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n. - A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary. 2
n. - A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon. 2
n. - Violent blasts of wind. 2
v. i. - To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning. 2
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Editor's note: Ross Stevenson is a former lawyer who has hosted the top rating breakfast radio program "Breakfast with Ross and John" on AM radio station 3AW in Melbourne Australia since the early 1990s.
Melbourne (CNN) -- The two hosts of the 2Day FM Sydney radio program will be feeling awful. In seeking to con their way into recording a telephone call with a patient receiving treatment in a hospital they were doing what they thought FM radio hosts do. Everyone else does prank calls so we'll do one too.
The position of the radio station is different though.
This Sydney radio station has a track record of attempting to garner large ratings through shock tactics. In 2009 on this very same radio station a 14-year-old girl was invited into the studio with her mother.
She was wired up to a lie detector and asked personal questions. This was considered a jape. To take that jape just that potential ratings point further, the young girl was asked about her sex life. A reminder: she was 14. Obviously intimidated by the occasion, the fame of the hosts and the setting, she revealed to the vast audience listening at home and in cars that she had been raped when she was 12.
The incident was investigated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority which imposed an additional condition on 2Day FM's licence that it increase the protection of children participating in its shows.
One of the hosts of that broadcast, who is still employed by the radio station, said that early in his career he was told by the program director to "do whatever you want, just win," according to the transcript of an interview he did with Radio Today.
Do whatever you want.
But you know what? Actually, you can't do whatever you want. It may come as a surprise to many but there is actually a code of conduct for Australian radio stations and their on air presenters. It is called the Commercial Radio Codes of Practice Code 6 which currently makes compelling reading:
Radio station faces criticism
Prank on royal hospital turns tragic
Nurse found dead in Kate hoax
Hospital prank victim found dead
"The purpose of this Code is to prevent the unauthorized broadcast of statements by identifiable persons.
6.1 A licensee must not broadcast the words of an identifiable person unless:
(a) that person has been informed in advance or a reasonable person would be aware that the words may be broadcast; or
(b) in the case of words which have been recorded without the knowledge of the person, that person has subsequently, but prior to the broadcast, expressed consent to the broadcast of the words."
Jacintha Saldanha was not aware in advance that her words might be broadcast. Of course she wasn't, she thought she was talking to the Queen. And I'll confidently assert that she didn't subsequently consent to her words being broadcast, because if she did we would have heard all about it by now.
The CEO of the radio network says, "nobody could have reasonably foreseen" that a prank their station pulled on a nurse at the hospital, could have resulted in her suicide.
That's probably right. But could they have reasonably foreseen that she would be upset? Personally and professionally embarrassed? Hurt? But the lawyers ran their $750 an hour rulers over it and broadcast it was.
So what best describes the relationship between the radio station and Jacintha Saldhana?
In 1946 Terence Rattigan wrote a play called The Winslow Boy. An English family of modest means consigns itself to potential penury by securing legal representation for the young son of the family who stands falsely accused of petty theft at his naval academy.
The lawyer they retain to defend him, the best in the land, is Sir Robert Morton. In a speech addressing the boy's many doubters and accusers Sir Robert urges them, in considering this case involving a young boy on one side and the British Navy on the other, to remember a famous old dictum: "you shall not side with the great against the powerless."
In this whole sad and tragic affair Jacintha Saldhana was truly powerless.
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Is this Santeria? Meaning left on grave
Posted 13 May 2012 - 06:15 PM
"White Wash
I tried looking this up but can't anything other than a reference to a biblical verse Matthew 23:27
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean
Don't understand the meaning of the rest of the words.
Is this santeria? any help would be great.
Posted 13 May 2012 - 06:26 PM
Click here to view the photos
Posted 14 May 2012 - 06:32 PM
Santeria - Wikipedia
Posted 14 May 2012 - 06:56 PM
Thanks again.
Posted 15 May 2012 - 07:52 PM
How about a trail camera? it takes still photos or video and can be mounted almost anywhere.
Edited by Cryscat, 15 May 2012 - 07:54 PM.
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 12:09 PM
The stuff that was put on the grave;
1. Bag of Wheat Bread
2. Squash
3. Melon
4. Bananas
5. bag of sweat potatoes
6. Pineapple
7. small fruit cup
8. Roses
9. Egg (one egg)
10. Cigar bud
11. Cup with what looked liked water down blood in it.
12. All this was covered with cat food - meow mix
13. Buried under the meow mix and in the dirt was feces wrapped in news paper
Posted 17 May 2012 - 05:49 PM
If you look around in the area of your late father-in-law's grave, is there a bench or light post or tree near? something to attach a trail camera to?
Posted 17 May 2012 - 09:05 PM
Yes, we are Puerto Ricans and yes that area does have a large Puerto Rican community. The detectives called my sister-in-law today and they feel this looks more like a hoax than Santeria but they are not sure and still investigating. They feel its a hoax because it has elements of both voodoo and Santeria and looks random/or quickly thrown together. My Father-in-law knew very little English and the wording on the melon were in English not Spanish, this was a little suspicious to us as well. We just feel that someone would not go through all the trouble to take feces and bury it in the dirt or arrange all the fruit and other elements that were left. Yes, the English words look out of place but still very possible to be real and not a hoax.
We thought about a trail camera but the minimum price we saw at our local outdoor store was $200. That is just a little too expensive right now to risk it being lost, broken or stolen. There are no close by trees anyway, the tombstone is right out in an open area. We have been making more random trips over to the grave site and so far nothing.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the white powder you can see in the new photo is a mix of sugar and flour and that stuff was all over under the cat food.
Posted 18 May 2012 - 05:08 PM
Posted 18 May 2012 - 05:26 PM
Generally "Penta" represents a 5-sided figure; a "Pentacle". If used upside down, it's associated with "Black Mass Rites" etc, which is the opposite of the "Lordly"; as you say your late Father-In-Law was a devout Pentecostal. (could related that with the "unlordly" that was carved on the melon)
The "Pentacle" is also typically associated with the "Wicca" Cult (though not the upside down version).
Judes could be related to Judas, who betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Though Jude can be a nickname too. (remember the song "hey jude?")
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Blueberry Sour Cream Ice Cream
From Baking: From My Home to Yours, by Dorie Greenspan
Chosen by Dolores of Chronicles in Culinary Curiosity.
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Oh my gosh that looks amazing! The color is outstanding and it look sosooo creamy!
