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Unified Communications Virtualization Sizing Guidelines
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This article provides specifics and examples to aid in sizing Unified Communications applications for the UCS B-series and C-series servers.
OVAs, VMs, Users and Servers
What is an OVA? A virtual machine template defines the configuration of the virtual machine's virtual hardware, or the "VM configuration". Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open standard for describing a VM configuration, and Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) is an open standard to package and distribute these templates. Files in OVA format have an extension of ".ova". Cisco Collaboration applications produce a file in OVA format containing all the required/supported VM configurations for that application.
Does Cisco require use of OVA files provided by the Collaboration apps? To be TAC-supported, Virtual Machines for Cisco Unified Communications applications must use a VM configuration from the OVA file provided by that application.
- They represent what the UC apps have been validated with.
- It is the only way to ensure UC apps are deployed on "aligned" disks for SAN deployments (i.e. pre-aligned filesystem disk partitions for the VM's vDisks).
- Use the readme of the OVA download file as authoritative source of information on supported VM configurations. When in doubt, or if there is a conflict between readme text and online web pages, use the readme.
Where do I download these OVA files from? <span style="text-decoration: underline" /> Each Collaboration application posts its OVA file on Download Software on www.cisco.com. The product pages on www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized provide a link to the folder containing these files. For more information on how to download these files once there, see Downloading OVA Templates for UC Applications
What does the term "users" mean in a sizing context? Many of the Collaboration apps use "users" in the label of a particular VM configuration. "Users" means a specific user count at a particular BHCA, with a particular number of devices per user, feature mix per VM, device mix per VM, etc. Use the sizing tools and design guides at www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized to establish how many devices are able to be supported by a given VM configuration. Actual user capacity and total supported devices will be design-dependent; please follow all rules in the design guides and sizing tools for what your application can actually support.
'What is the max user or max device count of a physical server?' This is a concept from physical appliances where 1 physical server ran 1 application instance. With virtualization, 1 physical server runs many application instances, so the net max user/device count will vary and depends on the max users/devices per VM and the max VM count per physical server. Use the Plan/Design Workflow on www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized to help you figure this out for your deployment.
Application Co-residency Support Policy
Cisco UC virtualization only supports application co-residency under the specific conditions described below and as clarified in TAC Technote Document ID: 113520..
This policy only covers the rules for physical/virtual hardware sizing, co-resident application mix and maximum VM count per physical server. All other UC virtualization rules still apply (e.g supported VMware vSphere ESXi versions or hardware options). Co-residency rules apply equally to all hardware options:
|UC app VM performance is only guaranteed when installed on a UC on UCS Tested Reference Configuration, and only if all other conditions in this policy are followed.
"Application co-residency" in this UC support policy is defined as VMs sharing the same physical server and the same virtualization software host:
- E.g. VMs running on the same VMware vSphere ESXi host on the same physical rack-mount server, such as Cisco UCS C-Series.
- E.g. VMs running on the same VMware vSphere ESXi host on the same physical blade server in the same blade server chassis, such as Cisco UCS B-Series.
- "Co-resident application mix" in this UC support policy refers to the set of VMs sharing a physical server and a virtualization software host.
- VMs running on different virtualization hosts and different physical servers are not co-resident.
- E.g. VMs running on two different Cisco UCS C-Series rack-mount servers are not co-resident.
- E.g. VMs running on two different Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers in the same UCS 5100 blade server chassis are not co-resident.
Virtual Machines (VMs) are categorized as follows for purposes of this UC support policy:
- Cisco UC app VMs (or simply UC app VMs): a VM for one of the Cisco UC apps at Unified Communications Virtualization Supported Applications.
- Cisco non-UC app VMs (or simply non-UC VMs): a VM for a Cisco application not listed at Unified Communications Virtualization Supported Applications, such as the VM for Cisco Nexus 1000V's VSM.
- 3rd-party application VMs (or simply 3rd-party app VMs): a VM for a non-Cisco, application, such as VMware vCenter, 3rd-party Cisco Technology Developer Program applications, non-Cisco-provided TFTP/SFTP/DNS/DHCP servers, Directories, Groupware, File/print, CRM, customer home-grown applications, etc.
|If you are using the virtualization software called "Cisco UC Virtualization Hypervisor" or "Cisco UC Virtualization Foundation" (as described at Unified Communications VMware Requirements), there are restrictions on allowed non-UC and 3rd-party application VMs. You may be requried to instead deploy on VMware vSphere Standard, Enterprise or Enterprise Plus Edition.
Each Cisco UC app supports one of the following four types of co-residency:
|Troubleshooting UC VMs co-resident with non-UC/3rd-party app VMs may require the changes described at TAC TechNote Document ID #113520. To be supported by Cisco TAC, customers must agree to these changes if required by Cisco TAC.
- None: Co-residency is not supported. The UC app only supports a single instance of itself in a single VM on the virtualization host / physical server. No co-residency with ANY other VM is allowed, whether Cisco UC app VM, Cisco non-UC VM, or 3rd-party application VM.
- Limited: The co-resident application mix is restricted to specified VM combinations only. Click on the "Limited" entry in the tables below to see which VM combinations are allowed. Co-residency with any VMs outside these combinations - including other Cisco VMs - is not supported (these applications must be placed on a separate physical server). The deployment must also follow the General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing listed below.
- UC with UC only: The co-resident application mix is restricted to VMs for UC apps listed at Unified Communications Virtualization Supported Applications. Co-residency with Cisco non-UC VMs and/or 3rd-party application VMs is not supported; those VMs must be placed on a separate physical server. The deployment must also follow the General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing rules below.
- Full: The co-resident application mix may contain UC app VMs with Cisco non-UC VMs with 3rd-party application VMs. The deployment must follow the General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing rules below. The deployment must also follow the Special Rules for non-UC and 3rd-party Co-residency below.
General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing
See the tables after the rules for the co-residency policy of each UC app.
|Remember that virtualization and co-residency support varies by UC app version, so don't forget to double-check inter-UC-app version compatibility, see Cisco Unified Communications System Documentation.
- "Matching" Support Policies
All co-resident applications must "match" in the following areas:
- Same "server" support for compute/network/storage hardware (see Unified Communications Virtualization Supported Applications)
- E.g. if you want to host co-resident apps on UCS C260 M2 TRC#1, all co-resident apps must have a hardware support policy that permits this.
- E.g. if you want to deploy instead as UC on UCS Specs-based with a diskless UCS C260 M2 and a SAN/NAS storage array, all co-resident apps must support this.
- You must pick a hardware option that all the co-resident apps can support. For example, some UC apps do not support Specification-Based Hardware Support | Specs-based for UC on UCS or 3rd-party Servers]], some UC apps do not support certain Tested Reference Configurations such as UC on UCS C200 M2 TRC#1 (as opposed to UC on UCS C200 M2 specs-based).
- Same support for virtualization software product and version.
- E.g. one app supports vSphere 5.0, the other app only supports vSphere 4.1. vSphere 5.0 may not be used for this co-resident application mix.
- All apps must support a co-residency policy that permits the desired co-resident application mix.
- E.g. one app has a "Full" policy, another app has "UC with UC" policy. Co-resident non-UC or 3rd-party app VMs are not allowed.
- E.g. one app has a "UC with UC" policy, another app has "Limited" policy. Even though all apps will be UC, the desired combination may not be allowed by the "Limited" app.
- E.g. one app has "None" policy. No other apps can be co-resident with this app regardless of their policies.
- If support policies of a given co-resident app mix do not match, then the "least common denominator" is required.
