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One of the things I teach in our admin course is that it's not enough to just be the gatekeeper/central point of change when it comes to being a DBA, we should be adding value:
Look at each change and ask ourselves 'is this obviously stupid?'. For example, we might see a case where a cursor is used when clearly a a set based update would work, or we might notice a cross join
Verify that it meets our coding standards (this is an easy check if you don't have any!)
Compare the performance of the change with the previous code, and fixing if needed. This avoids the slow and steady entropy that can otherwise result
You'll notice that I don't put in the list verifying the change is correct - that's a QA task!
One sub bullet point I've added to 'is it stupid' recently is checking queries for unused tables. I ran across a couple instances lately of what was probably copy/paste code reuse and I was tuning the queries, realized that several tables were included that had no effect on the results. Easy to miss something when you see things like this so it definitely needs to go back for testing, but it's worth taking the deeper look right then, before you deploy.


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Dominican College is a nice small private school where professors care and want to see students do well. Dominican College has many majors to decide from to help guide students…
Small classes are great. Professors are great. Business office is stressful to deal with.…
A community worth being a part of. Great campus and wide range of diversity. Where you build lifelong relationships. …
The aim of Dominican College is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community. The College is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the tradition of its Dominican founders, the College fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.
Committed to building its programs on a strong liberal arts foundation, the College maintains a student-centered climate and offers an array of degree opportunities in the liberal arts and sciences, business, and the professions on the undergraduate and graduate levels. Although the majority of its students are from its geographic region, to whose emerging educational needs it is particularly responsive, its diverse student body includes national and international representation of all ethnicities and religions.
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I am at a top 50 law school, I consider myself a reasonably intelligent and extremely motivated person. I had really wanted to get good grades, but instead got 3 Cs (one C-) and one B. This was a hard blow to me, as I had been studying very hard. My profs tell me I got all substantive issues down and understand the material, but my organization of answers is problematic and my legal reasoning is weak. The department has recommended me for the Legal Reasoning option next semester instead of Moot Court. I am extremely depressed about this because I know I have it in me to work smarter and absorb all the feedback from my professors. I KNOW I can do this, but my school is making me feel like a loser and placing me in a program that I do not think I need to be in for a whole semester. Maybe I am being difficult - but sometimes, you just know that you will work your ass off, do things differently, and you just want a 2nd chance. Has anyone had this experience? I don't know how to convince the department that I would prefer not to be singled out into that class.I even cried in front of the department, I feel very ashamed and weak but inside, I just want another chance. Sometimes I feel like I just want to give up all my hopes of getting a well-paying job, and maybe I should. Is there any hope for me to turn myself around? I think I just need one success story of someone with straight Cs or something who turned around and got all As and Bs and proved everybody wrong the 2nd semester. My situation is bad, my GPA is below that of good standing, and I desperately need some words of wisdom. These days, it's been hard just to keep my head up and not feel like crying. For me, quitting is not an option.
More practice tests doesn't help you at all if you can't comprehend what you're doing wrong. The difference between a C- student and A+ students isn't that they "put it down on paper better" and it's not organization. The C- student tries to memorize the answer; the A+ student has the critical thinking ability to apply the answer and understands the rule within the context of normative theories and public policy. Part of it may be communicating the ideas, but a gap that wide (particularly if you're a student at a low-ranked school) indicates that the C- student isn't "getting" the point.


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I'm home from a busy week of travels…and so great to be home with my dudes, and get to cook them dinner! I left them a couple of slow cooker packs, all recipes from this cookbook. They're so quick to put together for my husband to then dump into the slow cooker before he leaves for work and gets the kiddos off to school. Love that I know they're getting a great meal, even when I'm gone. (And that my husband doesn't have to spend an arm and a leg on takeout or delivery!)
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I administer a small LAN for my company and right now we have a nice little wireless setup that clients and co-workers can access using a simple WEP key. This is nice and all, but I'm not as concerned about the depth of security here as much as usability. I would prefer to configure this access point to use a Linux firewall set up as a gateway to the LAN.
The goal is to no longer require users to configure their wireless connection to match my security needs, but instead to redirect their web traffic to a web page that would allow them to authenticate through a RADIUS server. Sort of like what you'd run into if you tried to connect to a hotspot in a coffee shop, except I don't want to charge people for the service. Just make them authenticate.
Seems like it ought to be a somewhat straightforward configuration to build, but before I dig into my limited knowledge of PHP and try to build it, I thought I'd post here to see if anyone has seen (or uses) an open source version of this kind of mechansim out there that I could use.
Would also be interested to know the details of such a setup in case I find myself in a hotel room with one of these authenticated wireless APs that might be fun to poke at . . .


