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Oracle Berkeley DB Storage Layer
Oracle Berkeley DB is an small and efficient software library, providing the basic building blocks for any data storage solution. Incorporating Berkeley DB into your software application allows you to quickly and easily store application data in relational tables using SQL, as XML documents accessible using XQuery, as persistent graphs of Java objects, or as opaque unstructured data in key/value pairs accessible using simple get/put or cursor positioning operations.
The information below describes the features provided by the Oracle Berkeley DB storage engine. You will notice configuration options -- no two application scenarios are identical, and we do not presume to know which trade-offs are best for your application. We leave those decisions up to you.
|Data Access
The most commonly used data access storage option in Berkeley DB is B-trees. Berkeley DB B-trees fundamentally store keys in sorted order and a value associated with that key. Internal pages within the B-tree contain a sorted list of keys that point to the data pages, where the data is stored. Berkeley DB B-trees are the basic method of storage for the Key/Value API, as well as all of the higher level APIs. For example, the XML API provides XQuery access to your XML data, which is stored in document containers with automatically maintained application-defined indices. Those document containers and indices are actually Berkeley DB B-trees, providing highly performant, concurrent, reliable, scalable indexed access to the underlying data. Likewise, regardless of whether you are using the Java Direct Persistence Layer API or the SQL API, the application data is being stored in Berkeley DB B-trees. There are some applications for which B-trees may not be optimal. Some applications require the use of Queues (for FIFO or LIFO data access) or Hash tables (for very large data sets where there is no inherent ordering ). For these applications, Berkeley DB offers alternate data access methods, Queue and Hash, available via the key/value API.
XML content lives in document containers. Berkeley DB supports arbitrary indexes on your XML content and provides XQuery to efficiently access the portions of the documents you need. Relational content, such as tables, rows and indexes are also BTREEs. When Berkeley DB stores relational, graph, or hierarchical data it uses these indexes to project and select data from within those BTREEs.
Most customers find BTREEs the most useful and versatile access method, so we recommend starting there, creating a custom comparison function to optimize the organization of your keys, and then evaluate the resulting performance.
Oracle Berkeley DB manages concurrent access to data using a highly advanced and configurable locking system. Without locking it is impossible to maintain consistency in a concurrent storage system. When configured for concurrent or transactional data access, Berkeley DB automatically manages all the locks based on the nature of the various operations in progress. For the most part, as an application developer, locking is something that once configured simply works. There is no need for your program to acquire and release locks, Berkeley DB does that for you.
Multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) is especially useful in highly concurrent and contentious applications. MVCC prevents readers from blocking writers by keeping snapshots of pages involved in the transaction. Applications that use MVCC typically configure a larger cache to account or the increased memory used for snapshots.
|Transactions, Write-ahead Logging, and Recovery
Berkeley DB provides highly configurable, field tested transactions and database recovery. Transactions exhibit the properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID). A write-ahead transaction log maintains undo/redo information for all actions protected by a transaction (including file system operations).
Berkeley DB allows the application programmer to fine tune the transactional behavior (isolation and durability) of Berkeley DB on a per-transaction basis. Berkeley DB supports Serializable (default), Read Committed and Read Uncommitted isolation levels. You can choose to change the isolation level for any given transaction (or set a default for all transactions). If you want to ensure that reads performed for a given transaction won't ever block writes then you can enable multi-version concurrency control (MVCC), also known as snapshot isolation.
Like isolation, transaction durability is flexible on a per transaction basis under the application's control. You can specify that a transaction is not considered durable until it has been fully written to the storage media, written to the operating system, or simply written into application buffers. The first case will allow recovery even when the operating system unexpectedly halts (power outage, systems failure, etc.). The second will survive application failure because the data is in the operating system's buffers even after the application exits. The third option still guarantees that the database is transactionally consistent although some recent transactions may be rolled back because the application or system failure occurred before the transaction data was completely written to the log.
|SQL Developer
Oracle SQL Developer is a free and supported graphical tool for database development. With SQL Developer, you can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, and edit and debug schema objects. Using the provided ODBC driver and the Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC (DG4ODBC) it is possible to use SQL Developer with Oracle Berkeley DB 11g for SQL databases.
Oracle JDeveloper is a free integrated development environment that simplifies the development of Java-based SOA applications and user interfaces with support for the full development life cycle. JDeveloper now has support for Berkeley DB XML. You can browse Berkeley DB XML containers, execute XQuery statements, and edit XML content.
Oracle Berkeley Database 11g can be used in conjunction with the Eclipse IDE. The easiest way to store Java objects in a database is to use the Direct Persistence Layer (DPL). To speed development and ensure proper use of the DPL API you can use the Direct Persistence Layer Assistant for Eclipse. This plug-in performs validation of DPL annotations in Java source code. Each time you save changes to Java source code, the evaluator analyzes annotations (
|SQLite Tools, Add-ons, Extensions
Because Berkeley DB's SQL support is API compatible with SQLite most if not all tools, add-ons, extension and other application development tools that work with SQLite should also be able to work with Berkeley DB as long as the tool uses the Berkeley DB library.
|Apache Maven
Object-oriented programming, especially when using Java, has finally delivered on the promise of reuse. One tool that helps programmers combine a multitude of components into a single solution is Apache Maven. Oracle Berkeley DB 11g is available via Maven to ease integration into your complex projects.
|Solaris, Linux, Mac OS/X, BSD
Berkeley DB relies on a standard set of POSIX Operating System interfaces. It should work on most UNIX-like platforms with little or no modifications required. Oracle Berkeley DB ships as a standard component of most UNIX operating systems. Commonly you'll find the installed library in
|Microsoft Windows
Oracle Berkeley DB 11g is easily integrated into Microsoft Windows applications. A pre-built Berkeley DB dynamic link library (
|Android, iPhone OS, VxWorks, QNX
Oracle Berkeley DB 11g is well suited to mobile consumer devices. Applications deployed to consumer devices need a database that is small and capable. Berkeley DB supports many such consumer device platforms and has been deployed in millions of mobile phones, mobile communications infrastructure, medical monitoring devices, and other industry specific mobile devices. These devices contain sensitive and important information and, due to the simple fact that most are battery powered, they can stop operating at unforeseen and inopportune times. The new requirements in these mobile devices are data integrity after power loss, data encryption to prevent unauthorized access, data synchronization, and flash storage optimizations to compress data and reduce power usage.
Sun Studio, Intel Pro*C/C++, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), Microsoft Visual Studio, Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) C-language (Clang), and most other standards-compliant compilers with POSIX libraries.
|Platform Portability
Berkeley DB was designed to be highly portable across operating systems, chip sets, and compilers. Because of this careful design it often "just works" in the target platform environmnet even in cases where the Oracle Berkeley DB team may never have tested it. The Berkeley DB Reference Guide includes a Porting Guide, we are always happy to work with customers and partners who would like to port Berkeley DB to other platforms.


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Deer Liver Pâté
Rick isn't a big fan of liver, but he'll eat this. If you recall, our Tagliatelle with Rich Three Meat Sauce recipe also had liver in it, and he happily ate it all up. I think it all depends on how you prepare liver. If someone gave me a hunk of it on a plate, I wouldn't eat it neither. But dress it up a bit, and this under-appreciated organ turns into something completely different. I grew up eating pâté so it's nothing new to me.
While I was sautéing the ingredients, I was afraid that the finished product would retain too much of its livery, gamey smell. The liver we pulled from the whitetail Rick recently shot was extremely bloody. (Don't freak out if your kitchen looks like a murder scene after you're all done.) I wondered if it mattered that the liver came from a wild animal because pork or chicken pâté you get from the store really doesn't smell like liver at all. It smells-- nice, actually. But here's what we discovered. The secret to smoothing out liver's strong gamey smell and taste is brandy. That's right! Alcohol fixes everything. Spread the pâté on crackers; use it as a condiment in sandwiches; serve it with capers or even jellies and jams. I love it with crackers and a tiny dollop of boysenberry preserve on top.
So the next time you field dress a deer, save the liver instead of leaving it for the coyotes. You may be surprised by what you can actually do with it. If you still absolutely don't like liver-- well then, forget all I just said. We promise the next recipe won't have any liver in it.