Cheating schmeating... I only call it fabulous! The color of this ice cream is what really strikes me and although I've read some mixed reviews on the flavor from other TWD, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I do have to say that the cherry sour cream flavor you thought of making sounds wonderful too! :)
Well whenever it was made I bet it was tasty! And the cherry version sounds like it would be great.
Whenever you made it, it still counts. And, it looks gorgeous, too! That color is so dreamy. Wish I could find and eyeshadow to match! ;)
It seems like a lot of people had sour cream issues, good to keep in mind for those of us who didn't make it.
It's only cheating if you stole someone else's pictures! Of course, I made mine about three weeks ago as well....
No cheating allowed. haha. Just teasing. You made it early. Nothing wrong with that! Better than my slacker butt. Love that glass dish. Great job!
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Looks great!
I loved the sour cream taste so yours probably would taste really good to me!! Looks great.
Nah not cheating just being prepared! Good for you! Your ice cream looks delicious!
coincidentally, it looks fabulous against the color of your blog's background!
Oooh. CHERRY sour cream ice cream. Yum!
Your pictures are beautiful!
Cherry sour cream? That's another flavor I can get behind. Sounds delicious.
That looks really nice! I love the color!
Now, CHERRY sour cream ... why didn't Dorie think of that?
Who's cheating? Not you! I love your photos; so cold and frosty looking! I'm glad you liked it.
The Dogs Eat the Crumbs
Who cares when you made it? You did it, right? It definitely counts. Looks fab!
Another inspiring flavor change. I'd love to try this with cherries.
Beautiful pictures. Cherry hmmm. yummy!


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Grave Stones
Posted 04 December 2003 - 07:36 AM
not seen it in either Mn, Tenn, NY or Tx and was just wondering why they did it? Was it a significant fact to the person buried there...is it California snobbery that the cad buried under the oak was a native of Maine? Curiously, this custom of identifying a non-native Californian was more popular in the mid-19th Century to the early 20th and I just don't get it.
I'd say maybe the gold rush, but San Francisco's like 220 miles away
Posted 04 December 2003 - 10:29 AM
ALTHOUGH... i do seem to remember old old cemetaries in colorado (near ghost towns or old mining towns that migrated away from the original cemetary and settlement) that had very INFORMATIVE tombstones. those of which i speak are probably contemporary with the ones near SF.
it seems that pre-1890s tombstones go so far as to list family of the deceased (son or daughter of... mother or father of...), manner of death (consumption is common... i've even seen some that read "died of grief"), of course military rank or public office (more common - even now) and sometimes an occupation or achievement. post 1890 it seems that only people of standing had that much on their stone, or at least it's not as popular these days to have a paragraph of info on your headstone.
do you think this might have been the case?
Posted 04 December 2003 - 10:52 AM
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OH! AND, before the civil war (1865), people did not necessarily have an allegiance to the United States of America, because there was no such thing, so an allegiance to their state or foreign country was strong.
HUH? *repeatedly thumps his head on a history book in frustration and vows to give up trying to teach history* [smiley=cwm36.gif]
Posted 04 December 2003 - 02:02 PM
I think most likely that since the country was still young, and there were still many unsettled areas (by whites, at least), that MANY people were from other places than where they died. So, their relatives placed their origins on the tombstones to commemorate their roots.
Posted 04 December 2003 - 03:28 PM
about a Pioneer Cemetary in Tehachepi, so maybe I can see if
there are any similarities when I go up there. I have seen family relations though, in fact they're still done at least
if you mean a commemoration like "Beloved father, husband and brother"?
Bridget...um, the Declaration of Independence referred to this then fledgling nation as "These United States". What I didn't know until a month or so ago is that California was a Union state,in fact Alcatraz was a Union fort and gunboats
patrolled the bay of San Francisco, guarding against attack by Johnny Reb.
Mastermind, That is probably the best explanation, that descendants can remember their roots*snickers*maybe so their granddaughters wouldn't bob their heads from side to side when they talk.
Flyingorb, stop that, you'll hurt that History book [smiley=cwm27.gif]
Posted 04 December 2003 - 03:47 PM
yeah, the headstones in CO that i mentioned were really bizarre. some of the most morbid, actually. i'm talking little children's graves with sculpted dead doves on top. ugh.
one of them said something like "jane doe, devoted and most wonderful daughter, aged five years, died april 1, 18something, of a most wretched bout of consumption - lord keep and rest your beautiful soul". really very poetic!
Posted 04 December 2003 - 04:33 PM
Flyingorb, stop that, you'll hurt that History book
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Hey, BTW flyingorb, did you know that your avatar is missing?
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Category: Start / Ensembles/Performers/Associations/Societies / Winds - Recorder (solo/consort/orchestra)
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"The Atlanta Recorder Society's mission is to promote recorder playing in the metro Atlanta area through information about upcoming events,opportunites for group playing, connecting recorder players in the area, concerts, workshops and other opportunities. " See website for more information. (ed.)
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"The Austin Chapter of the American Recorder Society has been in existence since 1959, when Natalie and Don Morgan founded it. The chapter has over 30 members as of the 2007-08 season. Membership is open to all who play or enjoy the recorder; annual dues of $15 are requested for local membership, and you are encouraged to join the national ARS organization as well. "
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"Our consort enjoys making our own live music with recorders.
The consort meets weekly throughout the year. We play recorders ranging from the sopranino to the contrabass. Our extensive library includes music from medieval times to the present. The consort is available to play for special occasions." Visit site for more information. (ed.)
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"Hello and welcome to the Buffalo Recorder Society. We are a group who share the love of playing the recorder. Our group meets the 2nd and 4th Monday at Allen Hall at the University of Buffalo Main Street campus. Our Music Director is Miranda Giangrosso. The BRS is a chapter member of the American Recorder Society."
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"The Colorado Recorder Orchestra was formed in summer 2004, and had its debut performance at the Early Music Colorado "Fall Festival of Early Music" in October, 2004. In 2005 and 2006 there have been many performances in the Denver area and surrounding communities, and an appearance at the EMC "Fall Festival of Early Music" in October 2005.
The orchestra was organized by leaders from three Colorado chapters of the American Recorder Society who have formed the governing board for the orchestra. The goal was to provide a challenging musical adventure for more advanced recorder players. When first organized, the ensemble was called, "Front Range Recorder Orchestra." This has been changed to Colorado Recorder Orchestra, since it is the only one in the state. The director of the Colorado Recorder Orchestra is Rose Marie Terada. The group is made up of volunteers. Players, board members, and the director all volunteer their time for the recorder orchestra. .."