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Used 2007 Mazda 3
- Athletic handling, refined engines, strong brakes, sharp styling, top-notch build and materials quality, hatchback utility.
- Top safety equipment either optional or on higher trims, tight rear legroom, so-so fuel economy with 2.3-liter engine.
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Entertaining yet sophisticated in demeanor, the 2007 Mazda 3 doesn't look, feel or drive like an economy car. If you're shopping for a small, inexpensive sedan or hatchback, this car should be at the top of your list.
vehicle overview
Long known as the purveyor of sporty economy cars, Mazda's latest, the 3, continues the company's tradition of making small cars that are fun to drive. Debuting in 2004 as a replacement for the Protégé compact sedan, the 3 offers a choice of two body styles: a four-door with a trunk or a four-door with a hatchback (labeled the "five-door" by Mazda).
The 2007 Mazda 3's strengths include a pair of peppy, refined engines. The base "i" trim level employs a 148-horsepower, 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine, while the sportier "s" models use a 2.3-liter four-cylinder that bumps the output to 156 hp while offering more torque (150 pound-feet versus 135 lb-ft) as well as balance shafts (which enhance smoothness). Both engines are equipped with variable valve timing to improve response and efficiency. The 3 also boasts superior handling and ride dynamics compared to most economy cars. Blessed with some chassis components from Mazda's 6 midsize sedan and spot-on tuning, the 3 handles like a bargain sport sedan. The only minor quibble is that the ride may be too firm for some.
To go along with its impressive hardware, the 3 offers stylish design inside and out, with the taut, chiseled body hinting at its athletic personality. This year, in addition to freshened front and rear fascias for all 3s, new taillights debut: The i trims get a clear-lens treatment while the Grand Touring sedan gets LED units. Inside, the 3 benefits from a number of new upscale features, such as a standard rear-seat center armrest and audio input jack (for MP3 players). Stability control is another new addition this year.
With some exciting new economy sedans debuting this year, such as Honda's Civic Si and Dodge's Caliber SRT-4, the 2007 Mazda 3 finds itself with some serious competition. That challenge has been answered with the Mazdaspeed version of the 3 that also debuts this year, priced in the low-to-mid-$20,000 range. For those on a tighter budget, however, the standard Mazda 3 remains a strong consideration for driving enthusiasts shopping the $15,000¬-$20,000 compact segment.
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The compact 2007 Mazda 3 is available as a four-door sedan or hatchback. There are five trim levels available for the sedan: i, i Touring, s, s Touring and s Grand Touring. The hatchback ("five-door") comes in s, s Touring and s Grand Touring trims. All i sedans have a tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel, a 60/40-split-folding rear seat with center armrest and a CD stereo with an audio input jack. The i Touring trim adds 16-inch alloy wheels, air-conditioning, cruise control, an upgraded stereo, keyless entry, a height-adjustable driver seat and full power accessories. Mazda 3 s models come with all of the above, plus the larger engine, special interior trim and a leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio controls. The s Touring adds 17-inch alloys and body side sills to the mix, while the top-line s Grand Touring provides heated leather seats, automatic climate control, rain-sensing wipers and a trip computer. Options include an in-dash CD changer, satellite radio, a moonroof and, for the Grand Touring versions, a navigation system.
performance & mpg
All i sedans use a 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine rated at 148 hp and 135 lb-ft of torque, while s models use a 2.3-liter four-cylinder rated at 156 hp and 150 lb-ft. Both engines come standard with a five-speed manual transmission. A four-speed automatic transmission with an automanual mode is optional on i models, while s models upgrade to a five-speed automatic. In our test of a 3 Grand Touring sedan with the 2.3-liter engine and automatic transmission, the Mazda did the 0-60-mph sprint in 8.6 seconds. EPA fuel mileage estimates for that model are 25 mpg city/31 mpg highway.
Standard on all 3s are four-wheel disc brakes, but one must typically go to upper trims or pay extra to get the latest safety features. Antilock brakes are optional on the i trims and standard for everything else. Stability control, front-seat side-impact airbags and full-length side curtain airbags are available only on the Touring and Grand Touring. A tire-pressure monitor is standard, but only on the Grand Touring. In NHTSA frontal-impact crash tests, the Mazda 3 scored four stars (out of five) and received three stars in that agency's side-impact test. In IIHS testing, the 3 received a "Good" rating (the highest out of four) in frontal-impact tests but got a "Poor" rating (the lowest) in that agency's side-impact test. It should be noted that both of those side-impact tests involved a 3 without the side airbags.
Thanks to its performance-oriented chassis tuning, the Mazda 3 rewards the driving enthusiast with quick and communicative steering, a lack of discernible body roll and lots of grip on twisty blacktop. At the same time, the highway ride is smooth enough to please most commuters; however, those who prefer softly sprung compacts like the Corolla might think it too firm. All told, the Mazda 3 has refined road manners that will likely surprise car shoppers expecting the typically flabby ride and handling of many economy cars.
Unlike most economy cars, the 2007 Mazda 3 offers a distinctive and upscale interior design. Individual pods surround the large, clear gauges, while precise control actions, high-grade materials and tight build tolerances support the initial sense of impressive quality. Even taller folks will be comfortable up front, and the driver will appreciate the standard tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel. For those under 6 feet tall, the rear seat should prove accommodating, thanks to its well-shaped and supportive design. Taller sorts will feel pinched for legroom, however. Sedans offer 11.4 cubic feet of trunk space; the hatchback offers 17 cubes behind its rear seat and 31 when it's folded.
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Used 2007 Mazda 3 Overview
The Used 2007 Mazda 3 is offered in the following submodels: , . Available styles include i Sport 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 4A), s Sport 4dr Sedan (2.3L 4cyl 5A), i Touring 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 4A), s Sport 4dr Hatchback (2.3L 4cyl 5A), s Touring 4dr Sedan (2.3L 4cyl 5A), i Sport 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M), s Touring 4dr Hatchback (2.3L 4cyl 5A), s Grand Touring 4dr Sedan (2.3L 4cyl 5A), s Sport 4dr Sedan (2.3L 4cyl 5M), s Grand Touring 4dr Hatchback (2.3L 4cyl 5A), i Touring 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M), s Sport 4dr Hatchback (2.3L 4cyl 5M), s Touring 4dr Sedan (2.3L 4cyl 5M), s Grand Touring 4dr Sedan (2.3L 4cyl 5M), s Touring 4dr Hatchback (2.3L 4cyl 5M), and s Grand Touring 4dr Hatchback (2.3L 4cyl 5M).
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The "Barry Cerf memorial theatre and garden area," or amphitheatre, was constructed in 1936 with the aid of the National Youth Administration. Commencement ceremonies were held here-in good weather-until 1970, when seating requirements made it necessary to move the function to its current site on the south lawn by Eliot Hall. The amphitheatre was rebuilt in 1988 and continues to be the setting for various college performances, including an annual Greek theatre festival.
Barry Cerf, Reed professor of comparative literature from 1921 to 1948, was instrumental in developing Reed's humanities course and was active in community music and theatre programs.


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Canning and Freezing Fruits and Vegetables
Canning and freezing your fruits and vegetables is an easy and affordable way to extend the life of your summer garden harvest. If done properly, you can enjoy fresh, natural foods year-round. Follow these tips for food preparation and food storage, ensuring the best quality produce for you and your family:
- When it comes to harvesting, choose ripe (but not overripe) fruits and vegetables, free of blemishes and bruises. Gather crops in the morning, and only pick the amount you can process in two to three hours.
- Rinse - don't soak - produce in cold water and, if needed, use a vegetable brush to remove excess dirt. Peel, stem, pit or slice each item as desired and sort according to size for even heating, cooling and packing.
- Use Mason jars to can fruits and vegetables. They are heat-tempered and sturdy enough for proper storage and their smooth, flat edges are perfect for sealing lids properly. Before each canning season, check all jars and lids for chips, nicks or cracks that could ruin the seal and cause spoilage. Thoroughly clean all tools and jars with hot water and soap prior to canning.
- All produce should be blanched, heating for a short time in water or steam to deactivate the enzymes responsible for loss of nutrition, flavor and texture during storage. To avoid overcooking, promptly chill the produce in ice water for the same amount of time they were blanched.
- Whether freezing, water-bath canning or pressure canning your produce, leave a 1/2 inch of space for expansion at the top of each container. For proper amount of time and pressure when canning, follow recipes specific to each fruit or vegetable.
- Test the seal on your jars by pressing the center of the metal lid and making sure it does not move. Label and date all jars, storing them in a cool, dry, dark space or freezing them at 0 degrees or below.


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Unions in Perpetuity
During a debate in the state House over legislation that would ban the "stealth" unionization of independent contractors who receive subsidy payments, Rep. Vicki Barnett, D-Farmington Hills, reportedly argued that the bill is unnecessary because individuals opposed to unionization can simply seek to decertify the union.
But can they? Take the case of home health care providers in Michigan. There are roughly 60,000 such providers in the state, many of them family members caring for developmentally disabled loved ones. Should a couple decide they don't want a government-employee union skimming money from the payment intended for their children, how would they go about pursuing a decertification vote?
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These 60,000 caretakers are not gathered in one workplace, under one roof. They live in tens of thousands of different homes, from Copper Harbor to Monroe. They don't have each other's emails or phone numbers. If a victim of forced unionization wanted to send a letter making the case for decertification to every other member, it would require 60,000 letters, envelopes and addresses, not to mention $22,000 in postage.
From the union's perspective, this is the beauty of the arrangement. A small percentage of prospective union members are aware of the election and cast a vote. In this case, 6,949 providers voted to be represented by the Service Employees International Union. The rest, many completely unaware that a vote took place, are labeled "government employees" and forced into the union as a result. The SEIU then collects $29 million without having to engage in the collective bargaining that ostensibly is its reason for existence. And family members caring for ailing relatives don't have the time or resources to attempt a decertification election.
In short, the votes of fewer than 7,000 people have forced tens of thousands of others into a government-employee union in perpetuity. And for the union, the money just flows in.


