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Chinese black bean sauce has the power to make anything it touches taste meatier and more robust. More importantly, it does this almost instantly, without any long simmering required. This is especially welcome on a busy weeknight, because all I have to do is prep and cook some vegetables and meat, boil some noodles, mix in sauce, and serve.
For this version, I settled on flank steak, bok choy, and mushrooms. Normally, I'd just chop everything into small pieces and stir fry it all together. While that would undoubtedly work, I wanted to add another dimension to the ingredients, all without spending any more time cooking them. The obvious answer would be to grill the toppings, but that's hard for me to pull off during the week. Instead, I looked to my slightly underutilized grill pan. As Kenji explained, grill pans don't come close to mimicking the smoky aroma of a real charcoal grill, but they are good at replicating the char, which I knew would come in handy with the steak.
Instead of cutting the raw beef into slices, I grilled it whole, leaving me with beautiful, medium-rare slices. But the grill pan also worked well to cook the mushrooms and bok choy, lending some serious char and making them texturally diverse. Tossed on top of some noodles and drizzled with sauce, all you have to do is mix things around to craft your favorite bite.
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Hartsville, S.C. – The Coker College women's basketball game against Pfeiffer University scheduled for Monday, March 2, at 7:00 p.m. has been rescheduled for Tuesday, March 3 due to inclement weather.
The Lady Cobras will postpone their 2009 Conference Carolinas first round tournament game until 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday at Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium. The winner of Coker/Pfeiffer game will traveling to Barton College on Wednesday, to play the Lady Bulldogs at 7:00 p.m.


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This section provides some background information on performance tuning.
The performance you get out of a messaging application depends on the interaction between the application and the Message Queue service. Hence, maximizing performance requires the combined efforts of both the application developer and the administrator.
The process of optimizing performance begins with application design and continues on through tuning the message service after the application has been deployed. The performance tuning process includes the following stages:
Defining performance requirements for the application
Designing the application taking into account factors that affect performance (especially tradeoffs between reliability and performance)
Establishing baseline performance measures
Tuning or reconfiguring the message service to optimize performance
The process outlined above is often iterative. During deployment of the application, a Message Queue administrator evaluates the suitability of the message service for the application's general performance requirements. If the benchmark testing meets these requirements, the administrator can tune the system as described in this chapter. However, if benchmark testing does not meet performance requirements, a redesign of the application might be necessary or the deployment architecture might need to be modified.
In general, performance is a measure of the speed and efficiency with which a message service delivers messages from producer to consumer. However, there are several different aspects of performance that might be important to you, depending on your needs.
The number of message producers, or message consumers, or the number of concurrent connections a system can support.
The number of messages or message bytes that can be pumped through a messaging system per second.
The time it takes a particular message to be delivered from message producer to message consumer.
The overall availability of the message service or how gracefully it degrades in cases of heavy load or failure.
The efficiency of message delivery; a measure of message throughput in relation to the computing resources employed.
These different aspects of performance are generally interrelated. If message throughput is high, that means messages are less likely to be backlogged in the broker, and as a result, latency should be low (a single message can be delivered very quickly). However, latency can depend on many factors: the speed of communication links, broker processing speed, and client processing speed, to name a few.
In any case, the aspects of performance that are most important to you generally depends on the requirements of a particular application.
Benchmarking is the process of creating a test suite for your messaging application and of measuring message throughput or other aspects of performance for this test suite.
For example, you could create a test suite by which some number of producing clients, using some number of connections, sessions, and message producers, send persistent or nonpersistent messages of a standard size to some number of queues or topics (all depending on your messaging application design) at some specified rate. Similarly, the test suite includes some number of consuming clients, using some number of connections, sessions, and message consumers (of a particular type) that consume the messages in the test suite's physical destinations using a particular acknowledgment mode.
Using your standard test suite you can measure the time it takes between production and consumption of messages or the average message throughput rate, and you can monitor the system to observe connection thread usage, message storage data, message flow data, and other relevant metrics. You can then ramp up the rate of message production, or the number of message producers, or other variables, until performance is negatively affected. The maximum throughput you can achieve is a benchmark for your message service configuration.
Using this benchmark, you can modify some of the characteristics of your test suite. By carefully controlling all the factors that might have an effect on performance (see Application Design Factors Affecting Performance), you can note how changing some of these factors affects the benchmark. For example, you can increase the number of connections or the size of messages five-fold or ten-fold, and note the effect on performance.
Conversely, you can keep application-based factors constant and change your broker configuration in some controlled way (for example, change connection properties, thread pool properties, JVM memory limits, limit behaviors, file-based versus JDBC-based persistence, and so forth) and note how these changes affect performance.
This benchmarking of your application provides information that can be valuable when you want to increase the performance of a deployed application by tuning your message service. A benchmark allows the effect of a change or a set of changes to be more accurately predicted.
As a general rule, benchmarks should be run in a controlled test environment and for a long enough period of time for your message service to stabilize. (Performance is negatively affected at startup by the just-in-time compilation that turns Java code into machine code.)
Once a messaging application is deployed and running, it is important to establish baseline use patterns. You want to know when peak demand occurs and you want to be able to quantify that demand. For example, demand normally fluctuates by number of end users, activity levels, time of day, or all of these.
To establish baseline use patterns you need to monitor your message service over an extended period of time, looking at data such as the following:
Number of connections
Number of messages stored in the broker (or in particular physical destinations)
Message flows into and out of a broker (or particular physical destinations)
Numbers of active consumers
You can also use average and peak values provided in metrics data.
It is important to check these baseline metrics against design expectations. By doing so, you are checking that client code is behaving properly: for example, that connections are not being left open or that consumed messages are not being left unacknowledged. These coding errors consume broker resources and could significantly affect performance.
The base-line use patterns help you determine how to tune your system for optimal performance. For example:
If one physical destination is used significantly more than others, you might want to set higher message memory limits on that physical destination than on others, or to adjust limit behaviors accordingly.
If the number of connections needed is significantly greater than allowed by the maximum thread pool size, you might want to increase the thread pool size or adopt a shared thread model.
If peak message flows are substantially greater than average flows, that might influence the limit behaviors you employ when memory runs low.
In general, the more you know about use patterns, the better you are able to tune your system to those patterns and to plan for future needs.


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It's a very interesting time for carmakers.
General automotive technology has reached a high level of quality, making for a very level playing field. There are so many fine vehicles at practically every price point that consumers' buying decisions are less determined by traditional criteria.
It even has Autoblog wondering about its role in the decision-making process for shoppers.
Bloomberg reports that people basically ignored Consumer Reports' negative review of the new Honda Civic and bought nearly a quarter-million cars through September, putting it back in position to take over the top spot in the compact car segment from Toyota and GM.
What do you think, is the automotive press relevant anymore?
Read more about the press being completely irrelevant!
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Thoughts And Sentiments On The Evil & Wicked Traffic Of The Slavery & Commerce Of The Human Species -Page 13
Author: Cugoano, Ottobah
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Date: 1787
Text of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's 'Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human species.' Cugoano, an ex-slave and prominent spokesman for London's black community, published this work in 1787. In it he argues for an end to the slave trade and for the emancipation of the enslaved people in the colonies. This public position taken by an African made a significant contribution to the abolitionist cause.


