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Standard IT processes: getting to yes at Intel
How one man helped standardize corporate backup and restore procedures - and lived to tell about it.
I recently retired from Intel as product manager for storage products. It was a good, yet hectic ride. During my 10-year tenure in that position, I deployed storage solutions for thousands of servers, adding up to nearly a petabyte of data. This article explains how
Intel came to use an elaborate standardization process to improve its backup and restore procedures.
|Intel's P100 checklist
Some background
After the introduction of its x386 processor, Intel began earnestly moving away from using big iron mainframes to PC servers. Soon we had an assorted jumble of every server size and shape made, running every OS under the sun.
Today, there are over 10,000 servers, ranging in size from 50GB to multiterabytes. They're spread around the world in a dozen major sites and countless small sites and offices. A typical large site will have 200 to 300 servers and a small site could have two on up to 50. To back up all the servers, there are nearly 500 tape libraries and thousands of single tape drives. The libraries range from a single drive eight-tape changer to 16 drive 350 tape libraries. Almost all tape drives are DLT7000s.
Granted, not all this storage is found on Intel-based servers - yet - but the majority of servers are attached to tape drives. Some large engineering sites, served by non-Intel-based systems, need to store 100TB or more of data. Put simply, it's a huge environment consisting of an eclectic mix of different size servers employed worldwide, all of which need to be protected.
The cowboys
In the early days - before CE - anyone who wanted to deploy an application would build up a server, install their application, write some procedures - maybe - and put it on the Net. Soon, we had dozens of individual solutions with little standardization, and system administration quickly became a nightmare. You were likely to find five or six different backup solutions in the same computer room. Most servers would have their own tape drive attached and who knows what backup application, which was running on its own schedule and tape rotation scheme.
In 1995, things were getting out of hand and IT began to develop worldwide standardization programs. Core services like e-mail, office applications and online storage were moved to a standard solution and deployed around the world. This gave us an opportunity to develop an automated backup solution for close to 1,000 servers running Microsoft NT. Every server would have four network connections, three for users and one for maintenance. Backups were done over a maintenance net to a tape library. Each library would support 10 to 15 servers.
Special application servers with large data stores got their own tape changers directly attached (via SCSI). Soon we had a reliable and manageable backup and restore solution. Man-hours to administer backups at sites with 100 servers went from 20 hours/week to three hours/week, reliability skyrocketed and we could manage the backup and restore operations over the network. Often, support people in California would be configuring systems in Ireland and Hong Kong at the same time.
Over the next few years, this basic model was replicated until we had more than 6,000 servers covered. I know the number because once we had to deploy a patch to ARCserve just before daylight-saving time. We did it in one night from a central location. And hardware and support costs dropped sharply - an additional benefit to adopting a company-wide standard.
Even though IT had made significant strides in automating its backup and recovery processes, it still only covered less than half of the available servers worldwide. Everyone was using the same tape hardware, and most NT servers were using ARCserver under the corporate license agreements. Still, many groups still operated their own non-NT servers. There was a large Unix environment not being addressed. Though the number of servers was lower, the total storage on Unix was much higher. Each group had good solutions, but there was little sharing of resources between groups or applications.
Most had direct SCSI-attached tape systems with backup software running on top of the application server. This is always a problem. Backup systems take a lot of maintenance and you don't want to bring down your database application because your tape system needs maintenance. On the other hand, you need the SCSI-type speeds if you plan to back up, or more importantly, restore 500GB in a reasonable time.
The four-hour restore rule
I used to live by the rule that we shouldn't build any server we couldn't restore in four hours. This came from a disaster I once lived through. In the days of 50GB servers and 2GB tapes, we were seven hours into a restore when tapes began to fail. The customer was already upset about being offline for most of the day, and now we had to tell them not all their data was coming back. Not a pleasant situation. That taught me to get a clear agreement with your customer of how long they can stand to be down; then don't let the system grow any bigger than can be restored in that time. And remember to build in time to gather the tapes and get the right resources in place.
But ... back to the Unix problem. Most owners of Unix systems were now also running some NT and we wanted to merge the environments. For the first time, we were able to get NT administrators and Unix administrators to sit down at the table without blood-letting. A project was born - enterprise backup and restore, EBaR. For this project, we were able to pull together people from all over the world to design, test, deploy and manage a single strategy covering almost everyone's needs. This didn't mean that we had a "one size fits all" solution. We went through an extensive process in defining our needs and picking a product that best met them. We chose a Veritas suite of backup products since they covered most of our flavors of Unix and other operating systems and provided a way to centrally manage the environment. The tiered architecture of Veritas' NetBackup made it possible to support large data stores and small servers under one system.
The timing for this project coincided with the deployment of a standardized storage area network (SAN) solution. As we consolidated servers and storage onto large (1TB to 3TB) SANs with 50 to 100 servers, we deployed fiber-based backup systems to service them. This deployment, of course, had its unique set of issues. When it was configured correctly and everything was running right, it was great. SAN bandwidth was adequate - plenty of redundancy and dedicated connectivity is wonderful for moving large amounts of data. But, and this is a big but, there are many variables that can make things go wrong. Servers or libraries were being taken online and offline for maintenance, tape drives failed and fiber bridges went out - which kept many of us from sleeping well at night. This isn't to say SANs aren't reliable, but there needs to be a carefully engineered solution, deployed as designed and then not fooled with. It reminds me of another law to live by: To keep your nose from getting broken in three different places, keep your nose out of those three different places.
|The killer process
With modern backup software, a small number of servers can control backup schedules and metadata collection for a large number of clients and servers with attached tape drives. This example shows Legato's NetWorker package, but other major packages use similar architectures.
The most exciting part about CE is how different groups have shared solutions. One group may have a great solution for Oracle database servers, and after review, it's adopted as the standard. No reinventing the wheel each time a solution is needed. CE's simplicity is its strength.
Years ago, Intel found that as they built new chip factories, each would go through the same learning curve. It would take as long to get the second or third process running as it did the first. So the process, now dubbed CE, was implemented that shared the engineering of previous sites. Each new site started at the same point as the current operating sites. This saves a huge amount of time. When a new process or site goes online, there's a high degree of certainty that its quality and yields will match existing sites. Since CE works well for making chips, IT implemented its version for deploying IT projects. Everything IT deploys has to adhere to a strict process to become certified and released. Remember that Intel has thousands of employees, most of which have at least one PC, so anything that's attached to the network can have a huge impact.
Killer process
The goal was to get a product to P100 status. Here's how:
You get a CRD and create a PRD and match it to your roadmap and the ASB. Next, you get buy-in from the JOM and JEM and then take it to ITSP for a RFP. If you aren't ZZB'd, you make a team from the TIC, TAC, OSC and SE. They match the RFP with your PRD. If you're still on track, you start a white paper for the JET's preliminary OK. The JET gets feedback from the OSC, TAC, JOM/JOT and JEM. Then a pilot begins. Results are again reviewed by the JET, et al, and if you haven't got lost, you may get P100. Get the picture?
We almost sunk ourselves in the process making it nearly impossible to get any work done. If the acronyms didn't kill you, the paperwork would. I have a 45-page training class syllabus for anyone who wants to know what all that really meant. The key is a punch list called a white paper. It tracks each step and assures that the proper processes are followed, so by the time a project hits the computer room, we know it works and it won't bring down the rest of the environment (see "The plan, or 'killer process'" sidebar). Again, I have a personal - and painful - experience in what can go wrong.
Another digression: Once prior to the CE process, I deployed a multi-NIC solution for NetWare servers. We had 50 or so NetWare servers as file servers for about 3,000 people and bandwidth became a problem - old thick-wire Ethernet. As lead engineer at our site, I found a product that promised to allow servers to have more than one network connection. Wow - great idea. We spent a month testing it in our lab and it seemed to work great. One night, we scheduled downtime for all the servers and my team deployed the NICs to most of the servers. We called it "The NIC at Night" club.
Everything looked fine. The next morning, one of our manufacturing lines kept going down and Unix controllers kept going offline. You can guess the outcome. My multi-NIC servers were broadcasting something that only affected this one type of Unix server, but it was enough to bring production to a stop for three hours. I heard the manufacturing manager was asking the IT manager for $10 million in lost production. My bonus that year could have been better.
What went wrong? My testing wasn't complete; the joint engineering manager (JEM) would have seen that. The change was made without proper notification to others that might be affected; the joint operation manager (JOM) and operations support center (OSC) would have saved hours of downtime had they known something like this was changing. The P100 process now tries to stop this kind of half-baked deployment - it may not catch every problem, but there are enough checks and balances to lessen the chance or minimize the impact if something goes wrong.
The bottom line: Don't let the process kill you. Keep it simple, easy to follow, but demand strict adherence. Once something is certified P100, it can be deployed wherever it fits. Remember one size doesn't fit all - each product has its boundaries for which it was certified and using it outside these boundaries will cause problems. Most of the control starts at the purchasing department. If someone tries to order a tape library not on the P100 list, the order is kicked back. This isn't to say that special cases don't arise, but they are carefully reviewed and approved through a different process.
To be successful in a large-scale project such as EBaR, you must have the commitment of upper management. Intel was spending millions of dollars over a number of years. EBaR isn't something that can be rolled out in a single budget cycle. One of the major problems we had is we predicted significant head count reduction, so management cut the heads prior to our full deployment. This left us with fewer people to manage the existing environment and roll out a new one at the same time. It was a classic case of putting the cart before the horse.
Another tip: Involve all the stakeholders early on in the planning stages. Our team discovered related groups who were ready to do their own projects that could pitch in funding and manpower. The phrase "plagiarize with pride" became our rallying cry. If someone found a workable solution in some other department, our team made it P100 and would use it around the world. And remember when you steal something, give credit to those you stole it from. Then make any adjustments needed to fit your certification process and be happy you didn't have to do it yourself.
A not-so-old proverb states that those who conduct backups are only two failed restores away from a pink slip. My final advice: Install a process that doesn't leave room for mistakes.


