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By Ed Harris
The Board of Education has voted unanimously to bring its Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) program in-house, a decision that has left some parents worried that the program could face a decline.
The program is currently run by the CapitQal Region Education Council (CREC). Over the course of the last several school board meetings, numerous parents, all sharing stories of how their autistic children have thrived under CREC tutelage, questioned whether the transition would be successful.
"This is an area of huge risk," said Mike Goralski, who noted that his son has shown great improvement under the supervision of CREC.
CREC has worked with the Southington school system for the past 15 years.
Southington School Supt. Dr. Joseph Erardi said that CREC typically comes in, assists and then moves on. Erardi said he was confident that the district could take over the program.
"They've [CREC] held our hands for a long time," he said.
School officials said the program would be phased in and would use the existing CREC program as a model.
Under the change, students currently in the program will keep their CREC advisors, but new students entering the program, as other students move up in grade levels, would instead have advisors from within the district.
Similar proposals to bring the program in-house had come before the board over the years, but those typically called for a town takeover, right from the beginning.
"I sincerely believe we can and will provide the same level of service," said Board of Education member Terri Carmody, echoing the sentiments of the school board.
School board member Colleen Clark said that the district's staff would also be available to parents during after school hours and over the summer, like the CREC representatives are currently.
"I believe that we can do it better," she said.
There was a small moment of contention during the discussion of the proposal, as school officials noted that they were not fully aware of how CREC measured the success of its program and a few school board members questioned how they would measure the success of the new in-house program. Officials said that the Southington measurements would include goals, objectives and feedback with parents.
Bringing the program in house is expected to save the school district $100,000.
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Meet Nahp, a 27-year-old Colombian SuicideGirl who says she loves socks and fruit juice but that taking out the trash and dead animals make her sad.
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Age: 27
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Kotaku commenter Goldwings is having problems connecting to mutliplayer games in Call of Duty: Black Ops for the PlayStation 3, so he voices his displeasure in video form in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku.
My internet is fine Treyarch, so stop telling me that's the reason why I can't go online and play some games with my friends. I've tested ALL my online games without any hitches, it's just your games with the problem especially after the patches where now I can't even ENTER A SINGLE game.
It's been months now and you've done nothing to help the PS3/PC userbase, so FUCK YOU and enjoy the video I made just for you.
Side note: Yeah I know they won't see this, but I just wanted to vent my anger, thanks for listening.
Oh I don't know, they might see it.
About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say, and sometimes what they have to say has nothing to do with the stories we run. That's why we have that little forum on Kotaku called Speak-Up. That's the place to post anecdotes, photos, game tips and hints, and anything you want to share with Kotaku at large. Every weekday we'll pull one of the best Speak-Up posts we can find and highlight it here.


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We've spent a good deal of time speculating about how this writer or that director could make Star Wars: Episode VII a success, but Star Wars: Sequel Debacle Simulatron goes further. This Flash toy lets you pick your perfect Star Wars scriptwriting/directing/acting team and see if it results in Empire Strikes Back-worthy success or if you're on your way to producing the next Phantom Menace.
Game designers Ben Johnson and Joe Kowalski came up with this randomish review generator, and it's a lot of fun to play with, even if it doesn't seem to like any of my ideas:
Next time, I'll have to try The Usual Midichlorians directed by Michael Bay.
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Nobody, nobody
Me against the world, trust it's no party
'Cause all that glitters ain't gold
So I've been told
Been down them lonely roads where the nights get cold
When we was kids we used to say
"Oh the places we'll go
Oh the places we'll go
We'll go so many places"
[Hook: Sample of Hope's "The Rain Don't Last" (+Reks)]
Could it be the world's grown colder? (So cold)
Maybe I'm a losing soul (Well maybe I can't win)
The more I try, it just gets harder (So hard)
And my pain is getting old
Somebody said that nothing lasts forever
Just the storm so I've been told
But it seems that when it rains, it pours
And you know (I try)
[Verse 1]
What becomes of a born loser?
I used to believe I was conceived to be king
Mommy was a drug user
Daddy died young, as a son I have seen
Many nights where he abused her
He was just a teen, and she was just a teen
When I was brought into their life hula
Hoop of deceit and lies
My poor bleeding eyes
Used to watch Nikki on the scooter
A daughter with no father may never realize
A man's touch, a man's trust, scrutinized
You either treat her like your queen or your bitch, right?
