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Brain research enters 'golden era' at Stanford
For patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease, little progress in the way of treatment has been made for decades, says Stanford neurologist and biotechnology pioneer Frank Longo, who chairs the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, co-leads the new Stanford Neuroscience Health Center and serves as associate director of the Stanford Alzheimer's Research Center. "When I walk into our Memory Disorders Clinic, it's very embarrassing for me that I cannot offer any drug better than what we had 20 years ago," he recently told those gathered to hear him speak at Palo Alto's Avenidas senior center. "We have nothing to delay onset or slow progression, and it kills me every time when I see my families, my patients, and I can't offer anything better." Longo is determined to change that. He,…
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Alcatel One Touch 997D vs Galaxy S duos
Hi all,
I like to have some of you guy's opinion bout wich phone to buy. I do this work where i constantly need 2 phone's, and have a high need of fast GPS connection.
At the moment i'm using 2phones, one is an old school nokia for my work, the other one is my main phone, Galaxy S i9000.
I fixed the i9000 with a hardwaremod so i have superfast gpslock (bad connection back cover)
So now you know what my priority's are, i like to know what Cellphone you guys choose of the two:
Galaxy S duos (Price in my cellphone shop 300euros)
- 1 GHz Cortex-A5 processor
- resolution: 480 x 800 pixels (4.0inch) 230ppi
- ics pre installed, upgradable to Jellybean
- 4 GB storage, 768 MB RAM
- Camera 5 MP, 2592?1944 pixels with flash
- 1500 mAh accu
--> easy rooting, i know samsungs interface and love the fastness of the gps.
Alcatel 997D: (price in me cellphoneshop 220euros)
- 1 GHz Dual-Core Cortex-A9 CPU
- resolution: 480 x 800 pixels (4.3inch) 217ppi
- ICS installed
- 4 GB storage, 1GB RAM
- Camera 8 MP 3264 x 2448 pixels with flash
- 1800 mAh accu
--> no root know yet cuz this is a brand new phone, dunno bout gps speed etc.
My max is 300euros for this phone, so i would like to have some opinions from other people, cuz i'm a bit of a samsung fan
i love to play with my phone, so rooting is prefered, but i dunno if the dualcore rapes the samsungs single core
kind regards,
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Fiji Time: 10:29 PM on Wednesday 21 March
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Monday, August 25, 2014
A MENTAL health workshop at Namoli Village, Lautoka drew about 20 sufferers, guardians and carers for mentally-challenged adults last week.
Organised by the Youth Champs 4 Mental Health, many of the participants expressed their relief at the informative discussions and materials.
"Some of these patients are still recovering but their carers have encouraged them to voice their concerns," said workshop facilitator Pene Nakaora, adding they started the workshops in 2008 after noticing that youths made up the highest number of suicide victims.
"One of our objectives is for participants to identify problems and solutions that they could work on, including discrimination, stigma and the lack of medication and address this accordingly, with necessary stakeholders."
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 1, 2012) - Crocodile Gold Corp. (CRK.TO)(CROC)(XGC.F) ("Crocodile Gold" or the "Company") announces that Stephen Woodhead, Chief Financial Officer, has informed the Board of Directors that he will be leaving the Company to spend some time in South Africa with his family. Mr. Woodhead has agreed to support Crocodile Gold through a transition period by acting as a consultant to the Company.
Effective today (October 1st 2012), Mr. Rob Dufour will assume the role of interim Chief Financial Officer over the transition period. Mr. Dufour has been with the Company since July 2012 as Director, Finance directly reporting to the Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Dufour is a Chartered Accountant (CA) with over 10 years of finance and accounting experience. He started his career with the Toronto office of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Later he joined Northgate Minerals Corporation as Corporate Controller and subsequently was promoted to Group Financial Controller for Northgate Australian Venture Corporation (NAVCO), which was more recently acquired by Crocodile Gold Corporation.
Chantal Lavoie, President and Chief Executive Officer stated, "On behalf of the Board and management, I would like to thank Stephen for his significant contribution to the development of Crocodile Gold. We sincerely wish Stephen every success in his future endeavors."
About Crocodile Gold
Crocodile Gold is a Canadian company with operating gold mines in the Northern Territory of Australia and in the State of Victoria with a land package of over 3,900 square kilometres. Crocodile Gold is currently mining at the Fosterville and Stawell mines in the State of Victoria. In the Northern Territory, the Company continues to develop its Cosmo underground mine and is continuing with the permitting processes for the International open pit mine. The Northern Territory ore production is processed at the Union Reefs Mill, which has a capacity of 2.4 million tonnes per year.
