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One of the most shameful acts in recent British military and political history was the 1945 forced repatriation of Cossack prisoners of war to the Soviet Union, the British - as much as the Cossacks - being very well aware that the men, the women and the children involved faced arbitrary execution, imprisonment or other terrors.
The British soldiers concerned were, of course, simply doing their duty. Winston Churchill had, rather indifferently, agreed with Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference that all German prisoners of war of Ukrainian, Russian or otherwise Soviet extraction would be returned to the Soviet Union at the end of the war in Europe. Many of the Cossacks had deserted the Soviet side to fight with Germany during the war; many others had never been Soviet citizens, having fled Russia or the Ukraine as refugees during the Russian Civil War. There were Cossack colonies outside Russia, not least on the edge of Italy and Yugoslavia.
British soldiers forced the Cossacks into trains, one senior man having given his "word of honour as a British officer" that they were merely going to a conference, not being returned to the East. But most, rightly, didn't believe the word of honour of a British officer.
In Julius Epstein's book, Operation Keelhaul, a Cossack speaks of this famous military feat of arms. "The NKVD or the Gestapo would have slain us with truncheons; the British did it with their word of honour.
"The Cossacks refused to board the trucks. British soldiers with pistols and clubs began using their clubs, aiming at the heads of the prisoners. They first dragged the men out of the crowd, and threw them on to the trucks. The men jumped out. They beat them again, and threw them on to the floor of the trucks. Again they jumped out. The British then hit them with rifle butts until they lay unconscious and threw them, like sacks of potatoes, in the trucks''.
There were about 2500, including wives and children - some now Australian citizens - at this particular incident in Leinz, but overall about 50,000 were sent back, thousands to die in Stalin's gulags. The "just politics" aspect of the knowing British political deal deal with Stalin, carried out without remorse by British officers and soldiers, was inspired, in part, by a British fear that the Russians might play funny buggers with British - including Australian - and American prisoners of war who had been held in camps behind the Soviet lines.
With one thing or another, including escapes a lessening of the punishments after deStalination in the mid 1950s, many of the Cossacks ended up as displaced persons/refugees in Australian and the United States, part of a great movement of millions of peoples from Europe caused by World War II. Such tides come and go. When East Pakistan revolted against Western Pakistan in 1970, more than a million people fled to India in less than a week. I saw a similar tide, of Wahutu flee Rwanda to avoid reprisals from the Watutsi about 22 years ago.
These days, perhaps 20 million people have fled war and persecution in their own countries, with perhaps 30 million more internally displaced inside their own country. On top of this, as some of the apologists for Australia's refugee policy insist, are millions more who are economic or environmental refugees, not fleeing persecution as such, but poverty and wanting freedom and opportunity for their children in a richer country.
The official attitude of successive Australian governments is that we are, and will be, relatively generous in taking our "share" of genuine refugees, but that we ourselves will decide which of the many will be allowed to come. We will not be stampeded by uninvited applicants, least of all, these days, people who get into boats and simply arrive on our shores. Indeed, under recent successive governments, we have tried to make life more and more unpleasant for "boat people", even though the overwhelming number are proved to be genuine refugees. We declare that they will never be allowed to settle in Australia.
Recent arrivals are placed in unpleasant concentration camps in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. New boats that come are met, in secret, by a militarised Navy and Customs operation which has towed boats back to their countries of origin, or, reputedly, in the past week, handed them back to the Navy of the nation from which they came.
Our response is often framed as being cruel for the sake of being kind, because many of those fleeing for our protection have been exploited by people smugglers and put to sea in leaky boats, and drowned. Our policy prevents this, even as it also consciously panders to marked hostility to the sources of asylum seekers, racism and antipathy to Islam. All the rest of the world, apparently, can be flooded with unwanted asylum seekers, but Australia, alone of any other country, can declare that coming uninvited is illegal, and that those who do will never be allowed to stay.
This week, it seems, our shameful campaign reached a new low, or returning people with a well-placed fear of persecution back to a nation with an appalling human rights record. This was an act willed by politicians, but it was carried out, as the decisions of Yalta were, by men and women who claim a tradition of military and professional honour. I doubt, however, that they will be flying their battle flags on Anzac Day, or that, a generation hence, the sons and the daughters of those doing the government's dirty work will be listening, fascinated, at the stories of derring-do involved. Instead, their parents - and we Australians generally - will be unable to look them in the face.
Although Prime Minister Tony Abbott is publicly complacent about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, from which these people came, all the evidence suggests ethnic Tamils, particularly those associated with the civil war that racked Sri Lanka for decades, face active persecution, punishment, arrest and murder.
But Australian immigration officers, interviewing asylum seekers by Skype, claim to be able to detect whether it is safe to return such people to their persecutors from a four-question interview. This is the same department which, under present management, is consistently in trouble with the courts for failing to understand human rights, and in trouble with the public over what is called a "culture" of hostility to immigrants, particularly refugees.
The government, the public service, and the military, simply refuse to give any information about what is being done. It is said that this would be providing intelligence to all-powerful, all-evil people smugglers. It also, however, provides a very useful cloak of secrecy.
One of the many reasons why it might be a good idea to wind down Anzac Day sooner rather than later is that it may prove increasingly difficult to stare into the eyes of professional soldiers and honour them for their service in the manner that we praise the million and more volunteers who served their nation during the world wars.
We do not have Anzac Day to honour the wisdom of our political leaders, nor the military skills of our officer class. Rather we salute the service and sacrifice by which about half of Australia's men of an age between 17 and 45, volunteered to serve their nation 100 years ago, and about the same about 20 years later. And, in recognising the terrible nature of the conflicts in which they were involved and the deaths and lasting injuries it did to the men and women who served, we recognise also the scars which that service and sacrifice left on the Australians and the Australia left behind. That there was hardly a family, a clan, a school or a community which was not lastingly affected has made the commemoration something much more than a reunion of survivors, an occasion for telling war stories or a mere public holiday.
It is now touching 70 years since conflict so transfixed the nation. Australian soldiers, sailors and aviators have since served in several big wars - Korea and Vietnam - and, in a much more limited way, in others such as Afghanistan. For Vietnam, Australia introduced military conscription but only about one in every 200 Australians saw active service there, compared with the one in 10 Australians who fought in the Middle East or on the western front, or both, in World War One, and the one in five who put on a uniform in World War II. At any one time at the moment, about one in 400 is wearing a uniform, but, usually, fewer than one in 1000 is on active service.
Today's service men and women may well in many ways be a cross-section of young Australians, but the very fact that they are making careers of military service distinguishes them markedly from those who rushed to the colours 75 and100 years ago.
That they work for money may also explain why they are prepared to submit to a code of military secrecy and political unaccountability, unknown in all of Australia's military engagements up to Iraq and Afghanistan, and that a good deal of the secrecy, however rationalised, has been designed to conceal conduct the ADF would prefer others not to know about.