Servings: 16-20 ounces
Prep and Cooking Time: 2 hours
Set time: 3 hours (in refrigerator)
- 1 venison liver (about 1.5 lb)
- buttermilk (for soaking liver)
- 1 1/2 tsp. of juniper berries, finely crushed
- 2 tbs. of shallots, chopped
- 1/4 cup of onion, chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic, sliced
- 2 tbs. of unsalted butter
- 1/3 cup of brandy (plus extra in case if mixture is too dry)
- 1/4 cup of whipping cream (plus extra)
- 1/8 tsp. each of ground nutmeg, cinnamon, coriander, cloves and cracked black pepper
- 1 tsp. of fresh thyme
- 2 tsp. of fresh rosemary, roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup of melted unsalted butter
- kosher salt, to taste
For those who don't hunt, this is what a deer liver looks like. It was red fresh out of the deer, but after spending a few days in an ice chest, some of the blood has oxidized, turning the liver rather dark.
1. Remove any veins, dark spots and tough outer film from the liver. Cut into 1/2- inch pieces. Run under cold water to wash as much blood away as possible.
See? What'd I tell you about it looking like a murder scene?
Then, put the pieces in a ziplock bag. Submerge with buttermilk and refrigerate for at least one hour.
After the hour, drain the liver and discard buttermilk. Rinse under cold water. Dab dry with paper towels. Set aside.
2. Melt 2 tbs. of butter over medium heat in a sauté pan.
When butter stops foaming, sauté liver, shallots, onion, garlic, rosemary and thyme until livers are just stiffened but still rosy inside. About 5-8 minutes. Slice one open to test.
Then mix in ground juniper berries, nutmeg, cinnamon, coriander, cloves and cracked pepper. Take off heat.
3. In a small saucepan, reduce 1/3 cup of brandy to 3 tablespoons.
In a food processor, combine liver mixture, reduced brandy and whipping cream. Blend until smooth. Then pour in 1/2 cup of melted butter and blend to combine. If it's too thick, add more brandy(no need to reduce) and/or whipping cream.
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4. Place a bowl underneath a fine mesh sieve. Pour liver mixture into the sieve. With a spatula, push and scrape the mixture through the sieve. This helps to get rid of stray rosemary bits to make your paté smooth.
Add salt and pepper, to taste.
5. Pack the pâté into any jars or containers you like. Then chill for at least 3 hours.
**Note: Since making this, we learned that packing the jars as best you can with no air bubbles (unlike the photo) will help to prevent early spoilage. Sealing the tops with melted butter will also help keep air out.**
You can also give them as gifts. Just tie a bow around it. Bring paté to Christmas dinner instead fruit cake this year... ;-)
We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Police say a bystander fired a shot into the air to scare a man who had been chasing a woman and threatening her with a knife in Everett, Wash.
Police officer Aaron Snell said the man with the knife stopped chasing the woman Wednesday afternoon and was detained by several other people until police arrived and arrested him for unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon. Police say the woman fled.
Snell says the man and woman had been involved in a domestic dispute.
The 61-year-old Arlington man who fired his pistol told police he'd ordered the man with the knife to stop chasing the woman. Fearing for her safety, the bystander says he fired one shot.
Snell says police spoke to the man who fired his gun. They don't expect to pursue any charges against him.


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Do you blog? Feel like you're trying to reinvent the wheel time and again?
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What follows are 26 tips, from A-Z, to help you create optimal blog posts every time you sit down to write.
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A blog post contains several areas that require our attention and care. Pamela Seiple refers to six parts of the anatomy of a lead-generating blog post:
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Through the Center, you will gain real world experiences, whether that be via our annual Social Venture Plan Competition or our year-round Mentor Program. Utilizing our experiential, hands-on learning programs, you can explore and develop the tools needed to go forth and make a lasting, positive impact in the marketplace and in the world.
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text: Through her roles as an artist and advocate, Rana Javadi is a major force in promoting photography in Iran. Born and based in Tehran, Javadi takes images and objects from across history and combines them into photographic collages. In the series "When You Were Dying" (2008), Javadi layered 20th-century photographs by the acclaimed Iranian photographer Bahram Chehrenegar with dried flowers, fabrics, and other traces of contemporary life. "By creating this new layered picture, the present moment dies too, but in a way that starts another life in a new form," Javadi has said of the series. In addition to her artistic practice, Javadi is the director of Photo and Pictorial Studies at the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran, which promotes the research and publishing of photography in Iran.


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Yvonne's Comfortable Modern Kitchen
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- Birmingham England, UK
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- What makes your small kitchen so cool:
- It's 'comfortable' modern & designed all on my own. Love my touch hob that looks fabulous against the textured worktop that looks similar to a leather grain.
- Describe a challenge you've overcome or a smart resource you've found for your kitchen.:
- Designing my kitchen was part of refurbishing the whole flat. So as I'm living in a small flat I thought it was be best to knock through the end kitchen wall to make the lounge and kitchen one open space. I was on a tight budget when I needed to buy the kitchen materials and the white gloss kitchen was on sale at 75% off from B&Q (England)... yayyyy!!!! My friend Caye helped me to put the kitchen cabinets together to save money on the fitting - cheers big ears!! Still on a tight budget, I recently bought the red fridge freezer from Next which is an amazing alternative to other retro fridge freezers for a fraction of the cost - and of course had to be red! Price can be compromised but not style.
- What's your favorite meal to cook here?:
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1989—Pub. L. 101–60, in section catchline, substituted "Filing of contracts and agreements" for "Contract duration; filing of contracts and agreements", and in text, struck out subsec. (a) designation, heading "Contract duration", and text relating to power of Commissioner to specify minimum duration of contracts for purchase of natural gas and requiring nondiscriminatory exercise of such authority, and struck out subsec. (b) designation and heading "Filing of contracts and ancillary agreements".
1988—Pub. L. 100–439, § 2(b)(1), struck out "right of first refusal;" after "Contract duration;" in section catchline.
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 100–439, § 1, struck out last sentence which directed that provisions of par. (1) did not apply to contracts of natural gas subject to requirements of par. (3).
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WELCOME TO the second week of new live blogs on the new-look Angler's Mail website. Tuesdays see a new blog by Steve Collett, focussing mainly on match fishing but also delving into his styles of pleasure fishing and specialist angling.
Steve, who often appears in Angler's Mail magazine, has a top match angling pedigree with some big match wins including being a former Division One National champion. He is a total all-round angler too, so is sure to reveal some top fishing tips every week.
We hope you enjoy the blog, and share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter by clicking the icons above, or by the "old skool" method of telling fellow anglers! Feel free also to comment by using the special space at the bottom on this page.
Preparation, preparation, preparation!
PREP is a word that is often banded around now in match fishing circles.
Preparation is becoming all the more important, with big money matches, festivals, and to some extent big clubbies, and I must admit that I am not a great at it, and I am amazed by the people that dedicate weeks sometimes months getting everything ready. A good pal of mine Matt McGuiness verges on OCD when it comes to "prep" making sure everything is spot on, and if anything is needed, it will be ready, but this also has its pitfalls, as you have to carry it!
World Championships
Over the last few weeks I have witnessed the sheer scale of the huge amount of preparation that goes into our lads and lasses that fish for England have to do, and let me tell you, it's a huge task.
My girlfriend Samantha Perkins and I have just been over to Leeuwarden in Holland to practice on the forthcoming world championships venue the Van Harinxmakanaal Leeuwarden, so I have had to endure – no, participate – in this arduous task of prep.
New lines, new elastics, new hooks, pole sections, slider rods, absolutely everything has to be covered, then bait, bloodworm, joker, groundbaits, leam, molehill, and again everything that you can think of.
Trust me unless you have been, you would not believe how much goes into this, even down to checklists on Excel!
Think you could fish for England, read on…
I'm sure a lot of you out there would love to fish for England, and lots consider themselves good enough to do so, but be careful what you wish for. This game takes a huge amount of time, effort and money, and you must take your hats off to the lads and lasses that do it for England, and do it so well.
