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Magnesium in Hypertension Prevention and ControlSeptember 2004
By Jay S. Cohen, MD
|LE Magazine September 2004
|Magnesium in Hypertension Prevention and Control
By Jay S. Cohen, MD
High blood pressure is an even stronger predictor of cardiovascular risk than high cholesterol. Scientific studies directly correlate high blood pressure with decreased longevity. Yet most mainstream physicians and their patients ignore this risk until life-threatening hypertension has already developed.
A well-established body of research indicates that nutrients such as magnesium are highly effective in treating and—even more importantly—preventing high blood pressure. Because this metallic element is not plentiful in foods, magnesium supplementation may be effective in both prevent ing and controlling high blood pressure. Learn why you should be concerned about high blood pressure—whether you have it yet or not.
Fifty million Americans have high blood pressure. If you are not one of them, you likely will be eventually. As New York Times health columnist Jane Brody wrote:
"Americans now 55 or over face a 90% chance of developing high blood pressure, or hypertension, a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure, circulatory failure, kidney disease, and loss of vision."1
Hypertension expert Norman Kaplan, MD, agrees, writing that "Most people will develop hypertension during their lifetime."2 In fact, 800 million people—or about 20% of the Earth's adult population—already have high blood pressure. This is bad news because hypertension leads directly to heart disease, kidney disease, strokes, and other major health disorders. Conn's Current Therapy, a highly respected medical reference, defines how hypertension greatly reduces longevity:
"A 35-year-old man with an arterial pressure of 130/90 will die 4 years earlier than another 35-year-old man with the same medical background but with normal pressure. If his pressure is 140/90, he will die 9 years earlier, and if it's 150/100, he will die 17 years earlier."3
To put it in perspective, Mark Houston, MD, a nationally recognized expert on hypertension, once asked an audience of health care practitioners, "If you have elevated cholesterol, diabetes, and hypertension, which should you treat first?" Most picked diabetes, and others chose elevated cholesterol, but the correct answer is hypertension. Why? Because high blood pressure is a much stronger indicator of cardiovascular risk than high cholesterol. The damage to blood vessels caused by high blood pressure leads to hundreds of thousands of heart attacks and strokes each year. Moreover, people with high blood pressure have a much greater risk of developing adult-onset diabetes, and most people with diabetes sustain their greatest harm from the hypertension that frequently accompanies it.
This is why preventing hypertension is so important to maintaining health and prolonging longevity.
The Importance of Prevention
This treatment approach is not very effective. Of the 50 million Americans with hypertension, only about one-half are being treated, and only one-half of those are being treated adequately.
Prevention is even more important today because a blood pressure of 120/80 mm Hg (systolic/diastolic) is not good enough anymore (see Table 1). The most recent report of the Joint National Committee, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2003, warned:
"The risk of cardiovascular disease, beginning at 115/75 mm Hg, doubles with each increment of 20/10 mm Hg."5
Thus it is vitally important to do what you can to keep your blood pressure low instead of waiting for it to creep up over the years. It is especially important to be proactive because many people have a genetic tendency toward hypertension. Even if you have such a tendency, it does not mean you are powerless. As with predispositions toward developing diabetes or elevated cholesterol, much can be done to prevent hypertension from occurring or to modify its severity if it does occur.
How Lifestyle Affects Blood Pressure
A healthy diet can have a major impact on your blood pressure. Studies have shown that the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, which emphasizes poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lowfat dairy products, and nuts, can reduce blood pressure as much as some prescription drugs.6
Regular exercise and stress reduction also help keep blood pressure normal. Tobacco and stimulant drugs should be avoided, as these substances boost blood pressure and can injure the sensitive endothelium that lines the blood vessels.
Caffeinated beverages are a controversial topic among hypertension specialists. Caffeine appears to raise the blood pressure of some people but not others. Caffeine certainly does not appear to help control blood pressure and thus probably should be avoided.
Similarly, some people's hypertension is sensitive to salt, meaning that a high or even moderate salt intake will raise their blood pressure. Other people are not sensitive to salt. Nevertheless, experts generally recommend moderation in the use of salt.
Natural Supplements vs. Prescription Drugs
Patients are not likely to hear about any of these natural therapies from a mainstream physician, though practitioners of alternative or integrative medicine regularly recommend these supplements to their patients. Unfortunately, the drug industry dominates the information that most mainstream doctors receive, so that pharmaceuticals become the primary and often only option prescribed for high blood pressure. The top-selling antihypertensive drugs are costly, however, and all come with potential side effects that may include fatigue, sedation, dry mouth, cough, dizziness, headache, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, rash, itching, flushing, swollen legs or ankles, depression, sexual dysfunctions, and metabolic imbalances. Because of these side effects, half of those who take antihypertensive medications eventually quit taking them, usually within three months of starting treatment.5,7
Moreover, even when they lower blood pressure, prescription drugs do not eliminate one's risk entirely. People with controlled hypertension still have a higher risk of heart attack and stroke than those who have the same blood pressure but never developed hypertension in the first place. Why is this? Mainstream medicine does not have the answer. One explanation is that while drugs can be effective in blocking some of the factors that cause elevated blood pressure, these medications do nothing to address the intracellular imbalances that lead to the development of hypertension.
In other words, mainstream medicine treats the symptoms of hypertension but does not address the underlying causes. Because nutritional imbalances and other deficits remain, some of the risk remains as well.


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Data Center Interconnect using nV Edge Clustering
Data Center Connections using "nV edge"
The ASR 9000 product family has recently come out with a new feature called nV Edge (nV = Network Virtualization). This feature unifies the data center edge control, data and management planes. So, I'll note a couple things here on this feature and then tell you why I think it has potential to be truly awesome.
My good friend Rabiul Hasan just wrote a proof of concept document just posted to Design Zone that provides the configuration and setup details. I encourage you to go check it out here.
First, let's look at an existing resilient edge solution using MC-LAG and VPLS.
On the left side we have a Nexus switch (say Nexus 7000) that is configured with a Virtual Port Channel with one physical link towards the top ASR 9000 and the second physical link going towards the standby ASR 9000. The point here is that you have the port channel split between two physical ASR 9000 routers so if one goes down, you still have an active link. The second point to note is that only 50% of the links are utilized.
(Also note that typically you'll have a second Nexus switch for redundancy purposes).
The ASR 9000 routers are in an active/standby "Redundancy Group", with one active and one in standby. This ultimately means that we'll need 4 VPLS Pseudowires between each pair of ASR 9000 routers. This also means that we may have WAN ports un(der) utilized, depending on how you set those up.
Please see this detailed document for specifics around MC-LAG and VPLS written by DCI Technical Leaders Max Ardica, Patrice Bellagamba and Nash Darukhanawalla
Now let's look at using the new ASR 9000 nV Edge feature with VPLS.