- Virtual Machine Templates
All UC applications must use a supported virtual machine OVA template from Unified Communications Virtualization Downloads (including OVA/OVF Templates).
- No Hardware Oversubscription
All VMs require a one to one mapping between virtual hardware and physical hardware. See specifics below.
- Make sure your Tested Reference Configuration or Specs-based CPU is the right CPU Type for the particular UC VMs. E.g. for Cisco Unified Communications Manager, the 2.5K user, 7.5K user and 10K user VMs may only run on a server with a "Full UC Performance" CPU Type.
- Must map 1 VM vCPU core to 1 physical CPU core.
- For example, if you have a host with 12 total physical cores, then you can deploy any combination of virtual machines where the total number of vCPU on those virtual machines adds up to 12.
- The requirement is based on physical cores, not logical cores.
- Logical cores may exceed physical cores if CPU hyperthreading is used. See UC Virtualization Supported Hardware for recommendation on hyperthreading and other BIOS settings. See screenshot below for physical cores vs. logical cores (as viewed from either VMware vCenter or vSphere Client) for a UCS C220 M3S server with CPU hyperthreading DISABLED. If hyperthreading is ENABLED, you will see 16 logical cores despite only 8 physical cores, but UC sizing rules are still limited by 8 physical cores.
- The requirement is based on physical cores on CPU architectures that Cisco has verified have equivalent performance (click here for details). E.g. for UC sizing purposes, one core on E5-2600 at 2.5+ GHz is equivalent to one core on E7-2800 at 2.4+ GHz, which are both equivalent to one core on 5600 at 2.53+ GHz.
- Cisco Unity VMs also require VMware CPU Affinity.
- If there is at least one live Unity Connection VM on the physical server, then one CPU core per physical server must be left unused (it is actually being used by ESXi scheduler).
- For example, if you have a host with 12 total physical cores and one or more of the VMs on that host will be Unity Connection, then you can deploy any combination of virtual machines where the total number of vCPU on those virtual machines adds up to 11, with the 12th core left unused. This is regardless of how many Unity Connection VMs are on that host.
- CPU reservations on the VMs are not required, allowed or supported. Use of CPU reservations in lieu of one-vcpu-to-one-physical-CPU-core mapping is not supported.
- Even if some of the virtual machines have a reservation, the above one-to-one vCPU to physical core rule still applies – it overrides the reservation.
- For example, if you have a host with a total of 4 physical cores, and you want to run the CUCM 2500 user OVA (which has 800 MHz reservation and requires 1 vCPU) along with other virtual machines, you still must deploy the VMs with a one to one mapping of vCPU to physical core. If you do not follow this rule, your deployment is unsupported.
- Memory/RAM
- Must map 1 GB of VM vRAM to 1 GB of physical RAM. Memory oversubscription is not supported for Cisco UC VMs.
- The sum of virtual machines' vRAM may not exceed the total physical memory on the physical server.
- Additional physical RAM must be provisioned for VMware vSphere ESXi itself (this is to cover ESXi overhead to run VMs; for more details see "Understanding Memory Overhead" on vmware.com).
- 4 GB for version 5.5 of VMware vSphere ESXi
- 2 GB for versions 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 of VMware vSphere ESXi
- Storage
The following apply to supported DAS, SAN and NAS storage
- Must map 1 GB of VM vDisk to 1 GB of physical storage.
- Storage thin provisioning is not recommended (whether at VM layer or storage array layer).
- Any other form of storage oversubscription is not supported.
- The sum of virtual machines' vDisks may not exceed the physical disk space of the physical server's logical volume capacity (i.e. capacity net of overhead for the VM itself, VMFS in vSphere and physical RAID configuration).
- Cisco recommends 10% buffer on top of vDisk values to handle overhead within the VM (such as swap files which are the size of the VM's vRAM). See Shared Storage Considerations for more details.
- The DAS, NAS or SAN storage solution must also supply enough performance to handle the total load of the VMs.
- Must provide enough IOPS to handle sum of the VMs.
- Kernel command latency must not exceed 2-3 milliseconds.
- Physical device command latency must not exceed 15-20 milliseconds.
- See Shared Storage Considerations and Storage Performance Requirements for more details.
- If the above capacity or performance requirements are not met, the storage system is overloaded and must be "fixed" by either moving virtual machines to alternate storage, or improving storage hardware.
- Network/LAN
- The aggregate networking load of the co-resident virtual machines must be met with the physical networking interface(s) on the host.
- See the UC application design guides (http://www.cisco.com/go/srnd) to size network utilization by UC app VMs. In general, most UC app VMs will not saturate a 1GbE link. Deployments leveraging non-FC-storage (iSCSI, NFS or Unified Fabric/FCoE including UCS B-Series FEX) must account for network traffic from both VM LAN access and VM storage access.
- For other network hardware best practices, see QoS Design Considerations for Virtual UC with UCS.
- If the above capacity or performance requirements are not met, the networking hardware is congested and must be "fixed" by either moving virtual machines to a host with different network access, or provisioning more physical network interfaces.
- Maximum VM Count per Physical Server
- For hardware other than UCS C200 M2 TRC#1, you may mix and match Cisco UC app VM size and quantity as long as you follow all of the sizing rules described above. The maximum number of virtual machines per physical server that can be supported depends on several factors:
- "Capacity" of physical server hardware vs. the quantity and resource usage of VM OVA templates.
- E.g. using the above physical/virtual sizing rules for CPU, a physical server with 8 total physical cores can only host 4 of the "CUCM 7.5K user OVAs" since those are 2 vCPU each. If the physical server instead had 20 total physical cores, it could host 10 of these VMs (assuming memory, network and storage hardware are also sufficient using the UC sizing rules immediately below).
- All UC on UCS Tested Reference Configurations are sized for co-residency except for UCS C210 M1 Tested Reference Configuration #1 (which is only sized to host a single CUCM VM of 7500 user capacity). Note UCS C200 M2 Tested Reference Configuration #1 has special restrictions on choice of UC VM, and its allowed VMs are at lower capacity per VM than for other Tested Reference Configurations.
- UC on UCS Specs-based and 3rd-party Server Specs-based deployments allow hardware options that may support a higher or lower max VM count than a UC on UCS Tested Reference Configuration. E.g. UCS C210 M2 TRC#1 is a dual-4-core CPU, but UCS C210 M2 specs-based could be configured with dual-6-core (for possibly more VMs) or a single 4-core (for possibly a single VM).
- Note the max VM count may also be further restricted by UC apps that only support "Limited" co-residency as described in the tables after the rules.
- Special Requirements for UCS C200 M2 TRC#1 or UCS C220 M3 SFF TRC#2 Hardware
|This section is only for UC on UCS C200 M2 Tested Reference Configuration #1 which uses Intel E5506 / 2.13 GHz CPU. UCS C200 M2 configured with a faster CPU (via Specification-Based Hardware Support) does not need to follow the rules in this section.
- These TRCs use a "Restricted UC Performance" CPU Type, so there are restrictions on which VM configurations may be used. The C200 M2 or C220 M3 SFF configured with a different CPU allowed by "Full UC Performance" CPU Type does not have these restrictions on choice of VM configuration.
Follow these rules for TRCs with a "Restricted UC Performance" CPU Type:
- The only supported virtual machine OVA templates are:
- The list of VM configuration allowed for Cisco Business Edition 6000
- In addition, CUC or UCxn - Unity Connection 500 users and 5000 users
- Other unlisted VM configurations are not supported on C200 M2 TRC #1.
- Otherwise at this time the following co-residency scenarios are supported:
- Any combination allowed by Cisco Business Edition 6000.
- Any other combination provided you follow the General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing, and only use the VM configurations allowed on a "Restricted UC Performance" CPU Type..
