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Volleyball is a tough sport to practice by yourself, but there are ways to make it work. One of these ways is to make best friends with a wall.
Make sure this wall:
- Is not next to a room that needs to be quiet (baby's room, office, etc…)
- Doesn't have shelves on it or the other side. Breaking things is bad.
- No windows either…
- Has a higher ceiling. Low could work, but high would be better.
- The room shouldn't have many breakable things in it either. TVs, lights, Grandma's favorite vase…
Basically, make sure you're not going to break anything. If you break something, it's your own fault. Ask your parents if it's OK before you do any of these.
APPROACH DRILL: OK, now that you're all set, one of the drills I like to do is practice my approach. Give yourself some space, and just go over your footwork and arm-swing. A jump is fine, but not necessary. If you hit with your right hand, your three-step-approach should go "left, right left." This video shows how to do your approach if you're not sure. Step with the opposite feet if you're hitting with your left hand.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The merger of Publicis and Omnicom will boost adjusted earnings per share, and the new group will maintain its BBB+ credit rating, the head of the French ad group told a news conference on Sunday.
Maurice Levy added that he did not expect resistance to the deal from the French government.
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Bruceport Pioneer Cemetery
Pacific County, Washington
Contributed by T Sheldon, Aug 23, 2000 [firstname.lastname@example.com ]. Total records = 8.
Transcribed by T Sheldon, proofread by Gavin Vincent, this 12th day of May, 2000.Location: Under the water. Used to be at the base of a hill overlooking the Willapa Bay, but erosion washed the whole Islet into the bay. Bruceport is now gone and belongs to the minds of the aged. It would be nice to tell you that I saw this cemetery, but that I cannot do. I can tell you that as a kid I visited the three mile strip of land that went out to Bruceport. I remember cabins and small houses, a few small farms and an orchard. All were taken by winter storms through the years. The cemetery was bought from J.R.Champ D.L.R. #38. It was a small plot of a farmer's land, and was difficult to locate. By the mid 1960's there were only a couple of stones left. From other records, I have listed what I found. BRADY, Ann, d. 30 Nov 1863, age 51y 5m, w/o Charles BRADY, m/o Lucy, was widowed by John P. PAULDING, m. BRADY in 1862
BRADY, Charles, d. 3 May 1881
BRADY, Sarah, no dates
MARSHALL, Paddy, no dates, his boat wrecked at Snag Island (near Bruceport) and he drowned.
MILLER, James, no dates
POPE, John N., b. 2 Nov 1828, d. 2 Nov 1868, h/o Catherine, f/o 5 daughters, hanged himself because he had so many girl children and no boys
STREITHOFF, Eliza (VASHTI), no dates, b. 1799 VT, m1. RHOADES, m2. McCLAIN
UNKNOWN, It is said that there are quite a few indians buried here.
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In today's world, it is vitally important that you try and do everything that you can to avoid getting fired from the job. With so many job seekers out there looking for work, you know just how important your job is to you and it could be your own source of income. Remember, anyone can find themselves fired and out of a job, even for no good reason, but, there are a few things that you can try to do to fall victim to the ax.
The number one thing that you can do if you don't want to end up on the pink slip list, make sure that you get to work early every single day. Even if you are occasionally late it can give you black marks on your record and if you make it a habit to be late, even just a couple of minutes late, can really look bad on your work record. It's recommended that you try to get to work about 15 minutes early each day. This will also help you get ready for the day ahead.
Make sure that you get plenty of sleep the night before work. The last thing you want to do is come to work extremely tired and sleepy. Worst of all you don't want the chance of maybe even nodding off during a lull in work when you might find yourself bored and with nothing to do. Also if you don't get enough sleep it can impair your ability to perform efficiently as well. And this will be noticed by your employer.
Try not to sit around and talk a lot to others while you are working. A lot of times that can lead to less work production and will make your boss think that you are not doing your work. Even if you are busy at work it can still give off the appearance that you aren't. This doesn't mean you can't be friendly but you just need to remember that the busier you look the better you will look to your employer.
If you are not allowed to eat at your desk, don't do it. Make sure that you eat a good breakfast before work and that you either bring a good lunch and something for your breaks so that you can avoid getting hungry during the time that you should be working.
Cell phones also might be an issue. A lot of companies prefer that you leave them off while you are working so make sure that you follow this rule and don't have it and don't use it while you are working. There should be no problems with you using it on your breaks and lunch however.
When you are working on something that has a deadline set, your boss expects that you will get this project done at that time. So make sure that you are able to meet his expectations. Even if you have to perhaps ask someone to do something of yours that is not as important if they have time so that you can meet the deadline. Whatever you do, don't come up short and have only excuses why you didn't get the job done.
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Sketches of cute sheep.
A sheep and lamb or two from our neighbors camp. If all goes well and I can convince my husband with my sweet puppy eyes, I might just have my own cute lambs this spring!
…Sheep and lambs 1…
pencil, pen and watercolor in Daler Rowney sketchbook CP, 254x178cm
…Sheep and lambs 2..
pencil, pen and watercolor in Daler Rowney sketchbook CP, 254x178cm
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lovely loose sketches Ronelle and I love the chickens at the top of your blog even more!