At its Northern Territory properties, the Company has 3.175 million ounces of NI 43-101 reported Measured and Indicated mineral resources (51.85 million tonnes at an average grade of 1.9 g/t gold) and 2.14 million ounces of Inferred mineral resources (36.35 million tonnes at an average grade of 1.8 g/t gold); see the NI 43-101 compliant technical report entitled "Report on the Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves of the Northern Territory Gold and Base Metals Properties for Crocodile Gold Corp." by Fleur Muller, Mark Edwards and Heath Gerritsen dated April 4, 2011, filed under Crocodile Gold's profile on SEDAR. These resources are inclusive of mineral reserves. At the State of Victoria properties, the Company has an additional 1.216 million ounces of NI 43-101 reported Measured and Indicated mineral resources (15.26 million tonnes at an average grade of 2.48 g/t gold) and 0.622 million ounces of Inferred mineral resources (6.00 million tonnes at an average grade of 3.22 g/t gold). These are exclusive of mineral reserves, which total 0.472 million ounces (3.38 million tonnes at an average grade of 4.34 g/t gold).
Crocodile Gold has an extensive exploration program in place in the Northern Territory and is exploring on several key properties on its expansive land package. With production commencing at the Cosmo Mine, Crocodile Gold's main exploration focus is at the Union Reefs and Maud Creek project areas. In the State of Victoria, the Company has exploration programs in place designed to expand the resource base of each mine property. For additional information, please visit our website www.crocgold.com. Follow us on Twitter (@crocgold_crk) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/CrocodileGoldCorp).
Qualified Person
Bill Neilsen, P.Geo, Vice President, Exploration of Crocodile Gold is a "qualified person" as such term is defined in National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical information and data included in this press release.
Forward-Looking Information
Certain information set forth in this press release contains "forward-looking information" under applicable securities laws. Except for statements of historical fact, certain information contained herein constitutes forward-looking statements, which include the impact of the resignation and interim appointment on the Company, the Company's expectations for future performance based on current drill results and past production, expected gold prices, and mineral resource estimates, and are based on Crocodile Gold's current internal expectations, estimates, projections, assumptions and beliefs, which may prove to be incorrect. Some of the forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "projects", "plans", and similar expressions. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and undue reliance should not be placed on them. Such forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause Crocodile Gold's actual performance and financial results in future periods to differ materially from any projections of future performance or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: liabilities inherent in mine development and production; geological, mining and processing technical problems; Crocodile Gold's inability to obtain required mine licenses, mine permits and regulatory approvals required in connection with mining and mineral processing operations; competition for, among other things, capital, acquisitions of reserves, undeveloped lands and skilled personnel; incorrect assessments of the value of acquisitions; changes in commodity prices and exchange rates; currency and interest rate fluctuations; various events which could disrupt operations and/or the transportation of mineral products, including labour stoppages and severe weather conditions; the demand for and availability of rail, port and other transportation services; the ability to secure adequate financing and management's ability to anticipate and manage the foregoing factors and risks. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Crocodile Gold undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change except as required by applicable securities laws. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.


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2014 Lexus ES 300h Hybrid Luxury Sedan Receives 40 mpg EPA Estimated Combined Fuel Economy
September 29, 2013 by Toyota Bloggers · Leave a Comment
The first luxury brand to introduce a hybrid vehicle nearly 10 years ago, Lexus continues its hybrid leadership by offering five models powered by the innovative Hybrid Synergy Drive. The latest addition, the ES 300h, debuted for 2013 as the first-ever ES hybrid.
Toyota Leads the Charge in Hybrid Technology with Steady Popularity in California
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TORRANCE, Calif. (July 29, 2013) – Californians prefer Toyota hybrids over those of any other automaker as the brand continues to outsell its competition.


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also, i see the term 'cloying' pretty regularly in posts and in fragrance reviews. any help here?
Thread: absolute?
i think that perhaps there should be a sticky in this thread of common terms used in the world of fragrance to prevent us from posting on the same subject thousands of times... (decant, for instance, has had numerous inquiries)
anyways, i keep seeing the term 'absolute' in fragrances paired with other notes such as 'mandarin absolute' which is obviously something to do with mandarin oranges... but what is the absolute part?
thanks, again, to everyone here for allowing be to post without feeling novice or stupid. you are great!
also, i see the term 'cloying' pretty regularly in posts and in fragrance reviews. any help here?
my all-time faves include anna sui, vera wang princess, nanette lepore, miracle, amor amor, juicy couture, ralph rocks & betsey johnson
decants i'm looking for:
a sample vial/decant of viva la juicy by juicy couture
anna sui scents (other than the original)
Hi, bloodylipstick.
I will look into coming up with a terms list for those that are repedidly inquired about. I didn't do it before because I didn't want to scare people off from asking their questions by having all their answers already listed. I like when people can get acclimated to the site by asking those questions and recieving welcomes along with reponses.
To answer your question about 'absolute'... I don't have one. I don't know why they would add absolute to a note's name. Maybe it is a more pure form?
Cloying: an uncomfortable overpowering of the scent you are wearing in a negative way. It usually refers to the feeling of being choked by the fragrance fumes as a result of the notes being very heavy and strong.
I hope this helps a bit and someone can help your with your question about what "absolute" means when combined with a note.