I had a lite-brite
It used to light up my life until the bills weren't paid, and day became night
'Zay became like my big brother
He would hand me down 'nough hand-me-downs, get me through a few summers
[Verse 2]
Daddy didn't preach good loving
Just about the time Momma had me in the oven
I was something in the making
Praising Momma raised a boy through the dramas of a Papa's leaving
I'm a believer in Karma
So when Daddy died of AIDS, complicated days of a young and
Coming of age, I'm in a daze
Let me cut straight through the chase
I lived it, no twistin' it
Christmas was gifts from the gov'ment
Watching my Momma plummet
Baby boo in her stomach, womb
By the stove in the winters
Heart cold in the summers, summers
Couldn't fight the belly rumbles
Humble beginnings were mine
Family lying, uncle dying
Time and time again head to that Welfare line
A ladder to climb through hard times
[Verse 3]
Momma got the lupus in her bones
Roof is caving in like the upper support's gone
Move to the South, still Massachusetts home
So through the sunshine, the heart is a cold zone
Harder to pen storms through wind storms
When Com. Sense said Borrow a Dollar, economy was strong
Now we try to borrow tomorrow to get from
Yesterday's somber with limited income
Outcome: We out of luck and some
Hence I'm living from buck-to-buck
Fuck what Clinton, Bush, and Obama do
Politicians got us in the hole I just can't fit my Momma through
It's possible to do impossible, but by pursuit of proper route
Obstacles, keep writing and cock and shoot
Screaming "who got the loot" like Notorious B.I.,
Chose another brother now I'm victorious, see why?


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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Once Again, Thriving On Meat & Eggs
I would love to have the time to do active research into various areas of health and report back, like Melissa McEwan does re: Paleo sustainability and gender-specific anthropology (and so much more), but the reality is that I have a full-time (and then some) job that keeps me very busy during the school year. The temptation to become just a University student again is very tempting since then it's all about me me me again, and my time is all my own. But no - at least 50% of my waking day belongs to my students. I do like it that way, but it means my focus at other times needs to be on my food and my activity, with a little bit of time once or twice a week to report back to you guys. The blog has really come full circle for me - that I've taken my journey or experimenting and learning, and now I'm keen to keep showing you how I continue to stay clean and thriving on the diet and lifestyle my particular physiology prefers. And it's really that individual journey that I'm endorsing when I say "if I can do it, so can you" - I'm not pushing my choices on anyone, I've made the information that has informed my decisions available to all, and I've shared the trials and successes I've been through on my path. Perhaps I should make a simple chart in future, alongside my Science page, to detail the choices I'd recommend people try, since my resulting dietary needs are not necessarily true for everyone.
My needs:
I need to stick to a meat-only diet (inclusive of all animals - and fish and sea creatures are animals - and eggs). This diet makes me feel best in all aspects of my life, and when I'm aiming to burn stored bodyfat it also keeps me satiated for long periods of time even if I'm eating to caloric deficit, big or small.
If I allow myself to wander into dairy consumption, I tend to become food-obsessed, which may be a hormonal hyperphagia situation, or an insulin issue, or perhaps dairy now blunts my leptin response. I won't know the cause without fiddling with glucose monitors and blood screening, or perhaps therapy for food addiction (and I'm not ruling out the idea that I'm now somewhat damaged psychologically after my year-long exposure to the crazed world of nutrition science and watching my own body's response - I think I'm now on par with the average teenage girl, since I missed that the first time around), but in the meantime, I know how to avoid the issue - avoid dairy. I've had some unpleasant physiological responses to dairy before, no matter from which animal, so I can believe that I'm better off without it. It was the only food standing between me and the Paleo ideal, so I know I'm backed by a strong and widely-shared ideology.
If I allow myself to wander into vegetation consumption beyond small amounts of herbs and spices, I suffer from bloat and the other usual plant-food effects - i.e. flatulation! The knowledge that I will have a nice flat stomach and will never accidentally toot when demonstrating physical theatre to my students is something money can't buy! I never have any stomach or intestinal pain now - something I used to live with - now that I don't have any plant fibre tearing through my system. My system runs smoothly, so fibre is clearly not necessary for me. I don't eat processed meats, and I don't believe in the theory that red meat, in the absence of processed meats, has any association with colon cancer. In the wider theoretical sense, I don't really believe most plants do humans major damage in consumption, though I do know about anti-nutrients and other plant defenses, but I also don't believe that we need to consume plants to thrive. Anti-oxidants are only needed if you're doing the damage that they help to reverse. I know this statement sadly means that I can no longer justify consuming red wine or dark chocolate as being healthful; what a shame!
