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A real surprise came from a wonderful friend on Lopez Island, Christie Carter who has passed on a blogging award - The Liebster Award! Of it she writes... "in the spirit of fostering new connections, the idea of the Liebster Award is to bring attention to blogs with less than 200 followers. Just a few rules for the recipient which come with acceptance of the award:
*Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them. (check)
*Copy & paste the award onto your blog.(check)
*Reveal your own five picks for the award & let them know by leaving them a comment on their blog.(check)
* Have faith that the love will spread...(future check)"
She also wrote that I did need to write more often. She probably knows I need constant encouragement and treats to do so!
So here are my picks for passing on the Liebster Award:
Elis Vermeulan - who writes about and photographs her work building global burrows of wool and is included in my list of fabulous women with whom I won't mind being stranded on an island.
Mendy Knott - Writer and poet extraordinare now sending out wisdom and encouragement from the Ozark Mountains.
leigh Wilkerson - Changing the earth/dirt one garden at a time.
Jane Dunnewold - Smart, wise, fabulous artist and has a great tattoo.
Now some of these blogs are slightly over the 200 follower limit and that is most likely due to my slug-like behavior of not posting this blog months ago when Christie sent me the award. But there you are. And here I am for the rest of the day...
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By Ed Harris
The middle school renovations past for a second time at Tuesday's referendum.
The renovations were overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2011, but the renovations were sent back to referendum after it was discovered that the removal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) would significantly drive up cost estimates.
This is the first time in town history that a project was sent back to referendum.
Southington School Supt. Dr. Joseph Erardi praised the honesty and the integrity of the middle school building committee and credited the committee with getting the renovations passed for the second time.
"They are clearly deserving of this result," Erardi said.
The referendum passed by an almost four to one tally, with 1,377 voting for and 334 against. The 1,711 total votes represents about 6 percent of the approx. 28,000 voters in Southington.
"I'm excited," Board of Education Chairman Brian Goralski said. "Again Southington voters supported what is good for our kids."
The middle school building committee was shocked last November, when architect Fletcher Thompson and construction manager Newfield predicted that the cost of the overall project would be far greater than the $85 million that was approved by voters at the 2011 referendum. Earlier information from the companies suggested that the costs would only be about 2 percent over budget, but officials were told that it could be as high as 10 percent.
Fletcher Thompson blamed the estimated additional costs on "schematic mistakes." The initial plan presented for the middle schools had miscalculations involving square footage and did not include firewalls, a required public safety measure.
The committee approved a value-engineering plan for the project which would shave $9.7 million off the final cost of the project. However, it was intended to be used to balance out the anticipated costs of remediating the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) found in both schools.
The abatement costs are expected to be between $6 million and $14 million, depending on whether or not the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires the town to deal with the contaminated "wall vapor barriers" deep inside the walls of the buildings.
Despite the committee's best efforts, it was determined that another $4 million would be needed to finish the project. The Town Council then began the process of scheduling a second referendum for the same project, which is unprecedented in Southington's history.
Officials received verbal confirmation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) earlier this year that the cheaper plan for the remediation of hazardous materials will likely be approved. However, firm numbers are not yet available.
The reduced square footage of the updated plan makes the project eligible for increased state reimbursement. The state was set to reimburse the town for 52.5 percent of the previous plan, while the new plan is eligible for 56 percent reimbursement.
This change in reimbursement means that the town will likely save some tax dollars with the updated proposal. However, Town Attorney Mark Sciota has said that there is the possibility that the town could see a smaller reimbursement rate due to state finances.
The estimated savings are thought to be in the $1 million to $1.5 million range.
School officials have said the renovations would begin on June 22, barring any more snow days. The remediation work will be done at times students are not in schools, including the summers of 2013 and 2014 and some of the week-long school vacations, if necessary.
"At the end of the day I am confident that the public will be proud of what we're doing," Goralski said, calling the project long overdue.


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Balancing Responsibilities and Setting Priorities
Vital to a successful online learning experience is the ability to balance your responsibilities. Knowing how to set priorities is the key to getting the greatest benefit from your online education experience. Determine early in the semester exactly what work is required and do your best to plan ahead. Do not hesitate to ask for advice or help from your instructor.


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Since there are still serious "conceptual" differences between Taiwan and China, and Taiwanese are not ready to explore cross-strait engagements in areas beyond the economy and trade, Beijing should not push Taipei to hold talks on political and security issues, former American Institute in Taiwan chairman Richard Bush said in Taipei yesterday.
Bush said he was "rather pessimistic" that cross-strait negotiations would move beyond the relatively easy economic issues into political and security matters during President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) remaining time in office, which overlaps significantly with Chinese President Xi Jinping's (習近平) term.
Some in China would like to see this turning point in the development of cross-strait ties happen during Ma's second term, but Bush said he did not expect this would occur for two reasons.
"One is that it is clear to me that the Taiwanese public is not ready for that turning point. Second, I think that there are still important conceptual gaps between the two sides," he said.
At the center of the conceptual disagreements between the two countries is the issue of whether China is willing to accept the existence of the Republic of China (ROC), Bush said.
"I hope that Beijing is not pushing [Taipei] on this. Some of its policymakers are very patient on this [matter] and I hope that their patience continues," he said.
Bush, who is the director of the Brookings Institution's Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies in Washington, is in Taipei to launch the Chinese edition of his book Uncharted Strait: The Future of China-Taiwan Relations, the third in his trilogy about Taiwan.
At the book launch, Bush praised cross-strait rapprochement in the five years since Ma took office and attributed the progress to both Ma and former Chinese president Hu Jintao (胡錦濤), whom he said had taken "certain risks" to reduce the level of "mutual fear" trapping both sides over the past 10 to 15 years.
China's recent push for bilateral talks on issues involving eventual unification, as stated in Hu's work report to the Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress, has brought political issues to the forefront of cross-strait negotiations, exerting pressure on Ma to deal with the sensitive topics.
Bush said he did not think a reversal in cross-strait ties was likely because there is a still much work to be done in economic areas and perhaps also in the cultural sector.
"Maybe a little bit more likely is that since the momentum will slow down, it's possible that some mistrust could develop because of that," he said.
"But I hope that won't happen," Bush said. "I think there is still a lot to do in the economic area and particularly important is that the two sides implement well the agreements that have already been reached [in the past five years], and so feel confident that it's worth moving forward to other types of agreements."
Bush said that Beijing could eventually change its approach toward Taiwan from a "paradigm of mutual persuasion," under which each side needs to communicate clearly what it needs in their interactions, to a "paradigm of power asymmetry" to seek its ultimate goal of unification through pressure and intimidation.
Bush said he did not think this would happen in the next few years, but it might happen if the Democratic Progressive Party returns to power, or if Beijing for some reason loses patience with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government.


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Wednesday, June 15th 2011, 12:33pm
Check to make sure the water meter is open all the way. If it is a meter? Have you had any plumbers out recently? They may have not opened the meter all the way.
Check your backflow device to make sure the handles are open all the way.
Walk around your property looking for a mainline leak while the system is on.
That is enough for now.
Good Luck
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BANNER ELK, N.C. – Sarah Kinsey (Windermere, Fla.) scored the Cobra women's soccer team's lone goal in Coker's 8-1 loss to Lees-McRae on Saturday afternoon in Conference Carolinas women's soccer action. The loss marks the Cobras final game of the season and gives Coker a record of 1-14-2 overall and 1-8-1 in conference play.
Kinsey netted the goal, her sixth of the season, in the 22nd minute on a shot from the top of the 18 yard box.
