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Correctional Corruption
Posted by Rage in the new Political Prisoner Blog: https://politicalprisoner.wordpress.com/
One of my names is Robert James Bartlett, and my Maine Department of Corrections number is 32270. I'm currently incarcerated at the Windham Maine Correctional Center, doing 17 months for violating probation on a conviction of OUI which occurred in 2004. I suffer from a mental illness, addiction and residuals from a traumatic brain injury. Here's my groove on Corrections in the State of Maine:
While Incarcerated at Kennebec County Correctional Facility in January of 2009, I pulled one of my best friends from a shower where he hadcommitted suicide by hanging. Arthur Brian Traweek was a co-founder of the Holistic Recovery Project, and suffered from a mental illness. We were both successful graduates of the Kennebec county Co-Occurring Disorders Court Program.
Brian was only serving a 6 month sentence, but he'd been threatening suicide since his incarceration in November. While hanging from a sheet in the shower, an officer, Herreva went through our block for a check and actuallyopened the door to the shower room & seemed to look inside. (Apparently not.) After we pulled Brian out of the shower and alerted the guards, it was perhaps 8 minutes before they began performing mouth to mouth resuscitation on Brian. Why? No one could find a "separator:" a 25 cent plastic piece which rests between a victims lips and a rescuers (to prevent infection?) When they arrived, they said that he'd had a pulse. 8 minutes. Now he's dead.
Brian had tried to commit suicide before, but with his particular illness most successful suicides are actual accidental. Brian counted on the jail to protect him. (To read the full deposition on Brian's wrongful death, written only hours after the tragedy – click here).
What happened? There was an official police investigation. Nothing came of it. Maine State Civil Liberties Union promised to look into it, but never did.
Carol Caruthers of NAMI did stage a vigil, a candlelight vigil for Brian, right outside our window at the jail. It was attended by people who'd never visited Brian while he was alive. Neither would any of the crowd be visiting any of us who survived. We were treated to a crowd of candle-holding strangers, drinking coffee (which we couldn't) and smoking cigarettes (which we couldn't.)
As a fellow inmate said: "Who are these people? Brian never got any visitors when he was alive! Coffee and cigarettes? Why don't they strippers out there too & call it good?!"
This was while we all faced showering in the same shower my friend had just hung himself in.
I have to throw in a special shout out to Carol Caruthers, who organized the worthless vigil – oh, made the paper, though, didn't it, Carol? Carol, the executive Director of NAMI, Maine – National Association of Mentally Ill? NAMI did nothing. NAMI didn't give a fuck. We even asked Carol over & over again to help re-open the investigation! "Please, Carol, Please!! Help us!! Read NAMI's own reports on those of us with mental illness & addiction, killing ourselves in jail! Help us Carol!"
Carol & NAMI do not care. But they did have that nifty candlelight vigil!
Fuck you, Carol. Fuck you, NAMI.
Brian's dead.
How many more of us will die, Carol?
Just keep cashing your checks, love.
In the System's defense – did they ask to become, as Sheriff Randal Liberty so aptly put it recently, "the number one provider of mental health services in Maine?" No, they did not. Jails are for what? Punishment. As Bo Lozoff says, jail is "intended to punish them, pure & simple – to punish, hurt, confuse, emasculate, and eventually break their contrary spirits." Or, as a friend of mine from Texas said to me before my most recent arrest, "Y'all got only a little over a million people in your whole one-syllable state – how can your prisons be over-crowded?"
Jails were never designed to treat those of us with serious mental illness or addiction, any more than they were meant to treat cancer or leprosy.
What can we do to change things?
What can you do? Please – get involved. Nothing happens from within, and I guarantee you – all of the powers that be know the truth about Brian's death, but no one will do anything to change the status quo unless we the people demand it. Call your legislator, your governor – call Carol – at NAMI, Maine. Ask her what time it is. Join the Holistic Recovery Project at http://holistix.atspace.com/wholeness.htm – we have a mailing list there too.
They incarcerate the mentally ill & the addicted, then they release them – untreated – back into your neighborhood.
If the powers that be lived in your neighborhood, perhaps more of us would be sent to rehabs & psychiatric hospitals. Perhaps there'd be money for those programs.
Only you can make it happen.
Please do. Because I guarantee – right now – some twenty-something is sitting in a cell & he's coming off of opiates & his mental illness is causing him to believe that there's only one way out.
(Rage has a blog: http://holistixrage.wordpress.com/)
– Rage
Originally posted at https://holistixrage.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/correctional-corruption/
I love life and everything it has to offer, but my sickness is my addictive personality and the need to constantly do something that's existing and makes me get butterflies in my stomach. Like carrying a gun, fighting, drugs, b&e's, stealing or how about this: sky diving, playing music in front of large groups of people (riot grrls and others) and the making of good music and shit. Just a good jam session gets me feeling like that. I don't get embarrassed, but I love that adrenaline rush of being nervous and happy and vulnerable with music and in fronts of people who are expecting good music to come out. I love it.
I was a functional alcoholic. I was drunk three years and geeked out for 2 1/2 years for everything. School, work, around the house, during my gigs at parties, recordings at my house. But I smoked about a pack a day from 9 ½ years old to about 11. Then it was two packs average. Until I was like 15, doing pills and large amounts of booze and speed, then it was maybe three or four nights a week, specially when the meth came in at 18-20. I mixed it up with adderall 30mg, and my boys dextros (70 mg) into one big mortar andpestlel grind, 'til it was one big pile of powder. Then I'd geek out for a week and ½ at a time, sometimes more, depending on how much meth I sold.
I'll be fine when I get out. I hope.
Things here are monotunis, chow, meds, chow, meds, chow, meds, bed. I box a couple days a weeks. I have yet to completely pic up jogging again. Maybe with the changing season. I love fall. Harvest time. Cooler outside. Smudged today. I love it. Beat a big drum last week, w/Jessie. Sux my Heritage has little to do with being Native to America. Maybe back when it was Pangoa. I'm english and Phillipono, ¼ to be exact. There is Indian's tribal on that part. But it's not American. I have been made fun of my whole life for how I look. Time to start embracing my Heritage. I'm not sub par, I'm above and beyond, anyway. I don't fit in anywhere I guess. Good. Stealing cucumbers from our garden. To bad it's consider stealing. Howe has done most of the work. I'm so scared of probation. I love pot to much. Sux. Hopefully, it all works out for the best.
Just cut up contraband veggie's. Sad I have to hid out in the bathroom to do it. Like I'm shooting up or something a little Judas priest anyone. Awesome death metal, the bone, sun's almost set. It's 7:30, No more nite rec pretty soon. So A.A.'s been good. Couple of the guys from talk so that's cool. So many movies I wanna see. So many times I wanna buy second hand at bull moose. Can't wait to shop at Goodwill. Quarterroys and t-shirts. Good stuff.
"Freedom what will you make of it"
Get comfy, it's a long one!
Hi everyone, it's sundog coming to you from MCC Happy Camp. It's my last blog and only twelve more days for me. My stay here is coming to an end. So I really just wanted to recall the year I spent in jail at MCC in Windham, ME.
Although it's not a real "prison" it's been close enough for me. You would think I would have seen more fights with eight hundred inmates. Surprisingly, fighting is at a low right now. In the past year I haven't seen one fight. That's right. I've only heard the fights. Probably around half a dozen or so. Some good but mostly just one or two hits a piece. Last summer that was a shank fight. Slice & dice. That was a little messy, lol. All in all, I have grown stronger both in my physical and emotional state of my well being. I've grown tolerances to different foods I've had to eat. The menu here is deff better than Cuny County has to offer. And there's commisary. Thank God we still have outside food. It deff didn't help with my wasteline but I'm still glad. Keeps the betting going and the trade offs. Some normalcy.
