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This paper shows how SanDisk SSDs significantly improve the performance of the MongoDB NoSQL database workload – particularly when the dataset size exceeds the memory capacity of the server. Test results using the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) will compellingly demonstrate the advantages of using SanDisk SSDs in open-source NoSQL database environments
In recent years, as Big Data workloads have increased in the data center, NoSQL databases have become more widely used to store and access non-structured data. Examples of these data types include multimedia audio, video and photos, along with data from sensors from the Internet of Things. Solid state drives (SSDs) have shown their value as storage for these NoSQL databases by dramatically improving performance compared to mechanically driven hard-disk drives (HDDs).
To prove this advantage for SSDs, SanDisk tested MongoDB databases running on SSD-enabled server platforms. These tests show that HDDs often become the bottleneck in these NoSQL systems. Once the dataset size exceeds the memory capacity of the server, overall performance slows down. In contrast, SSDs improved the performance of the MongoDB NoSQL database workload. Importantly, we also looked at the impact on operational costs associated with data center space utilization, power and cooling costs—which decreased when SSD-based deployments were used.
Figure 1: SanDisk CloudSpeed SATA SSDs
SanDisk, a global leader in flash storage solutions, partners with all the leading storage vendors for meeting IT industry needs of flash-based products. The adoption of cloud computing is driving data growth, leading to an explosion in the volume of data that needs to be processed, stored and analyzed. These demanding Big Data workloads must be supported without compromising on performance, reliability, or longevity. SanDisk CloudSpeed SATA SSDs provide predictable performance and efficiency with superior reliability. These SSDs are secured by SanDisk's Guardian® capabilities of increasing durability, recoverability, and preventing data loss and corruption of data.
MongoDB is an open-source NoSQL document store database that is used in wide variety of workloads to support Mobility, Cloud Computing, Big Data/Analytics and other enterprise solutions. It provides application schema flexibility, which is not possible with relational databases. The relational databases (RDBMS) have schemas with tables and column attributes that have to be defined initially before loading the data for processing. MongoDB has a rich set of RDBMS functionalities like secondary indexes, query functionality and consistency for database transactions, but it does not require the upfront preparation for data-loading associated with RDBMS.
MongoDB provides scalability, performance and high-availability scaling from single server deployments to large, complex multi-site architectures. That gives it a broad range of deployment scenarios. It leverages in-memory computing (IMC) and it provides high performance for both reads and writes. MongoDB's native replication and automated failover features enable enterprise-grade reliability and operational flexibility.
Some of the important MongoDB features include:
The Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (hereafter called YCSB) is a standard benchmark framework for evaluating the performance of new-generation cloud data serving systems like MongoDB, Cassandra, and Apache Hadoop HBase. The framework consists of a workload-generating client and a package of standard workloads.
YCSB evaluates the performance and scalability of cloud-based systems, while the performance section of the YCSB benchmark test focuses on measuring the throughput of the system for defined latency (delay in processing due to I/O data transfer). Scalability focuses on the ability to scale elastically, so that these systems can handle more load as applications add more features, or ramp up to support an increased number of business users.
The YCSB benchmark also provides workload distribution options based on how real-time applications experience operations being requested of the system, such as insert/update/scan operations acting on a random set of data. YSCB workload distribution options are in two main "flavors," as described here:
Uniform: This option for data-handling is based on assumption that all the records in the database are being uniformly accessed.
Zipfian: This is a statistical approach to handling requests to the database. Based on the assumption that the popularity of the record (e.g., when World Soccer finals in Twitter is trending in popularity) is showing that it is being accessed more often than the other records in the database.
Latest: This option is based on the assumption that the "latest" events are more popular and are being accessed more frequently than the older events that have less frequent access.
Along with the workload distribution and the type of database operation being selected, the following workload types are used for this benchmark:
|Record Selection/Distribution
|Update Heavy
|Read: 50%
|Update: 50%
|Read Heavy
|Read: 95%
|Update: 5%
|Read Only
|Read: 100%
|Read Latest
|Read: 95%
|Insert: 5%
Figure 2: YCSB Workload
The following sections describe the methodology that was used as the YCSB benchmark tests were conducted with both SSD-enabled and HDD-enabled servers supporting the MongoDB workload:
The data was loaded to the MongoDB using the "load" phase of the YSCB benchmark tool.
Record Description: Each record consists of 10 character fields, each field 100 bytes long and Key assigned to each record which serves as a primary key.
Record Size: 1,024 Bytes
MongoDB Dataset Size: 32GB, 256GB, 1TB
Test Environment
The benchmark testing environment consists of one Dell PowerEdge R720 server with 24 Intel Xeon cores (two 12-core CPUs) with 96GB RAM used for hosting MongoDB server and one Dell PowerEdge R720 that serves as a client for YCSB benchmark tool. A 10GbE network interconnect is used between the MongoDB server and the YSCB client. The local storage is varied between hard disks (HDDs) and solid-state disks (SSDs). The data set size of the YCSB tests was increased from 32GB, to 256GB and to 1 terabyte (1TB). Figure 4 provides complete hardware and software components that were used for this testing environment.
Technical Component Specifications
Figure 3: YCSB testing configuration
Testing Configuration Details
|Software if applicable
|Dell Inc. PowerEdge R720
|MongoDB server
|Dell Inc. PowerEdge R720
|YCSB client
|Dell PowerConnect 2824 24-port switch
|1GbE network switch
|Data Network
|500GB 7.2K RPM Dell SATA HDDs
|Used as Just a bunch of disks (JBODs)
|Data node drives
|480GB CloudSpeed 1000 SATA SSDs
|Data node drives
Figure 4: Infrastructure details
MongoDB Configuration
MongoDB default configurations were used during the testing phase, and its data path and log path was switched between SSD and HDD for each testing cycle.
SSD Test: /bin/mongod –dbpath /sandisk/SSDDATA/mongodb/data –logpath / sandisk/SSDDATA/mongodb/log
HDD Test: /bin/mongod –dbpath /sandisk/HDDDATA/mongodb/data –logpath / sandisk/HDDDATA/mongodb/log
The primary objective of this benchmark test was to identify the advantage of using SanDisk SSDs for a MongoDB NoSQL store, and to provide performance data points for SSDs and HDDs. This benchmark consists of single-node MongoDB database with the standard YCSB benchmark workload types A, B and C, and a plan to test it with three different dataset sizes.
Results Summary
Based on test results, from an operations-per-second perspective, the MongoDB performance on solid state disks (SSDs) is outstanding compared to hard disk drives (HDDs) for the same MongoDB configuration. This advantage gets further highlighted when the dataset goes beyond the memory capacity of the MongoDB server. The latency metrics for SSDs, for both the read and write operations, were the lowest across all workloads –which is an important factor regarding the scalability of MongoDB server.
Update Heavy
In-memory dataset: Figure 5 shows update-heavy workload results for the 32GB dataset, which is smaller than the memory capacity of the MongoDB server. SSD performance has higher throughput for both the Uniform and Zipfian workload types.
Figure 5: Throughput comparisons of update-heavy in-memory dataset
On-disk dataset: Dataset results for the 256GB and 1TB database sizes. These two data sets exceed the capacity of available memory and must reside on an HDD. As seen in Figure 6, SanDisk SSD performance is far superior compared to HDD performance in this scenario.
Figure 6: Throughput comparisons of update-heavy on-disk dataset
|YCSB Workload Types
|Storage Configuration
|YCSB Workload Distribution
|Workload A (50r/50w)
|Workload A (50r/50w)
|Workload A (50r/50w)
|Workload A (50r/50w)
Figure 7: Throughput results of update-heavy workload
Latency: SanDisk CloudSpeed SSDs provide consistently low latency results, even with large datasets for both read and write operations.
Figure 8: Latency results for SSD vs. HDD update-heavy workload
Read Heavy
SSDs provide excellent performance results for read-heavy workload. As the data set expands from 32GB to 256GB to 1TB, the SSD advantage gets clearly highlighted as shown in Figure 9 (on-disk dataset).
Figure 9: Throughput results of read-heavy workload
Latency: SSDs deliver minimal latency for read-heavy workload and this advantage is more pronounced for large datasets (256GB and 1TB) as shown in Figure 10 and for same datasets HDDs generate up to 2.3x higher latency.
Figure 10: Latency results for read-heavy workload
Read Only
This workload is exclusively a read-only workload, which is fetching large amounts of data from MongoDB server. As expected, the SSD gets clear advantage in this workload as the size of the data set exceeds available memory in going from 256GB to 1TB.
Figure 11A: Throughput results for read-only workload
Figure 11B: Latency results for read-only workload
Latency: SSDs deliver virtually no latency for in-memory datasets, and for large datasets beyond memory size, SSDs delivers minimal latency. HDDs for large datasets encounter up to 43x higher latency, highlighting the benefit of using SSDs for such large workloads.
SanDisk CloudSpeed SSDs deliver superior performance throughput—and they do so with a consistently low latency—for all the workload and dataset types. This kind of platform, with high performance and low latency platform, helps the MongoDB database to complete all of its operations in shorter time intervals than it would with HDDs, thereby reducing the need for number MongoDB servers in a given clustered-server environment. Reduction of MongoDB cluster density reduces both capital expenses (CAPEX) and operational expenses (OPEX), with fewer MongoDB database instances to manage and administer. SanDisk's Guardian technology, which ships with the SanDisk SSDs, provides a data protection capability, thereby securing the customer's investment in these solid state disks.