Absolute is a perfumery term, you can read more about it on wikipedia.
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutes <- had to post it like this until I get 15 posts.
In short, it is similar to essential oils, just that it's been extracted using some sort of solvent.
I believe cloying refers to anything that makes you feel uncomfortable AND persists, that said I find many extremely sweet or extremely powdery sweet perfumes to be cloying.
Originally Posted by bloodylipstick
"Cloying" means to cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet.
I'm not sure about "absolute" as it is used in perfumery. In general, it would mean something that is pure and perfect in quality.
Hope that helps
thanks everyone for the help! other terms i forgot to ask about are 'accord' and 'tonka' (i know it's a note, but what does it smell like and what is it?)
also i love to read FAQs since i sometimes feel silly asking a question asked last week or something. but honestly, the people on this board are so welcoming that i doubt it would be easy to make anyone ashamed to ask a question.
my all-time faves include anna sui, vera wang princess, nanette lepore, miracle, amor amor, juicy couture, ralph rocks & betsey johnson
decants i'm looking for:
a sample vial/decant of viva la juicy by juicy couture
anna sui scents (other than the original)
Absolut Mandarin is a citrus-flavored vodka. I have read "vodka" as a note for some fragrances, so perhaps that is what they are referring to... I am pretty new too so this is just a guess!
Hope this helps a litte bit!
accord refers to a general effect, usually note composed by a number of other notes, to achieve a common "big note". For example a "Sandalwood Accord" does not have to contain a drop of sandalwood oil, or even synthetic sandalwood, but through clever combination of woods and spices a perfumer may still create something that resembles sandalwood to the nose.
Tonka from what I read a few days ago here was defined as a more nutty vanilla like sweet note with slight spicy notes. Synthetic coumarin is virtually the same smelly chemical extracted from Tonka, and is sometimes just referred to as tonka beans in a fragrance. I think people used to use this in food but not any longer due to health issues.
I'm glad you feel welcome here. That is the whole plan!
An accord is something that you smell without it actually being a note. Like previously stated, it is the broad picture. A scent may not actually include notes but when combined with others they can create an accord, or new smell all together.
Tonka is hard to describe. I think that it is a soft, warm smell that usually is combined with vanilla or sandalwood. It is what creates that 'powdery' accord in fragrances.
An absolute is solvent extracted, an otto is distilled. In distillation, the high temperatures denature some of the fragrance molecules, and others may be lost in the water. The absolutes are never subjected to heat, and the volatile solvent evaporates out leaving all components. In making ottos, the left over distillate is sold as rose water, and keeps some of the various oils and all the 2-phenyl alcohol that give rose absolute it's fresher, true to blossom fragrance.
This is all only what I have read--I've not ever had a rose absolute (although I now have a sample of AG Rose Absolute...) only the otto/attars.
Osmoz.com has a good section on perfume components and described tonka beans, shows a photo, etc. As for how it smells, vanillic/smoky/warm/sweet is also how I have heard it described.
What I love about the term "accord" is you can use it to describe (as has been said above) a certain over-arching impression or dominant characteristic a scent has. For example, Muscs Kublai Khan is said to have a "body odor" or "warm crotch" accord; others have "day at the beach accord," or "laundromat accord." I love how this word really allows you to describe a fragrance and its associations. As has been said above, it may contain none of the notes (after all, there is no "laundromat" note...it would be many notes combining to make the accord laundromat).
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite.Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.-George Bancroft {1800-1891 American Historian}
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Concretes, thought to be the purest scents, are obtained by steeping flowers or spices in a solvent that draws out the fragrant oils.
Absolutes are obtained by mixing a concrete with an alcohol and then evaporating the mixture. Most perfumes are made with absolutes. The alcohol that is taken off during the evaporation carries with it some fragrance and is often added to colognes or lotions.
Tinctures are made by chopping a fragrant substance in alcohol. This mixture is then heated and filtered. Civet, castoreum, and musk are often used in tincture form.
Distilled oils are obtained by exposing flowers or herbs to very hot steam. The steam draws off fragrant oils, which rise to the surface when the steam is condensed. Distillation is the cheapest and therefore most common way of extracting scents, but the heat can destroy some delicate fragrances.
Expressed oils come directly from plants. An example of this is the fragrant oil that can be squeezed out of orange peels.
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Beyoncé may be music royalty, but it seems she's not too posh to bow down and change a dirty diaper or two. The mother of Blue Ivy Carter, who debuted new music on Sunday, recently insisted to Shape magazine that she loves every little thing about motherhood.
"I just adore being a mother, hearing her say Mama and call me when she needs something," Beyoncé gushed. "It makes me feel like I have a real purpose here. I enjoy all the things people warned me would be tough to handle."
Even the diaper changing messiness that comes with having a 14-month-old at home? "Yes, even that!" the songstress, who is gearing up for the 42-city Mrs. Carter Show world tour, professed.