Each ASR 9000 has two RSP's (Route Switch Processor's), one active and one backup. Each of these RSP's have two EOBC ports (Ethernet Out of Band Channel) so there are 4 EOBC connections between the ASR's. The EOBC connections may be point to point or go through a switch. The EOBC is where the control and management plane synchronizes between the two physical chassis. These EOBC ports are the SFP ports on the RSP440.
On the bottom here (orange line), we have an IRL – Inter Rack Link. This IRL is a 10-GE line card link between the chassis with a minimum requirement of two IRL's. So, please note the IRL's are on the line cards themselves and you have to configure the port with the IRL nV edge configuration (please see above links). This is because the IRL's are in the data plane and, as such, need the line card forwarding logic for FIB lookup and packet forwarding.
The EOBC + IRL functionality is what creates this nV Edge cluster functionality yielding both ASR 9000 routers active in the control, management and data planes.
How do we get this deployed
Step 1: First thing you need to do is ensure you got the right HW/SW combo.
Each physical ASR 9000 requires software IOS-XR 4.2.1 and the nV Cluster License (A9K-NV-CLUSTR-LIC).
Each physical ASR 9000 requires the RSP440 and the "typhoon" line cards – the SIP-700 and Enhanced Ethernet line cards.
Step 2: Configure the nV Edge system itself, IE the nV Cluster. Here's the link to show how to get that done.
You'll see in the configuration guide that the physical chassis are referred to as "rack 0" and "rack 1" (new terminology alert 🙂 ).
Once rack 0 and rack 1 are configured and connected (see figure above), they form the "cluster."
Step 3: Configure the network components.
The ASR 9000 is configured with a bundle-interface from the ASR 9000 cluster to the downlinks into the Data Center (IE an Nexus 7000). The ASR 9000 is also configure with a VPLS PW from the cluster towards the PW endpoint.
What you end up with is a vPC from the Nexus 7000 to the ASR 9000 cluster. From the Nexus 7000 perspective, the vPC is not split between two physical ASR 9000 routers, but rather one (virtual) ASR 9000 so you get the benefit of having both physical links being utilized (as opposed to the MC-LAG solution shown above). Additionally, you only need to configure 1 VPLS Pseudowire instead of 4.
Ultimately, the nV Edge clustering+ VPLS topology can be as simple as shown below, while maintaining your resiliency requirements.
The benefit of an nV Edge + VPLS and this is why it can be awesome…
1) Increased physical link utilization
2) Up to 75% decrease in VPLS Pseudowire requirements
3) 50 millisecond or less recovery times
Check it out, talk with your local account team or partner and thanks for reading..
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Can Costa Cruise Lines Survive Two Calamities?
(PORT VICTORIA, Seychelles) -- Who says lightning can't strike twice? It has jolted Costa Cruise Lines two times in the past six weeks. The first time was off the coast of Italy in January and then again this week in remote waters off the coast of Africa.
Eleanor and Gordon Bradwell of Athens, Ga., thought they were going on 30-day dream cruise through the Indian Ocean and the Middle East aboard the Costa Allegra.
Instead, they ended up enduring a three-day ordeal, stranded at sea after fire destroyed the ship's generator.
The Bradwells and more than 1,000 other passengers and crew were hostages of the sweltering tropical heat on a ship with no power, no air-conditioning, no working toilets and no kitchens.
"It could have been so much worse," said Gordon Bradwell. "It could have been a disaster of biblical proportions, if that fire had gotten out of control. We were a long way from help. Then who knows what the results could have been."
The Bradwells were at lunch on Monday when they heard seven short beeps and a long beep: the signal to abandon ship.
"There was a good bit of chaos and confusion," said Gordon as he described the moments that followed. "They began to lower the boats, and at that point we thought we were probably going to go into the boats."
"They were very disorganized," said Eleanor, "Totally disorganized, unprofessional in the way they handled it."
The fire was extinguished, no one was injured and everyone could stay on the ship.
But it was much worse six weeks ago when another Costa Cruise Lines ship, the much bigger Costa Concordia, ran aground and toppled over off the Italy's Tuscan coast.
More than 4,000 passengers and crew had to abandon ship in the middle of the night. Thirty-two people died in that incident.
When the Bradwells boarded the Costa Allegra in Mauritius last week, they knew it was part of the same cruise line as the ill-fated Costa Concordia. Eleanor Bradwell said she simply assumed the Concordia disaster was an aberration. "After the Concordia you think this won't happen again."
It did. The Bradwells, both around their 70s, spent three nights sleeping on deck chairs under the stars. Their cabin was uninhabitable, fluctuating between 100 degrees and 110 degrees. The toilets couldn't be flushed, leaving the odor of sewage hanging in the dense humid air.
After enduring all that, I asked Eleanor Bradwell if she would go on a cruise again.
"Well, we would cruise but I will not cruise with Costa. Ever," she said.
A lot of people seem to be saying that these days. After the Jan. 13 wreck of the Concordia, Costa's bookings dropped an estimated 30 percent.
Now the company faces a public relations nightmare, its brand associated with two high-profile mishaps at sea.
Its official name is Costa Crociere, an Italian company based in Genoa. But Costa is wholly owned by the British-American giant Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise ship operator. (Full disclosure: The parent company of ABC News, the Walt Disney Co., also operates a cruise line.)
Since Carnival bought Costa in 2000, the company's fleet has multiplied from five to 14 ships. In 2010, it carried 2.15 million passengers while sales increased 12 percent to $3.8 billion. Costa is Carnival's largest subsidiary.
Now that future of that valuable brand is in peril.
"I think they're going to have to work very hard to survive," cruise industry analyst and writer Bill Miller told ABC News. "It's going to be difficult because people associate them with two highly publicized mishaps. They may even have to consider rebranding themselves, getting a new name."
Costa is bracing for more bad publicity as the inquiry into the Concordia disaster gets under way in Italy this weekend.
Two Italian newspapers, La Stampa and Il Messagero, are publishing lurid details of alleged drug use, drinking and sexual harassment aboard the Costa Concordia.
"I saw with my own eyes officers taking cocaine—to prove it you would only have had to test them," a nurse identified only as Valentina B reportedly told investigators in pre-trial evidence obtained by the newspapers.
Valentina B says she worked on three Costa cruise ships, "each one worse than the other."
Another woman identified as Mary G is quoted in the documents as saying, "I worked on the Costa Concordia in 2010 for two months. Often the officers and other crew members were drunk. Often we'd say to ourselves, 'If there's an emergency, who is going to save the ship?'"
Mary G also claimed to have been "molested" by a crew member who was high on drugs.
