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CHLOE BAYLEE TOTE BAGCategories:Other Brands
Every once in a while, a designer brand releases a new bag that will hit our weak spot. And when that happens, they will market like crazy and introduce a few more variation of the same style. It happened before with the DIOR's Diorissimo line, with Alexander Wang's Rocco bag, with Balenciaga's Le Dix collection and where did the inspiration of the Hermes Herbag Zip come from, you think?
Chloe Baylee Bag was the hottest thing in town, first seen in the Fall Winter 2014 Collection, this bag has (according to Clare Waight keller) all the elements of the classic boyfriend bags. The first design could be used as a tote and as a shoulder bag at the same time, embellished with the iconic chain bracelet.
Now, the Baylee Collection consists more than a shoulder bag, it's includes a wallet, the mini tote and now a full-size Baylee Tote bag with no strap, simply made as a shopping tote.
What can I say?
Less sophisticated, more streamlined and so much more chic'er, this bag is perfect for the elegant outfit, for work and even as your weekend bag. The size is generous, one large compartment with an internal pocket that can be opened even when this bag is closed. A two-way zipper is still intact, refined with chloe's iconic chain bracelet.
For those who hate to baby their bags, the Chloe Baylee tote is made from smooth calf leather. It's durable and easier to clean than softer materials like lambskin. Measuring 12' x 15.75' x 7.25' (H x W x D) in inches, available in marshmallow blue and street blue.
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CHLOE THREADED BAYLEE BAGCategories:Other Brands
I am starting to like sophisticated bags, at least what's Chloe has been offering recently. How to redesign their bags look very promising. Like the Chloe Drew Shoulder Bag, now they put threaded chains around the edges and change the entire experience – it's chic'er, even more modern and eye-catching.
You gotta see it yourself:
READ: Chloe Drew Chaine Shoulder Bag
The Chloe Baylee Bag was another promising handbag, but this line was introduced before the Drew Bag. The Baylee had been heavily promoted and they're still in the game up until today. For the Spring Summer 2015 Collection, Chloe introduced the more-sophisticated version of the Baylee Bag and you got know more about it.
Baylee was introduced by Clare Waight Keller was the 'Classic Boyfriend Bag' – a carefree bag that can be used everyday, with plenty of spaces and compartments to carry your essentials and more.
The unique double zipper on the front has been connected with a jewelry-like short-chain. The hardware is shining very bright, which creates a luxury-effect.
But the single-change that shifted the experience is the threaded curb chain at the front and back face. Which is the golden chain you see in the center front of the bag. It's magnificent and even more beautiful.
Made from calfskin, it features twin rolled carry. It also comes with a shoulder strap with lanyard clasps that can be adjusted to your comfort. There are patch pockets and a zip pocket in the interior, measuring 13' x 9' x 5' (L x H x W), priced at $2125 USD viaSSENSE.
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FPGA IP Core
The 16Z077_ETH is an Ethernet MAC IP core which allows communication between an external physical Ethernet chip and a host application.
Technical Data
- Logic elements (Altera Cyclone device family): 2200
- Pin count min.: 18
- RAM: 6 x 4096 bits
System-Bus Interface
- Wishbone bus interface compliant with Wishbone Specification B.3
- 32-bit data transfer, 33MHz bus frequency
- Supported Wishbone bus cycles (master)
- Single read/write
- Supported Wishbone bus cycles (slave)
- Single read/write
Ethernet Functionality
- 10Base-T
- MAC layer functions
- Full duplex
- Internal RAM for 128 TX/RX buffer descriptors
Linux native driver (MEN) for 16Z077_ETH and 16Z087_ETH
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Rotorua for kids
When you're in the North Island in New Zealand, Rotorua is always on the must-see list. There is no shortage of things to do in this adventure wonderland.
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When you're in the North Island in New Zealand, Rotorua is always on the must-see list. There is no shortage of things to do in this adventure wonderland. From bungy jumping to parasailing, jet boats to giant plastic balls you can bounce around in, there's plenty to keep you entertained. If you're travelling with younger kids, Rotorua can be just as fun for your little ones. The city offers a number of family-friendly accommodation options – from holiday parks to big family suites in hotels and motels.
Here are a few things you can enjoy in Rotorua even with the youngest member of the pack:
• Agrodome – The popularity of this attraction will never wane, thanks to New Zealand's farming and sheep raising roots. Learn about all-things farming, pet cute animals and watch the popular farm show.
• Rainbow Springs – See more of the country's incredible wildlife and support the kiwi conservation effort at this nature park. The park also has an impressive playground area, a scheduled bird show and the thrilling Big Splash water ride.
• Paradise Valley Springs – Interact with a variety of wildlife in this amazing nature park. Hand-feed deer, pigs and wallabies, get friendly with farm animals such as alpacas, goats and sheep, walk through the wetlands and see native birds or get close to the African lion pride during feeding time.
• Railcruising – Ever wanted to drive along the train tracks? Now you can! This powered self-drive, 4-seater vehicle lets you travel along the railway lines – from Mamaku Railway Station to Tarukenga Railway Station.
• Skyline Gondola – Jump on-board one of the eight-seat Gondola cabins to see spectacular 360 degree views from up high. Skyline also has nature trails, the luge, skyswing and ziplines that are perfect for older children. For lunch, you can stop in at the marketplace-style café and the Jelly Belly store for dessert.
• Rotorua Museum – Discover more about New Zealand's culture and history in this world-clas museum. Get a guided tour of the galleries and exhibitions. Don't forget to take pictures in front of this iconic Bath House building and the stunning English garden.
• AmazeMe – A 1.4 kilometer hedge maze that offers great family fun. After you get lost and find your way out of the maze, you can visit McGregor's Garden (from Peter Rabbit), the small animal enclosure area and the butterfly enclosure.
• Rotorua Duck Tour – Explore the city by land and lake with this unique amphibian vehicle that can let you cruise through central Rotorua exploring geothermal areas and learning about the rich history of the place before splashing down the beautiful lakes district.
• White water rafting – Looking for a more adventurous experience with kids? Check out the different white water operators for their Grade 2 and family options. Some trips have age limits (usually 13 years) but may accept younger riders for the tamer parts of the river. It is best to call ahead to check for age restrictions.
• Agroventures Adventure Park – Ever heard of the Swoop or the Shweeb? You'll find unique adventure activities at Agroventures for kids and adults alike. Enjoy the Agrojet, Freefall Xtreme or Rotorua Bungy -- there's plenty of fun for everyone. They also have family packages available.
Rotorua offers different activities for all age groups. Some activities like the Skyline Luge or the Shweeb at Agroventures allows ride-alongs for younger partcipants.


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"I call this stopping the bleeding," said Rep. John Otto, R-Dayton, author of House Bill 6.
The bill will require a final House vote before going to the Senate for consideration.
Billions of dollars collected for purposes ranging from trauma care to helping needy people pay electric bills have built up in general revenue dedicated funds through the years.
As long as the money is unspent, the comptroller can use it to help certify the two-year state budget as balanced. The current two-year budget relies on about $5 billion in unspent general-revenue dedicated funds, Otto said.
Leaders have grown increasingly uncomfortable with the process over which they've presided, however, and have promised to work toward changes.
HB 6 would restrict the amount of dedicated funds that could be used to certify the budget to $4 billion, as a step toward correcting the practice. That is $800 million less than the $4.8 billion that the comptroller has said will be in general revenue dedicated accounts in the upcoming two-year budget period.
The two-year is budget proposal earlier approved by the Texas House is $1.1 billion below the general revenue that's available. As a practical matter, HB 6, if approved would reduce the amount available from that to $300 million, according to budget experts.