- The only supported virtual machine OVA templates are:
Special Rules for non-UC and 3rd-party Co-residency
See the tables after these rules for the co-residency policy of each Cisco UC app.
Choice of virtualization software license may restrict choice of non-UC and/or 3rd-party application VMs, and how many of those VMs may reside on a particular host. See Virtualization Software Requirements .
Non-UC VMs and 3rd-party app VMs that will be co-resident with Cisco UC app VMs are also required to align with all of the following:
- TAC Technote Document ID: 113520. For other details on co-resident application performance troubleshooting, see Troubleshooting and Performance Monitoring Virtualized Environments.
- General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing
- All of the special rules below.
- "Matching" Support Policies
- All co-resident VMs must follow the "Matching" Support Polices rule in General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing. www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized does not describe policies for Cisco non-UC apps or 3rd-party apps
- Virtual Machine Templates
- Cisco non-UC VMs and 3rd-party app VMs own definition of their supported VM OVA templates (or specs for one to be created), similar to what Cisco UC app VMs require in General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing. http://www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized does not describe VM templates for Cisco non-UC apps or 3rd-party apps.
- All co-resident VMs - including non-UC VMs and 3rd-party app VMs - must follow the No Hardware Oversubscription rules for CPU in General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing.
- Memory/RAM
- To enforce "no memory oversubscription", each co-resident VM - whether UC, non-UC or 3rd-party - must have a reservation for vRAM that includes all the vRAM of the virtual machine. For example, if you have a virtual machine that is configured with 4GB of vRAM, then that virtual machine must also have a reservation of 4 GB of vRAM.
- Otherwise all co-resident VMs - including non-UC VMs and 3rd-party app VMs - must follow the No Hardware Oversubscription rules for Memory/RAM in General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing. The 2 GB for VMware vSphere is in addition to the sum of the vRAM reservations for the VMs.
- Storage
- Non-UC VMs and 3rd-party app VMs must define their storage capacity requirements (ideally in an OVA template) and storage performance requirements. These requirements are not captured at http://www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized.
- All co-resident VMs - including non-UC VMs and 3rd-party app VMs - must follow the No Hardware Oversubscription rules for Storage in General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing, including provisioning sufficient disk space, IOPS and low latency to handle the total VM load.
- If DAS storage is to be used with non-UC / 3rd-party app VMs, it is highly recommended that pre-deployment testing be conducted, where all VMs are pushed to their highest level of IOPS generation. This is due to DAS environments being more capacity/performance-constrained in general, more dependent on adapter caches in RAID controllers, and Cisco DAS testing only done for UC apps on UCS Tested Reference Configurations.
- Network/LAN
- Non-UC VMs and 3rd-party app VMs must define the network capacity/performance requirements of their VM OVA templates. These requirements are not captured at http://www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized.
- All co-resident VMs - including non-UC VMs and 3rd-party app VMs - must follow the No Hardware Oversubscription rules for Network/LAN in General Rules for Co-residency and Physical/Virtual Hardware Sizing, including provisioning sufficient physical interfaces.
Table of Co-residency Support Policy by Cisco UC Application
Call Processing and System Management Applications
|UC Application
|Co-residency Support
|Unified Communications Manager (1)
See Virtualization for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM)
|Cisco Business Edition 6000
|See Cisco Business Edition 6000
|Cisco Emergency Responder
|See Virtualization for Cisco Emergency Responder
|Session Manager Edition
|See Virtualization for Cisco Unified CM - Session Management Edition
|Intercompany Media Engine
|See Virtualization for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine
|Unified Attendant Consoles
|See Virtualization for Cisco Unified Attendant Consoles
|UC Management Suite (OM, SM, SSM, PM)
(1) Applicable for publishers, subscribers, standalone TFTP and standalone multicast MOH nodes.
Messaging and Presence Applications
|UC Application
|Co-residency Support
|Cisco Unity Connection
|See Virtualization for Cisco Unity Connection
|Cisco Unity
| See Virtualization for Cisco Unity
|Cisco Unified Presence
|See Virtualization for Cisco Unified Presence
Contact Center Applications
TelePresence Applications
|UC Application
|Co-residency Support
|Cisco TelePresence Manager
| Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch
| 1.9.0:
| Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (Cisco VCS)
| See Virtualization for Cisco TelePresence Video Communications Server
| Cisco TelePresence Conductor
|See Virtualization for Cisco TelePresence Conductor
Redundancy and Failover Considerations
Application-layer considerations (such as Unified CM Cluster over WAN or Unified CCE Remote Redundancy) are the same for virtualized (UC on UCS) or non-virtualized (MCS 7800) deployments.
However, since there is no longer a 1:1 relationship between hardware and application instances, "placement logic" must be taken into account to minimize the impact of hardware unavailability or unreachability:
- Avoid placing a primary VM and a backup VM on the same server, chassis or site
- For failover groups, avoid placing all actives on the same server, chassis or site
- Avoid placing all VMs of the same role on the same server, chassis or site
See QoS Design Considerations for Virtual UC with UCS and Storage System Design Requirements.
Sizing Examples
This section shows a sample system configuration based on following the High-level Checklist for Design and Implementation for the following set of customer requirements:
- General Requirements
- Three sites - Headquarters (HQ) and two Branches (A and B)
- CUCM and Applications located at each site
- Up to 30,000 lines per sites
- 100+ sites
- Transparent use of PSTN if IP WAN unavailable
- Headquarters (HQ) Requirements
- 12K Phones, use Cisco TFTP server
- 10K Messaging users
- 10K users equipped with Cisco Unified Personal Communicator (CUPC)
- Contact Center with 240 agents and 10 supervisors
- Branch A Requirements
- 2K Phones, use Cisco TFTP server
- 2K Messaging users
- 2K users equipped with Cisco Unified Personal Communicator (CUPC)
- Contact Center with 145 agents and 5 supervisors
- Branch B Requirements
- 500 Phones, use Cisco TFTP server
- 500 Messaging users
- 500 users equipped with Cisco Unified Personal Communicator (CUPC)
- Contact Center with 45 agents and 5 supervisors
After going through the design process, the following servers were selected to host the virtualized UC applications:
- Six Cisco UCS B200 Blade Servers for HQ (running in a UCS 5100 Chassis connected to UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnect Switches), using TRC#1 (UCS-B200M2-VCS1).
- Three Cisco UCS C210 General-Purpose Rack-Mount Servers for Branch A, using TRC#1 (UCS-C210M2-VCD2)
- Two Cisco UCS C200 General-Purpose Rack-Mount Servers for Branch B, using TRC#1 UCS-C200M2-VCD2)
- Note this example does not include non-UC applications (such as Cisco Nexus 1000V or Cisco Network Registrar) or 3rd-party applications such as customer-provided DNS / DHCP / TFTP servers, directories, email, groupware or other business applications. These applications need to run on separate physical servers and are not allowed to be co-resident with UC at this time. See the Co-residency section on this page for more details.
See below for details on the server layout and application/VM placement at each site. Note that Branch B is using UCS C200 M2 TRC #1 so has restrictions on which VM OVAs were able to be used.
HQ server detail:
Branch A server detail:
Branch B server detail:
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A 22-minute long documentary short, I Met a Man from Burma, is an interwoven tapestry of frank interviews with Lo Bo in Toronto, coupled with live footage and vivid imagery from today's Burma. Captured by Canadian photojournalist Brennan O'Connor, the images speak to the devastation of culture, the loss of innocence, and the vitality of a nation.