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ONARCHITECTURE- What bonds can build: Monticello's new visitor center
Plans for a new visitor center at Monticello have been a long time on the drawing board.
"It was being talked about long before I got here," says communications director Wayne Mogielnicki. "I'd say at least ten years."
In 2000, when the UVA Foundation took control of the Blue Ridge Sanatorium property just below Monticello, it looked like a new center was finally going to become a reality. State legislators approved the transfer with the understanding that Monticello's new visitor center would be located on the site, along with a planned research park along the lines of the Fontaine Research Park. However, due to "design concerns" on Monticello's part, and a fear of commitment on the part of the UVA Foundation, the new visitor center has been in limbo since.
"UVA wasn't ready... they had no real vision for the site," says Kat Imhoff, vice president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the organization that runs Monticello. "I think they're still trying to decide what to do with it."
Pressing on, the TJ Foundation elected to build its new visitor center on the site of the old ticket office and shuttle station, a ramshackle grey wood building reminiscent of state park picnic shelters, which was demolished earlier this year. In March, excavation began on the new $55 million, 42,000-sq.-ft. Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith History Center. (The project also includes an operating endowment of $12 million.)
As first noted locally by the Hook, $30 million is being raised through the sale of municipal bonds, the rest coming from private donations.–> –>
Designed by the Baltimore-based architecture firm Ayers-Saint-Gross– one of 22 firms Monticello invited to submit proposals– the complex is scheduled to open in the fall of 2008, with related work continuing until 2009. Incidentally, Ayers-Saint-Gross is also designing a $15 million addition to the South Chiller Plant and Thermal Energy Storage system for UVA, which will supply power to the expanding health care and medical research areas on grounds.
Unlike the old ticket office, the visitor center will be a destination in itself, comparable in educational value– if not architectural splendor– to the building on the hill it serves. It will also allow Monticello to remove some commercial and administrative offices from around the house, as the gift shop and select offices will be relocated to the new center.
"Our long-term goal is to restore Monticello to 1809," says Mogielnicki, "and remove all the 20th and 21st century buildings from the mountain."
Mogielnicki calls the visitor center just a first step in that direction, as the curatorial department, guide offices, and central administration offices will remain on the mountain until additional space is found. Mogielnicki says they'll also abandon the leased museum space in the Charlottesville/Albemarle visitor center at the foot of Piedmont Virginia Community College, as a new two-story pavilion will house permanent and ongoing exhibitions.
The design features five pavilions around a central courtyard and is intended to "blend into the landscape." Indeed, architectural renderings of the complex make it look more like a stylish mountain retreat than a tourist attraction. It will be constructed of local natural materials like fieldstone from Greene County and recycled pine flooring, and will include a "green" roof and other environmentally correct features.
One notable feature is a geothermal comfort system, which takes advantage of the constant temperature beneath the earth to heat and cool buildings on the surface. Seventy-two "wells" have already been dug on the site to transfer those steady temps to the buildings. In addition, storm water will be stored and filtered via step ponds along walkways, huge storage pipes under the new parking lots, and filtration systems at points where water will collect.
In addition to the two-story exhibition pavilion, another two-story pavilion will house the Smith Center, a classroom and "hands-on" activity center with a theater. There will also be a café building, plenty of outdoor places to congregate, and an educational pavilion connected to the complex by a wooded path.
The Carl Smith History Center
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News Release 08-060
Picture This: Explaining Science Through Drawings
Undergrads master scientific concepts by explaining them to high schoolers through drawings
April 10, 2008
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, creating one can have as much value to the illustrator as to the intended audience. This is the case with "Picturing to Learn," a project in which college students create pencil drawings to explain scientific concepts to a typical high school student. The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education, provides support for this effort.
What sets this project apart is its emphasis on inviting students to draw in order to explain scientific concepts to others. The act of creating pencil drawings calls into play a different kind of thought process that forces students to break down larger concepts into their constitutive pieces. This helps clarify the underlying science--from Brownian motion (the movement of particles suspended in a liquid or gas and the impact of raising the temperature of the liquid), to chemical bonding, to the quantum behavior of a particle in a box. In the same assignment, students are asked to evaluate their own drawings, which helps them identify and appreciate critical components.
"Visually explaining concepts can be a powerful learning tool," says Felice Frankel, principal investigator at Harvard University. "The other important part of this is that the teacher immediately identifies student misconceptions."
The project brings together five institutions: Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Duke University, Roxbury Community College and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The students involved are undergraduates studying physics, chemistry and biology.
Each drawing assignment asks students to explain a science concept or process. For example, in addressing the question of how to identify which of two compounds has the higher boiling point, students are encouraged to be creative and to consider a variety of formats, including cartoons and stick figures. Students are also told, "In your drawing, strive for clarity in visually representing the concepts of bond type and strength."
Many of the drawings bring scientific concepts to life in interesting and unexpected ways. They also bring any misconceptions immediately to light so that professors can address them with students.
"I've been surprised and very pleased about the enthusiasm and excitement we've seen in some very renowned science professors," says Rebecca Rosenberg, the project manager and a former secondary school science teacher. "They could have pooh-poohed this idea, but instead, they're seeing how it helps inform their teaching."
Four Harvard physics majors will take their work to the next level on April 12, when they travel to New York City for a workshop with design students at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). The idea is to engage design students in conversation with science students so that each can learn from the other. In a previous workshop which involved students from SVA and MIT, the participants created an anthropomorphic metaphor, where "little guys" representing particles interacted with each other. As the students drew out the metaphor, they ultimately realized that this model wouldn't work. They scrapped it and started over, in the process developing a better understanding of both the concept and how to communicate it to others.
An eventual goal of the project is to expand it to students in middle school, high school and graduate school. In parallel, this approach is of growing interest to educators.
"This project promotes widespread adoption of these methods through workshops and publications," says Hal Richtol, NSF program manager. "Clearly it offers a useful teaching tool to anyone teaching science at any level."
The students' work, and a description of the project, is accessible at http://www.picturingtolearn.org/.
College chemistry students and design students collaborate to communicate scientific concepts.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Really? (Really.)
23 comments:
- bklyn6 said...
Why am I not surprised.
A few months ago cafepress.com was selling "Tap Dancing for Obama" t-shirts. The character was dressed like Uncle Sam and bojangling it up in black face. :rolleyes:
- May 13, 2008 at 5:54 PM
- DeAngelo Starnes said...
You wanna know the fucked-up thing? The accompanying poll question asked whether the t-shirt was racist or fine? It was virtually a dead-head 50.65% racist, 49.35% fine.
But we're making progress though.
- May 13, 2008 at 6:27 PM
- Kellybelle said...
Sigh--is it really that hard to do the right thing? And just like the Tiger Woods/Fuzzy Zoeller moment, why is it the Black part of a person that's made fun of? Couldn't they have done an American Gothic spoof Barack and Michelle to make fun on Barack's Kansas roots?
- May 13, 2008 at 7:06 PM
- JD Rhoades said...
Jesus. Words fail me.
- May 13, 2008 at 7:33 PM
- Jess said...
This is fucked up but not surprising. What's weird is that comment where he mentions "noting physical similarities" between the two. It sounds like he just lifted the story from the caller on Bill O'Reilly's radio show. A bunch of unoriginal racists as usual.
- May 13, 2008 at 7:47 PM
- Thordaddy said...
This is why liberal progressives aren't taken seriously. Last week, Obama's best friend was claiming that the America government, i.e., white supremacists, invented AIDS to kill blacks and we weren't supposed to think anything of it. And now, we're supposed to be up in arms about a picture that comports with liberal evolutionary theory?
- May 13, 2008 at 8:54 PM
I'm surprised the "Curious George" folk haven't sued the guy yet. No accounting for the stupidity of people, I guess.
- May 13, 2008 at 10:13 PM
- SJ said...
Someone down in Georgia told me this was on his local news affiliate:
"The owner of the "Mulligan's Bar" in Marietta Georgia commissioned 50 t-shirts with an image of Barack Obama as "Curious George" to be sold at his bar to raise money for the MDA.
The MDA then released a statement to the owner saying they want nothing to do with his money and would appreciate it if the man never associated their charity with his views again."
- May 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM
- DeAngelo Starnes said...
thordaddy, I thought you had gone away to that great burning cross in the sky. Oh well, that 25% that support Bush really does exist.
- May 13, 2008 at 11:00 PM
- Thordaddy said...
Why can't you just account for this cognitive dissonance within liberal progressives?
And since I don't believe that man (wouldn't that be black man?) was descended from ape, I don't find the shirt all that representative of those who believe as I do.
- May 14, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Don't even get me started. It just makes me sad.
Kellybelle, I LOVE the idea of the American Gothic Barack and Michelle t-shirt. Print some and I'll buy one. He needs to play up his American roots. It seems that many people think he's not American. Again, don't get me started.
- May 14, 2008 at 2:00 AM
- Brown Girl said...
Thank you Kellybelle. Surely it has to be alright to make fun of him. That's what dissenters do right, make fun of someone they don't care for, but what these people don't understand is that making fun based on the very characteristic that has been used to oppress is a no go.
Would you consider this video: Hilary's Downfall going too far? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lstkiexhc
- May 14, 2008 at 2:07 AM
- Ann Brock said...
Can some body say West Virgina? Proof that hate is alive and well.
- May 14, 2008 at 6:07 AM
- Antonio said...
This is the tip of the iceberg. Some of Obama's white (and black) supporters have been taken aback by the racism they've encountered.
There's also stories about some WV-ians saying they flat-out won't vote for a black presidential candidate and others suddenly being unable to articulate why they won't vote for Obama other than to add "I'm not racist". It'll only get worse once the GOP machine starts up.
- May 14, 2008 at 7:54 AM
I hope the Curious George publishers sue the pants off them. And besides, Obama has very thick eyebrows.
Gwen Ifill commented the media is talking about "race" in this election chatter, but not addressing "racism" in their commentary or analysis.
How one respond depends on how one wants to spend their time. As George Lakoff says:
If you keep their language and their framing and just argue against it, you lose because you are reinforcing their fram.
As a descendent of the Confederates including Robert E. Lee told me over the weekend (and she's gone the opposite directipn of her ancestors), we reconcile the old stories with "the new story." Turning pages isn't easy, but it's gonna happen.
- May 14, 2008 at 9:47 AM
Per the previous mention:
"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt did not nor would we ever authorize or approve this use of the Curious George character, which we find offensive and utterly out of keeping with the values Curious George represents," said Richard Blake, the company's spokesman. "We are monitoring the situation and weighing all of our options."
- May 14, 2008 at 2:27 PM
- Thordaddy said...
Yet, no one can explain to the rest of us why we should be so offended at the implied truth of liberal evolutionary theory?
And the fact that Jeremiah Wright was lauded by so many now crying racism, what are we to make of this selective hyper-sensitivity?
- May 14, 2008 at 2:49 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ You dropped your bait in the wrong fishin' hole, Thordaddy. I thought you knew better.
- May 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM
and on the back of the t-shirt it says: banal humor for banal people.
- May 15, 2008 at 8:12 AM
- The Obenson Report said...
If you haven't already seen it, you should check out the video clip in which the seller of the tee-shirts was interviwed.
- May 15, 2008 at 10:13 AM
...fock the seller of the tee shirts. Folk of that ilk will always be here and there's nothing that we can do about changing them. They can hate all they want because it's about navigating thru those assholes, all the way to the bank. Shite, let em all cut there noses off to spite their faces.
- May 15, 2008 at 4:06 PM
(sigh) sad sad humanity sometimes
- May 17, 2008 at 1:24 PM
- Thordaddy said...
Mr. Mills,
Don't you just cringe watching these white self-righteous liberals feigning outrage over such trivial transgressions of the liberal orthodoxy?
I mean, can you articulate why those of us not stuck in the 60's black radical mentality should be so outraged at this t-shirt?
Isn't your beef with evolutionary theory and the ideas it espouses?
- May 18, 2008 at 7:36 PM