January 31, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Lovely loose lines; whimsical colors. Nice…
January 31, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Tes poules sont belles aussi..J'adore!I think I recognize them:)
I have spotted sheep here and will photo soon..
Love their expressions..You caught them spot on!
January 31, 2012 at 10:45 pm
These paintings are charming! There are many new baby lambs in the fields near where I live, too. It's cold and wet in Oregon right now, not the best time for a farm animal to enter the world. I hope their wool coats keep the babies warm.
February 1, 2012 at 2:48 am
I can hear them baa-ing from your painting 🙂 Perfect expressions on their faces!
February 1, 2012 at 3:53 am
Oh, I am sure if you flutter your eyes at him, you will have those sheep. I love those chickens in your banner! Such great stuff. I am in love with these farm animals. Now all I need is a farm! 🙂
February 1, 2012 at 5:25 am
Gorgeous sheep, lamb and chickens – I can imagine sitting there next to you as you sketch. I hope you get your little flock – flutter, flutter!
February 1, 2012 at 7:16 am
I love these… the colours and topic remind me of Easter.
February 1, 2012 at 11:58 am
I love sheep. I can see why you are tempted. Such good sketches.
February 1, 2012 at 3:14 pm
I love the free way with which you apply colours! I wish I could do it like that!!
February 2, 2012 at 8:38 am
I like how you did these so loosely!!! Good job! I saw on Facebook that you had a bit of snow. The weather over there has been a bit strange. Hope you get a chance to paint it.
February 6, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Oh, so pretty! That sheep looks cute and your sketches are just perfect.
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Effing Pumped About Michigan Football Right Now
Is anyone else wildly optimistic? I look at the secondary, the linebackers, the d-line--and I'm pumped. I look at our QB, our newly-dedicated (and highly touted) RBs, and I'm pumped. I see wide receivers with big time talent, and I'm nearly bursting. I see a schedule that should be relatively easy on the O-line (ND's line is pretty young), giving them time to mature until things get nasty, and I just can't wait anymore. I'm thinking 9 wins, at least. I'm thinking this year Michigan beats Ohio. I'm thinking that if we had State at home, I'd guarantee a win.
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Nearly 25 years after his "Nomads" series, American artist and photographer Andres Serrano chose to use the homeless as the focus of his work again, but this time he shot them in their own environment instead of in a studio.
The "Residents of New York" portrait series shines a light on the actively ignored population of people who live in the city but lack a physical address. Instead of existing in a gallery where people can pretend to care about the faces in the work, Serrano is displaying them publicly on the street, on phone booths, and in various Manhattan subway stations. Check out the project video below and head to moreart.org for more information.
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And now, a short poetic interlude dedicated to the late George Orwell, author of 1984, a book which was never meant to be an instructional manual. I call this poem: "For America's Utmost Safety".
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Gaea was a primal Greek goddess, one of the deities that governed the universe before the Titans. She symbolised the Earth, and was the mother of everything.
According to one version, Gaea, along with Chaos and Eros, coexisted during the creation of the world. Another version has it that the three of them were born out of the Cosmic Egg, which itself was created out of nothingness. Hesiod then tells us that from the union of Gaea and Chaos - and supported by Eros - Uranus was born. Gaea and Uranus gave birth to the Giants, the Titans, Oceanus and the whole world. At that point, Uranus decided to stop Gaea from creating anything else and sent his children inside her; Gaea was infuriated and allied with one of her Titan sons, Cronus, managing to overthrow Uranus. However, due to the cruelty of Cronus and his determination to remain on the throne, Gaea assisted Zeus in overthrowing Cronus, which marked the end of the age of the Titans.
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"I can't imagine what's in the box," Chloe said as we drove home from our appointment with Doc Albert.
"Maybe it's a bottle of pills or vitamins," I suggested.
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Chloe had a point. Judging from the way Mom and Dad were looking at each other, I knew they were stumped, too.
Samuel Saarinen of Shelbyville, a senior at the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky at WKU, has been recognized as a semifinalist in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program.
More than 1.5 million students entered the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Students are tested in math, critical reasoning and writing. The 16,000 Semifinalists honored are the highest-scoring entrants in their state and represent less than 1 percent of each state's high school seniors.
Jennifer Gilbert and Meredith Cook, both of Shelbyville, received the Masters of Arts degrees in education, with an emphasis in reading and writing, in the August graduating class at the University of the Cumberlands.
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•Nicole Pottinger, daughter of Tamara and Ronald Pottinger of Simpsonville and a graduate of Collins High School
Miranda Maier, Marysa Maier and Blake Ellis were putting together an air foil in the aerospace engineering class at Collins High School. The propeller should spin and lift the object off the table. Blake attached a chain to gears and removed a link because there was too much slack. A finished product will demonstrate fluid dynamics.
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eBay has become the default choice for browsing and purchasing items not readily available closer to home. Unfortunately, this makes it a magnet for unscrupulous individuals trying to bilk people out of their money. And many of these vultures are getting very slick at dressing up their listings so as to lull the uninformed buyer into a false sense of security.
How can fledgling--and experienced--sword enthusiasts avoid getting ripped off?
