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Links for April 10th
Links from my del.icio.us account for April 10th:
- Mubarak hangs on | Middle East Strategy at Harvard - Steven Cook on the current crisis
- Egypt calls in more troops in case of Gaza border breach - So I wonder what the new limit of troop numbers the Israelis have accepted is
- Egypt police arrest democracy activist - Yahoo! News - On George Ishaq
- AKI - Egypt: Can bread subsidies continue in their present form? - Looking at some of the economics behind subsidies
- FT.com / Revolt against Egyptian state?s low-pay deal - Nice article about Doctors Without Rights

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Grant, I would like to tell you how much I appreciate this board. It is so useful and it seems to be working for the most part. There are a lot of good questions comming out of the new members and I am happy to answer them in here. Thank you for getting this done so quickly. You really took immediate action after people started to suggest something like this. I think it is going to help keep the Male Fragrance discussion less clustered and let those who give advice do so without the mess of finding the noob threads.
I feel like it is already working in terms of better threads in the MFD. There has been a lot of good threads started and 2 new dependents, which is always nice. It has just been going great IMO and I would like to say keep it up!! I love what you are doing here and I hope it continues to be such an amazing community.


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Sunday, March 22, 2009
"South African" Premier League
Let's talk Indian Premier League.
Insert obligatory comment about the passage of time: it really doesn't seem like a whole year ago we first saw a cricket in such a... dazzling... light.
It was amusing but it didn't take long to lose interest. Sure, Ricky Ponting wore a black and gold costume (uniform doesn't say enough) and Shane Warne proved he's still ace, but it's only Twenty20, and the whole thing went for too long.
It really was a tournament of very little substance.
The best part of it, in my opinion, was seeing the likes of Ponting and Ganguly playing side by side; something county cricket followers would be familiar with, but we haven't got an Australian equivalent.
But a lot of things have changed in the last twelve months.
India has been subjected to a horrific terrorist attack.
The recent attack in Pakistan saw made us realise that our beloved sportsmen are not immune to the instability of the world.
The 2009 IPL will coincide with federal elections in India.
If I was a cricketer I wouldn't want to go. As it is several Australians have pulled out of the competition. Though citing other reasons, security must have been a factor and a big one.
The Indian government have said they cannot provide extra security because of the elections.
"Due to the attitude of the government that it cannot provide security for the tournament, we are forced to take a decision to move the IPL out of India," the country's cricket chief Shashank Manohar told reporters.
I commend the BCCI for this. It would have been easy to turn a blind eye and reap the reward and profit, despite the risk of attack.
South Africa is the likely host for the IPL, with England a second alternative.
I wonder what implications this will have for the league's profits.
An integral part of this tournament is interpellation - Indians identify with the IPL, it's their tournament. Their celebrities own the teams, those celebrities are often filmed in the crowd celebrating or lamenting the performance of their team. The spectacle and the glamour, from the player auction to the season launch to the costumes; it is India.
In turn, atmosphere at Indian cricket matches is something to behold, and I believe assist to sustain the interest in this event. They are an immensely lively bunch and it goes hand in hand with the extravaganza of the IPL. Again, it is their tournament. Will it be mimicked in South Africa? No.
There is a 3.5 hour time difference between the two countries. Granted this is not as big as if it was being held in England, but it will still affect prime time viewing in India (and make no mistake, this tournament is held to be broadcast in India).
Take away these patriotism factors - will the Indians lose interest if tournament seems to become South Africa's? My Indian blogger friends are far more qualified to comment on this than me, but it makes me wonder.
While all these factors are interesting to consider, none of it really matters. What matters is the safety of the cricketers and subsequently the safety of the people around them who may in turn be affected (security guards, by-standers etc).
There can be no doubt the BCCI are doing the right thing here. If that means the IPL dies, which is unlikely even if this season goes badly, so be it.
I also commend South Africa for being ready to mobilise with this.
It's cricket. We're there for each other.
14 comments:
- Oomby Dave said...
Can you imagine, if there was an attack nw matter how small in india on an international player it would be the same fate for Pakistan, they cannot afford this. I support South Africa getting the role, easier for me to get to and I suppose another reasons it's going there is because theres a huge Indian population over there :)
- March 22, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Although it could still be a stunt by Lalit Modi to induce a backdown by the Indian government... sounds like he's trying to do exactly that. In any case, even if the government does wish to back down, security isn't going to materialise out of thin air.
I agree completely that part of what makes the IPL fun for the first few weeks (after a while, it becomes a tad dreary) is the crowds and the support. Indian fans probably get a kick out of seeing celebrities there as well. So moving it to South Africa is going to harshly impact on that. It's being thrown around that it'd be a made-for-television event, which is, I suppose, the next best thing.
- March 23, 2009 at 5:29 AM
- David Barry said...
I also commend South Africa for being ready to mobilise with this.
Would they do it if they weren't going to make money out of it? I mean, I would like the IPL to continue existing, but if there's going to be a fight between England and South Africa over who hosts it, I don't think it'll be because they're both super-altruistic.
- March 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM
- cricketanalysisdotcom said...
Sure the IPL is all about money, not pride, but no matter, I love the tournament anyway. There's 10 and a half months a year for the more traditional stuff...let's hope it stays that way I guess.
The Indian crowds made the tournament meaningful, so it's disappointing from that standpoint, but I'm glad they did the right thing by putting security first. And South Africans will probably turn up for the tournament in big numbers anyway.
- March 23, 2009 at 2:31 PM
I am in favor of moving the tournament to South Africa at least the players would be safe their. Recent attacks in Pakistan on the Srilankan team could have wiped off a whole generation of cricketers.
Secondly there are always talks about giving security to the team's equivalent to the head of state but in reality we have seen how nincompoops the organizers/administrators can be in arranging the security.
I am not sure how successful will the tournament will be this year but just imagine when people can be up to watch England play West Indies in a test match till 2AM in this part of the world! surely IPL has a more lot of entertainment to offer. Specially people like Haydos, Warne, Lee and the legends.
- March 23, 2009 at 4:35 PM
- 12th Man said...
I commend the BCCI for this. It would have been easy to turn a blind eye and reap the reward and profit, despite the risk of attack.
This clearly shows that the BCCI is only bothered about money and wants to prove to the Indian government that they will make money irrespective of whether the event is held in India or not.
My only doubt is what kind of fan following do they expect in South Africa or England for the Chennai Super Kings or the Delhi daredevils or the like- the teams which will contain 7 Indians in them.
Doesn't seem to me like a lucrative idea. I will blog about this topic this week.
- March 23, 2009 at 5:13 PM
wrt to television and broadcasting, I heard on the ABC today that regardless of location, they want the games played for afternoon and evening broadcast in India.
- March 23, 2009 at 5:23 PM
- Rob said...
