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This month at The Altered Alice the challenge is to use text as nonsense. The text background is pages from "Alice's Adventures under Ground" the original manuscript written by Lewis Carroll aka Charles Dodgson for the real Alice who inspired "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"….Alice Liddell. I chose to use this version because I liked the handwritten look of the text and the fact that it included illustrations created by Carroll himself. As much as I love the Tenniel illustrations it was interesting to see how the mastermind behind all things Alice envisioned his characters. As much as the background looks like nonsense…it even says NONSENSE right there on the page it makes perfect sense for this project don't you think? Oh my I'm getting curious-er and curious-er I'm afraid I will also be entering this project in the first Culture Shock Challenge where the challenge is to use text also.
I had a blast creating the Cheshire Cat and his tree. I recently re-watched the Disney version of "Alice in Wonderland" with my little guy (I always have to beg him to watch it with me) and wanted to put my spin on the Cheshire cat. The tree came first of course, for some reason when it comes to illustrating I'm a horrible procrastinator! I created the tree from Grunge Board and scrapbook paper, The leaves were created from metal colored with Alcohol inks. The metal was then die cut and snipped into leaves. Here I go with the metal again…thanks to the Inspiration Emporium and their Metal challenge this month.
To add depth and interest I stamped leaves on Tim Holtz Retro Grunge Paper Stash scraps…wow…say that ten times fast! As for Mr. Cheshire Cat…he was created yesterday while I performed my Civic Duty. Don't worry I was never even called out of the jury room for an interview…but at least I got a Cheshire cat out of the deal I colored him with Copic Markers and added a few dots of Antique Lace Stickles to enhance his smile. If anyone needs to keep their teeth pearly white it's the Cheshire Cat for sure!
Key phrases in the background were highlighted with Tim Holtz Fragments such as "Rabbit Esq.", "Nonsense!" and "EAT ME". The lettering "We're all mad here" was stamped, embossed, colored with Copics and adhered to cellophane scraps I had leftover from this fish collage. I created a small sign to point towards a section I hope to do in the future…the Mad Hatter's tea party of course!! I've saved one of the sides of the dresser for the tea party as I'm sure I will just be "MAD" with embellishments and illustrations for that scene. The background along the sides and bottom of the drawer were cut from an old childrens book I had. Don't those little fern fronds look like the Momeraths? Be sure not to step on them.
I love the look of the snippets from the children's book collaged along the bottom. It so reminds me of Wonderland, don't you think so? The book I used was "Fairy Dreams" by Carol McLean-Carr. Some really fabulous images in this book….the idea to use some of the images for the altered dresser happened by accident. I was cutting out images for this witches cauldron , laid the book on top of the dresser drawer and wallah! I knew what I had to do
Another awesome Octopode Factory image! This was my first time coloring hair with Copic Markers. Not bad huh?
This Graphic 45 bird from the Time Flies set is one of my faves!! I have used him on a couple of projects (altered tea cups and a card) and I thought he fit perfectly on that tree branch. I colored him with Distress Stains and stamped. To add detail I lightly inked the stamp with Black Soot Distress ink and stamped over the Distress Stain image.
Well that's it for me…for now Thanks for taking a walk through Wonderland with me…hope to see you again soon and as always I love hearing from you so let me know what you think!
Have an imaginative day!!


text: Thanks Laura/Peter/Suzi, that was really helpful..I managed to get some code on this from a friend of mine...She showed me, how I had messed up. And where was the code going wrong. I was actually attempting to write my own strrev() function, using pointers. Got it finally. I have to sit with my friend and understand the code. Will post the code once I finish. Thanks for everything. regards, --Andy -----Original Message----- From: Laura Bowser [mailto:lbowser at andrew.cmu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 7:03 PM To: Anand R; courses at linuxchix.org Subject: Re: [Courses] [C] What is wrong here?? > >char strrev(char array[]) >{ > register int i; > for(i=strlen(array)-1;i>=0;i--) > { > return *array; I'm mildly suprised this compiles without warnings because you say you return a char, but you're returning a pointer to an array. so you're returning a pointer to an array which is a pointer to a char (return value) -> array -> (char) array[1] if you want to access the value you're returning you'd have to access it as &(return value). When you're dealing with pointers (especially at first) DRAW WHAT MEMORY LOOKS LIKE! It will really save you some headaches, and eventually, you'll be able to know what's going on without drawing the pictures. Heck, I've been programming in C for almost 7 years now and I still draw pretty pictures to help me out :) What looks like is happening is that you're returning the first character and that's it. I think you're attempting to write a recursive function, but you're not quite there yet. Hope this helps, Laura -- Public Key available at http://callista.dyndns.org/~elwing/lbowser.gpg

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It is also a topic Christians like to trot out whenever their are floundering in a moral discussion. They assume all atheists are pro-abortion, and so, whatever the topic, say atheists cannot be moral if they condone the murder of humans.
Is a single cell with human DNA a human being? We all shed skin daily, and that skin is dead cells with human DNA. No one sheds a tear for those cells, so why shed a tear for a fertilised cell?
The fertilised cell has the potential to be a person, but is not itself a person. It has none of the attributes that we value in our fellow man. Nevertheless, Christian fundamentalists insist that a fertilised cell has the same rights as an adult, and specifically that killing a fertilised cell is murder.
What they do not seem to realise is that a huge number of fertilised cells never make it to the second week of pregnancy:
Here is a page at MedlinePlus, which appears to be a US government agency:
Around half of all fertilized eggs die and are lost (aborted) spontaneously, usually before the woman knows she is pregnant. Among women who know they are pregnant, 15 to 20 out of every 100 will have a miscarriage. Most miscarriages occur during the first 7 weeks of pregnancy. The rate of miscarriage drops after the baby's heartbeat is detected.https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001488.htm
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According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, a majority of pregnancies never go past the first few weeks, and even after a clinical diagnosis of pregnancy (using ultrasound), there's still about a 25 percent chance of miscarriage. Many miscarriages occur so early in the pregnancy that the woman may not have even been aware she was pregnant.http://www.parentingweekly.com/preconception/preconception_information/types_of_early_miscarriages.htm
It's estimated that almost half of all pregnancies end in miscarriage — many occurring just weeks after conception. Once a woman knows she's pregnant, the chance of a miscarriage is 15-20 percent, with the majority happening in the first 10 weeks.https://www.babble.com/pregnancy/causes-miscarriage-chances/
It's estimated that almost half of all pregnancies end in miscarriage — many occurring just weeks after conception. Once a woman knows she's pregnant, the chance of a miscarriage is 15-20 percent, with the majority happening in the first 10 weeks.
https://www.yourdocmedical.co.uk/articles/309A miscarriage is a pregnancy that spontaneously ends before the 24th week. Unfortunately, miscarriage is very common, with around 10 to 15% of recognized pregnancies ending this way (1, 2). Most happen within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (3, 4) and it is thought that as many as 40% of eggs that are fertilised miscarry, although frequently too early in pregnancy to be noticed (5).
Miscarriage is the most common type of pregnancy loss, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Anywhere from 10 to 25 percent of all known pregnancies end this way, and more than 80 percent of these miscarriages occur within the first 12 weeks. There is a lot of debate over the actual rate of miscarriage, however, because you may have one before you even know you're pregnant. In these cases, the loss usually goes undocumented. When these unrecognized losses are taken into consideration, the estimated rate of miscarriage is anywhere from 50 to 75 percent.http://www.parentingweekly.com/preconception/preconception_information/miscarriage.htm
It is thought that as many as half of all pregnancies miscarry before the fertilised egg even implants in the womb. Early after implantation, and before a pregnancy is clinically recognised, around 30% will miscarry.https://www.huggies.com.au/pregnancy/miscarriage/risk
Research has shown up to 70 percent of all conceptions end in miscarriage.http://www.pregnancycorner.com/loss/chemical-pregnancy.html
The risk is around 15 or 20% once the woman knows she is pregnant. This is the figure usually quoted, because afterall this is the figure a pregnant woman wants to know about. This link makes that very clear; it is talking about confirmed pregnancies:
A miscarriage is when a pregnancy is lost before 24 weeks of pregnancy. It is thought that around one in five confirmed pregnancies ends this way.http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/when-pregnancy-goes-wrong.aspx
If half of pregnancies fail like that, that means that for every person alive today, there was a fertilised egg that failed to make make to to the second week of pregnancies. That is billions of dead human beings, dead babies - as Christians define them.
And this is how God engineered us! If you prefer, this is how God chose to curse mankind. Either way, this is billions of people dead because of God.
Worth thinking about when fundamentalist Christians are accusing atheists of condoning murder.