The following are a few guidelines I use, and I hope others will add to this list:
1) Beware ANYTHING being sold from China or Hong Kong, especially "Japanese" swords. Sadly, most of it is fake and these "merchants" think nothing of outright lying in their descriptions:
2) Be very leery of any seller who does not have a proven track record. (Like the example above) Read the feedback of those with feedback--are ALL of the supposedly purchased items listed as "private"? as in the following example:
These are not real buyers or items at all--they have been contrived to lend an air of legitimacy to the seller's wares!
This particular ad is a classic example. The main page of this ad is here:
I have seen a lot of swords listed by this seller--I know it because the headings all say something on the variation of "Samurai Sword for Japanese Katana."
3) If an item looks and sounds too good to be true and does NOT have a lot of bids, be suspicious. And even if it DOES have a lot of bids, check them out. One sword I investigated was supposedly up to $400 and 23 bids--but when I clicked on "Bid History," all the bidders were listed as "Private"--again, same example as in 2) and also the the following:
4) If you are determined to buy on eBay, at least stick with the reputable dealers. See what swords have a lively and varied bid history and what dealers have an open feedback record, and check their offerings regularly:
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Digging Deep Into Cassandra Thrift Buffer Behavior
Written by Jeff Berger
Everyone who works in tech has had to debug a problem. Hopefully it is as simple as looking into a log file, but many times it is not. Sometimes the problem goes away and sometimes it only looks like it goes away. Other times it might not look like a problem at all. A lot of factors will go into deciding if you need to investigate, and how deep you need to go. These investigations can take a lot of resources for an organization and there is always the chance of coming up empty handed which should never be seen as a failure.
This post will summarize an investigation into some Cassandra memory behavior that the database team at Knewton conducted recently. It is a good illustration of the kind of multi-pronged approach needed to unravel strange behaviors low in the stack. While we will be specifically talking about Cassandra running on AWS the takeaways from this article are applicable to systems running on different platforms as well.
Uncovering a Problem
Knewton had a Cassandra cluster that was very overprovisioned. The instances were scaled up (each instance is made more powerful) rather than scaled out (more instances are added to the cluster). Cassandra is a horizontally scalable datastore and it benefits from having more machines rather than better ones.
So we added more machines and reduced the power of each one. We now had 4GB of available memory for the Java heap instead of 8GB. This configuration worked well in all of our tests and in other clusters but in this specific overprovisioned cluster we found we had scaled each node down too much, so we moved to machines that could accommodate 8GB of heap, m4.xlarge instances.
Anomalous Behavior on New Instances
After moving all nodes over to m4.xl instances we saw our heap situation stabilize. However we began to notice anomalous CPU and load averages across the cluster. Some nodes would run higher than other nodes. The metrics showed that, out of the four cores on a m4.xl instance, one was completely saturated.
If you saw this load on its own you would not think that it is a problem. Total usage of CPU on the box is at 25% and there are no catastrophically long GC pauses. However, the cluster was not uniform, which called for further investigation.
In these CPU graphs, you can see nodes running on low CPU that encountered something that would rapidly promote them into the high CPU band, and they would almost never drop back down.
We found that this graph was correlated with the graph of average garbage collection time.
When nodes promote themselves into the high CPU band, their GC times spike.
What is Cassandra holding in its heap that is causing GC issues? With a lot of overhead in memory and CPU, crashes are not a risk, but performance is far from where we want to be.
Before tackling the garbage collection question, we have two other questions that we can answer already:
Why is this behavior showing up now?
We had an 8GB heap before and should have seen the same behavior. The reason we only saw this CPU and GC behavior once on m4.xlarge instances is twofold:
- Something unique in this cluster caused a 4GB heap to be fatal but an 8GB heap to be adequate. Expanding the heap did not get rid of the problem.
- The original cluster that had an 8GB heap was around for years and all nodes were promoted to the high CPU band. The baseline operation of the cluster looked like the high CPU band. It is only because of previous issues with provisioning this cluster that we were watching closely when we moved to these m4.xlarge instances. This highlights the importance of understanding your baseline resource utilization and not assuming that it means you are in a healthy state.
Why is this behavior a problem?
Even though the high usage band is not a problematic load, the behavior of the cluster was unexpected, and this promotion behavior is problematic. The biggest reason that is problematic is that it meant we had a nondeterministic factor in our latencies. We can expect different performance on a node that is in the high CPU band than one in the low CPU usage band. However we cannot predict when a node will promote itself as we don't know the cause for this behavior. So we have an unknown factor in our system, which is dangerous for repeatability and reliability.
Investigating further is resource intensive, and often your senior engineering staff has to undertake the investigation, as it requires some degree of independence and experience. So make sure you decide that the problem is actually worth the time of your organization before sinking days or weeks of engineering time into it.
The first thing to do is to look through the relevant logs. Looking through the Cassandra logs we found, unsurprisingly, a lot of garbage collections. We'd had GC logging on and found several "large block" messages in the CMS garbage collection logs at about the time these promotions happened. To get more visibility into what is actually in the heap, we turned on GC class histogram logs, but these said that almost all the memory was being held in byte arrays.
Not helpful. Time to go even deeper and see what is in the heap.