The BCCI are saying its 100% England. The IPL is due to start on 10 April. There is a reason we do not have Test matches in England in April: its either cold, raining, snowing or windy. Usually in combination. The wickets will be like sponge and the outfield sludgy. Madness.
- March 24, 2009 at 12:48 AM
- YellowMonkey said...
Well I think they should move it to England. In any case, I think the benefits of player development far outweigh that of short term financial interest. At least it shouild, anyway.
- March 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- Amy said...
There's no way they could disregard something as completely threatening to the chances of matches actually being carried out as weather. It's the IPL - we don't want the players to be hanging around in the changerooms looking out the windows to check whether it's stopped raining. The point of T20 is to be fast, eventful, and certainly NOT slowed down by bad weather.
In my mind, there's almost no decision to be made. South Africa is likely to be the only real choice they have. How would the ECB work around county cricket and organise the IPL in so short a period of time?
- March 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM
- Rob said...
Today (24th March), it looks quite nice outside. Sunny, almost spring like. Go outside and you need a coat. It is just too cold and wet (hence SA got chosen). There will be some fall out though -- the BBC were categorically told it was the UK -- don't be surprised if it ends up back in India.
- March 25, 2009 at 12:39 AM
- cricketguru said...
And with that we came to the end of the closing ceremony. Akon, the laser-act, the drum-shows, Miss IPL Bollywood contestants' fashion parade, Katrina Kaif and Eddie Grant. Ohh it was a star stacked show, amazing indeed!
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- May 26, 2009 at 6:36 PM
- cost per head said...
that is so interesting I did not know anything about the South African Premier League, actually I did not know it even existed
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The N.F.L. season kicked off, over the past two weeks, with the great Peyton Manning first tying the record for touchdown passes in a game—he threw seven, in the slightly distracted, hurry up, head-bouncing, "guys, we got work to do" way that underscores his unexcited greatness—and then, against the Giants, outduelling his little brother Eli. Though others have thrown seven T.D. passes in a single game, it had been almost fifty years since anyone has; looking at the other record holders, and meaning no disrespect to Joe Kapp, it does seem as though they had accomplished it in a time with a different and less rigorous game.
Peyton's performance remains of the kind that a distinguished nonathlete such as myself can find inspiriting, since it is, or seems, so purely cognitive. Watching him these first two weeks, I was reminded of what a peculiarly mental task quarterbacking is, in a way that maybe throws sideways light on the Jets' own poor, now apparently nevermore Mark Sanchez. Sanchez's trouble is neither one of courage nor of confidence; it's that he can't keep his mind on two games at once. Peyton is able to play a peripheral-vision-and-foot-coördination game, noting where the onrushing giants are coming and slipping around them (this may in large part be an ear-foot game, with what he hears counting as much as what he sees) and at the same time remain completely focussed on the hand-eye-coördination game taking place twenty or so yards ahead of him. He avoids the rush and completes his passes, doing both at once and not, as with poor Mark, one at a time, in unsuccessful sequence.
And yet what is really on my mind as the N.F.L. season begins is the English Premier League—the other kind of football.
One of the reliable and yet ever-surprising things in life is that we take up some idiosyncratic passion only to look up and find that it has, somehow, become a popular craze. In this case, my nineteen-year-old son developed a strange passion for English top-division football. I had put it down to the oddities of his transatlantic upbringing when, right on cue, I learned that the English Premiership has emerged from the specialized cable channels and week-in-review shows where had been hiding for the past twenty years with a significant investment by NBC, which successfully bid two hundred and fifty million dollars on a three-year deal for broadcasting rights. (The league's previous partner, Fox, had been paying just twenty-three million a year.)
I find, talking to the eighteen- and nineteen-year-olds in his cohort, that they all are astonishingly knowledgeable about European football: one roots for Inter Milan; there are a couple of Arsenal supporters; and one, on a trip to Amsterdam, came home with, and won't remove, an Ajax cap. My son has gone for Chelsea, the West London side that I began supporting during a long winter many years ago in London, at a time when they were, if not exactly pitiful, then far from the Russian-money-fuelled dynamo they are now. Chelsea is now more his team than the Jets, or even the Mets or Yankees, and he follows their news at an ocean's distance, online on Reddit and various Chelsea forums and boards, as passionately as I once followed the Montreal Expos or the Habs from the nearby pavement outside the Forum.
The apparent explanation for their enthusiasm, I suppose, is that they played soccer (as I will call it henceforth, for fear of endless "which football?" confusion) in school, but I don't really think that's it. This is primarily a spectator phenomenon, as reflected in that astonishing NBC deal—the network has even sent taxis around New York with the colors of the leading Premiership teams—and it surely has to do with something larger, even portentous: soccer, all hype boiled off, is indeed the global game. And my son and his friends are, in an unexcited, matter-of-fact way, a global generation.
NBC made a brilliant decision in exactly this vein: to leave the announcing in the hands—or, rather, throats—of the British, fully half the appeal of English football always having been the diction and style of its commentators. Ten years ago, NBC would doubtless have insisted on flat-footed, consonant-crunching Americans, to try to make the game accessible: "Think of the center midfielder as—well, he's, like the quarterback of the whole team, what they call the 'side'…" The English announcers move beautifully from the laconic to the passionately understated, rarely giving way to cliché; my favorite locutions involve either endless indirection ("What can he conjure up here, the Spaniard?") or else a nicely crafted telegraphic ("Ramires. In space. Oh! Optimistic.") "Optimistic," I should add, indicates an air ball. Its companion word, "cynical," modifies a cheap move: "Two fairly cynical fouls conceded by Chelsea in the last few minutes."
That the British sound is the desired one on American commercial sports broadcasting is in itself kind of amazing. But there they are: not just Chelsea and Man U. but West Bromwich Albion and Fulham, playing on NBC in the middle of a Saturday afternoon, once the territory of Tony Kubek and Joe Garagiola.
What really has made this happen? As I say, it's the global thing. And this is true in two senses. First, the teams themselves, far from being peculiarly English or Spanish, are now amazing Star Wars bars of many nations: Chelsea is a mix of Czech, English, Brazilian, Belgian, and Spanish players, with our great Côte d'Ivoire striker Didier Drogba not long parted. The heart-eye coördination that is the essence of fandom—as hand-eye, and ear-feet, is of quarterbacking—has been mostly successful, with some sad exceptions, at welcoming alien or remote types. European football has become the first sport to follow the scary, exciting rules of the new world coming: it's not where you are from but what you are doing right now, wherever you happen to be. (That this comes at a cost to local affiliation and cultural cohesion—there was some nice footage on a reality-television show about Liverpool, with the Brazilian players and their beautiful wives seeming as bewildered in the North of England as the Roman legionnaires must have been two millennia ago—may well be true. But there it is.)