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NEW ORLEANS — While the geographic incongruity of the Lakers slam dunking near the ocean in Los Angeles and the Jazz playing pick-and-roll music in conservative Utah have become ingrained parts of NBA tradition, the feeling was that for pro basketball to finally thrive in southern Louisiana, a new name to match the region would finally help put down roots.
Thus were born the New Orleans Pelicans. Or, more accurately, a rechristening of the Hornets, arrivals from Charlotte, N.C. in 2002 and temporary refugees in Oklahoma City from 2005 to 2007.
Part resurrecting the banner of a beloved minor league baseball franchise (1887 to 1959) and part homage to the official and resilient state bird that appears on the state flag, seal and commemorative quarter, the new team nickname was an instant hit before the start of the 2013-14 season.
"Actually, it was funny that the reaction all over the country was surprised and, in some cases, not good," said team president Dennis Lauscha. "Because as soon as the name spread around here, people got it. Immediately. The pelican means something in Louisiana."
The name-change was the most public evidence of a total revamping and rebranding of the franchise since the purchase by Tom Benson in April 2012. Since the 86-year-old owner of the NFL's New Orleans Saints spent a reported $338 million to buy the club from the NBA, there has been a full-court press to make upgrades to every level of the organization in a city that has had a mutually noncommittal love affair with professional basketball since the days after World War II. From the Hurricanes to the Sports to the Buccaneers to the Jazz to the Hornets, loyalty has often been discarded like a plastic beer cup on Bourbon Street.
"That's why it was important for us to demonstrate right away that this, in no way, was stop-gap ownership," Lauscha said. "The mandate from Mr. Benson was that if we were going to get into the NBA, then we were going to get in all the way and make the same kind of commitment that eventually produced a Super Bowl championship for the Saints."
That push is coming every day, more than eight years after the devastation inflicted upon the city and the entire Gulf Coast region by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the population within the city limits is 369,250, down from a 2000 high of 484,674. But there has been a gain of 28.2 percent since 2007. The greater metro area is now at 1.2 million, off just 8 percent from 1.3 million in 2000.
New Orleans, ranked 53rd, is the smallest television market in the NBA, yet the Pelicans have made significant inroads by finally getting distribution into the prosperous North Shore area of Lake Pontchartrain. The Pelicans had the largest increase in part- and full-season ticket sales in the league and ranked among the top third in merchandise sales coming into the 2013-14 season when the new name became official. Two weeks ago, the team announced a 10-year deal worth a reported $40 million to rename 14-year-old New Orleans Arena as the Smoothie King Center.
"There's a new energy, a new sense of excitement around the team and whole franchise," said coach Monty Williams, now in his fourth season. "When I first got here, all I heard was the reasons why guys didn't want to come here. Practice site, location of the practice site. All these things that to me were excuses. Because you're not in the game in the fourth quarter, about to shoot free throws and thinking, 'Man, if we had a better practice site I'd make these.'
"All that stuff can be an excuse. But now I'm listening to people around the league. I've got players coming up to me during the game and saying, 'Hey Coach, don't forget me this summer.' I wasn't hearing that the first few years. Everybody just wanted to get out of here. I didn't have a problem with that. They weren't doing anything illegal. I just wanted guys to give it a chance. You can see the potential here. We've got an unbelievable fan base. We just need them to come to games more. I've been lobbying for that and I think they will once we give them a better reason to."
Jack Sperling mid-wifed the team through the period when the Hornets were owned by the NBA. Then Mickey Loomis, also general manger of the Saints, became the head of basketball operations, and he and Lauscha undertook a plan that has produced a $10 million Pelicans practice facility that adjoins the Saints in nearby Metarie. It is state of the art and then some, the finest in the NBA.
"They showed me blueprints and plans last summer when I first got traded to the team," said point guard Jrue Holiday. "I said, 'OK, that's nice.'
"Then I got down here for training camp and it was open and all you could say was 'Wow!' I think there is definitely a different feel. I'll be the first one to tell you that two years ago I would say, 'No, don't send me down here.' But now that I'm here and now that we have a new facility and, especially with the team that we have, the players, the coaching staff, it's definitely one of the top places to be."
The Pelicans are led by 2012 No. 1 draft pick Anthony Davis, who in his second NBA season has posted unprecedented numbers for a 20-year-old. He is the hoped-for franchise anchor for the next decade.
"I can't and won't look way off into the future at anything that could happen," Davis said. "But I've got to say that everything that has taken place with the team and around the team tells you that everyone in charge is doing all they can to make it possible for us to succeed on the court.
"I can't speak for what the atmosphere or the operation might have been like before I was drafted. I can only say that I like my teammates, our coaching staff and the way every effort is being made to improve. And it's great to play in New Orleans. Except for one trip in the NCAA Tournament in college, I was never here before I was drafted. But I feel at home here. The fans have opened their arms to me, to all of us."
This will be the second NBA All-Star Weekend held in New Orleans in the post-Katrina Era, yet there is a noticeable difference from the last time in 2008. That game was a kind-of personal pledge from former commissioner David Stern, who wanted to demonstrate to the world that his league was fully behind the recovery effort. That was at a time when there was talk of the team relocating permanently to Oklahoma City. It was before the league stepped in and bought the team from George Shinn and ran it for more than two years.
"I had a sense just before we purchased it that there was not really the necessary effort and muscle to make that team successful," Stern said. "It deserved a chance to be successful. So when we took over, we put a little elbow grease behind it, improved the business prospects and had some conversations with the mayor and the business community.
"When you are talking about someone with the experience and the know-how and the connections in the city to make the franchise not just viable but very successful in the long run, of course, Tom Benson is the first name on that list in New Orleans."
The octogenarian is a tireless businessman and promoter of his teams. He attends every Saints game, home and away, sits courtside for every Pelicans home game and has his calendar filled most nights of the week with appearances around town.
"I don't know a lot about owner-coach relationships because this is my first time doing it," said Williams. "But I hear some of the other things some coaches go through with their owners and I just sit here and think, 'I don't have that problem at all.' I don't have anything to say about Mr. B at all, other than he gives you everything you need. When you look at this practice site and the type of money he's spent on young talent, he makes you want to win for him.
"He comes to the games. He's talking about my wife and kids. He's saying, 'You were busy last summer. You were in Africa, Team USA.' He's talking stuff, he wants to win, no question. He's tasted Super Bowl. What he's done for us and for all of this to happen in a matter of two years, that's phenomenal.
"My rookie year as a coach we went to the playoffs and this town, it was like we were in The Finals, and I want our guys to experience that. They haven't yet. I got a taste of it in my rookie season. There's no question that it can work here and it will."
Avery Johnson is a New Orleans native, a graduate of St. Augustine High, who attended Southern University in Baton Rouge and watched his beloved Jazz move away to Salt Lake City in 1979. He spent 16 years in the NBA as a player, five as a head coach and is now an ESPN analyst.
"I always crossed my fingers and hoped for New Orleans, but I wasn't sure about the NBA ever coming back," he said. "Then the Hornets showed up, then Katrina hit and you had to figure it was all lost again.
"But now, with Tom Benson owning the club, man with all the contracts, the corporate infrastructure and the synergy that's possible with the Pelicans and the Saints, I can honestly say for the first time that it's possible for the NBA to be a success in New Orleans, a big success."
There is work to do, plenty of it. Lauscha, a native of the area, has dreams of drawing fans from northern Louisiana and across the Gulf Coast region — to Mississippi, Alabama and the panhandle of Florida.
"Football is in the blood of the people, but there is a lot of history of basketball in Louisiana — Bob Pettit, Bill Russell, Karl Malone, Willis Reed. Of course, Pete Maravich at LSU and with the Jazz.
"Its about tapping into that history and tapping into a sense of local pride and connecting this team to the city. I believe we can do that."
Dell Demps has been the general manager since 2010. In that short time, he's seen some great change.
"My first year here the team was in the process of being sold. The league took over the team in year two and part of year three. Then getting the leadership of the Benson family, Mickey Loomis, Dennis Lauscha, it gives us an stability.
"Then with the rebranding of the Pelican name, the symbolism of being the state bird and how the pelicans have been able to survive the hurricane, the gulf oil spill a few years ago. Just what that bird stands for — the resiliency of the state, the people, the city of New Orleans. It just gives us an identity that is our own. I think it puts us on the map with a whole new start."


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2001 Press Releases > August 2001 News Releases > New women's dormitory welcomes students for fall semester
New women's dormitory welcomes students for fall semester
New paint, new furniture and new bathrooms are a dream for nearly any student that lives in a university dormitory. For forty-plus young women at Wayland Baptist University, that dream is now a reality.
Wayland welcomed its first residents to the new women's dormitory for junior and senior women this week. A $1.1 million facility in a suite format, the dorm is located on the north side of the campus at Ninth and Smythe Streets.
The new facility features 48 rooms for residents. Each suite has two private rooms - each with their own private full bathroom - adjoined by a small living area with sofas, end tables and closets. The sofas also fold out to make a bed for any overnight guests.
The individual rooms have a high bed with dresser-type storage underneath and room for more storage. The beds can also be lowered closer to the ground. Each student also has a desk and their personal closet.
Like any other Wayland residence hall, the dorm features a residence hall supervisor with an on-site suite and several resident assistants who are students. Marge Nelson, a retiree from Sudan, has the helm as RHS, a new venture for the mother of four and grandmother of four.
"I thought about when my children went to college, and how they just seemed to struggle that first year," Nelson said. "I love the association with young people and wanted to help out."
Nelson said she began contacting area universities who might need dorm parents and Wayland responded positively. With a new dorm opening in the fall, the need was apparent.
"I'm just blessed to be here," Nelson said. "If I am able to help these young ladies in any way, I'll be happy."
Construction on the new dormitory began in the spring after campus housing reached 97 percent capacity last year. The dorm will be almost full when the new school year begins Wednesday. The dorm is yet to be named.