text: JRS considers access to education a human right and a means to building peace and development. Access to education is a fundamental human right, and is essential in the development of the individual person, as well as for societies. For refugees and other forcibly displaced persons education plays an essential role in sustaining and saving lives throughout a crisis. Education is one of the four fundamental pillars of humanitarian assistance, along with food, healthcare and shelter. Education has a preventive dimension and a future dividend, which stems from its power to support the development of analytical and decision-making skills, self-esteem and self-awareness.Nevertheless, in many countries around the world migrant and refugee children are still excluded from school by state policies. This is even true in a number of European states with regard to the children of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. In most of these countries there is a gap between legal provisions on the one hand and the reality on the ground. In other countries, forcibly displaced children and adolescents may have access to some form of education, e.g. within refugee camps, but too often schools are poorly furnished and teachers are inadequately paid and trained.Education plays a prominent role among the services JRS offers to refugees and other displaced persons. Worldwide JRS provides pre-school, primary, secondary and third level education to approximately 285,000 young people. As well as renovating and rebuilding schools, JRS trains teachers and distributes educational materials. Based on this experience of the needs of refugees, JRS also advocates on behalf of displaced children to ensure they are provided with an adequate education.Call to action


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Press release 181 /2017 19 October 2017
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, will visit Finland on 23–24 October. He will meet Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini on 23 October in Helsinki.
At their meeting, they will discuss, among other things, security in the Baltic Sea region, the situation in Russia and Ukraine, transatlantic relations, and topical EU matters. In addition, they will exchange views on the bilateral relations between Finland and Lithuania and on regional energy security.
Minister Linkevičius will also visit the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, which has been established in Helsinki, and open an Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Turku.
Inquiries: Jussi Tanner, Diplomatic Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, tel. +358 295 350 663 and Maria Forslund, First Secretary, Unit for Northern Europe, tel. +358 50 416 7823.
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Revolting Creatures
A series of unlovely profiles.
In the summer of 2008, Slate's Constance Casey began an open-ended mission to profile—and perhaps rehabilitate—the most disgusting animals you're ever likely to meet. By exploring the life stories of these nasty critters, she explains how they fit into the world around us. So why did God create ticks? What's the point of a jellyfish? Excerpts from each column are printed below, along with links to the full text.
The Tick
Ticks not only extract blood, they ooze pathogens from their salivary glands into the wound they've sliced with their tiny claws and penetrated with their barbed mouthparts. …
I managed to locate Willy Burgdorfer, the scientist who identified the Lyme spirochete in 1982, and asked, "Why did God make ticks?"
"I don't have the answer," Dr. Burgdorfer said. "There are a lot of things we assign to the good Lord and we ask the question, why? All I can advise is to check yourself for ticks and remove them fast."
For more, read the full text of " A Tick's Life."
The Jellyfish
A profusion of jellyfish is often described as an invasion or an attack. Which is laughable, given the guiding principle of jellyfish behavior—"whatever." No brain, no spine; they don't have the capacity to plan a beach invasion. We bump into them, and because we're too big to eat, they perceive us as attackers.
Planning is not their forte. In place of a brain, jellies have a nerve net. Jellyfish are the free-floating relatives of sea anemones and corals, much older than fish, and not much changed for more than 600 million years. They ruled the ocean, in their passive way, when there was almost nothing but ocean. Now they drift into their food or their food drifts into them. The pulsing creates a current that pulls prey within reach.
For more, read the full text of " The Life of a Jellyfish."
The Vulture
Under threatening circumstances, an angry bird can aim green vomit at you from as far away as six feet. Normally, though, a turkey vulture's sociability extends to human beings as well as to its fellows. The people who care for injured wild birds report that vultures are gentle, inquisitive, and smarter than hawks and eagles. Here's the bottom line, according to one expert: "Once they get to know you they don't regurgitate on you."
For more, read the full text of " Vulture World."
The Slug
In most kinds of slug, the penis is about half the length of its body. ("Is that a Kalashnikov in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?") It's not clear why such anatomical grandeur might be important for survival: Slug experts discount the idea that the oversize penis functions like a peacock tail, as a display of virility—they point out that the chemical signaling and seduction occurs before the magisterial organs even come into view. In any event, the chosen mate isn't likely to be impressed, since most slugs possess both male and female sexual organs. During a single coupling, slugs can mate reciprocally—with each partner inseminating and being inseminated—or one can serve as the recipient.
For more, read the full text of " Feeling Sluggish."
The Snapping Turtle
They're shy but not beautiful, these creatures of the mud, and I have seen them up close. A couple of summers ago, I was swimming in my upstate New York pond and saw, a few yards away on the surface of the water, a curious combination of moving body parts. There was a glossy, ridged back, then another glossy back, a scaly paw with bearlike claws, and part of a thick, thorny tail.
Breaking any previous pond freestyle record, I swam to shore.
For more, read the full text of " 'These Dirty Filthy Mud-Turtles."


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Feb. 3, 2001
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - San Diego sophomore Kerri Nakamoto made a free throw with two seconds left in regulation to give the Toreros a one-point victory over the league-leading Broncos tonight at Jenny Craig Pavilion.
With the loss, Santa Clara falls to 15-5 overall and now sits in a three-way tie for second play in the West Coast Conference standings at 6-2, as Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount recorded victories tonight to equal SCU's conference mark. The Toreros improve to 8-11 overall, 3-5 in league play. The all-time series favors Santa Clara 22-14.
The Broncos, 20-point winners over San Diego just four days ago, could not overcome a season-low 57.1 percent free throw shooting night and were outrebounded for only the fifth time this season 38-29.
"We got outrebounded, which was critical," SCU head coach Chris Denker said. "But the bottom line was we lost the game at the free throw line. They made 23 free throws to our eight. A 15-point differential, that's pretty hard to overcome. Especially on somebody's home court. Down the stretch, I thought the girls did a decent job, coming up with some big defensive plays. Again, USD scored at the free throw line, they didn't score on baskets. The one basket they did score, we answered with a big play by Kim (Sorenson). We had some kids play a lot of minutes... we might have just worn out toward the end."
Senior Kim Sorenson and junior Becki Ashbaugh recorded back-to-back threes early in the second half, while a Kendra Rhea score put the Broncos ahead by 10. The Toreros countered with two baskets by junior Amber Jansen, that also earned extra points as she was fouled on both makes, cutting the Bronco lead to two. With under seven minutes left and the game tied at 51, a technical called on Denker allowed San Diego to go ahead by two points.
Down by three, Bronco senior Annie Garrison passed the ball across the paint to senior Jennifer Glysson, who scored the basket and the extra point on a foul to tie the game at 60 points apiece. Nakamoto was charged a player-control foul at the opposite end of the court on a crucial possession for the Toreros, but Santa Clara was unable to take advantage until another San Diego turnover and foul gave Glysson two shots at the charity stripe. Glysson made her second attempt.
Two of Garrison's four blocks on the night came on the next defensive front as SCU held its one-point edge as time ran under one minute. A three pointer by USD junior Robyn Fortney countered by an in-the-paint score by Sorenson tied the game again with 18 seconds left in regulation. A foul was called on the Broncos with two seconds left on the clock. Although Nakamoto missed the first, her second scored the game-winning point as the Broncos were unable to get off a last-second shot.
Glysson led the Broncos with 16 points and earned her first double-double of the season with 11 rebounds. Jansen led San Diego with 14 points and 14 rebounds as USD head coach Kathy Marpe earned her 100th WCC victory.
The second half of conference play began with SCU's frontcourt controlling first-half scoring, posting 26 of the team's 30 points. Garrison led all scorers with 12 as the Broncos took a four-point lead at intermission.
Tonight's loss also marked the first halftime lead the Broncos failed to protect.
The Broncos begin remain on the road, returning to Southern California for rematches at Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine next weekend. Santa Clara will play the Lions on Friday, Feb. 9 in Los Angeles and against the Waves the following night, Saturday, Feb. 10, in Malibu. Both games will begin at 7 p.m. at their respective venues.