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Gigabyte EP35-DS4 Review
In all reality, you want a motherboard with a chipset that gives you what you need. For example, some chipsets are better for overclocking, while others are not. My older Abit 680i board was absolutely amazing for overclocking, but my new Gigabyte X38 did not reach quite as high a frontside bus speed. There are so many chipsets out there today, where do we start looking? What about the P35 chipset? How will that chipset do in terms of performance and overclocking? Let's find out.
The Gigabyte EP35-DS4 is a new revision of the P35-DS4 from Gigabyte. One major difference between these two motherboards is that this motherboard features the all new Dynamic Energy Saving technology from Gigabyte. What this means is that this motherboard uses top quality and highly efficient components that can give you up to 70% CPU power savings and up to 20% improved CPU power efficiency. I had a good experience with this Dynamic Energy Saver the last time I used it. Hopefully, this board doesn't alter my opinion of the Dynamic Energy Saving technology. Join me as I thoroughly examine this Gigabyte EP35-DS4 motherboard.
Closer Look:
The box that the Gigabyte EP35-DS4 comes packaged in is almost identical to the box that the EX38-DS4 motherboard came in. You'll find the major features on the front of the box, while on the back of the box, Gigabyte goes more in depth, explaining the motherboard's features. Once you open the box, you'll find the accessories resting on top of the motherboard. Everything is securely held in place by a piece of cardboard. The motherboard is wrapped in anti-static material to insure the board doesn't get exposed to static during shipping and handling.
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HeyPersonals is the leading global site for meeting attractive people who love Chinese culture. Our member base of over 5 million includes women from China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Japan,as well as Europe and the US. They come to HeyPersonals to share, flirt, have fun and to form meaningful relationships.
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2012 Mazda CX-9: New Car Review
Pros: Sporty handling; smooth ride; confident V6; usable third-row seat
Cons: Limited cargo room behind the third-row seat; limited information and entertainment system (no USB for iPod integration); tow rating is a low 3,500 pounds
There are numerous family transporters out there. Some come in minivan form, some are full-blown SUVs and some are an ungainly combination of the two. However, very few seven-passenger vehicles offer the level of styling and overall performance delivered by the Mazda CX-9. Sure, you can point to vehicles like the Audi Q7 or the Mercedes-Benz GL, but factor in the CX-9's $30,000 starting price, and the small list of possible competitors evaporates faster than shallow water in the summer sun.
The CX-9 is appealing on a number of levels, beginning with its styling. Its sharply raked windshield, flowing side lines and low roofline give it the appearance of a slightly oversize sport wagon. Add to the design an elegant set of 18- or 20-inch wheels, tasteful chrome trim and the option of all-wheel drive, and the CX-9's popularity becomes easy to understand. We'd be remiss not to mention the adept handling Mazda is famous for, and an interior that is fresh and sophisticated yet amazingly practical in its execution. Finally, there is the CX-9's excellent repair and resale record coupled with its family-friendly price structure, which starts just under $30,000 for the front-wheel-drive Sport and climbs to about $40,000 for a fully loaded Grand Touring with AWD.
Comfort & Utility
It goes without saying that most crossovers offer plenty of room and comfort for passengers in the front and middle rows. But it's that third-row seat that always seems to trip up the promise of seven-passenger comfort. Happily, this is not the case with the CX-9, which has a well-designed split folding third-row seat that can actually fit average-size adults, although we think kids are still the best candidates for the narrow perch. Accessing the third row is made easy by the sliding second-row seat and the long rear doors. The price of the third-row seat is diminished cargo space: just 17.2 cubic feet. A cargo bay that modest may be fine for a small load of groceries or a few duffel bags, but if you're traveling with seven people, the only way to bring along their luggage is going to be a roof-mounted cargo carrier. When the third-row seat is not occupied, it folds flush into the floor to create a more accommodating 48.3 cubic feet of space; fold the second row flat, and that number increases to 100.7 cubic feet.
The CX-9's generous standard equipment includes power windows, locks and mirrors, front and rear air conditioning, cruise control and a tilt wheel. The Touring version adds leather seating, heated side mirrors and front seats and an eight-way power driver's and four-way power passenger's seat. Moving into the Grand Touring adds HID headlamps, rain-sensing windshield wipers, 20-inch wheels and Mazda's Advanced keyless entry and start and blind spot monitoring systems.
The CX-9's high-tech roster includes an available 10-speaker Bose Centerpoint surround sound audio system, voice-activated DVD navigation with Sirius traffic updates and standard Bluetooth hands-free cell phone connectivity with streaming audio capability. Also available is a backup camera with a 4.3-inch screen concealed in the rear-view mirror and a blind spot monitoring system that warns of vehicles traveling in the CX-9's blind spot. A power liftgate is optional on Touring and Grand Touring versions, as is Mazda's Advanced keyless smart entry and start system. For the kids, there is an available rear-seat DVD entertainment system, which routes sound through the Bose audio. Unfortunately, this roof-mounted option negates the ability to order the power sunroof, so you can have sun on your face or contented kids, but not both.
Performance & Fuel Economy
The 2012 Mazda CX-9 offers only one engine and transmission: a 3.7-liter V6 rated at 273 horsepower and 270 lb-ft of torque, mated to a six-speed automatic transmission. This is one of the most refined and efficient V6 engines in this price segment. From its use of strong but lightweight aluminum heads to the impressive 10.3:1 compression ratio, which helps deliver power for accelerating and passing without the need for premium gasoline, the 3.7-liter is a model engine. Fuel economy for the front-wheel-drive CX-9 is rated at 17 mpg city and 24 mpg highway, with the AWD version earning a slightly lower 16/22 mpg.
Two-wheel-drive models are pulled by their front wheels, while the available AWD versions use Mazda's Active Torque Split to route power to the rear wheels, but only when needed. Under normal driving conditions, the AWD models revert to front-wheel drive, helping save on fuel and tire wear.
Mazda understands that occupants are the most important cargo its drivers will ever carry. Therefore, the automaker has equipped the CX-9 with a plethora of standard safety and assist features. Airbag protection is provided to the front and front side, while side curtain airbags cover all three rows. To help the driver maintain control in emergency maneuver situations, the CX-9 is equipped with electronic traction control, dynamic stability control (when skidding or fishtailing, this system helps keep the vehicle moving in the direction the driver originally intended) and roll stability control, which intervenes when an imminent rollover is detected to slow and stabilize the vehicle.
Driving Impressions
With four passengers on board, the CX-9 demonstrates strong acceleration and controlled handling. Push the occupant number to seven and add a bunch of cargo, however, and the performance diminishes noticeably. The added weight seems to compact the rear suspension, taking away its ability to respond as quickly as when lightly burdened. In fairness, this is the case for any vehicle pushed to its weight limit, but it is worth mentioning here since the CX-9 is more likely to be carrying its maximum weight on a regular basis than something like a BMW 3 Series. Despite the CX-9's size and weight, though, it is still amazingly spry when rounding corners or darting through traffic. Credit the car's rigid frame, MacPherson strut front suspension and independent multi-link rear suspension for the sports-car-like ride and handling.
At highway speeds, the CX-9's interior remains quiet and free of rattles or road noise, and the ride is smooth and controlled. The big V6 hums along with little fuss or commotion, delivering its power in a smooth, linear fashion without hesitation or strain.
Other Cars to Consider
GMC Acadia - The Acadia may not be as sporty as the CX-9, but it offers more room for its third-row occupants and a much larger cargo area behind the third-row seat.
Honda Pilot - The Pilot is not as powerful as the CX-9, nor can it handle as well, but it does get slightly better fuel economy when equipped with the five-speed automatic transmission and 2WD and has a little more cargo space (18.0 cubic feet) behind the third row of seats.
Ford Explorer - The Explorer offers more engine choices, and its 3.5-liter V6 has more power at 290 hp and better highway fuel economy at 17/25 mpg. It also has a higher tow rating (5,000 pounds versus the Mazda's 3,500 pounds) and the availability of a more sophisticated AWD system with variable settings. What's more, it offers Ford's SYNC information and entertainment system. However, you'll pay more for a comparably equipped Explorer, and you won't get as much maximum cargo volume.
AutoTrader Recommends
If you can live without rain-sensing wipers and HID headlamps, we'd say go for the front-wheel-drive Touring. This nicely equipped CX-9 starts just over $31,000, yet it can be equipped with many of the Grand Touring's high-end options such as the Bose audio system, a power rear liftgate and a power sunroof. Even with AWD, the Touring is still priced well under $35,000.


