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Pulse width modulation, or PWM, is really simple to do, but it allows you to do so many different things! You can change the brightness of a bulb, or set the speed of a motor. You can generate an analog voltage, or even synthesize sounds, all from a simple use of the timer with two interrupts.
The Basic PWM Signal
Three examples of PWM signals with different
duty cycles. Each is also marked with its
average level.
We create a PWM signal using two interrupts on a timer. If necessary, we could use the same interrupt and adjust when the interrupt occurs in software, but the timer modules in the MSP430 have at least two interrupts that we can use! One interrupt will set the overall frequency of our signal, while the other will set the duty cycle. The idea is simple: using the compare mode of the Timer while in continuous mode, the smallest Timer_A module has three interrupts. Whenever the timer rolls over after 65536 (or 216) clock cycles, an interrupt is driven which we'll use to set the output of our PWM. Using CCR0, we can set the duty cycle by resetting the output after a specified number of clock cycles. If the CCR0 interrupt resets when the timer count register TAR reaches 32768 (half of 65536), we have a 50% duty cycle; the PWM is set for half the period, and reset for the other half. If we set CCR0 to 6554, we have approximately a 10% duty cycle. Since the smallest Timer_A module has two capture-compare registers, using this method you can have at least two PWM signals from any MSP430 device running independently. Unfortunately, often in practice we're going to loose one of these.
As a first example, consider this first example: LEDPWM_G2231.c. If you run this on your LaunchPad, you'll see both LEDs light up, starting dim and growing in brightness, then decreasing from a maximum brightness, and repeating the cycle. The PWM signals being shown by the LEDs are set to increase their duty cycle from 0 to 100%, then back to 0, and repeat. You'll probably also notice a not very desirable feature: the transitions are not very smooth. In fact, you can detect the LEDs flashing nearly the entire time. Once you've run the code as-is, try uncommenting the lines setting the DCO to a faster frequency and note the effect it has on your perception of the LEDs.
Reader Exercise: Why doesn't my code let the PWM go all the way to 0? Try setting the comparison for switching directions upward to else if (TACCR0 == 0) and see what happens. Can you explain it?
Better PWMNow that you've seen it in action, consider the output frequency of this PWM scheme. If we let the timer count all the way to 216, the PWM signal is set at a frequency of f/216, where f is the Timer_A operation frequency. At the default DCO frequency of ~1.1 MHz, the frequency between pulses is only about 17 Hz-- easily detectable by the human eye! If we use its maximum speed of 16 MHz, using a 16 MHz DCO, then the maximum frequency for a PWM signal using this method will be 244 Hz. For some applications, that may be fast enough, but for many others you may be shooting for a frequency of about 1 kHz or more! Since we have no way to increase the Timer_A frequency any further, we need to have the timer count to a lower number; we can do this by using up mode instead of continuous mode, at the cost of requiring CCR0 to serve in that capacity. While this means we loose an output, we do gain the flexibility of faster PWM signals.
Counting to a lower number also means that we loose some resolution. If we set CCR0 to 10, for example, there are only 11 possible duty cycles: CCR1 can only be set to an integer value less than (or equal to) 10. That provides 11 duty cycles from 0% to 100%, spaced by 10% intervals. Using CCR0 set to 100, we can select by 1% intervals; set to 1000, we can select 0.1% intervals, and so on. While it may have been nice to have such high resolution using all 16 bits of the Timer_A register, most applications aren't benefited by it. Those that really require high resolution output will have to compromise by operating at a lower frequency.
Try the example code in this second example: LEDPWM2_G2231.c, and note the differences in how it's set up. Before, we had to manually set the PWM lines on an overflow interrupt. The MSP430 provides timer output modes that make use of both TACCRx and TACCR0, so the setting of the PWM line is now automatic. No interrupts are needed! This feature makes for much cleaner code, and saves a lot of memory. Of course, if other functions are needed in conjunction with the PWM signal, an interrupt can still be triggered to handle that. In general, it won't be needed.
Reader Exercise: You'll note that this time, the PWM does go all the way to 0%. If you couldn't figure out the answer to the first exercise, consider how this code is different. What order do the actions happen with the interrupt method? What order do they happen with the reset/set output method?
Why PWM?The second code example has the same simple function as before: the PWM increases its duty cycle from 0% to a full 100%, then decreases back to 0% before repeating. When the pulse width is small, on average the LED puts out less light. A 10% duty cycle means the LED puts out light for only 10% of the time as usual, and is therefore perceived as being about 10% as bright. By increasing then decreasing the duty cycle, you create a cool, breathing-like effect from the LED, which is used in many popular electronics devices today. For a more practical application, the technique can be used as a "dimmer" for an LED light source when desired.
Since LEDs are nearly digital in their behavior (they're either on or off, nothing in between), why do we perceive the light as being dimmer rather than observing the blinking they're actually doing? The human eye has a relatively slow response to changes in light-- as long as the blinking is faster than the human eye can perceive, we don't detect the rapid transitions and only perceive less total light accumulation in our eyes. This is the same trick that makes movies possible--videos with a frame rate of about 25 frames per second or more seem smooth and seamless to the human eye. But this doesn't mean that ideally you should be flickering the LED as fast as possible; since LEDs aren't perfectly digital, you can probably anticipate that by having the PWM frequency set too high you might artificially lower the brightness even further, as the LED itself (or at least the resistance and capacitance of the circuitry connecting the LED to the signal) can't react quickly enough. In practice, 1-10 kHz is usually sufficient for PWM, though some applications do benefit from higher frequencies. Those situations will require careful design to ensure the stray resistance and capacitance of the circuit don't slow down the transitions too much.
Putting PWM to WorkIn reality, that extra resistance and capacitance is sometimes a benefit, however. For example, by intentionally putting a large enough resistor-capacitor pair on the PWM output, you can prevent the signal from ever dropping significantly. Each pulse of the PWM recharges the capacitor a little, and each dead time lets the capacitor discharge slowly. The effect keeps a relatively constant voltage between pulses. By choosing the RC values carefully, you can successfully maintain a voltage that is proportional to the duty cycle: you've successfully created a digital to analog converter!
That's it for this tutorial. Hopefully this answers some of your questions about PWM, and gives you some ideas on how to use it.
Reader Exercise: Try making a 10-bit DAC. You'll want an RC combination that gives a time constant longer than the period between pulses; so if you use a 1 kHz PWM frequency (such as that from the default DCO, or the 1 MHz calibrated DCO for that matter, and setting TACCR0 to 1000) shoot for an RC value greater than 0.001. Write your code in a way that lets you put out a few different duty cycles, cycling either by a button press, a UART command, or automatically with a long delay between changes. Measure the output with a multimeter; the output should be close to the duty cycle multiplied by the voltage of your LaunchPad. (If you're running on USB, that's 3.3 V.) If you have an oscilloscope, look at how clean your DC voltage is. How much ripple do you get? Try raising or lowering the RC time constant. How does that affect the output?


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Nicki Minaj Curses at Mariah Carey on 'American Idol' Set
Remember those rumors of a feud between Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey on the 'American Idol' judging panel? Both ladies denied any drama, but it looks like they may have been lying. New video has emerged of Minaj flipping out at Mimi, and though both the women are gorgeous, this footage ain't pretty.