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EP453: The Grotto of the Dancing Deer
by Clifford Simak
narrated by Norm Sherman
- This story won the 1980 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 1981 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
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about the author…
(source: wikipedia) "Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo Awards and by colleagues with one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Simak was born in Millville, Wisconsin in 1904, son of John Lewis and Margaret (Wiseman) Simak. He married Agnes Kuchenberg on April 13, 1929 and they had two children, Richard (Dick) Scott (d. 2012) and Shelley Ellen. Simak attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later worked at various newspapers in the Midwest. He began a lifelong association with the Minneapolis Star and Tribune (inMinneapolis, Minnesota) in 1939, which continued until his retirement in 1976. He became Minneapolis Star's news editor in 1949 and coordinator of Minneapolis Tribune's Science Reading Series in 1961. In a blurb in Time and Again he wrote, "I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty three years and have two children. My favorite recreation is fishing (the lazy way, lying in a boat and letting them come to me). Hobbies: Chess, stamp collecting, growing roses." He dedicated the book to his wife Kay, "without whom I'd never have written a line". He was well liked by many of his science fiction cohorts, especially Isaac Asimov. He died in Minneapolis in 1988.
Simak became interested in science fiction after reading the works of H. G. Wells as a child. His first contribution to the literature was "The World of the Red Sun", published by Hugo Gernsback in the December 1931 issue of Wonder Stories with one opening illustration by Frank R. Paul. Within a year he placed three more stories in Gernsback's pulp magazines and one in Astounding Stories, then edited by Harry Bates. But his only science fiction publication between 1932 and 1938 was The Creator (Marvel Tales #4, March–April 1935), a notable story with religious implications, which was then rare in the genre.
Once John W. Campbell, at the helm of Astounding from October 1937, began redefining the field, Simak returned and was a regular contributor to Astounding Science Fiction (as it was renamed in 1938) throughout the Golden Age of Science Fiction (1938–1950). At first, as in the 1939 serial novel Cosmic Engineers, he wrote in the tradition of the earlier "superscience" subgenre that E. E. "Doc" Smith perfected, but he soon developed his own style, which is usually described as gentle and pastoral. During this period, Simak also published a number of war and western stories in pulp magazines. His best-known novel may be City, a collection of short stories with a common theme of mankind's eventual exodus from Earth.
Simak continued to produce award-nominated novels throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Aided by a friend, he continued writing and publishing science fiction and, later, fantasy, into his 80s. He believed that science fiction not rooted in scientific fact was responsible for the failure of the genre to be taken seriously, and stated his aim was to make the genre a part of what he called "realistic fiction."


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Update: Cher now regrets expressing her views about Miley Cyrus so openly and has attempted to clear up the controversy via Twitter – although she insists it's not an apology.
In a series of posts on Wednesday, in which she refers to Cyrus as 'Miley S', she writes, "Re: Miley S… I Think What I Think, but Having Said That…I'm a little ashamed…
"I didn't keep my big Opinionated mouth Shut.WTF (what the f—) is MY PROBLEM ! I'm 2 Old to fall prey 2 'Tell us, Oh wise 1, What did YOU think of M.S?' What I should have said, 'I didn't like it that much, but she's Pushing The Envelope, being an ARTIST! She's Talented, & DIDNT COMMIT A FELONY'…
"But somehow my ego had 2 get ITS 2 CENTS IN! …I DIDNT SUPPORT A FELLOW ARTIST. TRUTHFULLY SHE WAS Fkng BRILLIANT..CAUSE…WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT IT. Ps this is Not an apology 4 what I Thought, its a Reminder, that if I don't practice (sic) my principles, I loose Them".
Earlier: Cher has urged Miley Cyrus to step up the quality of her live show and "be better, do better" after the pop icon was left unimpressed by the 20 year old's sexually suggestive performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last month.
The former "Hannah Montana" star caused a stir after donning a barely there outfit and showcasing her saucy dance moves while rubbing up against Robin Thicke as they performed his summer smash "Blurred Lines" onstage in New York.
Her steamy set divided critics, with celebrities like Brooke Shields and Cyndi Lauper urging Miley to put some clothes on, but she remained defiant, insisting she "made history."
Now Cher has become the latest star to weigh in on the controversy, and although she has no problem with Cyrus stripping off onstage, she feels the 20 year old should tone up first and work on her dance moves if she plans on ever repeating her performance.
Cher tells USA Today, "I'm not old fashioned. She could have come out naked, and if she'd just rocked the house, I would have said, 'You go, girl.' It just wasn't done well. She can't dance, her body looked like hell, the song wasn't great, one (butt) cheek was hanging out.
"And, chick, don't stick out your tongue if it's coated. If you're going to go that far, then think about it before you do it."
She adds to Eonline.com, "Maybe she's thrilled and delighted – everyone's talking about it. And so, that's almost as good as it being great, you know. Especially kind of in this day and age. It doesn't make any difference if you're good. It just makes a difference if people are talking about it."
Cher has had her fair share of performance controversies in the past – she upset conservatives by straddling a cannon in a risque outfit in her 1989 video for "If I Could Turn Back Time," which was filmed onboard the battleship USS Missouri.
MTV bosses initially banned the promo fearing Cher, dressed in a fishnet body stocking under a very revealing black one-piece bathing suit, saying it was showing too much flesh for TV audiences.
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Singer Pink also weighed in, telling E!, "I think it's tacky. … She's really freaking talented. She's beautiful. She can sing her ass off and to go up there and do that? She's cheating herself and she's cheating the rest of us. She can do what she wants. People can like it if they want. I'm not going to buy it.
"She can do better. I've seen her do better. … I twerk all the time like a mofo. There's a place for that and it's not on stage."


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Lions and cows are different. Big, fat no-brainer, right? So it would seem to follow that a device used to track each, such as a radio collar, should honor those differences. Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case—until now. Design engineers Justin Downs and Benedetta Piantella of Ground Lab, a sustainable innovations company based in Brooklyn, New York, is developing a project to make tracking systems more customizable—and less expensive. The approach? Take them out of the patent-riddled, proprietary marketplace and into the cooperative, Internet-based community. In short, make the systems' blueprints freely-available online—for use not only by wildlife experts, but anyone with a target to keep tabs on.
Downs started formulating the idea during a visit to Kenya where he was building a solar-powered tree house for Lion Guardians, a program that's part of the conservation group Living With Lions. As part of its work, the organization tracks the majestic felines (in 2009, the population in Kenya was reported to be 2000 and dropping by about 100 annually), but the devices currently available leave more to be desired.
For example, Lion Guardians director Leela Hazzah keeps tabs on the big cats, but she also wants to track cattle, whose herders kill the lions when they think their wards are threatened. A collar that's suitable for a lion isn't ideal for a cow, but buying another isn't that easy. "The cost of these collars is prohibitive," says Downs. At a standard market value of $3,000 to $5,000 a pop, "that really reduces what the conservationists can actually employ them for," he
says. Rather than tracking a whole cow herd, for instance, a conservationist might only be able to afford tracking one individual ungulate. "That affects the research a lot," says Downs. Plus, the major collar manufacturers (there are around a dozen) are possessive of their products' "ingredients"—i.e., the hardware and companion software—making it virtually impossible to figure out how to retrofit a collar for use on different animals.
The Ground Lab team is bent on changing that scenario—not so much by producing new technology as by making existing technology more accessible to anyone who wants it. In other words, Downs and Piantella want to open-source the hardware and software necessary to build and adjust existing collars, which consist of a GPS and a GSM module (basically a cell phone module). The duo plans to make the collars' hardware and software code and other information available on a "wiki" that's free to researchers, and anyone else.
Here's one way their system could work: Say a researcher wants to put a collar on a cow and later switch it to a lion, but she needs a different battery pack. Currently, she'd have to order an entirely different collar, or be stuck using the old one that's tailored to cows, not lions. With Ground Lab's Open Source Tracking Project, as it's called, she could order just a new battery pack for about $200, and retrofit the rest of the collar device simply by adjusting the software code she finds online.
Further, Ground Lab hopes to make data that various conservationists acquire from their devices uploadable onto a database that's also open to public mining. "The most effective conservation techniques are those that look at the ecosystem as a whole, putting an emphasis on data sharing between multi field research," says Downs. Plus, with diverse data, "you can compare the health of specific wildlife," adds Piantella. Doing so allows researchers to gauge which conservations efforts actually work, and which ones have failed.
This past December, Downs and Piantella set out to Africa to field test part of their system in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The main goal was to determine what kind of cell coverage was available, and also to upload GPS locations to a database that they would later visualize. The tests went better than expected, according to Downs—indeed quite well. Their next major fieldwork will involve affixing collars to cattle for a month some time in late summer, most likely. In the mean time, the team plans to hone the way data can be visualized online through the use of maps. Perhaps eventually, those maps will show a successfully separate peace between lions and their very different bovine counterparts.


