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From Las Vegas, Nevada, USA:
In the next few months, we are relocating to Diamond Head, Mississippi, and I am in need of a good hospital and pediatric endocrinologist to take over the care of my daughter, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes two and a half years ago. Currently, she is under the care of a pediatric endocrinologist who specializes in diabetes and feels in her case it is extremely important that she remains under the care of a "pediatric" physician who specializes in diabetes and endocrinology. I heard there was a good children's hospital in New Orleans I believe, but I haven't located it. Thanks for any help you can provide me.
There are some terrific pediatric endocrinologists in New Orleans at LSU and Tulane along with a pediatric endocrinologist at LSU in Shrevesport. Your daughter's current pediatric endocrinologist should be able to help you. Pediatric endocrinologists are most often part of the pediatric academic staff at medical schools or children's hospitals.
Additional comments from Dr. Stuart Brink:Your current doc knows you and your child the best -- ask them to make a specific recommendation. The Louisiana Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and American Diabetes Association chapters also may have some recommendations as may some of the chat room parents at this website.
[Editor's comment: Also, see Finding a New Diabetes Doctor at the Diabetes Monitor. WWQ]
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Society6 has your windows covered!
If you're not familiar with Society6, put down your latte, open up a browser and check out their website. Society6 makes consumer goods: tapestries, throw blankets, cell phone cases, coffee mugs to name a few, made with original artwork from working artists. They sell the goods, distribute the product and then pay the artist for their artwork. I love this model. Not only does it support artists (ART is not FREE!), but it also gives new artists the opportunity to get exposure, while getting PAID. Check out some of the unique and colorful designer curtains.
Society6 window coverings are a great way to support the art community since they are empowering independent artists. All of the curtains are a single-sided print, measure 50″ x 84″ and are available in single or double panel options. Leaving you with options on how you want to use them. I love the idea of using them as room dividers, designating living spaces, ideal for studios or dorm rooms. And unlike many of the more expensive brand name curtains, Society6 window coverings are machine washable.
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What Services Does The Office Of Maintenance Operations Provide?
The Office of Maintenance Operations provides basic building maintenance services, including cleaning public and common areas and general building repairs. We also oversee and coordinate renovation and reconstruction projects in the residence halls.
What Is The Average Completion Time For A Maintenance Request?
All work requests are prioritized, with safety and health issues receiving the highest priority. Depending on workload, lower priority requests may take longer to be addressed. Some requests also reveal facility issues which are beyond the scope of Housing Maintenance Operations. In these situations, we must then submit a work request to Temple University's Office of Facility Management (OFM) or an independent contractor. The delays in completion are directly associated with the scope of work and their ability to secure the needed materials in a timely manner.
Why Can't A Maintenance Worker Repair Something When I Report Something To Them Verbally?
Maintenance Direct will track all work requests. This provides us the ability to respond to and address ongoing problems, evaluate trends, maintain a history of activity, and assess each building's needs and demands. Verbal requests aren't entered into the system, which renders them nonexistent in terms of record keeping and accountability. We believe the documented request system improves our effectiveness and efficiency.
Why Does It Cost $50 To Replace A Lost Key?
Lost keys present a safety and security risk, forcing us to replace the lock core and cut new keys to match. If the key is to a suite, there are two cores to be replaced, one for the suite entry, and one for the resident's room. Approximate cost of materials, is shown below, with the range representing the differences between existing and upgraded systems:
How Do I Follow-Up On A Maintenance Request?
Visit the Maintenance Direct Web Site
How Can I Send A Message Of Thanks Or Praise?
Send an email to email@example.com or contact the central maintenance office at 215-204-2284.
What Should I Do If I Think There's A Mouse In My Room/Suite/Apartment?
Maintenance Direct, our online work request system. There is a pest control technician daily, Monday - Friday to respond to requests, and provide preventative measures.
Listed below are some rodent facts, followed by suggestions on how to minimize the likelihood of rodent intrusion:
- Common field mice only weigh about an ounce and are able to get into any opening that is a quarter-inch wide. They're also excellent climbers and can easily get around a building by moving through pipes or holes in the structure
- A combination of several factors, including construction, colder weather, unnecessary clutter, can encourage mice to overstay their welcome, especially in residence halls. Propped doors, piles of junk or food containers and old furniture are all appealing invitations for mice
- Store food in secure plastic containers
- Wash dishes and cooking utensils immediately after use
- Eliminate clutter and laundry on floors
How Can I Help Keep The Building Clean, Safe And Presentable?
While we understand the time constraints full time students are under, cleaning up after ones self makes everyone's environment more pleasant. Don't hesitate to pick up litter in the hallways, lobbies and lounges, and please don't leave your trash for someone else to pick up.
If you see something that needs repair, submit a maintenance request. Even if it's not in your room, suite or apartment, it's in the building where you live. Community quality of life is determined by the community.


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Welcome to the WestHost Blog!1st November, 2007 by Chris Russell
WestHost first explored the idea of an official corporate blog a couple of years ago. Our Marketing Department had a meeting to discuss ways in which WestHost could continue to promote our client-centric hosting philosophy, and among numerous suggestions, blogging was one of those ideas added to the list. At the time, blogging was relatively new in general, certainly among other Web hosts, and ultimately, the WestHost blog idea was put on the back burner in favor of other projects we wanted to get implemented, such as community forums, new plans, new features, new hosting platform etc.
Of course blogging eventually evolved into what it is today, with everyone from large corporations and average Joe's using it as a tool to promote what blogs are really good at promoting: transparency and personalism. The last couple of years at WestHost we have seen some exciting projects and features released, and who knows what would have happened if we hadn't have allocated the resources to those projects that we did at the time. Regardless, I'm pleased to report that WestHost has finally arrived on the blogging scene!
Our Plans
Initially, when we reviewed the possibility of a blog again, it was difficult to come up with what we wanted to blog about. Many of our internal staff were on board for the project, and had plenty of things to say, but the ideas of "how personal is too personal", and "how professional is too professional" seemed to be filters on some of our original concepts. In the end we agreed on some things and came up with more than a few ideas.
