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[Sound of me, crawling out of Blogosphere Cryo...]
So, it's been an interesting week, where (absent a delegate coup in Cleveland) Donald Trump has sewn up the GOP nomination, and Hillary is all but a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination. There's no way to put enough lipstick on this pig: The state of the union is at its nadir if this is the best the two major parties can puke up for the electorate to choose from.
As if it wasn't already obvious to those paying attention, I've come out a #NeverTrump, #NeverClinton voter, and it appears that a veritable Who's Who of Christian and conservatives have reached somewhat the same conclusion. But there are those, including some friends of mine, who've written to me privately or publicly, who are perplexed. If I am #NeverTrump, does that mean I want the Wicked Witch of the West Wing to return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? If I am actively opposing the GOP nominee, am I not declaring that I am not (and, maybe, never was) a Republican? Some even grant that the Donald Trump is indeed an odious individual, but if the only thing worse than President Trump is President Hillary, shouldn't I vote for the lesser of two evils (or at least keep quiet about the whole mess)? As a Christian, shouldn't I do whatever I can to keep a crook and serial liar like Hillary out of office? As a Christian, shouldn't I vote for Trump and hope the best for him?
I've been praying about this for several months now, and hoping I'd never have to go this route, but that is the lot that was dealt. In trying to figure out how to explain myself, I guess it was high time to log back in to PPP – where we have dealt with such questions in the past – and have a good go at a satisfactory answer.
So let's roll. And to get rolling, let's start at the end. In Revelation.
Dressed in White
In the past, I've written on the church of Sardis, in the book of Revelation. The primary deity of that city in Asia Minor was Cybele (KIH-buh-luh), and one of the primary festivals that celebrated her was an NC-17 affair. Men who were devoting their lives to Cybele would castrate themselves, place their family jewels on her altar, and then dance (?!?) down the main street, spraying/throwing their blood upon those along the parade route. Everyone was dressed in white, and if you had the worshipers' blood spattered on you , it was supposedly good luck.
And with this background, the Apostle John dictates Jesus' words to the church in Sardis:
Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.
And so it is, with this bit of backdrop, that I will explain why I am #NeverTrump, and why I will invite any and all to come with me on that particular path.
I Remember
I realize that many of my younger friends don't much remember the 90's, outside of TNMT and awful music. But I do.
Bill and Hillary took over the White House in 1992, and spent the next 8 years reaping the benefits of the Reagan economic reforms, while using 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as their personal cash cow/brothel. Even though the economy was good (thanks to nothing they had done), they were the most odious of individuals to have lived in those walls. But much of the public was willing to turn a blind eye to the corruption and escapades, simply because times were good. Sexual harassment of young interns? That's just a private matter. Outright corruption (Whitewater, etc.)? A vast right-wing conspiracy. And on, and on.
But the one thing the critics of the Clintons' generally had going for them was that their character, at least in the view of the public, was consistent and above reproach. Because something that has historically differentiated Republicans from Democrats is the former's unwillingness to stomach corruption within their own ranks.
When a personal scandal erupts with a politician with an (R) after their name, the other R's will typically call for them to step down and take their punishment. It goes right along with their law-and-order philosophy. And, because they tend to go overboard in this regard, this is why the GOP sometimes is called "The Stupid Party".
When a personal scandal erupts with a politician with a (D) after their name, the other D's will typically circle the wagons, blame the accusers for pointing out the obvious, and cry "foul!" until the media narrative moves on. And, because they tend to go overboard in this regard (paging Marion Berry…), this is why the Democrats are sometimes called "The Evil Party".
Now, we're on the verge of another Clinton administration. [Let's not fool ourselves. There's no way, short of an indictment, that Hillary won't win the Electoral College by a larger margin that Obama in 2008.] When that happens, only those who lived out #NeverTrump will have a leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing the corruption that inevitably follows the Clintons around, like flies in a junkyard.
All of those who voted for Trump will have white robes with varying degrees of blood on them.
Should a miracle occur and Hillary be indicted this time, we could end up with a President Trump. He has already shown his ill temperament, his raging narcissism, and lack of judgment over the last several decades, and throughout the primaries. When the rotten fruit of these fatal flaws come to bear, those whose robes have blood on them will be partially to blame, without a leg to stand on. It's not like they will have an excuse of "I didn't know he was like that when I voted for him". Except for those who have drunk the Kool-Aid, it is as plain as the sun rising in the morning.
They will be no different than the people who voted for the Clintons in the 90's, and turned a blind eye to their corruption out of reasons of economy and comfort. And they will have blood on their robes.
The Lesser of Two Evils
But if Trump is the lesser of two evils, shouldn't I support him, just to prevent the more evil of the two from getting into office?
Short answer: No.
Medium Answer: The lesser of two evils can still be quite evil.
Longer Answer: "Of two evils, choose neither." – Charles Spurgeon (and note – I am giving a positive quote of a Calvinist. That says something.) Since we are not compelled to vote – and there is no biblical instruction on "voting", because no early Christians had a say as to who Caesar was – there is nobody forcing us to choose. We can simply refuse to choose a Presidential candidate in November, or we can vote for a third-party candidate, or write in whomever we want.
Longest Answer: Trump has no moral center, aside from what is good for Donald Trump today. So, whatever policy position he wakes up with this morning, be it good or ill, there will be MUCH more pressure on the congressional Republicans to cave to his wishes (because he is supposedly "one of them") than if it was Queen Hillary proposing the same sort of nonsense.
Example: Yesterday, Donald Trump was suddenly for a higher national minimum wage (which – for the economically illiterate/ignorant – actually *hurts* the young and the poor), after months of being against it. To this point, the Republicans have ignored Obama's proposals to raise it to $9, $10, $12 or even $15 per hour. They just say "yeah, I don't think so." But if Trump were President and suddenly demanded the same thing, you know that 1) the press would have a field day with "will congressional Republicans block their own president's 'incredibly reasonable' request?"; and that 2) the surrender caucus within the GOP, that would so love to be invited to the DC cocktail circuit, would immediately cave and give Donny what he wants, lest he take to Twitter and savage them and say mean things about them.
If you don't know that this is true, you're either a) not paying attention; or b) stupid.
So, honestly, a President Hillary – for all the damage she would do, especially to the court system – would be far better (and easier) to oppose than a Demon King from our own party. This would be far more damaging than anything Herself would do, because we would be complicit in implementing the evil, and making it even more deeply-rooted, and hard to remove, from law.
To quote Alexander Hamilton:
"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures."
It is because of this that some in the #NeverTrump camp have decided on #MaybeHillary, but I think that that particular route would also be a road too far, because it would still be voting for evil, but simply to serve our own purposes.
God before Country before Party
It's kind of funny. I've been a die-hard Republican my entire life, but I have been increasingly uncomfortable with many Christians who have conflated faith with party politics, to the detriment of both. It's like we've forgotten that our church was founded under persecution, without access to any levers of power, but once it tasted political power (see: Constantine), things have never been the same. Our allegiance is first to God above country, and even then to country above party. Somewhere along the line, we bought the lie that it was the job of the government to make people – Christian or not – to live as if they were Christians (by behavior). While this might have made it more civilized, it has had unintended consequences.
It's like Rich Mullins once said to me – "the problem with pagans today is that they are just too shallow". He went on to talk about how we've domesticated the pagans and taught them, by our actions, that Christianity is about sin management and good behavior. And our demands of them have immunized them to seeing their need for a Savior.
And so it is that I've had friends in the last week question why "a good Christian man" with my "integrity" would want to do something that resulted in Hillary Clinton winning the White House.