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Today is Monday, March 11
Today is Monday, March 11, the 70th day of 2013. There are 295 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On March 11, 1888, the Blizzard of '88, also known as the "Great White Hurricane," began inundating the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths.
On this date:
In 1513, Giovanni de' Medici was proclaimed pope, succeeding Julius II; he took the name Leo X.
In 1861, the Constitution of the Confederate States of America was adopted by the Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Ala.
In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln removed Gen. George B. McClellan as general-in-chief of the Union armies, leaving him in command of the Army of the Potomac, a post McClellan also ended up losing.
In 1930, former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
In 1942, as Japanese forces continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia. (MacArthur, who subsequently vowed, "I shall return," kept that promise more than 2½ years later.)
In 1959, the Lorraine Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun" opened at New York's Ethel Barrymore Theater.
In 1965, the Rev. James J. Reeb, a white minister from Boston, died after being beaten by whites during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala.
In 1977, more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C. by Hanafi Muslims were freed after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.
In 1985, Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko.
In 1993, Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be attorney general.
In 2004, ten bombs exploded in quick succession across the commuter rail network in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 people and wounding more than 2,000 in an attack linked to al-Qaida-inspired militants.
In 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Japan's northeastern coast, killing nearly 20,000 people and severely damaging the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station.
Ten years ago: A U.S. Army helicopter crashed near Fort Drum in upstate New York, killing eleven soldiers. Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn), the leader of Turkey's governing party, was named prime minister. After a four-day walkout that cost New York City $10 million, Broadway musicians settled the first strike on the Great White Way in nearly 30 years.
Five years ago: The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East resigned amid speculation about a rift over U.S. policy in Iran; Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that Adm. William J. Fallon had asked for permission to retire and that Gates agreed. Democrat Barack Obama beat Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Mississippi primary.
One year ago: Sixteen Afghan villagers -- mostly women and children -- were shot dead as they slept, allegedly by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, in an attack that reignited fury at the U.S. presence in Afghanistan following a wave of deadly protests over Americans burning Qurans.
Today's Birthdays: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is 82. ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson is 79. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is 77. Musician Flaco Jimenez (FLAH'-koh hee-MEH'-nez) is 74. Actress Tricia O'Neil is 68. Actor Mark Metcalf is 67. Rock singer-musician Mark Stein (Vanilla Fudge) is 66. Singer Bobby McFerrin is 63. Movie director Jerry Zucker is 63. Actress Susan Richardson is 61. Recording executive Jimmy Iovine (eye-VEEN') is 60. Singer Nina Hagen is 58.
Country singer Jimmy Fortune (The Statler Brothers) is 58. Singer Cheryl Lynn is 56. Actor Elias Koteas (ee-LY-uhs koh-TAY-uhs) is 52. Actor-director Peter Berg is 51. Actor Jeffrey Nordling is 51. Actress Alex Kingston is 50. Country musician David Talbot is 50. Actor Wallace Langham is 48. Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., is 48. Actor John Barrowman is 46. Singer Lisa Loeb is 45. Singer Pete Droge is 44. Actor Terrence Howard is 44. Rock musician Rami Jaffee is 44. Actor Johnny Knoxville is 42. Rock singer-musicians Joel and Benji Madden (Good Charlotte) are 34. Actor David Anders is 32. Singer LeToya is 32. Actress Thora Birch is 31. TV personality Melissa Rycroft is 30. Actor Rob Brown is 29. Actor Anton Yelchin is 24.
Thought for Today: "Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him." -- E.M. Forster, English author (1879-1970).


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The Arista 7280R MACsec Data Center Switch Router Series solution is integrated in an Arista 7280R Series 48-port 10GbE and 6-port 100GbE 1RU platform offering high port density and high performance at an efficient cost point. This solution utilizes proven encryption technology to protect traffic for a more simple and scalable data center interconnect to transport massive volumes of traffic through networks. The Arista 7280R MACsec Data Center Switch Router Series delivers a comprehensive choice of pluggable 100GbE optics, it can be used to encrypt links between tiers in leaf and spine data center designs. Standards-based IEEE 802.1AE (MAC Security standard, referred to as MACsec) capabilities provide line-rate frame encryption and authentication. This provides confidentiality as well as delivering anti-replay protection and confidence in the integrity of encrypted traffic.
What's new
- 100GbE wire-speed encryption delivering IEEE 802.1AE capabilities provide line-rate frame encryption and authentication for all traffic.
- Unprecedented levels of buffering, scale and availability with built-in wire-speed MACsec encryption on the 100GbE ports and support for Arista AlgoMatch.
- Arista AlgoMatch enables flexible and scalable solutions for access control, policy-based forwarding and network telemetry.
- Accelerated sFlow for advanced network telemetry, capacity planning, security analysis and quality of experience monitoring.
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The Arista 7280R MACsec Data Center Switch Router Series delivers IEEE 802.1AE MACsec encryption on a per port basis.
Provides wire-speed encryption on 6-port 100GbE.
Enhanced with data center interconnect (DCI) for enterprise-level security and site-site encryption in a compact footprint.
Designed for the Enterprise Data Center
The Arista 7280R MACsec Data Center Switch Router Series has 4 GB of ultra-deep packet buffering with Virtual Output Queues per port to reduce head-of-line blocking.
Front-to-rear or rear-to-front cooling, redundant and hot-swap power and fans, 94% efficient power supplies and NEBS-compliant.
Wire-speed Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding across 48-port 1/10GbE and 6-port 100GbE in 1RU with wire-speed performance of up to 2.16 Tbps.
Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS)
Arista EOS is a modular switch operating system with a unique state sharing architecture that cleanly separates switch state from protocol processing and application logic.
Built on top of a standard Linux® kernel, all EOS processes run in their own protected memory space and exchange state through an in-memory database.
Arista EOS automates complex IT workflows and simplifies network operations while reducing downtime. It's rich automation capabilities not only reduce the human error element in network operations but also enables IT operators to make the network work the way they want.
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June 19, 2002
Los Angeles — The Riordan Programs at UCLA Anderson will commemorate its 15th anniversary by celebrating diversity and the accomplishments and commitment of participating donors, volunteers, faculty, students and alumni. The Riordan Programs prides itself on meeting its core mission: preparing young people from diverse backgrounds for careers and higher education in business and management.
On Friday, June 21, 2002, The Riordan Programs will host a celebration at UCLA Anderson at 6:30 p.m. in the Executive Dining Room in Gold Hall. The keynote speaker for the evening will be Rochelle Brown, vice president of diversity at Nestle USA. Expected dignitaries include former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, Los Angeles City Council President Alex Padilla, who is a Riordan Fellow alumnus, Dr. William Ouchi, professor of management, UCLA Anderson, and Linda Baldwin, director of MBA admission, UCLA Anderson
Founded in 1987 by Dr. William Ouchi, professor of management at UCLA Anderson, and former Mayor Riordan, the programs were created in response to the growing diversity of southern California and the contrasting realities in MBA programs at American universities and ultimately in the corporate world. The program encourages high school and college students and recent college graduates to pursue careers and higher education in business and management.
The programs have made measurable gains in matriculating students and professionals in some of the country's "highly selective" undergraduate and graduate business institutions. As a result, several Riordan Programs alumni have embarked on establishing leadership roles at some of the most prestigious corporations, Wall Street firms, non-profits, government agencies, as well as their own entrepreneurial ventures.
The Riordan Scholars Program selects promising Los Angeles community high school students with diverse backgrounds and helps them develop tools for success and leadership, introduces them to specific career opportunities in business and further prepares them for undergraduate studies. Anderson School alumni volunteer to teach students about the ups and downs of the stock market while they prepare for their annual Stock Market Competition. Anderson School MBA students serve as one-on-one mentors with Scholars Program participants. Upon completion of the Riordan Programs, nearly all participating Scholars attend top colleges and universities.
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For more information on The Riordan Programs or to become a corporate sponsor contact, please contact Ardena Bartlett, executive director, by phone at 310-206-3596 or via e-mail. For more information on The Riordan Programs, visit www.anderson.ucla.edu/community/riordan.


