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*wants a picture of peach on Kens lap!*
Quote*wants a picture of peach on Kens lap!*Shhhh...Tina's in the house!Actually though...
Let's see.... all bribes cheerfully accepted! Starr on Dallas' lap Terence on Anita/Arthur/my lap.... {heeee.....}Me in a Mark/Ken sandwich Laps? well....
In May, I'm in for the entire weekend, that's fer sure!
Every season could always be the last, so we need to cherish every one. I did not hear that exact rumor, I did hear that the purse strings may be being tightened a bit. So no tears Michael and kiwi , as always, it will depend on the upcoming season I'm sure! Hi Ken!! Wasn't it FUN??!!
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Clay gives Pdub.....
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I give Clay and Pioneer Woman BOTH two thumbs up!
Oh I am so jealous.....I hope there is a whole week's worth of posting about PDub-she rocks!
I'm so, so, so, so jealous!!
Wait- are you not posting at Aprils Showers anymore? Do I need to change my bookmarks?
I think I'll be back and forth for a bit, but the bulk on my energy will be at Coal Creek Farm.
Oh...since tooling around my dumb living room, Clay has really come up in the world! Hope you two have a wonderful time with P-Dub - try not to burn down the ranch. :)
OMGosh...all of you together. What a blast! Now don't anyone get sick, only because I know you won't waste a moment of your time together!
Sorry for all the deleted comments. I popped over for a visit and had a major brain fart and thought I was on someone else's blog - I ended up majorly confused. I'm not usually such an idiot, honest.
Slinking back into lurkland now.
April, I love your new blog. I'm totally jealous that you went to P-Dub's but even more irked that you went to P-Dub's and I've lurked so long on you and Rechelle's blogs that you didn't stop in and see me in Wichita. I'm just a hop, skip and jump! Next time! I feel as if I know you both although I'm a major lurker.
This is stellar! My word verification for your blog is "faude". What the heck is it? It definitely should be a word!
Clay is a hoot!! A HOOT I say!
That's so crazy, before I read the post, I said to myself, that looks like PW! haha
I hope there is a whole week's worth of posting about PDub-she rocks!
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Singer Anastacia has thanked fans for their support following her breast cancer announcement.
The "I'm Outta Love" star revealed on Wednesday she is facing a second battle cancer, which she was previously diagnosed with in 2003.
The news prompted her to scrap her European tour, which was set to start in April in London, and now she has thanked her supporters for the outpouring of well wishes.
However, the star admits the fight to get fit looks much harder this time around, writing in a post on her Twitter.com page, "News abt (about) cancer – yes it has come back, yes I'm fighting it, but ths (this) time the battle is a (sic) pretty intense. Thank U 4 yr (thank you for your) luv (love) & prayers."
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Welcome to Amerika. Where this, I am told, is offensive…
…but this isn't.
Let's see. The top billboard is simply a message from a group of unbelievers reaching out to other unbelievers who may feel they're alone, isolated in a hostile religious culture. The bottom billboard, on the other hand, is making very curt and rather bullying demands on me. It asserts the existence of this being, God, then it quotes him as claiming to have some entitlement over me, because he supposedly gave his son, and so, like, aren't I just some ungrateful so-and-so if I don't acknowledge this fantastic deal (which I never asked for in the first place) and decide it's in my best interests to "have" this God guy as part of my life.
And yet…well, apparently it's the top billboard that's aggressive and militant. It really has the panties of Denver area pastor Willard Johnson in a twist. He says, "We denounce what they are doing. But we do it with love, with gentleness, with decency and with compassion." Well, that's mighty white of you, Will, the whole love and compassion thing and all. I bet only a Christian would think that denunciations are a form of love and compassion. But be that as it may, why denounce this? What's offensive about it? "Don't believe in God? You are not alone." Is that such a threatening sentiment to your fragile widdle beliefs that you have to denounce it right away? What a sad thing for you.
And here's what else is odd to me. (Well, not odd. Perfectly normal, really, for a "Christian" nation.) Christians put up billboards all the time. Everywhere. Seriously. Some of them are wonderfully silly, some are harmless, some are plain insulting. And yet, it never makes the news when they put up billboards. Only when atheists do it. Why? Why should it be newsworthy, other than as an excuse to give some bozo pastor a little bit of ink to spout his loving, compassionate intolerance.
So, Christians, when you ask why we don't respect you enough, think of this. That there is nothing atheists can say, no message so innocent and innocuous in expression of our disbelief in your invisible magic friend in the sky, that you won't take it as some sort of horrible attack. Just like the time earlier this year, when the FFRF put up their "Imagine No Religion" billboards (which basically just ask you to, you know, imagine no religion), and Christians everywhere went berserk over this "militant" atheist assault on mom and apple pie. Why, one bold and courageous Christian group vowed to fight the FFRF's "hateful" billboards with their own, asking "Why Do Atheists Hate America?" Because, you know, that's not a hateful statement at all.
