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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Everywhere enterprise IT is headed, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is there. From the public cloud to the edge, it evolves to bring flexibility and reliability to new frontiers. This is the stable foundation for untold innovation.
The value of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the world's leading enterprise Linux platform,* certified on hundreds of clouds and with thousands of hardware and software vendors. Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be purchased to support specific use cases like edge computing or SAP workloads, but every subscription includes these core benefits:
Features and benefits
Subscription benefits
Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides more than an operating system—it also connects you to Red Hat's extensive hardware, software, and cloud partner ecosystem, and comes with 24x7 support. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 is our latest release, but with access to all supported versions and a 10 year life cycle, you can upgrade on your schedule and adopt new features when needed.
Supported architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be optimized to run on servers or high-performance workstations, and supports a range of hardware architectures like x86, ARM, IBM Power, IBM Z, and IBM LinuxONE. Our deep collaboration with upstream communities and hardware partners makes this possible, bringing you a reliable platform for many use cases and a consistent application environment across physical, virtual, and cloud deployments.
Automation and management
Get a consistent and stable administrative experience, allowing admins to spend more time on innovation—less time on repetitive, error-prone tasks. Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes Red Hat Insights, a managed service for analytics and remediation that delivers continuous vulnerability alerts and targeted guidance to help organizations maximize uptime and avoid emergencies. Plus, with the Red Hat Satellite add-on you can automate the remediation process.
Install and migration tools
From your first steps installing, migrating, or upgrading Red Hat Enterprise Linux to eventually deploying across multiple clouds, we provide utilities to help. Our migration tools make it easy to get started if you're coming from CentOS Linux or another distro, and you can create optimized operating system images with Red Hat Enterprise Linux image builder that can handle the details of cloud deployments when you're ready.
Security and compliance
Simplify how your organization mitigates risk, automates security, and maintains compliance. Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes built-in security features like live kernel patching, security profiles, security standards certification, and a trusted software supply chain to help meet today's high security and compliance expectations.
Consistent performance
No matter what hardware or workloads you are running, our comprehensive performance monitoring, tracing, and analysis tools help you optimize your systems. Detect performance anomalies, build a comprehensive view of system performance, and apply best-practices through preset tuning profiles so you can get the most out of your investments.
Customer story
Salesforce transitions from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
The company is migrating over 200,000 systems to streamline IT operations and enhance customer experiences.
A direct migration path for CentOS Linux 7 users
On June 30, 2024, CentOS Linux 7 will reach End of Life (EOL). Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is a fully supported production-grade OS available on premises and in the cloud–and it's a direct migration path for CentOS Linux users.
Whether you're using only CentOS Linux or are an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux customer, and also have CentOS Linux, we have a streamlined migration solution for your needs.
Our Convert2RHEL tool streamlines the migration process by minimizing the need for costly redeployment projects and reduces administrative burden by maintaining existing OS customizations, configurations, and preferences during the conversion.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Third Party Linux Migration is a competitively-priced offering that includes access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, tooling to convert in-place instances of CentOS Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and patches and upgrades for an additional 4 years after the EOL date.
Whether you're using only CentOS Linux or are an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux customer, and also have CentOS Linux, we have a streamlined migration solution for your needs.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will reach End of Maintenance on June 30, 2024. If you are a current Red Hat Enterprise Linux customer, upgrade now to supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or 9 to take advantage of new features, security enhancements, bug fixes, cloud functionality, and more.
Use cases for any cloud, any workload
Expand to the edge
Red Hat Enterprise Linux extends your hybrid cloud infrastructure to the edge, scaled across hundreds—or even hundreds of thousands—of nodes all over the world. Create edge-optimized OS images, minimize workload interruptions caused by OS updates, transfer system updates more efficiently, and have confidence in automatic health checks and rollbacks.
Hybrid cloud starts with Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables you to deploy and run applications anywhere—from physical and virtual, to private and public clouds—by delivering the consistent operating foundation needed for modern IT and enterprise hybrid cloud deployments. Red Hat's collaboration with major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), means customers can support future-focused deployments on the solid foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Migrate SAP workloads
Organizations that depend on SAP to manage their business need an operating system that delivers performance, reliability, and the ability to modernize and integrate their SAP and non-SAP applications. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions, organizations can meet these needs and comply with the quickly approaching SAP requirement to migrate their applications to SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA by the 2027 deadline.
Deliver SQL Server on Linux
Searching for a performance-driven, cost-effective platform for Microsoft SQL Server? Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a scalable foundation and a consistent application experience across bare-metal, virtual machine, container, and hybrid cloud environments.
Developing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Developers who join the Red Hat Developer program get access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, how-to videos, demos, "get started" guides, documentation, and more. We offer a vast ecosystem to help you build and deploy apps in the cloud and our Universal Base Image (UBI) provides a solid and stable Red Hat Enterprise Linux userspace to streamline efforts as you expand into container development projects.
Scale your HPC workloads with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Your operating system plays a key role in determining how well your high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure operates and performs. It connects your hardware, software, networking, and interfaces to form a unified, orchestrated environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a flexible and reliable platform for running HPC workloads at scale across datacenter, cloud, and hybrid environments.
A shared technological foundation
Red Hat's open hybrid cloud strategy is built on the technological foundation of Linux®, containers, and automation. An open hybrid cloud approach gives you the flexibility to run your applications anywhere you need them.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform lets you automate compliance and gain consistency across your Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the proven foundation for Red Hat OpenShift, certified on thousands of hardware and cloud vendor technologies. This means the security, performance, interoperability, and innovation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is extended throughout your infrastructure to provide a single platform that can run wherever you need it.
Every technology within your IT stack needs to work well together. Because those connections rely on the operating system, it has to be consistent, reliable, and flexible. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the common link connecting modern IT.
How our customers use Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UPS created a container-based application platform that enables developers to more efficiently create new features for operations logistics and staffing.
Lufthansa Technik used hybrid cloud infrastructure to build a digital platform that uses data to better organize and schedule airline maintenance.
Tomago Aluminium improved development efficiency, consolidated its server footprint, and enhanced system and data security by migrating its SAP solution.
If you're looking for Linux, I don't think that there's a better-supported solution than RHEL.
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We're proud to be longstanding partners of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain (NYCGB). Here their Head of Communications, Tim Croall, reflects on NYCGB's activities this year and looks forward to their 40th anniversary in 2023.
As the World Cup gets underway, it's good to remind ourselves that more people sing in a choir each week in Britain than watch football live - in fact it's the fastest-growing participatory art form. At NYCGB we already knew this, particularly as we come to the end of a jam-packed 2022. During the pandemic we adapted swiftly to develop online resources, activities and performances, but it has been fantastic to return to a full programme of 'in person' residential courses, concerts and learning and engagement work alongside our growing catalogue of film and audio releases.
As we continue to grow our inspiring, ambitious and inclusive musical community – crucially supported by industry partners such as ABRSM – it's great to reflect on the whirlwind of activity that has engaged young singers, musicians and audiences this year and look forward to our 40th birthday in 2023.
At the start of the year we welcomed our new cohort of Young Composers and Fellows and, with partners NMC Recordings, released the third Young Composers album featuring the wonderful new compositions by our outgoing composers. In fact, we have just welcomed our new cohorts for 2023 and will be releasing the next album early in the new year!
April saw the culmination of a two-year co-creation between the National Youth Choir and international a cappella group The Swingles, with the premiere of Until It's Gone at Woolwich Works in London, inspired by our 2022 artistic theme of 'environment'. Excerpts of the work were subsequently broadcast on Scala Radio on World Earth Day.
National Youth Choir & Swingles Concert at Woolwich Works
The National Youth Boys' Choir worked with Hazel Gould to create lyrics for a new commission during the summer and the National Youth Girls' Choir took part in recording sessions for our record label. We release new recordings each month so do check out our Spotify playlist or search for NYCGB on other platforms. We were particularly proud to release Forever, the track that resulted from an international digital collaboration between our Young Composers and songwriters from Ndlovu Youth Choir in South Africa, performed by Ndlovu and the National Youth Chamber Choir.
Meanwhile, our Learning and Engagement programme has been busier than ever, and included the North East Young Singers Intensive, our first taster programme since early 2020, culminating in a wonderful singing weekend and showcase in Sunderland with over 40 enthusiastic young singers from across the region.
Sunderland Young Singers Intensive Weekend
All this as we prepare for our 40th birthday in 2023. Plans are still under wraps, but the highlight will be a huge celebratory concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 11 April, featuring all our choirs, many alumni, over a thousand voices and the premiere of a new 40-part work by our Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Ben Parry. Tickets are on sale now!
