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STOCKTON, Calif. --In Stockton, the mother of a 15-year-old killed in a high speed chase with police describes her son as a good kid who was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Martell Aepeda was riding passenger in a car that crashed into a Stockton music store early Saturday morning, killing him and the 13-year-old driver.
Stockton police say alcohol was not a factor, but the Honda was reported stolen days before the crash.
Martell's mother Eleatha Bennett says she wasn't fond of her son's relationship with the 13-year-old, but she is not pointing fingers.
"It was just an accident, I don't blame nobody, it was just an accident," Bennett said.
Authorities say the stolen car lost control and crashed after the 13-year-old tried to outrun officers.


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TDK has just introduced to the Japanese market the new wireless TH-WR700 headphones using the Kleer technology.
The transmitter can be plugged to every device with a 3.5 jack connector and the 16-bit/44.1KHz radio signal will be send to the headphones using the 2.4GHz band. A listening radius is 10 meters and the signal can be received by up to four users simultaneously. The headphones are powered by four AA batteries which allow about 40 hours of work. Frequency response is 20 Hz – 20 kHz.
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Sales Videos necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 128 design presentati da 23 designer.
We build videos that sell products and business opportunities.
Our market is the marketing industry and anyone with any business that needs a sales video of any kind, so yeah, pretty much everyone ;)
We are now preparing to launch our new brand, salesvideos.com and our website will be based around our new logo.
We are looking for a cutting edge high quality logo. You have total creative freedom on font, colors, etc. Experiment with it (even with upper/lower case). A greyscale version of the logo will also be used as a watermark on our videos.
Our tag line is "Video That Sells!" but would not be required in the watermark version.
We produce dazzling videos so we are looking for some dazzling logos :)
Impress us with your creativity.
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International Business Times: Although Amazon's tablet PC hasn't even been released yet, a new report from researchers at Forrester suggests that it could take over the lead from Apple's iPad. Analyst Sarah Rotman Epps said that if Amazon's tablet offers a significantly better price than Apple's device, Amazon could sell three to five million units in the fourth quarter of this year, outselling the iPad.
"Thus far, Apple has faced many would-be competitors, but none have gained significant market share," said Epps. "Not only does Amazon have the potential to gain share quickly but its willingness to sell hardware at a loss, as it did with the Kindle, makes Amazon a nasty competitor."
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January 15, 2011 : Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif have been talked of as a couple for sometime now. But given that the duo are not seen hanging out or doing any film together, whether they are in a relationship or not, cannot be confirmed! The two, however, met up at Ranbir's sister's house recently, and the paparazzi spotted them together just in time!
Are they seeing each other?
Rumour has it that Katrina is too possessive about him. And Ranbir, as we know, is so very fond of messing around with hot gals in his life and movies! Ranbir has been busy considering Nargis Fakhri as his next gal, as he shoots with her on the sets of Imtiaz Ali's Rockstar. But he has not given told Katrina anything about his relationship with her, which definitely keeps Katrina longing for him!
It is interesting to note that both Ranbir and Katrina broke off their relationships last year. Their love story took off after working together on the flop-film Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani in 2009. Could their attraction to each other be the reason behind the buzzing off the relation with their publicly committed partners? May be!
For now, Ranbir desperately needs a hit in his career to prove his mettle as apart from Rajneeti, his other films have bombed at the box-office! The tag of Rishi Kapoor's son wont last him long!


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This papercraft is a Fortune Roll (Eho-maki) Sushi, is futo-maki (thick sushi roll) eaten on the night of Setsubun, designed by niku-mansei. To be related with the Seven Deities of Good Fortune called Shichifukujin, seven fillings are traditionally rolled in a sushi roll. For example, simmered shiitake mushrooms and kanpyo, cucumber, rolled omelet, eels, sakura denbu, and seasoned koyadofu are used. These ingredients represent good health, happiness, and prosperity, and rolling the fillings means good fortune.
Usually, sushi rolls are sliced into bite-sized pieces. But fortune rolls aren't sliced since slicing indicates cutting good fortune. When eating fortune rolls, people face toward the good fortune direction of the year and make wishes.
You can download the paper craft template here: Fortune Roll Sushi Free Papercraft Download [Instruction]


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Recruiting diverse students to computing requires that you spark their interest, build their confidence they can succeed, create a community where they feel like they belong, and help them see themselves as a "computing person." This Top 10 list offers practices that help you recruit high school girls to your computing courses.
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Computing-related jobs are interesting, well-paying, secure, and abundant, so why aren't more women working in this creative field that produces the technology that is central to our daily lives?
Encouragement increases self-efficacy, which is the belief in one's ability to successfully perform a task. Because we are more likely to engage in tasks that we believe we can perform successfully, encouragement may be especially useful for attracting women to male-stereotyped fields such as computing.
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Introduce students to computer science through AgentCubes, a powerful and engaging 2-D and 3-D programming tool. By completing the lessons in this program-in-a-box your middle school students will learn to program their own games and simulation worlds, and in the process learn the fundamentals of computer science.
This resource provides tips mid-career technical women can use to advance their careers.
This attention-getting infographic summarizes the key findings from the Girls in IT report. Use this piece to raise awareness about ways to increase girls' participation in computing.
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Engage students not already drawn to computing by creating academic and social environments where these students feel like they belong. Students respond positively to solving real-life problems that draw on their existing knowledge and interests and that involve collaboration in hands-on projects.
Listing the top five reasons to work at a startup, this card encourages computing professionals to consider jobs with members of the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Alliance.
Reproduce this resource with the help of a copy center. Download our reproduction kit, containing the professionally designed PDF file (measuring 4.25" x 5.5") and a printing guide.
Members of the Social Science Advisory Board (SSAB) support the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) through their research and knowledge about women and information technology. The depth and breadth of perspectives and approaches that SSAB members and visitors bring to the study of women and computing are illustrated in examples of their recent research projects. In the research summaries that follow, we see expertise across social science fields, and theoretical and empirical issues and findings with implications for diversity and the full participation of wome
This report examines the effects of participation in Globaloria on girls' interests, confidence, and participation in computing activities by analyzing pre- and post- test data for Globaloria participants and enrollment data for Globaloria elective courses. Results demonstrate that outcomes of Globaloria participation among girls include an increase in several home computing activities for girls, and that total female enrollment in elective Globaloria courses is higher than the national average for female enrollment in computing courses.
The original 2007 report, Who Invents IT? An Analysis of Women's Participation in Information Technology Patenting, examined the rates at which women have been patenting in information technology (IT), how these rates have evolved between 1980-2005, and how these rates differ across IT industry sub-categories and across specific organizations. This edition updates the previous report, exploring these trends from 2006-2010.
Employees report that the supervisory relationship is one of the most significant factors in their decision to leave or stay with an organization. Are you, as a supervisor, adequately prepared for this responsibility?
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I keep these inspirational words written on cards pinned to the wall above my...
computer to empower myself almost daily with motivational quotes and phrases.
It's amazing how having some positive words in front of you could prove the impetus to put on those running shoes and hit the pavement.
Robin Williams once said, "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
Here's my collection of picture positive phrases. I hope you find it inspiring. At this point I should say that the choice of these images is not random. Food and feelings often go hand in hand. Don't you think? ;)
Easy Yogurt Cake. {Get the recipe for Easy Yogurt Cake.}A Cup of Joe.