I've made it this far without getting any real exercise beyond my daily walking to and from work (which is a necessity since I don't drive), but I am interested now in mixing it up, building more muscle in order to burn more fuel, and seeing whether a bit more activity will help with the lingering hormonal imbalance that has me hovering (still!) 8kg above the weight I reached last year pre-Thailand. It does bother me, looking at my bikini photos, that I wasn't even that close to goal before things took an upswing. I had been relying on diet-based caloric deficits back then, so I wonder if part of the DepTran issue was also my body's willingness to return to its bodyfat set-point. My body backpedaled all but 2kg of the original weight I lost. And this is just from binge-eating Primal foods uncontrollably for a couple of weeks. Even now, it seems that if I don't ensure I create a caloric deficit from diet & activity, very excess calorie finds its way into storage. My body doesn't heat up after meals anymore, although I do seem to stay fuller longer now. So while my metabolism may be affected, at least I'm not in the high-carb cycle of urgent & stubborn fat-accumulation driven by insulin's job of reducing blood glucose levels - the energy I consume stays available to burn for a long time since my circulating insulin levels are low. This physiological situation puts me in good stance for upping my activity levels, since my muscles will have adequate access to fuel stores and will not be likely to catabolise themselves.
I'm looking at trialling the kind of fitness I enjoy the most - group dance classes and body-weight work like yoga and Pilates - as well as the much-loved CrossFit (though the one gym in Melbourne is kind of far from home, so I could only go on the weekend, until I knew enough to DIY at home), and some basic strength training at home, though my space is limited and exposed to the neighbours. This past week I actually went to a local dance place, Dance Dynamics in Box Hill, and for $5 tried two Hip Hop classes - one beginner class, and one more advanced class. The beginner class really didn't get me sweating at all, but the Hip Hop Xtreme class used bigger muscle groups and kept us moving for longer: more about running longer sequences than assuming people were mostly uncoordinated and needed to learn each step and arm movement individually. For anyone thinking that dance is akin to aerobics and basic cardio, you're wrong. Dancing - depending on style - spends more time stretching each muscle group and incorporating body-weight work (squats, ab crunches, arm suspensions) subtly into attractive and fun dances. It's not much about bouncing around and getting your heart rate up. I did aerobics for a year in 2006, and barely showed any kind of toning. The same amount of dance, and I'd be in six-pack wonderland, with dancer's legs! At the moment, money is holding me back, since Dance Dynamics is a membership system, whereas I'd much prefer a drop-in system since my time is precious and spare time is variable. I'll continue checking out my options, and might 'invest' in a couple of DVDs or some such... FYI, not totally in love with Hip Hop dancing, since bodyrolls aren't all that fun when you watch the rest of your rolls jiggle out of turn. Popping the chest is also a little wild when you're running without a sports bra... Upside of dancing at home - no mirrors. Downside - motivation and lack of laughs. We'll see...
So, on to the week that was:
Slept in, then had some sausages for lunch, followed by my first-ever go at slow-cooking a chicken - yum!
Breakfast of lamb chops - however, since we hadn't been to the organic butcher thanks to being interstate, I had to resort to conventionally-raised meat from the supermarket. The fat tasted terrible, full of chemicals! And it's not just elitism talking - even the beau thought it smelled pretty rank. Shame I bought 20 of them...
After work, gorged on my favourite - raw salmon (sashimi)!
And then formally dined on yet more roasted chicken - been in a real fowl mood lately.
Also known as the day my phone (camera) ran out of batteries and I had no time to charge it.
Breakfasted on leftover chicken and a side of bacon, cooking up a bunch of Jonathan's Tuscan snags for lunch at work. If I know there's food in the fridge and I have a free period, it drives me mad. So the snags were all eaten at recess, leaving me to fast for the rest of the day. Felt great! The phone was charged by dinner time - but I'll leave you to imagine the entire lack of food eaten for dinner.
Post-fast feast day! Started off like a champion - a bacon & egg smash, fried in coconut oil.
Then, after work, indulged in raw salmon, drizzled in a little lemon juice.
Dined on an incredibly tasty beef fillet from Dad's latest delivery up to me here in the big smoke (kept in the freezer for ages in the meantime - good steak doesn't lose its flavour no matter how long it's kept on ice!) Yum!
Knowing I had rehearsal after the normal teaching day, and then I'd be rushing into the city for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, I planned ahead and made 500g worth of beef burger at breakfast, packing them into lunch containers to eat during and after work. I ate one at breakfast with a side of bacon.