As if God really cared or was not in control of the situation.
The truth of the matter is that Trump and Hillary are so corrupt and odious, each in their own way, that were I the deciding vote, I would abstain, and trust God to choose our poison via the flip of a coin. Why on earth would I want to get blood on my robes for supporting either one of them?
If Hillary wins, I will be able to celebrate that Trump lost (and probably in spectacular fashion). And then, in 2020, after 12 years of Democrats running the economy and society into the ground, perhaps the GOP can nominate a Christian man or woman with a sense of integrity, who should be in a position to easily turn the economy around by taking the boot of government off of the necks of the people and businesses. And in the interim, I will be able to fight against 95% of what she proposes, to minimize the damage to clean up in 2020.
If Trump wins, I will be able to celebrate the Hillary lost (and probably be on her way to jail). And then, in 2020, after 8 years of a Democrat and 4 years of an idiot savant running the economy and society into the ground, perhaps the GOP will primary the Orange One (if he hasn't already switched back to his home party) with one or two good challengers (with anyone who ever supported Trump barred from running), since by then they will be embarrassed enough by his behavior. And in the interim, I will probably be able to fight against 90% of what he proposes, because he will no longer have the need to pretend to support Republican policies.
Either way, the country will continue its path down the toilet – getting what it deserves from the leaders it has chosen – and the church will be there to help those hurt most by the decline, and – hopefully – will be less beholden to politicians in the next cycle.
What About Me?
A question I was asked: "As a Christian I would think that you would hope he succeeds. Instead you hope he fails."
My answer: "As a Christian, I would hope that the leaders we choose are people we could point to as good role models for our children, because their words and actions are Christ-like. Neither major party has nominated an individual like that." [And, in truth, if any of my kids grew up to be like Hillary or Trump, I would write them out of my will.]
As for hoping he will succeed. I will hope he succeeds as much as I hoped Obama would succeed. I would hope that he would follow a path of smaller, less intrusive government that allows its citizens to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness w/o persecuting its citizens for thought crimes. But I kind of know that he won't – the same way I knew Obama wouldn't – in which case I hope he fails spectacularly (see: Obamacare's current trajectory into a death spiral), so we don't try something/someone so stupid again.
But the GOP is the Stupid Party and the Democrats are the Evil Party, so I kind of temper my expectations accordingly.
So, before this gets WAAAY to long, I've included some final Q&A about the particulars of the view I am following and I hope that thousands of others will, as well.
Q: So who am I going to vote for?
A: If the Libertarians field a decent candidate, I will probably push hard for them, simply because a strong Libertarian party (strong enough to get invited to the debates, hopefully) will pull the GOP back towards smaller government philosophy. If I can't support the Libertarian (who will probably be Pro-Choice – but so are Trump and Hillary, so it's not like I have a choice there), I will probably write in "Mitch Daniels" or "SMOD" and get a good chuckle.
Q: If I'm pushing for #NeverTrump and #NeverHillary, why should I (or anyone who takes this position) vote at all? Isn't that just a waste of time?
A: Not at all. We need good, principled people (i.e. probably not Democrats) to win the down-ballot races to prevent/minimize the damage that a President Hillary or President Trump would inflict on the country for the next four years. Either one of them will be a disaster, and the more power they have to assert their will, free of obstruction, the worse off the country will be. So the down-ballot races matter immensely in staunching the bleeding that is going to occur.
Q: If I am #NeverTrump, am I not really just aiding Clinton? Isn't a vote for #AnybodyButTrumpOrClinton really a vote for Clinton?
A: Have you read what I wrote above? Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. Whoever wins, God will be in control, and my choosing not to support either monster allows me to sleep at night, knowing that God was in control all along, and I wasn't complicit in supporting either repugnant, repulsive candidate.
Q: Hey Chris, I supported real losers put forth by the GOP – Dole, McCain and Romney – for the good of the party. Why can't you do the same for a change of pace like Trump, for the good of the GOP?
A: God before Country before Party. I, too, held my nose and voted for Dole, McCain and Romney – even though I thought they were awful candidates. They were decent men, who (generally) supported decent policies, and who lived by a higher set of standards. Trump is an awful candidate with no moral center – besides himself – whose policies change from day-to-day, and whose lifelong inclinations, politically are anti-life, anti-freedom, pro-big-government. It should have been obvious that the quality, tenor and demeanor of the #NeverTrump crowd has been far different than those that opposed past GOP candidates. Opposing Trump, regardless of his winning the nomination, is easily a matter of principle I won't lose any sleep over.
Q: You realize that the Libertarian Candidate will probably support legalizing marijuana and prostitution, right?
A: And I will oppose those policies, though if they passed, it would not be the end of the world, because I believe that the eventual backlash against such policies would "right the ship, itself", and the coalition repealing them would not just be seen as "Christian busybodies". And either way, Trump and Clinton – even if they may not support these policies – have quite a few awful ones of their own. But, chances are, the Libertarian candidate personal character wouldn't be something I'd disown my children for emulating.
Q: What if Trump picks a good Vice-Presidential running-mate?
A: Whoever Trump chooses, if they accept his offer, is permanently barred from ever receiving my vote, because they will have shown themselves too stupid, naive, or corrupt to ever hold that office. In my heart of hearts, I hope he chooses Kasich, and that the delegates (mostly Cruz & Rubio supporters who have properly consigned Kasich to Dante's Ninth Circle of Hell) reject Kasich and stick Trump with Palin, out of spite. But that would be too much to ask for.
Q: Is there any scenario by which you would vote for the GOP presidential candidate in November?
A: Yes. If the delegates in Cleveland are allowed the exception to "vote their conscience" on the first ballot, and they choose someone other than Trump or Kasich, I'll gladly vote for the GOP candidate. Heck, since Paul Ryan surprised me today by refusing to endorse Trump – the presumptive nominee – I'd love to see Ryan nominated. The very fact that he would be good in the office, but is not seeking it, is a big plus in my book. Or, if a strong subset of delegates walks out and holds an alternate convention that includes Indiana, I will vote for their candidate.
And so on.
Feel free to post any more questions in the comments, and I'll be glad to answer them (and maybe add them to the end of this post, if they're good enough).
Grace and peace to you.
EDIT: Cleaned up a bit of the language (feedback from the Mrs.), and corrected some typos.


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GoTo Series – Post 1 – screen shots on Building a GoTo
I have not been posting for a while, partially because I have been working (Stuck?) on a comprehensive series of posts about building Go To's with advice and examples for most common screens… let's just say that it has been a learning experience!
My first step was to google what was out in the blog sphere and newsgroups… and let me just say, many of you are rather frustrated by trying to build Go to's. I have to agree… sometimes I have been perplexed too on how to make a Go To work.
One great post I found was a step-by-step look at building a pretty complex Go To – the Checkbook Register Inquiry by the Dynamics Blogger:
Check it out! Next post I will dive into basic rules for adding Go To's.
Make a GREAT list – checklist for Field Formating (common things to check)
I started this post 4 months ago, but never finished it. In doing some Builder research for another post I stumbled across a blog from another SmartList Lover, Sara Corbett. Her post SmartList Builder Etiquette is in the same vein as this post, but, interestingly, she lists different items than I do. Compare the two posts and comment on what you think is important for a Great list…
What is the difference between a good SmartList and a great SmartList? In my opinion, it is often in the details – mostly the Formating details. Here is a handy checklist of common things to check:
- Field formating — press the blue arrow in the header left of Display Name to launch the field settings:
- Note Index fields – check the box to pull the Note text
- All Account Index fields – check the box to pull the Account Number
- Phone & Fax numbers – select the dropdown for the Phone number formating
- Social Security numbers – select the dropdown for Social Security formating
- Date fields – check the box to display 1/1/1900 as a blank (also can change the date formating, too)
- Fields from SQL Views – make sure you turn off the $ on quantity fields and add % for percentage fields
- Set Decimal places – especially for fields stored in GP as integers but displayed with decimals in GP (like the Shipping Weight on the Item master is stored as 100 where it is really 1.00, HR module stores most hour totals this way.)