To get a taste of what our young singers and musicians have been up to and for information about what we do, how to get involved and our latest releases, follow NYCGB on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

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|This was a fun idea that my daughter and I created after seeing some similar ideas on Pinterest. I used the wreath as decor for my sister's baby shower and then gave it to her as a gift.
To see the full owl themed baby shower click HERE.
Supplies needed:
1 straw wreath, size 14 inch - leave plastic covering on it
24 size 2 diapers
tulle - colors to match your theme
rubber bands
baby supply items
ribbon - color to match your theme
paper plate
artwork or clipart to go on your plate
hole punch
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|Wrap diapers around wreath securing with rubber bands.
|Tie tulle onto each diaper to hide rubber bands.
|Use ribbon to tie baby items to wreath. I put the ribbon through the diaper and secured the item to it tightly with ribbon.
|Glue design to back of paper plate and hold punch each side.
|Tie plate onto the back of the wreath with ribbon going through a diaper on each side.
|Use tulle to create a loop to hang the wreath.
|The completed project!!
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Spray polyurethane foam (SPF), a building material with notably high performance, is widely used as a roofing solution. With benefits including versatility, thermal insulation, resistance to inclement weather cycling and storms, strengthening of the building envelope, durability and long life, spray foam has risen in popularity among builders and roofing contractors alike.
The main purpose of a roof is to protect the structure underneath it. As a roofing material, closed-cell SPF is both a thermal insulator and a protective one. The lightweight roofing material is the best choice when:
the substrate of the roof has many penetrations.
the roof deck is unusually shaped or configured.
the roof is being installed on a structure located in an environment that is prone to severe weather.
you need a lightweight option.
an application with an inclined slope provides more drainage capabilities.
keeping the existing roofing is preferred.
Our process for reroofing with spray polyurethane foam is detailed below. Norris Spray Foam is a leader in foam reroofing technology in Texas and we invite you to inquire about the most economical and long lasting reroofing choice for your building.
Richardson Flat Roofing Contractors
Spray foam has become increasingly popular in the past few years with builders across Texas as a preferred insulation method. The spray polyurethane foam is also used as a roofing material, but that is not widely known.
For more than a quarter of a century, spray foam roofing has mostly been used to reroof existing flat roofs on commercial and residential buildings.
Norris Spray Foam sprays foam roofing in Texas for both residential and commercial projects. Commercial buildings with flat or low-slope roofs are common in our area, and many of them have old, leaky built-up roofing, so re-roofing commercial buildings is a significant portion of our business.
When you reroof with spray foam, you can:
- Save up to 50% of the cost of a tear-off and conventional reroof installation
- Permanently seal leaks that have increased in number over time
- Save on energy costs as spray foam provides superior insulating properties which TPO and EPDM roofing don't have
- Minimize weight load on your roof compared with reroofing alternatives
- Extend the life of your existing roof 20-30 years
The following explains the process of reroofing a commercial low-sloped or flat roof with spray polyurethane foam starting with the material and finishing with the gravel application.
Polyurethane Material FAQs
The plastic polyurethane material was developed prior to World War II. In the 1970s, U.S. military officials recognized its value as a lightweight, waterproof, durable, all-in-one insulation and all-purpose covering. Its use has expanded to the private sector since that time.
Polyurethane foam is made by mixing two liquid components at a ratio of one-to-one inside the tip of the spray gun specifically made for these components. As the mixture exits the gun, tiny bubbles form as a result of isocyanates, polyols, catalysts, and a non-ozone-depleting blowing agent. Bubbles form until the material has inflated to 30 to 50 times its original mass.
Denseness of the Closed Cell Roofing Foam
Roof foam has a density and permeability that makes it different from polyurethane foam which is used to insulate walls.
Open-cell spray foam structure is extremely porous and soft. Closed-cell foam is impermeable to moisture, and has a dense central core. Roof foam is more dense than regular foam, and it is strong enough to walk on without damaging it. Because the system is closed-cell, neither air nor water pass through, and it also acts as a vapor retarder.
Foam as Roofing
Foam roofs have their pros and cons, as do any roofing system. One of its most notable features is its ability to adjust to contours that are difficult to flash and waterproof with conventional materials.
A list of the other features the product offers, as well as its limitations can be found below.
Excellent R-value
Despite the rigid insulation above the sheathing or the batt or blown insulation in the cavity below, many roofs permit significant heat gain.
In addition to this, most built-up roofs act as giant solar heat collectors.
On the other hand, SPF roofing resists solar heat gain. It can be both Cool Roof- and Energy Star-rated with the right coating. The R-value of roofing foam is about R 6.5 per inch of thickness, so a typical application is around 1 1/2 inches thick (though certain parts of the roof get more foam than others).
Reroofing With Spray Foam – Elevation Measurement Across the Roof
Our laser level measures elevation at various points on the roof and records the data. The technician uses the map to identify low spots so he can build up those areas with a thicker layer of foam and prevent ponding.
Long Service Life
Foam that has been cured can maintain its flexibility over time and is chemically quite stable. UV light is the only thing that can damage it — besides being punctured by a sharp object.
Properly applied and maintained SPF roofs should last for generations. UV-resistant top coatings need to be recoated every 10 to 15 years. Upgraded systems can extend the recoating cycle to 20 years.
Unlikely to Leak
Roof leaks occur most often when water enters through an open seam or joint in the roofing material. Water can get into the roof from one place, migrate horizontally between the plies, then come through the ceiling at another location if the roof has several plies, such as the case with BUR. Leaks of this nature can be difficult to find and to fix. An SPF roof is a solid, one-piece system with no joints, seams, or plies. Nothing will leak through it unless it has a hole all the way through it.
SPF is a great option for sloped roofs, but since it's not as aesthetic as shingles, people mostly install it in low-slope areas where it won't be noticed.
Additionally, foam isn't suited for installation year-round in all climates. The roof needs to be absolutely dry and within a range of 50°F at the time of application. Also, there must be little or no wind at the time of application.
Initially, installing a spray-foam roof is not the cheapest option, but after it has been installed it is more energy efficient and has a longer, more trouble-free service life.
The Complete Process
1. Inspecting the Existing Roof
The first thing we determine when we inspect an existing roof is whether it should be stripped or swept. It's surprising how many multiple-overlay built-up roofs we find — even though they impose an excessive load on the structure and in some areas aren't allowed by code. In cases where there are multiple roof layers, it's best to strip back to the sheathing. This lightens the load and provides a smoother substrate for the foam. If there is only a single layer of roofing, it's often possible to sweep off the gravel, prep the surface, and apply a layer of foam. This allows the building owner to avoid the mess and expense of a tear-off, yet still end up with a lighter roof.
When we inspected the roof of the home shown on these pages, we found leaks, ponding, and an area with rotted sheathing. But since the roof was just one layer, we decided to repair the rot and install SPF over the existing membrane.
2. Ponding
Older buildings tend to sag and settle, resulting in ponding. With many roofing applications, this problem is hard to fix — but with SPF, low areas can be filled with foam.
To find low spots, we use a laser level to map the "topography" of the existing roof. We measure the elevation at various locations and draw maps so that the applicator knows where the high and low spots are so that he can adjust the amount of foam.
On the other hand, scuppers and drains should be replaced so the foam will have a clean surface to attach to. Our roofer will cut away the membrane around the existing drainage system. The old fitting will be replaced by a new one that leads to the downspout below. After the new fitting is nailed to the deck and primed, the foam will be applied.
If we merely applied the same thickness everywhere, water would still pond in low spots.
3. Prep Work
Especially when foam is being applied over an existing roof, the prep work is extremely important. Roofing contractors have been known to show up, spray foam on the roof, coat it, and leave it. Such an installation may provide relief from leaks for a short period of time, but the building owner will experience problems over time.
In order to do a good job, the roofer must prepare the surface, repair damaged sheathing, replace sheet metal and flashings when necessary, deal with drainage problems, and apply protective coatings and foam correctly.
4. Surface Prep
To establish a solid bond, all loose material must be removed from the existing roof. The loose gravel must be removed by sweeping and hauling it away. There may be built-up areas with asphalt and gravel. If that material is coming loose, we use a tool to scrape it off.
We clean the membrane by sweeping up any accumulated silt, then blow the residual dust off with a gas-powered blower. We power-wash the roof if it doesn't leak.
Even though sprayed foam is highly adhering, it is still a good idea to prime the existing surface. We spray a special primer on the surface of the roof using an airless sprayer.
5. Sheathing Repairs
We will replace or strip the framing and sheathing if necessary if we find rot on a roof.