"I'm most surprised by how much she's taught me," Beyoncé continued of her baby BFF. "She's only a year old and I've learned so much about myself from her."
"Giving birth was one of my biggest fears, and having Blue forced me to face it," the 31-year-old elaborated. "And now I recognize the strength I have. She teaches me to focus on the things that truly matter, like family, and to pay attention to each moment, because they go by so quickly."
Perhaps it's time for another then? "Absolutely," the Grammy-winner said enthusiastically when asked about having more babies — though the time isn't right quite yet to try. "I'll probably start after this tour. We'll see if it happens."
Rumor has it that Blue Ivy's parents are going out of their way to make sure she will feel at home when the tour kicks off next month in Serbia. A source told The Sun the singer and Jay-Z have designed a portable room for baby girl Blue that is a replica of her furniture and toys at home,
"They've got toys, a cot, a table and rugs just like the ones she has at home," a source explained.
A portable palace to call home and a music queen for diaper duty? Quite the luxe life that Blue Ivy has.
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Diddy Kong just did his thing in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, but he's also coming back for more action in the next Super Smash Bros. game. The official website updated with an introductory batch of screens showing his barrel jetpack, peanut blaster, and more, including an attempt at some poses with Fox McCloud and the Wii Fit Trainer.
Super Smash Bros. is due out this year on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.
Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. His blog can be found at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter at @Moldilox.


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Precocious Children Only Ones Getting Book Deals, Film Rights
The nine-year-old who self-published, then actually published, a 46-page book about how to talk to girls (he compared us to cars that need lots of oil, and we hope he isn't talking about what we think he is) just sold the movie rights to Fox, who thought it would make a fine movie. Maybe starring Robin Williams as the nine-year-old? Then there's the twelve-year-old, who was mouthing baby food only a few years earlier, who fancies himself a food critic ("Softish jazz music. Seem to enjoy kids but not overly") whose film rights were acquired by SNL's Lorne Michaels. Well, goody for them! Brats. Trend alert: only precocious kids need apply for book-to-movie success for the next few months. And yes, we would be happy to show you an excerpt!


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I still don't get how to build a slider in the Sight theme. I've gone to Appearance -> Header and have added my logo in the upper right hand corner, which is great and just what I wanted, but now I want to add a slider BELOW the logo (just like the one in the Sight demo). No go.
What am I doing wrong?
The blog I need help with is outletdisseny.wordpress.com.


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1. soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
2. well-matured, as wines.
3. soft and rich, as sound, tones, color, or light.
4. made gentle and compassionate by age or maturity; softened.
5. friable or loamy, as soil.
6. mildly and pleasantly intoxicated or high.
7. pleasantly agreeable; free from tension, discord, etc.: a mellow neighborhood.
8. affably relaxed; easygoing; genial: a mellow teacher who is very popular with her students. v
"people can be mellow of times."
"faces can be mellow by manes."
"bricks can be mellow."
"houses can be mellow."
"flavours can be mellow."
Late Middle English (in the sense 'ripe, sweet, and juicy'): perhaps from attributive use of Old English melu, melw- (see meal). The verb dates from the late 16th century.
This list can help you learn new vocabulary more quickly and be able explore other words more easily.
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Their Majesties of An Tir invite one and all to join Them in celebrating this most glorious of holidays, Twelfth Night hosted by the beautiful Barony of lion's Gate January 11-13, 2008.
Event & Site Information
Aston Pacific Inn Resort Hotel & Conference Centre
1160 King George Highway
White Rock/South Surrey, BC, Canada
Check-in begins at 3pm, Friday Jan. 11, 2008.
Check-out is at 11am Sunday Jan 13, 2008.
VOLUNTEERS ALWAYS NEEDED & GREATLY APPRECIATED!!! Please contact the Volunteer Coordinator, or visit Gate to sign-up to help somewhere with something...
If traveling from the USA, please be sure to bring valid ID/Passport/Proof of Citizenship for for all persons crossing the border into Canada, and more importantly, for crossing back into the USA. And please check the Canadian Firearms information at the bottom of the page.
Site Rules and Regulations:
Please read the site handout for general site rules and policies upon arrival, especially in case of changes. Copies of the site handout will be available when you check in at Gate.
Minors, those under the age of 18 in BC, MUST be accompanied by a Parent or appointed Guardian for the duration of the event and MUST have signed waivers from a Parent or Legal Guardian on their person at all times while attending the event. Minors arriving without Parent or Guardian and/or without signed waivers will not be allowed to remain.
No animals allowed in the public areas, other than "working" dogs (ie: Seeing Eye Dogs etc.). All other animals must be left in room (if you have a room allowing pets) if you choose to bring them along.
Smoking is allowed in designated areas only and in designated smoking rooms only. There is no smoking allowed in any public areas** of the hotel or in any public building in B.C. in general. Please also be aware that the law in Canada states that there is no smoking within a 20ft radius of all entryways. Sensitive people and plants inside. Please dispose of butts in appropriate receptacles only.