Heap Dump
So we took a heap dump from a problematic node and on a node that was exhibiting good GC behavior as a control. A heap dump is the size of the used Java heap. Dumping the heap is a "stop the world" operation for the process you are dumping, so when doing this in production be sure that the service can be unresponsive for a minute or more. The file is binary and examining it is labor intensive, so it is best to move the heap dump to a computer that's not being used in production to investigate.
We used the Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool (MAT) to investigate the heap dumps and found that almost all of the memory was taken up by the write buffer of the
TframedTransport objects. There were several hundred of these objects and the write buffer size ranged from 1kB to 30MB, with many in the range of 20-30MB. We saw similar objects in the heap dump of the control node, but not nearly as many. The write buffer contains what is being written to the Thrift transport socket and does not correspond to Cassandra reads and writes. In this case Cassandra is writing the output of an incoming read to this buffer to send to the client that has requested the data.
It became pretty clear that this was a Thrift protocol issue so we searched for related issues.
Literature Search
Any problem you find has been reported in some way or another by someone else, especially if you are using anything but the latest versions of open-source software, It is very useful to search the web for related problems at every step of the investigation, but as you get more specific you might uncover things that previously you would not have encountered. In this case the investigation led us to the Thrift protocol, which is not something we would have searched for earlier.
The Thrift library that our version of Cassandra used had some memory issues referenced in CASSANDRA-4896. These are referenced again in more detail and resolved in CASSANDRA-8685. So you don't have to read through the tickets, basically the write buffer — the thing taking up all of our space and the likely cause of our issues — will grow to accommodate a larger payload but never shrinks back down. So once an operation is requested of Cassandra that has a large payload, such as a query returning a 20MB record, these buffers increase in size and never drop back down.
This behavior lines up with what we are seeing in the cluster, where a node could be operating smoothly until a large set of queries come in and expand the write buffers on the Thrift frame objects. Once the frame size increases, it stays big for the duration of the connection with the client. (We'll come back to this point shortly).
This Thrift behavior is noted in THRIFT-1457 and a fix is out for it. The Thrift library fix is also rolled into Cassandra 2.1.3 and later. This is also only in Thrift so any clients using CQL won't see this.
Verify the Hypothesis
The link between this memory behavior and client connections was a working hypothesis. We got a very strong signal supporting the theory one morning when we deployed a new version of services that communicated with our cluster. This deployment meant closing all of the Cassandra connections on the client side during a low traffic period and then reopening them. Cold caches cause a lot of queries to occur during a deploy, but these queries do not return large blocks of data, so the
TframedTransport write buffers do not expand. Memory stays low until we start getting production traffic, which then expands the buffers as described above.
The CPU and GC graphs from the deploy at 10:45 show that we have almost no traffic beforehand. We're still holding onto these large memory objects and they aren't cleaned up because the
TframedTransport objects live as long as the corresponding client connection.
Once the client connections close, the objects are garbage collected and the new connections start with small
TframedTransport write buffers. So we see low heap and GC times at about 10:45.
There is a dramatic heap usage drop when the deploy happens at 10:45.
Technical Wrapup
The behavior of these
TframedTransport buffers makes the Thrift protocol in pre-2.1 Cassandra dangerous. Each connection holds a
TframedTransport object in the Cassandra heap that can grow depending on the query executed but cannot shrink. Memory then begins to fill with these
TframedTransport objects as they cannot be cleaned out as long as the connection to the client is open. If the client connection is severed by a client restart or a deploy, these objects get garbage collected. New connections begin with a small
TframedTransport object size which behaves well with GC / Heap / CPU on the node until a large query comes in which then expands the write buffer on the
TframedTransport object again, promoting the node to a high-CPU-usage node and damaging its performance and response time. Eventually all nodes in the cluster reach this high-CPU-usage band and the extra resources taken up by these large
TframedTransport objects become a burden on the performance of our database.
Next Steps
Because these buffers never decrease in size, the memory usage of the Cassandra instance is bounded only by the number of connections to the cluster, which is determined by the number of active clients. Our previous 4GB heap was unable to accommodate the number of clients in Knewton's infrastructure so it would perpetually crash, however 8GB is sufficient.
Once we have identified the source of the problem, we have to decide what, if anything, to do about it. Some options would be:
- Upgrading to Cassandra 2.1.3 or later.
- Migrating to CQL from Thrift
We know that the behavior is not fatal to our processes, so depending on the opportunity cost of each of these processes, we can decide if we will live with this behavior or if we are going to fix it.
Cost Analysis
It is difficult to quantify how much an investigation like this costs in terms of time, opportunity cost, and money to an organization. Before starting an investigation, it is useful to timebox the project and restrict yourself to a certain number of engineering hours to investigate. In hindsight one might quantify the cost of this investigation as:
Monetary Cost = Engineering Time — Hardware Optimization
In this case we will need less hardware once this memory issue is resolved, perhaps three fewer m4.xlarge instances. The yearlong cost of a reserved m4.xl instance is currently $1,200. We spent about three engineer days investigating. Estimating engineering costs at $200 an hour (including overhead and opportunity cost to the organization) each engineering day is $1,600. So over the year, we spent about $1,200 more on the investigation than we recovered from optimizations.
