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Body Magnetic Resonance/Abdominal Imaging/Fellowship Program
Program Director: John P. McGahan, M.D.
Number of Fellowship Positions: 3 per year
Duration of Fellowship: 1 year
One open position for the 2018-2019 academic year.
- Body MRI – 3 to 4 months
- Abdominal Interventional – 3 to 4 months
- MRI/MSK – 1 month
- Electives – 3 months*
*Electives may include:
- MRI Abdominal
- MRI Neuroradiology
- MRI Musculoskeletal
- Obstetrical Ultrasound
- Mammography
- Chest CT CT Angiography
Clinical Duties
Body MR Service
- The Body MR Service will include all non-neuro MR cases performed at all sites. These include abdomen, pelvis, chest, cardiac and vascular MR studies.
- The fellow or resident assigned to BMR service will be directly responsible for protocoling, supervising the performance of (includes contrast injection), and interpreting all Body MR cases at all sites. This will include contacting referring physicians for questions, prompt interpretation and dictation of all cases, and telephone reporting of results.
- Faculty of the various radiology subspecialty services will be responsible for prompt interpretation of all cases:
- Musculoskeletal: MSK faculty
- Abdomen/pelvis: Abdominal Imaging CT/MR Faculty
- Chest: Chest Faculty
- Cardiac: Cardiac Faculty
- The fellow/resident assigned to BMR is responsible for reviewing all cases with the responsible faculty physician prior to final interpretation.
- The goals of this rotation are:
- To provide a high quality clinical service responsive to the needs and desires of patients and referring physicians.
- To expedite through-put and increase the number of cases performed by prompt scheduling, accurate efficient protocols, and prompt result reporting.
- To provide a high-quality, educational experience for fellows and residents.
Abdominal Interventional Service
- The Abdominal Interventional Service will include non-angio interventional procedures. These will include thyroid biopsies, liver biopsies, renal biopsies and soft tissue biopsies. The fellow will be responsible to perform thorocentesis, chest drainage procedures, paracentesis, and abdominal/pelvic abscess drainage. The fellow will work with the faculty in performance of RFA of the liver, kidney and bone.
- The fellow assigned to Abdominal Interventional Services will be directly responsible for work-up and performance of non-angio interventional procedures on the service. This will include performance of the procedure and patient follow-up.
- Goals of the rotation are:
- To provide a high quality clinical service responsive to patient and referring physician needs.
- To provide high quality education experience for the fellow and residents.
Body CT Service
The MR Abdominal fellow will be assigned to the in-patient Body CT Service while on the Body MRI Service. This service provides the opportunity for the fellow to expand skills in Body CT examinations and in CT-guided biopsy and interventional procedures and CT Angiography.
The time allotted for electives is intended to allow some flexibility for the fellow to pursue further training in specific areas of interest. Electives must be approved by the Director of the fellowship.
Teaching Responsibilities
- The fellow will actively participate in teaching residents and students assigned to MR imaging services or abdominal interventional services.
- The fellow will prepare and deliver a minimum of four teaching conferences during the year for the radiology residents.
- The fellow will participate in appropriate clinical conferences as designated by the fellowship Director.
On-Call Duties
As per the Department of Radiology Chair.
Completion of four-year residency in the United States or Canada.
California Medical License before starting fellowship. Please visit the California Medical Board Web site or contact them directly for more information: http://www.mbc.ca.gov/ or 916-263-2344.
Requirement for Acceptance of International Medical Graduates at UC Davis for Postgraduate Training.
How to apply
To apply, please submit the following materials to the fellowship coordinator at the address below.
Current CV.
A letter of recommendation from the director of your radiology residency program mailed from the Dean's office directly to our program.
Two additional letters of recommendation from physicians of your choice addressed to the fellowship director.
A letter from the dean of your medical school addressed to the fellowship director.
Medical school transcripts and USMLE scores.
Personal statement.
Current photo (to ensure we have the correct applicant with the correct file during rank period).
Contact information
If you have questions or would like to submit your application materials, please contact:
Seema Prasad
Phone: 916-703-2273
Fax: 916-734-8490
UC Davis Health System
Department of Radiology
4860 Y Street Suite 3100
Sacramento, CA 95817


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Naked Juice, Silk: Kids who disagree with parent company on GMOs
The Gunther Report
Naked Juice, Silk: Kids who disagree with parent company on GMOs
Naked Juice says it doesn't use ingredients produced using biotechnology as a matter of principle.
Silk, the company that put soymilk on supermarket shelves, says:
We're proud to participate in the a nonprofit, multi-stakeholder collaboration committed to preserving and building sources of non-GMO products, educating consumers and providing verified non-GMO choices.
Cascadian Farm ("We were organic before organic was a trend") assures consumers that "you can know when you see the 'certified organic' USDA seal on the front of our package that GMO crops have not been used."
You'll hear much the same from Kashi ("seven of our foods are now officially Non-GMO Project Verified") and Honest Tea, which says:
Honest Tea doesn't use any Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOS) and supports the idea that more transparent labeling will help consumers make clear choices.
The thing is, each of these upstart brands, which tout their commitment to natural or organic product, and to transparency, is owned by a big food conglomerate that opposes GMO labeling.
Think of it this way: Naked Juice (PepsiCo.), Silk (Dean Foods), Cascadian Farm (General Mills), Kashi (Kellogg) and Honest Tea (Coca-Cola) are like kids who don't agree with their parents.
Photo of orange and onion provided by Inga Nielsen via Shutterstock
These, though, are family arguments with big consequences for food shoppers. Big food and agriculture companies funding a campaign which has raised more than $23 million to defeat California's Proposition 37, a ballot initiative that would mandate clear labeling of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients on food packages. PepsiCo, for example, has donated $1.7 million to defeat Prop. 37, while Coca-Cola has spent more than $1.1 million. Kellogg ($612,000), General Mills ($520,000) and Dean Foods ($253,000) are big donors, too. Biotech companies Monsanto and DuPont have given even more — $4 million apiece — according to data compiled by public TV station KCET.
Mark Kastel, co-director of The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisc.-based advocacy group, said that consumers who purchase natural and organic food should be aware that they are supporting big food companies that want to deny them the right to know about GMOs in their food. He's launched a petition drive asking the big food companies to back labeling and published a graphic showing where food companies stand.
In a press release, Kastel wrote:
We welcome corporate involvement in the organic food industry, but only when the parent company subscribes to the values that the organic food movement is based on. We have a problem with the duplicity of corporations that hide under a 'holier than thou' marketing brand and then undermine the very values of the organic movement. [emphasis added]
I'm not sure that I agree that there's anything nefarious about these contributions. The big food companies argue that the GMO labels are unnecessary, and in any event that labeling shouldn't be decided by individual states. Consumers who want to avoid GMOs can buy organic products because the national organic standards prohibit GMOs.
Having said that, there's no doubt that the political power of the organic movement has been diminished as upstart, mission-driven brands have been gobbled up by big companies like Coca-Cola and General Mills that have their own political agendas.
What's more, the fact that so many organic and natural brands have become swallowed by Big Food means that most of the money flowing into the Prop. 37 campaign is aimed at defeating the initiative. About $3 million has been raised to support the labeling campaign, much of it from independent organic brands such as Nature's Path, Dr. Bronner's, Nutiva and the Lundberg rice company.