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With Mother's Day just around the corner, it's no accident our Weekly Challenge this week centered on motherhood … the joys, the frustrations, the highlights & the disappointments … but most of all, the love.
Choosing a Layout of the Week seems to get more difficult with each passing theme, primarily because these challenges tend to draw out very interesting and personal stories. But after studying the pages this week, I finally settled on "Mother & Son" by Buggie.
I love the comparison of mother and son at similar ages, particularly through the side-by-side photos. While family members tend to share their own thoughts about family resemblances, it's not every day we actually take out the photos, take a real close look and truly see the similarities and differences, let alone document them as done here.
This is also simply a beautiful page. I especially like the balance of feminine elements with the more masculine color scheme, and the transparent acrylic flowers are a nice extra touch. I think it's a toss-up on which little one is cutest though … both are pretty darn adorable!
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Repurposing Shutter Doors
When we first moved to our house the living room windows were UGLY! They had dark frames with dark glass---just think of three big black holes and you've got the picture. The windows are so large that it would cost a small fortune to buy window coverings. We have since changed out the windows to beautiful white framed ones that have the look of panes instead of huge picture windows. I love my windows now! But in the years before the nice windows I used these shutter doors that are hinged together to give us some privacy as well as add a decorative element to detract from the ugliness of the old windows.
These shutters now serve as a room divider to hide an area in my home that still needs some improvement(you wouldn't want to see a picture of that). The shutters have also done duty as a backdrop for guest speakers at church functions and for wedding receptions. They are very versatile. They have served me well, much more than their original purpose as closet doors.
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- Shirlee said...
Hi, found my way through Margo/Robolady. I have to comment on the impressive luggage collection you have. Wow!
I read all your previous posts and I too never had a barbie house and had to improvise. I used the dining room chairs as her "shop" (I could hang all the clothes on the chair rungs and used After Eight choc. mint wrappers as shopping bags).
I love all your creative ideas and I would probably tell people "yes" the bird died or the cat got him.
So clever using it for seasonal decorating.
Enjoyed my visit! Have a great day. :)
- March 26, 2008 at 4:59 PM
- Sallie said...
There are shutters there? I'm sorry but I must have missed them as I stared at the tall set of suitcases and fell in love :-)
Love all your pics.. they are great!
God bless,
- April 12, 2008 at 10:15 PM
- Carmen said...
Wow! Those suitcases are fabulous!!!
- April 14, 2008 at 9:17 AM
- Michelle Anne Rufino said...
I am in love with those luggage as well! Your house looks amazing. I think the white shutters and window shades made the room look more elegant. A nice way to add privacy to any room in your house. Anyway, where did you get those luggage? That is the best!
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Source: Jim Stone
Here is the math:
33 million votes cast (and counted). 16 million votes cast (and nullified due to damaged ballots, and claimed "forfeited protest votes".)
Votes cast to Macron: 22 million. Votes invalidated by damaged ballots (100 percent of these were LePen:) 15 million. Votes for LePen that were not invalidated by damaged ballots: 11 million. Probable actual protest votes, no more than 1 million LePen: 11 million plus 15 million is 26 million.
LePen: 26 million.
Macron: 22 million.
Protest: 1 million.
But it is a lot worse than that, because there were extra ballots printed for Macron, that went poof into nowhere. So obviously they got stuffed. Macron DEFINITELY, beyond a doubt, did not get 22 million votes.
Macron is openly and publicly stated even by the MSM to be the Rothchild big banker choice. Macron hates France, and did not even honor the national anthem after "winning". It is flatly impossible for him to have been elected. In French elections, any damaged ballot is automatically thrown out as "spoiled". So to steal a French election all you have to do is tear up most of one candidate's ballots before mailing them out. They will then be rejected when counted. This is precisely what happened to LePen. The torn ballots by the millions, which are a confirmed fact, prove the French election was stolen.
Beyond saying this while the MSM refuses to report it, what can I say or do? There is nothing I can do about it if the French just sit there and suck it up.
It took a huge secret operation to destroy that many LePen ballots by hand. Thousands of people had to have been employed to do it. Who could keep such secrets? Only the Jewish community. The only thing that is going to fix the world's problems at this point is wiping out the entire Rothchild family and then calling the Jews to account. We may all be pissed about Soros in the U.S., but the big demon is still the Rothchild dynasty, and it is high time for the entire world to rise up and declare it will not be owned!
Russia is not stupid. They know the French election was stolen. If Russia does not nuke the London financial district with Tsar Bomba in any conflict, they will have missed the mark and failed in the most pathetic possible way.
As a kid, it was hard to envision Russia being the answer. Let's hope to God things have changed that much, and Russia has the balls to do the right thing..
The bottom line is that the electoral process in Western nations has been mostly subverted, with numerous photos of torn ballots in France to prove it. The media silence on the topic of torn ballots is absolutely spooky.


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WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students) is an innovative father involvement, educational initiative of the National Center For Fathering. There are two primary goals of the WATCH D.O.G.S. program.
1) To provide positive male role models for the students, demonstrating by their presence that education is important.
2) To provide extra sets of eyes and ears to enhance school security and reduce bullying.
WATCH D.O.G.S. began in 1998 in a single school in Springdale, Arkansas and has since grown into a nationally recognized program that has brought hundreds of thousands of fathers and father figures into the school classrooms and hallways across the country, creating millions of hours of "in school" volunteer time and having a tremendously positive impact on the educational process. Today more than 5,348 schools in 47 states plus DC participate in WATCH D.O.G.S.
Who Are WatchDOGS?
WatchDOGS are fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and other father-figures who volunteer for at least one day each year at an official WATCH D.O.G.S. school. During the day, WatchDOGS may read and work on flash cards with students, play at recess, eat lunch with students, watch the school entrances and hallways, assist with traffic flow and any other assigned activities where they actively engage with not only their own students, but other students as well. Many school principals have reported that the mere presence of a WatchDOG dramatically reduces reports of bullying. On the day of their participation, WatchDOGS are given a brief review of their involvement and they wear an official WATCH D.O.G.S. t-shirt with a 'Dog Tag' identifying them as WATCHDOGS.
Program Benefits
- Students gain positive male role models.
- Schools gain an extra set of eyes and ears. The presence of a father or father figure will provide an additional deterrent to bullying, enhance a sense of security in the building, and will help to create an environment conducive to learning.
- Fathers get a glimpse of their students' everyday world and learn about the increasingly complex challenges and decisions today's youth are facing. As a result, they can learn to relate better to their student and hopefully connect with them.
- Fathers gain a greater awareness of the positive impact they can have on their student's life in three critical areas including: academic performance, self-esteem, social behavior.


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Polly Peablossom's Wedding, T.B. Peterson
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Carey and Hart, 1845
A Ride with Old Kit Kuncker and Other Sketches and Scenes of Alabama, M.D.J. Slade, 1849
Dog and Gun, C.M. Saxton, 1856
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Arsenal may not have won the Premier League title for a decade, but the north London club have been able to top the table in the social media stakes thanks to the excellent content they produce for supporters.
Our hats go off once again to those running Arsenal's social department after they produced another instalment of 'UnClassic Commentary' where two of the club's players offer analysis on a Gunners game of the past.
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Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla were the Arsenal equivalent of Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend on this occasion - although far better, we're sure you will agree - with the pair providing the commentary for last season's win over West Ham.
It was a game in which Podolski was afforded a rare start by Arsene Wenger, responding with a brace in a 3-1 victory, with the German's first goal of the evening coming following a typically incisive pass from Cazorla.
Arsenal had actually fallen behind at the Emirates Stadium after Matt Jarvis scored a header, a moment that left our two commentators stunned and, as Cazorla put it, resulted in the manager looking rather 'nervous'.
Arsenal win
But Podolski restored parity after a neat turn and finish from Cazorla's finish before Olivier Giroud netted with a wonderful strike and the former completed the scoring with his second of the game.
This type of performance from Podolski suggests he shouldn't give up his day job and move behind the microphone on a full-time basis, although the lack of chances at Arsenal may mean a career - or perhaps club - change is required.


