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Community Colleges Awarded $25,000 Grant to Enhance Running Start
Concord, NH... The Community Colleges of New Hampshire Foundation has been awarded a $25,000 education grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. The Grant will be used to expand access for New Hampshire high school students to earn college credit through the Running Start program and will focus on increasing participation in high schools currently under-served by the program.
Running Start is a program offered by the Community College System of NH (CCSNH) that enables the State's high school students to take courses for dual high school and college credit, increasing college access and enabling students and their families to save on college costs. Courses taught through the Running Start program are college courses taught at the high school by credentialed high school faculty as part of the daily class schedule. In the first year of the program, the Community College System of New Hampshire offered 10 courses of Running Start in 7 high schools. This past year, CCSNH offered over 700 Running Start courses with over 5,300 enrollments at 65 public high schools statewide.
The grant will be targeted at four areas that are essential to expanding the program to more New Hampshire students, which will be targeted by this grant: access to college level textbooks, support for teacher credentialing, funding assistance for placement testing, and supporting opportunities for more high school students to visit college campuses to learn about postsecondary opportunities and careers.
Chancellor Ross Gittell had this to say about the grant: "We are very grateful to Bank of America for choosing to focus its resources on this innovative educational program that returns great value for New Hampshire students and their families. Our community colleges are committed to providing students with the quality post-secondary education that is needed for career success. As an institution, we are continually identifying new opportunities to make college more affordable. One of the ways we can achieve this is by partnering with the business community. Bank of America recognizes that by removing access barriers and helping students transition successfully into post-secondary education, we are investing in our future skilled workforce."
"Running Start is an innovative, growing program that will allow more high school students to achieve their dream of a college education," said Ken Sheldon, Bank of America New Hampshire president. "This, in turn, will benefit the local economy by bolstering an already advanced and diverse workforce."
The Running Start Grant will be used in high schools in all areas of the State served by the Community College System of New Hampshire.
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A landmark habitat restoration project will continue at Joseph Davis State Park in Lewiston.
Supported by more than $350,000 in grant funds from federal programs and national funders, the work will provide high-quality habitat for resident and neo-tropical migratory birds.
With its natural shoreline along the Niagara River and diverse terrestrial habitats, Joseph Davis State Park has long been identified as a key target for preservation and management. The 320-acre park stands out as one of the few large, relatively undeveloped open spaces along an otherwise extensively developed river corridor. Its undeveloped nature and locations along an established migratory corridor between lakes Erie and Ontario also make the park stand out as an important stopover habitat for migrating birds seeking a place to feed and rest.
"Joseph Davis State Park is part of the Niagara River Corridor Important Bird Area," said Loren Smith, executive director of the Buffalo Audubon Society. "It is a stopping point for birds as they fly from their winter habitats in Central and South America to their nesting grounds in the northern hemisphere." Birds such as American Woodcock, Willow Flycatcher, and Blue-winged Warbler depend upon the habitats found at Joseph Davis State Park as they feed, breed, and migrate across the Americas.
Buffalo Audubon notes the project will:
•Enhance and protect approximately 130 acres of critical shrub land and wetland bird habitat along the lower Niagara River corridor and restore sensitive bird habitat that further improve the ability of the corridor to attract resident and migratory bird populations;
•Enhance and perpetuate the site as a bird conservation area by providing habitats for breeding, shelter, migration, and sustenance of resident and neo-tropical migratory wild bird populations;
•Implement an invasive species control and management plan based on site surveys and mapping;
•Benefit priority bird species by improving forested wetland, shrub-wetland and shrub-early successional habitats.
The first phase of the project involves the removal of invasive plant species including honeysuckle, common reed (Phragmites), and buckthorn, which provide low-quality habitat for birds, along with the selective removal of younger trees to promote the development of valuable shrub habitat. As fields turn into forests, important grassland and shrub habitat is lost. Subsequent work will plant native shrubs and grasses in order to provide high-quality food, nest sites, and habitat for birds.
The initial phase of this project will involve the removal of invasive species from large areas within the eastern portion of the park. This will be followed by over-seeding with native grasses before native shrub species are planted in the fall of 2013. Work on the project will be halted from June 1-15, to correspond with the primary breeding season of shrub land bird species.
Initial mapping of plant communities, invasive species, and the development of the habitat restoration plan are supported by a $195,550 grant from the Niagara River Greenway Ecological Standing Committee to the Buffalo Audubon Society. Subsequent funding for invasive species removal and habitat restoration comes from two sources: $197,585 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Sustain Our Great Lakes Stewardship Grants program and $160,031 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Joint Venture Habitat Restoration and Protection program - part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

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How Obama's plan won over the crowd during last night's Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. debate.
Earlier this week, President Obama, ardent lover of three-word mantras, introduced a new slogan for his American Jobs Act: "We can't wait!" The president exhorted Congress to act on the jobs creation plan he introduced in September. The audience at last night's Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. live debate at NYU's Skirball Center vehemently agreed with the president: After the conclusion of the debate, 69 percent voted for the motion "Congress should pass Obama's jobs bill—piece by piece"; 22 percent voted against the motion; and 9 percent were undecided. The audience was also polled before the debate began. (The side that attracts the most new supporters post-debate wins.) Forty-five percent voted for the motion, 16 percent against, and 39 percent were undecided.
The audience's overwhelming vote to pass the bill may have reflected its deep skepticism of the side opposing the motion. NYU law professor Richard Epstein and Cato Institute senior fellow Dan Mitchell endured hisses and boos, while chief economist of Moody's Analytics Mark Zandi and Princeton University economics professor Cecilia Rouse won laughter and applause as they took the president's side.
Zandi and Rouse argued that Obama's jobs plan will ensure we don't slide into a double-dip recession, and that passing pieces of the act should be the beginning, not the end, of our overall strategy to boost the stagnant economy. "We just can't go into recession," Zandi emphasized. "If we do, tax revenues will fall, government spending will automatically increase, and the $450 billion the president has proposed to pay will seem small in the context of the losses we'll suffer." After Congress passes the plan, Zandi said, we'll need to focus on longer-term issues like deficit reductions, tax reforms, and pro-growth policies. But the long-term doesn't matter if we don't get our policy right in the short-term.