For many years WestHost has maintained an opt-in newsletter called the Webmaster Connection (formerly the WestHost weekly), full of Web site tips, tricks, notable sites and WestHost specials. Moving forward, this blog will replace that newsletter. Past issues of the Webmaster Connection will still be accessible by visiting the Webmaster Connection archives in our Member's Area. We've always received numerous favorable comments on the content of that newsletter, so we hope to provide the same kind of tips and tricks in this blog. We'll also be promoting new specials through the blog, so make sure you check back if for nothing more than to get a new deal. We'll have posts from different department heads at WestHost on topics ranging anywhere from internal affairs, to ways to tweak your WestHost VPS. In addition to that, we've contacted a few of our more prominent forums members and asked them if they are interested in contributing. There was largely a favorable reaction to that as well, so you'll also occasionally be hearing from among existing WestHost clients. Finally, is our plan to invite guest contributors and industry experts on board to offer sage advice in a number of areas, such as maximizing your online marketing and monetizing your Web site.
In the end, we hope the blog will serve as a tool for us to interact with existing and potential WestHost clients, a hub for WestHost related news and specials, an occasional inside look on WestHost from some of our staff, and a resource for you to read articles written by your peers and industry experts.


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These mats look interesting.
What do you guys think?
These mats look interesting.
What do you guys think?
Looks good to me, but that warranty is only a year which raises a flag to me. If we had a guinea pig to show us one in a 3 then I'd be more accepting.
Interesting to see if there's a heel lip (side closest to seats.)
There's a lot of coverage up behind the pedals - which isn't as necessary as by the seats.
I might give these a try in the spring...
I'll let you guys know what I think.
If I hadn't just bought Findway mats, I might have considered these. Not sure about the price, though... They're in between Findway and WeatherTech but don't give us enough info to see what makes them better than either of those.
Received my Tuxmat's. Quality and fit are very good.
I like the Findways better
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Energy Journal: Iraqi Pipe Dreams
Just about the best negotiating tool that Iran can use in its standoff with the rest of the world is its often-repeated threat to shut the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow strip of water where the Persian Gulf meets the Arabian Sea.
Crude-oil tankers from Iraq, Kuwait, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia and, occasionally, Iran, sail through the Strait carrying crude from those key producers to the world. Shutting down this route would create a desperate time, so to insure itself against this Iraq has resorted to what looks like a fairly desperate measure.
The Wall Street Journal's Hassan Hafidh says Iraq plans to build a pipeline, at a cost of $18 billion, which will arc from Basra, its gateway to the Persian Gulf, some 1,680-kilometers to the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba.
Here they are on the same map. That's a big pipe—just about the same length as the contentious Keystone XL in the U.S., but set to run through much more dangerous territory.
A second pipe to the Syrian coast, through a far more restless land, has understandably been put on hold.


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For those who have recently joined the internets (welcome!), please read the Sarah Morrison official bio below, to understand why she's kinduvabig deal:
Sarah Morrison is a writer, internet personality, and marketing genius. She was the editor of Missbehavemag.com, up until the magazine's recent demise. She has written a weekly column called Best Week Ever on Yobeat.com for a number of years, detailing her hilarious day to day life. Her writing has been published in Missbehave Magazine and Vapors Magazine. She has also created and managed lifestyle blogs for both Urban Outfitters and Volcom Girl's Clothing. She currently writes for the Married to the MOB lifestyle blog Mobliving.com.
Sarah has worked on online marketing and branding projects with a variety of clients including; XBox, Cafe Habana and Habana Outpost (NYC), Cinespace Restaurant and Lounge (LA), Bacardi B-live, Volcom Clothing, Urban Outfitters, Nikita clothing, and many others.
She is known to throw amazing parties, when so inclined. Past events have included; Cinespace Tuesdays with Dim Mak records, Hush Hush; a monthly LA dance party, the Camel (cigarettes) No.9 Los Angeles Launch Event, among others. She has also thrown an alarming amount of afterparties at CMJ, Coachella, SXSW, and TKTK other musical festivals.
Sarah recently left New York to return to Los Angeles. She spends her free time in a bikini: Twittering, watching television, and leaving really long voicemail messages. She is really funny and SUPER pretty. Last time she checked she had 31,599 Myspace friends.
Now, want to know what was Sarah doing when she wasn't in the middle of building an amazing résumé? Well, before make-up tutorials started invading Youtube, Sarah Morrison kinda ruled the site. For those not familiar, below is a message from Sarah regarding her Youtube videos:
I used to be big on Youtube. I used to do these videos where I discussed something funny and pretended it confused me. They are all the ones titled "Sarah Morrison on __________." They were pretty entertaining. The newer stuff is just dumb shit at Missbehave and stuff with my friends and what not.
Here's the link to my Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/sarahmorrisonvideos
…and here are some other recent videos:
Here I go on a Blind Date with Brooke's intern. It's pretty funny.
Nick and Sarah go on a Date from YoBeat Magazine on Vimeo.
I read these funny Kids' books.
Before you dive into those videos and find yourself in the middle of a Sarah Morrison Marathon 3 hours later, dip into the M.I.S.S. survey she filled out below:
M.I.S.S.: What woman, besides your mom or grandmother, do you find inspirational?
Wendy Williams, Tiny Fey, Kathy Griffin, and Oprah obvi. I wanted to add someone attractive to this list but couldn't think of any one admirable AND attractive, which is interesting in itself.
M.I.S.S.: How did you get your start?
I started "blogging" back in the Myspace days. I used to write a blog called "Sarah Morrison's Best Week Ever." I would write down all the funny hilarious things that happened in my week, quotes that my friends said, and such. At the end of the week I compiled them in short bullet point format and posted 10 to 20 of them for people to enjoy. I was born funny. But I was unaware that I was funny in print, until I attempted it. People liked it. I wrote about working retail, then throwing parties, then the girls at Missbehave. It evolved as my life evolved. I got known well enough blogging to pursue a legitimate writing career, which I had never planned on. But I did. And I love my life.
I stopped doing Best Week Ever when the website I wrote it for was short on cash due to this whole "economy" thing. I now basically do it all day long on Twitter. So that worked out well.
M.I.S.S. What's your favorite piece of work that you've created?
My Twitter account. I feel like Twitter is my calling. Wish that was a career path. OH WELL.
M.I.S.S. Who do you want to work with, dress, make music with, etc?
I would drop everything to be Wendy William's intern (in theory). I'd like to meet Kathy Griffin. i really want to try doing stand-up but I am scarid Plus, I am kinda cute and I heard you are sposed to be unattractive to be a female comedian. I would die if Tina Fey called me and was LIKE "you are almost as funny as me, let's make Youtube videos together or pitch fake TV show ideas" or something. On a more attainable level, I can't think of anyone
M.I.S.S. What part of your work process is the most challenging and do you dislike the most?