With Samantha and most of the other England competitors being sponsored anglers, this is a huge help financially as the amount of top kits needed would be the price of a new car! But there is other costs to incur, such as bait, fuel, ferry crossings, bits and bobs it all adds up and to give you an idea of the amount of financial commitment these guys make I have kept a list of last weeks practice session alone.
Accommodation ….£150
Total….£ 1020 and that's just a practice !!
Now don't get me wrong, this has been paid for on a normal salary, and time has to be taken off work, then there will be the 10 days run up to the actual fishing, again a huge cost that has to be paid for by the angler, a real financial burden.
So as I said before, do you still want to fish for England? It's a real commitment and all of this makes our teams all the more special in these recent tough financial times.
So when like the feeder team these guys and gals come back with a gold, have a quick think of how much has actually gone into this… it's not all private jets, and Perrier water chilled to 20 degrees you know!
Fishing in Holland
Back to the fishing, and I have to say I am always amazed by the relaxed attitude towards anglers in Holland. Everyone wants to know about it, not like in England where we are often frowned upon, people want to get involved, and the Ladies World Champs has really been e mbraced with the whole town looking forward to welcoming all of these nations, a refreshing change.
I popped into a tackle shop, as you do, and I was delighted to be greeted with such a warm welcome, these guys couldn't do enough to help you, taking time to make sure we had the right licenses, right bait, tactics, they really wanted us to catch fish, and enjoy it.
Our weekend practising was a successful one, and unfortunately due to an official secrets act, I can't tell you what tactics we used, but I am sure a great performance will be put in by Team England.
Fishing In England
It's been a week of practicing in England with the pinnacle of match fishing – apart from Fish'o coming to an end – Evesham will be well upon us. The Winter League final, and the National on the Bristol Avon have been keeping the petroleum suppliers happy.
The Evesham festival has to be one of my favourite festivals, and you can see already that the quality of anglers entering the qualifiers this will be a real battle of who's who, of "proper" anglers (dons tin hat).
Gold winning performance
Every week, come Thursday my phone will be red hot, who's won this who has won that so I get to hear pretty much everything that has been happening in the fishing world. And my constant keyword checkers keep me up to date on smaller match fishing results appearing on the forums.
So I decided to give a bit of a weekly accolade here to what I consider the best results of the week from not only the top anglers but also the non-sponsored anglers that commit themselves to the club fishing world. Some of them may be a week or two behind due to deadlines etc, but you'll want to follow this slot here on the AM site…
Alan Scotthorne
I make no excuse for being in total awe of this fella, and I am sometimes amazed at some of the comments I hear about big Al.
"Yeah he's good, but can't cope on commercials"! "He can't catch F1s…." And at the risk of him punching me in the face, he probably couldn't a few years ago, as it wasn't his bag. But he has practiced, fine-tuned, understood, and learned about his new quarry, and I tell you now, this bloke is to be feared on any water.
A true professional and his latest midweek win deserves my Angler's Mail performance of the week.
Alan made the trek over to Partridge Fisheries this week to practise for the forthcoming Winter League final, and put in the first of my performances of the week, drawing peg 16 Alan put together a superb winning total of 153.10 to put the jitters up anyone who draws in his section!
And to top it all off and show his professionalism he stopped on at the end of the match to film with the Mail's own Ian Chapman on exactly how he did it.
Simon Mound
Simon for me this week has done everything I love about match fishing. Good venue, good pals, new ones, lots of mickey taking but still a huge rivalry with internet forum bragging rights at stake, and most of all lots of fish.
That's why Simon gets my Angler's Mail award this week; Simon is just a normal hard working angler who loves his match fishing, and the cost and commitment to these matches doesn't come cheap, so fair play.
He won three on the bounce at Rolfs Lake near Oxford including a mammoth 315 lb, then went on to win Rolfs Open match with 260lb and to top it all off he went and won a 2-day Maggotdrowners pairs festival with his partner Tony Roberts.
Well done Simon.
Well that's it for this week. Next week I am going to go on a few midweek matches around my region to see if they are "matches" or simply a knock-up with four, maybe five pegs that seem to see the same old faces win week in week out; a touchy subject with a few anglers out there.
Tight lines and thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it, and don't forget different bloggers each day, only with the Angler's Mail.
Here's the list of all our new blogs and when they go live:
MONDAY: Carp crews on rotation – Korda, Fox, Nash and ACE.
TUESDAY: Steve Collett, Mail contributor and ultimate all-rounder.
WEDNESDAY: Angler's Mail HQ – yes, us!
THURSDAY: Specialists from Pike Anglers Club, Korum and Pallatrax, on rotation.
FRIDAY: Carl & Alex, Angler's Mail juniors and video diary makers.
SATURDAY: The Angling Trust – guys at the governing body.
SUNDAY: Colin Mitchell, veteran coarse angler and top journalist
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We have recently made many improvements to our procurement process, so doing business with Illinois is now easier than ever.
Illinois Procurement Bulletin - This Bulletin contains all procurement announcements, including solicitations and awards, published to meet the requirements of the Illinois Procurement Code. [30 ILCS 500]. This includes procurements of supplies and services by executive branch agencies under the jurisdiction of the Department of Central Management Services as Chief Procurement Officer. You must register on the Bulletin in order to take full advantage of all of its features.
The Small Business Set-Aside Program - Allows for the Chief Procurement Officer of the State of Illinois to allocate a fair portion of construction, supply, and service contracts for award to small businesses in Illinois. Legislation effective January 1, 2005 increases annual sales limits for wholesale and retail businesses so that more companies can be considered small businesses when competing for state contracts.
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A popular Waynesboro restaurant will get a new lease on life in mid-April.
Mountain Gate Family Restaurant is closing its doors at 9 p.m. Sunday, April 7, and will reopen as 88 Spices Inc. on Monday, April 15.
WAYNESBORO — A popular Waynesboro restaurant will get a new lease on life in mid-April.
Mountain Gate Family Restaurant is closing its doors at 9 p.m. Sunday, April 7, and will reopen as 88 Spices Inc. on Monday, April 15.
The new eatery will continue to offer Mountain Gate's well-known country buffet options — fried chicken, Salisbury steak, stuffed peppers and mashed potatoes — while expanding and providing more upscale selections.
"It will be the exact same food, same cooks and same waitresses," said Craig McCleaf, who owns the restaurant with his brothers Keith and Dean McCleaf.
One change is the suspension of breakfast on weekdays, a decision which may be revisited down the road.
Dinner and lunch will be served seven days a week at 88 Spices Inc., with a breakfast buffet on Saturdays and Sundays.
The McCleaf family opened the second Mountain Gate Family Restaurant along Buchanan Trail East in Waynesboro 16 years ago, expanding from their home base in Thurmont.
New ownership
The owners of Simply Asia — an eatery in Thurmont — will be leasing the Waynesboro building and overseeing 88 Spices Inc. They also lease the Thurmont site from the McCleafs.
"They are young and have a highly experienced culinary crew that we felt could take the restaurant to a whole new level," said Craig McCleaf.
"We're very happy and very excited to open 88 Spices Inc. in Waynesboro," said Andy Wen, who will oversee the restaurant.
All 63 employees — 33 full time and 30 part time — at Mountain Gate Family Restaurant will keep their jobs during the transition.
"All employees were notified of the changeover at 9 a.m. on Monday," said Craig McCleaf.
"We'd like to express our gratitude to our employees for their hard work, dedication and service during our time together," wrote the McCleaf family in a statement.
The McCleaf family also indicated appreciation for Waynesboro area residents who visited Mountain Gate over the last 16 years.
"We greatly appreciate you patronizing our restaurant in Waynesboro and we look forward to continuing to serve you at our Thurmont location," said the McCleafs.
Green Grove Gardens
The McCleaf family also owns and provides catering at Green Grove Gardens event center in Shady Grove.
With the closure of the Waynesboro restaurant, Mountain Gate in Thurmont is currently doing the catering for Green Grove. However, negotiations with 88 Spices Inc. to cater at Green Grove Gardens are under way, noted Craig McCleaf.
Meeting locations
Groups that have regularly met for breakfast at the restaurant are making other plans, including:
The WAHS Class of 1956 and the WAHS Breakfast Club will meet Wednesday, April 3, at Mountain Gate.