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Meet Phong Lam
Academic advisor Phong Lam has worked in several key student services departments since 2006, which has expanded her skills and knowledge about De Anza's student culture. "I believe I have a duty to motivate, mentor and encourage our next generation of leaders," Lam says. "My current position allows me to work and mentor all students that are willing to obtain a higher education and influence those who need direction."
Selda Sigala-Aguilar, nominator and co-worker in the Student Success Center, says Lam is critical support for the success of the Math Performance Success (MPS) program. "Phong designed a user-friendly data system for enrollment of potential MPS students," she says. "She is a whiz on the computer and committed to her work and the students she helps."
Lam volunteers with the Outreach Office by helping with the annual Open House each spring quarter. "She is good at recruiting fellow co-workers to help with these activities," Sigala-Aguilar says.
Students also appreciate the extra effort Lam puts into working with them and anticipating their needs. "She listens to students' concerns or problems and will do anything for them. Phong is dedicated and cares for the us during stressful times in school," says student Avishan Khosravyani.
Fellow student Madhu Kohli agrees. "Phong has always been available, willing to stay late and work around students' schedules. She not only provides the students with academic advice, but also with food and snacks from her 'pantry' that she keeps for students," Kohli says. "Only the other day, she brought in a whole bunch of bananas because students in one of the MPS classes had a mid-term, and she thought that many would not have had breakfast."
Kohli also says, "I wish I had met her earlier during my stint at De Anza and had the opportunity to recommend her to others. She absolutely deserves to be De Anza's Employee of the Month."


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Reviewed by Paul I. (age 8) and Abel L. (age 9)
The lesson in this story is that you don't always get what you want, but sometimes you do.
Paul's favorite part is when Yehuda had to run twice around the island because it was a test to let him in to America. Abel's favorite part was when a stray bullet tore off the tip of Yehuda's finger because it got Abel's attention.
Paul likes the illustrations because the look like they are really back in time. Abel liked the illustrations because some were paintings and some were post cards.
The book reminded Paul of the horror of people going back to their country. The book reminded Abel of World War II because it was a war when Yehuda's finger got shot off.
We recommend the book to people who like non-fiction and journey books.


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H&M's latest collaboration isn't one you'd expect. The Swedish high-street retailer is partnering with the World Wildlife Fund on a "game-changing" water-management plan to minimize its footprint. The three-year effort is as much a matter of corporate stewardship as it is self-interest. Nearly 2.7 billion people, or 40 percent of the world's population, live in river basins that experience water scarcity during at least one month of the year, according to the environmental group's 2012 Living Planet report. Roughly a third of the units responsible for H&M's wet processes are situated in areas that are now, or will be by 2025, extremely dry.
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"Water is a key resource for H&M and we are committed to ensure that water is used responsibly throughout our value chain," Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of H&M, says in a statement. "We do this to minimize risks in our operations, to protect the environment and to secure the availability of water. We are proud of the partnership with WWF which we hope will inspire others to follow."
The first-of-its-kind strategy will roll out across all 48 of the retailer's international markets.
The first-of-its-kind strategy will roll out across all 48 of the retailer's international markets.
The joint, first-of-its-kind strategy, which will roll out across all 48 of the retailer's international markets, is expected to involve 94,000 H&M employees, 750 direct suppliers, and many fabric manufacturers. To promote more-sustainable choices among its designers and buyers, H&M will provide additional training in the water impacts of raw-material production, as well as wet processes for different styles. WWF and H&M will also work in conjunction with public-policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, water institutions, and other stakeholders to support better management of river basins in China and Bangladesh, particularly the Yangtze and Brahmaputra Rivers, respectively.
"This partnership marks an evolution in the corporate approach to water," says Jim Leape, director general of WWF International. "H&M understands that its long-term success depends on access to adequate water supplies. It also understands that its social license to operate depends on being a good neighbour and good steward of shared resources."
H&M has been on the charm offensive of late. The company, which was named the world's No. 1 buyer of organic cotton in November, recently unveiled the world's first global clothes-recycling program. As a member of Greenpeace's "Detox" vanguard, H&M also initiated a ban on perfluorinated compounds, a class of toxic chemicals used primarily to repel water and oil in outerwear, effective this month.
Not that the retailer hasn't endured its own share of controversy, of course. In October, a Swedish news program accused H&M of not doing enough to prevent sweatshop-like conditions in Cambodia and elsewhere.


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After a Navy issued stolen gun is found to belong to a Chief Petty Officer who died 40 years ago, the NCIS team reopens the cold case, one that Wade has personally tracked and investigated for years. Also, the team prepares for their annual Thanksgiving dinner together, on NCIS: NEW ORLEANS, Nov 25 (9:00-10:00, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network. Pictured L-R: Angela Gots as Miriam Tarlow, Cristine Rose as Hannah Tarlow, and CCH Pounder as Dr. Loretta Wade Photo: Skip Bolen/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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* Foreign governments want China to get tougher on copyright
* China says it's taking the problem seriously
* Big brands/famous individuals have complained in the past
BEIJING, Dec 24 (Reuters) - China plans to change the law to crackdown on "malicious" trademark registrations, state media said on Monday, after a series of cases in which well-know international brands and individuals have had their names or copyright misused.
Foreign governments, including the United States, have for years urged China to take a stronger stand against intellectual property rights violations on products ranging from medicines to software to DVD movies.
Basketball legend Michael Jordan is one of the latest to accuse a company of using his name without permission, and French luxury group Hermes International SCA and Apple Inc have faced trademark problems too.
The proposed amendment will offer protection to major international brands, giving copyright owners the right to ban others from registering their trademarks or from using similar ones, even if such trademarks are not registered, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
"The draft is intended to curb the malicious registration of trademarks," Xinhua said.
The country's legislature - which performs a largely rubber stamp role - will discuss the amendment this week, it said, without saying when the new rules could be put in place or providing other details.
The move comes after basketball star Michael Jordan filed a lawsuit in China in February against a Chinese sportswear company, accusing the firm of unauthorised use of his name.
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame recipient and former Chicago Bulls star said that Qiaodan Sports, a company located in the southern Fujian province, had built its business around his Chinese name "Qiaodan" and jersey number without his permission.
The lawsuit has yet to go to trial, Chinese media have reported.
France's Hermes International SCA has also had problems in China with its trademark, and in July Apple Inc agreed to pay $60 million to Proview Technology (Shenzhen) to end a protracted legal dispute over the iPad trademark in China.
China has insisted it is serious about tackling intellectual property violations.