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There has been some renewed interest in dairy crossbreeding as it offers some important advantages. Learn more about why you should consider crossbreeding and how crossbreeding works here.
Interest in crossbreeding of plants and animals is nearly as old as the science of genetics, dating back to the early 1900s. Dairy breeds that exist in the United States today were formed by use of purebred bulls on a population of less specialized cattle that were clearly not purebred. The primary genetic interest in crossbreeding is in whether animals with genes from different parent breeds perform differently in combination than the average of their parent breeds. The term for crossbred performance relative to the parent average is hybrid vigor, or heterosis.
Formal research on dairy crossbreeding in this country traces back to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) project that began in 1939. It was followed by a series of crossbreeding experiments conducted by universities and research institutions in the years following World War II. The crosses involved Holstein, Guernsey, some Brown Swiss and Ayrshire, and a few Jersey animals. One experiment in the South included Red Sindhi cattle. The general conclusions were that purebred Holstein cows almost always gave more milk in a single 305-day period than any cross studied; however, there was evidence of heterosis for yields, livability, growth, and reproduction. One or two crosses were more profitable than Holsteins across their lifetimes, but only marginally so. Dairy producers likely looked at the results and concluded that the purebred Holstein cow was close enough to the best choice to eliminate crossbreeding as an option.
Please check this link first if you are interested in organic or specialty dairy production
Some things have changed in the last 50-plus years.
A survey by Weigel and Barlass, 2003, of U.S. dairy producers already practicing crossbreeding showed that the respondents desired improvements in fertility, calving ease, longevity, and milk component percentages.
Crossbreeding is more widely practiced by dairy producers every year. A crossbreeding program should be seen as a long-term proposition. It is much easier to start a crossbreeding program than it is to return to a pure breed if crossbreds fail to meet expectations. Knowledge of the breed resources available and the strengths and weaknesses of each breed should guide decisions of which breeds to use in a crossbreeding program.
Heterosis alone will not guarantee success in a crossbreeding program. A major portion of success will result from additive genetic merit for different traits that bulls and cows transmit to their offspring. The additive genetic merit of pure breeds and of the animals within those breeds needs to be known and utilized to the producer's advantage. With proper information, dairy producers who consider crossbreeding can predict the probable performance of the crossbred animals produced by their program(s). There are no easy or quick ways to answer the important questions surrounding dairy crossbreeding, but we can use what we do know and be aware of work in progress to give us further direction.
|Worldwide Population
|Bulls Sampled per Year
|Average Milk (lb)
|Fat %
|Protein %
|Brown Swiss
|Swedish Red
Source: Dairy Herd Management, April 2005
Table 1 shows seven of the most promising breeds for crossbreeding programs. It includes reasonable estimates of breed averages for production traits, the traits about which we know the most. Population size and young sire sampling efforts, as well as production characteristics are important when choosing breeds. Many other factors, such as body size of mature animals, fertility, calving ease, somatic cell scores, and availability of frozen semen from many bulls with accurate genetic evaluations, also influence breed choices.
Global sire sampling efforts are important in evaluating the potential for genetic progress within a breed. Larger young sire sampling programs enable greater selectivity for combinations of traits and improve genetic progress for lifetime economic merit. Genetic change through selection within pure breeds is and will remain a viable option, depending on trait and species, as a breeding strategy. On that basis, the Holstein breed is in a formidable position. No other dairy breed has the genetic resources to improve lowly heritable traits such as fertility, longevity, and calving ease as does the Holstein breed. The Jersey breed is in second place for number of bulls sampled, while the remaining breeds have smaller programs. However, each of the breeds in the table has strong enough sampling programs to identify genetic material of potential interest in crossbreeding programs.
Dairy producers must be concerned about many traits beyond milk yield in a single lactation. Components – fat and protein - matter, as do health and fertility, calving ease, calf survival, longevity, and other functional traits. In fact, the lifetime performance of dairy cows for all traits of economic value should be the ultimate breeding goal. We know less than we need to know about some of the breeds in Table 1 for these characteristics, but we are learning fast as first crosses of Normande, Montebeliarde, and the Scandinavian breeds appear in U.S. dairy herds. This knowledge will be important to help dairy producers decide which breeds would be most useful in a crossbreeding program. Knowledge of breed strengths – breed additive genetic merit – is only one piece in the crossbreeding puzzle, however.
Crossbreeding programs are long-term decisions. Producers should plan crossbreeding strategies carefully and have reasonable expectations of the process. By the time the first crossbred female reaches breeding age, a decision must have been made as to the breed of the sire to which she will be mated. Within two years after that, the next generation of crossbred female will be reaching breeding age and decisions regarding her mate will arise.
Performance of the first crosses will probably please most producers because 1) producers usually use their second favorite breed on their first favorite breed to produce that cross, and 2) first crosses display full hybrid vigor and tend to be uniform animals.
However, a third breed or a backcross to a parent breed must follow the first cross. A third breed may be a hard choice or even a big compromise if no third breed interests a particular producer. Semen inventories for three breeds or purebred bulls of three breeds are part of rotational crossbreeding programs. Herds composed of combinations of purebreds, two and three breed cross will vary in size, rates of maturity, and perhaps in important management requirements. Further, a backcross will lose about half the hybrid vigor of the first generation crosses. For traits displaying a lot of hybrid vigor, backcross performance may decline, depending on additive breed merit of the pure breeds involved.
Here are some factors to consider when designing a crossbreeding program – given that almost all producers choose to include the breed of cows currently in the herd by default:
Crossbreeding plans should take advantage of the genetic resources available in pure breeds. Crossbreeding programs using purebred sires from major dairy breeds in Table 1 offer the considerable advantages of genetic evaluations and a wide choice of service sires through AI. Such programs are strongly recommended. No alternative plans, such as using lesser known dairy or dual-purpose breeds or use of crossbred sires, are sufficiently attractive to offset the opportunities available through within-breed selection and use of purebred sires in AI.
Three-breed rotational systems utilizing AI-proven, purebred sires appear most useful to most dairy producers. Three-breed systems, at equilibrium, maintain 86 percent of full heterosis and can reduce large differences from one generation to the next in rate of maturity, mature body size, milk components, and associated nutritional requirements that some two-breed rotational systems may create. Two-breed rotational systems maintain 67 percent of full heterosis and do create bigger "swings" from generation to generation for traits where the two-parent breeds differ greatly.
Both two- and three-breed systems are simple enough to manage, even in very large herds, by placing a different color ear tag in offspring of different sire breeds. The tag will indicate the proper breed of service sire for the animal's lifetime. For instance, animals sired by Holstein bulls would always be bred to Jersey bulls. Those animals would always be bred to Swedish Red sires, and calves born to those matings would always be bred to Holstein bulls. When established, herds with such a program would have all three crosses at all ages, but decisions regarding service sire would be driven by the simple ear tagging system.
While inbreeding is not a major consideration for crossbreeding programs, it can occur with backcrosses to breeds previously used. If a crossbred cow is related, even remotely, to her purebred mate, some inbreeding will exist in their crossbred progeny. Accurate and complete identification of ancestry is recommended for all crossbred dairy animals. Properly identified crossbred animals contribute to genetic evaluations of their purebred sires in the current USDA genetic evaluation system, the "all breed" animal model. Further, genetic evaluations of crossbred cows are available, provided herds are on appropriate DHI testing programs and properly identify their cows by sire and dam. Complete identity of crossbred cows offers the important advantages of maintaining genetic evaluations within pure breeds for future sire selection decisions, genetic evaluations of the cows themselves, and pedigree data for inbreeding avoidance in rotational crossbreeding systems. Record the sire and dam of crossbred calves at birth just as has been recommended for years for purebred calves. Maintain ID systems that associate this information with each heifer as she calves into the milking herd. Participate in production recording systems that contribute records to the national genetic evaluation program.
Weigel, K.A. and K.A. Barlass. 2003. Results of a producer survey regarding crossbreeding on US dairy farms. J. Dairy Sci. 86:4148-4154.
Bennet Cassell, Virgina Polytechnic and State University (Virginia Tech)
Jack McAllister, University of Kentucky