So you know what? Go ahead, be offended, Christians. That's one of the things you have to deal with when living in a free, pluralistic society. There will be people who think differently than you do, who believe in different things, and who will express those differing views. I know most of you want the place all to yourselves, but you have to share it, just like you have to share it with people of different races and sexual preferences and tastes in music. And if the simplest and mildest expression of a view different from your own makes you go into red alert mode, and wail about the evil militant whomevers who obviously hate the whole country because they aren't just like you, then perhaps you need to step back a bit, take a big fat chill pill, and think quite seriously about who's really got the problem here.
Now…ACA…how about getting a billboard up in Austin? It's time we had one, don't you think? Something like the AHA's bus ad campaign.


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It may be early when you read this, and maybe you haven't had your first cup of coffee yet, but I'm here to assure you that it's not your lack of caffeine that's making you seeing things. Yes, those are indeed bunny ears popping out of the top of these Minna Parikka High-Top Sneakers.
It's no secret that in fashion, sneakers have gone beyond just gym attire; now sneakers are a statement all their own, and these bunny ear sneakers definitely have something to say. Whether you see them as playful or unconventional, without a doubt, you'll either love them or hate them. I can certainly appreciate the innovative approach to make these sneakers stand out, but I know I can't pull them off.
I can, however, see these sneakers on the likes of twenty-somethings walking around downtown, or even on the feet of Leandra Medine of Man Repeller. Right now (maybe because I've only had my one cup of coffee for today), she's just about the only person I can think of who would wear these, and from her styling capabilities, she would probably give these sneakers a compelling argument.


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Facebook Is Cracking Down on Click Bait
Facebook is cracking down on "click bait," or articles people share on the social network with headlines to attract clicks, but little other information.
In a press release Monday, Facebook said it considers click bait "when a publisher posts a link with a headline that encourages people to click to see more, without telling them much information about what they will see. Posts like these tend to get a lot of clicks, which means that these posts get shown to more people, and get shown higher up in News Feed," the press release said.
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WASHINGTON July 18, 2011- Two congressional subcommittees called on the heads of several government agencies late last week to inquire how each addresses Internet privacy issues. The panel, assembled by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology included the heads of the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Keep Reading


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Why we're a magnet for life sciences
Everywhere I've been this summer, it seems I've met someone who was pulled to Boston by the life sciences industry. The Frenchman with whom I shared a lunch table at a conference, who moved here to work at Genzyme's Kendall Square office in Cambridge. The businessman next to me on a red-eye flight home from San Diego, who worked for a California company that had just been bought by Thermo Fisher Scientific, a maker of laboratory equipment in Waltham. The entrepreneur from Silicon Valley who sold his company to PerkinElmer, another lab equipment giant in Waltham. The researcher from Glasgow here for a yearlong fellowship in the hospital hive at Longwood.
From the 1960s through the 1990s, Massachusetts was a magnet for tech talent of all kinds: software whizzes, chip designers, and the architects of mainframes and minicomputers. Even into the dot-com era, local companies like Monster.com, Lycos, and CMGI were drawing Web-savvy workers to the state.
But after the Nasdaq crash of 2001, everything changed. Now, life sciences and health care are what attract the smartest people around the world to Massachusetts, and the tech industry is still trying to figure out what hit it.
We should, of course, be much more braggadocious about our life sciences dominance, which has only been building since 2002. (More on that date in a moment.)
"Once you reach critical mass, the reaction just tends to feed on itself," says Daniel Marshak, chief scientific officer of PerkinElmer. "Now that you have big pharmaceutical companies here, biotech companies, medical device companies, and great academic institutions, it sucks in more and more and more."
Incidentally, Marshak moved here in 2006 to take a job at PerkinElmer, which makes everything from instruments for doing prenatal health screening to software that can paint 3-D pictures of a what's going on inside a lab rat.
The year life sciences took the baton from tech was 2002, as the dot-coms were dying of starvation. That was when the Swiss biopharma company Novartis hired a prominent cardiology researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and said it would invest $250 million to establish a major research facility in Central Square. Today, Novartis is the largest corporate employer in Cambridge, with about 2,000 people — and it continues to grow.
"Novartis coming here was a catalytic event," says Michael Gilman, a longtime biotech entrepreneur and executive. "It was the first of the big pharma companies to say, 'We want to be in Boston and Cambridge.' "
These days, there's a sense of building momentum.
PerkinElmer is expanding its Center for Personalized Health Innovation in Hopkinton this fall, nearly doubling its size to 200,000 square feet. In June, Johnson & Johnson held the official opening of an innovation center in Cambridge that is intended to strike up collaborations with academics and start-ups.
So far this year, eight Massachusetts biotech companies have either gone public or have said they plan to do so. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which makes drugs to treat cystic fibrosis and hepatitis C, is colonizing the Boston waterfront for life sciences companies, building a vast new headquarters. Biogen Idec, based in Kendall Square, already operates a bus to bring employees in from Worcester and Framingham, and may add a loop to New Hampshire. The drug maker's chief executive moved here in 2010 from San Francisco. Biogen Idec's head of research and development relocated from Seattle.
That is what you call gravitational pull. Executives and entrepreneurs come here willingly because they know it won't be hard to find their next job, and the job after that, says Gilman. Companies move here "because of the great talent — not because it's cheap," says Marshak.