Assembly and registration is between 7:30 and 8 a.m. The breakfast, meeting and fellowship will follow.
"This is a very important assembly and it is hoped that all that have attended will do so this month," according to Lanny Carbaugh.
"There will be a decision required as to the continuation of the monthly gathering of graduating classes of the former high school on East Main Street. All graduating classes of 1937 through 1962 are urged to attend as well as any teachers who taught during those years," he added.
Retired and former employees of Landis Tool Co. will meet at 8:30 a.m. the first Tuesday of the month, April 2, instead of the second at Mountain Gate.
Because breakfast will not be served at the restaurant, the site of future meetings will be discussed.


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Kuru is a disease of the nervous system.
Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein found in contaminated human brain tissue.
Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. This practice stopped in 1960, but cases of kuru were reported for many years afterward because the disease has a long incubation period. The incubation period is the time it takes for symptoms to appear after being exposed to the agent that causes disease.
Kuru causes brain and nervous system changes similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Similar diseases appear in cows as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also called mad cow disease.
The main risk factor for kuru is eating human brain tissue, which can contain the infectious particles.
Symptoms of kuru include:
Difficulty swallowing and being unable to feed oneself can lead to malnutrition or starvation.
The average incubation period is 10 to 13 years, but incubation periods of 50 years or even longer have been reported.
A neurologic exam may show changes in coordination and walking ability.
There is no known treatment for kuru.
Death usually occurs within 1 year after the first sign of symptoms.
See your health care provider if you have any walking, swallowing, or coordination problems. Kuru is extremely rare. Your provider will rule out other neurologic diseases.
Bosque PJ. Prion diseases. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 424.
Bosque PJ, Tyler KL. Prions and prion diseases of the central nervous system (transmissible neurodegenerative diseases). In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolan R, eds. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2014:chap 181.


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Quick update on some tweaks and additions to the borrow system.
- !borrowme allows players to add themselves to a list of players to be borrowed. PM to TWDBot, specifying the league (dd/jd/bd) and it adds you to the list. The bot will PM you when borrowing is enabled in a match. !borrowme is valid for 1 hour, but you can redo it as often as you like.
- Squads looking for players to borrow can type !borrowlist dd/jd/bd to see a list of players currently online who want to be borrowed. PM them directly to recruit. When you enable !borrow you may have seen this reminder.
- New !borrow games and players using !borrowme now show up on chat=borrow
- Borrow games should now show correctly across the TWD site (msg me if they don't)
- You can now enable borrowing and add new borrowed players at any point during the match


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| WMU News
KALAMAZOO—Western Michigan University has switched to a new emergency alert system to increase both the speed and the number of communication options available to alert students and employees when a critical situation is unfolding on campus.
The new product, which is scheduled for activation Tuesday, June 11, is by Rave Mobile Safety, and it employs preprogrammed text or voice messages that will deliver information either to a cell phone or a landline. The new system will deliver emergency information to any currently enrolled WMU student or active WMU employee.
Features of new system
The Rave system will operate under the University's established WMU Alert name. According to Cam Vossen, campus emergency management administrator, those who have already registered a preferred emergency number with WMU Alert will have that number automatically transferred to the new system, and that number will be the one used for emergency notifications.
Anyone who has registered the number of a text-capable phone in WMU Alert will receive messages about emergency situations in text format. Landlines or cell phones without text capability will continue to receive messages as voice alerts, but the person answering the phone will no longer need to trigger that message by speaking into the receiver.
Vossen says the University is urging all enrolled students and active employees to activate, update or verify the phone preference listed in their WMU Alert account by following these simple steps when the system goes live June 11:
- Log into GoWMU.
- Click on the yellow and red WMU Alert triangle.
- Enter the preferred phone number.
- Indicate preference for text or voice messages—or both.
- Click submit.
The change in service is expected to substantially increase the number of students, faculty and staff using the system, and as a result, improve emergency communications on campus. The University does not charge campus community members for the WMU Alert service. However, cell phone carriers may charge users to receive text messages, so before registering a message preference, registrants may want to check their phone plans. For anyone with unlimited text messaging, there will be no charge. Others may be charged if a WMU Alert message is one that exceeds a monthly allotment of messages.
About WMU Alert
WMU Alert was launched in August 2010 as a Reverse 911 phone system that, during times of a extreme emergency, would use a mass call option to send voice messages to all numbers registered to receive them—up to 4,000 calls per minute. The number of people at WMU registered to receive such emergency notification warnings on their office, home or cell phones now stands at more than more than 14,000. The Reverse 911 system will remain in place through the transition to the new Rave system.


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A must read article related to evolution of firewalls.
Topics covered in the article:This paper looks at the evolution of firewall technology towards Deep Packet Inspection, and then discusses some of the security issues with this evolving technology.
- Introduction
- Shallow Packet Inspection
- Medium Depth Packet Inspection
- Deep Packet Inspection
- Example Exploits
- Observations
- Conclusion
For reading full article visit http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1817


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Listing of Strip Clubs and Gentlemen's clubs in the state of North Carolina NC. Adult clubs, gentlemens club, male strip clubs, full nudity clubs, and more, for the cities of Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro and many more.
Amsterdams Gentelmens Club
Strip Club
Baby Dolls
After a day at the races, you need somewhere to relax, have a beer, and enjoy some of the southeast's finest adult entertainment! Well, look no further than Baby Dolls! 20 of the most...
Baby Dolls Strip Club
Baby Dolls Rural Hall NC
Baby Dolls Winston Salem
Strip Club
Cabaret Royale
Cabaret Royale aka Platinum Royale
Cabaret Royale Hillsborough NC
Topless & Nude Dancers. Stage, Lap, Couch & Private
Cafe Risque
Cafe Risque Dunn NC
Cafe Risque Strip Club
Strip Club in Dunn North Carolina
Capital Cabaret
Capital Cabaret Raleigh NC
The Most Luxurious Gentlemens Club in Raleigh NC. Capital Cabaret is truly the most opulent and comfortable adult entertainment venue in Raleigh.
The Carousel known for it's All day Every Day Drink specials, offers a variety of entertainment for a diverse clientele. They take the term "Titty-Bar" seriously and offer deals on both. ...
Chester's Gentlemens Club
Chester's Greensboro NC
Chesters Strip Club
The Premier Gentleman's Club of the Triad.
Christie's Cabaret - Greensboro
Nothing says southern hospitality like the fine southern belles of Christie's Cabaret of Greensboro, North Carolina! Always a party day or night this club feature...
Club Nikki's
Strip Club
Club Onyx
Club Onyx Charlotte NC
Club Onyx Upscale Cabaret
In 2006, Club Onyx, Charlotte opened it's doors and became the "Best Urban Adult Entertainment†complex in the city and surro...
Club Risque
Club Risque Winston-Salem NC
Club Risque Strip Club
We are quickly becoming the Hottest place to be in the City ! Join us for all of are special events such as our VIP Parties , ...
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse Wilmington NC
Pure Golds Crazy Horse Wilmington
Valet Parking, Private VIP Rooms, Wall-to-Wall TV's, Shower Dances
Champagne Room.
Deja Vue
Deja Vue Greenville NC
Deja Vue Strip Club
Strip club in Greenville North Carolina
Diamond Girls
Diamond Girls Durham
Diamond Girls Gentlemens Club
Our club has a very nice and relaxing atmosphere. We have the most beautiful ladies in the Triangle and a flavor for every ta...
Dolls Palace Gentlemens Club
Beautiful Entertainers Cheap Drinks Full ABC Permits Couch Room VIP Room Champagne Lounge Birthday Parties Bachelor Parties.
The Ranch is locate...
Driftwood Lounge
Emerson's Hickory NC
Emerson's Strip Club
Strip Club in Hickory North Carolina
Filly's Gentlemens Club
Filly's Winston-Salem NC
The Longest Running Gentlemen's Club in the Triad!
Filly's has the Hottest Ladies of the Triad.
Foxy Lady
Strip Club in Raleigh North Carolina.