We had wooden doors on our four-person bedroom. It's about 7ft x 8ft room. A desk and two bunk beds. It's comfortable with only three. Four's a crowd. The room's come with lockers for all four people and Big Blue Bags to put clothes in. It works. I've had no complaints in this dorm. I've only complained about some of the shitty workers that work here. Well, maybe some even shittier roommates. I can say that the cellmates I've had here are just disgusting. Most of them put together would maybe make a set of teeth. You know what comes out of your infested mouth when you have all rotted teeth. Yes, bad fucking breath. Holitosis is a problem. I've done good. I've let it go except one guy. He really needed to know. You know, he was shocked, he had no idea he had ferocious breath. He also had a problem scratching himself all over until he bled. Just plain gross. I've had some really interesting roommates. If you were schizophrenick you were my roommate. It was a mess if you came to MCC you had to be my roomate and share your crazy mind with me. I've had twenty eight ignorant cellmates. The only sane one was Mr. Anderson. He is my current roomie and is actually normal. Thank god or the great Spirit for ending my time here with a descent guy. I've got stories coming at my ears about what I've gone through in the year I've been here. First. Mr. G. Woz. Great guy. Has a drinking and driving problem like me. 2nd roomie was my good friend, "Rage." Met him in York County. He lifted my Spirits and taught me how to make flowers. He will be one of two good people I keep in contact with. Great guy.
Then we had the horrible experience in Dorm 3 where everyone hated me and made my life miserable. That only lasted for two months. Long enough. I wish bad things to those who went out of their way to make me uncomfortable. RIP Dorm 3. I won't be back. Dorm 3 actually had the best showers here on the compound. Nice & Private. Next in line was your first Schizo Mr. Wade (I had sex with my daughter in-law) McAlpine. Remember he was the one with eight feet of hair? Blah, talk about gross. Send Schizo was Larry Rollins. He was a complete mess who couldn't stay out of his own way. Good luck with the lawsuit Larry. I didn't like you but you have a good case. I've had the priveledge of having a belimick kid in my room. Actually taught me to like myself again. I could have been worse. I could have an eating disorder like him. I feel bad for him and the life he has to deal with on a daily basis. Next group of soldiers I had the great pleasure of meeting was A. Walsh, Z. Clark, and G. Lemire. They put me in with a bunch of pillheads. They were posterboard pillheads. No thanks. I didn't do any. Only two schizo's in that one. The other one had a tattoo on his face. Although I'm a huge fan of tattoos I don't think the face is the perfect place. Yuck! Second group after that, was psycho Archie Maloon and bigot Roman Mank. I was in a bad room with even worse roomies. One day I came home from work to find a "Hate Faggots" waiting for me on the desk from the Lonely Loser. Roman Bigot Mank. Had you both left life with Anderson is awesome. What a class act. Something you know nothing about. To Ernie Androse, Joe Tripp and Joel Cashing, you're a bunch of Skinners and I hope nothing good ever goes your way! Thanks for calling me faggot and to Ernie who wanted to beat my ass because I was clean. Pusshead.
I wish all of my roomates Karma. What comes around, goes around. Be ready for your horrible lives. Xoxo – muah – from yours truly.
Now onto the staff. The MCC fans will not be pleased but I could care less. Obviously I will not be bustling the nice ones. To the bad COs, you just suck!! Only Kitchen COs Dawn, Rob and Sloan and Tom: You Rock. Thank you for everything. Thank you for treating me like a normal friend. MUAH. Also, two thumbs up was Ms. Rose. My fav. You rock girl. Love that strength. Next who gets an honorable mention definitely McCloud and Liibby. You're good at your jobs too. Good luck. To the best nurse ever Elaine – great good at what you do too! To the best med nurse – LINDA. Thank you for being great at your job as well! I still miss Bevan. To Debbie, you're cool too. To everyone else, find a different job because you're useless. Bigots should not be allowed to work here. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Crawl back under the rocks you came from. I deff wish you the most bad luck. Names will not make this list because of retaliations. Just know that there's a long ass list.
To all the wonderful Authors. I have enjoyed reading your books. Maine squeeze by Catherine Clark. Sharing Sam by Katherine Applegate. All my love to Ms. Chelsea Handler. Thanks for the laughs. You rock. James Patterson also left his mark in me.. Will Cross ever make time with his family? Will Kyle Craig ever get caught? Every time I read a book I expected it to happen and it's always been continued. To my all time favorite Stephanie Meyer. I love you and the series. MUAH. A weird read "The Man who Ate the 747" by Ben Sherwood. He really did eat a plane (for love). John Grisham. Can't go wrong with him. Thank you for making me a real love for books person.
Thank you to the Native American Program. I've learned so much. And met a couple cool dudes. Thank you for the sweat lodge and all the visitors. AHO. Special thanks too Sister Maryann, you're an angel. She chooses to work with inmates every day. Great gal. Great job.
To: Mr. Merrill, thanks for nothing. You made my stay here a litlte worse too. Ba-BYE!
Yes, I have learned my lesson for drinking & driving. Never again. I'm sorry I put you through this mom. I love you and I'll be home very soon!
A great big yummy THANK YOU to all my penpals who have written me.
Love you, see you on the outs,
– Sundog
Raymond Munson
Being that I seem always to be on the market for a future ex-Mrs. Wire, I thought I would share with the world hte contents of a letter. This letter would be the letter I would love to send to the Mrs., show she could fuckin' understand that I have nothing to worry about because "I have a place to live and three meals a day"! Hello!
Dear Barb –
I must admit I was a bit taken back by that six page scream fest you called a letter. I am so fucking sorry that I did not understand the extent of the misery that is your life in the free world. Upon considerable reflection I was out of fucking place to suggest that you have a lot of positive things happening in your life! I should have known that your high paying job could not be close to as rewarding as a job here for sixty cents an hour. What was I ever thinking when I suggested you had a pretty good car? You are right; walking in the driving rain or snow without weather gear has to be better than driving. Stupid me! Again, I had no fucking clue our nice little apartment is so bad now. Dorm living with smelly old men as to be so much Better. You know, it must be awful to have all that money to blow on drugs, booze & smokes, whenever you want. I never should have complained about the meds I get even though they don't come close to touching my pain. It has to be a struggle for you to be able to order out food night after night. You are right; I should be happy to pay up to 16hrs of my pay to get a decent meal from Commissary. Well, Babe, I should end it here so I can lock my self down so some ass can count me. It must be difficult for you to self-impose when you come & go!
– Love, Bob (the Husband you no longer want anything to do with)
– Bob Wire
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Hey, I heard that Ken Topel, the head nurse over in Dorm 4 is responsible for negligence leading to teh death by pneumonia of old man Spenser down in Dorm 6. Is this true? If it is would anybody out there care? Why does a health care professional, someone who could work anywhere, end up here, at MCC? Even Lewiston's better than this. Why? There's gotta be a few corpses back there, right Topel? When you got hired here & you told your boyfriend, didn't he squeal: "Praise God, Ken! You got a job! Don't they know about the 'accidental death'?" and you said, "Baby – they don't care!"
I hope I don't catch a cold!
I love you, Meriki! Always!
– Art Vandelay
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This is X-Ray again coming to you from this shit hole called Maine Correctional Center. MCC for short.
I'm having a weird day. I've been upset since lunch and really just can't wait for this day to go away. Fuckin' Don Jacobson is being his usually prick self. I guess if I had to marry one of the scary bitches, I might be crazy too. He is a piece of work. He's redheaded with a mole on his face. Hot, huh? I'm hoping my days of answering will come to an end soon. RIP D. Jacobson. Fuckhead.
So, yesterday I started pressing flowers and someone had the gall to say something like it was fuckin' Biz somehow.
I'm really having one of these hate jail and stupid people kind of day, blah!
The only thing I guess is remotely positive is that I have a crush on a certain Mr. Moony. I think we will be in love by the time I leave this hole.
Feb 1st Bitches! Can't wait. I do know that I have learned my lesson of drinking and driving.
Although I will not be D&D again it makes me wonder why I did it in the first place. Here I'm treated like a criminal next to murderers and skinners aka Sex Offenders aka Sick Bastards. They actually get paid to be in dorms one and two. It's fucked up. I'm sick to death at looking at them. They definitely should have their own prison. There's 800 hundred inmates and three hundred and twenty five are "touchers," "serial rapists" — it's just not right they get jobs before regular inmates! REALLY!
And how the hell does the guys "the half of the population" get away with being soboxin high? I mean it is none of my biz but some assholes like to fuck with me and I'm very passive except today. LOL. Their eyes are huge. I can tell when a guy is high, how come the trained professionals can't? Fuck, do your job! They think they're invisible. WTF. Get a life, instead of making Jail your hobby. Some guys only last weeks before they're back in here for even longer sentences. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. I will not be on that list. I fucking can't stand people who get off doing their grandmother's prescriptions. Ridiculous. I won't be a statistic damnit. I will behave. And make the right choices.