If the building code does not require a Class A fire rating, we prime the sheathing and then apply foam.
We normally nail a fiber-impregnated gypsum board over the patched area before priming and applying foam to achieve a Class A rating.
6. Metal Work
We may reuse the existing sheet-metal vents, but we always install new foam stops along the roof edge.
7. Edge Metal
The edge of a roof is normally one of the weakest points. For reinforcement on the roof edges, we use a metal foam stop that's hemmed and kicked out at the lower edge.
8. Vents and Fans
If we strip the roof, we may need to replace the existing roof jacks. If we are simply doing a sweep and the jacks are still in good shape, we leave them in place and cover them with foam.
All unsatisfactory vents are replaced.
Existing roof-mounted vent fans can present a challenge because the foam could elevate the surface of the roof sufficiently for water to run into them. We install a custom-made vented cap over the top of each fan and build a curb around it. The old fan will remain in place and may be serviced or replaced in the future.
Don't allow a roofer install foam in the roof fan without considering the likelihood of a leak or the potential for a need to replace the fan someday.
9. Drains and scuppers
Most of the structures we work on have scuppers or metal dropout drains that connect through the overhang to a downspout below. When we replace the edge metal, we also replace the scupper linings. Also, we cut out and replace the dropout drains. It is possible that they are rusting through, so we need a new, clean surface for the foam to adhere to.
10. Counterflashing
Under certain circumstances, foam can self-flash when lapped up against adjoining vertical walls. Most of the time, though, a counterflash is needed at the roof-to-wall junction to ensure water located behind the wall cladding is redirected onto the roof.
11. Skylights
Skylights are a known source of leaks. Frequently, we raise the curbs so the skylight is protected above the foam. Never allow a roofer to foam on the skylight flange. The skylight should be easily removable from the roof so that it sits above any water or rain splash. During the reroofing process, we remove the skylights, build up the curb (if necessary), foam up to tops, and then install the skylights over foam weatherstripping. The roof foam does not require curb flashing or cant strips since it is self-adhesive and self-canting.
12. Equipment Curbs
Heating and air conditioning systems are often installed on flat or low-slope roofs. Using sleepers applied directly to the roof is asking for trouble and should be avoided at all costs.
Equipment should be put on boxed curbs with sheet metal caps. The equipment is separate from the roofing system so it can be replaced without damaging the roof, and the roof can then be maintained without moving or removing the equipment.
13. Spraying Foam
When the preparation work is completed and the weather is right, the foam can be sprayed. The deck must remain dry, and the air should be warm. There should not be much wind. Moisture could disrupt the chemical reaction that forms the foam, resulting in a degraded product.
Wind can increase the amount of overspray and affect the texture of the foam. The surface must be warm (above 50 °F).
Our technicians are willing to stop operations when the conditions are not favorable.
We mask skylights, shingles, sidewalls, etc., to prevent overspraying. When we mask the edge metal, we can apply foam up and onto the edge. We spray the details first, like the edges and the roof jacks, and then we spray the field. We can walk on the foam in a few minutes since it cures quickly.
14. Grinding and detailing
The foam is then brought flush to the edge metal with a grinder, so it slopes smoothly into drains and scuppers. We grind down the foam where it looks too high or is awkward. Detailing involves the use of polyurethane caulking at critical points where the foam meets another material.
15. Coating and Granules
An elastomeric coating is then applied to the foam to protect it from UV degradation. If the foam didn't have this coating, it would eventually wear out.
To achieve the specified 24-mil to 28-mil coating, two coats are necessary and it takes about 3.0 to 4.0 gallons per square. Due to grinding, we precoat any areas that have been ground.
16. Base Coat
This type of coating is applied like a heavy paint; we brush in the details with a brush or roller, and spray the field with an airless sprayer. The base coat is tinted, so we can tell if we miss some spots with the top coat. The tint also shows through when the top coat wears out, so it functions as a recoat indicator.
17. Top Coat and Granules
After the base coat has cured (usually overnight), we spray on a top coat; before the top coat dries we embed a layer of mineral granules.
Besides creating a more uniform appearance, granules offer several functional advantages.
they speed up evaporation of rooftop water
they resist abrasive wear
they stop birds from pecking at the foam
A superior-quality granule provides additional resistance to UV rays. A typical SPF roof lasts about 12 to 15 years without recoating.
A recoating process involves power-washing the roof, applying primer, and applying a top coat. The cost of re-coating a 2,500 square foot roof will be $3 to $5 per square foot per inch.
Call Norris Spray Foam if you are looking for Flat Roofing Contractors in or near Richardson and want to explore spray foam for your roofing project.
Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2019 American Community Survey, the city had a total population of 121,323. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 99,223. In 2014 the population was estimated to be 108,617. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of The University of Texas at Dallas and the Telecom Corridor with a high concentration of telecommunications companies. More than 5,000 businesses have operations within Richardson's 28 square miles, including many of the world's largest telecommunications/networking companies: AT&T, Ericsson, Verizon, Cisco Systems, Samsung, MetroPCS, Texas Instruments, Qorvo, and Fujitsu. In 2006, Richardson was ranked as the 15th best place to live in the United States by Money magazine. This ranked Richardson the 3rd best place to live in Texas. In 2007, the Morgan Quitno 14th Annual America's Safest and Most Dangerous Cities Awards pronounced Richardson the 69th safest city in America. In the same study Richardson ranked the 5th safest city in Texas. In 2008, Richardson was ranked as the 18th best place to live in the United States by Money magazine. This ranked Richardson the 4th best place to live in Texas.Things to do in Richardson.


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ACAPULCO, Mexico – Millions of anchovies are washing ashore in Mexico!
Masses of anchovies – with bunches of stripped bass and mackerel – washed ashore in this Mexican resort city. They were packed so tightly near the surface they looked like an oil slick from above.
Thrilled fishermen rushed out in wooden motor boats, abandoning their rods and nets and simply scooping the fish up with buckets.
"It was so much fun. There were about 20 or 30 fishermen and there were people who came with their kids to take advantage of it," fisherman Carlos Morales said.
The fishermen attributed the strange phenomenon to the unusual currents unleashed bytsunami that followed the earthquake in Japan.
"Who knows?" said Rich Briggs, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. "Tsunamis can change local currents, but it's hard to make a firm connection."Experts couldn't be sure. But John Malley, the expert on the U.N. Panel on Extraterrestrials flew to Acapulco to determine if the death of the anchovies was caused by aliens from Planet Zeeba.
"All the dead anchovies, had The Mark of the Alien," Malley told WWN. "These anchovies were definitely killed by aliens from Planet Zeeba. This is all part of the ongoing alien invasion."
Dominoes has once again volunteered to scoop up the anchovies and put them on their pizzas. Asked whether they thought that their customers may not like the fact that the anchovies have alien DNA, a spokesman for Dominoes said, "there's been no proof that eating alien DNA causes harm. Besides, there's all sorts of other DNA in our pizzas, so a little extra DNA can't hurt."
If you want to see a big pile of anchovies… rush on down to Acapulco for Spring Break.
Anchovies up!!


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Pootle is an online tool that makes the process of translating so much simpler. It allows crowd-sourced translations, easy volunteer contribution and gives statistics about the ongoing work.
Pootle is built using the powerful API of the Translate Toolkit and the Django framework. If you want to know more about these, you can dive into their own documentation.
The following pages cover the documentation of Pootle from a wide variety of perspectives, server administrator's, and developer's view.


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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster claims that a major television component maker has revealed that Apple has made inquiries about the capabilities of its display products. You know what that means–Apple TV sets! Maybe.
This is proof that an Apple TV set will soon be a reality, Munster told CNNMoney. However, Munster is unsure of when the TV will appear on the market–at least he's less sure than he has been in the past.
A few years ago, seasoned Apple-watcher Munster predicted Apple would sell 6.6 million set-top boxes in 2009 and have a TV set on the market by 2011. Though Apple's set-top box, the Apple TV recently had one of its best holiday seasons ever (selling 1.4 million units), it's only sold 4.2 million units since its introduction. And, of course, we're well past 2011 and there's no Apple TV set in sight.
Loose-lipped component makers aren't the only crumbs Apple TV set watchers such as Munster have been following. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple has been talking to Hollywood bigwigs, although few details about these meetings are known.
Apple has also filed patents relating to TV with the U.S. Patent Office. Although these patents were ostensibly for Apple's set-top box, they describe features that have been linked to an Apple TV set, including a way to record TV episodes and to connect to a cable box. These patents were filed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs before he passed away last year. Jobs, according to biographer Walter Isaacson, was hot to "crack the TV nut."
