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Beefed-up counter-terrorism tactics are being introduced in the City of London two decades after a "ring of steel" was put in place around the Square Mile.
City of London Police have carried out three years of research looking at the traditional system of manned entry points into the area, brought in as a response to the terror threat in the 1990s.
The force now plans to make greater use of undercover teams, stage less predictable operations and use CCTV and number plate recognition as part of the fight against terrorism as well as other serious crimes.
Assistant Commissioner of City of London Police Ian Dyson said: "The ring of steel worked, it provided a deterrent, but it was getting tired.
"It was single officers standing on entry points, normally at predictable times of the day, which was the rush hour.
"While businesses were very supportive of the uniformed presence, the reality was in terms of intelligence, in terms of the research we did around deterrent, it was proving to be of diminishing value.
"This is about looking at a refreshed opportunity to make the City a hostile environment for anyone who may be seeking to do any sort of criminality, particularly terrorism."
The force launched the refreshed tactics, dubbed Project Servator, with an operation on Tower Bridge this morning.
Mr Dyson added: "The threat level remains the same, but equally London remains a huge global financial centre, it is a target, it will be for a long time, as long as London remains that. Only two years ago there were people arrested for a plot to try to blow up the Stock Exchange, there is always an element of trying to get an iconic or a financially disruptive target."
A range of different teams will be used in the operations, including explosive detection dogs and the mounted branch, and the initiative is being widely publicised.
"We're publicising the fact that we're doing it, significantly," Mr Dyson said.
"We will be publicising as much as we can, so that anyone will know that these operations are being carried out. What they won't know is when and where and for how long.
"It is much more visible at a time of diminishing police resources, hence there's going to be a range of officers on it."
Similar tactics have been used at transport hubs in the capital, and in a trial run by the City of London Police in November and December 2012 officers carried out 208 stops and around one in three led to an arrest, caution or a car being seized.
Around 300,000 people come to work in the area every day and it is estimated that the Square Mile contributes £50.2 billion to the UK economy.
Pedestrians will be stopped and questioned as officers target crowded places, as well as using vehicle checkpoints to stop cars, and operations will be staged every day at different times.
The launch operation today involved more than 20 uniformed officers, with more in plain clothes, and the Metropolitan Police marine support unit.


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One of my favorite patients asked me if I would try to describe some of the various health problems. My intention is to try and explain the various methods to reprogram the central nervous system when dealing with allergies and sensitivities.
Dr. Devi Nambudripad is the original founder/creator/researcher for desensitization of allergies. Since her discovery of the NAET (Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Technique) there have been some very interesting off shoots of the technique, but they all have one thing in common: identifying the offending substance. This can be done through blood test, saliva test, RAST or skin tests and using the autoimmune system reflex testing. If exposure to the given allergens has not occurred within a two-week period of time the test would be inconclusive. This even includes the computerized version of allergy testing, which at best is as good as the technician.
In a nutshell, the offending substance (foods, chemical, heavy metal, allergens) is held in the hand or next to the skin. There are specific acupuncture points on the body which can be stimulated by micro-current or laser and electronically can reprogram the body to no longer be sensitive to the offending substance. Some of the sensitivity/allergy techniques would require you to try not to come in contact with the substance for 25 hours. This part of the procedure is sometimes impractical and simply cannot be done. One of the most important parts of this protocol is making sure that the complete meridian system is in balance. If they are not then this must be re-balanced by examining the central nervous system, adjustment, needles and laser.
Proper eating, including fresh, natural and whole foods, are an integral part of the healing process. Allergies and sensitivities can be very detrimental to the overall well being of your health. Recurrent health problems can truly be caused by underlying allergies and sensitivities.
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Reds to keep Choo as permanent center fielder
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CINCINNATI -- As the Reds adjust to an outfield without injured left fielder Ryan Ludwick, there was no thought from manager Dusty Baker in moving Shin-Soo Choo over from center field.
Choo, who was acquired in an offseason trade from the Indians, was primarily a corner outfielder throughout his career. Ludwick's replacement in left field, Chris Heisey, has extensive experience in center field.
"He's been there all spring," Baker said of Choo in center field. "We got him over here to play center field. He's equal to Heisey in center field. You don't want to tear up everything."
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Omnibus bill taking shape
What do the B-61 bomb, the Abu Dhabi airport, and federal tax payments to Western timber towns have to do with one another?
Nothing really — but all are part of a governmentwide spending bill taking shape in Congress, a $1 trillion-plus omnibus measure that seeks to restore some order to a broken appropriations process and avert any threat of a shutdown fight Jan. 15.
Story Continued Below
December's budget agreement set the overall spending number, but the devil's in the details now — with little sugar to help the medicine go down. Earmarks are gone. It's a cold-turkey exercise in governance, the likes of which Washington hasn't seen in years.
Turn up the Rolling Stones: "You can't always get what you want." Throw out the old metaphors. Last train out of the station? This is more like Noah's Ark. Or the mother of all term papers for a Congress that has slept through most of its classes.
( Also on POLITICO: Washington's New Year's resolutions)
The layers are many.
Does the Energy Department really need to spend billions to extend the life of 400 B-61 nuclear bombs? Should U.S. Customs and Border Protection proceed with a new passenger pre-clearance program at Abu Dhabi — funded largely by the United Arab Emirates but opposed by American airlines? Who has $400 million to spare to compensate Western towns surrounded by federal forests and parks exempted from local property taxes?
And that's the easy stuff.
The last House-Senate exercise that came close to this was at the tail end of 2011 after a brutal debt ceiling fight that shook the financial markets all summer. Even then, the task was accomplished in two steps, not one. And it followed months of floor debate in which lawmakers were immersed in the details of government programs — something absent from this Congress.
Indeed, in the years since, much of the government has been left on autopilot, funded through stopgap bills and subject to across-the-board cuts. Almost despite themselves, House Republicans have stumbled into success, rolling back domestic appropriations to levels below 2008 levels. The question now is whether they can govern, allocating these resources together with the White House and Democrats so the country can go forward.
( Also on POLITICO: 2014: The year to 'go small')
Without doubt, each page of the giant omnibus bill will give someone a reason to vote no. But to go backward and fail is not without cost. Just look at the beating all of Washington has been taking in public opinion polls.