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Andrea Stark has been appointed as the first Chief Executive of a new charity managing the High House Production Park in Purfleet. The charity aims to develop the Production Park further as an international centre of excellence for culture, creative skills and regeneration.
Prior to being appointed as Chief Executive, Andrea held the position of Executive Director of Arts Council East and South East and was instrumental in establishing the High House Production Park.
Of Andrea's appointment, Tony Hall, Chair of the High House Production Park and Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House said:
"I'm delighted that Andrea is taking up this new role. She is perfect for it. She has exceptional credentials, but is also passionate about Thurrock, passionate about cultural regeneration and a real visionary. "
High House Production Park opened in late 2010 with the Royal Opera House relocated its set and scenery construction to the new purpose-built Bob and Tamar Manoukian Production Workshop. Since then, the flagship building for the National Skills Academy for Creative & Cultural has opened its doors. It will provide unique training opportunities in backstage and off-stage stills. The building also includes a purpose-built 'practice theatre' with sound, lighting rigs and a fly tower. The next phase in the development of the 14-acre site includes the building of artists' studios, dedicated space for independent artists and creative businesses.
Tours of the High House Production Park are now available. Watch a film showing the creation of the set for David McVicar's production of Les Troyens, which took place at the Park:
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ISC 12: IBM Power on Top; Nvidia-Intel Face Off Looms
A lot of news out is coming out of the International Supercomputing show (ISC 12) happening this week in Germany, led by the reports that the U.S.'s Sequoia system is now back in first place on the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers for the first time since November 2009. What I found even more interesting, though, were announcements from Intel and Nvidia that should pit two different flavors of supercomputing up against each other even more later this year, when both come out with new processors.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's Sequoia system, based on IBM's Blue Gene/Q computers and IBM's Power CPUs, now bests other supercomputers by a huge margin. The computer produced 16,324 teraflops (16.32 quadrillion floating point operations per second) on the Linpack benchmark, well more than the previous best score from the "K computer" at Japan's RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, based on Fujitsu SPARC64 processors.
The Sequoia system has 1,572,864 cores, each running at 1.6 GHz, as compared with the second-place K computer, which has 705,024 cores running at 2.0 GHz, and now produces 10,510 teraflops on the same test. Of course, it's not just the cores and the speeds of the individual processors, but also the way the cores are connected with one another that allows for the performance.
Sequoia is used by the Department of Energy. The system is designed to simulate nuclear weapons performance and eliminate the need to test actual weapons underground.
The TOP500 list consists of a number of new systems, including a new number three, Argonne National Laboratory's Mira system, which also runs on an IBM Blue Gene/Q cluster. Overall, the TOP500 systems include 372 based on Intel processors (45 of which are the new Xeon E5s), 63 based on AMD Opteron processors, and 58 based on IBM Power processors. Fifty-eight systems use accelerators or co-processors, including 53 that use Nvidia chips, two that use ATI Radeon, two that use the Cell processor, and one that uses Intel's new MIC (Many Integrated Core) technology.
While the Power system got most of the attention, I was just as interested in the new announcements from Intel and Nvidia.
Nvidia said its new Tesla K10 GPU, a 28nm version based on the "Kepler" architecture, will offer the industry's highest single precision performance (4.58 teraflops) and highest memory bandwidth (320 GB/sec) in a single accelerator. The company is pushing the chip for defense, life and material science, oil and gas, and media and entertainment applications.
Intel announced the name of its forthcoming Many Integrated Core (MIC) chip, Xeon Phi, which had been code-named Knights Corner. Intel says this will be out by the end of the year, will be based on the company's 22nm "tri-gate" process, and will have more than 50 cores. Each Phi node (consisting of a Phi processor and two standard Xeon E5 processors on a PCIexpress card) is said to produce more than one teraflop. In addition, supercomputer manufacturer Cray said it will use the Xeon Phi in its forthcoming Cascade supercomputer.
Both Tesla and Phi are aimed at highly parallel tasks, as opposed to the more linear tasks suited for more standard processors such as Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron. Still, they have different programming models. Nvidia has been touting its CUDA model, while Intel has been talking about how Phi still runs the familiar Intel architecture. (Meanwhile, AMD and others are pushing a more standards-based approach to heterogeneous systems architecture.) It looks like the Intel and Nvidia models are likely to face off a lot in the coming year, both in supercomputers and other parallel processing tasks, from oil and gas to complex financial models. I expect we'll hear much more about this at the SC12 show this fall, when we'll also hear details about the Phi chip.


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Has it only been five days? Seems longer.
Got into San Diego around noon, picked up the rental car, checked into the slum that is the Westgate Hotel, and started the drive-bys.
Baja Books, signed 3 paperbacks.
B. Dalton on Horton, signed 2 hardcovers, 3 paperbacks.
Barnes & Noble on Hazard, signed 4 hardcovers, 6 paperbacks.
Barnes & Noble on Grossmont, signed 4 hardcovers, 8 paperbacks, sold 1.
Bookstar on Rosecrans, signed 2 hardcovers, 2 paperbacks.
Borders on Camino del Rio, signed 2 hardcovers, 6 paperbacks, sold 1.
Borders on 6th, signed 2 hardcvoers, 6 paperbacks.
Waldenbooks on Friars, signed 6 hardcovers, 6 paperbacks.
Then I got stuck in some serious rush hour traffic, and it took 90 minutes to get to my signing that night, at Mysterious Galaxy.
Huge crowd. The store was packed.
Unfortunately, they were all there to see Jeff Shelby. Jeff's novel KILLER SWELL (great debut, go buy it right now) just came out, and he'd apparently invited everyone he'd ever known since Kindergardem to the event.
Jeff's a great guy, and funny (much like his books), so we talked to the crowd for an hour and got some big laughs.
Then came an exercise in humility---sitting next to the guy who has a line of fifty people waiting for autographs, when you only have a line of three.
If you're a writer, get used to it. It will happen many times in your career.
The staff at Mysterious Galaxy was great, I signed over 50 books, and afterward went out to dinner with writer Douglas Gibbs and his wife, and writer Mario Avecedo.
Got home at 11PM, so tired I couldn't even blog. Had a fitful seven hours of sleep, and right after I finish typing this I'm off to LA for drive-bys (do they have drive-bys in LA?) and an event at The Mysterious Bookshop tonight at 7pm.
Hope to see some of you there!
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The news just keeps getting worse for old media sectors and providers. Almost every Wall Street report or consultant survey that comes out these days predicts a dire situation for old media operators in coming years. New technologies, distribution outlets, the digitization of all information, complete media portability, and rapidly changing consumer expectations are combining to undermine the hegemony of the old media guard.
The latest report echoing this theme comes from a Kagan newsletter entitled, "Media Giants Cling To 'Growth' Label Even As Their Core Businesses Plateau." This sobering report, which is based on a much longer study due out shortly, notes that the media industry's "self proclaimed 'growth stocks' no longer show impressive growth." "Over the past five years, [the share prices for] Disney, Comcast, News Corp., Time Warner, Viacom and other big names have underperformed the broad stock market, and their organic revenue gains are nothing special.
As a result, the Kagan report predicts anemic growth for old media operators in coming years. From 2005-2015, they project the following compound annual growth rates for various media outlets / services:
1% for daily newspapers;
2% for premium pay TV channels;
2.3% for TV stations;
2.3% for networks;
3.9% for movies;
4.4% for basic cable;
This echoes what Daniel English and I revealed in our recent analysis of the financial performance 5 leading media company stocks. In "Testing 'Media Monopoly' Claims: A Look at What Markets Say," Daniel and I found evaluate the market performance of Time Warner, News Corp., Clear Channel, Comcast, and Viacom over the past five years and show that they have lost a whopping 52 percent of their market value (in terms of market capitalization). Moreover, we charted the performance of the entire Dow Jones U.S. Broadcasting & Entertainment Index and showed that it is down almost 45 percent below where it stood in 2000.
Meanwhile, Google's over $400 a share and the Internet continues to steal away countless consumers of old media services. An yet, there are some people in this country who still lose sleep at night about the supposed big, bad "media monopolies" that supposedly rule the universe and control our thoughts! Give me a break.