"He very much wanted to do for television sets what he had done for computers, music players, and phones: make them simple and elegant," Isaacson wrote in his best-selling biography of Jobs.
Others are also hot to "crack the TV nut," which is another reason why Apple's got to hurry up if it plans on making an Apple TV set. At CES 2012, for example, PC-maker Lenovo announced a smart TV that could be controlled with speech and run the latest version of Android.
Munster points out that an Apple TV set is more than just a piece of hardware with fancy features–it requires a complex content component. Munster has outlined three content scenarios for Apple: a TiVo model (Apple makes the hardware and everything else comes from a delivery source), a set-top box (Apple accepts content from providers such as Hulu and Netflix), and paid-content provider model (Apple collects monthly fees for customized content).
On top of those kinds of considerations there are other little quirks, such as Apple's deal with Rovi. Rovi provides channel guide information to Apple, as well as others. Right now, Apple pays Rovi a flat licensing fee for its product but, Munster's colleague Michael Olson points out, an Apple TV could result in that scheme being altered in a way that's more costly to Apple.
All those factors make the Apple TV a complicated proposition, but they could also make it a breakthrough product.
"We believe that Apple only enters mature markets with the goal of revolutionizing them, as it did with the smartphone," Munster noted.
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Chevron Announces Further Natural Gas Discovery Offshore Australia
Chevron Announces Further Natural Gas Discovery Offshore Australia
Kentish Knock South-1 adds to Chevron's queue of offshore natural gas opportunities in Australia
SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Chevron Corporation (NYS: CVX) today announced the 20th discovery off the Western Australian coast since mid-2009 by its Australian subsidiary following further drilling success in the Exmouth Plateau area, located in the prolific Carnarvon Basin, a premier hydrocarbon basin.
The Kentish Knock South-1 exploration discovery well encountered approximately 246 feet (75 meters) of net gas pay in the upper Mungaroo Sands. The well is located in the WA-365-P permit area approximately 173 miles (280 kilometres) north of Exmouth off the Western Australian coast. The well was drilled in 3,832 feet (1,168 meters) of water to a total depth of 10,056 feet (3,065 meters).
"The Asia Pacific region is key to Chevron's growth strategy and our strong Australia natural gas portfolio continues to be bolstered by our strategic approach to finding and developing resources that will help meet the growing energy needs in the region," said George Kirkland, vice chairman, Chevron Corporation.
Melody Meyer, president, Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production Company, said, "Kentish Knock South-1 is an important addition to our queue of high-quality offshore natural gas opportunities in Australia and further supports our long-term plans to expand our Australian LNG position."
Chevron Australia is the operator of WA-365-P with a 50 percent interest while Shell Development (Australia) holds 50 percent.
Chevron is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies, with subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide. The company is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and lubricants; manufactures and sells petrochemical products; generates power and produces geothermal energy; provides energy efficiency solutions; and develops the energy resources of the future, including biofuels. Chevron is based in San Ramon, Calif. More information about Chevron is available at www.chevron.com.
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Do you have experiences that are causing you problems in your present life? Do you have emotions, beliefs, or body sensations that are pushing you in the wrong direction? Do you have experiences from your recent or long-ago past that made you feel worthless and useless that affected your ability to have a fulfilling and successful life? Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an approach that has been extensively researched and proven effective to relieve many types of psychological stress.
We will work together to discover the events from the past that created the problem or present situations that cause distress. Negative emotions, behaviors, and feelings are resolved through sets of eye movements that desensitize you from these disturbing elements. You can identify, process through, and desensitize.
Fear, anger, and other negative feelings are replaced by positive beliefs. You are desensitized to stressful events and it is reprocessed in a way that allows you to feel more in control and positive about your life. EMDR strengthens positive self-beliefs and the body sensations and negative feelings associated with the problem will disappear.
Every person has different needs for EMDR treatment. Some people can jump right into EMDR with no problem. Others may need to work on feeling safe enough to proceed by using neurofeedback before going into the deeper issues. Treatment focuses on desensitizing the past memories that are contributing to your problem, processing through the present situations that are disturbing, and developing positive thoughts for a happier future.
While we do not understand how EMDR works to change the brain, there appears to be a correlation to the way the brain processes information during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Whatever stressful situation caused you to become upset initially gets played over and over in your mind as if you are experiencing the disturbing situation for the first time. Your brain gets stuck in a loop of anxiety. This anxiety whirlpool has an on-going negative impact on your human relationships and how you generally view the world. EMDR therapy reprograms your neural pathways so that routine brain functions resume. The stressful event is remembered without the emotional baggage constantly clouding your judgment.
An example might be someone living in the Santa Monica, California area who experiences an earthquake where he was woken up in the middle of the night at age 10. From that point on, his sleep patterns became distressed and erratic, preventing him from going into a deep sleep. He has not had a good night's sleep in years. He makes rash decisions because his mind is hazy from lack of sleep. His choices then tumble into place like dominoes. His financial decision to buy a house in a neighborhood like Manhattan Beach, where the effects of earthquakes are rarely felt, overcomes his ability to accurately assess his financial situation. Manhattan Beach turns out to be too expensive, so he winds up in financial straits. The financial stresses lead to heightened anxiety in his household. His wife wants children, but because they cannot afford it, her unhappiness eventually leads to a breakdown of their intimacy and finally, divorce. This is exactly the sort of scenario that can be avoided with proper EMDR treatment.
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"Remember Also the Promises"
I am so thankful for my wife and children. To enjoy their love, confidence, and support is one of the greatest blessings of my life. I express my heartfelt gratitude to parents who loved and lived the gospel and also to my brothers and sisters from whom I have learned so much. I thank my Brethren of the General Authorities for their kind and gentle tutoring. I express my gratitude to all with whom I have worked over the years and to those who expressed their love and support for me in this new calling. I go forward with faith in the Lord and His leaders, relying on the promises of the Lord that we do not receive callings such as these but what we have been foreordained to the same.
Try the Power of the Word
I love the scriptures. I testify that they are the word of God. I have likened a verse from Alma to my life: the scriptures have had a great tendency to lead me to do that which is just; yea, they have had a more powerful effect upon my mind than the sword or anything else which has happened unto me; therefore I have tried the virtue of the word of God. (See Alma 31:5.)
President Benson counseled: "Immerse yourselves in [the scriptures] daily so you will have the power of the Spirit." (Ensign, May 1986, p. 82.)
President Kimball said, "I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns." (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, ed. Edward L. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982, p. 135.)
Remember Also the Promises
While presiding over a South American mission, I traveled to a distant city to interview missionaries, hold a zone conference, and conduct a district conference. I discovered among the missionaries some problems. In the district conference, other serious problems dealing with members and leaders surfaced. In my mind the negative outweighed the positive with both missionaries and members, leaving me frustrated and disappointed. After four days of interviews and meetings, I boarded the airplane with a heavy heart to return home.
I often read scriptures while traveling, and I turned to them for comfort and direction. I read a few of my favorite passages. While turning the pages, I stopped at the third section of the Doctrine and Covenants. I was deeply touched by the first five verses as they applied to my concerns.
When I read a verse, I often insert my name in it. I did so with verse 5 and found the help I needed to remove my gloomy feelings: "Behold, you, Jay Jensen, have been entrusted with these things, but how strict were your commandments; and remember also the promises which were made to you, Jay Jensen …"
The words "remember also the promises" struck me with unusual power. I identified with the Prophet Joseph Smith when he read James 1:5. The words "remember also the promises" seemed to "enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on [them] again and again." (JS—H 1:12.) During those four days I had focused on nothing but problems. I had not stopped to consider one single promise.
I had with me on the airplane that day a copy of my patriarchal blessing. I read it, noting several marvelous promises. I reviewed in my mind the promises given to me when I was set apart as a mission president. I turned to additional scriptures and pondered the promises in each one. I learned then and have had reinforced to me again and again that when we search the scriptures, we will come to know that "they are true and faithful, and the prophecies and promises which are in them shall all be fulfilled." (D&C 1:37.)
Two Categories of Promises
The Lord has promised us specific blessings for reading and studying the scriptures. To identify these promises, a helpful exercise for me has been to make two columns on a sheet of paper and at the top of one column write the words "Promises for This Life" and in the other column the words "Promises for the Next Life." When I find a promise, I note the reference and the promise under one of the two columns.
I have found repeated in different places in the scriptures two major promises for reading and studying the scriptures that pertain to the next life: one is exaltation, and the other is eternal life. For example, Nephi said: "Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, … Ye shall have eternal life." (2 Ne. 31:20.)