Epstein and Mitchell predicted a similarly dire economic future if Congress passes the plan. The jobs plan won't work, they explained, because it's just a copycat of historically ineffective stimulus bills. The American Jobs Act will kill jobs and cripple the economy, Mitchell said, because it relies on the inefficient public sector to do private sector jobs. And it's bogged down by faulty economic theories. The plan introduces more bureaucratic red tape—like a clause forbidding discrimination against hiring the unemployed—that will shackle markets and hamper job growth. Even the president's proposed one-year payroll tax holiday, Epstein and Mitchell asserted, won't spur hiring because companies don't make long-term decisions based on short-term policies. "You must create lower tax rates that last for a longer period of time if this is going to be able to succeed, " Epstein explained. "Any kind of short-term fix at this particular point is doomed to failure."
Mitchell and Epstein began the debate strongly, especially when Mitchell engaged the audience in a clever "quiz" to show that the American Jobs Plan is simply a repeat of failed economic policy. "Let's divide this room in half," he began. "Let's borrow all the money out of the pockets of the people on this side of the room and give it to the people on this side of the room. Now here's the quiz. Raise your hand if you think there's more money in the room." The audience chuckled. This stimulus, he explained, is simply a redistribution of national income. "Our goal should be not to redistribute national income; we want to increase national income," Mitchell said. "We want a bigger pie so everyone can get a bigger slice; that's what economic growth is all about."
But soon, Mitchell and Epstein seemed to fall from grace.
Epstein drew the first rebuke by asserting that in taxing the top 1 percent of the population to pay for President Obama's Jobs Plan, "it turns out that you're taking money from the hands of people who know how to use it …"
Boos and hisses.
"… and to put it into the hands of a government which simply does not."
Not true, countered Rouse. "If you look at experience over time, there's not a great relationship between high marginal tax rate and economic growth," she fired back. Reagan, she explained, lowered tax rates for high income individuals while Clinton increased them. Clinton's presidency saw more growth than Reagan's.
A little later, Epstein's remarks sparked another round of booing. ABC News correspondent and debate moderator John Donvan asked him to explain the downsides of infrastructure investment, a central part of the president's plan.
"If you look at this particular statute and the elaborate hoops that you have to go through, it is not a bill which is designed to promote infrastructure," Epstein said. "It is a bill which is designed to make sure that the president's supporters, strong union members, get jobs which will allow them to contribute to the campaign to win."
Epstein's prolix tendencies didn't help either. "Do you know that when you speak, there's only commas at the end of everything you say?" Donvan quipped at one point. "I was looking for the period to break in, and there were semicolons and dashes and commas."
Mitchell, too, elicited a number of angry audience outbursts, especially after he contended that "people get jobs quicker when unemployment insurance runs out." He even egged on the disgruntled crowd: "Yes, hiss me! Hiss me!"
After the debate, Donvan reflected on Mitchell's debate strategy. "Dan Mitchell's willingness to play the ogre, as he put it, read fun and bold, but I think it didn't help sell the side," he said. He even thought Mitchell and Epstein "presented a more comprehensive argument" than the other team. But it "was also the view from 30,000 feet, and less satisfying for an audience asking for a jobs solution right now."
Just as Zandi and Rouse argued that Congress can "walk and chew gum at the same time" in reference to a simultaneous focus on long-term and short-term economic policy, the pair was also able to employ two killer debate strategies at once: They nailed the urgency rhetoric while conceding some of the other side's rational points.
"I do think some of the policy steps have created uncertainty for businesses and for the banking system," Zandi said. "And that's impaired the ability and willingness of businesses to step up and hire and for banks to lend. But that does not preclude the fact that we need to reduce some of the fiscal restraint that's dead ahead of us. If we don't make some policy steps here, taxes are going to rise on everybody. Unemployment insurance for many hard-pressed households [is] going to expire. And that's the prescription for a recession."
When I asked Mitchell why he lost after the debate, he told me it was because he was forced to play the villain. "The challenge of defending free markets and limited government is that you're telling people there's no Santa Claus," Mitchell said. "Everyone likes to think that there's some magic wand the government can wave, and especially if you're in a position where you can be pigeonholed as somehow defending the interest of the wealthy, it makes it even harder."
Why did Zandi win? "I thought I was funny," laughed Zandi, who also won an Intelligence Squared debate a few years ago. "I thought that made a big difference, actually."


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In the mid-1980s, writer/artist Frank Miller crafted two of the most influential Batman stories ever told: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One. It's not hard to see why they've had such a potent legacy. Even today, three decades after they were published, they remain thrilling and insightful. But I swear to God, if one more filmmaker uses them as a source text for a Batman movie, I'm going to smash my face into a concrete wall.
Today is a great day to reassess Miller's twin graphic novels' influence on the multibillion-dollar Batman movie industry, because today is Batman Day. Batman Day is, of course, an entirely made-up holiday that DC Entertainment declared to celebrate its ever-lucrative Caped Crusader's 75 years of publication history (as well as move product and build buzz in advance of this weekend's San Diego Comic-Con).
Take a look at the initial announcement of Batman Day and you'll see how much DC relies on Miller: It mentions only one comic published between 1939 and 2014, and that comic is The Dark Knight Returns. Frank Miller's Batman is still the primary ambassador between DC and the world at large. And, most important, every single Batman movie director has paid fealty to Miller's '80s tales. His grim and gritty take on ol' Batsy has crowded out all other cinematic approaches to the character.
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Batman: Year One, published in four parts the very next year, jumps back in time to reimagine Bruce's very first adventure as Batman. His target is not superpowered villainy, but rather the very human evil of organized crime. He makes rookie mistakes and manufactures a costume. He forms a friendship with a good-hearted cop named Jim Gordon. By the end, Batman is ready to be the hero we all know and love.
DC had been struggling to push Batman in a darker direction for about a decade. As of 1986, the infamously campy 1960s Batman TV show still had its claws dug into the American popular consciousness, and the comics publisher's attempts to distance itself from that silliness had failed to make a splash.