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This morning, after a hearty breakfast (but the food fare was still as salty as ever from Italy to Switzerland), our tour group proceeded for a city tour of Lucerne. It was a walking city tour, led by our tour manager.
From Hotel Monopol where our tour group was putting up, we walked to the Chapel Bridge, just a stone's throw away. The Chapel Bridge was the icon of Lucerne which was restored after a fire. There were swans swimming in the lake under the bridge.
From the bridge, we walked on to tour the Lucerne city which was resplendent with interesting houses and sights. Fountains after fountains greeted us. Our tour group was told that fountains were the status of a family's wealth in those days. But now not all of the houses remained, in their places were shophouses.
Next, we toured the Lion Monument , a monument commemorating the Swiss Guards who participated in the French Revolution. After more briefings of the scenery around Lucerne, it was a full day of own Free and Easy tour of Lucerne. We were told where to get the good bargains, etc before we were left to explore Lucerne on our own.
My Dear and I went to shop in a multi-storey shophouse and were amazed at the wide suite of offerings from cheap and quality chocolates to steady Swiss knives and KooKoo bird clocks and Swiss watches. I also broke the string of a Kookoo bird clock accidentally.
My Dear and I went to redeem free gifts from the watch shops nearby and then we went shopping from one aisle to the other, buying more chocolates from the compartment stores. We also visited the pharmacy where I bought many hair loss shampoos: Alpecin hair loss shampoo, Rausch and Klorane hair loss shampoo. I mean I have been dropping lots of hair as such when I come to Switzerland, a country prided for its excellent medical standards, I bought those shampoos which could not be found in Singapore and somemore they were not expensive.
We also bought many Swiss souvenirs and hence our hands were soon full of heavy shopping bags that we had to return back to Swiss Hotel Monopol for "unloading". We settled our lunch at the Macdonald below our hotel as walking in Lucerne vicinity, there was practically not many food choices.
A simple Macdonald set meal costing just $5 to $6 costs around $18 Singapore dollars in Switzerland! We ordered the largest size set meal which is medium but the feeling is like that of large (not really large as I thought Europeans eat bigger-sized meals).
After lunch, we went out of our hotel suite to explore the underground train station and other parts of Lucerne. It was a very hot day and the shopping can only last 2 to 3 hours and then the rest was the usual boring and ordinary sight-seeing.
The day soon passed as my Dear and I travelled and explore the sleepy little town of Lucerne. Cheese fondue was our main pursuit for dinner. After frantically searching for a Cheese fondue, we were put off by the fact that the restaurant "penalized" those who did not order some expensive drinks. Furthermore, a cheese fondue costs around Singapore $44 for a small portion! We wanted some solid food but the restaurants for we enquired the menu were not very delighted to have Chinese customers.
My Dear and I spent almost half an hour looking at the birds of different colours swimming in the pond. We were hungry but there was no good food around. We missed Singapore!
To cut the story short, we had Macdonalds again for dinner! We ate Chicken burgers as opposed to the beef burgers we had for lunch. We nearly ate Burger King!
The night was spent stuffing our luggages with the items we bought. Almost half of the whole Europe tour has passed. Tomorrow, we would be visiting Geneva before dropping at DJohn (France) for the night.


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Silage pH varies depending on the forage to be ensiled, the dry matter (DM) level of the crop and the phase of ensiling — among other factors. While there are target pH ranges, this measure isn't an absolute, fail-safe parameter and is somewhat dependent on the mixture of acids produced, which can be influenced by the type of inoculant used.
A fast, efficient front-end fermentation during early ensiling will reduce the pH of the forage, stabilize the silage environment and reduce yeast growth, which is the major cause of silage heating. A fast pH drop (to below 5) is essential to reduce DM and nutrient losses and prevent bad fermentations.
In general, the pH level of the forage will be between 5.5 and 6.0 prior to ensiling. During ensiling, the pH level will drop due to acid production (mainly lactic acid) — with the final pH likely being somewhere between 3.7 and 4.7, depending on the factors described previously. A low pH essentially "pickles" the forage and — coupled with an anaerobic environment — helps prevent growth of spoilage microbes like clostridia, yeasts and molds.
If pH is outside of these ranges, there are a few likely culprits. A high pH can be due to slow fermentation, which can then allow the growth of spoilage microbes.
If the silage pH is too low, this is usually due to the activity of "wild" lactobacilli that are naturally present in the silage. Often, this results after a slow initial fermentation. A fast, efficient front-end fermentation can help prevent these wild lactobacilli from becoming established.
Once silage feedout begins, the pH may rise again as the process of aerobic deterioration begins. This is normally due the activity of spoilage yeasts, which can use lactic acid as a food source. To prevent this, and the associated heating and subsequent mold spoilage, we need to produce specific anti-mycotic acids, e.g. acetic acid and/or propionic acid.
Forage inoculants can help ensure silage hits the correct pH targets and acid profile to promote stability, retain DM and maximize nutrient preservation. The lactic acid bacteria (LAB) Pediococcus pentosaceus 12455, provides an efficient, fast fermentation fueled by sugars generated by high activity enzymes. In addition, the high dose rate Lactobacillus buchneri 40788 is the only active bacteria reviewed by the FDA and allowed to claim improved aerobic stability of silages and HMC.
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Lagos has been ranked the third worst city to live in the world,maintaining its 2015 position on the Global Liveability index according to the 2016 ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit released yesterday.
Lagos placed 138th out of the 140 cities ranked in the latest liveability survey, just above war-ravaged Tripoli and Damascus.
The report listed Boko Haram as one of the factors contributing to the instability in Lagos,,
"Continued threats from groups like Boko Haram acts as a constraint to improving stability in Lagos."
The top five best countries to live in, according to the report,are Melbourne, Australia; Vienna, Austria; Vancouver, Canada; Toronto, Canada; and Calgary, Canada.
The survey arrives at the ranking by assessing which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions across five broad categories,stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure.
Of the five categories, Lagos scored highest in culture and environment, followed by infrastructure. It scored lowest in stability.
Three other African cities joined Lagos at the bottom , with Douala, Cameroun; Harare, Zimbabwe; and Algiers, Algeria; ranking 132nd, 133rd, and 134th respectively.
No African city made it to the top 10 most liveable cities.