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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Moleskine, the heir to the legendary notebook, wants to know what's inside your Moleskine! With over 140 different formats and styles, there are many different ways to use a Moleskine—to sketch, write, watercolor, reflect, collage, collect mementos and as photo albums.
In celebration of creativity and imagination, Moleskine is looking for readers to share photos and comments about their Moleskines. Email pictures of what's in your Moleskine to email@example.com with the subject line "MOLESKINE."
Five submissions will be randomly selected to receive a Free Moleskine Pack of Notebooks. The pack will include a Pocket Ruled Notebook, a Pocket Sketchbook and a Pack of Plain Kraft Pocket Cahiers.
We'll post the images on an upcoming post announcing the winners! Also check out our Facebook Company Page to see the latest entries. Entries must be submitted by Friday Nov 14th.
Friday, October 17, 2008
The storm / Islands
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Strange things happen
I was inspired by Lisa´s picture in Carina´s book about the home-theme. The girl you dont know if she would drown herself or if she was just washing her hair.
Love instead of hate
Hello Mollyfriends!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Fallen apples in my garden
Hallo friends! This is Lottas moly. She started with a painting inspired by old textiles. When I´ve made this picture I´ve been thinking of tapestry and painting.
It´s also a septemberpicture from my garden. Lots of fallen apples, to many to be able to eat them all.
It´s made with watercolorpencils and akrylicpaint on plastic sheets, fastened with eyelets.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Keyboard Keywords (Lisa's Moly)
J - juggle, hunted, me, aha?, work, compare, YES!, jumbo jet, java/coffee, jogging, baby talk, Japan, S:t Jacobi (my highschool/collage), Earth, damnit!, hurray, tricot(fabric), jeans?(haven't worn any since 1998), fighter aircraft.
K - Coffee, cottage cheese, kiss, love, art, cookie dough, kids(children), driving licence, friend, career, money, maybe, capable, party, cross-stitch, cognitive, concept, catalyst, cramp, kitsch , cat.
L - read, Saturday, long, happiness, ridiculous, vivid, life, summer home, peace & quiet , fun, scarry, time of work, langett(stitch), lego, live, light, sound, lumen, temperament , learn.
I send you both the Molys when you come home Elizabeth! you lucky girl in the sun :)
Keyboard dreams (Lotta's Moly)
I was so concentrated on NOT sending this Moly to E until she arrives from Turkey, so I forgot to blog it :)
Friday, August 29, 2008
Most of us want to "take care of Earth". I try my best, you probably do the same and eventhen it´s difficult to brake behavioural pattern...
Baltic Sea is one of the most threatened marine echosystem in the world; overfeed - nitrogen and phosphourus...
...it´s easy to relax in the sunshine, wondering about every day perspective of existensialism
This Moly belongs to Lisa, the book of ABC
greener on the other side
helth: state of helth
Monday, August 25, 2008
Perfect life Perfect death
Finally I have completed my work in Carinas book and will post it tomorrow to you, Lotta! The first picture is a piece of embroidery on fabric. Inspired by Elizabets beautiful image of a kitchen sink, I also made a scene from a kitchen, almost a mirror image but not as pleasant. Home sweet hell, home as the scene of a crime. Is the women drowning herself in the sink or just washing her hair? The second picture is also a piece of embroidery but on paper. I left the threads uncut and unfastened. /Lisa
Sunday, August 17, 2008
I LOVE Östersjön
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
The kitchen sink and a piece of wallpaper
This is also a two-part Moly with a fabric part and a paper part.
I was inspired of the title of Carinas drawing in her moly and had the chance to do an embroidery I´ve been thinking of for a long time. As a mother of three children i spend a lot of time in the kitchen and there I see new still lifespass on the kitchen sink every day.
In the drawing I started with a piece of an old wallpaper from my grandmothers house. It reminded me of the crocheted wallpaper Carina is showing in her blogg, so it is a kind of homage to that one.
Then the drawing and the emroidery have influenced each other...
Monday, July 7, 2008
Recycling in the Theme climate Moly
It's one part paper & one part fabric in this Moly. I worked from a couple of sentences. On the embroidered "drawing" it sais in Swedish: "Eating organic, recycles the morningpapers and buying fairtrade".
Last sentence: "but it's still a rainy summer..."
The embroidery showes empty childfood jars with an organic brand from Denmark called Hipp, which you end up with hundreds when you have an infant (very environment friendly....not....and it has traveled all the way from Denmark to Sweden...).
Drawing of pills and text: "hight levels of anti anxiety drugs in the Stockholm tap water" and "are you feeling happier lately?"
Technique: drawing and collage. Pencil, Copic marker, white opaque, ink and Stabilo.
Monday, June 30, 2008
The Vision
In Elisabet´s book I have made a collage of old photos, a triptyke about two people getting the same vision, a rainbow. I´m inspired by renaissance painting, in which for example the golden colour often represented the heavenly light, a light without shadows, but as I find Earth much more fascinating as a subject I chose silver as the colour of the frames. The colour of silver, here symbolises the earthly light, absolute presence and worship of nature. But above all, the images are about faith, having faith in yourself.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
ride a bike
* with inspiration from traffic signs, the information ones (blue/white)
* painted cross stitches, acrylic with vinyldispertion
* embroidary "sketch net", black pen
translation: ride a bike, ride a bike, ride a bike = love
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
In this moment a saw the buttons....
I send Molyn right now.
Hello Mollyfriends!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Next Deadline date!
I think we seem to need some weeks, maybe a month with this busy group :)
Next deadline is June 30 2008 !
One month - but if you are ready earlier - just send it ♥
I♥ My Moly_x_group! (is that a T-shirt?)
Sorry, I´m so late...
but now I´m ready.
This became the Gold, Silver and Lace - moly. That will bee the theme for this book. I know some people don´t like gold, silver and lace and think its ugly and too much... but I can´t resist it... but someway I can understand the opposite. You, my Moly-friends can do absolutly what you like whith that theme. Hate it or love it or both or ... just do something!
Monday, May 26, 2008
Finally I am on my way with this project! I posted my book today! My book is an ABC-book about life from an existential /everyday perspective. In the first two drawings in the book I have chosen to draw in a symbolic way, images from my imagination that represent scenes from my life as it is at the very moment. I wanted the pictures to look like some kind of playing cards, like Tarot cards or something that has to do with destiny or prophesy.
I can´t wait to have Elizabet´s book in the mailbox so I can make my next drawing...to be continued /Lisa
weather belongs to the public space
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Now with beaded sushi rice
I have started with a comic type drawing of my "not so glamorous week" with title: "En diskbänksrealistisk vecka". If I translate this Swedish expression to English it would be close to; A kitchen-sink-realistic week :)
I scanned the images rather big so you can click on them to read the text.
This one here has an Enlish translation:
Here is my embroidered image on the fabric part of my moly.
now with beaded sushi...
I'm off to Elizabet.
The daylight was blue and strange today - I will post some better images tomorrow on my blogg:
Today (Sunday) I've uploaded more detail images on my flickr
Hi from Carina
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
We are still working....:)
We gave ourself another week to work.
See you soon!
kind regard
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
shit, I´m a lazy-starter...
I have to start with a confession: 6th of May, at 14.09 pm - my moly is still not unpacked...
Things has been a mess and my computer is not as kind as I want
him - or if it´s a she - to be! But I´m on the track - ready for take-off.
I suppose I want to have a theme in my sketchbook, maybe the global warming. I`ll have to think and write back to you, see you!
Monday, May 5, 2008
I started with yellow!
Just wanted you to know I'm on my way whith the moly. I started to paint my sides yellow to get rid of the scary white! I'm not sure how to continue this. I normally work in different materials as beads, cloth, wood, metal and thread so I'm a bit nervous whith just paper and a pen.
Carina, I look forward to recieve your moly with the "fabricpaper"...
Sunday, April 20, 2008
I have started
My name is Liselott Bjurgard (Lotta B) and I´m a painter. I usally paint in oil but in the moleskine I will almost for the first time paint in acrylic. I have started today and my source for inspirations is often any kind of craft. The first picture i will do here is inspired by flemish weaving. So further it will be more of parots, trees, leavs and maybe pots.
//Lotta B
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Soon ready for lift off
My name is Carina (IngerC) I'm an artist, webdesigner and a spare time crafter from Stockholm.
Was doodling today and came to the conclusion that I will sew in a long piece of white fabric in my book so my moly_x_16-friends can make something with tread (or what they want) also. Haven't tried it yet but I imagine that my Moleskine is going to be thick and travel in a box instead of a Jiffy :-)
This feels so exciting!
Friday, April 4, 2008
Welcome to moly_x_16!
Each artist will set off with a small Japanese (accordian) folded Moleskine. Creating a drawing, collage, or painting, then send on to the next artist. Each artist will draw on a couple of spreads (3-4 pages) then send it on to the next artist. When the artists book is filled, it will be returned to the owner with images created by artist around the world. Each artist has a month to make an entry. The outcome will be a pleasant and surprising adventure, as artists are encouraged to interact and merge their art with others.
The concept:
1. The artists start with the Japanese fold Moleskine - Name, address, email address written in book.
2. Each artist gets 1 month to make a sketchbook entry, and mail it to the next person. The order is listed to the right.
3. Each artist will do 3-4 pages each round.
4. Artists are encouraged to interact with other images in the book. Please be respectful.
5. When the book is full, when one side of the unfolded book is filled, the book will be sent back to its original owner. That artist may continue by buying a new book and sending it to the next person.
6. If a person decides not to continue, she will simply keep her book when it comes back to her. She should email all of the participants to say she is not going to continue. We will decide, then, if we want to find a new person.
7. Please communicate regularly via email. Let each person know that you have received/sent the book. The goal is to have a dialogue. Any comments and questions are welcome.
This moly_x_project was begun by Marty Harris, Minnesota, USA.