Foxy Lady
Foxy Lady Salsibury NC
Foxy Lady Strip Club
Strip Club in Salsibury North Carolina
Gentlemen's Playground
Gentlemen's Playground Rocky Mount
Gentlemen's Playground Strip Club
Birthday, Bachelor and Private Parties. Full Bar
Harpers Cabaret
Harpers Cabaret Winston-Salem NC
Harpers Cabaret BYOB Club
Across from The Benton Convention Center. Women in for $5 Everynight. This is a bring your own BEER or WINE ..NO LI...
Harper's II
Harper's II Gentlemens Club
Harper's II Greensboro NC
Adult Club in Greensboro
Headlights Gentlemens Club
Headlights Elizabeth City NC
Headlights Go Go
Members Only Gentlemens Club
Illusions Showclub
Illusions Showclub Winston-Salem NC
Illusions Showclub Strip Club
Strip Club in Winston-Salem North Carolina
J.H. Entertainment
Stripper Service - Female
Welcome to J.H. Entertainment. Here you will find nothing but the finest, Upscale and classy ladies of the year of 2009!! Models & Strippers!! W...
La Mirage
La Mirage Jacksonville NC
La Mirage Strip Club
Strip Club in Jacksonville North Carolina
Leather and Lace Southend
Leather & Lace on South Boulevard is the original in Sin-sational Entertainment.
With an intimate atmosphere and the Queen City's most tempting entertainers.
Leather ...
Leather & Lace University
If you're in the University area, there's no better place to spend your time than Leather & Lace University! Over 25 girls daily are waiting seven days a week to ente...
Leather & Lace
Over 25 girls daily are waiting to entertain, enthrall and excite you! Come in watch these impressive dancers. Once you find that special dancer who strikes your fancy, ask her for ...
Mermaids Strip Club
Mermaids Moyock NC
Strip Club
Mickey's Fayetteville NC
Mickey's Strip Club
Strip Club in Fayetteville North Carolina
Olivia's Cabaret
Olivia's Havelock NC
Hottest Club in Havelock North Carolina
Paper Doll Lounge
Paper Doll Lounge Charlotte NC
Paper Doll Lounge Strip Club
Topless Strip Club
PaperMoon Gentlemens Club
PaperMoon Winston-Salem NC
Hottest Dancers
Platinum Strip Club
Platinum Greensboro NC
Strip Club in Greensboro North Carolina
Platinum Diamonds
Strip Club in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Full Bar, Topless.
Platinum Diamonds
Platinum Diamonds Strip Club
Platinum Diamonds Monroe NC
Strip club in Monroe North Carolina
This is a bar and strip club with ALL MALE dancers. The club is clean, well designed, and the atmosphere is fun and low pressure. The dancers are great, hot, and there is something for every...
Pure Gold
Pure Gold Strip Club
Pure Gold Cary NC
Valet Parking, Restroom Attendant , Private Couch Rooms, Champagne Room, VIP Parties $115, Shower Dances
Pure Gold
Pure Gold Southern Pines NC
Pure Gold Strip Club
Private VIP Rooms, Champagne Room
Pure Gold Gentlemens Club
Pure Gold Wilmington NC
Pure Glod Strip Club
Valet Parking, Wall to Wall TV's, Private Couch Rooms, Champagne Room, Shower Dances
Pure Titanium
Pure Titanium Fayetteville NC
Pure Titanium Strip Club
Strip Club in Fayetteville North Carolina
Secrets Cabaret - Fayetteville NC
The number one exclusive destination for exotic entertainment in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Showcasing the most beautiful exotic dancers from around the world ...
Sharky's Cabaret
Sharkys Fayetteville NC
Strip Club
Southside Johnny's
Southside Johnny's Greensboro NC
Southside Johnny's Strip Club
Friendly Entertainers in Greensboro North Carolina.
Sparky's Fayetteville NC
Sparky's Strip Club
Strip Club
Sugar Bares VIP
Sugar Bares Winston-Salem NC
Adult Club in Winston-Salem North Carolina
Sugars Havelock NC
Sugars Strip Club
Strip club in Havenlock North Carolina
Tassels Cabaret
Tassels Cabaret Matthews NC
A classy, cozy, upscale Gentlemens club offering topless burlesque entertainment. We offer a full bar serving up unique martini's and specialty cockt...
Teasers Statesville
Teasers Strip Club
Strip club in Statesville North Carolina
Teasers NC
Teasers Men's Club
Teasers Triangle Area
Teasers Durham NC
With the Triangle Areas First Vegas Style Entertainment. Open 7 nights a week.
The Cave
The Cave Jacksonville NC
The Cave Strip Club
Strip Club in Jacksonville North Carolina
The Crazy Horse Showclub
Sit back and relax in Charlotte's Hottest gentlemen's club. Excellent drinks, fine cigars, exquisite cuisine, and of course, the fabulous Crazy Horse Entertainers.
The Crazy Horse Showclub
If you are looking for the best dancers and hottest adult entertainment in Hickory, you should come to this place!
The Executive Suite
The Executive Suite Greensboro NC
The Executive Suite Strip Club
Now we are rocking TOPLESS with a FULL BAR!!!
The Gentlemen's Club
The Gentleman's Club features an excellent selection of champagne and fine imported cigars along with a full bar. Catch major sporting events on the wide screen televisions ...
The Gold Club
Located at 5624 Old Pineville Road, off of Tyvola and South Blvd. (with easy access to I-77), the Gold Club of Charlotte brings you the best in topless adult entertainment with an up...
The Gold Club
The Gold Club Greensboro
Where Night Club Meets Gentlemens Club. We are located right off I-40 between exit 210 and 211. Insomnia Party every Friday and Saturday night from 2-6 A....
The Men's Club of Raleigh
Strip club in Raleigh North Carolina NC Gentlemens Club. The Mens Club is the Ideal Venue to Blend Business and Pleasure
The Men's Club of Charlotte
The Mens Club is the Ideal Venue to Blend Business and Pleasure.
The Ranch
The Ranch Located In Selma NC is a premiere gentleman's club for all your dancing entertainment. Friendly staff, beautiful girls! Full Service Bar with all ABC permits. Plenty of parking...
The Trophy Club - Asheville
The carolinas Premier gentlemens club. Club Type: Topless, Full Bar, Dances: Couch, Stage, Table, VIP, Minimum Age: 21
Thee DollHouse
Upscale gentlemen's club features topless dancers, strippers, a VIP section and a full menu for lunch and dinner.
Thee Playhouse Hickory
Thee Playhouse NC
Thee Playhouse is a private club for members and their guest. Memberships are easy to purchase. Thee Playhouse has been famous for sophisticated enterta...
Tiki Cabaret
Tiki Cabaret High Point NC
Strip club in High Point North Carolina
Treasure Club
Treasure Club Asheville NC
Asheville's only true Gentlemans Club and upscale sports lounge. We feature over 30 beautiful entertainers, six big screen TV's, pool tables, video ...
Twin Peeks
The locals' choice, Twin Peeks is an intimate club located in the University area of Charlotte. Visit this little jewel of a club and find the Queen City's premier entertainers 7 days...
Uptown Cabaret
Gentlemen's Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Victorias Cabaret
Adult Club , Strip Club featuring the Carolinas hottest entertainers ... Great Drink Specials and a perfect atmosphere.
VIP Showgirls
VIP Showgirls Charlotte NC
Strip club.
Woodys Charlotte NC
Woodys Strip Club
we got tha hottest women in tha queen city. bring all your friends and come check us out!!!
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Xcapades Strip Club
Strip Club in Asheville North Carolina
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Panasonic has announced the mirrorless, interchangeable lens DMC-GX7 camera, the successor to the two-year old GX1 camera. The DMC-GX7 is built around a new, 16-megapixel live MOS sensor that Panasonic promises will deliver better image quality, increased saturation (by 10 percent) and 10 percent higher sensitivity. The sensor offers an improved S/N ratio of 6dB and, with multi-process noise reduction, the new camera may well be able to take advantage of its higher ISO range, which maxes out at 25,600 and can be extended down to a minimum ISO of 125.