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To configure the client to authenticate itself with an X.509 certificate, perform the following tasks:
Enroll a certificate for yourself. This can be done, for example, with the ssh-cmpclient-g3 or ssh-scepclient-g3 command-line tools.
Example: Key generation and enrollment using ssh-cmpclient-g3:
$ ssh-cmpclient-g3 INITIALIZE -P generate://ssh2:passphrase@rsa:1536/user_rsa \ -o /home/user/.ssh2/user_rsa -p 62154:ssh \ -s 'C=FI,O=SSH,CN=user;firstname.lastname@example.com' \ -S http://fw.example.com:1080 http://pki.example.com:8080/pkix/ \ 'C=FI, O=SSH, CN=Test CA 1'
Place your keys and certificates in a directory where the Connection Broker can locate them.
By default, the Connection Broker attempts to use each key found in the
$HOME/.ssh2directory on Unix, or in the
%APPDATA%\SSH\UserCertificatesdirectories on Windows.
You can also add other directory locations for keys on the Keys and Certificates page of the Tectia Connections Configuration tool. See Managing Keys and Certificates. On Unix, you can use the
general/key-stores/key-storeelement in the
ssh-broker-config.xmlfile. See the section called "Key Store Configuration Examples".
(Optional) Create an identification file.
Using the
identificationfile is not necessary if all your keys are stored in the default directory and you allow all of them to be used for public-key and/or certificate authentication. If the
identificationfile does not exist, the Connection Broker attempts to use each key found in the default directory. If the
identificationfile exists, the keys listed in it are attempted first.
Specify the private key of your software certificate in the
$HOME/.ssh2/identificationfile (the
CertKeyoption works identically with the
CertKey user_rsa
The certificate itself will be read from
For more information on the syntax of the identification file, see
Make sure that public-key authentication is enabled in the
ssh-broker-config.xmlfile (it is enabled by default).
<authentication-methods> <auth-publickey /> ... </authentication-methods>
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The Handmaid's Tale: an exhibit at Moffitt Library
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 5 – December 31, 2018 every day | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 3rd Floor near Elevators
The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood is simultaneously a classic and THE novel of our current times, as well as being the inspiration for one of the most talked-about must-watch television shows of the moment. This makes the book the perfect choice for the 2018 campus common reading program, On the Same Page. The entire campus community is encouraged to read the book and participate in classes and events this Fall.
The new exhibit on the 3rd floor of Moffitt Library explores the books themes and antecedents. On exhibit are library materials and quotes that demonstrate that not only were we wrong to say it cant happen here - it has already happened, all over the world. Atwood drew on her experiences living in Berlin (while the Berlin Wall was still in place), and her knowledge of the Argentinian children of the disappeared, Puritan oppression, the Underground Railroad, book burnings and enforced illiteracy, Nazi racial purity programs, and the use of religion as a front for tyranny. Clips from the hit show based on the novel are also on display, to better populate your dystopian nightmares. And remember: Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum!
Faculty, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Undergraduate
Faculty, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Undergraduate
UC Berkeley ID required for entrance to Moffitt Library.