- Field Display Names – Add field names from the setup for user defined fields. On most Maintenance ("Card") tables (yes, you have to type these EVERY time you add these tables, sorry!) Look for "User Defined"
- Dropdown Fields – make sure you enter values – See Drop Down Lists in SmartList Builder
- Look for fields that will appear more than one on the final list, especially fields that will have different data from the various tables. Consider turning off the Display checkbox, or at least, changing the Display name for some fields.
Also don't forget to add useful Go To's!
Happy Building!
How to get data in separate columns rather than rows in SmartList Builders (Aging, Sales by Months, etc)
This has been on my list of things to blog about – but when I saw this post in the Forums, I knew its time had come:
I have a client who is attempting to create a Sales report which shows sales by Customer. They want the report to include a separate column for each month – based on Document Date. I have attempted to create a calculation for each month (If/Then) but either don't have the syntax correct or it is truly not going to work.
WHEN {{Sales Transaction History:Document Date} >1/1/2017…
Any ideas?????
This is something that seems to have become a very popular request in the last few years and I have always coded it in SQL. Since it requires a 'group by' in SQL code, I can't imagine being able to do this in SmartList Builder. I would recommend coding this in a SQL view and basing the SmartList on that view.
I would differ 🙂 … This is easily accomplished in SmartList Builder:
First – Add a calculated field for each column of data
- In this scenario, one for each month – use the Month function to test:
for January:
CASE WHEN MONTH({Sales Transaction History:Document Date})=1 then {Sales Transaction History:Originating Document Amount} ELSE 0 END
and so on…
- For a list with aging in columns (inventory, AR or AP)
for example – the calculation for the "31-60 days" bucket for AR by Document Date:
DATEADD ( d , -30, GETDATE() ) > {RM Open File:Document Date} AND
DATEADD ( d , -60, GETDATE() ) <= {RM Open File:Document Date}
(CASE WHEN {RM Open File:RM Document Type-All} > 6
THEN -{RM Open File:Current Trx Amount}
{RM Open File:Current Trx Amount}
- For other types of data – like quantities on hand – with Sites in columns, here is the calculation for the North site column:
CASE WHEN {Item Quantity Master:Location Code}='NORTH' then {Item Quantity Master:QTY On Hand}
Next, unselect as Display any fields you don't want to group by (or sum).
In the scenario above we would want Year to be a group by field (or we will get all sales in January in history!). So add a calculated field for year (Users can do a search filter on this field when running the list):
YEAR({Sales Transaction History:Document Date})
Now use the Options icon on the top to make this into a Summary SmartList – the way to "group by" in Builders. Select all of your column calculated fields as Summary type "Sum" , your other fields as "Group by" and, in the words of my daughter, "There you go!"
Learn more about summary SmartLists in my post: Summary SmartLists in Builder (Sales by Item for a date range, etc)
Happy Building!
PS – My apologies and thanks to the ladies on the original forum post!

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Kicevo is a town of 30,000 inhabitants in the west of Macedonia. Ethnic Macedonians make up the majority of the population with 53.5 percent, while Albanians constitute a significant minority of 30.5 percent (2002 Census). Despite its ethnic mix, the town remained peaceful during the 2001 conflict, building on decades of peaceful co-existence. The different socio-economic histories of the two ethnic groups in Kicevo, however, give a good deal of insight into the underlying structural factors behind the armed conflict in 2001.
Under Yugoslav socialism the authorities consciously pursued a policy of promoting urbanisation and the creation of industrial centres. The little town of Kicevo saw its population explode, as workers migrated from rural areas in search of jobs in the new socialist industrial enterprises. The town also gained a number of public institutions, including branches of ministries, public utility companies, schools, and a 4,000-strong Yugoslav army barracks. These provided additional employment opportunities for educated Macedonians.
The Albanians of the region – looked down on by middle-class ethnic Macedonians for their relative lack of education – were largely excluded from jobs in both industry and the public sector. Most Albanians in Kicevo and the surrounding villages completed no more than primary education. Since Macedonian dominated as the language of instruction in secondary and tertiary education, they were at a natural disadvantage.
With the route to formal employment largely closed off, many ethnic Albanians migrated in search of better prospects abroad. The remittances sent by these migrants became an important source of income for Albanian families in Kicevo. Conservative estimates of remittances sent in 2002 to the Kicevo area put the figure at € 16 million per year – more than the combined salaries of ethnic Macedonians employed in socially owned enterprises and the public sector.
Migrants also contribute economically by returning in the summer months, boosting the revenue of small Albanian businesses. Many come back to get married, a phenomenon that has caused reception halls and shops selling wedding gowns to spring up all over the Albanian quarter.
The collapse of Socialist Yugoslavia exposed Kicevo's industries to a new economic environment, in which only a few could keep afloat. Economic transition brought about a painful process of deindustrialisation. Of 6,600 jobs in socialist enterprises in 1989, only half remained by 2002. A further 465 jobs had been lost by 2006. With some companies threatened by bankruptcy and many overstaffed and inefficient, this process is likely to continue. The development of the private sector, a key element of transition, has not really taken place. Between 2002 and 2005 a small construction company was the only production company with more than 10 workers to be launched in Kicevo. Those that had existed prior to 2002 were all experiencing financial difficulties three years later.
Ethnic Macedonians are the hardest hit by Kicevo's deindustrialisation. Albanians had for the most part been excluded from such jobs and came to be economically dependent on remittances from abroad rather than official employment at home. Ethnic Macedonians seem to have been unable to take this route, partly due to the lack of a Macedonian community abroad that would have facilitated emigration. The decline of industry has left middle class families in Kicevo with only one alternative – employment in the public sector. It is precisely for this reason that the Ohrid Agreement's provisions on "equitable representation" in the public sector have become so sensitive an issue among Kicevo's ethnic communities.
In 2001, when the Ohrid Agreement was signed, Albanians were still vastly underrepresented in Kicevo's state administration. Leaving aside education, which was ethnically balanced for reasons of language, only about 15 percent of jobs in the Kicevo area were held by Albanians (though Albanians comprised 50 percent of the local population). In the town of Kicevo the figure was less than 10 percent. Redressing this imbalance by increasing public sector employment – which might have already been too high as it were – was impossible due to public-finance constraints. Public sector jobs for Albanians thus had to come at the cost of the already beleaguered ethnic Macedonian community.
In some respects, Kicevo can be seen as a success story. In the years since the Ohrid agreement was signed, the share of Albanians in the state administration has significantly increased. In 2002 there were three Albanians in important administrative positions in Kicevo; by autumn 2005 there were over 20. Even as overall employment declined, the number of Albanians on the payroll of the police force, the hospital, and the local schools increased. Inasmuch as they hurt the economic prospects for the ethnic Macedonian community, the changes did not provoke a major public outcry.