Part of the joy of following a sport is the bubble-gum-baseball-card phenomenon: it always has been just as much fun to collect the cards, digest the averages, and order the gear as to watch the game. Soccer offers a universe of worldwide dimensions: you follow the transfer market as players pass from Brazil to Russia to China and then back to Birmingham, and it makes our docile, regimented procession from high school to college and then on to the pros look dull. The N.F.L. and N.B.A. drafts are heavily policed by the N.C.A.A. at one end, and by the obviously anti-free-market practices of the team owners at the other. Soccer is, right now, just more fun to follow for a fan, with more moving parts to watch and worry over—a much more intricate wiring of heart-mind coördination.
I don't mean in any way to idealize the conduct of soccer. The crowding of the best players onto a handful of teams is already fierce in the Premiership, and worse still in Spain; at some point, all of those Aston Villa and Crystal Palace supporters, faced with one more year of London and Manchester domination, are going to rebel the only way fans can: by losing interest. And soccer has a concussion issue of its own, though, to be sure, it is less of man-to-man collisions than of head-on-ball ones. (The stadium violence and hooliganism that scarred British soccer for so long do seem blissfully gone.) But for the moment, by chance and planning both, it is the game that represents the future, with globalization as an unexcited fact rather than a scary phantom.
Which leads us to the bigger question: As we complacently watch the renewal of our own little insular games, as odd to the world's sports as Australian fauna is to the rest of animal creation, can we really be sure that they are not just about to vanish into the past? Could American sport go the way of American steel, baseball become Detroit? This seems unlikely—large though NBC's investment in the Premier League is, its investment in the N.F.L. remains incomparable, somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion dollars—but then change always does until, all at once, it doesn't. Surely, at a minimum, if I were a commissioner or official of any of our national sports, the idea of internationalizing them would be urgently appealing. They're trying; basketball, especially, is making an effort. But when will the N.F.L. finally plant that team in London? The travel constraints don't really seem that hard to overcome. And yet these seem like distant, lazy-minded prospects. The N.H.L., meanwhile, which should be every bit as international as soccer, at least in the northern hemisphere—club teams playing club teams across the Atlantic, and national meeting national regularly, not just every four years—has, as I have complained again and again, turned in on itself in brutal insularity. There are lots of European players, but the collision of European and North American styles, once so bracing, is much muted.
Now, someone might point out that my son's eye-and-heart coördination has been be drawn away as part of a youthful detour, and a practical one—he was raised as a Jets fan and, at the moment, the best way to be a Jets fan is to look at anything but how they're playing. That sort of comfort ignores the quick quality of change. We complain about the concussions and regimented violence and commercial cynicism and sheer monotony overtaking our sports, about how joylessly repetitive and thuggish they've so often become, and the then wake up and find our teen-agers rooting for some small city in the English Midlands, or a biggish one in Northern Italy. Inter Milan! The day of reckoning, or levelling, may be a long time off, but if I were Roger Goodell, I would be listening to those English voices on Saturday mornings and—maybe even a little cynically, if not entirely optimistically—thinking about them, hard.
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The American Anthropological Association unveils the very first Annual Meeting app. Use the app to personalize your schedule, map your trip logistics, stay up to date with meeting announcements and much more!
Download the app now.
Conversations in Anthropology
Kudos to you! I hadn\'t thugoht of that!
Hi Joslyn,
Many thanks for the quick updates! I think having the links on top works well to highlight recent work. I'll encourage people to send links to you.
Thanks again!
I know this is a super-busy time for the AAA, so maybe this is for later, but wondering if we could update the Free Speech Forum tab, which last had entries from March 2011 and bin Laden. There has been great anthropological commentary and involvement with the issue of economic inequality and Occupy Wall Street. A selection of recent links:
and as self-promotion:
Apologies for things I've omitted, and as I said I know this is a very busy time.
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The Canton Chrono 511 DC is a three-way bass reflex floorstanding model, and employs two 9-inch Aluminum cone woofers, and a remarkably detailed 7-inch aluminum midrange. At just under four feet tall, it is the largest model in the line, and has an extremely linear and solid bass response that extends all the way to 20 Hz. It also features Canton's exclusive DC technology, which uses a proprietary high-pass filter to eliminate signals below the audible frequency range, which can otherwise generate high levels of unwanted harmonic distortion in the audible lower bass range. DC technology allows the speaker to provide clear, linear bass reproduction at much lower frequencies than could be attained with conventional crossover designs.
The Canton Chrono 501 is a compact 2-way sealed enclosure speaker designed for on-wall mounting, making it ideal for use in the surround channels of a home theater system, or as high-performance architectural model when in-wall designs are undesirable. It features a 6-inch aluminum bass driver, and is capable of surprisingly powerful midrange and bass response that extends as low as 40 Hz.
Both the Chrono 511 DC and 501 feature gold-plated speaker terminals, including biwire/biamp capability for the 511 DC. The Chrono 511 features an attractive black wood-grained finish with a gloss black front baffle and aluminum accents. The 501 is available in the same black finish, or in an attractive all-silver finish.
The Canton Chrono 511 DC and Chrono 501 are each currently available at suggested retail prices of $1,400 each and $425 each, respectively.
Canton Electronics Corporation is the US distributor for Canton Elektronik GmbH., Weilrod, Germany. Canton is the largest manufacturer and best-selling brand of loudspeakers in Germany. It was founded in 1973 by a group of audio enthusiasts who defined their mission simply "to always develop the finest loudspeakers in their class." Since the late 1970s, Canton products have been available in the in the U.S., where they are popular with quality-focused specialty retailers and custom installers.


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Scurvy has been known since ancient times. People in many parts of the world assumed it was caused by a lack of fresh plant foods. The British Navy started giving sailors lime juice to prevent scurvy in 1795. Ascorbic acid was finally isolated by 1933 and synthesized in 1934. The uses and recommended daily intake of vitamin C are matters of on-going debate. A recent meta-analysis of 68 reliable antioxidant supplementation experiments involving a total of 232,606 individuals concluded that consuming additional ascorbate from supplements may not be as beneficial as thought.
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Considerations for Upgrading Reporting Services
Upgrade is performed by SQL Server Setup. SQL Server Setup can be used to upgrade any or all SQL Server components, including Reporting Services. To upgrade an earlier version of SQL Server, run the SQL Server 2008 Setup program on a computer that has an earlier version of SQL Server installed. Setup detects the existing instances and prompts you to upgrade.
When you run Setup, you can select the option to upgrade from SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005, or you can install a new instance of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services that runs side-by-side existing installations.
This topic highlights important considerations that you should be aware of before you upgrade Reporting Services.
To learn which Reporting Services features have been discontinued, deprecated, or changed see Reporting Services Backward Compatibility.
Upgrading Editions and Versions
SQL Server 2008 Setup provides upgrade support for the following earlier editions of Reporting Services:
SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services installation with Service Pack 2 (SP2).
SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
Upgrading or downgrading from one SQL Server 2008 edition to another is supported.
Known Upgrade Issues
Before upgrading to SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, review the Upgrade Advisor documentation and the Online Release Notes for the latest information about upgrade issues. To obtain the Upgrade Advisor documentation, install Upgrade Advisor. For more information, see Using Upgrade Advisor to Prepare for Upgrades.
Known upgrade issues currently include the following:
No upgrade support for a report server that uses a remote SQL Server 2000 Database Engine instance to host the report server database.
No support for the SQL Server 2000 Report Server Web service in SQL Server 2008. This endpoint is discontinued. If you created or installed custom features that point to the ReportServer2000 endpoint, that custom functionality will no longer run. For more information about new endpoints, see Report Server Web Service Endpoints.
No support for earlier versions of the Reporting Services WMI provider. The Reporting Services WMI provider is not backwards compatible with previous versions. After upgrade, you cannot use the SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services WMI provider with earlier versions of Reporting Services.
For more information about supported upgrade scenarios, see Version and Edition Upgrades. If you cannot run Setup to perform an in-place upgrade of your existing installation, you can install a new instance of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services and then migrate your report server database and configuration files to the new instance. For more information about migrating Reporting Services, see How to: Migrate a Reporting Services Installation.
Pre-Upgrade Checklist
Before upgrading to SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, review the following requirements:
Review requirements to determine whether your hardware and software can support SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. For more information, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2008.
Use System Configuration Checker (SCC) to scan the report server computer for any conditions that might prevent a successful installation of SQL Server 2008. For more information, see Check Parameters for the System Configuration Checker.
Review security best practices and guidance for SQL Server. For more information, see Security Considerations for a SQL Server Installation.
Run the Upgrade Advisor tool on the report server computer to determine any issues that might prevent you from successfully upgrading. For more information, see Using Upgrade Advisor to Prepare for Upgrades.
Back up your symmetric key. For more information, see Backing Up and Restoring Encryption Keys.
Back up your report server databases. For more information, see Moving the Report Server Databases to Another Computer.
Back up the following report server configuration files: Rsreportserver.config, Rswebapplication.config, Rssvrpolicy.config, Rsmgrpolicy.config, Reportingservicesservice.exe.config, Web.config (for both the report server and Report Manager ASP.NET applications), and Machine.config (for ASP.NET if you modified it for report server operations).
Back up any customizations to existing Reporting Services virtual directories in IIS.
Before you upgrade a production environment, always run a test upgrade in a pre-production environment that has the same configuration as your production environment.
How to Upgrade an Earlier Version of Reporting Services
Setup provides upgrade options that you can specify as a command-line argument or in the Setup wizard. Choose from the following topics for instructions on how to upgrade your installation.
How to: Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 (Setup)
Explains how to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 using the Installation Wizard.
How to: Install SQL Server 2008 from the Command Prompt
Explains how to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 as a command-line operation.
Removing Files and Applications from the Previous Installation
Upgrade will not delete old log files, the obsolete RSWebApplication.config file, or virtual directory settings in IIS. Upgrade will not remove SQL Server 2005 Report Designer, Management Studio, or other client tools. If you no longer require them, be sure to remove these files and tools after upgrade is finished.
Upgrade Workflow
The upgrade process begins when you select an existing report server instance to upgrade.
If the report server database is on a remote computer and you do not have permission to update that database, Setup prompts you to provide credentials to update to a remote report server database. Be sure to provide credentials that have sysadmin or database update permissions.
Setup checks for conditions or settings that prevent upgrade and reads configuration settings. Examples include custom extensions deployed on the report server. If upgrade is blocked, you must either modify your installation so that upgrade is no longer blocked, or migrate to a new SQL Server 2008 instance. For more information, see the Upgrade Advisor documentation.
If upgrade can proceed, Setup prompts you to continue with the upgrade process.
Setup creates new folders for SQL Server 2008 program files. The program folders for a Reporting Services installation include MSRS10.<instance name>.
Setup adds the SQL Server 2008 report server program files, configuration tools, and command line utilities that are part of the report server feature.
Program files from the previous version are removed.
Report server configuration tools and utilities that are upgraded to the new version include the Reporting Services Configuration tool, command line utilities, and Report Builder. New tools installed with SQL Server 2008 include the new Report Designer Preview.
Other client tools such as Business Intelligence Development Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, and Books Online are not upgraded. To obtain new versions of the tools, you can add them when you run Setup. Earlier versions will co-exist alongside SQL Server 2008 versions. If you installed samples, the earlier version will remain. Setup does not support upgrade for the SQL Server samples.
Setup reuses the service entry in Service Control Manager for the SQL Server 2008 Report Server service. This service entry includes the Report Server Windows service account.
Setup reserves new URLs based on existing virtual directory settings in IIS. Setup might not remove virtual directories in IIS, so be sure to remove those manually after upgrade is finished.
Setup upgrades the report server databases to the new schema and modifies the RSExecRole by adding Database Owner permissions to the role. This step only occurs when you are upgrading from SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services or SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services prior to SP1.
Setup merges settings in the configuration files. Using the configuration files from the current installation as the basis, new entries are added. Obsolete entries are not removed, but they will no longer be read by the report server after upgrade is finished.
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A beautiful forecast will help to get the week started as warm sunshine and reduced humidity prevail Monday in South Florida.
High temperatures will remain above average in the lower 80s through Wednesday. Shower chances will rise by Thursday with the approach of the next cold front, but won't stick around too long.
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The recent Palo Alto Weekly reports about the bullying of a student with disabilities have evoked many comments, opinions and emotions. Many wonder how this could have happened in Palo Alto, often described as a wonderful community with great schools.
Some parents rush to the defense of the school district explaining how their child with a disability received a great education. Other community members believe the parents of the child who was bullied just need to face reality and accept that this is how life is in today's world. It may be more productive to try and understand the challenges faced by students with disabilities and their families and view this particular incident as an opportunity to learn how to prevent this happening again to any child.
The student had the right to not be bullied and the parents had the right to file a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights when the bullying did not stop. Rights like these were not always in place. Today, people with disabilities are the largest minority group in the United States. Similar to many other minority groups, they have created a strong and effective advocacy movement to ensure that people with disabilities have the same legal and civil rights as everyone else. This civil rights movement has succeeded in closing institutions, preventing abuse and neglect, and making it possible for people with disabilities to be active participants in community life.
Landmark legislation like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) require access and the right to free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment. The success of this civil rights movement is largely due to the persistence, determination and hard work of people with disabilities and their parents. Having fought so hard to gain these rights, they are very unlikely to allow any violations to go unchallenged. The current generation of young families with children with disabilities have learned well from those who went before them. They expect and believe that people with disabilities must be viewed as people first, not as the recipients of acts of charity, objects of pity or victims of exploitation or bullying. They expect their children with disabilities to be fully included in all aspects of community life.