Whether it's the business of slitting throats in the dark, playing in the Byzantine and treacherous games of tribal politics, or enabling politicians to say one thing while the ADF is doing another or doing dirty deeds of dubious legality and morality on the high seas under the cloak of the tightest military censorship Australia has ever known, the ADF has become a law unto itself. This is not to say that it is doing otherwise than acting under knowing political direction or that the formal mechanisms - bar transparency - of civilian control do not operate or that our generals and our admirals are engaged in an adventure of their choosing, with tactics of their choice. Indeed, the military generally hates "playing policeman" and regards border security matters as perhaps necessary but generally beneath contempt.
The question is whether, in the long term, the ADF's increasing separation from, and lack of accountability to the community will join with a pervading sense that the institutions of the services are dysfunctional, and that they have only a tenuous hold on any indigenised sense of honour. A military code of honour - perhaps of a sort that until recently thought bastardisation and initiation rituals "character-building - may well prevail, but whether it has an democratic and easy-going temperament is not so clear.
Some recent service leaders have demanded of Australians and the Australian media a presumption of innocence in relation to actions of service men and women on active service but it's an assumption that becomes more difficult as one sees not only how appalling off-duty service conduct can be, but the generally poor record of the officer class in preventing it.
Australians go to war memorials to honour service, not servicemen and women. They might well understand that our military go where they are sent and do as they are told, but, down the track, ordinary Australians, or even the children of those in uniform, will not usually be looking on with frank admiration at those who can tell only of repelling boarders at our borders. More often, mention of it may provoke the averted eyes of which Vietnam veterans complain. The more so since ordinary Australians, who, right now, voted enthusiastically for the politicians who ordered our military caste to do such deeds behind the curtain, will by then share the sense of shame.
What Australians are doing, in our name, at sea to refugees is not honourable and is not fit to be seen, whether by Australians or the world, be done on national television. Naturally, the moment we realise this, we will probably blame women and men in the other ranks rather than the military leaders who sit silently as their honour and the reputation of their service goes down the drain.
I'm a proud Vietnam draft-dodger, but I have no problem with honouring men and women of my generation who fought in Vietnam. I cannot ever imagine my eye tearing up about fit young Aussies unloading men and women and children into boats of the Sri Lankan Navy.


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Bobby Valentine was riding his bicycle around the Central Park Reservoir and then—what do you know—he fell into a ditch:
In the final days of one of the most painful seasons of his career, Red Sox Manager Bobby Valentine on Tuesday lay entangled with his bicycle at the bottom of a ditch next to the Central Park Reservoir.
On the wet, slippery path, Valentine was reading a text on his phone from Dustin Pedroia, the Red Sox second baseman, and riding his bicycle. When he looked up, he had to swerve to avoid the umbrellas of two French tourists walking in front of him. The bike skidded, and he lost his balance and went careening head over pedals down the side of the hill by the road.
Could this be an even better metaphor for managerial incompetence than a fish truck driving into a building named for Jeffrey Loria at Yale? That incident was in some ways more complex and layered, but it's hard to argue with the pure immediacy—the visceral imagery and emotional resonance—of Bobby Valentine going for a jaunt in the park and falling off his bicycle into ditch. Hopefully Bobby V. made the deadline for the MacArthur Fellowships.


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Is It Time to Purchase a New ERP System?
Whether you are contemplating a first-time purchase for your entire company, expanding into a new territory currently not supported by enterprise-resource planning (ERP), or deciding whether to replace your existing ERP solution, it's a big decision. For decades ERP replacement has been compared to brain surgery—you don't do it unless the patient is dying. Today, the better analogy is joint replacement—you suffer with that bum knee or hip until you no longer can stand the pain.
Apply these same principles to your next (or first) ERP purchase. Suffer along if the status quo is "good enough." But what if it's not? Sure there will be some recovery time required; plan for it. But with careful selection and planning, and aggressive goal setting, you can be operating pain-free and better than ever by implementing a new ERP system.
According to data collected for the Mint Jutras 2011 ERP Solution Study, 62 percent of businesses with an ERP system installed are running the first solution ever implemented in the company. That means 38 percent have bitten the bullet and replaced their ERP solution. This does not necessarily mean a change in solution provider; a replacement could mean a newer or different product from the same vendor, or it could mean opening the door for a competitive bid.
Of those that have replaced their ERP system, 65 percent also replaced their vendor.
When to Pull the Trigger
While the brain-surgery analogy is catchy and dramatic, the better analogy is joint replacement.
Look to replace your ERP system when the pain of using outdated technology, hard-to-use software and missing features and functions becomes too great. Or, when your current solution simply cannot support your business needs.
There is of course a certain level of subjectivity in this type of decision, based partly on your company's tolerance for pain. If you want to climb mountains or ski down them, you will be more inclined to replace that knee. But if all you want to do is sit on the couch and watch television, maybe not. Likewise, if you have no plans to grow your company and improve its performance, then your current ERP solution may be just fine, even if it doesn't perform well or produce worldclass business results. But do not let your current ERP system, or lack thereof, become an excuse for poor performance or stagnation.
Why Do Companies Replace ERP?
We asked this question of the 38 percent that had replaced their ERP solution. Their top three reasons for replacing their ERP software:
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• Outdated technology; and
• The inability to scale with growth of the business.
Yet, when we asked a similar question of all respondents, asking what might prompt a replacement in the future, the responses were more evenly spread across a variety of factors (Fig. 1).
Functionality (51 percent) and outdated technology (44 percent) still claimed the top two spots, but the inability to support growth plunged to the bottom (16 percent). Taking its place in third place (38 percent) was the perception that there was a cost advantage in replacing ERP software. Some of the cost savings are obvious, some more subtle. Clearly the implementation of newer technology and more functionality should result in productivity gains. Replacement of outdated technology also can save in terms of maintenance—preventive and remedial.
Heavily customized solutions may prevent companies from moving forward. But if you truly require heavy customization, then it may be time to reevaluate whether you have the right solution for the job at hand. Perhaps you made the best decision at the time of the purchase, but newer technology and rapid application-development models have allowed ERP-solution providers to add features and functions at a far more rapid pace than in days gone by.
Perhaps you now are able to purchase that same functionality off-the-shelf, thereby eliminating the recurring costs of maintaining customizations, while allowing you to take better advantage of innovation you already are paying for with your maintenance dollars. In fact, your current solution provider may already have incorporated features into its standard software that you developed as custom.
If customizations have you stuck in older releases, perhaps re-implementing the same software at the most current release provides more opportunity, at a lower cost than an upgrade.
What About First Time Purchases?
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Twenty percent of the new purchases represent first-time ERP investments by companies, many of which are small companies. Of these firms, 34 percent run their companies on desktop applications and another 16 percent still use some combination of manual processes and spreadsheets. Yet almost half (47 percent) do have some enterprise applications—accounting, for example, or applications that they describe as "legacy" applications.
How do you know when it is finally time to invest in a fully functional ERP system? Here are some signals:
• You lack control. Processes are manual; data is scattered in file cabinets, offline spreadsheets and across desktops. Data transfers repeatedly between desks, adding little value and introducing the risk of errors.
• You want to grow but you are running blind, not able to understand where the real profit centers are within the company. Established products, or new products? Domestic sales or sales in emerging markets?