The camera is well-equipped with features and functions, including WiFi, NFC and focus peaking. While the Panasonic DMC-G6 also offers focus peaking, the GX7 provides on-screen (versus in-menu) adjustable detection levels and a choice of focus peaking colors. For manual focus, a magnified picture-in-picture is available for better accuracy. Autofocus options include magnification for pinpoint AF, and low-light autofocus has been enhanced to -4 EV (versus previous models at -3 EV). A new highlight/shadow on-screen curve adjustment feature allows user to tweak each parameter separately using control dials. Among other features, a silent shooting mode is also built into the camera.
In addition to the standard exposure modes and HD video, the GX7 adds new filter effects including Rough and Silky (softer) monochrome options. It also has the ability to use yellow, orange, red and green filters on monochrome to simulate the filter/black and white combination shot on film, bringing the total Creative Control functions up to a total of 22. The GX7 also features creative panorama, time lapse, stop motion and clear retouch.
Interestingly, Panasonic—whose lens optical image stabilization, we think, is quite effective—has added sensor-shift IS to the GX7, so it can maintain stabilization even when used with older, non-image stabilized lenses. However, when paired with an OIS lens, the lens stabilization takes priority over the in-camera stabilizer.
I spent a short time with a pre-production model and while I can't comment on performance, I have to say that I really like the look and feel of the camera. Physically, the black-and-silver GX7, magnesium alloy body and design (all-black models should be available elsewhere but not in the U.S.), clearly reflects the retro-styling that has become so popular. At 4.83 x 2.78 x 2.15 inches and a fully loaded weight (including 14-42mm lens) of 1.13 pounds, the camera is, overall easier to handle than one of my current favorite cameras, the Fuji X-E1. But the GX7 is more compact and, from the short time I spent with the camera, more comfortable to use.
An eye sensor automatically switches between the 3-inch, tiltable, 1040K dot touchscreen LCD and the 2.76 million dot viewfinder. The latter, can be flipped up 90 degrees so that you're looking down into the EVF (almost like a Rollieflex, except the viewfinder is considerably smaller); a special optional eye cup accessory can be added.
The camera is fully loaded and has far too many features to list here, but you can find out all the details on www.panasonic.com.
But that's not all. Panasonic also just announced a new, fast, f/1.2 lens for G-series cameras: the Leica DG Nocticron 42.5mm lens. However, that's about all we know. Product specs, release date and price are TBA but Panasonic suggests a visit to www.panasonic.net/avc/lumix/systemcamera/gms/lens/index.html to view its lens road map.
Meanwhile, the GX7 is slated to ship in September. The body only will run about $1,000; while a bundle with the updated 14-42mm lens will cost around $1,100.
Price: Body only: $1000; Kit with updated 14-42mm lens: $1100
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Meltwater Discharge History in the Arctic: Beaufort Sea-Mackenzie River During the Deglacial Period
OCCI Project Funded: 2005
Proposed ResearchThe goal of this project is to construct a history of meltwater discharge into the Arctic Ocean through the Mackenzie River system during the most recent deglaciation. This research will provide insight into an extremely important climate question: How sensitive is the Atlantic overturning circulation to reduced salinity in the Arctic Ocean and polar North Atlantic? Accurate future projections of climate require this knowledge, yet the best examples of past changes in Atlantic overturning are in the geological record. It is clear that Atlantic salinity is now changing in ways that may affect circulation and heat transport to the North Atlantic: high latitude locations have been freshening over the last 40 years, and reduced overturning may already be underway. Yet, it is difficult to know how much of a salinity change is needed to alter the circulation in a significant way. Physical oceanographers are unsure, and the numerous numerical simulations of future greenhouse-gas-induced climate change predict a full range of outcomes. To fully understand how sensitive the circulation is to changing salinity requires study of the geological record and specific knowledge of the Arctic Ocean's role in these changes.
The approach here will be to develop a radiocarbon-dated chronology of salinity changes derived from cores taken in the Beaufort Sea in 1989 by the Polar Star and stored in WHOI's McLean core lab (Figure 3). The cores are in excellent condition and remain unsampled. This work will produce a relatively high-resolution record (by Arctic Ocean standards) of the deglacial meltwater discharge which will be compared with independent histories of Atlantic overturning during the deglaciation.The data sets generated by this research will be archived at the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology at the National Geophysical Data Center and freely available to other researchers.


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When Canadian Mark Carney becomes Bank of England chief next year, he won't only be swapping a vast, sparsely populated, resource-rich country for a small, crowded island on the edge of a European continent in crisis.
The outgoing Bank of Canada governor will leave behind an economy which weathered the global financial crisis quite well and is now achieving respectable growth, at least by Europe's dismal standards.
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Carney, whose appointment to the British central bank was announced on Monday, will face new, and in some areas uncharted, problems in an economy that has only just got out of recession.
"He's going to be coming into the job at a very difficult time," said Howard Archer, chief UK and European Economist at IHS Global Insight. "The economic challenges are far deeper than those facing Canada."
Carney, who starts the new job next July, faces some sobering contrasts.
UK growth is forecast by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to be 0.9 percent next year, half that of Canada's at 1.8 percent.
Britain is struggling with a budget deficit equal to 8 percent of annual economic output, while Canada's is just 1.4 percent of GDP, and heading for balance by 2015 if the government gets its way.
Nearly half of British exports go to the euro zone, pinned in recession by its debt crisis. Around 75 percent of Canadian exports go to the United States, where demand is still weak but looks to be getting better.
And on monetary policy, one of two core elements of Carney's new job along with bank supervision, the tales could not be more different.
The Bank of England (BoE) has presided over a period of record low interest rates while pumping 375 billion pounds into the economy to stimulate growth through buying government bonds.
Under Carney, the Bank of Canada has raised rates and seen no need to embark on a similar policy of quantitative easing because of the economy's relative strength.
These contrasts mean the policies that have served Carney well in Canada are not immediately transferable to Britain.
Some of this has already been reflected in currency markets.
Carney's surprise appointment was well received, partly because he is credited with steering Canada through the global crisis with only a relatively shallow recession.
The perception that he is a "safe pair of hands" with a mild bias towards higher rates helped the British pound to rally to a 2-1/2 week high against the Canadian dollar after the British government's announcement.
But those gains were quickly pared back as investors realized Carney is unlikely to tighten British monetary policy while growth remains fragile.
"People will realize that having a mild tightening bias in Canada in the current environment will not necessarily lead to the same bias in the UK," said Audrey Childe-Freeman, head of FX strategy at BMO Capital Markets.
The Bank of Canada (BOC) was the first central bank among the Group of Seven industrial nations to tighten policy in 2010 after the global crisis had driven rates down. It has held rates steady for over two years, talking about raising them again partly to help pare back rising household debt. Market players expect a rise in the fourth quarter of 2013, after Carney has gone.
British interest rates, by contrast, are expected to stay at 0.5 percent throughout 2013. Investors are speculating instead over whether the BoE will opt for further quantitative easing.
Bank of England chief Mervyn King, who retires next year, said as recently as Tuesday that Britain might need more QE.
Carney will also take over bank supervision when the Bank of England's role is expanded next year. The Canadian central bank does not directly supervise banks, but Carney heads the Group of 20's Financial Stability Board. He will keep this job at the body that sets global banking rules when he moves to London.
Britain's banking sector, a major part of the economy, is troubled. No Canadian banks needed bailing out by the state during the financial crisis, whereas Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group had to be effectively nationalized by the British government.
Banks in the UK have been so focused on shoring up their balance sheets that the transmission of monetary policy from the BoE into the economy has not been as smooth as it might have hoped.
"In the UK there has been a need to look at ways of circumventing the financial system," said Adam Cole, head of FX strategy at RBC Capital Markets, who highlighted the BoE's Funding for Lending Scheme as an example of that.
Canada has had few if any such problems.
Another difference is that BoE decisions result from a vote of nine policymakers, while at the BoC they are made by consensus, which in practice means Carney has the final say.
Convincing other policymakers to agree with his point of view will be another challenge for Carney if he is to keep his reputation as one of the world's most capable central bankers.
As Neil Mellor, strategist at Bank of New York Mellon said: "You're only as good as your last crisis."