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"Originally from Israel, now based in New York, recorder player Daphna Mor began her music studies at the age of eight. Ms. Mor has been seen in performances throughout Europe, Israel and the United States both as a soloist and as ensemble/band member. Awards and performances include solo recitals in Germany, Croatia and Switzerland; Orchestra member with the New York Philharmonic (Alan Gilbert, Conductor) and with City Opera, Lincoln Center, NY; Solo recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts and Trinity Church, New York; Soloist with The New York Collegium, (Andrew Parrot, conductor); Guest Appearances with Piffaro- the Renaissance Band, Monteverdi Vespers with Washington Bach Ensemble (Harry Christophers-conductor); First Prize in the Settimane Musicali de Lugano Solo Competition; Twice the winner of the Boston Conservatory Concerto Competition 1996, 2000, Boston; As a band member In World Music, Ms. Mor has appeared on prestigious stages as Summer Stage-Central Park ,NY; Teatro Manzoni, Milano; Gesteig, Munich; and in festivals and halls all over the United States, Canada, Poland, Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Greece, Italy, Spain and Israel. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Desert Pipes is the Phoenix Chapter of the ARS. We currently have around two dozen members of all ages. Chapter activities include monthly meetings and rehearsals. We also sponsor workshops given by leading recorder teachers including the Farallon Quartet, Letitia Berlin, Vicki Boeckman, and the Wood 'n' Flutes trio. Our repertoire for monthly playing sessions is generally Renaissance and early Baroque music at an intermediate level, but we have resources for players of all levels of ability. Membership fee is $50 per year for members of the American Recorder Society and $60 for others, or $5 per meeting for part-year residents or drop-ins. Many of our members have their own performing groups, so it is a great opportunity for networking with fellow musicians. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The East Bay Recorder Society is an association of recorder enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay area. Recorder players from low intermediate to advanced levels are invited to join to play music together and to learn more about the recorder. Membership activities include the following:
- Monthly playing meetings September through June featuring professional conductors.
- Music in advance upon request (additional fee)
- Breakout sessions to rehearse selected piences with a conductor before joining the entire group.
- Monthly newsletter September through June
- Sponsored workshops, including a weekend in May at the Marin Headlands, featuring large group, special-interest and low-intermediate sessions with ten professional conductors
- Viols and soft double reeds also welcome
- Opportunities to perform before a supportive audience of chapter members at the Autumn Salon and Spring Members Recital.
- Members' directory, Twelfth Night Party and Summer Play-in and Picnic "
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"The Farallon Recorder Quartet gives inspiring performances of a vast and varied repertoire extending across time and genre. Bach and Gershwin, Ockeghem and Serocki; sedate, wild, sublime, Farallon Recorder Quartet does it all with style, reaching out to modern audiences in an accessible and exciting manner. Farallon's debut CD, a collection of sacred and secular works by the 16th century composer Ludwig Senfl, was released in 2005. The Farallon Recorder Quartet performs on numerous types of recorder from Medieval to modern, from sopranino to contrabass, from 6 inches to 6 feet tall. While devoting much of their concert programs to Renaissance and Baroque music, Farallon Recorder Quartet is also active in performing 20th and 21st century music, both well established works, and newly composed pieces, some of which have been written for the ensemble.
Members of Farallon: Letitia Berlin, Louise Carslake, Annette Bauer, Frances Blaker …"
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"One of the leading exponents of the recorder in the United States, Judith Linsenberg has been hailed for her "virtuosity" (Washington Post), "expressivity" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), "fearless playing" (SF Classical Voice), and combination of "masterly control with risk-taking spontaneity" (Early Music). She has performed extensively throughout the US and Europe, including solo appearances at the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center; and has been featured with such leading American ensembles as the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera Center, the Los Angeles Opera, the LA Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, the Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles Baroque Orchestras, the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, the Oregon and Carmel Bach Festivals, Musica Sacra of New York, Musica Angelica of Los Angeles, and others. She is the winner of national performance awards, and has premiered several pieces for the recorder, including a new work commissioned by her and, in March 2002 in Los Angeles, the US premiere of Vivaldi's recorder concerto, RV 312R.
Ms. Linsenberg is the director of the Baroque ensemble, Musica Pacifica, whose performances and seven recordings on the Virgin Classics and Dorian labels have received international acclaim ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The Los Angeles Recorder Orchestra is one of a growing number of recorder orchestras that have sprung up in Europe and around the United States in recent years. LARO was founded in the summer of 2004, and is made up of thirty-six recorder players from all around Southern California. The group plays compositions ranging from the Renaissance period to the 20th century, arranged for sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, great bass, contrabass and sub great bass recorders. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra was founded on the premise that joining with others to make music is a pleasurable and personally rewarding experience. Because of its relatively large size, the enthusiasm of its membership and its diverse activities, the MPRO has something to offer those who play early instruments at any level. An American Recorder Society Consort, it is responsive to the needs of its members, and, with their input, creates programs and sets musical priorities tailored to their requirements. Membership is open without audition to anyone who knows the basics of an early instrument and can read and play the music provided at meetings. " See website for more information. (ed.)
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"The Monterey Bay Recorder Society, founded in 1982, is a chapter of the American Recorder Society and an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society.
Our interest is in the recorder and its music, with an emphasis on early music. Our purpose is to enjoy the social and musical pleasures of ensemble playing using recorder, krummhorns, viols, voices, harpsichord and other appropriate instruments. " See website for more information. (ed.)
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"The New Amsterdam Recorder Trio (NewART) performs medieval, renaissance, baroque and modern music, as well as arrangements of traditional/world music, and their collection of instruments numbers more than two dozen recorders from makers around the world. In its short lifetime, the trio has developed an extremely eager and devoted following, appearing in performances throughout the New York tri-state area, including concerts with the world-renowned Flanders Recorder Quartet in both 2003 and 2004. The ensemble received very strong recommendations in the 2003 Concert Artists Guild competition, and their concerts have gained both local and national acclaim. A demo CD recorded in October 2002 has been enthusiastically received by listeners. In 2004 they were featured in the inaugural New York Early Music Celebration, and appeared in concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Nina Stern is one of North America's leading performers of the recorder and classical clarinet. In recent years she is also hailed as an innovator in teaching school-age children to be fine young musicians. A native New Yorker, Ms. Stern studied with Jeanette van Wingerden and Hans-Rudolf Stalder at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, where she received a Soloist's Degree. From Basel, she moved to Milan, Italy where she was offered a teaching position at the Civica Scuola di Musica. Ms. Stern performs regularly as soloist or principal player with prestigious ensembles such as The New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, The New York Collegium, Concert Royal, Philharmonia Baroque, Sinfonia NY, American Classical Orchestra and Boston Baroque, She has also appeared as principal player with Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, L'Orchestra della Scala (Milan), I Solisti Veneti, Hesperion XX and Tafelmusik. Her numerous festival and concert series appearances have included performances under leading conductors such as Loren Maazel, Kurt Masur, Christopher Hogwood, Trevor Pinnock, Claudio Scimone, Jane Glover, Bruno Weil, Ton Koopman, Andrew Parrot and Jordi Savall. She has recorded for Erato, Harmonia Mundi, Sony Classics, Newport Classics, Wildboar, Telarc and Smithsonian labels. Nina Stern's latest projects include performances of traditional music of Eastern Europe and The Middle East. She recently released an album of world music entitled "East of the River".