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text: Share: June 22, 2008 Land-use & Human Impacts, Carbon It's time for Americans to forsake their lawns. Unless you are an avid fan of croquet, lawn tennis, or summer garden parties, let your lawn go natural. Today's obsession with perfect, park-like lawns is not only a waste of time and money; it's bad for the environment. Embrace a natural yard, as our household has done on about half of our property.An estimated 80 percent of American households have a lawn; in aggregate, lawns would cover an area about the size of North Carolina. That represents a lot of Saturday afternoons spent mowing, even on a riding lawn-mower.Anthropologists tell us settlers were driven to clear wild areas near their dwellings to reduce marauding varmints and vermin. Today, I suppose neighborly peer-pressure and side-glancing comparisons may also motivate excessive lawn care. How else could we be convinced a manicured expanse of genetically modified Kentucky bluegrass is a good diversion of time and money?Here's the scenario: in spring, we must mow the lawn weekly; that uses fossil fuels. In summer, lush lawns require lots of water; if you use a well, excess sprinkling depletes the groundwater. In fall, we rake fallen leaves from the lawn and often remove them from the yard. In the absence of decomposing leaves, soil becomes depleted of nitrogen, phosphorus and other minerals that help plants grow, so the following year we need to buy fertilizer. Nitrogen fertilizer is one of the most energy-intensive products known, made by the combustion of natural gas under high temperature and pressure.Suburban lawns accumulate carbon in their soil, but their storage capacity is outweighed by the carbon dioxide emissions generated by products used to maintain them (gas mowers, fertilizer, herbicides, store-bought mulch, etc). In the eastern United States, a natural landscape is usually more efficient at carbon storage. If you like, plant a hardy ground cover that requires no regular maintenance or chemical inputs. If you're worried about ticks, simply reduce the size of your lawn to where your family picnics or the kids play.Most lawns, indeed most yards, are maintained at an unnaturally low level of biological diversity, largely through the use of lawn herbicides and the systematic removal of shrubby vegetation that might invade it. A more diverse natural landscape would support populations of the creatures that prey on common landscape pests. In their absence, somewhat ironically, we depend on chemical pesticides to maintain a "healthy" looking landscape.Pesticides inadvertently reduce the populations of microbes, earthworms and other organisms that maintain natural soil fertility. Rain washes pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers into local streams, eventually leading to the pollution of major water bodies, such as the Hudson River, that are our source of drinking water.In a world where time is short and the price of fossil fuels is skyrocketing, I can't think of a good reason to maintain a park-like suburban lawn. Let it go: you'll enjoy the return of wild songbirds to your yard. Recalibrate to a new normal and return to nature - something many Americans pay dearly for by traveling to "natural" vacation spots. Meanwhile, back at home, their lawns suck up time and money. Share: Feature Let lawn go - and reap the benefits › June 22, 2008


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Azzam (Arab. "resolute") is a private yacht built by Lürssen Yachts. Azzam was launched on 5 April 2013 at 180 metres (590 ft) in length as the largest private yacht in the world. She has a beam of 20.8 m (68'4″) and an unusually shallow draft of 4.3 m.
Azzam was commissioned by Khalifa Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates. The yacht is currently listed for charter without the price. According to Motor Boat & Yacht magazine, the yacht is not available for charter, and the charter listing, similar to Roman Abramovich's Eclipse, is aimed to avoid European taxation (charter yachts are exempt from property tax)
Among many other features, the yacht has a main salon with a length of 29 m and a beam of 18 m with an open plan and no pillars. She will travel in excess of 32 knots powered by a combination of two gas turbines and two diesel engines with a total power output of 70 MW (94,000 hp) through four pump-jets,two of which are non-movable round water outlets in the middle of the stern, and two with thrust vectoring capabilities using moveable duct water outlets positioned on either side of the non-movable ones. The yacht was delivered on 9 September 2013.
At an estimated cost of US$605M, she is more expensive than the second largest motor yacht Eclipse.
The actual gross tonnage of the mighty 180m giga yacht AZZAM has been unveiled, indicating that the world's largest superyacht – in terms of length – is not the largest superyacht in the world in terms of tonnage. Mega yacht AZZAM's actual gross tonnage is 13,136 tons, meaning she places second, following the 155m superyacht AL SAID, with 15,850 tons.The 2013 AZZAM yacht boasts stylish and elegant exteriors by Nauta Yachts and interiors by Christophe Leoni.