At 'Idol' auditions in Charlotte, N.C. today (Oct. 2), Minaj and Carey got into an argument over a contestant's performance. Minaj, seated at the far left of the panel, and Carey were separated by Keith Urban, who was seated between the dueling divas. It's a little hard to make out what everyone is saying in the clip because of the background noise and bleeping, but you can hear Minaj yell, "If you got a problem, handle it! … I told them, I'm not f—in' putting up with her f—in' highness over there." Yikes!
TMZ reports that Minaj also threatened Carey, saying, "I'm gonna knock you out!" However, that wasn't caught on video. It's difficult to hear what Carey says back to Minaj in the video, but she's clearly doing her diva moan and saying "Why? Why? Whyyyyy?" You can also clearly see her pointing at the Harajuku Barbie. Carey even tweeted (that was later taken down), about the incident, subtly writing: "whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy."
Another source reports that Carey kept making disparaging remarks at Minaj, who eventually had enough and flipped out. TMZ noted that producers are pretty shaken up about the blowup and stopped filming for the rest of the day so that the two beefin' babes could cool off.
Here's hoping the ladies can settle their differences, because we adore them both! Maybe they need to re-listen to 'Up Out My Face' and remember the better times.

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The start of the year has already seen a slew of updates for apps and now we're seeing yet more updates arrive for Windows Phone. This time it's the turn of Fhotoroom, the popular social networking and photo editing app and Amazon Mobile to get bumped.
Fhotoroom, in case you aren't familiar with the app and service has this to offer:
"Our Pro Camera is focused on achieving the absolutely best results that your camera can produce. Utilizing technology like our custom EV (Auto Exposure), Grid and Level all come together to extend the ability of your camera. Our photo sharing network allows uses to show off their photos with our very fast growing community of winographers. You can also share your beautiful photos with skydrive, flickr, facebook, twitter or tumblr all at once with a single click. Making beautiful photos in Fhotoroom is easier than ever."
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- Updated Camera Pinch to Zoom
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Unfortunately details of both of these updates are hard to come by, in the case of Fhotoroom it refers to things added from the previous version. The latest version takes it to 2.4 so we're going to have to put this one down to some bug fixes and such.
Amazon Mobile also gets a small bump but again details are thin on the ground. As this isn't even a real version bump again we'll have to assume it's just limited to bug fixes too. Here is what they have to say about the app:
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"The Amazon Mobile App allows Windows Phone users to quickly search, compare prices, read reviews, share products with friends, access Gold Box Deals, and make purchases on Amazon using a simple, yet elegant, interface. To make on-the-go shopping and price comparison even easier, the Amazon Mobile App includes helpful shopping features that allow users to scan a barcode or type a search to quickly compare prices and check availability. Users may also save time by pinning the Amazon barcode scan tile to their Start screen, enabling them to simply tap the tile to take them straight to the barcode scanner. Both the apps are available to download and update from the Windows Phone Store"
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Two moments in the Rapids match at Seattle Saturday night will be remembered much longer than any of the goals or other plays: when Sounders winger Steve Zakuani entered the field in the 86th minute, and after the final whistle, when Zakuani and Colorado midfielder Brian Mullan exchanged jerseys and embraced at midfield.
Last April, Zakuani sustained multiple leg fractures and related injuries on a challenge from Mullan in a match at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Colorado. Saturday was Zakuani's first match since that horrific injury.
"It was actually harder than it was last time [we played here], knowing that Steve [Zakunai] was here on the roster and hoping he was going to play," Mullan said afterwards about his emotions.
The two players had yet to talk in person since the injury, though they had spoken on the phone before. Zakuani was stil recovering and not yet ready to play when the Rapids traveled to Seattle in April.
With the Sounders leading 2-1, Zakuani entered the match to thunderous applause from the home crowd. The two players finally found closure after the match.
"I have said from day one that I do not have any issues with (Mullan)," Zakuani told the media after the match. "I forgave him a long time ago, but I think it is good for the public to see, for closure. Now I think that he can go on with his career and I can start to do the same...He took my shirt home and I am taking his shirt home and I think that chapter is closed now."
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
More Thoughts on the Elder Scrolls Online
Almost every system in system in the game is enjoyable, save one. Unfortunately that one system I dislike is the combat.
Combat is just--I don't really know how to describe it well-- "doughy". It's not crisp, it's not satisfying. Fights don't seem to flow, like they should. I often feel like I am flailing rather than in control of the fight, with wild swings in health and resources. I guess it kind of works, and it is serviceable. But I really do not look forward to combat in this game.
Very often, I'll start a new quest, enter an area with many enemies and lots of combat ahead. My first instinct on these occasions is to log out.
Now, maybe it's my class. I'm playing a Templar with a 2H weapon and heavy armor. A little fire magic and healing, along with big melee hits. Maybe another playstyle would work better. I also haven't tried group combat. Perhaps that stabilizes things.
In so many ways, ESO is the mirror image of Tera. I can't help but think that if they could have been combined in some fashion, it would have been an amazing game.
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I'm finding that I really enjoy my DK that I've built as a fire wizard using an inferno staff. It's very AE-focused and so I enjoy looking for big packs of mobs to kill and get annoyed when there's only 1 mob wandering around on his own. Most of the AE's are centered on my character though, so I have to run into melee and start firing them off. When I do, healers and ranged mobs tend to move away from me so as to not be caught in my AE's so I have to pop a root to keep them in range.ReplyDelete
It's also fun when the mobs are also "on of the player classes" and use their abilities on me and I can recognize them and go "Oh that one's a dk, leave it for later. Kill the healer!"
Conversely, my sorcerer (who I've built as a rogue, actually) is very good at single-target burst, but kinda sucks at AE so he prefers smaller groups of 1-2 mobs. If the group is larger, he has to survey it to see if there's a healer and if there is then burst it down fast and then worry about trying to take the others out faster than they can take him. Just got a nice mez spell, so that will also help going forward, I think. But still -- I have to be tactical in my thinking and it's definitely a very different play style than simply "run in, root, spam AE's" like I can do on my DK.
Interestingly enough (to me, anyway) is that my nightblade healer is also my tankiest character right now. Can't really burst a mob down until it's low health and I can pop an execute on it, but my main spell attack heals me (and 2 group mates if I have them) and then when I do heavy attacks with my healing staff the final hit of the channel also pops a heal on me, and I haven't even touched my healing spells yet... and one of them when cast puts a large defensive buff on my which caps me out on spell resist and armor, so I can take a beating, I heal myself as I attack, etc. This one does feel a bit more "gushy" in the combat, but I think it's due to how the healing staff channel works with the mob seemingly unphased by it as it runs on in at me.
So anyway, I guess what I'm saying with my anecdotes of 3 characters is that I can see where you're coming from, but I'm also finding the combat system surprisingly deep, with the mob reactions to be surprisingly intelligent for an AI. And the tl;dr is: I'm loving it and how the different characters have different approaches based on the skills I've given them.