At center stage are the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose staffs have been working through the holidays to try to pull together a draft package — really 12 bills in one.
About half these — covering the Departments of Commerce, Justice, Homeland Security, Defense and Veterans Affairs and major science agencies — have been largely finalized. And right up to New Year's Eve, there were conference calls with lawmakers Tuesday and reports of continued progress on the major spending issues.
Funding for President Barack Obama's signature health care and financial reforms — as well as environmental riders sought by conservatives — are still roadblocks. But the goal is to narrow the field as best possible before meetings next week, when the two committee chairs — Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) — can made their final decisions.
December's budget agreement makes the task doable — but scarcely easy. And having risked the wrath of the right by blocking sequestration, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is keeping a tight rein on any score-keeping adjustments that might help Appropriations.
The new 2014 cap for nondefense discretionary spending is $491.8 billion, which will require Senate Democrats to cut $14 billion from the domestic bills reported over the summer. At the same time, Republicans must trim $25 billion from defense-related bills approved by the House last summer if the GOP is to meet the new target of $520.5 billion.
This sets up a battle of perceptions for both parties.
Just before Christmas, for example, Congress approved an ambitious defense authorization bill that was largely in denial about the real perils of the budget situation for the military. How will hawks react when they come back and see an appropriation that saves the Pentagon's bacon but is still tens of billions less than the House and Senate Armed Services committees had envisioned?


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"The achievement of children in the Early Years is outstanding. They make consistently high rates of progress academically, personally and socially in relation to their very low starting points."
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"Pupils with profound and muliple learning difficulties often experience a sense of wonder through well-planned sensory activities" "Under the transformational leadership of the headteacher the school has sustained outstanding leadership and management since its previous inspection."
"Children are very happy and most eager to join in with their activities. They display high levels of concentration, imagination and curiosity about the world around them."
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Founded in 1870 at Indiana Asbury (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Ind., Kappa Alpha Theta is the first Greek-letter Fraternity known among women. In creating Kappa Alpha Theta, our founders were leading the way for women's groups and for women in higher education. Our members are women of all ages: women who attended college in nearly every US state and Canadian province, women who live all over the world, and women with varied professions, faiths, and ethnic backgrounds.
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Sheriff's Office says 18-year-old from Sarasota had more than 30 illicit images.
A Sarasota man is facing charges for downloading and promoting more than 30 images or videos of child pornography, says the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.
Robert Kulsar, 18, of the 2500 block of Englewood Road was arrested on the child pornography charges Tuesday.
Detectives learned that a computer user in Sarasota County was downloading and sharing child pornography online using peer-to-peer software from a specific IP address. After viewing an extensive list of files available from that address, detectives determined many of the titles suggested the content including sexual abuse or sexual exploitation of children.
Detectives executed a search warrant Tuesday at the location for that IP address, which is Kulsar's residence. An examination of his computer revealed more than 32 images containing children involved in sexual conduct, the Sheriff's Office says.
Kulsar is charged with 18 counts of promotion of sexual performance by a child and 32 counts of possession of sexual performance by a child. He is currently being held in the Sarasota County jail without bail.


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Sept. 15, 2007
The Lipscomb University men's Cross Country team finished seventh Saturday in the Commodore Classic.
The men were led by Jordan Wilson who posted a time of 26:53 for his first 8-K of the season. His time was a full minute faster than he ran in this same race last year.
David Wolfe followed with a time of 27:28, an improvement of 1:40 over his time last year. Andrew Shankles was the third Lipscomb finisher in a time of 27:35, a full three minutes faster than last year! Ryan Chastain finished right behind Shankles in 27:36, while freshman Jeff Hoover rounded out the top five in 27:44. Neither Chastain nor Hoover ran this race previously.
Other finishers for the Lipscomb men included Clint Carter (28:16), Jonathan Williams (28:44), Jacob Nelson (29:03), Paul Wright (29:09) and Ryan Bell (29:40).
Overall the men finished 7th in the meet, but had a team time 10 minutes faster than last year. Their team time this year would have won the meet last year.
The competition was stronger this year with Belmont, Georgia Tech, Missouri, Vanderbilt and Central Florida. Of those top teams, only Vanderbilt competed last year. Even more impressive, last year Lipscomb' No. 5 runner finished in a time of 30:35. This year all 10 Lipscomb runners ran under 30 minutes. In fact, all 10 men ran faster than the No. 4 runner's time last year.
"We saw some huge improvement today," said head coach Bill Taylor. "Dropping 10 minutes off your team time for the same race is gigantic. The depth is impressive and our one to five gap was 51 seconds. That's a great gap for an 8K. Now we need to keep that gap, but move the team up in the race.
"There are still many things to work on and we have a long way to go yet. So we must be excited about the dramatic progress, but not satisfied with where we are."
The women's team also finished in seventh place.
"I am extremely happy with the dramatic improvement we've seen already (in just five weeks) for both the men and the women, Taylor said. " It's tough for a team to get a new coach just one week before the season and then try to learn his system and adapt to his coaching philosophy.
"We've had a lot of hurdles to overcome, yet they are knocking those hurdles down rapidly. Both teams are believing more every day and we are just going to get better and better. Both teams also have a long way to go yet, which is very exciting. We don't really know how good we can be this year, but I know they will put it all on the line and find out. That's all I can ask of them."
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Adamson writes about the ideological weight "huamn capital" carries as a concept.
In essence, the technology of human capital produces its object, human ability conceived of as a fixed form of capital, in order to measure it.The qualitative nature of human experience and capabilities is flattened into something that can be quantified and captured by capital's investment schema.
Foucault explicitly examines the introduction of human capital into neo-liberal discourse in his lectures at the Collège de France in 1979 as that which transforms the classical function of labour and homo oeconomicus into an "entrepreneur of himself" (Foucault, 2008: 226).This seems like the fundamental form of alienation under the regime of financial capitalism. Less jargony: a persuasive selling point for capitalism is the idea of investing in oneself, of growing one's identity/subjectivity by using the analytical tools of capitalism, by collaborating with capitalism's ordering and taxonomizing schemes. We buy into the idea that the purpose of life is to grow ourselves like a business, rather than to merely live.