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As most of you are probably well aware of now, the Ubuntu team is currently testing a brand new theme for the Ubuntu 10.04, which is part of a massive branding overhaul for the popular Linux distribution and associated software. And if there's one thing people can get worked up over, it's pretty colours.
Apart from the colours, there's a much more important change that's part of the new theme. The Ubuntu designers have decided to move the window border widgets to the left side of the window (like in Mac OS X). The reason for moving them to the left side is apparently to free up space on the right side, where the team wants to do something in the future. "Moving everything to the left opens up the space on the right nicely, and I would like to experiment in 10.10 with some innovative options there," Mark Shuttleworth explains, "It's much easier to do that if we make this change now."
Left, right, middle - it's all the same to me. I used to be a full-time BeOS user, I've used QNX as my main desktop back when that was still possible, and I've owned a whole boatload of Macs, so I'm comfortable with wherever the darn window border widgets are placed.
There is however one more curious thing about Ubuntu's new theme: the position of the close window widget. It's not located in the top-left corner - as any sane person would expect - instead, they've opted for putting it as the third button from the left. By any standard, this is just plain weird, and it seems a lot of people agree with that notion.
In a long discussion attached to a bug report in Ubuntu's Launchpad about this, people were wondering why such a massive change was made without their consent; they were feeling left out. "We are supposed to be a community, we all use Ubuntu and contribute to it, and we deserve some respect regarding these kind of decisions. We all make Ubuntu together, or is it a big lie?" wonders Pablo Quirós, "If you want to tell us that we are all part of it, we want information, and we want our opinion to be decisive."
Shuttleworth's reply was clear. "We all make Ubuntu, but we do not all make all of it," he writes, "This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But we are not voting on design decisions."
All this is ruffling some feathers here and there. While the concerns regarding the location of the window border widgets is legit, in my opinion, the concerns regarding the policies of it all are not. Open source or Free software does not mean democracy. It's more NATO and less UN (if that makes any sense). The Linux kernel project, GNOME, KDE - none of those are democracies. A relatively small group of people are the ones making the decisions, and that's a good thing.
This is open source. Code, and be included with the big boys.