I wasn't full, so I ate another, and another... Yeah. So then I fasted for the rest of the day. Felt great, again! Spontaneous 24hr fast FTW!
Time, once again, to feast! I cooked up a big batch of chicken drumsticks in the morning, and managed to successfully pack up half the batch to take to work for lunch. I also decided to bite the social-outcast bullet and take a raw salmon fillet to work, along with my sharp knife (probably against school policy for teachers to carry knives at school, but what the hey), to test the reactions of my colleagues.
I ate three drumsticks and one salmon fillet for breakfast, and the same for lunch, so let's make do with just one photo, shall we?
For dinner, I couldn't make up my mind about what I wanted, so I whipped up some kangaroo steak, bacon, egg & bacon smash, and raw salmon. It was awesome!
Today, after a lovely, long sleep-in, I feasted on freshly-bought organic lamb chops, free-range ham, and bacon. I snacked on the bacon whilst my late lunch (or extremely late breakfast) was on the grill, but managed to get a snap of the remaining lunch as it cooled a little on my chopping board. My eyes were too big for my stomach though, and one chop was put in the fridge for later.
However, I didn't have time to eat it in between writing most of this blog post and heading out the door to start my massive night of FIVE Comedy Festival shows! So I've clocked up another fast this week, feeling great, and am looking forward to feasting tomorrow! Free-range pork roast, hot smoked salmon fillet with creole seasoning (served cold), a leftover lamb chop, some ham... Ooooh, the possibilities!
15 comments:
- Susan said...
That pic of your slow cooked chicken is food porn at it's best. WOW, it looks good. I want chicken now!
- April 18, 2010 at 11:30 AM
- Lucy said...
Great blog!
- April 18, 2010 at 12:21 PM
- dustinholt18 said...
Really enjoyed the My Needs part of your blog today. I've been a fan of your sit for awhile now, but that really struck a chord with me. I've been eating meat almost exclusively now for little over a week. Lost 8 pounds and feel great. Thanks for all the great info, and sharing just a little of your busy life. Dustin
- April 18, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- thania said...
Thanks for sharing. It is very honest, and I like the way you express yourself.
My clean eating has also took me to become food obsessed! And my fingers are sore from BG mesurements. My food need conclusions:
1-Dairy from goat no ill effect on me.(I have lost 10% bone density in 2 years of low-carb eating and eliminating dairy!)so I am back with it and try to include some on daily basis.
2-Very low carb increases my fasting BG!while adding lots of salad and veggies keeps BG controled.
3- Starchy food from grains and sugar take my 1hr BG to real high levels of even 200-2220!! So very carb sensitive and must be insuline resistant. Strangely except for potato the other root veg dont increase my BG!.
4- Unlike the paleo/primal male , the paleo/primal female or at least me need to watch the calories and fat.
5- Donig IF is a part of my life and fills me w lots of energy and stomach discomfort has gone!
6- Fruits even berries set me craving for carbs if I have them need to add some nuts other wise I am in trouble.
This just shows how important it is for each of us to study and measure our individual needs rather than following blindly lowcarb, paleo, primal, zero carb ...etc. What I find out is I need to eat more in MDA primal BP line and your needs are more in ZC border.
Have a nice week.
- April 18, 2010 at 7:42 PM
- Jezwyn said...
Thanks for the comments, and for enjoying my 'food porn'! ;)
Dustin - 8 pounds in a week?! Is this switching from a high-carb WOE to Zero-Carb? Cos if that's not mostly water weight, I'm a bit worried! Make sure you get some strength/resistance training in there to keep your muscle if the weight is dropping that fast. I did a bunch of burpies (like, 10) and some random dumbbell and squat stuff behind my desk for a couple of minutes, since I spent a lot of today sitting on my butt. Don't want to lose muscle, although I'm keeping any caloric deficit pretty tight anyway. Slow and steady loss is the way to go...
Hi Thania, didn't know you were still reading my little blog. I'm glad you find value in it. I've been interested in taking some BG measurements myself - I've looked into prices online, and want to ask at the local chemist to compare. I don't want to end up sore though, so I'd use it sparingly. I'm younger than you, so I'm not worried about bone density yet, though I'm getting my calcium from bones and marrow and things in the meantime. How do you know you've lost density? The fasting BG thing is intriguing - though might be explained by your note that you watch your fat intake (why?) so would therefore be eating more protein on ZC/VLC than when you're including some leafy veg? I understand watching calories, but why fat? Is it just so you can eat more food? One of the things that I wonder about is how much my needs might change in short periods of time - it has only been 16 months since I cut out sugar and grains, and now I can't immediately tolerate a range of foods without a significant readjustment period. Right now I feel best on meat & eggs, but who's to say that will be a permanent reaction? Vegans usually feel great for the first little while too... We'll see! And I'd love to play around with the non-invasive medical side of things to get some more distinct stats too. Just gotta get over this problem I have with needles... :)
- April 18, 2010 at 11:42 PM
- Sue said...