Adamson sketches the insidious development of instruments for investing in the income stream a person will produce in the future -- to buy an equity slice of a person in a modernized version of indentured servitude.
it is not merely the products of intellectual labour that are to be traded; rather, it is private rights to the actual "acquired useful abilities" of the population that constitute the commodity of human capital markets. Emerging markets in human capital are symptomatic of a tendency towards forms of exploitation of human life that are both innovative and anachronistic, in that they deploy long-standing forms of exploitation through new financial technologies.Just imagine the derivative possibilities -- collateralized-labor obligations, with tranches of souls to match Huxley's vision in Brave New World.
Adamson points out that elaborating the concept of human capital leads inevitably to speculation in it -- that is why the concept is developed; it is a form of innovation allowing for new ways to invest idle capital for a promised return.


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"Swiftly, repent! The Saintmaker is coming!"
Weapons or equipment that is heavily relied on can be "named". Then the equipment begins to gain abilities beyond those of normal equipment. They might siphon off some of the experiances of their owners (1 to 5%) and level up on thier own. Could be an unintenitional way of creating artifacts. Ships could become sturdier or seem to just barely outrun the worse of a storm that would have surely sunk another vessle, swords could fumble less or resist dulling more, a farmers plow could turn stones aside easier. Anything that is depended on as much as an inividual can depend on as much as another individual could be "named".


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Very well done. I love the belt, too. You look amazing!ReplyDelete
Wow Erica..Super cute...question?? What fabric did you line the skirt of the dress with?ReplyDelete
This is a cute dress and I love the half lining in it! Glad you've rejoined us in the land of maxi!ReplyDelete
Love the dress and I also like the tassel rope belt very much, it's the perfect accessory for a maxi-dress! Well done!ReplyDelete
Very nice! I'm just waiting for the right fabric to come along to give this one a try. As always, thank you for sharing the construction details.ReplyDelete
Really fresh and pretty! Thanks for the tip about the slim line of the skirt...I was surprised by this. Love the belt detail as well!!ReplyDelete
Really Chic!!! The belt is BOSS!!ReplyDelete
The dress is fantastic, as always! Thank you for sharing the belt tutorial!ReplyDelete
Love the dress. The lining looks perfect. And the belt is the bestest accessory for it. I want to make one!ReplyDelete
I've never paid much attention to this pattern before until I saw your version. I think I skipped over it because the dark long sleeved version on the model just looks way too dowdy or something. Yours looks nice and breezyReplyDelete
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What a beautiful dress with very clean professional touches in the finishing of it. And that belt is wonderful - love the color and whimsy of it. You look gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I could have sworn you said you wouldn't be making anymore maxi dresses.... but I'm glad you did because this came out beautifully. I really like the partial lining at the skirt only. Isn't it just annoying when the pretty fabric is a pain to work with?ReplyDelete
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German is written using the Latin alphabet. In addition to the 26 standard letters, German has three vowels with umlauts (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü) and the letter ß.
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The owner of a dog who was left to die inside a family's stolen minivan helped arrest the man who allegedly stole his 10-year-old yellow Lab, hours after police released surveillance images of the thief.
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When asked if he knew there was a dog in the backseat of the stolen van, Fis -- in handcuffs -- nodded yes.
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Most of the time, nighttime is my favorite part of the day.
There's something about knowing I've made it through. I've made it through split lips (THREE times today, seriously,) and an art project gone awry. I've read books and played outside. I've made breakfast and cleaned the dishes, made lunch and cleaned the dishes, made dinner and cleaned the dishes. I've danced to The Fresh Beat Band, singing along with my children like real live groupies. I've squeezed in a workout. I've gone to Target to ONLY BUY AUDREY'S BIRTHDAY GIFT, and left with the gift, a book for Evie, curl spray, hairspray, bobby pins, gum for Ethan, and mints. Woo hoo, I've taken a shower! I've laughed, given time outs, comforted hurt feelings. I've cleaned bedrooms and given baths.
I can sink into the night, relax.
But I really love nighttime because it's the best snuggle time with my children. First, Ethan says goodnight out the window. His little voice says "Night night, firetrucks. Night night firetruck men. Night night Carter. Night night 'Brina. Night night wind." Then we lay together in his bed, while Ethan squirms, pulls the covers on and off. He gets his lovey just so, places his owl in the perfect place, points out the stars shining on his ceiling. The kid can't sit still. He fights sleep until the end. I ask Ethan what the best part of his day was. He gives one word answers - cake, Carter, digging, Gaga. I rub his back, stroke his sweet face, tell him I love him. And he says, "No you!" He loves me.
I always leave him with regret. It's so sweet in there. But I kiss him, listen for his "Night night, Mommy," shut the door.
And then there's Evie. We sprinkle Sweet Dreams Dust on her pillow, to ward off any bad dreams that may be lurking around. We say a prayer and wind up her lamb. We always, always listen to the lamb twice. The first time through, we talk. She tells me about playing Hunger Games Tag with the neighbor kids. If someone pokes you with their finger, you have to lay on the ground. She thinks I would be good at that game. She talks about what she will wear to school, what she will wear when she gets home from school, what she wants to wear to Audrey's party. She tells me how excited she is to go to Myrtle Beach. She is going to build a sand castle with Gaga. I ask Evie what the best part of her day was. She answers "This." My heart swells. And then the first lamb ends. We aren't allowed to talk during the second lamb. She turns her back to me, I spoon into her, my arm over her waist. We listen to the lamb play Jesus Loves Me and I feel Evie give in to sleep. When the lamb ends, I stay and soak up the warm, beautiful peace.
Because someday, someone will ask me about the best part of my life. And I'll answer "This."
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A byproduct of the dispute between Taiwan and the Philippines has been discussion of the concept of "Han chauvinism."
The term was allegedly coined in 1956 by then-Chinese leader Mao Zedong (毛澤東) as a way to criticize ethnocentrism among Han people in China.