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The mother of a severely disabled boy has voiced her "eternal gratitude" to a mystery man who helped make her son's dreams come true.
Seven-year-old Finlay Spiers from Larne suffers from dystonic quadriplegia cerebral palsy, meaning he is unable to speak and is confined to a wheelchair.
In a bid to provide the youngster with a semblance of freedom, his mum Karen set out to raise £1,100 for a special custom tricycle to help give Finlay "the childhood he deserves".
The Larne Times published a story highlighting Karen's fundraising mission back in August, and just days after the article appeared, she was left stunned when she received an anonymous cash donation.
The 41-year-old mum said: "A man walked into SD Kells in Larne and handed an envelope to my brother-in-law, Danny Murphy, who works in the store.
"He didn't want to give his name, he just told Danny to pass the envelope on to Finlay.
"I was shocked to discover it contained £1,100 in cash, which was the full amount of my fundraising target."
Karen is now urging the kind-hearted stranger to come forward, so she and Finlay can thank him in person.
"I just can't believe the incredible generosity this man has shown," Karen added.
"If he still wants to remain anonymous I will respect his wishes, but I would very much like to thank him personally.
"This bike will help give Finlay the childhood he deserves, by providing him with a form of exercise and enabling him to play with his friends rather than just watching from the sidelines.
"It means the world to both of us and we can't thank you enough for this donation, whoever you are."
The £1,100 donation is just the tip of the fundraising iceberg. On Saturday night, a charity evening was held in aid of the youngster at St John's Masonic Club, hosted by St John's Ladies fundraising group.
More than 120 people attended the sold-out event, with more than 30 local businesses lending their support by donating an array of great raffle prizes.
A delighted Karen revealed that the charity evening had helped propel the fundraising total to a whopping £8,000.
She added: "Finlay was overwhelmed by the outpouring of support.
"He may not be able to speak due to his condition, but he talks with his eyes and with his smile. It was a very emotional evening for us.
"I want to thank everyone who helped to make the event such a great success."
Karen plans to use the extra money raised to create an enclosed play area for Finlay, and also give the youngster access to music therapy.


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Last night I was teaching a yudansha who had recently returned to our dojo. She had left during our transition to the body mechanics taught by Sensei Katsuhiko Shinzato, so I spent some time explaining the basic concepts.
At one point, I said, "You have to learn to use your body like one big muscle."
It sounded good at the time, and I realize that it is an oversimplification. But thinking about it further, I think it is a good teaching point. Too often, we think about the various "parts" of our body as being separate. We think about our right arm and left arm as if they are not connected. We think about our upper body and lower body, our front and back, or our right and left halves. But these are just ways to characterize the body. We have only one body and the parts are really not separate -- they are connected... obviously.
When it comes to movement, if you view the body as separate parts, you will probably move in a disjointed manner. The parts have a hard time moving together. In fact, they often work against each other.
But in natural movement, the body is ONE, like one big muscle. Take a sneeze. You don't have to think about it or will it. It just happens. But look at all the movements that are involved. I am pretty sure that no one can intentionally sneeze with the speed and power of a natural, unexpected sneeze.
If your body is one big muscle, then twitching that muscle will result in movement of the body. Moving the muscle will move the body. It sounds so much easier than coordinating the movements of many separate body parts.
I sometimes refer to our way of moving as "whole body" Karate. Even separating the koshi (conceptually) can lead to a disjointed approach. We have to be careful to view the body as a whole. Using that one big muscle is a bit like wringing a big wet towel. We can wring it this way, and that way, and through coordinately movement crack that towel like a whip.
The whole body is the whip, or one big muscle.
Charles C. Goodin
One Big Muscle
Last night I was teaching a yudansha who had recently returned to our dojo. She had left during our transition to the body mechanics taught by Sensei Katsuhiko Shinzato, so I spent some time explaining the basic concepts.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Tuesday, October 30, 2007


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Trafficking bust reveals worries over missing kids
WASHINGTON - The 168 juveniles recovered last month during an FBI child sex trafficking bust included some kids who had never been reported missing, a population that law enforcement encounters often and that child welfare advocates say they're especially concerned about.
It's hard to quantify the problem, especially since some children who are feared missing turn up after a few hours or aren't gone for long enough to raise concerns from guardians. But advocates say the recent roundup and others like it reinforces the need for a standardized approach to report children as missing - especially those absent from state foster care systems who are most vulnerable to abuse. State and federal efforts are underway to streamline how police are alerted when kids go missing.
"This has been a movement that I would say over the last year has really galvanized," said John Ryan, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Legislation pending in Congress would require child welfare agencies to alert police and the center, which has specialized response teams and other resources, within 24 hours of receiving information about a child's disappearance.
The current patchwork of state and federal policies has yielded what advocates describe as a fractured safety net with little accountability.
Though states may have policies directing child welfare agencies to report missing children to law enforcement, most don't have laws requiring that notification, according to the missing children center. That means children can disappear without police knowing they're missing or being directed to look for them.
Federal law does require law enforcement agencies to enter missing children into the FBI's National Crime Information Center - a database available to law enforcement nationwide - but that presumes police are provided the names or have specific enough details about a child. A 2011 Government Accountability Office report said law enforcement agencies are having trouble getting timely information from state agencies.
The missing children center says it received more than 57,000 missing-child reports between 2009 and 2013, many of them considered endangered runaways. The center says 1 out of 7 endangered runaways reported to the center last year were likely child sex trafficking victims. And of the children reported missing to the organization last year who were also likely sex trafficking victims, about two-thirds were in the care of child welfare systems when they ran away.
Some children who are feared missing turn up after just a few hours. In some cases, children involved in sex trafficking leave their homes to meet their pimps for work and then return before their absence is noticed. The center worries about them as well.
The difficulties aren't limited to foster care. In the most recent action, called Operation Cross Country, far more children came from single-family homes than from families under state supervision, the FBI said. But experts say they're concerned that children in foster care, who often come from more troubled backgrounds, are particularly vulnerable to being targeted by sex traffickers.
"These pimps really know how to appeal to these kids. A lot of these pimps come from similar backgrounds as well. They can lure them in by providing them care, feeding, attention," Joseph Campbell, assistant director of the FBI's criminal investigative division, said in an interview.
In a transient child welfare system, it's a challenge for states to keep perfect track of children under their care. Many run away repeatedly but return on their own, giving guardians little incentive to report them missing each time. The Internet enables children to be prostituted through online advertisements instead of street corners, making it easier than ever for trafficking to cross state lines.
"When you come across a child and you have no information on who they are, it becomes difficult to, first of all, ID them - you don't know if there are warrants for them or if there are medical needs for this child," or if they're supposed to be under state care, said Michael Osborn, chief of the FBI's Violent Crimes Against Children unit.
About one-third of the kids rescued in the most recent Operation Cross Country had previously been reported missing, Osborn said. But not all of the others would necessarily be classified as missing; some simply hadn't been gone for long enough make their guardians concerned.
State policies vary.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services is in the process of issuing a bulletin to county agencies instructing them to reporting missing foster children to local law enforcement and the missing children center. It plans to propose legislation to that effect in the 2015 legislative session. Nebraska urges foster guardians to directly file missing children reports with police. The state says it will monitor the situation and contact police if the foster parent doesn't.
A new Georgia law expands who can report a child as missing to include any caretaker or government entity responsible for the child, not just the parent or guardian.
Florida developed new policies following the 2000 disappearance of foster child Rilya Wilson, whose caseworker lied about visiting her while filing false reports and telling judges the girl was fine. The girl is presumed dead.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a sponsor of legislation that would require child welfare agencies to provide notification of missing children, said failure to do so is a "moral blot on our country."
Wyden has previously introduced similar versions of the bill, but this year those provisions were folded into broader legislation that, among other things, would increase incentives for adoption. Aides say the measure, which last week passed the House of Representatives, has bipartisan support.


