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(PONARS Policy Memo) The solemn presentation by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople of the so-called tomos, or a decree of autocephaly, for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to newly elected Ukrainian primate Metropolitan Epiphanius in Istanbul on January 7, 2019, marked the break of yet another link between Ukraine and Russia. This important ecclesiastical and geopolitical goal was achieved in spite of fierce resistance from Russia’s Orthodox Church and state authorities. It was widely regarded as an impressive victory for Kyiv in its ongoing confrontation with Moscow that began in earnest five years ago with Russia’s military intervention in Crimea and the Donbas. In a desperate attempt to stop the emancipation of Ukrainian Orthodoxy from its centuries-long subordination to Moscow, the Russian Orthodox Church broke communion with Constantinople, thus exacerbating the global conflict in Orthodoxy as well as Russia’s alienation from the West. While his obvious role in this important achievement is likely to increase President Petro Poroshenko’s chances of having his leadership mandate renewed in the upcoming March 2019 Ukrainian elections, it may also add to the Russian leadership’s willingness to exert more resolute measures against Ukraine.
The idea of getting autocephaly has been cherished by many Ukrainian clergymen, intellectuals, and politicians since the early years of Ukraine’s independence as an important attribute of nationhood. Just two months after the proclamation of Ukraine’s independence in 1991, a congress of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), an autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church, appealed to the mother church to grant it full autocephaly. However, Moscow postponed a decision on the matter and several months later orchestrated the removal of the main driving force behind the campaign, Metropolitan of Kyiv Filaret. In response, Filaret, with support of then-president Leonid Kravchuk, founded in June 1992 a new religious institution, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church–Kyiv Patriarchate (UOCKP), which united the autocephaly-oriented clergy of the UOC and part of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), which had been established earlier as a “national” alternative to the Moscow-controlled UOC. While quickly establishing a strong presence in the west and center, UOCKP failed to win nationwide primacy, first and foremost due to its continued marginalization in the east and south with its Russia-friendly populations. No less importantly, it failed to achieve recognition as a “canonical” autocephalous church by other Orthodox churches around the world, a crucial barrier to its embrace by the majority of truly religious people in Ukraine. Two decades after its establishment, UOCKP remained twice as weak as the UOC in terms of number of parishes: 4,455 versus 12,230, according to the 2012 data of the State Department for Nationalities and Religions. Even weaker, with 1,208 parishes as of 2012, was the part of the UAOC that rejected a merger with UOCKP but then experienced internal rivalry and further splits.
The three churches’ standing and popularity varied by region and changed with time in accordance with the preferences of successive presidents, parliamentary majorities, and local councils. Largely in tune with local preferences, the local authorities in the west and center favored UOCKP (in Galicia, however, it was overshadowed by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church subordinated to the Vatican), while in the east and south they primarily supported UOC. At the national level, the nationalist-leaning presidents Leonid Kravchuk and Viktor Yushchenko clearly preferred UOCKP while the more Russia-friendly presidents Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yanukovych leaned toward UOC.
However, at no time was a certain denomination prevalent enough to marginalize the other churches—a degree of pluralism that scholars considered to be an important factor contributing to the viability of Ukrainian democracy, in clear contrast to Russia and Belarus where the hegemonic Orthodox church became a tool of the authoritarian regimes. At the same time, the popular support for the churches perceived as truly national--particularly the stronger and more visible of them, the UOCKP--gradually grew well above the level warranted by their service capacity, while for the Moscow-controlled UOC the relation was the opposite. For example, 31 percent of respondents in a 2011 survey reported belonging to the former denomination and 26 percent to the latter, an obvious discrepancy with the above-mentioned number of parishes, which the researchers explained as reflecting people’s subjective identification rather than actual church attendance.
This subjective identification further strengthened after the Euromaidan revolution and Russian military aggression, which also brought about a marked increase in other dimensions of Ukrainian national identity such as the self-designation as Ukrainian and positive attitudes toward the Ukrainian nationalist guerillas who fought against the Soviets in the aftermath of World War II. As survey data demonstrates, support for the Ukrainian Orthodoxy’s continued attachment to the Russian Church dropped from 19 percent in 2010 to 9 percent in 2018. The Ukrainian Orthodox people’s consolidation around UOCKP became much more popular (27 percent), as well as their unification in one church that would seek independence (23 percent).
In view of UOC’s involvement in the separatist activities in the Donbas in 2014 and its failure to express a clear pro-Ukrainian stance at a time of war with Russia, many people called in online discussions for its outright ban. While such a radical move was not an option for the country’s rather moderate leadership, growing support for an independent Orthodox church certainly encouraged them to make a resolute effort to achieve autocephaly. For Poroshenko, this was not only an important dimension of Ukraine’s emancipation from Russia but also a key element of his strategy to win the patriotic electorate in the presidential election of March 2019 and, thus, reverse the steady decline of his popularity.
At the same time, the government’s desire to achieve autocephaly and the support of the population for it were far from sufficient to make it happen. When Yushchenko pursued this goal a decade ago, it was not only the ambivalence of public opinion and the inability of Orthodox denominations to overcome their divides that precluded a favorable decision by Patriarch Bartholomew. While confirming Ukraine as part of Constantinople’s—not Moscow’s—canonical territory, he was at that time ready to offer to Ukrainian Orthodox believers only limited autonomy rather than complete autocephaly, an offer that UOCKP reportedly declined. Although Bartholomew’s rhetoric refuted the claim by the Moscow Patriarchy of having Ukraine kept within its sphere of influence, he did not, in fact, want to antagonize the Russian Church, which he preferred to have as a partner in ecumenical matters.
Last year, Bartholomew showed better dispositions to Ukrainian calls for autocephaly. Observers argued this may have been partly due to the Moscow Patriarchate’s refusal to participate in the 2016 Ecumenical Orthodox Council, the organizing of which was considered as one of the most important achievements of Bartholomew’s career. Apart from his personal resentment against Russian clerical leaders, Bartholomew’s current support for Ukrainian autocephaly was likely driven by his wish to use the Constantinople-friendly Ukrainian Church as an ally in competition with Moscow for the primary role in global Orthodoxy. Moreover, he was arguably less constrained than earlier by the Turkish authorities under whose jurisdiction his institution functions in Istanbul, as the alienation between Turkey and Russia made the former unwilling to use its leverage for helping the latter.
In any event, after his meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew in April 2018, Poroshenko summoned the heads of the parliamentary factions to tell them that Ukraine was “as close as ever” to obtaining autocephaly but they needed to help achieve that goal by urging their colleagues to support an official appeal to Constantinople. Despite a protest from some Moscow-friendly opposition deputies, a solid majority of MPs promptly supported the appeal. Backed by a similar appeal from the leadership of UOCKP and UAOC, the parliamentary vote allowed Bartholomew to treat the plea for autocephaly as reflecting the will of the Ukrainian Orthodox people and, therefore, to start the process leading to the emergence of a fully independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It was announced that the process was to involve the creation of a new unified church consisting of clergy from the two heretofore-unrecognized denominations and those in the UOC willing to join them, after which Constantinople would recognize the new church as equal to the world’s fourteen other independent Orthodox churches.
Perceiving Ukrainian autocephaly as dangerous to Moscow’s role in the world and its influence on Ukraine in particular, the Russian Church and state authorities tried to prevent it from materializing. As Bartholomew’s emissaries paid visits to leaders of the Orthodox churches in order to win their support for the recognition of the Ukrainian aspiration, high-ranking Russian clerics and government officials traveled to the same destinations with the opposite goal. Moreover, a group of UOC dignitaries visited Istanbul to talk Bartholomew into reconsidering his intention, while in Ukraine the UOC clergy distributed among their parishioners an appeal to the Constantinople Patriarchate protesting against the “legalization of the schism.” For their part, the leadership of the UOCKP sought to persuade Orthodox leaders in other countries that the Ukrainian people supported autocephaly, and their effort was backed by Ukrainian officials and diplomats. Although there were few public statements on the matter, observers believed that most of the Orthodox churches refused to ally with Moscow against Constantinople, preferring to wait until the decision was announced. At least in one case, the pressure backfired as traditionally Russia-friendly Greece accused Moscow of interference in its internal affairs over this and other issues and went as far as expelling several of its diplomats and denying visas to a number of clerics.
Bartholomew withstood all pressures, including from Moscow Patriarch Kirill who paid him a visit-of-last-hope in late August 2018. The plans for Ukrainian Orthodox autocephaly could now not be reversed. Crucial steps were taken in October 2018 when the Constantinople Patriarchate revoked its decree of 1686 that led to the Ukrainian church’s subordination to Moscow and restored the clerical prerogatives of the bishops and priests of the two churches that Moscow had declared schismatic. Although the Moscow Patriarchate responded with a drastic decision to break communion with Constantinople, these steps paved the way for the convention on December 15 of a constituent council of clergy and layity, which proclaimed the establishment of the new unified Ukrainian Church and elected its primate who was to receive the certificate of autocephaly from Bartholomew’s hands.
Constantinople reportedly insisted that the primates of UOCKP and UAOC renounce their claims to the leadership of the new church, but Filaret managed to arrange for his protégé, Metropolitan Epiphanius, to win, and thus he retained considerable control over the new Church’s affairs. For their part, UOC leaders and their patrons in Kyiv and Moscow succeeded in preventing all but two of that denomination’s bishops from attending the constituent council, which undermined the unifying ambitions of the autocephaly champions and impeded the transfers of UOC parishes to the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OUC).
Although such transfers were reported from the very first days after the constituent council, they were too few to produce a domino effect leading to a significant reduction of the Moscow-loyal denomination. Even the completion of the autocephaly process in early January 2019, when the certificate was presented to the new Church’s leader, did not visibly facilitate transfers, with less than 200 parishes switching sides by the end of January, a tiny fraction of the UOC’s total of more than 12,000 parishes. The main reasons for this apparent stagnation of process are believed to be pressures on hesitant priests from the UOC leadership and their influential supporters and the lack of a clear legal mechanism that would allow parishioners to make a transfer on their own initiative.
Unless a drastic change in the sociopolitical context of Ukraine accelerates (or stops) the process, it is likely to take years, during which time the independent Church will coexist with the one subordinated to Moscow. While this prospect disappoints many Ukrainian patriotic believers (and even patriotic non-believers), the important fact of the matter is that the new autocephalous church was accomplished without violence, which would have been used by Russian propaganda against Ukraine and undermine the Ukrainian government’s reputation in the West. Still, it cannot be excluded that Russia might provoke violence in order to destabilize Ukraine and discredit Poroshenko as the elections approach.
Volodymyr Kulyk is Head Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Homepage image (credit): Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew handing the tomos of autocephaly to Ukrainian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Epiphanius.
For more, see: Volodymyr Kulyk, “National Identity in Ukraine: Impact of Euromaidan and the War,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 68, No. 4, 2016, pp. 588-608; Volodymyr Kulyk, “Shedding Russianness, Recasting Ukrainianness: The Post-Euromaidan Dynamics of Ethnonational Identifications in Ukraine,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 2-3, 2018, pp. 119-138. | 2019-04-23T16:08:08 | http://www.ponarseurasia.com/memo/church-and-geopolitics-battle-over-ukrainian-autocephaly |
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Pterygium is a growth of the conjunctiva onto the cornea, which appears as a whitish-yellowish bump or wedge-shaped growth. Although the cause is unknown, this condition is more common in people who work or spend a lot of time outdoors. However, pterygium is rare in children.
Pterygium is typically benign, and can cause pain, irritation, redness, scarring and decreased vision. Surgery is the only way to remove pterygium, especially if your vision is affected, if there is excessive discomfort and if it is cosmetically unsightly. However, there is a high rate of reoccurrence. The surgery is an outpatient procedure with local anesthesia.
Ptosis is commonly caused when the levator muscle in the eyelid is stretched over time due to age. Some patients are simply born with droopy eyelids and are genetically predisposed to the condition.
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Entropion is the medical term used to describe a condition where the lower eyelid and eyelashes turn or roll inward, towards the eye. This causes the eyelid and its lashes to constantly rub against the cornea (the front part of the eye) and conjunctiva (the mucous membrane that protects the eye).
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Ectropion is the medical term used to describe a condition where the lower eyelid turns or rolls outward, exposing the inner surface of the eye. This condition interferes with normal distribution of tears on the eye surface, resulting in dry, painful eyes and chronic conjunctivitis.
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For any weight loss strategy to be profitable, a low calorie diet program program along with appropriate workout routines is important. When you comply with a diet, you have to watch what you eat in among your meals. Several diets recommend eating five-six instances a day. Then there is a common confusion about what can be eaten as snacks all through the day so that you do not feel hungry all the time. You also have to be cautious not to overeat. You must eat low calorie snacks when on diet plan. Right here are some suggestions and some recipes of excellent snacks for weight loss, all for you.
You know sometimes we require to preserve it fundamental, with all the advances in dietary understanding I don’t know what to believe any far more. 1 day this works then the subsequent day its bad for you. I consider that excersise is understated. We think that we get enouth workout running thru our daily lives. But our body’s just adjust the price of calories we burn while undertaking the exact same point over and over again.
Good write-up. I agree with New Horizons, though, that the ADA and the USDA dietary recommendations are misleading. Grains, even, entire grains, are hugely more than-rated as a supply of excellent carbs. Fresh vegetables and fruit are really much to be preferred. Acceptable sources of nutritional carbohydrates have a high water content material as nicely as higher fiber.
The actual foundation of the pyramid need to be water, then vegetables, as they are fiber-rich and that slows down their carbohydrate impact on blood sugar, and fruits must be in a minor role, complete not juiced. Legumes are yet another excellent decision, as the fiber in them is much much more substantial than in grains. You can verify out the rest of the University’s Healing Foods Pyramid.
In a saucepan, bring milk to boil over a medium heat. Once boiled, minimize heat to low. Gradually add the polenta into the boiling milk, stirring gently to keep away from lumps. When all the polenta has been added, add the butter. Mix nicely, and cook for 1 minute. Turn heat off and add the vanilla. Location hot polenta in bowls. Top with honey and almonds, or whisk in cheese, instead of honey and almonds. Serve with your preferred hot drink.
In a massive bowl, beat the eggs, flour, mustard, salt, baking powder, butter, sour cream and milk with a wire whisk until nicely-blended. Fold in ham, tomatoes, cheese and chives. Pour evenly into a sprayed rectangular baking dish and bake uncovered at 350°F for 50 to 60 minutes, or till prime has lightly browned. Let cool for five minutes ahead of cutting. Garnish with tomato slices and chives. | 2019-04-22T06:46:59 | https://www.circleoflifehomehealth.com/swift-effortless-healthy-meals/ |
The Irascible Professor - Commentary of the Day - 12-30-06. Trans facts.
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.".... ....Elbert Hubbard.
Commentary of the Day - December 30, 2006: Trans Facts.
In a recent article entitled "What Will They Ban Next?" libertarian commentator John Stossel bemoaned the decision of New York City to ban trans-fats from restaurant food. Stossel's basic argument was that the individual should have the right to choose whether or not to consume foods that are known to be unhealthy, and that the government should keep its nose out of such decisions. On the surface that seems to be a reasonable enough argument but the IP thought it might be interesting to take a closer look at the trans-fat "controversy", and the decision of governmental agencies not only to warn folks about the risks of consuming trans-fats but also to go so far as to ban them outright in restaurant foods as New York City has done.
While very small amounts of trans-fat occurs naturally in meat and dairy products, the vast majority of trans-fat consumed in a person's diet come from vegetable oils that have been partially hydrogenated by chemical processes. The hydrogenation process converts the oils into semi-solid fats that have a long shelf life. Crisco®, which appeared on the market in 1911, and margarines that became popular during the first half of the 20th century are examples of partially hydrogenated fats (many of these products including Crisco® sold in the United States have been reformulated recently to reduce or eliminate trans-fat content). These partially hydrogenated fats frequently are used in the fast food industry for deep frying because they are more stable than non-hydrogenated oils, which means that they can be used for a longer time. They also have been used extensively in commercial baked goods because they help to give these products long shelf lives.
Unfortunately, there is increasing scientific evidence that the consumption of trans-fat increases the risk of coronary heart disease, and it is estimated that the complete elimination of trans-fat from the diet could reduce the number of heart attacks by as much as 20%. Unlike saturated fats (such as butter and palm kernel oil), which raise the level of "bad" (LDL) cholesterol in the blood, trans-fats both raise the level of bad cholesterol and lower the level of "good" (HDL) cholesterol. Thus, compared to other fats, only relatively small amounts of trans-fat in a person's diet significantly increase the risk for coronary heart disease. Based on numerous research studies showing the danger of trans-fat in the diet, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began requiring the nutritional labels found on commercial food products and supplements to include information about trans-fat content starting on January 1, 2006. In addition, the FDA and health educators began public information campaigns to educate the people about the dangers of trans-fats in the diet. Not surprisingly, manufacturers quickly found ways to eliminate trans-fats from most of their packaged food products in the short time since that requirement went into effect. In addition, responding to pressure from health and consumer groups, several national restaurant chains have begun to remove trans-fats from their foods. While it often is claimed that trans-fats give particular fast food offerings such as French fries their characteristic taste or texture, few consumers have been able to tell the difference when oils that do not contain trans-fats are used for deep frying.
Where Stossel, who seems to value freedom of choice above everything else, gets it wrong is his assumption that individuals are always free to choose. In fact, up to January 1, 2006 anyone who ate packaged food or who ate a restaurant meal had no freedom to choose to avoid trans-fats, because the commercial food industry was not required to include the amount of trans-fats on nutritional labels. This was the same commercial food industry that resisted any kind of nutritional labeling requirements for years. And that's exactly the problem that we have today with regard to restaurant food. Restaurant operators are loathe to list the nutritional composition of the meals they serve lest their customers have second thoughts about ordering that double cheeseburger (490 Calories, 26 grams of total fat, 12 grams of saturated fat (60% of the maximum recommended daily value) and the medium fries (380 Calories, 20 grams of total fat, 4 grams of saturated fat, 5 grams of trans-fats, and 220 mg of sodium for the McDonald's version of these offerings).