Ms. Stern is currently on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music where she directed the Historical Performance Program from 1989 to 1996. She has taught at the Five Colleges in Western Massachusetts and was twice a Visiting Professor at Oberlin Conservatory. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"If you play recorder or an early musical instrument, we invite you to join us on the second Friday of each month September through June at 7:30 p.m. Each meeting is preceded by a prelude performed by members at 7:20. We meet at Trinity Episcopal Church, 2400 Canal Street in Orange. Our meetings are playing sessions conducted by professional musicians. All size recorders and all playing levels may attend. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Sharing the joy of music among recorder players and friends of the recorder through monthly playing sessions, performance opportunies, an annual workshop, and outreach to the community
The Portland Recorder Society meets the third Friday of each month September through May with the exception of March, 2009 when the monthly meeting will be replaced with a special workshop. Check the column to the right for specific dates.
Meetings are held at the
Kennedy School Community Room
5736 NE 33rd. Ave., Portland, OR
Vicki Boeckman is the Music Director for the 2008-09 season. Guest Conductors for the season include Eileen Hadidian, Kim Pineda, and Phil and Gail Neuman. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"I am a professional recorder player and teacher, based on Long Island, New York, USA. I'm actually originally from England, but this is now home. I am a founding member of two prominent ensembles: the New Amsterdam Recorder Trio (NewART) and Sympatica. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Since October 2006, Recorder Haven has been on the internet in the form of a discussion forum. From just a few members during the first week of its existence, the forum has grown steadily each year to 300+ registered members, plus hundreds of additional visitors every week. We are still growing every month.
If you have not seen our forum yet, you can visit by clicking here. Our membership is quite diverse, varying from professional recorder players to amateurs, from recorder teachers to individuals that are just starting out. Why not become a member today?
On our brand new home-page you will find articles, featured recorder books, a list of recorder societies, lists of teachers in your area, and lots more. We have also added a modest store where you can find items available for purchase.
Whatever your motivation for being here, we hope that you will enjoy your stay and take advantage of what is offered on the website.
Thank you for visiting, and welcome!"
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"We are a non-profit, volunteer ensemble of recorder players that play major works written for all types of ensembles, including pieces that were composed specifically for the recorder orchestra.
Our repertoire includes selections ranging from the Medieval period to the 20th century, including premieres of original works for the recorder orchestra. " Visit website for more information. (ed)
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"Recorders/Early Music MetroWest was founded in 1999 as BRS-West (a satellite program of the Boston Recorder Society) to encourage consort playing and musician development in Boston's western suburbs. Now an independent organization and a chapter of the American Recorder Society in our own right, we have completed eight successful seasons, averaging 45-50 players each month, with four or five coaches on hand at most meetings. Our members range in age from 17 to 70, and come from communities in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Central Massachusetts as well as the metroBoston area. Now we begin our ninth season serving the early music community in the greater Metropolitan Boston area. " See website for more information. (ed.)
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The Rio Grande Recorders are a group of music enthusiasts in the Las Cruces, NM and El Paso, TX areas, who get together several times a month to play a wide variety of music. Our main meeting is on the second Thursday of every month at Good Samaritan Village in Las Cruces—entrance on Buena Vida—from 7:00-9:00 PM.
We are a chapter of the American Recorder Society . Performances include music from the renaissance and baroque periods, as well as a variety of other music.
Chapter activities include:
- Semi-monthly meetings/rehearsals, where we play music including rennaissance, baroque, and a variety of other types of music.
- Concerts throughout the year, including performances at the Good Samaritan Society and Las Cruces RenFaire in November.
- Bi-annual week-end early music workshop for recorders and violas de gamba, featuring classes from professional, nationally-known musicians.
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"The Sacramento Recorder Society is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. It is a chapter of the American Recorder Society and an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society. We welcome recorder players of all ages and abilities as well as players of other early music instruments such as lutes, viols, sackbuts, shawms, curtals, krummhorns, and percussion. Beginners are urged to study privately to learn fingerings and become comfortable reading music before joining the recorder orchestra.
We meet monthly September through June, from 6:45-10:00 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month, at the Friends Meeting House, 890 57th St., between H and J. Most of our meetings are conducted by a professional early music specialist who teaches recorder technique and relevant music history and theory while exploring music of many eras.
Many of our members also play in smaller groups in members' homes during the rest of the month, and these consorts are encouraged to play at our June concert. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"A chapter of the national organization, the American Recorder Society, the San Diego County Recorder Society (SDCRS) has been in existence since 1972. A membership organization, SDCRS supports the recreational playing and performance of recorders and other early music instruments.
SDCRS meets monthly to play ensemble music from medieval to 20th century with professional conductors. Our monthly chapter meetings are held in the afternoon on the third Saturday (usually) of the month from September through June.
Recorder players of all skill levels are invited to attend. All players are invited to attend at warm-up session from 1:00 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.; then all players will be instructed by our guest conductor from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Recorder players, at all levels, are welcome to play at our monthly meetings; please bring your own music stand. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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About Me
- Rebecca L. Brown
- Rebecca L. Brown (25) is a British writer currently based in Cardiff, South Wales where she lives with her partner and assorted menagerie. She has recently returned to writing medium-length, short and flash fiction pieces (including micro-fiction), after a short break which felt considerably longer than it was. Rebecca specialises in horror, SF, humour, surreal and experimental fiction, although her writing often wanders off into other genres and gets horribly lost. More updates and examples of Rebecca's work can be found on her Twitter page @rlbrownwriter
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
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RIAA Thinking Of Backing Righthaven
from the can-they-get-any-more-out-of-touch dept
And that's what has the RIAA scared.