They turned to Miller, already famed for his moody revamping of Marvel Comics' Daredevil series, and found that he was on the same page as them. "I felt that superhero comics had really been held back by a misperception that they were just for kids," he later said. "The comic book world had become so utterly pleasant and safe that the idea of somebody dressing up in tights and fighting crime just seemed beside the point." When he took his revisionist urges to the printed page, Miller struck the right chords while offering new readers an easy on-ramp, as his tales didn't rely on the minutiae of past Bat-continuity. The Dark Knight Returns and Year One were smash hits. Miller had successfully rebranded Batman as a brooding, introverted street-fighter with a near-sociopathic commitment to eradicating crime by any (non-lethal) means necessary.
Hollywood immediately took notice. When Tim Burton took the helm of a long-delayed effort to bring Batman to the big screen for the first time since the '60s, he desperately wanted his hero to build on Miller's ideas. "When the graphic novels first started coming out back in the '80s," Burton would later recall, "you saw that there was potential to look at these things from different perspectives." Sure enough, his 1989 megasmash Batman was steeped in Miller's dark vigilante justice and pithy action-hero zingers. And thus began a nauseatingly common refrain from creators and fans, one that has become almost a sacred article of faith: The closer an onscreen Batman is to Frank Miller's Batman, the better.
Burton's 1992 sequel Batman Returns remained steeped in bleak urban violence (and perhaps copped its title from The Dark Knight Returns). Joel Schumacher strayed into neon glitter and nipple-showcasing chestplates for Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. But even Schumacher worshipped at the Miller altar: In 1998, he told Entertainment Weekly that his ideal Batman movie would be an adaptation of Batman: Year One.
Miller's grip on the screen has become a stranglehold in the past decade. Christopher Nolan's 2005 Batman reboot Batman Begins was blatantly based on Miller's ideas: the early-career tribulations of Wayne and Gordon — as well as a number of specific plot devices and characters — were lifted directly from Year One, and Batman's vehicle of choice was directly based on The Dark Knight Returns' tanklike Batmobile. That latter comic's setup — a retired, past-his-prime Batman hits the streets after a long absence — became the setup for 2012's The Dark Knight Rises.
There's no end in sight. The upcoming re-reboot of Batman, in Zack Snyder's Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, will be hugely influenced by The Dark Knight Returns. The first photos of Ben Affleck show a costume that's a near-direct copy of the one seen in that story. So does the Batmobile. Hell, when DC announced the movie a year ago, it did so by having an actor read a monologue from The Dark Knight Returns onstage at the San Diego Comic-Con. It's ridiculous and embarrassing for DC to act like this kind of inspiration breaks new ground.
Experimentation is what has kept superhero comics alive from Batman's first appearance until this year's Batman Day. Indeed, The Dark Knight Returns and Year One were huge risks when they hit the stands. But on the big screen, DC is beating Frank Miller's ideas into the ground.
There's nothing inherently wrong with Miller's twin Batman epics. But there is something creatively bankrupt about studios focusing on them so monomaniacally. As Miller himself once said, "There are 50 different ways to do Batman and they all work." Our fate is sealed for Batman v. Superman, but we have to imagine a better future. If an ambitious filmmaker wants to make a truly innovative Batman movie, he or she needs to put Frank's hard-boiled sagas back on the shelf. Luckily, there are more than enough other Bat-tales to devour.
Here are some inspirations any screenwriter or director can find at a local comics purveyor:
The first Batman stories. It's genuinely surprising how rarely anyone, let alone a big-budget director, has drawn on the early Batman tales of the late 1930s and early 1940s. In those heady days, co-creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger put out stories that read like silent-movie fever dreams. Devilish monks. Eerie zeppelins. Bruce Wayne in a white lab coat doing chemistry with beakers and decanters. Wouldn't it be fascinating if someone took these stories and made a period-piece Bat-flick? One set in the waning years of the Great Depression, with a hopeless populace learning to accept what Finger termed "this weird figure of the dark, this avenger of evil, the Batman"?
Grant Morrison's myth-heavy Batman mega-arc. In 2006, DC made a brilliant decision and put one of the comics world's greatest geniuses at the helm of Batman: Scotsman Grant Morrison. Over the following seven years, in stories that crossed the globe and traveled through time, he radically reimagined the Batman mythos. In his stories, you can find a wealth of concepts that a skilled director could harness. What if Batman is a symbol that's much bigger Bruce Wayne: a symbol he could pass down to a successor as well as franchise out to culturally specialized sub-Batmen in cities around the world? What if Batman became a father? What if Batman were driven insane and had to rely on protocols he'd set up for himself in the event that he lost his mind? Any one of these conceits — along with the many others Morrison crafted — could make for a gripping and new tonal approach on the big screen.
The insane Batman yarns of the '50s and '60s. Well before Adam West began his televised Technicolor adventures on ABC, the writers and artists on Batman titles were cooking up truly bonkers scenarios for the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder. Batman turns into a giant fish! A visit from the dimension-hopping Bat-Mite! The Dynamic Duo fight robots on distant planets! Before you say this stuff wouldn't work in a modern-day adaptation, check out the incredible animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold, which aired from 2008 to 2011 on Cartoon Network. (It's all streaming on Netflix.) It specifically aimed to draw from these strange tales, and although the results were probably too goofy for a multimillion-dollar film, they proved there's narrative gold in them thar hills. Filmmakers should at least take a look and expand their minds.
The work of Paul Dini. Dini is unique among the creators on this list in that he made his bones doing Batman cartoons before he started writing Batman comics. He was one of the chief minds behind the immaculate Batman: The Animated Series, where he invented fan-favorite Joker sidekick Harley Quinn and completely reimagined Mister Freeze, among other achievements. In the '00s, he penned delightful stories in Batman comics, ones that successfully melded suspense and humor — something the Bat movies rarely do. Take, for example, the time a kidnapped Robin caught the Joker off-guard by trolling him hard on some Marx Brothers trivia. Dini proved you can make a Batman story funny without making it campy. If only movie studios could figure out how to do that, too.
Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker's Gotham Central. This crime saga was a 40-issue police procedural that ran from 2003 to 2006 and captured the hearts of fans and critics. It followed the exploits of everyday cops working in Gotham, struggling to follow the rules in a city whose protector plays by his own. The Caped Crusader was rarely seen in the series, but it drove home the idea that Batman is not just a person: He's a force that changes the world around him. Obviously, a Batman movie needs to have more Batman in it than Gotham Central had, so a direct adaptation probably wouldn't work. But why not draw on the ideas, characters, and tone Rucka and Brubaker set forth? (The upcoming Fox series Gotham, which follows Gordon as a cop in the years before the advent of Batman, will likely pick some of this up, but it's definitely more inspired by fantastical supervillainy and Miller's Year One.)
Scott Snyder's current-day run on Batman. Comics continuity is a complicated business, so I'm going to oversimplify what happened in the past few years of DC history: In 2011, DC rebooted its entire lineup of comics, meaning creators had wiggle room to rethink every character's origin story. Along those lines, writer Scott Snyder has reinvented Batman's early days in a way that respectfully — but totally — jettisons Batman: Year One. Pick up his incredible (and still ongoing) Zero Year story line to find a high-concept, goose-bump-inducing tale of a young Dark Knight thrust into a guerilla war after Gotham is nearly obliterated. Frank Miller's graffiti-laden Gotham of 1986 was interesting, but its race has been run; Snyder's bombed-out, weed-ridden, eerily quiet Gotham of 2014 is thrillingly new. And hey, it features a resource-deprived Batman riding a rusting motorcycle while wrapped in a tattered costume and carrying a crossbow, so what more could you ask for?
The surreal Japanese Batman manga of Jiro Kuwata. This one is certainly too weird for DC to allow a direct adaptation — but holy smokes, if you're a filmmaker and you want something to inspire you to push the envelope, you have to dig into Jiro Kuwata. In 1966 and '67, Kuwata cranked out stories of Batman and Robin for a Japanese manga publisher, and they're really something to behold. There are supernatural yoga villains, live burials, telepathic giants — not to mention beautiful manga-penciling techniques. In a perfect world, we'd get a Japanese-language Batman movie directed by Takashi Miike, but one can only ask for so much.
Of course the list of non-Miller perspectives goes on and on. There are as many Batman interpretations as there are stars in the sky above Gotham City. Now that superhero movies are ubiquitous and everyone knows the fundamental tenets of the Batman character, we deserve a Batman movie that takes innovative risks. The Dark Knight Returns and Year One have served their purpose. Let's hang their jerseys in the rafters and get cracking on something truly new for the big screen.


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Penrose-St. Francis Health Services is a full-service, 522-bed acute care provider in Colorado Springs comprised of Penrose Hospital and St. Francis Medical Center. Penrose Hospital serves as the anchor hospital of Penrose-St. Francis Health Services with 364-licensed beds and the ability to provide tertiary (high tech) medical-surgical services with an emphasis on elective and outpatient care. Established in 1890, Penrose Hospital has grown to become a major health treatment and referral center, specializing in cancer care, cardiac care, emergency trauma care and physical rehabilitation. In 2008 we opened St. Francis Medical Center to keep pace with the growing needs of the Colorado Springs' community on the north side of the city. St. Francis Medical Center features 172-beds and offers a modern Birth Center, Level IIIA Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Care Unit, Emergency Department, Level III Trauma Center, Imaging Services, Surgical Services, and Critical Care Unit. It is also serves as Southern Colorado's home base for the Flight For Life® Colorado air medical helicopter service. It's an incredible time to join us as we celebrate our tenth consecutive year as one of "America's 50 Best Hospitals" by Healthgrades and Magnet Hospital designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for superior quality in nursing care. With 300+ days of annual sunshine, mild winters and easy access places like Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods and some of Colorado's top destination resorts, you will enjoy an incredible lifestyle while having the career you've always wanted. For more information about Penrose – St. Francis Health Services, visit http://www.penrosestfrancis.org/.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bank tax similar to one that President Barack Obama once proposed may be part of a broad tax reform package expected to be floated on Wednesday by the top Republican tax writer in the U.S. Congress, lobbyists and analysts said on Friday.
Representative Dave Camp, chairman of the tax-writing House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, was considering the bank tax in a draft plan for tax reform, they said late Friday.
The measure will resemble one that Obama, a Democrat, offered in 2012, they said. That tax would have hit firms with more than $50 billion in assets.
Camp's bank tax proposal is "a traditional Washington trial balloon," said Jaret Seiberg, an analyst with Guggenheim Securities LLC. "By now, the sponsors know the reaction and have to decide whether to include it in the final version."
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Camp has said he will release a tax overhaul draft next week. It comes at a time when hopes for comprehensive U.S. tax code reform before 2015 have all but vanished.
Camp once promised a tax overhaul would pass the Ways and Means Committee by 2013, but no bill was introduced. Congress is still deeply divided over fiscal policy.
Camp's draft will also likely include tax changes for derivatives and the mortgage interest deduction, said Brian Gardner, an analyst at research group Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
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The Bremner Strip is fast becoming an entertainment hotspot, espeically on late summer evenings and weekends when there are events of all sorts at the surrounding venues of the ACC (Air Canada Centre and Skydome) Just to the west of this development there is ongoing construction of what will be the largest aquarium in Canada at the base of the CN Tower, sure to get all the tourist pants in a knot. So lots to get excited about, I'll post regularly so you get a feeling for the construction here or at least have photo evidence of it for disbeleiving friends in other parts of the country or the globe. Toronto currently has 154 Skyscrapers under-construction the most of any city in North America, or at least in the Industrialised World.!
Well, this has got to be my favorite condo currently going up in the Toronto Mega Boom, that is transforming Toronto from a quiet provincial city, into one of the global capitals of North America. The hulking mass of this tower is amazing, and it's currently only 34 floors up and still has another 5 floors to reach half way. This will be one big tower, with total floor space of 1.2 million square feet this building is bigger than almost any buiding residential or office built in Canada over the past 25 years with the exception of "The Bow" in Calgary. This building on the Toronto construction forums is known as "The Beast" or "The Monster". If you love highrise construction in Canada then there is no other place for you to be than on the mighty Yonge Street, which is seeing all of the largest projects under construction in Canada taking place on its length including, One Bloor, 255 meters tall and 75 floors, L Tower, 57 floors, and 205 meters, FIVE Condos, 48 Floors and 162 meters tall, Aura Condo 78 floors, and 273 meters tall. Other projects flanking Yonge Street include, Trump Tower, 60 floors, 283 meters, Karma Condos 52 Floors and 168 meters, and Burano Condos 48 floors and 161 meters tall. There are more 200 meter plus towers under construction in Toronto than there are in all of the United States. This is incredible when you consider that the home of the Skyscraper is Chicago and New York City, currently we are beating them to a plup. I await there arrival back in the highrise construction game, so all three cities can go at it for the top dog in skyscrapers in North America.