And while the industry isn't a huge employer, a recent study by the trade group MassBio found the average salary in biopharma is $115,290, which is 89 percent higher than the average in Massachusetts overall.
The tech industry, since 2002, has been a magnet of a different kind.
Yes, the Boston start-up scene is vibrant. But there just aren't home-grown tech companies bringing hundreds or thousands of skilled new residents to the state in the way outfits like Lotus Development, Digital Equipment, and Wang Laboratories once did. Instead, Massachusetts has been attracting West Coast behemoths such as Amazon, Apple, Twitter, Oracle, and Microsoft, who have bought companies, opened branches, and started scooping up people like a shopper on a Sunday run to Trader Joe's.
What happened?
In the late 20th century, developing technology was incredibly time — and resource — intensive. Hardware and software had to be built from scratch. Most of the customers were senior information technology executives at large companies.
When technology cycles began spinning faster and Regular Joes became important as buyers, Massachusetts fell behind. One key factor: In California, tech employees get rich by jumping from one successful company to help build another (leaving Google to work at Facebook, for example.) In Massachusetts, they often get sued for doing that, because of noncompete agreements most companies require employees to sign.
Sometimes, you find a single person who perfectly represents a shift.
Kent Quirk grew up in Connecticut, went to college in New Hampshire, and came to Massachusetts in 1982 for an entry-level job at Wang Laboratories, a pioneer of office word-processing systems. He later worked for Lotus, a Cambridge firm that helped introduce digital spreadsheets and e-mail to the workplace. By 2007, Quirk was at the Cambridge outpost of Linden Lab, a San Francisco developer of a Web-based virtual world called SecondLife. Over time, he says, it became clear that "you couldn't really advance in the company if you were in a remote office."
Quirk wanted to stay in the video game industry, and he had a friend from Massachusetts who had moved to San Francisco to work for a company, Playdom, that designed games for mobile devices and Facebook.
"His pitch was, 'Come on out. At least it'll be a free vacation,' " Quirk recalls. He took a job at Playdom in 2010 and moved west.
"I left Massachusetts reluctantly," he says. "I still hope to get back there someday."
Today, Massachusetts is a vacuum cleaner for life sciences talent from around the world. In tech, it's more like a leaf blower.
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Towns seek changes in charges for resident state trooper
Cromwell - The Connecticut Council of Small Towns is asking the state to revise how much communities contribute to the cost of having resident state troopers and also to notify them early about any cost increases.
Many small towns depend on resident state troopers for public safety, but the program has become increasingly expensive for the communities in recent years, according to COST's legislative platform. The association of 139 small towns adopted the platform, with several legislative proposals, Wednesday at its annual town meeting.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, and state legislators also addressed the council on issues small towns face.
Specifically, COST is pushing to lower how much towns contribute to troopers' overtime costs and associated fringe benefits. Towns pay 70 percent for most of the troopers' costs, except for overtime costs and associated benefits, which they have covered fully since 2011. COST said towns' contribution to overtime costs and benefits should also be capped at 70 percent.
The state in 2011 enacted a law mandating towns to fully fund resident troopers' overtime costs as well as fringe benefits associated with those costs. The towns were previously paying 70 percent.
On another point, COST proposed that the state notify communities early on about any benefit rate increases for troopers so the towns can plan for those additional costs in their budgets.
Andrew Urban, Westbrook's finance director, told the state's new public safety commissioner, Dora Schriro, that towns receive the troopers' contracts in February but don't get an exact calculation on how much the benefit rates will increase until months later, when the state adopts its budget.
"I think we're all surprised when we get the actual bill that the fringe benefit rate keeps popping up every year - 6, 7, 8, 9 percent," he said. "We're up to 82 percent on our fringe benefit rate. How can we budget for this cost when we're putting our budgets together in February and March, and then get this huge surprise?"
Schriro said she approached the state comptroller's office this week to see if there was a way to give towns a better sense of the costs earlier in the budget cycle.
In her speech at the COST meeting, she also explained that any changes to the cost-sharing formula between the state and towns for the program, which assigns 110 troopers to 56 towns, would need to go through the state legislature.
State Sen. Cathy Osten, a member of the public safety committee and Sprague's first selectwoman, has introduced a bill in the public safety committee to return the overtime and fringe benefits to the pre-2011 rate. She said in an interview that the bill language is being drafted, and a public hearing will be scheduled. She encouraged small towns to voice their opinions at the hearing.
At a Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments meeting Tuesday, some local officials also said some of the program's costs were a concern.
In response to a question about resident trooper efficiencies at the COST meeting Wednesday, Malloy said his administration was not planning any changes to the resident trooper program, but that Schriro is reviewing state police operations and may decide to propose minor adjustments.
He said each town would need to do its own financial analysis to see if the resident trooper program saves money compared to hiring its own force.
"But I'm not trying to make anybody make that choice," Malloy said.
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Chinese Economy — The world's largest money manager BlackRock forecasts that China's economy will improve after the country's decennial leadership change, notes Bloomberg. Experts said Beijing's economic policies will become clearer once the leadership transition allows China's new leaders to focus on domestic consumption to drive growth. Vice President Xi Jinping is expected to succeed President Hu Jintao as the leader of the ruling Communist Party next month.