That interview by Melissa McEwan was good. The comment section was huge. There are quite a few angry, idiotic comments by vegans.
- April 19, 2010 at 1:26 AM
- dustinholt18 said...
Jezwyn- Your first inclination was correct. I'm about 6'3" and 280 (now 269 as of this morning) and have been eating rather poorly for several months. High carbs/low protein. I had basically put eating properly on the back burner so I could focus on getting thru this semester. But I saw an interview with Dr. Scott Connelly on the Crossfit Journal from March 12. You may have already seen it if you follow the Journal, if not its worth checking out. http://journal.crossfit.com/2010/04/insulin-body-weight-and-energy-production.tpl
It struck a chord with me just like your post did. Since then I've been eating meat, eggs, and occasional broccoli stalk or apple. I have to say that feel better now than I can remember. My mood and energy levels have been even and consistent all week. I've lost eleven pounds now and yes that's with doing some Crossfit and Rippintoe Starting Strength workouts.
- April 19, 2010 at 3:21 AM
- thania said...
Hi Jezwin, yes your blog is included in my rss list and is interesting for me to see how others do personal experiment and the results. When I first started with LC, my main concern was its effect on the bone density as it is acid producing,so I asked my traumatologist for a bone desitometry test order (it involves minimal radiation exposure and is not invasive) and repeated in 2 years again Feb 2010. I am still in good state since I am not very old either. I am adding more veggies due to their alkaline levels, to neutralize the acidic side and hopefully shifting towards the alkaline side.
I still eat a lot of fat 50-60%, but try to eat leaner cuts most of the time, but do eat my vegs and salads with lots of olive oil dressing.
I started w BG measuring, as I read few things on VLC and insuline resistance and MDA book, also indicates is good to carb load once in a while too. Even though VLC seems to be ok on me, I just dont want to make myself insuline resistance, which could be only temporary and reversible!! On the other hand I like eating vegtables of all type, specially the night shade ones ( I am mediterranean after all!!) and also the BG seems to indicate I am much better eating them, maybe is due to butyric acid formation , resulting from fiber and healthy gut flora thing??
I do agree with you on grass fed and conventional meat, the smell of the fat of the second one is terrible, it is becoming a problem for me when eating out at friends..
- April 19, 2010 at 4:53 AM
- StephenB said...
Hi Jezwyn. What kind of dairy causes the issues? I'm wondering if heavy cream might be fine (no casein, for example).
- April 20, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Jezwyn said...
Hi gang!
Sounds great, Dustin! Congrats on getting back on track :)
StephanB - fear not, I'm not blind to the facts regarding dairy and its potential issue-causers. My first trial was with heavy bovine cream and it did not go down well. Second was with sheep's cheese - no gurgles, but maybe constipation. Third with bovine cheese - definite constipation. So it's not necessarily black/white lactose of casein problems, but perhaps elements of each and other factors in dairy products that my gut doesn't thrive on.
There's only so much you can learn from nutritional theory - it's all about self-experimentation to find what works for you. For instance, I don't believe in the acid/alkaline theory that Thania is following, because perhaps my body happily excretes excess acid (as normal bodies do) but perhaps hers doesn't. Same goes for consumption of olive oil - I'd be worried about my EFA balance and impact on bloodwork, but perhaps her system doesn't have a problem with olive oil. And again, she thinks that VLC eating could increase her insulin resistance, whereas from my reading and experiences, the opposite is true. So who knows? We're all individual mutants, after all :)
- April 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- thania said...
There are some articles by "primal wisdom" on paleo diet and PH among others in referance to acid/alkaline balance.
I leave the link in case there is interest to learn more:
- April 20, 2010 at 7:03 PM
- Jezwyn said...
I love Don's work, but when I read that series it came off as a "I tried meat-only and it gave me cramps, so here's what I think might be behind it" stab in the dark - a theory, not something proven by clinical trial. And there are plenty of cases that would refute this hypothesis. I had cramps when I first started going low-carb, but haven't had even the slightest twinge since going carnivore, and I haven't even been supplementing. I'm clearly getting enough potassium etc to meet my needs despite the apparent acidity of my diet. The theory also ignore all the other acidic foods out there that are not meat, and the fact that the need for calcium can be met with smaller dietary amounts if you are not including anti-calcium uptake elements in your lifestyle.