The boom in the Toronto Condo industry which began slowly in the late 1990's and picked up steam in the early aughts (00's) has transformed the look and feel of the City. Highrises are sprouting from all areas of the city, mainly the downtown core, but other areas, such as Liberty Village, Etobicoke Shores, Scarborough, Mississauga City Centre and North York Centre are also experiencing rapid condo growth and densification. Part of it is the design of the provincial government, which wants to attain maximum efficiency of use out of publicly funded transit such as GO Transit, the TTC and regional lines. Plus heavy investment in infastructure such as the Airport Line, The Eglinton Crosstown LRT Line, as well as the Union Station Renovation project all of which will make getting into and out of the core far easier then ever before. At the same time providing a real lifestyle choice to those that decide they enjoy downtown living.
Getting a Mortgage and Mortgage Insurance through Allstate Insurance Company of Canada for financing a loan to purchase at Aura is actually a relatively easy process, and new rules from the federal government has required that company include new regulations, which have made the home loan and mortgage process a bit more difficult. Those changes at Allstate Insurance Company of Canada include shortening the amortization period for which the loan can be held by the consumer, and the degree to which the property is financed by the mortgage. They have also increased deposit requirements to lift the loan insurance amount. Mortgage insurance from Allstate Insurance Company of Canada is actually one of the major financing costs on home loans.
This is Ice, the condo twin towers at the corner of the intersection of Bremner and York Street. These towers will be a game changer for the Toronto Skyline, giving it a bold modern look in a world where older towers of the 1960's and 1970's vintage dominate. Currently the tallest tower is about 34 floors up, and still has another 23 floors to go. The shorter tower under construction will be taller reaching 67 floors in the air and add on top of that 2 or 3 floors of mechanical penthouse.When these towers are complete another set of twin towers across the street will reach 70 floors and a condo tower planned by Tridel right behind this complex will reach 75 floors. Toronto is in the middle of a boom, that we still do not fully comprehend, and the result and impact on our city will be felt for generations to come, as Toronto transforms from a small Canadian City into a Global Powerhouse, and Regional player in the North American Game.
The Trump Toronto Tower is the highest level of class in a condo-hotel in the Toronto Market. It was branded by American Billionaire and Kind Hearted Philantrophist Donald Trump, and developed by Canadian Billionaire Alex Schinder of Talon Coporation. The tower project cost somewhere around $600 million dollars, and brings with it International Cache which is an important factor to elevating Toronto to a True Global City. Currently the hotel is operational and should be good to go for it's first Toronto Film Festival. The Condos will likely be occupied in the coming 2 months or so. Currently this is the tallest project ever built in Toronto since construction of the CN Tower, - previous worlds tallest free-standing structure and First Canadian Place, the national headquaters for the 4th or 5th largest bank in Canada, Bank of Montreal. One sad fact about Trump is the way it meets the street with unforntuate driveways and service entrances, but because of it's location, which I term.. "the middle of nowhere" I don't think it's a serious loss. Trump Toronto in the end brings a little Dubai Flare to the Toronto skyline with its expensive glass and granite cladding and super LED Strip and Spire running up the side.
Cities before but not here. Montreal has had the Ritz, and Vancouver has had the Shangri-La. Toronto never was really know for Glitz and Glamour. I mean we build cars here and plastic tubing. What would we know about Glamour. Anyways, seems like the Global Rich are dying to give Toronto a try and see what life is like in a small Provincial town and capital of Ontario. Shangri-La is now becoming the rule and the exception it towers on University Avenue, over our provincial capital buildings, letting it be known that we are no government backwater town, but we are all about making money and enjoying life. This is our first taste of how the rich in Asia live as they bring their fancy hotel to our midwestern backwater city, linking us to our Global City Manifested Destiny. Shangri-la rises an amazing 67 floors and 214 meters above the city skyline it's folding glass an instant giveaway this is no ordinary building. It will house the new Mamafuko restaurant of James Cheng as well as other amenties and ballrooms. As well as a public artwork piece sitting front and centre on University Avenue.
The Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto is set to become a condo once the charity auction of hotel is goods is complete. The plan not only includes the conversion of the existing hotel, but also adding additional 7 floors to the tower. This is a true one of a kind project, although, I will admit I did like the way the exisitng Sutton Place looks, there is no holding back progress and advancement. So be it! The sales process has begun, and I'm sure as with most condos in Toronto this will likely have a fairly quick circle from the sales to construction.
Work has completed on the Burano Condo Complex on Bay Street, and proud owners are moving into their new digs. This site has been years in the making and the twin tower, Murano Development sits across the Street. This project was put together by the people at Lanterra Developments whom have also worked on the ICE Project, as well as Maple Leaf Square. this project is one of the taller towers on the north section of Bay Street away from the Financial District. The gleaming glass is looking good, and I look forward to additonal projects of this same high quality going up in the future.
Cinema Tower in the Entertianment District of Toronto is moving fast with construction. Cinema Tower along with its sister development the Toronto International Film Festival Tower are providing great infill for an area that use to be all parking lots as well as nightclubs. The clubs in the area are being destroyed mostly to be replaced by condos. The new club district is forming on King West, College Little Italy and Ossington. The entertianment district looks set to become a second downtown in the core. The place is lively, even today on a Sunday the patios are packed, I have a feeling something good is gonna happen here.
Hullmark Centre under construction in North York is putting Toronto's northern suburb on the verge of having it's own true downtown corporate centre. This building is a total mixed use retail centre, with condos, corporate offices, and recreation all tied into the underground subway station below. The core of North York is probably the most impressive in Ontario outside of downtown Toronto itself. It looks great and with the combination of the Emerald Park development across the street we will see a real urban vibe happening here despite the fact that Yonge Street functions as a highway in this part of the city. Thankfully the sidewalks are wide and the trees are mature and huge, so it is and will continue to be a favourite hang out for locals and others from Toronto as well. Hullmark Centre's tallest tower will be 168 meters or about 551 feet, and 45 floors tall.