Mao was against Han chauvinism and appropriated the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) concept of Zhonghua Minzu (中華民族) as a multi-ethnic nation to distinguish his People's Republic of China (PRC) from the KMT's failed Republic of China (ROC) that was also based on the same notion, but which had failed to execute the idea in practice.
It is important to note that the origins and history of Han chauvinism and Chinese nationalism are intricately connected to both the KMT and the ROC.
Indeed, Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙) was heavily influenced by the ideologies of racial supremacy that were very popular in Europe and North America at the turn of the century. Sun saw in these ideas the basis for a new way to define the Chinese nation and "Chineseness," with the specific intent of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty.
Sun once said: "In order to restore our national independence, we must first restore the Chinese nation. In order to restore the Chinese nation, we must drive the barbarian Manchus back to the Changbai Mountains. In order to get rid of the barbarians, we must first overthrow the present tyrannical, dictatorial, ugly and corrupt Qing government."
Interestingly, the Manchus Sun defined as non-Chinese "other" had appropriated elements of traditional Chinese culture to help incorporate annexed peoples such as the Tibetans, the Mongols and the Uighurs into its empire.
It is a supreme irony that today's PRC and ROC revise history to absent the Manchu's "foreign" origins so as to both continue this practice of "using culture to build bridges into occupied territories" and to preserve the fantasy of one continuous 5,000-year-old Chinese nation, mimicking the Qing Dynasty's imperialism by claiming whole swathes of the South and East China seas, not to forget the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, as parts of ancient China.
Unfortunately, territorial expansion has been a strong feature of both the ROC and PRC since the mid 1930s, when both the KMT and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to engineer claims to former Qing Dynasty imperial holdings and tributary states into their respective platforms.
Despite none of the four main iterations of the ROC Constitution actually citing Taiwan as part of the territory of the Chinese nation, both former president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and Mao added this into their party doctrines as resolute and permanent tenets.
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What's Your Desert Island Tea?
Your three-hour tour didn't go so well and you're kicking back on the island, lashing tree trunks together with vines. You've got good quality water, a way to heat it and something to heat it in. So what one tea would you want to have on the island with you and why? If you'd like to weigh in on this important question, leave your response in the comments section.
Since I'm the one that brought it up, I'll start things off. I find that when I drink too much black tea I crave green tea and vice versa. So ideally, I'd like to have a green tea and a black tea with me on my desert island. But since that's against the rules I'll narrow it down.
While I think I probably would get less tired of a Chinese green tea than any black tea, the prospect of drinking a really great Assam for a good long while is quite appealing. So I'll go with the Nahorhabi Estate FTGFOP1 SPL CL, that I ordered from Upton Tea Imports a few years back. For more thoughts on this one, check out my review.
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Wow...I honestly don't think I would be able to make a decision on what tea I would be able to bring with me. I would most likely have to go with a fruity tea. My two favorites are a Blueberry Rooibos tea from Rishi or Palm Beach Punch from this new company I found, Tiesta Tea. Gosh, why can't you just make it easier and say we can bring two! haha
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Dan-is Tiesta new? I have not heard of it.
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I got a sneak taste of some Dark Peony (a black version of the classic) that the ladies from Adagio brought back from their visits to the farms in China. If I had to decide today, this would be my desert island tea, but I'm glad this is only hypothetical!


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In an unexpected move, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lee Ching-hua (李慶華) yesterday announced that he would withdraw his proposal to determine the fate of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City's (新北市) Gongliao District (貢寮) via a national referendum.
In a short text message, he said it would be "inappropriate" to push forward with the poll at this time.
There has been enormous political upheaval recently and if the referendum were held, it would cause chaos in the legislature, Lee said.
"Considering the current state of relations between the Presidential Office, the Executive Yuan and the legislature, now would be an extremely inappropriate time to deliberate the issue," Lee said.
More importantly, the Executive Yuan has said that it will not be able to complete all the necessary safety tests to ensure the plant's safe operation before the proposed date of the plebiscite, Lee added.
The legislator said that an issue like the nuclear plant that is vitally important to the nation and its people should be discussed only when the government, the legislature and the public are willing to do so.
The referendum question proposed by Lee and other KMT legislators was: "Do you agree that the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant should be halted and that it not become operational (你是否同意核四廠停止興建不得運轉)?"
The proposed question failed to pass the legislature.
As of press time, Lee could not be reached to comment on whether he consulted with the government or the KMT before withdrawing the proposal or had made the decision of his own accord.
Lee made the proposal in March, after President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) in February decided to put the issue of whether to finish building the plant to a vote soon after Jiang took up the premiership.
Both Ma and Jiang have repeatedly said the issue must be resolved "once and for all" as "it has troubled us for more than 20 years."
Over the past six months, the proposal has been the cause of scuffles among lawmakers during various plenary sessions because the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan Solidarity Union and the People First Party all oppose it.
The opposition has said that the proposal amounted to "game-fixing" to ensure that the construction of the plant would continue because of the way the question was phrased and the high referendum threshold.
Executive Yuan spokesperson Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) said that the Executive Yuan would instruct Minister of Economic Affairs Chang Chia- juch (張家祝) to ask Lee to reconsider the withdrawal, adding that the Cabinet's position on the referendum remains unchanged.
Meanwhile, the DPP caucus praised Lee's action and lauded his "good conscience" regarding the "bad timing" of the plebisicite.
Amid speculation that Ma will remove Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) over Wang's alleged involvement in an influence peddling case, it seems that the president was aiming to push the nuclear referendum forcibly through the legislature, DPP caucus convener Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) said.
With the withdrawal, Lee was "firing the first shot" at Ma over his unconstitutional, unpopular policies and actions, Ker said.
The withdrawal could also be seen as a vote of no-confidence by KMT lawmakers against Jiang, who endorsed the proposal, Ker added.
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Let's prevent return to predatory lending
This op-ed co-authored by Rep. Cindy Ryu and Sen. Sharon Nelson appeared in the Everett Herald on Tuesday, April 16:
Today lobbyists in Olympia are working to throw our families back into a spiral of debt under the guise of a new installment loan product. This product isn't needed because payday borrowers already have the right to a better, cheaper installment loan option.