Burma-Japan Ties — The New York Times examines Burma's growing ties with Japan, as the Southeast Asian country tries to diversify away from China. Chinese interest in Burma's natural resources is heightening anti-China sentiment and prompting a pivot toward Japan, which is trying to tap into the cheap Burmese labor force and expand its network of factories in Southeast Asia. As a result, according to the Times, "Japan is rapidly ramping up its presence in the country with a heavyweight deployment of government assistance and corporate heft reminiscent of the large investments at the height of Japan's global economic power in the 1980s."
Mental Health — A new report suggests that the burden of mental illness and addiction is more than 1.5 times that of all cancers, reports CBC News. The report by the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences and Public Health Ontario notes that many mental illnesses manifest between the ages of 18-24 and "people may experience them over a long period with significant impact on social connections, educational goals, and participation in the workforce." Depression, among all conditions, has the highest overall burden, said the report's authors.
Armstrong Drug Report — Lance Armstrong won the first of his seven Tour de France titles in 1999 by using the prohibited blood boosting agent EPO and a steroid hormone testosterone, according to new information published by the New York Times. The most damning report yet was released on Wednesday by the United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA), which also found that five fellow riders on the United States Postal Service team testified to Armstrong having violated the anti doping rules. The report has described the cyclist's squad as running "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen" writes the Guardian. Armstrong's lawyers have attacked the report calling it a "taxpayer-funded witch hunt."
'Gay Propaganda' Battle – The Ukrainian government may give final approval next week to a bill which prohibits any "pro-homosexual propaganda" or "positive depiction" of gay people, reports the BBC. Ukraine has previously been recognized as a more liberal society, considering that it was the first former Soviet Republic to decriminalize homosexuality in 1991. But the current bill has full support of all the major political parties and polls show that many Ukrainians are in favor of restricting the rights of the gay community. The bill, which has been re-named the "gay gag law," has been condemned by human rights organizations inside and outside the country.
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The students are directed by Edye Hyde. Hyde, an instructor of vocal jazz at Hope, has been teaching and performing jazz, blues and pop music for more than 20 years in West Michigan, Los Angeles and Asia.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating stock sales by a member of French bank Societe Generale's board, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday on its Web site.
The report said the SEC was probing stock sales of Robert A. Day, a board member and investment manager with U.S.-based Trust Co of the West, and two foundations associated with him.
Citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, the newspaper said Day and the foundations sold about $140 million of the bank's stock about two weeks before the bank notified its board about the billions of dollars in trading losses.
The bank on January 24 publicly revealed $7.3 billion in trading losses that it blamed on a single rogue trader, Jerome Kerviel.
The bank has already said Day sold during a window of time where such trades were permitted under Societe Generale's trading policies for directors.
"No inside information was used in any way with respect to these December and January sales," the bank said January 29. "Mr. Day, like the other board members, was not advised of Mr. Kerviel's trading losses."
The U.S. Justice Department has also begun a probe, the Journal said. No further details were immediately available.
The FBI would not confirm or deny the report. The SEC had no comment. The bank had no comment and the Justice Department was not immediately available to comment.
(Reporting by Christian Plumb, Randy Mikkelsen, Rachelle Younglai; editing by Tim Dobbyn)
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The SQL database has survived every paradigm shift critics said would be the death of SQL, including object-oriented programming (OOP), online analytical processing (OLAP), Internet computing and the World Wide Web. Some have suggested SQL platforms are not sufficiently scalable for large workloads or data volumes, but there's ample evidence to the contrary. The UPS shipping system central database processes 59 million transactions per hour. It has a table that contains more than 42 billion rows has achieved a peak workload of more than 1 billion SQL statements per hour with IBM DB2. The data warehouse at eBay, running on a Teradata system, contains 5 petabytes of data. LGR Telecommunications derives information from call records to feed a 310 TB Oracle data warehouse. At a recent conference, Microsoft reported Hotmail has 300 million users and processes more than 2 billion non-spam messages per day with Microsoft SQL Server running on a 10,000 server farm.
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Free-agent veteran wide receiver Antonio Bryant was arrested Tuesday in Broward County, Fla., on battery charges, according to the county sheriff's office.
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Bryant has played seven seasons in the NFL, most recently in 2009 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He has been out of the league primarily due to injuries.
Bryant was charged with felony domestic battery by strangulation, felony battery and culpable negligence.
Under Florida law, felony domestic battery by strangulation pertains to strangling either a relative, household member or romantic partner.
Bryant allegedly struck and put his hands around the neck of the mother of his child, Dianne Helne, according to TMZ.
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I don't need to tell you that the PA Breast Cancer Coalition is the only statewide nonprofit dedicated to finding a cure for breast cancer now. I don't need to tell you that we hear from countless women daily about the effects of breast cancer. But I do need to tell you about our wonderful volunteers that make our work possible.