Final Remarks
Beyond monetary considerations, we have a better understanding of our system, which benefits us in several ways. We are able to adjust our alerts to better monitor the system. We can justify our instance sizes. And finally we are able to support larger engineering objectives, advising the organization on the best course of action for future projects. For example, we decided to move aggressively to upgrade this cluster to 2.1.
Deep investigations like this do not come with guarantees of strong takeaways or definitive answers. They are expensive in terms of time and often require senior engineers to dig into deep system internals. Yet at Knewton we have found that these investigations are valuable for the database team and the wider tech organization.


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Tim Spires, the Chattanooga Regional Manufacturers Association's chief executive, said the brutal downturn took its toll and the companies that survived are healthier.
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Ashley Hancock, executive director of the Southeastern Medical Devices Association, said that while the economy is slowly improving, the recession created a kind of pent-up demand.
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Whirlpool and General Electric both decided in recent years to maintain and upgrade their oven and cooking appliance plants in Cleveland, Tenn., and LaFayette, Ga., respectively.
Whirlpool, which operates 31 of its 39 factories outside the United States, decided after years of study to spend $200 million on a new Bradley County plant a few miles from its century-old factory near downtown Cleveland.
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Labor rates are lower in Mexico, where many U.S. appliance makers have moved, but Whirlpool gained more than $30 million in state and local incentives and avoided costly severance costs by staying in Cleveland. Freight costs to serve the American market are also lower than they would be from Mexico.
Fettig said that, when housing demand begins to come back, so will appliances.
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Mike Montgomery, fabrication and finishing operations manager for GE Roper's plant in LaFayette, said America is "a great place to make stuff again."
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Montgomery mentioned transportation costs and the ability to quickly change orders in the U.S. is an advantage compared to manufacturing overseas.
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The Wall Street Journal this week heralded Chattanooga's turnaround, noting that new and expanding factories "have helped give the former manufacturing city a second act."
At one time, more than 40 percent of Chattanooga's workers were employed in textile mills, foundries and other factories and the city probably will never regain all the manufacturing jobs it lost to automation and foreign competition.
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"The manufacturing sector is getting healthier," said Tom Edd Wilson, the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce's chief executive. "People are more optimistic. There's more bounce in their walk."
Last year, Tennessee had a net gain in manufacturing jobs for the first time since the 1990s "primarily because of the strong rebound from the trough of the recession when companies had to make dramatic cutbacks in staff and production," University of Tennessee Economist Matt Murray said.
Murray, who helps prepare the state's economic forecast for Gov. Bill Haslam, predicts manufacturing employment will grow through 2014 before resuming its long-term slide.
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The Chattanooga area also is benefiting from the region's success in luring new industry by promoting its central location and offering manufacturers land and tax incentives.
The largest capital investment ever in Southeast Tennessee is reshaping 550 acres near Charleston, Tenn., where Wacker Chemical is building a $1.8 billion polysilicon plant.
In 2010, Alstom opened a $280 million plant along Chattanooga's riverfront to service the power production sector.
Still, there are hopes that the U.S. economy will continue its recovery and further bolster the manufacturing sector.
Tommy Shaw of Ringgold, Ga., electric bus company EVAmerica, said business was steady during the last few years, but if the economy is healthier, cities will have more money to buy its buses.
Joe Accetta is president of Abresist Kalenborn, an Indiana-based company whose Soddy-Daisy facility produces wear-resistant metal plates for industrial use. He said business fell 30 percent after 2008, but now "we've made a substantial recovery."
He added that he's hopeful revenues will jump 10 percent this year over 2011.
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Brandeis University said Thursday that its president and other leaders are in discussions with a Palestinian college about reestablishing a partnership, more than two months after suspending ties over a controversial Mideast rally.
The nonsectarian, Jewish-sponsored university in Waltham halted its decade-old partnership with Al-Quds University in November after the president of the Arab school refused to condemn a campus demonstration at which marchers reportedly flashed Nazi-like salutes and that included banners of dead suicide bombers.
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A meeting to organize opposition to the construction of a coal export terminal in Bellingham — and the resulting coal train traffic that such a terminal would generate through Edmonds –drew a crowd of more than 60 people to the Edmonds Library Plaza Room Thursday night.
Elected officials attending included City Council President Strom Peterson, Councilmembers-elect Joan Bloom and Frank Yamamoto and newly elected Edmonds Mayor Dave Earling, who welcomed the crowd and stated his support for the group's efforts to fight against the Cherry Point Coal Terminal.
Volunteer citizen group Sustainable Edmonds organized the meeting as a follow-up to the Oct. 26 "Cold Hard Truth" forum. Peterson outlined the Edmonds City Council's recently-adopted resolution that pointed out that increased coal train traffic through Edmonds will have both health and environmental effects on local residents, and as a result the opinions of Edmonds residents deserve to be considered during the decision-making progress.
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Born in Melbourne, Australia, Abbey Lee Kershaw aka Abbey Lee is a model.
Growing up, she said that she felt like she was always in the hospital: she suffered from meningitis, requiring spinal taps; a tumor on her knee; and several broken bones.
Abbey Lee attended a catholic school that had a student body made up of over 40 nationalities. She later went to the Academy of Mary Immaculate.