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Voyage 6. THE CELEBRATED "TRICHORDON"
Περιήγηση 6η. TΟ ΠΕΡΙΩΝΥΜΟΝ ΤΡΙΧΟΡΔΟΝ
FLAMENCO AND REBETIKO's lead instruments have been the guitar and bouzouki respectively: their sound is the absolutely necessary condition – sine qua non, as they say – for the interpretation of the two genres. Yet, these instruments may be evaluated as rather unsuitable for such musical idioms.
In terms of melodic themes, both rebetiko and flamenco come under the category of modal music: that is, each song is based not on a simple musical scale but rather on a mode ("harmony" or "echos") with its own character, mood and ethos, and with a variety of intervals that greatly outnumber the tempered-equal intervals of Western European music. In the accompaniment, however, both genres are dominated by the Occidental concept of chords and melodic phrases played on tempered instruments: the frets on the bouzouki and guitar's necks are positioned according to these equal intervals, allowing the performance of just the notes of the piano. This contradiction, of course, creates various problems, imposes restrictions – but at the same time imparts a raw beauty to music when it's been cultivated at the crossroads between distinct cultural areas. It's as if the interpreters act like rope-dancers balancing themselves between two worlds.
In terms of melodic themes, rebetiko and flamenco come under the category of modal music. In the accompaniment, however, both genres are dominated by the Occidental concept of chords and melodic phrases played on tempered instruments.
The guitar's development during its final phase, from the Renaissance onwards (as we have seen in Voyage 4), ran parallel to the development of Occidental music, with polyphony, counterpoint and all its other special features. Therefore, the relationship between instrument and music has been harmonious. The bouzouki, on the contrary, as a newcomer in this field, has suffered from intense split personality. Even if it cannot be played with the classical guitar techniques that have crept into flamenco, it's also gradually moved willy-nilly on the westernizing way of rebetiko.
Radical changes in the orientation of a musical genre are clearly reflected on its instruments. Although Music never shows her own face, the transformations of an instrument are clearly visible to the naked eye. Thus we have seen the bouzouki undergoing a mutation and turning from three-string (tri-chordon) into a four-string and also electric instrument, while at the same time its tuning has changed adopting that of the guitar to facilitate virtuosities. This four-double-string… "guitarized" bouzouki was introduced by the superstar Manoles Chiotes (originally a guitarist), although it was not his own invention. Note that these developments occurred while rebetiko was on its deathbed.
The bouzouki underwent two mutations before and after rebetiko:
it was at first "mandolinized", and then "guitarized", turned into
a four-string and electric instrument…
That was the instrument's second mutation. The first one happened before rebetiko moved into the spotlight when the bouzouki, as a "prodigal son", broke away from the tanbur family where it was raised, and became a… Franco-Levantine: then it lost both its tanbur-like appearance and its movable frets allowing fine tuning according to the intervals of the mode to be played. They were replaced by the far fewer fixed metal frets that enable the performance of only tempered intervals. This metamorphosis was accompanied by other structural changes also modeled on the mandolin. In short, the instrument was at first… "mandolinized". It continued "speaking" Greek, one might say, but with a foreign "accent"…(a)
There is, however, a type of bouzouki still in use that has remained true to its origins and is proud to be a brother of the tanbur. It is the Arabic bouzouki, the buzuq or busoq, played in the area of ancient Phoenicia: in Lebanon and its surrounding area. The country of the cedars is where the greatest modern virtuoso of the instrument has emerged: the gypsy-born Matar Muhammad might turn even the "four-string" Chiotes… pale, despite the admiration he had won from the great Jimi Hendrix!(b)
It seems as a modern version of the age-old competition – but also emulation and exchange – between Phoenicians and Hellenes during the colonizing phase of the Mediterranean: the former on the southern coastline, the latter on the northern shores – without excluding reciprocal incursions. This very competition went on (and still goes on) with other protagonists: Romans and Punics, Byzantines and Arabs – until the Crusaders appeared in mare nostrum upsetting its status quo. You see how old the idea on "spheres of influence" is, where the concept of "Lebensraum" (vital, living space) recently emerged as a malignant tumour…(c)
What was the common origin of these instruments? It was obviously located in Assyria, as Pollux has already said about the pandura (see Voyage 4). And how have these instruments – or rather: the two variants of the same instrument – developed in today's Phoenicia and Hellas, without affecting the rest of the Arabs, nor the Turks that, in the meantime, found themselves in between? We can just speculate on that; especially since the word bouzouki, according to Nicolas Andriotes' Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek, is believed to have been Turkish in origin (büzük). We can see in this case one of etymology's so many oddities: an instrument's godfather not to care much about it.(d)
Unfortunately, we do not know how exactly the tambourás was played in Greece in the 19th century. Its playing, however, should have been quite different from that of the bouzouki or (at least today's) Anatolian saz, although there are people who try to convince us to the contrary, for they introduce themselves as "tambourás masters", while the instrument they play is in reality the saz – i.e. a tanbur family instrument in the form it has acquired in Asia Minor. Ross Daly describes the efforts to resurrect the tambourás:
"In recent years there has been much talk in various music high schools, educational institutions, schools of music and so-called conservatoires about an instrument mentioned in Greek history, called tambourás. The instrument has not survived to this day. There's been no ongoing tradition since ancient times that, as they say, the tambourás originates.(e) We can find old Byzantine theoreticians' descriptions, folkloric descriptions, or references in books, we know more or less how it was tuned, what its form was; but we have never listened to it live.
"There is an instrument played in Turkey that is considered closely related to the tambourás: it's the saz. Some say it is one and the same instrument. First of all, it is not – and this can be clearly shown by a simple comparison of the two instruments. Moreover, the style, the music an instrument plays, its construction – everything – are all in one. You cannot separate one thing from the other.
"What we have now as a result is a whole army of young people who have learned how to play the saz in recent years not through some kind of training or tradition, but completely self-taught and offhand. They present themselves as tambourás masters though it's obvious they have not the slightest idea. People here know nothing about the saz, tambur, ney, not even the oud, although the Greeks have participated in the development of Anatolian culture. There have been numerous excellent Greek oud players; the best example may have been Yorgo Bacanós [Badjanós], the leading oud player in Istanbul in the mid-20th century: every Turkish oud player now drinks water to him. But, unfortunately, this tradition did not take root in Greece and there was no follow-up.
"After this tradition had died out for some decades, with the revival of rebetiko in the early 70s, and even more around the 80s when people became interested in the Smyrnaic style,(f) every bouzouki player bought an oud, as well; and started tinkering with it as if playing a bouzouki. This is one thing; another thing is to be initiated in the living tradition of this instrument in Turkey or Arabia where the oud is played now.
"I cannot consider all these bouzouki players that were suddenly interested in the oud as successors of the tradition carried by Bacanós, Agapios Tomboules, Lambros [Leontarides], the lyra player, or Lambros [Sabbaides], the qanun player. All these musicians carried a living tradition but, unfortunately, while they were alive, no one was interested in it; that's why they left no successors.
"One could say, of course, that the tambourás survived in Crete through Stelios Foustalieris' bulgarí. Yet, Foustalieris changed completely his instrument; and was seriously influenced mainly through his contact with rebetiko. Foustalieris' playing may be helpful; but it's not enough to revive an entire tradition. Let's utilize whatever we have at our disposal; but without all that nationalist hot air specifically about this instrument that has become a symbol: 'the tabourás of Makryiannes!' Some persons use it like a gun"…
Crete's exchange with Constantinople and Smyrna, as well as with the wider area of Anatolia and the Balkans, was continuous until the Asia Minor catastrophe of 1922. That's how several tunes, and also the bulgarí, an instrument closely resembling the cura (tzurá), arrived there. But which cura? Here, too, the terms are confusing. The tzurás for the Greeks is the middle-sized instrument of the three that make up the bouzouki triad, while the smallest of the family is the Lilliputian baglamás, a typical prison instrument: due to its size it can be easily hidden. However, the smallest of the Anatolian tanburs is not the bağlama but the cura! Quite a mess-up…
Different terms, it's obvious, indicate differences not only in terms of dimensions, construction in general, but also as to the origin of either the instruments or their users. Settling in Anatolia, the Turks should have had instruments of the tanbur family, as we can presume based on the origin of these terms. But the peoples of Asia Minor had already been using similar instruments, such as the pandura, since time immemorial: at least since the time of the Hittites and the Assyrians. The tanburs, therefore, have been autochthonous there and their tradition has been Anatolian rather than Turkish (Central Asian)(g).
We tend to forget this fact as we are under the impression that the erudite Constantinopolitan tradition's origin, on the one hand, has been Arabo-Persian (and Byzantine, of course, but we also forget!) and, on the other hand, that the Anatolian folk music is "purely Turkish"… Would you expect anything else? It's more than obvious that these advocates of "purity" – in sound and also race – are a global phenomenon. If in this case the "purists" are Turks, OK (so to speak). But what if they are foreigners?
"At the court of the Ottoman sultans", said Alain Gheerbrant, who recorded and released songs by Âşık Veysel, "the official arts were so encumbered by flowery Arabo-Persian art poetry as to become less and less understandable to the common people. At the same time, the ashiks, often illiterate itinerant folk poets, maintained a tradition of poetry in song on Turkish soil. Since the 12th century, their poetry, worded in rigorous language and free of foreign influences, could be heard from the shores of the Mediterranean as far away as China.
"The Ottoman Empire disappeared; the popular tradition did not. Although there may no longer be any ashiks in Khorasan, they are still present in Anatolia. Âşık Veysel was not only the most brilliant of them all, he was also one of the greatest contemporary poets of the Turkish language. The tradition from which he drew his inspiration dates from the great semi-legendary figures of yesteryear, such as Yunus Emre (13th century) and Pir Sultan or Kaygusuz Abdal (16th century). His work shall remain, alongside that of his predecessors, in the collective memory of the rural peoples of Anatolia.
"His influence is also plain to see elsewhere, for the 'Kemalist' revolution has placed Turkey on the road to recovering its identity. A reconciliation was needed for that to take place: for the literate to abnegate their caste, set apart by jealousy, and recognize and hear the illiterate élites. Today's Turkey has reached that understanding: one needs only to open a novel by Yaşar Kemal or view a few scenes from a Yilmaz Güney film to understand that Âşık Veysel, the aged, sightless bard, opened the eyes of all contemporary thinkers and artists, those who have carried the voice of their people beyond their nation's borders eliminating the barrier of misunderstandings, preconceptions, and platitudes that impede all positive interaction between cultures.
"Veysel, like all the ashiks, was of the Alevi–Bektashi faith, and therefore voluntarily alien to the rigid code of the Sunni Muslims. His philosophy, a fusion of the wisdom of the ancient Greeks of Asia Minor and the generous warmth of his Central Asian ancestors, was one of tolerance and freedom. He preached unity, understanding, and equality between all men and women, based on a religion that was turned inwards towards the earth, rather than outwards towards the sky…"
What a "flowery" garden… Had we not known Turkey, we would have thought it's a heavenly land of the angels! Was the French researcher really serious, or did he tell one white lie after the other winking meaningfully at us? After all, why should he mention two prominent Kurds, such as Yaşar Kemal and Yilmaz Güney, who were jailed by the "'Kemalist' revolution"? And they were not the only ones. The most important persons of arts and letters in Turkey have been treated collectively as subversive elements. Let alone how the Sunni state dealt with Alevis and Bektashis.(h) What is the use of such texts, except perhaps to serve diplomacy and personal gain?
One would expect that the Balkan leaders would take advantage of the Sunni-Bektashi conflicts, given that the vast majority of the Balkan Muslims have been Bektashis. Yet, acting stupidly, they too turned against them…
Let's go back to the tríchordon-pandura and its long history in Asia Minor. There is ample evidence that instruments of the tanbur family have been played by Anatolians since very ancient times. Christian Poché says:
"Asia Minor was from earliest antiquity the favoured land of the long-necked lute, as shown by the Hittite archaeological finds… Long before Arabic Spain, this geographical area served as a link between Orient and Occident, and as such transmitted through the ages these types of long-necked lutes that in classical Europe gave birth to the pandura, colascione, mandora…
"In Turkey, these lutes take on different names according to their dimensions, the populations who use them and the way they use them. The Turkmen term Baglama or Baglamaq, literally 'tying' (of strings around an instrument) is the one found most often, as opposed to the other widespread term, Saz, a Persian word which designates the music, the act of playing it on any instrument, especially the long-necked lute. A third term, of probable Indo-Iranian origin, also serves in support of the musical vocabulary: tambura.(i) Like the preceding ones, it designates a fretted instrument of six strings in pairs, whose terminology finds more favour among the Kurdish populations."
With the exception of the Kurds, by the way, the term tanbur is avoided in Turkey in relation to this long-necked lute because a related but very different instrument, called tambur, is used in the erudite Arabo-Persian music of Constantinople. There are two variants of this instrument: plucked (the older version) or bowed (yayli tambur), depending on the way it is played – with a plectrum or a bow. In Greece, of course, the term baglama in relation to the same long-necked lute is also avoided for the same reason, so as not to be confused with that well-known homonymous small instrument, the bouzouki's little brother.
Unfortunately, the etymology of the terms relating to the several variants of the tanbur does not explain what the origin of the word bulgarí may be. If we exclude the possibility of a Bulgarian origin,(j) there must be only one alternative: the word vulgar, referring to the common people, the "lower" classes – something "debased". This possibility, together with the characterization of the Greek demotic as "vulgar", shows how class, racist, or sexist language may sometimes be – well, not language but man, the one who uses it…
Anyway, that "vulgar" bulgarí played by Foustalieris, together with the instruments used by Iannes Eidjirides (or Etseirides), the famous Iovan Tsaous, have been the only kinds of tambourás that Greek discography managed to record. But what a pity! These instruments seem to have little in common with those played by fighters of the Greek War of Independence: the bulgarí is a Cretan peculiarity, while Iovan Tsaous' instruments have been Anatolian – hence unsuitable in the attempt to restore the Greek tambourás and its sound.
Iovan Tsaous, i.e. Sergeant John, was born in Pontus and worked with famous musicians and singers, playing even in the Sultan's Court, as they say. On the contrary, when he fled to Greece after the catastrophe of '22, "he never played on stage because he seemed to disagree with the way the musicians functioned: he remained an 'edutainer' of his friends."(k) At least this is what Panaiotes Kounades says; which means that he did not like at all the role of an entertainer, as he was used to a different situation in Asia Minor where musicians functioned otherwise:
"Arabo-Perso-Turkish music," the qanun player Nikos Stephanides said, "was performed in earlier times by musicians playing saz, bouzouki and tambourines in folk songs; while serious music was performed by an ensemble called ince saz (fine instruments) consisting of the following: tambur (pandura), psalterium [psaltery] – qanun in Greek, Arabic and Turkish – violin, oud, ney (reed flute). The ensembles had singers called hanendes. They had fine voices and played tabors – tambourines – keeping the various rhythms of the melodies being performed.
"When the ensemble played and the hanende sang, everyone was silent in the venue. Even the waiters did not move from their positions. Only during the breaks when the ensemble stopped playing, the public discussed or ordered the waiters whatever they wished for. If they wanted the ensemble to play a song, they put a card with the order and a corresponding tip inside an envelope, and the waiter carried it to the artists so as to perform the piece he wanted. Such was the order inside the venues, which in those old times were equipped neither with loudspeakers nor with amplifiers and, although the musicians played with a natural sound, the audience were able to listen even in the large venues where they oftentimes numbered more than 500-1000 persons because they were completely silent"…
When you are accustomed to such an environment – playing high standards music with such partners and in front of such audience – how is it possible to restrict yourself to the role of an entertainer? Iovan Tsaous, therefore, chose to open a… tailor's shop, which he later turned into an ouzo tavern, playing for his pleasure and not for the entertainment of the patrons of an establishment. Luckily, he met Panaiotes Tountas, the greatest composer of the Smyrnaic style, and artistic director of phonographic companies; so he recorded a number of his own songs and some other compositions, mainly by Tountas. These few recordings (about twenty all in all) took place in just two years, 1935-36, because when the Metaxas dictatorship imposed censorship on lyrics and music (and music!), Iovan Tsaous abandoned the idea to continue, as some others did, as well, such as Vangelis Papázoglou, Giorgos Batis, and Anestis (Artemis) Deliás.
But anyway, less is more: these moments in the studio – however few – reflect the virtuosity of the musician who became a teacher of the Piraeotic rebetiko protagonists: Batis, Deliás, Markos Bambakares, Stratos Paioumtzés – the "Famous Quartet of Piraeus". They learned from him the names and techniques of the musical "routes" (modes), the art of improvisation (taqsim), and also the several tunings, the düzenia. All the above, combined with his unusual personal style and "eccentric" instruments that were difficult to play (at least for the bouzouki players of rebetiko), created a myth around the name of Iovan Tsaous.
In modern Greece, unfortunately, the musicians have had no way out from the stranglehold of the entertainment circuit (clubs, festivals, etc). That is, there has been no parallel "edutainment" circuit on a professional basis. In Andalusia, on the contrary, at least until the 60s, there was such a circuit for flamenco artists. Up to the latest development of the genre into concert and theatrical flamenco,(l) these artists were divided into two major categories: on the one hand, the commercial entertainers worked mainly in tablaos, and on the other, the authentic "edutainers" were employed in juergas, the revelries organized by flamenco aficionados.
There's been no way out from the stranglehold of the entertainment circuit: there is no parallel circuit…
The other traditional tambourás master, Stelios Foustalieris or Foustalierakis, together with his regular partner, the excellent singer Iannes Bernidakis or Baxevanis, belonged to the large batch of musicians and singers who appeared in Rethymno during the interwar period. At that time, the instruments accompanying the lyra were the bulgarí and mandolin, according to Lambros Liavas. They were later replaced by the laouto. Foustalieris, however, managed to turn bulgarí into a solo instrument and worked with two Anatolian musicians playing the oud and santur. They were among those who sought refuge in the island after the catastrophe of '22. So they should have imparted to him music elements from the instrument's original cradle. Unfortunately, there are no recordings from this collaboration.
Later he came into direct contact with the sound of the Piraeotic rebetiko. It was during the period of 1933-37 when he lived in Piraeus and also met Batis, Markos, Stratos and other musicians of rebetiko, as well as Tountas, with whom, of course, he collaborated in discography. But here too the output was meagre: just 24 discs.
We certainly wonder if the two tambourás masters, Iovan Tsaous and Foustalieris, finally met; if there was some exchange of knowledge and experience. Having so many acquaintances in common, one would expect that this meeting did happen. However, there's no available information about it.
Iovan Tsaous died 49 years old, in 1942, during the German occupation that "wiped out" the majority of the élite of Greek musicians and singers: the Anatolian refugees. Apparently they failed to go through a second calvary so soon. On the contrary, Foustalieris passed away fifty years later, in 1992, when he was 81. Being… "the last of the Mohicans" among the very few traditional masters of tambourás, we assume that he attracted the attention of the authorities. This would have happened in almost any other country; not in Greece…
While Foustalieris was still alive, in 1987, I had a discussion on the radio with Sakis Papademetriou and Ross Daly – who concluded the conversation as follows:
"Crete, compared perhaps with other parts of Greece, somehow maintains its tradition in a better shape, in the sense that it is renewed. But because there have been neither significant studies on music nor recordings, each passing decade brings terrible losses. In the few years that I'm there, I've met old musicians who in the meantime have died and with them many archives have been lost. There are very few now left.
"Foustalieris, the last bulgarí player, is still alive. He's around 75, but no one has gone there with a tape recorder to tell him: 'Play – and stop when you get tired!' However, no private individual can do such a thing because Foustalieris will be afraid he'll be exploited. In such cases, an official agency can easily surpass any problems and Foustalieris, as a man with an old mentality, will warmly respond. At least something like that, now that there is still time"…
- >> Voyage 7. THE… "SUN-LANGUAGE"
- << Voyage 5. A HYBRID'S HYBRIS…
● Time's passed, Foustalieris has died, the rest of the masters follow, but there have been no recordings – an undertaking of minimal expense. "Hellas, the eternal"…
● On second dispassionate thought, I wonder whether – as a daydreamer – I ask "too much" from a country that has not given a damn about the essence of Makryiannis' Memoirs. Why then should they care about the way he used to play his tambourás? Let alone about Foustalieris and his bulgarí…
● Thus, our only hope is to see the fulfillment of a verse, albeit paraphrased, of a most beautiful old song, Staphidianós, played superbly by Foustalieris on his bulgarí, having beside him an amazing Baxevanis:
"The good old Foustalieris song, will never fade away"…