"We operate strict safety and surveillance measures concerning drugs possession onboard our ships," Costa said in a statement. "The possession or trade of narcotics onboard is prohibited. Crew members who possess or use drugs or engage in drug trafficking are submitted to disciplinary provisions and disembarked. Onboard there are checks and preventive actions to discourage such behaviors."
While all of this is damaging to Costa's reputation, not all industry watchers think the brand will disappear.
With two of Costa's 14 ships out of commission, the company has two new ships ready to launch.
It just finished rebuilding its 1600-passenger NeoRomantica, which is set to sail on its first voyage in the Mediterranean. The company says the cruise is sold out.
And Costa does seem to have learned from the disaster of the Concordia.
While the Bradwells were critical of the way the crew aboard the Costa Allegra behaved in the first hours, they have nothing but praise for Costa's response to the disabled ship.
The Bradwells said after the first few hours of chaos aboard the Costa Allegra this week, the crew and the cruise line worked hard to ease the discomfort for passengers as living conditions deteriorated. Costa used helicopters to bring in food, flashlights and bottled water.
"They did what they could do," Eleanor said. "They did the best they could do under the circumstances."
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GoodHead Gel Mini Paks come as a 216 count retail display bowl or adult party supplies. The traditional tasty Goodhead oral sex flavored lubricants come in .25 ounce mini packs. Assorted flavors available included mint, cinnamon, and strawberry. GoodHead is flavored gel for men's oral sex. The flavors are fabulous. Easy to use. Apply a liberal amount to a man's penis and enjoy. This tasty flavored gel on his penis and it will be all the tastier when licked up and sucked off! Oral sex gel is artificially flavored.
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"Broadband Liberation" (PERSPECTIVE)
--- by Shashi Tharoor
NEW DELHI – In July, I was among 30 men and women from around the world – government ministers, bureaucrats, technologists, and strategic thinkers – who gathered at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva to discuss how broadband can transform the world for the better. This "Broadband Commission" met under the Chairmanship of Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and the Mexican communications mogul Carlos Slim.
The ITU, a United Nations body, established the Commission in partnership with UNESCO, and the joint chairmanship was no accident. The UN recognizes that if the information revolution is to advance further, it will take a public-private effort. As ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré has put it, "In the twenty-first century, affordable, ubiquitous broadband networks will be as critical to social and economic prosperity as networks like transport, water, and power."
The Swiss writer and playwright Max Frisch once dismissed technology as "the art of arranging the world so that we need not experience it." Today, however, technology is essential to effective participation in our world. And, although mankind cannot live by technology alone, the information revolution has liberated millions of people.
Information is liberating in the traditional political sense of the term: the spread of information has had a direct impact on the degree of accountability and transparency that governments must deliver if they are to survive.
It is also liberating economically. Information technologies are a cost-effective form of capital. Estonia and Costa Rica are well-known examples of how information-access strategies can help accelerate output growth and raise income levels.
Some of the least developed countries, such as Mali and Bangladesh, have shown how determined leadership and innovative approaches can, with international support, connect remote and rural areas to the Internet and mobile telephony, thereby helping to liberate subsistence farmers who were previously tied to local knowledge and local markets. Likewise, mobile networks are delivering health services to the most remote areas of India.
One successful UNESCO initiative is the creation of multipurpose community telecenters throughout the developing world, providing communication and information facilities – phone, fax, Internet, computers, audio-visual equipment – for a wide range of community uses. India's Unique Identification Number project, under the capable stewardship of information-technology pioneer Nandan Nilekani, will enable access to government, banking, and insurance services at the grass-roots level.
There is no doubt that the Internet can be a democratizing tool. In some parts of the world – and certainly in most of the West – it already is, since large amounts of information are now accessible to almost anyone. But the stark reality of today's world is that you can tell the rich from the poor by their Internet connections.
Indeed, economic development nowadays requires more than thinking only of the poverty line; one must also think of the high-speed digital line, the fiber-optic line – indeed, all the lines that exclude those who are not plugged into the possibilities of our world.
But the digital divide is no immutable gap. On the contrary, the technology gap between developed and developing countries, measured by levels of penetration by personal computers and information-technology and communications services, has narrowed markedly over the course of the past decade, with rapid growth in mobile phone and Internet use. The average level of Internet and mobile-phone penetration in the rich world in 1997 – 4.1 Internet users and 10.7 mobile phones per 100 inhabitants – was reached in developing countries only five years later.
By contrast, the average level of fixed-line telecommunication penetration in developing countries is nearly 50 years behind the levels of the West. Not surprisingly, it was in Africa – not Europe or America – where the cell phone first overtook the housebound handset. More Africans have become telecommunications users in the last four years than in the entire twentieth century.
The Indian story is even more remarkable. When I left India in 1975 for graduate studies in the United States, the country had roughly 600 million residents and just two million land-line telephones. Today, India holds the world record for the number of cell phones sold in a month –20 million – and for the most telephone connections made in a single month in any country in the history of telecommunications.
The growth in mobile-telephone technology demonstrates that the digital divide is shifting, and the focus of development efforts must change with it. India, for example, has 525 million mobile phone users and fewer than 150 million people with Internet access, so using mobile-phone technology as a tool of e-governance has become vital. This calls for creative means of effecting information transfer and making and receiving official payments by telephone.
Security is a key area of concern today in e-governance – both physical security, in an age of terrorism, and cyber security. Using technology to deliver security will become even more important in areas such as information sharing, disaster management, and data-privacy standards.
Information and communications technology is a powerful tool to address underdevelopment, isolation, poverty, and the lack of political accountability and political freedom. But people need access first and foremost. High-speed broadband Internet access can improve everything from transport management, environmental protection, and emergency services to health care, distance education, and agricultural productivity. Delivering these benefits to ever more people will require resources, international cooperation, and political will.
--- The author is a former Under Secretary General of the UN and former Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. An award-winning novelist, he is currently a member of the Lok Sabha, India's parliament.
Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2010. www.project-syndicate.org
For a podcast of this commentary in English, please use this link: http://media.blubrry.com/ps/media.libsyn.com/media/ps/tharoor22.mp3


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San Jose State University SLIS
This is a page where library students from the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science can communicate with one another and with library students from all over the country before attending ALA Midwinter.
Who is going to be in Seattle?
Efrem K. Sepulveda, Student, SJSU SLIS, Sacramento, CA
Richie Partington, Student, Grad Assistant, SJSU SLIS, Richie's Picks
Xan Arch, student, SJSU SLIS, Ordering Ops Manager/Stanford University Libraries
Kristin Yiotis, student, SLIS SJSU Hoping to blog the conference for alasc blog http://slisgroups.sjsu.edu/alasc/index.php
Allison Ferch, student, SLIS SJSU, Redmond, WA
Brad Shackleford, SJSU SLIS student, Redding, Ca.