In 2004, she won the Australian Girlfriend Model Search, and after high school she moved to Sydney to start her modeling career. While on the beach, she was discovered by Chic Management.
Her measurements are 32-24-35.
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Upon her move to New York, models.com called her the next superstar.Abbey Lee debuted in the 2008 New York Fashion Week and walked in 29 shows for designers such as Halston and Rodarte. That same year, she appeared in the Victorias Secret Fashion Show. In October of that year, she scored a 20-page editorial in Vogue Italia.
Abbey Lee said of wearing Gucci, I felt like I was wearing clothes in a fantasy story.
Abbey Lee has landed on the covers of Australian Vogue, Russian Vogue, V and Dazed & Confused. She has also worked with a variety of brands, including Jason Wu, DKNY, Akiki Ogawa, Sonia Rykiel, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Rolf and Marc Jacobs, among others.
She has worked with Chic, 2pm, Next London, Next Milan, Next NY and Next Paris.
Abbey Lee has appeared in ads for Guccis Flora scent. She said in W magazine, I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
Abbey Lee is known to have 10 piercings, several tattoos, and a pet lizard named Annie Hall. She said, Lets just say, if I werent a model, Id be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas thats aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating. She is remarkably not high end when it comes to shopping for clothes: The Salvation Army is my regular!
When not working, Abbey Lee likes sports and working out. She also likes the album bang, bang, youre TERRY REID.
Abbey Lee lives in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, which she says is definitely a different experience to living in Australia. New York is such a versatile city, and theres always something new to discover. She added, I moved to Williamsburg to be a bit of a hermit, but everyone caught on and the place is rapidly morphing into a mini Manhattan.


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Last year, condo converters bought $13.3 billion worth of U.S. apartment properties in a whopping $10.3 billion increase over their 2003 take. That's a 350% year-over-year jump driven by low interest rates and soaring single-family home prices.
The investment pace isn't slowing. Between Jan. 1 and June 15, converters bought $7.05 billion of apartment properties, which is on a pace to meet or exceed last year's $13.3 billion volume, reports Real Capital Analytics.
None of this would be happening if lenders weren't tripping over themselves to finance these acquisitions and subsequent conversions. But concerns are rising that many condo conversion loans might sour, given the prospect of higher interest rates and overbuilt condo markets. For its part, Manhattan-based credit ratings firm Fitch Ratings warns lenders to pay close attention to the risks that come with these projects.
"Condo conversion loans have an element of construction/renovation risk, and the properties do not generate a sustainable in-place net cash flow," says Zanda Lynn, a director at Fitch Ratings. "Assessing these risks, as well as conversion-stage risk and market risk, is paramount in determining the treatment a condo conversion loan should receive in a CMBS transaction."
Condo converters are moving out of core markets such as southern Florida and California where apartment cap rates are very low, says Lynn. In fact, Columbus, Ohio and Lexington, Ky., largely ignored by condo investors, have attracted converters in recent months. This shift suggests to Lynn that conversion activity is getting out of hand: bid prices are so high in core markets that converters are seeking alternatives in other locations.
This combination could have serious consequences for condo lenders. How serious? Fitch predicts that roughly 10% of all condo conversion loans originated this year will ultimately default. That's a substantial default rate given that Fitch expects only 2% of all multifamily loans originated in 2005 to default. The defaults will likely stem from complex projects undertaken in overheated markets, Lynn believes.
Even lenders bullish on the condo conversion market are paying attention to the potential danger of loan defaults. Sonnenblick-Goldman Co. is addressing the risk posed by the frenetic pace of development, says Andrew Oliver, managing director and principal at the Manhattan-based real estate investment bank.
Still, caution hasn't dulled Sonnenblick-Goldman's appetite for conversion loans. The firm expects to finance more than $500 million in condo conversions this year. Sonnenblick-Goldman recently arranged $10.25 million in mezzanine financing for a condo conversion in Orlando. And last August, Sonnenblick-Goldman arranged $78 million in senior, mezzanine and equity financing for another acquisition and conversion in Tampa.
"We definitely make sure we have the right development and marketing team on these deals, so we pay close attention to their track records. The deal has to make sense," says Oliver. He also spends time researching markets to ensure that a supply glut isn't on tap.
Sonnenblick-Goldman has simplified its investment strategy by focusing on conversions of apartments to condos. That helps the firm limit its risk. "It doesn't take nearly as long to convert from an apartment to a condo as it does from, say, an office building to a condo. We can turn that apartment around very fast, and that helps cut the risk of missing the market."
Lynn of Fitch Ratings says conversion sponsors looking to turn a quick profit pose the greatest risk to lenders. "This condo conversion activity just isn't sustainable in the long run," she says. "It's the investors who buy these properties at high prices and might not be able to sell them for the right price who will ultimately default on these loans."


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With thousands of Floridians still lined up to vote, the presidential race in the nation's largest battleground state is as close as can be, according to exit polls showing that President Obama might have an edge.
The president leads Republican Mitt Romney 50 to 49 percent in Florida, according to Edison Research's exit poll of 4,172 voters. The poll results are tentative and will be updated later in the evening.