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Miramar College Foundation
The Miramar College Foundation, a California IRS approved 501 (c) (3) Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation, was officially created on August 21, 1994, to help meet the needs of San Diego Miramar College students and the growth of the campus.
The purpose of the Foundation is to provide a channel for financial and other contributions to directly benefit Miramar College students. All student scholarships and all other programs administered by the Foundation are wholly dependent on the generosity of benefactors who choose to donate to the Foundation.
Letter from the Foundation President
Dear Online Visitor,
Thank you for checking out our website. The Miramar College Foundation provides a channel for financial and other contributions to directly benefit deserving San Diego Miramar College students. We do so by administering scholarships and supporting innovative educational related programs that are not funded by the San Diego Community College District and would therefore not otherwise be available to our students.
As you explore the site, you'll see many ways in which you can make a difference! No gift is too small. We welcome all contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations. Some donors choose to fund special programs and projects, wile others provide for a memorial or tribute to a loved one through scholarship funds or facility naming opportunities.
Please help our students' dreams come true by considering a tax-deductible contribution. We are currently creating online giving capabilities; but right now, you can send a check to the Miramar College Foundation or contact us to discuss how you can make a charitable donation.
On behalf of the Miramar College Foundation Board of Directors and San Diego Miramar College students, I thank you in advance for your generosity.
Very truly,
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The mission of the Miramar College Foundation is to make a positive difference in the lives of Miramar College students, offering opportunity for advancement and learning, for a better citizenship, increased productivity, and satisfaction of attained goals. The Foundation seeks to keep higher education accessible to Miramar College students through scholarships and grants and by funding innovative educational programs to prepare students for future workforce and career needs.
An investment in Miramar College represents a commitment to our community's future.
Corporate Partnerships
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Support Miramar College students by donating to the Miramar College Foundation General Fund! Donate now, send a check to the Miramar College Foundation, use the PayPal link below, or contact us to discuss how you can make a charitable donation.
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Brendon S necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
QTHomes is a new business (providing removable homes to act as granny-flats and housing for mining companies). QTHomes will have a Wordpress based online presence.
Desired Color Scheme:
Suits existing logo
Accepted File Formats:
Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff); Layered PSD Photoshop File
QTHomes.com.au is a business that provides removable homes. These homes are ideal for mining companies and the like.
The business will market to industrial companies (like the mining industry) and to people who need removable housing (as a granny-flat, for example).
They offer other services also, like bus shelters, grandstands, and other construction work like footpaths.
Currently we have no photographs of the removable homes, but they are expected. Unsure if they'll arrive in time for this contest.
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Logo here: http://qthomes.com.au/logo.jpg
The design will need to mesh with this logo (blue, red and gray colors). The business is primary about providing removable homes, so if you can somehow reflect that in the design, great!
The nav buttons will be:
- Home
- Plans & Prices
- More Products
- Gallery
- FAQs
- About Us
- Contact Us'Home' will be the homepage of the site, which is where blog posts will be listed. The other links will go to pages instead of posts.


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By Caroline McGraw Dec 01, 2011 0
The Gift of Attention
Amidst the hustle and bustle of this holiday season, it may help to remember that one of the most precious gifts we can give to one another is, in fact, an intangible: our honest, undivided attention. Real attention can be transformative. Another person's focused attention can call forth stories and music we didn't know we had in us. It can allay doubt and discouragement, helping us to be honest and brave. In turn, paying attention to another person can offer us insight into their minds and hearts, and a feeling of true, substantive connection.
I say this because I remember a significant moment last winter in which the power of attention was made manifest for me. My husband Jonathan and I had traveled to New Jersey to visit my family for the week. One day, my aunt, uncle and cousins came to visit us as well. The house was full, and so, predictably, my brother Willie retreated into the basement after greeting our guests. He emerged before supper, and led us in prayer before we ate. He was in good spirits, and so it seemed there would be no destruction of person or property that day. But the real surprise of the evening came after the meal, when he walked over to his keyboard and started playing songs for us.
Instinctively, we rose from the table and gathered around the piano. We stood in small clusters, forming a loose half-circle behind Willie as he played. He ran through his repertoire for us, pausing briefly between each piece for our words of praise and (soft) applause.
For the grand finale, he began to play, "The Sound of Music." As he played the sweet notes, the song's lyrics ran through my mind. Suddenly, the song became personal: My heart will be blessed with the sound of music.
It wasn't simply the clear tones of my brother's playing that astonished me that night. It was the manner in which he played: purposeful, strong, and confident. After years of witnessing his struggles, seeing him in his element was more than I could have imagined or hoped for. In fact, it made me want to weep with gratitude, and I could tell I wasn't the only one. The group of us, usually so merry together, fell silent before Willie's simple songs. As we stood there in quiet thanksgiving, I had the sense that this specific music was born not only from my brother's special talent, but from our collective witness. We stopped to listen to all he had to offer, and that offering was stunning in its beauty.
Since that experience, I've made an effort to stop multi-tasking when I'm spending time with beloved people. It's a challenge; in fact, it's a counter-cultural thing to do. I don't know about you, but I've experienced plenty of people checking cell phones during conversations and updating their status during meals. And while all these things by themselves may seem innocuous, what they add up to is distraction. Lack of attention. The moment, missed. But when we do pay attention? It can translate to sharing the sacred.
As Willie ended his playing that night, the original song lyrics stopped running through my mind, and these verses took their place:
You play, "The Sound of Music" for us.
We listen with pride in every right note.
My musical brother is giving us a concert.
These hands that bring us music punch walls.
These feet, pushing pedals, kick and thrash.
The man in control is, at times, out-of-control.
How could this happen? I ask. And how can I not
believe, seeing it? Sometimes miracles look like:
someone playing piano, everyone paying attention.