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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. –Hemingway
My void is a great devourer, a great annihilator. –Michaux
And so I dream of going back to be. –Frost
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how do you diagnose a kernel oops?
Given a linux kernel oops, how do you go about diagnosing the problem? In the output I can see a stack trace which seems to give some clues. Are there any tools that would help find the problem? What basic procedures do you follow to track it down?
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x33343a31 Faulting instruction address: 0xc50659ec Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] tpsslr3 Modules linked in: datalog(P) manet(P) vnet wlan_wep wlan_scan_sta ath_rate_sample ath_pci wlan ath_hal(P) NIP: c50659ec LR: c5065f04 CTR: c00192e8 REGS: c2aff920 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: P (22.214.171.124-dirty) MSR: 00009032 CR: 22082444 XER: 20000000 DAR: 33343a31, DSISR: 20000000 TASK = c2e6e3f0[1486] 'datalogd' THREAD: c2afe000 GPR00: c5065f04 c2aff9d0 c2e6e3f0 00000000 00000001 00000001 00000000 0000b3f9 GPR08: 3a33340a c5069624 c5068d14 33343a31 82082482 1001f2b4 c1228000 c1230000 GPR16: c60f0000 000004a8 c59abbe6 0000002f c1228360 c340d6b0 c5070000 00000001 GPR24: c2aff9e0 c5070000 00000000 00000000 00000003 c2cc2780 c2affae8 0000000f NIP [c50659ec] mesh_packet_in+0x3d8/0xdac [manet] LR [c5065f04] mesh_packet_in+0x8f0/0xdac [manet] Call Trace: [c2aff9d0] [c5065f04] mesh_packet_in+0x8f0/0xdac [manet] (unreliable) [c2affad0] [c5061ff8] IF_netif_rx+0xa0/0xb0 [manet] [c2affae0] [c01925e4] netif_receive_skb+0x34/0x3c4 [c2affb10] [c60b5f74] netif_receive_skb_debug+0x2c/0x3c [wlan] [c2affb20] [c60bc7a4] ieee80211_deliver_data+0x1b4/0x380 [wlan] [c2affb60] [c60bd420] ieee80211_input+0xab0/0x1bec [wlan] [c2affbf0] [c6105b04] ath_rx_poll+0x884/0xab8 [ath_pci] [c2affc90] [c018ec20] net_rx_action+0xd8/0x1ac [c2affcb0] [c00260b4] __do_softirq+0x7c/0xf4 [c2affce0] [c0005754] do_softirq+0x58/0x5c [c2affcf0] [c0025eb4] irq_exit+0x48/0x58 [c2affd00] [c000627c] do_IRQ+0xa4/0xc4 [c2affd10] [c00106f8] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14 --- Exception: 501 at __delay+0x78/0x98 LR = cfi_amdstd_write_buffers+0x618/0x7ac [c2affdd0] [c0163670] cfi_amdstd_write_buffers+0x504/0x7ac (unreliable) [c2affe50] [c015a2d0] concat_write+0xe4/0x140 [c2affe80] [c0158ff4] part_write+0xd0/0xf0 [c2affe90] [c015bdf0] mtd_write+0x170/0x2a8 [c2affef0] [c0073898] vfs_write+0xcc/0x16c [c2afff10] [c0073f2c] sys_write+0x4c/0x90 [c2afff40] [c0010060] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 --- Exception: c01 at 0xfd98a50 LR = 0x10003840 Instruction dump: 419d02a0 98010009 800100a4 2f800003 419e0508 2f170000 419a0098 3d20c507 a0e1002e 81699624 39299624 7f8b4800 419e007c a0610016 7d264b78 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Rebooting in 1 seconds..
An Ooops gives a bunch of information useful in diagnosing a crash. It starts with the address of the crash, the reason ("access of bad area") and the contents of the registers. The call trace answers the question "how did we get here". The first item in the list happened most recently. Working backwards, an interrupt happened (do_IRQ) because the Atheros WiFi adapter received a packet (ath_rx_poll). The routine passed it to the generic WiFi code (ieee80211_input) which in turn passed it up to the network stack (netif_receive_skb).
To figure out the exact code causing the problem, you can run
gdb /usr/src/linux/vmlinux
and then disassemble the function in question, which might be mesh_packet_in(). Might, because the faulting instruction (0xc50659ec) looks to be outside of mesh_packet_in() (0xc5065f04). You might also try the gdb command
(gdb) info line 0xc50659ec
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English, Reading, Language Arts
Middle School
The Reading/Language Arts program at middle school is a rigorous and comprehensive one which addresses the processes of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and the contents of language and literature integrated within each course. Each grade level is matched to the Maryland State Curriculum. Major materials used include:
McDougal Littel: Language of Literature
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High School
The High School English program includes four required courses which are integrated curricula including reading, writing, listening, speaking, language and literature. English I and II provide a sequenced preparation for students to be successful on the English High School Assessment.
English I: genre approach 1 credit
English II: genre approach 1 credit
English III: American Literature 1 credit
English IV: British Literature 1 credit
All curricula are matched to the Maryland State Curriculum/English Core Learning Goals.
Honors sections are available in English I, II, III. At the twelfth grade level, the available course is Advanced Placement English, Literature and Composition, Parts I and II. An elective, Advanced Placement English Language, is highly recommended for honors juniors in the spring semester.
In addition, electives are offered in creative writing, journalism, mythology and folklore, speech, yearbook, and world literature. For specific information on Honors sections and on course descriptions, please see the Program of Study.
Contact:Bridget Hoban
(410) 758-2403 ext.122
202 Chesterfield Avenue
Centreville, Maryland 21617


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The Oncology Nurse Navigator (ONN) is a Registered Nurse with oncology-specific clinical skills and comprehensive knowledge of cancer, treatment modalities, and cancer management. The ONN will orient and educates patients, families, and caregivers to the healthcare system, multidisciplinary team member roles and resources. The ONN utilizes advanced clinical thinking and analytical skills that contribute to patient adherence of treatment protocols and symptom management. The ONN will demonstrate knowledge of NCCN clinical guidelines and specialty resources to assist patients making complex clinical decisions regarding the best recommended practice and ensure that appropriate standards of care are incorporated into the treatment plan. The ONN will serve as the central point of contact to the patient facilitating collaboration among all team members and ensuring individualized approach from diagnosis, active treatment through survivorship. The ONN will demonstrate commitment to quality patient care, implement creative and innovative ways to meet diverse patient needs and ensure best practices. Able to develop collaborative relationships both internally and externally. Contributes to the development of nursing research using evidence based research to identify strategies for improving professional development activities, nursing practice, and patient outcomes.
Possess a comprehensive knowledge base of pathophysiology of cancer, treatment modalities, disease progression, and system management which leads to improved patient outcomes.
Assess patient needs upon initial encounter using appropriate tools (ie: distress thermometer, pain scale) and identification of appropriate patients for genetic counseling. Navigates patient to appropriate services, referrals to health team and support services from active treatment into survivorship.
Utilizes advanced clinical thinking and analytical skills to assemble and critically examine the evidence necessary for complex, autonomous clinical decision making that contributes to improved outcomes for patients and families.
Provides education and resources for patients to facilitate informed decision making and timely access to quality health and psychosocial care throughout all the phases of the cancer continuum. Demonstrates knowledge of clinical guidelines (NCCN, AJCC) through all phases of patients care plan and survivorship.
Able to implement survivorship care plans with patients who continue to receive treatment to reduce the risk of recurrence or to manage the cancer as a chronic disease. Navigator will empower survivors to establish maintenance and life goals striving to diminish the negative impact of cancer care physically and emotionally.
Offers individualized assistance to patients, families and caregivers to overcome barriers that delay access to care and the healthcare system using the nursing process.
Collaborate and build partnership with local agencies, healthcare facilities, community and organizations to improve and assist with patient care, support and education
Measure and evaluate trends in patient responses and needs, retention, along with micro and macro level changes affecting specific patient populations
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Filippa K Online Store uses DHL Express for all shipments made within the European Union. We offer free standard shipping.
All orders are processed and delivered within 2-4 business days. All orders are fully traceable using DHL Track and Trace.
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Third party deliveries are possible for orders paid with credit card, meaning it is possible for you to place an order with shipment to a different address than your home or billing address.
Filippa K collaborates with RePack, a sustainable choice for packaging. If you choose to use RePack, your order will be sent to you in a reusable RePack, which you can return empty by dropping it into a post box, anywhere in the world. If returning with clothes, please follow normal return procedure. As a thank you, a discount voucher which can be used on your next Filippa K purchase, or any other brand also working with RePack, will be sent to you as soon as your returned RePack is received.
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The Filippa K Online Store ships to most countries worldwide.
-You can return any items purchased on Filippa K Online within 30 days of the delivery date.
-All products must be returned in original condition, with all tags still attached (unless faulty).
-Shoes must be returned in their original box and tried on a carpeted surface.
-For hygiene reasons our swimwear have a protective sealing and are therefore returnable and exchangeable if returned in original condition, with all protective sealing and all tags still attached.
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We recommend that you use our convenient and free returns service when returning or exchanging your purchase.
To complete a safe and convenient return online free of charge, follow these three simple steps:
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Setting up the License Key
For obtaining a valid Cyc license key, see above. For the the Routine Maintenance task of configuring your Cyc license key, see below.
Logger Configuration
Cyc and slf4j
Cyc uses the simple logging facade slf4j to make logging in the Cyc server compatible with the logging framework, such as log4j, that administrators already deploy at their site.
Cyc ships with a slf4j version 1.6 or higher, which automatically configures a no-op logger, should no logging back-end be required.
Logging is currently not available under Windows 7.
Logging is configured in the ${CYC_BASE_DIR}/bin/cyc-runner.sh file, using the following environment variables:
- LOG_FRAMEWORK_JARS controls the Jar files for the chosen logging framework that need to be included in the Java class path. This variable is empty by default, causing slf4j to configure a no-op logger. When specified, this variable should mention at least two Jar files, the appropriate slf4j binding implementation and the one or more Jars that make up the chosen logging framework.
- LOG_FLAG specifies any optional flags that need to be passed on to the logging infrastructure to configure the facade or the logging framework. By default, this environment variable is empty.
Binding Cyc with a specific Logging Framework
The following steps are necessary to bind Cyc with a specific logging framework. For purposes of illustration, the discussion will assume that the chosen logging framework is log4j.
- Put the JAR file for the logging framework (e.g. log4j-1.2.14.jar) into the ${CYC_BASE_DIR}/lib directory.
- Put the JAR file for the appropriate slf4j binding implementation (e.g. slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar) into the ${CYC_BASE_DIR}/lib directory.
- Open the ${CYC_BASE_DIR}/bin/cyc-runner.sh file in a text editor.
- Edit the LOG_FRAMEWORK_JARS variable to include the logging framework and the slf4j binding JAR files (e.g. add lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar to the string value).
- Edit the LOG_FLAG variable to customize the logging framework. An example customization for log4j might specify a configuration file (using -Dlog4j.configuration=file:bin/cyc.log4j.properties -Dconfig.location=file) and enable logging framework debugging (using -Dlog4j.debug=true).
${CYC_BASE_DIR}/bin/cyc.log4j.properties is an example configuration file for log4j that can server, mutatis mutandis, to configure other logging frameworks. Notice esp the section on turning off logging for specific modules of the core KB storage system, whose API methods are used pervasively and can swamp other logging information.
Password Authentication
Cyc supports password authentication of Cyclists in the Cyc Browser. This support is turned off by default but can be enabled in a straightforward fashion.
Specifying a Password for a Cyclist
Currently, any authenticated user can provide a password for any other Cyclist. In order to bootstrap this process, one has to first specify the password for the Cyc Administrator, and then enable password authentication. Cyc securely hashes the user name and the password and stores the result in plain-text in the KB. Since the authentication information is stored in the KB, the KB has to be persisted.
In the Cyc Browser, use Tools | Set Password to specify a password for a Cyclist. The tool will assert the hashed password, but the KB still needs to be persisted.
Enabling Password Authentication in the Cyc Server
In the configuration file ${CYC_BASE_DIR}/init/release-specific-init.lisp, add the following line:
(noting-progress "Enabling password authentication" (csetq *image-requires-authentication?* T))
Once the setting is enabled, all Cyc browser users need to authenticate themselves by password before they can proceed.
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In case anyone wasn't able to be there live today for The Clone Wars Hang Out, you can watch the full video of the event right here! Though be warned, they do go into full details of the events that happened in today's episode "The Lawless." So if you haven't seen the episode yet, beware […]
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Another cool new clip from "The Lawless" has just been released, and in this one we get to see a grand entrance made by Darth Sidious!! This episode can't air soon enough!
31 Jan. 2013
When the highly anticipated "Clone Wars" episode "The Lawless" airs in just a few days, it will no doubt be a game changer for the series. To celebrate the airing of this episode, StarWars.com has announced a special event happening this Saturday February 2nd over at Google+, where fans can interact with Dave Filoni and […]
30 Jan. 2013
Here's our preview of new clips and images from this week's new "Clone Wars" episode titled, "The Lawless," which wraps up the Darth Maul/Death Watch arc, and looks to be a great Obi Wan centric episode!