The Bobcats out shot the Cobras 25-3, with Coker goalkeeper Carrie Hudnell (Goose Creek, S.C.) making 14 saves in the match.
The Cobras will now take a break until they begin their off-season workouts after the holiday break, while Lees-McRae will prepare to take on Mount Olive College in the first round of the Conference Carolinas Tournament this week.


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Man, 32 already, huh. It seems just yesterday that MxMo was finally old enough to drink–soon, MxMo will be old enough to run for president of the U.S. Ain't that crazy?
Now, the topic of this month's installment is …
Oh, that's right, guilty pleasures. Sorry if I zoned out on you there for a moment. I had to run to the kitchen to make sure my Jell-O didn't burn. I'm prepping a test batch of a Halloween-themed, brain-shaped Melon Fusion Jell-O mold, spiked with Sour Apple Pucker and Absolut Sheboygan.
All right, everything's gelling up just fine, so it's time to talk dirrrrrrrrty pleasures.
Except. I don't really have many anymore. Not to be snahby or anything, we just don't drink that way for the most part these days. The only thing I feel guilty about is that when we have a second drink before dinner, it's almost always an Old Fashioned. I get creative for round one and lazy for round two.
That's not to say I don't have a history of embarrassing drinks. The first drunk that I can recall was at my eldest cousin's wedding, in Southern Illinois, in–oh– 1982 or so. I was 14 and obviously underage, but the bartender served me at the reception anyway. My first drunk, I shit you not, was on Tom Collinses. Now, I guess that's not terribly embarrassing, but they weren't really Collinses as much as they were gin and Sprite.
Actually, I think that's exactly what they were: gin and Sprite. And at 14, I wasn't much of a drinker, so three of those in about an hour kinda messed me up. I went back to the hotel room, read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, laughed my ass off, and fell asleep, at which point a million-gallon vat of custard upended itself over me without warning.
I proved myself such a man that weekend that my grandparents started plying me with drinks when we'd go visit them. Ah yes, such a gentleman of leisure I was in my high-school days that I developed a taste for the Fuzzy Navel.
I can't believe this guy gets work – At least he didn't pick his nose this time
But just because I'm no longer prone to quaffing gin and Sprite while chortling at Marvin's antics, or sipping a Fuzzy Navel in front of the Rose Bowl parade, doesn't mean I'm always high-brow when I'm out drinking. When Jen and I were in New York, we went out often with friends, and that normally meant a good dive bar or neighborhood pub. Unless we were in a specialty beer bar, such as D.B.A., I was always happy to go with a humble brew of regional renown.
Yes, East Coasters, behold my favorite party-time beer in New York:
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- Users and Permissions
- Content
- Statistics
- Community Awards
Users and Permissions
1. What are the default permissions of a project space?
- Project Lead is admin of project space
- Project members are moderators and can post blog entries to project's blog.
- Registered users can edit wiki, discussion and can vote on poll
- Guests have view permission
2. How can I manage members of a project group?
Go to Admin Console and then navigate to People -> Group Summary and choose your project group.
Click on Edit link next to Members and there you can add or remove members of your project.
Changes are applied immediatelly (no logout/login is needed).
3. How can I enable a project's blog?
Go to your project space (i.e. https://community.jboss.org/en/jbossas) and click on Edit the space in Actions widget and then check Blogs checkbox.
4. How can I add blog posts to the Events page?
Click on the Propose a Blog image on the http://planet.jboss.org page and follow the instructions to add a blog to the Events group. Please use one or more of the following tags so we can filter posts:
- jbug
- jug
- conference
- workshop
- event
An administrator will then check the details and accept the posts after which point they'll appear in the feed at: http://jboss.org/events
5. Categories vs. sub-spaces - how to design project hierarchy?
Please read these tips from SBS's documentation.
This hierarchy fits in most cases:
Project Space (User space) - Project Development (Development space)
Project space could have defined categories with major.minor version to distinguish to which version particular content belongs.
If project uses sub-projects then this hierarchy should fit:
Project Space (Content related to whole project) - Sub project space (User space of sub project) - Sub project development (Development space)
Each Sub project could also have categories like in previous case.
6. I have several wiki articles in Wiki space and would like to move them to project space. Is it possible to do it by some script?
Yes. We have prepared script for moving articles from one to another space.
Only one thing is needed from your side. You need to add new tag to those articles or use existing to identify them. For example here is all articles tagged by "jbosssecurity": https://community.jboss.org/en/wiki?view=tags&recursive=false#/?tags=jbosssecurity
When you'll finish it then contact us via Contact Form and let us know name of the tag and if you want to remove this tag after movement (in cases that you tagged those articles only for this movement).
7. How to get statistics for my project?
We use Google Analytics tool for collecting jboss.org statistics. Please contact us via Contact Form and let us know your Google Account.
Community Awards
8. How to add crowns to awarded users
If a project team wishes to recognize a community member for a critical contribution then the project lead can give them a Noble Award. This consists of a crown being appended to the user's avatar in SBS. If multiple awards have been received these will be listed on the user's profile page. They have no relationship to the JBoss Community Recognition Awards and to highlight the difference Noble Awards should not be accompanied by any collateral such as t-shirts or additional promotion.
Each award is defined in SBS as security group which is usually managed by project lead.
To create new group for your project let us know two things:
- Project Name
- List of any awarded users to include - it can be page on your project site or document in your space or anything else.
After that you'll have access to this group via the admin console where you can add/remove any user from this group (navigate to People -> Management -> Group summary).


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Perfect for all the family and having received rave reviews from the likes of Jonathan Ross and more besides, this is one show sure to make your jaw hit the floor with amazement from start to finish.
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For more information, go to http://csedweek.org. To participate, go to http://hourofcode.com/ac.
In an hour, students can learn some coding basics through a project that's aimed at sparking interest in computer programming by making it more accessible.
The global "Hour of Code" project, spearheaded by the nonprofit code.org, aims to get 10 million schoolchildren, ages 6 and older, to spend an hour this week learning the basics of coding. Participants can choose from a variety of online tutorials, including one designed at the University of Colorado.
The project is part of Computer Science Education Week. While computer science students participate, students who aren't taking those classes are the targets.
Sue Johnson, Monarch High School's computer science teacher, said the idea for a Computer Science Education Week was developed by the Computer Science Teachers of America. She's co-president of the local chapter along with Boulder High computer science teacher Tony Jiron -- and both are promoting the Hour of Code districtwide.
"We're trying to make a big push this year because it's really a great thing," she said.
Andrew Moore, Boulder Valley's chief information officer, said he's also promoting the project.
"I'm having a hard time hiring computer programmers, and it hit my radar," he said. "The goal is to get kids who aren't in computer science to try it. Programming is as much creativity as it is just pure logic. We need creative kids to go into programming."
CU's tutorial teaches students how to build their own 3-D video game by "inflating" hand-drawn 2-D icons and then programming those objects to interact in defined ways.
For example, a participant could create a 3-D version of "Frogger" by inflating a frog and then writing a line of code that would tell the program to squash the frog if it collides with a truck that has also been programmed to move horizontally across the screen at a set speed.
CU computer science professor Alexander Repenning, who led the project, said the perception is that programming is hard and boring. He wants to show that it's something anyone can do -- and that it's fun. Even if students don't go into programming, he said, it's worthwhile to understand computing basics.
"We are focusing on introducing programming earlier, at elementary and middle school," he said. "The key is to create something of interest that really motivates the students and gets them excited."
The CU tutorial builds on two decades of Repenning's research, which pioneered drag-and-drop programming tools for kids called AgentSheets and AgentCubes. Repenning and his team also developed Scalable Game Design, a curriculum teachers can use to help their students use AgentSheets and AgentCubes.