Sure, the average consumer probably knows that a double cheeseburger and medium fries is not exactly a healthful meal; however, because trans-fats are used in the preparation of a wide variety of food products, the consumer often has no way of knowing if that restaurant entree was sauteed in pure canola oil with no trans-fats or in some other oil loaded with trans-fats. Without that knowledge consumers really have no choice at all.
Now it is true that New York City could have taken another path, and required restaurants to list the trans-fat contents of their meals directly on the menu so that consumers could make up their own minds. But that probably would have caused more problems than simply requiring restaurants to use the readily available substitutes that contain no trans-fats.
Stossel's argument for individual choice also suffers from the fact that the choices that individuals make often visit consequences on others; and, choices that affect one's health are a prime example of this. More than likely, Mr. Stossel's health care costs are covered by insurance. If he chooses an unhealthy lifestyle that leads to a chronic illness such as coronary heart disease or diabetes, he affects not only himself and his family, but he also causes health insurance rates to rise for the rest of us. That's why the IP favors government intervention to require folks to fasten their seatbelts when they drive their cars and to wear helmets when they ride motorcycles.
We can't always keep other people from making stupid choices, but we do have a right to take those easy actions that reduce the impact of those stupid choices on ourselves! | 2019-04-26T07:39:11 | http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-12-30-06-epr.htm |
by Adam L Silvermanat9:36 pm on September 13, 2016 . It has 158 Comments.
Much to LAO and Bella Q’s delight, the trial for the remaining defendants – as in those who hadn’t pled out or had their charges dropped – in the Bundy family led Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Occupation began this week in Federal Court in Oregon. The lines to get in were long! The Prosecution opened up their case today, delineating how the Bundys and several of their codefendants had carefully planned their actions and that they were in clear violation of numerous Federal laws.
Barrow, during opening statements in the long-anticipated Oregon standoff trial, used Ammon Bundy’s own words caught on video Jan. 2 to argue that Bundy and his co-defendants aren’t being prosecuted for holding a political protest, but for leading an armed occupation of the refuge.
Marcus Mumford, a lawyer for Ammon Bundy, told the court that the peaceful demonstration was an effort to draw attention to the federal government’s illegal control and mismanagement of public lands. He said Bundy was attempting to use a provision of the law known as adverse possession to retake land improperly seized by the federal government many decades ago.
“The government has been squatting on this land for years, illegally and contrary to how (the U.S.) Congress intended,” Mumford said in a telephone interview on Monday.
We’ll be checking in all week, in between restocking the Balloon Juice Bunker – just in case… Those of you readers in NY and Ohio that are on LAO and Bella Q watch – please confirm receipt of your schedules and acknowledge your shift assignments in the comments!
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by Adam L Silvermanat4:24 pm on April 9, 2016 . It has 179 Comments.
Just a quick Bundy Bunch update for our junkies out there – you know who you are!
We start things off with retiring after his term ends Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid once again making a push to have Gold Butte turned into a National Monument. In a speech on the Senate floor this past week he indicated that now was a good time as the Bundy men were all in jail awaiting their trials for multiple offenses committed in Bunkerville in 2014 and at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. Carol Bundy, Cliven’s wife, was not amused. She responded to Senator Reid’s proposal in this Facebook video.
For those of you in the Ohio, Kentucky, West (by God!) Virginia areas (and possibly parts of Indiana and Pennsylvania if you’re willing to schlep that way, the Oathkeepers are opening their own store! Specifically, the Ohio Oathkeepers are opening the Oathkeeper’s Outpost to sell survival and related gear at the Woodland Mall in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Finally, and thanks to terribly in need of professional assistance loyal commenter LAO, here’s Cliven Bundy’s rather uniquely worded pleading to be released on bail.
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by Adam L Silvermanat10:43 pm on March 28, 2016 . It has 132 Comments.
For all you jonesing for your next fix – you know who you are, just a few items tonight.
Nevada Assemblywoman, and US House of Representative candidate, Michele Fiore appears to have gotten herself caught up in the rumor that 68 secret warrants have been issued for individuals involved in the Malheur and/or Bunkerville standoffs. This appears to be some overly creative thinking applied to what Federal law enforcement has actually been doing. It does, however, appear to be morphing into something else as there’s speculation on twitter that the Feds are looking to arrest anyone who appeared at the Bunkerville standoff armed. This would include several sheriffs and state representatives, some from out of state, who showed up in 2014 to support Cliven Bundy.
If anyone wants to read it, here’s the 37 page PDF of threats against law enforcement released by the Deschutes County Sheriffs Office as part of its ongoing investigation into the shooting of LaVoy Finicum.
Finally, for the Hamilton aficionados among us – you know who you are – someone has, in the spirit of Hamilton, done Y’all Qaeda: The Musical.
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by Adam L Silvermanat10:08 pm on March 24, 2016 . It has 126 Comments.
Since its been an eventful day here at the Balloon Juice bunker, now that we’ve secured from general quarters and returned the site to both JuiceCon 5 and threat assessment level puce, I thought it only appropriate to finish the night off with a Bundy Bunch update.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service released new photos of the damage done by the Bundy Bunch to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. They are currently estimating $6 million in damages. Click on through to see just how much damage was done.
The redacted, final indictee on the Bundy Bunch indictment for the Malheur occupation has now been revealed as 27 year old Jake Ryan from Montana (h/t Bella Q). He’s still at large and the Bundy’s fellow travelers have decided to start working the refs, and the local sheriff, to try to keep him from being taken into custody. This includes, but is not limited to, Shawna Cox who is on release while awaiting trial, Jeanette Finicum, Gavin Seim, and Ryan’s parents. CSPOA has removed its searchable list of “Constitutional Sheriffs”, so it is not possible to determine if Sanders County Sheriff Tom Runnels is a member. Sheriff Runnels did make a statement that he intends to ensure that due process is followed, Mr. Ryan’s rights are protected, and that he does not think that Mr. Ryan is in Sanders County right now.
Despite his lawyer’s claims that he would fight extradition, Jerry DeLemus’s attorney did not file an objection with the Federal Court in New Hampshire to DeLemus being extradited to Nevada. As a result the Federal Court in New Hampshire has ruled that DeLemus will be extradited to Nevada where he will sit in jail and await his trial in regards to the events that occurred at Cliven Bundy’s Bunkerville Ranch in 2014.
Finally, and courtesy of admitted Bundy junky (that’s junky, not groupie – ewww….) LAO, we have this lovely manifesto written by Ryan Bundy as an answer to News2Share’s questions to him. Click across to read the whole thing. They have both his handwritten responses, which you can click on to read, and transcriptions they made for ease of reading.
This post is in America, Domestic Affairs and has 126 Comments. | 2019-04-25T07:54:58 | https://www.balloon-juice.com/tag/malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-occupation/page/2/ |
Bohyeon Kim explores pictorial systems through sculptural aspects and investigation of dialectical relationships between a subject and an object. Her works have been featured as an experimental framework that combines objects and image networks across mediums ranging from paintings and sculptures to moving images and installations.
Bohyeon Kim is a Glogauair Resident Artist from January to March 2019.
She will be presenting work at GloguaAIR’s Open Studios on March 22 + 23, 2019. | 2019-04-26T11:58:01 | https://glogauair.net/activity/showcase-bohyeon-kim/ |
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The text discusses media education in the changeable situation of curriculum in the Polish school. It briefly analyses the changes in media education in some EU countries. There is also quite a detailed analysis of new and old curriculum of the 4th educational stage in Poland. The author describes the legal aspects of implementing media education in the Polish school and shows the possibilities given by the current curriculum. Possibilities which are still not often used, as derives from the research results included in the text. The last part of the text contains the analysis of new curriculum in the view of media education, extracts of new documents and questions about the future of media education in the Polish school. | 2019-04-22T08:05:53 | http://dzm.wuwr.pl/product/-404 |
Two men who are accused of committing a 2013 murder in La Mesa were charged Friday with another slaying in La Mesa that occurred in 2011.
The men pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting Darris Gadson-Walker, 20, a Grossmont College student who was shot on April 30, 2011 in a rear parking lot of the Marie Callender’s restaurant on Alvarado Road near 70th Street.
The same men are charged with killing Xusha Brown, Jr. 22, who was fatally wounded on May 5, 2013, while Brown was a passenger in a car on Interstate 8.
Anthony Constantin Frank, 25, and Donte Jerome Haddock, 25, are charged with both killings while Alaeante Eason, 26, is charged only with the Brown homicide.
The charges say both slayings were committed in association with a criminal street gang. Frank and Haddock were also charged with conspiracy. The charges allege they both rode to La Mesa with guns and hid in some bushes before the men fired 6-7 times.
All three men agreed to waive time for a speedy preliminary hearing and San Diego Superior Court Judge Lisa Rodriguez set it for Sept. 11. The men were charged in Brown’s murder in July, 2016, and they all remain in jail.
A Santee woman has been convicted of armed robbery of a CVS Pharmacy clerk after she demanded a prescription pain reliever.
The El Cajon Superior Court jury deliberated about three hours before convicting Nataley Ann Gutierrez, 30, in a 6-day trial.
Gutierrez had been free on $100,000 bond, but was remanded to jail by Judge Robert Amador after she was convicted April 18.
The incident took place at the CVS Pharmacy on Mission Gorge Road in Santee on April 7, 2015. Gutierrez demanded the drug Percocet at 4:30 a.m. and pulled a handgun.
Deputy District Attorney George Modlin said Gutierrez faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
Andrew Wesam Thouzen, 18, has been ordered to stand trial on July 25 in the hit and run death of James Sonny Martinez, 75, in Spring Valley.
Four witnesses testified in the preliminary hearing heard by Judge Robert Amador on April 19. The incident occurred Feb. 7 on Sweetwater Road around 10 p.m.
Thouzen returned to the scene an hour later with his father. The California Highway Patrol recovered a damaged Mercedes about a mile from the scene.
Thouzen, of Spring Valley, pleaded not guilty and remains free on $75,000 bond.
Brian Jeffrey Baldino, 32, has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Randy Vogler in Lakeside in 2008.
Baldino is expected to get a 12-year prison term when El Cajon Superior Court Judge Lantz Lewis sentences him on May 5.
A jury deadlocked 10-2 for conviction of murder in March and a mistrial was declared when they could not reach a verdict. Baldino pleaded guilty April 14 and a murder charge was dismissed.
A co-defendant, Destin Lee Withers, 41, was convicted in a separate trial of first-degree murder in 2016. Withers was sentenced Jan. 20 to life in prison without the possibility of parole and is serving another life sentence for another slaying.
Vogler, 28, was shot to death Feb. 11, 2008, at 10:35 p.m. as he walked in the 12200 block of Woodside Ave. in Lakeside. Vogler worked at a carnival a block away.
Baldino and Withers were first charged with the slaying in 2014 following a long investigation. Two men with shaved heads were seen driving away from the scene.
Next articleSmile Breaks: Oh those bags! | 2019-04-26T05:40:08 | https://eccalifornian.com/gang-violence-murder-in-la-mesa-added-to-existing-case/ |
A long time ago I discovered that I like to feed people. It wasn’t a ground breaking discovery, my family has been in the business of feeding people – professionally and personally – my whole life. I just discovered that it was fun to cook food and serve food. I liked setting the table, arranging flowers, scouring the fridge when everyone else said it was empty and producing food.
We’ve gone to friends houses and I find myself taking over the kitchen and inviting myself to dinner as I promise to cook it all. I don’t even mind the dishes. I’ll text your husband or mine a grocery list to pick up what ever might be missing from your pantry.
I didn’t realize that I had always been feeding people until recently. As I have started to forge a path with Weeknight Society that feels more genuine to who I am and what I love to do, I’ve realized that I have always been drawn to feeding people.
In college I crashed the kitchen in fraternities to try to find ingredients to make anything edible. I ordered pizza instead.
When I lived in Italy I hosted parties in my apartment for the other ex-pats. I scavenged the city for ingredients to make a Cinco de Mayo party, hunted at farmers markets for ingredients that I could afford for a big group, and found party supply stores to decorate for birthdays.
As a full-fledged grown up now, I cook every night (mandatory with children) and find great joy in it. Weeknight Society has let me indulge my love for cooking – and my love for feeding others. Once a week my photographer and I photograph every recipe you will see – step by step photos and the finished dish. We usually shoot seven dinners in one day – often in five hours (we have children to pick up from school).
Having a kitchen full of seven complete dinners means I send out a group text once a week to get all that food out of my house. You have no idea the amount of joy I get from feeding my friends. Especially my friend who is currently 36 weeks pregnant with twins. Anything I’ve made in the last month that was freeze-able has been delivered to her freezer.
What I’ve discovered is that I want to feed you. All of you. But that’s not all. I want to feed you healthy food. Real food. Groceries that come from the outside edge of the store or the farmer’s market. I want you to be healthy. Like, really healthy.
I eat a lot of weird things now in an effort to be more healthy. I won’t push that on you. But once in a while, let’s do a cleanse together. Not a “only eat juice” cleanse or something silly like that. But a clean food cleanse. One where we won’t eat gluten or dairy for a week. Reset our system with good healthy food.
You aren’t alone in this trek to cook dinner and be healthy. I want to feed you. So let me be a resource for you. That’s what I’m here for.
… an app! Weeknight Society will be an app you can subscribe to in the iTunes store featuring weekly menus, smart shopping lists, and recipes – all of the recipes are designed to take about a half an hour. Some take a little longer, some take a little shorter. In the summer, we’ve eliminated the kitchen where we can.
If I could find a way to cook for you, I would. Believe me, I’m dreaming up ways. In the meantime, download the app on July 15th (Mark your calendar!) and we can start slow.
I would love your feedback and thoughts as I move forward and keep cooking. Have a recipe you’re dying to make on the weeknight but it doesn’t seem realistic? Let me work on it! Hungry for something we haven’t cooked? Let me know.
I can’t wait to feed you. Even if it’s from a distance and through your phone. Share it with me and I’ll repost everything. Use #weeknightsociety and I’ll find it. | 2019-04-22T00:31:12 | http://www.weeknightsociety.com/blog/2016/6/2/let-me-feed-you |
Despite being the focus of a New York Times cover story and the center of minority protests demanding equal representation, the University of Michigan student body has remained most concerned with the cafeterias’ no tray policy. This environmentally friendly move has reportedly garnered even more student action than the Being Black at the University of Michigan or #BBUM, campaign on Twitter.
Both mass protests and activism via social media in support of trays returning have taken campus by storm. A Twitter hashtag was created, #BBOT, for Bring Back Our Trays. Students organized a walk out of the East Quad dining hall during Friday’s dinner, and others are currently taking part in a week- long hunger strike that began on Tuesday. While the administration acknowledged the #BBUM campaign and has negotiated reforms with student leaders, they remain staunchly committed to keeping trays out of students’ lives. | 2019-04-22T16:04:35 | http://everythreeweekly.com/2014/03/students-concern-over-no-tray-policy-outweighs-universitys-racial-tensions/ |
The M113, as one of the most widely produced military vehicles ever in use, saw a variety of roles and experiments for a multitude of military and non-military purposes. Following the 1990-1991 Gulf War, one of the lessons which had been learned was the lack of equipment to deal with large hydrocarbon fires. This included not just the Kuwaiti oil wells, but also the Iraqi use of oil-filled ditches. Set ablaze, these ditches would prevent bridging by Allied forces and also cause significant problems with visibility. There was, therefore, a significant military hurdle which required a solution, a tracked protected fire-fighting vehicle. One able to put out or suppress the burning ditch long enough for Allied forces to cross whilst at the same time being protected against enemy fire.
This project was to evaluate whether it was possible to repurpose an armored vehicle for this role and the obvious choice was the M113A2. The US Army’s Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) directed that experiments should be made for the conversion of the M113A2 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) into a specialized firefighting vehicle. NASA had already been using the M113 as a fire protected vehicle for astronaut evacuation for years, but it had no firefighting equipment added. This vehicle would simply make use of the cargo space inside the M113 to carry an apparatus in the hope of finding a quick solution to fight a burning oil-ditch fire.
Work on the project was conducted by Applied Research Associates of New Mexico. A standard M113A2 fitted with an Amrex Corporation fire suppression system was modified to carry an internal skid-mounted tank. This tank, welded to the skid, held 250 US gallons (946 litres) of mixed water/fire suppressant and operated at between 200 and 240 psig (pounds per square inch – gauge). The tank system was very simple and could be quickly refilled by means of a 4” (101.6mm) filler cap on the top of it. The water used for the tests was salt-water. This is because this was the anticipated type of water expected to be sourced in a real-world application and was shipped to the test site by means of tank-truck for the trials.
This liquid mix was propelled by means of two 220 cubic foot (6.23 m³) nitrogen or compressed air cylinders operating at 2,000 psig, which would deliver 150 to 200 gallons per minute. With a tank of just 250 gallons this meant, at most, just under 2 minutes of fire-fighting time.
The work which had to be done to the M113A2 for the fitting of this equipment was relatively minor but started with the removal of the personnel heater system in the back and the commander’s seat. The decking, which was held in place by six large washered bolts, was removed, as was the antenna cover. In place of the antenna cover, the fire monitor itself was installed. The skid-mounted system was then installed in the rear by means of a fork-lift truck and bolted to the floor plate of the vehicle. Complete and ready to go, this whole system added 3,300 pounds (1,497 kg) to the weight of the vehicle; empty it weighed just 1,220 pounds (553 kg). A minor further modification was undertaken during trials. On 12th February 1991, the 40” (101.6 cm) long 2” (5.8 cm) diameter straight pipe nozzle on the monitor was replaced with a Task Force Tip F200 nozzle.
It is obviously a poor idea to have a crew member exposed from the vehicle fighting a fire and even more so when possibly facing enemy action at the same time, so the vehicle was fitted with Closed Circuit Television cameras (CCTV) to aid the crew. As a result, the crew of the M113A2 could use the monitor to disperse the water and fire-suppressant safe from within the armor of the vehicle. They could guide the nozzle delivery in elevation and in rotation by means of controls inside the vehicle. Those controls, were, however, a little too complicated for easy use, so it was suggested that they should be replaced with a simple lever system instead. This system would be easier to operate and maintain the existing 160 degrees of horizontal movement and -15 to +45 degrees of vertical movement which were felt to be adequate for the vehicle.