Nevertheless, the economic outlook for Kicevo remains bleak. The slow demise of socialist industries has not been offset by a new, dynamic private sector. Emigration, traditionally a valve for large scale unemployment and a source of income, has become more difficult due to the EU's immigration policies. Remittances from the Albanian community living abroad have generally not led to productive investments in the area. Only when Kicevo's ethnic groups share in the development of new prospects, rather than grumble over the division of scraps from its socialist inheritance, will the structural causes of conflict be resolved.
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Where tape belongs
Ignore the industry babble about whether tape is dead or not: Tape is here to stay. But with the advantages of new low-cost disk systems--especially for fast restoration--tape's role in backup will likely change. The upshot: You'll likely be using your libraries differently.
Supporting data-driven scientific research is always a challenge for storage managers. That's something that Timothy Belfield has discovered first-hand.
A senior technical analyst with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (DDPSC), in St. Louis, Belfield's team of four technical engineers has built and maintained a storage strategy to support the ever-increasing needs of some 200 researchers studying health-related plants, plant nutrition, disease resistance, novel bio-based products and tropical agricultural biotechnology.
Given the rapid growth in biotechnology research in recent years, data is being generated with increasing frequency and volume. What began as a modest amount of data at DDPSC's founding in 2001 has quickly blossomed into a full terabyte of data that's continuing to expand.
Data is stored on a storage area network (SAN) consisting of a 1.5TB Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) StorageWorks Enterprise Modular Array 1200 system, three HP SAN switches, four HP HSG80 controllers, three HP MSL5026SL tape libraries, HP StorageWorks Modular Data Routers and 25 ProLiant DL380 servers. The environment includes a hodgepodge of operating systems and it supports business applications such as SQL Server 2000 and Exchange Server 2000.
Like most companies, DDPSC relies on tape to back up its critical data. But with data changing and growing so frequently, Belfield says, tape is struggling to keep up and has pushed the organization's backup window out to nearly four days. This is a constant source of frustration for the team, who would ideally like to see full backups completed in less than a weekend.
It's becoming increasingly clear that reaching their goal may never be possible using tape, and that is driving Belfield to consider alternatives.
"The amount of data we're backing up is growing, growing, growing, and our backup window is growing daily," he says. "For us, tape is the best now, but we never know exactly what we should be looking for in speed. If we can't get the backup window to come down, we'd have to look at disk. IDE disks would be a little slower than SCSI, but a lot faster than tape."
Although its primacy as a backup medium was unchallenged for decades, the plummeting cost of disk drives and the sheer bulk of data now being backed up in the average business have highlighted tape's major weakness: It's a slow backup medium. Each generation of tape technology provides faster performance, but those tapes still work the same way--by physically moving the tape past a read/write head with either linear or helical data streams.
This makes tape use a heavily mechanical process that still depends on getting a constant stream of information from the servers it's backing up. In today's high-performance network-attached storage (NAS) and SAN environments, ensuring this exclusive access can be downright difficult. It's an issue that quickly leads to tape problems as networks become flooded with backup data and tape performance slows, thanks to undue numbers of tape rewinds. "You're constantly fighting with tape and the drive itself," says Belfield. And those problems just refer to backup--not restores.
Disk to disk to tape
With the advent of less-expensive ATA disk, Gartner Inc. is now advising users to use cheaper disk technologies as a cache buffer between primary disk and tape. Nick Allen, Gartner's vice president and research director, says: "With multiterabyte tape on the horizon, tape should be used primarily for archiving." (See "Backup and restore recommendations")
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The relatively recent boost in tape capacities and vendors' road maps for their tape product families suggest tape will continue to cost less than enterprise disks by roughly a factor of 50 or more for the foreseeable future. Even ATA disk-based subsystems will remain roughly 10 times more expensive than modern tape. These estimates assume that the tape environment is completely automated, and these calculations assume 100% utilization of the media.
Source: Gartner Inc.
In other words, cheap disks aren't going to replace tape, just tape's role in the backup and restore process. Quantum Corp., whose DLTtape range of tapes now fits from 80GB to 320GB of compressed data on a cartridge, last year enumerated a storage road map, taking its first major step with the recent release of SDLT 600, which pushes per-cartridge capacity to 600GB with transfer rates of 64MB/s. By 2006, Quantum expects to extend its linear Super DLT technology to squeeze 2.4TB onto a tape.
For its part, the HP/IBM/-Seagate-backed LTO Ultrium technology anticipates an 18- to 24-month generational cycle, with the format's capacity due to expand from the 400GB of today's Ultrium-2 to approximately 800GB in the next generation, and 1.6TB after that.
The other major high-end tape solution--Sony's helical-scan Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT)--is currently lagging its competitors at around 260GB capacity, but it is getting a facelift. In February, OEMs received the first shipments of first-generation SAIT-1 drives, which compress 1.3TB on a half-inch tape and promise up to 10.4TB before the format hits its limitations around 2010. Sony proudly proclaims that OEMs will build SAIT-1 libraries in configurations of up to 1,000 cartridges capable of storing 1.3 petabytes of data (see "Tape road maps").
The tape-SAN challenge
As tapes hold more data, customers are finding that tape presents a new set of problems when it's introduced into increasingly high-speed SAN environments. Underlying the problem is the fact that tape, with its roots as a one-to-one server-attached device, doesn't generally play well with devices in the SAN. It expects a continuous stream of data, and if that stream is interrupted, it will issue a SCSI interrupt, stop the tape, rewind and continue again.
This interruption can cause major problems for a Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) SAN--even when FC-attached tape libraries are being used--because the break will invoke a loop initialization primitive (LIP) call that suspends the entire SAN until attached devices are detected and port addresses reallocated. This could also be a problem if slow servers mean the fast-moving tapes get ahead of themselves and have to pause and rewind to compensate for the interruption in data flow. Although FC-AL SANs have become less common with the shift to SAN switching, tape-disk contention must still be addressed to eliminate potential hiccups.
Another potential source of problems is from the configuration of tape within the SAN: Sharing a host bus adapter (HBA) between tape and servers can throttle back performance when contention for the HBA becomes an issue. Spend the extra dollars to get a second HBA just for tape, then consider a third, redundant HBA to make sure the servers have enough bandwidth. Many customers use SAN zoning to link tape and server resources.
"Vendors will claim you can configure an HBA for both disk and tape, but usually you get conflicting parameters and more often than not, you'll have problems," says John Verdonik, director of professional services with storage integrator CNT, in Minneapolis. "Contention issues become apparent when you're connected to a SAN. People have expectations of throughput, but in reality we have to choose to get that throughput."
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The disk-to-tape shuffle
Whether they're too fast or too slow, tapes present a challenge for users migrating their data onto high-speed SANs. Over the past year, however, they've gotten a new option with the rise of storage arrays designed specifically for online backup, which feature scads of slow IDE disks and often support tape control languages so they can appear to the network as nothing but a fast tape drive. Some market leaders are Network Appliance's NearStore R100 (from 12TB to 96TB) and R150 (offering 12TB or 24TB each), Quantum's DX30 (3TB of RAID5 storage) and StorageTek's BladeStore (from 4TB to 160TB).
Deciding how much disk to add to existing tape drives requires intuition and experimentation (see "ATA disk outperforms tape"). It's important to consider, for example, how much data needs to be online and available all the time, or how much simply needs to be put onto tape and archived for legal reasons. Trying to keep everything on disk will soon prove frustratingly difficult, but putting it there with the intention to eventually move it to tape can provide much-needed flexibility.
In most cases, such disk arrays are being positioned not as replacements for tape but as a sort of staging area to be interjected between the production environment and tape. Using conventional snapshot techniques, data can be quickly duplicated and then backed up at the user's convenience: "We could make a copy to disk," says DDPSC's Belfield, "then back up that copy [to tape] and, if it took a week, it wouldn't be an issue because we'd still have a copy of it."