The Scalable Game Design project recently received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue to expand nationally.


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We get asked about these a lot, and for good reason. The arcing floor lamp has been a fixture of contemporary spaces since Achille Castiglioni unveiled his Arco Lamp, produced by Flos in 1962. Frustrated by the task of illuminating dining tables in which ceiling electrical outputs were nowhere close to the centre of the table, Castiglioni sought to create a solution. The Arco was that very solution, allowing a suspended source of illumination for areas that may not be conducive for a pendant. The iconic arc has since been remade, rethought and revisited by designers and architects throughout the years, developing the concept of the arcing floor lamp into something new and something special with each new transformation.
Here, we've compiled a list of some our favourites since 1962. Beginning with the obvious….


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For this month's Camp NaNoWriMo, the first of two annual camps (also in July), I continue and hope to reinvigorate the process of writing my 2016 NaNo novel based on Lewis Carroll's Alice books.
Currently, I have a detailed plot outline, my main characters are taking shape, and I'm zeroing in on the kind of story I want to tell. I've drafted almost the first half of the story, but many of those scenes and especially several pieces of exposition probably will require significant rewriting to match the second half's focus and character arcs.
My Camp NaNo goal is to finish the first draft of the whole story by April 30–however disjointed, incoherent, or mediocre it might be. Forward momentum! The summary and excerpt below represent my latest clues to what the final draft may become.
To see hints of the slow, unsteady development of the project since last summer, see this seed, a snapshot on the cusp of its germination, and the small bud of a key scene's rough draft.
Happy writing and reading this month, which is also National Poetry Month. For ideas on how to celebrate poetry, visit my list of suggestions from last year. Poem in Your Pocket Day is April 27th this year. Whatever you've got going, I wish you the best. Enjoy!
Plus, nature lovers, don't forget to watch The Zoo tonight at 10pm EDT on Animal Planet, and Wild Scotland starting tomorrow at 8pm EDT on NatGeoWild. My post from earlier this week about TV nature programs and Scotland nature tourism can be found here.
I'll soon share some other projects seeking fertile soil.
Summary: Novel synopsis-in-progress (drafted 3/28/17, revised 4/1/17)
A fantasy tale based on Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, Hunted Song of Looking-Glass Land re-imagines the second of his two Alice books. Glimpses of original chapters and the use of characters provide a frame of reference for new adventures and insights about the true nature of heroics and villainy in Looking-Glass Land. The teenage girl Song Warber, a Jabberwock, or Wock, wields her singular music-making powers in the struggle of freedom and justice for all Looking-Glass Landers.
A little girl named Alice mysteriously arrives in Looking-Glass Land and stirs up trouble for Song's family even as both her presence and Song's threaten the monarchy. Yet, it is only by allying with this alien little girl that Song can fulfill a destiny she only begins to fathom when her family falls into the hands of those determined to tear them apart—the Royals, or chess pieces, of Looking-Glass Land. Alice's destiny is also at stake as she awakens to the gritty realities of this ailing country. Her triumph will depend on new alliances, betrayals, comings of age, secret support, a bit of magic, open battle, overcoming tragedies, facing fears, and confronting the White King, the Red Queen, and a vengeful Humpty Dumpty.
Can two young girls of vastly different species, upbringings, and worlds ever hope to right the wrongs of the place they inhabit, however briefly, together? The good of parallel worlds may depend on it. And what will become of Song and Alice in the process? It's a reversal across the chessboard of team loyalties and the realm's purpose as a land of vivid dreams, uncommon reality, and infinite possibility. Will Looking-Glass Land survive the turmoil?
Hunted Song novel excerpt (3/28/17, rev 4/1/17):
A story was told. Another was told after that. A minimum of three short stories or two longer ones would always be spoken in any given sitting where storytellers and story hearers gathered together.
Every story told was a try on the part of a contestant. It was a storytelling contest. Each contestant was a member of the Looking-Glass Land community, a long-standing member of the fellowship of the realm. No one was new. No one was young. No one was particularly old. The Royals were an exception. The White Royals looked wizened. The Red Royals, middle aged.
Storytelling had once been merely a pastime as popular as baking and walking in Looking-Glass Land. As popular as tea time. In fact, stories were often told over hearths and tea tables and tea sets. Tea things were the natural scenery for a storytelling session. Like other pastimes, preoccupations, and cultural rituals, the tradition of storytelling in Looking-Glass Land came with many rules. There were particular steps to be taken in the telling of a story. Specific qualities each story must have. A certain size an audience must have in number, to represent a story telling properly. Like tea time in England, storytelling in Looking-Glass Land had a certain order of operations to it.
As times grew harder, the wizened, middle-aged and neither youthful nor old inhabitants of the land grew more serious, less playful, less tolerant of creativity, invention, new ideas, new characters, or, eventually, any new stories. The only stories permitted were stories that had been told many times before. Known stories. Stories people had heard over and over again. Stories that became in their telling like the reciting of a pledge each morning in school or the swearing of an oath for public office. Familiar, unoriginal, the same–always the same. Even the wording had become regimented so that each well-known story could only be told in exactly one way with exactly the same words from start to finish, every time.
The contest continued, however. It became a competition in style of delivery. The stories never changed, so contestants needed only to memorize the content, and the rest could take on a variety of bellowing, shrill screeching, whispering, and outrageous inflections, dramatic pauses, vibrations and other sound effects, as well as musical accompaniment of every kind. Even a technique such as ventriloquism had been a trend at one time, but eventually, the crowds began to crave more elaborate movements on the part of the storytellers and from any actors they chose to act out the events of the tale.
You may think, So what? Stories are popular because they are told over and over again. When a story is repeatedly shared, it means it is popular. This can be true. However, the people of Looking-Glass Land took repetition to a whole other level. There were never to be any new stories of any kind for any purpose. Even recounting the events of one's day to one's family came to carry with it very strict rules and restrictions. Such recollections could only be so long and would not be permitted to be repeated outside the family circle within hearing range of other families or anywhere in public.
This was at first very difficult for people to comply with, as you might imagine. But over time, with practice, and a few minor adjustments to the rules, as with many things grown easier with habit, recitative storytelling in Looking-Glass Land came into its own. Upon visiting the land at such a time, you would note that it was as if no one had ever heard an original story, so much so that it mattered little who had originated the stories in the general repertoire. The creators had been forgotten, and no one mourned the loss of their memory. Memory instead became less and less important, and forgetfulness became au courant and du jour, as the French might say of more benign customs.
As a result, even short-term memory became devalued and less tenable among the people. This had reached a level of such ridiculousness that an outsider would find it absolutely comical how poorly the people held facts, events, even names in their memory, how few things they remembered while traveling from point A to point B, even just down the road from their houses. A side effect of this was that the Looking-Glass Landers were constantly getting lost in their own neighborhoods and villages, and needed help from a kindly neighbor they'd sought help from a thousand times before but whom at the moment they could not recognize. They could only hold so much information in those dry, unused brain muscles, you see.
The lack of need for invention, creativity, new ideas, or any kind of refreshing of activity had an even more devastating impact. It created scores of demented community members, folks with early onset Alzheimer's, as it were, though they wouldn't be able to spell that word let alone hold their own attention long enough to grasp its meaning. To try to remember the term? Forget it! And so they would.
This chronic, permanent forgetfulness applied to all things. There were occasional anomalies among the villagers in the thoughts they managed to commit to memory in their own clandestine ways, even while original storytelling became illegal, in both spoken and written form. Mainly, though, among most of the population, to forget was to comply, and to recite was patriotic. It was a way to pay homage to the stories the kingdom had declared the best, most worthy tales to be passed down from generation to generation in Looking-Glass Land. It could therefore hardly be noticed when the variation in delivery of these rote storytelling activities gradually lessened as well.