The California vote will be an important test of consumer sentiment about genetically-engineered crops. GE corn and soy are widely grown, and they find their way into many of the packaged goods on grocery shelves. They're safe to eat, most scientists agree (just as most scientists agree that man-made climate change is a threat), although their environmental impact is a matter of considerable debate.
And, while companies would still be free to use GMO ingredients, a labeling mandate in a big state like California could, in effect, bring about national labeling because of the costs and logistical challenges of producing different packages for different places.
Interestingly, Gary Hirschberg of Stonyfield Farm has led a national petition drive called Just Label It. It's aimed at persuading the FDA to require transparency around GMOs in food. Other firms that support Just Label It include Honest Tea and Annie's Inc.
By email, Seth Goldman, Honest Tea's co-founder and TeaEO, told me:
With a name like Honest Tea, we are committed to transparency in our ingredients, in our products, and in the way we do business. Since 1999, when we launched the world's first organic bottled tea, we've used labeling that includes clear, accurate information consumers want to know…All of our products carry the USDA Organic seal, as well as the "No GMOs" logo.
Honest Tea, an operating unit of The Coca-Cola Company, believes all food labeling requirements should be established by the federal government. We do not support state by state regulation of food labels, which places an unrealistic burden on the food and beverage industry.
But The Cornucopia Institute's Mark Kastel argues that national efforts like the Just Label It campaign are not nearly as likely to succeed as the citizen-led Prop. 37:
I think that supporting the Just Label It Campaign, while you sit on the sidelines during the battle royale in California is disingenuous. The Just Label It Campaign is a top-down operation promulgated by Gary Hirschberg and some other corporate executives…Although there's nothing wrong with what it is advocating, thus far, they have been wholly ineffective.
There hasn't been one tangible particle of hope in trying to persuade the FDA of anything in terms of regulating or labeling. This is true under the current administration and every other Democratic and Republican administration since the commercialization of GMO crops. The biotechnology and agribusiness industries, with their investments in federal campaigns and Washington lobbyists, are just too powerful. It does not matter what the polling says citizens want.
But in California, citizens do have power -- at the ballot box. And polling shows that this is winnable. And some of these corporate executives can thump their chests all they want proclaiming their adamant rejection of GMOs, and their support for labeling, but if they sit this one out we are going to make sure that people know it.


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Reading 2: The Gilleys of Baker Island
About the year 1806, William Gilley and Hannah Lurvey Gilley decided to move their family from Norwood's Cove on Mount Desert Island to Baker Island. Until then, Gilley had made his living chiefly on fishing or coastal vessels, but--like most young men of the region--he also cut wood and farmed. Gilley and his wife had already accumulated a little store of household goods and implements, and tools for fishing and farming. They needed no money to buy Baker Island, for it lay unoccupied and unclaimed; they simply took possession of it.
William Gilley was a large, strong man, six feet tall, and weighing more than 200 pounds. Hannah Gilley was a robust woman, who had lived in Newburyport and Byfield, Massachusetts until she was 13 years old, and had had much better schooling than that available on the island of Mount Desert. She taught all her children reading, writing, and arithmetic; and all her life she valued good reading, and encouraged it in her family.
For William Gilley, taking possession of Baker Island involved much heavy labor, but few unaccustomed risks. Hannah, who already had three little children, would face a formidable isolation, and also share in the severe labors of a pioneering family. Even to get a footing and to build the first shelter on this wooded island was no easy task. However, health, strength, and fortitude were theirs; and in a few years they had established themselves comfortably on the island. Ultimately they had six sons and six daughters, all of whom grew to maturity. Nine of the twelve children married, and to them were born 58 children.
After 10 years, the family had transformed the island into a tolerable farm. William Gilley kept about six cows, a yoke of oxen, two or three young cattle, about 50 sheep, and three or four hogs. The girls tended the poultry, made butter and spun wool, while the boys helped their father. They had cleared a considerable portion of the island, broken up the cleared land, hauled off part of the stones and piled them on the protruding ledges, and gradually made fields for grass and other farm crops.
Food at the island was abundant. No traps were needed for lobsters, which could be picked up in the shallow water along the rocky shore. Fresh fish were readily available except in stormy weather and in cold and windy February and March. Although codfish were easily accessible, the family preferred mackerel. In the summer, the family could eat lamb and in the fall they killed from 10 to 15 sheep. When the weather turned cold, they killed a "beef critter" or two, and sea-birds also added to their store of food. During the summer and early autumn the family had plenty of fresh vegetables.
For clothing the family depended mostly on wool from their own sheep. There were spinning wheels and looms in the house, and Hannah both spun and wove. They raised flax from which they made a coarse kind of linen, chiefly for towels, but they had very little cotton. The children went barefoot most of the year; but in the winter they wore shoes or boots made by the eldest brother, who had learned the shoemaker's art.
The Gilleys did need cash on occasion. Some essentials had to be bought at the Southwest Harbor store, a seven mile trip by boat each way. To get money, they could sell or exchange butter and eggs at the store. They also could sell dried fish and feathers in Boston. The boys shot enough birds in a single year to yield more than a hundredweight of feathers, worth 50 cents a pound. The feathers shipped to Boston every year represented the men's labor, whereas the butter and eggs represented chiefly the women's labor. Butter, which sold in the vicinity at twelve-and-a-half cents per pound, was by far the best of the cash resources. The Gilleys were also able to supplement their income by keeping the Baker Island lighthouse after being appointed in 1828.
In this large and united family the boys stayed at home and worked for their parents until they were 21 years of age, and the girls stayed at home until they were married or had come of age. It was not all work for the family, however. In the long winter evenings the family played checkers, or fox and geese. The mother read to the family until the children grew old enough to take their turn in reading aloud. As soon as they were 10 or 12 years of age, the boys were in and out of boats much of the time, attaining that quick, instinctive use of oar, sail, and tiller necessary for safety. When they grew older they had the sport of gunning. Nearly every Sunday in the summer Hannah took the eldest children 14 miles round-trip, in an open boat, to the Congregational Church at Southwest Harbor.
The Gilleys always had before them nature's splendor. From their dwelling they could see the entire hemisphere of the sky. To the north lay the grand hills of Mount Desert, with an outline clear and sharp when the northwest wind blew, but dim and soft when southerly winds prevailed. Every storm dashed a magnificent surf onto the rockbound isle. In winter, the low sun made the sea a sheet of shimmering silver; and all the year an endless variety of colors, shades and textures played over the surfaces of hills and sea. Persons without the habit of reflection are often but half conscious of their delight in such visions, but find them to be a real source of happiness that is soon missed when gone. On the whole, the members of that isolated family look back on their childhood as a happy one, and feel a strong sense of obligation to their mother and father.
William Gilley, Jr., b. 11 September 1782 Mount Desert, Me., d. 17 September 1872 Baker's Island, Me., m. 30 November 1802 Hannah Boynton Lurvey, b. 8 December 1782 Byfield, Mass., d. 24 March 1852 Little Cranberry Isle, Maine. Children:
1. Hannah b. 18 September 1803, m. Joseph Stanley.
2. William III b. 8 July 1805, d. 1894, m. 1) Clarissa Lancaster, 2) Phebe Douglas.
3. Elisha B. b. 12 September 1807, d. 28 July 1901, m. Hannah Manchester Stanley.
4. Eunice b. 1809, d. 1871, m. Elisha Crane.
5. Francis b. 6 June 1810, d. 19 November 1877, m. Bethsheba Crane.
6. Joseph b. 22 May 1813, d. 10 July 1894, m. Adeline Dolliver.
7. Samuel b. 15 May 1815, d. 27 May 1906, m. Emily Stanley
8. Matilda b. 5 October 1817, m. Oliver L. Allen.
9. Lucinda b. 29 December 1819, d. 18 February 1843, never married.
10. John b. 22 February 1822, d. 12 October 1896,
m. 1) Harriet Bickford Wilkinson, 2) Mary Jane Wilkinson.