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There are just 13 days remaining before the NBA draft's early-entry deadline hits, but there has already been big news—not only are Michigan's Trey Burke and Maryland's Alex Len putting their names in, but Nerlens Noel will be leaving school, too. That's where we will begin this week's draft watch:
TALKING ABOUT … Nerlens Noel with a league scouting director.
It is rare that a player considered a sure bet to be a Top 3 pick in the NBA draft has some question about whether he will leave school or return—take the money, young man. There was, though, the possibility that Kentucky forward Nerlens Noel would go back, only because he suffered a torn ACL that ended his season after 24 games. The chance was slim, though, and on Monday that chance moved to none, as Noel officially announced his intent to enter the NBA next year.
Where does Noel wind up? Well, it could well be No. 1, injury and all. We caught up with an NBA scouting director to discuss Noel's future.
On whether Noel should still be considered the No. 1 pick: "He is the best player in the draft. I think that was obvious over the course of the year, he is the guy who is going to have the most impact in the NBA. He can be a monster on the defensive end. He is athletic and he has the instincts and a huge wingspan. He gets the blocked shots, and he is very good at that, but I like the way he plays his man, too, he is not just a help guy who swats shots away. He can play straight up, too. There is no other player who has a known NBA-level skill like that in this draft."
On the impact of the knee injury: "I don't think it is going to scare away whoever gets the No. 1 pick. It is going to slow down his development early on but so what? He is 19. Bigs take time anyway. Anthony Davis and Andre Drummond missed big chunks of this season because they were hurt. Do you think the Hornets or the Pistons regret picking them? Of course not. Blake Griffin missed his whole rookie year because of his knee. You have to make sure that there is nothing chronic going on, that he will heal just fine. But once you do that, yeah, you pick him."
On the knee and Noel's offense: "I didn't think he was going to develop into an offensive force before the knee injury and so the injury doesn't matter in terms of that. I would compare him to DeAndre Jordan that way. He hasn't shown much ability to play with his back to the basket, so what you hope to do is get him to learn one good post move and a counter move so that he is at least a threat. He is not going to score 25 points per game, but can he get 14, 15 a night? He could. But that won't depend on his knee. That will depend on, mentally, whether he can develop and trust some post moves."
Alex Len, C, Maryland. Len announced that he would jump into the draft this weekend, which wasn't a big surprise. Len entered the season as a potential No. 1 pick, but he never really lived up to his billing and he figures to drop to the back of the lottery.
His numbers were not bad—Len averaged 11.9 points and 7.8 rebounds, with 2.1 blocks—but he is 7-1 and possesses rare athleticism for a big man, which scouts figured should have translated into better production. Len had a habit of getting lost in the Terps offense, though, and there are questions about whether he is tough or aggressive enough to warrant a Top 5 pick.
—Teams might be perfectly willing to shuttle along draft picks this year, because this crop of players is surrounded by question marks. But don't look for teams to make a whole lot of deals involving next year's picks. Already, there is a debate brewing over who will be No. 1 next year, when Duke signee Jabari Parker and fellow forward Andrew Wiggins (who is still deciding among Florida State, Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina) are expected to be in the draft.
—Did the Warriors tank to close the season last year? Maybe so, but if they did, it was worth it. If Golden State had finished with the No. 8 pick or lower they would have had to transfer the choice to Utah, which dates back to a trade the Warriors made with the Nets for Marcus Williams—who wound playing all of nine games for Golden State. Instead, the Warriors got the No. 7 pick, kept it, and chose Harrison Barnes. They will have to move their pick this year, but it is slated to be No. 21, a little more in line with what they got from Williams.
—One guy worth keeping an eye on is Texas guard Myck Kabongo, whose situation is fairly similar to that of Avery Bradley when he left the Longhorns—both were highly touted coming out of high school, but saw their stock take a stumble when things went awry in Austin. Kabongo missed 23 games because of an NCAA violation, and struggled with his shot when he returned, but, like Bradley, he just needs a first-round team willing to take a chance on the talent that had him so highly regarded coming out of high school.


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Blackfoot soldier doing 'her patriotic duty'
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq – Spc. Crystal Gregan, a driver and gunner assigned to Golf Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment, 77th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, and a native of Blackfoot does not mince words regarding why she is stationed at Joint Base Balad, Iraq.
"This deployment is my patriotic duty. I've always been proud of my country," Gregan said.
The reason she joined the military and came to Iraq was simple: patriotism. Gregan stepped out of a management slot at Walgreens, a retail pharmacy store in Blackfoot, and into the role of a soldier more than a year ago. The transition from citizen to soldier carried its own unique challenges.
"In civilian life, I tell people what to do. Here, I do what people tell me to do," she said.
Gregan said there are times, though, when as a lower-ranking soldier, and a female, it is important to ensure her voice is heard.
"Sometimes you have to go outside the bubble and say, 'This is what I think,'" Gregan said. Gregan said she's faced challenges since her deployment began, but the experience she gained is invaluable.
"There have been times when I said, 'I hate this', but it has still broadened my horizons," she said.
While she enjoys her role as a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle driver, she also benefits from her time in the gunner's turret.
"I'm one of those people that if something goes down, I want to be in a position to do something about it," she said.
Gregan also said Iraq has made a lasting impression during her deployment. The differences in the quality of life between the villages in Iraq and her hometown of Blackfoot are striking. Everyone, she said, should ensure they get an opportunity to see how other people in other countries live.
"Iraq is everything you see on TV. Many children don't have shoes or socks. It is really like that over here," she said. "I think every American should [deploy], so they get a concept of what they have at home. At some point in their lives they need to experience what the real world is all about."
Gregan said her year-long deployment helped her to reflect on her life and plan for the future. She already has framed a post-deployment plan.
"During this deployment, some of the time, I've had time to look at my life," she said. "I'm a goal-oriented person. I plan to go back to Walgreens, go back to Idaho State University. I'm not sure what I'll major in."
The challenges and triumphs all added into hard-earned and critical experience, she said.
"The military has given me the opportunity to meet a lot of different people," she said.


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The Daily Word in killer storm, childhood obesity, Starbucks politics
Intense storm system blamed in the deaths of at least six people after it dumped sleet and snow in the Midwest and unleashed tornadoes in the South.
Childhood obesity rates appear to be falling.
KRQE provides some helpful tips for returning those unwanted Christmas presents.
You can no longer adopt a child from Russia.
Politics, politics, everywhere … even on your Starbucks cups.
A family in Albuquerque lost their home after it went up in flames on Christmas Day.
Christmas on the ISS.
Hobbit actors see how fast they can name all of the dwarves.
Creepy (sexy?) John Mayer Santa.
Who steals a baby Jesus from a nativity scene on Christmas? C'mon.


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Consensus Report
Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges (2009)Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Driven by growing energy demands, high prices for fossil fuels, and concern about climate change, more than two dozen nations, including Egypt, Vietnam, Belarus, the Gulf States, and Turkey, among others, have announced that they are considering or planning their first nuclear power plants. The fuel for these plants is fabricated from enriched uranium, which can be purchased from outside suppliers -- currently, two international consortia, Russia, and the U.S. However, some countries may fear that relying on others could make them vulnerable to a cutoff of supplies for political reasons. This report, which was produced with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, draws upon discussions from an international workshop convened by the National Academies, involving 10 countries that might participate in a system to assure reliable supplies of fuel. The report concludes that the United States and Russia, along with other countries and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), shoud redouble efforts to explore a broad menu of approaches to provide assurances against political disruptions of the nuclear fuel supply. The report recommends that nations work together to create a global system of a small number of international centers to handle sensitive steps of the fuel cycle, such as enrichment and management of spent fuel, and possibly also reprocessing, storage, and disposal.