The haters. I really try to not let it get to me. But, it's really hard. I am a smart girl. And generally the people who hate me, aren't. They think I'm serious. They don't understand sarcasm and humor. And so they assume I am serious/stupid and opt to suggest things like me killing myself, which is always good for the self-esteem. But, coming with a disclaimer "I am kidding" sort of ruins the whole thing.
Be yourself. Be original. Do something no one else is doing. Don't fake it. Be OK with being smart. Don't be scared. Write till your lil heart bleeds. And keep writing. And don't worry about blog comments and traffic. Be the best you you can be. People are drawn to honesty and authenticity.
M.I.S.S. thanks you, Sarah!
Still not convinced that Sarah Morrison's a big deal? Check out the link action below:
- Sarah Morrison's website: http://thesarahmorrison.com/
- Sarah Morrison blog: http://thesarahmorrison.wordpress.com/
- Sarah Morrison on The Married to the MOB blog: http://www.mobliving.com/
- Sarah Morrison on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SarahMorrison
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Ski resort Panoramabahn Kitzbüheler Alpen - Mittersill
Ski resort Panoramabahn Kitzbüheler Alpen - Mittersill
Winter sports and skiing holiday in the Kitzbühel Alps
Around 215 kilometres of perfectly prepared pistes and marked ski routes of all difficulty levels, action-packed snowboard fun parks, natural toboggan runs, along with hundreds of kilometres of cross-country slopes and winter hiking trails, make Kitzbühel's ski area, which incidentally stretches over seven districts and two federal states, an absolute winter sports paradise in the Alps.
With a total of 54 state-of-the-art cable cars and lift facilities, Bergbahn AG Kitzbühel is the biggest cable car business in Austria and every day carries lots of happy winter sports fans to the snow-covered slopes, pistes, ski lodges and snack stations.
Highly professional ski and snowboard instructors are there for beginners and returnees, providing them with all the advice they need.Snow security and perfectly prepared slopes invite everybody to ski at Kitzbühel.
Families will appreciate the well-balanced and varied programme.
What's NEW on the mountains (opening Dec. 2005)
Detachable 6-passenger chairlift Sonnenrast.
8-passenger gondola Panorama Bahn Kitzbüheler Alpen, will connect the Hollersbach/Mittersill region with the Kitzbühel ski area.
Snowmaking Plant Resterhöhe
8-passenger gondola KI-West, will connect the ski areas of Kitzbühel and SkiWelt Westendorf (to be able to use the connection KI-West you will need the Kitzbüheler-Alpen-Skipass)
Contact Ski resort Panoramabahn Kitzbüheler Alpen - Mittersill
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Hollersbach 10, A-5731 Hollersbach
- Telephone
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- Snow telephone
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- +43 (0)6562 8504
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Issue: Special Characters Not Allowed for Username Email Setup
Regex Webui validation for username does not allow special characters such as & or even email address in some versions. Future version of ephesoft will remove validation check.
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The cloud has made customer relationship management (CRM) solutions available to companies large and small. Mobile and social capabilities have integrated CRM into sales and marketing professionals' daily lives.
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text: American ISPs to launch massive copyright spying scheme on July 12 If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider has been watching, and they?re coming for you. Specifically, they?re coming for you on Thursday, July 12. That?s the date when the nation?s largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new anti-piracy plan that will engage network operators in the largest digital spying scheme in history, and see some users? bandwidth completely cut off until they sign an agreement saying they will not download copyrighted materials. Code: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/american-isps-to-launch-massive-copyright-spying-scheme-on-july-12/ The end is near but there's always a way to get around these rules. Personally I see a backlash from the ISP's if they implement this. I'm willing to bet that at least 70% of their customers download some type of copyrighted material. They will lose too many customers in the long run and that will hurt their profit margin. You know they won't let that happen.


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First Day.
I can't enumerate clearly all the steps the stylist done to my hair though I remember all of them. First is he cut my long hair into short layered... it is necessary he said.
And these steps followed: shampoo-put hair product-leave for 15min?-shampoo twice-put the rollers-attach to octopus machine-leave for minutes-let it cool-detached-spray liquid neutra(haha I still remember)-leave for 15min-shampoo-blow dry-setting-DONE! Whoo! :D
Second Day.
The stylist told me to be back tomorrow to see the full result and I did. Then he said he will reperm it because it's not that curly and it may not stay curl for too long. But for me, the wavy look is fine already. Still, I go for what he recommended. (Concerned staff, I like that. Not like others from other salons :D) So that means he need to rework on those stepsss again for two to three hours!
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I really love my new mane style. Thank you to whom they call Sir Kit there at the Infinity Salon here in Tarlac City. Plus the staffs there are very accommodating and friendly. :)
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Our friends at AbeBooks.com are giving book collectors (or anyone with the slightest interest in book collecting) a chance to win a signed copy of Collected Books: The Guide to Identification and Values by Allen & Patricia Ahearn.
The book, now in it's fourth edition, is a fantastic reference for over 20,000 titles explaining publication dates, issue points, print runs, number of volumes and other vital bibliographic data.
AbeBooks is giving away one signed copy of the 2011 edition Collected Books. If you want to enter simply email email@example.com and tell them about the most prized first edition in your book collection. In the entry explain why the book is so special and describe its condition. AbeBooks say they may use this information in a feature highlighting first editions.
As usual don′t forget to include your name, hometown and state or province in the email, and include "First editions" in the subject line. It appears the contest is only open to US and Canadian residents and ends August 31, 2011. The winner will be selected in a random draw (the odds of being drawn are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received) and will have to answer a skill-testing question.


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Managing least privileges from the Cloud
Monique Sendze
While Douglas County (Colorado) Libraries is a county governmental agency, we make every attempt to adhere to best practices set forth by federal agencies, one of which is the U.S. Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB). Formerly known as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC), USBCB continues to be one of the most successful governmental IT programs aimed at helping to increase security, reduce costs and accelerate the adoption of new government technologies, while creating a more managed desktop environment. The driving force behind these mandates is the principle of creating a "least privileges" environment.