11. Mary b. 5 March 1824, never married.
12. Elmira b. 26 November 1826, d. 1853, never married.
Questions for Reading 2
1. How did the Gilleys obtain Baker Island? Would they be able to obtain land the same way today? Why or why not?
2. How did they use the resources of the island to support themselves?
3. In what ways was Baker Island an advantageous place to live? What inconveniences did the family have to contend with?
4. Describe Hannah Gilley's life on Baker Island. List five activities that would have been part of her weekly routine.
5. Develop a family tree for the Gilleys. Do you know any families as large as the Gilleys? Why was it considered a blessing to have such a large family?
6. This account of the Gilley's experiences was written nearly a century after they settled on Baker Island. In what ways might the narrator have romanticized their experiences? Do you think the description of their lives is realistic? Why or why not?
Reading 2 was compiled and adapted from George E. Street, Mount Desert: A History (Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press, 1905); and historical records at Acadia National Park.
Reading 2 was compiled and adapted from George E. Street, Mount Desert: A History (Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press, 1905); and historical records at Acadia National Park.


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Many dairy farms are finding themselves in a tight feed situation. Last year's growing conditions resulted in reduced inventories while high feed prices have intensified the problems.
Many are looking for ways to stretch supplies or to find ways to bridge the feed inventory gaps. The usual ration adjustments to stretch forages are often expensive.
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Finding yourself a month short of new feeds is usually more than embarrassing, it can be very expensive. Buying corn silage or haylage at the end of the season can soak up several months' worth of margins. We are already seeing unheard of prices for any kind of hay to stretch forage needs.
A continuing inventory of what's on hand along with the usual feed analysis and figuring how to best utilize dwindling supplies is the first step. Setting up a schedule to monitor and track the silos, bunks, or mows should be routine. But when there is simply not enough to go around there are some options.
Some farms, in anticipation of tight supplies, planted some winter grains last fall. Common grains such as wheat, triticale, and rye were used.
Some cases specialized forage varieties of wheat and triticale were planted. The intent is to harvest them early in the spring for silage and then follow them with double cropped corn silage. In other cases, neighbor's cover crops are being considered for harvest for forage purposes and the fields will then be planted to corn as they would have normally been following the cover crop.
Some farms have experience harvesting cover crops and spring forages, but for many it will be a new adventure. Timing is critical. For the most part, the harvest window is the "boot" stage of growth. This is when the grain head is just starting to emerge.
Being too early reduces yields and may cause an unproductive regrowth. Harvesting too late results in greatly reduced feed quality. The window is usually very short.
Good harvesting techniques come with experience. Often the cover crops were planted in less than good ground conditions. Cutting, merging and chopping may have challenges. Weather conditions are often too wet to get in the fields or too dry causing rapid dry down of the cut forage. Yields are often less than anticipated or hoped for. But when supplies are tight, these crops provide an opportunity to bridge the gap.
There are other possibilities for emergency forages. Oats or spring barley can also be used as a forage. Planted early and harvested in the boot stage, they can provide some early season feeds.
Another possibility is targeting some played out hay fields that were to be rotated to corn this year. You might harvest what is available as a hay crop early in the season, then kill the sod and double crop to corn silage. This may give some extra haylage, although poorer quality, but is still a forage.
There is some risk with dry weather following a growing hay crop. Reduced silage yields are common, but can be worth the risk for the extra feed.
If corn silage is the tight feed, moving up the maturity of some of the silage crop may be the answer. Plant some early maturity silage corn early, harvest as soon as it is mature enough, fermenting it in a separate location can give you a month's worth of extra feed.
This requires some serious crop planning that needs to happen real early in the season:
• Schedule some early ground;
• Get the right seed;
• Be ready to plant as soon as conditions are right;
• Be ready to harvest as soon as it is ready;
• Have a location for the harvested feed.
The use of good inoculants can help to facilitate a faster fermentation and speed up the availably of the needed feeds.
It is important that with the use of all unusual feed supplies they are kept in separate locations where they can be properly stored, analyzed, and deliberately incorporated into the feed program. They may represent some real opportunities if you can fully take advantage of them.
We need to think in terms of longer term feed production and storage management. Some of the lucky ones this year had extra feed inventory that saved them and in some cases were able to sell to their neighbors.
It is time to rebuild the inventories. Having three to four extra months' inventory of corn and hay silages is good risk management and goes directly to the bottom line.


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Jazz Man Maret Makes His Way On The Harmonica
When he arrived in New York to study jazz, Gregoire Maret says his fellow students sometimes laughed when he pulled out his harmonica. Not so much anymore. After a decade as a celebrated side man, Gregoire Maret has been recognized as the modern master of the jazz harmonica. He's played with Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Cassandra Wilson and Marcus Miller and with a few pop stars too: Elton John, Sting and Prince. Now Maret steps front and center as the headliner on a new CD. If you play harmonica, well, what does it take to get some respect? Call and tell us your story, 800-989-8255. Email us: email@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at NPR.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Gregoire Maret's self-titled debut album is available now. He's in the middle of a nationwide tour, but he's made a stop here in Studio 3A, along with pianist Federico Gonzalez Pena, who also produced the album. And Sean Rickman is with us on drums. Nice to have you all here.
GREGOIRE MARET: Yeah, hello. How are you?
CONAN: And why don't we start with a song?
MARET: Sure. We're going to start with a song named "Lucilla's Dream."
CONAN: That was "Lucilla's Dream," Federico Gonzalez Pena on keyboards, Sean Rickman on drums and our leader here, Gregoire Maret, on jazz harmonica. And I have to ask you - you grew up in Switzerland - where did you learn to play jazz harmonica?
MARET: In Switzerland.
MARET: In Geneva. But the other - the person that's been probably the biggest influence for me on the instrument is from also Europe, from Belgium. Toots Thielemans, of course.
CONAN: Yes. He's your predecessor in a way.
MARET: Yeah, yeah.
CONAN: And appears on your record.
MARET: He does. And he just came here, I mean, in New York. He did a special two-night concert at the Lincoln Center with Herbie Hancock as special guest and many other guests, and it was beautiful. I went to listen to him. It was absolutely beautiful. Yeah, he's a guest person on the record.
CONAN: And sort of passing the torch, in some respect?
MARET: Yeah. I mean, it's a big and amazing honor, of course.
CONAN: And I wanted ask, though, I mean, I read that you saw somebody play harmonica when you were, what, a teenager and got blown away. And where'd you find your first one?
MARET: My father is a musician. Not professional, but he was in a circle of people who are playing a lot of music. So he - one of his friends actually gave me my first instrument. And I just started to listening to his records and try to pick up whatever I could and play and copy it.
CONAN: So you taught yourself?
MARET: Totally, yeah.
CONAN: Yeah. And you're playing, people will notice, more chromatic instruments, more associated with Stevie Wonder, perhaps...