In 2002, Lo Bo settled in Toronto, Canada—leaving his wife and three children behind. Over the years, he has applied for his permanent residence but has been denied; the Canadian government has deemed his involvement with the KNU and KNLA as unlawful. Without papers he cannot travel or sponsor his family. In November 2007, Leh Wah's wife (who had relocated with her children to North Carolina) was killed in a car accident; Ler Wah was unable to attend the funeral and has not seen his family since 2001.
Now 53, Lo Bo is an advocate for Burma. In Toronto, he works as a phone interpreter for Karen people across North America, and helps newly-arrived Karen refugees. He is a reputed musician within his community and is focused on educating the Burmese youth along the Thai-Burma border. His goal: to visit his children, to see his homeland, to bring peace to his country, and to build schools for his people.
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This review is from 'Rock of Ages's 2011 premiere; current cast includes Tim Howar as Stacee Jaxx and Daniel Fletcher as Daniel Dupree
This poodle-rock jukebox musical import from Broadway – where it was, oddly, a critical and popular success – is predictably loud, tacky and silly. It is also, let's concede, pretty slick.
As Kristin Hanggi's production cranks the amps up to 11 and tinsel rains down in nigh-suffocating quantities, the onstage band execute their bombastic riffs and masturbatory guitar solos with precision.
The cast are perfectly competent too. 'X Factor' winner Shayne Ward looks surprisingly comfortable in the tight trousers and luxuriant wig of egomaniac singer Stacee Jaxx; Oliver Tompsett and Amy Pemberton play two starstruck young lovers with hollering gusto; and Simon Lipkin gurns and grinds as the priapic, mullet-sporting narrator.
The biggest name – TV presenter Justin Lee Collins – puts in a slightly self-conscious turn as a Sunset Strip club owner; but as he gets relatively little stage time, it hardly matters much.
A much more serious problem is the shortage of laughs in Chris D'Arienzo's book. There's none of the sly wit of masterly comic rockumentary 'This Is Spinal Tap' here: this is full-on, balls-out spoof, its gags too cheap and broad to be genuinely funny.
As for the songs, by the likes of Whitesnake, Foreigner, Poison and Bon Jovi, they are (and always were) pretty awful. The crotch-centred antics of a posse of scantily clad girl dancers offer a dubious distraction. But for all the show's pretensions to sleaze, its soulless shenanigans couldn't be much less rock'n'roll.
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I've recently been enjoying the barrage of articles over at Cato on the recent death (or murder) of the D.C. voucher program (see here for Cato articles on education, most of the recent of which deal with the voucher scandal). If you're unfamiliar with this situation in particular or education vouchers in general, allow me to explain: In Washington, D.C. they've had a voucher program. This basically allows students to take tax money that would have been spent educating them in public schools and spend it in private schools. Thus poor students who can't afford to choose private schools otherwise can afford it by using the tax money that would have been spent on their public education. Research has shown that the voucher program in DC has produced better results for less money spent per pupil. Yet, the DC voucher program has been killed, and before it was killed, the research demonstrating its effectiveness was conveniently kept quiet. This is outrageous. What is most outrageous is the excuse given. As Neal McCluskey at Cato points out, killing the voucher program is done in the same name every Obama administration policy is: change. The reality, as McCluskey points out, is that the voucher program in fact challenges everything about the status quo. Vouchers seek the good of the consumer, not of entrenched interests like teachers unions. It is killing the voucher program that is a blind acceptance of the status quo!
This fact, it seems to me, is rather obvious. As far as I am concerned it does not matter whether or not Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education around whom all the controversy has swirled, intentionally hid the study showing the effectiveness of the voucher program. This study only confirms a rather simple intuitive notion: stifling free thinking by uniformity is bad for education. This is a simple fact people have recognized for ages. I was struck today by the simplicity of this fact when reading "Education, Help or Hindrance" by Auberon Herbert. Herbert, an Englishman writing nearly 130 years ago, recognized a simple fact that Obama, Duncan, and the like cannot seem to grasp:
Therefore, if you desire progress, you must not make it difficult for men to think and act differently; you must not dull their senses with routine or stamp their imagination with the official pattern of some great department. If you desire progress, you must remove all obstacles that impede for each man the exercise of his reasoning and imaginative faculties in his own way; and you must do nothing to lessen the rewards which he expects in return for his exertions. And in what does this reward consist? Often in the simple triumph of the truth of some opinion. It is marvelous how much toil men will undergo for the sake of their ideas; how cheerfully they will devote life, strength, and enjoyment to the work of convincing others of the existence of some fact or the truth of some view. But if such forces are to be placed at the service of society, it must be on the condition that society should not throw artificial and almost insuperable obstacles in the way of those reformers who search for better methods. If, for example, a man holding new views about education can at once address himself to those in sympathy with him, can at once collect funds and proceed to try his experiment, he sees his goal in front of him, and labors in the expectation of obtaining some practical result to his labor. But if some great official system blocks the way, if he has to overcome the stolid resistance of a department, to persuade a political party, which has no sympathy with views holding out no promise of political advantage, to satisfy inspectors, whose eyes are trained to see perfection of only one kind, and who may summarily condemn his school as "inefficient," and therefore disallowed by law, if in the meantime he is obliged by rates and taxes to support a system to which he is opposed, it becomes unlikely that his energy and confidence in his own views will be sufficient to inspire a successful resistance to such obstacles.
The simple fact of the matter is that a lack of school choice encourages stagnation. How can a system without competition, without conflict ever produce new fresh ideas? Herbert recognized this in his own time, and the English system he describes sounds eerily like our own:
Add one more consideration. A great department must be by the law of its own condition unfavorable to new ideas. To make a change it must make a revolution. Our Education Department, for example, cannot issue an edict which applies to certain school boards and not to others. It knows and can know of no exceptions. Our bastard system of half-central half-local government is contrived with great ingenuity to render all such experiments impossible. If the center were completely autocratic (which Heaven forbid) it could try experiments as it chose; if the localities were independent, each could act for itself. At present our arrangements permit of only intolerable uniformity.
Could there be a better description of contemporary American schools? It's uncanny. A "bastard system of half-central half-local government"! If that doesn't describe our system I do not know what does! In 19th century England and 21st century America the truth is the same: the best way to improve education is to allow alternative models to compete. And the reality is, as Herbert recognized long ago, different approaches cannot compete effectively when they are competing before bureaucrats. The best arbiter of competing ideas about education is not a bunch of Washington bureaucrats who fail or refuse to read their own department's studies on the effectiveness of school choice; it is the consumer of education: the parents.


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Research conducted by the University of North Carolina found that 83% of convicted burglars would attempt to ascertain whether an alarm is present before committing burglary. Installing a visible home security alarm is therefore one of the simplest, most effective measure you can take against would-be burglars.
2. Don't advertise your absence
If you're going on holiday and have to leave your home unattended, there are still ways to create the illusion of an occupied home. Smart home technology allows you to programme your lights to turn on and off at certain times of day, while other systems will include opening and closing curtains. If your home doesn't yet have this kind of software, consider asking a neighbour to do a quick daily check, collecting your mail and ensuring everything inside is as it should be. Remember to cancel any milk or newspaper deliveries for the duration of your absence.
3. Make sure your locks are fit for purpose.
Dead bolt locks should be at least one inch long, in order to prevent burglars gaining entry by spreading the door frame. Internal anti-saw pins are much more difficult to saw through with a hacksaw, whilst anti-drill features will shatter any drill bits that try to push through.