Well, have I bitched enough yet? I think so. Thanks for letting me vent. Hope everyone stays safe and has a great day, week, month, fuckin' year. LOL.
'Till next time,
– X-Ray
P.S. Hi Cutie-Butt Moony! Write me! xoxoxo
I actually feel better for venting. Hope it lasts. Hahahahahah. XD
I hurt someone I really care about, that's why I'm here. I'll be out in November, probably headed to Augusta, but I'm not sure. I'm active in the Native American spirituality group her, but I don't have anyone on the outside. All of my stuff is at a girlfriend's who, since I came here, has asked me not to write her, so I don't know. Since I'm going to Augusta, I thought maybe the Holistic Organization would help me. But someone else told me they never write people. I have the number of the heartline. Could someone in the project get back to me? Thanks.
– Raymond Fields
17 Mallison Falls Rd
Windham, ME 04062
There's a problem here in dorm 5 & its twofold – scables and at least three cases of mersa, masquerading as staph infections that won't heal. And my eyes killing me. Is it mersa? I don't know.
Okay then. No poem today. Down with obama and the pelosi bitch.
– Anonymous
As an amateur writer and storyteller I often start my writings with a cute, humorous or even dramatic beginning in the hopes it might catch the readers attention. This is commonly referred to as a "hook". As an inmate at the Maine Correctional Center (MCC) in Windham, I will skip the fucking hook and get right to the point. The point is: that, in this day and age, inmates at MCC are regularly and openly abused! That's right, I said abused.
On any given day in which the waters pour down from the heavens in buckets, inmates often have to choose between meals, medication, recreation and a host of other things and a "good-old fashion" soaking.
You see, inmates at MCC are not allowed any protective rain gear (not even an altered trash bag). This fact is not likely known by the general public (who wouldn't give a shit anyway), but it is certainly known by the State of Maine Department of Corrections (DOC). Also not well known is this: the vast majority of inmates (700 or so) have to move from building to building for chow, meds, dental, rec, visits and more. In the case of meds inmates often have to stand in line outside in the driving rain. To make matters worse, inmates are not allowed to run, but must walk. HELLO! IT'S 2010 FOLKS!
It is simply not acceptable that in this day and age that even "low-life" criminals can be abused this way; and though most inmates have less than 600-800 feet between buildings, they can be outside a dozen or more times a day.
All across our nation people are in places like this (prison) for abuse of others, children, adults and the elderly.
Here at MCC, abuse is State Sanctioned and has been for years. No one should have to choose between a meal or getting drenched with no way to dry one's clothes. No one should have to choose between getting their meds and standing in a god-damned line in the driving rain or fucking snow storm.
Let me end with this: if this fucking place were a nursing home and the patients were treated like the inmates here are, the place would be shut down by the State in a heart-beat and the operators would be sitting in prison for abuse! It is a good thing for the State that this place is just filled with "low-life" criminals.
– Bob-Wire


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County Clare fiddler Martin Hayes and Chicago guitarist Dennis Cahill are performing two concerts at the Berklee College of Music in Boston on Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
The concerts take place at the David Friend Recital Hall, 921 Boylston Street in Boston's Back Bay. Tickets are $30 and can be ordered online via Ticketmaster or by calling 1-800-745-3000
Well-regarded in music circles for their inventive interpretation of traditional Irish dance music, the duo have forged one of the most remarkable partnerships in acoustic music today. Their performances distill the essence of Irish music while exploring and expanding the tradition in both intimate and electrifying ways.
They have collaborated with filmmakers, modern dance choreographers, theatre directors, and classical and jazz musicians, yet their identity remains uniquely their own, rooted solidly in the tradition of East County Clare where Martin was raised.
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I haven't updated in a long time. Mostly it's been an issue of energy. I have been putting all of my daily energy into real-life activity. I have neglected my virtual life. Even now, I'm lying here, in a hotel room only managing to write this with the magic that is voice-recognition software.
I'm still in playing with new technology. My solar powered Bluetooth headset is waiting for me at home. It is my fondest hope that I'll be able to use that with this voice recognition software so that I can dictate from a distance without a cord.
Perhaps by beginning to write here again I will unleash the energy I need to blog with abandon. At any rate, it's a start.
I have been playing with Twitter a lot. I was on Twitter a year ago, when it first came out. I got bored with it pretty quickly. But now there are a lot more people on it and it is genuinely fun. Plus, I'm using my real life persona with it. That's different too.
I created this Internet persona some four or more years ago so I could have some level of anonymity. However, it's also a pain. To the extent that I can use new media and social media in real life, it is far more enjoyable. That's another reason why I haven't been writing much here. The bang for buck isn't as great.
Conversely the more I participate in Internet friendships and activity with my real identity, that identity begins to be subsumed into the cloud. In other words, instead of a schizophrenic Internet life/real-life the two begin to merge. Someday maybe I'll abandon Thaed altogether.
It sounds heavy but what it really means is that I spend more time plugged into my laptop. In fact my laptop becomes my constant waking companion. I'm liking that a lot. I dwell less in the basement but spend more time online. What could be better than that?


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My network printer suddenly stopped working. Trying to print a pdf results in - nothing. No error message, just the printout never reaches the printer queue. CUPS log says "Print-Job successful-ok". Nothing new in the error log. sudo /usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd and /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp <IP of the printer> correctly show printer information. Ping and nmap confirm that the printer can be reached. I can see the printers admin interface via browser. Trying to print a self-test via printer settings results in "client-error-bad-request" - without any trace in the logs.
The problem must be in between CUPS and the network.
Only thing unusual that I noticed: Gnome apps started showing the brother-specific "ghost printer" problem (https://askubuntu.com/questions/676863/ ... r-in-gnome) but fixing it by editing avahi-daemon.conf did not bring printing back so I reverted the change. I restarted avahi-daemon several times and I remember seeing an error there but only once.
An ideas how to debug the problem?
Printer stopped working (solved)
Questions about hardware, drivers and peripherals.
In the Original Post please also include the output of inxi -Fzx
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So I decided to boot into SolydX8 to print the urgent stuff. When I rebooted into SolydX9 suddenly the printing subsystem had decided to cooperate again. Whatever happened there ...
Re: Printer stopped working (solved)
I have had the same issue several times with a few different distro and printers as well. Never found out what the issue is but obviously something in the cups subsystem stops responding and requires a reboot to start it back up. It nothing new in the computer world, "the lights are on but nobody is at home" syndrome
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The London Film School alumna Golnaz Jamsheed's 2014 LFS film TEHRAN 1998 has been selected as one of the semi-finalists at the Phoenix Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia.
The Phoenix Film Festival Melbourne is interested not just in films with potential commercial success but films of artistic merit and scope and is geared to the independent filmmakers.
See the full list here: http://xww.com.au/phoenix-film-festival-melbourne-2016/semi-finalist-phoenix-film-festival-melbourne-2016
The event will take place on January 20 - 23, 2017
Shot on a 35mm Moviecam Super Americas as my term 4 project at the London Film School in 2014, after my script was voted #1. A short film of a young generation with very little freedom, hope and opportunity to pursue their dreams and to progress in life. The story takes place in Tehran in the year 1998 in the bathroom of a house. A girl faints in the company of three boys after using some unknown drug. The boys are incapable of awakening her, make a decision to avoid trouble. Right before they leave the bathroom, Komiteh forces its way into the house. People start screaming and the music stops. Two of the boys jump out of the window before Komiteh breaks down the bathroom door and arrests the third. But what becomes of the girl?
Cast: Golazin Ardestani, Amin Jalilian, Saman Bayonsa, Mohammad Heidari
Watch the short here: https://youtu.be/6Tof7aL1lsc


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Explain FPGA and how is it useful for query performance.
FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is located on each SPU. Netezza is different from other architectures. Netezza can do a "hardware upgrade" through software by using FPGA. Hardware is reconfigured during install.
While reading data from disk, FPGA on each SPU also helps in 'filtering' unnecessary data before getting loaded into memory on each SPU. This way, FPGA does not overwhelm with all the data from disk.
What is a zone map?