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Les Mills RPM™
RPM is a group indoor cycling workout where you control the intensity. It's fun, low impact and you can burn up to 675 calories a session**.
With great music pumping and the group spinning as one, your instructor takes you on a journey of hill climbs, sprints and flat riding. In an RPM workout you repeatedly spin the pedals to reach your cardio peak then ease back down, keeping pace with the pact to lift your personal performance and boost your cardio fitness.
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Partner Yoga for iPad
- Publisher: ASV Apps
- Genre: Health & Fitness
- Released: 9 Mar, 2011
- Size: 2.1 MB
- Price: $0.99
- App Store Info
DescriptionPractise Yoga with or without Partner. Partner Yoga is a must have Yoga App that details out all the various Yoga Poses with beautiful graphics and step by step guide on how to do the yoga. It also gives you some history of each pose along with it's benefits.
100+ yoga poses (in its most upgraded level) with instructions and photo. A noteworthy application for those who seek perfection of body and mind.
Professionally made content, photo and convenient grouping of poses according to their level and type will turn your yoga routine into an inspiring travel to the depths of your being.
· Cutest Graphics
· 100+ Positions (topmost upgrade level)
· Detailed Description of each graphics
· MILLION DOLLAR TIPS of each graphics
· Track Your Done/Todo/Favourite/Not Done Topics
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· Avatar Creation
· Password Protection
· Email Positions
· Find out Most Popular Ones
· Find out Pick of the Moment
· Feeling Lucky
· Share on Facebook
Comes in 2 Levels of Upgrade with this FREE App to allow you to keep going step beyond the current level at a time or go all in one at your own pace!
Please use your discrete judgement in trying the position out as per tips and description. We are here to help and are NOT responsible for you getting impacted at any level due to this app. Use it as your guide. We can not answer questions in the review section. For support or questions, please use the send feedback button in the app or email us at [email protected]
What's New in Version 1.3➠ Few Image Updates
➠ Few content Updates
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text: The 2009 Honda Odyssey is due for a refresh in the JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) and a teaser for it went up today on their Japanese website. The Japanese market Odyssey diverged from the US market version after the first iteration of the platform in 1995. This new Odyssey seems to go for a sleeker, more expressive look than the current edition with the D-panel glass getting some curvature and the fenders getting a bit of flair. And it's definitely purple. Very purple. No plans to sell it stateside, so you'll have to be content without the sleek tall wagon. [NihonCar]


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9 May 2011-Last Wednesday, Intel announced a big change to the electronic switches at the heart of its CPUs. Going forward, the firm will be using three-dimensional transistors to take the place of long-used planar devices.
The new transistors-dubbed "tri-gates"-are a variation on the FinFET, a transistor design that substitutes the flat channel through which electrons flow with a 3-D ridge, or fin. Popping the channel out of plane and draping the gate-which switches the transistor on and off-over it will allow Intel to shrink the smallest features in its transistors from 32 nanometers to 22 nm while cutting power consumption in half. This feat would be impossible to do with the transistor design the company had been using.
How did this 3-D design win its way into production? We asked the coinventor of the FinFET, IEEE Fellow Chenming Hu, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, how the new transistors got their start, why we need them now, and where they will go from here.
IEEE Spectrum: We've been shrinking two-dimensional, or planar, transistors just fine for 50 years. Why are we seeing a switch to three-dimensional FinFETs?
Chenming Hu: I'll distill the problem with planar transistors to a single point. It all stems from the fact that it is very difficult to turn off a transistor when it's very small. In other words, you can't stop the current flowing through the transistor when you don't want the current to flow.
I'll use an analogy to explain this. There is a garden hose lying on a soggy lawn, and you want to stop the water from flowing into this lawn. If there's a long hose, you can call your friends to come in and put 10 pairs of hands down, and you can stop the water. Now imagine you shorten the hose so you cannot even put one palm on it to stop it. Now you shorten it even more, so you can only put one finger on it. It's impossible to stop.
In the past 10 years, people have dealt with this garden hose problem in various ways, and one way has been to sacrifice power. For 250-nm transistors, the power-supply voltage was 2.5 volts; for 180 nm, it was 1.8 V; for 130 nm, it was 1.3 V. The pattern was very regular until 90 nm, but it reached a limit. Instead of 0.9 V, you know what the industry used? 1.2 V. Even at 45 nm, the industry still used 0.9 V instead of 0.45 V.
IEEE Spectrum: So current is leaking even when the transistors are off. To get around that problem, you have to use a higher voltage to make the difference between on and off more obvious?
Chenming Hu: Exactly. What's the consequence of that? Power is proportional to the square of the voltage. So if you use twice as high a voltage as the historical trend, your cellphone will consume four times the power. The pain is just too big to keep going that way. We thought planar technology would run out of steam sometime after 25 nm, and it did.
IEEE Spectrum: How do FinFETs help fix the leaky garden hose problem?
Chenming Hu: Remember, the hose is on a soggy, soft lawn. So what if instead of pressing your finger on this garden hose, you pinch your fingers on the two sides of the garden hose? That's the analogy. The weak point, the soggy lawn, is the silicon substrate. So you really have to do something on both sides so you're pinching against something firm, and that's what the FinFET is doing. We should pinch the channel [where electrons flow] on two sides and on top. The more pinching sides, the better.
Pinching the hose will allow us to use a much, much shorter hose. That's extremely important. Making things small is really the key of making the electronics cheaper, faster, and lower power.
IEEE Spectrum: The idea for FinFETs has been around for a while. How did it all get started?
Chenming Hu: DARPA [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] sent out a request for proposals in 1996 for ideas to develop electronic switches beyond 25 nm. At the time, the industry was using 250-nm transistors, and the general view was that transistors could not be scaled below 100 nm. But my students and I had already been thinking about how to get transistors to scale to 25 nm and beyond.
There was a quick meeting probably lasting only five minutes between myself and two colleagues-Professor Tsu-Jae King Liu and Professor Jeff Bokor. The meeting was short because we already knew what to do.
I was on a flight to a conference in Japan, and I had about 10 hours, so I just wrote down the technical proposal in longhand. I proposed two structures that we'd been thinking about for a while. One was FinFETs, and the other is what we call an ultrathin-body silicon-on-insulator (UTB SOI).
We got the contract in 1997, and that gave us the resources to demonstrate FinFETs experimentally. A young graduate student named Xuejue "Cathy" Huang made the working device, and the team of three professors and 11 students and visiting researchers published it in 1999.
IEEE Spectrum: How did the industry react to the FinFET paper?
Chenming Hu: It was an instant hit. I remember Cathy and I were invited to Intel Santa Clara just a couple of months after the publication, and in that same year, 2000, I was invited to Intel Oregon twice. At the time, people were asking me how long it would take for the idea to get into production. I said about 10 years, so I guess I was off by one.


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Alex Marchuk necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 169 design presentati da 61 designer.
Logo will appear on our brand new website which features the latest iPhone news. Must have a mix of professional looks with attracting colors.
Calling for experienced designers only.
Up to you!
Desired Color Scheme:
Green, Black or what you think is best.
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Our company iPhonevine needs a modern looking logo telling our reader we're professionals. Ideas may include a green color if you chose to use a vine, which is what we're mainly looking for. However, if you can show us what you have in mind, you may just change our mind. Use your imagination. Another idea is to incorporate a silhouette of an iPhone, Apple's touchscreen phone into the logo.
Being a current designer at Sitepoint, I've seen contests abandoned left and right. If absolutely nothing appeals to me, I appreciate all of your entries, and give it a second try. Feedback is a must for all work I do, that's why I will make time to leave feedback on every entry you submit to this contest.
Here are some examples of what I like.
- http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/21330We like how the logo stands out without any wording.
- http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/1465We like the green color.
- http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/20330We like how the logo flows.
- http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/16696We like the toilet paper icon, and it's texture. If it can somehow be made into an iPhone style, that would be a great addition.
- http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/16694We like how the grass on the N is connected, we'd like to something incorporating a vine.
The prize for this contest is $325. If an entry is so good, I'll add an extra $200 to the prize, making it $525. Sorry for the inconvenience. Sitepoint doesn't allow change of the prize amount.
Maggiori informazioni su come funziona un contest di design o sui nostri servizi di design di logo.