That link was incorrect, by the by.
- April 20, 2010 at 10:58 PM
- Tali said...
Hey there - if you use Google Reader you should also be signed up for Google Buzz. You can click on "share" on any article in reader and it'll share it with your followers. It's a nice way to share items on the fly without the effort of blogging about them. If you don't mind people knowing your google mail address (or create one for this purpose) then they can just find and follow you. BTW, thanks for the great blog.
- April 22, 2010 at 6:45 AM
- Jezwyn said...
One step ahead of you, Tali - I did that last night and now have a "Girl Gone Sharin'" widget in my right side bar with my top items - I'll be mentioning it in my next post so you guys know to look there if you want :) Thanks!
- April 22, 2010 at 8:04 AM
Yet another great post...keep 'em coming! I feel so empowered when I read your blog, not to mention a little hungry. :-)
- April 26, 2010 at 11:46 AM


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ironmedia needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 133 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
Looking for a trendy, clean, web 2.0 logo for a marketing company called: AffTopia
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We do fast payment and we have a lot more projects if we find the right match designer. Thx!
So far #5 and #7 are the type of designs I'm looking for.
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It is your responsibility to reserve your own accommodations.
BNL does not provide shuttle service to and from area hotels. Since there is no public transportation to BNL, attendees are strongly advised to make car rental arrangements prior to arrival.
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The following hotels are the closest to Brookhaven National Laboratory in distance (approx. 15-45 minutes in driving time). Please note, a major credit card will be necessary to hold your reservations until you check in. Brookhaven National Laboratory is located on William Floyd Parkway, County Road 46, 1 1/2 miles north of Exit 68 of the Long Island Expressway; hotel locations are given by exit number. Exit numbers below 68 are west of BNL; exit numbers above 68 are east of BNL. Please note, it is your responsibility to call the local hotels directly and make your own reservation.
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tjweir needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 164 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
Lift is an expressive and elegant framework for writing web applications. Lift stresses the importance of security, maintainability, scalability and performance, while allowing for high levels of developer productivity.
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Probably the greatest set in Baby Face Willette's all-too-slim discography, Stop and Listen matches the organist with the hugely sympathetic team of guitarist Grant Green and drummer Ben Dixon (the same trio lineup who recorded Green's debut LP, Grant's First Stand). With no saxophonist this second time around, it's just Willette and Green in the solo spotlight, and they play marvelously off of one another. As a soloist, Willette has a nimble, airy touch, and though he owes no debt to the modal style of Larry Young, he has a greater melodic imagination than many of his instrument's straight blues players. What's more, his playing is far less in-the-pocket than his inspiration, Jimmy Smith's; Willette can really make a groove percolate, whether he's soloing or adding keen rhythmic interest with his left hand (witness the throbbing slow blues of "Chances Are Few" or the marching beat of "Soul Walk"). Green is in prime form as well, in particular contributing some unbearably lovely solos to the standard "At Last." Nearly every selection is memorable, with other highlights coming from Willette's manic original "Jumpin' Jupiter," a breezy treatment of "Willow Weep for Me," and Nat Adderley's jauntily swinging "Worksong." There's nary a bit of sleepy meandering on this set of grooves; each musician is plugged in and ready to wail. With Blue Note's extraordinary stable of talent, it's a shame that Willette never led another session for the label, which makes Stop and Listen that much more essential for soul-jazz fans. ~ Steve Huey


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The man who will move into the 10-room papal residence inside the vaulted gates of the Holy See lives in a simple, austere apartment across from the Cathedral of Buenos Aires. In a city with a taste for luxury and status, he frequently prepares his own meals and abandoned the limousine of his high office to hop on el micro — Argentine slang for the bus.
A staunch conservative and devout Jesuit in Latin America's most socially progressive nation, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, is the product of an almost Solomon-esque choice by the princes of the church.
The 76-year-old hails from a country and a continent where the once powerful voice of the church is increasingly falling flat, losing ground — as it is in Europe — to a tide of more permissive and pragmatic faiths and to fast-rising secularism. He gives voice to a church whose center of global gravity is shifting south.
But the first Latin American pope also represents a cultural bridge between two worlds — the son of Italian immigrants in a country regarded by some as the New World colony Italy never had. For many Italians, his heritage makes him the next best thing to the return of an Italian pope.