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Are you concerned about the quality of your sleep? Well, if you are like a lot of people out there, then you are using a sleep tracker device to measure your sleep each night. These cool gadgets claim to be able to do everything from tell you how long you sleep to what stage of sleep you're in and for how long to the overall quality of your sleep. And in today's data driven world, we just cannot get enough of these things.
But guess what? They might not be all that they're cracked up to be. A sleep scientist (who knew that was a job!) recently did an AMA over on Reddit where he took all sorts of questions on sleep. And someone actually asked him about these sleep wearables and if these sleep gadgets can do what they claim.
Apparently they can only sort of work as advertised. Sure, they can accurately monitor your heart rate while you are sleeping and how much movement you have while asleep. But they just cannot give you any real information on the quality of your sleep. Apparently, the only way to measure that is via EEG while you are sleeping. Sure, you can buy EEG devices to do this, but they certainly are not cheap. You can also get the same thing in a sleep study.
If you are still super concerned about the quality of your sleep and if you're doing it right, then you should take the below advice from the scientist. It still remains the single best way to know what is going on with your body when it comes to your sleep.
I think that right now, the best way is still to listen to your body and figure out what is the best schedule and duration for yourself. For example, when you are on vacation and have no social responsibilities and no other external influences, what is your body telling you to do and how do you feel? What makes you feel the best most of the day? Although it sounds primitive, it's still the most accurate way. You can use fitbit or whatever to measure your sleep duration, but if you don't feel good, it still has no benefit to help you with your sleep.


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Patricia (Pat) Giesen
Patricia (Pat) Giesen, age 92 of Delano, died Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006 while in hospice care at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, following a stroke.
Pat was born in Chicago Sept. 30, 1913 to George and Veronica (Rose) Eggleston. She moved with her family to Minneapolis in 1926, and graduated from Incarnation Grade School and Central High School.
Pat married Earl Giesen in 1936 in Minneapolis. In 1944, the family moved to Delano. Earl preceded Pat in death in November 1973.
Pat lived in Delano until 2000, when she moved to Hopkins. Pat was a member of St. Peter Catholic parish in Delano for 62 years.
Pat is survived by her son, Jim (Judy) of Dubuque, Iowa; her daughters, Mary of Minneapolis, and Linda (Henry Dixon) of Dixon, Ill.; grandsons Tom, Tim, Erik, Bob, and Henry Jr.; granddaughters Julie and Kerry; and great-grandchildren Truman, Jack, Jackson, Benjamin, and Quincy.
She is further survived by brothers Don Eggleston of Edina and George Eggleston of Bloomington; five nieces, and two nephews.
Pat enjoyed playing Bridge. She was a great woman, who showered unconditional love on her family.
Mass of Christian Burial was Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. at St. Peter Catholic Church in Delano.
Visitation was Monday, Feb. 27 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Iten Funeral Home in Delano; and continued from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday at the church, prior to Mass. A prayer service took place at 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Arrangements were by the Iten Funeral Home in Delano.
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How do you know if your home is properly insulated?
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My foot is nicely grilled by the heat from the engine blasting through the thin, worn, metal sheet that pretends to act as the floor, even when we come to rest at another of the interminable stops in the middle of nowhere to let people on, off, or just to mill around for ten minutes for no apparent reason. I can't easily ask what time we'll arrive as their French is not much better than mine. In my mind I keep wondering – will all this hassle of the last couple of days be worth it? Have I done the right thing in breaking into unknown Burkina Faso, or should I have turned back?
It's actually strange to think, but I'd already done part of this journey before. Having arrived in the small town of Hamile the previous day, my plan was to cross the border and head directly to Bobo-Dialassou. I'd asked a couple of people I'd met which way the border was, and they'd all told me 'straight on, you can't miss it'. From passing by shacks and stalls, the sandy, dusty track had opened out onto litter-strewn mounds. Motos passed me from either direction, and, having walked a couple of minutes through wasteland, I came past a small mosque and onto a long straight road with stalls lining either side. I figured this must be the pre-frontier market area, and I clarified with a couple of the locals that the border to Burkina Faso was straight on. Yes, Burkina was that way, they said.
6km later, having walked through countryside under an unforgiving sun, I reached a small village called Ouessa, where the road ended, not at a frontier post, but at a junction. Confused, I saw a police station and wandered inside. After a short conversation in broken French, it had turned out that I'd missed the frontier completely, those stalls were indeed a pre-frontier market but from the other side, and I'd accidentally managed to cross into Burkina Faso illegally.
I headed back up the road; fortunately a passing moto gave me a lift back to the mosque. My problem now was that I would have to illegally cross the border again, and because I knew that's what I was doing, it felt somewhat scarier. I took the first tentative strides onto the sandy path to try to retrace my steps.
– "You want Ghana?"
He was a toothless man, probably late forties but looked much older, wearing a Chelsea football shirt, as seems to be fairly ubiquitous in Ghana. Normally I'm loath to get help for such a short distance but this was an unusual situation, so I gladly let him lead me back to Hamile. He pointed out the Ghana border post in the distance – indicated by a huge arch that would be blindingly obvious to anyone taking the correct route.
Apparently, crossing the border 'illegally' happens all the time, and the guards don't seem to worry too much about it, but he was surprised that they wouldn't have noticed a tall white man with a backpack.
By now it was about 3pm, and I'd decided I wasn't going to go to Bobo today, so I had to think of alternatives. My guidebook suggested Hamile had a hotel, but nothing was advertised anywhere; I asked around and was pointed just off the main square, to a pretty nondescript building. The only way in seemed be down one of the side roads; a swing gate that led into a large sandy courtyard, lined on all sides by rooms. All locked, with no-one seemingly around. I called out twice, but no response. I assumed it had been closed long ago and was now being used as storage, or even a house, and left.
A passing local wondered what I was up to. He spotted, scrawled above one of the outside doors, a phone number, and offered to call it when I told him my phone was pretty much not working. "The proprietor is on his way", he announced; ten minutes later I was inside one of the rooms – a dark, cell-like place with bare floors and windows that opened only a little, but for 25 cedis, it was the best option; despite the outside squat toilet overflowing with rubbish, and home to two cockroaches the size of my middle finger.
The inside of the "hotel" in Hamile. It reminded me of a derelict farmyard, for some reason.
The other solution would have been to take a tro-tro back to Wa.
Wa is the main town in the North-West of Ghana; it's a fairly nondescript town that's quite a bit off the tourist trail. It had been a long trek to get there in the first place; three or four hours on a long coach from near Mole National Park, packed with people, big bags of rice, and boxes of live chickens – the stereotypical African journey really. As the bus plodded along, I began to feel more and more … 'lonely' I guess is the word, like I was leaving everything familiar behind and headed to a completely unknown world – although in part this was because my guidebook didn't have a map.
My initial plan was to pass quickly through the town and head for the Burkinabe border, but by the time I got there it was early afternoon and knew realistically I needed an early start, so I found a cheap hotel just off the main street and had a bit of a day of rest. The town isn't large but it's quite linear, meaning that it's a long walk between places of interest – the bus station and the hotel were about a 20 minute walk along the same road, with the nearest internet café a further 10 minutes beyond that. The hotel was almost empty, the local population seemed surprised and a little afraid of me – I guess solo tourists rarely come up this way – and I just started to feel a bit miserable. Other things weren't on my side either – I wasn't sure if I had enough local money to cross the border with, and the battery on my new phone wasn't charging at all; as this was my alarm clock too, this was a problem.
Seems I didn't take many pictures in Wa; this street scene is about the only record I have of the town. Typically Ghanaian, really.
The next morning I headed to the bus station, buying a cheap battery when I got there, and getting a local minibus bound for Hamile. The journey took around four hours and felt like four days; the road there being a nothing more than a sandy, rutted, rough gravel trap where I kept being thrown about, passing endless grasslands and barely any villages. The bus breaking down twice in the hot mid-morning sun didn't help matters.
The thought of having to do the return journey in the same conditions, and not getting back to a hotel in Wa until maybe 9pm, persuaded me to risk overnighting in Hamile.
The tro-tro that took me from Wa to Hamile. This picture taken on a country lane nowhere in particular, during one of the 'breakdown' stops.
So here I was, in the middle of nowhere, on the edge of English-speaking Ghana and about to head into French-speaking Burkina Faso, a country still coming to terms with a coup at the start of the month, about as far away from my comfort zone as I'd been so far on my journey, and feeling unaccustomedly lonely. My decision was – should I take the plunge and cross into Burkina Faso as I'd originally planned, or turn back and stay in Ghana; an easier choice but one tainted with the feeling of 'failure'. It depended on the visa.
Hamile Bus Station. Yep, bus station. Really.
At the hotel, I was 'harangued' by two locals enquiring about my travel plans and my money situation – the Burkinabe visa was only payable in local currency (CFA Franc), rather than Ghana Cedi or hard currency, which meant I'd have to change some. One of them physically went to the border whilst I waited and confirmed that the visa was 24,000 CFA (about £30); although reasonable, this meant I'd have to change some hard currency as well as my Cedis. The only rate I was offered was a meagre 4 Cedis/£, rather than the 4.8 I'd managed to negotiate in Tamale (the real exchange was around 5) – apparently 'it's hard to change currency up here because no-one knows what it is'. Yeh, right.
Except that when I got to the border the next morning, I found out that 24,000 CFA would only get you a 3-day transit visa; the full entry visa was 94,000 CFA (over £100). This caused a bit of consternation; fortunately I still had a 'fixer' with me from Hamile, and a weird tri-lingual discussion ensued. A transit visa wouldn't do me any good at all, unless I were going to Mali – not somewhere in the current climate that's on my list – as it would take longer than 3 days to cross the country from here.
In the event I paid for a transit visa and decided to worry about it later; overstaying my visa is probably not too much of a crime here (!). However, on closer examination of the visa while waiting for the minibus to Bobo, I noticed there was neither an exit date nor a time limit on the stamp in my passport …