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Can I increase the amount of time a session will wait for a locked table to become unlocked before it times out?
After a few minutes I get an error on an INSERTY statement against a table locked by another session:
I'd like the session to wait indefinatly if possible.
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dbadmin=> insert into test01 values (1);
ERROR 5156: Unavailable: initiator locks for query - Locking failure: Timed out I locking Table:vdb001.test1. X held by [user dbadmin (select * from test01 for update;)]. Your current transaction isolation level is READ COMMITTED


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Mine showed in the mail yesterday. Looks good on the skeleton stock. Thanks for the tip
yep seen the buttpad over the weekend, it is nice.
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Mine showed in the mail yesterday. Looks good on the skeleton stock. Thanks for the tip
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I wish that FSE had some more stuff available (their site is pretty bleak nowadays, only two items, I was really hoping to get another one of their FAL HTS sets) I wasn't too happy about $8. shipping for a $16 part. But still the overall price wasn't too bad.
Great product! I've got them mounted on ATI SKS Ultralite folders & regular Russian/Chinese SKS stocks I'm talking about the AK version ...not the offered for sale SKS screw-mount type. I called first & asked...the AK version slips on and fits snug on regular SKS stocks.The curve-fit anchors into my shoulder rock solid. The common response to shouldering the SKSs with the AK version FSE pad is WOW...
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Thanks for the heads up. Been looking for these all over the place.
the same recoil pad is avaliable here:
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they also sell the triangle skeleton fixed stock (non-folding, polymer).
Thanks for the headsup on the recoil pad...Nice saiga!
I've seen these pads in more places but FSE is one of the "good people" to work with and that's why I don't mind a few extra bucks
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Armin van Buuren - Universal Religion Chapter 6
Catching Ibiza's magic is a task that only the most experienced musicians can complete. Armin van Buuren is one of them. Through his 'Universal Religion' series, he's captured the summer since 2004, landing a mix compilation that burst with exclusive highlights.
In 2012, he lands the 6th Chapter of 'Universal Religion', recorded live during the A State of Trance Night at the world-famous Club Privilege.
2012 has already proven to be a significant year in the career of the Dutchman. The producer/DJ, relentlessly driven by his perfectionism, celebrated the 550th episode and 11th birthday of his A State of Trance radio show, with 6 events in 5 different countries. Each of the events were broadcast live, uniting millions of listeners around the globe, sharing their passion for music. The next, logical step was taking his Ibiza residency to a higher level. Armin van Buuren landed his A State of Trance night at the biggest European club: Privilege. Serving its 10,000 strong crowd a show of outstanding quality with a star-studded line-up, the A State of Trance Ibiza Invasion has spread far beyond the regions of the Balearic sea.
Recorded live in the summer of 2012, 'Universal Religion Chapter 6' makes you part of these special happenings with two live recordings. It makes you feel the energy of the crowd, lets you hear their screams for more, as well as bringing you a selection of exclusive and custom-made tunes and remixes by some of the world's most talented producers. Tracks by Protoculture, Orjan Nilsen, Aly & Fila, Jorn van Deynhoven, A.R.D.I., Solarstone and many more. Including the brand new Armin single, 'I'll Listen' and many other premieres, 'Universal Religion Chapter 6' is the timeless musical memory of 2012's summer season.
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"Hopefully they do want me back. They gave me a shot this year, and maybe I can show them that I am good enough to come back next year. We'll see. It depends on what they're looking for, but, hey, I'm here already, so maybe they will bring me back. This is where I want to be. I missed the game a lot. The last two years have been rough for me. I tried to come back last year with Detroit, was feeling good. Pitched three times, and then my shoulder started bothering me and never stopped. I came back this year to spring training [with the Mets], and I was never really given a chance to pitch like I want to. I've always been a starter. They put me as a reliever, and that pushed me back. I didn't have a chance to recover after I pitched, and the stuff wasn't there. My velocity and stuff. When I got released, that was a good thing that happened. I went home and was able to rest my shoulder. I ran, did my stuff, but let my shoulder rest. … After that [MRI that showed his shoulder was clean], I was able to say, 'OK, I know now I can really come back, and [the Sox] know that nothing is wrong with my shoulder,"' he said. "That helped mentally. Now, I just want to move forward again."
UPDATE: Garcia's contract with Sox has a $1 million option for next year, that includes $2 million in incentives based on innings pitched next year (source).


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All the early-season attention paid to a Maryland team with a new coach and gaudy new uniforms couldn't save the Terps Saturday from a rejuvenated old nemesis that had won five in a row against them and played as if it was its birthright to continue that streak.
In losing, 37-31, to No. 18 West Virginia, Maryland (1-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) missed an opportunity to reverse its fortunes against the Mountaineers (3-0, 0-0 Big East) with a win that could have kick-started its season and pushed the Terps into the national rankings.
If there was consolation for the Terps, it came from scoring 21 unanswered points and knowing that -- after trailing 34-10 -- they pulled to within 35 yards of a potential winning score before quarterback Danny O'Brien threw his third interception at the end.
Maryland coach Randy Edsall -- a disciplinarian from the Tom Coughlin coaching tree -- had promised during training camp that his players would respond to adversity. "On a Randy Edsall-coached team, there are never going to be any quitters," he said sharply after Saturday's game.
But it was a stern challenge against a hurry-up Mountaineers offense that spread the field and found creative ways -- a behind-the-line touch pass in one instance -- to get the ball to former Dunbar star Tavon Austin (11 catches, 122 yards), who burned Maryland for the second straight year.
The Terps, again wearing new uniforms (black this time) and playing in front of another sellout crowd, applied more pressure in the second half on Mountaineers quarterback Geno Smith (388 passing yards) and turned a critical third-quarter interception into a touchdown.
"We had all the momentum in the first half, and for them to have every bit of momentum in the stadium and for us to finish with a field goal and then an interception said a lot about us," first-year West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said. "It's probably our best game … obviously."
Trailing 37-31, Maryland faced fourth-and-1 on its 35-yard line with about three minutes left. Short-yardage specialist D.J. Adams, back after a one-game suspension, converted on a 5-yard run. The Terps moved deep into West Virginia territory, but free safety Eain Smith got the angle and intercepted O'Brien's third-down pass.
O'Brien, a redshirt sophomore, was proud last season of not throwing a single interception in Maryland's five ACC wins. This season, he has been intercepted four times.
He has also passed for a combined 637 yards in two games. He was working Saturday without suspended senior wide receivers Ronnie Tyler and Quintin McCree -- both big contributors in the opening-week win over Miami. Tyler is accused of punching a man in an off-campus fight. It's not clear why McCree, who was with Tyler at the time, was suspended.
With Tyler and McCree out, Maryland used an assortment of replacements -- including punt returner Tony Logan, former quarterback Devin Burns and true freshman Marcus Leak -- as wide-outs. "Missing those two receivers didn't mean a thing," Edsall insisted. "We just turned the ball over."
O'Brien's voice was flat and his expression unchanging after the game. "You can't turn the ball over three times from the quarterback position," he said. "This is the worst feeling in the world. Next week [against Temple] can't come fast enough. We feel like this team can be really good."
Edsall said O'Brien could have run on the decisive third-and-8 from the West Virginia 35. That way, Maryland could have had a fourth-down shot even if he came up short.
"I love Danny O'Brien," Edsall said. "I thought maybe he tried to put a little too much on himself. We tried to get him settled down. Danny is not going to play perfect. I know all of you want him to and we want him to."
On the sideline, Maryland defensive tackle Joe Vellano said he could almost visualize a final score of Maryland 38, West Virginia 37.
"Everybody was feeling it. It was right there in arm's reach," Vellano (three tackles) said.
Smith, the quarterback, had thrown for 232 yards through two quarters. West Virginia did not punt in the first half. At halftime, Maryland defensive coordinator Todd Bradford told players not to be hesitant in their blitzes, according to Vellano. The Terps were being cautious so as not to get burned by screen passes.
"Coach Bradford said if we're going to blitz, then blitz," Vellano said. The Terps held the Mountaineers to three fourth-quarter points.
The border-state rivalry game was played between schools from conferences whose membership could be shifting. At least two Big East schools -- Pittsburgh and Syracuse -- could depart for the ACC. Big East commissioner John Marinatto was at Maryland's game, but could not be reached for comment. Asked about the possible shifts, Edsall said he was focused on his own team.
Maryland trailed 34-10 before Davin Meggett's 20-yard touchdown run made it 34-16 in the third quarter. The Terps capitalized after an interception by Dexter McDougle on a tipped ball -- West Virginia's third turnover. Adams followed with a 6-yard touchdown run, cutting West Virginia's lead to 34-23 with 1:20 left in the third quarter.
With the announced crowd of 53,627 (the largest since 2005) back in the game, Maryland drove 66 yards and made it 34-29 on Adams' 2-yard run with 10:29 remaining. Meggett ran in the 2-point conversion to make it 34-31.
Vellano said Edsall had challenged the Terps to raise their games in the second half and the players responded.
He said Edsall told them after the game: "If you played like [you did] in the fourth quarter, it would have been a different game."
All the early-season attention paid to a Maryland team with a new coach and gaudy new uniforms couldn't save the Terps Saturday from a rejuvenated old nemesis that had won five in a row against them and played as if it was its birthright to continue that streak.