- Anonymous5:26 AM, April 22, 2014
I play the same class and as a tank to boot. Same sort of feeling. It has 3 distinct attacks that I've seen so far. Throw a lance, throw some fireballs or stab 4 times in a row. My other attacks are tank related, so a charge, a stun and a debuff. Dragonknight has a more visceral experience.ReplyDelete
Sometimes it feels like I'm swinging a wet noodle around. There's just missing feedback. It gets really annoying in dungeons with lots of enemies and little idea what's going on.
It's interesting that even with an entirely different developer and an entirely different engine, TESO still manages to have the exact same problem that other Elder Scrolls games do.ReplyDelete
Maybe it's just an indication of how "good" the idea of a FPS melee game is.
@RJ, I'm playing it in 3rd person though. So it's pretty much the same as all the other MMOs.ReplyDelete
All Elder Scrolls games have always had a dubious combat feeling.ReplyDelete
I am REALLY loving combat in this game.ReplyDelete
I think it might come down to the mix of skills you choose and how they work with each other.
I play a dragonknight and am using the chain pull (forget the name), Searing Strike, Cleave, Reverse Slash, Fire breath and my ultimate is Dragon Leap.
It seems a natural progression from one skill to the next with l-click attacks thrown in to conserve magicka/stamina.
Try shuffling your bar around or slotting different skills for a different feel. I bet you'll come up with something nice!
I had a similar reaction; ESO had a lot of good points but the combat had a "floaty" feeling that made me feel very disconnected from what was going on. Even though it is supposed to be more "active" than others, I still feel more in-control of my character in games like WoW, and I feel like they give better feedback.ReplyDelete
Rohan: Even if you play it in third person, though, it still uses the first-person style to interact. Which is the same in other Elder Scrolls games.ReplyDelete
I disagree that combat is like this in all TES games... skyrim had much better combat.. you had the feeling that you were hitting the enemy... the weapon swings came naturally and on par with the button press.ReplyDelete
Also in TES games, various mods alter the combat, the animations, the characters and they do wonders... Zenimax forgot that ESO will not let moders to fix things in combat/animation/characters.
Yup, combat was and is still the worst part it seems. I also didn't like the empty feeling of the world and the questing but combat completely killed it for me in the beta. :/ after watching AJ's review the other day, it seems the whole coop system in PVE is also really borked because of horrible quest management and phasing, so I'm kinda not sad I never got there. some things are too important for me to ignore.ReplyDelete


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PopUps: Bieber Reportedly Asked Stephen Baldwin Permission to Marry Daughter Hailey
Justin Bieber confirmed this week that he's marrying model Hailey Baldwin, the daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin. TMZ is reporting the Canadian pop star first asked "The Usual Suspects" star for permission to marry Hailey.
Sources told the website Bieber met with Stephen weeks before proposing to his daughter. A main point of their conversation was reportedly about religion. Bieber as well as Hailey and Stephen are practicing Christians and the young couple are active members of the Hillsong Church.
A source also confirmed to E! News that the "Sorry" singer asked for Stephen's permission before popping the question to Hailey.
"Stephen was thrilled to give his permission," the source told the outlet.
People magazine reports Bieber, 24, and Hailey, 21, have been "spotted attending services of the Hillsong Church during their whirlwind romance, heading to a church conference together in Miami last month before attending a service at Churchome Church in the town of Kirkland, Washington, a couple of weeks later."
After the engagement was announced, Stephen took to social media to react, posting a Bible verse.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Hakushu Heavily Peated 2012 due at end of June
Suntory announced May 29 that it will release the 2012 version of its Hakushu heavily peated single malt across Japan on June 26. There will be 4,200 bottles and will cost about 9,000 yen for 700ml. This is a sequel to the successful 2012 sherry cask bottling earlier this year.
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- Ἀντισθένης said...
I really appreciate this blog and have been doing some ordering of Japanese whiskeys because of it. So far:
- Yamazaki 12
- Yoichi 10
- Hakushu 12
- Miyagikyo 12
The Hakushu might be the best in my amateur opinion, but the Miyagikyo is more my style. The other two I won't buy again.
I have these ordered by mail, which sounded like great deals at under 2500y/500ml:
- Nikka from the barrel
- Nikka Pure Malt White
Thanks 'nonjatta' for the recommendations.
Which brings me to my point. The last two should be great value for money, but the first two at the top certainly were not, and the second two at the top really were not when in Japan I can by Scottish scotch as good for less.
Good thing Japan has a gift culture where price is more important than content. Some of these are the 'fifty-dollar watermelon' of the whisky world.
- May 30, 2012 at 4:16 PM
- [sɐ mʌn ta] said...
I'm not sure I entirely understand your question there -- I agree that some price inflation is uncalled for (and unfortunate this whisky-lover's tiny wallet), but I don't think making a general ruling about non-age statement bottlings is a good idea. If anything, providing high-quality non-age statement bottlings is a good way to get people off their high-horse of "the older, the better." (For the record, the Nikka Pure Malt White at 5000y/liter is a good value, but doesn't compare to a Hakushu Heavily Peated or Sherry cask in terms of complexity or originality. )
It's true that knowing the ages of whiskies used for any particular bottling would be interesting, though not necessarily as useful as most consumer's would like to think. I understand why the marketing team of Suntory might opt out of age-statement bottlings for special Hakushu and Yamazaki bottlings, given the number of consumers that still use the age of a whisky as a crutch for quality rating when tasting. While no one could argue that the age of whisky effects certain characteristics, it does little to suggest the level of quality one can expect. As my circle of whisky friends often say, "if it's bad when it's made, waiting 20 years won't make it good."
- May 30, 2012 at 6:21 PM
- [sɐ mʌn ta] said...
Oops -- I forgot to mention how much I enjoy this blog ! Many thanks for the Japanese whisky-world updates !
- May 30, 2012 at 6:23 PM
- Stefan said...
I agree with Dramtastic. I feel that the price of whisky released by the bigger players is, in general, reasonable / fair / easy to understand (save for the odd ultra-premium release, but that's another story). Lately, I've been feeling that it's actually the so-called "smaller" companies whose prices have started to spiral out of control. Almost as if to say, "well, we don't have the economies of scale to fall back onto, so don't complain about the prices we charge" - as if the small size of the enterprise is a "carte blanche" to slap whatever price they want on a bottle. I am sure consumers won't put up with this forever. You only need to read various reviews of the the first Chichibu OBs (The First and The Floor Malted) to realize that many people who have bought these have set aside their concern about the price for the time being because of the novelty value, but that's bound to wear off. Will we see Chichibu's priced at 3,000 or 4,000 yen in the future (like the Glenglassaugh Revival - which offers a good comparison, I think)? Does anyone know of any distillery outside Japan who sells their 3YO (single malt) at 100 USD? (Seriously, this is not a rhetoric question - I am really wondering if there are examples!!)
- May 30, 2012 at 10:23 PM
I don't really see the Chichibu price as 'problematic'. It's a limited first release, not a general bottling and also there to offset inital costs in the first 10 years. If you look at Kilchoman's first releases they were priced in the same ballpark I believe.