In particular, the RIAA is freaked out about a couple of rulings saying that even reposting full articles can be fair use. That has the RIAA shaking, because the big labels hate the concept of fair use. The major labels are still upset at the idea that the Campbell vs. Acuff-Rose ruling means that commercial use can still be fair use. And they love the the Bridgeport Music ruling that wasn't about fair use, per se, but did take away de minimis use, saying "Get a license or do not sample."
So, now the RIAA is realizing that Righthaven -- and in particular the Hoehn ruling, which lays out in great detail why the full use of a copyrighted offering can still be fair use -- is suddenly an important battlefront in its war on fair use. Just having the line from the case "wholesale copying does not preclude a finding of fair use" freaks the RIAA out.
So we've now seen that RIAA's chief
"From our perspective, that just can't stand."That certainly suggests that the RIAA is thinking of inserting itself into the appeals process here. Probably with an amicus brief, but it makes you wonder if they won't also consider figuring out ways to fund Righthaven to keep it afloat. There are already quite reasonable concerns that the company is effectively insolvent due to all the legal fees it owes to those it has sued. Either way, when you're at the level where you're joining forces with Righthaven, you've really hit the bottom of the barrel.


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Kotoura-San Discussions
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A school love comedy. Kotoura Haruka is a 15-year-old girl who can read people's minds. She has been suffering from troubles caused by her mind-reading ability, and her parents got divorced as a result. She moves to a new high school but tries to keep away from her classmates. Manabe Yoshihisa, one of her classmates, accepts and appreciates her ability and she begins to interact with her friends with his help.
Characters & Voice Actors
Kotoura, Haruka - Kanemoto, Hisako
Manabe, Yoshihisa - Fukushima, Jun
Mifune, Yuriko - Hanazawa, Kana
Moritani, Hiyori - Kubo, Yurika
Other Information
Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Currently Airing
Aired: Jan 11, 2013 to ?
Genres:Comedy, Romance, School
First Impressions
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its cute
wonder how long till she gets nose bleeds from his pervy mind
this anime raped 95% of every anime this season with that pilot episode
His Holiness Optimus Maximus Decimus Meridius Colossus Nemesis Nexus Genesis
I am glad CR got this.I think it has lot of potential.
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The opening was one of the saddest ever.Then it got funny and hopeful.
"In Your Face" Shirase Kobuchizawa (A Place Further Than The Universe)
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This anime started out rough and I wanted to kill the characters around her. But glad that Manabe treats her and her ESP very well knowing about her gift
This series is blazing hot on my radar now, and could be my pick for Best series of the Winter 2013 Simulcast :)
Link to my Spoiler review
Super start! It could have been too depressing or too happy, but it wasn't. It had just the right amount of emotional punch for me, mostly because it treated Kotoura's gift with sensitivity and realism (paradoxical as that sounds!). I'm confident that the series will turn out well!
Was going to do a first impressions video on this but I might not, so here is my opinion of it.
The start...whoaa just WOW but after the watching the OP I was like oh this is going to have manga symbolism and very silly etc.
When after watch the start thought it would be a series tone anime, but after meeting Manabe who I thought was quite funny I actually started to like it and I agree that this could be one to watch of Winter 2013, I will defiantly watch the next episode and I hope it still has the serious elements even though it's a comedy.
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Superb story line. I really liked how they started off by showing her suffering, and then he came swooping in. Havent watched too many romance animes, but even so i can tell this one started out really good.
If I don't have to do it, I won't. If I have to do it, I'll make it quick.
It was so fucking sad at the start, it made me cry. And then I cried some more when it turned around and was light-hearted and sweet. I kept hoping for "Another"-style deaths for the mom and that old hag that stole her kitten.
God, what an emotional roller coaster that was... 20/10 stars!
And I just noticed that Hanazawa Kana is in it! 25/10 stars! lol
Poi is the new Desu!
Well, that was surprising. This show was completely off my radar. I knew about it, but didn't think anything of it. I was just off from work today and figured, "why not?" and gave it a shot. I really enjoyed the episode way more than I ever expected. So far it's my favorite opening episode of the new season. Hope it keeps it up and stays good all the way through. It could potentially be my pick for the winter season.
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Well, that was surprising. This show was completely off my radar. I knew about it, but didn't think anything of it. I was just off from work today and figured, "why not?" and gave it a shot. I really enjoyed the episode way more than I ever expected. So far it's my favorite opening episode of the new season. Hope it keeps it up and stays good all the way through. It could potentially be my pick for the winter season.
Haha yea i had that feeling aswell. The title and pictures on the web didnt interest me one bit. Glad i didnt skip out on it though.
If I don't have to do it, I won't. If I have to do it, I'll make it quick.
It was so intense at the beginning. I needed to cry but then the sudden switch to the opening... Wow... It seems way different that the first 10 minutes... I feel sorry for her... I wanted to punch all of the b*tches in Kotoura's life...
Feeling too lazy to go after Nico atm... :( ill try later on...
This show is amazing! I had low expectations of it because the pictures, the description and the fact that it is based on a 4-koma manga didn't really make it stand out. But after I watched the first episode I thought "wow!". I actually cried during the episode and that doesn't happen often. The show really knows how to bring over emotions. This might be the best series of the season.
First impressions
This series surprised me completely and that sad start and especially how the mother even said "I wish I didn't give birth to you" really was a shocker. I love how they made this episode contrast so much, and I must say that this series is worth sticking to definitely.
Check out my first impressions if you like
Surprisingly good, and nice to see so many positive reviews. First episode was really powerful, the first eight minutes nearly had me slitting my wrists, but then it turned into a light hearted comedy. If it stays this strong could well be the best show of the Winter season.


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Three Races, Three Different Winners, Carroll Stands Above All In Porto Rotondo at 2013 Melges 32 World Championship
20 September 2013
Porto Rotondo, Italy - Light winds, relatively calm seas and bright Italian sunshine enabled PRO Hank Stuart, with impeccable Race Committee support provided by Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) to fire off three races on Friday. Each race presented a unique winner, making for a total of four complete at the 2013 Melges 32 World Championship, hosted by the Yacht Club Porto Rotondo (YCPR) in coordination with B.Plan Sports & Events (BPSE) and Melges Europe.
In the overall lead, ahead by six points, is American Jason Carroll and tactician Cameron Appleton along with their Argo team over Vincenzo Onorato's Mascalzone Latino in second place with Gabriele Benussi on tactics. Japan's Naofumi Kamei aboard Mamma Aiuto! with tactician Manuel Weiller are now third. Carroll is the only Melges 32 thus far to maintain a solid single-digit scoreline hence his tip top of the chart position.