Different suppressants were tested including Pryrocap B-136, Hurri-Safe, Powdered Viscous Foam, Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) foam (MIL-F-24835C), Phirex, and Acu-Lite-F. Replacement of the propellant cylinders and refilling with water and fire-suppressant took just 7 – 10 minutes.
Once modifications had been made, the vehicles needed to be evaluated and this was carried out with the assistance of the US Air Force’s Engineering Service Center by their Fire Protection and Crash Rescue Research Branch at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. These tests were carried out between the 12th and 22nd February 1992.
To test the effectiveness of the platform as a firefighter, six different fire suppression agents were tested to evaluate the time it would take to extinguish the fire and burnback time. Further, the testing would evaluate the possible range of the apparatus and issues relating to servicing and replenishment.
The burning ditch anticipated to be crossed for any assault, such as was conducted against Iraqi forces, was modelled to be 10 feet wide (3 m) wide, 10 feet deep (3 m). For the test, a trench 96 feet (29 m) long was cut and fitted with a 15 inch (38 cm) high clay berm. The ditch was then partially filled with water and into it were poured between 250 and 500 US gallons (946 – 1893 litres) of JP-4 fuel. Testing would begin with the 250 gallons and then work up to the 500 gallons amount. Set on fire, this fuel, floating on the water, was considered an adequate simulation of the type of large hydrocarbon fires expected in the forthcoming campaign. During the 1990-1991 Gulf War, the Iraqis had dug ditches just like this, 3m wide and up to a mile long in places.
The vehicle was not expected to put the whole fire out, instead, it was being tested for its ability to extinguish an assault lane 10-15 feet (3 – 4.6 m) wide. The suppressant would then have to sit on top of the JP-4 without allowing it to reignite. The time taken for this to happen was one of the main test criteria. The longer it could suppress the flames the better, as it allowed more troops to cross the obstacle behind the M113A2. Five to six minutes was considered optimal for this ‘burnback’ time.
It was calculated that the 250 gallon tanks of the vehicle were sufficient to suppress a fire lane 10 feet (3 m) wide and up to 100 feet (30.5 m) long but the range from the monitor was just 70 – 80 feet (21 – 24 m) under ideal conditions with the wind behind it; it would be substantially less into the wind.
Illustration of the M113A2 Firefighting Vehicle by William ‘Richtor’ Byrd, funded by our patreon Campaign.
The short range, just 24 metres, was a problem, as was the short duration of firefighting time, at less than 2 minutes. With a suppressant time of just 6 minutes at best and a refill time of 7 minutes also at best, the system was effectively unable to provide continual fire-suppression on the assault lane with anything other than the AFF which completely prevented burnback in some circumstances and no faster than 6.6 ft./min. (2 m/min). On a good day, it took no more than 20 seconds to extinguish the fire as required, meaning the system could deliver up to 5 or so operations on a single fill, assuming everything went to plan of course.
Fitted with CCTV cameras it was advantageous for the crew to operate the vehicle sealed within, especially given the likelihood of having to conduct operation under enemy fire. Without the CCTV cameras in use, the monitor-operator had to rely upon the periscopes for visibility in these first tests and, as such, they were unable to adequately direct the stream. Somewhat inextricable, rather than using the CCTV cameras for further tests, the monitor-operator was to don a fire-protective suit and operate the monitor from an open hatch which meant he had to expose his entire upper body. Done like this, the tests were successful and this was to be the recommended means of application regardless of the hazard to the exposed operator.
During these tests, a standard P-19 Firefighting vehicle, which was an unarmored vehicle fitted with a prototype armored body kit conforming to STANAG 2929, was often used to extinguish the fires, including the first tests where the crews had been unable to get any suppressant delivered. Through their 460 US gallon (1,741 litre) per minute, the P-19 extinguished the entire fire within 10-15 seconds and with that kit also provided a small amount of ballistic protection for the occupants too.
AFFF (6% mix) was found to be the most successful firefighting agent and the M113A2 had shown itself to be a capable platform for mounting the equipment and for fighting this type of fire. It was also the cheapest, at just US$75 a gallon/tankfull (1992 dollars), the equivalent of US$134.71 (2018 dollars).
Not only was the M113A2 seen as being suitable for this military firefighting assault vehicle role, but also for a variety of crash rescue and even civilian disaster needs too. The P-19 vehicle though was also protected from small arms like the M113, but already had a purpose designed and built firefighting apparatus which was far more capable. As it was, this M113A2 experiment was successful, but not adopted. The vehicle was presumably turned back into its original state following the tests.
Although not related to the vehicles, one final system for extinguishing these fires was tested. Seven 50 gallon (189 litre) cardboard barrels were placed along one end of the trench into each of which 80 pounds (36 kg) of dry ice (frozen CO2) topped off with liquid nitrogen (N2) were placed. Wrapped with detonation cord, these barrels were then detonated in the face of the fire. The idea was to blow off the fire with the explosion and then have the CO2 and N2 suppress burnback. The system did work preventing burnback for nearly 7 minutes, but this was not a practical approach.
1969 to 1971. Drove it Loved it.
Is there anything the M113 can’t do? | 2019-04-25T22:44:32 | http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/modern-us-m113a2-firefighting-vehicle/ |
Photo Copyright © Mario Villalobos. All rights reserved. Airliners.net is not affiliated with any entity mentioned or pictured herein. | 2019-04-22T02:35:13 | http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Bell-412/326249 |
Stomach acid is necessary for digestion in the stomach but not every thing is completely digested. Some medications are coated to protect the active ingredients. That is the case with many dietary supplements.
The concentration of free H+ ions in a solution determine acidity. In the mouth, the acidity is very low (more basic, chemically) ; the stomach is very acidic and the intestines are basic.
Starting from the mouth the basic nature of the food bolus is basic. When the bolus hits the stomach the basic food mixture triggers the stomach to prepare for its role in digestion by producing acid. The acid, when it reaches the intestines signals them to produce their products which are basic in nature. It is a signaling system!
If you take your medications or supplements on an empty stomach there is a good chance they will still be active when they reach the intestines where they can be absorbed into the blood stream. The stomach doesn't have a chance to produce enough acid from taking supplements. On a full stomach - there may be too much acid and medications may weaken or be destroyed.
There I go again into my teaching mode! Hope that helps you a bit.
Good information on the importance of thank you notes.
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Advanced software codes being developed with the aid of the world’s fourth-fastest supercomputer are expected to significantly speed the process of choosing the right concrete for a construction job, saving millions of dollars.
Researchers also expect the codes to significantly aid efforts to develop much more durable concrete, which may last more than half a century.
The new codes may be available on CD ROMs to ready-mix producers, cement companies, contractors and other users as early as 2009. Instead of evaluating perhaps several hundred batches over one week or longer, users employing the programs on their computers could find, and test, several “optimum” mixtures for their jobs in just a few hours.
A layman may see a concrete mixer on the street and figure there’s no big science involved. Actually, though the basic process is relatively simple — mixing perhaps 15 percent cement with 60 to 75 percent aggregates (small rocks), 15 to 20 percent water, and often other substances such as silicates, fly ash and slag — the science of finding the best mixtures for different concrete applications is mind-boggling.
“It’s a huge computational problem because concrete is getting much more complicated all the time,” said Edward Garboczi, leader of the Inorganic Materials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Building and Fire Research Laboratory in Gaithersburg, MD.
As one of four winners of a national “grand challenge problem” competition, NIST has just received one million hours of computer time to work on such mixtures for optimum concrete using the Columbia supercomputer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
NIST has been working on a software package for optimizing concrete for 13 years. It formed an NIST/industry consortium to develop this software, called the Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory (VCCTL). The supercomputer will allow further development, including the flow, dispersion and merging of materials for concrete under a variety of flow conditions.
The supercomputer, valued at approximately $120 million, includes 10,240 processors. Its speed is 51.87-trillion floating point operations per second.
Occupying approximately 15,000 sq. ft. at the Ames Center, Columbia (named for the space shuttle that exploded) offers approximately 1 PB (petabyte or 1,000,000,000,000,000 characters) in disk storage and a 10 PB-capacity tape archive.
That’s a lot of power, but the research program on concrete needs it. Columbia will be able to compare an astounding number of standard and specialty combinations of concrete mixtures, including many variables like different local materials and environment conditions.
The computer can calculate optimum tradeoffs while users will only have to make a handful of tests on the most likely combinations, instead of today’s time-consuming trial batches, to confirm the results.
A new version of VCCTL is released each year. An initial version of the software (Version 1.0) was released five years ago. Version 6.0 is about to be released.
The CD ROM holding the code can be used on normal desktop computers. It is expected to offer many benefits to ready-mix suppliers, cement manufacturers and larger contractors.
The consortium includes such industrial members as the Portland Cement Association (PCA), the Ready Mixed Concrete Research Foundation (RMCRF) and the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA).
Besides providing faster, more accurate preconstruction testing and evaluation, the code is regarded as a big step toward much longer-lasting concrete, potentially saving millions of dollars in maintenance and other costs.
“Durability is our main concern; once the models are in place, the industry can do a much better job of predicting concrete durability, and therefore make the concrete last longer,” said Tennis. “Users will be able to chemically predict what will happen in five, 10, 20 or more years, projecting long-term properties rather than waiting five years to actually physically test real specimens.
“The code will, for instance, allow people to factor in environmental effects, like sulfate-bearing soil of a certain concentration, or the local freeze-thaw environment. They will have a lot more confidence in specifying certain mixtures to be durable in certain environments.
Tennis said the computer codes could help prevent early cracking of bridge surfaces.
Tennis said that “it is not unreasonable to expect the industry to save millions of dollars by using the computer models.
“Industry spends tens of millions of dollars on developing and testing thousands of batches every few years, typically testing for a strength profile over one, three, seven and 28 days,” he said.
The United States used 127 million tons (115.2 million t) of cement in 2005, an increase of 5.9 percent from 2004. An increase of 3.5 percent is expected this year. U. S. cement production is expected to increase by 16.2 million tons (14.7 million t) by 2010.
An estimated 35.2 million tons (31.9 million t) of concrete are used on U.S. highways and streets each year.
In its simplest form, concrete is a mix of paste and aggregates. The paste, composed of portland cement and water, coats the surface of the fine and coarse aggregates. Through a chemical reaction called hydration, the paste hardens and gains strength to form a rock-like mass. | 2019-04-25T00:48:58 | https://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/supercomputers-to-aid-with-concrete-mixes/6939 |
Fixed star Alhena, Gamma Geminorum, is a 1.9 magnitude brilliant white star located on the left foot of the Southern Twin Pollux in Gemini Constellation. The tradition name Alhena comes from the Arabic word الهنعه (Al Han’ah) which means The Brand (on the neck of the camel). Another name was Almeisan, from the Arabic المیسان (Al Maisan) which means The Shining One.
Alhena, γ Geminorum, means an identifying mark on a horse or camel, made with tar-paint. An earlier name was Almeisan – one who marches proudly – but this was apparently dropped as several stars carried the same name. Nonetheless, it seems right for a prominent star in the Feet of the Twins. Popular astrology has associated this star especially with accidents to the feet, loving to make the worst of every star it can blame for something or other, but it seems quite unnecessary to use Alhena for this purpose, since right opposite to it in the Zodiac is Facies, equally associated with accidents – and with more reason, since Ptolemy rates it a Sun-Mars type whereas Alhena is a more peaceable Mercury-Venus. We should perhaps have remarked sooner that in astrology a star is found to show its influence both at its own location and right opposite to it.
From a combination of Alhena’s placing in its Constellation and in Sign, (Cancer), and the Ptolemaic simile for it, it is not hard to guess that this star should show up our artistic skills, especially with the written or spoken word, and abilities to negotiate a peaceful solution to disputes among people. And so indeed it does. We get to the roots of problems and move matters forward from there, and gaining ‘identity’, distinction, that is, for our efforts.
1. Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.46, 127.
3. Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1971, p.30.
5. The Fixed Star Health and Behavior Imbalance, Ted George and Barbara Parker, 1985, p.45.
You forgot Pluto! My mother has IC 9 Cancer with Pluto 9:03. She inherited a genetic disease, Charot Marie Tooth disease. She walked like a duck, slapping her feet down. I have MC 9 Cancer – we hate each other.
I had to laugh reading this sorry Marcy. I was hoping people would share their stories especially with Pluto because the planet was discovered after most fixed stars writings.
My progressed Ascendent is going to conjunct Alhena next month. Any thoughts on what this could mean?
I’m not sure that fixed stars have any influence in progressed charts Bill.
This July its going to be on the minute, i’ll let you know what I experience, if anything!
Mercury 8Cancer19 9th house, in trine with Neptune 8Scorpio45 1st house, sometimes very hard to know whether a blessing or a curse, because sometimes I my words are inspiring and a blessing to some, sometimes they seem to fill others with fear and trigger a determination to assassinate my character, its a strange one indeed, thus I completely trust my intuition as to what to say, when and how much lol!
My dc conjunct alhena. What is your interprrtation ? | 2019-04-19T00:22:29 | http://astrologyking.com/alhena-star/ |
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Hello, my fellow bookworms! Welcome to Ninety Second Novel! With this sporadic feature, I'll be using booktube as a way to review a book before I can actually review it. In other words, if I happen to read a book earlier than I can post my review for it, then I'll be using this feature to tell you about it. Look at it as a preview review, perhaps? For the feature, I'll be talking about whatever book(s) I read, but in ninety seconds or less!
This "episode" is all about the latest fluff-book from Kasie West, By Your Side!
Are you a big Kasie West fan? | 2019-04-25T00:28:28 | http://www.beautyandthebookshelf.com/2016/11/ninety-second-novel-by-your-side.html |
Right now the Mavericks and Mark Cuban are representing what I don't like about the NBA. I like many jumped on the Mavericks bandwagon during their playoff run and fell in love with the team. They were the true definition of a team and played the game the right way. J.J. was the perfect 6th man to come off the bench to break down the defenses and drive to the basket... Chandler made up for Dirk's lack of D and was the true anchor on defense.... Stevenson was a shutdown defender who knocked down a couple of big threes every game. Chemistry is invaluable and something that cannot just be created out of thin air and it's dissapointing to see the Mavericks throw all of that away just for a chance at Deron or Dwight.
I understand Mark Cubans strategy dont get me wrong..... he wants to make a run at either Deron Williams or Dwight. With the way the NBA works I don't even nessicarly disagree with his plan... what hes doing is smart buisness but it points to the whole idea that Stars not true teams win championchips. Im just tired of the whole star dynamic and believe that defenese and chemistry not getting the best free agents are what win championchips.
cuban is a ***** 4 letting jj go. he offered vince carter 3 year 15 mill deal saying he cant afford barea. what a lie.
Teams like that win one championship, maybe if that; teams like the Heat, win multiple rings.
Chandler should have stayed at least,he was the soul of the team.
Vc got 3 mill 3 year only one gaurenteed...not 15 mill. Thats a no risk move. Jj was a fluke much like hedo in magic final run. Chandler I agrree will be missed despite being overrated now. Mavs have zero chance of repeating without a center like him.
Wait stars win championships only now?
he got 3 year 12 mill.
whats your point? jj would of accepted that. lets just be honest cuban didnt like barea & preferred beabouis. nothing wrong with telling it like it is.
Dirk was a beast,but Tyson was the difference maker.
Lol I laugh at people saying that The Mavs are just a one and done team now that Chandler is gone, it'll be funny if we repeat.
I am from PR and I hope he proves me wrong, but Barea is going to flop this year. | 2019-04-23T04:20:32 | https://forums.prosportsdaily.com/archive/index.php/t-678061.html?s=527c7dd30b8abc5f6b3b640cc711bb9c |
Welcome to the Defenders of Wildlife Flickr Group! We hope you will join us and feature your photographs of wildlife and wild lands. Please tag your photos with defendersofwildlife, and have fun!
We work with local communities, land owners and government leaders to encourage common-sense solutions that protect the interests of wildlife and people.
1) Please only post 5 photos a day to the Defenders pool.
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Check out Defenders of Wildlife’s profile. | 2019-04-22T07:47:26 | http://www.flickr.com/groups/defendersofwildlife |
Get recommended tire pressure for Infiniti QX50 tires to drive safe, extend tire life and reduce fuel consumption.
Select Infiniti QX50 year to find your Infiniti QX50 recommended tire pressure based on Infiniti QX50 original equipment tire sizes with tire inflation range from 33 psi to 33 psi for front tires and 33 psi to 33 psi for rear tires.
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It is important to maintain proper tire pressure for Infiniti QX50 tires. Low tire pressure will result in tire underinflation, and high tire pressure will result in tire overinflation, which can compromise tire safety, cause tire blowout, decrease fuel efficiency, cause uneven tire wear and reduce tire tread life. Check Infiniti QX50 tire pressure regularly, and monitor Infiniti QX50 tire inflation levels to avoid driving with overinflated or underinflated tires.
Tire inflation value listed on tire sidewall is a maximum tire pressure the tire can be inflated to, and not the recommended tire pressure for Infiniti QX50. Use recommended tire pressure listed on the tire pressure chart found on a sticker on driver's door jam or in Infiniti QX50 manual. Recommended tire pressure for your Infiniti QX50 tires will be listed in one of the following pressure units: psi (pound per square inch), bar or kPa (kilopascals). Pay attention as your Infiniti QX50 may have different recommended tire pressure values for front and rear tires. Keep your Infiniti QX50 tires inflated at recommended tire pressure levels at all times for your driving comfort and safety.
If you replace Infiniti QX50 original equipment tires with optional tire sizes or you switch to plus size tires, make sure to follow guidelines for the application of load and inflation tables to find proper tire pressure for new tires on your Infiniti QX50. Infiniti QX50 tires with the same load index, regardless of tire size, may carry the same load, but not always, and they may require substantially different inflation pressures. Tire load index may not be used independently to determine replacement tire acceptability for load capacity. An equal or greater load index does not always correspond to equal or greater load capacity at all inflation pressure settings.
Always refer to the Infiniti QX50 owner’s manual for any specific safety advice regarding the application of Infiniti QX50 replacement tires.