If these laws and civil rights are in place, why then, do people with disabilities and their families still find themselves having to fight to get needed services and to have their rights upheld? Implementation of these often under-funded mandates seems key here. The implementation of ADA, IDEA and other laws by organizations, companies and individuals have varied depending on availability of resources, training and values. We all know of organizations that have ADA policies to accommodate employees with disabilities and personnel policies that contain no tolerance policies around harassment and discrimination. Policies alone and attempts to keep to the letter of the law are markedly ineffective unless such organizations embrace the spirit of such laws. This means that everyone has to be involved in understanding how these laws and policies translate into action for them as individuals.
Organizations that have successfully implemented these laws have done so because they have had strong and decisive leadership and a willingness to allocate resources to ensure the spirit of the law is upheld. More importantly, they have created an organizational culture where each person knows what to do if they witness, hear about, or are the recipient of any violation of these laws. Within organizations that have nurtured this culture of inclusion and diversity, incidents of discrimination, harassment and bullying jar their core values and are quickly reported, investigated and stopped. There is accountability for the perpetrators.
However, when all is said and done, the responsibility to eradicate civil rights violations, harassment and bullying; and to create a community where everyone is treated with dignity and respect rests with each and every one of us. We each have to ask ourselves some hard questions about our own values and those of others. When was the last time you explained to your child that using the term "retard" can be hurtful to people with disabilities? When did you last talk to a person using a wheelchair, bending down at their eye level, rather than talking to the caregiver pushing the chair? When did you last think about someone with a disability as a person who could add value to your life? We may have to realize that people who have no experience of disability may harbor feelings of discomfort, or even fear, about how to interact with someone with a disability. They may need help to express these not so "politically correct" concerns and learn how to overcome them. It may be easier to understand this through the experience of an eighth-grade student who was volunteering for the first time in a Palo Alto program serving people with disabilities:
"I was a little scared about being a volunteer because I had not been around people with disabilities before. I did not know what to expect or what I would do. And it was scary at first. But after I had been engaged in activities with Jane (a disabled child) and got to know her a little, things changed. I realized I was no longer scared. After a while I no longer saw the disability. I just saw Jane — and she was just like me."
This eighth grader "got it," and we can only hope that this will result in her being a champion for people with disabilities if she ever sees them being bullied or harassed. So in the end laws can only take us so far. Maybe that eighth grader's experience is the real answer. Creating experiences where people with and without disabilities live, work and play side by side is our responsibility. Community leaders and parents have to become role models for our children because a community that excludes even one of its members is no community at all.
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It is a double first -- the first wind power plant built in Chinese waters and InfraVest's first offshore venture, says the company, although it adds that it is involved in offshore proposals in Germany. Turbines from Germany and Denmark are the most likely options, says InfraVest, with a 2.5 MW model favoured. The purchase is likely to be made through international bidding.
InfraVest is to raise the estimated CNY 241.7 million needed to build the project, while Zhengneng will take responsibility for its construction and operation. The project is scheduled for completion in two years. "Cost won't be a problem," says InfraVest's Song Yanxia, noting the developer will secure a long term power purchase contract with the local grid company. "Given the size of the offshore plant, the amount of money involved is very limited."
With offshore wind farms expected to be around 20% more productive than onshore plants, Guangdong's provincial government is said to be particularly keen on the project. While the South China province is enjoying an unprecedented economic boom, it has suffered badly from the energy shortage that began hitting the country a year ago. Government statistics for this summer show electricity supply was 2.3-2.7 million kilowatt hours short of the region's demand. Offshore wind power is seen as a possible solution to the shortfall. Guangdong boasts a coastline of over 3300 kilometres, with rich wind resources.
In terms of installed wind capacity, Guangdong ranks fourth among China's provinces, with 86.39 MW at the end of last year, including China's second largest wind project, the 56.59 MW Nan'ao wind farm. It is also home to one of China's first two wind farms being developed for franchised operation -- the 100 MW Huilai wind station. Currently under construction, the station will be fully operational in 2006 and will be capable of meeting the electricity needs of 10,000 households.
Other regions in China are also investigating the potential for offshore wind power, with the provinces of Shanghai and Jiangsu both currently assessing opportunities. Wind monitoring equipment has been installed around Shanghai's coast, while in Jiangsu there is talk of siting wind turbines in the tidal basin close to the planned 200 MW Rudong wind farm, which is to be built in two 100 MW phases for franchised operation. The first phase is now under construction, with the tendering result for the second phase due to be announced soon.


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Heinz agrees to buyout by Berkshire Hathaway, 3G
H.J. Heinz, the food giant, says it has agreed to be taken private by Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital.
Heinz shareholders will receive $72.50 in cash for each share of common stock they own, in a transaction valued at $28 billion, including assumption of Heinz's outstanding debt.
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The offer price is a 20% premium to Heinz closing stock price Wednesday of $60.48 a share.
In pre-market trading Thursday the stock soared past the offering price, but after Buffett said on CNBC that he wouldn't pay more than $72.50, the stock fell back to $72.56. Later, it was trading around $72.50.
"As a private enterprise, Heinz will have an opportunity to drive further growth and advance our commitment to providing consumers across the globe with great tasting, nutritious and wholesome products," said Heinz CEO William Johnson.
He says the acquisition, at $28 billion, is the largest of any company in the food business. The Heinz deal ranks below the $61.6 billion spinoff of Kraft Foods from Altria Group in 2007 and the $60.4 billion buyout of Anheuser-Busch by InBev in 2008, according to Thomson Reuters.
The Heinz buyout is just the latest in what's been a busy start to the year for dealmaking. There have been $33.8 billion in deals in the food and beverage industry, strongest start since 2007, says Thomson Reuters.
The deal has been approved by Heinz's board but does require approval by the company's shareholders.
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said, ""Heinz has strong, sustainable growth potential based on high quality standards, continuous innovation, excellent management and great tasting products. Their global success is a testament to the power of investing behind strong brand equities and the strength of their management team and processes."
Heinz will keep its global headquarters in Pittsburgh, a condition that was written into the contract of the deal, Johnson said in a conference with the media Thursday. Alex Behring, managing partner at 3G Capital, reiterated there are no plans to move the company from Pittsburgh.
Johnson said Buffett brought the deal to him eight months ago, and it was his obligation to present the offer to the board. "The board finally concluded the value opportunity to shareholders was too great to pass up," Johnson said. 3G and Berkshire will be equal equity partners in Heinz and in the financing for the deal.
The deal is lucrative for Heinz shareholders as it values Heinz at 12 times the expected fiscal fiscal earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation. That is in line with other buyouts in the packaged goods business, according to a report by Morningstar analyst Erin Lash. The buyout price is also a 30% premium over Morningstar's $56 a share fair value target price, Lash says.