Legislation recently passed by the Republican-controlled Senate and by the House Committee on Business and Financial Services opens the door for drastic growth of the payday lending industry by creating a product that some have nicknamed "payday lending on steroids."
Senate Bill 5312 was described to legislators as creating new, small installment loans with a maximum 36 percent interest.
At first glance that appeared to be reasonable and perhaps better than current payday loans. However, the real cost to our hardworking families skyrockets to 194 percent when you include the loan origination and monthly "maintenance" fees which are buried in the bill.
When the true cost of this product became clear, the military requested that their members be excluded from being able to use this new high interest rate product. That exemption is in the legislation but this product will trap other hard working families into a cycle of ongoing high rate debt. If this product is not good enough for the military, it is not good enough for anyone else.
To no one's surprise, this legislation is strongly backed by MoneyTree, one of the largest payday lenders in the country. In committee hearings, MoneyTree has been the only interest to testify in favor of the legislation as they promote this new product to the legislature. Consumer advocates and numerous other entities stand opposed.
So why is MoneyTree pushing this product?
We passed a comprehensive Payday Lending Reform Act four years ago. Prior to that legislation, working families took out these short-term, ultra-high-interest loans to pay for immediate expenses like rent, only to find themselves trapped in never ending debt.
The reforms passed in 2009 required that payday lenders give borrowers who are having difficulty repaying their loans three to six months of installment payments, interest free. With a chance to pay off their debt, Washingtonians did just that.
The $1.3 billion payday industry in our state shrank by 75 percent. Families escaped from payday loans and were able to financially build themselves back up. MoneyTree still has numerous outlets but the profits from payday lending have shrunk.
Let's be clear: payday lenders are allowed to charge 45 percent interest under the current payday lending installment loan plan. If MoneyTree and other lenders can't make a profit at such an incredibly high rate, they have a broken business model.
There is no justification for creating a new type of loan that will earn MoneyTree and other lenders 194 percent interest at the expense of our hardworking families. Passage of SB 5312 will do just that.
Supporters argue that high-interest loans are a lifeboat as the only form of credit available to some people, and with this legislation we are offering them and their communities an important new product. Frankly, we find that logic offensive.
Instead of a new product, MoneyTree needs to be up front with their customers. An installment loan plan under the existing Payday Lending Reform Act is available today – it just isn't as profitable as the new product they are promoting.
Now is the time to step up and once again firmly slam the door shut on predatory loans.
Sen. Sharon Nelson, D-Maury Island, is a former bank executive, is currently the assistant ranking member on the Senate Ways & Means Committee and serves on the Senate Financial Institutions, Housing and Insurance Committee. Rep. Cindy Ryu, D-Shoreline, is a former insurance agent, and serves as the Vice Chair of the House Business & Financial Services Committee.


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One of my favorite getaways in the state hangs on to the tip of an island that's about halfway between Tampa and Tallahassee -- Cedar Key. The place has a population of about 1,000, except during the annual Seafood Festival the third weekend of October, and the annual Sidewalk Arts Festival the third weekend of April, when thousands invade the water-hugging spread of well-aged buildings.
Depot and detention center during the Seminole Wars, and producer of salt for the Confederate Army, the town was named for the cedar trees that were harvested to provide wood for the Eagle and Eberhard Faber pencil companies up north. Pine and cypress were also cut and shipped from the 17 sawmills that provided a steady buzz and the trimmed timber. By the 1870s a million cubic feet a year were transported, along with a million tons of mullet, and turtle, oysters and sponges, rushed from Cedar Key's dock on packet steamers and trains rolling on Florida's first cross-state line all the way to Fernandina Beach, where other ships and trains awaited those express deliveries from what was then one of the most important ports in the state.
The story is graphically told in the splendid little museum in the northwest corner of town, in a building planted solidly on 18 acres of sand dune that has been carefully returned to the primitive state of the 1500s with cabbage palms and giant oaks, sand pine, a scattering of scrub palmetto and a few surviving red cedars.
There's much more of the same in the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest nesting areas in the country. Its offshore islands, ranging in size from 6 to 165 acres, are home to more than 200,000 nesting birds in a single season. To the north, the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge comprises three separate land tracts totaling 13,000 acres; but only the beaches in the two refuges are open to the public and access is by boat only July through December, and then only at high tide so boats can make it over the shallow sand and mud flats.
Boats to the refuges, the offshore islands and the fishing reefs (with some of the best redfish, trout and Spanish mackerel concentrations in the country) depart from the Cedar Key dock, where there's a gaggle of galleries and gift stores (one called Wild Women) and a fleet of reliable waterfront feederies, none of them in the fast-food category. Captain's Table is a particular favorite with its walls of windows.
In the turn-of-the-century boom years, when the population soared to 4,000, there was regular steamer service from that dock to New Orleans, Havana and Tampa, its rival for Gulf port prominence. Large hotels lined Main Street and imposing two-story mansions and a string of warehouses were built out on the bay where the railroad terminal and several shipyards were located.
Hurricanes decimated many of those testaments to the good times, but enough survived to provide memory banks and bases for adaptive restoration. The Cedar Key Historical Society Museum, with a fine array of photos, occupies one on Main Street, and the Island Hotel graces another a few blocks away.
Built in 1849 as a general store, the two-story Island Hotel, with its marvelous second-deck wraparound porch, is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been on my travel itinerary since the early '70s when the indomitable Bessie Gibbs was in charge, sheltering writers, retirees and recluses while running a restaurant of great repute.
Then came an equally unique owner, transplanted New Englander Marcia Rogers, psychologist, matchmaker, notary public, conservationist, environmentalist -- maybe a mystic. She installed a talented chef in the kitchen, Jahn McCumbers, who brought the hotel back to its days of culinary glory.
Jahn is gone, but his memory lingers on in the Escargot a la Jahn; a royal treatment of fresh shrimp, saluted with a cream cheese dill, garlic and honey sauce; and in the pork tenderloin sauteed in butter with onions and peppers and white wine, or with grapes and mushrooms in white wine spiked with orange juice.
The emphasis is on freshness, on the harvests from Cedar Key waters, and that means oysters, stone crab claws and soft-shell crabs in season, stuffed flounder and grouper, crab imperial, and the original Island Hotel Heart of Palm Salad, developed by Bessie and Gibby Gibbs with a Cedar Key signature dressing.