The surprising discovery was that most promises that come to us for reading and studying the scriptures pertain to mortality. Three categories of promises to consider are promises of power, promises of increase, and "other promises." Time will permit me to cite but a few of these.
Promises of Power
Consider the following five promises of power:
Power to overcome evil—Nephi taught: "Whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it, … the fiery darts of the adversary [could not] overpower them unto blindness." (1 Ne. 15:24; see also Ps. 17:4; Ps. 119:98–101, 104; Hel. 3:29–30.)
Power to live righteously—Alma "did … preach the word of God unto them, to stir them up in remembrance of their duty." (Alma 4:19.) The Psalmist said, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." (Ps. 119:105; see also 2 Tim. 3:15–17; Hel. 15:7–8.)
Power to teach convincingly—Alma and the sons of Mosiah "had searched the scriptures diligently … and when they taught, they taught with power and authority of God." (Alma 17:2–3; see also 2 Tim. 3:16.) To Hyrum Smith the Lord said: "First seek to obtain my word … ; then, if you desire, you shall have my Spirit and my word, yea, the power of God unto the convincing of men." (D&C 11:21; see also 2 Tim. 3:15–17; Alma 4:19; Alma 31:5; D&C 84:85.)
Power to call down the powers of heaven—Jacob said that "we search the prophets … and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea." (Jacob 4:6; Hel. 10:4–5.)
Power to change the heart and disposition—Samuel taught the Nephites that the Lamanites were "led to believe the holy scriptures, … which are written, which leadeth them to faith on the Lord, and unto repentance, which faith and repentance bringeth a change of heart unto them." (Hel. 15:7; see also 1 Ne. 15:20.) Three marvelous promises.
Promises of Increase
Consider now the following promises of increase:
Increase in hope and joy—The Apostle Paul taught that "we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." (Rom. 15:4; see also 1 Ne. 11:25; Jacob 2:8; Jacob 4:6; Alma 44:5; D&C 19:23.)
Increase in spirituality—"The preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just." (Alma 31:5; see also 2 Ne. 4:15–16; Moro. 6:4.)
Increase in knowledge and understanding—Nephi taught that "the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do." (2 Ne. 32:3.) To Joseph Smith the Lord said: "The holy scriptures are given of me for your instruction." (D&C 33:16; see also Ps. 19:7; Ps. 119:98–101; 2 Tim. 3:15–17; Alma 12:10; Alma 17:2–3; D&C 18:34–36.)
Increase in the power of discernment—"The word of God … is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil." (Hel. 3:29.) "And whoso treasureth up my word, shall not be deceived." (JS—M 1:37; see also Heb. 4:12.)
Increase in testimony—From the Doctrine and Covenants: "You can testify that you have heard my voice, and know my words." (D&C 18:36; see also Ps. 19:7.)
Other Promises
In addition to these general categories of promises of power and increase, there are other promises, such as "for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success" (Josh. 1:8) and as Joseph Smith said, "faith comes by hearing the word of God" (Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 3:379).
President Howard W. Hunter has said: "When we … read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage." (Ensign, Nov. 1979, p. 64.)
May we "remember also the promises." I testify that the scriptures are the word of God. I love them. I testify that God lives. He is our Father. Jesus Christ is the Son of God. They appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith just as he said they did. President Ezra Taft Benson is God's prophet today. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


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Integrated electricity balancing market is the final building block in the creation of the European electricity market. To date, the progress in integrating national balancing markets has been limited, mainly due to significant differences in existing national balancing markets. While most of these arrangements can be harmonised to a certain degree, some differences appear to be inherent to differences in balancing resources being available in Member States. In September 2012, the Agency adopted its Framework Guidelines on Electricity Balancing. These aim at providing a solid framework for the integration of national balancing markets and the achievement of the single European electricity balancing market. These Framework Guidelines focus on increasing cross-border competition in the balancing timeframe and on the overall efficiency of balancing the electricity system, while safeguarding the security of supply.
The core element of the Framework Guidelines are the models for cross-border exchanges of balancing energy that should first emerge in different geographical areas and gradually, i.e. within 6 years after the entry into force of the Network Code on Electricity Balancing, be integrated into one European platform where all TSOs would have access to different types of balancing energy while taking into account the transmission capacities available between different areas. To enable the creation of such a market, several requirements need to be implemented such as a common set of rights (in particular in terms of access to the balancing markets and in terms of remuneration) and obligations (in particular in terms of balancing responsibility) for all types of market participants (generation and demand). The Framework Guidelines also foresee a more efficient procurement and use of balancing reserves.
Finally, the Framework Guidelines on Electricity Balancing require the standardisation and harmonisation of key elements such as balancing products, balancing energy pricing and imbalance pricing, which are considered as prerequisites before the markets can be fully integrated. The roles and responsibilities of TSOs, Balance Service Providers and Balance Responsible Parties also need to be harmonised to a large degree to achieve a level playing field for competition in different Member States.
The timeframes, within which the European balancing market should be achieved, represent a balance between the expectations of different stakeholders and the current limited progress in the integration of balancing markets compared to other markets (e.g. day-ahead market).


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This project along Windsor Street between 8th and 9th Streets included sidewalk replacement, ADA curb ramp upgrades, and paving. In areas where telephone poles or other barriers were, the sidewalk was expanded to maintain ADA width. The project received $448,000 in TE funding and an additional $112,000 in local match funds for a total of $560,000. This community driven project is a great example of projects in Delaware.
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Although "Field of Dreams" may be a cliché in describing the newly refurbished Little League Field at Buchmuller Park, the term may have been particularly true when officials unveiled it back on April 14. Unlike the movie from which the cliché was taken, it is not the spirit of one-time professional ball players that will hover over this field in the future, but the spirit of local heroes – Steven Strobert and Michael Tanner, both of whom played here as boys, and both who perished in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
For this reason as well as others, the annual opening day tradition took on new meaning this year as kids from teams sponsored by local businesses and organizations gathered on April 14 in anticipation of playing on the newly renovated field.
Little League President Guy Pascarello said he knew calling it the field of dreams was a cliché, but felt it was true.
"It is a dream come true," said Mayor Michael Gonnelli. "From the day I took office I wanted to rebuild the town's recreation areas and playgrounds. I wanted to make Secaucus a play ground for kids. This was a beautiful field when I played on it in 1965 and it is a beautiful field now."
"This was a beautiful field when I played on it in 1965 and it is a beautiful field now." — Michael Gonnelli
Opening the season for home runs and stolen bases and for stands filled with excited spectators cheering on one team or another is always a big deal in Secaucus.
In many ways, this has always been a father-and-son affair, although many mothers sat in the stands cheering as well. Fathers who had played here as children themselves now serve as coaches as their own children took the field.
Anthony Florio, a Secaucus resident, who coached on this field, was once batboy for the New York Yankees, and teased some former residents of Hoboken when he said, "You might not think that's much of a big deal, but the best Hoboken could do was get some
guy selling peanuts at Shea Stadium."
While he said he had great memories traveling with the New York Yankees and meeting people like Mickey Mantle, many memories are made on fields like the one in Secaucus. He said he grew up in Little Italy in New York and had to travel to The Bronx to play baseball as a boy.
"And those fields were filled with stones," he said.
Coaching in Secaucus, he learned that kids need support of their parents, not just when they hit home runs, but when they strike out as well.
Little League has deep roots in Secaucus
The original baseball field in Secaucus was located on the site of Clarendon School on Fifth Street on what was originally the old Glindmyer farm.
Along with former police chief Arthur Temple, Howie Elwell joined two brothers in helping to shape the Little League program: John and George Bauserweiner. Both brothers had served as regular, professional ball players on the New York Giants baseball team during the 1940s, and in the 1950s, they helped Secaucus kids by establishing Little League.
In 1956, two other brothers, Eugene and Al Buchmuller, helped relocate the Little League field to its current location when they donated the land for the ball field and the nearby park to the town. Fundraising brought the $100,000 necessary for the ball field's construction.
The league is comprised of 14 teams – seven in the minor league and seven in the major league. Participation in each league depends on age, not talent. Although the majority of the players are boys, girls do play, a practice started in 1983.
The new field was converted this year from grass to synthetic turf surface that will reduce potential injuries and will reduce some routine maintenance costs. The last major upgrade to the field was done in 2001.
The upgrade included new dugouts which were named after Strobert and Tanner, whose memory will be preserved.
Pat Taylor who played with Strobert here called him "a great guy." Ira Scalzo recalled playing with Tanner in the late 1960s on a grass field.
"It was a great field," he joked, "but it wasn't turf."