4. Join or start a neighbourhood watch scheme.
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Lamb of God's Randy Blythe Launches Blog for Upcoming 'Dark Days' Czech Trial Memoir
Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe has kept in close contact with his fans for many years, becoming somewhat of a social media king in the realm of metal. To promote his upcoming 'Dark Days: My Tribulations and Trials' memoir and to explain exactly what fans should and should not expect from the book, Blythe has launched a new Tumblr account, the first post of which details his life as Lamb of God's vocalist, his battle with substance abuse, his success in bringing justice to his Czech manslaughter case + much more.
For any metalhead, 'Dark Days' will prove to be a must-read. Blythe's 'Dark Days' Tumblr account promises to document the "process," "production" and "publication" stages of the memoir, which Blythe breaks down with his inaugural post.
The first post on Blythe's self-professed "blog/nervous breakdown" reads:
Greetings Earthlings.
Obviously (as the name of this blog will lead the more astute amongst you to deduce), this is the official blog of my upcoming book, Dark Days, scheduled for publication later in this year of our lord, 2014. I even state that fact in greater detail over in the "about the author" section (the little box to the left of this post), just in case there is any confusion about what in the hell is going on here. In that box it also says "PROCESS. PRODUCTION. PUBLICATION." That is because those are the three phases the life of this book will go through, and the three phases in which this blog will be chronologically updated. More on that shortly.
First, a brief explanation about myself and the basis of my book for those of you who are unfamiliar with me or the recent events that have occurred in my life during the last year and a half or so. My name is D. Randall Blythe, known to most simply as Randy. I make my living singing for the four-time Grammy losing international touring heavy metal act, lamb of god. We've been around for almost twenty years now, have several critically acclaimed albums (well, at least by a few critics at a couple of metal magazines), and have played on every continent on earth except Antarctica. It's a good life.
I am also a sober alcoholic who hasn't touched a drink or a drug (other than caffeine and nicotine) for well over three years as of this writing. For twenty-two years, I drank herculean amounts of alcohol (and drugged on the side just to make sure I was truly screwing myself up) in an attempt to alter reality to the point where I could deal with it. Surprise, surprise- that strategy did not work. That was NOT a good life, and I barely survived it. I'm much better now.
Everything was going just hunky-dory until about a year and a half ago. On June 27, 2012 my band flew from Norway to the Czech Republic to play a show. Upon landing in Prague, we were met at the end of the jetway by five masked and heavily armed large men in body armor, along with four plainclothes detectives. To the immense surprise of my bandmates and myself, I was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter concerning the death of a lamb of god fan. We had played Prague two years previously, and unbeknownst to any of us, a young man had sustained an injury to the head during our show, dying a month later. The police said that I was the cause of that injury. I was promptly incarcerated and spent the next thirty-seven days in a 123 year old crumbling prison on the outskirts of Prague. After a long and complex process during which my band had to borrow almost half a million bucks, I was released on bail and returned to the United States. Instead of hiding like a coward in the U.S., safe from extradition (the U.S. government had refused to cooperate with the Czechs after they requested assistance in investigating me immediately after the young man died. My government also did not deem it necessary to inform me that I was a wanted man in a foreign country. Your tax dollars at work.), I returned to Prague in early 2013 to stand trial. I did this for several reasons, first and foremost being I felt the family of this young man deserved some answers, and I was the only one who could provide them. I felt it unethical to hide from my problems while they grieved the loss of their son. As the father of a dead daughter, I understood their pain in a very visceral way. I had tried to hide from my problems for over twenty years by crawling into a bottle. I do not live that way anymore, so to hide from this would have been intolerable for me. I believe it would have lead me back to the drink, and from there, I would have surely died.
On March 5, 2013, I was found not guilty and acquitted of all charges. I have remained a free man every since.
This book will tell that story, the whole story, for the first time ever. I'm the only one who lived it, so I'm the only one capable of telling it. However, the tale of my arrest, incarceration, release, and trial are merely the vehicle I will be using to convey what I feel is an important message in today's fast paced, high tech, self-centered world. I have something to say, and life has presented me with a tragic way to illustrate my point without being preachy or pedantic. I will not moralize or shout from some ludicrous ethical pedestal (I didn't win the Olympics or cure cancer, I went to prison for Pete's sake)- I just want to relate how I got through a very scary time and came out with my head held high. I think there is a lesson of value in the telling of my story, if only for myself. Therefore I will write it, and I hope some of you will read it.
That's my basic story. What this blog is:
1) Process: I am a voracious reader, and have been since I was child. I love reading books about the people who write books. I love learning about their process. I love seeing pictures of their writing desks. I love hearing about the nervous break downs they had as they toiled in solitude to produce something worth reading. I love a glimpse into their great knotty craniums. That is what the first phase of this blog will attempt to do through writing, photos, video, and maybe even some original music. I have found that through my photography and Instagram account (@drandallblythe) that fans of my band and my photo work enjoy seeing what is going on in my life, as it has taken me to some pretty neat places and lead to some pretty interesting observations. The process phase will allow you a glimpse into what it's like for me to become an author. I will not be taking questions during this phase, as I need to be writing. If you want to observe the train wreck in progress, by all means, hop aboard.
2) Production: In the second phase of the blog, I will be detailing what happens between submitting the manuscript to my publishers and the book hitting the shelves. This will include art work updates (galley covers, etc.), perhaps some advance reviews, book tour dates (I plan on doing a very interesting book tour), and what I learn about the business of publishing as I go along. This is a new area for me, and I hope to share what I learn as I fumble through this new field- who knows, maybe it will help some young aspiring author out! No questions will be taken here either.
3) Publication: Ok, the books out- now what? I guess we shall see! I will be opening up the questions section once the book is released, and we will be entering the publication phase of the blog. If anyone asks me something interesting CONCERNING THE BOOK, I will do my best to answer it. I also will be updating appearances and writing about anything different/funny/weird/hideous/painful/embarrassing that occurs as a result of being a published author. Maybe nothing will happen- who knows? Once again, I guess we shall see. I have a feeling all the above mentioned things will occur though. I am a magnet for wing nuts and bizarre situations. The book will only step that up, I'm sure.
A place to write about my band or answer any questions about it. There are other channels for that. I talk about band stuff when I am doing band stuff. Right now, I'm doing book stuff. The band stuff will come later.
So that's the concept for this blog. In my next post I will tell the story of how this book deal thing came about; relating how I had to be convinced to write this book in the first place (it was not my idea- in fact, I really didn't want to at first), and what finally made me agree to do it (no, it wasn't money. I already have enough money for what I need. Plus, unless your King or Grisham or one of those folks, the book business is the wrong business to try and get rich in). Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to tell your friends, y'all hear me, now?
Stay tuned for more news on Lamb of God and Randy Blythe's 'Dark Days' memoir, which is set to be released June 24 according to Amazon. Lamb of God are also set to premiere their 'As the Palaces Burn' documentary, which will also cover Blythe's Czech manslaughter trail, on Feb. 16 in Philadelphia. Along with the premiere, the film will be shown in over 350 theaters worldwide. To find out where 'As the Palaces Burn' will be playing at a theater near you, click here.


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Smart Grid: the Evolving Energy Landscape
The basic concept of an electrical power grid has matured from the early stand-alone distribution systems that serviced a limited geographic area to a more expansive and far-reaching regional network that incorporates multiple areas. In practice, the uninterrupted access to sources of electric power became a key ingredient of the economic development advances that were made possible during the Industrial Age.
In the distant past, all energy production occurred near the consumer of that energy — including all initial residential or business needs for electricity. Back in the early 19th century, electricity competed with other sources of energy — such as steam and gas. During that period, gas became the first popular centralized power source in the energy industry.