No weapons are allowed unsecured in any public areas**. Peace knots on your weapons must be worn in public. Such items can be a part of garb but individuals are not allowed to bring them out of their covers or sheaths at any time in any of the public areas.
No weapons of any kind are allowed in the hotel lounge/bar. Please leave your weapons in your room if you may go into the lounge. Please remember any belt or boot knives as well.
No Alcohol allowed outside of rooms or designated areas. Alcohol in the social areas MUST be in period containers please (no bottles, cans etc).
**The public areas as designated include such spaces as: The main lobby, pool area and all walkways to and from guest rooms and meeting rooms.
Viscountess Bernadette says: "Open season on Canadians is officially closed. Please leave your firearms at home." Be aware that it is against the Laws of Canada to carry any firearms in, or into, Canada without a valid CANADIAN firearms permit. The 2nd, 4th & 5th Amendments of the 'US Bill Of Rights' ends, and US Firearm permits become invalid at the Canada/US border. American gun laws do not apply in Canada. Your vehicle may be searched without your consent, all firearms will be confiscated, vehicle may be impounded, entry into Canada may be denied, and arrest and prosecution under the law may result. LEAVE YOUR FIREARMS AT HOME!!!
For more information on Canadian Gun Laws for Visitors and Non-Residents, please visit the Canada Firearms Centre website.
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Excellent value in popular subdivision in Sherwood. This 3 level split is a perfect family home which has seen several updates in the last 8 years. Close to schools, shopping, hospital and downtown. Lovely lot with mature trees and partially fenced yard. A great family home to enjoy. Attached garage with mudroom behind with entrance to kitchen or back yard excellent for the kids. Call today. All measurement approx.
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- Beds: 3
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Published 11:56 pm, Friday, July 12, 2013
NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Danbury Westerners suffered their second straight loss with an 8-1 setback to the Newport Gulls Friday night in NECBL action.
Newport jumped all over Westerners starter James Murphy in the first inning striking for three runs. Murphy lasted only 2 2/3 innings after allowing five runs on eight hits.
Newport starter Brett Graves pitched six scoreless innings and finished with six strikeouts and two walks.
Steve Anderson led the Gulls' offense with two hits and three RBIs.
Greg Pezzuto and Johnny Caputo had two hits apiece for the Westerners.
Danbury returns to action tonight when it travels to play the Vermont Mountaineers.
All games start at 6:30 unless noted
New Bedford at Mystic, 2:05 p.m.
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Danbury at Vermont
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So I guess I finally outgrew this blog... I'm not taking it down as a reminder of how far I've come. I would say in the past two years it's been quite the journey!! If you would like to continue to follow me on this awesome path come on over to the new and improved blog!!


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On Wednesday frombabieswithlove.org went live and I can't help but reflect that starting my social enterprise has been rather like motherhood!
In the past two years I've had a baby and created from babies with love, an online shop selling beautiful organic baby clothes and donating 100% profits to orphaned and abandoned children.
I began my business plan about a year ago. It was similar to how I felt in planning to become a mum, I knew it was a big deal; that my life would change forever! When I was pregnant I did an awful lot of reading, received great advice from family and friends... how to plan for a child, look after a child, how to look after myself! And in planning my business I found the same thing! Most surprisingly, amazing communities of entrepreneurs that are happy to share advice, give time and provide support. I've even discovered there are networks for 'social entrepreneurs' and 'mumpreneurs' - both labels I now give myself!
I don't think anything is quite the same as the excitement, nervousness, ups and down of pregnancy and motherhood... but I have been, and still am, experiencing all of this in starting my website. Perhaps the only difference is no back pain!
I've learned so much. In both professions! Two years ago I knew nothing about pushchairs, weaning, or what the correct temperature for a human being is! Nor did I know anything about search engine optimisation, trade fairs or writing press releases. And so much of what I've learned in becoming a mum is helping me run from babies with love. I'm lucky because as a mum I know my customers well. Plus without doubt my ability to multi-task has entered a whole new league!
And the big website launch day? Like childbirth? Well not quite! But I certainly went in to overdrive on both occasions! And shouted a lot! At least with from babies with love I've been shouting on twitter rather than at my husband!
And now? I carefully wrap each order to send out to my new customers...Just as I so delicately wrapped my son in his swaddle blankets. I am so proud, so excited.
What next? The new experiences continue! My son is now 18 months...He's learning new words and I'm learning how to deal with tantrums! Frombabieswithlove.org is one day old and I'm learning how to spread the word.
Both my baby boy and my brand new business came from the heart. They both involved my blood, sweat and tears! My gorgeous son has great opportunities in life, which I look forward to nurturing. And through selling organic baby clothes and donating all the profit to orphaned and abandoned babies, I hope from babies with love means that other babies will do too. The shop's open! Come and see!