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If youre like most IT professionals, when you hear the word "network" youre likely to picture a web of computers or looming security threats—certainly not your social circle. But a panel of experts gathered in New York this week to dispel that perception and instead talk about the importance of social networks in the enterprise.
The panelists, all founders of social-networking start-ups, claim their technology—popular in online dating and Web sites such as Friendster.com—also can help businesses boost the bottom line.
"Relationships are undoubtedly one of the most valuable and least-visible parts of a business," said panelist Antony Bryden, president of startup Visible Path Corp. "The goal is figuring out how and where these relationships can be applied to business problems."
New York-based Visible Paths software mines employee e-mail and IM accounts, calendars, and address books for contacts. It then analyzes and maps the networks of relationships revealed within those resources. The goal: to help enterprise salespeople tap into their colleagues connections.
"The department that feels the greatest pain from lack of visibility into relationships is sales," Bryden said. But, he added, human resources departments also can use the technology to scope out candidates.
Visible Path also weighs the strength of the connection. If there are multiple connections, the software suggests the strongest one. The tool gauges relationship strength by analyzing such factors as degree of connection as well as consistency, frequency and length of communications. In addition, the system can identify which employees in the past have provided connections that have closed deals. Bryden says this type of analysis is essential for any social-networking tool. "Any solution that doesnt have weighting is going to drown as networks become more saturated," he said.
Bryden acknowledges that privacy is a concern. "For this to become widespread, a company has to deliver the highest standard of privacy," he said.
Visible Paths software gives each individual "total control over his or her relationships," he said. For example, users can choose to omit contacts from Visible Paths system at any time. They also can anonymously deny requests for connections or ask for more information before deciding. Bryden said it would be very difficult to identify a person who wont reveal a contact because "these networks get very complex, very quickly."
As part of its enterprise push, Visible Path offers integration with standard applications such as Microsoft Corp. Outlook and IBM Lotus Notes, as well as CRM (customer relationship management) systems. Visible Path partners with sales force automation vendor Salesforce.com and plans to announce similar partnerships with the launch of its product in the first half of this year.
Visible Path has been beta testing its technology for the past six months in midsized companies.
Next page: One saleswomans experience using Visible Path to mine for contact gold.


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I've been reading the news about the latest worm that has now infected 8.9 million machines. Now if you believe the reports:
"From an estimated 2.4 million infected machines to over 8.9 million during the last four days. That's just amazing." – CRN Australia
"It is the most serious large scale worm outbreak we have seen in recent years because of how widespread it is" – CNN
Now how can that be? IT companies spend so much of their time reinforcing to clients that they need to update their machines. Many have already put in place automated patching tools and still the number of infections rises faster than ever before. How can this be? The vulnerability was patched last October by Microsoft yet it goes to show how few systems out there are being patched regularly.
Many would point the finger at home users who rarely update their machines. I must say that I agree with that assessment because most of the students I ask in my IT courses never update their machines. This attitude makes us all vulnerable. Is it their fault for not patching or someone else's for making it too hard?
Doesn't it strike anyone else that things are not getting better they appear to be getting worse? For all the banging on IT people do about security each new worm outbreak happens faster every time. How can people have confidence in our connected world if so many machines can be compromised so quickly? Sure, maybe these report are over blown and maybe the infection does do that much 'damage' but don't you get the feeling it is only a matter of time?
Clearly, keeping systems up to date is simply too hard for the vast majority of users. Clearly, the message about IT security is not getting through. Clearly, many people have no idea that their machines have been compromised. Clearly we need to do something. Clearly it seems, everything we have tried so far hasn't worked! Any ideas?