With such a large state to work in, we are tasked with what seems impossible with eight full-time employees. Volunteers make the mission of the PBCC achievable. In 2011, we had 302 individuals from all over PA give up their time for a greater good. Jobs included reviewing Refunds for Breast Cancer Research grant applications, presenting or moderating a workshop at our conference, staffing an information table at a health fair, speaking at a fundraiser, shagging baseballs at a Home Run Derby, assembling and customizing Friends Like Me Care Packages, and many more.
The only thing we can say (and we say it every day): thank you. Thank YOU for donating your valuable time to the mission of the PA Breast Cancer Coalition. In total, we had 1738.5 hours logged by volunteers across the state. That is OUTSTANDING! Volunteers saved the PBCC $37,134.36 in 2011! I don't need to tell you that this is incredible!
Thanks to people like you, we are able to keep our doors open and serve the women and families of this great state! Stay tuned for opportunities to get involved at various events across Pennsylvania. If you don't already receive our monthly e-newsletter Pink Link, sign up! And if you're interested in volunteering, complete our interest survey and we'll be in touch!
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School in Roane County will begin Aug. 13, with a half day for students and a full day for faculty and staff.
Parents and students are preparing for the new school year by buying school supplies and replacing outgrown clothes.
Teachers have been participating in training sessions to keep pace with a rapidly changing curriculum and standards. Principals and maintenance staffs are scrutinizing buildings to make certain everything will be ready for students to walk through the doors.
Teachers from Roane County Schools stock up annually during the Teachers Supply Closet, and the public is
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Items frequently needed for classrooms include pencils, pens, staplers and staples, three-hole punchers, crayons, ruled writing paper, hand sanitizer, paper towels, markers, scissors, tape, tissues, glue sticks, sticky note pads, construction paper, rubber bands, folders, Band-Aids, tennis balls, binders, calculators and backpacks.
Two Tusculum College students from Kingston were awarded their degrees during spring commencement.
Amber K. Collins graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in organizational management with
a concentration in financial management.
Students graduating with a 3.75-3.94 grade-point average received magna cum laude honors.
Collins was a member of the Omicron-Psi National Honor Society.
Jennifer Rose Boltin was awarded a bachelor's degree in Bible with emphasis in general studies during Pensacola Christian College's recent commencement.
She is the daughter of Bobby Boltin of Harriman.
Pensacola Christian College is in Pensacola, Fla.
A number of Middle Tennessee State University students from Roane County were named to the dean's list for spring semester.
They include:
Harriman — Erica Faye Willis Cummings, Anit Shashi Patel, Kimberly Webb and Kelli Nicole Woodell.
Kingston — Emilie A. Aslinger, Benjamin Scott Creekmore, Molly Amber Jones, Dylan Maclean Leitnaker, Callie Mergen, Mark A. Patterson, Cassandra Michelle Piper, Colby Alexander Roberts, Briana N. Tapp and Elizabeth Lacey Theiss.
Timothy William Watts of Kingston was named to the dean's list at Hiwassee College for spring semester.
To be eligible for the dean's list, a student must carry no less than 12 semester hours with a grade-point average of 3.50-3.99.
Hiwassee College is in Madisonville.
The Shelter Insurance Foundation awarded $2,000 scholarships to Thomas Aylor Evans, a graduate of Rockwood High School and Ben Davis, a graduate of Harriman High School.
Shelter Agent Mark Clem sponsors and partially funds this scholarship.
Beginning the fall after the their high school graduation, Davis and Evans can direct the scholarship funds toward tuition, fees, or campus housing for any course of study and leading to an academic degree at any accredited college or university.
Ronnie "Thin Man" Morton, left, is applauded for his 47 years of service to Roane County High School athletics with the reading of a resolution in his honor by former Roane County Director of Schools Toni McGriff and Roane County Board of Education Chairman Sam Cox.
Morton has also been recognized with the naming of the high school gym lobby in his honor.
A graduate of Roane County High School, Morton's contributions to the athletic programs include transportation, film processing, field upkeep and working the concession stand.
A number of Roane State Community College students from Roane County graduated following the 2011-12 academic year.
Graduating summa cum laude with a grade-point average of 4.0-3.9 were:
Harriman — Christina Scarbrough and Breanna Wright.
Kingston — Tessa Kissick.
Oliver Springs — Brandon Evans and Sarah Melhorn.
Rockwood — Sarah Burgess, Chancey Miller and Teresa Roddy.
School starts in Roane County in a little more than two weeks, but students going into prekindergarten, kindergarten and seventh grade may not be admitted if they don't have the proper immunizations.
The Tennessee Department of Health also requires an official certificate for entry into school for these students.
This form will only be available from a private health-care provider or health department.
Children entering pre-K and kindergarten in Roane County Schools are required to show proof of the following immunizations:
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MIAMI (AP) � Giovani Bernard ran for two touchdowns and North Carolina survived a slew of penalties to beat Miami 18-14 Saturday, handing the Hurricanes their first Atlantic Coast Conference loss.
MIAMI (AP) � Giovani Bernard ran for two touchdowns and North Carolina survived a slew of penalties to beat Miami 18-14 Saturday, handing the Hurricanes their first Atlantic Coast Conference loss.
Bernard scored on runs of 10 and 17 yards for the Tar Heels (5-2, 2-1). It was the fourth straight win for North Carolina, which was penalized 15 times.