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What we're about
Welcome to AustinCyclingMeetup.com, your friendly neighborhood "low key" recreational cycling group!
Austin Cycling Meetup group is not a hard core anything. We're a little bit road warriors, a little bit social cyclists, and a whole lot community builders. We all just love riding our bikes and want friends to ride with.
Most of our regular calendar meetups are South Austin/Westlake/Bee Cave/Lakeway routes. And due to the desire for variety and the members that have joined us we also venture to Dripping Springs, Parmer Road, Pflugerville and the surrounding hill country for charity rides. So we're kind of all over Austin!
If you're nervous about riding because you just learned where to place your feet on the pedals, no worries. Most of our rides are no drop and we're happy to have an excuse to stop and chat at the top of that hill waiting on the others. Chances are next time around it will be one of us.
And equally true that if you want to kick it, we have century riders that will ride out front with you or add some extra miles/hills with you. We're really all about the fun, building our skills and the chance to stay fit. We truly have all levels of riders.
BEFORE YOU JOIN A RIDE: please take a moment to read the road safety rules of our club (http://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cycling-Meetup/pages/Our_Cycling_Safety_Principles_%28PLEASE_READ%29/). We follow Austin Cycling Association protocols. If you're not sure about your ride level, please read this description (http://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cycling-Meetup/pages/About_our_riding_group_levels/) of our ride levels before you join us. Or contact me by email.
Mountain bikers that prefer trail rides, please meander over the Austin Mountain Biking Meetup and join Ken Sinclair's group. We regularly welcome mountain bikers on our road rides and social rides, but no longer host trail rides since our member Ken is doing such a bang up job there.
Check out our photo albums for proof of just how much fun you'll have riding with us. Check those nerves about your riding skills, equipment, or style right at the end of your driveway and come on!
Let's roll!
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OGUCHI Onyewu has backed Stuart Holden to win his fitness fight and play again for Wanderers next season.
The US international will come face-to-face with compatriot Tim Ream at Hillsborough this afternoon, with both defenders vying for a place in Jurgen Kilnsmann's World Cup squad.
Holden's absence in an injury-plagued three years has been felt by club and country but with Dougie Freedman confirming the 28-year-old is targeting a return from a second cruciate ligament injury in late June, Sheffield Wednesday star Onyewu is keeping his fingers crossed his friend makes a full recovery.
"Stuart when fit is a great contributor to the team and the squad; he's just been struggling with injuries for the last three or four years," he said.
"It's just unfortunate that in the game where he came back from injury he hurt himself again.
"It's nobody's fault. He did all the testing beforehand and saw the doctors beforehand.
"It was one of those fluke things that unfortunately happened. Knowing him, he's a fighter, he's a realist; he put his head down and got back to work and is focusing on getting back for next season.
"He's a solid midfielder. I just hope that when he comes back from this, all the injuries are behind him and he can put the dark days behind him and look forward to the sunlight."


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NO STING IN THE TAIL Brexit brewing boost as nettle beer brewery destroyed by EU tax law plans relaunch after our escape from bloc
Cornish Stingers brewery was forced to close after getting stung by brutal EU tax laws - but may be able to resume work after Britain leaves the EU
BRITAINS only nettle beer brewery forced to close after getting stung by EU tax laws is preparing for a Brexit re-launch.
Former Royal Marine Miles Lavers launched Cornish Stingers beer seven years ago using an old English recipe.
But he then discovered Brussels was a right pain.
Customs officials warned his tipple could not be a beer under EU rules because it did not contain malt. Instead it was classed as made wine the same category as alcopops adding a whopping 10p duty to each £2.50 bottle.
Miles, 51, who had built up a brisk pub trade, was hit with a £9,260 bill for back-taxes and had 2,280 bottles impounded.
He was forced to stop production and claim benefits, later taking part-time decorating and building jobs.
However he moth-balled his brewing equipment and continued his foraging business selling wild plants, herbs and seaweed to chefs.
Now Brexit has given Cornish Stingers the chance to grow again.
Miles, of Helston, Cornwall, has bought some land to harvest nettles and other wild produce.
And Britains brewers, distillers and wine-makers are all demanding a fairer deal on duty.
Miles said: Brexit gives us the chance to get this ridiculous EU rule overturned.
All it has done is destroy the family business Id built up from scratch and deny people the chance to enjoy one of our countrys great traditional drinks.
Nettle beer has been known by that name for centuries. At around 4.5% the alcoholic content is just like beer its nowhere near wine or alcopops.
People love the flavour and that would be ruined if I added malt simply to qualify for lower duty.
If Brexit gets me brewing again, with a sensible Customs duty, I will gladly pay back every penny of back-tax over time.
Pressure is already building on the government to review Britains alcohol duty laws once EU ties are cut.
The British Beer and Pub Association has launched its Brexit Manifesto demanding a more effective and light-touch regulatory regime for the UK in the future.
It wants tax changes that support the consumption of lower-strength drinks a move which would benefit nettle beer.
Meanwhile the Scotch Whisky Association says EU rules must be replaced by a new excise duty regime that is fairer to Scotch Whisky and taxes alcohol more rationally across categories.
HMRC officials have always insisted their hands were tied by the EU over nettle beer.
After Cornish Stingers was shut down in 2010 a spokesman said: The rules concerning the taxation of alcoholic drinks are set out in European legislation.
To qualify as a beer, and be taxed as a beer, a product must be made from malt.
Alcoholic products that cannot be defined as either beer, wines of fresh grape, spirits, cider or perry are charged with the duty rate for made-wine.
When The Sun asked HMRC whether it was now reviewing nettle beer duty a spokesman conceded: Brexit reaches right across HMRC. Significant work is underway to ensure that we are ready to deliver on what is required after the UK leaves the EU, while also continuing to deliver on our existing commitments.
Miles, whose Foodswild business supplies restaurants from Scotland to London, said: Losing the brewery felt like the government had come along and hammered me with an iron fist.
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Annual Meeting: Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28-29, 2012
Conference Theme: Contesting Tradition
We are no longer accepting paper or panel proposals
SUNY New Paltz students and faculty as well as undergraduate students from other area colleges are welcome to attend panels at no charge.
Members of the public can register for $25. This does not include meals or the Friday concert. On-site registration will be in the Student Union.
Registration fees (includes meals, refreshments, NYCAS membership and conference highlights as listed below):
Regular participant:
Full conference: $120
One day: $100
Student participant:
Full conference: $80
One day: $60
Late registration (after Aug. 1) is an additional $15
Please note: Fall weekends bring a lot of tourists to the New Paltz area. We urge you to make your reservations as soon as possible, since rooms will likely become unavailable as the conference date approaches.
Directions from New York City airports
Conference Highlights:
Plenary session with author Ha Jin
Shinohara Pops! Exhibition and performance by Japanese artist Ushio Shinohara
On the Farm: Photography exhibition by Veronica O'Keefe
Concert by the Neel Murgai Ensemble
Plenary session: Ha Jin, author of A Good Fall
Due to a medical emergency, Ha Jin had to cancel his appearance. Prof. Insu Fenkl of SUNY New Paltz will instead discuss Ha Jin's book.
Acclaimed author Ha Jin will open NYCAS 2012 on Friday, Sept. 28 with a talk about his work and a reading from his most recent short story collection, A Good Fall (2009).
Born in northeastern China in 1956, Xuefei Jin (Ha Jin is his pen name) was a teenager during the Cultural Revolution, serving in the People's Liberation Army and educating himself in Chinese literature. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature, he left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University, and has since done his writing in English. Jin completed his Ph.D. here in the United States and is now the author of six novels, four short story collections, and three books of poetry.
Ha Jin's first full-length novel Waiting (1999) won both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His novel War Trash (2004), set in the Korean War, won him a second PEN/Faulkner Award and was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His short stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Norton Introduction to Literature, and his collections have received many awards, including the Asian American Literary Award for The Bridegroom (2000), the Flannery O'Connor Award for Under the Red Flag (1997), and the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for Ocean of Words (1996). He has also received three Pushcart Prizes for fiction and a Kenyon Review Prize.
Along with A Good Fall, Jin's recent books include the novel Nanjing Requiem (2011) and a collection of essays, The Writer as Migrant (2009). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2006, Ha Jin lives in the Boston area and works as a creative writing professor at Boston University.
All incoming first-year students in the English Department's Common Summer Reading Program and students in Asian Studies will read Ha Jin's book, attend the plenary session, and discuss it in their classes at New Paltz.
Ha Jin, "Exiled To English," The New York Times (May 31, 2009)
"The Art of Fiction," an interview with Ha Jin in The Paris Review (2009)
Ha Jin, A Good Fall (2009)
Praise for A Good Fall:
"[Jin] is a master of the straightforward line; he makes the most of his spareness. As in Chekhov's late work, his writing (which is mostly stripped of adjectives and adverbs) covers a lot of ground quickly — no-frills sentences about Chinese immigrants who lead no-frills lives in New York." –The New Republic
"The storyteller's art is richly on display here. Ha Jin has a singular talent for snaring a reader. His premises are gripping, his emotional bedrock hard and true...You might even call it: captivating." –The Washington Post
Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York
Curated by Hiroko Ikegami with Reiko Tomii
Sara Bedrick Gallery at the Dorsky Museum
Aug. 29-Dec. 16, 2012
This exhibition examines the 50-year career of Ushio Shinohara, an indispensable player in the field of global art history. Born in Japan in 1932, Shinohara was active in the Tokyo avant-garde art scene. In 1958–64, a critically important period of postwar Japanese art, he was a notorious regular of the annual Yomiuri Independent Exhibition and a founding member of a short-lived avant-garde group Neo Dada. Known for his Mohawk hairdo, he invented Boxing Painting, his version of "true" action painting, and Imitation Art, in which he critiqued the modernist idea of originality.
On the Farm by Veronica O'Keefe
McKenna Theater Gallery
On the Farm is a series of film portraits chronicling China's agricultural development as it reaches a pivotal point in its evolution. The project began in October 2009 and covers a full agrarian cycle, culminating with the harvest of October 2010. The photographs draw from each of the nation's nine agrarian regions and, viewed as a cohesive body, illustrate a critical point in human history. On the Farm documents those who have been left behind in China's urban migration and urges viewers to confront the wellspring of their sustenance. Perhaps most importantly, the portraits pay homage to some of the hardest working, most indispensable, and disturbingly under-compensated people on the planet: our farmers.
Veronica O'Keefe is a New Paltz graduate and 2009-2010 Fulbright Fellow. Her work has been exhibited at the International Print Center New York (IPCNY) and 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles.
Friday evening concert by the Neel Murgai Ensemble
McKenna Theater, $10 public, $8 students at box office, $7.50 for conference participants in advance
The Neel Murgai Ensemble performs a unique raga chamber-jazz, combining Murgai's sitar with violin, cello and tabla. Their music is rooted in the raga and tala of Indian classical music but combines elements of jazz, Western classical and experimental music and modern improvisation.
Neel Murgai is a multi-instrumental performer, composer and teacher. He has studied sitar for 15 years. He has performed everywhere from the Lincoln and Kennedy Centers to the Blue Note and the David Letterman Show.
Sameer Gupta is a tabla and drumset player of jazz, world, and fusion music. He has performed at Lincoln Center, the Birla Auditorium in Kolkata and Asagiri Jam in Japan.
Arun Ramamurthy has studied south Indian Carnatic music. His music has led him to perform at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Le Poisson Rouge NYC, Maris Music Festival in Chennai, and others.
Marika Hughes is a graduate of the Juilliard School in cello performance. She is happy to have performed with some of her favorite musicians including Charles Burnham, Adam Levy, David Byrne, Gina Leishman, Whitney Houston, Jenny Scheinman, Kyle Sanna & Toshi Regan.
Learn more about the Neel Murgai Ensemble at neelmurgai.com.