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Michael Portillo and Kenneth Clarke led a heavyweight rebellion against Iain Duncan Smith's leadership last night by defying a three-line whip ordering them to vote against moves to allow unmarried couples to adopt.
Their challenge to Mr Duncan Smith's authority came after John Bercow, one of the party's rising stars, resigned from the shadow cabinet in protest over the tough line.
The eight Tories voting with Labour included seven former shadow cabinet ministers. The rebels were Andrew Lansley, Julie Kirkbride, Andrew Mackay, Francis Maude, Mr Clarke, David Curry, Mr Bercow and Mr Portillo. Another 35 Tory MPs did not vote, including two shadow cabinet members, Damian Green and Tim Yeo.
The debate on Government-backed plans to allow unmarried couples - heterosexual or same-sex - having the right to adopt highlighted Tory tensions over Mr Duncan Smith's leadership.
Mr Portillo was eliminated before the final round when Mr Clarke was defeated for the party leadership by Mr Duncan Smith last year. They were joined in defying the whip by their campaign managers, Mr Maude and Mr Curry.
The high-profile act of defiance was the most serious challenge yet to Mr Duncan Smith. The rebels ignored his offer for them to stay away and miss the vote, choosing instead to break the whip and oppose the party line.
Mr Duncan Smith refused to follow Labour's example and allow his MPs a free vote on what many regarded as a matter of conscience.
The Commons voted by 344 to 145, a majority 199 in favour of allowing unmarried couples to adopt. There is no bar on a homosexual or heterosexual people living together adopting. But only one can adopt, they cannot do so as a couple.
The change has already been approved once by the Commons, but was thrown out by the Lords last month. Peers will vote again today. If they stand firm, the measure could be lost because of lack of time before this session of Parliament ends on Thursday.
The issue of adoption has emerged as a key test of the pace of Tory modernisation. The rebellion by such senior figures followed a week of speculation about a possible leadership challenge.
Although Mr Portillo denied that he wanted to lead the party, his intervention was seen as a further sign of unrest.
Mr Bercow resigned as shadow work and pensions minister saying he wanted actively to support the proposal that unmarried and same sex couples should have the same adoption rights as married couples.
He was the first person to resign from Mr Duncan Smith's shadow Cabinet over policy. Although he praised his leader's efforts to modernise the party, his resignation fuelled speculation of growing discontent.
Mr Bercow, one of the leading modernisers in the shadow cabinet, who is to marry shortly, called on Tories to open their minds and drop their prejudices. He attacked the "arrogance and ignorance" of MPs who ignored expert advice that unmarried couples - gay and straight - should be allowed jointly to adopt.
The Buckingham MP said he was not prepared to sacrifice his principles to obey a three-line whip and take the easy way out. He said: "It would be a cop-out, a get-out and sell-out for somebody who feels as strongly as I do on this matter to take that course of action."
Mr Portillo has been a leading moderniser since losing his seat in the 1997 general election. Shortly before returning two years later as MP for Kensington and Chelsea, he admitted homosexual experiences in his youth.
He intervened during yesterday's Commons debate to indicate his concern that Mr Duncan Smith had failed to live up to promises to modernise policies and accept differing ways of life.
He referred to the leader's conference speech in which he said Conservatives must "first understand the way life in Britain is lived today and not the way it was lived 20 years ago".
"Consider for a moment what your position would be if you found yourself in the minority in this party and whether you would feel happy that in order to vote with your conscience you'd have to give up your front bench position?" said Mr Portillo.
Earlier he dismissed any possibility that he would stand for the leadership. "I do rule myself out, for two reasons in particular," he told BBC Radio's Start the Week.
"I don't think I would ever convince the party I was the person to lead them, and I don't think I would ever take the media with me".
Tory MPs believe Mr Portillo's attack on Mr Duncan Smith's leadership probably reflects his acknowledgment that he cannot become leader. However, he appears ready to use his influence to put pressure on Mr Duncan Smith to accelerate modernisation or make way for another leader.
- Oliver Heald, Conservative MP for North Hertfordshire, was promoted to the shadow cabinet last night to fill the work and pensions portfolio.
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Happy Sunday! I wanted to share some of these great images from Martha O'Hara interiors features great dark woods and rich colors that I love during this time of year. I can just see these houses hosting Thanksgiving then being meticulously decorated for Christmas.
Some of my faves: herringbone fireplace, framed intaglios and great architectural elements.
Mix of gray and white cabinetry
Brown and white sunroom
The darker burgundy velvet chairs are offset by the light and airy wallpaper
Dark wood masculine gentlemen's lounge room
Love how the long kitchen island provides lots of seating
Dark wood bathroom cabinetry
Rustic style wine room with brick flooring
Serene bathroom with built ins
Arts and crafts office
Boys fireroom themed bedroom with built in window bench


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I posted this yesterday, but today Terry Weldon at Queering the Church has offered the disappointing clarification that in fact Francis stopped well short of endorsing gay civil unions.
Read his full article here:
Pope Francis Has NOT "Supported" Civil Unions – but Catholic Thinking Continues to Evolve
CNN) - Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's opposition to gay marriage on Wednesday, but suggested in a newspaper interview that it could support some types of civil unions.
The Pope reiterated the church's longstanding teaching that "marriage is between a man and a woman." However, he said, "We have to look at different cases and evaluate them in their variety."
States, for instance, justify civil unions as a way to provide economic security to cohabitating couples, the Pope said in a wide-ranging interview published Wednesday in Corriere della Sera, an Italian daily. State-sanctioned unions are thus driven by the need to ensure rights like access to health care, Francis added.
A number of Catholic bishops have supported civil unions for same-sex couples, including Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 2010, according to reports in National Catholic Reporter and The New York Times.
But Wednesday's comments are "the first time a Pope has indicated even tentative acceptance of civil unions," according to Catholic News Service.
Pope Francis, who marks his first year in office on March 13, has sought to set a more tolerant tone for his 1 billion-member church and suggested that a broad range of topics are at least open for discussion.
In January, the Pope recalled a little girl in Buenos Aires who told her teacher that she was sad because "my mother's girlfriend doesn't like me."
"The situation in which we live now provides us with new challenges which sometimes are difficult for us to understand," the Pope told leaders of religious orders, adding that the church "must be careful not to administer a vaccine against faith to them."
The Vatican later denied that those comments signaled an opening toward same-sex unions.
Last June, Francis famously refused to judge gay priests in comments that ricocheted around the world. He has also said that the church should not "interfere"in the spiritual lives of gays and lesbians.


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Hi guys. We came back to the game for a bit but can't get our xbox (knock off brand) to work on ffxi.
When we go to the config we can map all the buttons except it won't recognize the l2 and r2 triggers (even with the xInput selected). When testing the rest of the buttons work fine, but once logged into the game none of them work.
We are trying to google various fixes, but a lot of answers seem to no longer work, often with links to drivers that no longer exist.
So for people who currently play, I figured I'd see if someone has a more recent fix to the problem.
Note: we are on windows 10 and controllers seem to work just fine on other games.


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Some our our readers will remember the dual screen YotaPhone that was announced last year, the device is being shown off at this weeks Mobile World Congress, and we get to have a quick look at the device in the video below.
The dual screen YotaPhone features a display on each side, on the front of the device is an LCD display on the back is an E-Paper display, it certainly looks very interesting from the video.
There are still no details on when the YotaPhone will be available, as soon as we get some more information on the device , including pricing and a launch date we will let you guys know.
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The televised week of inside-out examinations will include the swabbing of character, outright physical strength, speed, quickness, positional skills drills, strengths, weaknesses, intangibles, and the all important Wonderlic test.
The actual positional drills won't be televised until the 25th.
Saturday: Kickers, Offensive-Line, and Tight-Ends
Sunday: Running Backs, Quarterbacks, and Wide Receivers
Monday: Line-Backers, and Defensive Line
Tuesday: Defensive Backs
Here's the NFL Networks positional drills television schedule, while if you don't catch the initial viewing it'll all be run time and time again up until draft day.
(NFL Network all day) beginning at 9am to 2 pm, and then repeated between 2 - 7 pm!!
Here's Saturdays Combine OL, and TE Participants, (just click on the position),
while you can use these links for Sundays QB's and so forth thru Tuesday !!!
The alphabetically arranged "ANALYSIS" on players at posted links are pretty cool!!
Check-out Tackle Riley Reiff (one of our most likely options) on page two of the OL participants!! It probably won't post correctly here, so go check-it out for yourselves, VERYYY COOLL "EXPERT" ANALYSIS !! http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/riley-reiff?i...
http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/matt-kalil?id... (Probably gone by our pick) !!!
You can track EVERY-FRICKEN-THING that takes place during the combine!! Heres the OL bench press results, If the link doesn't take you directly to OL bench press results, just click the ""Bar-Bells"", and Position !!
THANX for an Open-Minded Read, and I hope you ENJOYYY the combine process :)!!
PLEASE let us know what you see and hear so we can gather a SHOUT game plan for the draft!! GOFINS : ) !!