Unlike companies that are often acquired when they are struggling, Heinz is in a strong position. It sees the deal an an opportunity to help it expand more aggressively internationally, Johnson says.
The company reported 22% higher net income of $289.4 million on revenue of $2.8 billion in the most recent quarter, ended Oct. 28.
In addition to Heinz ketchup, the company's brands include Heinz sauces, soups, beans, pasta and infant foods, Ore-Ida potato products, Weight Watchers Smart Ones entrées, T.G.I. Friday's snacks, and Plasmon infant nutrition products. The company's Heinz brand accounts for 40% of the company's revenue, Lash says.
The company has its challenges, especially in North America, Lash says. The company's Ore-Ida brand, for instance, is struggling with private-label competition and new products that haven't been a hit with consumers, she says.


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SHANGHAI — The Chinese government, determined to become a world leader in green technology, says it plans to invest billions of dollars over the next few years to develop electric and hybrid vehicles.
The government said a group of 16 big state-owned companies had already agreed to form an alliance to do research and development, and create standards for electric and hybrid vehicles.
The plan aims to put more than a million electric and hybrid vehicles on the road over the next few years in what is already the world's biggest and fastest growing auto market.
The announcement, analysts say, is another example of how China seeks to marshal resources and tackle industries and new markets. The plan also underlines what China describes as its growing commitment to combating pollution and reducing carbon emissions.
According to some reports by state-run media, Beijing intends to invest nearly $15 billion in the venture, which if true would make it one of the world's most ambitious attempts to develop more energy-efficient vehicles.Continue reading the main story
The bold plan was announced late Wednesday by one of China's most powerful bodies: the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. Sasac, as it is known, operates under China's cabinet, or State Council. From Beijing, it oversees about 125 of China's biggest state-owned companies.
State-owned companies "have an overall advantage in developing the electric vehicle industry," Li Rongrong, Sasac's chairman, said in a statement.
Analysts say the government plan bears watching.
"This is the kind of plan the government would like to happen, and they certainly have the resources to put behind it," said Oded Shenkar, a professor of management at Ohio State University and the author of "The Chinese Century."
"The government could easily underwrite or subsidize the development costs," Professor Shenkar said, "and do it at a time when the global car industry is still reeling."
Few details of the plan were released. But Beijing said that over the next three years, 500,000 energy-efficient vehicles would reach the market each year and that more-efficient vehicles would soon account for 5 percent of passenger car sales in China. This year, analysts expect vehicle sales in China to reach about 17 million.
Sasac's announcement said the alliance had been formed with about $200 million. But other reports said the investment was tied to the government's plan to revamp the auto industry and promote energy-efficient vehicles with an investment of nearly $15 billion.
There is some opposition to the plan. The English edition of The Global Times, another state newspaper, said on Thursday that some groups had criticized the alliance, saying it favored big state-owned companies and had not made clear who would own the intellectual property.
"Such an association should include all firms strong in the area, rather than only S.O.E.'s," Zhong Shi, editor in chief of China Automotive Review, told The Global Times, referring to state-owned enterprises. "Though lots of foreign firms launched technology agreements, there is no precedent of successful technology exchange in China's auto industry."
The government said the country's top state-owned oil producers, power companies, several military and aviation companies, and two of the nation's biggest car companies, the China FAW Group and Dongfeng Auto, would be involved in the effort.
The announcement came shortly after General Motors and S.A.I.C., which is based in Shanghai and is one of China's other big state-controlled automakers, said they planned to form an alliance to develop more fuel-efficient engines and transmissions for global markets.
Another Chinese company, BYD, which has an investment from Warren E. Buffett, is developing battery-powered vehicles.
Whether China can successfully develop electric and hybrid vehicles at world-class standards is still unclear. China has lots of automakers. But the country's engine and car technology lag far behind that in Japan and the West, and many Chinese carmakers have for years been accused of stealing designs and technology.
But big companies like G.M. and Volkswagen have been in long-term joint ventures with Chinese automakers. And experts say that some of the technology being developed here by Chinese engineers has advanced.
"What you have here is the confluence of two important things," Professor Shenkar said. "The car industry was long ago designated as a pillar industry for China. And the second thing is green technology or high tech; this is where the action is going to be, and China wants to be there."Continue reading the main story


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Parents and kids turn out in droves to prep for new year
This week, moms and dads and daughters and sons were out in droves with their back-to-school shopping lists in hand. Helping them in their pursuits was great weather and impressive sales.
"You can't go by Staples without seeing the store crowded with kids shopping for school supplies," said Marcia O'Kane, executive director of the Greenwich Chamber of Commerce. "With all I'm seeing, the evidence is there are robust sales for the retailers, whether it's Old Greenwich, Riverside, Cos Cob, Greenwich Avenue or Byram."
Case in point -- at Staples in the Riverside section of town, Greenwich resident Hilary Rifkin and her daughter, Hannah, 11, a student at Central Middle School, were taking advantage of school supply sales. The two went straight to the file folder section. Picking up a packet of folders, Hilary Rifkin said, "Hannah needs three, but they say buy four. But if you get a bargain, eventually she'll need it."
Rifkin is just the shopper anticipated by stores such as Staples and other area retailers. "We've had our stores set for back-to-school essentials since July," said Carrie McElwee, a Staples spokeswoman. She assured shoppers, "We will be in stock throughout the back-to-school time ready for customers when they want to shop."
At Vineyard Vines on Greenwich Avenue, there were tall sons shopping, as their moms checked out the sales. "So far we've had an incredible back-to-school season," said Lindsey Worster, vice president of brand communications at Vineyard Vines.
Worster reported his enterprise has expanded its kids' offerings. "We are especially excited about the addition of our line of backpacks, which have been so well received," he said. He speaks of another side to their back-to-school merchandising -- giving back. "We hosted a charitable drive for back-to-school supplies at our headquarters to benefit the Greenwich Department of Social Services and Inspirica in Stamford," he said.
Further down the avenue at Shoes `N' More, there was a steady stream of customers. The Greenwich store is one of five in Fairfield and Westchester counties. Ann Spallone, who manages the shop, said her store gets a regular influx of customers this time of year as the store carries shoes required by three private schools in town -- Greenwich Academy, Brunswick and the Stanwich School.
Spallone reported that her sales were "pretty much where they should be." She's noticed her customers are "buying what they need, not what they want. They're more conscious about what they're buying."
At Urban Outfitters on East Elm Street, a promotional sale of 40 percent off the merchandise was pulling in a host of customers.
"What's selling is basic T-shirts, v-neck shirts, sloucher fitting shapes," said Rachel Moledo, the manager of the accessories department at Urban Outfitters. "Gals are looking for jeans." Moledo does say that overall, "Business has been roughly the same -- roughly the same sales. It hasn't been better than last year."