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I have been laying awake on my parent's couch for the past few hours. I awoke because I knew I wasn't where I "belong". This couch is not my bed, this place is not my home. I am mourning the loss of my favorite spot, that warm glowing abode that I was so lucky to inhabit for a year of my life.
It's interesting for me to look back, and see how drastically things have changed. I was clicking through old entries, hoping to find connections to the past - little moments in my apartment that I cherished so dearly. I found this entry from last February, and oh - how sad I was! Of course then, a change of scenery seemed to be the answer, but I was merely just depressed from some pretty hard changes several months before. I must say it's encouraging to look back at a time that was so dark and see the progress, the growth and the results. It was not my surroundings that needed changing after all, it was simply an internal change that needed to take place. I just needed time, I needed healing and closure.
Now I can say that I am so happy I stayed put, that I learned how to be alone and that I learned how truly great it is. I had such a difficult time being on my own in the beginning - living all by myself. In fact, as you might recall, I hated it. Granted, it was a very hard time to be alone. But now, how things have changed! I love to be alone and that apartment became my own little piece of heaven. I am so glad I didn't give it up then.
Moving out of my place, after how hard I worked to be happy not only there, but in my own head and heart (little side self-pep talk: for the sake of traveling - which will be amazing and worth it!) is so much more difficult than I anticipated it would be. I've moved out of apartments before, but this place was different for me. I experienced a lot there, I felt a lot there, I grew to love it as though it were a friend - and it was a great friend, as silly as it sounds (every moment spent in there felt like a big hug!). I suppose I'm just realizing that right now seems hard, just as last fall was hard. This is in a different way, but still I am losing something I loved - and it's okay to grieve that for as long as I need to - but it's important to remember that things will switch over soon. Soon things won't look so bad. Soon the east side won't seem so awful (maybe I'm getting ahead of myself by saying that!), soon this new lifestyle won't seem so uncomfortable. Soon I will be boarding a plane to major adventures abroad, and then I will look back on this time with fondness for whatever it is I'm about to learn.
So tomorrow- er, today - I will step into my home for the last time. I will clear out everything that is left and say goodbye for now. I am kind of hoping that when I return from my travels it will be up for rent again and then my good old friend, Apartment 201 and I can pick up right where we left off.
Ps. So much thanks to those friendly faces who came by to my moving sale today. The purchases you made, as well as the encouraging words spoken, will all help to make this transition so much easier. It was wonderful to meet some of my readers. You all are so great!


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---Southgate police say the seagull problem has gotten so out of control they needed to turn to the state for help
"We were granted a permit from the state to use deadly force if needed to try and eleviate this problem," said Thomas Coombs, Southgate Police Public Safety Director. "We cannot take out more than 500 seagulls and we are only sacrificing some birds in hopes the rest will leave."
Images: Seagulls invade Southgate dealership
Tuesday night the city of Southgate sent Department of Public Work trucks to area with plows attached. But as the truck drove by the seagulls would scurry away, then land right back on the ground.
"The city has only turned to taking out some of the birds as a last result. We believe along with the state this is the most humane way to do this," Coombs said.
---Southgate police chose to shoot the birds rather than poison them
Southgate police chose not to poison the birds because they didn't want dying or sick seagulls to be dropping from the sky all around the city.
"We want to keep this contained, we've heard some people are coming onto the property to feed them, we've put caution tape around the dealership so people know to stay out," said Coombs.
The officers did shoot 100-200 seagulls this morning. They started shooting around 9 in the morning and ended at 11am. Coombs told Local 4 their efforts are proving to be unsuccessful but they plan on coming back and the people living in the area are hoping police don't give up.
"I live right around the corner, I feel like this is too little too late, they should have been doing this weeks ago, months ago, but I'll take whatever we can get," said Bob Sutton.
The city is hoping there will be fewer seagulls in time for the downriver cruise and police confirm a business is expected to occupy the vacant dealership in the next few months.
Read: Seagulls invade vacant Southgate Saturn dealership
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The World Curling Federation has announced that the World Senior Curling Championships 2012 will take place at Tårnby Curling Club in Kastrup, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, in Denmark.
The event will run from 14-21 April at the seven sheet curling facility which was the venue for the 2006 World Seniors event.
"Following the success of the 2006 World Senior Championships, the World Curling Federation looks forward to returning to Tårnby in 2012 to work with the curling club and our Danish Curling Association colleagues once again" said World Curling Federation President Kate Caithness. "The purpose-built club has proved to be a curling success story with the facility regularly hosting top level international curling events to a high standard and the 2012 World Senior Championships will be no exception."
"On behalf of the Danish Curling Association and Tårnby Curling Club, we are delighted to welcome senior curlers from around the world back to Copenhagen" said Johannes Jensen, President of Tårnby Curling Club and chairman of the 2012 World Seniors organising committee. "We have added an additional two sheets of curling ice this year to make Tårnby a seven sheet facility. As we will host the European Mixed Championships and European C Group, European Junior Curling Challenge and the World Seniors this season, it will be a busy year for us. But we look forward to welcoming the world once more to our club."
2012 will be the 11th edition of the formally sanctioned World Curling Federation World Senior Curling Championships since its inauguration in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA in 2002. Canada currently holds both the senior men's and senior women's championship titles, with both teams winning gold at the 2011 Seniors in St Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Altogether 21 senior men's teams and eleven senior women's teams competed at the 2011 event. To be eligible to play in the senior championships, players must not be less than 50 years of age by the end of June of the year immediately preceding the year in which the championship is to take place.
The nations represented at the men's event in 2011 were: Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, USA and Wales.
Canada, Czech Republic, England, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and USA competed in the 2011 women's senior championship.
The event is 'open entry' for WCF Member Associations. One team from each gender may enter from each Member Association. The deadline for entries is 15 December 2011.
For more info visit: World Senior Curling Championships 2012
About Tårnby Curling Club www.taarnbycurlingclub.dk
The club was built in 1978 and further expanded in 2003 and 2011 to make a total of seven sheets of curling ice. In the 2011-2012 season the club will host the following events: the European Mixed Curling Championships and the European Curling Championships C Group (30 September – 8 October). From 3-8 January the European Junior Curling Challenge 2012 will also be staged at the club.
About the Danish Curling Association www.curling.dk
The Danish Curling Association was founded in 1971 and joined the WCF in the same year. Since the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, when Denmark's Helena Blach Lavrsen took silver, interest in curling has grown with over 5000 Danes playing the sport today. Dedicated curling facilities exist in Hvidovre, Tårnby and Esbjerg, with a new rink currently under construction in Gentofte. In 2011, Esbjerg hosted the Capital One World Women's Curling Championship. Denmark is currently ranked 9th in the WCF world men's rankings and 4th in the women's rankings following a silver medal finish for Rasmus Stjerne's team in the European Men's Championship 2010 and a fourth place finish for Lene Nielsen's team at the 2011 Women's Worlds.