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Pictured below: "Woodblock" placemats & napkins (left) and "Gate" coasters (right):
Pictured below: "Mosaic" placemats & napkins in "Lake" (also available in "Sun")
Click here to check out ALL of the available DwellStudio tabletop products.
Also – here's a small sampling of the other types of great kitchen and table products available at Cherry & East. They somehow managed to get all my favorite brands into one place…it's a little overwhelming – it a GOOD way! =)
• Post a comment here telling us which product(s) from the Cherry & East website you especially love!
• Giveaway ends Monday, August 10th at midnight PST. Winner is chosen randomly and will be notified Tuesday, August 11th and announced here as soon as they accept the prize. Good luck!!
436 responses to "SURPRISE GIVEAWAY: Cherry & East"
I love the Aviary & Gate lines of linens- I wonder how they would look paired together?
I'm in love with all things red and lime green! I especially adore the following pieces from Cherry & East: gate sun placemat, rio samba runner, and charteuse tea towel set.
I love those salt and pepper shakers!
I love love love Kanteleen Tea Towel Set :) It makes my eyes happy. The designs patterns and colors are perfect. I also love the Utopia collection. Sweet and sophisticated.
I love the thicket – saffron bedding set! It looks so luxurious!
I love the Gate Java Placemat. What an easy way to dress up your table!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new gate pattern… especially the grey & yellow combo… it's so modern and very in right now!
Love the Gate Java lines and bird salt and pepper shakers very chic!
What a great site! From Cherry & East I love: Mosaic Sun Cocktail Napkin Set, the Bird Cage Placemats, the Frosting hostess apron, Penguin Salt & Pepper set….I could go on forever I think! I love it all :D
I love the bird placemats and the bright turquoise and red apron. It was all beautiful. I'm going to be checking out Cherry and East often!
I am loving the grey & yellow gate pattern. It's just what I've been looking for to go with the graphite colorwave china we received at our wedding.
OMG, what don't I want. . .!! I have white place settings and love anything bold to go with them. I like:
Neema Table Runner
Neema Placemats & Napkins
but then I like the woodblock b/c I love the black and white together.
& the aprons & mits! UGH, love em' all!!
i think I just got addicted to another site!
I love the Thicket napkin and placemat set!
I adore the bright yellow design on the Fleur Grande Table Runner – it would look fabulous on my dark mahogany dining room table!
Okay I lied… I really like their art work too! Especially the Aqua Fria… I think I'm going to buy ASAP!
I would Love Love Love the Dwell's "Gate" pattern… available in Sun! Its so stinking cute! :-)
I love the Rugs…especially the damask in brown and cream and flock in corn and cream
I love the Gate Java collection! Super nice =)
Love the birds of a feather napkin rings, and the Fleur Grande Runner is to SO pretty.
I love all the variety! I'd have to go with the wite photo frames. love how decorative they are!