Modeled after the gas lighting industry, it's reported that Thomas Edison invented the first electric utility system which was designed to supply electricity within a municipality. During the evolutionary periods that followed, electric utilities applied the economies of scale that were derived from centralized power generation and distribution.
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In the 20th century, electric utilities evolved once again — during a period of regional power company consolidation. In the 1920s, it was common for utilities to join together, thereby establishing a broader utility grid as combined operations gained the benefits of sharing peak load coverage and back-up power sources.
That being said, much of today's underlying electricity production and distribution outside plant is considered to be antiquated. It's highly inefficient, and cannot reliably manage the forward-looking anticipated demand loads — without significant upgrades to essential infrastructure.
Due to climate change-related regulation and the utilities apparent need to increase operational efficiencies, there's been an emerging requirement around the world for a complete overhaul of the electrical grid systems — in order to make it all "smarter." The notion of a smart grid metamorphosis will become a reality, starting with large-scale smart metering deployments, which are an example of the next phase of evolutionary progress.
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In essence, a smart grid is a digitally enabled electrical grid that gathers, distributes, and acts on information about the behavior of all participants (suppliers and consumers) in order to improve the efficiency, importance, reliability, economics, and sustainability of electricity services.
What's the driving force behind the move to smart grid technology? Necessity, pure and simple. Most nation's electricity systems were built when their primary energy source was relatively inexpensive. Moreover, grid reliability was assured by having excess capacity in the system, with unidirectional electricity flow to consumers from centrally dispatched, coal-fired power plants.
New investment in the legacy systems were made to accommodate the increasing demand for electricity — not to fundamentally transform the old approach. It was the prolonged absence of innovation, along with some revolutionary "green" sustainable energy initiatives, that created the current environment for much-needed technology modernization.
Given the trend of rising energy consumption and significantly higher costs, utilities must now be able to anticipate changing patterns to manage supply and demand. They also need to explore alternate forms of energy generation — such as wind and solar power — and integrate these sources into their framework.
Finally, they must make sure that their infrastructure is reliable, resilient, and secure – to further reduce the risk of costly blackouts and dramatic power outages.
The Cisco strategy for enabling the transformation is to provide an end-to-end, secure communications fabric to help utility companies optimize power supply and demand. To effectively deliver this vision, the Cisco Smart Grid solution is built on a framework that covers the different aspects of the energy system.
Market Outlook: According to the latest market study by ABI Research, annual global spending on smart grid technologies, including smart meter implementations, as well as upgrades to transmission and distribution infrastructure, is expected to reach $65 billion by 2017.
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Wound Care Center FAQs
Have questions for the Southwest Regional Wound Care Center experts? Check here and if no luck, try their site.
What do I need to bring when I visit the Wound Care Center?
On the first visit, you will need to bring your insurance card and a list of any medications you are currently taking. It is also important that you check your insurance card before you come and bring enough money to cover your co-payment.
Who will I see when I visit the Wound Care Center?
Our nurses or aides will check you in to see the doctor. On the first visit, you will see Dr. Wolcott. For your following visits, you will see either a Physician's Assistant (PA) or Dr. Wolcott.
What does a typical office visit consist of/look like?
When you first come in, our nurses or aides take you into a room, help clean your wound, and prepare you to see Dr. Wolcott. They will take a picture of you for the computer system and a picture of the wound each time you have a visit to see how well you are progressing. The doctor then comes in to assess the wound and will debride if necessary. When he is finished, the nurses and/or aides will come in to dress your wound and set you up with the appropriate supplies to dress your wound at home.
How long does a typical office visit take?
Visits usually take no more than 20-30 minutes. We believe that your personal time is valuable, and we want you to be cared for quickly and efficiently.
Who will be treating my wound?
Dr. Wolcott or one of the PAs debride the wound, but the nurses and aides will dress the wound and explain how you can care for your wound at home.
Will my office visit hurt?
We provide adequate numbing gel that contains Lidocaine. If more numbing is requested, we have numbing shots available.
How long will it take my wound to heal?
There is no definite answer for how long it will take a wound to heal. You need to be aware that certain diseases—diabetes, venous deficiencies, or other medical conditions—may make healing time slower. We will always do our best to promote proper wound healing. It is also important that you maintain your wound healing process at home and follow the instructions we give you so that your wound will heal successfully (and promptly!).
How many times will I have to visit?
We like to see a patient once a week. Depending on the severity of the wound, more visits may be necessary.
Will my wound be able to be healed?
We treat, God heals!
That said, your wound will definitely be able to heal, but you must consider other factors that may contribute to the existence of the wound. We provide vascular studies to check the oxygen flow to your lower extremities, venous testing to diagnose any problems in the veins of the lower extremities, and molecular diagnostics to identify any bacteria present on the wound bed. These tests help us diagnose any problems keeping the wound from healing.
What types of treatments will the Wound Care Center use to heal my wound?
Debridement (cleaning/removal of dead tissue that is on the wound) is the first step. Afterwards, we apply topical treatments created at the Wound Care Center that help kill and control the bacteria that build up on the wound. The wide variety of dressings we use also help the wound heal.
What is the atmosphere like at the Wound Care Center?
The atmosphere of the Wound Care Center is very comforting. We care deeply about your concerns, fears, and health. We want to reassure you that you are in the right place to get the best care possible for your wound.
Why should I choose the Wound Care Center over similar facilities?
You should choose the Wound Care Center because our heart is truly in treating your wound as best as possible. We strongly believe that if we can treat your wound as best as we know how, you will eventually see improvement. We are very passionate about our patients, and we believe that God can heal anyone who walks through the door. Dr. Wolcott is always looking for the best treatment for his patients by conducting various research projects. There is an enormous amount of patients who are very pleased with the treatment they received at the Wound Care Center. Also, our approach to wound care is unique–we are unaware of any other clinic that uses a biofilm-based approach to wound care.
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We just created our very own youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/SWRWoundCareCenter
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Heat Wave!
I made up a big batch of the Cook's Illustrated "Ultimate Veggie Burgers" from an old 2005 issue. I found the hardbound copy of all the 2005 issues on sale for only $3, so I picked it up. I've gotta say, these burgers were really yummy. A bit of work, but nothing too painful. I really liked the variety of ingredients: lentils, veggies, panko, bulgur, cashews... In the end, it's a mild, but nicely flavorful patty. And the recipe made about 18 patties, which left me with plenty to pop in the freezer even after a little family dinner gathering. I used vegan mayo instead of the mayo, but I was thinking after the fact that pureed silken tofu might be a nice binder to try next time.
Mmmm! Isn't that a beautiful dinner? A slice of Real Food Daily's "Tempeh Meatloaf" (with a squirt of catsup), some lightly steamed asparagus, a spring salad, and a toasted slice of homemade sourdough rye bread. That Tempeh Meatloaf is a great recipe. Delicious, very flavorful, and quite hearty. It's costly to buy 1.5 lbs of tempeh, but one whole "meatloaf" really does serve a lot of people. A 1-inch slice is plenty filling along with a veggie and some salad, so the whole recipe is about 8 servings. Happy belly!
And, tonight, I broke out the Barbecue! Musty refilled our propane tank, so we were ready to go! These are the delicious Tempeh Kabobs with BBQ sauce from the "Vegan World Fusion Cuisine" cookbook. I made these once before we loved them. What a delicious summery dinner! I don't really like mushrooms, so I subbed in zukes instead of portabellas. Also pictured: tempeh cubes, red bell pepper, red onion, and cherry tomatoes. After the photo was taken, we poured on more BBQ sauce. Yum!
Any favorite hot weather food ideas?