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This EP was sent to me by Witch Hunter Records.
Iron Witch is a five piece band from Liverpool, U.K. that plays some awesome Sludge/Doom Metal in the vein of Eyehategod. The five track EP called Single Malt is a perfect example of utter brutal heaviness.
Iron Witch is according to their MySpace inspired by the following bands and artists: Black Sabbath, Eyehategod, Sleep, Weedeater, Electric Wizard, Noothgrush, Graves At Sea, Goatsnake, Church Of Misery, Saint Vitus, Witchcraft, Burning Witch and Sunn O))).
This list clearly indicates the idea of what Iron Witch is about. Needless to say that this is a highly recommended EP from an excellent new band. Enjoy!
The foundation of this rotten sludge, is the riff worship of bands like Black Sabbath, Sleep and St Vitus, with the influence of Black Flag sitting underneath, to give that nihilistic air, and fog of feedback, that permeates most of Eyehategod's output. This is the soundtrack to alligator wrestling in a Louisiana swamp, cheered on by a mob of whisky-fuelled reprobates.
Recorded with John Stephens at Chuckalumba, this EP comes in a hand crafted 4-panel gatefold sleeve on black recycled card, screened by VinoSangre, with vinyl-style black CD and a poster insert, and is limited to 150 copies.
(Their bio)
Iron Witch - Single Malt EP (2011)
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Softswitch Overwhelms With Its Vast Benefits and Advantages
Softswitch is the recent buzz, which everybody is talking about today. With its vast collection of benefits it has made the telecom industry a better and stronger one in the market. Before we conclude, lets checkout some of the benefits offered Softswitch and how they help.
What is Softswitch?
It is a device which is used to carry out regular operations in the telecommunication systems. The whole process is managed by software which is controlled from any computer. Through this software, a link is created to connect one phone call with the destined telephone lines.
Benefits of Softswitch:
There are wide rages of benefits of the softswitching technology. Some of those benefits are mentioned below.
Cost effective:
When it comes to new system everybody first looks for how cost effective it is. Softswitch takes all the cards on the table regarding this. With this system, the telecom industry is able to save a huge amount of revenue. The traditional phones are completely replaced with this software and thus, saving lot of money on it. Too add more to your savings, it provides free minutes on long distance calls as well as local calls. Now, you could cut down on your huge monthly bills.
Maintenance and support:
The costs for maintenance and support are no longer required for softswitching technology. Only maintaining via your personal computer will suffice, as the software will be installed in that machine. Therefore, with Softswitch, you no longer have to deal with replacing the phones if they are somehow damaged, maintenance contracts, issues of expanding, and others.
System requirements:
In the early traditional phones, the requirements lists were pretty long, which made it nearly impossible to keep track and fulfil all of them. With Softswitch, only the basic requirements will be more than enough to operate the system successfully. Only a headphone, internet and the software is required to make a call to any phone number in the world.
Enhancements of the features:
The list of features is totally limitless. High relevant applications and user friendly are the most basic features of this system. Users are allowed to visit their web portal to manage their inbound ringing, outbound dialling, answering capabilities, forwarding of the calls, checking and even paying their monthly bills.
Softswitch is the only possible technology that has made the calling system better and easy to operate. It has replaced all those complicated hardware system with simple and easy software applications.
Read also about wholesale VOIP billing and hosted softswitch.


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These investigations are conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the USITC under the U.S. countervailing duty law, Title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1671 et seq.), almost always on the basis of a petition filed with Commerce and the USITC on behalf of a domestic industry. If Commerce determines that the government of a country is providing a countervailable subsidy with respect to a class or kind of imported merchandise and the USITC determines that a U.S. industry is materially injured or threatened with material injury or that the establishment of any industry is materially retarded by reason of imports of such merchandise, Commerce will issue a countervailing duty order that imposes a countervailing duty on such imports in an amount equal to the subsidy.
For more information about Commerce's role, see http://trade.gov/ia/index.asp. For more information about the USITC's role, see this site's Import Injury section for information about pending investigations, see active AD-CVD cases; for a list of completed investigations, see completed AD-CVD cases.