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The Moto X was announced yesterday, and it did not seem to go over well with the tech community. Most people are calling it a major disappointment, but not because it's underspecced or didn't live up to the hype. Most people are disappointed because of its high price. At $199 on contract, it goes for a high-end price without delivering the same specs as high-end phones. So what is Motorola's response?
Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside claims that there will be a cheaper Moto X. He seems to understand that the prepaid market is getting big here in the US, so Motorola plans to release multiple devices under the Moto X brand. There will be cheaper variants for those who buy off-contract.
But why is the Moto X so expensive in the first place? Well first of all, US labor is pretty expensive. US assembly probably tacks on quite a bit of price by itself. And the customization factor could raise it even more. Finally, Motorola might just want people to associate the Moto X with "high-end" via the price tag.
While many US consumers don't much care about a cheaper Moto X, those in the UK might. Not because they're more budget oriented, but because Motorola has no plans to launch the standard Moto X in that market. The cheaper Moto X devices will launch across Europe, so they may be the only option for our British friends.
Our first thought about a cheaper Moto X was "the Moto X is already not high-end, we don't need an even lower end model." However, the more we think about it, the more viable it becomes. Looking at the new DROID line, the DROID Ultra is pretty similar to the Moto X, and both are $199 on contract. The DROID Mini, retaining the same specs (camera, processor, resolution) drops to $99 with a screen size drop. If Motorola could release a smaller Moto X, or even one that's not built in the US and is made from the same mold and doesn't offer customization, that could drop the price significantly.
We know that making the Moto X even worse isn't exactly what the tech community wants, but if it drops the price significantly, it could become perfectly worth buying off-contract. What do you think of a cheaper Moto X?
Source: CNET, Pocket-Lint


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Master of ScienceManagement
UW-Green Bay Timeline
The following is a timeline for U.S. students seeking a Master's of Management Degree with a semester at the BEM Bordeaux Management School in Bordeaux, France.
- Fall semester:
15 credits at UW-Green Bay
- Spring semester:
15 credits in Bordeaux (Optional: French language class)
- Summer and before Dec. 1:
Submit a final project, changing an incomplete grade from the fall semester to a letter grade, and completing the requirements of the Master's Degree in Management.
See EBP International Degree timeline if you are a UW-Green Bay student who wishes to pursue a Master's of Management degree with UW-Green Bay and a EBP International degree with BEM Bordeaux Management School in Bordeaux, France.
Dr. Sampath Ranganathan
Chair of the Master's of Management Program
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay


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Are parents banning toy guns in the wake of the horrifying school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut?
As the gun control debate unfolds across the country – sputtering in places, erupting in others – Today reports that parents across the country are instituting measures of their own, right at home.
The Today article profiles three parents in different parts of the country who decided to throw away all of their kids' toy guns in the shooting's aftermath. It's a bit of a journalistic cliche to highlight three examples of a phenomenon in order to claim some sort of trend in the zeitgeist. But there are no actual numbers to quantify how many parents are throwing away their kids' guns.
And even Today points out that holiday sales of toy guns don't appear to have budged in either direction.
"For once, I don't see people looking to blame the toy industry," Chris Byrne, content director for Time to Play, an independent online toy review site, told the website. "I see people putting the focus on where it should be, which is access to real firearms."
Play guns, mass produced at least since the end of World War II, represent "a play pattern that's just not going to go away," he added.
Plus: Straight Talk About Gun Safety
"There's a national backlash against guns, but toy guns are one of the biggest properties," Gerrick Johnson, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets, told the Huffington Post.
In the past five years, toy guns have actually seen dramatic growth in sales, Johnson said. Hasbro, the market leader, reported $414 million in wholesale sales of its Nerf line in 2010. This year, it will sell about $330 million of Nerf products, brightly-colored guns with features similar to popular assault weapons, such as automatic shooting of foam darts and ammunition clips.
Of course, this probably says more about our culture's fixation with actual firearms than it does about the safety of their toy doppelgangers. But developmental experts, for their part, are not overly concerned about playing with the toys.
"Playing with a toy gun is not necessarily a worrisome sign," said Constance Katz, co-founder of the child and adolescent psychotherapy training program at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology in New York. "The focus should not be on playing with guns, it should be on the total emotional life of the child."
So what's happening in your home? Are toy guns suddenly verboten, or are you letting your little ones play cops and robbers as they have done since the dawn of time? Let us know.


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Elks name Boggs as 'Citizen of the Year'
COLUMBIA CITY — Columbia City Elks Lodge #1417 recently named Otto Boggs its Citizen of the Year. In addition to Boggs' award, the lodge also presented its year-end awards to their officers and members.The Citizen of the Year honor is given to a local Columbia City citizen who has given themselves in service to the community. Columbia City Elks Lodge Exalter Ruler Denny Grable awarded Boggs the award for his commitment and dedication in helping those less fortunate."The officers and members of Columbia City Elks Lodge #1417 appreciate the effort and hard work of citizens like Mr. Boggs, and his commitment to this community," said lodge leaders.