Zone map in Netezza is similar (concept wise) to partitions in Oracle. Netezza maintains map for data so that it does relies on zone map to pull only the range it is interested in. For example, if we need to pull out data from Jan 2009 till June 2009 from a table that is distributed on date column, zone map helps us to achieve this. Zone map is maintained by Netezza automagically, no user intervention needed. Zone mapping is done at a block (extent) level. Netezza has zone maps for all columns (not just distributed column) and includes information such as minimum, maximum, total number of records.
What are different ways to load?
-External tables
-Create table AS (aka, CTAS).
-Inserts (Eeeewee!!)
Does everything gets cached in Netezza (or any other data appliance)?
Typically only schema and other database objects are cached in appliances. Data is not cached, in general. In most cases, data is not saved any where (in any cache or on host computer) and is streamed directly from SPU to client software.
How is load achieved in Netezza and why is that quick / fast?
Loads by pass a few steps that typically a query would go through (a query goes through plan generation, optimization and transaction management). Loads are done in terms of "sets" and this set is based on underlying table structure (thus loads for two different tables are different as their sets are based on table structures). Data is processed to check format and distribution of records calculated very quickly (in one step), fills into 'set' structure and writes to storage structure. Storage also performs space availability and other admin tasks, all these operations go pretty quick (think of them as UNIX named pipes that streams data and SPU stores these records).
What databases are we able to configure pushdown optimization?
Microsoft SQL Server
Sybase ASE
Databases that use ODBC drivers
When are we likely to receive incorrect (aggregate) results?
Very rarely a driver may return aggregated results that are still getting processed back to client. In this case, client may assume that calculation is complete, instead of updating with latest or final results. Obviously, driver has to wait for Netezza to complete operation on host computer, before delivering results.
Desired to gain proficiency on Netezza? Explore the blog post on Netezza Training to become a pro in Netezza.
What is real-time processing?
Data sources such as JMS, WebSphere MQ, TIBCO, webMethods, MSMQ, SQP, and webservices can publish data in real-time. These real-time sources can be leveraged by Informatica Power Centre to process data on-demand. A session can be specifically configured for real-time processing.
Explain how data gets stored in Netezza and how does SPU failover take place?
Data is stored based on a selected field(s) which are used for distibution.
==Data (A)==> Hash Function (B) ==> Logical SPU identifier list (C) ==> Physical SPU list (D) ==> Storage (E)
When data arrives, it is hased based on field(s) and a hash function (B) is used for this purpose. For example, for a hypothetical 32 node system system, logical SPU identifier list has 32 unique entries. If there are 1000 hashed data items from (B), there are 1000 entries in (C), all having only 32 SPU entries (a number of data items go to the same SPU, thus multiple (B) entries map to same (C)). For instance, (C) has values [3,19,30,7,20,25,11,3,22,19….]. This way, 1000 data entries are mapped. (D) has physical IP address of both primary and failover SPU. If there is a failover, this is the only place where Netezza need to update its entries. Same goes for a system that has a new SPU added. It is a little complicated, in principle, this is the concept.
What is a real-time processing terminating condition?
A real-time processing terminating condition determines when the Integration Service stops reading messages from a real-time source and ends the session.
What are 4 environment variables that are required. What are different states on Netezza?
Environment variables: NZ_HOST, NZ_DATABASE, NZ_USER and NZ_PASSWORD
-Online: Normal or usual state.
-Stopped: Netezza will shutdown after completing current queries, no new queries allowed.
-Offline: Waits for completion of current queries, new or queries in queue receive error.
-Paused: Same as above, but no error displayed. Typically caused during Netezza boot or startup.
-Down: Just plain down, could be due to Netezza server problem or user initiated.
What is a pipeline partition and how does provide a session with higher performance?
Within a mapping, a session can break apart different source qualifier to target pipelines into their own reader/transformation/writer thread(s). This allows the Integration Service to run the partition in parallel with other pipeline partitions in the same mapping. The parallelism creates a higher performing session.
What is the maximum number of partitions that can be defined for in a single pipeline?
You can define up to 64 partitions at any partition point in a pipeline.
What is a dynamic session partition?
A dynamic session partition is where the Integration Service scales the number of session partitions at runtime. The number of partitions is based on a number of factors including number of nodes in a grid or source database partitions.
List three dynamic partitioning configurations that cause a session to run with one partition?
- Set dynamic partitioning to the number of nodes in the grid, and the session does not run on a grid.
- Create a user-defined SQL statement or a user-defined source filter.
-Use dynamic partitioning with an Application Source Qualifier.
List the different types of pushdown optimization that can be configured?
Source-side pushdown optimization – The Integration Service pushes as much transformation logic as possible to the source database.
Target-side pushdown optimization – The Integration Service pushes as much transformation logic as possible to the target database.
Full pushdown optimization – The Integration Service attempts to push all transformation logic to the target database. If the Integration Service cannot push all transformation logic to the database, it performs both source-side and target-side pushdown optimization
Does Netezza support concurrent update of the same record?
In case of conflict in which the same record is set for modification, Netezza rolls back recent transaction that is attempted on the same record, in fact same table. This is generally acceptable in DW environments. Netezza does support serialization transactions and does not permit dirty reads.
What happens to records that are loaded during nzload process, but were not committed.
They are logically deleted and administrator can run nzreclaim, we may also truncate table.
What is a control task?
A control task is used to alter the normal processing of a workflow by stopping, aborting, or failing a workflow or worklet.
Can a group become a member of another group in Netezza user administration. Can we use same group name for databases?
In Netezza, public group is created automatically and every one is a member of this group by default. We can create as many groups and any user can be member of any group(s). Group can not be a member of another group. Group names, user names and database names are unique. That is, we can not have a database called sales and a group also called sales.
How can we give a global permission to user joe so that he can create table in any database?
Login into system database and give that permission to user by saying "grant create table to joe;"
What permission will you give to connect to a database?
List. Grand list, select on table to public (if logged into sales database, this allows all users to query tables in sales database).
Do we need to drop all tables and objects in the database, before dropping a database?
No, drop database will take care of it.
What constraints on a table are enforced?
Not null and default. Netezza does not apply PK and FK.
Why NOT NULL specification is better in Netezza?
Specifying not null results in better performance as NULL values are tracked at rowheader level. Having NULL values results in storing references to NULL values in header. If all columns are NOT NULL, then there is no record header.
Create Table AS (CTAS), does it distribute data randomly or based on table on which it received data.
Response: Newly created table from CTAS gets distribution from the original table.
Interested in mastering Netezza Certification? Learn more about Netezza Tutorials in this blog post.
Why do you prefer truncate instead of drop table command?
Just empties data from table, keeping table structure and permission intact.
When no distribution clause is used while creating a table, what distribution is used by Netezza.
First column (same as in Teradata).
Can we update all columns in a Netezza table?
No, the column that is used in distribution clause cannot be used for updates. Remember, up to four columns can be used for distribution of data on SPU. From practical sense, updating distribution columns result in redistribution of data; the single most performance hit when large table is involved. This restriction makes sense.
What is data slice and SPU?
For me, they are the same! Of course, this answer is not accurate reply in your interview(s).
What data type works best for zone maps?
Zone maps work best for integer data types.
What feature in Netezza you do not like?
Of course, a large list, especially when compared to Oracle. PK and FK enforcement is a big drawback though this is typically enforced at ETL or ELT process [ELT: Extract, Transform and Load. Note that 'Transform' and 'Load' can happen within Netezza].
List three real-time processing terminating conditions?
Idle time – Time Integration Service waits to receive messages before it stops reading from the source.
Message count – Number of messages the Integration Service reads from a real-time source before it stops reading from the source.
Reader time limit – Amount of time in seconds that the Integration Service reads source messages from the real-time source before it stops reading from the source.
What is real-time processing message recovery?
Real-time processing message recovery allows the Integration Service to recover unprocessed messages from a failed session. Recovery files, tables, queues, or topics are used to recover the source messages or IDs. Recovery mode can be used to recover these unprocessed messaged.


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This week, MHSAA officials coordinator Sam Davis takes us through a "You Make the Call" scenario in basketball.
Be The Referee is a series of short messages designed to help educate people on the rules of different sports, to help them better understand the art of officiating, and to recruit officials.
Below is this week's segment – You Make the Call - Listen
Let's test your rules knowledge with this basketball "you make the call."
A player on the red team drives for the basket, and as he leaps into the air, a defender from the green team knocks the ball loose prior to the release of the shot. The red team player, still airborne, regains control of the loose ball, returns to the floor, starts to dribble again and scores.