- May 31, 2012 at 3:52 AM
- Stefan said...
it all depends on how you define "limited"... Off the top of my head, I think there were about 7,000 or 8,000 bottles of the Chichibus. I think there will never be a time when there will be a "general release" in the sense that you're thinking of, seeing as they can only fill around 400 casks a year. Anyway, I'm glad you don't see it as problematic. Most bloggers and many whisky enthusiasts that I know certainly don't see it that way, though.
- May 31, 2012 at 6:19 AM
Well if that pricing scheme continues with the coming bottlings this will be another story...
- May 31, 2012 at 6:53 AM
Abhainn Dearg 3yo 50cl inaugural bottle is priced at a whopping 150 £ in the UK. It's a limited release of 2011 bottles, but not sold out yet. I guess this is probably due to this very steep pricing. I've also read somewhere that the whisky is not particularly promising, but nevertheless as an inaugural limited release it stays a collectors item, I guess. Anyway, it does seem pretty exceptional however to have 3yo single malts priced as high as those in Japan. A 3yo Kilchoman goes for about 45 £. All in all I'm always amazed how expensive those Japanese malts are compared to the Scotch malts on offer in the very same Japanese liquor stores.
Btw, to nonjatta and all its contributors: Thanks for this wonderfull website!!
- May 31, 2012 at 11:58 AM
- Nonjatta said...
I am getting the distinct feeling that my ideas on age statements as regards these Suntory offerings are off the mark, but I would be a bit more confident of my ground on the other side of the issue: ie. defending the relatively high prices charged by some of the small makers. My view is that these firms are really a large reason why Japanese whisky is so interesting. Quite apart from my feelings about the effort and expertise that goes into making these whiskies available, I think the willingness of buyers to reward these companies innovation is why this whisky isn`t just lying inaccessible in the holdings of unmotivated and ignorant firms with little idea about the international whisky market. The vibrancy of the market these firms have help create is why we have all this new distilling and careful handling of the existing stock.
I absolutely see the sense in the other side of the argument and I think that it is great that we are having these discussion, but I don`t think I am alone in my way of thinking.
- May 31, 2012 at 6:04 PM
- Michio said...
The Anonymous poster was me, didn't have my login info on the cellphone...
- June 1, 2012 at 1:03 AM
- Chap said...
I've paid what to me are very high prices for Japanese whiskies (Karuizawa specifically) because it's great stuff and not available in the States. The Japanese malts are high in price, but they're selling...so clearly they know what their market will bear. Unfortunately for my wallet, anyway.
In the case of the age statement, I'd note that other distilleries are trying to do the same thing, with varying success. In Hakushu's case, the open bottle for me to taste sealed the deal, age statement or not.
Finally--I just finished Chris' excellent book. Well done, sir! What enjoyable reading!
- June 1, 2012 at 10:47 AM
I think that the quality of what's in the bottle is more important than an age statement. The quality of recent small batch releases from Suntory have by and large been unimpeachable. The puncheon/bourbon/sherry/heavily peated releases have generally been excellent. And I loved the Chita grain. In the latter case I believe the Chita is 12 years old but has no age statement
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Bush won multiple collegiate awards, including the 2005 Heisman Trophy, but allegations that he received improper benefits were central to a controversy surrounding the USC program that led to severe NCAA sanctions against USC, including a two-year postseason ban, the loss of football scholarships and the vacating of wins in the 2004-05 championship season. On September 14, 2010, Bush voluntarily gave up his Heisman Trophy.
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Genealogy Serendipity - A Beacon from the Church
I had printed Mapquest directions before leaving on our trip. I hadn't really checked the route and we had no GPS. So we had no idea exactly how we would be entering Glen. It turned out we arrived through a section of town we had never been in before. We drove slowly, enjoying all the scenery and old houses and stopping to take photos as we liked.
Before long we came upon a church. It was called the Glen Reformed Church. I mentioned to my dad that I thought our ancestors had attended this church. It occurred to me that we never thought to visit this church when we had visited two years earlier. Our Edwards ancestors had been members of this church since the mid 1800s.
The church had a wonderful historical display right at the front entrance. I paused at the guest book being sure to include our names and to mention that our Edwards ancestors were members of the church. While no one else was in the church it seemed proper to leave our mark and let them know we were here.
We wandered around the sanctuary admiring the church and taking a few keep-sake photos. I noticed that the stained-glass windows had names memorializing certain families.
I yelled across to my Dad to be on the lookout for a window for the Edwards. In a matter of minutes my father found a memorial to our ancestors in the corner window. Further along we also found a window memorializing the Ostroms, a strongly Edwards-allied family. What a lovely surprise to find our ancestors permanently remembered as a part of the church.
As we made our way back out of the church we noticed there were many old photographs and documents along the back hallway. While there were no Edwards in the photos there were a number of references to them in the documents.
An unexpected journey down an unknown road turned into genealogical serendipity. Without even trying we had stumbled upon more clues to our family history!
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What a neat story Marian. The windows are beautiful.ReplyDelete
I love hearing stories of genealogy serendipity. I've had a few myself. The first one that comes to mind is visiting a church cemetery in Georgia and meeting into a member of the church who turned out to be a distant cousin. I nearly fell over in shock when he pointed out his grandparents' headstones, which I had been looking at a few minutes before since they were both siblings of my 2nd great grandparents (brothers of one family married sisters of another family).ReplyDelete
On another occasion, I had contacted a lookup volunteer to get a marriage record. Imagine my surprise when they responded with the information that they were also related to the groom.
the windows are beautiful Marian, and this is a great story. You never know what you might find down the road!ReplyDelete
Such a beautiful memorial! I'm so glad you stumbled upon the church.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2011 at 11:26 PM
Excellent outcome from an unplanned stop..proves our stories are tucked away uin all sorts of places. Well done to the church for highlighting their history!ReplyDelete


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It never amazes me anymore when I try and help people having computer problems, often performance related, and find that their hard drives are so badly cluttered with useless garbage that hard drive performance is seriously degraded. While there are many potential causes of poor computer performance, one of the easiest problems to detect and remedy is hard drive clutter.
Our computers are constantly reading and writing data, often creating massive numbers of temporary files that serve no useful purpose after a very short period of time, or after the program is closed. Browsers use cache files as temporary storage, where Web pages, images and other Web-based information is temporarily stored. After programs are installed, there are often sizeable temporary files left on the hard drive that serve absolutely no purpose. The frequent Windows updates downloaded from Microsoft are usually very large files, often writing huge temporary files on the hard drive, littering of our precious hard drive space. It is not at all uncommon for users to literally have several gigabytes of useless garbage occupying space on a device, which wastes time and money, as well as possibly degrading computer performance.
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The user can selectively choose which items to clean from the hard drive, but at a minimum (for those who want to be especially safe and not concerned with possibly deleting useful files) the user should select to clean browser temporary Internet files (cache), recycle bin, temporary system files, memory dumps and old prefetch data; other items can be selected from both the Windows and Applications tabs. CCleaner will perform a fast scan of the hard drive, disclosing whatever files are selected for removal. If the user is satisfied with deleting the selected files, clicking the "Run Cleaner" button will complete the cleaning process. As a general rule, I personally choose not to delete Internet cookies (most are harmless or necessary, and I use security software to detect and remove risky cookies), browsing history, passwords, download history and other possibly useful Internet content.