Like the flappers on the floating island world discovered by Gulliver, the people of Looking-Glass Land devised a means of support for their forgetfulness, to steer them aright and keep them from wandering forever aimlessly amidst their brooks, woods, and meadows. One of these devices was a system of concrete roads on which were painted in permanent pigments instructions to every destination known in the land to every other destination, as well as labels several points in advance of reaching a destination to remind the traveller that the arrival was imminent.
This worked even in cases where the person was in fact closer to their point of origin than they were to their designated destination. With abysmal short-term memory, the misguided could be guided best only by counter-factual signs and directions exaggerating the distance, the nearness, the direction, and the size of the places people sought to reach.
In fact, in our land, with our far superior short-term remembering skills (trust me, even you with poor short-term memory have nothing on these characters), we would interpret these overdone instructions as patently false, utter lies, and deep absurdities.
And who made such systems, you ask? Why, the government of course! They were naturally exempt from the restrictions they decreed. They became the parents, nurses, and shepherds of their people, and they could do very much as they liked, always, without challenge or correction or fear.
Such was the state of Looking-Glass Land in the years around the time Alice made her historic visit.
Actually, that would have been her second visit, if memory serves. Alice had been to Looking-Glass Land before, and the results of the first visit differed greatly from what that old fart Charles Dodgson professed them to be in his famous novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. It's really quite funny. For a man who treasured his memories of childhood and later friendships with children so dearly, he proved to have significant memory problems of his own when it came to the fictional worlds he himself had created.
As an outsider myself, from the next country of Wonderland, I saw what went on in Looking-Glass Land with my own eyes. I possess certain . . . powers that made these observations easier. Because of my unique circumstances and close investigation, I can tell you how it really happened, and I will very shortly. I only hope your memory is not so short. I hope that you will be able to learn and benefit from this history–for everyone's sake. Perhaps having this written form to re-read and refer to will aid you in that endeavor. I bid you good luck and urge you to make an effort, if you can.


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For the caramelized onions: Heat a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add the olive oil and onions, separating them, and sprinkle with the salt. Saute for 10 minutes, then turn down the heat to medium-low and cook until the onions are deep amber in color, another 35 to 40 minutes.
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Dr. Ross Milner, co-director, Center for Aortic Diseases
Dr. Ross Milner has been named co-direct Center for Aortic Diseases at the University of Chicago Medicine. Milner, an expert in surgery to treat complex aortic aneurysmal disease, also is an associate professor of surgery. He comes to UChicago Medicine from Loyola University Medical Center, where he was chief of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy. Milner, 43, is a leader in the evaluation of new tools for minimally invasive treatments of aortic aneurysms and other blood vessel disorders. He has been an investigator on many endovascular device trials and is a leader in training other physicians in these techniques. Milner, a general and vascular surgeon, has a his B.A. in biology and MD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served a surgical residency, research fellowship and a clinical fellowship. After a year of research and training at University Medical Center in Utrecht, Netherlands, he joined the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine as an assistant professor of surgery in 2003. He came to Loyola as an associate professor of surgery in 2009.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
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Sue Swaim's Reflections
Workshop 1: Creating a Community of Writers
Understanding the physiological and emotional growth during adolescence
Kids that are between the ages of 10 through 14 are going through more change in their life than in any other time during their life except for the first three years, only this time they're really conscious participants of it. They're changing dramatically on how they think about things, their intellectual thought process. They're doing a phenomenal growth spurt during this time, although it happens for each kid very individually and at different rates. There is certainly new interest, and in peer relationships, the emotions that they're going through, the setting of values, that really impacts the rest of their life. And one of the things that all kids in this age group have in common is that they're all going through a phenomenal amount of change—albeit for each one their own unique change pattern—but it is happening within this time frame. And that does impact, then, how we work with these kids, how they learn, the types of instructional strategies that we use, the kind of curriculum we put and make available so that they can become active, engaged participants and that. It does impact that.
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Designing a curriculum with middle level students in mind
We know kids of this age really respond well to a curriculum that's relevant to them, that's challenging, that it is something they can get their hands into, and they learn through doing. And writing certainly can be, and the process of writing can be a very active learning experience if you make it something that is an inquiry-based type of experience, you know, the opportunity to explore, to do research, to interact is very much who they are at this time. Writing can give you an opportunity to work in small peer groups, so it begins to, also in a positive way, use that peer group and bring them together as a community of learners. All of those things really feed into who they are and what they need at this time.
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Importance of active, engaging, relevant curriculum
I can't underscore enough the importance of getting these kids engaged in relevant, meaningful, challenging curriculum, and that you do it in a way that gets them actively engaged. They're not meant to be passive learners. They learn through doing.
So when you use the kinds of teaching, such as in writing, the writing workshop is used a lot and it certainly is one that when used appropriately is very effective with this age group; you know, it allows for individualizing instruction, differentiated learning strategies, small groups—small groups of learners. It gives them choice. They can have personal choice in that all of those things are really teaching to the strength of the age group that you're working with. Writing gives you lots of opportunities for that.
I think that's one of the nice things about in writing, giving kids an opportunity to have choice over what their topic is. Some kids will be at a point where they're writing about themselves, or writing about interests or hobbies that are important to them. Other kids get very into taking stances, endangered species, saving the animals, saving the environment, taking on causes, being able to research it because that's relevant to them like now.
And you can take all of those and very easily tie them into what your required curriculum is, what is meaningful for them. And I think that is one of the benefits of using, for example, a workshop process in writing where kids get to choose those topics that are important to them.
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Adolescents and reflective thinking
I think any adolescents would surprise us about how reflective they are. I think they spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, thinking about their peer group, trying to figure out who they're becoming. They do a lot of reflective thinking. So, I think they're very capable of it. I think the challenge is, how do we take it and guide it productively? How do we do it in a learning environment and a learning community where they can risk that and to share that reflection without a sense of potential putdown or ridicule, especially from peers? So it's building that trust, it's building that process about, this how we respectfully do it, and it's about giving it time.
Some kids, I think, initially will appear that perhaps they aren't being very reflective or it feels like it's shallow. Well, it takes time and it takes practice; and so you don't move away from it, you stay on the course, and you give it time to grow. But I'm convinced that they're very capable of doing that.
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Integrated reading and writing instruction
I think especially at the middle level, looking at this content—reading and writing— because they are really making a terrific change of learning how to read and learning how to write to now—use reading and writing to learn, to communicate, and that really begins to happen for the first time at middle level. And so if we don't look at what that means across the content areas, then I think we're missing out on a critical opportunity to help kids become lifelong learners because that's what's needed in order to really build that foundation for being a lifelong learner. And I think too many times when we look at what we consider a reading and writing program we don't see that part of it there and developed the way it should be.
And the third component is, how do you help kids begin to see reading and writing for the love of it, to have fun with it, for the enjoyment of it? This is an age where they also begin to develop those types of attitudes that serve them well for the rest of their life. And I think you don't hope it happens by accident, you sit down and consciously address it and consciously develop a curriculum and professional development that addresses that. And when it really begins to happen is at the middle school, and I would hope we would be looking at that.
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betiko wrote:one question is there a different heart to find on big & small version of each map?
Armandolas wrote:Hello, the doubles will be mixed(boy/girl)?
Swifte wrote:There's often been a limit on number of games you can play, but I don't see one listed this time... we can keep playing till we win one?
jonofperu wrote:Could we get some more 2-team games please not on freestyle?