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For two centuries Americans have willingly and whole-heartedly embraced a modern life that technology has made possible. As a result, we have enjoyed the benefits of speed, efficiency, and access to an exhaustive supply of consumer products.
Meanwhile, we are a stressed out, frustrated, and angry people that has become totally dependent on our technology for our everyday lives. People routinely bang on their computers in a way reminiscent of the first Luddites who hammered at the weaving frames of the smoke-belching factories of Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield. Nicols Fox in her book, Against the Machine provides an astute and highly fascinating account of how we have come to where we are today and what we sacrificed as a result.
The industrial society that Americans inherited from England, the nineteenth century manufacturing giant of the world, had an irresistible appeal to our young country, as we were busy building an economy and expanding our borders. As a result, technology came to dominate our "thinking, our expectations, and our actions," says Fox, "in ways that could not have been anticipated and of which we are scarcely aware."
This odd relationship between human beings and technology was first recognized by English craftsmen in the early 1800s. They objected to the new factories going up in their villages because they feared losing their independence, their community life, and their livelihood. Scorned as backward and anti-progress, the Luddites, who got their name from their made-up folk hero, King Ned Ludd, eventually stopped trying to engage discussion and took out their rage on the weaving frames. A few of them were led away to the gallows for trespassing and vandalizing private property. And so ended the movement.
Curiously, however, Fox notes that the Luddites' legacy lived on through writers, artists, philosophers, farmers, and iconoclasts who noticed that for all its promises of convenience and efficiency, technology still sidesteps "the complexity and subtlety that is humanness." Throughout the book she illustrates how technology has shaped the way people live, think, work, and relate to each other today.
The Luddites, Fox emphasizes, didn't shun machines or technology out of hand. Instead, they "[favored] a thoughtful use of appropriate technologies that [did] not damage the relationships we hold dear," especially those with the natural world. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, American technology and industrialism become tied to capitalism and consumerism in which "all life was being bought and sold," according to historian E.P. Thompson.
The books' most notable chapter is devoted to technology's influence on agriculture and farm life. Fox notes that the people's relationship to the land, the seasons, the community, and even the soil was completely changed by those advocates of technology who, curiously, stood to gain from the changes: the corporations, the universities, and the government.
In 1930, a group of writers known as the Southern Agrarians, objected to these changes and articulated what was being lost:
"What are the fundamental requirements of a healthy, balanced, and pleasant society? The answer is that we are complex creatures whose fundamental needs are for community and family; love and companionship; a continuing association with the natural world round us, of which we recognize ourselves a part; undergirded by spirituality; enlivened by an artistic tradition that allows the exercise of creativity and imaginations; enriched by an ongoing and shared cultural heritage. All these are more important than our need for consumer goods and gadgetry."
After World War II, the door to "technological exuberance" opened ever wider and the small farmer was declared an anachronism "on his way out, surviving only because he hasn't sense enough to accept the inevitable."
Fox calls on farmer and writer Wendell Berry who explains that what got lost was the knowledge of the land and soil in exchange for "a totally controlled agricultural environment" and a future of limitless food production. In effect, the farmer abandoned his role as "a husbandman, a nurturer" and became a businessman.
The writing in this book is direct, compelling, insightful, and inspiring. In the last chapter, Fox recognizes contemporaries, including Farming Magazine editor David Kline, for their efforts in seeking simpler lives that control technology rather than the other way around.
Against the Machine is a must-read for people who need a boost for their chosen lifestyle of simplicity, connectivity to family and community, and alignment to nature. Fox provides a bevy of well-researched evidence as well as an examination of where technology has taken us as human beings and as a society. This book will inspire present-day Luddites to continue their struggle for a humane life. King Ludd would have it no other way!


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1,338HP Cobra! 2003 Ford Mustang Cobra is The Dominator
Ultimate Street Terminator: Nicholas Shortridge went from bolt-ons to ballistic with his stealthy twin-turbo Texas terror
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If you've never driven a Terminator, you owe it to yourself to get behind the wheel of one at least once. Sure they are overshadowed by the horsepower of modern Mustangs. However, they are really the cars that ushered in the sort of easy bolt-on power that we enjoy from today's 'Stangs. It's easy to vividly remember your first drive in the first factory supercharged, six-speed Mustang. These cars were cool and they still carry that rep today, for good reason.
"I was hooked on getting an '03 Cobra after I spent a weekend terrorizing the streets with a friend," Nicholas Shortridge confessed. "My first experience was with a ported blower, 100-shot-of-nitrous, drag-radial Cobra. It was the most fun, easiest bang-for-the-buck straight out of the box."
When you whet your appetite with a Terminator that already has a stout roster of bolt-on performance enhancers, you are really setting the stage for wanting a car and wanting to mod it in a hurry. Nicholas finally picked up his first '03 Cobra in 2005, and it already had a ported blower onboard and it was putting down 500 hp to the street. That might be enough for some, but not Nicholas. Yet, he had to be patient and wait to finish college before he could really start in on the car the way he wanted to.
His real start at modding had a serious launch. It began with a single-turbo kit. "...Built it in my garage. It was a great kit and it made 650 wheel (horsepower) and hurt some feelings—especially those cocky C6 Corvette guys," he explained. "It was great to make 650 wheel with A/C and power steering, and anyone could drive it. After getting bored with 650, I moved to Texas for work and the car took on a new life."
They say things are bigger in the Lone Star state. Apparently things get bigger when they move to Texas too—including car builds and horsepower numbers. Upon arriving there, Nicholas picked up a daily driver and turned his Cobra into a full-on project car.
These cars were cool and they still carry that rep today, for good reason.
"I was hooked on getting an '03 Cobra after I spent a weekend terrorizing the streets with a friend."
As you can see, it got more aggressive—far more aggressive. Of course, when you start flirting with the bleeding edge, it's best to rely on people with experience. To that end, Nicholas commissioned HPP Racing (www.hppmotorsports.com) in Lewisville, Texas, to construct a stroker modular based on the heralded Teksid aluminum block. They put together a stout 5.0-liter modular that lives in the car to this day.
"HPP Racing built this motor four years ago," Nicholas raved. "I think I made the right decision. It belted out 1,338 wheel without missing a beat."
Of course, it takes more than a built 5.0 to roll deep into the four-digit range. Nicholas loved turbos but believed a big single was intractable for the street. He really wanted twins, and he wanted to keep the creature comforts. For this task, he turned to CG Fabrication (www.cgfabrication.com).
"Making power has never been a problem since going turbo. The package was just never well-rounded or streetable," Nicholas explained. "This turbo kit was built custom for my car, but it is now sold to anyone. Retaining all the accessories is impressive for a kit that is capable of 1,500-wheel horsepower."
Capabilities are one thing, but getting a built motor and a custom turbo kit to play nicely together on the street and the track is no small feat. The Terminator electronics are not nearly as advanced as those found in modern 'Stangs, and even those would struggle to do what Nicholas asks of his car's EFI. He simply wants to rein in 1,000 on the street and over 1,300 at the track.
Making that happen was the crew at JMS Racing (www.jmsracing.net) in Converse, Texas. They selected the Pro EFI 128 engine management system for '03-'04 Mustangs, which is Pro EFI's (www.proefi.com) only Ford application at the moment. To say this system offers a full complement of modern options would be an understatement. Its features include traction control, flex-fuel capabilities, wideband oxygen sensors, knock sensors, multiple fuel pump controls, and even a switch to toggle between calibrations for different octane levels.
JMS Racing tuned up the Pro EFI with calibrations for both low-boost/street and high-boost race scenarios with eye-watering results. "The car has traction control and it can put down 1,000-plus on the street," Nicholas enthused. "Yes, I repeat, you can make over 1,000 and keep it between the lines."
If that weren't impressive enough, Nicholas's Cobra can also seamlessly transition from E85, on which its biggest numbers are generated, and 93-octane pump gas. "The Pro EFI manages the air/fuel ratios and ethanol percentage with a GM Flex Fuel sensor," he explained. "So, you can put 93-octane pump gas on top of E85 with no changes. JMS tuned the car to adjust and run perfect. No matter the ethanol content, it runs the same tune."
As of this writing, Nicholas' best e.t. with only three passes with the Pro EFI system was a 9.85 at 144 mph. He hopes to better those quarter-mile times, while retaining the six-speed and IRS. Nicholas also wants to make a run a the Texas Mile's 200-mph club, so this bolt-ons to ballistic story isn't quite over yet ...