It's also possible to replicate the slow-fast duality of a tape-disk solution using tape exclusively. StorageTek, for one, balances speed and capacity between its 9840, which stores 20GB per cartridge and offers four-second load times and 12-second average seeks; and the 9940, which offers 60GB or 200GB uncompressed per cartridge, but has an 18-second load time and 51-second seeks.
If you need to support hierarchical storage management (HSM), you could easily install both to provide a tape-only infrastructure in which data is moved to fast tape first, then transferred onto the slower cartridges for archiving. Disparities between the performance of installed tape drives become irrelevant, however, when a near-line disk is added to the mix.
The approach you choose depends on your performance needs and backup windows. "[With tape] you still have the benefits of a much lower-cost storage medium than a disk system," says Pam Baker, advisory systems integration engineer with StorageTek, in Louisville, CO. "Yet near-line storage has added another option for customers to choose from; it can provide a fast-access buffer that provides enhanced functionality in the overall backup architecture."
|ATA disk outperforms tape
Try to use less-costly disk technologies as a cache buffer between primary disk and tape.
Source: Gartner Inc.
Disk alone won't a comprehensive backup strategy make, however. Effectively making use of near-line backup requires a tool such as StorageTek's EchoView, a journaling storage monitor that provides a continuous backup allowing for restores to any point in time. Such capabilities will rapidly work their way into enterprise storage management solutions as near-line disk becomes even more pervasive among customers.
Ultimately, the performance and accessibility of disk is likely to find it a role in even the most tape-intensive environment. That's what happened to Data Base File Tech (DBFT) Group of British Columbia, Canada. The managed backup service provider recently installed a Quantum DX30 to provide better performance (compared with tape) when backing up and restoring as many as 20 customer servers at the same time.
"We wanted to run remote, but tapes require someone to be onsite all the time," says Maurice Auger, director of operations with DBFT. "Tapes do not have the throughput required to do that unless you have great libraries with caching systems on them. But disks are designed to look like tapes, and the software we're using, which runs best on tape libraries, ran almost flawlessly the first time. Overall, we're seeing in the order of a 4x speed improvement, and this gives the customer high availability of their data any time they want it. If we'd backed up to tape, we would probably have to get involved [in the restore]--but this way we don't."
Whatever the motivations for their embracing of disk, analysts are widely convinced that customers will increasingly flock to disk, while retaining tape as an offline archival method. Speaking last month at Gartner's "PlanetStorage 2003" conference in Las Vegas, Gartner vice president Bob Passmore proclaimed that increasingly efficient incremental backup techniques would combine with improved snapshots, mirroring and disaster recovery features to make disk the primary medium for data restores by 2008.
By then, however, current data growth figures will suggest that data will have grown to many times its current size. Tape will always be priced lower than disk (see "Cost comparison: 10TB of capacity"), and it can be transported to vaults.
Says Andrew Senior, president of tape solutions provider Avax International, of Erin, Ontario: "Tape is a nice, cheap way of keeping large amounts of data stored off-site. If you don't have sufficient historical copies, then you're dead. Tape is going to hang around for a long time."


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We like to think of Acura as Honda's sexier sister. She's got the brains, she's got the body, and an engine that will really move you. She's the girl you wish you were dating.
In 1986, Acura debuted in the US as the first Japanese luxury car brand. Owned by Honda, Acura built a platform of vehicles around aggressive design, an engine with some muscle, and the latest technology, Acura continues to be a top luxury import for the savvy consumer. Acura also performs well in several motorsport circuits, a heritage they used to deliver their own supercar, the NSX. Innovation is the name of the game, a game Acura plays with style.
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February 16, 2015
Acura has gone a long way in revitalizing its lineup with the 2015 TLX, an entry-level luxury sport sedan which offers great value for its competitive price.
September 28, 2014
Those looking to enter the luxury sports sedan market should check out the new 2015 Acura TLX, boasting smart styling, lavish interior and superb handling.
February 18, 2014
The third-generation Acura MDX raises the bar with performance, class-leading fuel economy, innovative features and signature Acura technologies.
June 5, 2013
The 2013 Acura MDX is a family-friendly vehicle that's loaded with all the amenities you'd expect from today's luxury CUVs.
February 14, 2013
The winding roads of Napa Valley were the perfect place to test Acura's impressive flagship luxury sedan, the new RLX.
October 24, 2012
The newly redesigned 2013 Acura RDX is an elegant and sporty luxury crossover with more to offer than just good looks.
October 3, 2012
The 2013 Acura ILX Tech combines cutting edge design with superior quality to deliver a solid entry level luxury sedan.
May 9, 2012
If you enjoy the finer things in life without having to overpay, you'll love the 2012 Acura TSX as much as we did.
April 23, 2012
Acura's newest edition of the RDX addresses all the quirks of the last model and delivers a better driving experience as a result.
April 23, 2012
The new ILX is a mature step up from mass-market brands, but it's held back by several annoying compromises.
September 22, 2011
The 2012 Acura TL is a quick and powerful sport sedan that will put a smile on your face as soon as you get behind the wheel.
Sites worth visiting
At Acura's official homepage, you'll find all the basics for Acura ownership. They've also got an inside look at two of their latest concepts, complete with design notes and development pictures. As always, they deliver the goods in a sleek package.
Acura Motorsports
From the Grand-Am to the prototype circuit, check out the drivers, the cars, and complete race schedules for any class. With a nice breakdown of the rules and restrictions for each circuit, this is a great place to get a general understanding of the Acura racing scene.
Acura at Wikipedia
Everyone's favorite free encyclopedia gives us the play-by-play on Acura model releases and brand history. This page also has some nice info on Acura motorsports, particularly concerning her racing partnerships.
Around the Blogosphere
Acura at Autoblog
The guys at Autoblog know just what we love to see. With reports on Acura's latest tech and spy shots of that new TSX, they're always on top of the hottest news. Find the cutting-edge here, before it hits the streets.
Acura at Automotive.com
Automotive.com takes a consumer approach to blogging about Acura. With less about the newest news, and more about informing buyers, you'll find features on next-year's models and comparisons with other luxury automakers. This is a good read if you're looking into an Acura for the first time.
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This blog is dedicated to all things Honda. You're sure to find the latest news updates from the Tokyo Auto Show, SEMA, and anywhere else Acura sees fit to bless us with concept cars and model updates.
Community Sites
Acura World
This site has everything you could want from a community site. They have several news feeds, a great forum population, and fairly limited advertising. With threads dedicated to all our favorite Acura models, you can't leave disappointed or uninformed.
What this site lacks in organization, it makes up for in pure community power. With more than a hundred-thousand active members, there are plenty of posts on tuning, quick fixes, and anything else you might need. Be ready to dig a bit for the links, but you won't walk away empty handed.
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Another site with a great member base. Acura Forum has threads dedicated to every model type, along with a classifieds section and an events listing organized by region. This is what online communities are all about.
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Testing the New TSX
The SPEED Channel has spotted the new TSX testing on the road. Their brief article has some performance highlights, most notably the potential for a TSX type S. Could you say no to a sports sedan that looked so good?
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The guys at Temple of Vtec picked up some Japanese mags with the most recent info we've seen on the new NSX. Are the design photos legit? Still seem as though no one knows whether Acura will stick with the V-10 that's been promised for so long.


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Frederick Grinnell is a Professor of Cell Biology and founder of the Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. His new book, Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic, is an insider's view of real-life scientific practice. Grinnell demystifies the textbook model of a linear "scientific method," suggesting instead a contextual understanding of science. In the post below Grinnell looks at conflict-of-interest in scientific research.