Racing commenced on time with Onorato seeing his way across the finish line for first in Race Two of the series, chased by Keisuke Suzuki on Swing in second. Audi Sailing Series Gaeta Champion Valentin Zavadnikov, on Synergy GT took third.
Onorato strived to deliver yet another amazing performance in Race Three, however it was Kamei who commanded the fleet. Although quite strong, neither went without stiff competition from Mauro Mocchegiani's Audi Ultra who grabbed second place honors. Onorato settled for third. Lanfranco Cirillo's Fantastica had a great race to finish fourth, and Deneen Demourkas on Groovederci came fifth.
The light air conditions continued as the last and final race of the day got underway a little past 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Germany's Wolfgang Stolz on Opus One claimed his first bullet of the Championship, while Carroll improved his overall score with a second place finish. Andrea Pozzi on Bombarda came third.
Racing will continue on Saturday with a warning at 11.00. Very similar, if not identical conditions as today are expected. If three races are held, a discard goes into play after sixth, which may change the top ten standings dramatically.
TOP TEN RESULTS (After Four Races)
1.) Jason Carroll/Cameron Appleton, ARGO; 5-4-6-2 = 17
2.) Vincenzo Onorato/Gabriele Benussi, Mascalzone Latino; 8-1-3-11 = 23
3.) Naofumi Kamei/Manuel Weiller, Mamma Aiuto!; 7-9-1-8 = 25
4.) Andrea Pozzi/Lorenzo Bressani, Bombarda; 2-21-8-3 = 34
5.) Alessandro Rombelli/Paul Goodison, Azimut by STIG; 4-8-9-13 = 34
6.) Valentin Zavadnikov/ Michele Ivaldi, Synergy GT; 11-3-20-5 = 39
7.) Keisuke Suzuki/Chris Nicolson, Swing; 10-2-7-21 = 40
8.) Deneen Demourkas/Francesco Bruni, Groovederci; 6-20-5-9 = 40
9.) Filippo Pacinotti/Nathan Wilmot, Brontolo HH; 3-24-16-7 = 50
10.) Malcolm Gefter/Steve Hunt, Celeritas; 16-5-17-12 = 50
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The 2013 Melges 32 World Championship is hosted by the prestigious Yacht Club Porto Rotondo (YCPR) in coordination with Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS), B.Plan Sports & Events (BPSE), Melges Europe and Melges USA.
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Lipscomb's Lady Bisons basketball team picked up their first victory of the season Sunday with a 65-60 victory over Birmingham-Southern at the Sheraton Roundball Classic in Birmingham , Ala.
The Lady Bisons were led by Courtney Boynton with 15 points, seven rebounds, a game-high seven assists and six steals.
Boynton was named to the All-Tournament Team.
Lindsay Daly scored 14 points and Dana Carrigan added 12.
Katie Beth Pate had her best game of the season pulling down a game-high 12 rebounds. She also scored five points.
Lipscomb out-rebounded Birmingham-Southern 41-40, marking the third time in as many games the Lady Bisons have held the advantage on the boards.
The Lady Bisons, shooting 42 percent from the field, led 32-26 at halftime. With nine minutes left in the game they held a 55-41 lead, their largest advantage of the game.
But Birmingham-Southern fought back, narrowing the gap at the end.
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Soliciting bids from contractors and suppliers is a function as old as the commercial construction industry. Over time, many building industry technology developers have emerged to automate the bid solicitation process. Those responsible for the procurement function now have a choice of many best-of-breed bid solicitation systems, as well as specialty modules offered within existing construction suites. We wrote this guide to help buyers understand their bid invitation software options.
Here's what we'll cover:
What Is Bid Management Software?
What Type of Buyer Are You?
Benefits and Potential Issues
In most construction organizations, bid solicitation is a largely manual process that involves email, spreadsheets, faxes and phone calls. There is little automation outside of Microsoft Outlook or similar personal productivity tools. This specialized technology streamlines the bidding process with tools for managing contact, requesting proposals, purchasing and managing and organizing contracts.
A full-featured bid management system will typically include the following features:
|Contact management
|Enables the tracking of all contacts and communications between organizations and contractors and suppliers.
|Custom form builder
|Allows users to build custom bid forms.
|Project calendar
|Enables the tracking of all of an organization's past, present and future projects.
|Subcontractor portal
|Enables subcontractors to view upcoming projects, view information about project insurance and more.
|Communication template library
|Allows users to customize emails and other forms of communication between the organization and contractors and suppliers.
Other features can include:
Bidding programs for construction are available as both on-premises and SaaS solutions, although the general trends seems to be toward SaaS systems.
Before you dive into the details of various bidding oversight and productivity systems, you will want to identify yourself with one of the buyer types we've detailed below.
Procurement buyer. This category of buyer is highly specialized in procurement processes and demands sophisticated functionality. Their firm prioritizes cost control and efficient procurement processes, and is therefore focused intently on sophisticated functionality. These buyers will typically seek top best-of-breed construction bid management software systems.
Project manager. This type of buyer works at a firm where procurement is managed from within the project managing function. These project managers are responsible for selecting suppliers and subcontractors and it therefore makes sense to use bidding technology modules offered within the firm's project system, rather than implement a separate bidding manager system.
General estimator. This buyer works in the estimating function at a firm that places procurement responsibility within the estimating department. The estimator is primarily focused on getting high-level pricing from subs, and then comparing those bids. As such, these buyers prefer to use the basic solicitation tracking and management functionality available within commercial estimating systems.
Integrated suite buyer. This type of buyer values integration of data and processes across the firm, even if it means forgoing some specialized procurement functionality. This buyer is more likely to make use of the procurement modules available within their accounting or enterprise resource planning system.
The bidding technology vendor landscape is less complex than many other construction markets. Best-of-breed products include eBid eXchange, SmartBidNet, and Pipeline Suite. Some project management software companies, such as Procore, Prolog and HeadsUp, also offer feature-rich bidding applications that can be purchased on a standalone basis. Finally, construction estimating and accounting suites will offer procurement functionality to varying degrees.
Here are some of the benefits realized from successfully adopting modern, top-rated construction technology solutions. The best bidding software construction companies can implement will yield all of the below benefits.
Improved efficiency. Traditional bid-solicitation processes are fraught with error and require substantial time and expense to execute. By automating the process with project managing technology, there can be a substantial reduction in errors, printing costs and labor.