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Artwork Chosen for Macey Lawn, Sept. 18, 2000
SOCORRO, N.M., September 14, 2000 -- Masayuki Nagase's design concept, "Passage of the Earth and Sky," has been selected as the top candidate from a field of 45 art proposals which were vying for a state grant to create an original, interactive public artwork on the New Mexico Tech campus.
Nagase's large-scale, environmental sculpture, a landscape composition of boulders, inter-weaving paths, and sand and lawn areas, recently was chosen by a selection committee to provide "a fun and welcoming setting" in an area just south of the university's Macey Conference Center.
The renowned stone sculptor, who is based in Berkeley, Calif., estimates that it will take anywhere from six to seven months to complete the $112,000 project.
"My main source of inspiration is the essence of Nature and the multiple images and forms which represent universal symbols of life," Nagase says. "As a starting point for my design concept, I began to look at the natural characteristics of the region of Socorro. This region has many significant and contrasting features, from the high desert to the nearby oasis at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge to the presence of the Rio Grande."
Funding for the new environmental sculpture on the Tech campus is made available through the Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts, a division of the Office of Cultural Affairs.
The Art in Public Places Program, in turn, is funded through New Mexico's "One Percent for the Arts" legislation, which mandates that one percent of the costs of state-funded capital projects be set aside to provide funding for public art projects.
Financial support covering the total cost of the proposed public art project on the New Mexico Tech campus was derived from the construction of the university's Jones Hall Annex and the Weir and Cramer halls renovation projects.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Roots - my first two pictures ever attempted in photoshop Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Roots - my first two pictures ever attempted in photoshop" AlloymemberMember #Joined: 28 Dec 2000Posts: 71Location: Dallas, TX, USA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 11:05 pm You guys can laugh all you want, I do too looking back at these. Amateur and filter heavy, these were the first two pictures that got me started about two months ago ------------------ Alloy(Jim Rose) Back to top paqpaqjunior memberMember #Joined: 09 Dec 2000Posts: 25Location: Germany Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 11:10 pm i do like the first one but i don't like it's colors. Maybe a rusty version would be cool Back to top JezebelmemberMember #Joined: 02 Nov 2000Posts: 1940Location: Mesquite, TX, US Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 11:38 pm Hey, that's better than me... My first PS images were things like the "sheet metal" and "nebula" textures from sites like DBM. *giggles* Oh I take that back, in high school we had an assignment where we have to scan in an image, run an emboss filter on it, convert it to greyscale and paint over the top of it, hehe :> -Beth ------------------ Take off your clothes. It's OK - I'm an artist. [url=http://div.dyndns.org/FOO!]http://div.dyndns.org/FOO![/url] http://div.dyndns.org/beth/photography Back to top faustgfxmemberMember #Joined: 15 Mar 2000Posts: 4833Location: unfortunately, very near you. Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 11:40 pm and "found" ec3.0 to go with them from the very beginning? :p ------------------ sky high with a heartache of stone you never see me 'cos i'm always alone email@example.com icq#35983387 http://faustgfx.0wns.org Back to top AlloymemberMember #Joined: 28 Dec 2000Posts: 71Location: Dallas, TX, USA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 11:54 pm Actually, I started at work. The other guy that uses that computer during the day had photoshop with all the extra plug-ins(eyecandy, kpt3,5 and 6). I don't even use filters anymore, except for maybe a smart blur to clean up a shading job or something. ------------------ Alloy(Jim Rose) Back to top FreddioAdministratorMember #Joined: 29 Dec 1999Posts: 2078Location: Australia Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 12:06 am I still use filters.. it depends what looks good and if its needed or not. all the blur filters if used correctly can produce a nice effect.. My first photshop pic about 10 months or so ago one of my later one... see different styles used.. the later one is only paintbrush compared to the dodge burn pic above.. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Early Rehabilitation After Hip Fracture
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00133640
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified August 2006 by Swiss National Science Foundation.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : August 23, 2005
Last Update Posted : September 11, 2006
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The aim of this study is to compare a low versus high intensity physiotherapy early rehabilitation program combined with a low versus high dose vitamin D early rehabilitation program in a randomized controlled trial among elderly patients with acute hip fracture in an acute care setting. The primary outcome to be compared between treatment arms is the rate of falls during a 12-month follow-up. Secondary outcomes are injurious falls, number of persons who fell, low-trauma fractures (at the hip, forearm, humerus, pelvis, ankle, spine, femur, tibia), disability, quality of life (Euro-Qol), mortality and health care utilization. Another secondary outcome will be admission to nursing home compared between treatment arms among subjects, who are community-dwelling prior to the index hip fracture. Admission to nursing home is the marker of loss of independence for the individual, but also triggers high cost for the society.
The study will provide new early rehabilitation guidelines to allocate health care resources efficiently in the acute care setting. Eventually and most importantly, the study will help improve outcomes in patients with hip fractures.
|Condition or disease
|Accidental Falls Fractures Hip Fractures
|Drug: cholecalciferol Behavioral: Physiotherapy
|Phase 3
The researchers will enroll 204 elderly subjects (men and women) admitted to two large hospital centers with acute hip fracture. Subjects may be institutionalized or community-dwelling prior to admission. To be enrolled in the study subjects need to be 65 years or older. Demented persons, who reach a Folstein Mini Mental Status of less than 15 are excluded.
Once written informed consent from participants or proxies is given, subjects will be randomly assigned to 4 different program combinations based on a 2X2 factorial design: (1) low dose vitamin D / low intensity physiotherapy; or (2) low dose vitamin D / high intensity physiotherapy; or (3) high dose vitamin D / low intensity physiotherapy; or (4) high dose vitamin D / high intensity physiotherapy. Low dose Vitamin D is 800 IU cholecalciferol per day and high dose vitamin D is 2000 IU cholecalciferol per day.
Subjects will be recruited within 5 days after hip fracture surgery and followed for adverse outcomes over a 12-month period. Dose of vitamin D will be double-blinded.
|Study Type :
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|204 participants
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|Official Title:
|Early Rehabilitation After Hip Fracture: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Different Vitamin D and Rehabilitation Programs
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|January 2005
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|December 2008
- rate of falls compared between treatment arms
- rate of injurious falls
- number of persons who fell
- low-trauma fractures (at the hip, forearm, humerus, pelvis, ankle, spine, femur, tibia)
- disability
- quality of life (Euro-Qol)
- mortality
- health care utilization
- admission to nursing home compared between treatment arms among subjects, who are community-dwelling prior to the index hip fracture
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|65 Years and older (Older Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 65 years or older
- Acute hip fracture admitted to one hospital center
Exclusion Criteria:
- A Folstein Mini Mental Score of less than 15 as an indicator of significant dementia
- Primary hyperparathyroidism
- Current cancer with wasting or bone metastases
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Sarcoidosis
- A kidney stone in the past 5 years or significant renal disease (creatinine clearance below 15 ml/min)
- Hypercalcemia (albumin adjusted) of more than 2.8 mmol/l
- non-surgical treatment
- no German language skills
- severe hearing or visual impairment
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00133640
|Contact: Heike A Bischoff-Ferrari, MD, MPH
|Triemli Hospital
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|Principal Investigator: Robert Theiler, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|Heike A Bischoff-Ferrari, MD, MPH
|University of Zurich
|Study Director:
|Robert Theiler, MD
|Triemli Spital Zurich
|Study Chair:
|Hannes B Staehelin, MD
|University of Basel
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Keywords provided by Swiss National Science Foundation:
Vitamin D
Hip fracture
Physical Therapy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Fractures, Bone
Hip Fractures
Wounds and Injuries
Femoral Fractures
Hip Injuries
Leg Injuries
Vitamin D
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Bone Density Conservation Agents
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Love bugs are the bane of millions of motorists in the South. They are actually flies (Diptera) not bugs, and for two seasons (spring & fall) the adults engage in mating behavior, sometimes flying 5000 feet in the air and several miles over the Gulf of Mexico. They even have their own airline..the slogan is "Fly United" : )
Believe it or not, they are actually considered beneficial; the larvae live in decaying vegetable matter and help decompose it. Thousands can be found under cow patties. The adults feed on nectar and can help pollination of flowering plants. And, no despite what you've heard, love bugs are NOT a University of Florida Entomology Dept biological experiment gone awry. If anything blame Florida State Univ... Love bugs migrated along the Gulf Coast from Mexico in the 1940's-- and FSU had first duty to stop them as they blew threw Tallahassee : )
And yeah, even though we deal with killer bees, hornets, and yellow jackets daily, there is no reasonable control methods for love bugs. Oh why did it have to be love bugs ??
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capanache wrote:Sure its just a single click or hit of tab. But the cursor should already be there. This is easy, would improve the site, and if you wanted to do the math could literally save cumulative hours and days of peoples time.
I completely agree with this kind of logic. There's no reason for that extra click. And it seems like a simple coding fix. We're working on getting some improvements underway. I'm going to send this to SUBMITTED as it seems like a really quick and obvious fix. Is there any reason not to do this?