CCleaner also has other useful features, listed as icons on the left margin, and includes a decent registry cleaner, a series of system tools including a startup manager, uninstall utility, system restore, and a drive wiper which can securely overwrite sensitive data making it difficult to recover.
While CCleaner is an extremely popular drive cleaning utility, there are hundreds of other programs whose useless and temporary files are not cleaned by CCleaner; a free third-party utility, CCEnhancer (singularlabs.com/software/ccenhancer), works as a plug-in to CCleaner, identifies the software installed on the computer, and if available, adds those software products to the list to be cleaned by CCleaner.
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Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn said Sunday the Republican Party lost Tuesday's presidential election because it lacked a "positive vision" for the country.
"You have to demonstrate what you're for, not what you're against," the Oklahoma Republican said on NBC's "Meet The Press." "I think that's the key ingredient, and sell a vision that's positive for America, not a negative vision about what's wrong with America. I think you have to have both. We didn't sell a positive vision, we didn't explain to people what we're for."
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How many positive three digit even numbers lesser than 700 are there with all three different digits and where the sum of the three digits is 12 or less ?
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Kim Jong Il is dead, and the confirmation of this is something I had been waiting for, as I have long suspected that he had actually died years ago, and that the miracle of photoshop and an outsourced Hollywood publicist had kept him alive, rather than heart and lung machines. We had no way of truly knowing. There is no way of knowing what happens in North Korea and what doesn't. What happens in North Korea stays in North Korea.
It keeps its lurid secrets within its borders, the strange armies with their Rockette's kicking walk, looking like soldiers from another time, a time that is not now. They are fairly comical, a militant vaudeville. when I see the North Korean border guards with their straight legs march, I half expect them to get in a line and link arms as the camera swings to an aerial view so we can watch them go around in a circle as a grand finale.
North Korea is an unsolved mystery. I once had family there, and now the family ties, cut for so long because of the separation of the Koreas into north and south, have healed over into non-existence. Perhaps there is a scar there, an infinitesimal tear in some great grandmother's conscience, but I don't even know her. No one in my family remembers her name, so its like she never existed. We from the south and we from the north now are separate and at best, indifferent. At worst, hateful in the terrible way of civil war and the brutal animosity of a country divided is capable of. Do we despise ourselves more when we are ourselves?
When I got the part of Kim Jong Il in the fantastic television program 30 Rock, I approached the role with the zeal of Cate Blanchett transforming herself into Bob Dylan. I remembered once I heard a story of the celebrated actress Glenn Close being seen wearing dark glasses and waiting for a wheelchair in an airplane, feeling the air in front of her as if she were blind, and thinking this is what an actor must do to prepare. Live it. Do it for real.
Since I had no access to an entire nation of people I could force into simultaneously holding up pieces of cardboard in a stadium to create stunning, momentary, very large pixilated propagandist images that rival any sophisticated computer animation done in South Korea, I had to do a YouTube search. I found nothing. Kim Jong Il isn't up on YouTube. Nothing. No one got anything of him – not nowhere. Not ABC, not BBC, not TMZ. No one got nothing on the guy.
Kim Jong Il's image was tightly controlled to the point there was no way of finding out what he actually sounds like, at least in my usual suspects of search engines. Perhaps you have better search engines than I, but I looked for days and came up empty handed despite all the cursing I did and all the tapping I did with my cursor, so I decided to base my portrayal of him on my mother, which was a good enough guesstimate, as the episode for me went smashingly well.
Even though the role was obviously comedic, on what is one of the funniest shows on television (one scene imagines Kim Jong Il in Alex Baldwin's famed coffee is for closers soliloquy from Glengarry Glen Ross) when I put on the fat suit (yes it's a fat suit – that is not my gut) and Amy Poehler's borrowed wig from SNL and no makeup because KJI and I have the same face (!), I felt tragic. I felt sick and sad for the people on the North Korean side of my family who died without ever getting to know me, or hating me just because we happened to live on one side of a suddenly come into existence line. My heart broke for a country cut off from the rest of the world, whose only representative is a crazed megalomaniac who fancies himself a polymath, like Leonardo da Vinci or Walt Disney or Woody Allen or Thomas Edison, a truly singular artiste, who can not only play the most incredible golf, he also directs films and is half man-half diety (also half size) as well as being a full time dictator. Now that he is dead I would like to know what he really sounds like. Let me hear so I can truly do him justice.


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This recently renovated hotel has a great location with 5 star cleanliness if I am asked to rate it. The problem I had with this hotel is that it is noisy maybe it is because it is located next to the main street so all the noise was probably coming from the busy streets. I say this because the noise is from passing cars and scooters not like people playing loud music or anything like that. I went to this hotel for total relaxation but it wasn't comfortable for me at all. One very good thing about this hotel is that it has an unparalleled view and it is located right on one of the best beaches known as Las Galeras. The beach is beautiful with blue waters and miles of beautiful white sands for you to enjoy. The hotel is surrounded by mountains and hills making it a nice spot but I wish the noise wasn't there to disturb my quiet time, it would have been the perfect holiday for me because the price is reasonable, the rooms are adequate and clean and the staff were nice and understood some English language. The rooms have this warm tropical feeling and they have their own individual decorations which made them look beautiful. You can dine in the formal dining room or the garden café either way, you will love it. On the weekends, entertainments and live music shows are offered to the guests so the place is always very lively during the weekends.


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Imagine all the athletes, of past and present day.
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Imagine all the athletes, hoping to get a seat.
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Deciding the greatest athletes by number;
Who get to enter the Cafe 101.
When I started on my quest to determine the greatest athlete to ever represent each jersey number from 00 to 99, I looked across the world of sports and knew some numbers would be challenging (every number 35 and under), some would be extremely difficult – 1, 7, 10, 12, 21, 32, 33, etc. but when I looked at the field of numbers there was 1 number I thought would be the most difficult of all, and it's probably not one you would expect – #4. I saw #4 and I immediately thought of Brett Favre, Lou Gehrig, and Bobby Orr. It wasn't the greatness that was going to make this difficult, well at least not just the greatness, it was that this is personal. I've long been a fan of Lou Gehrig and he is one of my favorite baseball players (definitely my favorite Yankee) of all-time. As a Vikings fan, I am a big Brett Favre fan and of course I live and work in Massachusetts so the influence of Orr is overwhelming. Of course last week my Random Number Generator determined I would write about 4 this week and so I spent the last few days thinking long and hard on one question –
Favre Orr Gehrig?