On April 8, 2009, Science magazine interviewed John Holdren, presidential science adviser and head of the White House Office of Science and Technology in the Obama Administration.
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The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
I first heard about The Shining Girls from the Big Idea feature on John Scalzi's blog, and was immediately drawn to the aspects of the story that attracted the author, Lauren Beukes. Sometimes that's enough for me, finding out what interests a person. The way they're going to take the story. The premise was also pretty unique. The Shining Girls is a story of a time traveling serial killer being tracked by the one victim that got away. It's a solid idea, bringing to mind images of the first episode of the relaunched Doctor Who, except the mysterious figure in all those historical documents is a cold blooded killer instead of the timey-wimey dandy we all know and love. I also appreciated what Beukes said in her article about the violence, her focus straying away from, but not avoiding, the killer (who usually holds our attention) to include the lives of the victims. We're so used to the detective story, the serial killer story (both traditionally male narratives) that we tend to disregard the story of the victim (predominantly female) except as motivation for the detective. Dead girls are something that gets the story rolling. They're not the story itself. The Shining Girls redresses that.
So I picked it up. Took a look at the praise on the back cover and read a quote from Matt Haig that compared The Shining Girls to Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. Which was great news for me. I loved The Time Traveler's Wife, and keeping that in mind while reading I saw where those parallels could be drawn. Before I go into my thoughts about the story (which will also include spoilers for Niffenegger's novel), I want to say that The Shining Girls is pretty damn good. The characters are solid and well drawn. Beuke has definite skill for the short form of chapters, as sometimes this is all one of victims gets before she is dispatched. In five to ten pages, Beuke manages to cram in a life. Hopes and dreams and the guttering pain of it all being snatched away. Not an easy feat. I found slight pacing problems in the middle but all of that came together in a page turning third act. I'll go a long way for a solid ending, and The Shining Girls certainly delivers that. The violence is properly violent, so know that going in if that's something you avoid. If that's not a problem then I'd definitely recommend it. There's enough going on here that it's worth the walk.
Recommendation aside, here are some more structural thoughts on the book (spoilers):
1) While Beuke's strength lies in the short form of chapters, I didn't find the same sort of skill played out across the whole arc of the novel. It's a tricky thing, though, and with so many character perspectives and jumps in time, I'm not sure how you'd accomplish that. Each chapter in The Shining Girls takes place from a different perspective, while focusing primarily on Harper, the killer, and his surviving victim, Kirby. The other chapters are dedicated to Kirby's mentor, Dan, and the other 'shining girls' that Harper is after. While yes, these chapters do allow us a much needed glimpse into the lives of the victims, it's hard to keep the narrative momentum going with all the interruptions.
I kept finding myself thinking about The Time Traveler's Wife and how that was structured. In a similar way, it goes back and forth on perspective, showing the different sides of the relationship in an out-of-order chronology. But I never felt the narrative lose steam in the same way I did with The Shining Girls, perhaps because the arc of the story was their relationship. How they came together and how they inevitably came apart. Despite the hops through time, we were reading their relationship in a linear way. The Shining Girls has some of this in that there's a murder attempt followed by a detective story that culminates in a confrontation, but it kept losing me. The drive of the mystery kept getting interrupted. I couldn't keep the dates straight. As reference points go, they were just numbers, whereas in The Time Traveller's Wife the reference points were places and specific moments. The museum, the accident that took his mother, the place he worked, the place they met. I don't need the year when I know how old they were, etc.
All of this said, I'm not sure what I could suggest to fix this problem that I have with the main arc other than perhaps to reverse the order of how the characters appear. Harper appears first in the book and seems to take up more real estate than Kirby throughout. If this is a story about Kirby's survival and her solving the mystery, would it work better if there was a lot less Harper? What if we get the brutality of the attack and then go back and forth between all the 'shining girls'? What if Harper doesn't get his own chapters? What would that change? Would that make him more terrifying? I kind of think it would.
2) Harper travels through time after finding the key to The House. The House can transport him anywhere in a 60 year range. It also has a room with all the artifacts that lead him to the girls he has to kill. There's some confusion about who is pushing who that's never resolved. Is the House actually Harper? They're connected, but how? I kept wanting rules to the time travel, a basic framework that Harper figures out through using it, but it never manifested. Something in line of the inscape explanations Joe Hill gives for his characters in NOS4A2. His motivations for traveling through time and murdering these girls is fairly amorphous. He's driven by compulsion, but it's vague. Which is fine if he draws closer and closer to understanding over the course of the novel, but he doesn't. He's trapped within a system that he can't explain, it seems, and I found that ultimately unsatisfying.
There's a lot to like in The Shining Girls. Time travel stories are difficult at the best of times. There was one moment towards the end of the book where Kirby's mother mentions in the same breath that Kirby should be looking for her father's identity instead of her killer's that had me terrified we were going down that well worn path. Thankfully, Beuke's never does anything so predictable. The Shining Girls is a solid read that is very much it's own story instead of a rehash of something you've already read. If you haven't already, give it a go.


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Category : Dissertation.
Topic : How to write a french dissertation. Author : Robbins.
Posted : Sat, Jan 18th 2020 16:26 PM.
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A masters dissertation proposal is sort of like your check list for making sure you include all you need when writing a dissertation. The proposal is basically an outline that provides the foundation you will base your dissertation upon. Without a well-prepared dissertation proposal, you will likely not have a well-written dissertation. This is why it is important to know how to write a Masters dissertation proposal that will bring you success with your final dissertation.


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By Robbie Chulick, '13
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Experts and alumni in stock portfolio management will host a daylong boot camp for students involved St. Bonaventure University's Students in Money Management (SIMM) program on Friday.
Dr. Jim Mahar, associate professor of finance and SIMM director, said the boot camp is a series of interactive lectures to get SIMM students ready to manage their stock portfolios this year.
SIMM was founded in 2004 after Christopher Kinslow, '85, donated $30,000 to start the fund. To date, SIMM's investments in long only equity/fixed income and energy hedge funds are worth almost $500,000.
Pat Dugan, an MBA graduate student and chief operations officer of SIMM, said getting involved with the organization was very beneficial to his professional development.
"SIMM at SBU allows students to gain practical knowledge of financial markets, and it allows students to gain an appreciation of how the markets work," Dugan said.
Friday's boot camp will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the SIMM conference room located in the basement of the Reilly Center.
Speakers at this Friday's boot camp include four St. Bonaventure graduates:
Also participating will be David Rakus of Olean Capital Management.
For anyone unable to make the boot camp, the lectures will be streamed live on SIMMs website, www.bonasimm.org.
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Held June 10, July 8, Aug. 12, Sept. 9 and Oct. 14.
Pickers Outlet Mall is a new 5,000 square foot building located on the busy Herrin Road (1.5 miles west of I-57). The mall can accommodate about 43 vendors. It is set-up like an antique mall, but has more to offer than antiques. It is a fun place to shop where the merchandise is changing daily.
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Open area with both indoor buildings and outdoor displays. Special events are held here nearly every weekend, including the famous Kane County Flea Market.
VILLE:St. Charles
Visit this flea market that is famous for wonderful bargains on everything from tires and tools, to fresh produce and clothing. The market is a Chicago tradition that's held every Sunday.
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds & Exposition Center
Home to the annual St. Clair County Fair, several craft shows and monthly flea markets, the complex also includes the Belle-Clair Speedway, with stock car races and demolition derbies.