MARET: Yeah. Exactly.
CONAN: ...rather than the blues harp, a Junior Wells kind of thing.
MARET: Totally. Yes, yes.
CONAN: Yeah. No Marine Band for you?
MARET: No. I mean, I used to play blues harmonica, but I kind of changed when I was in high school.
CONAN: And did you find that the instrument did not get the same respect as - over the trumpet or the saxophone?
MARET: Well, there's a little bit of a cliche. The idea behind that surrounds this instrument is a little bit strange, I guess, because very few people know how to play it. So when you think of harmonica, you always think of somebody who cannot play it.
MARET: And I will not name anybody, but there's also a lot of pop musicians that have been, you know, mainstream who can really play this instrument. So, I mean, it sounds OK in their music but it's not - it doesn't really do any justice to the instrument, really, as a full instrument. So once they realize, people realize, listening to me or other people who can play this instrument, that this full instrument has huge range, basically, and very exciting.
CONAN: I've heard - read you described it as one of the instruments perhaps closest to the human voice.
MARET: It's very close to the human voice, sure, yeah, yeah.
CONAN: Well, we'll get some harmonica players to call in and see if you - what it takes to get some respect for such a great instrument. 800-989-8255. Email us: firstname.lastname@example.com. Bill is on the line with us from San Antonio.
BILL: Hello.
CONAN: Bill, are you there?
BILL: Yes, I am. Hey. How are you doing?
CONAN: Go ahead, Bill. You're on the air.
BILL: Yeah. Look, you know, I guess, the main question was, how do you get respect as a harp player? And I think your guest just got it right, nailed it right on the head - is actually sit down and practice.
MARET: Yeah, exactly. I mean - just being serious about this instrument, dedicated to playing it the right way.
CONAN: So don't live down to expectations is what you're saying, Bill?
BILL: Well, the biggest problem is, you know, you can pick up a diatonic harmonica, which is what I play. And if you're playing with people that are playing, you know, there or four-chords songs, you can stay in the key and you won't sound too bad. And a lot of people find that that's their - that becomes their definition of success and don't really stretch it to where it needs to go and find out what notes really fit with a given melody or how to back up, have, you know, take the place of a keyboard player and effectively back up a group, you know?
And it's hard because you don't have as many choices on a diatonic harp as you do on a chromatic. But when you got somebody like Howard Levy who can play anything a sax player on a diatonic harp. So there's - you just need to take the time to learn what the instrument can do.
CONAN: I guess, like anything else, Bill.
BILL: Pretty much, yeah.
CONAN: Thanks very much for the phone call. Appreciate it.
BILL: Thanks for having me on.
CONAN: I also wanted to ask you, Gregoire Maret. You've been watching leaders for many years as a sideman. You're now...
MARET: Right.
CONAN: ...the leader yourself. Does this unleash your inner Stalin? Are you telling what people to do now?
MARET: No, no. I like to consider it more of - I love the input of everybody in the band. I'm not here telling everybody what to do. I'll bring usually the music and then we'll work on that music and make it grow. That's my take on being a leader, more than just telling everybody what to do on every level.
CONAN: Let's see if we get another caller in, one more. This is Jim, and Jim's with us from Tucson.
JIM: Hi. Thanks for taking my call.
CONAN: Sure, Jim.
JIM: When I was about 10 and in the Cub Scouts, my auntie gave me a harmonica, and I taught myself to play "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" on it, and my first debut was with the other Cub Scouts and they all laughed like (unintelligible). And at that time, I decided that I wanted to learn to play the harmonica better. But I feel a little ill at ease here because the people you've spoken with, they're very professional people. And I just play for my own amusement, and I almost always carry a harmonica. I don't have one with me right now. But mostly, it's a Marine Band because they're cheap and they're good.
CONAN: Those diatonic we were talking about before.
MARET: Yeah, exactly. No, those are beautiful instrument and I'm glad you're playing this instrument. For me, it's just a matter of practicing. I know there's a few methods also that exist that could help, you know? But just pick up the melodies you love and try to play them.
JIM: I listened to what you played on the air here just before you came on to speak, and I was really impressed. And I - when I think of playing the harmonica, when I hear music, I automatically think of - that I'm playing it on the harmonica so that I can, you know, try and blow it, the right times and so forth. But I had never heard jazz harmonica played like that and, you know, that kind of gets me going to maybe I can play like that.
MARET: Yeah, I hope. Yeah, that'd be great.
CONAN: Well, go get the album, "Gregoire Maret" is its name, the name of the artist as well and then copy the notes.
MARET: Yes, indeed.
JIM: Oh, I'm not about copying.
CONAN: None of us are. Jim...
JIM: The only thing about the harmonica is that you can't sing and play at the same time.
MARET: You can, but you're going to have some really strange sounds.
CONAN: Jim, thanks very much for the call. Good luck to you.
JIM: OK. Thank you.
CONAN: We're talking with Gregoire Maret, and you're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. And we wanted to get a chance to hear another tune.
MARET: OK. This is "Manha Du Sol"
CONAN: Gregoire Maret's self-titled debut album is available now. He is with us here at Studio 3A with pianist Federico Gonzalez Pena, who also produced the album, and drummer Sean Rickman. Our thanks as well to our technicians who set this up, Cal Southworth and Melissa Marquis. Tomorrow, what Ohio and other states are doing to keep what the repeat offenders out of prison. Join us for that. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.
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By: ISS Science Officer Don Pettit
Homeward Bound
It is now time to go home. As much as I like being here, I realize that this is not home, and it is time to return. There are new frontiers to explore on Earth as a family. There are two little boys with wide-open eyes ready to explore the world, and it is time for me to be there and learn with them. It is always best to stop an endeavor while you are still in the midst of enjoyment; this will leave the best memories and instill a strong desire to do it all over again.
The feeling of being home is directly proportional to how far you have traveled. When you go out to dinner, you feel home when you pull into the driveway. When you go for a drive to a state park some distance out of town, you feel home when you enter the outskirts of your city. When you drive across the United States, perhaps on one of those memorable family vacations, you get this warm feeling of being home when you cross over your state line. When you go on international travels, particularly when returning from places with radically different cultures, you feel home the first place your airplane lands on U.S. soil. You may still be 2,000 miles from home, but you have this wonderful sensation in your heart that speaks out to you.
After having been on Space Station for nearly six months, we will be returning on the Soyuz spacecraft and be landing on the desert plains of Kazakhstan. When our capsule goes thump on those desert flats, we will be literally on the opposite side of the world, nearly 12,000 miles from home. Yet once normal breathing resumes, we will have this warm sensation inside that we are home. I can picture sometime in the future, a crew will be returning from Mars and after inserting themselves into low Earth orbit, perhaps from an aero-braking maneuver, they will look down from their orbital vantage point at this blue jewel circling below and say, "We are home."
We will be returning home on the Soyuz spacecraft. Unlike the Space Shuttle, there is precious little room for personal effects. I can return with perhaps three small items that will fit in my pocket. What will I choose? The combination pocket tools I brought engraved with my boys' names? There is one for each. I have been using them for my Space Station repair work and figured the boys would like to have something that daddy used to repair Space Station. I can picture my boys using them at Boy Scout jamboree. Should I return with my wife's favorite necklace, a small part of her that I brought along, much like before a great battle, a knight might keep the handkerchief from his lady? When I have periodically looked at this necklace, pleasant memories would come to mind. And I would smile.