Bergoglio remains a fierce critic of socially progressive trends including gay marriage, representing a continuity of Benedict XVI's conservative doctrine.
Though questioned for some of his actions during Argentina's Dirty War, he may also be a target hard for progressives to hit. In recent decades, he has emerged as a champion of social justice and the poor who spoke out against the evils of globalization and has slammed the "demonic effects of the imperialism of money."
His papal name honors St. Francis of Assisi, the son of wealthy merchants who abandoned all for a life of poverty in the path of Jesus Christ.
At the same time, in the age of 24-hour news cycles and the cult of celebrity excess, he is described by some as so retro as to be something oddly new. He represents a flashback to an old-school view of the Catholic leaders as humble, soft-spoken clerics who walked among their flock and led by example — albeit also one who has used the Internet as a tool to reach lapsed Catholics.
"He knows how to take a municipal bus. … He has a sense of social justice, but he can be seen as quite conservative doctrinally," said the Rev. Robert Pelton, CSC, the director of Latin American Church Concerns at the University of Notre Dame.
"He's a simple person," Pelton said. "The fact is that he has a straightforwardness and simplicity that is quite unusual in public figures of our time."
It remains unclear whether even Latin Americans will respond with newfound energy to Bergoglio's ascension to the throne of St. Peter. Among many of its neighbors, Argentina is seen as a nation apart — a country that fancies itself more European than Latin American, with many likely to see the rise of an Italian-Argentine as largely unrepresentative of the region as a whole.
"Argentina is so secular today, a more euro-centric Latin country," said Joseph Palacios, specialist in religion and society in Latin American at Georgetown University. "They are catholic by culture, but not by practice. Geopolitically it makes sense in terms of bridging Europe to Latin America or the third world, but Argentines don't see themselves as being third world."
In his global introduction from the balcony of St. Peter's, he addressed the crowd in Italian, one of three languages he speaks fluently. He presented himself as soft and plain spoken, humble, even quaint — directing his comments seemingly to the citizens of his new city, Rome, more than to the 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide.
"And now let us begin this journey, the Bishop and people, this journey of the Church of Rome which presides in charity over all the Churches, a journey of brotherhood in love, of mutual trust," he said. "Let us always pray for one another. Let us pray for the whole world that there might be a great sense of brotherhood."
Born in Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936, Bergoglio was raised in a struggling middle class home of a railroad worker and housewife. Ordained a priest in 1969, his ascent toward higher office occurred during a time when the Catholic Church in Argentina stood accused of at best failing to speak out, and at worst being complicit, in the harsh right-wing dictatorships of the Dirty War that saw the disappearance of an estimated 30,000 dissidents between 1976 and 1983.
A book by the noted Argentine journalist Horacio Verbitsky, "The Silence," claims that Bergoglio, then a Jesuit leader, lifted church protection from two leftist priests of his order, effectively allowing them to be jailed for refusing to end their politically-charged ministry in Buenos Aires slums. Yet Bergoglio's supporters have cited a lack of evidence, countering that he endeavored to aid dissidents in danger during a dark period in Argentine history.
"History condemns him," Fortunato Mallimacci, the former dean of social sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires once said, according to Reuters. "It shows him to be opposed to all innovation in the Church and above all, during the dictatorship, it shows he was very cozy with the military."
One thing is certain, he rose fast. In 1992, John Paul II named him assistant bishop in Buenos Aires, then made him Archbishop five years later. He served on a number of Vatican commissions and in 2005 is widely believed to have come in second to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — now the pope emeritus — to succeed John Paul II.
But Bergoglio was mostly absent from the short lists for pope this time around, and has been largely seen as a Vatican outsider. That is seen as positive by reformers who are looking for a clean up of the Roman Curia, the Vatican City administration now battered by allegations of corruption and misconduct.
In recent years, Bergoglio became known for creating new parishes, reorganizing administrative offices spearheading a fiercely conservative social agenda. He has butted heads repeatedly with increasingly secular Argentine governments.
In 2006, he attacked a proposal to legalize abortion under certain circumstances by accusing the government of lacking respect for human life.