The annual Lake County Fair runs for five days beginning the last Wednesday in July. The Expo Building is available for rent for meetings, shows, weddings, and events year-round. Monthly events including Antique Shows, Swap Meet, Crafts Shows, Dog and Horse Shows, and much more. Visit the website for event schedule.
The Homestead Flea Market may be small, but it makes up for it with the quantity of merchandise available. This shop is full of treasures from antiques to handmade folk art. There is literally something for everyone - home, kids, and adults - at this multifaceted store. Hours: Daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Home of Winnebago County Fair, considered one of the best county fairs in the Midwest, plus The Pec Thing, a huge semi-annual flea market and antiques fair with acres of vendors inside and out. Various racing organizations use the Fairgrounds track for racing events.
Authentic, mix-with-the-Amish experience. Auctions held at Vernon Yoder's farm near Arcola.
Chicagoland's largest and most modern indoor/outdoor Flea Market. Everything from unusual, new, used, hard to find and everyday items, all at bargain prices!
Located in the only Victorian home in Grafton Harrison's Antiques and Gifts features seven rooms crammed full of antiques and collectibles. Plan to spend several hours browsing through the home and flea market located in the garage.
Antiques, collectibles, vintage clothing and used clothing are all available at this resale/antique shop located in historic Grafton on the riverfront. Hours: Monday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Tuesday - Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Thursday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and Saturday - Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Lincoln Square Shopping Center's Farmers Market. Come early for best selection! Located North of JC Penney's. Occurs June through October.
Located next to Toys R Us, this pickers paradise is 10,000 square feet of antiques, collectibles, vintage, retro and fun stuff! 75 dealers. Open 7 days week! Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 11-5.
Sunday at Sandwich Antique Market
This market made Country Living Magazine's top 24 Antique markets in the country! Monthly market (May-October) produced by seasoned antiques dealers with a focus on quality antiques, collectibles and crafts. Contact Info: Mary (309) 310-3596 or Maureen (847) 321-1712.
The perfect combination of great collectibles, seasonal items and great food. On the main street of West Frankfort. Only 10 miles south of Rend Lake.
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Shop in one location. The consignment shops offer quality merchandise including antiques, hard to find collectibles, tools, memorabilia, furniture, clothing and more. The Market offers items of value for your home and family, clothing, jewelry, gifts, food, electronics, crafts and more. Plus taste the treats at the food court which features Cimino's Little Italy. The kids can also enjoy a place to play while the family browses and shops the stores.
A shop featuring new and old vintage, cottage, re-purposed, primitive, and coastal home decor.
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URSP 708 Community Planning Studio
Catalog Description
The studio course simulates the practice of planning in a real-world setting. It provides an opportunity for students to learn through doing, with faculty providing guidance rather than instruction, building on the students' previously-acquired knowledge, skills, and ability. Additional learning-which may include invited speakers, discussions, and library research-may be needed to further the project, but the format is more like on-the-job training than a lecture, seminar or laboratory class. Because each studio deals with dynamics outside the classroom, and because it involves group interaction, each is a unique experience. Even with the most careful preparation, unanticipated things may happen in the course of a project; learning to deal with them is part of the studio experience.
At least 18 credits of coursework completed, including URSP600, URSP601, URSP604, and URSP605. For some projects, additional prerequisites may be required. Approaches and techniques previously learned in class are applied to a real-world planning problem. Teams collect and analyze information, develop plans, publish a report, and make presentations.


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Fresh-picked from our Garden Party collection. Feminine floral patterns and spirited sentiments.
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The following are the remarks as prepared for delivery by Ted and Pat Oparowski. The actual remarks may differ.
Ted and Pat Oparowski
(Remarks as Prepared for Delivery)
August 30, 2012
Good evening, folks.
My wife and I are people of modest means. I made my living as a professional firefighter for 27 years.
Prior to moving to Randolph, Vermont, we lived in Medford, Massachusetts. It was there where we met Mitt Romney and his family.
It has been over 30 years since we lost our son, David. The memories are still vivid and painful. But we wanted to share them with you because David's story is part of Mitt's story.
And America deserves to hear it.
Back in the early 1970s, Mitt visited our home numerous times with his oldest son, Tagg, tagging along. He was in the vanguard of our support system when we received the news that no parent is prepared to confront.
You cannot measure a man's character based on words he utters before adoring crowds during happy times. The true measure of a man is revealed in his actions during times of trouble. The quiet hospital room of a dying boy, with no cameras and no reporters – that is the time to make an assessment.
In 1979, tragedy struck our family when our youngest son, David, age 14, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Over a period of seven months, he was in and out of Children's Hospital in Boston for treatment. Throughout that agonizing period, Mitt took time from his busy schedule to visit David. They developed a loving friendship.
On one of his visits, Mitt discovered that David was very fond of fireworks. He went out and bought a box full of "BIG TIME" fireworks that had to sit on the closet shelf because they couldn't be set off in the city. We waited until we were able to go to Ogunquit, Maine, where we set them off on the sand dunes – with permission from the fire and police departments.
Through that simple but thoughtful gift, Mitt brought joy to a young boy who hadn't experienced any for too long. He also gave the rest of us a welcome release.
On another visit, David, knowing Mitt had gone to law school at Harvard, asked Mitt if he would help him write a will. He had some prized possessions he wanted to make sure were given to his closest friends and family.
The next time Mitt went to the hospital, he was equipped with his yellow legal pad and pen. Together, they made David's will. That is a task that no child should ever have to do. But it gave David peace of mind.
So, after David's death, we were able to give his skate board, his model rockets, and his fishing gear to his best friends. He also made it clear that his brother, Peter, should get his Ruger 22 rifle.
How many men do you know would take the time out of their busy lives to visit a terminally ill 14 year old and help him settle his affairs?
David also helped us plan his funeral. He wanted to be buried in his Boy Scout uniform. He wanted Mitt to pronounce his eulogy. Mitt was there to honor that request. We will be ever grateful to Mitt for his love and concern.


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Does anyone know anything about the origin of this chess set? It is made of solid brass/verdigris finish. It has a modern Picasso-esque quality to it, but also has primitive overtones of Easter Island (the pawns), as well as ancient Greece (ie. the "rooks" are corinthian columns).


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Our 10 oz Sunset candles are meant for medium-sized spaces like dens, dining rooms, and coffee tables. Burns for 50-60 hours. 3" in diameter and 4.375" in height.
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The Chicago Fire and San Jose Earthquakes weren't the first teams to debut on the Toyota Park pitch in 2010, rather it was the Fire's Academy side who took on the United States U-17 national team Saturday afternoon leading into the first team's home opener that night.
In contrast to the professional's result, the mixed side of U16 and U18 Fire Academy players thoroughly dominated the national youth selection, making good use of the pristine pitch in their 4-0 victory.
Spending the first 10 minutes feeling each other out, Fire striker Chris Prince began to flex his muscle up top, continuously stretching the U.S. backline. On 13 minutes, Fire winger Emanuel Guzman cut in from the right and centered a low cross to Prince, whose effort trickled just wide left of Wade Hamilton's goal.
Hooking up again in the 20th minute, the two found success when Guzman sent a dangerous cross from the right inside the six. Prince beat Hamilton to the ball, flicking a header to the opposite post and giving the Fire a 1-0 lead.
Dominating in possession, the Fire tested Hamilton twice more before the interval. First in the 28th minute when midfielder Victor Pineda's shot from the top of the 18 was well saved by Hamilton. Second half stoppage time saw Prince nearly earn a brace when the striker beat U.S. defender Russell Cannouse, before firing a rocket from the top of the penalty arc that screamed just wide left of the U.S. frame.