We've taken the proactive step even further and have secured our environment by operating in a least privileges environment. All of our users are restricted users, with no local administrative rights to their machines. While this better secures our desktop environment, it presents its own set of desktop management challenges.
For example, software deployments and upgrades usually require administrative rights on the endpoint to complete. We were fortunate to work with Viewfinity, which provided us with a very seamless and secure solution via its Privilege Management feature. This provides us with a method for securing our endpoints by elevating privileges at the application level, or for desktop functions, rather than providing total administrative privileges.
This solution means our systems are less at risk without sacrificing user productivity or increasing support call volume, thereby offering us a cost effective approach to providing a secure and productive desktop computing environment.
Scope of the initiative
Our first step involved upgrading Microsoft Office 2003 to Microsoft Office 2010. Using Viewfinity's software distribution, we upgraded more than 200 computers in one-tenth of the time it had taken us previously. This substantially reduced our normal upgrade time -- a project that typically took us six to seven weeks took less than a day. We created a customized setup file that allowed Office to install completely silently and then push this out to all the computers and install silently. Thus, no interaction was required physically at the computer location, or with the end-user. If we had done it manually, it would probably have taken hundreds or thousands of person-hours to visit each computer and complete the installation.
We also had the installation of the Microsoft BPOS software suite. This was very similar to the Office installation, except that this had five programs that had to be installed in a specific order. We were able to install these to hundreds of locked down computers, again saving a lot of on-site installation, and using the Cloud-based solution to control the elevated permissions.
Another major project was our Integrated Library System application that runs our entire organization. We had to upgrade the entire system to a new version, which required an upgrade of the client on the staff computers, as well. We were able to use the Cloud solution to set up distribution tasks to upgrade each branch after closing. This was a large task, but we were able to upgrade the clients of the entire district in just two hours. Since our IT staff did not have to spend time upgrading the clients, we were able to complete the back-end Server OS, DB and Applications upgrades the next morning in a record four hours and were back up-and-running 100 percent.
Business value from the Cloud
Using the Viewfinity Cloud-based solution has saved Douglas County Libraries significant time and money on IT administrative tasks, as well as ensuring that user productivity is not hindered. As an IT organization, we have succeeded with the age-old struggle to create the appropriate balance between a secure and productive user management environment, and ensuring enough flexibility to enable user innovation and productivity. Our struggles for cost efficiencies have been aligned tightly with the critical balance needed for managing users. We are leveraging all their features in order to achieve balanced management of our IT environment.
With more than 450 desktops to support, tasks and upgrades like these required us in the past to hire temporary IT staff to augment our desktop staff. We no longer have a need for this. This directly translates to more than $18,000 in savings per upgrade project. And we've handled more than 10 different upgrades and deployment projects since we started the program, for an initial year rollout savings in excess of $180,000.
When other libraries in our region have attempted similar upgrades, their systems were inaccessible to the public for at least two days. Because of the time that our approach saved us, our process completed in approximately four hours and still allowed limited access to services for our customers during the process. Using a Cloud delivery platform, there was no need for us to build an in-house infrastructure; thus, there are no servers to purchase or maintain and no software to keep current, thereby reducing implementation costs dramatically.
Monique Sendze is Associate Director of Information Technology for Douglas County (Colorado) Libraries. She can be reached at:


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Parsing is a Key Element in SDN SwitchesPosted by gmlee in Wired Ethernet on Apr 17, 2012 5:36:27 PM
This week starts the Open Networking Summit where Intel will demonstrate its support for the software-defined networking (SDN) movement with a demonstration of our Intel® Ethernet Switch FM6000 series working with an OpenFlow controller.
I wrote a post earlier this week that provides a good overview of the demo and Intel's other activities at the show. Now, I want to give a little more insight into the technology that we've built into the FM6000 that makes it an ideal solution for these networks.
SDN technologies are revolutionary because they bypass L2/L3 IP protocols and instead use a software control panel and SDN data flow tables that direct incoming packets where to go. Thus, the switch is called upon to examine characteristics of incoming packets and switch them into an SDN-defined flow. As we wrote in a white paper that we recently posted:
Incoming frame header fields are looked up in the TCAM (ternary content addressable memory), which allows partial matches with the usage of wildcards. Matches in the TCAM point to an entry in the RAM, which controls various operations to be performed in the incoming frame header fields as well as extracting and propagating these fields to subsequent stages.
This logic can be built into the switch, but then what about any IP traffic that flows through that switch? One of the virtues of SDN is that it is a standard that can be used across switches from different manufacturers to "unlock" the network from proprietary protocols. But in the mean time, switch ICs need to support both traditional networking and SDN.
The FM6000 has built the parsing logic in its flexible frame forwarding unit so that it can be programmed to look for any networking protocol, either OpenFlow, standard routing or emerging data center switching protocols like TRILL, data center bridging and others.
The other advantage of this parsing flexibility is ability to deliver traditional Ethernet functionality that is not supported in OpenFlow, such as network address translation, load balancing and IP tunneling.
Of course, all of this must be done at wire speed and at very low latency, and that's what you will see if you are able to stop by our demo at ONS. If you want a deeper look behind the technology, or take a look at our new white paper which gives an overview of our ONS features.


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Robertson blasts past Williams to secure BGC Masters semi-final spot
Neil Robertson overcame a fightback
from Mark Williams and a problem with his cue tip to book his place in
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The Australian claimed a 6-4 win to set up a last-four meeting with UK champion Judd Trump.
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The 2010 world champion took the first and third frames on the black, either side of a 78 break from Williams, to move into a 2-1 lead, and he then racked up a 95 to go further clear.
Williams narrowed the deficit, thanks partly to a 68 in frame seven, but Robertson's emphatic century ended the fightback.
'I had a good century,' Robertson said. 'I potted some really good balls under pressure to go 5-3 up.'
The Melbourne player, though, admitted he struggled with his tip during the match and would have to get it replaced before his semi-final against Trump.
'I have to change my tip tonight,' he added. 'You are meant to play in a few tips and have one ready, but I haven't done it. Hopefully I can play it in tomorrow. A brand new tip is probably a player's worst nightmare.'
Fightback: Williams hit back but it was to no avail
Trump beat Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-2 in the quarter-finals and beat Robertson 9-7 in the semi-finals of the UK Championship last month.
Asked how he sees his next match-up with Trump, Robertson said: 'It all depends on how my tip is.