You Make The Call – Do we have a traveling violation, a double dribble violation, or does play continue?
If you said play continues – you're right. Under Rule 9-5 in the National Federation Basketball Rules Book, the loose ball created by the defender's actions allows the offensive player to basically start a new possession. There is no violation, and the basket counts.
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The sparsely vegetated plains around Garub on the eastern fringe of the Namib Desert is no paradise. The land is barren, the climate dry and hot, and vegetation is few and sparse. Yet, over the decades, a group of a wild horses have managed to adapt to the harsh conditions and made the desert their home.
Numbering between 90 and 150, these wild horses are one of the most isolated horse populations in the world, and the only feral herd residing in Africa.
There are many theories as to how the horses came to the most unlikely of places. One plausible theory is that they are descendants of cavalry and riding horses which the German troops brought with them during their occupation of South West Africa. During the First World War, some of these horses may have escaped, or were released into the desert, or were left behind when the troops left in 1915. Eventually, the horses congregated in the Garub Plains around a borehole, dug to supply water to steam locomotives at the nearby railway station. A watering place developed around this borehole, and Garub became the central place of residence for the horses.
Another factor that helped the horses survive was the discovery of diamonds around Kolmanskop, near the port city Lüderitz, in 1908. The German colonials quickly sealed off the region creating a 350 square kilometer restricted area known as Sperrgebiet. Garub is located within Sperrgebiet.
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The horses have become one of the attractions in southern Namibia and thousands of tourists visit the Garub waterhole near Aus annually, to witness the horses galloping to the water across the Garub plains.
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Just outside the town of Aus in Namibia one will see signs to the Wild Horses. Turn off the road and find a small shelter. From here one can watch the Wild horses as they wander across the desert to drink.
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And it's about time that we talked about it too.
Earlier this week, an employee saw me waiting for a ride home and asked why. I told him that I didn't drive. He asked me why (with a snide attitude). I told him that I had epilepsy and then said "you got a problem with that??" He goes "ya, I do." He's an a**hole. Two other employees asked me what that meant and I told them that I have seizures if I don't take medication for it. They were both very open minded. The other guy..... well, he has an attitude problem in many areas beyond this.
I've worked there a while and not said much to fellow employees. It feels good to speak up.
Gads that guy sounds like a dumb creep. Stay away from him If you can.
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Didn't you see any of the "Talk about it" television commercials about the site 3 or 4 months ago?
There was a lot of publicity with a lot of celebreties when the site first came online.
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Eclipseby Stephanie Meyer is the third book in the Twilight series. Bella is determined to become a vampire so she can be with Edward and the Cullens forever. She is concerned that she is getting older but Edward wants to get married first and encourages her to continue her education. In the midst of these difficult decisions Victoria returns to Forks to hunt and kill Bella. The Cullens and the Quileute werewolves temporarily set aside their hatred for each other so they can protect Bella.
This third book seemed similar to New Moon except that Edward was back in the picture. There is more jealousy and drama over who loves Bella more . . . Jacob or Edward and who is the best partner for her. I thought there was more action in this book than the first two but somehow to not keep my attention as much as New Moon had. I think there is too much fighting over Bella and I was expecting the story to be more involved and in-depth by now.
Overall, I did not like this book more than New Moon but I did like it more than Twilight. I was contemplating giving it a Thumbs Down because it did not meet my expectations and did not keep my completely engrossed as New Moon had. But I somehow still found it quite enjoyable and think it just narrowly deserves a Thumbs Up.
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- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2011 at 11:02 PM
First off I hate the whole twilight stuff. However, my girlfriend is into all of it. The movie for eclipse was actually pretty decent though, and we all should know that books are better than movies (if done first). Good job on making a bad series kinda interesting :DReplyDelete
Must be an enjoyable read Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. loved the way you wrote it. I find your review very genuine and original, this book is going in by "to read" list.ReplyDelete
rohit . . . thanks so much. Im glad you find my review inspiring. lol.ReplyDelete
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Two Asian Giant Hornets or Japanese Giant Hornets transfer food — trophallaxis in a Wikipedia file photo. The Japanese Giant Hornet is the largest hornet in the world and is native to tropical Eastern Asia, and is the most lethal animal in Japan. The picture matches exactly a lone insect that was flying in Arlington Heights on Sunday, July 29, 2012 west of St. Viator High School.
UPDATE: Since many people have sent us comments and e-mails regarding Asian Giant Hornets, we've created a Facebook page to help track sightings, and report experiences with Asian Giant Hornets or other bees, wasps, and hornets. If you're interested, please LIKE Facebook.com/AsianGiantHornet.
Wasps, hornets and bees are in the news this summer. Last week bees swarmed Des Plaines Fire Department firefighter/paramedics as they rescued a man with an ankle injury about 5:54 p.m. on July 25, 2012. The firefighter/paramedics and their patient were stung by the bees as the victim was rescued up an embankment near Golf Road and River Road.
Arlington Heights Park District has alerted park goers to be alert for Cicada Killer Wasps, especially in sandboxes. They are black with splashes of yellow and can grow to up to almost two inches. Females have a stinger, but are not aggressive unless disturbed. Males have aggressive territorial behavior, but do not have a stinger.
Sunday, an Asian Giant Hornet or Japanese Giant Hornet (Vespa mandarinia) was spotted at a residence west of St. Viator High School. The insect was at least two inches long and as thick as a human thumb. It had a wide orange-yellow head with large eyes, and distinct yellow-orange and brownish-black bands on its body — like a bee. The Asian Giant Hornet patrolled around a house in the front yard — occasionally hovering and landing on shrubbery. The Asian Giant Hornet studied a yellow-jacket nest that was recently destroyed with Raid wasp spray on the property. Yes, the giant hornets attack Yellow Jacket nests.
A Cicada Killer Wasp with yellow splashes is darker than the Japanese Giant Hornet or Asian Giant Hornet (By Bill Buchanan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/natdiglib&CISOPTR=11642&CISOBOX=1&REC=1, Public Domain, Link).
The European Hornet queen (Vespa crabro) is about one-to-two inches long — males and workers are smaller. The body segment is half brownish-black and half yellow, but its appearance is similar to the Asian Giant Hornet.
A large European Hornet filmed in Denmark. Notice how it moves backwards, and does not attack. The camera operator was at risk of attack, however. European Hornets are more likely to walk backwards and flee from humans, compared to Asian Giant Hornets, which will attack humans.
National Geographic video showing Asian Giant Hornets in a massacre of honeybees in their hive. The giant hornets look exactly like the lone scout that was spotted in central Arlington Heights on Sunday, July 29, 2012 at about 3:00 p.m. and about 6:30 p.m. (See National Geographic Video about cameraman Alastair MacEwan that filmed the massacre)
PAYBACK: Evolutionary adapted Japanese honeybees that have learned to defend their bee hive.
The Asian Giant Hornet is a ruthless predator that kills other hornet species, yellow jackets, bees, large insects and mantises. The Asian Giant Hornet often scouts out honey bee hives and marks the hive with a pheromone. The Asian Giant Hornet is known to return with about 30 more Asian Giant Hornet to attack the hive. A video by National Geographic has captured such an attack. About 30 hornets are known to kill about 30,000 bees in their bee hive in about three hours. The goal of the Asian Giant Hornet is to attack the larvae of the bees, which are used as feed for their own nests.
In Japan, the Asian Giant Hornets kill the bees by splitting them in half with their mandibles. Japanese beekeepers know that the Asian Giant Hornets usually attack after the middle of August.
The toxicity of the Asian Giant Hornet venom is actually lower than a honeybee, but the volume of venom is greater in the Asian Giant Hornet. Asian Giant Hornets are known to cause about 40 deaths per year in Japan.
A forum on DSLReports.com Need to kill Asian Hornets and comments on a BadSpiderBites.com Giant Hornet article includes reports of Asian Giant Hornets in Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. However, most or all of the sightings might be European Hornets. One of the pictures from a contributor from Tennessee shows a European Hornet. Last Fall posters reported aggressive infestations in recent years. In Georgia a poster reports he doesn't go a day without seeing one of the giant hornets. One poster reports the insects flying into lights at night, and an infestation in a chimney with about 200 hornets getting inside the house. Many posters scoff at the comments that the insects aren't aggressive. Some posters report that the large hornets are not affected by wasp/hornet spray.