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Creator of Duck Dynasty Starred in Film About Gay Porn
Thought that might get your attention. Scott Gurney (check it out) created and produced "Duck Dynasty." Also did some "homo-erotica" as the kids call it. It's so true that God works in strange, strange ways, isn't it? Boy, talk about self-loathing, huh? Don't say Rodney Lee didn't warn you a couple days ago about this "Reality" TV "scandal!!"
And just as reported, Phil will be filming new episodes in January… CLICK HERE IF YOU MUST
Just days after "suspending!!!" Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the infamous "Duck Dynasty" family, stars of the mega-popular, mega-profitable A&E "Reality" cable show from "future episodes" – the network has scheduled a "Duck Dynasty" marathon for Christmas, complete with episodes starring… Wait for it: Phil Robertson. You know, 'cause they care about saying stuff about gay people, or something – hey look – Miley Cyrus!..
This is no ordinary marathon, with 25 consecutive episodes beginning Christmas Day (hey isn't that Jesus' birthday or something?) – all mega-marketed and advertised for free, courtesy of those clever Hollywood public relations folks, TV executives, liberal activists, Charlie Sheen, the media, the Tea Party, Facebook, me, you, us, them, those guys, Phil, a couple ladies at bridge my mom knows, that dude at Starbucks, Cracker Barrel, Twitter kind of, Drudge and I could go on, but I'm tired of telling you all the truth and you just hate me, don't you. Admit it.
You've been had. I told you last week this was a put on and none of you wanted to hear it then and most of you have stopped reading now.
There ain't no "Reality" friendo. There's only money: .."Money, money, money money… Mo-naay"..
I myself have never been a fan of preaching to the choir – but this "Duck Dynasty" fiasco is beginning to take the cake, sportsfans. For the five of you still reading this post, I'm required by my overlords at JoeForAmerica to break for a word inspired by God:
24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
Don't get me wrong – I love these guys and although this whole thing is a scam to make money – I also believe it is God working through all of them. All of us. The Duck Family, the network folks, the media, Facebook, my mom's bridge club – everyone! HE's the King of get 'R done and baby we just need to take this momentum and keep this energy long after the marathon is over, Phil is magically reinstated into the good graces of A&E, new episodes start airing (gee – when did they film those?) and the guys driving the Brink's trucks get new tires.
If we can only see it we can take ownership of it and really make a dent in the culture war. They've been winning for too long and this little episode showed we've had enough and we're not taking it anymore. Sure, they're sitting back laughing, thinking they've fooled us into making a ton of money for them – and yes, they're right – but it can backfire in the long run.
Liberals are all about the short-term fix. The quick feel-good. Oops – time for another Truth Injection:
The producer and creator of "Duck Dynasty" starred in a dark, homoerotic indie film about the gay porn industry called "The Fluffer."
Ouch Mommy! Come on, I had to live up to the headline..
So, back to the scam and hopefully, the good that will come from it: It's looking more and more like the Phil Robertson thing is a PR stunt from the get go – A&E announcing now Phil will be featured in not just the holiday marathons, but is filming upcoming episodes and "perhaps" (duh) a new 5th season… CHA-CHING!
This is not about gay rights. It's about free speech. Be vigilant. Enjoy the marathon, but don't stop when it's over. Stand up for your civil rights all the time!
Someday, you'll all learn to trust me. Maybe after I defund ObamaCare, stop Amnesty, reinstate full retirement benefits for Veterans (shame on you Paul Ryan), cut the debt, eliminate the Dept's of Energy, Education, the EPA, IRS, Homeland Security, NSA and balance the budget.
Donate to my campaign today by clicking the link above. It only takes a minute and it's a good product. I'm taking down a RINO.
It's okay if you don't live in my district. I'm voting for you too. I'm stopping all Federal spending and joining with like-minding conservatives to uproot ObamaCare from your life, not just people in Congress and the White House, who are already exempt. Come on, get out your credit card and give $500, $100 or even $25, while you're thinking about it. Thanks – you'll be really happy with me.
In three days, I'm becoming a beta-tester for Google Glasses. Can you believe it? I'm going to wear them while campaigning and you'll be able to see what I see, but it's going to cost money to do it, so help me, okay?? It's going to be worth it. Click below and whatever you were thinking, double it. That's right, I said it (best Levin voice there).