• You can't meet customer demand. Inventory levels are rising, yet you're missing ship dates. How can you better forecast demand, lean out your inventory, and produce just-in-time?
• Cash is tight, so decisions must be made. Should you finance your supply-chain costs and invest in growth?
Credit is tight—can you prove credit-worthiness to investors or creditors?
Justifying the Investment
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Why bother to project cost savings or other improvements when the company's survival should be enough to justify the purchase? The answer is simple: By establishing a baseline of metrics, setting goals and measuring results, you derive more value.
What are reasonable goals? Use Fig. 3, 4 and 5 to benchmark worldclass ERP implementations. In benchmarking the performance of an ERP system, we use a composite of three different categories of metrics:
• Results;
• Progress in achieving goals; and
• Current performance.
Notice that the title of Fig. 3 refers to savings experienced since implementing ERP, not as a result of ERP. While ERP is perhaps the catalyst and provides a timeline, success results from the combined effort of people, processes and technology.
Fig. 4 includes other improvements that may either directly or indirectly impact top- or bottom-line performance. And while the cost savings and improvements of worldclass ERP implementations often are more than double those of all others, it is important to note that even the average cost savings can easily cost-justify the initial expense.
There is no set timeline for achieving these results. None of our survey respondents admitted to not projecting a timeline for recouping their investment in ERP. Yet, only 70 percent answered the question, leaving little room for doubt that many actually do not.
Typically we would encourage companies justifying their ERP purchase to be aggressive in achieving ROI, but it would appear that recouping the cost within a year is unrealistic (Fig. 5). This is not surprising given the average time to achieve the first "go live" milestone was 8.2 months (6.9 months for worldclass). However, we should point out that results can be seen even before going live, particularly if a company is disciplined in evaluating current processes before automating them. ERP often can be used as a catalyst for process and organizational change that is conducive to improvement.
Defining Selection Criteria
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Once a company has completed the exercise of cost-justifying its ERP-system investment and is ready to make the purchase, it then must carefully evaluate the software solutions available to ensure it acquires the right solution to meet its requirements. Volumes have been written on this subject and there is no shortage of independent consultants that can help with the process. Make a list of the criteria that are most important, and evaluate several ERP solutions based on those criteria.
Fig. 6 provides a list of the most common selection criteria. Survey respondents prioritized each criterion on a scale of 0 ("not a consideration") to 4 ("must have/most important"). You should do the same: Prioritize each criterion, and add any others you deem important.
Since we've been surveying manufacturers regarding ERP investments, fit and functionality als have been the top priorities when selecting a new system. Until now, that is. "Ease of use" has become just as critical, as ERP users have become accustomed to intuitive interfaces and easy-to-use smartphone apps. "If it's not easy to use, our employees may not embrace the solution," is what we hear.
It not only is important that the solution fit a company's current needs, but future needs as well. In fact, survey respondents report that managing change is their main obstacle to achieving expected results from their ERP solution. Companies must plan for change, and carefully evaluate any ERP solution's ability to adapt to changing needs.
Worth noting here are the two criteria on the bottom of the list—mobile access and deployment options. Mobility seems to be all the rage these days. While mobile devices free us from wired connections, they actually seem to tether us more firmly to our businesses. However, do mobile devices really provide improved access to the enterprise data managers use to make decisions and run their businesses? While many use their smartphones to be alerted to a potential problem or situation, once alerted, most turn that smartphone into a dumb phone and call a colleague, rather than directly access enterprise data.
Many companies and managers still miss the connection between proactive management and the underlying enterprise data that runs a business. It's only a matter of time before this changes, and when it does the changes will be dramatic. Those executives who have als been one step removed from directly touching ERP will have their hands all over it. So, if you are contemplating replacing your ERP solution, ensure that mobile access is available.
Considering SaaS
The excitement surrounding software as a service (SaaS) ERP has been escalating for several years. While just a few years ago companies seemed willing to let their other applications (CRM, for example) reside in a SaaS environment, they were less willing to place their systems of record (ERP) in a cloud they did not own or control. In recent years, that's changed, and many are weighing the pros and cons of SaaS ERP.
This can be an important consideration for first-time ERP purchases, particularly if cost was the primary reason for not previously investing. Cost savings, including total cost of ownership, startup costs and cost of IT staff, can be substantial with a SaaS deployment. Even if the subscription cost over time equals the cost of software and maintenance, there are still the savings achieved by eliminating the purchase and continued maintenance of hardware. If you have no IT staff today, there is no need to hire any. And if you do have a good IT staff on board, investing in a SaaS ERP solution allows them to engage in more strategic, value-added activities rather than performing routine maintenance.
Don't Wait
Do you recognize an opportunity at your company to improve your ERP performance and functionality? Don't wait until the patient is dying. Making a selection and running an implementation project when the business is under duress does not create an atmosphere of careful consideration, planning and execution. You will be tempted to take shortcuts that you may later regret.
Need a new ERP system but can't afford it? Consider the potential cost savings. Most ERP solutions pay for themselves within 2 to 3 yr. If capital funds are not available to support the project, consider SaaS deployment, with less up-front costs. Also, our survey respondents with SaaS implementations reached their first go-live milestone 19 percent faster than those with on-premise solutions.
Set goals and measure. Before embarking on your ERP project, decide which metrics will measure success. Establish a base line, set goals and measure progress against those goals. When you reach them, set more goals. Continue to measure and continue to reap more benefits. MFCindy Jutras provided a keynote presentation at The Manufacturing ERP Experience, held August 23-24, 2011, in Chicago, IL. She'll provide another keynote presentation at this year's Manufacturing ERP Experience, slated for October 3-4, 2012, in Cleveland, OH. Learn more and register to attend at www.metalformingmagazine.com/ERP.
See also: Mint Jutras
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Jianhui Zhu, MD, PhD
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Dr. Zhu is a member of the Division of Experimental Pathology.
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- M.Med. - 1990, Shanghai Medical University
- PhD - 2000, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research InterestsResearch interests include: 1. the role of intracellular signaling pathways, in particular, MEK-ERK pathway on regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis and dynamics in Parkinsonian neurotoxin, MPP+ models; 2.involvement of autophagy-lysosome dysfunction in the pathogenesis of neurotoxic and genetic models of Parkinson's disease.
Selected PublicationsView Dr. Zhu's publications on PubMed
- Zhu JH and Chu C (2010) Mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease: J Alzheimer's Dis. 20: S325-S334
- Hu XM, Weng ZF, Chu CT, Zhang LL, Cao GD, GaoYQ, Signore A, Zhu JH, Hastings T, Greenamy JT and Chen J (2011) Peroxiredoxin-2 protects against 6-hydroxydopamine-induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration via attenuation of the ASK1 signaling cascade. J Neurosci. 5;31(1):247-61
- Zhu JH, Dagda RK and Chu CT (2011) Monitoring mitophagy in neuronal cell cultures. Methods in Mol Biol. 793: 325-39
- Gusdon AM, Zhu JH, Van Houten B, Chu CT (2012) ATP13A2 regulates mitochondrial bioenergetics through macroautophagy, Neurobiol. Dis, doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2011.12.015.