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The motel ``room`` turned out to be a suite, complete with log-burning fireplace, living room area, fully equipped kitchen (including popcorn and a popcorn popper), television set with remote controls at bedside, bathroom with separate vanity and other upscale amenities. Breakfast and the morning newspaper were free, the man said, and so were cocktails.


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What dates stick in your mind as momentus occasions? Birthdays? The day you met the love of your life; the day they told you were having triplets!!
Jules Fenn can remember exactly when that was.
It was the day her life turned upside down.
But through plenty of joy and tears, her three little men, Jackson, Casey and Xavier are flourishing but Jules told Jennifer Ingall she is hoping to reach out to other parents of multiples and set up a support network.
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Jaime Herrera Beutler today announced that she recently reintroduced the "Savings Starts With Us" Act -- a proposal that will save taxpayer money by reducing salaries of Members of Congress, the President and Vice President by ten percent. Joined by lead co-sponsor Congressman Morgan Griffith (Virginia), Jaime is continuing an effort she began during her first term in Congress.
"The debt is an issue that will affect families and individuals in very personal ways. We as elected officials should show that solving America's biggest challenge is personal to us, too," said Jaime. "We're past due for Congress and the White House to consider major reforms to our federal budget, but we can give those needed reforms a jumpstart by beginning with our own salaries. I look forward to working with Congressman Griffith to continue building support in Congress until we make this small but important reform a reality."
"As discussions continue about securing the American dream for future generations and resolving America's debt and deficit problem, lawmakers can lead by example," said Congressman Griffith. "On its own, the Savings Starts with Us Act may not eliminate the country's $16 trillion debt, but it could serve as one common-sense step out of the many that will be necessary to return the nation to fiscal stability. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with Congresswoman Herrera Beutler in advancing this reasonable, responsible legislation."
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/25/storage_array_soul/
Arrays take on servers in storage smackdown
Location, location, location: Where's a storage box's soul?
Posted in The Channel, 25th October 2011 18:00 GMT
Comment There is a battle going on behind the scenes over the location of storage's soul: the controller hardware and software. Oracle, Dell, EMC and VMware want it to be in the server, while NetApp and HDS want it to be in the array, an array operating with servers but distinct from them.
The picture is not as clear-cut as this on the surface – NetApp is working with Oracle for example – but this is my take on what is happening down in the development depths, among the strategists and engineers with multi-year product horizons.
The modern storage industry, the one shipping networked external storage arrays, has been built on two foundations. One is EMC's establishment of a market for third-party external, block-addressed storage arrays distinct from the server suppliers of the time: HP, IBM, Digital Equipment, etc.
The other was the invention and establishment of file-addressed network-attached storage (NAS or filers). NetApp is the single most effective proponent of that, although EMC grew to ship more filers than NetApp. EMC and NetApp represent the twin peaks of the external storage array.
A storage array comes in two flavours. It is either monolithic, with multiple controllers or engines and some fancy interconnect hardware to link these to the storage shelves – think Symmetrix, latterly VMAX – or modular. Modular arrays have two controllers linked – by simpler Fibre Channel or latterly SAS – to the storage shelves. NetApp's FAS arrays and EMC's CLARiiON are classic embodiments of this idea.
Applications in servers sent SCSI block requests or file access requests to these arrays, which presented themselves, logically, as a single pool of storage, separated into dedicated logical disks (LUNs) for the server apps, or sharable filestores.
Andy Bechtolsheim
This long-lived storage concept is now being discarded, and the first nail in its coffin came from Sun and the inventive Mr Andy Bechtolsheim.
Honeycomb upsets the storage hive
Bechtolsheim's idea was that co-locating servers and storage in the same overall enclosure would speed server apps dependent on lots of stored data. Thumper, a server-rich NAS device delivered as the X4500, was one result of this and Honeycomb another.
Neither set the world on fire but they did show the way to getting more data into servers faster. Then Oracle bought Sun in 2009 and suddenly Bechtolsheim's idea got a rocket boost from the Exadata product, a set of server resources running Oracle software with their own storage resources. This is setting the Oracle World on fire, with much encouragement from Oracle marketing because its own bunch of modular arrays was pretty second-rate.
Oracle Exadata database machine
What Sun invented and Oracle extended is the NoSAN server. EMC has seen this idea and responded by devising an opposite of this, the No-Server SAN, a kind of reverse engineering in its way.
EMC brings the servers to the array
EMC is trying to have it both ways. VMAX, VNX and Isilon arrays are going to be able to run application software in server engines in the array controller complex. There is a natural fit with VMware's ESX running the whole shebang and VMs being loaded to run storage controller software and applications that benefit from low-latency access to buckets of data. These array-located app servers use the array's own internal network or fabric, VMAX's Virtual Matrix for example, instead of the normal Ethernet or Fibre Channel fabric. This isn't SAN access as we know it.
EMC also has its Project Lightning to have its arrays manage the loading and running of flash caches in servers, PCIe-connected flash. That's a step on the road along which Dell appears to be further along. The Round Rock company is also going to build servers with flash, but this is a storage tier and not cache. This tier zero storage is logically part of the entire array controller-managed storage pool with automatic data movement.