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This past weekend, I was at the Albuquerque Special Collections Library when I was approached by two sisters who were trying to apply for a Certificate of Indian Blood for Taos Pueblo. Although I knew next to nothing about how to apply, I did try to my best to help them.
The ladies had compiled a number of documents such as baptismal, birth, marriage and census records. They mentioned that they were having a hard time getting the pueblo to accept their application. They weren't sure what they needed; however, after asking them a number of questions, it appeared that the pueblo was requesting official certified copies of certain documents. Therefore, they would have to request these from specific entities that held these documents.
Some of my suggestions that I gave them were:
1.) They need to contact the pueblo to find out exactly what was required and request required forms. Taos Pueblo has a website (click here) that, although it does not have specific information about how to apply for a certificate, does have contact information for the governor's office. Some very basic information about applying for tribal enrollment can also be found on the U.S. Department of Interior 's website (click here.)
2.) They need to prove an unbroken link between themselves and their ancestor who they believe to have full Taos Pueblo Indian blood (in this case, it was their grandfather.) They must also prove that their ancestor is the same person who is listed in a Indian census of the pueblo. In order to do this, they must follow the Genealogical Proof Standard, which can be found in a number of publications including Genealogical Resources of New Mexico, 3rd Edition and Native American Genealogical Resources of New Mexico, both written and compiled by Karen Stein Daniel, CGsm and for sale by the New Mexico Genealogical Society (click here.) The Genealogical Proof Standard can also be found on the NMGS website (click here.)
3.) They will also need to provide proper citations for their research. As such, I suggested that they purchase a copy of Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills. This may be purchased on Amazon.com . If a copy is bought through the NMGS website, proceeds will go to the Albuquerque Special Collections Library to purchase new books.(click here.)
4.) If the pueblo indeed needs certified copies of these records, they would have to request these documents from the organizations that hold the originals. This could include county clerk offices; state records offices; church, diocese and/or archdiocese offices; and the National Archives and Records Administration (click here for the NARA website.) There will be a cost for certified copies. Certified copies are official documents. At no point should anyone send originals of any document to organizations requesting them, as those documents may be lost or become part of the permanent collection of that organization. Certified copies should be sent instead and are more than sufficient to fulfill any request.
5.) I sold them a copy of Native American Genealogical Resources of New Mexico (click here.) There is no other tome like this one. It is thoroughly researched and extensive in its scope. Items included in this volume are a list of archives, libraries and museums; church, mission and religious resources; Family History Library microfilm resources; federal government resources; Internet resources; resources categorized by tribe and pueblo; and much, much more. Anyone researching Native American ancestry in New Mexico (and many other places) will want to have this book in their collection (once again, you can order it by clicking on this link.)
There may be more to researching and applying for tribal enrollment. If anyone has further information, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I may post your information on this blog.
Blog post revised 09/29/09.


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To add to the sadness, this morning a story broke about the ice buckets holding the Giants' victory champagne. In the confusion of screaming and happiness that Tigers fans and stadium staff are frankly not used to, the "hooray, the Tigers won!" party favors got accidentally passed out to the Giants. I warn you, what you are about to see will make you sob great heaping bucketfuls of tears. I mean, I assume. Everyone else feels like they just got kicked in the vag, right?
See the whole story at Yahoo!, including the part where the Giants just didn't give a shit, because hey. World Series champions.
As for my to-do list, things are getting more manageable!
I'll be shilling wreaths for another school fundraiser.I've just straight given up on this one. I don't even know where the order forms are it doesn't matter, pick up is on a day when I couldn't fill the orders, anyway! GET OUT OF WREATH JAIL FREE! Pumpkins must be carved.Carved. Like a boss. I'll post pictures eventually.
- I'll be volunteering at my daughter's preschool on two days.
- One of those is her birthday. This necessitates cupcakes at school and a cake at home.
- I'll need to take her to get her school picture retaken, as well.
100 bags and 100 folders need to be filled with various authors' promo for the Ready, Set, Write! conference.As I type this, help is arriving at my doorstep to get the bags filled.
- Still on the conference committee.
- Still the president.
- Still need to give a speech.
- Need to go over my presentation, write where necessary.
- Bring snack to my son's scout meeting.
Things are shaping up. Now I need to go briefly sob in the corner and set my sights on April.


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I was listening to NPR this afternoon and heard something which literally sent a chill down my spine. Senator Pat Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was being interviewed about the Great Prosecutor Purge. He was asked about his reaction when he heard in the media that Attorney General Gonzales had provided false information to Congress about the firings of the 8 US Attorneys:
"I just blew my stack. It was outrageous, because we had given the administration, the Department of Justice, every chance to come forward and tell us everything that happened. They assured us that they had told us everything that happened, and yet they left out some very, very key points. I saw the attorney general this morning in a meeting at the Supreme Court, and I told him that I was very, very unhappy with this — actually quite angry about it. [...] He said that he would be happy to come up and brief us some more. I said, "No, I've had enough of these briefings where ostensibly we're told everything; it turns out we weren't. The next time you come up will be before the full committee; it will be an open session; and you will be under oath."" (Emphasis original)I don't have an opinion about the case -- frankly, I don't know the law or the facts and for all I know this may in the end turn out to be just a crass and clumsy attempt at political patronage. I'm from Chicago, and patronage runs deep in my blood, so I won't get too high and mighty on the topic. But, if as appears to be the case, the US Attorneys were fired because they investigated Republicans or failed to investigate Democrats, well then, we've got a real scandal on our hands, don't we?
But what gave me the chill was not my simple partisan glee at anticipating Alberto "The Constitution does not contain an express grant of Habeas corpus" Gonzales' resignation (though I do relish the thought) but the simple thought that finally, after six years of complete neglect, Congress is finally exercising oversight again. No, we can't effect immediate policy changes or pull the troops out of Iraq on a moment's notice. But the grown-ups are back in charge on the Hill, and finally, someone with subpoena power, someone responsible, someone with an interest in being a check on this administration's abuse of power, is back at the reins and willing to actually fulfill the constitutional role of oversight again.
It's been far too long.


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- Make sure auto-pause (bike settings) and auto-power-down (system settings) are both set. This is the default.
- Start riding towards ride meeting place.
- Hit "start/stop" to start recording data.
- Reach your meeting point. Wait. Chat. First the system "auto-pauses", then finally the system auto-power-downs, but you don't notice because you're chatting.
- Start riding again.
- Notice system is off, so you turn it back on, figuring everything should be okay now.
- Begin your critical climbing interval (which for purposes of this work we'll refer to as "OLH"), you hit "lap". The system reports a lap time and everything seems fine.
- Finish your critical climbing interval, you hit "lap". However, no lap data have been saved. Indeed no data at all are being saved....
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It's a bit of a shock to get to the end of your ride only to find that you have data only up to your meeting place. That critical climbing interval, an important fitness test, one where you want to carefully analyze your pacing, is lost in the neverland of lost numbers. It's gone. Simply gone.
The solution? Shut off auto-power-down and/or shut off auto-pause. Auto-pause is what put the system into non-recording mode, and when it's in non-recording mode it auto-powers-down, and once it auto-powers-down it forgets that it had been recording.
I may be a nimrod at times, but the fact is I've never lost ride data in this way with the Saris Cervo "Little Yellow Computer". What would typically happen with that was if I would stop, it would shut off after 4 minutes, then after I started riding again I would take awhile before I realized I needed to turn it back on therefore I'd lose these segments of data. But if it was on, it was recording.
So my solution for the Edge 500 is to shut off auto-power-down. I'll just need to remember to shut it off when I'm done with my ride and I'm not going to plug it into a USB port from which it can draw current. Hopefully I avoid losing any more data in the future.