- Zhu JH, Gusdon AM, Cimen H, Van Houten B, Koc E, Chu CT (2012) Impaired mitochondrial biogenesis contributes to depletion of functional mitochondria in chronic MPP+ toxicity: dual roles for ERK1/2. Cell Death & Disease. doi: 10.1038/cddis.2012.46


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Nick Whiting is in his third season as the head women's soccer coach at Lees-McRae College, previously serving as the Bobcats' assistant coach for two seasons.
Under his guidance, the Bobcats have posted three consecutive Conference Carolinas regular season championships.
During the 2013 campaign, Whiting's defense was one of the toughest in the nation while producing a shutout streak that lasted 837:41 minutes. Junior Meagan Thornton was tabbed to the Conference Carolinas All-Conference First Team, NCCSIA all-State team, Daktronics All-Southeast Region team, NSCAA all-Southeast Region team and was a NSCAAA Scholar under Whiting's direction.
On the academic side, the Bobcats earned their sixth straight NSCAA Team Academic Award in 2013.
In 2012, LMC put together a 12-5-2 overall, including a 10-1 mark in league play. Eight players earned all-conference honors that season, including senior Mary Dorn, who was named the Conference Carolinas Defensive Player of the Year as well as the league's Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Four players earned all-region honors, as Dorn garnered academic all-region recognition, as well as a spot on the NSCAA all-Southeast Region First team. The Bobcats also continued their academic excellence as a team, earning the program's fifth straight NSCAA Team Academic Award, while leading the conference with a team grade point average of 3.33.
Whiting served as the Bobcats' assistant coach for two seasons, helping Lees-McRae compile a 27-11-3 overall record over that span, including a 13-5-3 mark in 2011. A native of Panama City, Fla., Whiting played a pivotal role in the Bobcats' success that season, helping Lees-McRae post a program-record 11-1 mark in conference play en route to the school's first-ever outright league title and the program's first-ever berth in the NCAA Tournament.
He has mentored 20 all-conference players over the last three seasons, including 2011 Conference Carolinas Freshman of the Year Meagan Thornton and 2012 Conference Carolinas Defensive Player of the Year Mary Dorn. He has also been an integral component in the Bobcats' recruiting efforts since his arrival in 2010, welcoming 29 new student-athletes into the women's soccer program during his tenure.
Prior to his appointment as the Bobcats' assistant, Whiting spent the 2009 season at Catawba College, where he helped the Indians to a 13-5-2 record, a sixth-place ranking in the NSCAA Southeast Regional poll and a trip to the South Atlantic Conference semifinals. Whiting's primary responsibility at Catawba was recruiting, a role in which he helped the Indians sign seven players on National Signing Day. He also served as the goalkeepers coach, guiding the Indian net minders to nine shutouts and a 0.86 goals against average.
Whiting also served as a graduate assistant coach at Western Carolina University during their Southern Conference championship season in 2008. During that campaign, Western Carolina advanced to the NCAA Tournament where they met the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the opening round, while registering a pivotal victory over No. 20 University of South Carolina.
Prior to his time at WCU, Whiting spent a year at Jacksonville University as a media relations assistant for both the men and women's soccer teams, as well as several other sports. Whiting is a 2007 graduate of the University of West Florida, having earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in communications with a specialization in public relations.


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Let 'em work, Let 'em live has long been the reminder of the state Department of Transportation to drive safely around work sites, today it became a permanent part of the department's memorial.
The Columbia Police Department have arrested a 17-year old who was seen in Columbia driving a vehicle that was stolen during a reported carjacking case in Charlotte, N.C.
Jury selection began Monday for the trial of a Lexington father accused of killing his five children back in 2014.
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Scott and I follow political events here in Minnesota very closely, but since this web site has a national audience, we generally only comment on them if they have national significance. Happily, Minnesota has often found itself in the national eye in recent years. So here is a quick update on several local stories that should be of interest to our readers.
This noon I attended a meeting at which there was a presentation on voter fraud by John Fund, co-author of Who's Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk. Voter fraud is, of course, a reality, as we here in Minnesota know better than most. In November, two constitutional amendments will be on the ballot: one establishes a photo ID requirement, and the second defines marriage in traditional terms. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, the leading voice of Minnesota's Democrat Farmer Labor Party, has campaigned tirelessly against both amendments. (It has editorialized against them, too.) But currently, both are still running ahead in the polls. The results of both initiatives will be watched carefully around the country.
A local group called Protect My Vote has taken the lead in the campaign to approve voter ID. Protect My Vote put out this video yesterday to respond to the falsehoods being spread by voter ID opponents:
Meanwhile, we have some interesting Congressional races in progress. Our friend Michele Bachmann is running for re-election in a district that has been redrawn in a manner that makes it slightly more Republican. Michele has never lost a race, but the Democrats and local media never give up hope. The latest to enter the lists is a rich local hotel owner named Jim Graves. He doesn't look too formidable, but looks can be deceiving.
The Star Tribune, in keeping with its usual practice of printing DFL press releases as news stories, headlines: "DFLers say Graves closing in on Bachmann."
An internal tracking poll for Democrats in Minnesota's new Sixth Congressional District shows that the Minnesota Republican, back in the hunt for a fourth term, might actually be vulnerable.
They fervently hope so!
Despite a major mismatch in funding and resources, DFL challenger Jim Graves has pulled to within the margin of error – 46 to 48 percent – up from 43-48 in June.
This was unexpected. But so was Bachmann's foray into personal accusations of Muslim Brotherhood influence in the top echelons of the U.S. government, an episode that brought her widespread condemnation from Republicans as well as Democrats in Congress. …
True, it's a poll funded by Democrats.
But don't let that throw you off message! The story goes on to note that Bachmann has more than $2.2 million in the bank, compared to $351,623 for Graves, who is making his first foray into politics. It doesn't exactly sound like an upset in the making, but let's not take any chances: you can go here to donate to Michele's campaign.
Another important race, and one likely to be closer, is taking place in Minnesota's 8th Congressional District. This was the scene of one of 2010's biggest upsets. Chip Cravaack, in his first run for office, beat Jim Oberstar, the 36-year incumbent Democrat. Oberstar was one of the most powerful members of the House, but he had become detached from his district, so much so that in 2010 he received a grand total of one campaign contribution from a constituent. Cravaack, a Navy helicopter and commercial airline pilot, ran a great race and won, becoming the first Republican to represent the 8th District since 1947.
Now, of course, the Democrats are doing their best to take him out. Cravaack is one of Power Line's "Pick Six" candidates–see the sidebar to the right–and we urge you to go here to contribute to his campaign. Cravaack had a rating of 88 on the American Conservative Union's scale in 2011, equal to that of my own friend and Congressman, John Kline (whom you can support by going here). Re-electing Chip Cravaack is an important step toward assuring that Republicans continue to control the House of Representatives.
So that is the latest from Minnesota, where, as usual, there is a lot going on for a state that is supposed to be solid blue.