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SOURCE: Mentor Graphics
February 26, 2008 09:00 ET
Highlights Benefits of Computational Acceleration in IC Manufacturing
WILSONVILLE, OR--(Marketwire - February 26, 2008) - Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT)
today announced the Calibre® nmOPC and OPCverify computational lithography
tools accelerated with Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) processor
technology have been qualified for production at IBM for 45nm and smaller
process nodes.
"IBM Microelectronics has qualified Calibre nmOPC software with Cell/B.E.
acceleration to improve critical mask layer time-to-market, while
maintaining acceptable total cost of computing for 45nm and 32nm designs,"
said Tim Farrell, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Microelectronics Division.
"Cell/B.E. multi-core technology is a great fit for computational
lithography due to its ability to accelerate the image simulation and Fast
Fourier Transformation processing used in nmOPC."
Like many other areas involving complex simulation, the performance
requirements for computational lithography for integrated circuit (IC)
manufacturing are outrunning the performance of general-purpose computing
platforms. Just as other segments from aerospace to medical imaging have
turned to Cell/B.E. processor platforms, IC development also needs the
power of this advanced technology to meet a combination of turnaround,
throughput, accuracy, and cost management objectives.
To address the challenge of computational lithography for advanced
technology nodes, Mentor Graphics partnered with Mercury Computer Systems
to optimize Calibre nmOPC and OPCverify software for the Cell/B.E.
processor. Mercury provides a pre-integrated coprocessor acceleration (CPA)
cluster comprising Cell/B.E. blades in an IBM BladeCenter H system.
Customers simply connect the CPA cluster to their existing standard compute
cluster using a standard Ethernet connection. The combination of advanced
software and hardware provides dramatic reductions in turnaround time (TAT)
and cost for advanced IC technology nodes.
Cell/B.E. technology is being used to accelerate other electronics industry
workloads such as photomask and LCD inspection, as well as imaging and
real-time analytics workloads in digital content creation and distribution,
digital video surveillance, medical imaging, aerospace & defense, seismic
petroleum and financial markets. Mercury's computing platforms capture,
process and present data for the world's largest medical imaging companies;
8-of-the-10 top defense prime contractors; and other leading Fortune-500
and mid-market companies in semiconductor, energy, telecommunications and
other industries.
The Calibre nmOPC and OPCverify software for standard and CPA clusters is
available from Mentor Graphics. The pre-integrated BladeCenter H CPA
cluster is available from Mercury Computer Systems (http://www.mc.com).
Mentor will exhibit the nmOPC solution with co-processor acceleration (CPA)
at the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference in booth #306 at the San Jose
Convention Center on February 26 and 27, 2008.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic
hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting
services and award-winning support for the world's most successful
electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company
reported revenues over the last 12 months of over $825 million and employs
approximately 4,300 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at
8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web
site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics and Calibre are registered trademarks and OPCverify is a
trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product
names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
For more information, please contact:Gene ForteMentor Graphics503.685.1193Email Contact
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A Special Publication from the Pamplin Media Group ~
Your guide to the 2013 NW Natural Parade of Homes and Open house tour of the Building Industry Association of Clark County.
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William T. Cosgrave after his victory in re-election is shown. Irish flag can be seen.
A panorama of the Irish countryside, sheep grazing. A map of Ireland is seen. Crowds, double decker buses, and vehicles on city streets of Belfast Northern Ireland. Statue of Lord Carson at Parliament. Activities in linen industry. Riveters and welders at work in a shipyard. Protestant Orangemen seen. A painting revering the King and Queen of England. Orangemen in dress costume in a July 12 annual parade celebrating victory at Battle of the Boyne. Custom officials on the Eire-North Ireland border. Narrator talks about the recently independent Eireann and its people who are independent in thought and speech. Irish farmers with horse carts loaded head down a road. Farmers and business men talk in streets of Ireland and strike deals. Horses and carts among the men. An Irish boy standing with a group of sheep. Pastures and bucolic and scenic views of farms and villages in rural Ireland. Men and women spinning wool and weaving. (World War II period).
Exterior of an Irish Government Building in Dublin. Prime MInister Eamon de Valera addresses officials. Views of country side in Ireland. Irish ham and bacon and care and raising of pigs and cows on farms. Farmers plowing in fields, and peat is mined with large harvesting machines and cut into briquettes. Activities in beer brewing (Guiness wooden barrels seen lined up at a brewery) and auto industry with a Ford assembly line in Cork Ireland. New cars on the assembly line being assembled by Irish workers. A Dunlop rubber processing plant in Cork Ireland. Rubber boots being manufactured at the Dunlop plant. The Shannon hydroelectic scheme power project in Limerick region of Ireland; views of the power plant and the river Shannon from which it draws power. View of the hydroelectric dam. Men working atop a large electric transmission tower. Women examine an electric table top mixer for the kitchen. A woman using an electric iron on clothes, and a view of an electric waffle maker and toaster. Streets of Dublin busy with activity. Clocks, shirts, ties, and cutlery in shop windows of Dublin, along with blankets and other goods all made in Ireland. Physicians and nurses gather in a surgical theater of a hospital. Newborn baby being washed in a maternity ward. Public housing construction efforts shown transforming older thatched cottages into modern homes. Signs in ancient Gaelic are shown, recently restored as the national language of the independent Eire. Irish schoolboys enter a school building. Many have no shoes. A teacher instructs the school boys in the classroom.
Irish flag on an official Irish Government building. Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera working in office. Exterior of Fianna Fail-The Republican Party building in Ireland. Officials in a meeting, de Valera addressing. Pictures of important historic political leaders who struggled for independence of Ireland can be seen. Narrator discussing Ireland's decision to remain neutral in World War 2. A statue on the top of a building. Children filling water from a communal hand pump for a town. Views of country side, sheep grazing in Ireland
Ireland President honors Eisenhower in Ireland. The Aras an Uachtarain building. The President of Ireland Eamon de Valera and the former President Sean Thomas O'Kelly honor the former President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower at Aras an Uachtarain. Dignitaries interact. Photographers take photographs. The wives of the dignitaries interact.
U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Ireland William Howard Taft III arrives in Dublin, Ireland. William Howard Taft III being greeted by officials. President of Ireland Sean Thomas O'Kelly welcomes William Howard Taft III. Officials stand. Irish Minister for External Affairs Frank Aiken greets William Howard Taft III. Dignitaries talk at the gathering.


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Android Gaming Weekly: Angry Birds Space, Dark Legends, Reign of Amira, Temple Run
Welcome to our new column Android Gaming Weekly, where we will recap all the new releases and highlights every Thursday. We post small bits throughout the week related to Android games, but readers have requested a condensed summary that makes it easier to keep up with all the latest news. Read on for this week's ... Read More »


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Plenty of esteemed strategists are revising their S&P estimates lower but not the legendary Byron Wien.
In a live interview on CNBC's Fast Money Halftime Report Wien, who is Blackstone Advisory Partners Vice Chairman, tells us he sees every reason for the market to rally.
"I see us going to 1500," he says. "We won't go in a straight line – it might be a saw-tooth pattern – but I think we get there by year's end."
Wien says that his bullish outlook is due in part to thelatest economic data which shows modest improvement. "The US is getting better." And he believes the market is growing more comfortable with the crisis in Europe.
In addition, he says the market is generally too bearish. "There's a lot of negativity in the market. Hedge funds have been cautious," he says. That in turn could trigger a chase for performance with only 11% of hedge funds currently returning more than the S&P.