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Brussels, 21 September 2010
European Commission adopts an EU external strategy on Passenger Name Record (PNR)
The European Commission adopted today a package of proposals on the exchange of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data with third countries, consisting of an EU external PNR strategy and recommendations for negotiating directives for new PNR agreements with the United States, Australia and Canada.
"In this strategy, we set the general principles that any PNR agreement with a third country should be based on. PNR data has proven to be an important tool in the fight against serious transnational crime and terrorism, but at the same time, it raises important issues about protection of personal data", said EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström.
More and more third countries use Passenger Name Record (PNR) data in the fight against terrorism and serious transnational crime. Law enforcement authorities can use data provided by a passenger to book a flight to investigate past crimes, prevent new ones and make risk analysis.
Currently the exchange of PNR data with third countries is done under different frameworks. Continuing this situation when PNR data is an increasingly popular security tool, would adversely affect legal certainty and the protection of passengers' personal data.
The Communication presented today sets general principles that any PNR agreement with a third country should observe:
1. Protection of personal data, which aim to protect the rights of passengers:
2. Modalities of transfer of the PNR data, which aim to provide legal certainty to air carriers and keep costs at an acceptable level: PNR data should be transmitted using the "PUSH" system, and the number of times that data is transferred before each flight be limited and proportionate.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Cliff Pennington brings deft defense to the shortstop position. Any offense he provides for his new team in Arizona would be a bonus.
Needless to say, the Diamondbacks would love more performances like the one Pennington delivered against his former Oakland teammates on Tuesday, when he went 2-for-2 with a two-run homer for Arizona's split squad in a 9-4 win.
Acquired last October in a trade that sent center fielder Chris Young to Oakland, Pennington hit just six home runs last season and has 24 in 1,748 career at bats in the majors. So his shot off Fernando Rodriguez was a rarity.
"I'm just trying to take good swings right now," he said. "I'm seeing the ball good. I caught one out front. It's not something I've done a whole lot in my career but I'll catch one from time to time."
Pennington, who came up through the Oakland organization, acknowledged being extra motivated against his former team, even if it was only a spring training game.
"Anytime you play your friends in anything there's always a little extra on it and I've got a lot of buddies over there," he said. "I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a little bit sweeter."
Pennington is in competition with Willie Bloomquist for the everyday shortstop job but he said he isn't worrying about that situation.
"I'm just trying to go out there and get as comfortable as I can with the guys on this team, this coaching staff," he said. "Signs and the National League, there's a whole lot of stuff on my plate right now that I'm trying to iron out. I'm just going to do the best I can, play the way I play and whatever happens, happens."
Manager Kirk Gibson said his staff has been working with Pennington, who hit just .215 last season after batting .264 in 2011.
"He's going to have a better year this year than he did last year. How much, I don't know," Gibson said. "We've been working on some things. Obviously he executed properly today. ... We're trying to shorten him way up, trying to get his bat short to the ball. He can wait and see and recognize the ball longer. He's a really good ballplayer, you can tell that. He's a baseball player."
Jason Kubel and Adam Eaton also hit two-run homers for Arizona.
A's starter A.J. Griffin was sharp in his spring debut. The right-hander, who came up from the minors to go 7-1 with a 3.06 ERA in 15 starts and help the A's win the AL West last season, gave up one hit and struck out three in two scoreless innings. It was his first big league spring training start. That left him in the unusual position of having started a major league postseason game before starting a big league spring training game.
"Looking back on it, I never would have thought I'd be throwing in the ALDS before I make a spring training major league appearance," he said. "But that's how it all kind of fell into place last year. I'll just keep going with it, I guess, that's all you can do."
Josh Collmenter, sporting a magnificent beard grown in the offseason, started and pitched two scoreless innings in his spring debut for Arizona, giving up a hit and striking out two. He is projected to be the team's long-inning reliever and a spot starter.
Derek Norris hit a solo home run off Arizona's David Hernandez.
The Diamondbacks, plagued by base running problems last season and again already this spring, had another one in the second inning when Paul Goldschmidt doubled down the right field line but was picked off trying to get back to the base by strong-armed right fielder Josh Reddick after Cody Ross flew out.
NOTES: Arizona RHP Brandon McCarthy faces Cincinnati in his spring debut on Wednesday, his first appearance in a game since, while pitching for Oakland, he was struck in the head by a line drive last Sept. 2. McCarthy was hospitalized with an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and skull fracture. ... Diamondbacks C Miguel Montero did not play for the second game in a row because of a swollen right thumb. ... Hiroyuki Nakajima, expected to be Oakland's opening day starter at shortstop, was 1 for 3 with two strikeouts.


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The people of West Africa's Ghana are warm and friendly. They are polite, open and trusting — even with strangers. They take life at a relaxed pace and view time as a series of events rather than a matter of hours or minutes.
To Ghanaians, people are more important than schedules.
"Let's get to business" conversation is considered rude. Ghanaians exchange pleasantries and inquire about family before beginning business. They greet one another, making extra effort to greet older people. With the men, handshakes almost always accompany greetings.
Ghana's 24 million people comprise six major ethnic groups that break into more than 60 smaller ones.
The six larger groups are the Akan (Ashanti and Fanti), the Ewe, the Ga-Adangbe, the Mole-Dagbani, the Guan and the Gruma. Like most other African nations, Ghana has rich, traditional cultures that differ from one ethnic group to another.
Along with different ethnic groups and cultures, 52 separate languages and hundreds of dialects are spoken in Ghana. The official language is English — a residual of British colonial rule, from which Ghana gained independence in 1957.
Until its independence, Ghana was known as the Gold Coast. It was renamed Ghana, meaning "Warrior King," to reflect the ancient Ghana Empire that flourished in West Africa during the 10th century.
Ghanaians emphasize values such as the importance of family, respect for the elderly and honor for traditional rulers. They place high value on dignity and proper social conduct.
Individual conduct is seen as having impact on an entire family, social group and community. Therefore, each person is expected to be respectful, dignified and observant in almost every aspect of life.
An entire family shares any loss of honor, which makes the culture a collective one. In order to protect this sense of "face," there is a need to maintain harmony. People behave with decorum to ensure that they do not cause embarrassment to others.
Everything is shared — even food, no matter how small the amount.
If a Ghanaian is interrupted while eating, he invites the other to join him. Depending on the level of familiarity, the person may wash his hands and join in. If the relationship is casual, the other person will politely decline.
Among common greetings and responses in Ghana are:
- Maakye — Good morning
- Maaha — Good afternoon
- Maadwo — Good evening
- Wohu te sen? — How are you?
- Onyame na adom me hu ye — By the Grace of God, I am fine
- Me daase — Thank you
- Kusee — Sorry
- Me paa wo kyeo (ky sounds "ch" as it would sound in "chain") — Please
When talking to an older person, a Ghanaian must not gesture with his left hand. In fact, anything done with the left hand is considered rude. Nevertheless, some people write or do things with the left hand because that hand is stronger than the right. They never use the left hand to eat or gesture, however.
Ghanaians are indirect communicators. They take care not to relay information in any way that could cause issues. This includes delivering bad news, turning down an invitation or refusing a request. Ghanaians want to protect face as well as maintain harmonious relationships.
Ghana is often described as a land of festivals, music and traditional dances. Most communities, clans and tribes have annual celebrations.
There are three main types of music in Ghana. Ethnic, or traditional music, is usually played during festivals and funerals. Highlife music is a blend of traditional and imported music. Choral music is performed in concert halls, churches, schools and colleges.
Children registered at some of the Compassion-assisted Child Development Centers in Ghana have formed choirs. One such choir is the Kasoa Cluster Mass Choir, which rocked the national theatre during last year's fifth anniversary celebration.
It is a tradition for children at our Child Development Centers to welcome visitors and sponsors with elaborate drumming and dancing. This is an expression of appreciation and Ghanaian hospitality.
Along with being serious about their own customs and traditions, Ghanaians are fast learners who easily understand and adopt other cultures and practices. This makes Ghana a comfortable, easy country for everyone to live in and for outsiders to visit.