Tech Specs: 2003 Cobra
Engine and DrivetrainBlock: Teksid aluminum 4.6 block
Crankshaft: HPP Racing Kellog stroker
Rods: Eagle H-beam
Pistons: Custom JE, HPP Racing-spec
Camshafts: HPP Racing-spec custom
Cylinder heads: Ported '03 Cobra Four-Valve aluminum
Intake manifold: Sullivan lower with CG Fabrication custom Big Mouth upper
Power Adder: Two Precision turbo 6766 turbos w/ CG Fabrication street kit feature 46mm Precision wastegates
Fuel system: Walbro 255-lph fuel pump w/ two in-line Walbro 450-lph pumps in Fore Innovations fuel hat, Sullivan fuel rails, Fuelab regulator, and 160-lb/hr Billet Atomizer injectors
Exhaust: CG Fabrication forward-facing headers w/ CG Fabrications custom, dual 3-in exhaust
Transmission: T-56 six-speed manual assembled by Nicholas Shortridge w/ solid keys and an iron 3-4 shift fork
Rearend: Stock IRS 8.8-in w/ 3.55 gears, Full Tilt Boogie Delrin bushing kit, Fore Innovations differential cover, and solid custom mounts
ElectronicsEngine management: Pro EFI 128 standalone tuned by JMS Racing (Converse, Texas)
Ignition: Stock w/ NGK B8EFs gapped tight
Gauges: Stock
Suspension and ChassisFront suspension
K-member: UPR Products tubular
A-arms: UPR Products tubular
Struts: Strange 10-way adjustable
Springs: Maximum Motorsports coil-over
Brakes: Stock w/ Full Tilt Boogie two-piece rotors
Wheels: HRE 545 three-piece aluminum, 18x10-in (street) or Weld RT-S 15-in (drag)
Tires: Michelin Pilot 275/40-18 (street) or M&H radial (drag)
Rear suspension
Shocks: KYB adjustable
Springs: Maximum Motorsports coil-over
Control Arms: Stock
Brakes: Stock w/ Full Tilt Boogie two-piece rotors
Wheels: HRE 545 three-piece aluminum, 18x11-in (street) or Weld RT-S 15-in (drag)
Tires: Michelin Pilot 275/40-18 (street) or M&H radial (drag)
Horse Sense: Of the 13,476 Mustang Cobras built in the '03 model year, only 758 were built with Redfire Metallic paint and Graphite interiors like Nicholas'.


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Don't forget to check out everything else we have going on here at Cageside today. Since it's Sunday, that means it's rankings day. Indeed, Sean Rueter is going to have the Smark Shoots Standings (S3) for you and Hollywood Wallace will be rocking the Wrestler Wrankings.
Keep checking that front page for even more content throughout the day, as well. But for now, scroll on down to the comments and talk about whatever your heart desires.


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The main portion of my site now has a new design. It was time to freshen the look, and it was really time to make the site more mobile friendly. The site should now automatically adjust to the size of the small screen (you can try it by re-sizing your desktop PC's browser window if you want).
So far I have modified the home page, About Us section, articles, book, music, and a few other pages. There are more on my list to do, and I will get to them when I have a chance.
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Many of the visitors to my site are members of the International Tuba-Euphonium Association (ITEA), and many are not. Either group of people may be unaware of a terrific resource available to ITEA members.
ITEA members can go to iteaonline.org and click the History link, after which you see a link to the Oral History section of their website. In this section you find transcripts of interviews with tuba and euphonium players who are well-know in our community. This is a great way to
If you want to see the latest activity on the blog or the forum, you can do so on one page. There is a new link in the menu bar above, called "What's New?". This will take you to a quick overview of the latest activities in both the blog and the forum.
When viewing the blog, you should see your profile in the right column. There is a "Subscribe to this Blog" link, where you can specify whether you only want notifications when you log in, or if you would like an instant email when something
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On June 29, 2012, at the International Tuba-Euphonium Conference 2012 in Linz, Austria, euphonium artist and teacher David Werden was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Tuba-Euphonium Association (ITEA). Presenting the award were ITEA President Deanna Swoboda, and Dr. Brian Bowman introduced the winner.
Dr. Bowman covered some highlights of Werden's career, including his 26 years
The name Henry Fillmore is synonymous with great marches for band. The Rolling Thunder march is especially favored by low brass because that section is featured to such great effect. This new arrangement for two euphoniums and two tubas gives all players some interesting parts and creates an exciting piece for the audience as well.
The chosen key is the same as the band key, so players familiar with the band version will have an easy time reading this (well, more-or-less easy!).
For a lot of beginners or intermediate players, buying a high-price euphonium is not appropriate or affordable. However, they still want to make the best choice for a horn that will probably be played a number of years.
I just posted a new article about buying an inexpensive euphonium, which I hope will help people know how to make a choice. It covers Number of Valves, Receiver Size, Finish, Weight, Case, Considering Future Repairs, and Used Instruments: Buying an Inexpensive
There is now a new page on the site to extend the discussion of the "Choosing a Euphonium" page. The panel discussion is taken from a larger discussion at the International Euphonium Institute in 2007. Hear opinions from Brian Bowman, David Childs, Eugene Dowling, Adam Frey, and David Werden. There is also an audio recording if you would like to hear the panelists "in person."
Here is the new page:
Buying a Euphonium, IEI 2007 panel discussion
With Gratitude to Harold T. Brasch
The late Harold T. Brasch was a great influence on my playing. When I was in high school I had never heard a professional euphoniumist, so I didnt have a very good concept of sound. Then in my senior year our band invited Harold Brasch to be our guest soloist. In anticipation, the band director played one of his records for us. I listened to more of the record during some study hall periods and paid close attention to the way he played Hungarian


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China factory activity expands again in September: official PMI
Activity in China's manufacturing sector expanded again in September, an official survey showed on Saturday, which may indicate that recent positive momentum can be sustained.
The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) stood at 50.4 in September, identical with the previous month's level. A reading above 50.0 shows growth on a monthly basis.
September's 50.4 reading matched the prediction of a Reuters poll.
After a significant pick-up in March, China's official PMI slipped, falling below 50 in July before showing expansion in August.
In an encouraging sign, new export orders increased in September, rising to 50.1 from the previous month's 49.7.
In September, output edged up to 52.8 from 52.6 in August, but the index for total new orders slipped to 50.9 from 51.3.
A sub-index for smaller firms fell, while performance at larger companies improved, a sign that the government's dependence on big state firms for growth this year has not changed.
Economists say the pattern over the past few months suggested sustained economic growth, but a growing dependence on government spending and an overheated property market may pose increased risks later this year with debt levels continuing to rise.
Industrial profits rose at the fastest pace in three years in August, with rising sales and higher prices stimulated by a construction boom and heated property market.
But profits remained uneven, as traditional heavy industries with excess capacity such as steel still struggled for growth.
Sectors like high-tech, auto manufacturing and shipbuilding showed strong expansion, the survey showed.
Jobs were again lost, though at a slower pace, with the employment sub-index rising to 48.6, compared to 48.4 in August.
Job losses could be rising as the government has pledged broad capacity cuts across a range of industries.
Industrial over capacity remains one of the main drags on economic growth.
Beijing has pledged to quicken the pace of its industrial capacity cuts, particularly in steel, after falling behind earlier in the year.
China's state planner rejected a request in September by the nation's steel makers for coal mines to ramp up coking coal output to help ease supply tightness that has triggered a frenzied price rally.
China's slowing economy and problems with industrial over capacity have also reduced investment opportunities, a view reinforced by Fan Gang, a member of China's central bank monetary committee. Private investment grew just 2.1 percent in the first eight months of the year, remaining at record lows.
A similar official survey showed activity in China's services sector expanded at a slightly faster pace, with the official reading at 53.7 in September from 53.5 in August.
A measure of the construction industry rose as the government has gone on an infrastructure spending spree.
The services employment sub-index rose in September, but still indicated services companies were cutting staff.
Beijing has been counting on a strong services sector to pick up the slack as it tries to shift the economy away from a dependence on heavy industry and manufacturing exports.
A private business showed on Friday that factory activity expanded in September but the improvement was marginal and manufacturers continued to shed jobs.
The Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' index for September rose to 50.1 from a no-change level of 50.0 in August.
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Thanh Tran '17- It's hard to believe that 5 weeks of my internship had already passed. The last 5 weeks was an excellent work experience. Speaking of email marketing, people may assume that there're not much work involved in it. As I told my friend once about my internship title, he asked me: "So you just sit there and click the send button?" I wished it could be simple as that but "unfortunately", in fact, it was not. I have to admit that I was a bit worried before my internship started since I just finished my first year and didn't have many course works in business. However, with the step-by-step instructions from Curtis Peterson '10 and other team members, I was able to learn and enhance my skills substantially in marketing.