Infiniti QX50 replacement tires must have equal or greater speed rating compared to the original equipment tires if your Infiniti QX50 speed capability is to be maintained. It is recommended that tire installers refer to the Infiniti QX50 owner’s manual to identify any tire speed rating restriction or recommendation that could affect the operation of the vehicle. If your Infiniti QX50 replacement tires have a lower speed rating than the original equipment tires, the vehicle’s speed must be restricted to that of the replacement tires.
Original equipment tires that come on your Infiniti QX50 will have the proper tire load index, so stick to that number or higher when you replace them with new tires. Tire load index tells you how much weight your tire can carry. Putting too much weight on your tires will overload them, and can cause tire damage, premature tire wear or even tire blowout. Refer to your Infiniti QX50 manual to find its original equipment tire sizes and their load ratings.
Infiniti QX50 tire pressure changes with temperature, so check your Infiniti QX50 tire pressure when outside temperature goes up or down. During colder months when temperatures drop, Infiniti QX50 tire pressure will decrease also by approximately 1 psi for each 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Maintain proper Infiniti QX50 winter tire pressure by adding air to your tires as needed to the recommended tire inflation levels.
Infiniti QX50 tire pressure should be checked when tires are cold, after your vehicle has not been driven for at least three hours. It is best to check your tire inflation pressure in the morning, after the vehicle has been parked overnight, using a reliable tire pressure gauge.
If your Infiniti QX50 is equipped with tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS), pay attention to low tire pressure warning light being on. Ensure your tire pressure sensors are working properly to stay alert and enjoy a safe ride. If your tire pressure warning light is on, check front and rear tires to make sure they are properly inflated.
What is the recommended tire pressure for my Infiniti QX50?
Recommended tire pressure for Infiniti QX50 is determined by the manufacturer based on your vehicle's characteristics and original equipment tire sizes. Find your Infiniti QX50 year to get recommended tire inflation for Infiniti QX50 tires.
How do I find my recommended tire pressure setting for my Infiniti QX50? What is correct Infiniti QX50 tire pressure?
You can find your Infiniti QX50 recommended tire pressure in Infiniti QX50 owner's manual, on sticker attached to the driver's door jam, inside glove box compartment or fuel door. Recommended tire inflation for Infiniti QX50 will be listed in psi, bar or kPa.
How to check my Infiniti QX50 tire pressure?
Proper Infiniti QX50 tire inflation is essential to the overall tire performance of your vehicle. To check tire pressure for Infiniti QX50 you will need to know its recommended tire pressure levels and a standard or digital tire pressure gauge. Check inflation levels in Infiniti QX50 tires with the tire pressure gauge and adjust your Infiniti QX50 tire pressure to its recommended levels be adding or releasing air. Check Infiniti QX50 tire pressure levels in all tires again. Make sure to check tire inflation for your Infiniti QX50 regularly to ensure safe and comfortable drive.
Why is my Infiniti QX50 tire pressure warning light on?
If your Infiniti QX50 is equipped with Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) it will alert you when tire pressure is too low and your tires could be underinflated, which can lead to uneven tire wear and can cause tire failure. If Infiniti QX50 low tire pressure warning light is on, check all Infiniti QX50 tires for low tire pressure and inflate tires to the recommended tire pressure levels. Keep in mind that Tire Pressure Monitoring System does not replace routine tire pressure check and maintenance.
How to reset tire pressure warning light for Infiniti QX50?
To reset tire pressure monitoring system for Infiniti QX50, make sure front and rear tires are inflated to the recommended levels. Turn the engine on, then press and hold the tire pressure reset button located under the steering wheel on the instrument panel. Hold the button down until the TPMS light blinks three times, then release the button.
What is my recommended winter tire pressure for my Infiniti QX50?
Recommended winter tire pressure for Infiniti QX50 is the same as all other seasons. You should keep tire inflation at recommended levels in any weather conditions. Infiniti QX50 tire inflation will decrease with lower outside temperatures, so make sure to check Infiniti QX50 tire pressure during winter months regularly to keep Infiniti QX50 tires properly inflated in the winter. | 2019-04-23T04:24:59 | https://tirepressure.com/infiniti-qx50-tire-pressure |
Editor's note: The following story first appeared in the New Haven Independent.
Olive pits, grape skin, almond meal.
Historically, those waste products — and the billions of pounds of other unappetizing refuse left behind during the food production process every year — have gone straight from the factory to the dump.
Now a New Haven-based start-up is turning that waste into nutritious, tasty, and environmentally sustainable food.
The start-up — called Renewal Mill, and co-founded by husband-and-wife team Sumit Kadakia and Claire Schlemme — has already hit the streets: Katalina’s on Whitney Avenue and Whole G Bakery in Branford sell scones made with the company’s signature “okara flour,” a specialty blend containing the pulp left behind when cooked soy beans are turned into milk.
In July, Renewal Mill, which has received support and funding from Yale’s Entrepreneurial Institute, won first prize at a business competition hosted by Yale and NYU.
Schlemme and Kadakia, both in their early 30s, discussed their vision for Renewal Mill at a makeshift office set up across a countertop in the Coffee Pedaler in East Rock. They were reluctant to speculate on plans for future products. At the moment, they said, they are “laser-focused” on marketing okara flour. The flour tastes sweeter and milkier than traditional flour but includes additional nutrients. Their ultimate aim is to convince a wholesale bread-making company to adopt their product.
According to Schlemme, baking an okara scone — which costs 25 cents more than white-flour scones at Katalina’s — is a simple matter of substituting one type of flour for another. It requires more labor, however, to mix the okara blend into products like baguettes, which are heavily reliant on the gluten structures that hold bread together.
“These fibrous waste products are just very nutritious food products that are just waiting to be utilized,” she added.
Schlemme and Kadakia met in the late 2000s, when they both spent a summer working on a renewable-energy start-up in India. At the time, Schlemme was a student at Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. A couple years after she graduated, Kadakia also enrolled at Yale. Given their history, it made sense, they said, to base the company in New Haven.
In New Haven, Schlemme said, a young company can build its reputation quickly — and still benefit from the business resources in nearby hubs like New York or Boston.
“It’s big enough that you can really form valuable partnerships, but small enough that you can be a vital part of the community right away,” she said.
“The only thing that we’ve faced is that ‘food byproduct’ is better than the word ‘waste,’” she added, laughing.
Schlemme — who grew up in northern California, where she was a frequent visitor to the local redwood forests — always expected her business career to trace back to her roots as an environmentally conscious adolescent.
Kadakia, a West Virginia native who wore a backwards baseball cap over his thick black hair, took a much different route to the sustainable food business he now spearheads. He calls himself a “reformed cold-hearted capitalist” who became interested in environmental work after a stint at the McKinsey consulting company, where he worked on sustainability issues.
Kadakia and Schlemme said they hope Renewal Mill will come to epitomize “social entrepreneurship”: the pursuit of money-making ideas that also leave a positive legacy in the community. | 2019-04-26T04:40:38 | https://www.switzernetwork.org/leadership-story/sumit-kadakia-new-haven-start-turns-waste-food |
From extensive research undertaken by Rensis Likert at the University of Michigan, a modified theory of administration has been developed which seeks to build upon all that worked best in previous approaches to administration.
Sufficient information from the writings of Joseph Smith, from diaries and journals of those who worked under his leadership have been used in this thesis and compared with the model of administration proposed by Likert. The results of this work were that Joseph Smith in his administration most often used a leadership approach described by Likert as Consultative and Participative.
This thesis also presents a model of administration advocated by Joseph Smith which has been constructed from a careful research of the Prophet's writings. The administration of Joseph Smith from 1830 to 1844 was also analyzed in detail.
Guthrie, Gary Dean, "Joseph Smith as an Administrator" (1969). All Theses and Dissertations. 4732. | 2019-04-20T07:02:47 | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4732/ |
Would you like to test your knowledge of the guitar and know where you stand are in your learning process? Take my online test and evaluate your level! It will probably provide you with some good insight and only it takes a few minutes!
In all styles, from rock to funk, jazz to metal, there are compelling technical and theoretical fundamentals that allow any musician to develop his game, get him to property know his instrument or even to get out of an obstacle hindering his development.
Check your knowledge to have a better idea of what you could work and develop, to move toward a higher level.
This test includes a set of issues classified in different areas (game, rhythm, chords, scales, ear …). Be honest in your answers and check the boxes corresponding to your level of knowledge. After the test, you will have some explanations to help you reflect on what you could do to keep on progressing.
Though your knowledge is somewhat scattered and heterogeneous, you must complete your assets and strengthen the basics.
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You already have a pretty good knowledge of your instrument, You may have to review some things or put them more in practice, but you’ve got everything it takes to be a good guitarist !
Challenge your friends on Twitter !
Send me an email to schedule your next lesson !
Ouch ! You may know your favorite songs, but you still lack of technics and knowledge to be a confident player and really play in all styles and conditions.
A few extra lessons or a good personal coaching should enable you to step up your game.. patience !
Want to step up your game ?
Whatever the tonic, do you know the five basic patterns on the fingerboard?
Can you spot the tonic?
Are you able to transpose the scale ?
Whatever the root, do you know the five basic patterns over the fingerboard ?
Can you spot the root ?
Pick a root. Can you play the same chord in five different voicings?
Can you do a chord progression analysis of a basic standard tune?
Do you know five four bar licks in different styles ? | 2019-04-23T15:52:43 | http://oliviermesnier.fr/en/how-good-a-guitarist-are-you/ |
Is it possible for the grace of God to be ineffective in your life? What do you have to do for the grace of God to be effective? Join Rick Renner as he discusses this very important question in this week’s program. | 2019-04-18T16:55:23 | https://renner.org/renner-tv/rick-renner-pt-2-how-to-be-at-peace-with-all-men/ |
Salted Kawahagi has been completed.
After washing away the salt, dry it in Wind passes well place.
From here it is the final process.
I will pack the rice which cooked eyes, mouth and belly.
It is a process taught when pickling Funazushi.
I also pack rice inside the belly and the inside of gills lid.
This is a device for softening bone and eating it.
As might be expected, the teeth of the Kawahagi may not soften.
Covering the whole with rice made me cute.
Cover them all with rice and wait for lactic acid fermentation.
I am looking forward for Kawahagi to become Funazushi.
It is not a comparison to boiling soup for one week in a pot.
Fermentation cooking that take over a year started.
favorite taste is different in each region.
It can be said to anything.
Let 's cherish the culture of the area.
But,it is also important to receive stimulus from time to time.
I went to Kagawa prefecture『Takamatsu City Central Wholesale Market』 for the first time in 15 years.
There were a lot of fish Seto Inland Sea. | 2019-04-20T04:40:23 | http://www.sumeshiya.com/blog/cat47/ |
Middletown Lumber’s inventory of T&G and beveled cedar siding is impressive drawing customers from York, Lancaster and Mechanicsburg.
The siding is weather and insect resistant. The material offers homeowners a viable alternative to upgrade the exterior of their home at a reasonable cost. Cedar is much more visually appealing then vinyl or aluminum siding.
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1/2×6, 1/2×8 clear vertical grain, and 11/16×8 knotty. *3/4×10 can be quoted. | 2019-04-20T22:31:16 | https://www.middletownlumber.com/western-red-cedar-siding/ |
Payday Loans & Personal Loans in Ames, IA.
The population of Ames, IA in 2019 counting up to 66,191 people. More than 15% of employed adults in Iowa apply at least onse a year for a Payday Loans from $100 to $1,000. And as the time shows, more than 4,964 people, even with bad FICO credit score get approved for small-dollar loan.
Personal installment loans are used by more than 47% of occupied population. It's obout 15,555 people.
Personal Loans such as mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and rents are borrowed by 83% of adult (from 18 to 65 years of age) residents of the state - it's 27,469 lending service users.
We offer short-term Payday Loans up to $1,000 and long-term Personal Loans up to $15,000 in Ames, Iowa. | 2019-04-25T14:34:51 | https://paydayloanslowrates.net/iowa/ames |
Double-speed Fibre Channel SAN kits include software, HBAs, switches, and disk arrays at 4Gbps prices.
March 7, 2008—At most small to medium-sized business (SMB) sites, Fibre Channel-based SANs have long been viewed as complex and costly solutions that could be avoided by using direct-attached storage (DAS). That perspective has been reinforced by the ease-of-use of Microsoft Windows Server, which has left many SMB sites operating with a minimal IT staff. Worse yet, those same SMBs are highly risk averse when it comes to anything that appears to be a disruptive upgrade.
Nonetheless, the IT landscape at SMB sites is beginning to change dramatically. As CEOs focus on e-business for revenue growth and regulatory bodies expand the compliance burdens on records retention, mid-tier companies are no longer insolated from the explosive growth rate in storage. What's more, IT decision-makers in mid-tier companies now find themselves no less under the gun to provide a demonstrably responsive IT infrastructure than their brethren at Fortune 100 enterprises.
On top of that, the expansion of storage at SMB sites has made the volume of storage their biggest IT cost driver. It is not the acquisition of storage, however, that puts the greatest pressure on their budgets. The frequent tasking of IT staff to deploy new storage resources or repurpose existing ones validates an important rule of thumb for storage: Per-gigabyte management costs are three to ten times higher than capital acquisition costs.
Storage provisioning and management tasks are highly labor-intensive and impact minimally staffed mid-tier IT sites in a particularly burdensome way. What's more, the old notion of holding down costs with DAS devices stands in stark contrast to the best practices of large data centers, where SAN technology is de rigueur for consolidating storage resources and streamlining management. As a result, the notion of networked storage has begun to make rapid inroads at SMB sites.
Nonetheless, SAN adoption at SMB sites is still constrained by a number of unique hurdles. First and foremost is the issue of disruptive upgrades. IT decision-makers at these sites are particularly concerned about the life span of any new technology acquisition. As a result, any new storage solution must meet all current and future performance requirements.
Also important is the issue of simplified end-to-end device management. For IT teams in small SMB shops, the power to configure and manage all devices using a single unified GUI cannot be over estimated. For SMB sites, minimizing the number of administrators involved in a task takes precedence over minimizing the number of steps in that task.
Along those lines, Hewlett-Packard has partnered with QLogic to simplify SAN management through a suite of wizard-based tools for the configuration and management of SAN host bus adapters (HBAs) and switches. HP has upped the ante for SAN adoption at SMB sites with the introduction of a future-proofed 8Gbps SAN infrastructure bundle that is valued priced at a level commensurate with 4Gbps SAN components. The HP StorageWorks 8Gb Simple SAN Connection Kit includes all of the components required to create up to a four-host SAN infrastructure with a connection to a single- or dual-controller storage target. More importantly, the CD that comes with the kit provides a one-step installation that discovers the underlying topology, installs all of the drivers and services needed to leverage that topology, and optimizes the SAN configuration.
Once installed on a management host, the Simple SAN Connection Manager software provides an easy-to-use wizard-based GUI to manage all SAN components. When combined with an HP EVA or MSA disk array, the SAN Connection Kit's management GUI provides a single end-to-end management interface for all SAN switches, HBAs, and disk arrays. Whether provisioning RAID storage tiers or zoning a SAN at a switch, a single administrator can invoke a wizard to implement all of the steps needed to complete a task. What's more, the wizards ensure all tasks are done correctly and optimally every time. As a result, the HP Simple SAN Connection Manager creates a highly automated, easy-to-manage SAN that imposes very little operational overhead on IT staff.
For risk-averse IT decision-makers at SMB sites, the new SAN components go beyond simply doubling the I/O throughput capabilities of 4Gbps SAN components. The HP StorageWorks 8Gb Simple SAN Connection portfolio provides significant new technology advantages to help ensure a long lifecycle free of disruptive upgrades.
Making SAN adoption all the more compelling for SMB sites is the announcement that VMware's ultra-thin hypervisor software, VMware ESX 3i, will be integrated on 10 models of HP ProLiant servers and includes seamless, out-of-the box integration of VMware virtualization capabilities with HP System Insight Manager (SIM).
Virtual machine (VM) environments will further benefit from support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) within the HP StorageWorks 8Gb Simple SAN Connection Kit's HBAs and switches. Via NPIV, administrators can create multiple virtual HBA ports for a physical HBA and monitor switch traffic for the virtual HBAs. In future releases of VMware, administrators will be able to zone a virtual HBA into a virtual SAN (VSAN) for a VM.
For SMBs with small IT staff, the installation—let alone the optimization—of a first SAN can be a high hurdle. The trauma often starts at the first step of the SAN installation: the gathering of all of the equipment, software, and documentation that will be needed.
First, there are all of the arcane Fibre Channel hardware components and options needed for a SAN. There are questions of mode, diameter, and connectors for the cables. Once the cables are settled, the real fun begins as the newly appointed SAN administrator discovers that it is necessary to specify the proper transceivers to connect the FC cables to the FC switch.
Once all of the physical components are in place, there is the onslaught of configuration options for all of the various devices. Not knowing which options can be safely ignored, or how settings on an HBA might affect settings on a switch, can turn a routine event into an arduous task. With a myriad of unfamiliar options on topics from arbitrated loops to packet framing, the fear of possible errors can paralyze the most daunting administrator and halt any semblance of steady progress. Is it any wonder that the initial complexity associated with the configuration and maintenance of a SAN topology has led many SMB sites to prolong the use of DAS technology?
Simple SAN Connection Manager software CD.
The kit packaging makes physically connecting and preparing the SAN no more challenging than opening a box. The ability to offer a simple end-to-end boxed SAN solution rationalizes a SAN as a cost-effective SMB storage approach. Nonetheless, the real magic occurs when the Simple SAN Connection Manager software is launched on a host server.
Once an administrator starts the HP StorageWorks Simple SAN Connection Manager application, the installation scripts literally discover and optimally configure everything necessary to start running a storage network. In our test scenario, we launched the program and waited about eight minutes before being presented with our first option by the Simple SAN Connection Manager.
In just eight minutes, all of the necessary drivers were installed and the HBAs and switches were configured. Even our host operating system was optimized for the configuration at hand.
We were now ready to begin creating logical drives on our two HP StorageWorks 4100 Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA 4100s). At this point, a novice SAN administrator can invoke a simple wizard and begin creating logical volumes that have the redundancy characteristics of RAID level 0, 1, or 5 arrays. The wizard then steps the administrator through the process of virtualizing the volumes ownership by offering a choice of servers to which the logical disk can be "presented." That's all that's necessary to bring a virtual volume online to be mounted and formatted on a host.