After careful thought, I decided to bring none of these items home. I can always replace the pocket tools and I can buy my wife another necklace. There is no room for this kind of sentiment in the Soyuz spacecraft. What I have decided to bring home is truly unique to Space Station, something money and a trip to the shopping mall can never replace. I have decided to bring home my spoons. I have three Russian-made spoons. They are simple in design, being unpretentiously stamped from stainless steel. A small square embossed into the handle is the only visible marking. There is a hole in the handle for attaching a string so it won't float away. In space, it is not good to lose your spoon. While seemingly a good idea, eating with strings attached is a pain so we take our chances with the universe and cut our strings. What are truly unique about these spoons are their gracefully long handles. They are twice as long as a normal spoon yet the spoon part is standard teaspoon-sized. They allow one to gracefully shovel in dinner from deep plastic food pouches without getting your fingers all sticky-gooey with the stuff you are attempting to eat. They will make great camping spoons.
Using these long handled spoons, I can picture my boys and I sitting around a campfire, eating beans out of the fire-charred can they were cooked in. As we chat about our world, our eyes will follow the sparks as they rise in the draft of hot air. Perhaps we will look at the stars and see Space Station pass overhead.
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There are days when I absolutely hate Musescore 3. Sure, it is nice that things get automatically spaced in the score so nothing overlaps, so wow gee wiz, uh, isn't that just how it should be? What I hate is that they seem to have gone out of their way to make things more difficult compared with Musescore 2. They seem to have randomly changed things that didn't need changing just to make it frustrating for the use. It used to be easy to change the volume of a single note or chord in a score. But now, once I finally figure out how to do it, Musescore manages to hide it from me so then I have to start all over trying to find out how to do it again. Why!!!? It used to be easy to see the note in inspector and then modify the volume, but now, where the blazing biscuits is it?? And why is it impossible to find in the manual? Ultimately, there is no advantage to Musescore 3 other than the spacing thing. So, I should do everything in Musescore 2 and then when it is ready to be put online, open it with Musescore 3. Just be sure to give it a different name because once you open it in Musescore 3, they won't let you go back to Musescore 2. Oh, no. Why would they make it **&&**& easy?!!!!! And I paid good money for this kind of frustration????????!
Write a song about a lonely tarantula that lives in a banana bunch.
The grand price is a vierual bunch of ripe bananas. Now, for a limited time, as a added amazing bonus, a free virtual tarantula. No, I'm lying. Must be the toxin from the tarantula bite that's affecting me. Dizzy dizzy it's all going dark.
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Please check out my new score. It was just a bit of silliness that I wrote. I hope you enjoy! https://musescore.com/user/30771082/scores/5691515
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Hello! Mark and I have finalized the brass parts for the ballad of our original show, 2 + 2 = 5. The ballad we've chosen is The Hymn of Acxiom by Vienna Teng, as we believe it fits the theme of the show - George Orwell's "1984" - perfectly.
If you are unfamiliar with the project, here is a quick summary:
Mark and I plan to have as many of you submit recordings of yourselves playing through the show as we can. We will then compile the recordings into one large file, and place it over virtual drill that Mark is writing, to create a virtual drum corps of sorts. If you'd like to record, here's all the info you'll need!
1.) Parts
You can play through as many parts as you'd like. In fact, we would much appreciate it if you did! (For example, if you play the trumpet, it will be better for the end result if you record and submit all three trumpet parts, rather than just doing one) Of course, you don't have to do this! Mark and I will be listening through each recording of the trumpet soloist's part, and picking the one we think would best benefit the overall recording.
2.) Recordings
We would prefer if you submit one large (3-ish minute) recording, but if you find it difficult to play through the part(s) in one sitting, please refer to the recording guide below!
Here is the link to all the parts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CTplR1RBHZX2YCJZ80M35VF20sjaPI9u?usp=sharing
3.) Recording Guide
Recording One: Beginning to Letter D
Recording Two: Letter D to Letter F (Trumpets, include two measure pick-up)
Recording Three: Letter F to Letter I
Recording Four: Letter I to the end
Again, we'd much prefer your recording be from the beginning to the end, to simplify our own work, but we decided to include this in case some need the breaks in between. Trumpets obviously don't need a recording one/four, as they don't play at these points. Please play the part at the exact tempo that's listed. This can easily be done by playing along with the recording (preferably while wearing a headset!).
4.) Submitting
If you have recorded the entirety of the ballad at once, submit an MP3/MP4 file with this name as the format:
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ex. TheMTCrew_Trombone1_Rec1
Send submissions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you have any questions, ask them below! Thanks everyone!
*DISCLAIMER* Absolutely no profit is being made off of this project in ANY way. All rights to the music used go to their respective owners.
Hey guys! Any idea how to highlight the melody notes for banjo tab? Not necessarily for playback purposes, but for a visual for students. I've selected certain notes and turned the color of the melody notes "red", but circling the notes or "bolding" the notes may be a better choice if only able to print in black.
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banana group https://musescore.com/groups/banana-group/discuss/5046069#comment-5108578
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Announcing Azura Key. Perdido Key's newest project. This low density project will consist of 15 world class units with all of them direct gulf front units. The floor plan consists of 4 bedrooms with a large bonus room that could be a 5th bedroom or a den or office. The project will have all the amenities of a big project but the density we all would prefer. Complete with a beautiful outdoor gulf front pool with lots of deck area to enjoy the sun. It also has an indoor pool, exercise room, theater, owner's and guests social room with complete kitchen, and owners climate controlled storage units. With only 2 units per floor every unit will be a corner unit with beautiful views down the beach. Units will be just over 2,800 square foot of heated and cooled space and will have private elevators that open into your own foyer. Check out our website for more details: www.AzuraKey.com . Take a look at the renderings and contact us for more info.
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Jimmy Gelhaar is a commercial film composer, musician, singer/songwriter and performer. Through this website, you can learn more about his music, listen to many of his compositions, and browse and download his original works by clicking the TRACKS tab under "MUSIC". Because Jimmy is an avid supporter of education, non-profit, government and personal content creators, he has released many of his professionally composed and orchestrated tracks available for immediate download right from this site.
As a commercial film composer, Jimmy composes music in all styles, including classical, ambient, rock, acoustic, and electronic, for use in video and film, commercial beds, and a wide variety of customer music projects. If you would like to contact us, use the CONTACT link in the menu for direct access.
Thank you for visiting! And make sure you check out the new FILM REEL page for a couple of new reels we have just finished editing.
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By request!!! Don't miss your digitally remastered favorites on the newly released iTunes album. Get the highest quality recorded tracks from iTunes. You'll even find a bonus cover of Bastiaan Zijlstra and Jimmy Gelhaar doing a brand new version of the Leonard Cohen classic, "Hallelujah". If you've heard Jeff Buckley or K.D. Lang's versions, then you'll definitely not want to miss this version by Jimmy Gelhaar and Bastiaan Zijlstra!
The album's first 5 STAR review: "The whole album is great but I'm really loving your version of Hallelujah!!!! A great song beautifully done!" - tup2
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With close to 7 million video views on Youtube, Jimmy Gelhaar has made his presence known by creating an international following of very devoted fans.