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text: Donald Becker wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Simon Kelley wrote: > >> Joe Landman wrote: >>>>> I would hazard that any DHCP/PXE type install server would struggle >>>>> with 2000 requests (yes- you arrange the power switching and/or >>>>> reboots to stagger at N second intervals). > > Those that have talked to me about this topic know that it's a hot-button > for me. > > The limit with the "traditional" approach, the ISC DHCP server with one of > the three common TFTP servers, is about 40 machines before you risk losing > machines during a boot. With 100 machines you are likely to lose 2-5 > during a typical power-restore cycle when all machines boot > simultaneously. > > The actual node count limit is strongly dependent on the exact hardware > (e.g. the characteristics of the Ethernet switch) and the size of the boot > image (larger is much worse than you would expect). > > Staggering node power-up is a hack to work around the limit. You can > build a lot of complexity into doing it "right", but still be rolling the > dice overall. It's better than build a reliable boot system than to build > a complex system around known unreliability. > > The right solution is to build a smart, integrated PXE server that > understands the bugs and characteristics of PXE. I wrote one a few years > ago and understand many of the problems. It's clear to me that no matter > how you hack up the ISC DHCP server, you won't end up with a good PXE > server. (Read that carefully: yes, it's a great DHCP server; no, it's not > good for PXE.) Is that server open-source/free software, or part of Sycld's product? No judgement implied, I'm just interested to know if I can download and learn from it. > >>> fwiw: we use dnsmasq to serve dhcp and handle pxe booting. It does a >>> marvelous job of both, and is far easier to configure (e.g. it is less >>> fussy) than dhcpd. >> Joe, you might like to know that the next release of dnsmasq includes a >> TFTP server so that it can do the whole job. The process model for the >> TFTP implementation should be well suited to booting many nodes at once >> because it multiplexes all the connections on the same process. My guess >> is that will work better then having inetd fork 2000 copies of tftpd, >> which is what would happen with traditional TFTP servers. > > Yup, that's a good start. It's one of the many things you have to do. > You are already far ahead of the "standard" approach. Don't forget flow > and bandwidth control, ARP table stuffing and clean-up, state reporting, > etc. Oh, and you'll find out about the PXE bug that results in a > zero-length filename.. expect it. It's maybe worth giving a bit of background here: dnsmasq is a lightweight DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Think of it as being equivalent to BIND and ISC DHCP with BIND mainly in forward-only mode but doing dynamic DNS and a bit of authoritative DNS too. It's really aimed at small networks which need a DNS server and a DHCP server where the names of DHCP-configured hosts appear in the DNS but all other DNS queries get passed to upstream recursive DNS servers (typically at an ISP). Dnsmasq is widely used in the *WRT distributions which run in Linksys WRT-54G-class SOHO routers, and similar "turn your old 486 into a home router" products. It provides all the DNS and DHCP that these need in a ~100K binary that's flexible and easy to configure. Almost coincidentally, it's turned out to be useful for clusters too. I known from the dnsmasq mailing list that Joe Landman has used it in that way for a long time, and RLX used it in their control-tower product which has now been re-incarnated in HP's blade-management system. As Don Becker points out in another message ISC's dhcpd is way too heavyweight for his sort of stuff. The dnsmasq DHCP implementation pretty much receives a UDP packet, computes a reply as a function of the input packet, the in-memory lease database and the current configuration, and synchronously sends the reply. The only time it even needs to allocate memory is when a new lease is created: everything else manages which a single packet buffer and a few statically-allocated data structures. This makes for great scalability. For the TFTP implementation I've stayed with the same implementation style, so I hope it will scale well too. I've already covered some of Don's checklist, and I'll pay attention to the rest of it, within the contraint that this has to be small and simple, to fit the primary, SOHO router, niche. > >> For ultimate scalability, I guess the solution is to use multicast-TFTP. >> I know that support for that is included in the PXE spec, but I've never >> tried to implement it. Based on prior experience of PXE ROMs, the chance >> of finding a sufficiently bug-free implementation of mtftp there must be >> fairly low. > > This is a good example of why PXE is not just DHCP+TFTP. The multicast > TFTP in PXE is not multicast TFTP. The DHCP response specifies the > multicast group to join, rather than negotiating it as per RFC2090. That > means multicast requires communication between the DHCP and TFTP sections. > >>> Likely with dhcpd, not sure how many dnsmasq can handle, but we have >>> done 36 at a time to do system checking. No problems with it. > > As part of writing the server I wrote a DHCP and TFTP clients to simulate > high node count boots. But the harshest test was old RLX systems: each of > the 24 blades had three NICs, but could only boot off of the NIC > connected to the internal 100base repeater/hub. Plus the blade BIOS had a > good selection of PXE bugs. By chance, I have a couple a shelves of those available for testing. Would that be enough (48 blades, I guess) to get meaningful results? Cheers, Simon.