Taking that path, openBench Labs created a simple 10GB RAID-0 logical disk; mounted and formatted the new drive on a ProLiant DL360 server; and ran our transaction processing benchmark, oblLoad, on the new volume. Using standard 8KB I/O requests, we were able to process more than 60,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) on the HP ProLiant DL360 server. Those results have profound implications for scaling up applications such as Oracle and Microsoft Exchange. Moreover, at that performance level, we were reading more than 500MB of data per second, which is greater than the throughput of one Fibre Channel port on the EVA 4100 array.
With that one benchmark, we exposed the complexity of what had occurred behind the scenes during the initial eight minutes when running the HP StorageWorks Simple SAN Connection Manager. The wizard had discovered our topology: one server, one HBA port on the server, two storage arrays, two controllers on each array, and two Fibre Channel ports on each array. The wizard then configured the host operating system, Windows Server 2003, on our server with a Multipath I/O (MPIO) service that supported four possible data paths for each of our two storage arrays.
Thanks to that MPIO service, whenever we imported a logical drive from one of the EVA 4100 arrays, our OS would default to setting up I/O load-balancing for that volume over all four possible paths based on shortest queue service time. We had done nothing to optimize our configuration, yet as our oblLoad benchmark demonstrated, SAN I/O was tuned like an F1 McLaren-Mercedes at the Grand Prix de Monaco.
As a result, we were easily able to reach full-duplex wire speed?Gbps for both reads-and-writes simultaneously—by using our benchmarks to read-and-write data using several logical drives distributed over the two storage arrays. This validates the ability to use existing storage devices to scale I/O in a well-balanced fashion within our 8Gbps infrastructure.
While our performance benchmarks underscore the value of the HP StorageWorks 8Gb Simple SAN Connection Kit infrastructure as a platform for storage consolidation, the benefits derived from such a scalable SAN infrastructure border on the self-perpetuating. The data-intensive applications that drive the need for higher throughput are also the applications that benefit most from the introduction of the new SAN technology.
Services on our Windows server were not the only complexities that the HP StorageWorks Simple SAN Connection Manager optimally exploited and then masked. On both HP EVA 4100s the wizard presented a very simple dialog for the creation of RAID-1 disk arrays. This dialog entirely masked from the administrator a much more sophisticated process. The actual data redundancy structures that were underpinning each of our logical volumes were mirrored multi-drive "plexes." Hidden from view, the EVA had created striped multi-drive structures in a storage pool. As a result, our simple RAID- 1 volume was far more akin to RAID 10 than to RAID 1.
Even drilling down on the devices in a SAN is simplified by the Simple SAN Connection Manager GUI. From a clean and simple topological view, a SAN administrator can drill down and manage arrays, switches, and HBAs. More importantly for an SMB site, there is virtually no need to do that at any time. A novice administrator can—perhaps should—work exclusively with the wizards and benefit from results that are characteristic of a perfectly optimized SAN.
Jack Fegreus is CTO of openBench Labs. He can be reached at jack.fegreus@openbench.com.
Complete hardware and software SAN infrastructure kit for up to four hosts and a storage array.
Wizard-driven GUI simplifies storage management tasks by masking optimization complexities.
Benchmarked full-duplex 8Gbps throughput: The HP StorageWorks 81Q HBA sustained simultaneous read throughput at 840MBps and write throughput at 825MBps.
Future-proofed for virtualization via HBA and switch support of NPIV, which will enable the assignment of virtual HBAs to VMs running on the host to create VSANs that can be zoned.
Benchmarked full-duplex 8Gbps throughput: Sustained simultaneous read throughput at 825MBps and write throughput at 825MBps.
On installation, the Simple SAN Connection Manager discovered the entire SAN fabric topology and created an MPIO service on Windows Server 2003 for each EVA 4100 array.
Single wizard-based GUI simplifies optimal end-to-end SAN configuration and management of all arrays, HBAs, and switches. | 2019-04-22T06:10:49 | http://www.infostor.com/index/articles/display/322294/articles/infostor/openbench-lab-review/8gbps-fc-san-delivers-blazing-speed.html |
Tahira Khan: I cried . . . I laughed . . .
Just recently I was interviewed by a magazine to give my views and expressions about the "Fall of Kabul". Below are few lines from my detailed account.
I cried. . . . .not because Taliban were defeated in Kabul. I cried. . . . not because Northern Alliance captured Kabul.
I cried. . . . .when I saw on the TV, Pakistani and Arab young "Holy Warriors" abandoned by the Taliban and being brutally murdered by the Northern Alliance. I cried. . . . when I saw poverty, ignorance and deprivation personified in their faces. What for they were there? Who motivated them to leave their families back home and get humiliated in another part of the world? I cried. . . . because I couldn't take the humiliation of human beings at the hands of man made conceptual boundaries of citizenship and nationality.
I laughed. . . . .when I read that Afghan women's NGO activists demanding from the UN, US and of course Northern Alliance to give Afghan women due share in the new political set up. I laughed. . . . at the innocence of these activist women. Don't they know that from whom they are demanding what? Don't they know that without making structural changes in the socio-economic fabric of the society, "token" political representation of women is not going to bring any change in common women's lives. Didn't they learn these lessons from the experience of Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh where women did have political share in the form of reserved seats in the parliament and women prime ministers for more than one terms? Don't they know that induction of few women in the centuries old patrairchal political systems is not going to change texture of the system?
I laughed. . . at the concern of Laura Bush for the deprivation of Aghan women under Taliban. I laughed. . . . at her ignorance about the plight of women under the Saudi regime, Kuwait dynasty and many other non democratic Muslim regimes. Does she know that Saudi women are deprived of many basic rights including right to physical mobility? Does she know that women in Saudi Arabia cannot travel alone except carrying certain documents with them, as well as women cannot drive? Does she know about the incidents such as "Death of Princess"? Or she knows all of this and does not want to show her concern because Saudi/Kuwaiti dynasty are US buddies?
And I cried. . . . the way the Western media had neglected the positive changes regarding women's rights and status which secular regime of Afghanistan had brought from 1978 onwards until the victory of the holy religious allies led by the US in 1991.
I laughed. . . . .at the supersonic speed, the Western media has shown to discover Afghan women's existence as human beings. | 2019-04-26T16:49:37 | http://www.daclarke.org/WTChit/Khan.html |
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Laugh in the face of the laws of physics with this fabulous gravity defying, upside down plant pot. Each ECOBoskke Sky Planter is made from recycled plastic and allows you to encourage greenery in your home without needing to sacrifice floor space. It's a clever space saving solution that makes a wonderfully unusual gardening gift for anyone with green fingers. This stylish hanging planter comes with everything you need to get started. Well, except for a plant and a suitable ceiling to hang it from!
Gain a new perspective with an upside down flower pot. Logically the water and soil should just fall straight out, but the ECOBoskke Sky Planter's solution is beautifully simple. Each pot contains a mesh collar which you cut to fit your plant and a locking disc to keep it all in place. Growing plants upside down also saves water as each planter features an internal reservoir which gradually feeds water to the plant's roots, meaning no water is lost due to evaporation or drainage unlike pots with trays.
Captivating and fun, why not hang several planters together to create an upside down garden? Hang herbs above the work surface in your kitchen or group orchids and other house plants together to create a stunning feature that will also purify the air in your home. The intriguing design of these upside down hanging planters allows you to hang your houseplants from the heavens so you can easily brighten up any house or office. Transform your home today!
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Ideal for houseplants, such as English Ivy, rubber plants, herbs and more - why not experiment!
Great idea for rooms with no space, the medium size wasn't quite as big as I thought it would be, but overall not too bad. Speedy delivery.
The recipient loved the unusual method of potting up and then planting the flowers in this upside down pot hanging system.
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In advance of British Beach Week on the 23 July, and with summer 2011 set to be a scorcher, we’ve decided to focus on British beaches for the latest entry to ‘101 places to go in the UK, Ireland and France’.
With golden sands and crystalline blue waters spanning the breadth of the country, there’s a wealth of choice on the UK’s shores. This is great for budding beach bums and holidaymakers looking for the best way to appreciate Britain’s seaside heritage, but not so great if you’re looking to choose just one beach to visit. So we’ve decided to focus on a few of our personal favourite UK beaches before asking you for yours.
• With 800 feet of soft sand lying on the Heritage coastline of North Devon, Croyde Bay isn’t exactly short of reasons for visiting. Its large sheltered bay, full of large barrelling waves, also makes it one of the UK’s premier surfing beaches – though it’s recommended for experienced boarders only.
• Bournemouth Beach offers 7 miles of golden sands on Dorset’s stunning coastline. There’s a wealth of things to see and do on the beach, including the seaside staples of deckchairs, piers and sandy strolls. And if you fancy something a little different there’s a varied schedule of events taking place all year round, including the annual Bournemouth Air Festival.
• Scarborough arguably captures the essence of Britain’s seaside past better than any other resort in the UK. Essentially Britain’s first seaside holiday hotspot, Scarborough’s offering to UK holidaymakers remains relatively unchanged: it still offers a host of fun activities in a splendid seaside location.
OK, so they were a few of ours but what are your favourite UK beaches?
beach-related news going on in the UK! | 2019-04-18T10:57:48 | https://blog.cottages4you.co.uk/2011/05/31/101-places-to-go-uk-beaches/ |
A week ago my wife and I were returning to DC from New England and followed our normal route which takes us over the Tappan Zee Bridge. Just before the trip I had read that the bridge needs to be replaced. The perennial maintenance (the last major effort a few years ago when at least one lane was always closed) financed by the New York State Thruway Authority, state, and federal governments has simply been not enough. The penury of tax revenues and the high cost of upkeep of the entire thruway system let alone the bridge allowed only for ‘keep it up and running’ maintenance, without the major structural repairs that are periodically needed to keep any bridge safe and roadworthy. Finally, agree local authorities, the time has come for the construction of a new one which would cost $6.4 billion. How, in this era of tax avoidance, can this be done? The highway trust fund is out of cash, and the gas tax which funds it is little more than half the required amount to address necessary infrastructure improvements. “There is no public money”, said a former adviser to the Department of Transportation” (see Washington Post article, below).
As we were driving across the bridge and commiserating about how much more painful and already long-haul trip to Boston would be once works were started, we wondered how we might invest in the bridge. In a very shaky and unsure financial market, this should be a good bet. Over 140,000 cars use the bridge every day, we thought, and even if tolls were substantially raised to cover real costs, demand, even in slow economic times, would remain constant.
I guess we were thinking like a lot of other people, for the Business Section in today’s Post is entirely devoted to rebuilding America’s infrastructure, and the lead article (click on the weblink, below) is on privatizing the process.
There are a number of interesting facts cited in the article. First, there is already as significant amount of private investment in infrastructure led by pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. In the past five years the 30 biggest investors have channeled $180 billion to infrastructure projects and the trend is continuing. They, and the small investors like my wife and me, feel that this investment will pay good and safe returns. The Canadian $52 billion Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System has invested in US infrastructure and done well, helping to provide benefits to its 400,000 members.
Private investment in infrastructure has a good record. The privately-financed Midtown Tunnel (NYC) expansion has recovered finance costs and provides a return to investors. The same company’s (Macquarie) has a similar project proposal pending (a new tunnel project north of the new Jordan Bridge in Virginia). The private consortium will finance two-thirds of the cost with the Virginia Transportation Authority loaning the rest. Increased tolls are expected from such investment, but as suggested above, the actual toll cost is far below that required to cover even basic maintenance. The tunnels must be built to relieve congestion. Citizens refuse to pay taxes to cover construction and maintenance costs. Ergo, users will have to pay and pay real costs.
Leasing existing infrastructure to private sector companies has also found new currency throughout America.
A second argument for selling the Tappan Zee Bridge and encouraging private investment in infrastructure is the failure of the public sector to do the job. In front page piece in the Outlook Section of the Washington Post today, Chris Edwards argues that the federal government, and especially the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Bureau of Reclamation have been guilty of poor planning and execution, waste, and inefficiency over its long history.
When the federal government ‘thinks big’, it often makes big mistakes. And when Washington follows bad policies such as….overbuilding dams, it replicates mistakes nationwide….Similar distortions occur in other areas of infrastructure such as transportation. The federal government subsidizes the construction of urban light rail systems, for example….But urban rail systems are generally less efficient and flexible than bus systems, and they saddle cities with higher operating and maintenance costs down the road. Similar misallocation of investment occurs with Amtrak…and funding is sprinkled across the country [because of pork barrel interests in Congress], even in rural areas where passenger rail makes no economic sense….
The usual counter arguments appear – shouldn’t we be worried about selling our infrastructure assets to the Arabs? Nonsense, says Ryan Orr of Stanford. We live in a globalized economy and foreigners buy our Treasure Bonds. What’s the difference?
Tolls will go up and put an undue burden on the poor, another argument does. Yes, but in this era of no taxes where such revenues would allow for a progressive allocation of cost, there is no other alternative.
Finally, some critics argue that the benefits of non-polluting rail systems will be better for the public at large than a bus-only policy (see light-rail, above). Also true, but no one is currently willing to subsidize these externalities.
In conclusion, I hope that there is room for my little widow’s mite in the sale of the Tappan Zee Bridge. I will be able to put up with the aggravation of construction a little better. | 2019-04-18T23:13:32 | https://www.uncleguidosfacts.com/2011/10/sell-tappan-zee-bridge.html |
Give the NDP government a pat on the back for one thing — dealing with the often grotesque overcompensation among some public-sector executives in Alberta.
This week it was school superintendents. Back in April it was presidents, vice-chancellors and chief executive officers of 20 publicly funded university and colleges. And last year it was the presidents and vice-presidents of ABCs — agencies, boards and commissions.
Under the former Tory government, executive compensation was permitted to go all over the map, especially during the time of former Premier Alison Redford.
Average compensation for Alberta public-sector executives was above the national average — sometimes well above. And the overcompensation contributed to a culture of entitlement in which senior management felt entirely justified receiving outsized salaries and monstrous perks.
Moreover, there were no independent reviews that sought to compare public sector compensation to similar jobs and levels of responsibility in the private sector.
The New Democrats have tried to change that. Their recent moves have brought Alberta public-sector pay more in keeping with at least public-sector standards in other large provinces, such as Ontario, B.C. and Quebec.
Before the recent changes, the numbers were often shocking.
For instance, Edmonton Catholic Schools superintendent Joan Carr made $426,824 last year. That’s considerably more than the superintendents of Edmonton and Calgary Public Schools, both of whom manage noticeably larger operations.
Under the new rules, brought in by Education Minister David Eggen on Friday, Carr will see her pay cut a whopping 28 per cent when her contract is renewed in August. To Carr’s credit, she plans to stay on two more years despite the reduction in pay.
The NDP have also eliminated what they call “outlier” perks such as $1,200 a year for gym membership, $1,200 a year for one superintendent’s spouse to attend school board events, $10,000 for “incidentals” (that’s a lot of incidentals) and $10,000 a year towards one super’s children’s university tuition.
From now on, there will be five pay grades for superintendents depending on the size of the boards they oversee, with salaries ranging from $60,000 to a maximum of $275,000.
In all, 67 of 74 superintendents will see their pay cut by an average of 10 per cent for a total savings of $1.5 million (which the government plans to spend in classrooms).
A similar five-level, cost-cutting pay grid imposed on university and college executives nearly two months ago should save a further $5 million. And reduction in the pay of senior ABC managers, announced last spring, could save as much as $16 million more.
These sums ($22.5 million in all) are tiny against provincial spending of $56 billion and annual deficits in the range of $10 billion, but they are an important step towards breaking the mentality of entitlement among senior public-sector managers — the feeling that they are owed lavish lifestyles at taxpayers’ expense.
Now the Notley government just has to deal with the overcompensation of Alberta Health Services’ hundreds of executives and managers. | 2019-04-26T06:14:40 | https://edmontonsun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-give-ndp-credit-for-reining-in-executive-pay |
Periodontics is the dental specialty that is all about gum health. At Hammons Family Dental, we are always on the lookout for periodontal disease, also known as gum disease.
The practice of periodontics involves protecting the gums and bone structure that lie beneath the teeth. The health of your gums and bone are critical to maintaining your functional natural teeth.
Why might you need periodontal care?
Gum disease is a progressive condition that actually affects 80% of American adults. It begins with mild gum inflammation and bleeding and can lead to tooth loss and jawbone deterioration.
Periodontal disease is the #1 cause of tooth loss in adults living in the developed world. The earlier we treat gum disease, the better off you will be.
If you notice red or swollen gums, bad breath, or gums that bleed easily, come in for an assessment. We recommend periodontal treatment to patients who are suffering from any level of gum disease. Treatment is most often noninvasive and simple!
What is Periodontal Disease and When Should I Get Treatment?
Periodontal disease stems from the bacteria living in plaque. Plaque causes an infection in the tissues surrounding the teeth, irritating them. Let’s treat this infection before the teeth become loose or the jawbone begins to recede.
Any treatment addressing the gums and bone surrounding your teeth is considered periodontal care. The periodontic treatment we most often recommend at Hammons Family Dental is scaling and root planing.
Scaling and root planing is a deep cleaning process that is highly effective against mild to moderate gum disease. The cleaning only takes a few minutes but can end up saving your natural smile.
During the cleaning, we will remove the plaque from above and below the gumline. Brushing and flossing at home are essential, but it is difficult to remove tough plaque with a normal toothbrush. With our ultrasonic tools, we can banish even the toughest bacteria.
We will also smooth out the tooth roots, making it harder for bacteria to stick. Our team is trained to administer effective periodontal care so that you can preserve a healthy smile throughout your life.
To schedule a gum assessment or cleaning, or receive a second opinion, contact Hammons Family Dental today. | 2019-04-20T12:32:24 | https://hammonsfamilydental.com/periodontics/ |
Spring is officially here and the warmer weather is starting to creep in. To me, the spring season means trading in the hearty, comforting meals for light, colorful, and fresh dishes using spring’s seasonal produce.
I’ve included some seasonal fruits and vegetables to look out for during your next grocery trip, along with some of my favorite recipe picks to make this season.
What are your favorite spring fruits and vegetables?
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Ohio State-Michigan State could be the game of the week in the Big Ten.