New Condos going in on University at the location of the Royal Military College between two existing towers. Very interesting to take in as I did last night while the sun is setting. No doubt there is enough variety in location and amenities in the Toronto market. This condo features no owner parking, and cars will be supplied by ZipCar. This is unique although I did notice that the excavation did go down about 4 or 5 floors, but because the building is on a narrow plot of land there was no room to ramp up, which would be required for cars to exit and enter the underground portion of the building.
Well, not everything under construction in Toronto is a condo. Surprise, surprise we also have some institutional buildings as well as office towers going up in the current boom. This hospital along with the Women's College Hospital additon are both going up on Bay Street in quite close proxmity to each other. This tower will be for research and learning, to help the progression in understanding of aliments that have a disporporationate impact on children. Other hospital towers and research centers under construction or recently built in Toronto include, Mount Sinai, St. Michael's Hospital Addition, Lee Ka Shing Learning institue and the MaRs centre on University. Toronto actually has a whole district dedicated to the learning and understanding of Medicine and Science.
Well, I have some good news, and I have some bad news, The Four Seasons Hotel and Residence (Condo) in Toronto is bringing some of the fabulous luxury of the old hotel to the east side of Bay Street. The sad part or the bad news is, the East side of Bay Street, does not yet have quite the same amenties and cafes as the Yorkville Village we are all accustomed too. Have no fear, that once this hotel opens there will be a land grab and rush to develop all the parking lots in the nearby vicinity to hoist even more cafes and super tall hotel and condo towers. The first on the block is Menkes, with their purchase of the Parking Authority lot for over $76 million dollars, and plans to erect one tower of 69 floors and 239 meters, and a second towerof 48 floors and 180 meters.
Then there is the Cumberland Revelopment plan which calls for the demolition of the exisitng Cumberland Terrace Mall, and it to be replaced with a single condo tower roughly 200 meters tall. Last but not least, in no shape or form is the Holt Renfrew Tower, which will become the tallest tower (condo Residence) in Canada when complete at an ashonishing 277 meters and 83 floors. Yorkville, as they say is on the up and up. Looking forward to bringing you guys more developments on these sites as they progress in the future.
Toronto Real Estate Development
The Toronto Real Estate Market continues to defy the naysayers by growing on building at an almost none stop rate. The experts are dumbfounded and at a loss to explain. In my opinion what is happening is very basic, Toronto has become a Global City, and the transit infrastructure into the downtown core is not the best. This results in extreme long commute times to and from work, regardless of where you work in the city. Downtown or Uptown, East or West people want to work in an area where getting around is not a hassle. This is the reason for the rush of development in the core. Throw the international status of Toronto, influx of cash, and Canada's safehaven reputation and you have the perfect storm. There are two more factors at play in Toronto which are also very well known, firstly, there is a very limited supply of new buildable land downtown. This is making the price of existing properties much more expensive, and the land requires extensive site preparation before anything can be built. (ie. Clearing and demolition at times) Another factor restricting land supply is provincial land use policy which has been enacted to restrict the spread of urban sprawl.
The latest sales numbers show that the Toronto market is moderating to some effect, but there is no crash imminent or impending doom on the horizon. Toronto will remain a safe and stable city, with an extreme Real Estate Market. The low rise sector of the Toronto Housing Market is set to show massive profit gains for the foreseeable future as this commodity decreases at an ever increasing rate in the core city.
The Toronto Skyline will keep shifting and changing in the core, as the building boom continues. This is a good thing for the growth and development of the city . Looking forward to more condos coming down the pipe, and an enlarged downtown population, giving the core a balanced urban vibe.


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Barrow, Toscano share Bandys QB load
The Bandys football team's quarterback situation can be described in one word — teamwork.
Sharing responsibilities under center, the duo of senior David Barrow and junior Anthony Toscano has led the Trojans to a strong, comeback season.
Bandys finished with a 3-8 record a season ago and missed the playoffs, but the efforts of Barrow, Toscano and a strong senior class carried the Trojans to the playoffs for the first time since 2009.
However, the Trojans had to conquer adversity to reach the postseason.
On Barrow's final play of the first half in the season opener against St. Stephens on Aug. 19, he broke his thumb.
Toscano prepared himself to go into the game.
"I was going into the season thinking I wouldn't play that much," said Toscano, who was the Bandys junior varsity starting quarterback last year. "When I saw his thumb, I knew it was broken by the way it looked. I knew he was going to be out a while, so I went in."
The junior guided the Trojans from a 7-0 deficit in the early going of the second half, helping his team eventually win 28-7.
While the news of a lost quarterback was devastating, the team found out that the situation wasn't as bad as it seemed. Barrow's injury would not sideline him the entire year.
"At first, I thought it was a ligament tear," Barrow said of his injury. "I thought I was done for the season. When they told me it wasn't, I figured I would be back before the season was over."
In the meantime, Toscano led Bandys to two more wins in as many weeks.
Barrow returned to the field in week four against North Lincoln, but in a role that he wasn't accustomed to — defensive back.
"It was different not being able to grab things," Barrow said. "I was just happy to be on the field to be honest."
Despite losing games to Draughn and Maiden during the regular season as a starter, Toscano talked to Barrow and the two supported one another.
"David told me to stay calm and lead them," Toscano said. "When things got tough, just keep it held down and don't get big-headed. Don't be a jerk to your offensive line because in the end, that's the reason why you win. It's because of them."
Barrow returned at quarterback against South Iredell on Oct. 14, poised to lead his team into the playoffs.
"I'd been able to hold the ball and throw it for a week or so before the South Iredell game," Barrow said. "It wasn't good enough to throw against Maiden. I worked on it all of the next week and we alternated against South Iredell. Coach took me off defense and I played offense the rest of the night."
Barrow returned to form in Bandys' first-round playoff game against Ashe County, tossing a 56-yard touchdown pass on the opening play.
However, Bandys' playoff run nearly ended.