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I'm gonna be totally unoriginal and say: mixed salads and more mixed salads, for when it's really hot. the tempeh meatloaf with asparagus is indeed a thing of beauty!ReplyDelete
Ooh, yummy! I busted out the BBQ for some corn on the cob tonight; too hot for the oven. We also heated up some chili & poured it over a few dollops of cream cheese, then dipped chips in it.ReplyDelete
I've been trying to come up with warm weather options & I think I'm going to make some slaws & salads!
The lentil-bulgar-cashew combination sounds really good; I never thought of Cooks Illustrated as a place to look for veg recipes.ReplyDelete
Wow, the kabobs and those veggie burgers look FANTASTIC!! Yum!! Great BBQ fare.ReplyDelete
Hot-weather calls for big bowls of fresh, seasonal fruit for me :0)
Your BBQ photos are making me so eager to get out there and grill too! I have propane, but I need a new grill burner. Thanks for reminding me to do that this weekend!ReplyDelete
Wow, everything looks delicious, especially your Tempeh Kabobs w/ BBQ sauce. I like vegan potato salad and BBQ "pulled pork" for summer!ReplyDelete
That looks delicious!ReplyDelete
I would give anything to have a heat wave here! (we have our heater on and it's supposed to dip into the 30s tonight... yikes!) I know what I'm going to do as soon as hot weather comes around a trio of salsas: watermelon, mango, and pineapple, and then eat them by the truck-full!ReplyDelete
Mmmm, it all looks delicious! I thought the tempeh kabobs were tater tots....ReplyDelete
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I have a recipe for tempeh patties with shredded beets in it. Does your tempeh meatloaf have have beets in it?ReplyDelete
wow, the grilled food looks amazingReplyDelete
I like to eat lots of salads during summer, as well, and simple pasta dishes. Your food in this post looks very colourful, I love that!ReplyDelete


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|2013-01-25, 01:49
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Well, this Tabane is even more unhinged than canon, "Everything for my dear sister" indeed. Houki can't lose Ichika until she could stood up by her own. So she made a... err, backup (she of course didn't expect Ichika to 'fail' at Gospel operation)
|2013-01-25, 02:05
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
@ Eras
Make it so the cake is not a lie and the hero is still the hero.
Tales series have the heroes that clearly fought for idealism despite occasionally veer into hypocritical method and doing mistake here and there. They suffered a lot for doing so, but the ending is at worst bittersweet and they do accomplish their goal.
@ Demi
Precisely to avoid that.
You know how MUCH of a mess Houki is despite Ichika's wounds are non lethal.
|2013-01-25, 02:46
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
This ignoring that quite probably it's Tabane's own fault all along, conflicting interest indeed.
What caused the dimensional shift is, in fact, because of the 'Oracle', basically a massive-sized, almost unrestrained I.S. core. Oracle is so powerful that when two Oracle from two universe synchronize, they create a brief wormhole.
In first case, only Ichika (Core 001, in this regard) got pulled. Later however, when forced synchronization is done (as Tabane learned the existence of mirror universe), virtually every I.S. and their pilot is pulled in.
|2013-01-25, 02:50
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@ Senpai - That's the problem; 8 main heroes in a group, and only 3 are outright heroic. 2 fight for simple revenge, 1 is well intentioned but goes too far at times, the other tags along simply because the well intentioned one stays, and the last one is joining only because she finds it funny to see if they succeed. Not to mention that they're at each others throats a lot of the time.
|2013-01-25, 03:13
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
* raises hand*
That would be... I dunno. I'm quite inexperienced in this kind of stuff.
Maybe have them fall one by one, or have change of heart (for better or worse) or combination thereoff, making the dynamic between the protagonist a lot more interesting.
|2013-01-25, 07:33
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@ Senpai - Most of them do die by endgame, but that's because they die fighting than anything else. In the meantime, most of them are barely keeping themselves from shooting one another.
Speaking of which, how bad would Cecilia have gotten if she never got friends and lost that fight with Ichika? Sure the Tankbon manga shows her disapproving when she sees the stilted sexism.....but she seems to be one of the worst offenders in her first appearance?
|2013-01-25, 08:31
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Location: Inside your head
Chalk it to the clumsiness on author's part
And freudian excuse, don't forget the freudian excuse.
Besides, manga shown us that not only her perception of guy changed, but ALSO her perception of female superiority. There are strong guys out there, and many of the girls are plain bitch (including her former self)
This is quite plot point in the Slider fic too, Cecilia doesn't act as haughty (as FemIchika is twice as strong), but she still saw men as inferior... until Ichika manhandled her (again)
|2013-01-25, 08:43
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Some say I'm the Reverse
Join Date: Jul 2006
"I will ensure your heartbreak is eternal. I will endeavor to make you regret every moment that you did not tell him how you really felt."
The smile was cold on his face as he licked a thumb, placing it over the girl's photo in parody of a kiss.
"Shinonono Houki. I will enjoy your screams when I rip your dear Ichika apart before your eyes."
|2013-01-25, 08:48
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Senior Member
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@ Hawke - Aww, that sounds so sweet Now I wonder when they'll get to second base.
@ Senpai - It seems like I've made Cecilia pretty much a female Caligula in DARK future. She's pretty much a giant caqrd carrying villain and a spoiled brat to boot.
Then she gets shot through the mouth.....
|2013-01-25, 09:23
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That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
10-20% survival rate provided there is immediate treatment and location of skewering does not cause instantaneous death. Shock caused by massive bloodloss can possibly lead to temporary loss of memory, normally short term. Long term unconfirmed.
What if America had a more advanced model of the gospel?
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i put in an order for one... and now am thinking that it might be just a waste of money....
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Hello everyone,
So sorry that I have been so quiet for the past month. So many things happened. Plus, my laptop and camera "drowned." Just got my camera back, but still waiting for parts for my laptop. I just realized that there must be something with me and water this year, since it's the year of the water dragon AND I am carrying a baby water dragon ;)
I am figuratively drowning in so much work, as we're preparing for the opening of FOREVER 21 at The Block, at SM City North EDSA. Watch out for more updates next week ;) *hint hint* Please bear with me as I will try to be back online in a week. Thank you :D


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Clarke: Agents misadvised Odemwingie
West Bromwich Albion head coach Steve Clarke is hopeful wantaway striker Peter Odemwingie will still stay at The Hawthorns, but has blamed his agents for misadvising him.
Odemwingie, 31, who is wanted by Queens Park Rangers, has caused controversy recently by asking for a transfer request, as well as criticising the club on Twitter.
However, Clarke has made it clear he wants to retain the Nigeria international's services beyond Thursday's closure of the transfer window, despite criticising both the stance the player has taken and his agents' involvement in proceedings.
"We said that at the start of the window we didn't want to lose players and we're sticking with that," Clarke said. "What I want to say is that it's unfortunate because it's a situation that didn't have to develop. QPR have put two bids in that we've turned down because they weren't acceptable in this window. The ball is back in QPR's court and they have to decide whether to make an increased bid.
"He has been really badly advised and Harry [Redknapp] alluded to it in his comments about agents. Things have been going on behind the scenes which have turned his head and it's unfortunate for us. The situation is not good for anybody. If they [QPR] don't come up with a bid that's acceptable, he won't go. The club are entitled to get what they think is a good price. That's the situation."
Odemwingie is likely to earn a sizeable fine for his Twitter comments if he remains in the West Midlands, but Clarke's first concern is whether he has to swoop in quickly for a replacement.
"If he's still here on February 1, there are bridges that need to be mended," Clarke said. "Peter's new-born son has been back in hospital so we gave him another day and we wish him, his wife and their baby well. I hope he's here on February 1 and we can look forward to having him here for the rest of the season. It's great being a head coach because anything else [like club sanctions] is not really my remit. It will be dealt with internally and in private. Social media is alien to me. I don't understand it. But it's so much a part of society that you can't ban them from using it. You have to encourage them to use it wisely.