Early vote returns for the state: Obama leads 51 to 49 percent out of 5.3 million votes. There are a total of 12 million registered Florida voters.
Obama's strength: Liberal Southeast Florida, where early vote returns show the president nursing a double-digit lead, the exit polls and early votes show.
But Obama's position isn't solid. His lead in the exit polls is well within the error margin of the poll. And precincts in the Panhandle, a heavily conservative area, just closed at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, when the initial exit polls were released.
Also, the exit polls and the early returns indicate that Obama isn't doing as well as he did in 2008 in Florida, which he won by fewer than 3 percentage points.
If Romney loses Florida, he likely loses his chance of unseating Obama.
Romney's strength: The economy, the top issue for more than 60 percent of the Florida electorate, according to exit polling. Of these economy-first voters, Romney beats Obama by 10 percentage points.
Romney also persuaded some voters that, like Obama four years ago, he is the candidate who could bring about change.
"We need a better change," said Samantha Gentile, a 20-year-old independent who voted Tuesday at St. Gregory's Church in Boca Raton.
"We need an economic change," Gentile said. "We need jobs."
Gentile's remarks stood out, in part, because of the T-shirt she wore that openly advertised her support of gay marriage — which Romney opposes. Gentile said she also favors abortion rights, while Romney is opposed.
The exit polls indicated that Gentile was in the minority for those in her age group. Obama carried young voters, while he lost older voters to Romney, the exit polls showed.
Obama draws strong support among Hispanic voters, beating Romney 60-39 percent, the poll showed. Romney, meanwhile, is ahead with non-Hispanic white voters.
It will take hours for a final winner to be clear — and it could even take days.
In Miami-Dade, voters will remain in line in some precincts well past midnight.
At the Stanley Axlrod UTD Towers, nearly 500 people stood in a line that snaked off the property, onto Brickell Avenue and back onto the property.
For some Brickell voters, it was deja vu all over again. The two precincts that vote there, 569 and 995, were among the last to close in Miami-Dade County in 2008.
Alex Trench, 27, waited nearly four hours to get his ballot. He arrived at the polling place at 6:45 a.m., only to find 200 people already in line.
"I've never been more excited to get to work," said Trench, who works in construction, after casting his vote for Obama.
Obama's campaign has also succeeded in bringing out new voters, like Diana Del Castillo, 31, a native of Colombia who recently became a U.S. citizen.
An independent, she said she voted for Obama not because of immigration but because of news reports about how Romney, years ago, strapped the family dog Seamus in his carrier to the roof of the family car on a vacation.
"If he doesn't care about animals, will he care about people?" she asked.


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It's been a long time ago, but I still remember how it felt: the sense of groundness, solidness. The feeling of having come together, of a void within being filled at last. Filled with me.
Now I am complete, I thought. Now I am solid, now I have gravity, now I can feel how my feet planted solidly upon the earth. Now I feel like myself, I thought at that moment. The moment when I accepted my pain, when I embraced my trauma, when I acknowledged my anger, my hatred, my spite and my fear.
In that moment I felt my form rounding up, all the empty disowned places filling up with content, with meaning. In that moment I understood myself. I owned myself. I was myself.


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Pittsburgh, Pa. (May 14, 2003) UPMC Health Plan and Westmoreland Health System have reached an agreement that adds Westmoreland Regional Hospital of Greensburg to the Health Plan's growing network of contracted facilities and physicians.
Beginning June 1, 2003, Westmoreland Health System will be a participating provider of all UPMC Health Plan commercial products, as well as for UPMC for Life (Medicare HMO, PPO, and Select) and UPMC for You (Medicaid HMO).
"UPMC Health Plan's agreement with Westmoreland Health System is very good news for Health Plan members who live in Westmoreland County," said Patricia A. Liebman, UPMC Health Plan chief executive officer.
Westmoreland Health System, the largest provider of care in Westmoreland County, also includes Frick Hospital of Mount Pleasant, which has been part of UPMC Health Plan's network since 1999. The two facilities had an estimated 18,000 patient admissions and over 250,000 outpatient visits in 2002.
"Westmoreland Health System is pleased to become part of the provider network of western Pennsylvania's fastest growing health plan," said David S. Gallatin, chairman of the Board of Trustees and acting CEO for Westmoreland Health System, which has an integrated medical staff of 450 doctors.
Westmoreland Regional Hospital is a 348-bed, acute-care facility serving the residents of Greensburg and surrounding areas. Westmoreland Regional offers state-of-the-art cardiac and cancer care, women's and children's care, rehabilitation services and a primary care network.
UPMC Health Plan has over 390,000 members. Its parent organization, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), was recognized for a fourth consecutive year as one of only 17 health systems in the nation named to U.S. News & World Report's "Best of the Best" honor roll.
"We are proud to accept UPMC Health Plan subscribers," said Jeffrey T. Curry, chief administrative officer for Westmoreland Health System. "As the largest health care provider in Westmoreland County, our participation in the plan will be welcome news to employers and residents alike."