"The first half was decent," said Fire Academy head coach Larry Sunderland. "We were dealing with windy conditions and we had some trouble getting rhythm with some of the players having not played together before. Despite the obstacles we did well to maintain possession and we were happy with the lead at halftime."
The second half saw a number of changes with more Fire U16's taking part and the youngsters settled in early, scoring twice inside the first eight minutes of the half.
First Tyler Engel put Pineda through on goal, with the attacker finishing past Hamilton in the 46th minute. Two minutes later, second half substitute Elliot Borge crossed for fellow match newcomer Luis Medina, with the resulting finish making it 3-0 Fire.
The U.S. U17's best chance came when midfielder Zachary Pfeffer struck a driving ball from the top right of the 18 towards the opposite post. Fire goalkeeper Charlie Lyon made a diving save, holding on to the ball in the process.
The Fire youngsters continued to pepper the U.S. net, with Engel coming within inches of earning a brace, watching his 57th minute strike roll just right of frame.
The Fire rounded out the scoring in the 66th minute, this time with Medina sending a low cross in the box to Borge. The midfielder possessed the ball, cut back to fake a defender and sent a powerful strike to the back of the net.
"The second half was much more settled and by the end of the game eight of our 11 players on the field were from our U16 team. They settled in quickly and looked confident throughout the interval and we're obviously happy with a victory over some of the country's best youth talent."
The Fire Academy will take the result into this weekend's USSF Development Academy matches, when they host Real Colorado and the Colorado Rush on Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18, respectively. All four matches will take place at the Toyota Park Training Field.
For more information on the Chicago Fire Academy, please visit //www.chicago-fire.com/content/fire-academy
Match Summary
U.S. U17 MNT vs. Chicago Fire U16/U18 Academy XI
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Toyota Park
Scoring Summary:
CFA – Chris Prince (Emanuel Guzman) – 20th minute
CFA – Victor Pineda (Tyler Engel) – 46th minute
CFA – Luis Medina (Elliot Borge) – 48th minute
CFA – Elliot Borge (Luis Medina) – 66th minute
Starting Lineups:
United States U17's: 1-Wade Hamilton, 2 Nathan Smith, 4-Russell Cannouse, 6-Brody Hickey, 3-Ive Burnett, 7-Zachary Pheffer, 10-Irvin Gijon, 5-Atsou Ayah, 8-Eric Gonzalez, 9-Martin Arrieta, 11-Ethan Decker
Chicago Fire Academy: 25-Charlie Lyon, 42-Mitch Albrecht, 56-Billy McGuiness, 58-Peter Beasley, 59-Scott Lakin, 48-Drew Connor, 47-Patrick Doody, 52-Trevor Wheeler, 46-Emmanuel Guzman, 55-Victor Pineda, 54-Chris Prince


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The NBA has apparently seen enough of Gilbert Arenas' gunplay, and it looks like the Wizards' star won't see game action for quite some time.
League Commissioner David Stern suspended Arenas indefinitely on Wednesday without pay, saying he is "not currently fit to take the court in an NBA game," and that the guard's actions "will ultimately result in a substantial suspension, and perhaps worse."
"I feel very badly that my actions have caused the NBA to suspend me, but I understand why the league took this action," Arenas said in statement released by his attorney Wednesday evening. "I put the NBA in a negative light and let down my teammates and our fans. I am very sorry for doing that."
Federal prosecutors have convened a grand jury to explore an incident involving Arenas and handguns in the team locker room. Arenas spoke to prosecutors about the incident for two hours Monday.
Tuesday night might have been the last straw as far as the league was concerned. A Getty image shot during pre-game warmups in Philadelphia showed Arenas smiling and pointing his fingers at teammates as if they were guns. Arenas later tweeted about the incident, saying "I know everybody seen the pre game pics..my teammate thought to break the tention we should do that..but this is gettn way to much. I wanna say sorry if I p***ed any body off by us havin fun...I'm sorry for anything u need to blame for for right now."
That incident, and his teammates' reaction, didn't sit well with Wizards management.
"We fully endorse the decision of the NBA to indefinitely suspend Gilbert Arenas," the team said in a statement. "Strictly legal issues aside, Gilbert's recent behavior and statements, including his actions and statements last night in Philadelphia, are unacceptable. Some of our other players appeared to find Gilbert's behavior in Philadelphia amusing. This is also unacceptable. Under Abe Pollin's leadership, our organization never tolerated such behavior, and we have no intention of ever doing so."
"Our organization came out with a statement and we abide by that statement," Wizards coach Flip Saunders said before Wednesday night's game in Cleveland. "As a team, as a coach, we can't worry about that right now. We have to worry about going out and performing with the players that we have."
Stern said he didn't take immediate action against Arenas because of the pending criminal investigation.
"Although it is clear that the actions of Mr. Arenas will ultimately result in a substantial suspension, and perhaps worse, his ongoing conduct has led me to conclude that he is not currently fit to take the court in an NBA game," Stern said in a statement. "Accordingly, I am suspending Mr. Arenas indefinitely, without pay, effective immediately pending the completion of the investigation by the NBA."
Arenas said he called Stern Wednesday and hopes to talk to him soon.
"While I never intended any harm or disrespect to the NBA or anyone else, my gun possession at the Verizon Center and my attempts at humor showed terrible judgment," Arenas' statement read. "I take full responsibility for my conduct."
Reports published in the New York Post say Arenas pulled the guns on teammate Javaris Crittenton during a dispute over a gambling debt.
On Thursday the Washington Post provided more accounts of the incident:
According to two first-hand accounts of the confrontation, Crittenton responded to Arenas's action -- which included laying the four unloaded weapons in Crittenton's cubicle with a note that read, "Pick One" -- by brandishing his own firearm, loading the gun and chambering a round.
Two of the five people in the room that morning, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Arenas had originally not disclosed Crittenton's action to protect the little-used guard from prosecution and had told Crittenton he would assume full responsibility for the actions of both players that day.
Arenas has denied the New York Post report, calling the incident a "misguided effort to play a joke" on a teammate. He said he never threatened or assaulted anyone with the guns and never pointed them at anyone.
"As I have said before, I had kept the four unloaded handguns in my house in Virginia, but then moved them over to my locker at the Verizon Center to keep them away from my young kids. I brought them without any ammunition into the District of Columbia, mistakenly believing that the recent change in the DC gun laws allowed a person to store unloaded guns in the District.
Joke or not, I now recognize that what I did was a mistake and was wrong. I should not have brought the guns to DC in the first place, and I now realize that there's no such thing as joking around when it comes to guns — even if unloaded."
The grand jury will decide whether Arenas should face criminal charges.
The NBA said Wizards personnel continue to be interviewed by law enforcement authorities and that some are scheduled for appearance before the grand jury.
Complete David Stern Statement:
"The possession of firearms by an NBA player in an NBA arena is a matter of the utmost concern to us. I initially thought it prudent to refrain from taking immediate action because of the pendency of a criminal investigation involving the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and the Metropolitan Police Department, and the consideration of this matter by a grand jury sitting in the District of Columbia. For the same reason, I directed the Wizards to refrain from taking any action.
"Although it is clear that the actions of Mr. Arenas will ultimately result in a substantial suspension, and perhaps worse, his ongoing conduct has led me to conclude that he is not currently fit to take the court in an NBA game. Accordingly, I am suspending Mr. Arenas indefinitely, without pay, effective immediately pending the completion of the investigation by the NBA."


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