(Reporting by Nia Williams. Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)


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yup. there was a period where had a lot of people come and try to impress by jumping stuff...Thor SFBay wrote: Are there really kids in Hawaii trying to copy the more dangerous kiteboarding stunts?
Dunno what their business plan was...Impress->get hired->get rich? Didn't work tho. So less people coming to this island now.
I've seen guys crash head first into piers lucky to "walk" ie get carried away from it. One guy was so annoying he'd probably been beaten by some of the not so friendlies if he hadn't gone head to rock.
Anyways, yes. I am saying this knowing that we all do this to a certain extent, but some take it too far. What is too far is a little hard to say. One spot I ride is just shallow, so it is hard to jump and do tricks with very low risk.
To me this is knowing about know a little more about what the risks are. I think many are just taking chances...not really knowing what the risks are. That is when we are in trouble. Most of the pro's have so much control, that it is unreal. I think fewer people nowadays will try to emulate that behavior. Gear is safer, and people learn in a safer manner.
I think it wrong to call kiting an extreme sport. It isn't. (Ok I can agree with some definitions of extreme sport, but not in the sense that it is used here). Obviously you can be stupid about it still, but kiting can be as safe as any other sport.


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Two weeks ago, I wrote about a group of six Ole Miss football players who went on a mission trip to Panama over spring break.
They have since returned to Oxford and been knee-deep in schoolwork and football practices, but I was able to catch up with senior linebacker D.T. Shackelford, who shared his thoughts on the experience:
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I asked D.T. after this past Wednesday's practice what lessons he and the other guys learned from the trip.
"Gratefulness. I don't think it's a coincidence that I went. Being away from the game for two years, I have to be grateful that I don't struggle like some people in the places that we went. Gratefulness that I don't miss meals. Your perspective on life changes.
"We just finished practice and we're about to go eat a full breakfast and get a free education. Everything's basically free. All of us have cars. We're not missing meals. It's the little things you can take for granted that a lot of people around the world don't get on a daily basis."


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To me QM has been falsified already, with it's accurate predictions being based on mutually exclusive ontologies of particle and wave.
QM is like a meticulous study of traffic patterns without noticing that cars have drivers. Add drivers, and it makes a lot more sense, even though the predictions remain the same.
QuoteWhat new thing does your view predict?Subjectivity, communication, expression, order, negentropy, teleology, perception, creativity, the possibility of life, the possibility of consciousness, qualia...etc.
What new thing does your view predict?
So I still say, science gets no pass from skepticism. If it cannot be understood intuitively, it may point to a reality not comprehensible to us, or it may simply be exactly what you might expect if you try to explain a universe which is half subjective in completely objective terms.
Things are not "false" because they don't fit your preconceived notion of the way theuniverse works.
What if the next fool says the idea that the planets orbit because invisible angels push them around "makes a lotmore sense" then gravity?
If we can just pull theories out of our asses anytime we want and call it science, where do we draw the line.
Please describe an experiment I can perform to validate your new predictions. With QM it's easy: I have a laseron my bench, and it works.
Then after many years of experimentation, with positive results agreeing with the hypothesis, they come up with a theory.The scientists who are remembered are not those who had just the 'Eureka' moment but those that also followed it up with evidence (like Darwin).Science requires the insight first and then followed up by detailed rational logical thinking to join up all the pieces.Scientists understand intuitively but when describing the phenomena to other scientists they need cold hard precise language.
Immediacracy, because I'm sure you will come up with a long confusing nonsensical reply that explains that you really are totally right and we just don't understand, again.... please look into the crackpot index. Every positive number resulting from a test indicates a cranky theory. I think you score points for item numbers 6, 7, 9, 14, 16, 17, 19, 26, 34 and 36.
I agree, that's true, but if someone tells me that the way the universe works is based on square circles which know when you're looking at them, then other possibilities seem appealing.
I would say that gravity is pretty straightforward and explains everything the pushy angels explains and much, much more.
I agree, although I don't think that the question of where we draw the line in the future should be determined a priori, depending on the nature of what's being considered.
I'm comparing the complexity of the proposed subjectivity of individual atoms with the subjectivity we are familiar with, to show that it's orders of magnitude greater while still being based on the same fundamental principles.
Quotebut you state that you think that matter on the atomic level has awareness, can you prove this? Or can you demonstrate why it is suggested to be so?Neuroscience shows us, through an MRI for example, that consciousness is associated with the electrical activity of a living brain. Electrical activity governs the function of the heart. Electrical activity underlies all chemical changes in every cell, tissue, and organ of the body.Where do we get our consciousness from? What are we if not electrical activity in a fantastically elaborate pattern?
but you state that you think that matter on the atomic level has awareness, can you prove this? Or can you demonstrate why it is suggested to be so?
Quote"Our self awareness is based on our bio-electronic nervous system", true, but "it is not organized in such a way as to recapitulate the inner condition of the cellular nano selves it represents", but in such a way that we have some of the best tools to understand and interact with other human beings and our environment.They are the same thing. In order to be able to understand not only other human beings, but our own body - it's needs, the physical status of it's tissues and organs, the emotional status of it's complex inner states - it seems entirely unavoidable that there be a common language, and that such a language would be electromagnetic. At what point does a reality of automatic billiard balls suddenly become able to experience a feeling and why?
"Our self awareness is based on our bio-electronic nervous system", true, but "it is not organized in such a way as to recapitulate the inner condition of the cellular nano selves it represents", but in such a way that we have some of the best tools to understand and interact with other human beings and our environment.
A nervousness in our stomach is a 'recapitulation of the inner condition of the cellular-tissue level nano-micro level experience' of that area of our body which are understood by areas of the brain and nervous system associated with the stomach. The nervous system reports the news and carries feedback from limbic and cortex, which can issue electromagnetic commands to parts of the body which are under voluntary control.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
Who cares what seems appealing? What matters is results, and QM works.
QM gained popularity using the scientific method as a standard. Is there a reason we should reject that in favor of you opinion regarding what is appealing?
Oh and "try something like this and see what happens" isn't the sort of experiment I was asking about.You have a theory, tell me something specific it predicts that isn't already predicted by QM.
I completely agree. Has anyone done two slit experiments with a human eye instead of a screen? Seems simple enough. That alone could tell us something unexpected. Light takes place on your retina. We know this. It is a screen and it is an observer. What does it look like when you close one eye and shoot a laser at it through two slits? Does it need to be in a vacuum? Maybe a camera works just as well?.
I could imagine maybe some experiments using transcranial magnetic stimulation - basically do quantum mechanical experiments inside a living, conscious human brain. Any volunteers?
Thanks for the comments though. I don't know ultimately if there is a way around observer ambiguity. I think there is a 'Law of Conservation of Mystery' which may keep the interior phenomenon partitioned existentially from the exterior, such that the subject must always choose which side of the fence they are on for themselves.
The voluntary aspect, the gamble of perception may be an immutable characteristic of the fabric of subjectivity itself while the subjective surrender to exterior evidence is an act of nontrivial consequence in any possible experiments. The placebo effect is a requirement for this level of cosmic integration.
But, yup. All of these permutations, and dozens more besides, have been tried. The nature of the observer is immaterial
- and the concept of observing the observer is also immaterial. To try to make that make sense: just the virtue of having a camera trained at the right place even if the feed of that camera is utterly unwatched and unrecorded causes the probability waveform to collapse rather dramatically.
It sure as heck ain't humans that are important. We just noticed.
You have hit on one of the more intriguing problems in physics - which roughly translates into "why does one proton, one neutron, and one electron make such a huge difference?" There's a quantum explanation I don't have my head around yet - but the difference between, say, Carbon (6) and Nitrogen(7) is rather extreme. In a way, this is what you're addressing - what makes Carbon have its 'carbonness'? is it really just the energy state of the atom?
There also may be an anthropomorphic fallacy in the mix here. Carbon doesn't have a 'perception' - in fact, it has far less perception than even the simplest virus, though both respond at a chemical level to the reality around them.
Until one can define 'consciousness' and show how it applies to atoms, you're going to have difficulty.
After all, all evidence points (right now) to the notion that Consciousness is not at all separate from the brain, and is in fact a function of the brain itself.
Your uniqueness has to do with your cranial wiring, and your curiosity about yourself is a function of evolution.