Carol Mulligan, SJSU SLIS Special Session student, from Sylmar, CA
Deborah Doyle, SJSU SLIS Exec MLIS student Grant/Proposal Writer, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
Penny Hummel, SJSU SLIS Exec MLIS student Public Relations Manager, Multnomah County Library (Portland OR)
Lucy Bellamy, student, SJSU SLIS
Joe Fox, SJSU SLIS Special Session student, Connecticut
Annie Knight, SJSU SLIS
Amy Kasameyer, SJSU SLIS student, Davis, CA
Elin Towler, SLIS student; San Rafael, CA
Kirsten Edwards, SLIS graduate, Duvall, WA
Please join the University of Washington Student Chapter of the American Library Association (SALA) for happy hour to kick off the ALA Midwinter Meeting, with your fellow Library school students at Garage!
Who: Library school students attending ALA Midwinter from out of town & all University of Washington MLIS students
When: Friday, January 19th from 4:30 to 7pm
Where: Garage (Bar, Billiards, Food) 1130 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122
SALA has reserved the Mezzanine room for the event. Happy Hour drink specials last until 7pm!
Garage is located on Capitol Hill at 1130 Broadway Ave. between Madison and Union just a few blocks east of downtown Seattle. Bus Routes #2 and #12 run between the Convention Center and Capitol Hill every 10 minutes! For more bus schedules go to the Metro online home page @ http://transit.metrokc.gov/ . For more details on the location, menu, and billiards, at Garage, visit their web site at: http://garagebilliards.com/ or go to SALA's home page at http://students.washington.edu/sala/ .
Hope to see you there!!!


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Washington Post Virginia poll - Governor's race and politics May 2013
Q: Do you think it should be legal or illegal for gay and lesbian couples to get married?
Show results by:
Question 43 of 45
In this poll:
Click "detailed view" to see interactive results by political and demographic groups (i.e. Democrats, ages 18-39).
This Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone April 29-May 2, 2013, among a random sample of 1,000 adults in the Commonwealth of Virginia, including users of both conventional and cellular phones. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The error margin is four points for the sample of 887 registered voters and five points for the sample of 663 likely gubernatorial election voters. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt-SRBI of New York. Produced for the Washington Post by Capital Insight.


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FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT, SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 9, 2011-SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced that it has implemented the new SATA µSSD™ specification into its SanDisk iSSD product line of postage stamp-sized embedded SSDs. SATA-IO, an industry consortium dedicated to sustaining the quality, integrity and dissemination of serial ATA (SATA™) technology, introduced the standard today.
The number of media tablets shipped worldwide is expected to grow from 17.8 million units in 2010 to 53.5 million units in 2011. The five-year CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) is 48.5 percent, according to the IDC 1Q11 Media Tablet and eReader Tracker Forecast. These thin, high-performance mobile computing platforms combine sophisticated components in a small physical area, compounding design complexity and driving the need for industry standards.
Embedded SSDs offer fast performance in a tiny footprint, making them an attractive solution for all categories of ultrathin devices. The SATA µSSD specification eliminates the module connector from the traditional SATA interface, enabling developers to produce a single-chip SATA implementation for embedded storage applications. Among the first products to implement the new standard, the SanDisk iSSD series is an ideal storage solution for OEMs developing the next generation of thin, powerful mobile computing platforms.
"To widely adopt a new component technology, manufacturers need to have confidence in its performance, longevity and cost-effectiveness," said Jeff Janukowicz, research manager, solid state storage technology, IDC. "Today's announcement of an industry-wide standardization for embedded SSDs, combined with OEM requirements for size and performance gains in storage, should help propel the market for these tiny, versatile drives."
"Connector-free embedded SSDs allow OEMs to develop a new generation of thin yet powerful tablets and ultrathin notebooks," said Kevin Conley, senior vice president, client storage solutions, SanDisk. "Initiatives such as the µSSD specification promote the development of new standards for storage solutions that help manufacturers continually refine their end consumer product and drive new industry sectors."
The SATA µSSD standard-conforming SanDisk iSSD series utilizes a new electrical pin-out that allows SATA delivery using a single ball grid array (BGA) package. The BGA package sits directly on the motherboard, allowing for form factors as small as 16mm x 20mm x 1.2mm (up to 32GB)/1.4mm (for 64GB) and 16mm x 20mm x 1.85mm (for 128GB). The SanDisk iSSD i100 SSD is available in 8 gigabyte (GB)1 to 128GB capacities, offering OEMs a flexible range of storage options.
"The market for tablets and ultrathin computing devices continues to grow along with the need for small form factor storage solutions," said Mladen Luksic, president, SATA-IO. "We are excited to have industry-wide support for the µSSD specification and look forward to seeing many µSSD-based products available in the near future."
SanDisk Solid State Drives
Supported by vertical integration and more than 20 years of flash memory innovation, SanDisk SSDs empower global manufacturers to satisfy the growing consumer demand for powerful mobile computing platforms such as tablets and notebooks. SanDisk offers a full range of client PC SSD products, including the U100 SSD for cost-effective performance and customizable form factors, the SanDisk iSSD for OEMs who need an embedded µSSD SATA form factor, and a consumer offering that includes the SanDisk Ultra® SSD, which serves as a drop-in replacement for hard disk drives.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, from research and development, product design and manufacturing to branding and distribution for OEM and retail channels. Since 1988, SanDisk's innovations in flash memory and storage system technologies have provided customers with new and transformational digital experiences. SanDisk's diverse product portfolio includes flash memory cards and embedded solutions used in smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, digital media players and other consumer electronic devices, as well as USB flash drives and solid-state drives (SSD) for the computing market. SanDisk's products are used by consumers and enterprise customers around the world.
SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
*Data sourced and used with permission from IDC 1Q11 Media Tablet and eReader Tracker Forecast
1 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some capacity not available for data storage.
SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded from www.sandisk.com/corporate/media.asp
SanDisk's web site/home page address:
© 2011 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk and the SanDisk logo and SanDisk Ultra are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. SanDisk iSSD is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. SATA and µSSD are unregistered trademarks of Serial ATA International Organization. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s).
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new products, applications, features, markets and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: the market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations, our products may not be available in the capacities that we anticipate or our products may not perform as expected and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and our annual report on Form 10-K. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.
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I've seen questions on what are some good differential equations textbook and people generally points to Ordinary Differential Equations by Morris Tenenbaum and Harry Pollard and so on
I was wondering if there are any free (GNU free documentation license, CC, or alike) textbooks on the subject. A good example, but not for differential equations, is http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/
Disclaimer: I'm a student currently taking a course (and our textbook is quite frankly.. very badly written) on the subject and actually need to cover the following topics:
- First order equations
- Second order equations
- Linear systems. Homogeneous linear systems
- Sequences, series and convergence.