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Coupon enthusiasts share their knowledge
In today's shaky economy, everybody's looking to save money.
Americans are investing less and often holding off on large purchases. Many people, however, do not realize how putting forth the time and effort to save small amounts of money here and there can add up to huge savings. Shannon Sims and Melanie Bucks have mastered this practice.
The two have joined the ranks of money savers throughout the country who have taken up what some call "extreme couponing." The huge trend, depicted on TLC's "Extreme Couponing," often involves spending hours to find, clip and organize coupons and then comparing prices and looking for specials in stores to combine with coupons.
The amount of money these people save might be surprising.
"People often can't wrap their heads around how much you can save by using coupons," said Bucks, who works as a physician's assistant at Family Practice and is a mother of three.
But this kind of savings is not achieved without taking the time to figure out a system and putting in a lot of work. "It takes patience," said Sims, who is a mother of two and works in the technology industry. Sims and Bucks have become proficient at this process, and they decided to share their knowledge with others. That's when they started giving couponing classes and started the group Saline Savings.
Classes are usually $10 a person, and the participants are provided food, drinks and informative literature — put together by Sims and Bucks — on couponing. The attendees go home with pages of coupons and sometimes free products.
"It's a lot of fun," Bucks said.
Saline Savings is a Facebook page that gives local shoppers a forum to share ideas and see what deals are out there. For example, someone might share tips on how to get free toothpaste, Sims said.
Group members also share their shopping success stories. Heidi Lutman, for example, posted how she spent $180.10 and saved $126.86 while shopping that day.
People post questions for Sims and Bucks about how to save money.
And the two are a beacon of knowledge when it comes to the subject. They have a seemingly endless list of tips. "There's certain things you should never pay for or pay very minimal for," Sims said.
Sims recommends you start with one section at a time. "It can be overwhelming at first," she said. She started in the beauty aisle, figuring out how to stack manufacturers coupons with store coupons and how to hold onto coupons to wait for the items to go on sale. "Then expand your horizons and work out a system."
Most people have probably seen these coupon lovers browsing the aisles of Walmart or Kroger with large binders and stacks of sales papers in tow.They often buy items in bulk and end up paying little for items or getting them for free. Sometimes they are paid money to take things out of the store.
Sims said she recently found contacts at a reduced price at Walmart. She bought the contacts and, after applying the $4 coupon she had found in the paper, she was actually paid money back for the purchase.
At Kroger earlier this week, Sims saved $151.85 off an original ticket of about $353, or 43 percent of her final bill. She accomplished this with $57.84 in manufacturer's coupons, $6.85 in bonus coupons and $87.16 of savings because from her Kroger card.
At Walmart, she didn't pay for razors or dental floss, Sims said. She also reduced her $117.76 grocery bill down to $63.19, saving $54.57 by using coupons and ad matching. Walmart will match any advertised price. In their classes, Sims and Bucks teach people how to incorporate this into their savings strategy.
The day she went to Kroger and Walmart, clipping coupons took Sims about three or four hours. "It's worth it when you're paying 40 cents for mustard, as opposed to $2.30. That's when you stockpile," she said.
Sims has a list of what to stock up on different times of the year, based on what the stores generally have reduced prices on.
The Saline Savings women are happy to share their knowledge and are willing to help in any way they can. Sims has accompanied friends to Walgreens on their shopping trips. Recently, she loaned a friend her coupon books so she could see how they were organized. Then she went with her to the store to teach her how to put it all into action.
If Sims and Bucks can't answer a question, they will probably know where to find the answer. There are plenty of resources out there, two of the most popular being Thekrazycouponlady.com and Coupondivas.com. O ther Facebook groups have a similar theme, including I Heart the Mart, which focuses on how to save money at Walmart.