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Star Trek Starfleet Academy Titanium Spork
To boldly eat . . .
- Special edition spork in collectors' packaging
- Laser engraved with Starfleet's motto
- Fully licensed Star Trek collectable
You've made the big decision. You could work in the shipyards, you could be a lounge singer - but no, you've chosen to enlist in Starfleet Academy. Here's what you have to look forward to: tons of studying, lots of friends, maybe a case of space acne, and oh so much more. You also can expect one of the most mind blowing orientation sessions ever. You'll get your dorm and roommate assignments, your class schedule, your academic advisor, and your titanium spork. We kid you not. We've always told folks that the titanium spork was the utensil of the future, and now (after we yanked a bunch through a chrono-synclastic infundibulum) we have the proof to um, well, prove it. The Star Trek Starfleet Academy Titanium Sporks are the official sporks of Starfleet Academy, and they have the laser engravings to prove it!
Seriously, folks, the Star Trek Starfleet Academy Titanium Spork is just about the coolest Star Trek collectible ever, because it is fully functional. Just like the one Kirk used while a student (perhaps even while planning to cheat at the Kobayashi Maru scenario), these are laser engraved with the Starfleet emblem and other stuff which we'll tell you about soon. And remember, we know how important it is for you to hold a replica of Spock's Student Spork at the premier of the new movie! Live long, and prosper.
Please Note: These are not the limited edition sporks, but a brand new design for the whole Federation and beyond to enjoy (i.e. non-limited edition).
- Star Trek Starfleet Academy Titanium Spork
- Get this special edition spork to prove your allegiance to the Federation!
- Each spork is laser engraved and comes in special collectors' packaging.
- Features Starfleet's motto on the back: Ex Astris, Scientia
- Fully licensed Star Trek collectible.
- Dimensions: approx. 6.25" long and 1.5" at its widest point.


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Term: Rhyme
Rhyme is the repetition of the end-sounds of words. Examples include Valerie Bloom's use of "tramp" and "camp" in 'The River', Roger McGough's use of "breath" and "death" in 'Oxygen', and Peter Porter's rhyme of a single-syllable word with a polysyllable, "stars" with "particulars", in 'So, Francis, Where's the Sun?'. Each of these is an example of end-rhyme, which means the rhyme occurs at the end of a line, but rhyme can also happen within a line, where it is known as internal rhyme.
A rhyme on a stressed syllable, as in the examples above, is sometimes referred to as 'masculine rhyme'; its counterpart, feminine rhyme, is made up of a stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables, such as "fishes" and "wishes" in Charles Causley's 'At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux'.
These near-exact repetitions of end-sounds are known as full rhyme (sometimes as perfect, true or exact rhyme). There are also various forms of near-rhymes (half-rhymes, slant-rhymes, pararhymes), which are not exact repetitions, but are close enough to resonate, as David Harsent's use of "supper" and "blubber" as rhymes in 'Marriage: XVI', or P J Kavanagh's "happy" / "Cavafy" in 'Perfection Isn't Like A Perfect Story'. Further types of rhyme include eye-rhyme, which looks like it should rhyme but doesn't (e.g. through / although), and rime riche, in which the words that rhyme sound identical (e.g. hare / hair).
Rhyme can be used purely for its own sake, because it sounds good, but there may also be further reasons; for example, the form of terza rima has overlapping rhymes that give the poem forward motion, as in George Szirtes' 'Preston North End', each stanza's middle line giving the rhyme for the outer two lines of the next stanza. The "breath" / "death" rhyme, noted above, is not only nice in the ears but resonates because these two concepts are linked, as they are in the poem.


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I started to read with a bipartisan mindset about "Xen and Theory of RHEL-evance" posted in the Citrix community blog by Simon Crosby. What appears to be a great title at first seems to be mostly FUD on why KVM is doomed for failure especially in the enterprise marketplace and Red Hat will drown with it. It did not have enough facts, just FUD most of the time. I would to counter his so called "facts" here as its been a long time anyway since I last updated my blog.
Firstly Simon recommends that if you wanna go virtual with a Linux / RHEL mindset, that you should go with Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) because …
It is a superior, enterprise class version of RHEL, and typically more up to date than it, and OEL is guaranteed to be compatible with RHEL.
What did Simon means by superior, enterprise class version of RHEL? Typically more up to date? and being binary compatible at the same time? last time I check OEL is based on RHEL and using mostly CentOS patches. Can CentOS or OEL exists without RHEL at the first place? seems full of bull to me. And Oracle with its new shiny Solaris added to the mix, how do you think its gonna effect its Linux offerings?
Next, he also recommends to use SLES if you are non-Larry group …
Alternatively, if you're wary of giving Larry more control than he already has over your environment, Novell SUSE Linux offers a superb enterprise Linux platform boasting more than 3,000 certified applications, fully supported on Xen and XenServer, with complete support for SAP and (via Mono) many Microsoft .Net apps.
As the world is moving to KVM, so do smart companies such as Novell. Its already a tech preview in SLES 11 and expected to be supported by SLES 11 SP1. So thanks Simon for recommending people to KVM-world. BTW welcome to the club Novell, great to have you onboard.
Availability of the KVM platform by Red Hat also seems to be another major issue. Simon noted that there's no freely downloadable product for Red Hat KVM offering. Although I quite agree that RHEV is not freely available (for a reason that I will come to later), KVM support in RHEL is available since version 5.4 and for that matter OEL (from my source Oracle Linux team Australia seems to confirm KVM is in OEL) and CentOS have it on their distro. As I said earlier above, both were built from the source of RHEL and had the same packages, kernel version etc minus the RH branding. So go ahead download CentOS and run it as a Hypervisor for your VMs. If you feel the urge to get support, you know who to call.
The reason why Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or RHEV is not available as open source is due to the current management console runs on .NET which requires Windows Server and other Microsoft dependencies. This is due to code being developed by Qumranet, a start-up that now part of Red Hat Inc. Red Hat is now heavily migrating all the tools into a Java-based application before releasing its source code (or say my Red Hat source). It will hopefully will be launched during RHEV version 3 soon. And I believe Red Hat due to its past history, where all its software being released fully bits by bits to GPL such as dogtag, 389ds, Teiid and JBoss.org initiative. BTW did Citrix release their Xen management tools as GPL?
Next up, history lesson.
Red Hat's endeavors in virtualization started with profound endorsements of Xen, followed, when Novell SUSE Linux was the first vendor to ship Xen 3.0 in 2006 as a component of SLES 10, with an accusation that Novell was "irresponsible" and then by a completely unsubstantiated statement by Red Hat VP Alex Pinchev to ZDNet Australia, that "Xen is not stable yet, it's not ready for the enterprise.". Then, as RHEL 5 belatedly readied itself for delivery in late 2006, Red Hat proudly proclaimed that only it could deliver an enterprise class virtualization product based on Xen, together with a rich management infrastructure.
When Novell launched its Xen offering to the market with SLES 10, not long after that the Xen Community changes its default scheduler due to the rapid development of Xen at the time. Also Novell launched it offerings without any real management tools at that time (which later it includes in SP1).
Red Hat on the other hand launched with libvirt and virt-manager to protect its investment in the Virtualization marketplace. Libvirt is an API to hook to any virtualization technology underneath it OS so that if any new hot virtualization technology surfaced (which in this case KVM) it can then switch its current management tools (e.g. virsh and virt manager) to the new technology easily. More info on Libvirt here.
So IMHO Red Hat was "quite" right to say Xen is not ready when SLES 10 launch and put its money where its mouth is by developing libvirt and virt-manager which nearly all distro with any virtualization technologies bundles today.
Simon also seems to play down the relevance of KVM on his ending notes.
Essentially, Linus would have to agree to turn Linux into a great hypervisor, and historically he has maintained a balanced path that has not yielded to special interests.
Linux is meritocracy and only the best codes win. If the code is good enough, it will be in the kernel. KVM which written by Avi is a clean implementation of Virtualization on Linux just by enabling a module without rewriting the critical components of the kernel code. Why reinvent the wheel when some of the best and greatest mind in OS development is there in the mainstream kernel?
KVM hypervisor needs a scheduler? thats already in Linux, KVM can use that. NUMA support? yes KVM can use a little bit of that etc etc. The slick implementation just by turning the module to turn your Linux as a hypervisor seems great to me anyway, more or so for Linus which approves it.
Do note that Xen is yet to be included into the mainstream kernel as of today.
The industry has three excellent type 1 hypervisors: Xen, Hyper-V and ESX. Does it really need a fourth, and a fourth that is incompatible with the others?
Hyper-V? Excellent? Really? I dont know if support for only 1 vcpu and flaky mouse integration for Linux considers as excellent.
Red Hat and the Linux community generally have failed to acknowledge the fundamental need in virtualization for a stable interface between the hypervisor and guests, with both backward and forward compatibility, for all time.
… and Citrix and Xen failed to acknowledge that we need to have only single standardized code base for everyone that is the mainstream Linux kernel. Why reinvent the wheel again?
Moreover the infrastructural "basics" of resource pooling, multi-tenancy, virtual switching, and virtual storage are quite simply missing from its offering.
While I do agree there is certain features not available in RHEV/KVM offerings, Xen do have its own deficiencies by itself. Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) feature is still not yet available in the Xen Hypervisor which enables memory overcommitting. This will ensure you can run more RAM that you have as KVM will look for similarities in the memory footprint and merge them together. The only other virtualization technology that have this is VMWare last time I check. And NO, Memory Ballooning is not the same with KSM. I bet most customers wants KSM more than what you listed above. With KSM you can run more VMs on a smaller number of physical nodes for KVM than Xen.
In other words, a large Linux distro, such as RHEL 6 with KVM, will have a substantially larger code base and attack surface than any type 1 hypervisor. Moreover it is likely to have to deal with every CERT update due to vulnerabilities in Linux. By contrast, a small embedded Xen hypervisor (together with a tiny embedded Linux kernel to run the management stack and drivers) can easily be delivered within a 16MB footprint.
Did Mr Simon knows that you can run a stateless hypervisor for RHEV and KVM under 128Mb using JeOS RHEL?. And yes we can also runs on memory card / USB flash drive etc a'la VMWare and Citrix thanks to the Fedora project livecd-to-iso script.
Finally, I have previously argued that the relevance of the OS-centric approach to next-gen infrastructure is questionable. The next-gen OS will not be a thing that runs a server – but a thing that runs apps across virtualized infrastructure.
Yeah but saying "OS-centric approach is questionable" and "Hyper-V is an excellent Hypervisor" in the same blog post is more questionable than your argument. Did Hyper-V is not based on Windows Server code base? Can we virtualize using Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2?
Its business model, which requires that RHEL is a binary that is available only to paying customers, leaves it vulnerable to truly free, enterprise grade products.
Did you know you can run RHEV without paying for any RHEL? Just pick up how many sockets that you requires and runs RHEV-M and RHEV-H to virtualize your windows guest all without paying a single dollar for RHEL. Maybe this page can help you understand it better. You can email me if you need more info at our company website.
The end note is this, both Xen and KVM are wonderful piece of achievement by the community at large. Having both are a testament to the open source model itself and keeps each other honest and competitive product. By bashing KVM mindlessly and with FUD all over it doesn't make Citrix Xen offering better and so do vice versa for Red Hat. And KVM do gain from strength to strength and now powering the big blue cloud and also The Planet. Not bad a piece of technology that just come around circa 2007.
Naturally for all Linux communities, distribution and vendors will favour the KVM approach due to its simplicity and tight integration with the kernel they knew and love. Red Hat, Fedora, SLES 11 SP1, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva etc had all integrate their offerings around KVM. But it is foolish to write off Xen, not when Oracle and Citrix are still behind it. Though I still thinks Citrix (and Simon) lost quite a few sleep due to KVM, RHEV and Red Hat lately.
Disclaimer : Warix Technologies is one of the partner for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization in Malaysia and I am a Fedora Ambassador.