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Phones and apps get more sophisticated by the day. Yet, they run up against the same old real world problem as always – data caps. If you like to snap pictures and share them on Facebook, watch a high quality YouTube video clip or two each day and try out a couple of new apps sometimes, you can burn through your monthly 5GB data allowance (if you have an unlimited plan) in no time . Simply listening to a half hour of streaming music on Pandora each day can knock nearly a gigabyte off your data package. You can use up your data even without actively doing anything. Your apps often go on the Internet on their own and download updates … [Read more...]
Is Your Android Phone as Good as the Ads Say?
Not long ago, aesthetics played an important role in what phone you chose. These days, practically every smartphone out there is a simple slab of glass. The fit and finish are about the only appreciable aesthetic qualities there are to judge in a phone until you turn it on. After that, it just comes down to how well the phone performs and how good the screen is. How do you judge how well a model performs? It can be difficult to judge a phone's performance by its specifications. Just as with computers, processor speeds are very difficult to help judge what your user experience will be like. A cheap no-name phone with a 1.2 GHz dual … [Read more...]
How to Encrypt Your Android Device
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Keep Your Smartphone Safe From Spies
Our smartphones hold more personal information on us than any other device that we use. It is information that could easily fall into the hands of a con artist if the phone is stolen one day. The thief could quickly learn a great deal about you by looking at your address book, your messages, images and browser history. He could learn where you live, where you work, who your friends are and so on. Since a phone is easily misplaced or stolen, it is important to plan in advance for the day it happens. You need to protect yourself from the havoc that the con artist can wreak on your life. Fortunately, a good degree of basic protection … [Read more...]
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Stop by Hall's for cut-to-order steaks, fresh deli meats, salads, sandwiches, home-baked goods, groceries, prepared foods, full-service catering and more.
Established in 1935, Hall's Market is proudly owned and operated by siblingsDavid Booth and Jennifer Hettrick; the third generation of the Booth family to run the store. Our friendly, knowledgeable meat cutters and fresh custom cut meats keep customers coming back from miles around!


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The Fundamentals of Investing: Top Strategies for Easy Investing
Many people think that investing in the stock market is very easy. They think it is the easiest way of making money with no effort or understanding required. This thinking can lead you into troubles. It takes a lot of skill and expertise to make the right decisions; this is why financial gurus like Brian Gaister and investment mentor firms like Pennington Partners & Co exist today. Easy investing is not actually very easy and is quite hard since you need to gain the skill and the expertise required before making an investment. Luckily, reliable partners like Brian Gaister Pennington Partners & Co investment firms are there to help you out. However, you can also gain an advantage by hitting the finance books and studying up on investment strategies on your own.
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Originally posted by BladeRunner5050
I don't have any money on me , but somebody showed me where the Masonic symbols are hidden. On the very first or last page of NWO forum when this site was created the earliest stuff someone talked about George Washingtons Illuminate. The masons might have rituals and secrets but nothing compared to a NWO or new world order that this country's government put into place.
15 to 20 years feeling like every song is speaking to you start putting pieces together. I read threads of do you think lady gaga is illuminati . In this day and age the Freemasons of today following the governments orders would be skilled tradesmen , musicians, authors, writers , artists. It's so blatantly obvious if you grew up with the same product placement as I have. The barcode thing that I read about in books twelve years ago about revelations.
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You're going to see what you want to see, even if it is not there.
Albert Pike stated this fact well in his well known book 'Morals And Dogma', "Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explainations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be mislead... page 104-105 The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended he shall imagine he understands them." page 819
A hexagram is two equilateral triangles superimposed over each other. If you placed a hexagram over the Reverse side of the Great Seal, five of the points in the hexagram would point to letters in the latin words "Annuit Coeptis" and "Novus Ordo Seclorum" which translates to "Announcing the Beginning of," and "the New World of the Ages" or "New World Order." Following the points of the hexagram in a clockwise order, they point to the following letters; "A" in Annuit, "S" at the end of Coeptis, "M" at the end of Seclorum, "O" at the end of Ordo and "N" in Novus.
These letters spelled out "ASMON" which is an anagram of "MASON". The word "Mason" is the shortened version of "FreeMason."
The Masonic Square and Compass The "G" stands for (their) "God" (Lucifer)
A symbol of the Freemasons is the Square and Compass, and it makes for a good working substitute for super imposing a hexagram over the Great Seal and it obtains the same resulting letters of "ASMON" by putting the eye of the pyramid between the two legs of the compass. Five points, two from the compass and three from the square, were pointed at the letters "ASMON" which again, is the anagram of "MASON."
Originally posted by JohhnyBGood
Masory is busted!
I've got almost a decade in the craft, I'm open minded to all the possibilities and willing to consider all angles. How come I haven't been approached by these NWO/Illuminati folks? I think I already know the answer. I think they are imaginary.
Perhaps you are not made of the right stuff - maybe your lodge is out of the loop, you wouldn't be let into this club: if you hadn't been checked out for suitability in the first place - and once you were in, they will damn well make sure that they have an iron grip over you should you ever go rogue on them!
Originally posted by JohhnyBGood
Look I can lead you to the water but if you refuse to drink, that's your choice! - why would they want to talk to you, you are providing an invaluable service to them as a respectable facade, only a few % of people would ever go along with their agenda.
What it is pointless to deny is their symbolism plastered over everything and it's obvious occult/satanic meanings.