Ideally no spoils, fog...
sempaispellcheck wrote:jonofperu wrote:Could we get some more 2-team games please not on freestyle?
Ideally no spoils, fog...
Sure! Any particular map (of the 5 listed above)? Requests for the other settings (cards, forts, trench, etc.)?
Gillipig wrote:I never say no to an easy general achievement medal hehe.
catnipdreams wrote:Looks like fun; thanks for running this event! I would love to see some random map two team doubles games, sequential, nukes/trench, if you wouldn't mind creating some more games?
CJ Lues wrote:If we want to play with a specific partner can we ask you to reserve it for us, coz we're not in the same time zones...
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Phase I/II Study of Retroviral-Mediated Transfer of Iduronate-2-Sulfatase Gene Into Lymphocytes of Patients With Mucopolysaccharidosis II (Mild Hunter Syndrome)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00004454
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 19, 1999
Last Update Posted : June 24, 2005
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OBJECTIVES: I. Evaluate the safety and feasibility of treating mucopolysaccharidosis II (mild Hunter syndrome) by lymphocyte gene therapy.
II. Determine the levels of iduronate-2-sulfatase enzyme in these patients attained by infusing increasing doses of lymphocytes transduced with a retroviral vector designed for insertion and expression of this iduronate-2-sulfatase gene (L2SN).
III. Determine the duration of survival of these transduced cells in these patients.
IV. Determine whether monthly infusion of L2SN-transduced lymphocytes accomplishes metabolic correction (as measured by glycosaminoglycan excretion), decrease in liver or spleen volume, any therapeutic effect upon cardiac and pulmonary dysfunction, or any other effects from treatment.
|Condition or disease
|Mucopolysaccharidosis II
|Genetic: lymphocyte gene therapy
|Phase 1 Phase 2
PROTOCOL OUTLINE: Peripheral blood lymphocytes are harvested from patient by apheresis, stimulated to initiate the growth of T-lymphocytes, transduced with retrovirus L2SN containing iduronate-2-sulfatase, and reinfused into the patient.
Patients receive 12 monthly infusions of these retroviral-mediated gene transduced lymphocytes with the first three infusions in a dose escalation format.
Patients are monitored for at least 2 hours after completion of each infusion. Patients are followed at 1 year after treatment, and then until death.
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|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
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|2 participants
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|Study Start Date :
|October 1996
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
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--Disease Characteristics--
Mucopolysaccharidosis II (mild Hunter syndrome) as defined by the following:
- Characteristic coarse facial features, hepatosplenomegaly, and radiographic evidence of dysostosis multiplex
- Elevated urinary excretion of glycosaminoglycans in 3 urine specimens
- Deficient iduronate-2-sulfatase enzyme activity as measured in plasma and leukocytes
- Mutation consistent with mild Hunter syndrome must have either: A single base substitution of the coding sequence not previously associated with severe Hunter syndrome phenotype OR An exon-skipping mutation that would allow for occasional production of (minimal amounts of) normal protein
--Patient Characteristics--
Cardiovascular: No severe cardiac disease
Pulmonary: No severe respiratory disease
- Must have IQ score of 80 or higher
- Effective contraception required of all fertile patients
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00004454
|United States, Minnesota
|University of Minnesota Medical School
|Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455
|Study Chair:
|Chester B. Whitley
|University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute
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|October 19, 1999 Key Record Dates
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|June 24, 2005
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|October 2003
Keywords provided by Office of Rare Diseases (ORD):
inborn errors of metabolism
mucopolysaccharidosis II
rare disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Mucopolysaccharidosis II
Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Connective Tissue Diseases
Metabolic Diseases
Mental Retardation, X-Linked
Intellectual Disability
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Genetic Diseases, X-Linked
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The Hunnewell Collection contains the papers of James Hunnewell which include letters from Susan Hunnewell in Charlestown, Massachusetts, from the secretary of the Dorchester Sailor's Friends Society, and from missionaries and their families who were living in Hawaii between 1820 and 1850.Women at Home and Abroad > Letters (boxes 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 10)Correspondence with women in James Hunnewell's papers include letters from Susannah Hunnewell to her husband in the Sandwich Islands that discuss religion and the difficulty of living far apart. For all but seven months of the first eleven years of their marriage, James Hunnewell was living in the Pacific. On November 6, 1820 she wrote,
It is indeed with a kind of melancholy pleasure I have sat down to write. There is a satisfaction in reflecting on the endearing relation which you sustain towards me that I would not part with for worlds; but when I consider the distance that separates us and the time that has and will elapse before we meet my feelings are overpowered. Instead of becoming habituated to your absence by length of time I seem everyday less reconciled to it & "still alone" seems stamped on everything around me.


text: OSDL were some of the bigger sponsors of kernel 2.6. They pushed several "required" changes for carrier grade environments, like J. Layton mentions. They have also been working adding NUMA functionality, processor hotplugging and really interesting figures that allowed SGI (and others) to move to Linux, and also to move Linux to other areas. Their work made linux mature enough to be considered for high demanding bussines.... in the end, making COTS stronger and giving us better performance and HW. As it was mentioned before, in the list: "Beowulf is about performance, not reliability", but redesigns in 2.6 kernel increased latency (and reduced jitter) in ethernet TCP/IP communications. That is one of the first things that comes to my mind... Also, to avoid netfilter complexity might reduce latency, as QoS & Firewalling is only overhead for Beowulf private networks. It might be worth for performance to "unload" netfilter complexity... At least these are some things that I can think now to "suggest" to OSDL. I know that it might seem quite crazy to plug/unplug netfilter. This might avoid the movement towards raw-ethernet (even though we cannot avoid CRC calculation [unless we can disable it!{other suggestion?}]) so as to minimize latency. Sorry for the disorder in the ideas, it resembles my mind. Ariel Joel Krauska escribió: > Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: > >> I quick glance at the website leads me to believe it's more >> of an HA cluster group than an HPC group. Some of the >> documents are about Carrier Grade Linux. > > > That's mostly true, but I would say that there's some worthwhile > overlap. One of the projects supposedly involved is OpenSSI.org, > who's work has some similarities to Beowulf capabilities. > > --joel > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >


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In addition to the general properties discussed in the previous two sections, HTTP/HTTPS performance is limited by how fast a client can make HTTP requests to the Web server hosting the Message Queue tunnel servlet.
A Web server might need to be optimized to handle multiple requests on a single socket. With JDK version 1.4 and later, HTTP connections to a Web server are kept alive (the socket to the Web server remains open) to minimize resources used by the Web server when it processes multiple HTTP requests. If the performance of a client application using JDK version 1.4 is slower than the same application running with an earlier JDK release, you might need to tune the Web server keep-alive configuration parameters to improve performance.
In addition to such Web server tuning, you can also adjust how often a client polls the Web server. HTTP is a request-based protocol. This means that clients using an HTTP-based protocol periodically need to check the Web server to see if messages are waiting. The imq.httpjms.http.pullPeriod broker property (and the corresponding imq.httpsjms.https.pullPeriod property) specifies how often the Message Queue client runtime polls the Web server.
If the pullPeriod value is -1 (the default value), the client runtime polls the server as soon as the previous request returns, maximizing the performance of the individual client. As a result, each client connection monopolizes a request thread in the Web server, possibly straining Web server resources.
If the pullPeriod value is a positive number, the client runtime periodically sends requests to the Web server to see if there is pending data. In this case, the client does not monopolize a request thread in the Web server. Hence, if large numbers of clients are using the Web server, you might conserve Web server resources by setting the pullPeriod to a positive value.