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Veterinarian Reviewed on June 5, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Glucosamine is a compound that is found naturally in cartilage. It is also present in shellfish, bone marrow and the bones of animals. Extensive studies have indicated that the use of glucosamine sulfate for osteoarthritis is very effective. This is especially true in osteoarthritis of the knee.
History of Glucosamine
Although glucosamine was originally identified in 1876, it actually remained in an uncertain state until 1939.
Medical uses of Glucosamine
Glucosamine sulfate and glucosamine hydrochloride are often combined with Chondroitin Sulfate and methylsulfonylmethane MSM to assist in the treatment of osteoarthritis. It is not a quick fix for osteoarthritis. It often takes several weeks for any relief is noticed. There is conflicting evidence as to its effect. There have been different brands that have proven more effective. The most beneficial results were those that tested glucosamine with Chondroitin sulfate, rather than the glucosamine alone.
Studies and Trials
The many trials of glucosamine have succeeded only in conflicting results. While it has been shown to decrease inflammation in some, there is conflicting reports on its efficacy. There has not been enough positive proof that it should be recommended by physicians for patients with osteoarthritis.
All of the conflicting results eventually led the NIH to do a large study in the pain of patients that had their knees affected by osteoarthritis. They used glucosamine alone, chondroitin alone and a combination of both as well as a placebo. The lengthy study indicated that there was no difference in the relief of pain with the medication or with the placebo. Further investigation of a sub-group indicated that the combination of glucosamine and chondroitin had a tremendous effect.
In 2009 a smaller study came to the conclusion that glucosamine did in fact reduce the turnover of cartilage in patients with osteoarthritis. The Osteoarthritis Research Society is also recommending it as the second most effective treatment for osteoarthritis pain.
International status
In the US, glucosamine is still not approved by the FDA for medical use. It is classified strictly as a dietary supplement and the formulation and safety becomes the responsibility of the manufacturer. The National Institute of Health (NIH), in the United States is conducting additional studies of glucosamine in patients that are obese due to the fact that obese people may be sensitive to the effects on insulin resistance.
The majority of European countries have already approved glucosamine sulfate as a medical drug. In Europe, the efficacy and safety is required according to guidelines which have recommended it for safe and effective therapy in patients with osteoarthritis. Studies throughout Europe have shown that is a safe treatment for knee and hip osteoarthritis.
What all of these studies have ultimately shown is that glucosamine alone is not as effective for the treatment of osteoarthritis as it is when combined with chondroitin and in some cases with additional MSM. Just as one person may respond differently to any other medical treatment, so too do they respond differently to the treatment by glucosamine. A doctor's prescription is not needed for its use in the United States and it is available anywhere food supplements are sold.
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If this weren't a mushroom, it would be a Victorian lamp! I enjoyed drawing these cute fungi and I hope you do too. Here's some Wikipedia Notes about this mushroom: "The height is 5 to 15 centimeters. The color of the mushroom is white to cream. The cap is convex to shield shaped, is arched over with a raised center, 6 to 10 centimeters in diameter, has a brownish center, and has ochre yellow to pale brown scales. The gills are white to cream." I'm not going to ramble on about the animal kingdom terms ... Wikipedia tends to do that. I hope you learn something from this tut and please enjoy! A fav, love it or comment would be fantastic! Luv n hugs to you all and thank you!!!
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"A bin? You're going to review a bin?" they asked, with a mixture of surprise and despair. Our reply came quickly, perhaps so quickly it seemed rehearsed: "Yes, because this isn't just any bin, it's special."
It's made by a company called simplehuman, and it's been designed for you. We know this, because you're reading a site that's dedicated to high-end stuff that's beautifully made and desirable. As far as bins go, this is as desirable as it gets.
What's so special about it
Well, this bin's party trick is that it has an electric motor that opens the lid. It's triggered by a motion sensor that keeps an electronic eye out for a hand advancing towards it. It's a bit cleverer than that though. To keep accidental openings down to a minimum, the sensor only watches the space directly above the lid, which means walking past it shouldn't be enough to open the bin.
That said, we're a bit short of space in our kitchen, and as a result we have to pass quite close to the bin to leave the room. Often, it will open as we stroll past, but that's probably because our hands end up passing over its sensor. It's a bit annoying, but our last bin from John Lewis took to opening itself anyway, which was even more annoying as it was impossible to shut it again, because the catch was so weak.
The sensor also keeps control of the bin lid when you're doing other tasks. So, if you're putting a lot of things in the bin, it's smart enough - after a few seconds - to keep the lid open for 30 seconds for you. Handy.
To replace the bin bags, you open the lid, then pull up the cover which locks both into place. This is incredibly easy, and you don't have to put the bin lid on the floor to change the bag. Sounds like a minor point, but we found it a worthwhile bonus.
Other sensor bins from simplehuman have included a carbon filter. This helps reduce the odours you get in any bin. The company hasn't included one in this bin, but it does sell them via its website, so you could pick one up. Just attach it to the lid, and it should reduce the nasty whiffs that are common with rubbish.
Beautifully designed
Although it's quite a big bin, the semi-round sensor bin doesn't eat space in your kitchen. Push it up against a wall, and unlike a square bin, it's quite a space saver. In our small kitchen, it certainly didn't feel too big, despite it's near-50-litre capacity.
Perhaps the best thing about this bin is that it's almost impossible for the bag to slip. When it's placed into the bin, the lid keeps it on very tight. Compared to our previous bin, that's brilliant because it means that you don't arrive at the bin every so often, chuck in a mouldy pasta dish that's been in the fridge for a month, only to watch in horror as it slips down the side, between the bag and the bin. This used to happen loads with our old rubbish receptacle.
You can use normal bin bags in the sensor bin, the only downside being that they'll be visible. If you buy simplehuman's bags - a pack of three is included - then the bags are externally invisible. It might not be hugely important, but it's certainly a sign of just how much effort the company puts into making its hardware "just so".
The bin is powered by six c-cell batteries. This is a decent amount, and will cost a reasonable sum. Presumably you could use rechargeable cells if you felt so inclined, but simplehuman says a set should give 12 months of normal use. That's a pretty decent amount of time.
At £99, the simplehuman semi-round sensor bin is expensive. But that said, look at bins on John Lewis and you'll see you can spend a lot more. And while you can get something From Argos that holds rubbish, it will almost certainly be, well, rubbish by comparison.
Of course, judged on its own merrits the sensor bin is great. We did find that the sensor opened the lid as we walked past, but the other niceties easily make up for that. We love the easy clean surfaces, the fingerprint-free metal and the whole way the bin is styled. The fact that the bin liner never slipped inside is, in itself, quite an achievement.
If you're a gadget lover, then this is almost certainly the bin for you. Its simple design and solid performance mean it will keep you happy for a long time, and your friends will admire it too. Oh, and kids love this thing, Little Miss Pocket-lint - who's two and a bit - thinks it's voice activated, so she spends a lot of time yelling at it to open and close. It's really quite adorable.


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"Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort.