The Buckeyes enter as the No. 10 team in the country, while the Spartans are No. 18. Michigan State hosts Ohio State for a noon kickoff on Saturday with the game being televised on FOX.
Ohio State still has a chance at reaching the College Football Playoff, while Michigan State is going to look to crush the Buckeyes’ dreams. Ohio State suffered its first and only defeat to this point against Purdue two games ago and came back with a close victory over Nebraska last week.
On Thursday, during Urban Meyer’s weekly radio show, he talked about his Buckeyes as well as the opponent ahead.
Meyer on Dobbins/Weber being fresh because of their rotation: "Boy, we're going to need them this week."
Meyer said Weber "was loose with the ball" on his two fumbles and that OSU has worked really hard on ball security this week.
On radio @OSUCoachMeyer said last week "The offensive line set the tone" leading to revival of rushing game.
Meyer on Nebraska's TD drive late to make it close: "That was alarming. For most of the game, we did a good job eliminating (big plays). It's been a rotating door on the back end of our defense." Said he wants stability in the secondary.
Meyer on injuries in secondary: "It seems like we've been banged up as long as you can remember. Sevyn Banks is another name to keep an eye on. He's really come on in practice. A very talented guy."
Meyer on Brendon White's breakthrough vs. Nebraska: "It's been great to watch him grow as a player. In practice, he's played much better."
Meyer again praises WR Chris Olave. Said he's a name to remember.
Meyer on TEs used in goal-line situations: "In that situation, they are fullbacks. That's exactly what they are."
Meyer heaps praise on MSU's defense, which is ranked No. 1 nationally in run defense.
Meyer said he doesn't see much difference btw MSU quarterbacks Brian Lewerke and Rocky Lombardi. Lewerke has been hurt.
Meyer asked about Joshua Perry, who visited practice this week: "Hopefully, president Josh Perry one day. I'll vote for him."
Meyer on backup QB Tate Martell: "I love Tate. He's a competitor. He wants to play. Said he's frustrated in that he wants to play, not frustrated in being defiant. There might be some Tate showing up soon. He's been practicing very hard." | 2019-04-21T12:18:29 | https://saturdaytradition.com/ohio-state-football/what-urban-meyer-said-on-weekly-radio-show-ahead-of-game-vs-michigan-state/ |
Arrange bamboo cuttings in a vase for an easy, stylish houseplant.
Add a bit of nature to your home's décor with an arrangement of bamboo cuttings in a vase. The straight lines of the bamboo's stalks provide a fresh, sleek accessory to any room. By taking cuttings from existing bamboo plants, you can create your own arrangement to suit your tastes. Bamboo requires little care and can survive in low light conditions, making it an excellent choice for the homeowner who may not have time to maintain a finicky houseplant.
Prepare a vase to receive the bamboo cutting. Fill the bottom third of the vase with clean decorative stones to act as a support to the cutting.
Pour distilled water into the vase. Fill the vase until the water level is one to two inches above the surface of the stones. Set the vase aside.
Select a healthy bamboo stalk from which to take your cutting. Examine the stalk closely; it should be free of blemish, disease or damage. Choose a bamboo stalk that is not more than 3 years old.
Identify the rings, also called growth nodes, on the bamboo stalk. Measure length of bamboo starting at the top of the stalk. Count the nodes to ensure that there are a total of four to six.
Cut the stalk with a sharp knife just above the lowest node on the measured length of the stalk. Make the cut at a 45-degree angle. Cut through the stalk as cleanly as possible to ensure a smooth edge.
Remove any leafy side shoots from the bottom half to two-thirds of the stalk with the knife. Place the bamboo cutting in your vase. Push the cutting down into the decorative stones until it's end is at the bottom of the vase.
Keep the bamboo cutting in a bright room out of direct sunlight. Change the water once a week. Refill the vase with water as needed to keep the water level above the surface of the stones.
Westover, Jessica. "How to Cut Bamboo for a Vase." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/cut-bamboo-vase-21037.html. Accessed 20 April 2019. | 2019-04-20T20:19:28 | https://homeguides.sfgate.com/cut-bamboo-vase-21037.html |
Please address this. The quality is horrible and I miss many exercises because I cannot hear the article. I simply remember what duolingo said was correct, but this isn't learning!
when do i use I/i instead of Gli or Le??? is it like in front of a constanant??
In a previous exercise, the program corrected my "lei" to be "you" (third person singular). This item corrected my "lei" to be "she" (also third person singular).
well, it might be because the following word is "legge", which clerifies that it must be she/he/it, because if it was "leggi" it would mean "you". im not so sure but dont you think so?
"you read" is prefectly fine. Lei legge is the formal you version, as opposed to tu leggi.
I wrote "news" instead of "newspaper". Why is not accepted? I'm not a native English speaker either, so if someone can explain it to me I would appreciate it, thanks!
Stupid robot cant hear a thing!!!!
Was it that big of a deal that i said newpaper instead of newpapers?!
What is the difference between these options? Please tell me! | 2019-04-20T03:10:39 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/198241/Lei-legge-i-giornali |
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HP, Thunderbolt and Post. Some good news for PC users, finally.
This was some welcome news for those on the PC side of things, I’d say. HP shipping all new hardware with Thunderbolt definitely opens the proverbial pipes to a whole user base of post production software and hardware that is now no longer tied strictly to the tower internally.
In my opinion, the next thing that needs to happen, and my guess is this will only help this situation, is for the price of Thunderbolt accessories to drop. Good for HP, its good for the industry, and good for post professionals. Open the Pipes!
This entry was posted in PC, Post Production, Thunderbolt and tagged Apple, Thunderbolt. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-24T00:25:55 | https://shooteditdeliver.com/2013/09/12/hp-thunderbolt-and-post-some-good-news-for-pc-users-finally/ |
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Oklahoma City Thunder forward Mitch McGary has dedicated his off-season to losing weight and eating right to avoid injury.
Once a standout forward for the University of Michigan, Mitch McGary had a tough rookie season for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Last pre-season, he broke a bone in his left foot, causing him to miss 17 regular season games while he recovered. When the big man returned to the lineup, he played in just a single game before shin splints wiped him out for the next 23. In 32 total games, McGary averaged only 6.3 points in 15 minutes on the floor.
If you watched McGary during NBA summer league action over the past few days, you might not even have recognized him. Determined to stop injuries from derailing his career, McGary lost almost 30 pounds this off-season, dropping his playing weight from the 280s down to 255. He looks like a completely different person.
This monster putback dunk against the Memphis Grizzlies is compelling evidence of the work McGary has put in.
McGary told newsok.com that during the off-season he took cooking classes, revamped his diet and completely focused on training and working out. He also gave up his biggest addiction: candy. Foods like fish, chicken and veggies now fill his plate each night.
With Kevin Durant finally healthy and a new, improved McGary back in the lineup, the OKC Thunder should be a force to be reckoned with next season.
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For an NBA game, I see a market for Spread and one for Winning Margin. The Spread market lists "Team A -5.5: 10/11". The Winning Margin markets lists "Team A, 6 points or more: 3/4". Shouldn't the odds for these two best be equal?
There's no fundamental reason they should be equal, because a bookies' job isn't to accurately reflect the chance of a team winning: it's to make as much money as possible for the bookie. If a bookie has taken too much money on one side of a line, they'll move the odds and/or the line to encourage punters to bet the other side of the line; bookies really don't like a situation where they're at risk of taking a significant loss if one result or another happens - their desired situation is if they have equal exposure on either result, and then they're guaranteed a nice profit thanks to their cut.
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Spring is officially here! Now with an extra hour of daylight and the weather heating up, joining a fun Art Class to expand your creativity and artistic expression has never been easier or more fun. Art Attack Burlingame is enrolling for their summer courses now, and would love to have you join in the fun! Our weekly summer art camps begin June 12th, and extended throughout the summer months. In this monthly article we will feature a Jewish American Painter Max Weber, one of the original American Painters in the Cubist movement and his current display at the Fine Arts Museum San Francisco. We will also take a closer look at Week 1 Summer Camp and all the fun your kids will have in our first week program. Finally we will feature a fun Art Event in the Bay Area.
Max Weber was a Famous Jewish-American painter and one of the very original American Cubist painters. He is very well known today for his original piece “Chinese Restaurant”, featured in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. He emigrated from Poland at the young age of 10, and began a rigorous schooling at the Pratt Institute under Arthur Wesley Dow. He was met with a lot of criticism early in his career, but through it all later gained recognition as the pioneer in the Modern American Cubist movement. He has had many successes in his art career including in 1930, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of his work, the first solo exhibition at that museum of an American artist. He was praised as a “pioneer of modern art in America” in a 1945 Life Magazine article. Some of Max Weber’s works can be seen at the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco, and other museums across California and the US. For more information, please visit their website here.
This month’s featured event is the A la Carte and Art Festival is Mountain View on May 6th and 7th from 10AM – 6PM. Presented by the Mountain View Central Business Association, the popular open-air festival will feature two days of exciting live music, a fine arts and crafts show with 200 of the west coast’s top artists showing their latest handcrafted wares, fabulous food and exquisite drink selections. Located in downtown Mountain View on Castro Street, this event is family friendly and sure to be a hit for all ages. For more information on the event and ticket pricing, visit their website at here.
This month we take a quick look at our Week 1 Summer camp, “How sweet it is”. This extremely fun and educational week long art camp is designed to combine your children’s love for sweets and art into a very unique artistic experience, with real life field trips to the places where Bay Area sweets had original beginnings. Students will take field trips to Ghiradelli, It’s Sugar, and Normans SF where they will learn the history of each historical spot, create unique sketches and share a sunday or two over the works of arts. On Friday at 2:30PM, the class will have an art show for family and friends to show off all they have learned. We are enrolling now for Week 1 and all of our summer Art classes online and by phone. For more information or to book online please visit us at here or give us a call directly at 650-552-0001.
Art Attack is a fun and interactive art studio in Burlingame that provides instruction in the fine arts to children, teens and adults. Art Attack offers affordable painting classes year round to the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area. We have art classes for kids ages 5 and up with after school and weekend classes, as well as teen and adult art classes Monday through Saturday. | 2019-04-19T16:31:03 | https://artattack911.com/spring-is-here-and-art-abounds/ |
I'm developing applications deployed in J boss (4.0.4 version) with Ejb deployed in a Tomcat Server, server which is different from the Tomcat Server present in Jboss.
I would know, if it's possible, how to shutdown the Tomcat server from Jbosss, and how to configure Jboss to not launch it when you launch Jboss.
I've read the configuration doc of Jboss 4.0.4 or others and did not find any commands/configuration variables to do this stuff. | 2019-04-21T19:00:26 | https://developer.jboss.org/thread/64084 |
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Earl has very strong arms. The cat crept under the hedge. Who else are we talking about? Lobster tomalley can be toxic and it's best not to eat it. Who do you think will be able to help us? Maybe we can buy her a new one. Charlene is busy now and can't talk with you. Do you want to go and get a bite to eat? She didn't like being poor. Dilma Rousseff is the current President of Brazil.
We need a plan. We might be able to help them. At five I was already able to ski. Tricia says this is what he really needs. Nothing remains but to die. I'd like to order a pizza. The weather is very cold in Istanbul. I'm not embarrassed. Bring Kathleen next time. Optimists see opportunities in disasters while pessimists find disasters in every opportunity.
A dog's nose is very sensitive. I'm at work now, so I'll call you later. There is one very noteworthy element in this stage. Steen is putting on makeup. I learned a valuable lesson tonight. They developed a special computer system and fixed it to his wheelchair. I'm very happy now. Let's go to Boston. He was seized with sudden chest pains. She has got it. | 2019-04-19T17:33:36 | http://ceboid.com/2077802558 |
Does my company qualify for a Research and Development Tax Credit?
Companies working on innovative and experimental research & development projects can qualify for the Federal and Virginia Research and Development (R&D) Credit and receive tax breaks, no matter how large or small the company.
This comes after the R&D tax credit was made permanent by the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (PATH Act) in December 2015. The new regulation has helped open doors for R&D tax credits for small startup companies as well as companies subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
Companies that historically did not qualify for R&D tax credits now have an opportunity to receive tax benefits starting January 1, 2016.
So what is the credit? And how can companies determine if they qualify?
Permitted Purpose The purpose of the activity or project must relate to a new (or improving an existing) functionality, performance, quality, reliability or manufacturability of any product, process, technique, invention, formula, or computer software that the taxpayer intends to hold for sale, lease, license, or actual use in the taxpayer’s trade or business.
Elimination of Uncertainty The taxpayer must intend to discover information to eliminate uncertainty concerning the development or improvement of a business component. Uncertainty exists if the current information available to the taxpayer does not establish the capability or method of development or improvement, or the appropriateness of the business component’s design.
Process of Experimentation The taxpayers activities must substantially all be elements of a process of experimentation, which involves evaluation of alternatives, confirmation of hypotheses through trial & error process, testing and/or modeling, as well as refining or discarding of the hypotheses.
Technological in Nature The process of experimentation used to discover information must fundamentally rely on principles of the physical or biological sciences, engineering, or computer science. A taxpayer may employ existing technologies and rely on existing principles of physical or biological sciences, engineering, or computer science to satisfy this requirement.
Qualified research expenses of the activity or project include four types of expenses.
Wages for in-house research and development activities of employees who directly conduct the research and development and employees who supervise and support the qualified research and development.
Supplies such as prototypes and testing materials that are of a non-depreciable nature and are directly used and consumed in qualified research activities.
Contracted research from a third party that does not bear the risk of success or failure in the research activities. Qualified research expenses are generally 65 percent of the contracted payments.
With the introduction of the PATH Act, there are more opportunities available for small and medium-sized businesses to claim this credit.
Previously, companies that did not generate enough income to have a federal income tax liability only had the option to carryforward the credit for future utilization. Beginning in 2016, eligible startup companies with less than $5 million in gross receipts can apply up to $250,000 of their R&D tax credit against the employer’s share of FICA payroll tax.
The PATH Act also brought great news for owners of qualifying pass-through entities, such as S Corporations and Partnerships, that incur Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Prior to the PATH Act the R&D tax credit did not offset the AMT liability. Beginning in 2016, owners of companies with less than $50 million in gross receipts (based on a three-year average) can apply the R&D tax credit generated after January 1, 2016 against their AMT liabilities.
In addition to the federal R&D credit Virginia has a similar credit available. Unlike the federal credit the Virginia credit is refundable for qualifying taxpayers, meaning the credit utilized can exceed the tax incurred and result in a refund.
If your company is in the industries of (not limited to) manufacturing, energy production, software development, food and beverage, distribution, construction or engineering and is innovating, improving its process, working on prototypes or experimenting there is an opportunity to receive the benefit of the R&D tax credit on a federal and state level. PBMares’ R&D tax credit specialists understand the nuances of the complex rules for qualification and have years of experience developing supportable tax credit claims. We can help you maximize your R&D tax credit which also maximizes your investment in the future of your business. Contact PBMares today to find out how!
Nicholas Perrine, CPA is a tax partner with PBMares, LLP a leading accounting and business consulting firm serving U.S. and international clients with offices in the Mid-Atlantic. He helps clients pursue and receive federal and Virginia researching and development tax credits while helping expand the research and development tax credit group. He is a licensed CPA in Virginia and has a Bachelor’s of Business Administration Degree in Accounting from James Madison University. Nick can be reached at nperrine@pbmares.com and (540) 434-5975. | 2019-04-21T18:41:47 | http://exportvirginia.org/blog/company-qualify-research-development-tax-credit/ |
Clarity, openness, quiet, and energy- sparing ingenuity make the new headquarters of Columbia University's Mind Brain Behavior Institute a remarkable workplace for cutting- edge research and community health promotion. The crystalline Greene Center gives its neighborhood a view of science in vitro.
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Quantification of acylcarnitines is used for screening and diagnosis of inborn error of metabolism (IEM). While newborn screening is performed in dried blood spots (DBSs), general metabolic investigation is often performed in plasma. Information on the correlation between plasma and DBS acylcarnitine profiles is scarce. In this study, we directly compared acylcarnitine concentrations measured in DBS with those in the corresponding plasma sample. Additionally, we tested whether ratios of acylcarnitines in both matrices are helpful for diagnostic purpose when primary markers fail.
DBS and plasma were obtained from controls and patients with a known IEM. (Acyl)carnitines were converted to their corresponding butyl esters and analyzed using HPLC/MS/MS.
Free carnitine concentrations were 36% higher in plasma compared to DBS. In contrast, in patients with carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 (CPT-1) deficiency free carnitine concentration in DBS was 4 times the concentration measured in plasma. In carnitine palmitoyltransferase 2 (CPT-2) deficiency, primary diagnostic markers were abnormal in plasma but could also be normal in DBS. The calculated ratios for CPT-1 (C0/(C16+C18)) and CPT-2 ((C16+C18:1)/C2) revealed abnormal values in plasma. However, normal ratios were found in DBS of two (out of five) samples obtained from patients diagnosed with CPT-2.
Relying on primary acylcarnitine markers, CPT-1 deficiency can be missed when analysis is performed in plasma, whereas CPT-2 deficiency can be missed when analysis is performed in DBS. Ratios of the primary markers to other acylcarnitines restore diagnostic recognition completely for CPT-1 and CPT-2 in plasma, while CPT-2 can still be missed in DBS. | 2019-04-24T03:14:27 | http://metabolomicscentre.nl/node/1267 |
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Through a series of targeted exercises and by reading an array of poets, we’ll work on generating new poems. Along the way, we’ll discuss the elements of poetry (phanopoeia, melopoeia, and logopoeia) and issues of craft. This is a writing and talking class more than a reading class. Our goal is to have several completed poems by the end of the class and a number of poem starts, ideas, and inspirations to work at later. All experience levels welcome.
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ARIES (March 21 to April 20): People in business will do well. Moneywise you will stay comfortable. Some one lot younger will try to create problems at work but will not succeed. You will work in and around the house and get rid of things piling dust. You may call an old friend to seek advice. A business trip is also in the air.