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When the Tottenham chairman, Daniel Levy, played hardball last summer, by jutting his jaw out to withstand Chelsea's heavyweight attempt to gain Luka Modric, he was applauded for his strong will in difficult circumstances. Now he is playing a different kind of hardball, with internal issues on the line. Levy has acted with steely swiftness in sacking Harry Redknapp. This time, the reaction is a little more mixed.
For all the debate about the motivation for closing this particular chapter, the timing of such a gamble for Tottenham is strange. It has taken them decades to plant their flag in the Champions League (and but for Chelsea's victory they would have been in the shake-up in two out of the past three seasons). Their stock in terms of globally admired players has not been higher since the days of Paul Gascoigne and Gary Lineker. It feels like a risky time to be rolling the managerial dice.
With such a lot going on away from the pitch at White Hart Lane, it is important for Tottenham to keep their footing in the top echelons of the game. The redevelopment of their stadium – a must if the club intend to stick around at the top table in English football – is an ongoing issue that will take considerable time and expense to come to fruition. Tottenham need to find some financial partners, which is one of the reasons they delisted their shares recently, as they believe they have a greater chance of finding investors away from the stock exchange.
The Northumberland Development Project, whereby the club rebuild the ground on its current site to add another 20,000 to their current capacity of 36,000, was given planning permission in 2011. It remains an enormous undertaking, though, and raising the funds to make it happen during a recession is not an enviable task. As yet, there is no date for the building to start.
Joe Lewis, the billionaire owner of Enic, the company who control the club, has never been minded to act like a sugar daddy so there is no reason to believe he will now. Lewis, who lives in the Bahamas and has no visible presence at the club, trusts his protege Levy to run the business as he sees fit.
Back in the 1980s, before football's economic boom, Spurs were at the vanguard when it came to ideas for making football more marketable and commercial. They were among the first clubs to float on the stock exchange. They diversified into leisurewear and computer systems. They constructed what at the time were a row of executive boxes that offered comfort bearing no relation to the basic matchday experience. When Irving Scholar was chairman of the club, Tottenham were prime movers when it came to finding new ways to generate money.
But Tottenham have clearly fallen behind in the race to maximise resources. While White Hart Lane remains in its current form, there is a limit to what they can realistically aspire to. What they have done well in the past few years is put together a team on a wage bill that is enviably small compared to the Manchester clubs, Chelsea and Arsenal, and make that group punch above its weight. Maintaining this will be the challenge for a new manager.
There is some discontent in the stands at White Hart Lane on the subject of Levy's tight grip on the club's purse strings. While keeping hold of Modric last year looked like ambition, the bigger picture is still uncertain.
And so ends an era of relative stability. Redknapp's reign, lasting almost four seasons, is the longest period of any manager since Terry Venables moved upstairs in 1991. Levy's latest chop makes it 18 changes in the dugout in 21 years. Is it a coincidence that a long period with one manager, by Spurs standards, has contributed to some high Premier League positions?
Tottenham can ill afford for this decision to backfire.


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I'm using a MOSFET(UPA2792AGR). Please tell me about the turnoff delay time (td(off)) and the shutdown time of the actual MOSFET. According to the specs in the datasheet, the gate to source cutoff voltage is typ -1.7 V (min -1.0 V) and td(off) is 130 ns. In our actual measurements, there is an over 300 ns delay to turn-off after the gate to source voltage (Vgs) rises to -1.0 V. Sufficient input current is supplied. What could be causing the increased delay?
The measuring conditions for td(off) in the datasheet are as follows.
Measuring conditions: RG = 0 Ω, VGS = -10 V, VDD = -15 V, ID = -5 A
If different measuring conditions are used, the value of td(off) will differ. For example, if RG is higher, td(off) will be longer. Likewise, if the value of VGS, VDD, or ID is different, there will also be an effect.
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BC airport gets 2011 award
The Barnes County Municipal Airport on the southern edge of Valley City has received the "2011 General Aviation Airport of the Year" award, said Tim Thorsen, president of the Airport Association of N.D.
The award was presented by the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission.
The award was presented March 6 at the Upper Midwest Aviation Symposium held in Bismarck. The award is sponsored by the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission in conjunction with the Airport Association of N.D.
This award is for excellence in maintaining safety, project management, and community awareness.
Presenting the award was Tim Thorsen, President of the Airport Association of N.D., and Larry Taborsky, Executive Director of North Dakota Aeronautics Commission. Airport Authority Chairman Dennis Helland, Steve Nielson, Tim Logan and clerk Lori Jury accepted the award for the airport.
"It was quite an honor," Jury said Thursday.
Jury said the airport has been receiving forms to nominate an airport for the award for years. "This year the state airport authority asked me why we hadn't submitted a form before. They encouraged me to submit one. Airports have to toot their own horns."
Along with airport accomplishments listed on the award, Jury said the airport's flight school is also very successful with 19 students this year.
Accomplishments for the airport noted for 2011 were:
The airport's main project for the year was a concrete reconstruction of their 4,200 foot primary runway that was completed on Oct. 29.
In addition to this runway, a new runway lighting system was installed and many of the airport signs had been updated. Wireless internet and digital television improvements were made to the terminal lounge area and refreshments are now available for guests of the airport.
The Airport Authority also took an active role this past year by providing fuel for events which provided free airplane rides for the community and awarded an aviation grant to the Valley City Flying Club to help start up flight instruction through the local state university.
The Authority also sponsored a social noon luncheon and two Aviation Safety Seminars. Plans are currently in the works to have the airport host a Wings and Wheels AirShow that will take place on Sept. 8.
Said Jury, "I'm excited about the air show. It will be a lot of work to do."
Said Thorsen, "The Barnes County Municipal Airport is congratulated for a tremendous year of accomplishments."


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A successful season that produced an Intermountain Conference title and spawned hope for playoff success came to a disappointing end Wednesday for Bend High.
Willamette pitcher Alyssa Gayle struck out just two Bend batters, but the host Lava Bears struggled to find the holes in the Wolverines' defense and fell 8-1 in the first round of the Class 5A softball state playoffs.
"We felt confident that we could put the bat on the ball," Bend coach Wade Kinkade said. "And we did that today. We just didn't get rewarded for it."
Willamette, the No. 10 seed in the 16-team bracket, jumped to an early lead in the first inning against No. 7 seed Bend, generating three runs on two hits.
With a runner on first in the fourth inning, the Lava Bears' Awbrie Elle Kinkade ripped an RBI double to close the margin to 3-1.
"We prepared for this pitcher," said Lisa Sylvester, Bend's senior catcher and the IMC player of the year. "We knew she was going to be fast. We put the ball in play, and they only got two strikeouts. They just came to play today. I mean, everyone comes to play, but they had the better game."
IMC pitcher of the year Megan Berrigan and the Lava Bear defense managed to hold the Wolverines from Eugene in check until the fifth inning.
But that's when Willamette broke it open, scoring one run on an error, another on a single, and three on a home run by Heidi Hall.
"We played great," Wolverine coach Darren Hatefi said. "The offense was on top of everything right at the beginning. Great pitching and the defense support kept them off the bases, which really makes it so much easier. Then our bats were just awesome. First inning we got a nice cushion then just came alive in the (fifth)."
Willamette (16-8) advances to a quarterfinal game Friday at Hood River Valley.
In addition to Awbrie Elle Kinkade's early double, the Lava Bears got singles from Kendall Kramer, Mariah Buckner, Alexis Hill-Gruenberg and Sylvester.
"I think we put the bat on the ball," Wade Kinkade said, noting that it is rare for a team to strike out just two times all game and only score one run.
"But that's the way it worked out today," he said. "We did hit some balls hard too, just right at them."
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Man dies of injuries sustained in weekend crash
Man dies of injuries sustained in weekend crash
WATERBURY, Vt. —
Vermont State Police say a man involved in a crash on Interstate 89 over the weekend has died.
Police say 38-year-old Brian German of Warren died Wednesday evening,
Authorities say he was driving south in the northbound lane of the interstate on Saturday at about 3:20 a.m. when his vehicle collided with a northbound tractor trailer truck in Waterbury.
German was taken Fletcher Allen Health Care where he died four days later. The driver of the truck was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
The investigation into the cause of the crash is continuing. Police are asking anyone who may have information to contact Trooper Amber Haag at the State Police barracks in Middlesex.