- Fourier series
But it looks like I'm gonna have to do a majority of this on my own.


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As a writing exercise I often place pictures of important or famous people up on the screen in my room and ask students to provide a caption or write something about the picture. After a few minutes students share their ideas and then I share one of mine which leads into a quick lesson in history. Sometimes this type of activity can be used to review a topic, introduce something new, or simply move a unit along with additional content.
The last time I presented students with this image they came up with some interesting responses:
*My belly hurts. I should have left that last taco in the bag and thrown it away.
*When are they going to invent a real tie that doesn't look like a bow?
*This man is important. He looks really smart. Maybe he's a writer or a great thinker. I wish the picture was in color.
*The picture looks like it is from a long time ago. I didn't know they had hair gel back then. Interesting!
These are the better ones, of course. I left out the silly, off the mark, or inappropriate ones that can be the result of this type of exercise, but you can see that some students can really get into the moment when analyzing photographs.
Next we discussed names and labels…words we use to identify individuals or groups of people. We talked about how those names aren't always meant to be nice. We also talked about how some names stick simply because it's easier to remember a group of people by a certain name in order to remember what they stood for….groups like tree huggers, Bible thumpers, and even educrats.
These types of monikers are not simply for the 20th and 21st century. Certain groups throughout history have claimed remembrance through their name such as the Know- Nothings, muckrakers, and don't forget the hawks and doves.
Do you know who the gentleman is in my image?
It is President Franklin Pierce, our fourteenth president and the tidbit of knowledge I share with students is Franklin Pierce was a doughface.
What's a doughface?
During the 1850s a doughface was a Northern politician who had Southern sympathies.
President Pierce hailed from New Hampshire, one of our northern most states, so I'm sure it could be a little surprising that he might have southern sympathies, but he did. It wasn't that he held slaves or thought slavery was a correct action, however, he did believe it was up to each state to decide its own course especially as new states entered the Union. He was against sectionalism and was not a fan of the abolitionist movement. President Pierce felt that compromise was an integral part of the Federal System.
The United States was experiencing growth and expansion, but a negative impact was growing tension between states who held slaves and those that did not. Legislators from the South wanted an equal number of slave and free states in order to balance power. They feared a higher number of free states because slavery could then be abolished through a Congressional vote.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act brought the question of slavery in the West to the forefront of national debate. In 1854 Congressman Stephen A. Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraka Act which would reverse the Missiouri Compromise of 1820 and allow settlers in Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide on their own if they would allow slavery or not. Reluctantly President Pierce gave his approval of the bill because many of his appointments were still pending in Congress and he wanted the Gadsden Purchase Treaty
to be approved as well.
Many Northerners disliked the way Pierce compromised with Southern viewpoints. Many of the discussions and debates on the floor of Congress were so emotionally charged that fistfights broke out and Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator was so severely beaten it took him three years to recover.
The Kansas Nebraska Act eventually led to a mini civil war in those territories, and Kansas became "bleeding Kansas". The Democratic party split, the Republican party was created, and the Whig party became nonexistent.
President Pierce is not the only president to be called a doughface during the time leading up the Civil War. President Buchanan and President Fillmore have also enjoyed the label.
Friday, November 09, 2007
A Presidential Doughface
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2 comments:
- June said...
Reading about history always gives me hope about our present day political scene. I enjoy reading your posts here and at History Is Elementary. Some things I know, some things I recall once reminded, and some things are brand new facts for me.
- EHT said...
June, I feel the same way about the study of history. It does give hope. Thanks for visiting HIE and here at American Presidents. Everytime I write something I always learn something new.
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This week's collection of apps went all over the place in terms of content. If you're someone prone to bouts of amnesia during daily activities, there's plenty to cure what ails you down below. Aspiring musicians and video chat-junkies won't be disappointed either. Everyone else: maybe next week.
Finder Codes: We all lose things once in a while, it's what makes us human. Which is why technology is there to fill in the gaps, like Finder Codes, a handy system of smart tags that lets you know where its attached object, pet, human, what have you is at all times. You can put them on virtually anything, and you'll never have to frantically search again. Free
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Jason Alexander has apologized for joking during a TV talk show that he considers cricket to be a "gay" sport.
In a blog post, the former "Seinfeld" star explained Sunday what led to his remark on CBS's Late Late Show. He writes that he at first didn't grasp why some might object to the comment, but that subsequent conversations with his gay friends led him to realize his insensitivity.
Alexander's remarks came in Friday's show in which he tells host Craig Ferguson that aspects of cricket make it a "gay game" compared to other sports.
The actor's 1,000-word-plus "message of amends" said that the joking remark plays into "hurtful assumptions and diminishments" about people. Alexander also writes that as an actor with many gay friends, he "should know better."


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Problem Summary
The user is asked to give the site login names and passwords for another site in order for the first site to access address books, connection lists or other data kept on the second site.
Use When
- Don't use this pattern when you want to allow a user to grab friends and contacts from another site.
- Use this pattern if you want to teach your users how to be phished.
- Use this pattern to discourage adoption of open social portability standards.
- Access to third-party data should require authentication at the third-party site, regardless of messaging that says you won't keep the user name and password.
- Utilize an authentication layer service such as Oauth to discourage phishing.
- Utilize OpenID to allow users to control who has access to their authentication data.
- Users should have access to their data and should be allowed to bring it from one site to another. Social sites shouldn't propagate bad behavior by teaching users that it's ok to give any site their user names and passwords for all the sites to which they belong.
- Even though the process is becoming more and more prevalent and generally very easy to implement, this interaction behavior is an anti-pattern for several reasons.
- The process violates the Terms of Service of many of the third-party sites.
- By encouraging the user to freely give their username and password away, social sites are teaching users how to be phished.
- Alternatively, social sites should be adopting open technologies and protocols like OAuth and OpenID that allow authentication for the third-party site to happen on the third-party site.
- OAuth is "An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications." In other words, an open technology that allows sites who want a user's data the ability to access that user's data in a safe way that doesn't require the user to throw their names and passwords all over the internet. The actual access happens on the third party site where the data is stored and is under their control. AOL, Yahoo, and Google have all agreed to support OAuth, so there should be no reason to perpetuate this anti-pattern in the coming years.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic U.S. states are reducing by almost half the amount of carbon dioxide power plants are allowed to emit.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the United States' first market-based regulatory program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, announced Thursday it would lower the 2014 emissions cap from 165 million tons to 91 million tons.