Until 'brain' and 'consciousness' can be divorced, there will be trouble with saying an electron has some kind of 'awareness', even one as dim as presented.
Define 'interior' and 'exterior' phenomenon? If interior phenomenon relate to consciousness - like, for instance, a sense of 'oneness', then that's quite biochemical in nature, and oddly well understood (even if the root reasons and causes are not quite yet in the bag). You are, after all, a chemical slave to your brain - a misfiring neuron will have you seeing people that aren't there. Is that an internal or external phenomenon?
you wish people to be able to surrender their internal disbelief in the face of incontrovertable evidence to the contrary.
I like that. People should do that. Creationism would get the heck out of schools then.But I have a feeling we're not on the same page there.
The idea that results are what matters is what appeals to you. I see that as only one half of the story. Results are very important. So is meaning. That's what appeals to me.
What if having only objective and repeatable standards destroys important information about the nature of subjectivity and creativity. Not everything in the cosmos is repeatable on command.
It predicts life, subjectivity, order, purpose, and consciousness.
Yeah, especially on this layer of reality. Matter made of atoms are the main action.
Those are two separate issues. Consciousness can't be substantiated or refuted either, and that's what I'm talking about. Subjectivity as part of the Cosmos at a fundamental level.
If the only flaw in my argument and reasoning is that they can't be confirmed or denied, then it may not be a flaw at all - just an accurate description of those phenomena, like consciousness, which cannot be objectively modeled.
Find me a real flaw - a real world observation inconsistent with my idea, and I'm more than happy to drop the whole thing.
Believe me, it does me no particular service to have some big idea that everyone who isn't bored by hates me for and with which I can't do anything with. I just happen to think that there's a chance it could be somewhat true.
How is it ill-defined? I'm saying that light doesn't travel through space, it's a phenomena of matter communicating with itself. Matter has internal energy states which it can detect in matter regardless of separation by a vacuum. Light is a quality of matter and location not a projectile of any form.
I would start from ourselves and move out. We are bodies and we have knowledge of ourselves. Our bodies are made of cells which seem to act, like us, in a cooperative and synchronized manner. Cells are made of molecules which seem to act to facilitate the operation, healing, and regulation of living cells. Molecules seem to be nothing more than configurations of atoms.
If this is the conventional view of light,(red arrows indicate the prospective launching of individual photons through space)my view is something like this:(N0ton meaning no photon. The double arrows represent mutual 'awareness' and communication between the source, the target, and the targets among each other.
It predicts life, subjectivity, order, purpose, and consciousness. Since we can't escape any of these things to test them, it makes it different from other categories of phenomena. It seems to me that in a QM universe filled with every imaginable virtual particle and interfering wave-ray propagation, consciousness would be more likely to evolve in the vacuum of space rather than in a physical organism. My idea places consciousness in matter - as a function of matter. Seems better.
I thought matter is what made atoms. (particle physics would suggest you might have your equation reversed)
On what basis do you assume there is a meaning? (Evidence please, not more wild speculation.)
Any crank can make up "what ifs" all day. Show me evidence that suggests this is the case. (In QM unusual features like the uncertainty principle are clearly predicted by the math and apparent in observations, why should your fantasy get a moments consideration without similar evidence?)
That isn't prediction. That is seeing things in the world and making up a fantasy that explains them. Tobe a prediction, you need to tell us something new we don't already know. To be a useful prediction, you need to assert something new that we can put to the test.
Didn't QM evolve in response to the observation of uncertainty rather than predating and predicting it?
Light isn't a neutral quality for us, it's intuitively and routinely identified as the source of intelligence in our language. Are these synonyms meaningless coincidence?
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
It is a meaningless theory, with no real world consequences.
It's like saying that gravity works as it works, except for it is unverifiably assisted by an unmeasurable amount of Santa Claus at the basis of reality. Your theory is just as meaningless.
It is a fundamental flaw as it makes your statements completely void of any meaning.
As for consciousness, there might not be complete perfect models consciousness, yet, but consciousness and aspects of consciousness can be measured and tested, which is the field of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. That's were it differs from your theory.
We just agreed that your idea doesn't predict nor describe anything in the real world that is measurable. That is the real flaw.
I don't think anyone will hate you because of your ideas. I think most of them will just ignore your, because it is useless to them to discuss useless ideas.
This is the first time I hear you say this (part of your?) theory. The problem with it is that it doesn't hold up with observation. We can actually measure the distance light travels. Using a flashlight you can detect from a distance the light it emits. This means that light travels by our definition of travel, i.e. it moves from point A to point B.
As for you theory of matter communicating. If you look at relativity theory, it says that both light and matter are manifestations of energy and they are all equivalent. Quantum Mechanics gave rise to a standard model, which even gave a predictive model how all types of matter, including photons and 'regular' particles are naturally ordered by its characteristics. This model has been verified by all kinds of particle accelerator experiments as well as cosmic experiments. Thousands of top scientist worked on it, including many noble price winners.
So what predictions does your idea make that we could verify? And could you please indicate what gave you the idea that these thousands of scientists were flat wrong, even though every experiment agrees with them, and why your thought-experiment without any scientific nor measurement backup would be, or even could be, right?
^^ It's not entirely a coincidence. The word "light" is used in that way because of the usefulness of light in helping us to see in the dark. Light allows us to gain information through our eyes. Hence "to shed light on the topic" -> "to reveal what was previously hidden about the topic".I too fail to see the relevance to the current subject matter, though.
On the basis of the existence of meaning.
Every meaningful idea is a "what if" first.
Didn't QM evolve in response to the observation of uncertainty rather than predating and predicting it?
I'm talking to several people at length about this btw, and none of them have any problem with it.
It's not a useful prediction, it's a meaningful prediction.
I've explained my thoughts on this to you in the past. What can be measured and tested is not consciousness, it's the effects of consciousness. Awareness is, as Roger Penrose says, beyond all computation.
I think the Standard Model may prove to be analogous to the Ptolemaic Epicycle. It takes a lot of brilliant, dedicated minds to create a theory which works strictly on the evidence you have.
You know that I will never give up my position - why argue with a crazy person?
Don't be dense. The original comment wasn't about information exchange.
But usually it's in response to a real problem, not a fantasy in search of a problem it solves.
QuoteDidn't QM evolve in response to the observation of uncertainty rather than predating and predicting it?No.
Who cares? Lots of people believe stupid things.
So it's useless and not scientific--glad you cleared that up.


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I'm trying to update from build 2181 to v2.0.1 on Windows 7 64-bit. After downloading the .exe file and running the update wizard, I get this error about 1/3 of the way through:
I don't have a license for the software yet, but I doubt that has anything to do with this. Any thoughts? Thanks!
I encountered the same problem and got the same message when I tried to update to 2.0.1.
I tried to delete the original version I had installed a few weeks earlier and could not do it.I kept getting the following message.
"Error trying to parse settings: unexpected trailing characters in C:\users\JohnC\appdata\roaming\sublimetext2\packages\user\preferences.sublime-sttings:5:1"
So now can't open it and can't update it.????
I have the exact same problem. Has anyone cleared this up yet?
Maybe try running the setup for 2.0.1 as administrator (right-click and select "Run as administrator").
Error code 5 is "Access denied".
Oh man i was sure I did this...Running as administrator did the trick, both in fixing the error and in making me feel like a total noob..
Hi,I've just run into this issue when updating from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 and it won't go away when I run as administrator. Any hints?Thanks, Caitlin.
Same problem for me, even when I run the executable as Admin. Kind of annoying because I get the new version download prompt dozens of times a day. I have paid and am licensed.
I had this issue just today. I downloaded subl for Windows 64 bit, and I could not get it to install.
However, in my case, I decided to download from the standard windows links, which I assume is the 32 bit version. It downloaded and installed fine on my system, which is 64 bit. That may work as a fix, especially when running as the install as administrator.
Hi, in my situation i had already sublime installed so this is what I have done and it worked:1. I uninstalled sublime.2. Deleted sublime installation folder from program files ( I had to use Unlocker because explorer was holding sublime .. )3. Start new Installation of sublime with administrative rights.
Good luck