Using Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, applications, weather measurements and whatever comes to mind. It makes it easy to determine "what's different today" when a performance problem crops up. It makes it easy to see how you're doing capacity-wise on any resources.
Munin uses the excellent RRDTool (written by Tobi Oetiker) and the framework is written in Perl, while plugins may be written in any language. Munin has a master/node architecture in which the master connects to all the nodes at regular intervals and asks them for data. It then stores the data in RRD files, and (if needed) updates the graphs. One of the main goals has been ease of creating new plugins (graphs). " Munin
Simply put, munin allows you to make graphs about system statistics. See a running munin example
Munin relies on a client-server model. The client is munin-node, and the server is munin (refered to "munin-master" in the documentation). You must have munin-node and munin-master installed for this installation to work.
You will only need to install munin-master on a single machine. But munin-node will need to be installed on all machines you wish to monitor. This article will focus on a single machine installation. Further documentation may be found on the munin documentation wiki.
The following guide sets up a munin under a directory beneath the html root.
Munin requires the following packages:
# pacman -S apache php php-apache
Add an entry to your rc.conf:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond httpd)
Edit /etc/hosts.allow by adding the following line:
httpd: ALL
Optional sanity check
Start the webserver:
# /etc/rc.d/httpd start
Create a test document:
# echo "Testing httpd" > /srv/http/index.html
Open a web browser and access http://127.0.0.1/ -- you should see the test document.
If it did not work try the following and check again:
# chown -R http:http /var/run/httpd/
Finally, stop the webserver:
# /etc/rc.d/httpd stop
Apache Notes
The html root is located under /srv/http. This directory may not be created by default, so create it if not present:
# mkdir -p /srv/http
Apache also creates (or uses) the user account and group of http:http. Make sure apache has permissions on these directories:
# chown http:http /srv/http
All of these settings can be changed in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.
Installing Munin
Currently there's a munin package in the AUR, and a munin-node package in extra. Installing with yaourt is a great choice:
$ yaourt -S munin munin-node
Now check /srv/http. There should be a munin directory.
Add the daemon to /etc/rc.conf:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond httpd munin-node)
Run the following to have munin update every 5 minutes:
# crontab /etc/munin/munin-cron-entry -u munin
Testing the Installation
Start the services:
#/etc/rc.d/httpd start #/etc/rc.d/munin-node start
Then test the interface by pointing your browser to http://localhost/munin
There are many munin plugins (and they're easy to write). You can start looking for plugins on the munin exchange.
Basically all plugins are installed in the following manner (although there are exceptions, review each plugin!):
Download a plugin, then copy or move it to /usr/lib/munin/plugins
cp <plugin> /usr/lib/munin/plugins/
Now link the plugin to /etc/munin/plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/munin/plugins/<plugin> /etc/munin/plugins/<plugin>
Test your plugin, you do not need to use the full path to the plugin, munin-run should be able to figure it out.
munin-run <plugin>
Now restart munin-node
/etc/rc.d/munin-node restart
Then refresh the web page, there should be no need to restart munin-master.
If you want to remove a plugin, simply delete the linked file in /etc/munin/plugins/ no need to actually remove the plugin from /usr. Many scripts also follow the following naming convention <plugin>_<device>. This allows multiple links to a single plugin.


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Rockets hit US base at Bagram, kill 2 US troops
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KABUL – A rare rocket attack on the main U.S. base in Afghanistan early Sunday killed two U.S. troops and wounded six other Americans, including two civilians, officials said.
Bagram Air Base, which lies 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Kabul, is surrounded by high mountains and long stretches of desert from which militants could fire rockets. But such attacks, particularly lethal ones, are relatively rare.
Two U.S. troops died and four Americans were wounded, including four military personnel and two civilians, said Lt. Cmdr. Christine Sidenstricker, a U.S. military spokeswoman.
The top government official in Bagram, Kabir Ahmad, said several rockets were fired at the base early Sunday. A spokesman with NATO's International Security Assistance Force said that three rounds landed inside Bagram and one landed outside. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't the office's top spokesman.
The wounded personnel were taken to the main hospital on Bagram for treatment. ISAF said it wasn't known if any Afghan civilians living near the base were harmed in the attack.
In February 2007, a suicide bomb attack outside Bagram killed 23 people while then-Vice President Dick Cheney was at the base. The attacker never tried to penetrate even the first of several U.S.-manned security checkpoints, instead detonating his explosives among a group of Afghan workers outside the base. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
Bagram is a sprawling Soviet-era base that houses thousands of troops, mostly from the 82nd Airborne Division. Most forces there are American, but many other countries also have troops at the base.
Activity at Bagram is high 24 hours a day, with jets and helicopters taking off at all hours. The base has expanded greatly the last several years and sits next to many houses and the village of Bagram itself.
The two deaths bring to at least 80 the number of U.S. forces killed in Afghanistan this year, a record pace. Last year 151 troops died in Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama ordered 21,000 additional troops to the country this year to fight an increasingly violent Taliban insurgency. There are now about 56,000 U.S. troops in the country, a record number.


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Wall Street firms across the board are expecting another year of stock market gains, and California-based quant Ron Surz thinks he knows why:
The cognitive bias known as "anchoring" has set their market expectations around a P/E of 20, and from there they are plugging in their earnings growth expectations to project returns ranging from 13.61% (Weeden & Co.) or 12.26% (JP Morgan) down to .09% (Deutsche Bank) and 2.79% (HSBC).
Of 15 major brokerage firm forecasts, 14 are in positive territory with only Stifel Nicolaus predicting a market decline of 5.32%.
Common to these upbeat forecasts are assumptions that the San Clemente, Calif.-based portfolio manager has reverse-engineered using a matrix developed in the late '90s by Rob Arnott and Peter Bernstein and published in the Financial Analysts Journal in 2002.
Anyone can use this formula to come up with his own forecast, Surz told ThinkAdvisor in a phone interview, adding that Arnott and Bernstein used it in the late '90s to accurately predict that the coming decade would be an unpleasant one for stocks.
The formula is quite simple: return is equal to dividend yield plus some estimate of earnings growth times P/E expansion or contraction.
(Bill Gross of PIMCO devoted his February investment outlook released Wednesday to his expectation of P/E contraction, which is why he said that stocks would "lose some luster.")
The upbeat Wall Street forecasts imply a static P/E of 20, which drove last year's 30% market rise, along with varying earnings growth assumptions. But Surz, who manages target-date funds for Hand Benefit & Trust of Houston, thinks this is far too optimistic.
"The normal situation is earnings growth of 6% and a P/E of around 15. If you go into that matrix…what that implies is a return of -16%," Surz says.
Surz thinks P/E ratios, already down to 18, are headed down to their more normal range for at least one key reason: inflation, which has been anything but normal. Citing a scatter plot produced by Crestmont Research, Surz says that periods of either high or low inflation lead to contractions in P/E, with high P/Es grouping around inflation rates between zero and 5%.
The portfolio manager says that today's debate centers around whether there will be inflation or deflation in 2014, with few arguing for constant single-digit inflation, thus implying P/E contraction.