Dinner should be preceded by a session in the famous Neptune Bar, where you can ponder its symbolism and discuss the evening meal, relaxing in the confidence that you are going to be staying on the premises after whatever over-indulgences you commit.
There are 13 guest rooms, each with private bath and central air conditioning -- two luxuries that were not available when I first started staying here. But there's been no attempt to modernize too much. The Island Hotel is still a happy reminder of simpler times, reminiscent of Key West in the days before gentrification, and that's the main reason new owners Bill and MaryLou Stewart bought the landmark a few weeks ago. Bill grew up in the Keys and he yearned for the world he saw disappearing.
Robert Tolf is the author of six books on country inns, including Florida Country Inns.


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Kelly's back from her Walt Disney World trip. While she was gone, the CT had a blog train filled with all the autograph cards Kelly made for her girls. Didn't you just love them? Well today she's filling up her store with all the T-shirts she made. Plus a slew of awesome Quick Pages.
Let's take a look at all the T-shirt designs first. Kelly used these designs to iron onto t-shirts for matching outfits for her 3 girls to wear each day in the parks. You can use these as word art titles, cover pages or for making your own t-shirts.
Next up is a huge assortment of Quick Pages for each of the parks using Kelly's templates as their base. These are so adorable and so easy to scrap with. You can use them as is or add some additional embellishments and decorations.
All of these T-shirt designs and Quick Pages can be found at www.KellybellDesigns.com. These new items are priced at 25% off this weekend only so make sure to add them to your shopping cart now. Have a great weekend!


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UT System Competitiveness Initiative Bolsters National Research Capacity, Recruits and Retains the Best Faculty
Since it was launched in 2006, a $2.56 billion program to boost the competitive advantage of University of Texas System institutions has led to the completion of more than a quarter of its projects, addition or renovation of more than 800,000 square feet of space and the hiring of 89 top-flight faculty members. Ultimately, these investments will benefit students spread across the UT System for future generations.
And when concluded, the UT System's Competitiveness Initiative will have completed 44 facilities projects across UT System institutions, totaling about 5.9 million square feet of added or renovated space. By another measure, it will add more than 41 percent of academic research space and two and a half times more clinical space than the UT System had in 2005.
"As leaders in science, technology, engineering, math and health, it is incumbent on us to continually improve and always remain on the cutting edge," said Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., UT System chancellor. "This unprecedented effort to increase capacity in these disciplines demonstrates the UT System's unwavering commitment to produce the top institutions in the world. This program not only benefits our institutions and students, it makes Texas and our nation more vibrant and competitive."
Progress on the Competitiveness Initiative was announced in a presentation by Chancellor Cigarroa to UT System Regents at a public meeting Wednesday (July 8) in Austin. The Board in August 2006 endorsed the multi-billion-dollar plan, which is expected to be completed in 2013. The initiative aims to provide UT System academic and health institutions with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities and to provide start-up packages designed to recruit and retain the world's brightest research scientists and faculty.
The impetus for the initiative came after the National Academies' 2005 report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, called for a comprehensive effort to boost U.S. competitiveness. Norm Augustine, former chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin and chairman of the National Academies' report committee, delivered a pre-recorded video message to the Board and public stressing the key role higher education must play if the United States is to remain the global leader in the critical fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and health care. The report's recommendation for institutions of higher education was "to make the United States the most attractive setting in which to study and perform research so that we can develop, recruit and retain the best and brightest students, scientists and engineers within the United States and throughout the world." Augustine also recognized the UT System for being the first major public university system to take steps to address the findings in the report.
And in less than one year after the report was published, the Board of Regents answered that challenge by establishing the UT System Competitiveness Initiative, a historic $2.56 billion commitment to building the most ambitious science, engineering, technology and health infrastructure in the country. Funding for the initiative comes from state and federal appropriations, tuition revenue bonds authorized by the 79th Legislature, institutional funds, unprecedented Permanent University Fund allocations authorized by the UT System Board of Regents and philanthropic support from business, industry, foundations and individuals, largely stimulated by the Competitiveness Initiative.
"The UT System Board of Regents' charge in 2006 and now, more than ever, is to profoundly impact our reach on a global scale and this investment in science, technology, engineering and health keeps us on a path of excellence and ensures that our institutions will remain among the leaders in research nationally," said Regents' Chairman James R. Huffines. "Texas is in a remarkable position to make great strides because this investment comes at a time when many other states suffering from a still-troubled national economy are cutting resources to higher education."
Since 2006, the commitment of the initiative has actually grown to more than $3 billion, including: $2.91 billion for academic and research facilities; $74.33 million in Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) program funding to recruit and retain faculty; $21.88 million in Library, Equipment, Repair, and Rehabilitation (LERR) projects to keep faculty competitive and train students with the latest equipment; $1.87 million to partner with a national lab; and, $1.61 million from the Texas Ignition Fund (TIF) grants to help start new commercial ventures.
Examples of new investments include $150 million for a 200,000-square-foot South Texas Research Facility at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio; $123 million for engineering research buildings at UT Arlington; and $30 million for a math, science and engineering facility at UT Dallas.
The accomplishments include:
- Addition or renovation of about 813,000 square feet of clinical, research, classroom and laboratory space, with roughly 5.9 million additional square feet coming on line by 2013
- Twelve major projects completed, such as the $97 million Dell Pediatric Research Institute in Austin and the $174 million Galveston National Laboratory at UTMB
- Recruitment of 89 new STARs faculty and the retention of 31 outstanding faculty who could have moved their research elsewhere. Seven of the individuals are members of the National Academies. The UT System has allocated $124 million to attract or retain these talented faculty members. Initial STARs awards of $22 million in Fiscal Year 2005 and 2006 have yielded an estimated $198 million of external research funds at the System's academic institutions alone.