Angie' List is a consumer-reviews company whereby people sign up for membership to view the reviews of other customers and use the recommended services. In other word, it's a reciprocal platform of which Angie's list suggests the best service providers to consumers and in return, the consumers leave the reviews after they use the services. The Email Marketing team, of which I intern in, is a core function of that review-based system. Our job is to get the members to sign-up for membership as well as help them leave the reviews after they use a service or purchase a deal. Our team has four great members. They are Jared, Weston, Seth and my supervisor, Curtis Peterson. My internship wouldn't become a great learning and working experience without the dedicated guidance from Jared and Curtis. As I mentioned above about the email marketing function, my internship tied to the review collection, including updating and analyzing data. On a daily basis, I handle most of the tasks with Excel and some specialized email marketing tools, which are ExactTarget, Formstack, FTP and AL-tool. On every Monday, I cleaned up the submission spreadsheet that I pulled out from Formtack to calculate the conversion rates of the test and control groups. Then, I conducted A/B split tests to determine which one is the winner of the weekly email campaign. I also sent out review emails to over one million member on every Monday, which was quite intimidating since a small error could mess up the whole process. On Friday, I executed quality assurance (QA) to ensure proper emails templates and resolution regardless of viewing screens before they were sent. In addition, the best part of my internship was the email project, thanks to the great initiative of Curtis Peterson. First of all, I created four types of Gmail accounts based the increasing level of engagement: they never engaged, rarely engaged, less engaged and engaged. With those accounts, I signed up for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, TripAdvisor, HomeAdvisor and Yelp. I keep track of the emails from those websites to calculate the email frequency as well as the way they approach members with respect to different engagement degrees. And for that reason, my project is also called the email "spy" project. Indeed, I found out very interesting things about how each Websites above email their members. For instance, Facebook keeps the same subject lines for their emails, whereas LinkedIn tweaked their emails a lot.
Speaking of my internship, it would be a serious mistake if I didn't mention the workplace environment at Angie's List. Angie's List does care about its employees. Indeed, we don't have to wear business casual to work. People can wear whatever they want as long as they're appropriate. There is a small gym on campus where employees can have a short break to work out. Angie's List employees can enroll in a fitness program of which they get awarded for a number of pounds they lose. During my internship, the human resource team organized an Interns Olympic Day where interns competed against each other in a variety of outdoor games. It was a fun day as all of us have the great opportunity to know each other. My friend Shelby Logan from Northwestern University won the Intern of the Year. Along with that, working with my team is an interesting thing too. People here are very friendly as they're willing to help when you reach out to them. We also have a Friday lunch that people at the Marketing department can have lunch together. Just so you know, I had a Friday lunch with Angie Hick once. As my supervisor Curtis told me on his last day at Angie: "Money is important but not everything, what matters is who you're working with."
Now, I can say with confidence that my knowledge of email marketing was substantially improved. What you show on your email has a significant impact on the viewers. It can be a subject line, a picture or an appealing call-to-action. Email marketing is cost-effective, yet the most effective marketing campaign. With that being said, it's a job that requires creativity, innovation and meticulous analysis.
Finally, I would like to take my last part to thank Wabash College for offering such great opportunities like this to Wabash students. I also want to thank Lilly Endowment, Inc for providing me this opportunity. Without the funding from Lilly, this would not be possible. Last but not least, I want to say my biggest thanks to Curtis Peterson '10 and Jared Campbell for guiding and teaching me with great dedication.


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Question - In comparing Jesus to Buddha, Jesus seems very active and revolutionary. Why is this?
Osho - There is a reason. But first, some explanation is needed. Yoga divides man into two parts: the sun part and the moon part. The sun is symbolic of inner positivity and the moon is symbolic of inner negativity. Sun does not mean the outer sun nor does moon mean the outer moon. These words are used for the inner universe.
There is even one breath that is known as the sun breath and another breath that is known as the moon breath. Every forty to sixty minutes, your breath changes from one nostril to the other. If you need more heat in the body, or if you suddenly grow angry, your sun breath starts functioning. Yoga says that if you use your moon breath when you are angry, then you cannot be angry at all, because the moon breath creates a deep coolness inside.
The negative is cool, silent, still. The positive is hot, vibrant with energy, active. The sun is the active part in you and the moon is the inactive part in you. When one first becomes acquainted with the sun, the light is burning hot, like a flame.
If you analyze the inner life of Buddha or of Jesus with this distinction in mind, many things which are ordinarily hidden will become apparent. For example, whenever an enlightened one like Buddha is born, his early life will be very revolutionary. The moment one enters the inner dimension, the first experience is of a fiery flame. But the older Buddha grows, the more an inner coolness is felt. The more perfect the moon stage becomes, the more the revolutionary fervor is lost. That is why Buddha's words are not revolutionary.
Jesus did not have this opportunity. He was crucified while he was still a revolutionary and he died, as far as Christianity is concerned, at the age of thirty-three. If you compare Buddha's sayings with those of Jesus there is a clearcut difference. Jesus' sayings look like those of a young man -- hot. Buddha's early sayings were also like this, but he was not crucified for them; he lived to be eighty.
The reason he was not crucified is that India has always known that this happens. Whenever a person moves within, whenever a buddha enters into himself, his first expression is fiery, revolutionary, rebellious. He bursts open and explodes into fire. But then that phase disappears and ultimately there is only the moon: silent, without any fire, with only light. That is why India has never killed anyone; that is why India has never behaved the way the Greeks behaved with Socrates or the Jews with Jesus.
Jesus was crucified early. Christianity still remains incomplete because Christianity is based on the early Jesus, on Jesus when he was just a flame. Buddhism is complete. It has known Buddha in all his stages. It has known Buddha's moon in all the stages of the moon -- from the first day to the full moon light.
It has been a misfortune for the West, it has proven itself to be one of the greatest misfortunes in history, that Jesus was crucified when he was just a flame, when he was only thirty-three. The flame would have turned into moonlight, but the opportunity was not given. The reason is that the Jews were not aware of the inner phenomenon.
India has known many buddhas, and it is always true that whenever someone enters the inner dimension, he has to feel the fire of the revolutionary side coming up. If one continues going inward, this dissolves, and then there is only silence, a moonlit silence. To change heat into light is the secret science of inner alchemy. To change coal into diamonds, to change baser metals into gold -- these are just symbols.
Alchemists were never really concerned with changing baser metals into higher metals, but they had to hide what they were doing. They had to create an esoteric, secret symbology, because it was very difficult in early times to talk about an inner science and not be murdered. Jesus was killed: he was an alchemist. And the Christianity that developed after Jesus went against him. The Christian Church began to kill and murder those who were practicing the alchemy of inner transformation.
Christianity could not really flower into a religion; it remained a clerical thing. It could not create sannyasins, it could only create preachers -- trained, dead, disciplined.
Source - Osho Book "The Great Challenge'
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Discussion questions about WatsonThursday, February 17th, 2011
- Wouldn't Jeopardy! be better without those stupid buzzers? Even if the contestants just, y'know, took turns? In a game focused solely on question-answering (OK, OK, answer-questioning) rather than buzzing, Watson would still have done amazingly well and reflected credit on its developers, but the man/machine competition would have been much closer and much more interesting to watch. No one needs a repeated demonstration that computers have faster reaction times than humans.
- Inspired by the timeline discussion: could something like Watson have been built in, say, 2000? If not, then which developments of the past decade played important roles?
- Back when Deep Blue beat Kasparov, IBM made a big to-do about the central role played by its large, specially-designed mainframe with custom "chess chips"—but then it wasn't long before programs like Deep Fritz running on desktop PCs produced similar (and today, probably superior) performance. How long before we can expect a computer Jeopardy! champion that fits behind the podium?


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Lady Gaga stopped in to see Donatella Versace in Milan yesterday. At some point during their visit, Donatella must have taken her into the vault. Because Gaga stepped out later wearing one of the most iconic Versace dresses of all time. Off the top of your head, you can probably remember just two -- Jennifer Lopez's green Grammy gown might be the other? But this, this is a true Gianni original. And it was Elizabeth Hurley who cockblocked an entire red carpet with it in 1994 at the premiere of Four Weddings And A Funeral with Hugh Grant. Gaga would have been 12 years old. Back then it was a collective gasp: a woman wearing a dress held together by safety pins - let's clutch our pearls!
Now it's a mere shrug. Almost safe, in fact. And the only purpose it serves here is an excuse for some Gossip Nostalgia. Because, like, remember Liz and Hugh (before he drove around LA looking for a blowjob)?