Without further ado, this was my decision:
First Baseman, New York Yankees (1923-1939)
6x World Series Champion, 7x All-Star, 2x AL MVP, Yankees Team Captain (1935-1939), Major League Baseball All-Century Team, Hall of Fame – 1939
In a great battle between Iron Men (Favre and Gehrig) and one of the greatest hockey players of all time (Orr), I had to take Lou Gehrig. For the longest time I thought I would take Brett Favre, one of the greatest Quarterbacks of all time, but then I began to realize that Gehrig is probably the greatest first basemen of all time and not just that, I think he is one of the top 5 baseball players of all time. About 10 months ago I wrote that, "If I could build an all-time team around one player – no doubt in my mind that that player would be the Iron Horse" and I don't plan to detract from that now. He started and played in 2,130 straight games (a record until Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995), he has 23 career grand slams, scored the winning run in 8 World Series games, has the most extra base hits of a first baseman, had a .765 slugging percentage in 1927, and was so good that the Hall of Fame waived the waiting period rule so they could vote him in a few months after he retired. Had Gehrig not come down with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), he would have likely finished his career with around 3,700 hits and 650 homeruns. In my mind, Lou Gehrig, not Babe Ruth, is the greatest Yankee of all-time.
More than that, he was a great all around person and his famed "Luckiest Man" speech, in my opinion, is the single most moving moment in the history of sport.
RUNNER-UP (TIE): BRETT FAVRE, Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, New York Jets, & Minnesota Vikings (1991 – 2010) & BOBBY ORR, Chicago Blackhawks & Boston Bruins (1966-1978)
ON THE WAITING LIST: Mel Ott, Paul Molitor, Adam Viniatieri, Jean Beliveau, Chauncey Billups, Duke Snider, & Teresa Edwards
TOO SOON TO TELL: Taylor Hall, Brandon Phillips, Vincent Lecavalier, Antawn Jamison, & Kevin Kolb
NASCAR Driver (1959 – 1992)
7x NASCAR Champion, NASCAR Rookie of the Year – 1959, 7x Daytona 500 winner, NASCAR Hall of Fame – 2010 (Inaugural Class)
There's a reason that Richard Petty is known simply as "The King". He is without a doubt one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all-time and his 7 NASCAR titles are a record (tied with Dale Earnhardt). He is also the only driver to have won the Daytona 500 7 times. His 127 poles and 700 top 10 finishes in 1,185 races are also unbelievable feats. Even sports fans like myself that really do not follow NASCAR are aware of the accomplishments of Richard Petty and have heard of the Richard Petty School of Driving. This was a pretty simple decision for me to give Table #43 to Petty.
RUNNER-UP: DENNIS ECKERSLEY, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Oakland A's, & St. Louis Cardinals (1975-1998)
ON THE WAITING LIST: Jack Sikma & Troy Polamalu
TOO SOON TO TELL: R.A Dickey, Darren Sproles, & Nazem Kadri
Linebacker/Defensive End, Kansas City Chiefs (1989 – 1999)
9x Pro-Bowl Selection, 3x 1st Team All-Pro, 3x 2nd Team All-Pro, 7x 1st Team All-AFC, 1x 2nd Team All-AFC, NFL 1990's All-Decade Team, NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year – 1989, UPI AFL-AFC Rookie of the Year – 1989, Dick Butkus Award (1988), All-American (1988), NFL Hall of Fame – 2009
58 was one of the easiest decisions I had to make. You could make an argument for Jack Lambert here but Derrick Thomas is one of the greatest pass-rushers of all time. I'm amazed to this day how long it took him to get in the Hall of Fame because the guy was an absolute beast. He hold Chiefs franchise records with 41 career forced fumbles, 8 forced fumbles in a season, 19 fumble recoveries, 126.5 career sacks, 20 sacks in a season, and 3 career safeties. Additionally the guy holds the NFL record for most sacks in a game with 7. That mark broke the previous record of 6 in a game, which had also been set by Thomas. John Elway always said he could've played a few more years in a warmer climate like Miami. I think Elway could've played a few more years if he didn't have to face Derrick Thomas twice a year. As a collegiate player, he set an NCAA record with 27 sacks in a single season while at Alabama. His 52 career sacks at Alabama were also an NCAA record at the time. It's unbelievable to think of what Thomas could've accomplished if his career and life had not been cut short due to paralysis. No doubt in my mind that Table #58 belongs to Derrick Thomas.
RUNNER-UP: JACK LAMBERT, Linebacker, Pittsburgh Steelers (1974-1984)
ON THE WAITING LIST: Johnathan Papelbohn & Carl Banks
TOO SOON TO TELL: Von Miller, Rey Maualuga, Karlos Dansby, & Kris Letang
Defensive Tackle, Kansas City Chiefs (1963-1975)
Super Bowl IV Champion, 2x AFL Champion, 6x AFL All-Star, 2x Pro Bowl Selection, 6x All-AFL, 1x 2nd Team All-Pro, AFL All-Time Second Team, NFL Hall of Fame – 1990, College Football Hall of Fame – 1996
On back to back numbers we have famous Kansas City Chiefs defenders getting themselves a table at thea Cafe 101. Buck Buchanan was an absolute monster from the time he played at Grambling under the legendary Eddie Robinson to the time he was the first draft pick in AFL history and had an amazing career with the Chiefs. He was also the first black player to be drafted #1 overall in professional football history. His defense and ability to penetrate the Minnesota Vikings' vaunted offensive line helped the Chiefs hold the Vikings to only 67 yards giving the Chiefs their only Super Bowl win and one of the biggest Super Bowl upsets in history. At 6'7″ 287 lbs, Buchanan was a force to be reckoned with. Despite his size he was very quick and could run a 4.9 40 which allowed him to make tackles from sideline to sideline. He started 166 straight games and is one of the greatest players in the proud history of the Kansas City Chiefs.
RUNNER-UP: HINES WARD, Wide Receiver, Pittsburgh Steelers (1998 – Present)
ON THE WAITING LIST: James Lofton & Todd Heap
TOO SOON TO TELL: David Nelson, Fred Davis, & Daniel Fells
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Alabama wins NCAA men's golf championship
Milton, GA – Alabama won the NCAA Men's Golf Championship on Sunday with a convincing 4-1 win over Illinois.
It is the first-ever men's golf title for the Crimson Tide, who fell to Texas, 3-2, in last year's match-play finals.
"I'm really satisfied for these guys," said Alabama coach Jay Seawell. "You recruit them and I've known every one of these guys since they were 15 years old."
Bobby Wyatt kickstarted the impressive effort with a 6 & 5 rout of Thomas Detry in the first match at Capital City Club's Crabapple Course. Wyatt won the first seven holes of that showdown, but the next three matches proved more challenging for Alabama.
Trey Mullinax needed 18 holes to secure his 1-up victory over Charlie Danielson, 2-putting from inside 60 feet for par and the win at the last, while Scott Strohmeyer edged Brian Campbell, 3 & 2 with a 3-foot par make at the 16th.
Illinois, which was also seeking its first national title, earned its lone point when 2012 individual champion Thomas Pieters defeated Alabama's top- ranked golfer, Justin Thomas, 1-up.
The final match wasn't as close, however, as Cory Whitsett cruised to a 4 & 3 win over Alex Burge.
"I'm really satisfied for them," continued Seawell. "Last year was pretty hard -- just gut-wrenching. And for the way they handled the entire year, especially in the spring when they just kept saying, 'We want to do this, we want to do this,' really just makes this so satisfying."


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Kevin Nowak's first goal of his intercollegiate career was a timely one as it came with 3:37 left in regulation, lifting visiting Springfield College to a 1-0 victory over MIT in the NEWMAC men's soccer opener for both squads on Saturday.