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Meeting Growing Needs
Since 1926, The Medical Center has grown to be the region's leading healthcare provider and the hospital of choice for a large majority of the population in Southcentral Kentucky. We are committed to ensuring that Southcentral Kentucky residents have access to healthcare services for their growing and changing needs. With demands created from a growing population and the increasing number of patients who turn to The Medical Center, we were faced with the need to expand once again.
A $30 Million Expansion Project
In September 2010, The Medical Center completed a $30 million expansion project, featuring two new patient floors and 48,000 square feet of space. The new addition is entirely dedicated to patient care and includes 48 new private rooms. With these additional rooms, The Medical Center has the capacity to provide all 337 beds for which it is licensed.
The two-year project, which began in fall of 2008, enables the hospital to meet the increased need for healthcare services in Southcentral Kentucky. A growing population and continued expansion of available healthcare services at The Medical Center are two key factors driving this need.
Expansion Features
Two stories have been added to the current Emergency Department and Ambulatory Surgery wing of the hospital along the High Street side of the hospital's campus. The third floor of the new addition is dedicated to Orthopaedics and Neuroscience and features a physical rehabilitation gym. The gym accommodates several patients at a time, enabling patients and family members to socialize and support each other during therapy treatments. Multiple therapists work in a team-oriented environment with patients, providing greater communication and better management of the patient's care.
The fourth floor is designed for Cardiothoracic and Vascular patients. Care is delivered to patients who have undergone open-heart surgery or other thoracic and vascular procedures. The fourth floor features a new Open-Heart Recovery unit that is readily accessible from The Medical Center's operating room suite. Open-heart recovery patients transition from the recovery unit into one of the new, spacious private rooms where they remain for the rest of their stay.
Three rooms on each floor feature lifts, allowing for patients to be weighed and safely transferred to and from a wheelchair or the bathroom. One bariatric lift can hold up to 1,000 lbs. while the other two lifts can accommodate up to 550 lbs. Each floor also features two isolation rooms with a special ventilation system that generates negative air pressure. These rooms are designed for patients with contagious airborne diseases.
Several nurse stations are positioned throughout each floor. Remote telemetry is available on both floors with a central monitoring station. Pharmacy and patient supplies are housed in secure stations to allow convenient access for nursing staff. A tube system is used to transfer items to ancillary departments located in the main section of the hospital such as the Lab and Pharmacy. A satellite kitchen allows Food Services staff to prep meals and deliver to patients in the new section.
Both floors offer family members spacious, comfortable waiting rooms with an abundance of natural light. A conference room is available on the third floor where physicians can meet privately with families.


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I've been seeing a lot of buzz building in the blogosphere about universal health care as the best and possibly only solution for our broken health care system. It's heartening, because I have been a strident advocate for some sort of universal coverage for quite some time now. I don't know what sparked the conversation, but I'm glad to see it happening. Maybe it was Krugman's excellent piece at the New York Book Review, or Kevin Drum over at Washington Monthly. But the domino effect took hold and within a couple of days we were seeing Greg Anrig at TPM Cafe and Ezra Klein, followed by Kate at Healthy Policy and Matt Yglesias pile on the bandwagon. (Not that any of these folks are newcomers to the church of Universal Health -- but they were all talking about it at once.) They debate single payer vs multiple payers, incremental vs comprehensive reform, political strategy and obstacles to overcome, political risks and opportunities, oh my. Heady times. Add to that the fact that Massachusetts just approved a modest reform of its health plan, and you could almost deceive yourself into thinking that maybe there is a little momentum building, that just possibly, if people keep talking about this and the publicity builds, and maybe we've got a real thing here.
Then reality reasserts itself and you realize that with the current party controlling the federal government, there's no chance.
For that matter, the Democrats have't been forward on this issue either. As has been pointed out in many places, they are still in shock over the ugly demise of HillaryCare twelve years ago, and I cannot think of a single national-stature democrat who has advocated for this policy. I think its time is coming, maybe not yet as policy enacted into law, but as a hell of a political wedge issue. There are a lot of folks out there with growing anxiety about the cost and durability of their health care coverage, and a lot of folks with none at all. This is the Democrats' answer to the right's relentless drumbeat of tax cuts tax cuts tax cuts. . .
And Universal Health is the right thing for America, on many levels:
- It's better for our economy because it would be more efficient and reduce wasted healthcare dollars - up to 3 percent of the GDP.
- It would make American businesses more competitive in the international market by reducing the staggering health care costs employers have to pay.
- It would provide American workers the ability to switch jobs without risking losing essential health care coverage.
- It would remedy the logical non sequitur that your healthcare depends on your employment status.
- It would strengthen the economy by improving the health of many marginal individuals and allow them to return to the workforce.
- It would end the cost-shifting that doctors and hospitals have to go through to offset the costs of uncompensated care, and would increase the fairness of the pricing system.
- Most importantly, it's a moral necessity to ensure all our citizens have access to medical care and to eliminate the underclass 40-to-90 million strong who are un- or under-insured.
I think this has to be the Democrats' core issue if they are ever to have any chance of being allowed back into power by the voters. We have to prove that there is something that we care about and are willing to fight for through several election cycles. This issue is not going to go away. The costs of healthcare continue to rise and the pressure on industry to contain expenses will rise in lockstep, and as they do, the number of uninsured will continue to soar and the expenses for medicaid will also climb. The medical system is in crisis, and until a solution is implemented it is going to continue to get worse. And it will represent a huge opportunity for the Democrats to prove that we deserve the reins of government. If we do nothing, the cost in lost opportunity and in human suffering will be staggering.


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jw on 09/21/2009 at 12:44PM
Miss Inah & The Sweet Malay Entertainers
Allow me to present to you to a type of music that has a special place in my heart: the Nasib, or "Song of Fate" from Indonesia and Malaysia…part of what once was the Dutch East Indies.
'Nasib' in Malay means 'fate.' The Nasib song is an aching, slow lament; a deeply melancholic popular song type which is built around the singer's misfortune in life. On the surface, this description would make the Nasib similar to the fado, rebetika, or blues, but that would be a mischaraterization. The origins of the Nasib derive, in fact, from Indonesian/Malaysian stambul theater music. Stambul theater (also referred to as bangsawan) developed in the late 19th century and was an urban affair, where theatrical groups would perform musical dramas, many with stories which had origins in India or the Middle East. Stambul songs were most popular from 1920-1935.
The Nasib is sung by a singer who is in fact playing – or at the very least channeling – a character or situation from these classical stories, rather than singing her own blues. Interestingly, much of the stambul music that I've heard from that era is quite cultured – operatic, even. However, the Nasibs, although derived from stambul, are a different thing altogether. The operatic aspect has gone out the window, and what we have here is swooning sadness – the Nasib adopted to a bar band setting!
Today's Nasib features Miss Inah singing "Sesalken Oentoeng" (a Dutch transliteration of the Malay "Sesalkan Untung"), which more or less means "I Regret My Luck." She is accompanied by her smooth yet lurching Malay Entertainers on harmonium (another Indian connection), saxophone, bass, and percussion.
jw on 09/16/2009 at 08:48AM
Sanusi – Kramat Karam
I thought I'd update mid-week with a pretty solid example of mid-20th century Indonesian krontjong.
Krontjong (in relatively equal amounts spelled kronjong, kroncong, keroncong, and kerontjong) is slightly over a century old, and is an urban folk music. Ethnomusicologists would call it a syncretic music, as it developed over time from a variety of cultural influences, such as Portuguese, Batavian, African, and Malay – all of which were present in one form or another in turn of the century Indonesia.
Known for its languid rhythm, Hawaiian "walking guitar," and partially improvised violin runs, the style was first recorded in 1904, but musically hit its stride and popularity in the 1930s. By the 1940s, independent Indonesian labels began to appear such as Dendang (pictured here), Irama, and Serimpi, and hundreds if not thousands more krontjong records were released, joining the large amount already available from HMV, Odeon, and other companies.
In my personal experience, I've found it difficult to track down much krontjong on 78 outside of Indonesia, nor has much, if any, early krontjong music been re-released on CD. I've always found it unique – it often sounds like two bands playing completely separate arrangements of the same song, and somehow landing on their feet.