Surz is in the high-inflation camp, citing the as-yet unknown consequences of quantitative easing. Specifically, he cites the trillions of dollars the Fed has pumped into the economy, which has not translated into inflation only because "there's no velocity" in today's still-depressed environment.
"So when they go try to suck that out, will they be able to effectively do that so that it doesn't get into the economy? Because if it does, we'll get serious inflation.
"Banks can lend $10 on $1 in reserves. So on $3 trillion they can lend $30 trillion … Those numbers are so big I just can't get my head around it."
But whether your assumption is insidious inflation or dangerous deflation, Surz says that market history affirms that either way, you should expect stock prices to be headed downward.


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Hey what are you pc gamers playing ?
I'm playing BF1, dragonball xenoverse and I cannot wait for Forza 7 to come out to PC !
Maybe some of us all play the same game - crip squad unite !! **sounds of an eagles cry**
Hey what are you pc gamers playing ?
I'm playing BF1, dragonball xenoverse and I cannot wait for Forza 7 to come out to PC !
Maybe some of us all play the same game - crip squad unite !! **sounds of an eagles cry**
Crip squad would be a great guild name. I'd totally join that.
And I'm guessing you mean Red-Tail Hawk cry. The famous "eagle" cry in movies is actually a hawks cry. Sorry. I'm a bit of a bird geek as well.
Rollin' since '89. Complete C8
Heroes of the Storm (against bots, I don't have the reaction time against players), Free emulated World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, GTA V Online, Hitman. Getting Ghost Recon Wildlands if it goes up on the Steam summer sale.
Working on getting a 2nd computer so I can start streaming on Twitch.
Civ V & VI mainly. I'm usually streaming from my gaming machine to a lightweight laptop in bed and FPSes aren't ideal for that. Also playing soon l some Cities Skylines.
T3 complete since Sept 2015.
FPS games just don't stream as well owing to potential lag. At least that's my excuse.
T3 complete since Sept 2015.
I'm feeling my way around since I got a QuadStick last year.
C5 injury with partial C6 function on left.
I've been playing a ton of Overwatch recently. Super fun. I've got the reflexes of a 46 year old but I still do OK.
"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it." - Edgar Allen Poe
"If you only know your side of an issue, you know nothing." -John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions..." -Heraclitus, Fragments
I just got into PC gaming (well I really shouldn't say "got into" since I am playing on my laptop).
DayZ could be a really fun game, but it seems like it was abandoned in alpha a long time ago, I'll still mess around on it when an update comes out.
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is a pretty fun survival type FPS on steam. I'm no good at it and it's frustrating as hell most of the time, but I keep playing it so it must be fun.


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When a post and/or thread is deleted, it would be much more transparent to delete the content but leave a notation as to the moderation.
The latest deletion is either spiteful, power-hungry, or just plain poor judgement. The post was appropriate and true. But now nobody will know that or have the ability to make that judgment on their own.
If you want clones and yes-men, why have forums?
Disappearing posts....
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i just want yes-man clones, not two separate types of pawn.
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"Apache Administrator's Handbook" by Rich Bowen and two contributing
authors, Allan Liska and Daniel Lopez, was first printed by
Sams Publishing in March 2002. It is intended to be a practical, hands-on
guide on how to install, configure, and administer the Apache Web
server for Apache Web server administrators and Web dynamic content
developers. It stresses that this book is not meant to be a
comprehensive Apache manual so it does not provide a detailed listing
of all the Apache directives, usage, and syntax. Neither does it cater
for Apache modules developers. It covers mainly Apache 1.3 and only
touches briefly on Apache 2.0 as Apache 2.0 was still in beta when the
book was published.
The book consists of 27 chapters organised under 5 main sections with
6 appendixes. You may refer to the
table of contents
listed on its companion website.
Currently Part V which comprises chapters 25 to 27 about Apache modules
in general is missing from that page. As with most first editions, there
are minor errors so
a list of errata
is also available on the site. Each chapter is short and written in a
succinct style so it is easy to read and understand the whole book in one
sitting without fear of brain damage even if you are only slightly
familiar with Apache. It would be more useful to you if you read this book
while sitting in front of your computer and trying out the examples when
you encounter them. In fact this is what the author hinted you should be
Compared to other Apache books on the market, this book contains more
information about running Apache on Windows. Chapter 12 concentrates
solely on the details for installing Apache on Microsoft Windows, and lists
the differences between Apache on Windows and Unix, namely the multithreaded
versus preforked model. There are also short sections about
mod_perl on Windows, and security tips for running Apache
and CGI scripts on Windows. Chapter 23 is all about web spiders, what they
are, their pros and cons, how to identify spiders that visited your web site,
how to block them, and even shows you how to write your own spider with a
sample spider written in Perl.
Although the publishers categorise this book under user level intermediate
to advanced, I feel that this book is more useful to web server
administrators who are totally new to Apache because it explains at a basic
level in simple terms on how to get started with Apache, what Apache is all
about, general Apache concepts, and does not touch on the Apache source code
and any complex configuration at all. If you are already an Apache expert
and is only looking to advance your knowledge about Apache, then there is no
point for you to get this book. However, if you are migrating to Apache from
another web server or thinking of using Apache on Windows, then this is a
good book for you to start with.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) Traevon Jackson just beat the shot clock and hit a 15-foot jumper from the right side with 4 seconds left as Wisconsin got past No. 12 Minnesota 45-44 on Saturday, the Golden Gophers' fourth straight loss.
After Jackson's shot gave the Badgers a 45-43 lead, the Golden Gophers (15-5, 3-4 Big Ten) called a timeout with 1.8 seconds remaining and inbounded from halfcourt. The Badgers' Mike Bruesewitz fouled Trevor Mbakwe on the play, but the big man was unable to shoot the ensuing free throws because of an apparent right hand or wrist injury.
Rodney Williams stepped to the line and made the first free throw, but missed the second and Sam Dekker grabbed the rebound to seal the win for Wisconsin (14-6, 5-2), which ended a two-game slide.
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I consider myself a pretty tidy person, but if you ever took a peek at my iTunes library you'd likely disagree. It's one big, ugly, disorganized mess. It has one artist called "Simon and Garfunkel" and another called "Simon & Garfunkel." It has one song called "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" and another called "Are You Going to Go My Way?" And it has, for some unknown reason, five different copies of the Tori Amos song "Crucify." I could sit down and clean out the music library myself--if I ever found myself with five hours to spare. Or I could speed things along significantly by using RealNetworks' Rinse ($39, free demo), a handy utility that automates the process of cleaning out an iTunes library.
Rinse offers four different ways to clean up your iTunes music collection to make browsing through its contents quicker, easier, and more visually appealing (especially if you're accessing it on a mobile device): Add Album Art, Find Duplicates, Fix Your Songs, and Organize Genres. It analyzes the information about your music, including the artist name, track name, and album name, and compares it against the information in the Gracenote database. When suggesting fixes, Rinse gives you a confidence rating about its solutions, helping you figure out if you want to accept its suggestions
Adding album art is a straightforward process: Rinse scans a selected playlist or your entire music collection, and suggests album art where it's lacking. You can let Rinse assign the art it considers its "best guess" or you can review its suggested art before accepting it. Rinse calculates its confidence level based on the information it has and displays it as a percentage; you can set a minimum confidence level that must be reached before it makes an automatic fixes. In my casual tests, Rinse added the correct album art to all of the titles it processed.