I live in Richmond Virginia, & my parents live in King William Virginia. One day while visiting my folks, I was standing in their yard, talking to my mother with my arms crossed, when I heard what sounded like a rc airplane in a full on nosedive. I looked up just in time to see a humming bird sized hornet, identical to the picture of the Asian giant hornet, coming straight at me. It stung me on top of my ear & I have NEVER experienced such pain in my life, before, or since. The pain lasted for hours.
I am pierced & tattood all over, none of them hurt. This hurt. I cursed & cried like a little baby right in front of my mother. I am not allergic to bee or wasp stings, yet my entire face swelled up to extremely scary proportions. I have seen European hornets & cicada killers before. Nope, not it. Plus this thing was huge, & quite obviously, extremely aggressive, since I was doing NOTHING. Standing in the yard with my arms crossed. Not messing with a nest, not cutting grass, not doing jack. I have easily seen a dozen since that incident, & NO ONE will convince me they are not here. Yes it gets hot in VA, but NEVER over 100-105 degrees, so try again with the "It gets too hot here" B.S.. They ARE here.
In August 2009 tourists were warned to stay clear of Asian hornets that were colonizing in France. The insects are believed to have arrived in a shipment of pottery from China in 2004. One nest was discovered in 2004 and 2,000 were discovered in 2007. Nest have been reported in trees, in sewers and in the ground.
The pain of the Asian Giant Hornet is described as a hot nail piercing the skin. While the pain of a yellow jacket sting last about four minutes, the pain of an Asian Giant Hornet last about four hours with instant swelling.
Hunting Asian giant hornets underground known as 'Tu Fong' or Dirt Hornet. The YouTube publisher was accompanying hornet hunters collecting the insects for food and beverage purposes. The victim describes waves of pain while feeling nauseous and faint.
The previous warm Fall, warm Winter, and warm Spring have increased insect populations. Wasps and hornets have had more time to be active and to build their nests. Take extra caution looking for hornet nests and wasp nests on your property or whenever you are spending time outside. Wasps and hornets build nests in trees, in bushes, under eaves of homes, and in the ground — especially at the base of shrubs.
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My spitfire diabetic came in at lunch, like always, to check her blood sugar. I've been battling a sinus infection, I believe, and was at the peak of it, thinking of how much I wanted to crawl back in bed. She asked how I was doing, and I answered honestly, "Actually, your nurse isn't feeling so good today." We got to chatting, and she decided to have lunch in my office with me rather than the cafeteria. She had a packed lunch - a huge rarity - and even better, with the carb counts on the items. As she started munching, I emptied out her lunch bag to see what she brought. I pulled out two Cuties, and, perplexed, I asked why she brought two (she eats like a bird). Not missing a beat, and sounding like I was an idiot for even asking, "Well, one's for you."
How sweet! She may have some serious problems at home that sometime surface in the manner of attitude problems at school, but somewhere in there, not very deep, is a really nice kid.


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The Siachen Glacier is one of the most inhospitable and glaciated regions in the world. Sliding down a valley in the Karakoram Range, the glacier is 76 kilometers long and varies in width between 2 to 8 kilometers. It receives an annual snowfall of more than 35 feet. Blizzards can last 20 days. Winds reach speeds of 125 miles per hour. Temperatures can plunge to minus 60 degrees. For these reasons, the Siachen Glacier has been called the 'Third Pole.
Siachin Glacier For more than 17 blustery, shivering years, the Indian and Pakistani armies have been fighting a "No-Win" war on the 20,000-foot-high Siachen Glacier, the world's highest battleground. Pakistan, like India, has about 10,000 soldiers camped on this glacier. For a soldier, this is where hell freezes over.
An avalanche smashed into a Pakistani army base on a Himalayan glacier along the Indian border on Saturday, burying around 100 soldiers. Both India and Pakistan should vacate the glacier instead open this for mountaineering enthusiast, that ways we will save many life on both the sides.


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Dogs bring us joy at all ages!
Welcome! I am Jennifer Shryock, Creator/Director of the Family Paws Parent Education Programs for families with dogs, Dogs & Storks and The Dog and Baby Connection. I am a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant and Mother of four with a degree in Special Education. kids and dogs are my passion! Our programs offer dog and baby friendly solutions that are safe and easy to implement in your own home. Learn with me as I share my experience of 4 kids and multiple dogs and cats all under one roof!
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AAFP Statement: Medicare Physician Payment Reform Proposal Holds Promise
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013
Statement attributable to:
Reid Blackwelder, MD
American Academy of Family Physicians
"The American Academy of Family Physicians is pleased that the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee have released a discussion draft of the SGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Improvement Act. This bicameral, bipartisan proposal represents important progress in restructuring Medicare physician payment in a way that improves quality and establishes a predictable business environment for family medicine practices.
"The AAFP has long advocated for a health care delivery and payment system that placed greater emphasis on continuous and comprehensive primary care. No piece of legislation is perfect but opportunities such as these are hard to come by. The Senate Finance and the House Ways and Means committees' proposal takes the important steps of aligning delivery and payment policies.
"The draft legislation would encourage physician practices to transition to alternative payment models like the patient centered medical home, which family physicians believe will help restore primary care to its foundational role in effective health care delivery. It also offers technical assistance to small and solo practices in the difficult process of transforming their health delivery product. And it encourages CMS to simplify and consolidate several physician performance programs that impose similar but different reporting requirements. We are especially optimistic given the Congressional Budget Office's recent determination that the cost of repealing the SGR is now $116.5 billion, which would allow Congress to continue annual positive updates for primary care physicians.
"We will continue to support the bipartisan efforts of the Senate Finance and the House Ways & Means committees. Their efforts to build consensus to permanently repeal the flawed Medicare SGR formula and establish a pathway with appropriate incentives through which physicians are encouraged to transform their practices with payment and delivery system innovations such as the patient centered medical home.
"Congress has an opportunity to put physicians on a more predictable and equitable path. The SGR has been a financial and legislative drain for the past decade, and it is time for Congress to finally strike this payment policy from the books."
Editor's Note: To arrange an interview with Dr. Blackwelder, contact Leslie Champlin, 800-274-2237, Ext. 5224, or email@example.com.
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Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents 136,700 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the largest medical society devoted solely to primary care. Family physicians conduct approximately one in five office visits -- that's 192 million visits annually or 48 percent more than the next most visited medical specialty. Today, family physicians provide more care for America's underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty. Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care. To learn more about the specialty of family medicine, the AAFP's positions on issues and clinical care, and for downloadable multi-media highlighting family medicine, visit www.aafp.org/media. For information about health care, health conditions and wellness, please visit the AAFP's award-winning consumer website, www.familydoctor.org(familydoctor.org).
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Large quantities shippable (also for volume business)
Cylinders with piston rods: as compact cylinders, short-stroke cylinders, flat cylinders, round cylinders, miniature cylinders, cartridge cylinders or stainless steel air cylinders
Specified types in accordance with the ATEX directive are suitable for explosive atmospheres or are made of corrosion-resistant stainless steel and therefore particularly easy to clean.
Compact linear actuators with or without guides: mechanically coupled cylinders with optimized mounting options for simple mounting and magnetically coupled cylinders for use as a pressure-tight and zero-leakage system.
Compact rotary actuators with minimum space requirements and adjustable swivel angle, also available as a twin piston rotary actuator
Specified types are suitable for potentially explosive atmospheres in accordance with the ATEX directive.
More thrust than conventional cylinders by connecting in series 2, 3 or 4 cylinders with the same piston diameter and the same stroke.
By connecting 2 to 5 cylinders in series with the same piston diameter and different stroke lengths, up to 6 positions can be approached. .
Linear stage actuator, rod guides or precision piston rod guide.
Piston rod cylinder with reinforced piston rod and bearing to withstand large lateral forces.
For stopping or separating when transporting workpiece carriers or pallets – smooth, low noise and safe stopping.
Compact cylinders without piston rod with membrane and a much shorter stroke than bellow cylinders.
Clamping system with pneumatic actuator.
Diaphragm actuators without piston rods, the structure consists of two metal plates with a ribbed rubber bellows or tubing.
Construction unit for rotary indexing work on assembly and packing machines, drilling stations and applications with rotating workpiece or tool motion.
Actuators with integrated or attached directional control valve.