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Linda Lou Lehman, 63, of Wabash, died at 10:22 p.m. Monday, April 22, at Parkview Huntington Hospital.
She was born Dec. 11, 1949 in Wabash, to Jaye and Florence (Easterday) Meyer. Linda was a Northfield High School graduate, and received her Associates Degree from Ivy Tech. She worked at Wagners/United Tech in Wabash 22 years, and retired from Utec in Huntington. She enjoyed crocheting, working puzzles, needlework and movie watching. Linda also enjoyed traveling and visiting with her neighbors.
She is survived by two sons, Larry (Karen) Lehman, LaFontaine, and Michael (Angie) Lehman, Hartford City; and her five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash on Friday, April 26, at 10:30 a.m. with Rev. Kurt Freeman officiating. Burial will be in Hopewell Cemetery, Lagro. Friends may call 5-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Preferred memorial is Animal Shelter of Wabash County.
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(CNN) -- The rebranded Marussia team were plagued with difficulties in the buildup to the 2012 season, with the MR01 failing the 18th and final official crash test.
The car did eventually pass the test in early March, but the delay meant the Britain-based marque entered the new campaign having not tested it at any of the three official preseason events.
The team competed in the last two seasons as Virgin, finishing bottom of the pile and pointless in both campaigns before being bought out by a Russian car manufacturer.
Its drivers have never finished higher than 14th in a race, with Brazil's Lucas di Grassi and Belgian Jerome d'Ambrosio lasting only one season each.
Timo Glock
The German scored two points for Jordan on his F1 debut at the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix, but failed to register in two years with Virgin.
Glock went three seasons without a drive following his initial breakthrough, before being handed a seat with the now defunct Toyota in 2008 and 2009.
The 29-year-old's time with Virgin has been blighted by retirements, with Glock forced to with draw from 12 of the 36 grands prix he has started.
Glock finished last season 25th out of 28 in the drivers' standings. He was lowest ranked of the drivers who had cars for the entire season.
Charles Pic
The Frenchman made his debut behind the wheel of an F1 car at the young drivers test event in November 2011, and will pick up valuable racing experience during his rookie season with minnows Marussia.
The 22-year-old is being mentored by compatriot Olivier Panis, a former Toyota and Honda driver who started 157 grands prix during 11 years in the sport.
Pic finished third in the 2009 Formula Renault 3.5 season and has also competed in the GP2 Series, a feeder for F1.
Australia: Glock 14th, Pic 15th
Malaysia: Glock 17th, Pic 20th
China: Glock 19th, Pic 20th
Bahrain: Glock 19th, Pic DNF
Spain: Glock 18th, Pic DNF
Monaco: Glock 14th, Pic DNF
Canada: Pic 20th, Glock DNF
Europe: Pic 15th, Glock DNS
Britain: Glock 18th, Pic 19th
Germany: Pic 20th, Glock 22nd
Hungary: Pic 20th, Glock 21st
Belgium: Glock 15th, Pic 16th
Italy: Pic 16th, Glock 17th
Singapore: Glock 12th, Pic 16th
Japan: Glock 16th, Pic DNF
Korea: Glock 18th, Pic 19th
India: Pic 19th, Glock 20th
Abu Dhabi: Glock 14th, Pic DNF
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Guest Speaker: Gianfranco Bertone
University of Amsterdam
Topic: Behind the Scenes of the Universe: From the Higgs to Dark Matter
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text: At 07:59 AM 11/10/2005, Robert G. Brown wrote: >On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Josip Loncaric wrote: > >>A cheap bare case can cost less than $20 -- and can save you a lot of >>work, although perhaps not shelf space. For safety, ease of >>installation, and FCC EM reasons, cheap metal cases should be considered. > >Yeah, I think that Jim's observation that you should think carefully >about the diminishing returns of building a freeform caseless cluster is >very apropos -- you'll save a bit of money on space and cases -- maybe >-- at the expense of more hands on work building the cluster and at the >risk of having to resolve problems with shielding and so on. For a >>>professional<< grade cluster I'd generally not recommend this approach >unless you are truly working with a shoestring budget and have a metal >shop handy or are building a hobby/learning cluster and want the entire >cluster to be "visible" and supercheap. > >In this latter case, you can probably get by by taking sheets of steel >or aluminum, drilling them out using the mounting holes of the >motherboard as a template, and mounting the motherboards on them using >the standard spacers and screws just LIKE a case. You can then get >creative in several ways as to just how you insert the plates into metal >shelving or even a metal file cabinet drawer with suitably mounted fans >so that each board is cooled, powered, and still reasonably well EM >shielded from the others. I doubt that you'll save much money (I'm >CERTAIN you won't save money if you bill your own time into the project >even at minimum wage and you'll lose big if you "charge" the >$50-100/hour your time is probably worth:-). I just looked at a motherboard here. 9 holes. Figure you can "gang drill" about an inch worth of plates at once, call it a dozen, on a drill press. Probably about 30-60 minutes to set up and mark it, do the drilling, clean it up, deburr the holes, etc. Assume aluminum so you don't have to paint it. Now, you have to find about 200 screws and washers, 100 standoffs, etc. If you're smart, and set up a little jig, you can probably drive a couple screws a minute, so there's about 3 hours or so, by the time you count fooling around getting the parts organized, etc. You also have to drill holes to mount the drives and power supplies, etc. You're probably pretty close to half an hour per system. Figure $5 in labor, plus you've got material costs. That $20 stamped sheetmetal case is looking pretty darn attractive. There IS a faster way, for a bare system approach. Use double sided sticky foam tape. Plenty strong, it will last 2 or 3 years. >One other thing to watch that I think that Jim brushed up against is >your power supply wiring and ground vs neutral. If you have three or >four power supplies, each plugged into a different circuit, those >circuits can easily have different phases. If you are not careful and >do not know what you are doing, there are a variety of ways to create >spectacularly dangerous conditions -- ground loops and worse -- where by >spectacular I mean that "when you plug it in it will explode in a shower >of vaporized and melted metal". Cases and case power supplies are >designed to be pretty safe -- plug it in and snap on connectors that >really can only work one way. If you go anywhere beyond this, I'd >REALLY recommend that you only proceed if you completely understand >electricity and electrical wiring and know what a ground loop IS and so >on. That's just part of the thrill of bareboard wiring. True expertise and learning only comes from a good near death experience. > rgb Jim


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Beaumont/Port Arthur
Radio station KSET, the Beaumont news-talk outlet that broadcasts at 1300 AM, has gone silent. A hastily scribbled note posted on the door of the KSET studio at 5550 Eastex Freeway read "KSET RADIO HAS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED OPERATIONS. OWNER HAS TAKEN OVER MANAGEMENT." A second note provided employees an address to e-mail their timecards.
Fuzzy's Taco Shop has arrived in Beaumont. Greg Lee, whose restaurant resumé includes Sonic, and Chuck McCarty, who has Chicken Express outlets here, are partners in Baja Tacos Amigos 1 LLC. They have acquired franchise rights to build and operate Fuzzy's Taco Shops in Jefferson County and the cities of Galveston and Lake Charles, La.
The new H2O Seafood and Grill restaurant at 7675 Memorial Blvd. in Port Arthur quietly opened in December and is already making a splash on the local restaurant scene. The location is in front of the Medical Center of Southeast Texas, sharing a strip center with Sertino's and the King Buffet, but the space created where the old bookstore once operated is a cut above.
It's not often that you find somebody in business having to make a comeback at the tender age of 24, but Vyki Alleman is doing just that.
A grease fire at the FM 365 location of Novrozsky's Hamburgers, Etc. shut the Nederland eatery down for more than a month, but it might have proved a fortuitous development for the restaurant. As they scramble to reopen in early March, the Beaumont-based chain finds itself in the middle of an incipient burger war.