- The creation of a series of special UT System awards to recognize and reward the academic achievement of faculty already at work at UT institutions. These awards include the Chancellor's Innovations in Education Awards; the Texas Ignition Fund; the Chancellor's Health Fellows; the Chancellor's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards; and the new Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards, for which the inaugural winners will be announced in August
The UT System already is a national leader in producing graduates within the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. In 2008, more than one in five degrees (22.6 percent) awarded at UT academic institutions was in these disciplines, higher than other public universities in Texas (18.2 percent) and the nation (18.5 percent).The total number of degrees awarded by UT System health-related institutions increased by nearly 10 percent from 2005 to 2008, compared to 5 percent nationally.
During the presentation, the Board and the public heard from several faculty members and graduate students whose work is a direct result of the Competitiveness Initiative.
Dr. Tinsley Oden, associate vice president for research and director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at UT Austin, discussed the positive impact that the STARs program had on his work, as did Brandi Baird, a graduate student at the UT Health Science Center at Houston. Baird works with other STARs recipients in the Brown Foundation Institute of Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases.
Dr. Denise Park, the T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair in Clinical Brain Science and a UT Regents Scholar at UT Dallas, and Dr. Kristen Kennedy, a postdoctoral fellow, focus their research in understanding the role of age-related changes in memory function at the basic level as well as the implications of these changes in society. Dr. Park, a recipient of numerous grants and an NIH award, and Dr. Kennedy discussed how the Competitiveness Initiative helped attract them to Texas and how the funds facilitates their research.
Dr. Joe Takahashi, head of neurosciences at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and a STARs recipient, discussed his research interest in understanding the genetic and molecular basis of circadian rhythms. A member of the National Academy of Science, one of Dr. Takahashi's most important accomplishments is the discovery of a gene that is central to the control of circadian rhythms in mammals.
The UT System Office of Research and Technology Transfer, in collaboration with the Office of Strategic Management, produced an interim report on the progress of the Competitiveness Initiative. The report will be made available online soon at www.utsystem.edu/competitive/reports.htm.
"The Competitiveness Initiative has given the UT System the wherewithal to recruit the world's most outstanding faculty to educate our students, to provide us with outstanding health care, and to challenge the imagination of the scientists, engineers, mathematicians, health care providers, and, yes, students who will make the discoveries that change our lives for the better. I can almost assure you that a student will be sitting in class and a professor will inspire that student, plant a seed of interest or even fascination … and that seed will lead to a life's work – perhaps a Nobel Prize," Chancellor Cigarroa said. "We are very grateful for the vision and support from the Board of Regents, the Texas Legislature, and the many private funding sources that have given so generously to keep our state competitive – particularly at a time when so many other states are encountering difficulty in securing funding for higher education activities," Cigarroa added.
About The University of Texas System
The University of Texas System is one of the nation's largest higher education systems, with nine academic campuses and six health institutions. The UT System has an annual operating budget of $11.5 billion (FY 2009) including $2.5 billion in sponsored programs funded by federal, state, local and private sources. Student enrollment exceeded 194,000 in the 2008 academic year. The UT System confers more than one-third of the state's undergraduate degrees and educates nearly three-fourths of the state's health care professionals annually. With more than 84,000 employees, the UT System is one of the largest employers in the state.


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Aeronautics student lands Delta Air Lines internship
Junior Zach Floto, a Liberty University School of Aeronautics student, recently landed a competitive internship at the Delta Air Lines headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. He is one of only three college students chosen from a pool of more than 700 applicants nationwide.
Floto, who is in the commercial/corporate aviation program at Liberty, first heard about the internship while he was attending a national flight team competition at Ohio State University two years ago. After he applied online, the management of the Chief Pilot Center and the vice president of Fight Operations at Delta contacted him and set up a web-based video interview.
"Two hours after the interview was finished, I got the call with the exciting news that I was selected to be one of the next interns for Delta," Floto said.
He is the first intern to represent Liberty University.
"Everyone here is really excited about having a new school represented by the interns," Floto said. "Whenever I am introduced to the employees here, they always start by saying, 'This is our first student we've ever had from Liberty.'"
Floto has already invested more than 50 hours in the internship. He works with the Next Gen GPS Working Group, whose primary purpose is to assist the FAA in developing RNAV procedures (a navigation method) for new airports that Delta flies into, as well as revising and updating current procedures. His job requires him to keep track of developing procedures and test them in simulators. He has been instructed on how to use the aircraft simulators in the Delta training center, giving him opportunity to practice takeoffs, landings, low visibility operations, engine failures, and more.
Floto said he's also gained a lot of experience outside the cockpit.
"I've learned many other valuable skills working in the office and talking to the other pilots. By interacting with my fellow employees, I have learned much about how an airline operates and the amount of work required to make such a large operation successful."
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Dave Young, dean of the School of Aeronautics, said Floto's selection for the internship is "a testament to the quality of the students in the School of Aeronautics."
He said it provides "a grand opportunity" when a major airline like Delta acknowledges Liberty's aviation program: "Zach's representation of Liberty University and the School of Aeronautics will open doors for our graduates. We're very proud of him."
During his internship, Floto is taking online classes to keep up with his studies. His ultimate goal is to become a captain for an international airline.
"Delta is a very strong company with a great future in front of them, and I hope to return to this airline in the future," he said.


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In this release the Whirr development team have added many new features while still making the core more solid. This post covers some of the more important changes. The full list can be found in the release notes.
Improving the new user experienceOrchestrating multiple services on cloud instances is a challenge to make simple, and Whirr has sometimes been a little fiddly to get running. SSH settings, in particular, have been a common sticking point with new users. The new Whirr in 5 Minutes guide walks through the minimum number of commands you need to type to get a simple 3-node ZooKeeper cluster running in a few minutes. From there you can move on to the Quick Start Guide and the Configuration Guide.
The sample configurations in the recipes directory in the distribution contain useful settings for running the services on a variety of cloud providers. Users are always encouraged to share their working configurations with the community.
New servicesElastic Search and Voldemort have been added to the roster of services that come with Whirr. This brings the total to six; adding to Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, and Apache ZooKeeper.
API improvementsWhirr is still a young project so it is not surprising that its API is rapidly evolving. In WHIRR-245, the demarcation between the user API (for users who control Whirr clusters from Java) and the service API (for developers writing new Whirr services) was clarified. The user API can be found in the org.apache.whirr package; whereas the service API is in org.apache.whirr.service.