Mike James and Stephen Morris each had touchdown runs for Miami (4-3, 3-1), which may have lost more than a game. Morris, Miami's quarterback, was helped off the field with 8:26 remaining after apparently hurting his left ankle. He had a large icepack strapped to the ankle shortly afterward and did not return.
Backup Ryan Williams was called in and threw an incompletion on fourth-and-6 from the North Carolina 26 with 5:45 left. North Carolina took nearly four minutes off the clock before punting to Miami with 1:47 left, then held on from there.
With Williams running the show � after Morris� ankle was wrapped in a boot and he left the game � the Hurricanes got to the North Carolina 29 with just under a minute left. But Miami gave up a sack to North Carolina's Tommy Heffernan with 38 seconds left, knocking the Hurricanes back to the 35.
Two plays later, Miami turned the ball over on downs � and now four teams have one loss in the ACC Coastal race.
For Bernard, who played his high school football at nearby St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, it was a long-awaited homecoming � and he didn't disappoint.
His second touchdown came with 2:57 left in the first half, the second in a pair of brilliant plays by the Tar Heels. Bernard got loose to catch a 17-yard pass from Bryn Renner on fourth-and-6 from the Miami 33, a play where the Hurricanes nearly had a stop � and one that left defensive coordinator Mark D'Onofrio punching the air in disappointment.
His mood soured even worse just seconds later when Bernard quickly went in from 17 yards out, sending the Tar Heels into the half with a 15-7 lead. North Carolina got a two-point conversion after that score, catching the Miami defense off-guard with a quick snap.
The first omen of trouble for Miami came on its first drive. The Hurricanes kept the offense on the field for a fourth-and-1 at the North Carolina 46, only to have left tackle Malcolm Bunche jump offsides. And on Miami's next possession, a pass by Morris bounced off James� hand, caromed into the air and was picked off at the North Carolina 20 by Shakeel Reshad.
North Carolina cashed in only one of those mistakes � Bernard went in from 10 yards out to cap the opening Tar Heels� drive: a seven-play, 61-yard waltz with nary any resistance from the Hurricanes.
It stayed 7-0 until the midpoint of the second quarter, though easily could have been much worse. Renner was picked off by Miami's Eddie Johnson near the goal line on one possession, and Casey Barth missed a 33-yard field goal into a swirling wind with 10:53 left in the half. A roughing-the-kicker penalty on a Miami punt gave the Hurricanes a break, and James plowed in from a yard out to tie the game at 7-all with 5:21 remaining.
Morris scored from 5 yards out with 5:06 left in the third to end a 12-play, 94-yard drive and get the Hurricanes within 15-14 � a sequence where Miami apparently wanted to try going for a two-point conversion as well. But officials flagged the Hurricanes for snapping the ball too quickly, and Miami settled for just an extra point.


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Top-level baseball announcers have their work cut out for them. Over the course of a 162 game season (plus Spring Training and Post-Season), they have to keep track of the statistics and stories of hundreds of players. And, in addition to calling the action as it happens on the field, they have to entertain and inform thousands of listeners between pitches. We spoke with Milwaukee baseball announcer, Joe Block, to see how he makes this daunting task seem so easy.
Hi Joe! As part of your job, you have tons of information to keep track of. How do you do it?
A lot of people think baseball announcers have a team of assistants and statisticians helping them. Well, we don't. I've found OneNote to be the best option to keep all my player stats and stories together so I can grab any bit of information I need at a moment's notice.
How do you collect all the information?
I do about two hours of research every day. I'll scan baseball websites, read newspapers, and even talk to the players themselves. It's easy to enter everything I learn into OneNote. I can simply copy and paste text from webpages, save a photo or video, type in an interesting story, or jot down a stat from my home computer, tablet, or even my phone. It's all stored in OneNote and accessible when I need it.
How do you call up information so quickly during a game?
I have to be ready for anything and start talking about it at a moment's notice. If there's a game-ending homerun, I have to be able to talk about the last time that particular batter hit one. The last time the pitcher gave one up. And share any interesting anecdotes that I may have heard about the situation. I have all of that information in my OneNote and, using search, I can find it easily and keep talking without missing a beat.
What did you do before OneNote?
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PIE model
An example of an abstract formal model—that is, one that is used to analyze a class of systems and usability problems rather than specifying a particular system. The PIE model was developed at York University in the mid-1980s and was one of the first steps in a new stream of formal method work in human-computer interaction (HCI) that began at that time. See: http://www.hcibook.com/alan/topics/formal/
Something (a physical artifact, electronic record, or human memory) that explicitly or tacitly maintains the current position within a formal or informal process. See: http://www.hcibook.com/alan/topics/triggers/
When being trained as a carpenter or a nurse, for example, one shares a practice. At the same time, each individual who possesses a practice keeps it up and changes it as well. It is practice that allows us to talk about more than just individual skills, knowledge, and judgment, and not just about a "generic" human being. Practice is shaped historically, which is of particular relevance for design and use of computer applications.
preattentive processing
The rapid detection of visual features theorized to occur in parallel before the operation of selective attention.
predictive model
A model that allows metrics of human performance to be determined analytically without undertaking time-consuming and resource-intensive experiments.