The first half was relatively quiet as the Engineers had a 3-1 edge in shots, two of which were stopped by goalie Brett Bascom, and a 5-0 advantage in corner kicks.
MIT nearly ended the deadlock on several occasions during the first 15 minutes of the second stanza. With the ball in the box, freshman John Kramer (Glastonbury, Conn.) spun around to get loose and then unleashed a low shot that was turned away by Bascom. A few minutes later, a header by junior Ben Lewis (West Hartford, Conn.) went over the crossbar. The Engineers then had three touches during a scramble in front of the goal but they could not capitalize on the opportunity.
The Pride's best attempt to get on the board came with 15 minutes on the clock. Danny Amato passed to Drew Vanasse on the near side with only junior goalie Dylan Rankin (Providence, R.I.) to beat, but his shot was wide at the far post. On the counterattack, Lewis sent a low strike that was stopped by Bascom. In a sign of things to come, Nowak had a blast that was stopped by Rankin's leg in the 81st minute. Shortly thereafter, Scott Donofrio and Scott Morneault set up Nowak for the game-winning goal, a low roller from the far side. The Engineers' attack was relentless down the stretch, registering three shots, one on goal, and a corner kick, but they were unable to score the equalizer.
Rankin finished the day with two saves while Bascom collected seven.
MIT (4-1-0, 0-1-0 NEWMAC) returns to action on Monday, Sept. 19 when it travels to Brandeis University. Springfield (4-0-2, 1-0-0 NEWMAC) takes the field the next day at Endicott College.


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Ibanez tries to power M's to series win over Yankees
Raul Ibanez seems to be enjoying his return to the Bronx. The Seattle outfielder tries to continue his amazing success at Yankee Stadium on Thursday when the Mariners close out a three-game set versus the New York Yankees.
After blowing a lead to lose Tuesday's opener, Seattle bounced back in a big way on Wednesday, as Ibanez belted a pair of homers, including a grand slam that highlighted a seven-run first inning in the Mariners' 12-2 rout.
Ibanez, who had six RBI, continued to rip the cover off the ball in the Bronx, and Kyle Seager smacked a three-run homer to help Seattle win for the fourth time in its last six tries.
Hisashi Iwakuma (5-1) gave up a pair of solo homers among his eight hits over seven strong innings to win his third straight start.
"He just made a couple of mistakes, but he was efficient and threw the ball well," Mariners manager Eric Wedge said.
It's been a resurgence for the 40-year-old Ibanez over these last two games. He belted a two-run homer in the sixth inning of Tuesday's game, when the Mariners blew a 3-0 lead.
It was the second two-homer, six-RBI game for Ibanez. His other came July 14, 2002 while with Kansas City against the Angels. Over his last 11 games at Yankee Stadium (including playoffs), Ibanez has nine homers and 20 RBI, all while compiling a .500 (18-for-36) average.
"He's had a lot success in this ballpark," Wedge said. "He's the consummate pro and doesn't worry about anything. Because of the way his works and his knowledge base, you don't want to bet against the guy."
Vernon Wells and Chris Stewart homered for the Yankees, who lost for just the second time in their last nine games.
Phil Hughes (2-3) didn't make it out of the first inning. The right-hander, who gave up six hits and seven runs while recording just two outs, had a five- start unbeaten string snapped.
Hoping for a better effort in the finale the Yankees will turn to lefty Andy Pettitte, who is 4-2 with a 3.83 ERA. Pettitte won for the first time in three starts on Saturday in Kansas City, as he held the Royals to a pair of runs and five hits in seven innings.
He had been rocked for 11 runs and 14 hits over 9 1/3 innings in his previous two starts.
"Whenever you get knocked around, it's not a good feeling. You never want that doubt to creep in that you're not able to get it done," Pettitte said. "Hopefully I can continue to get sharper and sharper."
Pettitte has faced Seattle 24 times and is 11-12 with a 4.39 ERA.
Seattle, meanwhile, will counter with a veteran hurler of its own in righty Aaron Harang, who has lost four of his five starts with the Mariners. However, the 35-year-old has looked better his last two times out, but hasn't pitched since May 7 when he lost in Pittsburgh. He surrendered two runs in six innings of that one and lowered his ERA to 7.30 on the year.
"I didn't really even think about it until yesterday," Harang said. "I knew I hadn't pitched here in Yankee Stadium. I've faced them in Spring Training before, but that's always a little different. I've watched most of these guys before, or maybe faced them on different teams over in the National League. I'm not going to change anything. I'll go out and try to give us a chance to win."
Harang, a 12-year pro, has never faced the Yankees.
The Yankees were 6-3 against the Mariners last season.


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A state agency has stepped in to help workers at Chabert Medical Center in Houma who face layoffs find new jobs in their field as the hospital deals with budget cuts.
A state agency has stepped in to help workers at Chabert Medical Center in Houma who face layoffs find new jobs in their field as the hospital deals with budget cuts.
"We are looking at these cuts as an opportunity. I don't want them to think they are on their own," said Curt Eysink, Louisiana Workforce Commission executive director. "There are a lot of other jobs they can roll into."
Commission officials want the workers who face possible layoffs to stay hopeful. Their chances of staying employed in the health care field are greater than they think.
"This is really a unique situation, and we just happened to have a great demand in the health care field. The assistance is real. The jobs are there," said Bryan Moore, director of the commission's Office of Workforce Development.
Employees received a letter last week to notify them more layoffs are coming, said Marvin McGraw, LSU director of information.
"The plan is not yet finalized," McGraw said. "We have to submit it to civil service. On (Thursday), we will know which positions will be eliminated."
There are 245 positions targeted for layoffs, some of which could already be vacant, McGraw said. The positions would end Jan. 21.
"We are looking to move those workers with seniority into other positions at the hospital," McGraw said.
Because health care is a growing field, state officials are optimistic.
A study conducted by Associate Director Stephen R. Barnes of the LSU Division of Economic Development forecasts that job opportunities in health care in Louisiana will increase significantly through 2020.
Primary care physicians are projected to grow from 5,923 in 2012 to 7,396 in 2020 with an additional 1,419 physicians needed to replace current ones.
Technologists will increase from 2,870 in 2011 to 3,303 in 2020 with an additional 472 needed as replacements, and technicians will increase from 2,320 in 2011 to 2,776 in 2020 with an additional 308 replacements.
Medical coders will grow from 2,360 in 2011 to 3,116 in 2020 with an additional 482 replacements.
"The state's pipeline for nurses has been growing. A lot of nurses had trouble finding work. The state is doing a better job now, but they still need nurses," Eysink said.
The commission's Rapid Response Team has put in place a series of services and resources for the affected workers, including a transition center at Town Hall.
A transition center is usually established at or near the work site and is equipped with resources to help the workers understand their next steps to move into other jobs.
"The key to offering these services is that it's no cost to them," said Tom Guarisco, the commission's communications director.
Affected workers can go to the center to attend orientation sessions, find out what skills they need to transition, how to fill out a resume, how to apply for other jobs and where they can go to look for other jobs. They can also receive stress management and financial aid counseling besides other services.