Stroke 1.7 ... 60 mm
Max. energy absorption per stroke 0.005 ... 384 J
Cushioning adjustable, self-adjusting, flexible cushioning rings
Components for cushioning kinetic energy.
Mounting components, attachments, piston rod attachments and guides for actuators.
Whether for sturdy gripping in a machine tool or micro-gripping in electronics manufacturing, Festo's range of pneumatic grippers covers a wide variety of applications.
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These are pneumatic actuators for carrying out linear movements. Energy applied to the piston is transmitted to the parts to be moved via a piston rod. Depending on the piston diameter, pushing forces of up to 50 kN at 6 bar are possible.
Rodless linear actuators are pneumatic actuators in which the power is transmitted via a lateral connection to the piston. The required installation space is significantly smaller than with a comparable piston rod cylinder. The connection to the piston is either mechanical through a slot in the profile barrel or magnetically through a closed profile barrel.
Pneumatic rotary actuators from Festo enable rotary movements up to a swivel angle of 270°. Highest precision is just as characteristic as the high performance and variety of the actuators.
Pneumatic multi-position actuators are available with two different functional principles. According to the first principle, multi-position actuators consist of two separate cylinders which are connected together by a kit and have piston rods that extend in the opposite direction. Depending on the control and stroke distribution, this cylinder type can therefore assume up to four positions. According to the second principle, multi stage pneumatic cylinders consist of two to five cylinders connected in series with different stroke lengths. With this cylinder type, only one piston rod is visible, which moves to different positions in one direction.
Pneumatic guided cylinders are very sturdy, heavy-duty, compact and precise.
Actuators with guide rods are attached to the yoke plate, which is thus secured against rotation and is consequently sturdy and resilient. Sliding drives are characterized by high precision and repetition accuracy.
Pneumatic cylinders used for damped or undamped stopping of movements in machines or workpiece carriers on transport systems. On transport systems, stopper cylinders with cushioning can stop loads of up to approx. 800 kg.
Clamp cylinders hold or clamp workpieces either directly with a pneumatically operated clamping element or via kinematics. The clamping element is swiveled out of the working area in the inactive status. Using kinematics, very high holding forces can be achieved with low energy consumption.
Bellows and diaphragm actuators form a class of their own in the world of pneumatics with special characteristics. For example, they have no stick-slip effect. They can be used as actuator or air spring elements in a wide range of applications.
Continuous rotary movements can be realized with pneumatic rotary indexing tables. Rotary indexing tables are used, for example, in assembly applications. A variable direction of rotation and freely selectable graduations allow a wide range of applications.
This is a unit consisting of a pneumatic actuator with integrated or attached valve for control. Installation of the pre-assembled unit is easy. There are fast switching times due to the short distance from the valve to the actuator.
Shock absorbers absorb the energy of a moving actuator. The movement of the drive piston is brought to a standstill by rubber elements and/or hydraulically. The relatively gentle stopping before the end position prevents a strong impact as well as springback and also protects the actuator and the machine parts from wear or irreparable damage.
A gripper is a pneumatic or electric actuator and is used to hold, position and move a workpiece. A gripper represents the connection between the workpiece and the industrial robot.


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Since the most frequent game releases on mobile phones come from Gameloft, I think it would be a good idea to post here the newly released games in this thread so we can avoid having so many threads of the same release.
Besides, I wanted to post here what Gameloft has just announced. I'm pretty sure many of you will be happy to know what next releases Gameloft has planned. Here it goes:
Gameloft to publish 12 mobile titles based on highly anticipated Ubisoft Brands
Gameloft®, the leading developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones, will be launching 12 action titles this year that were unveiled by Ubisoft in an exclusive preview at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). These games received enthusiastic praise from the video game industry.
All titles will be released simultaneously for mobile phones and other game formats, ensuring optimal marketing plans and best possible brand recognition.
Gonzague de Vallois, Gameloft's Vice-President of Publishing, remarked: " We are passing a new milestone this year with our long-term licensing agreement with Ubisoft by publishing an exceptional number of games based on their franchises. The joint launch plans prepared with Ubisoft will allow our partners to make optimal use of the marketing and sales resources already in place through all media and distribution channels."
Titles to release in 2006:
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
The latest installment of the best-selling Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell saga allows gamers to play as a double agent spy.
- Open SeasonTM
Based on Sony Pictures Animation's feature-length CGI film Open Season is a riotous romp in the great outdoors for kids of all ages.
- ***z
A pet simulation game that lets owners name, train and play with a realistic puppy.
- Rayman Raving RabbitsTM
Created by Michel Ancel, this new installment of the Rayman franchise will be the funniest and zaniest yet.
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas
Winner of Overall Best First Person Shooter at E3 from IGN.com
To release in early 2007:
- Assassin's CreedTM
Set during the Third Crusade, players will have the power to throw their immediate environment into chaos and to shape events during this pivotal moment in history. The franchise will combine original gameplay, top-notch graphics, and an immersive and sophisticated storyline which will deliver a new and captivating action gaming experience.
Winner of the Game Critics : Best of E3 2006 for Best Action/Adventure title,
Best PLAYSTATION®3 Game from 1up.com,
Best Action Game for PLAYSTATION®3, Best Graphics for PLAYSTATION®3 and PLAYSTATION®3 Game of the Show as well as Overall Best Action Title from IGN
Best PLAYSTATION®3 Game from Gamespot
Best of Show from Gametrailers.com.
- Brothers in Arms Hell's HighwayTM
Lead a squad of real soldiers who think, relate and fight together through the brutal trials of a dramatic World War II battle.
- HazeTM
An innovative new First Person Shooter from Ubisoft and Free Radical, the developers of the critically-acclaimed Timesplitters® series.
Other titles will be announced at a later date.
In parallel, Gameloft will publish other titles under its own brands and with other leading licensors and personalities.
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Letters to His Children
A selection of letters from 1903-1917
To Miss Emily T. Carow
August 16, 1903
Archie and Nick continue inseparable.
I wish you could have seen them the other day, after one of the picnics, walking solemnly up, jointly carrying a basket, and each with a captured turtle in his disengaged hand.
Archie is a most warm-hearted, loving, cunning little goose.
Quentin, a merry soul, has now become entirely one of the children, and joins heartily in all their plays, including the romps in the old barn, to which all the Roosevelt children, Ensign Hamner of the Sylph, Bob Ferguson and Aleck Russell were to come.
Of course I had not the heart to refuse; but really it seems, to put it mildly, rather odd for a stout, elderly President to be bouncing over hay-ricks in a wild effort to get to goal before an active midget of a competitor, aged nine years.
However, it was really great fun.
One of our recent picnics was an innovation, due to Edith.
We went in carriages or on horseback to Jane's Hill, some eight miles distant.
The view was lovely, and there was a delightful old farmhouse half a mile away, where we left our horses.
Speck [German Ambassador Count Speck von Sternberg] rode with Edith and me, looking more like Hans Christian Andersen's little tin soldier than ever.
His papers as Ambassador had finally come and so he had turned up at Oyster Bay, together with the Acting Secretary of State, to present them.
He appeared in what was really a very striking costume, that of a hussar.
As soon as the ceremony was over, I told him to put on civilized raiment, which he did, and he spent a couple of days with me. We chopped, and shot, and rode together.
He was delighted with Wyoming, and, as always, was extremely nice to the children.
The other day all the children have amusing amateur theatricals, gotten up by Lorraine and Ted.
The acting was upon Laura Roosevelt's tennis court.
All the children were most cunning, especially Quentin as Cupid, in the scantiest of pink muslin tights and bodice.
Ted and Lorraine, who were respectively George Washington and Cleopatra, really carried off the play.
At the end all the cast joined hands in a songs and dance, the final verse being devoted especially to me.
I love all these children and have great fun with them, and I am touched by the way in which they feel I am their special friend, champion, and companion.
To-day all, young and old, from the three houses went with us to Service on the great battleship Kearsarge — for the fleet is here to be inspected by me to-morrow.
It was an impressive sight, one which I think the children will not soon forget.
Most of the boys afterward went to lunch with the wretched Secretary Moody on theDolphin .
Ted had the younger ones very much on his mind, and when he got back said they had been altogether too much like a March Hare tea-party, as Archie, Nicholas, and Oliver were not alive to the dignity of the occasion.