In early 2008, Jimmy found Bastiaan Zijlstra on Youtube. Bastiaan is a talented guitarist from the Netherlands and Jimmy invited him to participate in remaking the classic Eagles anthem, Hotel California. With only the Internet and their personal computers at their disposal, they spent a month sending files back and forth and released the video on March 15th, 2008. Within just a few short months, the video was seen by over a million viewers. However, after 2 years on Youtube and over 5 million views, we removed the video in accordance with an agreement with Cass County Music. Every day we receive requests for the video and someday, we hope to be able to bring it back.
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After we completed work on Hotel California, we went to work on Stairway To Heaven. Based on the amazing viewer feedback and letters we have been sent, this version of Stairway To Heaven has been even better received than our version of Hotel California.
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Visit the "Switzerland of the Orient" located at the southernmost tip of Luzon and explore its abundant natural tourist attractions. The province of Sorsogon in Bicol Region is a prime eco-tourist destination offering pristine beaches, unexplored caves, numerous waterfalls, national parks, marine reserve and more. Here is a list of some of the things you can do and see to help you plan your next visit in the province.
Sunset at Donsol
1. Swim with the Whale Sharks
Experience a one of a kind adventure by swimming with the biggest fish in the world in the tranquil fishing village of Donsol. Interacting with the Butanding, also known as the gentle giant, is an exhilarating adventure that you can only experience in few places around the globe . The waters of Donsol are your best bet to spot these gigantic blue-grey spotted creatures. Check out Donsol Whale Shark Watching Travel Guide for information about accommodation, expenses and independent travel tips.
Credit: Whale Shark Donsol
2. Sunset Cruise and Firefly Watching
After spending your day chasing the whale sharks, head to Donsol River before dusk and marvel at the beautiful sunset while cruising along the vast winding river fringed by mangroves, palm trees and other greenery. As the sky darkens, prepare to be awed by thousands of sparkling fireflies illuminating the trees and the surrounding sky. The boat trip costs around P1250 for a maximum of 6 and leaves the river bridge at 6pm.
3. Island Hopping in Matnog
Hire a motorized banca from Matnog Ferry Terminal and explore the rare pink sandy beaches of Tikling and Calintaan Island. Tikling Island is a good spot for snorkeling while Subic Beach on Calintaan Island offers a charming nook for beach camping. Explore the huge underwater caves at Calintaan Island and spot exotic ocean dwellers while you dive into the crystal clear water.
Drop by at Juag Lagoon Fish Sanctuary as well and while away your time feeding the teeming marine species or better yet rent a snorkel and mask and swim along with these creatures.
4. Visit Barcelona Church and Juban's Old Houses
Seven kilometers south of Gubat, check out St. Joseph Church in the town of Barcelona, a 19th century structure with walls made from huge slabs of stone taken from the sea and cemented together using a unique mixture of beaten egg white, native coconut wine (tuba), and lime. It is considered the most well preserved church in the province with its original walls and bell tower still relatively intact. You can also climb its belfry for a great view over the ocean.
On your way to the Matnog or Bulan, pay a quick visit to the old Spanish houses (Bahay na Bato) lining the main street in the town of Juban. While the ground floor of some old houses have already been converted into commercial establishments, visitors can still find original antique furniture inside as well as privatel historic collections. They still have the original capiz sliding windows and the carved wooden balustrade below the windowsill.
5. Dip in the Hot and Cold Springs of Irosin
The idyllic town of Irosin abounds with natural spring water and prides itself as the wellness capital of the province. Head to Mateo Hot and Cold Springs at San Benon or at Mapaso Spring and soothe your weary body with the curative and relaxing effect of the volcanic spring water. Alternatively cool down at Masacrot Spring, a man-made pool with natural spring water at the nearby town of Bulusan.
Mateo Hot and Cold Spring
6. Dive the famous Manta Bowl
Dubbed as the Manta Ray Capital of the Philippines, the Manta Bowl found in the middle of the ocean between Donsol and Ticao Island is a haven for divers, marine biologists and underwater photographers. Aside from Manta Rays, the largest and most harmless rays in the world, many rare species of marine life are found at the dive site of San Miguel and Tical Island. March to May are the peak months for diving and although it is geographically part of the province of Masbate, it is logistically easier to dive from Donsol.
7. Explore the Beaches of Bacon District
Just half an hour north of Sorsogon City, the town of Bacon offers a quick beach escape and some interesting spots to explore. The most unique of these is Paguriran Island located in Barangay Buenavista, a seawater lagoon surrounded by jagged rocks much like the rim of a volcano. Libanon Beach in Barangay San Juan has fine black sand and crashing waves hammering the craggy seaside hill. Pagol Beach is a small pocket of sandy beach covered with swept corals while Tolong Gapo Beach offers a long stretch of beach with beachside cottages.
Paguriran Lagoon
8. Trek Mt. Bulusan
Climb up the densely forested Mt. Bulusan, one of the three active volcanoes in the Bicol Region and take pleasure in the natural beauty of the scenery and the sweeping view of the Pacific Ocean and the West Philippines Sea at the summit. Experience mountaineers can complete the hike in a day while others who prefer a leisurely pace can camp at the crater summit. Fernando's Hotel organizes climbing tours but independent travellers can look for guides and up-to-date information from the Sorsogon Tourism Council or ask the barangay captain in San Roque for assistance. A quick dip in the cool water of Palogtoc Falls is a good way to end the day after a successful conquest.
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9. Indulge in Seafood and Local Delicacies
The province of Sorsogon is blessed with abundant reserves of aquatic resources and is the major supplier of seafood all over the mainland. A visit here is not complete without trying some of the local favorites like the Ginataang Alimasag (crabs with cocomilk), Sinabawang Tahong (mussel soup), orEnsaladang Lato ( seaweed salad).
Now, however tempting it may be, avoid trying the local favorite Kinunot. Kinunot dishes are made from shark or sting/manta ray meat simmered in coconut milk. The only dish that I craved when I was a kid is now listed as an endangered species. Other Sorsogon Delicacies, however, like Kuyog,Hinagam, Binut-ong and Kinagang are worth adding on your exotic food safari experience.
Credit: Chichajo, Flixya, Lenareh
10. Support Eco-Tourism Adventures
Explore Bulusan Volcano National Park, a protected rainforest and wildlife sanctuary. The nature park offers a number of waterfalls, hot springs, caves and decent walking path around Bulusan Lake. It's a beautiful and relaxing spot for picnic, kayaking and fishing.
Drive or trek up to the vast forest reserve of PNOC- Eco-Park situated between the borders of Albay and Sorsogon. It offers a variety of exciting activities for nature lovers and outdoor enthusiasts. The scenic Botong Twin Falls, the boiling lake at Mt. Inang Maharang and an encounter with a mountain ape, a deer or wild boar are some of the highlights of your visit here. Caves, hot springs and fresh water lakes as well as numerous winding trails can also be explored. Contact Sorsogon Provincial Tourism Council (SPTC) to arrange a visit to the park.
Prieto-Diaz Mangrove Forest
For a further dose of rustic countryside scenery and off the beaten path adventures, head to Pilar for diving at the Punumbagan Marine Sanctuary along Burias Pass, do a fishpond and bird watching adventure at Pilar Estuary and Malbog River or avail of Putiao River Ride with San Jose Cave Exploration and Egret Sanctuary Experience. Arrange your visit with Pilar Visitor's Center and Putiao Visitor Center.