While we harbor no disrespect for the Wall Street Journal who called us "that scrappy little paper from Southeast Texas," we prefer to think of ourselves as simple seekers of the truth. We're of the opinion that headlines and sound bites never tell the whole story. Our readers demand all the facts, facets and flavors of every story or event. And, they expect to be informed, educated and stirred to action.
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We hate to say it, but making the decision to move to another state was the easy part. But to make things even more unpredictable, the distance from Point A (your current move) to Point B (your new home) plays an extremely important role on how you approach the relocation affair in the first place. Whether you are a recent college grad or a midcareer professional, pulling up roots and moving to a new state comes with its share of headaches.
While starting over in a new home is exciting, packing your life into small, cardboard boxes is not fun. Between packing, trekking across state lines, and making sure your new move is the right one, it can seem difficult to cover all your bases. Plan your relocation carefully and use a methodical approach to achieve your goal of embarking on a new career in a new location.
Budget your Norwood, Florida out of state move
Budgeting is probably the most important aspect of moving nowadays since there are a handful of pieces that require a Norwood, Florida full-service move. It isn't too hard to deduce that the more household goods you plan to move to your new address, the more their total weight will be, and as a result, the more money you will pay for their transportation. Your out-of-state move's going to be expensive, and you'll want to minimize the amount of nice-to-have's (think: your paper mache butterfly collection from the third grade) and maximize the must-have's like your bedroom set. If you are not attached to your bulky furniture, large electronics, etc and can manage to fit your move into a few boxes, you can open up out of state moving options that will cost less than $100!
Add security deposits for renting and starting utilities in your new home, and it becomes clear that moving requires quite a few upfront expenses that can drain your bank account.
Hiring Moving Companies For Out Of State in Norwood, Florida
The most critical thing to decide will seem to be whether or not you should hire a state to state moving company in Norwood, Florida 32201 to handle the tasks you can't really do on your own – protecting valuable items through special packing techniques, moving heavy household items such as electric appliances or pieces of furniture, loading all your stuff into the moving vehicle in such a way as to save moving day time and storage space. Depending on the distance that needs to be traveled as well as the amount of heavy furniture or bulky items you have to move, it is a very smart decision to hire the services of a professional company.
In order to find the best out of state moving companies check the ones you are interested in by reading reviews, looking for information about the mover at the US Department of Transportation and see if it is BBB registered. You should also assess various delivery time windows between the companies, determine what timing and what pricing seems realistic and most appropriate for your move. Just remember that if you're comparing three to five movers, and you find that one mover's quote is much lower than the others, this could be a sign that the low-cost mover should be avoided.
Check nearby movers:
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- North Shore
- Lake Forest Hills
- Longbranch Trailer Park
- Trailer Village Mobile Home Park
- Lake Forest Manor
- Gateway Trailer Park
Why hire a Norwood, Florida moving company?
You may be wondering to yourself why you would want to spend the extra money on a moving company. Moving heavy items like sofas, beds, and furniture is awkward, requires either multiple people or the right equipment, and it needs to be done twice — moving out of one home and moving into another. You turn to specialists because you know they are the ones to provide qualified assistance when you need it the most.
No matter how excited you are at this point and no matter how easy it all seems at the beginning, believe us, once you realize your moving day is getting closer, the chances are you'll begin to feel stressed-out. Unfortunately, a borrowed truck from a buddy does not come with the right equipment to move your stuff safely – another reason you'd want to hire professional help. Having to arrange to rent your own moving van and plan out the logistics of the move will require a great deal of your time and attention that would be better spent elsewhere.
Professional movers in Duval County, Florida understand the best ways to navigate the roads and how to handle your belongings to keep them safe and protected. If you were moving on your own, a challenge may arise that could set you back hours or even days; professional movers are equipped to move their clients as swiftly and smoothly as possible.


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- Line 13x9-inch pan with foil, with ends of foil extending over sides. Spray foil with cooking spray.
- Microwave chocolate and butter in large microwaveable bowl on HIGH 2 min. or until butter is melted. Stir until chocolate is completely melted. Stir in sugar. Blend in eggs and vanilla. Add flour and nuts; mix well. Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake 30 to 35 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with fudgy crumbs. (Do not overbake.) Cool completely. Use foil handles to remove brownies from pan before cutting to serve.
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Matrix Functions in Parallel
Last year I wrote a blog post about NAG's work on parallelising the computation of the matrix square root. More recently, as part of our Matrix Functions Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the University of Manchester, we've been investigating parallel implementations of the Schur-Parlett algorithm [1].
Most algorithms for computing functions of matrices are tailored for a specific function, such as the matrix exponential or the matrix square root. The Schur-Parlett algorithm is much more general; it will work for any "well behaved" function (this general term can be given a more mathematically precise meaning). For a function such as
using the Schur-Parlett algorithm should be quicker than computing the individual components separately. This algorithm made its first appearance in Mark 23 of the NAG C Library. Our parallel improvements will be found in Mark 24 of the C Library, next year.
At the heart of the algorithm lies a Taylor series (which is truncated when it has converged sufficiently). For example:
Before this however, the matrix A is converted into upper triangular Schur form. This serves two purposes. It reduces the number of arithmetic operations required to evaluate the Taylor series. It also gives us the eigenvalues of A. The Taylor series will converge fastest when the eigenvalues lie close together. The clever bit of the algorithm is to rearrange the Schur form of A, grouping similar eigenvalues together. The diagonal part of the matrix is then split into multiple different sized sub-matrices according to this grouping. A Taylor series is evaluated for each of these diagonal blocks. The off-diagonal blocks are then computed by solving the 'Parlett recurrence'. This is all very confusing and is best explained by the diagram below:
Here we can see the original matrix (in black), the triangular Schur form (in red), the blocking strategy (in blue) and finally the computation of the off-diagonal blocks (in green). The exact distribution of eigenvalues and therefore the number and size of diagonal blocks is totally dependent on the input matrix.
So, what does this mean for parallelism? Clearly, all BLAS calls e.g. matrix multiplications can be done in parallel. But on a higher level, the diagonal blocks can be computed in parallel and then the Parlett recurrence can also be solved, a block superdiagonal at a time, in parallel.
To investigate this higher level parallelism, I constructed various upper triangular 1000 by 1000 test matrices, choosing their eigenvalue distributions carefully. Here is a very brief selection of results from a machine with 8 available threads:
- 1 block of size 1000: no speed up available
- 20 blocks of size 50: 5x speed up on 8 threads compared to 1 thread
- 1000 blocks of size 1: 5x speed up on 8 threads compared to 1 thread
These results are not surprising. For a matrix with only one diagonal block (all eigenvalues close together), nothing can be done in parallel. For matrices with more separated eigenvalues (and therefore multiple diagonal blocks) the evaluation of the diagonal blocks and subsequently the Parlett recurrence (which typically accounts for well over 90% of the run time) and can be done in parallel.
In the future, nested parallelism is likely to become more and more important, and this is something which still needs investigating. Would there come a point whereby it is useful to turn off the threaded BLAS and divert all resources to higher level parallelism, and vice versa? We don't know yet.
I concluded my last post with the message that the best algorithm for serial architectures may not be the best algorithm for parallel architectures. I think the general point to take from this post is that the performance gain you get from parallelism can be highly dependent on your input data.
[1] P. I. Davies and N. Higham. A Schur-Parlett algorithm for computing matrix functions. SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 25:464-485, September 2003.