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On this Nov. 5, the residents of Onslow County are being asked to vote on a $75 million school bond.
To the editor:
On this Nov. 5, the residents of Onslow County are being asked to vote on a $75 million school bond.
The following information will help you make a better informed decision on how to vote. Please note that all Onslow County General Fund debt is paid mainly by sales-tax revenues and property-tax revenues. All bond debt is included in the General Fund.
nIn November 2005, a $90 million school bond was voted on and approved.
nOn June 1, 2006, the first draw-down of $40 million was made.
nThe payoff date for this draw-down is June 1, 2026.
nThe balance on this drawn down as of Sept. 23, 2013, is $37.8 million.
nOn April 1, 2008, the second draw-down was made for $50 million.
nThe payoff date on this draw-down is in June 2028.
nThe balance on this draw down as of Sept. 23, 2013, is $34 million.
nThe total balance due on this $90 million bond, as of Sept. 23, 2013, is $71.8 million.
In 2012 School Administrators conducted a Long Range Facilities Needs Assessment (LRFNA) and determined that they would need $363.8 million dollars to cover the cost of school construction and maintenance for the next 10 years.
The Board of Education is asking for a $75 million bond now to meet the immediate needs of the Onslow County Schools:
nReplace Dixon Middle School: $28 million.
nReplace Richlands Elementary school: $25 million.
nUpgrade safety and security across the district: $6 million.
nPerform major scheduled maintenance: $16 million.
You can look forward to more bond referendums coming up in the future to meet the needs of the school board�s 10-year plan � the LRFNA. The county commissioners are responsible for allotting funds to pay for school bonds. This can and usually does mean the need for more tax revenues.
The citizens of Onslow County are the taxpayers. I encourage you to go to the polls and vote on Nov. 5 and let the county commissioners know what you want them to do.
The Onslow County debt as of Sept. 23, 2013, was $189.6 million and if we add an additional $363 million over the next 10 years, it will more than double the county�s debt.
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I enjoyed having professors who took a personal interest in each of their students. UW-River Falls provided an excellent education foundation which led to a very successful career for me. UW-River Falls provided a tremendous learning environment.
My degree in Ag Education opened the door for a lifelong career of teaching at Denmark High School. It was my opportunity to put Denmark on the map and today it is considered one of the premier schools dealing with agriculture education, FFA and the FFA alumni. Many people have made this all become a reality but it all started at UW-River Falls. I have also had the chance to provide leadership to numerous local, state and national organizations…again, thanks to UW-River Falls for getting me "fully engaged."
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Although no authorship is indicated on the title page, the section "Getting Up a Pantomime" is practically identical in both text and illustrations to an article of the same title by William S. Gilbert that was published in London Society in January 1868: see http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ajcrowth/panto.htm. The author of the section "Scenes in Court," in its tenth paragraph, relates that he was asked "whether I were not Mr. Jones." He begins the eleventh paragraph stating: "I readily acknowledged that ancient name to be mine." So there were at least two authors, and one of them was none other than the William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) who in 1871 began collaborating with Arthur S. Sullivan in producing musical comedies.
Further research may determine that other sections, perhaps the others containing "Bab" illustrations, were also written by Gilbert.
In both the London Society article and the London Characters version of "Getting Up a Pantomime" only 2 of the 8 illustrations were actually signed "Bab". Since it is probable that all of them were drawn by Gilbert, it is likely that more than just the 21 signed "Bab" in London Characters were drawn by Gilbert.
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Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers withdrew on Sunday from consideration to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke after fierce opposition from within the Democratic Party hurt his chances of being confirmed in Congress.
Summers, a former top aide to President Barack Obama and widely regarded as a brilliant economist and a shrewd and decisive policy maker, was considered to be the front-runner for the position to replace Bernanke, whose second term expires in January.
But Summers was dogged by controversies including his support for deregulation in the 1990s when he ran the Treasury Department in the Clinton administration - blamed by some for the financial crisis of 2007-2009 - as well as for comments he made about women's aptitude while president of Harvard.
"It became obvious he did not have support from some in his own party and had too much baggage to get approved for a number of reasons," said Richard Daskin, chief investment officer at RSD Advisors in New York.
Summers' withdrawal appeared to open the door for the nomination of Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, who was seen as his chief rival for the position. Yellen, who has a long career in the Fed system and also chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers under former president Bill Clinton, would be the first woman to lead the U.S. central bank.
Still, the president has said he is also considering others, and has mentioned former Vice Chairman Donald Kohn, who retired in 2010 after 40 years at the Fed. Roger Ferguson, who was vice chairman from 1999-2006 and is currently chief executive of the academic retirement fund TIAA-CREF is also considered a possibility.
Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, while popular at the White House made clear on Sunday he has not wavered from his oft-expressed disinterest in the job.[ID: nL2N0HC01O]
Summers' withdrawal in a letter to Obama in which he said any confirmation process would likely be acrimonious and a distraction came after weeks of intense political pressure for the administration.
The president sought congressional approval for a military strike against Syria for a suspected poison gas attack against rebels, only to meet resistance from within his own Democratic ranks as well as from Republican lawmakers. He averted the possibility of a humiliating defeat in Congress by embracing a Russian proposal for destroying Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons.
Looking ahead, is the approaching battle between the administration and Republicans in Congress over government funding and an extension of the U.S. debt ceiling, without which the federal government could shut down in two weeks and the nation could default on its debt. Obama also must defend his signature healthcare reform against attempts to cut its funding.
It was not clear if Summers was persuaded by Obama to withdraw because of growing fears that nominating him as Fed Chairman would lead to an ugly battle within the president's own party, or whether Summers decided himself that he did not want to go through such a potentially
"Maybe it was a recognition that he wasn't going to get through the confirmation process, and Obama certainly doesn't seem to have a whole lot of political capital right now," said Scott Frew, Managing Partner and Owner, Rockingham Capital Advisors in Hartford, Connecticut.
Unprecedented backlash
Word that the president was leaning toward nominating Summers over Yellen elicited an unprecedented backlash against a potential nominee to run the U.S. central bank.
Summers said that the storm pointed to a difficult confirmation process that could hurt the president's economic agenda and the institution, and decided to pull back.
"I have reluctantly concluded that any possible confirmation process for me would be acrimonious and would not serve the interests of the Federal Reserve, the administration, or ultimately, the interests of the nation's ongoing economic recovery," he wrote in his letter to Obama.
Liberal lawmakers and progressive groups had been outspoken in their opposition to Summers and were pleased the economist had taken himself out of the running.
"Larry Summers' past decisions to deregulate Wall Street and do the bidding of corporate America has made the lives of millions of Americans more acrimonious. He would have been an awful Fed Chair," said Adam Green co-founder of Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a political advocacy group.
Four Democratic senators on the Senate Banking Committee were expected to vote against him if he was nominated by the president. The most recent statement of opposition came from Montana Senator Jon Tester on Friday.
"The administration realized that the math wasn't there for a Summers nomination," a Democratic aide on the Senate banking committee said. "Withdrawing was the right choice."
Twenty Senate Democrats had signed a letter urging Obama to nominate Yellen.
Investors took the withdrawal of Summers as a green light for risk and lower interest rates, with initial market reactions signaling a view that the bank's next chief was more likely than Summers to extend an era of easy money that has flooded global markets with cash.
In futures trading ahead of the opening of the U.S. trading week, stock index futures tracking the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose more than 1 percent and futures tracking the U.S. 10-year Treasury note also rose, implying benchmark bond yields would move lower to start the week.
The dollar also weakened on expectations that U.S. interest rates were less likely to rise as rapidly as they had over much of the summer.
Sunday's developments come at a sensitive time for the Fed. On Wednesday it is expected to announce a plan to start winding down its massive stimulus, perhaps one of the most pivotal policy maneuvers ever attempted by the U.S. central bank.
Summers is the second high profile potential nominee to withdraw under pressure in Obama's second term. Susan Rice, now Obama's national security advisor, stepped back from consideration to be secretary of state over controversy surrounding her role in explaining the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that claimed the lives of four U.S. government employees, including the ambassador.


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Realignments of existing Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites are expected to be completed by early summer, creating the most optimal geometry in the navigation system's 42-year history, according to the U.S. Air Force, which manages the GPS system.
Meanwhile, several GLONASS system satellites also have been realigned to maximize coverage from the Russian system, which currently has 22 satellites in service.
The GPS satellite realignment project, called Expandable 24, involved shifting the positions of six existing satellites. It began in January 2010 and is expected to be complete in June 2011 when the final satellite reaches its new position.
"When fully complete, Expandable 24 will increase global GPS coverage and provide civil, military and commercial GPS users with a more robust signal and a higher probability of signal acquisition in terrain-challenged environments," according to an Air Force news release.
Several new GPS and GLONASS satellites are set to be launched in 2011. A U.S. GPS IIF-2 satellite is scheduled for launch at Cape Canaveral on June 23. Launch dates for four new GLONASS satellites also have been announced, including a single satellite in March, and three in June.
The GLONASS launches follow the failed launch of a trio of satellites in December 2010. According to news reports, it failed when the launch rocket blew up because excess fuel had been loaded in error.


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MILAN (AP) -- The Russian team Katusha featuring top-ranked Joaquin Rodriguez has been denied a wild-card entry into the Giro d'Italia.
Organizers RCS announced four wild-card entries on Tuesday for the May 4-26 race: Italian teams Androni Giocattoli, Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox and Vini Fantini, plus South American squad Colombia.
The 18 UCI Pro Teams received automatic invites.
Katusha has filed a suit in the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the UCI's refusal of its application for the 2013 World Tour.
RCS said Katusha was considered as a professional continental team. Rodriguez has said he will leave Katusha if it is not allowed to compete in the World Tour.
Last year, Rodriguez was runner-up in the Giro to Ryder Hesjedal of Canada.
RCS did invite Katusha to the Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-San Remo and Il Lombardia.


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The Lakers say Jerry Buss, Jim Buss and Mitch Kupchak were unanimous in agreement, you know, in blowing it.
Everyone is so excited.
We're told it's 95-5 that Phil Jackson will be the next Lakers' coach, no one mentioning that the 5% minority happens to be Jerry, Jim and Mitch.
What's the rush?
Why is the next Lakers coach, a guy who can't walk without crutches and acknowledged as the second choice, doing a contract at 11:30 p.m.?
Were the Lakers afraid D'Antoni might get a better offer elsewhere in the morning?
This smacks of putting Jackson in his place, as if any place makes more sense than sitting in his Lakers high chair.