Better estimates and visibility. Bid builder software can produce more effective procurement processes and in turn, provide a company with better data as they develop estimates for their clients. Moreover, they will gain better visibility into costs throughout the project by holding suppliers accountable to their bids.
Lower costs. The best bidding system will establish highly effective procurement processes that lower costs substantially. By soliciting more bids and creating a more professional, competitive process, buyers will lower their cost of materials and subcontractors.
Perhaps the biggest challenge with these kind of implementations is adoption. Even if internal users adopt the invitation to bid software, it can be difficult to get suppliers to respond to the new model of submitting their bids or RFP responses. Overcoming these issues may require mandating use of the system. Contractors should consider whether they have enough leverage with subcontractors and suppliers to make such a mandate. Properly implemented, these solutions can be the best project bidding tool money can buy. But shoppers should checkout bid software reviews, demos and pricing before making any final decisions.
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Topic: New bird, Help with name?
Hey there,
I'm getting my new white faced cockatiel in a few days and I need help with a name! I'm not sure if it's a boy or girl yet so names of both genders would be appreciated. Also I know a lot of people are going to suggest I name it Boba or Jango, but I already have two betta fish named Boba Fish and Jango Fish (haha, I'm such a dork ). Anyhow, looking for something really unique, preferably not an average human name (no bobs or jills) Doesn't have to be a Star Wars name but I'll consider anything.


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More than 250 billion liters of alcoholic drinks were consumed around the world in 2012, higher than the previous year, according to market research firm Euromonitor. This shows that a global economic slowdown hasn't had much impact on this resilient market as people continue to turn to alcohol in good times and bad.
We have compiled a list of the top 10 countries in the world with the highest average per capita alcohol consumption last year, based on data from Euromonitor. The data takes into account all alcoholic drinks consumed by legal age drinkers including pre-mixes, wine, beer and spirits.
The list includes some mature markets, countries known for their drinking culture, but also some surprising new entrants. It tells you who are the beer guzzlers and where wine is the preferred poison.
Click ahead for more fascinating details.
By Rajeshni Naidu-Ghelani
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Sunday, 5 October 2008
Rheinish apple tart
I adore apples and there's something about the first chills of Autumn that make me want them more than ever. I saw this beautiful tart on PG's lovely site Kitchen Stories and knew I had to make it. I made a couple of very minor tweaks to the recipe but if you want to see the original check out PG's site.
This tart is proof that sometimes all you need are a few classic ingredients to create magic! The smell of the apple and cinnamon baking was warm and inviting and it took all my powers of self control not to attack the tart as soon as it came from the oven.
The CCD (Caked Crusader's Da) said that this was his favourite thing I had ever made and he gave it his top award. When I queried what his top award was he explained that it was "five stars"...alas, there was no cash prize or trophy accompanying it.
The apples are so juicy in their sugar and cinnamon coating. When the tart bakes the juice and sugar makes an almost toffee sauce which adds a wonderful depth to the flavour. Surprisingly, the sauce didn't make the pastry soggy.
Just look at how juicy the apples are, and how each is coated in cinnamon and sugar:
I always leave pastry overhanging the tin when I bake a tart – what I loved about this pastry was that it naturally trimmed itself while baking i.e. the excess neatly dropped off giving a nice clean edge as well as a tasty treat for me (mmmmm, bonus pastry)! On its own the pastry is quite sweet; it's important to use a tart eating apple to balance this.
I served the tart at room temperature with clotted cream:
For the pastry:
300g plain flour
200g unsalted butter
100g caster sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
For the filling:
6-7 tart eating apples (I used Granny Smith)
100g sultanas
60g caster sugar (I used golden caster sugar)
2 teaspoons cinnamon
How to make:
- Put all the ingredients for the pastry in a food processor and whizz together until a soft ball of dough is formed.
- Roll the pastry out between two sheets of baking paper and use to line a 23cm loose bottomed flan tin. No need to grease this, as the pastry is rich and buttery enough. Leave any excess pastry hanging over the edge of the flan tin (it's always best to leave trimming the pastry until after you have blind baked it).
- Leave to chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan oven 180°C/400°F/Gas mark 6.
- Peel, core and slice the apples and put them into a large bowl.
- Cover with the sugar and cinnamon and toss well to ensure that all the apples are covered.
- Take the pastry case from the fridge and scatter some of the sultanas over the base.
- Start to fill the tart with the apples. I went for a concentric circles approach to ensure the tart was well packed.
- Scatter the remaining sultanas evenly over the layers of apple.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes and then leave to cool on a wire rack.
- If necessary, trim the pastry – I didn't need to do this as I found it dropped off while baking!
- Serve either warm with custard or ice cream, or at room temperature with clotted cream.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.
16 comments:
- trashalou said...
Mmmmmm... that looks verrrrrry good. I have a jar of cinnamon sugar lurking in the ciupboard begging to be used. I shall make this forthwith this week. Thanks.
- 5 October 2008 at 19:36
- Carolyn said...
Yes, that looks absolutely delish. I will definitely be giving it a try.
- 5 October 2008 at 19:55
- PG said...
Your version looks so delicious. I could almost smell the tart through your description! Mouthwatering!
I'm happy that you liked it. :)
- 5 October 2008 at 20:58
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Ooooh, yum - look at all those fabulous apples! That's my kind of pie. I like my fruit pies to contain loads of fruit, not to be all pastry, so this one is right up my street.
- 6 October 2008 at 11:07
- Maria said...
Lovely tart! I am in love with apple desserts right now!
- 6 October 2008 at 21:12
- Lore said...
Autumn is all about apple (and nuts) cakes for me too. The tart looks delicious and addictive!
- 7 October 2008 at 15:08
- Rosie said...
Oh wow T.C.C. this is absolutely gorgeous!! I have so many recipes of yours I want to try out the list grows and grows :)
Rosie x
- 7 October 2008 at 19:09
- BaL said...
Hello CC,
I found your blog while stumbling, and I'm now just attached!
Scrolled down & down lol And finished the whole blog.
So beautifully charming recipes! And a delight to me to see that many recipes containing raspberries-which are my favorite.
I'm tuned ;)
Cheers from Istanbul,
- 7 October 2008 at 21:59
- jen said...
Apple and cinnamon are just a magical combination, aren't they? This looks mouth-wateringly wonderful :-)
- 7 October 2008 at 22:47
Love autumn deserts. Looks amazing!
- 8 October 2008 at 10:18
- Anamika:The Sugarcrafter said...