TAURUS (April 21 to May 20): Unnecessary stress can cause loss of appetite and upset stomach. Business will continue to grow and you will keep marching towards your professional goals and may even finish the project well before deadline. Try to relax in spare time and go for a walk if possible. Spouse will give you practical and great ideas.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20): You will continue to work on a great idea and look for right partners. You will try to take time out of busy schedule and help your child with homework. People seeking a change will be called for second interview and receive the assurance.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22): This may not be the right time to look for a change in career. Moneywise you will continue to do well and receive a refund as well. Value of stocks will appreciate and you may dispose off some and pocket the profit. People in business will experience better sales. Issue involving a child will be resolved favorably.
LEO (July 23 to August 22): Be careful with financial transactions and do not stretch your limits. People in business should keep an eye on employees. Business will be better and you will take sound decisions in career. Do not make any commitments in a hurry. You may start working on a short vacation with family towards the end of next month.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22): Take advice and second opinion before you make any big moves. Legal matters will take a favorable turn and victory is within reach. Relationship will keep getting stronger and commitment is not far off. You may dispose off recently purchased stocks and pocket the money. Be on the lookout for an important mail.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22): Planets are favorable for all financial matters. You may hit some kind of jackpot, don’t forget to try your hands at lottery. There will be slight change in travel plans. You will try your best to maintain a balance between family and professional life. A deal could materialize soon.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 22): Planets will make things happen quickly. You will not only regain confidence but hit your professional goals as well. Your image in social circle will improve and you will be invited to a big gathering. You may meet an interesting personality during a trip. You will meet important clients this month.
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 to December 22): If you keep your emotions under check, you are a guaranteed winner. Transiting Venus will bring fresh opportunity to make quick bucks. Try to be calm when on phone and use soft language when writing any important mail if you really want to get the job done. You may be thinking of traveling long distance.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19): Strong Venus will give you many reasons to celebrate. Roadblocks will be lifted and you will achieve your goals. Some of you will be offered a lucrative job. There is a strong chance of adding a new member to the family. You may spend money on electronic gadgets or do some repairs around your home.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18): You may seek advice on how to deal with important issues. Watch out for people trying to flirt. No harm in enjoying life, don’t take them seriously or will be hurt later. Some one with honey colored eyes or going little bald will be very helpful.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20): Help will come from totally unexpected places. You will be calling overseas more frequently and may travel on short notice. You will be focused on long-term goals. Health will get better with minor change in diet. You may recover money and may even receive a big check from insurance. It will take some more time to find a better and ideal place to move. | 2019-04-19T19:08:58 | https://siliconeer.com/current/april-2015/ |
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Breathe your way through these challenging times. Learn 3 Yogic strategies to strengthen your emotional resilience. Based on ancient practices and current scientific findings, Amy will incorporate breath, sound, movement and visualization to help you meet and manage your mood. This session created the sacred and safe space for the rest of the weekend. It is highly recommended as a prerequisite for the rest of the workshops.
Day 2: LifeForce Yoga to Get You Off The Couch!
Learn an embodied practice to meet the lethargic or depressed mood. We’ll practice a non-dual self-inquiry technique to access who you are beneath whatever mood is present. No matter what challenges you are facing now, Amy promises that you’ll leave with a lighter heart and a clearer mind. We’ll practice the LifeForce Yoga® Chakra Clearing Meditation, a technique that incorporates mantra, mudra and breath to clear the central energy channel of the body. Then we’ll build to a stronger, more dynamic practice, energizing the body, mind and spirit. We’ll end with a restorative practice of LifeForce Yoga® Nidra.
Learn a practice that promotes a calm mind and an open heart Evolution has favored an anxiety gene, and for many of us, it’s our default. Meet your monkey mind with an embodied practice and a meditation technique that gives the busy mind a bone. Experience the power of LifeForce Yoga® Nidra, a form of meditative self-inquiry that, while relaxing the body, opens the mind to greater self-awareness and the heart to love and acceptance of what is. It is recommended not to eat for two hours before the workshop begins. | 2019-04-19T18:16:19 | https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-manage-mood/ |
$12.292 million on 2005 screens.
2003’s Bad Santa presents a much darker and more cynically comedic look at Christmas than we usually discover. We meet Willie (Billy Bob Thornton), a bitter, drunken ne’er-do-well who works as a department store Santa. He comes as a package with elf assistant Marcus (Tony Cox), but it turns out they don’t do the gig just for the usual pay.
Willie and Marcus use their status to case and rob the store after hours, and we also see that Marcus’ girlfriend Lois (Lauren Tom) functions as part of the racket. We soon learn that they make this a yearly concern and rob a different spot every Christmas.
Determined to go clean, Willie uses the loot to move to Miami. He wants to quit boozing and open a bar, but he fails and continues to be a drunken crook. As Christmas approaches, Marcus calls and they go back into the game.
Willie and Marcus go to work in Arizona where Bob Chipeska (John Ritter) hires them at Saguaro Square Mall. The foul-mouthed Willie upsets Bob when he makes a profane comment, and Bob soon brings his concerns to mall security chief Gin (Bernie Mac).
Tubby, nerdy eight-year-old Thurman (Brett Kelly) goes to see Santa at the mall. Despite Willie’s coarse behavior, Thurman waits for Santa after the mall closes and follows him. Willie also meets Sue (Lauren Graham), a bartender with a Santa fetish, and they do the nasty in a car.
After Sue splits, a weirdo assaults Willie in the parking lot and Thurman helps rescue him. Willie gives the boy a ride home and learns that Thurman lives only with his elderly and out of it grandma (Cloris Leachman). Willie boldly robs the place with the innocent Thurman’s unknowing approval.
Bob tries to fire Willie and Marcus, but they use political correctness related to the latter’s racial and physical attributes to keep their jobs. Nonetheless, Bob goes to Gin to get the store detective to dig up some dirt on Willie so he can axe him.
As part of this, Gin roots through Willie’s motel room, so our Santa bails and decides to move in with Thurman and Grandma. We soon learn that Thurman’s dad (Ethan Phillips) is in jail for embezzlement, which we find out when Gin realizes that Willie’s using the family home.
From there the movie follows various elements. We see the development of the relationship between Willie and Thurman, and we also watch what happens with the planned robbery. We also discover what Gin does with his information and how he deals with Willie.
Bad Santa occasionally runs the risk of turning into something crass just for the sake of offensiveness. The movie clearly falls far outside the realm of political correctness, especially via the visions of such a scummy Santa. The film easily could have turned into nothing more than sight gags connected to the disconnect between Santa and sin, and it does occasionally fall back on those bits.
However, the movie walks a fine line between darkness/nastiness that make sense and knee-jerk crudeness, and it manages to stay on the right side of that line. What makes Santa different than something tacky and lame like Road Trip or Saving Silverman is that it doesn’t attempt laughs based solely on nasty material.
Instead, Santa integrates some cleverness and spark into the comedy and doesn’t simply hope that we’ll chortle at the baseness of the situations. Granted, I can’t say that all the over the top sights here equal high comedy, but they don’t feel especially gratuitous, and as played out in the movie, they’re funny.
I worried somewhat that Santa would ultimately turn into something sappy and sentimental via the relationship between Willie and Thurman, and it nearly gets to that level. However, it manages to avoid treacle the vast majority of the time.
It helps that Willie never stops being disgusting. He warms up to the kid and demonstrates his affection for him, but he never turns into anything other than a rough dude. The movie somewhat cops out on a potentially very dark ending, but it maintains internal consistency and remains pretty crude.
A lot of the success of Santa connects to the actors, especially Thornton. He displays exceedingly little ego as Willie and totally fills the part.
Willie doesn’t come across like a slick actor playing at degradation; Thornton lends the character a broadly comic edge but still makes him believably crass and low. When Willie discusses suicidal ideation, we buy it, and the role gets a dark side that someone else might skip. Santa remains a broadly comic farce for the most part, but a certain edginess infuses it, largely thanks to Thornton.
The other actors get less to do, especially Graham. Her role feels more like a generic tacked-on love interest than an integral part of the story, and she comes and goes at random.
Kelly does nicely as Thurman, partially because he gets to have his cake and eat it too. The role allows him to parody the innocent, naïve true believer, as Thurman obsesses over Santa, but it also provides some emotional depth and lets us see his development without too much sentimentality.
Bad Santa does lose some steam toward the end. The developing relationship between Thurman and Willie gives the movie a bit of depth, but I’m still not sure that’s appropriate. It might work better if it kept Willie totally without redeeming characteristics. Still, it provides lots of laughs and maintains a nasty attitude from start to finish.
Bad Santa appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this Blu-ray Disc. The Blu-ray presented two versions of the film – and two different transfers.
Both looked a lot alike most of the time, with one notable difference: print flaws. While Badder Santa lacked any defects, the Director’s Cut included a mix of small specks. These were minor but they cropped up periodically during the film.
Sharpness was erratic. While much of the film offered good clarity, some shots seemed softer than expected. This meant mostly accurate images with occasional exceptions. Jagged edges and moiré effects caused no problems, and I noticed no edge haloes.
Despite the dark humor of the flick, Bad Santa featured a palette that reflected its Christmas theme, and the disc replicated those tones well. The colors looked clean and distinct, and the hues always remained vibrant and lively. Black levels looked deep and rich, while shadows came across as appropriately heavy but not overly dense. The softness became the biggest issue and left both transfers as less than stellar.
The Uncompressed 5.1 soundtrack of Bad Santa provided a serviceable but unspectacular presentation. Not surprisingly, the soundfield remained heavily oriented toward the front channels.
The surrounds rarely added much, as the audio stayed largely anchored in the front. Music displayed good stereo presence, and effects spread well across the front. The surrounds added moderate reinforcement but that was it, as they didn’t contribute much to the mix.
Sound quality appeared acceptable. Speech was natural and distinct, with no issues related to edginess or intelligibility. Effects sounded clean and accurate, with good fidelity and no signs of distortion.
Music seemed nicely bright and vibrant and also demonstrated decent bass response. Overall, the audio worked fine for the movie, but due to its lack of atmospheric ambition, I felt it merited only a “B-”.
Bad Santa was available in three flavors on DVD: the “R”-rated theatrical edition, an unrated Badder Santa version, and a Director’s Cut. I never saw the theatrical Santa - and given this Blu-ray’s contents, that won’t change now.
The Blu-ray includes both Badder Santa (1:39:16) and the “Director’s Cut” (1:28:31). Badder mostly consists of scenes that extend shots from the theatrical version, though it adds a segment early in the film during which we see Willie pre-Santa mode.
As for the “Director’s Cut”, it runs even shorter than the 91-minute theatrical version. It lacks the other edition’s voiceover, and I think the “DC” seems darker than Badder. It comes across as rougher around the edges without the same form of clear comic relief. Both work well, however, and create an effective movie.
Alongside the “DC”, we find an audio commentary. This offers remarks from director Terry Zwigoff and editor Robert Hoffman. Both sit together for this running, screen-specific chat.
Zwigoff and Hoffman discuss changes made for the “Director’s Cut”, cast and performances, editing, music and sound design, sets and locations, the involvement of the Coen brothers, changes from the original script, and various scene specifics.
Despite a little dead air at times, this usually proves to be an interesting chat. We get a good number of insights into the production and learn a fair amount about the various choices. The commentary never quite threatens to become great, but it adds to our appreciation of the film.
Next comes an interview. Conducted by Roger Ebert, this chat involves Zwigoff and Hoffman and runs 27 minutes, 32 seconds. They discuss story/character areas and conflicts with the studio, alternate curs of the film, cast and performances, editing, and other aspects of Zwigoff’s career. This turns into a fairly informative piece, even though it ends in an oddly abrupt manner.
Three deleted and alternate scenes appear. We find “Santa Trainer” (1:42), “Willie Leaves Department Store” (1:49) and “Screaming Baby” (1:39).
Finally, “Screaming Baby” cuts from a scene of violence to more of Willie on the job. Some outtakes and additional versions of the same sequences also appear. All seem reasonably entertaining but none offer anything crucial.
Note that “Florida Robbery” appeared as a deleted scene on the Director’s Cut DVD. It doesn’t reappear here because it comes as part of Badder Santa. On the other hand, “Baby” now appears as part of the Director’s Cut, so its presence as a deleted scene makes it redundant.
Next we find a Behind the Scenes Special. This runs nine minutes, 30 seconds and includes comments from Zwigoff, producers Sarah Aubrey and John Cameron, and actors Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, Brett Kelly and Bernie Mac. We learn about the film’s origins and path to the screen, problems getting a studio to touch the material, finding a director and cast, and some memories of John Ritter.
The program mostly feels promotional, as the show only gives us a rudimentary look at some basics. A few of the behind the scenes bits seem interesting - such as Thornton working with Kelly - but overall, it’s a pretty lackluster show.
A collection of Outtakes appears next. This runs four minutes, one second as it presents the standard assortments of goofs and wackiness.
Finally, we get a Badder Santa Gag Reel. It lasts a mere one minute, 29 second and shows the usual goofs and giggles.
The disc opens with ads for National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. No trailer for Bad Santa appears here.
Destined to become a Christmas classic for folks who hate Christmas, Bad Santa doesn’t consistently fire on all cylinders. Nonetheless, the dark and profane comedy boasts some good performances and lots of winningly crude humor to work well overall. The Blu-ray presents erratic visuals with acceptable audio and a decent complement of supplements. This never becomes a great disc but the movie entertains. | 2019-04-18T19:30:24 | http://dvdmg.com/badsantabr.shtml |
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Last time, contemplating Trader Vic’s Fog Cutter, I pondered the risks of combining multiple spirits—“too many spirits”—in cocktails, and the fine line between great cocktails and trainwrecks.
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e-Signals is Haaga-Helia’s new online publishing platform where you can find blog posts, articles on current phenomena and scientific publications by our specialists. The purpose of the service is to concentrate all the publications at Haaga-Helia to a single online platform and to make Haaga-Helia’s expertise visible among the staff and students as well as outside Haaga-Helia.
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I hope you had a lovely day yesterday. Mr Vohn and I had a wonderful time with his eldest daughter and our grandson, eating too much, playing games and building endless lego sets!
We had a gorgeous free-range local turkey from Gartmorn Farm, a mere 25 miles away, where the poultry are free to roam their acres of grassland which is surrounded by woodland. Sounds idyllic! I simply roasted the turkey, with a quartered onion and apple inside, and covered in thin slices of butter topped with streaky bacon. The turkey was delicious and wonderfully succulent. The thigh meat was the firmest texture poultry meat I have ever seen, presumably due to all that running around they are free to do, and I feared it might be tough but it was melt in the mouth tender and full of delicious flavour.
One of my favourite foodie treats at Christmas is my Ultimate Turkey Sandwich, which I always have for supper late on Christmas Day. It is nice and easy if you have lots of guests too, as you can lay out all the ingredients and invite everyone to make up their own sandwich. Make it a fun event with everyone choosing their own favoured combination.
I go for the same combo every year and it is so good that I often make myself another for breakfast on Boxing Day!
Take 2 slices of your favourite sandwich loaf. Mine is this Oat and Barley loaf from my local bakery.
Cover one slice liberally with bread sauce and the other with cranberry sauce.
Pop the other piece of bread on top, cranberry sauce side down. Slice in half and serve.
A perfect end to a wonderful Christmas Day, or a lovely start to a lazy Boxing Day.
Or simply a delicious way to use up some of the never-ending turkey! | 2019-04-26T06:10:52 | http://vohnsvittles.com/food/ultimate-turkey-sandwich |
It’s mid-afternoon in the small, but mighty Himalayan country of Nepal, and actor Nicholas Hoult gets a wet kiss from an orphaned, baby rhino. Nepal’s National Trust for Nature Conservation found the stray, who is now in their care. Hoult recently traveled to Chitwan National Park in Nepal to learn about Nepal’s and WWF’s conservation efforts to protect little “Mayure” and the other greater one-horned rhinos that are threatened by poaching and habitat loss, among other dangers.
While in Nepal, Hoult met with community members of Amaltari, the buffer zone of Chitwan National Park, to learn about their lives and their relationship with the wildlife surrounding them. Ecotourism in the area provides great conservation incentives to the Amaltari community, who maintain a voluntary anti-poaching unit in which members undertake regular patrols of their community forest to keep a check on poaching and illegal wildlife crime.
With the support of WWF Nepal’s maiden Sustainable Communities Initiative, the Amaltari community is focused on the key pillars of sustainability and conservation – self-sufficient livelihoods, alternate energy, health and education – which has delivered scalable impact for the local people and their natural environment.
The robust efforts to protect rhinos and support the local Nepali communities and government are paying off: Earlier this year, we celebrated a fourth 365 day period of zero poaching in Nepal. This exceptional success is due to high-level political will, an impressive Nepali army committed to tracking poachers and the active involvement of conservation communities. More than 645 one-horned rhinos now live in Nepal.
As part of his work with WWF, Hoult and his two childhood friends, Carlos Adams and Nick Atkins, will team up for a rigorous rickshaw run adventure in India in early 2017 to raise funds for rhino conservation along with supporting Teenage Cancer Trust.
Nicholas Hoult is warmly greeted by the Amaltari community in Nepal.
Nicholas Hoult and his friend Carlos Adams feed 3-week-old Mayure, an orphaned one-horned rhino who was found alone after being attacked by a crocodile in Chitwan, Nepal.
Nicholas Hoult and WWF Nepal Field Program Director, Shiv Raj Bhatta, look out onto a greater one-horned rhino grazing in the wetlands of Chitwan, Nepal.
Nicholas Hoult and his friend Carlos Adams accompany the WWF team on a safari to track rhinos in Chitwan, Nepal.
Nicholas Hoult learns to knit from Amaltari community members in Nepal.
Nicholas Hoult gazes upon a greater one-horned rhino grazing in the wetlands of Chitwan, Nepal. | 2019-04-22T16:42:08 | https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/nicholas-hoult-joins-wwf-in-nepal-to-learn-about-rhino-conservation |
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"Take Linux, for example. It's hard for me to advocate, as I used to, something that has now fully embraced the Windows mentality via systemd."
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This order limit and order window needs to be referenced before each order is placed to ensure it meets the requirement.
I need a way to pull up/display a customers order history, their 30-day window and the number of products remaining that they can purchase within that window.
Ideally, I want something that when I look up a customer I can see the current 30 day period that they are in and how many products they can order.