But some said that, townwide, there has been an improvement in back-to-school activity. "There's a definite uptick from last year as far as back-to-school purchases from what we can see," said Scott Weiner, chairman of the board of the Greenwich Chamber of Commerce. Weiner has seen the shopping momentum grow steadily from the sidewalk sales, to last week's tax-free shopping weeks. "It gets the last minute shopper going," he said.
Weiner's colleague O'Kane also noted the "flow-over" she sees of shoppers shopping at pharmacies, drugstores and other stores as a result of "the kids doing their back-to-school shopping, with all the Labor Day sales," she said.
"The shops are doing well," reiterated Weiner. "The good weather has helped. The activity is high. People are out and about. (And) the moms and dads are shopping, too. That's what happened with me when I took my daughter shopping."


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Hey guys, I just joined the forums and hope to learn a lot about programming here.
So, I have an assignment to make a code calculating the mode of a text file with 999 integers. I know there are probably more efficient ways to solve this problem, but I want to stick with my code and just fix it. I'm trying to make one ArrayList with the occurrences(frequencies) of each of the 999 integers in the text file, and get the mode that way.
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import java.util.ArrayList; import java.lang.Math; public class Statistics { private ArrayList<Integer> numbers = new ArrayList<Integer>(); private ArrayList<Integer> occurrences =new ArrayList<Integer>(); private ArrayList<Integer> finalMode = new ArrayList<Integer>(); private ArrayList<Integer> backUp = new ArrayList<Integer>(); public Statistics() { } //end default constructor public Statistics(ArrayList<Integer> inputNumbers) { numbers = inputNumbers; } //end non-default constructor public void calcOccurrences() { for(int currentNumber : numbers) { int counter = 0; int numberOfOccurrences = 0; while (counter < numbers.size()) { if (currentNumber == numbers.get(counter)) { numberOfOccurrences++; counter++; } else { counter++; } //end if } //end while statement occurrences.add(numberOfOccurrences); backUp.add(numberOfOccurrences); } //end extended for loop } //end method public int calcFinalMode() { for(int currentOccurrence : occurrences) { int facto=0; int counter = 0; while (counter < occurrences.size()) { if (currentOccurrence >= occurrences.get(counter)) { counter++; } else { [B]numbers.remove(occurrences.indexOf(currentOccurrence)); backUp.remove(occurrences.indexOf(currentOccurrence));[/B] } //end LONG if } // end while loop facto = numbers.get(backUp.indexOf(currentOccurrence)); finalMode.add(facto); } //end extended for loop return finalMode.get(0); } //end method public int calcOtherMode() { int otherMode = 0; finalMode.remove(0); if (!finalMode.isEmpty()) { otherMode = finalMode.get(0); } //end if statment return otherMode; } //end method } //end class DRIVER -------------------------------- import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Scanner; public class StatisticsDriver { public static void main(String args[]) { ArrayList<Integer> numbers = new ArrayList<Integer>(); Scanner in; try { in = new Scanner(new File("numbers.txt")); while(in.hasNextInt()) { numbers.add(in.nextInt()); } //end while loop } catch(IOException i) { System.out.println("Error: " + i.getMessage()); } //end file-read Statistics myStatistics = new Statistics(numbers); myStatistics.calcOccurrences(); System.out.println("Mode: " + myStatistics.calcFinalMode() + ", " + myStatistics.calcOtherMode()); }// end main } //end class


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Everybody's mother is somebody's daughter, brother. Dig? Sons of Daughters features Berklee alumni Devin Drobka and Aaron Darrell as well as New School for Jazz alumnus and John Coltrane Foundation scholarship winner Patrick Breiner.
The members of this trio have performed with Jerry Bergonzi, Joe Lovano, Tony Malaby, Greg Osby, Ches Smith, Becca Stevens, and Dave Stryker, among others. They tour the East Coast and Midwest regularly and collectively have graced the stages of Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Yoshi's, Smalls Jazz Club, the JVC Jazz Festival, and many other stages in the United States and Europe.
Sons of Daughters was born through an unlikely union. Having heard for months of young guns Darrell and Drobka, Breiner traveled from his home in Madison, Wisconsin to Milwaukee in May of 2010 for a one-nighter at the Jazz Estate. He showed up a half-hour late and the band was already knee-deep in an epic performance of "Autumn Leaves." Breiner stepped on stage to take a solo before the rest of the band even realized he had shown up. He didn't meet the bass player and drummer until the set break.
Soon after, Darrell moved to Boston to complete a degree at Berklee and Drobka moved to New York to pursue his dream of becoming a failed actor turned singing waiter on rollerskates in midtown (done aaaaand. . . done). Breiner stayed put in Madison where he continued to undermine the lounge jazz scene one gig at a time.
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If you follow the advice given, you will surely have a great looking lawn. In fact proper lawn care is beneficial for your lawn to be always at its best, no matter what the season.


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DOVER — Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan argued controlling the national debt should be a top priority for the country during a stump speech in Dover Tuesday.
Ryan fielded questions at a town hall-style forum at the McConnell Center, where he was joined by state Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley and U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta.
Standing beside an electronic message board, which displayed a running tally of the national debt, Ryan said the financial crisis in Europe should serve as a cautionary tale for the United States.
"We can't keep doing this," the Wisconsin congressman said, referring to the country's borrowing practices. "This debt is getting out of our control."
Ryan said Republicans are hoping to preserve the principles of free enterprise and social mobility in America in this year's presidential election. He said he and Republican running mate Mitt Romney are providing voters with an affirmative agenda that will give them a mandate to enact specific policies when they get into office.
Ryan's visit came following a rocky start to the week for the Romney camp, which has been forced to respond to controversial remarks made by the former Massachusetts governor during an exclusive fundraising event in Florida earlier this year.
A secret video recording of the event was released on Monday. It captured Romney saying that close to half the populace — 47 percent — is comprised of people who believe they are "victims," and thereby entitled to government relief.
The episode has already given birth to a new thread of political discussion about the facts underlying Romney's assertion and the ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans in the area of public assistance.
Ryan avoided making a direct reference to the video in Dover Tuesday, but he did engage with the themes in Romney's so-called "47 percent" remark.
Ryan said he and Romney believe in the necessity of social welfare programs, but they also hope to address the root causes of poverty. The success of safety net programs such as food assistance should be measured by how many people are transitioned off the recipient rolls, he said.
"We don't want a safety net that encourages more dependency because there's no economic growth behind it," Ryan said, "because what that ends of up doing is it drains people of their will � to get on the path to prosperity."
Ryan's Dover event marked his third trip to New Hampshire since joining the GOP ticket. He made his first campaign appearances in the Granite State in Manchester, shortly after being announced as GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's choice for vice president.