To Quentin Roosevelt
May 10, 1908
Dearest Quenty-Quee:
I loved your letter.
I am very homesick for mother and for you children, but I have enjoyed this week's travel.
I have been among the orange groves, where the trees have oranges growing thick upon them, and there are more flowers than you have ever seen.
I have a gold top which I shall give you if mother thinks you can take care of it.
Perhaps I shall give you a silver bell instead. Whenever I see a little boy being brought up by his father or mother to look at the procession I think of you and Archie and feel very homesick.
Sometimes little boys ride in the procession with their ponies, just like Archie on Algonquin.
To Kermit Roosevelt
Date Unknown
Dear Kermit:
To-night while I was preparing to dictate a message to Congress concerning the boiling cauldron on the Isthmus of Panama, which has now begun to bubble over, up came one of the ushers with a telegram from you and Ted about the football match.
Instantly I bolted into the next room to read it aloud to mother and sister and we all cheered in unison when we came to the Rah! Rah! Rah! part of it. It was a great score.
I wish I could have seen the game.
To Kermit Roosevelt
February 27, 1904
Dear Kermit:
Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick.
Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.
He was a very sad bunny next morning and spent a couple of days in bed.
Ethel, as always, was as good as gold both to him and to Archie, and largely relieved me of my duties as vice-mother.
I got up each morning in time to breakfast with Ethel and Archie before they started to school, and I read a certain amount to Quentin, but this was about all.
I think Archie escaped with a minimum of washing for the three days.
One day I asked him before Quentin how often he washed his face, whereupon Quentin interpolated, "very seldom, I fear," which naturally produced from Archie violent recriminations of a strongly personal type.
Mother came back yesterday, having thoroughly enjoyed Parsifal.
All horses continue sick.
To Ethel Carow Roosevelt
June 21, 1904
Dearest Ethel:
I think you are a little trump and I love your letter, and the way you take care of the children and keep down the expenses and cook bread and are just your own blessed busy cunning self.
You would have enjoyed being at Valley Forge with us on Sunday.
It is a beautiful place, and, of course, full of historic associations.
The garden here is lovely.
A pair of warbling vireos have built in a linden and sing all the time.
The lindens, by the way, are in bloom, and Massachusetts Avenue is fragrant with them.
The magnolias are all in bloom, too, and the jasmine on the porch.
To Kermit Roosevelt
February 2, 1918
Dear Kermit,
Since my last letter your letter about Tekrit has come and I am overjoyed. Three cheers!
You have proved yourself; you have made good; you have justified the sorrow and worry you and darling Belle have shared.
I am more pleased that I can say.
You have actually taken part in a big phase of the greatest war in history; you have efficiently done your duty for the right in the times that tried mens' souls.
It is better than to be drilling drafted men with wooden cannon here at home, isn't it?
Whether or not we shall see the much-heralded tremendous German offensive I have no idea; her army is still very powerful; but there is no question that the economic strain and social political unrest within her borders have grown very dangerous; and Austria is if anything in worse shape.
My usefulness is very limited.
I do fulfill a modest function, that of telling disagreeable truths which ought to be told but which it is very unpopular to tell and which nobody else will tell.
This is a factor in making the Administration do about a fifth of what it ought to and could, instead of only a twentieth.
But I tend to be regarded as merely a scold.
I am no longer in touch with the dominant currents of the American stream of purpose and perception — I can't say "thought," for there is uncommonly little of it at present.
All I wish is to keep on until all of you get back and take up your own lives, and until Quentin marries Flora, and then I shall retire; it is not wise to linger superfluous on the stage; and it is worse to be sour and gloomy and forecast all kinds of evil because the new generation must be spoken to in a different manner — for better or worse.
I am writing darling Belle, saying that I do hope she will take thought primarily of the two children (it is useless to ask her to take thought primarily of herself); that so she can serve you best.
I suppose that Ted and Archie are in the trenches for good now.
I do not venture to write you about either public or military matters.
Your loving Father
To Quentin Roosevelt
December 24, 1917
Dearest Quentin,
Mother, the adamantine, has stopped writing to you because you have not written to her — or to any of us — for a long time.
That will make no permanent difference to you; but I write about something that may make a permanent difference.
Flora spoke to Ethel yesterday of the fact that you only wrote rarely to her.
She made no complaint whatever.
But she knows that some of her friends receive three or four letters a week from their loves or husbands (Archie writes Gracie rather more often than this — exceedingly interesting letters).
Now of course you may not keep Flora anyhow.
But if you wish to lose her, continue to be an infrequent correspondent.
If however you wish to keep her write her letters interesting letters, and love letters — at least three times a week.
Write no matter how tired you are, no matter how inconvenient it is; write if you're smashed up in the hospital; write when you are doing your most dangerous stunts; write when your work is most irksome and disheartening; write all the time!
Write enough letters to allow for half being lost.
A hardened and wary old father


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Entomologists from the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6) and the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) partnered with Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element (JTF-B MEDEL) preventive medicine to develop a disease detection capability for the region. This cutting-edge work is supported by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Board-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance (GEIS).
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Fisher, NAMRU-6 entomology department head, is leading the effort to bring molecular capabilities as well as the latest in DNA sequencing technology to Soto Cano Air Base. As a regional capability, this technology will allow personnel to rapidly determine if locally-collected ticks, sandflies and mosquitoes are carrying pathogens of disease importance that can threaten the joint
warfighter, Honduran Armed Forces and civilian populations.
"The DNA sequencing technology we propose is highly flexible, ideal for far-forward field sites and can produce results in less than 24 hours," said Fisher. "This has the potential to provide actionable data that can immediately alert the regional public health authorities to prevent large outbreaks and provide commanders a risk assessment threat to their troops."
Leishmaniasis, malaria, dengue and Chagas disease are a few of the diseases known to be present in Honduras.
The ongoing, long-term collaboration between JTF-B MEDEL preventive medicine and the Ministry of Health in the Comayagua district was instrumental in identifying where this new capability can strengthen the public health in the region, building on previous assistance in testing water quality, and the need for rapid, near real-time diagnostics of disease vectors.
"I was really impressed with the level of organization of their public health vector surveillance system," said Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Joshua Nieto of NECE. "They have a good network of personnel at the district level collecting insects and relaying the results back to the ministry's headquarters in Comayagua. The piece that is missing is knowing if these insects pose a risk to human health and if so, what." During the week the team used a variety of techniques to collect mors than 200 insects that will be analyzed using the DNA sequencing technology by NECE personnel at the USDA's Center for Medical and Veterinary Entomology in Gainesville, Florida.
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This marks the Comfort's third visit to Jamaica
MEDRETEs play a critical role in the training and readiness of military medical personnel
More than 800 medical professionals provided care for 3,677 patients
This marks the first visit to Grenada and the seventh to the region since 2007
This is the second Pacific Angel exercise conducted in Papua New Guinea
This marks USNS Comforts' seventh deployment to the region since 2007
The vice president called the deployment a lifesaving mission
The purpose of this visit was to further strengthen the bonds and interoperability programs between our allied countries or partner nations
The conference brought together medical professionals from across the command, and interagency and foreign partners, to enable collaboration and discuss areas of concern
The Global Health Security Strategy outlines the U.S. approach to strengthen Global Health Security
USNS Comfort represents our enduring promise to our partners in the Western Hemisphere
Vigorous Warrior is a biannual readiness event organized by the NATO Military Medicine Centre of Excellence
Uniting upwards of 2,500 providers from 39 countries, the exercise is the largest medical readiness event in NATO
Air Force Capt. Talon Miner, a flight surgeon assigned to the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa
United States, European and African military nurses focused on each nation's unique cultures, communication patterns and capacity for interoperability
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- Of the people responding, 26.3% actively use Sync
- Of the active users, 28% use Sync in a manner it's not designed for: Please be aware that our Sync server is not a backup server, nor is it a service to be used to install defaults in browsers on many computers at once (you should use pre-generated profiles for that)
- As far as the actual service goes, users find it extremely important that Pale Moon Sync is free and available, but don't care very much actually how it is given shape. People do find it important that it is run by us instead of a third party.
So, for the future, it looks like we can run it as long as we can, and then it will be shut down. Making sure Pale Moon retains the Sync client will allow knowledgeable individuals to synchronize with e.g. several free cloud packages out there that support weave or to run their own FSyncMS instance.