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Goa, state of India, comprising a mainland district on the country's southwestern coast and an offshore island. It is located about 250 miles (400 km) south of Mumbai (Bombay). One of India's smallest states, it is bounded by the states of Maharashtra on the north and Karnataka on the east and south and by the Arabian Sea on the west. The capital is Panaji (Panjim), on the north-central coast of the mainland district. Formerly a Portuguese possession, it became a part of India in 1962 and attained statehood in 1987. Area 1,429 square miles (3,702 square km). Pop. (2011) 1,457,723.
Relief and drainage
Sandy beaches, estuaries, and promontories characterize the 65-mile (105-km) coastline of mainland Goa. In the interior region, low, forested plateaus merge with the wooded slopes of the Western Ghats, which rise to nearly 4,000 feet (1,220 metres) on the eastern edge of the state. The two largest rivers are the Mandavi and the Zuvari, between the mouths of which lies the island of Goa (Ilhas). The island is triangular, the apex (called the cape) being a rocky headland separating the harbour of Goa into two anchorages.
Goa's climate is equable, with high temperatures generally in the 80s F (30s C) and low temperatures in the 70s F (20s C) throughout the year. A southwest monsoon blows between June and September. The state receives about 115 inches (3,000 mm) of rainfall annually, most occurring during the monsoon season.
Population composition
The Portuguese colonial heritage and the diverse local population of Goa have cultivated a unique cultural landscape. The population is primarily a mixture of Christians and Hindus: the western coastland and estuaries are dotted with wayside crosses and Roman Catholic churches, while the hilly east is scattered with Hindu temples and shrines. There is also a notable Muslim population in Goa, as well as smaller communities of Jains, Sikhs, and practitioners of local religions. Portuguese was once the language of the administration and the elite, and as part of that legacy, many Goans bear Portuguese personal names and surnames. Today, however, most Goans tend to speak Konkani, Marathi, or English.
Settlement patterns and demographic trends
Old Goa, on the island of Goa, was once the hub of the region, but the city was decimated by war and disease in the 18th century; for the most part, only its ruins remain. Since the mid-20th century, however, efforts have been made to preserve Old Goa. Among the city's most notable landmarks are the Basilica of Bom Jesus, which enshrines the tomb of St. Francis Xavier, and the Se Cathedral, dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria. Both were built in the 16th century, and, with several other churches of Goa, they were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986.
There are three principal cities in contemporary Goa: Panaji (Panjim), Marmagao (Mormugão), and Madgaon (Margão). Panaji was originally a suburb of Old Goa. Like its parent city, Panaji was built on the left bank of the Mandavi estuary. Now a busy port city, it contains the archbishop's palace, the government house, and many markets. Marmagao, sheltered by a promontory and outfitted with a breakwater and quay, is one of the major ports between Mumbai and Kozhikode (Calicut; in the state of Kerala). It specializes in the shipment of iron ore and manganese. As Marmagao developed, so too did nearby Madgaon, with its industrial estate, cold-storage facilities, and large produce market.
Over the course of Goa's history, Portuguese rule and fluctuating economic conditions caused emigration on a large scale. Many Goans have moved not only to other parts of India but also to the former Portuguese colonies on the eastern coast of Africa.
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
Agriculture remains a mainstay of Goa's economy, with rice, fruits (such as mangoes), coconuts, pulses (legumes), cashews, betel (areca nut), and sugarcane among the leading crops. Principal forest products include teak and bamboo. The state has an active fisheries industry along its coast, although sustainability has been a growing concern in the 21st century. The state exports a number of its agricultural commodities.
Goa is rich in minerals. Mining began in the mid-20th century, and over the next few decades it emerged as a central component of the state's economy. Iron ore, manganese, and bauxite are among the primary products of the industry. Especially since the late 20th century, however, the adverse environmental impact of opencast mining has prompted heated controversy and intermittent government-mandated moratoria on production. Although new environmental regulations were put into place in the early 21st century, mining remains a sensitive issue.
Since the late 20th century, government policies and concessions have promoted Goa's rapid industrialization, particularly through the development of many industrial estates. Fertilizer, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, iron products, and processed sugar are among the leading large-scale industries. There also are medium- and small-scale industries, including traditional handicrafts. Goa's manufactures are distributed both domestically and abroad.
The service sector of Goa's economy has increased in importance since the late 20th century. This is attributable largely to the rapid growth of the tourism industry. By the early 21st century, tourism constituted a significant segment of Goa's economy, as the state's long, sandy beaches, coastal vegetation, coconut palms, and unique hotels attracted large numbers of international and domestic visitors. The expansion of tourism, however, has raised concerns about preservation of the natural environment.
Goa is well connected to the rest of India—and the world—by road, rail, sea, and air. In Panaji there is a large bus terminal that adjoins the station on the Konkan railway. Completed in 1998, the Konkan railway runs along India's western coast from west-central Maharashtra to southern Karnataka, where it links with the country's southern railway. Another rail line connects the state's primary port at Marmagao (via Madgaon) with the country's southwestern rail system by way of Castle Rock (in Karnataka) in the Western Ghats. There is an international airport at Dabolim, near Panaji.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
The structure of Goa's government, like that of most other Indian states, is defined by the national constitution of 1950. The governor is appointed by the president of India for a five-year term. In addition to governing Goa, the governor administers the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Assisting the governor is the Council of Ministers, which is headed by a chief minister and is responsible to the elected Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha).
Educational and training institutes range from primary schools to technical and collegiate institutions. Goa University (1985), one of India's premier postsecondary institutions, is located at Bambolim, near Panaji. The National Institute of Oceanography (1966), which is famous for its oceanographic research and for its expeditions to Antarctica, is located at Dona Paula, on the far western tip of Goa Island.
The ancient Hindu city of Goa, hardly a fragment of which survives, was built at the southernmost point of the island of Goa. The city was famous in early Hindu legend and history; in the Puranas and various inscriptions, its name appears as Gove, Govapuri, and Gomant. The medieval Arabian geographers knew it as Sindabur, or Sandābūr, and the Portuguese called it Velha Goa. It was ruled by the Kadamba dynasty from the 2nd century ce to 1312 and by Muslim invaders of the Deccan from 1312 to 1367. The city was then annexed by the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar and was later conquered by the Bahmanī sultanate, which founded Old Goa on the island in 1440.
With the subdivision of the Bahmanī kingdom after 1482, Goa passed into the power of Yūsuf ʿĀdil Khan, the Muslim king of Bijapur, who was its ruler when seafarers from Portugal first reached India. The city was attacked in March 1510 by the Portuguese under Afonso de Albuquerque. The city surrendered without a struggle, and Albuquerque entered it in triumph.