For excellent marine eco-tourism in Sorsogon, check out Prieto Diaz's Mangrove Forest and Marilag Marine Seagrass Bed Reserves as well as its beaches, falls and caves.
Acknowledgment: Sorsogon Provincial Tourism Council
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A Virginia company is all set to make its first-ever supply run to the International Space Station.
Orbital Sciences Corp. says everything looks good for Wednesday's launch from Virginia's Eastern Shore. An unmanned Antares rocket is scheduled to blast off from NASA's Wallops Island Facility in late morning. It will carry 1,300 pounds of food, clothes and other items as part of this test flight. A Sunday delivery is planned. If all goes well, Orbital Sciences will start launching more Cygnus cargo ships under a $1.9 billion contract with NASA.
California's SpaceX already is shipping goods under a separate billion-plus-dollar contract.
NASA is looking to private U.S. industry to keep the space station stocked. It's also putting seed money into various companies for development of a manned capsule.
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JIM LEYLAND: First of all, let me congratulate the Oakland organization on an unbelievable, magical year. A great team and a great manager. And they were tough to beat. I tip my hat to them.
And also I can't go ‑‑ I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the way that their fans stuck through them throughout this whole thing, even in the 9th inning. They can be proud of themselves. And I would like to congratulate them on behalf of the Detroit Tigers.
Q. Congratulations on the win. Verlander ‑‑ he was incredible tonight. Were the A's a really good matchup for him this series or is he pitching better than you've ever seen him pitch?
JIM LEYLAND: I think he's a pretty good matchup for anybody when he is right. He had that look in his eyes today. He was determined. He had a complete game look in his eye. And we were thankful to get that. And we got some big hits.
Q. When the game ended you walked over and said something to Bob Melvin. Have you ever done that with another manager in a similar situation? What did you say to Bob?
JIM LEYLAND: If the situation presents itself I have. I know Bob very well. We were together a long time ago. And I just felt like while my players were celebrating, let them celebrate. It's their moment. And it was a good time to really congratulate him on a job well done. I thought the time was apropos and I'm glad I did.
Q. Verlander was clearly on his game tonight. But how big was it to break the game open in the 7th inning, against a team that ‑‑
JIM LEYLAND: I don't know if you believe this, I told one of my coaches on the bench, I said, We need about a four spot to take this crowd out of this thing. And we never did take them out of it. They were through them through the thick and thin. As we were celebrating, they were applauding their players. It was a great gesture on the fans' part. It was a magical season for Oakland. And they're the real deal. This was no fluke, they're very impressive.
Q. You've been through a lot. What do you feel about your club right now at this point?
JIM LEYLAND: We got this far. We've had to work hard to do it. We had to work hard to win the division. We certainly had to work hard to win this series.
But you know what, I've been saying this since April, I like our club, through thick and thin I've been saying that I like our club. And I still like our club. We're going to get ready for another really, really tough opponent, no matter who it is.
So we're going to enjoy this. We're going to go home later on tonight and we're going to enjoy this for a while and get ready for whoever we play.
Q. What effect did last night's sock in the gut have ‑‑ do you think it had an effect on the mindset at all today?
JIM LEYLAND: What I said earlier, I wasn't as upset as everybody else was last night. As I said earlier, we didn't make errors, we didn't walk anybody, we didn't hit anybody. They beat us. It didn't look like it had any effect tonight. But a lot of it started with the fact that we had Justin Verlander on the mound.
Q. I know you like to point out unnoticed things in the game. After you score two in the top of the third to go ahead Peralta made a couple of nice plays on Pennington and especially Crisp. Could you just talk about those plays and just what Peralta ‑‑
JIM LEYLAND: I think when you have someone like Verlander or Fister or Scherzer, I think the guys are ready to make plays. I think the guys were pumped up. They played a perfect game last night, pretty much, and we played one tonight. And we played it at the biggest time, obviously.
And as good as this team is, this Oakland team, Justin Verlander is a pretty tough chore for anybody. And certainly they don't have anything to be ashamed of. They were a terrific opponent. And I just hope that there's no lingering disrespect over the situation that happened earlier at our place. We apologized for that, we meant it sincerely, and we would never show anybody up. And I think that's past us, and we had a competitive series and we were fortunate to win it.


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Ok so let me guess this straight, and by all means please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Isaac Redman is better between the 20's and Rashard Mendnehall is better at the goal line. With your starting Center out of the game and a totally inept replacement at LG you decide to run 4 straight plays to the right with a guy who's not your short yardage specialist? That about cover it? Oh wait, it's Isaac Redman that's better in the redzone, no wait that's not it. Oh screw it, let's just run it and not take the sure 3 points in a close game with our QB who can barely walk. Ben audibles to a run on 3rd down which results in nothing.
The Browns are selling out to stop the run; crashing the line with literally every defender on the field. Meanwhile you could have had a back or TE release in the flat for an easy TD pass.
That about cover it?
In that situation, Tomlin said in his post game press conference that he would do it again in that same situation. Now, I get the whole mentality of stepping on their throat, ripping their hearts, and breaking their will. If you have 4 shots at the 2 yd. line you should be able to score a TD. Yes I get that, but there's no shame in kicking a FG and getting a sure 3 points to get yourself up by a full TD in a close game where turnovers are plentiful.
After all that I would have kicked the FG and taken my chances with the defense holding onto the win. In the end it worked out because the Steelers defense held and got the ball back for the offense, who promptly took the punt at the Browns 36 and did nothing with it. Maybe it worked out, maybe it didn't, but it's a win.


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Tuning storage for database apps
For many companies, business depends on the performance of their database applications. Here's how to ensure your storage systems are providing all the help the database apps need.
- George Crump, Storage Switzerland
For many companies, business depends on the performance of their database applications. Here's how to ensure your storage systems are providing all the help the database apps need.
With so much recent emphasis on unstructured data, it can be easy to overlook the more formally constructed information held in databases, which are often at the heart of corporate operations. Databases process the information a company needs to do business and, in some cases, like the databases behind a Web storefront, they're directly involved in the creation of the company's revenue. The faster a database performs, the more transactions it can process, and the quicker it can deliver answers or contribute to the bottom line.
When a database application isn't performing well, the source of the problem is often the supporting storage system, which could indicate an upgrade is needed to remedy the situation. Of course, an upgrade can be expensive and may not always be as effective as desired. The reality is that improving database performance may not require any additional hardware purchases at all, and won't always require the amount or type of hardware vendors may suggest.
What to accelerate
Each database management system has its own naming conventions for its constituent components. In general, however, databases have a transaction log file that receives new data. This relatively small file increases database performance by sending an acknowledgement back to the client that the new or modified information has been accepted. This process is much faster than if the information was simply written directly to the main file. Later, in the background, the log file is flushed into the main data file.
There are two performance concerns with the transaction log. First, it needs to be able to accept multiple writes from hundreds or thousands of users simultaneously. Second, it must empty itself fast enough so as not to create a "write-through" situation where update performance is slowed to the point that the log file is ineffective. These two situations typically occur periodically throughout the day when demand is high, leading to unpredictable performance. Write performance is critical for these files.
Another fundamental set of database components are the indexes, the smaller files used to improve search performance. Searches can be done against these indexes, which point the query directly to the row or group of rows that contain the rest of the information related to the searched-for item. This is much faster than searching the entire database, top to bottom. Typically, the database administrator will select a few key fields within a row to be indexed -- "company name" or "account number," for example. The index needs to be updated any time a new row is added or a key field in an existing row is modified. For index files, write performance is important and read performance is critical.