For example, Customer 1's first order was on January 1st and their max order limit for the month is 100$. Customer 1 has until January 30th to order up to 100$ worth of product. After January 30th a new 30-day countdown is started. | 2019-04-26T02:00:06 | https://community.quickbase.com/quickbase/topics/order-window-order-limit-monthly-countdown |
A two seat tandem open frame autogyro. Features full dual controls, built of 2x2 aluminium tube bolted together. Rotor blades: 27’ Sky Wheels.
Engine: 100 hp Super Mac (McCulloch) or 64 hp Rotax 582.
Prop: Tennessee 52” x 26” wood (Super Mac) or IvoProp 64” (Rotax). | 2019-04-24T01:05:27 | http://all-aero.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7669:parsons-tandem&catid=62 |
When you put your home up for sale you place it directly under the scrutiny of buyers. Superficial changes, such as new paint and resurfaced floors can do a lot to enhance your home’s appeal, but when it comes to an offer, most serious buyers will seek the assistance of a professional home inspector to ensure that the house is sound beneath the surface.
An inspector will check your walls for a powdery white mineral deposit a few inches off the floor, and will look to see if things you store right on your basement floor have suffered any moisture-related damage. Mildew odors are also a red flag for home inspectors. Difficult to eliminate, and indicative of other problems, an inspector will certainly be conscious of them.
Depending on severity and location it could cost you between $400 and $1,100 to seal a crack in your basement foundation. Another option is to add a sump pump and pit, which could cost around $750-$1,000. Finally complete waterproofing of an average 3-bedroom home could cost between $5,000 and $15,000. It’s important to factor these costs into the calculation of what you want to net on the sale of you home.
Just as detrimental to a home seller as basement dampness are mold and mildew problems in the attic. Improper ventilation, insulation and vapour barriers can cause water and moisture to accumulate in the attic. This moisture and associated mold and mildew can lead to premature wear of the roof, structure and building materials. Oftentimes costs associated with fixing this damage can be in excess of $2,500.
Rotting wood, an issue particularly prevalent in older homes, can occur in many places such as door or window frames, trim, siding, decks and fences. Building inspectors will oftentimes probe the wood to check its integrity – and are particularly skeptical of woodwork that has been freshly painted.
Brickwork commonly succumbs to water damage, minor ground and foundation settling and a host of other time-related changes. Redoing brickwork can be expensive, but when left unattended can sag, warp or even collapse. It’s particularly important to inspect your chimney for signs of moisture damage and structural integrity as problems in this area can lead to falling bricks and collapsing roof stacks.
Inadequate wiring can occur in many forms. Home inspectors will look at octopus plugs and extension cables as indications of inadequate circuits and potential fire hazards. Also your home should have a minimum of 100 amps service, and this should be clearly marked. All wiring should be copper or aluminum.
An inspector will most definitely examine the underlying footing and foundation of your home. A cracked foundation or unstable footing can cost thousands in your home’s value. | 2019-04-24T11:54:47 | http://jc-executivehomes.com/passing-the-home-inspection/ |
It’s that time of the year again. The air is brisk, temperatures are dropping, the trees are bare, malls are getting crowded and holiday décor is everywhere! As holidays and finals are upon us, life is getting pretty hectic, but you might be forgetting one thing — your car. As cold temperatures begin to amplify, roads begin to get slick and the possibility of snowfall increases, it becomes extremely important that your vehicle is prepared to fare the winter so you do not get stuck out in the cold. Cold weather alone can change how your vehicle performs, and once snow arrives, other factors begin to take effect. Here are five ways you can start preparing your vehicle to be winter ready. | 2019-04-25T22:54:11 | http://www.dailytargum.com/search?q=0&page=1&ti=0&tg=0&ty=article&ts_month=0&ts_day=0&ts_year=0&te_month=0&te_day=0&te_year=0&s=0&au=Raymond+Mytrowitz&o=date&a=1 |
It’s a scary thought .
It is, darn scary Ladynimue.
Wow! This is powerful, Helene! Splendid writing. | 2019-04-20T06:16:45 | https://helenevaillant.com/2019/03/30/downfall/ |
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Chart shows the price of OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast at the end of each month going back as long as we have tracked the item. | 2019-04-21T22:09:22 | https://www.pricecharting.com/game/xbox/outrun-2006-coast-2-coast |
With a fabulous central location, the Mounts Bay Waters Apartment Hotel is the perfect base to explore Perth from.
You’ll find spacious self contained apartments here, with one, two or three bedrooms and enough room to make yourself comfortable for short or long term stays.
An easy 10-minute stroll from the city centre and central business district, it’s also a five-minute walk to the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre as well as the Elizabeth Quay Bus Station.
St Georges Terrace in the bustling Perth CBD is also only a short way away and home to many of the local, national and international offices of leading corporate companies, making the hotel a smart choice for corporate and business travellers. | 2019-04-25T03:53:59 | https://www.visitperth.com.au/stay/venues/mounts-bay-waters-apartment-hotel |
Self-help authors like Tom Peters and Stephen Covey, who have dominated best-seller lists over the last two decades, have exercised increasing influence on political, governmental, and educational organizations. By contrast, the topic of American success books— texts that promise to help readers succeed by retrofitting their identity to meet workplace demands— has been ignored by scholars since the 1980s. John Ramage challenges the neglect of this hugely popular literature and revives a once-lively conversation among eminent critics about the social phenomenon represented in the work of Bruce Barton, Dale Carnegie, and Norman Vincent Peale, among others.
Using literary texts from Don Quixote to Catch-22 to gloss the discussion, Ramage utilizes Kenneth Burke’ s rhetorical theory to understand symbolic acts and social issues and brings together earlier commentaries within a new critical framework. He considers the problematic and paradoxical nature of success and examines its meaning in terms of its traditional dialectic partner, happiness. A synopsis of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century forerunners prefaces this analysis in which Ramage links literary code heroes with the activities of twentieth-century business leaders to determine whether, in the search for authenticity, the heroic individual or the corporation is ultimately served.
This comprehensive study chronicles the legitimation of the success book genre, enumerates rhetorical strategies used to win over readers, and supplies the historical context that renders each book’ s message timely. After considering some of the dangers of crossing disciplinary borders, as exemplified by Deborah Tannen’ s work, Ramage critiques Stanley Fish’ s theoretical strictures against this practice, finally summoning academic critics to action with a strong call to exert greater influence within the popular marketplace.
John Ramage is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University and the coauthor of The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing with MLA Guide, Writing Arguments, and Form and Surprise in Composition: Writing and Thinking Across the Curriculum. | 2019-04-26T02:18:40 | http://siupress.com/books/978-0-8093-2616-7 |
HEY, August. It’s us. We’re back.
We’ve been running around with summer foods and summer places and summer friends because it’s been a strange and hard summer (year), and the best way we know how to take care of ourselves and others with some daily show of kindness is usually by cooking together. See also: Julia Turshen’s upcoming book Feed the Resistance: Recipes + Ideas for Getting Involved.
Which brings us to now. Late August. Just in time to tell you about some of the good things, the things that have been getting us through, getting us up, getting us out: the things we’ve been eating all summer long before the season rolls out of here. There have been taco feasts and every kind of fruit crumble and hot weather drinks by the pitcher on porches. Stacks of watermelon slices taken for road trip snacks—and subsequently, stacks of rinds held in seat-belted laps because who remembers a trash bag when you’re just so excited you remembered to bring the watermelon in the car in the first place? There have been multiple cone ice cream afternoons. Popsicle breakfasts. Tomato lunches/dinners/snacks. No shortage of every kind of salad and seafood.
Which just about catches us up to August: the most insane month for produce. Have you been to a farm or a farm stand or just any old supermarket for that matter lately? It’s nuts. It’s overwhelming. The colors, the smells, the number of peaches, plums, apricots, plum-apricot hybrids (heeeyyyy, pluots), plum-apricot-CHERRY hybrids, corn, tomatoes, berries, herbs, greens: it’s all happening. It’s almost ridiculous.
The joy and the problem of ingredients this time of year are one and the same: they’re all incredible. How can you possibly get to everything good while everything good is at its peak?
Not an easy task, but you know, we’re here to do our best.
Give us everything you’ve got while you can.
So let’s get to it with two of the most important guys on the August all-star team: Tomatoes. And corn.
Pick up the juiciest, brightest, ripest version of each and eat them in everything this month—including the reason we’re writing today: a cold summer soup that requires—hey!—no cooking. Which means even on the hottest, most humid of days (ok, some would say grossest, but we’re going to SOAK. IT. IN.—you’re going to miss August sweatiness the second you have to trade it in for a sweater), you’ve got dinner done without adding to the heat. AND because you’re making a cold soup, you can have lunch/dinner done for several days after, too—the leftovers are just as good, if not better.
And in case you’re looking for some seasonal science reading: here’s an article on why heirloom tomatoes really do taste so good.
And now, get off your computer, make this soup, eat it outside, and stay out as long as you can.
* Warm 1 of the tablespoons of olive oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add the red paper flakes, fennel seeds, and garlic.
* When spices and garlic are fragrant (but not yet browned), add the leek, sliced fennel, lemon strips, and a sprinkle of salt. Stir, then cover to sweat the vegetables until tender. This will take about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.
* Add your tomatoes to a blender to purée. While the blender is running, add 1 tsp of salt, a pinch of sugar, and the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
* Place your food mill, with the medium disk in place, over a bowl. Pass the leek fennel mixture through the food mill, then repeat with your tomato purée. This will catch any skins/seeds/fibrous bits of the vegetables. Add the vegetable broth and mix everything together. If you are using a blender instead, work in batches to combine the fennel and leek mixture with the tomatoes and broth. Process until smooth.
* Cover and refrigerate for several hours, or even overnight, until very cold. This will bring the soup to the right temperature to eat, but will also give the flavors time to round out.
* When ready to serve, ladle the soup into bowls. Divide the corn among each bowls and top with the cilantro, fennel slices & fronds, and a drizzle of cream or yogurt. | 2019-04-26T11:38:01 | https://leeandloucook.com/2017/08/25/summer-tomato-soup-with-fennel-corn/ |
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SWCM’s equity approach is to purchase undervalued stocks that are trading at low multiples of earnings, sales, book value and/or cash flow. By purchasing the equity in undervalued companies and owning it over the long term we can provide a return better then the markets averages. SWCM’s focus is to find value in sectors where there is above average earnings potential. We do not limit ourselves to a specific market capitalization and make investment across all market sectors. The Portfolio Manager will constantly and actively review the portfolio for optimal investment strategy and may at times use hedging devices to reduce downside risk. When the valuation parameters change, the advisor may shift the portfolio into different markets and/or securities. Technical analysis plays an important role in how and when we make the purchase or sale. SWCM has varied account minimums, and tailors each portfolio toward your goals. | 2019-04-23T16:10:35 | http://www.sullivanwood.com/equities-approach |
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CHICAGO (AP) — Not long after her father went missing during the Korean War, Carol Elkin spotted then-Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in downtown Chicago and did what any kid might do when coming face to face with the nation's most famous soldier: She asked him to bring her dad home.
On Tuesday, the now 76-year-old Elkin will be at Arlington National Cemetery to bury the remains of Army Maj. Stephen Uurtamo, nearly seven decades after he was taken prisoner by the Chinese and died.
It is a chance to say goodbye to her father, watch as his remains are laid to rest with the dignity and honor he deserves, and watch her children and grandchildren see that their own history is linked to the history of their country.
"This tells my family they are part of something," said the retiree, who lives on Chicago's North Side with her husband. "I just think that these kids might think we went from World War II to Vietnam and they don't even know there was a Korean War."
The service comes as questions about the whereabouts of those who never returned from the 1950-53 war have pushed their way into the news, with the commitment by President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to recover the remains of as many of the nearly 7,700 U.S. troops that are still unaccounted for as possible.
For the Uurtamo family, the service is the final chapter of a story that began in late 1950 when the 32-year-old career soldier was declared missing in action after fierce fighting in one of the bloodiest battles of the war near the Ch'ongch'on River in North Korea.
He was declared dead after several returning U.S. prisoners of war reported that Uurtamo had been captured and died at a war transient camp where prisoners who survived came home with stories of watching their buddies starve to death.
"He died from malnutrition and pneumonia," Elkin said.
The whereabouts of his body remained a mystery for decades. Then, in 2005, a joint U.S. and North Korean military recovery team recovered 32 sets of remains from a burial site. About eight years after that, Elkin went to a Chicago hotel for one of the events the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency holds around the country in which people like her are updated about their missing loved ones and given a chance to provide DNA samples for comparison with DNA pulled from recovered remains.
The match came last September and with it, Uurtamo's name was taken off the list of Americans unaccounted for from the Korean War, which now stands at 7,697 names. He added to the list of 459 people whose remains have been identified since 1982. And, according to the POW/MIA agency, the spot where his name appears on the Courts of the Missing at the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu will be affixed with a rosette to indicate he's now accounted for.
Elkin said she, her husband and more than 30 relatives will attend the burial. Inside the casket will be his remains, dress uniform and his medals, she said.
Elkin said it is a chance to be openly proud of the father, whom she rarely talked about because he died in a war few seemed to care about, and her parents were divorced and "you didn't talk about things like that."
Now, she said, she can talk about her father and her most lasting memory: a day when she was young and he visited her in the hospital and told her not to cry because "little soldiers don't cry."
She is excited by the prospect of her father being buried in "his rightful place" in the most famous military cemetery in the U.S.
"I am proud that our country would do this for someone who served so long ago — that he gets to go out in a blaze of glory," she said. | 2019-04-23T11:01:21 | https://wilknews.radio.com/articles/ap-news/chicago-soldier-killed-korea-finally-being-laid-rest |
Do your visitors require a high level of “hand-holding” from front desk employees? Or can they easily track down the meeting host, make their way through an unfamiliar office, and find the correct meeting room? Think about it. Is it just a front desk reception area design problem? If not, then this just became one front desk problem which suggests lack of “visitor independence” in your office.
Lack of Visitor Independence is just one of the many office reception problems that your front desk team has to face each day which, I believe, can be solved via a VMS in place. A VMS (Visitor Management System) is a user-friendly front desk solution that takes all the hassles out of visitor management for the host, the front desk staff, the building, the security staff, and office visitors. It lets users optimize time and resources by compiling multiple administrative functions into one single solution improving front desk productivity.
For instance, the schedule a meeting feature on a VMS incorporated with instant host notifications feature delivers all the information to the front desk staff, the hosts and visitors, in case a meeting has been scheduled via the system. This can help your team to give your visitors the red carpet experience they deserve.
Enough about the system, let’s have a look at the 3 most prevalent front desk problems and try to address it via a VMS.
Your visitor is in front of the visitor’s book, hurriedly scribbling their name at the end of the long list of names. They have their photo taken and wait as their visitor pass is printed out. Probably they had to wait a bit longer because the host might have forgotten to add them to the day’s front desk visitor list. So they stand and wait while front desk employee calls up to the host.
The meeting host is away from his desk, so all they can do is sit tight until the host can be tracked down. As the minutes’ tick by, your visitors worry about the time cutting into your meeting. If the meeting goes over, they’ll probably have to push back all of your afternoon appointments. This isn’t and shouldn’t be an ideal first impression for any visitor. What if the visitor was a high-profile potential client? Would it make a difference then? First impressions matter and it’s time to make a great first impression.
See how the same scene changes with a VMS in place.
Instead of confronting a paper log, visitors walk up to a touchscreen video screen where they can check-in directly via their smartphone. Here they enter their information, retrieve their visitor pass, and are on their way. With a record of all returning visitors on the cloud, visitors can receive guided instructions to the meeting room. find any other relevant meeting information, such as meeting agenda, and a list of other attendees directly on their phones.
Upon guest check-in, the system automatically notifies the meeting host of the visitor’s arrival and can proceed to the meeting room. This makes visitors feel even more at ease and well informed as they arrive at your office, and creates a great first impression without the need to involve the front desk staff at all. Gone are the days of the confused-looking guest wandering office hallways looking for the correct meeting room. The entire process—from check in to check out—is streamlined, user-friendly, and fast.
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According to a survey by Traction Guest, one of the main objectives businesses bought a VMS was Security.
Read more about the survey and how we managed to decipher it here – 3 Main Objectives for Buying a Visitor Management Software; Survey Results Explained.
Most of what is done for the sake of visitor management today is done in the name of security. The information in visitors logbook is neither validated nor secure. This means that the information could very easily be counterfeit since there is no verification system in place. There are also chances of the information getting stolen by the next set of visitors. The information is also hard to go through because of spilled ink blots and illegible handwriting. Let’s face it, it isn’t very secure.
A VMS provides an entirely new level of security to you to your office building. The system captures verified and legible visitor information and stores it on the cloud. It’s just as important to know if a guest has left the building, as it is to know that they’ve arrived. Once checked in to the Visitor Management system, a guest can sign-out with a single tap so the host company will know if they are still on premises during an adverse event. Your company can instantly account for everyone present in the office which is a simple solution to front desk problem of an unsecured facility.
Not just that in the case of evacuation, everyone in the office will have access to evacuation directions and instructions to ensure everyone understands how to safely exit the building. Not to mention, a Visitor Management Solution is significantly more accurate than the old-fashioned log. Guest information is collected uniformly and correctly every time which can be easily managed from the system.
In the first paragraph, I spoke about hand-holding visitors until they meet with the hosts. Let’s talk about that for a second. Lack of visitor independence in the office is primarily due to lack of communication and processes in place. Why do visitors walk into the office and head straight towards your front desk? Because, in an unfamiliar office, anyone would need assistance until they get done what they came to achieve. This usually creates a lot of trouble for the front desk employees.
Solution: When the entire check-in experience is automated, visitors don’t need to rely on anyone to help them check in. If they have come in with a prior meeting scheduled then it is easy to find the meeting room, and get any additional information needed to prepare for the meeting. Visitors are empowered to check themselves in with their smartphones and make their way directly to the meeting location. They don’t need to rely on another being to print out their visitor badge, sign any necessary forms, or explain directions. This frees up time so the front desk staff can focus on more important administrative duties.
And this is just the beginning. Making processes easier and more convenient for everyone involved demonstrates a commitment to employee happiness and raises morale all around. Not to mention, it saves time, resources, and money. With a Visitor Management System, its time to get rid of all your front desk problems and give your office visitors the great experience they deserve.
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