Last year, power plants in the nine states emitted about 91 tons of carbon dioxide despite the 165 million-ton cap, mostly because of the region's growing dependence on natural gas.
RGGI projects that emission allowances under the updated cap-and-trade scheme will increase in price from $4 in 2014 to $10 by 2020. An allowance allows the owner to emit 1 ton of carbon dioxide.
While power plant operators typically pass the cost of the allowances on to consumers via higher electricity prices, RGGI maintains that it expects customer bills to increase just 1 percent.
The states in RGGI, launched in 2009, are: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.
New Jersey was a member until May 2011. In announcing his state's withdrawal from RGGI, Gov. Chris Christie at that time said the regional climate initiative "does nothing more than tax electricity, tax our citizens, tax our businesses, with no discernible or measurable impact upon our environment."
But Dale Bryk, director of the Energy and Transportation Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, suggested that other states look to RGGI as a model, particularly as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares to issue carbon pollution standards for existing power plants nationwide.
"This program has shown the nation unequivocally that environmental and economic progress can indeed go hand in hand," Bryk said in a statement Thursday.
A Duke University poll released this week indicates that although 64 percent of Americans asked said they "strongly" or "somewhat" support regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, factories and cars, support for cap-and-trade is around 30 percent.
"The survey shows strikingly high numbers of Americans accept that the climate is changing, but support for market-based approaches such as a carbon tax and a system of tradeable emissions are not popular among survey respondents," said Sarah Adair, co-author and associate in research at Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
"Support rises when asked about more familiar concepts of regulation, such as performance standards, but respondents appear to have little or no knowledge about the possible use of a cap-and-trade system to address climate change," Adair said.


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Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. Founding member of the European Union, it covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres and has a population of about 10.7 million. From the end of the Middle Ages until the 17th century, it was a prosperous centre of commerce and culture. Upon its independence, Belgium eagerly participated in the Industrial Revolution and, at the end of the nineteenth century, possessed several colonies in Africa. Today, Belgium's strongly globalized economy and its transportation infrastructure are integrated with the rest of Europe. Its location at the heart of a highly industrialized region helps made it 2007 the world's 15th largest trading nation. Cultural life is nowadays concentrated within each language community and a variety of barriers have made a shared cultural sphere less pronounced. Anyway, the region corresponding to today's Belgium has seen the flourishing of major artistic movements that have had tremendous influence on European art and culture. Text extracted from wikipedia.


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Damage to the jawbone can be caused in areas where there are missing teeth. The jawbone can deteriorate and change the facial structure and make it unsuitable for a dental implant. Today's technology can repair the inadequate bone in preparation for dental implants through bone grafting, restoring functionality and esthetic appearance.Read more about Bone Grafting
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Oral pathology is the specialty of dentistry and discipline of pathology that deals with the nature, identification and management of diseases affecting the oral and maxillofacial regions (the mouth and jaw areas). It is a science that investigates the causes, processes and effects of these diseases. The practice of oral pathology includes research and diagnosis of diseases using clinical, radiographic, microscopic, biochemical or other examinations.
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When a tooth is visible above the gum line and your dentist can easily remove it with forceps, the procedure is called a simple extraction. If a more volatile tooth has yet to grow in, however, your dentist needs to remove gum tissue or bone in order to extract it. This is called a surgical extraction and may require stitches to close the site so that it can heal properly. It's important to closely follow your dentist's aftercare instructions to speed recovery and avoid any complications.
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Having done our fair share of time in retail, we're willing to bet these price tag placements were all intentional — probably done by some poor soul about 10 days away from quitting their job. Doesn't make them not funny.
How could feeding your cat something called "anal fantasy" not be funny? It's like you don't even need to see the picture to laugh at that. But we're going to show you the picture anyway. And more!
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So here we are, in the final days of Sanford as we've always known it. When we wake up on New Year's Day — actually, when we ring in 2013 at midnight — we will no longer be residents of the Town of Sanford.
Instead, we'll be city slickers.
By now, the changes just days ahead are well known. Here in Sanford, we will have a city council, not a town council. We will have an appointed interim mayor, not a council chairman, and in November we will elect our first mayor. An appointed budget committee, not an elected finance committee, will shepherd next year's municipal and school budgets, and we, the voters, will determine at the polls if they pass. Town Meeting no longer exists.
Voters set these dramatic changes in motion when they handily approved the Sanford Charter Commission's recommendations at the polls in November. Some people have applauded this outcome. Some are not pleased about it.
But that's all in the past now. Come Tuesday, we must move forward as one — not without a diversity of ideas or differences in opinion, but united in our desire and efforts to make sure the newly minted City of Sanford succeeds.
It is not enough to elect our leaders and expect them and our city employees to do it all. To be sure, we must keep our expectations of them high, as we are the ones who largely fund the local government with our taxes. However, for our city to shine, we must get involved.
First, we must have a positive attitude. We must be champions of Sanford who promote and speak with pride about our strengths and potential. We need to work constructively to meet our challenges and solve our problems. Finally, we must also refuse to perpetuate or tolerate a negative outlook toward our community.
From there, we can roll up our sleeves. Please consider offering your time and talents to the community. We all have gifts, as well as passions and interests in which to wrap them. Some volunteering opportunities require such abilities; others need only a heart in the right place.
The Sanford News thanks those in the community who already volunteer. For those who want to volunteer, but have not yet found the time or opportunity, there is the start of a fresh new year to finally make your move. And for those who yearn to help, but are unsure of their potential, we recommend a promising program that the Sanford School Department is offering in late January: the Parent Leadership Training Institute. This free program, in which participants will examine policies and learn how the City of Sanford and the State of Maine operate, will aim to transform parents, grandparents, guardians and others into leaders in the community. To request more information, or to register, please contact Samantha Hansen at 207-206-1831 or email@example.com.
Many of us begin a new year by making resolutions, all in the quest for self-improvement. We take into account the bad habits we want to kick, the parts of our personalities that might need adjustments, and the goals we wish to accomplish. This is all well and good.
But what if we instead made a list of all we hope to do for others in 2013? And what if we included on that list everything we can do to make Sanford's first year as a city its finest year yet?
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Dominic D'Andrea has recently been to 13 cities as producing artistic director of the One-Minute Play Festival, but the place that really stands out in his mind? Baltimore.
Sure, he's a hometown guy, but he seems to really mean it. "You'd be hard-pressed to find indie theater and arts groups as impressive as EMP, Single Carrot, Glass Mind, etc.," he said. "The guys just go for it."
And that's a good thing, since the 32-year-old Severna Park native is bringing OMPF to town for the first time this weekend (8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at EMP Collective, 307 W. Baltimore St., $15, empcollective.org). The festival, which features more than 50 new one-minute works from about 30 local playwrights, started as a community event in New York City, where D'Andrea now lives.