Barrow left the game with a head injury and, despite passing numerous tests, trainers said he showed concussion-like symptoms, prompting Toscano to be re-inserted.
"When David got the concussion, I knew I was only going to be in a week, but I knew if I didn't step up, we wouldn't have him for the next week," Toscano said. "I don't want to say I did it just for him, but I did it for the seniors. If I wouldn't have stepped up and taken it, we wouldn't have been here this week."
Bandys overcame a 14-12 halftime deficit in that game to score 28-straight points in a 40-14 victory — the team's first playoff win since 2009.
"We're lucky that Anthony started six games for us, while Barrow was out with a broken hand," Trojans coach Randy Lowman said after last week's playoff game. "It wasn't like we had thrown a rookie in there who hadn't played. He's won quite a few ball games for us this year. He's just a professional. Nothing shakes or rattles him. He just goes in and executes. I liked having him out there. We had a lot of years where we lost a quarterback and didn't have a back-up. It is a bit of a luxury to have two guys you can lean on like that."
With either player in at the quarterback position, the Trojans are confident they can get the job done and continue their success.
"Somebody in practice the other day said we had the best back-up in the league," Barrow said. "It's not really a big deal of who is in. We just get the job done."


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An edgy London ice cream parlor called Icecreamists is dishing up ice cream made from human breast milk. The flavor is named Baby Gaga, and today the shop posted a sign in its window letting customers know they had sold out of it. The unusual dessert, also made with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest, is a huge hit with Londoners.
Victoria Hiley, 35, of Leeds sold her milk to the ice cream shop after responding to an Internet ad. She was paid 15 pounds (about $24) for every 10 ounces of milk.
"What's the harm in using my assets for a bit of extra cash?," Hiley told the British Metro newspaper. "There's nothing more natural than fresh mother's milk."
So far 15 other woman have signed up to sell their liquid gold to Icecreamists. All donors must undergo the same health tests the UK's National Health Service requires when screening blood donors.
Last year, Manhattan chef Daniel Angerer tempted Americans with cheese made from his wife's breast milk. It wasn't received as well as Baby Gaga ice cream and the health department asked him to take the cheese off the menu at his Klee Brasserie restaurant.
Icecreamists owner Matt O'Connor, 44, doesn't understand why anyone wouldn't want to eat something made with breast milk, "It's the most beautiful thing," O'Connor told the BBC. "It's oarganic. It's free-range. It's totally natural."


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House attempts to gut Antiquities Act--and the future of national monuments and parks
Grand Canyon National Park, originally protected under the Antiquities Act.
Credit: Michael Quinn (NPS), flickr.
The latest salvo against public lands, H.R. 1459, would add bureaucratic hurdles and arbitrary limits to the process of designating national monuments, a presidential tradition upheld since the Antiquities Act was first signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and used on a bipartisan basis by 16 presidents since then.
"Undermining the Antiquities Act is completely out of step with Americans' overwhelming support for this bedrock law that has protected iconic places like the Grand Canyon, Acadia, Muir Woods, and Olympic national parks and landmarks from Alaska to the Florida Keys," said Alan Rowsome, senior government relations director at The Wilderness Society.
The bill passed by a narrow margin, with members of both parties in opposition. Next, it will go to the Senate. The Wilderness Society is determined to work with the Senate and White House to defeat this legislation and preserve the Antiquities Act.
If it became law, the bill would...
- Prevent presidents from declaring more than one monument in a state during each term without an express act of Congress;
- Add bureaucratic hurdles by requiring additional government studies for most monument designations;
- Waste taxpayer dollars--an additional $2 million over the next four years--on those studies, some of which would have to be submitted for Congressional review;
- Make monument designations of under 5,000 acres temporary and subject to review by Congress within three years.
Many of America's most cherished public places, from Statue of Liberty to Giant Sequoia National Monument, were first protected under the Antiquities Act. More than 30 national parks, including Grand Canyon National Park and Pinnacles National Park were originally protected as monuments under the Antiquities Act.
Chiefly owing to partisan bickering, Congress remains in a protracted conservation slump, having barely protected any new public land since 2009. Under the Antiquities Act, presidents are able to fill the leadership void in such situations.
President Obama promised to keep that contingency handy in his most recent State of the Union Address. In March, he signaled that he was serious about it by adding Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands to the California Coastal National Monument, a broadly popular move. Unfortunately, as the passage of H.R. 1459 makes clear, enemies of public lands are determined to severely damage even that vital last line of defense.
A big step back
California's Pinnacles National Park, originally protected as a monument under the Antiquities Act. Credit: Kat Wong, flickr.
If the "Preventing New Parks" bill were to become law, we would be right back where we started: with public lands conservation measures languishing in Congress, and natural and historical landmarks cherished by ordinary Americans unable to get the protection they deserve.
In addition to placing stumbling blocks before future monument designations, the bill would waste taxpayer dollars and leave communities near public lands in limbo. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated it will cost an additional $2 million over the next four years in new government studies, a cruelly ironic waste of taxpayer money just months removed from a government shutdown that closed national parks and reminded many Americans of the value of special public lands.
The fight is not over
While the passage of this bill in the House reveals the anti-wilderness stance of some members of Congress, others have voiced their support for the Antiquities Act. In January, more than 100 members of the House signed on to a letter supporting the president's authority to designate national monuments. It stated: "Conservation and historic preservation initiatives with broad public support should not have to be sidelined or stalled because of political paralysis." The final tally bore out this undercurrent of support for public lands. "The close vote today on H.R. 1459 clearly shows that there is strong bipartisan opposition to this ill-conceived legislation," added Rowsome.
Hopefully, conservation champions in the Senate will uphold the will of the American people and defend the Antiquities Act, thereby enabling the protection of future national parks and monuments.


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Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) helps companies speed up their websites by using Akamais own high-speed network to copy clients' websites to servers that are physically close to the company's users, and therefore increase download speed. This process, known as caching, is especially important for Online Video websites, which are particularly bandwidth-hungry.[1] The company earned $860 million in revenue and $145.9 in net income in 2009.[2]
The key to Akamai's success is its de-centralized computer nework, which improves the speed of its clients websites. BestBuy's offices are in Southern California, but their users are around the world. Akamai's network means BestBuy's users can always connect to a BestBuy server that's close by, and therefore faster.