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In fact, for the next 4 days Trinity didn't respond.
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Did Trinity? Of course not.
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I'm using the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 to manage Hybrid Cloud Datacenters 😉
Monthly Archives: September 2014
#Microsoft System Center 2012 Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Access #sysctr #SCOM
Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
What's New
System Center Management Pack for Remote Access combines monitoring for DirectAccess and RRAS into a single management pack. This management pack retains the monitoring capabilities of RRAS 2012 management pack. This management monitors Remote Access role in Windows Server 2012 R2 only. This management pack monitors the following conditions:
DirectAccess Monitoring
• Issues with internal and external network adapter connection and settings such as forwarding
• Teredo server state and configuration
• Isatap availability and configuration such as name publishing and route publishing
• 6to4 adapter and forwarding state
• Heuristics around network security such as DOS attack, spoof attack and replay attack and state of IPSec
• State of network infrastructure like DNS servers, Management servers configured for DirectAccess
• IP-Https state and configuration
• State of various underlying services such as BFE, IPHelper etc needed for Remote Access
• Heuristics related to OTP
Most of the health monitoring scenarios that can be monitored using the native DirectAccess UI have been included in the management pack.
VPN Monitoring
Existing capabilities for RRAS management pack have been included in the unified management pack as well. We'll summarize the monitoring capabilities for RRAS included in the unified management pack:
• Remote access (VPN) connection failures due to erroneous configuration.
• Demand-dial (site-to-site) connection failures due to erroneous configuration.
• Erroneous configuration of VPN tunnels:
• Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
• Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP/IPSec)
• Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)
• Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2)
• Connection licenses, registry corruption, authentication, and accounting issues for remote access
• VPN network access protection (NAP) enforcement and Network Access Quarantine Control access issues
• Erroneous configuration and setup issues involved with various routing protocols that are exposed through RRAS, such as the following:
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) v1 and v2
• DHCP Relay Agent
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
• DHCPv6 Relay Agent
• Monitors and alarms to notify the administrator about erroneous conditions. These conditions include the following:
• Hardware device error
• Protocol initialization failure
• Remote Access Connection Manager (RASMAN) service unexpected termination
• Routing and Remote Access service unexpected termination
• Routing and Remote Access service monitor
• Authentication or accounting failures
• Configuration failures
• IPsec-related failures
• Packet filter-related failure
• IPCP negotiation failure
• Memory allocation monitor
• Memory allocation failure
• No more licenses monitor
• Port open failures
• Support for monitoring performance counters and instrumentation, including the following:
• Total number of remote access connections
• Total number of timeout and serial overrun errors for this connection
• Total number of alignment errors for this connection (alignment errors occur when a byte received is different from the byte expected)
• Total number of buffer overrun errors for this connection (buffer overrun errors occur when the software cannot handle the rate at which data is received)
• Total number of bytes received for this connection
• Number of bytes received per second
• Total number of bytes transmitted for this connection
• Number of bytes transmitted per second
• Total number of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) errors for this connection (CRC errors occur when the frame received contains erroneous data)
• Total number of data frames received for this connection
• Number of frames received per second.
You can download the Microsoft System Center 2012 Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Access here
Find more System Center Center Management Packs in the Market Store of System Center here
For instructions about importing a management pack, see How to Import a Management Pack in Operations Manager 2012 R2
Tuning Monitoring by Using Targeting and Overrides
When you import a management pack, System Center 2012 – Operations Manager discovers the objects defined by the management pack and begins applying the management pack's rules and monitors to the discovered objects. You should always import a new management pack in a pre-production environment first so that you can evaluate the management pack and adjust or tune the management pack as necessary to meet your business needs.
To tune a management pack effectively, you should involve the service owner or subject matter experts, the operations team members who monitor the alerts and events and take action when something requires attention, and the engineering team responsible for the Operations Manager infrastructure. Depending on the service that is monitored by the management pack, you might also include the networking or security teams. Those responsible for the Operations Manager infrastructure might not have the knowledge and experience with the service to effectively tune the management pack without expert input.
Tuning Approach
For servers or applications, tune from the highest severity alerts and dependencies to the lowest. Look at alerts first, then open the Health Explorer to gather more detailed information for the problem. Validate results of the alerts generated, verify scope of monitoring against intended targets (servers or services), and ensure the health model is accurate.
Each rule should be evaluated according to the following criteria:
- Actionability: An alert is actionable if it tells you what went wrong and how to fix it. When alerts are generated that do not require any action, consider disabling alerting for the rule.
- Validity: An alert is valid if the issue that generated the alert can be confirmed and the issue actually occurred at the moment the alert was generated.
- Suppression: There should be only one alert stating the issue occurred.
What to Tune
- Discovery frequency
- Monitor thresholds
- Targets
- Intervals
- Parameters
- Import a single management pack at a time.
- Review any new alerts reported for servers monitored with the new management pack. You can use the Alerts and Most Common Alerts reports to help you discover your most common alerts. When you first install a management pack, it tends to discover a multitude of previously unknown issues. Monitor the alerts to determine potential areas of concern
- Override the monitor or rule as applicable for a particular object type, a group, or a specific object.
- Disable the monitor or rule if the issue is not severe enough to warrant an alert and you do not need to be made aware of the specific situation being monitored.
- Change the threshold of the monitor that is generating the alert if you want the underlying condition to be monitored, but the alert is being generated before the condition is actually a problem for your particular environment.
- When you set overrides for a management pack, save them to a management pack that is named ManagementPack_Override, where ManagementPack is the name of the sealed management pack to which the overrides apply. For example, overrides to the management pack Microsoft.InformationWorker.Office.XP.mp would be saved to Microsoft.InformationWorker.Office.XP_Overrides.xml.
Tuning Monitoring by Using Targeting and Overrides topics
• Using Classes and Groups for Overrides in Operations Manager
• How to Override a Rule or Monitor
• How to Enable or Disable a Rule or Monitor
• Using the Enforced Attribute in Overrides
• How to Enable Recovery and Diagnostic Tasks
Other resources for this component
• TechNet Library main page for Operations Manager
• System Center Operations Manager Engineering Blog
• Managing Discovery and Agents
• Using Management Packs
You can find also awesome information about Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager on Technet wiki here :
The System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Survival Guide
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I will replace my EliteBook Laptop for the Surface Pro 3 I7 512GB to manage the #HybridCloud ! #Surface #Mobility
Surface pro 3 8GB – I7 – 512GB
I'm changing my EliteBook 8740W Mobile Workstation because Microsoft made this New Surface Pro 3 I7 512GB Tablet which can replace my Laptop to manage HybridCloud Datacenters.
I see a lot of benefits for me like :
- The weight of my EliteBook is 4000 Gram and the Surface Pro 3 weights 800 gram.
- Mobility is for me important and the battery of my EliteBook keeps me Online for 30 minutes which is too short.
- When you are in a meeting, It's really handy to make notes with the pen in OneNote.
Here you see the specifications of the Surface Pro 3 :
Write real natural on your Surface Pro 3
Keyboard Cover of the Surface Pro 3
The Dockingstation is important for me at work for Datacenter Administration.
Rebuilding and Upgrading Microsoft Testlab and Start with #Hyperv Recovery Manager with #Azure #HybridCloud
With our testlab ICTCUMULUS we made awesome Microsoft solutions with Private and Public Cloud and learned a lot.
Here are some blogposts I made earlier :
Starting : From Microsoft Private Cloud to Hybrid Cloud Services
From Microsoft Private Cloud to Hybrid Cloud Services: Hyperv Clustering
From Microsoft Private Cloud to Hybrid Cloud Services : SCVMM 2012 R2
Making a NVGRE Gateway with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
SQL 2014 Guest Cluster with Shared VHDX on Hyperv 2012 R2 Cluster for WAPack
Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Guide
Now it's time for upgrading and rebuilding our Testlab ICTCUMULUS with extra memory and new Microsoft Hyper-v 2012 R2 Hypervisors.
Here are the Visio drawings of ICT CUMULUS and we Changed some things like :
- A Dedicated Hyper-V Cluster 2012 R2 for a virtual SQL 2014 Guest Cluster.
- A Dedicated Switch for I-SCSI storage traffic.
ICT CUMULUS Rack for HybridCloud
Memory Upgrades
When we are ready with rebuilding ICTCUMULUS Testlab, we will start with Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Manager and my next blogpost:
Download Visual Studio .NET Universe 2014 Poster with Hyperlinks #DEV #VisualStudio #HybridCloud
This poster shows how the trends are changing in .NET as we´re moving from a single large .NET Framework to a more loosely coupled and autonomous libraries and sub-frameworks, many of them even published as NuGet packages and evolving continuosly. The number of those libs and packages is evolving and growing, so having a visual photo of it can be helpful. The main idea of the poster is to show that you can create any kind of application with .NET, from the largest applications to the smaller apps: in the cloud, on the web, on desktops, tablets, phones, and in embedded environments (even watches!). Any of those application types is shown as category/bucket in the poster and within each bucket we´re tossing the main libraries/SDKs/packages out. Then we´re also showing cross-cutting concerns buckets like Security, Data Access, and .NET Extension libs. The main categories are the following: – Emerging application patterns (Mobile, Web & Cloud) – Established application patterns (Desktop and Embedded) – Cross-Cutting concerns Finally, the poster is putting a check/mark on every lib/SDK bullet depending if they are or not complaint with the following: – NuGet package – Open Source – Microsoft Official Supported You can print it out or use it as in electronic format (.PDF). Using the electronic format (.PDF) allows you to access each content URL/page related.
You can download the .NET Universe 2014 Poster with hyperlinks here
Product Documentation for Microsoft #SQL Server 2014 for firewall and proxy restricted environments
Users who want a local help experience can download the documentation in one of two ways after using SQL Server Setup to install the help viewer and related components:
For systems that are behind a firewall or proxy and have no access to the Internet go to a computer that has an internet connection and download the self-extracting EXE package on this page that contains the product documentation. Follow the instructions at the bottom of this page to extract the documentation and then use Help Library Manager to add the documentation to your local help collections.
For systems that have an Internet connection you do not need to use this download. Instead, launch Help Library Manager to configure the Help Viewer to use local help and download the Help collections. For more information about using the Help Library Manager to configure help options and download content, see Adding and Removing Help Collections.
You can download the Microsoft product documentation of SQL Server 2014 here