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Defiance Season 2 DVD 4Disc
Defiance Season 2 DVD 4Disc
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In the second season, nine months have passed and the Earth Republic has taken over Defiance and appointed smarmy Niles Pottinger (Jim Murray) as mayor; at the same time, Amanda (Julie Benz) has become addicted to Adreno and is now running the NeedWant in the wake of her sister's death; and Datak (Tony Curran) is in prison, giving his wife Stahma (Jaime Murray) the perfect opportunity to become the new boss of her family's criminal empire. Meanwhile, Nolan (Grant Bowler) reunites with his daughter Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas) unaware Irzu has taken control of her and is causing her to murder seemingly random people. She wants to tell her dad, but she's afraid the truth will get him killed. She also learns she has competition when it comes to Tommy (Dewshane Williams), who, when Irisa ran away, started dating a soldier named Berlin (Anna Hopkins). And another love triangle seems to be brewing when a DJ named Treasure Doll (Kristina Pesic) takes an interest in Alak (Jesse Rath), despite the news that his wife Christie (Nicole Muñoz) is pregnant with their first child. Linda Hamilton ("The Terminator") joins the cast in Episode 10 as Pilar, the long-separated wife of Rafe McCawley (Graham Greene).
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On the face of it, computer storage sounds like the easiest thing in the world. After all, most of us don't even think about the technology of our PCs' internal hard disks – we just put stuff on them and expect it to stay there. If we're particularly sensible we make the occasional copy of our stuff – perhaps on a CD-R – because hard disks sometimes break, but that's just part of life.
In anything but the most trivial installation, of course, storage becomes more involved – to the level of obsession if you have a huge data centre that has to keep humming 99.9996 percent of the time. In this feature, then, we'll look at the practicalities of storage from the ground up.
In most implementations, we have the choice of IDE (also known as ATA) and SCSI disks. IDE disks have been around since the IBM AT (of which Noah took a pair onto the Ark), and have their controller logic built into the card itself. Early IDE hard disks used the computer's processor to handle the transfer of data between computer and disk, which became a bottleneck, but newer disks use DMA, which relieves the load on the CPU by not using it at all for data transfers. Although IDE disks are considered to be slow, modern versions such as "Ultra DMA" permit data transfers of up to 100Mbyte/sec, so don't' be fooled. Their main drawback for larger installations is actually that you can only connect two of them to the IDE socket on the motherboard.
SCSI disks are more expensive because they're aimed more at the high-end applications and they have a number of benefits over IDE. The main bonus with SCSI is that depending on which flavour you have you can connect anything between eight ("Narrow SCSI") and 32 ("Very Wide SCSI") units to a single SCSI connector. SCSI has always use DMA-style access (and as such has been more expensive because you've had to buy a specialist controller to do the work). Then there's SCSI's ability to queue commands – the designers recognised that in big installations with many disks you'll probably have many commands coming in at once, and catered for this from day one. Finally, you have the build-quality aspect: because big installations usually have to be reliable, the manufacturers generally build SCSI kit to much tighter tolerances, which means increased manufacturing costs.
Although disk technology is fast and reliable, it's generally not regarded as being fast enough or, more importantly, reliable enough. Anyone who's ever experienced a disk failure will have regarded it as a pain in the backside (if they had a backup) or a complete disaster (if they didn't). RAID is a way of alleviating the hassle of failed disks.
There are six RAID levels, though people only really use three of them as the others are a bit esoteric.
… is also known as data striping. The idea here is to multiply the throughput by having multiple disks and writing a portion of each data item onto each. The idea is that moving the read/write head of a disk takes many hundreds of times longer than actually writing the data, and so if you can have two disks whose heads move simultaneously, you can write data twice as fast as if you had once disk (for each head move you write twice the data). You can, of course, have any number of disks, and the speedup multiplies appropriately. The downside of RAID 0 is that if one disk fails, it takes with it a little bit of each file you wrote. So when you've replaced the disk, you have to recover the entire data set, not just what was on that disk.
… takes the opposite approach, and says: "My disks are lightning fast, but what if one breaks?". Every item of data is written simultaneously to two disks – so there's no performance penalty, but if a disk fails you don't lose the data. The downside here is that you need twice as many disks (and hence twice the ££) as you would in a single-disk setup.
… is a compromise between RAID levels 0 and 1. You have a number of disks, and both the data and various "parity" information are spread across all of the disks. The upshot is that you get some of the performance bonus of striping data, but if a disk turns up its toes no data is lost.
RAID 2, 3 and 4
… do exist but aren't really used widely. RAID 2 is a bit like RAID 0 but stores parity instead of data on some of the disks. It's slow, because the calculation of these parity "error" codes is complex. RAID 3 is again like RAID 0, but with parity information stored on a dedicated disk (which is fine until that disk dies, at which your error correction ability goes out of the window). RAID 4 is a derivation of RAID 3 that improves read performance but at the expensive of write performance.
Software vs. hardware RAID
Obviously if you want to use RAID, you'll need some technology that knows how to write to the disks (and rebuild them when you unplug a dead one and stuff in a replacement). There are two ways: either you buy a RAID adaptor – a piece of hardware that does it all for you – or you use a standard SCSI card and let the operating system do the job of the RAID management. The usual compromise rules apply: if you do it in hardware, it's more expensive but it's faster; if you do it in software, the computer's processor spends some of its time controlling disks instead of doing other work. This said, if you don't particularly care that the server's processor is doing the RAID work, it's often an economical but efficient way to go.
One thing worthy of a mention is that if you're using anything but RAID 0, you'll want to use hot-plug disks – ones that you can pull out and replace without turning the machine off. If you're trying to maximise uptime, it's a bit pointless having to turn off the machine and remove the lid to change a disk in a RAID 1/5 setup that could easily have kept on humming.
Internal or external?
Although in the past people generally had a pile of disks physically inside the computer, we have the option of using external disk arrays instead. These are really just big metal boxes with connections for the disks and power supplies (usually more than one, to allow for failures) which connect to the main host via SCSI or Fibre Channel links. SCSI is cheaper than Fibre Channel, but the latter has advantages: you can have the disk units up to 30m from the server; it's less susceptible to electrical interference; and you can connect more than 32 devices.
The decision of whether to use internal or external disks is really one of: can I fit them all in the box? Most servers run out of space with eight or 10 disks, but you can stack up external arrays almost until you've filled the room.
Storage Area Networks
Once we have split the disk storage from the computer itself, we have another concept to consider – namely, can be clever about how we handle the communication of computer to disk unit. The answer is "yes", and we do it with SAN technology.
Because we've split the disks from the computer, we have the opportunity of creating a whole new network dedicated to managing the storage of data. At the most basic level, one can connect a set of storage units to a Fibre Channel switch and allow this switch to do the work of figuring out how to get the commands between the computer and the disk units. This is a particularly attractive approach when one has many disk units – you'd otherwise be limited to the number of Fibre Channel cards you could cram into the server computer. It's also a useful way to cater for server failures – by having both the primary server and a dormant backup machine connected into the network of storage devices, in the event of a failure on the primary unit the backup can wake up and be guaranteed immediate access to all storage units without the need to think about re-plugging.
At the top end of SAN concepts, technologies such as FCIP and iSCSI allow us to completely disconnect the disk and processing facilities, potentially even putting them on different sites and linking them through private or VPN WAN connections. So with the growth in high-speed WAN (or, more probably for this type of application, MAN) links, it's perfectly straightforward to maintain an off-site data storage farm as a replica of the on-site one to cater for disasters within the office building itself.
Storage is as complicated or as simple as you want to make it. As with most technologies in the networking realm, because concepts such as Fibre Channel, SCSI, external disk arrays and so on are relatively popular, network managers are becoming more comfortable employing something which was rocket science five years ago. But don't be too tempted to over-design your storage implemenation for the sake of it. The storage manufacturers will try to sell you two of everything (for resilience) and the fastest of everything (for performance) so think carefully before you sign the order for a million-pound data centre installation when all you wanted was software-based RAID 5 for your Exchange server.