'I like to play attacking snooker, if I get in the balls I'll play quickly.
'He's playing really well, but players are getting opportunities against him.
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SIBERIA hit Hampshire this morning with increasingly heavy snow through the morning rush hour.
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Met Office experts said that parts of the county would be left under a 6in (15cm) blanket of snow, with up to 10cm predicted for the county.
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Antarctica Point Named In Honor Of Clarkson Professor
Stephen F. Ackley, Visiting Professor of Engineering in Clarkson University's Civil and Environmental Engineering Department since 1999, was honored recently for his sea ice work in Antarctica by the U.S. Board on geographic names.
Ackley is a retired ice researcher from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). The ERDC is the premier research and development facility for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. CRREL is one of ERDC's seven laboratories and is the only Department of Defense laboratory specifically conducting research in the world's cold regions.
Recommendations for Antarctic geographic names are based on the level of a person's contribution to Antarctic research or history, and on the type of geographic feature. In 2002, Ackley was selected by his peers at CRREL as a distinguished employee. For approximately 11 years he served as both a CRREL researcher and Chief of the Snow and Ice Branch. The plaque presented to Ackley for his service to CRREL states, "his management philosophy was simple - 'Do good work' - and he set an example by facilitating good research himself. Steve deserves a large measure of credit for the preeminent status that CRREL enjoys today. He left a legacy of research excellence and strong leadership that continues to reverberate."
Ackley Point is an ice covered spot located near McMurdo Sound where Ackley worked and conducted research for more than 25 years. The exact location is 77 47S 166 55E.
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Hey Everyone, >From 22:48 UTC to 22:54 UTC later today (16 October), AO-16 and AO-51 will be "up together" again. AO-51, during that period, will cover much of the eastern U.S. and Canada, according to Orbitron. AO-16 will cover all of the western U.S. during that same period. Stations in the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest, please note - it appears as though Alaska stations may hear folks working the 145.920 uplink on AO-51 if they're working AO-16 after both kick me out of their respective footprints - in the 22:55-56 UTC area. I am going to work AO-16 that pass. That is, I will be transmitting 5 wats from my HT into an omni antenna at 145.920, and tracking AO-16 for receive using my Elk log periodic, handheld, at an FT-817ND to receive on UHF sideband. AA1PL banged into AO-16 from Rhode Island this morning, mobile. Anyone running an omni antenna could have their signals reach both satellites, and those stations pointing beams to reach AO-51 to the northeast have a chance to reach AO-16 from the back side. That's what happened during both of the cross-satellite contacts I've made so far, with WB9L and WA4NVM. I find passes like these to be great opportunities for a very unique kind of contact, so I'm going to see how things go tonight beginning at 22:48 UTC. 73 to all, Tim - N3TL AMSAT Member No. 36820 Athens, Ga. - EM84ha _______________________________________________ Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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Billings Returns As Dutch Boy Drum Major
The Dutch Boy Drum & Bugle Corps from Kitchener, Ontario, is pleased to announce the return of Adam Billings as the drum major for the 2006 season.
Adam has been involved with the Dutch Boy Drum & Bugle Corps and the Northstar Youth Organization (parent organization to the corps) for the past 11 years. He has been a huge part of our organization in helping with bingos, going out selling calenders and many other events.
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Many conservatives were stunned last week over the decision by ABC to canceled the very popular sitcom "Last Man Standing," starring Tim Allen. Some have theorized that ABC really canceled the show because it didn't want to promote anyone who held conservative ideology, especially in a world in which Donald Trump is president.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker posted a tweet about the canceling on Thursday. The tweet linked to an article written by John Note for The Daily Wire that attempted to explain the cancellation of the show.
"(Tim Allen), Looks like ABC is playing politics with your show despite decent ratings. Sad," Walker wrote.
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The article that Walker linked to pointed out that that ABC is owned by Disney, a "rabid left-wing company" run by Bob Iger, a vocal supporter of the Clintons for years.
"Through his character, the politically conservative Allen has poked fun at Hillary Clinton, political correctness, and the Left at large," read the article. "Worse still, he has created a popular, sympathetic and likable television personality who holds the beliefs and values our entertainment and media elites want to tell us can only belong to Nazis."
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Allen's show has been remarkably popular, and there really was no reason for ABC to cancel a show that was raking in millions of dollars for them.
However, much like other Republican shows on television, "Last Man Standing" is being eliminated by those who are terrified that Americans might realize that being conservative is perfectly acceptable, while liberals have some serious problems.
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Hopefully some other network will come along and pick up "Last Man Standing" or Allen will be able to star in another show that will continue where the sitcom left off. I know I'd watch it.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
I Love a Good Junk Drawer
It started simply enough. I joined a swap on one of my favorite crafty sites and instead of swapping paper goods as usual, it was a vintage / thrift store swap. How clever! Buy items for each letter of the alphabet and mail them off to your partner. For instance, J is for mini Jell-o mold; A for a chenille angel ornament, etc. It was a scavenger hunt and boy was I game!
Here are a few of the groups that I sent......
M is for Millinery.
K is for Keys.
P is for Poker Chips.
O is for "Over the Garden" Pamphlet.
Of course, I ended up spending MUCH more than the $1-$2 per letter. I was going to those "Antique Malls" we have here in Texas because I didn't know any better. I hadn't much thought of it before, just assumed that there was some special and secret source for their inventory. A source that would never be available to me. Even though I was paying retail prices, it seemed worth it because I could never find or inherit these lovely old things. Don't get me wrong, I still love them to death, but,
.........Cue the clouds parting, the chorus singing..............
Mecca, Nirvana, the Holy Grail for thrifty, vintage loving girls and boys.
I check this site daily, sometimes more than once, just to see what is going on. As the sale days approach, I check it again and again. And usually, just to be safe, one more time. You know, just in case.
Where to go?
What to buy?
Where are the hidden treasures?
As much as I admire the antique furniture, the lovely depression glass and the vintage clothes, my favorite finds are often the strange little bits of life that you find tucked away here and there. I find that the best estate sales seem to have one person working there that is of like mind. They go through and put together little bags of this and that and I can't seem to resist.
For a few dollars or less, you get small treasures and special trinkets which seem to beg me to question them.
Why was this saved?
Where did they find it?
How many homes has it had and how many years has this been hidden away?
What memories does it invoke?
I can assign whatever value I want and I tend toward the fanciful. It seems appropriate.