I really admired your innovation for making few changes and being complimented by your dad...thats great ..i can really imagine how the smell of the apple and cinnamon baking would have been....great work and great post.
- 8 October 2008 at 21:36
- Cakelaw said...
Delicious! The photo of the sice with the clotted cream beside it has me salivating.
- 9 October 2008 at 03:48
- Y said...
That certainly looks like a five star treat. I love how burnished the top of the tart is. Aww.. no award? Not even a pat on the back? :D
- 9 October 2008 at 12:00
- Yasmeen said...
With apples in season, I'm book marking your recipe to try soon:)
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Maybe you do a variation with both the apples and custard fopr your father. That will really take the cake! I love this tarts look.
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I've made this cake a couple of times now but have found it works best if you bake it blind before adding the apples (I baked it blind the first time as I wasn't reading the recipe properly and it was the same pastry as the lemon tart, which was baked blind too). Either way though, this one's a keeper in our house!
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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.
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 2 GB of physical RAM must be provisioned for VMware ESXi itself (this is to cover ESXi overhead to run VMs; for more details see "Understanding Memory Overhead" on vmware.com).
- 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.
Non-UC VMs and 3rd-party app VMs that will be co-resident with Cisco UC app VMs are 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)
|Unified Communications Manager Business Edition 6000
|Cisco Emergency Responder
| 8.7+: Full
8.0 to 8.6: UC with UC only
|Session Manager Edition
|Intercompany Media Engine
|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
|Cisco Unity
| Full
|Cisco Unified Presence
Contact Center Applications
|UC Application
|Co-residency Support
| Unified Contact Center Express / IP IVR
|Cisco Unified Workforce Optimization (WFO) components (WFM, QM, AQM, CR, etc.)
| Unified Contact Center Enterprise components and deployment models
| Unified Intelligence Center
|Unified Contact Center Management Portal
|Unified Customer Voice Portal (all components)
|Cisco MediaSense
|Cisco SocialMiner
|Cisco Finesse
|Cisco Unified Email Interaction Manager and Web Interaction Manager
TelePresence Applications
|UC Application
|Co-residency Support
|Cisco TelePresence Manager
| Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch
| 1.9.0:
| Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (Cisco VCS)
| The Cisco VCS can co-reside with applications (any other VMs occupying same host) subject to the following conditions:
| Cisco TelePresence Conductor
| The Cisco TelePresence Conductor can co-reside with applications (any other VMs occupying same host) subject to the following conditions:
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 Shared Storage Considerations.
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:
Sizing and Ordering Tools
The suite of tools listed below can assist you with the sizing, configuring and quoting of Cisco Unified Communications solutions on the Unified Computing System.
Cisco Solution Expert
Cisco Solution Expert assists Cisco field and Cisco Unified Communications specialized channel partners in designing and quoting UC on UCS solutions using the Cisco Unified Workspace Licensing or the traditional design model. Solution Expert delivers a Bill of Materials for the Unified Communications software and the UCS B-series Blade Servers and VMWare ordered as Collaboration SKUS.
Netformx DesignXpert
Netformx DesignXpert is a third party application used to design and quote the Cisco Unified Computing System B-series. DesignXpert has two advisor modules that can be used to quote a Unified Communications solution with the Unified Computing System:
- UC Advisor – a designing and quoting solution used to quote Unified Communications software. The UCS B-series Blade Servers and VMWare ordered as Collaboration SKUs can be quoted when ordering separate from the Unified Computing System. Other UCS B-series components must be configured via UCS Advisor below.
- UCS Advisor - a design and quoting solution for all UCS B-series components including Blade Servers ordered as Collaboration or Data Center SKUs, UCS 5100 Blade Server Chassis, UCS 2100 Fabric Extender and UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnect Switch.
Cisco Unified Communications Sizing Tool
Cisco Unified Communications Sizing Tool delivers hardware sizing for complex Enterprise Unified Communications solutions, including Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise. The Sizing Tool delivers the virtual machine requirements for Unified Communications applications on the Unified Computing System platform.
Cisco Configuration Tool
Cisco Configuration Tool (need link here) is part of the suite of Internet Commerce Tools for managing online ordering of Cisco products. It enables you to configure products and view lead times and prices for each selection. The Cisco Configuration Tool, also known as the Dynamic Configuration Tool, is used to configure the Unified Communications products and the B series SKU and VMWare ordered as Collaboration SKUs.
Ordering Guides
Ordering Guides for Unified Communications System 8.x releases are available for Cisco sales, partners, and customers.
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KnowledgeBase 00079: The GENERATE Tool
Historically, programmers on multivalue database products have tended to write applications that reference fields in data records by field number. This leads to statements such as
TREC<91> = CUS<4> * TTBL<8>which are very difficult for anyone who is not an expert on the application to understand, especially when combined with terse variable names as in this example. This can easily lead to programming errors and subsequent high maintenance costs.
A better approach is to use equated token names for each field in much the same way that a database dictionary defines names for use in the query processor. The resulting code is easier to read, understandable by less experienced developers, and less error prone. It also makes it trivial to find all references to a specific field simply by searching for its name.
Although lists of equated token names, preferably in an include record, can be constructed by hand, it is better if these can be created automatically from the corresponding dictionaries, guaranteeing that they cannot differ. The dictionary becomes the reference model of the data for documentation purposes.
The GENERATE Command
The GENERATE command generates a QMBasic include record from a dictionary. The precise action of the command is controlled by a dictionary record named $INCLUDE which is itself created from prompt responses when the GENERATE command is first used. Running the command after every dictionary update ensures that the dictionary and the QMBasic programs remain correctly in step.
The equate tokens created by GENERATE have a user defined prefix which should ideally be based on the filename to aid readability. The prefix is separated from the rest of the token name by a dot. A simple order processing system might use prefixes of C for the customers file, O for the orders file and S for the stock file. More realistic applications would probably need longer prefixes.
The GENERATE command can produce field number tokens for use with dynamic array references or it can equate names to the elements of a specific dimensioned array. Both modes can be used together. It can also produce tokens corresponding to the conversion codes applied to each field.
The small example below relates to a file storing copies of emails sent from within an application.
* BP EMAIL.LOG.H * Generated from DICT EMAIL.LOG at 11:54:47 on 04 Jan 2012 equate EL.DATE to 1 ;* Date equate EL.DATE.CNV to "D2DMYL[,A3]" equate EL.RECIPIENTS to 2 ;* Recipients equate EL.SENDER to 3 ;* Sender equate EL.SUBJECT to 4 ;* Subject equate EL.MESSAGE to 5 ;* Message
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