After seven years, it's now a full-fledged theater company. Not bad for a guy who started out with chorus roles in musicals in high school — and was "terrible" at it. "OMPF is our way of saying, 'Here's where your community of artists are at. Here's 50 pulses of storytelling that speak to that,'" he said.
Now we'll let him tell his own story.
Worst pet peeve? People who put bags on seats in coffee shops or on the train, and then they have the nerve to pretend like they don't see other people looking for a seat.
Your worst habit? Checking Twitter and Facebook on my phone all day everyday nonstop. Sometimes I'll wake up from a dead sleep and check-in.
Most thrilling aspect of the OMPF? Drinking a well-earned beer with lots and lots of people that worked on it on opening night. It's like "Wooo, we did it! Now let's drink the Natty Boh and pretend like its champagne! And then let's repeat this pattern tomorrow!"
Last movie you liked/disliked? "Attack The Block." British import. Awesome.
TV shows you can't get enough of? "Breaking Bad." I want to rip my own face off at the thought of having to wait until next summer to see the end!! DAAAH!
Most unique theme explored in the OMPF? In Baltimore? Food. Eating. How we eat. When we eat. Where we eat. That's on a lot of the artists' minds. They wrote a lot about that stuff.
Last great meal you had? Yo, I made these bomb vegetarian stuffed cabbage rolls the other day. And I'm Italian. We don't do cabbage. But I did, and it was awesome. Shout out to Ina Garten for the recipe procured via the internet. In fact: I'm eating leftovers while I'm writing this.
Favorite place to get a drink in Baltimore? WALT'S INN!! In Canton. No second.
Best advice you ever got? "Learn how to use a f---ing comma!" — Edward Albee
Favorite thing about Baltimore? I've known people in this area for my entire life from every walk of life. It's the kind of place you run into someone from 15 years ago, and they are like "Oh, hey," like you've just seen them yesterday. It's surprising how unsurprising it is.


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Super Bowl Sunday is almost upon us. Here is a�breakdown of the Super Bowl matchup.
DENVER IMPACT PLAYERS >> Peyton Manning, QB; Eric Decker, WR; Demaryius Thomas, WR; Zane Beadles, G; Danny Trevathan, LB
SEATTLE IMPACT PLAYERS >> Marshawn Lynch, RB; Percy Harvin, WR; Russell Wilson, QB; Byron Maxwell, DB; Michael Bennett, DE; Earl Thomas, S
DENVER KEYS TO THE GAME >> It will be on Peyton Manning�s shoulders to lead Denver to the win. That means going up against one of the best secondaries in recent memory. There�s no one in the game smarter than Manning, and he�s going to attack one-on-one matchups. Not with cornerback Richard Sherman, but Byron Maxwell. Watch when Demaryius Thomas or Eric Decker is lined up with Maxwell on the outside.
SEATTLE KEYS TO THE GAME >> Lookout for Marshawn Lynch, who has scored three touchdowns and run for more than 100 yards in both Seattle playoff games, to carry the load on offense. Russell Wilson should open up the cutback for Lynch as the quarterback uses the read-option early to make the Denver secondary wait and see what he�s going to do. Occasionally, Wilson needs to take shots against that secondary.
PICK >> Seattle, 27-20. The Seattle secondary can hope to contain Manning to two touchdowns, and make Denver settle for field goals. What might make the biggest difference for the Seahawks offense is the electric Percy Harvin. In the end, the Seahawks have more playmakers combined on offense and defense and has the better overall roster.
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What: Odd Lot's weekly stage shows on Mondays at 730pm and and Saturdays at 8pm are weekly improv shows in the same vein as "Whose Line is it Anyway?". Built around a series of improv games, the show relies on audience suggestions to put the players into hilarious characters and scenes to drive the show forward. On Saturdays there is a second act that will include long form improv.
Where: The Loft on Liberty (above The Savannah Coffee Roasters Cafe and Bistro) 215 west Liberty Street, Savannah, GA 31404
When: 730pm/Monday Evenings and 8pm/Saturday Evenings
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Good review; but Obituary sounds like every other death metal band at it gets old eventually.
Awesome album indeed, along with the review.
nice work. i prefer TEC, but it's all gravy
Album Rating: 4.0Celtic Frost are Swiss I believe, not Scandinavian.
Yeah, CF are Swiss. Death metal bores me.
Solid review once again rattlehead42147! Always a pleasure to read. Not really a fan of US death metal........................besides Cannibal Corpse!
Album Rating: 4.5thanks for the corrections guys, but no votes?
Album Rating: 4.5Great review, I love love love this album
Album Rating: 4.5cool review, you got my vote. but i think this album deserves at least a 4.5... love it.
Album Rating: 4.5i like how your digging this album nemesis, thanks for the vote, i think i will raise this to a 4.5.
Album Rating: 4.5I'm digging this a lot too, such a great album.
Album Rating: 3.5I love the growls in this album, and the album too. But I think that the rhythms are pretty solid though. Other than that, great job.
Album Rating: 2.5Great review. Something with these sentences didn't flow:
His vocal style is similar to Chuck Schuldiner of Death. Tardy often uses a phlegmy vocal sound to achieve lower growls. A great advantage to Tardy's voice is the lack of distortion contained in it.
Album Rating: 4.5@deth
the rhythms are solid but just not outstanding, i like them but it seems like they could have been better
alright i'll work on that thanks for the suggestion
and definitely get this and listen
thanks for the votes guys
EDIT: I had to raise this up to 4.5, yes its that good, thanks for the advice Nemesis!This Message Edited On 07.19.07
Album Rating: 4.5indeed it is a 4.5
Cause of Death is a quintessential death metal classic surpassed only perhaps by Death's Scream Bloody Gore or Leprosy.
Album Rating: 4.5yeah although i didn't mean SBG or Leprosy was better just that they had just about the same amount of influence, but i should change Leprosy cause its not that influential. As far as the s/t deicide this blows that out of the water.
Album Rating: 2.5the vocals do it for me alot, they're disgusting
I love Death Metal but i dont like Obituary
.......your review is goodThis Message Edited On 08.15.07
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BEDFORD, MA--(Marketwire - Jan 3, 2013) - Insulet Corporation (
Insulet intends to use the net proceeds to fund sales and marketing activities associated with its next generation OmniPod System, to fund product development and for general corporate purposes. Closing of the offering is expected to occur on or about January 9, 2013, subject to customary closing conditions. In addition, Insulet has granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase additional shares of common stock equal to up to 15% of the number of shares of common stock sold in the offering to cover over-allotments, if any.
Canaccord Genuity Inc. is acting as sole book-running manager for the offering.
The offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. Copies of the prospectus supplement, when available, and accompanying prospectus may be obtained by sending a request to the offices of Canaccord Genuity, Attn: Syndicate Department, 99 High Street, 12th Floor, Boston, MA 02110, phone: 1-800-225-6201. Alternatively, you may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.
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Stories from Vanuatu
Port Vila
We just posted a couple of stories from out first visit to Vanuatu in September and October, 2000.
Click here to go exploring in Port Vila and racing with us in the Tusker's Regatta.
Click here for some more Port Vila fun.
Newest! Click here for the last story we wrote from Vannuatu on our 2000 visit.
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Sky Tourist is a puzzle… platformer? Not quite, but almost there, at least there are puzzles, but running and jumping are not part of the fun here! You play as Petey Pendant as he is propelled into the sky to collect cubelets, take pictures and solve puzzles to get to the end of his journey. All the while dangling from a rope! You must control Petey as he swings about on a rope between two rockets. As he ascends through the various terrains of some peculiar planets, be wary of the many traps and hostile inhabitants trying to protect their planetary treasures from outsiders!
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Grilled Portobello Burger with Citrus Slaw
by Toni Fiore author the VegEZ Video Cookbook
Portobello mushrooms size and steak-like texture make them a fantastic meatless option for grilling. A cast iron grill pan gives you the option of grilling year round.
Serves 4 Time: 20 minutes
Preheat your grill (or grill pan) to 425-450 degrees.
2 tablespoons soy sauce or tamari
2 tablespoons vegetarian Worcestershire sauce
4 good-sized portobello mushrooms, stems and gills removed, rinsed, and dried well
Vegetable or olive oil for brushing
1. Blend the soy and Worcestershire sauces in a shallow bowl.
2. Brush the mushroom caps with a little oil and place oiled side down on your hot grill. Cover and cook for 5 - 7 minutes until mushrooms begin to flatten and brown.
3. Using tongs, pick up, dip/press the hot mushroom caps into the sauce mixture, then return to the grill and continue grilling for another 3 - 4 minutes.
On a toasted whole grain bun, spread vegan mayonnaise, top with tomato slice, grilled mushroom, and a layer of slaw. Enjoy!
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons grated ginger
2 teaspoons agave syrup
1. Place all ingredients in a covered jar and shake well until the dressing is emulsified.
2 cups green cabbage, sliced very thinly
1 cup shredded carrot
1/2 small red onion, sliced thinly
2 tablespoons dried unsweetened coconut
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
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Currently, this laptop has the OpenSuse 11.0 installed.
Installing 10.3, then later 11.0 was very easy and streight forward. No issues, error messages, or problems navigating around the KDE desktop 3.5 or 4.04. I played with the 10.3 version for about six months till the new version of OpenSuse 11 came around. The 10.3 version was setup with a MS Windows XP SP1 partition. Later I got rid of MS and reformmated HD ALL for OpenSuse 11.0. Now, I can play DVD movies, sound is great, LAN is very easy, CUPS is also very easy to setup,
The only headache I had was finding the correct documentation for installing ndiswrapper under this distribution and a Broadcom chipset which in itself is a major issue. Which I can say I found in this website.


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Aubrey - Figure Drawing #1
Aubrey - Figure Drawing #1
This is a limited edition gicleé, museum quality archival quality print of the original figure drawing "AUBREY".
If we acknowledge that the ultimate goal of art is to show the internal tissues of the soul, we will then acknowledge too the importance of sharing sensibility, beauty, history and knowledge.
Once art is shared, there is that guarantee of longevity and the peace of mind that the younger ones would get a peak into such an idealistic moment, which was captured by artistic creativity. I took the chance to portray this special art of drawing in an engaging session with ERICA.
Figure drawing is perfect decoration for a home that is styled in Mid-Century Modern, Urban Modern and Industrial. It will help to emphasize personal individuality and good taste.
Art that isn't shared can't transcend the message the creative product aimed to transmit. This is why these limited edition gicleé prints are available for sale at my shop. The art of sharing isn't just important, but it is equally a fundamental idea behind every creative artwork, mine included.
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Alder, Semi-hardwood frame
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Woody Batts is a Queens, NYC based internationally exhibited Artist, Designer and Director. From HiImWoody.com:
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Bangkok, April 26, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the decision by Thailand's Ministry of Culture to reverse its earlier imposed ban on the locally produced documentary Fah Tam Pan Din Soon (Boundary).
"The ministry's reversal of its censorship order against director Nontawat Numbchapol's documentary is a step in the right direction," said Shawn Crispin, CPJ's senior Southeast Asia representative. "We would encourage government authorities to reconsider their banning of various other politically-oriented films, books and websites currently censored."
The ministry cited a "technical mistake" in its earlier ruling against the politically oriented film, according to local news reports. The reversal, the first of its kind in Thailand's history according to local reports, was conditional on the removal of a segment of ambient sound from the film where a background speaker mentions the monarchy, a sensitive issue in Thailand's political context.


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The Roaring Fork School District Technology Department supports all of the students and staff throughout the district. The technology department strives to stay current and up-to-date with the latest tools and resources needed to carry out the district's vision of academic success. The department also provides professional development for staff throughout the school year and summer. From Google Docs to iPads, the offerings range in topic and strive to stay current and relevant. It is our hope to first empower teachers in the classroom with technology, and then have those teachers embed new practices into their regular instruction. Lastly, the department is here to assist with any tech support issues our school district might encounter. Our help desk email system allows us to provide exceptional customer service and to best remedy the problem in a timely manner. Our goal is to provide Roaring Fork School District with the necessary equipment, tools, and training to thrive in our world of ever-changing and advancing technology.
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The Redskins had a couple of game-time decisions to make before handing in their 46-man roster for Sunday's playoff game and both of them wound up with the players declared ready to go.
Left guard Kory Lichtensteiger missed practice all this week with an ankle injury he picked up in the Week 17 win over the Cowboys, raising concerns that the team would have to go with rookie Josh LeRibeus in the starting lineup. Lichtensteiger checked out okay in pregame warmups, though, and will start for the Redskins. Safety DeJon Gomes was also questionable after being limited by a knee injury all week, but he also got the green light.
Quarterback Rex Grossman, wide receiver Brandon Banks, wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe, linebacker Roddrick Muckelroy, linebacker Vic So'oto, tackle Tom Compton and guard Adam Gettis are inactive for the Redskins.
Seahawks guard John Moffitt is active for the first time in three weeks, but J.R. Sweezy is still starting at right guard. The inactives for Seattle are wide receiver Deon Butler, safety Winston Guy, cornerback DeShawn Shead, linebacker Allen Bradford, guard Rishaw Johnson, tackle Mike Person and defensive tackle Jaye Howard.