The future may be not to have a storage networking protocol at all.
Now EMC may well have this in mind as well, with FAST VP shipping data to and from the server flash which is then not really a cache but tier zero too. However Dell's vision, as I understand it, is to move the storage into the servers and hook it up to the same PCIe gen 3 bus that the flash and server's DRAM hook into. Once again this means that the servers will not use traditional external storage links to access data. This again is not a SAN. What do these NoSAN ideas mean for external array vendors?
Storage array vendor conundrum
The mainstream external storage array vendors are facing two, not one, strategic challenges to their long-term hegemony. The nearer term one is the introduction of networked flash-only arrays from companies like Huawei, Nimbus, Pure Storage and others, which threaten to cream off their profitable fast array business based on 15,000rpm Fibre Channel disk drives. All primary data storage could migrate to flash-only arrays, leaving the EMC, Dell, HDS, HP, IBM and NetApp-style vendors to store the bulk data crumbs, the low-access rate, lower profit, online data repositories.
EMC VMAX array Virtual Matrix
The second threat though is the more important one because, after all, a networked external flash storage array is still a networked external storage array. Co-locating servers and storage with no traditional storage networking protocol connecting them is different. If servers absorb external storage, as is the Oracle Exadata plan, or external storage absorbs servers, as is the import of Dell and EMC's plans, then networked external storage is no longer needed: we have the NoSAN server.
There's a distinction to be made between converged systems with co-located servers and storage using storage networking protocols and converged systems that do not, the NoSAN servers.
A VCE Vblock, an HP VS3 and a NetApp Flexpod set-up all use networked external storage. An app-running VMAX has no storage networking protocol needed to link servers (app-executing VMAX engines) and storage (storage controller app-executing VMAX engines) as they all hook into the VMAX internal fabric. This is fundamentally an entirely different beast. For a start the server-storage link is proprietary and not open. You wouldn't be able to substitute a NetApp, HP or IBM array for the VMAX storage part of VMAX app-executing system. It would be like trying to put a BMW engine in a Mercedes car. Good luck to you and don't expect any sympathy for the grief heading your way.
Criticise Fibre Channel, FCoE and iSCSI all you like but they are open systems allowing you to switch suppliers of servers and storage either side of the storage networking link.
FCoE becomes irrelevant
Discussions about whether to move to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) from Fibre Channel will be rendered irrelevant by co-located servers and storage communicating across some kind of I/O backplane or mesh network, or servers and storage talking across PCIe. FCoE is a transition from one instantiation of a legacy storage-server connection protocol to another.
The future may be not to have a storage networking protocol at all. Data will ship between server memory and flash to co-located array storage across PCIe buss links or an array's internal fabric.
What this means for stand-alone storage array products is that a razor thin end of a wedge is appearing in the door through which they sell their arrays. This wedge can be expected to fatten. If it does, then the external array business will be impacted. It may be that data growth will be such that array sales increase while NoSAN server storage sales grow as well. But there is a long-term threat here, looking at a five-year or 10-year timescale, in which the external array business declines.
Its only hope of rescue will be through the provision of external array links that match the latency and bandwidth of third-gen PCIe, or internal array fabrics such as is found inside VMAX.
A strategic battle has been joined and the existence of the external storage array business is being questioned. Yes, it's a razor thin wedge that has been slipped into the external array door, but wedges do what wedges do: they become thicker. If Dell and EMC pull their NoSAN server ideas off, then a world of hurt awaits external array vendors that have no effective response. ®


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Suits Against States.—Controversies to which the United States is a party include suits brought against States as party defendants. The first such suit occurred in United States v. North Carolina,850 which was an action by the United States to recover upon bonds issued by North Carolina. Although no question of jurisdiction was raised, in deciding the case on its merits in favor of the State, the Court tacitly assumed that it had jurisdiction of such cases. The issue of jurisdiction was directly raised by Texas a few years later in a bill in equity brought by the United States to determine the boundary between Texas and the Territory of Oklahoma, and the Court sustained its jurisdiction over strong arguments by Texas to the effect that it could not be sued by the United States without its consent and that the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction did not extend to cases to which the United States is a party.851 Stressing the inclusion within the judicial power of cases to which the United States and a State are parties, the elder Justice Harlan pointed out that the Constitution made no exception of suits brought by the United States. In effect, therefore, consent to be sued by the United States "was given by Texas when admitted to the Union upon an equal footing in all respects with the other States."852