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Actor James Franco has defended his new online campaign to raise funds for a new movie project, insisting any profits he makes from the venture will be donated to charity.
The star opened a page on fundraising website Indiegogo.com last month to generate the cash needs to adapt his 2010 short story collection Palo Alto into three films.
Critics took aim at Franco for asking fans to help him reach his $500,000 goal instead of using his own money, but he insists the project will help both filmmakers and charity.
He tells entertainment website Bttm.co.uk, "I'm not doing this for my own project… I'm not using my celebrity to get money for a project that I'm going to direct. This is really to give a chance to talented people that deserve it but maybe wouldn't have the opportunity to otherwise. (Any profits from the movie will go to) raise money for a charity that I care about a lot.
"My intention is not to go on Indiegogo and ask people to donate money that will then eventually go into my pocket."
Actor Zach Braff has also come under fire for using Kickstarter.com make a sequel to his cult drama "Garden State," but insisted he did not have the money needed to fund his dream project: "People seem to think I have Oprah Winfrey money. I've done well in my career, but I am not sitting on $22 million."


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TUCSON, Ariz. (Wednesday, February 19, 2014) – The Colorado Rapids became the first team to breach the Chicago Fire's defenses in preseason, but it was not enough as they fell 2-1 in Arizona on Wednesday afternoon in their opening match of the Desert Diamond Cup presented by FC Tucson.
Two-nil down at the interval, it was Designated Player Gabriel Torres, following an impressive combination with Dillon Serna, who netted the Rapids' response on 68 minutes. Homegrown Player Serna found the ball at his feet during a bright spell for the Rapids. He threaded it through the Fire defense for Torres, who received it on the breakaway and calmly finished, ending Chicago's 428-minute shutout streak in 2014. Several more chances in the second half from Edson Buddle and Nick LaBrocca nearly found the net but were just off target.
Chicago were first on the scoreboard, in a first half that saw a couple of defensive lapses for the Rapids. In the 37th minute, Grant Ward found space on the right sideline to send a lofted ball into the box, only to watch with some surprise as it floated just over the wingspan of John Berner. Three minutes later, the Rapids struggled to clear a bouncing ball, allowing former player Quincy Amarikwa a shot from close range to double Chicago's lead, before something of a second-half revival from the Rapids.
By the end of the match, the Rapids had done a full lineup change, giving young and old players alike a chance of playing time. Trialists Albert Edward, Juan Guzman and Samuel Galindo got the start, while José Mari entered in the second half. Buddle, a 65th minute sub, provided an obvious spark to the offense, eager to get his team on the scoreboard with a handful of crafty plays.
After having only a day in Tucson before this encounter, the Rapids will have three more days until their next challenge. They continue play in the Desert Diamond Cup on Saturday, facing MLS arch-rivals Real Salt Lake at 3:30 p.m. MT, streamed live on www.ColoradoRapids.com. Then they'll face Chivas USA in a rematch of the Las Vegas ProSoccerChallenge on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 1 p.m.


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New praise from author/blogger Elissa Altman of Poor Man's Feast
Very kind words for the soon-to-be-released Chasing Chiles from Poor Man's Feast blogger/author Elissa Altman:
"Chasing Chiles is nothing short of a brilliant ethno-bio-culinary convergence. It accomplishes what so very few books do; marrying place to flavor and science, the result is a visceral understanding of the profound impact climate change has on the global community and the foods that we always seem to take for granted. Kurt Friese, Kraig Kraft, and Gary Nabhan have produced a must-read classic for all time."
– Elissa Altman, author of Poor Man's Feast
Wow Elissa – "ALL time"??? Sweet. I can see it now – Chasing Chiles surpasses Bible, Shakespeare, Koran in all time sales…
Really Elissa is being way too kind, but you should go read her blog at http://www.poormansfeast.com/, it's one of the best food blogs in the biz


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The holiday season seems to sneak up on us even if we had every intention to plan ahead. But life has this funny way of getting in the way and, before you know it, we're putting those turkeys in the oven, rushing out to get our holiday shopping done, and hearing those sleigh bells ring.
Why do the holidays create so much stress for marketers? Is it because holiday decorations now go up beforeHalloween? Or is it because people no longer wait for "Black Friday" to do all of their shopping? Whatever the case may be, if we haven't firmed up our holiday campaign plans in the summer – when we were probably lounging poolside – we're already woefully behind.
There's never enough time to think about what success really looks like when the holidays roll around. But you're probably putting too much pressure on yourself anyways. So, take on a new approach: less thinking, more doing. Even if you're just getting started now – tisk, tisk! – making the most of your social media efforts over the holidays should be easy and a little fun, too!
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These adorable little Spanish kids have been captured by some far less-adorable adults. I don't know what Spanish is for "looks like meat's back on the menu, boys", but maybe it'd be less creepy in this instance than it is in English.
It's Carnival in Spain and all the schools have family costume parties... This is too cute not to share. [Reddit]


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Every year, the Charter School Review Committee's academic monitors, the Children's Research Center, prepares a report on the Center's monitoring and analysis of educational performance. These reports are presented at a CSRC meeting, usually in September or October.
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After the CSRC has received the Children's Research Center reports on each of the schools, the chair and staff prepare an annual report to the Steering and Rules Committee of the Common Council. This meeting is usually in November or December.
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