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Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead)
"I want you to set up one of those 'special' Thrashers for me please Monty" said Kane
"Sure thing boss, crew?" asked Monty, hopeful the answer would be 'no' as he knew full well that one of those 'special' Thrashers would never return to Gusandall.
"Won't need one, I'm going to high sec" came the reply from the Pirate
"Oh! Have fun" the look of relief on Monty's face was clear, but working for Kane for as long as he has made every job dangerous, not for himself personally but for the hundreds and thousands of recruits that have crewed space ships for NovaKane Incorporated through the years, those that have survived long enough and served with distinction earning a good salary and a place on one of NOVAK's flagships. Daemon Montrose was once such a raw recruit but now he was the Deck Chief for a notorious Pirate and probably one of the nicest guys he knew. Kane rewarded loyalty and hard work.
The Thrasher slips into the black, heads over to Emolgranlan, the target already identified, the trap already being primed.
Flying any ship without a basic crew takes phenomenal concentration from a pod pilot, immortal they may be, running every system on a ship on their own is the most demanding of tasks.
Not needing a crew for this job would make recruiting new crew down the line a lot easier, folk are happier to sign on if they stand even a small chance of surviving.
Is a suicide gank really suicide if nobody dies?
The Thrasher jumps into Emolgranlan and warps to the associate. The warp in is flawless, five clicks away and the Thrasher opens fire, four volleys are needed but eventually the target explodes, just in time to treat the incoming CONCORD patrol to a nice fireworks display.
The immortal pod pilot warps his escape pod out and heads back to low sec, a smile across his face.
In other news, I'm having an awful lot of folk self destruct on me during ransom negotiations, this fella in the Dramiel stalled during a 50million negotiation long enough for his pod to explode :( Guess I'll console myself with what was for once a decent loot drop :)


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LETTER: 'Burgers for Bob' fundraiser raises $1,927 to help boy with cancer
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a Letter to the Editor, written by a Reader. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The B-Town Blog nor its staff:]
To the Burien Community:
Thank you on behalf of the family, friends and neighbors of Bob Sakisat.
Through "Burgers for Bob," a fundraiser held at Countryside Cafe on August 17th, we raised $1,927 for Bob to help with the medical expenses not covered by insurance.
Thank you to all who came out to support Bob and his family, thanks to all the local businesses who donated items for the raffle, and thanks to Countryside Cafe for hosting such a great event.
Rev. Mindi Welton-Mitchell
on behalf of the family, friends and neighbors of Bob Sakisat
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With the Super Bowl just around the corner, even Hollywood superheroes are getting excited about the match-up between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks — and in the case of Marvel movie stars Chris Evans and Chris Pratt, they're making a bet that's worth cheering for.
The bet came about after some good-natured jabbing at each other on Twitter, initiated when Captain America star Evans (a Patriots fan, of course) told Guardians of the Galaxy star Pratt (a Seahawks fan) that, despite their Marvel movie alter egos, they're required to be sworn enemies in the run-up to this year's NFL championship game. After some back-and-forth in which Pratt told Evans that Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson is the real Captain America and Evans wondered exactly what a "seahawk" is anyway (it's this), the pair agreed to make a bet on the outcome of the game.
According to the bet, a Seahawks win will result in a visit from Evans to the Seattle Children's Hospital dressed as Captain America while waving the "12th Man" flag that has become a symbol of Seattle Seahawks fandom. If the Patriots win, Pratt will don his Star-Lord outfit and the jersey of New England quarterback Tom Brady for a visit to Christopher's Haven, a nonprofit that provides housing and support for families while children receive cancer treatment in Boston.
It's the sort of bet that makes you hope the Super Bowl ends in a tie, but knowing these two actors' willingness to spend time with their youngest fans, it wouldn't be a surprise if both visits happen (possibly without the corresponding NFL accessories for the bet's winner).
Here is the series of posts on Twitter that brought the bet about:
@ChrisEvans We both know there's only one Captain America and his name is Russell Wilson. #SuperBowlBound #LOB #Repeat
— chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) January 19, 2015
@ChrisEvans OK. Seahawks win you fly yourself to Seattle, visit @seattlechildren hospital as Captain America, waving the 12th man flag.
— chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) January 21, 2015
@prattprattpratt I accept. And when the Patriots humiliate your seachickens, I expect Star-Lord to arrive at @chris_haven in a Brady jersey
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) January 21, 2015
Super Bowl XLIX will air Sunday, February 1, at 6:30pm ET on NBC.


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So here it is - the first Mindspan release since 2008's 'The Aeon Expanse" LP. This is a little 4 track experimental techno EP out soon on Slant. It's bit more 'normal' as far as my techno goes and not quite as fuzzy and blurry as the previous Mindspan stuff, if you know what I mean! Anyway, this will be available on MP3 shortly and then the follow up Mindspan LP 'The Second Cycle' will be released later on CD by Slant also. More info as and when.
While I'm on the techno tip, I'll tell you about a few other releases I have coming out. Out on Mote Evolver on September 26th is the first of 3 techno 12" releases I have lined up. I'm releasing these three twelves under the ASC name for a few different reasons, mainly style and to differentiate from the Mindspan output, which I feel is very different.
Hot on the heels of this is a release for Perc Trax. Revelations EP features the title track 'Revelations', 'Magnetic' and 'Capsule'. A very different sound that I'm looking forward to getting out there. Release date and artwork as soon as I have it. Following this will be my second 12" for Pushing Red, which will be PR's first techno 12". Again, more news and audio nearer the time!


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Volume 1 contains Chapters 1-13 and a jump-to-chapter Table of Contents.
(124 pages, 28.8 MB)
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Review: The Dustbowl Revival at The Mint *must-see band!October 26th, 2013 by Siegz | Alternative/Indie, Concert/Festival Review |
One of the most underrated live bands is The Dustbowl Revival. The Venice beach collective plays a variety of music from old school country honkey tonk to indie rock to catchy pop. There's nothing Dustbowl Revival can't play and they seem to always prepare a different set for each performance they do bringing on various musicians as well. It was also the violinist's birthday so there were many violin solo's which you don't see very often and was quite awesome. Read more below.
Everybody in Dustbowl Revival is extremely talented and if you ever hear about an upcoming performance from them, stop what you're doing and plan to go see them live, as it's an amazing experience. They are one of the most fun bands to watch as they are lively, everybody in the band gets their shine with a solo, singing, dancing, whatever it is everybody gets put in the spotlight and comes through big time. I have nothing but great things to say about this California folk band who blends genre, can play any type of music and seems comfortable playing and entertaining crowds of all sizes, they have that diversity in their music and cater to a diverse audience of music lovers.
Hard to figure out any particular songs I loved the most from this band, but their "When The Saints Go Marching In" cover/mashup was quite awesome! Here's video from them performing their latest release, "Feels Good", expect an official music video before years end.
"Feels Good" The Dustbowl Revival (Live in Philadelphia) from The Dustbowl Revival on Vimeo.


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This is only about a minute after the fire started. When I first realized the building was on fire is was only because of smoke coming from the roof. By the time I pulled over and called 911, then got my camera out, it was just starting to show through the roof. Smoke was already plentiful but the fire had just started to show itself. The next shots pretty much go in order for what happened in a matter of minutes.
I moved my car from the side of the building to right up the street where I knew it would be out of the firemen's way and that quickly a crowd starts to gather. This is probably only three minutes after I first saw fire and called 911.


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On May 21st, the Children, Schools and Families Parliamentary Committee (chaired by Barry Sheerman MP) held a special evidence-gathering meeting on the EYFS, arising in part from Open EYE's meeting with Mr Sheerman in January. Coming hot on the heels of 70 MPs having signed EDM # 1031 raising Open EYE's concerns, a welcome window of opportunity now exists for a comprehensive, dispassionate investigation into EYFS.
The Times newspaper of May 22nd reported that in a document 'shelved' by her Department, Ms Hughes's advisors recently strongly advised the revision of EYFS's more developmentally inappropriate literacy Learning Requirements. Every Committee meeting witness expressed shortcomings about the age-inappropriateness of some EYFS Learning Requirements. Other press reports of the event were released by the Press Association, by the Daily Telegraph, and by the Daily Mail (please scroll down to second article – Ministers press ahead with toddler curriculum – on the Daily Mail page).
Needless to say, Open EYE will let our website visitors know when there is more news about these exciting Parliamentary developments.
A video of the meeting is available at the UK Parliament website, although it appears that video accessibility is limited on this site.
A helpful and comprehensive report on the concerns raised at the Select Committee meeting has been published in Nursery World magazine.
The magazine also reports on a new Open EYE initiative to devise an alternative, more child-centred and developmentally appropriate framework that could replace the EYFS; and in a published letter, an up-to-date perspective is given on the campaign's hopes in the light of the Select Committee's special meeting on EYFS.
Meanwhile, a report by Melanie Defries in the latest issue picks up on the human-rights issues raised by the EYFS.