Problem Behavior Graph
A graphical depiction of search through a problem space.
problem solving
Searching through a problem space from a known start state to a desired end state, or one of a set of desired end states, applying operators of uncertain outcome to move from state to state. Problem solving typically refers to a path through the problem space that includes explorations of deadend paths and backing up to prior states. (see skilled behavior for a contrasting type of behavior)
problem space
A mental representation of a problem, including the start state, the goal state, and the operators or moves that allow transitions between states. According to Newell and Simon's (1972) theory of problem solving, humans solve problems by constructing and searching a problem space.
procedural knowledge
Also called "how to do it" knowledge. The knowledge of which operators to perform to move from a known start state to a desired state in a problem space.
Production system
A programming language made up of conditional statements. If all conditions are satisfied, then action is taken.


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Virginia Pike, from, heh, Virginia, is infinitely more lucky than you. In fact, she's twice as infinitely more lucky because she won a $1 million lottery prize TWICE in the same day. What!
Pike had two tickets with the same number on them and though she didn't match all 6 numbers for a giganto-sized mega millions payday, she managed to score 5 out of 6 numbers on the tickets. Doing that pays out $1 million and since she had two tickets, she gets $2 million. How did she manage to get the winning number twice? Well, Pike used a very thoughtful strategy. She told ABC:
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DCI Use Case: Capacity Expansion
Today I want to bring up DCI use case that I've been thinking about: capacity expansion. As you know, the purpose of DCI is to connect two or more Data Centers together so that they share resources and deliver services. The capacity expansion use case is when you have temporary traffic bursts, cloud bursts, either planned or unplanned, maintenance windows, migrations or really any temporary service event that requires additional service capacity.
To start addressing the challenge of meeting these planned and unplanned cloud burst and capacity expansion requirements, check out the new ACE + OTV feature called Dynamic Workload Scaling announced recently.
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In this topology, the clients sit outside the Data Centers and are attempting to access resources in the Primary DC. Note that in the Primary DC there is an Application Control Engine (ACE), it can either be a standalone appliance or a module in the Catalyst 6500. The ACE has a Virtual IP (VIP) and load balances the client-server transactions to the local virtual server farm, IE the virtual machines on the VMware ESX Host in the Primary DC. Since it's a virtual server farm, these virtual machines are all in the same layer 2 domain and IP subnet.
With the DWS feature, the ACE has an API based integration with the VMware vCenter and can monitor the virtual machine memory and CPU levels to make resource allocation decisions regarding the virtual server farm pool. That is, if the memory or CPU exceeds a configured threshold, that you configure, the ACE can bring in additional virtual machines into the virtual server farm from the Secondary DC.
The DWS feature also integrates with OTV on the Nexus 7000, which is really interesting. The ACE interacts with the Nexus 7000 by continuously polling (every 60 seconds) it for the "locality" of the virtual machines. (Note that you can also see the VM locality via the command "show otv route" executed on the Nexus 7000). The end result is that the ACE knows which VM's are local (Primary DC) and which VM's are remote (Secondary DC) and you can configure your virtual server farm to primarily use the local VM's and then burst to the remote VM's when thresholds on the local VM's are exceeded.
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Looking at figure 2, we can see that the ACE VIP is sending the client server traffic to the VM in the remote location. In this case, a threshold (your choice, either CPU or Memory) has been exceeded on the virtual machines in the Primary DC so the ACE is now including the VM's in the Secondary DC as part of the virtual server farm rotation. It's important to be clear that all new transactions are not being sent to the Secondary DC, but rather all new transactions are still being load balanced and now the VM's in the Secondary DC are part of the virtual server farm pool.
The OTV (Overlay Transport Virtualization) dynamic MAC-in-IP technology is the critical DCI link that enables this capacity expansion use case. Remember, the servers in the server farm need to be part of the same Layer 2 domain and OTV provides that necessary LAN extension connection between the Data Centers.
We're currently working through testing some use case ideas in SASU (Systems Architecture and Strategy Unit) that includes the ACE + OTV Dynamic Workload Scaling feature and expect to circle back on this topic shortly. If you have any thoughts or feedback on this new feature and capacity expansion use case, please feel free to comment below.
Thanks for reading.
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Chris Carter
Would like to see similar topologies and testing for virtual desktop DR scenarios.


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A Message for Fourth Grade Students and Families
Dear Fourth Grade Students and Families,
Our fourth grade students have been working hard all year to grow as readers and writers and summer is a great time to continue reading and maintain the literacy skills gained throughout the year. Students who read during the summer return to school ready to continue their learning without interruption. Educators identify summer learning loss as a challenge when starting off the new school year.
This year, students entering grade 5 are strongly encouraged to read and enjoy a specific title in addition to the ones on the Suggested Summer Reading lists published by the Attleboro Public Library. We strongly suggest that students read the book this summer, and, if helpful, record ideas about the book as they read and reflect on the events. There will also be an assignment in September where students will select from a menu of choices to share their thoughts and ideas about the book and explore how it connects to our district wide theme of Build A Better World.