Here is one of my recent favorites.........
Small set of carved wooden feet, the black metal poodle, a ship in a bottle, vintage ink, a wooden rubber duck, a tiny windmill......... aren't they all just lovely?
For some reason, it reminds me of being a child, collecting shiny bits and hiding them away. A wooden letter in a pants pocket, a mailing label secretly taken from someone's desk, a metal lighthouse that Grandpa gave, taken to school in a backpack.
I guess I like the thought that they carry their own secrets, an unknown history and that maybe I am now a part of it. I like to think that some day, some where, after my time has come and gone, another person puts down a dollar and carries them on down the road to their next adventure.
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- This is me: Sweet Pete said...
I say you rock!
I love how romantic you are about your finds. Now that I think about it, you're right...why were these trinkets purchased to begin with & why would someone hang on to them all these years. What emotional value do they hold. And I too agree that each item has a story, no matter how short or mundane it might be; it's still a story.
And BTW, I am LOVING those envelopes!
- September 9, 2010 at 9:38 AM
I have been a lucky, lucky, lucky recipient of the treasures that Stephanie has found. THANK YOU!
I just adore your passion and your kind spirit! I feel like we are two peas in a pod for sure!
thank you!
- September 12, 2010 at 11:17 AM
wow cute treasures, i went to a sale recently and found sissors, 3 different ones, little tiny like nose hair sissors, to little barber ones, for that little $1 price just love finding tiny treasures..
- September 13, 2010 at 10:37 PM
- Stephanie said...
Thanks guys! I swear I have found more kindred spirits in the past few years and AM so happy to say that I have. I really value you all! :)
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WASHINGTON — A proposal by Colorado and other western states to protect the lesser prairie chicken was endorsed by the federal government Wednesday, sparking hope among lawmakers the voluntary action will keep the bird off of the endangered species list.
A decision on the proposed listing is expected in March, and would also affect land management in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas.
The 300-page plan would still allow development activities including oil and gas drilling or grazing, and companies would pay a fee to ensure that additional property could be acquired from willing landowners to safeguard the bird's habitat.
Rep. Doc Hastings, Washington Republican and chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee said he was encouraged by the endorsement but still concerned that the Obama administration has left open the possibility of a future listing.
"Instead of threatening states, jobs, and private property owners with the potential future regulation of millions of acres, the Obama administration should be allowing states, agriculture, property owners, and job-producing industries to continue working on conserving the lesser prairie chicken while simultaneously allowing for multiple use of private lands in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado," Hastings said.
The Center for Biological Diversity criticized the endorsement from the Fish and Wildlife Service and said the states' plan failed to ensure enough federal oversight to protect the bird's habitat.
"Drought and habitat destruction are devastating the small remaining populations of this magnificent grassland bird," said Jay Lininger, a spokesman for the environmental group.
"Voluntary measures by states are too little, too late, and will not get traction fast enough to prevent extinction. These vanishing birds need the full protection of the Endangered Species Act without exemptions for activities that continue to destroy their habitat," Lininger said.
The plan by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) was accepted after a one-year review proved that it was consistent with the federal government's criteria to preserve the species, said Dan Ashe, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service.
"The unprecedented collaborative efforts of WAFWA and the five state wildlife agencies have produced a sound conservation plan for the lesser prairie-chicken," Ashe said.
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(KPLR) – Dr. Sonny Saggar talked to Melanie Moon about ticks and tick bites.
In general, the best way to remove an adult tick is mechanically. Using fine-tipped tweezers, the tick can be grasped as close to the skin as possible and detach it by applying a steady upward force without crushing, jerking or twisting, in such a way as to avoid leaving behind mouthparts or provoking regurgitation of infective fluids into the wound.
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It's difficult for publishers to keep a lid on upcoming titles these days, what with the likes of Superannuation and seemingly innocuous ratings boards outing tiles left, right and center. And it appears a few key Microsoft projects have been prematurely unveiled, with the Australian Classification Board - who often do this sort of thing - revealing no less than three new titles.
First off, we finally have a name for Certain Affinity's mysterious project. Founded by former Bungie devs, their upcoming title is seemingly called Crimson Alliance. Odd; we seem to remember a certain studio trademarking a similar title recently. Having handled a few contract jobs, such as the Halo Reach Defiant Map Pack, Certain Affinity have been in a hiring frenzy for an upcoming project to be published by Microsoft. Might we see Crimson Alliance at Microsoft's E3 conference?
Next up, Fusion: Genesis. We have now developer or details to accompany the reveal, but apparently Microsoft has been busy securing trademarks for not only Fusion: Genesis; but Fusion: Vault and Fusion: Sentient, suggesting a three-pronged assault in keeping with Microsoft's stated ambition of launching content across the Xbox 360, Windows Mobile and PC.
And finally, we have Kinect Me, which I have a feeling might incorporate the recently announced Avatar Kinect, a new feature that projects your face and expressions onto the screen via Kinect's advanced sensors and algorithms. Also spotted was Kinect Fun Labs, which sounds like a mini-game collection of sorts. Again, no details or developers announced, but it all sounds pretty legit to me. [GameSetWatch]


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HomeFootballFirst TeamNewsVillarreal v FC Barcelona (1-3): Cup final no fantasy!
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Neymar celebrates his goal in minute three of Barça's 3–1 win over Villarreal on Wednesday 5 March 2015. / MIGUEL RUIZ-FCB
FC Barcelona are headed back to the final of the Spanish Cup. Neymar scored two minutes after the opening kick off and again two minutes from the final whistle to lead the Catalans to a commanding 3–1 win over hosts Villarreal in the return leg of the Cup quarter-final, booking Barça a trip to the title-match where they'll face Athletic Club Bilbao.
Luís Suárez also struck for FC Barcelona as they silenced El Madrigal en route to knocking out the hosts 6–2 on aggregate. Former Barça player Jonathan Dos Santos managed the lone goal in the losing effort. Villarreal played the last 25 minutes with ten men after Tomás Pina was sent off for a vicious tackle from behind on Neymar. And that wasn't the only close-call for the culers, as Sergio Busquets left the game on a stretcher after what appeared to be an ugly ankle injury on the play that led to Villarreal's only goal. Busquets made it back to the bench later in the game but the extent of his injury is still unknown.