The application did not demonstrate the same accuracy when it came to the "Fix Your Songs" option. This process is designed to assign the correct artist name, track title, album name, and album art, to your songs, and you can, again, choose to let Rinse proceed automatically or you can review suggested changes before approving them. Rinse was able to fix the majority of songs in my library, but when it went wrong, it went really wrong. For example, it suggested that the song "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga was actually a song called "Just Dance" by DJ MAKIDAI. Rinse did warn me that its confidence level in suggesting this change was only at 56 percent, and the problem likely occurred because the song had been ripped from a CD that lacked an album name.
The Find Duplicates option also comes with a safeguard; it doesn't automatically remove any songs from your computer. You can opt to have duplicates marked in their iTunes comment field, or removed from iTunes but placed in a folder on your computer.
Even with its missteps, Rinse proved to be a useful companion in my battle against digital clutter. It's made my iTunes library easier to browse and easier on the eyes.
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I'll tell you how I do it, Perhaps it will help others. I split and sell 100 - 125 nucs, have now for several years. (mostly in 10 frame equipment) (some in 5 frame wooden nucs), I send an invoice, but collect no money until nucs are picked up. The invoice will tell the customer what to expect when they pick up the nucs. I give an estimated date they will be available. After the split and the installation of new queen, I wait until the queen has layed and new brood is capped. I then call (or e-mail) the next person on the list. No need to call if the nuc is not ready. If the customer confirms that they still want the nuc(s), I place their name on the nuc, and they can come and get it at their convenience. There is virtually nothing else I need to do to them once they are ready for pick up. As more nucs are ready, I call or e-mail the next names on the list. Everyone gets a good nuc, or I would not have called them to say they are ready.
To my knowledge, I have never had a nuc to swarm. There have been times that the five frame nuc in ten frame equipment will have 7, 8, 9 or even 10 frames filled by the time the customer picks them up. If a five frame nuc gets overcrowded, I may have to put it in a 10 framer, and give the customer another 5 frame nuc.
I have not had complaints, but, if I did I would want to make it right. If you don't, you won't be selling nucs very long. I close the entrance on nucs before daylight on the day the customer is coming for pick up, (in order to get all the bees) so the customer doesn't see the nuc until they get home, but, they have the invoice which tells them what to expect. Unless they know nothing about bees, they will be able to see if the nuc they receive, is what I told them to expect.
Of course things can go wrong after pick up, but, I don't feel I have ever been rooked by anyone. Of course I have replaced a few queens, over the years, for whatever reason did not perform as the customer thought they should. I have replaced a nuc or two in the past, but I have never had a customer that I could not work with, because I would want to work with them, even if it hurt me. Anything short of that and you risk getting a bad reputation.
This has worked for me, hope it may help others to see the supplier and customer side of the nuc business. Granted, I am a peanut size nuc supplier in relation to the big guys. But, your reputation is your greatest asset. You earn that, it is not given. If it is lost, it is difficult to get it back.


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UT Testing for Stainless Steel Round Bar
Ultrasonic Testing (UT) utilizes sound energy at high frequencies, in order to provide examinations and measurements of the stainless steel product. This aids in flaw detection/evaluation, dimensional measurements, etc.
The ultrasonic testing inspection system consists of several parts, including a pulser/receiver, a transducer, and a display device. A pulser/receiver produces electrical pulses. These high voltage pulses work with the transducer to generate ultrasonic energy. This sound energy travels through the stainless steel in the form of waves. When a discontinuity (i.e. a crack) is discovered in the wave path, some of the energy is reflected back from the flaw. This flaw signal is converted into an electrical signal by the transducer, creating a meaningful display on the display device.
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§18A-4-5a. County salary supplements for teachers.
County boards of education in fixing the salaries of teachers shall use at least the state minimum salaries established under the provisions of this article. The board may establish salary schedules which shall be in excess of the state minimums fixed by this article, such county schedules to be uniform throughout the county as to the classification of training, experience, responsibility and other requirements.
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This team member will have primary responsibilities for sorting and coordinating the inbound/outbound of package and mail activities of the off site or in-center operations. Volume of parcel or mail duties will vary based upon customer requirements. This team member will be receiving, processing, sorting, staging and delivering all inbound and outbound packages and, in some cases, mail, from the venue/center utilizing an electronic last mile tracking system with limited supervision. This team member will regularly interface with customers of all levels inside the venue or organization and need to meet customer requests and contract requirements. The team member must be proficient with a variety of computer systems and have the ability to meet the physical demands of the position. This team member is required to perform many functions within the location, including all functions performed by Center Consultant team members.
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(This is a representative list of the general duties the position may be asked to perform, and is not intended to be all-inclusive)
- Primary responsibility for coordination of all mail and shipping related services and activities, include:
- Maintain log of all incoming and outgoing parcels and mail, sort and prepare parcels and mail for pickup or delivery to the designated mail stops
- Utilize the package tracking system and or other proprietary software to properly log the receiving and delivery of parcels and mail
- Operate and maintain an automatic mail processing machine (mail meter) for outbound mail and ensure the postage meter account is adequately funded; able to initiate the process to request for replenishment of funds when necessary
- May pick-up and deliver customer packages and mail throughout the venue/organization
- Assemble parcels and prepare goods for shipping by wrapping items in insulation, inserting items into shipping containers, weighing packages, and affixing labels to parcels
- Utilize pallet jacks and other large package handling equipment (where applicable)
- Maintain inventory and proper controls of supplies
- Provide customer service by determining appropriate shipping methods, packaging services and informing customers of company products, services, routes, and rates
- Provide customer service, including anticipating customer needs, suggesting alternatives and problem solving, and is able to satisfy those needs with a minimum amount of supervision
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- May provide leadership on assigned shifts and direct work of other team members
- Perform multiple tasks at the same time
- Follows instructions of supervisors and assists other team members in performing center functions
- Collate, sort and organize communications and other forms of information provided by customers and the venue
- Assist in the training of center team members
- Operate the point of sale terminal (POS) ensuring package handling fees are collected
- Perform daily close-out procedures on POS
- May assist fellow team members in training and skill development
- Performs administrative duties, including bidding, ordering supplies and inventory control
- May operate photocopy, binding and other business center equipment
- Take customer orders, give pricing information, perform consultative selling to customers, and explain the benefits of digital printing technology to customers
- May pick-up and deliver customer orders
- Follows copying protocol (copyright law, confidentiality, and careful handling of original documents)
- Perform all other duties as needed or requested
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- Minimum six months of related experience required (Warehouse and/or Hospitality Experience Preferred)
- Proven strong organization and planning skills
- Action oriented with skills and aptitude to excel in a customer-focused and results-driven environment
- High integrity individuals who present professional image through effective written and verbal communication skills
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