Three months later Yūsuf ʿĀdil Khan returned with 60,000 troops, forced the passage of the ford, and blockaded the Portuguese in their ships from May to August, when the end of the monsoon season enabled them to put to sea. In November, Albuquerque returned with a larger force and, after overcoming a desperate resistance, recaptured the city, killed all the Muslims, and appointed a Hindu, Timoja, governor of Goa.
Goa was the first territorial possession of the Portuguese in Asia. Albuquerque and his successors left almost untouched the customs and constitutions of the 30 village communities on the island, abolishing only the rite of suttee (sati; the immolation of widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands).
Goa became the capital of the whole Portuguese empire in Asia. It was granted the same civic privileges as Lisbon, reaching the climax of its prosperity between 1575 and 1600. The appearance of the Dutch in Indian waters precipitated the decline of Goa. In 1603 and 1639 the city was blockaded by Dutch fleets, though never captured, and in 1635 it was ravaged by an epidemic. In 1683 a Mughal army saved it from capture by Maratha raiders, and in 1739 the whole territory was again attacked by the Marathas and was saved only by the unexpected arrival of a new Portuguese viceroy with a fleet.
The seat of the government was moved to Mormugão (now Marmagao) and in 1759 to Panjim (or New Goa; now Panaji). Cholera epidemics were one of the chief reasons for the migration of the inhabitants from Old Goa to Panjim. Between 1695 and 1775 the population of Old Goa dwindled from 20,000 to 1,600; in 1835 the city was inhabited by only a few priests, monks, and nuns.
During the 19th century, major events affecting the settlement were its temporary occupation by the British in 1809 as a result of the invasion of Portugal by Napoleon I; the governorship (1855–64) of Count de Torres Novas, who inaugurated a great number of improvements; and the military revolts of the second half of the century. The most notable of the revolts was that of Sept. 3, 1895, which necessitated the dispatch of an expeditionary force from Portugal. The infante (Portuguese prince) Affonso Henriques, duque de Oporto, accompanied this expedition and exercised governor's powers from March to May 1896.
After India achieved independence in 1947, it made claims on Goa in 1948 and 1949, and Portugal came under increasing pressure to cede Goa and its other possessions in the subcontinent to India. In mid-1954, Goan nationalists seized the Portuguese enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and established a pro-Indian administration. Another crisis occurred in 1955 when satyagrahis (nonviolent resisters) from India attempted to penetrate the territory of Goa. At first the satyagrahis were deported, but later, when large numbers attempted to cross the borders, the Portuguese authorities resorted to force, which resulted in many casualties. This led to the severance of diplomatic relations between Portugal and India on Aug. 18, 1955. Tension between the two countries came to a head on Dec. 18, 1961, when Indian troops supported by naval and air forces invaded and occupied Goa, Daman, and Diu. All three territories subsequently became part of India. Goa became a state in 1987.Sudhir Vyankatesh Wanmali
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
Portuguese India: The age of Golden GoaThe voyages of Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama (1497–99, 1502–03, 1524) opened the sea route from western Europe to Asia by way of the Cape of Good Hope. For almost a century (1500–1600), the Portuguese held a monopoly on European exploration and trade…
Christianity: Authority and dissent…China and Japan—but in Indian Goa, for example, the temples and customs of all indigenous religions were eliminated by the Portuguese conquerors.…
Christianity: Roman Catholic mission, 1500–1950Francis Xavier (1506–52) reached Goa in 1542. He established Christian communities in India, built a college in Goa for training priests, began a prospering mission in Japan, and died off the coast of China while hoping to enter that land. Despite his death, there were about 300,000 Christians in…
Church of Saint Francis of AssisiChurch of Saint Francis of Assisi, Roman Catholic church situated in the main square of Old Goa, 6 miles (10 kilometres) east of Panaji, Goa's state capital. The Church of St. Francis of Assisi, together with a convent, was established by eight Portuguese Franciscan friars who landed in Goa in…
IndiaIndia, country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. It is a constitutional republic consisting of 29 states, each with a substantial degree of control over its own affairs; 6 less fully empowered union territories; and the Delhi national capital territory, which includes New Delhi, India's…
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Paying one-pointed attention to your word is the essence of meditation. John Main always stressed: 'Just say your word.' That is all that is needed. But as you well know the mind just keeps on going off on its day dreams, keeps on worrying or planning. Hence the importance of our word, our aid to help us focus one-pointedly.
Leaving thoughts behind
We saw the importance that the Tradition lays on letting go of our thoughts. One of the important consequences of doing this is that it helps us to stay in the present moment. By focusing on our 'word' we leave thoughts behind, which always link us to the past and to the future. Just watch your thoughts for a moment.
The contemplative tradition
The fact that meditation, contemplative prayer, is authentically Christian can also be seen from the fact that in many Christian traditions silent prayer forms the centre of worship. In the Carmelite tradition St Teresa of Avila was very influenced in the first twenty years of her spiritual journey by a popular devotional book of the time called the 'Third Spiritual Alphabet' by the Francisco di Osuna, a Franciscan monk, which recommends praying by repeating a spiritual phrase.
Introductory Talks
Often when we tell people we meditate in the Christian tradition, they look at us in amazement. Christian meditation, surely that does not exist? When we tell them that it was in the early centuries of our era an integral part of Christian worship, their disbelief grows into scorn: "If that were so, why have I not heard about this in Church?" they protest.
Can the pursuit of a spiritual path lead to the very egocentricity it is trying to escape? Not infrequently. The Desert monks were acutely aware of this danger especially in solitude and relied above all upon the abba-disciple relationship to avoid it.
John Cassian, whom Thomas Merton called the 'master of the spiritual life for monks – the source for all in the West' and who put John Main back on the path of contemplation was born probably in modern day Romania about 360 AD.
Gregory of Nyssa
Indian philosophy includes the doctrine of 'advaita' or non-duality. We are not one with ultimate reality but we are not just dualistically related to it either. As with all ideas this one has spawned many versions. There are strong and weak forms of 'advaita'.
When Origen's father was martyred his mother only prevented him from offering himself for the same fate by hiding his clothes. One of his great works is The Exhortation to Martyrdom where he sees this witness to faith as a sign of total discipleship.
Clement of Alexandria: Jesus, the Divine Physician
Perhaps all identity is born from conflict. Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher, thought everything came out of conflict. Christian identity in its infancy also had to engage with and separate from strong religious and philosophical forces in Judaism, Greek thought and Gnosticism.
The occasion for the first great divide in the history of Christian spirituality was an esoteric and eclectic form of mysticism that is still with us and erupts from time to time in Hollywood blockbusters.


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Looking for a hitting partner around a 4.0 in gwinnett.
Used to play d2 college tennis and taken a few years off. Looking to get back in the routine of playing. Weekends and evenings work best.
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I am a 4.0 living in Marietta, Let me know if you'd like to set-up a time to play somewhere in sandy springs (about 30 min drive for both of us). My number is 678-938-0357.
I live in Alpharetta, I am a 3.5 too and love tennis.. Having a tough time to find hitting partners.
Please let me know if u are interested. We can probably meetup somewhere equidistant.
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