From a technical standpoint, AKAM's internet traffic footprint is large. The company operates the world's largest distributed computing network with more than 20,000 servers in 1,000 networks across 71 countries. According to its own estimates, Akamai delivers 20% of the world's non-email web traffic.[3] The company sells its services to many of the internet's top players, including over half of the top 50 web retailers such as Best Buy (BBY) and Sony (SNE). In media, the company counts 29 of the top 30 websites as clients including media-heavy sites such as MTV and Comedy Central.
Akamai's customer base is in e-commerce and online video, so Akamai benefits from the expansion of these services. However, AKAM is exposed to risk as its service becomes commoditized - servers and bandwidth are cheaper than they once were, and other companies such as Limelight and Internap Network Services (INAP) have now compete in the market which Akami used to dominate. As the fixed costs to setting up infrastructure drop, so do the barriers to enter this industry, leading to more competition.
Akamai earns revenues from the hosting and delivery of internet content and media from its clients websites to end-users. The company is able to charge a premium for its services for two reasons. First, the company provides data delivery to end users, handling actual internet traffic. Secondly, the company helps to manage the technical demands and consult its customers as to how to effectively deliver their content. Moreover, the process of website caching means that Akamai backs-up many of its customers websites.
The availability of broadband in people's homes is increasing in double digit percentage points in many developed countries, and has doubled in developing countries in the mid 2000s.[5]. With it, media consumption habits have dramatically shifted, as can be seen in the growth of companies such as YouTube , and many traditional TV networks offering their programming online, such as ABC and NBC. More bandwidth presents both an opportunity as well as a challenge to Akamai. The increased expectations of consumers puts a strain on content providers, who then turn to AKAM to bear the content delivery burden. However, it also puts pressure on AKAM's own bandwidth, which is often purchased from internet backbone providers, which operate the massive routers and server farms that send and receive internet traffic across major fiber-optic networks between continents and countries.
SaaS is a new e-commerce business model. SaaS changes the mode of distribution of software from a one time purchase of CD-roms and discs, to a service sold on a per-period basis, typically over the Internet. This model places larger server demands on the provider, although it also gives them more stable revenue streams and increased control over the application. AKAM's server network and monitoring tools lets its clients forgo the "in-house" model to build out SaaS capability, helping them deliver their software over the cheaper and more controllable internet, rather than discs. The strength of this model is demonstrated by Akamai's own performance, as their data-monitoring and caching services employ this same "Software as a Service" model.
Akamai houses information in its servers, and ships out the content over the internet. Respectively the costs to each of these components of its business are broadly determined by storage prices (or hard drive prices) and bandwidth prices. The wholesale prices of bandwidth are difficult to chart, but are decreasing similarly over time. As these prices fall, it is easier for new players to step into the space, and for operations to return to in-house groups. This is a risk to Akamai's business as its success has rested on the fact that smaller companies cannot afford the infrastructure investments that content delivery networks demand, and Akamai charges higher prices than its competition due to its wide reach and technological supremacy. MOre competition may threaten Akamai's ability to charge this premium for its services, eroding both its profits and its market share.
Internet monoliths like Google (GOOG) and Yahoo! (YHOO) have invested time and effort into managing content delivery already. While not typically serving outside clients, their reach is extensive, much like Akamai's.
Amazon, through its Amazon Web Services unit, offers a CDN solution called CloudFront that dovetails with the rest of the AWS stack -- though nominally a separate offering, the primary use case for CloudFront is content delivery for AWS customers. If AWS continues to capture market share in the hosting and cloud-computing businesses, CloudFront will emerge as competition to Akamai.


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Book Tour and Activities on the Go!
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For an invigorating expedition in the picturesque Tehri region of Garhwal Himalayas, go for the multi sport activity trip in Sursingdhar and Jayalgarh in Uttarakhand. Not only will you get to indulge in a multitude of sports but also take in the sheer beauty of the captivating surroundings.
Take the opportunity of biking or cycling through high altitude roads crossing gorgeous ridges connecting Mussoorie and Chamba. You can also try your hand at hiking through unchartered territories offering splendid sights, dive in for a rafting or duckie ride session on the waters of Alaknanda river. The other variety of sports you can engage in range from cliff jumping, bridge slithering, body surfing, abseiling and rope course.
Adding value to this trip is the captivating grandeur of the natural treasures abundant in the environs and landscapes of this locale.
Meal Types: Veg or Non-Veg
Activities: Biking (Cycling), Hiking, River Rafting, Duckie Rides, cliff jumping, bridge slithering, body surfing, abseiling and rope course
Duration: 3N/4D
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Temperature: Around 12 - 18 degrees (Mar – Apr), around 20 - 24 degrees (May), around 10 – 15 degrees in nights (Oct – Nov), about 3 – 5 degrees in nights (December )
About the activity:
Accommodation Types: Double Occupancy- Mallard Room
Meal Types: Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian
Activities: Bird Watching, Asan Barrage, Water SportsDifficulty Level: Moderate
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Also, anyone know where this was taken? It's here in Colorado...
LOL, not quite, the guy in the first pic is wearing a hat, and in the second....no hat Just givvin you crap. Those are both great shots.
Hey fellers. Just got back from a trip. Took this one at night w/ the camera resting on the cement walkway and having to tilt it down a bit. No flash. Steady. Do you know where I went?


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Welcome to the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience (LIN) -- a unit of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. We are faculty and students from the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Psychology and Philosophy.
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Basic tuning of the mySQL is accomplished in the /etc/my.cnf file. If you want to get all geeky and into this reference the seminal document over on the mysql dev site. This should result in a speed increase in your system. It certainly has in my system running mySQL 5.x.
The information below is expressed as a set of ratios that begins with your system RAM and then works from there.
innodb_buffer_pool_size = $SYSTEMRAM/2 innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = $innodb_buffer_pool_size/20 innodb_log_file_size = $innodb_buffer_pool_size/4 innodb_log_buffer_size = $innodb_buffer_pool_size/50 or a minimum value of 8MB
Note bene: Changing your log file size can results in a mySQL refusing to start. Simply remove these files from you mysql data directory and they will be created on the next startup.