Suits brought by the United States have, however, been infrequent. All of them have arisen since 1889, and they have become somewhat more common since 1926. That year the Supreme Court decided a dispute between the United States and Minnesota over[p.746]land patents issued to the State by the United States in breach of its trust obligations to the Indian.853 In United States v. West Virginia,854 the Court refused to take jurisdiction of a suit in equity brought by the United States to determine the navigability of the New and Kanawha Rivers on the ground that the jurisdiction in such suits is limited to cases and controversies and does not extend to the adjudication of mere differences of opinion between the officials of the two governments. A few years earlier, however, it had taken jurisdiction of a suit by the United States against Utah to quiet title to land forming the beds of certain sections of the Colorado River and its tributaries with the States.855 Similarly, it took jurisdiction of a suit brought by the United States against California to determine the ownership of and paramount rights over the submerged land and the oil and gas thereunder off the coast of California between the low–water mark and the three–mile limit.856 Like suits were decided against Louisiana and Texas in 1950.857
Immunity of the United States From Suit.—Pursuant to the general rule that a sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, it follows that the judicial power does not extend to suits against the United States unless Congress by general or special enactment consents to suits against the Government. This rule first emanated in embryo form in an obiter dictum by Chief Justice Jay in Chisholm v. Georgia, where he indicated that a suit would not lie against the United States because "there is no power which the courts can call to their aid."858 In Cohens v. Virginia,859 also by way of dictum, Chief Justice Marshal asserted, "the universally received opinion is that no suit can be commenced or prosecuted against the United States." The issue was more directly in question in United States v. Clarke,860 where Chief Justice Marshall stated that as the United States is "not suable of common right, the party who institutes such suit must bring his case within the authority of some act of Congress, or the court cannot exercise jurisdiction over it." He thereupon ruled that the act of May 26, 1830, for the final settlement of land claims in Florida condoned the suit. The doctrine of the exemption of the United States from suit was repeated in various subsequent cases, without discussion or examina[p.747]tion.861 Indeed, it was not until United States v. Lee862 that the Court examined the rule and the reasons for it, and limited its application accordingly.
Since suits against the United States can be maintained only by permission, it follows that they can be brought only in the manner prescribed by Congress and subject to the restrictions imposed.863 Only Congress can take the necessary steps to waive the immunity of the United States from liability for claims, and hence officers of the United States are powerless by their actions either to waive such immunity or to confer jurisdiction on a federal court.864 Even when authorized, suits can be brought only in designated courts.865 These rules apply equally to suits by States[p.748]against the United States.866 Although an officer acting as a public instrumentality is liable for his own torts, Congress may grant or withhold immunity from suit on behalf of government corporations.867
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See FDIC v. Meyer, 510 U.S. 471 (1994) (FSLIC's "sue– and–be–sued" clause waives sovereign immunity; but a Bivens implied cause of action for constitutional torts cannot be used directly against FSLIC).
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A Northrop Grumman pullout from the U.S. Air Force's aerial refueling tanker competition would taint the contract deal, the Mobile (Ala.) Press-Register argued in an editorial Sunday headlined "Tanker deck is stacked to favor Boeing."
I agree, sort of, with the thrust of the headline, but not with the ultimate point.
Officials from Northrop and tanker partner EADS threatened to pull out of the contest after the Air Force released its draft request last year because they saw the criteria as favoring Boeing's smaller 767-based offering over their Airbus A330-based tanker, which would be assembled in Mobile. Since the release of the final request last week, they have said only that they are reviewing the document.
"Supporters of the Northrop Grumman-EADS partnership had feared the final version would favor Boeing, and the initial opinion of Alabama politicians and defense analysts was that they were right," the Press-Register wrote. "The new contest rules, coming after Boeing's successful protest of last year's award to Northrop Grumman and months of power politicking, are said to place less emphasis on some of the Airbus 330's most competitive assets."
Furthermore, the paper argued: "If Northrop pulls out of the contest, Boeing may get the tanker contract, but the entire deal will be tainted — first by Boeing's own corruption and collusion with some Pentagon officials several years ago over an earlier version of the tanker deal, and second by a decision-making process that puts politics above defense needs."
OK, I'll concede that the request appears to favor Boeing's tanker. And it's possible that "power politicking" helped shape those criteria.
But there's also a good argument to be made that Air Force officers decided on what they needed and how much extra they were willing to pay for abilities beyond what they needed, and Boeing's plane happens to fit more closely with those needs. Northrop offers a bigger tanker that, by virtue of its size, uses more fuel and requires modifications to airstrips and hangars.
I don't pretend to be qualified to say what the Air Force really needs, but the needs it states in the request seem plausible to me.
Flightglobal's Stephen Trimble defended the Air Force's criteria in an Innovation Analysis Group podcast last week.
"Most international air forces can only operate small number, a handful of tankers, so you want the most volume that you can get," Trimble said. "You also want as much multi-role capability as you can get, and you're willing to pay even more for that capability than somebody else."
But the U.S. Air Force is going to order hundreds of tankers, he noted. "You don't need volume within each airframe as much as some of the foreign air forces do. You want as many booms as possible."
As for the Press-Register's idea that a Northrop pullout would taint the award because of the Pentagon's scandal-plagued first attempt to replace its tankers in a lease deal with Boeing, that's just a red herring.