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- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 11, 1974
- Starring: Pamela Roylance, Stan Ivar, Shannen Doherty
This award-winning family drama was based upon Laura Ingalls Wilder's 9-part series of autobiographical books. Television producer and NBC executive Ed Friendly became aware of this enduring story in the early 1970s. He asked Michael Landon to direct the pilot movie, who agreed on theThis award-winning family drama was based upon Laura Ingalls Wilder's 9-part series of autobiographical books. Television producer and NBC executive Ed Friendly became aware of this enduring story in the early 1970s. He asked Michael Landon to direct the pilot movie, who agreed on the condition that he could also play Charles Ingalls.
TIME: beginning in the 1870s.
PLACE: the American frontier - more specifically, Walnut Grove in the state of Minnesota.
THE CHARACTERS: Charles/Pa Ingalls: a homesteader farmer/woodworker; compassionate and loving, yet quick-tempered and ready to throw a defensive punch whenever necessary
Caroline/Ma Ingalls: Patient and understanding wife and mother; the ideal prairie woman Laura Ingalls Wilder: The winsome, tomboyish second daughter of Charles and Caroline, who serves as the voice of the entire series, and eventually married Almanzo Wilder
Mary Ingalls Kendall: Charles and Caroline's pretty and ultra-responsible oldest daughter, who longs to be a teacher and goes completely blind at the age of 15. She later marries Adam Kendall, although this is a fictional piece created just for the TV series
Carrie Ingalls: The cute third daughter of Charles and Caroline, who didn't have a large role but was always portrayed as a very sweet little girl
Grace Ingalls: Charles and Caroline's fifth and final child, who was only about 4 when her role in the series ended
Jack: the loyal, lovable family dog, who was replaced by Bandit when he died in Season 4.
Albert Quinn Ingalls: The fictional adopted son of Charles and Caroline--an orphaned runaway whom the Ingalls meet while living temporarily in Winoka
James Cooper Ingalls: The fictional adopted son of Charles and Caroline, who comes to live with them after the death of his parents
Cassandra Cooper Ingalls: The fictional adopted daughter of Charles and Caroline, and the younger sister of James
Supporting characters include: Miss Eva Beadle: The first teacher of Walnut Grove, who taught Laura to read and helped Mary realize her dream to teach
Dr. Hiram Baker: the loyal town physician
Reverend Robert Alden: The town's devout and hugely caring Church minister
Mr. Isaiah Edwards: The mountain-man/drifter-turned-farmer who settled in Walnut Grove, who had a drinking problem and, despite his happy-go-lucky exterior, had a lot of emotional turmoil in his life
Grace Snider: A widow and town postmistress who marries Isaiah and adopts three orphaned children with him
John Sanderson Edwards: the oldest adopted son of Isaiah and Grace, who lives with them after the death of his widowed mother, and becomes a writer
Carl Sanderson Edwards: Isaiah and Grace's second adopted child, brother of John and Alicia
Alicia Sanderson Edwards: The sweet youngest adopted child of Isaiah and Grace, and the younger sister of John and Carl
Lars Hanson: The beloved founder of Walnut Grove, and proprietor of the Hanson Lumber Mill, where Charles and Isaiah worked
Nels Oleson: father and proprietor of the mercantile (general store).
Harriet Oleson: The rude, gossiping woman who spoils her children rotten and has a perpetual hold on her ever-patient husband
Nellie Oleson Dalton: The bratty oldest child of Nels and Harriet, who butts heads with Laura throughout their childhood and later marries Percival Dalton (another fictional event).
Willie Oleson: Nels and Harriet's youngest child, who is mischievous but has more of his father's kindhearted traits; eventually marries Rachel Brown
Adam Kendall: Mary's husband, who is also blind and wins her heart by teaching her to reclaim her life when she first goes blind. Has two children with Mary, but they both die in infancy
Almanzo Wilder: Laura's charismatic husband, a farmer who has two children with Laura, one of whom dies in infancy John Carter: A blacksmith and family man who moves from Walnut Grove to New York in Season 9 with his wife and two sons, moving into the Ingalls house when they relocate to Iowa. Sarah Carter: A newspaper editor and loving mother, wife of John Carter. Jeb Carter: John and Sarah's oldest child, fairly underdeveloped, but always a good kid Jason Carter: John and Sarah's adorable, endearing youngest son who was often Michael Landon's go-to kid for comic relief in some of the darker episodes from Seasons 9 and 10 Jenny Wilder: the sweet, effervescent fictional niece of Laura and Almanzo, who comes to live with them permanently after the death of her father, Almanzo's brother Royal. Nancy Oleson: A young girl that Nels and Harriet adopt once Nellie is grown; a monstrous, manipulative child who has her mother wrapped around her little finger… Expand
- Genre(s): Drama
- Season 1 premiere date: Sep 11, 1974
- Episode Length: 60
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Oct 21, 2013My step dad knows every episode to this show.. Watched it alot before and every now and then still. It shows just how bad mankind was andMy step dad knows every episode to this show.. Watched it alot before and every now and then still. It shows just how bad mankind was and reminds you that it never has bit the least changed since then but the show is just astounding somehow.
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ARB organizations in northern Negros obtain P103 million in credit assistance
THIRTY-SEVEN agrarian reform beneficiaries organizations (Arbos) in the northern part of Negros Occidental have obtained P103 million worth of credit assistance through the Agrarian Production Credit Program (APCP) as of September 2015.
Records of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Negros Occidental - North showed that the 37 organizations are comprised of 1, 550 ARBs, covering 1, 700 hectares of farm land - 70 percent for sugarcane production and 30 percent of other crops.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer (PARPO) I Mila Flores said Tuesday that of the P103 million target this year, P91 million was already released to beneficiaries.
The credit line for the remaining P13 million was already approved and is up for release, she added.
Flores said the credit assistance is being utilized by farmer-beneficiaries for land preparation and farm cultivation, including seed pieces (patdan), fertilizer, and other expenses until the harvest.
The APCP, which was implemented in 2013, is pursuant to the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (Carper) through DAR, and its partner agency the Department of Agriculture (DA) with Land Bank of the Philippines as the depository bank. It is mainly aimed at preventing Carp beneficiaries from selling or leasing the land.
This also aims to give ARBs an outright support for credit upon the receipt of their Certificate of Land Ownership Award (Cloa), assisting them to be ready to start and continue cultivating farms, Flores said.
The program has greatly helped them particularly in increasing crop yield, she added.
Flores said that ARB organizations in Hacienda Bernardito in Cadiz City, through the credit assistance program, have doubled their sugarcane production from 40 tons cane per hectare to 80 TC/Ha, and increased sugar yield quality from 1.2 LKg/TC to 2.5 LKg/TC.
Moreover, in terms of repayment, DAR North recorded a positive rate of 95 percent in 2014, and 90 percent up this year.
Flores, however, said there were three individual beneficiaries who defaulted in payments this year.
This is not an "intent default," but is mainly due to revision of APCP implementing rules and regulation, and some portions of the payment were utilized by farmers to purchase farm materials like fertilizer while the renewal of line is still on process, the DAR official said.
Flores said the agency continues to encourage agrarian reform beneficiaries to practice collective farming so that they can minimally experience financial constraints and avail more of community support services from the government. (EPN)
Published in the Sun.Star Bacolod newspaper on October 07, 2015.
Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/business/2015/10/06/arb-organizations-northern-negros-obtain-p103-million-credit-assistance


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We'll come back to the tough questions of promoting college [2] and graduate [3] education soon, but recent weeks have been a veritable showcase for a related kind of over-promotion: hype in scientific research. There seems to be no end to the grandiose claims coming out of science these days. One might almost say that some areas of science have become, well, unscientific. Or deeply cynical.
Questions of taking things to extremes have arisen over both claims and methods. Last week saw some pushback, or perhaps backpeddling in the face of criticism over exaggeration [4] and oversimplification [5] in synthetic biology. The hype in this field has been reminiscent of that in others now more tempered, such as nanotechnology. Big Data, another of the latest saviors, has also come under scrutiny. Big Data may inherently provide increased risk of spurious correlations [6]—and therefore increased risk of making meaningless or misleading predictions. It shares some of the oversimplification critique that arise from marketing-oriented [7] communication.
But don't get me wrong: this is not an argument against either, only a statement that when things are not what they seem, someone is responsible for that, whether spinning results [8] or hyping entire fields. Reports from this year's Future of Genomic Medicine Conference [9] suggest that there is recognition that progress in the field is not as easy, or gee-whiz, as some may have implied. There is promise there, but it may be that some good old-fashioned plodding work, including actually dealing with patients, and a lot of luck and patience, is needed. In other words, let's tone it down and put in the time.
Some of this toning down may be the recognition that funding is on the line: if you overpromise, and don't deliver, your funding may dry up, and you will have created your own skeptics. True. But there are larger concerns at stake, such as misdirection of funds (spending on the wrong stuff just because it is being most cleverly talked about or hyped); perverse incentives that may result in sloppy work or misconduct; poor decisions related to public policy and public health; and loss of trust in science and the scientific record (already a problem).
It's a question of balance, as Aristotle might say, between deficiency and excess. The virtue of scientists is judged the same way as that of anyone else: by behavior. Particularly important here is what might be called the virtue of intrinsic motivation for the work, or indifference to external acclamation. It would be a vice to either be falsely modest or minimizing of science's established achievements, or to be falsely boastful of what has not yet been achieved. Either is dishonest.
Achieving this balance is not easy when the competition for funds is great; one could argue that much of the hype arises from this competition and the high expectations for a return that accompany it. But this is why virtue matters; without it, the vices of deficiency and excess would rule and leave us unsure of where, in fact, we stood in any given field, rendering rational future action (or its prospect) impossible on many fronts. So someone—the leaders of the fields, and of relevant institutions—must choose virtue in the name of science and the public—indifference to recognition, and its rewards—and do a better job of communicating the perhaps less glamorous and less catchy, but ultimately more sustainable, real work of doing research.