Ryan is the latest in a string of figures in the presidential race to visit the area, hoping to swing the outcome of the fall election.
Recent polling shows a tight race between Obama and Romney in New Hampshire, with the number of undecided voters on the state on the rise.
Ryan's visit Tuesday came less than 24 hours after a stop in New Hampshire by U.S. Sen. John McCain. On Monday, the Arizona Republican and former presidential nominee also held a town hall-style event at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 168, located at 238 Deer St. in Portsmouth.
"When Mitt asked me to join him in this quest, to join him on the ticket, he said a few things," Ryan said in Dover. "He told me what he thinks, who he is, what makes him tick, what his values are, how we share each others' values, and he also said, 'You have the experience of being a reformer in Congress, of tackling the big challenges in America that confront our economy. That experience is something we need, because we need to get this thing under control.'"
Guinta, a freshman Republican congressman who represents the state's First District, is pitted in an election rematch this year against his Democratic opponent from 2010, former U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter. He was also at McCain's side during his Seacoast appearance this week.
Guinta said Romney and Ryan keep job creators in mind, and he lauded Ryan's background in economics and his willingness to address the country's long-term challenges.
"We get elected to lead," Guinta said. "We get elected to make tough decisions � We know Mitt Romney. We know what's in his heart. We know the vision he has for America, and I think he made a great choice in choosing Paul Ryan."
In response to Ryan's trip to Dover on Tuesday, Obama for America spokesman Danny Kanner said in a written statement that Ryan and Romney "refuse to ask for a dime from the wealthiest Americans to reduce the deficit," and instead cut taxes for the rich by raising taxes on "veterans, students, seniors, and middle-class families — who Mitt Romney believes view themselves as 'victims,' entitled to handouts, and unwilling to take 'personal responsibility' for their lives."
With New Hampshire in focus in the presidential race this year, cities and towns across the state have been grappling with the problem of how to afford the extra expenses they incur when they play host to a campaign event.
President Barack Obama's recent campaign stops in Durham, Windham and Rochester have provoked debate in each community regarding whether taxpayers should foot the bill for hosting a campaign appearance by a sitting president. More recently, Portsmouth's City Council voted 5-4 to ask the Obama campaign for reimbursement of the public safety costs associated with hosting his recent speech at Strawbery Banke Museum.
On Tuesday evening, Dover City Manager Michael Joyal said the city intends to bill the Romney campaign for its expenses, in line with a standing policy on campaign functions.
The campaign will be charged a fee for rental of the McConnell Community Center, and for the services of two of six police officers who were on duty during the event, according to Dover Police Chief Anthony Colarusso.
Colarusso said the Police Department doesn't customarily bill for officers who are dispatched to assist with an event during the normal course of their duty, such as the four others who were on scene for Ryan's visit Tuesday.
"We didn't really have to use a lot of people," Colarusso said. "They'll only be billed for about � 10 hours of overtime, and that will be at the detail rate, which is $62 per hour."


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He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
I watched a video on The Big Think website a few months ago about the center of the universe. According to the video there are two universes: one is the actual universe, which is infinite; the other is the observable universe, which exists in proportion to its observers. No one can say where the center of the actual universe is, or even if there is one. As for the observable universe, each observer stands in the center of her own.
It was a great shock when astronomy shattered the Earth-centered model of the universe. We aren't the center? How can that be, if we're the crown jewels of creation? What does that say about our place in the cosmos? It came as a further shock to realize that our sun was not the center of the universe either.
The more we gazed into space, the more astounded and disoriented we became as we realized how vast it is. We call it infinite; as far as we're concerned it is.
Infinity is limitless space, time, or quantity; eternity on the other hand refers only to limitless time. When you blow away all limits though, it doesn't matter anymore whether you're talking about space, time, or quantity. I cannot think of boundless space outside of imagining how long you would travel trying to reach its edge. I cannot think of endless time without thinking of it happening somewhere.
Here's an explanation of eternity I heard many years ago in Sunday school, and included in one of my stories called "Hush Little Baby":
A bird lives on the moon. Every one thousand years this bird comes down to earth and pecks one sand grain from a rock the size of the Empire State Building. It gets one tiny grain and flies with it back to the moon. One thousand years later, it comes and gets another grain. And so on plucking one grain every thousand years. After that bird has moved the whole massive rock and rendered it a pile of sand on the moon, the time spent would still not be equal to one second of eternity.
Terms of time lose all meaning. So do terms of space. The bird could move a rock the size of the earth grain by grain and it would still not be long enough to register as a second of eternity.
Within this universe are numberless galaxies, and within those galaxies are myriad solar systems, countless stars. I once heard an NPR piece about the star Betelgeuse in the Orion constellation. It isn't the biggest star out there, but for perspective, if Betelgeuse were nine feet in diameter, another star by comparison would be the size of a BB.
That star so dwarfed by Betelgeuse is our sun. The sun that could, according to Jonathan Keohane and Jim Lochner at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, hold the Earth inside it 1,000,000 times over. And on our Earth, humanity covers, by most estimations, between one and three percent of its surface—a humanity of which we each constitute roughly one in seven billion.
But wait. This might be the most astonishing thing of all: We have eternity in our hearts. The word translated as eternity in Ecclesiastes is cosmos, or the entire universe. All of creation is in our hearts? What can that even mean? We cannot fathom it, cannot get our heads around it.
Russell Edson calls our heads "teetering bulbs of dread and desire." The dread and desire are born from sensing the cosmos in our hearts, knowing this raging desire for the eternal, and also knowing all too well that our end is rushing toward us.
Miguel de Unamuno calls this realization the "tragic sense of life." We long for immortality, to exist in eternity, and yet we gaze out at a universe that takes no notice of our tiny existence, and will take no more notice when we disappear from it.
Is it not tragic to think that we carry this raging desire for the eternal inside us only to drag it with us into nonexistence? And don't we know it in our hearts? We fight to survive, we strive, we love our children, we want our lives not just to be, but to be about something. We dream of heaven, of life after this short earthly existence.
Tiny specks that we are, we are here and we are looking out—the condition of knowing, the act of observing, puts us each smack in the center of our own observable universe. That is no small thing. We cannot see far with our eyes for sure.
Our hearts however, our hearts' desires go to the farthest reaches of the infinite universe, and from there burst on through into eternity.
Vic Sizemore earned his MFA in fiction from Seattle Pacific University in 2009. His fiction and nonfiction are published or forthcoming in Story Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, PANK Magazine, Pembroke, Saint Katherine Review, Rock & Sling and elsewhere. An excerpt from his novel The Calling was a finalist for the Sherwood Anderson Award; other excerpts from The Calling are published in Portland Review and are forthcoming serially in Connecticut Review. His short story "Hush Little Baby" won the 28th New Millennium Writings Award for Fiction. Sizemore teaches at Central Virginia Community College.


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