Before many fans had taken their seats, Barça had already managed to upend Villarreal's plans for a comeback. Javier Mascherano, looking to get something going, switched fields with a long pass for Leo Messi. The Argentinian corralled it and curled a cross to the far post where Neymar, using his feathery touch, lifted the sphere over Villarreal keeper Sergio Asenjo and into the net, silencing the crowd.
The yellow submarine refused to fold so soon and answered over the following quarter hour with Denis Cheryshev, Luciano Vietto and Ikechukwu Uche unleashing a trifecta of close-range shots that were all detained by blaugrana netminder Marc-André Ter Stegen.
With Barça settling back in, Busquets fell victim to a fortuitous injury on a simple challenge as Villarreal raced toward the Barça touchline. With the midfielder back up field writhing on the ground in agony, Dos Santos redirected a cross from Jaume Costa to knot it up at 1–1 on 39 minutes.
When play resumed after the half, Villarreal, still down 4–2 on aggregate, looked determined to make a statement. They were making headway when Pina took down Neymar with an ugly tackle on 65 minutes and was duly sent to the showers with a straight red card.
While the hosts sensed the semi-finals slipping away, Barça did not relent. Neymar led a three-on-one counterattack in the 72nd but, perhaps with too many options to pass the ball, kept it himself and shot, with Asenjo making an excellent save. Three minutes later Mascherano again sliced open the field with a breathtaking outlet pass, this time to Suárez. The Uruguayan sprinted in on goal, deftly evaded a roving Asenjo, and slotted into the empty net for a 2–1 lead.
With Villarreal hanging their heads, down to ten men and behind 5–2 on aggregate, Neymar put the cherry on top in the 88th. Xavi Hernández floated a sublime centering pass with pinpoint accuracy, and the Brazilian nodded in with aplomb, thus wrapping up a victory that sends Barça to their fifth Spanish Cup final in seven years.
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In 1860, Hampstead Heath Rail Station (seen in the foreground) opened on the Broad Street Line (now the North London Line on the London Overground network), enabling crowds of daytrippers to travel to Hampstead from East London. The station was badly damaged during the Second World War, as demonstrated by this painting, which was completed just a few years after the conflict ended.
In 1955, six years after this painting was made, Ruth Ellis shot and killed her lover, David Blakely, outside the Magdala Tavern (seen in the background). She gave herself in to the police and was hanged shortly after at Holloway Prison. Ellis was the last woman to be executed in Britain.


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When they sold their cars in 1994, China's ruling �lite had a point to make. Current and former premiers Zhu Rongji and Li Peng, among others, traded in their Mercedes stretch limousines not because they preferred more demure Audis, but to set an ascetic example for a Communist Party grown fat on perks and a half-century of untrammeled power. Ordinary Chinese appreciated the gesture. Businessman Lai Changxing appreciated the opportunity: he snapped up Li's former ride at a state auction and used the sleek limo to chauffeur favored--and impressed--contacts around the bustling port city of Xiamen in Fujian province.
Only now is Lai learning the intended lesson, for his ostentatious ways have landed him squarely in the middle of the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the People's Republic. For the past five months, hundreds of investigators from Beijing have flooded Xiamen, taking apart a shadowy operation that they say smuggled nearly $10 billion of oil, cars, mobile phones, cigarettes, rubber and guns into China. The chief of police, head of customs and dozens of other local, party and military officials have been hauled into custody. Others--including alleged mastermind Lai and a vice mayor--have fled overseas. In Beijing, a member of the Politburo and prot�g� of President Jiang Zemin was initially reported to have divorced his wife before she was arrested for involvement in the smuggling ring. The rot in Xiamen runs so deep that the crackdown itself could even pose a threat to Beijing.The scandal is emerging as a lesson in capitalism's excesses as practiced in the Middle Kingdom--a Horatio Alger tale with Chinese characteristics. Lai was an illiterate peasant, says a Xiamen lawyer who has met Lai several times. But the Fujian native quickly learned how to exploit China's stop-start flirtation with free enterprise. Running his first business in the early 1980s, at a time when most Chinese could only dream of foreign-made goods, he tempted clients by giving away imported leather briefcases. As the scale of his operations grew, so did the gifts: lavish banquets, prostitutes, jobs for relatives, mountains of cold, hard cash. After he established a base for his Yuanhua group of companies in Hong Kong in 1994, according to a source in Xiamen's business community, Lai routinely handed out thousands of dollars to visiting mainland officials to ensure their loyalty. Each of them, whether a mayor or a division head, would get the same amount, says the source. That way if one official retired or was sacked, Lai would still have ties to the subordinate who replaced him.
Investigators suspect that Lai, who spent a total of $21 million on a luxury apartment and offices occupying two floors of a Hong Kong skyscraper, used the former colony as a transfer point for goods that were then smuggled by ship into Xiamen, the deepwater port directly opposite Taiwan. The operation would have required even larger kickbacks: Lai allegedly paid huge bribes to officials for import licenses, possibly including to Lin Youfang, wife of Beijing party chief and Politburo member Jia Qinglin. (Lin, who has denied the charge, ran the largest state-owned import-export firm in Xiamen while her husband served as local party chief; in 1995 he was transferred to Beijing to replace the disgraced Chen Xitong, who was brought down in a corruption scandal of his own.) Navy ships reportedly escorted Lai's cargoes; when the net began to close in last fall, Xiamen sources say that the city's police chief alerted him in time to flee. The smuggler oiled these relationships with money and the girls at his Red House--a private club set in Yuanhua's corporate compound.
That Lai commanded respect in Xiamen--where he bought the city's soccer team, built a 30-story hotel and planned to build its tallest building, an 88-story office complex--is clear from the awed tone in which his exploits are recounted. According to the Xiamen lawyer, local trade officials once seized a shipment of Lai's black-market cigarettes; he simply phoned an army friend, who dispatched a squad of soldiers to recover the consignment and beat up the officials. On another occasion, when a customs officer rebuffed Lai, he arranged to have the man entertained by a prostitute at a Xiamen karaoke bar. Then he had police raid the place. Lai came to the man's rescue and offered to get him off the hook if he came to work for him, recalls a Xiamen source familiar with the case.