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When the Grand Rapids Griffins arrived at training camp in Traverse City less than two weeks ago, a familiar face was missing from their roster: Ryan Oulahen.
After five seasons with the organization, Oulahen was forced to retire due to a hip injury he suffered during a 2009 game.
"It totally felt weird to know that I'm not going to play hockey this year," he said from his home in Barrie, Ontario. "For the first time, it's really sunk in: I'm not going back to play hockey."
Oulahen dislocated his hip after taking a hit at Norfolk on March 27, 2009. After a pair of surgeries and months of rehabilitation, he attempted to come back late last season, but lingering soreness prevented him from ever taking the ice.
Last March, he went back to his doctors to see what more he could do. They told him to get some rest and do as little as possible in an attempt to "get things back to normal."
One problem: The hip wasn't feeling any better. He had one more surgery in mid-June in an attempt to find out what was causing the lingering pain.
"They said my hip was not normal, and everything they hoped would work wasn't working," he said. "In order to extend my quality of life, they said I should not go back and play hockey."
The doctors also told Oulahen his hip gradually will cause him more health problems over the years, such as arthritis.
"At that point, it really wasn't a decision," he said. "From Day 1, my No. 1 issue was health. I wasn't going to sacrifice my hip and play and then not be able to walk."
A fifth-round draft pick by the Detroit Red Wings in 2003, Oulahen had 53 goals and 54 assists in 302 games with the Griffins.
He also was a valuable penalty killer, but his biggest contributions might have been as a leader in the locker room.
"It's unfortunate that it was one of those injuries that he just couldn't come back from," Griffins general manager Bob McNamara said. "It's too bad. On and off the ice, he was a valuable part of our team, a strong leader, a smart individual."
A few months after the injury, Oulahen served as an assistant coach alongside Curt Fraser and Jim Paek during the Griffins' 2009 playoff run.
Coaching is something Oulahen might be interested in somewhere down the road. For now, though, he is enjoying time with his wife, Kendal, and is working on a business degree through correspondence courses.
"I talked with Curt and Mac (McNamara), and they said coaching might be something I'd be good at. But they agreed that I should take some time for myself, then pursue some other things," Oulahen said. "I'm young enough and lucky enough that I have the time to invest in myself."
Oulahen still keeps in contact with Darren Helm, Jimmy Howard and other friends he made within the Griffins organization, and he intends to make periodic visits to West Michigan.
"After five years there, it feels like Grand Rapids is home," he said. "You're definitely going to see me back in the stands for a game or two."
Oulahen never imagined that night in Norfolk would be his last game, or that his career would be over at age 25.
A few months ago, he said he had no direction and no focus after learning hockey would not be a part of his future. Now, he is ready for whatever the future holds.
"To be honest, I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason," Oulahen said. "Maybe I wasn't supposed to play hockey, maybe I was meant to do something else."
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The Serotonin Power Diet
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Actors: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins
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DVD Release Date:2015
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In the six weeks that have passed since the ending of the ninth season,Supernatural Season 10 DVD the now-demonic Dean (Jensen Ackles) has been living it up with his new friend Crowley (Mark A. Sheppard)—partying at bars, singing bad karaoke, and sleeping with a waitress. Meanwhile, Sam (Jared Padalecki), oblivious to Dean's state, has been searching desperately for his missing brother. He eventually finds out the truth from Crowley after investigating the death of an Abaddon loyalist whom Crowley had purposefully sent after Dean to die; Crowley claims that he has been sending Abaddon loyalists after Dean to sate Dean's bloodlust. Sam tracks Dean and Crowley to North Dakota, but gets ambushed by an unknown man (Travis Aaron Wade) who is also looking for Dean. Dean gets a call from the man, who demands that Dean trade himself for Sam's life. However, Dean doesn't care about his brother anymore,Supernatural Season 10 DVD refuses the deal,Supernatural Season 10 and hangs up, leaving Sam in the kidnapper's hands. Elsewhere, a dying Castiel (Misha Collins) is approached by Hannah (Erica Carroll), one of his followers in the previous season, for help tracking down Daniel and Adina (Jud Tylor), two rogue angels who refuse to return to the restored Heaven, instead wanting the freedom that life on Earth gives them.
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Chris Cox, an artist with springy curls and an arsenal of power tools, gained folk-hero status during last month's government shutdown when, brandishing the South Carolina flag of his forefathers, he stormed the lawn of the closed-off Lincoln Memorial and single-handedly mowed it. On Wednesday afternoon, Cox returned to the hallowed site of his rogue yard-care, where a power equipment retailer and executives from a fundraising Web site recognized his service by presenting him with a chain saw.
"It's an honor to be able to present Chris with this chain saw," said Belmont Power Equipment's Robert Hill of the Stihl MS 660, which retails for approximately $1,200.
"I didn't set out to get this chain saw," said Cox, 45, accepting the saw on the steps not far from where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. "But I'm flattered."
Then, before a small crowd of onlookers, he hoisted the 5.2-kilowatt engine-powered saw into the chilly November air, though he did not turn it on. In the middle distance, a police officer appeared to be monitoring the situation.
Originally, Crowd It Forward, a Tampa-based Web site that raises money for do-gooders nationwide, wanted to buy Cox a riding lawn mower. But when Kendell Almerico, the nonprofit group's chief executive, contacted him, he learned that Cox wasn't a professional lawn-care specialist but rather a sculptor.
"I do bears, sea captains, cigar store Indians, tiki heads," Cox explained in a pre-ceremony interview. He is, in fact, a Northern Virginia chain saw artist and makes wooden sculptures under the name Cox Creations. He's working on a football display case, carving the Redskins mascot out of reclaimed wood, and positioning him as if he is cradling the ball. Cox was commissioned to make it by a local real estate developer.
Conveniently for the company providing the gift, "My chain saw of choice is Stihl," Cox says. In his experience, "it has a lower vibration and a higher horsepower" than other saws of comparable size.
This particular saw being presented on Wednesday was larger than what Cox would use for his artwork, and suitable more for outdoor work like tree-cutting. He plans to use it — as well as $1,701 in cash donations Crowd it Forward collected for him — for his new endeavor, the Memorial Militia. He wants "to continue to pay it forward."
The Memorial Militia will be a network of volunteers who take to the homes and yards of infirm veterans and perform random acts of lawn mowing, brush-clearing, tree-trimming and leaf-blowing. Some 1,800 people from around the country have contacted Cox via his Facebook page, expressing interest in participating.
What Cox was doing during the shutdown really spoke to people. It made sense. It was a tangible way of restoring order to a government that had become, in Cox's words, "emotionally constipated." It said to the government, You know what? I'll just do it myself.
He never intended for his volunteerism to become a movement, though. At the time, he was just worried about public safety. Although he was not a military man himself, his grandfather, uncle and stepfather were, and Cox was concerned about vandalism on the unguarded war monuments. For the first several nights of the shutdown, he merely patrolled the area, bicycling around the Vietnam and Korean memorials. But on the third or fourth night, he noticed that the trash cans on the Mall had begun to overflow, so he went to Wal-Mart and bought some trash bags. Then he picked up cigarette butts. Then he began clearing fallen branches from paths.
The Lincoln Memorial mowing was only the most visible act of his 16-day service project. When the Park Police found out he was doing it, they asked him to stop and he did, but he continued picking up trash, and, as news of his deeds spread, so did his base of supporters. On one day, 200 additional volunteers joined him in his mission to give the memorials the dignity they deserved.
"These buildings are our buildings," he said on Wednesday, gesturing around the Mall as assembled onlookers snapped his picture. "We are their stewards."
In the foreground, uniformed Park Service officers, back on the job, raked a large pile of leaves.