necessary modifications to the GXT class, and I've added a few simple unit tests using Mockito to GXT to ensure that a decent sampling of classes are able to be mocked.
The one main gotcha I found in that testing was the ToolButton, since all of those static images require GWT.create to not return null, else they will cause a NPE. I've build a mock class for when GWT.create is unwired, and it appears to pass these same tests. I've looked for all other invocations of GWT.create to ensure that we aren't using it for any static fields that could cause a NPE in class initialization, but haven't found any.
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AZUSA, Calif.-- The Azusa Pacific women's tennis team hasn't had much rest this week, but that didn't stop it from posting an impressive win over No. 13 ranked Academy of Art on Friday. After playing two top-10 schools on Tuesday and Thursday, the Cougars were at it again, with their fourth match in five days, and coming off of two straight losses, 16th-ranked Azusa Pacific pulled off the upset with a 5-3 win over the Urban Knights.
At No. 3 singles Danae Ingwaldson needed three sets to get through her match with a victory. As she entered the deciding set against Schneider, the Cougars held a 4-2 lead, needing just one more point for the victory. Ingwaldson eventually won the decider for a 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 victory to improve the Cougars' record to 9-4 on the season, including 2-2 on the week.
Senior No. 1 singles player Emily Harris, who has had to bear the toughest challenges this week with three nationally ranked opponents, was in another battle Friday against Nina Gajdosikova. At 5-5 in the first set, Harris broke the Gajdosikova serve and held her own serve to claim the first set 7-5. Harris took control of the match after that to claim a 7-5, 6-2 win. Natalie Johnson cruised to a 6-3, 7-5 win at No. 2 over Lucia Zavarcikova.
In doubles, Harris and Ingwaldson earned their second victory in as many days, defeating Gajdosikova and Daniela Amelunge 8-3 at No. 1. Johnson and Stephanie Quan added the Cougars second doubles win at No. 3 in an 8-5 win.
The Cougars will get two days off before they're back at it again, facing Western New Mexico at home on Monday.


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Chamber of Commerce ambassadors, governmental representatives, individuals from the Friends of the Fred Meijer River Valley Rail Trails group and community members gathered Thursday afternoon for a ribbon cutting ceremony for the rail trail improvements connecting Ionia and Saranac. Ionia County Commissioner and Chair of the Midwest Michigan Rail Trail Authority Lynn Mason attended the ribbon cutting and the social period afterward. "This new section is approximately 8 miles long. It's significant because its the first section of 82 miles to be completed," Mason said. According to Mason, collaboration is a large part of the rail trail improvements. In addition, Mason cited that this project is one that can be modeled in other areas. "It's no longer just a vision, it's real. This is going to generate more interest, funds, volunteers," said Mason. Ionia Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Tina Conner Wellman cited that there are many benefits associated with the trail, such as physical, psychological and economical. Conner Wellman, who has biked the trail to Saranac frequently since it opened, said that she has met individuals from different areas each time, such as man from Forest Hills who was on the trail Thursday and joined the ribbon cutting. "The trail will be very beneficial for businesses. It introduces people from other communities to Ionia. This will help us to have a healthy community," Conner Wellman said. For Friends of the Fred Meijer River Valley Rail Trails group, this improvement means more trail use from the people and more initiative to move forth on projects. "Now, I don't have to drive miles to get on a trail. This connects communities," said Mark Fritsma of Boston Township, who is one of the directors for the Friends of the Fred Meijer River Valley Rail Trails group. Carolyn Kane, also a director, posits that since the group was created in 2007, they have been working toward the creation of rail trail improvements. "We're so pleased to see such a beautiful product. We're very excited, but the Friends work is not done. We still need money to continue with our projects and improvements," Kane said. Donations can be made at www.rivervalleyrailtrails.org. "This trail has gone up at lightning speed compared to most," Fritsma said. According to Fritsma, the remainder of the Clinton-Ionia-Shiawassee trail is expected to be completed next year. "We're excited about welcoming another 2.2 miles in Belding and being able to make more improvements along the way," said Kane. According to Belding Mayor Ron Gunderson, connections between Belding and nearby towns, such as Ionia and Lowell, are making progress. "I'm excited about welcoming another section of the trail in the near future after the next 2.2 miles is done. The connections between Belding and other areas will progress more rapidly," Gunderson said. George Raimer, vice-chairperson for the Friends of the Fred Meijer River Valley Rail Trails group, added that in addition to trail improvements and donations, volunteers are needed, too. The Friends of the Fred Meijer River Valley Rail Trails group is hosting its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Pere Marquette Depot in Belding. Individuals are invited to attend to learn more about the trails and how to become involved.
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