Finally, there's the database itself. In most cases, indexes and log files are the primary bottlenecks since the database is either updated or queried as a result of activities related to those files. But there are situations when an index search isn't possible, there are too many fields to be searched or indexing won't provide a performance boost. There are also certain databases where the granular control over where these files are placed isn't a user function, and is instead hard set by the application.
Is storage really the problem?
The first step is to make sure the performance problem is indeed storage. The simplest way to do that is to review CPU utilization on the server(s) executing the database application. In general, if CPU utilization is low but performance is a problem, there's a good chance it's a storage performance issue. But there are also more detailed approaches that can and should be used. Almost every database application includes its own performance analysis tool, plus there are third-party applications and consultants who specialize in database apps. In general, it's amazing how accurate the instincts of an experienced database administrator can be. If the DBA is complaining about performance, storage managers should listen.
How storage can be the problem
Storage can slow down a database application in two ways. First, the storage can be overwhelmed by the number of inbound requests. These requests are stacked into a queue, the number of which is referred to as "queue depth," and emptied on a first-in first-out basis. When performance is good, this queue depth is typically in the low single digits. As the queue depth grows, the application has to wait for its requests to be processed. This statistic is relatively easy to monitor as most operating systems will report the queue depth of a given drive or volume. Any operation that involves hundreds or thousands of simultaneous requests will typically add to the disk queue depth.
Storage can also limit database application performance based on its ability to service individual requests. In a traditional hard disk drive array, this "organic" performance is essentially the speed at which a hard drive can locate and retrieve the required data blocks, since the majority of this time is spent waiting for disk platters to rotate to a specific spot. This response time can also be measured with operating system tools. While the number of users may have some impact on response time, it's often an issue for single-thread operations, like when new data is added or existing data is modified via the log file.
Storage acceleration tune-up
Dealing with indexes. When it comes to deciding which of the three components of the database to pay attention to, indexes are typically the most problematic across a wide variety of use cases. In short, almost all databases are searched and in most cases indexes are used. Generally speaking, the more indexes a database has the slower the update process becomes. Making these indexes update faster and return faster results will almost always improve performance. These indexes are impacted by the number of simultaneous search requests, as well as the time it takes to service those requests. Indexes are mostly read-intensive files, but they do experience significant write activity as indexed values are added or updated.
The correct approach to solving an index performance issue largely depends on the environment. A single database server with data being stored locally can see performance improved by installing a mirrored set of drives on that server, dedicated to storing the index files. Even a single server that's storing its data on a storage-area network (SAN) can benefit from this approach, especially if the storage network is slow (1 Gb Ethernet iSCSI or 2 Gb Fibre Channel, for example).
If the database is shared across multiple application servers, local disk logging may not be an option. Again, it depends on the database, but usually an improvement to the shared storage environment is needed. This could be as simple as dedicating a set of drives on the SAN to the specific task of storing indexes, once again mirroring them instead of running them in a RAID group. It could even mean short stroking those drives so that only the outer cylinders of each platter are used. Indexes are relatively small and typically don't need the full capacity of a drive.
In all of the above cases, flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) offer an alternative to solving the index performance problem. Because index files tend to be small in size, an investment in a couple of enterprise-class SSDs will deliver a very affordable performance boost for a database server using directly attached storage. When shared storage is used, a few SSD drives installed inside the storage system to hold the indexes may alleviate the performance problem, although at a somewhat higher cost. It's important to note that in both cases a complete storage refresh isn't required.
Dealing with log files. Log files are similar to indexes except they typically handle write requests exclusively and configurations similar to the ones described above should also improve their performance. There's a new consideration when flash SSD is used. The write intensity of log files can be very high and flash-based SSDs have limitations in the number of writes they can sustain over their lifetimes. While that write cycle number has improved over the last few years, log files are the one type of workload that can still prematurely wear out a flash-based SSD.
In log file environments where the write intensity will be very high, it's advisable to use a hot-swappable multi-level cell (MLC) drive technology, to use single-level cell (SLC)-based SSDs or to even consider DRAM-based SSD. DRAM systems now provide very reliable recovery from power failure, offer significantly better write performance than even SLC flash and don't suffer the endurance issues that flash-based technologies do. But DRAM is considerably more expensive than NAND flash storage.
Dealing with the database. The final database performance condition involves situations where the whole database needs to be accelerated, not just its index and log files. This can emerge as an issue because the bulk of the queries or the transaction rate exceeds the ability of the storage system to keep pace with the environment. There are two options in these situations: moving the entire database environment to a faster storage system or using a flash-based caching technology.
Opting for a new, faster storage system doesn't necessarily mean a move to flash-based storage. Contemporary mechanical storage can still turn out ample IOPS when properly tuned. The legacy practice of short-stroking drives can also be avoided. As described above, short stroking means drives are formatted at one-half or one-third of their normal capacity by using only the outer tracks or cylinders of each disk platter. This improves response time because the linear speed of the disk track moving past the drive head is faster on the outer cylinders. Using less than each drive's full capacity increases overall drive count, which can also improve performance by allowing more queued storage requests to be simultaneously addressed. Unfortunately, this practice is also expensive, wasteful and a significant draw on power resources when applied to the entire database.
Most current enterprise storage systems can provide wide striping, which allows all the drives in a storage system to be used for a particular volume or logical unit number (LUN). Other less performance-sensitive volumes can also use these drives without interfering with the database. Some storage systems and storage networks will allow you to set priorities for certain types of data so they have first access to the storage bandwidth. Finally, some storage systems will let you specifically place certain types of data on certain portions of the disk drive. For example, database information can be prioritized to the outer portion of the hard drive for better performance and file systems can be placed on the slower, inside portions of the hard drive.
Another option is to use a flash-based caching technology. These products can be installed in the server, on the network or on the storage system itself. Each location has its advantages and disadvantages. The server typically provides the best performance as the cache is often a PCI Express (PCIe) SSD and has direct access to the server's CPU. However, those caches typically only cache reads, especially in an environment where the database is shared, due to concerns about maintaining "coherency" between the cache and the primary storage it's supporting. Network caches can typically do both read and writes, and work across a variety of storage systems. They're available for NFS or Fibre Channel (FC)-attached environments. The challenge is the added network latency. Finally, storage system-based caching is also available but it only works on the storage system in which it's installed and isn't universally available across a variety of vendor storage systems.
Start your engines…
Improving database storage performance is a process. In most environments, there'll always be an area that requires some tuning. The key is to tune it to the point where today's performance demand is met and deal with tomorrow's performance issues when they arise. Technology will continue to evolve and the storage manager's toolkit will become more diverse and effective over time. A step-by-step approach also allows a minimal amount of your budget to be spent. A database storage performance problem doesn't always mean ripping and replacing the storage system.
BIO: George Crump is president of Storage Switzerland, an IT analyst firm focused on storage and virtualization.
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Or maybe the thwomp glasses, which glare angrily at you. Then again, they may be a bad idea; I'd be tempted to slam them down onto the table. Regularly. With, I am sure, disastrous results. Similarly, it might be too tempting to jump on a goomba glass.
There are also Zelda heart-inspired tumblers for holding your health potions, and both red and green mushroom cups, when you need to sip something that makes you feel bigger or makes you feel alive.
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