"It was disappointing to have that reaction from Peter. His reaction is wrong and I'm sure he would accept that. But there have been other cases where high-profile players have fallen out with their clubs. There is always a way back. There's no indication whether the other players are with him or against him. We haven't sat down to discuss it. It does disrupt things but it's a challenge for me. I'll find a way to deal with it and hopefully find a solution."
Odemwingie will not play in Wednesday's Premier League game at Everton because he has been given three days off following the recent birth of his son.
"He has not trained for three days, so there is no way he can play," Clarke said. "My relationship with Peter has been good and very strong. We have to see what the resolution is. Thankfully, I don't live in the murky world of agents. I live in the real world. But where there's money, there's normally some greed."
Asked how QPR had handled their pursuit, Clarke said: "It seems OK to me but I haven't been involved in the discussions."
Meanwhile, Clarke has described Albion's injury situation as much-improved, with Shane Long, Marc-Antoine Fortune, Steven Reid and Claudio Yacob all having recovered from problems. Zoltan Gera is the club's only injured absentee, although Youssouf Mulumbu is not due to return from the African Nations Cup until the weekend.


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Dassault Falcon Jet will expand its Little Rock jet completion center over the next three years by $60 million. The French-based company said it will add an additional 250,000 square feet to its campus near the Little Rock airport and refurbish a portion of its existing facilities.
Dassault Falcon Jet will expand its Little Rock jet completion center over the next three years by $60 million. The French-based company said it will add an additional 250,000 square feet to its campus near the Little Rock airport and refurbish a portion of its existing facilities.
Dassault Falcon makes high-end corporate and personal jets worth up to $60 million per plane in some models. Site preparation will begin in early 2014 and construction will take place through the early part of 2016.
Gov. Beebe names Charles Robinson to treasurer�s post
Gov. Mike Beebe (D) named Charles Robinson, the former director of the Division of Legislative Audit, to serve out the remainder of State Treasurer Martha Shoffner�s term. Robinson, a former CPA, worked for Legislative Audit for 34 years, serving 24 years as its director. He holds an accounting degree from Arkansas Tech University and an MBA from the University of Arkansas. Shoffner, a Democrat, resigned from her position last week after being arrested by federal authorities on charges of extortion.
Lawsuit against Exxon claims company concealed pipeline defects
A lawsuit has been filed against Exxon Mobil Corp., Exxon Mobil Pipeline Company and the planners and developers of the Mayflower subdivision where a pipeline ruptured and spilled almost 150,000 gallons of oil into a neighborhood on March 29, 2013. The lawsuit was filed by a group of Mayflower residents affected by the oil spill. Claims made in the lawsuit included that Exxon was aware of problems with the pipeline before the oil spill and knowingly concealed pipeline defects.
Arkansas home sales, prices up in April
The number of homes sold in Arkansas last month increased by 13.7 percent from April 2012, and the average price of homes sold increased by 4.3 percent, the Arkansas Realtors Association said.
The association said 2,209 homes were sold in the 43-county area it surveyed in April, up from 1,944 a year earlier. The average price of a home last month was $159,503, up from $152,922 in April 2012.
Pulaski County had the most homes sold last month with 375, followed by Benton County with 363, Washington County with 220, Saline County with 121 and Garland County with 119. In Sebastian County, 94 homes were sold. Twenty-eight were sold in Jefferson County.
First quarter Arkansas bank income up
Arkansas bank income was up more than 30 percent during the first quarter of 2013 as a reduction in real estate holdings and the monetary value of problem loans improved profits. The 126 financial institutions operating in Arkansas during the first quarter posted cumulative net income of $197 million, according to a May 29 report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC). The first quarter income was up 30.6 percent compared to 2012 first quarter income of $147 million and well ahead of the $137 million tally for the first quarter of 2011.
Northwest Arkansas sees strongest metro job improvements
Seven of the eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas had jobless rate decreases in April compared to March, but they had jobless rate increases compared to April 2012. Only the Northwest Arkansas area saw jobless rate improvements compared to March 2013 and the April 2012 periods.
During April, the lowest metro jobless rate in the state was in Northwest Arkansas at 5.1 percent and the highest rate was 9.2 percent in the Pine Bluff area, according to figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Wal-Mart fined for hazardous waste
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has pleaded guilty to dumping hazardous waste across California between 2003 and 2005 incurring $81 million in fines. As part of the plea, the company will also clean up dump sites in Missouri. The plea agreements announced Tuesday put an end to an investigation involving more than 20 prosecutors and 32 environmental groups over the past eight years. The plea also involved misdemeanor counts of negligently dumping pollutants from its stores into sanitation drains across the state.
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The Labyrinth - finding Rex early is a death sentence so exploration is tricky. Good leveling opportunities are rare since high level enemies are usually along the outer walls (I frequently reach end-game with no popcorn because that stuff needs to be killed early just to level). Often the map creates one long hallway that gives you a (in most cases) 50/50 chance per kill of getting stuck in it once Rex is following. Getting stuck between Rex and a high level mob is usually a game over due to death or critical resource loss. Rex basically becomes Bleaty at half hp; will one-shot kill anything but extreme HP / resist builds.
Shifting Passages - a bit of the same problem as The Labyrinth, only with a much more lenient early game. Frequent losses due to inability to chase the boss through the thin corridors late-game. This can either be easy (strong low-level character starting the boss fight with only a few kills) or extremely hard (many high level enemies remaining with most of the map cleared).
Cursed Oasis - may be more forgiving since the last update, but was probably my most hated dungeon before that. I cannot say what is most aggravating about this dungeon.. the difficult mobs (animated armors, thralls and shades), the excessive curses or annoying bosses. Probably tied with Shifting Passages as the Hard dungeon I'd least like to play currently.
Looking for: Nerfs and/or sympathy and/or strategies to consistently beat any of the above with any class (I try to take in a class I have not completed the dungeon with when one comes up as the burning dungeon).


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It said support for the Conservatives was up one point to 36% since the last survey three weeks ago. Support for the Liberals dropped three points to 29%, while the NDP's standing was unchanged at 14% and the Green party's stood at 11%, up two points.
In Quebec, the Bloc maintained the lead at 31%. The Liberals were ahead of the Conservatives 26% to 18%.
Given those Quebec numbers, you can assume Ipsos has the Tories rebounding in Ontario. Okay.
Don Martin, employed by said news organization that commissions this poll has said "Ipsos tends to overstate Conservative support". Don Martin is a smart man.


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This weekend I finally was able to bid adieu to my old trusty tent in favor of my new ENO DN and tarp setup.
I really wanted to convince my skeptical girlfriend and hiking partner that the loss of a full enclosure was more than balanced out by greater space so I pitched the tarp high enough that we could stand under it fully erect. Since Irene was surely bringing rain I ended up suspending the hammock pretty close to the tarp to protect us from any possible sideways precipitation but this left the hammock pretty high off the ground. Next time I think I will try a wider and lower approach for both tarp and hammock but I wanted to see how the more experienced folks here do it.
So, fully understanding that this is rather dependent on the situation:
How high do you typically suspend your hammock from the ground?
How high do you typically suspend your tarp from both ground and at what distance from your hammock?
We stayed dry even in the heavy rain and the girlfriend is now fully supportive of the hammock and tarp system.
I also learned I need to make some snakeskins for the tarp. Breaking down, folding and trying to get the wet shelter to fit in its stuff sack was a pain in the rain.