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If you have ever wanted to own a former swinger's club, opportunity may be knocking at your door.
The owners of The Cherry Pit, Jim Trulock and Julie Norris, have until Monday to respond to foreclosure orders on their Dallas-suburb home/club.
Trulock and Norris are six months late on their $163,000 mortgage.
The looming foreclosure is just one of the many problems the couple has faced since the city of Duncanville approved an ordinance outlawing sex clubs.
In October of last year, Trulock was found guilty on 10 different charges of violating two city ordinances. In all, Trulock was to pay $7,500 in fines.
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"Where there was once only one company, we now have two," explained Cramer, "There's AbbVie (ABBV), the slow growth pharma play with a bountiful 4.7% yield, and the new Abbott Labs, a faster growing company, but with only a 1.7% dividend yield.
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By Joe Mellenbruch
Nothing tastes worse than humble pie. If you aren't convinced, ask Devils Lake police chief Keith Schroeder.
As punishment for losing the "Battle of the Badges" challenge late last month, Schroeder was forced to wash one of the Fire Department's vehicles, and endure a little trash talking as well.
But it was all in fun. Fire chief Jim Moe and the rest of the firefighters seemed to be enjoying themselves as they watched their fellow public servant hose down their equipment.
According to Moe, there wasn't any particular strategy involved in his team's win, but rather he believes that his team's presence at the registration tables made the difference in the end.
"We were out there a little more than they were." Moe said, "It really could have gone either way."
This side bet between the Devils Lake police and fire departments was meant purely for fun, adding an interesting, competitive aspect to what was a great cause.
This was the first year the the "Battle of the Badges" was held in Devils Lake, and it attracted 180 blood donors in total.
Of those 180, 99 were first-time donors.
"That's phenomenal for any community," said Linda Elliott, a donor recruitment representative for United Blood Services. "That was over half of the people we had come in. We hope that those people continue to donate, and we were very happy with it."
Elliott was an integral part in bringing this event to Devils Lake.
According to her, this year's turnout was better than imagined, and she expects even more people to participate next year.
"It was more than we could have expected," Elliott said. "We know there are people here that are willing to donate and help us, so we're going to continue to build this event in the year's to come.
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For the third straight year, the Franklin boys hockey team will play for the Division 2 state championship. For the third straight year, the Panthers will try to get the one win that's eluded them the past two years, when they came up short in the final game of the season both times.
For the third straight year, the Franklin boys hockey team will play for the Division 2 state championship.
For the third straight year, the Panthers will try to get the one win that's eluded them the past two years, when they came up short in the final game of the season both times.
Franklin, the seventh seed, dispatched Hockomock League rival Oliver Ames, seeded fourth, on Tuesday night in the Division 2 South final at Gallo Arena, beating the Tigers 3-1.
The win improves the Panthers' record to 17-6-2 and sets up a rematch of last year's championship game against Wilmington on Sunday (TD Garden, 1:30 p.m.), which the Panthers lost 3-2.
"We've been there (before). … This is our third time in a row," said Franklin coach Chris Spillane. "We've come home bridesmaids the first two years. This is it. I just told these guys that I will not be the Marv Levy of high school hockey."
Before seventh-seeded Franklin could turn its attention to Wilmington, it had to beat a pesky OA team (17-5-2) that had knocked Franklin off in the only regular-season meeting between the two.
Physical and tough, the Tigers boast one of the state's most talented goalies in sophomore Jimmy Tierney, who recorded 36 saves in a 2-0 shutout of top-seeded Canton in the sectional semis.
On Tuesday, Tierney would not fare nearly as well.
Just 34 seconds into the game, Tierney was beaten by the first shot he faced. Franklin senior forward Cam Curley, who took a pass from fellow senior Aiden Isberg, wristed a shot toward Tierney's glove side. The puck managed to skirt under Tierney's pad, giving the Panthers a 1-0 lead.
"We knew he's a good goalie, but we knew that he was beatable," said Curley. "So we knew if we got to him early it would make the whole rest of the game easier and that's what we did.
"On that shot it was low and hard. I was just trying to get it on net and good things happen when you go to the net and put the puck on the net."
The Panthers didn't slow after one goal, continuing to attack.
After OA senior Sean Kyne was hit with a slashing penalty 11:58 into the first period, Franklin added a second goal eight seconds into the power play. Senior Pat Slason found the back of the net off a rebound from sophomore Kyle Filbert's shot.
"It's a comfort as a coach when you can go to any line and ask them to go out and get it done and they get it done," said Spillane. "Not only in the defensive zone but putting pucks in the net and scoring offensively, so that's huge."
The night's third goal came from sophomore Alec Borkowski, a player who in the past few weeks has become one of the Panthers' most reliable offensive producers.
Borkowski combined with his linemates — sophomore Nick Downie and junior Randy Gilbert — 6:30 into the second period to give Franklin a three-goal lead.
The threesome passed the puck swiftly as they skated full speed down the ice, leaving Tierney spinning and visibly out of position. The result was a relatively uncontested goal for Borkowski — a tip-in from just inside the crease.
Though a Franklin victory seemed imminent when the third period started, a pair of penalties in the frame gave OA two power play-opportunities. Still, the Panthers were able to bear down and hold OA in check.
The Tigers' lone goal came with 26.5 second remaining on a wrister from senior Kyle Hayes.
With wins over OA and Mansfield in its last two games, Franklin has already faced two familiar opponents. And while Wilmington is not a league foe, the Panthers understand what challenges await given what happened last year and what they have already observed this season.
"They're an offensive team," said Spillane. "We went and watched them play last night (Wilmington defeated Danvers, 7-2). They have some goal scorers. Everyone talks about Cam Owens as being their ultimate guy, but we went last night and I got to tell you what, they had a kid (Brendan) McDonough that was a pure goal-scorer.
"We're going to have to play strong in our defensive zone. We're going to have to play the body. They're a finesse team. They like to stick handle. We'll change it up a little bit. Instead of us trying to score goals we'll go out and play a physical game."


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(CNN) -- Although 2012 was championed as the year of "The Twitter Election," the Twitterverse turned out to be a cold, cruel place.
Mistakes became memes. Blunders gave birth to parody accounts with huge followings. And at least in Paul Ryan's case, good looks became a talking point.
Hey girl, instead of giving out candy this year, I thought it'd be more fun to take stuff away...like the social safety net. #happyhalloween— Paul Ryan Gosling (@PaulRyanGosling) October 31, 2012
Key moments in the campaign were documented by the creation of Twitter parody accounts, and many were not amused.
A recent study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism found that sentiment on social media of both presidential candidates remained consistently negative even if mainstream media coverage was positive.
The study was conducted during a one-month period that included both the Democratic and Republican national conventions.
"The differences raise a question about whether social media may make what Americans hear about politics more negative and may make it harder for political actors, particularly those trailing in the polls, to alter the media narrative," the study said.
Humor has always played a fundamental role in politics, at times creating serious commentary around important topics. Comedians Jon Stewart and Chris Rock have proved this for years. "Saturday Night Live" thrives during election seasons. Twitter, however, allows practically anyone to rise from obscurity to online comedic celebrity.
The question then becomes, does it matter?
The landscape where social media, politics and humor converge is an area of burgeoning research. Kristen Landreville, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Wyoming, has studied the effects of political humor.
The 25 funniest tweets of the first debate
She found that programs like "The Daily Show" influence people's knowledge and cynicism about politics and their use of other political media.
"I would be comfortable making the connection and saying that political humor on social media will also have effects on people," she said via e-mail. "One reason is because social media is meant to connect people, whether politically like-minded or not."
Landreville cautions that there is little, if any, social scientific research on these areas. Although it is too early to make conclusions, the anecdotal evidence is out there.
In an article on political humor and its unique ability humanize and criticize, Landreville said that oftentimes, the humor focuses on more trivial matters, such as a politician's appearance or personality.
Perhaps Landreville was predicting the eventual creation of the accounts @PaulRyanCowlick or @RyansPeak2012, which continues to post messages but rarely refers to Ryan or his appearance.
Landreville said humor tends to relax our guard while personal or emotional messages from family or friends are processed in more meaningful ways.
"You get to see that post from Aunt Betty about how Mitt Romney will save America from socialism, AND you get to see the post from your college roommate about how Obamacare has helped his family. Will you be influenced by these posts? Perhaps," Landreville wrote.
But with humor, you're laughing and perhaps being persuaded or influenced, even subconsciously, because you're not critically analyzing the Internet meme.
Still, the effects of the political humor may be integrated into your political attitudes, Landreville said.
And instead of spreading your message one person at a time, thanks to social media, one message is spreading to hundreds or thousands of people at a time.
The first 2012 presidential debate was the most-tweeted-about political event since Twitter's creation in 2008, with more than 10 million posts. When the feathers settled, @SilentJimLehrer, @FiredBigBird and a host of other characters had been born. Afterward, serious conversation about federal funding to PBS and whether it was necessary flooded social media.
While we wait for things to play out, here is the 2012 campaign in 27 tweets. If unable to see the slideshow below, click here.