The newest resource making its debut at 11:30 a.m. Thursday is a job search and career exploration tool called Louisiana Star Jobs. Workers can go online at laworks.net and check out jobs and their occupational outlook, education requirements and wages.
"The site connects workers to high-value jobs first. Those high-value jobs are usually the jobs that are in high demand and well paying. We are looking to launch the mobile app in December," Eysink said.
Commission officials said the site is well connected with thousands of jobs. Members of the commission go to businesses, find out what's open and post the positions on the site. Businesses also post openings.
"A service we purchase scans the employment pages of private companies such as Career Builder, Monster.com and others, and adds their Louisiana jobs to our site. The service also checks our full listing of open jobs to delete duplicates," Guarisco said.
DirectEmployers is another entity the commission uses to sign up employers and have them list their job opportunities.
"We already list many of these jobs, but this feed will further enrich our job listings. We will be adding this feed to our site in the very near future, Directemployers.org," Guarisco said.
The commission may introduce the system to high schools and colleges.
"This is something good for counselors to have," Eysink said.
Students would be able to learn firsthand the skills they would need for a job, the educational requirement, salary, job responsibilities and places that offer training when using the site.
Eighteen workers have already been laid off from Chabert as a part of an earlier round of budget cuts last March, and the commission's Rapid Response Team provided two worker orientations for them at the hospital. As a result, one of the workers was referred for training to become a nurse practitioner.
Staff Writer Sable LeFrere can be reached at 985-857-2204 or at email@example.com.


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Civilization Revolution and Dungeon Defenders are free for Xbox Live members in March, Microsoft has announced. Starting March 1, the Side Meier's title will be free for Xbox Live Gold members through March 15. Come March 16, the game will be replaced with Dungeon Defenders. More information is available via Major Nelson.
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In this interview, Firaxis dev head Sid Meier has admitted the future may hold an MMO from the studio. "I think someday I would like to try a game in that genre," he said. "It really benefits from creativity and new ideas, but we're still in the very early stages of exploring the possibilities of […]
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Food & wine shines at this world-class luxury lodge situated in the heart of one of the country's oldest Romney sheep farms.
At Personalised estate-grown and regional-ingredient cuisine – with a 21st century twist' -the gourmet dining promise of Wharekauhau Country Estate
Chef Tim Smith promises every guest exceptional modern cuisine at Wharekauhau Country Estate, daily featuring the finest estate-grown and regional produce of the fertile Wairarapa District, one of the New Zealand's top gourmet and wine destinations.
Internationally trained and experienced, Chef Smith meets guests to discuss upcoming menus and invites them to learn about the produce they'll dine on over a drink before dinner. and signature dish is Wharekauhau's Texel lamb, bred and reared on the lush year-round grasses and flowering herbage of the estate's 5000 acres of meadow and farmland. Relatively new to New Zealand, Texel lamb marbles fine, sweet fat through its flesh, exactly the way Japan's famed Wagyu beef does, giving unrivalled succulence and flavour that wins every competition.
For guaranteed freshness and flavour, Wharekauhau's pesticide-free gardens produce much that complements the top-class lamb, beef, poultry, seafood and fish served. Saladings, herbs, tomatoes, asparagus - even watercress - are all produced on-site, plus the Pajaro strawberry, famed for its superior taste; wild comb honey of exceptional flavour is regularly collected from the pristine native wilderness.
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|Body style
|Engine size
|1984 cc
|Fuel type
|Number of doors
|Number of seats
|Gearbox type
|CO2 emissions
|190 g/km
|Insurance group
|Standard manufacturer's warranty (miles)
|No details available
|Standard manufacturer's warranty (years)
|2 years
|Standard paintwork guarantee
|No details available
Performance & economy
|Fuel consumption (urban)
|26.4 mpg
|Fuel consumption (extra urban)
|42.2 mpg
|Fuel consumption (combined)
|34.9 mpg
|0 - 60 mph
|6.4 seconds
|Top speed
|153 mph
|Engine power
|261 bhp
|Engine torque
|221.28 lbs/ft
|1458 mm
|Height inclusive of roof rails
|No details available
|4323 mm
|2578 mm
|1768 mm
|Width including mirrors
|No details available
|Fuel tank capacity
|55 litres
|Minimum kerb weight
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|Interior features
|Exterior features
|12 Volt Power Supply in Centre Console
|Body Coloured Bumpers with Integrated Mouldings, Exclusive Cupra Front and Rear Bumpers
|8 Speakers
|Electrically Adjustable, Heated and Electrically Folding Door Mirrors
|Auto-Dimming Rear View Mirror
|Headlight Washer System
|Bluetooth Audio Streaming/Integrated Bluetooth Handsfree System
|Space-Saving Spare Wheel
|Centre Console
|Convenience Pack
|Cruise Control
|Cup Holder in Front Central Console. 2 Cup Holders in Central Console for Rear Passengers
|Digital Clock
|Driver and Front Passenger Seat with Height Adjustment
|Dual Zone Climate Control
|Electric Front and Rear Windows (One Touch with Anti-Squeeze)
|Exterior Temperature Indicator
|FM/AM Radio, MP3 Compatible CD Player with AUX-In Port
|Front Seats with Lumbar Adjustment
|Gearshift Knob in Leather
|Height and Reach Adjustable Steering Wheel
|High Resolution Multi-Function Display
|Leather Steering Wheel
|Leather Upholstery
|Quilted Black Leather Upholstery Pack
|Rain Sensing Wipers
|SEAT Portable System Live Includes Satellite Navigation with Live Services, MicroSD Card Slot, Bluetooth Audio Streeming
|Sports Suspension
|Steering Column Mounted Audio Controls
|Tinted Windows and Dark Tinted Rear Windows
|Trip Computer
|ABS with EBA
|Bi-Xenon Headlights with Adaptive Front-Lighting System, LED Daytime Running Lights and Coming/Leaving Home Headlight Function
|Centre Rear Seat Belt
|Clear Headlights with Electric Adjustment
|Driver Airbag
|ESP (Electronic Stability Programme)
|Electro-Mechanical Power Steering (Speed-Sensitive)
|Electronic Engine Immobiliser
|Front Fog Lights with Cornering Function
|Front Integrated Headrests, Two Height-Adjustable Headrests
|Front Passenger Airbag with De-Activation
|Front Side Airbags and Curtain Airbags
|Height Adjustable Front Seatbelts with Pre-Tensioners and Load Limiter
|ISOFIX Points in Rear Seats
|Remote Central Locking with Two Folding Remote Keys with Remote Window Opening/Closing Function
|Third Brake Light
|Traction Control (TCS with de-activation)
|Tyre Pressure Monitoring
|Volumetric Alarm with Back-Up Horn
|XDS (Electronic Differential Lock System)
Please note
This includes MPG figures which are calculated under European Standards, in test conditions, and will vary under normal driving conditions. The information displayed above describes the typical specification of the most recent model of this vehicle. It is not the exact specification for the actual vehicle being offered for sale which may vary. Specifications for older models may also vary. Please contact us prior to purchase to confirm the exact specification of this vehicle.
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