● Incoming grade five students will read Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
Each student will receive a copy of the book from school to borrow for the summer, and we are confident that the students will enjoy reading the title provided. More information about Because of Mr. Terupt can be found at http://www.npr.org/ by selecting "books" under the "topics" tab and then using the "find books" option.
It is very important to keep track of the book. Students are expected to return the book in September. Any student that does not return the book will be asked to pay $6.00 to cover the cost of the book.
Thank you for your support as we encourage summer reading in the Attleboro Public Schools. Together, we can support our Vision to be the center of a community united around education, where all stakeholders value and participate in our collective success.
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MILPITAS, CA-July 8, 2011. SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, will host a conference call on Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Pacific Time, to discuss its second quarter financial results. To listen to the conference call, please dial 719-325-2437 at least 10 minutes before the call commences. The dial-in password is 3644989. After the market closes on July 21, 2011 and prior to the conference call, SanDisk will publish its second quarter 2011 financial results press release via Business Wire.
The conference call will also be on listen-only mode webcast and it can be accessed live from SanDisk's website at www.sandisk.com/ir. A replay of the webcast will also be made available, on-demand, following the conclusion of the conference call.
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, from research and development, product design and manufacturing to branding and distribution for OEM and retail channels. Since 1988, SanDisk's innovations in flash memory and storage system technologies have provided customers with new and transformational digital experiences. SanDisk's diverse product portfolio includes flash memory cards and embedded solutions used in smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, digital media players and other consumer electronic devices, as well as USB flash drives and solid-state drives (SSD) for the computing market. SanDisk's products are used by consumers and enterprise customers around the world.
SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
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Wed, 31 May 2006
Bill Bryson "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is back home, nostalgic about Iowa. Is it Heaven? No, it's Texas with a new 80 mph speed limit. Then, David Barton defends the founders against false charges of Masonery.
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Which iPad to buy?
Question: I want to buy an iPad, but I see there are a bunch of different models. Which one is right for me? How much storage do I need?
Answer: The big decision you have to make is whether you want an iPad with Retina display, iPad Mini or iPad 2. I would pick the Mini if you want a one-handed gadget that's great for gaming or browsing. Pick the Retina display iPad if you want to watch movies, since it has the best screen. If you just want a cheap, quality tablet, stick with the iPad 2. As for storage, the smaller 16 gigabyte version should be enough for most people. If you really need more storage, look into iCloud and other free cloud storage options.
Improve battery life
Question: My tablet is running out of juice too quickly. Is there any way I can increase its battery life like I can with my smartphone?
Answer: Tablets and smartphones actually share many battery-draining features. Start by changing the tablet's screen timeout and brightness. You can find this by to Settings>>Display on your Android tablet. iPad owners should go to Settings>>General>>Auto-Lock to change the screen timeout and Settings>>Brightness to change brightness. Using your tablet in airplane mode is smart when you don't need Wi-Fi or other data connections. Those connections drain the battery fast. To find airplane mode, go to Settings>>Wireless & Networks on Androids and Settings>>Airplane mode on iPad. Finally, Android tablet batteries can benefit greatly from a task-killing app like Advanced Task Killer, especially if you run power-hungry apps.
Buy discounted gift cards online
Question: My grandkids love gift cards for Christmas and I heard some sites sell discounted ones. What are some of these sites?
Answer: There are actually dozens of sites to choose from where you can buy gift cards from other people. GiftCardGranny and Plastic Jungle are two of my favorite because you can sell cards on them, too. If you're a Sam's Club or Costco member, you can find discounted gift cards there as well. Those stores usually sell cards at a 15 to 20 percent discount for restaurants and theaters — which make good gifts. Don't forget to follow your favorite stores on Twitter and Facebook, too. Stores often pass out exclusive Web deals and have gift card giveaways on social media. When you buy, just make sure the card doesn't have an expiration date.
Are ereaders still good buys?
Question: I was debating buying an ereader because I like to read on planes and during travel, but I saw that there are tablets that are almost the same price. Should I buy one of those instead?
Answer: New 7-inch tablets like the Nexus 7 are close to high-end ereaders in price, but if you just want to read, stick with the ereader. Extended reading on an ereader will hurt your eyes less and battery life on ereaders blows tablets away. As for which to buy, I would stick with Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite (starts at $119 for an ad-supported version) if you want an ereader with a fantastic screen and features like email and an experimental Web browser. The Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight ($119) is less expensive without ads, but doesn't include some of those more advanced features.
Remove Facebook apps
Question: I connected my Twitter account to Facebook because I thought it would let me manage my Twitter profile on Facebook. It doesn't, so now I want to disconnect it. How do I do it?
Answer: A good tool to manage both accounts at once is TweetDeck. To disconnect the Twitter app, or any app, click the upside-down triangle in the right corner of your Facebook profile and choose Privacy Settings. In the Apps and Websites menu, click Edit Settings in the Apps You Use section to bring up a full list of apps connected to your profile. You can easily block specific apps. If you want to block all apps, click Turn off all apps. If you change your mind and want to bring an app back, you can do that in the Blocked People and Apps section of your privacy settings.
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