But if Lai was audacious, he wasn't unique. Smuggling is rampant up and down the Chinese coast. As a result, many in Xiamen don't understand why Lai was singled out for investigation. What's wrong with selling smuggled petrol? says a local taxi driver, noting that the price of gasoline has risen by nearly 50 cents since the crackdown began. It's not like smuggling drugs. Xiamen has a long history as a smugglers' paradise: four hundred years ago, when the city was known as Amoy, merchants bribed Ming eunuchs to allow foreign goods through the port. Only when traders balked at paying kickbacks were they branded pirates, and imperial troops sent to punish them.
Lai, too, may have thought himself too powerful to be touched. At one point his oil accounted for a sizable chunk of the Fujian market and cost half the official rate. He was eluding millions of dollars in tariffs on his shipments, at a time when the famously incorruptible Zhu was under pressure to ease the burden on the millions of state employees his reforms were putting out of work. According to one version of events, Zhu began investigating Lai after visiting Xiamen in early 1998, just before taking up his post as Prime Minister. Lai sent him a lavish package of gifts, which prompted Zhu to ask: What kind of person can afford to send such expensive things? Some say that angry state petroleum companies raised the alarm; others that one of Lai's deputies--upset that Lai wouldn't pay his gambling debts--ratted on him. One Hong Kong report says that Lai tried to bribe Zhu directly, which prompted the infuriated Premier to order his arrest.
Nabbing Lai has proven impossible. Xiamen law enforcers, says a local professor, were the lawbreakers themselves. Everyone from the army and navy brass who work in the city because of its proximity to Taiwan, to civilian bureaucrats, to top party officials had a hand in Lai's cookie jar and an incentive to thwart investigators. The team dispatched last August from Beijing's secretive Central Commission for Discipline Inspection met a wall of uncooperative witnesses and outright harassment. Xiamen security officials tapped the agents' phones, allegedly warning Lai and other suspects before they were arrested. That reportedly prompted team leader Liu Liying, the woman who helped bring down former Beijing party chief Chen, to call in the big guns. Zhu turned to Jiang for help, and the investigation quickly gathered steam.
The Chinese President has good reason to come down hard on Xiamen. Since 1998, Jiang and others have warned that official corruption--one of the primary complaints of the student protesters who filled Tiananmen Square in 1989--may pose the greatest threat to the Communist Party's grip on power. Corruption is the root cause of the lack of trust and respect for the Chinese leadership, says Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at the City University of Hong Kong. (In 1999, corruption replaced unemployment and social disorder as the issue that concerned Chinese most, according to a poll conducted by Beijing firm Horizon Market Research.) By some estimates smugglers are costing the government as much as $12 billion a year in unpaid tariffs; an additional $15 billion may be lost to embezzlement.
Periodic crackdowns, however, cannot hope to solve the problem. Authorities say they punished 132,447 corrupt officials last year, including 17 at the ministerial level. In one high-profile case in Guangdong province, six officials were executed for evading a combined $400 million in taxes. However, discipline commission chief Wei Jianxing said recently: Rampant corruption has not been effectively curbed, and the situation remains severe. Indeed, it's hard to see how things can change unless China overhauls its political and economic system. Under the current regime, artificially high prices tempt black marketeers to sell illicit goods for less. The need for licenses will tempt those who dole them out to demand bribes.
Jiang and his lieutenants, however, are tackling graft precisely to avoid implementing more substantial political reforms. In the past year, with official encouragement, dozens of websites have been set up across the country for citizens to report instances of local corruption. Last week, as Beijing published stringent guidelines on the dissemination of state secrets over the Net, it warned sites against posting leaks from the Xiamen investigation. The new wariness may be a sign that the scandal is veering too close to Jiang himself, given the persistent rumors about Jia and his wife Lin. Last week the President posed for the cameras in Haidian, Beijing's Silicon Valley district, with Jia by his side, and Lin later appeared on Hong Kong television to deny that she had been arrested, or even divorced. The support may mean that the investigation has gone as far as top officials want it to go. If so, Beijing may have made one point only to miss another.
Reported by Jaime A. FlorCruz/Xiamen and Wendy Kan/Hong Kong


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"Stand up if you're a Berliner!", came the chant from the home fans as Berliner AK put goal after goal past Tim Wiese and Hoffenheim. They had hit the nail on the head. Of the 2000 or so fans in the Poststadion on Saturday, a vast proportion were not die hard fans. Most had never seen BAK play before, nor even set foot in the Poststadion. They were simply Berliners who wanted to be entertained. And entertained they most certainly were.
After such a glorious humiliation of Markus Babbel's side, the BAK faithful are determined to make the most of their DFB Pokal adventure. Some are even calling for their side to be allowed to play in the Olympiastadion, should they come up against Bundesliga opposition again. Particularly with Hertha now out of the competition, you can see where they're coming from. A Berlin side supported by Berliners representing Berlin should play in Berlin's most impressive stadium, shouldn't it?
Perhaps. But it would be a shame, after it had played host to its first great spectacle in decades, if the Poststadion were to be abandoned once more in the name of money or even prestige.
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The fact that BAK managed to destroy Hoffenheim on their own turf made it particularly special. The fact that their own turf is one of Berlin's most iconic stadiums even more so. The Poststadion hosted the Final of the German Championship for several years in the thirties. It was the scene of 1. FC Nürnberg's surrendering of national dominance to Schalke in 1934. It was the stadium in which Hitler famously gave up on football after an embarrassing 2-0 defeat to Norway. A defeat which would, in turn, lead to the dismissal of Otto Nerz as Germany manager, and beckon in the era of a certain Sepp Herberger.
If BAK's Pokal adventure is to continue – and we must admit that it is unlikely – it will be an opportunity for football fans to forget the troubles of Wiesenhof, VW and Sepp Blatter, and enjoy football as it once was: a romantic and exhilarating sport, in which the underdog can always win. It will allow us, for a short time at least, to revel in nostalgia and romanticism. Better to do that in a stadium which belongs, unbeatably charmingly, to a different era.


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ECS A770M-A Review
Sisoft Sandra is a diagnostic utility and synthetic benchmarking program. Sandra allows you to view your hardware at a higher level to be more helpful. For this benchmark, I will be running a broad spectrum of tests to gauge the performance of key areas of the motherboards.
Processor Arithmetic
Multi-core Efficiency
Memory Bandwidth
Memory Latency
Cache and Memory
File System
Physical Disks
Power Management Efficiency
From the above multi-core efficiency results, as well as the memory bandwidth/latency results, AMD has been hard at work on the 770 chipset squeezing out some performance.