You can find out more about writing Whirr services in this presentation (PDF).
The firewall API that service writers use to open ports for services was simplified and made more powerful in WHIRR-275.
Overriding scriptsThis feature was actually introduced in Whirr 0.4.0-incubating, but it's useful enough to mention here. In older versions of Whirr, if you wanted to make a modification to the scripts that run on cloud instances - to tweak some settings, for instance - you would have to upload your modifications (as well as all the other scripts) to a publicly available web server (Amazon S3 was a common choice), then point Whirr at the new location. Not particularly difficult, but a big enough barrier to discourage users from trying it.
The new approach is to push scripts to nodes from the launching machine, so you can just edit them locally before launch. Full instructions are covered in the FAQ.
Running scripts on nodesIn 0.5.0 the scripts that run on cloud instances have been broken up to be more fine-grained, so many services have individual start and stop scripts (WHIRR-266). Combined with the ability to run scripts on sets of nodes in the cluster (by ID or role), users now have more control of the cluster once it has launched (WHIRR-173). Try running
whirr run-script at the command line to use this feature. There's a contrib script to run the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) against an HBase cluster, which takes advantage of the run-script command (WHIRR-287).
Also useful is WHIRR-291, which allows you to launch "blank" nodes with no services running on them (in a "noop" role), and then, with
whirr run-script, run arbitrary scripts on them to bring them into the state you want.
Custom service buildsDevelopers who work on services supported in Whirr will find the ability to push a custom build to a cluster very useful for testing (WHIRR-220). For example, if you are working on a ZooKeeper feature, you can build a ZooKeeper tarball with your new feature, then launch a cluster that uses this tarball by specifying
whirr.zookeeper.tarball.url as a local file:// URL pointing to your tarball. Whirr will push the tarball to a temporary blob store container, then each node will download from there.
I used a variation of this feature to try out a nightly Hadoop 0.22 build on a small Whirr cluster. In this case the tarball URL is not a local file, so Whirr doesn't copy the tarball to a blob store since it is already accessible from the cloud.
Service improvementsWhirr is only able to exist because of the powerful abstraction that jclouds provides for interacting with cloud providers. A great example of this power is the API that jclouds provides for discovering the hardware capabilities of an instance running on any provider. WHIRR-282 took advantage of the jclouds API to find the number of cores on a node to dynamically configure the number of slots in a Hadoop cluster. Previously, you had to set this manually for each cluster to take full advantage of larger image sizes.
This is just the beginning - there is more work to use memory capabilities to set configuration (WHIRR-229), and to use hardware capabilities generally in services other than Hadoop.
Cluster state storageIn previous releases of Whirr, information about launched instances was stored in a file on the machine that launched the cluster (~/.whirr/<cluster-name>/instances). With WHIRR-288, it's now possible to store this information in a blob store instead (such as Amazon S3, although any jclouds-supported blob store can be used), which is useful if you want to control clusters from multiple machines.
Bring Your Own NodesOr just BYON, for short. Many users have requested the ability to deploy to privately owned hardware - and jclouds added this feature in 1.0-beta-9. Whirr now has preliminary support for BYON clusters. In a nutshell, you write a YAML file enumerating the nodes to deploy to - their addresses, access credentials, etc. - then Whirr will start services on them. The nodes just need to have a base OS like Centos or Ubuntu installed. You can find an example BYON configuration in the recipes directory of the download.
BYON is also useful for testing locally by using VMware or VirtualBox to host target nodes.
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Last, but not least, Whirr finally has a logo! Many thanks to Alison Wong, who designed it and donated it to the ASF.
CreditsI would like to thank everyone who helped with the 0.5.0-incubating release. We have a growing community, and we welcome feedback and help from new users and developers. If you'd like to get involved you can start by downloading the new release and joining us on the mailing lists.
What's next?It's difficult to make firm predictions about the contents of the next release since Whirr is an open source project with many open issues, but the general themes include:
- Adding more services. In tandem, we want to make it easier to write new services by pushing common patterns into the core (e.g. WHIRR-326 is one example of this).
- Improving existing services. By making them more flexible, better configured, easier to manage.
- Adding more cloud providers. The latest release of jclouds supports 30 providers, and we need help testing more of them with Whirr.
- Implementing services using other configuration management tools, rather than bash scripting. Andrei Savu is working on using Puppet to write new services (WHIRR-255).
- Supporting elastic clusters, so new nodes can be added to running clusters (WHIRR-214).


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GB 49 internal clearance gauges
SKF internal clearance gauges in the GB 49 series are designed for use with double row cylindrical roller bearings ranging from NNU 4920 BK to NNU 4960 BK. GB 49 series internal clearance gauges are able to accurately measure the internal envelope diameter of the roller set when the rollers are in contact with the outer ring raceway.
Depending on their size, GB 49 internal clearance gauges are available in two different designs (fig.1 and product table). They have a slotted gauge body, so that both gauging ring halves can be brought to bear on the roller set with the appropriate pressure, as a result of the inherent resilience of the material. The outside cylindrical surface of the gauging ring has two diametrically opposed ground gauging zones. The gauge body can be compressed by means of an adjustment screw. This enables the gauge to be positioned inside the roller set without damaging the rollers or the gauging zones.
The typical gauging procedure:
- Insert the GB 49 gauge in the outer ring and roller assembly and loosen the adjustment screw until the two gauging ring halves are in contact with the roller set.
- Set the dial indicator on the GB 49 gauge to zero.
- Compress GB 49 using adjustment screw and remove from outer ring assembly.
- Reset GB 49 so that dial indicator reads zero again using adjustment screw.
- Set a stirrup gauge to GB 49 gauge diameter setting the stirrup gauge dial indicator to zero.
- Drive the inner ring up onto its tapered seat monitoring the diameter expansion with the stirrup gauge until the dial indicator reads zero plus the desired preload or zero minus the desired clearance.
For additional information, refer to Mounting.
The accuracy of GB 49 gauges is within 1 μm for sizes ≤ 38 (GB 4920 to GB 4938) and within 2 μm for sizes ≥ 40 (GB 4940 to GB 4960).